K H .H T
Board May
Ask Issue
Of Warrants
THK B O N N E V ILLE
OLD RECORDS BROKEN IN
OREGON 4H CLUB WORK
B eys’ and girl’s 4-H club w ork in
Oregon reached a new high during
the past year, with 17,743 m em bers
carry in g a total of 22,802 projects,
the annual report of S tate L eader
H. C. Seym our shows. T he value of
the com pleted work w as $260,619.72,
w ith a net profit a fte r deducting
costs of $97,096.99.
T hirty-nine different kinds of pro­
jects were carried on by O regon club
m em bers last year, covering alm ost
every phase of farm and hom e life.
A few of these w ere special projects
requested by certain groups and con­
ducted on an experim ental basis to
determ ine their suitability for m ore
general use. The list includes work in
various farm crops, livestock, poul­
try, rabbits, m arketing, farm ac ­
counting and record keeping, house­
hold engineering, ru ra l electrifica­
tion, gas engine care and use, cook­
ery, canning, clothing, and other
phases of hom em aking, vegetable
and flow er gardening, han dicraft, ro­
dent control, building construction,
health and grow th, and m iscellaneous
others.
The health-grow th project show ed
the largest enrollm ent last year, with
5375 m em bers in 325 clubs. A nother
popular project w as clothing, w ith
4669 m em bers in 582 clubs, closely
followed by the cookery project w ith
4128 m em bers in 559 clubs. The dairy
project, w ith 1031 m em bers in 122
clubs, showed the g re a te st financial
w orth, w ith a gross value of $84,-
477.66 and a net profit of $23,396.09.
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937
DAM C H R O N I C L E
| Grange Asks
Changes in
Power Setup
C. C. C. BOYS A RE R EPLA C ED
Trans-River Mail
Route Opened
E ffective M onday, a tra n sfe r oi
m ail betw een Bingen, W hite Salm on
and Hood R iver across the bride w as
instituted. T he route sta rts in B in­
gen, w here the c arrier will pick up
m ail for Hood R iver county and w es­
tern points. H e will dispatch his m ail
on Union P acific tra in No. 21, w hich
arriv es in Hood R iver at 7 :43 P. M.
H e will th en pick up m ail from
Hood R iver county and from the
train and tak e it back across the
river w ith him . Local m ail for north
bank points will be closed a t 6 P. M.
daily.
The low bid w ent to a B ingen m an
for $1260 per year, of w hich $552.50 is
consum ed in bridge tolls.
(C ontinued from P age One)
preventing fire« in th e C olum bia
gorge w as outstanding."
C om pany 4766 CCC officers ara
C aptain L. H. R osenthal, L t. Espe-
lund, Jr., John T. C rockett, educa­
tional adviser, and H. M. Johnston,
chief forem an.
A new group of CCC boys will re­
place those w ho leave and th is camp
will continue w ith its various work
projects on national fo rest a re a s in
the Colum bia gorge.
C haplain B ergen of V ancouver ap­
peared briefly on the program .
Diplom as w ere given out by Mr.
Johnston, project principal forem an.
L. B. Gibson, sup erinten den t of
schools for Hood R iver county, also
spoke.
T hree adm inistrato rs, instead of
How to obtain funds for en larg e­
one, are recom m ended by the execu­
m ent and m odernization of several
tive com m ittee of the Oregon state
Hood iliv e r county schools, described
g
rang e for Bonneville dam power,
by local board m etobers as urgen tly
and appointm ent by the president in­
needed, w as th e chief concern of the
stead of the secretary of the interior
county unit board a t its m eetin g in
is favored.
Hood R iver T hu rsd ay night.
The executive com m ittee has sub­
Issu ance of w a rra n ts as ag a in st is­
m
itted its recom m endations to m em ­
suance of bonds w as discussed, w ith
bers of the Oregon delegation, giving
w a rra n ts hav in g the preference be­
th e view s of the grange on the d is­
cause th ey can be retired w ith g re a t­
position of power.
er rapidity. The m atter w as left
T he grange does not object to arm y
open, and a special election will be
engineers m aintaining and operating
necessary in any event before funds
the plant, installing facilities and
C.C’.C. BOYS LEA V E
can be raised.
building transm ission lines, but from
FOR M INNESOTA
th a t point it w ants the federal pow er
S tate Inspector D. A. E m erson of
N inety-nine young m en w ho havo
com m ission to control pow er and fix
th e dep artm ent of education, who
put
in the p ast six m onths as en-
rates.
looked over m any of the cou nty’s
rollees
at C C C . com pany 4765 a t
schools la st year, placed P ark dale,
T his essentially is w hat the Oregon Mr. and M rs. H a rry Sm ith and W yeth entrained at 10 A.M. y ester­
Odell and Cascade Locks high schools
and W ashington senators now d ra ft­ fam ily spent the w eek-end in Port- day at V ancouver, W ash., for F o rt
in the “conditionally stan dardized"
ing Bonneville legislation favor. On land w ith th eir d au g h ter and son-in- Snelling, Minn., w here they will be
class. C ascade Locks has since been
the advisory board, suggested by the i law,
m ustered out and returned to th eir
Mr. and Mrs. W illiam Boss.
declared standardized, but P arkdale
presid ent’s m em orandum , th e Oregon
hom
es.
and Odell cannot change sta tu s untir
state grange w ants the public to be Resident;; who have recently moved F ifty-five
innesotans and six
alteratio n s are m ade in th eir present
represented by two m em bers, one are Mr. and Mrs. O rval V allen and O regon boys M have
re-enrolled.
set-up.
from Oregon and the o th er from Mr. and Mrs. W. B. P eters. The Val- R eplacem ents will been
also
be from
W ashington. One of these public rep­ lens w ent to the coast, w here Mr. M innesota, and will arrive soon.
A. J. B runquist, represen ting the
resentatives should com e from an V allen will be em ployed, and the T he present personnel arrived
P ark d ale school board, said the class­
agricu ltu ral region and be appointed P eters w ent to G rand Coulee w here about
room s were badly overcrow ded, as
the first of October. A lm ost
by the secretary of agricu ltu re, the Mr. P eters expects to find w ork.
the school w as built for a m axim um
im
m
ediately
r app earing they
other represen tative to be selected Scoop H ickok, friendly G erm an ! w ere sent out a fte
of 60 students but now h as 110.
to
t fo rest fires
by the secretary of the interior.
shepherd dog, is sporting a snappy w hich w ere ragin g figh throughout
the
In Miss M argaret C allihan’s room,
O ther requests of the g rang e would new harness-collar.
w
estern
p
a
rt
of
the
state,
and
ac­
20 by 22 feet, the students m ust all U IT IZ E N S PRO TEST
prevent the adm inistrato r from sell­ Mr. and M rs. A1 Jubie entertained quitted them selves creditably for
en ter and take th eir places before B U ILD IN G O F DAM
governm ent property >.o priv ate Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lusch and son Roy forest greenhorns.
sittin g down.
B oardrnan, Or.—A group of Board- ing
individuals
or private com panies Jr. and Billy A nderson last w eek­ T he executive sta ff will rem ain th e
The typing room , 4*4 by IS feet, m an citizens headed by Tom H en­ w ithout consent
of the p resid en t; end. The Jubies and Mr. and M rs. sam e.
boasts four m achines. T hirty pupils dricks plans to protest the proposed stipulate th a t no private
agency be “S han ty" W oods planned to m ake a
construction of a navigation dam perm itted m ore th an 15 p er
w anted to study typing th is year.
cent of trip to P ortlan d last night.
P rincipal Irvin B ryan’s office is across the Colum bia river n ear Ar­ the available pow er; favor im m edi­ The L. W. N ew som s retu rn ed this A tree on th e cam pus of St. Jo h n ’s
lington.
college at A nnapolis is believed to
over-sm all.
construction of w holesale tra n s ­ week from the W illam ette valley, be
m ore th an 600 years old.
T he school has no library space. T hey contend th a t plans for the m ate ission
by the governm ent having spent three w eeks a t O ak
Books are kept a t the front of the dam show it would resu lt in inunda­ w ithin a lines
Grove.
M
rs.
New
som
says
she’s
distance; advocate
tion of the entire town of B oardrnan, zones for feasible
assem bly room.
The accordion w as invented in 1829
rate-m
ak
ing sim ilar to the m ighty glad to be back.
several
m
iles
of
the
Colum
bia
R
iver
A. E. Ja k k u of Odell described
Mrs.
T.
W.
Stevens,
m
other
of
M
rs.
by
D am ian in V ienna.
TVA
policy;
prevent
large
private
equally cram ped conditions in the highw ay and valuable farm lands. industries from con tractin g for m ore Tom W aring, is spending several
high school there.
power th an they can use, so they days w ith the W arings.
Diesel engines fo r m otor vehicles
M rs. E. R. M oller's classroom , 17 a rapid and m oving n arrativ e, the cannot
resell to private pow er com ­ Mr. and M rs. Lyle H ickok have in G erm any are becom ing increas­
by 20 feet, provides 121 cubic feet autho r presents historic background panies and
private com panies nearly com pleted th eir cabin on ingly popular.
of ah apiece for 33 pupils. Two h u n ­ enough to clarify situations. T hen he from using prevent
Bonneville
pow er for u n ­ Hood river n ear O ak Grove, and plan
dred cubic feet per person is the describes dram atic and thrilling n a ­ fair com petition to destroy
business to spend the nex t w eek-end there.
ty preparations in P a rag u ay
stan d ard m inim um .
val exploits and battles, touching of public agencies.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. C orpm an of are B eau
regulated
Miss M axw ell's room has the sam e w ith skill and color those elem ents
Y akim a, brother-in-law and sister of public health. by the m inistry of
dim ensions. In the assem bly hall | which m ade the tale one a t w hich to
Mrs. S. E. K issinger, are com ing to
MRS. IO N E W OODALL
there are 98 cubic feet per person.
visit the K issingers th is w eek-end.
m
arvel,
in
which
to
glory.
R
ead
this
The science laboratory, 10 by 26
Funeral services w ere held M onday M rs. C harles J. Johnson returned D ry ice as a railw ay re frig e ra n t is
feet, provides 78 cubic feet of a ir book fo r interest, excitem ent, g lam ­ for Mrs. lone Ja n e E v e re tt K insey | M onday from P ortland, w here she being experim ented w ith in South
our, and never m ind the fact th a t W oodall of Shelton, W ash., form er i w as ill three w eeks.
A frica.
per student.
In the basem ent room s there are) you are reading history too.
Hood R iver resident. Rev. Louis!
S afety officials estim ate th ere are
often two or three inches of w ater; "SO U ’W E S T E R SA IL S," by A r-f W hite read the cerem ony.
44,000,000 autom obile drivers in th e
on the floor during rains or snow th u r H. Baldw in (R andom H ouse Surviving M rs. W oodall are h er
M ARGARET M ATILDA NEA L
thaw s. H eatin g is also poor.
$2.00). Incorporated in a sotyr of husband, C harles W oodall, of Shel­ F un eral servies for M argaret M a­ U nited S tates.
Inspector E m erson described con­ the effo rts of tw o boys to sell a ton ; an adopted son, M orris K insey, tilda
58, w ho died in U nder­
ditions a t B a rre tt grade school as yaw l designed and built by th eir of Shelton, who is the son-in-law of wood Neal,
EV ER Y W E E K IS
M arch 14, will be held in the
"terrib le.” R alph H inrichs, speaking! fath er, is a m ystery of stolen boats, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. F uller of Hood U nderwood
high school gym nasium
for the local board, said the students a sto rm through w hich the yaw l River, and a dau gh ter, K atherin e W ednesday at
2 P.M . H er husband,
have no assem bly hall, and the fu r­
Kinsey, of P ortland.
A
lfred
E.
N
eal,
survives. Interm ent
rides, a race, and m any details of
nace is poor.
will
also
be
a
t
Underwood.
in O regon. See th e new Philoo
day-to-day
sailing.
F
or
the
lover
of
E. J. B rolliar of Cascade Locks
R
adios a t
thanked the county board for its help, boats and sea.
BRAIDED JACKET
but said the high school there still “ S P A N IS H IG N O TS,” by Com ­
BA RTO L MOTOR CO.
Chronicle w an t-ads for resu lts
liy CHKKIK NICHOLAS
needs new rest room s for the girls m ander E dw ard E llsbcrg (Dodd-
and boys, a dom estic science and a Moad 200). Once m ore th is w riter,
m anual train in g room.
expert on diving and salv ag ­
The annual report from the sta te a, ing, naval
sea
and subm arine offers a
sup erinten den t’s office shows only treasu re salvage
story full of inci­
two counties. Hood R iver and K lam ­
ath, w ere free from w arran t indebt­ dent and excitem ent of w hich Philip
More and more we read of the developments of the
R am say is the hero.
edness in June, 1936.
Columbia Gorge under the management of the Army
“ A LL T H E MOWGLI S T O R IE S ,”
by R udyard Kipling (D oubleday-
TKN MORE GOOD HOOKS
Engineers. W e of the dam area are at the focal point
D oran $2 50.) A volume to enrich any
of all of this development. Let us congratulate ourselves
“ T H E LAST O F T H E MOHIC­ boy’s lib rary this, w ith its store of
and watch future developments with pride,
ANS,’’ by Jam es Fenim ore Cooper the w isdom th at Mowgli learned
(G rosset and D unlap 50c). An ex­ from his anim al friends and the ad ­
cellent inexpensive edition of the ven tu res th a t he had wdth them .
five books in which "T he Deer- "H A N D BO O K FO R T H E C U R I­
slay er" afterw ard called “ H aw keye” OU S,” by P aul Grisw old How es
(P u tn am $375). T he cu rato r of the
is the leading figure.
“ SW O RD O F T H E W IL D E R ­ B ruce M useum of G reenw ich, Con
N E SS," by E lizabeth C oatsw orth neeticut, has compiled a book I t »
(M acm illan 12.00). Life w ith the In w hich he answ ers questions a n atu re
dians am ong the F rench in Quebec lover m ight ask about insects and
as Seth H ubbard, taken from his w orm s, snails, fish and reptiles.
fron tier hom e in 1689 and m ade a T here are both photographs and di­
slave. It is en tertain ly and often ex­ ag ram s for illustration.
citingly pictured in a really good “ BOR W A K E FIE L D , NAVAL
story.
A V IA TO R,” by Blaine and Dupont
“ ON T H E GOLDEN T R A IL " by M iller (Dodd-M ead $2.00). The ex ­
to stay away from the Lakeside hotel since we
H ildegarde H aw thorne (Longm ans, periences of the young officer m ake
G reen $2.50>. As a little boy, Seth delightful reading for aviation en­
have
put these new low rates into effect, for a
had seen his fa th e r ride aw ay from th u siasts p articu larly but the story
limited number of persons:
his New E ngland hom e to seek gold is a good one for the boy of not
in C alifornia and at seventeen set in terest beyond th at of an en tertain ­
$1.75 single room per week.
out to find him H is trip, from the j ing story.
T his tw o-piece d ay tim e d re ss is
$3.00 double room per week.
•H U RRICA N E W E A T H E R ." by of satin-back bem b erg and acetate
first train ride, to his experience
w orking his w ay on th e E rie Canal, H ow ard P ease (D oubleday-D oran crepe, a m a te ria l you w ill love tc
then on river steam ers and by a $2.00). D angers and adventures in w ea r du ring th e m id seaso n and
pack train over plains, desert and the South Seas w ith Tod M oran one® com ing m onths. It is sim p ly bul
m ountains, is glam orously adv en­ again helping to unravel a m ystery, v ery effectively sty led w ith all-over
Cascade Locks
turous.
concerning a stran g er, a pearl buyer, sou tach e b raid trim on the ja c k e t
“ OUR NA VY ," by C harles J. a F renchm an, and the fate of two T he ascot and b re a st pocket h an d­
k erch ief lend b rig h t color accent
F in ger (H oughton-M ifflin $2.00). In schooners.
Eagle Creek
Philco Week
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