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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1937)
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1937. <\%i' 'w m m $ ß > § m m zm : OUR SHARE Climbers Miraculously Escape Death SHL m -K What They’re Reading By Grace Babson show whom he was called in to at tend for an injured wrist. The sudden death of Mrs. Newcoma —the imprisonment of the doctor an<l his young protegee, who are accused of the crime, make a good detective story. When the “ little doctor’ ’ and the little dancer are granted a last meeting, “ she had the little crushed smile that he had seen first of all when he had bandaged her wrist— she began to cry, and all at once it seemed to him the whole world was erving, crying for lost impossible love. We are not alone.” Don’ t fail to read this charming story. And they lived to tell the story. Just three years ago this week The opening sentence refers to there appeared on the list of best the four young folk of Portland who '.•//W A “ Good-bye Mr. Sunday morning experienced the selling f i c t i o n t#, longest slide ever taken down the Chipps” by James Hilton. As many of you know it is the story of an slopes of Mt. Hood. The slide occurred when one wo English school master in a boys’ man in the party of four, which was boarding school, or public school as roped together, slipped when less they are called in Britain. The school master was not brilliant than a thousand feet from the sum mit, descending the “ chimney” on nor handsome nor inspiring. But the north slope. The party was on this short novel of his devotion to the outside edge of the “ chimney” in the school and its pupils for over about a foot of wet newly-fallen half a century kept on the best seller snow. The falling of this one mem list for a long time. Alexander ber apparently started this mass of Woolcott spoke of it as “ a tender new snow sliding on the crusted old and gentle story as warming to the snow and ice underneath. Out of heart and as nourishing to the spirit the “ chimney” onto the big snow as any I can remember..” Then America discovered that the field above Eliot glacier they slid, I ! both men trying desperately to stop years before Mr. Hilton had written their progress with their ice axes and received the Hawthornden prize Jr regulars of $1 to U. 35 gualities for “ Lost Horizon,” the fantastic but to no avail. Mi From Ghost ridge, below Cloud Cap story of a charming and gifted young could be seen with the naked eye Britisher named Conway, an Oxford- Sunday the path of the party and its don, a student of oriental languages ever-increasing load of wet snow. and when the story begins, a consul Wm. Only because N oM end standards are so Near the base of the snow field in the Far East. Conway is the cen Ä irv- rigidly high are these classed as "itregu may be seen a patch of rock that tral figure in a group of four who the party apparently was carried are kidnapped in an airplane and lars" at all. W e doubt if you'll be able to right over. At the base of the snow taken to a Tibetan Lamasery. “ Lost detect the irregularities in any pair, and field is a near sheer drop of around Horizon” j o i n e d “ Good-bye Mr. 200 to 300 feet onto Eliot glacier. Chipps” on the best seller list and there are none to allect wear. At the When the members of the party saw both remained there for almost a Sale price these stockings represent such they could not stop before going over I year together. outstanding values they’re bound* to be this, they threw their ice axes clear “ Lost Horizon” is now on the to avoid injury. snatched up quickly, so better shop early. screen and is classed as an outstand Down this drop they were carried ! ing production. and out onto the glacier. The vol- j Last March was published Mr. Hil ume of snow carried along with them ; ton’s latest book, “ We Are Not Hood apparently cushioned the entire slide | Alone” and this too at once became Hiver and the final fall, literally “ scoot a best seller. It is a wistful, tender ing” them across a 15-foot crevasse story of a Cathedral town doctor vm on the glacier. married to a smug, strongminded, Here they stopped and made their well born woman. He was affec way to their car parked on Ghost tionately known as “ the little doctor” nese elm, green ash, Russian olive, ridge. The men, Henry L. Corbett not because he was below average FARMERS BUY Norway spruce, blue spruce, and wes Jr. and Ralph Calkins suffered minor height, but because his wife was S73 MILKS OK TKKKS cuts, bruises and bums. Jean Blake five feet ten. tern yellow pine. suffered no injury other than bruises. Dr. Newcome combined great skill This year’s tree shipments were the The other young lady, Elsie Hall, as a physician and surgeon with WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pullman, July t—More than 250,000 largest ever recorded in the twelve was still in a Portland hospital suf great human pity. He feljt that fering from shock, according to last “ something must happen some day trees, or enough trees, planted ten years the college has cooperated in reports. to such a precarious social balance; feet apart, to make a row 473 miles this work. An average of approxi The party had climbed the night Cathedral bells would not always mately 500 trees to each purchaser long, were shipped to farmers of the indicates that farmers are planting before by way of the Sunshine trail ring upon an acquiescent world.” His Appearing for Dance and Fluor Show at state of Washington last spring by shelterbelts and woodlots of greater (incidentally, they had gone up human sympathy was the cause of THE DALLES CIVIC ADITOBIUK through the center of horseshoe his quite innocent afair with the the Federal-State Forest Tree nur size. Many erosion control plantings JULY 3rd and 5th sery operated by the department of made by farmers cooperating with rock) and were on their way down lonely little German dancer in a road when the accident occurred. Near forestry a n d range production the soil conservation service, con through coperation with the forest tained several thousand trees each them when they started sliding was a party of Mazamas under L. S. Dar service under the Clarke-McNary for Plans for producing a greater ling, who were working their way est act. amount of stock in the future are down with an anchored rope. The The most popular species shipped being made by John P. Nagle, assis party of four was not using an an was Black locust which is being tant professor in the department of chored rope, but the climbers were widely planted for woodlot, shelter- forestry and range management, who fastened to one another. belt and erosion control purposes. has charge of this work at the col Darling dispatched someone to call Other species widely used were Chi lege. the Crag Rats who met the four and rendered first aid. “ Andy” Anderson and Darling es timated the distance of the slide as about two-thirds of the total distance from the snow line to the summit, or better than 2000 feet. 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It also contains about 25 pounds of potassium and 7 pounds of phosphorus. This spoiled legume hay makes a valuable mulch, checking evaporation and loss of soil moisture, and be cause of its favorable nitrogen con tent for decomposition, does not de press growth, Dr. Power says. When applied in orchards at the rate of two tons of dry material per acre it will also earn soil conservation pay ments under the 1937 soil conserva tion program. It is best to remove the spoiled crop from the fields promptly, he says, and if it is not applied immediately to place it in ricks for later use as fertilizer. TOURIST TRADE GROWS A record of more than a half mil lion automobile tourists in Oregon during 1937 is predicted from regis tration of non-resident motor vehic les throughout the state during the first five months. With a 27 per cent increase in registrations over the prior year, it is estimated that some 175,000 motor vehicles will be cheeked in 1987 snd with an average of three passengi rs to each car. more than 500,000 visitors are expected PARKDALE THEATRE Friday and Saturday July 2 and 3 Presents “Rainbow on the River” with Bobby Breen, May Robson and Charles Butterworth Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday July 4, 5, and 6 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in “Shall W e Dance” Continuous performance Saturday, Sunday and Monday during Fourth of July celebration. Doors open 3 P. M. This is Che first showing of these pictures in Hood River oounty.