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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937.
Pine Grove
Man Drops 221
Feet to Death
Howard M urray of Pine Grove, 26,
lost his life Sunday morning when
he fell from the top of Horsetail
Falls on the Columbia River H igh­
way, plummeting 221 feet to the 15-
foot pool below. Not a bone in Mur­
ray 's body was broken, and the au­
topsy report attributed his death to
drowning.
As the accident was reconstructed
by state authorities, M urray haa
strolled up the east fork of the
stream about 100 yards from the
falls. At th at point he slipped and
fell to the ground, injuring his head.
H is cap and a spot of blood were
found there. Dazed, he rose to his
feet, and staggered down the creek
to the head of the falls where, weak
and faint, he toppled over.
M urray had been accompanied by
his uncle and frequent hiking com­
panion, Joe Jarvis, also of Pine
Grove, who had seen him walking up
the creek before the first accident.
Jarv is walked into the woods and out
of sight at that point. Returning
shortly and not finding his nephew,
he spent one and a half hours
searching in the vicinity above the
falls.
Meanwhile, M urray’s fatal drop
w as witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. Leigh
Price of Milton, Ore., who were view­
ing the falls at the time. They
rushed to Multnomah Falls to obtain
aid, found the telephone busy, and
are said to have driven on to Corbett
before calling help.
The body was recovered from
above the pool at about 2:30 P. M. by
Sheriffs Rexford and Mienilly.
Jerom e Howard M urray came here
from E ast Grand Forks, Minn, six
years ago. At Pine Grove he lived
in a small house on the A. A. Mohr
place, and worked as a farm hand for
A. W. Peters. He is survived by his
wife, the former Selena Moore, from
Roy, Oregon, and to whom he was
m arried a year ago last April. He
also leaves behind his mother, Mrs-
B ertha Murray, four brothers, Ralph,
George, and Erwin, and a sister, Mrs.
Francis Laurent, all of E ast Grand
Forks.
New Highway
Tunnel Closed
To Traffic
The new highway tunnel under
Tooth Rock, just east of Bonneville,
was closed this week after being
open for several days. Traffic is
being routed over the old road and
it will probably be two weeks before
the tunnel will be open again. The
next time it is opened will be per­
m anent.
W arren Northwest company was
busy this week putting the finishing
layers of blacktop on from their
tem porary plant in Cascade Locks.
At tHe west end of the new stretch
traffic was being sent through the
O. B. S. camp to allow the blacktop-
pers full sway.
W ith the completion of this stretch,
O. B. S. will begin tearing down of
the tem porary bridge over the east
portal of the new tunnel.
MOSIER SH IPS TIES
Monday afternoon, August 9th, the
first load of ties from the Jaym ar
F ir Mountain Mill was delivered at
the dock in Mosier. This mill, con­
structed by the Jaym ar Company,
will employ about 20 men and will
enable the company to load out a
car of ties a day.
THE
BONNEVILLE
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CHRONICLE
HOOD RIVER
CASCADE LOCKS
Bonneville Kiddies
To Ride in New Bus
Final Bill
Drawn For
An all-steel up-to-the minute school j
bus is on its way west from the Bonneville
factory for the Bonneville grade i
school pupils as a result of a recen t!
By JOHN W. KELLY
meeting of the Bonneville school W ashington Correspondent, The Or­
board. The new bus will seat 26
egonian.
pupils and at times can be used for
40. Janitor Stubbs has been appointed Oregon News Bureau, W ashington,
as the driver.
C., August 11. — Senate and
Lee Sams was elected to fill the D.
house
conferees today adopted the
vacancy on the school board.
W ork was started on building of Senate bill as the legislation for Bon­
the lunch room in the basement. Be­ neville Dam.
sides serving lunches in the room. Only a few minor changes in
Domestic Science classes will be con­
were maae. In the Senate
ducted in connection with 4-H work. wording
bill the adm inistrator was “author­
ized and empowered to direct and re­
quire” the Secretary of W ar to in­
stall equipment.
House conferees did not relish the
idea of an adm inistrator, an ap­
pointive officer, giving orders to a
cabinet member and this language
was altered so that the instruction
for additional facilities comes from
Congress and not from the admin­
Trouble was encountered in the istrator.
work on the third step cofferdam this In order th at installation of ad­
week. The trouble which has all been ditional equipment shall not come
iron out, was due to synchronizing from the rivers and harbors fundw
work on the cofferdam s and handling of the W ar Department, a sentence
the fishways.
was added stating th at such equip­
In bay 15 the cofferdam was com­ ment shall be paid for by special ap­
pleted on the upstream side last night propriation.
and the trusses are in place on the No controversy developed among
downstream side. Pouring is expect­ the conferees and all agreed that the
ed to start in this bay between the Senate Bonneville legislation is a
good bill.
15th and the 18th of this month.
Both highlines are having to be
used in the placing of the pads,
which are the sections of planking, NEW GROCERY ADS START
12 x 60 feet, used as cofferdams be­ This week on page twelve you will
tween the piers. These pads, with
the grocery ad of the Chapman
the concrete on them to aid in plac­ find
Food
This ad from now on
ing them, each weigh 40 tons, neces­ will be Store.
a
regular
feature in the pages
sitating the use of both highlines.
of
the
Chronicle
and will be found
In last week’s story, we stated hereafter on page
The
that in the third step cofferdam s the Chronicle welcomes this three.
new
adver­
pouring would be from plus 10 to
plus 24, and we erred. The pouring tising for the benefit of its readers
will be from level minus 8 to level
plus 24.
SCHOOL ADDITION PROGRESSES
Contractor G. N. Hesgard, G. E.
Miller and Gene Lovell Thursday af­
ternoon were busy taking the forms
off the new addition to the Cascade
Locks High School.
W ith all of the pouring out of the
way, Hesgard expects the new rooms
to take shape in a very short time.
Third Step
Cofferdamming
Continues
New Bridge
For Hood River
Expected Soon
Prospects for the construction of
a new highway bridge across Hood
River north of the railroad tracks
became very bright last week when
an inspection of two probable loca­
tions was made by State highway
and railroad officials.
W ith the Army Engineers planning
on raising the pool level behind the
Bonneville Dam the last of Novem­
ber, highway officials are anxious to
have this bridge and a short section
of road on the east side to connect up
with the Interstate bridge well under
way and above pool level by this
time. W ork will be started before
long on the approaches of the inter­
state bridge and before final plans
are drawn, bridge officials m ust
know where the new highway will be
located. To locate this new stretch
past the interstate bridge depends on
where the new bridge will be, so it
behooves the State to start on the
bridge before long.
Tuesday, with two bridge sites in
mind—both below the present rail­
road bridge, H. A. Roberts, of the
Union Pacific and Chief Bridge En­
gineer Paxsoh of the State Highway
D epartm ent met on the ground to
further discuss the location. A. O-
Chase, chief bridge designer for the
State, was also in the party.
It is thought that the bridge will be
of the steel girder type with noth­
ing above deck but the railings. The
deck will be of concrete.
Plans call for the structure to start
at the intersection of Second and
Cascade, raise slightly as it follows
the line of Cascade Street east, pass
over the railroad tracks between the
two railroad stations, then parallel
(Continued on Page Sixteen)
Hooey on the 13th
“I must be careful today,” sighed
Tommy Brannon as he arose this
morning viewing “Friday the 13th”
on the calendar.
Going to breakfast, he quite ac­
cidentally spilled the salt-shaker and
it dropped to the tloor. Stooping to
pick it up, he found beside it the
ever-elusive cuff link which had been
lost the day before.
Going out to the street, he ven­
tured to light a cigarette, when two
fellows came forward and asked for
a m atch. He disliked one of the fel­
lows and disliked more the idea of
three-on-a-m atch on Friday the 13th,
but he had lit his coffin nail and
handed the burning match to the
the despicable would-be companion.
No tough luck for Tommy th at tim e!
The other fellow burned his fingers.
Still on the alert, he started down
the street, to see a black cat cross­
ing his path, and since Cascade
Locks doesn’t have many blocks to
run around, he determined to keep
on his way, but the only way he
could avoid crossing the path was to
walk under a leaning ladder. This
he ventured to do, considering it the
less of the superstitious hazards, aner
he crouched as he walked, but
head down, bumped into Julius Carl­
son with considerable force. Julius
thought Tommy was swinging on him
and reached into his pocket and
handed out the five dollars he had
owed Tommy since Saturday night.
Still afraid to venture much fur­
ther, Tommy returned to his hotel
to find his wife w aiting for him
with a box of candy containing 13
big chocolates. Then It dawned on
Tommy—it was his birthday.
HON NEVILLE
DELIVERED BY MAIL
EVERY FRIDAY
VOL. 4, No. 21.
FLOOD LEVEL OF «7 FEET
PLA N N E D W HEN GATES
OF DAM ARE CLOSED
♦
Due to work at The D alles and
Hood River not I
finished in
time for the com plete flooding of
the river when the dam is com ­
pleted in the first part of Decem ­
ber, engineers have decided to
flood file pool to only a 67-foot
level.
This is enough to operate the
fishw ays and the tw o power
units and as soon ns this upriver
work is com plete, the pool will
be raised five feet to Its scheduled
level of 72 feet.
m m iir
Travelling
Recruiters
Tour State
Lieutenant John F. Goodwin, U. S.
Navy, officer in charge of the Or­
egon Recruiting D istrict with offices
in the U. S. Court House at Port­
land, advises that a traveling re­
cruiting party, headed by Chief Ma­
chinist Mate M. P. Bryant, U. S.
Navy, is enroute through the State
of Oregon.
This party has complete sound
moving picture equipment and a
large number of film of travelogues
covering practically every point in
the world visited by ships of the
U. S. Navy; scenes of our Navy at
work and play, and a number of
film showing enlisted men under in­
struction in many of the trade
schools m aintained by the Naval Es­
tablishment. Points at which the
recruiting party will exhibit these
film, and where applications will be
accepted for enlistm ent of young
men between the ages of 17 and 24, of
good character, are as follows:
Hood River, August 16.
The Dalles, August 17.
Bend, August 18.
Klamath Falls, August 19-20.
Ashland, August 21.
Medford. August 22-23.
Roseburg, August 24-25.
Eugene, August 26.
Albany, August 27.
Salem, August 28.
Lieutenant Goodwin advises that
this recruiting tour is not an inten
(Continued on Page Sixteen)
Composes
Description of
Dam Area
A recent article by Samuel C. Lan­
caster, who designed the Columbia
River Highway, has been published,
in which he stated, in part, as fol­
lows :
The Bonneville dam, now nearing
completion, is attracting universal
attention. For situation it is unique
—being 146 miles inland from the
Pacific Ocean—yet the foundations of
the dam go down 46 feet and more
below the level of the sea at mean
low tide. The crest of the dam is
only 72 feet above the sea, in the
very heart of the lofty Cascade
range.
Bonneville is the only sea level
gatew ay in the great mountain bar­
rier which stretches along the w est­
ern part of the continent from P an ­
am a to Alaska- Here the largest
single life lock for deep sea vessels
yet built will raise or lower ships
passing through these mountains
from eastern and w estern Oregon
and W ashington in a few m inutes’
time.
The Columbia basin, 259,000 square
miles in extent, Is equal to the whole
of New England, plus the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana combined, or, by w ay of
comparison with continental Europe,
the basin of the Columbia is equal
to all of Franoe, Belgium, Holland
(Continued on Page Sixteen)
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J t
Locks Gates
Construction
Progresses
W ednesday Bethlehem Steel started
assembly on the last loaf of the lock
gates. Each of the two gates ia
made up of two sections, each section
being known as a leaf. This last
leaf is the north half of the lower
gate.
This past week the upper gates
were tested for leaks in seam s and
rivets. This was done by placing ft
fire hose with w ater under 60 pounds
pressure on the upstream side. No
leaks were noted by inspectors on
the downstream side.
The downstream gates are the prize
ones; they are reputed to be the
largest single-lift gates in the world.
Each leaf has a dimension of 102
feet high by 44 feet wide. The m a i n
surface of the gates is plates of
steel 7/16 inches in thickness. These
are held in place by reinforcing
which -brings the width of each leaf
to about six feet.
On these huge gates the lower 43
feet is double decked and contains
bouyancy chambers.
Each of these lower leaves weighs
about 1,250,000 pounds, or about 625
tons. This makes the total weight of
the downstream gates around 1,250
tons. This tremendous weight is
built to w ithstand a w ater pressure
when the locks are filled of 25 mil­
lion pounds or 12,500 tons. -
Only three points, two at the top
and one at the bottom, hold thess
leaves in place. One of the top ones
is a pin ten inches in diam eter and
2'4" in length which is held in place
by two adjustable eye bars an­
chored in the lock walls. These are
to keep the leaves in proper vertical
position. The entire weight of each
leaf rests on a ball and socket af­
fair known as a pintle bearing. Made
of special steel, this consists of a
half ball of 20-inch in diam eter set
in the bottom of the locks. A sock­
et set in the gate rests on this ball.
Government engineers roughly com­
puted the weight of this bali to be
4000 pounds per square inch.
The third point of contact of the
leaf and the side of the locks is a
bar extending out from the side of
the locks which, operated by an elec­
tric motor, opens and closes the
gates. The gates, when not in use,
fit back into recesses in the walls of
the locks.
Each leaf at the present time la
resting on four huge mechanical
jacks which are each resting on a
nest of rollers. When it is tim e
to hang the leaves, the jacks will be
placed so as to move the gates on
the nests of rollers into position.
The upstream gates are smaller,
being only 46 feet high and each leaf
weighs 600,000 pounds.
The upper gates are scheduled to
be completed by October 22 and the
lower ones by November 22. They will
probably not be quite completed by
their allotted time.
Change Made
In Council
Monday Night
At the Cascade Looks city council
m eeting last Monday night, the w rit­
ten resignation of Max Millsap was
accepted and in his place the council
elected Ben Scott, proprietor of
Scott's Service Station.
Scott was elected to fill Millsap’s
unexpired term and to serve on the
committees that Millsap did and in
the same capacity. This put Scott in
as chairm an of the Judiciary com­
mittee and a member of the finance
committee.
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