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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1937)
Ileo.! BEAD ALL THE NEWS OF THE DAM AREA IN THIS W E E K ’S CHRONICLE—ONLY COMPLETE COVERAGE PAPER! THE BONNEVILLE New Board Aide Tours Dam F. A. Banks, recently appointed to the advisory board for the adminis tration of the Bonneville power projects inspected the huge struc ture Tuesday, in company with a committee of concrete engineers named by the American Concrete in stitute. The committee, consisting of Banks, F. R. McMillan, director of research for the Portland Cement As sociation; J. L. Savage, chief de signing engineer for the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and Raymond E. Davis, professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California and consulting engineer for the Bonneville Dam—designated as committee No. 108 of the Amer ican Concrete institute—has been ac tive several years in the advance ment of knowledge relating to the use of concrete in large dams. Dur ing the past month they have in spected nearly every large dam in the United States. Prior to inspecting the Bonneville structure they visited the Arrow head, Black Canyon and Owyhee Dams, and after the Bonneville tour went on to the Bull Run and Ariel Dams before leaving the Northwest. The party was conducted around the Bonneville project by Major Theron D- Weaver, district engineer; Captain Colby Myers, executive of ficer, and I. E. Burks, chief concrete technician for Bonneville. COLUMBIA CANOEIST STOPS AT GOVERNMENT HOUSES ♦ E. Williams of Everett, and a companion from Wenatchee, started last September on a journey down the Columbia River in a. canoe. They started at the headwaters of the river, where it was only five feet wide and six inches deep. His companion remained in Wenatchee, and Mr. Williams came on down the river alone. He stayed at the Bon neville Government bunk houses Monday night. His biggest accom plishment, he declares, was going over the Coulee Dam. DA CHRONICLE CASCADE LOCKS BONNEVILLE P.-T. A. GROUP W IL L MEET WEDNESDAY ♦ HONNEVILLE Bonneville Authorities Meet The Bonneville P.-T. A. will hold its regular meeting next Wednesday, November 3, in the school auditor ium. At 1:30 P. M. the Study Group will meet to discuss “ A Parent Locks at Home Work,” the month’s topic on the study, “ The Child in School,” as found in the National Parent-Teacher magazine. The regular meeting will follow from 2:30 to 4 P. M. Miss Susan B. Emmons, County School Super visor, and Mrs. Inez Miller, formerly of the Oregon State Normal at Mon mouth, will discuss and explain the new report cards which will be com ing out soon. This will be of special interest to every parent of school children. Hostesses for the afternoon will be mothers of the seventh graders, Mrs. Jack Leitheiser, grade mother, in charge. Pre-school children will be cared for as usual, and the P.-T. A. ban ner will go to the grade having the highest percentage attendance at the meeting. It was announced that the third grade was winner of the Bonneville P.-T. A. membership contest. But at the last minute the sixth grade came in ahead. Water Board Pays off First Bond On this coming Monday, November 1, the first $1000 bond issued by the Cascade Locks Water Board will fall due. In addition to this there is in terest on the remaining principal amounting to $680. On this coming Monday the Cascade Locks Water Board will pay from the receipts of the Cascade Locks water system $1680, and still have some money left in the bank. The system went into operation July 1, 1937 and has an average of 200 users since its inception. Besides this large amount of money to be paid, the board has paid all maintenance cost for the past year. Members of the water board are: O. C. Hyde, president, Alex Erickson, Karl Rosenback and W. J. Carlson, superintendent. Colonel Thomas M. Robins (left) and J. D. Ross, the Bonneville dam administrator, talk power problems for a few minutes at the Union station between trains. Ross was en route to Los Angeles, from where he will go to the national capital to consult the pres ident and Secretary Ickes on the Bonneville administration. New Setup On Bonneville Discussed P ú L ^ r Library r .i Walter Pierce To Visit Cascade Locks CHRONICLE ADVERTISERS DESERVE YOUB INTEREST. 28 OM ‘f ” IOA Ross Proposes First Measures For New Power While in Hyde Park this week, J. D. Ross, administrator of the Bonneville Dam, said he had pro posed to President Roosevelt that the 3% per cent interest rate for Bonne ville be used as a basis for all fed eral power developments. This, he said, would be placing all the government’s projects, including TVA, Boulder and Grand Coulee on “ a strictly financial basis" and would insure against discrimination for or against any region. Boulder has a 4 per cent interest rate. There is no fixed interest charge for TVA. None has been fixed yet for Grand Coulee. Another proposal that Ross made was the immediate joining of Bon neville and Grand Coulee by a power distribution line. Since Bonneville is nearer ready to commence selling its power than Coulee, R oss said the connecting line would mean simultaneous and even development of both regions at the same time. In making this proposal, Ross told reporters that he was “ taking for granted that everything for power is to be paid back.” “ I think it’s worth a great deal,” he said after his talk; with' the pres ident, "to have all federal plants on a strictly financial basis. “ Uncle Sam can do anything, with his money coming back. He can go on to bigger things.” Ross said he was particularly in terested that there be no conflict over power in the Northwest. One system of rates should be applied, he said, to all the power from projects, developed and undeveloped, on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. With interest and amortization now fixed, Ross said he would com mence a study of the effect of tax ation on power rates. Frivate com panies must pay taxes. The federal projects do not. ♦ Shades of the coming political campaigns are falling on Cascade Locks this week with the visit yes terday of Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman, Representative, from the first dis trict, and of a meeting of the towns people Friday (tonight) with Walter Pierce, Representative from the MR. AND MRS. E. A. BRINK Second district. CELEBRATE SILVER WEDDING It seems hard to realize that this Plans for Walter Pierce’s visit have ♦ coming week will see the last major not been completed as we go to pouring by the Columbia Construc Mr. and Mrs. Emil A. Brink cele press, but it is thought that a dinner brated their silver wedding anniver tion Company on the spillway dam will be arranged in the Odd Fellows and fishways. With the finishing of President Roosevelt took the first sary Saturday, October 23 with a Hall, to be followed by an address the pouring of the ogee sections on step today toward the goal of one large party at the I. O. O. F. Hall, by Mr. Pierce. of his principal power advisors—a which was decorated with charming Thursday or Friday of this week, Co uniform system of rates for all fed ly assorted garden flowers presented Mrs. Honeyman was scheduled to lumbia will start its final cleaning by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rankin. eral electricity. stop in Cascade Locks yesterday on up operations preparatory to moving J. D. Ross, administrator of the The extensive guest list included During the consideration of Bon her way to the Mid-Columbia Chamb to another job. project, announced that Mr. Roose the Messrs and Mesdames Otis Mc neville legislation at the recent ses er of Commerce meeting at Hood A temporary fish ladder in the cen velt had approved a 3% per cent Kinnon, Jack Stark, Wilbur Easely, River, to inspect the present locks ter o f the dam remains to be taken interest rate and 40-year amortiza Glenn Blevens, Malcolm McKinnon, sion of Congress the Columbia River and locks grounds. out and there is considerable back John Martinsen, Melvin Foster, Bill was held up for two months by tion plan for Bonneville. filling to be done on each end of the efforts of Los Angeles officials and Frank Prohaska, Hank Julius, Hank On that basis, taken in connection huge block of the main dam. This lobbyists to attach a rider which REBEKAHS IN STEVENSON with the number of kilowatts pro Munkres, C. L. Rankin, Joe Miller, work and other small jobs will take would permit the 4 per cent rate to Frank Banks, Jim Bozely, Shirley duced at the dam, Ross will deter Among those attending Rebekah some time before they are completed, be reduced to 3 per cent. Moore; Mesdames Bruce Wheeler, mine the rates to be charged for Lodge in Stevenson Thursday night but it is reported that the main Co were the following: Mrs. Breta Mor Bonneville power. The dam’s steady George Diffin and Messrs John Fulg- lumbia payroll will be slashed this ham and Frank Hall. gan, Mrs. Vera Sprague, Mrs. J. F. next week. running capacity is 430.000 kilowatts. The city’s younger set was well Kelsay, Mrs. Maude Brolliar, Mrs. The basis, which Ross described C. L. Rankin, Mrs. Ivan Embree, as a “ yard stick” for all federal represented by the Misses Zulima Mrs. G. E. Manchester, Mrs. Harriett power projects, will be applied to that Munkres, Marian Hulse, Jane Geit- W IL L ADDRESS P.-T. A. Norva Jenkins, Genevieve Waite, Mrs. Zulma Wuner, Mrs. C. A. part of the cost of Bonneville that ner, Brolliar, Mrs Emma Nelson, Mrs. H. C. Seymour of Corvallis, state is charged against production of Woodward, Eileen Prohaska, Violet Garner, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Zelda director of the 4-H clubs, will be the current. The federal power commis Cramblett, Marguerite McKinnon and Morris, Miss Stella Woodward, Mrs. main speaker of the evening at the sion, he said, is now breaking down Audrey Banks; and the Messrs Bob Pointer. next Parent-Teachers Association the more than $50,000,000 the gov Shreiber, Bill Murray, Harold Geit- The work in the powerhouse ernment is spending at Bonneville ner, Charles and John Hill, Neil and The state president of the Rebelr- meeting which is scheduled to be into two items—power and naviga Clay Weaver, Noble Hyde Jr., Cy reached another milestone this week ahs of Washington w^.s present at held at the high school gym Novem Jenkins, Bob Douville, Harry Cramb with the placing of the 350-ton rotor the meeting. Twenty-four visitors ber 10. Every parent is urged to tion. lett, Gilbert Banks and A1 Nelson. and twenty-eight members of the Ste come to the meeting and make the When the power development cost The large group enjoyed refresh in unit Number 1 Wednesday. This venson lodge were present. 1937-1938 P.-T. A. one of the best is determined, he disclosed, the fed ments served by the host and hos is the part of the generator that P.-T. A. years in history. Mrs. Kel eral treasury will • be paid 3% per tess and dancing to the music of say will have a special program ar cent interest annually on that sum Melvin Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. will be attached to blades in the ranged for the occasion. Please re CHORUS ORGANIZING and plans will be made to repay the Rankin, Glenn Blevins, and Mr. and bottom, which will propell it around between the field or stationary coils capital cost over 40 years. Bonneville P.-T. A. is organizing a member the date, Nov. 10. Mrs. Frank Banks. Miss Viola, and thus generate electricity. From chorus for men and women, with talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. the generating unit, the power wan H. D. Fraser as director. The group PERRAS NOW HOTEL MANAGER GEOLOGY CLASS MAY Brink, also entertained with several ders around in the building for a piano selections. Mr. and Mrs. Brink time and then is taken up on the will meet Tuesday, November 2, at BE ORGANIZED The doors of the Lakeside Hotel, received numerous congratulatory roof of the powerhouse where it will 7 P. M. in the Civic auditorium. ♦ of Cascade Locks recently were Efforts are being made to organ messages and were presented with pass through three high voltage Anyone interested is welcome. opened under new management. We ize a group in the Bonneville area many exceedingly handsome gifts transformers which are scheduled to find the manager with a very pleas for the study of Geology. It is hoped from their friends. SELLS CAFE arrive before long. The three trans ant smile to greet the people—none Dancing began at 8 :30 P. M. and it formers for Unit Number 2 are here to secure a WPA instructor. Those Mrs. Mildred Dunn, owner of the other than our friend, Silver E. Per- interested may leave word at the was well after 2 A. M. when the last and work on them is progressing sat- cafe and service station at Wyeth, ras. We hope to see Mr. Perras guest had departed. Bonneville Library. isfactorilyy. has sold her property in Wyeth. there for some time. Roosevelt Fixes Dam Interest Rate According to John W. Kelly, Ore gonian correspondent in Washing ton, D. C., President Roosevelt’s ap proval of 3% per cent interest charges and repayment of the money allocated to power at Bonneville in 40 years, with the implication that this will be a uniform interest rate on federally financed hydroelectric projects, is seen at Washington as a victory for Los Angeles. Under the present contract, Los Angeles is paying 4 per cent for power at Boulder Dam. Rotor Placed In Unit One This Week Columbia Finishes Work On Main Dam «J