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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
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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.
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CASCADE LOCKS
BONNEVILLE P.-T. A. GROUP
W IL L MEET WEDNESDAY
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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