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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1937)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1937 THE School News CASCADE LOCKS HIGH SCHOOL By William Morgan Miss Mac Rae spent the week-end in Portland with her mother doing some Christmas shopping. Miss Wetzel also did some Christ mas shopping over the week-end. Cascade Locks won its first league game with Mosier 26 to 12. Mosier led the game 8 to 2 for the first half. It looked bad for Cascade Locks. Then. Socko, we really lit into them, winning the game. Tuesday the boys played The Dalles Popooses with a score of 24 to 25 in the Papooses’ favor. The Christmas plays will be given at the high school Monday, Dec. 20. The high school play is “ It’s a Gift.” Those playing are Noble Hyde, Eileen Prohaska, Clayton Kyle and Norva Jenkins. The high school’s girls’ glee club will offer two selections. ♦ BONNEVILLE SCHOOL By Virginia McMullen The Girls’ League presented the kitchen nine towels with “ Bonneville School” embroidered on the comers. Bonneville boys’ basketball team had a game with Rockwood Monday, but was defeated by a score of 32-8. The starting line-up was: Forward, Billy Fargher; forward, Roy Lusch; guard, Steven Memovich; guard, Jimmy Dow; center, Earl Pisner. The boys are feeling the loss of their tall men this year. A fast team is expected, however, so all contestants should receive a scare. LORIN The seventh and eighth grades lis tened to the Science Club on the air over the radio on Friday and have found it very helpful and interesting. The Girls’ League members are planning their Christmas party. The harmonica band, orchestra and glee clubs have been working hard on their numbers for the Christmas program. The boys receiving letter for foot ball are as follows: Virgil Anderson, Mosso, Jim Haskett, Eugene Pomp- litz, Steven Memovich, Jimmy Rab- ideau, and Jimmy Dow. The Bonneville school store, which is managed by the teachers for the convenience of the children, is pre pared to take orders for books and magazines at the current price. This gives the store a small prbfit which goes into the school fund. Christmas seals are also on sale. With the awarding of the Grand Coulee contract to the Interior Con struction Company, many of our children will soon be going away. We regret their leaving just at Christmas *ime, when we look for ward to the Legion Christmas tree. Parents and friends are being in vited to a little program and exhibit in the third and fourth grade room Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 22. The children are collecting a box of toys and clothing to be sent to the Children’s Ward at the Isolation Hospital in Portland. "Drawing names” has been at tended to with ceremony in the third and fourth grade room. Now every one will have something on the tree, which will be had at the program De cember 22. Library books must all be in be fore the holiday begins, so that a new collection will be ready for the re-opening of school. Truck Driver Killed at Mosier Tunnel THEATER STEVENSON,WASH. ♦ Lowell Weimer, 25, of Portland, was killed early Saturday morning when his truck left the highway just west of the Mosier tunnel, plunging hundreds of feet down the steep bank to the Union Pacific railroad tracks. The wreckage was discovered at 12:30 Saturday morning after the electric guard fence of the Union Pacific rail road was struck by the debris and signalled to railroad watchmen. The truck, operated by the Portland-Pen- dleton Freight Company, carried a mixed cargo and was traveling east. State police believed that a small boulder had crashed into the truck, causing it to leave the road. Tracks showed where the truck left the high way, just 20 feet west of the tunnel entrance. Part of the truck lodged in brush 40 feet down from the highway level, but most of the wreckage was strewn along the steep incline hundreds of feet to the railroad guard fence be low. An axle and wheel of the trailer leaped the fence and were found be yond the tracks, while a drum of oil which was part of the cargo, had bounded across the tracks and landed in the Columbia River. The truck’s moto meter was found FRIDAY and SATURDAY December 17-18 —DOUBLE FEATURE— Trapped by G-Men Life Begins With Love SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY December 19-20-21 W AR N ER B A X T E R IN Wife, Doctor and Nurse W alt Disney’s “ H AW AIIA N HOLIDAYS” B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N I C L E »E V E I by Dick Bramble«, state highway was transported to Mosier by a rail of the point where the truck left the workman, a few yards west of the road speeder. Police believed the road indicated that falling rocks had point where the truck left the high truck's motor meter found just west hit the truck. way. Bramblett had gone to the highway entrance to clear away fall en rock. Curious at finding the moto meter, he looked over the edge of the cliff to see the wreckage and summoned State Officer Bob Rainey. While Bramblett was going for help for the Christmas Dinner from the upper level, Watchman Hib bard of Mosier summoned J. H. Sur- rell, of the local Union Pacific per VAI BROTHERS’ OF CALIFORNIA FAMOUS PRODUCT sonnel. Hibbard had gone to Mosier tc summon aid after being brought to also a complete line of F R U IT W I N E S the scene by the signals of the safety fence. Rainey suspended himself from the highway level with 750 feet of rope Cascade Locks and discovered Weimer’ s body 700 feet below the highway. 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