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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1937)
' ' N *• * * ì T / FR ID A Y , DECEM BER 31, 1937 TH E BO N N EV ILLE DAM CHRONICLE EIG HT not a sufficiently great one to coun country in not only developing the “ B lackbeard” Tied His this diffusion of rays. It m ere raw materials and paying labor, but W hiskers Back of Ears teract ly tempers slightly the seasonal at the same time, substitute the im Edward Teach, who changed his occupation from privateering to pi rating when a treaty ended the w ar of the Spanish succession in 1713, was known as “Blackbeard.” He tied the ends of his heavy beard with ribbons and fastened them be hind his ears. Several years after the signing of the treaty, he cap tured a large French merchantman which he rechristened “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” and converted it Into a warship of 40 tons. Then he proceeded to raid the important ports on the Spanish Main, extend ing his activities as far north as the Carolinas. In June, 1718, according to a writ er in the Indianapolis News, “Black- beard” sailed into Charleston har bor with a fleet of four ships, manned by a crew of 400 scoun drels, and captured ten vessels, among them a ship carrying many leading citizens to London. Not con tent with this, “Blackbeard” sent a landing party into the city to get supplies. Led by a mate, they car ried a message to Governor John son which threatened to send him the heads of the prisoners unless he fulfilled their demands. The citizens complied, but the pirates stripped their prisoners of all belongings, in cluding clothing, before sending them ashore. “Blackbeard” then re tired to his winter base in Ocracoke inlet, North Carolina. It has been said that Gov. Charles Eden looked upon him with suspicious indiffer ence and even attended the wedding of the pirate to his fourteenth wife. However, the governor of Virginia displayed no such casual attitude, and sent two powerful sloops under the command of Lieutenant May nard to find “Blackbeard.” He was finally cornered in the inlet and killed. After hanging or shooting his crew, the victorious Virginians sailed back with the severed head of “Blackbeard” on the bowsprit of the leading vessel. “Blackbeard” is supposed to have buried his treasure on an island off the coast of Georgia, which since has been literally dug to pieces by treasure hunters. Of his treasure “Blackbeard” is said to have said: “Only me and the devil knows where it is, and the one who lives longest gets it.” Sun Is Much Closer in W inter than in Summer The sun is 3,000,000 miles closer to the earth on January 3 than it is on July 3. The reason for this is that the earth’s path around the sun is not a perfect circle, but slightly oval, and the sun is not exactly in the center. In other words, says a writ er in the Chicago Tribune, the earth’s orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one focus. The tem perature difference be tween summer and winter is due prim arily to the fact that the sun’s rays strike the earth at a more horizontal angle during the winter, due to the tilt of the earth’s axis. From an obvious geometrical rela tion, a given amount of solar energy is then spread out over more area and each square foot of land re ceives proportionally less heat. The difference in the sun’s dis tance has a measurable effect, but variations in the northern hemi portation of foreign chemicals.” sphere and accentuates them south It is thought that the property of the equator, where the seasons he refers to is the Haskin fox farm just east of Cascade Locks although are reversed. no official statement has been made. In his first announcement three weeks ago Chipman stated he and Peat, A fter M any Years, associates were planning on Develops Into H ard Coal his building a plant to cost between $1,- Peat, according to scientists, is 500,000 and $2.500,000. It would em coal in the making. It consists of ploy around 125 men the year around. decayed trees and vegetation. When the world was younger, say BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH about 250 million years ago, in the carboniferous era, there were many (Continued from Page One) peat bogs, writes a correspondent transcriptions sent forth from tne in the Chicago Tribune. Eventually power station nearby. the peat became lignite, then soft or Ross sees in the great dam he bituminous coal, as in Illinois, then is Mr. now upon to administer, not hard, or anthracite, as in Pennsyl a mere called inanimate of steel and vania. Something like this hap concrete stemming object the Columbia pened: River as a commercial project, but The ancient peat beds sank below a humanitarian venture that will pro sea level, and over eons of tim e the vide more leisure in the home, com beds were buried under thick layers fort and convenience on the farm, and progress and efficiency in the of silt and sand. Tremendous pressure upon the factory. Ever since his boyhood when he fashioned his first peat squeezed out the moisture and, days, battery from a copper kettle and a after several hundred thousand pickle been continuously years, peat became lignite, a brown absorbed jar, in he the has labor-saving possi ish coal which crumbles rapidly bilities of electricity. He is especially when exposed to the air. The pres of the reputation Seattle has sure continued and, after some two proud gained of being one of the best million years, the lignite became lighted communities in America, and soft coal. And when the earth ex he derives much satisfaction from erted both a horizontal and vertical the fact that lower power rates have pressure, as in mountain making, resulted in the installation of more electric stoves in Seattle kitchens hard coal resulted. Peat, because of its great mois than in any other city in America. ture load, has little value as fuel. Mr. Ross is a plain and unassum ing man, who eagerly hopes to meet Its heating value is about half that personally all the people of the Pa of lignite, according to estim ates by cific Northwest interested in the Prof. Adolf Noe of the University of problem. In the cities where Chicago, a Vnember of the Illinois power has lived thousands of persons geological survey staff, and about he call him “J. D.,” which (is also one-fourth that of hard coal. President Roosevelt’s nickmane for him. Mr. Ross does not believe in frills or pretention, and never sur Old Autographs in Cave rounds himself with pomp or cere Practically all of the exploring of mony. He has never owned an auto Mammoth cave, Kentucky, before mobile and cares little for the lux the Civil war was done by the use uries of life. He has a quality of of reed torches and homemade tal “homespun-ness” about him that low candles. In those days it was constantly reminds one of his old friend and fellow electrical engineer, a practice of the visitors who were the late Thomas Alva Edison. taking routes through the cave to tie their candles on walking canes and smoke their names on the walls and ceiling of the cave. At one place in the cave this practice was carried on so extensively that it has been named Register hall. Here many of the dates are a century and a quarter old. Fingers for Forks The old rule that fingers were made before forks holds good in Morocco. Soups and stews there are dipped up with bread and chick en and meats are torn apart with the Angers. A meal at the palace of a Moorish pasha may consist of as many as 12 courses, mostly of fowl and lamb. Pigeon may be served in a very light pastry, chicken in a thick stew, or with stuffing. Double pancakes with a little honey inside them, vermicelli and lamb served in a variety of ways make up the rest of the meal, which may be topped off with tea. CASCADE LOCKS CHOSEN (Continued from Page One) in communication with Ross and that he hoped that before long ". . . . this industry can be helpful in this Best Wishes for A HAPPY NEW YEAR West Coast Power Co. New Years Greetings to our friends on both sides of the river. WAUNA BRIDGE CO, Voicing ... appreciation for good will and patronage extended to us dur ing the past year, and wishing for a ll . . . . Health Happiness and Prosperity for the Seasons to come © EP P I N G ’ S Red & White Store Cascad# Locks * ■