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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1938)
S IX T H E B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N IC L E To keep the automobile windshield free from rain or sleet, use an ounce o f water, two ounces of glycerin and one-eighth ounce of salt. Dip a cheesecloth or gauze into this solu tion and rub over windshield. Lower Gates for W orld’s Largest Single F R I D A Y , J A N U A R Y 7, 1937. L i f t Locks rising behind the dam and as far as power to homes, farms and fac The Dalles includes: tories : Raising the Bridge o f the Gods 1— Allocation of costs at dam, by approximately 55 feet and recon federal power commission, as basis structing approaches, providing a for rate. circular approach on the Oregon side 2— Securing of appropriation for and a new one on the Washington j transmission lines to be built under side: rise of normal level of river j the direction of Administrator Ross, about 50 feet because of Bonneville and building of lines, jobs requiring Dam. from six months to 18 months. Raising approaches t-o Hood River 3— Finding markets for Bonne Bridge, replacing wooden approaches ville’s first two units of power with concrete and steel spans (rise (about 86,400 kilowatts or 120,000 of river here to be about 15 feet horsepower) and obtaining appropri- above present normal;) riprapping ; ations for additional units as needed. bank to protect railroad; building The construction phase has been flood protection levee from Hood successfully negotiated by United River to Hood R iver Bridge ap States army engineers; the sale, proach, about half a mile; raising transmission and distribution phase and protecting about a quarter of a is just beginning under the direction mile of railroad. of Ross—approximately a year late Building three-mile earth levee at for proper integration with the con The Dalles' in front of the town io struction schedule. Three-Mile Creek, cost about $150,- 000; fixing storm sewer and rebuild ing sanitary sewer and installing / 1 C A LL pumping plant, cost about $140,000. The levee is about half done and B A K T O L MOTOR CO., the sewer jobs about 30 per cent complete. The river will be about phone Hood River 1111, for radio five feet higher than present normal service or repairing. at The Dalles. River Gives Aid Work at Bonneville has been speeded during the last year by un usually favorable river conditions, the Columbia having the lowrest wat er stagp for the longest period of any in a number of years. The only thing preventing com pleting the project on schedule would be a delay in receiving elec trical equipment such as the main control switchboard. Things to be done in 1938 before Bonneville can begin delivering A V fA SC A D IA N fl F R L, SAT., SUN. JAN. 7-8-9 “Fire Over England” The spectacle of the Age MON., T I ES., WED., T i l l RS., FRI. JAN. 10-11-12-13-14 Joel McRae, Frances Dee, Bob Burns j IN “W ells Fargo” Get Well and Keep Well With Vitamins RIALTO FRL, SAT. JAN. 7-8 “Fight for Your Lady” PO W E R SA LE N E X T ST E P JN PRO GRAM ♦ (Continued from Page One) pleted Bonneville project, with two of the contemplated 10 units for hydro-electric power, is approximate ly $51,000,000; with all 10 units, $75,- 000 , 000 . The year 1937 also saw organiza tion ol tne Bonneville administra John Boles, Jack Oakle, Ida I.uplno tion, the appointment of J. D. Ross of Seattle as administrator, the com Betty Gilbert pletion of the 5000-horsepower ser vice unit to provide the Bonneville reservation with power and started by President Roosevelt on his last visit at the dam last October, and i.he SCN. JAN. 9 gradual reduction of the working crew from a peak of 3700 to approx D O UBLE F E A T U R E imately 1000 men. Operations in 1937 cost approxi Hugh Hubert, Allen Jenkins mately $9,000,000. With it the finish ing touches were put to the north IN half of the rpain spillway dam, the money making possible ajso the com pletion of the fish ladders on the Washington side, installation of the steel slide gates along the dam and the second gantry crane to lift them, and of the immense upper and lower gates for the ship lock. Back filling Cesar Romen», Thyllss Brooks at the north end o f the dam was IN completed and is also finish at the south end. Rip-rapping bank pro tection on the Washington shore, ex tending upstream about half a mile, is approximately half done and will be finished in February. The big ca bles which were used to carry ma terials out over the main dam were taken down in December and the great towers at either end are now coming down. Much of the work of the past year MON., TUES., W ED., JAN. 10-11-12 has centered in the powerhouse where the two 43.200-kilowatt gener ators were assembled and installed Norman Alley’s by tin> General Electric company and the two turbines were installed by army engineers and the S. Morgan Smith company. Also completed were the six main transformers, three for each power unit ; screens for the intake channels to the powerhouse, and governing units, operated under 300 pounds oil pressure and control ‘Sh! The Octopus’ “ Dangerously Yours” “Bombing of the Panay” Exclusive Picture Also John Wayne, Montague Love ling automatically the turbine blades and the gates to the turbines. The bus and switch structure on the roo.. of the powerhouse was about one- third completed. Other powerhouse work of the year included installation of hundreds of conduits to carry lines to controls, the air washing, conditioning and heating p'ant, and the great storage battery system which operates the controls by direct current and. in cidentally, guarantees control of powerhouse machinery whether or not the hydro units are in operation. The lock, which will accommodate barge traffic to and from The Dalles when the water level rises to 72 feet (it was 44 feet December 22) and oceah-going ships after the channel is dredged from Vancouver to Bon neville, has the greatest lift in the world, generally about 55 feet and a miximum of 66 feet. It will be open to barge traffic some time in Jan uary of this- year. For gains in w eight and increased resistance W h e n prescribing that old- Generators Lurgest in World The two generators, 50 feet in di ameter, are the largest in size and weight in the world, 50 feet in diam eter and weighing about 1,500,000 pounds each- The five-bladed, auto matically adjusted turbines and shafts weigh about 2,000,000 pounds each. Both arc supported on one | great, flat thrust bearing in oil. Be cause of their great size and weight, it was necessary to build and test them at the factory, tear them down for shipment, then reassemble them in the power house after they were rolled in on specially constructed rail road tracks. Tests on the turbines and generators (the generators must be thoroughly dried out before be ing placed in service) will bo run in January and February. The great power nouse can be op erated 24 hours a day by 12 men. four to a shift; the locks will re quire five or six, and the fish lad ders .'*> to 40 men when the run is on and five or six the rest of the year. Supplemental work now under way and necessitated by the great lake time health-builder, Cod-Liver Oil, thousands of physicians say,“ Be sure to get Squibb’s” . They know it is Unusually effective— because it is excep tionally rich in Vitamins A and D — factors that correct under weight and increase resistance to colds and other infections. Squibb’s Cod-Liver Oil is another exam ple o f “ The Highest Q u ality” — which customers always find at S 250 Yeast Tablets 98c q u ib b [ifiHHmifii HIGH VITAMIN P0T £»*W v ** LX Cod, Halibut Liver Oil 8 or...............98c 100 A -B -D Capsules $2.69 ABBOTTS HALIVER OIL lûith l/ioiteA& i Is Your Title Clear? An Abstract is the way to find out. 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