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TWO FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938 THE BONNEVILLE DAM CHRONICLE Hood River Breakfast club, addres sed the group on the history of the sports engaged in by members of the camp. Penn C. Crum, repre senting the Rotary Club, Mrs. Wil liam Munroe, Rev. J. J. Dixon, and H. G. Ball were other speakers. Various groups of local folks were ♦ Commemorating the fifth anniver conducted over the camp by mem sary of the founding of the CCC, bers of the corps. Visitations were Hood River civic groups were guests made to the infirmary, where hos Sunday afternoon of Camp Cascaae pital beds are kept in readiness and Locks, located at Wyeth. One hun first aid and medical equipment is dred and fifty persons from Hood available. During the past winter River and vicinity inspected the never more than five of the 200 boys camp and dined in the mess hall have been confined to the hospital at with the CCC boys. one time. The camp kitchen is T h is 13 JOE A program in the camp recreation equipped with a bakery and a cold B u l l h e a d » a ha'I lectured speeches by represen storage room as well as regular ORW ER WHO tatives from Hood River civic groups kitchen equipment. COULDN'T BE and camp officials. Lieutenant A. Visitors remarked at the orderli M. Krevitz, camj commando:, denied ness and cleanliness of the barracks, S L U M P E D - -. that CCC boys were being trained as lined with single cots. The recrea cannon fodder for the army, and tional hall includes a reading room, -D UP TO R . m s / a. ¡.imfnted on the excellence of the with a circulating library. News „ES . --H E 'D FAR physical condition of the enrollees papers and magazines are available UIS B IR D W H O H A D ■joe as a result o f their out-of-door work here for the young men. The recre .IE R I G H T - O F - W A Y ! and camp life. Herbert M. Johnson, ational hall contains a broad fire in charge of the work of the corps, place, pool tables, writing desks and a mentioned the improvement which an auditorium. Near the buildings has been done by the boys this «'in is an athletic field where early ter at Eagle Creek. Percy Bucklin, spring baseball aspirants were toss newly-named president of the Hood ing around the horsehide ball Sun P oor j o e ? h e River Chamber of Commerce, pre day afternoon. DIED M AINTAININ' sided at the meeting and mentioned i WASH INC Displaying the training and disci H IS R IG H T T O T U . the part Hood River groups played L TAK&N pline of the camp, attendants in R 1 6 H T -0 F -W A Y in bringing about the popularity J IN skiing has achieved in the North each division immediately came to A ^ l west. Kent Shoemaker, chairman of attention when visitors approached. the climb committee of the Ameri The company at Wyeth is composed C '.i> . can Legion, extended an invitation entirely of southern boys, principally to the corps at Wyeth to join in the from Tenessee and North Carolina, annual Legion climb scheduled for and all of them are experienced in the corps, having re-enlisted after | July 17. Tommy Johnson, representing the serving their first or second terms. They were most courteous and hos Toe’s W ID O W WISHES j o e HAD LCT t h e OTHER FELLOW HAVE pitable when contacting the visitors, T h e ^IG H T-O FW A f » E V E N IF J O E W AS O N A TH R O U G H STREET.' those who attended the open house declared. Some local people com —Natiti m l S afety Council mented on the southern accent which Nvas quite noticeable in the speech of the boys who now make up MWAK WINDS UP WORK the camp. The green light was given to the An additional 50 boys from the CBI this week at the Grand Coulee south will swell the enrollment at the Dam, and the MWAK took a back Wyeth camp May 15. At the present seat, as far as any further con time there are 141 enrolled. struction work on the dam. Following the visitation and pro The new contractors were given gram the camp was host to the their official notice to proceed by visitors at a chicken dinner, served Grand Coulee, Wn.—The possibility the bureau this week, and started in the mess hall. The diners were of connecting the power line from work immediately preparing a work enthusiastic over the fine food, pre the Bonneville generators with the program for the approval of the pared and served by the CCC boys, dam site here, to provide cheap bureau of reclamation. Although no who themselves say they have no power for construction operations large crews «ere put to work, by complaint to make on the camp life private use, and for inducements to Thursday nearly 100 men had been or the food they are given. “ But industry to locate here was height put on by the CBI, and their payroll we don’t like this Oregon mist. ened this week by the announce «■as expected to swell gradually to they commented. ment that a possible market for a much larger figure. The destruction of the conveyor Low Prices on Printing. 300,000,000 kilowatt hours here dur ing the life of the CBI contract was bridge was one part of the work be Widow’s Body Found Orte FREE 5x7 Enlarge gun this week, following orders by not too improbable. the government that the old struc In River ment The CBI, according to members ture «-as deemed unsafe, the central ♦ of the Grand Coulee commercial tower now being surrounded by The body of Mrs. Rose A. Black, club, is planning to utilize more with every $2 worth of Film water. widow of the late Dr. Joseph L. than half this amount, the steel Printing. Black was discovered near the Lofts fabrication plant will be a formid GAME PROBLEM SCANNElf gravel quarry at the mouth of Hood able consumer of juice, and the MONEY BACK GUARANTEE What promises to be an epoch river at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. townsites from Elmerton to Osbourne making move in the coordination of David Friand, pump tender for Lofts will all avail themselves of the & Son, sighted the body at 1:30 yes power. Consumption here, if a much big game management «-ith other terday, when he went down to the lower rate is secured, would auto public interests of the state is under shore to start a centrifugal pump. matically increase to a large extent way this week in the joint inspection trip by game and livestock agencies He notified the city police, and the the moment the rates go down. starting from John Day and covering body was recovered by County Coro In addition the availability of the important parts of the mule deer ner C. C. Anderson. ^RELIABLE DRUGGISTS low power rates would serve as an winter range in eastern Oregon, ac Mrs. Black disappeared February inducement for industries to locate PHONE 1351 * HOOD RIVER cording to the U. S. Forest service. 28 after the death of her husband, here. Leaving John Day early this week and bloodhounds had followed her However, should the rate at which the party is devoting about four trail to the railroad bridge across Hood river. However, dragging the power is sold be set at a flat days to the Murderers Creek area operations and a professional diver figure, whether at Seattle or Port and the rest of the week to parts of land or Grand Coulee, where all of the winter deer range on the north had failed to find a trace of her the natural advantages and re side of the John Day valley. The body. sources are already located. Canyon Creek game refuge and pos The body was identified by her The announcement regarding the sibly the Myrtle Point game refuge clothing by several local people, and will be taken to a Portland crema market came as a resuslt of an at also will be included. Data resulting from an extended tempt by local businessmen to se torium. study by the forest service «-ill be cure lower rates for electricity here Mrs. Black had resided in Hood with the letting of the new contract made available to the wild life and River for 14 years. A reward of $100 had been posted for the completion of the dam. Ori livestock agencies participating in for information as to her where ginal rate structures were based on the trip. On April 9. a joint meeting abouts by The First National Bany the four-year period in which the of the organizations will be held to utilities had to get their investments discuss the findings of the week and of Portland, only last week. The bank is administrator of Dr. out, and were consequently extreme attempt to formulate a constructive policy affecting both wild life and ly high. Black's estate. livestock interests. Erosion washes away about twen Farm acounts conducted under the ty-one times as much plant food supervision of the University of each year in the United states as the Illinois sho«- that a man’s body is plants themselves take out of the worth $500 and his head $2,000 in soil. operating his farm. C C C Camp At Wyeth Holds Open House SH A K IN G - OF S A F -E T V / / ill!/ V -it j: ip ? »! BUT- 4 ® - Coulee Future May Hinge On Bonneville FREE Developing! 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