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
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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a. ¡.imfnted on the excellence of the with a circulating library. News
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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
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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
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Displaying
the
training
and
disci
H IS R IG H T T O T U .
the part Hood River groups played
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pline
of
the
camp,
attendants
in
R 1 6 H T -0 F -W A Y
in bringing about the popularity
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skiing has achieved in the North each division immediately came to
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west. Kent Shoemaker, chairman of attention when visitors approached.
the climb committee of the Ameri The company at Wyeth is composed
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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
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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.
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low power rates would serve as an winter range in eastern Oregon, ac
Mrs. Black disappeared February inducement for industries to locate
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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.
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