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TW O F R I D A Y , A P R I L 15, 1938 T H E B O N N E V I L L E D A M C H R O N IC L E THE BONNEVILLE DAM CHRONICLE HOOD RIVER, OREGON Official paper of city of Cascade Locks, Oregon. Official publication for American Legion post No. 88, Bonneville, Ore. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Hood River, Ore gon, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. JOHN H. TRAVIS.................. Editor Published every Friday in the Interests of the Bonneville Dam area by the Sun Publishing Company, Inc. shelter he calls home and chronicles to an eagerly awaiting family that fishing is “ rot ten.” But that needs not matter. Next week he will have forgotten the aching limbs, the shivering flesh and the trip home with the spirit of the vanquished. The trout fisher men is hard to discourage and next week he will again be fired with the same enthusiasm. All in all he has done himself more good than a month in a sanitarium or two weeks of lolling in a quiet retreat. He is refreshed and invigorated. For a day he has forgotten his troubles and gone fishing. EASTER THOUGHTS A life beyond the grave, through all eternity? But no, the dead are dead, and neither cry nor plea Can stir that pulse, or make those sightless eyes to see. And yet, I always hear a voice within me cry— Can this then be the goal for which mankind must try, To struggle here a few short hours, and then to die? Is there no thought, no purpose, to our being here? And is this cosmic universe of ours a mere Display of nature that will someday disappear? • FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE News Items or ads may be left at the Cascade Drug Company In Cascade Locks, or at the Roose velt Inn in Bonneville. Wednesday afternoon I am In Cascade Locks and Wednesday night I may be reached at the Roosevelt Inn In Bonneville. Oth- ttmes call us collect at Hood River 3761. —Jack Travis. T H E LEG IO N A N D W A R It is not o f t e n that this newspaper comments on national, international, or cur rent political topics. It has become the practise of most weekly newspapers to restrict their observations or opinions to local or gen eral affairs in the belief that the national topics SUBSCRIPTION RATES are out of the weekly’s scope, and with the Three months .......... $0.50 realization that a country editor’s opinion in dix months ................................ $1.00 One year ................................... $2.00 these matters would not carry much weight. People desiring comment on national affairs, may turn to highly-informed political writers E A ST E R B O N N E T S 4 in dailies or magazines for worth-while opin “ Let’s go to church and laugh at the funny ions. hats,” remarked the clown, which was his However there is one topic to which we most serious thought on Easter Sunday. would call attention, feeling it is worthy of Probably this youth, prone to ridicule the recognition and praise. That is the effort of vanity of women is not entirely above reproach American Legion to have enacted House Bill himself in his Sunday attire, and much more 6704, known as The American Legion’s Uni comical yet in his daily “ get up.” versal Service Bill. It is “ A bill to prevent Hats are funny anyway. The present day profiteering in time o f war and to equalize men’s felts would have been out of place in the burdens of war and thus provide for the the days when men wore silk hats to church, national defense, and promote peace.” Under or in the later period when the derby was very the act the government, in time of war, would much in vogue. A woman’s new hat may assume control o f material resources, indus appear odd, for styles change fast and the trial organizations, and public services over adornment of milady’s head is often extreme which control may be necessary. The bill in design. But man should not laugh — he also provides that in time of war it will be should not comment. Soon the derby or the unlawful to buy, sell, or lease at a higher silk hat may return to men’s fashions and then rates, rent or price than was in effect at a the women could laugh at him on Easter date set forth prior to the conflict. Sunday. It seems that, if this bill were enacted, and it already has been reported on by a House F IS H IN ’ committee, war involving this country would Fishing season opens this week! And who be strictly a defensive proposition. The American Legion, in sponsoring and gives thought to winter's turbulence with its promoting this bill for the last 17 years, has attending strife, the conflict o f nations, the disagreement of American factions, the asser presented the most logical plan for keeping ted limitations of humanity, the politics in this nation out o f war. W e suppose the bill the air— and the recession? For it's to be does not meet with the whole-hearted ap proval of the big steel companies or the fishing season in a couple of days! There are few diversions o f man attendant DuPont interests, but we say to the American with so much exhilaration, so much optimism, L e g i o n — congratulations, we believe the so much expectation as the man or boy, yes American people on the whole are behind you. and often the woman, going fishing. For on this sojourn to mountain lake or stream there “ There wasn't any such thing as ‘snap lies waiting in pool or eddy large, fighting, judgment' in this country,” said Uncle Jeb, finny creatures, certain this time to strike the Sage of Pine Grove, "when a man had with force and fight with frenzy. The joy of time to take out his knife and whittle awhile feeling his tug on the line is an extiting before rendering a decision.” thought at best. W hat disappointment when the fisherman, W e have noticed that the man who spends after a day in cold and rain, trudging over money for hair tonic is still bald and the sharp, unsympathetic rocks, face and hands woman who spends hers for reducing pills is scratched by bush and briar, returns to the still fat. Meetings. American Legion, Bonneville Post. No. 88, second Tuesday of each month at the Civic Auditorium, Bonneville. Bonneville Parent-Teachers Associa tion — First Wednesday every month, study club at 1.30, regular meeting at 2:30 in Bonneville grade school auditorium. Bonneville Rod A Gun Club Fourth Monday of each month at Civic Auditorium. Bonneville. Bridal Veil l odge. No. 117, A.F. and A.M. — School house. Latourelle falls, second Saturday in each month. Visiting Masons welcome Cascade Yacht Club—Thursday, cab in 8, Enquist addition. Everyone welcome. Cascade Locks Chamber of Com • • An merce — Merrill's dining room, Tuesdays, noon. Cascade Locks City Council—Second Monday of each month, city hall. Cascade Locks Boy Scouts — High school, Tuesdays. 8 P.M. Bonneville Boy Scouts—Grade school auditorium, Tuesdays, 7 P.M. Cascade Locks Townsend Club—Odd Fellows hall, first and third Fri days. 8 P.M Rehekahs—Cascadla lodge. Cascade Locks, first and third Wednesdays of each month, Odd Fellows hall, 8 P.M. Cascade Locks r.-T. A.: Meets in the evening of the second Wednesday of the month. Port Commission—Second Thursday of each month at City Hall, Cas cade Locks. I tarn site post. Veterans of Foreign Wars — First and Third Mondays, meeting room of administration building. 8 P.M. I. O. O. F. Cascade Lodge — Every Monday night. Cascade Locks. Troop 390, B. S. A. Grade school gym every Friday. Cascade Locks. Churches Plan Organization ♦ All churches of the county are in vited to send delegates to the second meeting of representatives to con sider the organization of a County Council of Churches. This meeting will be held at Riverside Commun ity Church, Wednesday, Aprjl 20, at 7:45. Each church in the county is asked to send at least these four delegates; their minister, a layman, a laywoman and a young person. As many others as care to piay attend The program will consist of a Fel lowship Hour and a discussion of the possibility of organizing a County Council. The last government census re vealed that in Texas there is a farm which has been continuously worked since 1540. empty tomb, though nineteen hundred years have past, Still answers every doubter and icon oclast, Stil stands as proof that hope and faith and love shall last. —R. H. D. Legal Notices NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETI TIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF A PEOPLES’ UTILITY DIS TRICT. Township 3 North, Range 9 East, W. M .; running thence along sec tions lines and subdivisional sec tion lines as follows: South approximately 7 miles to the southwest com er of Section 36, Township 2 North, Range 9 East, W. M .; west to the north west corner of Section 1, Town ship 1 North, Range 9 East, W. M.; south 3 miles; east 1 mile; south 2 % miles to the west quar ter corner of Section 31, Town ship 1 North, Range 10 East, W M .; east % mile, south % mile; east % mile to the northwest comer of Section 6, Township 1 South, Range 10 East, W. M .; south 6 miles to the southwest corner of Section 31, Town ship 1 South, Range 10 East, W. M.; east 1 mile; north I mile; east 1 mile; north 1 mile; east 1 mile; north 4 miles to the northeast corner of Section 4, Township 1 South, Range 10 East, W. M .; west to the south east corner of Section 34, Town ship 1 North, Range 10 East, W. M .; north 3 miles; east 1 mile; north 1 mile; east 1% miles to the south quarter corner of Sec tion 7, Township 1 North, Range II East, W. M .; north 1% miles; east % mile; north approximate ly 7% miles to the south meander line of the Columbia River where the same is intersected by the line between Sections 31 and 32, Township 3 North, Range 11 East, W. M .; thence westerly following said meander line to the point of beginning. The purpose of organizing said Notice is hereby given that a pub lic hearing will be held by the Hy droelectric Commission of Oregon on Saturday, April 23, 1938, beginning district as stated in the petitions at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of filed with the Hydroelectric Com said day, in the main hall over The mission is “ The aquisition and/or First National Bank at Third and construction of power and light fa Oak Streets in the City of Hood cilities for the generation, distribu- River, Oregon, to consider the pre - tion and sale of self-generated liminary petitions of voters of a por and/or purchased electrical energy tion of Hood River County for the (particularly from Bonneville pro formation of a peoples’ utility dis ject) to residential, commercial, in trict to be known as the Hood River dustrial, agricultural and general Peoples’ Utility District, which dis customers.” trict would embrace an area of ap All persons interested are invited proximately 105 square miles in the to be present at the hearing, at northeastern part of Hood River which time the Hydroelectric Com County. 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