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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1938)
F R ID A Y , JU L Y 15, 1938 T H E B O N N E V IL L E DAM C H R O N IC L E FOUR 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. 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. Tuesday night I am at the Roosc- celt Inn in Bonneville, and Wednes day in Cascade Locks. Other times cull us collect at Hood River 3761. Jack Travis. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Three m onths................................. $0-40 Six m onths..................................... $0.75 One year........................................... $1.50 Y E L L O W !! *x?!Z**l W c have never been so persnickity about the color of our license plates that we wanted them to match the color of the car, but when the announcement was forthcoming that Ore gon’s 1939 license plates would be yellow— well, it just didn't set right. Yellow is a beautiful color when seen in buttercups of early spring. It is a comely shade for milady’s summer frock. It makes a delightful background for the tint of red and pink on an apple or peach. Yellow is an admirable color for painting “no parking strips along curbs. Circus promoters recog nize it as of great advertising value when mixed with red on posters announcing the greatest show on earth. W e wouldn’t want to see a lemon or a plate of butter any other color. But yellow doesn’t usually have a compli mentary connection. A man who is “yellow” lacks fortitude. A yellow dog is an object of ridicule. A yellow house is not usually attractive unless the color is toned down to become a cream. When we think of yellow, we think of the yellow peril, yellow fever, a yellow-jacket, or a yellow, sallow complexion. Yet the state is to make the 1939 license plates yellow—aping California’s 1938 color scheme. There are many different shades of yellow, and whether the background for the state's black numbers will be canary, lemon, cream, amber, straw, brass, or just plain yellow, we protest. For years our black and white or blue and white license plates have been a symbol of taste, contrasted with W ashington's sickly green shade on her tin plates and California's uncomely orange or yellow coloring. Now Oregon has turned yellow. enough, he believes, to take more power than his first two generators will produce. But the rub is that Ross has no transmission lines except the little line to Cascade Locks now nearing completion. A s a result, Ross is not engaging in any widespread program of advertising or exploit ing Bonneville power. It could only promote demands that would prove embarrassing be cause they could not be fulfilled. So Ross is doing the next best thing— care fully canvassing customers who plan to come and get their own power at the power house bus bar, and going after transmission-line money with everything he has. And it appears that he is going to get this money in big chunks, not only from congress but P W A and possibly from W PA . For the moment, however, Bonneville Dam is like a sleek, new, powerful truck— without a highway. — Oregon Journal. Salmon, Trout and Chicken Dinners a at PEN N ’S M. L. M O R G A N , Lessee 1 % miles east of Cascade Locks There is no attribute to the public spirit of a small city more noteworthy than a brass band. Snappy uniforms and glistening brass instruments makes any band a sight pleasant to the eye as well as an ensemble which de lights the ear. Music from community bands is always delightful; never mournful. Usually marches, waltzes or trios have that swing and rhythm which makes the bystander keep time with his toe and inspire the man walking on the street two blocks away to measure his stride with the music. W hy is it a man will take it as a compliment if you say he is level-headed, but he will want to cut your throat from ear to ear if you say he is flat-headed. The biggest optimist is the man who thinks that after mother and daughter have learned to drive the family car he can have it any time he wants it. The only objection some fellows have to these modern electric carpet sweepers is that they can’t get a straw out of it to clean their pipe. Women are now wearing dresses of a materialthey call “banana cloth.’’ That should make something nice to slip on when you re in a hurry. No matter how disreputable a man looks, he never appears quite so horrible as just before he fixes himself up before breakfast. There is nothing a man likes more than having a woman make over him, and nothing he likes less than having her make him over. When you hear a man bragging that he never changes his mind you don’t have to wonder what kind of a mind he has. IN S U R A N C E N IN SU R A N C E ! The pertinent remarks of Reporter Alva Johnson in the Saturday Evening Post recent ly, in his article "Jimmy’s got it set the tongues awagging. Some Oregon writer could, with little trouble, write an article entitled “ Stanley's got it.” T is a peculiar world, this “ demo cratic world of ours. B O N N E V IL L E DAM IS LIKE A T R U C K W IT H O U T A H IG H W A Y Bonneville Administrator J. D. Ross has power to sell—now. He has an approved rate schedule and the authority to sign con tracts with customers, on the ground, without further reference to Washington. He has a number of live prospects, potential wholesale consumers in both public and private fields— Isn t it disgusting how your neighbors brag about themselves when they could just as easily be bragging about you? Another thing the city man can’t understand is how a farmer gets grass to grow without sprinkling it. Just because a girl has a ringing laugh is no reason to suppose that she is the belle of the village. If you really want to know all about your next-door neighbor’s past life, just get him to run for office. You usually can tell a failure in life by the amount of advice he gives others on how to succeed. H IG H P R E S S U R E GREASING and LUBRICATION A complete Vacuum Cleaning of your car with each job. A. L. SCRIBER STANDARD TIMELY SERVICE Phone 93 Cascade Locks
