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
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Phone 93
Cascade Locks