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" J w flitf r THE Vol. V, NuiutxT S5 Shipper To Attend C. of C. Meeting BONNEVILLE I (H h a Captain Dos Islets Returns from E.ts: ♦ Captain Robert iv> Islets of the Bonneville project, with Mrs Dos Islets and their son Bobbie, returned Tuesday from a trip to the East Captain Dos Islets attended a special meeting of the North Atlantic Divis Kit C- Conyers, district manager ion of the Army Engineers He also for the McCormick Steamship com took in the Army Nax \ football game. The game was played, he pany. which followed precedents set reported, in a temperature of IS in sending first ships to Stockton. degrees above zero The snow had California. to far inland South ( been cleared from the field and American ports on the Parana river from the seats on the grandstand, and other interior river-wav shipning but the spectators feet wore imbed points and docked the s s. Charles ded in a foot of snow L Wheeler, Jr . at The Dalles last | The most impressive thing of the July 9. will give all shippers o f cargo trip, the captain tvp, rted, was the on the Wheeler something to remem fresh air of Bonneville noted when ber next Wednesday night A high he returned light feature of the annual meeting of the Mid-Columbia Chamber of Commerce, which, with its subsidiary corporation, the Mid-Columbia Bon- neville Seaways association, sponsor ed the coming of the first ocean ship over the seaway created by Ronne- ville dam, at the Columbia Gorge ♦ The U. S Army Engineers' Rifle hotel, west of Hood River, that night will bo presentation by Mr Conyers Team of Bonneville last Friday de of handsomely p r i n t e d souvenir feated t lit- Electric Steel Foundry freight contracts The souvenirs, il team of Portland SfiO-sY.’ in Class B luminated in colors, are signed by Charles 1, Wheeler, manager of the competition of the Columbia W il steamship company, and Roy An lamette Bible League The team is thony president of the Mid-Columbia captained by Powerhouse Electrician chamber of commerce. F. J. McClure It is expected that most of the 38 The next match is scheduled for shippers of nearly 1500 tons of tonight with the Sellwood Rifle Club freight brought to The Dalles from The Army Rifle Team is shooting Dos Angeles and San Francisco will attend the meeting next Wednesday under the colors of Captain Robert and receive the souvenirs of the his Des Islets, executive officer of the toric occasion in person. Delega Bonneville district, and twice Olym tions from affiliated chambers of pic games contender. commerce, all the way from Van The Bonneville team is composed couver. Washington, to GoldendaJe, of: McCormick, Gray, Ericson. Whit- and from Cascade Locks to The sett, Tourish, Chaney, Harris, Welch Dalles are expected to swell atten and McClure, capt Seven f these dance to record proportions. A large men previous to beginning of this delegation of members of the Port competition, had never fired a rifle. land Chamber of Commerce, starting McClure holds 35 medals in pistol on a good-will tour through north central Oregon will attend the annual shooting and is small arms instruc banquet Wednesday night. Commit tor for the Multnomah County Next fall he is tee sessions o f the chamber, the ac Sheriff's office. tivities of which the coming year will scheduled to enter the Olympic pistol will center around plans for empha shooting try-outs in Virginia, and is sizing the scenic and business attrac now being groomed by S ergeant Young of the Portland tions of the Columbia Gorge area, “ Brigham police, who perhaps holds more med will start Wedneaday afternoon. They will be attended by represen als for pistol shooting than any other tatives of the Oregon and Washing man in the United States ton s t a t e highway departments Harold B. Say, who has engaged in W PA CAMP KTAKTEI? very effective publicity work for the Stakes have been set for a large Oregon highway body the past sev W PA camp on the site of the Old eral years, will be present. Hoy Anton will preside at the Ormo camp just west of »he Bonne sessions of the mid-Columbia cham ville school The camp is to be used ber and W S. Nelson, who was for men working on the clearing of coordinator of the seaways celebra the Bonneville power line going up tion, which brought this section of the Oregon side. Just when actual the country international newspaper work will begin is not known Sur and radio publicity, will be toast- vey crews are still working on the location of the proposed line (Continued on Page Eight) Army Marksman W in Recent Match "Pacific North-west in Strategic ‘Position in N ational Defetise Program WASHINGTON. D C —In plana for national defense, the Pacific northwest states have been assigned no unimportant part, based chiefly upon the two federal hydroelectric projects at Bonneville and Grand Coulee, and the raw materials avail able in that region, news writer# in Washington War-time procurement ia now be ing planned on an extensive scale by the army and navy munitions board and the special subdivisions which study various phases As the mechanic* of national de fense progress, one of the initial objective* is to accumulate 21 stra tegic and 54 critical materials to prevent a shortage Some of these materials have t h e i r principal source abroad: others require devel opment in the United States and an essential in converting certain raw materials to finished product is power in large, cheap blocks, such as Bonneville and Grand Coulee can furnish One such item is processing phos phate rock of Idaho Legislation will be offered in the next congress to develop the phosphate resource* and curb exports of the rock Japan took 343 0M0 ton* of phos phate rock, valued at II 434 000. in 3h month# Legislation will be tn- tf»*duced to curtail export of scrap iron and scrap steel. (Japan took from the United States 1.800.000 tons valued at $34.426 000. In the first ten months of 1937 ; 942.000 tons, val ued at $15.412.000 in the first ten months of this year > Tinplate and scraps, of which Japan took 100 000 pound#, valued at $4.900.000. in 20 months, is to be kept in this country I nder a new electric process, the patent held by the secretary o f the interior. Steele manganese Is to be manufactured. To compete with manganese of Brazil and Russia, the process must have very cheap power and In abundance which is right up the alley of Bonneville and Grand < oulee The interior secretary will license responsible firms to employ the patented process Reintroduced will be a bill author- zing accumulation for several year* of essential materials, and the de velopment o f resource* included among the strategic and critical materials Cromium. stainless steel, dex-elopment of the bodies of chrome re in southern Oregon, study o f the copper belt extending through ea»t- <*rn Oregon and Idaho (Japan spent $13.000.000 for copper in the United State, this yeari, are segments of the national defense o f special im port to the Pacific northwest (Continued on Rage Eight) H O W I \ 11 I K Oregonian \\ ri ter Expresses Views O n Industrializing Columbia Ciotg c THE PROBLEM Should Industrial Development in the Heart o f the Most Sceme Area of Oregon's Famed Columbia Gorge be Encouraged? YES, sav those who believe that . . . ", . . the Pacific northwest's immediate chance for indus- trial development ami popula tion increase lies In full utili- zation o f cheap power avail- able at Bonneville" ", . »11 factories which could be operated by the industrial power to be made available at Bonneville would take up but a small part of the river's banks." ", . buildings, properly con- structed, should add rather than detract from the natural beauty of the gorge " • ry DAM CHRONICLE ( \*M \1>) . NO, say those who believe that . . . . . the Columbia gorge »t Bonneville is moat valuable to the Pacific northwest as » prim- Hive and recreational arc i ", . . factory buildings would la* eye-sores ' ", . . dredging to provide a channel to the sea for tug ships would despoil hanks ", . factory operations on the banka o f the Columbia would lead to pollution of both water and air." climate of thv* gorge is admittedly not the t***t for ycar-around residence " n i l l l D . DECEMBER i, lEW Lewis County PUD Board Orders Action CHKHAL18. Wn The L e w i s county PCD commissioners have authorized the starting of condem nation suits against three Eastern Lewis county utilities. and are making further plans to co-ordinate power and light in Lewis county The three concerns against which condemnation was ordered are the Interstate Power Light company of Mineral. Washington Gas A Elec tric company of Morton, and the I ’owltts Valley Power company of Randle. \ resolution was adopted author ising the Issuance of $250.000 of rev enue bond* for acquisition of the | three utilities, and improvement* on | the plants, also for rebuilding trans- I mission lines and other improve ments. such as generating plants and I substation* The bonds are to he j issued in denomination of not over Mix'll not exceeding d per cent in terest, to mature within the second to the 30th year after Issuance , i has cut into the high walls of I Under the raaoluMona tlta gem the Cascades, creating vistas, water- mission expects to acquire necessatx fulls, scenic wonders which have connect Ions through the three corn- Tiie time, 1950. the place, the drawn gasps from tourists and home panics to I m > condemned, to connect Columbia river gorge; towering fac folks alike. The conservationists with the Rainier National Park tory chimneys belch smoke over the want it to stay that way, unsullied company in Rainier park a hydro majesty of Reason rook; spray from by man. electric plant on the Tilton river, l.atourell falls spatters o ff low-lying Others, while not admitting that and transmission line connection vta roofs of galvanized iron; slag heaps any loss in scenic values would f»*l Longview through Lewis county, and block o ff Multnomah falls; clatter low upon industrialization at Bonne a line connecting at Halkutn with th# of trucks, whistles, freight trains re ville, argue that the Pacific north Puget Sound Power k Light com echoes through the gorge. west’s Immediate chance for Indus pany. Same time, same place; Bonneville trial development and population In The PUD board authorised the ac- dam. no longer in repair, stands de crease lie* In full utilization of cheap quiaitlon or construction of a 88.000 jectedly in the middle of the Colum power available at Bonneville The volt line extending to Tacoma'# mu bia, allowing the waters of the river states of Oregon and Washington, nicipally owaed line near Elbe, and to slip unmolested through and over they say. cannot afford to take the a tJ.nno-volt- line for servicing east its crumbling concrete structure; chance of turning away Industries ern Lewi* county. flowers sprout from generators; rats from the gorge. Ideally located at skip joyfully from cracks in build the source o f power and with direct Final Contract Delayed ings and dam water, rail and highway transporta On West Coast Deal Right now such exaggerated pic tion faciiitles • tures arc popping up in the night The antagonists each preach the A slip up In the arrangements for mares of factions at odds over the future course to be followed in the significance of the choice which must the formal signing of contract for the be made; both have as their goal an purchase of the West ('oast Power utilization of Bonneville power. avowed desire to bring "the greatest Company’s properties in this section I ’ NSC I I I t.If: good to the greatest number " hy the City IJght o f Cascade Locks O ne F a c to r W ants Wednesday resulted in the papers REPORT: G o r g e T h a t W ay not being signed yet. Planning Group« Mayor G K. Manchester and City Conservationists an* afflicted with Suggest Protection Recorder W. J. Carlson made n trip the first dream. They fear that As early as 1934 lovers of the Into Portland Wednesday to sign but Bonneville's cheap switchboard pow er will attract industrial develop esthetic were well launched on a pro came home without getting to write ment, which, with increased traffic, gram to prevent over Industrializa their name* on this fatuous paper The contract will be brought to barren factories and houses, gasoline tion of the Columbia gorge, which, stations, madxide stands, will per they felt, might reasonably follow Cascade Locks to he signed within manently mar the primatlve beauty upon completion of the Bonneville the very near future of the gorge To them the Columbia project Members of the Oregon and gorge at Bonneville is most valuable Washington planning commissions PI.4N NEW ORDINANCE to the Pacific northwest as a primi handed together as the Columbia The city council Monday night In tive and recreational area, adjacent gorge committee, spent three years struct«! the city attorney to draw to but not a part of a heavily popu in investigation, then issued n report, up an ordinance to restrict building concluding that lated area. in what they term the hualne** sec "The important change* confront- tion of Cascade I«ock* This section From time immemorial, the Col umbia river widening as It nears the (Continued on Page Tw o) will extend from the Bridge of the Cods to Water Htreet. and to the pends upon them, the economic life depth of the property Water Htreet Christian Science Monitor of the Northwest is not geared to la the first street west o f the school Tells of Columbi.) Salmon their migrations; sportsmen do not house. The council aleo announced the pursue them; tl*' >, #r# dM "nobodles" Salmon and Bonneville dam I of flshdom But MOM Of them mav appointment of O E Miller and and their William Hmeltzer to the planning received a write-up of large propor become "somebodies," number* are so vast as to command commission to replace Frank Tubandt tions entitled "A Window on the and L L Ainoth some attention. W est," In a recent Issue o f the For example, there are the lain the Christian S< ience Monitor Men t ( T HTARTH N E W Ht l l . D i N G phrey* 5ixi <*Jt) of t h e m passing tion in the arti > of shad has been Two new buildings were starteli through the fish ladders In a few somewhat puzzling to local resident*. weeks time ' In Europe, these eel- at Wyeth CCC camp this week when So far a* the Dam Chronicle has like fish are often eaten. In fact, sections of a new recreational hall been able to learn there are no shad they are considered a delicacy In and a building to house a woodwork in the Columbia some countries But here nobody ing shop and storage space arrived The article from the Monitor fol bothers to catch them They work The tajlldlng* are to be built by the lows : The their way slowly up the ladders, at new section pian Of building Men who sit in the little booth buildings will take the place of one taching themselves In festoons of overlooking narrow gateways In the ribbon-ltke streamers to the concrete which burned down some lime bark famous fish ladder here are learning | walls of the fishways. Inching slow a lot about fish Their main object ly along until they have climbed H4. NTV t I . U X I N Ht Ml l l R I V E R is to count the number of salmon over the towering Bonneville Dam by ' A real live Santa Claus will be at that go up the Columbia during the autumn run but that Isn't the only easy singes, and emerging Into the the J C Penney store in II «>d Rlvar information they have compiled lake and upper river. Climbing the today from I 'o I o'clock and again ThM ks to "then the world Is geVtlng *'•»» ladder. Is a comparatively alow fr-n 4 to « Whiskers, red n e t. more arcura'. rf»rotation about J»b for the Umphrey. but he do*, la h. fur ollar and all. the old i.jnds than it had be sh*<1 * *'"« *•'< -„rertam the fore pmbabiv r . - r in all history Thrn *h,r# *r* ,h" *h*'1 H*verml kid*!:- during the. hour has there been such an opportunity thousand were counted in the lad | I l d M M . HOI TH Hi M E D I I.E D to check up . r. 'he migrations o f drr. early ^n the autumn _ T h . shad E leve« letting I m M ì U will lie held finny creature* m s major waterway ia an important food fish. There may some day be a shad flshefy in Co tonight at the idd Hcmit building Ft«h ’ Jlobndle«' The salmon is the moat Important lumbia waters A good many white- In ( ta ra d . G . Its. The nial, h r* fish to swim the broad swift stream fish also have passed through the a r e g iv e n u n d e r t h e wuwpicew an d of the Columbia, but there are lota gates not the btg Whiteflah of the for the tienefll ,«f the t o*, e l e Thirty-three of other kind* in the river They Great Isxkes. hut a slender, smaller Larks Roy H.-otit*. a foot in length have not the c -r m* retal Importance species, about round» of boxing «vili lie « mi the «Continued on Page Eight) pragr— of the salmon r great industry d*- (By Malcolm Bauer> Staff Writer. The Oregonian