" 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