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About Cascade Locks chronicle and the Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1939-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1939)
ir 'T CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE^ P ï ! nry tr AND The BONNEVILLE DAM CHRONICLE Vol. V. Number 48 1 \ SC A DK LOUKS BON NE'V 11.1 K BRIDGE OF THE GODS APPROACH « (IK K TO START IN |ULY FRIDA Y, MARCH .t. 19.1«* C' lSC'lclc Locks Power R ItC Cheapest in W hole Country D VNCE TO HE GALA A FFA IR —Courtesy The Oregonian. New Theatre Is Rapidly Taking Shape Arrangements The C a s c a d e Being .Made for Locks Community Grand Opening Theatre is com ing along f i n e . Superintendent of construction Bill Smeltzer has his crew of Cascade Locks men going great guns al though he has tapered off the work a little bit in the last few days for he received word that the seats would not be ready to be installed for another ten days. The roof is on, the inside ceiling is in place, the projection room is already shaped up and the concrete is being poured for the floor, which incidentally has quite a slope to it. Arrangements are being made for the grand poening which will be one of the gaudiest that has ever hit this section of the country. LOCAL LODGE Last night was a G ETS TROPHY big night in the history of Cas cade Lodge No. 104 of the Odd Fel lows for last night the local lodge was presented with the Billy Moran, Grand Secretary trophy. This trophy is awarded annually to the lodge making the greatest increase in membership within the previous year. The Cascade Locks aggregation had an 88% increase. WOULD PI T A petition, pre- SCHOOL UNIT sented to t h e TO VOTE Hood River Coun ty Court Wednes day, asking for a vote on the dis continuance of the County School Unit failed its granting because it did not contain a sufficient number of names. Sponsors of the petition have stated that an abundance of signers were available, persons who want to see the County Unit topic brought to a vote— and at a later meeting of the court su ffi cient signatures will be presented. • Consider School Bus to Stevenson ♦ Bonneville Patrons Make An inquiry made by school patrons Inquiry of Bonneville into the possibility of sending high school students to the school at Stevenson rather than to Corbett, recently brought a ruling from Attorney General Hamilton of the State of Washington that any tuition for those students would have to come from the Ore gon school district. “On no grounds could the added cost of the Oregon students be justified as a charge against the state school fund.” Hamilton said. He further pointed out that Ste venson school busses could not be sent for the Oregon student* at the expense of the State of W ash- ington. Twenty-nine student* are now being transported to Corbett to high school from Bonneville The bus carrying these student* is obliged to travel 80 miles daily, it was recently pointed out. CHRONICLE • Appears With New Name- ♦ West Coast Purchase Nears Reality The last of the “Dam" business institutions passes this week with the change in name of this news paper from "The Bonneville Dam i Chronicle” to the “Cascade Locks The legal entan- Chronicle.” Such establishments Legal as the “Dam Lunch Room,” “The EntHnglementM glcmcnts of float- ing n bond issue Dam Barber Shop," and others Being Settled for the purchase passed with the construction era. of the West Coast Power System The “Dam” places are no more. Five years ago, when the paper by the city of Cascade Locks seem was started, the big dam was just finally to be slowly clearing up under construction. While head- and it is hoped that by next week quarters for the publication was in an active program of activity can Cascade Locks, news in the paper be laid out and adhered to. Thompson, W'ood and Hoffman. in the early years of its life cen | the New York bond attorneys who tered around Honneville Dam. Now that the dam is built, inter have been advising on the fronting est in the structure itself has of the issue, have taken much longer and many more precautions wnned and persons of the North ' than were expected. west have turned their attention to The detail of taking the case to the product of the dam. Firft to take advantake of power generated 1 the supreme court is still in the by the huge generators was the offing nlthough it was thought for city of Cascade Locks. This com a time that this procedure would munity is also going to be the cen be substituted for another more ter of an industrial progress which simple. will see huge factories in its vicin ity, with executive offices in the Rids on seven down town district and families CALL FOR 20.000 k. v. a. living on the payrolls of new in BIDS ON dustries residing in the com TR ANNFORM KRS t r a n sformers, complete w i t h munity. spare parts and accessories, will be Though the name of the paper received by the War Department, will contain the name “Cascade United States Engineer office, at Locks,” news of developments on Bonneville on March 28. Specifi the big dam will still he published, cations ra\ for the design, manu as well as accounts of various facture. testing and delivery f.o.h. activities in the Bonneville com by railroad cars at contractor's munity. shipping point. Residents of Cascade Locks are • confident that during the next five JU D G E LONG Judge Donald E. years their community will grow into a city of considerable popula TO SPEAK AT Long of the Court tion, and of industrial importance. BONNEVILLE of Domestic Re lations will ad- The citizens there, who have main tained their location, and grasped ! dress the Bonneville S u n d a y at opportunities that appeared are Evening Club at 7:30 p. m., Sun deserving of credit as the pioneers day, March 5, 1930, in the Audi of a greater Cascade Locks. It is torium. Judge Long will talk in connec no more than right that they should have the name of their city tion with his work as Judge of the connected with the name of the Juvenile snd Domestic Relations dam area’s newspaper. Hence Courts. Everybody is welcome, the Pub- “The Bonneville Dam Chronicle” now becomes the "Cascade Locks licity Committee announces. These meetings of the Sunday Chronicle." Evening Club are held on the first and third Sundays of the month TR A N SFER S AT Jack Pound was and not every Sunday. BONNEVILLE transferred t o • the P i 11 o c k The model for the Block recently to work under Mr. MODEL DAM Mountain Galbraith in thi Design Section. UNDERGOING M ud M*o Butterworth was transferred FIN \l. T E ST S Dam is this week being put through from the Portland District to this Distr.ct, where he will work out of its pares for the last tests on the Big Eddy. Allen D. Look also second trial spillway. Next week transferred to Bonneville from the a new design will be constructed Portland District. He is working and the tests on this one will be for Mr. Spice as an inspector. compared with those of the other Another event of recent interest two and the most adaptable will was the arrival of Mr. Robert B. he used. Associate Engineer Robert R. Cochrane, associate engineer, from the U. S. Waterways Experiment Cochrane from the U. S. W ater Station in Y’icksburg, Mississippi | ways Experiment Station at Vicks Mr. Cochrane took over his new burg arrived recently and has taken duties in the Hydraulic Lab. early charge of the Hydraulic laboratory. • this month. EMPLOYMENT D u r I n g 1 9 3 9 FD .I RI - 1 , 5 7 3 different LEA V ES FOR Stanley Sporseen men w e r e em " YSHINGTON -f the Army I ■ ployed in the Bonneville Diatrirt, gineem left Tues a report to the Internal Revenue day for Washington, D. C., to a t disclosed.. In 1937, the total was tend the Hydrology conference at 1,726 the office of the Chief of Engin eers. One representative from each district in each division of the The death of G A Cobb. former Army Engineers is attending this Cascade lyv-ks attorney, was re conference. ported In Portland early this week. It isn't far off and it is going to be s o m e dance. In fact the sponsors of the dance, the members of Bonneville Softball Clubs are surprised how fast the tickets are going since they went on sale yesterday. Everyone seems to be planning on going to this gala occasion, the St. Patrick’s Carnival dance, to be held at the Bonneville Civic Auditorium on Saturday night. March 18. The printed dodgers advertis ing the dance tell of Confetti, Serpentine, Games of Chance, Sandwiches, Cake, Coffee and incidentally dancing to the music of Yern Culp ami his Musical Boys. CASCADE’ CHURCH HONORE'D A certificate of honor for having fulfilled its quota in t h e Million Unit E'ellowship Movement hua been awarded the Cascade Locks Methodist Episcopal church, ac cording to the Rev. W. C. Cronk, pastor. The local church is one of 926 churches, or about five per cent of the denomination's 20,000 congregations in the United States, who already have reached their goals. Quotas for the individual churches were set when the move ment, now in its third year, was inaugurated ami were based on a communion-wide goal of 600,000 “units”— persons who will sub scribe one dollur a month as well as undertake the spiritual obliga tions of the fellowship. \verage Rate Of $13.35 Is V mioiinecd The members o f th e C a s ca d e Locks council are of t h e opinion that they have secured the cheap est commercial power in the United States by the signing of u recent contract with the Honneville Ad ministrator. Local internretor* state«! that the power will be purchased at the average rate of $13.26 per kilo watt year delivered at approx imately 13,800 volts at the west end of town. This figure is arrived at from the clause in the contract which defines the contract demand as 76 kilowatts “at site" prime power ami 76 kilowatt* "at site" secondary power for a total load of 160 kilowatts. The prime power will be purchased at i t 4.60 u kilowatt year and the s«*condary at $9.60, delivered at the dam. This makes an average rnte of $12.00 per kilowatt year, at the dam. To bring this power to Cascade Lock* the Administrator has built a line from the dam. A charge of $1.26 per kilowatt year will he charged for the use of this line, as long as the power is delivered at Cascade Locks, This brings the total wholesale coat to the city of Cascade Locks to $13.26 a kilo watt year. If at any time the city feels rich enough to purchase a transformer and connect on at Honneville with its own line, this service charge will he eliminated. The term of the contract is for 20 years and is contingent on the purchase of the West Coast Power Company's properties by the city of Cascade Locks. Bonneville-Vancouver Line To Be Started Soon • Zichnrth Is Successful Bidder Construction op erations of the ‘backbone" trans mission line from Dam will start next number in the neighborhood of 200 men at the |>eak period. This number, plus the WPA crews which have been clearing the right-of-way and the crews which will lie employe«! at the big Van couver substation site will bring the total employed on the line to approximately 700. Honneville week. Wednesday morning the office of Administrator J . D. Rosa accepted the low bid of $349,491.60 for the ciaruit which will carry power to western Oregon and Washington communities. E’ritx Ziebarth of lx>s Angeles, The C a s c a d e successful bidder, signed the con HEWING Hawi ng tract with Assistant Bonneville CLU B M EETS l.ocks t'lub met at the Administrator Charles EL Carey 1 -eater Sprague home Wednesday and at once ordered his heavy con with Mrs. M. L Morgan as hostess. struction equipment sent to Van Those thst were present included couver from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Mrs. Huldn Olin, Mrs. Lester Office To Be In Vancouver Sprague, Mrs. George Kerr, Mrs. Ziebarth will open field offices I<ee Murray, Mrs. Ivan Elmhrne, in Vancouver at the end of this Mr* k .1 Wunar, Mr* G, e . week and will be prepared to hire Manchester, Mrs. Vic Wigren, Mrs. M R there hy March 10. T o W Ted Langton, snd Mrs. 1 .eater erection will begin in two months, Sprague. after completion of hauling, grad • ing and other preliminary Jobs. ‘We expect to start work with the laying of crushed rock at mile 14 near the Vancouver end of the right-of-wa'1 ” Ziebarth announced “W# plan to have at least 20 of our own trucks on the job within ♦Mapping of Mapping of sll a short time. Actual erection of Mineral Deposits k n o w n mineral towers will not start until material j Is Plnn deposits in the hauling is well organized and tower ! Pacific Northwest footings are constructed." as part of a broad plan for en Ziebarth has been engaged in couraging industrial development, major construction jobs in sll nsrts 1 m being undertaken jointly by the of the west. Line erection for the Bonneville Project and the state Skagit project of City Light in authorities of Oregon, Washington, Seattle, work on the E’ort Peck Idaho and Montana. project, the Metropolitan water In response to an offer to pre district project In-tween Boulder pare such map* made r«*cently by Dam and Los Angeles, snd numer Administrator J. D. Rosa, E’.arl K. ous construction jobs in Texas have been among his recent activities. Nixon, Director of the Oregon State Department of Geology and Two Line* Ready In E'all Mineral industries, has agreed to Completion of the first of the a program of these operations to line s two circuits by September 1 stimulate m i n i n g development. is planned as part of Administra Director* of similar agencies In tor J . I). Ross’ progrsm to have Washington, Idaho and Montana power ready for sale to a large have offered similar support. number of communities by mid Ivan Bloch, head of the market autumn. development section of the Bonne The second circuit of the back-1 ville Project, this week forwarded bone line is to be ready for energy to each state bureau copies of map* on October 1. Bonneville plans for a large number of minerals. also call for completion of the The Bonneville staff snd state min Vancouver-Eugene line at approx- , ing offieials will pool their infor imately the same date. mation and prepare maps showing Ziebarth believe* his ervw « n il, locations of all known deposits. Bonneville To Aid Mining _
