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About Cascade Locks chronicle and the Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1939-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1939)
For K Cascade Locks C hronicle i E d i t o r i a l V ie w s and D i s c u s s io n s Officiai (iiprr of city of Cucâd* I»<ki. Oregon Official publication for American legion post No 88, lionne ville. Or* PA Y R O L LS OR M O R E S U R P LU S CRO PS It was with considerable surprise that we read editorial comments from two Mid-Col- umbia newspapers last week, both voicing the opinion that a government chlorate plant near Bonneville is to be desired. Both comments came from progressive-minded communities slated to benefit by industrial expansion in the Columbia Gorge. Both opinions are from newspapers, which have b e e n heretofore forward-looking and logical in their views and interpretations. Both seem to lose sight of the fact that the start of construction of a factory in our region by a firm which had .ill but announced it was ready to break ground, would be only a bring ing of a new realm here a boom that would lead to a lasting economy— to payrolls which we so sorely need. Erection of a government pl.int would be of inspiration to other indus tries steel, powder, lumber and aluminum representatives of which industries have sur veyed possibilities of locating in the gorge. W hy shouldn't the public be furnished sodium chlorate at cost from federal plants, as well as electricity at cost from federal plants?" asks the White Salmon Enterprise. Entered under the name of Bon neville Dam Chronicle an second class matter at the postoffice at Hood River, Oregon, under the Act of (Congress of March 3, 1879. JO H N H T H A V I8 I'u h lislu ii every E d ito r F rid a y In the I n t e r e s t s o f t h e l i o n n e ville I »am a r e a by th e Hun P u b l i s h i n g C o m p a n y , Inc 8 U H B C U J P T 10 N H A T K 8 y e a r .............................................. { I On < >ii> FRIDAY. MARCH 10 . 1939 THE CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE One of the most important things in life is to realize that if you want other people to like you, you must like other people. The fellow who paid taxes fifty years ago and complained should see us now. A Bargain in a Used REFRIGERATOR General Electric, 6 Vi cubic feet # 7 5 .0 0 IIO W H EL E C T R IC CO BONNEVII.I.E TOWERS iContlmind front Page One) i are being uttered to meet the de mand* of the Port of Portland for additional river clearance. The Columbia towers will become the highest transmission towers in the | world, us far as is known. In fact, in designing the 060 miles <>f Bonneville transmission line, the largest job now under way in ■ America, it was necessary to de- , velop an entirely new technique of line design and calculation. First j a manual of instruction was work- I cd out providing organization short j cuts. Survey parties were requir- ! ed t<> “go to school" for 10 days ; before I bey were sent into tin* field. ‘ Then a short circuit board, really a model of the entire transmission and substation system, tv^is built to eliminate laborous calculations and to determine voltage drops and re actions under different load condi tions at the II substations. This was done by means of a series of Vector diagrams in which trans mission line circuits were simulat ed graphically. The trick or short step came when a series of these diagrams, representing one of tin* lines, was rotated and different load conditions could be set up and voltages determined. Other shortcuts Bonneville engi neers used were templets in outlin ing the sag of transmission lines over widely varying terrain, and drawings instead of word descrip tions to describe arccls of land needed for right of way and sub station site* Utilising a trick em ployed in building sets for hoys, they also standardized units mak ing up substations so they could l*e moved about to fit the varied conditions. Substation buildings. were not only designed to hnrmon- t*e with the landscape, they wen* standardized, starting with a min imum structure of one room and stepping up to embrace offices, i patrol rooms, garages and stornge / - VO 9 « 1IM W *V*»«I PINT 95c IfklMH QUART $ 18 0 • - 4 M I«** N IC Hunt i ng a n d F i ' h i n g CALL BA RTO I M OTOR CO. \ ______________________________________________ / I I i z m n l»«U c d l l c r r NEW S T O C K OF F IS H IN G T A C K L E PO LES I*hour St» A M BU l ANCF. 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W e believe most farm ers around here would prefer markets for their products, rather than the saving of a few dol lars in fertilizer that would help them to grow more unsalable crops, produced by an insti tution which would be but another example of that error of the century — government in business. space. Bonneville surveyors claim to have employed the longest tangents in the world, one from the top of the Saddle mountains in Centrul Washington to Northrup canyon, near Grand Coulee, 80 miles away, and the other 74 miles long. They did it at night, using automobile headlights and checking it with heliographs by daylight. The long est tangent heretofore employed \ Phone llood River l i l t for Radio Service or Repairing The Dalles Optimist, attempting to sustain W alter Pierce, its patron saint, in his proposal of a federal chemical plant at Bonneville, sights the present plight of the Northwest farmer by quoting a Hood River truck garden er. 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