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Ho Cr Puh- r K. *rr CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE AND T H E BONNEVILLE DAM C H R O N IC LE Vol. V, Number 50 CASCADE LOCKS Big Dance [k V ^ ^ s Event L O f the Week Tomorrow night’s the night for the big Carnival and dance at \ Bonneville. The uffuir is a benefit V ^lisponsored by the Bonneville soft- ^Tball players in an effort to build up the expense fund for the coming \ season. Dance music will be fur l v nished by Vern Culp and his or- n T*" p— V-ttltes •stra from Hood River, who re- > \ cent ently has made quite a hit in the apple city. During the dance there will be numerous intermissions to allow <JL the patrons to take advantage of Nv v the gurning rooms which will be located in other sections of the civic auditorium. Those that do N*ot dance are urged to attend and take in the carnival. Vv. CAM E CLUB TO MEET TO N IG H T ♦ With spring in the air and the | out-of-door men beginning to think about fish and game, the Bonne ville Rod and Gun Club tonight meets or it might be said comes out of hibernation after the winter to map out the activities for the com ing summer. The meeting will l>e held at French's on the highway at S o'clock for all members and others interested in the out-of-doors. An interesting program is promised and liquid refreshments will no doubt be served. HON\E\ Il I E L U ID V I . M VRCH IT. 10.1» Birthday Party For Legion Is Observed A pot-luck dinner was given in commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the American Le gion, March 8. in the Civic Audi torium by the American 1 region Auxiliary, Bonneville Unit SS. The decorations were carried out in blue and gold, the official colors of the Legion. A birthday cake was presented Post 88 and its Commander by President Vita Mor ton in behalf of the Auxiliary. Past Commander Richmond was toast-master and introduced Major J I'heron D. Weaver, Bonneville Dis ♦ trict Engineer, and also a member The marriage of Miss Beth Man chester, daughter of Mayor and of the Post, who welcomed all vis Mrs. G. E. Manchester and Mr. iting Legionnaires and Auxiliary j Frank Reid, son of Mr. ami Mrs. members. An interesting talk was David Reid of Rufus, was an event given by “ Jud" Moreland, Depart- 1 o f March 12 at the Methodist ment Service Officer, on the work H IG H W AY EATING BLACKS ( hurch before an altar banked with being carried on in the Veteran’s ( II INGE HANDS baskets of jonquils and with white Hospital and the co-operation need- 1 ♦ Several changes in management tapers, the Reverend W i n f r e d ed by the Legion and Auxiliary. Mix Lester State Commander Beckwith out has taken place in establishments Cronk officiating. along the Columbia River Highway Spickerman sang one selection pro lined the beginning of the Legion, between Cascade Locks and Hood ceeding the ceremony with Mrs. its aims and purposes. War time songs sung by the group followed Russ Nichols as pianist River in the last month. The bride, given in marriage by p-ilh M™' Gilbert of Hood Cecil Baird, who formerly oper ated the Wyeth Cafe, has started her father, wore a dress of azure UY ’ Ph*y*ng^the piano, A tii tin dinner the Auxiliary construction of a new eating place blue crepe and corsage of pink held their regular meeting which across the highway from the M. K. rosebuds and lilies of the valley. Miss Vida Reid, maid of honor, was attended by a hundred and camp, half a mile east of the Cafe. The land has been leased from Sam wore a dress of champagne crepe thirty members and guests which included Legionnaires. Massey and it is expected that the and corsage of talisman roses State Commander Beckwith, aet- Mr. Jack Travis, a friend of new inn will be ready in the very i ing in the absence of the Unit De near future. M. E. Behymer is the family, was best man. Ushers were Mr. Russ Nichols partment President, presented the the new operator of the Wyeth Bonneville American Legion Auxil- and Mr. Gordon Reid. Cafe. The bride’s mother wore a dress I iary with their permanent Charter. Grace Lang of Lindsay Inn on Lindsay Creek, half way between of Aquamarine crepe with corsage Initiation followed with President ♦ Cascade Locks and Hood River, has of gardenias. The groom’s mother Mae Horn and members of her Reports front the national capi sold out to Frank Holoubek. wore a dress of dark blue crepe and Unit from Hood River initiating tal Wednesday indicated that Pres I the charter members. Emblem Holoubek is busy remodeling and a corsage of gardenias. ¡dent Roosevelt himself might take Mr. Spickerman sung one selec pin- were given to each of the a hand in the selection of a suc cleaning up the premises prepara members. Distrirt tion ut the close of the ceremony. twenty-four Victim of thrombosis, w h i i tory to a busy season. cessor to Ike late J. D. Ross as Following the ceremony was u Pre-'drr* Ellen Rooper as Install- administrator of the Bonneville struck suddenly almost six wee reception at the home of the bride's l ing Officer then took charge of the ! dam project. j after an abdominal operation SLASH ING CREW TA K E N parents. Immediately after the meeting, installing officers Alta This led to the conclusion that i the Mayo clinic, J. D. Ross, i FROM R E LIE F ROLL reception Mr. and Mrs. Real left Morton. President: Dorothy Clark, ♦ i there might be considerable delay Bonneville administrator and su Hazel for a motor trip to Seattle and S e n i o r Vice-President; erintendent of Seattle City l.igl Two hundred and six men have points north. For traveling the Pomplitz. Junior Vice-President; before a new chief is uuined for died early Tuesday afternoon the $76,000,000 Columbia river pow Tena Ross, Secretary; Marguerite so far been taken o ff the relief bride wore a grey tweed coat with Rochester, Minn. His body wi rolls and placed in the slashing navy blue accessories. The couple Sams, Treasurer; Margaret Rel- er plant. In the hiatus, department dispatched westward today f< , lnrts, Chaplin and Historian, and of interior officials said Charles Seattle, where funeral services wi crew for the Bonneville-Hood River will make their home here. E. Carey, principal construction transmission line. These men Out-of-town guests here for the ( harlett Parmontier, Sergeant-at- engineer, would continue as acting be held either Saturday or Monda work in two units. One hundred wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Lester j Arms. Ross, who underwent surgery f< Commander Clark presented the administrator. and three work half a month and Spickerman, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. a stomach ulcer condition Kchruar Suggestions to He Given then the other 103 work half a Rayburn, Mr. and Mrs. Rov Haten- Auxiliary with a beautiful myrtle 3, was apparently on the road t wood gavel as a gift from the Associated Press dispatches stat complete recovery and was makin month. haur, Mrs. Essen Smith, Mrs. U. J. ed that members of congress from plans to return home when n hlnn The camp will soon reach its Saunders, Mrs. Minnie Meyer, American Legion Post 88. Mrs. Harold Hershner, in behalf Oregon and Washington w e r e capacity of 250 men. Crews are Misses Margaret and Florence clot struck hi* heart, snuffing ou now tackling the surveyed line Smith and Jerry Mathis, Mrs. of the H ood River Unit, graciously unanimous in expressing the hope his life within five minutes. loaned the Ronneville girls a lovely that Secretary lekes will appoint from just above the camp by the Lavina Mulkins, Mr. and Mrs. Planned to l<ea\e Hospital Bonneville Scboolhouse, from Ruck- H o m e r Egbert, Mr. and Mrs. gavel bell until such time a s they another Pacific northwest resident. Ilia laat letter, written Frida are able to buy or win one. Several specific suggestions will he el Creek and from Cascade Locks. A. W. Manchester of The Dalles. Many distinguished guests were offered within a few days. The ; and Informin'» Charles K. Care) Mr. and Mrs. David Reid, Miss present including District Presi post of Bonneville administrator acting Bonneville administrator, o Vida Reid and Mr. Gordon Reid of SCOUTS RECEIVE AW AR D S his intention to leave the honpita dent Ellen Rooper of Antelope, pays $ 10,000 annually. Sixty-six amurds were made to Rufus. Mrs D. Bennett of Van District Commander Knighten of late this week, arrived almost aim President Roosevelt, who Wed 42 Boy Scouts at a Scout Court of couver, Miss Vivian Trounce of Moro and State Commander Beck nesday praised Mr. Ross as "one of ultaneously with a telegram in Honor, held Wednesday evening at Wasco, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Travis with. Other Units and Posts rep the greatest Americans of our gen forming Carey of hia death. Con the Cascade IBooks gymnasium. of Hood River. resented were Hood River, Corbett, eration," has long taken a personal firmation was later ohetained b; Seven different troops were repre Mrs. Ross and Rosi Kent and Portland Unit No. I. of interest in Bonneville dam. He telephone. sented—from Bonneville, Cascade Oregon, nnd Carson and White spoke there in 1934 and again in secretary. Mr*. Rose Forsgrer Locks, White Salmon, Odell, Park- Salmon of Washington. 1937, and as long ago as 1920 he were at his bedside when the em dale and Hood River. A vote of thanks is extendi*d to advocated the construction of gov- | came. Bob Morgan, of Troop 390, Cas- I Ross, a personal friend of Presl the Hood River initiation team and ernment projects on the Columbia cade Locks, was given a two-year ! dent Roosevelt’s, having served a ♦ o our Entertainment Chairman. river. attendance bar, and second class advisory engineer on the New Yorl Doris Olson, who was in charge of Ross President's ( holer badges were awarded to Jerry Mil u ASHINGTON— P r e s i d « A t birthday dinner, and the girls who The president advised constantly State Power authority when Rnnae ler, Bobby Brown, Bob Kelsay, Roosevelt Wednesday paid tribute worked with her with lekes before Mr. Ross was velt was governor of New York Darrell Smoltzer and Ted Langton. to J. D. Ross, administrator of the Guest* were: Mrs. Ellen R»mper, appointed. He was said to la- Mr. went to the Mayo clinic for i Jimmy Rabideay and Roy Lusch Bonneville dam, as “ one of the Dislrii* President, of Antelope; ¡check-up after appearing befor of Bonneville were also given greatest Americans” of this gener Mrs Veil Jateson. President of Roosevelt's personal choice. Ob- the appropriations c o m m i t t e e a -ervers m Washington assumed award. The latter provided the ation. Kent: Mrs. Mae Horn, President. Wednesday t h a t the president Washington, I). C , in behalf o Ross, who died Tuesday in spark of the meeting when he (Continued on page Eight! again would participate in the can Bonneville’s tl4.rKKI.000 budget fo readily recited the definition of Rochester, Minn., was one of Mr. Although he had com vass of potential successors to Mr. next year first-aid. as found in the Red Cross Roosevelt's foremost advisers on plained of being tired, due to »h LEAVE FOR VACATION Ross. hydroelectric power development. manual. Mr. and Mrs. I’ red Morton and Discussion of the likely identity strenuousness of hia duel role a The president said: two small daughters, Carrol Anne of the new Bonnevilla administra chief of two of the nation’s larges V VSOSS TO MEET It is fitting that every Ameri- fiower projects, his condition wa A meeting of all members of the can should know of the passing of ‘Ln<j M*-rna I-ee, of Bonneville, left tor occurred as the house of repre not regnrde<| as serious. sentatives heat off an attempt by tor m month " v*r * t'on tn Masonic Order in the territory from one of the greatest American, of republicans from the Atlantic coast Wyeth to Bonneville will he held our generation. Mr J. D. Rosa, to slice in half a proposed appro ville allotments in congress. in the I. O. O. F. hall. Cascade fighting against illness, built for One source of information in th< priation of $13,400,000 for Bonne THREE LINKS HAS SIGN Locks, Wednesday night, March 22, himself a strong body and a bril- national capital intimated Wednea ville dam transmisaion lines. liant mind in the building of Cascade Lodge No. 105 of the at 8 p. m. day that the four possible surer* Wire Network Outlined Alaska and later of the Pacific Odd Fellows of Cascade Locks sore to Mr. Rosa mentioned mo* A lX IL IA R Y TEA ENJOYED Northweit. An out-standing math is the proud possessor of a new Mr. R o»i outlined the transmis frequently were Clarke Foreman Thirteen members of the Bonne ematician and an equally jrea t neon emblem aim this week. sion system shortly before his James H. Rowe, Hen Kisar an< ville American I-egion Auxiliary engineer, he combined with this the The three red neon chain links death. The rejection of the alash George Yantia. However, the aam enjoyed the tea given by Mrs. Otto practical ability to make thinr* are the gift of M. L. Morgan. relieved Bonneville advocates, who source inferred that Secretar Pomplitx, March 3. The afternoon work in the sphere of public opin They replace a rather antiquated had feared that the passing of Mr. leke* may appoint a man not ye was spent in discussing activities ion and successful business. More sign that Morgan made some Roas and uncertainty over future mentioned or diseuased in ronnec 'Continued on Page Eighti for the rest of the year. years back. policies might jeopardise Bonne- tion with the vacancy. Is Wedded at Church Ceremony Vacant Dam Post Draws Attention J. D. Ross Dies In Eastern Clinic Roosevelt Lauds Ross and DANCE Carnival • e v e -w w w w v » v w v - - — — — — - — BONNEVILLE AUDITORIUM w w s v s v v s v v w v w v v v s s v v v * I V W VVVVW V V W VVVVVVW VVW V VW V VW VVVVVW S VV W V W S V V V M V » * v SATURDAY (v v w v v w v w v