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About Cascade Locks chronicle and the Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1939-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1939)
nn ni\ HCCD 1 w * » I • ■ brtr» K l l u '; v CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE and The Bonneville D a m Chronicle Vol. VI. No., Cub Group At Bonneville Going Strong C ASC AI»» LOCKS 1 R o a d M a n Burned ♦ BON N F \ II I l' Nothing New On Sale ot Light Bonds T o G e t R iv e r F r e ig h t e r s IK 11 * \ \ . JI IN .»I. ISIS Locks Men On Thrce-dav Inspection lour Regular weekly river freight service to The Dalles from Port land was sta rt«! recently by the , Shaver Forwarding c o m p a n y. ♦ I nder the present schedule, barge The Bonneville Cub Scouts spon leaves Portland Thursday night and Messi s Hyde \moth, Carlson sored by the P.-T. A. and under I reaches The Dalles Friday after- and Hesgurd lef last Thursday on a the leadership of Howard Short. Nothing new has been reported \ noon, starting the return trip as a business tour. They passed up Cub Master, are now well organ this past week on the status of the soon as loaded. The barge carries \ ancoiivcr, Wn. took a side road ized and carrying on many worth Cascade Locks City Light bonds general cargo and also is fittixl when thc\ got t.< ('entraba and while projects. Roy Lusch, Jr.. The city council is ready to go into with a 15.000 gallon tank for car saw the wonders of Mt Rainier, Jimmy Rabideau and* Keith Bixby. \\ heat usually Tacoma wn- the city doing the high gear in the work of taking lying diesel oil I»en Chiefs, are doing a wonderful over the system as soon as John constitutes the cargo from The great deal of new building and piece of work in hel ing in the W I K S E N D A N G E R S KN LI RTAIN Shuler, bond attorney, renders nr. Dalles to Portland. thro they went on to Seattle where, success of this organization for One barge is now m service. No. according to Mi Hyde, they had opinion on the sale of the bonds Arthur Allen, manager of Tim younger boys. ■42, which will handle 350 tons. o terribls time finding Fifth Ava berline Lodge and Mrs. Aden were and they receive their money. Last Thursday Mr. Short arrang dinner guests Tuesday evening of | Chess Brazil. City Light manag Two more barge- capable of carry I n ue. ed a trip to Portland for the Cubs Mr. ami Mrs. Albert Wiesendanger. er. has been busy taking inventory mg 400 tons and 500 tons, reaper From Seattle they took the boat and getting everything ready for lively, may be put into service, ac ¡to Port Ludlow and on to Squirm and the Pen Chiefs to hear Dr. cording to ( ' C. Bennett, asso and the logging territory. Back to the transfer to the city. Lawrence M. Gould, noted geolo The concensus of opinion of the ciated with the company. gist and member of Byrd's first Olympia and Mr Hyde can tell how council at this time seems to be expedition to the South Pole. I'r. [they make a certain beer Giving that within JO or 00 days after the Gould presented an illustrated lec I a very graphic illustration of the ■ system is taken over a rate reduc ture on Little America. procedure. tion will be forthcoming. But, as Transportation was furnished by What they were primarily inter | has been stated before, this will Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lusch. Mr. and esii'd in was Die Pennsylvania Salt I not be undertaken until the now Mrs.. Lawrence Bixby and Mr. and plant at Tacoma and the products system is running smoothly and the Mrs. Howard Short. mnmifncttired there, which include council is assured that such a move 21 different products with 1' spec ¡would be wise at that time from a ialties. The group’s last stop of interest was the Grays Harbor dis Arguments lor and against the j financial viewpoint. The Oregon Voter. Portland htis; trie! with its tdyw'ood plant and organization oi a Public Utility The year 1939 is better than chair taetory Each employ around District in Hood River county were | ness weekly, is fr 'ing somewhat » f I a crisis. For the past two years 10.1s in the payment ol county •’60 men. Longview was given the presented before the Oregon hydro ♦ electric commission ul Salem Fri I at least once a month this puhlien- taxes, according lo figures an nini over and back through Nan The family chariot could go a day. The debate found farmer I tion has had rather disparaging noimi cd yesterday by John 11. eouver and home. long, long way on the gasoline pitted against farmer with the I discussion of the Cascade I.oeks Sheldrake, sheriff of Hood River barged through the Bonaeville Grunge sponsoring the project and municipal power situation. And County. In the first half of this ship canal. I with this situation soon to be year total tax returns have amount the farm bureau and Taxpayers’ According to the office of Major league opposed. straightened out a new victim for ed to $271,00(1, while in the same period last year receipts were Theron I). Weaver, Bonneville dis attack will have to be found. Teunis Wyers, attorney for the trict army engineer, traffic of But on the other hand perhaps $242,000. On the Airrent (ax roll, petroleum products through the sponsors of the proposed district, the council should send Editor $217,000 had been reeeived before canal has been the heaviest on told the commission that if u dis C. ('. Chapman a letter of thanks July 1, as compared to $210,000 Reports of $630.91 spent in an record with 2,250,000 gallons sent trict wus formed, it was plunned for the splendid publicity given the in the same period a year ago. effort to defeat the Public Utility The difference in the sums of District at the recent Hood River upstream from Portland in the first to acquire the present distribution "little city with the big future” $271,000 and $217,000 represents election were filed this week at the1 10 days of this month. At this system ol the Pacific Power & in his publication. rate figures for the month should Light company and serve the city Cascade Locks will have its own the amount paid in back taxes, it t minty Court house with one moro is explained. total 7,000,000 gullons of gasoline, j of Hood River as well as the rural power system very shortly. report promised und three letters The first half of 1068 saw 40'*,» sent out by the County Clerk ro 2,000,000 gallons better than June areas ot tne county. In an election per cent of the taxes paid; the first ques) mg expenditures remaining which proved to be a banner month, 1 last month the city of liood River rejected the proposal to organize a half of 1050 saw 62 per cent puid. unanswered. engineers said. Explanations as to contributing All of which indicates that barge district while the rural areas fa The Taxpayers' la-ague filed a causes of improved tax collections list of expenditures amounting to movement ox gasoline and other vored the proposal. It la within the are varied. However one local $614. » I. Donations uniounted to petroleum products into the Upper discretion of the commission to per citizen stated that "The best baro- slightly over this figure. Columbia region using the mighty mit the organization of a district A. S. meter of the times is the per- Kolstad filed u report of an ex Columbia as a thoroughfare is excluding the city. Appearing in support of the centage of tuxes paid.” growing by leaps and bounds. At- penditure of $26.20 which was talia and Umatilla terminals are re- ! 1,*'UJ‘'11 were Wyers, Hood River spent in opposing the measure. C IV IL SERVICE ceiving the largest share of the attorney; U. W. Perry, muster of The Oregon Business Investors, the Hood River Pumonu Grange; Allotment of funds has been EX A MIN ATIO N STATED shipments. Inc., have notified the Clerk's To show how this traffic is in .Mrs. William Munroe, state repre- made and the set-up arranged lor e office that they would file a re The United States Civil Service port shortly. creasing, engineers cited the 2,600,- sentative, J. R. Forden, Walter oiling the Cooper ¿spur Road, be 000 gallons that moved through the Wells and Norval Shurtliff. Those tween the Loop Highway und Cloud Commission announces an examin No reply has been received from canal in July a year ago as com opposing the project included John Cap Inn, this summer, A. O. V\ aha, ation for Bluster, for filling vacan letters sent to the Pacific Power pared to an almost equal amount I llounsell, secretary of the Hood supervisor of the Mt. Hood Nation cies in the position of Drill Runner, * Light, Portland General Elec for the first 10 days of this month. River county farm bureau; H. S. al Lores!, announced ul the Legion Pneumatic (working on land and tric, and the Northwestern Elec Lockages have jumped this year Galiigan, president of the Hood Climb campfire program Saturday water), in the U. S. Engineer Ser tric. The announcement was vice, for duty on the Columbia from an average of 25 daily to 62 River county Taxpayers’ league; night. The Grange Power Committee H. L. Shoemaker, Dan Pierson and made at the time Supervisor Wahu River, between The Dalles and had previously filed a reported a day. For the fiscal year iy40, the Bon Rory Collins. Opponents of the addressed the group, telling of I'mat ilia, Oregon, at $ 1.600 per total expenditure of $104 17 m neville district of the army engi project objected to experimenting Forest Service projects contem- annum (Working on I .and) and favor of the district. neers has been allocated so lar with the power problem while ! |P. lutcd in the Ml. Hood Nutionul $ 1 ,H(Ml per annum (Working on W ater), according to Arthur J EASTERN OREGON TO $2,088,500 from the rivers and har those who favor the district urged 1 r orest. Speaking of Lost Lake, Waha Hansen, of the Hood Riv« post bors appropriation bill signed re haste in taking advantage of cheap CONSIDER FLOOD CONTROL slated that improvements in the office. cently by President Roosevelt. The power from Bonnevill«. i road leading to this gem of the Applications must be on file with largest single item on the alloca The office of Major Theron D. t ascades will come in time, but no the Secretary, Board of 1!. S. Civil tion list is $1,124,000 for new work M a n y G et Jobs Weaver, Bonneville district srmy ¡definite announcement could be Service Examiners, II. S. Engineer on the Columbia river between ♦ made as to when improvements Office. Bonneville, Oregon, not later engineer, will hold a public hearing Vancouver and Bonneville. This at Arlington at 1:16 p. m., August More people went back to work would start. He did, however, tell than July 31.1 ‘.139 will pay for carrying out the sec I, on the matter of flood control at in Oregon in June and fewer oi the plan to build an organization Full information may be obtain ond step in the Columbia's develop Alkali canyon, Oregon. Interested checks lor jobless insurance were camp on the south side ol the lake. ed from the Secretary, Board of ment as a transportation medium parties are urged to attend. A group ol buildings are to be C S Civil Service Examiners, Post and will provide channel dcmuTëf 1 ,,a“J than m an> r,-° u nt uc' -| Bids for dredging a chunnrl in * I , iit'il : l u r t > . l i . > v I it » , n i . i i m L . o » , . u l 20 feet. The iinul project depth I cording to the state unemployment consirueted there, including u large office, this city, or the Miu.agcr. ! Sknmokawa rr.-.-k, I., f v*. |tr..».ks coinpensation ioniin».-su n. combination d i n i n g room and calls for a 27-ioot chunnel. A new all-time high of »490 Kitchen, .ioxloti fe e l, winch would •ral Dredging at the mouth of the Right open- Bonneville canal draws a $263,ooo placements was registered by the stat l.»o persons. S Civil Servie« new work allotment and $.»12,000 Oregon state employment service iront shelters are to L»c built, each Board « lor operation and care. Raising of and 77 per cent of them were in to accommodate eight sleeper». mers, l S. Engineer Office Bon*1 st 3 p. m „ J u l y 28. The amount the Bridge of the Gods and the private industry. In addition, the Shower baths and wash rooms will neville. ( >regon. to he removed is 6(88) cubic yards Hood River bridge, noteworthy en service placed a total of 0186 also be included in the project. The to provide a channel 76 feet wide Ilmioer on Trip— casual workers. June was 28 per camp will be leased to vurious gineering teats, got the Bonneville and 6S feet «|eef at low water. M * -darnos Silv«*r Perras, John cent more than May, commission j county organizations or church district $550,000. The Bridge of the Dredging distance is about 1200 groups who care to take advantage C. W 004 {ward. Poto I«ee, Ala- John f«*e t. Gods will be raised 45 feet, with figures showed. son visit«*»! Mrs. Jim Morrill, who As a result of this activity the o f it. work to start this fall on the ap Construction of a shelter fur is convalescing in th«* Emantnd proaches. A lift span will be in active file of job applicants for PLAN BIG CONVEN LION stalled in the Hood River bridge the state reach'd a row low of skiers on the Cooper Spur ski area hospital nnd Mrs. Johnson’s son, B«>h, who undorwent a r«*«'«*nt «»p«*r is another project announced by 47,114, which was a drop of 16 and the grade will la* raised. Th. I convention of inde|>crtdent I nder operation and care, The per cent from May and 38,000 less I Waha. CCC workers will be moved ation for removal of the eyeball' telephone men, schedul«*«! to be held within the next few weeks from after an injury. Dalles-Celilo canal receives $2»4,000 than at the beginning of the year. in 11 « »««I River ne x t y«-ar, will be Total benefits paid over the state Sherwood t amp and Robin Hood to place the canal in good working h joint convention of Oregon and llend* to Sr« Again— order. This will require closing the was $.306,100, a reduction of 3S < amp on the Mt. iiootl Loop High Mr and Mrs Noble Hvd«- jour XV a* bmgton telephone men, Georg»* river at this point to shipping for percent from May. Since January, way to the ski area. n«-y«*«l to Astoria Monday where 0 Muhlr. superintendent of the i'ussibility of cleaning up the about 60 days. Work will com 1038, when benefits began, the com 1 tregon- Washington T e I v p h «» n e mence when river shipping is at mission has distributed approxi Cooper Spur ski trail, from the Mr. Hyde boar«i«*d the I'mntilla Company, announce«! this week. Lightship No. 2, where he will junction to Tilly June Camp was lowest ebb, probably from Decern- mately H\ millions. also mentioned by the supervisor -pend th«' next month. Mrs. Hyde W ord From lar to February. Maintenance on \broad us a possible project for this year. returne«! by the new W olf Creek the Columbia and tributaries large TO K\ \M IN K DK1\ ERS •mes from Pearl Urmey Word comes highway. have always advocated a suit- ly taking out rock pinnacles, will from Stockholm, ’ Sw»*den, when* Tho examiner of operators and able »h«-lter house on the summit require $50.000. To maintain the "be «nil her sister are on a tour ___ hauffeurs will be in Hood River of Mt. Hood, America's rnosl- I ndrrgoes Operation— present 5-foot channel on the Snake They landed in T«*d Hauser, genial manager of this summer. river and to remove snags and Tuesday. July 25, 1039, at the c l i m b e d mounLain," .Supervisor Chamber of Commerce, between Vk «ha staled. He contmuird to the lakeside Hotel, left last Week France and after a short stay, went debris $55.500 was allocated. | animations and surveys on about the hours of 10 a m to 6 p. m.. explain that the difficulty in con- for Tobaaaoville, North Carolina, to to Belgium. s|»ent one «lay m Cer- 14 flood control projects will re res pectively, according to a recent strutting such a budding was se- visit his brother and will visit the many, an«l on to Denmark, and were taking a boat cruise from announcement released from the curing the right type oi labor for New York Fair while back east. quire $50,000. Storkh«>lm when they wrote. Secretary of State’s office. j constructing such a building in so On fishing Trip— Visits in P«»rtUi»d— All those wishing permits or li- a spot. It was announc- Frank Prohaska is enjoying a Mrs Ida Grandstrom and daugh- censes to drive cars are asked to <■<». however, that the material for few days of fishing with his son, Visit Hospital Patient* - Mr and Mrs. C. C Chapman at ter. Crete hen, visited friends in get in touch with ths examiner , 'b** building on the summit Don, of Klamath Falla, on the tended the Eastern Oregon Pioneer [during these hours. been in storage for a year. Portland over the week-end. rivers near Bend. meeting at Fossil Sunday. Jack Dooley, employed by Rub ier Bros., was quite severely burn ed last week when a valve he was tightening broke and oil heated to 450 degrees poured over his left arm. He was given first aid hero by I'r. Wells and taken to the Hood River hospital. Approxi mately 1(HH> gallons of oil were lost as it was impossible to make any repairs. Hood River P.U.D. Argued At Salem Tax Returns Higher in First Half of 1939 Barges Carry Much Gasoline Campaign Expenses On P.lJ.l). Tiled Major Projects On Mountain Announced Sir..:; sr sfc
