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About Cascade Locks chronicle and the Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1939-1939 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1939)
FRIDAY. M C I ST 1>. THF CASCADE UH Ks CHKOMCI F THREE Mr. and Mrs. \Y. R Foote of Mr. aiui Mr« Roy Spencer had as More Grand Coulee dam high enough >o that the waters largest ever built was 3.900 feet contain only from .2re to .8% Portland spoilt the week-end with thou guest Mrs Spencer’» sister, e would flow direct l> into Grand "eng parallel to the river. To build impurities and make concrete hav- his parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. M.«« Geraldine Sapp, of Waldport. Coulee. To do >o would have it. 127 miles ,'f steel piles 16 inches ii g an uverage strength of 5500 »Continued >>001 Page One1 Foote, Sunday. They enjoyed a The Sue- vers ntoi'ed Tuesday to national asset than the Panama backed the river way up into wide and it' to SO feet long were pounds to the square inch. family dinner at Eagle Creek. • Rhod .detuiron. r vicir.itv. ¡Canada. Instead, the dam was de driven into hard clay by steel hum- Vfter washing, the aggregate is Canal." Vfttr mort> than a million dollars signed just high enough to back tm •' handled by long boom cranes. split up into pib s, according to had been spent, investigating var the waters to the Canadian border. Of course, a structure of such site, and transferred by belt con ious plans for putting water on this Hug« power plants were then gigantic size must rest on solid veyor to stock piles near the east acreage, the Bureau of Reclamation desig: « «I at the «lam. part of the bedrock, so the first job was one of end of the Dam. finally adopted the plan being I power from which will be used to excavating down to that point- (Conciuiled Next Veek' FOR THE CITY OF CASCADE U H K S executed, and in December, 1933, pump the necessary water the rest After 3 million yards had been August 1, 1939 of the way up into Grand Coulee. the first contract was let. removed by shovels and trucks, a Our first view «>f the project is The plan adopted was the most belt conveyor system was installed EXPENDITURES fri'tn the rim of the gorge. Had we audacious ever conceived by Man. which, up to June 1. 1937, took out Budget Budget Balance It contemplated the erection of a arrive,! at this p«>mt just a brief 5 an additional 14.500. i HH' yards of Printing. $100.00 ............................................... ............................................. $ SO. 75 years earlier, we should have found ______ T H E A T R E huge concrete dam to take the place Advertising. $200.00 ....................................... ............................................... 175.00 ! of Nature’s ice barrier and the only a wagon road leading down to “ common*’ and S50.1HH' yards of rock Thirteen million yards of Elections, $50.00 ............................................... ............................................... 50.00 diversion of 7l* ‘ i of the river’s a crude lumber-built ferry across this was carried by the 60-inch Emergency, $1249.00 ...................................................................... 225.SO flow through the Grand Coulee to the stream. conveyor belt to Rattlesnake Canon. NOW |*| V\ ING--- Police Dept.. $1300.00 ...................................................................... 69 irrigate the great delta below. It The change that has occurred in > mile away, and 5*H' feet above Fire Dept., $500.00 .......................................................................... 63.87 was not necessary to design the just 5 years takes our breath away. the point of its origin. The Best Comedy of the Year Recorder. $496.00 ............................................................................ $69.70 On the left hank ,'f the river we At its peak. 5,000 hp. was re- Treasurer, 340.00 ............................................................................ 155.00 see a permanent town of more than quired to drive the conveyor and BACHELOR MOTHER* St. Dept.. $1,000.00 .......................................................................... 632.59 a hundred buildings with paved nearly M.iHHl were handled in a Attorney, $260.00 .......................................................... 206.01 Ginger Rogers, David N’iven, streets and concrete sidewalks. single 21-hour day. It was con J Engineer. $100.00 ............................................................................ 98.00 Charles Coburn, K. E. Clive and This is the town of Coulee Dam structed 111 sections and the failure TOTAL $3915.00 .................................................................. $1880.92 Frank Albertson or "Engineers’ Town," as it p com of one section meant the shut-down ♦ monly called. This will remain as the entire conveyor with a loss RECEIPTS Miss Lucille Dunn, newly selec PLUS Donald Duck in "IHmald’s a residence for those who operate >f 2.500 tons of dirt moved per Licenses, Rents, etc., $050.00......................................................... $ 513.2S ted County Nurse, assumed her Cousin tins," and Edgar Kennedy Fines, $450.00 .................................................................................... 122.25 hour. duties Tuesday morning at the the project. in “ Beau and Error." Across the river wo see Mason Road Taxes, $450.00 ......................................................................... 11.00 \ New Ma y t o De a l wi t h a Sl i de County Health Association office City, temporarily erected to house Other Taxes. $5,964.00 .................................................................... 2614.50 in the Court House building. It was during the excavation those who construct the project. Aug. 21 Our new nurse is well qualified period that an interesting problem Beginning Monday Hospitals, hi'tels. school homes, Bank Balance as of Aug. 14............................ $ 1 9 7 .5 6 to serve this community, being a developed on the er-* side up churches, laundries, st«>res, recrea Churlcs Boy or and Irono Dunne in graduate of the St. Vincent’s Hos stream area of t e excavation. tion buildings, office buildings pital in Portland and having re Mud started to ooze nto the deep NO OUTSTANDING WARRANTS A MODERN ceived her Bachelor of Science de everything has been provided that est |»onit of thi excavation between is noeti for the welfare and com CINDERELLA Yt ra A. Sprague, gree from the University of Ore fort i«f the 15,000 people that now two rocky points lit' feet apart V % V V V V V V t t « V t t V S t t \ V « V V V V V V V s S V T reasurer. gon. Fo stop the slide, nearly 400.000 Miss Dunn this week announces ¡inhabit the area. yards of extra dirt would have had Thirty-two miles of railroad have the office hours of the Health to be moved at a cost of nearly Association to be the same as be been built up the Coulee and down half a million dollars. _______ T H E A T R E fore, 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m., at int«' the gorge to reach the project. Then a young engineer at the which time she will be happy to Thirty-one miles of 110,000-volt Bureau of Reclamation had an transmission line was constructed meet those who care to call. idea. Later this fall, Mrs. Cora Dunn to bring in the power needed. 5 rows „1 9-inch pipe wero driven Eri., Sat. Aug. 18-19 mother of Miss Dunn, will join Railroutl an«l suspension bridges down 55 feet into the slide between hn\i been thrown across the river her to make her home in Hood One and a half George Rai', an i Claire Trevor in all to get ready for the mighty the rocky p o i n t s River with her daughter. inch p i p e s were inserted inside of I STOLE A MILLION Miss Dunn succeeds Miss Bessie construction program to follow So nughty is the Dam stretched 1 these and hooked to an 80-ton Williams. plant circulating Midnight Matinee Saturday Eve. out below that it makes the river, |, wpaci" y ic e brine. The ground was kept at which is boiling through the west MID COLUMBIA SOFTBALL Aug. 20 side of it. look insignificant. Yet zero for over 7 months until the Sunday Only STANDINGS our guide reminds us that that I excavation could be finished and June Lang atul Robert Kent in ♦ river is second in flow only to the filled with concrete. The pipe was AUGUST 19 (Second Half) tin'll pulled out and salvaged and Mis sissippi and is the largest po "FOR LOVE OR M O N E Y “ T ea m L w the plant dismantled. The total tential source of power on the Featuring . 5 0 Engineer* . . . North American Continent. Its cost of stopping the slide by this A bu> Bonneville . . . . 4 1 annual run-off here averages 80 unique method was only $30,<HH). MISS VELM A SHERRELL 2 Hood River .. But we are about to leave for a BLUE M O N T A N A SKIES“ million nere feet 5 times the run O Stevenson . . . 2 closer look at the project. in Song and Dance Numbers Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette o ff of the Colorado River at Boul O 2 W illa rd .......... \ \ here Sand anil Gravel Come From der Dam. 3 Y. F. W ......... • • • • •.. 1 The Dam itself will be 1300 feet A drive of 2 miles across the Mon.. Turn., W od. Aug. 21-23 . 0 Bingen .......... 4 long at the crest, and will tower river through Mason City and up Wyeth .......... . 0 3 Kandolph Scott, Nancy Kelly 550 feet above bedrock. It is 500 the east wall of the canon brings ♦ mid Cesar Romero feet thick at the base, tapering to us to the spot, on the rim, from Player Averages where 20 million yards of aggre SO feet at the crest. It will be Alt 11 It Pet. Player it Team in the Kip-Kouring gate that will be needed is coming. Reimer, Eng. .. 32 18 21 .663 topped by a 30-foot highway. By removing only 3** feet of ’ FRONTIER MARSHALL ' It is the straight gravity type Howard, B’ville .32 15 9 .469 over burden, an area of 1(H) acres -depending upon the weight of Miller, Eng. . .. $s 15 9 .429 is being worked to a depth of 250 Thursday Only the Dam itself to resist the ten Aug. 24 Peer, Eng........... 19 20 24 .408 feet by huge electric shovels. dency of the water behind it to push 9 .391 Woouurd, B’villi 23 9 BEN IVAL NIGHT These shovels drop the material 6 .391 it down the stream. Bergman, V.F.W . 23 9 Tonight we bring bark the greatest through grizzlies onto extensible It is truly the largest thing ever 6 .391 9 Brink, B’ville . 23 picture of its kind ever made! It la belt conveyors which take it to the J. Garrett, H. R 69 16 12 .386 eonstrurted by Man. being 4 times "ANGELS W IT H Everything over AMBULANCE SERVICE J. HaAket, Bv. . 6 5 .384 the hulk of the Great Pyramid. raw risk pile. DIR TY FACES 6 inch size is pussrd through With the power houses am! pump Partner, Bingen .13 5 4 .384 814 S ta te S tre e t Hood River, Oregon Phone 1301 James ( ngucy, Pat O’Brien, gyratory crushers on the way to ing plant it will consume near 12 Joy, Bingen . . . . 13 5 3 .384 Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Baker, II. R, . .. 17 6 7 .363 ; million cubic yards of concrete 3 the washing and srreenlng plant below. the "Dead End’’ Kids times as much as the Boulder Dnni 8 10 .348 Rich, B’ville . . . .23 This huge Washing and Screen I This concrete would build a stand Hunting and Fishing Licenses Issued Here Hinds, B’ville . 11 14 18 .34-1 Uso mi the same great program Ingalls, Il K. .45 16 16 .333 ard 16-foot highway from Seattle ing Plant is a source <>f wonder in Arthur Lake, Penny Singleton Itself It uses 20,000 g a llo n s of Mason, Stev. . . .27 6 .333 to New York and back to Seattle 9 mid Baity Dumpling water per minute in washing the 8 5 .333 by way of D*s Angeles. Erwin, Willard .24 BLOND Y TAKES A impurities from the raw gravel. When completed, thi«, gigantic Lindow, IL R. 15 5 7 .833 VA C A T IO N So thorouglily is the job done that Dam will form a reservoir 151 miles O’Niel, V.F.W. 22 7 6 .318 V____ ___________ on Complete New Stock Steelhead, Salmon Tackle. Hill, V.F.W. . . . .22 7 3 .318 !*>ng 1 ,0 0 0 fe e t w id e 8 7 6 fee t the aggregates sent to the Dam 38 12 Cramblett, Bv. 9 J l l deep—covering 82.000 aerea. The Matlock, Eng. .. is 16 14 .313 ’ lake will contain to million acre Tires - Batteries - Accessories 13 Wood», Wyeth 4 3 .308 feet of water 2,ooo gallons for Ix-eman, Wyeth 11 3 .308 i each person on earth. Yet the 4 23 Mason, Bingen 7 3 .304 mighty Columbia will fill this lake Henry, Willard . . 10 10 .303 in only 3 weeks of an average June Formerly The Dalle* Freight Line HadW y, B’viUo . 13 13 10 .302 ! or July flow. Authorized Dealer So clear are the waters of this .10 3 1 1. S tef........... 2 .300 agenta for WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY CO. j stream, and so fine are the solids j it does carry, that there will be no Phone 3733 Third and Cascade Watch our windows FOREST SERVICE ¡It problem involved at all. TO HAVE EXHIBITION Diverting a Mighty River • Daily Truck Service to Portlnnd The Multnomah County •■air W M Because of the size of the Colum ( ’»»cade D m - k* tins week notified that the Mount bia River, it was not practical to Portlnnd Phone 131 Phone EA 2797 Hood National Forçât would have divert the river through tunnels an exhibit on display. around the damsite. Instead, the Dealer* in The exhibit will consist of a fire river has had to be diverted by Fuel Oil - Briquets - Coal - Pres-to-Logs prevention display depicting a giant cofferdams from that part "tnaneaused fire diorama” and sev of the Darn under const ruction. eral l a r g e illustrations. The The west side cofferdam — the <i "inma is operated by electric current and shows the fire starting by lightning and other causes. New fire fighting equipment w>ll also he on display. The exhibit will be in charge of Senior Ranger Albert Wiesendanger. TREASURER’S REPORT c ASCADIAN County Nurse Assumes Duties R I DANCE I A L T O KOBERG’S BEACH SATURDAY Morey Graff and Hts Swingsters Anderson Funeral Home Prices for all Pocket books Frances L. Manchester L. R. Freygang Columbia Gorge Motor Line EXTRA K.P. Picnic Draws Many to Happy Dell ♦ Now . . . electricity comes into it* own . . . with the Norge Electro-Speed Range . . . cycling time 1 * speeded up miraculously .. . *ou get all the aijran tape-. 01 cL-n«.r, faster, t\(r r cooling . . . much more deluiou* mewls. Lome in *-,.J see tt.e t.enjr bund new features that make the Norge Electro-Speed Tower Range seats ahead ■ . , the beat range buy on the market today! ★ SEE N O R G E BEFORE YOU BUYI ★ BARTOL MOTOR COMPANY H ood R iver Oregon <>ne hundred sixty-five persons turned out Sunday at Happy Dell I ark at Yiento for the annual Dis trict 3 Knights of Pythias picnic. Representatives were present from Wa«co, Hood River and The Dalles. Rev. Arvin F. I>eak of Hood Riv er, and Henry Cramer of The Dalles, were the principle speakers f the day Farl Spaulding of Hood River tang several songs and the IDesJ River K. P Band rendered several selections. Ra' •-« and amusir g contests of vnr. ,s sorts entertained the crowd during the afternoon. A ladies’ < hild-ealling contest and a balloon ‘ reakir.g affair were greatly en joyed by the picnickers — with GOOD - DEPENDABLE HANCOCK FIYI POINT and ETHYL GaAoiiwe. * tTOWl nicer •
