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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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<>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.
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