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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1959)
Pacific Power Co. Dedicates $56 Million Hydro-Electric Plant Completion of p<,wer project.« that in an ample supply of low-cost power have placed a record one million kilo tor the legion into the i iid-HdiO- watt« of new genera mg <«' ¡icity n Others under study and proposed service in one year it plants built would carry the reg.on's growing by Northwest electric companies loads into the mid-1970«. was saluted recently a tue indi O. R. Mei lung. PPdrL president, cation of Pacific Power & Light reported the capital investment re Company’s $5»; million Swift Hydro quired f< r PP4L s new projects, whi h electric project. in on*- year doubled the company s Featuring the world ■ i ghet earth genet, ung capacity, ha - brought con fill dam, the Swift preje t is the thrd struction expenditure» by the comp and largest of PP&L’i developments any curing die past ten years to a on the Lewis River and has a power total o* e-’ * million. house providing moie thu.i one-quar E. R- de Luc..a vi.e presi lent and ter million kilowatts of the nt* gen ch ei •ngineer, 1-ported Swift’s gen- erating capacity added in the past eiators already iiaie prouuted 1'1 years to the region’s power re.-our mm i kilo nt h ura of electricity Paul B. McKee, chairman of the for «ir.es, .arms a I factor.es of the board of Pacific Power, told a group Pl’s... syet n. H- aid construction assembled at the project with officers uf t..e 512- ot u g dani had requir and directors of the con pany, that ed building a mou a.n of neany 16 "Swift ranks ten. h among the ¡arg- million cu< -• yeai» of earth in tile est of the massive structures of the record time n «u in >nths. world." “Swift is the newest among nine power projects completed in the past twelve months by the private utilities of the legion a> » pari oi a con.lim From >a<.i>ani Memorial ing and orderly power development lUpon doapiia program,’’ McKee said. He reported the record-breaking activity of the B. in Aoril 2 to Mr and Mrs. Otto companies will add more than 1,50V,- K Boyd, W■»«’ Stayton a <«m. Bobby 000 kilowatts to the region'« resources Franklin, weighing 7 p und.s 2 <>unc- during the next fe« ye.rs. "The companies ai.>o nave applied B- rn Api 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Walt for 1 icenses for additional projects er W. Dye, Stayton a son, Paul with tw<> million kilowatts ot gener ..in ., . elgill. g .OI....IS II «Uli e3. ating capability. Ami other develop B< rn April 4 to .dr and Mrs. Har- ment are unue. investigation, ’ h® ley al. ..alia", au i v i.e a uaugh added. tr, Kathleen Alii, weighing 7 pounds Together with new plants under » uUfiCU-S. construction by the isacral govern ' ment and Ic.a« no i r deia. agen.ies, McKee said, the re out all-time pow ' list KIBE TO THE MILL CITY er construction niogiani .as resulted I. sTFKI'RISE ';()!).' < <>0 a l«ir ‘ New Arrivals »—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE TH! RSI)\Y, KI’RIL ». !»'•» PP&L Dedicates Powerhouse of Detroit Dam Santiam Ripples Movies Shown at Grange Meet By Judi Hoeye Whoosh! There goes one. And an LYONS—Oneof the most outstand other! Here come.« one more! What ing meetings for Santiam Valley am I talking about? Why weeks, of course. There are only six end one- Grange was held Friday evening, half weeks left. Where has ALL that with the largest attendance of the time g >ne. Why, into activities such year, 142 present. Waldo Smith, a.- he Sophomore pie sales, track master of the Lacomb grange and 17 niee-», Volkswagon stuffing« and Sen- members presented the traveling i ior Cl*»« Plays. ; riday the Sophomores had a cake Agate to Santiam Valley grange. i nd pie sale. Oh, such lovely cakes Other Granges represented were an«i pies. They were so good that no Grand Prairie B. Charity 4, Western ore could resist them. One girl even Star 20. Morning Star 1, Crowfoot . ale a half pie. By the way, Mothers, 15, Calumette 5, Lakecreek 35, Scio I if you are inis ing a cake plate or 13. The regular business was carried pie tin you may locate it in the office out. and Mr. Sims, master of the at .jantiam. Linn bounty Pomona Grange called “Spring is sprung, the grass is the rcll. Talks were given by Mrs. riz; I wonder where the flowers is.” I Eastman, master of Seio, Howard isn't that silly'.’ Why the flowers are Atkeson, master of Calumette, Ralph blosaoir ing all over the place. :Schnorr, master of Grand Prairie, Another sure .-ign of spring is the David McPherson, master of Western I a t vity out on the athletic field. Star, Ron Cox. master of Crowfoot, Watching baseball and track is a and Ger»Id Falk, master of Lake wondeifui way to get a suntan. creek. Hase you noticed tne new shrubs A short program followed directed I in t rout of the school building? The by Celer ■ Taylor, lecturer, after I Honor Society. Freshman Class and ¡which Jerry Coffman showed pictures the Lions Auxiliary each contribut 'of Detroit Dam and Santiam Canyon. ed some bu-she.- to be planted. They | Santiam Valley will take the trav- surety improve the looks of the build i eltng Agate to Holly on Saturday ev- ing. lening, April 11. A pot luck supper A teen-age committee consisting of ! was enjoyed following the meeting. Karren Marshall, Bob Morgan, Jo Ann Lhalienuer, Pat Henry, Sandra Harris, Jeiry Johnson, Sandra Olson and lone for you, just call the school and Sherven Muir nas oeen formed to plan I ave your t’.aire and address. activities for the teen agers of the Hydro-electricity produced at the Northwest's newest pow community. With the help of the par As far as the Seniors are concern ed, the big news of the week is the erhouse is flowing from giant generators at Pacific Power & ents we hope to organize things and play "A Fuedin’ Over Yonder.” The final performance was given Satur Light Company’s $56,000,000 Swift project to homes, farms and io naie a good time. The Juniors spent their time pro night and- though the cast agreed factories served by the PP&L system. New plant, dedicated fitably Saturday by washing windows it day was fun to act, nearly all of them Wednesday, is capable of supplying enough kilowatt-hours of of stores and homes. In the course of wished that they were in the audience -he day they earned |26.UO. Even rather than on stage. Do you blame power for homes of one million Northwest residents. Project | though they worked as hard as they tnem ? By the way, they made (81.50 has world’s highest earthfill dam, is largest of company’s three i could they still have lots of work left n the plav. Profitable business, eh, | to do. if you would like some work What? Lewis River developments. U.S. HAS MANY COLORFUL FLAGS The word flag is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "fleogan,” meaning “to float in the wind.’’ Few flags that float in the wind these days are more colorful than the personal standards authorized for top military and government officials. Some of the most colorful—and least known—of these flags are shown here. If you have been in service, you are probably familiar with a few of them. See how many you can identify without looking at the answers below. Shown in the corners are the seals of four major services. A flag is also called a color or jack. The term standard usually applies to flags carried by mounted, mechanized and motorized troops, the word colors to the flags carried at the head of dis mounted or foot Hoops. A jack is a small flag flown from the jack staff at the bow of a vessel. Warships with a fleet commander aboard fly the commander's flag, and are known as flagships. Long before flags, there were other kinds of national symbols, such as fig ures carved in wood, stone, or metal, mounted at the top of a pole or spear. Such standards were carried into battle by Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians. Assyr ians and Romans. Flags of woven ma terial flying free from a vertical staff are believed to have been used first by the Saracens, during the Middle Ages. In the early months of the Revolu tionary War. when our country was not yet well organized, various groups In the Continental Army displayed their own flags One of these, unfurled in Taunton, Mass.. In 1774. bore the British jack ol the same design that had been flown from the mainmast of the May flower. and was inscribed "Liberty and Union." Another showed a coiled rattlesnake above the warning, "Don't Tread On Me.” It was carried by the famous Min utemen in 1775. At the Battle of Bunker llill. American troops were inspired by the Pine Tree flag, symbol of the Mas sachusetts Bay Colony. The first flag representing the united colonies in revolution, with thirteen alternate red and white stripes, was raised by John Paul Jones from the deck of the ship Alfred. December 3, 1775. George Washington liked this and named it the Grand Union flag. But on the blue field, in the upper left-hand corner, instead of stars, were the crosses of Saint Andrew and Saint George. The colonists felt a need for a national flag to symbolize their unity and inde pendence after July 4. 1776. and so Con gress passed a resolution calling for a flag of thirteen stripes, and also thirteen stars, white on a blue field. A lady of Philadelphia is credited with having suggested that the stars be five-pointed, and with having made the first flag, with the stary arranged in a circle. Her name was Betsy Ross. ANSWERS: 1) Official flag, See. of Defense; ti flag of Chairman. Joint Chiefs of Staff; 3) flag of Sec. of Navy; 4> flag of Sec. of Army; 5) U. S. Air Force flag; 6> flag of Chief of Staff: VSAF; 7) flag of Chief of Naval Operations; fl) flag of Chief of Staff, Army.
