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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1959)
PACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1959 D(Q) Oinisttalls Automatic System Telephone Line Used To Get Information On Water, Set Level Of Operating Gates Tlio Tuleluke Irrigation District hns installed a remote control sys Inn at its diversion dam and auto matic control systems at the canal 88-Year-Old Gal Takes New Course OREGON STATE COLLEGE -Am W) year-old woman who is in leiesled in "keeping up with the marvelous changes in America" is taking a graduate cour.se in home economics this fall at Ore gon Stale College. She is Mrs. Winifred Case Knapp. r.ow of Cor vail is, who in 11)20 was the lirst woman ever to receive a master's degree in home eco nomics from University of Minn esota. The course she is taking is "Hc icnl Advances in Foods." Next quarter or in the spring. .'Jie plans to lake some advanced work in weaving. Mrs. Knapp has u small loom in her apartment mid she makes some of her own di-csscs and jackets. She earlier look some classwork in weaving in I'M. The foods course this full is just "for my own edification," she noted. "One of the rewards of liv ing is watching change and pro gress." Mrs. Knapp uses a cane to help gel around the campus but is regu larly among the first students to arrive in the classroom each Mon day, Wednesday and Saturday at a hi. OSC's school of home economics is observing its 70th anniversary this fall. Interestingly enough, the difference in age between Mrs. Knapp and of the 18-year-old freshmen coeds who walk the halls with her is that 70 years. A widow, Mrs. Knapp lives alone in a small apartment near the campus. She chooses to live alone because "1 like to be independent." TN (LPbierv good .9.2.) faith tntt justic tttvunl itl nations "CREDO" STAMP This is the Inst of the four -cent "credo" stamps. It features the words of George Washington. The stamp, printed in red untt blue on white, will be issued In January, 19ti0, nt Mount Ver non, Va. The Initial six of this series will Include words by Thonios Jefferson, lU'iijumin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Fran cis Scott Key and Abraham Lincoln. THE COVER It was fall cleanup time when Herald and News photo artist Don Kettler snapped this picture of Al len Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Walker. 608 North Sixth, busy at his chores. It seems that no matter where you live there ore always these little clean, up tasks to be performed. checks, according to a recent an nouncemcnt. The work accomplished to date is the first phase of an overall automation program adopted by the district's board of directors and designed to' improve water service, operating efficiency and to reduce structure operating costs. A romote control system is used to control water inflow in the J canal at the Lower Lost River diversion dam, located three miles south of Merrill. The system is operated over the Columbia Util ities telephone line. The district receives information or moves the motorized gates at the dam lo cated seven miles from district headquarters by first dialing the telephone at the dam. This ring actuates the telephone answering relay which automatically answers the ring and completes the cir cuit to the remote equipment. Pow er to the remote unit at the of fice is then turned on sending an audible steady tone across the phone lines which is picked up by a tone receiver at the dam. Through the use of three tone channels (three tone transmitters generating and transmitting tones and three tone receivers operat ing at differet frequencies) it is possible to read water gate level information and to open or close the gales. When the operation is finished this system automatically hangs itself up ready to answer the next call. To make this system operate it was also necessary to mechan ize the existing gate hoists with three one half horsepower gear- motors with chain and sprocket drives, three safety limit switches, a single magnetic reversing mo tor, starter and miscellaneous wiring. The automatic checks installed in the district's J canal just downstream from the diversion dam are employed to keep a con stant waler level up stream from the check providing a steady wa ter delivery to the water users ibove the check and to the lateral canals feeding off the J canal. The motorized gates simply auto matically move upward if water level is too high or downward if waler level is too low. This elim inates water fluctuation in the ca nal. The hand operated gates on the checks first were electrically con trolled. This was done with the in stallation of a quarter horse gear motor in a central pier between two radial gates, driving both gates in the same direction. By mov ing the gates at slow speeds the chances of a gate "hunting" (con stnntly seeking a position) were substantially eliminated. The dis trict used floatlcss electrode type control switches located immed iately above the check in a still ing well set up to keep the wa ter level above the check within one inch of where it is set. Rotary limit switches were used to pro tect the gear train. Irrigation District Manager M.K. StinnU and his assistant, Edwin V. Lance, designed both systems of control. Those connected with the operation of the remote and the automatic system have found them to be a simple and reliable system. It has also proven easy to maintain. I -vpStfftytlk W j. in,,,. ! ' J-- Li nri, m - - - Information is gathered by phone, gates moved by same medium. The control panel at the dam is easy to maintain. 21 1 5 Extensive wiring was a part of the new system at the district's dam.
