Fishway Flow Curtailment
Will Ease Energy Shortage
Demon I a Eagle
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THURSDAY.
NO V,
la.
1973
SEL-M O R , IN C .. PubUshrn,
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Power Shortages
Threaten Farmers
Always a threat to farmers,
power outages this year are of
even more concern because of
expected electricity shortages,
points out an Oregon State
University expert
Besides reducing regular use
of electricity as requested by
government officials and power
companies, farmers should think
about alternate sources of elec­
tricity for vital farm needs,
according to Ted W illrich, ag­
ricultural engineer with the uni­
versity's Extension Service He
said electricity may be in short
supply for farmers through the
earlv 1980’s.
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S I L T S — A D V E R T IS E
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ARISTOCATS
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ONE OF the oldest residences to Vernonia, the Van Blartcotn
bouse built in 1902 by Ad Counts, has been newty remodeled
Seedlings
Available
Nordstroms
At Hood River
Order blanks for forest tree
seedlings from the state nursery
are now available from the
county Extension agents and
state farm foresters, according
to Don Coin Walrod. Extension
Agent
Although orders mav be taken
as late as next March, Walrod
points out ordering now with
delivery set for a specified date,
may assure securing desired
species that might not be avail­
able later in the planting season
Cost of the forest seedlings
picked up at the nursery varies
with quantity and variety, being
$25 and $27 for 2-0 seedlings and
$42 per thousand for 3-0 stock
For trees shipped from the
nursery, the charges are $5 per
1.000 higher Minimum orders
must be 100 trees of one species
and the minimum charge is $5
LODGE AND CLUB NOTICES
VERNONIA JAYCEES
Meets the 2nd
A 4th
VALLEY
Tueaday
every
CHAPTER
of
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M arket
Bob Carson, President
Faye Davis, Secretary
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Jim Norwod, W’.M.
Walter E. Linn, Sec’y.
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month, 7:30 p.m .
Joe L. Dailey, President
Ralph Bergerson, Sec’y.
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bers quarterly. Board meets the
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West
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Visitors invited.
T. F. Tomlin, President
Mrs Evelyn Heath, Sec’y.
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Meets 2nd A 4th Thursday even­
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Evelyn Heath, Sec’y.
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M eeting on 1st
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First and Third Tuesday
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Lloyd Quinn, Noble Grand
Harry Culbertson, Sec’y.
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Irma Fisher, Sec’y.
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Darrold Proehl, President
Ted Forbes, Secretary
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F irs t and Third Tuesdays
Reatha Hom, President
Gertrude Schalock, Sec’y.
U.S. Savings Bonds
Make Excellent Gills
“ This year. U.S. Savings
Bonds make better-than-e v e r
Christmas gifts,” Thomas S.
Prideaux, Oregon State Chair­
man for the Treasury’s Savings
Bonds Program, said today
‘‘The interest rate is higher than
ever, and the popular E Bond
has a shorter-than-ever m aturity
period ”
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Monday of
3-74
BIRKENFELD— M r and Mrs
Francis Nordstrom drove to
Hood Hiver last Wednesday and
visited at the August Birkenfeld
home They stayed overnight
and came home Thursday They
also visited John Cahill at the
nursing home in Portland
Mrs Lloyd Beach and Mrs
Robert Mathews were Clats­
kanie business callers Friday of
last week
Nick Berg returned home last
week from a week’s bird hunting
in Eastern Oregon His luck
wSsn’t too good
Mr. and Mrs James Person
and fam ily of Cherry Grove
visited on Sunday at the Tom
blad home They stayed over­
night.
M r and Mrs W illiam Sukau of
Tigard were at their vacation
home at the Fishhawk lake on
Wednesday, and Thursday of
last week
M r and Mrs E.T. Johnston
and Alan drove to Dallas on
Saturday for a visit with the
Gary Johnston fam ily. They
stayed overnight. Alan came
home on Friday from college He
w ill return Monday
On Friday Scott Lonnquist of
Eugene arrived to visit at his
grandparents, the Joe Lonn
quists On Sunday evening. Ann
Lonnquist and daughter Val,
came They all left for their
home on Mondav
Steve Shriver of Oklahoma
City spent one night at the Bob
DuPuis home He was on his way
to California He is a relative of
Bob’s
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THINK YOU’KE WORKING TO
HARD?
There aren’t as many people
working as you might have
thought, at least according to a
recent survey.
The population of the country
is 180 m illion but there are 70
m illion over 60 years of age,
leaving 110 m illion to do the
work People under 21 total 61
m illion which leaves 49 million
to do the work
Then there are 24 m illion who
are employed by the government
and that leaves 25 m illion to do
the work Ten m illion are in the
Armed Forces, leaving
15
m illion to do the work.
Deduct 14.775.000—the number
in state and city offices, and that
leaves 225,000 to do the work
There are 142,000 in hospitals,
insane asylums, and so forth and
that leaves 83,000 to do the work
But 70,000 of the»«' are bums or
others who w ill not work, so that
leaves 13,000 to do the work Now
it may interest you to know that
there are 12.998 people in ja il, so
that leaves just two people to do
the w ork. and that is you and me,
brother, and I ’m getting tired of
doing everything thyself
ty
the
b the
residents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cotrnan. She
Myrtle Van Blatrcom. and was born In the h
T O P IC S OF T H E T O W N
Mrs. Jack Seeley, Mrs. Carl
Holsey. Mrs V irg il Snook and
Mrs Grace Peachey attended
the Child for Christ Crusade
workshop at Glencoe Baptist
church in Portland on Wednes
day
Sunday visitors at the home of
Mrs Mabel Graves were: her
granddaughter Sarah Graves of
Vancouver B.C. and her parents
Mr. and Mrs Hale Graves and
David of Portland
Harold Bateman of Portland
was a guest at the home of Mr
and M r s
Adrian
Logan.
Wednesday through Friday He
spent most of the time deer
hunting unsuccessfully Sunday
visitors at Logans were Mr and
Mrs Kenneth Taunton and
daughter also of Portland
The Seventh Day Adventist
pastor, Elder L .L Huntington
has taken his wife toLoma Linda
California where she underwent
open heart surgery Monday
morning, November 12 No word
has been received of the results
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Vinson
visited in Astoria, also Knappa
early in November Also the 5th
of November,
visited
their
doctor in Portland, afterwards
visiting Mrs. Nettie Beyer, and
Clifford
Chamberlin,
whose
grandfather lived in Vernonia
when Clifford Chamberlin was a
boy used to visit his grandfather
here Many years ago, as
Clifford Chamberlin is now 78
years of age
A surprise house-warming was
held at the new home of Mr and
Mrs Carl Holsey Sunday eve­
ning after the church service
The guests were the Evangelical
church friends who brought the
refreshments and enjoyed the
evening visiting
Former Clark and Wilson
“ Camp Eighter” H arry Bryson
J r was in an accident where he
is employed injuring his right
hand Surgery was performed
and he is now home from the
hospital and recuperating nice­
ly He says he thoroughly en
joyed the picnic at Vernonia and
is looking forward to next year's
gathering of Vernonia folks and
the 2nd reunion of Camp 8-ers (C
and W Lumber Co.).
Mr Bryson lives at Nahcotta,
Oregon
Former .Clark and Wilson
“ Camp 8-er” Herbert Piert and
his wife have returned from a
wonderful ship cruise down
through the Carribean Islands
They report exotic foods and
breathtaking scenery
Mrs. Blanche M illis and Mrs.
B ill Sword came home Wednes
day after a week’s visit in the
mid-west They visited Mr and
Mrs Phil Millis and fam ily at
Denver While there they went to
Colorado Springs and visited
Cassie Livingstone, who spent
many years here She is real well
and sends greetings to her
friends At Tulsa. Oklahoma
they visited their granddaughter
and niece, respectively. Debbie
Graham and her father Ron
Graham and also his parents Mr
and Mrs Ernest Graham
Mrs. Walter Linn returned
on Saturday of last week from a
week spent in Denver with the
107-member Oregon delegation
to the thirty-fourth Triennial
Assembly ol the General Grand
Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star She reports that they went
prepared for Rocky Mountain
winter weather but were treated
to summer temperatures and
sunshine during most of their
stay in the "Mile-high C ity".
fM r. and Mrs Wm. Rhoades
and fam ily were in Gresham
Sunday afternoon at the home of
her brother and fam ily, Mr and
Mrs James B Whiteside While
there they enjoyed a visit with
Larry Lattin, who was visiting
the Whiteside home Mrs Lattin
is a sister of M r Whiteside and
Mrs Rhoades He and his family
plan to move to Oregon in the
near future At present they live
in the Orange County area of
California
The State and Federal fishery
agencies of Oregon. Washington,
and Idaho and the North Pacific
D ivis'‘in. Corps of Engineers has
announced that as a result of
cooperative efforts a total of
250,000,000 kilowatt hours of
additional electricity w ill be
generated this winter The ud
ditional electricity w ill lx* gen
erated with wuter thut normally
would be used by the fishways
and fish attraction water sys
terns at dams on the lower
Columbia and Snake Rivers
In an agreement reached be
tween representatives of all the
Northwest fisheries ugenc i e s
and the Corps of Engineers, a
temporary plan was developed
for October through March fish
fa cility operations that w ill pro­
vide for a substantial reduction
of water through the fish col
lection and passage facilities
during the winter months when
relatively few fish are migrât
ing. The reduced flows w ill
significantly reduce the effec­
tiveness of the passage facilities
and w ill provide only minimal
passage conditions at m o s t
dams The total energy gen
eration from use of the fishway
wuter at its muximum level w ill
amount to over 1,700,000 kilowatt
h o u rs
per day. This is
enough electrical energy t o
serve alxiut 40,000 homes for one
year The curtailment of fishwuy
flows represents about a 35
percent reduction in the annuul
use of water or energy in the
Corps fishway systems on the
Columbia and Snake Rivers
Most of the additional energy
w ill result from reducing the
amount of water used for attrac­
tion flow at the downstream
entrances of fish ladders at
Bonneville, The Dalles, John
Day and McNary Dams on the
lower Columbia River Substan
tial additional energy w ill also
be generated at Ice Harbor,
Lower Monumental and L ittle
Goose Dams on the Snake Hiver
“ Attraction flo w " is the extra
water that is used to help the
upstream m igrating fish find
their way into fish passage
facilities While some reduction
in attraction flow is made each
winter the reduction this year
w ill be much greater than ever
before The most adverse impact
anticipated w ill be the potential
loss of late running steelhead
and late full chinook spawning
above Bonneville Dam The coho
runs are lielieved to be nearly
over.
Spokesmen for the fishery
agencies stressed that m inimal
conditions for fish passage were
agreed to upon the following
conditions:
( I) a continuing
critica l energy crisis, (2) an
understanding thut the reduction
in fishway flows during the
winter of 1973-74 w ill not set a
precedent for future operations;
(3) in the event that serious fish
passage problems develop, nor
mal fishway operations w ill lx*
resumed. «4» other water users
(for example, navigation and
irrigation) w ill be requested to
contribute their fa ir share of the
energy conservation progrum
Major General R E McCon­
nell, North Pacific Division
Engineer, had stated that
the assistance and cixiperation
shown by the fishery agencies
w ill do much to alleviate the
critical power shortage that
faci»s the Northwest this winter
and expressed deep appreciation
to the agencies for their par­
ticipation in the energy con
serval ion program
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Just don’t know
what season it is
.Mr and Mrs Bob Cadwallader
entertained M r and Mrs Gus
Erickson of Oregon City for the
weekend On Saturday
they
made a trip to Astoria and
Seaside
Mrs. Pat Jones. Mrs. Eileen
Sam . and Mrs Huth Cadwal
lader spent Monday in Portland
shopping
Mr. and Mrs Everett Lobdell
of Lexington, Nebraska are v is it­
ing at the homes of his three
daughters Mrs Beverly Wood of
Garden Home, Mrs Carolyn
Nighturine of Aloha and Mrs
Patty Crowston and their fam ­
ilies They plan to stay with them
until after Thanksgiving
Robert Andrews entered the
Veteran’s hospital at Vancouver
November first. He is under
going treatment for his leg and
foot..
George Johnson came home
Wednesday after two and one
half weeks in the Good Samari­
tan hospital in Portland for
treatment. He is recovering
satisfactorily
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don’t care
Their full size plates hold power in during cold morning
starts And their heat proof case helps keep that power
there during hot summer driving.
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We want to thank all our present account holders
whose support has made this branch possible. For
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