Pago Nino
The Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, March 14, 1974
Former Adrian Resident
Station Manager In Calif.
Oakland
A’s
baseball
broadcasting rights was fi
nalized early in March, and
fur the second consecutive
year, all games will be heard
over the Golden Pacific Net
work in Northern California
and Nevada with coverage
in the Hawaiian Islands.
Keith B. Farr, General
Sales Manager forKCVRand
K-WIN stations in Lodi-
Stockton, California stated
that coverage of the exibl-
tion games will begin imme
diately. The OaklandA’s have
won the World Series for two
years, In 1972 and 1973, and
prospects for the 1974 year
look very well.
Keith Farr joined the Gol
den Pacific group in 1968
after working in television
for three years and prior
to that tune served as staff
announcer and salesman for
stations in the Ogden, Salt
Lake City areas.
The Golden Pacific Group
has
stations in San Jose,
Lodi-Stockton, Fresno, Las
Vegas and Hawaiian Islands.
Headquarters are tn San Jose,
California.
In 1958 Farr started his
career with Gordon Capps>
president of KSRV in On
tario, prior to that time, he
lived in Adrian, Oregon.
ACCESS BRIDGE (center) to Idaho Power
Company's McCormick Park near Brownlee
Dam collapsed into WHdhorse Creek when
the stream, swollen by heavy rains and
snow melt, cut away both its banks. On
opposite side of creek are ruins of the
park's restrooms, also damaged by the
high water.
Idaho Power Plans
Fourth Unit At Bridger
ACCESS ROAD between tup of Idaho
Power Company’s Hells Canyon Dam (left)
and powerhouse was cut in two places by
water rushing down Short Creek, seen at
right, from high in the mountains on the
Oregon side.
Damage caused here and
elsewhere on Oxbow-Hells Canyon road
by slides and washouts will cost an es
timated $200,000-1300,000 to repair
Idaho Power Reports Repair
On ()xl><> w- Urlisi jinyon Road
Idaho Power Company re
ported Wednesday that work
has started to repair exten
sive damage caused by a
recent series of slides and
washouts
on the
road
between Oxbow and Hells
Canyon dams.
The repair work, es
timated to cost $200,000
$300,000, is expe< ted to
quire up to 10 weeks Incom
plete depending on the
weather, according to F E.
Myers, power plant operating
superintendent
He said the estimate does
not include the cost of re
building a bridge, restrooms
and pumphouse
at
Mc
Cormick Park, located up
stream near Brownlee Dam.
The
structures
were
heavily damaged when flood
waters in Wildhorse Creek
1 cut away both banks of the
stream
Myers said the Oxbow
Hells Canyon road, providing
the only access between the
two dams, was blocked or
washed out in at least 10
places in a distance of 13
miles.
The damage
occurred
during a period of heavy rains
and a thaw tint melted snow
in the mountains bordering
the deep canyon and sent
water rushing down normally
dry gullies and creek beds
MacGregor Triangle Com
pany, Boise contractor per
forming the repair work, has
bulldoted a narrow path
through the slides so Idaho
Power operating personnel
can reach Hells Canyon Dam
over the road. Earlier.they
had been forced to travel
downstream to the dam by
boat from HellsCanyon Park
Myers said (tie road
between the park and the
dam will remain closed to the
public until the repairs are
completed
The damaged
sections of roadbed will be
rebuilt immediately, but they
cannot be resurfaced with
asphalt until early summer
One of the worst washouts
was at Hells Canyon Dam,
where water rushing down
Short Creek from high in
the mountains on the Oregon
side of the gorge sliced
Work in Vale
BLM Offered
A variety of work in the
Vale District, Bureau of Land
Management, will tie offered
to contractors for bld during
the work season this year.
Range Conservationist
Frank Noll said invitations
for bldhave already been sub
mitted by the district office
for 13 miles of fire reha
bilitation fencing where the
Board Corrals fire occurred
last year. A total of nearly
30,000 acres will be seeded,
basically to crested wheat
grass, as a result of the
Round Mountain and Dairy
Pasture fires. These con
tracts will be awarded this
spring for fall seeding. Bids
will be issued for equipment
rental for approximately 300
miles of road maintenance
dlatrict-wlde.
A fence maintenance con
tract will tie Issued for the
Westfall area, and five miles
of new fencing are proposed
in the southern part of the
district for which an invi
tation to bld will tie asked.
All invitations are submitted
to the Bl.M’s Denver Ser
vice Center for finalization.
All contracts will be awar
ded prior to June 30.
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* Barley * Wheat
* Barley and Wheat
Custom Mixed
* Field Seed
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* Pasture Grass
• Flower Seed
* Garden Seed
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through a horseshoe-shaped
access road between the top
of the dam and the power
house.
The finding stream cut
deep into the road in two
places and buried it under
tons of rock and mud
Trees, bushes and other
debris flushed from creek
beds and banks upstream
from Hells Canyon Dam
floated through the reservoir
and piled up behind the con
crete structure. The trash,
extending some 600 feet up
stream In the reservoir be
hind (tie dam and about 950
feet from bank to bank, will
tie scooped out of the water
by a dragline and hauled away
by truck.
Myers said the inflow into
the Snake River from swollen
streams between Brownlee
and Hells Car.yon reached
more than 15,000 cubic feet
per second at the peak of
the heavy rains and snow
melt.
According to long-time
area residents, the flow in
WHdhorse Creek was the
highest in many years
Conservationist
Reports To BLM
Kenneth Knowles, Moscow,
Idaho reported for duty as
range conservationist in the
Vai>' District, Bureau of Land
Management, Monday, March
4. Knowles has been assig
ned to the Southern Resource
Area where he fills the va
cancy left by the transfer of
Ed Gheen in December.
A native of Shoshone, Idaho
Knowles
attended
Idaho
schools and graduated from
Idaho State University at Po
catello In 1971 with a bache
lor of science degree in
Conservation. He will re
ceive his master's degree
in range management In May.
During summers tietween
school
years, he
was
employed for one year in the
Shoshone BLM district and
for the Idaho State Depart
ment of Highways.
Knowles and his wife, Ruth,
are the parents of one son,
three year old Justin. Hun
ting. fishing and sports fans,
they are making their home
one mile west of Vale on
, Graham Boulevard.
Atiyeh Files
For Governor
State Senator Victor Ati
yeh, R-Washington County,
formally filed in Salem Mon
day for the office of Gover
nor.
Atiyeh was first elected
to the House of Represen
tatives in 1958. He ran suc
cessfully for the Senate in
1964 and has been the Se
nate
Republican
Lea<)er
since 1971
He served as vice chair
man of the Senate Alcohol
and Drug Committee andwas
a member of (he Education,
Environment and Land Use,
Revenue, and Transportation
Committees during the 1973
Legislative session.
Atiyeh currently serves
on the Legislature's Emer
gency Board, which handles
appropriations when the le
gislature is not in session
and on the Governor’s Energy
Council,
He announced his intention
to seek the Republican nomi
nation In December, which
surprised many of the GOP
regulars.
Atiyeh’s ballot slogan is
’’Senator "Vic” Atiyeh, the
• INE man prepared to tie your
next Governor.”
Idaho Power Company and
Pacific Power & Light Com
pany have asked the Wyo
ming Public Service Com
mission for authority to build
a fourth unit at their jointly
owned Jim Bridger steam
generating plant, increasing
its capacity to 2 million
kilowatts.
Albert Carlsen, Idaho Po
wer president, saidWednes-
day the additional unit at the
plant near Rock Springs,
Annual Dinner
For Sugar Co.
Em ployees
The Amalgamated Sugar
Company employees held
their annual dinner, Friday,
March 8, at the Rodeway
Inn, Boise.
Opening ceremonies were
conducted by Paul Kunkel.
Invocation was
given by
George Knapp and Dee Gar
ner
acted as master of
ceremonies.
In charge of
entertainment was Zelma
Richards and Gretchen Slin-
ker.
Retirees were introduced
by Rosemary Zittercob and
each presented with a gift.
They are Desmond Jones, a
wrist watch,
Wally Flip
pence, fishing equipment;
and Glenn Cooper, a walky-
talky.
Agricultural service pins
were presented to Fred
Hanny and John S. Vanzelf
by Gilbert Wells. Service
pins for factory operations
were presented to William
Ashcraft. Jose Delgado. Ar
thur Galloway, Jose Mar
tinez, Reyes Sayas and Ga-
rld Leavitt by George Hobbs
Winners of door pri
zes were Carlos Hernandez,
Mrs. Charles Belveal, Mrs.
Tony Frost, Mrs. GeraldSi-
mantel and Mrs. Glenn Pal
mer.
T
W yoming, would increase his
company's share of the to
tal plant capacity to 667,000
kilowatts for Idaho Power
customers.
The balance of the capacity
would be for Pacific power
under a joint-venture agree
ment that gives Pacific Po
wer
a two-thirds’ share
and Idaho power one-third.
Commercial operation of
Jim Bridger's first 500,000
kilowatt unit now is planned
for September, 1974, with its
entire output dedicated to
Idaho Power needs until the
other units go on the line.
Units 2 and 3 are sche
duled for completion in Sep
tember
of 1975 and 1976,
respectively.
The fourth unit, also of
500,000-kilowatt capacity
would be completed in 1978
if the two companies receive
the necessary approvals and
construction starts next Fall.
CAPABLE OF SPEEDS of 50 miles an hour
over rough ocean water are Boeing C ompany.
Renton. Wash.. Jetfoil 929 commuter boat*,
being manufactured of Northwest aluminum,
len of the 90*foot vessels, capable of carry
ing up to 250 passenger« are being built, the
first to be completed in mid-March. Some
1.2 million pounds of aluminum from the
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UNDERSTANDING
CREDIT. When you buy on
credit and ask for the rate
of interest, the lender may
quote you a "discounted
rate" rather than the annual
percentage rate. Under the
truth-in-lending law, this is
illegal. Ask for the annual
percentage rate if it isn’t
quoted to you.
An easy but inprecise way
of converting the discount
rate to the annual pet < entage
rate is simply to multiply
it by two.
Therefore, a
''discounted” rate of 6 per
cent is actually 12 i>er cent
annual percentage rate
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Vancouver, Wash., Aluminum Company of
America plant, then alloyed and fabricated at
other ALCOA plants, was shipped to Boeing
for the hydrofoil boats. Initial orders are
from Hong Kong and Hawaii. Washington
State Ferry System is taking close look at
$1.5 million dollar speedsters.
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