Franklin High School - Post Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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mayor of Bonneville, Miss Geraldine Pickering, the five commissioners, Mr. Glen Bomgardener, Miss Marian Tichenor, Miss Grace Brugger, and Miss Josephine Miller. Then came the car with the President's secretary, Mr. Archie Cooke, the Governor's secretary, 'Bob Simmons, the Secretary of War, General J. Pershing Farnsworth, and the Secre- tary of Interior, Alise Evans. Next came the Thirteenth Infantry Band led by Eileen Garnett. The next car carried the Governor of Oregon, Mary Nachand, who had been recently abroad, the president of the United States, Mary Shand, the first gentleman of the land, Bob Kefer, and the Secretary of State, Miss Helen Malcolm. Behind them came the Bonneville Flying Corps. ln its ranks I recognized Grace Ellis, Bessie Erickson, Everett Stinson, and Marian Keeliii. That ended the procession but I and my party had been invited to a reception for the President at the Shapland Manor where Aileen Shapland, manager of Bonneville, had her home. Harry Repp, Aileen, and Don McLeod were in the receiving line. That afternoon I met some more celebrities from our class who had just motored out for the afternoon. There was Bob Cherney, Dictator of Washington, and his assistant, George Covell. Miss Fay Hall had just been promoted to head of the national secret investi- gation bureau and had just finished tracking down three dangerous international spies who had planned to demolish the dam. As we were about to leave we met Charles Johnson, the King from Minnesota, and Helyn Smith, Miss America of 1960. As we flew back to Portland that evening, I thought of what a happy day it had been and only regretted that Fay Zahn, Dictator of Ithipo- tamia, and her rival, Tom Wortendyke, Dictator of Lithipotamia could not have been there to complete a class reunion.

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The Bonneville Project Power development and navigation improvements combined in the dam being built across the Columbia River 40 miles above Portland, Ore.-Unusual geological conditions controlled design and location of dam, power house and locks. Bonneville Dam is to span the Columbia river where Bradford Island divides the river into two channels. With only preliminary plans and without having had opportunity for adequate exploration of the site, the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, under urgent pressure from the Public Works Administration to put men to work, nearly two years ago let the first contract for the construc- tion of a navigation and power dam across the Columbia River at Bonne- ville, Ore., about 140 miles above the mouth of the river and 40 miles above the city of Portland. This dam, located just above the limits of ordinary tidal effects and a little below Cascade Rapids, is the first of a series of ten dams recommended by the Corps of Engineers in its re- port to Congress on the best plan for improvement of the Columbia River in the combined interest of navigation, flood control, power de- velopment and irrigation. At the Bonneville site the river is divided into two channels by Brad- ford Island, which is more than a mile long. About 800 feet upstream from Bradford Island is another small island known as Boat Rock. The preliminary layout for this site submitted by the Corps of Engineers with its report to Congress called for a spillway section of the dam across the main channel between Boat Rock and the Washington shore, a non-overflow dam of the Ambursen type between Boat Rock and the head of Bradford Island, and a power house extending across the sec- ondary south channel near the foot of Bradford Island. Soon after the submission of the preliminary plans to Congress, the PWA, seeking projects that would create employment in the Portland area, picked upon Bonneville Dam as a desirable undertaking and, late in September of 1933, allotted S250,000 to the Corps of Engineers for further ex- ploration and preparation of detailed plans. Only a week later an ad- ditional allotment of 320,000,000 was made to start construction of the project. Confident that the preliminary plans were sound and that more de- tailed exploration of the underground conditions would not result in more than minor changes in location of major structures, or more than minor changes in their form, and having in mind the urgency of relief for unemployment, the Army Engineers began construction work within two months after the first allotment of money was made. The first contracts let were for railroad relocation on the Oregon shore and ex- cavation for the non-overflow section of the dam between Boat Rock and Bradford Island. Soon afterward a contract for the powerhouse excavation was made. More detailed study of the site as work progressed has shown the locations chosen for the power house and locks to be satisfactory, but that a considerable saving in cost and better hydraulic results could be secured by moving the spillway section of the dam about 3,000 feet downstream. Plans were changed accordingly. At Bonneville the estimated cost of the dam and two units in the pow- er house with substructure for four more is estimated at S31,250,000. -24..