Franklin High School - Post Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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1 rlcksen sums Linen li Uierney :miles Peggy . . Clifford xllorynn . Lord Dansdnle . 1l1oiller1UrGrr' . ilfnrgnret Ufingnlz' Earl Wirlgatr . XVulfv Lee I' X lm lln'I'D Guru Ausn EVANS EARL LEE DEAN Lrrrisnr. NORMA lfVo1.lf1s Illfuu' Srmivn Goiuxm ERICKSIEN Burlou . Bon KE!-'ER Armin . . EILEEN G.'XRNB'l'l' Jllunslield . . HARRY REPP Ilfonsieur Anloine BOB CHERNEY Man . . C.-ilu. KURATH Nrwshoy . . Tom BURREE Buxinmx Ilfmiager . . TOM BURREB Excellently performed by a well-trained cast the sparkling four-act comedy, My Irish Cinderella, Jan. '36 class play, was enthusiastically received by nearly a full house on Friday, December 13. My Irish Cinderella turned out to be a play above the high average maintained at Franklin, and I think it will rank above the half dozen best plays that have previously been produced here, stated Mr. Wm. Ilarrington, Director. CLASS PLAY ..25.-

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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..

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L QJV,-. 91 Cwfff Q xfvcvdz f 1frA' L' ' i ,!,.4f-4-ga v 1 As the dynamoes of the Bonneville Dam will gather the energy of the mighty Columbia and transmit its power to the neighboring communi- ties, so does the facility collect the diffusion of culture and distribute it among the students. FACULTY