Oregon women accounted for almost 65 per cent of all new applications for social security cards in 1943 in this state, compared with 60 per cent for the entire country, according to James E. Peebles, manager of the Portland field office of the Social Security Board. The pre-war ration for Oregon and the nation was around 50 per cent. Because of peal employment there are now some 34 million persons in the United States whose deaths could result in award of those benefits under federal old-age and survivors insurance, Peebles says.
— Hood River News, September 15, 1944
Treatment Deficiency May Bar Hunting
The State Sanitary Authority probably would not approve opening of The Dalles watershed to deer hunting during the state’s general season, city councilmen were advised Tuesday night.
Asked by Mayor John Skirving to voice his opinion, Sanitarian Irv Reierson of Wasco-Sherman Public Health Department told the City Council, sitting as a committee of the whole, that he was confident the SSA would say such use of the watershed should not be permitted unless “full treatment” were given Mill Creek water at Wicks Reservoir.
Reierson said he views the problem as a “matter of economics.” The present filter plant at Wicks on the South Fork of Mill Creek is not designed to treat water adequately under conditions of additional watershed use by humans, he explained.
The sanitarian said the plant would have to be enlarged and its processing system changed. Year-around treatment of water would be required in contrast to the present practice of by-passing the plant except when the water is turbid or is discolored by leaves and other vegetation, he added.
Later, REierson said that, in effect, the present plant serves chiefly as a settling basin. Full-scale treatment, using sand filters, is capable of removing harmful bacteria but the present plant does not function this way, he said.
— The Dalles Chronicle, Sept. 9, 1964
Forging ahead
Washington State Department of Transportation work on the Wind River Bridge, just west of Home Valley, is progressing on schedule with engineers looking at a spring completion date.
“We’re a little behind our optimistic schedule, but overall we’re doing well,” said project engineer John Auspice.
To date, workers from Coast Marine Construction have laid the superstructure of the steel bridge, with all but one Pier in place. The construction company expects to place decking before the year is out.
According to Auspice, paving the structure and aligning the roadway will not begin until the weather warms next spring. “When the weather turns bad, there will be little if any work being done,” he said.
Auspice reminds motorists that trucks are still hauling material out of the area, causing temporary delays.
The new structure will be 40 feet wide from curb to curb with a right turn on the west end for the Hot Springs Avenue intersection. There will be eight-foot shoulders on each side of the bridge and approaches, and wlanes will be 12 feet wide. The existing bridge is 22 feet 10 inches from curb to curb.
The new bridge will also be 10 feet higher than the existing roadway to provide the same clearance under the bridge as the railroad bridge also crosses the Wind River. Construction of the $2,676,948 project began in February 1984.
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