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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1946
Page
5
Six water pumps the most powerful and largest ever built are planned for Grand Coulee to irrigate over 400,000 acres of sagebrush and dry farmed land in south central Washington as work on the dam irrigation system rushes forward.
Two California firms, Pelton Water Wheel Co of San Francisco and Byron Jackson Pump Co of Los Angeles, won a joint bid to construct pumps costing 1 062 975. Driven by 65 000 horsepower motors, each pump can move 12 000 gallons per second to a height of 270 feet. The California Institute of Technology aided design with bureau engineers in Denver for research and testing.
Six large pumps forming a battery will be installed on a rock shelf canyon site upstream from the dam. Each pump stands about 50 feet high with motor installations. Ten pumps operating 18 minutes could pump enough water for all U.S. residents. First units due early 1948, others later that year. A reduced-scale model will be built for hydraulic tests to approve the designs. The pumps are part of the Columbia Basin Project to irrigate 1 million acres and generate power, flood control, and extend irrigation to 400,000 acres by 1950 or 1951 after wartime suspension. Grand Coulee, nearly finished in 1942, boosted war power output.
A statement notes Arkansas hosts 47 hot springs. It claims these springs are the only ones in the United States owned and operated by the government.
Henry Sikso of the Omaha district engineers office says his telephone extension 90 in the design branch is confusing. Callers often ask for Sikso, but staff reply that the number is nine. He requests changing his extension to 60 to reduce mix ups.
Cincinnati based ferry operator John D. Loughead runs the Brent to Coney Island service on the Ohio river. A railroad official sealed a crossing gate over tracks used by ferry patrons, deeming the path non public and citing neighbors concerns. Loughead says the Ferry Queen will keep running, serving passengers to Coney Island and River Downs with up to 200 riders on busy days.
Miss Lettie Brown retires after 50 years teaching in Morton completing a half century of educating more than 2,000 residents. Her early classes included many German immigrants with limited English and students who attended only part of each year due to farm work.
South Hadley firemen heard a chimney fire control lecture at the fire house by a visiting expert. Five minutes after he left, the alarm bell rang and the department responded well to the blaze. The item notes coffee consumption rising during the war despite a 37 percent drop in world coffee output and limited European supplies.
The peanut leaf worm has been reported in Houston County. Peanut growers should watch for leaf worm and dust with cryolite before damage occurs. Those dusting with sulphur for leaf spot could mix cryolite with the sulphur for the last application if worms are present. Leaf spot is bad in most fields. fields should be dusted promptly with sulphur or sulphur copper dust. We supply sulphur and assist with dusting problems.
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