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...Campaigning for re-election as Governor of Oregon, Democrat Charles Henry ("Old Iron Pants") Martin last week announced that when the President visited Bonneville Dam last fall, he had exclaimed: ''You and I make a good pair.'' Said Secretary Early: "When this was called to the President's attention he expressed surprise at its publication and said that to the best of his knowledge he never made such a statement to Governor Martin...
Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to distribute power from Fort Peck (Mont.) Dam, sent it to the President...
Eight first Freshman oarsmen whipped brand new oars into the choppy Charles yesterday afternoon in a 9-mile workout to the dam and back. Said stroke Wagner of the shiny ash blades: "They're too whippy to have a hard catch. But they're made by Pocock for $20 apiece so they ought to be all right...
With a premium on speed, immediate Rightist objective last week was to capture by surprise the gigantic hydroelectric Tremp station, before the Leftists should make again their standard move of dynamiting a big dam rather than let it be captured. In a panting, breathless five-mile drive, Rightists under General José Moscardó got possession of Tremp in time's nick, for otherwise the flood of water released would have swept away whole villages, drowned thousands in 247,000,000 cubic feet of water...