The Columbian from Vancouver, Washington • 2

2 ike CtMl MBIAN) Thursday Ok 23 If 74 Vancawar Wash Bluebirds come to aid i i Carrie Hubbell 8: "I really like to help people because a holiday and people who don't have clothes and food should get some stuff so we pitched In and helped them" BM pMa by rqr CmsNm the south end I' Drivers east of Vancouver found Interstate Interstate 5 at the north end to the State 205 open to traffic Wednesday from Highway 14 interchange pictured here at By MICHAEL PRAGER Columbia! Special Writer Bluebird leader Bonnie Hubbell thinks Christmas is a good time of the year to teach the art of giving So what she did Mrs Hubbell her eight Bluebirds and tbelr mothers got together and raised enough money to buy Christmas dinner ana gifts for a needy mother and her two young daughters thought it was a good way for our girls to learn to rive and that this is a good time of the year to give Mrs Hubbell 5701 NE 46th St said" "The girls got a lot of fun out of Proceeds from a Tupperware sale and surplus dues money were used to purchase five presents and a turkey dinner Canned goods were brought from home by the Bluebirds Mrs Hubbell said she made arrangements to help the family throiyh the state Department of Social and Health Service! The family is on public assistance and one of many local families -receiving help from groups and imHviduais through the coor- diluting efforts of the department said a DSHS spokeswoman Besides donating canned goods Bluebirds spent 545 on family who received the rood and presents on Tuesday Mrs Hubbell said the girls still are talking about what they did "The girls are really she said Wednesday was up to them We asked them if they wanted to do it and they said they did" One of the Bluebirds Mrs daughter l-year-old Carrie said she was happy to kelp people got to help some people and 1 really like to help people because a holiday and people who have clothes and rood should get some stuff so we pitched in and helped riie said In all DSHS has brightened Christmas for 203 families this year by matching them with groups or individuals who express a desire to help somebody said Carol Schats community coordinator for DSHS The people who receive the gifts or food "have been real she said "They expect too much When they get all the stuff they're really 1-205 speeds travel in county The driver on 1-206 drove 113 miles arriving at SR-14 13 minutes after starting The driver on I-5-SR 14 route drove exactly 14 miles arriving at the 1-205 interchange east of Vancouver 18 minutes later The second driver who took the 1-5 route was forced to slow below 55 mph when he approached downtown Vancouver on 1-5 Then he came to a complete stop when he left 1-5 via 4th Street downtown and drove onto SR-14 (the Camas Freeway) He was forced to stop again at the stoplight at Grand Avenue The first driver proceeded unheeded from the starting point to the finish encountering only light traffic Carroll said he drove the new freeway Tuesday night and also found light traffic with most of it between the Mill Plain interchange and the SR-14interchange drivers headed south to the Orchards McLoughlan Heights East Vancouver and Camas-Washougal areas or to the north from those areas "It seemed to be functioning pretty said Dick Carroll district highway engineer The opening was marked by light traffic and no problems he added Part of the light traffic was a Columbian reporter who set out with the help of another reporter to determine how short the new shortcut really is Each reporter drove a car to Just north of the NE 134th Street interchange Leaving at the same time and each driving at 55 miles per hour the two went in alternate directions One drove the new freeway south to the SR-14 interchange The other drove south on 1-5 into Vancouver and then east on SR-14 to the interchange with 1-205 Times and mileage were noted By MICHAEL PRAGER Colambiu Special Writer Now that Interstate 205 is open as far southas Jne Columbia River freeway drivers will find the northwestern reaches of Clark County closer to the southern and eastern end by about five minutes The new route opened Wednesday morning It Connects State Route 14 (the Camas Freeway) with Interstate 5 north of NE 134th Street A test run Wednesday by two Columbian motorists proved the new route can save plenty of time ana mileage -'Previously the northern portion of the new freeway had been open from NE 134th Street to NE 83rd Street the interchange near Five Comers north of Orchards Now the new expanse of concrete provides a straighter shot for This it One year after: rojan at peak White Christmas once in 50 years By BOB BURNETT Columbian Staff Writer One year ago today the Trojan nuclear power generation is the largest operating nuclear plant in the United States and tne second largest in the world Trojan's output of 1070000 iliary water pump that helps keep the reactor cool The number of incidents was termed "better than average" by an official of the kilowatts Is meeting about 45 per cent of Portland General Electric Co's energy load PGE owns 87W per cent of Trojan The Electric Board owns 30 per cent and Pacific Power Light Co owns the it snowed about four Inches Weikiesday right Four to six inches more are needed before the double chairlift can operate the message said Ray Foleen Bonneville Power istntiani ALLEN THOMAS ibtaa Staff Writer Southwest Washington averages a white Christmas about once every 50 years and 1978 won't be It a National weather Service spokesman Mid Thursday Dry weather and moderate temperatures will return to the Vancouver-Portland area for Christmas eve and Christmas Day the spokesman said Highs are expected In the 40s and 50s with lows in the upper 20s and low to middle 30s dunce of precipitation Is about 10 per cent for both days can't ten you when was the last time we had snow on Christmas but It happens only about once every 50 I think there have he Hid Hid Wednesday if the unusually dry condition persists Industries face 25 per cent reductions of the power they purchase directly from BPA The cutbacks could come Feb 15 the date several special power accounts between the companies and BPA expire Foleen Mid two-thirds of the Pacific Northwest snowfall comes after Jan 1 and that he Is not worried I lent near Rainier Ore1 generated its first lectridty Today the plant is operating at 100 per cent tape city producing twice as much power as Bonneville Dam The period in between has been fraught with ups and downs 'This week also marks the anniversary of the first electricity ever produced by nuclear energy 'Twenty five years ago Monday on Dec 20 1961 a nuclear fission reactor known as EBR-1 at the former Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho uced enough electricity to light four itbulbs oibert Young a reactor Inspector for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Walnut Creek Calif said Trojan first year was comparable to plants close to Trojan's size "They did not have any major Young said "Trojan went fairly smooth They had some problems but this is expected They were minor problems" Walt Pollock supervisor of energy systems programs for the Oregon Department of Energy which monitors Trojan agreed the plant nas been about average "I wouldn't want to try to give it a rating other than to say that after looking at a few other plants across the country TYojan's experience is about comparable" he said On the other hand Trojan in terms of power Nuclear Regulatory Commission Also in March PGE and Trojan became embroiled In a controversy over the failure of PGE officials to report to the press an unscheduled Trojan shutdown until six days after it had occurred By May 11 the plant had been shut down 15 times for mechanical and procedural problems On May 13 Trojan was brought up to 100 per cent capacity for the first time Nine days later the plant shut down for the summer its power unneeded Trojan had been shut down 34 times since that first surge of power PGE planned the fan startup for Aug 9 but that was delayed while the utility and the government haggled over pollution control standards regarding heat discharges into the Columbia River It finally started Sept 3 And it was shut down twice on Sept 3 one scheduled for testing and one "forced" shutdown because iff a low steam leveL Trojan was shut down from Oct 18 to Nov 12 for repairs of a troublesome ground on the plant's generator Pollock said Trojan has been shut down 45 times during the past year He raid 28 iff the shutdowns were caused by something other than a schedule but not necessarily an emergency The lari shutdown was Dec 8 Trojan has been running smoothly at full capacity since then remaining 2fe per cent They share Trojan's power according to ownenhip Since the first electricity was generated by Trojan on Dec 23 1975 the plant has had 68 "reportable under Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations said Bruce 'Landrey a PGE spokesman Landrey said the "most severe" incident occurred last Oct 28 when a pair til motor-operated valves on the coding system frilled to operate properly The plant was not In operation at the time and a backup system went into operation Immediately he Mia Trojan's reactor was first put into operation on Dec 15 1975 Eight days later It generated its first electricity Required startup testing continued the rest of the winter and spring On Feb 18 Trojan was brought up to half about 453000 kilowatts By Feb 18 there been nine Incidents at the plant which Plain Superintendent Charles Goodwin Jr termed Mast of the incidents were problems in the control system Two incidents involved failure of access doors to close and lock automatically while nuclear fuel was being loaded By March 14 there had been 19 reportable incidents many involving a troublesome aux been two in the pas He Hid about si luminum companies have a firm commitment from BPA to supply three-quarters of their energy needs One-quarter of their energy needs falls under an arrangement" whereby BPA can shut off one-quarter iff the energy It supplies to industry if shortages occur or threaten Jack- Mullen a spokesman for Alcoa in Vancouver said the corn- st 100 years" six of the white stuff fen at Timberline Lodge on ML Hood Wednesday night and about two inches were reputed at the passes through the Cascade Mountains Rae Smith of Timberline Lodge Hid the six inches iff snow there brings the total to eight inches "We need two to three feet of snow to really get going" she said Timberline Lodge has a permanent snowfield so skiing is possible she added But there is not enough snow for skiing at Multopor Ski Bowl at the base of Mt Hood recorded snow conditions report said commitments and is not about to push the panic button Mullen said can be purchased out of Canada or other locations if BPA does not have enough Provisional power costs siffiificantly more he Mid I -j 4 V- A 't Vi i 0 County commissioners Protests block subdivision plan 5 A request to split a half-acre lot in a subdivision was denied by the Clark County commissioners Wednesday after neighbors protested Rossi ter Glenn Co represented by Rex Pruitt asked permission to divide the lot in the older MacDonald subdivision on the northwest corner of Birton Rond and NE 98th Avenue Pruitt said the company planned to build two houses on the lot He said the value of the planned homes exceeded the values of all the other houses in the area and would not reduce the value About 15 residents of the neighborhood attended the meeting to oppose the project even though lots had been split in the subdivision previously In other businen Wednesday: JUVENILE BUDGET INCREASED: Commissioners ap- rred a 814010 emergency increase the 1978 Juvenile Department budget Director Bob Axlund trid the commissioners of substantial increases in the- number of juvenile detentions vandalism and building deterioration The budget in 1976 originally was 1351306 with an additional special subsidy of 967290 Axlund nld 1689 juveniles were detained in 1975 but as of Dec 8 1978 2342 juveniles spent time in detention facilities Meals served tom from 13349 in 1975 to 17831 In 1976 which imxMKd costs debate reduction in per-meal costs from 42 cents in 1975 to 40 cents in 1978 he said Clothing bedding and ward damages were considerably higher than anticipated due to fire and other malicious destruction iff ward areas and property caused by juveniles In detention Axlund told the board know how many mattresses we had to throw away bMause the kids got matches in he said Smuggled matches were used to bum the few flammabtes within the detention cells Axlund Mid part of the budget Increase was required became of higher utility and other operating costs higher Insurance premiums and car and building repairs sv fr fi -J JvVTa I -V -u -i s'-w 4 1 I iW phW tif Jsny CsuSm Spider spins invisible web Silver strands of a spider's web spun against an overcast sky become Invisible to the eye This spider stands guard over his transparent home and a solitary water drop I i.