1940-10-24 City Power Unit Veteran Throws Switch Bringing in Bonneville Power
Bonneville Power Sent Throbbing Over Lines at Early Morning Hour.

At exactly 12.03.47 a.m. last Saturday morning, Walter Link, veteran member of the McMinnville city water and light commission, threw at the municipal power house which sent Bonneville-generated power out over the city electric system. Link is shown above at the moment he threw the switch. Others discernable in the picture (left to right) are Bonneville Engineer C. Schultz; Link; Gilbert Tilbury, commission member; Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville-Grand Coulee Power administrator; Dr. H. L. Toney, commission member, and Mayor R. H. Windishar.