Flood Fighters Stay Ahead of Swollen
Des Moines River at All Major Sites
Boy 6, Has a Way With Women
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)
Michael O'Malley, 6. told his girl
chum, "Come on. Let's go over
to, our house and play."
"Can't. My mother won't let)
me cross the street," the little I
girl said. I
"Let me handle it," said Mike.
"Women go for me."
He entered the house and re
turned in a few minutes. The lit
tle girl's mother opened the door.
"Okay, you can go," she said.
Statesman, Salem, Or:. Friday, J una 25, 1954 -(Sac 1) 3
DES MOINES (JP Flood fighters
stayed ahead of the swollen waters
of the Des Moines River on all
major fronts Thursday night as a
record crest of just over 30 feet
surged through the city.
"We have every reason to believe
we shall be able to ride out the
flood but we can't let down until
this crest drops several feet," said
City Manager Leonard Howell.
After reaching an apparent peak
of 30.18 feet at 7 a.m. tCST) the
river held almost steady tor hours
The crest was far higher than the
25.5-foot peak reached in the 197
flood when a major levee broke
As the peak flood rolled south
ward it spread over thousands of
acres of bottom land, causing new
damage. In a single area near Run
nels, a few miles below Des Moines
the river spread across about 30
farms.
Far downstream the city of Ot
tumwa. last major point before the
Des Moines joins the Mississippi,
ffrded for high waters over the
weekend. A crest of 16'i feet to 17
feet is due in Ottumwa Sunday-
night but officials there said they
were confident their defenses could
handle such a flood.
In 1947, due to heavy rains be
low Des Moines. Ottumwa had 10,
000 homeless when the river rose
to 20 feet.
Des Moines flood officials said a
major victory was the apparently
successful effort to keep water out
of a large area of the East Side
business district. The main busi
ness district on the West Side was
not threatened.
Most of the 7.500 Des Moines
flood evacuees will have to remain
away from their homes another
night. The waters will remain
above the 23-foot flood stage until
Saturday. There had been no loss
ot life. Most evacuations were pre
cautionary but some 300 homes in
the general Des Moines area were
flooded.
Col. Nelson LeClair Jr., district
Army Engineer at Rock Island. 111.
estimated flood damage in the Des
Moines, Cedar and Iowa water-
Cat Used as Fire Alarm
CLAYTON, N. Y. ( AP) A
gray and white cat named Mugg?
sy has seven toes on each foot
and be makes good use of -them.
When an electrical storm
knocked down a high-tension,
wire outside the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Baker, Muggsy's
owners, the cat clawed at the
blankets of Mrs. Baker's bed un
til she woke, saw sparks show
ering about the house and noti
fied the power company.
The next night Muggsy again
woke Mrs. Baker when a ware
house fire became visible from
the bedroom window. Police said
her phone call was their first
word on the blare.
CLASS DISMISSED
DES MOINES (AP) "What,"
asked sixth grade Teacher Har
riet Scanlan, "is an autobiogra
phy?" "An autobiography," re
plied Pupil Gary Loveless, "is
the life story of an automobile."
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