The Weather FORECAST (from V. 8. weather burctu. McNary field, Salrmi? Moitly cloudy today. tonight tni Monday morning, bcrominc partly unny Monday afternoon. Chance of few fhoweri this afternoon and eve. runs. Hth today and Monday 71. Low tonight 4a. Temperature at 1141 a. an. today t aa to. SAl.IM miCIPITATlOM einre start af Weatker Vear Sept I Tali Vear Lax Vear Normal MJ1 i KM HJS mDCED3 FOUNDED 1651 The Senate-House Joint commit tee on atomic energy is still wres tling with the problem of how to encourage development of peaceful uses of this energy. Senator Gore wants to have the government , fi nance and operate six bis atomic power plants in this country. Sen ator Pastore of Rhode Island wants legislation to encourageprtvatetie legislation to encourage private de velopment of such power source. Last week Robert McKinney, San ta Fe publisher who headed up a vanel set up by the joint com mittee to study this very problem, testified in favor of a plan by which the united States would help build at least seven atomic power Slants in foreign countries where power sources now are lacking. In this country where fuel for thermal plants is abundant and where there still are sites for eco nomical power from falling water atomic energy plants are not very practical, in VcKinney's opinion. They just would not pay for them selves. In a number ol other coun tries, however, the nuclear plants would be more nearly competitive. He proposed that the I'nited States spend SSjO.OOO.noo on such a for eign program over a live-year term with the condition that the coun- (Continued on editorial pace, 4.) Croup Named To Study WU ROTC Future A five man committee to study the merits of Willamette I'nivet sity's compulsory Air Reserve Training program was appointed Saturday at the annual meeting of the school's board of trustees. The committee's report, which probably will not be given until next February, may determine whether the reserve program will be continued on a compulsory basis Air reserve training has been a regular part of the univer sity curriculum for the past six years. Trustees appointed the com mittee on the heels of a request by the Oregon Methodist Confer ence Friday that the university discontinue etmtpulsof y features ol the AKOTC program The Methodist Church has Ions taken a stand against compulsory mili tary training Board members also created a special committee authorized to study the continued needs of the university, with particular emph asis placed on providing dormir trv space fur men students An optimistic report on the past year's activities was given trustees by President (i. Herbert Smith, who said Willamette's ed ucational record was particularly outstanding, with 23 graduates receiving scholarships or fellow ships lor advanced studv This was the largest number of such awards for any class to date. .Smith said The president also announced gifts and donations totaling $.121 000 during the past vear. with possibly more than S200.IHK) still to come through a Ford Founda tion grant Ncjro Named Principal of Seattle School SKATTLK - Harrison Cald well, a negro who was a lormer Topeka. Kans., Board o( Kduca tion employee, h.is been named principal of a Seattle eleiiu nlary school in a predominant lv while neighborhood. The choice ol Caldwell, who ha been with the Seattle s hol ss tcm for the past two years, is the first time here that a Negro has been selected as a principal. The nomination was announced Saturday by Supt Samuel K. Fleming. His appointment by the school board at its next meeting is considered to he only a (or niality. Fleming said the appointment "came as a matter ol routine. Vie in the Seattle Public School administration are not interested in race " Caldwell, in his early 40s, has been v ice principal at the s hool and Fleming said "the parents ol the community liked Mr. Cald well." Bomb Bursts In Cathedral WASHINGTON' .P A home made bomb exploded Saturday night in the Washington Cathedral w hile approximately I Son people were attending a concert hut no one was injured The explosion was In a haleony iver the soulh transept about Wl fret above the main floor The balcony was not occupied The Very Rev , Francis R Sayre ,lr . Dean of the Kpisocal Cathe dral, said the blast may have been the work of youthful prank sters. The Weather Mux. Mln. Prrp 17 ti M Silrm Pnrtlind pkrr Mrdlord North Bnd pmwhurl San rfnrl!io I.01 Anflrs Chlef 71 IS M SI m 48 40 4A trace on on trarr iifl on tmre 4!) 44 .11 S 4 0 Jtew York 1,21 Ulamelftc Rivrr 2 feet. 106th Year Hood Global Theme SILVERTON-'Thildrea of the World" caught the Judges' ryes for verton Pet Parade held Saturday. This erouo comoeted ifiinsl the parade, according to Frank year by the American Legion. Linda and Janet Weiss, as Mexico and India, arid Richard Bergerson as China. (Picture also on page 23. see. 4) (Statesman phole by Harold l.arion) Tito Declares Red Nations Will Never Again Be Split (Picture on MOSCOW P President Tito of Yugoslavia, arriving for a tri - j umphal stale visit, declared Saturday the Communist nations would! mver again be split as they were when the Kremlin tosesd Tito aside! in 1118. Tito, resplendent In his gold braided marshal's uniform and with cheers of thousands n( Russians ringing in his ears, said in a speech broadcast from gaily decorated K ii v -ky railroad station The spirit o( Lenin's principles ol collective leadership are such that 1 am sure there never again will he misunderstanding among the nations of the Socialist ' Com munist camp.'' Standing beside Tito in brilliant late altcrnoon sunshine a he spoke were Premier Nikolai Rul gamn. I'ninmunist party chief Nikita Khrushchev, and President Klementi oroshilov New rorrifin Minister Others included newly appointed Korein Minister Dmitri Shepilov and the veteran old Bolshevik he succeeded, v .M Molotov. the business district. Tito came to Moscow to patch; Fatally injured when the weak up what differences remain be-1 ened first floor of a shoe store col tweTn him and the present Soviet lapsed into the basement was leadership There was wide be- Cap! Leonard W Doyle He was leif that Friday night's naming of pinned under a heavy safe and Shepilov. a friend o' Tito, as for- hydraulic jacks had to be used cicn minister, had been timed to to free him. Doyk was pronounced coincide with the arrival of Tito.ldead on arrival iit a hospital. wno nas nine inve ior .viokmov. me maze apparently started in , known Hersholt only as the be Bi? Welcome ihe basement of the shoe store! loved Dr. Christian. But his suc- riioiisands turned nut to kivc am; spread to Ihe basements of cess as thhe villlan with Mary Pick Tito the biggest welcome Moscow two adjoining stores. Flames I ford in "Tess of the Storm Coun- hatl seen since the arrival ol in- di.in Prime Minister Nehru last vear The event .ive loreign diplo mats in Ihe Soviet capital a chance to congratulate Shepilov on his ap pointment as loreign minister. Anions those who offered con cratulalions was Charles E Boh len. Ihe I S ambassador Pravda. the Communist party newspaper, itavo little spate to the news that its editor. Shepilov.. UMATILLA, Fla. i A small had become foreign minister A boat, crowded with picnickerst two paragraph item at the bottom j sank in nearby Lake Dorr Satur of the last colnmn on the last day and 10 of the 11 ocrnpants page told of Molotov's resigna tion and Shepilov's appointment. More Clouds On Forecast More clouds are forecast for today, loniiiht and Monday morn inc but it mav become partly simnv Mondav afternoon, accord inu to Ihe McNary Field weath erman Salem area mav receive a few showeis this afternoon and evc n m it High today and Mondav is ex pected to be 75. the low tonight 48 Northern Oregon beaches will probably be mostlv cloudy today with scattered showers in the afternoon Predicted hich is 55 to 60. low 4fi to 53 Hilly Graham to i si h ilL l-iiKtiii-i FM'll JklclllOlllcl mi Oklahoma Gaiupaiiin Today 11 OKLAHOMA CITY Kvan-i energy utilization solar energy." in various parts of the country, gelist Billly Graham opens Daryl Chapin, an electrical engi-i The two scientists backed up But they cautioned their audience, month-long crusade here Sunday neer. and Gerald Pearson, a physi- their comments with several dem- against building dreams of saving ' which is expected to attract almost cist, were among the principal onstrations using the Bell solar electric bills for the time being a half million persons from speakers at Willamette's annual battery, a plastic covered object "It would cost more than a mil throughout Oklahoma and neieh Alumni Day celebration Saturday about the size of a cigarette case linn dollars to purchase ennuch boring slat ev They are members of the three-1 containing sun-catching eyes made solar batteries to generate five More than 400 churches are co- man team at Bell Telepfione re- from silicon, which is found every- kilowatts of electricity," Pearson operating in the local crusade, 'search laboratories that developed , where in the farm of corrjmon sand. . said. J 5 SECTIONS-32 PAGES - Threaflened Wins Silverton . Is it M. Powell, parade chairman. This Pip! From left to right are Sheila Bergerson representing Miss America Wirrphnto Page Spokane Fire Captain Dies; Seven Injured SPOKANK f - A fire captain was killed, an estimated seven liremen injured and at least 10 others overcome hv smoke Satur- day night during the battle against j a stubborn blaze in the heart of worked up between shop parti-1 tions and spread the fire to the first and second floors of the building Picnic Boat Sinks, 10 Die drowned Six were small child ren Noel K. Griffin Jr., Lake Coun ty deputy sheriff, said witnessei reported the back of the 11 4 font boat with a small outboard motor started going under when the boat was about 125 yards nut. Physicists Envision Sun -Driven Autos, Cost-Free House Heating By CALVIN D. JOHNSON I the first successful solar battery,! Alternating between an ordinary Staff Writer, The Statesman which converts the sun's rays into san lamp and natural light from Visions of driving to a service electricity the classroom window. Chapin and station to have the family car "The amount of solor energy Pearson hooked up their solor bat- lilled with about 3,500 kilowatts of , reaching the earth is more than tery to various electrical instru-l solar energy were conjectured humans will ever be able to use." ments. At one point they trans-j Saturday during an Alumni Day Chapin said, adding that every 48 formed the lamp's rays into elec lecture at Willamette University. hours more solor energy is avail-; rrical energy sufficient to power a Or better yet, a house that never ablp ,n carthlings than all that public address system, and to play gels a heating bill, or aircraft that could be gotten from known coal, a recording of W illamete s Alma 1 ran fly on and on with only me- Dl1 an(1 2as resources. Mater. (hanical breakdown forcing them we have to do is learn how n anolher demonstration the an-' back to earth. 0 take advantage of it." Chapin dience of 200 heard a portion ol a All this, and parctically anything sa'd baseball game whon Pearson point imaginable, will eventually come, At the present stage of technical ed the tiny battery skyward at a s m"n cunlinues 10 ueveiop nis development solor energy is deli- mnst abundant form of energy. thenilely for small power use," Pear- sun. accoruing 10 iwo vuiameueSon explained. However, tie was graduates already famous for their! certain that "in the near future i contributions in the field of solor Parade Prize the grand rise at the annual Sil 489 other veuncstert who entered is an annual event sponsored each Jean Hersholt, ;Movi Radio Actor, Dies ( Picture on Wirephote Page) HOLLYWOOD - Actor Jean Hersholt. the kindly Dr. Christian of movies and radio, died of can - cer Saturday after a year long siege of operations and illnesses. Had he lived until would have been 70. July 12. he , The onetime Danish immigrant. 50 years an actor, had received in h.s lifetime such honors as knighthood from his native land; twe special movie Oscars, honor- ary degrees from four American colleges and, only last month, one of the biggest civic testimonials in Hollywood history With him at death was his wife, v ia- 10 whom r'e3 2 years he had been mar-. Hersholt s philanthropies earned him the love and respect of the film industry Hersholt was a founder of the Motion Picture Country D a v Home and. for IB years, headed ' the relief fund which took care of ' needy actors in their old age. The world, in recent vears. had try" made him one of the most i sought-after heavies ol the silent' movies His better known films includ ed "Abie's Irish Rose." "Greed.' "Stella Dallas." Grand Hotel and "The Country Doctor " er. and Mrs VVeiuel. of 3475 In the latter, he played the part Crestview I)r were visited by all of Dr. Alan Dafoe, who delivered 25 of their sons, daughters, sons the tamed Dionne quintuplets. in-law and daughters-in-law. as From that characterization well as their 22 grandchildren, evolved the Dr Christian series ' during the first complete family which Hersholt performed for is reunion since 1942. years on radio. 52 weeks a year. The relatives gathered to cele for the same sponsor a radio rec-1 nra,e the marriage of Harriet ord I Weigel to Richard Pardise, which left only three of the 14 Weigel DITCH C LAIMS TOT I children still to be wed NYSSA. Ore. David Allen Kora, tnree-year-old twin son of Mr. ana Mrs. laka Kora. drowned Friday in an irrigation ditch 25 miles south of here., small motors will be operated with The Oregon Statesman, Jets McNary Field to Face Heavy Burden if Columbia Forces Transfer of Airliners Tlanes landing or taking off every five minutes of the day' and night, limousines shuttling in a veritable stream to Portland such appeared a possibility to day for Salem's McNary Field It was all up to the Columbia River. United Air Lines already has made preparations to transfer its operations from Portland's Inter national Airport in event flood waters become an imminent threat, it was disclosed, and Western Air and Northwest Air lines were reported making simi lar plans. Pan American, Alaska Airlines. Pacific Northwest and Flying Tiger faced similar deci sions. It was estimated a general movement of UAL, Western Air and Northwest would mean near ly three times the activity of 1948 when upwards of 100 flights daily were cared for at McNaryl neio alter the disastrous Memor ial Day flood which brought death and destruction to Van port. Doubts Expressed A check at the field Saturday showed it better able to accom modate the tremendous influx of equipment and personnel than ! eight years ago, except in respect to the soft asphalt runwavs. Thfrc was doubts expressed that they would hold up under the multi-ton DC7s and other giants now in use. But its instrument landing system is considerably improved and high - intensity lights have been installed on its runways. Ramp space would be at a pre mium, and airlines other than UAL, which occupies leased quarters In the city's airport ad ministration building, would be hard put for Office and opera tional space. UAL's space is sev eral times that of the tinyhuild- ng it used in 1948 when a huge fn w" nlst,,Jr brought into use : and slin dlrtn,t Provide sufficient , room- ' Equipment Tagged ! UAL's preparations for a possi ble move already have included the installation of an antennae for a ramn.l r-nf f itt trallrip-tallrip (o speed operations, it was dis- closcd was understood, too. tnat nv Saturday even- piece of UAL equipment in Portland ( bag- gage carls, fork ii(ls, gasoline : tnlcks. etc.) had been tagged so that in event of a quick order it ruld be known which should be dispatched to Salem immedi- ately. Plans were afoot, too, to assure delivery here of tank cars of spe- rial high-octane gasoline needed nv larger planes. Other gasoline would be obtainable through the 25.000-gallnn tank maintained at Salem Family Reunion Fills Whole House A foil Salem housebuilder bad a house Saturday, hut not in a poker t;ame . although he did lose a daughter. Charles W'eigel, a housebuild- sacm arcai where they have been .viost oi me reiauves live in ine gince 1939 wnen the family moved , here from Havs. Kan. Two of the day's visitors made the trip from 1 New York and Indiana. window to energize a portanle ra- dio from which dry cells had been removed. The inventors mentioned that solar batteries are now being sold Salem, Oregon, Sunday, June Evacuate - IPortauudl the airport by the Demers Hying Service. Runways Ample Air lines officials said the Sa- lem field's 5000-foot and 5Mr foot runways would be ample to accommodate all commercial planes now in use. UAL some time ago set up its own control tower atop the ad- 24 hours for the Civil Aeroriau- congestions at the saiem airport ministration building for com-, tics Authority to move its per- to which they would be brought munication direct with its central sonnel and portable facilities in limousines. North Portland Industrial Firms Flee Flood i ' " . f . 1 ' ."l H TlM '.s ri f.'ii"'.,'. iAf.f sf .T t . V';VV - v,'; ""1 V I "I "s s-W 4 X H , ' ' h .'S ' Portland Ore Trucks were ated in face of rising Columbia continued to rise, forcing closure of main downtown Morrison bridge across tne Mcsea up wuiana ette as well as flooding lowland industrial and farm areas. (AP Wlrephota). 500 Rebels Believed Dead, Captured in North Africa ALGIERS. Algeria P Two French divisions smashed through the "Gales of Iron'' triangle in Northeast Algeria. The French said thiy were already mopping up remnants of a big Algerian force trapped in the sunbaked gorges of. the Biban Mountains. Claiming its greatest victory in the Nationalist rebellion now more than l'j years old, the French army declared that its first esti mates put rebel casualties at 290 - killed and 110 captured. Thcl their French admitted losses of own hut gave no figures. Some dispatches estimated rebel toll would soar above in dead and captured when the 500; full 1 still ' reports are in from troops battling through the Biban gorges! southwest of Bougie i Smashed Rase The French said they had and smashed a major rebel base captured or destroyed important stocks of rebel equipment, includ ing some t'.S. military unilorms At one point they found two t'.S. Navy seabags stuffed with Ameri can field uniforms The French also said they had captured 200 pounds of explosives, two small outfits for making hand grenades, a uniform plant, more than a ton of guerrilla field ra tions, and stocks of small arms Airborne Troops Three companies of helicopter- borne troops hovered over hovered over the desolate battlefield and dropped men at critical points to support the attacking infant ry Artillery and fighter-bombers raked the rebel positions and left rebel dead strewn over the moun tainsides, dispatches said. Death Takos Willow Of Kiuitc Kockne SOUTH BFNIX Ind - Mrs Knute Kockne. widow of Notre Dame's lamed roach, (bed Satur day at St. .loseh's hospital No immediate funeral plans Were announced Today's Statesman Pago Sac. Classified 10-12 II Comet tha Dawn 4 I Comics 1-8 V Crossword 9 II Editorials 4 I Garden 18,19 III Home Panorama 13-17 III Obituaries 10 II Radio, TV . . 23 IV Sports 21, 22 IV Star Gazer 8 I Valley Newt 9 II Wirtphoto Paga 23 IV 3, 1956 control office in Seattle as well as with the navy facility and weather bureau at McNary Held and its planes in flight. It now also has three trunk rhone lines, romoared with one in 1948, and is on a direct hookup with all , its offices in the nation It was estimated it would take ft irij , - - 1 ' ' ' X ' s- ' I,. . 's ,.t v e-V -i a ' r . x busv ii the North Portland industrial area Saturday as firms evscn river waters. The river reached Tot Burned to Death in Crib NORTH BKND. Ore. isi-Danny Joe Fitzgerald, five months old was burned to death in his crib Saturday when (ire destroyed the home of his parents. Mr and Mrs Jerome Fitzgerald The fire started from a wood cookstove in the kitchen while Mrs. Fitzgerald was away visit ing a neighbor. She had to be forcibly restrained from entering the blazing house The Fitzgeralds have three other children, none of whom was in the house at the time. Tumble From Moving Car In iiii 1 ires jLihi Slalr,mn Nrn SrMlrr DALLAS. Ore A two year old Corvallis boy apparently escaped critical injuries when he toppled from his parents moving ear on the Dallas-Corvallis highway Sat urday morning. In Dallas Hospital with severe head and face lacerations and body bruises and abrasions is lit tle Billv Roberts, son of Mr and Mrs Billy Huberts Hospital attendants said the ac cident occurred when little Hilly aceidentallv grabbed the inside :car door handle, opening the 1 door Soviet Abolishes Cahinrt Posts LONDON f The Soviet I'n- ion moved Sundav lr slre. online 1 the government, abolishing three cabinet ministries and merging! ot hers. The ministries of Justice. In land Waterways and Ko.id Trans port have been abolished Moscow ' radio announced I Their (unctions have been irans j ferred to' ?he republics making up the Soviet Ijpioa. PRICE 10c from Portland to reactivate the field's main eoriirol tower which was closed several years ago. There was no official comment but it appeared UAL also was prepared o open an office oil the east side in Portland where passengers could check baggage and receive gate passes to reduce J H' ' -i ', ' its highest level sine 1MI lad Court Battle Fails to Slow Polk Highway DALLAS. Ore. The coming court fight over the Dolph Corner Rickrcall cutoff of the coast high way, which has been bitterly pro tested by some Polk County farm ers; is not apparent In the con struction work now in progress on the hiehway. Crews of Babler Bros., awarded the grading contract by the State ! Highway Commission, are rushing 'work on Ihe job. At present they are making cuts and fills, build ing culverts and laying tile. Meanwhile. Joe H.irland, lore most opponent of the project, said that his case for an injunction against the highway commission will be heard Wednesday. June 6, at in a. m. llarland lost the first round several months ago in Polk County Circuit Court but appealed to the State Supremo Court His (,.,,, ,11 k A ,AA k., Ik. ..... 1 p. in m 11 uiiiutu nv 1111- new road. "te The 13 or 14 other farmers with lands cut by Ihe diagonal highway have received no damages nor payments for rights of way. they report. (Story and pictures also on Valley pugp i, trr. II.) Ti it? res Lose Melon Loot Kate took an ironical twist for two watermelon thieves in Salem. G 0 Christofferson. operator of Chris' Market, 20W1 Market St . reported Saturday that two boys, about 12 or 1.1. took a 20 pound watermelon from his vegetable stand about 10 p m. Friday night. The hoys were observed mak ing their getaway on bievrles, po-' lice said Anout hall a block from 1 tne store they dropped the loot j NORTHWEST I.KAr.LT. I At Kuurrir II. Salem S At Wrnatchrr 7 Spokane A I.rwislnn -2. Tru-Cltv 4-3. pa( ini COAST LrCl'K -a-iiMl.. 3. I'orlUnd 4. wood 1. Srattit 4 I Al SJ, At ii,.! At San Dirgo Vl)n vbir 1 At San r'rani iscn 4 Los AnKflel 7 4.mi:rh av irc.rr At Italtm.nre-V',1' af ' ain A' no'1'"! 1 Kar.a ('v 11. A t York .Drtr,. ''. 'ir At W'ashir.jton 0. C Ireland IS. nation m. i r ;i r. At ( !1t tnnati 5 Sew York 2. A1 ( ht ago S-S, Brooklvn 1-4 At S' t nuU 4 PMIKflftplii . At Miiaufcct 2, I'lttsburlh , I f No. 61 Base Columbia Continues To Gimb 750 Move From Homes; 3 Lives Taken by Rivers PORTLAND (AtVUw 460th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, the major air de fense unit of tiie region, evacu atrd the Portland International Airport Saturday afternoon as tne flooding Columbia River inch ed up protective dikes. Sixteen of the squadron's all weather F-89D Scorpion twin jell left lor McChord Field In Wash ington. A number of C-1I9 flyiiw , tax cars, loaded with mechanics and parts, left later. National Guard Jets and troop carrier units were dispersinjt their planes on training trips. William Weiss, manager of tha . airport, said that commercial op erations would continue for tha present. "We'll try to ride thlnp out." Weiss said. May Divert to Salem Weiss said that should the situa tion change so the evacuation of the airport became necessary, McNary Field at Salem 'would serve as one of tie airlines' major alternate terminals. Meanwhile. Elmer Fisher, river forecaster, said that tha level of the Columbia ' at Vancouver. Wash., would rise one foot Sun day. That would put the river more than UV feet above flood- stage. This would back up tha Willamette at Portland to 28.1 feet, more than I feet above f load stage. Hlga aa Tuesday A continued rise ii expecter) thfough Tuesday with a gradual decline expected , the following day. Fisher said, however, that this did not mean the crest of the spring runoff sad. bee racfeasl as yet Major dikes were holding aloruT the lower river but some private dikes were beginning to weaken. - Jn critical areas at Rainier, Ore., and Kalama, Wash., there were no new developments and farmers at Rainier, who evacuated their fam ilies Friday, continued to mova their belongings. 730 Evaraste An estimated 750 persona had been evacuated by late Saturday from nearly a half doxen areas. mostly in rural districts. Another ISO persons were iso lated when a dike broke east of Rainier, cutting off the commu nity of Prescott. Twenty-nine families wen moved out of the Camas, Wash., area, and earlier some SO families had been moved from a Clark County rural area. Major Dikes Hold Some small dikes protecting rural areas had broken, but the Army Engineers, after a survey by helicopter, reported that ill major dikes wera holding and ap peared to tic in good shape. They said they expected no se rious trouble if the river does not go above the forecast level of J7 feet by Tuesday. They pointed out. however, that an additional foot above that mark could brinf a serious situation. The Salvation Army set up headquarters in the American Le gion Hall at Camas to feed dikt workers and others. A Salvation Army mobile canteen at Kelso, Wash., was alerted River traffic was operating at slow bell to keep swells from washing dikes First Deaths The first deaths in the wide spread floods were on record Sat urday Two deaths were reported in Idaho, another in British Columbia. Two youths were caught wjien a dam hurst in Southeastern Idaho j Friday j Body Recovered The Iwdy ol one. George Den nis Whitworth. 13. was recovered. His cousin (ierald Whitworth. al so n. still was missing. The Dry t Creek reservoir dam was 83 miles northwest of Idaho Falls. At Creston. B C . the flooding; Kootenay river indirectly was re sponsible for the death of a a- year old boy The boy. Barry drowned in an James Holm auto court septic tank after his family was forced to evacuate its home Army engineer troops were ordered to ihe Creston area to help protect the Kootenay Valley. To the south, in Idaho, whert the same river is spelled Kootenai, the town of Bonners Ferry still was threatened Near Top of Dikes On the middle Columbia the town of I'matilla. Ore , near the big McNary Dam, bolstered low spots in its dikes as the river lapped within inches of the top. Preparations were made to evacu ate M families But forecasters indicated that the ISJ feet there Saturdafwoijld be the high mark.