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1 EUQENE, OREGON
BEND BULLETIN
mi
State Forecast
OREGO N Considerable
cloudiness, scattered show
ers; little change in temper
i ature today, tonight and
Wednesday.
LEASED WIRE WORLD
NEWS COVERAGE
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIX
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1948
No. 2
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Truman Heads
For Montana;
Trouble Faced
President Spends Night
At Plushy Sun Valley;
Idaho Backs Candidate
Aboard Presidential - Special,
June 8 UP) -I- President Truman
headed for Montana and possible
trouble this afternoon after tour
ing southeastern Idaho and re
laxing from his western vote hunt
overnight at plushy Sun Valley.
When the president arrives in
Butte, Mont., this evening he is
likely to find it hot depending
on whether Democrats of the
rough, tough Treasure state feel
the same way about the presi
dent's tour as does their state
chairman, Lester Loble. -
Loble, in both telegrams and
statements, has expressed any
thing but joy over the way the
presidential tour through . the
west has been handled.
Not a Delegate
He is not a Democratic dele
. gate to the national convention.
Main point of Loble's depar
ture from the tood-will hoped for
in this western tour is his com
plaint that Democratic party
leaders won't be allowed to ride,
the presidential train through
Montana.
But, meanwhile, President Tru
man has been enjoying himself.
With the knowledge that Idaho
Democrats are "100 per cent" for
him, he spent the night last night
at famed Sun Valley lodge, the
lodge where movie stars, busi
ness magnates and anyone else
who can afford the price, go for
skiing in the winter and outdoor
sports of all kinds in the sum
mer. He did some skeet-shooting. .
visit mountains
After leaving Sun Valley and
its remote, mile-high mountain
peaks this morning, the presiden
tial party traveled by motorcade
through the eastern Idaho moun
tains to the farm and merchan
dising center of Idaho Falls. Thm,
were met in the street by crowds
of people eager to see the presi
dent and his party. The motor
cade travelled through the main
streets in parade form.
The presidential train was wait,
ing for the party at Idaho Falls.
It had been left at Ketchum,
Ida., railhead of the Union Pacific
near Sun Valley, and returned
during the night to Pocatello, and
then from Pocatello up to Idaho
Falls.
Locksmith Held
On Entry Charge
Paul R. Henderson, 1367 East
Second street, a locksmith in
Bend for many years, was arrest
ed by city police early this morn
ing on a charge of breaking into
the Eagles lodge building on Wall
street.
Two men getting into their car
m the parking lot at the rear of
the lodge hall saw a man leave a
rear second story window of the
lodge building and called the of
ficers. As the officers drove into
the alley from Minnesota avenue,
Henderson dropped from the roof
of the Top Notch cafe and was
placed under arrest.
Cache Found -
Officers went on the roof In
the rear of the Eagles buildine
and found a punch, brace and bit,
screwdriver and axe and a flash
light hidden there. Henderson ad
mitted to . officers the articles
were his.
. He told officers he had lost
H0 In slot machines at the
tagles club yesterday.
Henderson operated a lock
smith s shop at 112 Minnesota av
enue until last year when the
hphier building was sold. Since
hat time he had done locksmith's
work at 1367 East Second. .
He is being held In the county
jail on a charge of attempted bur
Rlary, the sheriff's office said.
Swalley Directors
Hold Conference
A regular monthly meeting of
'ne board of directors of the Des
cnutes Reclamation Irrigation
mpany was held last night In
tie Bend Dairy office.
It was voted to send letters to
stockholders of the company
fcnu0' ,neir opinions on the possi
bility of changing from a com
pany to an Irrigation district.
vvater use on the district has
light for the past several
weeks due to continued rain, it
s reported.
Present at the meeting were
J;iarence Boyd, president; George
J-Mielt and George Cllne, direc
;ors; Leonard Ttiipav Hitphriitpr:
". vmn wonser, secretary, and
JJitrtct,11' F,Cy' a,,orney Xor tn0
Mm. . - '
Water Pageant Preparations
Launched; Candidates Named
Six Girls Vie for Role of Queen; Material
Being Assembled for Construction of Arch
Preparations for the 1948 Bend water pageant moved into
high gear today with the announcement of the six candidates
for pageant queen and plans for the start of construction
work on Mirror pond where the huge arch will form the cen
ter of the Fourth of July fete.
The six queen candidates are Georgia Blinn, Peggy Bush
ong, June Clark, Joan Dugan, Beverly Ernst and Bonny
Hachtel. Under the direction of Ernest Traxler," queen com-
Vanport Clothing
Needs Satisfied,
Center Reports
Emergency clothing needs of
victims of the Columbia river
flood are well taken care of, ac
cording to Mrs. Ted Mark, presi
dent of the local Legion auxil
iary post, who visited the George
White veterans center in Port
land the past week end.
Bend's contribution to the big
supply of clothing was 4,506 ar
ticles collected last weeK in a
drive sponsored by the Legion
auxiliary, -
The clothing was collected in
the lobby of the Pacific Power
and Light company on ' Wall
street. Legion and auxiliary
members packed the articles for
shipment and the boxes were
trucked to Portland by the Bend-
Portland Truck service. .
' Aides Listed
Assisting with the collection
and packing were Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Green. Mr. and Mrs. William
C. Fickas, Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Mark, Mrs. Owen Ballew, Mrs.
Adam Repnock, Mrs. Lynn Kribs,
Mrs. Frank May, William AtLee,
J. A. Walker, W. C. Coyner, Hans
Rovelstad, Mrs. Stella Pearl
Runge and BUI Mark.
Additional calls . for clothing
will be made if more is necessary,
Mrs. Mark learned at Portland.
Relief activities of all veterans
organizations in the state centetf
at the George White .building in
Truck Loaded
With Powder
In Explosion
Spokane, Wash., June 8 UF -A
truck loaded with dynamite dis
integrated in a terrific explosion
today near Marshal, 10 miles
southwest of here, blasting the
driver to bits.
Victim of the explosion, which
rocked Spokane and the sur
rounding countryside, was be
lieved to be Leon Orlard of Mar
shall, who was hauling the dyna
mite to or from nis powder mag
azine near town.
State patrolmen said they could
find no remains of the body
"larger than a postage stamp."
Largest part of the truck found
was half the engine. .
Force of the explosion caused
birds flying overhead to drop like
flies, patrolmen said. Cause of
the explosion was not known.
OPERATORS SEEK TIME
Washington, June 8 IU Soft
coal operators today asked more
time to answer John L. Lewis'
new welfare and pension de
mands.
TO ENLIST ALIENS
Washington, June 8 ilPi The
senate voted today to let the arm
ed services enlist 25,000 aliens.
Bend Aids Flood Sufferers
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Clothing valued at more ihan $6,700 was received at the George
White veterans center at Portland yesterday as a contribution from
the oeople of Bend to flood sufferers In the Columbia river area.
Above are the members of th local Legion auxiliary labeling the
cartons before shipment to Portland. Applying labels are Mrs.
Owen Ballew auxiliary rehabilitation chairman, and Mrs. Ed
Green, child welfare chairman. Mrs. Ted Mark, auxiliary president,
is at the right)
'mittee chairman, they are
starting their work today of
selling 1948 water pageant
buttons.
In the weeks between now
and the celebration the girls
will handle sales of the but
tons, which are to provide ad
mission to the water carnival on
Saturday afternoon, July 3, and
tickets for the water pageant, air
show and celebration dances.
Points will be given for sales and
at a coronation ball preceding the
celebration the queen of the 1948
water pageant will be announced.
Material Assembled
Assembling of material at Pag
eant park and at Harmon play
field near the west end of the
Drake park footbridge is now un
der way in preparation for con
struction activities to start this
week end.
On Saturday, water In Mirror
pond will be lowered several feet
while work is done on the two
piers that will support the pag
eant arch. Several hundred 12 by
12 inch timbers are being hauled
to Harmon lied "Tor use in the
new boom which will guide floats
down the pond from the arch. Old
sections of the boom, in use for
many years, will be taken down
stream and used to anchor floats
between the two nights of the
show, July 3 and 4.
Walter G. Peak, chairman of
the pageant committee, said con
struction of the arch will prob
ably get under way next week,
with a completion deadline set for
June 25. W., J. Coleman will assist
in work on the piers and J. R.
Ross will handle arch construc
tion. Baer Heads Show 7-
Assembling the new boom will
be supervised by George P. Gove
with -a crew working under, the
direction of Merle Sleeper.
W. J. Baer, president of the
Bend Water Pageant and Rodeo
association, is head of the 1948
show.
Farms May Get
Flood Evacuees
A number of evacuees from
flooded Vanport will be available
as agricultural workers in Cen
tral Oregon if housing can be
arranged, it was announced to
day from the Bend office of the
state employment service. The
office has been requested to make.
an immediate survey in the mid
state area to determine the num
ber of people' who could be ac.
commodated, and number and
type of housing units. The infor-.
mation should be reported to the
employment office in the court
house building not later than Fri
day, June 9, it was announced.
Persons reporting housing are
asked to give information as fol
lows: 1) Number of housing units;
2) on-farm housing or camp
housing; 3) type of unit, such as
apartment, cabin, tent, .etc.; 4)
size of family that can be housed
per unit; 5) facilities furnished
per unit, such as beds, mattresses,
stoves, dishes, cooking utensils,
lights, water, etc.
Arabs Prepare
Quick Answer!
To Peace
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Egyptian Plane Strikes
Tel Aviv as Leaders i ,
Ponder Palestine Truce ;i
Tel Aviv, 'June 8 ilPi Egyptian
planes bombed Tel Aviv yester
day in several hit-run raids in
which at least a score of persons
were killed or wounded.' . ;
Cairo, June 8 (IPi Arab lead
ers discussed Count Folke Berna
dotte's plan for a truce in Pales-'
tine for two hours today and pre
pared to draft their answer, to
night. After the meeting of the dele
gates, of all. seven Arab league
states, they forwarded an up-to-the-minute
report to their gov
ernments, i
Abdul Rahman Azzam ' Pasha,
secretary general of the Arab
league, said the league's politi
cal committee would meet tonight
to draft the answer to Bernadotte,
United Nations mediator. He said
the drafting might be completed
at the single meeting. . , ;
Party Is Neutral ;
A ranking member ofrBerna
dotte's mediation party, - com;
menting on Russia's desire to
send military observers to Pales
tine, said the party was neutral,
"steering clear of all United Na
tions cross currents."
He said 'any measures adopted
by Bernadotte would be based on
actual requirements of the situa,
tion and none other.
Only the nucleus of the observ
er setup has been formed. so far,
the informant said. If a truce is
effected, more observers would
be required. In that case, he
said, Bernadotte would pick the
numbers and countries from
which they would be drawn, mak
ing the selections on a basis of
strict neutrality. . (
Will Deliver Answer '
; Egyptian Premier Mahmoud
Fammy Nokrashy Pasha said'
that the. Arab answer will be di
Ipj
liver? tomorrow-morniftgt .' it
was presumed the Jewish answer
would be delivered to Bernadotte
at the same time. .
Bernadotte has not made his
proposals public, but it was un
derstood he had demanded a
straightforward yes or no answer
to a compromise he had worked
out on the major issues of Jewish
immigration and supplying the
iuu.uuu jews in Jerusalem.
Jewish Immigrants will he sn.
pervised by a truce commission
to make sure they do not enter
the Israeli army, it was under
stood, ana tne Red Cross will pro-,
vide 28 days rations for the Jew-
isn community of Jerusalem.
Early Day History
Of Region Traced
"Early Central Oreeon Histnrv"
was the topic of Don H. Peoples,
speaker at today's luncheon meet
ing oi tne Bend Lions club in the
Pine tavern. Tom Bolton was
program chairman.
Peoples told the clubmen that
Interest in the midstate country
started in the 1860's, when cat
tie were drivpn thrmmh k
from western Oregon to markets
in ioano. in 1870, he added, Tom
Geer settled on the first hnmo.
stead, followed by John Y. Todd,
wnu iook over the Geer claim
The history of Bend's postof
fice; Peoples added, reaches back
to 1886, with several changes in
location later. In 1900, A. M
Drake arrived here
wagon, seeking health, and later
founded Bend, the speaker said.
Later development in the region,
including the coming of railroads
iu dl-iiu in laii, was discussed
A committee consisting of
Rev. Len Flshhnnlr I m.i.
. i uian
ley and John Wetle, was appoint
ed to investigate the possibility
of the Lions club entering a float
in me juiy Mirror pond
geant. '
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Truman's Train
To Stop in Salem
Salem, June 8 UIi Prpslilnnt
Harry Truman's special train will
stop here about five minutes Fri
day afternoon and four state
Democratic leaders are scheduled
to go aboard for a discussion.
President Truman's plans do
not call for a rear platform ap
pearance here. The nresidcntlnt
special will pull in about 4:20
p. m. and former Gov. Walter
Pierce, Roy Hewitt, Salem attor
ney and convention delegate;
Ronald Jones, Oregon Farmers'
union president. .Bnrf Mnnmo
Sweetland, Newport publisher
and state committeeman-elect,
are scheduled to go aboard.
earner tne president will ar
rive at Salem almort from Mr.
Chord field en route to Portland,
Pan
Cygnets Appear
EST VJ-
Hatched in a nest in the tules just below the Tumalo avenue bridge,
first Mirror pond cygnets of the 1948 season are on parade this
week. Four emerged from the tule nest, and they are pictured here
with their proud mother.
$500,000 Explosion Wrecks
Club House, Kills 1 Occupant
' Golf Quarters In Los Angeles Area Is Scene
Of Terrific Biast and Fire; Seven Are Hurt
L.os Angeles, June 8 ',U.E A $500,000 explosion, followed
by a three-alarm fire, blew the roof off the Hillcrest country
clubhouse today and demolished half the building.
One body was pulled from the debris. Firemen said it was
so badly burned identification was impossible.
The body was found two and a half hours after the blast,
when the embers had cooled sufficiently for a search to begin.
Six employes and one club member were hurt, one seriously.
a score of club employes
Detective Story
Writer Killed
. Philadelphia, June 8 tut A 43-year-old
woman mystery story
writer today was the victim of
a murder as gory as any of her
magazine detective thrillers.
The brutally battered, nude body
of Mrs, Katherlne Mellor, mother
of an 18-year-qld son now in the
navv. was found last - nieht
Uprawled, across her- plood-spat-
lereu rien.
Her husband, Charles, 47, a
former newspaper feature writ
er, told police he discovered the
body on returning to their fourth
iloor apartment irom work at a
dairy plant. Police immediately
took him into custody lor ques
tioning.
Mrs. Mellor wore only a pair
of. silk stockings, rolled down
near her ankles, police said,
around her neck was a gold chain
ana locKet.
Badly Battered
' Investigators said both eyes
were blackened and severe bruis
es marked her entire body. One
police spokesman said her assail
ant apparently battered her sav
agely with his fists and some
heavy instrument.
Mellor was employed as a clerk
since tne suspension of the Phila
delphia Record in February,
- Calling to his wife as he en
tered the apartment, he received
no answer. Mellor said he walk
ed into the bedroom and found
the body.
Skunk, Rooster
Ride Bale of Hay
Down Columbia
Rainier, June 8 (ll'i A skunk
and a rooster were sighted float
ing clown the flooded Columbia
river today aboard a bale of hay.
Witnesses from the shore said
the two passengers seemed to be'
getting along together fairly well
out that they looked hungry.
Grangers Hear
Talk by Odegard
Astoria, Ore., June 8 HP A
summons to grangers to continue
their long and historic fight for
the survival of the rights of the
individual was delivered here by
Dr. Peter Odegard, president of
Reed college, addressing the 75th
annual convention of Oregon
grangers meeting here today.
"It Is the farmers who have In
more instances than any other
group put into actual nractlce the
democratic principles In which
they believe," Dr. Odegard told
over 1000 grange delegates and a
like number of Astorlans last
night.
Grangers today were nominat
ing officers and holding business
sessions. The nominations were
expected to be completed by this
afternoon.
UOAns, TRAILS STUDIKD
Vern Church and Wilton Rob
erts, of the forest service regional
office at Portland, are spending
several days on the Deschutes na
tional forest studying road and
trail worki
on Mirror Pond
were on duty when the early
morning blast sent lockers
and debris flying 300 feet
through the air and jolting
golfers on the course.
Golf professional Olin Du
tra said the blast knocked him
down and sent him rolling 15
feet. He was headed for the main
building to open his golf shop
when the clubhouse "blew up In
my face."
Place Blows Apart '
"For the life of me, I don't
know what happened," he said.
"The whole place just blew apart
in my face." ;
, . .Club.. manager John Steinberg
estimated damage at $500,000. .
It was the second fire at Hill
crest. The wrecked building was put
up after a $140,000 lire on May 8,
1944, sent 350 movie notables and
businesmen scurrying from the
dinner table and ruined the old
clubhouse.
The blast destroyed the east
section and blew windows out of
the caddy house 100 feet away. A
piece of roof lay beside a clump
of trees.
Two lockers were blown out to
the 10th tee. and clothing was
scattered throughout the club
house court.
Central Oregon
Business Brisk
Bend is one of the business
leaders in Oregon at present, ac
cording to comparative figures
printed In the May issue of the
Oregon Business Review, pub
lished by the school of business
administration at the University
of Oregon.
In the percentage of Increase In
bank debts In Marcn, lais, com
nared with March. 1947, the Cen
tral Oregon area, including Bend,
Redmond and Prlnevlile, led the
entire state. The Increase was
46.5 per cent, from $9,790,446 In
March, 1947, to $i4,34j,iy8 in
March, 1948.
In March. 1948, building per
mits Bend led nearly all other
cities of its size In the state with
a total of $132,270. This amount
of construction nut Bend ahead
of Astoria, Baker, Corvallls, Coos
Bay, La Grande and Oregon city.
Druggist Victor
In Iowa Vote
Des Moines, la., June 8 nil
State representative William
Beardsley, a 47-year-old druggist,
won the republican nomination
for governor of lowa today, scor
ing an upset victory over C.ov.
Robert Blue, who was fighling
for a third term.
Blue conceded defeat before
half the returns were reported.
Latest returns from 2,100 of
the slate's 2,469 precincts gave
Beardsley 159,055 votes to 107,011
for Blue.
Aquatic Burglars
Fail in Theft Try
Portland, Ore., June 8 (Hi Two
robbers rowed across flood waters
In a boat today In an unsuccessful
attempt to crack a safe at the Pa
cific Coast Heating & Appliance
company, police reported.
They were unable to force open
an Inner strongbox.
Police detectives had to com
mandeer a rowboat to reach the
scene oX the attempted burglary.
More Bodies Found in Vanport
City as Crews Battle to Save
Dikes Along Flooded Columbia
Situation Developing Into Sustained Crisis
With No Immediate Relief in Sight for Tired
Troops and Volunteers; Portland Area Warm
:.;.' . .7 , 7' '
Portland, Ore., June 8 'U.E At least two more bodies were
recovered from floorlwaters over the wrecked city of Vanport
today as reinforced crews battled in hot weather to save
weakening dikes along the brimming Columbia river. .. ;
Sgt. F. H. Foote of the Oregon national guard recovered
the bodies of a white woman, about 47 years old, dressed in
slacks, and a negro woman, about 23 years old, wearing a
navy peajacket.
These brought to five the number of known dead in the
Vanport Citiy flood disaster
which wiped out the war
housing community of 19,000
Sunday afternoon, May ; 30,
and drove its inhabitants into
a mass flight for their lives.
The Columbia river flood
situation was developing into
a sustained crisis, with no im
mediate relief in sight for thous
ands of troops, national guards
men, army engineers and civilian
workers still working around-the-clock
to plug seeping embank
ments. New Crest Forecast
A new mid-week flood crest
was forecast, starting Wednesday
night or Thursday morning, as
soaring temperatures throughout
the northwest sent melting snows
cascading into the Columbia
throughout its northern water
shed. Workers struggled against the
high waters along a 360-mile
front from southeastern Wash
ington the river's mouth at As
toria. 1 '
. Weather forecaster Elmer Fish
er predicted the flood would hold
near Its crest for several weeks,
but he said unseasonally hot
weather might add millions more
gallons of melted scow-water to
the already-swollen streams.
.The temperature at-x Portland
recorded 93 yesterday.
Army and navy men and civil
ian volunteers,- meantime, were
working feverishly to hold the
sodden dikes along the Columbia
against the crushing pressure
which still threatened to break
through Into riverfront towns
and rich farmlands.
The Red Cross announced a list
of 715 persons and families that
it had been unable to trace In the
Vanport City disaster. It Issued
an urgent appeal for unregister
ed refugees to report at once to
Portland disaster headquarters.
The Red Cross said it did not
consider the number of unlocated
vanport City residents "alarm
ing." .
Time Schedules
On Two Shifts
At Courthouse
Offices in the county court
house had adjusted their time
schedules today to accommodate
visitors on both standard and day
light saving time. The county
court and the district attorney re
mained on standard time, but per
sonnel in the tax collection de
partment and the county clerk's
office will be on hand from 8:'10
a.m. to 6 p.m., daylight time.
District attorney A. J. Moore
said today that he had requested
second opinion from Attorney
general George Neuner, and that
he had been advised that standard
time mast be observed to the ex
tent that taxpayers or persons
requesting filing service could be
accommodated up to the legal
closing time schedules, so that at
least one person win oe on nanu
the extra hour each day. I
33,000 Men Battle to Hold
Dikes Along Rampant River
ltv Tom McQualtl
(United I'rmi SUff CorrMimmlrnO
Vancouver. B. C, June 8 'in
Man's struggle to curb the ever
pressing strength of the mighty
rascr river in uritisn uoiumma
seems utterly futile when viewed
from the air.
From an airplane flying over
the 60 miles of fertile fruit-growing
valley the estimated 3.1,000
men buttling to hold the dikes
looked ilkc a pitiful army of ants
Irving to hold back the ocean
tide.
The rampaging Fraser river
was everywhere. It had seeped
into the hoiis of 9,000 persons
nd blanketed 50,000 acres or
land.
The destruction In the once-
lush valley, vhlrh contained
some of Canada's finest fruit and
dairy land, was almost Incredible.
Debris floated everywhere, ware
houses were toppled and thou
sands of berry boxes floated
down the river,
Work on Grade
School to Start
In Near Future
With the ' site : rapidly being
cleared and the architect's survey
completed, the new grade school
planned to serve the Reid school
area may be started in early July,
the directors of Bend district
No. 1 hoped after looking over
the situation last night. The
building, to be erected Just to the
rear of Trinity Episcopal church,
will be of stucco finish on cement
block. Six rooms of Its 12 room
total size are to be done this year,
Because it is not expected tha
the rooms will be ready for occi
pancy at the opening of schoi
the board, at its meeting at tf
high school, authorized Suuerin
tendent James W. Bushong to ar
range for suitable temporary
quarters. Most of these, Bush
ong suggested, can probably be'
obtained in the vicinity of Reid
school.
Davis Named Auditor
The school district chanced
from state auditing, but chose for
its next audttoar-B. G: Davis, who
for years had conducted audits
for the state in this area. Davis,
now heading a private account
ing firm located in Albany,
agreed to do the district's work
at not to exceed $400.
Contracts with three new in.
structors were authorized. The
three are Ruth Buhler of Dallas.
Oregon; Betty Chesterfield of
Orofino, Idaho, and Marjorle,
Bier of Monmouth, Oregon. All
will teach In the elementarv
grades.
Delegate Ready
For Trip East
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde M. McKay
will leave tomorrow morning for
a month's trip that will include
attending the republican national '
convention at Philadelphia and
visits to their old home towns in
Wisconsin and Michigan.
The McKays will drive to the
midwest, where he will visit his
old home at ChiDDewa Falls. Wis..
and she will see friends and rela
tives it Walker, Minn. They will
leave their car at Chlcaeo about
June 18th and board a special
convention train for Philadelphia
to be on hand for the opening of
the convention on June 21. They
expect to return to Bend abou'.
July 1.
McKay Is one of the convention ,
delegates elected from the second
congressional district.
His alternate is M. A. Lynch,
Redmond republican, who will
also attend the convention. Lynch
Is to leave Portland by train on
Juno 16.
The onco-picturcsque towns In
the valley were ghost towns.
The normal half mile channel
of the Fraser was bulged three to
six miles southward In a series
of great tun-colored lakes, red
and green roofs, tiled silos and
bums were flooded to the eaves.
Devastation was most spectac
ular at Mntqiil Prairie, a rich
farming area 60 mllis from here.
It virtually blanked out the
town of more than 1,000 persons.
Despite excellent large scale
government topographical maps
it was almost impossible to find .
a down islands and headlands. In
the Aggasslz area where the
flood first broke.
Nicomen Island, halfway down
the river and seven miles long,
could be recognized only by a
broken skeleton of a dyke which),
gave in to the surging waters.
The river still was lashing at
the island, almost visibly tearing
oil topsoll. , '.r.Jj(
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