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PAGE EIGHT THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL 1,1949 Idaho Reactor Plant Location In Wastelands WashingtonApril 1 mi The Arco area of Idaho where a vast atomic reactor works will lie built is hard by a region which once was one of the shakiest bits of landscape on this continent. But, a spokesman said today, the atomic energy commission ex pects no great trouble from moth er earth when it erects the big new plant where it will build and test atomic engines and furnaces. The commission has conducted exhaustive seismological studies of the site. All buildings put up there will be especially designed to make them proof against any earthquake tremors. Area Pockmarked Just south of the Arco area is a pockmarked, lava-encrusted wasteland called "the craters of the moon." It Is an extinct vol canic region once tortured by vio lent eruptions during which the earth trembled. Some 80 square miles of the area have been desig nated a national monument. According to the National Goo graphic society "It contains more volcanic features than are found in comparable space anywhere in the United States." Geologists Conjecture "Geologists conjecture that the fiery forces that cracked open the earth and threw up the boiling lava and rocks may have been ac tive for thousands of years, and that the latest violence may have occurred only a few centuries ago," the society said. As recently as the early 1920's, the society said, few persons other than local Indians had dared to venture into "the vaguely known ' and feared lava beds of Idaho." But the region to the north where the atomic reactor works will be established is less deso late. It also is selsmologically well-behaved, a commission spok esman said. . The only earth tremors noted there In the past half century, he said, have been "very slight." Judy Garland Leaves Husband Hollywood, April 1 mi sJudv Garland and "Director Vlncentc Minnelli, who tried to work to gether and be married too, an nounced their separation Thursday. The, pug-nosed movie queen said she hated to admit it. She said she' has been trying for montns to keep tier second mar riage from hitting the Hollywood skids. "But, I'm sorry to say, I have decided on n divorce," she an nounced. "We tried very hard to overcome the difficulties of in compatHbility. Now we've come to the realization we'll be hnpplcr apnrt." They were married just a week after her divorce from composer Dave Rose became final. (NEA Tchphoto) Seaman First Class James P. Ryan of Huntington, Pa., was listed by U. S. Navy as a deserter when he , failed to report back to his ship In San Remo. Italy, In July of 1947. Ryan (above) claims that he overstayed his liberty, and when he hiked into Prance, he was pressed Into the French Foreign Legion and not permitted to com municate with U. S. officials. He was shipped to Africa, where he served for more than than a year, then to Indochina, where he made his escape and contacted U. S. consular officials at Canton, China. He was returned to the Navy, which is holding him on a technical charge of desertion. Here, he Is shown after landing at Alameda, Calif., aboard the U. S. Navy plane Mars. Gilchrist Students Place in Contest Gilchrist, April 1 (Special) Gilchrist high school . students ranked high In individual honors at the Klamath county school speech festival, March 24 at Mer rill. Gilchrist entered six events and scored 26 points. Judging was on a basis of points, with "3" indi cating excellent, "2," good, and "1," fuir. Bonanza placed first In the meet. Gilchrist students who won rat ings of "excellent" were the fol lowing: JoAnn Conklin and Helen Fogelqulst, oratory; Lela. Turner and Margaret Guddat,", poetry reading, and George Iaeger, story telling. Those who received rat ings of "2" were the following: Virginia Garner and Kenneth Wordelman, special speeches; Jack Kralcy, story telling, and Gioria Hyatt, humorous. The following were given "1" ratings: Barbara Cook, Clarice James and Pauline Nichols, radio speaking, and Geneva Wright, humorous. The development of nuclear re actors, machines to release atomic energy at controlled rates, is one of the most vital technical jobs in the world today; they are essen tial in putting this energy to work to serve men's purposes. Giver Her An of Lovely Silver She'll appreciate this gleaming beauty on her Easier dinner table and for years and years to come. Match less silver plate by the leading manufacturers In America, here for your choosing in our big slock. 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New York Taxies Go Out on Strike New York, April 1 lli Thous ands of taxi drivers went on strike for union recognition today and Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered 3.250 extra police on emergency duty to prevent expected violence. A few minutes'after cab drivers walked off the job at 4:30 a.m., Leo Zwicker, regional director for John L. Lewis' newly organized taxi union, charged that company hired strike breakers were carry ing guns to intimidate strikers. Union spokesmen have declared that "not a wheel will roll" on the city's 11,510 cabs during the strike. About half the city's 5.000 Inde pendent owner -operators have said they will continue to man their cars. Major fleet operators said they will do everything in their power to keep their (1,500 cabs rolling. Picket lines were stationed around garages of all the major taxi owners as local 35 of the taxi workers organizing committee, a part of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers (Ind.) catch-all dis trict 50 sought to gain union rec ognition from the operators. Wind Damages -Cherry Trees- Washington, April 1 nn Blooms on the capital's famous cherry trees were badly damaged by a wind and rain storm last night on the eve of the annual Cherry Blossom festival. The storm whipped up sudden ly and bjew many of the pink petals to the ground. Officials were unable Immediately to esti mate the extent of the damage. Heavy hotel bookings Indicated that one of the largest festival crowds in history would be on hand for the celebration. Festivities will begin tonight when a cherry blossom queen is chosen from a group of 51 beau ties, representing the states and possessions. The pageant will con tinue tomorrow and Sunday, and will feature an elaborate water carnival and concerts. . The trees bloomed a few days ago and the petals were treated with a special harmone In an ef fort to preserve them for the festival. What is known as the Klamath weed, common in the Klamath val ley, California, causes the white skinned parts of the bodies of sheep that cat it to become sensi tive to sunlight, with resulting blisters. PPL Building Budget Set At $9,600,000 A record breaking $9,600,000 construction budget has been set up by Pacific Power & Light company for 1949 expansion and improvement of Its power sys tem to keep pace with continued growth of the Oregon-Washington area it serves, according to W. A. Lackaff, district manager. The new budget will bring to more than $27,000,000 the amount Pacific has invested since the war to provide more and better service to its' customers. The '49 construction program tops last year's, the previous record high for the power company, by near ly $1,300,000. More than half of this year's budget will be spent to Increase power production and for trans mission lines to bring this power to center of use. Largest single expenditure will be for expansion of the Merwin hydroelectric project on the Lewis river in Washington Dy installa tion of a second 45,000-kllowatt generator lo double the plant's peaking capacity. Cost will be $3,000,000. More than $300,000 will be spent in the Deschutes district to expand substations and ex tend service to new customers, Lackaff said. Residential and rural line ex tensions costing $189,000 are planned during the year with an additional $15,000 to be spent in improvement to the existing dis tribution systems in Redmond and Prineville. Prlneville will ge a new 66,000 volt substation replacing the present 22,000-volt installation. The new substation, costing $700, 000, will make It possible to in crease the carrying capacity of the new Redmond Prineville transmission line by raising its voltage. Serving the Prineville area at 66,000 volts also will relieve some of the present load on the Red mond substation and make addi tional capacity available for use on this end of the power system, Lackaff pointed out. Part of the year's construc tion program already has been completed. An $18,000 substation on the 22,000-Volt Shevlin-Hixon transmission line provides capac ity for future growth in the southeast section of the city. nedmonas transformer capac ity has been doubled and a new outgoing feeder line built to car ry half of the city load. This re duces load on the existing feed er and permits supplying the city from two different lines. Use classified ads In The Bulle tin for quick results. 1 l)is hcnutiful 100 denier polka dol print . . . made in GAl.LY and LORD'S superb CAMELLA CREPI-. . . Tontmie Austin tailored classic . . . n dress you'll wear now, and all llirouiIi Summer. The neck line is new and cool, the pockets and sleevelets are holh prettily cuffed. 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The search was concentrated In. the east bay area around Rich mond where a clerk in a second: hand store said a woman who looked like Miss Zumr pawned a watch yesterday. The clerk said the woman drove off in a car sim ilar to McGourty'Si 1937 Chevrolet which has been missing since his body was discovered. , . McGourty's head had been bash ed in with a ball peen hammer and he had been stabbed at least 20 times with a butcher knife. Police said he had been staying at the hotel with the woman police iden tified as Miss Zumr. Theft Charged To Police Chief Coos Bay, April 1 iUi-Albert Walsh, Myrtle Point chief of po lice, has been bound over to the Coos county grand jury on . charge of larceny by embezzle ment. Charley Ray Smith, Myrtle Point police officertestified yes terday In the preliminary hear ing held here before justice of the peace Thomas Swantan that on the night of Jan. 28 Walsh had handed him $13 out of $27.50 ball money which had been post, cd by a man arrested on a drunk, enness charge and remarked that no one would know what had happened to the money. Smlih said he had put the money along with both copies of' his arrest ticket and report In a sealed en velope which he handed to a state police officer the next day, V The '4.33-mile San - Francisco Oakland bay bridge, said to be the longest In the world, consists of a combination of a cantilever-truss span and two complete suspensiol bridges placed end to end. DEATH STRIKES TWICE Woodward, Okla. U'i Death prevented fulfillment of the dy ing wish of 72-year-old V. E. Bailey, who had wanted the Rev. C. A. Kurtz to preach his funeral serman. Forty-five minutes after Bailey died, the minister suffered a fatal heart attack. 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