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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.
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Father of His Country
With arms upraised in characteristic gesture, this lifelike statue ot
Mohatma Gandhi, father of Jnaian lnaepenoence, is near tum
tion in London. The work of British sculptor Atri Brown, it
be cast in bronze.
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
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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.
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Sought by Police
Antioch, Calif., April 1 'HP)
Search for Lillian Zumr, 26, of
Malln, Ore., as a suspect in the
butcher knife hammer murder of
a husky Sacramento plnefltter,
spread throughout northern Cali
fornia today.
Miss Zumr is wanted for ques
tioning in the murder of Warren
E. McGourty. 30, Sacramento,
whose nude body was found in a
hotel room here Tuesday
Miss Zumr first was Identified
as Mildred "Mickey" McClay. 24,
but Contra Costa county detec
tive Ray Stoffels said Miss Mc
Clay was Miss Zumr's younger
sister and had no connection with
the case. He said Miss Zumr had
used her sister's name while in
Antioch and also when she was
arrested on a drunk driving
charge in Sacramento last year.
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
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with both copies of' his arrest
ticket and report In a sealed en
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Bailey died, the minister suffered
a fatal heart attack.
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