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Heavy Rainfall Crumbles Dam; Water Cascades Into Stillwater, Oklahoma Stillwater, Okla. IW A heavy rainstorm crumbled a dam early today and drove 2,000 persons from their homes in this north-central Oklahoma college town. There were no immediate re ports of casualties but it was feared the city of 20,000 would be isolated by flood waters from Sanborn Lake. A driving rain began hitting the area at 9 p.m. and by 2 a.m. it measured eight inches. Shortly before 3 a.m. the big dam gave way, turning loose the lake's waters on Stillwater, home of Oklahoma State Uni versity, formerly Oklahoma A&M. National Guard Called Out The National Guard was call ed out to aid police, , firemen Grange Notes SHADY COVE GRANGE There will be a highway safety program put on by the Oregon highway commission at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, in the Shady (Jove school gym nasium. The public has been in vited. The program is being sponsored by the Shady Cove Grange. POMONA GRANGE The fifth degree will be exem plified at the May 25 meet ing of Jackson County Pomona Grange. This will be held in the Central Point Grange hall Satur day night at 8 p.m. Ice cream and coffee will be furnished by the Pomona HEC, but all ladies attending are asked to bring cookies. All subordinate Granges are urged to have as many candi dates as possible at the meeting, as each new member of Pomona will earn points in the Cham pion Grange contest. All officers of Pomona Grange are requested to be present for the final rehearsal of the fifth degree Wednesday, May 22, at 8 p.m., at Central Point Grange hall. Mrs. Melvin Lattie, Secretary. SHADES OF YESTERYEAR Freeman, S.D. (1?) It was a throwback to the early 1930's when a model A Ford of that era tangled with a horse and buggy near here. Andrew Wipf said he was unable to stop his old auto in time to avoid hitting the slow-moving buggy driven by Julius Gr .ber, 72. 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Vote on passage of the bill was 38-21. Rep. Richard Eymann, Mo hawk Democrat, said the bill was not designed to run the private power companies out of business, but to see that Oregon got its fair share of federal power to entice new industry. To Elect Commission Eymann said the State Power Commission established by the bill would only retail power to major industries requiring 10, 000 kilowatts or more. The three-man commission would be elected by the people in the No vember, 1958, elections. Rep. Wayne Giesy, Monroe Republican, objected that the proposed power commission could bond the state up to $122 million or six per cent of the assessed valuation of the state. Giesy wanted the bill referred to the tax committee for study of the whole bond picture in the state. Failing to win approval Mon day was House bill 739 which would exempt homesteads up to $2,500 from ad valorum taxa tion if owners made a total gross income of less than $2,500. K Club News Beef and Swine Club. The-Phoenix Beef and Swine club meeting was held May 19 at the home of Allen Harris. Scott Holmes showed how to bit a calf. Eddie Meeker noted the points. - ; Refreshments were not served after the meeting was adjourned because of measles in the house. . - Scott E. Holmes, Reporter. NEofotdogaaTf building in downtown Still water, which is on a hill. The east, west and south parts of town were hard hit. Benjamin Hooper Jr. Benny Hooper To Quit Oxygen Tent Manorville, N. Y. (in Seven-year-old Benny Hooper, who survived nearly 24 hours of en trapment at the bottom of a foot wide well shaft, comes out of an oxygen tent today. Dr. J. H. Kris, who has treated the sandy - haired, .blue - eyed youngster since he tumbled into the well shaft, said a minor lung inflamation had been cleared and that Benny probably will be able to leave the hospital by the weekend. "He's doing well and feeling well," Kris said. Benny's temperature, which had reached 102 degrees Satur day, the day after his rescue, was back to normal by Monday. Benny, whose plight touched off a daylong drama in the yard of his Long Island home, insisted Monday that at no time during his entombment was he scared. "I was just mad at myself for falling in the hole," he said. "And I kept getting madder and madder as the time went on." PRAYERS ANSWERED Mrs. Benjamin Hooper is all smiles as her son, Benjamin Jr., 7, recuperates in a hos- pital after bis dramatic res cue from the bottom of a 21 foot well in Manorville, N. Y. The lad was trapped for nearly 24 hours. Snake Nearly Covers Ice Harbor Cofferdam Pasco-:-!?! Ice Harbor coffer dam still was nosing slightly out of the turbulent waters of the Snake river early today as con struction workers completed re inforcing the structure " with sandbags, dirt and gravel. I Officials of Montag, Halver- son, Austin & Associates, gen eral contractors at the dam, said the second highest flow since 1910 was expected early today. It was estimated 314,000 cubic feet of water per second would roar through the constricted passage. When You See GEORGE LEWIS z&s? '2f ROGUE TRAVEL SERUIGE A FREE SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON The major problem appeared to be the inability of storm sew ers to handle the runoff. Levels of two other lakes, Lake Boomer and Lake Carl Blackwell, were rising and the rains continued. By UNITED PRESS Floodwaters from small streams and creeks poured over parts of the Idaho panhandle to day and several families were evacuated from low-lying sec tions of Orofino. Gov. Robert E. Smylie de clared a "state of emergency Monday and ordered the Na tional Guard into action as heavy rains sent streams over their banks and caused mud slides and washouts. However, major roads in the panhandle area were reported open to traf fic today. Basements Get Water The major trouble was from small streams and creeks rather than major rivers although at Lewiston the Snake river was seeping into warehouse base ments and the Clearwater in the same city was backing up and forcing water into the city's sewer system. The airport at Orofino was under water. Guardsmen from Lewistori and Grangeville went to help local troops at Orofino in evacuation and dike repair work. Water ran through the streets of Stites Monday when workers blew up a dike to relieve pres sure on a bridge across the Clearwater north fork. Major streams in southern Idaho were reported in check. Portland (IP) The weather bureau said today the Colum bia and Willamette rivers in the Portland area should level off about Thursday with a continu ing rise expected until later to day. The Columbia was at its highest mark of the spring at Vancouver, Wash., 21.5 feet, while the Willamette reached 21.2 feet, in Portland harbor This is 6.5 feet over flood stage at Vancouver and 3.2 feet over the flood mark in Portland. Favorite Hobby Add a gay touch of color to linens and accessories with these new, modern designs. Huck weaving is easy, fascinating fast becoming America's favor ite craft! Pattern 7279: Charts, direc tions for huck weaving four dif ferent designs, in varied widths. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this patterns add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail - Tribune, TTousehold Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER. A bonus for our readers two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book for 1957! Plus a wonderful variety of designs to order cro chet, knitting, embroidery, huck weaving, toys, dolls, others. Send 25 cents for your copy of this ex citing NEW needle book now! Research on Problems Stepped Up During 1956 Portland Research on forest, range and water problems in the Pacific Northwest has been stepped up in the past year, Robert W. Cowlin, director of the forst service's Pacific North west Forest and Range Experi ment station, has reported in the station's 1956 report. The report emphasizes the need for multiple-use manage ment of forest areas for the coor dinated production of wood, wa ter, forage, recreation and wild life from forest lands. It tells of progress in securing informa tion through the station's re search program on both public and privately owned forest and range lands. High on the priority list are studies of procedures to secure artificial regeneration of forest stands. The Pacific Northwest is now planting 75,000 acres a year at an estimated cost of $2,250,000. The region, however, is clear cutting over 300,000 acres a year, the report showed. While much of this area will regenerate naturally, the plant ing program must be stepped up, Cowlin said, if the area is to meet future timber needs and keep lands productive. Backlog of Burns The backlog of old cutovers and burns in the region totals 2,500,000 acres which need planting. Modern timber inventories are needed for today's land manage ment requirements. Much prog ress has been made, Cowlin said, on the reinventory of the forest resources of Oregon and Wash ington. By the end of 1956 field work had been completed on 64 c mw when you've got j j S the least space! J This washer and dryer, all in one, makes washday just as close to fun as it will ever be because it's all automatic! CITY 127 North Central-Acrou Tuesday, May 21. 1SS7 Forest, Range, Water per cent of the total forest area. I With the recent acceleration of the inventory, the job should be completed in 12 to 13 years. An important discovery of the timber survey is that the area in pole timber has doubled since the early 1930's, in both the 'Grandd?ddy' Blast Scheduled in Nevada Les Vegas (IB The biggest atomic blast ever set off within the continental United States will be held this summer on the Southern Nevanda desert during the 1957 nuclear test series. Atomic Energy Commission spokesmen refused to discuss de tails of the test. However, the atomic device, with an explosive violence roughly three and a half times that of the A-bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, is expected to be deto nated from a platform held some 1,500 feet in the air by a he lium-filled captive balloon. The A-bombs dropped on Hir oshima and Nagasaki, the so called "nominal" bombs, each 'produced blasts equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. The "granddaddy" blast set for the new test series is expected to produce a yield of between 70 and 75 kilotons or equivalent to 70,000 to 75,000 tons of TNT. Hartford, Conn. 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In fact, few of the destructive forest insects were found in numbers constituting an epidemic. One notable exception is the balsam wooly aphid, the report shows. Destruction of true firs has reached alarming propor tions in parts of Oregon and Washington. An extensive sal vage program is under way on Gifford Pinchot National For est, Cowlin saia. This serious outbreak is being studied, he added. Watershed Research The station's watershed re search program expanded con siderably during the past year. The Siskiyou-Cascade Research center in southwest Oregon has launched watershed studies, making the fourth research province in the Pacific North west to receive attention. A high- 1 light of the watershed research COMBO' the all-in-one hdme. laundry you can put almost anywhere in your home! Takes the space of one does the work of two! Hotpoint's new combination automatic washer-dryer does your entire laundry job from start to finish. Washes brilliantly clean! Dries feather-soft. 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