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.
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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. One of the
horses suffered a broken leg and
had to be shot.
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and civil defense workers in the
evacuation job.
Water coursed through the
city quickly, but the driving
rain continued.
Authorities issued acall for
boats to help in the evacuation.
Residents 'were being evacu
ated to the American Legion
House Passes Bill
To Put State in
Power Business
Salem OP) House bill 790
putting the state into the whole
sale power business passed the
House Monday after a move to
refer it to the tax committee
failed. It now goes to the Sen
ate. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Les Vegas (IB The biggest
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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
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1,500 feet in the air by a he
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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.
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Douglas - fir and ponderosa pine
subregions.
Composition Change
Species composition is chang
ing, the report shows. In eight
westside counties recent surveys
show that about 46 per cent is
Douglas-fir on available com
mercial forest land, compared
with 54 per cent originally;
meanwhile, hemlock increased
from 24 to 32 per cent. In 10
eastside counties ponderosa pine
declined from 56 to 47 per cent
of the total volume, while Doug
las-fir increased from 20 to 24
per cent and true firs from 10
to 13 per cent.
For the first time In seven
years, the report states, the
population of the destructive in
sect pest, spruce budworm, has
declined. 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-
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program is the cooperative atudy
started in late 1955 on the Bull
Run watershed of the city of
Portland.
Range management research
also was expanded during the
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troduced are the big-game habi
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