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In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON As this is written, a dis patch has just come over the wires from Washington "re vcaling" that OWYHEE, the name given to Idaho's south west county, to a range of mountains and to a river that flows out of Idaho into Ore gon, where it furnishes irri gation water for a rich agri cultural area in Oregon's Mal heur county, is derived from the earliest spelling of Ha waii, our nation's youngest state. The dispatch goes on to say that the story was "disclosed" in Washington the other day in a report from the office of H. Max Hanson, Idaho admin istrator for the Farmers Home Administration, to I d a h o's Senator Frank Church, who relayed it on to Senator Daniel K. Inouye, who is a good Democrat from Hawaii. ACCORDING to Hanson's report, the name of the natives of the Sandwich (Ha waiian) Islands was nriuin ally rendered from phonetics into English as OWYHEE - that being the nearest anv. one could come to the sounds made by the natives when they pronounced it Since the Sandwich Islands were an early, though rather out of the way, stop-over point for food and water for English vessels headed for the North west Coast of North America it was natural for some of these Hawaiian natives to be picked up and brought along. Tf ANY of these "Owyhees" " joined trapping parties into the interior, and in the early 1800 s three of them were lost in what the Hanson report describes as the water sheds of a large unnamed riv er and were presumed to have been killed by the Indians. The river where this occurred, the report says, was named, in their memory, the Owyhee River. The Hanson report con cludes by noting that Island missionaries later changed OWYHEE to HAWAII and adds that "nowhere else does the old spelling survive ex cept to designate the moun tains and the river in South west Idaho and Malheur coun ty, Oregon." reached Sandwich Island Riv er, so called, owing to two of them murdered by Snake Indians in 1819. There seems to be no doubt that the Owy hee River was named for these Hawaiians, for on June 15 of the same year Ogden uses the word OWYHEE. The name OWYHEE was gener ally used a century ago for Hawaii. "The first sailing vessel that came into the Columbia River after the Astor venture was the American bark OWY HEE. Owyhee River drains a large area in Oregon and West ern Idaho, and there are oth er geographic features bear ing the name, derived from the name of the river. There is also a community of OWY HEE near the mouth of the Owyhee river and also an Owyhee Ridge in Malheur county. WELL, it's interesting. " But Mr. Hanson is a lit tle previous in assuming that his report is the first to bring all these facts into the focus of history. Oregon's Lewis (Tarn) McArthur beat him to it by nearly half a century. In his Oregon Geographic Names, he says: "On Saturday, Feb. 18, 1826, Peter Skene Ogden, then on his second expedition Into the Snake River country. rNE can't help wondering " how much news was con veyed to Senator Church of Idaho and Senator Inouye of Hawaii by these researches of Farmers Home Administra tion researcher Hanson. Senator Church is a gradu ate of Stanford. He served during the war with Military Intelligence in China, Burma and India. He undobutedly knows his way around. Sena tor Inouye was born in Ha waii;' he has an A.B. degree from the University of Ha waii and J.D. degree from George Washington Univer sity. He is a retired captain in the U.S. Army. It is rather probable that he won't be much surprised to learn of the origin of the name Hawaii. And, by the way, this whole story of the origin of the name Hawaii is carried in de tail by the World Book En cyclopedia. But, at any rate, it seems to have been news to Hanson. 1DY THE way - Whence came the name Sandwich Islands? They were so named by Captain James Cook for his friend Lord Montagu, Earl of Sandwich - who is presumed to have been the first to put a slice of meat between two slices of bread and eat it from his fingers. Search Continues For Mt . Hood Youth Hood River - IUPII - Search continued south of here to day for a 16-year-old boy miss ing since Sunday afternoon. James Thomas Akms of Mt. Hood left his parents' home on his bicycle apparently to go fishing. The Hood River county sheriff's office started the search Sunday. j I jB j I s" IvV1 ( atr ' Portland State Building Given Committee Vote Portland-il)Pl-A $3.7 mil lion physical education build ing for Portland State College was approved by the building committee of the State Board of Higher Education Monday. The committee also approv ed raising the project fund request to the legislature from $2.9 to S3 4 million. Dr. Branford Millar, presi dent of the college, said the two-level facility was expect ed to be adequate for the pro jected enrollment of 9,000 students in 1969. Participation of the Univer sity of Oregon in an urban renewal project which will permit its expansion over sev eral acres east of the campus also was given the go ahead. Cost of acquiring 24 homes and other buildings will be about 5571,000. Bids for construction of two dormitories at the Uni versity of Oregon were reject ed because they were about S600.000 more than the S3 million allocated. The second phase of the Oregon Technical Institute campus construction was ap proved, providing funds are made available by this ses sion of the legislature. Bids on the buildings will be opened in Klamath Falls April 30. Approval was indicated for an urban renewal plan for Oregon State University. The plan is for a seven-block area. Plans and bid for construc tion of the dock and approach portion of the Yaquina Bay Marine Sciences Laboratory at Newport were ok'd. The portion will cost 5139,000. TUESDAY. APRIL 23. lit Boneless Liver Prefabricated Meat Occupies Section Of Interesting Budget Installment Program Scheduled On Lung Cancer With the cooperation of Southern Oregon college, the Ashland branch of the Amer ican Cancer society will pre sent an hour long program on lung cancer Wednesday, April 24, at Churchill hall. The campus program will begin at 10 a.m. in the audi torium upstairs. Dr. James Quinn, Medford physician and surgeon, will present his slides for the students and public. Following this presen tation there will be an open question and answer period. The program is part of the April Crusade Against Cancer being held in Jackson county. The public is invited to .at tend the lecture. By DICK WEST Washington-OJPD-House com mittee hearings on the defense budget are published in sta 11m e n t s. something like a maga zine serial, or if you prefer a soap opera eagerly look forward to each new. chapter that I can fol- Weit low the latest adventures of Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.i who is my per sonal hero of the hearings. In the last chapter, you may recall, "Silent Dan" upveiled an ingenious plan for the con quest of Red China. All we need to do, he sug gested, is persuade the Chinese army to turn against its lead ers and then persuade Russia to cooperate with an invasion by the Chinese Nationalists. Nothing to it, really. In todays chapter, tht matter strategist demon strain his versatility by coming to grips with mil itary problems of a radical ly different tort. As we look in on the hear ing, "Silent Dan" is interro gating an Air Force officer about "boneless liver." His questions are being di- Israeli President Succumbs To Cancer Jerusalem, Israel-WPD-Presi- dent Itzhak Ben-Zvi, a schol arly Zionist who helped found the state of Israel, died today at the age of 78. The pioneer labor leader and statesman succumbed to lung cancer in his home here. The nation went into mourn ing for its second chief of state. He was elected president of Israel Dec. 8, 1952, culminat ing a lifetime dedicated to the Zionist cause and to the revival of Israeli national life. He succeeded Israel's first chief of state, Dr. Chaim Weiz- mann, who had died. Ben Zvi's health started failing following a trip to West Africa last year. But it was not until last week end that it became known gen erally he was suffering from cancer. Knesset (parliament) Speak er Dadish Luz automatically became acting president fol lowing the death of Ben-Zvi The Knesset, however, must elect a new president within 30 days. rected to Lt. Col. D. J. Per kins, who carries the title of "General Support and Serv ices Division, Directorate of Supply and Services. Deputy Chief of Staff, Systems and Logistics How Perkins gets all of that in his brief case is a mystery to me. At any rate. Flood wants to know why a "food packet abandon aircraft, individual' costs 54.95 whereas a "food packet, in-filght, individual' costs only 51. Perkins replies thai tome types of prefabricated meat are more expensive than other types of prefabricated meat. Flood: "What in the world is prefabricated meat?" Perkins: "Prefabricated meat is boneless . . ." Flood: "Before you go any further, I had a type in here from the Army who read off a list of meats he was buying using boneless liver. I said 'boneless what?' 'Boneless liver.' Is there any other kind of liver?" Perkins: "No sir. I believe what they meant, sir, is frozen and portion-cut liver. AH these meats we refer to as prefabri cated, they are boneless, ex cluding liver, boneless, frozen and portion-cut." Silent Dan ' parted com pany with prefabricated liver at this point to explore the question of why the Air Force finds it easier to recruit nurses than the Army does. Do you pick them with blue eyes and they look better in a blue uniform? lie asked. "What do you have-keep this decent-that the Army does not have?" The answer was flight pay. Flood moved on to service men's underwear. He told Col. Elizabeth Ray, head of the WAFS, that he was responsi ble for eliminating khaki lin gerie. "I wore them, sir," said Col. Ray. "I am glad you did." North Salem Girl Wins Scholarship Contest Portland-Oiro-Cheryl Taub man, a student u North Salem High school, has captured first place in the annual Oregon Collectors Association scholar ship contest, it was announced here. She received 5500. David Stanley, a student at Albany High school, took second place for 5100. 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