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.
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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.
Portland Chalks Up 15th Traffic Death
A .5
Portland - IUPD - Portland
recorded its 15th traffic death
of the year Monday night
MASS GRAVES FOUND
Warsaw, Poland-WTO - Two
mass graves of several thou
sand World War II Nazi vic
tims have been found in Pol
and, the Polish news agency
PAP said today.
when Bud Martin Lewis. 80.
was struck and killed by a car
on SW Harbor Drive.
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Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
rrHE SERVICES of one congregation in West Palm Beach
A always include a group reading of the Twenty-Third
Psalm. One Sunday a visitor with a shrill, penetratine voice
goi aDout ten words a
head of the rest at the
beginning and maintain
ed her lead doggedly to
the very end. At the end
of the services, one resi
dent member asked an
other, "Who was that ir
ritating lady who was al
ways by the still waters
while the rest of us were
lying down in green pas
tures?" e
I dined with the match
less Cole Porter the other
evening and persuaded him to recall his first song successes.
Number One was written when he was an undergraduate at Yale
in 1912. It waa called "Bulldog'," and Is, of course, still sung regu
larly by Yale students. Later came "An Old Fashioned Garden,"
made famous in a show called "Hitchy Koo of 1819." After that
nothing could stop Cole Porter: "Let's Do It." "What Is This
Thing Called Love." and "Two Little Babes in the Woods" made
his name a byword the country over.
"Guilty or not guilty?" thundered the judge. "I dunno," ad
mitted the prisoner meekly. "I ain't heard the evidence yet."
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