Vanport School Project
Provides Safety Valve
For Educational Needs
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (P)
Oregon is taking a crack at one
of its worst postwar log jams:
the problem of roofing and
teaching all the students who
want to enter college.
It's done it simply, by taking
a modern tuck in Mohammet. If
you can't bring the housing to
the college, take the college to
the housing. The result is a state
center just 15 minutes from
Portland which offers college
courses complete with kitchen,
bedroom and bath to all com
ers. For a vear higher educational
institutions have been groaning
under unprecedented enroll
ments. An American council of
education poll showed 75 per
cent of all colleges short of hous
ing. In OreRon, the governor
estimated 5000 veterans would
be turned away next term.
. Stickpin Clue
In Stab Death
SPOKANE, Aug. 7 (VP) A
three-carat stickpin diamond was
being sought by police today as
a possible clue to the death of
Dr. R. A. Hahn. 81 -year-old
physician whose colorful life was
brought to an end last night by
a souvenir French army bayonet
thrust through his heart.
The doctor's body was discov
ered by his son, Rudolph, who
told police he found his father
dead after a stranger in the hall
way leading from his hotel
apartment suite told him he had
just been talking with the doctor.
Dr. C. J. Abrams, Spokane
county coroner, said Hahn had
been dead less than an hour
when police were summoned. He
jsaid a three-carat diamond was
missing from a stickpin usually
worn by the doctor.
Dr. Hahn was a principal in
several court cases and was con
victed in 1945 of performing two
illegal operations. He was re
leased on probation under $10,
000 surety bond.
His former S75.000 home was
the scene of the fatal shooting
of his second wife, 32 years his
junior, in 1940, which a coroner's
jury found to be a suicide.
Army Hopeful
On McNary Job
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (P) De
tails on the McNary dam must
be supplied by the army engi
neers for a decision on whether
construction may go ahead after
the federal construction mora
torium ends September 30.
Col. O. E. Walsh, district army
engineer, said, however, that he j
expected the McNary project
.would be allowed to proceed on
schedule.
The Dorena dam, on which
bids were called only Monday,
will not be affected by the mora
torium, which does not apply to
work under way, and Col. Walsh
said no other projects in this
district would be affected.
Walsh outlined the situation
after receiving detailed instruc
tions on the moratorium. He said
no bids, notices to proceed,
awards, or invitations can be
issued during the period.
Crash Fatal To Five
Blamed On Fast Speed
WHITE SALMON, Wash., Aug.
7 (TP) A coroner's jury yester
day attributed the bus-truck crash
which ended fatally for five per
sons near Bingen, Wash., July 27,
to "too great a speed for the
condition of the highway."
The jury said it also felt that
"the schedule under which the
bus driver was operating was too
fast for the present road condi
tion." Merle Nelson, driver of the
bus, was among those killed.
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Oregon couldn't Just put up a
new college. In the first place,
there's a state law about it: in
the second place, where would
the materials and the money
come from?
Look Brings Idee
While educators were brood
ing on the matter. Dr. Stephen
Epler. veterans' advisor with
the state system of higher educa
tion, looked out his front win
dow. Epler. a navy vet who
couldn't find a house in Port
land, was living in nearby
Vanport, a war housing project
that is emptying since the death
of the shipyards.
"Plenty of housing out here."
thought Epler. "Why couldn't
we bring the classes here'.'''
So that's what the state sys
tem of higher education did.
Vanport Center is not strict
ly a "college." It's a center of
extension classes, which the
state can offer without the red
tape involved in starting a new
institution. But the courses were
chosen to include freshman and
sophomore requirements in the
most popular fields: Liberal arts,
business administration, pre
law, pre-medicine. ore-dental,
architecture, forestry, journal
ism. With Dr. Epler as director.
Vanport Center opened this sum
mer with 220 students, 94 of
them veterans. The fall budget
was built around an anticipated
500 enrollment. Officials think
now it'll be more like 1500: and
they could squeeze in several
thousand more.
Safety Valve
"Vanport is a safety valve."
explained Dr. J. F. Cramer,
dean of the extension division.
"It can exoand now to take the
overflow from our permanent
institutions, and when there
isn't any overflow shrink back
out of existence again."
That elasticity is a boon to
educators, baffled bv the fact
thev don't know what future en
rollment levels will be. No col
lege wants to build facilities for
25.000 students if in a couple of
years it's going to have only
10.000.
Vanport Center Is designed
for veterans, fathers oarticular
ly. Unlike many campuses
where married students live in
tents or trailers and carry water
for blocks, Vanport has com
pletely furnished apartments,
plus heavy shopping centers,
school, library, hospital, recrea
tion halls.
If Mr. and Mrs. Veteran both
want to go to school some Van
port enrolees do that's simple,
too. Vanport has nurseries
where they can leave the small
fry.
There'll even be college spirit
at Vanport, though it'll be '
more of the familv recreation '
than the rah-rah side. Counsel
ors for men and women will di
rect student activities and ath
letics. "We don't want any of this
hubba-hubba stuff." students !
told school officials. Picnics j
with ice cream for the kiddies ;
and family jaunts to the moun-;
tains were favored.
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On The Bear
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Walter A. Fleet came to Klam
ath Falls with his family in 1939
from Spokane, Wash., and has
been serving as internal revenue
agent in this area since that time.
Fleet has been with the revenue
department for nine years, pre
viously working with the fed
eral land bank. The Fleets have
two children. Verne, 12, and
Glenn. 17 months old. He is on
Maryellen Wright's federal build
ing beat.
Workman Dies
In Flash Fire
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (if) Al
bert W. Abernathy. 32. former
Baker resident, burned to death
yesterday in a flash fire that
engulfed him within seconds
after welding sparks hit the wood
preservative he was applying.
Fellow workmen at the Co
lumbia Sand and Gravel com
pany pit played a hose on the
bunker underneath which he was
working in a vain attempt to
enable him to escape.
A welder, Roy Louie Christian,
39, barely scrambled to safety -from
above the bunker.
Abernathy's mother, Mrs. Lee
Chetwood, lives at Halfway, Ore.,
Army Recruiting Man
Inspects KF Office
Capt. Forrest Klciman of the
Portland army recruiting station
visited the Klamath Falls station
Tuesday on an inspection tour of
this section. He reported that
the army enlistment program for
July had exceeded the quota by
more than five per cent.
Reasons for the increased en
listment, according to Kleiman,
are believed to be the new higher
pay for regular army, the can
cellation of the man's service
experience, and the approach of
the deadline on the Gl bill of
rights.
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Tehee Picked
For New Post
Appointment of Charles L.
Tebcc to be director of the
northern Rocky mountain forest
and range experiment station at
Missoula, Mont., has been an
nounced by Lyle F. Watts, chief
of the forest service. He will
assume his new duties Septem
ber 1. Since July, 1943, Tebeo
has been assistant regional for
ester in charge of the forct
service division of state and
private forestry at Portland.
Tebee spent a year with the
Caterpillar Tractor company in
Klamath Falls, which led to em
ployment as logging superin
tendent for a concern in the
Philippine islands. Returning to
the United States in 1934, Tebeo
entered the U. S. forest service.
The northern Rocky moun
tain region includes Montana,
northern Idaho and northeastern
Washington,
Former Chancellor
Dies In Germany
BONN. Germany. Aug. 7 lP)
Wilhelm Marx. 82. veteran states
man who was chancellor of Ger
many in 1923-24 and 1926-28
under the Weimar republic, died
here Monday.
He had been inactive politi
cally since 1928.
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