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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1948)
MONDAY, MAY SI, 1948 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PACI FIVf Here Is The Scene Of The Flight From Vanport 7 .... V 1: ,-:. -- wif ' t fcll&4-: PORTLAND, Moy 31 Thii li a section of the flooded town of Van port about en hour otter the dike broke yetterday and sent waters roonng Into the town. Refugees can be seen streaming down the dike to the high woy. Note others on fop of a building ot center right. At the edge of the flood, buses are lined up to help carry the homeless people from the scene. (Picture by Associated Press, rushed to Herald and News overnight by bus.) Let the dumn lly (iOKDON (I. MrNAH VAM'OIIT, Ore.. Mav II iV A Utile rrd-hnlred girl ran arreamlng down Hi street: "Wall, wall! Wall lor mr!" I patted her hrad and ran an In the direction of th break In the Vanport dike. Thr street was Jammed ttlth rart and praplr all Irrlnt ta I'l out ot anpirt, onra Oreaon'a aerond larl l rlly. now a plara whrra only doth rould lire. Here Is the Picture: Denver avenue run north from Portland toward t h lutrrntate brldse over the Columbia river. Be fore It reachea the river. It croaaet a dike and Immediately to the weal la Vanport. The Vanport dike ur riunda the houalnr. project. Ttie birak ram on the weatrrn tide, the moat dutant from where 1 left Den ei avenue and ran down the atreet pait the red-hatred child. Men lounging No water waa III ilsht. I paurd I an aparunciil wher a doaen people lounsed. the men III thlrulrevea ithe day waa brmht and warm). A wom an aald. They're craiy. the water won I et here." In lh tlrrei before her rrfuiee ara wer jammed to the bumpere and aom people were moving alons toward the dike that Denver avenue snakea. I ran ant toward the break. The crowd thinned. Bwldrnly acroaa a little dip I aaw the water. It awept down the alreel In a wall maybe two feel huh. In front It broke like wave at the beach: only the water waan't while like at the ocean. It waa a dull, dirt color, Arrnaa the dip I aaw lh water alap aialnal a la-apartment build ing. Three mm wrre there. In lit tle more than an Inalanl they were hip deep. A nhrrlff i car waa there. It moved from dry to hub deep and one nf the drputlra Jumped 111. Hit tar roared Inward me, through the water acroaa the dip. Apartment llreaka I'p There waa aplluterlng sound sharp and loud. The big apartmen. building where the three men had been began to awing around alow waa a hoar cry luff gol Uel out!" The apartment where people had lolled a ahort time before waa de aerted, lla door standing open. I rut to the right, away from the atreeL The aouth dike waa there. I waa behind the apartment! and croaalng a deep-graaard alough. A glanr to the right ahowed debrla filled water aurglng In the alough toward where I ran. There were fewer people here but treama of them were headed for the aouth dike, too. I grabbed a little pickaninny. Maybe ahe waa three years old. We ran aa water aplaahed ageintl my anklra. The dike waa only a bun dled yarda and a thouaand yeara ahead. A woman ran benlde me Trie piikanluny a mother, I learned. Then we were on the dike aide, and aafe. oner rared The Utile girl waa aober-fared, blg-evrd. She might have been are-In- Clyde Realty's art for thr flrtl lime. Juat aomrthlng to look at and ponder over. "I've got a little girl about your agr." I aald. Hlie didn't look Interealed. I put her down al the top of the dike The mother aald "Thanka." . "Your family get out all right?" "We did. but everybody didn't," ahe aald. "Place next to tu got hit before they knowed the dike broke. They waa anyhow 30 people In It." "That's rig III." aald a man who might have been her huaband. He curried a couple of hlg eultraaea, "Twenty people. ' Mighty hard on Ihrm." People tilled the lop of the dike. I looked bark where we had come. Water was running deep and Van port realdenu had cut acroaa on an angle through the alough toward Denver avenue. Cam began to leave the atreet, rare through the alough toward the dike. Moal of them made It Some nulled and were left. Everywhere? there were children. Some ran at their elders' heels, but moat were In arms. Hullraae Breaka A aultcaae broke open and a man lopped to pick up hla genr. There waa a moan from the crowd. "The table. There waa . crack and dj'mn'd'00J:" !"!d "T.TL"?1..'" kindling begun to brenk away begun to brenk away on the front wnvea of the water. I atopprd Hie ahrrlff's ear. "Anybody dead?" "(itiri knows," one of the men aald. There waa a limit from a middle aged man, neatly dreaaed In blue, Mrugglliif knee deep In water lo 'Miard ua, He held the arm of an old lady. "Sine my niolhcr," he cried. "I don't rnrti what hnppcna to me but BHve my mother I" The aherlff'i cur look them east tciwnrrj the Jem-tip of enra seeking anfety on Denver Bvenuo. I saw two men In a building, will) water swirling up to the windows. "They'll never get out," I thought, then turned nnd mil. Woman Hrreams A womnn, barefoot, was running ahead nf me. She moaned, then aorennird. I began lo move pn.it the packed rnra. Illgh-pltched acrenms rose over the ronr of car engines. There mt. But he got It and beat flood to anfety. I walked along the lop of the dike toward Denver avenue. It looked aa though the big Jam of people would make II. Then 1 aaw the water pour ing In from the north, making a Iwo-atorv drive at the aoulheaal corner where Denver and the south dike meet. Buildings began to drift In, Water Inched up. but slowed as It hit the Denver avenue fill. Soon It wna a quiet, dehrla-fllled lake. There were people still In some of the buildings thnt drifted In, Bonta went out after those who couldn't awlm. I hradrd toward Kenton, a bull- , nrha district half a mile from Van port. ! A young man In a baseball suit j with "Vanport Merchant" acroM j lt! cheat dug his cleats Idly Into the : ground. j "Clot what I got on." he said. "Oot i my family, loo; they got out." i nirena ncream ! I walked along the pavement I through the thouaanda of aight-seeis who Jammed ill place for mtlea; peat buaars ready to evacuate the people; and stepped aalde for alren arreamlng ambulances, police ears and fire engines. 1 came ebrrant a couple, the man carrying a child. Hit black curly hair waa wet. his clothes dripping. "Family all out?" "Yea." he said. "All out." His voice was far away. I looked and hla eyes were glaxed like a light, et'a before the lights go out. "Swim for II?" "Wife did. I carried the baby. Kwam, I gucaa. That's all I can aay; that ! all I know." He waa Larry Moran. Trlllng hla name termed an effort. Moat people couldn't do II. "Three people next to us didn't make It. I guru." he -aid. "A wom an and her child and her sister. We put the baby on top of the car and my wife and I held them but the water took them away. Then I took the baby and we got out. That's all I know that's all I know.' Henley Students Get Many Awards For Achievements HKNLEY. May 29 Dozens ot Henley high school students this week received awards and honors for achievement In the school year, j j ine awaroa were maae at a 1 ucn- day assembly, and began with sev- officers for the next school year wss nnounced when these new officers were presented. President, Harold lialln; vice president, George Btev eiwm; secretary, Betty Wlllhlte; treasurer, Ed Freur end fire chief. Glen Hllyard, Before the closing band number Mr. Francis Bkliiner presented 4-H awards to the following: Evelyn Mecham, Bally McMehon, Emilia McNolse, Rosemary O'Keefe, Ruth Alice George, Donald Btllwell, Jane Green, Bhellit Flnsnum, Raymond Tarwater, Terry Bherrlll, Albert Crapo, Jerry Kaylor, Gerol Spicer, Bandra Btaley, Honnle Hannon, Vir gil Yadon, Clarence Tollver, Ken neth Btrunk, Louise Hodges, Juan It Ledeama, Anne Curry, Margaret Jacobson, Wilbur Walker, Ralph Wise, James Roberts, Richard Rob erts, Warren Yadon, Betty McKune, Geneva Bwlft, Wilbur Hamesberger. Olga Btrunk, Nora Meeker, Dale Webber, Carolyn Dickson, Evelyn Haynes, Adam Hoffman, Ruth Haynes, Virginia Masten, Charles Sullivan, Oary Cunningham, Bill Miller, Charles Bhulmlre, Cells Bcala. Dean Weston, Don Weston, Ronald Kaylor, Hollls Klger, Dick Meeker, Edward Campbell, James Cheyne, Bobby Crapo, Dale Flem ing, Nina Mae Griffith, Marilyn Kendall, Kay O'Donshue, Peter Roll ing, Joy Ross, Leota Perry, Dwain Qulmby, Stanley Ralston. Margaret Scala, Jimmy Swift, James Barrett, Jackie Marshall, Helen Webber, Sharon Finchum, Dwayne Kester, Nora Meeker, Jean Tucker, Eleanor Jackson, Earl Mack, Oernldlne Mas ten, George Stevenson, Betty Bran-dej-ky, Oma Hoffman. Edgar Hoff man and Elaine Kendall. Dry Pea Crop Falls Short Of Total COLFAX. Wash., May 31 li Because of steady spring rains, farmers of Eastern Washington's rich Palouse district have planted less than a tenth of the expected 170.000 acres of dry edible peas. Troy Flndley. Whitman county agent, said less than 15,000 acres have been sown. Many farmers have already de cided to turn to oats and barley, he said, while others plan to let their land rest a year. The area produces a large por tion of the nation's dry edible pea crop. were: Mickey Rosano. Donna Dixon, George Stevenson. Wayne Gober, Marlln Snyder, Norma Augustus, Winifred Gober. Richard Hill. Char lotte Reed. Regina Hannon, Mary Dtllard, Clesson Mecham, James The Burmese celebrate Tagoo," their New Year festival, by dousing everyone with water. The lowest employe may Inundate his boss with complete Impunity. rr'eMsetteMWfc . 1 W rx 1 I . I eral numbers by the Henley band. I Human, Ben Sheppard. Mary Loutst j Then Clarence Adams, captain of Enman. Dale' Webber, Bill Short, the track learn, presented the slu- I Sam Dehlinger, Glen Hllyard. Elea- dent body with the trophy received 1 nor Jackson. Phillip Wllkerson and I by the track team for winning the ' Sally McMahon. state ' B championship. Prchcnla- ! Mickey Rosano was. presented the j lion to the school of a large trophy ; trophy for outstanding speaker of case was then made by Bob Murphy, the year. His. name- was placed on ciu preMueni, on oenan oi me ; the cup with the names of outstand class of 1948. ng speakers Iron, other years. Awards earned under the Oregon Reading certificates were Dresent- point system were presented by Mrs. I ed to all the members of the eighth George Elliott to the following girls, grade and the following students of WHITE WAFFLE CLOTH 29.50 Summer personified in a peplumed suit-dress made oil the more precious with rich gold tone buttons. Rippling, circular double peplum of the. long jocket flares out gracefully over the slim skirt. Sizes 8-18. 29.50 Pins: Jean Keller. Virginia Mnsicn; O's: Carmelle Adams, Jane Tuck er, Joan Webber and Betty Wlllhlte; H's: Jean Hltchmsn. Alelha Scholer. Betty Matney, Joan Williams. La the seventh grade: Shirley Sherrill, Robert Williams. Joan McPherson, Alice Newberry and Joyce Johnson. Mr. Elliott and Mr. Hannon were each nreKpnted a onlr! Icnffi anrt ! 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Hillsboro Man In County Jail Here Leonard Orlow Moon. 4.S. of Hills boro, Ore., was arrested late Friday and lodged In the county Jail on a warrant charging him with non support. Washington county authorities Issued the warrant and are sched uled to have an officer down early next week to take Moon back to Hillsboro. He was arrested at Diamond Lake the ; siding by Deputy Sheriff Marlon uarnes. Coach Max Marvin presented track letters to Clarence Adams, Marlyn Sheppard. Wayne Oober. Lyle Smith. Calvin Noble. Harold Balln. Dclbert Arant. Dale Webber and Scott McDonald:, and basket ball letters to Clarence Adnms. Har old Balln. Ben Sheppard. Calvin Noble, Richard Adnms, Wayne Go ber and Marlyn 8heppard. . Typing pin awards were given by Mrs. Christine Murray to Uiese stu dents who have typed M words or better k minute: Leota Peery, Opal Lewis and Marlon Carson. 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