MONDAY, MAY SI, 1948
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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Here Is The Scene Of The Flight From Vanport
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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.
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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
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The final result of a recent stu-
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Hillsboro Man In
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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
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Coach Max Marvin presented
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Marlyn Sheppard. Wayne Oober.
Lyle Smith. Calvin Noble. Harold
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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.
Dick Hannon made the presenta
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