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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1955)
PAGE FIGHT Two HitRun Accidents Told Two minor hit and run accidents occurring Friday evening were re ported loday by the Klamath Falls office of the Oregon State Police. F 3 Edmondson, 3203 Crest, ! reported that his auto was nil XHK akkociateD PRESS iters of aid from the American Red i while he was parked ne Alia Oregon Eyes Flood Loss; Rivers Down "HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Critical Period In Lost River Area About Over SUNDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1955 i. ai. - - in .i. n I Pi..4k Pal fnra a a SUTiail . iiuuus. nn-uiuu w 1 iween me nainry ui iMHmam rails ,n. - t Kinn-lav mnrnino- i hi and Klani&Ui Coun.y. Oioson. on 1 town at the moutn oi me iuaiiu.u. ..",, hnt the one hand, and Klamath, Call-! River In Humboldt County. California tow fomi cn th nJier. ! suffered severe damage due toll feet of water Friday evening. Government and private agen. cles offered assistance as Oregon surveyed its storm and flood dam age Saturday. The death toll In the three-day series of storms that sent Western Oregon streams surging over their banks had risen to five. Two other persons were reported missing. Cecil Connor. 37. of Mllo. drowned Friday in the flooding Umpqua River 60 miles southeast of Roecburg. He and a compan ion, John Hall, 56. also Mllo. were attempting to cross the river in a rubber raft which capsized. Hall was rescued. A belated reoort from Pendleton told of the death Wednesday of Bert Gladney, 41. Pendleton, wno was fatally shocked when he clipped and fell on a storm-downed power line. Elmer Leonard, 25, and his brother, Richard, 21, were be lieved to have drowned In swift Columbia River near Mosler, east of their Hood River Valley home. Tne men. who make their living ing fishing nd trapping, were last reported seen Thursday altcmoon in a small bout on the river. Later In the day wind gusts of 60 to 70 inilrs an hour swept down tho liver. At Snlem Gov. Paul Patterson irportcd the stale has received of-1 Cross and from federal agencies Secretary of Agriculture Benson said that food supplies, Including surplus farm products would be made available to badly stricken areas. Ellsworth Bunker, president of Ihe Red Crosj, said that all the organization's resources for emer gency care would be made avail ableIncluding long term assist ance In rebuilding and repairing homes, medical assistance, and providing household and other nec essary Items lost In the flood. The Small Business Administra tion also was standing by. Generally flood waters were re ceding In most areas as rainfall slowed and temperatures lowered decreasing the mountain snow melt. Vast areas of ground, partic ularly in southwestern Oregon, still remained under varying depths of water. New flood troubles were appear Ing In northwestern Oregon, how ever. The flooding Columbia was backing up the Willamette River at Portland and the Tualatin snllled over its banks flooding the little farming community of the I same name. A number of persons evacunled their homes there as the waters rose. Meanwhile the Willamette at Portland and the lower Columbia at Vancouver were rising swiftly. lowering flow at Malone and Har- rr.ont Grocery at about 6:10 p.m. Friday. ! ..... - 1o rviuKInn I cnesier : jd.. pold dams on the Lost River. He T",f Vh.i, u was parked on id that thl should place the Su'r'b. the crest of floods in the vicinity Home Lumber Company and the of oiene. Soot Tavern Friday evening. At that time, there had been no o.i. .n .aid that the other slackening of the flow at the Lost driver involved failed to leave his 1 River Diversion Dam southeast of ciiaiiiabji una. fic amu mm uic flow at the dam will diminish more slowly because of the need to dis pose of the accumulation of water between the dam and Olene. The flow at Malone Dam at the upper (south 1 end of Langell Val ley was 800 second feet at 0 a.m. Saturday compared to 2,250 sec ond feet at noon Friday. At the Harpold Dam at the head of Poe Valley, the flow at 10 'a.m. Sat urday was 2,560 second feet, com- The critical period of the Lost pared to 2.660 second feet at the River floods should be over' by same time Friday, tonight, J. Pitts Elmore, project! The flow at the Lost River Di manager .for the Klamalh Recla-1 version Dam has been divided with matlon Project, said Saturday. jaboui 2,500 second feet going into He based this prediction, made j the diversion channel to be car at about noon Saturday, on the 1 rled to the Klamath River and Man Wounded In Demonstration A man acoidently shot himself early Saturday morning while show ing his wife how to operate a revol ver, the Klamath Falls office of the Oregon State Police reported today. Francis E. Decker. 5032 Harlan Drive, was wounded in the left leg by a .22 caliber bullet from the gun, and was hospitalized so that the bullet, which was lodged in the flesh, could be removed. Slate police said that the wound did not appear to be serious. The Incident occurred at about 6 a.m. Saturday. about 1.000 second feet going down in Lost River channel to the Tule- lake Sump. The 2.500 second foot figure, he said, fills the diversion channel to capacity, and made It neces sary to send the remaining wa ter down the old channel. He said that sudden critical de velopments upstream from the di version dam could change this pic ture, but that the -cold weather prevailing Saturday made this "very unlikely." Meanwhile, the Klamath Falls chapter of the American Red Cross reported it had been receiv ing offers from all over the coun try of aid for flood victims here. Red Cross officials said that thjs was probably due to confusion be- To You and Yours . fi" Sears Roebuck & Co. v Employees - J- WANT ADS DON'T COST ther v: To fell, rent, hire, recover low Most Highways Open Normal Operation HiKhways radiating from Klam alh Falls are returning to normal artcr flood conditions, but there are still several major closures. The Willamette Pass highway Is closed by a 100 foot washout which will not be repaired for at least several days. U.8. 67 north and south was open Saturday, and the Santiam Pass and Warm Springs cutoff routes to Portland were taking care nl most of the traffic which would normally use the Willamette route. In California, U.S. 99 was open fo Red Bluff, and U.S. 99W was open all the way to the Bay Area. U.S. 0HE was open to Marysville, but was flooded from there south. U.S. 395 was closed at Litchfield, north of Susanville, and U.S. 299 from Lakeview to Redding was closed at Fall River Mills. South bound trnlflc from Tulclake was being turned back at Canby. This means, according to tho Oregon State Motor Association iTriple A), that motorists from the Lakeview area heading for Cali fornia must ro via Klmnnth Falls and Weed. HlRhwny 06, which was closed east of Bly has been re opened. Iloth United and West Coast Air lines operated normal service yes terday, and plan to operate normal holiday service today unless the weather prevents them from doing so. Tile Soulliern Pacific operaled special passenger truins over ihe , Siskiyou line through Ashland Sat urday night, and will resume serv ice on tile Daylight, operating via the Siskiyou line. Monday, accord ing to Tom McCarry, Klamalh Falls district passenger and freight agent. McCarry said there will be nn passenger service loday. The specials were due at Ash land at 3 a.m. for the southbound train and 5:30 a.m. for the north bound. Mall trains are being operated between San Francisco and Port land via the Siskiyou line with mall for Klamath Falls being trucked from both north and southbound trains from Weed. Freight trains which were stuck 111 Klamath Falls because of the washout at Cruzette, 70, miles south of Eugene, were diverted from Chcmult to Portland via the Great Northern. The Southern Pa cific is handling perishable lrelght bound for Oakland which would normally have moved over the Great Northern and the Western Pacific via Bleber and Keddle, California. The W.P. has several washouts on its Feather River line. Mall and express cars Which were on Train 20, the Klamath, which was annulled here on Thurs day, were token back to Black Butte and sent over the Siskiyou line. The locomotive and passen- when the line Is opened, McCarry said. Meanwhile. L. R. Smith. S.P. Portland division superintendent, said yesterday at Eugene that It would be "several days" before Ihe slide at Cruzette Is repaired. A contract to repair the damage has been signed with the Morrison Knudsen Company of Boise, which began assembling crews yesterday at Klamath Falls. Some construc tion men were due to, be on the Job site yesterday afternoon. Several top S.P. officials, includ ing President D. J. Russell, As sistant General Manager W. D. Lamprechl and W. H. Jaekle,' in spected the slide damage yester day. The official party returned as tar as Dunsmuir yesterday after noon, and was scheduled to return to San Francisco today. Bus service had returned closer to normal yesterday. Willi all Pa cific Highway buses being returned !o the Pacific Hlsthway. Buses normally using the Willamette Pass highway were operating via uenn. ger cars are being held here, and and will continue to do so until will probably be sent to F orunnd 1 the damage is repaireu. CALVIN L. HUNT, M.D. Wishes to announce the removal of his office to ' 4036 So. 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