1. KUGN Vanport; 2. Bob Lafollette; 3. Davidson--Sustained yield flood [illeg.] 48; 4. " " Sustained yield; 5. Sustained yield

This is Bloodborne of the KUGN Special Event Staff, speaking to you now by Special Wire Recording from Portland, Oregon. At the present time, we are at 3rd Anglican Street just on the west side of the Steele Bridge. At this point, there is all kinds of events going in at the Union Pacific Depot and they have men working here in different shifts attempting to keep the water from flowing back down into the streets here on the west side of town. We notice as we came over across the Burnside Bridge and also the Steele Bridge that the water seems to be approximately one foot from the top of the Sea Wall and that is not just the regular Sea Wall but they're up over the regular railing. It has just about a between a foot and a foot and a half yet to go and they are sandbagging that of course and filling in those little holes along the regular rail to keep the

water from pouring into the downtown section and of course they are watching that very closely. A few places water is seeping through but a certain amount of it is bound to come through. And around to our right of the corner, we can't get in any further because we are blocked out is the Union Pacific Depot which is nothing but what you might call a ghost station at the present time and that's where these man-made dikes are going in to keep this water from pouring out. The water is several feet deep all through the Union Pacific Depot there. It is absolutely void of any trains. There are a few freight cars there which they decide they would leave there I imagine rather than take the extra time to get those out and those cars are the water is clear up over the wheels of all those cars and it's just a veritable swimming pool all around there in fact it's a lake even to the point of fish jumping out over around the well-known circle there at the Union Depot and there are men working here at

top speed both the trucks bringing in the sand and gravel to make these dams and the men are then picking up this sand and gravel of course by means of Shuffle and Peelberrow in transporting it all along the way in order to help build up these these jetties. And at the present time they seem to be doing all right keeping it up. Nevertheless it is a tremendous amount of work being displayed there. Of course we're all kinds of sightseers down here as there always are in any place and as you've heard undoubtedly over the radio previously today even down in Eugene while they were having considerable amount of trouble keeping sightseers out of the way. We were up at Red Cross headquarters a few moments ago and seeing what it looked like from up there. Communication seems to be very well in hand and a little bit later on we're going to go up there and interview a few of the displaced persons from over in

the housing area. That's all from this point. At the present time now ladies and gentlemen we are standing right at the seawall here between the steel bridge and the burnside bridge. In fact we have our arms over here and we notice that there are a couple of feet yet before it does get over although there is a certain amount of water that seeps through which of course water amount to very much. The coast card is standing by with one of their household units up to our left here right up next to the steel bridge to watch operations along the river here and the seawall as it rises. We are also standing right here within a few hundred feet of the steel bridge and we notice that the railroad span is open at all times now because of there not being any more railroad traffic coming through. The tracks are mainly covered and small

craft can get through yet although there is only about 20 feet even with the railroad span raised between it and the water line. That's just about all from this point. I'm here in Eugene on a trip which started in Los Angeles as vice president of the Sears & Rollbuck Foundation which works very closely with the extension service and the vocational educational people. I've come out to California, Oregon and Washington for the purpose of checking up on the various projects which we have in these Pacific Coast states. I'm going on to a lunch in the snow at Corvallis

where we will meet the boys at Oregon State who are there under Sears & Rollbuck Foundation scholarships. As some of you may have seen I've been designated by the Secretary of Interior to handle a mobilization for relief of the departmental agencies in connection with the flood devastation in Van in Portland and in the North West. This morning I had a meeting of all of the interior agencies and subsequent to that I've met with General Wheeler and the representative of the Federal Wikes Agency in trying to make the necessary plans

for the federal agencies to assist in this flood disaster. Unfortunately it is going to be necessary for me to leave earlier than I had here to for expected to get back to Portland because of that situation. I was with this committee until 12.30 the army had just flown me down the plane is waiting at the field to get me back up there but I had agreed and I wanted to come down here to talk over this decision today. On our way down from Portland and flying over that now to the decision itself I should like face the state very briefly our decision on each of the three points and then proceed to explain in some detail

and give our reasons for it. First the department has decided that it will approve on the certain circumstances and conditions which I shall explain later cooperative agreements with owners of the end of Mingle Private Lands for the purpose of providing economic stability to communities dependent upon timber for their livelihood. Second the department has not approved the execution of a cooperative agreement with official lumber company because no agreement has yet been reached. Okay I'm the public hearing was held in January there were several points with respect to which no agreement had been reached between the official lumber company and the Bureau of Land Management.

When in the course of the hearing it became clear to us that if we proceeded with cooperative agreements at all it would be on the basis of a revised form of agreement we concluded that no further negotiations should be undertaken until a decision had been reached on the entire matter. Presumably negotiations will now proceed with the official lumber company to see whether an agreement can be reached under the revised terms and conditions for cooperative agreements which we are today establishing. Third no action will be taken to establish the Mohawk Sustain Geo Unit until it is determined whether negotiations with the official lumber company are likely to result in a cooperative agreement. On our way down from Portland and flying over that devastated area and it hit me rather hard because as a resident of Portland I had

seen Vanport rise seeing the buildings completed and now it's completely enchambled. One begins to realize how we must handle our natural resources. Here we have a great river which is meant so much in his meaning so much to this area in its power, reclamation and navigation benefits but when it gets out of control it wreaks havoc in destruction. Proper planning for that river may prevent such things from happening again.