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<br />4 <br /> <br />MR. PUGH!!:: I'll tell you as b:l'htl,. as t can Just what <br />happenea.. In 1947 we had a pJ'etty SElvere flood, due largely <br />to ice J&ltl$ along the banks ot the Orooked Streem and 'ortlf1- <br />oation and t'8lIlP_, abOut three-fourths ()f a mUG 80utll of <br />I!1ghwaY 40 at Oro.lg. That was rather a serious flood; no <br />l1ves lost but oons1derabla proper~y daaage. ~he re8u1$ ot <br />tha.t, We gotln touch '141 th Ed Johnson, Senato'l.'JobnP.lon. He <br />unloaded oft GOVernor l.noue.and. GovemoJ' tnoue unloaCl,sd on the <br />IbRrd and the BotU'd baekon me. That h~:;!.ring was held \)n the <br />24th And 25th of Augu,t. 1948, tn whIch W~ dlsoussed ~lt. . <br />large reoord of that. <br />!hea. in 1949, the big AnoWS over there--lt WRS very' <br />apparent thAt ~fe were going to hll.VI1 e. flood of IllAJOl:" proportion <br />due to th"1 fll.Ot tlu>, t we had thrte t1ml'>S the ~nowfal1 on the <br />fortifloatlonOreek area tban WAS normal, and we ant10ipated <br />an lllllllense 1'1005. WI,>.. thel'$:f'ore, "allen 1Jhe Army EnglneeJ"lJ. <br />We got thelll to Cralg on tbe 24th of rebt"Ul1n, 1949. We <br />hlld .. Joint meeting With the town Board and. the Board of Oounty <br />001llllli?!!iOnel's. AftEll' MM111tlng with the LOA Angeles otf1o. <br />aboUt thirty minutes by telephone hook~d up with ou~ Engineers <br />by s:lU,en1l1oa phone 111 my ornee, they dt')clded they would send <br />10,000 sand bags and l',pproprls,te $10,000 for temp ora!''/" work. <br />fhey ~~nt to worklmmedlatelY the next day. They had bulldozers <br />and catA and everything she in there working, changed the <br />