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...surgical and industrial face masks, if they could find any, and there was arun on pantyhose to protect auto carburetors. When a light drizzle began turning the ash into a pasty goo, even street sweepers and water hoses seemed to be of little help. In Washington's agricultural Cowlitz County, the ash found its way into electrical transformers, causing short circuits and blackouts. In nearby Toledo, Wash., farmers feared that continued power outages would disrupt milking and leave chick en coops unheated during cold nights...
With the latest eruption, the estimated loss to crops, timber and property rose to nearly $1.5 billion. The cost of the cleanup is staggering. Mud dumped into the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers must be dredged out. Roads and bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...
...four-state manhunt was immediately launched. FBI agents, along with more than 30 officers of the Clark and Cowlitz county sheriff's departments, set up a command post and fanned out through a thickly timbered corridor 15 miles long and ten miles wide near the towns of Longview and Ariel in southwest Washington. The area is densely forested enough to present a serious hazard to the jumper if he did not make the clearing. Said Undersheriff Tom McDowell: "We're either looking for a parachute or a hole in the ground...
MORE POWER PARTNERSHIP is in store for Northwest. Pacific Power & Light Co. has signed deal with Washington State's Cowlitz County Public Utility District to develop Upper Lewis River in $56.7 million project to produce 256,500 kw. by 1958. Pacific Power & Light will build and own main dam and powerhouse producing 189,000 kw., while PUD will spend $15 million on smaller, 67,500-kw. downstream powerhouse, get 26% of overall power produced...
...members trooped into the White House state dining room for luncheon. The occasion was to be strictly social; they were to meet the President and Cabinet and quietly absorb 32 pounds of smelt which an American Legion post had just sent from the State of Washington's Cowlitz River...