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Univ. of Oragoa Library CUQEZiS, ORS'JO.'l C Check Flues Flues and heating systems rank as the major cause of home fires. A routine check up may prevent a major fire. THE BEMD BULLETIN CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Sf ate Forecast OREGON Cloudy with in termittent light rain in -northwest portion. Occas ional sprinkles today and Wednesday. Little tempera ture change. Volume LVII TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1947 No. 145 8 P f M Bids On Final North Unit Job Are Received Mud Spring Laterals To Be Constructed In Last Phase Of Work Adler Construction company, with headquarters in Madras, was, the low bidder this morning at $414,736 for construction of the Mud springs laterals and sub-laterals of the North Unit, the last large construction job remaining on the project. Construction of these laterals, Song with work already under contract, will make water, avail able to all portions of the'50,000 acre area Included in the project. All of the main irrigation canal which carries water from the headgate on the Deschutes river just below Bend Is either con structed or under contract. The Willow creek crossing near Ma dras is being rushed to comple tion by Morrison-Knudsen Com pany, Inc. Laterals and sub-laterals in the Agency Plains area are being built by W. C. Bau man company. Bidders Named The Adler company's bid today was more than 536,000 lower than the nearest competitor, George B. Henly Construction company, of Boise, which offered to do the work for $440,930. Other bidders were J. A. Terteling and Sons, Boise, $518,123.50 ; Morrison Knudsen Company, Inc., Boise, $536,179.50; W. C. Bauman Com pany, Portland, $612,047.50, and Spencer Webb company and War ner & Jeske, Eugene, $641,617. Results of the bidding this morning will be forwarded to the bureau of reclamation office at Denver, where final award of the contract will be made. Contractor Given Year Even with the award of this contract it is unlikely that the land the laterals will serve will receive water in time for the 1948 irrigation, season. The contractor will have almost a year in which to do the work and unless he is able to finish many months ahead of the deadline no water will flow to the Mud springs acreages until after the 1948 growing season. Construction of the Agency Plains laterals by the Bauman company is also under a deadline which may make completion late for the 1948 season.. It is unlikely that Bauman will complete that work before the middle of 1948. However, all project land south of the Willow creek crossing will probably have water before the 1948 season, local bureau of rec lamation officials state. Final Pole Up In Burns Line Final pole in the telephone line that is to link Bend and Burns directly across a 132-mile wide plateau was put in place yester day, and completion of the new line is set for the near future. The trans-plateau line is being constructed by the Oregon-Washington Telephone company, and was extended west toward Bend uum rsurns. The final pole was set up about five miles east of Bend, where 'he line links with the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. line to Alfalfa. Poles of the Pacific company will be used in extend ing Wil es inln RnnH frnm thn A I. Ifalfa junction. Wire Work Recessed wti. i l - "urs nave open erected on tne Jicw poles westward to a point f"juui a mncs east ot tienu, ad acent to the Central Oregon mnway. Alter tne Thanksgiving ay holidays, wire urnrlc will hp esumed. At present. Bend is without any Ill'PCt fplnnHnnrt mnnwillnn t.r,,h :e routed north to the Columbia, hen east to Baker and west to urns. fTA Membership Prive Ends in Tie The Robert Rrprkpnrirtpp find lie Hubert Bartlett families will ! l!M'nd Thnnksrrivlnrr tncpthpr 1Mb I'ar. Reason: the two Mrs. B.'s j icd for first nlncp in Ihp mem- f Men school P. T. A., and shared n the first prize a large oven cady turkey, presented by Web- Iter I.nv at thn mAatlno last (hursda'y In the Allen auditor im. Speakers at the meeting were ob Gamaee. Bov Scout execu tive, Mrs. Leo Bishop, and Ford furrell. The film, "Playtown. U. A.." Wa chnwn hv Phipf .Tnmpt lihnson, of the navy recruiting nation, one hundred members of he organization were present. Postmaster General Resigns After Buying Baseball Club Hannegan Heads Group Purchasing St. Louis Cards At Figure Reported To Be $3,500,000 Washington, Nov. 25 '0J.P) The white house today an nounced the resignation of Postmaster general Robert E. Hannegan. He will leave his post Dec. 1 to devote his full time as one of the members of a syndicate purchasing the St. Louis Cardinal baseball team. . President Truman will nominate Jesse M. Donaldson, now first assistant postmaster general, to succeed Hannegan. St. Louis, Nov. 25 '(TIE) The St. Louis Cardinals were sold outright today for an estimated $3,500,000 the largest trans action in baseball history to a group headed by Robert E, Hannegan. Chesf Reaches $11,000 Mark; Deadline Set The Deschutes county commu nity chest is over the $11,000 mark, Ernie Traxler, secretary for the campaign, reported today. Traxler has sent out a call for all campaign workers to turn in money before tomorrow evening and it is believed that these final amounts may bring the county total fairly close to the goal of worKers should turn in their cards and money either to Traxler or Walter G. Peak. The local campaign has been under way since November 3. Playfield Turfing Proposal Studied Two more years of physical education instruction are required in the Bend schools under state law, Claude T. Cook, director of this department, told the direc tors of district No. 1 at their meeting at the high school build ing last night. The additional work would come in the closing years of high school. Until the demand is made from state edu cation headquarters the Bend board will have opportunity-to consider how to provide more time for academic courses, which will otherwise be subject to en croachment as more physical edu cation is forced into the curricu lum. Cook discussed also with the board the possibility of fencing and turfing the half block across Bond street from the high school building. It is used intensively for outdoor classes, he pointed out but, depending on the weather, is ordinarily either dusty or muddy. Also needed, the physical educa tion director said, is the addition of a field at Allen school and de velopment of the vacant area, now chiefly used for parking, at the south end of the high school football field. Equipment Shown At the opening of the meeting the board attended a demonstra tion conducted by Howard Bil lings, high school instructor, of recently purchased visual educa tion equipment. Returning to the board room, the directors heard from superin tendent James W. Bushong a ie port that desks ordered last spring for new elementary rooms will not be available until next fall. At his suggestion the build ing and grounds committee was given the assignment of finding costs and obtaining plans for a garage to shelter five buses and one truck. The superintendent was authorized to hire an addi tional janitor. In the absence of Dr. G. W. Winslow. Glenn H. Gregg pre sided at last night's meeting. Dr. J. S. Grahlman, L. T. Standifer and Vance T. Coyner were other directors attending. SCHOOL RULING MADE Salem, Ore., Nov. 25 HPi A school board may deny a child admission to its school for the remainder of the school term after November 15 if the child was not six years old before that time, At torney general George Neuncr to day advised the state education department. Chief Of Federal Reserve System Proposes Lonaer Hours Of Work To Battle Inflation Washington, Nov. 25 1P Chair man Marriner S. Eccles of the federal reserve board today pro posed longer hours of work, in creased productivity and a mora torium on demands for increased wages. Business, Eccles said, should hold or reduce prices, since its profits have Increased. Those were parts of an anti inflation program which Eccles recommendpd to the joint con gressional economic committee headed by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O. He said he was speaking only for the board of governors of the federal reserve system, not for the administration. He attacked Remibllcan pro posals to combat inflation by cut ting taxes. And he said some of the things proposed by the ad The sale was announced at a press conference called by Sam Breadon, the little, white haired man who built the club in 27 years from a shoestring team into one of the most flourishing in either major league. Announces Resignation The announcement came a few minutes after Hannegan announc ed his resignation as postmaster general to take over active direc tion of the Cardinals. Hannegan previously had paved the way- for his taking, over presidency of the Cards by resigning from tne fat. Louis Browns board of directors. The transaction Included the Cardinals and the 20 minor league clubs they own or with which they have working agreements. Makes Statement A brief statement made by Breadon. after conferring with Hannegan at the Cards' office at Sportsman's Park, said only that the sale of the club had been ar ranged by Hannegan and Fred Sigh, Jr., a St. Louis attorney. He said the price paid by Han1 negan for Breadon's 75 per cent interest In the Cardinals would not be divulged. Other sources prevl ously had put the price involved in the transaction ar $3,500,000. 2 Trucks Damaged In Highway Crash A Consolidated Freight-way s truck and trailer and a truck op erated by Harvey Tohet, of Warm Spring Indian reservation, were badly damaged yesterday after noon in an accident on The Dalles-California highway several miles south of the Culver junc tion. The frelghtways truck and trailer, driven by M. D. Nice, overturned after the Occident and the other truck was considerably damaged. The two trucks side swiped while passing in opposite directions with the Tohet vehicle hitting the rear wheels of the frelghtways trailer. Caroline Tohet and Lewie Char les were passengers in the Tohet truck. Neither passengers nor drivers suffered any serious injury, it was reported to state police. Ducks Crash Into Glass On Shortcuts Charles Bishop, city superin tendent of parks, today suggested that Mr. and Mrs. Duncan L. Mc Kay place a "detour" sign on the plate glass windows of their new home fronting the Mirror pond. Ducks, on food-foraging flights to Riverside, are attempting to take shortcuts through the Mc Kay windows, and so far two of them crashed Into the glass, Bishop reported. From the river, it Is possible for the ducks to see directly through the McKay residence, due to the window arrangements. However, when shortcuts are at tempted, their flights halt at the glass. Bishop said one of the ducks was badly broken up following a crash. The window was un damaged. ministrationsuch as allocations, price and wage controls, and in stallment buying curbs are "curbs rather than cures" for In flation. Other developments on the anti inflation front: 1. Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder told the house bank ing committee the. best fiscal weapon against Inflation is a con tinuing budget surplus that can be used to reduce the national debt. 2. The senate banking commit tee delayed for several days a vote on renewing the Installment buying restrictions which expired on Nov. 4. Eocles laid before the join eco nomic' group a program calling for increased productivity herp and abroad, longer hours of work and a policy for everyone "to I A rXIUiy Meyers' Case Placed Before Federal Jurors Washington, Nov. 25 UP The government today formally open ed its drive to send retired air force Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Mey ers to jail for his wartime finan cial maneuvers and his alleged false testimony to a senate war investigating subcommittee. U.S. District attorney George M. Fay went before a district of Columbia federal grand Jury to ask criminal indictments, against Meyers for perjury and trying to induce others to commit per jury. These offenses carry maximum penalties of $2,000 fine and five years in prison. on conviction. Based on Testimony The government request is based on Meyers senate testi mony, whicn was a? variance with that of most other witness' es on many points, and on his alleged efforts to get two other witnesses to tell the senators a false story about his interest In an Ohio electric firm which got wartime subcontracts. Later the justice department will ask other indictments against Meyers that may Include such charges as conspiracy to defraud the government, income tax eva sion, war fraud and bribery. 'Records Identified First witnesses before the grand jury were Martin Smith, a stenotypist, and Kenneth Bowers, a transcriber. They formally Iden tified' the record of the senate hearings. These two were the only witnesses to appear before the jury today. In Albany, N.Y., meanwhile , it was learned that the New York state tax commission has started an investigation of Meyers' war time and post-war income. Mey ers bought a palatial Long Island estate when he retired from the air force on Aug. 31, 1945, and established legal residence there. But a state official said the com mission also was looking into Meyers' actual legal residence during the war, when he is al leged to have made $200,000 as head of Aviation Electric Corp., Vandalia, O. Loses Medals The army has stripped Meyers of his medals and his $549 monthly disability retirement pay. And as soon as the justice department finishes with him, the air force intends to court-martial Meyers in an effort to cut him dishonorably from the army rolls. ihe charges against him rose out of his own testimony and that of other witnesses before the senate investigating group. New Corvallis Chief Resigns Corvallis, Ore., Nov. 25 mi Corvallis had Its third chief of police In ten days today when Cecil Frultt, former Benton coun ty deputy sheriff, accepted the post In a temporary capacity. The job opened up for the sec ond time since Nov. 15 yesterday when Clarence L. Frankum re signed. Frankum, former Port land policeman, was hired by the city council Nov. 17 to fill the spot vacated by Charles Devln two days before. Resigning with Devln were six patrolmen. No reason was given for Frankum's resignation. work more and save more and spend less." He said future demands for wage increases should be sus pended, especially where the largest raises have been granted. Inasmuch as profits have increas ed, business should hold or re duce prices, he said. Ho endorsed Snyder's Idea of expanded sale of government sav ings bonds and President Tru man's proposal for legislation to glv the federal reserve system authority to restrict further over all expansion of bank credit. In this connection, Eccles pro cosed that all commercial hanks be required to set up a new tem porary special reserve of 25 per cent for demand deposits and 10 per cent for time deposits. This would be In addition to prrscnt reserve requirements. Breaking T7 1 y taei Up from Alley To 'lie hZhS: " -V vl ! t f i From a hungry alley cat to a first-prize winner on o satin cushion in two days is the success story ot "Mr. Silver," shown above with his blue ribbons. A hostess in the Hamilton Hotel in St. Louis, Mo., found him strolling into the hotel lobby just two days before the city's cat show started. So the fed, groomed and entered the cat in competition with fancy breeds. Result: "Mr. Sliver" walked off with best color class award for kittens and a first for participa tion in the non-championship class. , Ex-Yank Leads Moslems In War In In dia London, Nov. 25 lU'l-i-The Daily, Express reported today that Rus sell Haight, a former American soldier who now fights in cowboy boots and a 10-gallon hat, led 400 Moslems into action against Hindu troops Monday in Kashmir state. . Haight's wife and daughter live in Denver, Colo., correspondent Sydney Smith reported in a dis patch from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, near the Kashmir border. He said Haight was a former staff sergeant. "I am tickled to death to get into this little war," Haight was quoted. "I threw up a road build ing Job in Afghanistan to show the Kashmiris the commando fighting we learned in England." Between the big hat and the high-heeled boots, Smith said, Haight wore blue overalls and a GI field Jacket. Midstate Group Names Speaker The monthly meeting of the Central Oregon chamber of com merce will be held at 7:30 this evening In the Shangri-La dining room at Madias, according to Guy Wade, of Madras, secretary of the mid state organization. Guest speaker at the meeting will be W. S. Nelson, manager of The Dalles chamber of com merce and Oregon director of the Inland Waterways association, lie will talk on the subject of devel opment of Industrial sites by cities and will also discuss the proposed construction of a highway bridge over the Columbia river near The Dalles. Representatives from Bend, Re(V mond, Prinevllle, Culver and Madras chambers of commerce will attend Ihe dinner meeting. Bids on Grading . Of Cutoff Opened The state highway commission at Its meeting In Portland today I received bids for the grading of j 7.01 miles of the Clear creek For- est boundary section of the Warm ' Springs highway, with Smith . Bros, submitting the low offer, $2H7.878. The section of the highway Is j within national forest, west of Bear springs. This is the final spctlon of the shortcut to bo grad ed. "GUEST" RF.SPONSK GOOD Salem, Ore., Nov. 25 'IP' Re sponse to his plea for contribu tions to the "silent guest" pro gram for sharing Thanksgiving food with Europeans has been "ex tremely gratifying," Gov. John II. Hall said today. IT 7-JL C VV IWl DL IVICTI On Storm 'Swept Reef Satin Cushion Sportsmen Seek Higher Licenses Heavy increases In the price of hunting and fishing licenses will be one of the major recommenda tions to be made to the legislative interim committee when It holds its hearing here on December 6, it was decided by members of the Deschutes County Sportsmen's as sociation at a special meeting In the library auditorium last night. l he increases were proposed In a report prepared by a committee headed by Loyde Blakely. Resi dent hunting and llshlng licenses would both be increased from $3 to $5 and the combined hunting and fishing license would be in creased from $5 to $10. Non-resident licenses would remain at $15 for hunters, but a special deer tag would cost an out-of-stater $35, and an elk tag would cost $50. The non resident angling li cense would be boosted from $5 to $10 and the 10-day angling per mit would go from $3 to $5. A three-day angling license for non residents was voted down. Work Doubles It was argued that the cost of raising and planting fish, with all other work done by the game de partment, has more than doubled while license fees have remained at Ihe same level for years. In creased Income for Ihe game de partment would result in Its abil ity to do more work, It was slated. Among remedies for diminish ing fish and game supplies sug gested was a complete closure of seasons for several years. A re port suggesting this will be pre pared by Dr. P. W. Cherncnkoff for Ihe Interim committee. An other suggestion was a drawing, instead of general sale, to limit the number of deer tags and a re port on this will be written by Wilfred Jossy, who will also write a report on egg-taking operations on the Deschutes river above Crane prairie. A number of other local fish and game subjects have been as signed to club members by Presi dent Hob Wetlp for preparation of reports to lo made at the interim committee hearing. 2 Persons Killed In Italian Strife Rome, Nov. 25 HI'i Two per sons were killed today In a revival of Italy's three weeks of political violence. A communist and a Christian democrat were killed in a fresh outburst In Calabria privlnce, the southernmost part of Italy. An other communist was wounded. The fresh casualties raised to 22 the death toll In precisely three weeks of sporadic rioting through out Italy, t TV X Rescue Ship Reaches Stricken Craft, But Rough Seas Prevent Crew From Lowering Boats Seattle, Nov. 25 ".U.P) Coast guard headquarters here to day reported the 7,000-ton U. S. army freighter Clarksdale Victory was being buffeted by storm-swept seas and was breaking up on Hippal reef off the northern tip of Queen Charlotte islands. . Capt. Ben Asten, skipper of the Alaska Steamship com pany vessel Denali which reached the stricken craft's side at 9:20 a. m. (PST) after a 123 mile run from Tree point south of Ketchikan, Alaska, radioed only the forepart of the Clarksdale Victory was visible and that the rest of the ship was breaking up rapidly. : : ; Asten said he would attempt I to lower lifeboats in efforts to remove the 51 crewmen aboard the Clarksdale Victory -but added the task "might prove difficult because of winds of between 85 to 40 miles an hour a're whipping . off the North Pacific and sending huge waves crashing onto the reef shoreline." Section of Rock Hippal reef is a detached sec tion of rock situated at the mouth of Dixon entrance at the conflu ence of the Gulf of Alaska and tlie North Pacific off the west coast of northern British Colum bia. Cant. Asten s message to the coast guard here, said further It would be ' lmpossiDie to iana in lifeboats as 50-foot breakers were whipping onto the wreckage of the freighter." "We arc thinking. - of 'getting n Dartv to row around the island to see if any survlv0ra are ashore and we will let you know regard ing any furl tier developments. "The ship was broken in two at the No. 3 hold and on nas Decn sighted on the surface of the water." Gales Whip Reef Cant. Asten said gale force winds were whipping In off the North Pacific and there was dan ger the ill-fated freighter might be blown off Its rocky perch Into deep water. The Clarksdale Victory, under command of Capt. Gerald R. Lau geson, San Francisco, radioed at 4:30 p. m. (PST) yesterday It was proceeding southward through fog and mist aproximate- ly 95 miles northeast or yueen Charlotte Islands. The distress call was received here by the coast guard at 10:12 p. m. (PST) last night. Cargo Carried Seattle port of embarkation of ficials said the craft -was carry ing approximately 100 tons of gen eral cargo destined for Seattle. SI'OE officials said the manifest showed no passengers aboard the Clarksdale Victory. The freighter had departed Whittlcr, Alaska, situated on the southeast coast of northern Alas ka and was due in Seattle Wednes day. The ship was one of numer ous army vessels plying between Aleutian Island, Alaska points and Seattle. Public Speaking Class Considered Formation of a public speaking and sales psychology class will be discussed at a meeting to be held at 7:30 this evening In room 202 of Bend high school. The class will be open to nil residents of Uend and nearby area and will he taught by Howard L. Hillings, public speaking instruc tor in the high school. A nominal registration fee Will be the charge. only , Strikes In France Increase; World Isolation Now Faced Pails, Nov. 25 'Hi- Communist led strikes of 1.250,000 workers nearly throttled the industrial life of France today and a new communications strikp threaten ed to Isolate the nation from the outside world. There already was a partial strike of postal, telephone and telegraph workers last night when the communist dominated general confederation of labor ordered a complete walkout. Strikes of railroad men had ru! the movement of trains to Ihe vanishing point; shipping was re duced to a minimum because thn communists had tied up all ports. Coal mines and Ihe most essen tial Industries were closed. The railroad strike stopped A 7 J jtOUUrU Council Honors ; Former Chaplain Knights of Columbus present for a well-attended meeting at the Catholic parish hall last night bid their former chaplain, Father Edmund ' Hyland, farewell and wished him success in his new assignment as pastor of the Cath olic church in Roseburg. Father- Hyland will leave for southern Oregon this week end, and will be succeeded here by Father William Coughlan, who Is return ing to Bend from Roseburg. A highlight of the farewell party was the presentation to Father Hyland of a purse, as a token of esteem for the former chaplain.' The presentation was made by John Wetle. Plans were completed for the council's annual partyl,t9.ield Saturday night, at the parish hall. Proceeds from this party will be added to the contributions already received toward purchase of a 16-millimeter sound movie projector. This projector will be for the use of St. Francis school and the parish in general, officers of the council have announced. Bend Designated; For College Tests; Bend has been designated by the college entrance examination board of Berkeley, Calif., as a col lege entrance examination center for Central Oregon and will serve all territory in a 65-mile radius, It was learned here today. Formerly, students taking the entrance examinations requested by certain colleges and universi ties were required to go to Port land. Under the new setup, Bend will serve not only students In this city, but those in parts of three counties adjoining Deschutes Crook, Jefferson and Klamath. One of the duties of the new cen ter will be to give aptitude tests needed by various Institutions, as part of college entrance require ments. The first tests will be held In Bend next April 3. Wilfred Bur gess, member of the Bend high school .staff, will be in charge. According to word from Berke ley, Bend has been dlsignated as a permanent testing center for college students. ' It.O.T.C. TF.STS SET United States navy R.O.T.C. tests will be held in Bend on Sat urday, December 15, In room 221 of the Bend high school, with Wil fred Burgess of the high school staff in charge, it was announc ed today. Three-hour tests will be given applicants for college training under navy supervision. commuter as well as long dis tance trains. The national assembly was scheduled to meet today, but Ihere was no Indication whether it would discuss the strikes. It was not expected to take a vote of confidence on Premier Rolx'rt iSi'human's now crisis cabinet. I Schuman, who hail pleaded with the workers to get back to their Jobs , and his cabinet yes terday decided to offer the strik ers a general wage increase in an effort to get them hack to work. Minister of state Pierre Abelin said the cabinet also had decided to "take a number of measures which would establish public order and the liberty to work."- 6
