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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, ORSUOa THE BEND BULLETIN N CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER State Forecast OREGON Considerable cloudiness, scattered show ers and thunderstorms today and tomorrow. Cooler today, especially in extreme east portion. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE Volume LVIII TVO SECTIONS .BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1948 No. 148 Central Oregon's Acute Power Shortage To Continue To Fall, PUC Of ficials Told At Hearing Growth of Demand in Region From 5,000 to 1 4,000 Kilowatts Told; Connection With Area Pool to Alleviate Situation, Witness Says Redmond, May 28 The acute power shortage in Central Oregon will continue until September or October, it was dis closed yesterday at a P.U.C. hearing at Redmond, and planing mills and moulding plants will be forced to continue opera tions on part-time day schedules until then. The hearing, which resulted from a complaint by Dant and Russell, Ltd., of Redmond, was called by John H. Carkin, public utilities commissioner, to determine if discrimination Oregon Wildlife Federation Opens Bend Conference The Oregon Wildlife federation opened its two-day quarterly meeting here this afternoon with sportsmen from all parts of the State on hand. Sessions are being presided over by James Loder, of Portland, federation president. Outstanding speaker for the two-day convention is Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, president of the Wild life Management. Also present for the meeting are members of the state legislative interim commit tee on fish and game. This committee is headed by Rep. William Niskanen, of Bend. Other members are John Eblnger, of Klamath Falls; Lew Wallace, of Portland; Loder, and Carl Hill, of Roseburg. Hfll is the only mem ber who will not be able to attend the meeting here. Arrangements Made Local arrangements for the convention have been made by the Izaak Walton league, Deschutes County Sportsmen's association and the fish and game committee of the Bend chamber of com merce. .Theconvent)qn committee m. "vi:,iMun tuuviuiLcc jtne gaem office. Carkin was un of the Bend chamber, with EarleKbietob presem ... .. .. C Mav ar chairman.' fllsn fissistpd I o ..i C. May as chairman, also assisted with convention arrangements. President of the! Waltonians is Dr. W. G. Manning. Kenny Gales heads the sportsmen's association and John Wetle and C. J. Morgan are co-chairmen of the chamber fish and game committee. Registration for the convention started at 10 a.m. today and early arrivals for the convention includ ed: Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Den nen, of Cottage Grove; H. S. To bin, James H. Bond, M. Roy Del ter, C. F. Henne and W. J. Smith, of Portland. Names Continued Henry Niemela, Astoria; Fred E. Lanzer, La Grande; W. E. Roper, Fred M. Anders and L. C. Kramien, Hillsboro; H. H. Pet tengill .and Francis H. Arnes, Newberg; Alva L. Day and Max L. Moore, Hood River; Russell H. Nichols and W. I. Embree, of Cas cade Locks, and W. R. Kurtz, of Madras. Local chairmen said they ex pected about 150 out-of-town sportsmen for the meeting. The two-day convention sched ule includes the general session this afternoon, a reception at the Copper room at 5:30 p.m. and a banquet at 7 o'clock this evening at the Pilot Butte Inn. Guest speaker at the banquet will be Dr. Gabrielson. U Tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. the final general session of the conierence will be held. tf A. . a . . . . C77, Carol Eileen, Joins Fifteen Boys At Bend Hospital trs a Bin " Carol Eileen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Duffy, of Route 3, Bend, was born yesterdav at St. Charles hospital. She weighed " pounds, 15 ounces. Hospital attendants said today that the "all hnv" annll In hrnWun Carol is the first girl born at the hospital since a straight run of io uoys. Highway Routes Beina Renairerl a 1 A state hiehwav denartment crew is working in Bend today Haii-ning wall street and other streets on h i a h w n v mutes through the city. The crew Is "fmg a paving mix prepared at a Deschu9' "P n hlghway 97 at After completion of the work In a me plant will move south on "gnway 97, , TO CLEAR MYSTERY WaShtnotnn Vfn.. no ,tu. nm. - , ft".., mnj' M 'ui i UK mv. " 800n mav clear "P the r.T" I whether its rocket- KT- xs-1 P'ane has ever T lounT" 'aS,Cr than the Spced l had occurred in curtailing op- erations of the planing mills and moulding plants.' Between 2,700 and 2,900 kilowatts are used by the 12 affected operations in Bend, Redmond and . Prineville. Available power will make it possible' for about one-third of this load to be on between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. At 4 p.m. the entire load can be carried by the system. Affected plants include: Pon derosa Moulding, Inc., Tite Knot Pine Mills and Dant & Russell, Ltd., of Redmond; Bend Lumber Products and Oregon Trail Box company, of Bend; and Alexan-der-Yawkey Lumber company, Pine Products company, P. E. Barnes, Midstate Lumber com pany, Evans Lumber company, Hudspeth Sawmill company, Prineville Lumber company and Prineville Box company, of Prine ville. Conference Arranged A conference of operators and representatives of the power com pany was arranged for this morn ing at Prineville at which a sched ule will be made up to decide the order in which plants would share daytime operation. Yesterday's hearing at Red mond was conducted by David Don. chief engineer for the con mission., with Ed L. Graham and C. E. Wilson also present from ueoiKe -1. J3iUK, vac uiwiuciu of Pacific Power and Light com pany, explained tne tremenaous growth in power demands in the Central Oregon area, an increase from 5,000 kilowatts in 1940 to 14.000 this year. Bragg said connection with the northwest cower pool to make 6.000 kilowatts available this fall and another 6,000 available early in 1949 will solve the shortage, in. sulators. Conner and other ma terials for the Cove-Tygh valley line were ordered In 1946 and are now on hand for instalaltion of the line. Poles are gotten out now by company crews. Bids for line construction are to be received before June 1 with completion of the line set for October 1. To Spend $380,000 As an emergency measure to get more power out of steam Dlants at The Shevlin-Hixon Com. pany and Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., mills at Bend, the power com. pany is spending $380,000 this year In the transportation of saw dust, slab and other material to feed the steam Doners, mis amount is more than 51 per cent of the company's gross revenue In the Deschutes area in 1947, Bragg said. At Brooks-Scanlon's mm "A" coal stokers are being used and two carloads of coal are be ing burned each day for power Droduction purposes, Bragg credited the two Bend mills with cooperation far beyond the r contract obligations. Bragg said the new line should solve local power problems as long as the northwest regional pool holds up. He admitted there will probably be a deficiency in the annual pean period in uecem ber and January, but said that this peak deficiency in the north west pool occurs in the evening and not in the daytime hours. Will Tap Power Don R. McClung, the power company's superintendent of op erations, said the Tygh valley Cove line would add 6,000 kilo (Continued on Page 5) Arabian King Walled City of Jerusalem. May 28' nil King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan made a triumphant entry Into the old walled city of Jerusalem yester day to pray at the grave of his father, it was disclosed today as the battle for Jerusalem continu ed along a 15-mile front from here to Latroun. Abdullah entered Jerusalem amid the roar of exploding artil lery and mortar shells as troops of his Arab legions demolished the Inst houses where Jewish sui cide squads of some 500 men still are holding out. The main battle for Jerusalem was being fought out in the hills to the west, Large Arab forces, Portland Braces FofWorst Flood In 50 Years Walled Lettermen Initiate Candidates Bob Hegge, Photo Arts Studio In their final public appearance of the 1947-48 school year, Lava Bear Lettermen club members yesterday afternoon paraded ini tiates through downtown Bend. As part of the initiation, the candi dates were required to roll a steel ball, with nose power. Bruce Longballa, left, and Ken Brown are pictured in action while Delbert Fickas, Sam Lackaff and Larry Standifer assist in the background. Time Pondered; Prineville Acts Prineville today was the first Central Oregon city to adopt day light saving time, with clocks to be moved one hour ahead June 1, one minute after midnight. The city council In the Crook county town has authorized the action, and Mayor R. P. McRae has is sued a proclamation calling on residents of the area to move their clocks up Tuesday morning. In Bend, the retail merchants committee of the chamber of commerce has endorsed the switch to daylight saving time, in conformity with action taken by Portland and other Oregon cities. A poll of business places indicat ed that merchants generally are in favor of the change, accord ing to a chamber spokesman. Meeting Called Mayor Hans Slagsvold said to day that a meeting of the city commission will be held later to day to determine whether city employes will be put on the new time schedule. County judge C. L. Allen said today that courthouse employes will remain on standard time. A recent opinion by the attorney general pointed out that an act of the legislature would be neces sary to put the state on daylight saving time. Transportation, facilities will remain on standard time to avoid conflict with schedules to outly ing points. CROSSWALKS PAINTED Yellow crosswalks on down town streets are being repainted this week by a city street crew. The work is being done with a painting mdchlne purchased by the city for street marking. Park ing space lines were painted last week with the machine. Makes Triumphant Entry Into Jerusalem, Prays at Tomb both Trans-Jordan and Egyptian, have been reported thrown Into the battle around Latroun and Bab el Wad to keep the highway closed and starve out the Jews in modern Jerusalem. The battle for new Jerusalem is expected to start soon. Ad vance units of the Arab legion have taken up positions within the new city and units of their artillery are softening up targets there. Jews In the old city, fighting back with rifles and machine guns against artillery, mortars and mines, appear prepared to die amid the ruins of their houses ra ther than sumnder, City Of Jerusalem Seized, Say Won by Girl In 85th Try Washington, May 28 (U'l Jean Chappellear, 14, of Black Horse, O., today won the 21st annual na tional spelling bee. The blonde eighth grade stu dent defeated Darrell Flavelle, 14, of Washington, D. C, to win the 1948 crown. After these two, as survivors of 40 contestants from all parts of the country, battled it out for 45 minutes, Darrell misspelled "oligarchy." He spelled it "alle garchy." Jean waited until the judges had declared Darrell wrong. Then She stepped up to the microphone and spelled the word correctly. She cinched her right to the title by correctly spelling the next word, "psychiatry." Jean won in the 85th round. She and Darrell battled through 114 words until he stumbled on oligarchy. More than 600 words were used before the contest ended. P.I.T.A. Trapshoot To Open Saturday Trapshooters from many parts of the state and several Washing ton points will be gathering in Bend tonight for a registered shoot to be held here over the week end under auspices 'of the Pacific International Trapshoot Ing association. The Bend Trap club is the host group and In charge of arrangements. Competition will get under way tomorrow at 1 p.m., with Sunday contests to start at 9 a.m. The registered shoot, with $650 In ad ded money, will continue through Monaay. Thousands of legionnaires and Arab residents of the old city lined the streets and cheered when Abdullah entered Jerusalem through St. Stephen's gate after a flying trip from his capital of Amman. Abdullah, dressed in a khaki military uniform topped by the Arab headdress, went straight to the tomb of his father, Sheriff Hussein, at the Dome of the Rock. From there he crossed a sec tion of the Jewish quarter and knelt to pray at-the mosque of Omar, historic Moslem place of worship only a few hundred yards from the battle Una, it Defenders Quit As Fire Shells Hit Buildings Tel Aviv, May 28 (111 The Arabs reported officially today that they had completed the con quest of the old walled city of Jerusalem by forcing the surren der of 400 to 500 Jewish defend ers who made a last desperate stand. . The Arab armies announced in Amman. Trans-Jordan, seat of the Arabic high command for the Palestine campaign, that the Jew ish defenders of the ancient quar ter ot the holy city had abandon ed their hopeless fight. Last Posts Leveled The latest Jewish reports of the plight of the Israeli troops in the old city lent weight to the Arab claim. They had said Arab demo lition crews and shock troops were systematically leveling the last posts of the few hundred Jews, who were described as sui riJc squads. United Press correspondent Sam Souki reported from Am man that the Arabs said only 400 grimy survivors were left of the 1,500 or so who began the defense of that part of Jerusalem within the ancient walls. Jewish sources had set the figure at perhaps 500. A telephone message from Je rusalem to Amman carried word of .the surrender. It said air re sistance in the old city (teased this .morning. , .... ..rtA " The deputy chief of staff of the Aiab legion was reported to have supervised the surrender. Some women and children were reported among the last group to give up. The Jews were understood to have been down to their last rounds of ammunition when the Arab legion shock troops prepar ed for a final charge against their positions. A Jerusalem message to army, headquarters here said the Arabs were using incendiary shells on the people of the holy city. The Jewish quarters were under "con. riant fire," the message said. It added that most of the victims were women, children and old people. 139 BHS Seniors To Be Graduated Summer vacation started today in Bend for high school and grade school pupils, with distribution of report cards at 11 a.m. climaxing the year's activities. Bend's 40th annual commencement exercises, marking the completion of 12 years of public school education for 139 seniors, will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in the school gymna sium. Chancellor Paul C. Packer, of the Oregon state system of high er education, will deliver the com mencement address. The program will open with the processional, "Pomp and Circumstances," by Elgar, played by the high school orchestra under the direction of Joseph T. Haugen. as the seniors march to the stage and take their places on the platform. Will Deliver Invocation Rev. Walter I. Watson, presi dent of the Bond Ministerial asso ciation, will deliver the Invocation and benediction. R. E. Jewell, Junior-senior high school princi pal, will announce special honors and awards, and James W. Bush- ong, city school superintendent, will present the class of 1948. Dr. G. W. Wiaslow, chairman of the school board, will present the diploinax. hpeclal music will Include a baritone solo, Dickson's "Thanks Be to God," by Bob I locker, ac companied by Mariorle Tobias The girls' trio, composed oh Joyce Douglass, Gcorgann Wins. low and Jean Cuffln. acompanlcd by Gretta Nelson, will sing "The Last Chord," by Arthur Sulllcan, As a recessional, the high school orchestra will ' play "Marche Romalne, by Gounod, CONFERENCES HELD Washington, May 28 un The White House today held new con. fcrences with unions and manage ment In an effort to settle the na tionwide railroad dispute. River Covers Town in Idaho' Water Reaches to Windows Bonners Ferry, Ida., May 28 IP The town of Bonners Ferry was turned over to the conquering Kootenai river today. Flood waters which burst a downriver railroad embankment yes terday continued their sullen rise as they slowly pushed aside all obstructions and covered the main part of town. The water was a foot deep on Main street and was Inching upward. Townspeople who were sticking it out here could do little but watch the river engulf the town. They thought the main business district would be flooded to a depth of about three feet. Army engineers said parts of town would be as much as seven feet under if the river continued to rise. River stages fluctuated as the greedy Kootenai gouged more dikes. Two more small diked farming districts near the Canadian line were lost last night, bringing the total of flooded farmlands in the Koote nai valley to 24,000 acres. , Slight Drop Reported The Kootenai stood at 34.7 today, almost a foot under yesterday's high, but upriver points continued to report the river was still rising. The river was up three-tenths of a foot at Llbby, Mont. Flood waters reached window height this morning In many evacu ated homes on the west side of town. Townspeople saw only one bright spot in all the devastation. Dikes above the city continued to hold, and the flooded town was at least escaping the ravaging current which could have swept away the foundations of their homes and shops. Dr. Paul Packer Forum Speaker; Problems Aired The importance of bringing ex isting parts of the state higher education system to top shape in stead of spreading out by adding new schools was stressed by Dr. Paul C. Packer, chancellor of the system, in a talk to Bend chamber of commerce members this noon at the Pine Tavera , ' ' AddittefBi jrf uwfcools and courses in the system would pull the entire structure down to "dull mediocrity," Dr. Packer said. More Space Needed The speaker stressed the need for heavy additions to the physi cal plant of the system to handle its present enrollment of 17,416 students. That number compares with 7,000 in 1930 and 9,000 In 1941. He said heavy requests for funds would be made at the 1949 session of legislature. Continued high enrollment in the schools is a certainty, he said. The present enrollment is swelled by students under GI educational benefits. The increase in the state's popu lation and the high birth rate of the past few years will keep the schools full for many years, he said. Additional costs must be met if the schools are to keep top-flight personnel. Colleges must bid against other institutions and pri vate Industries for qualified per sonnel, he said. Oregon salary scales are lower than In many other states and average $1,300 les than those paid in Washing ton colleges. Opposition Explained No state can cover every field of higher education, he said. It was for this reason, Dr. Packer said, that he opposed the estab lishment of a school of veterinary medicine In the state last year. It is better for the few students In this field to go to established schools, he concluded. J. W. Bushong, chairman of the chamber forum committee, pre sided at the session. Gordon H. Randall, chairman of the mem bership committeeo introduced the following new chamber mem bers: Paul Bogen and Boyd Jossy, Mrs. P. R. Buckingham, Mrs. Al meda J. Hoist, and James Faught. Contestant Introduced Miss Joyce Davis, of Redmond, Central Oregon contestant In the Miss Oregon contest, was Intro duced and sang two songs, "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice," and "Little China Figure." She was accompanied on the piano by Miss Joan uailoway. Accompanying the elrls were Tommy Thompson, chairman of the Miss Central Ore gon committee, and Mrs. J, C Line, both of Redmond. Explorer Scouts Plan for Outing Scouts of Explorer patrol 120, sponsored by the Elks lodge, plan another outing to Shevlln park on Wednesday, June 2, wltn a wiener roast scheduled and soft ball games billed, it was announc ed today. The boys will be accom panied by Chief Jim Johnson and A. T. Nlebergall. It was alsb announced today that the Explorer scouts have contributed $10 to the memorial hospital campaign from their lim ited unit funds. Class Prexy , - . f VVjT , , it- 85? 's 'Uv ' r PX J WA,? t n i.ir Jl Don Benson heads the Bend high schol senior class that will be graduated tonight when commencement exercises are held in the gymnasium audi torium. There are 139 seniors in the class. Don Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Benson. Straus Is Target In Money Bill Washington, May 28 (IT) The house has passed the biggest in terior department appropriation bill In history, with a rlcler that would force the dismissal of Rec lamation Commissioner Michael Straus. The $375,727,591 measure was approved and sent to the senate by voice vote. . Before final passage the house: 1. Voted to require that the rec lamation commissioner, his as sistant, and all regional reclama tion directors must have had 10 years of engineering experience. Neither Straus nor California Re gional Director Richard Boke is an engineer. Ono Part Junked 2. Completely Junked the bill's anti-communist provision. That action came after some members said the provision would make railroad workers liable to jail sentences if they struck against the government. 3. Stood by its previous rlecl sioas to prohibit use of any funds for the Jackson Hole national monument In Wyoming. The monument has been a stormy Is sue between congress and the ad ministration for more than 10 years. Gen- MacArthur Refuses Bid To Return to United States Washington, May 28 (lit Gen. Douglas MacArthur today refus ed an invitation to come home now on the grounds that such action would be "misunderstood and condemned hy many as poli tically inspired." Hut he told the senate appro priations committee, which had sent the Invitation, that he would be glad to return after next month's republican presidential convention. The committee had cabled the allied commander In Tokyo an In vitation to testify before it on foreign spending next Wednej day or Thursday. Supporters of MacArthur for the republican presidential nom ination had hoped he would ac cept. They thought his homecom ft tr Arabs Cities Deluged As Crest Races Into Lowlands Portland, May 28 ilB Portland braced today for its worst flood in 50 years as rivers fed by moun tain snows forced 10,000 persons from their homes and claimed 14 lives throughout the Pacific Northwest. ' Roads In the flood areas of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia were busy with refugees, their personal posses sions piled high on automobiles, trucks, carts or any other trans portation they could muster.,-.-Three thousand persons fled in what amounted to a mass mi gration from a dozen communi ties in the Fraser valley of Brit ish Columbia. Other thousands fled from low lands within a vast arc sweeping froifi Canada, through Idaho and westward into Oregon.' Cities Flooded The Kootenai river, rampaging along its course from Canada into the United States, flooded the cities of Bonners Ferry and St. Maries, Ida., forcing thousands to take to high ground. . Forecasters warned that the floods had not yet run their Chief weatheivforeo5ter Hd! ert McComb at Spokane blamed the floods on the cold, late spring. Ho said sudden warm weather in recent days had melted mountain snows, sending billions of gallons of water down the slopes. "The worst is not necessarily over," he said. "There are worlds of snow still unmelted in the mountains of Idaho, Montana and Canada." Showers Hit Mountains The weather bore out Mc Comb's statements. Warm thun dershowcrs hit the mountain peaks and sloughed more of the snow water into tributary streams today. The rushing water weakened a bridge near Lundbeck, Alta., and three crew members drown ed when a freight train plunged through Into the stream; The Columbia, swelled by tum bling tributaries, was sending a giant crest down toward western Oregon. - The corps of engineers marked a one-foot drop in the Snake river yesterday, indicating that the crest was leaving the highlands and would descend on Portland and the lower Columbia by Tues day. Engineers warped that the river would lap within inches of the tup of Portland's seawall de fenses. . Seawall St.-engthened Crews of laborers were ordered into action here, extending and heightening the seawall with sandbags and plugging its haw ser holes. Officials warned business hous es in the west Portland area that they would be endangered first. If the seawall is topped, the wa ter will sweep over the Union sta tion railroad yards and river shares and threaten a high steel bridge. The swell on the Columbia was increased when engineers opened the gat.s at Coulee dam to release part of a record reser- : voir of water that had swept into 1 the basin. ingthe first since he went oh foreign duty In 1937 In advance of the convention starting June 21 would boost his political stock. As though replying to this thought, MacArthur said in a ca blegram to the committee chair man Styles Bridges, R., N.H.: "It would be peculiarly repug nant to me to have It felt that I sought to capitalize to political advantage, as many have frankly urged, the public good will which might manifest itself upon my first return to American soil foi lowing the Pacific war." In any case, MacArthur said, he does not see in the present state of the world "such cause for concern as would render the time element one of paramount urgency.