Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON BEND BULLETIN State Forecast OREGON Fair and contin ued warm today and Thurs day except for late afternoon and early evening thunder showers in mountains. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE '' CENTRAL OREGON'S- DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume LVIII TVO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1948 No. 151 Human Chain Used in Rescue Work Columbia River Flood Recedes & "ft Tftr .a ft ft THE i ' i:. t r- f ...liiiri ; V burvivors and rescue workers at Vanport City, Ore., make a human and crippled persons to safety across a makeshift bridge of planks uuuy ci uuuy Deschutes county's budget akers, completing their esti ates covering county financing for the comine fiscal vear. wound uj jasi ingiu wilii tt (jiuapiruuvt levy which will be within the sta tutory six per cent limitation and disclosed possibilities that the county may be in even better con dition a year from now. At the close of 'a session devoted largely to review, which was held in the circuit court room, the budget committee, composed of county court and appointed members, ap proved general fund, county school fund, county school library fund and county library expense totaling $333,738.49, but found cash on hand and estimated re ceipts of $147,000 to bring this down to $186,738.49. This will be the approximate levy for the fis cal year beginning July 1. If full advantage were taken o'f oppor tunity for increase over the cur rent levy within the six per cent limit, the levy could be 5188,254. Calculations Mnile Assessor Ed Risen made quick calculations this morning that the taxable valuations in the county have increased 10 per cent.enough to absorb the six per cent increase in levy and still allow for a slight miiiage decrease. rew changes were made last (Continued on Page 51 Tacoma Firm Low In Bidding Low bid for constuuetion of the 42-mile Maupin-Madras section of the new Pacific Power & Light company transmission . line, to "ling more power into Central Oregon, was submitted to the company by McPhail Engineering "i lacoma, according to worn re ceived today by W. A. Lackaff, district mannoer of the enmnnnv. The construction firm offered Jo do the erection work for $188,- with the power company fur nlshing all power cable, poles, rrossnrms and other material. Lackaff was Informed that It os expecteil the contract would be awarded to iho low hlilrlor. Fi nal details of the contract are now wing rushed In order to pet work started on this nart nf the tiroi- Pct at the earliest possible time. nine Limit S.H Hie successful bidder will be re quired to start work on the pro pct within five days after receiv ItlR noticp tn Th nnn. tract calls f iho ai ..mu to be ready for service within 105 UBVs after vi.l v.n,.un rrut Mn. tik approximately with the Oc tober i deadline three months fwaa or schedule that Pacific "s set for completion of the line. ,w'cr company crews already ilr' worK erecting the Cove- . ecuon of the line, Lack Estimates Levy For Deschutes S CI I VI CfT 0 f f .15. filial Judge Hints John L Lewis Will GefiOrder to Bargain Goldsborough Says Walkout of Miners Would Be National Tragedy: New Brief Put On File xWshJngton;JJune 2j:U.E)FederaT' borough hinted today that he will order John L. Lewis to bar gain with the Southern Coal Producers association. He dropped the hint at hearings on a government request for an order directing Lewis and his United Mine Workers to negotiate with the southern group on a new soft coal contract. "Nothing you have said," Goldsborough told UMW Coun sel Welly K. Hopkins, "shows the association is not competent to negotiate." , . , Goldsborough also said "it California Votes For Republicans San Francisco, June 2 ' IB California voters, overlooking the fact they registered three to two democratic, virtually elected five republican congressmen and gave three others a two-party lead in yesterday's primary election, re turns showed today. A light vote favored Incum bents, and two democratic mem bers of the house of representa tives were assured of re-election. The state was nominating candi dates for 23 congressional seats with 21 Incumbents seeking nom ination. Nearly all the candidates and all the incumbents sought both major party nominations as allowed by the State's election laws. The voting was heavily in the favor of republican candidates. The only exception was in voting for unopposed republican and democratic delegations to the par ty national conventions. Presi dent Truman's slata got 224,458 votes to lai.uu lor a republican slate pledged to Gov. Earl War ren. Election of both slates was automatic. GOP Leaders Elected The five republicans apparent ly .winning both nominations wore Leroy Johnson, Richard Welch, Jack Z. Anderson, Gordon L. McDonough and John Phillips. The three leading were Carl Hin shaw, Ernest K. Bramblett and Richard Nixon. The two democrats winning both major party nominations were Clair Engle and Cecil R. King. Congresswoman Helen Ga- hagun Douglas was makings a race of it for. the republican nom ination, and was winning the lemonade nomination. Medical Center Costs Provided "The cost of organizing and publicizing the campaign for pro posed Memorial Medical center has been advanced by a number of public-spirited citizens," ac cording to K. E. Sawyer, treasur er of Central Oregon Hospitals foundation. He stated, "All sub scriptions obtained during this campaign will be cancelled and any money paid thereon will be returned to the subscriber, 11 suf ficient subscriptions have not been obtained to Justify proceed Jne with this project." chain to pass along wounded laid over the wreckage of their would be a national tragedy if there was a walkout at the conclusion of this contract.' The present soft coal contract expires June 30. Lewis walked out on new contract negotiations two weeks ago when the coal oper ators voted to seat a represen tative of the southern assoeia- tion. He refuses to bargain with the association as a group on grounds it is not a signatory to the present contract, which was signed by the southern operators as Individual groups. Argument Presented The government, in requesting the order against Lewis, argued that his refusal to bargain with the association has created Im minent danger" of another soft coal strike on and after July 1, Such a strike, it said, would do "irreparable Injury to the na: tion." The argument was set forth in a brief filed with Uoldsborougn by Robert N. Denham, general counsel for the national labor re lations board. Lewis was not In the court room. The UMW arguments were presented by Hopkins who repeat ed Lewis' charge that the associa tion has adopted a "recalcitrant, destructive and stubborn atti- tude" during negotiation of every bituminous contract since the as sociation was formed In 1941. The UMW has asked Goldsbor ough to dismiss the government request on grounds it is uiegai. Nominations Up At Legion Session Nomination of officers for the coming year will highlight the meeting of. the Stevens-Chute post of the American Legion Thursday night at 8 o'clock, in the Deschutes courthouse assem bly room, R. K. Innes, command er. announced today. Innes said the meeting will be one of the post s most Import' ant of the season and he has asked all 'members to be out. Meeting Voided; Quarters Flooded Portland, June 2 mi E. H Crosby of Portland, treasurer of the N estern t orest products safe- ty conference, notified western states members today that a con ference at Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., June 9 has been cancelled. The reason, Crosby explained tersely, "is because of too much flood water in the top story of Arab Nations Agree to Palestine Truce U. S. Defense' BudgetPlaced At 13 Billion Washington, June 2 (IP) The house appropriations committee today stamped Its approval on mnnpv ronupKts for the armed services that sent proposed de- . . . . i i lense costs iur me ih--ai year soaring to $13,394,672,250. . It was not a record peace-time budget for the army, navy and air lorces. xJui u appiua.L-nt-u .mc mnre than S14.000.000.000 budget of the 1947 fiscal year. Acting in tne lace oi a warning from Army Chief Omar N. Brad ley that was with Russia is a "plausible possibility," tne com mittee today approved two mea sure,, which will slve S10.196.672,- oso iha armv Tinvv. air force and other defense establishments. 1 - . Public Hearing On Budget Held Public hearing on the 1948-49 city budget was held last night at the city hall with no taxpayers appearing for or against budget uenis. The $328,795 budget was ap proved by the city commission and will be the subject of a spe cial citv election on June 14, when voters will cast Dauois ior or against the portion of tlje tax levy in excess of the amount al lowed by the aix per oent 'limita tion. - The budget required a tax levy of $182,870.89. more than $48,000 larger than the levy made for the current fiscal year. With Bend's assessed valuation esti mated at $4,750,000 the levy will require a tax rate of about 38.5 mills, the highest since laaf. rolling Places Designated Two polling places Kenwood school and the city hall will be used at the budget election. Vot ing hours will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. . All members of the city com mission were present at the meet ing. Also present were W. L. Stollmack and Dr. J. C. Vande vert, appointed members of the budget board. Girls Are Invited To Bid for Queen An invitation to Central Ore gon girls to enter the Mirror pond pageant queen contest was issued today by directors of the Bend Stampede and Water Pageant as sociation. ' mteen girls wllj be needed to handle the advance sale of tickets, and from this group will be selected a queen and her royal court. There will be no sponsoring organizations in the queen con test this year, and eacli of the contestants will "be on her own," the association officials, headed by W. J. Baer as president, an- nounceo. uins selling tickets will again worK on a commission bas is. Instructions (liven Girls wishing to assist in the work and take part in the queen contest are being asked to leave their names at the chamber of commerce office in Bend. When 15 names are received, a meeting of the girls will be called and in structions will be given. Girls comprising the Mirror pond court will be in the Oregon spotlight over the Fourth of July holidays, with thousands expect ed to attend the river fete on the night of July 3 and 4. The queen and her princesses will again head the parade of floats down the Deschutes. Brooks-Scanlon Cha nges Time The Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. plant adopted the daylight saving time schedule, effective this morning. All departments of the plant have made the time change, the mill office said. Klamath Falls, June 2 itr Daylight saving will beRln In Klamath Palls Sunday at mid night, the city council voted yes terday. VERNONIA HOTEL BUKNS Vernonla, Ore., June 2 Utt The 22-room McDonald hotel here was destroyed by fire yesterday after- Chiefs Submit Rigid Demand To UN Council Lake Success, N. Y.. June 2 HPi The seven Arab nations agreed today to a United Nations four week truce in Palestine, but serv ed notice they would resume the Holy Land war after that period unless the new state of Israel Is dissolved. ' . The Arabs in their formal reply to the UN invitation told the se curity council that peace efforts In Palestine "will not have the least chance of success" unless Palestine is turned over complete ly to the Arabs. The Arabs asked the security council to set a time for the start of the truce. Acceptance Set The Israel government sent its formal acceptance of the security council's cease-fire plan to UN headquarters yesterday, but at tached five "assumptions to which the Arabs seemed certain to object. The formal Arab league reply, received this morning, also coa tained conditions likely to be re jected by the Jews. The question was whether the security council could persuade both sides to lay down arms for our weeks . and - then nlk out their differences in thatTjerloa. The Arab reply, signed by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ah med Mohammed Khashaba, con tained two major points that Palestine ultimately must be come a "political unity" under Arab control and that the flow of Jewish immigration must either be limited or cut off. Supervision Asked The Arabs said the UN should set up a special body for "the most careful supervision" of the security council cease-fire pro gram and they demanded a place on IP for the Arabs. The security council appeared certain to fall Into a bitter fight over the conflicting Arab and Israeli interpretations of the truce plan when it convened later today. FIGHT CONTINUES Tel Aviv, June 2 (ill The Is raeli army reported officially that Arab forces were hammering hard at Jewish positions In Jeru salem and scattered sectors throughout the country today in defiance of Israel's provisional order for a truce. A war communique i said that Arabian armies vigorously press ed their hostilities in all the ac tive battle zones. In addition, it reported, Egyptian troops opened a fresh onslaught near Negoa midway between Rehovoth and Gaza. Hitler's Doctor Dies On Gallows .Frankfurt, June 2 (til Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physi cian, and six other na.i doctors were hanged at Landsberg prison today for war crimes. Convicted "at Nuernberg last August after an eight-month trial they appealed without success to the U. S. military government for clemency and petitioned the U. b. supreme court for a review of their case. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American occupation commander, upheld the U. S. tribunal that sentenced them and the supreme court re fused Jurisdiction. Others Named In addition to Brandt, those exe cuted were Wolfram Sicvers, di rector of a research Institute which collected Jewish skeletons for "research": Karl Gebhardt Hlmmler's personal physician; Rudolph Brandt, no relation to Karl, a personal administrative assistant, to riimmier; joacnim Mrugowsky, chief of the SS hy gienic Institute; Viktor Brach, a colonel In the SS medical corps; and Waldemar Hoven, chief phy sician in the notorious Buchen wald concentration camp. Evidence Introduced at their trial convicted them of Inhuman and deathdeallng experiments on inmates of nazl concentration camps. Work on Dike to Block Escape Of Storage Nears Completion Hole Into Which Wickiup Reservoir Water Is Flowing Bared as Level Further Lowered Water pouring into a fault on the south side of Wickiup reservoir should be halted this week when crews complete a temporary dike.to block the escape channel, 3. W. Taylor, con struction engineer for the Deschutes project, said today. Work on the dike was started last week shortly alter the fissure was discovered, and by bankment was nearing completion. A power shovel and four trucks have been at work moving earth from a nearby borrow pit Clothing Appeal Voiced In Bend An appeal for good, clean used clothing, to be donated to vic tims of the Vanport flood, was made today by Mi's. T. H. Mark, president of the American Legion auxiliary. A box for contributions will be placed In the Pacific Power and Light company office, she said, and every effort will be made to have a shipment ready by Saturday. "All kinds of good, serviceable clothing are needed, especially children's clothes and layettes," Mrs. Mark said. The contribu tions will be sent to the American Legion center in Portland, and will be distributed directly to the flood victims, she added. Mrs. Craig Coyner, department Legioni auxiliary president, ioined with- Mrs. Mark in requesting support oi tne renamntation proj ect. Similar sppeals are being made in other .parts of the state, she said. Rainfall In May Close to Record The month just past was the second dampest May In the his tory of the Bend weather station, yielding wet honors only to May, 1945, observers in charge of the Bend weather bureau reported today. In the past month, 3.12 inches of moisture was recorded here, compared with 3.76 Inches, the all time high, In the damp May of 1945. Haln fell on 13 of the 31 days In the past month, with most of the moisture concentrated in the final half of the month. The heav lest 24-hour precipitation was 1.08 Inches, on May 19. Normally, May is a damp month in Bend, the weather bu reau personnel noted, but seldom in the 44 years records have been kept here has the May moisture exceeded the two-inch mark. Year's Total High The normal May precipitation is 1.13 inches. Up to the end of May, precipi tation In Bend for the year was 9.92 inches. Bend's annual mean precipitation Is Just short of 13 inches, and so far the local sta tion is well ahead of Its moisture schedule. 7"w7)s in Gilchrist Class PffT III? wY"3 Photo Art Studio Included In the Gilchrist high school senior class graduated this past week were twin sisters, Joyce Griffin, left, and Dorris Griffin. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Griffin of the northern Klamath county mill city. The musically gifted girls are Identical twins, but in their vocal duets one is an alto and the other Is a soprano, last night the eight-foot em down to the water line where the dike is being- thrown around the fault. About 300 feet of dike are being built in the temporary project to cut losmes from the reservoir. Permanent ' work to block the earth fault will be under taken later this year when the storage level of the reservoir is reduced after the irrigation season. Then soil in the fault area will be stripped off, the fault will be filled with rock and dirt and: a layer of compacted earth will be replaced. In 1945 a fault In a low er part of the reservoir was suc cessfully plugged In this manner. Hole Now Visible With the flow of water partly reduced by the dike, a hole In the bottom of the fault Is now visible and a heavy stream of water can be seen disappearing into the ground. The fault was carrying water out of the reservoln at a rate esti mated at 150 cubic Ijeet per second when it was discovered in a shore line search last week. The water level In Wickiup res ervoir is now about 126,000' acre feet, while Crane prairie reser voir several miles up the Des chutes has a storage of about 38,000 acre feet. These supplies of water will be ample to supply all Irrigation needs this season, it was stated. The water situation might have been critical if the leak In .Wickiup reservoir had de veloped at a lower level where it would have been Impossible to take emergency measures to stop it, Taylor said. O'Hearn Winner Of Golf Tourney Rod O'Hearn is winner of the 19-18 spring handicap tournament of the Bend Golf club, it was an nounced today, having defeated Dr. J. S. Grahlman 4 and 3 in the final match of the championship round. O'Hearn succeeds John Prince, who won the event In 1947, as the club's spring handicap champion. Prince is attending tne university of Oregon this year and did not participate In the tournament. First flight winner was James W. Bushong, who downed Sig Skavlan 1 up. Ben Hamilton won the second flight by defeating Farley Elliott 3 and 2, while Judge Ralph S. Hamilton came out on top In the third flight with a ft and 4 victory over a. w. ucn-old. Toll of Dead In Area Gains; Crest Passes By Roger Johnson (Unitl Prau Staff Corrwpomlcnt) Portland, Ore., June 2 R The Columbia river's destructive flood crest began dropping slowly at Portland today and the peak of the Pacific northwest's spring thaw crisis appeared to have pass ed after two weeks of record breaking devastation. Approximately 100,000 persons were left homeless or temporarily displaced, 28 persons were killed or drowned and an estimated $80,- 000,000. damage was inflicted on crops, property and riverfront In dustries in four states and Brit ish Columbia. During a three-hour period, the Columbia dropped from 30.2 to du.o leet at Vancouver and the Willamette, carrying a backwater load irom the Columbia, lowered six-tenths of a foot during a 12 hour period. uanger Not Over The danger to the flood-strick en Portland area and down-river communities was not eliminated, however volunteer workers and troops, laboring under search lights, fought through the night, and morning to prevent a threatened-break In a north Portland dike which would flood a farm land area 12 miles long and two miles wide. The Columbia's mighty crest, ' gathered from a myriad' of streams and creeks throughout British Columbia. Oregon, Wash ington and -Idaho, moved from Portland to the river s mouth at . Astoria, Ore., 112 miles distant. As it bulged over and through its retaining dikes, it poured floodwatcrs into-a row of desert ed communities despite the day-and-night toil of volunteers, sum moned by emergency calls. Towns Flooded Between Portland and the ocean, the Columbia spilled Into Clatskanlo, Brownsmead, Ore., Woodland, Wash., and other river--bank communities while its Washington tributaries flooded Kalama and South Kelso, Wash. The Red Cross registered 7,000 homeless In Portland at the civic auditorium. Thirty thousand meals were dispensed to refugees from the destroyed city of Van port and other flooded metropol itan areas. Twelve shelters were set up and 50 doctors and 25 num cs cared for more than a hundred injured and suffering. Downtown Portland fought off the final surge of the Columbia and the Willamette, while streams of homeless refugees streamed into the city for relief . . Twenty five per cent of the Portland met ropolitan area and its suburban environs was flooded. Final Surge Fought Emergency crews were fight ing off the final surge of the Co lumbia and Willamette rivers against downtown Portland. They worked under search lights through the night to hold back the seeping river which threatened to crumble an em bankment and inundate a huge new area of the flood-harassed city. The Columbia and Willamette leveled off Tuesday night at their expected crests of 30 feet but Portland's flood sltu-.tlo:i still was dangerous. Radio stations Issued ;'i-''r,M-:-nt appeals for volunteers - to .ivml bag new weak spots In dikes n- tectlng the few remaining mk. flooded lowland areas. .Seawulls Under Pressure The Willamette, backing up southward In the heart of the city, threw tremendous pressures against the bulkheads of the sea wall which guarded the down town business district. The peak of the Columbia flood tide swept on Vancouver, Wash., and the wide waterway toward Its mouth at Astoria, Ore., 112 miles distant. Dikes were mushy with water and the Portland seawall leaked above Its sandbagged top. But the downtown district appeared safe from further ravages. Many blocks of industrial Port land, on the east side of the Wil lamette, were covered with water. A 7,000-acre area of residential Portland became a placid lake, dotted with floating houses Irom (Continued on Page S). -