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gal t Origoa LIbW LEASED WIRE WORLD . NEWS COVERAGE Volume LIX Pension Law Court Opinion Board's Desire State Body to Sit Tight And Wait New Action; Session Is Not Expected Salem, Ore., Npv. 9 HP) The siale board of control agreed to day to "sit tight" and wait for court action before taking steps to comply with Oregon's new old-age pension act. ' Meanwhile, the board will ask atmrnpv eeneral Gporee Npunpr for an opinion staling definitely whether or not the act, passed is constitutional. Neuner said in a memoranduip opinion yesterday that the law is "incomplete, inoperative and not self-executing." Up to Court Gov. John H. Hall, himself a lawyer, said "this matter is too lar reaching to just abide by an attorney general's ruling. It's go ing to the supreme court any way. We might as well sit tight and wait until it gets up there." Hall referred to the measure as an "old age monstrosity." The act provides that the board of control must Issue certificates of indebtedness to carry out pay ment of pensions until the legis lature provides other financing means. "I'm not going to sign any cer tificates of indebtedness," said Hall, "until the courts rule. Action Suggested 'The sooner it gets to the su preme court, the better," he add ed. "We are just delaying the day of judgment otherwise." Hall said the quickest way to get the question settled would be mandamus action brought but some interested person. George Aiken, state budget di rector, told the board that if the law is not clarified by Dec. 1, federal assistance for old age re lief may be shut off. -r" Secretary of state Earl T. New bry and treasurer Leslie M. Scott agreed with. Hall that "the beat wicy is to sit tight." Earlier Hall said flatly he luld not . call a special legisla te session to untangle the act. Neuner stated his conclusions in a memorandum opinion issued late yesterday. He will hand down a formal opinion on the law to morrow. One Section Questioned The attorney general said one section of the new act, passed by the Oregon voters in last Tues day's general election, is of "very questionable constitutionality." He referred to section 6 which gives the board of control au thority to provide funds to pay pensions! He said section 6 would author ize payment of the pensions but "its provisions for obtaining rev enue to do so are wholly incom plete and uncertain and of very questionable constitutionality." This section is only authorative and not mandatory, said Neuner. "It appears to be an attempt to make the act operative during Interim period between the elec tion and the enactment of legis lation by the legislative assembly in accordance with the directive contained in other sections," he explained. Court Test Probable (Weuner's opinion probably will the basis for a court test of the new measure. Two proposals lo gel the act before the courts have been sueeested. One is a mandamus action to compel the stale board of control to provide Lrinds by issuing certificates of Idebtedness; the other would be 1 ask for a declaratory judg ment to test the constitutionality ol the act. . Neuner said the measure does not repeal or amend the present public assistance laws, either "ex pressly or by implication." Basically," Neuner ruled, it 'the act) takpc thp form of a directive to the legislature to en act legislation to carry into ef fect a public policy." The act itself states "this act ?hall be the declared public pol icy." Nov. 15 Deadline On Taxes Nears DcSPhlltoc ftnimtu tavnavore DTP mincied by the tax collecting of- that first quarter taxes are J on or before November 15. Taxes for the second, third and fourth quarters are due on or be fore Poh.., IK mo., 1S nnH August 15 of the next year. , laxes are not paid on or be- lOrP rilln 1- . ...til K. -narged and collected on any axes or quarter of taxes not paid, ''the rate of two-thirds of one w cent per month or fraction of uinn until paid. DlUnnnl -11 U I . vac "'u un or hnfnt-o Nnvomhpr 1.1 IS """. inree per cem 11 iun 4'TTlPnt ie vnnA. ... oartt if wefourths payment is made y one per cent if one-half pay--Wt is made. THE TWO SECTIONS Crews Winning Fight Against California Fires; Belief Held 250 Homes Can Be Saved Orange, Cul, Nov. 9 ".U.E Flames licked stubbornly at the fringes of the canyon settlements of Silverado today but state foresters predicted they can save its 250 homes unless the weather changes. , . Tlj.? "late forestry service said it apparently was winning the light to control southern California's worst fire of the year, which has blackened nearly 70 square miles of the Santa ured Near Millican Andrew J. Remesnik. 25. alleg edly the partner of Benson Kuns, last l nursday night in a gun bat tle with a state police officer near Hampton, was captured this morning at Millican and was brought to Bend, where he was placed in St. Charles hospital. Remesnik. who had spent four days and nights without food, was suffering from exposure and a severe chest cold. Night tem peratures in that uertod had dropped to nearly zero in the nign desert country. When state officer Bob Steele. of Burns, captured Kuns Thurs day evening Remesnik, who trav eled under the alias of Roy Kin caid, made his escape. .Traveled 40 Miles In the four days that followed he traveled the 40-mile highway distance irom Hampton to Milli can. He actually traveled a much greater distance because, he told officers, he followed a route some distance from the highway. Early this morning W. E. Mel lln, whose family make up the entire population of Millican. went out to his barn to feed the cow. There he saw a man's boot protruding from the hay and then Remesnik jumped from the hay and fled. Mellin returned to his house, got a gun and pursued Remesnik across the highway in to, the dry river canyon, where he caught him and brought him back to the Millican store. There he called state police in Bend by way. of V Burns. State police brought Remesnik to Bend about 10 a.m. Oregon Resident The prisoner told officers the name of Kincaid was an alias and that he was not from St. Louis, as stated by Kuns following his capture on Thursday. Instead, Remesnik is an Oregon man, hav ing lived in the vicinity of Junc tion City for the . past ' several months. He served a term in the Oregon state prison after his conviction in 1944 on a charge of burglary in Multnomah county. Remesnik told officers he had no food in the four days and four nights. He had nothing to drink but water, which he drank from stock troughs. Somewhere along the path of his flight he accum ulated extra clothing and when captured had on a number of jackets and coats. His partner, Kuns, is still being held in the county jail under a charge of assault with attempt to kill. Kuns is alleged to have fired a Luger pistol at Officer Steele. The two men are also being questioned in connection with a robbery of an Albany store own er last Tuesday. Miss Oregon, & ManCapt 1 '7f Miss Joyce Davis of Redmond, Miss Oregon, ol '1948, is honorary rhnirman of the annual forget-me-not sale to be held in Central OregTn Sn Saturday, November 13, by the Disabled American Vet erans Ken Fykerudc. Redmond, is chairman and the Central nrnirnn chanter No. 14, DAV. is in charge. In Bend, Job's Daugh Srs will se?l the forget-me-nots and in Redmond and Prineville, ters win safs conduc,ed b. ,he jVp club gUs. TTnTTTi IK IM Ana mountains since Thurs day. . "It's about 50 per cent con trolled right now," the forest service announced. Ladd anyon, adjacent to Silverado canyon, was one of the spots listed as still out of con trol but the forest service said that barring wind changes, the fire could lie kept from spilling over into Silverado. No One. Injured "We're lucky that no one has been hurt and that so far there have been no confirmed reports of homes destroyed," the forest serv ice said. The fire flared up at dawn yes terday in Black Star canyon, where it had been brought under control Saturday after burning two days. Fanned by 50-mile-an-hour, winds, it licked rapidly through the mountains and edged within 100 yards of the big El Toro marine air base. An estimated 1800 residents of Silverado, Modjeska and Trabuco canyons were evacuated by ma rines and about tlOO of the evac uees spent the night at the ma rine field. The rest were housed with friends. People Rounded Up , "We had cats and dogs and babies all over the place last night," an El Toro officer said. "Most of the people left here after we fed them. We rqunded them up in trucks and buses with whatever valuables they could carry. When things let up, a lot of them went back in after their cars." Scores of others got out In their own automobiles, towing trailers loaded with stoves, refrigerators and easily-movable furniture. Post Will Make, Armistice Plans The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their regular post meet ing at 8 o'clock this evening to discuss final plans for the Armi stice day dinner. The post has changed its meet ing time from the second and fourth Fridays of each month to the second and fourth Tuesdays. The Armistice day dinner will be held in the V.F.W. hall at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. An invitation is extended to all veterans. The post will again sponsor a Christmas tree sale and initial plans for this project will be made tonight. Selection and cut ting of the trees will be made late tills month and early in December and the sale will be under way well m advance of Christmas. Again this year the post will pro .vide large trees for churches, schools and other community cen ters. ' All V.F.W. members Interested in forming a drill team are asked to be present at the meeting to night. in New Role V ! , - v. m CENTRAL OREGON'S BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Year Plan Is Approved For Schools Building Proposal ' , Recognizes Growing Pupil Load in Bend ; Directors of the Bend school district last night adopted a four year plan of construction recog nizing the growing pupil load that they expect as the result of the high birth rate .and increase in general population of the past few years. The meeting at which the decision was reached was held at the office of the city school superintendent. The plan, subject to frequent review and alteration, can result In the addition of 15 grade rooms and foresees the pos sibility that a new high school may be required at the end of the period. Receipts from the continuing levy voted this spring will care for construction of ad ditional grade facilities, it is esti mated. New high school construc tion (the present building to be turned into a junior high school) would have to be financed in large part by bonding, it was fear ed, unless the situation in the high school building,' w h e re grades 8 to 12 inclusive. are now taught, were relieved by construc tion of a new building to care for eiphth grade sections. ' The plan, taken largely from the report of Superintendent James W. Bushong, would start in the school year of 1949-50, with construction of a four room grade school on the district's west side site. In the same year a new gymnasium-auditorium would be built for Kenwood school, the present gymnasium would be con verted to use as a music room and the present music room would become a class room. Net result would be five additional class rooms. Two rooms on the second floor of Reid would con tinue in use. : New Building Planned . In ' 1950-51 the plan contem plates completion til the (new grade building of "whichr six rooms and auditorium are now being built across Wall street from Reid. Completion would mean six more rooms. One room on the second floor of Reid would remain in use. . In 1951-52 two rooms would be added to each of the east side quonset schools. There would be undiminished use of Reid. 1952-53 would see the high school development. First of the alternative proposals is to put the seventh grade into the pres ent high school building which, as a junior high school, would re tain the eighth and ninth grades. This would require the building of a senior high school on the district east side site to house tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. If this were not done, II is estimated that 12 more grade (Continued on Page 5) Farm Bureau Opens Session Officers and delegates of the Oregon Farm Bureau federation started arriving in Bend today for the opening of the organization's 17th annual meeting and conven tion. The Initial session was an ex ecutive board meeting at 3 p. m. today at the Pilot Butte Inn, with W. Lowell Steen, of Milton, pre siding. Among officers already here for the convention are H. R. Weattierford, second vice presi dent, of Wallowa; Glenn Sands, third vice president, of Cove; Marshall Swearingen,' executive secretary, of Pendleton; Mrs. Les ter Van Blokland, president of the Associated Women, of Island City, and Mrs. Art Stevens, of Culver, vice president of the wom en's group. Members Here Other board members already here are L. A. McC'lintock, of Pendleton; Bill Wolfe, of Wallo wa, and Art Stevens, of Culver. Sam Hunter, of Milton, member ship chairman for the state was also among early arrivals. This evening a session will be held by voting delegates from all county bureaus of the state. I he first general meeting will be at 8:45 a. m., with Steen pre siding. State committee reports will then be given before the con vention moves into its commodity group meetings, which will take up most of the day. Prog-ram Set The Associated Women's pro gram will begin at 9 a. m. at the Pine Tavern, with Mrs. Van Blokland presiding. A luncheon wil be held at noon at the Tavern and the program will resume M 2 p. m. after a recess. The convention will continue in session until Friday morning. Steen said early this afternoon that an attendance of about 200 members was expected. BULLl DAILY NEWSPAPER '' Deschutes FFA Boys Get Kansas r K n Five Deschutes county boys, Future Farmers of America from the Redmond Union high school, will be In Kansas City, Mo., this week end for the 20th annual national convention of the FFA. Front row, from left .are Elmer. McDaniels, Powell Butte, sophomore, and Bruce Rogers, Northwest Red mond, junior. In the back row, from left, are Don Young, Redmond, senior; Cliff McCulloch, Turn alo, senior, and Vic Livingston, O'Neil, RUHS alumnus. Giles Photo. Dirt Is Replaced In Excavation A city bulldozer was at work today covering the excavation on city-owned property at the cor ner of Louisiana avenue and Bond street. The excavation was made last spring to determine the amount i of underlying rock on the site of the proposed veterans memorial building. At the time the excava tion was made by the Deschutes veterans' council, It was agreed that It would be filled in if the building plans did not materialize soon after the digging was com pleted. -. Half of the area has bfcen avail-. able for "parking of cdrs since last spring and the work being done will make the entire area available for parking. Before beginning the filling work the city engineering staff made a survey of the uncovered rock to determine the yardage lo be removed If the building Is con structed. Filling of the excavation was urged by members of the city commission last month. Pageant Officials Study Big Deficit Means of meeting a deficit re sulting from a heavy capital In vestment this past season were considered by directors of the Bend Stampede and Water Pag eant association conferring last night at the chamber of com merce office. W. J. Baer, presi dent of the group, presided, with Carl B. Hoogner as secretary. It whs announced that a total of $3,837.10 will be required to pay outstanding bills. However, the directors stressed, the finan cial picture is not as somber as the deficit might indicate, inas much as assets of the association, not including ground to be de veloped for rodeo purposes, ag gregate around $6,000. Equip ment listed as capital equipment include 38 new barges, a long boom, lumber for seals, a perm anent arch and, among other ma terial, lighting fixtures. Several proposals to meet the deficit were advanced, with nn underwriting plan winning gen eral favor. A committee of five. Lester McKenzie, Everett Hugh es, Joseph Mack, A. T. Niebergall and Dr. M. B. McKenney, was named to assist in this work. The suggestion that the asso ciation's 40-acre rodeo track just south of town be sold was con sidered, but the directors are re luctant to take such action, inas much as preliminary work de veloping the rodeo arena has al ready been started. Legion Cancels Plans for Dinner The American Legion Armis tice day dinner, originally sched uled for the evening of November 10, has been cancelled, according to Howard Krog. commander of Stevens Chute post 4. The cancellation was necessary, Krog said, because of inability to find a place to hold the banquet. TRAVEL PERMIT GRANTED Tokyo, Nov. 9 Hii Allied head quarters announced today that Japanese citizens now can travel abroad for business purposes. The new far eastern commission policy was initiated to broaden the scope of Japanese foreign trade. 9, 1948 - Park Grocery Holdup Scene; Youth Is Held Harley Dale Beaver, 19-year-old Yakima youth, was arrested by city police this morning and has been charged with robbery of the Park grocery, 1 Deschutes place, last evening. Victor Wegener, owner of the store, was robbed at 7:30 p. m. yesterday at the store by a youth, who came into the store with his hand in his coat pocket and said he had a gun. He departed with seven one-dollar bills. Beaver was arrested on Bond street this morning from a de scription furnished police. The youth is being held in the city jail. Deschutes Tax Turnover Made A lax turnover totalling $81,- 723.43 was made recently by Mrs. Edna Isham, chief deputy tax col lecting agent, to Mrs. Edith Fair child, county treasurer. This amount had been collected since September 29, when the 1948 1949 tax roll of $l,nzs,783.7H was turn ed over to the sheriff's office by County assessor Edward Risen. Of the turnover made by Mrs. Isham, $76,138.48 was from the 1948-49 levy and $5,584.95 was from the 1947.48 levy. . A new county general assist ance fund, established to help fi nance the county infirmary now under construction, received $1, 740.95 from the 1948-49 collec tions. Further breakdown of fig ures shows that the county school districts received the major por tion of the turnover, getting $51,- 156.52 from the 19'!8-49 levy and $3,554.11 from last year's. Apportionments wlvcn Main apportionment of the re. malnder went as follows: City of Bend, $14,426.39 from 1948-49 and $804.48 from last year; city of Redmond, $3,129.43 from 1918-49 and $172.11 from last year; city of Sisters, $630.81 from this year and $1.08 from 1947-48. Overall Deschutes county taxes are $U96,08G.84 higher this year man tor i9'i7-48, and the tax roll turned over last month by Coun ty assessor Risen showed increas es, in round numbers of $200,650 for school district number one, $9,500 for Redmond schools, $28, 160 for rural schools, $48,290 for the city "of Bend and $250 for the city of Redmond. Taxable property in Deschutes county is now assessed at $13, 263,870, according to figures re leased by Risen. Policeman Saves Life of Driver Salem, Nov. 9tli A city police man Vvho was off duty was cred ited with saving the life of a ser iously Injured man trapped In a flaming truck cab yesterday. The officer, Don White, was In a neighborhood store when he heard a crash. He rushed to the scene and despite the heat and danger, of explosion, pried open the cab door of the truck and pulled Richard O. Brown to safe ty. The crash occurred on Lanchas ter drive near Silverton road when a coupe driven by John La garander of Drain collided with the truck. White suffered burns on his hands and (ace. Brown was taken to Salem General hospital with third de gree burns. w TIN City Trip Convention Trip Awaits FFA Boys Redmond, Nov. 9 Five Dos. chutes county Future Farmers of America, four of them Redmond union high school students and one an alumnus, will be In Kansas City, Mo., this week end for the 20th annual , convention of the FFA. First of the boys to leave for Kansas City was Cliff McCulloch, of Tumalo, one of approximately 100 boys in the United States se lected to play in the FFA band at the national convention. Cliff left for the convention city early thB morning, for pradtlce with the Dana. . ; . - r.-1 -.-. On Thursday night, Elmer Mc Daniels, Powell Butte; Bruce Rogers, Northwest Redmond; Don Young, Redmond, and Vic Livingston, O'Neil, will leave for Missouri. The convention will open Sunday. The Deschutes boys will join a large group making the trip from the Pacific North west by train, in special cars. Trip Sponsored ' The Redmond chamber of com merce is sponsoring Livingston's trip, in .recognition of his accom plishments In vocational educa tion 'work. Vic received the Ore gon Star farmer award last April and last August won the better farming conte'st in the stouthern Oregon district. Ho was nn out standing FFA member while in school, and served as president of his senior class. Vic is In farm ing partnership with his mother, Mrs. Florence Livingston. The other three boys were se lected by the FFA chapter lo rep resent the Redmond unit at the national convention. The chapter is paying $125 toward each boy's expenses. The chamber Is paying $125 toward Vic's expenses. Some 50 boys from Oregon will make the trip to Missouri. Petersen-Henne Rites Performed in Nevada Pleasant Ridge, Nov. 9 Mrs. Frankie Hcnne and Rasmus Pet ersen wore married Friday, Oc tober 29, in Los Vegas, Nevada. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vaughn, of Redmond, were their attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Petersen arc mak ing their home at the Petersen rock gardens, which Petersen owns and operates. Mrs. Petersen came to Red mond some time ago from Oak land, California. . . Armistice in Palestine War Hope of UN Security Council Paris, Nov. 9 HI')- The United Nations security council postpon ed public debate on Palestine truce violations today in order to discuss privately a plan for pro moting a full fledged armistice between the Arabs and the Jews. Dr. Ralph Hunche, acting UN mediator for Palestine, will sub mit to the council a loose plan for a new approach to the problem. Bumhe had planned to put the suggestions before the council In closed session this morning. It was called expressly for that pur pose. But the Palestine Issue was sidetracked when Jose A roe of Argentina, council chairman, raised the. question of when the council should move back to Its headquarters at Lake Success. After devoting all the morning to that Issue, and deciding to stay here until Dec. 16, the dele gates agreed to call off the sched uled 3 p. m. public session and State Forecast OREGON Fair today and Wednesday. Slightly warm er. High 42 to 52 both days. ' Low tonight 15 to 26. No. 132 Rail Workers In China Quit; Seek Rice Pay People Ripe for Reds, Declares Official as Food Prices Reach 'Sky' . Shanghai, Nov. 9 (Irt Twelve thousand rail workers struck to day, halting all rail service in and out of war-threatened Shanghai, Nanking and Hangchow. . , Trainmen refused to work when the government railroad administration could not meet de mands that work be paid for in rice Instead of the plummeting nationalist government's . gold yuan. It was the first organized pro test In the area against the rice shortage. But mobs of hungry Chinese have been looting empty rice shops and vegetable stalls. Eight shops were wrecked to day by marauding Chinese. Rice was selling at 1,500 gold yuan 377 U. S. dollars at the of ficlal rate or about 65 U. S. dol lars at the black market rate per 110 pounds. . . . . ; :, Pork Prices High . Pork sausage sold for as much as eight U. S. dollars a pound and prices of all commodities spiraled by the hour. A U. S. army officer and long time resident of China said: "This is the worst I have ever seen. These people are angry. They are just ripe for the com munists." Only a matter of days ago the American embassy' In Nanking and the consulate In Shanghai warned Americans to leave Chi na before Chinese communist troops moving south plunged the area into a battle ground and the hard winter period, with Its food shortage began. . Supplies En Route Roger D. Lapham, economic cooperation administration chief ties of rice and flour was on its way from the'Unitec States and Siam. Heaske.the populatlon to remain calm until Dee; 1 but the. appeal met little response and government officials held lengthy sessions in an effort to work out a solution, , radio claimed red forces had cap tured Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek's great wall stronghold of Shanhaikwan and advanced southward toward Tientsin.' Groat Wall Meets Sea Shanhaikwan lies at the point In north China where the great wall meets the sea and along the route red forces from Manchuria would follow In a drive south. There was no confirmation of Shanhaikwan's capture from of ficial sources. But military ob servers said the communist re port might be true Inasmuch as the communists were known to have massed a large concentra tion of troops 100 miles to the north. There also were reports earlier that the communists were infiltrating across the great wall in large numbers. Bushong Speaker At Lions' Lunch Lions of Bend holding their weekly meeting today at the Pine Tavern joined in the observance of National Education week, with James W. Bushong, Bend superintendent of schools, as the speaker. Bushong touched on the Bend school system and its ex pansion plans. Members of the club consider the superintendent's talk of such Importance that they have had a transcription made, this to be broadcast over radio station KBND Wednesday at 8 p. m. Leonard S t a n d i f e r was in charge of the luncheon program. j convene in private instead to hear Hunche. The net effect was to delay council action on the recent out break of fighting In Galilee. Brit ain had sought council action to day, on an order to Israel to with draw from the territory taken last week. A British spokesman said the council decided to revive that question and hold the delayed public session as soon as possible. Brig. Gen. William Riley, chief ruce observer, accompanied Buncho. Rilev presumably was orepared to fill in the council on Jewish gains in Palestine which gave Israel virtually complete control of the military situation. Both Bunche and Riley were known to feel that the truce had run Its course, and firm steis were needed to promote a real armistice. Such an armistice log ically would be expected to lead to a peace conference.
