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Univ. ot Oregon Library , EUQEilE. QRSWVa. V 7 mm State Forecast Oregon Mostly cloudy with a few showers today, tonight and Friday. High 55 to 65 to day and 58 to 68 Friday. Low 36 to 46 tonight. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL .OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 No. 116 BULLETIN 0 Public Health Workers Meet Here Friday Combined Meet Opens With Registration at Pilot Butte Inn at 9 Public health .officers, nurses and sanitarians will gather in Bend tomorrow for the two-day annual Oregon public health workers convention. The com bined meeting follows conferences held in Bend and Redmond the past two days by health officers (and nurses from all parts of the state. , Registration for the conference will begin tomorrow at 9 a.m. in the Pilot Butte inn. The theme for ' the morning session is "Child Health in Ore gon." Dr. Adolph Weinzirl, pro fessor of public health and preven tive medicine, University of Ore gon medical school, will preside. Dr. Ashley to Report Dr. Carl G. Ashley, chairman, Oregon study of child health serv ices, American Academy of Pedia trics, will report on the study made by the academy on child health in Oregon. Dr. Maurice D. Vest, director, maternal and child health section, OSBH, will pre sent the report of the governor's committee ot) children and youth. A business meeting will be held at 11 a.m., to be folowed by a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon conferees will move to the new Reid school where the remainder of the con ference sessions will be held. "Local Health Services, as Seen by the Consumer," is the theme for the afternoon meeting at which Dr. Elizabeth Bishop, Tri county district health officer, will preside. Reports will be made on the ses sion topic by Mrs. Lloyd Smyth, member of the state board, Ore gon Congress, P.T.A.; Kenneth Mukres, chairman, Redmond city planning commission; Verne Live- say; members of the legislative committee .of ' the Oregon' .Mats L grange, and Chester C. Dusten ypegional director oi tne uiu. " Brogan to Speak Phil Brogan, Bend, chairman of the Oregon geographic board, and science writer, will be the guest; speaker at the Conference ban quet to be held at 6 p.m. in the Pilot Butte inn. His topic will be "Oregon's Shaky Past." Eleanor Palmqulst, associate professor in the department of nursing education at the Univer sity of Oregon medical school, will preside at the conference session Saturday morning. The session topic is "Live Issues." . State sanitary engineer, Curtiss M. Everts, Jr,' will address the group on stream pollution, and Viola Vreeland, executive secre tary, Oregon state nurses' asso ciation, will speak on the prepara tion and licensing of practical nurses. Other Talks Listed Other talks include "Cost Study of Public Health Nursing," by Dr. Bishop, and "Civil Defense and Atomic Warfare," by Dr. George Gibson, director, cancer section, OSBH. The conference will be conclud ed with a business meeting sched uled for 11:30 a.m. 1 In the Wednesday afternoon session of the public health offi cers' convention at the Pilot Butte inn, Dr. Harold M. Erickson, Ore gon state public health officer, told delegates of their responsi bility to be the leaders of health programs in their individual com munities. ' He said it was their duty to investigate the health needs in their areas and to educate citi zens on the many phases of the health program. He added that another function of the health of ficers was to coordinate all 4he resources of their areas in a con centrated drive toward better com munity health. The health officers moved to Redmond today for their final conference sessions. Meetings were to be held at the Redmond Pine Tavern. Stadter to Open Law Office Here Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Stadter, former residents of Bend, have returned to this city from west ern Oregon to make their home. Stadter will reenter the practice of law here.' His office will be in room 18 of the O'Kane building. Stadter. who served as city at torney here for 12 years, first came to Bend In 1918, nd lived here until about five years ago, when he and Mrs. Stadler moved to the Portland area. Recently they have been living In Beaver ton. Their son. E. O. Stadter Jr., Is Marion county district attor ney. Stadter says he hopes to have his law office In Bend open in a week or 10 days. Honor Editor m n V-M . Carolyn Varney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Clapp, Redmond, is student editor of the RUHS Panther Scratches, given an "All-American" rating by the National Scholastic Press r association. Daylight Saving Planned Here if System General Bend will have daylight saving time this year, If such a plan is adopted more or less generally in Oregon and California. The city commission made this decision at its meeting last night, despite a protest by Commission er Ralph Bailey that it might in convenience tourists. "Portland's going to do It," Mayor T. D. Sexton pointed out. "Culver didn't change last year," Bailey countered. "I like the idea, because it gives me more time to go fishing," Commissioner Bert White inter posed. ' "I move that we adopt daylight saving, if it becomes general this year m tne racmc nortnwest, ' Commissioner W. B. Anderson said. .Commissioner Baer second ed. . The motion carried by a vote of 6 to 1, Bailey dissenting. ft Dies at Redmond Milon Marion Whittemore, 75, a leader in early day irrigation activities in the Deschutes coun try, died this week in Redmond, with funeral services to be held Sunday at' 4 . p. m., from the Christian church. Burial will be in the Redmond cemetery, with old-time residents of Central Or egon to serve as pallbearers. They are Claude L. McCauley, Anton Ahlstrom, Olaf Anderson, D. D. Hunt, Al Mansfield and Jay Shively. Mr. Whittenmore's interest in irrigation in this area dated back; to the days oi the uescnutes ir rigation and Power Co., predeces sor to the Central Oregon Irriga tion district. In later years he served as C.O.I, water-master, and bought and improved a 120 acre farm. His home was In the Pleasant Valley community, south of Redmond. Just short of 50 years ago Mr. Whittemore married the- sweet heart of his school days. Miss Ida Josephine Sparks, by whom he is survived. The couple would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on May 8, 1949. Aside from his wife, Mr. Whit temore is survived by two sons, Clarence Lee Whittemore and Theodore M. Whittemore, of route 1, Redmond, and one daughter, Dona V. Whittemore, of San Francisco. Commission Considers Water, Gasoline and water, perhaps ironically, provided the "burning" issues at last night's regular meet ing of the city commission. And the "hottest" debate was over wa ter! The fireworks started, Innocent ly enough, when City manager W. O. Cuthbertson reported that the 5. P. & S. railroad would like to connect to a city water main, for additional service. The rail road at present has one such con nection, but would like another some distance away for greater convenience. Commissioner Ralph A. Bailey objected Immediately, declaring that some time ago the commis sion decided to make no more connections outside the city lim its. "I know of half a dozen or more people in or around Carroll Acres who have asked for city water, and have been refused. How can we give water to a large company to wash cars, and deny people this water to drink?" Bailey demand ed. "The railroad has water now. A hookup wouldn't mean that it would use more water," Commis Fire Destroys Bend Home; Blast Probed Officers today were investigat ing the report of neighbors that a loud explosion preceded a fire last night at 1509 Galveston, in which Joe Hornsby, lone occu pant of the building, was forced to leave the house through a window. He suffered burns about the head and face, and was taken to St. Charles hospital' for first- aid treatment. Hornsby did not hear any blast, but, he' told investigators, he did hear, a sound, like some heavy object falling in the building. He opened his bedroom door and flames ppured in from the living room, inflicting the burns. He then closed tne door and escaped through the window. Although neighbors said they had heard an explosion, investi gators said they have obtained no Information indicating that a blast preceded or accompanied the night fire. . The house was almost com pletely destroyed by the flames. Hornsby's Wife and four chil dren were fn ' Hermiston on a visit when the fire occurred. The building was covered' by Insurance. Snores Result In Wi Kansas City, Kan., April 21 (IB A prominent 68-year-old business man shot and killed his wife early today after she had awakened him and complained that he was snoring. Earl B. Newby, owner of a widely-known Kansas City sign com pany, admitted the shooting oral ly to County attorney Harold Harding. He said he and his wife had had "family . trouble for 10 years and she kept nagging me about snoring." , Harding said a state warrant charging first degree murder would be issued today. Mrs. Newby, rushed to Bethany hospital., died shortly ' afjer the shooting.- She had been struck three times with a .38 caliber pistol. Questioned by sheriff's depu ties, Newby said he had been mar ried "about 35 years." "When she woke me up, I just went haywire," he said. The Newbys have four grown children, all married. A daugh ter andl son-in-law who live with them were present when the shooting occurred. They notified authorities. Newby was being held without bond in the county jail, Harding said. Ashland Political Pot Still Boils Ashland, April 21 u Ash land's cauldron of politics today had reached a new simmering point. An open revolt was stymied at a city council meeting when sev eral councilmen tried to remove City judge L. P. Wilweth from office. The deciding vote was cast by Mayor Tom Williams, who has battled with the couniil since his election last November. Williams voted to retain Judge Wllmeth. A letter to the council was a sharp blow to hopes of political peace after a special recall elec tion which displaced several councilmen opposed to the may or. sioner William J. Baer retorted. He added that the railroad com pany's objective was to gain more room for washing operations. Cuthbertson said that he believ ed the people of Bend would ap prove of such action, once they realized that it was not a question of saving water. "I'm just a little boy. I fight for the little fellows. The rest of you can let the big boys pull your legs if you wish. But If you give the railroad company more city water I'm going to bring the people from Carroll Acres Into our next meeting and have a showdown," Bailey declared. Said Not Comparable Baer Insisted the situations were not comparable; that the railroad company means much to Bend, while most persons resid ing outside the city limits do so voluntarily, because they like to escape city taxes. "They want fire protection and all the city con veniences, but they don't want to pay lor these services," Baer charged. Mayor Sexton said that the rail road company would be on two meters, Instead of one as at pros-, Chinese Reds Again Shell British Ships Communists Throw Huge Striking Force Into Struggle for Nanking By Arthur Goul (United I'km Start Correspondent) Shanghai, April 21 Commun ist gunners' shelled two' more British warships in the Yangtze today, boosting the casualties in two days of river fighting to 42 sailors killed and about 83 wounded. The British admiralty ordered up reinforcements, Including the heavily armed and armored 10,-000-ton cruiser Belfast from Hong Kong. The 10,000-ton cruiser London and the 1,470-ton sloop Black Swan were the latest British craft to come under the com munist artillery fire. The London arrived in Shang hai tonight after-a river run under fire. Officials reported that 15 aboard were killed and about 60 were wounded. The previous casualty list had stood at 27 dead and 23 wounded. Scarred by Shells The two warships, their sides scarred by the communist snen fire, were ordered by the Brit ish admiralty In London to break off the fight with the superior shore-based communist artillery and return to Shanghai. Both berthed at Pootung, across the Whangpoo from Shanghai, at 7 p.m. Reliable reports said there were additional British, casualties on both snips. The two warships ran into communist shellfire this morn ing when they ran upriver in at tempts to rescue the shell-batter ed sloop Amethyst from a pos sible further pounding. The Amethyst was refloated last night after being aground on Rose island, some bo miles east of Nanking, and moved three miles upriver under her own power - to, escape further shellfire. " -;-. . r However, the Amethyst, with 17 dead and 20 wounded from yesterday's shelling, was cut off Irom escape downriver by the communist batteries- near Rose island. RIVER CROSSED Nanking, April 21 U Chinese communist armies 1,500,000 strong threw a striking force of 30,000 across the Yangtze river today and opened the showdown battle to crush nationalist China. The nationalist government met in emergency session under a swiftly developing threat to Nan king and decided to flee by air to Canton, 700 miles to the south. A Canton report said Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek might come out of retirement to lead the na tionalist armies of some 500,000 men in their supreme test. He stepped down two months ago to make way for 'the now collapsed peace negotiations with the com munists. Along with the government, the American mission in Nan king was getting out. Most of a marine guard for the embassy was flown to Shanghai. The em bassy was reported considering advising all Americans to get out of Nanking at once. The haste to flee the menaced capital was spurred by the fall of JKiangpu, seven miles northwop; of Nanking on the north bank of the Yangtze. The communist victory cleared the way for the massing of hostile forces directly across from Nanking, and a pos sible crossing at a proptious time. ent, and thus the city would get more revenue. Bailey, stating that he had not altered his position, moved that the issue be tabled until the next meeting. In order that "further information might be obtained." The commission accepted the sug gestion, bringing from Baer the good-humored remark: "Well, I at least got a draw out of that one!" Tanker Limit Proposed The axiom that oil and water do not mix proved pertinent when the next vlglrous discussion cen tered on the subject of gasoline. This was brought about by a rec ommendation, submitted by C. L. McCalllstnr, civic affairs commit tee of the Bend chamber of com merce, that commission limit bulk delivery of gasoline here to tank ers of 1500 gallon capacity or less. C. J. Morgan, local Shell Oil company representative, explain ed that the issue had been raised because his company, among sev eral others, was experimenting with a system of service station deliveries from 7,000 gallon tank ers, coming directly from water terminals at Portland or The Dalles. Way tart On Conference Program WW 1 Curtiss M. Everts, Jr., state sanitary engineer, will be on the pro gram of the Oregon Public Health Workers' association in Bend Saturday morning. He will speak on "Stream Pollution." Soft Coal Operators Beat Lewis to Punch With Notice Of Contract Termination . Washington. April 21 (TIE) today beat John L. Lewis to the punch with a contract termi nation notice in a strategic move under the Taft-Hartley law. Their action was taken in anticipation of possible repeal of the Taft-Hartley act later'on and was designed to take ad vantage of its provisions requiring a union to bergain in good raitn, - -m t " The contract termination' notice is effective June 30. It was served on the United Mine Workers' chief by Jos eph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers association, who asked that arrangements for new con tract negotiations "be made promptly." Moody's desire is to get nego tiations under way while the Taft Hartley bargaining requirements are still law. , Action Unprecedented The southerners' action was un precedented. In the past the soft coal Industry has waited for Lew is, toward the end of each con tiact period, to serve notice of termination in advance of nego tiations for a new agreement. The southern association In cludes more than 400 companies which produce 150,000,000 tons of coal a year. This is more than one third of the total production of all the companies under contract with the UMW. Lewis already had summoned his 200-man wage policy commit tee to meet here next Monday in order to frame new contract de mands and draft a union contract termination notice. ' Moody, in acting first, was un derstood to be motivated by de termination to force Lewis to rec ognize him as the legal collective bargainer for the southern group. In the past Lewis has challenged Moody's right to speak for the southerners. Oil Issues "Bend has one of the highest rail, freight rates on gasoline of any city in the state, and we are trying to do something about It for the benefit of nil concerned," ho said. He explained that Shell had pioneered the use of these large tankers, and had. aided in the development of specially do- S,K ,,V "tv" partmcnts that met in full the re quirements of fire underwriters and engineers. "We selected four stations In Bend and wo have been making direct deliveries to these stations at night a less hazardous time for such operations," he explain ed. It was brought out In ensuing discussion that the city of Red mond recently passed an ordin ance, banning this type of gaso line delivery as a fire hazard. Portland has a similar ordinance, but It Is not being enforced. Mor gan said. Commissioner Bert White ask ed what this method would do to the small, individual gasoline dis tributor. This brought the expla (Continued on page 5) Cleared oh Pelt Southern soft coal bperators KBND Seeking Expanded Power For Broadcasts .With the completion of the en gineering and the purchase of a 14 acre site, the Central Oregon Broadcasting company is filing an application this week with the federal communications commis sion to Increase the power of KBND from 250 to 1,000 watts. The Increased power will cover a greatly enlarged area, according to Alvin'H. Barnard, radio con-' suiting engineer of Portland who was in charge of the work. One thousand watts will give all of Central Oregon excellent day and night reception of the station, he said. Some of the equipment for the 1,000 watt station has been pur chased and is now on hand, Frank H. Loggan, station manager said today. Construction work will be started, he said, upon approval of the application by the federal communications commission. Soviet Sabotage Danger Indicated Washington, April 21 Hl''U. S. diplomats warned today that cur rent soviet "peace feelers" may be aimed ot sabotaging the U. S. plans to arm western Europe against communism. The government took cogniz ance of the "peace" reports yes terday in an authorized but cau tious statement that said Russian diplomatic maneuvers may be di rected at lifting the Berlin blockade and bringing about a resumption of big four talks on Germany. Diplomats Involved In guiding American relations with Russia said It is too early to tell wheth er the soviet moves are genuine, and If so, at what they ran aimed. They pointed out Ihnt while the end of the Berlin blockade and the western counter-blockade would be beneficial to both east and west, Russia could hope to gain little In resuming big four talks on Germany. The soviet aim has always been I he communlzatlon of Germany. But these diplomats said recent big three decisions on western Germany gave the German peo ple certain rights which Russia could never accept for eastern Germany. for Work on Project :- Commissioner Gets Ticket for Speed Violation A member of Bend s city com mission last night received first hand knowledge, that the , com mission's recent request for a "crack down" on hurried drivers In Bend is being enforced by po lice. On his way home last night from the meeting of the city commission, W. B. Anderson, one of the seven members of the commission, was cited ' on a charge of failure to observe the basic rule in operating a car in a 25-mile-an-hour zone, and or dered into municipal court. Officer Commended It was Patrolman Max Weaver who gave Anderson the ticket. Somewhat embarrassed to find he had stopped a member of the city commission', the patrolman expressed his regrets while he was making out the ticket, only to receive a word of commenda tion from Anderson, local auto mobile dealer. Weaver was prais ed by Anderson for being on the job. Anderson stressed he ex pected no special treatment be cause he was a member of the city commission. Following the commission meeting last night, Anderson con ferred for a short time with Mayor T. D. Sexton. It was dir ectly after he left Sexton that he was cited, at lo:3&. He was accused of traveling 40 miles an hour in a 23-mile zone. Also cited yesterday on charg es of exceeding the speed limit in a 25-mile an hour zone were Ronald H. Dodson, Bend; Harold E. Weathers, Bend, and Stanley v. rowing, Kt., l, box it. Robertsori New Football Coach Selection of Lenard K. ("Bud") Robertson as head coach of the Bend Lava Bear football team was announced today from the office of James W. Bushong, city superintendent of schools, follow ing action by the school board. Robertson will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Hank Nllsen, who will coach the Eugene Axemen. Robertson will take over his coach duties next fall. The new Lava Bear head coach has been a member of the Bend high school staff for the past three years, coming here from Milwaukie. A three-year football letterman at the University of Oregon, and a letterman in track, football, basketball and baseball at Albany high school, Robertson served 39 months with the army in world war II. Wan Captain .His service was in the South Pacific with the 41st division and he was well acquainted with men and officers of Bond's Co. I. Robertson was discharged with the rank of captain. For the past three years, Rob ertson has been line coach for the Lava Bears, working closely with Nllsen. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have a daughter, Jerry Ann. It was announced that a suc cessor to Robertson as assistant Bear conch has not yet been named. Also to bo filled Is the vacancy created by the resigna tion of Russ Achcson, basketball coach, who has accepted an execu tive position with I he Bond high school. Robertson Is at present Lava Bear track coach. Youth Admits Killing Mother Rockwell City, la., April 21 mi A handsome high school athlete told authorities today that he shot his mother to death In an argument over keeping a date with his girl friend. Authorities Identified the girl as Norma Jeanne Seymour, 17, Fort Dodge. County attorney Lewis B. Hendricks said he would file a first degree murder charge against the youth. Dale Post, 17. Post was arrested Tuesday night In the Ft. Dodge, la., res taurant where Miss Seymour worked as a waitress. The body of his mother, Mrs. Erwln post, 48, had been found a (cw hours earlier slumped ov.r a sack of groceries In the kitchen of her home at Karnhamville, la. She had refused to give her son permission to visit the girl. Area Assured Of Priority . On All Power Central Oregon has been as sured priority, of all power produced at the f lU.uuu.OUU Pelton site in the acceptance by the Northwest Power Sup ply company of conditions re quested by the Central Oregon Peoples Utility district in re linquishing its Deschutes riv er rights. i Acceptance of the conditions, final step in the negotiations that nave cleared the way . for con struction of the Deschutes dam, west of Madras, was received by PUD officials yesterday. ' The ac ceptance was signed by Thomas M. Robins, president oi tne Norm west Power Supply.' company, firm that proposes to construct the Pelton plant. The assignment and waiver, with Its conditions, restrictions and provisions, was signed by J. D. Donovan, presi dent, and Thomas BoeKe,- secre tary, of the PUD last week. . s f inal move Signing of the acceptance by Robins was the final move in the negotiations between the com pany and the PUD. under the agreement, the PUD waives Its rights to appropriate Deschutes water and build a dam on the Des chutes, just upstream from the pelton sue, with tnese major pro visions: -, 1. The PUD reserves prea- ' ent statutory rights to take,,., '""over" any lam or hydroelecv : trio plant which may be con structed by the Northwest company "either by condem- nation or In any other man ner provided by law. 2. Distribution of power from the proposed dam and plant "shall be distributed so far as possible in the counties of Deschutes, Crook and Jef ferson prior to use elsewhere of such electric energy." - Provisions Accepted In turn, the PUD , officials agreed to two provisions request ed by the Northwest company: 1. If the PUD at some fu ture date takes over the dam and hydroelectric plant, un der provisions of an Oregon statute. It will not do so "at least until such time as a ma jor portion of the power units have been installed In Mc Nary dam on the Columbia river and electric energy Is delivered therefrom." 2. Should curtailment, be , necessary in the Pacific, northwest "by reason of any (Continued on Page Five) Tom Niebergall Election Victor Tom Niebergall today was elect ed president of the Bend high school student body by a land slide vote. He received at least 200 votes more than the runner up, Marvin Mix, who was named vice-president. Others who were elected are Greta Nelson, secre tary: Mildred Chopp, treasurer: Mlerley Fordham, paymaster, and Gwen Russell, yell quoen. . htudents voted this morning at five precincts, where 609 of the 753 eligible voters had registered In or der to cast their ballots. The polls closed at noon, and counting of the votes started Immediately, with members of the student coun cil comprising the election boards. The classes voted at different hours of the morning, at precincts to which they were assigned al phabetically. Detailed tabulation of the voting was not released. Are Three Seniors Of the six who were elected to day, Tom Niebergall, Marvin Mix and Greta Nelson are member's of next year's senior class. Mil dred Chopp, Mierley Fordham and Gwen Russell will be Juniors. Retiring officers are Don Den ning, president; Phil Gills, vice president; Charlcen Dahlin, sec retary r Marcia Skjorsaa, pay master; Dick Rasmussen, treas urer, and Kathy Farr, yell queen. The new officers will be In stalled at the major awards as sembly May 27, The votes were cast this morn ing following a tempestuous can didates' assembly climax of one of the most colorful campaigns in the history of the school.
