The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, May 16, 1949, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON MONDAY, MAY 16, 1949 Heroic Youths Defend Girls; 1 Killed by Shot Welland, Ont., May 16 IP An heroic 18year-old American high school boy fought for his life in a hospital here today. He was wounded critically yesterday while defending two girls from a drunken gunman who killed another boy with them at a lake side wiener roast. Richard Joseph, a student at Bennett high school, Buffalo, N. Y., was In Welland county hos pital, his right arm shattered by a bullet that lodged in his ab domen. His friend, Harold Snetsky, also 18, a Buffalo high school track alar, died In the hospital a few hours after being shot In the head. . Provincial police arrested George Szendrel, 28, found cow ering in a beach cottage on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie and held him for arraignment an a charge of murder. Szendrel told police he had only a "vague mem ory" of what had happened. But the two girls in the party identi fied him as the gunman. , Man In Car Lydia Liusi, 16, Snetskv's date, and Geraldine Fiorito, 18, with Joseph, said that there were six couples on. the Saturday night wiener roast at Pleasant beach, 15 miles west of Fort Erie. The other eight boys and elrls left In another car shortly after midnight and the remaining four stayed longer. "When we got back to the car, Lydia said, "this strong looking man was standing there. He had a gun in his hand. He was drunk. And he talked wild." She said the' man ordered the boys to get away but they leap ed at the gunman, throwing themselves between him and the girls. The man fired once. Harold fell, a bullet in his head. Then he fired again, missing Richard. When Richard tried to close in and grapple with the intruder, the gunman fired again, this' time hitting the boy. The youth- fell. But when the stranger ordered the girls to Come with him, Lydia said Rich ard struggled to his feet and again lunged for the man. This time he managed to grab the gun and wrest it from his assailant. The man fled Into the under brush. 1 Young Joseph hurried the girls Into the automobile and drove to -a - nearby farmhouse -where they summoned aid. COLUMBIA PREPARATORY SCHOOL ' PORTLAND, OREGON A Cnlholic College Preparatory Scliool for Boys. Now Campus. Limited 1 Enrollment, Register now for Fall term. For Information address: Registrar, Columbia Preparatory School, Portland, Oregon Grange Hall Grange Hall (Special) May 1G Winners in the Eastern Stat Juvenile contests for the state grange were announced at the regular meeting of the Eastern Siar Grange Tuesday. Joan Reeves was winner of the decla mation contest for the 11 to 14 year olds, with Haley Prichard second. Judy Call was winner in the lower age division with Ma vis Rowley, second and Helen Dy er, third. Others participating in tins division included, Karle Hooker, John Pritchard, Mary Ann Eakman, Susy Call, Mary Kay Pritchard, Ann Dyer, Butch Eakman and Sharon Eakman. Mrs. Edwin Bullis, Mrs. Harold Harbour .and Mrs. Mae Hamby acted as 'judges for these contests. Winners of the poster contect, with Oregon industries as the tneme, were Haley prlcnaru, nrst, In the upper age group; Art Paul, second, and Ramona Hooker, third. John Prichard took first place in the lower age group with Karie Hooker, second, and Mary Kay Prichard, third. Mary Ann Eakman was winner in the essay contest on "Oregon Indus tries," with Haley Prichard, second and Ramona Hooker, third. Mavis Rowley won first on her essay, "On My Father's Work," with Susy Call, second and Judy Call, third. Miss Mar jorie Davidson, Mrs. Del Matt son and Mrs. Ruth Moye were judges in the essay and poster contest. At the business meeting of the grange, Tommy Burton was elect ed to membership and applica tions were received from Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Ritchie. Harold Har bour gave a brief agricultural report, E. G. Fitzgerald, the dance committee report and Mrs. Carson Call the Juvenile report. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hooker and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Williams served refreshments at the close of the meeting. The Eastern Star home eco nomics club will meet on Thurs day afternoon with Mrs. C. W. Hitchcock on Butler road. Mrs. E. W. Paul will be hostess. The Grange Hall ladies met at the home of Mrs. Nolan Turner last Thursday afternoon. Eighteen were present and Mrs. Albert Allen was a guest. Sayings were given for roll call in the attendance contest and work on the bazaar pieces concluded the afternoon's work. The next meet ing place will be announced la ter. Mrs. Nolan Turner attended the 4-H leader committee meet ing in Redmond last Tuesday evening. Attending tne county leaders meeting held at the fair grounds in Redmond last Thurs day evening were, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prichard, Mrs. No lan Turner, Mrs, R. D. Moore, Mrs. George Huettl and Donald Sorenson. Mrs. Joe Meyer and her daughter, Eileen Harris, both of Salem and former residents of this community, called on Mrs. Frank McContiell, last Wednes day. Mrs. Clair Fuller of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sapplngton and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fuller of Corval lis were callers at the home of Mrs. Marion Dubuls last Sunday They also visited other friends and relatives while in Bend. Eastern Star grangers attend ing the Pomona grange meeting in Redmond on Saturday were Mrs. Carson Call and two daugh ters, Joan Reeves, Mrs. Del Matt son, Mrs. Julia Pederson, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Brown and daugh ter, Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Walters, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prichard, O. P. Dahle and Mrs. Marlon Dubuis. Mrs. Del Mattson attended the Spring Festival held at Haystack grange in Culver, Saturday eve ning. Judy Call and Joan Reeves gave their declamation speeches for the Pomona grange in Red mond on Saturday. About 25 4-H club members and their yenders from this com- i munity attended church on 4-H OUT OUR WAY By J. ft. Williams Ol fill III III' THIS AINi'T ALL V I fi P ' ' SrTTIN' A PIECE ) I H II J OP CHICKIM OUT Uv , J 9 W'JK WITHOUT MIMeMELLIM') I. N WHV MOTHERS GET J."-.Sr.T Jj.'S.ia , News of Redmond, Vicinity Redmond, May 16 (Special) Miss Avis Barnum was an over night guest of Miss Joan Bessy, Tuesday. The girls attended the junior-senior banquet in the Pilot Butte inn, Bend, Tuesday night. Herbert Brown of Condon was a dinner guest Wednesday at the Ray Bessey home in Redmond. The grade school band which earned a 1 rating at the district contest was asked to perform dur ing the Saturday evening program at the state contest In Klamath Falls. Miss Doris Osenton, drill team majorette at Redmond union high school, performed at the Saturday Sunday at the Episcopal church. Mrs. Al Dumler, Mrs. Nolan Turner and Mrs. Walter Prichard attended program planning day at the courthouse in Bend last Tuesday. Mrs. E. W. Paul made a busi ness trip to Redmond on Thurs day last week and brought home some turkey poults for several df her neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Hooper Dyer and three daughters, Helen, Nan cy, and Ann returned last Monday evening from Cheney, Washing ton, where they spent Mother's day with another daughter and her family. Cheney is near Spokane. The following 4-H members from this community have been chosen to attend 4-H Summer school: Ann Moore, Lee Paul, Thomas Burton, Richard Bur ton, Norman Turner, Violet Klo bas, Nancy Dyer, Donald Sor enson, Loretha Huettle, Grace Huettle and Steward Huettle. Al ternates chosen were Melvin Rosebrook, Pauline Franks, Rich ard Fix, Ramona Hooker and Dav- lene Hlnce. Graduation exercises for the eighth graders at Young School will be held at the school house on May 31, at 8 p. m. Rev. Len B. Fishbaeh will deliver tne ad dress. Nine will be graduated from the school this spring and four others will join them who have attended the school until recently. Mrs. Bob Phillips and smau son of Portland visited a few days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John f ranKs. Miss Bonnie Lcrmo spent the weekend visiting at coast, with her brother Larry Lermo and his wife. They visited enroute with their parents in Silverton. night music festival in Klamath Take a Bird's Eye View of Your Roof! Water-damaged walls and ceilings, resulting from a leaky, worn-out roof servo as a warning of more mtIoun defects that may result! (lot to work NOW bv KKKOOKING with quality I'loncer Shinnies! Our friendly advisors have all the Information yon need! Stop In and see them this neck! Tel: IVJ70. YOU CAN HKKOOI THE AVKKAGK 5KOOM HOME FOR AS LOW AS $50 DOWN; $14 A MONTH. Central Oregon Roofing Co. m Bond Street fhone 1270 SERVING ALL OF CENTRAL OREGON Residence: Phone I33A-R Falls. Carolyn Varney, editor of Pan ther Scratches, has been awarded a certificate of recognition for her outstanding work on the school paper. The award was made by the University of Oregon chapters Of Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, women s and men s na tional journalism fraternities. Mrs. Nina Owsley, of Sisters, has recently purchased the Tilly Jane Beauty Shoppe from Mrs. C. C. Alfrey. Mrs. Owsley will drive back and forth from her home in Sisters. The Ray Johnson American Lc glon post held a meeting at 8 p.m. at the V.F.W. hall. The Camp Fire girls were guests of the post. They demonstrated phases of Camp Fire work as part of the program. Mr. and Mrs. M. Pearson and daughter, Wylmoth, spent last week end visiting relatives in Hlllsboro. Mr. and Mrs. George McKinnon and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Munkries attended the state junior chamber of commerce convention in Baker May 6, 7 and 8. Haystack grange will hold a celebration Saturday, the third anniversary of delivery of the first water to the North unit of the Deschutes project Dinner will be served by women of the grange at 5:30 p.m. There will be free dancing after the dinner. The North Unit Melodeers will play. Miss Janet Boone, daughter of Irene Boone, pledged Thalian so cial sorority. Janet is a freshman at Whlttier college, Whittier,. Calif. Miss Joyce Davis, the 1948 Miss Central Oregon, was guest, soloist at the junior-senior ban quet held in the Blue room of the Pilot Butte inn, Bend, Tues day night. Mrs. C. E. Thompson and Mrs, Ben Galligan were co-hostesses to the AQ chapter of PEO Sister hood. The members of the club worked on arrangements for the PEO convention to be held in early summer. Miss Janet Boone was tapped for Soseco, sophomore honorary and service club, at Whittier cot lege, Whittier, Calif., where she is a freshman. Students of both creative writ ing classes are working out orig inal Interpretations of skits, read ings and poems to be presented in the hlgn school gym at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets will be on sale at the door. Adults 35c, students 20c. Madras Seniors To Get Diplomas Madras, May 16 Carl Rhoda, superintendent of the Madras un ion high school, has announced that a class of 22 will be gradu ated on May 25, when the com mencement address will be deliv ered by Dr. McCall, who heads the speech department of the Uni versity of Oregon. On the Sunday evening before the baccalaureate sermon will be given by Rev. Wal ter R. Warner, pastor of the Ma dras Methodist church, with Rev. Ronald E. Nowlin, pastor of the Christian church, giving the invo cation and benediction. , , On commencement night, Hat tie Choate will be valedictorian and Leona Wallace, salutatorlan. The other members of the class of '49 are: Ann Brownhlll, Ray Cram, Lewis Crocker, Marvin Dee, Betty DeLude, Nola Drown, Loren Greenwood, Calvin Gregg, Hazel Hall, Kathleen Heath, Joan Hedgepeth, Jim Hess, Jane Hull, Shirley McKenzie, Wllma Miller, Mildred Nance, Charles Olson, Yvone Parr, Darlene Spafford, Elgar Stephens and Bobby Drain. NAME CHANGED Seattle, May 16 IIP) Members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra ternity at the University of Wash ington today changed the name of an annual festival from "We Hate Women Week" to "We Love Wom en Week.".... The fraternity explained that during the last two annual hate tests, women guests did $728 worth of damage to the house. A Carter Factory-Trained Mechanic ... ! I- , - K " . 4 Carbureter Service- f et better performance through better carburetion bring your car in today and let our factory-trained specialist inspect your carbureter. CARTER CERAMIC FUEL FILTERS - ...lv. - ... . UA, II carbureter, free from dirt, water, lint and other harmful matter AUTHORIZED SERVICE CARBURETOR MAGNETO IGNITION 228 E. Greenwood BEND, OREGON Thone 1779 rYonlMU ell rllht, feut dn not uniirttanit Sonotona'i icitntifio testa will help you to bettor understanding:. SfiNftTflNF., of Walla Walla . 8!i0 Denny Bldg. T. C. DOWNS WILL BE AT Pilot Butte Inn May 17th and 18th For Fitting and Service. 2 Lose Lives In Plane Crash ' Cave Junction, May 16 ip Two men were fatally Injured yester day when their plane crashed on takeoff from the Siskiyou na tional forest airport near here. John M. Scott and Thomas Bo- land, both of Grants Pass, died a few minutes after the accident The pair left the Grants Pass airport shortly after noon for a pleasure jaunt in Scott s two-place Aeronca Chief, They landed at the Cave Junction field but, as they were taking off, the plane stalled and crashed. ALASKANS SPLIT POT Nenana, Alaska, May 16 UP) Four native Alakans, who cor rectly gussed the day, hour and minute of the annual break-up on the Tanana river, split $164,000 today. The ice broke up al 2:39 p.m. (PST) Saturday. It was the first time in the history of the pool that the ice started to move May 14. Correct guessers on the $164,000 jackpot were Olaf Efkkila and Ino Nickleson of. Anchorage and La Lay and Betty Dan of Fairbanks. Youth Uses Car To Kill Cougar Turner, May 16 IPi A cougar measuring 7 feet, 2 Inches was killed near here over the week end, thanks to the quick think ng of Marion Towery, Turner high school senior who used his car as a weapon to stun the animal. Towery, with his companion, Margaret Prather, also a Turner high senior, was driving toward Turner when the 140-pound cou gar jumped onto the road in the patn oi nis car. Believing me TWINS, TOO! ( Seattle, May 16 Ul'i-Mrs. Horry k Day, 27, was turned away, from the Haiborview county hospital yesterday because attendants said the baby she was expecting was "not due for some time. Sh went home and with the aid of her husband and a nervous policeman gave birth to a boy She then returned to the hospita this time In an ambulance and gave birth to a girl. Redfaced attendants announced that the twins were "doing fine. Falls In the home" and barn cause more Injuries than any oth er type oi tarm acc-mi-m. i i mal might be a deer or a can, scene. The cougar was louim m.u Towery swerved his car to avoid finally shot to death while fight- I. TtiflM wsianl7lna it AS ln.r tuith tho rtnPS. hitting it. Then recognizing it as a mountain lion, he speeded up to hit it. The cqugar took off dl- rectly down the road aneaa oi Towery, who had to speed the car to 40 miles an hour before he over took the creature. Towery hit it, then backed his car and ran over the beast three or four limes. 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