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Newspaper Page TextTHE BEND BULLETIN' CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER State Forecast OREGON Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday with scattered afternoon show ers. Low tonight 40 to 50 and high Wednesday 70 to 80. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE 33 rd Ymp Bend Pool Opening Set For Saturday Formal Ceremonies Still Scheduled July 4, City Manager Announces Bend's long-awaited swimming pool will open Saturday at 1:30 p. m., unless unforeseen delay occurs. City Manager C. W. Cuth bertson said today. V . While the grand opening re jVmains scheduled for July 4, Sat urday's "less-than-grand but still pretty swell chance to swim" is intended to be somewhat of a trial run for the outdoor pool, Cuthbertson said. Lifeguards will man the pool seven days a week from 1:30 un til 9:30 p. m. Additional activities are contemplated with details to be announced later. Prices of tickets for the re mainder of this summer have been adjusted downward. For in dividuals, the season ticket price is $2.40; for families, $4.80. Sin gle swims for children and high school students will cost 14 cents; for adults, 25 cents. All prices given include tax. Pool Lighted The pool is equipped with un-der-water and overhead lights; the dressing rooms, with toilets and showers. State sanitary regulations re quire that bathers take showers belore entering the pool, and for women and girls, caps are re quired. The wading pool will be ready for toddlers some time next week, Cuthbertson said. He admonished swimmers to adhere to the rules of safety and food manners. "Our aim should e to have all the fun possible with never a mishap to mar the Bend pool record," he said. Ship Explodes When Mine Hit . Dunkerque, France, June 21 ilPi The Belgian channel steamer Princess Astrid, carrying 283 passengers, struck a mine and sank, off Dunkerque today. Po lice said six persons were missing and eight injured. The first radio message from a rescue fleet which rushed to the area five miles off Dunker que said some of those -aboard the Astrid had been burned by the blast. Port authorities alerted Dunkerque hospitals to be ready to receive the injured. The 2,950-ton vessel struck the mine in coastal waters during her regular afternoon run from Ostend, Belgium, to Dover, Eng land. Port officials said the As trid, carrying 218 passengers'and G5 crewmen, sank 90 minutes later. Bend Lions See Veterans' Movie" A motion picture dealing with veterans' rehabilitation problems was 3hown to Lions club mem bers today by Troy McCraw, rep resentative for the state depart ment of veterans affairs. McCraw was guest at the Lions club regular weekly luncheon ; meeting. K. E. Sawyer was in charge of the program. "T Plans were made at the meet Mng to hold a joint session with the Redmond Lions club next Wednesday. In another action nt the club luncheon, members who failed to vote In yesterday's school elec tion were assessed fines. Californians Use Old Diary As Guide to Pioneer Roufe Guided by a dim, pencilled di ary kept by his mother 66 years ago in a trip through the Des chutes country, Jarvis I. Clark of Napa, Calif., was In Bend yes terday afternoon. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Clark, members of a train of two or three wagons that stopped at Farewell Bend on the night of July 4, 1883. As a result of notations in the old diary, the trail of his parents through central Oregon is "well blazed," Clark noted. The diary shows that the Clark family was a member of a group that left Weston, In eastern Ore gon on June 19, 1883. The route was through Heppner and across ? to rossil, then west over the Jonn i Day at the Clarno ferry. From jj Clarno, the party moved across the highlands to Trout creek and ' Vie present site of Madras. Crooked river apparently was New Director 4 Mrs. Joe Elder yesterday was elected to the school board for district No. 1, ueieating Dr. George Winsiow, incumbent. She will serve for a five-year . term. Board Authorizes Plans for New' School Building Bend school district's board of directors, meeting at the office of the superintendent on Wall street last night, authorized F. Marlon Stokes, Portland architect, to pre pare plans and specifications for a four room, pumice block school building to be erected on the west side for primary use. Following the recent opening of bids on quonset type construc tion, which turned out to be 25 per cent above estimates, Stokes has been in Bend checking over the situation with Superintendent James W. Bushong. The new building, to follow the general ideas carried out in a rough sketch, which Bushong submitted to the board, is expected to effect economies by making consider able reductions in the amount of hall space. Advice Rejected The board was unwilling to ac cept the advice of Adrian W. Vaaler, Eugene engineer, who had worked with the district in pre paration of design and specifica tions tor the quonset type struc ture. Vaaler"s letter, read at the meeting last night, suggested that $10,000 expense could be elimin ated in carpenter's costs and $1,000 by substituting galvanized iron for copper in the flashing. He felt sure, his letter said, that the cost could be brought close to the original estimate of $8.50 a square foot. The district attorney, Alva C. Goodrich, told the directors that provisions have been made for na tional guard use of surplus space at the national forest repair shops and that this will be available as soon as the guardsmen return from summer encampment. It will make unnecessary their fur ther use of the high school gym nasium. It will continue to be available until the new armory Is ready, Goodrich believed. Four Instructors Assigned The superintendent reported that four Instructors are being as signed for the adult education program to be started at college level here this fall. The schedule of courses is being worked out for early announcement, he said. The board canvassed the vote In the director election, decided against permitting the high school athletic field to be used for a Fourth of July rodeo by the Rimrock Riders but granted the Moose lodge permission to put on a boxing program at the same lo cation on the evening of July 25. Directors present were Dr. George W. Winsiow, chairman, Dr. J, S. Grahlman. Glenn H. Gregg and Vance T. Coyner. crossed near the site of the pres ent bridge, in the O'Neill area. Continued South The diary relates: "We crossed a 30-mile desert to celebrate the fourth ol July and camped that night at Farewell Bend, f rom Bend, the party continued south and killed two deer, apparently on Paulina creek. The trip into California was by the way of Klamath marsh and Linkvllle, now Klamath Falls. Clark and his wife are fol- I lowing his parents' pioneer trail In reverse, and from Bend headed north for Ashwood and the John Day country. They plan to continue on to Heppner. Clark learned while here that when his parents camped here on the night of July 4, 1883, there were only two families here. They were the Slscmore and Staats families. BEND, Mrs. Elder Wins School Board Post Mrs Joe Elder yesterday was elected to a 5-year term on the Bend district 1 school board by a 51 vote margin over her oppon ent, Dr. George Winsiow, incum bent. Total number of votes cast for Mrs. Elder was 192, compared to 141 for Dr. Winsiow. "I am happy about the election and I hope that I can be of as much service to the Bend schools as Dr. Winsiow has in his years of duty on the board," Mrs. Elder commented, on learning of her election. - "My primary interest in serv ing on the board," she added, "is to be of help in promoting the welfare of Bend school children." Mrs. Elder said that she plans to continue her work in P.T.A and with the Camp Fire girls or ganization. At present she is ex ecutive secretary of the Des chutes county Camp Fire girls. Takes Office in July Dr. Winsiow, who has served on the board since 1937, will re main in office until June 30. Mrs. Elder will take office at the first board meeting in July. - Voter, were counted following the closing of the polls yesterday by the election board made up of Mrs. Elmer R. Tvan, Mrs. Anna Gillean, Mrs. C. P. Becker, Mrs. A. T. Herrling, Mrs. E. E. Hughes, and Mrs. Olive Cook. The votes were also canvassed by members of the school board. Results of elections in county schools outside the Bend district were not available today. The night before the election Dr. Winsiow was notified that he had been named a member of the board of directors of Western Baptist Theological Seminary, Portland. Okinawa Struck By Typhoon, Tokyo, June 21 UP) A typhoon swept on from Okinawa across soul hern KyuSHU 'Today leaving 375 feared dead, several hundred small craft sunk, and three freighters, one of them with a cargo of wild animals, in dis tress. Jiji press reported from Shiko ku that 372 Japanese fishermen were feared dead in 56 fishing craft destroyed by the storm. Three other persons were re ported killed in Kagoshima on Kyushu. An additional 55 fishing craft were destroyed on Shikoku and "scores" of others on Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures, Jiji press said. SOS Heard Hong Kong port authorities picked up an SOS signal from the 8fi91ton American freighter Lightning, now adrift off Oki nawa. Pacific Far East lines, owners of the vessel, said the ship left Hong Kong June 16 with a cargo of Siamese jungle beasts, including eight elephants. 700 monkeys, 12 bears, and a dozen snakes over 20 feet in length. The Japanese Marine Transport association said two other feight ers were grounded by the storm off Kyushu. Police reported 40 persons were killed and 563 others were mis sing in Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku. Government officials estimated damage from the typhoon-nicknamed "Delia" by the U. S. ty phoon warning network at $12, 500,000. Three coal mines in Fukouka, Kyushu were flooded. Taft-Hartley Repeal Favored Eugene, June 21 itl'i The Ore gon State Federation of Labor yesterday unanimously sup ported a declaration asking for outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor act. Delegates defeated efforts of James T. Marr, secretary-treasurer of the state organization, to postpone any action on the labor act until after hearing from Jo seph Keenan, national political education director from Wash ington, D.C. Keenan is scheduled to speak Thursday. A motion directing officers to call on the Oregon delegation In the nation's capital to stand fast on Its demand for outright re peal was voted unanimously. Ed Weston, president of the Washingtor State Inderal ion of Labor, told the convention that decisions of the Washington state supreme court have become more liberal r-ince labor elected two ou!; of three Justices who were candidates In the last elec tion. "You can rest assured," Wes ton declared, "that we are going to slit Senator Harry Cain's throat from ear to ear the first chance we get." DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, Wagon Keynotes Bond Drive A covered wagon inscribed with rtne parade Monday in Bend, calling PrineYille Air j Line Initiates j Portland Service Portland, June 21 (U'i Oregon's newest airline went into opera tion between Prineville and Port land yesterday. The airline, dedicated to serv ing isolated communities of cen tral Oregon, is operated by Frank Stratton, Prineville. Straton said the service later would be expanded to cover Mit chell, Spray, John Day Burns, and possibly other towns, ., , The inaugural flight landed in Portland yesterday with a load of passengers, potatoes, and a new hat for Mayor Dorothy Mc Cullough Lee. Mayor Lee, owner of a noted hat collection dating back to 1910, accepted the cowboy hat from W. M. (Rusty) Romine, president of the Prineville Chamber of Com merce. She said she would wear it on a visit to the state's cattle section. "I am a horsewoman, a moun tain horsewoman, not one of these women who ride gentle dobbins on the plains," she declared. Young Divers Locate Treasure Point Pleasant, N. J., June 21 (IPs Two young deep sea divers saw a 13-year dream of finding $50,000 in sunken gold treasure coming true today. Floyd Sharp Jr., 31, and Wil liam Conway, 25, reported they had found the 51 year-old wreck of the liner S, S. Delaware, be-1 lieved to have a quarter of a I northern point and began travel million dollars in gold aboard, ! ing back toward the equator and have hegun exploring it. j again, rrom now on the days will "We've found some signs of j 6'ow shorter, the gold aboard.' Conway said. More sticky, humid weather "But we'll have more to say tortured New York City's mil about that sometime next week." j lions. He refused to elaborate. j Sweltering policemen tried to Sharp explained that his Inter-' hold their tempers while chasing est In the wreck began In 1936, ; kids away from fire hydrants, at the time Simon Lake, the late The kids wanted to turn on the inventor of the submarine, led hydrants and take showers un an expedition lo recover the dor the cool water. The city en treasure, but ran out of funds Blnecr said the water supply was belore locating It. u'i"B reduced dangerously. Gold Verified, j Sharp, who was then 18, i n 1 dreamed of someday finding the rrineVllie V OT e treasure for himself. He began; a 'if to collect all the Information he'gOJSl UOUHlV, could about the matter, and re- i , ID A solved to become a professional oClIOO tSlldOetS deep sea diver. A letter he wrote t tltn Urn,-r1 Cloomuhln linn mi-n. er of the vessel verified that the $:!50.000 gold ' had had been aboard when the Delaware sank nn tniv ci iMUH on July J. 18J8. He found five men Mill alive In Point Pleasant who remem- bered witnessing Ihe sinking of un; amp. num mi-Hi i t in-, i ings on where they thought the wreck was. lie made charts, and he went Into partnership with his old friend Conway, who helped Lin, hli, .t rtAn in L.ni,run Equipment fcalVf,K ; Several months ago they began! .....i. i ...itu -i i vtoZWx&&4to&.Tte "y high 'school budge, l, ' i the communists cap out. And on June 10 thev found $30,000 in excess of the limit, and i ,u,ctl ,ne ev- thp wreck lying In 68 feet of water Just off the coast. "We've been diving down al - most every day since," Sharp said. "The hull is rotten and only about 100 feet of the 200-foot ves sel still are intact. The rest of the ship is spread around the bottom." words, Be a Modern 49 er, was the principal attraction In a .attention to the "Opportunity" drive Success of Conference Does Not Mean End of Cold War, Western Diplomats Declare (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, June 21 (HE) Western diplomats warned today that the east-Vest cold war still is on, despite the big four's agreement to write an Austrian treaty by Sept. 1 and to keep trying for a united Germany. The four-power council of a formal communique last night the unexpected settlement of all outstanding Austrian arrangement tor running a divided Germany. Eastern States Still Scorched gyJHeaf, Drouth , . , (Hy UniUtl Pretw) -,- Summer arrived In America right on schedule today while the worst drouth in 41 years scorched eastern states. Forecasters had little encour agement for New York and New England farmers who have suf fered a $50,000,000 loss in burned up crops. The prediction was for only a few thunder showers. Scorching heat, with readings in the 90's, was forecast for a five-state New England area. There have been 43 deaths from heat or drowning in New Eng land since the drouth began, and the weather bureau warned of high humidity, but little rain. In 27 days, the Boston region has hud only .19 inches of rain. Normal Elsewhere The rest of the country, for the most part, had typical sum mer weather. No extensive show ers were forecast anywhere al though some were expected in the central lakes region and in the upper Mississippi valley. There was no snow in all the land. About the coldest spot in the nation was Pembina, N. D., with 51 degrees. Summer arrived officially at 1 :03 p. m, eastern standard time, when the sun reached its maximum Prineville, June 21 Crook eolln,y ,nl)ay'rs yesterday came decisively against budget In- " .boosts, In three separate elec- lions. This was the first time crook county voters had been caM,i on ,0 ap)rove budgets In .exccss of ,np f) ,)(,r cpnt const. ; tutlonal limitation. The county budget, $11,564 In cs of the limit, was ' ipte of 31710 m w h i killed by aiiproxl- iiifiu-y o.uuu poii-muii un.-is falling to cast ballots. Two other measures were de- fnnlH In &rtfrlil cfhnnl plnntinno a county grade school budget, $69,000 over the limit, were beaten : decisively. The county budget board was In session today, deliberating the future course of action as a re sult of the election outcome. The county school boards are to meet Friday for the same purpose. 1949 Parade for the sale of E series bonds. foreign ministers announced in treaty issues and a working These accomplishments of i the four-week conference in Paris brought a temporary lull In the war of nerves between east and west. But western dip lomatic quarters were quick to caution that the cold war still is as cold'as ever. ' . " Still No Peaco There Is no actual war and momentarily little threat of war, they said, but also there still Is no peace. The irritations which have caused so much trouble and fear during the last two years will continue, they said. The conference ended lost night in a symbolic anti-climax. After all four foreign ministers had agreed on the text of a com munique summarizing their work, Russia's Andrei VIshinsky suddenly called for another meet ing and a delay m puollcation ot the communique. He said he was acting on "dir ect orders from Moscow" pre sumably from Premier Josef Sta lin of the Politburo. It developed VIshinsky wanted a paragraph added to the com munique saying that the Russians were guaranteed the free export of profits on oil properties in Austria that they will keep. The western powers refused, but agreed to take up the matter through normal diplomatic chan nels. British Ship Target in Attack Shanghai, China, June 21 UPi Nationalist warplanes bombed and strafed a British motor ves sel in the Whangpoo river near Shanghai today, driving the ship aground and injuring six of its 68 British and Chinese members, one seriously. The attack came a few hours alter the nationalist government In Canton announced a total blockade of all communist-held ports from Manchuria to Foo chow, but five days before the blockade was to go Into effect. The 8,281-ton Blue Funnel line molorship Anchlses, built in 1946, was heavily damaged In the raid. A hole was punctured by a bomb which hit amidshlp and the engine room was flooded. The vessel, however, was refloated this afternoon. "Britain, whose warships were shelled by the communists be fore Shanghai fell to the reds, Immediately protested the na tionalist bombing. The foreign of fice nolo, In which Britain re sercd the right to demand com pensation for damage, was handed to Ihe nationalist foreign office in Canton. , The attack came during the fourth and most serious nation alist air raid on the Shanghai PARK ROUTE OPENED The east entrance to Crater lake was opened to traffic today, it was reported by the state high way department. The north en trance Is still blocked by snow, the Klamath Falls office notified local highway headquarters. CV A Proponents EncounterRough Qoing atHearing Washington, Juno 21 (HE) Proponents of tho proposed Columbia valley administration house and senate hearings on the measure today. . C. Girard Davidson, assistant interior secretary, told the senate public works committee that tho CVA would eliminate the inter-agency conflict that "plague" the river basin. When Sen. Harry Cain, R., Wash., asked for and was given an example of a conflict the level at which Bonneville dam should be operated he re- plied that congress probably could settle that. Davidson, continuing his statement, said that several agencies active in the basin would be outside CVA. "What happens then when they conflict with CVA?" asked chairman Dennis Chavez, D., N. M. Davidson said CVA would plan with those agencies for their Co lumbia work. Examples Asked Cain asked Davidson to supply the committee laer with as many examples of the "plague of con flictr" as he could. He indicated his belief that they could be re resolved without a CVA. David son disagreed, saying that if one party to an inter-agency conflict found a solution to it he hud no authority to impose It on the oth er. Davidson recommended that congress enact the CVA authori zation bill in the interests of "faster progress, more Jobs, and greater .prosperity for the north west and the nation." Rep. Henry Jackson, D., Wash., testified on CVA for the second day before the house public works committee. His endorsement of CVA brought a downpour of ques tions, few of them favorable to the CVA bill. No Chance to Vote Rep. Gordon McDonough, R Cul., indicated dissatisfaction by asserting -that residents of the Co lumbia area would not have a chance to vote for or against a CVA. Jackson replied that under a representative form of govern ment legislators could not make a practice of making action de pendent on direct referendum. Rep. Thomas Picket, D., Tex., started questioning Jackson on the bill, section by section. He Siiid it should provide that direct ors of the administration be na tural born citizens instead of merely citizens. "A natural born citizen would deport himself more in line with the fundamental tenets of this government than some Johnny-come-lately," Picket suid. Jackson disagreed and said many residents of the Columbia area were U. S. citizens born in Canada. Pickett objected to other pro visions of the bill relating to pow er development, stating they would cripple private industry. Jackson denied the charge. Feudin', Fightin' At Prineville! Only Small Boy Prineville, June 21 Shootin' Irons and ironin' Irons made headlines in this western town today after Mrs. Charles Smith, Yancey district housewife, "stop ped one" in her hip as she worked at her Ironing board, do ing no harm to anyone. According to tho story she told Sheriff Ralph Jordan and Ore gon slate police investigators, a barrage of gunfire struck her house Just as she shook out a frock she was going to do up. Officers found six bullets from a .22-callbcr rifle buried In walls of the house, and a hole in the screen door where one of Ihe missiles had entered, on Its way to Mrs. Smith's right hip. For tunately, It only creased her. Officers learned that the mis creant was a Juvenile 1100 feet distant. He'd taken a head on a blackbird and missed. Big Airliner Comes to Rescue Crescent City, Calif., June 21 '111 A commercial airliner was cred ited today with saving the lives of an Oregon family of three whose small plane was stranded in the heavy overcast here Sun day night. Southwest airlines Cnpt. Jack Gladney through the fog picked up the running lights of the small Hero-coupe containing Mr. and Mrs. Roy Atkinson, of Grant'? Pass, Ore., and their two-months old child. Knowing the small plane was without proper Instru ments to make a blind landing, Gladney dropped the flaps on hi? DC-3 and shepherded the small craft to a break In the overcast. The Atkinsons spotted the Cres cent city runway and landed with out a scratch. No. 167 ran into rough weather nt River Paqeant Arrangements Near Completion Directors of the Bend Stampede and Water Pageant association, holding their weekly conference lncl nlcrht lunrnnrl thnf arronon. menjs for the 1949 river fete are well ahead of schedule, with the arch frame work finished, seats in place, float bases ready and all spats erected. Work on flnata also is well under way, and it was indicated by Art Rixe, in charge of float entries, that a two-hour show will be provided. This year, it was announced, Redmond, Madras and Prineville are joining Bend groups In spon soring floats. A three-day show has been ar ranged In connection with the fete, and a highlight of the pro gram will be the appearance of Portland aquatic stars, who will be presented in swimming, div ing, with a high platform to be stationed in the river lor their use. Sixteen eirls. the Aauanettes.' will takn fifli-t tn thn anMntin' show, on Saturday, and Sunday. Plan Special Program ' The river pageant again will , be presented on two nights this year, Saturday, July 2,, and Sun- day, July 3. A special program is being lined up for Sunday aft ernoon, and this will be free to the public. This year, it was announced, the Bend municipal band will play from a platform to be erected in the river, below the arch and near the boom. The band will play each evening prior tn Ihp nnirpant mwl will hn fnl. lowed by organ music by Glenn Portland. W. j. Baer, association president, announced that fire works will be provided each night under the direction of the Shell Oil Co., with each float to be announced by the bursting of an aerial bomb. Also assisting with the 1949 show, It was an nounced, will be the General Oil Co. which will provide a public address system. All oil firms pro vided barrels used under the floats. To clear a misunderstanding, Charles Clark, in charge of the queen contest, stressed that this year girl candidates are not being sponsored by any group. Budget Hearing Set Wednesday Final public heating on the Deschutes county budget, which runs close to one half million dol lars, will be held Friday evening at 8 o'clock In the circuit court room of the county courthouse. Total estimated expenditures In the budget amount to $183,664.49, of which S1H8.050.19 must be raised by taxation. Approximately half of the lat ter amount constitutes manda tory levies, Including $36,142.99 for welfare; $63,148,000 for coun ty schools, and $631.48 for the county school library. This past year the total county estimated expenditures figure, Srw6,011.74 of which $188,25-Y0 was raised through laxalion. Comparison of figures for the two years shows a decrease tn the estimated total expenditures for the next fiscal year amount ing to $72,347.25, but an Increase in the proposed levy for 1949 totaling $9,795.29, an amount with in the 6 per cent tax limitation. An expenditure included in the 1949 budget estimate, and new to Deschutes county, is tho $12, 988 required to put. the county employes retirement plan In op eration. Ol that amount $4,500 would be used for courthouse personnel, $7,200 would be re quired for rond employes and the balance, $1,288, would' go toward tlit' county library employes re tirement fund.