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Newspaper Page Texteuokje, 0RSQ3i y f HE BEND BULL State Forecast Oregon Fair today, tonight and Thursday. High temper atures both days 88 to 93. Low tonight 55 to 65. - LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE , CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY; JULY 13, 1949 No. 185 teelWalkout MM yAoiniyinieCall! fr S WayneHamilton Named Director Oj Recreate Wayne B. Hamilton, 34, will be the new recreation director for the city of Bend, effective August Hamilton took the position, which is being vacated by the resignation of David Howard, following a meeting with mem , bers of the city commission Tuesday evening. A resident of Bendf or the past 26 years; he is married and has a son, Wayne Jr., 2' years old. Hamilton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hamilton'also of Bend. Hamilton, long interested in youth activities and recreation here, was hired as recreation- ; . . , director, and not as tne neau of a separate department. The city commission made this clear, in an exchange of ideas leading up to the appointment. Mayor T. D. Sexton read various sections of the city charter, in which the duties of city officials are outlined, and voiced the opinion that nowhere in the charter is there any pro vision for a separate department, outside the Jurisdiction of the city manager. Ross Farnham, city at torney, concurred in this opinion. To Enact Ordinance The commission decided, with Hamilton in full agreement, that a city ordinance will be enacted, in which the duties of the recrea tion director definitely will be out lined, and in which the office will lyl. (JIUVLU UIIV"-' i of the city manager. Hamilton, Farnham, W. O. Cuthbertson, city manager, and George Simerville, city recorder, will participate in drawing up this ordinance, which, will be subject to its first reading ' at a subsequent meeting of the m ivimmls-ainn ' fL . Hamilton -told the commission . jtiamiuun - turn ui-r nnuuuwii the scope of his duties, but desired clarification on this score before he took the position. He was as , i - li. .i . . . i v. , , - nnlmJ f sured that tne proposed ordinance would define fully the duties of the recreation director. Bend High Graduate A graduate of the Bend high school, Hamilton later attended Oregon State college, where he was active in boxing and wrestl ing. He has been employed by The Shevlin-Hixon Company for the past. 13 years and has been in pliorffo hf Qiifptv work for the company during the past five years. For live years ne coacneu the Christian church basketball team, which piayed m tne inter city church league, and developed several players that later partici pated in high school basketball. He is a member of the Jaycees, and a former secretary-treasurer of that organization. Other masters considered brief ly by the commission, in its spe oial meeting, were: Received assurance from Merle (Continued on Page 7) ians Hear Bend High Girl Paula Smith, )3end high school senior, who today was guest of the Bend Rotary club at a lunch eon meeting in the Pilot Butte inn, told members of her activi ties as an officer in the American Legion auxiliary 8Xnsored "Girls State," which was held this past month at Willamette university. Girls from all ptrts of Oregon attended "Girls State," Miss Smith said, and through their par ticlpation in the program learned much about government offices and their functions. As part of the "Girls State" program, those In attendance were divided up into groups to form city, county and state gov ernments. Election of officers was held and those girls selected conducted the business of the gov. ernment unit which they repre sented. Voices Aotireclatlnn Miss Smith concluded her re marks on "Girls State" bv sav ing her attendance there was one of the most "wonderful experi ences of my life." She also ex pressed her appreciation to the soroptomlst club which made pos. sible her attendance there. Letters of commendation to the Bend Rotary club for its 100 per cent participation in the Rotary International' Foundation fund were read at the meeting by Er nie Traxler, club secretary. The letters were irom ttotary inter national and from the district gov. ernor. W. C. SchuDDel. Visiting Rotarians present to- ay were Uy Campbell, of Visa "a, CalU., and Fred Frederiksen, 1 Bell-Haywood, Calif. KOVA nirortnr I V. TT II WW. W , Wayne Hamilton, Bend man, was named city recreation di rector Tuesday evening, follow ing a conference with members nf -the -pllv: commission. .The - - II fMithhAt-fenn nttv mnnnirAr Hawaii Prepares For Strike Move Honolulu, July 13 IIP) The ter. ritory of Hawaii prepared to take legislative action today in an at tempt to settle a 74-day-old strike of CIU longsnoremen. Latest developments in the crippling walkout were: , 1. Gdv. Ingram Stainback asked the territorial attorney general to draft a bill empowering the governor to seize the docks. 2, stainback said he would can a special session of the territorial legislature "soon. a. A legislative Holdover com mittee meets today to discuss five bills, including a "little Taft- Hartley act, designed to end strikes affecting the welfare of Hawaii. 4. A group of Honolulu business men formed a new corporation to "reestablish a normal flow of commerce." The International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men s union Drandea tne new or ganization a "strikebreaking ma. neuver. Stainback said he would call the special session as soon as majority leaders could agree on a legislative program to deal with the dock strike. He told legisla tive leaders this morning on his return from the United States that Washington expected Hawaii to "help itself." Then Stainback asked Attorney General Walter Ackerman to draft a bill giving him the power to seize the docks. The governor said he wanted the bill to be in troduced at the special session, Territorial Sen. William Heen of Oahu said one of the five bills he will present to the holdover committee would put the steve doring industry under the public utilities act, and proviae ior iact finding, and court Injunctions. The other bills were designed to tighten up Hawaii's labor laws, he said. The committee decided to take action after the U. S. senate la bor. committee failed to indicate it would take swift action on the Knowland bill, and after stain back's warning the territory was expected to help Itself. TUNA RUNNING Astoria, July 13 ilP Astoria's tuna fleet is heading for tne sea today after the first scout boats returned to port luesaay witn the season s first catch. Most of the 100 boats have left the harbor and remaining crews i are insulting bait tanks and oth er albacore fishing gear. The first tuna brought In Tues day were taken 60 to 70 miles offshore between Tillamook, Ore., and Grays Harbor, Wash. Ilk Tri'' 'J Bend Wafer Situation Now Critical Bend's water shortage is so crit ical that stringent measures must be taken to enforce the sprinkling regulations, City manager W. O. Cuthbertson said today. City po lice have been instructed to make arrests for violations, beginning Thursday morning, he said. To day omcers are issuing warnings. Because of the serious water shortage, sprinkling time was re stricted some weeks ago to the hours between 5 a.m. and 1 p.m., and from 4 to 9 p.m. Cuthbertson said that in driving around the city, he noted that many house holders are using water for irri gation during off hours. . For the past 24 hours, water consumption was at least 2,400, 000 gallons, the manager added, pointing out that this indicates that the regulations are being ig nored to a surprising extent., Hours repeated It has been announced reDeat- edly from the city hall that resi dents with even house numbers are to water on even days, and those with uneven numbers, on uneven days. On the final dav of months with 31 days, persons witn even-numbered houses will water from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m., and those with odd-numbers from 4 to 9 p.m. I he situation is so serious that something must be done imme diately," the manager reiterated. "If consumption continues at the present rate, by Thursday eve ning, tne city will be out of wa ter." The proposed waterworks im provement project will be ready ior presentation at tne next meet ing of the city commission, next Wednesday evening, Cuthbertson said. Ignore Decree London, July 13 IP Hundreds more workers flouted the gov ernment's state of emergency de cree today and joined the wild. cat London dock strike. It threat ened soon to spread to tugs, oarges- ana even meat distribu tion centers. The government still has not announced how it will use the dictatorial powers granted it un der the state of emergency pro claimed by King George VI two days ago to break the paralyzing strike. Prime Minister Attlee' was readying a statement on the cris is to deliver In commons this afternoon. Some 460 more dock workers left their Jobs today, swelling the number of strikers to 13.756. They left stranded 132 ships loaaeo witn more than ouo.ooo tons of food and raw materials vitally needed for Britain's re covery program. Almost half the port of Lon don's labor force of 30,000 men now was out. Thousands of troops were busy unloading 17 ships packed with $2,000,000 worth of meat, cheese, lard, milk powder, oranges, ap ples, pears, butter and tea. They unloaded ' 12,000 tons of flour from the Canard White Star ship Scythia alone yesterday. Small Swimmer Stands. on Rights Bend's city pool was perma nently lowered six inches today for the especial benefit of one blue-eyed boy. According to Darrell Hawes, pool manager, the blond begin ner, taking his first splash into the shallow end Monday, bubbled and gurgled helplessly; the three foot depth of water was above his mouth. Sympathetic Frances Brooks extracted him and ad vised him to stay in the wading pool. Registered officially for. Red Cross Bend instruction, the youngster stood on his rights yesterday, and again had to be sent to the wading pool. Today he was back again, so Hawes ordered the water low ered. , His name was not obtained. POLICE NAB BURGLAR Portland, July 13 IP A 26-year-old burglar was arrested by a special patolman today as he merged from a Portland drug store carrying a crowbar and a cigar box containing $100. Donald Frank Yost, Portland, told police that he had committed six other city robberies in the past six weeks. Yost said he start' ed prowling stores when he was laid off from his job June 1. He is married and has a 15-month-old child. Krug Opposes Referendum OnCVAPIan Washington, July 13 iipi Secre tary of interior J. A. Krug today opposed a referendum of north western states on creation of a Columbia valley authority. Krug told the house public woiiks committee the issue should be decided by congress because it was a national as well as a local problem. He supported legislation to cre ate a Columbia valley authority, and said the people of the north west are unanimous in wanting speeoy development or tne Colum bia river basin. He said it could be done best under a single authority rather than under the combined efforts' of the reclamation bureau, army engineers, and Bonneville power administration. Krug said the governors of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana were unduly alarmed about an authority. . flan Defended The authority, he said, would not usurp state Jurisdiction over any activity. He said the bill was designed to protect states' lights over their resources. If congress iound tne states were not pro tected, he said, the language of the bill should bs changed. Krug declined to make an esti mate of the overall cost of the project, but said he thought it would take from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 a year to carry out the program. Chairman William M. Whittlne- ton, D., Mass., asked if it was true that the federal gcernment had done more to deveioD this area tjiah any mother section of the country. . -. - Krug said in' dollars spent 'that might be true, but comparatively the Tennessee valley was 90 per cent developed compared to 10 per cent ior tne (joiumma valley. Power Big Resource As far as hydroelectric power is concerned, Krug said, "the Co lumbia river is our big undevel oped source." "That basin, In dollars spent, has not been neglected In com parison to other areas," Whitting ton replied. Whittington also wanted to know if it was true that the gov ernment was selling power cheao- er In the Columbia area 'han anv- wnere eise in tne country. Krug agreed, but said that was because the river offered the best potentialities lor cheap power production. The St. Lawrence would be lust about as good, he said. Krug said the Hoover commis sion report about conflicting jur isdiction of the army engineers and reclamation bureau resulting in confusion, delay, and waste of money was true. creation of a single vallev au thority in the northwest would eliminate that problem in that area, he said. Rep. Tom Pickett, D Tex., sug gested delaying the legislation to see whether President Truman could solve the problem by shift ing, departmental functions under the reorganization act. Krug said he did not think that would work. Transferring func tions of agencies would not change laws, he said. Central Oregon Youths Awarded Scholarships Three Central Oregon youths have been granted Union Pacific railroad scholarships In agricul ture, according to an announce ment received here today. Those receiving the awards In clude John Klesow and Kenneth D. Viegas, Deschutes county, and Bud Reynolds, of Crook county. Frank S. Conklin and Marjorie Davidson were named alternates from Deschutes county. The scholarships amount to $100, and are to be used at the state agriculture school. The three Central Oregon youths were among 84 students throughout the United States who received the awards. All winners were members and active in the Future Farmers of America. Selections were made by a county committee based on the student's farming program, schol arship and high school and com munity activities. TO BROADCAST SPEECH President Harry A. Truman's speech on economic conditions In the United States will be broad cast over station KBND, at 7 o'clock tonight, as a public serv ice feature. River Runners 8 . if., A 35-mile section of the Deschutes river, between the Cove and Warm Springs, was navigated by Ed Thurston in his McKenzie-type boat this past week end. Shown here is the sturdy boat plowing through white water on the Deschutes a short distance below the Cove. In the boat, forward, are Craig Thurston, and his father. The picture was taken by Jim Hosmer. In the lower river, Craig navigated the boat, with his father and Jim as passengers. California Crash Deaths Total 33; Probe Launched (United PMst Staff Uorimixmilent) Chatsworth, Calif., July 13 Pilot Roy O. White was 2,000 feel below officially prescribed alti tude when?, he smashed a C-46 Commandii into the Santa Susana mountains-' with loss of 34 of its 48 occupants, civil aeronautics board inspector James Peyton said today. "I think I know why he was too low, but I don't want to say why until we complete our in vestigation and hold a formal hearing," he said. He said he was convinced a fight between two passengers had no bearing on the crash. The plane, owned by Standard Airlines, a nonscheduled line, crashed and burned in Santa Su sana pass yesterday morning as White was coming in for a land ing at Lockheed air terminal, Burbank. 33 Bodies Found Ventura county deputy coro ner John Bragg said thirty-three bodies have been recovered. Fourteen injured were identified and one passenger was unac counted for and presumed dead. The airline said that one of the originally reported 49 occupants Lois Tucker apparently failed to board the plane at Kansas City. Peyton said ho and his Investi gators would spend "another two or. three days" digging through the charred wreckage strewn among the boulders in an effort to confirm his opinion of why White was flyinR at 1600 feet Instead of 2500 as prescribed by the CAB. "Everything else about his ap pioach was normal," Peyton said, "lie came In on the right leg. contacted the control tower at the proper points, lowered his landing gear as prescribed, and made the correct procedure turn." Visibility tioo'l H added that visibility was adequate, pointing out that a Cal ifornia Centrul airlines pilot In the air awaiting Ills turn to. land was able to see the burning wreckage of White's plane from the prescribed altitude of 3500 feet, "The reports of a fight aboard the plane have a place In our thinking, of course." Peyton said, "but from our Interview with sur vivors we're sure it had no bear ing on the crash. It wasn't too big a fight, and it was over long bt'fore the crark up." Deputy Coroners Bragg and Frank Watklns concentrated to day on Identiifcatlon of the 33 re covered bodies. They said some may never be Identified positive ly because they were so badly burned and mangled. Another phase oi the Investiga tion was scheduled by District at torney Arthuh Walt, who planned to Interview Charlotte Grenander, stewardess on duty when the New York-to-Long Beach, Cal., plane crashed at 7:50 a.m. yesterday. She suffered severe head Inju ries and was under treatment at Ventura county hospital. Navigate Turbulent Deschutes -"'ii Slash in Appropriations For Public Power Favored Washington, July 13 (U.E) The senate appropriations com mittee recommended more money than the house voted for President Truman'a, reclamation program, but proposed to slash funds for many of its public power features'. ... . ' ""- Senate committee members fiverthA government'spoVer Band Concert Slated Thursday The fifth in the series of sum mer concerts by the Bend munici pal band will be held in Drake park Thursday evening, July 14, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The pro gram will Include a variety of fa miliar selections, according to Don Pence, director. Opening number will be a march, "A Warrior Bold," by Frank Panella. A melody of navy songs, arranged by Paul Yoder, will follow, tnen tne "i-Tincess oi India Overture," by K. L. King. Marches which will Intersperse numbers on the remainder of the program are "Under the Double Eagle," Wagner- Laurendeau ; "Colonel Bogey," Kenneth J. Al ford; "Carrollton," K. L. King; "March of the Steel Men," ueister-llng-Alford. and "American Le gion March," Charles Parker. Other selections to bo heard are: Songs irom tne uio routs, arranged by M. L. Lake; "Desert Song," from the Romberg Bennett operetta of the same name; "The Iron Count Overture," K. L. King, and "Stormy Weather," a descrip tive fantasy arranged by David Bennett. Concerts will be given each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. during the remainder of July and August. Pence will direct the next two, and will leave late this month for the east, for special music work. He will attend the Fred Waring choral workshop at Shawnee on the Delaware, Pa., for a week, then will spend two weeks in the Christiansen Choral school at Chumbersburg, Pa. Joseph Maugen, assistant direc tor, will conduct the concerts on July 28 and August 4, and Fred Dallas, well-known local musi cian who is president of the band, will direct on August 11. In early August, Haugen and his family will leave for a two-week trip to the beach. The band played three concerts over the Fourth of July week end. and the first regular summer concert In the band stand was last Thursday evening. FIKK CONTROLLED A fire In U. S. national forest land timber near Sisters was con trolled last night by 9 p.m. after having been reported several hours earlier, Gali Baker said to day at national forest headquar ters here. Approximately an acre of land was burned. , At the Century drive fire, which Jumped control Monday, around 15 workers from tne lorest serV' lep and the city fire department are still working dawn-to dark hours, kicking out embers In logs, stumps, and brush. voted yesterday fr a policy of to the government's customers over private lines. In ex change for this "wheeling" service, surplus government power would be available to "firm up" private power sup plies, the committee explained. Under this policy first out lined in relations between the southwestern power administra tion and the Texas Power & Light Co. the committee made sharp cuts in transmission line funds voted by the house for projects in California, Idaho, Canby, Ore., and the southwestern area. The funds are in the fiscal 1950 Inter ior appropriations bill. Irrigation Up At the same time, the commit tee's recommendations for irriga tion features of the reclamation program were up $35,204,202 over the house bill's $296,530,537. Of the senate Increase, $10,959,390 was earmarked for the Columbia basin, $7,846,060 for the Missouri river basin, $7,239,890 for the Cen tral valley and $4,576,710 for Da vis dam. The senators abandoned a house nlan to cut by 15 per cent all reclamation construction funds sought by the budget bureau. In stead, the senate committee rec- (Continued on Page 7) Remains of Five American Crash Victims Are Cremated Bombay, India, July 13 tin The remains of five of 14 Amer ican correspondents killed in a plane cash yesterday were cre mated today after simple cere monies. Protestant and Catholic clergy men conducted services for Nat Barrows of the Chicago Daily News, James Branyan of the Houston Post. William Newton of the Scripns Howard Newspaper alliance, Bertram Hulen of the New York Times and Miss Elsie Dick of the Mutual Broadcasting system. U. S. Ambassador Loy Hender son and his staff attended the cremation. He flew here this morning from New Delhi to help Identify the victims. The U. S. consulate here said it was awaiting instructions from the next of kin as to disposition of the American dead. Some rel atives already have signified they want the bodies returned to the United States. Others have re quested burial In Bombay. Many Aro Mangled Police still were searching the muddy hillside where the plane crashed for 12 missing bodies. Many of the 33 bodies already found were mangled beyond rec ognition. U. S. Ambassador Lov Hender son arrived here from New Delhi to help Identify the American vic tims. He had entertained 13 of the Ill-fated group of m newsmen returning from Indonesia at his 'embassy Sunday night. Three 60-Day Truce Plan Rejected By Operators Pittsburgh, July 13 P Philip Murray, president of the CIO United Steelworkers, issued a strike call today against all steel companies which have rejected President Truman's 60-day truce . plans. The strike will be effective at midnight Friday, when con tracts expire. Murray said tne strike wouia be against the giant U. S. Steel Corp., and the nation's two larg est independents, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel. - These three companies employ approximately 315,000 workers. The United Steelworkers wage- policy committee voted to accept the White House's plans for a 60 day truce while a presidential - fact-finding board investigates tne pension, wage and insurance. The truce would apply, how ever, only to those companies who likewise agree. The "big three" re jected the plan, contending that it circumvents the Taft-Hartley law. some I' lrms Accept Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., and Wheeling Steel corp., however, agreed to work under provisions of the pending contract. Today's action averted a nation wide strike call, originally plan ned for the end of this week. After meeting with Murray, the wage-policy committee left for their homes to carry strike in structions to the rank-and-file. Murray said he had not heard from any of the companies and the strike call applied to them un less they agreed with the presl. .dentlal proposal. Murray said the strike call applied to 61 basic steel producing companies, .including their subsidiaries. . . The strike cail was the first in the industry since January 21, 1946, when the union walked out for 28 days over U. S. Steel's re fusal to accept a presidential rec ommendation of tSM cents an hour increase. The 1946 strike ended Feb. 16 when the company agreed to the 18 cent Increase after obtaining a $5 increase per ton for its prod ucts. Compliance Uncertain Although three of the large in dependents have agreed to oper ate under the terms of their pres ent contract, none has agreed to comply with any recommendation which may be made by the presi dential fact-finding board. The USW executive board and the wage policy committee, num bering 170 members, yesterday authorized Murray to call the strike whenever he deemed it ad visable. The wage-policy committee was expected to follow the executive board's decision. ' GRASS FXBE PUT OUT Bend firemen extinguished a grass fire this morning at Bruin field, in answer to a still alarm. There was no damage, it was re ported. other American newsmen who also were at the party accompan ied him here. The 33 bodies recovered yester day have been removed to a Bom bay morgue. Most still were un identified. Steaming raias sluicing down the hilly scene of the crash hamp ered police seeking the remain ing bodies. The plane was en route to Am sterdam from Batavla when It crashed. It apparently lost Its way In a heavy rain after at tempting to land at Bombay's Santa Cruz airport. Could See Ground J. C. Plgott, control tower oner ator at Santa Cruz, said he first mado contact with the airliner when It was seven minutes from the field at an altitude of 7,000 feet. Plgott said he talked the pilot down to 1.500 feet, then directed him to take a course which would lead out over the sea and back onto the runway. "I asked the pilot to report at 500 feet, which he did," Plgott said, "He was flying contact he could see the ground." Plgott said the plane came over the field at 500 feet and the tower told the pilot to ascend to 800 feet after cautioning him bout hills to the northeast. "We could see him clearly aM the pilot was climbing to 800 feet," Plgott said. "That wis the last we heard."