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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1949)
Oregon .'Alice Society Public Auiltorlun ' THE 'BEND "BUI. State Forecast Oregon Mostly lair today, tonight and Thursday. Lit tle temperature change with high both days 80 to 90 and low tonight 45 to 55. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1949 No. 215 LETIN More Storage Space Sought For Grain Crop Tremendous Surplus Due In Wheat, Corn Regions, Result of Price Support Washington, Auk. 17 '111 ... The government announced today It plan lo buy 500,000,000 bUNlwlH (if tint In storage apace to help housp tln unprecedented grain surplus I'M In prospect tin full. 'On agriculture department ltd nouwed It aliPudy has contracted fur conittiucllon of 112,8.17,011) bukhel Murage rnimclty. Most of thin new storage Npiici' will be built In the hrurl of the corn bell. The department Niilil thnt It run. template tli(i purcliiiKP of n total of uh much an 500.000.000 bushels capacity, If (ho price in right und delivery run bi muilf witlilii specified (line limit. Thd department previously hud announml tlmt It wait going to buy 50,000,000 bushels of storage capacity to help bold tin- huge Mocks of liMH crop grain which mi oxix'ctPd to bp dumMd Into the government's lap this full. The announcement wu ihp flint official admission that this umounl of additional storage would bp a mere drop In the buck, i-t n far ai meeting anticipated storage needs, The government now owns 45.. 000,000 bushels Murage cupaclty In the corn belt milieu. Indlcn tlom are that farmer, may turn over a much 400,000,000 bush el of 10-18 crop corn to the gov ernment under price support pro grama ill In fall, Rent Decontrol To Be Extended Cleveland. Aug. 17 din Tlghe Wood, national housing expe diter, aald today ho hnd decided to decontrol a third of the arena under federal rent control be cause of a cut In the housing ex pediter's budget. Wooda told the national conven tion of the Disabled American Veterana thnt bccnUHP his budget had been further cut by the con ference committee of both Iioiixch It left him with the alternative of either firing one third of hi em ployea or decontrolling a third of the areaa under federal rent con trol. "I have decided on the hitter alternative," he said. Wood aald that lust night he received "some very discouraging news. Our budget for the 1950 fiscal year which had been dimm ed by the senate from $26,000,000 to $21,000,000 had been further cut by the conference committee Of both houses to $17,500,000. 'This In spile of the fact that every metropolitan office hud re ported an increase In workload nf from 30 to 50 per cent and pro cessing of landlord petitions and tenant applications is running weeks behind. "Tills severe blow to effective rent control and reallNtlc prosecu tion of veternns housing violat ions leaves me with only two choices: "Either I must fire one third of my employes and attempt to maintain only token rent control throughout the country', or de control a third of the areas under federal rent control and handle the rest of the country efficient ly." Woods snld he had decided on the Inner alternative. Red Cross Swim Classes Plan Demonstration Sunday An exhibition of what Bend youngsters havo learned to do in the summer's courses In swim ming, sponsored by Red Cross and Bend's municipal recrcntlon department, will be held at 10:30 Saturday morning at the pool for parents and friends, Wayne Ham ilton, director of recreation, an nouneed today. Eight events will hold opportu nities for spectators to see swim ming In every stage demonstrated, plus diving, und life-saving meth ods. Comic and trick swimming will be shown. In the first event, eight swim ming strokes will be exhibited by advanced swimmers, Including the Australian crawl, Indian stroke, breast stroke, the rising sun, side stroke, butterfly stroke, elemen tary back stroke, nnd bnrrcl roll. To Display Skills The second event will show be ginners In a mass demonstration of beginning skills, Including kick ing, bobbing, prone gilding and rhythmic breathing. - A third event, with (wo "acts," will show advanced intermediates -mm jkkJiK -Wr hi nip flower show held yesterday are several member of the Bend cnuirmun lor ine snow, ix-ii io Date Changed For Rotary Swim Meet IVadline for regisiratlon In the flotary swim meet-, and a change of dale for the event from Tues day to Mqndny, was announced tortayjr-wiryrtp-Hamilton, Hcnd director of recreation. Enrollment of participants in the event will end Saturday nt 6 p.m. The change of date for the meet was made to avoid conflict with the district Softball playoff scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Ilecuuse of the large numlier of signers, preliminary heats in sev eral events wtll te run off Mon day afternoon. Lust Monday, II. M. Nicholson conducted classes In diving technique and racing turns for style and speed Improvement of entrants. Bleachers now under construc tion nt the pool will Insure good observation of the event for spec tators. There will be no admission charge. Judges and timekeepers will be named In the near future. Craft Program Back at Kenwood The rapidly-growing craft pro gram resumed headquarters to day In Kenwood school, and will remain there for test of the seas on .according lo Wayne Hamilton, director of Bend recreation de partment. Hamilton said enrollment In craft classes have "overwhelmed" Allen school quarters, and through courtesy of the principal of Kenwood school, Virgil Moss, Kenwood school was made avail able. Enrollment started nt 15, rose to 30 the second doy, nnd Is 37 to day. Young Mothers study club members are to furnish the In structor with two helpers dally, beginning tomorrow. Transportation Is still beinR furnished to craft classes. nnd swimmers in a dressing re lay. Second act will lie an Inner tube race for Intermediates, Llfesavlng will be caricatured In a clown Incident for the fourth event, and the fifth will be a demonstration of llfesavlng, fea turing senior lifesavers, including the front headhold with hair car ry, n rear head-hold with head carry, and unilerwnler approach with cross-chest carry, Plan Penny Scramble, The sixth event will be a penny scramble for little swimmers, In which 500 pennies will be tossed into the shallow end of pool. Some of the pennies, marked, will entitle the retriever to prizes. Seventh event will be a short talk by Rev. Robert Nicholas, Des chutes county chnlrmnn of the Amerlcnn Red Cross. He will tell the scope of Red Cross swim cum- pnigns across the nntlon. Mayor T. u. sexton will speak on the city's cooperation. In the final event swimmers who are completing courses now will be given certificates. Colorful Array of Flowers in the library auditorium was acclaimed as one of the most successful Garden club, admiring some of ngni in ine picture are Mrs. r lorcnce spencer. Mrs. stumey xounger, Mlhelcich and Mrs. Charles Chopp. r-J Millage Rates For Redmond, Sisters, Given The tax rote for Redmond nnd Sisters for the 194950 fiscal year will be 96.3 nnd 125.7 mills, re spectively, according to figures released today by Ed Risen, Des chutes county assessor. The Bend millage rate, as reported earlier this month In The Bulletin, Is 109.5. Compared to tax rales this past year, the Sisters' rate Increased by 3!l.3 mills; the Redmond rate Increased by 5.2 mills, ami the Bend rate decreased by 6.9 mills. The Sisters rate Includes the county base millage of 9.5, a city rate of 28.5 mills and a school rate of 87.7. Property valuation in the coun ty's smallest citv amounts to $110,235. Schools Big Item The Redmond millage rate in cludes 65.9 for schools and 20 for the cltv. Valuation there totals $1,810,085. Total valuation In the countv Is $14,208,080. The basic county rote of 9.5 mills for this year is down .6 of a mill over lust year's fig ure. Following Is a table showing the rule in mills for the districts of the county for the 1949-50 tax year: , School District 194950 1948-49 1. Bend 109.5 116.4 1. Outside Bend 76.4 2. Redmond 96.3 2. Outside Redmond 75.4 79.8 91.8 72.6 74.3 Fire District 76.5 3. Union High No. 1. Tumalo 3. Non-High 4. Lnplne 5. Terrebonne Union High 5. Fire District 5. Water District 5. W.D.F.D. 6. Sisters 6. Outside Sisters 6. Union Hi. No. 1 . Fire District 12. Lower Bridge 12. Fire District 15. Brothers 18. Cloverdule 76.8 72.7 72.7 9G.8 97.9 96.8 97.9 125.7 97.2 101.3 97.2 76.8 77.9 72.7 83.6 72.7 76.8 83.0 72.7 76.8 77.9 61.4 G0.2 60.2 78.5 80.2 93.2 94.9 85.9 60.2 61.4 70.2 61.4 63.1 60.2 80.3 Young Plninview Alfalfa Harper Deschutes Fire Dlstrlu 60.2 61.4 61.4 60.2 61.4 63.1 SUICIDE ATTEMPT TAILS Portland, Aug. 17 till A house painter tried to take his life to dny, police said. Robert . Louis Shannon, 25, drove his car over a bank, it plunged 300 fct, crashed through heavy brush and stopped against a steel fence. Shnnnon climbed unsrrnfehed from (he wrpckngp nnd police quoted him ns saying: "The next time I'll do a better job with a gun." When told he wns under arrest. Shannon tried to grab the gun of Patrolman Doyle Soudcrs but failed. Entered, in Annual Show the many flowers displayed. Mrs. r Successful Flower Show Held by Bend The flower show held yesterday in -the library auditorium was one of the most successful of recent years, according' lo members of the Bend Garden club, sponsors of the annual event. fVventv-one -persons had exhibits iA the horti- Youth Charged . With Shooting' Neighbor's Dog , James R. Bertram. 19. of 175 East Kearney, was arrested yes-l terday by the Deschutes county sheriff on a charge of malicious killing of a dog. The complaint against Bertram was filed by John Thomas, a neighbor of the youth. Thomas told Investigating officers that he was uwakened Tuesday morning, about 1 o'clock, by a gun shot. On Investigating he found a .45 caliber bullet lodged in the wall of his house just below the front door. Around the slug was some hair, apparently off his dog. .He later found the animal dead about a block away, where it had run after being shot. Thomas said that Bertram had threatened to "get" the dog be cause It barked at him whenever he passed the Thomas home. Bertram wus held in the county jail, with bail set at $1,000. Polio Epidemic Growing Worse Washington, Aug. 17 UPi The public health service repoHed to day that last week was the worst polio week so far this year. The service snld Incomplete re ports from state health officers Indicate thnt more thnn 3,000 new polio cases developed during the week ended Inst Saturday. Health service officials said the total of new polio cases so far re ported for last week is 3,049. But, mi-v o ,1-n. vcn received from Texas, which has been one of 1949's "polio epi demic areas. Officials snid they expected Texns to report "nt least 100 new enses for the week nnd probnbly more thnn that." Complete reports from 47 states nnd the District of Colum bia for last week boosted to 13. 797 the number of ensos reported in the country since Jnn. 1. UNION DJCFIES LEADERS Philndelphln, Aug. 17 UP A surprise rank-and-file vote of an AFL union local (odny blocked hopes for unloading the Isthmian freighter Steel Flier, from strike bound Hawaii, If it docks here. More than 200 members of the International Longshoremen's as sociation (AFL) voted not to un load the ship's sugar cargo de spite work orders of their leaders. It was the first tlmo In the Phlla dclphla port Hint a union member ship overruled Its leadership to support a rival union. in recent years. Pictured above Clifford Rasmussen was general Mrs. Kasmussen, Mrs. John M. Garden Club culture section, with the varied blooms making a brilliant show ing. Mrs. Joe Werner won the lion's share of the trophies, and Mrs. Grant Salisbury won the sweep stakes prize In (he horticulture di vision, with. 290 points. Mrs. N. E. Crone was second in the horti culture division, and Mi's. Leo Bishop and Mrs. Joe Werner tied for third. Mrs. Salisbury's prize was a classic-styled silver pitch er, a permanent trophy provided by the Bend Elks lodge. Receives Trophies Mrs. Werner received the Theo dora Johnson traveling trophy, a silver bowl and frog for flower arrangements, for her mantel ar rangement of white clematis, judged first-place winner in Its class. She also received both the sweepstakes trophy for the out standing arrangement in the show, and the new garden club traveling trophy for the outstand ing foliage arrangement. Winner of the two prizes was her ar rangement of large grey-green leaves and red coleus leaves. The sweepstakes prize, which will re main in Mrs. Werner's possession, was a pottery vase and figurines in the Chinese motif. Mrs. Marlon Poor was winner this year of the silver plate given by the Bend Garden club. It was awarded this time for the out standing floating arrangement in the show. Suggests Lily Pond Mrs. Poor's entry, suggestive of a lily pond, was of orchid candy tuft blossoms and tiny clumps of green foliage, arranged in a low black glass bowl. Mrs. Sam Thompson won the old Bend garden club cup, a trav eling trophy, for the outstanding cup and. saucer arrangement in the show. She chose as her ma terials, violas and diminutive rock garden flowers in a number of shades. A large crowd attended the show in both afternoon and eve ning hours. Club members report ed that the plant sale was a de cided success, with practically a sell-out. In the afternoon, many put owns viaiicu ine mil appointed silver tea table. persons visited the attractively Judges' scoring sheets were be ing tabulated today, and a com plete list of results will appear in tomorrow s Bulletin. Portland Gets Punchboard Blues Portland, Aug. 17 mi Portland punchboard operators are not pulling any punches today. City police report that a check of taverns and cigar store count ers since midnight Monday shows that very few illegal boards are In use. So far, only 48 boards have been approved. But board operators, mean while, are organizing a campaign (o remove punchboards from their presen(-!i((cry classlflcadon In (he city limits. In addition test court caie Is being prepared by board supporters to gain a lib eralization of the definition of a "legal punchboard" ns set by the city. Perjury, Charged at Hearing Hawaii Sees I New Attempt At Negotiation ' By Wlllard O. Eberhart (United PrtM fluff CofTtpoiMjntf Honolulu. T.H . Aug. 17 W Striking CIO longshoremen and Hawaiian stevedoring company representatives agreed formally today to renew negotiations in tne 108-day dock strike. But longshore boss Harry Bridges demanded that all strik ers be permitted to return to work without discrimination and that longshoremen now engaged in government stevedoring opera tions be excluded from possible benefits in the event of a settle ment "I'm not here to negotiate a wage increase which benefits those finks and scabs," Bridges said. ' A spokesman for the employers charged Bridges with attempting "to set up a blacklist of strike breakers." The agreement on negotiations was signed by management and union leaders in the office of Gov. Ingram Stainback during a two hour bargaining session yester day. . Chlng May Intervene It called for the intervention of Cyrus Ching, director of the US. federal conciliation service, unless an agreement is reached within three days of negotiations. Ching would be invited to Ha waii to aetUe the dispute, presum ably ty mediation. The fresh negotiations were suggested by Bridges, president of the International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union. The suggestion was made as the union took court action to ob tain $3,000,000 damages from Ha waiian government officials and an injunction to halt enforcement of the recently-enacted anti-strike act. The suit was filed in federal court on grounds the civil and contractual rights of longshore men had been . revoked in at tempts to end the dock walkout. Has Own Agency The Hawaiian government now has set up its own stevedoring agency and banned the picketing ol stevedoring operations con ducted by the government. Longshoremen hired by the gov ernment attempted to unload the Matson line freighter Hawaiian Merchant but were stymied by some members of the ship's crew who walked off as soon as the stevedores showed up. There was no picket line out side the vessel because a restrain ing order against picketing had been served. But the ship's skip per, Capt. W. O'Brien, explained that the crew was respecting a "theoretical picket line." Without the crew members, there was no power for un loading. 12 Killed in Two Traffic Crashes (By United Preasl Twelve persons were killed last night in two of the year's worst traffic accidents. Six hymn -singing worshipers were killed en route to a rural re vival meeting in a truck collision near Fulton, Miss., and six others were 'killed at Ogallala, Neb., when a train hit their car at a grade crossing. The national safety council said the two accidents were among the year's worst.. In addition to the dead, at least 19 persons were injured In the Fulton crash. The truck carrying the revival meeting worshipers collided with another heavily loaded with lumber. DEATH NOT REPORTED Le Center, Minn., Aug. 17 ip A 64-year-old retired farmer ad mitted today that he lived in the same house with his dead broth er's body for 36 days. "We can't understand it," Cor oner D. E. Cole said. "John Da vid (old me that when his brother Adolph didn't come downstairs one day he Just assumed he was dead and didn't think of reporting It to the authorities. He never even entered the room." Cole said he thought Adolph, 63, died Of natural causes about July A University of Minnesota patholofist has been called into the case. Cole said. Tax Rotary Speaker Cbmrles B. Cooler Charles Cooley Pays Visit to Bend Rotarians Charles R. Cooley, governor of district 154, Rotary International, from Grants Pass, was in Bend today and paid his official visit to the local Rotarians at a luncheon-meeting in the Pilot Butte Inn. The district governor com mended the Bend Rotarians on their 100 per cent contribution to the international's fund, which is used to provide various sorts of services to the public. He spoke briefly on the expan sion of Rotary throughout the world, saying that during the past fiscal year 365 now Rotary clubs were organized in 37 countries. Cooley added that there are now 7000 Rotary clubs throughout the world with a membership of SVJ, 000,, . (.y , . Objectives Stressed . The speaker urged the local Rotarians always to observe and maintain the organization's objec tives which include the develop ment of fellowship among all men; service to the public; tne de velopment of high standards of business practices and -the culti vation of understanding among nations. Cooley is presently touring the 39 Rotary clubs which are in his district. While in Bend he will confer with president Ray Cooper and secretary Ernie Traxler of the Bend club on administration and service activities. Visiting Rotarians present at (oday's meeting include: A. D. Shields, Manhattan. Kans.; Neil Collins. Medford; Walter Smith, secretary of the Albany club; Ed Miranda, Reno, Nev.; Theodore P. Tollefson. president of the Kelso, Wash., club and Lyle Bar tholomew, Salem. . . Guests were Grant Carey, Port land, Tony Trostel, Santa Cruz, Calif., and Brian Thompson, Bend. QUAKE RECORDED Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 17 tu The University of California seis mograph today reported a strong earthquake apparently centered in the ocean off the southern tip of Africa. v. C e- 1 " is Secretary Sawyer Making Personal Employment Check By Raymond E. Wilson (United Prua Staff Correspondi-nt) Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 17 UIi One out of every 10 employable per sons in this western New York industrial center is looking for a job. But there is some improve ment in sight. In Rome and Utica, N. Y., how ever, more than one in eight is out of work and prospects for an early pickup are slim. These facts and other first-hand information on the economic out look of these two important pro duction centers were gathered personally by Secretary of com merce Charles Sawyer yesterday as part of his nation-wide study of employment and business con ditions. After a day of conferences with management, labor and govern ment officials from the two areas, Sawyer prepared a report to presidential assistant John R. Steelman. It is Steelman's Job to channel government contracts and construction to areas of criti cal unemployment. Sawyer earlier visited New England, the midwest and south. Later this summer he will make similar studies In Pittsburgh, Chi cago, New York, New Orleans, on the west coast and In Texas. With the aid of a half-dozen members of his staff, Sawyer has Evasion lUnnn DruA iMuiuyun i uiu For Influence, Is Testified By Warren Duffee fUnllrd Prcu Sutft Corrmp-xictrnt) "' Washington, Aug. 17 M'' Sen ate "five per center' Investigators today laid the groundwork for possible prosecution of John Mar- agon on perjury and tax evasion charges. They also heard testimony (hat the fast-talking Maragon's White House friend, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaugnan. threatened to get a fed eral official fired because he re fused to fix a complaint against a firm which had hired Maragon's services. The testimony about Vaughnn caused Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R S D., to charge that the White House military aide used "threats, intimidation, bluff and bluster" to help Maragon operate "as a fixer for a fat fee." Maragon's client, according to testimony before the senate inves tigating committee, was the Al lied Molasses Co, of Perth Amboy, N.J. In 1946 it allegedly over drew its molasses quota under the sugar ration regulations. The agriculture department slapped a violation charge against the firm and denied it further access ol molasses. Denial Made Maragon had denied in sworn testimony before the committee on July 28 that he ever received money from the molasses firm. But two witnesses testified to day that he received $1,000 from one of them and $100 from the other. And the committee pro duced records showing that Mara gon never mentioned these fees in his income tax returns. These developments caused Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., to demand that the department of justice seek immediate indictment of Maragon. Committee chair man Clyde R. Hoey, D., N.C., told him "proper action" would be tak en at the "proper time." The witnesses who testified about payment of fees to Mara gon were Harold Ross, president of the molasses company, and Milton Polland, a Milwaukee in surance man, who is Ross' uncle. Both testified that Maragon never accomplished anything for the firm. Met at Party . Polland testified he met Mara gon and Vaughan, the general dressed in all his military finery, at "a brewery party" in Milwau kee in 1946. "You gentlemen who know Maragon," he said, "(know) it's not a question of meeting him, it's getting rid of him afterwards. . . . I was impressed with his impor tance ... he said he knew every body around Washington. . . I may have been taken in." McCarthy immediately said the committee should ask "that the department of justice return an indictment for perjury against Mr. Maragon." This development came as the committee resumed its hearings (Continued on Page 7) a firm pattern on conducting the conferences. They are operated on a rigid schedule In which very minute counts. His Buffalo visit was typical. At 7 a.m., he left Washington by air and was in Buffalo less than two hours later. By lunch time ho had met with Mayor Bernard J. Dowd's full employment commit tee, held two news conferences to keep reporters up to date on the discussions, made a radio broad cast and conducted a two-hour discussion among New York state industrialists. After lunch he made another radio broadcast and held a series of conferences with his staff and with regional commerce depart ment officials. In addition to Buffulo union leaders and businessmen, Sawyer talked with similar leaders from Rome, Utica, Tonawanda, Syra cuse, Rochester and Lackawanna, who came to this Lake Erie port for the opportunity of talking over their problems directly with a member of the president's cab inet. Sawyer believes it Is a good thing for a cabinet member (o get away from Washington and find out what the people are thinking. The purpose of this particular group of trips is to supplement statistics with individual business studies.
