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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1949)
Orasan iiiotorlcal Soclaty i'ublio Aulltorlurj i'OiULAM 1, ORS'JM State foAeetfsf Oregon Fair with litU change in temperature to night and Saturday. High both days 80-90. Low tonight 42.52 ..except 36 in colder valleys. THE BEND BULLETIN LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1949 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS No. 246 mm Explodes Firefc Aih Binfib 3 Kitted in S.P.S. Train Wreck Diesel, Steam Trains Crash In Darkness Two S. 1 & S. freight IrultiK, one drawn by mi electric dlesel unit and the. other liy a steam lo comotive itiiH I i'l hcudon nliout 10 o'cluck ImnI iiIkIH In the i iik ged Deschutes river gorge five MllIcK south u( Kheiur's bridge, killing three men mill injuring several others. The dcud were llxli'il am Homer J, Slaughter, Sh kane, Wh. llrlHrt Hull, Vancouver, Vh. Uerald ration, Wlslirnni, Waxh. Tin' night crush 1m the deep, rocky gorge of the tiem-hiites blocked nil lialll travel Ihruugh central Oicgon untl south lulu Cullfornlll. Mull consigned to Ili'iiU wux being moved tci Mail pill liy truck, uml will lie lnui;lu In Hend I Ills afternoon on Ore gon Trunk train No. lnl. One Engineer .lump According lo a Hulled Press slory from Tlu Dulles, iwo o( tin- victim were pinned under a Nlcuin locomotive, '('be body ol lite third wax (mi ml In I lie crush fd uih of thi dlesel unit. Fire men from Tht Dulles look our of tin- Injured to thut city. In llii hospital with a broken arm, head gush and possibly ollu-r Injoilcx Ik Hubert Frlnk, Vancouver, Wash., engineer of the cllciel. He lenped Irom the rah Just before the rruHli. The oilier Injured trainman, Unidentified by the rescue crew, was in the caboose at the north end of a 110 cur dleael train. The new could not lake him oui by Ktit'tcher because of the pllcup of cam at the head end of the freight. A train from Wlshrum wua to bring him down the gorge to the Oregon Trail hlghwny. a ahorl distance cost of The Dulles. Communication Out The dleael truln wna headed sou Hi on the Oicgon Trunk line, through the narrow gcuge of the Deschutes, And the other train waa traveling from liend to Wish, rum. Telephone communications were disrupted and crews were string InK lines iilonn the ground to re more service. The crnsh occur red between Sherur'a bridge and Maupin. A carload of homos waa smash ed. .Slate police shot some of the wounded animals. Kescuera said one of the horses apparently was thrown clear, and was seen grazing peacefully at the foot of the sleep rock cmhunkment lead ing down to the river. Lumber was scattered and some flouted downstream. None of the cura, however, went Into the river. No Information was available ns the cause of the accident, According to word from the Bend ostofflce, the mull cur that left Bond last night was not in volved In the wreck. The mull was lo be transferred to trucks at Muupln and taken to Wish- ram. Qualifications Handicapped In a move to uld the physically handicapped of central Oregon, the Oregon stale employment service office In Bend has listed qualifications und abilities of 54 persons who are necking gainful employment. The names linve been compiled on request of the committee In charge of the locul observance of Physically Hiindl capped week,, from October 2 to R. W. J. Bner is chairman in charge. "These handicapped persons have the ability lo do the work Indicated," It wns announced by the employment office staff, In the Deschutes county courthouse, when the listings were relensed. "The only thing that slops them from being gainfully employed Is the fact Hint the Bend employ, mcnt service office needs job or ders covering their particular skills," the announcement con tinued, adding: "Employers In the central Oregon area who hnve work which can be done by the people listed here nre asked to get in touch with the employment service office In Hend, ,by letter or telephone." Prospective employers are lo re fer to Iho numbers appearing In Oregon Young Republicans To Convene In Bend During Week-End; Fireworks Possible YotuiK Republicans of Oregon will hold a hIiiU' board meet ing in Hend tli is week end with party policy lo bo discussed, Leslie Koss, chairman of 0m Deschutes county central com mittee, mid Del Hale, secretary, announced today us final plans for the meeting were made. According to information from Portland, there may be some fireworks at the Hend conference, if the request that Ralph Cuke, republican na- Fault Detection Now Under Way At Wickiup Storage of water in Wickiup reservoir this week dropied lo '.'0.000 Here feel and bureau of icrliimullon eisoiiiiel continued fault detection oH'rullons, J, W Taylor, leschules project e.igl- neer repot ted today. Taylor said that the sloruKe will not be allowed to go any low er durliiK I ho present Irrigation season. He explained that de mands for water In the north unit proji-cl for the remainder of the season will be met by releases from the Crane Prairie reservoir, under an agreement Willi the Ccii (nil Oregon Irrigation district. Will Cost f.0.000 Work of fault sealing this sea son wilt run to an estimated $50.- 000. according to Taylor, and will probably lie the lust major opera tion of its sort on the reservoir. ' Thin punt yeur In excess of $90,000 wiih exiended on sealing ot fuulla In the reservoir. This year major faults were detected In the reservoir's outer reaches which were Inundated for Hie first time since the con struction of the works. Tie new areas were covered when storage rose to 187,000 'acre feet this pust spring compared lo approximate ly 50,000 ucres feel In 19-18. Work of sealing the leaks was conducted this year as the stor age in the reservoir receded. Tay lor said Hint no fuults huve been found In the reservoir below the 56,000 acre foot murk. 'I"hoso at thut pol:it were not veiy large, he added. Brakes Fail, Truck Driver Is Killed Kugene, Sept. 23 IIP"- Richard Valencia, lis Angeles, was killed yesterday when his truck's brakes fulled during a descent of Wil lamette puss below Odell. The truck, operated by Black brothers, produce distributors of Portland, sped at SO miles per hour down Hie nine-mile stretch ns Valencia attempted to ride the curves. Vnlencln wnrncd other motor ists with constant blasts on his horn but the descent ended against a bank near the bottom of the grade. The truck's cab was crushed. A relief driver cscajicd with minor Injuries. of Physically Veterans Listed llin list Of the 5? persons listed, 23 nre world war I and II veterans. It Is the policy of the employment office to stress work which these handicapped persons ate capable of performing. Listed here Is the residence, nge, marital status and work experience of the handi capped persons In need of work: Case No, 1 : Bend, 32 years old, married, male: 10 ycurs experi ence with various employers In nil kinds of carpenter work; l',4 years experience ns a cement fin isher. Case No. 2: Powell Butte, 51 ycurs old, married, mnle; l year experience operating juckhnm mors and nil types of air tools; 20 years experience ns fanner nnd farm hand. Case No. 3: Bend, 42 years old, widowed, with dependent chil dren, female; enmp or ranch cook,- 5 years experience; fry cook, 3 yenrs experience. Cnse No. 4: Bend, 59 years old, married, male; 8 years experi ence in various types of construc tion labor; 16 yenrs cx7crlcnce ns genernl farmer. Case No. 5: Bend, 47 yenrs old, (Continued on Page 3) I tioiial committeeman, resign his post is discussed. This de I mand was made earlier in the i season by a Young Kcpubli I can, James Thayer. 'Hie liend conference Is being I listed us the first annual policy Ijnuklng meeting of the Young He- IJUiJin unn oi vyii-gun. Dinner Saturday Highlighting the Iwo day con ference will lie a dinner ut the Pilot Hulle Inn Saturday at 7: -15. with Philip S. Hitchcock. Klam ath Fulls, stule senator from the K Initial h, I-uke, Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson district, as Un gues! speaker. Tire dinner will lie open to ull interested, but local residents planning on unending huve liecn asked to make reserva tions with Hale or Koss. In addi tion to the locul group, there will lie between .'15 und 50 Young Ke publlcuiiM present from outside counties, with every purl of the slute to lie represented. A meeting of the slate board wilt be held Sunday morning, starting at 8 a.m. All sessions are lo be in the Pilot Butte Inn. The Deschutes county cenlrul commit tee Is In charge of local arrange- mentB. Hatfield In C harge Murk Hatfield, of Salem, gen erul chairman of the policy coin mittco, will be In general charge of the Bend conference. He hus announced thut the Sunduy ses sions will be largely devoted to re ports from 11 policy subcommit tees. The sub committees will deal with civil liberties, housing, edu cation, old age, farming, labor, ad ministrative reorganization, high ways, rivers, power, Irrigation and conservation, luxation and veterans' affairs. Serving on Hut field's general policy committee are Slg Ununder and Don Walker, Portland, and Ralph Holmnn, Ore gon City. Organization of a Young Re mihllcnn club in Deschutes countv will lie considered, with all inter ested In this project Invited by the state officers to attend the dinner and Sunday conference. Steel Strike Settlement Indicated I Mr United. Vttn) Negotiotlons reopened In the steel dispute today with hopes high for a settlement, but the nn-tlon-wlde conl strike wns certain Lto Inst another week. At Detroit, officials of Ford Mo tors and the CIO United Auto Workers were reported over the nump on pension differences and switched their talks to side issues to "clear the decks" before a fi nal settlement on the pension problem. Negotiators for CtO President Phil Murray's 1,000.000 steelwork ers resumed negotiations with 53 steel firms. Optimism was high for avoid ing a strike, originally scheduled for Sunday, although Murray stll) Insisted that the steel firms must accept a presidential fact finding board's recommendations that they finance a 10-cent pension welfare program for workers. The principal negotiut ions were nt Pittsburgh with U. S. Steel; New York with Bethlehem; Cleve Innd with Republic; Youngstown with Youngstown Sheet and Tube; Chicago with Inland; Detroit with Great Lukes; Pittsburgh with Jones & Lnughiin; Indianap olis with Contlnenlnl Steel, nnd Wheeling, V. Vn with Wheel-i.-ig Steel. One steel company, Standard Steel nt Lewislon, Pn., accepted tlie board's recommendation nnd was ready to sign a contract with the union on Monday. Lewis vowed, meanwhile, thnt his 480,000 United Mine Workers would stay out of the pits at least until he resumes negotiations next Thursday with northern and western mine operators. He nnd the producers broke off negotiations yesterday nnd Lewis told reporters the owners obviously were wnltlng for the steel dispute to be settled, Bend Fire Siren I in l"l H u! t ' Bend's fire siren, now housed in this structure on top of the fire hall, will he in a new location the first of next week, atop the city hall penthouse jail. Chief LeRoy Fox is shown here examining the siren in the place where it has functioned for the past 30 years. Bend Fire Siren , . Removal Slated Next Monday Removnl of the Bend fire de partment siren from the fire hall on Minnesota avenue, near St. Charles hospital, to a new loca tion on top of the city hall, has been tentatively set for Monday, it was announced by W. O. Culii bcrtson, city manager. Housing for the siren on top of the pent house Jail, on the city hall, is nearing completion, ond Installa tion of necessary wiring is about finished. While the siren Is being moved, there will be a short period when Bend will be without a fire alarm signal. Tills will be only a mut ter of hours, and adequate pro tection will be provided through the fire department house crew, it was announced. After the siren Is In its new location on the city hall, it will be tested before being placed in general use. The siren IS being moved to the city hall from its present place on the fire hall in a move to eliminate noise in the zone where the new St. Charles hos pital is to be erected. Defense Rests In N. Y. Trial Of Communists New York. Sept. 23 Uli Tlie defense rested today In the con spiracy trial of 11 top U. S. com munists. It was the 158th day of the trial which has cost taxpayers an average of Sl.OOO a day. Federal Judge Harold R. Me dina dismissed the Jury until Oct. 4. explaining that there would be no proceedings In tlie meantime that would require its presence. Medina told the defense and prosecution attorneys lo Rive him a memorandum by Sept. 27 on points they want included in his j charge to the Jury. When the. jury returns, the government and defense will make their finnl summations. Tlie jury is expected to slnrt de liberations in about two weeks on the government's charge that the 11 communist leaders con spired to teach nnd advocate tlie use of force for tlie overthrow of the U, S. government, BOY SLAIN, FATHER HELD Suit Lake City, Sept. 23 Uli Tony Kladls, 16, high school stu dent, was found shot and killed on a sidewalk gear' his home to day nnd police Jnlled his father, Tom Kladls, 70, on suspicion of murder. Near Maupin to Be Moved Sen. iVorse Takes Stand AgainstCVA Washington, Sept. 23 i(P Sen. Wayne Morse. R., Ore., today de nounced the proposed Columbia valley administration as an "ad ministrative straight-Jacket." In a strongly-worded statement opposing the CVA, Morse further charged that the administration was trying "political blackmail" to insure enactment of its north west river authority program. "I don't like the idea of the ad ministration saying to us that the building of these projects is to be postponed until the administra tion plan for administering and controlling the projects is adopt ed," Morse said. "That looks to me like a form of political blackmail and the people in my section of the coun try once they understand It are not going to like it either." In Wheel Chair He jnade his statement to re porters from a wheel chair yes terday. He left Bethesda naval hospital, where he has been re cuperating from a fall, to vote on the arms aid bill. Morse said he believes republi cans espousing "constitutional liberalism" will find generous public backing. Such a program, he said must include the checking of power concentration in the ex ecutive branch of government. The tendency toward such con centration, he said, is well illus trated by the CVA proposal. Morse said any development program should be carried on by local people without "bureau cratic paternalism." Action Advocated As a first step toward Colum bia river development, Morse called for approval of the army engineer-reclamation bureau co ordinated report. "Let's get the projects built without delay and stop the ad ministration's playing politics with the Issue-of how they shall bo, administered once they are hitilt," he said. Bend High School Groups Invited The Bend high school band and the drum and bugle corps have accepted an Invitation to appear on Hayward field, in Eugene, be tween halves of the University of Oregon-Colorado game on Octo ber 15, it was announced by local school officials today. So far as can be recalled here, this is the first time that Bend musicians have received an invi tation to participate in college football activities. The young Bend musicians will make the trip over the McKenzle pass for the afternoon game. 3 Convicts Escape From State Prison Salem, Sept. 23 UK-Three con victs, one serving 40 years, hacked through a wall under con struction at Oregon state orison Thursday night and escaped along the dry creek bed where the hole in the wall was made. Earl Richard Rallsback, 19, was captured within an hour after the break. John Perkins. 24. of Silverton. Ore., under 40-year sentence for rape and sodomy in Clackamas county, and Leo Gilbert Williams. 21, under three-year sentence for burglary from Union county, were sun at large mis morning. Warden George Alexa ider and other prison officials expressed belief the two headed east after hacking through the wall. On that theory, heavily armed prison guards and state, county and city police widened their search through the meadowed and wooded land at the east and south edge of Salem. Caught lo Barn State police caught Railsback in a barn near State street near the east edge of Salem. They ex pressed belief that they had just missed the other two men when they took Railsback without re-, sistance. Scene of the breakthrough was a spot where a spillway for the millrace is being built at the southeast wall. The three con victs used a saw, brace and bit and a six-foot crowbar to rip out the planks and spread the bars far enough apart to make good their escape. Officials said the men broke, into a toolbox tn pet the I escane tools. Perkins has browrt eyes, brown hair, light complexion, weighs 139 pounds and is 5 feet, 10 inches tall. Williams has blue eyes, dark brown hair, light complexion, weighs 150 pounds and is 5 feet, 10 inches tall. There was a flurry of excite ment late Thursday "night when an auto was stolen at Turner, some 10 miles southeast of Salem. Later, however, it was recovered in Eugene with an Inmate from the Fairview home for the men tally deficient here at the wheel. Benson Back The break came just a few hours after William P. Benson, o.ie of two men who were the first in history to escape from the Oregon state prison "bull Den" had been returned to that isola tion ward after being captured last week in Columbus, O. Ben son told prison authorities that John O. Pinson, the man who escaped with him last Memorial day, died a couple of weeks after the escape, in a clump of bushes along a river near Kellogg. Ida., from bullet wounds suffered when a guard shot at them as they went over the prison wall. Police believe Pinson is still alive. Prison records disclosed that Williams previously escaped from tne Oregon state prison, April 21, 1947, while he was serving a three year term for burglary. He was captured the next day. Williams completed his term a year ago last January, but less than a month later was committed again on another burglary charge. Perkins, serving two 20-year sentences running consecutively and one 15-year sentence running concurrently, was committed last March. He was out on parole at the time from a three-year sen tence for assault with attempt to rob. Railsback entered Oregon state prison March 13, 1948. Officials said he had escaped some years ago from a Colorado reform school. Railsback was serving three years from Deschutes coun ty for burglary. Elliott Recall Election Assured Portland, Sept. 23 itn The campaign to recall Sheriff Mike Elliott movement today passed its required goal of 30,565 names, ac cording to recall committee head quarters. More than that number of reg istered voters have signed peti tions which call for a special elec tion, to fill the office of Multno mah county sheriff, Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, recall commit tee chairman, said. James W. Gleason, county elec tions registrar, said his office would process latest petitions and that a final figure would be an nounced early next week. President Truman Announces Ominous News; Monopoly On Lethal Weapon Ended , By Merriam Smith and Joseph L. Mylkk (United Press Staff Correspondents) Washington, Sept. 2'.i U.R) President Truman today shat tered the illusion of an American A-bomb monopoly with an nouncement that the Russians recently set off an atomic ex plosion. His brief, calmly-phrased disclosure also exploded the widely-held notion that the United States still had several years of grace before the soviet giant could produce the most de structive weapon ever made- by man. Most U. S. defense officials had put the deadline year, when America's cold war en emy finally would be poised for all-out atomic armaments race, at 1951 at the earliest. Not before 1952, they said, could Rus sia begin to manufacture nuclear weapons m quantity. Details Vague The president gave no indica tion as to whether Russia has got to the place where she can manufacture A-bombs. He did not indicate whether U. S. intel ligence knows the extent of Rus sia's atomic developments. But he told the people: "We have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explos ion occurred in the USSR." . There was no panic in the pres ident's announcement. If he had in mind the repeated warnings of scientists that the atomic bomb gives man the power to destroy his civilization, he did not say so. He did say: "This recent development em phasizes once again, if indeed such emphasis were needed, the necessity for that truly effective enforcible international control ot atomic energy which this gov ernment and the large majority ol tne members of the United Na tions support." Refused to Cooperate The Russians, pouring all then knowledge and resources into an atomic project of their own, have repeatedly refused to Join in a world compact to police the atom. Mr. Truman revealed the Sov iet success in achieving an atomic blast after a meeting of the cab inet at which he told his part ners in the government "all the details." He said he was making his electrifying knowledge public be cause the American people "are entitled to be informed of all de velopments in the field of atomic energy. It was the most sensational announcement' by an American president since that day in Au gust, 1945, when Mr. Truman, aboard a cruiser returning from Potsdam, announced through the White House that an atomic bomb equivalent to more than 20.000 tons of TNT had been dropped on Japan. Equipment Complex The president did not say that it was an atomic bomb that ex ploded in Russia generating a shock wave certain to be felt in capitals all over the world. But he didn't' have to. An atom ic explosion is something that can't be set off merely by striking a spark. It requires the most elaborate and complex kind of detonating equipment. If Russia has an atomic explosive and the devices for making it explode, she has the essentials of a bomb. It was this very detonating device, and the so-called "criti cal" size and shape of the atomic (Continued on Page 3.) Central Oregon Counties Will Share Forest Receipts Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties will receive ap proximately $218,595 as their share of gross forest receipts for the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to an esti mate from the regional office in Portland. Deschutes county's estimated share of the total receipts from operations in the Deschutes national forest this past fiscal year will be $74,247, compared with $88,794 last year. Jefferson county, it is esti- mated, will receive $13,120, with the exception of a small compared with $15,189 last amount received by Jefferson year from the Mt. Hood forest. Crook T ' ,i . county receipts come from Ocho- In Crook county, the re-jc0 natlonal fores, timber sales, ceipts will jump from $80,783, rentals, grazing fees and other In- last year's return, to $132,228 m 1949, it is estimated. Funds Divided Under federal law, 25 per cent of the gross receipts of forests for a fiscal year are divided be tween counties on a percentage of national forest land In the counties. All Deschutes and Jef ferson county returns are from the Deschutes national forest, Vishinsky Suggests Peace Pact By Bruce W. Munn I United Hr Surf Corrotponilcnt) ; Flushinsr. N.Y.. SeDt. 23 UH Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky today formally propos ed the United States, Britain, Rus sia, France and China sign "a pact ior tne strengtnening ol peace. Vishinsky made his proposal at the end of a 30-minute speech be fore the United Nations general assembly. He made no mention of President Truman's announce ment that Russia had achleued an atomic explosion. He said that Russia had no in tention of attacking any other country. Vishinsky ended his speech with three major proposals lot included in the prepared text. They were: 1. He called upon the general assembly to condemn "prepara tions for a new war which are be ing conducted in a number of countries, particularly in the Unit ed States of America and Great Britain, which find their expres-" sion in government-encouraged war propaganda, in the arma ments race and in inflated war budgets which fall as a heavy bur den on the population, in the es tablishment of numerous military, naval and air bases on the terri tories of other countries, Ii the formation of military blocs of states pursuing aggressive aims In regard to the peace-loving democratic countries, and in the execution of other measures aim ed at aggression." Atomic Weapons Hit 2. He asked the general assem bly to condemn atomic weapons "and other means of mass de struction" in the same way that "civilized nations long ago con demned the use for military pur poses of poison gas and of bacter iological weapons as being the heaviest crime against mankind." He asked the assembly to express conviction that "any 1 jrther de lays in the adoption by t'le United Nations of practical measures for the unconditional prohibition of atomic weapons and for the estab lishment of an adequate and rigid international control are inadmis sable."' 3. He asked the general assem bly to "call upon all nations to settle their disputes and differ ences peacefully and without re sorting to the use of force or throats of force" and expressed "the wish that the United States of America, Great Britain, China, France and the soviet union Join their efforts for this purpose and conclude between themselves a pact for the strengthening of peace." Vishinsky's peace pact plea came as a surprise to the dele (Continued on Page 5) comes. Oregon law provides that of the ' 23 per cent of forest receipts re turned to counties, 75 ner cent shall go into the road fund and 25 per cent to schools. The total forest income In the North Pacific region, No. 6, In the past fiscal year was placed at $12,512,796.83. This was $2,513,. 738.05 greater than lhat of the previous year.
