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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON BEND" BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Partly cloudy to night and Thursday. Cooler tonight. High temperatures 55 to 65. Low temperature tonight 25 to 35. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1949 No. 291 TWO IJOLEi SoftC Bend Stores Designate Hospital Day s , Mill and box factory employes Way rejected by an overwhelm- J ing vote the proposal that they report for work on Saturday and contribute that overtime day's pay to the Memorial hospital, but uptown, plans for observance of Friday as Hospital day, with 10 per cent of profits that day going to the medical center project, went ahead. Earlier this week, the mer chants committee of the Bend chamber of commerce approved the Hospital day plan by a unani mous vote, and on Monday night members of the merchants' credit bureau gave their endorsement to the plan. Today various mer chants prepared to carry mention of the day in their advertising. Hugh Cole of the hospital foun dation reported today that em ployes of Safeway had made do nations to the hospital fund that averaged better than a day's pay. This was in connection with staff contributions, with deductions be ing made from payrolls in many business houses. Ballot Taken The plan for mill workers to make contributions through Sat urday work was proposed in con nection with the campaign to ob tain $123,000 to make possible the construction of the hospital, bids fr whirtVt iimrn nnonoil on T-1 iov in I the month. Cost of the hospital Will UC CI I UU1IV1 VuVViUWi KIC UIUO revealed. Union leaders had join ed In the move to obtain approv al of the extra day's work at the two local mills and box factories. This morning, ballots were dis tributed to the workers, and ta lk complete returns at noon clearly indicated that the millmen did not favor the plan. The vote was about 80 per cent against the pro posal. As a result, the plan for the extra day's work has been dropped. This past week, volunteers working through the Hospital Founders' organization engaged in an intensive campaign to ob tain additional funds. The $123, 000 goal has not been reached, but the workers are still hopeful that the big area hospital for Bend can be saved. A report of the local campaign will be submitted to the state board of health advisory board later this week, at a conference in Portland. RAINMAKERS INCORPORATE Boston, Nov. 16 ilPi A Boston group organized to "sell, distrib ute and manufacture and produce rainfall by artificial means" has been granted a charter of Incor poration. Secretary of state Edward J. Cronin said the "Natural Resourc es Corporation of Massachusetts" is headed by Herman Cohen of Boston. WIVES HELPFUL Nanton, Alta., Nov. 16 Ut Alan Smith of Edmonton and J. Zieg- ler of Calgary took their wives on a hunting trip here yesterday. Mrs. Smith shot a deer and Mrs. Zlegjer shot an elk. Their husbands got nothing. f Changes in Existing Soil Conservation Laws Sought Two resolutions calling for change of existing state laws af fecting soil conservation districts were passed this past week at a meeting of the association of soil conservation districts in Portland, George Eliiot, chairman of the Mid-State district board reported today. One of the resolutions recom mends that the voting require ments governing the formation of conservation districts be changed to provide that a majority of the votes cast, subject to the final approval by the state committee, be the determining factor of the election. Under existing law. 30 per cent of eligible voters of an area are required to cast favor able bal.ots in order that a new district can be formed or addi tions can be made to an old dis trict. Election Recalled It will be recalled that at a recent election on the matter of bringing all of Deschutes county, and parts of Jefferson and Crook counties. Into the Mid-State dis trict, an Insufficient number of voters turned out to pass the measure, although almost all votes cast were in favor of the move. A second election on the Issue lis planned in the near future. , . The other resolution passed at the association meeting favored a! DisputeTumedl .Over Further Development Urged For Highway 20 in Oregon; Bend Group Attends Meeting By Phil F. Brogan Corvallis.. Nov. 16 Oregon U. S. Highway 20 association members holding their annual meeting here last night ex tended their eastern boundary from Bend to Boise, Ida., heard a talk by R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, and elected officers for 1949-50. Two Bend men were included in the group elected, to represent the eastern division of a three district organization. The meeting was held at the Benton hotel with more than 80 persons present. Kurt Kie- : sow, of Toledo, president of the group, presided. Original ly known as Western Oregon U. S. Highway 20 association, tho organization's name was streamlined through elimina tion of "western". , U. S. highway 20 spans the continent, from Boston, Mass., to Newport, Ore. Primary objective of the association In tile coming year will be to obtain improve ment of the far-western section of the transcontinental road, be tween Toledo and Newport. This section was termed "a disgrace to state's highway system." Election Held Ernest Wilier, Newport, was elected president of the associa tion for the coming year, with William Nlskanen, Bend, vice- president representing the east ern district. Vance Taylor, Corval lis, is the vice-president for the central district and Frank Up dike, Toledo, represents the west ern district. Directors named were Don H. Peoples, Bend; Joe Fallon, Sweet Home; Ted Rodman, Lebanon; Hal Byer and Marvin Kimmal, Albany; Clarence White, Corval lis; Mel Hammerness and Kurt Kiesow, Toledo, and Dudley Turnacliff, Newport. ' Baldock appeared before the group on the eve of his departure for Chicago to attend a confer ence of .the 'American Association of Highway Officials, of which he is a director and past president. At the Chicago meeting a pro gram for needed federal aid will be outlined, for presentation to congress. Baldock said wasning ton, D. C, officials are now con sidering a breakdown of federal aid funds into tertiary allocations, as well as the primary and sec ondary road funds. He Indicated that his association will oppose this move. Population Growth Cited "Oregon stands on the thresh old of its greatest development in history", Baldock declared, men tioning that in the past eight years the state has led the nation in population growth. Highways, he said, have played a major role in the state's growth. In the next decade, he added, Oregon should double its population. A coast delegation of 35 per sons, from the Newport-Toledo area also pictured Oregon's anti cipated population expansion and pointed to the possibility of de veloping a new major seaport at Newport, that would not only serve the upper reaches of the Willamette valley, but uregon lust east of the Santiam Cas cades. Such a port will become a reality when highway M is in proved from Corvallis to the sea, Beryl Smith of the Newport dele gation declared. In answer to a question from the floor as to when the western (Continued on Page 7) the reorganization of the state soil conservation committee so as to provide that at least three farmer members, rather than two as at present, serve on the committee. It further favored the requirement that t h e farmer members should be active district supervisors at the time of their appointment to the state commit tee. Approved By Farmers Elliot stated that farm organ izations and state and federal conservation agency representa tives strongly approved the soil conservation work currently be ing conducted in the central Ore gon area. Lowell Steen, president of the Oregon Farm Bureau federation expressed the hope that areas of the state In need of soil coriserva Hon help could soon be Included in a district, and he promised the backing of his organization to ward that end. Soil conservation district super visors from all parts of the state attended the Portland meeting, according to Elliot. He said It was the most successful In the his tory of the soil conservation movement In Oregon. Officials of Oregon State col lege, the state soil conservation committee, and the U.S. sou con servatlon service met with the supervisors, Bicycle Parade Will Be Feature Of Kids' Day Here Highlights of the local observ ance of National Kids' day, Sat urday, Nov. 19, will be a bicycle parade to start at the city hall at 9:30, and a free show at 10:30 at the Tower theater. Details were announced today by members of the Bend Kiwanis club, who are in charge of arrangements. Youngsters of Bend and the surrounding communities are be ing invited to participate in the parade, with three prizes to be given for the bicycles judges will select as the best-decorated. In connection with the movie program at 10:30 will be a 15 minute radio show to be produc ed on the stage of the theater, with Kessler Cannon, master of ceremonies for the KBND Pal club, to be In charge. The screen program will Include a Roy Rog ers western picture and cartoons. Prizes for winners In the bike pa rade will be presented at. the theater. - To Hold Office As a special feature ef the ob seivance, Bend school children will be named to hold city offices for the day. Elections are to be held in the schools. Posters calling attention to Na tional Kids' day have been placed in Bend stores. Wilson Benold, chairman of the local Kiwanis ciub committee for underprivileg ed children, is also in charge of the Kids' day observance. Bob Thomas is handling publicity. With the slogan, "Child by child we build our nation," Na tional Kids' day is sponsored jointly by Kiwanis International and the National Kids' Day Foun dation, Inc. The foundation was organized by James M. (Jimmie) Fidler, a Kiwanian, the Holly wood commentator and newspa per columnist, who continues to serve as its president. The three-fold purpose of the day is to focus attention upon the accomplishments of youth, to seek adidtional interest from the public in the battle against juve nile delinquency, and to provide additional Impetus in assisting underprivileged children to en joy some of the benefits normally accruing to more fortunate boys and girls. Mayor T. D. Sexton has Issued a proclamation designating Sat urday as "Kids' day" and calling for the cooperation of the public to make the observance a success. Big U. S. Bomber Missing at Sea Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 16 IP An American superfortress fly ing from California to England with 20 air force men went down in the Bermuda area of the At lantic today. The B-29 radioed as it neared the end of a 3,500-mile non-stop flight from March field, Calif., that its gasoline was about gone and it was "ditching" the air man's term for making a forced landing at sea. Hours behind schedule, the bomber was one of 16 going from March field to England for a tour, of duty at bases in Britain under the air force's scheme of rotat ing men at foreign bases. The pilot reported that he was 1?S,',WilhIa,m mJ!!!S Ulip'how, and he also suffered head cloud covering making celestial navigation Impossible. The mes sage came on a high frequency band that made it impossible to get a location. The disappearance of the big ship set off a search which offi cials said would tx developed as swiftly ac possible into the great est the Atlantic had ever known. They said 35 planes would cover the whole area around Bermuda. All ships within 200 miles of Bermuda were asked by radio to look out for wreckage or survivors. Gov. McKay Favors River Development La Crande, Nov. 16 Ui Gov. Douglas McKay today called for development of Columbia river valley hydro-electric and Irriga tion projects as the first step to ward creation of new Oregon in dustries and combating winter unemployment. In a speech prepared for de livery before the 18th annual con vention of the Oregon Farm Bu reau federation, the governor said the seasonal unemployment on Oregon farms and in lumber camps could be compensated by creation of more industries and Jobs through Columbia valley projects. McKay, a leading opponent of the proposed Columbia valley ad ministration, did not specifically mention the agencies he thought should develop Columbia proj ects. "The Columbia should be de veloped period," the governor said. 'Oregon exports too much f- ber and farm products In the raw state. We snouiu ueveiop in dustries here to process farm products and fabricate lumber, thus creating jobs which would offset November-to-March layoffs and balance the economy, Examples Cited McKay cited Jefferson, Mal heur and Klamath counties as examples of areas where irrlga (Continued on Page 5) Defendants Win uit A verdict in favor of the defend ants ;sterday was returned by a Deschutes county jury which heard the case of Joseph L. Pin neo versus John H. Tobin and the Employers Mutual Casualty com pany. Pinneo sought $17,600 In dam ages from the defendants for in juries he had received in an au tomobile accident in 1946. The jury deliberated for about an hour and returned Its verdict yesterday evening. Trial of the case took two days. . Today trial of the case Don Parkinson versus Frederick K. Shepard was begun, and attor neys for the litigants this morn ing started the selection of a jury. Asks ludgment Parkinson seeks a Judgment of $6,928 for damages he received in an auto accident which occur red on the highway between Al bany and Corvallis. Representing Parkinson Is the Portland law firm of Cake, Jaurequay, Tooze & Burdlck. George H. Brewster, Redmond attorney, is represent ing the defendant. Additional persons today were summoned for Jury duty. Their names follow: James F. Jewell, Eva Mae Jones, Ray E. Dugger, Donald D. Hinman and William J. Gifford, Redmond, and Albert Walker, Max Hopper and Hazel Coble, Bend. Former Bend Resident Injured Jack Trelease, formerly of Bend and now of Klamath Falls, Is a patient at Valley hospital, Klam ath Falls, where he has been in serious condition since an acci dent last Friday at Chemult. i release was a passenger on the train from Klamath Falls to Chemult. having left that morn ing for Bend to Join his wife and daughter, who had come to Bend the day before by bus. to attend the Bcnd-Klamath Falls football game and visit relatives. After getting off the train at Chemult in a snow storm, Trelease slipijed and fell on the track In the path of the train, it was reported. His ngnt arm was severed below the Injuries. He was returned to Klamath Falls by ambulance. Trelease is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walt Grant, now of Bend. His wife, the former Catherine Powell, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I T. Powell, of Bend. When news of the accident was received, Mrs. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Powell, Miss Margaret Pow ell, Mr3. Trelease and daughter, Patty, left for Klamath Falls. Miss Powell and her father re turned last night. Trelease's con dition Is "satisfactory," they reported. DarriacfeS Motorists Wait 111 1 Motorists driving through the busy Wan-Franklin intersection yesterday noon.and evening found two officers, Jeff Pearce, pic tured here, and John Truett on the job, signaling stops and starts. Pearce handled the time watch and whistle and Truett, at the center of the intersection, signaled traffic movement. The activity was in connection with a city traffic-control experiment. First Bicycle Registration Scheduled in Bend Thursday; N ew License Plates Arrive Miniature black and white on all Bend bicycles in 1950 have been received at the local police station and licensing work is to be started at once, H. A. Casiday, Bend chief of police, announced today. First reg istrations will be handled on Thursday of this week, at the police station. Bicycle owners whose surnames start with "A" are to report that day, with the "B" group to be handled Friday. Registration work will be resumed Monday, in alphabetic Two Fault Areas At Crane Prairie Dam Inspected An Inspection of two large fault areas in the east bank reaches of the Crane Prairie res ervoir, yesterday was conducted by a group of reclamation offi cials and directors of the Central Oregon Irrigation district. Making the tour were J. W. Taylor, Deschutes project con struction engineer; A. E. Perry, Deschutes county watermaster; H. W. Sexton, U. S. bureau of reclamation engineer; Olaf Ander son, C. O. I. manager, and Puul Spillman and, John Bradetlch, di rectors on the C.O.I, board. Purpose of the inspection tour was to determine what can be done about the two large faults in the reservoir floor which are responsible for considerable loss of water when storage Is at 40,000 acre leet or more, capacity stor age of the reservoir is 50,000 acre foet. At present approximately 28.000 acre feet of water is stored. The two faults are located in the east reaches of the reservoir in an area where there are ex posed lava beds. the leakage there ha3 existed since the reservoir was first de veloped In 1922. The original dam, a temporary rock-crib struc ture with a timber facing on the upstream side, was constructed by the North Canal company as a test project. In 1940, the bureau renlaced the old dam. The reservoir serves as a stor age unit for the C.O.I., Lone Pine and Arnold Irrigation districts. Association Votes Credit Affiliation Retail Credit association mem bers of Bend, at their special meeting here Monday night, vot ed affiliation with the National Retail Credit association, leaders of the group announced today. A large number of members have already signed for membership and, It was announced, the char ter will remain open for 30 days. Speakers at the meeting were Chalmer Blair and Walter Jen sen, Portland credit officials. The meeting here was held under aus pices of the Bend Merchants' Credit bureau. Approximately 50 persons were present. W. L. Van Allen, vice-president of the local association, presided. The local meeting was a dinner affair. Police Signals '-. f license plates that are to appear order. Later, certain days of next week will be designated for registration. The city is to provide the license plates, and there will be no charge. . An ordinance providing for the registration of all bicycles operated in Bend became effect ive on Oct. 5. Owners not only will be re quired to register their bicycles, but to report transfers. Second hand dealers also will be required to report all purchases to the police. The small black and white "tags", each bearing a number, will be attached at the rear of seats, with locking metal strips used. Persons found tampering with attached tags, on other per sons bicycles, will face arrest, the ordinance provides. Under the revised ordinance, all bicycle owners will be required to observe traffic regulations. Headlights are required for night riders. Each bicycle owner will be pro vided wllli an Identification card. One of the purposes of the city wide registration of bicycles is to check a wave of thievery. In the present week, several bicycles were reported stolen. Occasional traffic checks may be Instituted, to check ownership and registra tion. The bicycle registration cards will bear the names of the own ers and the numbers of the license tags. Bicycle frame num bers also will be recorded. Officers hope to complete bi cycle registration before Christ mas. Bend Chamber Favors Parcel Post Service The Bend chamber of com merce rates and traffic commit tee today recommended that par cel post as well as first-class mail be included In thi new mail con tract which is to i,e let on the proposed servieo between The Dalles and Bend. Action of the group followed the announcement yesterday that Pacific Trallways had served no tice of cancellation of its star route contract under which first clnss mall Is brought here from the main east-west line along the Columbia. Announcement that bids are being asked for a new contract was made yesterday by J. E. Flory, district superintendent of the railroad mall service for the postal department. to Try man Ching Abandons Mediation; New Strike Date Set By Lawrence Gonder (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 16 (U.E) The federal mediation service today turned the soft coal wage dispute over to President Tru man, leaving it up to him to prevent a new coal strike Dec. 1. Federal mediation chief Cyrus Ching referred the coal dispute to the White House at a conference with Mr, Tru man's chief labor, adviser, presidential assistant John R. Steelman. Ching told Steelman that "further mediation efforts in the case would be fruitless.". Ching told newsmen that it's now up to the White House to head off the new soft coal strike which John L. Lewis has scheduled for Dec. 1 unless the United Mine Workers get together with the coal industry on a new contract before then. Ching said he made no recom mendations to Steelman on what course of lactlon Mr. Trtiman should take. It was leurned, how ever, that the president, may: May Name Board 1. Ask Lewis and the coal In dustry to postpone all strikes and lockouts until a special fact-finding board investigates the dispute and recommends a settlement or 1. Invoke the national emer gency section of the Taft-Hartley act, and seek a federal court In junction forbidding strikes or lockouts In the coal fields for about 80 days. Mr. Truman is expected to act quickly, perhaps as early as to morrow. TRUCE PROCLAIMED Washington. Nov. lB UPI-Gov eminent mediators vJho"pvowiicer an' lltn-hour. truce In the threat ened east and gulf coast shipping strike said today they still are very much in the picture. William N. Margolls, assistant chief of the federal mediation service, said he expects word to day from shipping operators and the AFL masters, mates and pilots union on their next moves in the deadlock. Margolis was the chtef archi tect of the 30-day strike postpone ment the third since Oct. 1 which headed off a walkout by deck officers last midnight that could have tied up half the na tion's commercial shipping. The truce can be ended by eith er party on written notice to the other and to the mediation service before Monday. Otherwise, it au tomatically lasts a month. The strike had been set for 12:01 a.m. EST. The delay Mar golls engineered was announced shortly before 11 p.m. The union made It clear that despite the truce It still Insists on a rotary hiring hall clause In a new contract. East coast engi neers lost their demands for such a system, but west coast deck of ficers wrote It Into a contract on Nov. 2. VALUATION HIGHER Madras, Nov. 16 Joheph L. Metts, Jefferson county tax asses sor, has announced that the asses sed valuation now stands at $9,- 236,781.40, an Increase of $1,592, 414.94, or 20 per cent over that of $7,644,366.46 for a year ago. The figures include public utility property of the county. Metts said he estimates that the next year's assessed valuation, In cluding public utilities, will climb to $12,000,000. Acheson Angry Over China's Refusal to Free Americans By flumes K. Koper (Unitt-d Prws Staff Currroponitetit, Washington, Nov. 16 dli Sec retary of state Dean G. Acheson said today that communist Chi na's arrest of American consul general Angus Ward has killed any chance of American recogni tion of the communist regime at this time. Acheson angrily told a news conference that the United States considers the arrest of Ward and four other members of the Ameri can consulate at Mukden as very serious and Is considering all pos sible steps to bring about their release. Asked about the chances of America recognizing communist China. Acheson told the reporters that they could easily Imagine that the arrest removes any pos sibility of the United States even considering that question. Acheson also announced: 1. The United States is protest ing to nationalist China over the Vast Manhunt Under Way In California Lob Angeles, Nov. 16 UP) En raged citizens joined hundreds of officers today to search southern and lower California for an elder ly baker suspected of slaving and mutilating six -year -old Linda Joyce Glucof t. The most intensive manhunt In southern California history was organized for 67-year-old Fred Stroble, a known sex offender. Roadblocks were set up and Die-' tures of the suspect were distrib uted throughout the area. Offic ers on the International border at Tiajuana, Mex., were alerted in case he tried to slip Into Mexico. The pretty, brown-haired girl's corpse was found In Stroble's yard early yesterday. The body was half -naked and was crammed Into a trash heap of old bottles and tin cans. , Parents Prostrate ., i .... The girl's prmHsymmerciai photographer Jules Ghtcoft and his wife Lillian, were In a state of collapse. . nnc unugcu wjiii re ports from persons who thought they had seen Stroble, a balding, gaunt and aged-looking man who already was a fugive on a child mnlPRfnHnn oharaa whan T Inrln .. U1IIUH Joyce disappeared Monday. Authorities placed the greatest credence on a report given them by a bus driver, Dallas Lindsay, who drives a run between San Diego, Calif., and the Mexican border. Lindsay definitely Identified Stroble as a man he drove south early yesterday. He said the man got off the bus at the San Ysidro, Calif., border bus station just as "Wanted" pictures of Stroble were being distributed there. Lindsay had not heard of the crime until after Stroble dis appeared from the bus depot. Body Mutilated An autopsy report said Linda Joyce died of strangulation min utes after her attacker cinched a gaily-colored necktie around her throat. Then, Coroner Ben Brown said, the killer used a long-handled ax to smash her skull and to hack her spinal cord In two. Her 65-pound body was jabbed three times with an Ice-pick, and her chest showed purple lash marks. There also were signs that she fought off her fiendish slayer with waning, futile clawings. Tufts of hair not her own were under her tiny fingernails. Stroble was discovered missing almost simultaneously with the report that Linda Joyce had dis appeared. No one saw him after he left the home of his daughter and son-in-law. attack Monday of a nationalist warship on the American freight er Flying Cloud off Shanghai. He said he is protesting only the en dangering of lives, leaving the broader question of whether the nationalists had a right to stop the vessel for investigation. 2. Russia In a note which reach ed the state department today has agreed to Intervene with the com munist North Korean regime to free Albert Willis of Brooklyn and Alfred T. Mesehtcr of Kinder hook, N.Y. two Americans who have been held bv the commu nists since Sept. 22. 3. The United States and Brit ish foreign minister Ernest Bevln understand each other's position on recognition of communist China and are consulting from time to time. Acheson hastily added, how ever, that the United States could n't even consider the matter of recognition when a group of peo ple are acting like the Chinese communists are acting.
