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i Univ. of Oregon Library ' EUaNE, OREGON THE BEND BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Cloudy today, to. night and Sunday; intermit tent rain. Cooler afternoon. High today 52-62, Sunday 45 55. Low tonight 30-40. Fresh southerly winds. No. 299 LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1949 Steam Driven Engine Yields to Electricity U.S.Makes Strong Protest Over W 1! "' I - ' ... . L J In operation since March 23, 1916, an 800 horsepower Corliss steam engine, pictured here, went into retirement this morning at 3 o'clock at The Shevlin-Hixon Company mill as the last unit of the big plant was electrified. Only duty of the huge engine recently was to provide power for the plant's edger. Standing by the engine is Arthur W. Shupe, head engineer who has been with The Shevlin Hixon Company for the past 26 years. Shevlin-Hixon Bids Farewell To Steam Engine Marking complete electrifica tion of the plant, a huge Corliss steam engine, of 800 horsepower", turned over a 28-ton drivewheel for the last time at The Shevlin Hixon Company sawmill this morning, at 3 o'clock. And as the big engine, whose k yt so'e lunction recently, was, to pro-. rest, old-time employes of The Shevlin-Hixon Company recalled an event of slightly more than 33 years ago on March 23, 1916. On that date, the Shevlin plant started operations in Bend, with the Corliss engine that is now motionless providing power for the first unit of the big sawmill. The steam engine remained in operation through three decadss, with time out for seasonal over haul and on a few occasions for repair of a broken belt. Bolt 108 Feet Long The direct-drive belt that cir cled ths 28-ton wheel is 108 feet long and 46 inches wide. It is a three-ply belt, of cowhide. When the Corliss engine turn ed over for the first time 33 years ago. the event was a big occasion in Bend, for it marked the start of milling operations here. J. P. Dion was builder of the plant and Harry Swanson was engineer in charge of installation of machin ery. "The mill is belt driven," stated an article in The Bulletin. The article added that an 800 horsepower Corliss engine, made in Michigan, had been installed. That is the engine that made it? final revolution in the local plan' this morning. The engine provid- , ed power only for the No. 1 unit of the sawmill. Mill Now Electrified S Through the years, electrical ;S equipment was gradually added, : and now The Shevlin-Hixon Com- V pany has its own complete power plant. As electrification of the i olant gradually extended, thf work of the engine decreased. Re i:i cently, It has been called on te carry a comparatively Dgm loau & Despite its long years of ser vice the Corliss engine is still it top shape, engineers report. Thir- : ty-three years ago, when opera $ Hons were first -started, the en 4 cine was required to provide pow- S er for two-foot band saws. In itr K first operation The Shevlin-Hlxor 3 Comnanv produced 130.000 board S feet of lumber daily, and oper- :'t a ted on two 10-hour shifts. W The Corliss engine, which has y functioned on the massive con crete foundation for more than U three decades, is to be sold, the :4 mill management has announced. IT DIDN'T WOr.K Vancouver. B.C.. Nov. 26 IIP Slapstick comedy turned Into serious business yesterday when a prisoner h dried a gooey lemon pie Into the lace ot a ponce guaro as he attempted to escape. Edwin Tancowny, 19. was or his way to Uakalla prison to serv, a six-month term on a narcotics count. Just as he reached the pa trol wagon, a bakery truck pull ed alongside. Tancowny grabbed the nearest pie, smashed it into the surprised fare of his gaurd. and ran. His ingenuity was for naught yaowevor. He was recaptured minutes later. Rhinoceros Fossil Found In Gravel Embankment Near Madras, by Two Bend Men Discovery of the stony jaw of Gateway country, north of Madras, was reported here today as the specimen was prepared for study by paleontologists. It was the second find of rhino remains in the Gateway area, a locality that also has yielded scribed as being as large as a an ancient forest apparently The rhino jaw found this week near Gateway repre sents af huge mammal .first identified- from beds dn ' Ne braska. Scientists have named the ancient creature Teleoce ras, and say that it had gro tesquely short legs and a heavy bodv. Its head was massive, stu dents of the earth's ancient past add, and it was equipped with a nasal horn. Barrel-like Bodies Fragmentary finds of earlier years gave evidence that rhinos with barrel-like bodies lived in Oregon in the ancient past. Ma terial from the Gateway localities has definitely proved that the big mammal browsed in this part of the state, along swamps and streams. Scientists say that rhinos lived in Oregon over a vast stretch of time, with the first remains of these creatures discovered recent ly in the Clarno clays by Lon Hancock, of Portland. This is the only mammal so far found in the Clarno beds. Several species of rhinos lived in the John Day times, paleontologists have ascer tained. These creatures were known as the diceratheres ani mals with transverse pairs of nasal horns. Bend Men Make Find The recent find in the Gateway country was made by Phil F. Bro gan and Walter G. Peak, of Bend. They were accompanied by 'Art Johnson, of the Madras country. ihe rhino Jaw was lound pro truding from a gravel embank ment. A row of agatized teeth appeared as the gravel was re moved. Geologists who have studied the area say there is evidence that torrents swept trees, gravel and an occasional bone into basins. These deposits were later covered by lava. Gravel beds in which the rhino jaw was found are believed to have been deposited in the upper Miocene, a period that followed ihe outpouring of the Columbia lavas. Chinese Holding Another American Washington, Nov. 26 Ut Wil liam N. Stokes, American vice :onsul at Mukden, Manchuria, lias been seized and held by Chi nese communists, the state de partment was informed today. The information was reported 'o the state department by Amer ican consul general Angus Ward Stokes' chief who himself was re leased by the communists only earlier this week. Stockes, according to word from Ward, was taken to a com munist "court" without a war--ant for a hearing in connection with "spying charges." More thi'n six hours after his seizure Stokes had not returned, Ward said. BUSKS INSPECTED Salem, Nov. 26 IP More than 1.100 Oregon school buses have been checked under the new school bus inspection program, . f r f 4- a rhinoceros in gravels of the vertebrae of a huge fish, de shark, and molds and leaves ol engulfed by a mud How, Chamber Hears , Many Bids Made On Mail Service Chamber of commerce directors at their, meeting yesterday heard a report of the chamber's rate and traffic committee on a pro posed through trucking service from California and on a new mail and parcel post service from The Dalles to Bend. Bids for the proposed mail service already have been received and turned over to postal officials in Port land for action. An unexpectedly large number of bids were re ceived. It was announced at the meet ing that Redmond and Bend have filed a joint resolution with the civil aeronautics board for per mission to intercede in hearings that might affect air service The directors unanimously en dorsed a resolution which re quests the city to prohibit the use of advertising signs on park ing meters. Plans for Christmas decora tions in downtown Bend are be ing considered by the retail mer chants' committee, the directors were told. Morelli Dies In Electric Chair Chicago, Nov. 26 lU'i "Mad Dog Killer" James Morelli walked meekly to his death in the electric chair early today, insisting to the end that he was Innocent of par ticipation in a wild gangland kill ing orgy which claimed four lives. ' He was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. CST, only a few min utes after he learned that author ities had turned thumbs down on his offer to give his eyes to a blind man in exchange for life long support of his wife and baby. The suggestion, had it been ap proved by authorities, would have given Morelli a new 24-hour lease on life while doctors prepared him for a corneal transplant. In addition to the two reprieves by the governor, courts three times had delayed Morelli's march to file electric chair since he was sentenced to die last March 19. Some 30 hour3 before the first shock of high voltape electricity crackled through Morelli's slen der body, two of his friends fail ed in an attempt to help him b'-nak out of the Cook county Jail. Ervllle L. Burdlck, 22, and Dominlck J. De Maria, 20, were seized oursld? the Cook county Jail and confessed they planned to smuggle hacksaws and a gun to the condemned prisoner. Under Illinois law. the vouths cou'd be given the same sentence as the man they sought to free. flaying O' Severe Storm Strikes Coast; Snow Possible Seattle, Nov. 26 (IP) A gale driven storm front struck the. north Pacific seaboard today, drenching lowlands with heavy rain and covering the Cascades with a fresh mantle of snow. Winds exceeding 60 miles an hour were recorded at Tatoosh. Wash. Gusts of 45 miles an hour whipped down the Strait of Juan de Fuca into Puget sound. The 1,000 mile-long storm front moved out of the Pacific at ap proximately 35 miles an hour and advanced steadily towards Mon tana and Idaho. All of Washington state, west ern Oregon and British Columbia were lashed by the rain-laden winds. The weather forecaster here said "blizzard conditions are entirely possible in the higher elevations of the Cascades. The lirst report of snowfall came irom btampede pass, Wasn. Will Continue Weather officials forecast steady rain "and strong winds for the week end, probably continu ing well into next week. Center of the storm was approximately 500 miles west oi British Columbia. The coast guard and harbor pa trol this morning said they had received no reports of damage and no vessels had been reported missing. But Royal Canadian air force air-sea rescue units at Vancouver, B.C., were on the lookout for the , 75-foot fishing vessel Sal mons, missing dlf the British .Columbia coast on a voyage from Juneau, Alaska. It was not known how many men were aboard. Meanwhile, the squally weather was expected to curtail search for an air force C-54 cargo car rier and its crew ol six which van ished five days ago on a routine navigational flight from Mc Chord Field, Wash., to Portland. Ground teams were scheduled to continue a systematic check of mountain terrain in southwest ern Washington. Confession Made In Idaho Murder Lewiston, Ida., Nov. 26 U George Jensen, 47, was scheduled to be arraigned and make a plea to a first degree murder charge in district court here today in connection with the bar shooting which caused the death of two men Thursday night. Prosecutor Earle Morgan said, however, that Jensen was charg ed only with the death of Charles Lemmons, 70, Lewiston. John Hendley, 31, Clarkstcn, Wash., also was killed. A man named by Jensen as his lookout and driver of the escape car had not yet been charged nor identified, although he admitted he had been Jensen's accomplice, Morgan said. The two men were captured In a Lewiston hotel only a few blocks from the scene of the shooting after a three-state alarm had been sent out. No Re-iUtance Police were led to the hotel by a Lewiston man who said he sold a .38 caliber revolver to a man last Tuesday. Jensen was found lying on a bed end surrendered meekly although a gun was found only a few feet away, Morgan reported. Mrs. Gladys Keller told police Lemmons and Hendley were ed while attempting to protect her from a man wearing a white mask who entered Chuck's bar where she worked at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday night. She said the 1 the new rectory of St. Francis man pointed a gun at her, but; Catholic parish in Bend on Sun didn't say a word. Ulay, according to information "Lemmons shouted 'You can't: from the Capuchin fathers, in do that to her' and moved toward charge of the parish. The open the man with the gun," Mrs. Kcl-, house Sunday will be from 3 p.m. ler said. j to 7 p.m. "The robber fired two shots. Earlier this week a number of hitting Lemmons once In the priests from the Baker City dio stomach. Then he put Lemmons 'cese visited the parish and were in a small closet behind the barJ guests here over the Thanksgiv I called the police." j ing holidays. Hendley then lunged at the Occupied a few weeks ago, the bandit and tried to wrestle with rectory was under construction him but was shot through the; chest. He died almost Instantly, Mrs. Keller said the killer ran toward the door wtthout taking any money and turned and point ed the gun at some 10 people In side. He pulled the trigger twice but the gun only clicked as If it were empty. u Judge Allen Makes Report Vn business Transacted At Oregon Counties Session A number of resolutions nertaininor to sneinl fitB and the welfare program in the state were passed last week by the Association of Oregon Counties, which met in rortianu, l. Alien, Deschutes county judge, reported today. ; Allen and county commissioners E. E. Varco and A. E. Stevens attended the Portland session of the association. This next week Allen plans to iro to Chicairo. 111., for thB ennvpntinn fof the national association of county officers, lie is chalr- rtian of the association's so cial security and welfare com mittee. Changes Favored In one of the resolutions passed at the Portland meet ing it was recommended that so cial security regulations be amended so that voluntary in mates of hospitals operated by counties would be eligible for fed eral funds. Under current regula tions only those persons In need ol aid who are confined in pri vate hospitals are eligible for fed eral aid grants. .A second resolution recom mended federal aid participation in the counties' financed pro grams of foster home care for children. Present regulations pro vide for federal aid to dependent children but in cases where chil dren are put in foster homes no federal aid is made available. Action Requested 'In a third resolution the asso ciation asked that the state wel fare commission speed up action, or make it possible for counties to speed up action, on the new relative responsibility law. Allen stated that there are nu merous cases in Oregon, counties where legally-responsible and fl-naiiclally-able relatives tare- fall ing to provide for needy members of their families. He explained that the counties are now awaiting word from the state welfare commission as to what legal action can be taken to force financially-able relatives to fulfllll their responsibility. Seek Clarification All county courts also were asked at the Portland session to cooperate fully with the associa tion's Interim welfare committee which will attempt this coming year to work over the state wel fare program for the purpose of claruying its many ramllications. The association received the as surance of Forrest E. Cooper, counsel for public land counties. that it will be represented at ma jor Columbia valley authority hearings held here, and its views on amendments to section 13 of the proposed CVA bill will be presented. Section 13 of the proposed bill deals with the subject of taxes. It will be recalled that county governments in the Columbia val ley basin this past spring took a stand neither for nor against CVA generally, but did Indicate interest in the tax features of the bill. Amendment Favored County governments In the ba sin favor amendment of that sec tion of the bill so that they will be assured federal funds in lieu of taxes In the event that the pro posed CVA program Is Inaugural ed, it was explained. As now written the bill pro vides for the introduction of the benefit-offset theory of taxation of federal property. In other words, the benefits flowing from the property as computed by the authority, may exceed the tax lia bility. Open House Set SFor New Rectory An open house will be held at since last spring. The new build ing, on Lava road adjacent to at.! ! rands Catholic church, occupies the site where the pioneer rectory stood since early days. Father William Coughlan is In charge of the local parish, with Father Vincent Kerwick as his assistant. . Army Cascade Passes Still Snowless, Despite Storm Despite a new storm sweeping in from the north Pacific and lashing the western coast, high passes of the Oregon Cascades remained snowless today, with rain falling in the high country early this morning. Local Interest In the road conditions was near a high point for the season to day, because of the number of students home for the Thanks giving holidays. Tomorrow there will be a gen eral migration of students west ward over the Cascades routes, to Eugene, Corvallis and Portland. If the present storm follows the pattern of past late November dis turbances, snow may fall In the mountains as the tail end of the storm hits the Oregon country. However, ii4-hour forecasts do not indicate that any snow Is in ,the immediate off Ing. .;. )Flan Special BuHeR - - The migration 'of students over the mountains tomorrow will be by bus and by car. Trailways -officials announced today that in order to care for the students, special buses will leave from the local station at 6:30 p.m. Sunduy, via Redmond and the Santlam pass. One of the buses will go into Eugene and the other will go to Albany, for the convenience of O.S.C. students. Arrival of the bus In Eugene has been set for 11 p.m. Sunday night. Buses will also leave for western Oregon over the Santiam on regular schedule Sunday, at 2:30 p.m. It Is believed that the number of Bend students attending col lege this fall is the greatest in history. New Conferences On Coal Slated Washington, Nov. 26 Ui The government hHs held s:;crcr joint conferences with John L. Lewis and major northern coal produc ers In an effort to head off a new coal strike, It was learned today. Federal mediation chief Curtis Chlng met yesterday with the United Mine Workers president and Frank Amos, chairman of the northern operators' bargaining committee. They canferrcd se cretly for three hours In a hotel room in Winchester, Va. It is not known, however, how much progress was made on 'a new contract for the coal fields. The deadline for a new coal strike Is midnight next Wednes day, Ching returned here lalr yes terday and was ready ro report on the Winchester meeting to John K. Steeltnan, President 1 ru man's assistant. The Winchester meeting is re ported to be only one of a series of such conferences. Face Saving Sought Ching went to Virginia earlier this week for what his office call ed "a bri"f resr." When he left Ihe capital, Chlng told newsmen he felt there was nothing more he could do In the long deadlocked coal dispute. But, Informed sources said Ching has held more confernces with Lewis and the coal opera tors while "resting" than he die' while "working." Whar the government Is trying to do is get Lewis and the coal operators back Into bargaining. Th"re have been no formal oar- - gaining conferences between the mine workers and the operators j0r more than five weeks, Government labor experts re portedly have been urging west ern and northern coal operators to invite Lewis to resume nego tiations and thus give Lewi3 a face-saving device. er General Taylor Appearance Betore Russians, Demands Sentry Berlin, Nov. 26 (U.P) Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor personally protested to Russian headquarters today against the shooting of a U. S. air force sergeunt, denouncing the killing as an act of "senseless brutality" by a soviet sentry. The U. S. commandant in Berlin demanded that the killer be punished immediately, and that steps be taken to assure that henceforth "Russian sentries will be controlled in the irresponsible use of their- weapons. The slain soldier was Staff Sgt. John E. Staff of Ramsey, 111. He was shot through the head last night at a Russian checkpoint on the zonal bor der in Berlin. Two other Ameri can soldiers and a German girl in the car with him were uninjured. Asked Directions Taylor said Staff was killed by a soviet sentry while riding in a plainly marked official car ol the U. S. air force. The soldier drove up to the checkpoint to ask direc tions. Witnesses said he was di rected to drive into the soviet sector, but instead turned around and started back into the British sector. Four shots were fired, and Staff slumped dead over the wheel. Taylor took the unusual step of going personally to Russian head quarters to deliver his letter of protest. He was told that the sov iet commandant, Maj. Gen. Alex ander Kotikov, was 111 and could not see him. The protest was de livered to Col. Alexi Yelisarov. - Taylor - said Staff was shot when he turned his1 sedan" around and started to "return peaceably toward the center of .Berlin, adding-: "It is difficult to understand the senseless brutality of a sentry who would fire upon a member of the armed forces of a friendly nation under such circumstances. "I trust you will appreciate the seriousness with which the Unit ed States authorities view this act, and will take Immediate steps to punish the offender. First Official Word "I shall appreciate being kept informed of the action taken not only to punish this crime but also to assure that in the future Rus sian sentries will be controlled In the irresponsible use of their weapons." Taylor's statement was the first oficial word that a Russian sentry had fired the fatal shot. Earlier today Investigators said they did not have positive proof on this score, two Russian sol diers and a German policeman were on duty at tile checkpoint. But Taylor's protest said that "according to the lnlormation have received" the soldier "was fired upon and killed by a soviet sentry." Staff died in the British mili tary hospital in the Gatow district of Berlin soon after lie was ad mitted. WOMAN RAPED, SLAIN Pittsburgh, Nov. 2(i UIiAn at tractive 30-year-old woman was raped and beaten to death with a beer bottle last night within 200 yards of her home In Pitts burgh's Shadyside district. Flnr huttpriwl hoftv Wn found shortly after 8 a. m. today by a milkman after an all-night police "caused tne mosr serious hiia seaich failed to locale her. I lety" to the French government. Attend Chicago Ball Studio photos J. L. Jones, Tumalo, left, and Mary Ann Kiesow, of near Bend, represent Deschutes county 4-H clubbers at an exposition being sponsored by the organization this week in Chicago, 111. Jones, long active In 4-H club work In the county, is one of two official chaperones accompanying the Oregon clubbers. Miss Kiesow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kiesow, of the Glen Vista district. geant Makes Direct Be Punished Panama Police Chiefs Ousted a M m m 1 i auunia, iiuv. ;o nr ur. ir- nulfo Arias early today forced the resignations of the police, chiefs who only 24 hours earlier had proclaimed him Panama's third president In six days. His action was expected to si lence most of the remaining oppo sition to his assumption of the presidency, in one of the slick est bloodless coups in the nation's history. - , - Arias announced in a formal communique that police chiefs Jose A. Remon, Bolivar Vallar Ino and Satumino Flores had "spontaneously" offered their res- But veiy reliable sources said mat me inree cnieis nanaea in their resignations only after Arias sent them an ultimatum .Un, V. . ..1.1 1 I ll4. ly and plunge the country again into chaos, unless they quit. '" Criticism Involved 1 There had been mounting criti cism of the police Panama's army since they forced the res ignation of President Dr. Daniel Chanis Jr. at gunpoint last Sun day and installed as his successor Vice-President Roberto F. Chiari. The supreme court ruled Thursday night that Chanis still was legal president of Panama because he had resigned only un der duress. Remon refused to ac cept the ruling, however, and in a quick switch announced that Arias was president and should have been since the May 9, 1948 election. 1 An electoral Jury recounted the 1948 votes and, sure enough, found that Arias actually was the winner because some of the votes declared invalid at the time really were valid. His legal claim to the presi dency established, Arias went to the national assembly yesterday, won a majority vote and was sworn in. MORE ARRESTS MADE Paris, Nov. 26 UPi Polish secur ity police have arrested the French vice consul and two em bassy employes in Warsaw In reprisal for the seizure of Poles in France, the Polish embassy here announced today. The announcement followed a disclosure by the French Interior ministry that a total of 26 Poles had been ousted from France in the last week for "economic and social sabotage." Franco sent a sharp note to Poland today charging that the activity of Polish organizations j in France for a long time had 4-H Exposition
