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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1949)
Ortgon HUUflctl Soeltty Fubllo Aiittoriu THE BEND BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Mostly cloudy with occasional showers, mostly snow Saturday. Cooler Sat urday. High 42 to 52 today and 38 to 48 Saturday. Low tonight 25 to 35. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 34th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1949 No. 16 School Christmas Concert Lost Night Acclaimed as Outstanding Program 11 U. S. Air Force Fliers Killed Plane 9fi Jfc 9 ffi In Crash of 4 -Engine r -I m m m K ij I I.T, "i' it . i I -i 1 tV i' IV, 4W Ug' A capacity crowd last night In the high school gymnasium was generous with npplause for the high .school singers and Instrumental ists who presrnli'd the music department's fourteenth untiuiil Christmas program. The miiroon stage curtains provided a rich back ground (or two huge "snowmen ' thin dunked a stage where tableaux and colored slides provided eye appeal. Pictured above is one of the seven tableaux. depicting the three wise men. Hirlniyed by Ken Wood, George Shipley and Jim Michel. In the foreground is the high school orchestra, with the girls' senior choir in hack. At t lie left and right are portions of the Junior choir and the a cappella choir, respectively. In charge of music production were Don I', Pence, director of music education. Joseph T. Haugcn and Grant E. Mathews. Miss Grace Mary l.lnn was director for the tableaux, assisted by Mrs. C'iaudine Russell. Truck RlinS Wild Through Town; 2 Persons Killed Cherokee. Ia IVe. 23 Uli . A giant truck ran wild down a steep Idll and killed two ix-rsons. In jured five, and smashed 21 niiio mobiles as It whlplashcd through seven blocks of the town's main business district. The truck. Its brakes useless and lis transmission ripped out. scattered autos like tenpins as It plowed through the street crowd ed with Christmas shopcrs yes terday. It was "almost miraculous," Police chief Art Locke said to, day, that the toll of dead anil in jured was not higher. He said piopertv damage would total $10,. 000 oi$I5,(XX). "I never say anything like It," I-ocko said. "There were metal anil auto parts strewn for a block and n half." The truck driver, noli Wltte of Sac City, la., crawled out unhurt after his vehicle finally plowed to a halt atop the wreckage of the first car It struck In Its wild rampage. It had shoved the wrecked car ahead of It for a block and a half, Locke said. 2 Die Insluntly Dead in the wreckage "of that car were Hay Hansen, 30, and Jeffrey Harry, 40, both of Chero kee. Thuy apparently died In stantly, police said, when the truck loaded with n seven-ton bulldozer struck their car as It approached an Interscctlo.i. The truck driver said he was halfway down a hill north of Cherokee when the "hydraulic fluid in the brakes failed." He tried to shift into low, but strip-, ped the gears. "From there on," he said, "I didn't have any brakes or any other means of stopping the truck. ' "I didn't think of Jumping, I Jusl decided to ride II out," he said. "Happened so fast I didn't know what I was doing." F.B.I. ENTKKS CASE Detroit, Dec. 23 till-The F.B.I, today announced an "all-out" search to hunt down the would bo dynamiters of the CIO United Auto Workers international head quarters. "This is It," a Jusl lee depart ment spokesman said In Washing ton. "The F.B.I. is In the case. up to the hilt." Buy Christmas feus' 1 Human Guinea From Life Prison Sentence, As State's Christmas Gift Sing; Sine; Prison, N.Y., Dee, 2!l (U.P.I Life termer Louis Boy, 60, who risked his life lis n human guinea pj to serve witinco and Immunity, vttlk'rl briskly through the (rates of this prison today a free num. First he shook hands with the warden. "This is a very merry Christmas for me," he said. Hut the wife who prayed daily for his freedom for 18 years wan not at the sates to greet him. She revealed she had given up his ease as "hopeless" live years ago, and remarried. Gov, Thomas K, Dewey or- dered Hoy's release on a life parole because he voluntarily acted as a human guinea pit; In a dangerous medical experi ment to save the life of an eight-yeiu'-old girl suffering cancer of the blood (leukemia). He allowed doctors to exchange his healthy okkhi lor ner diseased moon, a fll...l ... L.nt ill.. Ollll.l'u Win I.I It Hoy survived. . i Frequent Volunteer He also volunteered In 1912 for the first use of the malaria rem edy, iitabrlne. on a human being, anil In 19I3 volunteered to test an Influenza vaccine. Hoy's death sentence for his participation in a hold up murder was commuted to a life term in 1932. He will spend -Christmas with his son, Joseph, 21, and n married daughter, Kleanor, 23. Ills wife, Josephine, .15. In New York, revealed her marriage yes terday to Joseph Corrcntl, a Brooklyn truck driver, when she received the news that her for mer husband' had been freed. Mrs. Corrcntl said she would not meet Hoy at the prison gates but hoped to see him during the Christmas holidays. She said she decided to marry again despite her belief in Hoy's Innocence be cause struggling to support their two children was ruining her health. Everything seemed "hope less." she said. Kept Secret Boy knew of her second mar riage, which has been a happy one, Mrs. Correntl said, but she anil her husband kept it a secret from authorities in fear of hurt ing his chances for freedom. Her second marriage was permissible without divorce or annulment be cause state law provides that n person sent to prison for life Is legally dead. Hoy was not present nt the scene of the murder for which he was convicted and sentenced to the electric chair July 9, 1931. He was charged with providing guns to three holdup men who killed n cashier at a garage, and was convicted as an accessory. llOAD CLOSED DAILY Portland, Dec. 23 lilt The Ore gon state highway commission today advised motorists traveling the water-grade Columbia river highway that the road -would be closed at. Bonneville at 12:30 p.m. dally lor about 30 minutes for the next few weeks. A commission spokesman said the highway department was blasting at McChord creek and Tanner creek near Bonneville and that rocks and debris would block the highway for about 30 minutes each day until the work Is completed. Pig' Released New Redmond Hospital Board Holds Meeting Redmond. Dec. 23 'Ilie newly electee! board of directors of the c,miri n,-., hn...u,.i .-1.W.1 .,J..,v iii-iu us in si Hireling nere lues- day afternoon and drew lots' for staggering their terms of office. The five-year term was drawn by Hoyd Simmons; the four-year term by J. VV. Schrunk: the three year by Lester Houk, two by Gayie IJartel and the one-year term by Chester Lackey. The group elected Simmons as chairman of the board; Lester Houk, secretary, and Gayle Bar lei treasurer. Regular meetings of the hoard will be held the first Monday of each month at 8 p.m. The group will make a thor ough study of the possibility of federal aid. and will make a trip to Prineville to study details of the new hospital there. Gerald Scott, a Portland architect, will meet with the hoard at the next session. The board will make a list of Individuals who they will ask to meel with the group as advisers. ' Klamath Quake Merely Blast , Klamath Falls, Dec. 23 (111 Residents south of here reported to police they felt an earthquake yesterday al 11:55 a. m., but of ficials at (he Weyhaeuser lumber plant at Keno, said today, a dynamite blast was set off at 11:55 a, m, yesterday. Keno, five miles south of here, Is In the general area where un clergiound volcanic formations have caused a number of tem blors In recent years. It was regarded as likely that residents both, heard the dyna mite blast, and felt and heard the temblor that followed min utes later. No damage was reported caus ed by the earth disturbance. The temblors are of a nature that only the Immediate area south of here feel them when they occur. KEG EXPLODES, MAN DIES Camden, N.J., Dec. 23 (111 John Kmlcic, 55, was killed early today when a beer keg exploded as he was trying to tap It at a Christmas party. Cleveland Strike Creates Problem For Pedestrians Cleveland, O., Dec. 23 tPiThe Cleveland transit board today or dered striking transit workers back to work by tomorrow morn ing and said all drivers would be given policevprotec;lon if neces sary. Mayor Thomas A. Burke, an gered by the pre-Chrlstmas strike that tied Cleveland In one of its worst traffic snarls in history, said If the strike was not ended by next Tuesday he would call out the national guard to get streetcars and buses running again. Burke said In a statement "there will be no John L. Lewis in Cleveland so long as I am the mayor." Most officials who attended a meeting today of the transit sys tem and the striking Amalgamat ed Association of Street. Electric Hallway and Motor Coach Em ployes (AKL) predicted the crip pling strike would end tonight or tomorrow morning. Conference Held Burke conferred with Governor Frank Lausche concerning possi ble use of the national guard next week, but said he was "optimis tic" about a quick settlement. Local union president Thomas Meaney added that the "picture definitely is brighter." Both sides emerged from the meeting with umpire David Ralph Hertz claiming victory over the disputed vacation issues which sent the 5000 operators on strike. Hertz said a minimum vacation pay of 88 and 80 houis had been established for operative and non operative employes respectively. Mayor Thomas Burke mean while, invoked "emergency pow ers'! to provide ti'ansportation for some half a million riders strand ed by the strike. He suspended a city ordinance prohibiting suburban and inter urban bus lines from doing bus iness in the city and invited them to carry passengers within the city limits. Burke declared t ie nation's iixth largest city i,i a "state of emergency when 5,000 members of the Transit Union (AFL) walked out yesterday demanding tow-week vacations with pay. Traffic Januned All available patrolmen were ordered to duty to prevent a re currence of a record traffic Jam of private automobiles yesterday that blocked highways for miles into the suburbs. Burke condemned union lead ers for the strike which hit the city at the height of the Christ mas rush. "I hate to see the labor move ment get a black eye' because of the action of a few selfish, arro gant labor officials," Burke said, The walkout has been assailed as "unauthorized" by the Cleveland federation of labor (AF'L) of which transit local 268 is a member. Gilchrist Co. High Bidder For Timber The Glichrlsl Timber Co. was successful bidder on a large tract of pondcrosa pine timber located In the rremont national forest. which was sold at auction this morning in Lakeview, under the direction of Merle S. Lowden, for est supervisor. I he Gilchrist company, repre sented by F. W. Gilchrist, offered per thousand board feet on the tract, which is composed oi an estimated' 8,ou,uu0 board feet of pine. he tin-.uer is lo cated in the Skookum butte area of the forest. The next best offer of S22.25 was made by the only other bid der, The ShevlLn-Hixon Company, Bend, which was represented by W. H. Myers. Well Over Minimum Also included in the sale of the large tract of pine was an unes tlmated amount of lodge-pole pine and other species which sold for $1 per thousand board ('eet to the Gilchrist firm. The offer of $22.50 per thou sand board feet on the pine was $5.15 more than the stipulated minimum sale price of $17.35. The sale also includes cooper ative deposits for timber stand Improvement at 50 cents per thousand board feot, and slash disposal at 40 cents per thousand board feet. The sale opened today at the minimum sale price of S17.35 for the pine and $1 for lodge pole a wo coiner species j : Also present at today's sale were George L. Conklin, cruiser for The Shevlin-Hixon Company, and J. P. Applewhite, of the Gil christ Timber Company. Oral bids also were to be re ceived today at 2 o'clock in the office of the Fremont forest su pervisor, Lakeview, an merchant able timber in an area embrac ing about 90 acres in the Fre mont forest, estimated to cut 3.200.000 board feet. Both con tenders in this morning's auction were expected to bid this after noon. FREAK WRECK FATAL Redding, Calif., Dec. 23 IP Mrs. Ernest Harmon, 68, Yreka. died here today from head in juries suffered in a freak auto mobile accident yesterday near Lamoine, Calif. The woman was injured when the car in which she, was riding, driven by her husband, skidded off an ice-covered U.S. highway 99, plunged down a 75-foot em bankment and landed on the top of a car owned by James Morris, 28. Sacramento. Morris' car had skidded off the road Just 15 minutes earlier and was empty at the time. Morris was not injured. Santa Claus Makes Local Visit 4 .SIS '"V bania ciaus received a warm welcome from local youngsters yes-' terday and today, when he dlst-'buted candy and listened, to re quests for toys, at his headquarters near the lighted tree on the post office grounds. It was estimated that yesterday, 900 to 1,000 children stood in line to see Jolly old St. Nick. Pictured above is Lois Kay Spivey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spivey, 22 Lafay ette, receiving her box of candy from the wea known old fellow from the north. Santa was at the tree both days from 2 to 4 p.m. He will be available by telephone todiy from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., and children who want to tell him In person what they'tHike for Christmas may do so, Just by taking the telephone off the hook and BBklng for "Santa Claus." Santa will make calls on shut-ins again in the early evening, when he finishes answering the phone calls. Prospects Dim for White Christmas in Bend Region; Storm Brings Warm Weather Prospects for a "white Christmas" in Bend diminished to day, with forecasts that continued mild weather even might bring rain to this area. Gales off the coast and heavy rainfall in the Willamette valley prevailed this morning, according to United Press reports. Most of the recent snowfall had disappeared in Bend this afternoon, except in more sheltered spots. All highways ex cept McKenzie and east and west Diamond lake secondary , ioads were open to travel. The M fl I o New tamper Directors Named In Voting Today Six new directors today were elected to serve two-year terms, beginning Jan. 1, 1950, on the board of the Bend chamber of commerce, officials of the organ ization announced this morning. Named to board seats in the election, in which 206 ballots were cast are: A. J. Glassow, general manager of Brooks-Scan-lon, Inc.; Maurice Hitchcock, op erator of the Bend Hardware Co.; Carl E. Erickson, operator nf Erickson's Food market; Kessler Cannon, announcer for radio sta tion KEND; Ben Fanning, man ager of the local branch of the U. S. National bank of Portland, and Pat Cashman, operator of Cashmans, Inc. Other candidates in the elec tion which was termed "a close race" by chamber officials in cluded:', A. Wilson Benold, R. J. (Mannheimer. Jack Halbrook. Wll- 'red Jossy, George Ritchie Jr.-, and D. J. Ward. The new directors will replace the following board members whose terms expire at the first (Continued on Page 5) 3-Car Accident Causes Damage Two parked cars and one driv en by Dr. Max Hemingway, 1661 W. 5th street, were damaged Thursday shortly after 10 p.m., when Hemingway's automobile, traveling west on Newport ave nue, crashed into vehicles parked on the north side of Newport, east of the Newport bridge. Cars registered to Walter G. Coombs and Dr. George M. Blinn were damaged. The left side of the Blinn car was badly denied, and a crumpled left rear fender was the extent of the damage to the Coombs car. Hemingway said that a tire of his car blew out, causing the automobile to swerve towards the curb. Hemingway was treated for a facial bruise. iSantiam pass has spots of ice and 54 inches of roadside snow. An inch of new snow fell over the pass last night. The gale along the Oregon coast reached 50 miles an hour at times, this morning, causing ships to stand off the Columbia river bar, awaiting calmer weath er for crossing, press reports re- laiea. Bend's ice rink, on Bond street, is completely out of service, as a result of the thaw. No further attempts will be made to restore it until the weather becomes colder, it was explained. . Portland Has Rain Portland, Dec. 23 UPi A large scale rainstorm, accompanied by rising temperatures, today ush ered in a wet and moderately warm Christmas week end in the Pacific northwest. The U.S. weather bureau or dered storm warnings along the Oregon and Washington coast line, starting at 7 a.m. The bureau forecast southwesterly winds 30 to 40 miles per hour. Except for mountainous areas and some colder districts of east ern Oregon and Washington, there appeared little likelihood of a white Christmas near most of the principal population centers. mere was general rain over the valley areas of Oregon and Washington Thursday night and Friday. The prediction was for a change to showers Saturday, with slightly lower temperatures. Portland had a minimum of 47 degrees this morning, only two degrees below Thursday's maxi mum. Rainfall totaled .53 of an inch in the city and .65 .at the airport. There was one exception in the generally mild -weather pattern. The mercury dipped to seven de grees at Klamath Falls. New port was the wettest reported sta tion in Oregon, with 1.06 inches. Aberdeen and North Head on the Washington coast reported winds up to 40 miles an hour. Cold In Midwest Chicago, Dec. 23 iU A cold air mass leaped the ADDalachians and pushed east and south across the Atlantic seaboard today, chas ed, by a new blast from the Arc tic that promised much of the midwest a cold white Christmas. The wave of cold air was Dush- lng seaward a warm air blanket which gave the eastern third of the nation unseasonably mild weather while the remainder of the country suffered in ice, snow and cold. New cold wave warnings, is sued for western Nebraska and South Dakota today, threatened to prolong the wintry soell in the midwest and prevent the ice siaze that sheeted many commu nities from melting before Christ mas. At Cleveland, O., where ther mometers registered a record De cember 22 high of 63, the mercury nose-dived to 27 degrees early to day. New York City, which also re corded a record high 59 yes terday, was due to have tempera tures in the low 40's this after noon. However, the U.S. weather bu reau at Chicago said the cold front was moderating as it shoved toward New England and fioriaa, and temperature drops were expected to be less marked as the front moved east and south. Temperatures plunged to 21 de grees below zero early today at Pembina, N.D., and International Falls, Minn. POPULATION GROWING Washington, Dec. 23 IW The population of the United States has passed the 150,000,000 mark a new record. The census bureau estimated today that the total population, Including armed forces overseas. was 150,183,000 on November 1. That is 14.1 per cent above the 131,669,275 persons enumerated on April 1, 1940, in the last offi cial nation-wide census. Population, excluding armed forces overseas, on November 1 was estimated at 149,716,000, and the civilian population In the con tinental United St.ites was 148,-747,000. Tragedy Hits As Christmas Leave Awaited Savannah, Ga., Dec. 23 dW Eleven air force fliers Jncluding Rogers Hornsby Jr., son of the famed baseball player, were killed last night when a four-engine plane crashed and exploded in a geyser of flames in coastal marshes near here, the air force announced today. Chatham air force base dis closed the list of crewmen aboard the ill-fated plane as the search for bodies proceeded In the muck and saw grass of abandoned rice fields seven miles northeast of Savannah. The B-50 a modified version of the B-29 fortress crashed just five minutes after taking off from the Chatham base on a routine Christmas training flight to Texas. The resulting explosion ripped a 75 square foot crater in the boglands. The plane's fuel load of between 7,000 and 8,000 gallons of high octane gasoline cascaded from the tanks when it plunged to earth and spread a river of fire over a wide area, hampering ef forts to reach the wreckage. All Married Young Hornsby did not follow ' in his father's baseball footsteps, choosing the air force for his first love. He did play some am ateur baseball, however. High tide covered the scene at 11 a. m. but the search for bodies went on. Air force officers who supervised the operation were called from a Christmas party last night. One officer still wore his tuxedo beneath dungarees. Another had on his full dress uni form. Weary air force men, soaking wet from struggling through murky swamp water up to their arm pits, worked through the night and morning. The men aboard the plane were identified as: Capt. George V. Searingen, pilot, and aircraft commander, Columbia, S. C. Capt. Andrew G. Walker, pilot, Norfolk, Va. Hornsby, a first lieutenant, navigator, Denison, Tex. First Lieut. Robert W.' Beck man, bombardier, Birmingham, Ala. Capt. A.nthony C. Colandro, ra dar navigator, Baltimore, Md. First Lieut. James W. John son Jr., flight engineer, Wells, W. Va. Tech. Sgt. Leonard B. Hughes, flight engineer, Denison, Tex. Staff Sgt. Fred W. Cunning ham, radio operator and gunner, New Orleans, La. Staff Sgt. Manson L. Gregg, . gunner. Meadow, Tex. Stan Sgt. uarnell w. Myers, gunner, rranklin, lnd. Staff Sgt. Billy c. Bristol, gun ner, Tucson, Ariz. Body of Lost Skier Discovered Bakersf ield, Calif., Dec. 23 (IP Deputy sheriffs combing the 6,000 foot Tehachapi mountains for skier James Camp, 14, today found his body when the sun melted the snow In the area where the youth disappeared Sun day afternoon. Sheriff John Loustalot, coordi nating operations of more than 250 volunteers hunting the miss ing youth, said he believed the boy died of exposure. A party of 20 searchers In Kelso valley, 42 miles northeast of here, radioed that the body appeared when melted snow uncovered Camp, clad in blue Jeans and a denim Jacket. Loustalot said full details were not avalibale due to poor commu nications. Camp separated frur.i a party of skiers five days ago wi?i-n he left a camp fire saying, "I'm go ing on a little skiing jaunt of my own." A radio appeal by Mrs. J. R. Camp, of Loraine, Calif., enlisted the support of many ranchers and Kern county residents as well as a helicopter and six planes from Inyokern naval air station to Join the hunt for her son. More than a dozen bands of rescue workers burned all-night bonfires to attract the youthful skier. But last night searchers held out little hope Camp would survive the sub-freezing tempera tures and snow laden winds which swept the range.
