The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, December 24, 1949, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBEND " BULLETIN . State Forecast Oregon Sunday fair with increasing cloudinecs. Cold er tonight. High both days 32-42. Low tonight 10-20 but near zero in higher valleys. Decreasing winds tonight. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 34th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1949 No. 17 term Takes Heavy Toll Throughou THE k State Workers Defy Mayor's Edict At Cleveland t IcvHand, ()., !.(. 'J I '111 K'Jini" 2.IMM) striking transit work. on today veiled In cimiIImiic ni'VHiinil' crippling 1 1 unsptu I a linn strike. The workers cherrcd President 1'Iioiiiiih Mi'ii !)' of I hi- A 1 1 n 1 1 k i i -milled Ahscii IuI Iuii (if Street, Wit trie Hallway ami Motor Coach l-.'mIi-yi' l.'nlnn (AFI.) when lie lolil n parked union hall lhal "lie wan I li ed of bring pimlied n roil nil." Union leaders Indicated they saw no early end to the three day Millie lhal ban lied up pro I'hrl.stimui Unfile In downtown Cleveland. As a result of the workers' de. cinlnn Mayor Thomas Hurke wan I'Xpeeled lo lake drastic steps lo provide some noil of IranNpoitie lion for Home half a million Htpiniled bus and slreelear riders. llurkp said earlier that if the hi l ike did not end at Hie union mass meeting he would make n "hold move" today to provide trunsKirtatlon. - Mny ( all Out Guard He said before the meelhiK he would provide poller protection "It necessary" to gel oierntors Clear, Cold Weafher Due Here T onight ('Iriir and chilly Christmas eve went her Is In prosM'ct for ren. Hal i i'ijom, hut u new storm up' pioachhiK from vlhr Aleiilluus will moderate the temperature Sunday, ihroidlng to forisasts from the dlslikl office In Poll li'.'id. Ill I if ml thr forecast was wel comed hy Ice skaters, who were again using Kymnns rink, acro's lloiid mi i !(! from the high school tennis court, this morning follow. Ing ii low last nli.'hl ol 2H de. giccs. Use of the rink laler this iiflernoon will entirely di-H-nd on temperature, hut If forecasts for colder wealher materialize the rink will he In general use this rvrnlni;, It was announced from the recreation department. Kuln, Know ! nil Yesterday's 42degrce lempera Hire ami sllff, moisture laden winds temporarily ruined thr sun face of the rink yesterday, hut lots were refloodrd last night un der l he HUervlslon of Myron II. Xymnns. The Friday storm yielded .15 of an Inch of moisture. In thr form of ruin and snow, In Hend, and the ground was white this morn lu. High winds were general In central Oregon yesterday, and some damage to outdoor Christ mas decorations- resulted. In I'rlnevllie. the wind tore frcm Us menu Inns an Illuminated rein- 'It Was the Night Before Christmas hack on the Joh. (loverner Frank Ulcer scene erected on the lop of Ijiusrhe hinted that he might call on the nallonal guard for help. Meaney said he put two ipics lions to the assc milled strikers. "Do you favor going l"'k to work under the present condi tions, and dn you favor remain on strike?" Ili1 said the answer lo the first was "no" and there was a "thunderous 'yes' " to the second. The Cleveland transit hoard went Into Immediate session to consider what measures to take, and Meaney called a meeting f his executive hoard to plot the union's moves. Meaney said the decision of the workers was dur to their rage at Mayor llurke for ordering them hack to work under threat of calling out the police and nallon al guard. "Hurke wan Is to put a shotgun it our harks, while we work," he said. "This union helped elect Mayor Hurke, hut li s going to he a different story from now on." The strikers defied nn earlier backlo-work order hy the transit hoard. Not a wheel turned on the transit lines despite the order ly the hoard that the .-j.ooo strlk cis return to work last midnight or lose their Johs. the Kdijar Jordon home, Stiff winds whipped across Ihe Madras country through the day. and outdoor Christmas decora tions In lhal town also suffered. IConds were dangerously slick In the Hend area last night, nfler the tcmeralure dropped below freezing at sunset. Slate and city poller reHirted numerous minor car aerldents In Hend and vicinity, llowevei, no Injuries were reported. ii i B '4l KrU'U . r rwtflfU4 V ' t t M lilt' Til' Mimw&j trfcv -MfesM i )Jh fm-z .; Bend Guardsmen Schedule Dance Members of Co. I of the Ore gon Nallonal guard, with I.t. Hy run Kvans as comnnd'.ug officer, tonight will sponsor n Christmas eve dance In Hend's new national guard building, with proceeds lo go toward purchase of new fur niture. The pre-Chrlstmas dance is being arranged by the young guardsmen ns an annual affair, taking Ihe place of the. Christ mas Imlls formerly sponsored by Ihe Hend police department. Music for tonight's dance will he by Hud Hussell's orchestra, with dnnelnK to got under w;iy about 9:30. The dance will be held in the big pnvllllon of the now guard building. Members of I ho company, suc cessor to the unit that served in the South Pacific In Ihe war against Japan, are handling the advance sale of tickets Breathing Well Down 220 Feet Hend's "breathing well," now down 2".'0 feet, gulped deeply of chilled air last night and today was reported exhaling, apparent ly In preparation for a deep pre Christmas breath tonight. Hie well, being drilled in con nection with nn effort to locate a new supply of water for city use In the summer months, started "breathing" recently when the drill dropped into a subterranean cavity. Drilling operations have been suspended for the past sev eral days, and observers iuive had a chance to check on the Inhala tion and exhalation of the cavity. It has been discovered that on chilly nights the well inhales. As the atmosphere warms, air Hows from the well. Amateur geologists say that "breathing caves' 'are known In the Hend area, and they believe that the drill has struck one of these caverns. Expansion and con traction for the surface nlr, due to temperature changes, account for the breathing, the earth stu dents say. At the local wells, located west of town, the drill has passed through the cavity and the fissure will be blocked off with casing. Sarah Goodrich, 2, is fascinated ns "big sister" Gr.-tchen, 11, reads the familiar poetry-story about St. Nicholas and his prancing reindeer, looking on are Rachel Goodrich. 9, on the arm of the chair, and Svlvla Goodrich, 5, at right. The girls are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Alva C. Goodrich, 1642 East Eighth street. Bend Children Picture Models Models for The Bulletin's full page Christmas card of today's paper, ore children of Dr. and Mrs. Hohert L. Cutter, of the But ler road community, Susan, 7, Johnny, 5, and Tommy, 2, were busy clccornllng their Christmas treo when the picture was taken. "The stockings are hung on tho mantel with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas will soon bo there." Tho bootee would hold a Very small gift for Christie, who Is five months old today, She was playing In her crib while her brothers and sister posed for the picture. Tho photograph and full-page engraving nre by Webb Loy, of '-Tho Bulletin staff. Bodies of Airmen Remain in Swamp Savannah, Ga., Dec. 24 llt Tho bodies of six airmen remain ed In a dense Savunnuh river swamp today with the wreckage of the H fiO air force bomber that carried 11 to death. Only five bodies were recovered in n full day of searching In the muck, water nnd undergrowth Among the dead was I,t. lingers Hornshy Jr., son of the famed baseball plnyor and manager. A "swamp buggy" "flown here from Elgin Field, La., was to be sent Into the morass today In an effort to speed the recovery op oration. Search parties yesterday waded, sometimes neck deep, through the swamp. II appeared unlikely that. tho cause of Thursday night's crash would cvor be known. The plane was In fragments, most of the men burled under the surface. It crashed only five minutes after taking off from tho nearby Cha tham air force base. Holiday Deaths Get Early Start In Northwest Illy UnllrU Frail Two were killed In Oregon Christmas week-end traffic acci dents as rains, driven by brisk winds, ushered In the holidays. In Multnomah county at least 24 were injured In 60 collisions, sideswipes and rear-end bumps. Daniel Aaron Lake. 67, Port- lard, was killed Friday night when his automobile hit a box car in Portland. John Roger Smith, 65, Gresham, was killed when his car rammed the back of a Portland Motor stage which had slopped to unload. Six pedestrians and 18 drivers and passengers were counted in the Injured list In Multnomah county. Two were hurt when an automobile hit a parked freight train In Portland, tour persons were thrown from vehicles after collisions. Floyd L. Transue, 24, Oak Grove.was booked on drunk driv ing charges after police said he sideswlped six automobiles and smashed into a seventh. One man was Injured after he sideswlped three telephone poles and a fire hydrant. 1 UtEMKN MAKE RUN Bend fircmon mntlc a run Fri day at 6:28 p. m. to the Gone Carscy home, 1125 Lexington, where an oil stove had backfired. No damage was reported. Premier Bidault Wins Vote Test Paris, Dec. 24 (Hi Premier Georges Bidault won a vote of confidence by u six-vote margin !n the national assembly early to day. The 303 to 297 victory for Bi dault's coalition government was based on a weeks-long squabble over the government record 1950 budget. Tho majority was far loss than Bidault had hoped for. Many deputies who had been expected to abstain voted against mm. ine redlcal socialists, one of the par ties in his coalition, were split, half of them actually voting against the government. Next week, after a brief Christ mas recess, Bidault will hove to start blasting the $6,500,000,000 budget bill through the assembly item by item. All Indications were that It would be touch and go all the way. U. S., Yugoslavia Sign Air Agreement; Mufual Landing Rights Provided by Pact Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 24 (U.R Marshall Tito's Yugo slavia, which three years ago shot down two American planes flying over its territory, signed an air agreement with the United States today. The agreement grants American planes the right to fly over Yugoslav territory and land at Belgrade and at other civil airports. Yugoslavia gets the same rights in the U. S. zones of Ciermany and Austria. ' The agreement was another step in the improvement in re lations ' between Yugoslavia and the west, an improvement that has advanced rapidly since the break between Tito and Stalin. Three years oro, during the Paris peace conference, American-Yugoslav relations reached an all-time low when the Yugoslavs shot down the American planes. Tho then secretary of state, James F. Byrnes, threatened to take the case to the United Na tions security council if the planes' passengers were not re leased within a short time. They were released. The Yugoslavs will be allowed to discharge and pickup interna tional passengers at two specified airfields in western Germany and one in American-occupied Aus tria. The Americans will have the same rights at Belgrade's Zcmun airport. The agreement displaved how far U. S.-Yugoslav relations have Improved since 1946 when the Yu goslavs shot down two U. S. army passenger planes Willi the loss of five lives. On Aug. 9, 104G, the Yugoslavs shot down a U. S. army C-47 fly ing on a regular run from Vienna to Udine, Italy. Ten passengers were Interned for two weeks. On July 19 the Yugoslavs forced down another plane which crash ed, killing the crew. Botli planes wore flying in bad weather, und had strayed from an air corridor which the U. S. had been given permission to use. On Aug. 24, tho state depart ment announced that the Interned passengers had been released in compliance with a U. S. ultima tum threatening to take the case before the United Nations secur ity council. Tho PA A New York to Calcutta flight probably will be the sched ule involved. The agreement came Into force today and details of the new serv ice still have to be worked out by the designated American com pany. Second Timber Tract Purchased By Gilchrist Co. At an advertised sale Thursday afternoon in Lakeview, the Gil christ Timber Company bought a tract ol ponderosa pine timber lo cated in the Wickiup butte sec tion ol tne tremont lorest, at the appraised price of $15.15 per thousand board feet, plus deposit. There was no competition. The timber, estimated to be 3,200,000 board feet, is located on an area embracing about 960 acres southwest of the Horse Ranch, near the Potholes. V. H. Myers, who represented The Shevlln-Hixon Company in bidding on a larger tract in the Shookum butte area Thursday morning, was not present for the bidding on the smaller tract. Other Species Involved Gilchrist Timber Co. was the successful bidder on the Shookum butte tract, offering $22.50 per thousand board feet, 25 cents per thousand more than The Shevlln- Hixon Company's top bid. The of fer or 5..50 per thousand board feet was $5.15 "moi'e than the stipulated minimum sale price of $17.35. ' Also included in the sale of both tracts were unestlmated amounts of .white fir, lodge-pole pine and other species of sawtimber which sold for $1 per thousand board feet to the Gilchrist firm. Frank W. Gilchrist and J. P. Applewhite represented the Gil christ Timber Company at the sale. Myers, of Shevlin-Hlxon, was accompanied by George L. Conk- llnt PLANING MILL BURNS North Bend, Dec. 24 UP-Flre last night destroyed the Coos Bay Logging company's planing mill here. Loss was estimated at $30,000. Fire chief James Doytiton said a short circuit In an electric mo tor was believed the cause, Special Christmas Services Planned by Many Churches; Family Reunions Numerous With Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, many local residents will participate in Christmas eve services tonight, and Christmas Sunday services tomorrow. Hundreds of wor shippers will trek to the churches of their choice, for observ ance of the birthday of Christ, who was born nearly 1050 years ago in a Bethlehem manger. In many homes, Christmas family reunions are under way, and many local residents will hold open house or entertain informally Christmas d a y. With the holiday extending through Monday, many will take advantage of the oppor tunity to make trips to other cities. Principal public social function tonight will be the Christmas eve dance at the new armory, spon sored by Company I of the na tional guard. Midnight Masn At St. Francis Catholic church, there will be a midnight mass, ushering in Christmas. Prelimin ary to the mass tonight, there will be a procession, starting at ll:J0. Mass wili start at midnight. Spe cial music has been arranged for the yule mass, which through the years in Bend has been attended by a capacity group of worship pers. At Trinity Episcopal church, the Christmas Eucarit service will be tonight at 11 p.m. There also will be a communion service Sunday at 11 a.m., with a Christ mas sermon by Rev. Fred Wissen bach. At First Christian church, Sun day school will be at 9:45 a.m., with special music, and' church will follow at 11 a.m. Mrs. Clif ford D. Ingram will sing, and Rev. Len B. Fishback will have as his sermon topic. "Christmas Cour age." Evening services will be at 7:30 p.m., with Rev. Fishback to talk on the subject, Resolutions. Afterward, members of the Chris tian Endeavor society will go car oling, with a social hour at the home of Miss Lois Ramey, on Aworey road, to follow. Solo Programmed Christmas morning worship and sermon at Westminster Or thodox Presbyterian church will be at the usual 11 o'clock hour. Miss Kitty Moore will be soloist. Tonight at 6:30 p.m., young peo pie of Westminster church, joined by a group of young people from Alfalfa, will meet at the church to go caroling. Christmas services at First Presbyterian church will be at 11 a.m. Sunday, with Rev. Allan Philp to give the Christmas ser mon. At First Methodist church, the choir will present its program of sacred Christmas music, at the 11 a.m. service. The choir is directed by Grant E. Mathews, with Mrs. Craig Coyner as organist and Mrs. Bei-nice Towner as assist ant organist. Rev. Ross Knotts will speak on, "The Man Who Missed Christmas." At 7:30 D.m, Sunday, there will be a Christmas evening service, featuring the singing of Christmas carols and the presentation of the Christmas story in colored slides, with nar ration. After the service, young people of the church will go carol ing. Midnight Service The annual Christmas eve mid night service at First Methodist church' will start tonight at 11:15. The service portrays the Christ mas story in music, pageantry and scriptures. Young people of the church will portray the char acters in the nativity scene, and soloists will include Miss Doris Aspinwall and Mrs. Omer Zill man, vocalists, and Grant Math ews, violinist. The service closes with an impressive candle-lighting ceremony. At First Baptist church, the Bible school will meet as usual at 9:45 a.m., for the Christmas les son. At the 11 o'clock hour, the senior choir, under direction of T. D. Sexton, with Mrs. Sexton at the organ, will present a Christ mas cantata entitled,. "That Song of Old," by Holton. Sundav at p.m., a candlelight service will feature the lunior choir un. der the direction of Miss Joyce uougiass, witn a uriet Christmas sermon by the pastor, Rev. Roy m. Austin. Special Christmas day services are planned for the Alliance tab ernacle, with Arnold Newman, from Regina, Sackatchewan, as guest soloist. The entire Sunday school class will be featured In a program of songs and recitations in the an nual Christmas program to be nem at 8 p.m. Sunday In the As sembly of God church. A play titled, "To Them That Sit In Darkness," will also be presented by the young people of the con gregation. The church is located at East 2nd and Greenwood. At First Lutheran church, a Christmas service will be held at (Continued on Page 5) Trees Toppled By High Wind, Roads Blocked Bend Prepares For Observance Of 2-Day Holiday Pre-Chrlstmas activity in Bend subsided to a ripple today as the city prepared for a double holiday Sunday and Monday. Most no ticeable decrease in activity was at the post office, where work again was near normal this morn ing, after a rather light load of in coming mail was distributed. In downtown Bend business was still brisk in stores in the early aft ernoon hours, as late shoppers were accommodated. This eve ning, stores will close at the usual hours, after remaining open in evening hours through the first part of the week. Xo Paper Monday Members of The Bulletin staff will join in the double holiday, and no paper will be issued Mon day. All stores and offices, local, state and federal, will be closed Monday. At the mills, the Brooks Scanlon sawmill is closed for the holiday week. The Shevlin-Hixon Company will observe Monday as a holiday. i "The rush is over," Postmaster Farley Elliott announced today as he made a pre-check on last quarter receipts and found that up to yesterday these receipts ex- ceded those of last year by $2,792.07, with a week still re maining in the 1949 final quarter. Heavy receipts bear out the be lief that the volume of mail han dled in the Bend post office over the holidays was the heaviest since Camp Abbot days. Two deliveries of mall were be ing handled today. On Christmas day, gift packages will be deliv ered. There will be one mail de livery here on Monday, despite the fact that the day will be a general holidav m Bend. Church sendees and family din ners will highlight Christmas ac tivities in Bend tomorrow, it was indicated. The dav will be t"ie oc casion for many family reunions. Home for the holidays are scores of young peonle from Oregon and northwest colleges. Portland, Dec. 24 HP) Highway crews today were clearing the roads in the Mt. Hood area after a blizzard with winds up to 50 miles an hour felled trees, block ed highways, cut off telephone communications and caused con siderable other damage. The storm hit Government Camp about 7 p.m. Friday and In creased in intensity during the night. Highway crews were kept busy all night removing fallen trees and debris from roads. One filling tree demolished the late model car of Robert Hughes of Portland. Mrs. Hughes, who was in the car, suffered undeter mined injuries. She was taken to Portland hospital. New Snow Falls All telephone connections at Government Camp were severed last night. The forest service maintained communications, how ever, by radio. Eight inches of snow fell dur ing the night. The temperature dropped to 26 degrees. Strong gusts of wind piled huge drifts on trie Mt. Hood highway. Fower was cut off at Rhododendron. State police found an unidenti fied motorist dead under his car on the highway near Government Camp. Police said he apparently had suffered a heart attack wnne putting chains on his car. His body was taken to Oregon City. The highway to Timberline lodge was closed this morning, but forest service officials expect ed to have it opened later today. Meantime, winds and rain wash ed out hopes of a white Christmas for western Oregon. The weather bureau reported 1.07 inches of rain yesterday in Portland as storm flags flew along the Oregon -Washington coast. A short circuit, blamed on wind whipped tree branches, blacked out McMinnville for six and a half hours. A 60-mile-an-hour blast at Long Beach, Wash., wrecked the roof of one home, took out telephone lines, uprooted trees and damaged several buildings. Oregon highway spokesmen said the McKenzie pass would be plugged with snow lor the rest of the winter. Chains were advised for other mountain passes. ' COMMITTEE NAMED A language arts committee com posed of teachers and school ad ministrators from various parts of Deschutes county was formed recently for the purpose of mak ing recommendations to the state text book commission, it was re ported today. Making up the committee are: Mrs. Velma Buckingham. Miss Wilma Jacobson, Miss Mary Thompson and A. W. Nelson, of Bend: I. M. Davies, Mrs. Maudr Lee, C. R. Lindsav and H. O. Van Hise. of Redmond; Mrs. Achsah Steprns, of the Young communi ty; Mrs. Lois Erickson. of Sitters, nnd Eonnie Hol'inshead, of Terre bonne. Hungary Rejects American Demand Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 24 HP) Hungary rejected today a U. S. demand for the release of Rob ert C. Vogeler, an American in dustrialist, and announced that he had been charged with espion age, economic sabotage and "criminal activities." A Hungarian note to the Amer ican legation regarding Vogeler said the government could not re lease "spies and saboteurs," what ever their citizenship might be. Last Tuesday the United States demanded the immediate release of Vogeler, an assistant vice Dresident of the International Telephone and Telegraph com pany, at the same time it for bade further travel by Americans in Hungary. . Russia Charges 12 Japanese With Use of Bacteria in War Moscow, Doc. 24 IIP) Russia announced today the indictment of 12 Japanese army men on charges they prepared and used bacterial weapons against the Chinese in the last war on secret orders from Emperior Hirohito. The first installment of the in dictment was published in the newspaper Pravda and Izvestia, covering one full page. (Radio Moscow said the Indictment would cover two pages when complete.) (In London, western observers said the indictment apparently was Moscow's answer to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's demand that the Soviet Union release 376,000 Japanese war prisoners still held in the Soviet Union.) The Indictment cited alleged testimony from one of the de fendants. Maj. Gen. Kawasima Kiosl,,n Japanese army surgeon, that Emperor Hirohito issued secret orders In 1935 for the establishment of special bacter ial units. The indictment said that Gen. Yamada Otozoon, former com mander of the Kwantung army, testified those units under his command were prepared to use bacterial weapons against Russia and Mongolia for the mass ex termination of people and cattle. The charge alleged the Japa nese Intended to spread the germs of cholera, the black death plague, gangerene, typhus and typhoid. The Japanese were ac cused of actually experimenting with these germs against living humans, Including Soviet citizens, The indictment listed the spe cific numbers of two units train ed to manufacture germs on a large scale, to experiment with germs and to prepare special guns and planes for their distri bution. Other groups cultivated stocks of billions of lice Infected with the black death plague and pre pared to release them in central and south China, the indictment said. The charge said that the germs carried by the lice were designed to cause a painful death to mil lions of civilians of not only belligerent but also neutral countries.