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UniV. of Oregon Library fflE BEND " BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Snow showers to night and Sunday. High 10 to 15 in north portion to day. Low tonight generally zero to 10 below. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1950 No. 33 Central Area Following. Sever orm I iriftn uiDC vaaoi n f NEWS COVERAGE 34th Year Dios O Blizzard Chokes Rural Roads, Blankets Parked Cars . - ' " , 1 . , - , ' ' "' " ttiiiiim i,i .uMium iiii , ' Im'mi' ir'iiiUMiMii i. v 'itftj Yesterday's blizzard piled snow into deep drifts on rural roads, wit h a depth of 44 inches measured near the center of the route pictured above. This is a rural road to the west of highway 97, just south of B end. Below are snow-blanketed cars in downtown Bend, this morning on Louisiana jus t south of Bond. Trapper Charged With Violating Numerous Laws Wayne Negus, Crescent trap per who last week end was found in the forest service cabin at Crane prairie by a rescue party after he had been reported over due on a trip over his lines, was arrested by state police yesterday on- four different charges. The charges and the bond posted in each case follow: 1. Trapping wild animals with unbranded traps; $50 bail. 2. Unlawfully trapping beav er (in the vicinity of Crane prai rie and Cultus lake); $200 bond. 3. Using flesh of game birds for trapping animals; $100 bail 4. Unlawfully trapping martin (in the vicinity of Cow camp); $100 bail. Snow-Cat Used After Negus was reported over due in tho linrwt- npsphntpa f-nlin-. try. a partv of four. Ken Roach, i state officer; Ed Parker, Bend district ranger; Bob Eorovicka, state game commission biologist, and Henry Reed, all of the Fall river hatchery staff, went into Crane prairie on a snow-cat, where they found Negus and re turned him to his home in Cres cent. The four men then return ed to the upper Deschutes, to make an investigation and ob tained evidence that resulted in the arrest. In the high country the four men, traveling by tractor and on snow shoes, encountered a bliz zard. At one point they were six hours traveling five miles on snowshoes. Also arrested by state police was Philip LaDouscler, of Cres cent. He was accused of break ing glass In a building not his own (Fall river guard station). He told officers he entered the building to use a telephone. Hir bond was placed at 525. lhe two men were to appear n justice court here this after noon or forfeit bail, whlc1) In the case or rsegus aggregates 4o0. Southern Democrats Join Republicans in House Bloc Directed Against Truman By Frank Eleazer (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 14 (U.E) A revived coalition of northern republicans and rebellious southern democrats grabbed for control of the house today in a move to block the "fair deal" program. They claimed that a nose-count showed the house would up hold their demand to restore to the rules committee which they dominate its old life-and-death power over big money and civil rights bills approved P..- .. DM;, Various Projects In This Region An itemized accounting of the U.S. bureau of reclamation's 1951 budget proposal, totaling $500, 000, for project work in the Des chutes river basin, today was re leased by J. W. Taylor, Des chutes project construction en gineer. Following is a breakdown of the budget which has been sub mitted to congress: $25,000, Crane Prairie reservoir leak sealing and diking; $167,000, Wickiup reser- voir leak sealing and clearing $55,000, leak sealing and guniting of North Unit canals and con duits; $18,000, improvement of North Unit laterals; $30,000, drain improvement; $5,000, farm unit development and surveys; $200. 000, river channel improvement through diking, clearing and other sealing activities. Missing Girl Found in Salinas Missing since Thursday when she failed to return to her home east of Bend after school was out, Dorothy Jean Reeves, 14, has been located at Salinas, Calif.: ac cording to information received here. The girl was apparently on her way south to visit her broth er, Dick, at Camp Ord. The girl's father, J. S. Reeves, was to leave for Salinas to meet Dorothy end return her to Bend. The girl was the object of a state wide search after she failed to return home. by the regular legislative com- mittees. Administration supporters conceded they were caught flat-footed yesterday when Rep. E. E. Cox, D., Ga.. king pin of the coalition, won a 9 to 2 rules committee endorsement of his resolution calling for the elim ination of the new rules by which the administration last year tied the committee's hands. Up to House The proposal must be approved by the whole house before it can be effective. Republican sources hinted that democratic leaders weren't as sur prised as they seemed. Those sources said the action, if sustain ed by the house, might pull the majority party out of some em barrassing spots. Speaker Sam Rayburn, D Tex., declined comment for the mo ment. But Majority leader John McCormack, D., Mass., said the s rr the! Cox moves to the end. Rules chair man Adolph J. Sabath, D., 111., called Cox's action "unprecedent ed and unfair." All sides agreed publicly or In private that the house well might reverse the pro-Truman action It took on Jan. 3, 1949. when the "traffic cop" rules committee was shorn of its power to bottle up bills disliked by its memhers. The present rule permits chairmen of j regular committees to oy-pass tnc rules committee after a 21-day de lay. After a strategy meeting yester day in the office of Rep. William M. Colmer, D., Mass.. key south erners In the anti-Truman coali tion said they had run off a count of the house and were confident they would win. Bus Accident Victims Treated For Injuries Portland, Jan. 14 IP Four of the more seriously injured of 18 passengers hurt when a Trail ways bus, bound from Portland to Salt Lake City, hit a snowplow near Government Camp, were convalescing In a Portland hospi tal today. They were: Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hansen of Terrebonne, Ore. He, 75, suffer ed a windpipe injury. She, 67, had a hip Iniury and broken leg. Mrs. Betty Peterson, 67, Red mond, Ore., had chest, internal injuries and possible leg frac tures. Alva Patterson, 23, Warner, Okla., suffered head injuries. State police said the bus, mov ing through a blizzard yesterday near the Waplnltia cutoff, col lided with heavy Impact into the rotary snow plow which also was traveling east. The other 14 passengers were treated at Government Camn first aid station and remained overnight. COMPLETE LIST GIVEN Portland, Jan. 14 LP Here is the passenger list of a Trailwavs I bus that collided with a rolarv K-te "i, pi route from Portland to Salt Lake City: Mrs. Bessie Peterson, Redmond. Ore., iniured hln. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hansen, Ter rebonne. Ore., throat cut and hip broken James A. Brown, Portland, the snow plow driver, head Iniurles, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ferguson. John Day, Ore., cuts and broken teeth. Mrs. Ray Boyd, Prinevllle, Ore, brutees. Robert Lee Harris, Spray, Ore., nose cut. Mrs. Orrln W. Holmes, Mllwau kfr. Ore., head hrulws and cuts. Dale Holm". Bend, Ore., extra bu drivpr. rhest Iniury. ChPt Bryant, Bend, bus driver, leg iniurles. (Continued on Page 7) Bitter Cold In Prospect Alter Storm Portland, Jan. 14 U'i A sub zero arctic cold wave struck the Pacific northwest today in the wake of an intense blizzard which left at least 10 persons dead and five more missing in snowy wastes. One of the worst storms In 50 years gave way to a blast of cold air that sent the mercury plung ing below zero In some sections of Washington and Idaho and turned deep snow drifts into treacherous banks of ice. Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, northern California and western Nevada took the full Impact of raging snowstorms, 70-mile-an-hour winds and bone-chilling cold. Sheriff Jack Franey of Klam ath county, Oregon, said five per sons were missing since yester day In the southern Oregon bliz zard. They are William Ham mond, Merrill, Ore., and his son James, two brothers Identified as L. A. and F. Hard, and Sherman John Waldrip. Some Cities Isolated ' Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Re no, Spokane and other western cities hard hit by wind-driven snows virtually were Isolated from the outside world. "Whole gale" winds ranging from 50 to 70 miles an hour whip ped against the coastline of Wash ington, British Columbia: Oregon and northern California. AH high vwifs from California, to) Oregon were closed. ' Hundreds of travelers were stranded, communications were disrupted, roads were clogged and the temperature went as low as 19 degrees below zero at Yakima, Wash. At least 10 persons died-as a re sult of weather conditions. At Moses Lake, Wash., five air force men rescued 46 persons marooned Jor six hours in snow drifts three to five feet deep. This city of 500.000 was virtual ly .out off from the outside world. The airport closed down. Main highways to Washington, Idaho and California were blocked. State police warned motorists to stay off the streets and highways, but reported that stalled and ditched automobiles dotted the roadsides throughout the north west. Cold at Vancouver Vancouver, B. C, experienced the coldest night on record when the temperature dropped to 4 de grees above zero, two degrees lower than the previous mark set in 1907. The mercury dropped to 19 be low at Yakima and Ellonsburg, Wash., and 17 below at Spokane. Seattle recorded a minimum of 12 (Continued on Page 7) 2 Feared Dead In Bitter Cold Ritzville, Wash., Jan. 14 W An eight-year-old boy was frozen to death, his nine-year-old sister was believed dead and their father was hospitalized with severe frostbite yesterday when they tried to make their way from their stalled car to their home one mile away. Adams county sheriff Frank Lucas said the frozen body of Donnle Stumpf, Odessa, Wash., was found in a field only a half mile from his home. His sister, Irene, had not yet been found. Fred Stumpf, their father, was severely frostbitten about the hands and feet. Sheriff Lucas said the trio had tried to cross a field after their car went off the road. Stumpf's wife heard his shouts and assisted him Into the house but the chll- dren were nowhere in sight. Mrs. Stumpf then attracted the 1 attention of a passing snow plow ! erew by flashing a yard light on I ana otr. ine crew nrougnt btumpl to the hospital here. COLD AT PENDLETON Portland, Jan. 14 mi ppndle ton was Oregon's Ice box early to day with a recording of two de grees below zero. Other readings were 1 above at The Dalles, 9 at La Grande, 10 at Portland. 11 at Baker, 11 at Bend, 17 at Klamath Falls, 20 at Ontario, 21 at Salem, 25 at Eu gene and 29 at Metlford. Contracts for St. Charles Hospital Will Be Let Monday In Portland, Disclosed Today Contracts lor construction of the new St. Charles Memorial hospital, to be erected at a cost of approximately $900,000, will be signed in Portland Monday, officials of the Central Oregon Hocpitals foundation announced here today. There is a possibility that technically the contracts will not be effective until the public health service in San Francisco approves the final application Bend Chamber Opposes Power Company Sale . The Bend chamber of com merce board of directors yester day drafted a resolution in op position to the proposed sale of Pacific Power & Light company common stock to a group of east ern and mldwestern interests, Howard W. Moffat, chamber manager announced today. ' It was recently announced that the owner of the common stock of the company had contracted to sell to a group of eastern and midwest Investment bankers, in cluding John Nuveen & Co., C. C. Allyn and Company, Inc., Ber Stearns & Co., American Securi ties corporation, C. S, Mott and uuy C. Myers, i On January 23 the U.S. Securi ties and Exchange commission will hold a hearing on the pro posed sale to determine if it will be permitted. , Lettcr Sent Flagg . The dotal chamber has re quested George H. Flagg, Oregon public utilities commissioner, to present its resolution in opposi tion to the sale before the U.S. commission at the hearing. In the letter to Flagg the local chamber's views on the sale are outlined as follows: "The chamber of commerce of Bend, Ore., has assumed a posi tive stand against public power or any of the other paternalistic implications of government. This sale most surely carries that im plication." It also Is stated in the cham ber's resolution that the organi zation "is not of the opinion that such a sale is to the best interest of the electric consumer now served by the existing utility. . ." The resolution strongly urges that the federal commission ren der "a negative decision in the sale of the common stock of the Pacific Power & Light company," as proposed. Violence Flares In Mine Region Pittsburgh, Jan. 14 Hit State police were alerted today after coal pickets dynamited a steam shovel at a western Pennsylvania non union mine in retaliation for the arrest of four of their num ber. The blast came on the heels of growing dissension In the coal fields as sentiment to Ignore John L. Lewis' "suggestion" to return to work Monday spread among the 81,000 soft soal miners. Pickets were out in force again this morning and state police pa trols were ordered to be on the lookout for further trouble. State police said no one was In jured in the blast which destroyed a $20,000 shovel at the strip mine ' operated by Lorain Knight in South Kersey, Pa. The dynamiting was reported about an hour after the arrest of Don Longo, Penfleld, Pa., on charges of malicious mischief, de struction of property and violat ing the motor vehicle code. Earli er three other pickets were arrest ed on similar charges growing out of an attack on a four-truck con voy coming from the mine. The pickets stoned the trucks and several drivers were cut by flying glass. The attackers were dispersed when Knight leaped from, his automobile brandishing a pistol. MAN EI.E( TltOCfTKD Longvlew, Wash., Jan. 14 II" Bill Hayes, Longvlew crane op erator, was killed yesterday when he tried to loosen two frozen 2'.'0 volt electric lines, authorities said. Hayes, also known locally as a singer, was employed by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. for federal funds, but this action will be a lormality and the signed contracts can be kept "on ice" until the papers reach the San Francisco pub- j lie health office. . ! Signing of the contract will j clear the way for the start of work on the big hospital, to be erected on the St. Charles hospital site at the head of Minnesota. Pre liminary work will Include exca vation, and it is expected that this can be done in the winter months. . Meet in I'ortlund Sister Blanche, superintendent of St. Charles hospital, and mem bers of her staff will go to Port land Sunday, as will Lowell A. Jensen and Carl A. Johnson, who with Sister Blanche are serving as attorneys in fact .for the Sisters of St. Joseph, ot lipton, lnd. Also attending the Portland meeting will be Alva C. Goodrich, repre senting the Central Oregon Hos pitals foundation. Representatives of the three low bidders on the Bend hospital project also will be present. The low basic bid for construction of the hospital was submitted by H. H. Wise & Son, of Boise, Ida. Low bids for plumbing, heating and ventilating and for electrical work were submitted by Portland firms, A. G. RushlighfS:' Co. aft Ace Electric Co. ) -The Monday meeiinR in-fort- land will be in the office of George M. Shiffer, representing the hospital facilities section of the Oregon state board of health. Primary purpose, of the meeting, so far as the Bend group is con cerned, will be the completion of the fourth and final application for federal funds. John W. Maloney, Seattle; Wash., architect named to super vise construction of the Bend hos pital, will attend the Portland con-, ferencc. Democrats Plan Bend Sessions Their political campaign for the current election year will be dis cussed next week by leaders of the state democratic party when they gather in Bend for a two-day conference session, Cecil Moore, chairman of the Deschutes county democratic central committee an nounced today. Moore stated that next Satur day the state central democratic committee will hold n one-day ses sion at the Pilot Butte inn, and the following day the second con gressional district committee (an organization of democrats oppos ed to the reelection of Lowell Stockman as U. S. representative) will meet to discuss party candi dates. Moore also said that an endeav or Is being mnde to obtain Jnmos Roosevelt for speaker at the two day session. Road to Sk'vliners Resort Blocked The road to SUyliners play ground west of liend probably will stay blocked over the week end because Deschutes county plow equipment is required for ; clearing snow from major county roads, George McAllister, road master, reported this morning. He explained that it is essential , da ion's emergency fund, that all the main county roads be j The drive will be conducted cleared as soon as possible, so through the placement of dona that farmers can transport water j Hon banks at tin various business to livestock on their l ai.ches. j establishments throughout the McAllister added that the road i county and hv solicitation to Skyliners playground will be cleared as soon as this other op eration Is completed. Columbia River Highway Blocked Portland, Jan. 14 Hfi State po lice said today r.now drifts, 5 to 7 feet deep between Cascade locks and Hood River have halted all traffic on the Columbia river highway. Reports to stale police said snow plows were unable to cope vith the piling snow. Many Roads Still Blocked y Snowdrifts WINDY AT REDMOND Wind readied a peak veloc ity of 78 miles an hour at the Redmond airport yesterday, bettering the Monday mark of 72 miles an hour, recorded up to the time the anemometer went out of commission. Yes terday's high mark was re corded at the peak of gusts, dropping from that point to 54 miles an hour, CAA weath er observers said. The barometer at the CAA station dropped to a central Oregon record low of 29.04 inches. United Air liners were re suming normal schedule today, it was announced, with the southbound 'flight booked for the usual time this afternoon. However, the northbound flight was cancelled because of conditions in the Portland area. It was expected that all schedules would be normal over the week end. : Central Oregon today wes slow ly digging out from , its pack of blizzard-piled snow, with some highways still closed and travel conditions reported hazardous. Both Santlnm highways were still blocked at noon, by a snow slide in the Hogg rock area, and 'on the South Santlam there was a n ot h ct blockade caused by . heavy snow. This rnorninfl.. two-;, snow plows were working behind the snow barrier, still isolated from headquarters at Sanliam junction. Several cars were also believed trapped in the area of heavy snow, but no concern was .felt for occupants because of the presence of the snow plow crews. Depth of roadside snow on the Santiam this morning was 190 inches, following another fall of three feet in yesterday's terrific storm. Youngsters Stranded School buses carrying young sters to their homes from Bond and Redmond early yesterday, as the blizzard drifted snow across country roads, faced plenty of difficulty, but with one reported exception all buses reached their destination, in the lumato com munity, a school bus was strand ed by drifting snow, and the youngsters were cared for over night at nearby farms. Highway 97 was blocked at A1-' (Continued on Pago 7) March of Dimes Drive to Start Here Next Week The annual March of Dimes drive to raise funds for polio vic tims will open next Monday in Deschutes county, It was announc ed today by Mrs. J. V. Arnold, county director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis. Urging wholehearted support of the campaign, Mrs. Arnold stat ?d: "Any donation, whether it be a dime or a dollar, will be great ly appreciated." "Remember," she added, "no one ever knows where or who the dis?nsp m:iy strike." She explained that the polio fund Is used to help pay the med ical expen es of those stricken with the diseas-. Some Spent Here Several thousand dollars were expended for this purpose In the cotmtv durinf the past ysar, she stated, and $500 also was sent from here to the national foun- through the mail. Mrs. Arnold also said that do nations will he accepted at the banks in Bend and Redmond. The fund goal for the county this voar, according to Mrs. Ar nold, has been set at $ti000; a goal which she hopes will be reached by the end of the month. Headquarters for the drive. Mis. Arnold stated, will be on Oregon avenue in Bend next to the AFL union office. Donations also will be accepted there. Mrs. Arnold reported that the names of the drive leaders of the various communities of the coun tv will bo announced next week.
