The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, January 27, 1950, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textv. C Oragoa Library EUGESEt O89S0S : TIE BEND' BULLETIN leased Wire world' news coverage State Forecast Oregon Snow today and to night; snow flurries Satur day. Low tonight 5 to 20. High Saturday 20 to 30. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTyTQREGONT FRIDAY, JANUARY 27. 1950 34th Year No. 44 ket mow oiaim Central Oregon (Sots New S Storm Forces Postponement Of Dedication St. Charles memorial hospital 4mnd-breaking ceremonies have been postponed one woek because of storm conditions, Dr. J. M. Mc Carthy, president of the Foun ders' Service organization, erourj in charge of the program, an nounced today. Decision to postpone the cere monies a week was reached short ly before noon today when a sur vey revealed that the hospital site is under snow that ranges in depth from six Inches to nearly two feet in drifts. The rites will be held on Sat urday, Feb. 4, one week from to morrow. The ceremonies will last one hour, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., and will be preceded by a civic parade. Site Inspected Before deciding to postpone the ground breaking, the committee got in touch with Paul W. Wise, of the firm of J. W. Wise & Son, Boise, Ida., contractors who will erect the $900,000 hospital. Wise was in Bend this morning and, with members of the committee, inspected the site. The deepening snow, he decided, would serious ly handicap work. Wise has already moved some equipment in, and in the coming week will shift additional equip ment here from Boise and Weis er, Ida., and from Pendleton, and bring in some of his key men. First work on the site, he indicat ed, will be the stripping of the ground, preparatory to blasting. There is a possibility that some of this can be done before next Saturday, provided the weather moderates. However, a controlled blast at the completion of the February 4 rites will mark the actual start of construction. v launched. Today . , f ' The move to postpone " the ground breaking a week was launched early this morning when various organizations reported that their marching units would be unable to participate because of the snow. Garages, which are to provide new cars for the par ade, also expressed a fear that the snow would create a traffic hazard. It was also learned that people from outside points invited to join in the ceremony were ex pressing fear they would not be able to make the trip here be cause of the storm. The outside participants were being notified by wire today of the decision to delay the ground breaking one week. Members of the committee in charge held a luncheon meeting today noon, at the Trailways Cof fee shop, to complete plans for the ceremony a week from to morrow. Working with Dr. McCarthy in outlining overall plans is Joseph G. Mack. Bend to Receive Consideration For Air School Assurance that Bend would re ceive some consideration in an air force survey to determine a possible site for an academy in J 'he northwest, today was received by the Bend chamber of com merce in a telegram from Rep. Lowell Stockman. In his telegram Stockman slated that the air force academy board has given him assurance that the survey team will get in touch with officials of the Bend chamber sometime in February. The chamber yesterday urged Siockman to ask the board to in clude Bend in the survey. Portland Man Murder Victim Tucson', Ariz.. Jan. 27 HP) A statewide manhunt was under "a.v today for a suspect in the brutal slaying of Robert E. Tur ner, about 50, whose body was found slumped over the steering wheel of an auto. Sheriff's deputy Emmett New land, who found the car yester day 15 miles northwest of here, said the dead man "definitely had been murdered." He was killed bv J single shot through the skull from a new .38-ealiber revolver 'big in his lap. The Pima county sheriff's of ';W said papers found on the vic tim's body indicated he was from Portland. Ore., and once workc.-l w the Alaska Railroad Co. as engineer. Me was rjenevea to ve been carrying about $3,000. SEC Rejects All Stock Bids For P.P. &L. By T. W. Kienlen (United Prwa Financial Writer) Washington, Jan. 27 iLP The securities & exchange commission todav reiectpd all hide fnr th Common Stock nf tho Paflfir. Pnw. er & Light company because of nit- junuie oi American rower Light company, the seller, "to maintain competitive conditions iur tne saie. Such a condition is required by the holding company act. Bids for the stock had been submitted by two New York bank ing groups headed by B. P. Van Ingen & Co., and Allen & Co., re spectively. The hearing had been held be fore an SEC trial examiner far four days, beginning last Monday on Van Ingen's request for ex emption, as a potential buyer of the stock, from compliance with the holding company act. To Reconvene Jan. 31 It Was directed hv tilr commie. sion that the hearing be reconven- eu on jan. ai io consider any amendment which may be filed reflecting thp rpcnltc nf enr-h further negotiations for the sale of the Pacific stock which might De undertaken by American, with any prospective purchasers in conformance with the commis sion's ruling." Tho commission, mpanwhilp continues to hold under advise ment the remaining issues in the racitic f ower case. Three of thp four rnmmlccinn. ets who ruled on the competitive situation said they would not "re quire that the stock be sold at competitive oiaaing out unair man Harrv A. McDonald Hiecent. ed on this opinion. The fifth com missioner uonaiu u. cook did not takp nart Thp Ihrop fvimtniuctun. ers involved were Paul R. Rowen, Richard B. McEntire and Edward T. McCormick. No Exemption "Under the circumstances here presented,' the majority opinion said, "we nave concluded that an adequate showing has been made to justify an exemption from our competitive bidding requirements as to the sale of Pacific stock by American. However, we have found that competitive conditions were not maintained in the nego tiations for the sale of such stock and, accordingly, we will not grant the requested exemption for the sale to either the Van In gen or Allen group unless and until American negotiates freely under competitive conditions with any interested person including the Van Ingen and Allen groups, for the sale of such stocks." The commission in a review of American negotiations for tho sale of the $77,000,000 west coast utility said: "It appears that American as sumed that only purchasers in terested in disposing of some of Pacific's property to public utility districts would pay American an adequate price for its Pacific slock. 2 Groups Interested "Subsequent developments in dicated beyond doubt, however, that at least one other group the Allen group was interested in the purchase of the Pacific stock and that a more favorable contract to American would prob ably have been procured if com petitive conditions had been main tained. "As indicated, shortly after the announcement of the contract with the Van Ingen group, the Allen group came forward with an offer or 515,000,000 in cash and thereafter the Van Ingen (Continued on Page 5) Coos Bay Water Supply Severed Coos Bay, Jan. 27 tpiBreak in a 16-inch water pipe today shut off all water supplies to Coos Bay and North Bend and forced clos ing of all bay area mills and schools. Walter Chiene. Coos Bay-North Bend water board manager, said temporary repairs were expected to be completed by tonight. The broken pipe only recently had been installed as part of a water system expansion program. Chiene said the break might have been caused by settling of the earth around the pipe. SOME SCHOOLS CLOSED Schools in the Harper and Tum alo districts were closed today be cause of the snow storm, it was reported by Mrs. P. R. Bucking ham, county school superinten dent. Other county schools were operating normally, it was re ported. The Tumalo bus did not com plete its rounds this morning, be cause of drifting snow. Pupils who had been picked up were re turned to their homes. U. $., Allies Sign Mutual Aid Program Washington, Jan. 27 Ui The United States and eight Atlantic pact allies today signed formal mutual aid agreements providing for rush delivery of $1,000,000,000 of American arms to free west ern Europe within the next few months. In return, the eight nations get ting the free weapons promised to use them to prepare their de fenses against a possible soviet attack. They also promised to help arm each other and to give tne united stales wnat bases and strategic materials they can with out endangering their own econ omy. The agreements, a supplement to the Atlantic pact, bound the united states into the closest peacetime alliance in its history. Secretary of state Dean . G. Acheson signed the separate agreement for the United States in ceremonies at the state depart ment auditorium. Top diplomats signed for the European countries Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Denmark and Norway.. Britain Signs First British ambassador Sir Oliver Franks signed the British pact at his embassy several hours before the others and took off immedi ately for London for consultations with Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin. The others signed in a group. Each of the agreements varied in detail, but generally covered the same ground, stating specific ally that the American arms gift (Continued from Page 7) Airline Hearing Moved to Salem A civil aeronautics board hear ing on West Coast Airline's appli cation to provide service to sev eral Oregon cities, has been re set for. February 27 in Salem, ac cording to word received here to day from Senator Guy Cordon. The hearing, originally slated for February 13, was to have been held in Washington. In a telegram, Sen. Cordon ex plained that the CAB decided to hold the hearing in Salem to per mit interested city representa tives to make their presentations. Two such interested cities are Bend and Redmond. Earlier this month an exhibit setting forth the views of these two cities was drafted and sent to the board. Arrangements also had been made for a delegate of Klamath county, another area affected by the application, to represent the two central Oregon cities at the hearing. One-Way Traffic Zone ttiV.t u i V ur sev,rnl "ne-wny streets, shown here, were designated In the St Charles hos pitaBend fire hall area as an emergency fire measure while hospital cons rue tior Ms urn -r w"v No parking is permitted on Lava road between Oregon end Franklin Traffic movinB toward tlie fh?h'.,.,i?ri,he hf ?v" Minnpso,a turn east on LhZ west or FwnkHr f or proc,"l In infh.,H,.aLr0Unds' .Hm,er ,h0 mT s,iup' ,no onlv entrance to the hospital will be from the Minn." sota street side, except In emergencies. Exit from the hospital will be via Franklin, imp ..epared by Arthur May, city engineer.) Contributions for Deschutes County March of Dimes Drive Pouring in; Many Events Set Contributions towards Deschutes county's $7,000 quota for the March of Dimes are trickling in steadily, according to Mrs. J. F. Arnold, county director for the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, whosaid today that response to letters mailed last week is "encouraging." In spite of bad weather, interest in the drive is enthusiastic, and many social, fraternal and civic organizations have indicated that they " -will make individual fund- Hydrogen Bomb Data Requested By Congressmen By John I Steele United Preaa Stuff Corrntpuntlcnt) Washington, Jan. 27 miKey congressmen sought the low down today on the deadly hy-drogen-bomb from the men who may be ordered to build it. Chair man David E. Lilienthal and members of his atomic energy commission were summoned to an "urgent" closed (10:30 a. m. EST) meeting of the joint con gressional committee dealing with atomic matters. The legislators expected to get their first full-scale preview on the awesome potentialities of the super-secret weapon. President Truman is weighing a decision whether the United States should build the new bomb. It could be many 'limes more devastating than the pres ent plutonium A-bomb. American military leaders believe Russia is already trying to fashion one. Informed sources said the con. gressional committee may get ','full information" on the H-bomb and thus be equipped to advise mi', iruman before the president tanes nis final decision. Sen, Brien McMahonj D., Conn., tlie cdmmitlfle chnirmivn,. provid ed the first tip-off on the nature of the meeting yesterday bv toll ing the senate that his group faced "a very weighty, grave mailer ... so Important to the people ot the United Slates and the whole world." Only once before has the hy drogen bomb been discussed by the congressional committee. It was touched upon then only in "the most general terms" and less than a majority of the group was present. The visit of Lilienthal and the commission members to Capitol run win oe tne lust this year. Lilienthal persistently has re- fused comment on reports that he is opposed on moral grounds, to building the super-bomb with out a final attempt to get Rus sian agreement on world atomic controls. The urgency of the session was pointed up yesterday by the un usual speed with which the sen ate ratified the appointment of Sen. John C. Bricker, R., O., to replace Sen. Arthur II. Vamien berg, R Mich., on the committee. Vandenberg resigned because his (Continued on Page C Designated Near Hospital raising efforts, Mrs. Arnold said. Donations received so far in response to the letters iubout$300. Polio benefit dances are be ing planned by a number of groups. Tomorrow night the East eijrt Star grange will sponsor a dance at the Eastern Star grange hall, and the Eagles lodge will hold a dance at the FOE hall. . Eagles Set Quota ' Ed Eastman, March of Dimes chairman for the Eagles, said that $1000 is the quota set for the lodge's contribution. Nearly half this amount has been raised so far,, he said. The dance tomorrow night will start at 10 o'clock, with all imembers of the lodge, and friends accompanied by Eagles, invited to attend. A; feature of the evening will be the serving of a large cake, a cus tom started when "president's birthday balls" were held for benefit of the polio fund, Eastman said. r .At the Eastern Star grange hall dancing will start at 9:30 p.m., with the Crooked River Ramblers donating the music as their con tribution to tlie drive. Everything for the dance lias been donated, according to Gene Fitzgerald, head of the grange's polio com mittee, who made arrangements with the assistance of Walter Frlehard, grange master. Plan Card Party The Degree of Honor lodge will sponsor a polio benefit card party Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 8 pjn. In EaL'los hall, officers announced In. day.. ThM will be prlze.4'aiid rS- rrosnmenls.' . - . -v , Solicitation of business houses for contributions will begin Mon day, with members of Beta Sigma Phi sorority in charge. Co-chairmen with Mrs. Howard Krog, sorolty president, are Mrs. Roy Dyer and Mrs. Charles Dugnn Jr. Letters containing coin folders for contributions were addressed by volunteer workers in Portland, Mrs. Arnold said. Offi cers Installed By Bend A.F.ofL Officers of the Bend central la bor council, A. F. of L., Tuesday were installed at a ceremony con ducted in the local labor temple, with Lawrence Carroll, interna tional representative of the broth erhood of carpenters and joiners, in cnarge. Tne new officers include: Harry Shlnn, president; Clifford Lerenz, vice-president; Katherine Tierney, financial secretary, and Hugh Cole, conductor. Trustees include: Cole. Clar ence Briggs and George Hoberts. N Counterfeit Ring Cracked; 4 Men Jailed New York, Jan. 27 mi Federal authorities announced todav the cracking of "one of the biggest counterfeiting rings in the coun try." rour men were arrested here and one in Los Angeles, Calif. secret service agents recovered $200,000 in counterfeit bills. Assistant United States attor ney Irving H. Saypol said the gang had been selling nhonev American dollars tor M cents onj uie uunur. Those arrested here were An thony Chiarella, 33, Vincen Palia- sano, 35, Anthony Pletaraniello, 26, and Joseph Nardone, 49. Com- merclal artist John J. Stancin, 33, was arrested in Los Angeles. Chiarella, Paliasano and Pleta raniello were held in $100,000 bail each when arraigned early today Deiore u. s. commissioner Ed ward W. McDonald. Nardone, a taxi driver, was held in $20,000 ball. Saypol said the arrests were made Wednesday night, but were kept secret until today while the men were put through intensive questioning. Authorities got on the trail of the gang in Los Angeles where secret service agents of the U. S. treasury department received a tip that the gang was operating in i ne east. Two agents from Los Angeles arrived in New York on Monday. With them they brought $60,000 in. good currency and contacted the gang, acting as buyers. BIIIh Purchased Saypol said the negotiations toon two days, out that on Wed nesday the two agents went to Chiarella s home to buy counter feit bills. Chiarella stipulated that the phoney money be passed out In tho far east, China, India and the Philippines, but not in the United falales, saypol said. Finally, the gang agreed to. Sett the agents $300,000 , in. $1.0 nd $20 pills, Saypol said, .. . .. jne rwo agents and the four men went in Nnrdones taxi to a mldtown hotel where the $60,000 was exchanged for the counter felt bills, Saypol said. The arrests were made in the hotel. However, when the counterfeit money was counted in the U. S. attorney's office it was discovered tne men had turned over only $200,000 Instead of $300,000. All four men arrested here were charged with unlawful pos session of counterfeit money and conspiracy to possess counterfeit money. In Los Angeles, secret service agents said Stancin, arrested there last night, was the local west coast representative of the gang. Lewis, Operators Will Talk Again Pittsburgh, Jan. 27 miNorth ern coal operators told John L. Lewis today they will delay re opening of negotiations until aft er a federal court rules on the legality of the United Mine Work ers demand. Lewis had notified the operat ors he would meet with them at 10 a.m. Feb. 1- the same day and hour he Is due to answer national labor relations board charges in District of Columbia federal court. Replying, Frank R. Amos, chairman of the national bitumi nous wage conference, wired Lew is: "Knowing that your attorneys have agreed to appear In your be half In answer to a rule In federal court at the time and date you have asked us to meet you and feeling that the court should Im mediately rule on the legality of certain of your demands, we sug gest that your previous engage ment with the court go forward without delay or Inconvenience to you or the court. "We agree to meet you at the Slaller hotel, Washington, D. C. rep. 1 at 2 p.m. or such other later hour as you may designate." CALIFORNIA HAS GALE San Francisco, Jan. 27 Hi'' A major storm descended on north ern California today. Winds up to M) miles an hour between Cape Mendocino and Crescent City marked the start of the storm, which has been lying 200 miles off the Pacific coast fur two days. With the storm came a break in the cold snap that sent ther mometers plunging to the middle twenties yesterday morning. Pre dicted low temperatures for mosl areas tonight range between 45 and 50 degrees. Most of Oregon Covered; 6'Inck Fall Noted Here Central Oregon was under a new and rapidly deepening blanket of snow today as a southwest storm, part of a state wide disturbance, moved into the area. Six inches of new snow was measured in Bend at noon, with most of the fall occurring since dawn. The storm whiten ed all of the mid-state country, but to the east and in the Prineville country the depth was not. as great as in Bend. Prineville at noon reported two inches of new snow. The new storm in Bend brought the total snow for the month up to 41 inches at 7 a. m. today, to provide the weather station with an all time record for January snow. The previous mark was set In 1907, when 36 Inches of snow fell in January. lib Indies Record Deepest snow ever measured In Bend in one month was 55 inches, in December, 1919. It was in that month that Bend experienced its worst storm In history, with 48 incnes of snow on the ground at one time. Normally, Bend receives more snow in January than in De cember. However, tlie average for January over a period of 48 years is only iu.i inches. Moisture for the month was measured at 2.73 inches this morning. Heavy snow was again piling up along mountain passes today as the new storm swept into the region. Travel over the Santiam route, where slides are occurring at Hogg rock, was discouraged. That road, It was feared, might close before the day is over, if a major slide should occur. Central Oregon roads were cov ered With packed snow and were reported slick, . . . . '"'STORM HELD "StlKPRISE" " Portland, Jan. 27 (U'l North western Oregon was hit by a sur prise snowstorm early today. The snow blew in from a storm that had been hoverlnc southwest of the area and brought not only freezing temperatures but heavy rain along the coast and In the southern section of the Willam ette valley. Six to eight inches of snow fell In the Portland metropolitan area, wiin more piling up in the heights around the city. Traffic was slow ed throughout the morning. tne weather bureau said the new storm was moving on into central and southeastern Oregon and would strike there late in the day. Communications Hit Communications troubles be gan to plague western Oregon again and the Bonneville power administration announced that its Eugcne-Maploton 115,000-KV line serving the central Lincoln coun ty PUD, including Newport and Toledo, went out at 8:33 a.m. The Pasco-Benton 45,000-KV line went out at 5 a.m. from a broken con (Continued on Page 7) Russia Ignores U. S. Protest Over Latest Traffic Blocks Ry Joseph Fleming IUniU-il I'ri'KH Huff Corretii)onilent) - Berlin, Jan. 27 till Russian officials remained silent today on the western protest against their baby blockade of Berlin. Reports from Helmstedt said trucks still were being delayed there. The three-power western pro test was delivered last night to the Soviet commander, Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov. It demands that the Russians take ."immedi ate' steps to free traffic between Berlin and west Germany. The protest said the three western Berlin commanders felt "it Is the Soviet Intention to thwart the decision" of the Big i-our foreign ministers confer ence In Parlii guaranteeing nor mal travel. Instances of Soviet Interfer ence with traffic between Berlin and the western zones becomes more frequent and it is no longer possible to avoid drawing the conclusion that these Incidents are a calculated atlempt to re strict the normal movement of persons and goods between Ber lin and the western zones," the protest said. The letter cited six Instances of Soviet violation of the normal travel agreement: 1. "As a result of new regula tion!; and a continual change of interpretation of their Instruc tions by the Soviet authorities on the spot, hitherto accepted methods of documentation and previously recognized signatures have been rejected as Invalid, and I i r k . ' i- I I lIKPrvrVA . VS. J. Mil I Vl lVr Plane Missing; 44 Aboard Craft Whltchorse, Yukon Territory, Jan. 27 tii An American air force C-54 transport plane carry ing 44 persons including a wom an, child and military personnel, on furlough was missing today and a pilot reported seeing ground flares 225 miles east of here. The flares were sighted near Watson Lake, B.C., on the British Columbia-Yukon border. The air force said the maioritv aboard were American military personnel going outside for fur loughs and rotation after spend ing. 24 months in Alaska. Capt. Sam Sloan, public Information of ficer at Elmendorf f ie d. Alaska. said a woman and child were aboard but he did not know their identity. There were 36 passengers and eight crewmen on the plane which Is attached to the 1st strategic support squadron of the elgnth !. air force at El Vasb, Tex ! RCAF' wing-commander J. M. Sutherland said the plane, bound for Great Falls, Mont., from An chorage, Alaska, last reported Its position over Snag, Y.T., at 3:09 p.m. (PST) yesterday. Snae Is 425 miles northwest , of the spot wnere me iiares were sighted. Signal Returned ' Tlie C-47 U.S. air force pilot who reported the flares! was Iden tified only as "Lieutenant Cor nell." He said he fired one flare and "someone on tlie ground sig naled back." Sutherland pointed out, how ever, that the flares could have come from ground units parti cipating in a military exercise or from a marooned vehicle. Air force officials at Elmendorf field said the plane carried 800 pounds of emergency rations and Arctic survival gear. If the plane crash-landed and all aboard are alive, no one should suffer from cold or hun ger," a spokesman said. It was believed the majority or perhaps all. those aboard the plane were Americans, but there was no immediate confirmation. unspecified additional documen tation demanded." 2. "A considerable number of trucks, containing furniture and other types of cargo, have been detained at the Marlenborn check point for an indefinite period of time." The Marlenborn checkpoint is the Soviet checkpoint on the bor der of eastern and western Ger many, one mile down the super highway from the western allied checkpoint at Helmstedt. Accumulation Noted 3. "One consequence of this Is that there has been an accumula tion of vehicles at the Helmstedt checkpoint with resulting dam age to perishable goods urgently needed by the Berlin population." 1: "On the railway, several car loads of non-ferrous scrap metal have also been held up, allegedly because documentation was not in order." 5. "On the waterways, barges arc Known to have been likewise detained on charges of Improper documentation." G. "The American military trair. from Berlin to Frankfurt w'as detained for six hours at Marlenborn during the night of Jan. 22 23 upon the lnadmlssable grounds that certain nationals other than those of the occupy ing powers were traveling on the train." The letter was signed by Mai. ' Gen. Maxwell Taylor for the U. S., Maj. Gen. Geoffrey K. Bourne for Britain and Gen. Jenn Gane- val for France.