The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, February 01, 1950, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI'tfnlv. of Oregon Library EUGN, .OREJOa THE BEND ' BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Generally fair to night. Increasing cloudiness Thursday. Continued cold. High 5 to 15 in north to 10 to 20 south portions. Low to night S to 15 below. k LEASED WIRE WORLD ' NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 34th Year BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY 1, 1950 No. 48 dF Bar Dssyro Keuesise mm -tannic Moghfcy M Break in Cold Not rill fctlnchfna flnnrtAH iwntrat Foreseen Bv Forecaster 'Oregon today, following a com paratively mild night that yielded a plus temperature for the first time this week. Ending four nights of subzero weather, the temperature last night stopped its descent at one above. At noon today, the temperature was still below freezing, and weather reports indicated no break in the weather can be seen. Bend's forecast for tonight calls for a minimum of from 10 to 15 degrees below zero, according to information from the weather of fice in Portland. . This morning Bend received a shower of ice crystals, which fell from the cloudless sky. Precipi tation in the form of ice crystals frequently occurs in cold weather, observers in charge of the local weather station said. Snow covered most Oregon highways today, and the state highway department recommend ed that motorists carry chains on many of the routes, especially those crossing the snowy Cas cades. Mountain passes remained open today, with plows operating in summit areas. NO BREAK IN SIGHT I By United Prou) ' February took over where Jan uary left off with more broken weather records, sub-zero tem peratures, snow and frozen water pipes in the Pacific northwest. The mercury dipped Wednes day morning down to a level al most equaling the b-year-old record set Tuesday,. Spokane, Wash., had lis ninth consecutive day of sub - zero weather, equaling the record set in January, 1909. The minimum was 22.4 below in Spokane, 25 at Yakima, 33 below at the Moses lake U. S. development farm, and 28 below at Ellensburg. Winter's grip held tight in Ore gon, with Baker reporting 17 be low, Burns 12 below, Pendleton 16 below, The Dalles 6 below, and Portland 1 above at the airport (Continued on Page 5) Federal Forest Funds Disbursed Salem, Feb. 1 IP) Receipts of 25 per cent of federal forest re serve rentals and sales of timber for the fiscal year ended last June' JU exceeded those of any previous year, Secretary of state Earl T. ; Newbry reported. Newbry made the report as he announced apportionment of $2, 044,693.81 to Oregon's counties. These receipts have Increased each year from $559,284.44 in 1946. Largest revenues were from the Willamette national forest locat ed chiefly in Lane and Linn coun ftes. The moneys are divided 75 per cent to the county road funds and fi win tu me county &unuui Mlunds after apportionment to the V'Counties on the basis of the fed eral forest reserve in each county. Counties participating includ ed Crook, $131,874.60; Jefferson, S13.092.23, and Deschutes, $74, 202.70. Last year, the return to Des chutes county was $88,787.42. Bend Man Stalled In Car 15 Hours A. J. Moore, Deschutes county district attorney, Is recuperating at the home of his sister, Mrs. Adam Imthurn, of Troutdale, aft er spending 15 hours in his Jeep stuck in a snow drift near Trout dale. Driving from Bend to Portland. Moore got stuck in the snow drift at 5 p.m. Sunday and stayed there n his jeep until found, nearly frozen, at 8 a.m. the following morning bv Mr. -and Mrs. Frank McVitty, of Troutdale. Moore is under the care of Dr. "alter Noehren, of Troutdale. BULLETIN All departments of The Shrv-"n-Hlxon Company will return to normal- schedule tomorrow, w"h work to start at 8 a.m. as nual, It wag announced -today "V A. L. o. Sohueler, assistant WJtaiTer. If moderating: weather , ntlnues. Brooks - Scanlon. Inc.. "Ill return to normal operations Monday, according: to A. .1. Glas v, general manager. Securities Exchange Hearing On P. P. &L Sale Postponed Again; Details Receive Study By T. W. KlENLEN (linitt-tt Press Financial Writer) Washington, Feb. 1 U.E The securities & exchange com mission today granted a last-minute request of the American Power & Light company for another 24-hour postponement of a new hearing before the commission on the proposed sale by American of its $77,000,000 subsidiary, Pacific Power & Light company. The request, from Howard L. Aller, chairman' and presi- : dent of American Power & n( I I I Light, was received by the oLdna uwners Get Certification For Feb. 3 Voting A total of 778 landowners have been certified to vote in the Feb ruary 3 soil conservation district election, it was announced today by officers of the midstate dis trict. The 778 owners certified constitute a drop of 99 from the earlier list, which indicated that 87a would be eligible to vote. The certification of eligible voters was made, by Edward Risen, Deschutes county assessor. Most of the names removed from the first list were found to be in the Midstate Soil Conservation district, embracing all of the northerrl part of Deschutes county. Ballots Mailed Persons, incorpqrations or firms certified to vote are those who live in the area proposed for in clusion in the county-wide district and who own more than 10 acres of land. Ballots have been mailed to all eligible voters. These may be returned ; by mail to Lloyd --.JSmitly. polling .'superintendent, Route 3, Box 299, Bend, or deliv- ered to the. polls in person on election day. Polls will be open trom 9 a.m. to s p.m. Thirty per cent of the landown ers must vote favorably if the election is to carry, soil conser vation leaders said. Official polling places follow: Pine Forest grange hall. Eastern Star grange hall, Squaw Creek irrigation district olfice (in Plain; view community) and Tumalo water district office. Brannan Decides On Destruction Of Surplus Spuds Washington, Feb. 1 iU Con gress refused today to tell the ag riculture department what to do with millions 'of bushels of sur plus potatoes and the department said it therefore will begin de stroying them soon. The department's intentions j were reveaiea Dy a spoicesman ior Secretary Charles F. Brannan shortly after the senate agricul ture committee refused "as a mat ter of principle" to advise Bran nan what to do about the pota toes. The spokesman said the com mittee's refusal amounted to a clear "go-ahead" signal for a vast "dumping" operation which, he said, will save taxpayers about $15,000,000 in price supports. He estimated that the depart ment will have to "dump" as much as 40.000,000 bushels of 1949 crop potatoes acquired under price support. A large part of the potatoes which the government still has to buy to drop potato prices are lo cated in Maine. - This would be the first time in three years that the government has dumped potatoes acquired un der price support. Will Let Them Kot Brannan told the agriculture committee yesterday he would go ahead and "dump" part of the surplus potatoes and let them rot unless congress ruled otherwise. The committee met in closed session today. Chairman Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., said the com mittee decided against telling Brannan what to do or to take any action which might be construed as "administrative. During the past three years the agriculture department has paid out milions of dollars in transpor tation costs over and beyond the cost of the potatoes themselves to get livestock feeders and alco hol makers to take the potatoes off Its hands Faced with the need of buying an estimated 45,000,000 to 50.000. - 000 bushels of surplus potatoes during the next six weeks. Bran nan told the committee yesterday he would dump those which could not be disposed of at no additional m. unless the committee advised him otherwise. SEC at 8:07 a.m., less than two hours before the sched uled start of .the reconvened hearing. Aller notified the commission that "we have received two pro posals for the purchase of our Pacific stock, one of which is very complicated and requires time for analysis by executives and board members. "The other requires work by counsel to eliminate certain, un certainties which we are confi dent can be clarified by Wednes day afternoon. !'We therefore request a post ponement of the hearing until 10 o'clock Feb. 2, re bur application for approval of sale of Pacific stock." , Objection Made An objection to the postpone ment was entered in the records by counsel for Electric Bond & Share corporation but SEC trial examiner H. B. Teegarden over ruled it, stating that the incon venience caused others by the late postponement was "unavoidable." Counsel for the SEC also read into the records a telegram from attorneys for B. J. Van Ingen & Co., Inc., and associated under writers in which the SEC was no tified that the group "still consid- ers its contract dated Jan. 4, 1950 with American Power & Light company and every - provision thereof ... to be in full force and effect and proposes to take all legal steps necessary to protect its rights thereunder." The purchase involves 500,000 common shares of the" Pacific Power & Light company which operates in a wide area of the Pa cific northwest. American seeks to dispose of the stock representing control of Pacific Power prior to Feb. 15, the final date for distribution of its assets under a dissolution or der of the SEC dated Aug. 22, 1942. Two earlier bids were rejected by the comimssion last Friday in an order to Teegarden to recon vene the hearing for the purpose of considering new bids on Jan. 31. A 24-hour postponement was granted Monday at the request of Howard L. Aller, chairman and president of American Power & Light. The second postponement came today. Decision Important The decision of the commission with respect to the new bids is ex pected to decide the question of Dublic versus private ownership and operation of the huge west (Continued on Page o) Tumalo Beer License Argued Action on an application by J. N. Gray, operator of the Tumalo General store for a class A beer license, today was postponed by members of the Deschutes county court, until some later meeting date. Gray and his attorney, Alva Goodrich, appeared before the court today with petitions bearing the signatures of 59 residents of Tumalo requesting the court's ap proval of the license. There also were petitions, bear ing signatures of 36 Tumalo resi dents opposing the court's ap proval of the application submit ted to the court. C. L. Allen, county judge, stated that he would not approve this application, or any other applica tion where a substantial number of the residents of an affected area objected to it." Demand Indicated Goodrich replied that he believ ed there was enough demand for beer in the community to Justify granting of a license to Gray. Gray's application Is for the type licease which would permit only off the premises consump tion. Commissioner A. E. Stevens stated that he would not approve any application for beer license ; to which any other member of the court objected Commissioner E. E. Varco ask ed for more time In which to con sider the application, and the other members of the court : agreed to continue the matter I until some later court meeting, Start of Work On St. Charles Hospital Near - More equipment, including a power shovel, was moved to the St. Charles memorial hospital site yesterday as the general contrac tors, J. W. Wise & Son, of Boise, Ida., prepared for the start of construction Monday. Ground-breaking ceremonies will be held Saturday, when a con trolled blast will be discharged in a lava hump on the hospital site at the conclusion of a program sponsored by- the Hospital Found ers organization, volunteer work ers who spearheaded the cam paign for funds in 1948. Dr. J. M. McCarthy heads the group, with Joseph G. Mack assisting In ar ranging for the ground-breaking. The ground-breaking rites will start at 1 p.m. Saturday, and will last one hour. Prior to the cere mony there will be a civic parade, starting on Wall street in front of the Bend high school. Program Listed Robert W. Sawyer, president of the Central Oregon Hospitals foundation, will be the principal speaker at the ceremonies, at which Dr. McCarthy will be mas ter of ceremonies. The Saturday program, as announced by Dr. McCarthy, follows: Star Spangled Banner, by Bend high school band. Greetings from president of founders' service group. Invocation by Rev. Robert Nich olas. Recognition of visitors. Introduction of Dr. Bradford N. Pease, representing Central Ore gon Medical society. IntrotiuclloruoX-Father William Coughlan. - Introduction of Rev. Nicholas, representing Bend Ministerial as sociation. Introduction of Carl A. John son, who in turn will introduce Sawyer. Breaking of ground with blast. Brief concluding remarks. Music by band. The Boise construction firm now has considerable equipment on the ground. Snow will be re moved from the site, unless a thaw occurs in the next few days. Paul W. Wise, member of the Boise firm, will arrive here Fri day. A survey of property lines, pre liminary to construction, was un der way today. Ground-breaking ceremonies had originally been set for last Saturday, but were postponed be cause of the week end storm. Pioneers Plan Annual Meeting Directors of the Deschutes Pio neers' association meeting last night in the office of A. J. Moore, in the courthouse, completed plans for the annual meeting of the group, to be held at the Pine Forest grange hall on the night of Saturday, February 18. A potluck dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 at the hall. Entertainment features will be presented directly following the dinner, with W. J. Burton and Robert L. Martin in charge. After the program, a business meeting will be held, with officers-for 1950 to be elected and several resolu tions to be acted on. One of these will redefine membership qualifi cations, it Was indicated. A dance will conclude the meet ing, with quadrilles, round dances and a prize waltz to be featured. An orchestra is being employed. E. A. Smith is president of the association and was in charge of last night's meeting, with Mrs. Claude L. McCauley serving as secretary. To avoid waiting in line af the annual meeting, members are oeing asked to pay their dues In advance, if possible, to Mrs. Arthur Brinson or Mrs. McCau ley. The Deschutes Pioneers' asso ciation is one of the largest of its kind in the state, with a member ship of around 400. CONFERENCES POSTPONED Two state democratic party con ferences which were to have been held this week end In Bend have been postponed until February 18 and 19, Cecil Mooi-e. chairman of the Deschutes county democratic central committee, announced to day. Moore stated that severe weath er conditions over the state made It Impractical to hold the meet ings this coming week end. Cow Strolls 1 wvH1; 'ij 'w tests'. J 1 V-K 1 j , VP . Officers, assisted by Bend residents, joined In a roundup yesterday when a cow came into Bend from the east, strolled across the rail road track and ambled past the state police station. At that point, Officers Jeff Pearce and Eugene Gray of the city force picked up the trail and drove the cow down Wall street and across the Tumalo bridge to West 14th street, where she went Into Ken Gulick's barn. Gulick volunteered to find the cow's owner. Officer Gray Is pictured here herding the cow through the snow. Continued Use of Jefferson County Sub-Marginal Land For Grazing Urged in Report Until the time more' wheat is needed than can be produced on land which consistently has thfe-best agriculture usdiof 119,00 acres of sub-marginal land in south-central Jefferson county. - Such is the decision of Oregon agricultural experiment station economists who made a study of the lands, now ad ministered by the soil conservation service and leased by the Gray Butte Grazing associa January Weather Breaks Records In. Central Oregon Observers in charge of the Bend weather station closed their books today and announced that the month was one of the most severe in the long history of the local station. One 48-year record was broken, one was tied and a third possibly broken. The amount of snow measured in the 31 days was the greatest for any month in the history of the station with 56.5 inches re corded. This mark bettered the 55 Inches that fell here In the stormy month of December. 1919, when 48 inches covered the ground at one time. The long time low temperature record, -26, registered In Febru ary, 1933, was tied. Seven times In the past month the mercury dipped below zero. A record believed to have been broken is that for the number of days with precipitation. In Jan uary, 1950, a trace or more of pre cipitation fell on 28 days out of the 31. Greatest precipitation in any one (lay was 1.11 inches. All January precipitation, 3.34 inches, in Bend was in the form of snow. Not a single clear day was re corded In the stormy month. Toastmasters Plan Contest Members of the Bend Toast masters' club at their weekly meeting next Tuesday night will hold their annual speech contest, to name a speaker to take part in district finals prior to entering ; state competition, It was announc ed at last night's meeting of the ; club. The meeting was at a din ner at the Trailways Coffee shop with Dr. Bradford N. Pease pre siding and Harold Asplnwall In the role of toastmaster. Place and time of the contest, to be held at a dinner with wives as guests, will he announced la ter, thecommittee in charge an nounced. Five members of the club, Max Millsap. Fred H. Paine, Hubert Thomas, Phil F. Brogan and Asplnwall. have been named to take part In the club contest. I'rinclpai speakers last night and their subjects were: Vance Coyner, "Good Telephone Man m-rs"; Arthur May, "Value of Ed ucatlon"; Dr. Pease, "Red Cross Blood Banks"; Alvln Gray, "Hel lo, Stranger," and William NIs- kHnen, "Thoughts on Philosophy Olfford Briggs was in charge ot table topics. Through City had higher yields, grazing is tion. The .survey was made following a request of the Jef ferson county court and the land use committee that the experiment station determine "whether it would be to the best Interests of a largo majority of the people of Jefferson county to return the land to private own ership." The report, a copy of which has been received here, deals with monetary effects on the county government and on the individual farmers and ranch ers. Bought by Government Land inrluded In the 119,000 acre project was purchased by the federal government In the late 1930's as part of a nalional pro gram to take out of cultivation some of the land considered not suitable for farming. In June, (Continued on Page 5) Bend Physician Gives Testimony Portland, Feb. 1 Ui Dr. Max E. Hemingway, Bend, Ore., of the Robert Hemingway Memo rial clinic, testified yesterday In the government's anti-trust suit In federal district court here that the National Hospital association had substandard fees as compared with the Oregon Physicians ser vice. Dr. Hemingway added that the MI-IA .11.1 . -.1. ...... .Irr,t,,,-C i L . " 1 what the doctor, thought they should have received Other Oregon doctors told the court they accepted tickets from patients belonging to commercial hospital associations and did not remember any coercive Influence by medical groups to refuse such tickets. In cross-examination, the Bend doctor was asked If questions arising In coverage under the NHA's contract created payment failures by the commercial hospi tal association. "If I'm going to practice medi cine," Dr. Hemingway answered, "I can't SM'nd my time reading a lot of silly contracts. I let my office girl do that." The government suit charges eight doctors, eight county medi cal societies, and the itute society and Oregon Physicians service with attempting to monopolize prepaid medical care In Oregon. Dr. Cecil W. McCain. Portland, formerly of Hood River and pres ident for two terms of the Mid Columbia Medical society said he did not know of any medical so ciety attempts to persuade doctors In his area not to accept commer cial hospital association tickets. John L. Lewis, Operators, Negotiating By Laurence Gonder (United PrMa Staff Currcniiondt-nt) Washington, Feb. 1 tut John L. Lewis and major soft coal pro ducers resumed contract negotia tions today the first in more than three months. Silent and uncommunicative, the United Mine Workers presi dent and the northern and west ern operators went Into closed conference. Even as they resumed the nego tiations, the national labor rela tions board was demanding in federal court that the mine work ers be ordered back to full pro duction because Lewis' contract demands at least the demands made up to now are "Illegal." About 100,000 of the UMW'i 400,000 members are on strike; tne . remainder are working a three-day week. -Neither Lewis nor the indus try group, led by President George H. Love of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., had any comment on President Truman's proposals for solving the coal crisis. Opposed by Union The government's recent re quest for a court order to return the miners to the pits was ar gued before Federal judge Rich mond B. Keech. Union attorneys opposed the request. The government argued that Lewis' insistence on union shop, "able and willing," and "discrim inatory" welfare fund clauses in coal contracts violate the Taft Hartley act. Dominick Manoll. representing the national labor relations board's general counsel, said the union's Insistence on such clauses which were legal In the 1948 contract now constitute "refusal to bargain In good faith" on the union's part. He introduced a pile 01 documents- to support pis con tention. . Welly K. Hopkins, UMW chief counsel, did not object at the court hearing to introduction of government documents. Among them were government statistics on the dwindling coal supply. But he said the union questions their accuracy. He also told Keech that ho looked on them as "irrelevant" to the Issue. Russia Favors Hirohito Trial Washington, Feb. 1 iti'i Russia proposed to the United States to day that Emperor Hirohito of Japan be tried as a war criminal by an International court. The proposal was made in a note Soviet ambassador Alexan der S. Panyushkin handed Secre tary of state Dean Acheson at a seven minute conference at the state department. Upon leaving, Panyushkin sale! the soviet note proposed also the trial of a number of Japanese war criminals who were not un der soviet control, Including Hlro- lilto. Panyushkin said the note re called the recent soviet prosecu tion and conviction of a number of Japanese for planning bacterio logical warfare against the soviet union. He added that the soviet union now wants additional war crim inals prosecuted. Although he did not say so directly, he appeared to link Hiro hito with the bacteriological plot. Asked whether he expected the United Stales to turn over the alleged war criminals to Russia, lw cn , ihit e,il,tt l,r r,r to ntni- I i.,,,w,. rstcil primarily In seeing they are 'Aske(, if ne expheete(f ln United States to prosecute them, he said Russia wants an Inter national trial. Much Tax Exempt Property In Deschutes County, Shown The assessed valuation of tax- exempt property in Deschutes county totals $5,066,075 more than one-third the assessed valua tion of the county's taxable prop erty, according to a report from Ed Risen, county assessor. Tax-free federal proKrty ac counts for $.'VOT,930 of the total, while county and state property exempt from taxation has the assessed values of $182,600 and $79 300, respectively. Cities and towns hold tax-exempt property with the assessed valuation of $110,200. Other exemptions Include: School districts. $615,375; Irriga tion districts, $175,660; literary, benevolent societies, etc., $24,785; church and religious organiza tions, $175,870; burial grounds, $3,500; public library, $13,510; and Battlewagon GetsFreedom On FdurthTry By Robert F. Loftus -(United Praia Staff Corraponfknt) Norfolk, Va., Feb. 1 UPlThe U.S.S. Missouri, the nRvy's might iest battleship, was wrenched free today from a sand bar where she had hung captive for 15 days as impotent as a rowboat. A great cheer "she's free" went up from a thousand sailors as scores of salvage vessels and tugs pulled the 45,000-ton battle wagon from Thimble shoals. Despite driving winds which threatened during a hectic hour's operations to push her aground again, the vessel was pulled by the stern to the channel only 1,000 feet from where she had been stuck in the sand and muck. Three times before the navy had failed to free the mighty Mo from its . embarrassing, predica ment. - Channel Dredged But today, added by a 150-foot wide channel especially dredged, the giant ship was successfully torn loose from the sand bar and guided into the regular Hampton . road channel from which she strayed on Jan. 17. Then the tugs began towing the vessel eight miles down the bay into the Norfolk navy yard for re pairs. The navy wants a good look at her bottom. There were fears that it might have been damaged bya rock. The ship, lightened of thous ands of tons of oil, ammunition and other gear, floated high and skittish as she hit the deep wa ter. A thousand salvage workers "had labored through the flight to. prepare her for the big effort this morning. At 5:30 a.m. EST, the effort got underway. Tugs took their places. At a signal they began pulling fore and aft. The Missouri, pride of the navy and on which the Japanese surrender was signed In Tokyo bay, began to rock. Just as the eastern sky was be ginning to brighten with the dawn, from deep within her bow els came a giant gurgling sound. It sounded like a big rock was rolling around inside the Mo," one salvage worker said. Suction Broken The vessel moved slightly. That did It. The suction which had held the battlewagon fast was broken. The mighty Mo moved out stern foremost toward the channel. Then the cry of "she's free" rang through the salvage fleet. From shore where spectators had watched for days the efforts to free the big Mo some thous ands of persons gave out with more cheers. But no sooner was the big ship (Continued on Page 5) Lions to Honor Wives at Party The Bend Lions club will hold its annual Sweetheart party this year on Saturday night, February 11, In the Pilot Butte inn Blue room, it was decided today noon at a meeting of past presidents of the group. Alva C. Goodrich presided at the conference, held at the inn. i Wives of the members will be guests at the annual party, to be highlighted by a program and a dance. Committees were given assignments at today's meeting, and a program for the February 11 dinner was tentatively ap proved. James VV. Bush on g is to pre side at the Sweetheart party. A toastmaster. yet to be named, will be in general charge. veterans. $57,315. Total assessed valuation of tax able property in the county amounts to $14,250,725, including $11,589,290 in personal and real property, and $2,661,435 for pub lic utilities. Real propertv assessed valua tions include: Tillable land, $1, 289,250; non-tillable land, $347,. 430; timberland, $250,750; platted land, $1,083,210; Improvements on unplatted land, $822,665; Improve ments on platted land, $3,824,030, and affixed machinery to unplat ted land, $74,705. Personal property valuations are: Improvements on U. S. land, $25,210; merchandise, $1,603,780; machinery, $1,084,520; furniture and equipment, $511,500; boats, $1,680; farm implements, $307,255, ' and livestock, $420,620.