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Bend Forecast
Bend and vicinity Partly
cloudy today through Tues
day; snow showers nearby
mountains both days; high
today 40-45; low tonight 18
23; high Tuesday 35-40.
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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
34th Year
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1950
No. 52
Tirymmsiini Uses Tare Ma ribley Law Dim
Work
Under Way Now
On New
Construction of St. Charles
project, omciauy got under way this morning as the massive
jaws of a power shovel scooped giant slabs of lava rock from
the building site. .
On the job today as work got started was Paul W. Wise, of
the Boise, Ida., contracting firm of J. H. Wise and Son. Also
present were some of the firm's key men, including Harry
Lentz, general superintendent
Charles Sprague
Will Be Speaker
At Meeting Here
Charles A. Sprague, publisher
of the Salem Statesman and for
mer governor of Oregon, will be
the guest speaker at the annual
meeting of the Founders Service
organization Thursday. February
9, it was announced here today.
The occasion will be a dinner
meeting of the group that spear
headed the campaign for memor
ial hospital funds here in 1948.
The dinner will be at the Pilot
Butte inn, Paul Hornbeck, secre
tary of the founders group, an
nounced today. The time will be
7 p.m. Dr. John M. McCarthy
heads the Founders' service or
ganization, a group that has
pledged continued support to the
hospita project on which work
stanea toaay.
The founders early Saturday
afternoon were in charge of
ground-breaking ceremonies on
the hospital site.
Officers lor the coming year
will be elected by the founders at
their Thursday night meeting. It
is expected that more than 100
persons will be present for the an
nual dinner.
The Thursday night dinner will
also be the occasion for a celebra
tion on the part of the founders,
in connection with the start of
work on the $900,000 project.
Band Concert
Set for Tonight
Solo parts by several acomplish
ed local musicians will highlight
the concert to be given tonight at
8 p.m. in the Allen school auditor
ium, by the Bend municipal band.
Trombone soloist in the Pear
son arrangement of "Blue Bells of
Scotland," by Pryor, will be Dan
Cillis, experienced horn soloist
from Chicago, who is now living
in Bend.
Another highlight of the pro
gram will be a clarinet duet, "The
Two Little Bullfinches" H. Kling,
Lewis, bv Brent Deitrick and Miss
Mnrcia Summers. Deitrick, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Deitrick of
Bend, was clarinet soloist with
the Willamette university band
last year. Miss Summers, who
played last year In the University
of Oregon band, is a social service
worker with the Deschutes county
welfare administration.
There will be no admission
charge for the concert, Don P.
Pence, director, announced.
British Labor,
Parties Expect
'
London. Feb. 6 'IP The labor
and conservative parties were
running neck and neck in popular
opinion polls today as the British
general election campaign hit full
stride.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
and deputy conservative party
leader Anthony Eden led the list
of speechmakers today. Eden will
nui o ii ,i rajLn norh to -
night in reply to labor arguments!
set forth in a flurry of week end
speeches. Attlee will address a
meeting of his constituency at
West Walthamstow.
More than a dozen top labor
leaders will be speaking to local
audiences throughout the country
at tho tnma timet
VLord Beaverbrook's Dally Ex
Press nnll iVimwvi tho two malot
Press poll showed the two malor
r wit oiiutiu iiict
Parties closely together out with
Jhe conservatives holding slight
ieai.
The liberal News Chronicle's
last Gallup poll a week go show-
Officially
Hospital
memorial hosnital. a S900.000
for the firm. He is in general
charge of the firm's various
projects, including a hospital
being constructed at Weiser,
Ida., and will not be stationed
in Bend. On the job as super
intendent of the kcal project un
til Bob Harris, superintendent,
arrives from the Weiser job is
Paul Nichols.
Superintendent Busy
One of the busiest men on the
job today was Joe Haines, rock
superintendent, who came here
from Pendleton to assist on the
local job. Jim Boyd, here from
Connecticut, is engineer on the
big job. Walter R. MeCormiek is
clerk of the works and represents
the architect, J. W. Maloney, Se
attle, Wash., and owner on the
job.
Wise has established his project
office on the grounds, in a small
building immediately east of the
present hospital.
Work, in connection with exca
vation consists of the removal of
"scab rock" from the surface.
This is the broken lava rock that
covers part of the hospital hill.
Rock being removed by the power
shovel is loaded on trucks and
dumped west of the hospital road,
to the west of the hospital. This
larea will be built up with rock
and earth from the excavation
and sloped toward Lava road and
Franklin avenue.
Some Blasting Due
Blasting in connection with the
excavation will not be started un
til the broken surface rock is re
moved.
Preliminary to the excavation
work that was started this morn
ing, crews removed snow and
some top soil from the site to be
occupied by the large nospitai.
Ground-breaking rites were held
early Saturday afternoon, when a
"soft blast was discnargea on me
lava hill.
Eauipment for use in connec
tion with excavation -was moved
here by the Boise firm from Weis
er, Boise and Pendleton.
J.W.TaylorHurt
In Auto Accident
J. W. Taylor, construction en
gineer stationed at the local of
fice of the U.S. bureau of recla
mation, is recuperating at his
home on Awbrey road. He suf
fered a dislocation of the left
shoulder in an automobile acci
dent last Friday near Burns.
With Rees Brooks and C. C.
Beam, bureau engineers, Taylor
was en route to Denver, Colo., to
attend a conference of construc
tion engineers, when the car in
which they were riding struck a
soft shoulder and left the road.
The car was slightly damaged
and was left in Burns for repairs.
Brooks and Beam continued the
trip by bus, and Taylor returned
by bus to Bend. He was admitted
to St. Charles hospital, and was
released today.
Conservative
Close Election
, i i - -i : -.1.
ed the laborites with a slight
edie.-
The Daily Express said today
that 45 per cent of those polled
said they would vote conservative
and 44 per cent said they would
vote labor.
The poll showed that 11 per
cent of the voters still haven't
made up their minds. These were
1 excluded from the results.
Regardless of how people say
. they will vote,
he overwhelming
majoritiy think the socialists will
win 58 per cent think the so
cialist government will be return
ed while only 27 per cent think
the Tories will win.
This "floater vote is expecica(
to be decisive if the race Is close, j
Tnrfav Is the first dav on which i
formal "nominations can be filed,
TTh IT
Criminations close on Feb. 13".
There is every prospect that there
will be more than the 1.812 candi-
dates alreadv scheduled to run for
the 625 scats in parliament.
Civic Parade Precedes Hospital Ground Breaking
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Braving slushy streets resulting from the sudden thaw, hundreds o Bend residents Saturday after
noon joined in a parade through downtown Bend, then marched south' on Franklin to the St. Charles
memorial hospital site, where ground breaking ceremonies were held. Tins picture was taken on Bond
street. The Bend high school band and majorettes are shown at the head of the parade.
Deschutes Circuit
Docket Lists Ten
Fire Destroys -Montana
Hotel;
Four Lives Lost
Eureka, Mont., Feb. 6 (IB A
flight of 12 charred steps was all
that remained today of the Mon
tana hotel, destroyed yesterday
by a flash fire that claimed four
and possibly five lives.
Four bodies were recovered
from the ruins of the two-story
frame building. A search was un
der way for the fifth, William
Peterson, a Great Northern rail
way worker. Coroner Roy Liven
good said there was "no chance"
he survived.
The other dead were Ed La
France, about GO, hotel clerk;
Charles Cameron, 74, a farmer;
and John Powell and Delano
Grayson, members of the Brown
ing, Mont., high school basket
ball team.
Five guests suffered minor
burns and cuts.
It was the second major fire
in this small town in three days.
Two buildings were destroyed
Thursday night.
Explosion Blamed
Firemen believed the hotel fire
began with the explosion of an oil
burner In the basement, apparent
ly about 3 a.m.
"It went up like a dry box of
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Phone Strike
May Be Delayed
New York, Feb. 6 Ii Union
leaders said today they were
"willing to consider" a two-week
postponement of a telephone
workers' strike "if there's some
thing to be gained by It."
Ernest Weaver, president of di
vision six of the Communications
Workers of America (CIO), said
a postponement had not been pro
posed to him but "if there's any
basis for It, we would consider It."
Otherwise, Weaver said, there
would be no change in the strike
deadline set for 6 am. (local
time) Wednesday by Western
Electric installation workers
which could involve 100.000 work
ers and paralyze the national tel
ephone network.
Union representatives, company
negotiators and federal media Ion
officials met at 10:30 a.m., EST.
Chief federal mediator Cyrus
Ching was expected to Join them
later today.
William N. Margolis, Chlng's
top aide, was one of the con
ferees.
Before the meeting began, he
would not comment on the report
that tho oni'Ammnnt u.ttilH hm.
that the government would pro-
pose a two-week postponement,
The union demands higher pay,
shorter hours, and Improved
1 working conditions.
Trial in Deschutes county cir-
cult court oi the first of 10 cases
on the docket, is to begin Feb
ruary 14, according ; to an an
nouncement -from' R. S. Hamil
ton, circuit court judge.
The majority of the cases ready
for trial are personal injury suits
which evolved from automobile
accidents.
The first case up for trial is
Samuel Nesbit versus R. D. Og
den. According to his complaint,
Nesbit seeks to recover a num
ber of music boxes which he
states the defendant unlawfully
took from his possession, and
also $500 in damages. Rupert E.
Park is the defense attorney,
and Nesbit is represented by the
law firm of De Armond, Good
rich, Foley & Gray.
Others Listed
Other cases in their order of
trial include:
George Douglas versus Domo
nlque Virges and Emil Van
Lacke. Douglas seeks a $25,000
judgment against each of the de
fendants for injuries he received
in a hunting accident in Crook
county in September of 1940. Ac
cording to his complaint, Doug
las was shot in the leg when a
rifle was accidentally discharged
while he was riding in a pick up
truck with the defendants.
Julian A. and Olga I. Ocrber
versus Gilbert and Gertrude Wil
cox. Damages Asked
The plaintiffs seek $2,500 for
damages suffered when tho de
fendants allegedly falsified the
facts about a piece of property
they sold the plaintiffs in June.
1948, according to the complaint.
Charles E. Shaver versus Vi
ola G. Smith. The plaintiff seeks
to collect $1,500 he lent the de
fendant in September, 1947, ac
cording to his complaint.
Tom Cunningham versus Leo
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Bushong, Moffat
At Chamber Meet
James W. Bushong and How
ard W. Moffat, president and
manager, respectively, of the
Bend chamber of commerce, are
in Portland today for a confer
ence with chamber officials of
Oregon and Washington com
munities. Among matters to be discussed
at the conference are retail. In
dustrial, highway, tourist and
civic problems.
E L. Skeel, former president
of the Seattie chamber and re
cently elected vice-president for
the west of the newly created
all-America defense association,
today was scheduled to address
conference delegates on the topic
"More Adequate Defense of the
Pacific Northwest and Its Out
posts." Yesterday, the board of direc
tors of the western institute, an
organization of chamber and com
mercial organization secretaries
met to discuss plans for a 19o0ithat children were sliding
school in Reno next summer. I roof tops Into snow banks.
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Court
Cases
Triplets Born
AYSt. Charles
Hospital Today
February 6, 1950, will go down
in history as a red-letter day for
St. Charles hospital and for Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Ashcraft, of
Madras. The couple became par
ents of the first set of triplets
ever delivered at the hospitul.
The day was already an aus
picous one, as actual work of
preparing the sile for the new
$!0(),000 hospital got under way.
The babies, two boys and a
girl, had a combined weight of
14 pounds, 4 ounces. The first
boy, weighing 4 pounds, 11
ounces, arrived at 10:17 a. m. The
girl, with a weight of 4 pounds,
9 ounces, was delivered at 10:26.
The other boy, -who weighed 5
pounds, came at 10:50.
Everyone Surprised
The multiple birth was a sur
prise to the- parents, the doctor
and the hospilal slaff. Mrs. Ash
craft was In good health through
out her pregnancy, and there
had been no occasion for an X
ray. Dr. R. E. Jones, of Redmond,
who delivered the babies, said
that her condition is "excellent,"
and that the delivery was normal
in every respect.
Both parents were overwhelm
ed when Ihey received the news.
"When the nurse told me I had
twins, I was surprised, but I
could hardly believe It when I
learned that there was still an
other," the mother said. She was
delighted, she admitted, and said
thai she "felt fine."
The father, who Is 25, said that
preparations had been made for
only one baby.
Names Not Selected
"I guess we'll have to do a lit
tie more arithmetic," he grinned
"We have another little girl, so
now we have quite a family."
Sevenleen months ago, Mrs. Ash
craft checked In at the local hos
pital, and gave birth to Sandra
I-ee. Names' for the new babies
have not been selected. "I have
n't even given it a thought," said
the young mother.
Ashcraft, a-native of Quemeno,
Kan., Is employed by the Warm
Springs Lumber company, as a
tallyman. He and his wife and
Sandra Lee, have been living In
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ROADS CLEARED
Portland. Feb. 6 npiAsslstant
county roadmaster Paul C. North
rop. said today that road condi
tions In eastern Multnomah coun
ty, hard-hit by last week's bliz
zards, were gradually clearing.
Northrop said all east-west ar
teries were open, except In the
Corbett area where It will re
quire two or three days for plows
to got through the huge drifts.
At Wood village, near Trout
dale, he said snow was so deep
off
WarmWeatherSpreadsOver
Entire Pacific Northwest;
Coast Regions Get Rainfall
(By IWlrd Prrvi)
Slush, and water Monday took the place of pneked ice and
snow in the Pacific northwest states.
The thawing which began during the week end spread
gradually to all sections of Oregon and Washington as a minor
but warm storm moved along the British Columbia const nd
brought the promise of showers
area.
The weather bureau forecast
Tumalo Creek
Proves Freak!
Most Oregon streams froze
from the surface down In the re
cent arctic weather, but Tumalo
creek, just west of Bend, turned
In a performance that was differ
ent it froze from the bottom
up. As a result, the turbulent
creek, born in the high Cascades
west of Bend, has been forced
from its channel in a number of
places. .
This is the second consecutive
year that thick ice has formed on
the bottom of Tumalo creek.
About 20 years ago, the bottom
ice was so thick that the stream
left its channel in the lower mea
dows, cutting a new, temporary
bed across the bottom lands.
The phenomenon of a stream
freezing from the bottom up is
not unusual in Alaska, hydrolo-
gists report, but is little known
in Oregon. In the north the Ice
that forms In the bottom Is known
as anchor Ice, which builds up
when the. stream temperature Is
actually below freezing, but does
not congeal on top because of the
swift movement of the water.
Gradually as the anchor ice
chokes channels, streams go over
their banks and in some areas in
the .norm result in. considerable
flooding. Anchor' ice forms in
Tumalo creek only during periods
or prolonged and intense cold.
Mallard Duck
Tests Ice Rink
A Bend mallard mistook the
municipal skating rink for the
Mirror pond Sunday, made a
landing and found the swimming
good.
The lone duck was seen by
many Bend church goers Sunday
moiiing, and attracted consider
able attention.
The rink was flooded with wa
ler over the week end as a re
sult of the general thaw. Last
night the surface partly froze
again, but was ruined by persons
who walked over the soft sur
face. Tracks remained in the sur
face this morning.
Whether the rink Is to be re
flooded will largely depend on
weather conditions in the next
few days, Wayne Hamilton, rec
reation director, said. Because of
the laleness of the season, re
flooding may not be advisable, it
was indicated.
Mickey Cohen
Target in Blast
Los Angeles, Feb. R HI") Mob
ster Mickey Cohen's bedroom was
shattered today by an explosion,
but the dapper gambler escaped
Injury in the latest attempt on
his life because he was In his
wife's bedroom.
The bomb, detonated at 4:20
a.m., PST, with a mar outside
Cohen's bedroom window, did
$50,000 damage and Imunced a
family across the street out of
their beds.
"Your guess is as good as
mine," Cohen told officers as to
the ones who set off the blast.
Officers believe dynamite was
used because Cohen suid, "I
smelled a fuse burning."
Every window in his Brent
wood mansion was broken, the
southwest wing of the house laid
open, exposing Cohen's wardrobe
of 50 suits. Windows in neighbor
ing homes were broken, and the
blast was felt three miles away.
A hole six feet deep was dug In
the ground.
Linked Willi Underworld
For more than a decade, Co
hen's name has been linked with
the Los Angeles underworld, and
he became more prominent with
every gangland rubout. After the
killing of Benjamin (Hugsy) Sic
gel In 1947, Cohen generally was
regarded as the new king of the
Los Angeles rackets. And ther
were sporadic reports of gunplay
in which he was the target.
to most interior points in the
continued thawing through
Tuesday, but at n rate that
should prevent serious flood
ing. . -
Pendleton, Ore., remained a
cold spot with a recording of
seven degrees above; zero, but
across the northwest tempera
tures pushed steadily above freez
ing, Including many coastal read
ings in the 50's. Roseburg, Ore.
recorded a CI and Medford 59.
Among major cities, Portland's
temperature moved down only tql
a 32 Monday morning and began
fast rise under sunny skies. Se
attle registered a low of 30 and
a high of 43.
Coast Geln Ruin
Rainfall was heavy for coastal
points. Newport, Ore., had 1.20
inches during a 24-hour period.
Highway conditions generally
Improved during the week end,
but chains were still required in
mountain passes. The Oregon
state highway department hoped
to have the Columbia river high
way reopened Monday afternoon
at Shell rock, 10 miles east of Cas
cade Locks, and the Evergreen
highway on the Washington side
of the Columbia was reopened to
one-way traffic at Cape Horn.
Slight to moderate rises In riv
ers of northwestern Oregon and
southwestern Washington were
predicted, with moderate to sub
stantial lifts of the middle Colum
bia and Snake rlveA for the next
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The weather bureau said the
warm up was caused by "post
frontal effects'" of a storm which
struck .the northern California
and southern Oregon coasts. The
bureau said a i"cold front" follow
ed the warm air but it would not
be Intense.
"Cold fronts" which gave the
Pacific northwest one of its cold
est Januarys In history were
termed "continental polar fronts."
ABERDEEN GETS WATER
Aberdeen, Wash., Feb. 6 Mi
Housewives and firemen were
getting ample supplies of water
again today but sawmills and
oilier Grays Harbor area indus
tries were still on short rations.
Emergency pumps started
dumping 4.000 gallons per minute
Into the city's parched reservoirs
last night.
Two GOQ gallon per .minute
pumps were operating at Stewart
creek near tho north cily limits.
A fire department pumper also
was operating and the nearby city
of Hoquiam proved Itself a good
neighbor by giving Aberdeen resi
dents about 1,000,000 gallons of
water per hour.
Crews last night were busy
breaking Ice in mains and repair
ing broken pipes which caused
the shortage.
Aberdeen schools reopened to
day and theaters, closed because
of the fire hazard, were operating
again last night.
Location of U.
Will Experience Long Delay
Washington, Feb. 6 miIt ap
peared today that the alrforce will
have to wait at least another year
nerorc congress decides to estab
lish an air force academy.
A congressional election year Is
the chief reason. Bids for the
school have been submitted by 195
communities In J4 states.
Some members of congress,
who asked to remain anonymous
said they do not want "this addi
tional pressure" from back home
while campaigning for reelection.
Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga.,
of the house armed services com
mittee promised to hold hearings
on the Issue. Hut ho said no ac
tual legislation will be considered
until a defense department selec
tion board Inspects all 19a sites.
The board, headed by Gen. Carl
Spaatz, retired former air force
chief of staff, has Inspected 43
sites to date. It was unlikely that
its task will be completed before
congress adjourns this year.
There ore 27 separate air acad
emy bills before congress. They
would authorize an officer train
Ing school for airmen comparable
to the army's West Point and the
navy g Annapolis.
Now Pigeon-Holed
Defense secretary Louis John
son gent a draft of proposed legis
lation to congress last Aug. 1. Up
to now It has rested In senate and
house committee pigeon holes.
Stroke
Coal Miners
Defiant; Stay
Home Today
By Laurence Gonder
(Unita! Pi-ces Staff CorrMiionilent)
Washington. Feb.' 6 (IH Presi
dent Truman invoked the national
emergency provision of the Taft
Hartley law today in the first le
gal step to halt a strike, of some
400,000 soft coal miners.
Declaring that continuance of
the strike "will imperil the nation
al health and safety," Mr. Tru
man established a three-man
board of inquiry. He directed the
board to report back to him by .
next Monday. . The board will
merely ascertain the facts and is
sues in the case.
After the board reports, Mr..
Truman may direct the attorney
general to go into federal court
and seek an order to put the
striking miners back to work for
at least 80 days.
John L. Lewis warned the pres
ident Saturday that the miners
might not go back If he "slugged"
them with what he called the
"blackjack" of the Taft-Hartley
law. But the last time Lewis de
fied a Taft-Hartlev intunction
in 1948 it cost him and his
union $1,720,000 in fines.
This was the first time that
Mr. Truman has used the Taft
Hartley law since August, 1948,
and the third time he has invoked
it in a coal dispute.
Dislikes Xaw
Mr. Truman had been reluctant
to Invoke the Taft-Hartley law,
which he dislikes and which he
sought in vain to have repealed
last year.
But he was left no alternative
after Lewis ..last Saturday, shut
the door on' the Inst chnncp-to
solve the dispute by voluntary
action a 70-day truce proposal
by ihc president.
Even so. the president deferred
action during the week end In the
hope that the miners would work
today. Instead, the miners start
ed a full-fledged strike, with al
most 300,000 diggers Joining 100,
000 others who had walked out
during the past two weeks even
refusing to work a three-day
week.
Lewis did not issue a formal
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Peach Orchards
Damaged by Cold
The Dalles, Feb. 6 Uli Sub-zero
weather may have eliminated all
possibility for a peach crop this
year, growers In The Dalles area
said today after a week-end sur
vey of damage.
Full extent of the damage prob
ably won't be determined until
spring, but growers said injury to
buds left little doubt that the crop
had all but been wiped out.
Examination of buds in many
instances showed a black color in
side, an Indication of frost-kill.
The normal color is green.
Growers said apricots apparent
ly fared only slightly better. Cher
ry trees were believed in fairly
good condition because of their
ability to withstand the rigprs of
winter.
S. Air Academy
Vinson made It clear that con
gress not only will decide whether
to establish an air academy, but
where It will be located. This
would indicate that It probably
will consider, but not accept as
final, any recommendation sub
mitted by the site selection board.
Tho alrforce estimated that it
needs 5.000 acres for the project..
Estimated cost is $171,000,000.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, nlr
force chief of staff, said the air
force does not have and cannot
get a sufficient number of college-trained
officer personnel
without a separate service acad
emy. At present, a fourth of the
graduating classes at Annapolis
and West Point may enter the alr
force. Air secretary W. Stuart Sym
ington refused to comment on a
proposal to locate the academy in
President Truman's home town of
Independence, Mo.
Rep. Ieonard Irving, D., Mo.,
sponsor of this idea, said after a
White House visit that It would
not make Mr. Truman "angry,"
but that the president would not
use influence to have it located
there.
No application hag been receiv
ed from Independence or Jackson
county of which it is the county
seat. The defense department's
deadlli e for site applications was
last Dec. 31.
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