HE BEND BULLETIN
Bend Forecast
Bend and vicinity Partly
cloudy today, clearing to
night; fair Wednesday; high
today 40; low tonight 20;
high Wednesday 46.
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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
34th Year
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1950
No. 83
dycafcioni Aid Bill Killed by Committee
T
Early Start
Set lor New
Lumber Plant
Construction by Leonard Lund-
gren of a lumber remanufactur
ing plant on a 24-acre industrial
tract obtained from the city of
Bend will get under, way in the
near future, just as soon as the
survey for a spur track is com
pleted by railroad engineers, it
was learned here today. The esti
mated cost of the construction of
buildings and installations has
been set at $41,000.
Lundgren announced today that
the 10,000,000 board feet of lum
ber he recently purchased on the
Warm Springs Indian reservation
will be milled here. The Lund
gren crews are at present com
pletinglogging work in the Pine
mountain area and will be shifted
to the tract in the Lapine area
recently purchased from the bu
reau of land management.
Logging an the Wdrm Springs
tract will get . under way this
spring.
Tract Level
The Lundgren plant will be
erected on a comparatively level
tract in the new industrial area,
in the southeast part of- Bend.
Provisions of the contract be
tween the city and Lundgren are
basically similar to contracts
with other industrial firms in the
area, city officials said. The tract
has been leased to Lundgren for
one, year, for the consideration
of $1, with this provision:
"It is understood and agreed
that the second party proposes
to install or construct a planer
and lumber remanufacturing mill
or lumber resawmill, together
with a building on said premises,
the cost of said installations and
construction of said building to
be in the sum of approximately
$41,000, and it is understood and
agreed that that during the op
eration of said plant the said
second party shall give prefer-,
ence in the sale of output and
said plant to Bend operators or
Bend remanufacturing plants in
industries.
Purchase Provided
"Upon completion of said plant
and building, or buildings, and
upon the commencement of op-;
erations thereof, the said secc.nd
party is hereby granted the op
tion of purchasing said real prop
erty at the expiration of the term
of this lease for the sum of
$200."
The contract, which also holds
a legal description of the prop
erty, was signed by Mayor T. D.
Sexton and Commissioners W. B.
Anderson, Bert White, Wilfred
A. Fordham, W, J. Baer and A. C.
Nelson, for the city, and by Lund
gren. Lundgren has announced that
on completion of the plant his
present operations will be shifted
from the Oregon Trail. Box com
pany area, where work is being
carried on at present, to the new
loeatipn.
Lundgren indicated that con
struction of the new plr.nt can be
started immediately after the
spur track survey is completed.
MINE EXPLODED
Seattle, March 14 Ui A Japa
nese noating mine, menacing
shipping off Cape Blanco, Ore.,
was exploded by rifle fire last
night, the coast guard reported
luuay.
"Flying Saucer" Season Here
Again; Seen in
Mexico Citv Mnrph 14 (IP).
Trained aircraft observers and
meteorologists confirmed reports
today of hundreds of pprsons who
said they saw four "flving sauc
ers" yesterday over this city and
one at Monterrey, 350 miles north.
Official observers shied away
from describing them as "sauc
ers." but admitted that they were
'flying bodies." ' ,
Meteorologists at the Mexico
City airport calculated the alti
tude of the bodies at between 35,
000 and 40,000 feet bv using their
weather balloon tracking Instru
ments. An airline's weather man said
he "thought" the one hp saw was
an asteroid. Santiago Smith, the
Mexican Aviation company's
chief observer, said the one he
watched was In the shape of a
nair-moon." Smith watched1 the
"dy through a telescope.
"It was there," said Smith. "It
was no Illusion."
J. De La Vega, a veteran em
ploye of the airport commander's
f office, said he saw all four of the
i saucers". He said they appeared
'o be the size of a silver peso
'rom the ground. Other observers
guessed they were about 100 feet
in diameter.
Bend Lava
wL tea
Bend's high school basketball team, district champion and second-place winner in the Big Six circuit,
left for Eugene this morning to take part in the state tourney, starting tomorrow. Top, Bears and
Coach Roger Wiley are shown putting their luggage aboard a station wagon. They made the trip in
two cars. Below, a Wall street scene yesterday evening, as Bend high school students joined in a pre
game rally. The players appeared in the line of march aboard cars which bore their names, in large
letters.
Sportsmen Name
Two Delegates .
To River Council
Dr. W. G. Manning and Gerald
McCann were elected last night
by the Deschutes County Sports
men's association as. delegates to
the Deschutes river council.
Selected as alternates were
Wayne Faddis and John Wetle.
The council is scheduled to meet
this Saturday at Dufur, for its
annual election of officers.
The association also named six
members to its board of directors.
They were Roy Arthur, Earl
Wood, Duncan L. McKay, m. l,.
Myrick, Dr. W. G. Manning and
Gerald McCann.
More than 200 persons attend
ed the meeting, which was held
at the 1WA hall in Bend.
After the business meeting four
motion pictures of particular in
terest to sportsmen were shown.
Following this a Dutch luncheon
was served. Joseph Mack was in
charge of arrangements for the
program.
ALFALFA FARM SOLD
Alfalfa, March 14 (Special)
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Maytield have
sold their farm to Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Byrum of Jacksonville, Ore.
This farm is west of the Alfalfa
store and is the fourth farm to
sell within the last week.
Many Places
At Monterrey the government
airport Inspector, Francisco Mar
tinez Soto, said he watched a "fly
ing body" which moved In a
straight line from southwest to
northeast.
Soto said his instruments indi
cated the body changed altitude
by l'-i degrees in three minutes.
He said he believed it was "a
heavenly visitor" of some sort.
Pl'KSl IT DESCRIBED
Durango, Colo.. March 14 ill"1
Two southern Colorado business
men said today that they were
chased by a strange flying object
while returning last week from a
trip to New Mexico.
Lloyd Locke of Durango and
Harold Tanner of Cortez, Colo.,
said they had tried to keep the
story quiet to avoid ribbing from
skeptical friends.
They said they were returning
from Bloomfield, N. M., one night
last week when the object began
following their car. Both refused
to call it a "flying saucer."
"But it was too fast for a bird,
and too small for an airplane,"
Tanner said.
The pair said they were driving
at about 50 miles an hour along
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Bears Leave for State Tourney
Close Observation of Beef I e
Infestation Now Scheduled
Mountain beetle control work in the Wanoga butte area,
west of Bend, may not be undertaken this year, but close ob
servation of the reported insect infestation is planned, it was
learned here today. It was at first believed that control work
would be necessary.
The flare up of mountain
covering the Cascade slope and
Lava Bears Games
To Be Broadcast
Over Radio KBND
A description of play between
the Bend Lava Bears and the
Grants Pass Cavemen in tomor
row's Oregon state basketball
tournament game will be broad
cast from McArthur court in Eu
gene and released locally over
radio station KBND, it was an
nounced today.
The broadcast will start at 3
p.m., and the full game will be
carried. The broadcast will be
sponsored by Gregg's Banner
bakery, Dyer's Auto service and
Cashman's.
Broadcasts will continue so
long as Bend remains in the
championship bracket, it was an
nounced. Oregon sports writers
say that as a result of being pair
ed against Grants Pass, the Bears
will meet in the opener a team
that is considered the state's No.
1 team on the eve of the tourney.
Laborites Win
Confidence Vote
London, March 14 up Prime
minister Clement Attlee's labor
government faced new conserva.
five challenges with more confi
dence today after winning a vote
of confidence on housing with a
majority of 25.
Winston Churchill's conserva
tive party planned to press Its at
tack on the laborites today with
a new challenge on government
expenditures. Government lead
ers said they were confident they
could survive the vote.
The confidence vote on hous
ing in the house of commons last
night was the second test for the
weakened labor government In
five days The government won
314 to 289 on a conservative mo.
tion criticizing the government
housing program.
The government won its first
vote of confidence, based on the
nationalization of steel last
Thursday by a majority of 14.
The vote then was 310 to 296.
All but a half dozen of the la.
bor members of parliament were
present for the vote. Hero of the
laborites was Frank- Anderson,
62, a former railway clerk, who
rose from a hospital bed to at
tend commons and cast his vote
with government members.
beetles in the jackpine forest
volcanic buttes directly west
ol Bend tirst came under ob
servation last year. A survey
at that time revealed the
beetles had attacked trees on
thousands of acres of land in
the national forest.
Work on Jackpine
Mountain beetles, foresters
point out, must not be confused
with the western pine beetles,
which attack weakened stands of
ponderosa pine. The mountain
beetles confine their attacks prin
cipally to jackpine.
There is a possibility that arc
tic temperatures of the past year
might have checked the inroads
of mountain beetles in the jack
pine stands west of Bend. A. J.
Jaenicke, in charge of insect con
trol work for the forest service in
the Pacific northwest, has the
stands on the Wanoga butte area
under observation.
Last year's mountain pine
beetle infestation in the Wanoga
butte country was one of the most
extensive known in the Pacific
northwest jackpine belt.
Mountain pine beetle control
work is carried out by small field
crews using spray equipment. In
earlier days, beetle-tunneled bark
was peeled from trees and burn
ed. Registration Set
For Spring Term
Registration for Central Ore
gon Community college spring
term classes was started this
week and will be continued next
week, Monday through Thursday,
Howard Nicholson, coordinator,
announced today. The college
winter Quarter will end on March
16 and the spring term will get
under wav Mondav. March 20.
Registration In the junior col-
lege now numbers 80, and it is
expected that this will approxi
mate the spring term total. Three
hour courses to be available are
English composition, English lit
erature, history of western civil-
lzation, general sociology and
constructive accounting. Four
hour courses will be offered In
algebra, elementary geometry.
intermediate algebra and biologi
es n science survey. There will be
a two hour course in typing.
Nicholson said the time sched
ule for spring quarter classes will
be the same as that for the fall
term. There has been ome con
fusion over this point, the coor-
dlnator has Indicated.
Registration hour are from 1
to 6 p, m. and from 7 to 9 p- m.
New Attacks
Made Today
On State Dept.
By John L. Steele
(United I'rnM Stuff CurrtaiiKin(lent)
Washington, March ,14 (IB
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R.,
Wis., testified today that a homo
sexual had been hired by the cen
tral intelligence agency after the
state department allowed him to
resign.
McCarthy did hot publicly iden
tify the man. But he asked sen
ators investigating his charges
that communists are employed
by the state department to find
out:
(2) Why the man was kept on
the state department payroll for
five years after being arrested
for "sexual perversion," and (2)
How, he was able to gel "a top
salaried, important position in
anotfler government agency."
He reminded the senate foreign
relations sub-committee that sec
retary of state Dean Acheson
r.nd deputy undersecretary John
iv. h-eurltoy both have declared
that "homosexuals are regarded
as poor security risks.
25 More Names
Shortly before the noon recess,
McCarthy gave the committee a
new list of names of 25 state de
partment employes he said should
be investigated as possible "se
curity risks." He did not disclose
the names. But he said he under
stood the FBI had developed In
formation on the 25 which would
"stamp many, if not all of them,
as bad security risks."
McCarthy brought up the case
of the alleged homosexual after:
1. Accusing. Gustavo. Duran.
former state department employe
now with the United Nations, of
being a "rabid communist."
2. Charging that Dr. Harlow
Shapley, head of the Harvard col
lege astronomical observatory,
has a "long and interesting" rec
ord as a member of communist
fronts. 3. Calling John Stewart Serv
ice, American far eastern expert,
a "bad security risk" whose "com
munis t affiliations are well
known."
McCarthy said he would .not
disclose the homosexual's name,
because' of the ."sordid details,"
until the committee could inves
tigate. He testified that the man was
kept on rolls of the foreign serv
ice and the state department un
til 1948 despite an arrest on a
morals charge in 1943.
Hp suggested that the commit
tee determine who sponsored the
man both in the state depart
ment and in the intelligence
agency.
Not Top Official
McCarthy said "I don't want
the wrong man to be suspected
in the CIA." He said the alleged
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Sheriff Killed,
Suspect Trailed
Marfa, Tex., March 14 HI1'
A mounted posse, including Tex
as rangers, searched the rugged
terrain along the Mexican bor
der today for a suspect In the
slaying of Presidio countv sheriff
Otis W. (Blackiel Morrow.
While border patrolmen guard
ed the Rio Grande to keep the
i killer from Mexico, the posse
I fanned out from the spot where
it lost his trail yesterday amid
the hoofprints of a flock of goats.
The trail's end was near the
shallow Rio Grande and came
after the posse headed by Ranger
Gully Cowsert had followed It
for 15 miles,
Presidio county attorney Nor.
i man C. Davis said today, how
! ever, that "possibilities are very
j good that he has already made It
into Mexico.
Morrow's body was found Sun
ciay in nis car wnicn naci neon
Iriven In a ditch along highway!
07 eight miles north of Presidio,
He had been shot through the left
side of his body.
Under Morrow's head officers
I lounu a loiiied jacnet and a wai
let containing Identification pa
pers of a Chihuahua City, Mexl
; eo, man.
An emntv cartridge case and an
unused shell, both the same rail, j plane shortly before it took off
her as the gun carried by Mor. ! The victims included three Nc
row, were found near the scene I York executives: K. T. Stannard.
of the shooting which gave president of the Kennccott Cop
strength to officers' belief that i per Corp.; Arthur P. Storke. pros
the sheriff had been killed with, idem of the Clifrmx Molybdenum
his own gun.
Officers theorized that Morrow
had stopped to make an arrest,
1 then was disarmed and shot.
Deadline for Registration
April 18, Announced; Various
Places Now Made Available
Residents of Deschutes county have until April 18 to reg
ister for voting in the primary elections on May 19, County
clerk Helen M. Dacey reminded today.
On that date registration rolls will be closed and they will
not be opened again until the day after the election.
Eligible citizens may register at the office of countv' clerk
at the courthouse in Hend, or
Potatoes Slated
For Charity Use,
Under New Bill
Washington, March 14 tlP - A
joint house -senate conference
committee agreed today on a com
promise farm bill which will let
the government pay freight costs
to give its surplus potatoes to
chanty.
The bill also would clamp limits
on price supports for the 1950 and
1951 potato crops in an effort to
avoid another costly surplus.
The bill still must be voted up
on by both house and senate.
The agriculture department has
offered to give away its moun
tain-high store of potatoes rather
than destroy them. However, It
hitherto has been unable to pay
the freight on them. For that
reason many agencies have not
offered to take the potatoes, al
though wanting them. The new
bill would allow the government
to pay the freight.
The bill also:
1. Added approximately 1,250,-
000 acres to the 1950 cotton acre
age quotas to correct "inequities
in allotments. This was a compro
mise. The house had sought some
1,400,000 acres""and the senate
urged that the figure be held to
800,000.
2. Eliminated any changes in
wheat acreage allotments. The
house wanted no new acreage for
wheat but the senate had attempt
ed to add some 4.500.000 acres.
3. Agreed to allot another 100,
000 acres for the 1950 peanut crop
and to let peanut farmers grow
all the peanuts they wish to sell
to the government to be crushed
for oil. .
Emergency Measure
The bill whipped into final form
by the conferees originated in the
house as an emergency measure
for meeting complaints against
the 1950 cotton acreage quotas.
With cotton under crop ron
trdls to combat surpluses for the
first time in eight years, some
farmers compluined they had
been given too little acreage un
der the new quotas. The addition
will raise the prospective 1950 cot
ton crop some 20.250,000 acres. A
1949 act set it at a peak of 21,
000,000. However, the potato issue arose
during the arguments in the
house and senate when Secretary
of agriculture Charles F. Bran
nan tried futilely to give away
surpluses bought to bolster the
market in spuds. He is empower
ed by law to give thpm away for
charity, relict or non-pront pur
poses but the recipient has to pay
the freight.
Airplane Bomb
Killer to Die
,
Quebcc City. Que., March 14 'll
A French-speaking Jury found
ex-jewelry salesman J. Albert
Cuav guilty today of the lime
bombing of a Canadian airliner
and he was sentenced to be hang
ed June 23. .
Guay engineered the timebomb
to get rid
of his raven-haired
wife. Rita, one
of 23 persons
aboard the plane. All were killed
when the airliner exploded.
Pandemonium broke out in lhc!
courtroom when the verdict ;
which carried a mandatory death
nenaltv. was announced. Police
j restored order
The iurv foreman presented the
- 1 verdict exactly 20 minutes after
, the jurors retired.
rtuav rose, and in a voice which
j betraved no emotion, declared; "1
I have nothing to say."
j The Canadian Pacific airlines
DC-3 exploded and crashed into
- a mountainside at Nairn am in
- jchon. Que . Sept. 9. The crown
- charged that the explosion was
I caused by a time bomb w hich
Cuav had had placed aboard the
(Co.; and R. 3. Parker, vicepresi
I dent of Kennecott and president
, of the Quebec Iron and Titanium
I Co.
through one of (he eight reg-
' inn bis nijpuuucu uy ner in :
me county. i
Residents in the Redmond
area may register with Eva
line R.iebhoff at the Redmond
city hall. In Lapine the regis-
trar is Helen W. McCabe, who
may be contacted at McCabe's
service station. The Terrebonne
area is being served by Dorothy
Vestal and Ida Olausen, and H. A.
Bedwell and Helen Benson will
register persons in the Sisters
area.
Others in Bend
Besides the courthouse, Bend
residents also have available to
them registrars at the CIO office
on Bond street and the A. F. of L.
office on Oregon avenue. Regis
trar at the former office is Wil
fred Fordham and at the latter,
Clarence E. Briggs.
Eligibility for registering to
vote in Deschutes county requires
that a citizen be at least 21 years
of age on the date of the first elec
tion after his registration. He
must also have been -a resident of
the state of Oregon for at least
six months and of the county for
at least 30 days.
Mrs. Dacey also warned that
persons must re register if they
have been registered in Deschutes
county but have not voted in an
election in the past two years,
Voters who have moved from one
precinct to another since the last
election must likewise re-register.
The county clerkS reported that
postcards were, sent put, by her
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Child Actress
Runs Away, Tells
Story of Abuse
Hollywood, March 14 IPi Tiny
Lora Lee Michel, a $100-a-day
child actress who ran away from
home because she was "hungry
all the time." gulped down a
hearty breakfast today at the
county juvenile hall.
Then she went to school with
the rest of the children, but she
could hardly wait for recess. They
serve milk then, and she downed
it eagerly.
"I'm sure plad to get back
here." the nine-year-old movie
star said. "I can have as much
as I want. I'd rather live at ju
venile hall."
While Lora Lee ate. juvenile
judge A. A. Scott and two juve
nile officers huddled about her
fate. The officers must file a pe
tition for a custody hearing with
in 48 hours.
The diminutive blonde actress
ran away from her foster mother
last nie.ni, setting on a irenziec.
police search for kidnapers. She
was found, after she had eaten
a sandwich, a bottle of milk and
a pj(ve ol piet at ,nf. nomf, of a
i minister in nearby Kurbank.
1 Dismissal Denied
I Aitmnrvc for 1 he foster mother
Mrs. lorrainp Michel, went to
i court In Beverly Hills today to
! try to get a dismissal of earlier
! charges that Mrs. Michel under
; fed the child 1o keep her small
enough for picture roles.
i "It would bp a grave mlscar-
riaR(. 0, jUSljw t0 dlsmii the
rnai.p,.Si" jUSj(.P of the peace
11pnrv h. Draeeer said In dnnv
trig the motion. The mothers nt
: tornevs had claimed the! all evl
dence had been presented at n
,,1T.. )US heai-ine which affirmed
cus-lodv of Una Iw.
Scott talked to Hip this
m
iimlng lend said she told hlin
Mis. Michel heal her yesterday.
But all she could show to prove
it were a few scratches.
"I'm nol entirely convinced of
the ci-cdihi!ity of the slory." he
said "I rlf.'t leel that everythlni:
has hccri tiroufhl out yet."
He forbade tiny conversation
with the child.
1na lee was Inst lodged in
juvenile hull when friends com
plained Mrs Michel whs stiirvlng
her.
"line thine. I like about ll here
is that they give you extra milk
eveiy mon'Ing." she said. "I can
haivCv wait "
BULLETIN
New York. March M 'IP Val
entin OuhitchPV, Russian United
Nations emplove, will r?m,iln in
the United States mid fight to re
verse his conviction and 15-year
sentence on spy conspiracy
charges, his attorney announced
today.
Assistance
For Parochial
Washington, March 14 IB The
ea a senate bill to provide federal
help in the operation of public
schools. It agreed to consider as
a substitute some form of gov
ernment aid in school construc
tion. Chairman John Lcsinski, D.,
Mich., said the committee voted
13 to 12 against the senate's $300,-OOO.OOO-ayear
aid bill. He said the
vote proved that "no acceptable
bill," can be drafted.
The federal aid bill is a key
point in President Truman's pro
gram. It foundered in the house
on the question of whether Cath
olic schools should share in fed
eral aid.
Some members insisted that the
committee should vote on two,
other aid bills differing sharply
from the rejected senate measure.
Votes on these will be taken to
morrow, Lesinski said.
"It seems to me now that the
best type of federal aid we can
supply is by way of assistance in
the construction of schools, Les
inski said in a statement issued
after the committee's negative
vote.
Without a record vote, the com
mittee agreed to Lesinski's pro
posal that a sub-committee be
named 1o study federal help in
school construction.
Vote Tomorrow
Bills on which votes will be
taken tomorrow are: By Rep,
Thomas H. Burke, D., O., to re
strict all proposed federal aid to
teachers' salaries; and, by sev
eral republican members, to pro
vide aid only to so-called "needy"
states. '-! f
How Individual members voted
in the 13 1o 12 rejection of the
senate bill was not immediately
disclosed. Members reported, how
ever, that after the balloting
reached a 12 to 12 tie, Chairman
Lesinski cast the deciding vote
that killed the bill.
Mpmbers said the main factor
in the committee's adverse vote
was a running controversy over
what aid, if any. 1o allot to paro
chial and other non public schools.
The senate bill loft that issue to
the stales themselves.
Another stumbling block, mem
bers said, was how to prevent
federal control along with federal
aid.
New York Plans
Rain Making Test
New York. March 14 (IP May
or William O'Dwyer plunned to
dav to risk SSO.oiKi on scientific
I rnin-mukinc experiment to end a
year-long drouth In the nation's
i biggest city.
He said he wanted to supply a
team of meteorological experts
with airplanes, radar and cloud-
is,.(.dlnc apparatus Immediately
In hope of filling hall-empty res-
ervnlrs before heavy
summer
I consumption begins.
Dr. Wallace E. Howell. Har
vard university meteorologist,
drew up the plans for the proj
ect .
If the scheme works out. the
threat of weekly waler holidays
and other conservation measures
would he ended for New Yorkers
who have been asked to skip
Paths and shaves at least once
a week since Dpcemher.
Year's Trtul Planned
O'Dwyer will ask the city board
"' estimate to appt
ipproprtate the
needed funds this all
ernoon. The
SSIi.OfHi will finance I he first six
months of what he expects will
he a year-long experiment.
The plan has two purposes.
; Primarily it is aimed at forcing
clouds over the city's upstate
v;iershpd area to loose their wa-lc:-.
filling the city's reservoirs
which yank to critical levels lHSt
fall through rising consumption
: and niiilnnfjed period of scanty
rainfall.
The second aim is to give sci
'enlists knowledge of how best
1 to induce end control artificial
! rain or snow.
All known means for milking
i rain from clouds will be used,
i Airplanes flying over and through
i clouds will sow quantities of dry
I ici . Ground containers will cast
I silver iodide upward toward the
cloud bottoms-".
ACOIDKNT FATAL
Grants Pass. March 14 tP
t.ola May Sexton. I2, of Grants
Pass was killed when struck by a
West Coast bus Inst night on the
Pacific highway three miles
northeast of here.
Schools Issue