WEDNESDAY. MARCH 15, 1950
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
PAGE THREE
Potato Problem
Still Harasses
U. S. Government
. By W. R. Hlgglnbotham
(Doited Preu Staff Correspondent)
Washington, March IS lU'i A
straight give-away plan for solv
ing the surplus potato crisis went
to congress today with good
chances for swift approval.
Chairman Harold D. Cooley, D.,
N.C., of the house agriculture
committee, said he will seek a
house vote on the proposal tomor
row. Senate action may come
early next weeK.
The plan for the government
to shoulder freight costs in giving
away lot charitable purposes the
remaining. 35,000,000-bushel 1949
potato surplus came out of an
11-day wrangle in a house-senate
conference committee.
The conferees also agreed on
adding some 1,250,000 acres to the
controlled 1950 cotton crop and on
stepping up peanut acreage by
100,000 acres. Both would add to
the costly government price sup
port program.
. But the conferees struck out an
other provision which would have
uuoed the wheat crop by 4,500,000
acres. Cooley said this would be
handled in separate legislation
later.
Potatoes Problem
For potatoes the half-billion
dollar problem child of the post.
war farm program the com
mittee compromise proposed:
1. r Instead of dumping the
mountain-high surplus from the
1949 crop, the government should
pay freight charges to give them
away to any non-profit user for
relief or charity here and abroad.
The agriculture department said
this would raise the loss on the
crop from $80,000,000 to $100,000,
000 for the year. Under present
law, the government is barred
Irom paying freight charges.
2. To start a program, partly
effective in 1950 and stronger in
1951, for controlling production
and sales of potatoes, producers
would be deprived of price drops
if they let anqlher surplus get
out of bounds.
Cotton Compromised ,
If potatoes go under controls
in 1951, it will be the first crop
strait-laced by government re.
strictions outside of the six so
called basic crops corn, cotton,
wheat, tobacco, rice and peanuts.
The cotton compromise was de
signed to correct "Inequities" in
allotments of acreage for the 1950
crop which came i under controls
for the first time in eight years.
It is expected to raise the total
crop to approximately 20,250,000
acres.
Besides adding an extra 100,000
acres for peanuts, mainly for Ala
bama and Texas, the conferees
(agreed to let peanut growers
plant unlimited quantities of pea
nuts for oil. However, price sup
ports will be paid only on allot
ed acreages.
Dedication
Of New Church'
Held in Madras
Madras, March 15 Consecra
tion and dedication services of the
new St. Mark's Episcopal church
was held Sunday, with Rt. Rev.
Lane W. Barton, of Bend, bishop
of the Eastern Oregon diocese, as
officiant, and Episcopal clergy
men of seven central and eastern
Oregon cities participating.
Bishop Barton shared speakers'
honors with Rev. Clarence Copp,
of La Grande. Other rectors tak
ing part in the service were Rev.
Leonard D. Dixon, Prineville;
Rev, E. O. Robathan, Pendleton;
Rev. Arthur Beckwith, Burns;
Rev. F. C. Wissenbach, Bend;
t?al TJ XT T1 : . . t 1 . . 1 1
v, uoraon A. Asnrjy, Langen
Valley. Lay participants in the
dedication were C. E. Graue and
E. D. Harris, of Madras.
The new church, of rose-tinted
pumice block construction, is lo
cated on S. 5th street in Madras.
The Madras parish was named
St. Mark's in 1944 by Bishop Wil
liam P. Remington, who had
served the area from his head
quarters at Pendleton, previous
to 1922.
Delegations of laymen were
present from many points in the
large eastern Oregon diocese, and
the members of St. Peter's parish
in the Cross Keys stock ranch
area were present almost 100 per
cent.
Work was begun on the new St.
Mark's church in 1949.
Insurance Clerk '
In Gun Baffle
With Policemen
San Francisco, March 15 UP)
A debt. ridden insurance clerk lay
near death today after a gun bat
tle with nearly a score of police
who interfeiied with his attempt
to cdmmit suicide.
Lewis Smith, 22-year-old ex.
marine, was taken to the hospi
tal with a bullet wound In his
abdomen and a possible severed
spinal cord. His condition was
critical.
He told attendants, "I want
to die."
Police wore called to a dark
ened insurance company office
last night In response to a tele
phone call Irom Mrs. Betty uet-
wiler, a waitress who had often
served Smith at a nearby restau.
rant.
"I just called to say goodbye,"
Smith said.
"Why. where are you going?"
she asked.
I'm going where a couple of
bullets will put me."
men Mrs. uotwner neard two
shots over the receiver and the
line went dead. Now fearful that
Smith had carried out his inten
tion of committing suicide, she
called police.
Fires on Officers
A patrol car with Officers John
Lehane, Richard Sarraille and
Sgt. Joseph McVeigh sped to the
insurance office, located amid the
gloomy canyons of the city's fi
nancial district.
When they .arrived, Lehane
clicked on his flashlight and
beamed it through the glass door.
Two shots rang out. A bullet
shattered the glass door, enter
ing Lehan's thigh, and fragments
of glass pierced his left hand.
The three officers retreated,
with Lehane limping to shelter
in an adjoining doorway. The
others went back to the car and
sent out a distress alarm, "Offi.
cers need assistance."
Within minutes, six other pa.
trol cars and two motorcycles ap
peared, their sirens echoing
among the deserted skyscrapers.
Had Rifle
One squad maneuvered so it
could shine its spotlight into the
insurance office. As the light
penetrated, the policemen saw
Smith rising slowing to his feet
on the mezzanine floor, a rifle
in position to fire.
The officers fired first, sending
a barrage of shotgun shells and
pistol bullets through the jagged
glass of the doorway. Then they
saw the figure within sag to the
floor.
Smashing down the door, they
found Smith moaning on the
floor, a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle
nearbv.
They also found 50 rounds of
ammunition, an eignt-incn num.
ins knife, a sharp eight-inch let
ter opener and two hacksaw
blades which were hidden in his
pants. .v
'In his pocket was a note, ad
dressed to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Smith. It said:
"Dear mom and dad Please
forgive me for doing this but
there's no way out! The bills
are piling up and I just can't
seem to pay them."
The temperature at Fairbanks,
Alaska, ranges from 90 degrees
above zero to 60 degrees below.
HI
Mortgages, March 3
Othor J. Scott, et ux, to Pa
cific First Federal Savings and
Loan, lots 1-2, N'.4 3, block 1. Tay
lor's add.
W. V. Hamby. el al. to De
schutes Federal Savings and Loan
trs. 28-33 inc., Blakley his.
Clifford Laursen, et ux, to De
schutes Federal Savings and Loan
lot 4, block 27, Center.
Mortgage Releases, March 3
Les Rolph to Donald A. Gross,
et ux.
John DeBoer to Maud Akin
(marginal release).
Culver
Culver, March 15 (Special)
The Misses Phylis and Darlene
Grant and Miss Layuota corbett
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John
Kobertson In Hie Dalles during
thai basketball tournament. The
three girls were yell leaders for
Culver.
Mr. and Mrs. Wlnnifred Osborn
visited last Sunday In Prineville
with their daughter, Mrs. Bill
Robinson. They visited at the
home of Mr, and Mrs. William
Boegli.
Haystack grange H. E. club
met last Tuesday afternoon at the
home or Mrs. Guy uorwin. Ar
rangements were made for a pro
gram and social evening to be
held at the Haystack grange nail
Friday evening. March 31.
Mrs. Nellie M. Keeney and
granddaughter, Mrs. Jerry Fal-
Mortgages, March 4 '
Lee Timothy Teller, et ux, to
George N. Davenport, et ux, lot
4. block 1. Awbrey hts.
V. L. Whetzel. et ux, to United kowski visited last Tuesday af the
States National Bank, lot 7 W IT home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Green
wood.
Pilots Parachute
As Planes Collide
Albuquerque. N. M.. March 15
dpi Three air force pilois who
paracnuieit to salety when their
jet planes collided were released
today from the Kirtland field hos
pital. The two planes, an F-80 and a
T-33 trainer, were on routine
flights lo El Paso, Tex., from
their home field at Phoenix, Ariz.,
when the collision happened late
yesterday. The F-80 was piloted
by a cadet, and the trainer carried
another cadet and his instructor,
1st Lieut. H. M. Chapman of
Mesa, Ariz.
The cadets were identified as
W. F. Vance, Fort Worth, Tex.,
and G. R. Eaton, Lawrenceville,
111.
The fliers were treated for
minor cuts and bruises.
BENEFIT DANCE PLANNED
Prineville, March 15 The
Ridge Riders, Crook county's sad
dle club, has begun a series of
events to rai.se funds for the pur
chase of special furniture for the
Pioneer Memorial hospital, which
will soon bo completed and ready
for dedication here.
The first of the events will be
a dance next Saturday evening at
the Lookout Mountain grange
hall on the Ochoco highway east
of Prineville.
TO INSTALL DIAL PHONES
Prineville, March 15 Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany has begun construction of a
new line from Prineville west to
Powell Bulte, in preparation for
installing more than 50 dial tele
phones for farm families of that
area by mid-summer, Robert Ho-
gan, local manager, has an
nounced. The development, which will
bring rural residents of west
Crook county In direct connection
wilh the Pilneville exchange, fol
lows negotiations completed late
last year, when the company took
over farmer-owned lines.
lot 8, block 1, Pinelyn park and
pt. tr. 7, Carrol ac.
Mortgage Kelease.s, Alurcli 4
Walter L. Daron, et ux, to Al
fred M. Crosswhite, et ux.
Mortgages, March 0
E. L. Nielsen, et ux, to the Mill
er Lbr. Co., lots 3-4-5-6-7-10-11-12-
13, block 52, Center.
Nelson L. Leland, cfux, to Hel
en B. Handford, lot 11, E'A 12,
block 20, Center.
Mortgage Releases, March 6
Esther H. Wiegand to C. E.
Smith, et ux, part rel. mtg. pt.
NWSW 21-15-13.
Deschutes Federal Savings and
Loan to Forrest J. Ferneau, et ux,
lot 7, block 2, Hastings.
United States National Bank to
George W. V. Salicis, et ux, lot
11, E'.4 12, block 26, Center.
Mortgages, March 7
Lee G. Allen, et ux, to' Joe F.
Burich, lots 8-9, block 4, Center.
Mortgage Releases, March 7
First National Bank to W. R.
Hand, et ux, and R. D. Hand, et
ux. ' i
Deschutes Federal Savings and
Loan to Edwin J. Losch, et ux.
First National Bank to George
T. Masterson, et ux.
Mortgages, March 8
Gunster Arends to Noble Wern
er. et ux, NWNE 31 SIsNW 32
15-11.
Mortgages, March 9
Donald L. Benscoter, et ux, to
Pacific First Savings and Loan,
lot 12, block 69, Redmond.
Mortgage Releases, March 9
Ethel R. Nicholas, et al, to
Sherwood M. Nicholas et ux, (par
tial release).
Bryan Lee, et ux to Donald
Hess, et ux.
Deschutes Federal Savings and
Loan to E. M. Berg, et ux
United States National Bank to
Wilbur V. Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hagman and
Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Hagman 1
and little son visited Tuesday eve-;
ning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. !
Herbert Ebys near Redmond.
Mr. and Mrs. James I . Keau
left Wednesday morning for Wal- i
la Walla for a few (days' visit
with Mr. and Mrs. Mclvin Kerns. !
The Kerns formerly lived at the
Cove power plant.
The O.D.O. club met last Thurs
day for an all day session with
Mrs. Carl King. Present from
Redmond were Mrs. Ed Weaver,
Mrs. Hiram Links, Mrs. Jack Wei
gand, Mrs. Harry Windom, Mrs.
John Henderson. Culver members
present were Mrs. L. M. Harvey,
Flora May Harvey, Mrs. Guy Cor
win, Mrs. Leonard Grant, Mrs.
Ward Mac Rostie. Mrs. Howard
Campbell, Mrs. Hazel McCoin,
Mrs. Jerry Falkowski, Mrs. Nell
Keeney. Visitors were Mrs. Jennie
Leach and daughter; Mrs. Arnold
Pettybone. A potluck dinner was
served at noon. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Howard Camp
bell Thursday, March 23.
Mrs. Henrv Fowler of Bend and
Mrs. John Henderson of Redmond !
visited at the home of Mrs. Nell
Keeney Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Lyle Greenwood and moth
er, Mrs. C. R. Hagman were busi
ness visitors in Redmond Friday
afternoon.
Miss Janet Osborn of Grizzly
spent the weekend with her cous
in, Miss Nadine Osborn.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Osborn and
family of Grizzly visited at the
C. R. Hagman home Saturday.
Visitors at the Keeney home
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Henderson of Madras, Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Hagman, Mr. and Mrs.
Dwayne Hagman and little son,
Mrs. Lyle Greenwood and Mrs.
Max Osborn.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Osborn from
near Paxton visited Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs.-l.yle Green
wood.
MORE OIL DISCOVERED
Vancouver, B.C., March 15 iu
A Vancouver newspaper report,
ed today that large quantities of
oil had been discovered in the
Peace river area of British Co
lumbia. The News Herald said oilmen in
British Columbia, Texas and New
York believed Phillips Petroleum
Co., of Oklahoma, had struck oil
at its Lone mountain test field.
Company officials here declin.
ed comment on the report which
said the entire area surrounding
the well had been blanketed with
reservations.
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