THE BEND BULLETIN
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NEWS COVERAGE
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
34th Year
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, .MARCH 18. 1950
No. 87
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Lapine REA
Project Gets
Bend Support
VA support oi me move maugu
fcl? urated bv residents of Laoine to
obtain REA power for southern
Deschutes and northern Klamath
counties was voted by Bend
chamber of commerce directors
at their meeting here yesterday.
The directors Instructed How
ard Moffat, chamber manager, to
write a letter that will be pre
sented to rural electrification of
ficials at the quarterly REA con
ference to' be held in Eugene
March 20, 21, 22 and 23. Attend
ing that conference will be a dele
gation representing the Midstate
Electric cooperative, recently
formed to bring REA power and
light to the Lapine, Crescent and
Gilchrist area.
Seek 120-Mile Line
A line approximately 120 miles
in length is being sought by the
new cooperative as the initial
phase of its project. Cost of the
project has not been determined,
but it is expected to aggregate
$500,000, officials of the cooper
ative said.
Candland President
The cooperative is headed by
S. H. Candland as president.
First cooperative of its kind or
ganized in central Oregon was
the Central Electric cooperative,
which serves Deschutes, Crook
and Jefferson counties, with head
quarters in Redmond. Mrs. E. G.
McCabe, Lapine, has been a lead
er In the move to obtain power
for the southern area. .
The cooperative is seeking
funds to construct a line from
Be.nd south to Beaver marsh as
the first phase of the project,
Later, officials of the group say,
the line would be extended into
Fort ftoek -region - of- .northern
Lake county and into the Odell
and Crescent iake areas.
Appraisals Made
Early this year, R. H. Galzier,
field representative of the REA,
spent two weeks in the Lapine
area, making appraisals of the
proposed use of electric energy
in the area. Frederick Miller,
field man working out of Spo
kane, also visited the Lapine area,
to assist in preparing the final
application for REA funds. F. W.
Carroll, acquisition engineer from
the Washington office, later vis
ited Lapine.
If funds can be obtained for
construction, Bonneville power
will be available. .
Members of the Bend chamber
of commerce directors in taking
action backing the Lapine project
stressed that normally the cham
ber does not approve of projects
that are not managed by private
enterprise, but said that in this
instance the project would be
supported, inasmuch as private
enterprise appears unwilling to
"enter" the area.
Fish Hatchery
Work Projected
OrPPnn's ctnta on mo Mmmic.
sion at Its meotlng in Portland
Tuesday will receive bids for the
uainuauun ui un auuuiunai wa
ter RVKtpm
the new Wizard falls hatchery,
on me Metolius; and for the con
struction of concrete nursery
ponds at the Fall river hatchery.
News of the action being taken
by the commission to improve
trout hatchery facilities in cen
tral Oregon was welcomed by De
schutes sportsmen, who believe
the development will be of great
significance in improving fishing
m the midstate region. The sports
men Indicated that real progress
was made in stocking lakes and
streams this past year.
Loyde Blakley, Bend, member
c the state game commission,
will be In Portland for the March
1 meeting.
Only recently placed In opera
'ion, the Wizard falls hatcherv
nas proved to be ideally located
or trout rearing, sportsmen re
Port. Trout reared at the new
natehery this past year showed
line growth.
The call for the Wizard falls
and Fall river hatcherv bids were
issued by C. A. Lockwood, state
game commission director.
BLOCKADE ON AGAIN
Berlin, March 18 IP The Rus
sians Imposed their slowdown
" wkade on Berlin again todav,
Vn up more than 50 trucks at
!me.uSovH Helmstedt checkpoint
with? international highway.
IrnrU t-nrr: ," ,
u ; " was siuweil uown
- '""I1 an hour last night but
r ..an 1)0ce tnis morning sata
lie rata k.j i i - - i
,u - uau itrn increases 10
aBut nine an hour.
District Crew Leaders Set
U. S. Census 'Nose Counting'
In Alfalfa Precinct Monday
District' census crew leaders will conduct a test "nose
count" next Monday in the Alfalfa precinct, it was reported
today by Gertrude Arnold, district supervisor.
According to Mrs. Arnold, eleven crew leaders will partici
pate in the census, which will be a preliminary test before
the regular census taking begins on April 1. "It will be an
official census and the people who are contacted Monday will
Oregon Envoy
Wilfred Jossy, Bend, who heads
"Operation Town Hall" in Ore
gon, will leave Sunday for
Washington, D. C, where he
will join Jaycees from all parts
of the nation in presenting pe
titions in support of the Hoover
plan.
Jossy to Join
In Presenting
Report Petitions
Wilfred Jossy,. Bend, leader in
Oregon of "Operation Town
Hall", will leave for Washington,
D. C. Sunday by plane to join in
the presentation of Hoover report
petitions bearing some 2,000,000
signatures from every state in
the union. The signatures were
obtained by Junior chamber of
commerce chapters in connection
with "Operation Economy". Jos.
sy, who will be accompanied east
by Bruce Kelley, Portland, presi
dent of the Oregon Jaycees, will
present the Oregon petitions.
Jossy originated "Operation
Town Hall" as a phase of the
"Operation Economy" move. The
town hall plan calls for state
meetings, to determine what vot.
ers think of the Hoover commis
sion report.
Plan Bend Meeting
In Oregon, the state's four rep
resentatives and two senators are
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'They Didn't Say What Kind of Steaks!'
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Just before the Bend-La Grande state tournament basketball game
Friday James W. Bushong, left, president of the Bend chamber of
commerce, and Howard Moffat, chamber manager, challenged La
Grande chamber officials, Gene Killion and John Jones, a former
Bend resident, to a wager of steaks on the outcome of the game.
Lb Grande accepted. 1 he local men are shown hereabout to fulfill
their end of the bargain as they prepare to wrap up for shipment
a couple of "steaks," together with other Ingredients for a fine
repast. Since no specification as to the stenks were made in the
wager. Bushong and Moffat are sending the winners two straki
from "the outside of cow." La Grande defeated Bend, 64 (o 56.-
'not ue enumerated again,
she emphasized.
Similar trial counts will be
taken all over the nation, she
reported, in order to check
census machinery before the
regular census begins. She
said that officials will get an idea
of how much time will bo re
quired for the census, from these
preliminary tests.
Plan Training School
Next week, Mrs. Arnold said,
crew leaders will also conduct a
training school for census takers
In seven locations in the local dis
trict. Classes will be held at Bend,
Chiloquin, Klamath Falls, Lake
view, Burns, Ontario, and Prine
viiie. Each enumerator, she said, will
be in charge of from nine to 20
enumerators.
The local district is comprised
of Deschutes, Crook, Klamath,
Lake, Malheur, and Harney coun
ties. Mrs. Arnold said that ap
proximately 135 enumerators' and
crew leaders will be used in the
six counties.
In the United States, there are
457 district census offices. In gen
eral they cover individual con
gressional districts, but in some
cases large districts have been di
vided in half for purposes of the
census.
Bruin Field Due
For Reseeding
Work preliminary to the reseed
ing of the center portion of the
Bend high school football field is
now under way, with earth being
moved in for use in building up
the gridiron crown. The entire
center of the field, from goal post
to goal post, will be resurfaced,
over a width of about 100 feet.
The work is part of a project to
provide better drainage for the
field and eliminate soft spots, that
have developed in the low center
in past years, following intensive
play. The soil is being hnuled In
by Merle Sleeper, local contrac
tor. Reseeding of the central part of
the field with fescue and blue
grass will start about May 1.
Charles Bishop, former Bend park
gardener and now engaged in pri
vate work, will be in charge of the
seeding phase of the field im
provement. After seeding has been compet
ed, the field will be permitted to
"rest" until the start of the 1950
football season.
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Bend C. of C.
Planning New
Tour Service
Tourists in cenlral Oregon this
summer will have at their disposal
a new service, designed to show
them the scenery of this region
in a quick, orderly and interest
ing fashion.
In order that they need not en
gage in haphazard sight-seeing,
visitors will be offered automo
bile "Touraides" of a variety of
scenic drives and pjhits of in
terest In central Oregon.
Under the "Touraide" plan,
disclosed today by Howard Mof
fat, manager of the Bend cham
ber of commerce, regularly sched
uled caravans, led by special
"pilot" cars, will leave Bend twice
daily during the tourist season, i
Sightseers may use their own
cars or may ride In vehicles pro
vided under the "Touraide" pro
gram. George Murphy Manager
Manager of the program, which
is sponsored by the Bend cham
ber of commerce, will be George
Murphy. Through the coopera
tion of Ed Hamm, the "Touraide"
office will be located at the Free
man Tackle company, Third and
Franklin, which Hamm recently
purchased. ;
Moffat reported that each of
the pilot cars would be equipped
with public address systems, over
which guides well schooled in
central Oregon history and geog
raphy would describe to the'
tourists the various points of in
terest along the route,
"In this way," Moffat said, "we
are going to show these peopled
what they should see. Instead of
letting them grope around alpne
for our scenic beauty,' we're go
ing to take 'em to it!"
It is hoped, he said, "that four
different routes a day can be ar
ranged for the "Touraides." Ten
tative plans call for two tours in
the morning to leave at 9 o'clock,
and two in the afternoon, leaving
at 2 o'clock. Caravans will be
gone from Bend about three and
a half or "four hours.
Plan Small Charge
Routes will be marked so that
tourists may return to Bend be
fore the completion of a "Tour
ade." Cost for those using the
service will be one dollar per
car.
Probable routes will include
such wonders as Lava butlc, the
Indian writings at Horse ridge,
the Arnold ice caves, and Peter
sen's rock gardens.
At "Touraide" headquarters I
tourists win nave photographs
and information which they may
use In selecting tours they wish
to take. Spotted around Bend will
be various posters and other pro
motion material to inform visl-
I tors of the service being offered
to tnem.
Moffat said he believed the
plan would aid greatly In inter
esting visitors in the recreation
values of central Oregon, and
bring them back in future sum
mers. Date for the Inauguration of
the service has not been decided
but will coincide with the begin
ning of the tourist season.
Meeting of Land
Owners Slated '
A meeting of land owners In
the Tumalo area has been sched
uled by the Midstate Soil Conser
vation district board of supervis
ors for Momlav, March 20. George near Roosevelt avenue by a boy.
Elliot. Redmond, board chair- then distributed among his
man. has announced. The meeting friends.
will be held in the Tumalo grange I The case came to the attention
hall, starting at 8 p.m. j f officers this week when the
Purpose of the meeting will be' father of one of the hoys who had
to acquaint farmers In the Turn-! received a detonator notified po
alo area with the operation of the lice. Officers Immediately started
county-wide soil district and a check that reached Into various
some of the policies of the soil parts of Bond and to Redmond,
conservation service. Elliot said. I Most of the caps were dlstiib-
Tumalo was one of the areas
added to the Midstate Soil Con -
referendum. Tills will be the sec
ond of a series of meetings ar-
ranged for communities added to;
the big district.
NOW IV LUZON
Staff sergeant Harold L. York,
son of Mr. and. Mis. Solomon E.
York, 2188 Aubrey road, has been
recently assigned to the 18th in
stallation squadron at Clark air
force base In central Luzon.
Sergeant Clark has been In the
service since June 1938. He was
on a previous tour overseas In
April 1945 to Calcutta. India. His
wife, Dorothy, and a five-year-old
son, Lawrence, arp at present
living in Wcsthoff, Tex.
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$1000 for the polio fund, within their organization. With their contribution, funds on deposit this
mor5vto,alecl 4.976-50. according to Mrs. Arnold, who said that an additional contribution exceed-
ing $1500 was expected to reach Bend later today from Redmond. Half the amount raised In the
coun.y. remains in the local treasury for treatment of polio victims. The rest goes to the National
i-oundatlon for research and use wherever epidemics may constitute an emergency situation.
Local Sportsmen
Indorse Daylight
Saving Proposal
Vuirectbrs ' of two sportsmen's
groups, the Izaak Walton league
and Deschutes County Sports
men's association, holding a con
ference yesterday at the Trail
ways Coffee shop endopsed day.
light saving time for Bend. The
vote was unanimous.
' Lloyd Smith presided at the
luncheon session of the sports
men. Other action taken by the
sportsmen included approval of a
resolution favoring a plan to keep
Sparks lake In its present wilder,
ness state. This lake is on the
Cascade Lakes highway which,
when work projected for . the
present season is completed, will
open up the lake and eastern
Three Sisters region to tourists
and vacationists.
Kcport OppoiH'd
The resolution approved by the
sportsmen opposes the establish
ment of a boat rental station or
resort at the lake.
Ralph W. Crawford, Deschutes
national forest supervisor, said
it is the policy of the forest ser
vice to grant usage permits, such
as boat rental concessions, where
ever public demand Indicates.
The forest service now has the
application of Wilfred Jossy for
a boat rental station at Sparks
lake.
The resolution of the joint
boards will be submitted to gen
end meetings of their organiza
tions for final action.
Police Recover
Dynamite Caps
Officers believed today that
they had located the last of some
eight dynamite caps that had
tieen discovered in a lava fissure
uted to Yew Lane school boys.
j After several days' search, all
! in the lava fissure had ln
traced, and are now In the police
station safe here.
i Officers were unable to learn
! who cached the dangerous le-
tonatois in the lava fissure.
Di-rs' tr-t.-lh
Harvev J Blackslone. 22. Red-
monri. is he nrj ne in n tne couniv
Jail on a charge oi burglary, It
was reported today by the sher
iff's office.
He was arrested Friday In Red
mond and has waived prelimi
nary and grand Jury hearings.
Arraignment was In Redmond
Justice court. Ball has been set
at $500.
Check for 1950 March of Dimes
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Central Oregon Educators
Hold Hood River Meeting
Central Oregon educators,
today were attending a retrion
school principals that opened this morning at the Columbia
Gorge hotel, near Hood River. The conference is beinir held
under the joint auspices of the
department of elementary school principals and the state de
partment, or euueauon iwaynara u Uhmtensen, Hood Jtiver,
is president of the elementary-
school principals taking part
in the conference and Lloyd
Lewis, Prineville, is vice
president. Kathryn H. Smith,
Hood River, is secretary.
The meeting got under way
this morning with a welcome and
Introductions by Ralph E. Jones,
Hood River superintendent of
schools. One of the speakers on
the morning program was Dr.
Henry M. Gunn, president of Ore
gon College of Education, who
soon will be leaving Oregon to
accept a California position.
McAtve Speaker
R. H. McAfee, principal of the
Ochoco school, In Prineville, was
listed as leader of one of the sec
tion discussion groups, with Lloyd
Lewis, principal of the Crooked
River school in the same town, as
recorder, and Cecil Sly, Crook
county superintendent of schools,
the consultant.
Albert W. Nelson, principal of
the Thompson and Held schools
and elementary school supervisor
in Bend, was the leader In a dis
cussion of office practices, with
Virgil Moss, Kenwood principal,
as recorder. Wayne Foster, Jef
ferson county school superintend
ent, was one of the consultants.
H. O. Van Hise, vice-principal
of the Redmond union - high
school, was recorder for a discus
sion dealing with legal aspects of
elementary education.
Panel members for a report on
studv croups Included Lloyd Lew
Is. Virgil Moss and II. O. Van
Hise, members of the central Ore-
gon group attending the comer
ence. Mrs. Velma Buckingham,
Deschutes county school superin
tendent, is moderator for this
group, on the program for this
afternoon.
Schooner Sinks,
11 Feared Dead
Halifax. N. &.. March 18 'IM -
The fishlng.schoonei Gertrude D-!
Acosta was rammed and sunk by;
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Island Connector In pre dawn
darkness todav. Six crewmen!
today. Six crewmen
were saved but It was feared the
other 11 men aboard the small
vessel were dead.
Four bodies hail been recover
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One washed ashore and a fourth
was found in the fishing vessel's
wreckage.
I l MKiATION NK( KSSAItY
I T,t.,o M-ii-nh 1U .-"hn . I'fflT-
son county agent s office reports
i inai warnings imvi- un-n -
hv v n stnnnrd. sh no ne no nt
Inspection chief of the state de-1 elusion last December after a pe
partment of agriculture at Red-jcial group of civilian scientists
mond, to growers who may be I and air force technical officers
transferring planters, diggers and i had Investigated 375 "flying sauc
other farm Implements Into the er" incidents over a two-year per
North Unit Irrigation dlstlct area od. ...
that they must be fumigated to Since then, preliminary Investl
kill bacterial ring rot Infection, 'gallon of such reports hag been
a aer e j. gies, last night
including a group from Bend,
- wide conference of elementary
Oregon Education association.
City, Society Pick
New Location
For Dog Pound
Representatives of the Oregon
Humane society, Bend chapter,
meeting yesterday with city offi
cials, discussed tentative plans for
removal of the city pound from
its present location on E. . 1st
street to a new silo east of Pilot
but to. The pound is to be moved
from its present location because
of the objection of homo owners
In that neighborhood.
Petitions for removal of the
pound were first received by the
city last year, and at that time it
was proposed that the holding
kennels be moved to the city
dump, west of town. This plan
was the target of vigorous pro
tests and was abandoned.
If the pound is moved to a loca
tion east of Pilot butte, the hu
mane society will build some ken
nels, to keep dogs segregated and
clean. The society also lias offer
ed to cooperate In other ways. It
is planned to move the pound in
advance of the 1950 tie-up season,
which starts on April 1, date on
which dog licenses costs in the
county will be advanced 50 cents.
Members of the society who
i conferred with city officials yes
terday were Carl A. Johnson, Mrs.
A. L. O. Schueler and Mr. and
Mrs. M. L. Myrick. Mrs. Bernlce
uoan is president oi ine society
in Bend, but wis unable to attend
yesterday's conference.
New Flying Saucer Stories
Fail to Interest Air Force
Washinjiton. March 18 Uli The
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i A spf)k,.smn said that air
. i,,i,.ii,.nn. nrl technical
! . . . , , b Impressed
by any of the latest accounts of
flying discs.
The spokesman also caiegonc-
any demon inai ine air mi te
denying the existence of flying
sauceis to cover up some of Its
own experiments In space ships
and similar air machines.
The nir force position, he said,
still is that reports of unidentified
flv ng ub ert.s result Irom mis
interpretation of various conven
, tlonal objects, a mild form ot
mnss n."'"
The air force reaenco tnis con-
26 Men Adrift
7 Days Before
Help Arrives
llv William I). Enorhurt -(United
Pnau Staff Corrnnondrnt)
Pearl Harbor. Hawaii. March 18
'Hi The U. S. navy rescued today
all 40 crew members of the explosion-torn
navy net tender U. S. S.
blder, who had drifted helplessly
for seven days on the vast Pacific
ocean.
Twenty-six men were picked up
from life rafts. The remaining 14
were found aboard the disabled
Elder. AU were In good condition.
Both groups told of a bitter dis
appointment last Monday when
tne army transport General A. w..
Brewster passed nearby, but fail
ed to see their frantic signals for
nelp and disappeared over the
horizon. .
Lt. William F. Adams, cf Wil
mar, Calif., commander of the
Elder on a buoy-laying mission to
Enlwetok island for the spring
atomic tests there, said the Brew
ster came within three miles of
his ship which was disabled when,
an engine room fire raged out of
control.
Asked how he felt after finally
being rescued, Adams said:
"I believe it was the hand of
God written across the sky to
night that was in our favor."
No Ammunition '
Adams said the 14 men who re
mained aboard the fire-ravaged
net tender used "flares, interna
tional . distress signals, flags,
smoke, mirrors, very pistol shoot
ing stars and 20 millimeter can-,
non" without attracting the Brew
ster's attention.
"The crew jumped and waved
and we would have used three-
inch ammunition if we had still
had it," he added in a radio inter
view after being taken aboard a
rescue vessel.
All the ammunition was thrown
into the sea when the engine
room fire spread through the ship
and threatened to ignite the explo
sives in the ship's arsenal. Adams
said.
The Brewster answered the
first few signals from the Elder
with "IMI, IMI," which means
repeat, repeat," In navy code.
and then sailed on without stop
ping, Adams related.
stories Agree
A similar story -was told by 26
survivors picked up from life
rafts a few hours before the El
der wiis sighted by navy search
plahes and taken in tow by a navy
warship early today.
The men on the life rafts said
the Brewster was in sight two
hours Monday without answering
their signals. The drifting rafts
and the Elder were 35 miles apart
when sighted by the planes.
Most of the ammunition was
dumped Into the sea before Ad-
ams ordered the lib men to taKe
to the rafts In case the fire Ignit
ed the remaining explosives and
blew the Elder to pieces.
Adams and the other 13 men
remaining aboard the ship dump
ed the remaining ammunition and
then battened down the natcnes to
let the fire burn out. The blaze
subsided after three hours, he
said, and the ship floated help
lessly after that until sighted last
night. The rafts and the Elder
became separated the first night.
Stayed on Deck
Adams said the Elder never
cooled off enough for the 14 men
aboard to go below. They spent
the entire seven days on deck.
They set up tarpaulins to protect
themselves from tne scorenmg
mid-Pacific sun and chopped
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loft to air force technical and in-
I tnlllannpn nffircrc nt fiplfl bflSPS.
' But if they should decide further
i Investigation is warranted, air
I force headnuarlers here will be
Arlvkcil.
So far, no report has nad
enough creditlbllity to be forward
ed here. Air force officials are
confident no future report will
have either.
SKEN IN NEW MEXICO
Farmlngton. N. M., March 18
miMost of the 5,000 residents of
this northwestern New Mexico oil
town said today that they were
"absolutely convinced" that flying
saucers exist.
More than 50 witnesses report
ed a mass flight of disc-shaped
oblects yesterday.
The witnesses Including busi
nessmen and private pilots Mid .
the aerial flood of flying saucers
was staged by group waves w,.,c.
numbered up "Into the hundreds.
riminn Koddv. advertising
of th Farmlngton Dally
Times, said he was with a group
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