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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
34th Year
TWO SECTIONS
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1950
No. 89
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Bend School
Budget Shows
1951 Increase
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,'017.79, exclusive of construction
provided for by the continuing 15
mill levy, was approved for fiscal
1951 by the Bend district budget
committee, when It met in the
high school last night under
chairmanship of Carl- A. Johnson.
Offset by $221,651.33 receipts,
which allow for a $40,000 loss in
tax collections, the district's op
eration and maintenance will call
for a levy of $469,166.46, an in
crease of more -than 10 per cent
over the. $415,889.93 levied for the
current year. Of the proposed tax,
$268,467.17 is in excess of the six
per cent-limitation and for this
voter endorsement will be asked
at a special election set for April
17.
If it is approved the total prop
erty tax levied by the district,
including the continuing 15 mill
levy (approximately $120,000)
will be $589,166.46. Assuming that
the assessed valuation of the dis
trict should remain unchanged
from its 1949 level of $8,010,225,
budget committee members esti
mated a mlllage of 73.6, an in
crease of 8.7 mills over the dis
trict tax rate now in effect.
Costs Higher
Chiefly the increased budget re
flected the Increased size of the
school system, the cost of operat
ing more schools and of employ
ing more personnel. The commun
ity college plan was retained but,
although it is intended to add
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College Course
Here "Pays Off"
For Bend Girl
For at least one Bend girl, the
adult education program, coordin
ated by Central Oregon Commu
nity college, is making dreams
come true.
Gloria Norcott, who was grad
uated from Bend high school with
the class of 1948, had been inter
ested in journalism and' advertis
ing since undegraduate days,
when she was a member of the
Pine Murmurs staff. A college
career was deferred indefinitely,
however, and she was employed
by Bear's Jewelry, where she en
joyed planning and executing at
tractive window displays, along
with her clerking duties.
This past winter Gloria enrolled
in Mrs. E. Sims Wilson's class
in principles of advertising, and
soon became one of the outstand
ing students in the group. When
she had nearly completed the
course, she obtained an interview
with Meier & Frank's in Portland.
Gloria hoped that she was on her
way to a career in ner cnosen
field, and presented some adver
tising layouts, with copy.
And this is where the dreams
started coming true. Advertising
department heads liked Gloria's
copy. When an opening occurred,
they called her at the home of a
friend in Portland, where she was
- visiting. She returned to Bend and
left again Sunday for Portland,
to go 'to work this week in the
production and copy department
at the store.
Gloria is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Norcott, of Bend.
Reclamation Funds Provided
In Bill; Deschutes Gets Cash
Washington, March 21 UPi The
house appropriations committee
today scolded the reclamation
bureau for lack of candor, but
recommended that congress vote
S29T,467,000 for its fiscal 1951
work.
The proposed appropriation, as
previously disclosed bv committee
sources, is $23,054.500"below Pres
ident Truman's $320,521,000 re
quest. Biggest cut S10.139.000
would be taken -by the Missouri
'.-! uasin,
he committee cited only one ; propnation recommended to con
example in its report to back up . gress today by the house appro
"s criticism of the bureau, hut j priations committee is a $500,000
generalized its scolding in this I allotment request for the north
Way; I unit of the Deschutes project in
'The bureau of reclamation dis
plays a propensity at times to be
Iras than candid in presenting its
jjuclget proposals. The committee
would be happy to see officials
dor" buroau display more can-
Candor Larking
h i commi,tee's complaint was
mat last year congress specific
all' turned down a nil rem re-
, quest for funds to build a trans
f mission line from Estes to Val-
ttlOnt in ai.,- .... .u
hi, viuiauu. mis ytrai, inc
oureau came back with a request
Youth, Injured In Gun Battle, Convalesces
1
Jack M. Widner, 20, who was the loser with Bend officers in a gun battle despite the fact that he
fired first, was convalescing today at St. Charles hospital. "Personality Capsules" is the title of
the article. he was reading this morning when the picture was taken. After firing at Patrolman
Emil Moen, Widner suffered two bullet wounds. One bullet passed through his right lung, and
was removed from his back Sunday. A bullet he fired slashed through Officer Moen's trousers
and cut the chain of a key ring. Widner is accused of holding up the Pine Tree auto court service
station prior to the gun play. Officers said he obtained $21 in the robbery.
Widner Charged
With Assault;
Still in Hospital
. Jack- M!ltoa'. Widnex'.a0year.
old railroad Worker and native'
Callfornian, has been arrested
by the sheriff's office, following
issuance yesterday of a warra.nt
by Duncan McKay, justice of the
peace, charging the youth with
"assault with intent to kill." Bail
has been set at $10,000.
A day and night guard has
been placed over Widner, at the
hospital, and he will appear in
court to answer the charge when
his condition permits. At noo.n to
day, Widner's condition was re
ported by the attending physician
as satisfactory.
Widner suffered two gunshot
wounds in a battle with city po
lice Saturday night, after firing
at Officer Emil Moen from a dis
tance of about three feet. The
bullet went through Moen's pants
pocket, but did not break (lie
flesh.
Bullet Removed
When Widner was visited by
Cameraman Web Loy of The
Bulletin staff this morning, he
was reading an article in a pop
ular magazine entitled "Person
ality Capsules." He paid little at
tention to the cameraman as the
picture was taken.
O.ne of the bullets passed
through Widner's right lung. This
was removed from his back
Sunday. Another bullet passed
through the fleshy part of his
thigh.
Widner is accused of holding
up and robbing the Pine Tree au
to court service station. Officers
Moen and Ted Ilinshaw were on
his trail mbments later.
to build a line from Estes to
Lcyner. Leyner, the committee
said, is suspiciously near Val
mnnt. "Obviously, this is basically Ihe
same transmission line as the
one denied for 1950, yet the bu
reau has not bothered to point
out this fact affirmatively to the
committee," the report said.
For North Unit
Included in the proposed $297.
467.000 bureau of reclamation an-
central Oregon
According to J. VV. Taylor, con
struction engineer for the project,
the allotment would be used for
a variety of activities including
the continuation of leak sealing; j
Deschutes river channel improve-!
ments and construction oi neces-
sary levee and flood works; pur
chase of lands along the De
schutes river; continuation of
drainage work, and the comple
tion of farm unit development
work, including cooperative s?t
tier assistance.
Proposed River Diversion
In Benham Falls Area Topic
Of Discussion at Meeting
Representatives of local sportsmen's grouns vesterdav
heard J. W. Taylor, construction engineer for the north unit
of the Deschutes project, report the possibility of re-ehannel-
mg the Deschutes river in the
.oLBend. . - V
The announcement was made at a special meeting called by
the fish and game committee of the Bend chamber of com-
Cascade Jewelers
Bought by Bend
Man, Announced
Kenneth M. Shank, a Bend resi
dent for nearly three years, has
assumed management of Cascade
Jewelers, which he purchased this
past week from Mrs. Dot A. Har
vey. Mrs. Harvey and her son,
Frank Blake, operated the jew
elry store, located next to the
Tower theater, for the past year
and a half.
Shank came to Bend in June,
1947, from Richland, Wash. Mar
ried, he is a graduate of Mt. Ver
non high school, and has been in
the jewelry business for seven
years. Before purchasing the busi
ness he was employed at Bear's
Jewelry store.
Assisting Shank as saleswoman
is Mrs. W. B. Anderson, a long
time resident of Bend.
Mrs. Harvey, who came to Bend
from California, has no immedi
ate plans for the future. She ex
pects to remain in Bend.
Educators Pay
Visit to College ;
Visiting educators from leading
public institutions of the state,
here last night and this morning
to inspect the progress of Bend's
community college, gave their in
formal approval this morning to
the work being done here. One
of them was J. F. Cramer, dean
of the general extension division
of the state system of higher ed
ucation. Three members of Chan
cellor Paul C. Packer's advisory
committee to the community colt
lege program, were T. A. Gilfil
lan, dean of the school of sci
ences at Oregon State college;
Henry M. Gunn, president of the
Oregon College of education, and
R. D. Clark, assistant to the dean
of the college of liberal arts, Uni
versity of Oregon.
Gilfillan thought excellent work
was being done In the sciences
and that this would be Improved
through addition of new equip
ment, provision for which has al
ready been made in the school
district budget. Gunn was pleased
with the staff and with the qunl-
ity of students observed. Clark
liked the library facilities and
thought the project was "lower
division work conducted at high
level.
Three more community colleg
es may make their appearance in
the fall, Cramer stated, mention
ing Nyssa, Astoria and Baker In
this connection. Bend and Klam
ath Falls are the only two now
operating.
located
vicinity of Benham falls, south
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merce, .at the suggestion of
laylor.
Taylor informed the sports
men of plans by the bureau of
reclamation to make an inves
tigation of Deschutes river
channel improvements be
tween Benham falls and the
city of Bend. The preliminary
surveys leading to this Investiga
tion will be started in a few days,
he said.
Further Study Set
"Due to the excessive cost of
improving the original channel
and the probable ineffectiveness
of such an improvement," Taylor
said, "a further study will be
made of an alternate plan involv
ing a separate diversion channel
leading from Benham falls -to
somewhere below Lava island."
The water saving which might
be accomplished by such a chan
nel diversion is calculated at 50,
000 acre-feet annually, he report
ed. The water losses along the pres
ent river channel are attributed
mainly to seepage Into sink holes
and porous lava formations along
the bed of the river, according to
Taylor. That water, he said, is
badly needed by irrigation proj
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Spur Track Survey
Under Way Here
A three-man party from the
S. P. & S. engineering depart
ment, in Portland, arrived in
Bend yesterday, and today the
men were completing the survey
of a spur track to serve the mill
Leonard Lundgren is to construct
in the city industrial area just
south of town. J. O, Monaghan
is chief of the survey parly, with
Charles Birdsell and L. C. Spur
goon as his assistants.
Lundgren Is asking for a five
car spur to serve his mill. This
would require about 250 feet of
track, plus some linking track.
The spur will branch from Ihe
lead track in the Industrial area.
The spur is to cross a road, and
permission cnust be obtained from
the PUC before such construc
tion can be undertaken. It was
indicated that no objections are
anticipated.
Dr. Sander Faces
New Accusations
Manchester, N. II., March 21
j The Hillsborough County
Medical society studied a new
charge today against Dr. Herman
N. Sander as two Catholic hos
pitals banned him for life.
Though the charge against the
41-year-old Candla physician, ac
quitted of first degree murder In
a "mercy slaying" trial March 9.
was kept secret, each member of
a three man board of censor.? and
Sander himself received a copy of
the accusation.
for Fbrest'Highways
Mirror Pond
Pageant Plans
Get Revision
Bend's 1950 Mirror pond pag
eant program was slightly re
vamped at last' night's meeting of
the association directors, to pro
vide for a possible rodeo and
other special events, with the
nights of Monday, July 3, and
Tuesday, July 4 set aside for the
river fetes. Earlier, Sunday and
Monday nad oeen designated as
pageant nights.
A three-day program, on July 2,
3 and 4, is being planned with
events to center around the two-
night pageant. Seaton Smith at
last night's meeting reported on
tentative plans for a rodeo, and
reported (hit Max Barber, rodeo
operator weil known in the west,
is interested in the possible Bend
date over the Fourth of July holi
days. Possibility of using the mu
nicipal ball park for the rodeo is
being studied. '
Financing Discussed
Last night's long session, which
was adjourned by President C. L.
McAllister shortly before 11
o'clock, was largely devoted to a
discussion of budgets and meth
ods of financing the three-day
show. R. G. Proby, chairman of
the association's advertising com
mittee, reported that publication
of a souvenir booklet is being con
sidered. This would be issued un
der auspices of the advertising
and finance committees, with rev
enue from the booklet to take the
place of solicitation for funds.
Before discussing business the
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Seven Teachers
To Leave Bend -
Bend's school board, meeting
last night at the close of the
budget committee session, accept
ed the resignations of seven in
structors; reelected all others at
salaries unchanged except for the
automatic increases recognizing
service; tightened mathematics
minimum essentials require
ments, and adjourned shortly be
fore 11:30, two hours later than
usual board closing time.
Teachers who are leaving at the
end of this term are Audrey Hen
derson, Mrs. Beitha AtLee and
Ruth Cray, of Allen school; Doro
thy F. Moulton and Annabelle
Woodman, of Kenwood; Anita
Ertle of Thompson, and Rita W.
Esh, special education.
Minimum essentials changes
authorized were on the recom
mendation of R. E. Jewell, princi
pal of the high school. Beginning
this spring, under the new plan,
third year high school teachers
will be required to take the mini
mum essentials tests in arithme
tic, which have hitherto been
given in the senior year.
Include) Family Budgets
Any of the Juniors who fail in
the test must take and pass a one
term arithmetic course the fol
lowing fall if they are to be gradu
ated from high school. The
course, in addition to the mini
mum essentials, will offer instruc
tion in family budgets and house
hold economics, money and DanK
lug, installment buying, stocks
and bonds, mortgages and Invest-
ments, property and income tax
es. The course starts with mini
mum essentials In arilhmetic, and
winds up with a review of mini
mum essentials.
Gordon Randall oi tne lnsur-
ance firm of Foley and Randall, inR and Tony winkle, work unit
was invited to attend the next j conservationist, touched on the
meeting of the board to advise the purposps of lhP district, discussed
district on some of its insurance, soM plans aml explained the man
problems. nt,r applications for service are
Lions Planning
Easter Egg Hunt
Lions at their weekly meeting'
today noon at the Pine tavern de-t tures, one dealing with pasture
voted their program principally establishment and management
to a discussion of arrangements and the other Willi erosion con
fur their annual Faster oau hunt.ltrol, were shown.
to be held on Easter Sunday,!
April 9. The hu."t again will be!
held at Shevlin nark, west
Bend.
Jim Lan.arotta. chairman of ing. women or the community
the egg hunt, was in charge of j served lunch.
the luncheon program and called i On April 17. a similar meeting
ion various chairmen. James W.jwill be held at the Eastern Star
i Bushone. president of the club, 1 grange hall, east of Bend.
presided, and at tho start oi tne
meeting "passed the cigars," In
observance or the birth of a
daughter to Mrs. Bushong, at St.
Charles hospital.
At the conclusion of the pro
gram, Albert A. Farrls was pre
sented In guitar numbers.
Air Academy
Inspectors
Here Tonight
A three-man team of army en
gineers, headed by Douglas Pel
ton, will arrive in Bend late to
night on an inspection tour of
possible sites in central Oregon
for a national air academy.
On Wednesday morning at 9:30
a. m., tlie engineers will confer
Sith representatives of central
regon chambers of commerce
in the Sun room of the Pilot
Butte Inn. Under discussion will
be three sites in this region which
might be suitable for a "West
Point of the Air."
Bend and Redmond chambers
of commerce have suggested a
site which lies approximately
equadistant between the airports
of the two cities.
A second site has been proposed
at Madras. This one is being in
spected by the engineers today
and is adjacent to the Madras
airport.
Prineville Has Site
The other possibility has been
proposed by the Prineville cham
ber of commerce and is in close
proximity to the airport near that
city.
According to Harold Clapp,
chairman of the aviation com
mittee of the central Oregon
chamber ci, commerce, the site
selected by Bend and Redmond
Is located in an area of approx
imately 100,000 acres of grazing
land already owned by the gov
ernment. Therefore, proponents
of the site point out, no expen
diture would be necessary in ob
taining its use for the academy.
The site Is also near a railroad
from which a spur to the acad
emy could be easily constructed
and several good arterial high
ways are within reach. The area
is sufficiently close to Bend, Red
mond, and Prineville to make
schools readily available to chil
dren of staff members, Clapp
said.-..
For 2(500 StudentH
The academy, according to gov
ernment; reports, would bp built
initially for about 2500 students
with plans to expand later for
5,000 students incorporated in the
building program. Clapp said the
air force estimates that such an
academy would bring about 10,
000 persons Into the area.
Clapp said that he understands
that almost 200 different sites in
the United States are under con
sideration as possible locations
for the proposed academy.
After Ihe Wednesday morning
meeting, the engineer team will
be flown over the Bend-Redmond
site by the Tilse-Bowman air
service. On Thursday the three
men will travel to, Prineville for
an inspection of the third site
which they will study while in
central Oregon.
The inspection team is being
sent here from the Portland of
fice of army engineers under Col.
O. E. Walsh.
Soil Meeting
Held at Tumalo
Some "5 persons were present
for a soil conservation service
community meeting last night in
Tumalo, with members of the
midstate district present to con
fer with the group and advise
them of the services that are
available. The Tumalo meeting Is
one of a series being held in the
south end of Deschutes county.
This area was recently included
in the county-wide district.
George Elliott, Redmond, chair
man of the district board of su-
,,ori,.,. ,,rpi,ir.,i m the mwi
made.
Policies Out lined
Also present was Jim Ellngs.
Deschutes county agent and SCS
district secretary, who touched on
district policies and activities. Joe
Rogers, district conservationist,
with headquarters in Bend, re
ported on SCS polirles In working
with districts. Two moving pic-
Pat Pattenson of the Tumalo
community was named as advis
ofiory supervisor, to work wlln tn
county board. Following the meet-
BANDITS MAKR BIG HAI L
Philadelphia, March 21 1H'
Three masked bandits, wearing
dark glasses, held up a south
Philadelphia city tax office today
and escaped with $48,000 In cash
and checks.
.
Cascade Lakes
Construction of Two Bridges,
Included in Appropriations
Funds aggregating $925,000 have been allocated for forest
highway work in central Oregon and on the North Santiam
highway in 1950, according to information from the office of
VV. H. Lynch, public roads division engineer, in Portland.
Projects on the bureau's 1950 program include additional
grading on the Cascade Lakes highway west of Bend, and the
construction of two bridges. The allocation for this work is
$100,000.
Other allocations in the $925,000 total are for work in the
Ochoco national forest and in
the Detroit dam area.
Allocations were announced
today after the bureau of pub
lic roads reached agreements
on the forest highway pro
gram for 1950 with the state
highway departments and forest
service offices in Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho.
Grading Provided
Work on the Cascade Lakes
highway will include the grading
of a section of the road beginning
approximately a mile west of
Todd lake and stretching 3.2 miles
west to a point adjacent to Devils
lake. The allocation also provides
for the construction of two bridg
es along that part of the highway
to be graded.
Bridges arc planned at Soda
and Fall creeks, both of which
cross the Cascade Lakes highway
at points along the 3.2 miles sec
tion.
Bids on the project will be call
ed in July.
Ochoco to Benefit
One of the major allocations
lor a forest road in Oregon is
4uu,uuu lor tne surfacing and bi
tumlnous surfacing? of 18.2 miles
of Ihe new Ochocu highway be
ginning at the national forest
boundary 18 miles east of Prine
ville and extending northeasterly.
This new road extends up Marks
creek to a new pass over the
Ochucos, just west of and some
500 feet lower than the present
pass. Bids for the work will be
called In May.
At its meeting in Portland yes
terday, the Oregon highway com
mission received bids for the sur
facing of the Ochoco highway
from the Jones ranch lo Mitchell,
down West Branch creek and up
Bridge creek. This will be a light
surface. A. II. Saxton and Son,
Rufus, submitted the low bid,
$33,503.
Funds for Saul lam
On the North Santiam highway.
tlie U. S. bureau of public roads
has allocated $425,000 for grading
and blasting 2.9 miles of the
mountain road, in the Detroit
dam area. This work will extend
along the north wall of the big
dam and will end at Idanha.
Lynch said contract awards and
construction engineering on the
protected work will be handled (II
reclly by the bureau of public
roads.
Truman Spending Program
Cut, But Deficit Still Looms
By W. R. lligglnbcitnani
(Unltcl IVt-rtB Stuff Coi-rpMiKuiileiu)
Washington, March 21 Ul'i The
house appropriations committee
toilay cut $1.51)7,000,504 from
President Truman's spending pro
gram In an omnibus money bill
that still left the 1051 budget
four debt-raising billions in the!
red. j
Reporting that it exhausted '
"everv possible effort" to cut
deeper, the committee recom
mended a $2!) .015.030,101 appro
priation for most of the govern
ment's agencies.
Only the defense establishment,
which gets one.) bird of the mon.
ev, w a s spared siihu redtir.
lions. The committee said It
feared "certain very grave risks"
in giving the armed forces onlyi
$13,911,127,300. I
The bill stacked up against Mr. j
Truman's requests of $30,612,9.30,-:
68 for the same purposes. He set i
that figure in his fiscal 1951 hurt
get which outlined $12,138,000,000
in spending and forecast a $5.-
IM 171 .'I?' flnflclt
- 1 -p,,, 'comn,tt(H., whose single
package measure covering all but
foreign aid and fixed costs Is the
first of Its kind in 150 years,
claimed only $979,189,000 of its
slash would reduce the deficit.
The rest will be lost paying hang,
over bills from 1950.
Further Culu Possible
Thus the bill fixed the expected
deficit at $4,153,682,312. unless
congress cuts the omnibus bill
further and pares foreign aid
when It comes up in a later bill.
Chairman Clarence Cannon, D
s
Road Grading,
LL... U L f I I
new nign cnooi
For Bend Favored
By Budget Group
A new three-vear hieh school
for Bend, rather than amplifica.
non ot tne lacillties of the old
plant, was the choice of the school
district budget committee at its
meeting in the board room at the
high school last night.
Class rooms and offices would
number 33. A music suite, gym
nasium and vocational wing
would be part of the project, as'
outlined in the superintendent's
report submitted to the district
board in February. Cost could be
as high as $682,000, and bonding
would be required for the great
er part of the amount.
Location would be on the dis
trict's 30-acre east side site
bounded by Emerson, Sixth, Al
den and Woodlawn. Chairman
Carl A. Johnson appointed a sub
committee to be headed bv Carl
J. Llndh with Glenn H. Gregg,
Carl E. Er'lckson, Vance T, Coy
ner and James W. Bushong as its
other members, to study methods
of financing.
In the meantime the budget
committee's vote will be a guide
to the board in the district's sum.
mer construction program. Grade
school additions will be held to n
minimum, looking forward to the
use of the old high school build
ing as a junior high school
housing seventh, eighth and ninth
grades and consequent relief of
the load on Kenwood and Allen
grade schools, from which the
seventh grade sections would be
transferred.
Because of the bonding feature,
approval by the voters will be re
quired In carrying out the plan
for junior and senior high schools
and a sixth grade maximum for
the elementary division. The bond
election, it was suggested, should
be held at the time of the annual
school meeting in June.
REP. CHURCH DIES
Washington, March 21 1P
Rep. Ralph E. Church, R., Ill
collapsed today and dijcl within a
few minutes.
Mo., plans to steer the bill onto
the house floor next Monday for
10 days of debate. Republicans
have announced they will seek
to cut it anotVr $3,000,001,000.
Cannon packed 10 or more
measures into the 431. page single
package this session for the first
such treatment in 150 years. It
was designed to put spending
alongside anticipated revenues of
$3 '.305,380.0.54 to impress
to impress con
gress with the economy drive.
The bill provided $3.910,E32,300
for the armv. $4,448,181,000 for
the navy and $5,190,904,000 for
Ihe airfort'e. Defense got a total
reduction of $203,332,700, one of
it in critical spots.
"The committee feels that a
substantial reduction in the funds
requested would cripple the na
tional defense effort," a report
accompanying the bill said.
The committee said It believed
President Truman exceeded his
authority In holding up funds
I last year for a 70-group airforce
and that funds now avauanie
would provide only for 42 groups.
It also said Defense secretary
Louis Johnson's civilian firings
to reduce costs are "encourag
ing'' The bill ra tries $27,266,403,664
In cash and $1,778,626,500 in con.
tract authority for the govern,
ment's hundreds of bureaus. In
actual cash, the 1951 cut totaled
$1,385,377,504. It ranged from
nothing for the FBI to a high of
$530,000,000 for the so-called inde
pendent offices, such as the atom
ic energy commission. The same
bills last year were $2,709,000,000
higher.