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Bend Forecast
Bend Fair today; cloudy
tonight with some light snow
flurries; partly cloudy Sun
day with light showers; high
both days 48 to 93; low to
night 30 to 35.
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LEASED WIRE WORLD
NEWS COVERAGE
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
47th Year
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY. MARCH 25, 1950
No. 93
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20,000 Gallon
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Brought to Bend from Portland on a flat car, loaded on a truck in Bend and moved to the hospital site yesterday, this 20,000-gallon fuel
tanK is pictured nere at me eage of me excavation into which it is to be placed. Atop the massive tank is Deun Smart. Riggers wujk un
the ground. The 17,500-pound tank yesterday afternoon was removed from the truck and placed on the ground, adjacent to the rocky
excavation. '
Chamber Forum
Luncheon Group
Hears CAP Talks
Knowledge of aeronautics is es
sential today for a clear under
standing of the world in which
we live, Capt. Billie R. Wise, lia
son officer for the Civil Air pa
trol, asserted in an address yes
terday before a chamber of com
merce forum luncheon at the Pi
lot Butte inn.
Captain Wise was one of four
staff officers of the Oregon CAP
who visited in Bend yesterday.'
Others were Lt. Col. Leslie C.
Austin, deputy wing commander:
Major Hugh G. Angle, wing- air
inspector, and Lt. Genevieve
dine, public relations officer.
"The Civil Air patrol," Captain
Wise said, "is composed of civil
ians who recognize that the air
age is here."
Program Outlined
In outlining the various phases
of the CAP program, the flier em
phasized the need for an in
creased interest In aviation on
the part of America's civilian pop
ulation. There presently exists In
the United States a vital shortage
of personnel trained in -the var
ious technical aeronautical skills,
he warned.
Cantnin Wise praised the pro
gram of the Bend flight of the
AT ana urgea ine cnamuer ui
ommerce and the residents 01
lie citv to support lt in every
w.nv uossible.
v ' Plan School Course
In connection with the local
program, h." reported that, start
ing next fall. Bend high school
Would offer an aeronautical train
ing course developed by the CAP.
It will be similar to ones now
being offered in high schools
throughout the country. Text
books for the courses are pro
vided by the CAP at no cost to
Ihe schools.
Colonel Austin. Major Austin,
and Lt. Gall Sigmund, of the
Bend flight, also spoke briefly at
the forum luncheon. The speakers
were introduced by Ben Hamil
ton. of-the chamber of commerce
forum committee.
In the afternoon the CAP group
appeared at a special assembly at
Bend high school. In the evening
the oflicers met with members
of the Hend flight at Uic CAP
headquarters In the Coble build
ing. !
f.KVBKAI. STKIKK ENDS
Brussels. Eelglum. March 25.
(Hi A violent 24-hour general
strike protesting the possible re
turn cf K'.ng Leopold U ended
on schedule today, but the roval
v dispute was far from solution.
' With neither pro-Leopold nor
anti-Leopold forces apparently
able 10 form a government that
would command a majority In
l parliament, observers believed re
cent Trlnce Charles may dissolve
Ihe chambers and order new elec
tions in 40 days.
Fuel Storage Tank Brought Here for
31 Citizens of Deschutes
County Called for Jury Duty
Thirty-one residents of Deschutes county have been sum
moned to appear for jury duty at the next term of the circuit
court, which begins April 3. -
The jury panel was drawn by the county sheriff and the
county clerk from the jury list compiled by the county court
earlier this year. Each member of the jury panel is required
to appear at the circuit courtroom in the courthouse in Bend
at 10 a.m. April 3, according to Sheriff C. L. McCauley.
Seven members or the jury
panel will be selected for duty
on the grand jury at the first
meeting of the court. Other
members will serve as trial
jurors.
List Given
Following Is a list of persons
who were drawn for the jury
panel:
Marshall G. Hunt, Bern ice
Hoogner, Kathryn Marsh, Frank
J, Eikstead, Edward M. Danison,
James DeRocher, Norman Chavis,
Mayme S. Athon, Bernice Jensen,
George Brick, Clifford Briggs,
James Parr, Vlda H. Ray, Annie
M. Mize, L. H. Nedrow, Josephine
Scott, Norah Loree, David Grim
es, Fred Hartman, L. M. McDer
mont. James Grindle, Reuben J.
Engstrom, John F. Burpee, Paul
C. Barr, Harry Brandon, Clyde
Bllladeau, and R. C. Strickland, all
of Bend; James Keller and D. L.
Ponhollow, Redmond, and Mrs.
Vern Maglll and Joe T. Bryson,
Terrebonne.
Enrollment Still
Possible Here
There is still time to enroll for
spring term classes at the Central
Oregon Community college In
Bend, according to li. M. Nich
olson, who reported today that
registrations will be accepted all
next week.
Courses being offered for the
spring quarter Include English
composition, survey of English
literature, history of western civ
ilization, general sociology, Inter,
mediate algebra, biological science
survey, constructive accounting,
typing, stenography, public
speaking, Oregon history and
methods and materials, teaching
of science.
Nicholson announced that 10
new students had been enrolled
In the beginning typing class,
which will be held In room 300 of
the high school at 4:40 p.m. Wed
nesdays and Thursdays. He also
reported that a class In Oregon
history would be offered and
would start on April 12.
More than 50 persons have re
gistered for the spring classes.
Nicholson said.
Regular, classes at the college
will be held nt the same hours as
during the winter term, he said.
Registration should be made at
Nicholson's office In the high
school or with the Instructors In
each class.
Geology Club
Deschutes Geology club mem
bers, . headed by John H. Eaton,
will join on their first field trip
of the season tomorrow, "rain or
stilne," with newly.dlscovered
fossil localities In the Madras
country to be their goal. The
trip originally planned for dast
trip originally was planned for
last Sunday, but was postponed
because of Inclement' weather.
Eaton said 9 a.m. had been set
as the starting time, with the
group to meet in front of the
Bend post office. Redmond and
Madras people interested in the
central Oregon outdoors are be
ing invited to join In the outing.
Leading the trip into Jefferson
county will be Phil F. Brogan.
There will be several stops en
route, for brief lectures. The first
field stop will be on the grade
west of Gateway. From Gateway,
the group will return to the
sheltered Cove area for lunch. In
the Cove region, the student geol
ogists will study the intra-canyon
lavas.
Bend residents Interested in the
geology of central Oregon are be
ing Invited to Join the group, re
gardless of membership In the
club.
Latest City Well
Down 225 Feet;
Now in Fine Sand
A lest well being drilled near
the Skyllner road some eight
miles west of Bend had reached
a depth of 225 feet this morning,
according to Information from
the office of W. P. Drost, city
water department superintendent.
This is the third well drilled by
the city in an effort to locate an
auxiliary supply of water, for
use in the summer months. Lee
Grimes Is drilling the present
well.
Drillers reported this morning
that b stratum of fine sand had
been reached. This layer was tap
ped after the drill passed through
five feet of very hard rock, Un
til the rock was reached, the drill
moved through surface silt, a
layer of gravel believed to have
been of glacier origin, then a con
siderable thickness of cinders.
New Hospital
Huge Fuel Tank
Arrives in Bend
For New Hospital
A 20,000-Rallon fuel oil tank
largest of its kind in Bend, was
resting at the edge of a deep ex
cavation, blasted into lava rock
on the St. Charles hospital site.
this afternoon, ready to be low
ered into place. That task, riggers
agreed, will be a delicate one, for
the massive tank will have a
clearance of only one inch at each
end as it is eased to its sand cush
ion nt the bottom of the excava
tion.
The huge tank was brought
here from Portland on a flat car
and moved from the car to the
hospital site on a large truck. Yes
terday afternoon, an attempt was
made to place the tank in. the
hole, but the work was delayed
because of difficulty In getting
the boom into the correct posi
tion. The tank, which is 29 feet (i
inches in length and 10 feet H
inches in diameter, will store fuel
oil for the new hospital. It is be
ing Installed by the A. G. Rush
light Co., of Portland, which has
the plumbing and heating con
tract. Weight of the tank, empty, is
17.500 pounds. The excavation in
the lava rock In which the tank is
to be placed is near the cast end
of the hospital site.
Riggers in lowering the tank
Into the hole face the delicate
job of easing it past sharp lava,
edges. Guide ropes have been
placed on each end of the tank.
It will be lowered Into the hole
from a giant boom operated by
Walter Allison and Wilbur Simili
ter. Sumpter will be at the hoist
boom throttle.
When attempts were made yes
terday to lower the lank into
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Check Passers
Given Probation
Buster G. MeCrary, 25. Reeds
port, was placed on three year's
pronation when lie appeared he
I fore Circuit Judge R. S. Hamil
ton Saturday on a charge of ob
taining money and properly un
der false pretenses.
Judge Hamilton deferred sen
tence of McCrury's brother liar
old, 20, also of Reedsport. Both
men were arrested by city police
March 8 after they were alleged
to have passed three worthless
checks totaling $12.50 n Bend.
According to county officer, they
also admitted passing checks In
Springfield and Redmond.
The arrest In Bend was made
after a victim cashed one of the
checks and then became suspi
cious find notified city officers.
Both men waived grand Jury
indictment.
Speedy Action
ii
ving Slated
Bend citv commissioners at a
special meeting Wednesday night
wilt uecice wnetner tnis cay is
to. observe duylight or standard
time in the 1950 season.
Mayor T. D. Sexton, in his
weekly talk over radio station
KBND last night, announced that
the special meeting is being call
ed because the next regular meet
ing of the city commission is thiee
weeks distant, inasmuch as there
are five Wednesdays in .March.
Furthermore, Mayor Sexton
pointed out, central Oregon cities
are waiting for Bend to take ac
tion before they make a decision
for or against daylight saving in
the 1950 season. "The United Ail
Lines, which serves this area, is
also urging that immediate action
be" taken on the matter since
schedules must be printed for the
season,
, - Voted Last. Year
Last year about this time, Bend
voted on the daylight saving ques
tion, but the number of votes
cast, 1179, was only about one
foitrth of the total in the preced
ing general election. In that vote,
the daylight saving proposal was
defeated, G01 to 518.
The Wednesday night meeting
will be in the nature of a final
hearing, to provide members of
the commission with information
on which to base their vole. This
pa.st week or so, Various members
of the commission have had "their
ear to the ground," and they pre
dict that Bend favors daylight
saving time' this year.
Throughout the northwest In
the past week, or so, cities, have
tApn-deckJIng the daylight saving
question. In Oregon, the swing
this season appears to be in favor
of daylight saving.
FAVOKKD BY MAJORITY
Portland, March 25 'll'i A ma
jority of cities in the Pacific
northwest today appeared ready
to accept daylight saving time
this year, but there will be a few
holdouts again.
The switch to fast time will be
made In most large population
centers of Oregon and Washing
tun April 30, with Portland, Seal,
tie, Tacoma, Olympia, Everett,
Eugene and other cities leading
the way.
Other communities committed
to daylight saving time include
I.ongview, Corvallis. Medford,
Klamath Falls, Roseburg, The
Dalles, Oregon Citv, Centralla.
Woodland, Richland, Sea side,
Lakevlow, Mihvaukie, Beaverton
and St. Helens.
Several towns still have not
completed official consideration
of daylight saving time
The Astoria 'city council was
expected to deckle April 3. Clat
sop county dairymen and fis'ic--men
generally oppose fast time.
Orchardists and farmers have
roup on record against daylight
saving time In Hood River.
Coos Bay has turned down day
light saving, but other communi
ties in (oos.. Curry and western
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Elephants Make
Break at Pomona
Pomona, Calif.. March 25 HI''
j Two elephants broke loose from
I attendants here last night and
S rampaged through the east part of.
I Pomona, critically injuring one
nf Ihfilt- iillnnrl jtitc
I Tile beasts were being taken
j from the Clyde Really circus to a
loading train when the whistles
and hells of a passing train frlglil
jened them. They broke ropes
i w hich restrained them and went
j tearing through East Pomona,
j The elephants knocked down
! fences, clotheslines and slammed
! down a nine-foot high steel wire
ft-nc? which surrounds a Pomona
! reservoir.
! The police switchboard here
: w:is swamped with calls from cit
izens who reported the beasts
; tn-crlng in their windows Leroy
, Rnftlmi.n 'X) n .lt-iiu ritfnn.l.mt
finally cornered one of the ani
mals. He got hold of a roc attach
ed to the female elephant but the
animal, still pa'nlc.sti Icken, pick
ed him up by her trunk, threw
him down and rolled on him.
Soellman was taken to Pomona
Valley hospital where his condi
tion whs described as critical.
Three police officers, vlth the
aid of circus personnel, finally
cornered the elephants and quiet
ed, them down. They were loaded
on the train without any further
Incident.
On Daylight
Mid state Foresters Hear
Discussion of Problems
At Redmond Dinner Meeting
Some 70 foresters from the
the March meeting of the Columbia river section of the So
ciety of American Foresters last night, heard a discussion of
timber management problems by two representatives of the
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.,-- of Klamath Falls. The dinner
meeting was at the Redmond hotel, in Redmond, with James
E. Sowder, Bend, president of the chapter, presiding.
Speakers were Conrad Worsting, who touched on forestry
practices on the Weyerhneu-
ser pinclunds of southern Ore
gon, and Tom M. Orr, chief
forester for the Weyerhaeu
ser company. Orr devoted his
talk largely, to timber manage
ment problems, especially In con
nection with sanltution . salvage
work in pine stands.
Questions Answered ,
' At the conclusion of their table
talks, the Weyerhaeuser men an
swered questions, until Sowder
called time at 9:40 p.m. Present
for the meeting were federal and
private foresters representing
practically all timber firms and
federal forests in the Interior
country. - ' .
At the Redmond meeting, the.
foresters opened , the nomination
of officers for the cotnlng year,
with a chairman, vice-chairman
and membership committee chair
man to be selected. Under elec
tion rules, the men receiving the
highest number of votes- in the
balloting will serve as chairman
of the chapter, with the vice
chairmanship going to the "run
ner up. ' V
Foresters nominated were Ken
neth A. Burkholder, Bend; Rich
ard L. Qulntus, Bend; Vondls E.
Miller, Prlnevllle; Preston K. Mc
Canlies, Burns; Carl Raupach,
Bend; Lester McPherson, John
Day and Henry C. Hulett, Prine
ville. The April meeting of the mid-
Oregon foresters will be at Prlne
vllle. Tha; date has- been set for
April 28,(bowdcr announced. On
May 27, members of the group
and tneir wives and guests will
Join In a field trip, with half of
the day to be spent at the Prlngle
Falls experiment station and the
other half at the Gilchrist opera
tions, mere will be a banquet at
Gilchrist that night.
By action of the executive com
mittee the name of the local
group was changed from the Des
chutes to the Central Oregon
chapter, Society of American For
esters, '
Volunteers Seek
Missing Girl
Vancouver, Wash., March 25 (Hi
Four handled volunteers afoot,
on horseback and in planes began
a m.iss search today for Joann
Dewey. 18-year-old hospital work
er who apparently was abducted
by two men last Sunday night.
Responding to an emergency
call by Mayor V. B. Anderson,
hundreds of searchers met at the
city hall at 8 a. m, to receive
Instruct Inns for an all-out hunt
In Clark county.
As t-ach group received Its spe
clfic assignment, Ihe volunteers
left the city hall in parlies of ten
each.
Saddle club members, private
plai'e pilots, farmers and Von
couver townspeople joined In the
girl-hunt under direction of Po
lice Chief Harry Diamond. Sheriff
Earl N. Anderson and Sgt. J. D.
C osliow of Ihe Washington slate
patrol. ' . ,
Miss Dewey, whose home Is In
Battleground, Wash., disappeared
Sunday night alter witnesses re
ported she was forced, screaming,
into an automobile by two men
on a dimly-lighted Vancouver
street. One neighbor said the girl
was beaten.
Police feared she had been kid
naped end criminally assaulted.
No clue lo her whereabouts has
been lound despite an Intensive
six-day hunt.
For the purposes of Ihe Inten
sified fearch today, Clark county
was divided lido 25 areas of
about four square miles each.
About 10 searchers were assigned
to each area. Farmers and othen
property owners were asked to
search their grounds.
TRIPLETS HKI.KASKII
The first triplets born at St.
Charles hospital, children of Mr
and Mrs. Maurlre Ashcraft of
Madras, were released today from
the maternity ward. Wild their
parents and sister. Sandra Lec.
they made the trip to the Jeffer
son county town in the new Mad
ras ambulance, In which the moth
er was taken home February 11.
The babies, two boys and n girl,
were born February 6.
When the Infants left the hos.
pital today, they had an aggre
gate weight of 18 pounds, 11 ounc
es, an increase of 4 pounds, 8
ounces, since dm in.
midstale counties attending
Passengers Seize
Czech Airliners
At Pistol Point
Erding, Germany. March 25 UP
Spokesmen for 85 persons who
landed here unexpectedly yester
day said today that their firee
Czech airliners were comman
deered aloft at gunpoint for mass
exodus from communlst-uominat
rui fVpphnslnvnkln.
Leopold Thurner, president of
the Czech Airways, was aboard
one of the planes. But he was
named todav as one of the 58 un
witting and unwilling passengors
who want to go back to Czecho
slovakia. Other than Turner, the group
included no prominent or impor
tant persons, the U. S. air force
said in announcing the makeup
of the party. It contained 67 men,
16 women, one child and one in
fant.
Seven anti-communist crewmen
put guns on the pilots and forced
the three C-47's to turn away from
their routes to Prague, coming
Instead to the American zone of
Germany. Twenty otjiei- persons
aboard the planes ased asyl.um.
interviews remained
' Newsmen were Jiermitted today
to interview those who asked to
return to Czechoslovakia. The 20
passengers and seven crewmen
who wanted to stay here were
being questioned.
Josef Klesnil, pilot for the
Czech airlines, said he flew his
plane almost the whole way from
Brno, Czechoslovakia, to this U.S.
air base near Munich with a gun
at his head.
He and other passengers and
crewmen said all three plane pi
lots were forced by armed crew
men to change course and head
for the U. S. zone of Germany.
All the planes originally were
scheduled lo go to Prague from
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Counterfeit Rinq
Arrests Are Made
Paris, March 25 (111 Police to
day Identified one of five men
arrested here in connection with
a three-nation counterfeit and
smuggling ring as a chauffeur lo
Spanish dancer Carmen Amaya,
now in Hollywood.
Police said the chauffeur, An
tonio Ybanez-Pellus, admitted he
used Miss Amaya's black Pack
ard to transport smuggled goods
from Germany to the Spanish
border.
The arresls broke up the ring,
police said. Its members were
said to have purchased goods In
western Germany with counter
feit Belgln and Swiss francs end
even crude American dollars and
to have smuggled I hem across
France lo Ihe Spanish border.
Axis Leaders Had Planned
Flying Saucers, Declared
Rome. March 25 mi Prof.
Giuseppe Belluzzo, 73-yenr-nld
Italian turbine engineer, said to
day that designs for "flylnsr sau
cers" were prepared for Hitler
anil Mussolini In 1!M2.
"According to those designs."
he said In an Interview, "Ihe discs
could carry a cargo of explosives
of any kind and loday an atomic
bomb - to destroy entire cities."
Of the present rash of reports
of "living saucers," whie'i the
Unitlll States air force has He-
clared are without foundation In
fact, Ilclluzzo said:
"It has passed my mind that
some great power Is experiment.
Ing with flying discswithout ex
plosives or atomic bombs.
"There Is nothing supernatural
or Maillan about flying discs. It's
just the most rational use of recently-evolved
techniques."
Bo,th Interested
Belluzzo said he personally had
drafted plans for a "flying disc"
.32 feet In diameter, but claimed
Ihcy disappeared with Benito
Mussolini when ho fled to north
ern Italy In 1943.
- "Both Hitler and Mussolini were
Interested In flying discs.' he said.
"The Idea was born in Italy about
Triangle Used
in Directing
Aerial Hunt '
More than 50 private and mili
tary planes searched a vast trU'
angular area of south central Or
egon today for a missing Beech
craft plane with four Portlanders
aboard, search sectors were as
signed In the area bounded on the
north by Madras, on the east by
Burns and in the southeast by
Lakevlew.
Early this afternoon, the In
tensive search appeared to be
shifting to the north of the tri
angle, following reports wnicn in
dicate that the missing plane
might have reached as far north
as Millican or Madras before It
dropped from sight.
The plane was last heard from'
Tuesday when it left Lakeview
for Portland en route nome irom
the Oregon goodwill air tour to
Havana, Cuba. Aboard were Mr.,
and Mrs. Lee Blakkolb and Mr. .
and Mrs. W. B. Lindstrom, all of
Portland.
May Have Reached Bend
Reports also indicated the plan.i
may have reached the Bend area
then turned east toward Burns
in a snowstorm. It Is surmised
that the pilot might have been
attempting to fly eastward out of
the storm.
A report was received by the
searchers that a plane had been
heard over. Millican early Tues
day afternoon, but this informa
tion was termed Indefinite, inas
much as another plane was in
that area at the same time.
Last definite report about the
plane appears to have been re
ceived from the country Just
north of Silver Lake. A plane be.
lleved to" be' the missing Beech
craft was .spotted hy "a motorist
from mllepost 34 on the Fremont,'
highway. It was headed north, -No
Flight Planned
Such a course, it was pointed
out here today, might have taken
the plane into the high Paulina '
mountain area. Blakkolb left no
flight plan when he headed north
from Lakeview.
Much of the Bend country was
In a blinding snowstorm Tuesday
afternoon, at about the time the
craft should have passed over this
area.
As, the search shifted north to
day, Redmond became an Impor
tant secondary headquarters for
private and military observers.
Some 30 planes were operating
from the Redmond airport today.
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Bulletins
The 17.S00 pound fuel tunk
being lowered Into a deen exca
vation In lava rock on the St.
Charles bospltul grounds up
ended s supporting tractor
and fell Into (he jagged hole
at i p. in. today. Damage to
the 'auk was not Immediately
derinliieil.
Mcsa, ArU., March 25 (111 A
distressed civilian operated 15 25
light tHimlier crashed anil burn
ed durinr a heavy wind and
ruin storm on a hlgliwuv six
nillrs south of hern todav and
at least six nersons were killed,
Pat .Mctiiilnn, attached In
nearby Williams air force base
public Information office, was
one of Ihe first to arrive al the.
scene. He counted six bodies.
(he same time it was heard of In
Germany.
"The principle of Hie flying disc
is very simple. Its construction
is easy and can be done with very
light metal.
"Two jet pix-s, facing opposite
directions and placed on either
side of the disc, provide t'lp loco
motion. The orifices of these jet
lubes are adjustable to permit
maviiT.um and minimum speeds.
Propulsion comes from a mix.
i tore of romtiressprl nil- mid nHittli.
I tha- the same fuel used In mod-
ern let planes.
"The air is mixed under pres
sure with naphtha and ignited at
first by cartridges and then by
an electrical device. Terrific pres
sure is set up and the expand
ing mis forced out through the
Jet pipes.
"The reaction, coming from op.
ooslng pipes on either side of the
disc, start the entire apparatus
revolving, making It airborne."
The missiles could lie aimed like
the war-time German V-2 rock
ets, he said, and would descend
when the fuel was exhausted or
cut off by an automatic timing
device. No human pilot would be
required.