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Univ. of Oragon Library THE BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Mostly cloudy today; partly cloudy . to fair tonight and Friday; Continued mild; high today and Friday, S3 to 58; low i tonight. 25 to 30. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 47th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 30, 1950 No. 97 Name Muir Aim Vancouver eir Aft JK Suspects Lakes Take Shape in Old Tumalo Reservoir Basin , c s f i - v - v f ' t - . rfajMBfTMarTAf"iii-li ii1iBr1i?rf ' ' 1 1 i nurf n nuiiiiiMWiimi I iim Tumalo Reservoir Filling Wifh Wafer Again, as Tests Of Leak-Sealing Launched Oregon's ill-fated Tumalo reservoir, constructed 34 years ago in the Bull creek basin 10 miles northwest of Bend, is being studied by engineers, to determine if- leak-sealing work is feasible. , Late March finds Tumalo creek water pouring into the 1000-acre basin, with the inflow esimated at 70 second feet. The upper basin of the reservoir is already filled, and at pres ent water isj, slowly accumu- lating behind the reservoir dam, in the rocky .gorge of Bull creek. Purpose of the test storage in the Tumalo reservoir basin is to determine the amount of water being lost and, if possible, the zones of escape. Started by Chamber Studies now in progress at the reservoir were inaugurated under the Bend chamber of commerce irrigation committee, headed by Robert H. Foley, with the com mittee serving in a liaison capa city between the United States bureau of- reclamation and the Tumalo district. Under the ar rangement, bureau of reclamation engineers are serving as observ ers. No sealing work is contem plated at present. When the ntudv was first un dertaken, it was lioped that a suf- f icient flow could be diverted into the basin, in this season or sur-;io inc cuiuimlm. u. ic ...b..o,. plus water to mark leaks along i E. A. Collier, maintenance engln the higher levels of the reservoirs, j cer for the department, was sche H,, onnrnonh nf iho msn'duled to meet Wilson and Dahl Irrigation season, with water to! tie diverted Into the North canal about Anvil 1. Is exnected to pre vent a complete test of the basin this season. Precedent at Wickiup """"'l' The studies are being launched I' ":.'hc.ham'wr,,mmi,,r,"i sucs orbu'au of'Viamation engineers in sealing the new Wickiup reset voir in the upper DciXutw untry When that 'big reservoir was first filled to enpa- city two vears ago, vawnlng fis- stircs developed In the Wickiup, reservoir floor, along fault lines . in underlying lava rocks, and into (Continued on Pags 61 5 ... s w;i ?a s 'hi Central Oregon Delegation Asks Lifting of Ban William NIskanen, Bend, was a member of a central Oregon chamber of commerce delegation which met yesterday at Salem with R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, in an attempt to get the highway department to lift its logging truck ban on the Warm Springs highway. Other members of the group were M. A. Lynch, Redmond; Har old Barclay, of Dahl Pine. Inc., Warm Springs, and Robert Wil son, owner of the Warm Springs Timber company. Inspection Promised The delegation received a prom ise from Baldock that the depart- j ment would look Immediately in- this morning for a tour of inspec- ition ol tne new rouie. luiiiit win tour the length ol tne :m mile highway to determine whether It can be opened Immediately to log ging and lumner ivucks or musi r..l 1l ,.,,, Una nnv nrpH. V "', " ' " ' nJ delegation yesterday re- ! P-'ed to rJdock that unless the ban were lifted ml Is In the Warm Springs area would bj forced to ; shut down. Ba dork assured the delegation that the department would open the road as soon as possitxe. The highway in question h3 a gravel base with an inch of oil s surface. tasiiw'rCJtfH r 'Mi -aw , J r,..: r In connection with a fissure sealing study now under way, the man-made lakes pictured here present a striking view in the old Tumalo reservoir basin, with the white Cascades in the background. Above, lower ba- fin Innljirtrr cnllthuifwf At ricrht upper basin, with Three Sisters in Background. Benscoter Quits County Extension hf Resignation of Donald L. Ben scoter, Deschutes county exten sion agent in charge of 4-H work, and appointment oi josepn j Leivins, former county extension aeent In Colorado, to till tne va cancy, were announced today from Corvallls by L,. J. Allen state 4-H club leader. J. T. Elines, county extension agent, reported when in Bend to day from his Hedmond omce mat Benscoter is resigning to accept other employment. Benscoter has served as Deschutes county exten sion agent in charge of 4-H club work since June, 1948. Last year there were 528 boys and girls en rolled In club work in the county, and the group sponsored 744 proj ects. Subject to Approval Lievens, whose appointment is subject to the approval of the state board of higher education, is a 1939 graduate in animal hus bandry from Colorado A. & M. college. Following his graduation. Lievens served as both county club agent and 4-H club agent in Colorado. He has been on leave from his extension service duties since January, 1949, to take furth er college work. Lievens received his master s degree last montn. Subject of his thesis was "Selec tion and Training ot i ciud Leaders." In world war II, Lievens served in the navy for four years, and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant. Lievens. is "farm raised," El ings said, and was a 4-H club member for four years. He has also served as a local 4-H club leader. Pastor Named By Bend Church Rev. William Albach, now pas tor of Ml. Olive Lutheran church, In Shelton, Wash., has been nam ed pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, In Bend, and will come to this cliy shortly after the middle of April, officials of the local church announced today. If pos. slide. Installation services will be held at Trinity Lutheran church on April 23. Rev, Albach Is married and has three children. He Is a graduate from Concordia seminary. St. Louis, Mo. Rev. Albach has been pastor of the Shelton church since liMti, and served at Havlllah. Wash., from 1941 to 194fi. The new pastor of the Bend church is 36 years of age. ADOPTED BY SEASIDE Seaside, March 30 W An or dinance passed by the city council will put Seaside on daylight sav ing time from April 30 to Sept. 24. It was announced today. The time change conforms with the proposed clock shift in maj'ir Pacific northwest cities. Missouri's Skipper Makes Plea of Guilty Norfolk. Va.'. March 30 iui Capt. W. D, Brown, former skip per or tne oamesnip Missouri, oleaded eulllv todav at a navy court martial to charges that he was responsible for grounding the ship in Hampton roads Janu ary 17. Brown pleaded guilty specifical ly to charges ot suffering a ship of the navy to be stranded, suf fering a vessel of tne navy to De hazarded and of duly. The court martial agreed to drop three counts originally charged against Brown, who was skippering the Missouri when it grounded during its first cruise under his command. To each of three charges and four specifications Brown an swertd "guilty." Statement Read Then he read a statement, to the court: ' "I trust that by my pleas of to day and by my statement of a month ago, which became a mat ter of public record, my position has been made unmistakably clear. I am not concerned with the legal technicalities of my po sition. I recognize that I was re sponsible for the safe navigation of the ship. My orders put the ship aground. Therefore, any culpability involved in the groun- mg Is mine, i nat is my position." Brown s counsel steppea Deiore the si em gold-braid court after Brown had read his statement. "The pleas of guilty which were sincerely made a few min utes ago," Capt. C. C. Wood said, "marked the end of a long and difficult stretch of road which Captain Brown has had to tread since S;22 on the morning, qf January 17. "Ho feels that the court can not impose a.ny sentence which will be greater in effect than the self-inflicted punishment which has already resulted from this tragic occurrence. "Needless to say," Wood told the court, "the scars of this pun ishment will long outlive any action Uiken by this court." Some Charges Dropped The court dropped a charge that Brown "neglected and failed to inform himself" concerning buoys marking the range and "caused a course to be steered toward spar buoys" which "marked a fishnet area of said shoal." Also dropped were charges that he did not use the danger bear ing on Thimble shoal .light al though he knew of the bearing, and ihat he failed to "Insure that said ship's lookouts were pro (Continued on Page 7) Fire Fatal to 9 Mental Patients Philadelphia, Ma'rch 30 HIi Nine men mentaL patients, tug ging in terror at tile chains which bound them to concrete slabs, died today in a fire iiv a private sani tarium. The dense smoke which killed them, pouring into their barred cells from a basement flit!, felled two other patients in the ward. They were In critical condition at Montgomery hospital In Norris town, Pa. A male nurse, George Lewis. 51. saved the lives of the four other inmates of the violent sec tion. He groped through the smoke and unlocked the leather bound chains which shackled them either by the wrist or ankle to an Iron ring in their concrete "beds." i When five of the dead were laid out on the rug-covered floor of the administration building, the cuts and bruises on their bod ies told the story of how they struggled futllely to break the shackles that held them. Others Overcome. About 30 other persons, Includ ing firemen and attendants, were overcome or sickened by the dense smoke from a rubbish fire, Amid the confusion of smoke, the rescuing of 75 terror-stricken Inmates and firemen battering at cell doors, there was heroism. Mis. Theresa Shaw, a 38-year-old nurse from New York, crawl ed on her stomach through the smoke to lead flrempn to the lock ed doors of bed. ridden patients. Heroic firemen carried other patients, naked or clad In night clothes or underwear, to safety down ladders In the chill early morning hours. Spectators, drawn to the scene by smoke and fire sirens, aided in'the rescue work. Trial Census Enumeration Started Today Eighteen census enumerators fanned out into Deschutes county this morning in a final practice "nose count" before the official enumeration begins Saturday. According to Gertrude Arnold, district census supervisor, enum erators were scheduled to spend four hours in the field today in the final phase of their week-long training course. In the clty'of Bend eight enum erators were at work. They were Catherine F. Lomas, Roland O. Christensen, Dorothy A. Hutton, Lillian B. Paul, Margaret E. 01 sen, Harold L. Arbow, Wanda R. King and Jack R. Vaughn. The following were busy in other areas of the county: Delia A. Mc Mullen, Fred J. Smith, Edna C. Shepard, Lloyd Reed, Harold J. Kelley, Grace H. Trachsel, Erma B. Raske, Clara McCormlck and Phillip Roberts. Count Final Mrs. Arnold reported that per- sons being counted in today's practice run would not be enum erated again unless it were found that a mistake had been made. The enumeration is being conduct ed In order to give those who will direct the census an opportunity to check each enumerator before the final count begins. Mrs. Arnold emphasized today that each enumerator must carry an identification card and warned citizens to ask to see this card if any question -arises regarding the authenticity or an enumerator. Each card should carry Mrs. Ar nold's signature as wen as the counter signature of the enumer ator. Music Festival Starts Fridaf Student musicians from grade schools and junior-senior highs in 10 central and eastern Oregon communities will join in a two day festival, Friday at Bend and Saturday at rrineviue. music edu cators who will act as Judges in clude Dr. Edmund Cykler, from (he University of Oregon; Ed Mc Dowell, of the Grant high school faculty, Portland; E. Stanley Gla rum, choral director at Lewis and Clark college, Portland, and Dr. Lynn Bishop, choral director at Eastern Oregon college, La Grande. Soloists and small ensembles will compete at Bend, in the audi toriums of Thompson school, First Methodist church, Trinity Episcopal church and First Lu theran church. Auditions will be gin Friday at 9 a.m. and continue through the afternoon, with a re cess for luncheon. ; Play at Prlnevlllc Band, chorus, glee and choir groups and the Bend high school orchestra, only school orchestra group In the district, will play for ratings Saturday in Prlnevllle. In strumental groups will play in the auditorium of Ochoco grade school, and choral groups will sing in the high school auditor ium. Climaxing the festival will be a concert Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Ochoco grade school auditor ium, with selected groups from both days' competition taking part. The outstanding senior choir, senior glee club, band, jun ior groups and soloists will be presented. The concert will be open to the public, and tickets will (Continued on Page 5) Maguire Warns That Eternal Vigilance Freedom Essentrial Eternal vigilance" is the price Americans must pay if they are to maintain this country's price less heritage of freedom, Robert F. Maguire emphasized in an ad dress in Bend yesterday. Speaking before a joint meet ing of the Rotary, Klwanls, and Lions clubs, and the Junior cham ber of commerce, Maguire out lined a set of principles which he considered necessary for the pres ervation of freedom. He recently returned from Germany, where he served 18 months as one of the judges at the war crimes trials In Nuremberg. The Port land attorney and for mer nresident of the Orecon state bar, urged Americans to adopt a liberal philosophy in their thinking. By this Maguire said he meant a "free, open and investi gative mind" bolstered by cour age and vision. He warned against giving elect ed officials "more power than nec essary," and called for the preser vation of this country's system of free courts. Only by following these prin Portland Sets Housing Vote For May 19 Portland, March 30 itw Port land voters learned today they will have to decide in the May 19 primary election whether they want 2,000 units of low-rent fed eral housing constructed here, be ginning around October 1. City council members voted to let residents decide on the hous ing because of controversy stir, red up by the Issue. Seattle vot ers turned down the low-rent housing offer In their March 14 election by a substantial majority, Opposition to such housing gen erally has been by apartment house owners, real estate groups, and miscellaneous property groups. Housing unit proponents generally are found in city coun cils, housing authorities, and la bor and "citizens" groups. In Oakland, Calif., low-rent housing opponents accused three councilmen of railroading the low rent housing through the council. In the subsequent recall election, two of the councilmen retained their posts, but a third, Scott Weakley, drew such a close vote that it was being contested. Refused bv Yuma Two thousand units at Phoenix, Arlz.,'are under construction, but 50 federal housing units In Yuma, Ariz., were refused by the Yuma city council. In San Diego, apartment own ers and the real estate board do not want federal low-rent housing construction. Chamber of com merce manager Stanley B, Grove said he ' thought demountable homes would fit some locations if they met San Diego building code standards. , Grove said the city , .hud no slums and that the city 'was moy. ing ahead satisfactorily toward 1952, when housing needs are ex pected to be filled without fed eral low-rent unit assistance. - No move for federal assistance (Continued on Page 7) . Leon Blum Dies Of Heart Attack Paris. March 30 im . . Leon Blum, president of the French so cialist parly and three times pre mier of France, died today just 10 days before his 78th birthday anniversary. The elder statesman who wea thered the rigors of two world wars and gave France its "new deal" in the middle 30's died at his country home, Jouy en Josas, near Versailles. Blum died of a heart attack. He had suffered for some years from phlebitis, an Inflammatory ail ment of the veins, but showed some Improvement after an op eration last year. Blum's famous role in French politics was his premiership of the popular front government in 1936. The socialists of whom he was the dean had joined forces with the communists after the bloody rioting between left and right in 1934. A wave of sit-down strikes, the first prominent use of that labor weapon, greeted Blum's arrival to power. He refused to clear (he men from factories by force, and the strikes finally were settled without violence. ciples, Mngulre believes, can America remain free of a dictator ship like thnt which enslaved Ger many during Hitler's regime, or like present-day dictatorships be hind the iron curtain. Maguire pointed out that under the Wlemar republic, Germany enjoyed a free government simi lar to America's, but gave It up to "lhe edicts of a Utile Austrian paperhanger." Hitler's Rise Recounted Mugulre told how Hitler came to power through the use of po litical trickery and asserted that he was able to secure himself at the head of the German govern ment even though many Germans 'were devoted o the principles of freedom and democracy. The army command, he said, despised Hitler and formed the backbone of the underground movement. The speaker was Introduced by II. H. DeArmond. Maguire Is a candidate for the No. 2 position on the Oregon state supreme court. While in central Oregon he also spoke at Redmond, Prlne - ville, and Madras, Bend to Voe On Daylight, Dog Questions The citizens of Bend will cast a "straw vote" next Monday, for the guidance of the city govern ment on two issues, daylight sav ing time and dog tieups. An attempt by Commissioner W. J. Baer to have a third ques tion on the ballot, whether or not Bend residents would approve wa ter meters,- was rejected by the commission. The special commission meet ing, billed as decisive in the mat ter of acceptance or rejection of daylight saving for Bend, drew a relatively small turnout of citi zens, about evenly divided be tween pro and nnti-dayllght sav ing. Farmers Protest Protests against daylight sav ing consisted largely of claims that farmers and working men are opposed to It. A resolution by tne uescnutes Pomona grange, opposing aayugnt saving, was read. Petitions prepared by the Bend chamber of commerce were not introduced, although Howard Moffat, chamber manaeer. argued on behalf of daylight saving adop tion here. The petitions, it was learned, contained the signatures of 576 Bend residents, of whom 523 favored daylight saving and o.i were opposed. Motion to put the issue to an other vote, similar to that under taken last year, was made by Baer, after an attack on local newspapers for changing their stand on the question. It was sec onded by Commissioner Wilfred Fordham, who remarked: "I think this is the proper way. I don't see why we should let outside Inter ests control our city." Favoring daylight saving, In brief remarks at the commission meeting, were A. A. Farrls, man age of the Bend Troy laundry, Frank H. Loggan, manager of radio station KBND and Howard Moffat, chamber manager. Opponents Heurd ' In opposition were Jack Ifribs, who said that he spoke for lum ber mill employes; Martin Luke tic and Leslie Harlow. They indi cated that they felt a vote was In order, in view of the fact that the council decided the Issue last year In this manner. Moffat and Loggan emphasized that the situation this year is en tirely different, in that Bend will be almost the only town of its size on the Pacific coast on standard time, if daylight saving again is rejected. Moffat cltled the confu sion -that standard time would ere (Continued on Page 5) Chapman Backs Program for CVA Everett, Wash.. March 30 till Predicting a bright future for the Pacific northwest, Interior secre tary Oscar L. Chapman said na iuiai resources in the area are "the most conducive to public power or any In the United Stales." In the Pacific northwest to give impetus to the democratic cam paign In three Columbia rivei basin states, Chapman addressed a Jefferson-Jackson day dinner last night before flying back to Washington early today. The secretary of the interior said that Columbia river develop ment must he done as ouleklv as possible and the great demand lor development of northwest re sources "cannot wait" for a piece menl program for various rivers unless a unified objective is in view. Referring to the proposed Co lumbia valley administration, he said the CVA would integrate ex isung agencies to nring such a singular purpose Into focus. Duplication Conceded "But that does not Imply In present agencies are insufficient," he added. "Of necessity, howev er, there is a great deal of du plication. He went on to say that durlnf the years Immediately ahead, res idents of the Pacific northwest will be studying new wuvs to pro vide power for the industries and homes of neighboring stales. Chapman said that GO.OOO acres a year will be opened for devel opment starting In 1952 as a re sult of Interior department pro jects. He declared the people of the nation "slated clearly" In the 19-IS presidential election that they In tend their resources "shall con tlnue to exist for the welfare of our people." rou have not changed your opinions because someone has told you that you have created a welfare state, or that you have j become racialist," he said as he defended President Truman's pol 1 Icies and lashed out M those who I call them socialistic. Cars Located, Found to Hold Major Clues Vancouver, Wash., March 30 HP) Prosecutor DeWitt Jones today issued first degree' murder and' kidnaping warrants against Tur man Wilson, 20, a convicted rap ist, and his brother, Utah E. Wil son, 25, for the abduct lon-slaylng of 18-year-old Joann Dewey. An all-points bulletin was broadcast for arrest of the two m-nmm-c wnn oiwti-n nir in . nnpi have fled the stale of Washing tori. Turman was released from Oregon stale prison after serving a sentence for raping a 17-year-old Portland girl and for escape. Capt. William Brown, chief of tha Pm-llnnrl nnllnA rlptoptlvn nil. reau, said two abandoned auto mobiles believed to have been used in the abduction have been found and impounded in Port land. A Pont lac was recovered early today and a Buick was ' driven to Portland from Camas by Vancouver police. Both the cars were registered to Grant Wilson, one of five Wil son brothers. Grant Wilson has no police record, Capt. Brown said either a tooth or a small piece of bone, labels off several beer bottles, human hair, blood and a button assertedly from Miss Dewey's coat were found in the Pontiac. Fingerprints Cheek : Portland police fingerprint ex- perls examined a beer bottle found at the scene of Joann's ab duction and announced that one of the fingerprints on it was that of Utah Wilson. Miss Dewey, a plump, attrac tive Portland hosoital worker. was kiunaped by two men from a Vancouver street-Sunday night, March 19, One week later, her battered body was found on a gravel bar in the Wind river, Shamania county. An autopsy showed that the primary cause of death was acute asphyxiation resulting from In halation of carbon monoxide gas. "Through the tireless efforts of the Vancouver police depart ment, we have developed what I believe to be a very strong prima facie case against Turman and Utah Wilson," Jones said. "There was no evidence that these men were seeking this par ticular girl. It is believed that iney were waning ior nurses l come out of the (St. Joseph's) hospital that night. This girl happened to be a victim because she came along at lhe time they were seeking a victim, we be lieve," Jones said. Utah Wilson, 25. and Turman Wilson, 20, have been living at Clackamas Lake, near Camas. Wash., about 14 miles east of (Continued from Page 5) Acheson Urges Technical Aid Washington. March 30 dP Sec. relary of stale Dean Acheson to day urged quick approval of U. S. technical aid to backward nations as a cheap price to pay to help win the world-wide "fight for freedom." Acheson said that President Truman's point four program a "bold, new program" would help uffset the communist appeal lo the hungry and poor of the world. Testifying before the senate foreign relaliuns committee, Acheson said the fight for free dom and democracy cannot he won In a decade'. Hut he said Mr. Truman's pro. gram would help win that fight Acheson and his far eastern ad visers already have Indicated that southeast Asian countries resist ing communism will get a maor share of lhe- contemplated first ye.-ir spending of $15,000,000. People of the world's backward areas, Acheson said, "lire not con cerned with abstract ideas of de. mocracy and communism." "They tire inlei'e.sted," he said, "in practical solutions of their problems In terms of food, shel ter and n decent livelihood. When the communists offer quick and easy remedies for all their Ills they make n strong appeal to these people." Acheson asked quick approval of a hill which would authorize sending technical health, scienti fic, industrial and public admin istration missions to the world's economically backward areas. He said that much work already has been done on a small scale In this field, Including typhus control and farming improvements.
