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"L UnlvJ. of.Orason Library THE BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Partly cloudy through Sunday; high today 60 to 65; low to night 30 to 35; high Sun day 55 to 60. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S ! DAILY NEWSPAPER B a ii ;t Se 9 i 47th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1950 No. 99 Ju iry Sfco 1 1 DeliberaDimg .Fate bff i p 1 . : . ; Water Surplus During 1 950 Now Indicated Big reservoirs of the upper De schutes basin, at Wickiup, Crane prairie and Crescent lake, are filled to overflowing, and at pres ent 1100 second feet is flowing past Bend, A. E. Perry, Deschutes watermaster, reported today. To "salvage" some of the direct flow that is now racing north toward the Columbia and the Pa cific ocean, the start of the 1950 irrigation season for the various districts is being advanced, Per ry announced. i Water for 50.000 acres of land In the Madras country, in the North Unit segregation, was di verted into the North canal this morning. Diversion point oj this big canal is at the north city limits of Bend. From the office of Olaf Andsr son, Central Oregon Irrigation district superintendent, comes word that water will be turned into the central Oregon and North canals, serving the COI 'district about April 8. ' Clearing Ditches In an effort to use some of the free water that is racing past Bend from the overflowing res- rvoirs, 1 various irrigation dis tricts are making every effort o clear canals of brush and on- tructions. Normally the irriga- ion season does not start until SApril 15. J By using the direct flow of the Deschutes, settlers on the var- ous districts will have an oppor- unity oi dampening their fields and pastures without drawing on eservoir storage. Furthermore. district officials point out, -the past month was abnormally dry and some fields are in need of Wafer.- - 7 v Clouds of dust were drifting from a few North Unit fields of the Madras country yesterday. From Bend, North Unit water will course north past Redmond a 1000 second foot canal for the crossing of Crooked river in Ja concrete siphon. This water Jwill flow through the Smith rock cliffs in tunnels and a canal, to :lands in Jefferson county. Abundance Indicated 1 Prospects are that all districts ;?will have an abundance of water ijthis season, for not only are the (storage basins of the upper De schutes filled but deep suow cov ers the Deschutes watershed and : ihe Cascade foothills. In the fcrane prairie dam area, depth .pf snow at present is four feet. !? Heavy snow in the mountains this spring also may point to a good irrigation season in 1951, reclamation officials point out. They say there is about a "lag" pf a year before moisture from . heavy mountain snow finds its ay into the Deschutes, t Perry reports that Crane prai jfie storage is 47,000 acre feet, ' (Continued on Page 7) j 3 Joyce Van Matre Shrine Princess I f Redmond, April 1 Joyce Van Matre, Redmond union high Ijschool student, was selected as Redmond's Shrine club prlcess, In '.yun elimination contest, final phase 'of which was held here last liight The t'u-ee finalists In thr Stoniest were Donna Millikin, Dar jene Fields and Miss Van Matre ;,The three were selected on their - horsemanship by members of the iRedmond Saddle club Thursday wiiii-i iiuuii. aiier Hll curm'simiis aiad demonstrated their abilities m the fairgrounds. Last night the girls were judg- a on poise, personality and tweaking voices, with Joyce win ung the nod of the Judges. C. fc-.J Ihompson, Howard Mayfield. Mil- on Uflem. of Redmond, and Mrs icva McCafferv and Mrs. Mayme ester, of Powell Butte. Thomp son was head of th! Shrine com Jiilttoe In charge of the contest. GHh Portland Tnti The Redmond princess will l'nd 11 davs In Portland, from Tipril 21 to Anrll 29 Her ex- Tenscs will he paid and she will e given a $110 rodeo outfit. A moon will be selected in Portlanc" y Impartial iudges. AI Kader Icmplp. Portland, is sponsoring hp Shrine hospital benefit rodeo. Joyce, daughter of Mrs. Dean '"an Matre. is a Redmond high rhool junior and is a momler f a national honor society, the ep club, the GA A. the FEl.A and assistant student body presl- pnt. She W also a member of he student council, and last year ps a member of the Wee cluo oxtet. I I F"'- Ml III Deschutes Spuds May Be Served At Convention Some 4,000 Junior chamber of commerce members attending their national convention in Chi cago from June 14 to 17 will be served Deschutes netted gem po tatoes at their annual banquet, if plans announced here today ma terialize. The offer of the potatoes Is to be made to the national organization by the Bend Jaycees, in cooper ation with the uregon potato com mission, headed by Ben Davidson, Redmond, as administrator. Bakers will be offered the na tional Jaycees, and it is estimated that about two tons of the lus cious tubers will be required. flans for shipping the Des chutes potatoes east were an nounced by Don Conner and Wil fred Jossey. Snow Blanket Still Heavy In Mountains The Dutchman flat country in the Cascades immediately west of Bend is under a 155.7 inch blanket of snow that holds 67.3 inches of water, A. E. Perry, Des chutes watermaster reported to day. He accompanied R. T. Beau mont, assistant water forecaster from the Medford station, into the Dutchman flat region yester day, to make a snow survey. The two men also visited the Three Creek lake area yesterday, and measured 66.1 inches of snow and 30.9 inches of water. i Perry and Beaumont found deep snow on the Cascade lakes highway, with a depth of four feet reported only a mile west of the end of the pavement. Basin Blnntated . -v- .- Snow surveys were also made earlier in the week in the upper. Deschutes country and the Win digo pass -region by Beaumont and by a U. S. G. S. party com posed of Leonard Downing and Don Giles. The entire upper Des chutes basin is still under a deep blanket of snow. Four feet of snow blankets the Crane prairie dam area, with five feet meas ured at Quinn creek and six feet at Deer creek. At Cultus creek, seven feet of snow was measured. Round mountain is under a six foot blanket. The USGS crew visited the Waldo lake region, where the out flow was measured and snow depths taken. Beaumont left for Burns, today, and will make a survey of snow and moisture content in the Snow mountain area. Major Ralph W. French, Bend, accompanied Beaumont and Per ry on the Snocat trip into lhe upper Deschutes basin. OATH MANDATORY Santa Barbara, Calif., April 1 'in University of California fa culty members either must sign a loyalty oath by April 30 or be fired, despite a fight against the requirement by Gov. Earl War ren. . In a 10 to 10 tie vote after four and a half hours of debate, the university regents decided last night to retain the loyalty oath opposed by the institution's aca demic senate. Redmond h . if . 1 ' , I if, ,-; . , S i (j ' '''Vt't "1 '': lJimui . ' f:' ''''wr l ii i mmm mil i ntwirff mDitwf n ft f f liHmmmmm Miss Joyce Van Matre, at right, was selected as Redmond's Khrlne princess last night when the final phase of an elimination contest was held. In the picture from the left are George Billlngsley, Clover dale, Shrine club president; Donna Milliken and Darlcne Fields, finalists, and Princess Joyce. Music Festival Finalists Selected; Locale for Second Day Shifted to Prineville r After completing auditions of soloists and small groups yesterday in Bend, the central Oregon competitive music fes tival, for school musicians, was moved today to Prineville, where bands, chorus, glee and choir groups and the Bend high school orchestra were playing for ratings today at the Ochoco grade school and in the high school auditorium. Thirty "1" ratings were awarded yesterday, at auditions, in four local auditoriums near the high school, and of these, Bend soloists and ensembles received nine. Judges were Dr. Edmund Cykler, from the University of Oregon; Ed Mc- 1 Dowell, of the Grant high City Recorder Walter I. Thompson, who today took over his duties as recorder treasurer for the city of Bend, filling the vacancy created earl ier this month by the resigna tion of George Simerville, now in Corvallis. Thompson, a Bend high school graduate, resigned his position as senior clerk for the Pacific Power & Light Co. in Bend to accept the city posi tion. He is a coast guard vet . TWBn or ihe recent -waST ! .., Dog TieUps Now In Effect Herfe Start of the 1950 dog tie-up season in Bend this morning found many dog owners In a state of confusion, judging from calls being received at the city police station. Most frequent question asked was: "Do we have to tie our dogs up today?" Notified that the tie-up ordin ance provides that dogs must be "kept in restraint" on and after April 1, the dog owners argued that since people were to vote on the question Monday, they did not see why it was necessary to tie up dogs today and Sunday. These people were told that the vote would be only advisory in nature. Not only was information sought about tie-up regulations, but many calls were .being re ceived for. the dog catcher. Dogs found running at large are being taken to the city pound, at a new location east of Pilot butto. The Bend chapter of the Oregon Hu mane society will assist this year in providing for the care of im pounded dogs. I f Names Shrine Princess school faculty, Portland;. E. Stanley Glarum, choral direc tor at Lewis and Clark col lege, and Dr. Lynn Bishop, choral director at Eastern Oregon, La Grande. ' . The festival will be climaxed with a concert tonight at 8 o'clock, in the Ochoco grade school auditorium, in Prineville. The outstanding senior choir, sen ior glee club, band, junior gorups and soloists will be presented. Tickets will be available at the door. Bend students who received "1" ratings are as follows: John Al len, baritone horn solo; Sally George, trombone solo; Greta Nelson, flute solo; Bill Niskanen, boys' low voice; Audrey Bailey, baton twirling; Susie Gilfillan, Anne Nelson and Audrey Bailey, girls' trio; Walter Rhoton, Dick Daoust, Ed Kribs and Roland Benson, boys' quartet; Doris As pinwall, soprano solo, senior divi sion; Gene Kiel, boys' high voice, senior division. (Continued on Page 51 Plane 'Wreckage Proves Only Log " A ""yellowish" -log mistaken fof-i the wreckage of the Beechcraft plane missing since March 21 on a flight from Lakeview was the cause of an intensive search this morning in the Brothers-Fort Rock area southeast of Bend. According to Sheriff C. L. Mc Cauley, who was among officials from Bend who investigated, a report was received in Bend ear-' ly today that two men, Ray Short and Russ Stevens, had sighted wreckage of the plane yesterday afternoon while working on a fence northeast of Devils Garden in the Fort Rock area in Lake county. At' 7:30 am., a party from Bend, including Sheriff McCau ley, Forrest Sholes, deputy sher iff, Eugene Gray, of the city po lice department, Dr. Charles Winslow, county coroner, Gerald McCann, A- J- Tilse, and C. P. Winslow, traveled ,to the scene. Oliserved From Air A plane was summoned from the Redmond airport, picked up Short and flew over the lava area on which the men had sight ed the "wreckage." Close obser vation from the air disclosed that it was merely a yellow-colored log. Sheriff McCauley reported up on his return to Bend that the men had instructed a passing mo torist yesterday to relay the word to Bend that they had seen "what might be" the missing Beech craft. The motorist, however, ap parently misunderstood the in structions and reported in Bend that the plane had been found. Daylight,-Dog Tieup Ballots Due Monday Daylight saving and Bend's per- ennial dog tie-up question have been linked lor an advisory vote Monday, with polling hours to be from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., in the pity hall. ' ' Members of the election board will.be Mrs. Sam Griffith, 1464 Galveston; Mrs. J. F. Arnold, 25 Irving, and Mrs. H. R. Long ley, Lbux w. jugmn. me Doaru will eport for duty at noon. Up until hat time, the votes will be re vived by members of the city of fice staff, at the recorder's and city office windows. All persons 21 years or over will be privileged to vote, regardless ot registration, it was announced. ! Merely Advisory It was stressed today that the Vote will be . merely advisory in nature, tor the' guidance of the city commission. The daylight question had been scheduled for solution at a special meeting of the city commission last Wednes day night, but on motion of the commission the subject was refer red to voters. t The dog tie-up question, up for discussion practically every year since the pre-war year of 1937, When the tie-up rule was voted by the commission, was placed on the Monday ballot on the sug gestion of representatives of the Bend chapter of the Oregon Hu mane society. , Interest Evident ; Around town today, interest in flie dog tie-up question appeared to be as great as the daylight' question, with some opinion be ing expressed that the doe. ques tion was being engineered as a quickie." it was felt that the pro posal to . change the dog ordinance should have been legally adver tised" if the commission proposes to act in accordance with the vote. The ballot tilles In the Monday vote will be simple. They follow: "Do you favor daylight saving time? Yes No " "Do you favor continuing the dog tie-up ordinance? Yes No " Cleaners Plan Convention Here Another convention was added to Ihe list of conventions to be held in Bend this spring and summer with the announcement today that an Oregon Stale Dry Cleaners' convention will be held here on May 5 and 6. According to Avery Grimsley. Bend, president of the Oregon State Dry Cleaners' association, the convention will bring to Bend members of the association from points throughout Oregon. Among speakers who will ap pear at the gathering will be N. G. Burg, managing director of the N.I.C.D.; William Palmer, editor of the National Cleaner and Dyer; Noel Cooperider, assistant sales manager of the Butler Machin ery Co.; Clarence Pierce, western manager of the N.I.CD., and Father James A. Fogarty, profes sor ofeconomlcs at Portland uni versity. ' . 2-Day Program The two-day program will in clude a special ladies' luncheon i and fun show, a luncheon for the men, and other enlertainmcnt. as well as regular business sessions. The Bend chamber of commerce reports that four conventions are now slated for Bend. Others are: I A state convention of the Ameri-! can Association , of University ; Women, April 21 and 22; a cop- ventlon of the Oregon branch of j the National Association of Post masters, June 6,. 7 and 8, and a. convention of the Oregon State! Nurses association, .September 1U to 13. Precipitation Above Normal Despite two arid months, Feb ruary and March, the first quar- : ter precipitation In Bend Is slight- ly above normal, It was announc- eii today from the local weather I station office. A total of 4.24 : inches of moisture was measured In the first three months of the year, compared with a long time normal of 4.11 Inches. January precipitation. 3.36 Inch, es. was well above normal. The February moisture, 29 of an Inch, and the mtaper .59 of an inch measured in March were below normal. Although Bend received little moLsture in the past two months. I heavy snow fell In the Cascades to the west. Bend Woman Makes Pilgrimage Mi Miss Hulda Lammers (far right) has returned from Europe, where she attended the Holy Year observance in Rome. Tjri the picture aboveare Rev. Fr. Jerome Schmltz, Miss Josephine, tiammers and Miss Estelle Callaham, -all of Portland," and Mlss' Lammers tf ' Bend. They were photographed following a private audience with Pope Pius XII. In the background Is an ornate gilt and brocade chair, In which the Holy Father sils to receive Holy Year visitors. The two Miss Lammers are sisters. Holy Year Visit to Rome Described by Bend Nurse; Most of Trip Made by Air "Americans live in the present and future; Europeans, in the past," was the way Miss Hulda Lammers summed up observations made on a two-week trip to Europe. She re turned Thursday to Bend, to resume her duties as head nurse at Lumberman's hospital. ". Rome, where Miss Lammers and her party spent three days attending the Holy Year observance, was the highlight of the trip, the Bend woman said. She arrived there Satur day afternoon, March 18, and spent Sunday, Monday and Tupsdav in the uicturestiuo Italian city. Visits to four famous cathedrals, St. Paul's, St. Mary's, St. John's of Lat eran and St. Peter's, largest church In the world, were Included on the Itinerary. 11 Get Audience As the trip was primarily a Holy Year pilgrimage, activities in connection with the,church were of special Interest to Miss Lammers and her party. The group attended a beatification solemnized by Pope Pius XII. and saw him on several other occas ions, including public and private audience. The private audience, held In one of the ornate papal chambers hung with rich tapestries and car peted in red plush, was attended by a party of 11 Americans, with couriers in red brocaded atin suits and gold braid standing by. When the Pope appeared, he was wearing an off-white habit, with a small white skull cap. Small In stature and gentle In manner, he hkssed each person Individually, as he shook hands, placed a I loly Year medal in thp right hand ot each. According to a tradition of thp church, each kissed his ring - a huge emerald surrounded with pearls and diamond.". Guide and business manager f( r Miss Lammers' parly was Father Jerome Schmltz, of Port land, who accompanied the group cm the entire trip. Because of his familiarity with the Italian Inn guage, he was able to "dicker" with shopkeepers and taxi drivers, in the approved European custom. (He was privileged to say mass In St. Peter's, as well as In St. Pat rick' cathedral in New York City. I Made by I'lano Most of the trip was made by plane, but the Journey from Rome to Lourdes, and from Lourdes to Paris, was made by train. Princi pal Inconvenience was the short age of water. It was practically non existent on trains, and even In restaurants and hotels; it was an extra to be paid for, not mere ly requested. Miss Lammers was Impressed (Continued on Page It Bridges 1 :M;ff A 'fK I, If If Excavation Near End at Hospital Site, Announced Excavation work preliminary to the construction of the St. Charles memorial hospital is .nearing completion and, accord ing to plain, first concrete will be poured this coming week. Ex cavation work ahou: finished In cludes a hole in l&va rock that will provide the suppoit for the hospital clevaloi. All major blasting on the hos pital site lias been finished, it was announced by the contrac tors, J. II. Wise & Son, of Boise, Ida. The 20,000 gallon fuel lank that was placed In a lava exca vation, on top of a sand cushion, last week end, has been covered. Before being covered, the mas sive tank was filled with water, to make certain it would not be floated by any accumulation of water in the excavation. The concrete- pouring Job will I bp one of the largest of Its kind I pvpr undertaken In central Ore gon. Thp contractors do not ex pert to encounter any weather difficulties while thp work Is un der way. With tl' major excavation completed, dusty grounds on thp hospital site are to be dampened. Westerly winds have whipped clouds of dust over thp excava tion area In the past few days. LOCAL .IKI. IN' ( HOIK Wlllametle Unlvcisity. Salem. April 1 - The Willamette n ca pella choir, of which Winona Fish back, 'laughter of Rev. anil Mrs. L. i. Flslihark, Bend, Is a mem ber, Is touring the northwest states over the Easter vacation. The choir will be heard on a notion-wide broadcast Saturday, April 8, over the Mutual Broad casting system, of which KBNl), Bend, is an affiliate. Call for Key Testimony Made Today By Robert Bluckmon (UniU-4 Vref Stuff CorrutjMiiulcnt) San Francisco, April 1 Ui A jury deliberating whether or not longshore leader Harry Bridges lied when he swore he was not a communist asked today to hear key testimony of the . govern ment's "Sunday punch" witness. Midway through its second day of considering perjury-conspiracy charges against the president of the CIO International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union, the jurors asked to hear part of the testimony by John (Shoes) Schomaker. Schomaker, confessed ex-com munist and a member of Bridges' ILWU in the 1903s, had testified early in the 81-day trial that he, together with Bruce B. Jones, another longshoreman, met Bridges in a waterfront cafe in 1333 and that Bridges signed an plication for membership in ... communist party. , The question of Bridges' affilia- lion with communists is the key issue in his trial. The govern ment alleges he lied when he swore to his citizenship hearing in 1945 that he was not and never . had been a communist. Two of his union aides are on trial with him on charges of conspiring to back up his alleged lie. Request Granted ' District judge George B. Har ris granted the request by Glenn Chrlstense.n, who Is foreman of the eight men and fo"ur women on the jury. Then began a two-hour recita tion of Schomaker's testimony and subsequent' cross-examination by the defense. Schomaker admitted in his tes timony at the trial he had loft the cafe for a few moments and returned to find Jones exhibit ing a card signed "Harry Bridges." Jones was called as a defense witness and denied Scho maker's story. The terrific strain of the long trial and the hours of uncertainty over the verdict apparently were beginning to tell on Bridges. He was not present when the jury resumed Its deliberations at 9 a. m. PST, and his associates said he had gone to see a doctor about his ulcers, Bridges has been troubled by the ailment for several years and underwent surgery last year. Bishop Fahey Dies at Baker Bishop Leo Fahey, coadjutor of thp Baker Clly diocese of the Catholic church, died in Baker Ir.st night. He was assistant to Bishop Joseph F. McGrath, long bead of the large district, and visited Bend on various occas ions. Bishop Faliey visited Ronia iast August, and was stricken on his return. He underwent an opera- Ion at that time, and had been ailing since. Funeral services will be held in Baker on 1 uesday, ac cording to information received here by Father William Cough Ian, in charge of the local Cath olic parish. Bishop fahey camp to the Ba ker Clly diocese from Bay St. Louis, Miss., several years ago. lhe comparatively young dlo- cesp coadjutor represented lhe diocese In. some of thp negotia tions In connection with the fi nancing of the St. Charles me morial hospital, now under con struction, and conferred here with officers of the Central Ore gon Hospitals foundation. Open House Set At Wizard Falls An open house will he held to morrow at Ihe Wizard falls hatchery on the Melollus river noiih of Sisters. Visitors will be welcome from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m., according to thp Sisters chamber of commerce, which Is sponsoring the opcr house In con junction with the hatchery On display will be 150.0(H) legal sip trout, and more than 1.000, 000 small trout. Guides will be at the disposal of visitors to the open house. The chamber reports that nt 4 p. m. the fish will be fed. Gene Morton, superintendent of the hatcherv. and Clarence Smith, of Camp Sherman, have made ar rangements for the open house. 5t
