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Univ. of Oregon Library ( EUS&IS, 08S03:i THE BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Increas ing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday; warmer; low tonight 30-35; high Wednes day 45-55. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY -NEWSPAPER 47ih Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1950 No. 101 cHvn OUNT BRuP'SES CTED, c Daylight Saving Proposition Qets Approval of Bend Voters Ballot on Dog Tieup Change Gets Approval Bend residents favor daylight time and oppose the tie-up of dogs. This was indicated when 2,443 persons balloted in yesterday's advisory election. To the question "Do you favor daylight saving time?" the voters answered with a resounding "Yes". The vote was 1700 to 743 in favor of fast time. The straw ballot voters were not so positive in answering the question "Do you favor continu ing the dog tie-up ordinance?" A total of 1128 persons voted affir matively and 1312 voted negative ly. The margin was 184 votes in favor of elimination of the tie-up ordinance. Still "Hot Potato" As a result of the close vote and the pro and eon sentiment stirred up as a result of the ad visory vote on the dog question, members of the city commission will still- have a "hot potato" to handle at their regular meeting Wednesday night. The city attor ney has advised the commission that the vote ,mustv be considered only advisory. However, the com mission is apparently empowered to nullify the tie-up ordinance, if it sees fit. Opponents of the nullification move say the present ordinance was approved as the result of a vote cast at a .regular election, with only registered voters tak ing part. These opponents do not agree that the commission can nullify the ordinance as the result of a straw vote, with all voting rules voided for the occasion. The only vote qualification was that the person balloting must be 21 or over. May Vote Again It is expected that at the Wed nesday night meeting It will be suggested that the commission void the tie-up ordinance for the remainder of the 1950 season and place the hot question on the bal lot at the general election in No vember. The tie-up ordinance has been in ordinance form since 1937.' As a result of the advisory elec tion, it is expected that the com mission will approve daylight sav ing time for Bend, with the switch in time to be effective on the last day of April, Sunday this year. Still In Effect Partly as a result of the advis ory election, the dog tie up situa tion In Bend was somewhat cha (Continued on Page 7) Tourist Host School Again Planned Here The annual tourist host school sponsored by the tourist promo tion committee of the Bend cham ber of commerce will be held this year from April 24 to 28, Howard Moffat, chamber manag er, announced today. The classes will be designed to furnish pertinent Information of central Oregon to persons who will be In contact this spring and summer with tourists In Bend, so they may be, In turn, in a better position to answer the many ques tions fired at them by the trav eling public. Instructors Listed Amonff Dersons who will con duct the tourist school classes are Ralph W. Crawford, supervisor lor the Deschutes national for est; Frank H. Loggan, manager of KBND; C. G. Springer, ma terials prospector for the Oregon" slate highway department, and Wilfred Jossy, state chairman of the Jaycce Operation Town Hall. Moffat said that the place and times for the classes would bo announced at a later date. It Is honed this vear. Moffat said, to interest more retail mer chants In sending their employes hi. vhrtnl lU fhn nasi mnet of the "students" have been from! restaurants, motels and service 1 stations, he reDorted. The chamber of commerce will send out inquiries next Tuesday to determine the number of per sons who will attend the school this year. Bend May Have Rodeos Part Of Mirror Pond Celebration; Other Attractions Considered Plans for a rodeo in connection with Bend's 1950 Mirror pond pageant took tentative form at last night's meeting of the pageant association, in the chamber of commerce office. A proposal that would make possible a rodeo, on a site to be selected later, was presented by Arthur A. Rixe. Under the pla.n presented by Rixe, he and his rodeo associates would pre- : sent a three-day stampede, 'Mystery Man" Dave Hoover, candidate for the republican nomination, for. U.S. senator, will speak In Bend Wednesday night. Hoover, who will oppose Senator Wayne Morse at the May primaries, has been termed a "mystery man" by political writers. Hoover to Speak Here Wednesday; Opposing Morse Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the circuit court room of the Des chutes county courthouse Dave Hoover, candidate for the republi can nomination for U.S. senator from Oregon, will make the sixth address in his political campaign. His first was in Eugene, on the night of March 20. Hoover, termed the "mystery man" by many Oregon political writers, seeks the berth in the U.S. senate now held by Wayne Morse. Hoover is a dairy farmer from Deadwood, near Swiss Home, in Lane county. Topic of Hoover's first speech, in Eugene, was "Which Way, America Liberty or Socialism?" That sueech stirred state-wide ed itorial and public comment. His Eugene address was rebroadeast over KBND on March 28. Arrives Tomorrow Hoover will arrive in Bend to morrow after brief stops In Drain, Yoncalla and Sutherlin. and an address in Roseburg. Tonight, he will speak In Medford. He also will appear In a noon-time talk in Klamath Falls Wednesday. Brief stops In Redmond, Prlhe vllle and Madras are planned, as Hoover makes his first swing through the state. In Bend, ar rangements for Hoover's person al appearance have been made by Robert W. Sawyer, Deschutes county chairman of the Hoover for Senator committee In and around Eugene, and es pecially In the "Letters to the Editor" offices of the Eugene newspaper. The Register-Guard, Hoover has always been known as a bitter foe of Senator Morse, new dealers and. since President Truman took office, "fair deal ers" Probably the outstanding administration heckling feat of Hoover's career came in 1943, when Fie sent a live pig to Frank lin D. Roosevelt, in pointed pro test of OPA regulations. STAB ATHLETE IN K KKD Lebanon. April 4 (W- Bob Pat terson, 19. former Lebanon high school basketball star, received i severe internal Inluries yesterday when his automobile plunged 100 fet-t to the edge of the Santlam i river after missing the approacn tn n bridge In east Lebanon. Pat terson was removed to Emmanuel hospital in Portland, where his condition was described as serious but "apparently not critical." possibly in the Bend munici pal ball park. The rodeo, if final arrange ments can be made, will be presented independently of the pageant association, but the association will share in net proceeds. Seaton Smith heads the association's stampede committee. Attractions Considered The meeting was principally de voted to a discussion of attrac tions being lined up fir the Fourth of July program, and It soon became evident that events considered already exceed the time aavilable. C. L. McAllister, association president, was in charge. One of the possible special events being considered for the three-day celebration and two night river fete is an all-Oregon square dance festival. The asso ciation directors asked Jeff Car ter, special events chairman, to give special attention to the pos: sibility . of holding a . square dance here over the Independence day holidays. Other events that may be placed on the crowded program is Olympic Junior swimming com petition, in the new muncipal tank, and a golden glove boxing tourney. There may also be a state fly-casting tourney. Button Plan Approved A swan button for the 1950 pag eant was approved at last night's meeting, this year, the button will picture the symbolic Mirror pond swan, in white as usual, with the backgrpund to be green. Lettering will' be: "Water Pag eant. Bend, Ore., 1950." Support ers of the proposed rodeo sug gested that the button also should make some reference to the stam pede feature of the celebration. Present for the conference was one of the largest groups to turn out since plans for the 1950 fete were launched. Work Launched On Radio Towers The erection of two 200-foot towers which will be used in KBND's new 1,000 watt broad casting operation was started to day at the station's transmitter site, near the Butler road east of Bend, it was announced today. The ground system, which used over 13 miles of copper wire, and the tower bases were installed more than a week ago toy the Sig ler Construction Co., of Portland. A transmisser building also is nearlng completion and installa tion of the new 1,000 watt equip ment will start in the next few days. When completed, the new station will broadcast both day and night on 1270 kilocycles. Fire destroyed the J. E. McCann morning, with the loss estimated blaze, fanned by still wind, Mr picture was Johnson Still Not Informed Of Sub Visits By Dean Dittmer (United 1'ress Staff Correwponilcnt) Washington, Aprii 4' U'i De fense secretary Louis Johnson said today that he has received no intelligence about any Rus sian submarines operating off the Racine coast. Asked at a news conference about reporis of foreign subma rines off California, the secretary said: "No intelligence on that has crossed my desk yet." He added that if foreign subma rines were known to have been seen in U. S. coastal waters, the matter would have been discussed at an armed forces policy confer ence earlier in the day. But, Johnson said, the subject was not mentioned. Armed tcrces policy conference is attended by the army, navy and air secretaries; the members of the joint chiefs of staff, and other top civilian and professional mill' tary leaders. Earlier, the navy said it would be possible for Russian subma rines to operate in U. S. Pacific coastal waters. Could be Russian A spokesman said that, with modern equipment, red subma rines could reach the west coast by steaming down Alaskan wa ters from a base in Siberia. If they are operating in waters off California, he said, they may just be on normal peace-time ma neuvers. "They don't need to inform us about their maneuvers," he said, "as long as they don't come close to the coast." By "close," he said, he meant within the three-mile limit. A U. S. submarine recently made a non-stop run from China to Hawaii. The spokesman said some others have gone even farther. He refused to disclose how far a snorkel submarine can travel without refueling. But he said: that in the case of submarines off California, a tanker could be standing by for refueling pur poses. Defense Given I'rlorlty Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, told news men yesterday .that the navy has given "first priority" to its anti-lence were Elmer Halstead, Sa submarine defenses. jlem;'Jack A. Hayes, deputy fire He said he Is not satisfied with I marshal, Salem; LeRoy S. Fox, these defenses now. But he added i Bend fire chief; Jack Hartley, that whenever a chief of naval Redmond fire chief; Verne Car operations was satisfied with Ion, Bend fire department in what he had, "it's time to get obstructor; Robert E. English, Port new one." j land, field supervisor of fire Sherman said he's pleased wilh j training, the progress that has been made William Arner. Lakevlew firi along this line, but that there is chief; J. F. Jensen, Oregon Tech a lot more to be done. ideal institute, Klamath Falls; R. Appropriation cuts in the fiscal S. Waller. Sisters assistant fire year ending June 30 forced the chief; Jerry Benson. Sisters navy to cut its antisubmarine chief; R. J. McDonald, Lakevlew destroyer force from 170 to 14(1. : instructor; Orval E. Johnson, Sherman said, and its patrol plane1 Bend assistant fire instructor; M. squadron from 30 to 20. ;G Gordin. suiburban fire chi.'f. But he said available funds in ' Klamath Falls; Roy Row, Kla- the next fiscal year will be used as much as possible for anti-sub- marine weapons. Fire Blackens Prineville Grocery Store VfSH;' i r If hi 7i- i? grocery and warehouse at the western edge of Prineville Sunday at $30,000, only pirtly covered by two hours. I he fire started from taken as the fire was brought under Firemen of fit 1 . ml v f fei H ? Lr r P Present for a a fire instructors' conference held in Bend yesterday afternoon were representatives from most of the towns in the interior Oregon district. Pictured Ijere is the group, In conference at the Bend fire hall. From the left, around the table, they are Roy Rowe, Kiamatn Falls chief; Rob ert O. English, Portland; William Araner, Lakevlew chief; J. F. Jensen, Oretech chief, Klamath Falls; Tom Rhoads. Oretech; R. S. Walter, Sisters; Jerry Benson, Sisters chief; R. J. McDonald, Lakevlew; Elmer Hnlstead, Salem, at blackboard; Jack A. Hayes, deputy fire marshal, Salem; LeRoy Fox, Bend fire chief; Orval E. Johnson, Bund; Jack Hartley, Redmond chief; Vern Carlon, Bend instructor; M. G. Gordon, Klamath Falls. Central Oregon Firemen Confer ' ... V ... ' Firemen instructors and chiefs from central and south-central Oregon cities and towns were in Bend yesterday afternoon for an instructors' conference, super vised by Jack A. Hayes, deputy fire marshal, and Elmer Halstead, state supervisor of public service training under the vocational ed ucation program. The conference was held in Bend fire hall. It was one of a series being held in the state. Instructors and fire chiefs from the various departments in the district were in attendance, pri marily to review the state train ing program and to consider work already accomplished. Hayes declared that the training work being carried on in the various departments, under trained In structors, is proving of great val ue. Center Considered So successful is this work that ja training center for Oregon is being considered. Haves paid Hi- bute to the Bend department and its Interest in the state-wide pro gram. Bend, he reported, is the only department to s?nd for men to instructors' schools. Present for the Bend confer- , math Falls fire chief, and Rhoads, Oretech volunteer math Fulls. Tom Kla- insurance. Firemen fought the a stove in the warehouse. This control. District Hold Bend 16 Bend High Students Get Nominations for Positions Sixteen Bend high school students have been nominated for studerjt body offices, with the election set for April 24, it was announced by student leaders today! Prior to the election, th student body will sponsor its annual campaign week, starting on April 24. Registration for the election will be held during the week ot April 10. Reggie Halligan, Drannan Parking Ticket Indirect Cause Of. Auto Accident A parking ticket received In Bend by a Jefferson county mo torist was indirectly responsible for an accident on highway 97 just north of Bend yesterday aft ernoon in which two persons were injured and a car was demolished. Mrs. Faye Passed, of Metolius. was driving north from Bend when she noticed a parking ticket under her windshield swiper. She reached through her car window, atlempted to remove the ticket and swerved across the center line as a car operated by George Richie Jr.. of Bend, approached. With Richie was Carl Armstrong, of the U. S. National bank, Port land. Car Overturns In an effort to avoid a head-on collision, Richie swerved his car sharply off the pavement and onto the shoulder gravel. Then. In attempting to dodge Jutting rocks, he tried to get back on the main highway. His car turned over and crashed into the roadside rocks. Armstrong was thrown from the overturned ear, but was not bad ly injured. Richie suffered a head injury and a minor concussion. He also suffered shock and a leg injury. He received first aid at a doctor's office here and Is convalcsc.ng al his home. Mrs. Passch stopped following the accident. Her car was noliclse ta.v even scratched ill the near col - lision. state police investigated the ac - cident . Jury Selected In Court Case Select ion of the jury t Ill- being 1 1 ied ii first spring term of circuit court in Deschutes county was complete yesterday afternoon. Now hearing the case, Dewey Shobert, plaintiff, versus 'lim O'Kecfe, defendant, are the fol lowing jurors: Dernice Jensen, Fred Harlman, Norman Chavis, Mayme S. Athon. Clyde Biladeau, Harry Brandon, Ruth Coyner. Blanche Cannon, Wilbur Buxton. George E. Rassmussen, Richiud N. Day, and Paul G. Burr. The plaintiff Is asking a Judg - ment of $6456 against O'K 'efe for Injury which Shobert alleg- edly suffered when struck In the face by the defendant in May, 1949. Conference Hamby and Jim Wade have been nominated for student body president, a berth now held by Tom Niebergall, Bend high school senior. Nominees for vice-president are Phelon Cullison, Tom Sen rock and Ron Scott. The secretary nominees are Susie Oil fillan, Margaret Hcncz and Lila Nelson. Sharon Grahlman, Nan Mogan and Barbara Workman have been nomlnaled for the office of treas urer. Paymaster nominees are Ro berta Armony, Lois Drost, Ed Phelps and Clara Skjersaa. A separate ballot for president and vice-president will be used this year, as a result of a change In the student body constitution voted earlier in the season. Any student eligible to hold of fice may be nominated by a peti tion bearing signatures of 100 stu dents who are registered voters in the student body. Several names are expected to be added to the nominee roster as a result of this provision. Campaign weeks In past years have provided some of the high lights of the school year. Plans for the week are already being made. Oregon Facing Large Deficit, Estimate of Budget Director Salem. April 4 l! - Oregon will face n defied of at least $32.000,. I XI0 for the lOfil 53 biennium. Slate budget director Harry S. Dorman estimated today. On the basis of present state levies, together with estimated general fund requirements for the I wo year period, Dormun esti mated that all miscellaneous rev- i enue plus funds collected for ex would fall short by 1 S32.737.749. He added that f the nionosed : soldier bonus and t lip basic sciioot IIIIIM U'crcasc snniiiu oe a)UuviMi . i by the voters next full, the slate, : would be short 5:u.7:!i.:ii(i. I If these estimates of lux re- Ireipls and expenditures prove ac - curate, capltol observers said to - I flay, the members of the 1951 leg - Islaluie will have a hard Job on I their hands lo meet stale obllgii - lions. May Tux Property I shortage of $32,737,749. A fund lor property tax offset, If the soldiers bonus Is approv which has not had to be used fored, Herman said, It would require some time, and which Is designed; an estimated $5,000,000 a year to to keep property taxes off the retire the $75,000,000 bonds. If the s tate rolls and on the county and ' additional basic school support is city levels, might be used up be-1 approved, he said. It would re rause of the deficit, Dormnn said. : (piire another $12,750,000 a year. '.ml it:iti 1'rinef. nli,wvf-rs KJiirl 11itm.tn anid thut In tniiklncr 1i(q j stal(. Woull have to levy an Ir,i (,i,irr., ti.x ml nrnuprtv seek j lllw sur,.f ,,f revenues or dras-itho slate's operational budget for Dually cu' stale activities. the final year of the next bien- ! In compiling his estimates, Dor-, nium of $14,000,000 to care lor man figures there would be a bill-increased costs brought about by ance of $1,750,023 In the excise added institutional buildings and lax fund al the beginning of the! other expansions made necessary fiscal year of 1951. j because ol the rapid Increase In 1 Dorman estimated there would I Oregon's pipulatlon. Deportation For Perjury Now Possibl By Robert Blackmon ' (Uniu-d l're Stuff CorrmMmlent) San Francisco, April 4 Long-'? shore union leader Harry Bridges was found guilty today of per jury and conspiracy to cloak his communist party membership. A - middle-class jury, of eight men and four women also con-, victed two of Bridges' aides J. R., Robertson and Henry Schmidt of conspiracy and of aiding and abetting Bridges', sworn oath at his 1945 citizenship hearing that he was no communist. Conviction makes all three de fendants liable to seven years in prison and fines totaling $15,000 and clears the way for the gov ernment to make its third at tempt to deport the Australian born labor leader.. Attorney Vincent Halllnan, who represented Bridges during the stormy 81-day trial before Feder al district judge George B. Har ris, immediately announced he would appeal. , , Framcup Charged Bridges, who took the verdict with a stony-face, said the trial "was a fraipeup before it started and is still a frameup." He managed to smile for pho tographers and appeared to be calm. Bridges is president of the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, a group of 75,000 workers who have controlled Pacific coast docks since the bloody general strike, of 1934 in Snn Francisco. ' ' Schmidt directed strategy in the recent 110-day Honolulu strike while Robertson is regarded as the top organizer In the ILWU. Halllnan, who- was cited for contempt of court by Harris dur ing the trial and himself faces a six months jail sentence, sput tered in anger as soon as court recessed after the verdict: "This is outrageous. You can't win. The government will tram ple on witnesses and anyone." Attorneys for the three long shore union officers said they would ask that their clients re main free on $5,000 bail each pending an appeal. Bridges' comely wife sat in the back of the courtroom and was visibly affected by the verdict. She began to cry as Harris prais ed the Jury for its "diligent" search for a verdict. Out of court, however, she man aged a smile and told reporters, "It's the last battle that counts." I.oses Citizenship The verdict,' In addition to car rying a prison term and fine, means that Bridges automatically loses the citizenship he won five years ago. It 'does not, however, carry with it an automatic depor tation penally. If the government wishes now lo deport Bridges, the U.S. imml piirtment will appoint a trial ex aminer to conduct a deportation (Continued on Pnge 5t be n balance in the property re duct ion fund on July 1. 1951, ot $21,428,853. plus $15,000,000 cush ion and personal Income tax cot lections estimated at $32,000,000, dining the fiscal year of 1951-52, bringing the estimated total to this fund for this fiscal year ot $(',8,528,853. Fund Reduced After meeting levies 'hat would otherwise be assessed to property In Hie stale, the balance on July I, ; 1952. In this fund would be re i iiuced lo 5.it.;n i.u.i, witn an anui- imnai iT.uuw.uinr cumuuii mhu t'-iu- mated income tax collections of : 5.(L'.uo().i)iHi or an estimated total ' of $113,977,773. j When all obligations outside- of i the six per cent limitation have : been met out of this fund, Dor- man estimated, the balance would ; be reduced to $25,216,027 and there would be an estimated estimate he took Into account all fi(.,l lBvle nltia nn Increase In
