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Univ. of Crsson Library THE BEND BUM Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Fair to day through Thursday High today 74 to 78; low tonight 40 to 45; high Thursday 70 to 80. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER t 47th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1950 No. 167 Viol. ks ub Dim eimee oireai&s our JETIN Ir5n n n oh Stroke f Big Changes In Social Security Due By (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, June 21 tU') A vastly expanded social security system headed for speedy adop tion by congress today after win ding the senate's overwhelming approval. The legislation would make the first drastic reforms in the pro gram since it was born 15 years ago out of the fear atid insecurity of the depression thirties. Final approval must await set tlement of differences between the senate bill and one the house passed last year. The seriate voted 81 to 2 last night to bring 10,000,000 more persons under full coverage of the act, to double benefits and to raise payroll taxes as much as $18 a year per worker.. The house bill, adopted 333 to 14, would extend coverage to 11, 000,000 persons and increase ben efits about 70 per cent. Still More, Goal But the reforms still fall short of what President Truman asked coverage for an additional 20, 000,000 persons and public aid for ail needy persons. The act now covers 35,000,000 persons. The senate bill would add 5,000,000 self-employed, ex cluding farmers and certain pro fessionals; 1,000,000 full- time farm laborers; 1,000,000 domestics who work at least two days a week for the same employer and 600,000 employes of non-profit or ganizations. About 1,400,000 state and local employes without retirement plans would be included on a voluntary basis. The house bill did not include the farm laborer? but would pro vide 2,400,000 state and local em ployes with their own pension plans, The senate voted to increase maximum . indivi dual benefits from $45 to $80 a month. Mini mum benefits would be raised from $10 to $20. The maximum allowed to any family group would go up from $85 to $150 a month. Wife Also Benefits A retired worker is allowed an added 50 per cent of his individ ual benefit when his wife reach (Continued on Page 5) Hotel Manager Murder Victim Kansas City, Mo., June 21 tU'i Marshall H. Dean, 35, assistant manager of the Hotel President and son of Its managing director, was shot and killed today as he walked into his office on the mez zanine of the big downtown hos telry. Sgt. Leo Hoedl of the police homicide bureau said that E. G. Murrell, a former room clerk at the hotel, was caught 'after a 3Vfe block chase and arrested in con nection with trip shnntinfr. Hoedl said that Murrell said nothing immediately following his arrest. Witnesses at the hotel said that Dean's killer apparently had been hiding behind a large pillar. The first of three or four bullets struck Dean after he had taken several steps into the office. He staggered into the adjoin ing office and fell, face up, be fore the desk of W. C. Maser, 62, auditor. "Mr. Dean tried to say some thing but I couldn't understand him," Maser said. Murrell had a blue-steel .32 cal iber revolver tucked in his belt when he was captured by Patrol man Robert E. Ross, 31, who was called Into the chase by three bell hops. All six cartridges in the gun had been fired. Murrell was dressed neatly In a light blue pin-stripe suit. He had been living recently at Cartlv age. Mo., according to officers, Murrell left the hotel's employ ftpril 15. 1948. Dean was the son of Frank J. Dean, managing director of the tou-room notel. NO MORE DEPRESSIONS Geneva, Switzerland, June 21 UPi p. s. Secretary of labor Mau rice J. Tobin predicted today that the United States never aeain will have a major depression. "Any persons or nations who make their plans on the basis of an expected economic collapse in the United States are doomed to disappointment," Tobin told the 33rd annual conference of the In ternational Labor organization. Shters Rodeo Program Set For Week End; Full Array OF Events Now Scheduled Sisters, June 21 Sisters' ninth annual rodeo will open this week end with the Queen's ball Friday evening, according to Etlis Edgington, vice-president of the rodeo association. Donna 'Millican of Redmond, rodeo queen, and her court will be introduced at the' ball, in ceremonies in which she will receive her crown and a pledge of loyalty from her court of princesses. Members of the court are Betty Smith and 4 Bend Business , Firms Planning Early Expansion Plans for expansion of four Bend businesses were made known yesterday, when Rex Brown obtained a. building per mit at the city hall for construc tion of, a $20,000 pumice block building on the corner of Green wood avenue and Hill street. As the result of transactions connected with Brown's building plans, Moty & Van Dyke, Central Oregon Roofing company and Oregon Trail Motorcycle com pany will also expand. Brown, who has obtained the local agency for Kalser-Frazer cars, will do business in the new building as Brown Motors.. He will continue to pperate his furnace business, from his warehouse at East Third and Franklin. Modern Building; The new building, of pumice block construction, will be 60x96 feet, and will include a showroom, office space, automotive shop, and display space for furnaces and other heating equipment. The building., will have a concrete foundation and composition roof. J. L. Ross is contractor, Joe Hol land will do the plumbing, and Smith Electric will do the wir ing. The 100xl40-foot lot was pur chased from George Gohrke, for merly of Bend and now of Red mond. Work on the building got under way this week. It will be ready lor occupancy about August 1, Brown said. While the building is being completed, Brown is repre senting his automobile agency from temporary quarters at Zeek's Auto service, 67 Green wood avenue. To Sell Building Brown is selling his building at 832 Bond street to Moty & Van Dyke, Inc., owners of the adja cent building at 824 Bond street. The automobile supply business will expand into the additional quarters, and extensive remodel ing is being planned, according to Ivan Palmer, manager of Moty & Van Dyke. Will Buy Business E. M. Berg, of Central Oregon Roofing company, has completed negotiations for purchase of Brown's sheet metal business, and he will engage in both lines, in the' building at 123 East Green wood, which he has purchased from Ralph R. Mooers, of Ore gon Trail Motorcycle company. He plans to occupy the new building, which measures 24x40 feet, on July 1. Oregon Trail Motorcycle com pany will be housed temporarily in the former county shop build ing, on Hill street north of Green wood avenue. Mooers said that he is negotiating with the city of Bend for purchase of a 50x80-foot lot east of the Franklin under pass, south of Franklin avenue. The property will be sold at auc tion June 29. Mooers has made tentative plans for erection of a 40x60-foot pumice block building. He hopes to start construction early in July, and to occupy the building in late August. Specifications call for one of the most modern motorcycle shops in uregon, he added. City Now Owns Most of Meters All but 20 of the city's parking meters have been paid for, City recorder Walter Thompson said today. Meters on which payment Is still being made are those in tise at the city s parking lot on Bona street Between uregon ana irnn nesota avenues. The 20 new met crs, and 14 moved from streets where their use was discontinued, were installed March 12, 1950. A contract for purchase of 408 of the 428 meters now In use was signed June 30, 1947. They weie bougnt at a cost oi oo apiece. Payment was made each month from revenue from the meters, and final payment was made De comber 16, 1949, Janet Kedner, both of Prine- villej Wilma Kirby of Tum alo, and Mary Campbell of Sisters. Saturday's events will get underway with a parade at 10 a.m. Oregon Saddle club mem bers and rode'o participants,, mounted on their horses, will pa rade through downtown Sisters. , Phin Horse Show A horse show and bridle horse contest will be held in the rodeo arena immediately after the pa rade. The contest is open to any entrant, according to rodeo offi cials. The rodeo itself is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Saturday. - A complete rodeo program, in cluding such events as bronc rid ing, bareback riding, calf roping, wild cow milking, bulldogging, wild horse racing, boys' calf rid ing and others, will provide spec tators with thrills. It is reported that some of the west's finest cowboys will be on hand to compete for the several thousand dollars in prize money. Stock will be drawn from Son Bain and Pat Fisk's string of bucking horses. Use Point System Official timer for rodeo events will be Warren Isom. Maurice Hitchcock will be arena director and Mel Lambert will be an-, nouncer. Both IRA and RCA point sys tems will be used in awarding prize money to contestants. Additional thrills will be pro vided by- Chet and Juanita How ell, trick riders. , v Saturday's events will conclude with a buckaroo dance in the Sis ters school gymnasium. One of the big attractions of the rodeo is the buckaroo break fast, served Sunday from 6 to 9:30 a.m. by the - Sisters Breakfast club. Menu for the breakfast in cludes buffalo steaks, flapjacks, bacon and eggs, fried potatoes and all the trimmings. The meal is prepared western style, cooked over open pits, and served out of doors. In charge of rodeo plans are Carl Campbell, president of the rodeo association; Edgington, vice-president; Lewis Luekenblll, secretary-treasurer, and George Wakefield, Pete Leithauser, Wil lis Spoo and Carl Paschwatta, di rectors. Columbia River Crest at Hand Portland, June 21 tPi The Co lumbia and Willamette rivers will crest below 25 feet, probably within the next 24 hours, the weather bureau forecast today. . The bureau said both rivers would level off above 24 feet and probably remain at a constant ievel'for three days before begin ning a slow decline. Last , night the Columbia at Vancouver, Wash., reached 23.8 and the Willamette at Portland, 23.5. Elmer Fisher, weather bu reau "river forecaster, said the main rise would come by noon today, adding that the situation was "favorable" barring unfore seen weather conditions. Fisher qualified his prediction with the statement that it was "too early to say if the predicted three-day leveling off indicates a crest." But he added that the re cession might start by Saturday if weatheV on the upper Columbia and the Snake river is favorable. LEVEE BREAKS Bonners Ferry, Ida., June 21 HP In the first major break, 1000 acres north of here were swept under the surging Kootenai river early today as it broke through the district two dike In six places. Major William Agbert of the Idaho national guard, said no evacuations were necessary from the flooded wheat fields. The Spokane weather bureau said the river had swollen to 33.3 feet today 2.3 feet over flood levels. He said two families at Deep creek north of the newly flooded area were being moved as a pre cautionary measure. "These earth-filled dikes are pretty soft." the major said. "I wish I could say how long they can hold out." Boy Scouts "'- ""Itllf Mil ftllt f II I . i Pictured in Klamath Falls yesterday morning boarding the Pullman car that will take them to the national Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge, Pa.,, are: Standing in the doorway, left to right, Jack Hoist, Jerry Rice and Danny Bucknum, all nf Bend, and, standing in front of the car, left to right, Jimmy Martin, Paul Reynolds, Ronald Tippetts and Robert Newman, all of Bend, and Richard Graue of Madras. The boy standing behind Jack Hoist is not identified. Eleven Boy Scouts from Bend, two from Redmond and two from Madras, accompanied by Jamboree scoutmaster, Eugene M. Bucknum, of Bend, will attend the session. City Decorating In Preparation For Pageant Preparations for Bend's water pageant were in full swing today as the multi-colored banners an nouncing the celebration made tjieir first appearance over busi ness streets and tickets went on sale at downtown booths. Approximately 4,000 persons will be accommodated by the seating arrangement this year, according to Andrew T. Nicber gall, who is in charge of ticket sales. Tickets will be sold from four booths, located In front of Cash man's, Penney's, the First Nation al bank and Wetle's. Members of the American Legion auxiliary are handling sales from the booths. Both reserved seat and general admissipn tickets went on sale today. . Rp-scrved seat tickets will be exchanged for definite seating tickets at a booth at 1019 Wall street on Monday, Niebergall said. , He suggested that persons in terested in reserved seats might visit the grandstands in the park and choose the section of the stands they prefer. Summer Makes Official Arrival (By United Press) Summer comes to the northern hemisphere at 7:37 p.m. EDT, to day, but some householders had fires in their furnaces. Cool temperatures stretched from the Dakotas to New Eng land, with 31 degrees reported at Grand Marals, Mich., and 35 at Land O'Lakes, Wis. , South of the Ohio river, the weather was hot and sticky. There were some scattered thunderstorms. A' 1.21-inch rain fall overtaxed storm sewers at Portsmouth and New Boston, O., flooding basements, knocking out power lines and stalling motor ists. In British Columbia, 1,400 vol unteers and Canadian soldiers fought to keep the Frazer river rrom Breaking dikes that protect the homes of 50.000 persons. U. S. rivers rose too. The Co lumbia. Willamette and Kootenai menaced lowlanders and at Bon ners Ferry, Ida., farmers floated their catt Ic out by raft. The Chicago weather bureau predicted there would be no se vere changes in the nation's weather tomorrow. Forecasters added that, despite the opinion of some citizens, 1950's spring was one of the "finest" the area had ever seen, with temperatures well above nor mal and only a few days of rain. Depart for National 15 Central Oregon Scouts Leave for National Jamboree To be Held at Valley Forge A large group of barents and friends of the 50 Boy Scouts from central Oregon who are made the trip to Klumath Falls young men and the 61 scout contingent lrom the Modoc area council leave for the trip to the National Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge. . - : ' Headed by Jamboree Scoutmaster Eugene M. Buckum of Filings on North Unit Considered At Meeting Here A meeting to work out final details" with the state for filing to secure water rights for the North unit of the Deschutes pro ject was held in Bend yesterday at the office of J. W. Taylor, bu reau of reclamation construction engineer for the project. Attending the all-day meeting were H. R. Stinson, regional coun sel, and E. C. Davis, assistant re gional counsel, both from the re gional office of the bureau of reclamation in Boise; Charles E. Stricklln, state engineer, Salem; T. Leland Brown, attorney for the North unit of the Deschutes project, The Dalles; Harold J. Eidemillcr, secretary of the North unit irrigation district, Madras; Lee McAllister, planning engin eer, bureau of reclamation office at Salem; with Taylor, construc tion engineer, C. C. Beam, assist ant construction engineer, and Hat old W. Sexton, hydrologlst, all members of the local office of the bureau of reclamation. House Approves Farm Price Bill Washington, June 21 mi The house today approved, 234 to 82, a compromise bill to provide S2, 000,000.000 in extra money to sup port farm prices. The bill was passed on a roll call forced by republicans who ob jected to a section dealing with controls over Imports of foreign commodities which might inter fere with American farm price programs. Senate approval will send the bill to President Truman for sig nature. The bill expands the borrowing authority of the commodity cred it corporation from $4,750,000,000 to $6,750,000,000. It nlso contains a compromise version of a sen ate proposal to lighten restric tions on imports of farm produce which Is getting government support under control programs. Fund Tied I'p The bulk of CCC'g funds now are tied up In loans on surplus crops kept off the markpt to pre vent overabundance from de pressing prices received by farm ers. The extra money Is needed to support prices through the 1951 crop year, 'Jamboree bound for Valley Forge, Pa., Tuesday morning to see these Bend, the 11 Bend scouts and two boys each from Redmond and Madras met at the South ern Pacific depot in Klamath Falls, where they were joined by 46 scouts from Klamath, Lake, ' Siskiyou and Modoc counties and six other adult lead ers. After last minute instruc tions and berth assignments, they boarded the two air-conditioned Pullmans which will be their homes for the tour of the United States. ' Train Hour Late Train number 20, to which these special sleepers were at tached was one hour late In leav ing Klamath Falls, but was sched uled to arrive in Eugene in ample time for the two sleepers to be coupled to a special train of Pull mans which will carry Jamboree bound scouts from eastern and southern Oregon and valley points. This special will not make regular stops after leaving Eu gene, and will, carry the scouts over a special route. The first stop will be at Spo kane, The train will then go to Billings, Mont., where it will be routed over the Burlington to St. Louis. The train will be handled by the Baltimore and Ohio east of St. Louis to Pittsburgh and Wash ington. The scouts will not need to wor ry about changing cars or trains, even though a number of differ ent railroads will provide dining car service and locomotives. The Jamboree special will ar rive at Valley Forge on June 27, via the Rowling railroad. More than 40,000 scouts from all over the United States and ter ritorial possessions will be en camped for ten days at this his toric spot. Central Oregon scouts making the trio are Richard Graue and Lowell Nichols of Madras, Ken neth Dieterman and Bradford Hallock of Redmond, and Paul Reynolds, Jack Hoist, Charles H. Murphy, Robert Newman, Ronald Tippetts, Danny Bucknum, George Nelson, Jerry Rice, James Hlddcrbush, James Martin, David Nl.skanen all of Bend and Buck num. "TARGET" TOO CLOSE Berlin, June 21 Hl'i Allied offi cials reported todny that soviet fighter planes had fired at ground targets near the International super-highway connecting Berlin with west Germany. They described It as "another example of soviet harassing tac tics." The highway Is the only route used by western 'allied vehicles In traveling from Berlin to the west. Officials said the bullets easily could rlccochet from the targets to the highway, 500 yards away. Shots Exchanged At Rayon Plant; Bakers Still Out (By United Press) ' ' '' Violence broke out in Pittsburgh's milk strike today and shots were exchanged in the turbulent American Enka, rayon-walkout at Morristown, Tenn. An Enka official said three cars filled with non-strikers were fired on from ambush shortly after midnight, but no one was wounded. A filling station operator who was taking his wife home from work at the plant work a pistol and returned the fire. On the morning shift today, a bus loaded with non-strikers en route to .the plant was stoned, company otticials said, and its windows were shattered, At Pittsburgh, state police re ported that two independent dai ry trucks were dumped early to day and the driver of one was dragged from the cab and beaten by eight men. Settlement Hinted But Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh, who was scheduled to resume conferences with strik ing AFL milkmen and dairy firms late today, said the disputants are "not so far apart" and hinted set tlement might be near. Meanwhile, another public transportation dispute arose at Philadelphia. The CIO Transport workers threatened a "safety slowdown" In which vehicles would be halted while fares are collected to protest scheduled op eration of one-man 'trolleys this summer. , Four thousand AFL Transpor tation union members at Los Ang eles voted yesterday to accent a two-year contract and-return, toj. worK, enntng a nve-aay smite which idled street cars and rais es and stranded 1,000,000 daily riders. , Pay Boost Granted The strikers received an imme diate five-cent-an-hour pay boost and a promise of an additional three cents In a year. In Atlanta, trolley workers meet tonight to vote on a new contract with a syndicate which has agreed to purchase the trans it lines. The city council called a special meeting to grant a, fran chise to the new firm. Union spokesman Jesse Wal ton predicted that the trolleys would be operating by tomorrow night, but the Georgia Power Co., which had operated the system, said the complicated settlement might not be completed that soon. Vancouver bakers threatened to walk out if their employers ship bread supplies to Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., where a bakery strike has entered Its fourth day with no settlement in sight. Small Portland bakers un affected by the walkout operated 24-hour shifts trying to keep up with the demand. AFL bakers also were on strike in Los Angeles and several near by communities. At St. Louis, Kroger Co. pre (Continued on Page 5) FBI Check Fails to Reveal Loyalty File Tampering By John L. Sfo-ole (Unitvd Press Stan CorreuKindenD Washington, June 21 Hit Sen. Millard E. Tydlngs, D Md., said today an FBI checkup does not substantiate Sen. Joseph R. Mc Corlhy's charges that state de partment loyalty files have been "tampered with." The files are those made avail able by President Truman to Ty dlngs' senate communist investi gating subcommittee. They cov er 81 individuals McCarthy has charged with being communists, red sympathizers and bad secur ity risks employed, or recently employed, by the state depart ment. Tydlnps told a news conference that the Justice department and the FBI checked McCarthy's al legations that the files had been "raped." "tampered with," and "skeletonized," to delete "damag ing material." "The charges are not substan tiated by the facts." Tydlngs said. Testimony Secret TydltiRs' announcement came as: 1. His committee questioned John E. Peurlfoy, deputy under secretary of state, regarding Mc Carthy's charge that Peurlfoy en gaged In a "payoff" deal with a key witness In the Amerasla stol en documents case inquiry. Puer foy's testimony was not made public, hut he already has de nied the McCarthy allegation and has charged in turn that McCar 7"oo Much Bread? Local Bakery Solves Problem Glenn H. Gregg, manager of Gregg's bakery, had quite a head ache this week, all because of a bread strike as far away as Port land, v ' The trouble started Sunday. Gregg, with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Terwilligar, were en joying a leisurely vacation at Mt. Hood. Gregg was just about to take a swat at a golf ball, when he received a message to call ' home at once. He was informed that Portland bakeries were strike-bound; that central Oregon would be without outside bread, that the local bak eries would have to expend every effort to supply the local market. He rushed home.; With the help of crews working overtime 4,000 extra loaves of bread were baked Sunday to provide a stop-gap for the expected run on Monday. - , :, No Run . i . But the run did not occur. The two' Portland ,: distributors who bring bread Into this area had managed to obtain enough bread from product's in Washington and Idaho to supply their local mar ket. ' A surplus of 4,000 loaves of bread posed quite a problem to Gregg. He did not want to put the bread on . local shelves, for fear of having stale bread reach purchasers. Then an idea struck . him. Ha loaded the bread on a truck and took It to Portland, where bread is mighty searce this week. The trouble all started In Port land, anyway. STAMPEDE DEVELOPES Portland, June 21 l A stam pede of buyers kept Portland's smaller bakeries working around the clock, last night as negotia tions in the three-day-old bakery strike stalemated and the bread, shortage became acute. , J. C. Crawford, secretary of the bakery employers council, said operators felt it was impossible to grant the demands of the AFL Bakers and Confectionary Work ers union. The union abandoned its time-and-a-half demand for Sunday work but continued to ask for a non-consecutive, five-day, 35-hour week with no work on holidays. thy tampered with the witness In volved. . 2. Four of the five committee members lined up behind a move to cite Philip Jaffe, editor of "Am erasla" magazine, for contempt . of congress resulting from his unwillingness to answer questions about the 1945 stolen documents case. 3. Tydlngs sought to speed up conclusion of the communist in vestigation by setting a Sunday' night deadline on senators' ex aminations of the 81 loyalty files. The committee has been studying the files in the white house cab inet room for about two months. Kef used to Answer Jaffe, one-time editor of Amer asla magazine, refused to answer questions about the 945 stolen documents case in testimony on,. June 12. He claimed his answers' might be self-incriminating. Council Edward P. Morgan has recommended that the sub-committee Institute contempt pro-, ceedlngs. Chairman Millard E. Tydlngs, D., Md., announced yes terday that he would support the recommendation. Three members of the foreign relations group Sens. Bourke B. Hlckenlooper, R., Ia., Henry Cab ot Lodge Jr., R., Mass., and The odore F. Green, D., R. I. promptly endorsed the proposal. The fourth, Sen. Brlen McMahon, D Conn., was not immediately available. j: tu .' v - ;v'- : at. a. '1. : i 1 1
