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HE ' BEND BULLEf IN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity . Fair through Friday; high today 48-53; low tonight 3034; high Friday 50-55. ' LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 48th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21; 1950 No. 14 West United Tr y mm a im HeatedTalks Mark City Meeting, With Water Topic Aired Tho new city commlHHion, to take officio Jammry fl, will muko tho decision on acquisition of Tumulo irrigation district tracts, with iippurtntinnt water rights. Thin wiw derided Wednesday evening at tliu concluding ses sion of tho old commission, following lieu ted and at times acrimonious discussion of tho option taken from Alva C. Goodrich and Robert 11. Foley, and suhmission of a report lty Rohm Farnham, city attorney, giving detailed information concerning all Tumulo district i i i. .11 i. . . 1 1 water options now hold by tho city. During tho courxo of dis cussion it was brought out that Goodrich and Foley Tuesday deeded back to M. A. Pleroy .10 acres of tho 80-ucre pur rol under opt lun, und pow are not in n position to fulfil terms of the city's option!, SO Acton Retained Goodrich told the commission. Iiowevcr, Unit lie find Foley hud retained 30 acres of tho tract, whirl) sllll would ho uvnlliihlc If tho city desires this wutor. Good rich quoted ir price of $5,400 on tho 30-ueros of wutor, und wild he could "Hhow cancelled checks to prove tliut It has cost uh in ox cotw of $-1,000." I ! ii I mo offered to refund the $500 pnid by tho city for Its option, In event the com mission decides against purchas ing nny of Ihe'Goodrlcli und Foley property. ' Commissioner VV. J. Boor, who ut the December 6 commission meeting charged Irregularities In connection with tho Goodrich and Foley option, with resultant com mission InNtructlon thut the city attorney check the records, re newed Ills charges Inst night. "I demand that this contract he held up until Pleroy cun be heard," Hnor wild. "Plorey has re tulned Casey Brewster to repre sent him. Plurcy wns to huve beon hero tonight." ' Letter Introduced A letter from Brewster wns In troduced, by Goodrich, showing thnt a settlement hud been reach ed with Plorey, In which Goodrich nnd Foley have deeded buck to Pleroy 50 acres of tho 80 ncres under option. Brewster's letter, nnd n copy of tho deed, tho lat ter received for the record Dc (Continued on Pngo 6) Highway Bond Issue Advocated Portlnnd, Dec. 21 oil Ben Chandler of Coos Buy, chulrmnn of tho stnto highway commission, said todny tho .legislature should approve a $75,000,000 bond Issue for Improvement of Oregon's pri mary highways. Chandler discussed the Issue nt tho close of the commission's meeting here yesterday. The pro posal hud already been made by the legislative Interim committee. Chandler named highways which would get a major share of tho funds raised through sale of bonds as follows, Columbia river highway (US 30). Tho Dallcs-Cullfornla highway tUS 97). Pacific highway (US 99). Oregon Coast highway (US 101). , Glcnwood-North Plains high way (US 20), The chulrman said approval of the bond Issue would moan the roads could be put In "pretty good shape" In five yours. Four Workmen Killed in Blast Reedsport, Dec. 21 till Four workmen died and one wns in jured seriously yesterday when n premature blast dislodged more than 20,000 tons of rock in a quarry. . Recovery operations proceeded with caution early today because workmen feared unothei- crushing slide, - Tho men burlod In the slide were George Kleut, about 05, Reedsport; John Doyle, 31, Reeds, port;' and Norman Astley, 24, Portland, Ore, Charles Whitney, 48 Tacoma, Wash,, died at a hospital of in juries suffered in tho blast. J. M. Peterson; 42, Butto, Mont,, suf fered fractured vertebrae but wus expected to recover. a uuu-root omrr nt too eago oi . quarry split wide-open when o unexpected blast rocked the eround. A creator slide followed almost Instantly, sending tons of took cascading to eartn. 6? New Lights Being Installed, Commission Told 'Hie Pacific Power & Light company has put a full-time crew to work, instulling 07 new street lights authorized by the city com mission during the current year, It wns reported at the commis sion meeting Inst night by W. O. Cuthlwrlson, city manager. If wcuther permits tho project will 1)0 completed within three months. On completion,. the city of Bend will have at least one street light for every two blocks, Cuthbert- son explained. the commission also author ized extension of Its ban on over night parking along Newport, from the east end of tho bridge ton connection with present pink ing meters. This Is to facilitate street cleaning and snow re moval, it was explained. Parking will lie permitted for one hour only, In the prescribed area, be tween the hours of 2 and 8 a.m. To liny Com.'iressor Cuthbertson was authorized to purchase a hew air compressor, from the Nelson Equipment com pany, at a net cost to the city of $2,225. The full price of tho Yao gor compressor Is $3,925, but the Nelson company Is allowing $1,700 for the old city compressor. A bid bv loggers & Contractors was $-1,262.50, with $500 allowed for the old compressor, or a net cost to the city of $3,762.50, Cuth bertson said. Money for the pur chase wus included In this year's budget. The question of whether Gor don Parrlsh, of Barb's Fountain lunch on Greenwood, or Al's Drlvcin, on south Third .street, should get tho next beer license, was resolved in favor of Parrlsh, after the commission was inform ed that Parrlsh's application was next In line. Parrlsh desires a license for on tho premises con sumption of bottled beer. Tho ap plication from Al's Drive-In calls for a regular package license. One license Given Up The fact' that a new license will be available was explained by Walter Thompson, city record er, who sold that the Buy-Rite grocery, 1709 E. 6th street, was giving up Its license. The present commission had held to a limit of 39 beer licenses of all types for tho city of Bend. Introduction of fluoride into Bond's water supply was discus sed briefly, Percy Drost, water department superintendent, ad vised the commission to await further information , before act ing. Ho pointed out that a person with laboratory experience should direct such an operation, and that It would be quite costly. The com mission tabled tho matter for the present. . V Bend Man Dies I In Auto Accident John Baker, 26, husband of Mrs, Mary Baker, 725 Marshall, was among four lumber workers whose bodies were found this wee(t In Prairie creek, 40 miles north of Eureka, Calif. They drowned after 'their .cor plunged off a bridge on highway 101, on Dec, 4, , Mrs, Baker wag notified by the Humboldt county sheriff's office that the bodies were found. Other victims were Walter J. Durham, 19, of Lebanon, and William Buchanan, 26, of Rock port, Wash., whose bodies were recovered Tuesday, as was Bak er's, and Donald JRobinson, 24, of Wooster, Ark., whoso body wos recovered by searchers the day before, in tho sumo creek, ! 'Tho car was said to bo traveling north when It plunged off the Bald hill road. All four men were loggers In the Orlck area. Mn Baker was formerly a saw mill employe In Bend. i i 1 1 it liiwi it i r i Ordered by the city Inst summer, yesterday and is now In service. Christmas Music Program Scheduled Here Tomorrow In High School Gymnasium Christmas music, popular and traditional, will be presented by orchestras, choruses and ensembles, at the 15th annual Christmas program to be given by the high school music de partment, Friday, Dec. 22, at 8 p.m. in the school gymnasium. The program is presented free of charge as a public service by the board of education of the public schools of Bend. Don P. Pence, director of music education, is in charge of the program, assisted by Jo Railroad Dispute Finally Settled; Wages Increased Washington, Dec. 21 till Tho government today announced seti tlement of tho long railroad Wage dispute' with a three-year, no strike agreement. The settlement 'covers 30000 members of foiir operating broth erhoods. It -gives a wage. In creuso of 23 cents nn hour to yard workers, and five cents an hour to road men retroactive to Oct. 1. It also calls for an adjustment of one cent art hour for each point that the cost of living index rises or falls. The basic point for this Is 176 on the government's con sumers price Index. . All workers will get an addi tional two cents an hour on Jan. 1 by .virtue of anticipated higher living costs and road men'recelve (Ive cents more added to base pay. The road men's demands for more than the five cents orig inally offered by tho operators was the biggest obstacle to agreement on a formuln. Presidential assistant John R. Stcclmnn announced the settle ment after a round-the-clock bar gaining session. He said the car riers agreed to the "principle" of a 40-hour week for yard men, but the contract set it aside until Jan uary, 1,952, In deference to the tightening manpower situation. When the 40-hour week finally goes into ffect, all yard men will receive an cxtiw four cents an hour. ; ' 'lite peace formula still must bo ratified by union members and individual roads. . Nazarene.Church Sells Property The Church of the Nozarene has sold Its property on East First street, and will hold services In the Seventh 'Day. Adventist church whilei the new .building on East Third street Is being completed, Rev, A, Furman Har ris announced today. Morning services C h r I s t m as Sunday will be held at the regu lar hoijrs, with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and church at 11 a.m. Youth services will be held at 6:45 p.m., and the Christmas pro- "gram will be at 7 p.m. Treats will be distributed at the close of I ho program. SALEM JUDGE DIES Salem, Dec, 21 HP) Marlon county judge Grant Murphy died late Wednesday at a Salem hos pital where he had been taken after a heart attack, He was 65 years old. ,N Murphy, a 1 native of Marlon county, was 'appointed county Judge by Gov. Charles.A. Sprague in May of 1941 after the death of Judge LcRoy Hewlett. Murphy was re-elected to six-year terms In 1942 and 1948. Judge Murphy was Instrument al In completion : of the new bridge across the Willamette river at Independence and led in a program of road oiling and the construction of two new ferries. Fire Department Gets New Pumper 4 itiiiTiiiiii :itfitlii a new auxiliary pumper was received by the Bend fire department Tho pumper, at left, is pictured beside the department's oldest out- fit, a pumper purchased In 1918. seph T. Haugen and Karl C. Roarig, associate music direc tors. The program will open with an overture by J. Tobani, "Around the ChristmasTree," by the high school orchestra. The string orchestra will follow with" a prescntalon of "Marionettes," by Isaac. Sextet to Sing A girls' sextet will sing "The Sleigh." Kountz-Bldwin, and the senior girls' chorus will sing "Ru dolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' by Marks. The madrigal choir will sing -"The Twelve Days of Christmas," Siday-Hoggard, with Mary Lou Hudson and Christine Ryman us accompanists. . The Junior choir, with Alice Valitchka as accompanist, will sing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," Coots, and "Winter Won derland," Bernard-Arnaud. The junior boys' glee club will sing the old Welsh air, "Deck the Halls," and a senior girls' trio will sing the Irving Berlin favorite, "White Christmas." Numbers' by. the senior girls' chorus, , with Earl, Roarig as ac companist, will b'e "In David's Town," Moore, and "In Bethle hem's Lowly Manger," Williams. Choir Numbers Slated Final group In the first half of (Continued on Page 8) Madras Woman Dies in Bend Floretta Lorraine Thiolman, 50, a resident of Madras for the past 12 years-, died this morning at St. Charles hospital, where she had been a patient since yester day. She had been In 111 health for some time, and had recently returned from Portland, where she had been urtder a doctor's care. Mrs, Thlelman was a native of Sturgeon Lake, Minn. She is sur vived by her husband, Roy, Mad ras; her mother, Mary Swantek, Sturgeon Lake, and two sisters and a brother: Mrs. Edward Ver ner, Walla Walla, Wash., and Mrs. Paul Kolosky and Paul Swantek, Sturgeon Lake. . . Funeral arrangements had not beon completed today. . CONTROl-S CONSIDERED London, Dec, 21 (tPi The Brit ish government may reimpose drastic wartime economic controls,- Including a civilian labor draft, to maintain the rearma ment program, an authoritative source said today. Prime minister Clement At tleq's cabinet will meet Dec, 28 to consider whether the controls arc necessary, The source said. STORES OPEN TONIGHT ' Bend stores will remain open tonight arid' Friday night for the convenience of Christmas shop pers who have not completed their purchasing. Many stores are of fering pre-Christmas specials be tween the hours of 7 and 9 p.m. Stores will close Saturday at the regular time, r rfel 3 ui Ay? New Pumper Reaches Bend, Put in Service A new Bend fire department pumper, ordered last summer and received yesterday, was placed in service here today, providing ad ditional protection for this widely sprawled city that is divided by the 'Deschutes river. The hew machine, a pumper built on a. Ford chassis by the Howard Cooper firm of Portland, has a 145 horsepower engine and car ries a 500 gallon water tank. Overshadowed by the depart ment's big Mack truck, placed in service two years ago, the new pumper will largely be used on still alarm runs and brush fires, LeRoy Fox, Bend fire chief, indi cated. The pumper carries the de--partment's first aluminum lad ders. One of these Is a roof lad der and two are extension lad ders. Also carried are booster lines and 2'A inch lines. The pumper will carry about 800 feet of 2l,4 inch hose. ' Has Special Pump ' The new rig also has a Hale, three-stage pump, providing pres sure, volume or high pressure, as desired. The pumper was tested, yesterday by a representative of the Oregon fire insurance rating bureau'. , . Yesterday afternoon, the new outfit was posed for a picture with the department's oldest pumper, the LaFrance purchased in 1918. This old pumper has befen retired, but is still available in an emergency. Lined up and ready for action in tho fire hall now are the big Mack truck, the Seagrave, the new Ford truck, the Pirsch pur chased In 1926, and the hook and ladder outfit, with the old La France in the background. Welfare Costs For Month Given Olive Jameson, Deschutes coun ty welfare administrator, an nounced at a meeting of the wel fare commission last night that welfare expenditures for the month of November had totaled $19,309.94. The expenditures were divided as follows: 99 cases of general assistance, $3,499.94; 211 cases of old age assistance, $11,234; two cases of aid to the blind, $106; 36 cases of aid to dependent chil dren, $3,715, and 15 cases of aid to permanently and totally dis abled, $755. The October expenditures,' she noted, totaled $18,515.68 and the expenditures for November, 1949, were $15,893.73. - : . 5 KILLED BV TRAIN Grandville, Mich., Dec. 21 (IP) A mother and four of her children were killed by a train as they returned from Christmas shop ping last night. The locomotive struck the auto of Mrs. B. B. Smith on a down town grade crossing in view of scores of shoppers, A fifth child, nine-year-old Leroy Smith, was critically Injured. Leroy told hospital attendants in Grand Rapids, Mich,, that his mother had taken him and his three brothers and one sister, on a shopping trip, He said they were on their way home to Jenl son, Mich., when the Chesapeake and Ohio freight train hit the car. Herbert HooVerDemandsU.S Concentration on Defense Of Homeland; GOP Applauds New York, Dec. 21 fJ2) Former president Herbert Hoov er rallied leading republican senators! today behind his call for a new United States foreign policy, concentrating on de fense of the western hemisphere. Mr. Hoover said in a nation-wide radio-television broad cast last night, that the U.S. has lost the war in Korea and its duty now is to build a gigantic navy and air force, keep Americans Hold Firm at Hungnam Despite Pressure By Earnest Hoberecht United Preu Staff Correspondent 'Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 22 "Un united Nations forces in the Hungnam beachhead pulled back their western and southwestern outposts Thursday, withdrawing across the Tongsong river into a five-mile-wide defense line and destroying the last bridge leading into the city. Chinese and North Korean com munist forces failed to attack during the withdrawal. They were held at bay by a blazing land-sea artillery barrage shred ding the front with nearly 1,000 rounds an hour. U. S. 3rd division troops guard ing the beachhead perimeter were braced for -further attacks by communist troops hurling gas grenades. A delayed dispatch from the beachhead disclosed that Chinese reds used the gas grenades for the first time in probing attacks Sunday. An official spokesman in Tokyo confirmed use of the grenades and said they were filled with a combination of smoke and tear gas. 'The attack was repulsed by the 3rd division's. 65th Puerto Rican regiment. - i (In Washington, a war .depart ment spokesman said all Ameri can troops are Issued gas masks, but he did not know whether the beachhead forces actually were carrying them.) , , . Bridge Blown Dp U. S. combat engineers blew up the last bridge into the Hung nam beachhead with three tons of dynamite at. 4:20 p. m. (2:20 a. m. EST) Wednesday, another delayed front dispatch disclosed. Two spans of the 40ft.yard con crete bridge linking Hungnam with abandoned Yonpo airport tumbled into the frozen river and the rest was left a charred, twist ed wreck. United Press war correspond ent Jack Burby reported that Lt. Larry Wall of Chicago and a squad of 10 men laid the dyna mite that did . the job probably within sights of groups of com munist soldiers scattered about the Hungnam plain. An aroifnd-the-clock land, sea and air bombardmtent still was preventing the communists from attempting more than light prob ing attacks, and even these were becoming fewer and more feeble. Girafd Davidson Resigns Position Washington, Dec. 21 tlPi C. Girard Davidson of Portland, Ore., today resigned as assistant secretary of the interior and said he would return to his hometown to resume law practice. Davidson, 40.. handed his resig nation to President Truman at noon today. The chief executive gave Davidson a letter of regret ful acceptance. . Both Mr. Truman and Interior secretary Oscar H. Chapman urg ed Davidson to continue in the government service as a private consultant, working with public and private agencies and Individ uals in the Pacific northwest for formulation of a single -unified plan for- development of the re gion's great power resources for defense purposes. Davidson assured the president arid Chapman that he would be .available whenever called as a consultant. . BfeRGDOLL SENTENCED New York, Dec. 21 (IP Alfred Bergdoll, 23-year-old son of the notorious world war I draff dodg er, was sentenced to five years In prison today for evading mill tary service. Judge Sylvester J. Ryan called him "the object of scorn and con tempt, particularly of the men and women of your generation." Ryan imposed the maximum sentence of 5 years on each of two counts, to-be served concurrently. ing ground armies at a mini mum, to keep this nation the "Gibraltar of western civili zation." '. r "Before we lend another man or dollar" in Europe the, United States should see if the nations of Europe can organize their own military and economic defenses because the responsibility is pri marily theirs, he said. He. proposed that the United States undertake to defend by sea and air power frontiers from Great Britain on the Atlantic side to island outposts of Japan, For mosa and the Philippines ut the Pacific. "We shall not fail in this, even if we have to stand alone," he said. Not Isolationism . Mr. Hoover said his demand for a new foreign policy, was just the opposite of ''isolationism." Sen.' Robert A. Taft, R., O, said in Washington that the speech probably would lay Mr. Hoover open to isolationist charges. Taft said, however, that he agreed with "many of the general principles he states. Mr. Hoover presents very forcibly a point of view which should have the immediate concern of congress." - The ex-president "exactly ex pressed my sentiments," senate GOP leader Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb., said. Sen. Homer Cape hart, R., Ind., said he agreed with Mr. Hoover "100 per cent." " Opposing the former president's stand was Rep. Melvin Price, D., 111., who said Mr. Hoover's reas oning easily could lead to 'a re birth of isolationism: Rep. James Wadsworth. R., N.Y., also took is sue with Mr. Hoover.- ; ... The only living ex-president of the United Staes wrote off United Nations chances of winning the war in Korea. He said he saw no chance "at the' present time" of achieving victory there.'.' (Continued on Page -7)- Winters Start Set for Friday Winter will officially arrive in the Oregon country tomorrow at 2:14 a.m., Pacific standard time, and the weatherman said fair skies, sunshine and mild temper atures will .prevail. Bend today was experiencing such weather with only the snow-covered Cas cades on the western skyline pro viding evidence that winter and Christmas are just around the corner, sort of waiting hand in hand for a vernal bow. , In Bend last night, the temrJer-1 arure aippeo to z aegrees and the ground was white with frost at sunrise. The frost quickly dis appeared as the sun moved up the cloudless sky, and it was pre dicted that the maximum temper ature today would again go above the 50 degree mark. When the sun rises over cen tral Oregon tomorrow morning, at 7:47, winter will be here offi cially. Sunset tomorrow will be at 4:29 p.m. " Fair Weather Due Forecasts said nearly all of Oregon and Washington will have fair weather through Friday. Some valley fog Is expected Fri day morning throughout the area. Fog settled in lower western valleys today, but gave way to sunshine in mid-morning; There were also patches of fog in the highlands south of Bend at sun rise. Observers in charge of the Bend weather station said the autumn of 1950 has been one of the mild est on record. ' Schmitt Resigns Co-Op Position' Redmond, Dec. 21 ' S. C. Schmitt, manager of the Des chutes Farmers' cooperative and the Pacific Supply cooperative here for some two years, has re signed to enter business in Mt. Angel.., Announcement of the resigna tion was made simultaneously with the filing of articles of in corporation for Schmitts Feed and Seed Co., Inc., In Mt. Angel. Sign-ing-.the articles were" S. C. Schmitt, Allie F Schmitt and Doris H. Schmitt. . - Officials of the cooperative said a successor for the Redmond firm has not yet been named. Schmitt will remain on the Job until about February 1. . Joint Defense Program Held Vital to U. S. ' By Donald !. Gonzale United J'retoi Staff Correnpondent Washington, Dec. 21 tui Pres ident Truman said today the western European countries have shown they "mean business" In a common defense against commu nism which is "vital to their se-.. curity. and to ours." His statement followed a talk with secretary of state Dean Acheson, who reported to him on -the Brussels conference, of North : Atlantic countries. The Brussels meeting set up plans for a 1,000,- ; 000-man European defense force, headed by Gen. Dwight D. Elsen hower. . .. Mr. Truman said he agreed . fully with Acheson that the spirit shown at Brussels justifies the confidence that the free states of Europe mean business about setting up our common defense ; system." ; "Let there be no mistake about it," he added, "the unity of the nations of Western Europe and of the North Atlantic area Is vital to their security and ours.". ; Mr. Truman said the troops ' will be training together "with in the next few weeks." The. force will Include German troops. The. President talked at some:: length with Acheson just before the luncheon hour today. and af ter the meeting, issued this state ment: Y , .. Statement Quoted "The secretary of state this morning gave me a full report of his meeting In Brussels with the foreign ministers and' defense ministers of the North Atlantic treaty countries. ? " "I was greatly encouraged to hear from the secretary of the serious way in which the repre- sentatives of the North Atlantic ' countries went about, the. job of bringing to life the military and economic agencies of. the North Atlantic communities.: "The secretary reported that the appointment of General Ei senhower as supreme allied com mander, Europe, greatly hearten- 1 ed and inspired the European na tions who see in It, new proof of the firm intention of the free nations to stand together. "Within the next few weeks the soldiers in Europe of the mem bers of the North Atlantic com munity will be training together. Many of our hopes, have now be (Continued on Page 5) Bend Youth Tells Of Korea Battle Sgt. Donald J, Call, of the fifth regiment of the first marine divi sion, is safe in Korea, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carson Call of Six . Corners, learned yesterday. In a letter written Dec. 11, Sgt. Call told his parents that he had reached Yanpo airport, between . Hamhung and Hungnam. Of the situation at Chosin reservoir, he wrote as follows: . "We had about five divisions of Chinks completely .. surrounding us. We didn't think we'd get out. They had the road blocked and we were getting our supplies by air drop. . . "I still think that the planes made it possible for us to get out. Those pilots were great. They did everything they could to help us. Flew in bad weather, and any thing we asked them to hit ;they were right on It, We had wonder ful air support."- . t; 1 Is Radio Operator! Sgt. Call, who Is beginning his fourth year in the service, is a radio operator in the tactical air -support. He was graduated from Bend high school with the class of 1947. ; When the letter, was i written, ... Sgt. Call hadn't had his clothes off for two weeks, he told his par ents. "My hair curls in back and I have a half-Inch beard . . . hard ly a pretty sight," he added. LOM6 TK?J?!m,mJ
