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I M : ! 1 - THE BEND BULLETIN Bond Forecast Bend and vicinity Fail today and Friday with af ternoon clouds over ' moun tains; Iresh northwest winds this afternoon; high both days 85-90; low tonight 40 45. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S : DAILY NEWSPAPER 48th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1951 No, 190 Commission Sets Water Election For August 21st f A modified water improvement project, calling for two new storage reservoirs and connecting lines but no additional source of water supply, will be submitted to Bend voters at a special election August 21. Approval of a $500,000 bond issue will be asked. :;:':: . Decision to seek approval of a smaller project, instead of over-all development entailing an outlay of around $850,000, was made at the regular meeting of the city commission last -J night after W. O. Cuthbert- W , Receipts Set New ' Record, Disclosed Receipts by the TJeschutes na tional forest for 1951-52 climbed to an aiiiuiiy.ti.i w 545.52, Ralph W. crawiora, ior est supervisor, announced today. .-. Timber sales accounted for $1, 352,436.53 of this total, the super visor reported, umer receipts in . eluded: Grazing fees. $8,866.50 and land use fees, $8,242.49. - Receipts by the forest in 1949 50 totaled $437,788.53. - Crawford also noted that re ceipts from the sale of timber in the 19 national forests of, the u.ifip Northwest reeion in 1950- .. 1 OK OAy nlfl an all-time recoru. ruu irai, ed from grazing fees and other ' miscellaneous sources amounted to $421,683. , . .: , 25 Per Cent Returned .'V Twenty-five per cent of these receipts, or approximately $6,500, 000, will be returned to counties In the two states for road and : school purposes, An additional 10 Ar tUa wtrolnta will hp available for road and trail work In the national forests. '-In-a press release from the re ' eion office In Portland, Walter P . i . l n.Ac, Alr- LUnd, assistant regiuiitti in charge of timber management, nnxilcted that timber cutting dur- , tho iwvt 12 months will con- Mlnue to increase in northwest ioresis. i',---- Demand Increasing "Timber sales are 1 continually being stepped up to meet increas ing demand," Lund said. "We plan to prepare our sales a year 'In advance so prpspective purchas ers may know the location and volume of national forest timber to be sold. Each national forest hue n flvp.vpnr cutting plan bas ed on condition of the timber stands, the expected accessibility of the timber, and the need- for forest products." : Leading timber' cutting forest during the past year ' was the Willamette with a cut of 281,318 . thousand board . feet - valued at 3 1DQ OTA StOVtAm lni H.l (Y fnt-OStS were the Olympic, in Washington and the Umpqua and Mt. Hood forests In Oregon. Youth Committee Pares Program Salem. July 19 IP The gov ernor's committee on children and youth met here today to pare Its activity program to fit the curtailed budget allowed It by the ! 1951 legislature. Thirty committee members ' from all parts of Oregon agreed What the $22,343 the legislature r cave it for the 1951-53 biennium called for a re-appralsal and ov erhaul of original plans. "The concensus of the exCcu- not do a complete job, in line with the objectives set forth, without more money and staff," committee secretary Andrew Ju ras of Portland said. Appropriation Cut The appropriation made to the state welfare commission for the committee's use was some $12,000 below requirements which mem bers said were "minimum" for the biennium. The approved fig ure does not allow for the re quested field executive, additional .office personnel and publication of certain sports, members said. Study committees working on various phases of the answer to providing equal opportunity to all Oregon children will be asked to complete reports in time for consideration by the overall com mittee early in the fall. A limit ed number of top-priority projects will be selected from the reports and combined Into the commit tee's program for the biennium. Michael Schapiro "of Portland, executive secretary of the state committee told the members that 1,500 Oregonians attended the area conferences this year at Medford, Portland, Bend and La Jprande as follow-ups to the mid Jtentury White House conference on children and youth. I Ml III. 1-111 IMMMU irHI' 1 I'Ulll IF-1 HI on conversations with John W. Cunningham, engineer re tained by Bend in connection with water developments. ' Due to the critical supply situa tion It would be next to Impos sible to obtain steel needed for the new pipeline, diverting addi tional Tumalo creek water, to Bend reservoirs, Cunningham ad vised the city manager. Reinforc ing steel for concrete reservoir construction will be available, however, andit is believed that enough steel for connecting mains can be obtained, Cuthbertson said. Plans Outlined ' If the $500,000 bond issue Is ap proved, it is planned to build a 5.000.000 Ballon storage reservoir on Awbrey butte and a 600,000 gallon reservoir.' on the side d Pilot butte, to provide adequate pressure for all sections of Bend. Also planned are an' 18-inch sup ply line to connect the present supply line with the Awbrey butte reservoir; a 24-lnch feeder line from Awbrey butte to the distri bution system, and a 12-inch line extension on Lafayette avenue to connect with -the Pilot butte res ervoir. Lengthy, discussion of the en tire water situation in Bend pre ceded the final vote, which was unanimously in favor of the smaller Drolect. At a special meet- ing July 11. the commission had approved Plans lor an election on the over-all project, which called for a pipe line from Tumalo creek, diverting . water at a proposed dam above Shevlin park, with a booster pumping station near l tn and Newport.' The estimated cost of this part ; of the project was $218,250. Randall Comments Commissioner Gordon Randall, for. a time last nieht. held out for submission of the entire project, (Continued on Page 4) Results of 4-H . Field Trip Given David Kribs, 14, Glen Vista, and Haley Prichard, 16, Eastern Star, were named winners of a a.TJ nlant identification contest Wednesday following a field trip along the Metouus river in me Sisters district of the Deschutes national forest. ' ... Nine 4-H club boys ana gins participated in the field trip and contest. The one-day program was conducted by Gail C. Baker, a member of the supervisor's staff for the Deschutes national forest, and Joe Lievens, county 4-H agent. The two contest winners will attend a 4-H conservation camp to be held at Hart mountain in Lake county from Aug. 6 to 11. Expenses will be paid by radio station KBND and the Deschutes County Sportsmens association. The camp at Hart mountain is sponsored by the northwest sec tion of the American Association of Range management. 42 Specimens Gathered The boys and girls participat ing in the field trip yesterday collected 42 different specimens of various range plants, includ ing grasses, herbs and shrubs, Judging of the collections com pleted the day's program. Those taking the trip included: Haley Prichard, Mavis Rowley, Maureen Burton, Ned Humbert, John Prichard, David Kribs, Rich ard Heden and Gerald Heden. Two 4-H leaders, Mrs. Walter Prichard, Eastern Star, Mrs. Les lie Kribs, Glen Vista, also accom panied the children. David Kribs is a member of the Glen Vista Weedless Garden club, and Haley Prichard is a member of the Young Farmers club. Coach Accepts Post at SOCE Hood River, July 19 (in Bill Abbey was released today from Hood River high school as foot ball coach to accept the position of head football coach at South ern Oregon College of Education in Ashland. Abbey had been here two years and school superintendent Wayne Foster said the school was "sorry to lose Abbey his services have been most satisfactory." Abbey played football under Jim Aiken at the University of Oregon. National Meet To Open Here This Week End Officials of college and univer sity extension services from all over the United States will con vene here next week for the 36th annual convention of the National University extension association. Delegates to the four-day meet are expected to begin arriving Saturday. Convention headquar ters will be the Pilot Butte Inn, with sessions being scheduled for the Thompson school and Bend high school buildings. Entertainment Planned . Pro-convention meetings will b held Sunday, with regular meet ings to Degin Monday morning. Entertainment activities planned for the visiting delegates include golf at the Bend Golf club, a" cowboy breakfast Tuesday morn ing with the Rim Rock Riders, trips to various points of interest in the Central Oregon area, and a trip Wednesday to Mt.. Hood and Timherline lodge. - ' The 1950-51 president of the NUEA Is J. M. Nolte, University of Minnesota. Other officers are L. J. Adolfson, University of Wis consin, vice-president; and W. S. Bittner, Indiana university, sec retary-treasurer. Chairmen Listed ' General conference chairman for the meet is Errett Hummel, Oregon system of higher educa tion. Mrs. Margaret Sharp, Ore gon system of higher education Is entertainment chairman, and Louis F. Judkins, also of the Ore gon system, is publicity director. Another Oregon : system man, Robert Gridley, is reservations chairman. ' Members of the association's executive committee, in addition to officers, are J. W. Brouillette, Louisiana State university; Guy V. Keeler, University of Kansas; E. L. Keller, The Pennsylvania State college and Henry B. Stevj ens, University of New Hampi shire; Mrs. Faye Kolmer, manager of the Pilot Butte Inn, is convention hostess. Taft Will Run Only If Party Wants Candidacy San Francisco, Jui'y 19 ftPkSoiv Robert A. Taft will not seek the presidential nomination unless he is convinced "the republicans really want me" as. their candi date. But he said "there is every reason to believe the republicans can win the presidency in - l5H, in an interview witn tne &an Francisco Chronicle before board ing a Plane for Washington. The Ohio senator has been a guest of former President Herbert Hoover at Bohemian urove, (jam. Recalling tne . laou election, Taft asserted "republican policy on domestic Issues commanded a maioritv of the vote in every state In which It was an Issue." Better Arguments "On - foreign policy," he said, we also had better arguments on our side." While withholding comment on republican candi dates in the coming presidential race, he did express belief that President Truman wouia seen re election. Taft also spoke in praise of Gov. Earl Warren. HS did not ac ceDt SDeakine engagements in California as he felt Warren is entitled to consideration in tne state as the "favorite son can didate. Turning to foreign issues, tne senator said "I don't know what we do next" if the communists agree to a truce In Korea. "Nothing. I assume," he said, adding the best alternative to a complete ueieat oi me reas is "a peace that accomplishes noth ing except peace at the 38th par allel." But Taft said there is no guar antee that ending hostilities at the parallel would mean a per manent end to the fighting. Mt. Hood Locale For New Movie Portland, July 19 UP George B. North, manager of Tlmberline lodge, said today that, a Holly wood company of more than 100, including star James Stewart, had rented the entire lodge for sev eral weeks starting Monday. The company will film Universal-International's technicolor mo vie of the old Oregon country, Bend of the Snake." North said the lodge would house the cast and technicians, with'the overflow staying at the Cascade Ski club at Government Camp. Some of the movie will be pho tographed in Collins meadow, just below Government Camp, and other sequences taken along the Columbia river. CONCERT TONIGHT The first summer concert of the Bend Municipal band will be at 8 o'clock tonight in Drake park, with Frank A. de Lespl nasse of Redmond as directqr. In the absence of Don P. Pence. A program of marches and familiar selections has been arranged. howdowo Conference Over Campaign y nr- I8ly If j J1 I ' f I ' I Sir Thomas F. Brdoks, center, is shown outlining some of his preliminary plans for the 1951-52 Boy Scout -Camp Fire Girl finance campaign to Marion Cady, left, and Harry Drew, finance chairmen for the youth organizations. Appointment of Brooks as general chairman for the drive was announced- ; , . v :i: today- ' : ' Thomas F. Brooks Of Funds Drive Thomas F. Brooks of Bend has been appointed general chairman of the 1951-52 finance campaign for the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls of central Oregon. The announcement was made jointly today by Harry Drew and Marion Cady, finance chairmen respectively for the Boy Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls. Exact dates for the campaign have not been determined, but Brooks indicated that it probably would be conducted sometime in September. Simultaneous solici tations will be held in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. To Name Committee . Brooks reported that his first task will be the selection of a steering committee which will in clude prospects, initial gifts, pub licity and meetings, solicitation, and auditing chairmen, together with campaign directors for each of the three central Oregon coun ties. The general chairman said he planned to have these appoint ments completed by the first of August. Funds raised during the. cam paign will also be used to help finance Cub Scout, Explorer Scout and Blue Bird activities in central Oregon. Goal for the drive will be an nounced later, Brooks stated. Fire Weather Due to Continue (Br United Preu) The Portland weather bureau said the fire danger in Oregon for ests would increase Thursday with a trend toward lower humidi ties and slightly higher tempera tures. Forecasters predicted humidi ties in northwestern Oregon would drop to 30 per cent and hu midities in southwestern Oregon and east of the Cascades would fall to 20 per cent. High temperatures will range from approximately 82 degrees in the northwest portion of the state to 65 to 72 on the coast and 90 in southern part. No Rain In Sight The weather bureau could see no rain through Friday and held little hope that an earlier predic tion for rain by the end of the week would come true. The 1500-acre blaze In the old Tioga burn, 38 miles northeast of Coos Bay, was reported controlled late Wednesday night. The Tioga fire Is the only major forest fire in the Pacific northwest. state forester Dwlght Phloos reported 400 firefighters had the maze trailed Wednesday night ex- cept for steep cliff areas. Korea Chairman Maps Out Strategy y?fA Cm - Order of Antelope Slates v 1 6th Annual Convention: Bend Delegation Yill tyake Trip Headed for Hart mountain tion, members of the Order of the Antelope from the Portland area, southern Washington and the upper Willamette valley win De nere tomorrow ior a "water noie session before driv ing to the Lake county highlands. The AntelODemen will Hp joined here by mid-Oregon members of the group, from Red mond, uena, rrinevine and Madras. . . A. L. O. Schueler, in charge of local water hole" arrange Fiddlers Contest Set as Feature Of Pioneer Meet An- bid-time fiddlers' . Contest will be a highlight-of the 1951 summer meeting of ' the Des chutes Pioneers' association on the afternoon of Sunday,- July 29, W.' J. Burton, chairman of the entertainment committee, an nounced today. The contest win ner will be decided by the ap plause of the group, with prizes to be awarded. Fiddlers willing to Join in the rogram are being asked to reg iter with either Burton, 929 J.' or with Joe Slate, telephone 171. rne meeting of tne old timers will be held in Pioneer park, with the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Clark massacre party on the banks of the Des chutes to be commemorated. Attendance at the July 29 meet ing is expected to set an all tfme record, with members coming from many parts of Oregon. Joining in the picnic session will be representatives of th Crook County Pioneers' association. ieKoy ox is president of the Deschutes pioneers. . Reynue Agents To Face Checks Washington. July 19 , IH Sec retary of Treasury John W. Sny der today established a central ted Investigative force to police the bureau of internal revenue. Ninety-five bureau employes were fired for Inefficiency and misconduct in the past year, it was learned. Several of the dis missals attracted nation-wide at tention after the Kefauver crime investigating committee criticiz ed the bureau of laxness in prose cuting gamblers and other law violators for evasion of income tax payments. More recently, President Tru man fired the chief of the Bos ton Internal revenue district and turned his case over to the jus tice department. Snyder said he was establish ing a 'uniform and thorough In spection service throughout the neaoquarters and field offices" to be headed by Edgar E, Hoppe, who has been with the bureau for 22 years. Cease - Fire " y and their 16th annual conven- ments, nas asked local mem- bers of the order to meet with the visitors at a buffet lunch eon to be held at the Pilot Butte inn at noon. Reports from Portland indicate that two busloads of members and candidates will move south from that city early tomorrow morning, and will be In Bend for the wa ter, hole session. From Bend, the large' group will drive directly to Hart .mountain tomorrow after noon for the opening session that evening. . . . Breakfast Saturday Saturday's activities will start with a buckaroo breakfast, follow ed by sightseeing trips into the antelope country or to nearby hot springs and a hike to the top of Hart mountain, which overlooks the Warner valley from the east. There will be pit barbecue Satur day evening. A highlight of the 1951 convention will be the camp fire session and Initiation Satur day night with Leith Abbott, Port land as master of ceremonies. Breakfast will be served at sun rise Sunday, preparatory to the homeward trek. More than 300 members of the order are expect ed to attend the Hart mountain meeting. Jess Fahai Lakevlew, in the role of Chief White Tall, heads the Order of the Antelope this year. State Purchases Waterfowl Area Portland, July 19 (IF) The Ore gon state game commission an nounced today It will purchase Shoalwater bay, a 1,273-acre tract on the west shore of Klamath lake, as a nesting, feeding and resting area for waterfowl. The owner, California-Oregon Power company, will receive $30, 000 for the bay, including Eagle point, a landmark Jutting into the lake. Hunters will be allowed to use the entire marsh during the regular waterfowi hunting sea son. Ducks, including pintail, mal lard, redhead, canvasback and cinnamon teal, and Canada geese nest at Shoalwater bay. In spring and Fall, large flights of migrant birds use the marsh for resting and feeding. St. Louis Now in Path Of Big Flood St. Louis, July 19 IIP) The crest of a disastrous Missouri river flood rolled toward this metro politan area today, but the Red, Cross said the "real emergency" which devastated Kansas and' western Missouri has passed. "There, Is not another large city in the path of the flood," Red Cross mldwestern headquar ters announced here. "There no longer is a real emergency, and we now face only scattered relief tasks among rural families in the Missouri-Mississippi river area." '.' .'.' . Although the highest Mississip pi river flood crest in 107 was still to reach here, the main resi dential and industrial areas of St. Louis were not in danger. Lo cated on high ground, St, Louis had a comparative few waterfront industries and families to worry about. : At Jefferson city, a vital bridge spanning the bloated Missouri river was threatened as a record "Big Muddy" crest of 35 feet swept eastward. Engineers piled' 96' tons of scrap metal onto the bridge to weight it down so the swirling waters would not carry, it away. . "It's taking a'terrlble beating," Jefferson city, police said. . itts.sou Made Homeless -. The Red Cross estimated that 165,300 persons along a 200-mile stretch of the Missouri in east ern Kansas and central Missouri, ima ueen ariven xrom tne '.nomes of the flood. : At least 39 deaths were attrib uted to the floods in Kansas, Mis souri and Illinois. The latest vie- tims were three boys who. are mlssfng and believed drowned In IIia hlinlr ,a,AM ln k., 1 ! , ievW T near East S?&Z& 1, ad- .. i.vv,. Tf Across the river rom Jeffer nui kraa lilt, iivci 1IUI1I ULljri - son City, the town of Cedar City was under 20 feet of water and all but about a dozen families had fled the city. Those few. who remained had taken refuge in the upper floors of their homes to escape , the In vading waters. More than z.uuu acres of rich farmland on the north side o( me river, were munoaied. Charges Hurled At Coalition Washington, July 19 (IP) Price chief Michael V. DISalle angrily charged today that the house has voted to "destroy the entire price control program." Defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson asserted that disabling of the act will Increase the danger of world war III. They fired their blasts as a republican - southern democratic coalition continued to defeat the administration in section after section of the new controls bill. . DISalle s chief target was a house-approved amendment which he said guarantees excess prof Its to every manufacturer and processor." He , belabored the amendment tn a letter to chair man- Brent Spence of the house banking committee, who is pilot ing tne controls bill through the house. High Profits Assured The amendment would raise all price ceilings to a level assuring manufacturers and processors a profit equal to 83 per cent of the best three years out of the four year period, 1946-49. Processors of farm products would be al lowed to charge enough to return them that profit computed on the basis of higher production costs than they actually pay. DISalle said that the provision would make food price control In effective and that "without ef fective price control, wage con trols cannot be maintained." His letter appeared to be a desperate, last ditch move to per- (continued on fage 8) City Prepares Signs for Parks City manager W. O. Cuthbert son reported today that signs are being prepared for Bend's city parks to Indicate that water for drinking and cooking pur poses should be drawn from the drinking fountains. Although most of the water used for irrigating the parks Is now pumped from the Deschutes river, Cuthbertson reported that drinking fountains In Drake and Pioneer parks are still connected with the city water system. Slated Plans , Of UN Forces By Ernest Hobcrecht (United Fru Suff CorrwpowWnt I . 11M Arivnnca Base BelOW Klie. song, Korea, Friday, July 20 mt The United Nations are prepar ing today to check the issue oi war or peace to the communists. A fateful meeting of UN and communist teams attempting to negotiate a cease-fire starts In . Kaesong at 10 a. m. (8 p. m. Thursday EDT). ; . rne cease-iire coniercnce : is deadlocked because the reds in- . slst that any armistice agreement include a decision on how and when all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Korea. The allies contend this is a political issue and refuse to discuss it now. .'-. "There will be no selling out on this Issue even If it wrecks . the conference," a reliable In formant said.' ' The UN and communist nego- tlators are trying to complete a program for actual cease fire talks which would start Imme diately, i Agenda Listed Except for the troops issue, it was made known, the program is complete. The agenda for dis cussion is: : 1. Details of a cease-fire agree ment. - -. ' 2. Definition of a demilitarized zone along a line between the UN and communist armies. 3. Guarantees against a new, outbreak of fighting, including a commission of inspection and con- trol.;to'makf;SUrelthat each si lives up to its agreement. . . ... . But tne troop issue deadlocked the whole conference.' Tempers got short at Thursday's meeting. Vlce-Adm, C, Turner Joy, chief UN negotiator, and North Korean yen. Nam 11, did the talking. No Authority When Nam 11 kept Insisting on the troop issue Joy Interrupted mm aoruptiy and said the mat ter must not be brought up again. The team has "no authority to discuss It," Joy said. At the first cease-fire talk July w ooy told tne reds: , "This delegation . ;,. will dls- cuss military matters in" Korea . . . tnis delegation will not dls cuss political or economic mat ters of any kind. This delegation will not discuss military matters unrelated to Korea." That remains the kevstone of the UN program. it was announced that no Pro gress was made in the Kaesong meeting xnursoay. It was UN briefing officer Lt. Col. W. J. Preston who disclosed the crisis. He said today's meeting prob (Continued on Page 8) Reds Reinforcing Front Divisions Seoul. Korea. July 19 (IP) A United Nations official said to night that according to his in formation the communists will complete supplying their front lines witn rood and ammunition by tomorrow or Saturday and "will then be in position to launch a full scale attack." Activity Increases 8th Army Headquarters. Ko rea, Friday, July 20 (IP) United Nations patrols reported increas ed communist activity jiear Kae song Thursday as cease-fire talks m mat neutralized cltv reached a crisis. The patrolling allied trnnns found the enemv northeast of Kaesong. The reds withdrew aft er brief contact. There was a minor clash south of Kaesong, and the UN patrols touno some enemv movements east of the city. was reported In Seoul that the enemv had about comoleted his build-up of food and ammu nition in the front lines and was in position to launch a . big at tack this week end. Rain and low visibility slowed both ground and air operations. But UN planes flew almost 300 attack sorties before the bad weather stopped them. The warplanes plastered red air fields, supply lines and front line targets until dawn yester. day in their thfrd straight night of punishing raids. Withdrawal Still at Issue
