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Univ. of Qrsson Library THE BEND BULLET Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Fair through Tuesday; high today 90-95; low o n i g h t 45-50; high Tuesday 85-80. . ' LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE it- 7.' i f.':-i CENTRAL OREGON'S : QAILY NEWSPAPER 48th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1951 No; 193 Jelephoime Hofe e irvoee 110 j ire mi IN Strike Educators ; Open Sessions In Bend Today Regular sessions of the Nation- frftion convention opened thlsjfhorh- InK aL 1 . gates heard the annual presi dent's report by J." M. Nolte, dean of university extension, Univer sity of Minnesota. - I ; Nolte sharply criticized the vet erans' administration, -, charging . the VA has deprived veterans of' education advantages enjoyed lor decades by our Jclvlllan', uni versity extension students." . Nolte described the VA attitude toward correspondence study , as "unrealistic,: unconscionable, and in basic opposition to the intent ; of the GI act ' which ; clearly 1 meant to make the institutions of : fering GI education the judges of their own educational stand ards and practices." Highlight Noted The association president noted a highlight of the year In educa tion as being the formation of the adult education association of I the United States of America. The AEA Is to be a professional assb , ciation of adult education work ers, Nolte said. . The injection of a general ex tension study program into the extension programs of institu tions devoted primarily to agricul ture and mechanics also was em phasized by Nolte, as being one 01 tne nign points oi me year. - s Prior to Nolte's address, dele- gates were greeted officially by Errett Hummel, chairman of the arrangements committee and em ployed wun tne uregon system higher eaucauon, ana rt. Jew ell, Bend city school superintend- Wives Enjoy Trip K , While delegates sat In session many of their wives' boarded a nhartered school bus for a trip to the Petersen rock gardens and the House on the Metolius. Sightsee-. ing trips are being arranged for the educators. Dy tne cnamoer oi commerce. This afternoon's schedule calls for panel discussions and section al meetings until 5 p.m. Delegates and their wives are scheduled to have a cowboy breakfast tomor row mornine with the Rim Rock riders at the Dean Hollinshead ranch. Flood Waters Still Take Toll ' Cane Girardeau. Mo.. July 23 (IP The highest Mississippi river flood crest in 107 years rolled past this unprotected city today and muddy water crept unhindered over a two-miie wateiiium op tion. Fifty families whose dwellings were invaded by the Mississippi fled their homes. 1 The river stood at 42 feet at 5:30 a.m. CST, It was expected to remain at about that level aunng the next two days, then slowly recede. About one-third of the business t k district was under water, out sev f f'.eral stores remained open for bus. iness. Streets Flooded The first two streets paralleling the river were flooded. The city, with a population of 21,500, has no levees to keep the waters of the Mississippi at bay, "There isn't much we can do,' one resident ssnlri "We know the crest is coming and we just let it come." Two feet of water covered the first floor of the Montgomery Ward store, but the management kept the store open for -business Dy nirecnng customers up an im provised ramn tn the second floor. A miniature dike was built around the Woolworth store to hold back some of the water. Planks were laid between count ers to keep customers off the floorleH flnnro The city was the last major population center in the path of the Mississippi crest as it swept toward the Gulf of Mexico. The record crest swept past St Louis yesterday at 40.28 feet, th highest since 1844. leaving dam age estimated at $15,000,000 In cluding $3,000,000 ' to industry along the water front. THREAT RFrF.n'ED Washington. Julv 23 IU" City eommissioner John J. Moloney 0 S ,0'd the senate crime committee today he had received anonymous letters threatening his life if he didn't lay off gamblers In his home town of Covington, Ky. Convention Draws Delegates From A group of the NUEA delegates to right. Viron A. Moore, acting education, Eugene; Dr. James C.Caughlan, acting assistant director general extension envision, Oregon state system of higher education, Portland; Dean Robert B. Browne, division of university extension, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; 'director John S. Dlekhoff, center for the study of llDeral education lor adults, ureat r-iecK, in.i.; ana un-eciur o, ouim, im tu"i-iivj" extension service, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. - ; 1 rn ;i v h ttQ ' '11 " T, -4S i 0 0 1(S Another group of delegates and Lorenz H Adolfsoni university of W sconsin MadiA Wis.; Direc tor Donald M Searcy extension division University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Mrs. Faye Kliner manager Pilot Butte inn; R. E. Jewell, city school superintendent of Bend; Dean Julius M NoTte general ex ension division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and president . o the NUEA and Director Henry B. Stevens, university extension service, University of New Hampshire, ' : Durhaam.NH. , Giles French Named Head Of Antelope Order, During Annual Hart Mountain Meet Giles L French, publisher of the Sherman County Journal, member of the state, legislature and mayor of Moro since iooq ,., aWtoH VipbH of the Order of the Antelope at the annual convention of the group this past week end on Hart mountain. As cniet wnite iau, rreucn una n. cupied this past year by Jess Faha, of Lakeview. Some 400 members of the order attended the 1951 conven tion held at the Blue Sky hotel on the eastern slope of Hart mountain, a tilted fault block whose western cliffs reach more than 8,000 teet in tne Luxe county any, me wiiywiwii got under way Friday eveningf and enaea eunuay mm mug. , Ideal weather conditions pre vailed. Stover Gets Office Also elected to serve the An telopemen as an officer was. an other state legislator, B.A. Stover, Bend. He was named keeper oi the wampum, present irui" iu were A.L.O. Schueler, Charles E. Boardman. Dee Haines. Joe Van Wormer, Robert H. Foley, Alvin J. Gray and Stover. A highlight of the convention was the initiation rites around a campfire on Saturday night. The election was preceded by a pit barbecue. Saturday's program, aside from the evening cermony and election . of officers, was largely devoted to trips out over the antelope country. Several groups hiked Into the deer coun try in tne Drusniaiius ui . mountain. Deer could be seen from camp, and members of the order, using glasses, were able (Continued on Page 3) r y .. S&Wi -(J 2B Willi as they cha'tted Sunday afternoon dean, general extension division, .the .convention hostess paused; forXnlifto'iDlrectol Temperature Hits 92 Degrees Here The temperature in Bend mounted to 92 degrees, second highest point of the year, Sunday, then dropped 47 degrees to a night low of 45, observers in charge of the local weather station report. High mark of the year was 93 degrees this past week. Forecasts indicate that even warmer weather may be In the offing. This afternoon, however, thunderheads were forming along the southern horizon, pro viding some hope that a break in the arid weather may be on Its way . Far and Wide in the Pilot Butte Inn lobby Left Oregon State system of higher Sidelights Given On Convention It has taken buses, trains, au tomobiles, airlines, and even fer ries to get most of the 200 dele gates to the National University Extension association convention to Bend from every state in the union. But for ones Alabama del egate it was Just the matter of a mere nop in a b-zo. This is the four-man delegation from the United States air force Extension Course Institute at the Gunter Air Force base, Mont gomery, Ala. 1 Colonel Stoyte O. Ross, com mandant of the Extension Course institute, flew his group into the Bend-Redmond airport late Sun day afternoon. Included in the delegation are Major Laverne D. Vickers, James C. Shelburne. chief of the education branch of the headquarters, Air University, Maxwell Air Force base, and L. E. McDonald,, educational adviser at the Gunther air force base. Mrs. W. S. Blttner of Bloom ington, Ind., here with her hus band to attend the convention of the National University Exlen sion association, is visiting with a girlhood . friend, Mrs. Anne Forbes. Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Bit tner were roommates at a wom en's college in Rockfotd, 111. Blt tner. a member of the Indiana university staff, is secretary- treasurer of the National Univer sity Extension association. Dr. Ragmar Lund, chief of the iijontwued on Page 3) Truman Asks Still Greater Defense Drive By Raymond Ihr (,Unitl l'rn Surf Corrwiiondent) Washington, July 23 IP Presi dent Trgman told congress today hat. we, may .have to "raise our sigms ana undertime a stiu ereater defense program wheth er war or peace in Korea. ' Mr. Truman said tne wonu sit uation is being reviewed to de termine whether the nation's cresent goals are high enough. Whatever happens in Korea, he said, .: the united States must watch trouble spots and Russia, which he accused of trying to "blackmail" the free world Into surrendering to communism. Mr. Truman made a fresh ap peal fOr driving ahead with " the mobilization Droerani in his an nual mid-year economic report to congress. He had no major new proposals, but he. again made re ouestn which congress has de nied so far, or has been willing to grant only in part. - :. tsconomy stronger Mr. Truman said that despite the Korean war and the mobili zation program, "our economy is stronger now, than it was when tne defense DUliaup started. '.'Where we eo from here de pends on the decision -made ' by the congress,1, he said. "We can drive ahead on the course of the present defense - program or we can retreat. The safety and wel fare of. our country require that we go ahead." . The. president emphasized his belief that peace In Korea would not end the communist threat to world Deace. Mr. Truman's report and an acoombanyinsjreDort of ..i!feonamicouncU WrethraM exn with warnings that lnfiamin still is a serious danger to fhe nation. - . . Tax boost Asked To meet the threat of inflation, Mr. Truman again asked for a $10,000,000,000 tax increase and for stronger price control pow ers. On both counts, congress has shown itself determined to give the-president less than he has asked. 5 Mr.-.Truman also renewed his request for an $8,500,000,000 mil-itary-ecohomio foreign aid pro gram, which, promises to fall somewhat below that figure when congress gets through, with iL . The president reported that the V (Continued. on. Page .6) .-.-... , The city of Bend received to day a tax turnover from the county treasurer of $1,635.30, ac cording to W. T. Thompson, city recorder. The turnover is the fi nal one which the city will re ceive for the 1950-51 fiscal year. In connection with city iinanc- es, Thompson also reported today that the city naa on July s Dor- rowed $20,000 from a local bank. This sum, he said, has been used to balance a general fund deficit existing at the end oi June as a result of money spent for street improvements. The recorder stated further that it probably would be neces sary to borrow another $20,000 before December, at wnicn time the city will begin receiving turn overs for the 1951-52 fiscal year. 3 Fer Cent Interest The city borrows money from local banks at a three per cent interest rate. Thompson said. The recorder noted that the city's street improvement force account showed a deficit of $66, 840.29 at the end of June. This account Involves money which the city has spent to finance var ious street improvements in 1950 and 1951. Of the. total, $12,248.76 repre sents money spent to finance five street Improvement districts for work which was done m 1950, The remainder represents money which has been spent to finance 14 districts for work in 1951. Now May Issue Bonds Property owners In street im provement districts formed before 1951 have one year in which to pay to the city money spent for street improvements. The city as sesses these property owners six per cent interest on money spent for Improvements. However, beginning this year, property owners will have the advantage of financing street im provement projects under the Bancroft bonding act. This will permit property owners a maxi mum of 10 years In which to pay money borrowed for Improvements. Body of Admiral Sherman Will be Flown to Washington For Burial; Dies By Daniel , . (l luitrd Pirns Staff Nanlea. Italy July 23 (U.E) will fly the body of Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, U. S. chief of naval operations, to Washington for a hero's burial. The big K5D will take ott trom Naples at 10 a.m. tomor row following a simple memorial service aboard the Mt. Olympus, command ship of Admiral Robert B. Carney, com mander of the Atlantic pact forces in southeast Europe. The Skymaster will arrive, noon Wednesday. A marine honor guard will accompany the naval chief's body, led by Uapt. Son Francisco Fire Deaths Now Total 8 San Francisco. July 23 UPi Of ficials rounded up all known fire bugs today In an investigation of "peculiarities" in an apartment house fire In which eight persons were killed, 10 are missing and 31 were injured. , - . Fire marshal frann Keuy saia he was concerned over the "de- laycd'alarm. ' ' "There are lots of peculiarities about this fire," he said. "It was going like a blast furnace by the time the alarm was puueu. "People already were scream ing at the windows." tne jiasn lire Durneu out tne Inside of the four-story frame stucco college court apartment house In one of the city s oldest residential., districts before dawn vesterdav. S Of the eight charred bodies re covered emergency hospital at tendants were able to Identify them only by sex. Seven were women. ;-VlrpmAri believe1! some of "the lOitenants still unaccounted for mav ' have-been- -away . for the week end when the fire struck. Ten firemen were among the 23 injured. : Many injured Most of the injured received fractures of the leg and hip or concussions as they jumped rrom windows and slid down drain pipes. . "I went out my window and crawled into the next room hut that was no better," sheet metal worker - Reno Abela saio. "I crawled down a drainpipe and in to another room on the secoriH floor. But I couldn't get out that door, either. For half an hour, maybe more, I crawled from one room to an other through ' a" window light well. But each time I tried to get out a door the flames from the.hall pushed tne back. The water from tne lire noses was boiling hot. "At last i ciimoea an tne way down to the bottom of the light well and a fireman led me out." Mrs. Sannl Wlertensen, 46, frac tured her pelvis when she fell from a drainpipe with her five- year-old son, Martin, clinging to her back. (Continued on Page 7) Iran Approves Negotiation Plan Tehran, Iran, July 23 tin Iran announced today that a formula had been reached for re-openlng oil talks with British officials of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company on the basis of proposals by W. Averell Harrlman, President i ru man's special representative. The announcement was made by education minister Karin San Jabl following a four-hour session of the cabinet and the govern ment's oil commission. Sanjabl said the cabinet completely ap proved talks between the com mission, established under Iran's program to nationalize the oil industry, and Harrlman, who ar rived here a week ago. (The British foreign office said In London that Britain still is ready to negotiate a settlement of the oil dispute and the cabinet delayed its decision on removing BrlUsh personnel irom tne floa rlnn oil fields.) Hazcm Hasslbi, a key figure In recent oil developments, said that Iran was willing to reopen talks with the British but implied that the government would, not waver irom its nationalization law. The law. signed early in May, provided for nationalization of the blllion-oouar unusn-owneu Angio Iranian oil firm. Hasslbi. finance ministry rep resentative on the government's oil nationalization board, said a written memorandum outlining the formula for renewing the talks had been prepared at the meeting today and would be pre sented to tiarnman tonignt. in Naples Gilmoke C'ni-spoiitlcnl) A special navy Skymaster in Washington at mid-atter- Uittord u. Miller ot Toledo, Ohio, and Maj, Sherman Smith of Salt Lake City, Utah,; Sherman's personal aide. S Heart Attacks Sherman, 54, died of coronary thrombosis in his wife's arms in their suite in the Excelsior hotel here yesterday., He had suffered two heart attacks during the day. The "flying . Admiral's" body was taken Immediately' to the Mt. Olympus and laid in state. A memorial service on the Ad miral's deck of the Mt. Olympus originally had been scheduled for tnis aiternoon, but subsequently was postponed until tomorrow. It will be conducted by Lt. Cmdr. G. T. Erkhard of the U.S. Lutheran church, for the 570 sail ors aboard the Mt. Olympus. ' , Gov. John D. Lodge of Con necticut, a commander in the na val reserve, and his wife boarded the Mt.. Olympus today to pay their respects. The Lodges arrived this morning from New York aboard the Vulanla for a Euro pean vacation. They .were the first , American civilians - to go aboard the flagship. U.. S. Ambassador James C Dunn arrived by plane . frorn Rome to-pay his respects. . Measures rued ui Messages of condolences ptted up-aboard" the )Mt. piytnpus. iwiminuea an f-age u. Missing Plane Object of Hunt i Yakutat, Alaska. July 23 UPi Twenty-one search aircraft took off from a Jam-packed - coast Kn..n...l nW.ln t...n .1 headed for "the land of missing planes" where a Korean airlift DC-4 with 38 aboard is believed to have crashed. The search-for a Tokyo-bound Canadian Pacific Airlines plane was in Its third day along the southeast Alaska coast with no trace of the transport yet re ported. : ' Aboard the missing plane were 26 U. S. servicemen, three high ranking government civilians, twb Canadian navy men and a crew of seven. All have been identified. Three U. S. 10th rescue squad on C-54s and a pair of B-17s were to search the slopes of the Fair weather range and "top" 15,300 foot Mount Falrweather Itself. The craggy, glacier studded peak is 60 miles north of Cape Spen cer, Alaska, where the CPA trans port last reported It was "on schedule" at 9,000 feet altitude early Saturday. The three C-54s also were to search the Barbnzon range, ad jacent to the towering St. Ellas mountains, and scan a heavily glaciated area farther north. Five U.S. airforce B-17s took off first to cover hundreds of square miles of open sea between Cape Spencer and Mitldleton Island off the Alaska coast. Reds May Back Fire Demands, UN Advance Base Below Kae song, Korea, July 23 (Ui United Nations cease-fire negotiators re turned to this base today and Indications that the reds may back down on their demand for immediate wilhdrawl of UN troops from Korea. Vice-Admiral C. Turner Joy and the four other members of the UN negotiating team landed in five helicopters from Seoul to stand bv for the ninth truce meet ing with the communists. The conference was recessed Saturday until 11 a m. Wednesday to give the reds time to recon sider the allies' flat refusal to make the withdrawal of UN troops from Korea a condition of an armistice. Joy agreed to the recess, but said the UN team would be readv to resume the talks sooner If the communists desired. Bridge Damated A elant crane todav crashed through the steel girders of the Imlln river pontoon bridge over which the UN peace party nor mally crosses on the way to Kae- Agreement Attempt Ends In Failure : - i 1 , x Portland, July 23 (IP) CIO 1 communications workers struck against the Pacific Telephone a:id ' Telegraph company in Oregon . today when contract talks collai-s-ed and long-distance - service throughout most of the'state v. as : partly crippled during the fore- ; noon calling peak. Pickets were posted t most exchanges across the state, but no disturbances were reported. An estimated 4,700 workers in , the union's Oregon division walk ed out at 6 a.m. on an announced strike: deadline and at 6:03 a.m. A 20-hour marathon negotiating -session : between company and union representatives was sus pended. Nine-thousand unionists already were on strike against the p T & T in nortnern caiuor nla and Nevada. - : -. v ' ;. ' Generally Observed The union said the strike gen-: r erally was observed by operators, plant employes and construction ' crews. The company acknowledge, ed that about 90 per cent of its Portland plant employes were . out. .. .. : . Two of seven long-distance ex changes in Portland asked pa trons to limit calls to emergency messages. Supervisory personnel and extra replacements were re ported by the company to Da re sponding to calls for aid In main taining service; - Local service functioned norm ally on dial systems, ' . , No Union Comment Unionists had no Immediate comment when they left-the nego tiating , session, except that their negotiators had struck to an "all-br-nothityj laslSjliliVi,the sessions. : Issues i'neruded upgrading", "a" "no"" strike clause, methods of appeal on dismissal of workers, Sundays ok for certain worKers and a retroactive pay increase. . : '! -: Calls Go Through Owen Lewis, Portland local president,, reported the state-wide strike more effective than in 1947 when the union called out its members, but the company claim, ed that It was able to get most calls through in the early hours of the tie-up and that more' than 50 per cent of Its operators In Portland were going through picket lines. A spokesman for the company also said that "substan tial numbers" of operators show ed up for work in the upstate exchanges. '' Both the company and the Union said that although negoti ations had broken down, they had not been brokenoff completely and could be resumed upon the call of the company. Lewis said the union offered to meet again at 10 a.m. today, but company negotiators wanted to go to bed. ........ A company spokesman assert ed that a "number of girls" ig nored the picket lines and re ported for work on schedule. He said he anticipated no disruption in service. Bend Has Picket Line A picket line was established shortly before 8 o'clock this morning at entrances to the tele phone company's local operating exchange on Bond street. It was Indicated that practically all un ion employes of the company, re gardless of union, are respecting the picket line. Local and long-distance switch-, (Continued on Page 7) Down on Cease Now Indicated song. It tore a 50-foof gap In the span, but engineers said the bridge would be open again tomorrow. Should a communist call come In the meantime, the negotiators could travel by helicopters. Chief UN negotiator Joy and two other members of the allied team, Maj. Gen. L. C. Cralgle and Rear Admiral Raleigh Burke, spent the week end, in Tokyo con ferring with supremo UN com mander Gen. Matthew B. Ridg way. Maj, Gen. Henry I. Hodes and South Korean Maj. Gen. Pak Sun Yup, the other two ailled nego tiators, remained In Seoul. The Chinese communist mouth piece in Hong Kong, the news paper Ta Kung Pao, suggested that the communists may with draw their demand for withdraw, al of "foreign" troons from Korea as Hurt of an armistice. Although Peiping and Pyong yang, the communist capitals, re mained silent, Ta Kung Pao In dicated the reds do not Intend to let the cease-fire talks break down over this key issue. SI 111! V -mm mm '.E'Vli'i:) m 1. : ' V - i y I i
