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Newspaper Page TextTHE BEMB BULLETIN Bend Forecast " Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday; high .Thursday 34 39; low Thursday night 8 13; high Friday 3540. WORLD-WIDE NEWS SERVICE CENTRAL OREGON'S rDAIL,Y NEWSPAPER 49th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTYOREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1952 No. 65 Solon Accuses Clean-Up Man Of Dirty Work WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (IB-Sen. Richard M. Nixon charged Thurs day that Newbold Morris was the "key figure in what appears to be a subterfuge to get around ' the law" in a profitable surplus tanker deal. . ' .' . President Truman's government corruption clean-up chief retorted the statement "just isn't so what more can I say?" , Nixon, a California Republican, referred to Morris' role in a sur plus tanker "deal which netted for mer Rep. Joseph E. Casey . tD- a $1,000 investm ant. The Senate's permanent investigating commit tee is looking into it. Deliberate Attempt ' -Nixon, a committee .member, said evidence presented so far in dicates a deliberate attempt to get around the law "which prohibited the transfer of surplus ships to foreign - controlled corporations." Morris' law firm was involved in the deal. "It's Nixon's privilege to make such charges," Morris said. "I'm not going to shoot him. But there was never any step taken without full disclosure to and approval by the Maritime Commission never any step. "This is an election year and when I came to Washington my wife warned me that I would be like a new boy going to school and would be getting hazed. Why don't they wait until I or my partners answer all these questions under oath?" Transaction Handled Teslimany Wednesday showed that Morris' law firm handled a transaction in which a Casey group sold its stock interests and thus control of three tankers to a Chinese-financed American corp oration represented by the Morris law firm. In another deal, the Casey group realized $2,800,000 on a $100,000 in vestment in five tankers. But Mor ris was not involved,.,,;,; ; Price of Milk To Stay Same The price of milk will remain at 22 cents per quart . In Bend and probably In other parts of central Oregon, it was conclud ed after a discussion meeting of producers and distributors at the Deschutes county courthouse this morning. . Producers in attendance assert ed that costs of hay and concen trates had risen 26 cents per pound of butterfat production since the last Increase in retail milk prices in 1950. Dairies dis tributing milk in the area said their costs were up and sales had decreased because of economic conditions. Distributors, however, claimed that a price increase would further decrease sales and create ill will for the industry. Members attending today's meeting voted to try to carry the industry until, buying power im proves, or until a market can be found in Ice cream or cheeses for seasonal surpluses. Hay and con centrates will be fed to central Oregon dairy herds until pastures green in Mav. George Hosteller, Redmond pro- aucer, presided at today s meet ing in absence of Del Davis, pres ident of the mid-state milk or- era nfoo t tnn Voluntary increases in milk prices have recently Been uuten in Eugene and Grants Pass, it was reported at the meeting. Forum Luncheon . Set by Chamber Pet projects, favorite dreams and fantastic Dlans will be mulled at a Bend Chamber of Commerce forum luncheon tomorrow when Kessler Cannon of KBND will lead a discussion on what the chamber should do in 1952. Cannon requests that all mem bers of the chamber come and bring an idea. The luncheon is scheduled for 12 noon at the Pilot Butte inn. . The directors, staff and commit tees will consider seriously all feasible proposals for chamber ac tivities. Manager Marion E. Cady announces. CONSPIRACY CHAROED CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (IP Frederick P. Wall, secretary to Rep. William L. Dawson (D-Ill.l and three other personus were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges of conspiracy to sell postoffice jobs. U. S. District Attorney Otto Ker ner Jr. said that there was no indication that Dawson. Negro con tressman from the first Illinois district and a kingpin in Chicago south side politics, had any knowl edge of the transactions. 'Luscious Liz' Takes Hubby No. 2 in Fast London Rites By ROBERT E. JACKSON " LONDON, Feb. 211 Glamorous Elizabeth Taylor, 19, , was .wed Thursday to 39-year-old British ac tor Michael Wilding, in London's old Caxton hall and an hour later she said she wanted to have as many children as possible. The civil ceremony that made Miss Taylor a bride for the second time In less than two years took only 10 minutes. She wore a gray frock, set off by white organdy cuffs and a white organdy collar, and a small white juliet cap with pearls and embroidered flowers. The .couple left the hall to emerge Into a crowd so hysterical that' a policeman had to carry Miss Tay lor to her waiting limousine while Wilding struggled, behind.: . r. They hurried off to a champagne reception at swank Claridge's ho tel. ..,,.. .- , -. , When a reporter' asked Miss Taylor if she would like to raise a famly, she replied, "slow and in a soft voice; : ' "Why, there is nothing in the world I would like to do more than raise' p family." ' . "How many?" she was asked. . "Just as many as possible," the actress replied. At the reception, Wilding "and Elizabeth refused to kiss for photo graphers. She lowered her eyelids and said: "I'm too shy." Wilding said he was tired. He said they plgnned to remain in Lon don overnight and leave on their honeymoon Friday.- However, an agent for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in sisted they would leave for France immediately. Only a small wedding party wit nessed the ceremony itself, but 3,000 Londoners had massed out side the musty old Victorian brick building by-the time it had ended. The newlyweds plunged into the crowd in a dash for their limou- Serious Outbreaks of Virus Infection Reported in Nation ' ' ' " - ' (Bv UnltrJ PM1 .''.'""' Serious and widespread outbreaks of influenza and other virus infections were reported Thursday in the Midwest and South while Pennsylvania cracked down to preventjhe spread of fabies. .vite -;,, . f-. "'j--.i-fti. a-- ..- v..- -..-. Schools were closed in Illinois and Indiana and absen teeism ran as high as 40 per cent in Richmond, Va., where Truman Reports -He's Very Happy With Present Job . WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 U!--Pres-ictent Truman confessed Thursday that he is quite happy with the Jpo of being president.: :. Adding new fuel to speculation about his political plans, the Pres ident discussed the presidency . at a Masonic breakfast and said: "It is an all-day and nearly an all-night job, and just between you and me and the gate post, I like it.",' ....',', : - . .-.".' Mr. 'Truman was the top speaker at a breakfast of more than 600 Masonic leaders. The breakfast is given annually in his honor by Frank Land of Kansas City, Mo., founder and ' secretary general of the Order of DeMolay. Veto of Russia Explained by UN PANMUNJOM. Korea Feb. 22 OB The United Nations said Thursday It had voted Soviet membership on a truce supervision commission be cause Russia is too close geograph ically to Korea and has a record of "past participation" in the coun- trCommunist staff officers refused to accept the UN delegate's ex planation, however, and the dead lock over Russia's eligibility for the six-powr neutral commission stretched into its seventh day. In another conference tent, a sec ond group of staff officers reached final agreement on paragraphs five through nine of a war prisoner ex .h.n formula. All five para- i graphs were of a technical nature. New Drugs May Conquer Tuberculosis (Uniwd Pr Sclnc Editor) vfw YORK Feb 21 Oft Two ! new dru'es for the treatment of tu- j herculosis were disclosed Thurs- i day in a development that may i be the most important in man's j lone quest' to conquer the killing , disease. I ui - . , The drugs are nynmeuc com- pounds and have been used so 'rare being used in the U.S. Vet-'only and have not been given ap on more than 100 patients with, erans Administration hospital and : proval by the Federal Drue Ad- stnrtling results. They .can ne , me American Trudeau Society ; ministration for general distribu-: been reduced in 38 cases and ap taken in pill form and can be maae j jpi,, both, at Saranac. N. Y. I tion. ' ! parent negativity achieved in eighL chaply and quickly. . -j-p Trudeau society is the mod-1 Almost in every case the drugs : "Reduction in cavity size has The first patH-nt '2 ' ical branch of the National "Tuber-! have eliminated fever and made occurred in 17 cases and riiminu- the nvo new mfracic nrap were cuosls Association ,lt pogjje or me ?atienUj to re-: tion in exudate has occurred In . .u- Vjo Tnrk Cttv hospital : The two pnysicians wno nave , of the New Yor "Iyrpha;j beer, in charge of the cl&ical re- iJ!Sm;nd to anv kind of i search at Seaview are Dr. E. H. treatoent and were marked aslRobitzek and Dr. L J. Selikoff. I I t i. KMZABKTH TAYLOR ' ' ... Lots of Children. ;' ' sine. Bobby soxers and adult fans alike Dres&ed round them. ; ' ' "Hold me tighter!'' the bride shouted to her new husband. A moment later a husky bobby lifted Miss Taylor's 115 pounds of curves . and swept through the crowd with her to the car. " The .wedding almost didn't come off on schedule. Miss Taylor had neglected to bring to England doc uments certifying her divorce Jan. 29 from her first husband, Conrad N, (Nicky) Hilton Jr., on grounds of cruelty. , ; A cable from California attesting to the divorce finally was accepted as sufficient proof, however. 2hurch.es also canceled serv ices. . ' The midwestern variety had the symptoms of bodily aches, sore throat, fever and in most cases an upset stomach; The southern type was described as "something between a severe cold and Influ enza.". . '. : . Rabies-Infected foxes were blam ed for the spread of the disease in Pennsylvania where several per sons have been bitten by rabid animals and one woman died of rabies. , . - .:. , Plans Mode . Health officials in Indiana were concerned that the virus diseases there might take on epidemic pro portions. They made plans to have vaccines available should an epi demic break out. . , The most serious outbreaks were reported in Marion, Sullivan, John son, 'Wabash and Elkhart counties. The number of cases in "Goshen, Ind., brought the situation to a "near epidemic," health officials said.' A meeting was called to de termine whether the schools should be closed. Out of a school population of 2,500, authorities said, 754 pupils were absent Wednesday because of sickness. At Anderson, Ind., about 1.350 of the 9.000 students in the city schools stayed home. The grippe-like virus in Virginia struck "thousands." the state health department said, with chills, fever and bodily aches. Dr. Edward M. Holmes. Rich mond health director, 'estimated that one of every five of Rich mond's 230.000 residents had con tracted the disease. . ATOMIC SUBMARINE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (W-The government Thursday ordered "im mediate construction" of a new atomic submarine engine of ad vanced design. hopeless cases have so far been - . , , saved irom aeain. The new drugs are known as marsilid and rimifon. They were both developed by a scientific team of Roche chemical research laboratories of Nutley, J. N. Head of the research was Dr. H. H. Fox. In addition to the clinical trials at seaview, me new arugs aiso Ministers OK NATO Army For Defense LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 2) (IB The defense ministers of the 14 nation North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization approved Thursday the military and civilian plans for set ting up a 1,430,000-man European army. . ' . ''. ' "- v In the first major NATO decision the defense ministers adopted the report of the military committee by agreeing to the plan to create a unified continental force of 14 French, 12 German, 12 Italian and five Benelux divisions by 1954. . This ended a long argument by the French that Germans should not be forced into divisions, but only into combat teams. ; . , 18,000 In Division : ' The military plan calls for divi sions of 13,000 men each plus sup porting troops. Three divisions of different national units will com prise a corps which can be com manded by generals of any of the six nations participating -in the European army plan. The civilian side of the report included provisions for a joint council meeting of the NATO and European army organizations. This was a compromise reached in London during the big three foreign ministers meeting with' West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer over the weekend.-.,. ...; - , The London agreement provided for joint meetings whenever any member of either organization Germany is the. only European, army nation not a member of NATO-is threatened with attack or when either over-all organiza tion's integrity is threatened from within or without. - , Approval Expected . The defense minister's decision now will go to the entire NATO council for approval. When this ex pected approval is given the rep resentatives of the six nations in the army group will draft a final treaty giving- Germany on in direct voice In NATO and provid ing a European, army, for General Dwlkht D.' Eisenhower, jNATO .jo--.preroe".eo,mmander.'; ' ' The pact must be ratified bv the parliaments of all the countries be- tore work on the army itself be gins. It probably will be at least one year after that before German divisions will be ready to join the force. New 4-H Club Agent Named Douglas A. -Messencer of Clat sop county, a native Oregonian with a farm background and vet eran of World War II, has been named Deschutes county 4-H club agent, pending formal approval by the state board of higher edu cation and the 'Deschutes county court. This approval is expected to be routine. . . The new 4-H agent comes to Deschutes from Clatsop county where he was reared and where his father operates a dairy' farm. He will make his headquarters In Redmond, where he was con ferring today with County Agent Gene Lear and members of his staff- , ' , Messenger, who plans to take up his work in the countv Man. day, is a graduate from Oregon state College, having completed his work In general agriculture in 1949. He 3erved for two and a half years In the army In World War II. After completing his college Wnrlr Hfoccnn our umo r,n tl.n ncr staff, handling work as special j supervisor in dairy testing. He also served in the farm crops de partment at the college. Messenger is married, and Is the father of a son born on Feb ruary 1. Mrs. Messenger is a sis ter of Joan Howell, agent at large who works out of the state office. in Astoria. The new 4-H leader succeed:: Joseph Lievens, who resigned at the end of 1951 to enter college In Colorado and is studying for the priesthood. In the Scaview quarterly, the two : doctors are reporting the results ; of the new drug on 44 patients of the first 93 that received the drugs at Seaview. The drugs are given by mouth but a standard dosage has not yet been determined. The drugs are still classified as experimental gain normal weight. ! Here are the summaries and ; conclusions of the Seaview doctors: "All patients rapidly experienced ; Nation's Motorists May Be 'Afoot' in Ten Days if Oil Workers Walk Out on March 3 DENVER, Feb. 21 Ml-An oil in dustry spokesman said Thursday that within three weeks many of the nation's motorists will be "afoot" if 275.000 oil workers make good their threatened strike. Representatives of the workers announced after a joint co-ordinating meeting Wednesduy night that, a nationwide strike would be called March 3 to back up the unions', demands for a straight $2 a day wage increase. ; . . , r- The industry spokesman said such a strike would have motorists "afoot within 10 days'!' after 1t was called. For the first time in. history, 22 CIO, AFL and Independent unions joined in a common effort to force the industry to accept their de mands. . The strike If it comes off-will hit refineries, pipelines, production plants, sales forces and in some All Improvement Work This Year To Be Advertised All street improvement work In Bend this year will be. advertised and if suitable bids are received, will be let on Contract. ' Authorization for this procedure was given last night by the Bend City Commission. In recent years, the city has handled some street improvements under a force ac count system in which work was done by city crews. In requesting authorization for the change, City Manager W. O. Cuthbertson asked for and was granted permission to add engi neering and legal expense to the cost of future projects. These Items had been paid by the city in the past. ' Under' the new program, the city will odd a second seal coat on surfacing projects and will pay for this with money from the state tax street . fund. AH' Jcommission members present for (he meeting annroved the new plan., . Commissioners' also! authorized the transfer or sj.iwu irom tne rec reation reserve fund to the park reserve fund. The money will be used for improvements at Shevlin park, including tables and benches. Approved by the commission was a resolution of intent to. Improve E. Tenth street from Greenwood to Franklin. Estimated cost of the project is Jll.977.24. A petition to improve E. Kearney from Second to Third was referred, to the city engineer for a cost estimate. The petition carried signatures repre senting 66 per cent of the af fected property. Tho commission silso authorized a lowering of the minimum bid price for property to be offered for sa e c ose to the Municipal Air port. The minimum price for the 33 acres was cnangeu irom zu to 2 an acre. - , Following the meeting, commis sioners briefly discussed anti fluorldation literature being sent anonymously through Bend malls. Commissioners W. M. Loy, E. L. Nielsen and Richard Brandis did not attend the meeting. New Sales.Tax Move Launched SALEM. Feb. 21 (IB-A new at- temnt to bring a sales tax into Oregon was launched Thursday when a preliminary copy of an Initi ative for a two per cent sales tax to finance a $75 a month old-age pension program was filed with the State Election Bureau here. That $75 a month woufd 1 a minimum to persons eligible to re ceive old age .pensions under the nrutnnl Itttw Sponsors of the proposed mea sure are Elmer E. Rowton of Olis and Verna L. Schorn of Toledo. BRIGHT OB.IKCT SIGIITKK PORTLAND, Feb. 21 Ui Doz ens of excited residents reported seeing a "flash through the sky" Wednesday night which appeared to explode over the southwestern corner of Multnomah county. There was no Immediate expla nation. Police speculated it might have been a meteorite or light ning, v marked reversal of their original toxic state. "AH patients have gained weight, regained appetites, resolved thei temperature elevations and had sharp return in sense of energy and well-being. "Cough and expectoration have been eliminated or markedly re duced. "Sputum bacillary i-ontents have nv. "These compounds are effective agents for the treatment of acute caseous-pneumonic tuberculosis." instances, chemical plants. The deadline of 12:01 a.m. March 3 was chosen to permit the AFL union to complete the strike vote now in proess. The CIO union completed its strike ballot of 300 bargaining units and a spokesman said 90 per cent of , Uje membership favored a strike. .. ,". Not all of the 275,000 oil workers represented win walk out in me strike. Instead, key workers will strike in a move "'aimed at crip pling the heart of the industry." - Members of the committee meet ing here refused to disclose the location of the plants that will be picketed. ' i. "We're not going to tell the oil companies whose plants are going to be shut down," ' said O. ' A. Knight, president of the -CIO Oil Workers International Union. "We're going to keep them on BULLETINS OSLO (1ft Dick Button, Amer ica's sheik of the akate. . glided to his second straight Olympic figure skating, championship Tliurday night on the: basis of unofficial results. The Sl yeur old Knglewood, N. lad gave the Unltnl States its fourth gold medal of the 'current winter games as he captivated a crowd 'of 7,000 at Blslet stadium with a free-skutlng performance. PULLMAN (IB Dr. C. Clem ent French, 110, vice-president of Texas A ft M College, accepted the ' presidency of Washington State College Thursday. : The announcement eame from WKti Recent Chairman James McCluskey, who said Dr. French'' hod tendered his resignation' at Texas A ft M and would be In Pullman with his family the Ilrst' week in April. BOSTON IW Another nor'. easier. Thursday lashed 13 "stay put" seamen riding the battered stern of one of two tankers which broke In ' halt during a similar Storm oft Cape Cod Monday. The stern of the tanker Fort -Mercer bobbed wildly In waves 'whipped up by 25 to 8G mlle-per. hour northeast winds.,- J ' Dairymen Plan All-Day Meeting Central Oregon dairymen affil iated with three different groups are to Join In an all-day meeting at the Redmond Grange hall Monday, with a panel discussion in which three Oregon State Col lege staffmen and a newspaper publisher will lake part. ' The series of meetings will start at 10 a. m. Monday and last until 3:30, with time out over the noon hour for a free lunch and a program of entcrtainmenl. All sessions will be at the grange hall. ..'.'.'- Taking part in t.-.e meetings will be members of the .Central Oregon Milk Producers Associa tion, the Central Oregon Dairy Breeders Association and the Dairy Herd Improvement Asso ciation. Each of the groups will hold Its annual meeting and name officers, Members of the Redmond Chamber of Commerce will serve the luncheon with foods donated by business firms and collected by "the dairymen. The chamber members will also provide the entertainment. The morning session will be devoted to the business meetings of the three groups, and the lunch hour will be followed by a program In the afternoon at which Dr. John O. scnnaulz, fil the O. S. C. veterinary depart ment, will dir-eus;: dairy diseases and problems, and Dr. Curtis Mumford, agricultural econom ist at the college, will touch on factir.-. ' -"- '-nt to the economy of the dairy industry. Follow'ng t'-e talks by Dis. Schnautx and Mumford, a pane' discussion will be held, with Har old Ewall, dairy specialist from the college; Robert W. .Sawyer, publisher of The Bend Bulletin. Dr. Schnautz and Dr. Mumford; comprising part of the panel membership. Sawyer will touch on public relations. Joining in the panel discussion will be three dairymen, probablv Fred Elliott, John Bailer and Herbert Farouharson. Scores of Central Oregon dairy men from the three interior coun ties are expected to join In the all-day meeting. Hospital District Names Manager REDMOND, Feb. 21 Charles H. Sperley, formerly of The Dalles, was named manager of the Cdntral Oregon District Hospital, at a meeting of the board this noon. He signed a contract, which All! be effective March 1. Sperley has been in sales work for a number of years. Uie hot seat," he said. . "They'll know which plants we're striking when we go out,-and then we'll tell the press which ones will be struck." Principal areas that will bear the brunt of the all-out union effort will be the gulf const of Texas and the rim of the Great Lakes. ; i : ; "Companies In which we have me most significant memoersnlp are Sinclair, the Texas Co., Shell. Tidewater Associated, Gulf, and Socony-Vacuum," Knight said. ! Knight said enough oil production vould continue to .meet all of the nation's emergency needs such as fire, police, and military require ments. ... Present pay scales for oil work ers average to $2.10 an hour; with' common labor in the basic industry receiving $1.B0 and skilled labor U 50 an houi Bend Donors Piisfi Blood Collection Wei! Over Quota Bend blood donors contributed 205 pints to the American Red Cross bloodmoblle when the unit visited this city yesterday, to ex ceed their quota by 55. pints for one . or tne most outstanding showings In the two years the fortmnd unit nag ucen coming to Central Oregon. The city's nuota for the first visit of the bloodmoblle in 1952 was 150 points. ; Elks of Bend were given credit for much of the success of the bloodmoblle visit. Nationally, the lodgemen have pledged 1,000,000 pints of blood this year, and 50 members of the local lodge were among, the donors yesterday, The uend lodge also ctonatea reiresn mentH used yesterday. . . No Bottlenecks Despite the large turnout, not a single .bottleneck- occurred 1n the hours the bloodmoblle unit was in operation,. A. Stover, Red Cross bloodmobiie chairman, said,: lie commended the effici ency of the local volunteer staff. and suld that some donors went through the lines in 45 minutes. Staff members said the num ber of rejects yesterday were sur prisingly few probably a state record at least' for the season. Us ually, the rejeects range from 15 to 20 per cent, and the bloodmo blle staff , recalled one town where 39 per cent were refected. In Bend yesterday, only nine per cent ot tne volunteer blood donors were rejected. The staff listed 62 "drop In" donors yeslerday, and said these were most welcome. The "drop Ins" are volunteer donors who have not registered at the Red Cross office. A number from ouf of town were In the group. The bloodmoblle will make 10 visits to Deschutes county In 1952, with the next to be to Redmond, on March 5. Bend will again be host to the bloodmobiie staff on April 21. Stover said tho stnff yesterday received outstanding help from members of the Oregon National Guard headquarters staff, at the Bend armory, where the unit re ceived and bullied the 205 pints of blood. Educator Hes Heart 'Attack Dr. John F. Cramer, 52, dean and director of the extension di vision of the Oregon state system of higher education, suffered a heart attack this morning at 8 p. m at the Pilot Butte Inn, and Is a patlenl at St. Charles Hos pital. ills condition Is not believed critical, but he will be hospital ized here for several weeks. Dr. Cramer, who recently re turned Irom nine-months in Aus tralia, came to liend for a con ference with local educators and others relative to the future of the Central Oregon Community College. That conference was held yesterday af.'ernoon. Keaker In Bend Yesterday noon. Dr. Cramer spoke before Bend Rotarlans and touched on some highlights of his tour of duty In Australia, as a member of the University of Melbourne faculty. Dr. Cramer was accompanied here by his wife. The had plan ned to leave this morning for Burns, to visit a son while In this part of the state. A former head of the Bandon, Grants Pass, The Dalles and Eu gene school systems. Dr. Cramer Is recognized as one of Oregon's leading educators. He served as a captain in World War IL and Is now a captain in the chemical warfare reserves. Dr. Cramer was tatten to &t. Charles Memorial Hospital by am I bulance. , 'General Ike' Now Officially In Primary SALEM, Feb. 21IP Con." Dwlght D. Eisenhower, was en tered Thursday in Oregon's. Muy 10 primary election as a candi date for the Republican nomina tion for president.- State Rep. Mark Hatfield filed petitions bearing more than the required 1,000 names of register- ed Republicans after receiving a telegraphed request from Sen, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., tit Mass.), manager of the national Eisenhower for president cam paign. .-. .' .-. 1 Eisenhower Is the second can didate in Oregon's GOP primary. .The name of Gen, Douglas Mae- , - Arthur c was meu mesaay. ino Democratic candidates have yel : 1 been, filed In Oregon. Oregon Third stole Oregon Is the third state In . . which the Elsenhower organlza- i tion has formally authorized en- t f nf ltd ra --( I I a ia In a near Irtrkv-i. Hal primary. The others are New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. EH senhower supporters also enter ed the five-star general In the Minnesota primary, but without Lodge's approval. - Last August, before Gen. Elsen hower indicated he was a Repub- . lican, a group, of Democrats filed petitions to put . Elsenhower's name on the Democratic primary oauor, But later tne uemocranq -group was granted permission to withdraw, the general'.s name, ' ! a report from the Oregon commit tee oi -sona ana growing eisem . hower strength" In the state jib- tru win, uiiut f,m,nj,i utitiiiK aiuii. every state. ' Lodge confident -Asking that Elsenhower netl- tions be filed immediately, Lodge said: "I share your' confidence that the majority of the Republicans of Oregon are anxious tor the opportunity to make their con tribution toward nominating Dwlght Elsenhower as the re publican candidate for tho presl-! dent of -the. United States, assur ing a landslide Republican victory in November and giving to this ' nation the leadership It so urgent- ly needs and deserves." Oregon Republicans will elect 18 delegates to the GOP nominat- ing convention at the same time that they vote in the presidential preference primary, The dele gates are comn:itted to use their "best efforts" to win the nomi nation for the candidate leading the presidential primary. Minus 24 is Recorded at Shevlin Area Winter slipped into the high country between Bend and Klam ath Falls last night and dropped the temperature to some of the lowest marks of the season. Coldest reporting spot was Shevlin, with a mark of minus 24 recorded at the . urooKs-Bcanion logging operations. Chemult re ported -20, according to informa tion from state, highway depart ment field-men.' Crescent checked In with a low reading of -12. La Pine, not far distant, reported 12 above and Bend joined the banana oeif group with a reading of 11 above. Other below zero readings were from Lakevlew," -6; Bly, -4, and Keno, -1. In ttje high Odell lake country, tinder clouds most of the night, the minimum was 5 above. Brooks-Scanlon loggers at Shev lin reported that at 8:30 this morning, the temperature there was still 10 below. . Clear weather, with the tem perature crawling above the freezing point early In the day, was reported from most north central Oregon points at noon to day. Road conditions were. reported. In fair shape, over mountain pas ses, this morning, with little new snow recorded for t,he night: Of fices to Close Here on Friday Washington's birthday will be observed as a holiday in Bend tomorrow by staffs of all federal, state, county and city offices, but otherwise there will be business as usual, with stores to be open and most utilities operating. The Bend post office will be closed through the day, as will' all federal offices in the city. These will Include the U. S. For est Service office. All Deschutes county offices will be closed, but , the sheriff will be on call, by tele phone. The Bend city offices will ba . closed through the entire day. Schools will be open, and in some rooms there will be observance of the holiday with appropriate programs.