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Newspaper Page TextBEND BULLETIN WORLD-WIDE NEWS SERVICE Bend Forecast Fair through Wednesday high both days 80 to 85; low Tuesday night 36 to 41. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER THE 49th Year Couple : Wreckage of the plane that crashed ' i .:.vr" - i""iu nciw. iuo nu litre nun iukl-u nuruy uuer ine vrasni , (This is a cockpit view of the Milan D. Smith plane as It appeared following the crash on a farm near the " - - ,v. lieml airport. The Pendleton mun was removed from the wreckage by his wife. ivation Of Reserve Guard fold by McKay SALEM, Sept. 16 (IP) Gov. ?ouglaa McKay announced Tues tay the Oregon National Guard teservet Would be deactivated ef fective September 27, the date the Mem! statute authorizing such fa organization expires. Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, ate adjutant general, explained fiat; under the federal constitu tion, "states are prohibited from laintalning troops in time of ace except as authorized by the SMigress." K tNot Affected iGen. Rllca pointed out it was My the National Guard Reserve png deactivated and did not af Ict the structure of the regular ational Guard. 2oth Gov. McKay and Gen. Bet praised Maj. Gen. Harry C rumbaugh and his officers and jfn for the organization, built up per a 1949 legislative act. feen. Rilea, pointing out that de rivation of the reserve was fde mandator-, said his head rters would continue to main m contact with key members of I organization. I H: WCroups Listed Organizations affected by the Ictivation order include: The 6th, ?th and 8th Infantry tlmenU and the air group Pen had units allocated to the lowing cities: rortland, Astoria. Bend. Burns, Brnond, St. Helens. Forest v, Tillamook, McMinnville, I ibboro,' Oregon City. Wood fn, Salem. Eugene. Albany, Sll Son, Dallas. Corvallls, Leba I, Cottage Grove. Springfield, i Bay, Grants Pass, Medford. Hand, Roseburg, La Grande, ansth Falls, Pendleton, Her- . on. The Dalles, Hood River, ten, Baker, Enterprise and On- Injured in Bend Plane Wreck near the Bend airport yesterday Bid Opening Set On Cascade Lakes Highway Project PORTLAND, Sept. 16 (IP) Bids for grading 3.2 miles and con struction of a bridge on the Cas cade Lakes highway about 15 miles southwest of Bend will be opened here Sept. 30, W. H. Lynch, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads division engineer, report ed Tuesday. The project consists ,of recon struction of the section of high way, construction of a 58-foot treated timber bridge with con crete deck over Fall creek, and installation of a large plate arch culvert for Soda creek. Right-of-way clearing for the project has been completed by H. R. and C. O. Linstrom of Bell Ing ham, Wash. Wilson Supports Exchange Plan NEW YORK, Sept. 16 IIB-For-mer Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson proposed Tuesday that the American people be permitted to trade their defense bonds for par ticipating stock in government own ed power and water projects. The move, Wilson said, would cut the national debt by 10 per cent, break the economic distator ship of government monopoly and educate millions to the realities of free enterprise. Wilson, former president of the General Electric Co.. made the suggestion in a speech before a luncheon sponsored by the Com merce and Industry Assn. of New York following the unveiling by the Eastern Railroad Presidents' Con ference of a freight car designed to symbolize the railroad's mes sage against government control of their operations. afternoon, serlouHly Injuring Milan Midwest Swing By Ike Drawing Large Crowds ABOARD THE EISENHOWER SPECIAL, Sept. 16 (IP) Dwight D. Eisenhower turned his "mess in Washington" campaign Tues day on Minnesota's 11 electoral votes, which haven't gone to a loser in a presidential election since 1916. .... Associates said the Republican presidential candidate would con tinue, In five Minnesota appear ances, to pound the theme that marked his first day of whistle stop campaigning jokes and wisecracks will never restore hon esty, Integrity and decency In Washington. Today's schedule included train stops at Albert Lea, Owatonna, Faribault and Northfleld, Minn., and a talk from the capltol steps at St. Paul before flying back to New York where he addresses the American Federation of La bor Convention Wednesday. Back to Illinois From New York he flies back to Moline, III., Wednesday eve ning for a motorcade to his train and a tour through Iowa, Nebras ka, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Wc9t Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, winding up 10 days later. Friends of the former five-star general were more than pleased with his first day on the tradi tional campaign .trail, during which he talked informally t o more than loo.ow persona across Northern Indiana and Illinois. "We're on our way," said Sen. Frank Carlson, (R-Kan.) a mem ber of the Eisenhower strategy board. "This puts us on our way." His theme, aimed directly at the humor and cutting Jibes of Demo cratic candidate Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, was: "I see nothing funny yout the problems whlcn face the country in these times." BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Victim Given Even Chance Although srill In a critical con dition, Milan D. Smith, Pendleton business leader and prominent Ro tary official, is given an even chance to recover from, injurlfs suffered at 2 p. m. yesterday whffn his light plane crashed into a juni per tree as he attempted to make an emergency landing in an alfalfa field at the farm home of W. P. Baraekman, a few hundred yards south of the Bend airport. J ., Mrs. Smith, who also suffered chest 'and facial injuries in the crash, was reported us not so seri ously hurt and was showing mark ed progress today at St. ChaiMes Memorial Hospital where both were taken shortly after the crash. Attending physicians reported to day noon that Smith had recovered from the shock and his blood count was practically normal. X-ray Pic tures will be taken later today to determine the extent of internal in juries Smith and his wife might have suffered. j Circled Back J En route to Medford from their home in Pendleton, the Smiths, who are the parents of six small children, had stopped at the air port for re-fueling. Taking off for Medford, it appeared as though the light plane might have develop ed engine trouble and Smlthj had circled back toward the airport. Although the young business ex ecutive's condition was still too serious this morning for him ,1o be questioned, there was every indica tion that Smith had planned to at tempt the emergency landing in the alfalfa field when the plane failed to gain altitude. As the light ship touched the rough, plowed ground, it swerved sharply to the left and catapulted into, an ancient juniper tree at the edge of the field. The top of the tree was sheered off by the impactj and the plane's wings and fuselage re mained aloft in the tree branches. The cockpit reached almost (to the ground.. just..a .few feet , oni ,. huge mound of jagged rocks. Witness Crash Both Mr. and Mrs.. Barackman witnessed the crash and rushed to the aid of the injured couple. As they reached the mass of wreck age, Mrs. Smith was assisting her injured husband from the plane's tangled cockpit. Smith lapsed into unconsciousness shortly after he had been assisted from the plane. P. V. Gibson, manager of the Bend airport, also reached the scene of the accident and rendered what assistance he could until the arrival of an ambulunae which rushed the injured couple to the hospital. Gibson had re-fueled the plane just a few moments before, and at that time the engine ap peared to be functioning in a nor mal condition, Later In the day Gibson supervised the removal of the wrecked plane from its pre carious position In the juniper tree. Smith, who was in Bend only two weeks ago as district gover nor of International Rotary for this area, two years ago was named junior first citizen of Oregon., A canner and frozen food processor, he has for several years been prominent in the business and club life of Pendleton. He is a former president of the Pendleton Cham ber of Commerce. Take Charge Howard Maple, president of the Bend Chamber of Commerce, took charge of the business and person al affairs of the injured pair and notified friends and relatives throughout the country. Smith's parents and brother and sister arc flying here from Clearfield, Utah, and are expected to arrive in Bend late this afternoon. Telephone calls and messages were received from friends and business associates from many states, including New York and Illinois, seeking infor mation as to the condition of the injured couple. Smith's personal physician in Pendleton rushed here last eve ning, but returned home when he found local physicians were doing everything which could be done for the wreck victims. Record Voting in November WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (IP) Backers of the biggest get-out-the-vote campaign In history Tuesday forecast a record-breaking turnout at the polls Nov. 4. They said prospects look good for reaching and possibly exceed ing their goal of 63.000,000 ballots about 15.000.000 more votes than were cast in the 1948 presidential election. The non-partisan drive to get Americans to register and vote in record numbers was launched months ago by the American Heri tage Foundation, which sponsored the Freedom Train, and the Ad vertising Council. Inc., a non-profit, educational group. It has won strong backing from both political parties and president ial candidates, President Truman, ake By Trememidlous Typhoon Action Seeks .:.Vj. , ' ' State Revenue Loss Report SALEM, Sept. 16 (IBAn action, expected to have far reaching ef fect, was filed in Marlon County Cirisult Court here Tuesday in con nection with an initiative measure to .abolish pari-mutuel betting on horse races in Oregon. The action seeks a. writ of man damus to compel Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry and others to make an estimate of the amount of revenue the state and counties would lose If the pari-mutuel ban is passed. ' l Other Measure . Should the writ of mundamus be granted and the estimated loss of revenue in this measure must be printed on the ballots after the ballot title of the measure, then, observers here said Tuesday, the same would apply to other meas ures involving revenues. 'It would apply, they said, to two measures on the November ballot dealing with taxes on trucks. And where the pari-mutuel measure in volves an estimated million dollars or less, the buck measures would Involve several millions. . Ruling Challenged The. petition for a writ of man damus filed Tuesday challenges a ruling by Attorney General George Neuner which would prevent pub lication on the November ballot of the 5972.813.79 loss in revenue Ore gon would incur if pari-mutuel raping is abolished, x ,,k , . r -'She netmfih was fifed KV Dr. Frank Menne of Portland, ' chair man of the Oregon State Racing Commission, and Henry W. Collins, Portland and Pendleton grain brok er, who was a member of Oregon's first racing commission. The petition for the writ will be heard September 26. Polio Directors Attend Meeting ...Russell E. Dlehl, director of the Deschutes county chapter of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation, and Bob Thomas, county cam paign director, left for Portland today to attend a conference of state officers of tire foundation. The meeting is being held at a time when reports reveal that the state is suffering its most serious polio epidemic in history. How ever, only one case, light in na ture, has been reported. That case was In Redmond. Before leaving for Portland, Dlehl announced the appointment of Mrs. T. D. Carlson, 218 Irving, Bend, as co-chairman of the wo men's committee for the county chapter. Darrell Smith was named as a Redmond committeeman. GOP Women Map Campaign Plans Mrs. James Mott of Salem, state chairman of Republican women's work, and Mrs. Marshall N. Cor ned of Klamath Falls, national committeewoman, declared todny in Bend that members of the party must work untiringly to get out the vole for the November election, in order to assure a victory for Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower. The two party leaders were speakers at an informnl coffee hour this morning at the Pine Tav ern, and were introduced to pre cinct workers and volunteer cam paign assistants. civic and patriotic groups by the dozens, and business and industrial firms by the score. Its sponsors estimated that 26.000.000 persons now are "active ly working" on the drive. Clyde M. Vandeburg. executive director of the Heritage Founda tion, said early reports from the snowballing campaign show more people are registering to vote than ever before. He and other campaign leaders are counting partly on the peak interest they figure 1 developing In the contest between Republican Dwight D. Elsenhower and Demo crat Adlal E. Stevenson to attain their 63.000.000 goal. But they are putting their main faith In s back-breaking job of work that is proceeding on so many 16, 1952 Island 'Leveled' Community College DVecor Pleased With Registrations Pull-time registration. fdr Central Oregon College classes on the opening night of the sign-up exceeded that for the full year of 1951-52 and was referred to by Don P. Pence, college director, today as "most pleasing." He said registra tion for college credits and for the various recreation classes, which may be taken for audit, will continue through Thurs Melvin A. Dix Takes Own Life With a bullet wound just above his heart, Melvin A. Dix, 55, Bend amusement machine operator for the past 15 years, was found dead In bed at his home, 415 East Franklin avenue, at 1:30 this morning. The body was discover ed by his wife upon her return home from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Abe Huntley. A .22 bolt action rifle, with one shell exploded, was found in the victim's coupe parked In the fam ily driveway. A small pool of blood on the ground just outside the car, indicated the shot had been fired' as sat in the car. He had then walked into the home, a few feet distant: He was lying across the bed fully clothed when his wife arrived home. After an investigation this morning by Sheriff Claude Mc Cauley, District Attorney E. O. Stadter and Coroner George W. Winslow, It was determined that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Mr, Dix had been In almost con-i stant uain for many months as' the. result at a stroke of paralysis: .he had Wffered several years ago Dut wnicn naa oeen getting pro gressively worse. He had been hospitalized on several occasions but had been unable to obtain any relief. He had but partial use of his right hand for some time. Mr. Dix was a veteran of the first world war. In addition to his wife, he Is sur vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dix of. Rowan, Mont., and by two sisters, one liv ing In Rowan and the other In Great Falls. - . Funeral arrangements are be ing held in abeyance until word Is received from his relatives. Eptori Favors Morse Recall PORTLAND U1 The Port land real estate man who headed the MacArthur-for-Prcsldent cam paign In Oreguu last spring says Sen. Wayne Morse should be re called. F.- E. Epton, in a prepared statement, said 'the decent people of Oregon should recall Wayne Morse before our state Is further disgraced by him.' However, Epton said he had heard of no recall movement afoot and that petitions would have had to be filed prior to Aug ust 26 to get on the ballot. Epton said that because of Morse' "voting record In the United States Senate, we have been operating as though we did not have a senator In Washington at all." "He Invariably votes opposite to . . . Senator Guy Cordon, there by killing Senator Cordon's vote," Epton said. 8KKVICK FAMILY NEW YORK, Sept. 16 IIP) John Simpson, 19, enlisted as an Air Force recruit Monday. His brother, Sgt. Joseph Simpson, handled the enlistment. Four oth er sons of Mr. and Mrs. Claudlne Simpson already are In the armed services. fronts they can't keep track of It all. About 50 national, non partisan, veterans, fraternal, civic, service and youth groups already have been assigned specific Jobs. The Boy Scouts are delivering door knob reminders to register and vote. Girl Scouts will baby-sit free on election day. The League of Women Voters will tell you where you're supposed to vote. A local veterans' group will drive you to the pohs if you can't get there on your own. Newspapers are plugging the drive in donated space using "lay outs prepared free by the Adver tising Council. Advertisers are spending heavily for get-out-the-vote appeals of their own. Almost 3,000 radio and television stations day evening, with a registrar to be on the job in room No. 222, Bend High School, each evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Pence is urging an early regis tration this year, so class sched ules can be made out. School lead ers recalled that last autumn the major signup did not take place until the opening of school. As a result, instructors and the coordi nator experienced considerable in convenience. The college director is especially anxious to obtain an early registra tion this year because of the classes that are to be handled as audit courses. These classes cannot be given unless at least 12 students are enrolled, to defray the cost of instruction. Credits Accepted Regular college classes are not dependent on enrollment since the faculty is being provided by the state system of higher education. Credits in these classes will be ac cepted by the various colleges in the state group the University of Oregon, Oregon Slate College, Port land State and the three normal schools, now referred to as colleges of education. . Central Oregon College classes will start on Monday, Sept. 22.. Pence reported today that students will not be asked to make tuition payments at the time of registra tion, but may complete tlialr pay' tnehts Jater, in : the, jmotjthv or . In School Enollmenf Now Set at 2262 Enrollment in the Bend Public Schools today toluled 2262, as the third week in the 1952-53 school year got under way. This com pares with 2210 for approximately me same time last yenr. : Today's count includes 814 in the high school and 1448 In the grade schools. Last year there were 806 In the high school and 1404 in the elementary schools. 1 , In the junior-senior high school, the ninth grade Is the largest class this year, with the eleventh grade In fifth place. The tabulation Is as follows: Eighth grade, 181; ninth grade, 187; tenth grade, 176; eleventh grade,' 129; twelfth grade, 141. In order to match the grade school population with the facili ties, there has been considerable shifting among the schools. This has accounted for a substantial de crease in the number of pupils at Kenwood school, which was over crowded the first few days of the new term. The tabulation at pres ent shows the following enrollment: Kenwood, 4C0; Allen, 375- Reid Thompson, 286; Kingston, 142; Mar shall, 99; Yew Lane, 86. BAD MEMORY DETROIT, Sept. 16 U1 Wil liam Sweeney. 62. sat In jail Tues day and tried to spruce up his memory. A bad recollection of his past brushes with the law cost him a Jail term Monday. Judge Joseph A. ulllls said he would give Sweeney "a break" if he could remember within 25, the number of times he'd been arrest. cd. "I euess about 85." Sweeney said. "Wrong," said Glllls. "The record shows 198 arrests since 1913. Ninety days." Predicted are driving the same message home day and night. Billboards are beginning to blos som with the reminder: "See You at the Polls Nov. 4." A maker of book matches has come up with red, white and blue covers urging: "Vote as you please, but vote. On restaurant tables bloom color ful reminders not to be left out on election day. The 1.000.000 travel ers who check out of hotels every day are beginning to find similar pointed suggestions attached to their bills. A dog food manufacturer offers a blanket for the pup which carries this message: "Quit yapping get registered and vote." A mail order house plugs the reglstcr-and-vote story on the cover of Its fall and winter catalog. No. 240 Navy Officials Tell Damage Of 90 Per Cent WAKE ISLAND, Sept. 16 Ml -, Emergency rescue planes stood bv Tuesday for a mass evaeun lion of this tiny mid-Pacific island after it was "leveled" by a violent 138- mlle-an-hour typhoon. -Mountainous seas, fed by the de structive storm which struck with out warning Monday, washed over tne wnoie island. The Navy said 90 per cent of the island's facilities were 1 destroyed, "several" persons were injured and all communications - from Wake were disrupted for eight hours. .virtually--every building on the island was reported wiped out and costly commercial air line and military Installations were unroot ed by gales and torrents of rain. Still under Water Most of Wake was still under water 17 hours after the typhoon sirucK. The island s 750 inhabitants huddled for shelter in trenches and foxholes used by the Japanese in World War ll. 'The island residents, m o s t of them employes of American air line firms and service personnel also were forced to seek refugo in grounded planes. . A Pan American World Airways official radioed that all of the line's facilities on the island were "destroyed." " J . ' "All personnel must be cvacu ated," he said. - . , Commercial companies and mili tary rescue groups readied planes at Honolulu, : Tokyo, and Kwajleln. Island to fly emergency flights ,to Wake. .-'., '. .--;-.,!., -i-;;:" . ..; ' Severe Dkmuge Airport runways on the Island' were so severely damaged In the violent storm that the evacuation planes weue ordered not to attempt the trip until after sunrise. Daylight was expected on Guam . at about 12:40 a.m. CST. Pan American at San Francisco said it had received word that none of Its employes on Wake was In jured in the storm. ' Reports Indicated workers on the island had used a previously devised typhoon disaster plan and thereby had kept the casualty toll small. Some amateur radio reports suc ceeded in getting through to Guam and Honolulu! ' The brief messages said nearly all of Wake's population requested emergency rntions and water and also asked to be evacuated. Potato Harvest Aided by Frosts Recent frosts have wilted vines In most parts of the three-county potato growing region of Central Oregon, and the 1952 harvest is expected to get Into full swing by the end of September. Some digging is under way In the Cul ver and Metollus areas of Jeffer son county and in the Princville region, Clark Price, manager of the Central Oregon Employment Service, reported from his head quarters In Bend today. It is estimated that some 1,000 pickers and buckcrs will be need ed by the last part of September with some 2,000 others needed when the harvest reaches its peak in October. Central Oregon farmers this year will harvest an all-time rec ord crop of potatoes this fall, primarily because the new North Unit project is In full production, and residents of the region may be called on to assist. Price has stressed that all requests for as sistance must be made through the zone offices In Bend, Red mond, Princville and Madras. Potato growers have been ask ed to submit their requests for harvest help at once, Price stress ed. In most parts of Deschutes county, potatoes are still matur ing In the ground, following the killing frost of the past week end. "Mess in Washington' November, 1951 Tmmnn fl r e Asst. Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle for "outside activities" after Congressional exposure of Caudle's record of "favors" for tax delin quents. McOrath sees only "Indis cretion" in Caudle's actions. November, 1951 Ex-Amlstant Revenue Commissioner Dan Bollch resigns for "health reasons,"