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Newspaper Page Textnrnnrm wo NB BUI, Bend Forecast Fair through Saturday; high both days 40 to 45; low Friday night 18 to 23. WORLD-WIDE NEWS SERVICE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 49th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1952. No. 297 imst Collecting Tax 1.1 SALEM, Nov. 21 IB the Ore gon State Legislative Interim Committee on Highways Friday stood in favor of forgiving the retroactive weight-mile tax, fees owed by Oregon truckers. Earlier this week, Attorney General George Neuner ruled that the Increase, approved over whelmingly by the voters No. 4, was retroactive to last January 1. The highway committee, head ed by Sen. Elmo E. Smith, John Day, unanimously passed a reso lution recommending that the next legislature change the effect ive date of the Increased fee schedule to Nov. 5, the day after the election, ' However, the committee's reso lution added that "all persons concerned should realize that the committee's position on this sub ject is only a recommendation, and that no concurrence by the Legislature should be assumed. Therefore, all persons affected should take proper precautions to preclude any possible penal ties being found against them." No Benefit ; The committee said it could see rto benefit to the economy of Ore eon in collecting the some $2,000,- 000 owed by the truckers under Neuner s ruling. . lutlon favoring creation of a new Department of Motor Vehicles, to include administration of motor vehicle laws and collection of all fees. The committee approved a ten Native draft prepared by the stat ute revision council and directed that two bills be prepared for introduction when the ia&3 -egis-ture opens. The new department would take over the entire motor vehicle department including reg istration of cars, issuance of driv- ers licenses, collection of fuel . -i wno .i v. -1 arlmlnlat-ratlnn n f the financial responsibility division, all now under the office of secre tary of state. '' RntlrA Collection ..... - ' lit Addition the new department would take over the entire collec tion of truck fees now under jurisdiction of the public utilities commissioner. , Principal purposes of the new department, sen. onum saw, would be to eliminate duplication, remove collection of fees from the oublic utilities commission nnH leave this department as solely regulatory body: This rwvimmendation is expected to bring about one of the major ftehts in the 1953 legislative ses- sion because it would remove an important segment from control of the secretary 01 siuie. 60 Per Cent Of Target Reached Contributions to the Deschutes County United Funds campaign foonhoH fin npr cent of the budget yesterday evening, wun ia, mntrlhuted. W. M. Loy, drive airman has announced. The in crease was represented by $1,364 turned into fund neaaquarters yes terday. Among group contributions re ceived were those from the Bend public schols, o( whicn ora nun nell is in charge. Sheriff C. L. Mc Cauley turned in contributions from Deschutes county offices, and John Steldl has made a preliminary re- . Dwutlf. Snnnlnn Inc.. em- tcrnal organizations win J the pre-campaign conference. Man I. airer Fred Baer of the chamber has 3 sent out Invitations to 65 organiza Jtinne in attend the meeting. I Tho Redmond chamber is to ;?serve as the veering group in gct "all in one" drive organ ized. Later, the group will become 'jan Independent unit. i The Redmond organization is to e patterned after United Fund irw,i ihot are successfully func- ' .P . . . .Via lionlng in various pans m - tatc. The one-arive n been under consideration in iw nond for some time. tains Plaguing lorthern Italy pnMtf now Nnv. 21 IP Ten persons were known dead Friday ki a series of avalanches, land- tides and floods following mm ivs nf steady rains in many pstimated a t 'tin Tuscany, main connecting ." JtnhuMv. hutuvM north and euth Italy were washed out in - u..AHi .Iimi T anr1HMp block i m mniintain sasses north of Group Age From Jar 1 florcnce. Younq Scientists Study Growth of Rats 39 At Allen School, fifth graders sing about "Three White Rats" Instead -of above, Stanley Adamu (center) and Larry Kentner are weighing Mr. on. (The two Adams children are not related). Great Northern Train Derailed In Chemult Area KLAMATH FALLS, Nov. 21 API Main line tracks of the Southern Pacific ana ureat Northern rail roads were blocked early Friday at Chemult, 70 miles north of here, when 18 freight cars and three diesel units were derailed. The mishap at 4:55 a.m. occurred at the junction of the two railroad lines as a. southbound-Great Nor thern freight-plunged through an automatic switch' which failed to' open. No one was hurt, but cattle from two stockcars were strewn over the tracks, many of them killed, others injured and some set loose. Great Northern oniciais nere said both mainlines were blocked and considerable track torn up. Repair crews were dispatched both ways from here and from Eugene, on the other side of the derailment point where at least six Southern Pacific freignt trains were being held pending clearance of the lines. Southern Pacific pasenger trains were being rerouted over the Siski you route through southern Oregon. A spokesman for the Great Nor thern said it was hoped the tracks could be cleared by 6:30 p.m. General Highly Critical of Bend Major General Harold G. Maison, commanding general, 41st infantry division, had a lot of things to say about Bend today noon at a Cham ber of Commerce members' forum, I and none of his remarks was fhit- lenng. The state of Oregon, he told the business men and women, has a verv Door investment in the Bend armory and unless immediate measures are taken to recruit its rifle company up to at least mini' mum strength there is every rea son to believe the company will be disbanded and the armory closed to Dublic use. . General Maison said he could not predict what action might be taken tonight following the regular in spection of Bend's company I of the national guard by Col. A. R. Sewell, inspector general of the sixth army, who will be here from San Francisco. But he said it would not anrorise him if the inspector general recommenaea me aisoanu ment of the Bend guard unit be cause of the apparent lack of In terest in the company. The Bend rifle company now has ihroo officers and 28 enlisted men. The minimum reouirement for a rifle company is three ouicers. a warrant officer and 49 enlisted T cannot understand why the Bend unit is in such a poor condi tion " ho told his hearers, l am forced to believe it must be be cause of a lack of community in-tor-oat in Rend." EVillnunnir the luncheon General Maison and his staff met with lead ers of the chamber to map out pos sible wavs in which l!ie civic groun misht aid in nrocuring the needed recruits for the Bend unit. MAKINO TRIPS PETROIT. Nov. 21 HB-C. E. Wilson, secretary of defense-to-be in Dwight Eisenhower's cabinet, announced Friday he would accom pany the President-elect on his trip to Korea. 'if 5 II II 'Crusty Upsetting Experiment By Children at Allen School By Ila S. Grant There was a time when grade school pupils gobbled up the story about the Pied Piper rats in Hamenn, then spirited away tne cnnaren oecause ne didn't get his pay. The moral is a little foggy, but at Allen school, the rats-and-children affinity is getting a new treat No Dry Record Set in Autumn, Qesplte. Aridity. .. Despite-'the prolonged aridity, with only .26 of an inch of moisture measured in Bend in the past 71 days, the present autumn will not establish an all-time ary recora lor the Bend area, weather observers here reported today. So far this month. 0.25 of an inch of moisture has been measured in Bend. In November, 1939, only 0.02 of an inch of moisture was measured, and in 1928. the Novem ber precipitation mesaured a mere 0.04 of an inch. Novertiber, 1933, was also dry, with 0.06 of a,n inch recorded. Not only was November, 1929, dry, but it was preceded by a pro- longer late summer and early autumn aridity. In the four months of August, September, October and November that year, the total pre cipitation was only 0.37 of an Inch That was the driest fall season ever known here. Weather records show that the orolonged autumn aridity of 1929 was followed by the dampest De cember in history. In that Decern ber, 5.78 of an inch of rain fell, to bring the total for the year up to 13.48 inches, just above the 1 month normal. With only a month and nine days until the end of the year, Bend is far short of its moisture quota for 1952. So Car this year only 6.86 of an inch of precipitation has been measured at the local station. Chamber Picks New Directors Six new Chamber of Commerce directors were elected for two-year terms and one director was elect ed for a one-year unexpired term in balloting carried on this past week by the chamber member ship. The votes were counted by a committee last nignt ami were an nounced at the chamber offices this mornine. Those elected from among the 12 candidates selected by the nom Inntine committee are: J. Ralnl Brown, Insurance man; Ben W. Fanning, manager of the Bend branch of the U. S. Notional Bank Robert J. Mannheimer, merchant William E. Miller, lumber dealer H. A. Pyzdrowski, mnnager of the Bend Iron Works, and Bob Thorn, as. automobile dealer. Ray LeBlanc, now serving out the unexpired term of Dr. J. F. Dorsch under appointment by the board, was named to serve the next year of this term. The new directors win lane oi- fice the first of the year. OPERETTA POSTPONED PRTNEVTLLE, Nov. 21 The op eretta, "Pickles," scheduled by the Crook County high school two niehts this week, has been post. poned because of the seml-flnal tilt of Oregon class A-2 football teams at the Crooked River roundup crounds here Saturday night at The operetta hat been scheduled for Dec. I ana . 3 1 "Three Blind Mice." tn the picture Milktoast, as Charlotte Adams looks who charmed away all the ment. And with results botn educational and entertaining, In Mrs. Marguerite Boyd's fifth grade room, there are three white rats that attend all classes as un obtrusive spectators. They are the principals in a scientific experiment thatiwasexpected t(j .point out the, superiority of a balanced diet. But so rar, tne experiment nas oacK fired, and at the end of four weeks the rat on the "poorest" diet is far ahead ,in growth. Mrs. Boyd and the pupils are quick to point out that this experl ment is.not conclusive evidence that present ideas on diet are in error. It would be necessary to observe the growth of 50 or 100 rats on controlled diets to make accurate deductions, they feel. However, their findings may point out that the addition of vitamins and other elements to present-day foods has increased their nutrition values. Crusty Ahead The rats are Mr. Milktoast, who is given milk, bread and water; Milky, who gets only milk and water, and Crusty, who subsists on bread and water alone, in earner experiments conducted elsewhere, rats on similar diets ranitea in growth in Just that order. In the experiment now under way at Allen School, Crusty far outweighs his rodent cronies. Milktoast ranks sec ond, and Milky is the runt of the family. - At the end of a six-week period, the diets will be reversed, and if all turns out as expected, the rats will end up about the same weight, all happy, healthy and glossy. None of the diets is harmful to a rat, it was stressed, and although the rats have made different advances in growth, all are given all they want of their allotted diets. The rats are never allowed to go hungry, the young scientists explained. The nrolcct started when the fifth graders read about the diet experi ments in their health textbooks, Now the rats figure In most of the subjects, the writing lesson may be a story about the contrlbitlon of white rats to science. The art work includes makine posters showing nrooor diets. A good deal of arith metic Is involved in figuring the comparative weight gains from week to week. Flint Problem The first problem was where to find the rats. It just happened that a mother rat used by a nign scnooi student in an experiment, gave birth to young at about the time the search was started, and these were contributed. The health de partment provided a scale that weighs In grams. The pupils bought f ne mesh wire at a Hardware store. and made the cages. The lids are cake tins from the teacher's kitch en. Every Monday, the rats arc weighed, and the findings are kept on a large chart designed ny sev eral of the pupils. Everyone at Allen School is Inter ested in the rats. When the expert ment Is over, they'll be pensioned to sheltered lives as pets. Already there have been several offers of permanent homes SPEED-UP CROED PORTLAND. Nov. 21 B James W. Cothran, national commander- in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, called Friday for a speed. up In military aid to Korea to bring the war there to a successful con clusion. resident of AFL Ike Selects 2 f Stassen Gets Post Now Held By Harriman NEW YORK, Nov, 21 (IP) President-elect Dwight D. Eisen hower Friday appointed two more members of his Cabinet. They are George M. Humphrey, Cleveland, O., as secretary of treasury and Herbert Brownell Jr., New York City, as attorney general.; Eisenhower also announced he would name Harold E. Stassen, long-time contender for the Re publican presidential nomination, as director of the Mutual Secur ity Agency, succeeding W. Aver ell Harriman. Brownell was 1944 chairman of the Republican National commit, tee, 1948 director of the unsuc cessful presidential campaign of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, and' in the current campaign one of Eis enhower s top strategists. Steel President Humphrey Is president of the Mark A. Hanna Co., steel manu facturers, of Cleveland, O., and holds positions on many indus trial firms. He was born in Che boygan, Mich, and practiced law in Saginaw, Mien., Deiore necom Inff attorney for the Hanna Co. stassen. former , governor oi Minnesota, has been a perennial contender for the GOP nomlna. lion and during the recent cam' palgn was a frequent advisor to the Elsenhower stall. ; , ... Rlfienhnwer -. headauarters an- nnunced the nrealdent-etect would leave by train; at 2:30'p.' m.-'foi' 1915 West point class. No Appointments James C. Hauertv. press secre tary to the Dresident-elect, said Eisenhower would have no other appointments in Washington oth er than the reunion and wouia spend Saturday in his residential quarters at 60 Momingslde Drive, New York City. One of Elsenhower's visitors to day said the President-elect will bypass Japan on his forthcoming Korean trip. "He is just going to Korea and he is not going to Japan," report ed Sen. H. Alexander Smith N. J.), one of the ranking Republi can members of the Senate For eign relations committee. Mother and Son Hurt in Accident A number of cars and a truck skidded on an icy curve just north of the Bend city limits early this morning and two persons, a motner and her son, were hospitalized. Mrs. Roger B. Payne, who with her husband, Lt. Col. Payne of the U. S. Air Force, was en route to Alaska, suffered fractures. Her son, Ken neth, wns a so hosnilallzcd. uccu- pants of other cars involved were not Injured. In downtown tsenu. motorists aiso faced lev streets In the dawn hours, and there were a number of minor accidents. The slick streets were the result of a freezing fog that settled over the area in the night hours. Clear skies and cool but sunny weather followed the night fog. Gov. McKay, Dwight Eisenhower Think Alike On Virtually All Foreign, Domestic Issues SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21 IP Gov. Douglas McKay and Dwight D. Elsenhower thlnn aime on vir tually all Issues, domestic and foreign, a study of . McKay's rec ord showed Friday. The Oreffnn governor, who will become secretary of the Interior in Eisenhowers caoinei Jan. , has long been an articulate foe of the Truman administration's at tempt to create a Columbia Val ley Authority In the Northwest modeled after the Tennessee Val ley Authority. Rut McKav Is a friend of fed eral financing of huge river de- vplnnment protects, proviaeu an- ministration Is left in the hands of the states affected. "We must press for orderly de velnnmmt nf the Northwest, but not at the risk of losing the things we cherish," he has said many times. He has resisted what he termed "a planned economy from upstairs." McKay is credited with being one of the "fathers" of the vast Willamette Valley Basin develop Residents of Area Requested To Help Save on Residents of interior Oregon today were urgently re quested to join in the conservation of electricity, as the "brown out ordered by the Defense Electric Power Admin istration 'spread over the Pacific Northwest. Ten planta in central uregon, To Resign Soon PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (Bl Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon, who was picked to be secretary of interior, said Friday he would like to resign "as soon as possible go tne new governor could orient himself be fore the January session of the Legislature convenes." But he did not say exactly when he would resign, : , . McKay said he was satisfied that under the intent of the Legislature Paul Patterson will be the next governor of Oregon.": . He added "... I have a lot of unfinished business, but so far as possible I want to leave formation of policies and making of appoint ments to tne new governor, Gov. McKay, in his first public appearance after being named to the cabinet post, spoke to tne Association of. Oregon Counties meetine here. He told the croup he favored makinir ; the Kovernmental unit which spends money responsible for collecting taxes. McKay explained that when state or federal money Is zranted to smaller units ot gov ernment he believed It tended to .InorMse spending by :fhe" Siiialier' unit, Companies Ask Rate Increases PORTLAND, Nov. 21 0B Three large power firms Friday were seeking temporary rate increases to cover increased costs of oper ating steam generation plants dur ing the current power famine, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission said. A. 20 per cent surcharge, with certain service areas of two com panies exempt, was asked by the Portland General Electric Co., Pa cific Power and Light Co., and by Mountain States Power Co. All of the Increases would termi nate as soon as the power shortage In the Northwest ends, according to the applications. Pacific Power and Light petition seeks a rate of 11 per cent in its service area outside Portland. Mountain States seeks no increase in the Springfield and Tillamook areas where it Is In competition with public power utilities. SALEM IBOY KILLED SALEM, Nov. 21 (Ut-Randcl Ro main South, 13, of. Salem, was dragged to death Thursday when a horse he was leading bolted. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank South, was riding one horse and leading another by , a rope tied hit, unlat Tho horse became frightened and bolted, dragging tho . -a ui. ,.t ment program in Oregon which has seen federal money, locally controlled, used to transform the broad Oregon valley Into a prime hydroelectric network of dams. McKay has stated on several occasions that private firms should be given the first chance at developing regional resources, but in projects manifestly too large for private, or even state, participation, he has favored pub lic financing. The new secretary of the Inter ior Is not expected to work any major changes in the present status of such mamoth govern ment structures as the Bonne ville Power Administration and his nomination was greeted en thusiastically by Dr. Paul Raver, the democratic-appointed admin istrator of the BPA. Gen. Eisenhower'a stand In favor of state ownership of the tidelands was revealed only dur ing the recent campaign. But Gov. McKay ha opposed federal designs on the offshore oilfields tn meetings of the' western gov or Cabiimefc Electricity most or tnem lumper mius, come unaer tne uki'a oraer calling for a 10 per cent cut in the. use of electricity. Two of the plants arc in Bend. There is a possibility that production will be lowered In the area, and that jobs and paychecks will he cut. From all parts or Central Oregon comes Information that ambitious plans for business street illumina tion as part of a pre-cnristmas pro gram arc to be abandoned, because of the power shortage.' Illumination programs that are expected, to be dropped include that sponsored an nually by the central Oregon Cham, ber of Commerce., Plans Uncertain . Whether Jaycces of Bend will continue with some phase of their annual Christmas illumination con test was not known today. The appeal for cooperation of the public in conserving electricity was made by W. A. LacKatr, district manager for the Pacific Power & Light Co. in central Oregon, today as information from the northwest pool headquarters Indicated that the low of the Columbia is still decreasing. This Is attributed to the prolonged drouth. ' "The long dry fall has resulted In dangerously low water conditions throughout the entire area. L.acK- aff said, adding; "The Columbia river is flowing at an extremely low rate, as are tne rivers icemng prac tically all nnrthwesi (power dams This, has seriously . tut down the lectr!ci supplies ptjtbe-Northwosy powcr pool, wnicn serves ine neeos of tne area. We need the heln of everyone in avoiding anv waste of electricity, Power saving is needed all duy and every day, all around the clock, to meet our problem. Dully Report A daily report from the power pool received this morning reveaieo a further drop in the Columbia's flow at Grand Coulee yesterday. The present tight power problem affects the whole areu, including all northwest states. In addition to Pacific Power, utili ties in this area affected by the DEPA order Include the Central Electric Cooperative, Inc. The order applies to a "weekly energy quota." All plants using more than 8,000 kilowatt hours come under the order, with curtailment figured on base peak demand. Brooks-Scanlon, Inc. Is not af fected by the order, Inasmuch as it generates most of Its own power. However, the Leonard Lundgrcn Lumber Co. and Oregon Woodwork Ltd., are afrectcd. Leonard Lund grcn reported today that he did not anticipate any payroll drop as a result of Ihe order, but expects that there will be a reduction of over time. In Prlnuvllle Greatest number of firms afecled by the power order cut of 10 per cent arc in Prlneville. They arc the Alexander-Stewart Lumber Co., Midstate Lumber and Supply Co., Consolidated Pine, Inc.; Hudspeth Lumber Co. and Pine Products, Inc. Redmond plants affected are the Tito Knot Pine Mill, Pondcrosu Lumber Sales and Ponderosa Mniilfllni'ii. and the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation 1 Hi- due. at uowcr Bridge. ernors' conference, of which he Is chairman. The territories of Alaska and Hawaii will find In McKay a friend of their aspirations for statehood. He has encouraged closer economic ties between both those areas and the Pacific North west, MnKnv dec nod to comment specifically on his plans for the interior post, except to say mm he would consider himself "In the employ of Gen. Eisenhower." ATTENDANCE SKT SALEM, Nov. 21 mi Gov. Hondas McKav. President-elect Dwleht D. Elsenhower's choice for secretary of interior, said Fri day he would attend a conference of western envernors in rnocnix, Ariz., Dec. 7-10. McKay Is chairman of the con furimrp. He also said he would attend the dedication of the Davis dam near Kingman. Ariz., Dec. 10 and then return to Oregon. He expects to go to Washington, D. C, about the first of the year. Does; Death Claims Second Leader In Past Month ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (IB AFL President William Green died Friday at his home at Coshocton; : O., AFL headquarters announced. The announcement said Green died at 12:22 p. m. CST, of heart , failure. He -was 79 and had been president of the AFL sine e 1924 Me was the second top labor leader to die of a heart ailment within two weeks.. : , CIO President Philip Murray'. died at San Francisco Nov 9 ' Green had gone to his native : Coshocton from Washington early in October. He was In Coshocton Memorial Hospital for two days for what doctors at the time described as U, "routine checkup." Later, he was 's taken home and confined to his bed for a time, - Has Heart Attack AFL headquarters here said it was advised Green suffered a heart attack Thursday night and that he "sank rapidly during 'the ninht.'' It quoted doctors as saying "his lienrt iust gave out." Headquarters said - ureon had been In daily touch with Washing ton headquarters up to Thursday..'. He had been ill during the AFL National Convention in New York Citv in September. . came , here briefly alter tne convention anu men went to nis isnocion nome. . Funeral services were set Aonta tiveljMor next Monday at-Hihoc- ton.' The AFL Executive Council was expected to meet soon to decide on a successor. Succeeded Gomen Green became AFL president succeeding the late Samuel Gomp ers, one of the founders and the first president of the federation. Green led the American Federa tion of Labor in almost three dec ades of growth and turbulence. Under him the AFL maintained Its place as the country's biggest und longent-estnblished trade union organization. But He railed to prevent tne schism from which, under the orig- intil Innrlnrahin nf .Inhn 1,' I.ewis. epicrged the AFL's lusty Hval, the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions. -''--'!;.. Green always opposed "dual unlonistn," and he fought bitterly with his old friend Lewis when tho United Mine Workers' chieftain broke with the AFL in 1936. When Lewis left to embark on a campaign to organize on dndustryr wide lines the mass production ....lla,.a nf (ha cniltltrv hp THAlf A strong company of other AFL un-. ions with mm. , ' ,.; AUU'11 OUtTLUS . Failing to prevent the schism,, Green devoted much of his ener- ' the breach. He achieved much sun cess in this campaign, ultimately winning back' Lewis himself, only to lose him a second time. The CIO remained strong and Green's beloved "house of labor" remained divided. Nevertheless, the AFL grew under Green s lead ership. In leading tne Af U ureen suc ceeded whore many bctorc mm nan .. fulled in efforts to maintain a strong Inbor federation in this country. ' , . , Trial Under Way II IIWVIII WW, a Trial of the suit of Robert and Ace Heintz, of the Interstate Heavy Hauling Company against E. A. Lindstrom was started before a jury in circuit court this morning. The plitintiffs are seeking to re cover J139 alleged uue lor naming n heavy tractor and other equip-, men! from Deschutes county to Spokane. They allese no part of the sum nas Deen paio. Members of the jury are Grace Elder, George Roberts, Irene Jen sen. Marshall Prclps, Louise B. Nicholson, Mrs. Kenneth Cruick shonk, Floyd R. Carter, Mrs. Thomas C. Daly, Mrs. Gladys Gar vick, Mrs. Kenneth Cale, Oscar Larson and Mrs. Raymond Bon field. , WILSON SUCCESSOB DETROIT, Nov. 21 rv Har low H. Curtice takes over Dec, 1 as acting president of General uaiam rv,.n asRtimintr manage ment of the world's largest auto firm under the same circumstanc. es as his predecessor C. E. Wilson.