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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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Sunset today. 7:48. Sunrise
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51st Year
One Section
Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, June 12, 1954
Eight Pages
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PRIDE OF PRINEVILLE This is the city of Prineville'i brand new swimming pool, built at a cost of $83,000. Formal dedication
ceremonies were held Friday afternoon at the side of the 25-meter pool. Mayor Richard P. McRae presided. An estimated 300
persons witnessed the dedication, which consisted of a series of short talks by leaders in the planning and construction stages of
the building and a swimming demonstration by Bend members of the Oregon State Rook swimming team. (Bend Bulletin Photo)
Democrats Set
To Pick Nominee
At Meeting Here
TJemocratic central committef
delegates from the five counties
comprising present Senatorial
District 17 of Oregon will meet in
Bend on Sunday, June 20, at 2:30
p. m. to name a party candidate
to succeed Philip S. Hitchcock,
Republican, Klamath Falls.
George Cecil, Bend, chairman
of the Deschutes Democratic cen
tral committee, has been asked to
make local arrangements for the
conference. The meeting will be
at the Pilot Butte Inn, Cecil said.
Members of the Democratic
state central committee, headed
by Howard Morgan, will be, pres
ent. The person named by the dele
gates from Klamath, Deschutes,
Crook, Jefferson and Lake coun
ties as Democratic candidate will
face the Republican nominee, not
yet named, at the fall election,
and the winner will serve the un
expired portion of Sen. Hitch
cock's term, two years of which
remains.
Hitchcock announced his resig
nation as senator from this dis
trict. He is to move to Portland,
to accept a position on the staff
of Lewis and Clark College.
Cecil indicated that at present
there are two possibilities for the
Democratic nomination. One is
Harry D. Boivin, ex-representative
from Klamath county and a
former speaker of the house, and
Vernon L. Burda, Pnneville attor
ney. Little Leaguers'
Jamboree Off
The little league parade and
jamboree scheduled for this eve
ning have been called off due to
the dampness of the municipal
ball park, but the youngsters'
dance at the Pine Forest Grange
hall at 9 p. m. will be held as
scheduled.
The parade and eight-team jam
boree may be staged next week
end. Bend recreation officials an
nounced today.
Today's
First Want Ad
28 House Trailers
VAGABOND TRAILER homt. 1947. All
metal. 2" ft., modern, excellent con
dition. I1.8M. Will eotuHer trade for
farm machinery. Ph. 2101.W-2.
The first classified ad taken In
at The Bulletin office for eachl The fair will be August 28 and
day" Issue will arrprwr on the! 29. and a rodeo and arena pro-,
front page that day. The ad must; gram will be featured in addition
be non-display and contain more; to the stock show and other ex
tian 10 and (ewer than SO words, i hibits.
Big Crowd Aitends Opening
Of PrinevJlle Swimming Pool
PRINEVILLE A spell
the estimated 300 persons who lined the south side of
Prineville's new municipal swimming pool yesterday far
the ceremony officially dedicating the $83,000 plant.
As Mayor Richard P. McRae concluded the hour-long
program the skies darkened
to fall on the dispersing crowd.
Under bright skies for the first half hour of the pro
Alfalfa Route
To Be Surfaced
Bids for the surfacing of the
Powell Butte county road from
the Deschutes county line just
north of Alfalfa east to the. junc
tion with the Powell Butte second
ary highway will be received by
the state highway commission on
June 23, at its Portland meeting.
Length of the road to be sur
faced will be 4.23 miles. The road
will provide a surfaced route from
the Altalfa community easterly
into Crook county and the Powell
Butte community.
The road will provide the Alfal
fa community two surfaced out
lets, one easterly into the Pnne
ville country and the present road
westerly to Bend.
Road Now Graded
This section of road has been
graded and built up with six inch
es of selected gravel material un
der a previous contract. The road
when completed, will be an all-
weather route with a 20-foot oiled
surface flanked by three-foot rock
shoulders. I
The project will be financed by
federal state and county funds al
located to necessary improvement
of county roads not on the state
highway system.
The Alfalfa Powell Butte project
is scheduled for completion oy
August 31, 1954.
Terrebonne Girl
1954 Fair Queen
Special to The Bulletin
REDMOND Agnes Thornburgh
of Terrebonne, a member of the
Redmond Saddle club, was select
ed as queen of the 1954 Deschutes
county fair, this morning at the
Redmond fair grounds. Princesses
are Donna Sargent of Bend Rim
Rock Riders; Jean Stanton, bis
ters Saddle club, and Louise For
ester, Alfalfa Saddle club.
The court members were se
lected on the basis of appearance,
poise ana horsemanship. Mem-
bers of the fair board acted as 1
Judges.
of warm suVishine welcomed
and a gentle drizzle began
gram
tne crowa nearci Mcnae
briefly discuss the planning and
work that culminated in the mod
ern 25-meter pool.
Art Koski, Oregon State college
swimming coach, then introduced
Miss Karen Chapman and Miss
Doris Hawes of Bend and OSC
Rook swimmers Bill Hooper and
Wally Lund. They demonstrated
basic swimming strokes and com
petitive and life-saving tech
niques. Martin to Manage
Charles Mai tin, Crook county
high school athletic director, will
manage the pool for the 1954 sea
son. . - .
The pool, whose equipment was
developed by Paddock Pools of
California, is being financed
jointly by proceeds from the
Pnneville municipal railway and
a $15,000 yearly serial levy, now
in its second year.
New Scandals
In FHA Told
WASHINGTON (UP) Federal
housing officials today predicted
new disclosures of "windfall" prof
iteering by - apartment builders
when investigators complete their
check ot thousands of government
backed housing loans.
An intenm report on the two-
month-old inquiry into the scandal
scared Federal Housing Adminis
tration disclosed that builders of
70 apartment projects, involving
separate mortgages, cleaned
up lush profits of more than 40
million dollars.
The report, made public Friday
night by Federal Housing Chief Al
bert M. Cole, said builders reaped1
niusi ui intMi- prums oy paoaing
their cost estimates when they ap
plied for FHA insurance of their
mortgages.
It charged thaf former top hous
ing officials- "aided and guided
the builders in their profit-making.
And it said all 70 cases have been
forwarded to the Justice Depart
ment for possible criminal prosecu
tion. The 70 projects made public bv
Cole were located in 18 states and
the District of Columbia. New
York state was front runner with
25.
The biggest windfall reported
was the $4,600 000 two brothers and
their brother-in-law made on Glen
Oaks Village, at Bellerose, Long
Island. Their initial investment in
the project was reported at $82,500.
Fighting Savage
In Delta Area
HANOI, Indochina (UP)-French
Union troops engaged Communist
rebels in savage clashes today in
a Red River delta sector near the
Hanoi-Haiphong supply lifeline.
The fighting began after French
warplanes bombed rebel bases in
the region around Kesat, about 20
miles east ot Hanoi. A French
spokesman said the planes
dropped 33 tons of bombs on the
area.
French pilots also flew 80 miles
northwest of Hanoi to drop high
explosives and delayed - action
bombs on rebel bases in the Yen
Bay region.
Other delta sectors were report
ed quiet.
The high command reported that
large concentrations of troops
from Red Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap's
armies had reached Thanh Hoa,
miles south of Hanoi, after a
190-mile march to the east from
Dien Bien Phu in slightly more
than a month.
Other elements were reported at
Phu Tho, 45 miles northwest of
Hanoi and Tuygen Quang, 65 miles
northwest. The bulk of Giap s
forces now were reported grouped
about 35 miles southwest of the
northern capital.
An unofficial French spokesman
said these bases had been used by
(jiap as build-up areas for the 56-
day battle for Dien Bien Phu. The
snokesman said it was possible
Giap might use these concentra
tion centers for an all-out assault
on the delta later this month.
Morse Rips Into
Wiretap Bill
WASHINGTON (UP) Sen.
Wayne Morse (Ind-Ore) charged
that the administration's proposed
wiretap bill smacks of "police
tyranny and anarchy. . . a violation
of the sanctity of the American
home."
President Eisenhower, in a na
tionwide speech Thursday night,
appealed for passage of the wire-
tapping bill and other anti-subver-
sive measures. The bill, approved
in curtailed form by the House and
still in a Senate committee, also
was attacked on the Senate floor!
by Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D SC).
Morse said a friend in the Secret
Service, whom he did not name,
came to him last year and said he
could "repeat verbatim" a conver-l
sation Morse had with his adminis -
trative assistant in thp nrivacv of
his Senate office.
Morse cited his experience as
an examn e of what mieht hanpen
to others if the administration's
bill becomes law. Alty. Gen. Her-
bert Browncll Jr. has asked Con-
eress for unlimited authority to tan
telephone wires and use evidence
thus obtained in court cases i
against spies, saboteurs and
traitors.
Gloom Hangs
Over Geneva
Peace Parley
GENEVA (UP) Western dip
lomats looked gloomily today for
a way to provide the Geneva peace
conference with a decent burial.
They .believed the "no confi
dence" vote handed the govern
ment of French Premier Joseph
Lanlel by the National Assembly
meant that talks on Indochina
here would peter out within a
week, although military and skele
ton diplomatic staffs might remain
in case the conference is resumed.
Both the United States and
Britain already consider the Ko
rean phases of the meeting a fail
ure, and now even Anthony Eden,
the never-say-die British foreign
secretary, is believed ready to con
cede there no longer is any reason
to pursue the search for an agree
ment at Geneva.
Eden Holds Meetings
The British are said to hope,
however, that military staffs on
both sides can continue their work
of trying to :iip cease-fire zones
in Indochina. The work would con
tinue both here and in Indochina.
Eden met with Russia's V. M.
Molotov today and later saw U.S.
Undersecretary of State Walter
Bedell Smith for an hour.
Authoritative sources disclosed
afterwards that Eden and Molotov
agreed to hold a full sessionof the
Indochina : parley Monday after
noon.
The sources added that the 16
nations taking part in the Korean
unification talks will meet Monday
morning to draft a common decla
ration on why those discussions
ujill hp pnrlnrl npvt wmtlr. . -
' Smith and Eden were '(together
when the results of the French vote
were brought to them.
Jail Term Faced
By Grandmother
CORVALLIS (UP) A 54-year-old
grandmother today faced a jail
sentence for perjury after her
granddaughter gave testimony that
contradicted earlier court testi
mony by the older woman.
Ana E. Taylor, who defied the
Oregon Supreme Court in an at
tempt to retain custody of the
ll-'year - old grandchild she had
raised, was found guilty of the per
jury charge yesterday in Benton
County Circuit Court.
Mrs. Taylor, who last year
served 30 days in jail for contempt
of court, was found guilty of lying
under oath during the contempt
proceedings. She was accused of
having lied when she told the court
she did not know the location of
her grandchild at the time of the
contempt hearing.
The child, Janet Dennessen, tes
tified that the grandmother had
turned her over to a woman at
Newport.
Mrs. Taylor had been ordered
by the Circuit Court and the Su
preme Court to turn the child over
to the parents. She had had cus
tody of the child since it was three
days old and failed to comply with
tne court order.
Two Candidates
In School Race
Names of two candidates will
appear on the Bend district school
ballot when the annual election is
held on Monday, June 21.
The candidates will be Charles
C. Corkett and H. Allen Young.
The filing deadline was yesterday
evening.
The two local men seek the post
to be vacated by Mrs. Joe Elder,
who recently announced she
will not be a candidate to succeed
herself.
The candidate receiving the.
most voles in the June election
will serve a five-year term on the
Bend school board
RAID REPORTED
BELFAST. Norther nfreland
'UP) A group ol 15 men wearing
Brmsh Territorial Army (National
Guard) uniforms raided a British
iarmy barracks at pistol point to-
day and escaped with a truckload
oi ruies. automatic weapons ana
ammunition.
OAS WASHED DOWN
The Bend Fire Department sent
a truck to Oregon avenue and
Brooks street yesterday at 1:30
p. m., to wasn down a gas spin
i There wag no damage.
Reward Offer Made
For Return of Money
By WILEY MALONEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
PHOENIX (UP) The wealthy
family of a Phoenix woman kid
naped Wednesday offered today
to give . the family of suspect
Daniel Joseph Marsin $5000 if he
led police to the $75,000 ransom
money turned over for her re
lease. .
Phoenix industrialist Sam Smith.
father-in-law of kidnap victim
Evelyn Ann Smith, 23, made, the
offer, Police Chief Charles
Thomas said. Mrs. Smith had
identified Marsin, 41, an unem
ployed welder, last night as the
man who abducted her.
Formal charges of "kidnaping
for ransom" were being filed to
day by Maricopa County Attorney
William P. Mahoney Jr. The of
fense caries a penalty of 20 to
50 years in prison.
Talks to Attorney .
Police pressed their interroga
tion of Marsin to learn whether
he had hidden the money in the
Superstition Mountain area, where
Mrs. Smith said she was held cap
tive Wednesday night and Thurs
day. Nixon Car Hit
By Drunk Driver
LOS ANGELES (UP) Vice
President Richard Nixon escaped
unharmed today when a drunk
driver crashed into the car in
which he wus riding shortly after
he arrived at Los Angeles Inter
national Airport.
liThe vice president . arrived , aj I
14:10" a:'m. "EDT" "today' "and' was
driving in a convoy not far from
the airport when the accident oc
curred. Police said the driver of the
other vehicle crashed into Nixon's
car, damaging the rear fender,
and smashed broadside into one of
two Secret Service cars accom
panying the vice president.
No one was hurt, police said.
The driver, who was not immed
iately identified, was taken ' into
custody.
Nixon was scheduled to address
commencement exercises at Whit
tier College today.
In the car with the vice presi
dent were Dr. Charles Cooper and
Leonard Crowfoot, both professors
at Whittier, which Is Nixon s alma
mater. The driver wes Clinton
Harris, who owns an automobile
agency In Whittier.
Nixon, a graduate of the class
of 1934, has said the scheduled
commencement address will be of
national significance."
He is scheduled to leave Sunday
evening and return to Washington.
V.'.'- ;'A" v; ' i -
INITIATES DIVING BOARD Bill Burgess of Corvallis, volun
teer diving coach for Oregon State College, yesterday initiated
the one-and three-meter spring boards at the new Prineville
swimming pool with' an exhibition of competitive and stunt div
ing. (Bend Bulletin Photo)
Marsin talked with an attorney
John Flynn, Phoenix. He had
asked before for i lawyer.
Thomas said he thought Marsin
probably wanted to work out a
formal agreement for the transfer
of the ransom money. "I think
maybe he's just holding out now.
he said. Thomas said that we
have a good circumstantial case
against Marsin," regardless of
whether he confesses.
Falls to Confess
Mahoney had said after an all-
night interrogation that Marsin
would neither "admit nor deny"
he kidnaped Mrs. Smith, wife of
Herbert Smith, an owner afong
with his father and brothers of
the Smith Pipe and Steel Co.
PHOENIX (UP) The wife of a
41-year-old kidnaping suspect told
the United Press last night that
1 just can't understand it, I just
can't understand it."
Mrs. Lillian Marsin, 39, said that
Daniel Joseph Marsin had always
been a good provider.
But she said that he had been
discouraged and wanted to find a
way to go to California. she said
he complained of being in ill
health, but that she did not believe
he had cancer.
The kidnaper of Mrs. Evelyn
Ann Smith had told her he was
suffering from cancer.
Mrs. Marsin! who said she had
been trying to support the family
since her husband has been out
of work, said she could "not
think of going back to work. I
can't face everybody. They'll all
know. .
She asked why her husband was
being held. When police told her,
sentence would be. - ?
She was "told that under the cir
cumstances, the sentence 'might be
one to 10 years.
"I have no way to support" the
family, she said, "Nothing at
all." The'Marslns have two chil
dren. Dan, 11. and Lola, 14.
"Kidnaping is just too terrible
to think of," she said.
Vancouver Wins
Parade Award
PORTLAND (UP) Vancouver,
Wash., wonathe sweepstakes award
in the non-commercial division of
the Portland Rose Festival float
parade today, sharing honors with
Meier Frank Co. m the com
mercial division.
For cities outside Oregon, Pasa
dena, Calif., Puyallup, Wash., and
Seattle took the top three awards
in that order.
Vancouver's float featured a big
dragon of yellow and red flowers
30 feet long. The dragon twisted
and reared as Siegfried delivered
the death stroke with his floral
sword.
Action Sends
France Into
New Crisis
By KENNETH MILLER
United Press Stuff Correspondent
PARIS (UP)-The French Na
tional Assembly voted "no confi-
lence" in the crisis ridden gov
ernment of Premier Joseph Lanlel
today, and Laniel immediately of
fered his government's resignation
to the President.
President Rene Coty's reply was
not known immediately.
Official announcement of Lan-
iel's action,, was made by Pierre
July, secretary of state to the
Premier, after a visit to Assem
bly Speaker Andre le Troquer. , ,.
It came shortly before the As
sembly was to reconvene to hear
Laniel s decision after his meeting
with Coty and the Cabinet.
Crippled Government
Laniel's own supporters were
urging him to stay in office but
at the Cabinet meeting the power
ful Radical Socialist party de
manded he quit. The eight Cabinet
ministers and secretaries of state
threatened to resign and cripple
the government if he refused.
The Assembly's "no confidence"
vote was 306 to 293.
The "no confidence" vote was
the direct outgrowth of defeats in
Indochina and the government s
failure to reach agreement at the
Geneva peace conference.
It pitched France into its worst
political crisis since World War
II, 'and could seal the doom of
the Geneva meeting.
Under the law, Lanlel is not
required to quit. . Had his oppo- .
ncnts' achieved an absolute ma-'
jorlty of 314 in the vote against
him, resignation would have been
mandatory. , .
. Victory for Comniunlsls
However, the alternatives were
almost as bad as a resignation
which would leave the French
state rudderless and the way wide
open to the Communists to make
new military gains in Indochina
and propaganda hay at Geneva.
The situation left Foreign Min-
ister Georges Bidault up in the
air. If the government remains,
he would return to Geneva but
without much power or assurance
of backing at home.
If Laniel quits, Bidault mighr
remain" at Geneva but could not
commit the future government
since caretaker Cabinet members
are to conduct "every day busU
ness" only. . -
Peruvian Exile
Still in Trouble
Over Passport
MEXICO CITY (UP) Victor
Raul Haya de la Torre, a Peruvian
exile plagued with passport and
visa troubles, remained in Mexico
J City today because he couldn t get
i permission to visit Panama.
. Haya de la Torre, leader or
Peru's outlawed Apra party, was
to have left last night on a trip
through Latin America, but was
refused a visa by Panama, where
he had planned to stop after visit
ing San Juan, Costa Rica.
He was forced to miss a banquet
in New York earlier this month,
because he didn't have a valid
passport. Mexican authorities later
gave him special identity papers
that will permit the prominent in
tellectual to leave the country.
Haya de la Torre spent more
than five years as an "exile" in
the Colombian Embassy in Lima,
Peru. He finally was able to leave
Peru two months ago, but was
given a Peruvian passport valid
only for travel to Mexico.
Library Missing
Valuable Book
The Deschutes county library
stuff in Bend reported this morn
ing that the library's only copy of
"Oregon Geographic Names" is
missing.
The volume was on a reference
table, and had been used exten
sively recently in connection with
a place-name "scramble" contest,
sponsored by a metropolitan pa
per. '
Staff members said the volume
was probably taken by mistake,
and a request for its return has
been issued.
The volume, it was said, is one
of the most valuable reference
works in the library and is much
in demand.