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Mayor's Tsston State Somali Series Local Field Today State Softball Tournament ' 'Games Saturday: 4 p.m. Rubenstein Furniture, Eugene vs. Toblers' Feed, Nyssa. 5:30 p.m. Burkland Lumber, Salem vs. Nored Build ers, worvains. 8 p.m. Oregon City Merchants vs. Bill's Place, Klam ath Falls. 9:15 p.m. Housers, Sheridan vs. BILL'S PONDE ROSA, BEND. Games Sunday: 2:30 p.m. Loser game one (today) vs. loser game two. ... 4 p.m. Loser game three vs. loser game four.. 7 p.m. Winner game one vs. winner game two. 8:30 p.m. Winner game three vs. winner game four. Mayor Richard Brandis will throw the first ball this afternoon when the Oregon State Softball tournament opens here at municipal field. . . Opening ceremonies were scheduled to begin at 3:45. The first game, pitting Rubenstein Furniture of Eugene, last year's rUnnerup, against Toblers' Feed of Nyssa begins at 4 p.m. First game for the host Bend all-star team playing as Commission OK's Pnnf Mff Wit k WIIIIUVI TIIIII Ward and Hamby The city commission, at a spec ial session yesterday anernoon, plucked from its side two of the summer's local issues. '1. It apparently settled the ques tion of supplying water to the tvnstf Vial nor rlatralj-tnarl Vitf TT1 m or- ' V. Ward and H. V. Hamby by accepting a contract worked out by City Attorney Harry English and H. H. DeArmond, attorney representing the two developers, 2. It voted decisively to uphold the planning commission and its recommendation that the year long vacant candy store at the corner of Franklin street and Broadway alley not be rezoned. The commission, meeting in full number for the first time in two iiiumns, vuieu ununimuusiy iu adopt the agreement which-finally placed water on the 90 lot tract in Kenwood Gardens to be de veloped by Ward and Hamby. The policy making body, how ever, skirted formal action on a recommendation made by De Armond for his clients tiiat the city grade and cinder a street into the projected development. While, uie cuimiiiastuil iicvei vuicu.vu the recommendation, the mem bers seemed agreed that such work should be undertaken by city crews as soon as is practical. To consider the request that the one-time candy store be Te-classi-fied from a residential zone to a commercial, the commission met with its advisory auxiliary, the planning commission. After considerable discussion, ' the city commission, which at its Wednesday's meeting deadlocked on the issu?, voted 5 to 2 to adopt the planning group's recommen dation that the property remain zoned as residential. The building is owned by Mrs. I. E. Staples. The agreement approved by the commission aimed at settling the long-rankling differences between the city and Ward and Hamby was only slightly changed from . previous proposals. The financial provisions of the contract approved by the commis sion remained largely unaltered over those previously submitted. Under its terms the city will pay the initial cost of extending a main into the tract, to be paid $147 for each of the first 12 houses built, . 1... . I- .. . - rlmmltnn..o Upon completion of 12 houses, 1 the city will return to Ward and Hamby the $1764 thus collected, figuring that the city's investment will be amortized from regular water revenue from that many residences. Portland Gasoline Dealers Move To Nip Price War PORTLAND (UP) Portland gasoline dealers have voted to re move large price signs in an effort to thwart a budding price war, officials of the Portland Gasoline Dealers Association said today. The action by the more than 200 members of the association is the first step in a program designed to prevent a price war and to im prove working conditions for them selves. Ben Hallyburton, vice president of the association, said the associa tion has not and Is not attempting to set the price of gasoline, but is leaving it up to each operator to determine the margin of profit he needs to stay in business. Today's Rrs Want Ad 114 Poultry & Rabbit FRYERS, ALIVE SSc lb.. New York drnl 40c lb., twlnn hem 28c lb. Deliveries Friday Robeck'i Poultry Frm. Phone 8016-J-l. The flntt Clnwlfiwi ad taken in at The Bulletin olfire for each day' Issue will appear on thn front page that day. The ad must be non-display and contain more than 10 and few tluut SO word. I Bill's Ponderosa (Bill's, won the city league championship) will be at 9:15 tonight, against Houser of Sheridan. Brandis will probably pitch the first ball to Ralph Guynes of Ore gon City, state Softball president, With Ken Kerr, state secretary, behind the plate. . Today's four games will be split I into afternoon and evening, ses sions. The second afternoon game will see Burkland Lumber of Sa lem vs. Nored Builders of Cor- vallis. The Bend-Sheridan game, last of the day, will be preceded at 8 p.m. by Oregon City Merchants vs, Bill's Place of Klamath Falls. ' Manager Morley Madden'of the local Bill s Ponderosa entry nam ed a tentative starting lineup this morning after final workout last night. Bend lineup: : C Russ Kiel P Jack Robinson . IB Glen Kinney w 2B Rube Ells or Ron Fun dingsland SS Joe Fanelli 3B Don Campbell LF Denny Sullivan CF Les Hufstader RF Marve Lines Reserves : Pitchers. Chick Lane, Tom Ray, Howard Whitson; Vern Hassler, utility infielder: Carl Sullivan, utility outfielder. The Bend entry has Louie Mitchell, who managed Darst Loggers dur ing the city season, as coach, Losers of today s games meet in the first two games tomorrow. Today's four winners meet in the two evening games tomorrow. The eventual winner will go to region al playoffs in Tacoma in about two weeks. Tickets to individual sessions and season tickets will be on sale at the gate, which will open an hour before game times each day. Tickets to individual sessions are priced at .$1 for adults, 50 cents for children. Season tickets to all seven sessions are $4 for adults, $2.50 for children. Local arrangements for the tournament, first complex one ever held in Bend, have , been made by a committee -headed by Co-chairmen Helmer Wallan and Steve Jackson. - (Complete bracketing for the five-day meeting on Sports page.) gnBill ob dv madeoC-a Pageant Profit Small This Year The 1954 Mirror Pond Pageant again yielded a profit, but the net this year was not great, only $131. However, pageant directors point out, permanent improve ments were made this season at a cost of from $1700 to $1900, with the installation of a piling founda tion for the river arch listed as the major work. Cost of this project, including the pilings, was around $1700. Preliminary figures were re leased at a Bend Chamber of Commerce, directors meeting yesterday when Mel Rogers and Steve Jackson were introduced as new members of the Pageant board. x It was announced that a de tailed report on receipts and op erating expenses in connection with the presentation of the 1954 pageant will be available next week, when an audit by Norton & Payne will be completed. . Equipment Stored Following the river show this week, the long boom and equip ment were stored at the former Shevlin-Hixon plant. This work was part of the overall expense. It was announced at the Cham ber directors' meeting yesterday that Marion E. Cady, chamber manager, would attend the na tional electronics show and con vention in Los Angeles next week. Some 450 electronics firms will be represented at that show. Cady s visit will be in connec tion .with local industrial promo tion. FINE ASSESSED Roy Glenn Johnson of Grass Valley, Ore., was fined $150 plus $4.50 court costs for driving while under the Influence of intoxicating liquor, this morn ing by Justice of the Peace O. W. Grubb. THE BEND 51st Year One Section 53 D h " v; - , mm v ,'.VV. , m n ;,.' A. V-'. ' 1 INTERESTED IN DRIVE A Deschutes county , girl, Margaret Conklin, heard the news today that the emergency March of Dimes campaign here is meeting with fine success and, like George Ray, she was pleased. Martha, pictured here in her St. Charles Memorial Hospital bed in Bend, and George, convales cing in an iron lung in a Portland hospital, were victims of polio in July when seven Deschutes county residents were stricken. Margaret, graduate from Oregon State College with the class of I9S4, suffered both the bulbar and spinal type of polio. (Photo for The Bulletin b.y J. L. Van Wormer) . Interest Termed Outstanding In Locql Polio Intensified by the cases residents, stricken by polio July, interest' in the emergency of March of Dimes is outstanding, and the cooperation being received is great, George Breest, chairman of the special campaign. announced today.; Breest said at present most received are for shares in the ureorea jersey heiter, valued at $400, to be given away at the county fair in Redmond. The calf was donated to the drive by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lamb. Proceeds from the sale will go into the polio, fund. 1 One of the patients interested in the outcome of the campaign- is Margaret Conklin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Conklin of Des chutes county. Margaret, a grad uate from Oregon State College, is a patient at St. Charles Mem orial Hospital here. Also giving his moral support to the drive is George Ray, who is in an iron lung in a Portland hospital. Mar garet is receiving therapeutic treatment several times a day. The calf, to be given away at the fair, has been named in honor of the polio victim. The calf is Primers Basil Margaret. The calf's sire is a gold and silver medal animal, and her mother is Brampton Fern's Basil, daughter, in turn of a ton of gold cow. Breest said the emergencv March of Dimes will last until the end of the month. Workers Killed In Pit Cave-in CANBY (UP)- A Portland con struction worker was killed yester day, but a fellow-worker was saved when a" 20-foot pit caved in at the Canby elementary school grounds. Canby firemen and volunteers recovered the body of Lloyd R. Leppert, 39. about an - hour after he was buried alive at 1 p.m. Leppert, a steam shovel opera tor for Johnson and Johnson con tractors of Portland, had gone to the bottom of the pit he was dig ging to remove some building tile which had. fallen in. He was hand ing the tile up to his assistant Bob Poole, when one side of the pit caved in. mashing Innort against the side and burying him. Poole was buried to the waist but other workmen threw him a rone and pulled him to safety. Rescuers, working in relays, dug frantically in the sandv wil in nn effort to reach Lenpert. .The earth was removed from the hnle In oi' drums hoisted to the surface by a telephone company crane. PLEDS GWTY Charles Harrv O'Doherty, 24. of Bend pleaded pulltv to as-1 ault and batterv at a prelimln rv hearlne Fridnv afternoon In the Justice Court No. 1 of O W. Gruhb. Bail f.nr O'Dohertv. held in Dporhutpe county Jail, was set at $2500. He was arrested at 4:45 p. m. Fiday by state police. I mil W I.V;t'3 I -A3 Fund Drive of seven Deschutes county in the, near epidemic of early of the contributions being p. iv. - X rive uie as lug Pitches over. Falls PORTLAND (UP) Five crew men were lost and one was saved yesterday when the tugboat Mule- duzer from Astoria ventured too near the spillway at Bonneville dam and was plunged to the bot tom of the Columbia river by a rushing, 40-foot cascade of water. Army Engineers listed as dead Merle Tobias, 49, Portland, and George Graham, Kalama, Wash. Rescuers gave rescuscitation treat ment to the men for more than two hours before doctors pro nounced them dead. ' Harold A. Coles, 39, Astoria, was rescued and revived after a mirac ulous escape from the boat. -Missing were Capt. Magnor Lar- sen, 66, skipper of the tug owned by Larson Construction Company of Astoria; Don Lewis, 20, laborer, Portland, son of Frank Lewis, for mer Bonneville dam engineer now with the Corps of Engineers; and Leonard Boylan carpenter, Cathla met, Wash. Coles was rescued by Ivan Don aldson, federal biologist at the dam, who put out in a motor boat seconds after the tug went down at 2:05. p.m. Coles was thrown from the tug and did not go down with it.' ! Engineer spokesmen said the sinking occured as the tug, towinc a barge, passed too close to the spillway, where tons of water, carrying the entire upstream-pres sure of the river, plunge into the channel. The crew was taking soundings in preparation to restor ing baffles along the south half -of the spillway. The Engineers said a board of inquiry will begin an investigation of the accident today. The til" was a riiesel built in New Orleans in 1947. Weather Partly cloudy today, clearing and cooler toniqht; fair and warmer Sunday; high today 70-75; low to night 35-40. with loral frost; high Sunday 75-80. forecast Max. yesterday, S3 de- arees. Mm. last nsght, 46 degrees. Sunset today, 7:00. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:16. I CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon. Saturday. August 21. 1954 Co oi g After Eisenhowers Ry to Denver For Vacation By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer WASHINGTON (UP) Presi dent and Mrs. Elsenhower left here aboard the presidential plane Columbine at 9:24 a.m. EDT to day for a late summer vacation at Denver. A crowd of approximately 40 persons, mostly women and chil dren, saw the first family off from Washington National Airport. Some of the presidential staff who are remaining here also were on hand in the misty, damp weather to wish, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower farewell. Part of the staff already is in Denver where a temporary White House will be opened to make the President's trip a mixture of work and relaxation. Summer White House Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower's resi dence until sometime in October wilV be the Lafayette Street home of Mrs. John S. iDoud, Mrs. Eisen hower's mother. Summer White House offices have been set up in the administration building, at Lowry Air Force Base, about six miles from the Doud home. PIK 21 Ike 4th pgh: For For the next fwq week. Mr. El senhower will be busy judging and acting on the vast accumulation of legislation left for his approval by the departing Congress. He 11 also be Tbusy with plans lor late sum mer and early autumn tours which wjll take him from coast to coast. Active Vacation , The President hoped to arrange his (Denver office hours so h can concentrate his work in the morn ing hours and spend his afternoons on the rolling fairways and greens of the Cherry Hill Country Club. His stay in Denver this summer will be somewhat more active than the six weeks he spent in Colorado last year, largely bcrause of the congressional campaigns. Mr. Ei senhower will make a number of trins out of Denver to speak in be half at his basic program and the candidates who support it. The Chief Executive planned to make a speech before the Ameri can Legion Convention here and go into the Far West in September, sneaking at the dedication of Mc Nary Dam in the Northwest, Los Angeles and possibly San Francis- He will speak at Des Moines in late Aueust. Other stops will be added to this trip. After he comes back from Colo rado in early 'or mid-October, the President will then invade the East and probably make major speeches in Pennsylvania, New York and more than one appear ance in New England. Pressure Tired President - Mr. Eisenhower was genuinely tired and looking forward to ,some what less pressure in Denver. He spent a difficult period during the closing days of Congress, putting lot of etfort into getting the foundation of an ambitious legisla tive program through the House and Senate. He took a number of important bills to Denver with him for early action,, including the farm bill, measures on Communist control, Social Security and atomic energy. He also had with him material for his upcoming report to the people on the Renublican record in this session of Congress. the report on Congress will be broadcast and telecast from Den ver Monday at 9 p.m. EDT. Ike's Box WASHINGTON (UP) The box score on President Eisenhower s legislative program in the Republican-controlled 83rd Congress: Anti-subversive bill to crack down further on Communist Party without making membership a crime awaiting President's signa ture. Communists failing to regis ter, however, would be subject to jail terms and fines. President signed bill to strip convicted Com munists of citizenship, grant im munity to certain witnesses who testify about Red activities, and provide the death penalty for peacetime espionage. Senate shrived bill to admit wire-tap evi dence in national security cases. Pay Drestdential veto threat ened on 5 par cent pay raise bill for 1.5O0.000 postal and other fed eral workers. Administration want ed companion postal rate hikes to offset cost of pay boosts. Taxes President 'simert tax re vision bill providing $1,363,000,000 saving to corrtorations and selected groups of -individuals, and giving individuals another month to file returns. . I BUM DAILY NEWSPAPER ires s o Bulletins 8ALM On Lawmakers vis iting the capitol this week .were agreed that David C. Baum has secured sufficinet pledges to.be the next speaker of the Oregon House of 'Representatives, SALEM, IIP) Gov. Paul L. Patterson said today the prac tices of the Oregon State Liquor Control Commission are under Investigation. PORTLAND 1FI Two ply. wood plants at Roseburg em ploying some 400 workers were scheduled to resume operation Monday on an agreement for a five-cent-hourly increase, sub ject to change to conform to a later industry pattern. ' WASHINGTON (IB The Sen ate subcommittee that investi gated the Army-McCarthy dis pute voted today to allow members to submit Individual views until Aug. SO, and to issue a report a few days there after. The decision ended an attempt to file the report on the hear ings by midnight tonight. Chairman Karl E. M u n d t (K-SD) said the report would be made public as soon after Aug. SO as it can be printed, proof read and corrected. He said this probably would take two or three days. PORTLAND (IB-iCIO Interna tional Woodworkers today turn ed down as "completely unac ceptable" a proposal by Oregon and Washington governors for a seven-man fact-finding board to try to settle the Northwest lumber strike. Unions Consider Weyerhausers Two-Cent Offer PORTLAND, Ore. (UP) The huge Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. has offered a 2 cent, hourly wage increase to striking loggers and sawmill workers in the Pacific Northwest. The AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union said it would refer the offer to individual locals con cerned, but CIO Woodworker offi cials have decided to talk further with the company today. It was the first such offer from a large lumber company since the paralyzing strike began June 21. Weyerhaeuser employs some 8000 of the 110,000 men who orig inally walked out. The AFL union said it would settle for a 7 cent boost from other operators. Weyerhaeuser has been paying 5 cents over the industry average because of an increase granted last year. At the same time Gov. Paul Patterson was studying the possi bility of a meeting in Portland be tween operators and the CIO un ion. But the Weyerhaeuser compro mise overshadowed a "some prog ress made" report from a meeting between AFL union officials, em ployers and the governors of Washington and Oregon at Olym pia, Wash., yesterday. Patterson and Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington had pro posed that striking woodsmen re turn to their jobs while a seven man special board of inquiry set tles the issues. Another meeting was scheduled in Olympia for Monday. Score . Farm administration- backed bill setting price supports on five major crops at 82'fc to 90 per cent of parity sent to White House. Ef forts to raise dairy supports failed. Social Security compromise bill increasing Social Security benefits and taxes and bringing about 10 million more persons; in cluding farmers, under the old age program, awaiting President's sig nature. Doctors, dentists and law yers are excluded. Foreign aid a $2,781,499,816 bill to send military and economic aid to friendly nations for another year also at White House. Atomic compromise bill ' en compassing most of President's proposed revisions in atomic ener gy laws awaiting his signature. The bill would enlist private indus try in peacetime atomic power de velopment, permit the sharing of certain atomic secrets with U.S. allies and set uo machinery for President's international atoms-for-neace pool plan. Debt Senate and House ap nroved six billion dollar increase in 275 billion dollar national debt Q jETIN Eight Pages osos f Political Infighting Begins On Ike's Legislative Record As Parties Eye By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Staff Corespondent WASHINGTON (UP) The Eisen hower administration put its legis lative record before the country today to await the ballot box ver dict in November. The political in fighting had already started. Barring an unexpected special session later this year House and Senate members closed up shop on the Republican-controlled 83rd Congress as far as legislation was concerned when the House ad journed sine die Friday night at 7:39 EDT. The Senate droned on with ora tory, farewells and handshakes un til 10:50 p.m. when it recessed subject to recall by its leaders for another session this summer or fall.- It will act then on the report of the committee pondering censure charges against Sen, Jo- seDh R. McCarthy IK-Wisl. Besaite the slim margin of GOP control in both houses, President Eisenhower got most of what he wanted in the way of new legisla tion even in such crucial lieias as taxes, housing and Social Se- Sierra Club Ends In Cascades Ninety-two Sierra- Club mem bers from California today were moving from their base icamp at Green. Lakes,- ending a twe-week outing . in the Mid-Oregon- Cps- cades. , This was the . first time the California group ever established a summer camp outside their own state. ' -Inclement weather plagued the alpinists in their stay at ween Lakes, and some of their sched uled climbs had to be postponed because of electric storms that swept over the Three Sisters. Hail, rain and even snow fell in the camp area. Despite the in clement weather, most members of the group reached the top of some of the major peaks. Oliver Kehrlein, veteran mem ber of the club, headed the out ing, but was handicapped in mak ing ascents by an injury suffered on Mt. Hood, en route to Bend early in the month. Al Schmitz, Portland, was camp manager. Mazamas from Portland joined the alpinists on a climb this past week end, in stormy weather. Ob sidians, Chemeketans and Sky liners visited the base camp, and some joined in ascents. On their way to their California homes, most of the Sierrans will pass through Bend over the week end. 'Bobo' Rockefeller Quiet on Future NEW YORK (UP) Barbara "Bobo" Rockefeller is back in the 16-room penthouse apartment she left long enough to obtain a Ne vada divorce and a $5,500,000 set tlement, but she's keeping secret her plans for the future. "I'm still a resident of Nevada," the blonde, suntanned divorcee said chpprfiillv. "Fvprvlhinp's I very indefinite, however. ceiling for one year. Mortgage Terms Eased Housing President signed bill easing FHA mortgage terms and cracking down on profiteering builders. Health House killed President's 25 million dollar health reinsurance plan. President has signed into law bills establishing hospitals for chronically ill, rehabilitation and diagnostic centers. Taft-Hartley President's revi sion bill shelved by Senate; pigeon holed by House Labor Committee. Statehood House passed bill to admit Hawaii. Senate passed bill to admit Hawaii and Alaska. House Rules Committee killed chances of either territory being admitted by refusing to consider Senate bill. Seaway Congress passed and President signed legislation au thorizing U.S. participation in St. Lawrence Seaway project. Trade Reciprocal Trade Act extended one year. Veterans bill passed increasing disability payments to veterans and some dependents by 110 mil lion dollars. No. 218 Shop o essDoim Elections curity. "v President Speaks Monday Mr. Eisenhower is expected to -praise the accomplishments of the 83rd Congress in a nationwide radio-television speech from the sum mer White House in'Denver, Colo.-; Monday night. But Democrats began firing at the Republican record before Con gress quit. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex) issued a statement saying that the 83rd Congress had clearly brought out the basic differences between . the Democratic and GOP philoso phies. , ., "The merit of those viewpoints will be decided in November by the court of last appeals the voters of America," he said. GOP Senate Leader William F. Knowland lost little time in filing the Republican answer. He placed into the Congressional Record a bulky document spelling out 'the accomplishments of the 83rd Con gress Irom the viewpoint oi tne GOP majority. He said the Eisenhower adminis tration and Congress had worked together in scoring "notable achievements." . , The final verdict will rest with the voters on Nov. 2. They will determine who occupies all the 435 House seats and 36 of the 96 Sen- ! ate seats and which party will con trol. Congress for the final two years of Mr. Eisenhower's current term. ' .- i -;; . Federal Rnises Approved ;y The last day of the tumultuous, ' eight-month, -session, was -marked by two major legislative actions: J- Ph houses approved a 5 per 'cent, pay increase for federal em ployes. The Senate defeated an administration-backed rider to raise postal rates 240 million dollars a year despite warnings . mat tne President mignt veto tne dui wim- out a revenue-raising provision. 2. Both houses approved the final version of the administration's So cial Security bill to raise benefits and widen the coverage of the old age insurance system. Senate action on the bociat be- curity measure the last of the administration's "must" bills was the signal for the House to quit as soon as the adjournment resolu tion was passed. Th s resolution sent tne House home for good but permitted ft sine die adjournment of the Senate anytime before Christmas. A sep arate resolution adopted by the Senate' permits recall of that body on five days notice by Knowland and Johnson, acting jointly. - The record shows that Mr. Eisen hower was given substantially what he asked in his massive tax re form bill, which drew much Demo cratic fire because it contained no general Income tax relief. The same could be said about adminis tration IcEislation involving Social Security, foreign aid, the budget, St. Lawrence Seaway and exten sion of - excise and corporate in come tax rates. Doctors Back Blood Drive Here Aug 25 : Importance to the community of Bend and Central Oregon of , the visit here on August 25 of the Red Cross bloodmobile was stressed today in a letter from the medical staff of the St. Charles Memorial Hospital. "The medical staff of St. Charles Memorial Hospital recog nizes the convenience, economy and life saving availability of blood, made possible by the Red Cross blood campaign," Dr. P.W. Chernenkoff, staff secretary, no- ted in a letter to Mrs. Thompson Taylor, Red Cross executive sec retary. The medical staff secre tary added: "Since almost all the blood col lected here, is used in our own hospital, it is most important to every patient and citizen in the community that the quota of 200 pints, set for the August 25 visit of the bloodmobile, be accom plished 100 per cent." The bloodmobile unit will have its . headquarters at the Bend Armory, with 1:15 to 6:30 desig nated as the hours. Appointments for donations are being received at the Red Cross office, telephone 467, in Bend. Drop In donors will also.be ac commodated on Wednesday. The bloodmobile will be in Prineville on Thursday.
