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Newspaper Page TextUniv. of Oregon Library EU3S2S, . ;vC. I THE BEND Forecast Fair through Friday. High both days. 47-52; low to night, 20-25. High and Low Max. yesterday, 53 degrees. Min. last night. 24 degrees. Sunset today, 5:08. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:27. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Bend, Deschutes County. Oregon. Thursday. January 27, 1955 Fourteen Pages No. 44 BULLETIN I , , M I w, i. min muni j1 , t'l 1 s - "VISION FOR THE FUTURE" The thousands of persons expected to visit the Bend Elks new temple here this weekend will view a display dealing with aid provided by the Oregon State Elks' association for visually handicapped children. Examining the exhib it, in the main lodge hall, are Ralph A. Ferguson, BPOE secretary in Bend, and Robert H. Clark, Bend, who served as clerk of the works in the construction of the new temple. Clark, who volunteered his services, has been granted a life membership in the Bend lodge. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Elks Dedication Program Begins With Open House Opening feature of the Elks' ded ication program was under way this afternoon, with an open house at the new temple. This will be the only event on the weekend program open to th general pub lic. The open house got underway this afternoon at 4 p'clock and will continue until 8 p.m. There will be guided tours through the new build ing. The Oregon State Klks' asso ciation has arranged a special eye clinic display. On Friday night, starting at 9:30 the Elks will sponsor a dance for local members and their wives, followed by' a floor show at ll p.m. Dedication of the new building will be Saturday at 2:30. The Sat urday program will largely be giv en over to- visiting Elks, with an open house to start that day at ll a.m. On Saturday evening, there will be a buffet luncheon in the lodge dining room, starting al 0 p.m. A floor show, with some varia tions from that scheduled for Fri day night, will be presented Satur day evening at 8 p.m., followed by dancing. Hundreds of Elks from all parts of the state are expected for the Saturday program, with a special train to arrive from Klamath Falls in the early afternoon. Potato Meeting Due January 31 Special tn The lillllctirl REDMOND A public hearing ol interest to Oregon potato produc ers and handlers is to be held in Portland Monday, Jan. 31, accord ing to Merrill Webb, manager lor Oregon California Potato Mar ki'ting Agreement. Purpose of the hearing is to "receive evidence and testimony amending the O.C.P.M.A. order number 59." The major amendment proposed, Webb says, is that all other Oregon coun ties except Malheur be included with the five Oregon counties and t.vo California counties now cov ered by the order. The hearing will be held in the fourth floor conference room in the Ross Bids;.. S. W. Fifth street. starting at 3:30 a.m G. Osmond Hyde of the U.S.D.A. is announced as the hearing officer. At present. Webb says, the sev en counties in the U.L.P.M.A. or der are Deschutes. Crook, Jeffer son, Lake and Klamath, and Siski you and M.xloc on the northern edae of California. According to USDA figures the other Oregor counties, exclusive of Malheur, not now in the marketing agreement order represent 1-1 per cent of the total potato acreage and 10 per cent of the potato production vol ume for Oregon land the two Cal ifornia counties named!. Malheur is not figured into the picture in any way because that county goes with Idaho marketing agreement and production Other amendments to come be fore the h"aring will be adminis trative. Webb states. There will probably lie action also on the pmendment to the Agricultural Marketing Act pawed by the last 1' S. legislature Planning to attend from here are Webb, Roy Snabcl of Powell Butte chairman, and Bob Beesley. Turn all. secretary of the committee: Fred Hodecker. Redmond, a han dler member: F. J. Carienter. producer member from Madras: Norman Hvder. handler alternate memJvr. Oliver: and represents- fives from Klamath and Tulelake( hotels which nave cocktail lounges area The hearing is open to any-'also are opposed to any change in one Interested in attending. the commission setup at this time, -V'-"- Worcf War II Draff Dodger Found Sfrangled in N.Y. NEW YORK (UPi Serge Ru- house handyman, Jimmy Morse, binstein, 46, Russian-born draft i before returning to the wildly dis- dodger and worldwide financial manipulator, was found today bound, gagged and strangled by a murderer who ripped his plush bedroom to pieces apparently with out disturbing five other occupants of his swank Fifth Ave. house. Police said the multi-millionaire had been strangled with a piece of the same Venetian blind cord with which his hands and feet were bound. His mouth had been sealed with .adhesive tape. His body was discovered at 8:30 a.m. by his butler, William Morter, who called police and the Debate Begins On Partnership Power Proposal By WILLIAM WAKKKN toiled I'rcss Staff Correspondent SALEM (UP) A partnership power proposal, first of its kind n the country, came up for floor iction in the Oregon House today md drew immediate opposition in i minority report of the House Committee on State and Federal Affairs. A majority report of the com nittee favored a memorial to Congress urging immediate start m construction of the proposed CO million dollur John Day dam icross the Columbia river some .'5 miles cast of The Dalles. Under the partnership proposal, l group of private utilities in the 'acific Northwest, operating under he Pacific Northwest Power Com iany, would put up 161 million dollars. Estimated cost of the pow r part of the dam, as prepayment for power to be sold by the federal government at cost to them over i period of 50 years. At all times the federal govern ment would own and operate the lam and at the end of 50 years he utilities would have paid for he dam at no cost to the federal Tovernment. It would then con inue to operate the power feature dong with other uses of the dam. ncluding flood control, and sell he power to anyone, as that gen rated at Bonneville dam. The minority report which was irst up for debate as a substitute or the majority report, was made y Reps. Walter J. Pearson and Vlaurine Neuberger, Portland Democrats who favor construction nf the John Day dam by the fed 3ral government alone. Supporting the majority report vere Reps. William W. Bradeen if Burns, chairman; Loran L. '.tewart of Cottage Grove, Al xiucks of Salem, George Layman if Newberg and W. W. Chadwick if Salem. In the Senate, the Alcoholic Traffic Committee headed by Sen. Tarl Francis of Dayton, held a tearing yesterday afternoon on a oill by Sen. Robert D. Holmes of Gearhart to abolish the Oregon liquor Control Commission and replace it with a paid, full-time commissioner. Members of the OI.CC serve without pay. Delegates representing the Ore ;on Dispensers Asstx-iation said hat they thought the present com- nission is functioning well and no hange should be made at this c. v. Jones ot me Montana Alliance. AFL, said his group fa vors a three-man paid, full-time commission, but Is opposed to a jne-man commission. Ralph Holls-., iPplc secretary of the Portland Hotel Association, said owners of VWW ill. DO? gy arrayed bedroom. Bed Kipped Apart Rubinstein's 78-year-old mother Stella, entered the room shortly after their return and was report ed in hysterics. The short, swarthy international finagler was lying on his back on the floor, clad in black pajamas. police reported. One of the twin beds was unmussed. The other had been ripped apart, its sheets torn and its mattress tipped to the floor. Police Commissioner Francis W. II. Adams, who followed his top ranking officers to the swanky town house murder scene, said there was no evidence of forced entry to the house. Nor was there evidence of any violence to the priceless art ob jects and splendid (furnishings In the rest of the five-story white stone toivn house overlooking Cen tral Park. Others In House In addition to his mother and the buller, -Rubinstein's 82-year old aunt, Genia Forrestir, a cook and a maid were in the house through the night. The handyman, a day worker, had arrived shortly before the body was discovered. Mothers' March Plans Reported Announcement of the women who will spearhead the "Mothers' March on Polio" scheduled for next Monday evening in Bend was made today by Mrs. E. L. Moody, chairman of this phase of the cur rent Polio fund-raising drive. The Mothers' March is set for 6 to 7 p.m. next Monday evening, and the community has been di vided into areas to be canvassed The following women will be han dling the different sections: Mrs. Douglas Norton. Mrs. Robert Chandler, Mrs. Dave Keser, Mrs. Robert Welle, Mrs. Peter Alwin- ger, Mrs. Rex Thomas, Mrs. M. F. Lines, Mrs. John McCarthy, Mrs Harry Pierce, Mrs. K. H. Oakley, Mrs. Bruce Cullison. Mrs. W. R. Joanis. Mrs. Charles Stearns, Mrs. Don Brandvold, Mrs. James Lan zarotta, Mrs. O. H. Summers, and Mrs. Don Fahey. The group will meet at the Pine Tavern following the "March Homes not contacted during this important phase of the drive are urged to call 1953 and a special call will be made to pick up the donation. The Eastern Star Grange polio benefit dance last Saturday eve ning brought a total of $77.08 into the fund coffers. Roy Bradetich was general chairman for the event. Home Building Program Seen That plans may have jelled for construction of a number of new houses within the city is indicated hy the recent filing in Salem of articles of incorporation by Bend Properties, Inc. Two of the three men who filed the articles have long been men lioned in city hall and other cir fln ac hpintr intfrtfH in a lnr-a) ' iVelopment project. They are I George F. Brice Jr., of the Brice , 'Co.. and Jerome F. Morse. The third partner is Ed ward B. Twining. It is understood mat the newly incorporated firm plans the con- struction of several new houses on individual lots on the east side. ( The houses, it is rpported, would be offered for sale under long-term financing. fid Reservoir Trial May Continue Into Next Week Special to The Bulletin t'KiNfcivlLLK The court room duel between the State Construc tion company and Bend went into its fourth day today, with the? pros pect that the trial may continue into next week. Several officials of the suing company were called to the stand yesterday to describe aspects of construction of the five - million gallon reservoir on Awbrey heights. Recalled to the stand was Edgar G. Ifart, partner of the firm, who detailed steps taken by him and other members of his outfit In fixing cost estimates of the job, The company contends In Its suit for damages totaling $05,205 that it was forced to exceed its bidded estimate by that amount to cover additional work and materi als not foreseen at the time the contract was made. Hart testified that costs were considerably swelled when con struction workers unexpectedly bit solid rock while excavating the reservoir site. Hart was first called to the stand Monday, opening day of the trial, and was subsequently re called by company's attorneys on Tuesday and again yesterday. Also called for the plaintiff yes terday was L. A. Curtis, who su pervised the local reservoir proj ect, undertaken in 1952 and com pleted the next year. Hart was on the stand through most of yesterday, first questioned at length about details of construc tion by the company's attorney Robert H. Foley, and then cross- questioned by the city's attorney. Paul Sayer. More witnesses for the plaintiff were expected to be called to tes tify today, with the defense to open their argument and call their first witness either late today or sometime tomorrow. The city, in a counter-suit, asks damages of $(i5.000 from the com pany for alleged reduction in the value of the reservoir resulting from "poor workmanship." Serving as consultant to defense attorneys is City Manager Waller T. Thompson. New Industries Among Topics for Chamber Meeting Plans for attracting "several new industries here" will be de tailed at the general membership meeting of the Bend Chamber ol Commerce, President Owen Pan ner said today. ' Panner said he hoped all mem hers of the chamber would attend the noon session Friday so they can be "advised" of steps being taken to attract new business to Bend. Panner said last year's activities of the board would be reviewed at the general meeting, to he held in the Pine Tavern. He said that he and members of the board of directors of the hambcr arc looking for stiggi1 :jon5 on how the chamber's indus trial program ran lie stepned up This will mark the first general membership meeting in several years, Panner said. On The Inside Sports Society Editorials w eai new Comics Classified 5. 6 2a 3a Ike Doubfs Action Will Lead fo War WASHINGTON (UP) Presi dent Eisenhower feels strongly hat the Formosan resolution will lot lead to preventive war. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said today. The California!! disclosed the President's sentiments after a call at the White House at which he brought the President up to date on the situation in the Senate Senate critics of the resolution which gives the President unlim ited authority to defend Formosa hoped to amend it to forbid the U. S. forces to attack the Red China mainland. Several senators said the reso lution was an action leading to preventive war. Says Itcsoliitloii Clear But Kno.vland reported there is clearly no question in the Pres ident s mind ' about the purpose of the resolution. He said Mr Eisenhower does not feel it will lead to preventive war. Knowland said there is no "rea suitable basis for anyone to assume that is the intent." Indications were strong that the resolution will be approved as or iginally submitted by the Presi dent when it comes up for a final vole, perhaps tomrrow. It al ready has cleared the House. Knowland said there would be no shooting on the part of Ameri can forces protecting Formosa un less they were attacked. In event of attack, he said, nc citizen expects "our ships to be shot at like sitting ducks and not return the fire." Predicts Passage Knowland predicted the resolu tion would pass overwhelmingly and without amendment. I'lk 21 Kust rl pgh Some Grave Warning On War Issued By MacArthur LOS ANGELES (UPI Gen. Douglas MacArthur called on world leaders Wednesday night to help lbolish war or face the possibility that the earth may someday be destroyed in a giant nuclear blast. The next great advance in the volution ot civilization cannot take place until war is abolished," MacArthur said in a speech com memorating his 75lh birthday. He received a standing ovation from a crowd of 1,000 before he spoke. The leaders ale the laggards," MacArthur said. "The disease of power seems to contuse and be fuddle them." He said the ordinary people of the world, whether slave or free, agree that war should be abolished. "And this perhaps is the only thing in the world they do agree upon," he said. Describes (ireat "Illusions" lie said present tensions with their threat of national annihilation are kept alive by two great 11 lusinns. "The one a complete belief on the part ol the Soviet world that the capitalist countries are preparing to attack them. ..and the other a complete belief on the part of the capitalistic countries that the Soviet are preparing to attack us." Both are wrong, he said. For either side war with the other would mean nothing but disaster "But the constant acceleration of preparation may well, without specific intent, ultimately produce 'i spontaneous combustion." MacArthur also charged that the Formosa crisis demonstrates "the 'nherent weakness" of collective security and warned that the ulti mate fate of the Far East and the rest of the world will not be settled by war. He said the United Slates must "break out of the straight jacket of the past" and proclaim its readiness to abolish war along with 'he other world powers. Warns Of Nuclear Suicide MacArthur warned that unless the masses force the nlil1tion of war. a preparedness nice may throw the world into a suicidal nuclear war by "spontaneous com bustion." MacArthur stormed mightily against war throughout his entire speech. The famed "Old Soldier" plead ed with leaders on lioth sides of the Iron Curtain to heed the wishes of their peoples by seeking n work able plan for disarmament and peace and decried recent state ments in Washington thai the na tion must go on, for 50 years or more, preparing for war as a means of preserving peace. Wing Sent Fleet N. P. Smifh, 87, Resident of Bend, Succumbs By rilll. K. BKCKiAN Bulletin Stuff Writer A pioneer who watched Bend grow from a hamlet on the Des chutes to a city of some 12,000 pei-sons died here Wednesday eve ning. He was N. P. Smith, 87, who with his bride of a few days came to Farewell Bend by stagecoach from The Dalles in 1902, cruised timber, constructed the village's first sidewalk, watched junipers and sagebrush 'being removed frojn Wall street and founded a business. Nicholas Paul Smith, born on Aug. 1, 1808, In Manhattan, Keve nau county, Michigan, was stricken Wednesday morning, victim of a heart attack suffered after being ill from influenza. He died about N P. Smith, Bend pioneer of IfltrJ who died at his home here last night, whs The Bulletin's oldest subscriber. He started taking the paper when publica tion started in March, 1903, and wus a continuous subscriber since Hint date. He was honored in The Bulletin's (iolilcn Anni versary edition as a hulf-eentury subscriber. 6 p.m. in his apartment at 935 Wall street, above the quarters where he established a hardware store in !1909. The store quarters are now t occupied by The Vogue Mr. and Mrs. Smith, wno were married In The Dalles on June 29, 19U2, shortly niter tnnr aare made the long, dusty trip to Bend bv stagecoach and stopped at the early-day Pilot Butte Inn, a frame building on the site of the modern inn. They observed their golden wedding anniversary here in 1952, as Bend prepared lo observe its 50lh anniversary. Mrs. Smith has been ill since this past fall and her condition is now serious. She is at home. When the young couple, who first met in Bimidji, Minn., came to Bend as newlyweds in 1902, only few families lived within the present confines of Bend. Bill Brock had homasleaded In the Kenwood area of the present. Charles Cottor, who came to Bend in 1!M) as a cook for A.M. Drake, founder of Bend, had a homestead in the north part of the present town. The W. II. Staats family lived on the river, near the pres ent mill area. John Sisemoro lived where the Brooks Scanlon plant now stands. E. A. .Slither, still College Student CORVAI.LIS (UP) Vernon Eu ene Duiker, 28 year-old Oregon State College student working for his doctor s degree, was injured fatally early today when the car in which he was riding plunged off Highway 20 and struck a tree half a mile west of here. Duiker was smashed against the tree and dii-d in a local hospital i bou I 2 1-2 hours after the acci dent, lie was a passenger in I car driven by Charles R. Moi schatiscr, 23, a research assistant it the forest products laboratory it Oregon Stale. Morsehauser was treated at the hospital and re leased. Duiker wos a research fellow in Zoology and had been at Oregon State? since the spring of 1952. His father, Roelos Duiker, is a min ister at Volga, South Dakota. II was the first 1955 traffic death in Benton county. Road Report Issued by State SALEM ( UP I All roads still open for the winter in Oregon w- -lear enough so that motorists did not need to carry chains on any of them, the State Highway De partment said today. I Spots of Ire were reported at Government Camp. Timherlino. jWnrm Springs function, Cascade Locks. Tillamook, Prospect, Siski Ivou. Green Springs. Santiam pass. J Willamette pass, Bly, I.akeview, ll-aplne, Mearham and Seneca. of to Sabrejets Bolster Off Formosa Early-Day PIONEER DIES N. P. Smith, a resident of Bend since 1902, died at his home here Wed nesday evening following a heart ' attack suffered that morning. Mr. Smith construct ed Bend's first sidewalks, wood en structures along Wall Street in pioneer days. resident of Bend, was here, as was J. I. West and a tew others. The Bend townslte was not plat ted until 1904; and became an in corporated town Just 50 years ago nils month. Mp, ana- Mrs. Smith first lived in the present Shevlin park area, on a homestead, and later moved Into the neiv community of Bend, Mr. Smith in 1903 built the town's first sidewalk, from the old Pilot Butte Inn location to the Drake of fice. That street later became known as Wall because of a wall of rock that fronted Hie Drake property. Mr. Smith, a carpenter, worked on many early day build ings, including the present Ma sonic lodge. The Smith building on Wall slreet is now the only frame struc ture on that street, and is one of the oldest business buildings here. OM timers recall that in early years, Mr. Smith placed a gaso line pump In front of his store, to service the occasional automobiles that found their way Into Central Oregon over pioneer roads. Aside from his wife, the. former Cora Bell Chapman of Bimidji Mr. Smith is survived by two sons, Lester, of Florrisnnt, Mo., and El mcr, of San Anselmo, Calif., and one daughter, Marjorie, of Bend. l'hree granddaughters also sur vive. Mr. Smith was a charter mem ber ol the Knights of Pythias lodge here, and served as deputy grand chancellor in 1!K)7. He was a mem ber of the Deschutes Pioneers' as sociation. Funeral arrangements are being held in abeyance until Mr. Smith's sons reach Bend. Evidence Study Planned by Kirk BERKELEY, Calif. UPI Dr Paul Kirk, the $100-a day lalmra ory criminologist, had some of his favorite non - forgetting unprej udiced physical evidence from the Sbeppard murder case to lest to day. The slight, dapper University o' California biochemist returned 'rom four days on the murder scene last night and said he "got something" connected with the case, but refused to say what or how important the "something" was. "All I can say is the case is not closed. I have to make some ex aminations and analyse anil inter iret before I can reach any ilefin- te conclusions." he said as be irrived at the San Francisco Air Krt from Cleveland. Kirk, who o'ten ntnu-ars as an 'XTiert witness in criminal cases. aid it would be two weeks to a month before he makes an official 'eiort on his findings. That report will en first to chief lefense counsel William J. Corri an, who hired the Intense little "oil pro professor in hopes of find ing new information that might help win Dr. Samuel Shcppurd, convicted wife slayer, a new trial. n New Defiance Of United States Hurled by Reds By HII.IJAM MILI.EK United Press Stuff Correspondent TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) A full wing of U.S. Air Force Sabrejets arrived here today to reinforce the powerful U.S. 7th fleet in the evac uation of the Tachen Islands where Communist Invasion appeared Imminent. Chinese Communists had an In vasion fleet of 1000 junks carrying 120,000 men within 20 miles of the island outposts 200 miles north of Formosa. At tlie same time Pelp- ing Radio proclaimed anew its de fiance of the United States. The U.S. Air Force announced in Tokyo it also was moving up offensive units" jet bombers to forward bases to cope with any eventuality as the 18th Flghter- Bom'ber Wing of 75 MIG-killing Sabres flew to Formosa airfields from Okinawa and the Philippines. The F-86s ran up a 13 to 1 vic tory over the MIG's in Korea. Firm Warning Military observers Here saw the movement ot American air strength as a firm warning to Red China that the United States was dead set on carrying out a suc cessful evacuation ol Tachen when the final orders come from Wash ington. These observers said the United States was bringing such powerful military forces to bear in the For- mosa area that Red China might be "persuaded" lo stand aside and allow the peaceful evacuation of the 30,000 Nationalists in the Tach ens. Whether the Reds would do that u'as a major question. Communist broadcasts said they would not be "intimidated" and Nationalist sources said the Reds had massed 120.000 men In the Tachen area, 150.000 opposite.. Quemoy Island, 300 miles to the south, and 50,000 at Malsti, midway between. Lt. Gen. Roger Ramey, com mander of the U.S. 5th Air Force in- Japan, arrived here lo super vise the deployment of America's first armed forces to Formosa, a move described by top American military leaders as one "to pro vide U.S. Air Force power at any place needed." Hull On Scene Gen. John E. Hull, the U.S. Far Eastern commander and head of the United Nations forces in Kor ea, prepared to fly from Hong Kong lo Tokyo tomorrow alter a visit lo Thuiland. He would not comment on the critical Formosan situation but said it is important 'hat there be no break in the al 'ied defense line from Japan to the Philippines. He sakl he believed it would not "ie necessary to re-deplov Ameri can ground forces In the Far East, saying "I do not think any immed ate change is necessary." The Nationalist cabinet met to lay and Generalissimo Chiang 'ai-shek was reported to have ',iven his personal approval to 'vaeuation of the Tachens, but naking it clear he was "yielding" 'o American desires. KOfiOKO I P MENLO PARK, Calif. (UP) Po ice set up flares to halt Southern "nciflc trains Wednesday when hey spotted un auto driving up he trucks. The driver. Robert C. Brook, 25, vhen stopped asked: "Doesn't this 'o to the parking lot? I thought t did, but of course my wind hield is all fogged up." IT'S STRICTLY CLASSIFIED T Ihf month nftT ChrMmM tiownnwrt niair all alone. One rn-ntitro ioitiK A in) how h rfl t moan. Thiivicli Of kH like thr toys A'lll till- HTI-f m h't. Oi l lnl knt-w no j.iyo Tati1 he tifvl In 'rtmit.' Hit io-t! h foiinil In t'f hm" hn he ir Ati'1 tlicy n tnnifl lo h liinko to Hul'rtin Clwnifid. The M sire r'm he rt-liletl, T'ie nm 't he soM "nkintr tit " contented Tmt he im.mntljr !M Hit friends in1 relation!, Who all now ilecl i T'l he pnfl-'le.) Ulert Of the Hulletin Clarified. Y. Sir. F. IV-I Thr' Just lota of oil'lii and enfta around th houtt that T-'H can turn into rath Jut call 6 and let this lit'l bit of mafic work for ou too.