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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1955)
Ualv. of Oragoa Library euseus, oasaos , - v ; iCJ:;x. Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. High today 40-45. Low tonight 20-25. High Tuesday 38-43. 52nd Year One Section Curtailment Of Welfare Program Set curtailment' "to emergency cases" ol medical assistance giv en by the County Welfare Depart ment was ordered by the Welfare commission at its meeting in the county building Friday afternoon. Miss Olive Jameson, department director, said the cut was ap proved in an attempt to hold gen eral assistance expenditures with in the tight current budget. "We're scraping the bottom of the barrel," Miss Jameson re marked, i Reporting on February expendi tures by her department, the di rector said it "appears that we're going to be short in general as- - sistance funds." "For that reason," she continued "the commission decided to re strict medical expenditures to emergency care' only." : This restriction, she said, would prevent the purchase of glasses and other not strictly emergency items. Total expended through the de partment in February was $22,- 370.38, a slight jump over the pro vious month. Miss Jameson said In January-the department admin istered $21,846. Miss Jameson also reported the commission voted to set a maxi mum on housing allowances. She said the ceiling would apply to rent and utility costs. Chief reason for budget problems this year is the unexpected sharp rise in aid to dependent children costs, Miss Jameson said. She cited the rise in expenditures from this fund during the current fiscal period, from $2062 last July to $1503 last month. The breakdown of expenditures from welfare fund in February: General assistance. $2195.54; old ai;e assistance. $13,255; uid to de pended children, $4503.84; aid to blind, $59; aid to disabled, $2357. Of general fund expenditures, HH7.39 was spent for medical care, Miss Jameson reported. Of the re mainder. $886.57 was for foster rare and $321.58 for direct relief. Cut in medical care expenses was forced because of withdraw als from the general assistance fund to cover the aid to depen dent children account. To cover medical care not classed "emergencv," Miss Jame son said efforts will be doubled to encourage the families of welfare patients to finance needed treat ment. Arctic Weather Sends Mercury To Low Marks Arctic weather slipped into the Shevlin-Chemult area again last night and dropped temperatures below zero. Shevlin reported a chilly 4 be low this morning, and at nearby Chemult the mercury stood at mi nils 2. All other reporting points in Oregon registered above - zero marks, with Bend enjoying a mild 18 above under clear skies. Burn; reported 14 above, but at Seneca in the highlands to the northeast the mercury dropped to 3 above. No snow fell on mountain passes last night and all Oregon "high ways were in good mid-winter shape today. Some slick spot were reported. Medford Driver Injured Fatally ROSKBURG IUPI A Medford man was fatally Injured Saturday afternxn when the car he was driving plunged over an embank ment near I he summit of Canyor niorntuin. about 30 miles south o' here on highway 99. Rnvmnnd Leslie Johnson. 26. o Metlfonl was 'mind pinned under his car shortly after noon. He was rushed to the Forest Glen clinit at C'nnyotiville where he died al 1:40 p.m. State police were unable to de termine when the accident oc purnvi, but thought that Johnsor had been pinned beneath the car fur some time. Officer Fred Jung wiiih said it appeared that John s in had 'alien asleep. The body was removed to the Ganz mortuary at Myrtle Creek Supper Program Planned by GOC The Ground Observer Corps will hld a chili supper tonight at 6:30 at Brooks Memcrlil hall, in con nection w ith the, regular meeting Members and their families and friends are invited to attend. Mrs. Charles B. Hinds Jr. is in charge of arrangements. THE BEND I " I! 0 I? KEYNOTE SPEAKER Mrs. Joy Hills Gubster, assistant state superintendent of public instruction, was the keynote speaker as the Central Oregon Teachers' conference opened here' this morning at the Kenwood school gymnasium. She was pinch hitter on the program for Dr. Rex Putnam, who was unable to make the trip to Bend for the four-county conference. (Bend Bulletin Photo Increase -In Mental Health Problems Noted by Speaker Increase of mental health prob - lems in the United States was cited by Mrs. Joy Hills Gubster, assistant state superintendent of schools, in a speech this morning opening the 17th annual Central Oregon Teachers conference. She told the approximately 400 teachers from four mid-Oregon counties who crowded Kenwood school gym that each should be 'personally and professionally' concerned with the growing rate of mental illness. Mrs. Gubster .said that one out of every 12 children "will need some kind of assistance sometime Water Run Set By COI District Special to The Bulletin REDMOND The Central Ore gon Irrigation district will make its regular domestic run of water near the end of this month, it was announced today by Olaf An derson, district manager. The water will be turned in for about four days for Hie customary tilling of cisterns and stock ponds. If weather permits, another five days or so will be added, for irri gation. Farmers had expressed the de sire for early use of water for ir rigation, because the unusual dry to be worked. Low night tern ly dry winter has left fields too peratures leave some question as to the desirability of a longer than usual watering period, because of the danger of water flooding over frozen headgates. The domestic run will be made ven thoueh low niiht tempera tures continue, but the extra run for irrigation may be delayed if weather is extremely cold. The district officials are anxious to make both the domestic and irrigation runs as early as possi ble, preferably continuo'irlv, be "ause about three weeks of work emnin to m:ike the canals readv "or the beginning of the regular summer-long irrigation season. Searchers Find Sabena Airliner ROME (UP) Italian search ilanes today reported they have otiid and identified the missing "Selgian Sabena airliner which rashed eight days ago with 29 tersons. including four Americans iboard. The search pilots said there was no sign of survivors at the crash cene 45 miles northeast of Rome Search headquarters at Vigna ii Valle. north of Rome, said pho- ograohs of the broken plane, lo cated on a mountain peak, proved 'hat the smashed fuselage was that if the long sought plane. Military ski patrols immediate ly left Terminillo. a ski resort, for i five-mile push through heavy mow to the scene of the crash KKKAKK IN REPORTED WILLAMINA (UPl- The New- Vy drug store here was broker nto by yeggs early yesterday who nade off with narcotics, liquor nd S6S3 in cash. Police said entry had been made V boring through a rear dorr and hat the safe had been punched. Tie thieves also took a number f Oregon Liquor Commission tax stamps. in his lifetime because of mental illness. She substituted as keynote speaker for the state superinten dent, Rex Putnam, who was de tained in Salem. The theme of mental healjh was to be featured through the all-day session at the local school. The annual conference was joint ly sponsored by the superinten dents of four mid-state counties, Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook and Harney. Chairman was Cecil Sly, super intendent of Crook county schools. Speaking at the morning session of the institute along with Mrs, Gubster were Cecil W. Posey, executive secretary of the Oregon Education association, and Dr. II. E. Chamberlin, psychologist from Sacramento, Calif. Dr. Chamberlin and Mrs. Gub ster were members of a panel in the afternoon session. Panel sub ject was Life Adjustment Edu cation and was moderated by Dr. J. H. Stewart, director of the Tri County Health department. Other members of the panel were Dr. John H. Waterman, di rector of the mentnl hygiene sec tion of the state board of health, his wife, a psychologist with the hygiene section, Mrs. Marguerite Boyce, vice-principal and dean of girls at Crook County high school, and Dr. Herold Lillywhite, Univer sity of Oregon Medical school. Chamberlin was to conclude the session with a discussion of "Men tal Health and Maturity." The Bend high school choir and the Qrook County high school mu sic department provided music in terludes in the round of talks and panel discussions. Schools throughout "the four- county area were dismissed for the day. OCE President Dies at Desk MONMOUTH (UP) Dr. Roben I." Maaske, president of Oregon College of Education, was 'ound lead at his desk here yesterday liter apparently suffering a heart Utack. Maaske, 51, is survived by his vife, Iola. He was president of eastern Oregon College of Educa ion at La Grande before coming lere in 1950. Earlier he was with he state department of education it Salem. Dr. Maaskc's death leaves the state Board of Higher Education with two presidential vacancies to ill one to replace Maaske and one the newly-created Portland State College. Byron C. Kline Dies at Age of 94 Special to The Bulletin IX)NG BEACH. Calif -Byron C. Kline, 94. a farmer in the Clover tale community of Deschutes county, Oregon, for some 20 years, died here Sunday. He was the fa ther of Harold and Sam Kline, for merly of Bend, and now of Long Beach. Mr. Kline's survivors include his wife. Mrs. Cine is 93. Thev were married in .Ames. Iowa. 70 vears ago. Mr. and Mrs. Kline lived in the Ooverdale community until about 1930. Funeral services will be held here Tuewiay at 2:30 p.m., at Mot tels. Mortuary. CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon. Monday. February 21. 1955 Edgar Faure , Seeks Backing Of Socialists By W1LBI K LAXDKEV Vnlted Press Staff Correspondent PARIS (UP) Premier-designate Edgar Faure, 46, turned today to the Socialists for support before maKing a tormat decision on whether to try to form a cabinet and end France's 17-day-old gov ernment crisis. Faure, a Radical Socialist and foreign minister in the fallen gov ernment of Pig rre Mcndes - France saia ne expected to give his answer to President Rene Coty by tonight or Tuesday morning. Faure already had won quick right-wing support which boosted his chances higher than any of ihe three other men who have tried and failed to replace Mendes -France. It was the right-wing that toppled Mendes-France. - Talks Begin , He began his round of talks with Socialist leaders at the Q u a i d'Orsay at 4 a.m. EST, meeting first with Christian Pineau, -whose attempt to form a cabinet was turned down early Saturday by the National Assembly. Sources close to Faure said his aim was either to get the Social ists to vote for him considered most unlikely or to get them to abstain. If they abstain he believes he can be invested as premier by the simple majority now required. Faure, an economist who served as premier for one month and 11 days in early 1952, has outlined a platform that includes ratification of the treaties to rearm Germany and giving home rule to Tunisia- one of the issues that toppled Mendes-France. If ratification should be accom panied by a plan for "parallel" talks with the East, as many in the assembly have demanded, Faure would be in a good parleying po sition for he speaks fluent Rus-stans""-- ' ' - After hearing what Faure has to say, the Socialists were to meet in party caucus at 11:30 a.m. EST for a decision on where they stand on his premiership bid. , Politicians and observers were wary or pegging Faure s chances after seeing Antoine Pinay, Pierre Pflimlin and Pineau bowled over by difficulties in the first two weeks of the crisis. ' Faure conferred a long time on Sunday night with Mendes-France who stepped in last month to stop duel between Faure and news paper editor Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber. He also conferred with many ex-political leaders and said he was hopeful of success. IN FIRST PLACE COOS BAY (UP)-Clarence Don ahue of Hubhard rolled a 670 yes terday to take over first place in the Class A singles competition of the 1955 Oregon Men's Bowling championships. The tournament ends next Sunday. TOTTERED ON BRINK This car with its $ix occupants, most ly children, tottered on the brink of the Deschutes Saturday afternoon when it left the highway and crashed inio lava rocks after its driver, Mrs. Ben Davis, "blacked out." Examining the car is Lawrence . Huettl, father of Mrs. Davis. (Bond Bulletin Photo) Narrow Squeak for 6 in Car Six occupants of a car, several not require hospitalization, of them children, narrowly escaped, in thrIir with Mr. rmvi. unrn serious injury Saturday afternoon in an accident at the Deschutes pi.,,... rA,. ........ 1... L. 1 . .. imVi. uZT The car was moving north at an' estimated speed of 30 miles an,"ul " hour when the driver, Mrs. Ben WTien the car came to rest, with Davis, the former Doris Huettl. l,s radiator crushed against the "blacked out." crossed the road i roadside boulders, its left wheels and Dluneed into massive lava ! we hanging In the air over the rocks at the river edge Mrs. Dav is is believed to have fainted. She suffered' cuts and. bruises, but did BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER 2 aoiors K A Missing Nation's Worst Blizzard in 6 Years Roars Into Canada, Another May Sweep Plains '; The nation's worst blizzard in six years roared into Canada to day, but a new blizzard threatened lb sweep across the Great Plains. ! The devastating weekend storm left at least 42 persons dead, mountainous drifts, and scores of marooned travellers in its wake, i Great Plains residents had hard ly begun the job of digging out today when the Weather Bureau announced that a new cold wave, peeking zero temperatures and snow, would sweep out of Mon tana. "It's got all the makings of a blizzard," a forecaster said. The Great Falls, Mont, Weather Bureau said a cold wave, followed by snow, would spread across the state tonight and tomqrrow. Winds up to 30 miles an hour, blowing oi drifting snow, and tempera tures falling to or below zero were predicted. I More Snow Expected Snow and much colder weather were expected in the Dakotas, while the Omaha, Neb., Weather Bureau issued a special advisory of icy air and zero temperatures. Nebraska, buried under up .to 12 inches of snow by the last bliz zard, was due for "rather severe blowing and drifting snow, the advjsorsald. ; '-. I kThe weekend blizzard rook freak cut northward last night aft er lashing parts of Nebraska, the Dakotas and Minnesota. By UNITED PRESS Heavily populated areas to the east were spared from the wintry blasts, but snow driven by howling winds blanketed most of southern Manitoba and northwestern On tario today. Bitter winter weather meanwhile struck in two other parts of' the globe. The North Sea froze and a smoke-haze turned the sky green over Britain. In the China Sea, a violent storm which killed three persons and sank or crippled 38 vessels began to weaken. This nation's blizzard was the worst since 1919, when a vast "Operation Snowbound" was launched to rescue stranded ranch ers, farmers and livestock. It packed highways deep with snow, and deaths caused by traf- fic accidents, over-exertion and exposure claimed a rising toll of r .. .,nnt . n. and Lou Ann, and her two step- children, Patty and LaDel Davis '"ey . , u ana snaKP"' DUI slope that leads to the river. Mrs. Davli Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Huettl, 0 Do Sub lives. New Mexico Tragedy The greatest weather - caused tragedy was in New Mexico, where an airliner carrying 16 persons crashed into a mountain - peak during a snow storm. A 15-man rescue party reached the still-smoking wreckage Sun day. All 16 persons were dead. In Nebraska, -which felt the Wiz ard's full fury for three snow bound days, four rescue workers were still missing today... Snow plows had boken through wind-whipped drifts to rescue scores of marooned motorists to day. But many other travellers were still stranded in small towns where they had taken refuge dur ing the storm. Ten persons, including five chil dren, spent a night in a snow- marooned car near Ogalalla, Neb., and rescue crews reached 10 motorists who sought shelter in an isolated farm home near Cheyenne Wyo. John Edmondson, 34, Cement, Okla., who struck out from a stalled car to seek help for three companions, was found in a ditch where he had spent more than seven hours during three-above weather. Bis shoes were gone and his hands and feet were complete ly frozen. Edmondson was in crit ical condition today in a Sidney, Neb., hospital. Baby Is Born , At Scottsbluf, Neb., a snow plow saved the day as it cut through drifts to get Mrs. La- verne Keller to a hospital, bhe gave birth to a baby girl. Temperatures that dropped be low zero In some areas made the job of digging out of the blizzard tougher today. 5 Bodies Taken From Wreckage ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., (UP) - Ground rescue teams' today re covered five bodies from the shat tered wreckage of a TWA liner which plowed into a rocky crag 15 miles east of here Saturday, kil ling 16 persons. State polie said the bodies were so badly disfigured that identifica tion was not immediately possible. The bodies were recovered in a scorched area apparently burned out when the fuselage caught fire after it strutk the Needle Peak, 9000 feet above sea level. The Air Force meanwhile rushed 12 pack horses into the area to aid in re moving the bodies. The ground party reached the scene shortly before dusk yester day and radioeq state police there were no signs of survivors. But search for bodies was delayed until dawn today. Storm Slams Northern Japan TOKYO (UP) Three persons were known dead and 251 others missing today in a violent sneak itorm that pounded shipping in Ihe East China Sea. The storm roared up the back- nhore coast to Northern Japan yesterday leaving sunken and crip oled ships in its wake. Although some big vessels were crippled, most of the casualties were crewmen on fishing boats. Authorities said 14 fishing craft were either sunk or missing along ihe storm-lashed co-ret of Formosa. Two othcra ran aground. The Japanese Coast Guard said ive ships were sunk, 38 others were missing and 13 ran aground. Three bodies were recovered. Twenty nine of the missing ves- .els were part of a fleet of 38 cod fish boats operating out of Hok kaido. At least four large shins sent out distress signals at the height of the storm which struck without warn ing In the China Sea. Eight Pages Dead, FORUM SPEAKER Miss Betty Collins, Irish-born quaker worker who directed the com munity center in the America's sector of Berlin for five years, will be speaker before the .Central Oregon Forum here Tuesday night. Quaker Worker To Talk Here Communist controlled East Ger many is doing a more effective job of winning over Us youth than the Democratic Bonn government, according to Miss Betty Collins, Irish-born Quaker worker who will speak in Bend Tuesday evening. Miss Collins, who served as di rector of the Quakers' Mittelhof community center in Berlin's American sector for the first five years, said the "enormous amount" done by the East German government for Its young people is what reconciles many Germans to accept life under despotic con ditions. Miss Collins will appear here under the auspices of the Central OreiJbn Forum, and will speak in the Thompson school auditorium. The meeting lll begin at 7:30. Under the . direction of Hugh Cole, Mike Salo and Don Pence, the Forum this past year present ed Dr. Clifford Maser of Oregon State college and Sen. Wayne Morse. Miss Collins' speaking engage ments in Oregon are sponsored by the Portland branch of the Amer ican' Friends Service committee. She will make her first appear ance of a series In Bend. Retail Merchants Group to Meet An organizational meeting of the retail merchants committee of the chamber of commerce was set for Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the chamber office following a short meeting of the group this morning at the Pine Tavern. Ray LeBlanc, chairman of the retail merchants group for the coming year, urged all relail busi nessmen of the city to attend the Thursday night session, when plans will be outlined for the com ing year. The group will discuss a park ing meter recommendation for the city commission, he said, and will settle the question of keeping stores open or closed on Armistice day. Also on the agenda will be a possible forum next full on re tail business in Bend. Britain in Grip Of Cold Spell LONDON (UP) The worst colt' spell in eight years gripped Britain under heavy snows today and ex tended across the continent. Ten German Boy Scouts wer' reported lost in blizzards tha' burled them in the Austrian Alps where they were undergoing r "courage test." The weather was blamed for five deaths in Britain and five in Sweden. On the French Riviera, e 70-veiir-old man was swept a way and drowned by a huge wave tha' engulfed the promenade at Men ton. The drend "black frost" which Inst month snnk three British trawlers off Iceland with the loss of 40 lives struck In Oslo Fjord Norway, last night. The layer of ice forming on the C57-ton coaster Toron caused it to heel over and sink but there were no casualties. High and Low Max. yesterday. 34 degrees. Sunset today. 5:40. Sunrise tomorrow. 6:57. No. 65 i - Four Others Badly Injured In Explosion SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Two sailors were killed, three others are missing and presumed dead and four were seriously Injured when a seies of explosions rocked the submarine USS Pomodon at its berth in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, the Navy reported today. The three explosions, the first of which took place about 9:20 o'clock last night, were followed immedi ately by a fire that caused "a lot of damage" to the World War II sub. Sailors aboard another sub, the USS Catfish, and the carrier Phil ippine Sen, as well as civilians, helped in rescue operations. Many donned oxygen masks and boarded the burhlng Pomodon. . Two civilian, fire fighters were injured and three other persons were treated fo smoke inhalation. Four Removed Alive The rescuers managed to re- move lour men, three of whom were later taken to Oak Knoll Hos- nitnl in nUln nn ...til - 1L. ) two dead men. . , Oak Knoll gave the names of the injured as Lt. Lloyd Rudasell White, Poe Street, San Diego; Bobby Douglas Pulliam, a seaman and sonar expert; and Carlin Joe codd, an engine man. i im? iiuvc .missing iiicn - wen? . "presumed" to be. aboard the sub and to have succumbed to the deadly hydrogen fumes. Firemen managed to bring the fire under' control two hours after it broke out, but the Navy forbade anyone to go aboard until the task of pumping the hydrogen out of the hull was completed. A Navy spokesman said the pumping opeations would take any where from several hours to scver- al days. They had to work with extreme caution lest the least false move touch off another searing blast. Huge ' signs reading, "Danger! Explosive area," marked off the area around the Pomodon. Crew men from the Pomodon who were not on duty at the time milled around silently. They refused to talk to newsmen. ml .Lt. I. i i i. . . . Cmdr. Charles Almy of Sari Diego, who also declined to speak to re porters. ' The only noise breaking the . luiet of the shipyard early today was the sound of the pump work ing to remove the gas. Brilliant loodllghts played over the scene. The Pomodon was just about, eaily 'o go to sea after un over haul. Its batteries were being charged, a process that results in 'he creation of the explosive hy- Irogen gas. The forward battery, where the explosions took place, has 252 cells. Navy officials did not know whether Ihe Pomodon's hydrogen ietector was functioning last night. Fear further Explosions "There is still a chance for fur her explosions while the venting continues," they said. "The bat- cries are still discharging and we lon't know when they'll stop. , 'Our crews have attached hoses the hull and they are tryng to ilow the gas out. It is a very Icklish business." The rescue operations were tnder the personal direction of 'apt. W. L. Turney, commander f the shipyard. He was directing ibout 50 men. The ship suffered no exterior lamnge. She was still floating and led to her dock. A Navy spokesman said a board if Inquiry will be convened to In- 'estigate the accident. Names of the missing men were lot announced. Names of the dead ind Injured were withheld pending lolifivation of next of kin. The Pomodon, a vessel displuc ng 1570 tons and 310 feet In 'ength, was built at Portsmouth, N.H., Navy Yard and launched In '945. She was modernized in 1947. Ihe normally carries a crew of 85 ifficers and men. NEW LEADER ALBANY (UP) The new leader in the Class A singles of the Ore gon Women's Bowling tournament here Is Dorothy Raisanen of Port land. She rolled a 565 yesterday to oust Louise Oar of Coos Bay who had the previous high of 557. Th
