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Founder Of
Penicillin Dies
In London
LONDON (UP)-Sir Alexander
Fleming, the discoverer ol peni
cillin, died today.
"There had been no previous
knowledge that Fleming was 111
and the cause of his death was
not announced.
The white-haired scientist was
73. . .
He died in his London home,
not fur from St. Mary's Hospital
where he discovered penicillin by
accident. It was one of the most
momentous accidents in the his
tory of medicine.
Accidental Discovery
The beneficial accident came
about this way: .
"Fleming was puttering about in
his small laboratory in 1929. A
speck-sized fleck of wind-borne
mold was wafted through an open
window. This was an event that
set off a chain reaction leading
lo the eventual discovery of peni
cillin in 1912.
The speck settled in a saucer
containing a germ culture. Flem
ing absently took a look at it
through a microscope. The germs
in the saucer were dying.
.'There the accident ended, and
the genius took over. Working
with the whisker-like vegetable
molds such as housewives see on
decayed fruit, Fleming made pen
icillin, the drug that almost mi
raculously prevents multiplication
of bacteria in the human body.
No Personal Profit
,,But It was characteristic of the
quiet and retiring scientist that he
did not profit commercially from
penicillin's discovery.
He was born in Ayshire, Scot
land, In 1881. He was graduated
from St. Mary's Medical School,
taking almost every honor and
prize in his class.
After that, most of his life was
spent In teaching at St. Mary's
and at London University.' The
only break in this routine came
when he served as a captain In
the British Army Medical Corps
during World War I.
In 1915 Fleming married Sara
McElroy, who died in 1949. They
had one son, Robert.
He married his second wife,
Greek bacteriologist A m a 1 1 a
Coutsouris. In April, 1953. She
worked with him at the Wright
Fleming Institute, which was
the center of his life to the last.
Speed Control
Board Rapped
. SALEM (UP) The State Speed
Control Board, which decides how
fast traffic should move on. var
ious sectors of the highways and
posts signs to that effect, came
under fire in the House Highways
Committee yesterday.
,Rep. Lloyd Haynes (R-Grants
Pass) branded the board as the
most "red-tape-bound" agency he
had encountered, before a legisla
tive committee. He said the com
mittee should be considering a
bill to abolish the board, rather
than a bill enlarging authority of
the county courts to set speeds on
certain county roads.
The board came under discus
sion when the committee heard
testimony on a bill that would
allow county courts to set speeds
nn roads where traffic had sud
denly become a problem due to
sudden population growth.
Judge F. L. Phipps, represent
ing the Association of Oregon
Counties, said the speed control
hoard sometimes took as long as
six months or a year to act on
requests for speed posting. The
Ixmrd is composed of the chair
man of the State Highway Com
mission, the secretary of state,
ami the superintendent of state
police.
The highway committee also
heard testimony relating to com
pulsory motor vehicle inspection
A bill that would establish such
a system in Oregon is before the
committee. It would permit
licensing of private garages and
service stations to conduct the in
spections for a nominal fee. Mo
tor vehicles would not be eligible
for licenses unless they had passed
the safety inspection.
THOUGHT SAFE
PORTLAND (UPI Six persons,
still unaccounted for after Tues
day's tragic hotel fire here that
claimed six lives, are believed
to have reached safety. Assistant
Fire Marshal C. W. Stickney said
today.
Stickney said firemen had gone
over every bit of debris at the
Lind hotel without finding a trace
of more bodies.
TEE BEND
IJOWNED POLE Electricity through southern sections of town was disrupted shortly before
noon yesterday when this power pole behind the Bend Iron Works shops was toppled. The pole
was knocked over when a crane operated in the yard of the iron works struck power lines leading
from the pole to the plant's machine shop. The heavy lines fell across the crane, but operator Pete
Smith jumped clear without injury. Service to the blacked-out sections of town was quickly re
stored by workmen of the Pacific Power and Light company. (Bend Bulletin Photo)
Group of Young
Demos Favoring
New U.S. Policy
By JAMES F. DONOVAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (UP)-A group
of freshman Democrats in the
House are drafting a declaration
calling ior a new and drastically
different approach to U.S. foreign
policy, it was learned today.
Informed sources said a United
Nations trusteeship for Formosa
and "free elections" to determine
who shall rule the Nationalist-held
island are among proposals being
considered for inclusion in the de
claration.
The chief spoasor, they added,
is Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wisl.
They said freshman Democrats
supporting the idea feel it is time
for Democrats to speak out on
their own ideas for a long-range
anti-war foreign policy.
Causes Heated Discussion
The contemplated declaration
already has caused heated discus
sions in the Democratic cloak
rooms. And some Democratic
freshmen have refused to take any
part in the formation of the state
ment. It was understood these dissent
ing freshmen legislators have in
formed sponsors of the planned
statement that they believe it
would, wittingly or unwittingly,
undermine the effect of the recently-approved
resolution calling for
Formosa's defense. This resolution
was passed overwhelmingly in the
House with support of the Demo
cratic leadership.
But leading advocates of the
'declaration of foreign policy" dis
puted this. They said the contem
plated statement has nothing what
ever to do with supporting the
House Democratic leadership on
foreign policy. They said state
ment sponsors are in complete
sympathy with the leaders.
Nothing Definite Yet
They also emphasized that noth
ing has been decided definitely.
There have been many suggestions
on points that could be included
;n the declaration, but even the
form the declaration should take
Is still in doubt.
The sources said the draft pro
Tosed that Mr. Eisenhower, with
the approval of some 30 Asian
and African nations the large
world powers are not included
;nform the world that the United
States is ready to:
1. Agree to a U.N. trusteeship
over Formosa, with elections de
ciding the island's rulers.
2. Agree to work through the
U.N. against colonialism and for
'he economic improvement of un
lerdeveloped nations.
3. Work in the U.N. to push
Russia back to her 1939 boundaries
ind to create a U.N.-protected
'ederatlon of inderwndent nations
ut of her present satellites in Cen
tral Europe.
HE'S SATISFIED
CHICAGO (UP) An anonymous
citizen has tent a crisp 100 bill
to the Internal Revenue Bureau
here with a note that says:
"Somebody made a mistake but
I'm satisfied."
Groups Disagree on Method
Of Controlling Comic Books
By WIMJAM WAKRK.V
United Press Stuff Correspondent
SALEM (UP) There is nothing
comic about a lot of comic books
on the market that blueprint crime
or sex, and distributors are agreed
with the public thai they should
go.
But distributors and some sec
tions of the public disagree as to
the method of control, , jiSenaU'
Judiciary subcommittee headed by
Sen. Warren McMinimee (R-Tilla-mook)
learned at a hearing that
lasted nearly four horn's here late
yesterday.
The hearing was on two bills by
Sen. John C. F. Merrifield (R
Portland). One would authorize a
county court or board of county
commissioners to establish an ad
visory committee to check on
whether comic books obviously put
out for the younger set are harm
ful to minors.
Criteria Listed
The criteria would be whether or
not these so-called comics are "of
an indecent nature, or use ob
scene language, or because they
tend to stir the sex impulses ana
lead to sexually impure and lust
ful thoughts, or because they con
tain accounts of stories of crime
or deeds of bloodshed in such n
way as to induce imitation and
weuken respect for, law and jus
tice. . . ."
Sen. Merrifield told the commit
tee he had received hundreds of
communications endorsing the two
measures, the second of which
would put a ban on block books.
Music Students
Join in Clinic
Some 150 Bend high -school mu
sic students left this morning for
Pnnevil.e, to participate in the an
nual Central Oregon high school
music clinic. Climax event will he
a concert for the public Saturday
night, starting at 8 o'clock, in the
Crook county high school gym
nasium. Taking part in the concert will
be a 350-piece band and a massed
choir of 400 voices, the Bend high
school orchestra, under direction
of Earl Roarig, also will play.
Tickets for the concert will be
available at the door, or may be
purchased in advance. In Bend,
they are on sal" at Bend Music
Co. and B and K Music Co.
Intensive rehearsals today and
tomorrow will precede the concert
High sehoil students from the fol.
lowing towns will take part: Red
mond. Madras. Culver, Sisters.
Prineville. John Day, Burns and
Bend. The choir will be directed
bv Clyde Keutzer. director of pub
lie who'll music eri'icntion in Hart
ford, Conn. The band will be un
der the baton of Ronald Gregory,
Instrumental music professor at
the University of Utah, Salt Lake
Citv
A Darade. with six school bands
participating, is planned for Satur
dav afternoon.
Housinz Is provided In Prineville
for the John Day and Burns stu
dents. The others will come home
tonight, and return to Prineville
tomorrow morning. School buses
are providing transportation.
CENTRAL OREGON'S
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Friday. March 11, 1955
which means a dealer must ac
cept one magazine in order to get
another.
Sen. Merrifield said he had re
ceived petitions from Jackson coun
ty and one from the Kenwood
Kingston Parent Teachers Associ
ation of Bend with 300 signatures
endorsing the measures.
, Orange, In Favor
,Mrs.' Walter -Harveyot Molalla,
chairman of the legislative com
mittee of the Oregon Farm Bureau,
and Elmer MeCltire, master of the
Oregon State Grange, both spoke
in favor of the measures.
McClure got a double-take look
from the committee when he said
"maybe we should do some book
burning to focus public attention
on these objectionable so - called
comics for youngsters." He added
he was not in favor of book burn
ing, but used that expression as
a means of pointing up the ob
jectionable nature of the comics
under discussion.
Ray Martin of Roseburg, chair
man of the State Knights of Co
lumbus literature committee, said
he had found outright filth in sev
eral comics. After he had detailed
example after example, Sen War
ren Gill JR-Lebanon) paid him the
compliment of being "one of the
host witnesses ever to appear be
fore a legislative committee."
Second Bill fiineeesKiiry
Henry A. Buehner, Portland at
torney representing 16 distributors
presented a brief saying that the
distributors he represents are as
one against objectionable comics
and weed them out as soon as
they find them. But he objected
to the measure which would en
able each of Oregon's 3B counties
to set up a comic book advisory
committee on two grounds first,
that it might lead to an infringe
ment on freedom of speech and
second, considering the hundreds
of magazines on the market, it
would be too cumbersome to be
Jiaclical.
Fred N. Buy. Jr., whose Port
land firm distributes 5000 different
magazines including 2300 comics,
and 1000 book titles, and Robert
Weinberg of the Publishers' Dis
tributors Con., both testified un
der oath that the second bill con
cerning block booking was un
necessary because there Is no tie
in Ivioking in Oregon.
Driver Takes
His Own Life
PORTLAND I UP) An Oregon
City man last night slrit and
killed himself as he lay in the
wrec kage of his auto on the Bertha
'leavertun Highway, police re
oortcd. lie was Fnmk Stalick, 45, Route
3, Oregon City.
Police said Slitiick was pinned
in the twisted remains of his auto
utter it collided with a car driven
by Austin lxive Wright of Port
land. Witnesses to the collision said
Stalick. after struggling to free
himself, suddenly shouted that he
was going to shoot himself. He
took a gun from the auto's glove
compartment, and shot himself in
the head.
VnilVw.i- UVioTil nr hlu itfiasrin.
'gers, were injured.
BULLETIN
DAILY NEWSPAPER
Shift to Dial Phones
Planned in Bend Area
Nationalists
Set to Seize
Finnish Ship
TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) The
Nationalist government has order
ed its navy to intercept the Finnish
tanker Aruba carrying 13,000 tons
of jet plane fuel to Red China,
authoritative sources said today.
The tanker, which passed
through Port Said recently with jet
fuel from the Romanian oil fields,
was thought to be somewhere be
tween Suez and Singapore.
The Nationalists believed its des
tination was the port of Foochow
at the mouth of the Min River and
near the Nationalist offshore Island
of Matsu.
The Communists have recently
massed large concentrations of jet
planes In this area of Southeastern
China including modern MIG-17s,
an improved version of the MIG-15
apparently for attacks against
Matsu or Formosa.
'We will capture this ship if we
can, a high-ranking Nationalist
official told United Press.
The Nationalist Navy previously
captured two Polish and one Rus
sian tanker which attempted to
ram jet fuel through the National
ist China blockade.
Communist China warned the
United States only Wednesday it
would have to bear the "full re
sponsibility" if it "dares" toltry to
intercept the tanker. . ...
The Peiplng regime Ignored the
Nationalist Navy as such and
warned the United States against
daring "to direct and help the
traitor Chiang Kui-shek to inter
cept the Finnish tanker."
A U.S. Air Force officer said the
Aruba's fuel would be enough for
5,000 Communist jet missions
against Nationalist China's outpost
islands.
Britain has refused permission
for the Finnish tanker to take on
fuel in Singapore, but Nationalist
authorities said it could easily ob
tain supplies in Indonesia.
Chains Required
Over Santiam
SALEM (UP) Chains were re
quired for motorists traveling over
Santiam pass, where 6 inches of
new snow fell overnight, the State
Highway Department said today.
Chains were advised at Govern
ment Camp, with 6 inches of new
snow; Timberline, with 10 inches;
Warm Springs junction with 5
inches; Willamette pass, with 5
inches, and Austin, with 2 inches.
Spots of ice were reported at
Bly, Ochoco summit, La Grande
and Baker.
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TRANSMITTER MOVED The heavy transmitter lor Bend's police
from police headquarter! on first 'leg of Its transfer to the county
Butte. The move was made late yesterday afternoon under Robert
KBND. Elevation of the butte will give extra range to police radio.
(left to right) Edward L. Merrit
and Water Superintendent W.
in Photo)'
Sponsored by Kiwanians
OSC Band Concert Set
Orcgou State's outstanding 61
pleca concert band, directed by
Ted Mesang, will present a pro
gram in Bend on Tuesday,
March 29. Sponsored by the
Bend Klwanla club, the concert
will be held at Kenwood school,
beginning at 8 p.m.
. Tickets for the musical event
will be sold by members of the
service organization beginning
next week.
The band under Mesang is ac
knowledged as one of the finest
among western colleges. The
orange and black clad young
men and women are known for
the precision and variety of their
concert programs.
Baud master Mesang has pre
pared a program ranging in va
riety from Haydn's "The Fa
mous Largo" to a humorous
rendition of "Irish Washerwom
Complaint Filed
By Gas Dealers
PORTLAND (UP)-The Oregon
Gasoline Dealers Association yes
terday filed a complaint in Fed
eral Court against the Shell Oil
Company's practice of granting
L-station agreements.
The complaint charges the agree
ments are an attempt to fix retail
prices. Jt .asks the court to void
the agreetifcnts. . ' . .
Art Moron, owner of Art's Shell
Service Station' at Marcola, hear
Eugene, Is listed as a plaintiff
along with the association. He
asks 18,000 for alleged damages
as result of the so-culled "C-sta-
lion", agreements.
Moran said Shell Oil Company
has sold gasoline through its C
type stations in Eugene and
Springfield, which are in compe
tition to him, at a retail price
lower than the wholesale price he
paid to Shell for the same prod
ucts.
The "C-slatlon" agreementsthe
complaint alleges, make it possible
for Shell to "fix the retail price
of gasoline" at stations in direct
competition with other Shell
dealers and dealers in other oil
company products throughout the
state.
SATISFACTORY PROFIT
CHICAGO (UP) Robert S.
Alexander is returning $390,000 to
the government because his firm
"made a satisfactory profit" on
a Navy contract.
Alexander, president of Wells
Gardner Co., said the firm made
precision parts for $390,000 less
than the contract provided.
"We don't believe. In gypping the
people, he said. The govern
ment is the people and we're the
people.
and George Thompson, both memb
P. Drott loots on from the rear door
Ten Pages
an," with such standard works
as the Rossini "Italian In Al
giers" overture and a Strauss
waits In between.
Also to be heard, in modem
style, are "the Latin Quarter
Suite," and a flashy number for
cornet trio, "The Three Modern
aires." The program Will also
Include several tuneful marched
by the band's noted conductor
composer. Featured soloist on the pro
gram Is Forrest "Spike" Oath
erciial, brilliant young perform
er on the marimba and recently
returned from duty with the
U.S. Air Force.
A Bend girl, Suzanne Eriek
siin, daughter of Mr. and Mm.
Carl E, Krlcksou, 80 Drake
road, Is a member of the organ
ization. Miss Erlckson plays tho
bassoon.
Ferguson Named
By Ike for Post
In Philippines
WASHINGTON (UP) Homer
Ferguson, former Republican sen
ator from Michigan, was nomin
ated todAy by President Eisenhow
er to be the new ambassador to
the Philippines.
Ferguson, former chairman of
the GOP Policy Committee of the
Seriate,-waa defeated tot rofelectlon
last fall by Son. Patrick McNam-
ara, Democrat. '
Ferguson was named to succeed
Raymond Ames Spruance, retired
Navy admiral. Spruance resigned
as ambassador last month.
Spruance told Mr. Eisenhower in
a letter last month that he and his
wife wanted to return to their
home in California.
Spruance served for 45 years in
the Navy and had been retired
three years when he was named
envoy to the Philippines in Janu
ary, 1952.
Blaze Claims
Seventh Victim
PORTLAND (UP) Arthur Link-
later, 74, Portland, died In a house
fire today to become the seventh
fire fatality in three days in the
Portland area.
Firemen removed the elderly
man from the upper story of the
home but he was pronounced dead
at a local hospital.
Five persons died Wednesday in
the Llnd hotel fire and a dairy
farm worker burned to death
early yesterday in a bunkhousoj
fire.
radio system is shown hefted
radio building on Awbrey
Dickinson, chief engineer of
Moving the heavy unit are
ert of city shop crew. Street
to the city hall. (Bend Bullet-
1
High and Low '
Max., yesterday, 43 de
grees. Min. last night, 30. '
Sunset today, 6:06. Sun
rise tomorrow, 6:23.
No. 81
Installation to
Be Completed
By End of '56
Dial telephones will be in gener
al use in Bend before the end of
1956.
A major telephone expansion
and improvement program for the
Bend area including an up-to-the-minute
dial system will be
launched this year by the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, district manager H. C. Ker
ran announced Friday.
The program will be completed
before the end of 1956 at an esti
mated cost o over $1,000,000, Ker-.
ron said.
Work Is expected to get under
way early In May on a two-story
dial central office to be erected '
on company-owned property at the
northwest corner of Hill street and
Kearney avenue.
Plana Reported
Architectural plans call for a
structure of reinforced concrete
with ground dimensions of 98 feet
by 82 feet. The second floor will
measure 43 feet by 82 feet
In addition to an underground
cable vault, the building plans in
clude a concrete block emergency .
engine room to insure continued
operation of equipment in the
event of a commercial power fail
ure.
Bids probably will be called for
the construction of the building
within the next 30 to 60 days. Ex
pected to take about a year to
complete, the new building will
house the latest type of dial equip
ment for local and long distance
service.
The equipment will be Installed
on a gradual basis as rapidly as
oossible after the building is com
pleted and according to Kerron is
tentatively scheduled to replace
Bend's present manual system late
in 1956.
In Rural Areas
nurlncr the next 18 months or
so, necessary changes will be
made on rural lines served irom
the Bend office to allow rural
users to have the same dial equip
ment as tnat in ine cny.
With the establishment of dlaf
oervice all Bend telephone num
bers will be changed to ones hav
ing novpn dleits. ineludlnz an Ev
ergreen 2 (EV-2) prefix followed
by four numerals.
Assignment of the two-letter,
flun . nuniprnl numbers Is in line
with a nulform numbering system
being progressively installed
throiiehout the nation to speed di:
reet dialing of long distance calls,
at first by operators then Inter by
subscribers themselves, Kerron
explained.
House Approves
Boost in Pay
To Servicemen
WASHINGTON (UP) A pay in
crease for military personnel, ap
proved almost unanimously by the
House, headed today for a long,
critical examination in the Senate.
The Senate is expected to agree
to some military pay increase, but
perhaps not In the full amount ap
proved by the House.
The House bill, following admin
istration recommendations, calls
for pay boosts ranging from six
to 25 per cent for enlisted men
with more than two year's service
and for officers with more than
three.
The measure sailed through the
House Thursday without a word
of opposition, approved by a 399
o 1 vote. The lone dissenter was
Rep. John Taber (R-NV), who op
noses any pay raise until the budg
et is balanced.
The cost ol the house proposal
is estimaied at $745,815,015. But
the Defense Department feels this
cost eventually will be more than
offset on the theory that the raise
will encourage more trained per.
sonnel lo stay in the service long
er. The pay Increase approved by
the House would benefit about 2
milllon servicemen and would be
selective, based on a serviceman's
length of service and rating. The
hippcst increases would go to
skilled technicians with extended
service. Hazard pay for such du
ties as air or undersea also would
be boosted.