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Univ. of Oregon Library :. WSSSS, 0RE3W :. ..i;V.:- -. : i Forecast (From U.S. Wemther Buj-mu. Portland) Portly cloudy through Thursday; high both days 40-45; low tonight 20-25. 52nd Year One Section Ike Favors Public View Of Documents WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower said today he ernestly believes that pertinent documents of all secret wartime conferences should be made public. But he said they should be used to learn lessons from past mistakes not to damage reputations or pin blame on participants. Nor should they be used to upset American Allies, the President told his news conference. Mr. Eisenhower made the state ment under questioning about the administration's controversial de cision which led to the publication lust week of the 1945 Yalta confer ence documents. Publication of the Yalta papers kicked up a political and diplomatic furor. The President said release of such documents shduld be confined to things of political and military significance. He said such papers should not include casual conver sations of the participating leaders. Churchill Objeeted And he emphasized that publica tions of such documents must be considered carefully where inter ests of American Allies are in volved. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill objected to the U. S. decision to publish the Yalta pa pers at this time. He said the American version of the documents contained some "serious mistakes.' Among other things, Churchill ob jected to publication of casual re marks made at the conference with the late President Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. In this country, publication of the Yalta papers touched off a hot argument between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats in Congress have charged that the papers were made public to give Republicans ammunition for polit ical attacks. Opposes Political Use In so many words, Mr. Eisen hower said publication of wartime documents should not be used for political advantage. Speaking with great feeling, he said there is nothing to be gained by going back 10 years to show that someone may have been right or wrong at that time. He ' said people forget and cannot recap ture the atmosphere of war. If we believe participants at the war time conferences acted for the best good, the President said, the docu ments should be laid out disaps sionately so that lessons can be learned from past mistakes. Mr. Eisenhower warned against going into such a project with the view of damaging reputations. The President said he ernestly be lieved all documents should be made public on this basis of refus ing to try to pin blame on partici pants. Of the Yalta papers, he em phasized that he would not rule on the lightness or wrongness of steps talten at Yalta. He also emphasized that he did not attend the meeting and had only a loose and second hand connection with the prepara tory conference at Malta where British and U.S. representatives met a few days in advance of the Yalta parley Future Conferences The President really opened up on the question of the Yalta papers w hen he was asked whether he be lieves that release of the papers "might cramp styles" at future conferences. Mr. Eisenhower said he hopes not. He said treaties are made in good faith and that history shows that these treaties fall if one coun try falls. Publication of the Yalta papers touched off a long and bitter par tisan political debate in the Senate yesterday. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman charged that the papers wore first released t.i the Republican National Com mittee as background for political attack's against the Democrats. The New York Democrat said the documents were given to the committee's Speakers' Bureau "in full and adequate supply." But Senate Rcnublican I-eader William F. Knowland denied this. He said the committee only had nrwsoaper copies of the- texts of the documents. CONDITION CRITICAL HOLLYWOOD (UP I Theda Dara. famous "vamp" of the silent screen, remained under an oxygen tent today in critical condition with an intestinal disorder. The retired 61-year-old actress has bee ailing since an appen dectomy last summer. She was hospitalized Feb. 15 and recently her condition took a turn for the worse. Miss Bara left the screen in 1926 five years after she married Di rector Charles Brabin, now also retired. THE BEND h,i ' ' -"i . v""l v? j 111 il n ff ?' mnwrn"'"- r"V 1 ' SADDLE MAKER Lloyd Reed of Reed's Leather shop, 1565 Galveston, is schedul ed to dem onstrate leather crafts and saddle making skills at the Fifth Annual hobby show to be held in Reed Thompson school ai'ditorium Saturday and Sunday. The show will be jointly sponsored by the Reed-Thompson PTA and the city recreation department. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Patients Limited To Two Visitors Under New Rule St. Charles Memorial hospital will put into effect in the near fu ture a rule limiting the number of visitors a patient may receive in the hospital. The ruling, which would limit to two each visiting period the num ber of persons who would be al lowed to visit a patient, Is being put into effect because of "exces sive" number of visitors to some patients. Discussion of a possible limita tion of visitors was inaugurated at a recent meeting of the medical staff of the hospital. Main reasons for the ruling, ac cording to doctors who participat ed in the discussion, were: 1. Persons visiting patients in multiple-patient rooms often un necessarily disturb other patients in the room, who may be serious ly ill. 2. Children, who are allowed to visit patients in the hospital ex cepting those on the maternity floor, frequently cause noise which bothers patients. 3. Change over the past few years in the philosophy of keeping patients in hospitals. Patients used to be taken to hospitals when they were seriously ill, and kept there until they had recovered almost completely. Under present prac tices, patients do most of their re cuperating at home, and therefore the average hospital patient is in much poorer condition to receive visitors. 4. Some patients have far too many visitors for the good of the patient. A case was cited of one Bend man who recently had 15 visitors in the afternoon of the day on which he had undergone a morning operation. No date has yet been set for enforcement of the ruling, accord ing to hospital officials. Scelba Fiqhts Pro-Red Move ROME (UP) Premier Mario Scelba staked the life of his gov ernment today against a last min-! ute attempt by pro-Communists to thwart his departure tomorrow for the United States. The left wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni introduced a resolution in the Chamber of Deputies ask- j ing the government for assurances that Scelba would mane no aeci sion in Washington on joint Italian American exploitation of Italy's newly discovered oil fields. Scelba immediately labeled the move a "pretext" to embarrass him during his filks with U. S. leaders. He made rejection of the Socialist resolution a confidence issue. A vote on the resolution was expected sometime tonight. Scelba Is scheduled to leave for Canada and the United States tomorrow. The Premier won an Important victory last night when the cham ber postponed local elections until 1956. Bend, Deschutes Fifth Annual Hobby Show Planned Saturday, Sunday Exhibits of all kinds paintings, model ships, mounted butterflies, dolls, rocks will be displayed Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Reed Thompson school in the city's fifth unnual hobby show. The show, which lust year at tracted upwards to two thousand visitors, is jointly sponsored by the .Reed-Thompson Parent-Teachers association and the city rec reation department. Entry blanks for exhibits may be obtained at the recreation of- Building Plans For Filter Center Given Approval The Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs, Colo., has ap proved plans for the construction here of an air filter center build ing and the way now appeal's cleared for the start of work. Army Engineers in Walla Walla, Wash., received word from Colo rado Springs that the site and plans for the building have been approved. Only a few legal mat ters remain to be discussed, and Kenneth Coryell of the Army En gineers will be here this week to review these with Dr. John M. McCarthy, Bend. Dr. McCarthy is to construct the building for filter center use, un der a lease. The building will be erected by the Murray Bros. Con struction Co., Bend. Preliminary excavation work has already been done, with "lava blisters" on the site shattered with powder. The filter center will be erected on Dr. McCarthy's lot just north o the Deschutes county library and will face Wall street from the west. It is expected that the ar chitecture will blend with that of the libraiy. June 1 is still the target date for completeion of the filter center that will serve Ground Observation Corps posts in all of eastern Ore gon outside of Malheur county. A special network of telephone lines will be installed, to provide direct communication between posts and the Bend center. Announcement of approval of plans for the Bend center by the Air Defense Coommand was made here today by Capt. Herbert F. Frary. Higher Voltage Lines Planned Keeping pace with Bend's con tinuing growth In electrical use. Pacific Power and Light eom- oany has started converting to higher voltage the power lines serving the residential area west of 12th street, according to W. A. Larkaff, district mamger. The conversion will cover ap proximately six miles of distribu tion line and will Increase the ca pacity of the circuits five times to handle the load, he said. The work is expected to be completed e;ir!y in July at a cost of about SU.000. I Lackaff explained that the west side project is a continuation of an extensive conversion program designed to strengthen electric service throughout the Bend area. Power lines In the Blakeley Heights and Carroll Acres districts were recently cutover from 2)00 to 12,000 volts at a coRt of $33,000. CENTRAL OREGON'S County, Oregon, Wednesday, March 23, 1955 i 4s . V. I fice in the city hall, the library and the offices of the Chamber of Commerce. The show is open to school children and adults alike with a hobby or creative handicrafts to display. So far the recreation de partment has accepted entry blanks from a number of persons with a wide variety of objects and crafts for exhibit. Blanks were distributed among students at the various city schools and a number of youngsters have indicated interest in displaying tneir hobbies. Dsiplays will be set up in the auditorium of the school, located at the head of Wall street. Show will be open Saturday from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m to 5 p.m. The displays will be set up Fri day evening and Saturday morn ing before the show opens. Those with entries are asked to bring them to the auditorium of the school Friday from 7 to 8 p.m. or Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. There will be no admission charge. Through the afternoon shows demonstrations of leather crafts will be given by Lloyd Reed, a local saddle maker. According to Wayne Hamilton, city recreation director, the show will be non-competative, with no prizes to be given. No entry fee will be charged. Pass Area Snow Depth 102 Inches Fourteen inches of snow fell on the Willamette pass last night to bring the roadside depth there to 102 inches, according to informa tion received at the local office of the state highway department today. Motorists were advised that chains were required on both the Santiam divide, where eight inches of snow fell last night, and on the Willamette. Roadside depth of snow on the Santiam this morning was 138 inches. Packed snow covered the Mt. Hood route this morning, follow ing a night fail of three inches. Roadside depth at Government Camp was 159 inches. Only a trace of snow from the mountain storm1 reached Bend. While snow vrnt falling In the nearby Cascades Tuesday, heavy gusts of wind whipped clouds of dust over parts of Central Oregon. A heavy blow was reported from Southern Jefferson county, where dust billowed Into clouds. Snow was still falling in the Mid-Oregon Cascades at noon to day, as gusty, chilling winds whipped across the Deschutes pla teau. Alaska Mental Clinic Favored WASHINGTON (UPl-Rep Edith Green (D-Ore.) has introduced bills in Congress to halt the treatment of mentally ill persons from Alaska at Portland's Morningside Hospital. One of the bills would provide for the construction of a mental institution and mental clinic In Alaska, while the other would es tablish a system of caring for the territory's mentally 111. BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Stores Get Prepared For Spring Show New merchandise was being un packed and placed on display in lo cal stores today as arrangements neared completion for Bend's 1955 Spring opening, set for Friday eve ning. . Merchants Indicated that in do ing their buying for spring this year they found available a great er variety of new merchandise than at any time since the end of World War II. Staffs of all stores will be on hand between the hours of 7 and 9 Friday evening to show the new spring items and, the committee In charge declared, goods will range from the latest in gowns to the newest in garden tools. Again featured In connection with this year's spring opening will be an automobile show, on a roped-off section on Oregon ave nue. Scores of cars will be on dis play through the evening, and will be available for inspection. This year the Bend Municipal Band is to have a roving role, and will play from several differ ent places in downtown Bend through the evening. Hal St. Clair and Robert J, Wctle are co-chairman of the 1955 spring opening, to be sponsored by retail merchants of the Bend Chamber of Commerce, headed by Ray Le Blanc as chairman. Stores will be closed from the regular closing time Friday eve ning, then will reopen at 7 p.m., for two hours. Special bargains arc being featured In all stores. McKay Seeking Sum for Parks SALEM (UPV Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay said to day he hoped the Senate would restore cuts made by the House Appropriations Committee so that his department can carry ,out its planned 10-year improvement pro gram for national parks. McKay, here fpr a brief visit with his family after a Monday night speech In San Francisco, said the park program was "way beind" because of lapse in main tenance and improvement during the war years. He said the department's 10-year program calls for considerable road building, improvement of san itary facilities and some new con struction. The House committee Monday cut $15,708,500 from Interior De partment funds. McKay said the cuts also would seriously affect the education pro gram for the Navajo Indians. Both permanent and trailer-type schools had been planned for the 14,000 Navajos who will be ready for schooling next year, he said. "They must be educated if they are to leave reservation life," McKay said. McKay was to go to Portland today to board a plune to return to Washington, D. C. He arrived here late yesterday after his plane was delayed several hours by en gine trouble. Stiff Sentence Meted Driver PORTLAND (UP) A Portland motorist was handed a $1000 fine, one year in jail and loss of his operator's license for three years yesterday for drunken driving. The stiff sentence was given Ar thur L. O'Neill, 36, by Municipal Judge J. J. Quillan, who cracked down hard on errant motorists dur ing the day's court session. PREPARE MAILING PIECES Members of the Beta Alpha chapter of Eptil on Sigma Alpha so rority prepared Easter Seals for local mailing Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Wilbur Sholes, chairman. Sale of the seals is the annual spring fund-raising drive for Oregon Society for Crippled Children and Adults, which operates a hospital school for crippled children at Eugene. In the pic ture, from left, are Mrs. Ed BecMey, Mrs, W. M. Loy Jr., Mrs. Robert Gardner, Mrs. Norman Dull and Mrs. Wesley Huber. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Ike Still ppoi Meeting off Alh Hog best By DONALD J. GONZALES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower said today that he would be willing to make a lot of concessions in his attitude toward Russia and would favor Big Four exploratory talks among foreign ministers after the agreements to rearm Germany are finally rati fied. The President, however, still questioned the wisdom of a meet ing of heads of state. He ruled out such a meeting until exploratory talks are held on a lower level. He restated his desire that Russia demonstrate good faith by deeds before any sort of conference is held. But he made it plain he would not impose inelastic condi tions on exploratory talks. Wants Promises Kept On the subject of conditions pre Oregon's Senator Neuberger Sparks Squirrels Defense By WARREN DL'FFKE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) The famous, playful White House squir rels never had so many defenders as toduy. By the merest political coincident, the most outspoken were Democrats. The Democrats, delighted to find the GOP exposed on a down to earth issue, gleefully teed off on President Eisenhower for having the White House aquirrels trapped and exiled because they scratch up his practice golf green. The furor, touched off by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore) in a Senate speech, threatened to boil up Into the biggest White House controversy since former Presi dent Truman added a balcony on the building's south side. American Tradition Neuberger accused Mr. Eisen hower of doing "permanent and irreparable damage to an Ameri can tradition" by trapping the squirrels and carting them away to preserve the surface of his putting green. Neuberger kicked in $25 to start a fund to build a squirrel- proof aluminum fence around the golfing area so the bushy-tailed animals can continue to romp as they have for 150 years. He invited other wildlife lovers to contribute. The White House would have to promise, however, to stop the trapping immediately. Neuberger's Democratic collea gues were quick to support him, at least with words. But the White House was icily silent. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, refused to answer any squliTelly questions. Nor would he say what would be done with Neuberger's fund if the President received it. Neuliergor Bertous "Why doesn't the President call in Secretary of Agriculture (Ezra T.) Benson?" Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla) asked a re porter. "He's been able to reduce production on everything else." Neuberger is dead serious. "It isn't a gag," he said. "It's a pretty high-handed thing the President has done and I have a hunch people won't like it." Neuberger said he hopes to get pro- squirrel sentiment stirred up all over the country. The anti-squirrel policy first was disclosed by Merriman Smith, United Press White House report Eight Pages ceding a big power conference, thelea dto faint hope that exploratory President said that generally what he wanted more than anything else was an indication that the Rus sians were willing to talk business after a long period of violating their promises and leaving us out on a limb. He conceded that there might be a difference between his position and that of Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee. George renew ed last weekend the idea of a big power meeting. He would not re quire Russia to meet any particu lar conditions prior to a high-level conference. The chief executive, in a serious and earnest mood during a news conference dominated by Big Four questions, said that there had been two relatively recent changes in Russian leadership and this might er, in one of his behind the scenes reports on what goes on at the executive mansion. Some wildlife experts think the President Is in for a losing battle. They do not believe the animals can be trapped as fast as they multiply. Neuberger said he resented the President's action "as a plain, everyday, run of the mill Amer ican citizen. A little piece of the White House belongs to me, as It does to every American," he said. "I don't want my piece of the White House to be without the White House squirrels." "Surely, a few squirrels on the White-House, lawn need Inot. spoil the President s practice putts and pitch shots, he added. Annual Egg Hunt Aqain Set by Lions Lions will again sponsor an Easter egg hunt for this year and, if plans carry through, It will be in Drake park. Club members at their luncheon meeting Tuesday noon at the Pine Tavern considered tentative plans lor tne egg hunt program and Don Pence, club president, said directors are now completing ar rangements. It was suggested by club mem bers that the program start a bit later than usual this year, to per mit people to get home from church before returning to Drake park. Easter Sunday will fall on April 10 this year, and, If Lions' direc tors approve, the hunt will start it 1:30. The Bend Municipal Band fill again play. Lions have sponsored Easter ceg hunts here through the years. With the excention of a few hunts at outside points, Shevlin park and the Bend airport, all programs have been In Drake park. Highlight of yesterday's lunch eon program was the showing of a film dealing with the develop ment of America's nlr oower. The film was presented by Chief E. II. Burke, local navy recruiter. Stanley Scott was chairman In charge. High and Low High yesterday, 44 do grees, Low last night, 25 degrees. Sunset today, 6:21. Sunrise tomorrow, 6:02. No. 91 Big 3 Level talks would be valuable. Opposes Red China If that is the case, the chief ex ecutive said, he could make a lot of concessions to cany out arrange ments for a conference of for eign ministers. Other high spots in his discussion of the prospects for international peace conferences: 1. He said because of current conditions in the Far East, he saw no reason even to discuss the pos sibility of including Red China in any conference. He said the ques tion was academic. 2. He said that once the Paris agreements on Germany are out of the way he felt there definitely should be new exploratory talks among this country, Great Brit ain, France and Russia. West Ger many and even other nations might be included in later talks. 3. If and when a Big Four meet ing is held, he would invite George and other members of the Con gress to attend. Crisis In Formosa 4. Nothing is in progress now toward negotiating a cease-fire in the Formosa crisis. But he said the British, who have diplomatic representatives in Peiplng, contin ually put forward to China the U.S. viewpoint that any just solution would receive ernest attention here He said the Chinese Reds so far hud expressed no interest in these moves. Mr. Eisenhower opened the con ference with two brief statements. Then reporters began to hurl a barrage of questions brought on by the proposal from George that this country take the initiative in bringing about a Big Four meeting of the heads of state without wait ing for evidence of good faith from Russia. Mr. Eisenhower said with the suggestion of a sigh that this was a reully involved subject." Gasping his hands behind his back and staring straight into the movie and television floodlights, he reiterated what he said long ago there is no place in the world to which he would not travel, no chore he would not undertake, if he had the faintest hope that by so doing he would promote the cause of an honorable peace. Includes 20 Tulks Principals Plan Session in Bend Elementary school principals of the Central Oregon region will hold their eighteenth annual con ference Saturday, March 26, in Bend. Headquarters will be at the high school building, and luncheon nt noon will be served at First Lutheran church. A social hour for early arrivals will be held Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Nelson, 736 E. 10th street, starting at 7:30. Harold J. Shepherd of Tillamook, president of the elementary school nrlnclpals' department of Oregon Education association, and Rex Putnam, Salem, superintendent of nublic instruction, will be present. There will be an address by Frank B. Bennett, president of Eastern Oregon College, of Education. A series of panel discussions will de velop phases of the theme, "Guid ance in the Elementary School." John Chipley of Hood River, central region president, will pre side. Limn 11. Thompson of Prine viile is vice-president and Mi's. Ijinora Friek of Hood River is sec retary. Meeting Planned By School Board Find approval of new high school and auditorium plans and specifications and issuance of a call for bids are on the agenda of a snecial Bend school board meeting set for 7:30 o'clock of the evening l M.irch 31 in the coun cil nvim of -Hie old high school huililin. Word was received late Tues dny from the office of Annand, Boone & l-oi. Portland, architects for the district, that all of their oreparatory work wou'd be com o'eted hy the middle of next week. Notices of the special meeting were sent to board members this morning by Mrs. Irene Cothrell, clerk of the district.
