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Univ. of Orsgon Library EUCSI12, OKSGOH .C. Forecast Partly sunny Thursday; high both days 62-67; low tonight 35-40. 52nd Year Two Sections 'Safe-Teens' Plans Take Shape Here A Bond unit or Safe-Teens was taking final shape here today, with Captain Herbert F. Frary, local Ground Observer squadron com manding officer, named to serve as administrator. Safe-Teens came Into existence here as a result of the recent visit to Bend of Francos Cook, Beaver Ion justice of the peace, who, wilh the assistance of youngsters in her community, organized the Safe-Teens in Oregon. "Safe-Teen is not just another safety crusade," Judge Cook noted on her recent visit to Bend, add ing: "It embodies a switch of em phasis on the safety viewpoint." If a Safe-Teen is cited for hazard ous driving violation, the presid ing judge picks up his bumper strip and suspends his member ship for a probationary period. A member of the Safo-Teen group is privileged to display a special strip on the bumper of his car. The local group took final shape recently when Janice Fix, John Walker and Dick Carter, Bend high school students, met wilh Officer Ray Hafstad of the Oregon state police. Set. Emil Moon of the Bend police force, John Chrismer. school driving instructor, and Miss Evelyne Wipf. It was at that mooting that Cap tain Frary was named adminis trator. He has organized two oth er safe driving groups, one of them overseas. Cars of prospective members will be given safety chorks at the local police station, with the first check sol for Sunday afternoon, May L, from 2 to 4 p.m. Applicants must he in the 16-25 age group, and have drivers It censes. Three Coos Bay Plants Picketed COOS BAY (UP) Three plants of the Coos Bay Lumber Com pany employing about 1250 men were shul down today after AFl. Lumber, Plywood and Sawmill union members threw up piciioi lines in a dispute over assignmen' of a job. The company's plywood pi"- Coquille was closed last nigi.. -.lor a last minute meeting between company and union represent:! fives failed to produce agreement. The disnute started some time ago at the Coauille plant over p change in the diier operator job The union claimed it should have pone to someone other than the man assigned bv the comnany according to Max Swerkine business agent for local 2G91 of tho union. ' Today, pickets were nlaced a"ound the firm's Bunker Hill and Mlllington mills near here. F.m ployes at these two mills bclot"? to the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) but they refused to cross picket line. THE BEND .-,V Presented here is an aerial many Oregon anglers and lumbermen, with an important addition. That addition, shown within where a western movie, in cinemascope dimensions and in color, will be filmed in the near future. The picture was taken Tuesday by Bulletin Photographer Web Loy from a plane piloted by Oscar Murray. Winding through the picture is the Deschutes river, in a sharp bend, with part of the Lava Butte basalt flow visible in the right foreground. Fea tures in the picture, most of them circled, follow: . Frontier stockade, with outer walls forming a square. The Indiaq encampment will be on the left of the fort. 2. Log jam on river, to be blasted loose before filming is started. 3. Old Shevlin-Hixon railroad trestle over Deschutes also used by the Great Northern in the early days of its operation south. This trestle will be removed. Shevlin-Hixon picnics of early days were held on the bank of the river between Circles 2 and 3. 4. White water of Benham Falls, an area well known by Ore gon anglers. 5. Dillon Falls, with white water visible. To the north is the old Ryan ranch. At this point the river swings sharply to the right, and disappears near the upper right side of picture. (Also see stockade pictures on page 7.) Crescent Lake Work Underway The old timber and rock-fill dam at Crescent lake, has been re moved and water is now being stored behind a temporary em bankment while construction of a new dam is in progress. While this phase of the work is under way, the flow from Cres cent lake into Crescent creek has been reduced to five second feet. The U.S. Bureau of Reclama tion work at the mountain lakes calls for the reconstruction of thesaid not damaged. existing dam and appurtenant i Only one room was broken in'.o. structures at the lake outlet. The, project will provide an active sto rage capacity of 88.000 acre, feet for the Tumalo project . A coffer dam was reconstructed above the existing dam prior to the removal of the old structure. Next phase of the project will be the. construction of the new dam with spillway and outlet works. Contract for the work was awarded to the Inter-City Sand and Gravel' Company. Inc., and John Kovtynovieh. of Eugene. jonn r. vonireos is consirumon ngineor in charge. Radio Operators Exams Planned Radio operators examinations will he held at the Klamath Union! high school in Klamath Falls on tnrdav Mav 14 norHim? to in- formation (mm .1 11 Hnllnek on. -Ineer in charge of Radio District sev,;n ni'-mbors of a Harney coun y0 13 'v family (see picture) and the Radiutelegranh examinations will stirt at 8 30 am., and mdio-ole-hone tests at 9 a.m. There will be an examination in the am iteur code at 11 a m . and ama teur written tests will start at 1 i m. Apnlication forms may be oh - talned from the Federal Commuhas 56 customers, has been givn i height of 16 feet. There will be.arately from welfare expenses to nications Commission, 433 S. Court , authority to raise its water rates! 6.000 feet of fluorescent lighting! tal $28,869 under the slate ap House, Portland 5. Oregon. 1 for the first time since 1877. I in the Installation. proved budget. Bend, picture .of a location known to Circle No. I, is the stockade the river in the slight bend Just to Students Admit Breaking Into School Building Two high school students admit ted to school authorities this morn ing to breaking into the building last night and tearing up a class room. The pair pulled desktops from their standards, scribbled on the blackboards and floor wilh chalk and ripped an inter-com phone from the wall. Desk tops wore found hidden throughout the building this morn ing by custodians who discov ered the break-in. The desks were N'othine was said stolon. The boys made arrangements to pay for the damage. Bend Falls Short Of Blood Quota See. Picture Page 6 The Rod Cross bloodmobi'e col lected 155 nints of h'.ood vestorrlav in Rend. Sevontv of the 188 who jmade appointments failed to keep tnPm Forty drop-ins helped to (ako UD )h(. slack, but the take was still 45 pints short of quota. The bloodmobilo moved today to Redmond, and sot up shop at Westminster hall. At th" visit yesterday, Mrs George Huettl, gave her sixteenth scorning a iwo-ganonecr. Thirteen persons gave blood yes- tOTdav '"L tnc flrsl Um0- . Thev Rre Ben F- D". wh' is visiting i here on leave from the U.S. Navy, lo.iowing local resiuoms: wayne I"e, Robert Pedorsm. Mrs. Olive Allen. Mrs. Kama Campbell and Ron Settlemeyer. WATER RISF.S HARTFORD. Conn. (IT) ; The Tolland Aqueduct Co., which CENTRAL OREGON'S Deschutes County, Oregon, Spencer Gets 1 2 Year Term In State Pen Walter Spencer, convicted Fri day of the New Year's Eve hold up attempt of a local grocery, was sentenced to the state peni tentiary for a period not to exceed 12 years. , I, Sentence was pronounced short ly alter 11:30 this morning by Judge Malcolm W. Wilkinson, The Dalles, in a brief hearing in local circuit court. Before sentencing Spencer, the judge asked District Attorney George F. Rakestraw and defense attorney Owen M. Panner if they wished to make a statement. Panner pointed out that Spencer had a satisfactory military record during World War II which no asked to be taken into considera tion in setting sentence. Rakestraw said he thought the record of the trial spoke for it self. Spencer when asked by the judge if he had any statement to make quietly answered "No." The judge said in declaring the 12-year maximum sentence that the offense of which Spencer was found guilty was "very serious and could cany a life sentence. Spencer was found guilty of assaulting Angel Peterson with In tent to rob at the Delaware annex by a jury of two women and ten men. The verdict was returned Friday climaxing a three day trial in the local court. Sheriff F. C. Sholes Indicated that Spencer would be taken lo the penitentiary in Salom tomor row. Vote on Proposal For Sales Tax Predicted in 19S6 ONTARIO (UP) Attorney Mar tin Gallegher, who led four county representatives to Salem recently to protest sales tax legislation pre dicted today that the sales tax would be placed on the ISiiiG gen oral election ballot. He said the measure would go in the ballot by initiative-referendum procedure and called on resi dents of eastern Oregon lo .et ready to batlle the measure. One of the dangers of a refer endum, he said, would bo that it would probably be poorly drawn u D and even loss acceptable lo irea resident.) than the measup. defeated in this session of the state Veislature. He said eastern Oreoniam feared a sales tax because some of thorn thought it would hrirg about a business decline and t mass movement of people acrosi the state line Into Idaho lo make tax-free purchases. CANOl'V (1.AIM CHICAGO (UP I - The Sher- man Hotel is building a canopy proved by the local welfare com which it says will be the largest ! mission but trimmed by the state ever built. Located on a Looo oor-bodv. the county's share was set ner, It will extend 260 feet In one direction and 200 in another at BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, May 4, 1955 Ike Cautious In Answers on U.S. Strategy By DONALD J. GONZALES United Press Stuff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower said today that a Chin ese Communist attack on Quemoy and Matsu islands, backed by ex cess military equipment, would justify an assumption that such an assault was pointed at Formosa. But Mr. Eisenhower was careful not to say how the. United States would react lo such an attack. The United States is committed (o the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. But Mr. Eisenhower repeatedly has refused to tip his hand on how this government would react to a Red attnek on Quemoy and the Matsus, immedi ately off . the coast of Red China Mr. Eisenhower told his news conference that if there were an accumulative buildup and an at tack started against the offshore islands with excessive typos and kinds of equipment, this would jus tify the assumption that something more than an attack on those is lands was intended. He pointed out that Red China never has said it was going to atlact the Nationalist-held offshore islands. The Reds, he added, al ways have said they were going to "liberate" Formosa. On the Far East situation, the President also reported that: Negotiations Unfruitful 1. No progress has been made yet in arranging cease-fire nego tiations with the Chinese Reds. The United States at the moment is in a wait and see attitude tow ard the Red Chinese offer to nego tiate Far Eastern problems, in cluding Formosa. A number of countries are interesting them selves in the situation but there really Is nothing new to report 2. No one has recommended lo the President that a permanent major U. S. military base be set up on Formosa. He did not answer directly when asked if the United States might put some additional token ground forces on Formosa. He pointed out that the United States already has a military ad visory assistance group on For mosa. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters yesterday that this group "probably will be en larged." Kinds Of Equipment The President has said in the past that he will decide whether Red attack on the offshore is lands is aimed at Formosa. Mr. Eisenhower was asked today attack on the offshore islands and to outline the various considera tions which would be applied by him to distinguish a purely local one which might be pointed at For mosa. Without committing himself, he said the types and kinds of military equipment would be the major sign post of what the Reds were up to. Although he did not say so dir ectly. Mr. Eisenhower gave the impression that he does not expect a big military crisis In the Formosa-China mainland area in the foreseeable future. Welfare Budget Given Approval A welfare budget for Deschutes county, trimmed $6000 below esti mates made by the local welfare commission, has been approved by the Statd Welfare Commission for the next fiscal year, local com mission members reported today. Word was received from the state commission of approval of a budget for 1955-56 of $260,150. The county welfare commission when considering a tentative budget set $266,322 as a minimum figure. The county approved estimate it self represented a considerable re duction over the budget prepared by county Welfare Dirertor Mis Olive Jameson, who asked for $287.3-16. The final budget approved by the state commission matches al most exactly the tentative figure it approved several weeks ago. Funds for local welfare expenses will come from three sources, fed Federal share of the local hiidttet Federal shre of the local budget will be $108 979. the state will con tribute $105,820, and the county $15351. Under the tentative budget so at $46,117. Administrative fostj figured scp- Sftcofte Legfislcaliyire Wimidliiinig Up Work Fire Department Sets Free Inspection Plan The reduction of residential fires is the aim of a house-to-house in-1 spection campaign to be put into high gear by the Bend fire de partment this week. Beginning on the west side the fire department has mapped plans for canvassing the city and offer- ng a free inspect ion service to householders. In announcing the home inspec tion campaign, Fire Chief Vernon Carton asked the cooperation of householders in inviting firemen to inspect residences for hazards that someday might touch off a costly fire. Permission of a householder must be granted before a fireman Driver Has Lucky Escape From Death ' Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE Tom Partin at tempted to ride a runaway log truck down a steep grade, over turned in a gorge and was pinned an hour and a half with his head in icy water, while boiling water from the broken radiator trickled on his leg. And he lived to tell about it. He stayed home from work yesterday and today, but will be back on the job later this week, none the worse, for the ex perience. , The accident occurred Monday evening north of Prineville, on the Alexander Stewart logging road. Partin, driving a loaded log truck owned by Les Barber for the Endi- cott Lumber company, started down the steep grade and discov ered that the air had escaped from the brakes. He decided to stick with the truck instead of jumping, and was almost to the bottom of the grade, when the truck had reached such speed that it was impossible for him to jump, or guide the truck around a curve. The truck left the road and overturned in the gorge, with the load intact. The cap was flattened. Partin was unable to extricate himself from the . smashed cab, which partly filled with water, and he had to brush water away from his face in order to breathe. Par- tin was found by a passing em ploye of Endlcott Lumber Com pany, who pulled him out of the wreckage. Name of the rescuer was not immediately available. Aside from shock, Partin's onty" injuries were the leg burns from the hot water, and a gasoline burn on one arm. He refused hospitall zation. Partin, who is In his middle 30's, is married and the father of three children. Logging equipment was used to remove the truck from the gorge this morning. Norblad Billed For Talk in Bend . Walter Norblad, representative from the 1st Oregon district, will be speaker at the annual banquet of the Oregon Jaycees in Bend on Saturday night, May 14, Alvin J. Gray, convention co-chairman with Steve Jackson, announced today. Through a misunderstanding, The Bulletin was in error Tuesday In announcing June, as the convention month. The Oregon convention of the young clubmen will open on May 13 and will last through Sunday, May 15. The banquet at which Norblad will speak will be a high light of the convention, expected to be attended by some 500 club men and their wives. One of the major features of the three-day convention will be a buekaroo breakfast, to be served on the former Glen Vista club grounds, north of Bend, on Sun day morning. May 15. This site Is now owned by the Rim Rock R'dcrs, who will serve the break fast. Jack B. Lively nf Snrlncfleld. president of the Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce, will pre-1 side at the convention, scheduled as one of Bend's largest of thei year. Twelve Pages will make an inspection, the chief; pointed out. Carlon said the inspections will not be conducted to find violations in building code regulations but to help make residences "as fire safe ns possible." Prompting the campaign is the high cost of residential fires over the past several years, the chief Indicated. He pointed out that in addition to property loss, nine lives have been lost in home blazes over the past 12 years. "The primary purpose of the home fire inspection campaign is to prevent this loss of life," Car lon said. The chief said he expects to launch the program this week and Indicated he thought a city wide canvass would take several months. The door bell ringing campaign for permission to hunt for fire dangers will begin on the west side and proceed slowly across tewn. A fire truck will be used to car ry trained firemen to their assign ments. The truck will be on standby call and will be dispatched to a fire by radio should an alarm be received at the fire hall on Minnesota avenue. Several full-time firemen will be assigned to the home inspection campaign, the first planned for Bend. 'The firemen making these in spections are qualified through their experience and training to note possible causes of fire that might escape the layman," the chief-noted., "They know from past experience that if we have the opportunity to Inspect private homes that we can point out many of the hazards. The Inspection campaign will be limited to residential buildings, the chief said. Commercial structures are regularly inspected by the de partment. Chambers Asks For Attorney Jack E. Chambers, who has pleaded guilty to charges of embez zlement, requested the. appoint ment of an attorney In a flvc- mlnutc appearance In local circuit court this morning. Chambers made the request to local circuit judge Ralph S. Ham ilton, who named Owen M. Pan ner to represent the former union official. Chambers, one time secretary- treasurer and business agent of Local 6-7 of the International Woodworkers of America, pleaded guilty to pilfering more than $7000 from union coffers In a circuit court hearing April 20. At the hearing more than two weeks ago, Chambers waived the right of council. But this morning asked If he now desires the assistance of an attorney, he replied affirmatively Hamilton in making the appoint ment said "this matter is serious to the defendant" and he deserves representation. Man Gets Ten Year Sentence THE DALLES (UP)-Harrv E tone Adams, former Portland res ident, was sentenced to 10 year; in the penitentiary yesterday after oladlng guilty to assault with n dangerous weapon. Adams, 49, hnd been indicted fo- assault with intent to kill in con nocllon with the shooting of Henry Stephens, 33. The Dalles, in a local restaurant several months neo. The charge was later reduced by Circuit Judge Malcolm Wilkin son. Stephens was critically wounded but survived. STUDENTS SMARTER STILLWATER, Okla. - (UP) -Today's students have a seholns- tic edge over those of 20, 40, or 100 years ago, according to re search figures comnilod by Dr. Rood Russell, superintendent of Stillwater schools. He said colleoe freshmen have proved In tests that they have more "sawy" than stu- dents of one and two generations ago. High and Low High yesterday, 56 de grees. Low last night, 32 degrees. Sunset today, 7:11. Sunrise tomorrow. 4:52. No. 127 House Finishes Work on Salary Increase Bills By BILL FORCE United Press Staff Correspondent SALEM (UP) - The Orcu House of Representatives today resolved two of the issues that had deadlocked the session late yesterday and rolled on toward final adjournment sometime today. Approved and sent to the Senate were two salary increase bills, one for elective officials of the state and the other for appointive of ficials. As finally passed by the House. the governor's salary would be unchanged but his expense allow- ance would be raised from $100 to $-iuu per month. Salaries of the secretary of state, treasurer, and attorney general would be raised trom $10,000 to $11,000 per vear. Supeintendent of Public Instruc tion would get $10,500 and the commissioner of labor $9500. Rep. V. T. Jackson (D-Rose-burg),- making one of his few ' speeches of the session, fought for the salary increases for appointive officials when they came under attack from Reps. Richard Chap man (D-Coos Bay) and Robert Klemsen (D-St. Helens). He de clared the pay raises were vital to a sound state administration and added that the bill before the house was one of the few of value this session. Unemployment Bill Snags He told the house "fifty per cent of the bills this session have been hogwash." The unemployment compensa tion bill was before a fourth Con ference committee. Three other were discharged when they were unable to agree on a compromise between Senate and House ver sions of the measure to raise bene fits for idle workers and to In crease the contributions paid ta the benefit fund by employers. The Senate yesterday voted down the proposed three per cent sales tax but passed a measure calling for a three-cent per pack tax on cigarettes. (Pickup .11)20 at 8th ngh: One bill etc. One bill that had passed both houses earlier in the session struck a snag In the executive branch. Gov. Paul Patterson announced that he had vetoed the bill that would have denied el lies Portland in particular to levy a business tax based on gross or net income. The governor said that while the bill was "general in character and thus would not be violative of the 'home rule amendment,' it does Impinge on the spirit of the law by pre-empting sources of revenue for the exclusive use of the state." Big Amount Allocated The governor added, "I do not consider this wise in the absence of a general plan "of allocating revenue sources to the various branches of government." From the joint ways and means committee came a final report of the money appropriated in hills approved by the committee. The total was $217,816,729. Estimated revenues from present Income axes and corporation taxes, titli ng and transfers was $156,323,581, leaving another $61,493,148 to be raised by measure in the Legisla ture. The revenue program now idonted would come close to bal incing the budget by offsetting -.59.500.000 of the deficit. The bal ance is called a floating deficit ind is considered well within the capacity of the state's economy "o accommodate. Ren. Loran Stewart (R-Cottage Irovo) called it a "delicate bal mce" and one that could be up--et by referral of any of the tax -evenue measures. The Senate cleared Its calendar ind adjourned at 6:30 p.m. to meet nviin todav at 9 a.m. Senati "resident Elmo E. Smith (R-Johii Hay) said the session should end sine die before noon today, but those who heard the Senate get hung up on several hassles on what some culled minor bills late yes terday said they would believe it when sine die came. ItmTORV UEM1NHER GUTHRIE, Okla. (UP) A iunior high school history teacher iskod for a relic of the City Hall building used for the s'nte cnnstltu. tlnnal convention in 1906. which is to be r-nlaced hy a new Bul,nlm; Don Odom told the city council ne wants an old speaker 9 rostrum tor luse as a prop ' " --""
