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Ualv. or Oregon Library 6UCSNS, OREGON Forecast Partly sunny Friday; high today 67-72; low tonight 33-38; high Friday 60-65. BEND BULLETIN High and Low High yesterday, 56 de grees. Low last night, 32 degrees. Sunset today, 7:11. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:52. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday. May 5. 1955 Sixteen Pages No. 128 THE W. Germany Receives Its. Sovereignty By JOSEPH W. GSIGG 1'nJted Press Staft Correspondent BONN, Germany (UP) West Germany became a sovereign na tion today, almost 10 years to the day after Hitler's thousand year Reich crumbled in defeat The high commissioners of the United Slates, Britain and France finished signing their names to the treaties which restore West Ger ' many to the ranks of free states. Within two hours, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer read a procla mation addressed to the SO million people of the Bonn republic in which he pledged his new nation to remain a loyal ally of the free West. 'There is only one place for us in the world: At the side of the free peoples," he said. "Our goal is a free and united Germany in a free and united Europe." Self Rule Granted With the treaties, West German occupation by the Allies ended, the Bonn republic won the right to rule Itself and assumed the re forces of 500,000 men to help de fend the West. In other ceremonies in Washing ton and Brussels, final actions were taken admitting the new nation to membership in the Western Eu ropean Union and alliance in the NATO forces. But, even as it won sovereignty, Germany still was a divided land. The West restored freedom to West Germany, but East Germany remained under Soviet Communist control and posed a problem for the future. The key ceremony was held at 7 a.m. EDT when the British and French high commissioners depos ited with the Bonn government the documents signifying ratification of the Paris treaties. The United States did this in April. No German Rejoicing In that brief ceremony Germany regained its sovereignty, but there was no rejoicing. The country is divided by the Iron Curtain, and 18 million Germans,live under So viet domination in the East, their future obscured by the clouds of the Cold War. West Germany is among the most prosperous nations of Europe but there are penniless refugees from Communism. The nation will rearm to seek unification through strength but to many the uncondi tional surrender of May 6, 1945, is too fresh to make rearmament popular. Today's diplomatic activities completed the ratification of the Paris accords, signed on Oct. 23, 1954, and pushed them through to success despite Communist threats that final ratification will seal the division of Germany. The Paris acts do four things: 1. They make Germany an inde pendent nation. 2. They enable Germany to be gin raising a 12-division army and an air force and navy placing 500.000 men under arms. 3. They admit Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion as Its 15th member. 4. And they admit Germany 1o a seven-nation Western European Union together with Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg its friends and its foes of the last world war. Commissioners Jobs End The German er.-i of today's cere monies began at 5 a.m. EDT when Mehlem, about five miles from the American, British and French high commissioners sat for the lat Commissioner James B..Conant at time in the office of U.S. High Bonn. Their job was to wind up the job begun in October. 1949, when mili tary government of Germany was replaced by allied civilian control of Germany. A speech was sched uled by French High Commissioner Andre Francois-Poncet to mark the historic nature of the occasion. Two houre later Francois-Poncet and British High Commissioner Sir Frederick Hoyer-Millar drove to the West German chancellery, the Schaumburg Palace in Bonn. and deposited the documents for mally ratifying the Paris treaties. The treaties went into effec then. The Allied occupation ended officially and West Germany be came a sovereign, independent na tion. CP TO GOVERNOR SALEM (UP) State police wllljbond issue for street improve-:die at 7.10 o'clock last night after! ment was made up of Sens. Rudle get pay increases If the governor j ments completed last year. Thsjfinally agreeing on changes in thejwilhelm of Portland and Harry signs legislation completed by the, bank's bid was for an I n t ere s t unemployment compensation law,)D. Bolvin of Klomath Falls, and Senate yesterday. " rate of 2.4485 per cent. milk control and pay for Supreme , Rens. Ed Cardwell of Sweet Home The measure calls for a new tt ..... H.A ,,.1,1, m iftHlnff pay of $4620 for a private, $20 asioner advising that he Intends folts 115th day. Only one session month higher than before. Can-(Investigate regulating speeds ofihas ever gone longer 116 days tains would get $6720 a year, $35; trains within cities of less thanin 1951. The 1953 session made it a month more. 1 100,000 population. in an even 100 days. "-;iir-:-"M; .44 l ii . ,lj.t SECOND PLACE WINNER Bruce Nicholas, 32-year-old Mad ras farmer, has been awarded second place by the Oregon Slate Junior Chamber of Commerce in a contest to find the state's outstanding young farmer. Young Madras Farmer Wins Second in Jaycee Contest A young Madras farmer who. uvea wim ins lamuy in a tentj house during their first year of farming in 1949 has been awarded second place In a contest to Jinct tne state s outstanding young farmer. He is Bruce Nicholes, 32, opera tor of 240 acres of land, most of it under irrigation. He was spon sored by the Jefferson county Jay- cees in the contest, sponsored by the Oregon State Junior Chamber of Commerce. Nicholes hadn.t lived on a farm until 1949, when he and his wife bought 160 acres of raw land in Jefferson county. At the time, nis sole investment was a pickup truck. He was $34,000 in debt in purchase of the farm. He has built up his assets to $120,000 now, and with liabilities his operation has an estimated net worth of $100,000. All his time wasn't spent on the farm. His selection was based partly on participation in commu nity affairs. Nicholes is a member of the Jefferson county farm crops planning committee, Jefferson county airport committee and a number of farm and civic organi- zations.Additionally, he has been president of the Jefferson county Jaycees and the Jefferson county veterans' association From the. 1948 model pickup with which Nicholes started, he has increased his position to the point where he now has all the most modern and efficient equip ment he needs in his work. He. has built a machine shed, shop, 5,000-bushel granary, 900-ton potato storage, corrals, tenant house and now is building a home Ordinance Bans Outdoor Toilets The city commission last night unanimously adopted an ordinance prohibiting the construction and the use after three years of out door toilet facilities. The ordinance bans the building of such facilities, the measure be coming effective a month after passage. Police and fire officials are authorized under the ordi nance to list existing facilities and prohibit their use after three years. Other commission business: 1. Awarded Parker and Fuhr- man, Portland construction firm, the bid for surfacing street im - provements to be undertaken this1 year. The firm's bid. low of three presented, was for $16,766.49. Commissioner T. D. Sexton point ed out that the bid was about $S0 less than one submitted by a local firm and asked if it "wouldn't beo.. Inc. worth more to give the bid to aj local contractor." City Manager; Walter Thompson said he favored, adhering to a policy of awarding, contracts to the lowest bidder. He I and Oty Engineer John Eaton pointed out that competition on! city bids by out-of-town firms has led to a reduction In cast. 2. Awarded U. S. National bank a bid for Bancroft Improvement 3. Acknowledged a letter irom U C,n, t,,KW ITtllitlaa mmmll. for his family of four children. Nicholes feeds out cattle for market and has vaeilities at the present to handle about 100 head of feeders and 100 head of wean- ers. He uses a cost accounting method of keeping books so that he knows at all times how his dif- rent farming enterprises are pay ing. A daily dairy provides a rec ord of day-to-day activities. During hs first year on the farm Nicholes, his wife and oldest son lived in a tent house until better quarters could be built. The farm was laid out and leveled in the spring of 1949. Roleveling is per formed on fields as needed to im prove irrigation efficiency. He has cooperated with the county extension agent with trials on weed killers, potato seed piece treatment and crop adaption Winner in the contest was Roger A. Dumdi, 34, Yamhill, and Lloyd torester, 31, Tangent, was third. Dumdi is eligible for competition in a nationwide contest to select the United States' four outstand ing farmers between the ages of 21 and 3a. The national contest is sponsored by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. Award is Made After 3 Years Special to The Bulletin REDMOND A Sisters man, Roy Stanton, has been named "Conser vation Man of the Year" for Mid state Soil Conservation district, and is winner of the annual Good year Conservation Farming award. Stanton and SCS technicians worked out a complete conserva tion farm plan for all his land. I le has 320 acres at Sisters in di versified farming. He land-leveled his first field in 1952, relocated ditches and followed an irrigation plan for his farm. A large storage pond has proved a labor saver and provides a larger head of water to irrigate with than he had before its construction. "Conservation farming," Stanton says, "has boosted my farm pro duction 20 per cent, increased the annual net income 30 per cent, and added 50 per cent to the cash value of the farm. Improvement in my irrigation system makes it possible to spread water over crop land in one-third less time than it formerly ook." Stanton, :ays he is a firm belies er in soil v.nd water conservation and In developing his farm accord ing to his conservation farm plan worked nut with the Midstate SCS districts, Stanton will receive a plaq.le from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Long Legislative By WILLIAM WARREN I'nited I'reim Staff Correspondent SAU-.M Uft lne second lon- est session in the history of the :)rcgin legislature adjourned sin?; conn jusrices. The Session flrilOtimPn In Recreation Funds Asked From Qity Requests for city financial aid in developing special recreation fa cilities in the community were laid before the city commission last night. B. A. Stover, co-chairman of the civic committee sponsoring the Bend Loggers baseball team. asked support for upkeep of the municipal ball park. He reported that 50 merchants have contributed "more than $2,- 000" to finance the team and pay for construction of dressing room facilities at the ball park. "what help can we expect from the city?" Stover asked. City Manager Walter T. Thomp son reported he had budgeted $2, 150 for the next fiscal year for the ball park and arranged to tour the park with Stover this week. Stover asked for no particular capital outlay on the part of the city but requested assistance in maintaining the park and eliminai- ing the fire hazard he said is caused by over - grown weeds around the grand stand. Planned by the sponsors of the Loggers is installation of a hot water system for showers in the newly constructed dressing rooms. Probable cost of the system will be $575, Stover said. Budgeted this year for the park was $2986, the city manager re ported. For fiscal 1954 the amount was $3456, and In 1953, $2931. Thompson continued. Stover said he thought the city should co-operate with the spon sors of the city In making Bend a good baseball town." 'The city has done a good job but should continue and not let the property run down," Stover con cluded. The other group asking for finan cial help for a recreation program was the municipal band which asked the appropriation of $1850 in next year's budget for an out door stage in Juniper Park. The request was presented by Roy J. Lively, a director of the band, who pointed out that both w,,u ittc piamuii .vm- missions have gone on record fa voring the project. Mayor Hans Slagsvold referred the request to the city manager for presentation to the budget com mit tee when it meets next week. Program Planned By Allen School The annual spring program pre sented by the Allen school music department will be Friday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in the school audi torium. There will be selections by the string orchestra, the fifth, sixth and seventh grade bands, the beginning string ensemble and the all-school chorus. Special numbers will include a trumpet solo by Richard Gassner, a piano solo by Lois Shumate and a flute and clarinet duet by Janet and Carol Whitney. There will be two folk songs by the seventh grade girls' sextet, composed of Carolyn Munkers, Susan Diver, Daune Bailly, Donna Williamson. Judy Wilson and Kathy Boardman, Accompanists will include. Judy Wilson and Jan Bow us, pupils, and Mrs. Norman Whitney. The program is one of three spring concerts presented by the music department of the Bend Public Schools. The Kenwood pro- Tram was last week, and the high school program will be May 13. Bulletin WASHINGTON (UP) The Air Foree said today that radar fail ure to identify several B47 Jet bombers caused a brief "alert" on 'the West Coast today. A statement handed reporters said the B47's were headed back to the Went Coast and the alert resulted when radar failed to Identify them as U.S. airrraft. The planes presumably had bwn on a training flight. In San Francisco a hlnh Civil Defense source had asserted the yellow attack Imminent alert stemmed from a "scara In Ca nada." It took five teams of conferees, .before house and senate could get together on the unemployment ! compensation changes. The team that finally achieved the agree- land t. A. Llttreii oi Meatora, Weekly Amount Hiked Under terms of the measure fi nally passed, unemployment com and mechanical cappers. Powerful Atomic Test Unleashed in Nevada First Budget Session Set For May 11th The city commission last night set May 11 for the first hearing on the budget for the next fiscal year, and City Manager Walter T. Thompson indicated the budget would be tight, tight, TIGHT. Thompson predicted that the budget commission made up of the city commission and seven ap pointed members would take but one meeting to review the budget 'already cut to the bone." Though giving no over-all figure for expenditures planned in fiscal 1956, Thompson did say that the budget would be held within the six per cent limitation and a spe cial budget election would not be required. State statutes specify that rev enues from general taxes can not be increased more than six per cent over the tax revenues of the previous fiscal period. One handicap in figuring the budget for the next fiscal year is the sharp drop in tax collections in the city this year, Thompson in dicated. He told the commissioners whereas a one to two per cent tax loss is expected each year, the loss this year amounts to an "as tonishing" 17 per cent. The budget for the upcoming year has been "cut to the bone1 and .is "Opwn ,to a minimum, Thompson said. "I can't Sep where ii can De anerea. To stay within the six per cent limitation, a salary increase for city employes has not been fig ured in the new budget, Thomp son said. The commission at an earlier meeting had gone on record favor ing a raise If it could be achieved without disrupting the budget. Several commissioners indicated they would keep a watchful eye on the. budget as it Is reviewed next week to find expendable items that might be cut to provide funds for a pay hike. City em ployes have not had a salary raise for four years, it was point ed out during the brief discussion on the budget still being compiled by Thompson and City Recorder Mrs. Julia S. Johnson. Thompson said that employes have expressed more concern In "carrying on and doing a good job'' in their departments than "in their own pocket books." Revenue loss from tax delinquen cies have amounted to an unex pected $32,000, Thompson reported. Budgeted next year is an In crease in revenues from general taxes of $14,000 or six per cent of the current budgeted revenue of $245,000. W. C. Ficlcas Suffers Injury W. C. Fickas, often called the "most indispensable volunteer" at Red Cross bloodmobile visits, suf fered a painful injury In an acci dent Tuesday at the National Guard Armory, when he was as sisting with the bloodmobile visit. He climbed on a ladder to turn off a refrigerator motor In the kitch en, and the Udder gave way and he fell, striking his shoulder. One hand was badly cut. He was tak en to St. Charles Memorial hospi tal for treatment, and was re leased. Examination revealed that there were no broken bones. Fickas always takes charge of setting up and dismantling beds, tables and screens, and assists wherever else he Is needed, with the motor corps, canteen, and oth er bloodmobile operations. Session pnsation will be increased next.tions for grade B milk sold ,it Jan. 1 from $25 a week to $35. retail measure up to the standards t Coverage is extended to employ- ers ot two or more employes. Present law Is extended to env plovers of four or more employes, In the compromise on the mllk!use ruce0 ana bill, the conferees finally agreed to strike out section , 17, which would have required producers of grade B milk, Including those who sell It at their farms by the jug, to have automatic filling machines Otherwise, the sanitary regula- Move to Amend Off-Street Measure is Defeated 5 to 2 By IIADLEY ROFF Bulletin Staff Writer An amendment to exempt pres ent buildings in the central com mercial district from terms of the proposed off-street-parking ordin ance was squelched last night as the measure was given first read ing at the regularly scheduled city commission meeting in city hall. By a vote of 5 to 2, commission ers defeated the suggested amend ment to restrict the scope of the proposal first introduced to the commission over five months ago. The vote came at the heels of a short, but sometimes sharp-tongued discussion in which a proponent of the amendment said he thought it would make the original proposal fair and an opponent said It would kill the suggested ordinance "entirely. The motion to exempt standing down-town buildings from the pro posal was made by Commissioner Vernon W. Larson and quickly en dorsed by W. M. Loy, long critical of the measure. The amendment if it had passed would have withdrawn standing buildings from the off-street park ing proposal, but would not have School Bid Opening Due Here Toniqht Contractors or their representa tives from several states were gathering in Bend today, for the opening of bids on the senior high school, to be erected in the south east part of town. Bids will be opened tonight at 8 o clock, in the library room of the local high school building. This is on the second floor. Fifteen different construction firms made application for spec ifications, and reports today indi cated that ledRt a dozen of these would be represented in tonight's bidding. Eight of the construction firms applying for specifications were from the Portland area, two from Salem and one from Eugene. Bend Is expected to be represent ed by one bidder, Springfield by one, Junction City possibly by one and Walla Walla, Wash., by one. Bid opening was moved from the school board's regular meet ing place to the library, to pro vide space for the bidders. Former Bend Resident Killed Daniel Gene Warner, 27, former ly of Bend, was killed in a head on collision Monday at 5:10 p.m. on highway 58 about a quarter of a mile east of Oakridge. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorick Warner, formerly of Bend and now of Clatskanie. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Bartholomew Buell mortuary In Springfield. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Salem, In the City View cemetery. Warner was born Feb. 24, 1928, In Bend. He was a night shift em ploye at the Pope and Talbor Lum ber Co. In Oakridge. The accident occurred as he started to make a left turn to go to the mill to work. He collided head-on with a car driven by Marilyn Roach, 19, ol Oakridge. Warner's brother, Gerald, was following in another car. He said his brother had been following a lumber carrier and ap parently did not see the on-coming car. Warner was hospitalized and died about two hours after the crash. Ended at Salem oi grane rain. me senuie nuu vuiku u yay boost for Supreme Court justices from $12,000 a year to $15,000. The fterenadlng Goes On While the senate waited for ac t Ion by the house on the uncmploy- ment compensation measure, Sen, Geddes, Holmes, Ulett and Steen serenaded the secretaries, other applied to new buildings and would not have affected provisions for off-street loading space. ( Oppose Proposal Mayor Hans Slagsvold and Com missioner T. D. Sexton were quick to express dissatisfaction with Larson's proposal. "I couldn't go along with that proposal," the mayor said. Sexton said he thought the amendment would "kill the ordinance entirely." Loy and Larson voted for the amendment, while Slagsvold, Sex ton, Francis M. Gates, Melvin Rog ers and Hap Taylor turned thumbs down. Larson said he proposed the ex emption because he feared the measure would create "unneces sary hardship" for down-town building owners who might want to expand their structures. Inclusion of the down-town dis trict in the proposed ordinance has long been the prime point of dis agreement between those favoring and those opposing the measure. Loy has long advocated blanking the central commercial district from the ordinance. It would be a "mistake" to do otherwise he has remarked at several of the meet ings at which the measure was dis cussed. But the sting of the "hardship" argument was thought removed last week when commissioners ap proved inclusion in the measure of a one-year grace period for the standing buildings. The moratorium was approved by the commission at a joint meet ing with the planning commission a week ago. The grace period of existing buildings would become ef fective a year following 'adoption of the measure. City Attorney Harry A. English pointed out that actually a 14 months grace period would be cre ated by passage of the ordinance since a builder could secure a building permit within the one year period and still have two months under the permit to begin construc tion. Period of Grace The grace period, it was stressed during the reading of the three page proposed ordinance, would apply only to the enlargement and improvement of standing buildings. New buildings would have to com ply immediately with the terms of the measure. Loy, describing Larson's amend ment as a "good suggestion," said he considered It fuir "where 1 don't think the other (the proposed ordinance itself) is." 'No one is going to be able to add to their buildings" under the ordinance without such an amend ment, Loy argued. Then bltingly, he added he thought his colleagues opposing the amendment should "plan for the future and not for yourselves and not just for today." Larson said he didn t think It right that buildings "in the con gested area" should be wrapped under the measure. He said he thought his amendment would at feet only "30 to 40" parking spaces Sale of Timber Planned by BLM A timber tract in Grant county and two in Harney county will be out on the block by the Bureau of Land Management at an oral auc tion scheduled for 2 p.m. June 6 at the Burns office. The Grant county tract include? 113 thousand board feet of ponde rosa pine appraised nt $20.20 P thousand board feet. The stand also includes some douglas fir and sound snags. Total nunrnised value of the stand is $2,314.60. In Harney county, one of the t" stands offered is a stand of 108 thousand board feet of ponderosa pine valued at $3,056.40. snators, president Elmo E. Smith Chief Clerk Zylpha Zell Burns, and even the press When word was received that the house had completed Its nc tion, president Smith banged th' i KB,V' "ply at 7:1" P m' anu bmiu me oi-iutiu siajiua uujuumeo sine die!" At the same time, Speaker Ed ward A. Geary rapped the Ravel for sine die adjournment of the house. Then senators and repre sentatlves sang "Auld Lang Syne and got roady to go back home, Civil Defense Workers See Blast Close Up ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nev. (UP) The most powerful atomic test explosion of the year hurled its might through Survival Town, U.S.A. today, wreaking havoc while U.S. tanks of an armored task force rode out the shock un perturbed less than two miles from ' the blast. The white heat of nuclear furv burst at 5:10 a.m. PDT with earth rocking violence on the Nevada desert with a force equivalent to 35,000 tons of TNT, more powerful oy lar than any ever witnessed before by non-military and non technical observers. It roared into Survival Town, a typical American community 1J blocks away, like a hurricane. stripping off roofs and churning window glass Into millions of dart ing, deadly missiles. But Civil Defense and military observers who, went through the experiment in trenches less than two miles from the vaporized tow er reported that most of the 10 residences still were standing, al though the windows were knocked out. The tankers, in the first indoc trination for U.S. armored task forces, went through the terrific blast with "no strain". The shock wave, which shook many ot the sou Civil Defense workers and newsmen 7 1-2 miles distant, was barely dlscernable In the buttoned down tanks, the crews reported back by radio. Occupants of front line trenches two miles distant were showered with a cascade of rocks and dust but none was injured. United Press Correspondents Robert C. Miller and Robert Ben nyhoff, returning from assignments in the forward area, said they could detect little outward damage In Survival Town. - Apparently, the damage was In ternal like a boxer's body blow to his opponent. Bennyhoff from his vantage point In an army tank only a few blocks from the houses nearest the blast, said at least two it not all four of them were still standing. These were roughly a mile from the detonation. Miller, In a trench less than two miles fro mground zero, said the five homes at roughly two miles from the explosion were erect al though windows were shattered. Anthony Muto, United Prens Movietone newsreel cameramen. reported from his forward position that one and possibly two brick houses in the front line of survival city appeared shattered. Manniquins exposed on the des ert two miles from the tower were knocked down but their clothing did not appear damaged. Big army tanks, unmanned, as close as one-third of a mile to the blast center, were rolled over like dice by the shock of the blast. If the atomic pyrotechnics were spectacular so were man's activi ties around the site after the blast. Helicopters took off in swirls ot desert dust to ferry correspondents and witnesses back from forward areeas. Jeeps wheeled out from safe hiding spots to lift, men and women back from the civil defense renches, raising more dust. Budget Board Members Told A member of the last county budget committee was reappointed ind two new members appointed it a meeting yesterday afternoon it the county court in the court house. Held over was George Cooper, Sisters. Apiiointed to a two year erm wns Ray Cooper, Bend C. E. Thompson, Redmond, was named to a three year term. Mating date for the committee his yet to be set. The two member's replace Bud Drew, who retired, and Lester , Houk, former Redmond represen tative on the committee who ntv lives In Bend. Other business before the court - 'was described as routine by Judge I C. L. Allen, who presided at tne session.
