Uniy. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON Forecast ' Fair through Saturday; low tonight 48-S3; high Saturday 78-83. THE BEND'- BULLETIN High and Low High yttttrday, 81 do grots. Low last night, 47. Sunset today, 7:28. Sun rise tomorrow, 4:24. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year One Section Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon, The Bend Bulletin, Friday, May 20, 1955 Eight Pages No. 141 Truck Strike Cuts Shipping To a Trickle LOS ANGELES (UP)-A strike against three major longhaul trucking firms erupted today into a general industry lockout through out the West which cut shipments to a mere trickle. Effects of the strike, precipita ted by a wage dispute between AFL Teamsters and employers, were felt immediately. More than 10,000 workers went off the job yesterday and the lockout was ex pected to bring the total to 100,000. Employers said trucking would be curtailed as far east as Chi cago, St. Louis and Kansas City. Traffic from Texas to the West al ready was affected. Produce ship ments destined for Los Angeles' sprawling Produce Mart failed to arrive today. An employers' committee met to mop plans for transportation of vital materials such as essential drugs, foodstuffs and defense ma terials. Employers said their op erations were now ' almost at a standstill." "The strike against these three companies is a strike against the whole industry," said Wade Sher rard, managing director of the California Trucking Association. "We can't stand by and let the union pick off one or two com panies at a time." The employer association de cided to order all members in the 11 Western states to halt opera tions in retaliation to the strike. Frank Brewster, of Seattle, president of the Western Confer ence of Teamsters, said "If they want to lock our people out, it's up to them. We have no plans at present to strike any other car riers." 100,000 Affected The strike was expected to af fect 100,000 workers operating In ell Western states from Canada to Mexico and from the Rocky Mountains to the. Coast. Four- fifths of the areas long-haul goods move by truck. Brewster said a strike vote by the union s 25,000 members was "almost unanimous" after wage negotiations broke down last week. The "three firms which were dated Freightways, Pacific Motor Transport, and Pacific Intermoun- tain Express. The companies han dle nearly one third of the freight west of the Rockies. In .Oregon, the state's 40 car riers, which employ 3500 drivers, shut down in sympathy after the walkout. The work stoppage will halt 95 per cent of Oregon's long, haul trucking. Eight cities in Montana were affected and more than 600 driv ers and dockmen were idled. Picket Lines The teamsters set up picket lines at terminals of the three firms in Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., El Paso, Tex., Phoenix Ariz., Seattle, Wash., San Francis co, and elsewhere. Both the union and the trucking firms agreed to deliver all goods in transit at the time the strike was called. The strike was expected to hit farmers growing perishable fruits and vegetables particularly hard Operations of the two truck lines with headquarters in Bend were completely halted around midnight last night, and today both plants were closed. Affected lqcally by the strike against three freight lines in 11 wesiern states are the Consolidat ed Fiightways, representing one of the ti'ree firms which have been struck by the AFL Teamsters, and the Bend-Portland Truck Service At the Consolidated Freightways. cargo that was en route to Bend from Chi' ago when the strike was called w.ll be delivered under an arrangrment between the AFL Teamsters and the management, Hugh K. Cole, local Teamster rep resentative said. In Bend and other northwest points, it was believed that the "pinch of the strike would not be felt until about the first of the coming week. NAMED TO COMMITTER Special to The Bulletin REDMOND Prlday Holmes of Lower Bridge has been appointed to the executive committee of Ore gon Cattlemen's association by El lis Edgington, president of Central Oregon Livestock Growers. A'. county associations have been asked to name their represent fives to this body this week so that a meeting may be called soon to act upon the directive issued at the recent state meeting of OCA with regard to forming a state beef commission. Several Stormy Issues Mark Budget Meeting By JACK LINO Bulletin Staff Writer Appointive members were out voted repeatedly by city commis sion last night as he budget com mittee approved estimates of 10 departments of next year's budget in its second meeting. There were several stormy see saw discus sions. Four of the seven appointive committee members snowed up while five commissioners attended the meeting. The two groups voted differently en bloc on three contro versial issues. With Walt Hanson, an appointive member, holding thi chair, the commissioners had tlieir way on three 5-3 votes. Budget estimates of six depart ments including the recreation de partment budget remain to be studied and approved at the next committee meeting scheduled for Wednesday, May 2o. The approved figures include the five per cent pay hike for city and police de partment employes and a merited salary Increase for the library staff. The committee bogged down for an hour-long discussion as soon as it started with the first and con troversial item: the airport budg et. Appointive members were firm that any further investment In the deficit-running and "almost hope less" airport was uncalled for. "The airport is benefiting but a handful of plane owners In the community,'' one member said. 'We should stop maintaining the airport at $200 a month to the city especially when funds are as tight as they are. Jet Flight Due in Skies On Saturday A flight af jet planes from the U.S. Air Force base in Portland will flash over Bend at 2.-05 Sat urday afternoon at a height of 5,- 000 feet, to inagurate the lacal do- servance of Armed Forces day, Directly following the double pass of the planes over Bend, Mayor Hans SlagsVold will speak briefly from an improvised plat form in the Oregon National Guard armory. The local observance will be confined to the . armory, where there will be special displays, in booths prepared by the armed forces and veterans' groups. Dis plays will include an artillery unit from Redmond. Bend CO. I men will be present to assist. No civic parade is . planned committees in charge said. Similar observances will be held in Prineville, Redmond and Bend. Prineville will open Its program with a gun salute, to be fired from Viewpoint park, overlooking the city from the west. Armed Forces day has been pro claimed by President Eisenhower, and replaces the former Individual observances by the . various branches of the service. In Bend, Armed Forces day will mark the launching of a campaign for volunteers to man the Eastern Oregon filter center that will be activated here on July 14. Decision Delayed By Subcommittee WASHINGTON (UP)-A Senate Interior . Subcommittee delayed a decision today on a bill to auth orize a 350 million dollar govern ment dam in Hells Canyon on the Snake River at the Idaho-Oregon border. . . Chairman Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) said the bill was port poned to give subcommittee mem bers a chance to study documents submitted in previous public hear ings.- Chancellor-Elect Visits A prediction that students going from Central Oregon college to campusses at Corvallis and Eu gene "will surprise a lot of peo ple" was made in Bend Friday by Dr. John R. Richards, chancellor elect of the state system of higher education. Dr. Richards, who takes over state's top educational post on July 1. spent Thursday afternoon and this morning making an in formal inspection of Central Ore gon college. He was accompanied or his trip by Travis Cross, assis tant to the chancellor. Dr. Richards' prediction was based, he said, on his observations of the college, its students and its program. "Generally we find that people attending afternoon -and evenuv cUtset and working the rat of the The city commission, however, vas reluctant to give up the $105,- 000 institution at this time. Main tenance worthwhile when so much money has already been invested n it and the only way is to keep it up so that it may be sold at a reasonable price, one commis sioner stated. A 5-3 vote in favor if the $2,265.02 airport budget end ed the discussion. The meeting bogged down the second time when the non-departmental budget was at issue. The $900 item for league and conven- Ion expenses was finally slashed down to $500 with appointive mem ers and commissioners favoring the cut and City Manager Walter Thompson defending the original figure. The committee avoided a vote on the non-departmental estimates which included the touchy and most controversial issue of city advertising via the chamber of commerce. Appointive members were strongly against Thompson's recommendation for a cut of $500 from the $2,000 originally budgeted as subsidy to the chamber for city promotional advertisement. The move to postpone a deci sion on the total non-departmental estimate was an attempt to pacify the appointive members and to find other possible cuts in the budget to leave the advertising fig ure intact. Another Controversy However, a third controversy de veloped when the committee reached the Item of employing an additional worker for services of parking meters. Appointive mem bers urged for a part-time em ploye whereas the commissioners backed Thompson's recommenda tion that a full-time man was ac tually a money-making proposi tion. The new employe, Thompson said, would repair meters which would brine in more revenue. Another 5-3 vote was recorded approving the new addition, which Police Chief John Truett also supported.- A provision was"aMt that the new employe be m police uni form and serve as police officer in emergency situations. The entire police department budget was passed by a third 5-3 vote. Appointive members object ed to the approval on grounds tnat more time should be given to the study of the need of a meter man" when Chairman , Hanson called for a definite vote before ah adjournment suddenly called called for by Mayor Hans Slags void. Library Pay Hike At the beginning of the meeting, Miss Eleanor F. Brown appealed to the committee for a salary In crease for her library staff. She compared the pay scales of her staff and other , library workers. Miss Brown won her case in sal ary but suffered a cut of $400 in other Items. The library budget was set at $15,005. City Manager Thompson made a list of recommendations of cuts be fore any discussion got underway. The cuts amounted to $4,715. He also recommended that $258,853.24 taxes be levied Instead of $256,- 715.20 to have enough funds to cover the salary increases. , Figures approved last night are estimates for the airport, ceme tery, debt service, engineering and Dlannlna. fire department, general government, legal and judicial, park department, parking meters and police departments. Baseball School Due on Saturday Ad Liska, former Portland Bea ver star, will arrive here this eve ning. He will give two two-hour "baseball clinics" tomorrow in the munidDal ball park. In the moming from 10 to 12. he will meet with the little leaguers and in the afternoon with boys 12 and older including high school players and coaches. day suffer from a little letdown while-they are in class. I could not see any of this. "In addition, the motivation that makes students take work here is a strong one, so strong that it should make your students from here compare very favorably with those who have spent their first two years on major camput-s. I think students from here will lie able to do very well in competi tion when they reach the biggr campuses." Study Planned Dr. Richards said that startint; this fall a comlttee will co mence a study of the post hkh school education facilities in tie state, to tee what needs they fill and what support they should have from. the state. The committee, be said, would J " :f(; SCREEN TALENT LISTED Busiest people in Bend for about two hours last night were officials of Byrna Productions, who were lining up extras for "The Indian Fighter," to be filmed in Central Oregon. Standing at left is Andre de Toth, who will direct the production, to be released by United Artists. Jack Vogilin and Frank Turner, seated, listed the qualifications of applicants. (Bend Bulletin Photo) . Oregon Wildlife Group Planning Session in Bend Oregon Wildlife Federation offi cials have scheduled their summer meeting for Bend, with a two-day conference, starting on June 11, planned. All sessions will be nt the Pilot Butte Ir.n. Registration will open on Satur day, June 11, with business . ses sions and reports to follow. This business will include a report on the National Wildlife Federation, Charles S. Collins, president of the state group, has announced. Offi cers will be elected on the open ing d;?y, and a banquet will fol low that evening. Resolutions will be considered on Sunday, June 12, officers will be installed and new business will be considered. Final ratification by Oregon club's of the Federation's new con stitution has been scheduled for June 11. One of the resolutions to be pre sented will recommend that "in years when the game commission believes it necessary to hold spe cial doe seasons, a general cither sex deer season be opened cover ing the entire state. Also to be considered will be a resolulion recommending the clos ing of the Oregon region between U.S. Highway 99 west of the Cas cades and U.S. 97 east of the mountuins to elk hunting "until such time as extensive field study shows adequate herds throughout the Cascade area." Film Equipment Begins Arriving The vanguard of equipment from Hollywood needed in filming "The Indian Fighter" arrived from the south today, with three large trucks in the convoy. Nineteen more piec es of motorized equipment are en route to Bend. In one of the vans reaching here was the entire wardrobe that will be used by the hundreds of persons having parts in the western mov ie, a Cinemascope production in color. A boom truck is included in the caravan moving here from the south. consist of interested persons from the state system higher educj tion, the state system of education and various communities, includ ing Bend. Richards reviewed student and faculty records, talked with staif members, and visited classes In session. New to Oregon two years airo when he came west from New York University to become vice "hancellor and board secretary, Richards was then a Visitor to Bend for, three days "as a tour ist." He said his next stay in Bend would come near the first of July for a little vacation before takit.g;thP outhr(.ak of the wari WorU over the chancellorship. Experiencea Recalled Richards recalled his experi ences on the staff of Penn State , rk r 0 1 Appeal for Extras Answered By Crowd Estimated at 900 By PHIL II. BKOOAN Bulletin Start Writer Director Andre DeToth's call for extras to play various parts In 'The Indian Fighter, filming of which will get under way this com ing week, got results. A crowd of an estimated 900 persons showed up at the Pilot Butte Inn Thursday night, causing a temporary traffic jam and chok ing the north entrance to the hotel for more than an hour. Extra police were called on to handle the crowd and protect the glass at one drive-in . entrance to the inn. Applicants for parts in the Bryna Production Cinemascope and color film, most of which will be "shot" at a replica of a fron tier fort erected near Benham falls on the Deschutes, were moved Into the inn's convention room in groups teamsters, rider1!, Indians, prospective princesses, cavalrymen and frontiersmen. Qualifications Listed Qualifications of each applicant were listed by DeToth's assistants. Watching the applicants file by, and occasionally singling some out for questions, was DeToth. Today, the movie makers indi cated they were well satisfied with talent lined up as a result of Interviews, with practically all but one category filled. Still lack ing are lithe youths, dark eyed and dark-haired, who will be cast as Indian warriors. Good riders are especially needed In this category. Road-e-o Planned On Harmon Field The annual teen-age Road e - o, sponsored by the Bend Jaycees. will be held Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. at Harmon field. Some 15 high school boys and girls will compete in written examinations and driving tests, for merchandise prizes. The first-place winner will compete in the state contest June 5 in Portland. The national contest will be held in Washington, D.C Arnie Swarens is chairman In charge of the local contest. John Chrismer, driver training instruc tor at the high school, will con duct the tests. A course will be marked out on the field, and local dealers will provide late-model automobiles for the driving contest. Spectators may watch from their cars out side the fence, or from bleacher seats in the p'irk. There Is no ad mission charge. The Road-e-o will end at atwut 4 o'clock. College University 20 years ago when one of his responsibilities was to set up five extension centers in vari ous p-irts of the slate for "from 50 to 100 students." He said his experiences there were quite slm liar to the problems of the Central Oreg'm college administration The chanci'llor-to-he has broad educational experience, having served on the stiffs of Penn Stat-1 University of Chicago, Wayne Uni versity and New York University. He has extensive federal govern ment experience. Including that of national gasoline rationing chief at War II Navy service, and educa tional assistant to the Secretary of the Army. He Is 45, father cf three. J:: X i i;v5t-. As casting neared completion, Bryna. staff members already here greeted new arrivals from Holly wood, with today's United Air Liner from the south bringing in more people. Kirk Douglas Coming Arrivals this weekend will In clude Kirk Douglas, who heads Bryna Production and will co-star with Walter Matthau, one of tele vision's outstanding young actors, and Walter Abel, veteran of stage and screen. Others in the cast will include Hale Jrl. EltshaOoolt Jr., and Wil liam Phlpps, The leading lady will be a 20- year-old Italian born beauty, Elsa Martinelli, who will tie making her screen debut after being in Amer ica for six months. Working with the movie makers will be some 200 Warm Spring In dians, including members of the far-famed Boy Scout troop from the reservation. Story Outlined The film is to be the story of an Indian fighter who guides a train westward In 1870 who dis covers that he has more in com mon with the Indians he battles than with the white men he Is guarding. Action highlight of the movie will be in the 200 by 200 foot fort that overlooks a sharp bend in the Deschutes, opposite the jagged lava fields that surround Lava butte. The movie, to be released by United Artists about the end of the year, will be directed by Andre de Toth for Producer William Schorr. A large group of actors will ar rive by plane Monday, prepared to go into action in the Smith rocks area, where the first shoot ing will take place. Annual Sale Of Poppies Is Under Way Veterans of Foreign Wars in Bend and other Central Oregon communities toaay launched their annual sale of popples made by disabled and needy veterans. The sale will continue through Armed Forces day, Saturday, May 21. Local veterans and Auxiliary members in charge said these poppy sales have heen conducted on a nation-wide scale since 1921. The pjppy movement got Its im petus from the poem, In Flanders Field," written by Col. John Mc Crae of the Canadian forces. Most of the proceeds from the sale of the poppies made by vet erans in hospitals and homes are retained locally to provide for vet eran service and welfare funds. Name Omitted From Honor List Gail Thompson is one of the "top 10" students in this year's Bend Hh'h school oraduatlng class, and will be amon those wearing the traditional gold cords, at baccalau rente and commencement. Her name was inadvertently omitted from the honor list which apoeared in The Bulletin yesterday according to Lloyd Reed, etats ad viser. Miss Thompson and Donna Gumpert tied for the No. 10 spot both with grade point averages of 1.3V. umers in tne casi wiu inciuae t,..u u . j . r ,. Edward Franz, Lon Chancy, AUnl!d.be Presented as .originally Oregon Gets 'Green Light' On Salk Inoculations, But Some States Facing Delays PORTLAND (UP) One of the last hurdles to inauguration of Ore gon's public Salk polio vaccination program was cleared today. The State Board of Health announced- it had received assur ance from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that "bar ring unforeseen . circumstances" enough anti-polio vaccine would bo available before June 30. Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer, said he received a tele gram from the foundation's New York headquarters yesterday aft ernoon assuring him that the vac cine would be distributed as rap idly as additional lots are approved by the National Institutes of Health. The foundation said "there Is ev ery reason to believe that suffi cient vaccine will be available" be fore the end o! next month. Dr. Erickson said .most Oregon counties planned to begin .inocu lntlng eligible school children next Monday. As soon as reports are received showing how many chil dren were participating, supplies for second round shots will be or dered. An estimated 70,000 first and second graders were to participate. By UNITED PRESS Government delays and short vaccine supplies today forced at Plans Made To Go Ahead With Pageant Despite the recent flare-UD on the Mirror nond. the 1955 namuint This is the opinion of the Board ot fageantarians, reported to Bend Chamber of Commerce di rectors today at their weekly meeting at the Pilot Butte Inn. "We believe that if the board concurs, plans should go ahead in a normal manner," Owen M. Pan- ner, head of the Pageantarians, re ported In a letter to chamber di rectors. ' Panner was In Portland today and was unable to attend the di rectors' meeting. "The reactibh of the Pazeanta- rlans earlier 'this week was that perhaps the community had grown tired of the water pageant," Pan ner said, adding; "This was based not only on the feeling expressed by persons In connection with the early placing oi tne Doom, but on reluctnace of merchants to' participate in floats and the general attitude of a num ber of persons wllh whom the Pag- eantanans naa come In contact aside and apart from anyone who had questioned the advisability of Placing the boom In the river at the early date. . "However, the matter has be come very well settled. There ap pears to be good feeling on the part oi almost everyone and the people along the river have def initely assured us that they want tne water pageant continued. 'We feel that if th board con curs, plans should go ahead in a normal manner. We are extreme ly sorry for the unfortunate inci dent but feel that there will be no further difficulty." Municipal Band Plans Concert In Bend Monday The Bend Municipal Band will he presented In concert Monday. May 23, at S p.m. at the Kenwood school auditorium. The program will feature old favorites from in strumental literature and light opera. There will be surprise en tertainment at intermission by "The Dixieland Combo" from the high school. John Hamilton will be vocalist in "Melody of Love." He also plays first trombone in the band. Among the operetta selection" will he the overture from "Stu dent Prince," and "Lover Come Back to Me." There will be a novelty number. "The Typewriter." urn tavorttes on the program will include "Rifle Rangers' March," "Missouri Waltz." "Pa rade of the Wooden Soldiers" anH "Lassus Trombone." Norman Whitney Is band direc tor. TURKINOTOtf RITES SET Funeral services for Mrs. Fan nie H. TurWngton will be held Sat urday at 10 a.m. at First BantW church in Redmond. Burial will be in the Redmond cemetery. least 10 states to halt the mass inoculation of first and second graders with Salk anti-polio vae clne. Fears rose in a mounting num ber of other states that the mass inoculation program ' would have to be stretched through the sum mer months, after schools are closed and the polio season is at Its peak. States which postponed their In oculation programs included Vir ginia, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky Alabama, Georgia and Mary land. Mass vaccinations were also halted in Los Angeles and three other California counties. Else where In California, where S8 . children have come down with polio after Salk vaccinations, an increasing number of parents ap peared unwilling to let their chil dren receive the shots. In the suites where Inoculations were halted, health officials said they did not have enough vaccine to Insure completion of the pro grams or had no vaccine at all. Government delays In re-approv ing and releasing additional sup plies of vaccine made the officials In other states doubtful of com pleting mass inoculations before schools let out. Schools will be closing and chil dren scattering to their homes within the next two weeks In many areas. Meanwhile, indications in Washington were that it will toe a week or later fcefore tne govern ment gives the go ahead to new vaccine supplies. - - ; Dr. James H. Stewart, trl-eoun- ty health officer, told the Bulletin yesterday afternoon tnat tne pouo Immunization procram will be car ried on as scheduled. He talked, to Dr. Harold Erick son, stale health officer; bjf tele-' phone about press reports from Washington concerning a second halt of the Issuance of vaccine by the U. S. health service, but was told that no charges will be made in the state polio program. Scout Circus Due in Bend On Saturday Opening feature of the Fremont district circus, Boy Scouts ' of America, will be the grand entry of some 1500 Scouts and Cubs on Bruin field, starting at 8 p.m. Sat urday, it was announced today as final plans for the circus were completed. 1 It will be the biggest Scout show of Its kind ever presented In Cen tral Oregon, leaders said. The en tire six-act show can be seen from seats under cover on Bruin field. Primary purpose of the circus will be to demonstrate Scout skills, with several special tea -tures to be added. These will in clude a "Pageant of Pioneers,!' with plenty of action promised. In this act, an attack by Indians on an immigrant train will be re-enacted. The Scouts and Cubs will enter" the field as the Bend Municipal Band plays march music. The opening ceremony will follow the grand entry. One of the acts will be "Fun In Unity," with boys of eight dif ferent troops playing different games at the same time. In the "Pageant of Pioneers, about 200 Cubs will erect an Indi in village, and some 60 Cubs are 'o have the role of pioneers with covered wagons. One ot the six acts will be "When Disaster Strikes," with Ex. ilorer Scouts demonstrating first lid skill. The Sea Scout ship boys 'rom Gilchrist will demonstrate boat safety. Rainbow Motel Theft Reported Frances Stenkamp, an employe of the Rainbow Motel on E. Frank-' lln ave., reported to the police yes erdny that J1U9 in bills were stol en from a billfold and a radio compartment. She told police that the theft probably took place between 9:30 s m. and 2:45 p.m. yesterday when he was away from the motel. One $5 bill and four $1 bills were tak en from the billfold In the dining room and another $160 from the side compartment uf the radio in the front room. Police have made no arrests so far. The Rainbow motel 1 owned by E. E. Hamilton who Is visiting Portland for a couple of days.