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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1955)
Forecast Partly cloudy through Tuesday; few showers in Ccscades today; local frost tonight; low tonight 28-33; high Tuesday 60 65. High and Low BULLETIN i yesterday, 65 de greet. Low last night, 29 rees. Sunset today. Sunrise tomorrow. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 4:29. 52nd Year One Section Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon Monday, May 23. 1955 Eight Pages No. 143 Oregon's Weekend Accident Toll Set at Nine Persons rooked a Dsns THE B c River CI :.if. L W ' "ill it j K . " B' r. 'fiS REIGNS AT RODEO Queen Arlita Suppah of Warm Springs, a 1 7-year-old Madras high school sophomore, reigned over the third annual All-Indian Rodeo in Tygh Valley last week-end. She is shown wearing the white leather jacket presented her during her reign. (Bend Bulletin Photo). Mi I v . V; x, teles' .A.i St-- i SI V vj ' ' TOP COWBOY Bill Herrara, left, Lyle, Wash., was named all-around cowboy at the All Indian Rodeo in Tygh Valley on Sunday. He won first prize for saddle bronc riding and arena wild horse racing, His brother, Benny, right, won the fourth place in the all-around championship score. (Bend Bulletin Photo). Indian Rider Killed in Accident At Tygh Valley Rodeo on Sunday By JACK UNO Bull-tin Start Writer TYGH VALLEY An accidental death of an Indian rider and a violent end of a running horse on Sunday marred the festive third annual All Indian Rodeo in Tygh Valley which drew contestants from all over Northwest and Can ada and some 2,000 spectators. The rodeo, reigned by Queen Ar lita Suppah of Warm Springs, a 17-year-old Madras high school sohomore, started Friday and ended Sunday evening. Bill Her rara of Lyle, Wash., was named champion all-around cowboy, win ning the first prize in saddle bronc Mile-Away Ranch Sold James F. Short, state director oi agriculture, and his wife, Ruth, have announced the sale of their Mile-Away ranch, on the McKen re highway near Redmond, ti Licyrt Hudspeth, John Day live slock operator and timberman. The sale will be effective on July 1. Mr. and Mrs. Huasporh and their fiur children will move from John Day to the Deschutes ranch. Central Oregan show o'ace amonp fnrm homes. Mrs. Hudspeth is the fnrrner Telia Ann Houk, daughter o, Lester Houk, Bend. The ranch includes 326 acres with 280 under water. Short pur chased the first unit of "he ranch In 1S42, and he and Mrs. Short built the Mile-Away farm home In 1948. Short developed the ranch lnt.i a purebred livestock opera tion, and his shorthorn cnttle and fine sheep won top awards In n-rihwest shows. Short said the sale to Hudspeth does mt include livestock. How ever, Short plans to ?ell his sheen. T"i vears aeo he di'preed of his dry land acreaRe, embracing the f irmer Bo-'d airport about half way he'wnen Fend and Redmond Eventual'y. Short p'ans to pur chese another acreage wtH Central Oregon. A resident of the De'chufe? country s'nee 1917. when the family came her from Klamath. Short was nimed state director of agriculture last year. Hudspeth will use the Short holdings In connection with his livestock fattening operation riding and arena wild horse race Ray Simla of Vernon, British Co lumbia, was runner-up. The fatal accident occurred Sun day morning at about 8 o'clock in the race track. George Jin, Top- penish, Wash., the victim, was ex ercising his horse when he collid ed with a water truck which was moving across the track. Jin was thrown off the horse and run over by the rear wheels of the truck. Father of Six The ill-fated horse, a participant ot tne bareback horse riding event, was the victim of its own making. It broke loose after it threw off a contestant. When chased and subsequently cornered by the rid ers, it plunged against the arena wire fence in an attempt to get to the race track. Its head pierc ing through the fence hut its neck apparently broken by the tremen dous impact of the plunge, the horse lingered only a few minutes before death. It was dragged out by three other horses before the -acinu and rodeo programs con tinued. At least four rodeo contestants ind jockeys were injured during aunaay.. une oareoack ridine con- testant was thrown against the arena fence and one of his thumbs was disjointed. A jockey was thrown ftf the horse shortly before a race and was trampled jver. The rodeo, an annual event, was started in 1953 by Tywama Saddle club in order that the Indians may nave competition of the r own. More than 120 Indians from Wash- ngton, Oregon. Idaho, and Cana da, participated in the program ma year. The tribes represented included Viklma Blackfeet, Klamath and Warm Springs. Cah Award Made Some $3,000 cash prizes were awarded to about 30 different win ners in the rodeo events. Oueen Suppah was presented a while leather Jacket and a pUDpy n addr on to a small cash prize, The princesses were Delia Smith, linger Smith and Mary Ann Min nick, all natives of Warm Springs. The queen and the princetses were chosen at the Roots Festival dur ing the Easter hoKdays. TV 17-year-old queen said she plans to go to a Port; " nd business college after graduation and hopes to work m a awifiy. - By UNITED PRESS At least nine persons died accl- dentally in Oregon and neighbor ing areas of Washington and t all furnia Saturday and Sunday." Tliree Oregon youngsters drowned. Another child was feared drowned near Longview, Wash. Irene Clapp, fo.ir - year - old danghter of Mr. and Mrs. All-.'n K. Clapp of Roseburg, drowned yesterday afternoon in the Little river east of Glide when she wan dered away from her family on a fishing trip, Douglas County Sher iff Ira Eyrd reported. Ted Stinnett, 13, Prineville, w.xs swept to his den'h over Steam's dam on the Crooked river yeste.- Scout Circus Draws Throng On Saturday Central Oregon's biggest Boy Scout circus in history was present ed' on Bruin field here Saturday night before a crowd that fillet the main grandstand to capacity and overllowed inlo bleacher sec tions. Taking part in the ten-act cir cus, sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, were more than 1,000 Boy Scouts, Cubs and Ex plorers from the Fremont district of the Msdoc area council. Reminiscent of football days in the late fa'.l, spectators were hud dled In their top coats as the youngsters performed on the tun, in a two and a half hour show. The circus got under way with a grand entry, directed by Kellv SwaHord, Bend, with a thousand youngsters parading behind massed colors, then "threading the needle" among color bearers to form a great square. Band Presented Preceding the colorful circus, the Bend high school band, direc ted by Norman Whitney, was pre sented in a concert, and played the national anthem following the nresentation of colors. Also In the pre - circus program was the Eagles' drum and bugle corps, plus the Eagles' midget twirlers. Kessler Cannon was narrator, and from his position In the press box kept In touch with Held activ ities through a walkie-talkie,' han dled on the field by Harvey Olson. A highlight of the circus was a historical pageant depicting the ar rival In Central Oregon of a wag on train, an attack by Indians and the appearance Of, cavalrymen. In another mid-Oregon, scene of pio neer days, warfare: between sheen- men nnd cattlemen was depicted with Cubs made up as sheep and cattle. : :: In the Cub Scout pageant,' a vil lage was erected outnear the cen ter of Bruin field: First Aid Work A "Fun in Unity" act portrayed Scouts at play, and "When Dls aster Strikes" Illustrated first aid work taught the boys. In this act, a section of a power line was erected on the field. Suddenly a wire blazed, two persons dropped to the ground and the city's big ed ambulance appeared. Crescent's Sea Scout ship was n the spotlight In one of the acts The Scouts wheeled a small ship -nto the field, and later Hlu'rtrated lie manner Sea Scouts work. The final act wns "Scouting Out -f Dors." and ended with a camp- fire ceremonial. MONKEY BRIDGE TESTED Out of doors equipment demonstrated by Central Oregon Boy Scouts Saturday night at the circus on Bruin field included a "monkey bridge", pictured in use here. It was estimated that 1,000 Scouts tool part in the sii-act circus. (Photo for The Bulletin by Robert H. Foley.) day. He and a companion, Kenny Walter, swam th 100 foot nver but on their retmn trip 'failed to account for the current. WalVr escaped death by inches as he grasped a rock on the shore jtm above the dam. Kenneth R ly R o b e r ts, 6, drowned in a millpond In MolaVa Sunday when he fell off a log on which he was phying. At Longview, four-year-old Har vey Johnson was feared to have drowned in the Cowlitz river. The stream was dragged for more than six hours yesterday after his oarents reported him missing. He was last seen plaving on the banks of the stream. Mark Chamberlain, 17, Lebanon, was killed yesterday afternoon when a car overturned 1 1-2 miljs west ot Lebanon. Marvin Jensen, a passenger, was fronted for mi nor injuries, and two young girls. Frances Nepper, 13, and Sandra Rav, 16, were unhurt. . Franz Ellis Ranstram, 59, Dor- ris, Calif., millworker was killed Saturday night when the car in which he was riding wus struck by a cattle train near the Don-is depot. Dorris is near Klamath Falls. Two companions were 'al lured. Lloyd Nolan, 40. Portland, was killed yesterday when struck by a ar just outside the Portland city limits as he trie! to run acrojf a street, deouty sheriffs reported Jesse J. Wishon, 27, Orchards, Wash., was injured fatally fiur miles east of Vancouver yesterday when he was thrown from the car in wiich he was riding as it turned a comer and struck his head un a concrete post. Nels Berg, 68, Tigard, was killed shortly before midnight Sunday when struck by two cars as he walked along Highway 99W near Roamers Rest. Robert E. Whitaker, 22, Eugene, was killed when his car was struck by a train at a grade crossing at Veneta. School Budget Election Tuesday The Bend school district's an ual budget election will be held Tuesday between the hours of 2 and 8 p.m. Balloting will take place in the council room of the Bend high school building. Residents of the district will pass on a proposed levy of $284, 555.45, the amount outside the six per cent limitation that will ,be required for the operation and maintenance of local schools in the 1955-56 school year. Members of the election board will be Mrs. A. W. Westfall, Mrs. Harry E. Mackcy. Mrs. Lov Cole, Mrs. Mildred Gelbrich and Mrs George Thompson. Howard Maple Gets Coos Post Howard Maple, ex-Bend resident and now manager of the Harney chamber of commerce in Burns has been named manager of the Coos Bay Chamber of Commerce While a resident of Bend, Maple was an automobile dealer. Maole starred in football and baseball while attending Oregon State college, and later was in professional baseball and served as football coach at Willamette university. IT to q Life Reds Seeking Big 4 Meet, Their Terms LONDON (UP) Western dlp.o- mats said today the Soviets had opened a major propaganda cam paign to hold the projected high- level Big Four conference on Mos cow's own terms. Pravda, the otlicial Communis! Party organ in Moscow, accused the Big Three of trying to blo.'k serious and honest four power talks by "putting uu technical bar riers. The bitter blast which took the West by surprise appeared direct ed at President Eisenhower's wish to limit the high-level meeting to two or three days. Pravda said this would make it "Impossible" to consider major Cold War prob lems. The editorial came at a timu when the West was waiting for an official Soviet answer to its May 10 invitation to a top-level confer ence this summer. The Soviet nole wus expected to echo Pravdi's views. "Jockeying For Position" French officials said Moscow was "jockeying for position" and that Soviet Foreign M 1 n-i s ter Vyacheslav Molotov appeared to be getting ready to spring some stiff terms on the West. Molotov was genial af , the Big FjJgaintatwr'tr)eeting m Vienna earlier this month! But that may vanish before he files to han Francisco In June for a United Na tions meeting, the diplomats sail. The French sources said he was expected now to try to arrange a wide open agenda with no limit on the subjects to be discussed. Pravda, in its first front page comment on the conference, said: 'They (the Western p o w e r t) state, that the conference should take no more than two , or tnree days althoush it is clear to every one that within si'Ch a brief peril d of time it is impossible to consider seriously any mature International problem. "Unreasonable Demands" Pravda also noted the Western desire to meet in Lausanne, Swit zerland, instead of Vienna, aacl said the Western 'deas on time and place of the meot'ng were "unrea sonable demands." Pravda and the Soviet govern ment newspaper Izvestia also at tacked the British government on grounds the Conservative Party was using the Big Four conference to win votes In the British gene-nl election. It said previously the Tory government Joined the United States In "sabotiing such talk. GETS FOIIB YEARS EUGENE (UP) Merrill E Parke, former police sergeant at Springfield, has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of converting J33 in po lice funds to his ',wn use. yr of ? - ION. J- I "- fV i ' i Ai-w.' i Sit I j; V s&. o .A.' J vn ON WAITING LIST Youngest applicant to confer with Viv ian Whitney, pictured wearing GOC uniform, when filter cen ter signupt were formally launched here Saturday was Dennis Lorton, small son-of MjSgt. and Mrs. Bill Lorton. Dennis was told his application would be kept on file at least for a lew years. (US Air Force photo for The Bulletin. 114 Volunteer for Filter Center A total of 114 persons Satur day signed for filter center eerv Ice as Bend observed Armed Force day. ' , Mrs. Charles B. Hinds, who will serve as civilian supervisor of the new filter center, . Indi cated she was well pleased with Snurday's signup, and It hopeful of attaining a minimum foal of 280 workers before the nd of the week. In addition to the 114 signed Saturday, a considerable num ber earlier signed for duly with the filter center, to be placed In operation on July 14 In a building now nearmg completion Address by Mayor Slagsvold Highlights Armed Forces Day Bend Saturday afternoon Joined In Its first formal observance of Armed Forces day with local ac tivities largely centered in the Ore gon National Guard armory, where Mayor Hans Slagsvold was the speaker. Providing the signal for the lo cal observance, a flight of jet olanes from the Portland Air Force base made two passes over Bend. "America does not glorify war, and never has done so," Mayor Slagsvold said In his talk to the small group that gathered in the armory for the start of the pro gram and a concert by the Bend Municipal band. "But," Mayor Slagsvold added, "we know that n ;ust peace can be established and maintained only by free nations itrong enough to see their free- loms protected. Urges Strong Dnlense "Plans for peace will prove noth ing but usele is dreams, unless we have the means to enrorce tnem U't us therefore resolve to keep our defenses strong In the Inter est ot pence." Introduced by First Lt. Jack Ed wards of Bend Co. I, ONG. Mayor Slagsvold paid tribute to Bend grutips that are serving their coun try: "Here in our midst we have no training camps of the kind we usu- a'ly associate with the service, but let us pnudly remember that we have in our city f.n alert Natinnsl Guard unit. And let us remember nnd recognize the splendid work o' IV Ground Observer Coriw and all the Civil Defense organirat'ons the Red Cnss chapter and all of the others who are g'vlng so much so that all of us may benefit and have better protection In case of sudden attack." Mayor Quoted Mayor Slagsvold added: "We will soon have in Bend) conkou Boy S yiri on Wall street, ' near the Dea ehutea county library. Wbea the center la activated, the event Is to receive national recognition from the U.S. Air Force. The newest In (liter cen ter equipment, Including a verti cal board, will be Installed. Only one center similar to that to be set up In Bend Is now In use. That Is In Columbus, O., a point to be visited this week by Captain II. F. Frary, hi com mand of the local Ground Ob server squadron. Persons wishing to assUt with filter center work are to call Mrs. Hinds, at 767. ed filter center, another step In the forward march of our pre paredness program to the goal of full security to go with the 'Power for Peace' program." In conclusion, Mayor Slagsvold quoted President Elsenhower: 'Peace cannot be left to the dip lomats and soldiers. It desperately needs the transforming power that comes from men and women the world over, responding to their highest allegiances and to their best motives. The cause of peace needs God." Through the afternoon, Bend res idents visited the armory and viewed displays by the armed forces, the Red Cross and veter ans' groups. Also Inspected was an anti-aircraft unit brought here by Redmond guardsmen. ' Movies were shown by local Air Force personnel attached to the filter center. Car Damaged In Collision Rpnrlnl to The Bulletin REDMOND A traffic collision occurred Sunday morning at 9:30 In Redmond at the inter-section o! Evergreen avenue and 5th street A 1955 model sedan, driven by Thompson Kennedy of Eagle, Ida ho, was extensively damaged and a front fender of a ton truck driven by Sam Keith Morehouse ol Fort Rock, wns slightly dam- ig"d. No one was injured. PERMITS ISHfED A building permit has been Is sued to M. F. Griffin for an M.000 building on 707 Delaware avenue. It will be an addition to the pres ent Ideal Nursing Home. Walter R. Marken has allied for a building permit for a 511,000 duplex on 47V477 X. rrankiia avraua. day Ted Stinnett Swept Over Stewart Dam PRINEVILLE Ted Stinnett, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Stin nett of Prineville, lost his Ufa In a deep pool in Crooked River Sunday afternoon,, after being swept over Stewart's dam about two miles south of Prineville. . Ted had gone swimming above the dam with two young friends after lunch. He and Kenneth Wal ter had swum across the river once and were on the way back when they were caught by the current. Kenneth .was able - to make it to shore, but Ted was carried over the irrigation dam by swift water. The current was so strong that the two boys and two fishermen below the dam were unable to get to Ted. The Prineville Fire Department ambulance and Ernie's Sports Shop, which operates grappling equipment, were summoned. The body was recovered from a boat after being in the water for more than halt an hour. It was appar ment that artificial respiration would be useless. The Stlnnet boy's parents were fishing beyond Redmond Sunday afternoon, and the children, al though beyond the age to require close supervision, were being wat ched by a neighbor. Mr. and Mrs. Stinnett learned of the tragedy from Redmond police as they were anroute hnmA At .Ahatit.ft-3fl-.Mrs ' Rtfnnnlt una In n atnt-A nf nownfllA chock. Funeral arrangements had not been made today. .- j In addition to his parents, Ted is survived by a sister, Annette, at home, and three bro (tiers, Fred, U.S. Navy, and Bob and Danny, at home. The three local children attend Prineville schools. The accident victim was in Jun ior high school. His father is - a truck driver for an oil distributor. The family has lived in Prine ville about five years. The tragedy is Prineville a sec ond drowning this year. A baby drowned in an irrigation ditch about two weeks ago. Ted Adamson, Prineville - fire chief lncharge of the emergency unit, Issued a warning to parents that Crooked River is very dan gerous now because ot high water. Youngsters have been swimming at three spots on the river. Indian Fighter , - Filming Begins " Joined by a group of 44 movie makers from Hollywood who ar rived in Redmond by plane this morning from the south, members of the cast selected to produce "The Indian Fighter" were on location today. Bryna Production's first film shots will be in the Smith rocks area, and it was there that Dir ector Andre de Toth and bis troupe gathered this morning for the start of work, later to be shif ted to the big fort on the upper Deschutes. A chartered plane from Holly wood arrived at the Redmond air port with all members ot the cast orepared to go Into action under the shadows of Smith rocks on Crooked river. A high overcast covered the area in the early morning, . but there were wide sp'.ashcs ot sun ;hine among the crags later in the day. Local members of the group, including Kirk Douglas, who will star with Walter Mnrthau and Walter Able, headed north from Bend early this morning. I Some 118 professional perform ers will be used in the produc lon, In addition to more than 200 W"rm Sorlngs Indians and extras. The film will be the story of an Indian fighter who guides a wagon train westward in 1870 and whp discovers he has more in common with the Indians he batt les than with the while men he is guarding. E!sa MariineMi, recently from Italy, will have the leading fem inine role. ORnnp ELECTS SAIXM (UP)-Mrs. Cora PirUe of Eugene was elected president of the Oregon Federation of Bur-K ness and Professional Wome.i'a Clubs at the group's annual con vention which olesed ysatsrday. -
