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? : High yesterday, 57 de grees. Low last night, 37 degrees. Sunset today, 7:30; Sunrise tomorrow, 4:28. Forecast Partly cloudy and warm er Friday; high today 60 65; low tonight 33-38; high Friday 65-70. . BEND LETIN CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Bend- Deschutes County, Oregon Thursday, May 26, 1955 Twelve Pages No. 146 Tornadoes Rip Across THE South pnf L. trim hmh i i ir v . i $Wimmmtimtmm CROWN ASPIRANTS Three princesses and an alternate were named for the Fourth of July Water Pageant court, last night at the high school. A civic committee made the selections. In the picture, from left to right, are Jeanie Drost, Gail Thompson, alternate; Pat Crawford and Lynn Schroclc. Redmond, Madras, Prinevill e and Sisters each has been invited to enter a candidate. (Bend Bulletin Photo) City's 1 955-56 Budget Put In Final Shape Wednesday By JACK LING Bulletin Staff Writer Bend's next budget, finally shaved to $439,177.86 within a mar gin of $118.01 of the city's maxi mum possible resources short of an election was passed -by the budget committee last night. The actual amount of tax to be levied is set at $258,838.24. A pub lic hearing before the end of June will make the budget final. . Four of the seven appointive members of the committee failed to attend the meeting. Harry Wal dron announced yesterday his res ignation from the committee on account "of his out-of-town duties and his inability to attend the meetings. The appointive members were out-voted repeatedly by city com mission at the second budget meet ing last Thursday, However, a sur vey made by The Bulletin this morning shows that the simultan eous absence of the appointive members was coincidental and not a boycott. The committee cut a total of $2. 7X5 off the recreational depart ment estimates, the reserve funds, jand the city's promotional adver tising subsidies to the chamber of commerce and the county at last night's meeting. Considerable Ufwussion After considerable discussion of the pros and cons of tie city's pro- Goon Accepts Bend Invitation , SimtIhI to The Bulletin WASHINGTON Rep. Sam Coon of Oregon today accepted the in vitation of the Central Oregon Forum. Bend public affairs group, to a public debate with Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger In Bend at a time to be determined later. In a statement issped here to d.ty. Coon said: "I am very happy to accept th Central Oregon forums offer to sponsore one of the debates be tween Senator Neuberger and my self on the proposal 'Agreed, that the John Day Bill is In the pub lic interest.' I will present Hie af firmative and Senator Neuberger will present the negative side of the question. Coon's statement did not indi cate whether Neuberger had yet agreed Ao the Bend debate. Still to be selected, by agree ment with Central Oregon Forum officers, are a moderator for th debate and a time and place for the meeting. Coon's office said. (In Bend. Central Oret?on Forum chaiiman Mike Selo said he would contact Senator Neuberger late In the day if he had not had an ac ceptance by that time.) motional advertising at previous meetings, a compromise was reached. A cut of 5250 from the $2,500 originally budgeted was vot ed, reducing the subsidy to the chamber from $2,000 to $1 800 and the county from $500 to $450. City Manager Walter T. Thompson had earlier recommended a $500 cut. Attempts to reduce the cut to $100 failed as City Commis sioner W. M. Loy made the $250 cut motion. Loy said that the city should not give so generously to a dues-paying organization when the budgets of various departments were cut to the bones. Marion Cady, secretary of the chamber of commerce, was on hand to explain the uses of the money his organization gets from the city. He stressed that no city money will be used for purposes other than promotional for the benefit of the community as a whole. Sum Slashed The $3,000 originally proposed for the municipal band was slashed down to $2,500. Several members of the committee had high praises for the services and the willingness to serve of the city musicians. Nevertheless, a 6-2 vote set the cut. The question of paying the school district for over-time jani torial services when the recreation department uses Its gymnasiums was brought up. The concensus at the meeting was that the city should negotiate with the school for an agreement whereby the schools provide the city with fa cilities in exchange for the ball grounds that the city has permit ted the schools to use. Other cuts yesterday are all in the reserve funds: $300 from the ambualnce unit, $485 from the city hall building, $500 from the industrial development, and 5350 from the emergency light plant The approved estimates for the various departments follow: Airport 52,265.02, cemetery $7,975.00. debt service $9,016.25, engineering and planning $8, 002.05, fire department $70, 280 46, general government $2fv 108.00, legul and judicial $5, 342.50. , Non - departmental $54,327.90, park department $13,900.00. park ing meters $29,000.00, police de partment $63,182.14, public recre ation $26.80 00. refunds and crei its $15,111 00, state tax street fund 5S2.585.80, street department -411.775.00. The city's revenue during f is cal year 1955-fG is expected at $180,339.62. ARRESTS MADE David Ctavton MeCtea, 17. 639 15th street Redmond, was arrest' ed yesterday by the city police fnr making excessive muffler noise. The state police a'so made a traf fic arrest yesterday: Walter Jo seph Murphy, 111 Main street Boise, Idaho, charged with failure to drive on the right side of the highway. ri y It ! ffl iiJ Tones Favored As British People Go to The Polls : LONDON (UP)-Britain voted today in a general election that was expected to anchor Prime Min ister Anthony Eden firmly iathe leadership he waited so long to in herit from the indestructible Win ston Churchill. Eden, foremost exponent of friendship and cooperation with the United States, was a solid 5-1 favorite to remain in office as Britain chose between the capital ism of his Conservative Party and the socialism of the Laborites. The voting began at 7 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT) under partly cloudy skies with a light drizzle falling in the south of England. It will end at 9 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT) and the results should be known by Friday afternoon. The contest was for 630 seats in the House of Commons where the Conservatives have been op erating with a slim, 18-seat major ity. The winner of the election Is the party that wins a majority of Commons seats. The yueen ap points the winning party's leader to be prime minister . Annual Fat Stock Show Week Away Reminded that their fifth annual tri-county 4-H fat stock show and sale is only a week away, Bend Rotarians today cleared decks for action and made ready for an event that has attracted more in terest than usual this year. The show and sale will again be held on Bruin field, on Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4. More entries have been received than ever before and, Rotarians in charge report, cooperation received has been outstanding. Highlights of the show will again include the stock show, with 4-H youngsters of Central Oregon in charge; the annual barbecue on Bruin field at 4:30 p.m. on Satur day, June 4, and the annual au Hon at 6:30 p.m. that day, and bidding for the grand champions, Grounds will open to receive livestock on June 1, Rex Thomas and Oscar Hanson, co-chairmen of the Rotarians' 1955 show and sale, have announced. Animals wilt go off feed at 9 n.m. on Thursday, June 2, and weighing and tagging of livestock will start at 6 a.m. Friday, June 3 Showmanship contests will pre cede the barbecue on Saturday. June 4, with the annual parade of livestock to start that evening at 5 o clock. Programs were placed In the mall this week. These hold listings of all youngsters In the three counties who have entered animals in tht show and aJ. Governor Inks Signature On Fag Bill By WILLIAM WARREN United Press Staff Correspondent SALEM (UP) Gov. Paul Pat terson today signed House bill 533 to put a tax of three cents a pack on cigarettes, one of the main revenue- raising measures passed by the 1955 session to meet an anticipated deficit of more than 60 million dollars in the next biennium. -The main revenue-raising meas ure, putting a 45 per cent surtax on personal income taxes, was signed by the governor May 18. It is estimated to raise 50 million dollars if it. is not referred. The cigarette tax, which the cated will be referred if it can get the needed signatures on peti tions, is estimated to bring in an other 10 million dollars for the biennium. November Vote Possible Should the surtax on personal income tax be referred, the legis lature has provided that a special election be held next Nov, 8. If the cigarette tax should also be referred, it will appear on the same ballot. But if only the cig arette tax is referred, it will not be voted on until the next general election, in November, 1956. ! For either measure to be re-i ferred, petitions bearing the signa- tuxes of 20,047 registered voters must be filed with the secretary of state's r el e c 1 1 on bureau by Aug. 2. ' Should both the surtax on in come tax and the cigarette tax be referred, several legislators here Speculated before the close of the 1955 session May 4 that a special session of the Legislature would bo a virtual necessity, Initial College Yearbook Out Central Oregon college's first an nual, "Eye," edited by Kay Haw thorne, with June Scott associate editor, made its appearance this week as the college year n eared an end. ' - "Eye" gets Its name from a picture in the annual of a red-! eyed night hawk, just out of the nest. In the shadowed picture, taken by Dr. Aryan Roest of the college staff, only one eye of the bird shows. COC teams are the Nite Hawks. The little year book is profusely illustrated, and holu the names of all students who attended col lege in the 1954-55 year. Honor roll students for the winter term are listed as Fred Stenkamp, with a perfect 4.0 for 17 hours of work; Loyal Strom, Enid Cos and June Scott. One of this year's students, Wil liam A. Yates, completed his full college requirements and is eligi ble for diploma from the Univer sity of Oregon. Yates took most of his college work on the iCugene campus, and completed a require ment through study in the local college. R. C. Tuttle, member of COC faculty, served as adviser for the year book staff, with Otto Kassner and Aryan Roest providing the photographs. The year book, in off set printing, was printed by the Fowler Printing Co. Some 60 local firms sponsored publication of the annual. Movie Makers Keeping Busy Despite Canopy of Clouds Indian fighter Kirk Douglas and his movie makers continued their up-stream journey toward Fort Ben ham on the Deschutes today as heavy spring clouds continued to drape the Cascades and send occasional snow flurries into the foothills. However, regardless of the dark weather, the movie people, who earlier this week took part In a spectacular crossing of flooded Crooked river in the Smith rock area, were able to do considerable "shooting" veHterdey afternoon on roftdfc along th upper Deschutes. Most of the shots were close ups. with artificial lighting used. In one of the scenes to be pic tured on the upper Deschutes, the wagon train will pass close to Ben ham falls, over a new road cut through the Jaekpines. Action shots to be taken in this area will include the white water at Benham l P t 1 ; ; 1 ""-t -: '-'-f'Tr - -iV( -,y- -rxT"if initfrii liniinnmimiitMJr !'- hum xiiniiliiniii lino EX-LEAGUERS HAVE ADVICE Present for the Bend Loggers" kickoff banquet here lest night were these ex-leaguers, with words of advice for the young Loggers of 1955. From the left they are Hugh Luby, manager of the Salem Senators; Bernie de Viveiros, area scout for the Detroit Tigers; Al Lightner, Oregon Statesman sports editor, and Bobby Doerr, for 15 years with the Boston Red Sox. (Bend Bulletin Photo) i' "i I OSC COACH Here to wish his young team the best of luck in play this season with the Bend Loggers of the Sou thern Oregon baseball circuit was Ralph Coleman, OSC baseball coach. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Program Set By Kindergarten Pupils of the Jack and Jill Villo kindergarten will present a pro gram for their parents and friends Friday at 7:30 p.m., in the Allen School auditorium. Mrs. F. V. Bowlus, manager of the kinder garten, and her associate teacher, Mrs. Lindell Wise, have arranged a varied program. The public will be welcome to attend, they said. and a special invitation is extend ed to parents of pre-school age youngsters. ine lolloping pupils will ap pear: Dickie Anliker, Carol Bluch- er, Gene Brooks, Paddy Cashman, Jane Courier, Terry CrawIOH?, Jewel Cronln, Crlssie Cutter, Bett. Lby, Dennis Ellingson, Stevr Evers, Linda Dalrymple, Bobby Douglass, Tommy Foley, Larry Foster. Alex Frum, Cathy Gump, Chris Healy, Annetto Harkness, Ronnie Harlan, Jerry Hensley, David Judy, Wendy McCaffrey, Kellv Oakley, Scott Oakley, C h e r i Koarig, Danny Shoop, leeann Smith, Carl Sowder, Beverly Sny der, Ellen Summers, Bill Thomp son, Kay Whitney and Sally Young. falls. Members of thf big Hollywood company are making their head quarters '.n Bend. ' The filming of river crossing scenes along Crooked river was completed earlier this wnek and all equipment was removed from the gorge area. In the upper Deschutes country, on a promontory overlooking a big bend In the river, the 2W by 200 foot "rtocknde erected earlier this monih Is being readied for filming action, and will be the sivr.e of skirmishes and battles between frontiersmen and Indians in th near future. "The Indian Fighter" starrini Kirk Douglas, Is befnj filmed by Bryna Productions, and Is being directed by Andre deToth for pro ducer William Schorr, for release through United ArtisU. Loggers Formally Presented To Community at Banquet By PHIL, F. I1KOOAN Bulletin Staff Writer The Bend Loggers of 1955 were1 formally presented to the commu nity at a banquet last night, and the unveiling revealed that the team will largely be composed of Oregon State college players. Even the. OSC baseball coach, Ralph Coleman, was present Introduction of the players took place at a baseball banquet served in the Elks' temple with several ex-blg leaguers, one of them Bob by Doerr of the Red Sox, on the program. . The Bepd Loggers, with Paul Gehrman as team manager and Bud Russell as business manager, will swing into Southern Oregon league action Sunday against Cn- quille, in the coast city. Their first game at home will be a non-league contest, on June 11. The Portland Longshoremen will be here on that date. Most of the players who will play with the Loggers this season were here for the kickoii uanquet, with the majority making the eve ning trip across the Cascades from Corvallis. B. A. Stover and Vince Genni had the dual role of toastmaslers at the baseball banquet, with Joe Slate introducing the young players. One of the speakers was Hugh Luby, manager of the Salem Sen ators of the Northwest circuit who for 24 years was an active base ball player, with Oakland and San Mid-Oregon Lakes Eyed By Anglers Two of Oregon's best known trout lakes, Paulina and East, were In the Oregon spotlight today as the opening of the season on forest lakes, May 28, neared. This morning, East and Paulina lakes were still under Ice, but a sudden shift In the wind to thn southwest might result In a break up that would free the lakes of Ihelr Icy covering within ro hours. Should that occur, the "big rush" will be under way by day light Saturday as Memorial week end anglers converge on the two lakes under the Newberry rim. Howard Reed reported from Paulina lake this morning that he Is receiving calls from all parts of the state, all Inquiring about the possibility of fishing on the open ing day of the season. Reed was without the answer to day. However, up until noon the iHkes were still ice covered, with no open water in which to launch boats. Furthermore, snow was falling in the crater this morning, and depth of the snow In the camp ground area was around 18 Inches, All camo and tral'er areas were under snow or drifts. The surfaced road Into the era ter was ojwncd earlier in UV month. in VtCmKiini Br, KNOXVII.I.E. Term. (UP) - Oiarles Stevens dropped into City Hnll to report the theft of his driver's license and was promptly vnt to the county workhouse. Stevens escaped last October while serv-- time tor l;ny. Francisco in the Coast League and with the New York Giants in "big- time" ball. He holds the Coast League record for consecutive games played, 866. Another of the guest speakers was Bernie deVivelros, area scout for the Detroit Tigers who for 20 years played . with the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. His home is in Oakland, Calif. Doerr. now a resident of Lane county, touched on the baseball school held in Eugene. He was with the Boston Red Sot for 15 years, as a second baseman, and has a lifetime batting average just under .300. He was selected while a big league player to play In all-star games nine times. Doerr, a resident of Junction City, is director of the new Eu gene club of 4ho Northwest loop. Al Lightner, sports editor of the Salem Statesman and an ex leaguer, said that one of the most Interesting developments in the re organized Northwest league Is that ''the game has, been given back to the kids." ; George Cleveland, was intro duced as having pitched the first no-hit game In Little League play lit Bend this season. All speakers wished the Loggers the best of luck In the season that will soon get under way. Hugh Cole, Bob. Clark and Bill Frazler of the local baseball com mittee, and Kesslor Cannon, spoke briefly to the group of some 90 persons, sorved dinner by the Lady Elks. i , The Loggers' 1955 roster will in clude Tom Hunt, Twink Peterson, Ken Ackerman, Gene Stott, Don Lovojoy, Phil Jansey, Tom Bowen, Bob Gale, Jim Duff, Lowell Pierce, Maurie Rasmussen, Lynn Mohler. Frank Wicst, Chuck Chris tiansen, Bill Glltner, Arlen Alder man, Mike Decker, Jack LuU, Glenn Kinney, Earl Corkett and Kirk Junscy. None of the players still In col lege will be able to play for Ben'i In the Coquille contest, but will Join the Loggers In early June. Senators Seek Haystack Sum 8c-liil to The Bulletin WASHINGTON. D. C.-Oregon'.v Senators Wayne Morse and Rich ard Neuberger today appeered be fore the senate appropriations sub committee to make a request for a $274,000 appropriation tor Ihr Haystack reservoir project for the fiscal year 1906. Construction of the Haystack reservoir, In JeHerson county neat the south edge of the North pro) ect and adjacent to the main ca nal, has already been approved The reservoir will Impound sur Dlus canal flow for emergency use on the project. Of the tolal sougm for the coming year, K4.000 woulrl be used at the Wickiup reservoir. Senntors Morse and Neuberger also are urging an appropriation of J90.000 for rehabilitation work on the Arnold canal, immediately south at Bond, In the 1956 fiscal year. We appreciate the Importance of these projects and will do ev erything possible to secure appro priations," the senators said. Toll of Dead Climbs, Many Are Injured UDALL, Kan. (UP)-Tornadoes left a tragic path of death and ruin in three Southwestern states today; One twister ail but wiped this village off the map in the worst such disaster ever to hit the "cy clone state" of Kansas. The estimated death .toll was set at 79 and authorities feared It would mount. Hundreds were In jured. This was the boxscore of dead and Injured in the devastation eos, Oklahoma and Texas: Udall and vicinity: 43 believed dead, at least 200 injured. Bluckwell, Okla.: 20 dead, 150 to 200 Injured. Cheyenne. Okla,: 2 dead. Sterling, Tex.: 14 feared dead in a bomber crash. Udall, a village of 610, suffered the most savage blow. State High way Police said an estimated 40 persons were killed when the twister demolished a home tor the aged. Worst In History Three more bodies were brought to hospitals in surrounding com munities, and at least 200 persons in the area were injured. Weather Bureau records showed It was the most deadly tornado ever to hit Kansas. The worst pre vious year of storm deaths was 1917, when 42 Kansas were killed. Udall Mayor Earl Rowe esti mated the toll in last night's twister even higher. At nearby Blackwell, the same twister or perhaps another one wrecked a 12-block area and de molished a hospital and a glassu factory. ,- 4 ,. ';, Weather Bureau experts said re ports indicated that at least 10 tornadoes struck during the night I- nil. -M.l iii vmcuiuuia oiuiik a wui iicanjr 200 miles long. The storm line extended In al most a straight line from Sham rock, Tex., where the first storm nit, on through Cheyenne, Cam argo and Bluckwell, Okla., and on to Udall, Rock, Derby and Gueda Springs, Kan. Two persons were known dead at Cheyenne and at least 18 homes were destroyed In the western portion of the state. - The Udall twister struck about 10:30 p.m."'. I had Just gotten up," said Mayor Rowe. "I'm a night work er. I was standing at the front door in my boots. There was lightning and just a little rain. Then It hit. My house just floated away. I don't know where It Is," Rowe's wife and three children survived, but one of the children was hurt. : Henry Harvey, news director of radio station KFBI at Wichita, Kan., hastened to the scene and reported destruction beyond des cription. Clocks had stopped at 10:30 p.m., but communications ,' were shattered and it was after ' midnight before word got out that. the town had been leveled. ; - - of callimr for helD. anvwav. Hur- vey reported. They were busy freeing themselves from the deb ris, rescuing ine wuunueu .aim - Hies. senrcmng ior uieir jnaiiureu jam- Later, when communications were set up and rescuers moved ,- in some surrounding hospitals were forced to turn away ambu lances loaded with the Injured b4 couse they were filled to over-, flowing. Flier is Killed Near Oceanlake OCEANLAKE, Ore. (UP) Ron 'rt Anthony Butler, 40, president if Butler's Tire and Battery Com- iny In Portland, was killed ye terday afternoon when his light olane crashed Into the side of Cascade Head during a fog. Butler was alon." on a flight to North Bend. Twd McMlnnvlllc fl s h e r men, Charles Merkle and Frank Lane, said they saw the plane circle two or three times as they fished the mouth of the Salmon river. Then they saw ft fly off toward Cascade head and a few moments later they heard the sound of a crash. Butler was thrown from the plane and apparently killed In stantly, state police said. Hli body was taken to Newport.
