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Newspaper Page TextUniv. of Oregon Library 'Forecast Increasing cloudiness Sat urday; high today 62-68; low tonight 28-32; high Saturday 60-65. EUGENE, OHEOQH High and low High yesterday, 56 grees. Low last night, 24 degrees. Sunset todovr, 7:36. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:28. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd. Year Two Sections Bend, Deschutes, County, OrcgonFriday, May 27, 1955 Ten Pages No. 147 Tories Score Thumping Victory c THE EsEKO ULEET1N Eden Busy BHS Assembly Students Get Annual Awards --Forty-three Bend high school students, most of them seniors, re- , ceived some 57 major awards, scholarships and honors, at the individual awards assembly this morning in the high school gym- nasi urn. At the close of the pro- cram, the new student body offi cers were installed with Ned Mac- key, retiring president, adminis tering the oath to Chuck Case. "Kathy Willcox, the valedictorian, received the Bauson and Lomb award and the Dr. Bob Heming-, .way award, both for excellence in science; an Elks Foundation scholarship award and a Univer sity of Oregon scholarship. - .Earl Corkett, the salutatonan. received the important Nieberuall award given to the senior National Konor student with the highest number of activity and grade points. . Ted Hinds and Lynn Schrock re ceived the Kiwanis citizenship awards given to the senior boy and girl who are considered the most outstanding citizens of the school. U.S. Noses Now Number 165,000,000 WASHINGTON (UP) Uncle Sam's family hit the 165 million mark at 5:51 a.m. PDT today. It kept right on growing, one more member every 12 seconds. In this record breaking day and age, it Is not; worthy that the new populution figue is bigger thun ever before. But the great Amer ican family still lags behind Chi na, India and the Soviet Union in size. The Census Bureau, which keeps track of this sort of thing, gathered some officials and re porters and photographers around its "census clock" in the Com merce Department lobby to mark the setting of today's record. The clock, which looks like an oversized automobile mileage me ter, sits atop a large colored map of the United States and ticks off one new American every 12 sec onds. A flashing white light de notes each addition, but the bell which used to ring out the news Is gone away. Census Bureau Director Robert W. Burgess greeted his 164,999, 999th compatriot with some so ber observations on how and why the population is growing as fast as it is. more than 2,800,000 i year. Burgess listed these outstanding factors: Continued reduction of the death rate from infectious dis eases, particularly childhood dis eases; the generally high level of personal income; more and earlier marriages and larger families with married couples having three or four children instead of the one or two which was more standard- in decades past. Ford Plan Gets Snub from UAW DETROIT (UP) The CIO Unit ed Auto Workers, flatly rejecting Ford's half-million dollar contract offer, early today ordered 135,000 Ford workers to be ready for the key aulo Industry's first serious strike since 1950 next Tuesday night. Negotiations appeared in dang er of collapse that coud trigger a nationwide walkout at Ford tliat might seriously dent the booming national economy and present the Elsenhower administration with irs mart serious labor crisis yet. Union leaders, after pouring over the Ford offer until the early morning hours, flashed orders to fihe 51 Ford local unions to "begin immediately to prepare for possi ble strike action" next Tuesday night. They also called the Ford national committee to an emer gency meeting in Detroit Satur day afternoon. Plan Rejected The negotiators, stalking from the negotiating room In a down- town hotel, had earlier rejected j Ford plan tor a 37-cent hourly pav package that could scale into more than a 75-cent package in crease for some worker by 1960. The Girls' League cup. awarded to the girl who stands highest in character, scholarship, leadership and service, went to Carol Han- shew. Pat Crawford received the DAR good citizen award given to the senior girl who is highest in service, leadership, patriotism and scholarship. Dave Kribs was presented the Jaycee award, given to the sen ior member of the Lettermen's club who Is considered most out standing in scholarship, character. leadership and all-around athletic ability. He also received the Lions club trophy awarded to the most valuable defensive player on the football team. The important G r a h 1 m an' awards, given to the three senior boys who are outstanding in sports from the standpoint of playing abil ity , leadershi p, sportsmanship and inspiration to the squad went to Jim Crowell for basketball, Fred Wade for football and Dick James for track. Ed Maddox re ceived the Hendershott award giv en to the outstanding pole-vaulter of the year. Meivin Rogerson re ceived the wrestling trophy and Terry Skjersaa received the ski trophy. Sally GaritI won the Girls' Ath letic association award presented to the senior girl outstanding in scholarship, sportsmanship, serv ice and athletic abilfty. Diane Bev ans received the Junior Girls' Athletic association award. Five students received Elks awards. Lynn Sobrock and Bob Young received the Elks Founda tion leadership awards, and Kath- ryn Willcox and Cliff Nelson, the scholarship awards. Susan Dilla- 'bough received the Elks commer cial award given to the most out standing student in the commer cial department. Keith Miles won the award giv en by the Oregon Branch of the American Chemical Society to the outstanding chemistry student for the school year. Dramatics and public speaking awards were presented as follows: Gail Thompson, Wenz memorial cup for most outstanding dramatic interpretation; Robin Rixe, Thes pian cup given to first-year Thes pian who is most outstanding in dramatics and service to the club; Dick White, Jaycee Voice of De mocrary award; Bob Youns, Knights of Pythias speech award. Trophy Presented Kathy Lucas received the Cap tain Beard trophy given to the out standing member of the senior high band, and the Carl Lindh award for the most outstanding accompanist went to Sally Stearns. Donna Gumpert received the Ro tary Traxler music scholarship. Dale Blackwell received the Don Pence award given to the most valuable member of the a cappel- la choir, , and Tom Rose and Jeanne Drost were named the out standing senior boy and senior girl In the choir. Lorna Nystrom received the drum majorette award, and the Junior high music award went to Diane Bevans. Mas ter musician awards went to Don Powell, Donna Gumpert, Tonya Wolf and Pat Cady. Scholarships to Central Oregon Community college were presented as follows: Pat Kelly, Bend Iron Works; Gayle Ennen and Larry Mize, Kenwood Kingston PTA; Shirley Edmison, Allen Marshall PTA. Bill Alfrey won the important United States National Bank schol arship providing for college study and work in the bank, alternately. in preparation for a career in banking. Scholarships to state Institutions of higher learning were awarded as follows: Ronnie Rasmussen, Fred Wade and Rodney Waddell. Oregon State; Kathy Willcox, Jules Haglund and Donna Gumpert, Uni versity of Oregon; Tonya Wolf. Oregon College of Education. Lynn Schrock received a schol arship to Willamette University, and Robin Rixe received the nurs ing scholarship given by the Bend Business and Professional Wom en's club. Cash scholarship grants went to Sally GariB from "fOrdn' of.,. C- I - n-..ll. 1UuiK (WM, T A..-.1H.... Van' U1C OOJflTJ rtUAlltnij. .a,, Tassel and RosaU Nelson re ceived scholarships to the Eugene Beautv Sctiaol After the presentation of awards ' and the installation of student body officers, the seniors filed -,ut. and the new student body presKltnt of- j ficated at the traditional re-seating j 'of tlx ciuset. r Iff I ' .v . T t i ' . 11 ' , :( -3' ''V ' PROGRAM UNDERWAY The tri-county polio immunization program started in Bend this morning. Picture shows Larry Ed wards of Kenwood school getting the first Salk shot from Dr. James H. Stewart, tri-county health officer. (Bend Bulletin Pho- H Immunization Program Gets Underway for Bend Schools The tri-county polio immuniza-, tion program started in Bend this morning. About 400 first and sec ond graders from the Bend school, district and. the vicinity areas are expected to be covered today and' next Tuesday. I Some 161 children, approximate ly half of the number of eligible first and second graders In the-1 Redmond area, were given the: first Salk shots. In Madras on Tuesday 104 Jef-' ferson county children received the vaccination; in Prineville oni Slowdown in Program Forecast As New Salk Vaccine Standards Set By MICHAEL J. O'NEILL of the inoculation program by at United Press Staff Correspondent least six weeks. But they agreed WASHINGTON (UP) The gov ernment formally adopted new safety standares for polio vaccine today and said the mass inocula tion program wj!l go ahead "only as fast as safety permits." Dr. Leonard A. Scheele. U.S. surgeon general, confirmed what has become increasingly obvious: It is now "unlikely' that the orig inal schedule of mass vaccinations can be fulfilled this summer. Vaccine manufacturers said the move will delay full resumption Brooks-Scanlon Announces New Time Schedule A change in Brooks - Scanlon. Inc., office hours that will pro vide service for telephone rallers or visitors from 7 a.m. to 5 pm. was made effective this morning. Freeman Schultz, general main- gpr, announced. Formerly, the office' opened at 1 closed over the noori hour and ended the dav at 5 p.m. V tutor the safety ol nil vacnne ,iiJre;i-ly the new schedule, members of the immured and used." except for staff, on a rotating basis, will b two suspect lots produced by the on the job at 7 a.m. and overdiMer laboratories of California, the noon hour. This will make the As-airwnee of Safely av.ai,aU for pmr,love, and VlSllOn early as 7 a.m. an't through the noon lour. An operator will also be on duty!mnts accepted Just before dawn at the switchboerd from 7 a m.ihy a'l six vaccine manufacturer!" p.m., wipi members of the a'f routing the work. Because of the time difference.! frequently calls from the eat , start coming in wel! in advanc o the former I l a opening time. i A? . ' t T 0 Wednesday 10-1 Crook county chil- drcn were given the shots. The pi.v;ram in Bend is being held in the Thompson school audi torium today. Next Tuesday, how ever, the vaccination clinics will be in Kingston school in the morn ing and Allen school in the after noon. No schedules for the second shots have been announced yet. Those who missed the schedules could make arrangements with the health deparlment to have the vaccination next week. unanimously to the standards early today in the interests of greater safety. Some Vaccine Soon Two weeks 3go, Srhecle had hoped 16 million children could be given two shots oach beforp the height of the polio senwm. Only about six million have been given Dr. W. H. Sebrell Jr.. direct jr of the government's National In stitutes of Health, said that under the new safety standards "some vaccine, not as much as we hoped. is going to be available soon." Dr. Jonas K. Salk, developer of the vaccine, assured parents of children w ho already have re ceived their first Fhots that they need not worry about having to restart the vaccination progranv Ix'cause of the delays. He snid the because of the delays. He sai dtnn :M'iijkI shot can In? given as Jong s two years after the first, al though a two to six week interval thoui'h a two to six week invert, il i best. Schcele said in a statement Is sued lafter 4 a.m. KDT today that the purpose of the new nafe;y standards is 1 make "n good wimne better." He proclaimed H.e Interstate Commerce Com- nnttee. Scheele snid the new man- ufnrturing and testing reouirt- Rive "increawi assurance ot tiic vaccine's safety .' Adoption of the new safety standards followed an al! week meeting of manufacturer and scientists. Toll of Dead In Tornadoes Reaches 100 By LEROV A. HAM ANN United Press Staff Correspondent BLACKWELL, Okla. (UP) -Flood waters all but isolated this tornado devastated city today and the death count from killer torna does rose far past the 100 mark. Tornadoes have killed at least 122 persons in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri since they began their rampage through the nation's midsection Wednesday night. Udall, Kan., across the state line from Blackwell, was a total wreck, wiped out by the worst tornado in Kansas history: At Blackwell flood waters from The lueal Ret Cross office re port til early this afternoon that It will accept and forward to na tional headquarter any local do nations for disaster relief for stricken persons and families In the tornadu area. the rainswolten Chikaskia . River had nearly cut off the tornado shattered city of 15,000 from the outside world. Two highways leading into the city were closed and more weie likely to become impassable with in a matter of hours. City officials feared the water would reach homes in the city which has es caped the tornado's fury. Residents Evacuated About 150 residents just east of the city's tornado stricken area were evacuated. Officials said the rest of the city, including blocks of wrecked homes, was not in im mediate danger from the Hood waters. A state-by-state count of the dead and injured showed: Kansas: Udall destroyed and 76 dead. hleven dead at the nearby village of Oxford, including five children from one family, for a statewide total of 87 dead and at least 300 injured. State oficlals feai'ed more bodies would be found in the Udall debris today. Oklahoma: seventeen persons dead, 500 injured, 500 homes in 72 blocks destroyed at Blackwell Two more dond at Cheyenne for a state total of 10. Texas: Fifteen airmen killed when a B 36 ran into a violent storm over Sterling City and crashed. Missouri: One man killed by a twister near Paris, Mo., farm buildings wrecked and trees up rooted. More Tornadoes More tornadoes raged through Arkansas, Iowa, and Illinois Thurs day niqht. Tornado alerts were Is sued for parts of the Midwest, but were lifted early today. The U.S. Weather Bureau said the stonn system was driving northeastward early todav, spread ing showers and thunderstorms. Little Rock, Ark., was soaked with p flooding 7.25 inches of ruin in six hours. A small logging enmp was wrecked and two persons were in jured when a tornado ripped nn area near Jessieville. Ark., Thursday nig.il. Tornadic winds injured two persons at Springfield, .III., and a wind-lashed downpour : flooded Chicago streets. Roofs were ! ripped off by a twister at Carson, Iowa. But the most shocking tale or destruction was in this devastated village and in flood-threatened Blackwell. Udall what little was left of it was a ghost town early today. Only thv hollow husks of a few buildings were left of the Kunsa-i farm village. The entire population was evac uated and strict military rule took 'Ai-r. National Guardsmen patrol led the streets to prevent possible 'onting. The search for mo-c 'lodies was to be resumed at day break. Benefit Dance To Aid Patient A heneflt dance, with proceeds to go to Mrs. Folmer Brxlkcr, n patient at St. Clmrleg Memorial hospital in Rend fir ome time, will be held At the Plfsant Ridse community hill on Saturday niKht, M;y 28. The Sisten VKW Is pon soring the benefit dance, and tnu lie will bo by the Crooked River Ramblfrn. i KvcrythlnR In connection with the dance is being donated, commit tees In charge report. 1 East, Paulina Lakes Continue Under Ice Pack Hope thitt the ice pack on Paulina and East lakes, in Know bluuketed Newberry crater, would break in time for Memo rial weekend fishing faded to day, and resort operators there cancelled boat and cabin reser vation. Shortly before noon today, the Ink cm were, still under Ice, with clear weather prevailing. Only a blustery southwest wind would break the Ice pack, and calm weather prevailed In tho crater today, following a night chill of 25 degree. Even If the pack should break, anglers would scarcely find a spot In which to set up camp or park ears, It was pointed out. All campgrounds are still under deep snow, with some 18 Inches still on the grou-m t T0'mi lake. Interest In Ice conditions ot; Cast and Paulina lakes was (treat throughout the state, and resort operators In the crater were swamped with calls through the week. The forest lake season In Ore gon will open tomorrow morn lug one hour before sunrise. Sun rise tomorrow In the Bend area will he at 4:28. To Mark Holiday In Area Monday Memorial day, Monday, May 30, will he penemllv observed in Bend and other Central Oregon towns as a general holiday, but with special programs planned under auspices o veterans groups. The occasion will mark the first double holiday of the 1955 vaca tion season, and in most parts of the state, the start of the tourist season. Tor many, the long week end will start Saturday noon, or, In some cases, Saturday morning, and will last until the start of the Tuesday work day. A heavy influx of anglers U ex pected In Central Oregon, but, with many of the forest lakes still under Ice, not as many trout titk crman as usual are expected. Bend's formal observance of the Memorial holiday will be on Mon day, with a parade, headed hy the Oregon National Guard unit, to get underway from the ONQ armory at 10:30 a.m. Services will be held at the Pilot Butte ceme tery at 11 a.m., wtth veteran!' groups to assist. W. J. Baer Is !n general charge of arrangements. Rav LeBlanc, chairman of the Merchants committee of the Bend Chamber of Commerce, said it was the recommendation of his committee that Monday be ob served as a holiday by chamber members. A check around town today In dicated that all offices. Including city, county and federal, and most business places, with the exception of some grocery stores, will be closed. Lie Test Given Actress Lamarr HOUSTON. Tex. (UP) Police declined today to release the re sults of a lif detttrtor test (iven to motion picture actnss Hedy Ln ma rr, who rev:. t1 $50,000 worlh of jcwe'.ry stolen frm her home Tuesday nighl. Miss Lamarr tool: the Uwt alonti with her husband, oil millonai W. Howard Lee, a maid, and three other servants. Police Lt. J. E Wilburn, in charge of the burglary and theft division, said the couple's other servant will take the tel to day. The police have nrt established i susixft Wilburn said. ' "We're hi ill conducting the in vewhgation on the theory that the theft could have b"en an inside Job or by someone outside uV house," he said. Wilburn said Miss Lamarr sun- Carted the lie detector tent. Site appeared B little nervous when It came time for it he said, but never wavered once. Her test took an hmir-and-a-hfilf, he said. She was followed by her hus band and then the servants. Neith er Lee nor Miss Lamarr could be rmtiied today for comment. Laborites Sag Badly in British Election Count By Kenneth Miller United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON (UP) Sir Anthony Eden's Conservative party official ly won the British election today when its number of seats reached 315, the number needed to com mand a majority of the House of Commons. At 1:15 p.m. London time, the Conservatives had 315 seats to La bor's 245, a net gain of 15. The Liberals won four seats. The pop ular vote was Conservatives 12, JHaW, Labor 11,128,221. The pro-American Eden's pur ilmost complete rout. It smashed an attempted come back by Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor party and swept the Conservatives back into firm power in a sharp swing tu the right. Today's windup tally of votes cast in yesterday's general elec tions sent Hie Conservative ma jority in the House of Commons rocketing high above the slim 18 seat margin they held in the for mer Parliament. Triumph For Eden The trend indicated it might reach or pass a majority of 75 seats over the Socialists. The victory for the Conserva tives led - by Eden crushed the Socialists and dealt its heaviest damage to the Labor party left wing led by Amenca-Qjaiting Aneu rin Bevan. It lifted the handsome, 57-year- old Eden triumphantly out of the shadow of Sir Winston Churchill, whnm he .succeeded as Prime Minister only 52 days age). j, was a gencrn T0ry sweep, the first solid mandate to be given to either party by the British vot ers since 1945, when they gave a similar mandate to Attlee s So cialists. Friend Of America Domestically, the Conservative victory meant that Eden could go Truck Runs Wild on Hill; 6 Said Dead SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A largo truck and trailer, running wild 'down a San Francisco hill, rammed Into nine autos today al a. North Beach intersection and police reported at least six per sons killed. The truck, a huge movlne van immediately caught fire and burned fiercely, hampering efforts to rescue other victims reported pinned ln some of the wrecked cars. The accident took place at day and Kearney Sts. near the en hance to the lamed Son Fran cisco International Settlement. The big truck, traveling' out of control at a high rate of speed, rolled wildly down the steep hill and careened across busy Gran! Ave., the main thoroughfare ol Chinatown. It then smashed Into the nine cars along the south sldo of Clay St., overturned several of them like tenpins and caromed across the street to sideswipe a half doz en other autos. All available police and emer gency ambulances were rushed to the scene. A crowd of 500 office workers from nearby building- milled around the street, hamper ing the work of rescuers. Police said that most of Hie defid were pedestrians who were walking along busy Cay St. at the moment the fully loaded furn iture van came roaring down the hill. Accident Costs Woman's Life ALBANY, Ore. (UP)-A Port land, Oro,, woman was killed and her sister Injured south of hern yesterday when their cor skidded off the highway and overturned. Pronounced dead on arrival at Albany General hospital was Mrs. William P. Turnham. 55. Hospital ised was Mrs. Jack H. Van Duyn, 46 also of Portland. State police said the car skidded on wet pavement, lurched over the opposite side of the road, Anri stopped upside down In about twol Taylor will take the new position feet ot water. hunt 15. ahead with plans to give greater play to free enterprise. Interna, tionally, it left him in a stronger position to proceed with his gen erally pro-American policies. The Conservatives had more than a one million vote popular whereas in 1951 they trailed by quarter of a million ln the popu lar vote even though they won a majority of seats in the House ol Commons. The Conservative victory also presented the Soviet Union with a stronger right wing bloc ln any future negotiations with the West It squashed any chance of Brit ish neutralism in the next ten years and ended the Labor party's immediate dream of further na tionalization ot the economy. Out From Shadow In terms of men, the Conserva tive victory meant these things: 1. Eden: Pulled him out from under Churchill's shadow. Instead of Prime Minister by appointment, virtue of the people's vote and may maneuver more freely. 2. Attlee: May mark the end ol his rcgin as Labor party leader, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison Is second in line, but the Labor defeat is almost certain to provoke, a bitter fight between Aneurln Bevan ou the left and Hugh Gait. skell on the right. 3. Bevan: His prestige has been drastically lowered. Two ot his strongest supporters in the old Parliament were defeated, while other Bevanites, Including Jennie Lee, his wife, were returned with reduced votes. . , . " Blames Labor Vote Labor party Secretary Morgan Phillips blamed the Socialist de feat on a failure of Labor voters to turn out. He said ln a TV broadcast that the next few years in opposition would give the So cialists an opportunity to "revital ize" their forces. None of the 17 Communist can didates won. AU but one forfeited their poll deposits for falling to win at least one-eighth of the total vote ln their districts. Tho election seemed , to mark the complete eclipse of the Lib eral party as a great power ln British politics. Best Bid Offered By Eugene Firm Low bid for the reconstruction of a two mile section of the Mr Kenzie highway in the CUne falls area, about five miles west of Redmond, was submitted by Dur bln Bros., Eugene, when propo sals were received by the state highway commission at Its meet ing In Portland Thursday. The Eugene firm entored a bid ot $159,941 for the grading and oil ing of the highway sections lead ing to the norlh and south ap proaches to the Cine falls bridge. Bids for construction of a new span over the Deschutes at that point will be called next month. Plans for the new approaches to the bridge call for widening the hlgliway and the elimination of some of the bad curves ln the area. A passing lane will be pro vided on the uphill section north of the bridge. Karlier, the state highway com mission received bids for the oil ing of some 16 miles of Desrhittea county rural routes, with B;iMer Bros., Redmond, submitting the low offer. Hoads to be surfaced under this contract are the Cloverdale Junc-tion-Cnmp Polk route, 4.17 miles; Plainview secllon of Plainview road, 3 49 miles; Kby road, Frank? road section of Northwest market rood, 5.18 miles; Northwest mar ket road - Hall road of Lower Bridge mute, I mile, and Cine Falls-Redmond Junction section of Atkinson road and Houston and EtiKtnn nwds, 1.78 miles. Taylor to Manage Country Club PORTLAND (IT) - I-aVernc 'K'pl Tavlor. who resigned last fall as football conch at Oregm State College, last niylil was nnmed manager of the Coutmbla PtcAUkln rMn.n. C.J V.