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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1955)
WEATHER-?- High yesterday, 78 degrees. Low last night, II degrees. Sun set today, 7:47. Sunrise tomor row, 4:33. THE BEND BULL j FORECAST" Fair and warm through Wed nesday; high today 80-85; low tonight 42 48; high Wednesday (3-88. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER ETIN 52nd Year Two Sections Search Made For Slayer Of Iowa Girl, 2 SIOUX CITV, Iowa (UP) One of the biggest manhunts in the history of Ihe Midwest formed to day to find the brutal sex-slayer of 2-year-old Donna Sue Davis. A general police alert was sound ed throliphnnl mirl - continent (hp FBI actively entered the case and thousands of volunteer, armed with a description of the killer, joined in the search. Meanwhile, police here planned a roundup of all known sex devi ates after being informed by police ( met James O Keefe that the child "definitely had been 'aped. . . The blonde, curly-haired tot, who was kidnaped from her crib Sun day night, while her parents watched television, was found beaten to death late Monday at the edge of a muddy cornfield. Strips of her pink pajama tops were wound around her neck. Oth erwise, she was unclothed. The pa jama - tops were the same Donna was wearing when her mother tucked her into bed with the words: 'Three to get ready and four to go to bed. Police said Donna had been sex ually attacked, then beaten to death by blows on the head. An autopsy showed she had suffered a skull fracture, a broken jaw and abrasions on her body. The blue-eyed girl, described by neighbors as "a living doll," was killed about an hour after she was .abducted, police said. Her body apparently was hurled from an automobile into the gravel ditch where it was found. Police said the slaying was the work of a "sex degenerate." They held one suspect, but officials in dicated that so far he ' had not been connected directly with the crime. They declined to identify him or furnish any other details. Meanwhile, his, wife and her sis-ler-in-law, Mrs. William Oehler king accompanied by their seven daughters, aged one to 13 set out along the gravel road in a car in an effort to find the" body. About a half-mile down the road, the children spotted the body and screamed in horror. One of the children said Donna was stretched out beside stalks of com "like she was sleeping." , Donna disappeared from her crib while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, wale lied a tele vision program. Pioneers to Hear Municipal Band Members of the Bend Municipal hand will take time out from their own annual picnic at Shevlin park Sunday to appear in a half hour concert at the Deschutes Pioneer association picnic at Pioneer park, C. G. Springer, association presi dent, announced today. The concert will be one of the highlights of a meeting that is ex pected to draw old timers here from all parts ol the mid-Oregon country for the annual summer meeting and reunion of the Des chutes pioneers. Springer- announced one change in committee assignments. Be cause of illness, Mrs. Maurice Hoover will not be able to serve on the table and decorations com mittee and her place will be filled bv Mrs. Lawrence T. Nicholson. Clnude Kelley will be in charge of coffee and ice cream. The annual outing of the pioneers will start at 1:00 p.m.. with plen ty of parking space available In Ihe nearby city shop grounus just across Portland avenue. Another Septic Tank is Needed At Allen School State board of health require ments call tor an additional sep tic tank of 1.500 gallons caoicity fnr the new moms to be built at Allen school, the district bonrd of directors learned at its meeting last niht. City Superintendent R. E. Jew ell mentioned that the need had been called to his attention. He was authorized to negotiate a con tract tor the work. Cost of a drilled hole, it was estimated, would be at an additional $4 a toot. As an offset the board decided not to construct a culvert which hd at first been thought neces eary because of the Wiest ditch crossing the school property. It was pointed out by the superinten dent that farther up the ditch had been filled In In the course of res idential buildini and thM there as no immediate likelihood that Ihe ditch would be returned to us, Switchover ; Planned Filter Center Operations Start Tomorrow Night By PHIL BROGAX Bulletin Staff Writer The air defense filter cenlcr in Bend, using a vertical plotting sys tem new in United States Air Force defense work, will go into lull operation Wednesday at mid night. Time for the break from the -"'" crmrr, wnn wnien posts east of the Cascades are dt present' linked, has been set for 12:01 a.m. When the swtichover takes place, KsWsmJ SUPERINTENDENT Ernest S. Newsted, formerly with a Hudspeth operation in the John Day country, has been named Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., logging superintendent to fill the vacancy created by the recent retirement of Roscoe Simcox, (Photo for The Bulletin by Paul Hosmer) Position Filled By Bend Mill Replacing Roscoe Simcox, who retired this month, Ernest S. Newsted has arrived in Bend to take over the job of logging su perintendent of Brooks - Scanlon Inc. Simcox has held the position since the death of Gal'? Blakley. Newsted came here from the John Day country whore he had been logging superintendent for Blue Mountain Mills, a Hudspeth operation, since 1951. He was born in Eureka, Calif., in 1909; got his high school education in- Gray's Harbor, and was working Hi the woods before he finished school. holding down a whisHe punk's job in his father's logging camp. His first big job was with the Weyerhaeuser Interests at Sno qualmie Falls, Wash., where he ran his first camp in 1939. Later he logged for BloeoVI-Donovan, at Sekieu, In the Straits ot Juan De Fuca. He left there in 1944 to log for Schaefer Bros. Logging Co., Gray's Harbor. He was with the Klamath Basin Pine Mills until 1950, after which he logged for a year with the U.S. Plywood Cor poration, at Kosmos, Wash. He was married in 1929 and has a wife and grown daughter. Simcox plans to return to his old home In Tennessee. Chrismer Takes Nebraska Post John Chrism ar, Bend !hnh School instructor, will go to Neb raska this fall to take the position of state director of distributive ed ucation. To clear the way for his employment. the Bend school board, meeting in the office of City Superintendent R. E. Jewell on Wall street Monday night, ac cented Chrismer's resignation. Chrismer has been a member ol the faculty here for the past two years. He has been nssigned here to vocational education and has had charge of driver training clas ses. Si inert ntendent Jewell, reporting m Chrismer s opportunity for pro motion, mentioned also that he has hired Harold R. Pitcher. Oregon College of Education with throe vears experience, as sixth grade instructor and intramural director at Allen school. Mrs. Rorrta Vic kers Campbell who. as Miss Rob erta Virkers, resided in June to U married, is returning as junior high physical education instructor, the superintendent reported. ALARM ANHWF.RF.D Bend Fire department answered a stUI alarm at 1G5 Irving avenue. Sunday at 7-M p m. The fire was in a flue. There was no damage reported. MtiaMkSM Air Force areas of responsibility in the entire .northwest will marked- ly change, with the new Bend air defense filter center to be directly linked, in most cases, with 206 Ground Observer posts east of the Cascades. "Hot lines" will also link the newl eastern Oregon filter center area, with headquarters here, to other areas of responsibility, such as the one supervised from Sacramento, Calif., in the south, and with others to the north and. east. Fully Manned First Lt. John A. McDonald, op erations officer at the new Bend filter center, and Mrs. Charles B. Hinds, Jr., civilian administrator, said the center will be fully manned tomorow midnight when the center is activated. The station is to bo manned 24 hours each day. One military su pervisor will be on the job at all times, but only as an advisor. The filter work will be a civilian op eration, manned by volunteers. The center is to be activated on the eve of its formal dedication, set for Thursday with Brig. Gen. R. W. Puryear, commander of the 25th Air Division (defense), to bp here for the dedication, at 2:?J0 p.m. An open house will follow, and visitors will see the center in full operation, with the course of planes over the area of responsi bility being charted. When the switchover occurs at 12:01 Thursday and the break away from the Portland filter center takes place, the new vertical plot ting board, only one of its kind in use in a filter center, will blaze with fluorescent lights. Courses of planes entering the eastern Oregon region, depicted on the big plexiglass plotting board, will be charted through the area. The plotting board is lined to conform with the world geographic reference grid, and represents, in its central portion, a huge map of eastern Oregon and part of Wash ington. . Track 'Number Each plane entering the area will be assigned a track number, which will attached to (he plane as it crosses the mapped area of responsibility. Planes from other areas on pene tration courses will also be chnrt ed. First Lt. Donald E. Rose, USAF, commander of Detachment 3, 4755th Ground Observer squadron, reported this morning that the new center will be ready for service at the time set. "July 14th will see the newesl and most modern filter center in the United States go into operation, in fitting recognition of the Third anniversary of Operation Sky Watch," Lt. Rose said. Because it represents the newest in filter centers and has vertical plotting 'board, the Bend center will be nationally recognized by the Air Force when it goes into oper ation. Volunteer workers will primarily be in charge of the local operation, and Mrs. Hinds today stressed that more volunteers can still be used. CRASH KILLS NINE HAVANA, Cuba (UP) Nine persons were killed and 10 others were injured seriously Monday when a passenger bus crashed into a gasoline tank truck in the near by town of San Pedro. Police said the vehicles skiJded or. wet pavement. rtv fc. Vjj -.-- V, .r. a IT Ti a . ii ' .iln7.!?v fit ill .i LOTS OF ICE WATER In hit 'laboratory" at a Soviet Rus flan waathar ret arch station near the North Pole, Hydrologist N. Shesterifcov tests water. Note the crudity of the installation. (Photo from original Russian source.) Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon Tuesday. July 12. 1955 Deep Bulletin MILWAUKEE (IT) The American League jumped to a four-run lead In the first liming of the All-Star game against the National League today on a wild pitch and Mickey Mantle's three run homer. II was 4-0 at the end of three Inning. Robin Roberts gave up singles U the first two men, Harvey Kueiui and Nellie Fox. Then the National League starter threw one past catcher Del Crand&ll to let Kuenn score. Ted Williams walked and Man tle poled a oiie-and-one pitch be yond the 402-foot center field fence. It was Muulle's first All Star home run and one of five to land on Milwaukee Stadium's center field grass. Board Members To Obtain Seating Data One or more members of the school board will go to Portland next week to check on proposed specifications for auditorium seat ing, it was decided at Monday niglit's regular meeting of the dis trict directors. Who would go was not determined but it was agreed that those able to make Ihe trip would conduct an inspection of samples with City Superintendent R. E. Jewell, who will join them after completing a one day stay in Salem. There Jewell and Dean W. Tate lunlor high school principal, will discuss junior high organization I 4 and curriculum with Cliff Robin son, slate director of secondary education. The junior high system of or ganization will also be explained to the local teaching stuff nt one of the in-service training sessions ushering in the fall term. A chine in the school calendar sets the beginning of the in-service training periods for August 29. Before adjournment the board authorized the superintendent to investigate use of 24 inch deep bleacher seating for upstairs sec tions in the new high school gym nasium. Adult seating is planned for these sections. No change, it was indicated, would be made; from the long-standard 22 inch depth for student seating in the lower sections. The boa i-d continued its mem bership in the Oregon School Board Association dues $f0 a year. All directors Dr. J. S. Grahl- man, chairman, Gordon W. Mc Kay, Bert W. Hagen, Charles Cor kett and Allen Young were pres ent for the meeting. FINKS ASSESEI) John Edward Spurgeon. Shevlin was fined a total of $183 for car rying an overload twice. In April and May, by the justice cour this morning. John Henry Sheri dan, Lebanon, forfeited his $15 bai for violation of the basic rule, ac cording to Justice of the Poacv O. W. Grubb. Budget Slashes Taken ttl M i J J. 4 T 5!r:'!vdZ DENTAL CLINIC BEGINS The Tri-County Health Department in conjunction with Bend den tists started yesterday a screening type dental examination program for all Bend children who will be in the first grade this fell. Picture shows Paula Hofstedt, 5, 507 Riverfront, being examined by Dr. David M. Witter, director of dental health section of state board of health, while Paula's mother looks on. In the background is Mrs. Paul Gilley, 237 St. Helens, a voluntary worker in this program. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Oveross Defense Brinqs Its Case to Sudden End Today SALEM (UP) Defense attor neys- today -.completed..,, their at tempts to free Casper .Oveross of the state s charg- -that he mur dered Ervin Kaser, his Sllverton, Ore., neighbor, last Feb. 17. The defense brought its ease to sudden close following the testi mony of Mrs. Eirima Wolfard, a teacher at the Evergreen school near the Kaser residence. Kaser was shot to death as he sat in his car In the driveway of his home. Mrs. Wolfard testified over pros ecution objections that Mrs. Edith Kaser, sister - in - law of the slain mnn, told her tliat she had seen State Officials Plan to Attend Dedication Here Earl Snyder, state director of aeronautics, and Colonel Sheets, state civilian defense director, will be among officials here Thursday for the formal dedication of the new air defense filter center. The center will be dedicated by Brig. Gen. R. W. Puryear, com mander of the 25th Air Division at McChord field. Wash., who will fly here for the ceremony. General Puryear will be guest speaker at a Bend Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday noon at the Pilot Butte Inn to which all interested have been invited. Thursday evening, the U.S. Atr Force general will be speaker at a Central Oregon forum, to be hfld in the Allen school auditorium, starting at 8 p.m. Ground Observer Corps and U.S Air Force personnel In Central Ore gon are expected to be among those attending the Thursday noon luncheon. Climbers Find Tracks of Bear MADRAS Two local mountain climbers are wonrh-ring what would attract a bear lo the top of i Mount Hood, about 5 000 f'et -Jlabove vegetation of any kind. The two, Juck Watts and Jcry : Ramsey, made the assent Sunday and found the sunilt covered wilh tracks of a medium size b'ar. They found that no climbers hud signed the registration lxjk since July 4. The tracks indicated that Mr I Bruin had peeked off the edge In isevrral places. Freshness of th I tracks indicated that the furry climix-r went up sometime In the prncedmg day or two. They have no gus-s as to mo tlvation, except possibly curiosity. flAME CIMNir:l Bend American Legion will not play Redmond this afternoon. The i;ninc. originally sl.ited for Tues day, has been movd back to Wed nesday. It will Invin at 5:3(1 p.m at Redmond. Ervln Kaaer's body slumped over In hia car the night ol Feb. 17, Mrs. Wolfard said Mrs. Kaser'a statement was made Feb. 23 at a lodge meeting in Silverton. Mrs. Edith Kaser had previously testified as a state s witness that she had noticed Ervin Kaser's car parked in the. driveway of his home while she war returning from a lodge meeting but had not stopped. Prosecution objections were up held and Mrs. Wolfard was not allowed to testify concerning an old car with two men in it parked near the Evergreen school the morning of Feb. 16. Mrs. Ethel Oveross, estranged wife of the defendant, testified that on the evening of Feb. 17 an 'old cur wilh two men in it followed her and Kaser in Kaser's car until they turned off into a side road to let the other car go by. Next step on the trial cgenda will be defense and prosecution arguments to the Jury- Yesterday, B. Nealley Wood, Portland chemist, testified that in his experience as a chemist and corrosion expert the Winchester 30-30 rifle taken from the Pudding river May 8 had not been In the water since February. The state alleges the weapon, found by three boys, was used in the Feb. 17 shooting. Excursions Set For Convention Sxvhil to The Bulletin KEDMOND Plans for bus ex cursions to scenic points in Cen tral Oregon for visiting Legion naires the end of this month were iiscussed at the last board of di rectors meeting of the convention commission. Emory Johnston, transportation chairman, an-: nuunced he is negotiating .with! Trnilways officials on the matter, Rules and events for Ihe Junior rodeo contests scheduled for July 2J at 8 p.m. and July 30 at 3 p.m were outlined. An all-around cow iKjy and cowgirl award will be giv en for each division. Divisions are for ages nine to 14, and 15 to 18. To qualify frn all-nround cowboy or cowgirl championship in each division the winner must have competed In at least one riding event such ns calf, row or bare bark horse riding. A traveling tro phy will be presented to the "all ar-iund" of the show. In the A division for 15 to 18 year olds events are calf roping, tie down; bareback horse riding, cow riding, cow cutt'ng contest, musical ripe mce and slake race. For the nine to 14 year old In B division there will he calf roping. breakaway; calf riding, muslral rope, cow cutting contest, stake race end pee wee rare for ages nine to U Ten Pages ft- 1 Dental Program Gets Underway The Trl-county HealthV Depart ment launched its pilot screening- type dental examination program in oena yesiernay. uo-sponsorca oy the local dentists, Ihe program will cover all Bend children who will bo in the first grade this fall. Of the 23 children examined yes terday, only three are found com pletely free of tooth decay, accord ing to Dr. David M. Witter, direc tor of dental health section of the state board of health, Portland, who is here for the program The program will last until Fri day. Specific appointments have been made with individual parents to bring their children to the den tal clinic between 10 and 12 in the morning and 1 to 3 in the after noon. The department urges all who have made appointments to turn up at the time specified and those who have not received appointment cards to contact the department by telephone or in person. This l a pilot program. Simi lar programs may be organized elsewhere In Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. Most of Rock Work Done Major part of the rock work at the new high school location is done and, as of now, will not ex ceed 2,300 cubic yards, Henry C. Nelson, clerk of the works, told the district board at He meeting In the city superintendent's office last night. By the middle of next week, Su perintendent Jewell believed, form construction and concrotc pouring can be stalled. From then on, he forecast, progress on the Job will be more noticeable The bonrd approved construction and material bills of Wall, Bnr- tram and Sanford of $5,355.90 on the auditorium and :5,3:t4.10 on the high school and architect's supervision fees of $M1.34 on the auditorium and $.180.01 on the high school. For plans and speclflca tions for the two - room Allen school addition the architects, An- nand. Hoone and Lei. were paid $1,770.93. Transfer by the county treasurer of the total of the amounts In volved, $.12.4C0 93, from the dis trict's bond sales savings fund to the general fund was authorized The savings fund, in the final quarter of the fiscal year, eurned Ihe district $'i.H) in Interest, Jewell told Ihe board HNE ASHKSI--.il Special to The Bulletin I.APINK-Jiutlre of the Peace H. M. M'irtin fined Lawrence Ray- -wvl filk of R"d illuff Cnllf -a. U .I : I: '' ' $14.50 lor passing with Insufficient! lure Company Thursday night and clearance and Billy Bruce McKin-1 battered open a safe must have ney ot Oakrtdge $54 50 for fishing: felt awfully foolish. In closed area. MrKlnney s fishing It was a stock safe on display equipment was also confiscated, 'and, of course, was tinpty. No. 184 AF Academy Among Items Feeling 'Ax' By FRANK EI.EAZKK United Preaa Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) The House Appropriations Committee, wielding its economy ax for the last time this session, today de nied funds for the proposed Air Force. Academy, President Eisen hower's atomic peace ship, and free distribution ot polio vaccine. It whacked heavily into tie President's budget requests for expansion and improvement of atomic plants, for making civil defense evacuation plans for 29 big target cities,, and for U. S. participation In international trade fairs as a counter to Communist propaganda. , The committee, meeting for what probably was its last session this year, took the aetions In re porting to the House a supple mental appropration bill totalling $1,648,876,128 for a scattering of agencies and functions for which the President had sought extra funds totalling Jl.927,785,868. ', Record for Year This cut of J27S ono T4(l admit 14.5 ter cent, was to be piled atop claimed committee reductions to talling about $2,185,000,000 in earli er appropriations tills year, al though some of the previous cuts had been restored by House or Senate. Main Items In the bill as a p. proved Included $1,402,329,000 for military construction projects (not Including the Air Academy) for which the administration had asked $1,490,000,000; $138,577,000, a out ol $158,123,000 for plant expanaton and atappttdrup mearotl by the Atomic Energy .Commis sion; $8,650,000 for civil defense, agninst Ule '$16,050,000 requested, nm,- tiar.ttn t . bulH, lh. m .. rt,,Br Air Academy at Colorado Springs Colo., came nmld mounting crit icism of the ultra modem design recently published hy the Air Force as its plan for the new ser vice school. Must Make Up Mind Air Force Socretunv Harold E. Talbott told the appropriations group this design wus not final. So the committee denied his re quest for 79 millions in construc tion funds, and told him not to spend 15 millions Appropriated earlier, until plans are finally a grecd on. It suggested that he consult the government's Fine Arts Commis sion before making tin his mind. The committee also expressed concern over the "seeming central ization of military activities" in the Colorado Springs area, which already has the Army's Camp Car son and the Air Defense Command. It "suggested ... that a further study be made of this area with especial reference" tj the avail- ability of adequate water sup plies. The committee turned down a request for $12,650,000 to build the hull of Mr. Eisenhowe-'s proposed peace ship and for 21 millions to build the atomic reactor to drive It. It pointed out that legislation to authorize tills ship has not been approved by congress Money On Hunt In chopping funds sought for other atomic construction the com mittee pointed out Hint AEC has 101 millions of unspent funds on hand. With this, and the $138,577,- 000 which it recommended in new money, the committee said the agency will have enough to got hy. Among specific atomic projects cut or denied was a proposed new hospital nt Oak Ridge Tenn. The committee said keeping the old one would be cheaper and it al lowed $50,000 to put I In shape. In the polio field the committee approved in full Mr. Eisenhower's request tor $300,000 in extra en forcement money to ward off a possible black market in vaccine. It okayed without reduction $4. 500,000 for grants to states to plan vaccination programs It allowed in full $100.0110 to build a new monkey house at the National In stitutes of Health, to facilitate vac cine safety tests. But the 30 millions sought hy the President to furni'h free vac cine to those who rnn't afford it wns denied, on the ground no auth orizing legislation has been passed. AWm.l.Y FIWIIISH HOtrSTON. Tex (IIPl Police snld today that the huritlar who broke Into the Sunnuand FUrni-
