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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1955)
Ualv. of Oregon Library Euasris. OREGON WEATHEk High yesterday. 88 degree. Low lam nlKhl, M degrees. Sun set today, 7:41. Sunrise tomor row, 4:4?. FORECAST Fair inroilgb Friday! high both days 93; low tonlgM 47. END CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon Thursday, July 21, 1955 Twelve Pages No. 192 resident Uncorks roposa THE BULLETIN P Startling P City Standing Firm on Its Water Policy By JACK UNO Bulletin Staff Writer Bend city commission stood firm on the strict execution of its pres ent water policies, as it turned down two requests for exceptions at a commission meeting last night. It rejected a request for year around water supply for the prop erty of George Low on the north highway outside the city limits. The city's policy has been to pro' vide properties adjacent to the city with a six-month water supply from October to April. It also turned down a chamber of com merce request for bringing water to a new industry without pipeline costs to the industry. The proplem of constructing ad ditional water pipes to increase city water supply was discussed at length. Commissioner Hap Taylor suggested that water rales be in creased to finance the project. Commissioner Web Loy, however, urged immediate action on a bond issue to put the project through. No action was taken but Water Superintendent Percy Drost was asked to further study the . problem. Suggestion Made In addition to the main trans mission line, the oity has built three and a half miles of pipeline as part of another main line, which k bringing in 800,000 gallons a day. One suggestion at the meet ing was to add another three miles to bring in an extra 1,000,000 gal lons to ease the situation. The wa ter department will need approxi mately $147,000 for this, ot which $47,000 can be footed by an expect ed Increase in revenue. A bond Is sue of $100,000 was suggested. With this plan, the city may complete the second main line on an installment basis, linking the new sections together. The commission also brought up a number of traffic problems last night. One involved the hazardous corner of Franklin and E. 3rd street. Light Proposed Police Chief John Truett sug gested that a flicking four-way red liuht be installed at the junction ot Franklin and E. 3rd and the Franklin avenue southbound turn be widened to allow an additional lane. City Manager Walter Thomp son was authorized to look into the oroblem and contact the state nign- way department and other parties concerned lor necessary uik-us-sion. Another traffic problem brought up was parking meter space. Some of the spaces are no longer aoe- quate as cars are becoming nig ger and longer, one commissioner pointed out. No action was taken on this issue. The commission also: 1. Accepted the Central Oregon Motors bids on two irums at $2646.45 for the street department and a police car at $1384. 2. Accepted the bid of Howard Cooper of Portland on two Hough loaders at a total ot $12,490, for the street department. 3. Passed the second reading of the ordinance on the Impounding and disposition of abandoned vehi cles, making It law. 4. Passed the first reading of an ordinance which is to repeal a 1932 ordinance on sprinkling ol streets with oil and having resi dents pay part of the expenses Citv Attorney Harry A. English explained that since the city has a paved-road system, oiling roads has become unnecessary. 5. Authorized the city adminls tratlon to transfer over-expended items to under-expended items in the 1954-r5 budget. City Recorder Julie Johnson added that the city had a $5043.55 balance from the last budget. Merrifield Case Goes to Jury SALEM (UPl The case of the state versus State Senator John C. F. Merrifield of Portland was to go to a six-member jury here today. Sen. Merrifield has pleaded innocent of a drunk driving charge He spent more than an hour on the witness stnnd yesterday an,! explained. In detailed testimony that he had had only two drinks the day of his arrest. He said his erratic driving was caused by the violence of a woman alcoholic whom he was transporting from Portland to the state hospital in Salem. Vi I . , J - Wit . HEADS SUPERINTENDENTS R. Ewart Jewel, Bend superin tendent of schools, Is congratulated on his election as president of the Oregon District Superintendents Association by Clarence Hines, left, superintendent at Eugene. Jewel's election closed a two-day conference of the organization held recently on the University of Oregon campus. He served during the last yer as vice-president and replaces Hubert Armstrong, Newport su perintendent. Hines is an ex-Lava Bear football coach. (U. of O. Photo for The Bulletin) Murder Charges Filed After Body Of Girl Found BERKELEY, Calif. (UP) Bur ton W. Abbott, 27, frail accounting student, was charged with murder today following discovery in a shallow grave near his family cab in of a body police are "con vinced" Is that of Stephanie Bryan, 14, missing for three months. Despite Abbott's persistent de nials of guilt, the charge of sus picion of murder filed In Alameda County lost night was changed to a straight charge of murder at Berkeley. Dist. Atty. Frank Coakley of Alameda and Lt. R. A. Sherry, at the scene where the body was found, announced positive identi fication after the full body was un- covered so they could gauge its length and see the color of the victim s hair. Officials Convinced "We are convinced the body is that of Stephanie," Coakley said. The body was removed to Red ding at the request of George S. Loqvam, Alameda county patholo gist, who will perform an autop sy there this atternoon. Meanwhile, a new witness came forward in Santa Rosa, Calif., to claim that he had seen a man and a young girl" at the Abbott family cabin in Trinity county April 28, the last day the Berkeley schoolgirl was seen alive. The new witness is Harry Mason, 32, a former truck driver for the Wildwood lumber mill, located about three miles beyond the cab in. Mason told Sheriff Harry L. Patteson that he had been pros pecting or fishing April 28 when he passed the cabin and saw a girl wearing a "white blouse and a dark skirt" standing with a man in the doorway of the cabin. Bomb Explodes In Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES (UPl A smal' bomb exploded in the plant of a pro-irovernment magazine today in this city already tense with new rumors of a rebellion against President Juan D. Peron's gov ernment. The Argentine National Radio said reports of an uprising against Peron were merely "rumors." (In Santiago. Chile, the For eign Ministry and the Argentine Embassy denied reports that Her on has asked the Chilean govern ment lor permission to enter ChuY fter abandoning power In Argen tina.) The bomb shattered glass in doors and windows in the building of the Peronisti party magazine Mundo. There also is a secondary Peronista party school in the building. The government radio reoeated iv attacked "rumor moneers" and Tr-msed them ot circulating re norts yesterday of a Na'y rebel Hon whl"h ritsed a police alert in several cities. irvll-d Argentine Nsw officer- in Montevideo. Urueuav. however laimed the war fleet had isv-npr-H he control of Peron'i government Thev said their Information was sed on private advicri from Buenos Aires ) Uranium Hunters Crowding Info Lakeview Area LAKE VIEW (UP) Prospec tors armed with shotguns or wear ing six - guns strapped to their waists were a common sight on the streets of Lakeview today as hundreds of uranium hunters crowded into the area. The Lake county clerk, Zane Gray, reported 50 claims had been filed since the rush began last Thursday. First claims were filed by John Housh on what the fed eral bureau of mines at Albany described as the richest uranium strike In the state. Gray said most of tfie prospec tors were local ranchers, but some were from Nevada, California, Washington, and other parts of Oregon. One man came out from Ohio. Hundreds Scurry As Flood Waters Hit Texas City By UNITED PRESS Hundreds of persons were forced to evacuate their homes when a flood fed by torrential rains swept down on El Paso, Tex., early to day. The water poured" down off Mount Franklin in the northeast part of the city and got as high a window sills in the Mountain View area, a residential section of $15,- (-00 to $20,000 homes. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. Soldiers from nearby Fort Bliss and National Guard units evacu ated the residents by truck to the El Paso Coliseum, which was filled with cots. The Red Cross set up an emer-! gency kitchen in the Coliseum. Some homes in the exclusive. Piedmont Hills area, with homes in the $35,000 to $40,000 bracket, were flooded and residents were fvaeuated to an area near the William Beaumont Army Hospital J GAVELS CHANGE HANDS Pictured here are officeri who headed the United Spenith War Veterani and Auiiliery in the pait year and new leaden named at the Bend encampment. From the left they are O. F. Gullictton, Portland, retiring commander; Dora Pendergrau, Portland, pait president of the Auiiliary; B. P. Boland, Portland, newly elected department commander, and Mrs. Fred Schwletering, Eugene, new president of the Auiiliary, (Bend Bulletin Photo) Talbott Asks For Hearing Over Charges WASHINGTON (UP) Air Sec retary Harold E. Talbott today re quested that the Senate Investigat ing Subcommittee hold a public hearing on his business connec tions "in view of rumors, publicity and discussion. Talbott made Ids request to Chairman John L. McClellan (D- Ark) of the subcommittee which has been looking into Tulbott's status as a "special partner" Li Paul B. Mulligan & Co., New York management engineers. Talbott made known his request after it was disclosed that the subcommittee has copies of let ters and other documents purport ing to slhiW he actively sought business for the New York firm. He has a profit sharing interest in the firm. Official Stationery Some of the letters, circulated among subcommittee members and seen by reporters, were writ ten on Talbott's official stationery bearing the letterhead "Secretary of the Air Force." Talbott's statement requesting a public hearing said: "In view of the rumors, pub licity and discussion regarding my relations with Paul B. Mulligan & Co., management engineers of New York, I have asked Sen. Mc Clellan, chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee (sic), to grant' a public hearing as soon as possible, so that uhe public may have a complete understanding and the accurate information tbout this matter." Sen. Henry M. Jackson, a mem ber of the subcommittee, told news men just before Talbott's request was made public: Hearings Unavoidable "In order for the public to have complete confidence in any deci sion that is made, I don't see how we can avoid public hearings, f don't know that public hearings will add anything, hut because the matters that tiie committee were considering In private have been made public, hearings are una voidable." Jackson said Talbott had been "candid and fair" in his talk with the subcommittee Monday. The subcommittee has been checking into Talbott's association with the New York firm, which specializes in clerical efficiency studies. Talbott told the Senate Armed Services Committee, before he was connrmea as Air force secretary!! in January, V.fc? that he intendedj ,o remain a "special partner in the Mulligan firm. But ho said he would sever alt other business connections. He told the subcom mittee this week that he has con tinued to share in the Mulligan firm s profits. He asserted, how ever, that there was nothing ille gal or unethical about It. Informed sources said Talbott told the subcommittee Tuesday that he receives about $60,000 year from the firm. FERRIS WHKIX STOLEN CHICAGO (UP) Andrew Pota a, a carnival owner, reported to police that his ferris wheel had neen stolen. He said it was packed in a truck ti aiier and disappeared along with the driver. Plan Would Include Swapping Of Military Blueprints With Russia GENEVA (UP) President Eis enhower today challenged Russia to exchange- complete military blueprints with the United States, in a dramatic bid to prove Amer ica wants peace. ' He also proposed complete free dom of aerial photography. The President throw in his start ling proposals at this afternoon's session of the Big Four summit conference which was considering world disarmament. Mr. Eisenhower suggested that his proposals be accepted as an immediate, practical step to build mutual trust between the United States and the Soviet Union. Conference sources said the Rus sians made no immediate reply. Complete Information The President's proposal was two-fold: 1. That the United States and Soviet Russia should give each other a complete blueprint of their military establishments, from one end of each country to the other. 2. That they provide facilities for aerial photography of each other s territory. The united States woufd provide such facili ties for Russian aerial reconnais sance with complete freedom for the Russians to take all the pic tures they wanted for study by Moscow. The Communists would provide the same facilities for the United States. Today's summit session formal ly took up the disarmament issue) Oregon Awaits New Shipment Of Salk Vaccine PORTLAND (UP)-Oregon will share a new shipment of Salk polio vaccine with Iowa, Montana and. Michigan the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis said today. Some 226,275 cubic centimeters of the vaccine were ordered by .he foundation to provide second Khots for children in the four .states. But when ft will arrive here was not yet known to the Slate Board of Health. When It does arrive, the board said It would be shipped Immedi ately to county health departments most in need of it. These will in clude Marion, Lane and Multno mah counties and the city of Port land. Child, 4, Loses Canal LIT6 in KLAMATH FALLS (UP) The body of 4-year-old Roger Van Meter who drowned in the C canal near Merrill yesterday afternoon was recovered by dragging at 7:30 p.m. The child was praying with his sister, Mary, 6, and Linda Storey, 9, when he fell into the swiftly flowing water from a bridge on the Barnes Gravel Pit road. APPROPRIATE NAMK RED BANK, N.J. (UP) Mr. and Mrs. Vito Cimilluca, of West Or- ANGE, N.J., Wednesday named their new baby, the first to be born in an automobile on the new Gar den State Parkway. They named the boy William Parkway Cimilluca. after agreeing to postpone hearing a foreign ministers report on fu ture study of the deadlocked issues of German reunification and Eu ropean security. French, British Impressed French Premier Edgar Fure, after hearing President Eisen hower's call for military informa tion exchanges, said be wished the peoples of the world could be in the conference room to hear Mr. Eisenhower's voice. If the people could have heard him, Faure said, they would have remembered July 21 as the day that something had changed on disarmament. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he was "deeply moved" by the sincerity of the President's proposal. If it were adopted, he said, it would be a -great step forward. There was no comment from Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin In opening his remarks, Mr. Eisenhower said he had been searching his "heart and mind" for something to say to convince everyone of the great sincerity of the United States in. the search for peace. He said he was talking mainly to the Russians, because it was they and the United States who possessed new and terrible weap ons which gave rise to fears and dangers of surprise attack. Tiien he outlined his two-point plan to throw open both nations Train Holdup In N.Y. Nets Only Checks NEW YORK (UP) Two masked gunmen held up a moving New York central mail train Wednes day night in a mid-Manhattan ver sion of the great train robbery but missed the big money shipment and made off only with eight bags of cancelled checks. The brazen young bandits passed up eight mure bags containing $2,700 in coin, police said, appar ently because they reasoned the lighter bags must be full of bills. The youths, described as In their 20's, confronted Railway Express messenger Thomas Mason, 60, of Buffalo,, N.Y. , with drawn pistols' near 42nd St. shortly after the 11 car train pulled out of Pennsylva nia Station bound for Albany. They vore white handkerchief masks, Mason said. "If you open your mouth, we'll kill you. Mason quoted them "They asked where the money was and I told them 'It's in those bags over there.' " Mason said. Mason said he was alone In the next to the Inst car when the two youths confronted him. "At first I thought they were fooling with me that they were just a couple of wise kids," he said. "I wasn't frightened until I saw the guns." The gunmen handcuffed Mason's hands .behind his back with his own handcuffs, jammed his cap into his mouth to keep him from crying out and tied his feet with rope. One of the men emptied the bullets from Mason's gun as an ndded precaution, he said. Then they jumped off the slowly moving train with the mall sacks. Mason began kicking on the side of the car as soon as the men left. A fellow trainman hoard the noise and pulled the emergency cord, stopping the train. Storms Possible Over Week End A possibility ot isolnlcd electric storms in central and eastern Ore !on over the romini! week end is seen by the wenthorman in a toreeest rr the live- day ncrlod endinK Sunday. Temperatures fur the period will be near normal, with maximums 'n the 90'j and minimum In the V)'s. f'U-ernsts Indicated. Bend maximum yesterday was KM dr tjrers The western Oreeon forecast "ills for no rain excent scattered showers about Saturday. ftrT-frn RV TV RA1.FICH. N.C, (UP) OffielnU if the Dfx Hill State Mental Hon. nital rnntured an escaped patient by television. They were watching a program ; when the escanee wandered ntoi'rwtiifft nfter h'-tntj ni'ed un hv; cimera range. Thw dashed to tlie' tpot and apprehended him. to tree inspection from the air, and exchange of military blue prints. The foreign ministers, in a 30 minute session that preceded tin formal disarmament discussion asked for another day before sub mitting their recommendations or future study of German reunifi cation and Europenn security. The heads of government hac become deadlocked yesterday oj those two thorny Issues. It was understood the West pro posed an October meeting of th( Big Four foreign ministers to re sume the study of the twin prob ems. Reliable sources said the min isters will recommend Geneva as the conference site, a compromise between U. S. 'proposals that it be held. In New York and Soviet proposals of a Moscow meeting.: Informed sources also said the West proposed inclusion of the North Atlantic. Treaty Organura - Ike Shows 'Em Reds Get Propaganda Lesson GENEVA (UP) President Ei- senhower has given the Russians come easy lessons In the art of propaganda by doing what comes IKE SHOPS In Geneva, President Eisenhower looks ov er a toy Swiss doll at a down town store at he went shop ping for gifts for his three grandchildren. Kicking Denied At Hood River HOOD RIVER (UP) Twi Hood River police officers today flatly denied the death bed state ments of a fatally injured harves worker that they had kicked him a few hours before he died In a The Dalles hospital. The denials cunie on the heels of a report from the Hood Uivor county grnnd jury criticizing police treatment of Rolert Kasl'-y, a transient field hand who was beat en and fatilly Inlurcr in a fight with other transients. The grand Jury returned a manslaughter in dictment against Doss Male-hen in connection with Ea.sley's death. Jurors also were critical of ad mittance policies of the Hood River hosnltnl where Knsley wis exam Inrd by a nurse and a University of Oregon medical student hut not treated. Glenn Howell, supervisor of tin hospital, said the nurse and e trn examined Knsley wlvn h' wns taken to th hnsnlt;d by tw noil co officers. Rort Schultz an ' lon;dd Sliehlnr. Unwell said the iHeritlnnts had assumed Knsley H-venr old Mher of two, fnr Kln''-!h K'llM. hoiiUI he hel.' tuietlv In tail until h" could h vfimlned more crefullv Int'pfid aeorflinr to the trnn'r inrv rnnort Vnl"V U"l tflcen f'' 'h rH" nf town I"d tod to """ " Tt v-i, n( thnt nolnt F - i - v oH jitit o'iVer.; 'Mt th two nf"" kwl hire ,fnr not moving ff-t nnoe 'h. Th mn ma iitr. f 1 1. ,.f fr - t of a nunt'ired I"" ird. r'h pn.win motorist and taken In The Dal let. i vi r in' li il .V' ' I i a - k W ... tlon nations on the permanent study group. They said It wns to tfiseuec this point that NATO su oreme Commander Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther was called to Gen eva from Paris hy the President. The U. S.. British, French and Soviet foreign ministers met for one hour and 45 minutes in the Palace of Nations to consider how o keep the deadlocked reunificn Ion and security issues alive. Reliable diplomatic authorities' said they agreed upon a plan. The foreign ministers gave no nress briefing after today's meet lng and issued onlv a brief, non committal communique. Dinlomatic sources provided a brief summary of the plan offered 'iv the West for continuing unifi cation and security planning. The foreign ministers, according o the Western plan, would set u two permament groups to draft agreements on German reunlfica ion and European security. The gmuns would work sen- iraHv but simultaneous! v. nnj anything they achieved would be straight package deal. The West would insist on a clause In the security pact statin?? soecifically It would go into ef fect only when Germany Is reuni- 1 fied. How naturally, and it appeared today the Soviets are apt pupils. The newly - affable Communists suddenly threw open the gates to their villa late Wednesday and posed agreeably on the lawn for all photographers who wanted a crack at them. This move came a day alter Mr. Elsenhower had lied up traffic In rinutntnuin Hnnatm K.i a the spur ot the moment into a toy store to nuy present! lor "my Wds" Jus grandchildren, Barbara, Susan and David, ; In ihe conference chamber It self on the flnrr day. Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulgunin used his po- 2.IUUJ1 n idfu BjufUKtr io oia jor the headlines with hfs new two-- stage security program. But the President smothered a bf of the propaganda effect by giv ing his enlliLLsinsiic cheers to Bul ganin for saying his piece In such a nice way. On the second day of the parley, the President again collected the headlines. He also won Bulgnnln's tribute when h turned, wide-eyed and open-faced, to Soviet Marshal neorgi Zhukov to be his witness Hint he hated war. Still without appearing to try, the President, who Is not a grent phrase mnker, came up with the thin! day's best catchlln" when be urged Russia to join the West In finding a "bridge to peace." Mr. Eisenhower also hns shown a nice public relations touch In countering the few criticisms against him without apKaring to notice they were there. Some critics were saying un kind Uiings about the fnct he stood on protocol as Uk only head ol state here and declined to at tend the round of dinners given by ihe three premiers. Rut he took the steam out of any suggestion thnt he was a stuffed shirt by Inviting Zhttknv In ior a mnn-to-man lunch between old war comrades Wednesday. He ' even walked out on the porch to meet Zhukov. The President gets a blgrer hand than any of the other heads of government when he rides n round Geneva. Two Prisoners Out Under Bail Two Deschutes county prisoners, both Jailed on the charge of ot t.iining money and properties on false pretenses, were released on bail Tuesday nnd Wednesday. Klmer A. Tonkins, arrested In April, was released on a $1,000 ttiil Tuesday niornint;. Krank I.e It-jy Owens, Indicted hy the grand wry last November, left the coun v iail Wednesday atternoon on a $1,500 bail Sgt. Bradley Gets GOC Post S-St. Ionard G. Bradley of the loral filter enter utif f Ins been i.nnotnted sertor nertinnt In Des- hufes county for the Ground Ob erver Corps. Rrndlev Is replacing 1-Sgt. Virgil Hnilaw;iy. who in t ow supply sergeant. S-S;t. John T. Ftilkerson Is tak ing Se.t. Bradley's place as GO' I training non-comniisslon?d officer.
