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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
52nd Year Two Sections
Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon Thursday, July 21, 1955
Twelve Pages
No. 192
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THE
BULLETIN
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Startling
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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.
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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 """
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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.
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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.