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Univ. of Oregon Library WEATHER i FORECAST D BULLETIN Mini! yesterday, K5 degrees. Imw last filKlit, 39 degree. Kuii M'l today, fi:5H. Sunrise . tolnor row, 0:18. Fair through Tuesday; high to day HOM; low tonight 348; high Tuesday W W. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER S2nd Year One Section Bend. Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, August 22, 1955 Eight Pages No. 219 Toll in Reach Flood 300 May Mark THE t;- " iPfcii Z&f - '-t-Fy- 4 iF - & ' H - BtL'MrW........ -,r ,rf-lL REDMOND PIONEERS These old time residents of Central Oregon will be in the limelight during Deschutes county fair days this week end as Redmond ob serves its 50th anniversary. At left are Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. McClay, honored for t he longest residence in the area at a couple, and in center is Mrs. Minnie McCaf fery, named queen of the pioneer celebration. At right are Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Tetherow. Tetherow, a descendant of Solomon Tetherow of the lost wagon train of 1 845, is being honored as the man who has lived the longest in the Redmond community. (Photos for The Bulletin by Martha Stranahan) More Volunteer Workers Needed At Filter Center More volunteer workers are ur gently needed to man the air de fense filter center in Bend, Mrs. Charles B. Hinds, Jr., civilian ad mini.strator, stressed last night in a. report on the first month's op ei-ation of the center .that serves practically all of Oregon east of the Cascades. . Since the opening of the center on July 14, a total of 2G3 persons have passed the basic work an. at present about 200 are active, she said. Twenty-four will be los' when schools and colleges open next month. 150 More Needed To bring the volunteers up to full force, 130 workers are needed at once, Mrs. Hinds declared. A class will be held this Wed nesday at 7:30 p.m. at the center! for men. when the complete basic instruction will he given in a sri gle evening, b lit' r center person nel hope to obtain SO volunteers for this course. Mrs. Hinds said volunteers ob tained from this source can used on a regular weekly basis on be subject to call in an emergency i-.moi-iillv lour training sessions are required lor this basic corn-s hut at tile Wednesday evening meeting the course will be given in a single "package, Mrs. mno said. Disappointment Expressed Mrs. Hinds expressed disappoint meat that more local people have not visited the center. Visitors ar.' welcome, she said, and will be taken on tours of the center, with the operation explained. Visitors will be able to see lb big vertical platting board in op eration, with every plane crossing the eastern Oregon sky shown. Although comparatively few loc al people visit the center, the log for the past month lists callers from New York, France and Scot land. The Bend filter center is the on ly one in the United States in a city of under 30,000 population and is undT constant surveillance of the military to determine the pro grcss being made in its operation. Footbridge Due Over Deschutes In Park Area Construe! ion of a footbridge ov er the Deschutes river at the site of tho state park in the oil anpl" orehard arm, just north of Bend, will under wav Bbout Sept. 15 Dean Swift, state highway depar mcnt engineer in charge of dis trit-t No. 4, has announced. The loan will be 167 feet Ion, ami will m;ike accessible lor re ceptionists thp state Dark flrvn iut wet of the river This will be improved when the foot span Is completed. Work is to b started on the span supports while the river t i' lv "fh most of th' flow now being diverted into c.i nrils upstream. This stnte park, extensively used for meni,' and davtime stoos. i on tho old route of the Bend Si-t- s highway north of the city limits. Mrs. Minnie Truax McCaffery Picked to Rule Over Redmond's Golden Anniversary Fete By MARTHA STRANAHAN Bulk-tin Staff Writer KKDMOND Queen of Red mond's golden anniversary cele bration will be Mrs. Minnie Tvua McCaffery, the selection commi! tee announced Saturday night. She has maintained continuous resi dence in Redmond since 1905. Th' "honored couple, ' ' recognized lor longest residence in the Redmond community are Mr. and Mi's. Joe W. McClay, both living here sincv 1905 with their families, altough they were not married until 1909. To Jesse Tetherow goes the re cognition for being the man with longest residence here. , Besides these old-timers around 150 others from Redmond and sur rounding area have regislen'd M the Chamber of Commerce here and others are invited to register during this week and though the lime of the reception in their honi or set for 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the new armory. At that time there will be a short program for them and the special honorees. A spe cial box will be set aside for the latter at the Saturday rodeo. During the week ahead western wear will share honors wun gam oi 50 years ago. Trunks and attics will be rummaged for garments worn in the era when Redmond was a tent city, and the early resi dents started the first homes stores, churches and farms and named the community after thi Frank Redmond family. On Sat urday fi-eight wagons and a stage coach, the latter a hand made Hank Monk type from The Dalles, driven by W. C. "Slim"Heyler. will be in the parade. The freighters brought in supplies from Shaniko and took out wool and other early produce from the area, while both Weather Perfect For Field Trip Oregon chapter members of the Photographic Society of America joined in a field trip in the Broken Top Cascades Sunday with some GO persons making the tour into the high lake country and the Cra ter creek area. The Sunday field trip, with a few clouds sprinkled in the south ern sky and near perfect weather conditions prevailing, followed a dinner at the Pilot Btte Inn Sat urday night with Boyd Wolf, presi dent of the Cascade Camera club presiding. A showing of slides fol lowed. Here for tho field trip was Charles W. Getzenbaner of Forest Grove, president of the PSA, Ore gon chapter. Headquarters for the field trip were at Todd meadow, and from that point the group visited various ireas of interest, including Devils lake. Broken Top crater. Todd lak? and the area facing the South S s ler. The photographers, who broach! here some of the most elaborate equipment ever seen in the area outside that used in movie mak ing, were greatly pleased with th- scenic region, and also for the life" provided by the host g. Mp Rim Rock Riders were in the Broken Top region, to provide for" round desired hy the vin'tini uhotogrnphen. and boats skimmed over Todd lake. freighters and stage coaches car ried brides and grooms and their housphuld effects and -wedding treasures, many of whom stayed in the region to establish and maintain Redmond and surround ing communities. Mrs. McCaffery, whose husband Frank died in July, recalls their first temporary quarters at Clint Falls "before there was a Red mond." Real estate, land develop ment, introduction of Deschule;, Netted (Jems and mint raising t- the area are among Mi's. McCaf fory's vivid memories of she and her husband's busy lives. Frank McCaffery opened his real eslate alfiwin the first Redmond hotel, built in 1906 and Mrs. McCaffery helped there in the dining room She recalls how several families established the first church and Sunday school, tho women selling box lunches and baked goods tu the drivers of the freighters and to the "drummers" who came through town. She is especially proud of thr oioneer work in mint raising and distilling, the oil testing off in pre mium quality. They raised mint as early as 1937. The McCafforys would have celebrated their fiOth anniversary this November. T!u Redmond pioneer queen lives in their home at 519 West Bine Butte Blvd. where her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Neva McCaffery, herself from the pioneer Wcigand family. assists with the real estate busi ness. The young-appearing queen says her chief hobbies and inter ests now are roses, needlepoint work and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs. McClay was Alma Archer,; Final Overnight Hike Planned Another over night hike for girls, the last of the season, will be held this weekend under auspices of the City Recreation Department. Mar garet Hulman of the playground staff will be in charge. The Given Lakes trail will be the destination. Departure will be Thursday at 9:30 a.m. from Harmon playfield. The group will return by noon Sat urday. All girls 12 years old and over are eligible to attend. Notej of permission from parents nr. mandatory. A meeting will be held Wednes day at 2 p.m. at Harmon find to make plar for the outing. Ail who plan to 'ike the trip should attend, Miss . .jlman said. Pageant of Pool Due on Tuesday The annual Pageant of the Pool will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. it the Bend Municipal pool. Mermaid's lagoon has been se lected as this year's thpme. with Peter Pan ch'irarters anjearin in the water show. The Bi'nd swimming tram will live a demonstration, presenting he d'fffTi'nt strokes in pddition to rxh'biti-m races. The diving team has lined up a diving act, and will f'-Hliire a clown diver There will also be a life saving demon stration arid water ballet The event, sponsored by the tepn-ii'e reeration council, is un-i d-r the d;r-c!jnn of MUs Dons I Hawes, with Mis Sara Officer as-I su.ting. Admission is $ 25. I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Archer before she married Jot1 McClay on June 23. 11)09 in Red mond. Her family came here from Iowa and Colorado by covered wagon, first persons to buy u 40 acre tnict in the Terrebonne dis trict. McClay 's parents were Mr. and Mrs. K. T. McClay. arriving hero in September, 1905, a month after the Archers, from New .Mex ico, The couple to be honored Sat urday lived in Redmond for sev erul years while he dibve stage md mail between Shaniko, Bend, Redmond and Prineville. With his father K. T. McClay he also oper ated a livery barn fur a Ume. Lut- 'l- they bought a ranch north of Redmond, cleared rocks and sage brush and farmed for 26 years. The Joe McCIays have a son Tay lor and daughter Mrs. Grace he! ley who live in Redmond. Taylor McClay and his wife have tv) sons. Jesse Tetherow is a native of this :irea, born in 1K87 on what is now he Livingston ranch along (Ik Crooked River. His parents settled there and later at Tetherow bridge ilong the Deschutes river below Tline Fills, ranching and raising attic. Thev came hern from the Willamette Valley. Jesse Tetherow too, was a mail and stage driver. As a youth he explored the caves. nd canvons and hillsides arounJ here and has a good knowledge of he geology and topography of the region. He ami iviaoei uermng were married in 1915. Their chil dren are Mis. Lloyd Downs, Red mond; Mrs. Fess Stangl, Wrangle, Alaska; and Mrs. Kllsworth Ship ley, L'kiah. They have eight grand children. Madras Man Drowns in Ditch Special tu The ltulMiil MADRAS Wesley Harold Run yon, 39, Madras, drowned in the main canal of the North Unit Irri gation system, near Madras, Sun day afternoon while swimming with friends. Runyon. a farm worker, had been playing with children in the water, which was about five f'-ct deep at that point, shortly before his absence was discovered. , The accident occurred just west of the Standard Oil plant, one m ilr j northwest of Madras, at alwut 3 pm, Fred Burkin and oilier mem bers of the Madras Volunteer Fire department r covered the body after it had been In the water for ibout 25 minutes. The water is not swift in thai vicinity, officials stated. Ralph Van Wert, deputy coroner, was not able to name contributing factors immediately. Runyon is survived by his father. Emil U Roy Runyon. International FJls. Minnesota. The lKdy was taken to Redmond by a Zarher iuneral home ambu lance. Members of the fire department.. Shrriff James S'.immorfield, Dep. uty Coroner Van Wi'rt. and Al Dent, Madras chief of police, were on1 the ne shortly after the arci dent, conducting an investigation Return of Hurt Airman, Body Of Pilot is Set PANMUNJOM. Korea (UP) Communist North Korea Tuesday will return to the United Nations an inji red American airman and the body of an Army captain whose plane was shot down by Redj anti-aircraft fire. The rteds agreed at a meeting of the mlMtary armistice commission Sunday to return Air Force 2nd Lt. Guy II. Bumpass of Jackson, Miss., and tlia body of Capt. Charles W. Brown of West Louisvlll, Ky., at the viliago oi Korisal In the Neu tral Zone. At the same time, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks, senior U. N. officer, warned the Communists that they will be risk ing Allied artillery fire if their planes cross the border over South Korea Tho Communists told the United Nations command that Bumpass "appeared to have a cracked skull" but was "in a good mood, conscljus and has a normal ap petite,' The plane carrying Bumpas and Brown, a T6 trainer, was rid dled oy Communist anti - aircraft fire as it flew over the Neutral Zone between North and South Ko rea last Wednesday. j The U.N. said the unarmed plane was on a routine t ruining mission and flew over the Neutral i Zone by mistake. Tho Communists clnimed that Bumpass has denied this but Parks repliej that "I don't believe he made such a statement." The Red claim could mean that Bumpss will be questioned under President hisenhower s new Code of Cor luct" for prisoners of war. which forbids giving military In- formation to the enemy. French Destroy Arab Villages AIXXERS (UP) French troops today destroyed nine Arab villages described as centers of violent Na tionalist uprisings which have bath ed the French North African em pire in blood. French authorities set the tenta tive death toll in tho weekend massacres, riots and disorders at n min.mum of 834. They said 5H4 were kown dead in Algeria, If'W in Morocco and one in Tunisia. The destroyed villages were evncinled of all women and chil dren before the French blasted them (o bits with shells end ap- lied ;ho torch. Fear were expressed that the death toll would rise well above 1000. Soitv French newspapers placed the tell as high as 1311 and offi cials admitted that severed tele phone and other communications had obscured the fate of many communities. AM Alt I) M IK NFAV YORK (UP) -Rookie F1 vion H iward was presented with the VM International league's most viluable player award Sun day it. crremonles preceding the Oriolei-Vankees game In Yankee Stadi .m, Frank Shauyhnesy, pres ident of the International league,, made the presentation to Howard, who batted .330 for Toronto. I Bn Northeast Area President Sets First-Hand Look At Flood Damage By WAR It EN lH'FKKK I 'lifted Pitkh Staff Conffepondeul DKNVKR (UP) President Eisenhower will fly East tonight for a firsthand look at flood dum age in six Eastern states and meet with governors ofthe affect cd areas at Hartford, Conn., to morrow morning. The President will leave by air about 9 p.m. PDT tonight for un overnight flight bast, swooping over ttie six affected states before landing at Hartford about 8:30 a.m. EDT tomorrow. He invited governors of all flood- stricken states to meet him there or send representatives. Appeal For Money Mr. Eisenhower will fly to Wash ingtun from Hartford, arriving to morrow afternoon. The President coupled his dra matic announcement with a na tionally televised plea for the American people to contribute to the Red Cross special flood disas ter fund. Th? heart of America Is not going to stand still while other Americans are in distress and in need ot help," the chief executive said. Mr. Eisenhower made the an nouncoment at his summer White House headquarters at Lowry Air Force Base. Ho previously had pWnned to take olf tomorrow morning iorl Washington for a scheduled speec Wednesday before the American Bar Association convention at Philadelphia. The President will fly over the states of Pennsylvania, New Jer sey, New York, Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut The President's plans for the Philadeljjhia speech and his return to Denver Wednesday night were not changed. In his television talk, Mr. Eisen hower said he hoped that public, response to the Red Cross appeal would be sufficient to meet the goal by tomorrow night. He made the plea in response to a request from E. Roland Hnrrl- man, president of the American Red Cross, who said that the two million dollars already earmarked by tho organization is not nearly enougn At the same time, the President gave Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson a virtual blank cheed in determining how much federal money should be dumped Into states designated as major disas ter areas by the White House. The White House also announced that the Small Business Admin istration Is setting up emergency branch offices in the six flood strickci. states to speed the work of disaster loans. I Two other affected states, North i and South Carolina, are not In-1 eluded in the tour, but the Presl-! dent sent won! to their governors that if they wish to meet him in Wash it gton or Hartford he would be available. i Injured Angler Taken to Hospital Inured early Saturday morning in a fall on a mountain trail near Waldo lake in Iho Cascades, Ro bert L. Martin, member of the Mend post office staff, was brought to the St. Charles Memorial hospi tal here that night at 8 p.m. The Bend man. who was on n fishing trip with Cecil Ifolllnshead, Mso of this city, Buffered a frne tured leg and was brought out to n road by Hollinshead and two mem bers of a Deschutes National for est nad crew. Tom Rose and Ted Hinds. About noon Saturday a plane pi loted by Al Tilse. Redmond, and with Ranger E. J. Parker of th' Bend district aboard, dropped a stretcher and pain killer medieln' vii parachute. The parachute land ed within SO feet of its target, a truck In the Taylor burn area where Martin was resting. First word of Martin's injury wns received here In mid-morning Saturday in a call from the Oak ridge ranger station, west of (lie, Cascades. I Bulletins A Mi I KKS (VP) The coin-luaiider-lii-ehlef of all French furceH in rebellion wrneked French Mo.neeo, wax killed to day In an airplane crutdi In the mid! of French military effort m to put down Nationalist uprts tiiRH throughout the French North African empire. The French eonunander, Gen eral of the Army Raymond l)uv al, lotit his lite while directing Fiench forces who today begun a Merles nf military campalgnx in Morocco and Algerlu to utimip out the mnNHHcreK, riots uud oth er disorders which guve all North Africa a bloodbath over the week end. stroyed nine Arab villages de French troops In Algeria de clined as centers of Urn Nation alUt uprising. HKNNKUICK. Wash. (DP) A man and woman driving a red convertible were arrested at a roadblock by Keunewtck police today 45 minutes after the Bank of Umatilla at Umatilla, Ore., wan held up, and police Hald the couple watt being held under hea vy guard. The bank was robbed by three perMOnn at noon today. Oregon State Police said another automo bile believed to contain the third participant In the robbery wan being chased over a rough road near Ilernilston between highway SO and McNary Drive. The trio escaped with an un dtHi'loscd amount of cash. Wit neutwt to the roblwry sntd the en- cape car bore Oklahoma lloeiise platen, and Kennewlnk Police C hief O. C. Lincoln Hald the red convertible driven by the su. peels hud Hfmlliir platen. Winners Told itt Contests Special to The Bulletin REDMOND Laura Dudley, Bend, was first all-around in home economics Judging contests for county 4-H members Saturday at Redmond high school. Viola Wine gar, Redmond, and Mary Pn chard, Bend, tied for second; Bar bara Libel, Bend, was fourth, and Vivian Lynds, Pleasant Ridge, fifth in that over-all division which in cluded cooking, clothing, canning and homemaking. Of these five girls a team of three will bo se lected to attend Pacific Interna tional, Douglas Messenger, 4 H igent, advisea. There were 122 girls entered in home economics Judging and !W in the dress and style review. Re suits of garments entered w ill bo announced at tho style review and talent show at the armory, Thurs- ay at 8 p.m. Stale fair teams, composed of tho top three in each of the divi sions, were announced following the Saturday contests. John Pri- chard. Maureen Burton and Mary Prichard, all Bend, were top in crops judging. John Prichard, Wl! la Jean Fix and Jerry Karslvedt, all Bend, led the vegetable Judg ing. For flower Judging winners were Diane Ileden, Bend; Velma Lynds and Vivian Lynds; Pleasant Ridge, all tied for first; Marilyn Lynds and Marjory Dunlap. the latter Glen Vista, tied for fourth There were from 15 to 20 enlran's In each of these contests. Premiums go to five place win ners in each of the homo econo mics divisions. State fair teams, three each, will include: For cook ing. Barbara Burton, Bend; Vivian Lvnds, Pleasant Ridge; Rartiar.i Wlnslow. Bend. For canning, Bar bara Hansen. Mavis Rowley, Bend ind Linda Beel'r, Young nchoo' district. For clothing: Ijiura Dud lv. Shirley Frnkes. Tumalo. and Viola Winear. For homemaking Georgia Elliott, Redmond; Sandra Angel. LaPine and Sandra Swan son. Redmond. Perfect scores were turned In by Barbara Burton in eoo'ng, and bv Georgia Elliot1 and Sandra Angel for homemaking OFF FOR NF.W VOMK GR')SSTNGER. N. Y. (UP) Rocky Marclano ennlancs for New York tedav for official slninfi cor emonic: for hi Sept. 20 heaw weltrhl title defense againM chal lenger Arcnie Moore. The chnm nlon hived two rounds each with Keen? Simmons and Alexander here last nii'hl In his party's chr Brown Sunday. Itrrcd airliner. Disease Threat Adds New Woes For Easterners NEW YOKK flip) Disraw threatened flood devastated Nortli eastern towns today. Mud, debris and .shnttered trnns portution, communication and util ity lines were immediate problems In hundreds ot communities diK ging out under a bright August sun. Dead still lay beneath the receding waters, and lt was teared the death toll may reach ;iuu. Tho toll slood at 211 In eight states at midmoinlng. 110 In Penn sylvania's northeastern corner of industrial towns and vacation camps; G8 in the factory-stilled iver valleys of Connecticut: 19 in Massachusetts: six in New Jersey; four jn New York; two in Virginia, one each in Delaware and Rhodo Island. Health authorities faced with a massive sanitation problem sped disinfectants to towns where sew ers had run with rivers through the streets. Water purification pills were dropped from helicopters to still-Island towns. Typhoid inocula tions were ordered for all sur vivors. Fnetorlc. Vanish And as they counted their dead and spread mud-snaked bedding to ury, the homeless and bereaved are wondering where the money going 10 come Irom to eat." on-j Connecticut resident said. - Whole towns in Connecticut's heavily industrialized river valleys watched their means of livelihood swopt to destruction with their homes. There were fears that. some actorics would never ra- build. Stale and federal agencies moved, however, to alleviate the distress us quickly as possible.. And the hardest hit were sparing of tears. "I have 13 people living In mv' house," said a Torringlon depart mcnt store clerk. "I don't know most of them and they don't know me, or at least they didn't before this flood. We're having a fine time together, especially at Our nightly cook-outs. That's the only lime we can forget for a while." At Winsted. Conn., the town's biggest wedding of the summer came off almost us siiicdulcd. In the midst of almost total destruc tion. But the reception's baked meats were given to an emergen cy feeding center. , "The scene here Is so fantastic that most of us even now can't be lleve it's happened," Thomas A, Haggerty, 81, editor of the Winded Citizen, said. Wlnsled's main .street, Ilaggcrty said, is a 40-foot deep gully for one-third of a mile. "It looks as If someone fought a war here." At Torrington, where 75 per cent ' of the town's Industry was crlpplel the Americnn Brass Company Hskrd its workers to come back is quickly as possible, und please bring shovels. Federal funds for rebuilding will ie available under the disaster decree of Presidrtit Klsenhowcr. 'Vnnerticut's Gov. Abraham R'bicoff moved to alleviate imme diate distress, lie ordered the Labor Department to cut red tape so the fotiless may begin drawing tin mployment Insurance immedi ately. And he nut a hold order on some 14 176,000 of schrduled stale "ni'Struction so that It will not compete for credit, men and mate rials with flood reconstruction pro tects. Masstichusetls estimated dam 't"e 'to its rottds and highways done at nearly 20 million dollars. H-iilv nm'oon bridges wre be ins rushed from as far nwav n 'Wo to r"sire ni leas t"Pinirrv eommuni'-atton with stranded own. Hallroid service --as re-s-nrrd in some areas but will be letourine for weeks ero'ind heavy wa-.-!ioots in . New T'lgland and t'cnns.vlvani'i. V'l'rlMV'l SKItl'il'S "1IICACO HUM Mm. IVirolhy UVbb. wife nf television and movie tar .Trk Wehh. was in Pasnvant "nsoital hTe today for observa tion, hut "nolbirT serlnm," ac- V"h who is toorint. the coun try to rtnt'Uel.e a movie, cot fbort a visit to Richmond, Va.. and flew
