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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1955)
Univ. of Oregon Library EUQSNS, OREOQM v I WEATHER i ND BULLET FORECAST, High Yesterday, 93 degrees. Um lu)t uight, 66 degreei. Sunset today, 6:33. Sunrise to morrow, 5:35. Partly cloudy through Wednes day. A few thundershowers In Cascade. low tonight 46-60. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, September 6, 1955 Ten Pages No. 231 IN "iaisYrWafiiiMiiw FIRES SWEEP AREA This small forest fire, located about half more small blazes which swept various parts of Central Oregon f area burned over 900 acres near Sisters. This photograph was t Bulletin. labor Day Death Toll la Oregon Reaches 20 By UNITED PRESS At least 20 persons met death In Oregon in a variety of violent ac cidents over the long Labor Day Holiday weekend that began at 6 p.m. Friday. Traffic mishaps led the holiday death parade, claiming seven lives Five persons died by drowning; two in lires; four in logging acci dents; one in a fall and one in a train mishap. The latest highway victim was Jackie Kugene Fenimore, 22, Kiumath Falls. He was killed in stantly last night and three of his tccn-aged riders were injured when his car careened wildly off the road 15 miles east of Klamath Falls. . The car landed upside down 187 feet off Hie road and Fenimorc's body was thrown 86 feet through the trees. A swimming accident claimed the life of Forest Do Hart, 23, of Tillamook. Garibaldi firemen said he broke his neck when he dove into shallow water at Hidden Lake near Bar View. Martin Joseph Hilburn. 25, of Parkdale. Ore,, was killed near Grants Pass when his car went into a ditch after skidding 150 feet along the highway shoulder. Yesterday afternoon, a young man was believed drowned while water skiing in Fern Ridjre lake lu-ar Eugene and dcuuty sheriff's were dragging for his body. Shots at Bar Send Patron To Hospital StVlu1 lt The Hull"'tin MADRAS The Old West lived again for brief moments Saturday night when an Antelope bartender used a .38 caliber revolver to put a stop to an argument between patrons. Arrhie Smith, around 35. farm worker in the Antelope area, was in Pnneer Mmorial hospital. Prineville. today in fair condition as a re-ult of the affair, and Ed ward William NniTis, bartender at th Antelope Tavern, owned by John SMvertoolh. was lodged in The Dalles jail. Aceordintr to reports compiled by Harold R Emmlnm. state pat rolman. Smith and Pete Reid. ad dress unknown, wnre encanpd an argument which took place In the tavern when tin bartender at hwinted to stop them. Witnesses tntd the officer ta vhfn the snoken word failed. Nor ris nulled the veanon frnm b neath tv ronntpr and fired twn shvs into the floor. When thi was Ipriored. It wis stated. Norse men shot townrd the men and hi' Smith In fie IWt side, the bullet mnlnff Hnwrwini A far ns pMrrVwn neblor' CM'id leTn the harteT nol h,"ivd In th ari : rint Rid was not ivMiible ff ni'pstinninw hxin" lft the vw sho-tlv after the shooting. It was iram ed. He was Don Westover, 21, Spring field, wlio suddenly dropped his tow rope and fell into the lake about 3 p.m. U. W. Ellmaker, op erator of the tow boat, was unable to reach Westover immediately be cause of engine trouble and when row boats arrived at the scene, they were unable to locate him Other late weekend fatalities in volved woods accidents. Two men, E;d Wilkie, about 38, and Todd Def fenbacker, 38, were killed yester day when a tree fell an the pickup truck in which they were sitting, The accident occurred at the Ray mond Logging Company camp near Beattie. Ten-year-old Robert Hughley was killed when a 40-foot snag his fa ther was falling toppled on him on the Burgoyne ranch about three miles from Riddle. A brush and timber fire near Seneca in northeastern Oregon took the life of 38-year-old Elwood Jack son of Baker. Killed in highway accidents were Donald Hovgaard, 25, Cascade Locks; John C. Hopkins, 21, Port land; James P. Twohy, 43, Port land; Ambrose Hopkins. 63, Mar cola, and Frank Leo Popham. Port land. Killed in other drownings were Jimmy Bones, 18 months, Turner; Uno Edbolom. 40, Tieman, Ore., and Arthur Bra wand, 23, Portland Charles R. Scott, 70. Portland, who was rescued from' an apart ment fire which killed his wife, died Sunday at Good Samaritan hospital of bums suffered in the blaze. His wife, Marian, 40, was dead when firemen broke into their 'ocked and burning apartment ear 'y Saturday. y I'MTKD I'PESS Traffic accidents took more than five lives each hour of the 78-hour Labor Day weekend, a final United Press tabulation showed today. The final count showed 443 traf fic deaths during the period be ginning at 6 p.m. Friday and end ing at midnitfit last night. Th I J "V .V1" . IK'llfVt(l UK' Ut'UIII t:,mil, Hinilll ,Jf,,i, nr ,,,,., ....... .... 100. Ihfn feared thai II miht even i work. exceed the record of fatalities The Wodnr- ' i.v niRht class will set during the 1!).')1 Uihor Day la-sl for two ' airs, including the weekend. training In the filter center. Ons Major Traffic Accident Mars Record in Mid-Oregon Only one major traffic accidenl occurred in Central Oregon over the long Labor Day holiday, and that was a fatality. John C. Hopkins. 21. one of four Portland young people en mute to; fVntnl Oretmn for lh holiday-, i died Sundav when the rar in which ie was riding plunged from the' Warm Rnrtmr trrnH" hnn1 HlmI mles west of the Agency. , , . ... , ,, , , IlHrhfrt K Da hi Ice. 19. ooerntor tl the car, said the accident oc urred when his car hit loose ;ravel while gtng around a slight urve on the multi-lane highway Dahlke. JoAnn Hulbert, 20. and James Attlg, 30, paswngrrt were f'tt ft", 1 1 C I x way between Paulina Lake and highway 97, is typical of the 40 or allowing Labor Day's rainless thunderstorm. Biggest fire in the aken from a Gibson Air Service plane chartered by The Bend Weekend Tour1 Ends Suddenly For Lane Youths The week end tour of three Lane county boys who admitted to state police they had "borrowed" six different cars over the holidays ended suddenly early Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 97 north of LaPine. At that place the car operated by one of the boys hit a soft shoulder and turned over. Passim motorists saw the overturned car. sent word back to LaPine and state police were telephoned from that town. Officers found tracks leading out into the dusty brushland from the car, found the three boys antt brought them to Bend. They face car theft charges. The boys were identified as Stanley L. Davis, Springfield; Eu gene R. Wolford, Eugene, and Jack Holden, Springfield. They were held in the Deschutes county Jail for Lane county of ficers. The boys told otticers they stole car in Eugene and drove to Portland, picked up a car in Port land and went lo Hood River, took another car there and returned to Portland, headed back to Eugene where they apparently got another car. then drove over the Willa mette pass to Central Oregon. They were heading north toward Bend when the car went Into the roadside ditch. They were not in jured. Something New In Filter Center Training Due Something new -in filter center training is to be offered in classes beginning Wednesday at 7:30, at the center building on Wall street near the -library. Trainees will start class work at 7:30, then will be taken into the filter quarters for atual train ing in charting planes as they move across the eastern Oregon skies. Plan of instructors is to ac quaint trainees with each opera - - I Ti, " 3,,, , injured and taken lo the Red mond hospital. Slate police estim.'itcd thiit the TDM stittion wagon, demolished in the aeeidrnt, travelled about 700 feet out of control, then plunged 116 feet to a flat area on the can- 'nn l(ip ' Earlv ,hiS morning a car oper- "t Hv V"m TliniSOtl. Mauptn left U S Highway 97 just south of; rtamun'i ana mrnn over, iui i- . . son told state police he went to; inen He was not srriously in- Jured. over the holMavs, traffic on Ont-al OreK'n hiphwsys was un - usually heavy, state police ported. i 1 ; ... Deschutes 4-H Youngsters Take Share of Honors Deschutes county 4-H club boys and girls were winning their share of honors at the State Fair, the ninetieth annual event got under way this past weekend. Tem peratures that soared to the 300- degree mark, highest recorded in Salem for several years, failed to wilt the enthusiasm of the young contestants who vied for prizes and scholarships. Thirty-two Deschutes countv 4-H club members, accompanied bv leaders, left for Salem Friday and will return home tomorrow, many of them with blue ribbons and other awards to make the trip memorable. In response to a move headed by Lawrence Allen, 4-H leader of the Tumalo area, local! service clubs contributed some. S180 to help with expenses of the group. In dairy showmanship, three Deschutes county girls reached the finals and received top honors in their classes. They are Dawn Price, senior division, with a Jer- sey; Patsy Frakes, intermediate,! Holstein, and Carol Ann Turner, intermediate, Jersey. Joan Price also won a blue ribbon in the intermediate Guernsey showman ship contest. In the senior Guern sey showmanship red ribbons went to Gary Corwin and Donny Cor win. Bend, and Mike Peirfiollow, Redmond. Red ribbons also went to Fav Shirtcliff, Redmond, in jun ior Holstein showmanship, and Nan Burke, Bend, in junior Jersey showmanship. Jeff Ward and Robert Fix, both of Bend, received hh ribhnns on tneir junjor KjSt w1ien (ho swjne exhibits were judged Saturday, In sheep showmanship, Betty Michel of Powell Butte (Crook county) placed first in the senior class. Blue ribbons went to Keith Cyrus, Sisters,. in the intermediate class, and Michael Lowe, Bend, and Kay Cynis, Sisters, in the junior class. Among the Central Oregon club membei's taking part in state fair competition are the following, in the livestock division Beef Tom my Drew, Don Smith, Sue Swear ingpn; poultry Rodney Hanson, Keith Cottrell, Marion Morehouse; poultry and eggs Nancy Lechner, Sandra Morehouse. Dairy Donny Corwin, Dawn Price. Gary Corwin, Karen Turn er, Shirley Frakes, Patsy Frakes. Joan Price lxiis Turner, Carol Ann Turner, Rodney Hanson, Iju ise Elliott. Fay Shirtrliff, John Pririard. Nun nurke, Kim Ward. M'ke Penhollow, Eric Snndwick. Gilbert YW, Larry Turner, Sherp - Keith Cyrus. Michael 'owe. Kav Cyrus. Swine Robert Fix Jeff Wiird. Mnv Central Oron name wpre on the entrv lists in divf Hons oher tan livestock romoft on and remits will ann'- p Thp Bulletin dally as the Judglnr f.i'ARAVTFE j SAT. FA!. Mass. IL'P) For h!si -h Mrthdiv, coort associates of jD - strict Judee fieon?e B. Sears re-.RTve him a brief case with a. HI-1 year guarantee. Lightning Sets in Tinder-Dry Blaze East Consumes A smoke haze hung over Cen - tral Oregon skies today, as fire, died down in at least 40 areas of federal, state and privately-owned forest, brush and rangeland in the wake of weekend lightning storms. The tinder dry woods in the Deschutes river drainage literally exploded with fire after dry Labor Day thunder storms billowed over forests left powder-dry by a sum mer of abnormally low moisture. Forest fires in Central Oregon were not confined to this general area, however. U.S. Forest Serv ice and state forestry depart ment fire supervisors in Portland and Salem reported that well over 150 fires were burning over sev eral thousand acres in southern and eastern Oregon. Biggest Burn Near Sisters Biggest fire in the-Central Ore gon area centered about four miles east of Sisters in an area covered with mixed pine and juniper trees. Weary fighters early today re ported the fire under control after it had covered around 800 acres of the area. Witnesses said the Sisters fire "blew up at once" when Monday afternoon's lightning storm passed overhead. The area was under protection of state crews, headed by state fire warden Harry Pearson, who is in charge of the district. Pearson said today it had taken the efforts of five big crawler-type tractors and 50 to 60 men to control the blaze. Equipment and men to fight the Sisters fire came from several sources, Pearson said. An erratic wind condition made the fire a lifficult one to control, and at one time shifting winds threatened to surround fighters. Logging crews from Brooks- Scanlon, Inc., Sisters camp, and logging crews normally employed n the Cutsforth and Ab DeMarls operations, as well as equipment belonging to the Squaw CrecK irrigation district helped in the fight, Pearson said. Another lightning strike caused a smaller fire on the east slope of Squaw Back, 15 miles north of Sisters, which was controlled by Brooks-Scanlon crows with some assistance from forest service per sonnel, he said. Boyd Stevens, rancher in the area east of the Hinkle Butte lookout, controlled a fire with a tractor, and needed no assistance. Gail Baker, coordinating fire fighting efforts on the Deschutes national forest, said early today the situation looked "pretty good, at the present, but said he was afraid another storm predicted for this afternoon would cause still more fires unless rain fell. National Forest Firm Reported Baker said a minimum of 39 forest fires had been reported In the Deschutes forest, 13 of them in the Crescent district, 13 in the Fort Rock district, 4 in the Bend district and 9 in the Sisters dis trict. All were being fought, and most were under control early twlay, he said. A plane piloted by Al Tilse, Redmond, was patrolling the area looking for additional fires today. Baker said employees of both the Leonard Lufulgren Lumber company and Brooks Scanlon. Inc., were fighting fires on forest service land. In addition, heavy equipment from logging companies and contractors was being used, as well as available forest service equipment. The forest service had called for 20 smoke chasers, from the Mt. Bnker, Olympic, Pinchot and Mt. Hood national forests, all of whom were being used in fire- UF Meeting Set For Wednesday A meeting of the board of di rector of the Deschutes United Fund hail been called tor 4 p m. Wednewlay at the Trail wayi coffee hop. Fund president W A. Lackaff said today. 1-ackaff laid rhe primary pur- pone of the meeting would he to fn over the renirt of the btideet committee, which last week heard budeet requests from various fund agencies. The committee's reoort and rec nmmendationa will he nresented for board action at the Wednesday meeting. Mrs. Wuilnm Mskanen, 'budget chairman, said today. of Sisters 900 Acres fighting activities today, he said, A number of men who answered appeals fur help last night were itill on the fire lines today, Baker said. They were scheduled to be released when fires were safely under control. One of the other Oregon blazes f jumped the Rogue river, and des troyed 14 homes in the Medforu area last night. It surrounded the town's television station, forcing it off the air with the dramatic an nouncement that the station was ringed by (ire. Forest service reports showed 25 small fires in the Klamath Falls area, and 24 In the Like view area. A heat wave that has scorched Oregon for the past few days, sending temperatures to near or above- 100 degrees in most of the state and bringing thunderstorms, was responsible for most of the blazes. Because of the critical situation,' five forest zones in Western Ore-j gon were closed at midnight last night to logging and sawmill op erations. The forest closure, first in Ore gon since 1952, covers the Tilla-! mook burn area, Clackamas, Linn and Marion counties, eastern Lant county and part of Douglas county. Goal is Reached In Flood Drive..- The Red Cross emergency fund drive for flood relief in the east em states has reached Its goal. with contributions totaling more than $10,000,000. This is the infor mation received today by Mrs. Clare T. Taylor, executive secre tary, in a telegram from Ells worth Bunker, president of the American National Red Cross. "Chapter leadership in this ef fort has been outstanding and we are grateful for your support," the telegram stated, "Please take this opportunity to thank all those- who have bo willingly contributed to this disaster fund and the chan ter and community leadership which has made this magnificent effort possible." In Bend, donations In excess of $700 were received. B. A. Stover hendd the local drive. I'. i ,.,e ;. v BACK TO SCHOOL, BY BUS bus along tha Burns highway a it approached, it was apparent than war tha boys. Pictured, Leach, I, and Lynn Laach, 10. . - t V V. hHX'XL'" . -S U&i' . ) -Vv ' A 1 . , ' ' ' ' . If t.i" . -i r 3 I' -V Off 40 Forest .... 1 SB, .A . i t A A' WILL VISIT BEND Alton F. Baker, Eugene, publisher of the Eugene Register-Guard end governor of District 154, Ro tary International, will be in Bend this evening to conduct an assembly of directors and chairmen of the local club. To- morrow he will attond the re gular weekly meeting of the. Bend Rotary Club, at the Pilot Butte Inn. Chinese to Free Nine Americans GENEVA (UP)-Communlst Chi. na announced today It has grant ed exit permits to nme Americans "who my now depart ' for their homeland, and Is ready to too others when asked to leave. a win American wm oe permil- ted to leave m two or three months when his business affairs are cleaned up. The Reds also announced thnt three other persons, one believed ro be a Dutchman, will be allowed to leave the China mainland im mediately. Chinese Ambassador to Poland Wang Ping-nan made the disclo sure when he met this morning to discuss with U. S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia U, Alexis Johnson the exchange of nationals of each other's country. The Americans to be freed are part of a group of 41 known to be In Communist hands and whose release has been demanded by the U. S. government. t V ' V.' . " - 1 ' i,-.1 A went these four youngstors today, pictured as they waited for tha couple of miles east of Bend. From tha looli they gave tha bus al tha girls war mora pleased by tha end of tha summer vacation in tha usual order, art Danny Laach, 7, Dusty Wil:on, 7, Karen (Band Bulletin Photo.) Fires Areas Youngsters Trudge Back , I, I, I, The 1955-56 school year optH. il here this morning. By the noon hour It was estimated that the first -iuy attendance will approxi. mate 2500 an all-lime high lor September. The day also marked the start of the Bend high school's "double shift year", with senior high stu- lents reporting for classes at 7 a.m. They remained in study halls until noon. This afternoon at 1 o'clock, jun ior hi-?h school students took over the crowded high school b.iildlng, nnd will remain there until the dismissal tjell sounds this evening at 5:22. Toadiers assigned to classes In the high school building arc also on double-shift duty, with iunior high instructors reporting Kt 6:30 a.m. and senior high teachers at noon. - All teachers, n total of 127, were i duty this morning as the school year started in Bend. This is the greatest number of teachera ever employed by the school system. . In the advance registrations, 012 students enrolled tor junior hlRh cln5ses and 481 for ,,,, hiRh choo, work- rt waJ expsoted melx! would af east , gistraUm today. . Cpnd .., niWtnOT wr. Ml. in nneii 93 the school year got under way. noon news NEW YORK (UP) Police said the arrest of Albert Owens, 31, Mondny. probably Is good news for baseball fans at Sine Sing Prison. Owens was arrested on burglary charges by two patrolmen who found about $10,000 worth of Jewel ry, furs and clothing In his auto mobile. Owens was a star first base man on the Sing Sing baseball team from 1940 until 1953, when ho wns paroled. Police said it looks as though he may rejoin the line up. ' J ,'tj- V, '.4
