) Univ. of Oregon Library EUOSilS, OREGON I WEATHER THE BEND BULLETIN FORECAST Generally fair with variable high clouds through Thursday; a little cooler: low tonight 48 63; high Thursday 78 83. High yesterday, 94 degree. Low Itwil night, 60 degrees. Sunsrl today, 6:31. Sunrise to morrow, 5: SC. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Man is Held For Murder At Tillamook TILLAMOOK (UP) A 30-year- old korkaway man was in Tilla mook county jail loday charged with the first degree murder of his long time neighbor, 55-year old Clyde Robert Lewis. Lewis was shot and killed at his Rockaway home aboul 7:55 a.m., 'yesterday apparently without prov ocation. Charged with the slaying was Hubcr Frederick Camell. According to Tillamook county District Attorney, John VV. Hatha way, Camell walked to within six feel ol I,ewis and look deliberate :iini while Lewis was stooped over on liis front porch oiling some equipment, llothiiwuy said Cornell shot Lew if through the top of the head and then when Lewis fell and rolled over, walked closer and shot him through the right eye with his .22- calibre rifle from about 18 inches away. There were no witnesses to the shooting although Ixwis sister Mildred De (inath of Brockway, Ore., saw Camel I walk up to the house with a rifle, heard the shots and then slammed the door for f'-ar Camell would turn the gun on her. Rockaway Police Chief Delbert ValHle, who was first on t h scene, said it was Mrs. De Gnat It's description of a man wearing a green jacket which tipped him off to Camell's identity. Camell was arrested in the bed room of his home next door to Lewis' residence. Police said a .23! rifle, patches and cleaning equip ment were plainly visible. When asked if he had done the shooting. Camell said yes without hesitation. He further told police he had planned for two years to kill Lewis and said he knew Mon day night that if everything was right- he would shool him Tuesday morning. .- The two men had known each other for 16 or 17 years. Camell had not been steadily-employed for Hie -pust several years. Lewis worked at the Stebinger Lumber Company at Porter Creek. Plane Plunge lakes 2 Lives ALEXANDRIA, La. (UP) The Air Force kept a guard today at the swampy scene of the fiery crah of a C119 Flying Boxcar in which four airmen died and two were critically injured. Investigators were to examine the wreckage scattered through thick underbrush to seek the cause of apparent mechanical failure which brought the plane down yes lerday shortly after takeoff. The big plane developed engine trouble on leaving the runway of Ene;!md Air Force Base and plunged into trie swamp about nine miles away ofter the pilot appar ently tried to ditch it into the Red River. Co! William A. Danie, base commander, said the plane was mak'tig a routine flight to Clovis Air Force Bise. '. A rescue squad reached the scene by helicopter in time to pull three men fe'om the burning wreck age he said. One died en route to the base nospital and the other two remained in critical condition. None of the dead or injured was fn: the Far West. Coffee Boosted By Chain Stores NFW YORK (UP) Consumer prices for coffee will be upped one to four cents a pound today in some chain stores. Increases announced Tuesday by Safeway Stores, Inc., and H. C. Rohnck Company, Inc., followed a three-cent boost last week in whole sale prices by four of the nation's lending coffee roasters. Rnnsters bhmed their action on higher prices for green coffee, which in turn followed higher costs in the Brazilian and Colombian markets. Y.XK RK.MOVF.D NEW YORK (UPt Actor Paul Muni's left eye was removed be cause of a tumor yesterday. The operation and his condition were reported by Mount Sinai Hospital as "atisfactorv." Muni was forced to withdraw i serve over 800 000 customers, re from the Broadway play "Inherit; nreenting nearly half of all p-rwer the Wind'' last week because oLuw in Oregon. Washington. piin and failing sight in the eye. j norrhern Idaho nnd Montana. The Th hmoital bulletin following; firms have sjent $1 250 000 fo- ex. h;s operation said his right eyejoloration at the sites and engi "w normal.' rww'ng studies this year. P SWINE TAKE HONORS their junior gilts at the State Delegates Back From Okanogan Meeting in B. C. Highway 97 from Weed, Calif., north to Dawson creek. Mile Zero of the Alaskan highway, will be completed by 1959, Central Oregon mem tiers of the Okanogan-Cariboo Trail association reported here to day. Ben W. Fanning, who was elect ed second vice president of the Highway 97 group, and Marion Cady, both of Bend, and M. A. Lynch, Redmond attended the an nual convention of the association this past weekend at Prince Geoi-ge, B. C. They returned to their Deschutes county homes on Tuesday. From Canada, the trio also brought back news that plans for a bridge over the Columbia river at Biggs, on the route of U.S. Highway 97, is taking final form, with two surveys already made, Last year, the Okanogan-Cariboo Trail group, generally known as the Iilighway 97 association, held its convention in Bend. Fanning and Cady reported that in Canada enthusiasm over devel opment of Highway 97 through the countries is unbounded. aome 500 persons attended the annual banquet at Prince George. Completion of surfacing of High way 97 in Canada to Mile Zero! on the Alaskan highway will result in greatly increased use of th. interior route, Canadians feel. Association members moved north from Wenatchee, Wash., a caravan, and were greeted by bagpipers, bands and uniformed Canadian Elks, with a street breakfast served in one city. Vancouver. B. C, papers re ferred to the arrival of the cara van in Prince George as "the big gest thing to hit this historic fron tier city since the old rush days. The Canadian extension of U.S. Hiehwav 97 follows a route used since pioneer days by fur brigades and oldtime caribou pack trains. "The highway Is now near com pletion as a super highway stretch ing a ribbon of blacktop from the U.S. border to Dawson creek, Mile Zero on the Alaskan highway," the Vancouver paper staled. Approval Asked For Snake Dams Special to the Bulletin PORTLAND Pacific North west Power company today asked the Federal government for per mission to develop 1 .4-16.000" kilo watts of new hydroelectric power the middle Snake river in a $210,000,000 plan to be financed en tirely with private capital. Application for a license to build and operate major dams and power plants at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep between Idaho and Oregon wan filed with the Federal power commission by the regional generating firm organized early this year by Pacific Power A 1 '"lit, Washington Water Power, M or. tana Power and Portland Gen em' Electric companies. Cnpst ruction schedule call for starts at the two sites In March. 19.Y with first power available earlv in 1959. The major new dams will be above the mouths of the Salmon ind fmnnha rivers and do not in terfere with important fish mlgra tion. The installation will rost $143. OO.noo. with mother VW.300 000 re i nired for transmission lines to load centers in the power-hungry Northwest. ( The four private utilities that maV up Pacific Northwest Powe-; Robert Fix and Jeff Ward, both Fair. (Bend Bulletin Photo). BLUE RIBBON TEAM Carol Ann Turner of Bend won first place in one of the intermediate Jersey showmanship classes at the State Fair Sunday. The next day her handsome black Jersey, Finn's Caprice, won a blue ribbon in competition with other junior cows of the breed. Yesterday Carol Ann received a medal from the American Jersey Club for outstanding work in showmanship. (Bend Bulletin Photo). All-Time High In Use of Bend Pool Reported Bend municipal pool attendance in the 19;5 season reached an all time high, 29.227, it was announced today by Wayne Hamilton, recre ation director. T is total compares with an even 27.000 for the previous high year, in 1953. Attendance this year also -set a nev daily average record of 424. Biggest attendance on a single day was 1022, on warm July 14. Urder a new plan, the pool will le Icept open this year as long as its use justifies the extended sea son. Yesterday, a total of 307 per sons mostly youngsters, used the ooo! as the September tempera ture soared to 91 degrees' With the regular season now at an end. season tickets an1 no long er tving honored and pool users pav as they enter. Cyprus Session Ends in Failure LONDON UPt The three-now er conference on Cyprus ended in failure today with Britain, fi recce and Turkey unable to get together on their conflicting views on the future of that strategic Mediter rnnein island. T;:e meeting which opened here last Monday at British mittativefT;iVj(r were lormiiuy suspenneu infiny. hut official conference sources sai-lj that no datp has been ttxd for1 the.r nsumpt.fKi. Turkish Fo'eign Minister Ffitin' RtMti Zorlu told newsmen ininie i the talks hae Ijecn "ended." H" annottmttl he was returning tc Istanbul tomorrow with his di-lega tlon. mi;ktix s( hkim lkd The agenda for tonight's regular mating of Uie R"nd city commis lion indicitivi (hat only routine iis ness will eonv b fnre officials j for coni;dtritum. Tie meeting, in! the city hall, will art at 7 30 p.m. I Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Wednesday, September 7, 1955 I Cw4 of Bend, won blue ribbons on One Killed When C-124 Crashes ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UP) - An Air Force C124 Globemaster one or the largest military trans ports was dashed to earth In flames by a gust of wind while taking off here yculurday killing one and injuring four of the persons aboard. The four-engined aircraft, at tached to the Strategic Air Com mand and hased at Biggs Air rorce Base, fc.1 Paso, Tex., was hit bv the blast of wind and cart wheeled into the runway at Kirt land Air Force Base here just as it h'ame airborne, witnesses said. Within seconds it was cnvoloped in flames, but passengers and crew members aided by rescue crews on the outside battered out win flows nnd knocked holes in the fuselage to escape. The man killed was ident if ied as Airman 2C Arvin W. Harris of the llhh Bomlx-r Squadron. March Air Force Base, Calif. Of the four injured, one man, Airman 1C F-ed W. Stephens, 22, New Philnd"lphia, Ohio, n pass enr;er, was in serious condition. The other three injured were iden tified as 1st Lt. Robert Jones, Bill's AFB; Airman 1C Allen O. SI ni y er a nrl A i rm a n 2( ' Vernon tK.th of March AFB. , 1 T-- f2.. Lite I erm viven . . ... HeDDner rOmcin HKPPNKR lPl Mrs. Ann Wh'tney Avert, 38. of Heppner. vesVrdiy was sentenced to lif imprisonment for the serond o'vree munler of Del I more Iess nrd a Portland attorney who was representing her former husband in obtaining custody of their child. Mrs. A vent, a waitress, shot ? evml whn he entnid the caf' where h worked last June. She was convicted here Inst wek. Yreka Alerted As Flames Lick Nearer S N FRANCISCO (UP) The 3500 residents of Yreka were alert ed Joday to prepare for evacuation as a major forest fire in the Klamath National Forrest west of the town burned within six miles at one point. , ' The fire could be seen from some points in Yreka and ashes and heavy smoke settled over the little community 300 miles north and inland from San Francisco. A constant walrn was maintained by the volunteer fire department and the local company of the Na tion'il Guard. Up to midnight, the. fii-e, one of 22 raging in the forest, had blackened between 211,000 and 30.000 acres. Preparations were made !o start a backfire on Greenhorn Summit,) southwest of Yreka. The line will! go ('own Cherry Creek and con- nect with Indian Creek. From the: end of the backfire, bulldozers will, build a fire line to a point west of Hev.kiiiKville, two miles north of Yreka. The backfire is scheduled to be set after the line is com pleted. Many of the residents of Hawkiusville already have evacu ated. Roads Are Closed Although more than 22 blazes are burning in the forest, there now is only one and one-half miles of fireline in control. A total of 100. i 000 Rcres have been scarred by i the fires with an estimated loss of 3'i million dollars worth of timber. All roads into the area were closed and the Nat ional Guard establihed road blocks at several points. The wind today was light and variable with predictions that it W'l' become steady from the soutlv west at noon with a speed of from six to eight miles per hour. The weather forecast called for one to four degrees lower temperatures than yesteday s high of 99. Meanwhile, another foreitt fire in the Sequoia National Forest area 50 miles east of Fresno wat, checked after burning within a half mile of the big Redwoods in the famed General Grant grove. Some 1700 "bone-tired" firefight ers, including Indian control spe cialists from Arizona and New Mexico, waged an all night battle to save the majestic trees. Inclu ded in the grove Is the towering General Grant Redwood, the na tion's oldest tree. "With any kind of luck we'll save the redwoods,,, said Eldon Ball, Sequoia National Forest Su pervisor. (J rove Still In Hunger Ball reported that the grove still Is not out of danger. The fire fighters hacked out five safety lines between the big trees and the fire, which has burned more than 17,000 acres of Sierra timber and brush. "Every available man and piece of equipment was thrown Into tht fir to save the grove," Ball said Turncoats May Be Turned Free Pending Trials SAN FRANCISCO (UP) The Army has been ordered to show cause by Sept. 15 why turncoat soldiers William Cowart and Lewis Gripus should not bo freed from the Sixth Army stockade until they come to trial. The order was handed down yes terday by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman. It coincides with a pre vious order In the caw of the third turncoat. Otho G. Bell of Hillsboro, Miss. , The three soldiers, now awailing a general court martial in the i storkade, were prisoners of war in Korea who at first chose to join the Communists and then later Hsked to tje returned to the United Stat Al'orneys for the turncoats have asked the Federal Court to over rule the Annv's charges on the "rounds the soldiers committed the off'-nwes during a prior enlistment Riid, therefore, no lonwr come im- 1' r the Annv's furisdlet'on. Thev ilso 'irgue the men have lenn nif firifntlv punished bv being dis honorably dischm-fTHl in absentia Cowart In t re dent of Dm I ton Ct . nd Griggs lives In Jackson die. Fl. AfiUEKMKNT ItKACIIKO CAIRO (lP Ruwfn and Egynt havp concluded a barter trade I nt"-pment for exchange of goods i valued at $.2K009, the govern All Sastroamidjojo was truly neu ment announced Tuesday. itral The agreement calls for Russia Harahap also pledged himself to to ip crude oil to Egypt In ex-lreview the ttill unratified treaty change for Egyptian rice, the an-lwith Red China which allowed Chi noun cement said. Inese and Indonesian citizenship. Deschutes Forest Fires Controlled; Danger Still High School Attendance in Bend Below Numbers Anticipated A total of 2527 students attended local schools yesterday as the 19.5 56 year opened, and Superintend ent R. E. Jewell reported that total exceeded first-day attendance last fall by 108. Hiwever, the first day attend ance was a bit below expectations. Registration figures are expected to climb steadily through the w eek. ! A total of 1336 pupils from the first to sixth grades attended classes yesterday, compared with! l.tlb on the opening day last year. This wus a gain of 20 over last , year. Pupils in the seventh, eighth and Rev. Williams To Be Moderator For Debate Here Rev. Robert Williams, pastor of the Redmond Community Church, has been named moderator of the Coon-Neuberger debute to be held hei-e on Oct. 7, it was announced today. The debate is one of a series to be held in Rep. Sam Coon's congressional district between Coon and Sen. Richard L. New- berger. Subject of the debate will be "Resolved, the John Day bill is In the public Interest." Kep. (joon, who imrodiced uie bill In Congress this yuur, will take the affirmative side of the, debate. Sen. Neuberger will opposo dim. . The debate will be held at the Allen school auditorium at 8 p.m. Oct. 7, it was announced by off I- eers of the Central Oregon forum, which is sponsoring the meeting. Scholarship Award Made Sperlal lo the ltulletln REDMOND A Redmond high school graduate of 195-1, Miss Car men Sand wick, has been named recipient of the $100 scholarship given by Bend branch of Ameri can Association of University Wo men. Miss Sandwick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Sandwick, Deschutes, will he a sophomore a Oregon State College this fall. She plans to enter the teaching pro fession, and has studied piano for many years. She was - active in 4-H club work while attending Redmond school. AAUW president Miss Ivy Gro ver announced the first full meet ing of the branch for Thursday, September 22. The place will be named later. On September 10 and 17 Miss Grover and other mem bers plan to attend the state board meeting and assembly In Klamath Falls. Mrs. Willard Duncan, Kla math Falls, is state president. Membership in AAUW is initiat ed by individual women who be lieve their college credentials to be such as to make them eligible for membership in this national' organization and local branches. New eligible members are wel come and are being sought now, from Bend, Redmond and sur-j lounding communities. Creden tials will be reviewed by Miss Zola McDmigall in Bend, and Mrs Douglas Messenger In Redmond. fur women seeking membership. A broadened list of degrees and colleges on the eligible list this year should make membership pos sible for more Interested women, it Is reXrted. New Leader Offers Views Indonesia s new prime minister said today his government would erk friendlier relation with anti Communist nations without ahun d'ming Its neutrality in the Odd War. Prime Minister Burhanuddln Harnhap Raid In an Interview with the United Press he did not believe the lormer government of Premier Twelve Pages ninth grades in school yesterday number 6ti9, compared with G32 last year, or a gain of 37. In the senior high school group. 10th to 12th grades, 522 students were in classes yesterday. Last year 471 hud registered on the opening day. The gain this year was 51 over last year's mark. School officials said a total of 233 first graders reported for school as the year opened Tues day. More students were in classes here yesterday than ever before m the history of the local school system. Jorgensen Probe Officially Ended Sperlal to the ltulletln REDMOND The district attor ney's investigation Into the death of Mrs. Thomas Jorgensen, Red mond whose body wns found in an irrigation canal north of Redmond on Aug. 29, was officially closed Saturday, according to George Rakestraw. district attorney. Death was concluded to toe acci-1 Mrs. Jorgensen fell Into the canal. bv shock. AutoDBV revealed an mv paired heart condition. There was no evidence on her body of physi-. col, violence. Funeral services fori fiwrs. jorgensen were neia i uesuay afternoon A coroner's jury Vill be called for an Inquest in a few days. Rakestraw indicated, He commended the work and manner of handling the investiga tion done by county sheriff For rest Sholes, Bend: Redmond police chief Milford Mooney, and slnte pol i ce led by Joh n Ne we II. He added that on Friday nnd Satur day Lt. Jack Beers of Oregon State Police from Mllwaukie was here to supervise lie detector tests submitted to voluntarily by (hi1 last two persons known to have seen Mrs. Jorgensen alive. They stated they had no knowledge of how, when or where she fell lnl the canal and the detector verified their statements. Fti'ieral sciviees for Mrs. Jor gensen were held Tuesday after noon at Zfon Lutheran church, with Rev. Orin Gudmunsen of Prinevllle officiating. Burial fol lowed in Redmond cemetery. Mrs, Mary Iou Peden was vocal solo ist, accompanied by Mrs. Alvin Simonsen. Pall - hearers were George Hllgen, Moritz McShannon, Joe Gannon, James Novak, Milton Odem and John Newton, Mis. Jorgensen was Inirn July 2, 1X90 in Mayvllle, North Dako- ta and was a member of rhe Lu then church. Her survivors in elude her husband, Thomas, chil dren Mrs. Floyd Parker, Mrs. Mar ion Edwards and Kenneth Jornen- sen all In Redmond, a daughter Helrtn Jorgensen, Seattle, and turn Fred Jorgensen was flown home from China where he Is in S'-rv ice. She also leaves 16 grandrhil dten and several brothers and sis ten-. U. S. Lawmakers Visit in Russia MOSCOW rtJPl The United Slides is "willing to extend the Hh! arm of friendship" to Russia "but we will le wary." U.S. Sen John J. Sparkmtin (D-Alat said Tuesday. Snfirksnum S'lid he honed the nn narent nnlrll of go'wlwill which re sulted from tbf Geneva Summit Cofifornr'o would continue, But he UMIITI..t lltr.l "1 jlr.n'l ll.t.,1, ..... ,,nyH s;.ns Wllli,m A Pur j... ,, fWn w .... 'w (R-N'ii.i. US Si'nt-emn Court I'e-tif-e Willhm O. rvilns and thr.'f wives visited th Stalin iiuto- mobile works Tuesday. VP FOR HALF, nr.LLAIRE, Mich. lUPi Bell ; ifM-r.ed to Vrir h mi.i. aire city fathers put the communi Dense smoke that covered most ty Jail up for sale todnry hut were1 of the Central Orei-on country wan at a loss for a sales pitch. 'from fires humtn tn other parts "It miiiht make a good 7o,"of the nortlvvest. Register of Deeds Jorance C. Ua- F;ve traetovs nnd (V men were man suggested. called on to Imtlle the blaze. No. 232 Haze of Smoke Makes It Tough For Watchers ' IU'LIFIIN A "sleeper" lightning fire sud denly blazed In a flushing area near the Kdlson lee cave kuuMI west uf He ml till afternoon and foresters said It looked "poten tially UiiiigerouN." Lumlgrcii log Ring crews were fighting the blaie. AM lightning-caused fires that explosively flamed in the Des chutes woods Labor day as th temperature reached a record September high were under con trol this morning. However, a thick smoke haze hurg over the southern part ot the forest, reducing the visibility to about a mile, blinding lookouts ' and making it necessary for pa trols to search the dry woods for possible sleeper fires. Spotters -vere also aloft in planes, as the fire danger remain ed high despite slightly cooler weather. Up until yesterday evening, some 40 lightning fires were spotted in thp ,Wh?lt(1(l WfW,n Lit spread over the 100 acre mark. nity ot the old Brooks Scanlon water tank n the Fort Rock dta trlcl.. . In the Deschutes timber, the most explosive situation was In the arid Fort Rock district, which reaches into mni-giifal desert areas to the east. Thirteen fh-es blazed In that district. Many Men Help Rn'ph W. Crawford, Deschutes National forest supervisor, report ed this morning that a total of 1:10 men assisted In checking the spread of the bolt-caused fires. . Three fire camps were estab lished. One was at Cabin Itke, In the Fort Rock district, and another was on Paulina Creek. The third wns at Pringle Falls. F re fighters yesterday from their areas In the Fort Rock dis trict could see a forest fire raging Tough on Man's Fpmily Life Ftres definitely Interfere with the home life of Ntaff members, KujM'rvKor Ralph W. Crawford of the Deschutes forest noted to day. Consider Harry Chens, foreman on (he Head district of the t)en ehtih'N National forest. On Mon day morning, hn became the fa ther of a mm, horn ul the St. Charley Memorial hospital. That ti tier noon he was called into the wikmIh to fight fire. Then there was the experience of Hob I'eterson, another forest stuff member. He was married Hundiiy In He ml to Barbara Car llle, nnd tin Monday was called Into the fiery woods, Faet, Is Crawford mentioned, few of the forest Mervfee men auw much of their wives or fiitn Hen for I hi past several dnyv. on .Slimmer lake rim, in the Fre mont National forest to the south. A summary of fires In the Des chutes forest compiled by Gail Baker, of the headquarters staff, follows: Crescent district, 17 fires; Fort Rock diitrict, 13 fires; Bend district, 2 fires, and Sisters dis trict. 2 fires. There were also several fires near I he federal forest. Near Sinter The biggest fire of the Laltor day week end was outside the national forest, on slate protected !:in-'s near Sisters. This fire, which threatened ranch homes and endangered fire fiiditers ns flames were erratically whinped by shift winds, win controlled by state forestry crews, with Harry Pear win. dlsfiel waden, In charge. II b1i'"'-ened about 900 acres. This morning, the siiihiiion in th Deschutes woods wns near no--nil w(h nil logeem released land most other volunteer fighters