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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1955)
WEATHER High yesterday, 65 degrees, taw last night, 31 degrees. Sunset to day, Sunrise tomorrow, 6:28. 52nd Year One Section DERAILMENT. SCENE Some of the 16 freight-laden cars de railed near Steam's crossing, north of LaPine Thursday evening, are pictured here, with members, of a. wrecking crew placing new rails on the elevated grade. No ,one was injured in the wreck, which apparently occurred when the southbound Great Gilchrist Firm Offers Only Bid In Oral Auction High bid for 48,800,000 board feet of timber in the upper Deschutes country having an appraised value of $1,193,690 whs submitted by the Gilchrist Timber Co. at an auction here yesterday afternoon. Three sealed bids were submit ted, but in the oral auction that followed the opening of these bids only one offer was received. This was a 15 cent raise by Frank Gil rhrist of the northern Klamath county timber firm over the mini mum, $.14.35 for the pine. Also submitting sealed bids, but passing" in the oral auction were Brooks Scanlon, Inc., and the Leon ard Lu ndg ren Lum ber Co. , of Bend. All three firms offered the mini mum price, $34.50 for pine. The Gilchrist firm's bid calls for payment of $789,400 for timber re moved under the first cutting. Pre sent appraised value of the timber included in the second cutting is $-104,190. j The stumpage includes 29.800. 000 board feet of pine, 2,300.000 board feet of lodgepole, 6,100,000 board feet of Douglas fir and 10, 600,000 board feet of white fir, in the East Davis Lake area. This timber is not far from the Gil christ Timber Co. operations, at Gilchrist. On Monday, Oct. 24', bids will be received for a large tract of timber in the Round mountain tim ber management block of the Pringle falls pine experiment sta tion. W. A. Healy, Sr., Dies at Portland PORTLAND (UP) William A. Healy. one of the owners of Port land Television Station KLOR and a former vice president of Doenv becher Furniture Co., died at hi? home here last night. Healy was born near Seattle hut spent most of his. youth in Van couver, Wash. He hd lived in Portland more than 40 years. He began his career here with Gevurtz Furniture Co. He helped found Healy Brothers Jobbers, out of which Portland Furniture Manu facturing, Co. w as formed. He was president of the company when it merged with Doernbeeher in 1930 and he was vice-president in charge of sales for the mereed firm until it was dissolved last fall Healy was active in the Portland Chamber of Commerce and was a mnmknf nf the Waverlv and Ar lington clubs in Portland. He had been in relatively poor neaitn me Survivors include his wife, three sons. o"e daughter and four grandchildren. Surviving sons Include William A. Healy. Jr., operator of the Bend Furniture Co. here. Other sons are John P. Healy and Robert S. Healy, both of Portland. THE BEND 'Hot Potatoes To Be Served At Game Tonight There vll bo plenty of 'hot potatoes" el rcu luting through the tha firandstantts and bleachers at tonight's Iootbp.ll gomo be tween tBend und Lebanon, ' And theno potatoes will be real Descihtitffl Ruwmta, nicely' baked and buttered and rolled lu heat preserving tinfoil, with wooden apoons included. This, possibly, will be the first tune In history of a football gome in Oregon that hot but tered bakers will be available for funs. Future Homo Makers of Amer ica, ' Bend high school chapter, will be In charge of the sale of the buttered bakers to be served as a warming tidbit for fans attending the night game. Announ cement of' the arrange ments for the sale of the russets in tinfoil was made today by J. R. Aeheson, Bend high school principal. Manager Unable To Make trip City Manager Walter T. Thomp son, seriously 111 In St. Charle; Memorial Hospital, today cancellet his plan to leave on Sunday with other Bend officials to attend the joint meeting next week of the League of Oregon , Cities and the Oregon Finance Officers Associa tion. ' Mrs. Julia S. Johnson, city re corder and treasurer, who was to have accompanied the group, made the announcement of Thompson's and her own cancellation, rne other officials will go as previous ly announcea. Thompson Is president of the r Vinnvtnn rVfiz-crc AMlvin. tion and was to have cnddcted ! its sessions. The vice-president will j take over for him. t'pcj Mrs. Johnson. who v si Thompson at the hospital today, said she was informed the city manager is suffering from an ab dominal illness that ha not been nrecisely diagnosed. She was told his condition is serious but not critical. Help Requested By Skyliners Skylinrs and others interested 'n the bftterment of the Tumai'1 "reek ski area before th? comin' M winter n-e reminded by Harry nearre. Skyllner president, tha' Sahirdnv and Sunday have beer set aside for this work. Some enibblng and brush re mwul work remains to be dom on the ski hill, and other parts of the area will renuire attenffo- h fore the playground is blanketed by snow. Pea roe id. Pearc has suggested that th' volunteer workers bring theii lunches. Northern mixed freight train hit a broken switch near the siding. The engine, which crossed the switch, remained on the track. Wrecking units moved in from Wishram and from Klam ath Falls were on the job early today in the move to restore service over the line. (Bend Bulletin Photo by W. M. Loy, Jr.) PrnnrAmPlanneHi0re9on Faced At Silver Lake On October 28 Start of the program marking the coming of power to northern Lake county has been set for : p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at the gym nasium in Silver Lake, George Larimer, LaPine, who will preside as master of ceremonies, announc ed today. Earlier, it was indicated that the main program would not be held jntil the evening hours. The new arrangement will make it possible !or Bend people joining in the bus rip to attend the main program ind return here in time for the end-Redmond football game that light. The bus will leave from Bend it noon Friday, and start the re- urn from Silver Lake at 5:30 p.m. hat day. Senator Wayne Morse will be the trincipal speaker at the dedication! irogram. He will speak between 1:30 and 5 p.m. It is not expected that persons -naking the trip south on the chartered bus will be able to stay for the evening barbecue but Sil ver Lake committees in charge promise to get sandwiches aboard the bus by departure time. On Friday evening, following thn barbecue and late program, there will be a dance. Several hundred people from all parts of the state, are expected to be present for the program to . be held in connection with the en ergization of the Midstate Electric Cooperative, Inc., line south from LaPine. Brownell Gives ... D X ! Onetin DENVER (UP) Atty. Gen Her bert Brownell Jr. flew here early ay . to give President Eisenhow er a first hand report on "Depart ment of Justice matters' and its study of big businessmen as "dol lar a year auviaui a m me aunu-i-istration. Brownell 1 -Jed at 6 a.m. MST via Air Fore? transport and plan ned to see Mr. Eisenhower short ly afterward at Fitzsimons Army Hospitals He said he was prepared to review with the chief executive the department's recommendations for possible new legislation on sev eral subjects, In their first medical bulletin of the day at 7:30 a.m., Mr. Eisen hower's doctors said: "The Presi dent had a good night's sleep of eight hours and awoke feeling "e freshed and cheerful. The Presi dent's condition continues to pro gress satisfactorily without compli cations." HYDE SIGNS SACRAMENTO (UP) Ray Hyde, young southpaw pitcher; from Lewis and Clark College of Portland, has been signed to a con tract by Sacramento's Solons of the Pacific Coast League. Hyde al so is well known in Oregon semi- pro ra,nks. CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County. Oregon Friday, October 21, 1955 Cairs TTIIII I UIUIC Phone Strike PORTLAND (UP) Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Company to day requested help from the fed eral mediation service In avertine a possible strike of some 5000 CIO workers In Orenon. whose con- 'tracts expire'ttt-trtidntght Sunday, PT&T currently Is Involved In a strike by Northern California and Nevada workers. The company and the CIO Com munications Workers of America have. been negotiating since Sept. 19 on a contract renewal. Company and union representatives met with federal mediator Bob McClelland yesterday. The CWA has demanded "a rea sonable wage Increase" and im provements In a number of work ing conditions. The company said it has offered wago increases of $2 to $3.50 per week, and has urged the union to be more specific in its demands. CWA area director Ronald Hale said the union would do everything possible to reach agreement with PT&T, but he said a strike "in possible" if the deadline Is passed without agreement Moreell Scores Public Power Wl IITK SULPlfUR SPRINGS W.Va., (UP) Adm. Ben Moreell fret.) who headed the Hoover commission task force on water resources and power, said today that public power "Is a fraud and a delusion, fraught with danger to our whole system of private enter prise. Moreell said public power "pro motes the growth of the social can cer of avarice in our body poli tic..." He made the statements in a speech prepared for the conven tion of Die Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Moreell said the task force study convinced him that public power "is economically and morally wrong" and Uiat federal power is not "in any sense of the word low cost power." Moreell, board chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., has ad vocated in other speeches that the government start no new power nrojects and that it sell the exist ing ones it owns. The full Hoover Commission, (n making its report on public power, watered down recommendation made by Moreell s task force. Thcl " Mmu mll. (.a , full commission, however, called ,raller Started to S.vay for a sharp Increase in federal d R loJ, ct)n(rol of rhc m,Cl( power rates, a ban on new Bov-iand weRt ,nlo ,he d)tch np plck. emment steam Renoratinij plants; overturncd, b, thc trailer and bond financing for future ?x-ihous stayed on Its wheels, sheer pansion of public power projects. , o(( the ,a, jioo "non-sway" RfX'KIVKS 8ENTEVCE The R-iys were thorouh'y spray Morris B. Loveridge was sen-ied with oil from th" truk motor tenced to five months and 29 days but were unhurt. They will start by Judge Ralph S. Hamilton Thurvj south again, when pickup and trail j day. He was charged with obtain-jer are repaired. ing money and property under Ray Is a carpenter, and will be false pretenses. Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, ORSGQH C BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Periled Near JLapine WRECK BLOCKS GN LINE When 16 cart left the Great Northern track north of LaPine Thursday evening, ell service over the line was blocked. Shown are some of the derailed cars strewn over the grade. In the foreground, Is a shingle-laden car. Also visible Is a small part of a tanker carrying alcohol, . which spilled into the pumice. At the left is the wrecker moved Townsend Not Invited to Rites For Late King LONDON (UP) Peter Townsend in a possible royal snub, (received' ! no invitation today to a ceremony honoring a man beloved both to him and Princess Margaret her father, the late King George VI, The Queen unveiled a statue M King George who introduced his daughter Margaret to Townsend nearly 12 years ago. Margaret stood In the rain alone to watch with her royal relatives. Townsend stayed in his lonely guest flat m Lowndes Square. I And Queen Elizabeth II, who on religious grounds cannot consent to her sister's marriage to the divorced Townsend, made a speech recalling that her father "enjoyed: the blessing of a happy home life1 founded In Christian faith and per fect love." Wan Close To King Those invited to the sentimental ceremony in Carlton Gardens off the mall were not restricted to royalty. They Included "members of the government, persons especially as sociated with the lute King, and members of his household," ac cording to the official announce ment. No household member present was closer to the late King than Peter Townsend. Townsend, a com moner, attracted the shy monarch with feats. of combat in the air and doubly impressed him at the palace as a man "who can get things done." But Townsend was not among other household members at the scene to honor the King who took him from obscurity to the highest councils of Buckingham Palace and introduced him to Margaret. CnJa Dinner Party Most Britains believed the prin cess still had not made up her mind about marriage, but a gala dinner with Townsend which lasted until eight minutes past one this morning confirmed that the ro mance is very much alive. Accident Delays Trip to Arizona Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hay left yes terday for Arizona to siend ttie winter, but were baek in Ilend again today, shaking their ho.ldv The Rays were riding in their hitch. j employed in Phoenix. i M inor Injuries Reportedly -Suffered by Two Transients Sixteen cars of a southbound Great Northern freight train were wrecked In a derailment at the Stearns siding, north of LaPine, shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday Crew members, with Harvey ZurbrutfE as conductor, were un injured, put workers around the m'onp nf wreck this mnmlw said there were reports that two transients riding a box car suffered minor injuries, The St- Charles Memorial hos pltal here said they did not report there for medical attention. The wreck of the freight laden train of 77 cars, on the Bend-Kla math Falls run, apparently occur red as the result of a broken switch. The engine pnssed the switch, at the Stearns siding, but the following freight cars were derailed. Escaping Gas Causes Minor Stir as Fountain Dismantled Escaping gas drove a group of tain to Central Oregon college, college students today from an -called the fire department. area of the City Drug Store where they were dismantling a soda! fountain. I The gas came Jrom a leak in the fountain's relrigeration system as it was being disconnected. Kenneth G. Cruickshnnk, store owner, who is donating the foun- Prosecutor Seeks Death Sentence McMINNVILLE (UP) The first degree murder trial of Mrs. Mar jorie Smith of Portland was in its second day today with only tenta tive selection of a 12-member jury completed. The tentative panel was selected by the end of yesterday's session, but the denfense had exercised on ly four of its 12 peremptory chal lenges, and the state only two of its six peremptory challenges. Prosecutor Willis A. West yes terdwy indicated the s(nte would seek the death penalty for the woman when he asked prospective jurors about their feelings toward capital punishment. During the first day of the at tractive, 35-year-old widow's trial for complicity in the bomb-slaying of her husband 27 prospective) jurors were excused, six of them on peremptory challenges. Of the 21 veniremen excused for cause, most of them expressed preconceived opinions gendered by the slaying's widespread publicity, This was also the basic reason for the change In venue which brought the case from Multnomah County to Yamhill County. Paper Late A broknn main drive gir on the prrm shortly nnr the start of today's run of paper result ed In a delay In the dlwIrilmUon of The Jiullrtln thin ervenlng. Eight Pages in from Klamath Falls, it was joined early this morning by a wrecker from Wishram. Dense ground fog covered the seen . of the wreck, not far west of U. S. Highway 97, this morning as crews worked to clear the track. (Bend Bulletin Photo by W. M. Loy, Jr.) Derailed cars included a tanker of alcohol. Contents spilled over the earth and drained into the pumice. The derailment has blocked all traffic over the Great Northern be tween - the Columbia gorge ' and Chemult. I Wrecking crows were mea in from the right of way. TherWivBs, Klamath Falls, and the broken freight cars were being shifted - lfrom the right of way. There wa a possibility that the line will not be cleared until late in the day. Work of getting the derailed cars hack on the track will be under taken when the line Is restored to service, The scene of the wreck is west of U.S. Highway 97, and a short distance north of the turnoff from the highway into Newberry crater. A crowd gathered as Fire Chief Vernon Carton and Fireman Bob Cecil ran into the gas filled area with filter-canister masks and In stalled a modem explosion meter, which registered below the danger line. They capped the leak and permitted the students to resume work when the gas wns dispelled The students suffered only the discomforts of smarting eyes and the unpleasant sulphurous odor nf gas. Customers were nble to con tinue their shopping in the main store. ' Mr. and Mrs. Cruickshank have presented their entire soda foun tain equipment to Central Oregon college for the future benefit of the students. Their son, John for merly attended the school. The gift was inspired by Attor ney Alva Goodrich, legal counsel for tfie school board, said Don Pence, director of the college. At- tornr Goodrich arranged for Hie transfer. A group of husky students ap peared at the store at 9:30 a.m. and bgan dismantling the foun tain when the leak occurred. Their work was disrupted for about an hour. The fountain will be stored at nruin Field until such time as ih Associated Students build a union or recreation center. Pence says operation of the fountain will tAi pay for a building. He expressed the thanks of the students, thr loard of directors and the faculty to the Crulckshanks. Cruickshank sa id the general store area will bo expanded to in clude the old fountain department, BURNS TO DEATH ARCAIDA. Calif. (UP) A yar llr filly, owned by Lindsay How ml, was turned to dea'h Thur y and another unidentified horse was injured severely when tin broke out In the tak room of r bam at Santa Anita Rae trac'' The fire was quickJy brought under control. FORECAST Fair through Saturday with high oloud today. High both days, 63-68. Low tonight, 28 36 No. 270 Chicago Officers Quiz 8 Persons In Murder Case CHlfcAGO (UP) Polloe dis closed today that eight persons have been arrested for questioning about the siaylnir of three vouniz boys, but none was regarded as a "good suspect." Lfe detector tests were scheduled for at least two of the eight, Ed ward Rohlfea, 47, and Michael Chupnfck, 22. Rohlfes, a former railroad work er, volunteered the information that he spent all of last Monday night and most of Tuesday morn ing in a forest preserve parking lot near the ditch where the nude and battered bodies were found. Sent To Laboratory Crime laboratory technicians found a crowbar, a clawhammer and a sweatshirt, stained as If It had been used to wipe up some thing, in Rohlfes' truck. The arti cles were sent to the laboratory for analysis and to determine whether human hair could be found on the hammer. If the bodies ' had been there (hen, he said, he would have seen them. They were discovered by a liquor salesman at 12:30 p.m. Tues day. Rohlfes said he saw three men in a battered old Ford drive into thc parking lot at 10:30 a.m., just as he was Iravlng. Detectives suid these men could have been the slayers, about to dispose of the boilies. Rohlfes said he had withheld his information because he did not want to got a forest ranger in trouble for letting him sleep in his parked truck in the forest pre serve. He said he formed the habit of sleeping there because of marital discord at home. He now Is di vorced, he said. Tape In Auto Chupnick was held for a He test nftrrpoliee found copper wire and masking tape In his car. Tape of some sort wns used to bind the Chupnick said he frequented a victims' eyes and mouths, and bowling alley where the boys were seen Sunday night. Thc slain boys, Robert Peterson, 13, John Schuesslcr, 13, and his brother, Alton Jr., 11. last were seen alive Sunday night. Hearing Called On Proposal A public hearing concerning the proposal that Deschutes county of fices be closed all day on Satur day will be hold on Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. In the county court oom of the Deschutes courthouse. Announcement of the meeting was made today by Judge C. L. Mien, following authorization by the county court. A legal notice relative to th learing appears In Th Bulletin today.
