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UrUv. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGOa WEATHER Cloudy today; rain or snow to night and Friday; high today 50-55; low tonight SO-SS: high Friday 4?-5. 52nd Year Two Sections Iceland Man Awarded '55 Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM (UPJ Author Ilalldor Kiljan Lawless of Iceland a onetime monk known for his anti-American views, today won Che 1955 Nobel prize for literature. The 18-member Swedish Acad emy awarded him the tax-free cash award of $36,720 and the plaque that goes with it for his sensitive novels of the little man in the cold mountain wastelands of Iceland. The 53-year-old Laxness, is winner of the Stalin prize, and this fact was believed to have weighed against 'him during the eight years he was considered for the Nobel award. Laxness, born Halldor Gundions- son, lived for three years in the United States but left In 1930 after a public clamor against him. American novelist Ernest Hem ingway won out over Laxness last year.- Laxness, who terms himself en "idealistic socialist." has publicly aepiorea me North Atlantic Treaty Organization which Includes Ice land. He has said he Is without partic ular leanings toward Russia, but has been a favorite In the Com munist literary world. Many of his earlier writings attacked life in the United States. Runnersup to Laxness was be lieved to have been French poet St. John Perse, Icelandic moralist Gunnar Gunnarsson, and exiled Greek novelist Nikos Kazantzak is. Laxness wrote eight novels, but only one, "Independent People," was published In the United States. It was about Icelandic cottage fapiers and was a Book Of The Month Club selection five years ago. t In 1927, Laxness was admitted to the United States and went to . California where he wrote two ar ticles denouncing the movies. Scout Order To Initiate , Thirty-five boys from the two state Modoc council will be in itiated into the Makualla lodge. Order of the Arrow, at a two-day ceremony this weekend. The Initiation will take place at the Scouts' summer camp, on the shore of Crescent lake. About a dozen boys from the Fremont dis trict, embracing the mid-Oregon counties, will be among the group initiated into the exclusive Scout lodge. An Indian ceremony will bo used. Jack Smith, local Scout ex ecutive, said. To qualify for membership in the order, a boy must be 13 years nr over and have had 10 days of night camping in the past year. Following a campfire ceremony Friday night, each boy, with his sleeping equipment, will be taken into the nearby woods, where he will be required to spend the night alone, and remain there until con tacted by a camp director the fol lowing morning. All day Saturday, the initiates will be required to observe silence, while engaged in camp improve- ment projects. The concluding ' ceremony will be held Saturday night, at which time boys meeting the tests will be accepted into the Order of the Arrow, camping soci ety of the Boy Scouts of America. Program Due At Silver Lake Scores of Central Oregon i an s, in eluding a bus load of 38 from Bend, will be among the large number expected to take part ir the celebration at Silver Lake Fri day afternoon marking the coming of power to Lake county's north ern great basin lands. Senator Wayne Morse, who is expected to pass through Bend about noon Friday en route south. will be the principal speaker. He will speak at 4:45 p.m., and again in the evening. The Silver Lake program is to got under way about 3 p.m. Fri day. Following a barbecue supper. starting at 5 p.m., there will be an evening proeram in which KtlA and BPA officials will take part I The bus carrying Bend residents to the celebration wMl leave from the Trailwavs station h-e Frdav at noon. An early return will be made from Silver Lake, to make it possible for local peonte to at tend the Bend-Redmond football game that evening. THE NEW GYM TAKES SHAPE Top, roof trusses being set on the new Bend High School gym nasium give an idea of the final shape of the bu ilding. Bottom, Foreman Carl Hart operates power wrench in assembling one of the trusses on the ground with W. L. Benton,, workman. Trus ses are hoisted to position by cranes. (Bend Bulletin Photo). State Seeking To Corroborate Wolfs Story MoMINNVILE (UP) The stat. called additional witnesses today to back the story of Victor Lau rence Wolf, accuser of pretty, 34- year-old Marjorie Smith who is on trial for her life in the bomb-slay- ing ot her attorney husband last spring. Wolf, 45, completed 1 1-2 days on Bie witness stand yesterday and snowed no sign ot cracking despite intense cross-examination by De- tense Attorney Bruce Spaulding. Wolf, who has admitted planting a dynamite bomb in Oliver Kermit Smith's car, said he did so at the beckoning of Mrs. Smith. ' Wolf saidihe might have been a 'little jealous" of Smith. But he denied enjoying the spotlight of public attention which has come to him through his testimony, charged by Spaulding. - , Wotf also denied having tmadc any arrangement with authorities whereby his punishment for mur der would be less if'he were able to bring in Mrs. Smith In the slay inff. Spoulding asked Wolf it he hod thought that someone else might have been in the attorneys car when the dynamite bomb went off. Wolf replied he thought about thai but I understood from his wne that he'd come straight home alone." Smith died when the home-made bomb went off in his car after hp left the Columbia Edgewater Coun try Club April 21. Wolf said Mis. Smith had taken her daughter for a ride on her; third birthday in the car which had been wired with the dynamite bomb. The prosecution called several witnesses yesterday afternoon .n effort to corroborate won s story. Mrs. Louella Wolf. Albany, Wolf's mother, was called to back Wolfs storv that he went to Albany last March after Mrs. Smith told him her. husband had sworn out a war rant against him. Jank Elliott, a deputy sheriff said he had caused an old car to be towed away from a parking place on the old Columbia River highway where Wolf testified he and Mrs. Smith had taken the ear Dale Eignor, Portland police man, said he was called to th Smith home the night Smith wa beaten in his garage. He said he heard Smith demand to know why the dog was Inside the huse in stead of outside. Mrs. Herman D. Metz said she had seen Wolf at the Smith homr the day he claimed he wired the car with dynamite. State of Union Message Worked On by President DENVER (UP) President Ei senhower went to work today in his hospital bed on the lengthy task of organizing his 1956 State of the Union Message which will go to Congress in January- He met in his Fitzsimons Army Hospital room with Kevin McCann. his chief speech writer, and Ma(. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, deputy assistant to-the President, for lis first concerted-work session oh the message. It was understood that this morning's conference did not con cern actual language, but was a survey of idas to be incorporated in the most Important yearly statement of admin'stration policy to a Congress which will be con trolled by the Democrats. The session was one more sig nificant step in the President's gradual return to a more active role at the government's helm, despite his scheduled hospitaliza tion for another two weeks. BEND Bond, jP"Wt J1 .JS-"' g j wir'"y'"'w.ii hi ii HUM .' . : ', . , , - J)jp--i'r7, 4 Giant Trusses in Place Over New Gymnasium, Auditorium By DON HKiGINS Bulletin Staff Writer Great bowstring trusses spanning 100 feet are being set this week on the high masonry walls of Bend's new high school gymnasium. The same arched trussing is top ping the walls of the big combina tion auditorium, stage and cafe teria building. They span 110 feet at one end and 90 feet at the other. These sturdy glulam (glue-lamin ated) members provide strength to permit free space In the gym and auditorium with no interior posts to shut off the view from any part of the spectators' area. They arc Oregon made by Timber struc tures. Inc., of Portland. Within the past two months, the walls of both buildings have been per cent completed, according to Don Gorans, construction super intendent. By the end of this week the roof framing will be nearly done. Sturdy Walls The walls are of reinforced con Crete, eight inches thick, poured six feet upward at a time around a mesh or curtain of vertical and horizontal steel rods. Every 17 feet 6 Indies a stiffening pilaster 21 inches thick supports the roof trusses and strengthens the walls. The auditorium walls are 44 feet hii'h from floor to celling, The rise of the arch in the roof measures 34 feet at the center. The trusses nre completed with dimension r ullns. tongue and groove decking and finally a built up roof of felt and asphalt with mineral surfacing. Other work done since The Bui latin's last progress report, said Gorans. Includrs framing 90 per cent of one of the classroom build ings. roofing the boiler room and the library, comnleting the stagi walls, and setting roof Joists on two classroom sections. One of Finest When completed, the Bend cam- nus-tyoe senior hish school will bt ne of the flnt in the nation -lid Gorans. Work was begun on he J1.17S000 multi-building school 'ast June and will be completed next Mav. A start his been mad" -in all buildings except one. and 'he forms are bing readied this veek for its foundation. It is the -OTmnercial and general classroom Sulldlne. R. E. JrweH. superintendent of vhools. said one corner of the 32 re campus is being reserved for an additional building. Another CENTRAL OREGON'S Deschutes County, Oregon space may be utilized eventually for a new Central Oregon College. When ground filling, leveling and landscaping has been done, there will be room for a football field and other sports spaces. Next year the three-year senior high school will be moved to the new location, which will accommo date from 650 to 700 students, and eventually 1,000 when classrooms are added, as needed. The Junior high school and the Central Oregon College will remain In the present building in Wall street, now over crowded with nearly 1.C00 students of the three schools. The new plant is bounded by Emerson. Sixth and Alden streets and Emerson boulevard. The contracting firm of Wall, Bartram and Sanford Is doing the work. One member, Harold Bart ram, moved his family here to enable him to give the Job his eon tinuous supervision. Astorian Named To league Post PORTLAND (UP) Astoria May or Peter G. Cosovfch yesterday was elected p r e s i d e nt of the League of Oregon Cities, succeed ing Diamond L. Flynn of Mcdford, The league, at Its convention which ended here yesterday, adopt ed eight resolutions, including one to ask tlie Interim Committee on Taxation to consider ways of sup plernenting city revenue to meet financial needs of increased, popu lations and demands for more municipal services. The leaque also urged develop ment of a park and recreation pro gram by cities financially able, and supported President Eisen hower's recommendation for de centralization of government by strengthening local governing bodies. i Paul O. Landry, Klamath Falls, 'vas elected viep president of th" league, and J. W. Barney of Hills lyvo was elected treasurer. Included on the new board of directors were Flynn. Ormond TV Rean. Portland: M S. Davidson. The Dalles; Richard W. Long. Ore eon City; Robert White. Salem: ;tohn F. Porter, Grants Pass, and 'Edward C. Harms Jr., Springfield. BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Thursday. October 27, 1955 Margaret Has Meeting With Churchman LONDON (UP) Princess Mar garet called today on the Arch bishop of Canterbury, Episcopal head of the Established Church or England. The visit aroused imme diate speculation that she had gone to ask for guidance about her romance with Peter Townsend. The primate .of the Church of England received Margaret shortly after 3 p.m. in whad could be one of the most dramatic develop ments in the romance of the Princess and the pilot. Margaret drove in a royal lim ousine from Clarence House to Lambeth Palace, the official Lon don residence of the archbishop. tulen Ducks Answer Margaret's visit lasted not quite an hour. She went directly home to Clarence House. While she was in session with the archbishop, the government again ducked giving an answer in Parliament to a question about her plans. Prime Minister Anthony Eden maneuvered the question pe riod in Commons so that he did not have to reply to the same question posed in vain Tuesday by Socialist M. P. Marcus Llpton. Upton wanted to know if the government would amend or re peal the royal marriage act of 1772, the law which would govern any match between Margaret and Townsend. The official question period again expired without an! answer. So far the archbishop, Dr. Geof frey Fisher, has been a silent ! antagonist of the 25-year-old Mar-! garet's possible marriage to the 41-year-old divorced Townsend. But he said only two days ago that the church cannot relent In its stand against remarriage of divorced persons because it "can- not change Its teachings every few minutes." isik-dk a i noon on weanesaay wnsnd last. IU views were contained! lAwa Ol Nlonmouui um AppM- The hoad of the BrHtah Metfibr'E'Mtric Power and Agriculture" n K nine-page document drawn upete "hot at a, Corva&U rv WsV'Church likewise was critical M his topic. The annual banquet! beforehand and. backed fully byk Station, fw oi ine friucess raponea romance. . l OL INW rnOnS Books Out Mail delivery of more than 9,000 copies of the new Bend and Prineville telephone directors be gan today, it was announced by H. C. Kerron, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. manager in the area. Pictures other than the long familiar "Spirit of Communica tions" appear on the new direc tories for the first time. Bend's book has a line drawing of swans on the city's far-famed Mirror Pond. On the cover of the Prineville book is a line drawing of an Ochoco deer. Kerron reports that 10,038 pounds of paper were used in printing a totul of 3.136.000 pages which make up the 14,000 books being Issued in the Bend find Prineville arens. He said an Increase of nine classified pages was necessary this year to list the additional goods and services now available in the area. However, there is no substantial gain In listing. The new telephone books list those that have been in use In the area since November, 1954. Kerron said the new books will be in service for 13 months. Gets NRA Post LINCOLN, Neb. (UP) L. E. Coles of Prineville, Ore., was elected first vice president of the National Reclamation Association yesterday, putting him in line for the presidency next year. Guy C. Jackson Jr. Anahuac.jdltlon to the hand burns has not Tex., is the now president. been determined. And Not Just for Ski Program Outlined by Gillis Gene Gillis, City Recreation Cen ter ski instructor, outlined plans last night for teaching Bend chil dren and young people how to ski this winter so they won't be flop ping around breaking their bones needlessly. He spoke to parents of children from 4 to 18 years old who attend ed the first public si mepting in Hie council room of City Hall. TV' room was filled with parents and oldr youngsters. Gillis said a public spirited Bend citizen a iked him two yean, ago to come over here from Bots". Ida., and take care of the kids and kids alone. H1 came this year. "I don't go all the wav with him on that," Gillis said. "I'd like to get an manv parents as possible Interested in skiing. They can take coaching a couple or three nights Players to Aid Cancer Fund With 'Bat' Proceeds The Bend Community Players will contribute to the local chap ter of. American Cancer Society again this year, It was announced by Ceorge Churchill, director of "The Bat," three-act mystery to be presented Dec. 8 and 9 in Al len School auditorium. Last year the little theater group made a Jiuu donation to the fund, from proceeds from 'Blithe Spirit." In announcing plans for the can cer benefit, Churchill also released names of Little Theater enthusi asts who have been named to round out the cast and production statt. Mrs. Almeda Hoist will be box office manager. She will be assist ed by Mrs. Don Denning and Mrs. Phil F. Brogan of the Cancer So ciety. Fred Cartmill has been cast In the role of Richard Fleming, and Pat Patton will play the part of Keginald Beresford. Cast members announced earlier include the fol lowing: Ruth Coyner, Betty Bon- field, Vlckl Hill, Margilee New-I man, John Hamilton, Ted Mikels, Elnar Kangas and Churchill. Lo retha Huettl Is understudy for Miss Hill. Two-Day Meet Of Plant Food Group Planned The sixth annual convention of the Pacific Northwest Plant Food association will open hire on Nov. 1 with the registration of delegates irom several states and a pre-con-ventlon cocktail hour. Business sessions will be Nov. 2 and 3, wh Dr. William A. Pearl, Bonneville Power administrator. I one of the speakers. He will wu mm evuiiina, wiinime entire North Atlantic Alliance---meanwniie, nis escape compan- I Kessler Cannon, Bend, as speaker. membership. - (Ion, 31-year-old Jose Mitchell De J All sessions will be at the Pilot The package plan called for: (Mesa, was returned to Eugene to iButte inn. 1. The reunification of Germanyface auto theft oharges which ..u.. wV.L,..u. ALU.,VC v.ii; president of the National Plant Food Institute, Washington, D.C., will be on the two-day program and will discuss sales promotion tools for broadening the fertilizer market. J. C, Patterson, assistant chief, Oregon state department of agri culture, Salem will have as his topic "Comments on Enforcement Program," Oregon. Washington and Idaho demonstration projects will be dis cussed at the concluding session on Nov. 3. Also on the program for the fi nal day will be Burton Hut ton as slstant 4-H Club leader, OSC, Cor vallis. He will have as his topic "Industry Looks to Youth." women accompanying their hus bands to the conference will Join In a trip to the Petersen rock gar den on Nov. 2, and at 10 a.m. on Nov. 3, the group will attend a "brunch" at Pine tavern. S. W. Martin, Portland, Is presi dent of the PNPFA. Burns Suffered By Lineman Pporlnl to Tho Bulletin REDMOND E. R. 'Bud" Smith, o( Route 2, Redmond, suf fered burns about his hands Wed nesday afternoon when ho was working on a power pole In Sis ters. He Is a lineman for the Cen tral Electric Cooperative. He was taken to Central Oregon District hospital by Redmond ambulance. Extent of possible injuries in ad- the 'Mighty Mites', Either a week for a while and then have, family parties with their own chil dren on weekends. I'll be glad to teach them at Skyllners. Just let me know." The parents perked up and be ian to look athletic. "I wish I'd had a chance like this when I was a kid," said the U. S. Olympic skier. "I just kept on breaking bones when I was learning. And after 20 years, even after competing at the Olympic amp. I asVed a friend what I could do to Improve my skiing." He said, "Start all over again. You Just don't know how to ski." That wn kind of hard to take r,)V said, but he did the best he could. Gillia asked parents not to be afraid. Onlv one-ha'f of one per cent of &dive skiers have acci Sixteen Pages Big 4 Ministers Open 'Acid Test' Meet at Geneva GENEVA (UP) The Big Four foreign ministers met today for an "acid test" conference, with the West geared to offer Russia a challenging peace package in re turn for a united Germany. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was set to take the Initia tive for the Western Big Three. But it was feared Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov would try to stall and block the West's move. Dulles, Molotov, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmlllan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay met In the Palace of Nations In the first of a series of sessions designed to keep the world on the road to peace against a back ground of threatened war In the Middle East. . New Troubles The question of European secur ity and German unity was the first Item on the conference agenda. But the Middle East and a new crisis in France added possible new trouble to the discussion. Israeli Premier Moshc Sharett arrived here from Paris to press his demands for Western guaran tees of his nation's frontiers and to usk for arms to match the Communist supply ot weapons to t.gypt. "Israel will fight again If she must," he said, In emphasizing the urgency of his stand. Meanwhile, Pinay disclosed that he will fly back to Paris tomorrow to await the outcome of a vote of confidence test In the French Na tional Assembly. Its result will determine whether he returns to Geneva with new power to nego - tlate tor France, or merely as on nhionjo uiltKrait ntithmttv observer without authority' ..,,... I Th8 West planned to move tlrstttfe W Police Chief Edward C, oy Iree elections, a goal me wesi has sought through all the years of cold war. 2. An offer to Russia, in return, NLRB Hearing Set for Bend A national labor relations board Hearing dh alleged 'unfair labor practices . In Ute lumber Indus try may be shifted to Bend from Mcdford this coming week. The hearing opened In Mcdford on Monday, with Martin S. Ben nett, San ' Francisco, aa NLRB hearing examiner, In charge. Word from Mcdford today Indicated that the Mcdford phase of the hearing is expected to continue for the re malnder of the week. The charges were filed by locals of International Woodworkers of America, CIO, against Red Blanket Lumber company of Eagie Point. in the Mcdford area, the Pine In dustrial! Relations committee of Klamath Falls and four Central Oregon lumber firms. Including Brooks-Seanlon, Inc., Bend, and three in Redmond. Charges arise out of (he prolong ed lumber strike In (he summer of 1954. Chester L. Irvine, Klamath Falls, PIRC secretary-manager, was the first called at the Mcdford hearing, and much of the time so far this week was spent In producing PIRC records. A. J. Glassow, Bend, represent ing Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., is attend ing the hearing. dents these days. There are a few! broken legs and you hear of them, he told the parents. One for about every 800 skiers . The instructor suggested a sche dule for coaching that would start when there is plenty of snow, say around the first of January. He hopes to use school buses once or twice a week as follows: 9:30 a.m. to noon Junior high vhool students, leave school for i-yliners. return In time for lunch md afternoon classes. 1 o.m. to 4-30 Senior high school students by bus. The big prob'em. he said. Is to find trarmrtitton for grad ivboo! pupils, the future greats of skiing. Some of the parents said theyj would start thinking out a wIu tlon. One of them said he had an Idea that might work out just fine. FORECAST . Clearing and colder with reek ing tonight. Fair Thursday. Highs today 4 52. High Thurs day 58-57. Low tonight 20-2S- No. 275 of solemn non-aggression guaran tees, as a means ot calming any legitimate Soviet fears for se curity. ' It was up to Dulles to sell the program at the outset. But West ern diplomats frankly were doubt ful that Molotoy would go along with the plan. They feared he would tic up the conference In procedural wrangles and cause It to end in the some old deadlock but perhaps with a politer ending than in the past, so that further talks still would be possible. Murder Charges Faced by Youth CORVALLIS (UP) Martin Reyes, 23, appears in District Court today for arraignment on a murder charge stemming from the fatal wounding of a reserve deputy during a 24-hour jallbreak spree up the Willamette valley. Attorney John Fenner will repre sent the youth who asked for legal help yesterday after hearing the murder charge In the court of Judge Richard Mengler. Reyes, who Is accused of mortal ly wounding James Appelgate, 39, and taking a car at gunpoint from H. H. Littlefleld, 33, appeared In court In clean corduroy trousers given him by police. He also received a comb after complaining that his hair appeared lwd and messy In pictures taken oy pnoiograpners aner nia capture, l The' vouniz terrorist warn taken ' I alnnlehanded and without a trus ""B"'"" owu pi-m of tlie pair. De Mesa was captured Monday night in Corvallls shortly after the, escape, but Reyes donned gunny - sacks and used what he called," 'guerrilla" tactics to elude posses- between Corvallis and Monmouth; until Tuesday night when he en tered a restaurant and was slutted. Yesterday Reyes took police to (he spot near the Corvallls service station where he dropped "ill empty gun. The weapon was recovered from under a hedge and sent to Portland for ballistics test. Reyes claimed ha did not "de liberately" kill Appelgate. He sald the gun apparently went oft as he grappled with him. All in the Line Of Duty, Officer Here's the way tt was: The lady called police and said her key wouldn't unlock her car, and would the police help. The policeman went to the park ing lot. He took her key and wv. locked the car. She drove away, Later In the day a lady called police and said her car was not where she parked It. The police man asked her where that was. He went over there wllh her. The car was there. The policeman assisted her Into the car. She smiled sweetly and said "thanks" as she drove away. The policeman said, "Womenl" 'vhen she was out of hearing. Wrong number. It was the same lndy. That leaves the parents and the "mighty mites" of preschool age. Gillis said you tell the "mites" how to. put on their skis and 10 minutes later you tell them again. Then you give up and pretty soon they watch the older ones and are doing it without being told. They live in a world of their own and operate In mysterious but effec tive ways. And have fun, too. The whole thing will Jell pretty . soon, said Gillis, and he'll have another meeting. Meantime, Just to got going, Gillis invites all who are Interested to take a trek with him this coming Sunday up Mt. Baehelor. Let him know. Phone 1024. He will arrange to pick you up, tote you, lend you and teli you. The start, 8 t-rn. it?
