The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, October 29, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text7 Ualv of Ortsoa Library Bend . . Redmond 25 7, Marshfield . . 2lCulver 46!Corvallis . . . . 7Albany . . . . 281alceview Prineville . : . . O.Dufur l9South Salem . . 0 North Salem . . 7 Bun . . 14 Vale ...... 48lPendleton . . . 45 WEATHER High yesterday, 57 degree, tow last night, 43 degree. Sunset today, 5:00. Sunrise to morrow, 6:38. 52nd Year One Section r 'Dir. JTjfeji. 'mHjZ 0AKBtt.ut t.r-lltl-5 Among the busiest men at the Silver Lake celebration Friday were Phil Pitman, left, in charge of the barbecue, and his assistant, Bob Rosebrook. They are pictured at the barbecue pit, where beef was looked in the earth overnight. The big meal was served in the school gymnasium. . (Bend Buetin photo) Benson Has No Thought Of Resigning MOORHEAD, Minn. (UP) Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son, en route to Denver today to confer with President Eisenhower, says political pressure will not force him to resign or support any program he does not believe is best for farmers. "I am going to see It throush Just as long as the President wants me to remain In his Cabinet," Benson said Friday night. He addressed a Farmers Day observance of the Moorhead Chamber of Commerce. . . j The secretary has been criticized. In recent months because of falling farm prices, and a number of poli ticians, including some Republi cans, have urged that his flexible price support program be junked. Mr. Eisenhower, however, has repeatedly expressed, full confi dence in Benson's approach to the farm problem. i About 3,800 persons attending Benson's speech greeted the sec retary with a standing ovation. - They applauded him when he pledged to. remain in his Job de spite pressure and again when he remarked, "No political party can take credit for high wartime prices unless it also wants to take credit for war and bloodshed." However, a few boos broke out later in the speech when he re marked that the price decline in agriculture from 1951 through the middle of this year had occurred under high rigid price supports. Benson apparently had his crit ics in mind when he addressed the Moorhead audience. He said: j "I am striving earnestly and conscientiously to serve my coun try as secretary of agriculture. It is not a job that any man would want at this time if he were in terested only in advancing his per sonal comfort or popularity. "I pledge to you that I will never j knowingly advocate or support any program or policy which I believe is not in the best interest of our farmers regardless of political pressure." Benson cited as a bright spot in the farm picture the rising value of land. "This fact indicates clearly that farm people as a whole think the future of American agriculture is bright," he said. Benson admitted that farmers generally have not participated in the nation's overall prosperity be cause of "the accumulation of surplus stocks of major farm ' commodities." Which of Nine Lives Was It? Can you tie 4his? The Superior Cafe reported to police thai a cat was run over in the alley behind 1043 Bond street An officer went there and found the cat. Tne cat raised up on one paw and winked. What's the matter wtth you cat?" asked the officer. - The cat said absolutely nothing It got up and walked off with dismity. It looked as though It was thinking "Nosey guy; Just wants to know which of my nine lives I tost." IT H Li JU '..'MHr 7 r j'. ST He i GOP House Whip Depl ores Continued Farm Price Drop WASHINGTON (UP) House Republican Whip Leslie C. Arends (III) said today the continued drop In fai m prices is "deplorable" and "I don't blame farmers for holler ing." "Congress has got to deal with the problem," he told a reporter. "We've got to find the answer." He spoke out after the Agricul ture Department reported that farm prices, measured against the costs farmers pay for production and living expense Items, have Bpnd Student May Get Summer Trip to Europe Possibility of sending a Bend high school student to Europe this summer was being considered here today following the visit of Miss Sachiye Mizuki, representative of the American Field Service. Miss Mizuki came here to confer with school officials and visit with Miss Ingrid Schralzberger of Aus tria, an exchange student from Austria. Miss Mizuki was also to confer with Manuel Garcia Gon zales, an exchence student at Crook County high school, Prlne-i vttle. Miss MizjiW said that a candidate for overseas study this summer from the Bend sctool must be a junior, must have had two years of foreign language and must rje Id years or older and adaptable for study In a foreign city. The student would live In an European home, for two months. Local applications will be submit ted to the American r icld service for final selection. At present. Miss Mizuki said. Germany, with 500 exchange stu dents In this country, is taking most of the exchange students go ing to Europe. A resident ot banger, cam. Miss Mizuki Is a graduate from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. She conferred here with J. R Afhcson, Bend high school princi pal. Driver Remains In Serious Condition Here The condition of James Green. 43. resident qf Oakland, Calif., in hired on Oct. 5 when his car skid dl on icy spot on U-S. 97 near the Lava River caves, south oi Bend, was reported serious today. He is the motorist who remained beside the road for nearly two hours waiting for an ambulance from Bend because a passing motorist who had volunteered to lake the emergency message here failed to report the acident. Green's sister, Ella, who with him in the car was not ser iously hurt. Mrs. Green, here from Oakland today ecpre5rfied her thanks to re sidents of the Bend commu m ly who came tt the aid of the stricken family with contributions. She said there were many who made dona tions 7ithout leaving their namns, wd to thes. as well as ones that TO mes-. as wen as oni-s mai ?n be reached, she expressed her. Vj , - u u Attorneys for Curtis C Wilson meeting with Dulles. But Western "al elections tor me teocrai par "I deonlv regret it will be Im- Attorneys tor Lums i. wu.son. , m . u. , nment todav and tomorrow. . . , . thaH our Mends to exr, r,29 years, asked Youngdahl yester-i Three is prepared at present to go 'J!LtaESZhy to block the a? -xnrewd bv the entire commun- Commission from suspending w.l- ratitm to rest agion by el ity", Mrs. Green said. '". - tber side in the Middle Eat. FT 1 BEND H J l.WT"r7 -ri ill. dropped to the lowest level in 15 years. The department said that during the month ending Oct. 15 farm prices dropped two per cent and the prices of things that farmers buy went up one third of one per cent. As a result, farm prices averaged only 82 per cent of par ity, lowest since November, 1940. Parity is a price calculated to give farmers a theoretically fair return lor their products in com parison with the cost of thincs they must buy. If the index of prices paid equalled the index of prices received, the parity rate would -be 100 per cent. IH'iiUR'ruts Woo Farmers The new report on tarm prices furnished added fuel for Demo crats seeking to woo farmers into Democratic columns for the 1956 presidential campaign. It showed farm prices on an average have dropped five per cent in the lal year, 7.6 per cent in the last two years, 18 per cent in the last three years, and now stand 26.5 per cent below the record high of Februaiy,, 1951. L Arends safd the administration's controversial flexible price support program, which went into effect on basic crops this year, can t be blamed for the decline. He at tributed it to price - depressing surpluses accumulated under the Democratic program of rigid sup ports which prevailed' until this year. Political Football Charged Democratic leaders Adlai Steven son and Averell Harriman are us ing the farm program "as a po litical football" in calling for a re turn to rigid supports of 90 per cent of parity for basic crops, Arends said. Rigid supports, Arends said, wouldn't help solve the problem unless production controls which farmers don't want and which Stevenson and Harriman don't mention," are used. Arends said "various proposals will be offered next year" for stabilizing farm income and "Con gress owes it to agriculture to con sider them." He said that Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson, who has been under sharp fire from Demo crats, is "an honest sincere man with no ax to grind who is trying to solve the farm problem. ' Arends acknowledged there are some farmers who think Benson isn't solving it "fast enough." But he added tlu f ousting Benson from the cabinet ' ; no answer. Benson, in a speech at Moor head. Minn., last night, vowed that he will neither resign nor change his basic farm program regard less of political pressure." Postal Employe Faces Charges WASHINGTON (UP) Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl has taken under advisement a case against a postal employe charged with violating the Hatch Act by writing to a newspaper criticizing Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas. The Hatch Act bars federal em I - , ,.. , ,. P- V. i a rnriopa raiiunv man ioric iiir CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend. Deschutes County. Oregon Saturday. October 29. .7 b .1 FEATURED SPEAKER Senator Wayne Morse was guest speaker at the Silver Lake program, held in celebration of the coming of power to the region. He also spoke in the evening. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Israel Pleas Turned Down By Big Three GENEVA (UP) The WostPrn Big Three have decided to turn down Israel's pleas for arms and new security guarantees In the wake of the new flaroun of Miririlo c-usr ngnting, auuiorltutive sources said today, The sources said, however, the western allies are preparing to re Hew' their three-way 1950 declara tion pledging action against ag gression ay either Israel or the Arub states, The Big Three foreign ministers met urgently for a huJf hour this morning against a background of reports of new Israeli-Egyptian clashes in the Gaza frontier area. A spokesman said the U.S., British and French foreign minis ters had planned to discuss the explosive Middle East crisis. I But, in the end, he said, they devoted their session to a review of strategy for this afternoon's third session of the Big Four con ference with Soviet Foreign Min ister V. M. Molotov. The spokesman added, however, the three Western powers already had decided to: 1. Continue to refuse arms for Israel to match Soviet bloc deliv eries of arms to Egypt. 2. Refuse the new security guar antees demanded here and In Paris by Israeli Premier Moshe Sharett. 3. Offer Israel, Instead, a renew al of the May, 1950 declaration, promising action against aggres sion by either side in the dispute between Israel and the Arab states. Israeli sources said Sharett will coldly reject the West's offer of a renewal of the five-year-old pledge, claiming it would be "worthless" in face of the present situation. Secretary of State John Foster pulles, French Foreign Minister! Antoine Pinay and British Foreign; Secretary Harold Macmillan met at Macmlllan's villa here at 11 a.m. Pinay flew back from Paris Fri day for today's session after help ing Premier Edgar Faure survive a confidence vote in the National Assembly. But Friday's session disclosed that the Big Three Western power? and the Soviet Union are still far apart on the issue of European peaee and security. Dulles and MacMillan held a one-hour emergency meeting Fri day to discuss the new Middle East crisis. Today, Dulles sched uled a meeting with Israeli Premier-Foreign Minister Moshe Shar ett, in Geneva to press the Big Four Int action. Sharett conferred with Dulles and MacMillan in Paris last week. He met with Pinay last night. On Monday, he will lay his com plaints on the Communist sale of arms to Egypt d I r e c t ly before Molotov. Sources said Sharett would press ' r. ..rilv mrt htevn j mtuiro expected to cast ballot. In gen- : mucinis iiiuiiuiij nunc ui uic tit BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER , Celebration Marks Flow of Power Into North Lake County Province By PHIL F. BROGAN Bulletin Staff Writer SILVER LAKE Power eener- ailed by water tumbling over Bon neville dam on the distant Colum bia river came to this northern Great Basin province of Oregon t naay. No symbolic closing of a switch, or priming of a ptlmp hoisting water from this rangeland area's old luke beds, marked the occa sion a grand celebration In which some 2,000 people took part, in this There was time out, however, for afternoon and evening- pro grams at which Senator Wayne Moine was principal speaker. And there were greetings from Ore gon s governor, Pa u 1 Pa 1 1 erson. brought to the large group by Alva C. Goodrich, Bend attorney. From Senator Richard Neubef- ger came a telegram, expressing his best wishes to residents of the Silver Lake, Fort Rock and Christ mas Lake valleys of northern Lake county a region now served by electricity "piped" in from the Midstate Electric Cooperative, Inc. j main line at LaPine. Larimer Presides Presiding as master of cere monies was George Larimer, Mid- state Electric manager. i Airport More Popular Since Lights Installed Pat Gibson, manager of Bend Airport, said today that night fly ing is becoming more popular. Two or three planes land at the airport each week, he said, since the lights were Installed. Roy Sergeant and Bob Smith, of Power Line Erectors, a construc tion firm, flew in last night from their Spokane, Wn., headquarters. At sundown, Phil Hanlon, general manager of Jerrold N. W., Inc., of Portland, arrived with Mrs. Han lon. The Jerrold firm is installing cable for television here. Airport Manager Gibson reports a gradual but constant increase in the use of the airport. Israel Beats Back Attacks TEL AVIV, Israel (UP) Egyp tlan artillery thundered across the Gaza demilitarized zone between Israel and Egypt during the night ind Egyptian troips were repulsed In two attempts to capture ad vanced Israeli positions, an Army spokesman said today. No Israeli casualties were re ported. The Egyptian artillery barrage was directed against advanced po sitions at Nirim, one of the chain of small settlements along the powderkeg Gaza strip. F.I.F.CTION DUE ZURICH, Switzerland (UP) Some million male Swiss voters - All 196 scats of the National Council (lower house) and 25 of, the 44 seats In the Council of States (upper house) are at stake. 7 1955 i. t -JtV t- Clivrn I A lr mrr "im t . . ' v, rr B .uc lam, iToa me quier rangeiand town. of Silver Lake was a busy place Friday after noon when a celebration was held marking the coming of power to the region. Thit It a view south along the Fremont highway. In the center of the picture, a church spire looms against the October sky. i. p, . Senator Morse in his briel after-1 noon Calk declared that the exten- slon of power into the northern basin region of Lake county is symbolic of progress in this part oi me siaie. And. he declared, there will be need for more power, and for more produce from western lunds. Forty-fiva. years from now, be said, h western rcKlon WIU need 30 timesl as much electric energy as now Doing produced. Senatotf Morse said 93 per cent at tne Ulttted mates ta now elec - trilled. But, he said, 68 per centl "IL ' . .y .-in-iii. au-cnoy nerorange aays, me era or nomeetead- "firmlnft ud", to care for moreinir And tha arid vmm that ro patrons. I The seiAMor in his afternoon talk, before a packed hall, touched onr the role of soil conservation, and said that each generation must serve as a trustee to protect soil for future generations. Surplus food, Senator Morse de clared, is one of America s groat est assrts and one of Its greatest weapons . Barbeeuo Served The afternoon talk by the sen ator followed a cocktail hour, in the Western Pump building here. After the talk, a barbecue was served, in the community's spac ious gymnasium. Leaders Agree To New Elections BUENOS AIRES (UP) Ousted Peronlst labor leaders today can celled the threat of a general strike and agreed to abide by new union elections. Union officials who supported fallen dictator Juan D. Peron met with Labor Minister Luis CerrutU and then issued a communique calling for "all workers to remain at their posts, confident that their rights will be protected." The government ousted the heads of the unions making up the General L a bor Confederation (CGT) Friday night In a show down with Peron supporters In tha labor movement. Officers of the armed forces were ordered to preside over each union and three Labor Ministry In spectors were assigned to each union of the CGT. The . government announcement said each of the unions of the CGT would hold new elections 120 days from now. Swift government action ended the threat of a general strike which would have greatly ham pered Argentina's campaign of economic recovery from years of misrule by Peron 'ft graft - ridden government. WKONO TITLE i;8EI W. L. Stollmack is business mfti acr, not manager of St. Charles Memorial hospital, as he was identified In yesterday's story in The Bulletin relative to the Gear hart conference of hospital execu tives. Sister Madeline, who attend ed the convention with Sister Madeline, who attended the con- mention with Sister Louise, Is ad mlrristratar of the local hospital Also making the trip to Gcarhart was Mrs. Stollmack. Nyssa ... . . 0 Eight Pages IS : r 1 . . . . . . Phil Pttmnn. mwnt. r.t ,h mi Centurv Ranch ni the n,ri.im. Lake valley, was in charge oi the barbecue, prepared in pits near the south edge of Silver Lake. A huge meal was served the visitors, from many parts ot Orccon. More than 100 people were pre sent from Bond, with most ot this big group making the trip In chartered buses. For many, the occasion was reunion, as well as a celebraMon. In the huge crowd wore many loloneera nf th. iiiln-mfn nnri women who remember the pioneer faulted In general abandonment lands hi the old lake basins. Among the oldest residents ot the, area present were Mr. and 5 r v . 7.1 r j t " Mrs. Newell Corum, of near SllverMround 150 consumers have ben Lake. Ho was born in the area, Also present was Mrs, P. D. Reed- er of Klamath Falls, a survivor! of the tragic fire In a hall here on Christmas eve, 1894, in which 43 persons died. Worst in History That tragedy still stands as the worst In the history of the entire state. Some of the old timers visiting here yesterday took time out to visit the pioneer cemetery Just to the south, and to read the Sage Brushers Prepare Displays For Art Week Mrs. Pat Winters, secretary of the Bend Sage Brushers, nounced today that paintings of the member artists will be displayed in store windows Monday and dur ing National Art Week. Names of artists and the stores where their work is on display will be made, public then. This year the Sage Brushers are making one-man entries in the state and national contests for art work. Their paintings and sketches are included In a huge leather bound Scrapbook which is entered In the national contest In New York City. Last year the Bend group won second place in the state and Ore gon placed high in the nation. A special showing is being arranged this year for the paintings of Wii Ham Eastman, a professional, who has returned recently to Bend from Hawaii where he completed a number of canvases. Deadline Passes Without Strike NEW YORK (UP) The con tract between the CIO Communica Hons Workers of America and tin American Telephone and Tele graph Company long lines division expired at midnight without n threat of a nationwide strike. Company and union represents Hves. negotiating pst the contract deadline, recessed their tnlks at 2 n tn. F.DT and sohedulM another sewrion later (2 p.m., EDT) today A company spokesman said "ne-i gotiatlons sre going amnothly. The uriion, representing 23 wn 1o(k; distance cmrntors and main- tPirowe men. h seeking r(tn sonnble" watre increase, a 35-houu wrek. oomtwnv flnnrtrcH health In fflirane. adrfttlonnl holidays and other rlnge benefits. Baker . ..... 7 FORECAST Cloudy and windy with occa sional shower, tonight; partly cloudy Sunday; high both day. 63-58; low tonight No. 277 Rtory of that tragedy on a memor ial stone. Birt tragedy of lone aan mt forgotten as the big crowd joined in rnaay s celebration marking the coming of power to the Lake range lands. That power was brought hero over a main trans mission line, 43 miles In length. ana wiu ne aistrmutea through 143 miles ot line, with 40 additional miles soon to be constructed. The Northern Construction Co.. ot Teroy, Mxmt., built the 14' mue of dhrtrtbiraon line and the CarJson Construction Co. . eon. structed the 43 mUem ot tnuumis. - fnlnn Hma oil Cost of the broleot anoraxlmntfA 1765.000. Bv nvt -n,, ,nn irrigation Dumm wild h mmmi I with Dower from the nnur lln. added to the Midstate Electric by the extension. Flood Llxnt Used Temporary installations provided flood lights for Silver Lake's main street here last night, for the evening program. Joining Senator Morse on the platform last night were Fred Hnrtl, REA official, and Thomn Bldok, BPA manager. The Fort Rock Granee presented a sktt, and dance followed. Defense Offered By Mrs. Smith McMINNVIILE (UP) Mrs. Marjorie Smith took the stand as a witness In her own defense yes terday to answer accusations that she planned the murder of her hus band, Portland Attorney Oliver Kermit Smith. The comely widow, accused of planning the car-bomb slaying by her aliened lover, Victor Laurence Wolf, told in a clear, firm voice how Wolf had applied for a room at her rooming house. She said she refused him the room at first be cause she didn't like his looks, but later gave in because she needed the money. Mrs. Smith said she "dated" Smith following their divorce, and lhat the attorney was more atten tive to her and missed the children. 'It Is hard to put it In words but I was always in love with him," she said. The state's case ended Thursday. It was based mostly on Wolf's testimony that he planted a dyna mite bomb in Smith's car at the urging of Mrs. Smith In order to gain her love and share In the at torney's insurance. Group Seeking McKay's Scalp PHOENIX (UP) -Delegates to a regional meeting of the Notional Rural Electric Cooperative Associ ation today were on record as desiring the removal of Interior Secretary Douglas 0. McKay. The resolution, adopted at tha" closing session of a conference at tended by 400 delegates from Ari zona. New Mexico and Texas, also sought ouster of Garence Davis, undersecretary of the Interior, and Fred Aandahl, assistant secretary.