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EUGENE. OREGON
WEATHER
Partly rlomiy with snow flurrlM
tonight and Saturday. High bolb
days, SJ 10. Low tonight, JO 25.
BEND BULLETIN
FORECAST
High yesterduy, 49 degreefl. Low
last night, 39 degrees. Pre
cipitation last 24 hours, 0.60
Inches. Sunset today, 4:31. Sun
rise tomorrow, 7:38.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
53rd Year One Section
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Friday, December 23, 1955
Eight Pages
No. 16
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THE
River
Missing Paratrooper
Survives Five -Day
Ordeal in Cascades
TAOOMA (UP) A toiyh para-
trooper, whoso frozen feet could
not stop his willpower, was to be
reunited with his Japanese wife
and three children today in a pre-
Christmas Eve celebration of his
survival of five days in the sub-
freezing weather of the Cascadi
Mou tains.
The "nightmare" was over for
Sgt. John M. Horan, Maynard,
Mass., who leaped from a spin
ning airplane last Sunday.
Horan rested in a hospital bed
at Madigan Army Hospital near
here. His wife, Toruko, and the
couple's three children, Kenneth.
5, , Michael, 1, and Lorraine, 3
months, were to be at his bedside
later today.
The soldier's wife who arrived
Fremont Road
Closed to Travel
South Central Oregon's Fremont
highway, which leads from U. S.
97 near LaPine to Lakeview, was
blocked to all travel today, result
of the loss of a bridge on the
Chewauean river in Paisley.
Lakeview was reported virtually
Isolated from the outside world,!
with the Klamath Falls-Lakeview,
route also closed and with all:
roads leading from northern
Nevada to California blocked. j
(Motorists were advised this
morning that chains were re
quired on all Oregon Cascade
passes. Snow on the mountain
routes was not heavy during the
night, but the puck was dump arid
''dangerously slick.
Plows were operating on all the
passes. Heavy snow was still fall
ing on the Santiam divide this
morning, with a 10 inch pack re-;
ported.
Heavy snow was also falling onj
the Ochoco pass this morning. Ten
inches fell there in the night.
The Willamette, it was indicated,,
may remain closed for several
days as a result of the slide that:
blocked that route east of Oak
ridge.
'Indian Fighter'
Stealing Shov
-' By PHIL F. BROGAN
Bulletin Staff Writer
Central Oregonians who are
packing the Tower theater in Bend
these holiday evenings to see "The
Indian Fighter" are missing the
story because of the scenery.
This Is the complaint of many,
especially those who had parts in
the Cinemascope production in
Central Oregon this past summer.
However, there is a story the
story of a frontiersman, a part
played by Kirk Douglas, who is a
bit closer to the Indians than he is
to the whites and plays the role ol
an intermediary between the two
groups in bloody action on the Ore
gon trail of long ago.
The background for this picture
includes the jagged Smith rocks o(
the Crooked river gorge, the pic
turesque head of the Metolius riv
er and the scenic country near
Benham falls, location of a frontier
fort.
Much of the flaming action cen
ters around the fort and the ac
tion is renlly of the fiery kind:
Three immigrant wagons captured
by the Indians and filled with blaz-
Week's Record
Set by Shoppers
WASHINGTON'S (UP) The na
tion's shoppers set a record
Christmas buying last week.
Department store sales for the
week ending last Saturday were 6
per cent higher rhnn the old record
a year ago, the Federal Reserve
Board reported yesterday.
The board gave no dollars and
cents figures but said its sales
Index for last week normally thr
peak of the Christmas rush stood
at 255 p?r cent ot the VMi-a naso
period. T.Vis was 15 points higher
than the sam- week in 19M and 2t
poults above that week in 1953.
Christmas buy'.ng pushed totnl
department store sales so far fiis
year 7 per cent above the total for
the same period of 19W.
in Scuttle only lust Tuesday with
the children from Tokyo, had to bi
given a sedative lust night. She
was weak from worry and the
enwUonal strain.
One Big Nightmare
"I knew I couldn't stop if I was
going to walk out alive." was the
way Horan put his version of "a
routine jump" when I bailed out.
But, what happened afterwards
was one big nightmare.
Horan walked to safety when he
found his way yesterday to the
Rustic Inn on Highway 10 near
Easton, Wash., just east of snowy
Snuqualmie Pass.
"I guess the snow was eight feet
deep in some places," he said. "It
was soft and I sunk in up over
my hips on occasion."
The sergeant leaped out of an
Air Force C-2-15 Sunday shortly aft
er noon, when the craft went into
a spin over the bleak Cascades.
He was relieved to learn the pilot
of the plane righted the craft and
landed it safely. .
"I found a cabin Monday morn
ing and I broke a window and got
in," he said. "I found some match
es and got a fire going. I found
cocoa in a cupboard and I melted
some snow and moved as close
to the fire as I could. I didn't
know then I was going to live on
that cocoa for the next four days."
Refrigerator Shelves
The Soilder made rude snow-
shoes out ot shingles he found in
the.cabin but they didn't last very
long, "only tor 500 feet."
Then he discovered his Mesaver.
shelves In a refrigerator that he
strapped In his feet with strips
irotn nis paruenme. nc
nf the wilderness on those.
When truck noises I hod heard
for three days got louder, I knew
I was getting closer to civiliza
tion." he said.
"When I cot over the rim of a
hill nnd heard people talking, I
knew I had it made. Then I round-
d a bend and saw two men stand
ing by a big log-cabin type inn.
The men were Paul nays anu
Kelly Page, the innkeepers.
Tell my wife, im oxay, nc
muttered to Page.
Scenery
for Viewers
ing brush are hurled against the
fort. Flaming arrows start other
fires.
And there is also dust, stirred
by racing animals drawing brush
to create a screen Dehina wnicn
the Indians attack.
In the picture are many Central
Oregonians ranchers driving the
covered wagons or r.ding horses.
Indians in full war regalia from
tiie Warm Springs reservation and
Bend women in the role of frontier
wives on the long trail to Oregon.
Starring with Douglas are Elsa
Maiiinelli. in the role of an Indian
maiden: Diana Douglas, a frontier
widow, Walter Matthau, Lon Cha-
ney, Alan Hale and others.
One of the spectacular scenes is
the crossing of Crooked river by a
wagon train. The gorge scenery
lends itself for several different
backgrounds.
The film story in technicolor,
opens at the head of the Metolius
river, where an Indian encamp
ment is pictured. It is there tha'.
Douglas, as "The Indian Fighter,"
makes contact with the plains
warriors as a wagon train ap
proaches.
Drunken renegades provide the
spark that result in the clash be
tween the whites and Indians, and
the spectacular attack on the
fort.
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Official Opening
Of Skyliner Area
Due on Saturday
Skyliner's will officially open
their all-sports winter playground
Saturday. Dec. 24. at 10 a.m.
Last week's scheduled opening
was cancelled because the weath
erman didn't cooperate, but the
last snow has made skiing con
ditions good at the winter re
creation area.
The tow will operate tomorrow
The area will be closed Sunday.
Christmas day, but- will resume
operation Monday at 10 a.m. Sea
son tow tickets are available at
the playground.
It was not known yet whether
the Skyliner bus would be avail
able tomorrow to transport kids
or not. The bus was just painted
and may not be ready for a da
or two.
The bus was painted orange as
a safety factor and trimmed in
black.
Percy Madden
Named Head
Of Gleemen
The Bend gleemen, recently re
organized, have elected Percy
Madden president for the coming
year, with Al Erickson to serve as
vice-president and public relations
officer and Gail Sigmund as secretary-treasurer.
Serving with these officers on
the board of directors will be Vain
Wilder. T. D. Sexton and Randall
Craig.
Earl Roarig of the Bend school
faculty is director of the group,
with Alpha Sexton as accompanist.
The leaders of the reorganized
group will take otllce at the tirst
regular rehearsal of the new year,
on Tuesday, January 3. Temporary
officers have been In charge since
reorganization early this past fall,
and served as an organization
committee.
The new officers were named
at a meeting at the Bend High
school on Tuesday night.
When the group arranged for re
organization, invitations were sent
to all known nlale singers in Cen
tral Oregon, and after six weeks
the membership was closed with
28 on the rolls.
Although the membership re
mains closed, anyone interested in
joining the Gleemen are asked to
got in touch with the new'oflicers.
. New members will be added
only as needed to fill vacancies
in each of the four singing sections
of the chorus.
Action Due Soon
On Highways
Three highway improvements
within the limits of Bend are near
ing the action stage, the city com
mission was informed Wednesday
by Manager Walter T. Thompson.
They are the widening and curb
ing wherever necessary to create
four lanes in Highways 97, 20 and
Cascade - Lakes, the posting of
signs for a truck bypass in High
way 97, and the island removal
and illumination of the intersection
at East Third street and Franklin
avenue.
Thompson told the commission
'that state highway engineers will
arrive in Bend shortly to go into
more detail on the width of curbs
and other specifications.
Signs routing trucks around the
business disti ll on Highway 97
will be place at Revere street
and other coni'.-rs.
Costs to owners of abutting prop
erty of the curbing for the widen
ing of the highways will not be
known until a survey is completed
by engineers of locations where
excavating is needed.
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ON THE JOB AGAIN Snow removal equipment was again in action in Bend today, following
an eight-inch fall last night that brought the total depth for the season to over 40 inches. This
is a view west on Louisiana, at the Wall intersection. (Bend Bulletin Photo)
Nehru Reported
Ready to Seek
Ban on A-Tests
LONDON (UP:. Indian Prem
ier Jawaliarlal Nehru Is preparing
to sound out the Western powers
of the possibility of a new East-
West conference to discuss disarm
ament and specifically a ban on
nuclear test blasts, informed
sources disclosed today.
The sources said he is firmed
with a fresh Russian go-ahead for
his plan. - ' . ' ...
They said Nehvu would like to
see the talks organized - ia. tnc
spring, possibly during the visit
.to Britain of Soviet Premier Nik
olai Bulganin and Soviet Commu
nist party chief Nikita S. Khrush
chev. But the sources added that Neh
ru is not now seeking to pin down
a definite date or place. He docs
not want to sit in on the confer
ence or act as a mediator, they
said.
Neither does he insist that the
talks be held on any certain level.
the sources said. But they added
that he envisages a high-powered
conference on a loftier level than
the ambassadorial plane of the
regular U. N. Disarmament Com
mission. Whether it would be a meeting
at the summit, or al the foreign
ministers level, or even held at
all, depends on the outcome of im
pending Indian explorations of the
sentiment among Western govern
ments and Russian approval of
the plans, the sources said
Medal Favored
For Brave Airman
SHREVEPORT, La.. (UP)
Barksdnle Air Force Base authori
ties today recommended a medal
for a 24-year-old airman who re
paired a faulty landing gear while
dangling by his heels 2000 feet in
the air.
S-Sgt. Raymond Doyle, New Bed
ford, Mass., was suspended by one
leather strap from a huge GUM
transport for 45 minutes.
Barksdale officials said they
were recommending him for the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
The plane was coming in for ft
landing last Wednesday with 14
men aboard when one of the land
ing gears failed to lock in place.
Doyle bound a loading strap
around his ankles and was lowered
into the 165 - mile - an - hour slip
stream. He worked for 45 minutes
before finally getting it in place
and the plane landed safely.
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HOODED METER Nature
put Hs own white hoods on
meters in down town Bend
this morning, following last
night's eight-Inch fall of snow.
This meter might be mistaken
for a white-headed mechanical
man waiting for a snow plow.
(Bend Bulletin Photo)
Power Company
Planning Annual
Yule Program
A Christmas program which has
become a favorite with radio lis
teners throughout the Pacific
Northwest, will be repeated this
Christmas Eve for the 21st conse
cutive year. It is "The Story of
the Nativity, produced and broad
cast annually by Pacific Power &
Light company.
The half -hour program blends
voices with an orchestra to present
Christmas music as a background
for the age-old story of the nativity.
Thirty-three radio stations in Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Wyoming will release the pro
gram.
Soloists again will be Brunei ta
Mazzolini, soprano, and Dean Lie-
ber, tenor, whose performance last
year was widely acclaimed. They
are supported by the Duncan Sing
ers and the Owen C. Dunning or
chestra. B WAIT SCOTT
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Bend Blanketed
By Eight Inches
Of Snow in Night
Bend s moisture lor the year
reached 10.73 inches this morning
following another snowstorm that
blanketed the city with an eight
uich fall in the night hours.
With winter only In Its second
day officially, more than 40 inches
of snow has already (been meas-
" v" a wii.
Last night's snow, which at once
called the city's equipment Into ac-
uott, was unusually damp, local
vw earner oonervcni tiiu. inn vihih
inches heM 0.60 Inches of moisture,
to bring the December total up to
4.bl inches.
Scarcely a breath of wind was
recorded during the night fall of i
snow, and as a result tfie city this
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morning presented a scene that the Rogue river droDDine about
would nave served as backdrop for
Christmas post cards,
The wet snow clung to trees,
massed on tree limbs and even
piled atop parking meters in down
town Bend.
The snow was general over the
region, but somewhat lighter to the
north. With the exception of the
santiam summit, Bend s night-fall
of snow was greater than that re
ported from the Cascade passes.
Pilgrims Plod
To Bethlehem
JERUSALEM (Israeli Sector),
(UP) Hundreds of Christmas pil
grims plodded today along the dus
ty road to Bethlehem through vil
lages torn three days ago by riot
ing and gunfire.
Bright sunshine streamed down
on the little town where' Christ
was bom and there were few signs
of the bloody riot that the Arab
Legionnaires of Jordan suppressed
with machineguns and tear gas,
By 8 a.m. some 400 Christian
tsrae'lis, Arabs, monks and nuns
had crossed the Israeli - Jordan
Ues and moved into Jordan
through ancient MandJehaum
Gate.
Anti - government demonstra
tions by Jordanians angered at
rheir. country's threatened adher
ence to the Baghdad Pact sealed
off Bethlehem last week, but to
day there was almost no hirul
ranee to the religious procession.
A f'.nv would be pilgrims were
refused entry permits by .lord;
ian authorities holding forth in a
series of customs and immigration
tents set up at right angles to the
Mandelbaum Gate.
Israeli authorities said some pil
grims had stayed on the Israeli
side of the border for fear of get
tin? caught up in further Jordan
ian rioting.
White - painted United Nations
jeps buzzed along tlie- road the
hro? wise men took rearly 2.000
wtrs ago, but except for the ruins
k'ft by the 1IM8 war there was
lit'1 or no s!.gn of strife.
T.e pilirrims crossing from I--vli
todry wnre most'y Christian
Arabs from the north - from Gl-
and from Nazareth where
Christ once plied his trade as a
"arnenter.
Normally the road they travel
is clovd. for It lies close to thr
barbed wire barricades and mine-
fields of the Israeli-Jordan border,
Storms Spread Havoc
Along Entire Coast;
Many Forced to Flee
lMtlNF.VIU.E (UP) The
Crooked river here went out of
ltu bunks early today, flooding
some residential areas and three
trucks stood by to evacuate
stranded residents,
Ktwldenttal areas both In north
and south lrlnevllle were report- I
ed flooded.
Three feet of water was report- 1
ed In places over the Prinvvllle
Paulina highway.
It was Knowing here today with
three to four Inches on the
ground. ,
PORTLAND (UP) Roarjng
rivet's spread destruction in west
ern Oregon today and flood con
ditions spread east of the moun
tains. At least two and possibly, three
deaths were blamed on the we4th
er and hundreds of families were
evacuated from their homes.
Residents at the mouths of two
mighty rivers, the Rogue and the
Umpqua, prepared for high water.
At Gold Beach, where the Rogue
flows into the Pacific, the stream
was reported out of its banks and
residents feared water would hit
the main streets at high tide this
afternoon.
Communications to the southwest
coastal area still were disrupted.
A ham radio operator veDorted the
icnltl-O fYwillilli Vllllnv flrwhui
The main Umnnim wr foil J
1 lis nnlMft Atvl anlith tni-lta huwlnri
In flood staao toward Av coast1
and residents ot HeedSport'" wcr
nirtxl tnr nnaattila ..tmi-iiallna
To 1 opnon openauMrm iKtoiftuUnK1
delays of three to six hours
oji
Grants Pass Situation Better
At Grunts Pass, where Nation
al Guard company was called out
yesterduy, state police reported
efe'tit Inches an hour this morning.
The Rogue reached an all
time
high of 30.16 feet yesterday.
An estimated 400 families were
evacuated from their homes in !the
Grants Pass area and another -100
families were moved from homes,
In the Shady Cove district further!
upstream on the Rogue.
xmtntxHinu busses still were
stranded at Grants Pass this morn
ing as there was four feet of wa
ter over the highway at Savage Ra
pids dam. However, passenger traf
fic was being detoured south
around an old river road from
Grants Pass to Gold Hill. North
bound traffic (Was moving and It
was hoped the water would drop
enough to open the main highway
south, providing as one officer put
it, if there Is any highway left
Under the water."
Kali Traffic Blocked
State police said lots of homes
In the lowlands around Grants
Pass still were surrounded by wa
ter. Some peop'e had started to
move back to clean up but many
more were still temporarily home
less.
Southern Pacific railroad said
Us main line probably would re
main blocked today by a slide 75
miles south of Eugene but that it
was hoped t rnl ns coi ild bo re
routed on the i old Siskiyou line
later today If reriirs to a washed
out bridge can be made.
htate police said highway condl-
tlons were better with highway 99
open 10 uauiornia. via the Grant"
Pass detour, to passenger cars and He said washouts caused the clos
Highway 97 also open. But chains Ing of several forest roods.
Rerouted Traffic Cloaqinq
Highway 97 Through Bend
Mueh of western America 's
north-south ibound travel across
Oregon was moving through Bend
today, result of highway closures!
wnst of the Cascades.
Traffic yesterday and last night
Included some 50 Greyhound and
Trailways passenger-laden buses
moving north and south over US
H ghwnv 97. It was estimated tha'
these buses, all of which stopped
at the Trailways station in Bend,
cird som" 2 000 pissengprs.
Flts of trurks also rilled over
the interior highway, which last
night was blanketed by its henvlest
fall of snow this season, with 19
:n i"s rfmrt''d from Chemult.
Passenger car traffic over U9j
( 97 through Madras, Redmond and
B-nd was Abnormally hnw today
I because of the west side blockade
and the closure of the Willamette
route by a slide east of Oakridge.
were required between Klamath
Falls and Weed because of a
heavy snowstorm. Chains also
were needed in the Siskiyous.
Closed were the Willamette pass
route, the. Drain toReedsport high
way and some secondary roads.
Widespread Evacuation
The Coast Quard said it had
evacuated 51 persons from the
Coquille valley area. Two 16-foot
boats and one 19 - footer were In
operation as well as trucks.
A terse message last night from
George Worthly, W7BLM, Coos
Bay, said "The situation will wors-
m before better due continued
ain." He said nearly 100 families
were evacuated from the Coquille
valley area. He estimated 130 cat
tle had been lost and said 75 more
were being led out alongside boats.
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Raging
coastal and mountain streams ov
erflowed banks In three western
states today bringing death and
destruction and driving thousands
from their homes in the wake of
week-long drenching rains, the
worst In the Weather Bureau's
history.
At least 12 persons were known
dead, scores were reported miss
ing, eight towns were flooded out
completely and more than 15 oth
ers were Inundated as the streams
rushed to the sea and made mora
than 15,000 homeless.
'Property damage in Northern
California, Western Oregon and
Nevada was estimated in the ml ,
V . . . . ..
lions. One estimate iacti4 the' vmm
nuroticcuraTe 'cTieck could,
mode. .
Stnfo of Emergency
A state of emergency was de
clared by Gov. Goodwin J. Khlghl
in Northern California where the
missing included 12 at the resort
town of Santa Cruz where the San
Iorenzo River Isolated the city of
5.000 today. Eight of the missing
there were reported swept to sea.
The police teletype, only means of
communication, said aid would
have to be sent by aircraft.
Tn persons were known dead In
California. Three wore at Santa
Cruz, two others were listed by
the Civil Defense at Eureka, while
hree drowned at Auburn In the
Amerlcnn River In the Sacramento
irea and two drowned earlier In
'he week at orSor nolnis. -
Tows ComnMnlv Flooded -The
towns comnletely flooded In
California were pimoerwood. Eli
nor. So'i'h Fo-k. Klamath. Klnm
nth Glen, Weott-all In Homboldt
"ountv where the Fe' nnd Klnmah
Rivrs flooded and Wood Lake
nd Three Rivers in Tulare Coun
v. The resort cltv of Ghirreeville,
onom enunty. prepared for com
Me dNnster.
In'ormittn' rlnq continued In
Northern California as whole
"il wnm'nM for southTlv wKIs
of 40 to GO mites were posted from
Hilf Moon Bnv. nir Sin Fran
"'co. northwid. The s"r!es of
storms was due to an unusuil
"lovement nf warm moist air from
n miMronls that ha struck a
mass of low pressure Polar air.
DAMAdR It K PORTER
Forest Rnnger Harold Gustafson
today reported considerable dam-
age from high water In the Camp
shermn and Suttle Lake areas.
Bend restaurants and service
stations reported a rushing busi
ness through the night. In mid
morning today, most restaurants
wi re still crowded.
Motels and hotels were also
handling an unexpectedly heavy
volume business.
Most of the travel was between
Portland and California points, or
from California to cities in the
a"ific northwest.
State police reported heavy tra
vel over the entire length of US
'(7. Weit of the mountains. US
19 was partly open this morning
but there were ' some detours,
iSr'iilly in the Grants Pass area.
With the Willamette blocked,
motorists had their choice of the
Siskiyous, over uncertain roads, or
the snow-blanketed US. 97 east ol
the Cascades.