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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1956)
Ualv. f Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON e FORECAST Mootly cloudy with scattered shower over week end. Tem perature below normal. High Sunday, 65-60. Low tonight, 15-40. 53rd Year One Section County'Agent Gene Lear Gets New Post REDMOND Gene Lear, Des chutes county agent since August, 1343, has been appointed a state extension agent and will be trans ferred to the Oregon Slate College campus, effective about mid August He will be a member of a dis trict service team, working with Gordon Hood and Gerald Nibler. James McAlisler, special county agent here since March, 1955, was appointed Lear's successor. ' The Deschutes county court con firmed his selection on Friday. Lear graduated from Oregon State College in 1937. In 1949-50 he spent a sabbatical leave at Har vard university, where he obtain ed his master's degree in public administration. From 1937 to 1943 he served as county agent for Umatilla, Mora, and Wasco coun ties. He is a native of Gilliam coun ty, having been reared on a wheat ranch near Condon. Lear and his wife, the former Ruth Cherry, have three children, Jerry, 15, Janet, 14, and Joyce, JH. Lear will replace Clifford L. Smith, who is taking a year's ab sence to continue his education in the east. Mcalister graduated- from Ore gon State In 1942. He worked at the college after graduation. He is a native of Enterprise, Ore. The McAlister's have four sons, Scott, 10. Jeff, 8, Rick, 5, and Bob, 4. Final confirmation on these ap pointments will be forthcoming from the state board of education. High Effective . Mark Predicted For DEW Line SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Brig. , Gen.. Stanley, OVAVray, chief of the Air Force's electronic defense ystem, says America's Arctic radar net will be more than 90 per cent effective against any air plane now on the drawing boards. But its effectiveness against in tercontinental missiles is still a question, he added. Speaking at a news conference prior to a speech before the Society of Military Engineers yesterday, Gen. Wray said the string of Dis tant Early Warning (DEW Line) radar stations stretched across the far north would be completed in less than two years. Radar being installed in this chain will have a range greater than has ever been disclosed and "will be effective against any air breathing vehicle on the drawing boards at this time," he said. Wray said security forbade him to estimate the radar's effective ness against the intercontinental ballistic missile, but he admitted they do not come into the "air breathing" category. He said the DEW Line will be able to give interceptor bases a four to six hour advance warning of approaching enemy aircraft. The system will never be 100 per cent effective because of the continual competition between de velopments of offensive and de fensive equipment and techniques, he said. Professional Fund Collector Plan Approved by UF Board Bend's United Fund directors Thursday voted to join with their other Central Oregon offices and hire a professional funds collector. The move is calculated to boost their total collections. This organization for the com bination of charity drives fell be low Its quota last year for the first time in history. Directors reel, and it s been proven else where, that this move should boost them back to their quota. In Klamath Falls, where such an agreement was initiated recent ly, collections jumped in one year from $77,000 to $119,000. Properly called the Deschutes United Community Services Fund, the group accepted an agreement Intended: (1) to form a co-operation between It, the Redmond United Fund, the Jefferson County United Fund, the Crook County United Fund, the Harney County. United Fund, and the Oregon Chest, (2) to provide for the pool ing of funds proportionately by each office In order to hire on full time employee to manace col lection! and direct the staff, and (3) to set up a committee which would advise thin employe. The Redmond United Fund, and' THE BEND 5 Cents FRED F. FLORENCE President, American Bankers' Bankers' Session Opens Monday The president of the American Bankers' Association will be here Monday for the opening of the Oregon Bankers' 51st annual con vention. He is Fred F. Florence, a Texan since infancy, but who was born in New York. Florence is presi dent of the Republic National Bank of Dallas, Tex. The Oregon Bankers' Associa tion convention will formally open Monday morning at the Pilot Butte Inn, with pre-convention activities set for Sunday evening. These activities will include a reception, a dinner for past presidents and a fireside program. This will be in front of the inn's big fireplace, In the main lobby.' Views of Central Oregon scenery will be shown. Phil F. Brogan, Bend, chairman of the Oregon Geographic Board will review the background story of the pictures and touch on the volcanic history of the midstate Cascades. The visiting bankers will join In a buckaroo breakfast Monday morning. Rim Rock Riders will serve the rangeland meal, at their ranch quarters north of town. The convention will last through Tuesday evening, date for the OBA annual banquet. This will be at the Pilot Butte Inn with Tom Collins,- of the - City National Bank and Trust Co., Kansas City, Mo., as the speaker. D. R. Smith, Port land, will be toastmaster. Several national figures will ap pear on the two-day business pro gram. One will be E. L. Peterson, assistant secretary of agriculture. Ben W. Fanning is general chairman of the convention. Pre siding at the various sessions will be C. F. Adams, Portland, presi dent of the Oregon Bankers' As sociation. Young Escapees Caught Near Bend Two escapees, ages 13 and 16, from the Washington state train ing school, Greenhill .Academy, were apprehended near Bend to day by state police. They were surprised inside a home south of Bend, where they reportedly were trying to steal some food. When the owner came home, they fled. Police caught them in a nearby field. Prior to that, the pair had run from the scene of an accident in Bend. They were driving a stolen car, which they had gotten in Du fur, Ore. They had hit the car of Sam Taylor, 422 E. Burnsidc. when it was parked at the stop sign of Lava and Franklin. the Crook County United Fuid (Prineville) have already adopted the agreement. """Bend's organization would carry 30 per cent of the cost load, with other offices ranging from a 7.3 per cent to other 30 per cent loads But the agreement stipulates that the office will receive services of the collector in proportion to the amount they put up. Just a one-year affair, the agree ment carries the idea of continu ing it. "It should give us new blood." said secretary of the Bend office, Marion LcBlanc. "Other place which fell below their quota found it almost impossible to reach it again in following years without some kind of new blood." Present at the meeting of di rectors of the Bend organization were R. W. Chandler, president: Mike Salo. Web Loy. W. A. La- ckaff, W. E. Chandler, Gordon Mc Kay, Milton Shumway. Ben Far. ning. Zelda Young and H. C. Kerron. Milton Shumway was appointed to serve as member of the ad visory committee for the Bend office. Ike to Hold Conference With Nixon WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower will hold a hospital room conference with Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon Monday for the first time since he became ill, it was announced today. . White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Presi dent also will meet Monday with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This' will be the second session with Dulles who was with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer when he called on the President Thursday. Announcement of the Presi dent's plans for next week fol lowed the most optimistic medical bulletin since Mr. Eisenhower en tered the hospital a week ago to day. The 8:10 a.m. EDT report said the President had "a veiy good night" and added: "This, the beginning of the sixth post-operative day, finds the Pres ident in excellent spirits." Political questions In response to a flurry of ques tions as to whether the President has any plans to announce his plans from the hospital, Hagerty said "there have been no political discussions" with the President. Hagerty has insisted from the be ginning that he does not plan to discuss politics with Mr. Eisen hower while he is in the hospital. Mbst ot the political questions were prompted by a column pub lished today by Stuart Alsop. He said the President would announce he is still a candidate even before he leaves the hospital "if the con fident expectations of the Repub lican high command are fulfilled. When he was asked if such an announcement is expected shortly from the President, Hagerty re peated his previous statements that ,the first order of business is to get the President out of the hospital and that there has been no political talk. ' Accept Resignation During a 15-minute conference with White House aides. , Mr. Ei senhower signed his name on' 2i documents, including nine bills. The President accepted the res ignation of Samuel M. Brownell, commissioner of education. Brownell had asked to be relieved from his job "for personal rea sons" by Sept. 1. The President paid high tribute to Brownell and expressed his regret at the resig nation. One Hospitalized After Collision A car headed east on Greenwood and a car headed north on E. 3rd., both traveling at a 6tated speed of 20 miles an hour, collided late Thursday evening. As a result the driver of one car, Mrs. Jessie C. Masterson, Ordinance, Ore., was hospitalized. Both drivers stated their speed at 20 miles an hour. The driver of the car headed east on Green wood, Russell A. Alden of Iowa, told police that Mrs. Masterson failed to stop at the stop sign. Mrs. Masterson, in the hospital with extensive bruises, made no statement Due governor At Convention Of Moose Here Governor Elmo Smith has ac cepted an invitation to attend the 1956 convention of Oregon Moose here on June 29, 30 and Julv 1. The governor said he would be here for the opening ceremonies on Friday evening, July 29. He will be enrolled as a member of the Bend lodge and will serve as class representative in the enroll ment ceremony that evening. Gordon Jeffery, board of Moose- heart governors' chairman, is to be the speaker on that occasion. The invitation to Governor Smith was extended by Harvey II. Dc- Armond. representative in the state legislature from Deschutes county. Robert Gunderson and Carl Lindh, convention chairman, an nounced Friday that convention plans are complete. Every lodge in the state will be repiew-tited. This will be Bend's biggest con vention of 19j6. The former lodge home adjacent to the present quarters at the Wall street location have been reopened and fully equipped, to accommo date Moose visitors. A convenient entrance to both quarters on the same floor left of adjacent building! has been provided. CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County. Oregon, J, S. Rogers i Taking Post In Capital Promotion and transfer of J. S. Rogers, Soil Conservation Service area conservationist stationed in Bend, to Washington, P.C., was announced here today, j. The announcement was made by Harold Tower, Portland, SCS state conservationist. He is in Bend for a meeting of directors of the Ore gon Association of Soil Conscrva lion districts. Tower said the transfer of Rogers to Washinglon. D C, where he will be in the office of per sonnel, will be effective on Juno 23. He has been here nine years, and has been with the SCS for 17 years. Successor Named Earl Jones, now unit supervisor at Vale, has been named to take over Rogers' duties in Bend, He will come here in early July, to supervise soil conservation work in the five-county district, Klam ath, Lake, Deschutes, Jefferson and- Crook. Rogers spent five months In Washington, D.C., a year ago, and was called back again last April. He was in Bend today for the meeting of supervisors. The Midstate Soil Conservation district, embracing all of Des chutes county, was formed under the guidance of Rogers, as was the Fort Rock-Silver Lake dis trict. WSC Graduate Rogers is a native ot the state of Washington, and is a graduate from Washington State college. He will be accompanied to the east by his wife and their three chil dren. Directors of the Oregon Associa tion of Soil Conservation Districts here for today's conference are Ralph Saylor. Echo, president; Lloyd Gift, Bonanza: Ralph Wil son, Salem; C. W. Jensen, Rogue River; Leo Hammel, Dufur; El mer Peterson, Sauvies Island: Ray Duncan, Vale, and Ben Chris- tensen, Harrisburg. Glenn Purnell, Corvallls, is sec rctary of the state group. President May Leave Hospital Next Weekend WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower began his second week of convalescence from a major in testinal operation today with pros pects he may be out of the hospi tal by next weekend. The Chief Executive received his "most optimistic" report Friday since he underwent surgery a week ago today. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced no official visitors are scheduled for the Father's Day weekend, and a doctor replied, "That's fine," Ha gerty said. Mr. Eisenhower s doctors have said they expect him to spend about 15 days in the hospital. which would mean that he might leave sometime during or just aft er next weekend. Hagerty said he w-as unable to say yet whether the President's son. Maj. John Eisenhower, or any of his four children will visit with the Preisdent on Father's Day. Decision Scored By Cherif Hamia NEW YORK (UP) Feather weight contender Cherif Hamia of Algiers was promised today a lato Scptember shot at the world title because of his superb victory over Puerto Rican Miguel Berrios in their electrifying tight at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Before handsome Cherif sailed for France today, enroute to Al giers. Managing Director Harry Markson of the International Box ing Club told him. "You've earned the title shot under heavy fire, and we'll beein immediate negotiations for the fight with champion Sandy Saddler." Although the nimble and explo sive French-Algerian was bolted groggy in three of the 10 sessions. he out-fought and out-boxed tvky Berriom and had him on thp floor in the fourth round. And he won the unanimous decision in their TV-radio brawl. APPOIXTMF.NT MADK SALEM (UP) Gov. Elmo Smith todav appointed Ralph Roliertson of Portland as a member of the State Board of Health reoresenting the State Board of Pharmacy. Robertson succeeds L. L. Riggs of Portland who resigned. BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Saturday, June 16, 1956 Publishers Give Tod To Bend Writer Phil Long Career In Journalism Brings Honors Phil F. Brogan, associate editor of The Bend Bulletin, has been presented the Voorhies Award for a "lone. Useful and hnnnrnhlp mpm. in the field of journalism." The award was voted by the board of directors of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers AKSneintinn The surprise announcement was made at the annual banquet of the association at the Pilot Butte Inn Friday nisht. The award to the Bulletin staff member was the 12th made by the group in 18 years. Announcement of the award was made by Robert W. Sawyer, form er editor and nublisher of thic newspaper, himself a former award winner. For First Time It was the first time in the his tory of the association the Voor hies plaque had been given to a staff member of a newspaper which previously had been repre sented among the winners. In presenting the award, Saw yer aid: "I have observed his develop ment, the broadening of his In terests, the increase in his stature and recognition given him far be yond the limits of his community and his native state. (This (-.ward) goes to a man who has had a most useful career in many fields, and these have been reflected in his journalism work." The citation accompanying the big silver plaque said: Citation tilvcn , . "Tluj-Voorhloa-'Award t given to Phil Brogan, associate editor of The Bend Bulletin, who has done a consistent job of reporting for that newspaper over a period of years; who in recent years has contributed sound editorials to his newspaper; and who has popular ized the natural sciences and done a tremendous job of education In those fields. The Voorhies Award was estab lished by the ONPA in 1938. Form er winners who were present at the dinner Friday night were: Sawyer; Amos E. Voorhies, pub lisher of the Grants Pass Courier: Charles Sprngue, editor of the Oregon Statesman, Salem: Wil liam Tugman,. editor of the Port Umpqua Courier, Reedsport, and formerly editor of the Eugene Register-Guard; George Turnbull, former dean of journalism at the University of Oregon; Charles Stanton, editor of the Roscburg News-Review and Verne McKin- ney, co-publisher of the Hillsboro Argus. A total of over 175 persons at tended the dinner. The Oregon editors and publish ers m'oved into their final Bcssions today with a trip to Palisades Btnto park, overlooking the Crooked- Deschutcs river gorge, scheduled for this afternoon. Dinner Planned The meeting will end this eve ning with a dinner at the Pilot Butte Inn. Entertninment will be featured. Hosts will be associate and sustaining members in the Portland area, under the chair manship of Donald Ostensoe, ad vertising coordinator of the First National Hank, Portland. Governor Elmo Smith planned to be here for the dinner. This morning the group joined in a buckaroo breakfast at the Rim Rock Riders clubhouse north of town. Morning business opened with departmental forums. C. L. Me- Kinley of the Junction City Times Notes Authorized WASHINGTON (UP) - The Fedcrnl Power Commission today authorized the Idaho Power Co, lo Issue $20 million worth of short term promissory hotes to help finance its power projert on the Hfils Canyon reach of the Snake River. The commission rejected objec tions raised by the National Hells Canyon Association, an organiza tion of public power groups and others In the PaeWic Northwesl who are opposed to Iht private power development of Hells Can yon. The proceeds of the issue are to be uurd to finance Ihe start of the project, mainly ' construction of the Brownlee Dam, the first of three dams to be built by the! company. t. if - V, k is- BEND MAN HONORED Phil F. Brogan displays the plaque on which his name will be engrav ed as the 1956 winner of the Amos E, Voorhies award or outstanding journalistic endeavor. The award was presented by Robert W. Sawyer, left, (Bend Bulletin Photo) presided at the luncheon program, at which Brogan, guide on the af ternoon tour, hBd as his subject "The Forward Look into the Past the Cove Gorge Story." A panel discussion dealing with community development was one dt the, highlights of the Friday session. Philip N. Blndinc of the McMinnville Daily News-Register was moderator. First Speaker First speaker on the Friday pro gram was Robert W. Chandler, editor and publisher of The Bend Bulletin. He touched on the Amer ican Press Institute seminar he at tended in New York early this year. Chandler's topic was "The For. ward Look in Editing." M. J. Frey, publisher of The Oregonian. presided at the Friday noon luncheon, with Ronald C. Sloan, Portland as the speaker. Marshall N. Dana, Portland, as sistant to the President of the U.S. Nation.-! Bank, was one of the speakers at the afternoon session. Also on the afternoon program was Mrs. Margaret Thompson Hill, Portland publisher and form er Bend resident. Mechanical developments were considered at an afternoon forum. Denver Man Heard Friday By Editors Gene Cervi, editor and publish er of Ccrvi's Rocky Mountain Journal of Denver, told members of the ONPA at their banquet last night that journalism offers bigger careers than ever before. "Bonfils and Hearst are dead Not even the ghost of Briday Murphey can bring them back," Cervl said. "This does not mean that jour nalism cannot be of greater serv ice to the public than ever In the past, he continued. America still faces an economic boom biggor than the booms of the past, Ccrvi said. While Hie coming boom might not line pub lisher's pockets as well as In the past, the opportunities for service art greater than ever before. "We In this business are mem bers of a privileged class," hr said. "There is room for lots f self-improvemrnt if we are to con tinue to deserve the privilege guaranteed to us by the Constitution." American newspapers have the dual functions of reporting and In forming, he told his audience. "Theif ar vast frontiers of In tellectual endeavor in the news papers businpsr which we are touching but little, he said. Cervi told the audience the story of the founding of his newspaper, ii metropolitan weekly aimed at a high-level audience In the Denver area. Eight Pages Top Official Missed Wark WASHINGTON (UP) A top government official emphatically denied today published reports that the hydrogen bomb dropped over Bikini last month missed its aiming point by several miles. The reports Friday said a B52 jet bomber dropped the bomb from two to seven miles from the aiming poult over Namu Island. The drop was "okay" the official said. The official declined to be identified. He said it He scientists agreed that the drop "accomplished what was wanted." Scoffs At Peport He scoflcd at a report printed In a Honolulu newspaper and at tributed to a "technician based on French Surprise Band of Rebels ALGIERS, Algeria (UP) French forces surprised a rebel band hidden in a field of wheat apparently lying in wait for har vest workers, officials disclosed today. The French killed 20 of Ihe "Army of Allah" band and cap tured 42 in a violent baltle near the coastal town of Benl Saf-Gu- iard. 50 miles southwest of Oran. French cusualities were not an nounced, but they were said to include several dead and wounded. In another surprise action, Ihe French killed 2.i members of a reb"l gang that tried to raid a village near Madclid, 85 miles west of Constantine, that ae dared support for the French Wednesday. French casualties included a caplain and two soldiers slain in a rcliel ambush of their jeep on a mountain trnilpost of Oran. Drivers Fined In Jusiice Court Three drivers were fined $10 for violation of the basic rule this week by Justice of the Peace O. W. Grubb. They were Norman C. Pease. Bend, Phillip G. Seaborn, Seattle. Wash., and Keith R. Iverson, Port land. Other assessments included Norman A. Robinson. Bend. 515 for four adults In the driver's seat, and Freeman L. Roberts, Bend, $150. palling with Insufficient view. WEATHER High yesterday, M degrees. Low last night, ST degree. Sun ft today, 7:50. Sunrise tomor. row, 4:Jt. No. 164 Brogan H-Bomb Several Miles Kniwetnk" In the effect thnf th .v.:...! ii.. iu.w,.. u., ..... M--P111V llliaatU lid VJf (.Vi:iI miles. "None hit right on the button," this official said, but the Atomic Energy Commission got "the data it wanted." That would not have been possible,-experts said, if the bomb had exploded very far from the intend ed point 10,000 feet above a 300- yard illuminated target on Namu Island. . The official left in miestion the margin of error involved in the drop. Neither the AEC, Defense De partment nor Air Force was will ing to give- any official informa- lion on Ihe operation. They appar ently felt it was more important to conceal the precise facts from the Russians than to allay what ever doubts have risen among Americans. Conducted As Scheduled The only official comment came from an Air Force spokesman, who said: "The recent thermonuclear a I r drop at Bikini was conducted as scheduled. The Air Force consid ers that the ability of the B52 bomber to deliver a thermonuclear bomb was demonstrated success fully. "Detailed information about tho distnnoc and altitude of the ex plosion in relation lo the target is considered classified information under provisions of the Atomic Energy Act." An unconfirmed report on Capi tol Hill said the bomber misseil its aiming point "by a matter of miles." Tom Siernburgh Named Director The appointment of Thomas J, Siernburgh of Bend, as civil de fense director for Deschutes coun ty, was announced today by Coun ty Judge C. L. Allen. The slnte director. Col. A. M. Sheets, has been notified. Stcmbureh Is laboratory techni cian at the Hemingway Memorial clinic. He is active in civic work. is a member of the Kiwanis club and hnndles Bloodmobile publicity for the Red Cross. The people of this county are fortunate to have a person of Stemburgh's experience, ability and interest as director, Judge Allen said In m a k I n the an nouncement. Sternburgh will take over the duties about July 5. when he re turns from National Guard en Award ! If campment.
