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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1956)
Univ. of Oragn Library EUQEKS, 0RS30.'! FORECAST Fair through Wednesday with scattered ariernoon thunder storms in mountains. High both days 80-85. Low tonight 45 55. 53rd Year One Section Dial Workers In One-Day Walkout Here Some 50 workers making dial equipment installations in the local phone company's new building walked out yesterday morning. But all 50 were back on tlie job mis morning. wuiner;,, western r.loctnc Company employees, walked oul as a result of broken down nego tiations between the Communica tion Workers of America union and Western Electric management. Negotiations were being carried on in New York. . The walkout was general over Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Ap proximately 700 workers in the three states, making major instal lations for Western Electric, walk ed out on their jobs. Buck on Job Here United Press reported this morn ing that the walkout was still in effect today: But in Bend this was not .so. The company's employees in Bend were back on the job this morning. Noel Scofiqld, head CWA official on the job in Bend, said this morning, "The walkout was spot ted around various parts of the country to protest breakdown of negotiations.'' He said the workers could be called out again on a duration strike at any time. He reported that the negotiations had deadlocked because Western Electric wants to employ college graduates for supervisory trainees without allowing them to jr.in the union. He also said that the man agement wage proposal wasn't ac ceptabl .e ne ceptable. United Press reported that the union had cut its original demand fof an 18 cent hourly wage in crease to 15 cents. Kxpired Saturday The two-year contract between the union and Western Electric ex pired Saturday at midnight.--The union office for this area in Port land called for the walkout when negotiations deadlocked Monday. Negotiations were still deadlock ed this morning. H. C. Kerron, manager of the local office of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, for which Western Electric is making the dial instal lation, said this morning that all he knew about the strike was what newspapers had released. "My first knowledge (of the strike) was when the workers walked out yesterday," he said. Asked whether the strike might cause a delay in the changover to dial phone here, Kerron said, "That will depend on the negotia tions and their duration." Detailed Water Study Planned SALEM (UP) Gov. Elmo Smith today named a committee of six persons to develop a de tailed outline of procedure to car ry out the, governor's proposal for a comprehensive study of multi purpose use of water resources in Oregon. The group was authorized by the Natural Resources Committee last week after the proposed re search experiment had been pre sented by1 the governor. The program would involve the entire drainage, basin of a western Oregon stream as an outdoor lab oratory. It is designed to permit tests of water use in such fields as domestic, municipal, irrigation power development, industrial, mining, recreation, wildlife and fish life uses and for pollution abatement. Members of the committee are- Dwieht L. Phipps, state forest er; F. E. Price, dean of aericul ture at Oreeon State College: Lewis A. Stanley, state engineer Phil Schneider, state game direc tor: Milton C. James, state fish eries director: and Fred Merry field. proTessor of sanitary engi neering at Oregon State College. OWce to Aid In Registration Beginning Wednesday, Sept. the Deschutes county clerk's fice will remain open from 7:30 through 8:30 p.m. for the conven ience of voters who wish to regis ter. The office will remain open every Wednesday night throueh. Oct. Deadline for registering is Satur dav. Oct. 6. Mrs. Helen Dacey. Deschutes county clerk, emphasized that the office will be open solely for rei tratlon. nn 5 Cents .. mill ilium THEY STUDIED RANGE LORE m Wb ft m life refuge recently were, from left, John Prichard, Bend; Jim Klukkert, Redmond; Ed Elliott, Red mond, and Nick Fagen, Bend. Hearing Planned Wednesday in Balzhiser Case Judge Malcolm W. Wilkinson, of The Dalles, will hear a continued argumeut in the Balzhiser case at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Bend county courthouse. The argument is on whether a subpoena shall be issued to bring Ftylph Prouty, a state police in vestigator of the crime laboratory in Portland, here to enter a deposi tion in a civil action. Wilkinson may set the date of the murder trial at this time. Prouty was in charge of techni cians who examined the home of Jennie Bnnita Balzhiser after she shot and killed her husband on the afternoon of June 20. Mrs. Balz hiser is in the county jail, indicted by the grand jury on the charge of first degree murder. She has pleaded not guilty. ISrouglit By Warners The civil action was brought by George and Julia Warner, admin istrators of the estate of Bobbie Blake Balzhiser, the husband who was killed. The Warners ask that $20,000 be set aside from his estate. The money, if set aside and exist ing, would go to his minor heirs, a boy and n girl now living in Salem or Springfield. The Warners set forth in their petition that the boy and girl were deprived of income they had been eceiving after their stepmother willfully and wrongfully" shot their father, who was supporting hem. Judge Ralph S. Hamilton dis qualified himself from hearing the vil action, as well as the murder trial, because of his prior ac quaintance with the Balzhisers and their affairs during the pre liminaries of their suit for divorce. Attorney Named Attorneys Alva Goodrich and Robert Foley are acting for Mrs. Balzhiser, and Attorney Charles Boardman for the Warners in the cfvil action. Langley Trial Due Sept. 7 - PORTLAND (UP) Multnomah County District Attorney William II. Langley will be tried in Munici pal Court September 7 on a charge of assault and battery br. aght by a newspaper photog rapher. Date for the trial was set yes terday after a conference between Municipal Court officials and op posing attorneys. Packed Special to The Bulletin REDMOND A round-up of last minute fair board information con cerning the 37th annual Deschutes county fair furnishes a potpourri if facts, some new and some pre viously publicized. There will be six races at the Sunday afternoon rodeo with at tractive purses promised. These in clude the half-mile Indian buck race, for $50; quarter-horse one quarter mile race, purse $125; Iree-ior-an one m:le tnis year. ij"; Indian ladies race, one-half illllf, J"J. iiiuian iiiwivusiuiiu, mile. $125 (sponsored by Phil Dahll, and pony express, one and a half miles, $150. These races are post entry and requirefflno fee. The racing chairmen are Ben BEND Attending the youth range camp on the Malheur national wild Honors af Youth Range Camp Taken by 2 Deschutes Boys Two Deschutes county boys at tending the youth range camp at Malheur National Wildlife refuge this summer won honorable men tion in the plant identification con test. They were Ed Elliott, Redmond, and John Prichard, Bend. A total of 50 boys from 16 eastern and southern Oregon counties at tended the camp, sponsored an nually by the Pacific Northwest section of the American Society of Range Management. Main purpose of the camp was to give boys a chance to spend a week living out of doors in range country, providing them a bettet outlook on plant and animal life, leaders said. Four boys from Deschutes coun ty attended the camp. The other- Nurserymen Gather for Session Here Pathological problems and re search at the Bend pine nursery were studied today ar a conference of nurserymen from several west ern states. Objectives of the conference were outlined by Supervisor James A, Egan of the Deschutes National forest as the meeting got under' way at the nursery office,, this morning. Charles Rindt, head ol planning in the division of timber management, North Pacific re gional forest, followed with a short talk. . The history and current program and problems at the Bend nursery were reviewed by Walter Eng strom, nursery management. A lour of nursery builflings and nurs ery lavout precedcI a luncheon break. This afternoon, the group was to examine nursery beds, with a dis cussion to follow. Egan said the objective of the conference is to take advantage of the presence in the northwest of forest service nurserymen. They came to the region to attend a meeting at Wind River, Wash. Officials here include Karl Lan quist, Shasta forest nurseryman: Norman Dickerson, from the Klam ath forest; James Augenstein, in charpe of the Savanach nursery at Haugan, Mont., and Hans Raffler, from Coeur D'Alene, Idahc. Deschutes Research cen'.er staff men joined the group in t ie study of the local nursery, whe-e mil lions of seedling pines an. pro' duced annually. Schedule of Fair Smith, who was appointed to take M. A. Lynch's place on the fair board, and Roy Newell. A ftne representation of'farm and community enterprise is expected in the main building, with space .-eserved for all eight granges, the Soil Conservation Service, three Farm Bureaus, two- and possibly three juvenile granges, and nine garden clubs. Interest in these ex hibits has grown in the past few years, and it is expected this year's will be the best to date. Also in the main building will be a special display by Joe Hentges of Bend. He will show working models of various pieces of ma chinery In miniature, fashioned of wood and powered to operate. Mrs. Gladys Gore, Bend murahst, is ex CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, two were Nick Fagen, Bend, and Jim Klukkert, Redmond. Scholarships were provided by local sponsors in each county. The Eastern Oregon Mills sponsored Fagen, with the LaPine Home Ex tension unit providing a scholar ship for Prichard. Klukkert was sponsored by KBND and Elliott re ceived a Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., scholarship. In the plant identification con test, the boys were required to lo cate and give the common and scientific names of as many as possible of 75 different range plants located on the refuge. At the camp, south ot Burns, the boys slept under the stars. AU in struction was on out of doors sub jects; The reuge, a huge shallow lake fc surrounded by thousands o! acres of land, provided an ideal laboratory for the boys, instructors said. Jack Ross, OSC farm crops specialist, was camp program chairman. Other OSC faculty mem bers and several county agents comprised the staff. Visit Slated By Bloodmobile On Wednesday At least 200 pints of blood are urgently needed tomorrow from Iiend donors, off lei tils of the bloodhunk repeated today. The blood mobile from Portland will be at the Bend Armory, 204 Kansas avenue, between 1:15 and 5:45 p.m. Kllgiblo as donors are alt persons of either sex between the. ages of 18 and 60. Those under 21 are asked to bring a written pernit from their parents unless they are nmrried. iJtst month Bend was 56 pints short In meeting the quota. Other sections of the state were also reported falling behind. Wo need donors very badly," Organ Concert Set for Tonight Carol Snider will present organ concert tonight at 7:30, in Drake park. She will be co-featured in several numbers with Stan ley Hanson, at the piano. There will also be vocal solos by Danny Bucknum, and duets by Danny and his mother, Mrs. Eugene Buck num. The program will not be broad cast tonight, because of the Re publican convention. Duane Lehr will be announcer. pected to have displays of paint ings. There will be music much of the time from organ displays, and other swcial attractions will add to the color. While inside com mercial space has all been re served, there is still some outside space available, reports Norman Swanson, fair board secretary. Exhibits in the women's building will be set off more attractively this year, with painting, new light Ing and new cabinets and counters completed. On the committee with Mrs. Gordon Anderson are Mrs Chester Moon, Powell Butte; Mrs. Wilbur Miller, Mrs. Donald Ellis and Mrs. George Hubbell, Red mond. Exhibits are to be In place by 6 p.m. Thursday. Judging win oe done that evening by 'the follow - BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Tuesday, August 21, 1956 GOP Sets Riotous Wei come For President This Evening Hi -Burton Money Sought for Addition To Hospital in Bend A rtquest for a federal grant of $50,000 to pay one-sixth of the cost of a proposed new story on the St. Charles Memorial hospital was being made in Portland today. W. L. Stollmack, business man ager of the hospital, was to re quest the grant from a govern ment fund created by the Hill- Burton Act. His application was to be made to the State Board of Health, which administers the fund. Other hospitals throughout the state were to make similar re quests for their own institutions. Added Story Planned Before he left, Stollmack said Pageant of Pool To Be Repeated The annual Pageant of the Pool, held Monday evening at the Bend municipal swimming pool, was so successful that it will be repeated tonight at 8 o'clock. Many were turned away, because of the limita tions of seating Space, and the show Is being given again by pop ular demand. Swimmers from tiny tots to 13- year-olds took part in the elabor ate production, which carried out a wonderland theme. Fairies', dwarts and toy animals cavorted about in appropriate . costumes, and the hour-long show went off without a hitch. - I The cast consists of some 30 youngsters, who were trained by the recreation department s pool ittendants. Miss Donna Gumperl was in charge. tiaDorate uacK- Irops ringed the pool and provided a fairyland background of castles and turrets. Proceeds will help defray some of the expenses incurred by the Bend swim team this summer. Last night, gate receipts totaled Annual Fair Edition Out Wednesday The Bend Bulletin will publish its annual Fair Edition tomorrow. It will consist of 52 pages full of features and photographs on the area. It is intended to highlight the Deschutes County Fair in Red mond Friday, Saturday and Sun day. In addition to the regular Wednesday sections, tomorrow s issue will Include four separate sections on different phases of Central Oregon's pulse. There will also be a tabloid picture section sponsored by Brooks-Scanlon Lum ber Co. and Lundgren Lumber Co, One of the sections will be on tourists and recreation, a second on agriculture, a third on con struction and a fourth on lumber industries. Individual stories will play up each phase of the section. Num erous pictures will illustrate the features. Activities Set ing: Willard Lehman, Madras and Ed Sherlock, Redmond, for art entries; Mrs. Carl Erickson and Mrs. Sid Conklin, Bend, sewing, canning and miscellaneous items, and Mrs. Neva McCaffery, floral exhibits. Entry to all exhibits, judging, and events of the fair are free, Swanson pointed out, except of course the rodeos, buckaroo break fast and carnival. The Redmond volunteer firemen washed down the grandstands Mon day night as they do each year before fair time. The stands will be ready for spectators of the horsemanihlp contests and horse drills, and the two rodeos. Times of starting for the latter are 7:45 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday ' Fair co-manag($ George McKuinon the intention of the hospital is to add one story to the new million dollar building and to discontinue the use, of the old St. Charles hos pital unit. Robert W. Chandler, editor and publisher of The Bend Bulletin, was to urge the state bourd to grant the request. Chandler was acting as president of the Bend Chamber of Commerce. Stollmack said the state board has allowed 17 beds for the hos pital here from the government fund. The number was reduced from 34 when the Central Oregon District hospital was completed at Redmond. The allocation is based on population. $50,000 Maximum "The maximum we can get for the fund is $50,000," said Stoll mack, or one sixth, of the total amount ot the $300,000 we need for the addition. We must be able to show that we can raise the rest ourselves. We are assured of that by the banks." Stollmack said the plan calls for a completely modern hospital of 88 beds. At present the new build- ing has 53 and the old one 20 beds that are being used. The old wing has 40 beds, said Stollmack, but 20 ot them on the second floor are not In use because of the fire hazard. The 20 in use for medical patients only . are. con sidered substandard by the state board' of health. Surgical and ob stetrics cases are all treated in the new and standard building. Finished fn im. The new building was finished in 1951 at a cost of $990,000. Of that amount $400,000 was raised by the Central Oregon Hospital foundation, and $309,000 was added from the government fund under the Hill-Burton act. The Sisters of St. Joseph, who had been operating the old hos pital and owned, the four and one half acres of ground also admin ister the enlarged institution. More money was needed for the new building and the Sisters obtained it. "Through the efficient adminis tration by the Sisters of St. Joseph," said Stollmack, "all debts have been paid, including a bond issue of $245,000 and $18,000 in notes to banks. We are in a position to go ahead." Stollmack said Chandler would inform the state board of the pro spective new pulpwood mill and of the added population expected. He said the plan for the new addition would meet the need for years to come. " Temperatures Temperatures during the 24-hour period ending 4:30 a.m. today: High Low Bend 44 Chicago 70 53 Kansas City 75 53 Los Angeles H2 61 Miami M 76 New York ' 73 59 Portland s! 62 San Francisco GH 57 Seattle 80 56 Washington 74 60 Highest yesterday 109 at Yuma, Ariz. Lowest this morning 27 nt Frascr, Colo. reminds riders that rodeo sign-up deadline is 9 ptl. Friday at the headquarters, 526 S. 6th Street. The parade is ready to roll, ac cording to chairman Jack Morris. Defense" Is this year s theme. General Thomas Rilea will be pa rade mnrshal, leading his Oregon National Guard band. There will be novelty acts in the parade, the precision riders, the Lane County Sheriff's Posse, bands, drill teams, floats, riders and marchers. The VFW Is sponsoring the Sat urday night dance, and possibly one also Friday night, at their hall at the airbase. The huekaOrfj breakfast will be served Sunday morning at She lair trounds, starting at 5:30 am.. with A. L. Chaplin top hand for a crew ot around 75. Eight Pages Ike Expected to Leave V-P Choice to Delegates WASHINGTON (UP) Presl dent Eisenhower, flashing his fa mous grin, flew west today to fire up the Republican National Con vention and receive, its nomination for another four yclirs in the White House. If there was any plan for him to take a personal hand in the selection of his 1956 running male there, was no hint of it as he and Mrs. Eisenhower -b o a r d e d the Columbine II for the nonstop flight to San Francisco. All indications were that the President will leave the nomina tion of a vice president up to the convention delegates. He was well aware that under these circum stances the No. 2 spot will po to Vice President Richnrd M. Nixon whom he, has called "perfectly acceptable." The Columbine II was sched uled to arrive in San Francisco nt 6:30 p.m. PDT when Reo'ubll cans plan a tumultuous welcome Report from Rbff: Gala Plans Made Editor's Note: lladley Roff, former Bend Bulletin news staff member, now a news staff mem ber of The San Franclsco'News, Is covering the Ban Francisco Republican national convention lor readers ot The Bulletin. -By HADLBY ROFF Bulletin Correspondent"" " SAN FRANCISCO Republi cans, looking tor relief from rou tine of their centennial convention here, are planning a spectacular welcome for President Eisenhower when he arrives tonight. Several thousand flag - waving nnd horn-tooting partisans are ex pected to jam international air port and make manifest what is leaf in convention hall. The form er general, with the wide grin, Is their overwhelming choice as party champion.. Plans for the welcome have ueen worked and reworked for the past several weeks so that every detail is as neatly buttoned down as the shirt collars of the young Kopiib licans planning the affair. Young OOP Busy The voting Republicans, working from huge headquarters here, have been assigned planning for wel comes and demonstrations lor the four-day convention. Thev were on hand Willi a Dixieland band and college cheer leaders when Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon stepped from n nlanc here Saturday. And more uf the same enthralling hoopla is expected today when the Presl dent's plane, "Columbine", sets down and lie and Mamie step into view. The thousands of Republicans filling the cavernous Cow Palace seemingly are champing at tne on lor means ot expressing their con fidence nnd optimism that Eisen hower and Nixon will sweep Into Washington as victoriously as four yenrs ngo. The 1323 delegates, their alter nates and the pnrty followers cheered automatically at the men tion of Ike or Dick at yesterday s opening session of the four-flay convention. Hut it was onvious their bubbling partisanship was thirsting for snappier stuff. Talks Abbreviated The speakers, rigidly adhering to time limitations lor stream lined televising, abbreviated their talks. One well-known sena'or ac tually talked less than a minute. Keynoter Gov. Arthur H. I.nnT lie, of Washington, deviated sharp 'y in presentation from his Chicago counterpart for the Democrats, Gov. Frank G. Clement ot lennes- see. His tone was reserved, his manner calm. Partisan claims, ot course, were presented, if quietly ii such charges as Democrats spent 20 years trying to imple ment their inconsistent concepts and wound up with an appalling rfcord of mismanagement and corrupt ic.." Generally the speeches were short, almost perfunctory as con gressmcn, senators, and governors lined up single file for their brie' torn on the podium nnd before tele vision cameras. AnTir Restless But delegates with their blue ribboned badges seemed resiles: as U itching for a more active part WEATHER High yestenluy, 89 degrees. Low laiit night, 44 degrees. Sun et today, 7:00. Sunrise tomor row, 5:16. No. 219 for their standard bearer. The President, looking for all the world like a candidate, was in high spirits. He smiled and waved enthusiastically for photog raphers. Both, he and Mrs. Eisen hower kissed thejr four grand children goodbye and made sure they were safely returned to the hands of White House staff mem bers 'who will take, care of them. The Eisenhowers and their par ty took off from National Airport under leaden skies. Monday night the President and Mrs. Eisenhower watched the convention on television. Press Secretnry James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenjiower thought the speeches wore "very fine" and that he appreciated the, entertain ment "very much." ' The President also spent many of his final hours here putting the finishing touches on the accept ance snee.ch which will mark the formal beginning of his campaign for. second term. in the convention other than rou-' tinuly awaiting the inevitable, Te nominatlon ot Eisenhower and Nixon. ' v Some of the delegates were able to let oft some excess steam last night at a party thrown by CnU- lorma's uooawm ,VJ. isxugnt. tva eBtwrmtPtl 11,000 persons- attended (lie giganfic affair. Some danced. Most stood in tight groups hain- menng at the Democrats and laud- "iff Republican accomplishments, And, incidentally, consumed 600 gallons or ennmpngne. A brief flurry over civil rights plank, GOP platform and Harold Stnssens untiring but unsuccessful drive against Nixon nre the only issues to divert attention from the resolute purpose of the gathering t-cnomiiinlion of the 1952 team. Tonight, however, as the Presi dent's plane dips to earth, Repub licans will have at least one chance to vent their partisanship in this their 2(ilh convention. Bend Coach On Special Train Slated A special Bend conch is to be attached to the 21-car train that is to move north through this city on Sunday. September 2, to Join in a double railroad celehratlon. That dual event will be the 25th anniversary ol the completion of the inside gateway route between Ihe Pacific noilhwe.st and Californ ia, and the 45th anniversary of the completion of the railroad up the Deschutes gorge to Bend. The special train bearing some 350 passengers will head north from California on September 1 and will arrive here early Sunday morning, September 2. The conch to be attached here will hold CO passengers. The train will move mrth from Hend to Wishram at 5:30 a.m. on September 2, with stops along the Deschutes gorge and at Celilo for picture fans. Two diners will be attached, with breakfast, lunch and dinner to he. served. The fair lor the round trip from Bend will be 58.55. this to n- 'ude lax. Tickets can be obtnlntd at lh SP & S office here, on Oreeon ave nue. The excursion is being s:on sored by the Central Coist Rail way club of San Jose, Calif. Vale Man Badly Hurt in Accident BURNS (UP) Homer Schnell of Vale, Democratic nominee for Malheur county clerk, was in criti cal condition In a hosnilnl hero to- lay after a one-car accident about H miles west of here early yes crday. Schn-11 aimte'itly Ir'i j"e-nnt-d to avoid striking a cow on tho lighway, police reported and lost control of his car.
