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Univ. of Orsgon Library EUGENE, OREGON THE BEND BULLETIN FORECAST Fair through Saturday. High to day 65-70. Low tonight 35-42. High Saturday 70-75. WEATHER High yesterday, 64 degrees. Low last night, 30 degrees. Sunset to day, 7:51. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:22. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER . Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Friday, June 21, 1957 54th Year 5 Cents Ten Pages No. 168 State Winds Up Its Case In Portland PORTLAND (UP) Mayoi Terry Schrunk's defense called it lirst witness today after Judge James W. Crawford rejected a de fense move for outright dismissal of the perjury charge on which Schrunk is being tried. The state rested its case at If a.m. today and Defense Attorneyr Thomas H. Tongue and Edwir Hicks moved immediately for dis missal, claiming the state hat" failed to establish a prima facie case of perjury. The mayor if accused of lying when he said he did not accept a bribe from the manager of the 8212 Club here. Judge Crawford denied the dis missal motion without prejudice to the defense's right to renew i: later. First defense witness was Ev erett Grohs, 35, a deputy sheriff who accompanied then Sheriff Schrunk on a raid on the 8212! Club in 1955. Grohs said he was ordered by Schrunk to "try to make an ar rest" so the sheriff would have grounds to bring abatement pro ceedings. Grohs said he saw no evidence on which an arrest could be made inside the club but four persons were arrested for being drunk on the street. Conclusion of the state's case eame after Racketeer James B. Elkins was recalled to the stand for further cross examination by Hicks. Once again Elkins denied an addicition to narcotics. Hicks also questioned Elkins regarding bookkeeping methods in his boot leg joints and about a renort that one customer once lost $11,000 in one of Elkins' clubs. Special Assembly Session Seems Unlikely Action UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) Some Western nations urged to day that the General Assembly be recalled to discuss new details of Soviet brutality in Hungary, but a special session appeared un liltely at this time. Australia is formally on record as favoring immediate Assembly debate on the special committee report on Russian atrocities in the subjugated satellite nation. Brit ain and- several other countries were reported thinking along the tame lines. The United States, however, is said to feel that a special session should be deferred until just be fore the next regular meeting of the Assembly opens Sept. 17, in order to assure discussion "on the highest level." The Assembly is nominally In recess at the moment, and the foreign ministers who customarily sit in at the start of a session have scattered. It appeared likely that a special session at this time would be attended mainly by second-stringers. No decision is expected one way or the other until Wednesday, when representatives of the 24 na tions which sponsored the special Hungary committee meet here at the invitation of the United States. The committee report, published Thursday, cited such acts of Sovi et savagery as the wanton shell ing of undefended buildings and the barbarous shooting of women and children in breadlines. Joint Luncheon Hefd by Groups Members of the Oregon Land; Title Association, in Bend for their 1 fiftieth annual convention, held a joint luncheon at noon today with the Bend realty board. Robert G. Macdonald, Portland, OLTA presi dent, was teastm-.ister. James E. ' Sheridan of Detroit. Mich., presi dent of the American Title Assoc iation, was the speaker. He had as his subject. "A Rosy Future With Roadblocks." The program this afternoon was . . to be given over to recreation, with a golf tournament at the Bend Golf Club and a bus trip to Elk Lake scheduled. A banquet will be hId tonight In the Pilot Butte Inn Blue room. Prizes for the golf tournament will be awarded. There will be a skit by a group of OLTA members. Don Peek, Portland, will be toastmas ter. ; Speakers this morning were 'Rob ert B. Taylor, Oregon insurance commissioner; H. C. Saulfeld, slate director of veterans' affairs, and Sheridan. , Officers will be elected at the final session, scheduled for Satur-' day morning at the Bend Rim Rock Riders club house in Glen Vista. This will follow a burkaroo breakfast to be served from 8:30 lo ID . I I s I, .In ; in i SEEKS PAGEANT CROWN Princess Jo Ann, blonde and quiet, takes, time from royal duties to bake a cake. (Bulletin Photo) Princess Jo Ann Has Quiet Charm, Cameo Complexion By ILA S. GRANT Bulletin Staff Writer Sweet, quiet, delicate, poised - these are adjectives that describe pretty 18-year-old Jo Ann Jorgen son of Bend's 1957 Fourth of July Water Pageant court. Princess Jo Ann is a green-eyed honey blonde with a cameo com plexion. Five feet, six inches tall, she weighs 116 pounds and has a model's measurements 34-23-35. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mor gan T. Jorgenson, 1454 Hartford Avenue, she was born May 8, 1939, in Onamia, Minn. She has a broth er, Lane, 19, and a sister, Carol, 12. The family came to Bend seven years ago from Gilchrist. Jo Ann attended Gilchrist and Kenwood grade schools before entering Bend High School. In school, homemaking was her favorite subject. She was secretary of the Pep club, scribe for The spians, and a member of Future Homemakers of America. She was both local and state secretary for Sisters Sets Annual Rodeo On Weekend The Sisters rodeo, rated as tops among small-town cowboy events , in Oregon, will be off and running ! C(lo u,ith, m-nnH "uivaj av p..... ...... u b. ...... entry which will feature queens and courts from all over the state, Opening feature of the rodeo will be held this evening. This will be a ball at 9:30 honoring Queen hay Patterson and her range - riding princesses, Barbara Nordman and Maxine Meacham. Preceeding the rodeo, a parade will wind through Sisters, starting at 11 a.m. Buck Lambert. Prine- villc, will repeat his announcing j chores, both for the parade and both days of the rodeo, set to start at 1:30 Saturday and Sunday at the 1 Sisters Rodeo grounds. j A buckaroo breakfast Sunday morning, also at the rodeo grounds, will feature ham, hash brown potatoes, eggs, hotcakes, panbread, coffee and juice. The Sisters Veterans of Forelen Wars rodeo, regularly the earliest ing from Iridescent obsidian to iris His deDut was cheered by a ca of the season, features bulldogging, ! agates found in the old lands of pty audience; The show Includ bronc riding, bareback riding, calf I Central Oregon. I singer Gisele MacKenzic. roping, bull riding and a wild horse rue snow win oe unaer auspices race, according to Harry Pearson, : of the Deschutes Geology Club, Sisters rodeo secretary. with Merle Jones as general chair- In addition to rodeo events. Miss man. Exhibits will be in the Ore Bobby Bennett, trick rider, and g"n National Guard armory, on Troy Nabors, a clown with trick ! Wall street. animals, will perform. Several valuable collections wiU The Lane County sheriff's posse nd will also be on hand Red Reynolds. KVAL-TV perform er, will present silver buckles to competition winners. Presiding over weekend events will be rodeo Queen Kay Patter son, Prineville. and her princesses, Barbara Nordman. Route 2. Bend, and Maxine Meacham, Madras. Courts and queens from the Crooked River RounduD. the Jef- ferson County Fair. Lebanon 'ewen.Hhree .l peeled to be on hand. Boy, 9, First Highway Victim TiocvRrnr: itpi Man-in Furlough Jr., 9. was fatally in- jured near here Thursday when sTuck by a car on the new H:gh- way 99 route that by-passes Wins - ton. It was the first fatal accident on the recently opened stretch. Slate police said the boy was hit while he and a companion were walking along the highway about 5 p.m. Driver ot the car was Arlene Mardell Hosteller of Winston. The youngster was taken to Winston emergency hospital by his mother and died enroutc lo a Canyooville hospital. I the Distributive Education Clubs of America, an organization for stu- dents with Port-time jobs. She was graduated with this year's class. The genteel blonde was third place winner in the "Miss Sky watch" beauty contest in Bend last July 14, celebrating the fourth an niversary of "Operation Sky watch." Twenty - one attractive girls from a number of Oregon communities participated. Another tribute to Jo Ann's pul chritude and poise, was her selec tion as a princess for the Junior Senior prom. The winsome princess enjoys swimming, these summer days, and sewing and cooking are her special hobbies. She is equally adept at whipping up a luscious cake, or cutting and fitting a party frock. She prefers fluffy, feminine clothes, and pink is her favorite color. From personalities in theDon Titgen, 27, entertainment world, she picked George Nadar and Susan Hayward 1 as representing qualities she ad mires. Princess Jo Ann is might busy this summer. Besides being one of the Bend's comely ambassadors, she has a Job at the Pacific Power and Light Company office. Then there are dates w,ith her steady boy friend. "A job and marriage perhaps business courses at Central Ore- I eon College" constitute Jo Ann's! plans for the future. The job has ; already materialized and the prin-; cess is working on her trousseau. .. .: , l,,l r.1 i m eilJUJIlN; cvuij m.i.u.v. tne pageant preparations," said (he dainty princess. "Being selec- ted as a member of the court was the biggest thrill of all." Gem, Mineral Show Planned Arrangements for Bend's first gem and mineral show, to be tea- tured as a part of the 1957 Mirror i n A n....ti nwurram sr. Tttir. ' Pond Pageant program, ing final shape. Primarily featured at the show will be semi-precious minerals, cut and polished agates, petrinea woods, and other materials rang- i also De on aispiay. jnesc nut j. 1 cude the Colby butterfly collec tion, v.'itn ine ouueruies Miai.-u from colored agates; the Melby sDhere collection, the Keller col. lection of plume agates and the Springer collection of figurines made in Europe from colonui ot- sidians found on uregon i nign commercial wheat states show desert. I !(viav that 83.3 per cent of the Also to be displayed will be a ,,,.,; of wre amber found on ' rigid quotas, .. . -t n,lil minv,""" rl u V ... the shores of the Baltic many; ..r i hv a Crrmin family. ,-'- in Central Oregon. Eleven commercial "n,D"'? have signed for space in ine ai ory- They will display gem m terial from the soutnwesi, as wen as the northwest. Thn oom mui mineral show will onen its doors daily at 9 a. . .. . close at 7 p.m., so the,-e wil! be no conflict with the pageant. Hundreds of "rockhounds" and : visitors are expected from all parts of the northwest, I MINF.tl KILLED I MCDF.RMITT. Nev- lVV) j Jerry Shea. 38. Jordan Valley, j Ore., was killed Thursday when a forgotten dynamite charge, In the j Cordero mercury mine here ex- i ploded underground. The charge let loose as miners j were clearing a mine tunnel of I ore. officials said. Tornado Hits Fargo, Eleven Dead Counted By RICHARD HILL I'nlted Press Staff Correspondent FARGO, N.D. (UP) A tornado killed six children in one family to boost the death toll In Thurs day night's devastating twister to at least 11. Another 105 persons were Injured. Authorities desperately sought to contact the dead children's fa ther, Gerald Munson, who was out of town and apparently unaware of the tragedy. Only the mother and one child of the family of nine survived the disaster. Both the mother and her young son, Rickey, were hospital ized. Tie' dead children were identi fied as Mary Beth Munson, 16 months; Lois Ann, 2V4 years, Jeanctte, 5; Bradley, 10; Darwin, 12, and Phyliss, 16. The mayor ordered the city un der martial law today, turning all law enforcement to five Na tional . Guard units which were rushed here to prevent looting and I aid in the mammoth cleanup job. The twister smashed into Fargo ' I i.... m h.mS, about 100 square blocks of this city of 45.000 population. About 250 buildings were destroyed or dam aged, many of them in the new Golden Ridge subdivision. Damage was estimated at more than one million dollars. Searchers' were hampered dur ing the night by a power failure as the winds tore down electrical lines and knocked out communica tions. Volunteers probing the de bris in foggy weather today said they feared they would find addi tional bodies In the shattered build ings. Mrs. Munson was hospitalized with shock and was placed under heavy sedation. Injuries to her only surviving child were not im mediately determined. The other four victims were t 7 Z 1. Z .!. ! an unidentified a woman about iman In his 50s, 40, an 0f Fargo, and a woman In the Ashton-Athol area of South Dakota. The twister plowed a jagged path through residential districts, causing heaviest damage on the west side of Fargo. It swept into the city from the west. Gov. John Davis ordered a de tachment of 200 National Guards men from Camp Grafton, N.D.. J?"ZS'Z ' , ft r , Air Force m D rs ' " ' "'Si" " '- r 'First Appearance In Nightclub Made by Benny LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP) Jack Benny Thursday night made his first nightclub appearance of his long entertainment career. He opened a three-week engagement at the Flamingo Hotel. The veteran comedian for years ' . ,,itrih offers but ad-1 ,mitted he couldn t turn down tne " . fabulous offer made by the Fla- ming0 jt was believed that he was o(erelj more than $80,000 for his engaeement at the swank re- -...i on tne ias Vegas strip. Wheat Farmers Favor Quotas WASHINGTON (UP) Amer- '-...x.t;L. ln avnr f ritnri 1 j k ,aJ ,or tneir im j f H j Pn,liminary returns from the ,armers voting jn the referendum J( (he fj(ln s,lccc5Sivr 1 .. ,j i effect, The rcturns tubulated by the : Airiciilture Department showed faVored quotas wh)c ;g m W(T opposPj. mainr oroducinz states. tinnnt nolled the lareest per- . mt ppntaw OI VPS voies.ai at.i. ine iavor.inie v-.- aV. farmers in the commercial wheat states with more than 15 acres of wheat v.111 be subject to qut. ' jpet tft ouota penalties, and pnre inpoort at a national average rate of $1 78 a bushl will be available to producers who do not exceed their acreage allotments. PENDLETON (UP) Umatilla Officers alerted Redmond city po county, the largest wheat growing ;Hce. county In the state, approved I A car of the description used In Thursday the wheat market quota Ihe Vida holdup passed through of the 195? crop bv an overwhelm-j Redmond 8t 1:30 a.m., traveling ing majority of 91'J per cent. at a high speed. Redmond police SliitoiTS Ex-Oregon Men Quizzed At Hearing SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Two former Oregon men have refused to answer questions put to them by a House un-American activities ! subcommittee now holding hear ings hero. Robert Nissen, 29, former Ma rine Corps lieutenant, former Al bany, Ore., resident and a grad uate of Oregon State College, re- answer when asked "is n a fact you wrote a letter to ,he Sviet Union ofer.ng your services in any rapacity, either in the United States or abroad?" Nissen is now "a San Francisco television and electronics engi neer. Sidney Rubin, 41, a former pro fessor of economics at OSC, re fused to testify before the sub committee, invoking constitu tional provisions. He formerly worked for the National Labor Relations Board in Denver and Kansas City. Rubin declined to answer when asked if there is a Communist cell among NLRB employes In Denver. He was on the OSC faculty from 1946 to 1952. Nissen refused on constitutional grounds to say whether he was a member of the Communist party while in military service. He ad mitted he was discharged under conditions other than honorable but he said "I never could figure out why." Subcommittee Member Gordon H. Scherer (R-Ohio) and Counsel Frank Tavenner asked Nissen re peatedly about a letter to the Soviet Union written in 1951 dur ing' Ihe Korean conflict. Summer Here, But Mercury Hits 30 During Night Summer officially arrived In the North Temperate zone this morn ing about five hours after the temperature in Bend dipped to a chilly 30 degrees. This was the third time in the present month that temperatures below freezing have been recorded at the Bend station. Summer astronomically arrived at 8:21, PST, at the earth's North Pole tilted slightly more than 23 degrees toward the sun in its sum mer solstice salute. Calendars say this is the long est day of the year, but for the next several days the sun will rise and set about the same time. Sun- rise this morning was at 4:22. It jwiu set wis evening ai r.ai, utnu . ... . t.e n i Office to Close On Monday The Bend U.S. Selective Service office, serving the Central Oregon counties, will be closed all day Monday, E. O. Stadter, board chairman, has announced. The clerk, Mrs. Edith Kostol, will be back on duty Tuesday, June 25, at 8 a.m. Other places of registration aside from the Bend Post Office quar ters, are: City Hall, Redmond; Jefferson county sheriff's office courthouse, Madras, and Crook county clerk's office, Prineville. Holdup Suspect Taken At Crook Roadblock Wanted as a suspect in the .hold- ,ln 0, a SPrvic0 sUion on the Mc. Kenzip highway at Vida last night, a CaIi(ornia youth was capured : nj wi. , rj. Ki . ' u .is-j ne(n Arnold 21, 0f Eerkeley. With hjm me q Wj mst J6 oW , T) an bein he(J jn Pire When arrested. Arnold had in j ' Fusion a small pistol, The robbery of the Vida station occurred at 11:10 p.m.. with the i spect leaving In a car that head- roi7 Chamber Program Reviewed At Forum Session Thursday Efforts being made to obtain , named treasurer of the chamber, new Industries were reviewed atja position vacant since Howard the June forum meeting of Bend Krog moved lo Eugene. Chamber of Commerce members I Mel Rogers told the group of Thursday. . some 50 persons attending the Also reviewed were develop-1 luncheon that preparations for the ments in connection with the move ' pageant are on schedule, and with to develop the Bachelor Butte ski ! in the budget. He said the corn- area and progress of arrangements for the presentation here over the Fourth of July holidays of the 1957 Mirror Pond Pageant. Kessler Cannon, chamber presi dent, was in charge of the luncheon meeting, at the Pine Tuvern. Vari ous committee chairmen were call- I ed on lor reports. ' Marion E. Cady, who recently ' resigned as chamber manager to enter business here, was present-1 ed with a wrist watch, in apprecia- - " Alien, uescnuies county tion of his long service with the judge.and James A. Egan, Des chamber. The presentation was ! chutes National Forest supervisor, made by Cannon. told ' headway being made to Treasurer Named ! construct an access road from the Don Pence, acting manager of ! Cascade Lakes Highway to the ski the Bend chamber was introduced, and it was announced by Cannon that Rodney Hufstader had been Forest Guard Posts Manned Men who will guard the Des chutes National forest In the 1957 fire season were at their stations in the forest's fire districts today, following the end of the guard school. ' The school was held this year at the Crescent Lake organization camp, with just short of 70 train ees present. Ideal weather pre vailed for this year's camp, which opened on June 17 and ended Thursday night. Members of the Deschutes Na tional Forest headquarters staff at Bend were among those present for the "graduation" exercises nt the camp last night. One of the speakers was James A. Egan, Des chutes supervisor. A highlight of the program was the presentation to Maxine Koh field and R. S. Stlckney of the Bend office staff with 10 year ser vice awards. This was the first time in "many years that the training school was not held at the Prlngle Falls ex periment station headquarters. The camp was moved to Crescent Lake this year so all taking part would be under roof. Trainees, a considerable num ber of them new to fire detection and control work, received instruc tion that ranged from map read ing to phases of smokechasing.v Don Peters, in chnrge of fire control work on the forest, was in general charge of the guard camp. K. F. Crash Kills One, Hurts Three KLAMATH FALLS (UP) One woman was killed and three persons were injured here today when a car failed to negotiate a turn and rolled over near a via duct at the north end of Klamath Falls. Mrs. Viola Abraham, 34, roule 1, box 399, Poulsbo. Wash., was killed. Police said she was driver of the car. Injured were Frank Delano Ev ans. 24, Port Blakeley, Wash., his mother, Mrs. Virginia Evans, Cen tralis, and Virginia Kincaid, Ro chester, Wash. They were taken to Klamath Valley hospital where attendants said no one was be lieved seriously hurt. It was Klamath county's 13th 1957 traffic death. j alerted state and Prineville police 1 as they gave chase. I A roadblock was Immediately set up in the vicinity of the Prine- vllle airoort. Arnold was taken In. to custody without trouble. Not un til the car was stopped was it known the youth was traveling with a companion. Officers were also checking the possibility that Arnold may be wanted in Tulare count-. Californ- j High Low ia. The Tulare sheriff, In Visalia, Bend 4 so reported he holds a robbery war- Denver 12 HO rant for a Eugene Arnold. Kansas Cily SK 72 State police reported this after- Miami S3 78 noon that Arnold had signed a New York 7S OI statement admitting the robbery at Portland, Ore. CO 47 Vida and the theft earlier of a car San Francisco 67 52 in Berkeley, Calif. Seattle 00 49 Currency mussing from the Vida S(xkane. 6 47 station was found in'Arnold's boot, Highest yesterday 111 nt lilythe, officers said. Coins were found on Calif. Lowest this morning 35 at the girl. Big Piney, Wyo. n n "s Cllf! mittee had one request for a float 48 feet in length Rogers said new lighting is to be installed for the convenience of persons making their way into the seating Arena. Dr. J. M. McCarthy reported on the summer ski school and Wil- lmm rieaiy luucneu un me any- liners' plans for a new ski center at Bachelor Butte. Headway Made slope on tsacneior. Egan warned that if the new ski project is to be a success, it must be a community undertaking, not the activity of a small, overworked group. Reports on Industrial develop ment plans were reviewed by Pat Metke and Paul Danielson. Pos sibility that a trailer manufactur ing firm may establish a plant here was mentioned. Irene Bostelman told the group that the Crescent Boosters had lnunched a project to erect on U.S Highway 97 south of Chemult a roadside bulletin board calling at tention of travelers to the interior route. There is a strong possibility, the chamber members were told, that a Hollywood movie company wilt come to the high Cascades west of Bend this season to make one or two pictures. Cady said that Andre de Tolh who directed "The Indian Fighter" here in 1955, would visit Bend In the near future. Cady also reported that the Hollywood director hopes to make a winter picture at "Fort Benham." Biggest Battles Still to Come . WASHINGTON (UP) The South hns lost a major battle in the Senntc for the first time over civil rights legislation, but has not yet lost Ihe war. The biggest battles are still to come and probably will tie up the Senate during most of July in a filibuster. But even then, the chances that southern Democrats can defeat the bill will be much less bright than in past years. Supporters of the House ap proved administration civil rights bill won a first round victory in the 1957 struggle Thursday night. By a vote of 45 to 39, the Senate refused to follow normal procedure and send the House bill to Its Judiciary Committee, where a similar measure has been bottled up since last winter. The effect of this vole was to hold the bill in the Senate, where it can be taken up by a majority vote like any bill reported by a Senate committee. The motion to take up the bill is not expected until shortly after the July 4 holiday. Because that motion will be sub ject to filibuster, it can, in fact, be curried only if supporters of the bill can musler the 64 votes required to shut off debate under the Senate's antililibustcr rule. Thursday night's vote did not represeifP a true test on the civil rights issue because it came on a procedural question and involved a deoarture from Senate custom. For instance, a number of north i ern and western Democrats, surh as Sens. John F. Kennedy (Mass.). I Mike Mansfield (Mont.), and I Wa vne L. Morse (Ore.), who favor civil rights legislation, lined up with the southern bloc. They be- lived the bill should have been referred to committee and an at- tempt made later to discharge it u ,ha mmitier. failed to act. Temperatures Temperatures during the 24-hour period ending 4:30 a.m. today: no n iilSiln) Idaho Power Cancels Fast TaxWrite-Off WASHINOTON (UP) The. Senate today approved a bill to authorise construction , of "high" dam at llella Canyon on the Snake River. Tho vote was 45 to Sg. The bill still must be approved by the House Interior Committee and then passed by the House itself. Endorsement of the measure was a major victory lor its Dem ocratic supporters who have waged an unsuccessful, four-year fight to get the project throuKh Congress. The Senate's action In favor of a government "high" dam came at the end of a hectic third day of debate which was thrown into confusion by Idaho Power Co's surpise cancellation ot rapid tax writes-off benefits for construc tion of two ot three low dams on the Snake. The Office of Defense Mobiliza tion accepted the company's re quest that its application for fast tax write-off privileges be can celled. The bill's supporters said the company's action was a "desper ate last minute" maneuver de signed to kill the 1 easure. Proponents of thr dgh dam bad used the write-off frant as their main argument against the three administration-backed low dams, which would be flooded .out by the upper Hells Canyon unit. Because of the confusion brought on by Idaho Power's an nouncement the late of the mea ure was in doubt right up to vot ing time: Sen. John A. Carroll (D-Colo.) had said shortly before the roll was called that "If this measure is rejected the campaign for a high Hells Canyon dam will never be able to rise again." The jammed galleries, although warned in advance against any demonstration, broke Into loud ap plause when the vote was announ ced. Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) ailing and hospitalized for months, made his first appearance on the floor since January to vote for the bill. Reinforced by the Senate's ac tion, Democrats were expected to intensify their efforts to push for final enactment of the high dam bill In the House. The Senate vote was a major defeat for the Eisenhower admin istration which has steadfastly op posed a government "high" dam. Democratic senators charged then and again today that the company gave up the write-off in an attempt to swing congressional votes against the federal proposal. ODM officials discussed the can cellation at a conference this morning. A spokesman said a tel 011 egram had been received from T. E. Roach. Idaho Power presi dent, withdrawing the application. Inquiry Promised Sen. Estes Kefnuver (DTenn.), chairman of a Senate subcommit tee which has been investigating -the write-off, said the inquiry will continue. He sent Roach a tele gram asking him to "wire Imme diately the names of officers of the executive branch of the gov ernment with whom he or other company officials discussed the cancellation. In the Senate, meantime, Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) as serted the company's decision had deprived the Democrats of their best propaganda weapon in the current battle of public vs. private power. He said he would ask oth er private companies In the Pa cific Northwest to follow Idaho Power's example. Geologists Plan Potluck Picnic Deschutes Geology Club mem-' bers this evening will join In their annual potluck picnic at the Glen Vista Rock Garden. Club members and their friends are to meet at the garden at 6:30, where W. A. Winney will be host. He is operator ot the rockery, one ' of the top gardens of its kind in the area. The Winney home, with Its adja cent rock garden, Is in the Glen Vista arcn a short distance north of Bend, to the east of the old Bend-Sisters road. ' The turnoff to the rockery Is mnrked. Those attending are to bring their "eats" for the potluck, with coffee and other beverages to be served. i
