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Univ. of Oregon Library EUjEME, ORE'JOM- c : FORECAST Fair through Thursday. Isolated showers in southern Cascades. High both days 85-90. Low 42-48. THE BEND BU WEATHER vf High yesterday, 7? degrees. Lew ' last night, 40 degrees. Sunset to day, 7:00. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:12. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 54th Year Forty Four Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Wednesday, August 21 , 1957 No. 219 mm n P r?o n Skeletal! victim yrew E-inas 'Deschutes on Display' Theme of 195 7 Event; Many Exhibits Slated By MAKT1IA STIIANAHAN Bulletin Stuff Correspondent REDMOND "Deschutes on Display." This is the theme o the 38th an nual Deschutes county fair which officially opens on Friday and will continue until Sunday evening. But as early as Thursday, "Des chutes will be on display." On ex hibit will be Uie county's top live stock, crops, produce, handwork and skills ot the county adults and young people of rural areas. Activities will center at the Des chutes county fairgrounds, with ro deo action to be in the nearby arena. FFA and 4-H members started their activities earlier in the week. Judging contests and other phases of the youngsters' busy program will be held in advance of the main show. Livestock and exhibits started coming in to the grounds and build ings today and will continue Thurs day. Judges will be busy Thursday night, Friday and even Saturday morning placing the many open class, community, 4-H and FFA entries that are expected. One of the first events of interest to the public will be the 4-H style enow "Miss Deschutes in Review," to be held Thursday, 8 p.m. in Red mond armory. All-around showmanship Is 7:30 Early 1880's Saw Seffling Of Sisters The town of Sisters was settled first by a few families in the ear ly 1880's. A post office had pre viously been established at Camp Polk, long since abandoned, in the vicinity. The first post office of Sisters was functioning in 1888. Camp Polk had been set up in 1865 by Capt. Charles La Follette with a detachment of U.S. Volun teers following an Indian scare. The Hindman family is believed the first that established perma nent residence. In 18S0 E. A. Graham, father of Mrs. Frank Zumwalt, homestead ed and opened a small store which included the post office on the present location of the town. ' At that time there were only four families living west of the Deschutes river and east of the Cascades. Alfred Cobb settled where the Lazy Z ranch now !s operated in 1880, John and Mark Wilt were on the Bailey ranch lo cation. The Claypool brothers took out the first water rights on Squaw creek along the Santiani highway of today. John Smith had the first pre tentious store. 20 x 50 feet, with a dance hall upstairs. Pony express carried the mail with George Wil son one of the riders in his teens. Mail from the north came via Shaniko, Prineville and C 1 i n e Falls. Redmond did not exist then. The first mayor was Ab Demaries. He was followed by Dick Day. George Wakefield and Clyde Bush. The first Deschutes County Fair was held in Sisters In 1017. 1 i'rAbfr is Y.RoctOv IS SCENE OF PLANE CRASH Wreckage of a Lebanon plane found by Eugene Boy Scouts was sighted near the northwest tip of Rock Mesa, a flow of scabby lava near the base of the South Sister. The location is marked by a cross. p.m. Friday in the 4-H show ring, followed by the fat stock show and sale for. 4-H and FFA entrants, sponsored by Redmond Kiwanis club. Bernard Wink will auction eer. All Kiwanians will be helping with this second annual sale. Re ports are that some fine livestock will be on the block. Two main events on Saturday are the parade at 10:30 a.m. down Sixlh Street in Redmond, and the 1:30 p.m. rodeo. In the parade will be floats, sad dle clubs, special entries, bands, marching units, led by Queen Gaudia Christensen and princess es Nancy Campbell and Sharon Hirtzel, directors of the Deschutes County Fair Association Ray Car penter, president, Roy Newell and George McKinnon co - managers. Carl Galloway, Ben Smith, How ard Mayfield, and Norman Swan son secretary, (Max Cunning has been inactive the past few years and Wade West is absent owing to, iP.ncss this year), the Redmond Union high school band, and Red mond National Guard unit. Cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded winners in several divi sions of the parade. Jack Morris is arranging the parade, with the help of Redmond Chamber of Com merce. The rodeo will open with the grand entry in the. fairgrounds arena and will feature Christensen Bros, of Eugene rodeo stock and a full program of rodeo events and several races. Met Lambert will announce the show. There are three prominent events scheduled for Sunday the Buokaroo breakfast, a horse show and the second rodeo. Breakfast will be served on the site near the fairgrounds arena from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. by top hand Bill Schallhorn ol Culver and his crew of about 125. Steaks) ba con, eggs, hotcakes, potatoes, pan bread and coffee will be on the sumptuous menu, and for enter tainment there will be a western band and Bud Adams' microphone philosophies. A registered quarter-horse show from 9 to 11 a.m. will be held in the arena, arranged by F. M. Rob erts of Redmond and Mrs. Dean Hollinshead, Bend, Judging the ap proximately 20 entries will be Mar ion County Judge Rex Hartley, Salem, who is also president of Oregon Quarter-Horse Association. This is an event for adult horse men which has not been held for some years, and should prove very interesting, the sponsors believe. Working and trail horse classes will also be shown. The second rodeo will start at 1:15 p.m. Sunday. These are the highlights. There will be exhibits to see, demonstra tions to watch, and enough other attractions at the fairgrounds and in Redmond this weekend to pro vide a full program for everyone. A reunion of Redmond Union high school alumni who were "Classmates Under Putnam" (the yea-s 1923-32 when State Superin tendent of Education Rex Putnam was superintendent in Redmond) will be held Saturday. Alumni and families will raster Saturday, gather for-a buffet sunner (nublie is also invited) from 5 to 8- p.m. Saturday in John Tuck school cafe tcria; hold an old-time assembly at 8 p.m. in RUHS gym. SPARKS LAKt u i.: . .v. .... t- ' TWO BUSY MEN Carl Galloway, left, and Roy Carpenter are among Redmond's busiest men these days as Deschutes county fair time nears. With other directors of the fair board they Will present the county's 38th annual show. 'Classmates Under Putnam' Plan Reunion at Redmond on Saturday Special to The Bulletin REDMOND Of the reportedly 596 students who attended Red mond Union high school in the years 1923-1932, many will be re turning with their families to Redmond Saturday for a re union of former "Classmates Un der Putnam". Not the least of "those who made good" of the alumni and old grads will be "Prof" Putnam him self Rex Putnam, state super intendent of public instruction, Sa lem, who was superintendent of RUHS and all Redmond schools during 1923-32. The reunion Saturday, to feature registration all day at the high school, buffet supper from 5 to 8 p.m. (to which the public is also invited) at John Tuck school cafe teria, and an old-time assembly at Two Businesses Are Burglarized Two Bend business establish ments were burglarized sometime in the hours of darkness last night or early this morning. An attempt was made to open a safe in the of fice of Eastern Oregon Mills. Inc., 110 E. Greenwood Avenue. The es tablishment of Capitol Cleaners, at 815 S. Third Street, was broken in to and entered, end $18 in change J was taken from the cash register. Ben Ohling, foremjin at Eastern Oregon Mills, discovered shortly before 6 a.m. that the warehouse had been entered by forcing a door at the west side of the building. A crowbar was apparently used to pry off a piece of tin, then the burglar reached in an unhooked the hasp. The safe, in the office at the front of the warehouse, was open ed this morning by a local lock smith. He said that the burglar or burglars apparently became fright ened and left the building without accomplishing the intended pur pose. In only a few more minutes, entry to the safe would have been gained. The dial had been broken off, apparently by using a heavy hammer. Marks were left, but no tools were found on the premises. A power drill had been used to bore holes. Several pocket knives were re ported missing from the retail sales room. Nothing else seemed to have been disturbed. Entrance to Capitol Cleaners was gained by prying open the rear door. W. F. McWilliam discovered the break-in when he arrived at the establishment this morning. Nothing was missing in addition to the money in the cash register. City police are investigating both cases. There is a possibility of con nection between the two, according to Chief John Truett. Major Simons Back on Earth FREDERICK, S.D. (UP) The world's first bona fide spaceman, who spent 32 hours exploring the vast reaches along the rim of the stratosphere, emerged f:om his record-smashing flight dead tired but thrilled with the wonders of the heavens. MaJ. David G. Simons. 33, a lanky Air Force physician, brought his huge balloon safely to earth near Elm Lake in northern South Dakota at 6:28 p.m.,' c.d.t., Tues day. He had attained an altitude of at least 19 miles' du:ing his un precedented trip. The space pioneer brought Mrk a tale of being surrounded by a purple sky. even in the daytime, and of observing the stars glowing "like an animal's eyes." nn" - 8 p.m. in RUHS gym, started as a passing thought in the mind of an alumnus living in Redmond, was nurtured in a meeting of several alumni last spring, and flowered into, action by a committee of lo cal former students of the. Put nam years. This group, headed by chairman Russell Metis, has spent many weeks tracing the 596 former stu dents, locating most of them. Rme t- . ' ' V' DR. REX PUTNAM Coming for RUHS reunion are deceased, some have not been found. Funds for postage and sta tionery was given the reunion com mittee by Deschutes County Fair Association and Redmond Cham ber of Commerce. Mrs. Vern Mal lery has been secretary lor the group. Letters have come back from many towns in Oregon, Washing ton, California, a few in Idaho, one in British Columbia, one each in Nebraska, Minnesota, Delaware, one alumnus is reportedly in Hon olulu. Many have promised to come back- to Redmond Saturday to renew old friendships; many have lived in or near the town since graduation. Some classmates married and have children in Red mond schools. One' of the former Redmond teachers, Miss Jessie Hill, still lives here and it is expected she will ride in the parade with Put nam and other returning teachers. She taught first grade for 30 years, and when she retired in 1919 the first Redmond grade school was named for her on the same oc casion that Putnam came here for the dedication of Redmond's sec ond grade school, the John Tuck school. Metts recalls his class (1932) was the smallest ever to graduate from RUHS. 20 students. The high school was built early in the 1920s, and a gymnasium was added in 1927 to the west side of the build ing. The gym burned in 1944 and was rebuilt in 1945. Worker Injured By Falling Log Special to The Bulletin MADRAS The second logging accident in four days hit the Warm Springs Lumber company Tuesday when a log fell on Ira Merritt. He was brought into Madras, then rushed to Pioneer Memorial hos pital at Prineville by the Madras ambulance crew, with a broken back. Saturday, another Warm Springs worker. Wally La Framboise, was also hit by a tree, and hospitalized with a back Injury. Upon examin ation, It was found his back was not broken, and he was released two days after his entry into the Prineville hospital. t. - sr - l t ) y , ' 1 ' T II I ' ' ' tS.. .,L J t-AMILIAR SCfcNfc Through these gates to Deschutes county fair, thousands will enter this weekend to attend the 1957 agri culture show, on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Grounds have been put in shape for the fair and rodeo. Unit. Plan Workers Set Campaign The advance party of workers in the Deschutes County United Fund campaign held a kickoff breakfast at the Pine Tavern at 7 a.m. to day. Mike Salo, general chairman of all workers, presided. Robert W. Chandler, president ol the Fund for the second year, thanked all the workers for join ing in this important phase of the campaign. All at the breakfast are in the Unit-Plan division. In this unit are all businesses with live or more employes. Co-chairman Mike Mahoney and Gordon McKay urged the 25 work. era at the breakfast to get started at once in seeking" contributions from the firms on their lists. Forest Lovett, executive director ot the Fund, explained the use SI the printed pledge forms and oth er material given to each solici tor. There will be 37 or 38 in the Unit-Plan force. Several were ab sent on vacations. Temperatures Temperatures during the 24-hour period ending 4:30 a.m. today: High Low Bend 40 63 65 70 75 63 58 53 54 53 Hill Chicago Denver Los Angeles Miami New York Portland, Ore. San Francisco Seattle Spokane Highest yesterday City, Kan. Lowest 40 at Bend, Ore. 101 this morning Registration Set At Grade School PRINEVILLE Registration will be held Thursday and Friday, August 22 and 23, at the Crooked River Grade School. Parents are to register new first graders in person, according to William B. Thompson. This cannot be done by telephone, he said, because birth certificates and records showing pre - school physical examination must be presented. The staff will number 35 again this year, and there will be no dou ble shifting. There will be four first grade classes, four second grades, four third grades, four j fourth grades, four filth grades and two sixth grades. There will be new teachers in two of the ! fourth grede rooms. "The 1937 58 school year should be a successful one," Thompson said, "because so many staff members are returning and will be able to adjust to school routine quickly." He issued an invitation to parents to visit school frequent ly for friendly exchange ot ideas end experiences. Both grade schools will try to provide hot lunches at th usual fee of 20 cents per meal, Thomp son said. It would be helpful, he said, if a week's meals were pur chased at one time for a dollar, to save time and bookkeeping. Keyes to Appeal An order allowing J. Robert Keyes to appeal from conviction on a charge of driving a motor ve hicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor has been sign ed by Municipal Judge Alvin Gray. Keyes, found guilty in a July 19 trial, was fined a total of $252.30 snd his driver's license was re. voked. Notice of appeal was filed on Aug. 13. The case Is being applied to Deschutes county circuit court. Crook County's Annual Fair Gets Under Way Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE The Crook County Fair got underway here to day with the setting up of exhibits, the weighing and tagging of mar ket livestock, a cake baking con test and sewing demonstrations. The annual 4-H Dress Revue, i popular feature of the fair, will be staged tonight at 8 p.m. In the Crook County high school cafetor- lum. All 4-H'rs in clothing will participate in the fashion show which will have Mrs. LaSelle Coles as commentator. Entertainment will also be provided during the show. The public Is invited. No ad mission will be charged. The five-day fair, offering $5000 in premiums, is expected to top any held in the area in previous years, according to Ken Waud, county ag extension agent. The number of exhibits in 4-H and open class divisions shows a notable in crease, he sam, ana interest in the livestock competition Is also at an all time high. DfvlHions Open All open class divisions are open to exhibitors from Crook, Des chutes and Jefferson counties. Waud stated that large classes are expeotcd in the beef division and that a good growing season has brightened the outlook for more participation In all land pro ducts divisions, especially grains, potatoes, vegetables and flowers. Lois Christian, county extension home ec apent, said that a fine display of 4-H work has been rea lized, with. nearly 300 projects In food preservation and home living completed. Many exhibits are on display for' the first time In this area, dem onstrating the broadening interests of the local 4-H youngsters. The new exhibits include photography, home living, forestry, bee keeping, electricity, leather and homing pigeons. Dance Planned Highlighting the five-day pro gram will be a dance, sponsored by the Junior Leaders association, set for Friday evening at the Jun ior high sohool gym and open to all teenagers In the Central Ore gon area, whether 4-H or FFA members or not. The 4-H and FFA Fat Stock Auction, sponsored by the Prine ville Lions club, will be held Sat urday evening, climaxing three days of judging. The auction is cx rieeted to attract a huge crowd of bidders and spectators. A rew feature of the fair. 4-H Horsemanship and showmanship will highlight Sunday's program. Figures Given ! For Forests The 19 national forests in the Pa cific Northwest earned a record breaking $36,500,000 in net receipts in the past fiscal year, according to Information received here today from Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone, Portland. The Deschutes was one of six forests In the Pacific Northwest with receipts in excess of three million dollars. Oregon's Willamet te forest was highest with nearly ten million dollars. Earnings from the Deschutes amounted to $3,022,000. Bulk of the revenue came from timber sales. The law provides that national forest funds returned to local gov ernment be used for public roads and funds. The Deschutes National Forest office In Rend expects to receive a breakdown of the local alloca- tion in the near future. Hunt Goes On For Second Man In Air Tragedy By PHIL F. RKOCAiV BuUetln Staff Writer Searchers reported shortly be ! fore noon today that a skeleton ! had been found near the wreckage ' of a plane on the southwest slope I of the South Sister. ! Don Peters ot the. U.S. Forest i Staff, one of the searchers, made the report of the discovery to his headquarters office In Bend, via ri adio, No attempt had been made to establish the Identity of the re mains found In the rugged coun try, near the northwest tip of Rock Mesa. Oregon State police and mem bers of the forest staff met at the wreckage scene late this morning and from that point launched their search for some trace of the two men who were aboard the plane when it took off on June 14, 1956, from Lebanon. They were Dr. Ralph Johnson, Lebanon dontisl and Hurtwiok Hanson, Longview, Wash., and Sa lem man widely known as "the singing evangelist". Their destina tion on the unfinished flight was Minneapolis, Minn. Their plane crashed near the northwest tip of Rock Mesa, a jagged mass ot lava which ages ago spilled from a vent low on the slope ot the South Sister. Foud by Scouts The wreckage was located this past weekend by Boy Scouts from Eugene under the supervision of Scoutmaster Glenn Reed. Numbers the wrecked Fairchild plane Identified it as the one piloted by Dr. Johnson on the planned flight to Minneapolis. The plane crashed into some trees, and was badly broken. There was some evidence that the men possibly badly injured, used a rope In lowering themselves from the cockpit. No trace or the missing men was found by the Eugene Scouts In a hunt that lasted for about an hour. Led by Mayor Ralph Scroggin. group of Lebanon residents was re ported en route to the crash scene, to join the search. However, Oregon Slate police last night stationed a guard on the trail leading into the Mesa area, to keep unauthorized persons out until the area could be scouted by the ground party. At Wreckage Seme At the wreckage scene this morn ing were Peters and Don Franks, The Bulletin Offers 1957 Fair Edition This is The Bend Bulletin's an nual Fair edition, published tradi tionally a day or two before the official start of Deschutes County Fair. In it the reader will find a num ber of bits of history, of Centra; Oregon ahd its agriculture, its in dustries, its workaday life, its beautilul scenery. As the old verse of the bride's costume goes, "Something old, something new." The general accent of the edi tion's contents is on progress ad vancements made during the past year and continuing in the present that are aimed at making life more useful, comfortable and profitable for the children who are growing up. There are a few humorous twists in the many contexts written by staff members to balance the fac tual articles. It Is suggested that subscribers send a copy of this edition to friends and relatives in other parts of the country. It will help them to explain the beauties and advan tages of Central Oregon as a living place. The Bend Bulletin will wrap and mail your copy of this Fair edition anywhere In the United States or territorial possessions for 15 cents. Meeting Set By Commission A regular meeting of the city commission will be held tonight at 7:30 at the City Hall. There will be the routine signing of bills. No delegations have indicated that they will be on hand to speak on behalf of special projects, accord ing to City Manager Walter Thompson. As usual, visitors will be welcome and will have an op portunity to speak, he said. On the agenda for tonight is the second reading of an ordinance to change the area of Congress Mar ket from a residential zone to a neighborhood commercial zone. from the Deschutes National For est office, and Officers Ken Roach and John Newell, from the state police office here. A plane piloted by Robert W. Chandler, Bend, with Paul Hos mer and Don Peters aboard, flew over the area for about an hour and a half and finally located the wreckage from the air, In timber near Rocky Mesa, at an elevation of about 6,200 feet. Peters, on his return, headed back into the moun tains and joined the ground party. Members of the group in the circling plane were in touch with the ground party by radio. It is believed that Uie two miss ing men, possibly gravely Injured, lowered themselves from the plane, but failed to make their way out ot the rugged highlands. Searchers followed routes that might have been followed by the men alter leaving the wreckage. The wreckage is about a fourth of a mile from the road that leads over Wickiup Plains', and about half a mile from the Skyline Trail. Officials Eye City Garbage Problems Problems pile up in any busi ness. Particularly in the garbage business, it was indicated at a work session at the City Hall Tues day evening. Representatives of Bend three garbage companies met with city officials to discuss some ot the problems and lay the groundwork for writing an ordinance to cover garbage franchises. Present were Harley Hafter of Bend Garbage Co., Fred Carter of the Busy Bee Co., and Paul Dan lelson and Chester Blevins of the City Garbage Co. City Manager Walter Thompson, City Attorney Harry English and Commissioners L. R. Shields and Mel Rogers rep resented the city. It was not a reg ular commission session, but all commissioners were informed ol the meeting. Spokesmen for the companies Indicated that part of the problem, from the standpoint of public sani tation and the appearance of the city's alleys, lies in the fact that many residents do not have pro fessional garbage service. In some cases, they permit garbage to ac cumulate to alarming proportions. before hauling it to the dump, it was pointed out. The garbage people estimated that only about 40 per cent of the city residents have regular week ly pick-up. Thompson suggested that each company compile a list ot pations, for his guidance in making a complete count and studying the potential. It was sug gested that an ordinance covering garbage problems should make regular weekly disposa, manda tory, whether residents haul their own garbage or avail themselves of professional service. The ordinance should also set a definite schedule of maximum and minimum rates for specific serv ices, it was generally agreed. Charges now vary among the com panies, with the average fee about 90 cents a month for weekly resl dentlal pickup of one can a week. Forest Service Timber Sale Set The Deschutes National Forest has advertised for sale approxi mately 35,000,000 board feet of tim ber in the Noith Lookout Moun tain area. Bids will be opened at 2 p.m.. on September 23, In the Deschutes forest office in Bend. The mature stand holds some 24.500.000 of Ponderosa pine and 8.800,000 board feet of Douglas fir. Other species represented include lodgepole pine and white fir. The sale area lies on the north slope of Lookout Mountain and the west slope of a chain of buttes extending north and south from 5, 491 foot high Siah Butte. The area is about 29 miles from Bend. Approximately 5.570 acres ot the 6.000 in the sale are to be eleo lively cut. The minimum acceptable bid for the pine, including deposits and sale area betterment, has been set at $38.70. The lodgepole minimum Is $5.40 and Douglas fir, $11.95. The white fir minimum is $5.80. The successful bidder will be re quired to construct, reconstruct or resurface approximately 23 miiet of road. o
