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WEATHER
Fair through Wednesday; highs
34-40; low 7-12.
BEND BULLETIN
TEMPERATURES
High yesterday, M degree. Low
last night, degrees. Suntat
today, 4:27. Sunrise tomorrow,
7:2. .
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
58th Year
Ten Cents
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, December 6, 1960
Eight Pages
No. 1
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centage ot its street mileage
save only Klamath Falls.
RaJney notes
reason for
count change
Bend's official population as of
April 1, 1960, is 11,936, according
to final figures released by the
U. S. Bureau of the Census.
This is a small gain over the
preliminary figure of 11,748, an
nounced in May.
The difference between the two
figures, according to district cen
sus director Homer Rainey, is
caused .by enumeration of persons
whose home is in Bend, but who
were out of town on "enumera
tion day" March 31.
These persons away on vaca
tions, business trips, or in the arm
ed services were enumerated
at their temporary residences and
the figures referred back to their
home towns for final accounting.
Final figures announced for
other incorporated towns in Cen
tral Oregon were as follows:
Redmond, 3.340; Prineville, 3,263;
Madras, 1,515: Sisters, 602; Cul
ver, 301; and Metolius, 270.
Figures Given
Total population of Deschutes
county was given as 23,100, of
which 15,276 was classified as ur
ban, the rest rural. Crook coun
ty's population was given as 9,
430, with 3,263 urban. Jefferson
county was listed at 7,130, with
none of it classified as urban.
(Urban population was defined,
roiichly, as population of areas of
2,500 or more.)
Total population of the three
counties in the Central Oregon
area was 39,660, of which 18,539
is classified as urban.
Don'f get eager
wifh shears,
speaker warns
"Don't get eager with the prun
ing shears," Airs. David Wilson
warned members of Mirror Pond
Garden Club at their meeting last
Friday. It's still too early, she
said.
As program chairman for the
day, Mrs. Wilson spoke on care of
shrubs and trees. She said that
pruning should be done in mid
winter or spring. Then all cut sur
faces from branches thicker than
a pencil should be painted with
a wood protection such as clear
shellac.
Mrs. Wilson also showed a cata
logue of greenhouses suitable for
the Central Oregon climate. She
expects to have one installed in
her rose garden in the spring, she
said.
Mrs. Bernice Coad was hostess I
to the group, assisted by Mrs.
Robert Anderson. Twelve mem
bers were present.
Each woman brought a Christ
mas arrangement copied from a
Christmas card. An exchange of
gifts added to the Christmas spir
it. DOW-JONES AVERAGES
By United Prtss International
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 597.11, up 3 62 ; 20
railroads 126 82, off 0 48: 15 utili
ties 96..13. up 0 69, and 65 stocks
I. 32, up 0 89.
Sales today were about 3 .16 mil
lion shares compared with 3.29
million shares Monday.
kiA DAVrkjrkiT T nil-.
1
airr srreer itretcnes ott into
paved than any other Oregon
Tough question
Too many dirt
streets here?
(First of 2 articles)
By Michael Mahoney
Bulletin Staff Writer
Does Bend have too many dirt
streets?
If we say that it should keep
pace with cities in its population
class, the answer is yes. H we
say that it should keep pace with
the state total for all city streets,
Die answer is no.
About 52 per cent of Bend's
street mileage is paved. This is a
lower percentage than that of any
other city in the 10 to 25 thou
sand population class in Oregon,
with one exception: Klamath
Falls.
According to information fur
nished by the State Highway De
partment, 34 of Bend's 66 miles
of streets are paved. Of the re
maining mileage, 14 miles are
surfaced with gravel and 18 miles
are unimproved.
One Below Bend
Of the ten other cities in Bend's
population group, only Klamath
Falls has a smaller percentage of
Vandals hit
pumice pit,
probe made
Sheriff Forrest C. Sholes and
his deputies were called yester
day to investigate vandalism at
the Miller pumic pit, which caused
damage estimated to be around
$300. Equipment was damaged
with guns, apparently on Sunday.
A large pumice loading machine
bore the brunt of the destruction.
Bullets were shot through windows
and into the radiator, valued at
about $200. Cost of replacement or
repair is increased by the work
delay while the equipment is un
usable. Miller told officers. Shots
also went through a large steel
tank.
Sheriff Sholes said that the area
of the pinnice plant, about two
and a half miles west of Bend,
has been the destination of numer
ous young people recently, for tar
get practice.
Officers warned those who visit
the area that a careful watch is
being made, and that areas con
taining buildings or equipment are
out of bounds.
Mercury drops
to nine degrees
Bend last night was chilled by
its coolest weather of the season,
but the low mark recorded here,
9 above zero, was "warm" com
pared with ethers in Oregon east
of the Cascades.
The Oregon State Highway De
partment reported a low of -4 at
La Pine and a similar reading at
Chemult, to the south on U. S.
Highway 97.
Coldest reporting spot in Ore
gon was Austin in the Blue Moun
tains, where a low of -7 was re
corded. Clear, cool weather was general
over Central Oregon this morning.
More zero temperatures are ex
pected in tiie area tonight.
distance. Bend has smaller per.
city in its population group,
mileage paved, 34 per cent. The
others rise above Bend, starting
with Baker's 60 per cent and go
ing to Corvallis s 89 per cent.
If Bend is compared with the
statewide average, the results are
better. Of all the city street mile
age in Oregon, 57 per cent is pav
ed This is higher than Bend's 52
per1 cent,- but not much higher.
If Bend ranks low in the paving
of streets, what is the cause of
this ranking?
Tough Question
This is a tough question to ans-'
wer. Two factors tend to build j
paving percentages for a city. One
is age. A city which has been in
existence for a long time will tend
to have a larger proportion of its
paving done than a young city. An
example of this is Oregon City,
one of Oregon's oldest cities,
which ranks extremely high, with
98 per cent of its streets paved.
Bend, whicli wasn't incorporated
until. 1905, is young by Oregon
standards.
The other factor encouraging
paving is a small amount of an
nexation. Milwaukie has 87 per
cent of its streets paved. Milwau
kie is squeezed against Portland
on the north, leaving minimal
room for expansion.
On the other hand, annexation
of new land at the borders of
Bend, while it is part of the city's
natural growth, brings in large
sections of unpaved streets, thus
pulling down the city's paving
percentage.
Not Much to Do
Not much can he done with dirt
streets, except oiling them in the
summertime to keep the dust
down. The city doesn't oil many
streets; only main thoroughfares.
Private individuals do some
street oiling on their own.
Explaining why the city does not
oil dirt streets more extensively,
city manager Walter Thompson
says, "As soon as we oil a street,
we get a phone call from some
one, saying, 'My son just tracked
some oil in onto the rug, and
where do 1 send the cleaning
bill?' "
Thompson adds that oiling
streets simply tends to make
properly owners less interested in
h?ving them paved.
(Second article on Bend's
street situation will appear in
tomorrow's edition of Tht Bul
letin.) i
Post Office busy
Christmas mail rush begins
This is no news lo members of
the Bend Post Office staff:
Christmas is rapidly approach
ing. The annual rush is well under
way at Uie local office and will
continue to gain in volume in the
coming week. Between 12 and 14
persons will assist the regular
staff in handling the yule mail.
Postmaster Farley J. Elliott
said the extra crew, already sign
ed, will be composed largely of
persons who woiked last Christ
mas. There were many applicants
for yule mail jobs this season,
Elliott noted.
Future mulled
by creditors
of plant here
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
Half a hundred chilled creditors
meeting in a big, half-heated room
of the Henslee trailer plant in
Bend tliis morning considered the
future of the now-closed firm.
Up until noon, when the larce
group took time out for lunch, no j
decision had been reached. It was I
agreed that the discussion should
be considered this afternoon. A
warmer meeting place, the Des
chutes County circuit courtroom,
was obtained.
Although no decision relative to
the future of the mobile homes
plant was reached at the morning
session, a proposal that a commit-
tee of creditors and stockholders
be named to study fully involved
financial obligations of the firm
appeared to be generally favor
ed. Possible Sale
This committee, if named,
would explore the possibility of
selling the operations to some
trailer manufacturing firm.
Present for the conference was
E. R. Fant of Dallas, Texas, ma
jor stockholder in the firm. He
noted in his opening remarks that
"I have one ray of hope": He
said that in Dallas, Tex., there is a
new mobile homes firm interested
in a northwest operation. That in
terest, Fant said, was made mani
fcrt only yesterday.
Fant said he would like very
much to see the plant continued
in Bend.
But financial reports and ques
tions by creditors emphasized the
fact that any attempt to reorgan
ize the firm and place it in oper
ation will result in many head
aches. The overall indebtedness of the
plant, including the building cost,
was placed at around $553,000. To
tal assets were tentatively listed
at $406,000.
Business Bad
Furthermore, Fant mentioned.
the trailer business has suffered
badly in the past year. In the Los
Angeles area alone, it was noted,
21 such firms entered bankruptcy.
A curtailed operation of the lo
cal plant was suggested. But. it
was pointed out, such operation
would result in a slow, long time
payout of obligations.
Part of the big loss suffered by
the local plant in the past year
was attributed to a drop in the
price of completed trailers.
That drop was around $1,000
per completed unit.
Here to advise with the credi
tors and local group was Frank
Dudley of the Oregon Association
of Credit Managers. Most of the
creditors were from out of town. !
Before the group at the time of
adjournment for noon was the pro- j
posal that a committee be named I
to explore the plant's finances and
its future. !
Alva C. Goodrich, secretary of i
the local Chamber of Commerce
unit that worked to obtain the
new industry, presided at the
start of the meeting.
Reward boosted
to over $2000
PORTLAND (UPI) The re
ward for information leading to
the discovery of Beverly Ann Al
lan. Washington State coed ab
ducted and feared slain, was
raised to more than $2,000 today.
Multnomah county commission
ers put up $500 in reward money
at their meeting today. Earlier
the girl's parents offered $1,000
and $500 was offered by an anon
ymous Portland businessman in
addition to an unknown amount
raised by residents of Port
Townsend, Wash.
TO INTEGRATE SCHOOLS
DAR ES-SALAAM, Tanganyika,
I UPI) The government an
nounced Monday it is planning to
integrate white, Negro and Asian
students in its school system.
The mailing rush tin's year ap
pears to be a bit ahead of sched
ule. This has been attributed to
j several factors. One is the snow
I of the past week that graphically
I reminded residents of the area
, that Christmas is ncaring.
Another factor, apparently rea
i lized by Post Office patrons, is
that Christmas this year comes on
I a Sunday. Over the entire coun-
try Post Offices will face the tri
ple holiday problem in delivering
late mail.
I In Bend, however, all parcels
received on Sunday. December
j 2". will be delivered that day. The
following Monday will be a gen
'marked by cordiality
Red China may
soon join vor
'nuclear cubr
LONDON (UPI) - British ex
perts were reported today to have
W.uueu uie yuveiinut'iji uiai ieu
rl,inn nn k ,ntnA i u
a nuclear power in its own right
"very soon" possibly next year.
No details were available to
substantiate the warning, but the
suggestion of Peiping's advance in
the nuclear weapons field was be
lieved to have played at least
some part in the Soviet Union's
anxiety to get world communism
lined up behind its policy of
"peaceful coexistence."
A new Communist Manifesto
adopted by a summit gathering of
world party leaders in Moscow
and released Monday revealed to
the West that the Soviet Union
had won the battle for peaceful
coexistenceat least on the sur
County to get record check
in share of forest receipts
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
Deschutes County is to receive
as a special "Christmas gift" a
check for $485,079.28, representing
an all-time high in returns from
U.S. National Forest lands lor the
fiscal year ended June 30. .
Last year's receipts aggregated
$387,184. The previous high in re
ceipts returned to Deschutes coun
ty was in 1957, when a big federal
check for $440,273.02 was received.
J. Herbert Stone, U.S. Forest
Service regional forester, an
nounced in Portland today that
Area Democrats
favoring caucus
Executive committee members
of the Deschutes county Democra
tic party favor organization of the
state senate by a caucus of the
Democratic majority of senators,
without help from the Republi
cans. They also voiced strong sup
port for Robert W. Straub, state
party chairman.
The Democrats held a 20 lo 10
edge over the GOP in senate mem
bership of the 1961 legislature.
A resolution will be offered the
central committee here December
11 calling upon the 20 senators to
meet in caucus and select their
leader by majority vote. The en
tire 20 senators would then back
this senator under the unit rule
and thus insure his election on tire
senate floor.
The executive committee mem
bers let it be known that they de
plored the pre-caucus action by
one Democratic senator in enlist
ing votes from Republican sena
tors in an effort to win election
with a minority of Democratic
votes. This senator is Harry Boi
vin of Klamath Falls, who has al
ready claimed he has enough GOP
votes and Democratic pledges
from senators to elect him presi
dent of the senate.
However, this has been chal
lenged by the Democratic state
committee, who has called on the
Democratic senators to elect the
senate president themselves, with
out aid from the Republicans.
Vol
ume increases
eral holiday.
At the Bend Post Office, the vol
ume of outgoing mail is increas-
inff dailv fin MnnH.iv ntlprnnon it
was necessary, for a time, to staff
an extra window to receive out-
going mail.
Christmas mail is also coming
in to the Bend office in ever
gaining volume, with packages,
letters and cards represented.
If the mailing tempo appears to
be high, the Bend office will re
main ojien on Saturday afternoon
of this week. Only two Saturday
mailing days remain, since Satur
day, December 24 will be Christ
mas evo.
face.
Allhough Red China's cany nu
clear potential is expected to be
only rudimentary, the fact that
Peiping has been able to develop
itself in this field creates new
problems not only for the West
but also for Moscow.
Authoritative sources said there
was reason to believe that Peip
ing may not lie far off now from
exploding its first nuclear device.
This would make it an atomic
power along with the United
States, Britain, the Soviet Union
and France.
Last week, unsubstantiated re
ports from Moscow said Red Chi
nese President Liu Shao-chi had
claimed before the Red summit
that his country was on the verge
of becoming an atomic power.
checks totaling a record $19,117,
917.88 have been mailed to state
treasurers of Oregon and Wash
ington. This money represents the
share of the two states in receipts
from various national forests in
the past fiscal year.
. Basod on Revenue
The amount is based on revenue
from 19 different forests. Oregon's
tola! check was $12,629,206.82. and
that of Washington $6,488,711.06.
The total is nearly three million
dollars more than last year.
The payments represent 25 per
cent of Hie receipts from all uses
of the national forests.
Under provisions of the federal
law, 25 per cent of the total re
ceipts is returned to the slates
for distribution to the counties in
which forests are located.
The share of each county is in
proortion to the acreage of na
tional forest land within the coun
ty. The law provides that the
money must be used for public
roads and schools.
Three fourths of the money
goes to roads, one fourth to
schools.
Jefferson counfy also shares in
Deschutes National Forest re
ceipts and will receive a check
(or $87,627.15.
Big Check Due
In returns from the Ochoco Na
tional Forest, Crook County will
receive a big check for $288,149.59.
Forester Stone pointed out that
in addition to the money turned
in to the federal treasury and lo
cal governments, national foresls
contribute to local welfare through
money invested in permanent im
provements and payrolls.
"Multiple use management of
our national forest pays off in
many ways". Stone said.
Thirty of Oregon's 34 counties
share in the fiscal year receipts.
Lane county, with about $2,500,000,
topped the Oregon recipients.
Veterans plan
gift collection
at eight stores
The Deschutes County Veterans
Council has placed barrels in
eight Bend grocery stores, these
to serve as receptacles for Christ
mas gifts that will he distributed
among families of needy veterans
in the community.
It has been suggesled that Bend
resident viriting grocery stores
in the pre-holiday season drop a
can or two of food in the barrels.
The Council is working with the
Elks in preparing Christmas bas
kets. Baskets for veterans, includ
ing gifts dropped inlo barrels at
the various stores, will bo turned
ore"- to the Council by the Elks,
i for distribution.
Toys will also be made avail
able (or the veterans' baskets.
John O'Donnell is commander
of the Deschutes County Veter
ans' Council.
BUY FROM ISRAEL
BONN I UPI i The West Ger
man Defense Ministry announced
Monday it will order 120.000 in
fantry ammunition pouches from
Israel.
Police busy
with reports
on red cars
PORTLAND I UPI - The slier
ilf's office said today it had so
many reports on red or maroon
cars in connection with the in
vestigation into the disappearance
of a coed and the slaying of her
buy friend that it assigned one
clerk a full job of classifying
them.
An .ill.nnintc nMllnlln u-oc n..t
uui earner assing ior lniormauon
on a 1949 to 1951 model car of
that color reported seen in the
vicinity where Larry Ralph Pey
ton, 19, was slain and Beverly
Ann Allan, sophomore at Wash
ington Stale University, was ab
ducted more than a week ago.
"The public response has been
wonderful," said Capt. Gordon
Auborn, chief of Multnomah
County detectives. "There is tre
mendous interest in this case. It
is cases like this which the pub
lic often helps break."
Three teenagers in Klamath
Falls told police they spotted a
dark red ltM9 car parked on a
city street there about noon Mon
day in front of a laundromat and
that it had a broken grill ind
primer spots on both sides ot the
hood. City police there said they
were unable to locate the vehicle.
However, aulhorities reported
no new promising lead.
Tho girl's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Allan, Monday re
turned to their home at Port
Townsend, Wash.
9th grade text
comes under
fire at Salem
SALEM (UPI) The ninth
grade textbook "Adventures for
Today came under heavy fire to
day at a public hearing conduct
ed here by Die State Textbook
Commission.
About 55 persons, most of them
from the Portland area, attended
the hearing.
Mrs. James Willock of Tigard
was the first person to speak and
she challenged the volume on two
points, some of its material and
some of the authors.
Stories in the text criticized in
cluded "The Restless Ones" by
Leslie Waller: "Pygmalion", by
Frank B. Gilbreath Jr. and Er
nestine Gilbreath Carey: "I
Can't Breathe" by Ring Lardner;
"The Heart," by Louis Unter
meyer; and "Osculation" by Hen
ry Harrison.
Mrs. Willock said "we parents
try to guide and mold our chil
dren's thinking" on subjects of
early dating, hazard of going
steady, and "Ihe alarming in
crease in teen-age pregnancies
and marriages."
"What a shock to us to pick up
their literature textbook and find
they are being given a different
concept through trash in the
classroom," she said.
Dr. Lloyd Millhollcn of Eugene,
chairman of the commission, said
the state has a contract with the
publisher of the book until 196.1
and the book "cannot legally be
removed from the approved list."
Millhollcn said the commission
docs not read every approved
text but every book is read by
a regional network of committees
made up of teachers and other
educators. The books are in turn
screened by the commission.
'Another rabid
bat discovered
PORTLAND 'UPI) Discovery
of another rabid bat In Oregon
prompted a state health official
today lo term the situation
"significant health problem."
Dr. H. Grant Skinner, health
department epidemiologist, said
the latest rabies finding was in a
dead bat discovered in The Dalles
BURNS TO DEATH
MEDFORD (UPI) A man,
not yet Identified, burned to death
in his home here tills morning.
City firemen said he apparently
fell asleep while smoking a cig
arette. Firemen said damage to the
one-room house was confined to
the bed and immediato area.
Joint pledge
on U.S. peace
aims issued
WASHINGTON (UPD Presl
dent Eisenhower and P r e s ident
clect John F. Kennedy held a
"cordial" three-hour meeting to
day and joined hi pledging that
the United States will continue
"to seek peace with justice in
freedom for all peoples."
Kennedy disclosed that Eisen
hower assured him he would be
glad to be of "future service to
the country" if asked to serve in
the new administration.
Kennedy told newsmen the as
surance was given when he asked
the President whether he would
be willing to undertake an assign
ment if requested after leaving the
White House Jan. 20. Kennedy did
not say what he had in mind.
Today's friendly meeting on
transition problems contrasted to
tiie frost iness that has accompa
nied some other conferences be
tween incoming and outgoing
presidents.
In Jovial Mood
Kennedy and Eisenhower were
In a grinning, jovial mood when
they greeted each other on the
While House front porch.
In a formal joint statement is
sued after their meeting, Kennedy
and Eisenhower said they had dis
i cussed important world problems
and described the conversations
as "extremely informative."
"The government of the United
States has and will continue to
seek peace with justice in free
dom for all peoples," the state
ment said.
Kennedy and Eisenhower said
the talks will provide a better
foundation for an orderly transfer
of executive responsibility lo the
Democratic administration.
Eisenhower offered to hold a
second similar meeting. Kennedy
said he might take him up on the
offer.
Kennedy, In talking to newsmen .
afterwards, stressed the coopera
tion and friendliness of Eisenhow
er in helping to solve the prob
lems of transition, ,
Elienhower Very Helpful
He said Eisenhower has been
"extremely helpful" and that the
President had "gone to great
pains" to help in the transition.
In their formal statement, El
senhower and Kennedy said:
"We believe that through such
orderly processes the continuity
of government affairs will be as
sured and our people will continue
lo demonstrate that they are unit
ed in the nation's leadership to
ward peace."
"We reaffirm the historic Amer
ican position that this nation does
not covet the territory of any
people nor does it seek to dom
inate the control of any other
nation.
"The American people and llielr
government have consistently
sought to protect the freedom and
have tried to help people through
out the world better their stand
ard of living. Those national ob-
(ectives will be vigorously pursued
by the incoming administration."
Discuss Dollar Problem
In their talk, the two men paid
particular attention to the outflow
of gold and dollar reserves from
this country because of a deficit
in the U.S. balance of payments.
Their statement said the discus
sions also covered "major prolv
lems rif peace, security and free
dom throughout tiie world."
On the domestic front, they
took up operation of the executive
branch of government. Including
those aspects related to national
security, as well as the White
House staff operation.
The cordial tone of today's meet
ing was set when Eisenhower and
Kennedy met on the front stepi
of the White House. They grinned
broadly and shook hands warmly.
Fire district
names Johnson
Kenneth Johnson of Eastern
Oregon Mills was re-elected to the
board of directors of the Bend
rural fire protection district. He
continues for a five-year term.
The election was held Monday
at the Pino Forest Grange Hall.
Eighteen ballots were cast.
Holdover directors are Art
Sholes, Al Cook, John Stcnkamp
and Oscar Kelt-hum.