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EUGStlS. OREGON
Kennedy steps into Vorst'
airline tieyp
See story, column 3
WEATHER
Little rain tonight, partly cloudy
Wednesday with high 43 ; low
M-44.
THE BEND BULLET
TEMPERATURES
High yesterday, 52 degrees. Low
last night, 41 degrees. Suntet
today, 5:43. Sunrise tomorrow,
6:54.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
58th Year
Ten Cents
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, February 21, 1961
Twelve Pages
No. 66
U.S.
IN
'61 -62 school
budget work
is underway
By Bill Yatet
Bulletin Staff Writer
Initial work on the 19C1-62 bud
get for the Bend school district
was begun last night by the budget
committee at a meeting in the
junior high school.
Gordon McKay, a member of
the school board, was named
chairman for the budget work,
with Evelyn Cleveland, an ap
pointive member of the commit
tee, selected to serve as secre
tary. Much of last night's meeting
was devoted to a discussion of
various complications facing the
committee because of uncertain
ties resulting from the school re
organization situation.
Superintendent ft. E. Jewell out
lined various ramifications of re
organization and noted that it was
quite possible that the budget
which the Bend district commit
tee will draft will later be com
bined with other budgets in an en
larged district.
One member of the committee.
Henry N. Fowler, noted with a
grin that one solution to the situa
tion would be a negative vote on
reorganization by the voters of the
Bend district.
The budget committee agreed
that its only line of action was
to proceed with work on the 1961
62 budget as if the Bend district
were to be operated within its
present boundaries next year.
Teacher Need
Among needs of the district
next year, Jewell mentioned the
addition of teachers to handle in
creased enrollments. He told the
committee that if proper teacher-
student ratios are to be maintain
ed, the district will need five new
'elementary teachers. Other teach
er needs include two instructors
for the high school, one for the
junior high school and the addi
tion of a teacher for the district's
music department.
Chairman McKay named two
special committees for prelimi
nary budget considerations. Dr.
Charles B. Hinds and Doug Ward
were named to a committee to
meet with a teacher salary com
mittee, and Bert Hagen and Dr.
Richard Ettinger were appointed
to a committee to study salaries
of non-certified district employes.
It was decided to hold meetings
of the budget committee this year
in the late afternoon and early
evening. The next session was
tentatively set for Tuesday, March
7 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Tour Planned
The committee also decided to
tour district facilities prior to
making decisions on various main
tenance needs. The tours will be
taken on March 3 and 4.
Following the budget session
the school board held a short spec
ial meeting. Among matters dis
cussed was the possibility of ac
quiring an additional building site
just south of the Bend city limits.
Board members also made plans
for a meeting with the Brothers
school board Wednesday to dis
cuss the reorganization situation
Conte discusses
role of research
The role of research in educa
tion was discussed here Monday
in a talk by Dr. Frank Conte,
chemistry professor at Central
Oreeon College.
Sneaking before the Bend Ki-
wanis Club. Dr. Conte emphasized
the inter-relationship of teaching
and research and noted that re
search can have an important im
pact on the economy of a com
munity. Dr. Conte mentioned the re
search laboratory which has been
installed at St. Charles Memorial
Hospital. He pointed out that the
college and the Bend Chamber of
Commerce are currently investi
gating possible research projects
which it is hoped can be obtained
(or the new lab.
The speaker also discussed Ihe
value of research in stimulating
the interest of students in the
various fields of science.
He was introduced by R. G. Me
Farland, program chairman. The
meeting was held at the Superior
Cafe.
PROJECTS ADDED
SALEM UPH The State
Hichway Commission said today
it had added painting of Billiards
bridge near Bandon and of the
Seottshurg bridee over the L'mp
qi.a to its list of projects for
which bids will be open March 7.
Pioneer leader
bit red faced
with measles
The president of the Des
chutes Pioneers' Association,
Claude H. Kelley, a resident of
Bend since 1907, was a bit red
faced today.
He apparently has the mea
sles.
As a result, the meeting of the
Association that was planned for
tonight In the Deschutes County
courthouse has been cancelled.
In the past half century or
more, mostly when he was a boy
playing In the village of Bend,
Kelley had several different
types of measles or at least
the ailments of earlier years
that were called the measles.
Now he believes he has a new
type and he hopes it is of the
three-day variety.
Senate approves
exempting
fraternal groups
SALEM (UPI) The Oregon
Senate today approved, 25-3, a
bill to exempt fraternal organiza
tions from real property taxation.
Such organizations have been
exempt for years, but their status
was jeopardized last fall when a
State Tax Commission directive
said they belonged on the tax
rolls. . .
Sen. Walter Pearson, D-Port-
land, said the issue was whether
the legislature wanted to continue
procedure of long-standing.
Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Troutdale,
opposed the bill and said property
on the tax rolls is being gradually
whittled away. .
The mere fact that an organi
zation does some good things,"
he said, "is no basis for tax ex
emption. .
The bill now goes lo the House.
Those voting against the meas
ure were Cook and Sens. Robert
Straub. D-Eugene, and Monroe
Sweetland, D-Milwaukie.
Sen. Ben Musa, D-The Dalles,
defended the exemption. He said
communities frequently would
have no place to meet were it
not for the now tax - exempt
Grange Halls. Sen. Melvin Goode,
R-Albany, said if lodges paid tax
es they would have that much less
to contribute to community proj
ects.
Robbery probe
marked closed
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) The
investigation of a $5,000 robbery
was closed by police today, un
solved.
The death of the victim, H. Her
bert Myers, in the Feb. 14 Brus
sels airplane crash left investiga
tors without any information with
which to work on the case.
Myers, a photography equip
ment manufacturer from East Or
ange, N.J., was robbed by two
men Feb. 6 in his hotel room, but
he had time for little more than
to tell police he lost $4,200 in
cash, a watch and a ring.
He had to leave on a plane. He
told police he would look at photo
graphs of suspects if they would
mail them to his New Jersey
home.
Police did.
They received this letter Mon
day from Myers' widow:
"I am most unhappy that Mr.
Myers wjll not be able to identify
these suspects. Mr. Myers was
killed in an airplane accident in
Brussels, Belgium on Feb. 14. I
am returning the photos as you
requested."
Goldberg told
to take new
U.S. action
NEW YORK (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy stepped into the
nation's worst airlines tieup to
day and ordered Secretary of
Labor Arthur Goldberg to under
take new federal action to end
Ihe wildcat strike of flight en
gineers. The strike has grounded three
major airlines, and three others
maintained only token service.
According to industry estimates,
the tieup was costing the airlines
$5 million a day.
Sen. George Smathers, D-Fla.,
revealed in Washington that Ken
nedy had transmitted some "new
and original" ideas on how to ob
tain a strike settlement to Gold
berg, who summoned President
Ron Brown of the Flight En
gineers Union to a conference.
Salinger Confirms
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger confirmed that
Kennedy had ordered new efforts
by Goldberg but said the Presi
dent was not taking a personal
hand in the matter.
The Washington development
came as officials of the flight
engineers' Pan American chapter
began to answer subpoenas is
sued by U. S. district court in
Brooklyn to testify how the strike
began. Pan American has
charged that union officials or
ganized the wildcat walkout, but
Die officials have denied this.
Officers of the union's Pan Am
chapter and 42 flight engineers
were ordered to appear in the
same court Monday to show cause
why they should not be held in
contempt for continuing the strike
despite a court order. Other air
lines have obtained similar or
ders.
An American Airlines official
testified Monday in Dallas, Tex.,
that a number of striking engi
neers told him of "mysterious
telephoned threats." The engi
neers refused to fly despite a
court order.
Employes Idled
More than 75.000 airlines em
ployes were furloughed Monday.
Trans World Airlines, American
Airlines and Eastern Air Lines
rolled all their planes into hang
ars and shut down completely.
Pan American, National Airlines
and Western Airlines were as
good as closed down with up to
85 per cent of their employes laid
off and only a token number of
planes flving.
An estimated 150.000 travelers
in waiting rooms across the coun
try discovered their , airline tick
ets were useless except for re
funds. Air mail service also was
threatened. Only one airline
United was still flying a coast-to-coast
route. Only one North
east still had normal service
between New York and Florida
points.
Ike suffering
from lumbago
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPD
Former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower is suffering from a pain
ful attack of lumbago in his vaca
tion cottage at Eldorado Country
Club.
The new ailment came on the
heels of a cold which prevented
the former chief executive all last
week from taking up his favorite
pastime of golf.
INDIAN LEADER DIES
PENDLETON 'UPI I Tom
Joe, chief and leader of the Uma
tilla Indians for the last 14 years,
died at his home near here Sun
day after a prolonged illness.
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Katanga against
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TO HEAD MUNICIPAL BAND Recently elected officers of the municipal band take time
out from their Easter concert rehearsals Monday, evening to pose before the musical assem
blage. Officers are, from the left, Darrell Liska, vice president; Joe Haugen, secretary trea
surer; and Sam McCoy, president.
El
leiena
wees
Dag given authority
to use force to keep
peace in Congo area
Federal, state,
county offices
closed tomorrow
Deschutes county, federal and
state offices will be closed tomor
row in observance of the 229th
birthday of George Washington,
but all stores and most other
places of business will be open.
Flags, expected to be whipped
by stiff late winter breezes, will
fly from street standards.
The Bend Post Office will be
closed throughout the day, as will
all other federal offices in the
Post Office building and in other
parts of town.
AUo closed through the day will
lie all state offices, including the
considerable group housed in the
Oregon State Highway building
just north of town. Only office
open there on Wednesday will be
that of the Oregon State Police.
All county offices in the Des
chutes courthouse building will be
closed.
Both banks will be open through
Wednesday.
Also open will be the Bend City
Hull.
Schools will be in session, but
with special programs commcmo
rntive of George Washington to be
presented in rooms of the grade
schools.
The Pacific Power 4 Light Co.
office will be open.
A number of offices around
town, especially those handling le
gal work, will be closed because
of the legal holiday.
Bend merchants on Washington's
birthday will sponsor their annual
"Bcserk Day."
Bill fo solve welfare tangle
arrives in Oregon Senafe
Two young men, girl facing
kidnaping charges at Salem
SALEM (UPI) A proposed
solution to the welfare contro
versy arrived in the Oregon Sen
ate today in the form of a bill
to abolish Die present State Wel
fare Commission and create a
new one by July of this year.
The welfare administrator
would still be picked by the com
mission, but would have to have
the governor's approval a
move aimed at bringing closer
cooperation between the state
agency and the governor s otiice.
The bill was sponsored by (lie
Senate Health and Welfare Com
mittee which has been relative
ly quiet during the recent battle
between Gov. Mark Hatfield and
the commission.
But the proposed compromise
was along lines suggested by sev
eral legislative leaders including
House Speaker Robert Duncan.
D-Medford. who presided over
two hearings on the commission's
feud with the governor.
Five Instead Seven
The new commission would
have five, instead of tcven mem
bers. One would have to be a
member of a county welfare com
mission, and another would have
to be a county commissioner or
judge.
Although the administrator
would have to be approved by
the governor, he or she could be
fired by the commission.
The bill made no provision for
government reorganization, under
which Hatfield has proposed 10
place welfare in a new depart
ment of social services.
At the same time, the joint
wavs and means committee in
troduced a budget bill calling for
a hefty $42 million for wellare
in Oregon during the coming bi
ennium. In an effort to reduce the prop
erty tax burden in Oregon, a
group of House Republicans head
ed by Rep Arthur Ireland, For-
est Grove, turned in a bill lo
appropriate $10 million to be
spread among counties for prop
erty tax relief.
Among the sponsors was Rep.
Robert Elfstrom, R-Salem, lender
of a move to chop $10 million
off Hatfield's $359 million two
year budget.
Differences over political party
roles continued to appear with a
bill in the senate to limit state
party conventions from endorsing
primary candidates.
The measure, sponsored by the
Senate Elections Committee, also
would require party officers or
national committee officers to re
sign before running for public of
fice.
Two loggers
hurt Monday
in accident
SALEM UPI Two young
men and a girl were charged
with kidnaping today after author
ities said they abducted a state
policeman near here Monday
night and held him for about 30
minutes at gunpoint.
In the Marion county jail were
LawTence Allen Morrow, 21, Rick
reall; Arlie Day Ellis. 20. Rick
reall: and Margie Darlene Wood,
16, Dallas.
A petition was filed in Juvenile
Court to determine whether the
girl should be remanded to adult
court.
The officer Involved was Thom
as A. Hedsecoke, 23, Salem He
was not harmed.
State Police Capt. Ray Howard
gave this version of the events:
The three were being sought in
connection with the alleged rape
of another 16-year-old Dallas girl
earlier in the day.
About 7:50 p m. Hedgecoke
spotted the suspects' car near
Salem and began to follow them.
They pulled over, and Hedge
coke ordered them out of the car.
While he was searching the two
men, the Wood girl pulled out a
.33 revolver and covered the of
ficer while Ellis took Hedge-
coke i police revolver.
in the back. Capt. Howard said
along with the two pistols they
had a rifle.
Hedgecoke had radioed in that
he had spotted their car before
he stopped them and police cars
began to converge on uie area
The getaway car was stopped
by three patrol cars near the
Aekcny Hill junction about 13
miles south of Salem, and all
were taken Into custody at 8:25
p m.
Howard said Morrow was want
ed in Polk county for rape, Ellis
for contributing to the delinquency
Then they forced Hedgecoke lo ' of a minor and the Wood girl for
1 d-ive their car, with the girl in being a parole violator from Hill
l the front seat and the two men i crest.
'Light rain in
prospect here
Light rain is in prospect for to
night, area forecasts from Port
land indicate.
Heavy clouds were drifting over
the Cascades today as mild
breezes dried most parts of Cen
tra! Oregon. Bend's minimum
temperature last night was a
springlike 41 degrees, following
high Monday of 52 degrees.
Partly clear weather Is in pro
spect for Wednesday, the fore
cast adds.
All Cascade roads were in good
shape this morning.
Two men were injured, one of
them apparently seriously, in a
logging accident in the Deschutes
woods southwest of Bend Monday
about 4 p.m.
One of the men, most seriously
injured, is Vcrgus Hopper, 45, a
resident of LaPinc. He suffered
chest and other injuries. The other
man is Burdette Lcchner, about
45, who apparently suffered some
fractures. He is also a resident of
LaPinc.
They were brought to the St.
Charles Memorial Hospital by
Bend City ambulance late Monday
afternoon.
The accident occurred in an
area adjacent to an access road
when the men were loading a
truck with logs.
One of the logs slipped as bind
er was being applied and rolled
from the truck, striking and
knocking down the two men.
Hopper and Lechner are pri
vate loggers.
The two injured men were
brought Into Bend by Maurice
Rles and Gary Winslow, operating
the city ambulance.
A doctor was wailing their ar
rival at the hospital.
ADDED TO LIST
SALEM (UPI I The State
Highway Commission said today
It had added to Its list ot proj
ects for which bids will be
opened March 7 some 10 miles
of paving and signing of the
Baker-Pleasant Valley section of
the Old Oregon Trail Highway 3
miles southeast of Baker.
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga,
Vhe Congo (UPI) Katanga Pru
dent Moise Tshombe ordered gen
eral mobilization today to defend
his Congo province against a
declaration of war" by the Unit
ed Nations.
He also barred all foreigners
from leaving the country, appar
ently in an attempt to nullify a
U.N. order for all foreign and
military advisers to get out of the
Congo. He said the frontiers will
be closed If necessary to prevent
foreigners from leaving.
Tshombe's order calling up all
black and white inhabitants for
defense of his mineral-rich land
was announced in a broadcast
over Elisabethville radio.
It came a few hours after the
U.N. Security Council in New
York adopted a resolution empow
ering Secretary-general Dag Ham-
marskjold to use force if neces
sary to prevent civil war In the
Congo.
Tshombe preceded his radio or
der with an appeal at a news
conference to all African mem
bers of the U.N. to press for post
ponement of any move to carry
out the Security Council resolu
tion. He also called for a con
ference of all Congolese leaders
to be held in Geneva March 6.
Another Slaying
In Leopoldville, the U.N. com
mand announced that another for
mer official of slain Premier
Patrice Lumumba's Congo gov
ernment had been executed on
order of South Kasai province
tribal chiefs.
Lumumba and two aides were
reported killed by villagers in Ka
tanga Province almost two weeks
ago after they escaped from a
famhouse jail.
Monday, Hammarskjold told the
U.N. that six other Lumumbist
officials were tried and executed
on order of Uie South Kasai trib
al chiefs.
The U.N. said Uie seventh vic
tim executed in South Kasai was
Jacques Lumbala, one-time state
secretary to the president in Lu
mumba's short-lived regime.
Defies U.N.
Tshombe's mobilization move
calling on everyone in Katanga
to "defend lives and property
menaced by the United Nations"
was made in defiance of U.N.
action taken early this morning.
The U.N. resolution in addition to
approving use of force ordered the
withdrawal of all foreign and mil
itary advisers from the Congo.
"The Security Council resolution
Is a declaration of war by the
U.N. against Katanga and the
whole former Belgian Congo,"
Tshombe said in a special broad
cast. Tshombe has declared his prov
ince "independent" of the rest of
the Congo and has set it up as
a separate state.
Tshombe charged that the U.N.
resolution, which gave Hammar
skjold extraordinary powers in
cluding the use of force to pre
vent civil war in the Congo, Is
"an offense against the sovereign
ty of our independent state."
He asked African members of
the U.N. to press for postpone
ment of Uie implementation of the
resolution, which he said was
taken "without any regard for Uie
sovereignty of Katanga."
Tshombe ordered the mobiliza
tion in an unscheduled broadcast
over Elisabethville Radio. The
move came as Lt. Gen. Sean Mo
Keown, Uie Irish commander-in-chief
of U.N. forces in Uie Congo,
headed off on a peace mission in
another part of Ulis strife-torn
land.
McKeown flew fo an undisclosed
town in Equatorial Province in a
dramatic bid to head off open
warfare between Uie two major
factions of Uie Congolese army.
His first meeting was to be with
Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu, army
strongman of the central govern
ment in Leopoldville.
All's
take
back
forgiven:
those books
tomorrow
Tomorrow's the day!
No cherry pic, no powdered
w igs, no minuets at Uie Deschutes
County Library on Washington's
Birthday.
But no fines, cither. The library
has designated February 22 as
"forgiveness day." All overdue
honks, no matter how long they
have been absent from the library
shelves, may be returned tomor
row and no charges will be made.
Librarian Ivy (irovcr says that
this method has been selected to
clear Uie files and start Uio over
dues records with a clean slate.
Borrowers of long overdue ma
terials that don't show up tomor
row may be requied to pay for
the missing items if they cannot
be located.
1
B basketball
tickets go
on sale here
Season tickets for Uie Oregon
High School B Busketball Tourney
in Bend March 9, 10 and 11 ara
now on sale throughout the community.
The $5 adult season ducats, good
for three afternoon and three eve
ning sessions, can be purchased at
the Chamber of Commerce, Sto
ver - LeBlanc and City Drug.
In addition, several individuals
and clubs are pushing Uie tickets
Uie latter including Kiwanis,
Rotary, Jayeces and Lions.
Student season tickets can also
be purchased for $2.50.
Season-ticket holders may watch
a total of 11 games, with a re
served swtion planned for Uie last
night of Uie tourney.
This is Uie third Umc Bend has
acted as host of the B high school
basketball meet.
Previous tourneys, held in 1937
and 1959, drew upwards of 1,000
people from outside Oregon towns.
Both tourneys showed profits.
Minimum wage
plans denounced
WASHINGTON (UPD-Tho Na
tional Association of Manufactur
ers denounced President Ken
nedy's minimum wage proposal
today and said its enactment
might lead to economic "dis
aster." The NAM's viewpoint was pre
sented on Uie final day of hear
ings on the measure to increase
Uie wage floor gradually from $1
to $1.25 an hour and expand cov
erage of 4.3 million more workers.
Rep. James Roosevelt, D-Calit.,
sponsor of the Kennedy-backed
bill, planned to call his House
Labor subcommittee into closed
session immediately following Uie
hearings, to start work on the pro
posal. Roosevelt has said Uie group
might amend the legislation to
cover now-exempt hotel workers
and shorten Uie two-year period
before Uie $125 rate would take
effect.
Indications wore that Uie mini
mum wage biU would Ret fast ap
proval and be forwarded to the
full committee lor action.
DOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Press International
Dow Joneii final stock averages:
30 Industrials B52.40 off 1.25; 20
rails 14.1.84 off 0.19: 15 utilities
107.53 oft 0.14; 65 stocks 220.49
off 0.37,
Sales today were about 5.07
million shares as compared with
4.68 million shares Monday.