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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
No. 68
Sixteen Pages
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, February 23, 1961
Ten Cents
58th Year
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LICKIN' GOOD! Cherry pie for Washington'! Birthday, of course. At Brownie banquet,
sampling is done by Debra Winkle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Winkle, and Carle Wiles,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wiles. Banquet observed Girl Scout 50th birthday.
Teacher salary
request turned
down by board
Special to The Bulletin
PRINEVILLE Teachers of
the Crook county school system
will be given their regular salary
increase and no more in next
year's budget, according to a de
cision made by the school board
at a special meeting Monday eve
ning in the county school super
intendent's office.
Lights burned late in the court
house as the school board deliber
ated this and numerous other prob
lems until nearly 1 a.m. Their de
cision on teachers' salaries was
made after discussion of a request
by a teachers' salary committee
for an across-the-board increase of
$200 each, above the regular in
crement. This would have given
the majority of teachers a $400 in
crease, while those having reach
ed the maximum in their salary
cale would have received $200.
The only salary increase approv
ed by the board was that o a dou
ble increment to George Browning,
junior high school principal, and
Mrs. Wilma Glover, Crooked Riv
er school principal. Both have been
in the county school system for a
number of years, and both were
placed at the five-year salary rat
ing for principals when they were
elected as principals. Each will
receive an increment of $460, as a
result of the board's decision,
which was made on the basis of
the satisfactory work done by
them in their administrative posts,
f The school board also re-elected
"W. B. Thompson for a three-year
term as principal of the Ochoco
grade school.
The date for the dedication of
the new junior high school was
changed from March 5 to March
26, as board members recognized
the fact that all lockers will not
have been installed in the dress
ing rooms by the earlier date, and
the bleachers may not yet have
arrived for the gymnasium.
In the dedication ceremony, at
3 p m. that Sunday, those having
worked on the new building will
be introduced, there will be a
brief dedicatory address, and the
public will be shown through the
building.
Day of forgiveness
Library gets back 215 items
By Ha S. Grant
Bullttin Staff Wrlttr
A copy of "The Power of Posi
tive Thinking," overdue at the
Deschutes County Library since
Oct. 20. 1!W). wa. among the lost
books that showed up at the li
brary yesterday on Forgiveness
Day. according to Librarian Ivy
Grover.
On Washington's Birthday, a 1 1
overdue materials were accepted
at the library without fines, and
with no questions asked. Approxi
mately 215 items about IRS
bonks and 50 magazines were
returned.
, The patron who returned "The
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Brownies hold
annual banquet
Dr. Charles T. Rice spoke on the
fiftieth anniversary of Girl Scouts
of America, when Brownies of
Bend held their annual banquet
Wednesday evening. The dinner
was at the Pine Forest Grange
Hall, with 02 Brownies and their
parents attending.
Girl Scouts of troops No. 20 and
106 were in charge of the flag pre
sentation. Father Bill Coughlin
gave the invocation. Mrs. F. J.
Alwinger was mistress of cere
monies. Mrs. Don Hawthorne was chair
man of banquet arrangements, as
sisted by troop leaders Mrs. Jack
ie Skaggs, Mrs. Ralph Yaw, Mrs.
B. A. Litehiser, Mrs. W. Dean
Lowe and Mrs. L. C. Winkle.
The Brownies sang a group of
songs. The traditional closing was
the Friendship circle and "Taps."
Heart campaign
due on Sunday
Heart Fund volunteers will tour
the residential section of Bend
Sunday to distribute health-saving
information about the heart dis
eases and to collect Heart Sunday
contributions with which the Des
chutes County Heart Association
can help speed the fight against
the nation's No. 1 health enemy.
Mrs. Carol Malone, president ot
the local heart unit, said that
members of the Soroptimist and
American Legion Auxiliary would
spearhead the volunteer group
making the house-to-house can
vass for funds.
Mrs. Charles B. Hinds, immedi
ate past president of the Deschutes
County Keaii Association, will di
rect the Heart Sunday campaign.
More than $50,000,000 Heart
Fund dollars havu been invested
in research since the Heart As
sociation became a national volun
tary health agency in 1948, Mrs.
Malone pointed out She said that
the major objective of current re
search is to discover the causes
of high blood pressure and harden
ing of the arteries, disorders ac
counting for 90 per cent of heart
and blood vessel disease.
Power of Positive Thinking" at
tached a picture of George Wash
ington and a note explaining that
the book, somehow, had been left
in a corner of the attic. After the
customary reminder cards and a
letter had been sent from the li
brary, the book was discovered
when the family was packing for a
move.
"I had sworn the book had been
returned, and really thought H
had been," the borrower explain
ed. "After that, I didn't have the
courage to admit my mistake. But
'I cannot tell a lie," so here ft
is."
Some IS books checked so far
Mother, sons
bodies found at
ntral Point
CENTRAL POINT (UPD- The
bludgeoned bodies of a Central
Point woman and her 21-mon(h-old
son were found in the closet
of an apartment here Wednesday
night.
The victims had apparently
been beaten to death and had
been dead more than a week.
They were identified as Mrs.
Loris Mae Holt, 32, and her son,
Tod Cameron Holt. A blood
stained hammer was found in the
apartment.
Police said they were seeking
two men for questioning in con
nection with the double killing.
Police said the men apparently
were not connected.
The bodies were found by
Franklin Saxbury of Central
Point, whose father-in-law, Amos
Bishop, operates the apartment
house.
Saxbury was checking the house
before moving in when he was
told that the Holt woman had not
been seen recently.
He checked the apartment and
found the bodies in the closet.
Furniture had been piled against
the apartment door but he was
able to force it open.
Mrs. Holt's employer, Charles
J. Novosad, who owns a Central
Point cleaning establishment, said
a man called Feb. 13 and said
that Mrs. Holt was ill and would
not be coming to work.
Novosad said he did not know
who the man was. Mrs. Holt had
worked for him for approximately
four months. Novosad said she
worked for him last on Feb. 10.
TOO MUCH BETTING
CARSON CITY, Nov. (UPD
The state assembly of Nevada, a
state which has legal gambling,
has approved a bill which would
outlaw betting on the length of its
legislative meetings.
Democrat Artie Valentine said
he didn't vote because he had a
dollar riding on the outcome of
the bill. Democrat Ab Romeo con
fessed he voted against the bill
because he hoped to win his bet
with Valentine.
'Positive Thinking1
had been out most of last year,
and even back into 1959. Still to
be checked are some 35 odds and
ends, including booKs with the
card envelopes missing from the
inside back cover.
In the group overdue for not
quite so long, but due prior to De
cember. I960, were ahmrt books
two-thirds of them adult selec
tions and the rest from the juve
nile department.
About 70 adult books and 15 Juv
eniles overdue for less than i
week were In the collection.
Some 50 older magazines, long
ago given up u lost forever, were
returned.
Kennedys put
gag on White
House staff
WASHINGTON (UPI) All of
President and Mrs. Kennedy's
personal staff have signed docu
ments promising not to sell or
tell any details of their relation
ships with the first family, the
White House disclosed today.
The ban came out indirectly as
reporters questioned press secre
tary Fierre Salinger about reports
that Mrs. Kennedy had attempted
to hire a cook, Bid Van Han,
from the French embassy in Lon
don. The White House said this
report was inaccurate because the
Kennedy s found the existing
White House staff was excellent.
Salinger was asked to identify
the chef who was held over from
the Eisenhower administration. He
declined, saying he understood it
was traditional not to give out the
name of the man so employed.
A reporter observed that this
anonymity lasted "until a cook or
a valet decides to sell his story to
a magazine.
Salinger quickly interjected that
all members of the personal staff
had signed documents since Jan.
20 promising "that they won't sell
their stories to magazines or oth
er publications."
Those signing the documents in
cluded domestic help at the White
House, most of whom are govern
ment civil service employes, and
Mrs. Kennedy's three secretaries.
Asked whether the "documents"
covered telling their stories with
out being paid, Salinger said,
they agreed not to discuss any of
their personal relationships with
the President or Mrs. Kennedy.'
Veteran reporters knew of no
parallel in the past for this docu
mentary agreement.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON (UPI) Ken
nedy administration officials
worktd furiously today to and
the air lino strika despite the ex
piration of a 2 p.m. deadline sot
by tho companies for the flight
enginatrs to return to work or
faca reprisals. White House
sources roportad tho six-day-old
walkout could be stttled if
Western Airlines agroed to re
hire 130 dismissed engineers.
SAN NICHOLAS ISLAND,
Calif. (UPI) Four Navy man
blown out to soa on a raft war
found today by a patrol plana
and plucked from tho soa in
good condition by helicopter.
Tho soamon, including a
would-be rescue:', ware blown
out to sea while skindiving off
a rubber raft Wednesday.
Sun Valley
loses skiers
to Bachelor
Sun Valley's snowy slopes are
sheathed with ice, and as a result
Central Oregon's white Bachelor,
on the Cascade skyline west of
Bend, is in the ski limelight today.
Don Peters of the Deschutes Na.
tional Forest staff said he has re
ceived three calls from Portland
parties' who had planned to spend
the weekend at Sun Valley. They
inquired about conditions at Bach
elor Butte.
Conditions at Bachelor are tops
for ideal skiing, the would-be
Sun Valley skiers were told. One
inch of new snow fell on Bachelor
last nicht. It was a powdery snow
that virtually "greased" the
si ones.
Temperature at Bachelor this
morninff was 14 degrees.
Nine inches of snow fell last
niuht at Government Camp. Pack
ed snow covered the Mt. Hood
route. Four inches of new snow
was reported from the Santiam
Pass.
No new snow fell on the Will'
mette divide last nighL
British queen
to visit Pope
LONDON (UPD Queen Eliza
beth II. head of the Church of
England, and her husband Prince
Philip will visit Pope John
XXIII at the Vatican during a
tour of Italy in May, Buckingham
Palace announced May.
The Ar-hbishop of Canterbury,
primato of h Church of Eng
land, visited Pope John last De
cember during a tour lhat took
him to Turkey and tha Holy Land,
i
Water released
Lake forms behind
Crooked River dam
By Elsie Mikscht
Bullttin Staff Writ.r
PRINEVILLE - The first wa
ter to flow past the new Prineville
dam since December 13 was re
leased Tuesday at the rate of 10
second - feet, or some 20 acre-feet
per day, according to Wilfred Kar
rer, resident engineer. Bureau of
Reclamation.
As the slight flow of water be
gan below the dam, the water con
tent of the vast reservoir stood at
32.000 acre-feet, and the river had
overflowed its channel 6'i miles
back and eastward from the dam.
Water had risen over the location
of the former "Bottero" bridge,
and beyond the site of the old
Bottero ranch.
Water was 91 feet deep at the
dam, Karrer said. Water will be
released at the present rate
through March, and in April an
increased flow will be sent down
stream to take care of old adjudi
cated water rights along the
Crooked River.
Completion Nears
By March 1, it is expected that
S. Santiam
project gefs
top priority
Construction and improvement
of the South Santiam Highway
through the slide area east of Fos
ter has been given No. 1 priority
by tho Oregon U.S. Highway 20
Association in recommended proj
ects. U.S. Highway 20 reaches across
the state from the Idaho line
through Bend and over the San
tiam Pass to the Oregon coast.
Priorities for work on U.S. 20
were set at a recent meeting of
the Association in Corvallis.
Association officials said this
section, scene of many slides and
blockades through the years, was
originally built from U. S. Nation
al Forest funds, and will have to
be rebuilt in the same way. The
slide area, well known to Central
Oregonians making the drive
over the Santiam to Albany or
Corvallis, is in the Willamette Na
tional Forest.
Oregon U.S. Highway 20 Assoc
iation members said that strong
efforts will be made to got this
program started as soon as pos
sible. Second on the list of priorities
for construction on the trans-Cas-
cade highway, as set by the As
sociation members, is the comple
tion of modernization of the route
from Corvallis to the coast. Est!
mated cost of the improvements
has been set at $24,4M,000.
The annual meeting of the Ore
gon U.S. Highway 20 Association
will be held in Corvallis early in
April. Joe Maher, Corvallis, will
be in charge of arrangements.
t K I Ok i i
WHAT'S AL GOT? Band Mayor AJ Niels n, left, is pinned With an "I Hava Mint" ribbon
e'tor purchasing B Basketball Tournament season ticlaf from Roland Anderson, co-chairman
of ticket sales committee. Popular prap cage meat will ba held in Band March 9, 10 end II.
Adult season tickets, on sal at Chamber office, City Drug and Stover-LeBlanc, era good for
II games.
all the final details of cleanup
work will be done at the Prine
ville dam, Karrer said. Also by
March 1, it is anticipated that the
A and B Construction Co., working
on the diversion canal, will have
completed the laying of the giant
conduit pipe. Dout a mile of
pipe has been laid along the east
ern edge of Prineville. This is a
unit of the 8.3 miles of diversion
canal extending from a point on
the Crooked River to the distri
bution canal which begins east of
Prineville.
The C and E Construction Co.,
contractors for Hie distribution
canal, will be completed with
their work as far as McKay Creek
within a few weeks, in all proba
bility, it was stated. This is about
half the ultimate length of the dis
tribution canal.
In Mid-Summer
From the progress of the work,
Karrer said, it appears now that
water may be put into the Rye
Grass ditch of the Ochoco Irriga
tion District in mid summer,
which would help materially with
the water supply for the OID dur
ing the coming growing season.
Water in the Ochoco reservoir,
oast of Prineville, which has been
the mainstay for irrigation farm
ers around Prineville for many
years, still stood below the 10.000
acre-foot mark Tuesday, with a
reading at the dam of only 9,830
acre-feet. This reservoir has a
capacity of 45,600 acre-feet. It was
completely drained last fall, when
the water was so low in the reser
voir that it became feasible to
drain tha reservoir and make re
pairs on machinery at the base
of die dam. -
Closure of part
of E. Third St.
due next week
Closure of E. Third Street be
tween Franklin and Greenwood
Avenues is scheduled for Monday,
weather permitting.
The closure is necessary to al
low construction crews to lay
drainage pipe across the street
and drill drainage holes. If time
and weather permit, a preliminary
coat of oiled gravel will also be
laid.
During the closure, truck traf
fic will be routed along E. First
Street between Franklin and
Greenwood. Auto traffic through
town will follow the usual route of
U.S. 97.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 654.42 up 2.02; 20
rails 144.91 up 1.05; 15 utilities
107.79 up 0.26; 65 stocks 221.32 up
0.83.
Sales today were about 5.62
million shares as compared with
about 5.07 million shares on Tuesday.
Those thieves
ought to be
a-smokin' soon
If the driver in front of yeu
hat smoke pouring from his ex
haust pip, either his car needs
new rings, or he's a thief.
Thieves stole what they
thought was gas from Sam Old
aker, SOS Florida, late Wedne
day evening. It was not gas. It
was diesel fuel.
The police, assuming that tho
owners of Bend's few diesel cars
are not the thief type, noted on
their complaint file, "They ought
to be a -smoking soon."
Group
approves
pol
icy statement
on birth control
SYRACUSE. N.Y. (UPI) - The
nation's largest Protestant church
group approved overwhelmingly
today an historic first policy state
ment approving the use of birth
control devices as a part of
Christian responsibility in family
planning.
The pronouncement approved by
the General Board of the National
Council of Churches also called
for opposition to laws and Institu
tional practices restricting the In
formation or availability of contra
ceptives, a move seen as a rally
ing point for Protestants in Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut to seek
repeal of restrictive state laws.
The pronouncement also recom
mended that the federal govern
ment be prepared to provide birth
control information and assistance
to any other government which
might request it in tho interest
of population control.
The council condemned abortion
as means of birth control but
gave tentative approval to volun
tary sterilization pointing out,
however, that it is hazardous and
should be used "only after the
most thoughtful consideration of
all the factors involved.
The vote in the 250 member
Goneral Board was 83 in favor,
none against Four abstained. The
vote was taken after a minor
amendment during floor discus
sion of a draft resolution.
The most substantial question
raised from the floor involved a
paragraph condemning abortion
and resulted only in an acicmion
indicating that further study was
needed of the ethical problem of
abortion in relation to "abnormal
circumstances."
Democrats set
Sunday meeting
Members of the Deschutes coun
ty Democratic Central Committee
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
at the Superior Cafe.
Mrs. Blanche Fouts, party chair
man, will return to Bend to pre
side over the session. She is cur
rently employed by the O r e g o n
slate senate during the legislative
session.
a,
Broad-scale
action urged
by President
WASHINGTON (UPD-Presidcnt
Kennedy sent Congress today a
vast natural resources program to
protect and develop the nation's
lifeblood supplies of water, land,
forests and minerals.
Kennedy put into a special mes
sage proposals ranging from puri
fication of big city air to tin
de-salting of ocean water for
drinking and industrial use.
He warned that unless wise
broad-scale action is taken "wo
will be in trouble within a short
lime."
In setting forth reclamation and
other water resources rttjmmen
d:il ions, Kennedy pointedly de
nounced the "no new starts"
policy Democrats have attributed
to the Eisenhower administration.
"Such a policy denied the re
source requirements and potential
on which our economic growth
hinges, and took a heavy toll in
added costs and even human life
and homes by postponing essential
flood control projects," Kennedy
said.
The President announced actions
his administration would take and
said what he would like Congress
to do. Administration officials said
no price tng could be affixed to
the over-all program until legisla
tion Is proposed for specific pro
grams. Involves Many Millions
In its broad framework, it was
obvious that many hundreds of
millions of dollars would be in
volved. For example, Kennedy
called for enactment of legislation
"along the general lines" of a bill
which would provide $1.25 billion
over 10 years to expand federal
assistance for water pollution con
trol. The President's 3,500-word mes
sago emphasized that "our entire
society rests upon and is depend
ent upon our water, our land.
our forests, and our minerals."
"By the year 2000, a United
States population of 300 million
nearly doubled in 40 years will
need far greater supplies of farm
products, timber, water, minerals,
fuels, energy, and opportunity for
outdoor recreation," he said.
Kennedy said his message was
"designed to bring together. . .the
widely scattered resource policies
of the federal government" which
he said had "overlapped and often
conflicted." He said federal funds
thus were wasted along with the
resources.
The Chief Executive said he
would shortly issue one or more
executivo ordors to improve the
letiorai government s activities in
the natural resources field.
He said he would instruct Hie
budget director "to formulate
within the next 90 days general
principles for the application of
fees, permits and other user
charges at all types of federal
natural resource projects or
areas." He said he also wanted
tho bureau "to reevaluate current
standards for appraising the feasi
bility of water resource projects."
Water Neads Rising
Kennedy said this country now
uses over 300 billion gallons. . .
a day, much of it waslefully" and
by l80 will need i00 billion gal
lons a nay.
If all areas of the country are
to enjoy a balanced growth, our
federal reclamation and other
water resource programs will
have to givo increased attention
to municipal and industrial water
and power supplies as well as ir
rigation and land redemption,"
ho said.
He also urged Congress to:
Authorize planning commis
sions for all major river basins
where ainquate coordinated plans
are not already in existence,
thus carrying out a special Senate
committee's proposal "to develop
comprehensive river basin plans
by 1970, in cooperation with the
individual states."
Permit the government to re
serve known future reservoir
sites" when necessary to prevent
uninhibited commercial arid resi
dential development in such
areas."
Have the Senate approve the
Columbia River Joint Develop
ment Treaty with Canada "to
permit an immediate start on the
immense efforts that can be joint
ly undertaken in power production
and river control in that basin."
The President said hi adminis
tration w i commi'ted "to
strengthening and speeding up
our flood control program.
"I am asking all federal agen
cies concerned to provide data on
flood hazards In specified areas
to all 50 states, and to assist in
their efforts for effective regula
tion or zoning of (lie flood plains,"
he said.