THE BEND BULLETIN
4 Saturday, October 21, 1961 An Independent Newspaper
Phil F. Brogan, Aasoclatt Editor Jack MeDermott, Advtrtitlng Manager
Glenn Cushman, Gentral Managtr Leu W. Meyer., Circulation Manager
Lortn E. Oyer, Machanical Superintendent William A. Yalta, Managing Editor
Robart W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
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One thing about the Fourth District,
1962 primary will be interesting
Bob Duncan, Speaker of the House
In the Oregon state legislature for the
past four years, has announced he will
seek the Democratic nomination to
Congress from Oregon's Fourth District
In next year's primary.
Those Fourth District Democrats
really have it made. Too often Demo
crats and Republicans, too have
a hard time getting one good man to
run. .Getting more than one strong
candidate is nearly an impossibility. '
Duncan Is the third man to an
nounce his candidacy. The others who
are eager to challenge Dr. Eddie Durno
next year are Charlie Porter, former
Congressman from the district, who
lost out to Durno In 1960, and Bob '
Straub, state Senator from Lane Coun
ty. There is one possible danger to
the Democrats. The three men might so
split votes .and loyalties as to insure
Durno's re-election next year.
The other possibility Is that they
will generate so much interest through
the primary that the winner will gather
Democrats about him like a cloud and
really roll over Durno. Obviously, this
Is the hope of all three.
For what It's worth, here Is an ap
praisal of the three men, after watching
them in action for a few years, salted
with a personal acquaintanceship with
all three.
They're all from the liberal wing
cf the Democratic party. Porter, In our
opinion, is at the left of the three. His
political judgment is not so good as
that of the other two, judping by his
past romances witli Fidel Cnstro and
Red China.
Straub is next in the political spec
trum, and is Inclined to be a more doc
trinaire liberal than either of the oth
ers. We get the feeling, on occasion,
that he favors programs and actions
because it's fashionable to do so, rath
Much ado about group insurance
Charges and denials have been fill
ing the air around Wall and Louisiana,
and covering some newsprint, In recent
days over the handling of the city em
ploye group insurance program.
City Commissioner Paul Reasoner
has been sniping away at City Manager
Walter Thompson. Thompson has been
ducking, since some of Reasoner's shots
have come uncomfortably close.
The fact that an Issue has been
created Is largely Thompson's fault.
Thompson Is no Insurance export.
But he went ahead and negotiated an
Insurance agreement covering city em
ployes and their families. Then he told
the commission what he had done.
Here Thompson was in error, as he
often Is.
Humor from others
Two men were leaving a restaurant
together, and one of them noticed that
his companion gave the hat check girl
a dollar.
"You make the rest of us look
heap when you give the girls a tip
J
Evolution of a mushroom cloud
Regardless of the circumstances,
this Is public money being spent, and
approval for such expenditures must
remain in the hands of the commission,
whether the commission would prefer It
elsewhere or not.'
Then Thompson, in a not-too-clever
move, presented the commission with
a fait accompli, rather than with a
recommendation based upon study.
Had he presented a recommenda
tion, with some figures to buck it up,
the whole thing would have sailed
through the commission without any
dissent, as so many similar things have
sailed through.
?ot trapped by his own
'cleverness. If the going gets rough he
has no cuise for complaint.
er than from any deep-seated convic
tion. This tendency is not so pronounc
ed as to be objectionable, however.
Duncan we might characterize in
this crowd as a right-wing liberal, a
little left of center perhaps but far
more conservative in his beliefs than
Porter, and somewhat to the right of
Straub.
Duncan, on the other hand, is a
better manager of people than the oth
ers. He's able to work well with others,
and is able to persuade others to, his
point of view more successfully than
either Straub or Porter.
Straub would bo the next most ef
fective in this regard,, we suspect. He
got along well as Lane county commis
sioner. While he hasn't cut any great
big swath as state Senator he was an
"out" looking "In" and might not have
been able to accomplish any more than
he did.
Porter is a sort of "full speed a
head" guy in his relationships with
others. We suspect he is more self
centered t.han either of the other two.
From our observation, ' he considers
Charlie Porter to be the most interest
ing of all possible subjects of conversa
tion. As a result he's probably less ef
fective than cither of the others in his
dealings with other people.
Porter, two years ago at least, had
the advantage of name familiarity in
his district. This may have been lost to
Duncan since the last legislature.
Straub, although he served as Demo
cratic state chairman, probably would
rank third in this measurement of pop
ularity. Regardless of the ratings at this
time, the Fourth District fight could be
the most interesting of all in Oregon's
primary next year, which seems al
ready to be shaping up as a pretty
much cut-and-dricd afrair, with this
exception.
like that," he remarked when they
were outside.
"It's worth It," replied his friend.
"Look at the hat she - me!" Lei
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Soviet changes are seen
in speech by Khrushchev
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Here are some
observations on Premier Khrush
chev's marathon speeches by a
newsman who recently saw Mr. K
close-up at the Black Sea:
No Expert of Revolution One
significant statement by Mr. K
was tills: "Communist have no
desire or rieht to export revolu
tion to non-Communist countries."
This, if really carried out, would
in itself be a revolution. It re
peats what Khrushchev, told me in
August, when he emphasized that
though the Communist .1 world
would vigorously compete with
capitalism, this did not mean war
or fomenting revolution.
Stirring tip revolution In capi
talist countries has been one of
the cardinal tenets of communism
in the past It will be interesting
to see what happens in the future.
Atom-Free Zones Mr. K pro
posed an atom-free zone in Europe
and the Far East. This is what
Foreign Minister Gromyko has
been discussing with Secretary of
State Rusk, namely the banning
of atomic weapons from the West
German Army, plus other parts of
Western Europe, probably includ
ing France, Belgium and the Neth
erlands, in return for their banish
ment from Eastern Europe.
The United States is favorably
inclined, though Chancellor Ade
nauer is not. The big plus for the
United States would be in extend
ing an atom-free zone to Die Far
East to include Red China. Khru
shchev is the Inst one to want
atomic weapons in the hands of
Red China whose leaders say
China is the one nation which can
afford atomic war.
Atomic-Testing The fact that
Khrushchev's announcement of
the 50-megaton bomb was censor
ed from news reaching the Rus
sian people emphasizes the touch
iest part of the Soviet arms build
up. Khrushchev has campaigned
against the danger of radioactive
fallout in the past, knows what
the current tests will do to the
bones of children in the future,
obviously doesn't want the Rus
sian people to know it
The Press Gallery The tact
that American newsmen were
present to report the 22nd Con
gress proceedings Is a revolution
ary departure from a few years
ago. The manner in which Khru
shchev turned to the press gallery
and ad-libbed a rebuke to news
men "The American journal
ists are sitting here and laughing
at our slogans" vas not unlike
past senatorial ' rebukes to the
press gallery in Washington.
Critics of the Kremlin The
fact that ex-Prcmier Bulganin was
in the convention hall when Khru
shchev named him as one of the
Stalinist diehards is an amazing
departure from the old days. In
the Stalin era and immediately
thereafter, Bulganin would have
been banished or assassinated. He
would not have been around to
hear himself denounced at a Com
munist Party Congress. Nor
would foreign newsmen have been
present to report it
Another Significant Fact: Mar
shal Kliment Voroshilov, former
president of the Soviet who was
thrown out of office in 157 and
was denounced by Khrushchev
this week as a pro-Stalinist, was,
on the same dav, elected to the
Steering Committee (presidium)
of the 22nd Congress. Ambassador
Mikhail Pervukhin, also denounc
ed this week by Khrushchev as a
1057 conspirator, was on the
same day elected an alternate to
the Steering Committee.
Tins kind of political give-and-
Soviets come up
with another
'first'
claim
MOSCOW (UPlt The Rus
sians claim they havo come up
with another "first" video tele
phone service.
They say a Muscovite can now
telephone his girl-friend in Kiev
or his mother in Leningrad and
see her face on a television
screen in a Moscow studio.
The advent of Soviet video tele
phones, timed to coincide with
(lie 22nd Communist congress
hero, apparently was Intended as
a demonstration of Soviet techni
cal advancement The Russians
claim their "Invention" is an
other "first"
Informed sources here pointed
out that video telephones already
have been tried out in other coun
tries and abandoned.
The Russians have nude the
coaxial cables between Moscow,
Ixningrnd and Kiev available for
daytime phone use, unless some
major sporting event interferes.
The new system uoiks like
this:
A customer in Moscow calls
the telephone vomp.my for an ap
pointment Then if the call, for
instance, is to the Muxon ite s
mother in Lriiincrad, the Moscow
clerk will call the l.enincrad of
fice which will summon the moth
er to the studio in that city.
Then the call poos thnrnth,
with each party able to see the
other's face.
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take was unheard of in the Soviet
in the past.
Industrial Competition with USA
Mr. K cited figures showing
Uiat Communist industrial output
in 1060 had increased 6 8 times
that of 1057, whereas non-Communist
nations had increased only 2.5
times. When Khrushchev pointed
this out to Averell Harriman, for
mer governor of New York and
ex-ambassador to Russia, Harri
man told him: "Yes. but you are
citing a period when the United
States was under the Republicans.
Wait until the Democrats get into
power."
Khrushchev countered by offer
ing Harriman a job as his eco
nomic adviser. Harriman replied:
"I'll take It if you give me a dacha
(summer homo) like this."
"I am still waiting for Harri
man to take that job," Khrush
chev told me.
End of Colonialism K. charg
ed that imperialism in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America is get
ting shakier, hailed the birth of 28
new and independent nations in
the past six years.
However, these new nations
have kept their independence as
far as communism is concerned;
more than 90 per cent of them
have opposed K's Troika plan for
hamstringing the United Nations.
The new Kennedy policy of oppos
ing colonialism as we opposed it
in 1776 has paid dividends.
Nix on Tito Khrushchev bit
terly attacked Yugoslavia for
"turning from the straight Marx
ist - Leninist road into the winding
path which has landed them in a
fog' of revisionism.". Yet Senators
John Tower of Texas and Scoop
Jackson of Washington who is
smart enough to know better
blasted bipartisan aid to Yugo
slavia. "We Are Equal" Khrushchev
stuck exactly to what he told me
about the relative strengtli of the
USA and USSR. Ho told me that
President Kennedy had told him
in Vienna "we are equal." To this
K replied: "I think we are strong
er, but for the sake of the argu
ment I will say we are equal
Then why should we destroy each
other with atomic war?
To the 22nd Congress he said:
"I believe all Communist forces
are mightier than the aggressive,
imperialist forces. But even if we
should agree with the United
States President, who quite re
cently stated that our forces were
equal, even then it is plainly un
reasonable to use the threat of
war. Since equality is admitted,
the proper conclusions must be
drawn from that. In our time it is
dangerous tq pursue a policy from
positions of strength.
Rocket-powered
'bus' grounded
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI
A rocket-powered "bus" named
Ranger II, ticketed for a 685.000
mile trip into space, was ground
ed Friday by guidance problems.
The federal space agency had
planned to send the 670-pound
probe deep into space in the final
trial run for a planned triple as
sault on the moon in 1962.
However, less than one hour be
fore the scheduled launching early
today, the 10-story Atlas-Agena
rocket carrying the Range.' II in
its nose came up with problems
in its guidance system difficul
ties that could not be corrected
in timo to permit scientists to
launch it today.
The postponement is for at least
48 hours, depending upon the ser
iousness of the troubles.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said no new
launch date had been set.
Scientists planned to use Rang
er 1 to try out instruments and
ideas that could send crude tele
vision cameras, radiation measur
ing devices, and rough seismo
graphs to the moon in a scries
of three ranger firings spaced
about 00 days apart in 1062.
Temperatures
Temperatures during the
hours ending early today.
High low Trecip.
Bend 50 I?
Astoria 52 41 .64
Baker 42 ,n
Brookings 57 44 .20
Burns 4 2:1 .07
K. Falls 47 24 .(VI
l.akeview 52 28 .13
Medford 58 37 .01
Newport 55 41 .47
N. Bend 61 46 .34
Tendleton 59 28
Portland 52 39 06
Salem 56 46 .13
Hie Hallos 53 31
Chicago 52 49
ls Angeles 70 62
Miami 88 61
New York 76 56
San Fran 59 31
Seattle 51 39 .24
Washington 71 55 2.1
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red carpet for
visiting Swiss
NEW YORK (UPI)-The United
States today rolled out the wel
come mat for 400 Swiss tourists,
the first big dividends in the
government's new campaign to at
tract foreign visitors to this
country.
The Swiss delegation's visit in
cluded a lunch and a welcoming
by the Swiss, consul general and
Franklin C. Shoemaker, an offi
cial of the U.S. Department of
Commerce.
The four-month-old U.S. Travel
Service was set up by Congress
as a part of the Commerce De
partment at the request of Presi
dent Kennedy. Establishment of
an official agency to encoiu-age
foreigners to visit the United
States was part of Kennedy's
larger program to stem the out
ward flow of U.S. dollars.
The government estimates that
the 602,000 overseas visitors to
this country In 1960 spent $317
million. Visitors from Canada and
Mexico spent another $651 million,
but officials do not have any head
count on these two groups.
In any case, the spending of
visitors is far less than the
amounts laid out by Americans
for foreign traveling. The purpose
of the new campaign is to try to
narrow this gap somewhat
The Travel Service already has
worked with some visiting groups
of 50 to 150, but the Swiss delega
tion Is the largest and the first
to be identified as a return on the
government's investment
The visit was said to be a direct
result of an invitation issued to
the Swiss last summer by Com
merce Secretary Luther H. Hodg
es during a European trip.
W. Germans
launch sub
KIEL, Germany (UPD-The Ul.
first submarine built in West Ger
many since World War II, will be
launched today by an undersea
warfare expert who sank 42 Al
lied ships during the war.
Naval experts say the 350-ton
submarine is a "technical sensa
tion" because of its high speed
and its heavy armament.
The submarine, first of 12 of
its type ordered by the West Ger
man navy, mounts eight torpedo
tubes and an imposing array of
electronic detection equipment
Although it Is powered by con
ventional rather than nuclear en
gines, it Is said to be capable of
remaining underwater for weeks
presumably by using some va
riation of the schnorkel breathing
apparatus.
Capt Otto Kretschmer, w ho sent
250,000 tons of Allied shipping to
the bottom during World War II,
will launch the sleek. 130-foot
U-boat in his capacity as chief of
West Germany's amphibious com
mand.
Kretschmer, an "ace of aces"
among wartime U-boat com
manders, was called "the wolf of
the Atlantic" by the British.
One of his best-remembered ex
ploits occurred on Nov. 3, 1940.
when he sank the British cruisers
Laurcntic and Patroclus in a
night attack.
Soviets step up
foreign aid
WASHINGTON (UPI) Soviet
bloc aid to underdeveloped coun-
ires through credits and grants
has more than doubled in the past
two years, according to the State
Department
A report issued Friday said
these credits and grants have
been increasing by $1 billion to
$1.5 billion annually.
Major recipients have been the
United Arab Republic, Afghanis
tan, Iraq, India, Indonesia. Cuba
and Guinea.
Since 1954, $1.3. billion has been
for military aid.
OAS TO INVESTIGATE
WASHINGTON (UPI I A com
mittee of the Organization of
American States (OAS) will go to
the Dominican Republic Sunday
to investigate alleged violations
of civil liberties.
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BEND YESTERDAYS
Bend business area hit
by bad fire 50 years ago
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
viftv venra acn this week. Bend
suffered a bad fire, worst in its
history of the town up until that
time. Three buildings on Bond
Street were destroyed. "Fortune
favored Bend at Die time of the
blaze, there being no wind, or the
biggest portion of the business dis
trict would have been wiped out,"
The Bulletin commented.
ThA fir started in the restaur
ant of Sam McMurtrie. A w i n d
from the north would have result
s') in the loss of several blocks.
The fire also had its humorous
side. The Bulletin reported:
"A number of ladies climbed up
on Lara's store to watch the fire
and with buckets and cups threw
water on the store room and
the building was saved."
There was no mention in that
story of the Bend fire department
of 1911.
A new ico cave (apparently Edi
son Ice Cave of the present) was
discovered In October 1911 be
tween Bachelor Butte and Spring
River. Deschutes foresters were
happy. It was in a waterless area
and would save fire fighters a long
haul in battling blazes in that
area, foresters said. Supervisor J.
Roy Harvey and J. C. Stephens of
the Forest Service placed a lad
der through a "skylight" opening
and explored the ice area under
neath. The ice was described as
clear and pure.
The Arnold Ice Cave had been
discovered years before and was
Bend's source of summer ice early
in the century.
Bend's public school 50 years
ago this month was overflowing.
Enrollment in mid - October
reached the 200 mark, requiring
an additional room and another
teacher, Mrs. R. M. Snaders. The
large and well-lighted room under
the stage in Lmsters Hail was
rented for class space.
Superintendent Shuse told school
directors that the school building
was so crowded that something
had to be done. Half the seventh
grade taught by Miss Vandevert
Woman bound
over to jury
OREGON CITY (UPI) Mrs.
Margaret Arnell Fischer, 31, Mil
waukie, was bound over to the
Clackamas County Grand Jury
here Friday on a charge of sec
ond degree murder.
Mrs. Fischer is accused in the
fatal shooting of her husband,
Henry Adolph Fischer, 60, earlier
this month.
She was bound over following
a preliminary hearing before Dis
trict Judge William Frazicr.
Fischer was shot in the left side
at his home by a small caliber
revolver.
EDUCATION FOR REFUGEES
WASHINGTON (UPIi-Welfare
Secretary Abraham Ribicoff said
Thursday more than $2 million in
federal funds has been allocated
for financing the education of
Cuban refugee children, mostly
in Florida.
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was turned over to Miss Troulner
in the shuffle of pupils.
The second annual meeting of
the Crook County Veterans' As
sociation was held at Laidlaw
(Tumalo) in the fall of 1911. Mem
bership included all old soldiers
who served in the Indian, Mexi
can, Civil or Spanish Wars. An
army talk was given by a prison
er in Andersonville, J. I. West of
Bend. The little band of veterans
paid tribute to the first of their
members to die. He was the Rev.
J. Anthony Mitchell, Bend.
Around Bend in 1911: Force of
12 men left Bend for Suttles Lake ,
(Now Suttle Lake) to begin work
on the canal and reservoir of the
Suttle Lake Improvement Co, . ,
Hunting party consisting of the
Misses Sara Perry, Edith Eastes,
Medora Steel and E. B. Loomis,
D. M. Davis and Morris Lara,
with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Pringle
as chaperones, spent weekend at
Miner cabin upriver. . ,L. D. Fox
in his Chalmers 33 made a rec
ord run from Bend to Klamath
Falls and back Monday, with 18
hours as his traveling time.
Kennedy offers
program for
U.S. business
HOT SPRINGS, Va. (UPI)
There should be little doubt in
the minds of 176 big corporation
executives about what they can
do for their country.
Four officials of the Kennedy
administration, including two of
cabinet rank, laid before mem
bers of the Business Council Fri
day a formidable list of do's and
don't's to promote the national in
terest. In a nutshell, the corporation
presidents and board chairmen
were exhorted to: ,
Refrain from boosting prices;
Help find good men to man
age the foreign aid program;
Invest in risky but not reck
less ventures in underdeveloped
countries, and
Promote civil defense pre
paredness, i
The Business Council is a group
of 176 executives from many of
the nation's biggest, most power
ful corporations. Earlier this year
the council severed a 28-year-old
advisory relationship with the
Commerce Department. The Ken
nedy administration has been at
pains to restore cordial relations
with the council, and. through its
prominent members, with the
business community generally.
To that end President Kennedy
dispatched some of his key aides
lo speak at the council's autumn
work-and-play meeting at this
southern Virginia spa.
Two of them, Treasury Secre
tary Douglas Dillon and Under
Secretary Henry H. Fowler,
planned to sit in today at the
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