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The Bend Bulletin, Wed., February 7, 1962 7 J&v -Kid LL1:. y o-A , y "i-Y nn 'n iiiimniiini- - " HEART-TIME DANCE Several hundred young people furned Society. The dances are held each afternoon with dance eon. out late Tuesday afternoon at the National Guard Armory for tests for grade school, junior high, and high school students, a Heart-Time dance sponsored by the Deschutes County Heart The dances will continue for the rest of the week. 'U.S. farm exports largest during calendar year 1961 By Gaylord P. Godwin UPI Staff Writer ' WASHINGTON (UPD - U. S. farm exports in calendar year 1061 totaled $5.03 billion, the larg est of record. ; The Agriculture Department an nounced this huge outpouring of U.S. farm products to points abroad was 4 per cent larger than the previous record of $4.83 bil lion in l0. ; Dominating the rise in sales abroad last year vas an unprec edented export movement of wheat. More than 740 million bu shels of the breadgrain moved ov erseas. . Other increases were in feed grains, rye. tobacco, fruits, tallow, meats, hides and skins, and dairy products. Among the feed grains, corn exports rose to near ly 300 million bushels and more than oifset reductions in barley, oats, and grain sorghums. Tobac co exports amounted to more than 500 million pounds. The principal export decline in 1961 was cotton. Sales overseas amounted to 6.3 million bales, compared with 7.2 million bales in 1360. Exports of rice, soybeans, cot tonseed and soybean oils, lard, and vegetables also were smaller. For soybeans, however, higher prices advanced the value over that for 1960. The department said agricultur al exports for July-December the first half of fiscal lP2-totaled an estimated S2.S7 billion, up 3 per cent from the $2.49 billion worth of products exported in the first half of fiscal 1961. For the July-December, 1961, period, exports of wheat and flour showed the largest overall value increase with moderate gains in animal products and fruits and preparations. Vegetables, tobacco, and soybeans showed relatively little change in value this fiscal year from last. Somewhat limit ing the overall gain were smaller exports of feed grains, rice, flax seed, and vegetable oils. Cotton exports in the first half of fiscal 1962 were 23 per cent be low the comparable period a year earlier, and wheat exports were I about 25 per cent higher. I Secretary of Agriculture Orville :L. Freeman has selected a Na ' tional Advisory Committee on egg j marketing at the request of egg producer groups. The committee will review ex isting programs affecting the mar keting of eggs and consider the I possible need for legislation af fecting the stability of egg prices in the future. The committee is composed of members selected from major egg producing areas and will meet in Washington early in March. The Foreign Agricultural Serv ice reports the United States in 1961-iM! is Mnected to exDort rec ord quantities of soybeans and edible vegeiame oils ana a near record quantity of oilseed meals. Exports of flaxseed will bff small, i mainly reflecting reduced supplies. Exports of soybeans are being en- ! couraged by the continued lack of alternative supplies from Commu nist China and expanding demand in Europe and Japan. Spain is expected to turn to the United States for larger quantities of soy bean oil this year because of its rodiiced sunnlies of olive oil. Ex- I ports of edible oil under govern- ment programs will expana snarp ly this year. j Temperatures I Temperatures during the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. PST today. High Low Precip. Bend 4? 30 .03 Astoria 53 46 .55 Baker 33 22 .02 Brookings 53 50 .80 Klamath Falls 39 34 .03 Medford 59 41 .04 Newport 54 47 .69 j North Bend 54 47 .38 i Pendleton 36 32 .15 j Portland 45 33 .35 ! Redmond 50 36 .05 Salem 53 45 .22 'The Dalles 39 32 .06 Chicago 10 3 Los Angeles 39 52 I New York 45 14 San Fran. 57 51 Washington 44 12 'My Fair Lady' sold for movie ailroad seeks v V&X ft k ' -- ."V-h;-1 HOT OF HEARING Cathy Rosamond of Sunnyvale, Calif., tried a new stunt to leep her ears warm on chilly mornings. Here she poses with two hot water bottles she has wrapped around her head. Worlii, too, until the water cools off. NEW YORK (UPI) Warner Bros, and the Columbia Broad casting System made it official Tuesday night film rights to "My Fair Lady," longest running mu sical in stage history, have been sold for a record $5.5 million. A joint announcement said War ner Bros, would begin prepara tions immediately to turn the stage hit into the "most lavish produc tion in motion picture history." CBS, which put up money to stage the Broadway production, is the major owner of the property. Rumors of the record sale had long been current in New York. The price is more than double the previous record, the $2.7 million paid for film rights to "South Pacific." Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, who collaborated with composer Fred erick Lowe in writing the stage version, already is working on the screen play. "My Fair Lady" completed its 2.449th performance on Broadway Tuesday night. It has been seen by more than 3 million people and grossed more than $18 million. Sustained levy plans made by library board Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE The Crook county library board, which met Tuesday evening, is getting plans under way for establishing the Crook county library on a sustain ed tax levy, similar to Uie coun tv' senarate cemetery associa- j lion levy, according to county I judge Ervin Grimes, j Under the present setup, the I county library, with an annual budget of some $20,000, is being j financed by the county's general I fund and a large contribution from i the city treasury. Some time ago. the Prineville city council served 1 notice to the county court that the jcouncil might not approve an al ' location for the county library in j the coming year, j Last spring. Crook county resi i dents voted for an increase in tax es above the regular six per cent limitation on annual tax increases, and Grimes states thai this was. and is. considered to have been an emergency measure only. Seeking other ways to finance the library, it was generally I aereed among those county offic ials concerned with the problem i that a separate sustaining levy i would be necessary. The plan will be presented to voters before it is ' mil inin f(prt The librarv hudcel would require li mills Grimes aid. The subject was to have been discussed further in the monthly county court session today. Couple leaves for Florida Special to The Bulletin REDMOND - Mr. and Mrs. Roy Newell, well-known Central Oregon pioneers, left their home in Redmond Tuesday on the first lap of a journey to Tampa. Fla. They planned to board a Jetlin er today in Portland for the trip to Florida, where they will spend j about a month with Mrs. New ell's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Pierson. i LOTS OP LINKS i BETHUNE. France frpp-Po-' lire are searching for thieves who ; broke into a slaughterhouse here ; and s'ole black sausages which I were described as one mjle long, I laid Unk'to-link. R to trim service WASHINGTON (UPI) South ern Pacific railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission Tuesday for permission to aban don service on one of its stream liners running between Oakland, Calif., and Ogden, Utah. - The request was one of the long est passenger service abandon ment applications ever received by the ICC. SP's trains. The Over land, cover about 800 miles daily. Southern Pacific, which has been described as one of the most solvent lines in the country, would reduce passenger service by one third over the route. It cited net losses for the opera tions of the two trains, one east bound and one westbound, total ing $1.4 million in 1960 and $1.6 million in 196L ,"' ,.;. .. .; ;:; Sewer lagoon dike postponed Special to The'Bulletln PRINEVILLE The city's sew er lagoon once more became the larget of city council interest this week, according to a spokesman for the council. The renewed in terest camo with the visit of an engineer from the architectural firm of Clark and Groff, original designers of the lagoon system. " The visiting engineer told mem bers of the sewer committee that the lagoon appeared to be sealing itself, and recommended that the city wait for a time before con structing a proposed dike across the larger lagoon section. The dike action had been plan ned by the council so that a por tion of the laaoon could be treat ed with a sealing compound. The council had also been told that the size of the lagoon was too large for efficient operation, consider ing the number of users of the city's sewage system. In view of the engineer's recom mendation, the sewer committee agreed lo postpone construction of the dike. Several months ago, the City of Prineville and four properly own ers who live adjacent to the la goon arranged an out-of-court set tlement of $9,000. The property owners brought suit against Prine ville, claiming property devalua tion due to the excess seepage from the lagoon into land around their homes. Orbit attempt is delayed day CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. l'Pl A planned U.S. attempt to orbit this country's fourth TIROS weather satellite was post poned today for at least 24 hours "because of technical difficulties in the launch vehicle." The postponement of the shot, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was the second in two days. The shot calls for a 90-foot. three-stage Thor-Delta rocket to : send the 285-pound satellite into a circular orbit nearly 300 miles above earth. Father gets crank calls about his son SEATTLE (u?I) - The worried father of a University of Wash-1 ingtou student w ho disappeared ! last Wednesday, said Monday he -has received calls from several persons, apparently cranks, offer ing to return his son for ransom. ; The student. Richard A. Grout, i 20. Portland, Ore., was last seen Wednesday. His father, Paul D. Grout, came to Seattle from Portland this week end to try lo locale his son and he said he intends to stay until he does. The older Grout said the calls he received about the ransom were "obviously fraudulent." He turned them over to Seattle police for in vestigation. He said he has received several calls in which friends and instruc tors of his son said they saw Uie missing youth Wednesday. He said they were not able to offer any I explanation as to where or why the youth disappeared. The missing youth is a sopho more studying journalism on a Ford Foundation scholarship and is 8 feet 1 inch tall, has brown hair and wears heavy horn rimmed glasses. When last seen he was wearing a brown jacket with a knit collar and brown slacks. The older Grout said his son's meal ticket Went through the cafe teria line at Terry Hall, the uni versity dormitory where he lived, twice Friday, but nobody remem bers seeing Uie youth. Rusk urges U.S. bond purchase WASHINGTON (UPI) - Secre tary of State Dean Rusk told a Senate committee Tuesday that U.S. national interests "allow us no choice" but to help underwrite a United Nations bond issue. Rusk said failure to back the bonds would mean "political catas trophe for the United States and financial catastrophe for the Unit ed Nations. The secretary testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee which is h o 1 d ing public hearings on President Kennedy's proposal that the United States buy half of the $200 million issue. Rusk ran into critical question ing from members of Die committee. But he said this is not the time for the United Nations "to falter or for the United Stales to falter ih what the United Nations is try ing to do." Sen. George D. Aiken. R-Vt., a committee .member, proposed ear lier that the United States put off action on the bond plan until it can be determined what other countries intend to do in the matter. Even after Rusk's testimony, Aiken clearly was not convinced. The Republican senator flatly rejected earlier State Department assurances that the administration does not regard the bond propo sal as a "precedent for future fi nancing" of U.N. operations. New cold wave hits cotton belt, New England By United Press International The fourth great cold wave of 4 the season knifed through the cot ton belt and New England today, sending temperatures skidding as much as 40 degrees. Below zero readings were re ported from Minnesota to Maine. At Minneapolis, which had a high of 2 below Tuesday, the mercury dropped to 10 below zero shortly after midnight. Diilulh, Minn., had a Inch of 6 below 7.ero Tuesday. Chicago recorded 4 below zero, breaking a 26-year-old record lor the date. Temperatures were at or near the freezing point as far south as the Gulf Coast and northern Florida. Snow flurries dotted the frigid air from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians' and into northern Maine. Western Michigan report ed as much as 10 inches of new snow Another storm center In the Northwest scattered snow through parts of Washington. Oregon, Mon tana, Idaho and Utah. Youngs- town and Akron, Ohio, had up to 2 inches of snow. I Fog tilled the valleys of Utah, Idaho and Southern California j again today. Novelist's son kills Hs mother Drink w3 (-B r IsumdJ HELPHREY MILK Featuring Quality Product! ONLYI EV 2-3131 Have You Had a JOLLY TIME Lately? ITS THE POP KZ3 NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. 'UPI i The son of the late novel ist Morton Thompson stabbed and killed his mother with an ice pick Monday night, police said. Morton II. Thompson, 28. was booked on suspicion of murder in Hie slaying of Mrs. Helen Sc heucr, 53. first wife of the writer-journalist. Detectives said he slabbed his mother 12 times with an ice pick he bought "after carefully planning the crime." Officers said lie placed a cloth over his mother's face as a gag while she was concentrating on a crossword puzzle at the kitchen table, and then he stabbed her. Mrs. Scheuer was divorced from Thompson, author of "Not As A Stranger" and many other woiks. Thompson, who died in Connecti cut several years ago, also was a former MGM screenwriter and a columnist for the Hollywood Citizen-News. Both he and Mrs. Scheuer were former correspond ents for the paper. j Investigators said the son told thorn he was "sick of having his I mother having to take care" of him and wanted to end her trou bles. "Not As A Stranger" was one of the biggest best-selling novels written in America since World War II. It was made into a successful motion picture with Robert Mitch- mil. Olivia De llavilland and ! Frank Sinatra cast in starring ; roles. j RIGHT AT HOME CHICAGO U'Pli - An injured j sea gull has laken up residence i here al the home of Robert Pelli-1 kan. who says he is a bird fancier. I Voluntary checlc on lumber imports sought SAI.EM (CPP-Gov. Mark Hat field today urged (he lederal gov ernment lo negotiate with Canada lo develop "voluntary agreements such as self-imposed quotas" to curb the impact of Canadian lum ber on the Eastern U.S. Market, Western lumbermen have com plained about loss of markets to Canadian lumber interests. Hatfield said the negotiating should be done "through appro priate agencies." adding that past negotiations with Japan on re stricting imports of Japanese tex tiles were a case in point. Hatfield said he is asking tha governors of Washington, Idaho, Montana and California to help encourage action. Moore's does it again! SALE! f NOTE: All shoes received during this Trade-in Sale will be donated to . THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST WELFARE I CENTER tf ' 1422 East Third p OPEN TUES. AND THURS. ! :t ? Bring in the family's old shoes ... get il .trade-in d credit on each new pair you purchase! only one pair of trade In ihoet ace on the purchase of ach new. pair . 'pled '"Si X - . Here's your opportunity to outfit the entire family at special savings . . . while you help a worthy causel CHOOSE FROM MOORE'S COMPLETE NEW STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER SHOE STYLES FOR O MEN O WOMEN O CHILDREN I flJiEP 921 Wail EV 2-1092