WEATHER
Shower; high Friday 4M5; low
tonight 25-30.
THE
TEMPERATURES
High yesterday, 50 degrees. Low
last night, 32 degrees. Sunset
today, 5:34. Sunrise tomorrow,
7:03. M AX M
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
man
BULLETIN
59th Year
Outlook not
goodfororbit
shot Friday
CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI)
Bad weather forced still another
postponement of John Glenn's
space flight today and forecasters
said the outlook for Friday is "not
good."
Indications were that if the
flight does not go Friday It will
have to be put off until next
week.
Today's was the ninth in a ser
ies of delays since December
which has plagued America's at
tempt to put a man in orbit.
The 40-year-old Glenn was told
shortly after 1:05 a.m. that his
leap into space would have to be
delayed again at least until 7:30
a.m. Friday.
Prospects Gloomy
But at mid-morning the weather
prospects were still gloomy. Er
nest Amman, forecaster for the
Mercury man-in-space program,
reported that weather conditions
in the morning probably will be
not what we would call good con
ditions at all."
If the countdown is resumed for
a launch at 7:30 a.m. Friday "it
must be with the realization,"
Amman said, "that we might lose
it later on, due to weather."
He indicated that if the shot is
not made Friday, it may have to
be put on for several days.
"It appears to us that Saturday
is very much of a lost cause,"
the weatherman said. "If we don't
gu Friday, the area around the
cape most likely will be exper
iencing high winds the following
day."
Worst Weather Tim
Amman went on to say that
February in this part of the world
is "rock bottom" as far as de
sirable launching weather goes
and that "March is not much of
an improvement."
On the average, he said, satis
factory weather occurs only about
one day in every three during this
period.
When Glenn was awakened to
be told of the delay he had break
fast, then went back to bed. His
comment was:
"Everything is still go but the
weather. When we get the weath
er we will go."
This was the second time in as
many days that Glenn and all his
equipment had been in top condi
tion for the flight, only to find
the weather acting up. Reschedul
ing of the launch still was on a
day-to-day basis, with the far
flung recovery fleet having three
to four remaining days in which
to cruise the recovery areas
without replenishing their sup
plies. Long Stormy Area
The bad weather this time was
in the area where Glenn would
land if his flight was cut short
in the pre-orbit period because
of bad direction or speed. Condi
tions were better some cloudi
ness and moderate seas in the
Atlantic areas where he would
land after one, two or three
orbits.
Gas conversion
here completed
Cascade Natural Gas, Inc., to
day completed conversion in
the Bend area from butane-air to
natural gas. The finish was three
days ahead of schedule.
Conversion operations started
Monday, February 5, with Cas
cade's top installation experts
from all over the Northwest
as crew members. Over a dozen
installers have been working on
the project.
The conversion marks the com
pletion of the local phase of the
mammoth project of bringing
piped natural gas from Cana
da to California.
Last night, the plant at Scott
Street and Sullivan Place, which
has been in service since 1930,
was inactivated. It wij be re
tained as a warehouse.
Gas corporation officials say
that there has been extremely
brisk demand for conversion
to natural gas from other types
of fuel, as well as from butane
air and bottle-type propane and
butane.
Court suspends
Portland lawyer
SALEM (UPI ) The Oregon Su
preme Court said Wednesday It
has suspended Philip Weinstein,
Portland, from practicing law in
Oregon.
Weinstein was convicted in Fed
eral Court in Portland on charges
of mail fraud and conspiracy.
The court said its action was
taken without prejudice to a dis
barment proceeding against Wein
stein pending before the State
Bar.
Fourteen Pages
SUPERINTENDENT OF MAILS Russell Kiel, left, a Bend High
School graduate who attended Central Oregon College, has
been named superintendent of mails at the Bend Post Office,
filling the vacancy created by retirement of I. John Bell. Kiel,
at left, receives the congratulations of Postmaster Farley J.
Elliott.
Kiel named superintendent
of mails at Post Office here
Appointment of Russell. L. Kiel
as superintendent of mails in the
Bend Post Office was announced
today by Postmaster Farley J. El
liott. Kiel will fill the vacancy crea
ted by the retirement of I. John
Bell, veteran member of the local
Post Office staff. The appointment
will be effective as of March 1.
Bell's retirement will be effective
at the end of the present month.
Kiel has been with the U.S.
Postal Service for the past 16Vs
years, having joined the staff
here on Sept. 5, 1945. His present
position is that of clerk.
Over a period of years, Kiel
has taken part in various civic
activities, and served as director,
secretary and vice - president of
Authorities baffled
US attache victim
of gunman in Congo
LEOPOLD VTLLE, The Congo
(UPI) - Lt. Col. Hulen Dorris
Stogner, assistant U. S. embassy
military attache, was found fatal
ly shot in his bed Wednesday
night in a slaying that baffled
authorities.
Reliable sources said a Congo
lese chauffeur at the embassy,
arrested about midnight as a sus
pect, was expected to be released
soon after questioning about the
death of Stogner, 39, whose wife
and six children live in El Paso,
Tex.
Congolese and Nigerian United
Nations police were searching for
Stogner's all-night house guard,
who either was not on duty at
the swank Park Hembise home
or had fled after the shooting.
Widow Comforts Child
(In El Paso, Mrs. Stogner did
not give way to grief over the
death of her Army husband. In
stead, the former Army nurse
stayed at the bedside of her 6-
year-old daughter, who became ill
and developed a high fever when
she was told that her father was
dead.
(Stogner left his family last
POSTAL PAY RAISES
COLUMBIA, S. C. (UPI) Sen.
Olin D. Johnston, D-S.C, chair
man of the Senate Post Office
Committee, Wednesday predicted
pay raises for the country's
582,000 postal employes to meet
competition from private indus
try."
DOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Press International
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 717.27, up 3.60; 20
railroads 149.36, up 0.02; 15 utili
ties 129.17. up 0.70; 65 stocks
245.03, up 1.01.
Sales today were about 3.47
million shares compared with 3.63
million shares Wednesday.
Bend,
the Bend Junior Chamber of Com-merce.-
Kiel served for three years as
a member of the Bend Filter Cen
ter advisory board, . serving, as
treasurer of the group. Presently.
Kiel is secretary of the Central
Oregon Council of the PTA and
has also served as president of
the Allen School PTA.
In preparing himself for the
new position, Kiel recently com
pleted a course in the elements
of supervision, at Central Oregon
College.
Bend's new superintendent of
mails is a graduate from the Bend
High School with the class of 1946.
He and his wife, Ruth, have two
children, Kevin, 2, and Steven, 10.
July for a year's duty in the Con
go, shortly after he was promoted
to lieutenant colonel.)
Police said Elizabeth Tryng, a
22-year-old blonde embassy sec
retary from Washington, D. C,
found Stogner lying on his bed at
10:20 p.m., shot through the back
of the neck and bleeding.
She went to a telephone near
the glass front door of the house
and called the duty Marine at the
U.S. embassy, who alerted charge
d'affaires G. MacMurtrie Godley.
Godley went to the house and
called a U.N. ambulance to pick
up Stogner, who died at 11:55
p.m.
Saw Man Running
Miss Tryng told Nigerian police,
"I saw a man walking. He looked
like the chauffeur of the air at
tache," Col. Dan Matlick. She
said the man ran away when he
saw Stogner's revolver in her
hand.
Miss Tryng later collapsed dur
ing questioning. She was taken
to the home of embassy friends
and put under sedation.
Police said the bullet that killed
Stogner had been found but there
was no trace of the weapon.
The murderer apparently stood
on a small wall surrounding the
house and fired downwards
through the wooden shutters of
Stogner's bedroom window.
The U. S. embassy waived diplo
matic immunity to permit a full
investigation by Congolese and
U. N. police.
Congolese police confiscated
Stogner's personal papers and
made a thorough search of his
house. Other police searched all
other houses in the park area,
questioning residents and looking
(or signs of the slayer.
Godley, the charge d'affaires,
said he knew of no reason why
anyone would want to kill Stog
ner. He ruled out a political motive.
Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, February 15,
Kennedy puts
disaster tag
on flood area
By United Press International
Floodwaters are receding, and
President Kennedy has declared
tile flood - stricken southeastern
Idaho area a disaster area.
Damage estimates now range
as high as $7V4 million but it is
expected the figures will go much
higher as residents turn from
fighting floodwaters to tallying up
the damages.
Heaviest damage reported so
far is in the Idaho Falls area
where losses were estimated at
$5 million. Another $l'-i million
was estimated for Bonneville
County exclusive of Idaho Falls.
An estimated 420 to 4o0 homes
were flooded and about 10 busi
nesses inundated in the Portneuf
Valley from Pocatello to Lava
Hot Springs.
Preliminary estimates at Poca
tello put the damage at about
$300,000 to about 60 homes flooded
in low-lying parts of the city.
A surprise storm clogged the
Northeast with up to 16 inches of
snow today, snarling traffic, chew
ing up power lines and claiming
at least five lives.
The worst floods in memory
subsided in Nevada, Idaho and
Wyoming but heavy rains threat
ened new inundations in mud
washed California, where up to
15 inches of rain fell earlier.
The central plans got rain and
there were thunderstorms in parts
of Oklahoma and Texas.
Weather Disturbance
The storm in the Northeast,
triggered by a weather disturb
ance off the New Jersey coast
dropped from 6 to 16 inches of
snow on Connecticut. Tanners-
ville, N.Y., 40 miles southwest
of Albany, had 14 inches of snow.
The New York City suburb of
White Plains measured 11 inches
and police asked motorists to
avoid unnecessary trips. Worces
ter, Mass., had 8 inches ol
snow in six hours Wednesday.
High winds and ice slashed
power lines, cutting off electricity
in many areas of western New
York between Buffalo and the
Pennsylvania line Wednesday.
Winds up to 35 miles an hour
lashed the Connecticut coast.
Still Digging Out
Michigan and Wisconsin contin
ued digging out from under up to
13 inches of snow which fell
Wednesday, closing schools and
crippling air travel at Detroit.
Up to three inches of rain was
forecast for Southern California
and the northern part of the
state had more than an inch.
Fifty-mile winds lashed the north
ern California coast. Red Bluff
measured an inch of rain in six
hours, as did San Francisco.
In Sonoma County the Russian
River, which fell 5 feet after
cresting at 36'A feet Wednesday
was expected to climb to 40V4 feet
today, causing flooding in the
town of Guerneyville.
Slide threatens
6 farm homes
TILLER, Ore. (UPI)-About a
half-dozen farm homes were
threatened today along Dontier
Creek near here by a 200-acre
hillside slowly moving down a
mountain.
One family moved out Wednes
day and another was considering
evacuating.
Tiller is southeast of Roseburg.
U.S. Forest Service Ranger Hil-
liard Lilligren said if the slide
continues in its path, it will
threaten six other families.
The slide started last week, and
a cliff which developed at the top
of the slide area was estimated
to be about 300 feet high.
Trees have been toppled and
two-acre Hart Lake, which sup
plied some of the families, has
been tilted until the outlet pipe
is now 10 feet above the water
line.
Chrismas Valley
tour is planned
by Bend Chamber
The Bend Chamber of Com
merce will sponsor a trip to
Christmas Valley, scene of a new
land development, on Wednes
day, February 21. Travel will be
by chartered bus.
The bus will leave from the
Trailways depot at 9:30 a.m. and
will return to Bend after lunch,
arriving back shortly after 3
p.m.
All who are interested are in
vited to attend. Tickets are $6,
and the charge includes lunch at
the Christmas Valley lodge.
Tickets are on sale at the
Chamber office, and should be
obtained without delay, accord
ing to officers.
New Berlin incident
ussian
BERLIN (UPI) - Soviet MIG
fighter planes today flew within
20 feet of a U.S. Air Force
Globemaster transport flying to
Berlin in a new Soviet harass
ment of Western Allied air
traffic.
Informed sources said four
Soviet fighters were within 20 feet
of the Globemaster for several
minutes.
The incident took place as the
Soviets sought to limit Allied traf
fic through the three 20-mile
wide corridors into Berlin. The
Russians had demanded that mili
tary transports fly the so-called
"American corridor."
GOP panel sees
chance to regain
House control
By Bill Thompson
Bulletin Staff Writer
An election of a Republican-
controlled House, to give Gov.
Mark Hatfield a working team
in the 1963-64 Legislature, was
stressed by a panel of four Ore
gon Republican House members
here Wednesday evening.
The panel discussion was one of
nine such meetings held through
out Oregon Wednesday In connec
tion with Oregon's 103rd birthday
celebration.
The panel, consisting of Rep.
Kessler Cannon, Bend; Rep. Har
ry Elliott, Tillamook; Rep. Doug
las Heider, Salem; and Ren,
Raphael Raymond, Helix, exud
ed confidence that Hatfield will be
reelected to another four-year
term as Oregon governor this fall.
While they noted that there was
no chance this fall to upset Demo
cratic control in the Oregon Sen
ate, they were confident that, by
hard work. Republicans had a
chance to gain control of the Ore
gon House.
Democrats held a slim 31-29
margin in the House during the
last legislature.
Elliott emphasized gains made
under the Hatfield administration.
These, he said, included a better
climate for business, new corpor
ations, average family income
gain greater than other western
states, Boardman space age park,
offshore oil drilling, and new In
ternational Pulp and Paper Plant
on Oregon coast.
Heider said the Republican par
ly's tax philosophy provided a
better climate for business.
Drive Industry Out
"When you treat capital gains
as ordinary income, you drive in
dustry out, Heider said.
The young Salem legislator
pushed for a broader based in
come tax that would include the
one third of Oregon's wage earn
ers now exempt from paying state
income tax.
Heider said he was personally
against a sales tax, and favored
a broader income tax whereby
every Oregon wage earner would
pay at least one per cent Oregon
tax on his earnings.
Cannon explained an initiative
petition that would put a "federal
plan" in the House.
This initiative will create pos
itive districts in the constitution
that cannot be taken away,"
Cannon said.
The plan, to counteract a recent
state Supreme Court ruling on re
apportionment, calls for 30 pos
itive districts. The remaining 35
seats would be chosen on a popu
lation basis, thus boosting House
membership from 60 to 65 mem
bers.
Better Representation
If approved, the initiative would
return the one representative to
Deschutes County, with another
representative for Crook and
Jefferson County.
As a result of the supreme
Court ruling, Central Oregon lost
one representative, with Crook,
Jefferson and Deschutes coun
ties now under one representa
tive. "Presently, Multnomah County
has one representative for every
29,000 people, while Central Ore
gon has one representative for 39,
000," Cannon said.
Raymond, a Helix wheat ranch
er, hit government controls on
wheat He urged the Republican
party to encourage the best cand
idates, encourage precinct work
ers and for clear stands by candi
dates. The meeting was headed by Ly
man C. Johnson, chairman of the
Deschutes Republican Central
Committee.
1962
MIGs fly within
eet o
Rejecting the Russian demands,
the Allied planes continued to fly
into Berlin through the air space
the Soviets tried to reserve for
themselves.
In Moscow today the United
Slates, Britain, and France form
ally protested to the Soviet Union
against- Russian interference with
Western flights in the corridors
connecting the isolated city with
West Germany.
As the Globemaster incident
was reported here, an Allied
spokesman called the Russian
moves illegal and said "Soviet au
thorities will continue to be held
responsible for the safety of these
W .
f.
COC WINTER CARNIVAL CANDIDATE Carolyn Copen
haver, a 5-4 blonde freshman, Is Central Oregon College's
queen candidate in the collegiate Winter Sports Carnival hers
Feb. 23-25. An honor student, Carolyn weighs 105 pounds,
and has 35-22-35 measurements. An avid skier and skater,
Carolyn will vie with princesses from 20 other Northwest uni
versities and colleges in the queen contest Feb. 23 in the Bend
High auditorium.
Factory laborer
missing college
ROCKFORD, IU. (UPI) A
$1.90 an hour factory laborer at
a paint plant here was identi
fied Wednesday as Dr. Carl Ver
non Holmberg, Syracuse Univer
sity research chemist who van
ished from his home six years
ago.
Authorities said the man ar
rived in Rockford early in 1956,
hitchhiking in from Elgin, 111. He
called himself Verne Hansen and
he carried a briefcase with the
initials V. H.
After a series of odd jobs he
obtained employment as a labor
er at a woodworking company
and in five years worked up to
shipping clerk. Two years ago he
obtained employment as a pig
ment grinder at the paint factory.
In the interim he married Mrs.
Mabel Ostling, a woman with a
daughter by a previous marriage.
On his marriage license applica
tion, dated Nov. 28, 1959, he list
ed his birthplace as Sandpoint,
Idaho. It said he was born Aug.
21, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Gunnard Hansen.
Troubled Married Life
The Hansens' married life was
troubled. Hansen read a lot
"only education books, no cheap
fiction," his wife said. "He was
very happy but he did drink an
awful lot." He encouraged Mrs.
Hansen's daughter to read.
Finally the couple separated
and Hansen moved into a hotel.
On Feb. 4 Hansen was arrested
for drunk driving and fined $100.
He spent six days in jail in lieu
of paying his fine and his finger
prints were taken.
Police forwarded the Hansen
fingerprints to the Federal Bu
Ten Cents
flights."
In defiance of the Soviet at
tempt to keep portions of the air
corridors for their exclusive use,
American, British and French
military transports flew in the
Frankfurt-Berlin lane under the
7,500 foot altitude the Russians
had tried to claim.
Commercial airlines fly above
the altitude limit which the Rus
sians sought to impose, but a
Western spokesman said that at
both heights Soviet fighters ap
proached the aircraft.
For the first time Wednesday,
Russian fighter planes took to the
air to circle and shadow Western
' vVS' 1 t,SJ
1
MrietataJtAi'
turns out to be
research chemist
reau of Investigation for a rou
tine check.
Wednesday police learned from
the FBI that the man who called
himself Verne Hansen was Dr.
Carl Vernon Holmberg, a re
search chemist at the Syracuse
University College of Forestry,
who vanished from his home in
May, 1955, leaving a wife and
three children. He held degrees
from Michigan State, Idaho and
Syracuse universities.
Mind A Complete Blank
"It seems incredible. It's very
confusing. I don't see how a man
could break off one life and start
another. My mind was a com
plete blank when I came to Rock
ford. My suit had a New York
label and I seemed to recall the
hills of New York and I recalled
a few other places. It seemed as
though I had done a lot of work
with my hands. I was at home in
the country," Hanson or Holm
berg said.
Mrs Hansen said, "I can see
now why he drank. It must have
been terrible never knowing who
he was."
Holmberg's wife, the former
Dorothy Ripley, divorced him at
Burlingame, Calif., in 1958. She
married Gordon Babcock, an
electronics technician, two years
ago. The couple has a 1-month-old
son and Holmberg's tliree
children live with them.
Ex-Wife Not Surprised
Babcock told United Press In
ternational at Menlo Park, Calif.,
his wife was "not surprised" that
Holmberg had been found be
cause she was certain "he was
not dead."
No. 60
ranspon
transports defying their ban.
They flew "close" to seven
Western planes, including a Berlin-bound
Royal Air Force trans
port carrying Sir Christopher
Steel, British ambassador to West
Germany. Steel said his plane was
not buzzed.
The possibility of trouble also
increased on the ground. West
Berlin police warned Communist
guards at the East-West border
that they would shoot back.
"We will not shoot first but wa
are not defenseless targets," po
lice announced over loudspeakers.
"We will return fire if we are
fired upon."
Robert Kennedy
in lively debate
with students
JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI) -Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, in
one of the liveliest question-and-answer
sessions of his v i s i t,
warned a group of Indonesian stu
dents today against becoming
"slaves to slogans."
Kennedy ' told the students at,
Gadjah Mada University that the
United States "is not the society
described by Karl Marx or the
Communist party of Indonesia."
The comments by the Presi
dent's brother were evoked by a
student's question about "capital
ist monopolist America."
The question, which drew heavy
applause, obviously upset Kenne
dy. He began pacing the platform,
I raised his voice, and called for an
internreter to translate his reDlv.
"What I want to make sure la
that you don't become slaves to
slogans," Kennedy said, drawing
applause in return. ;
Citing American social progress
in recent decades, Kennedy said
the difference. between the United
States and the Communists is that
Communists cannot tolerate di
versity. "Look what happened to Boris
Pasternak," he said, referring to
the late Soviet writer who was
condemned in Russia . for his
writings critical of communism.
"Is that something with which
you agree? Do you think that if
communism comes to Indonesia
you can disagree with Communist
China or the Soviet Union? If you
do, you will be kicked out."
Dinner set
on Saturday
by Pioneers
Deschutes pioneers from the
Central Oregon country will gath
er in Bend Saturday night for
their annual dinner, short busi
ness meeting and program of en
tertainment, at the Pine Forest
Grange Hall.
Dinner will be served from 6 to
8 p.m., and will immediately be
followed by a business session
that will include the seating of
new officers and the introduction
of the pioneer queen for 1962. Her
identity will remain secret until '
she is introduced.
A feature of this year's meet
ing will be a roll call of all mem
bers who lived in the area prior
to 1900. The roster holds the
names of some 40 such members.
There will be an award to the
member present having the long
est continuous residence in the
area.
A pioneer of the year award,
made for the first time last
year, will again be made this
year.
Steve SteidI, president elect,
said it is the plan of the commit
tee in charge to make the pro
gram as informal as possible.
SteidI will take over the gavel
from Claude H. Kelley, 1961 presi
dent of the group.
An old-time dance will conclude
the program.
The annual meeting originally
had been set for January 20, but
was postponed due to stormy
conditions that night, with the
parking area at the Pine Forest
Grange Hall choked by drifts.
HAD TO DIG
PEKIN, 111. (UPI) - Appraiser
Eugene P. Maurer was asked
during a condemnation suit how
he determined the market value
of a cemetery.
"An appraiser during his life
time seldom has contact with,
such a dead issue," he said. "To
get the information I had to dig."