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WEATHER
Partly cloudy; high 37-42; low
23-U.
TEMPERATURES 1
High yesterday, 39 degrees. Lew
last night, 32 degrees. Sunset
today, 4:01. Sunrise tomorrow,
4:30.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
59th Year
Twelve Pages
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Wednesday, March 7, 1962
Ten Cents
No. 77
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A vicious late winter storm un
leashed destruction of hurricane
proportions along much of the
East Coast today, isolating entire
communities and bringing wide
spread floods to Virginia and
North Carolina.
Gale force winds and high tides
rolled in as residents of the East
ern Seaboard from Maine to
North Carolina were digging out
from Tuesday's onslaught of wind
and snow.
This and other storms in the
nation were blamed for at least
40 deaths.
New Jersey and Virginia were
hit by the worst winter floods in
25 years and storied Hatteras, N.C.
which has withstood the blast of
many hurricanes over the years,
was inundated by eight-foot tides.
The two-day storm claimed nine
lives in New Jersey and four in
Virginia. The tiny resort town of
Avalon, N.J., was reported by its
police chief "at the mercy of the
sea."
Thousands Leave Home
Thousands of persons were re
moved from their homes along
the coast. The Coast Guard said
the peninsula town of Cinco
teague, Va., was under five feet
of water with about 100 persons
stranded.
Piers and beach homes along
the picturesque North Carolina
and Virginia coasts were pushed
out to sea by the pounding surf.
Winds up to SO miles per hour
whipped the Atlantic Ocean from
Cape May to Sandy Hook, N.J.
Fires touched off by the gusty
winds were numerous, including a
$400,000 wharf blaze in Boston and
a spectacular all-night fire in
Wildwood. N.J. Few injuries were
caused by the fires, officials
reported.
The storm, accompanied by
gale force winds and wet snow,
slammed into the coast Tuesday.
Residents trying to dig out from
the wreckage were driven out of
their homes again today by the
return of the storm.
Even Florida was affected by
the adverse weather. A cold dry
wind swept across the state early
today causing moderate damage
to vegetable crops. Temperatures
in north Florida dipped as low
as 28 degrees.
Wisconsin recorded nine deaths
from a snow storm there. There
were five deaths in Delaware,
four In Maryland, two in
California and one each in Indi
ana. Illinois, New York and
Pennsylvania.
US. sends two
corwoys through
East Germany
BERLIN (UPD The U.S. Army
sent two troop convoys through
East Germany today in the face
of a Russian condemnation of the
moves as provocative military
demonstrations.
A westbound convoy from Ber
lin to West Germany was delayed
for nearly two hours by Russian
border guards by disagreement
over the unit's strength. A Berlin
bound convoy arrived in the city
without trouble. It had 191 men
in 27 Jeeps and trucks.
The Russian border guards
counted the 197 soldiers in the
westbound convoy twice before
they passed it through their Ba
belsberg checkpoint on the 110
mile highway.
A U.S. Army spokesman said
the Russians and Americans dis
agreed on the number of soldiers
in the 27 Jeeps and trucks. But
he said this was not unusual.
The Russians did not question
the American right to use the
Berlin-Helmstedt Highway through
Communist territory.
The Soviet news agency Tass
Tuesday denounced American con
voys on the highway as provoca
tive military demonstrations.
But today's convoy, the second
m a mass movement of 3,000 sol
diers in 500 vehicles, cleared ac
cording to four-power agreements
giving the West the right of ac
cess to isolated West Berlin.
In line with clearance proce
JnrM the Americans cave the
Russians a travel order listing the
soldiers in we convoy.
PROBE CANCELLED
PORTLAND (UPD A full scale
investigation into the transfer of
sheriff's Lt Miller has been can
celled by die County Civil Service
Corronisuom Miller brought suit
after he was truest errw to me
county farm. After the court ac
tion vaa ajs-nissea and referred
back to the crmmissiai Miller
was transferred to another detail
at downtown headquarters.
Moonlet put
into orbit for
study of sun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(UPD-The United States today
launched a satellite to study the
sun, and indications were it had
gone into orbit around the earth
as planned.
The 458-pound moonlet, first of
a new series of satellites designed
to find a way to forecast radia
tion "storms" in space, was sent
aloft aboard a three-stage Thor
Delta rocket at 8:06 a.m. PST.
Within 45 minutes, scientists of
the federal space agency said the
satellite, called Orbiting Solar Ob
servatory (OSO), apparently had
swung into an orbit that would
take it once around the globe
every 90 minutes.
Threat it Seen
The satellite carried experi
ments that scientists hoped would
point a way for coping with ra
diation in space that threatens
man's flight to the moon and
planets.
Scientists hoped OSO-1, which
cost more than $6 million to
launch, would remain "alive" for
at least six months. -
OSO-1, carrying a series of 13
experiments, was designed to take
the first direct, undistorted look
at the sun.
The sun is the source of high-
intensity radiation that whips
through space threatening manned
flight to the moon and planets.
The satellite today was the first
of a group the federal space agen
cy plans to launch during the next
11 years a period covering one
full sun spot cycle.
Eruptions Noted
Scientists said the lengthy study
should produce a method for pre
dicting solar flares. These erup
tions on the face of the sun would
make manned flight through
space a lethal proposition on the
average of one day out of 45, and
would make a flight to the moon
during four or five other days of
this period an extremely danger
ous undertaking.
Scientists said the problem of
space radiation would have to be
met by providing heavy shielding
for astronauts or by finding a re
liable means of forecasting solar
flares several days in advance.
The 13 experiments aboard
OSO-1 were designed to keep an
almost constant eye on the sun.
The satellite also carried a small
tape recorder to "memorize" in
formation during 90 minutes of
the 95 minutes it was expected
to take OSO-1 to circle the globe
once.
Commission to
meet tonight
Ordinances "tightening up" on
jaywalking and bike riding on
sidewalks in downtown areas are
scheduled for second readings at
the regular Bend City Commis
sion meeting at 7:30 tonight in
the City Hall.
A certificate of merit from the
State Board of Health, praising
Bend's water system, will also be
shown to the commissioners. -
Ancient tradition
Solemn
VATICAN CITY (UPD Pope
John XXIII today revived an an
cient Ash Wednesday tradition of
a solemn procession to mark the
beginning of Lent
The procession through the
streets of Roma was a featured
event of Roman Catholic cere
monies heralding the end of car
nival celebrations and the start of
the 40-day period of penance and
fasting.
The Pope, who likes to mingle
with his flock as bishop of Rome,
planned to lead the procession
from the Church of St Alessio to
the Basilica of Santa Sabma, on
ade
ans m
by Women's
Voter league
Bend's new provisional League
of Women Voters elected officers
and made plans for immediate
and long-range project at an or
ganization meeting Tuesday
night.
The following were elected:
Mrs. George Marshall, president;
Mrs. James Hiatt, first vice
president: Mrs. R. G. McFarland,
second vice president: Mrs. Van
Burleigh, secretary: Mrs. James
Smiley, treasurer; Mrs. Robert H.
Foley, Mrs. Ralph May, Mrs.
George McGeary, Mrs. Arthur
Burman, Mrs. John Stcnkamp
and Mrs. Glenn Cushman, board
members.
The newly organized group
chose Oregon constitutional revi
sion as a study topic tor the com
ing months.
The League will provide voter
service information on ballot mea
sures to assist in the primary and
general elections. A basic "Know
Your Town" study will be con
ducted. Mrs. Robert Jones, president of
the Albany league, and Mrs. John
Wolfe, Corvallis, are assisting in
organizing the Bend league. Thirty-two
women signed up for mem
bership last night.
High moisture
content noted
in fall of snow
Snow holding unusually heavy
moisture fell until around mid
night last night, adding 0.40 inch
of precipitation to, the total rec
orded so far this year.
The four-tenths of an inch of
moisture was measured this
morning in two inches of snow.
Rain intermingled with snow at
times in the Tuesday evening
storm.
Cascade passes received little
of the snow that fell in the Des
chutes country. The Santiam
route was bare this morning, but
snow flurries were reported. Flur
ries were also reported from the
Willamette, and motorists were
advised to carry chains.
Showers were reported from
Warm Springs Junction. Only a
trace of new snow was measured
at Government Camp this morn
ing. There were some ice spots.
The fivfrday forecast calls for
a few showers in the Mid-Oregon
area over the weekend, with total
precipitation near normal. Temp
eratures will change little, the
forecast adds.
Slushy snow covered Bend
streets this morning, but by noon
virtually all of the damp pack
had disappeared.
DOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Press International
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 706.63, off 1.54; 20
railroads 145.34, off 0.21; 15 utili
ties 127.70, off 0.12, and 65 stocks
241.02, off 0.42.
Sales today were about 2.89
million shares compared with 2.87
million shares Tuesday.
revived
ceremony
quiet Aventine RilL
The stop at Santa Sabina repre
sents the first of six-Roman sta
tions of Lent The Pope intends
to hold the remaining stations on
the next five Sundays in various
parts of downtown Rome and in
the suburbs.
The Lenten stations once were
attended regularly by Popes, but
the tradition was abandoned in
the 18th Century. Pope John re
stored it partially in the first year
of hu reign as head of the Cath-
olic Church by attending abridged
j versions of the stations. This year
was the first time ha was going
PI
Final phase
of peace bid
is underway
EVIAN, France (UPD - Al
gerian rebel leaders demanded
pledges from France today to
launch all-out war against the
outlawed European Secret Army
Organization if it tries to sabo
tage a cease-fire agreement
Algerian sources said this was
the rebels' No. 1 demand as they
met with the French here for the
final phase of peace talks de
signed to end seven and one half
years of Algerian bloodshed.
The two delegations met this
morning in a two-and-a-half hour
opening session at the big Hotel
du Pare overlooking the French
shore of the Lake of Geneva.
They adjourned for separate
lunches and met again in the
afternoon.
Determination Noted
The talks are expected to last
eight to 10 days. But both sides
proclaimed their detenrunation,
despite the prospect of tough
bargaining, to reach agreement
on a cease-fire that would be the
forerunner of full independence
for Algeria by the end of , this
year.
Because of the touchy nature of
the talks French and Algerian del
egates agreed on a policy of com
plete secrecy.
ALGIERS, Algeria (UPD-Ter-rorist
killings and plastic bomb
ings hit Algiers and Bone today
despite the Moslem holy feast of
Aid Es Seghir.
The feast is a two-day legal hol
iday for Moslems. It ends the holy
month of fasting known as Ram
adan and contact between Mos
lem and Europeans was kept to
a minimum. All government of
fices and many shops were closed.
But by noon, three Moslems and
a European had been killed and
four persons wounded In Algiers.
In Bone nine plastic bombs were
set off, wounding one person.
This brought the 1962 terrorism
toll to 1.459 killed and 3,519
wounded throughout Algeria.
In Grim Manner
These figures were personified
in a grim manner for the people
of Algiers Tuesday. They viewed
the naked body of a Moslem hung
from a tree with a sign pinned
to its chest reading: "I killed, the
OAS is watching."
It was less than 24 houi be
fore the start of talks in France
on a cease-fire between the
French government and the Al
gerian nationalist rebels.
But the OAS the Secret Army
Organization trying to keep Al
geria under French rule carried
on its campaign of slaughter and
bombing.
The haneed Moslem was one of
four persons killed in Algiers
Tuesday. Nine others were
wounded. Across Algeria a total
of 22 lives were lost bringing the
1962 casualty toll to nearly 5,000
dead or wounded.
One of the other victims here
Tuesday was slain by a gunman
on a busy main shopping street
in the heart of the city. A crowd
gathered. Police arrived and took
notes but asked few questions. It
would have been useless.
Mardi Gras
marks start
through the entire country.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI-Carnl-val
rulers Rex and Comus danced
and toasted the end of riotous
Mardi Gras into the early hours
of Ash Wednesday marking the
start of the penitential Lenten
season.
By sunup today at least the
streets showed Lenten sobriety
as King Cleanup and his street
sweeper j plowed through an esti
mated 100 tons of litter. Church
as King Cleanup and his street
sweepers plowed through an esti
10 i:'"" mil iT
PLAN ANNUAL PROGRAM Women of four Bend churches
will hold their annual World Day of Prayer observance this
Friday at 1:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church. Taking part
in a brief pageant (from left) Mrs. Keith Harris of Trinity Episco
pal Church, as a migrant; Mrs. Larry Merrigan of First Chris-
Hatfield names
Mrs. Johnson
to state board
Gov. Mark Hatfield today ap
pointed Mrs. Samuel S. Jolinson.
Redmond, to the State Board of
Higher Education. She succeeds
A. S. Grant, Baker, who de
clined reappointment. '
The appointment was forecast
in information obtained by The
Bulletin Tuesday from Salem.
Mrs. Johnson, wife of a Central
Oregon lumberman and the
mother of two children, has a
master's degree in literature
from Wellesley.
A former English and Latin
teacher in Ohio and Michigan, she
is a summa cum lauds graduate
from Miami University, member
of Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board
and Sigma Delta Kappa, educa
tion fraternity.
Mrs. Johnson was in the United
States Navy in World War II,
serving in various capacities, in
cluding that of director of Waves
for the 13th Naval District, with
headquarters in Seattle, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two
children, Elizabeth 11, and Patric
ia, 8. Mrs. Johnson is a member
of the Redmond board of educa
tion, and has been active in Amer
ican Red Cross, American Cancer
Society and other community un
dertakings. Mrs. Johnson has been presi
dent of the Deschutes County Uni
ted Fund, chairman of the Red
mond Library Board, president of
Chapter AQ of the PEO Sister
hood and co-founder of the S.S.
Johnson Foundation, San ' Fran
cisco. The new member of the Stale
Board of Higher Education is a
native of Fort Wayne, Ind.
SET NUCLEAR BLAST
WASHINGTON (UPD The
Atomic Energy Commission Mon
day told Sen. Clinton P. Ander
son, D-N.M., it will hold another
underground nuclear test in New
Mexico salt deposits. Anderson
said the explosion will probably
take place in 12 to IS months.
celebration ends
of Lent
mated 100 tons of litter. Church
bells summoned the faithful to re
ceive Lenten ashes, signifying
their ultimate end on earth.
In a riotous climax to the
wildest audience participation ex.
travaganza on the continent the
courts of Rex and Cormu held
separate Mardi gras balls Tues
day night in Municipal Audi
torium.
At midnight they joined to drink
the traditional toast symbolizing
the end of carnival season II
days of parades, balls and gen
eral carousing.
World Prayer'
Day services
due on Friday
Annual World Day of Prayer
services will be held Friday,
March 9, at 1:30 p.m. at the
new Bend First Presbyterian
Church.
Churches taking part In the
devotions are First Methodist,
Trinity Episcopal, First Chris
tian and First Presbyterian.
Mrs. Albert Gassner Is gen
eral chairman. Others taking
part in the service are Mrs. Al
bert Lucas, Mrs. Eugene White,
Mrs. Milton Schultz, Mrs. Win
ton Edwards and Mrs. Ken
Brown.
Mrs. Keith Harris, Mrs. Lar
ry. Merrigan, Mrs. Leroy
Rhodes, Mrs. Ren Pomeroy and
Mrs. Robert Lengele will ap
pear In a short pageant.
. Everyone Interested Is Invited
to attend.
Bidwell plea:
'Not guilty
NEW YORK (UPD-J. Truman
Bidwell, former chairman of the
New York Stock Exchange, plead
ed innocent in federal court today
to charges of evading $55,908 in
personal income taxes for 1956-S7.
Judge John M. Cashin set bond
for Bidwell at $2,500. He said he
would set a trial date at a hear
ing March 26.
Bidwell, nattily attired in a blue
suit, answered with a clear "not
guilty" when a clerk read the
federal charges.
Bidwell, 58, could receive up to
five years in prison and a $10,000
fine on each of two counts if
convicted.
He resigned his position with the
Stock Exchange following his Feb.
27 indictment
R. Kennedy says
U.S. Reds have
little power
WASHINGTON (UPI Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said
Tuesday the U.S. Communist par
ty is a "windmill" virtually pow
erless to hurt the government.
He criticized "hysteria" about
the party's activities.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
speaking with Kennedy before the
Advertising Council, criticized per
sons who charge the United States
has a "no-win policy" and de
mand withdrawal from the United
Nations.
"I think it's a wnall minority
but I wonder if they expect us
to Incinerate me Northern Hemis
phere or abandon the game to the
enemy." Rusk said. "For that's
what these slogans mean."
Kennedy said there are 8,000 to
10.000 Communist party members
in the United States compared to
a pre-World War II peak of 400
000 to 500,000.
h J"
tian, as a service men's wife; Mrs. Laroy Rhoaes of First Preby
terian, representing Africa; Mrs. Ren Pomeroy, First Methodist,
American Indian, and Mrs. Robert Lengela, First Christian,
foreign student. All women of the community are Invited to)
attend the program.
Committee urged
Powers case revives
controversy with CIA
WASHINGTON (UPD-U2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers slipped
back into seclusion today, but his
day of public vindication Tuesday
revived an old congressional con
troversy over the Central Intelli
gence Agency.
Chairman J. William Fulbnght,
D-Ark., of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee told reporters
the flier never was the main is
sue in the ill-fated i960 flight
over Russia.
Fulbright was critical of the
timing of the flight, which came
just before the Paris summit con
ference, and of President Dwight
D. Eisenhower's public acknowl
edgement of the high-altitude re
connaissance flight.
As a result, Fulbright said he
questioned CIA Director John A.
McCone Tuesday on a long-time
proposal to set up a Senate-House
committee to ride herd on such
CIA operations.
Fulbnght said McCone agreed
to testify later on the proposal,
Plane wreckage
reported found
SALEM (UPD Ralph W. Mc
Ginnis, assistant state aeronau
tics director, . said today the
wreckage of a plane believed to
have crashed 10 years ago has
been found near Roseburg.
The wreckage was found Tues
day afternoon 10 miles east of
Roseburg by a Bureau of Land
Management employe, Archie
Craft.
Douglas County Sheriff Ira Bird
went into the area with a group
of men today. ,
McGinnis said H may have been
a plane carrying Morris Pitts and
his two children. Pitts' plane Is
thought to have crashed Sept 8,
1952 on a flight from Salem to
Palo Alto. Calif.
Pitts, then 33, was a Tacoma
automobile dealer, and was said
to be returning his sons, Ronnie,
12, and Reggie, 8, to the home
of his former wife in Palo Alto
after they had spent the summer
with him.
Coeds to travel
in pairs at night
SALEM (UPD-Coeds at Wil
lamette University's Lucy Lee
House will travel in pairs from
now on if Ihey go out at night,
it was decided Tuesday. The rea
son is a series of indecent ex
posure cases in the area recently.
The House council also decided
that coeds will carry paper and
pencil to write down license num
bers and descriptions of offend
ers.
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which is now pending before Ful
brlght's committee. The CIA has
opposed oreation of such a com
mittee on grounds it would threat
en the secrecy of CIA operations.
Sen. Francis Case, R-S.D., a
member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee which ques
tioned Powers Tuesday, issued a
statement today citing the pilot's
testimony that weather conditions
seemed to be the only factor gov
erning the timing of the pre-sum-
mit flight.
To me, this points up again
the need for better co-ordination
between the activities of CIA and
other branches . of the govern
ment," Case said. The incident.
he said, ruined months of effort
by Eisenhower in the cause of
world peace ,
Case also cited the unsuccessful
attempt to put invaders ashore in
Cuba's Bay of Pigs. He said the
reputation of U.S. military chiefs
was put on the line there by a
CIA plan although the military
chiefs did not control the opera
tion.
The CIA said Power's appear
ance Tuesday "completed all of
the public appearances he has
planned."
A spokesman noted that Presi
dent Kennedy said last week that
Powers is now a free agent The
spokesman refused to say where
Powers is now or where he would
be living in the future.
Meantime McCone said he
hoped Powers' testimony will
clear up any cloud over uia
U2 pilot,
Fairing limb ,
7s cause of
power outage
A snow-laden limb of a tres)
near St Charles Memorial Hos
pital broke at 12:12 a.m. today.
resulting in the tangling ot power
lines and an outage that lasted
until 1:26 a.m.
Plants affected by the outage;
Included the hospital, where sur
gery was in progress. When the)
power outage occurred, the hos
pital's standby generator went in
to operation.
Pacific Power and Light Com
pany officials said some 200 cus
tomers were affected by the out
age, mostly In the downtown area.
When the tree limb, covered
with heavy damp snow broke it
tangled two power conductors,
one of which burned out A re
pair crew of four men was called
out and power was restored 1
hour and 14 minutes after the
outage occurred.
When the lines tangled, there
was a pyrotechnic display that
lighted up the area.