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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON . C if? ck mad in vdidity of Porasii's on THE B 59th Year French forces move against OAS hangout ALGIERS. Algeria (UPI) -French troops moved into position today to wipe out the Secret Army Organization's (OAS) key strong hold in the Algiers' suburb of Bab-El-Oued. Twenty truckloads of French soldiers and gendarmes, support ed by halftracks and armored cars, ringed the European quar ter where the OAS was en trenched. The tense city was gripped by near civil war. Sporadic firing and plastic bomb blasts punctuated the pre dawn hours as the French army attempted to crush the OAS, which has vowed to keep Algeria French. At least 15 soldiers were killed and 74 wounded Friday in bloody, all-day street fighting, mostly in Bab-El-Oued. Unofficial sources said 50 European civilians were seriously wounded in the clashes, but the actual count was believed to be much higher. Terrorism throughout Algeria Friday killed 48 persons and wounded 176, bringing the toll since last Monday's cease-fire to 286 dead and 295 wounded. The 1963 count now stands at 2,043 killed and 3.962 injured. The French army's counter-offensive against the OAS, along with President Charles de Gaulle's orders to smash the ex tremist uprising "without pity," seemed to spell the beginning of the end for the European extrem ists who had hoped to wreck the Algerian cease-fire by provoking a Moslem insurrection. Moslems Remain Calm So far, the Moslems have re mained calm. And the army, an gered by OAS attacks on French soldiers, blasted the settlers' op timistic predictions that French men would refuse to fire on Frenchmen. For months, observers have been saying that the fate of any OAS uprising would depend on whether the French army stayed loyal. But its loyalty In the five days since the cease-fire was an nounced has been without a doubt Fridav's fiehting in Algiers marked the first time that the OAS attacked the French army. They hit troop patrols with ma chine gun fire, grenades, mortars, bazookas and iMolotov cocktail lwmhs. But the army fought back with heavy anti-aircraft guns firing at rooftoo snipers' nests. Machine trims nicked off one OAS com mando after another throughout the strife-torn day. The fighting lasted almost to midnight. Army Begins Search As night fell, the French troops began a house-to-house search of the larger buildings on the edge of the European quarter which served as nests for OAS snipers. "It's just like Hungary," screamed one European woman as French soldiers opened fire at OAS commandos in an apartment house. Women and children hurled abuse at the soldiers as they swept through the narrow streets under a hail of gunfire from the OAS. "Get out, leave us," they shout ed. o Pi Have you ordered the extra copies of the Bend Bulletin's Central Oregon Progress Edition that you want mailed ? Coupons for your convenience are on page 5 in today's Bend Bulletin. Do it today! Publishing date for this big special edition is next Wednesday, March 28. THE BEND BULLETIN Eight Pages Bend, Rescue feams press search for bomber PORTLAND (UPI) Mountain rescue teams began moving into the area southwest of Mt. St. Helens at dawn today trying to find a trace of a missing Navy patrol bomber which vanished Wednesday with 10 men aboard. Aircraft also were standing by ready to move back over the area when weather permitted. F-102 jets from the Portland Air Force base were aloft looking for holes in the clouds. A gusty storm hit the area dur ing the night. The Air Force said the 150 ground searchers included both trained military and civilian per sonnel. It said the terrain was so rugged that requests from vol unteers to join in had been turned down. The plane disappeared late Wednesday about 30 miles north of here after encountering engine trouble on a flight from Whidbey Island, Wash., to Alameda, Calif. Emergency tax clause favored by committee SALEM (UPI) That part of the Oregon constitution which says the legislature can't put an emergency clause on any tax measure should remain in a new constitution, the Oregon Constitu tional Revision Commission de cided Friday. Putting an emergency clause on a measure means it goes into ef fect immediately. On a tax mat ter, an emergency clause would mean there would be no chance for an initiative petition and re' ferral to the voters. The commission said this is "an Oregon tradition and an Ore gon right. The vote was 9-5. The commission voted to re move from the constitution a sec tion saving punishment for a crime shall be based on the prin ciples of reformation. Commis sioners felt reformation cannot be forced, and therefore the section is meaningless. The commission voted to do away with the present section which says the state shall not in cur any debt of more than $50,000. This, too, is meaningless because it can be bypassed with bonds approved by the people. The com mission approved a rewritten ver sion saying any debt mus. be ap proved by the voters at a Novem ber election. The only thing changed is that a bond issue, U approved. wouldn't become a permanent part of the constitution and clut ter it up. Sections relating to freedom of the press and speech were retain ed in substance, as were a num ber of others. The commission agreed upon removal of the section which prohibits the slate and its politi cal subdivisions from owning common stocks, but this doesn't mean stocks can be purchased because this is forbidden by stat ute also. o o ND CENTRAL OREGON'S Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, March 24, 1962 Driver of bus in Colorado tragedy freed GREELEY, Colo. (UP!) Du ane Harms, 23. was found inno cent of involuntary manslaughter today in the deaths of 20 school children killed when a Union Pa cific passenger train crashed into their school bus at a rural cross ing near here last Dec. 14. The jury deliberated the case for about nine hours, starting at 9:59 p.m. The verdict, returned at 7:05 a.m., was reached on the fourth ballot With the young school bus driv er when the verdict was read were his wife, parents and sister. They had been up all night and said they were "too tired to comment." Harms showed little emotion when the jurors filed into the courtroom and made known their decision. Jury Voted Twice The jury voted twice during the long deliberations whether to re tire for the night once at mid night and again at 1:30 a.m. Both times the jurors decided to con tinue until they had reached a verdict. District Judge Donald Carpen ter had instructed the panel of 10 men and two women to consider two verdicts innocent or guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The maximum penalty was one year in prison. Harms testified Friday that he did not remember actually stop ping the school bus before it was hit by the train, the City of Den ver. It was a reiteration of ear lier statements. But he added he never before had failed to stop at the crossing. Merely Slowed The engineer and fireman of the train testified Harms merely slowed, then continued across the tracks. But Jerry Hembry, 16. a sur vivor of the crash, and Arthur Larson, father of one of the small victims, came to Harms' defense with testimony he did stop. Hem bry said he was certain Harms stopped the bus about 30 feet from the tracks before proceeding across. Larson, who lost a 9-year-old son in the tragedy, said he was driving nearby at the time and could see the bus at the crossing. "I was sure the bus stopped," he said, "so 1 went on to town." "I don't remember for sure stopping at the crossing," Harms said. "But I do recall I tried to look over the heads of the chil dren and noticed my visibility was poor, so I looked through the mir ror and was able to see better through it. I also remember open ing the door to look." Snow falling over passes One of the heaviest storms of the season enveloped the Oregon Cascades last night, with heavy snow still falling this morning on Cascade passes. Twelve inches of new snow was reported this morning from Gov ernment, Camp, six inches from the Santiam divide and four from the Willamette Pass. Chains were required on all three routes. Snow was falling even in the Ochocos, with chains required on the pass between Prineville and Mitchell. Motorists reported about four inches of new snow at Burns this morning. Packed snow cov ered U.S. Highway 97 at Chemult. where the new pack measured four inches. Light rain fell in Bend after midnight, but the total up to 7 a.m. was a mere 0.04 of an inch. ; Snow was falling in the Cascade foothills to the west while the rain was dampening Bend. 'Comedy of Errors' Lawmaker accused SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) -What he once termed "a comedy j of errors was turning into a ! nightmare today for California Slate Assemblyman Charles Ed- ward Chapel, accused of giving a i false bomb report involving an I airliner. The 57-year-old GOP lawmaker ' surrendered Friday morning and j was freed on $1,050 bail 29 min utes later. His preliminary hear j ing in Municipal Court was sched i uled for Monday. BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER TEACHING MACHINES CONTRASTED Harold F. Gierloff, Taft, center, demonstrates two types of teaching machines to Mrs. Fred Lohner, left, LaPine teacher, and Ty Brown, right, OCE teaching research center. The machines, a costly electronic computer (bottom) and a simple type hand-made machine based on "flash card" principle (top) were shown at Central Region Oregon elementary School Principals meeting today at Portland has two slayings PORTLAND (UPI) - A down town restaurant owner and a mother of two were slain in sep arate shootings here today. A musician and the ex-husband of the woman were charged with murder. Willard D. Glover, 31, was shot as he closed up his Broiler res taurant about 3:35 a.m. Guitar- player Lloyd Wesley Allen, 25, was held without bail on a first degree murder charge. Mrs. Sandra Lee Thompson. 48, was fatally shot at her home. Her former husband, Charles K. Thompson, 48, was accused of the slaying. Detectives said the shooting at the Broiler occurred some 20 minutes after Glover and Allen had argued over whether Allen was tardy in reporting to work at the downtown night spot. Officers said following the ar gument. Allen left the restaurant. then returned with a rifle. The restaurant had closed, but some employes were still there at the time of the shooting. Allen told officers the rifle dis charged accidentally after Glover grabbed the barrel. The bullet struck Glover in the chest. He died in surgery five hours later. Two cab drivers at the scene called police. Allen was booked on an assault charge, but the charge was changed to murder after Glover died. Mrs. Thompson was shot at her home and died soon afterward in a Portland hospital. Police said the shooting followed an argu ment between the woman and her ex-husband. The bullet from the .45 caliber automatic pistol stru-k Chapel is accused of delaying a March 15 United Air Lines flight from Sacramento to Los Angeles by telling a stewardess that he had a gun and nitroglycerine in his briefcase. More than 50 pas sengers waited 53 minutes while police questioned and searched him. Federal officials declined to prosecute because the flight was not interstate. But Sacramento County Dist. Ally. John Price obtained the t Ten Cents I: ' I . j O' ? 1 ' Mrs. Thompson in the head. Police said Thompson was taken into custody after he called to report the shooting. The couple had two children, a son, 19, and a daughter, 13. report more vandalism Reports of vandalism involving Bend cars mounted today, as of ficers continued their investiga tion. In addition to the three cases of car-window breakage reported Friday morning, four others were on record today. Officers suspect that all break age was inflicted through use of a slingshot, with marbles apparent ly used. A marble that had en tered a rear window of a car was found inside. The vandalism covered several parts of town. On record Friday morning were the reports of Charles Fish. 1234 Galveston; Earnest A. Ranger, 124 Union, and Eldon Ward, 1224 East Third. Later in the day, Charles B. Conway, 459 Broadway, reported rear-window breakage, as did William A. Niskanen, 525 Broad way. Marvin Wright, 870 West 12th, reported a left front window bro ken and Hazel Lund, 1405 Daven port said a left rear window of her car, parked on West 14th, had been shattered. Apparently the vandalism oc curred on the night of March 22, of false bomb report warrant against Chapel Thursday under a state measure which par allels the federal statute. Convic tion under the measure carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison. Chapel, an assembly man since 1950, had voted for the bill in 1961. Price acted despite Chapel's contention that the incident stemmed from a joke. "I find no exception in the statute for come dians." Price said. Chapel is a lirnrd mechani No. 92 Allen school. Session held by mid-sfafe school heads "Exploring Ideas in Elementary Education" was the theme of the annual conference of the Oregon Elementary Principals' Associa tion, Central Oregon region, held here today. The meeting was held at the Al len Grade School with Ford Hun nell, Bend, association principal, in charge. School principals were here from Hood River, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Wasco, Jeffer son, Crook and Deschutes Coun ties. Visitors were welcomed by R. E. Jewell. Bend superintendent of schools, following the -Invocation by the Rev. James S. Thompson, Bend. Boy Scouts of Troop No. 69 led the flag salute. The business phase of the con ference opened with an overview of state study by Ty Brown, from Oregon College of Education, Monmouth. Darrell Wright, Mad ras, presented comments on re gional study. Technology in Education" was the topic of an address by Henry C. Ruark, Jr., consultant on in struction materials for the state department of education. A part of the program was to be devoted to teaching machines. with equipment to be demonstra ted. Various officials of the Ore gon Elementary School Principals' Association were on the program. Election of officers for 1962-63 will take place this afternoon. WEATHER High yesterday, 45 degrees. Lew last night, 33 degrees. Sunset today, :21. Sunrise tomorrow, :00. Occasional light rain; highs 4s 53; lew 38-43. Turns into nightmare cal engineer and author of many books and articles on firearms and other subjects. Chapel became lalkativi Friday as officers took his fingerprints, but suddenly became appalled when the traditional police picture was taken with a number around his neck. "Oh. my God!" exclaimed Cha nel, who earlier had called the airline incident "just a comedy of errors." May not have been in Bend February 2nd By Phil F. Brogan Bulletin Staff Writer A 34-year-old transient laborer arraigned on a charge of first de gree murder in the death here on February 2 of Judi Reeder, 17, remained in the Deschutes Coun ty Jail today as officers continue to check on the validity of his con fession. He is Donald Ben Doran, taken into custody Thursday night by Oregon State Police at the Crook ed River bridge. Serious doubt exists that Doran committed the crime to which he confessed in a two-page state ment This doubt developed late Friday as officers attempted to check the erratic travels of the transient through western states in recent years. When District Attorney Louis Selken talked with Doran relative to places he had reported visit ing in recent months, the accus ed man mentioned that he had been in Watertown, S. D. this past winter. Selken checked Wa tertown and received from police in that town the information that man bearing the name Donald Ben Doran was there in early February. Same Name Watertown police said the man with the same name as the one being held in Bend worked In a bakery there on February 3, was registered at hotels there on Feb ruary 3, 4 and 5 and spent a night in the Watertown city Jail on Feb ruary 6 as a sleeper. Locally, the attempt to fix Dor- an's whereabouts has yielded the information he was here over the holidays, apparently went to Mon tana and returned to Bend several weeks ago. . . - ' .v Police Chief Emil Moen said It has been determined that Doran was in Bend as late as March IS, He was seen that afternoon at tempting to hitch hike south. He apparently went from Bend to Su- sanville, Calif., on March 15. ' Out of Area Doran apparently was out of the area this last time between March 15 and March 22, the evening he passed through here en route north with Albert Rose, 34, Susan ville, owner and driver of the car in which Doran was riding, and Leonard C. Estes, 37, Yuba City, Calif. Rose was slopped north of the Crooked River Bridge by Officer Kenneth Eldndge, Oregon State Police, on a headlight charge and taken to Redmond with his com panions. There Doran made the statement he had killed Judi Reeder, and presented informa tion that closely dovetailed Into facts officers had complied in their month and 20 days of In vestigation. Despite the information from Watertown, Doran is holding to his "confession." Confronted with Uie fact that he apparently was not here on the night of February 2. Doran said the crime was com mitted on another date. Sticks te Story "He is sticking to his story and he knows lots of things about the case that I don't see how he would have known unless he had been there," Chief Moen said. Selken and Oregon State Police said Doran was very hazy about dates and places. A picture of Doran was being sent today to Watertown, definite ly to check the identity of the Donald Ben Doran that was there about the time the Bend girl was murdered at the edge of the Mir ror Pond. No buyer found for state land SALEM fUPD The Oregon Land Board, which advertised for bidders for 160 acres of land in the Christmas Valley area of Eastern Oregon, had no buyers, clerk Gordon Barnard said to day. A real estate man had offered $30 an acre and this resulted in advertising for other bids by the board. But the original bidder didn't appear, losing his $50 de posit, and there were no other bidders. FILLS WITH DOUGH ST. LOUIS. Mo. (UPD-A man walked into Charles Keen's serv ice station Thursday and gave him all the cookies he had in a paper sack. But Keen wasn't happy because the pistol-toting bandit made him fill the sack with $75 and then I flrd. State police said they have as certained that Doran has a long record, mostly petty offenses. He arrested in Fort Dodge, Iowa, as early as 1948, and re leased. He faced an intoxication charge in Minnesota in 1952. Fres no, Calif., and Billings, Mont., added bits of information to the arrest picture. Once before, in 1955, he showed up as a sleeper in the Watertown, S.D. jail. Not at Cabin The local Investigation revealed that Doran had not stayed at a cabin in the south part of Bend on the night of February 2, as ha had indicated, but that a compan ion was there Uiat night. The coat Doran said he was wearing when he attacked the girl had been left in the cabin. Later it was given to another transient. That coat was being sought today in the Madras area. Rose, operator of the car in which Doran was riding when the vehicle was stopped by Officer El- dridge, is being held, at present on a traffic charge. When stop ped at the high bridge. Rose told Officer Eldndge he has had soma brushes with the law. One, he said, was in connection with a molestation charge. Estes has been released. Officers continued to attempt to check Doran's movements while he was in Bend this last time and learned he had worked briefly at service station, washing cars. and had attended a local church earlier in March. Kennedy visits ex-President af Palm Springs PALM SPRINGS, Calif. fUPD President Kennedy was expected to compare notes today on the unremitting nature of East-West tension when he pays a courtesy call on former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy flew here Friday night for a few days rest after a pun ishing Friday schedule which in cluded a major foreign policy speech at the University of Cali fornia in Berkeley and later, wit nessing his first Intercontinental missile shot at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The President, spending the weekend at a secluded house owned by singer Bing Crosby, planned to motor to the nearby Eldorado Country Club in Palm Desert and visit Eisenhower. From the protocol standpoint, it was unusual for Kennedy to make the trip, however brief, to see the President. It was Kennedy who initiated the meeting, and Kenne dy who said that since he was in the neighborhood, lie tnougm he should drop In on the former Republican chief executive. Fourth Time This will be the fourth lime Kennedy and Eisenhower have met since the President took of fice. Outwardly, the purpose of the Chief Executive's expectedly brief visit was a matter of cour tesy. Kennedy, however, was heavily preoccupied by the continually tense contest with Russia and world communism on a number of fronts and this seemed certain to figure in his conversation with Eisenhower who has spent ina winter here on the southern Cali fornia desert. The President put in about an 18-hour day Friday, starting with his early morning departure from Washington by Jet transport for the Alameda Naval Air Station on San Francisco Bay. Falling Behind He paraded through dense crowds in Alameda, Oakland and Berkeley to the university campui for the 94th anniversary of the school, an honorary degree and a speech that seemed to say to his fellow Americans, "Russia may be giving us trouble, but the Communists are beginning to fall behind in the tide of world opin ion. ern world can doubt that the great currents of history are car rying the world away from the monolithic idea toward the plur alist idea away from communism and toward national independ ence and freedom," he told an amazingly large crowd estimated at 88,000 that overflowed Califor nia's cavernous Memorial Stadium.