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Univ. 0f Oregon Library EUGE1E, OHSGOS ITWi H "IT" Hew aW Ub mt ND BULL WEATHER Sunny Sunday; highi 57-43; Iowa 30-36. -TEMPERATURES High yesterday, M degreei. Lew last night, 40 degrees. Sunset today, 6:39. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:35. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 59th Year Ten Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, April 7, 1962 Ten Cents No. 104 E BE JLj JL JL-L m Cuba to free 7 Americans, wife reports POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (UPI) Gordon S. Patton, leader of seven American treasure hunters arrested by the Cuban govern ment, telephoned his wife from Cuba today and reported the group had been released after "receiving the red carpet treat ment" Mi's. Patton said her husband reported he and his companions were safe and would fly home from Cuba either late today or Monday just as soon as flight clearance and transportation could be arranged by the Swiss Em bassy. "He said their boat had sunk in 52 feet of water and that they swam ashore in Cuba with noth ing but the clothes on their backs," Mrs. Patton reported. "I wouldn't let him tell me any more about what happened. I told him it had become an inter national incident and he seemed surprised." Treasure Search Patton told his wife that the scindivers, who had embarked last Saturday on a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean, had been "receiving the red car pet treatment" in Cuba. Patton reported he and his com panions all were in good health and spirits. He told his wife that he suffered a few scratches from coral rock while scrambling ashore, but that was all. Patton asked his wife to notify the insurance company that his boat had sunk and said he would telephone her again to let her know when he will arrive back in the United States. Call Reciaved Mrs. Patton said the call came about 6 a.m. PST and she did not understand from what city in Cuba it originated. Late this morning, there still was no official announcement from the Cuban government about the case. First word that the Americans had landed in Cuba came early Friday when the Cu ban radio broadcast that seven Americans, "apparently frogmen," had been picked up for investiga tion. Spring Frolic due fonighf at Prineville Special te The Bulletin PRINEVILLE A full evening of dancing and listening to music, and shopping in a country store, will mark the 28th annual Spring Frolic this evening, in the Crook ed River school gym on Fairview Street. The frolic is held each year by the Powell Butte Farmers' club, as a Central Oregon event For some years, the frolic has been held at Redmond, Bend and Prine ville in rotation, with proceeds from the fun-fest going towards donations to projects and activi ties in each of the three com munities. Ken Werth, chairman for to night's frolic, says the program will begin at 8 p.m. with a con cert by the Crook county high school band under the direction of Gary Stephenson. Dancing to Farrow's orchestra will begin at 9 p.m., and the pop ular country store will open for business at 10 p.m. Several hun dred articles will be on sale at the store, all donated by mer chants of the tri-city area. Dur ing the evening, three special prizes will also be awarded. A large attendance at the frolic Is expected by the men in charge, since attendance has grown each year. Soviets put up new satellite MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union's second Sputnik launched in three weeks rode an elliptical oibit through space today, send ing back data that could be help ful for a manned flight to the moon. The new satellite named Cos mos II was launched Friday night Its weight was not an nounced, but the Soviet news agency Tass said its purpose like that of Cosmos I, launched March 16 was to gather data on cosmic ray radiation and other dangers man might encounter in space. Moscow Radio said the satellite is functioning normally. During its 102.5-minute orbits, it was passing over New York, Los Angeles and Ottawa, along with o4,er North American cities. Pi:' i f .4 5 " "9 L1NE TIED UP Gordon Randall is having telephone trouble. Scissors prompt some pretty pointed remarks. Central Oregon area whipped by dust storm A dust storm fanned by high, gusty winds whipped over parts of Central Oregon Friday after- It was part of a blow that also enveloped eastern Washington in wind-borne soil that reduced vis ibility to zero, halted traffic in some areas, caused several traffic accidents and closed two high ways. Considerable damage to crops in the area resulted. All flights in and out of Pasco Airport were cancelled Friday aft ernoon. The dust storm in Wash ington came out of the Horse Heaven Hills. The high wind hit Bend in about mid-afternoon and, it is estimated. reached velocities of around 40 miles an hour at times, in dusty gusts. Parts of Bend just west of the river were under a heavy screen of dust from Harmon play field, where clay was blown from baseball diamond runways. To the north, clouds of white dust billowed from the diatomite quarry. It is feared that some re cently seeded fields in dry farm areas of Central Oregon were damaged bv the heavy blow. The wind quieted shortly before sunset as clouds gathered over the Cascades. There were sprink les of rain in some areas. SHOW CAPSULE MODEL MADRID (UPI) A full-scale model of the 27-foot high Mer cury capsule which carried Lt. Col. John H. Glenn on three earui orbits will be on exhibition at the trade fair in Seville beginning next Tuesday. Advisory group Bend Chamber of Commerce di rectors Friday decided that a "Citizens Advisory Committee" should be appointed to screen ap plications for the position of Bend City Manager. Directors at a luncheon meeting at the Pilot Butte Inn voted to send such a recommendation to the Bend City Commission. Th job opened Wednesday night when present Manager Walt er T. Thompson resigned. The Chamber of Commerce res olution also included the request that the president of the Cham ber be named to the screening V. He's looking for practical joker who knows fwisf Gordon Randall, local insurance man, is trying to get the kinks out of his communications. He's looking for the practical joker who knows the twist Someone worked his telephone cord into the handles of a pair of scissors. All this veek, when talk ing on the telephone, he's been in danger of being cut off. Gordon said that he and his staff have spent at least 50 man- and-woman-hours trying to get the scissors out of the tangle. "It was a pretty sharp trick," Gordon said. "But I'm getting tir ed of clipped conversation." He hopes that when he has suf fered enough, the joker will come forward and untangle the puzzle. Albany Chamber urges fast time ALBANY (UPI) The Albany Chamber of Commerce Friday backed daylight saving time. The decision to urge "fast tiny ' followed a unanimous favorable vote earlier this week by the Al bany Jaycees. The chamber's board of direc tors voted 9-1 to urge the City Council to adopt city-wide day light saving time starting April 29. Albany Mayor W. L. Fitzpat rick and City Manager William Bollman said they could not say which way the council might vote at its Wednesday meeting. How ever, the mayor said he believed the council would take an official stand on the matter, one way or the other. committee. President is Don Con ner. Discussion of selection of a new city manager was not scheduled on the program. It started after President Conner reported on Wednesday's Commission meet ing, which he attended in behalf of the Chamber's request for "sun shine" time. Said Conner, speaking of t h e Commission, "I've never seen such abuse heaped upon a public body. I think it is shameful that citizens would abuse the Commis sioners as one speaker did." This led to a discussion on the Anti-liquor support given Sen. Morse WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore., believes the national Capitol is being used a "saloon for orinking par ties and he wants it stopped be fore it embarrasses the lawmak ers with their constituents. Morse told the Senate Fri day night he understood that a reception held Wednesday on Sen ate premises in connection with the capital's cherry blossom fes tival "could better be described as a drinking bout or brawL" Morse thereupon moved to re strict the serving of liquor in the Senate wing of the Capitol and Senate office building. His pro posal, in the form of an amend ment to Senate rules, would bar liquor at parties or receptions in public rooms. It would not apply to the individual oltices 01 sena tors or senate officials. Support Noted The Oregon senator said at least a dozen senators told him that they would support his move if it could be brought to a vote. He said several spoke to him about a most unfortunate inci dent which apparently occurred" Wednesday night at a "reception in connection with the cherry blossom festival." A senator had to make arrange ments for use of a senate room for the party, he said. There were taken into that reception three cases of hard liquor," Morse said, "and appar ently the resulting drinking was of such a nature that it caused a considerable amount of adverse comment and has caused embar rassment to the senator involved. Warning Issued T warn the Senate that this practice, which has developed in the last two or three years, is going to rise to plague and em barrass this body if we do not put a stop to tt right now." . Morse said the American peo ple "have every right to resent a policy of the Senate which, in effect turns the Capitol and the Senate Office Buildings into a saloon." He said senators who want "to hold receptions at which liquor is served could rent hotel facilities for such parties. 'Big 11' steel pacts signed PITTSBURGH (UPI) Great Lakes Steel Co. signs a contract with the United Steelworkers to day to complete formal agree ment between the union and the nation's "Big 11" steel producers. The other 10 signed Friday. Great Lakes' formal acceptance was put back to 3 p.m. EST to day while both sides settled plant level differences. Steelworkers President David J. McDonald views the contract as the start of a strike-free era. McDonald said the' agreement with the industry is "most his toric" and may "eliminate for all time basic steel strikes in Amer ica." He made the observation Friday after the USW signed with U.S. Steel Crop., represented by R. Conrad Cooper, who was man agement's chief negotiator during the Wi months of bargaining. "It is our great pleasure that the job has been concluded satis factorily," Cooper said. He praised the "extremely high de gree of cooperation" which pre vailed during the talks. Other companies agreeing to terms Friday were Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Armco, Republic, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Wheeling, and Colorado Fuel and Iron. The Steelworkers endorsed the contract last Saturday, three months before the current pact expires June SO. It is expected to form the pattern for the small er companies and the aluminum industry. urged in hiring of a new city manager and the general condition of munici pal government locally. Director Glenn Cushman pro posed the Citizen's Advisory Com mittee resolution and urged other directors to take an active inter est in municipal affairs, "both as chamber directors and as private citizens." He also urged that a new man ager be selected from outside of Bend and that background of edu cation and experience in munici pal administration be one of the prime considerations. "Already," he- said, "there are Mi may re Ml law n V ,-! A 1 ' JL .'',' ' " 1. j,,., Li mil 1 . MrMli iilrllrmmii.ii'r- -i-- - " BOYS REGISTER Delegates to Key Club convention at Redmond begin registration Friday afternoon. Pictured left to right are Doug Peterson, Denny Hanson, Jim Shoe and Arch Raden. Denny, Redmond, is Pacific Northwest District governor. Other boys are from Franklin Pierce High School in Tacoma. Northwest Key Club meet gets underway in Redmond Special to The Bulletin REDMOND Boys in Key Club sweaters of every color, packed the streets of Redmond and halls of the high school Friday evening as the Pacific Northwest District Key Clubs' annual convention got underway. By 6 p.m., registration had near ly reached the 400 mark, assur ing the largest convention in at least three years. Conventions in 1960 and 61 were held in Seattle and Portland. Forty of the dis trict's 63 Key Clubs are register ed, with delegates coming from Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Northern Idaho, Wash ington, Northern California and Oregon. , Breakfast Held Registration began at 4 p.m. Friday and continued until 9 p.m. Members of the district board of directors assembled at 7 p.m. in Milton's Banquet Room for a din ner meeting. Registration was scheduled to continue until noon today. Delegates swarmed to the John Tuck Cafeteria early uus morning for a pancake breakfast, sponsored by the Redmond Ki wanis Club. Convention business began at 9 a.m., after the singing of "Amer ica," and "O, Canada," led by Jim Pierce, RUHS Key Club, and Bill Hudson, president of the Bend Kiwanis Club. Don Barton, district chaplain, gave the invocation and Dr. Charles Dudley, president of the Redmond Kiwanis Club, gave the welcome address. Other wel come talka were made by Denny Hanson of Redmond, district gov ernor, and Jim Raske, president of the RUHS Club. John Holmes of Terrebonne, district secretary, read the minutes of the 1961 con vention and the treasurer's report was given by Ralph Tew of Deer Park, district treasurer and nomi nee for 1962 governor. Lewis Madden, Key Club Inter national vice president was sched manager two or three local groups which have their candidates picked for the job. Of course we can't over look local candidates. But a local candidate representing a single interest group would find rough going once he took the job," Cush man said. Director Gordon McKay said he thought an advisory group to screen applicants down to the two or three best would be of great help to the City Commission, which must make the final selec tion. "We do this In other areas, why not in selecting a city man ager?" McKay said. uled to be the first speaker, fol lowed by Senator Wayne Morse, who flew to Central Oregon from Washington, D.C., especially for the convention. Morning sessions were sched uled to end with clinics on var ious administrative divisions. Bob Holbrook, lieutenant governor, was in charge of resolutions; secre taries and treasurers, John Holmes and Ralph Tew; presi dents, Robert Spencer, president of the Klamath Falls Key Club: advisors, Don Yeager of RUHS and projects,- Bernard Bachand district lieutenant governor and Brian Pope, Crook County High School Key Club. - Officers were to be elected this afternoon, followed by oratorical and talent contests at the high school. The governor's banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the Tuck gymnasium, with Dr. Or lo M. Brees as featured speaker. Dr. Brees, former member of the New York State legislature, is a representative of the National As sociation of Manufacturers. Social highlight of the evening will be the governor's ball, sched uled to begin at 9 p.m. In the RUHS gymnasium. About 100 girls from Redmond and 30 from Bend have been invited to the affair. Music will be provided by The Downbeats, RUHS dance band. Medford woman accident victim MEDFORD (UPI) Annie M. Innes, 69, of Medford was killed near here Friday night when an other car struck her auto from the rear. The Innes car left Highway 99, struck a pole, and overturned. Drivor of the second car, Keith E. Schroeder, 30, Medford, was booked on a charge of being drunk on a public highway. Director A. L. Hollowell said "We need a manager who has no local ties, one who can bring a fresh viewpoint to our city gov ernment' He emphasized profes sional training. All directors agreed that the City Commission needs to be giv en more backing and interest firm the Chamber. Said Conner, 'The? men are working hard and are trying to do a good job. We ought to tell them once in a while that we appreciate their efforts. They get too much abuse," he said. Water forecast indicates supply outlook better The 1962 water supply outlook for the Dcschutes-Crooked water sheds has improved during March and is now near average, accord ing to a report released today by W. T. Frost Snow Survey Super visor for U. S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, cooperating with Oregon State University and the State En gineer, State of Oregon. Water supply forecasts have been raised due to above normal March increases In the snowpack on most of the watershed. Water content of the snowpack on the Deschutes watershed is now 99 per cent of the 1943-57 average and about 30 per cent more than last year on April 1st Crooked River watersheds now have 130 per cent of the average snow cover and 73 per cent more than last year at this time. Snowmelt water and rain have started to prime sol's on these wa tersheds and electronic sou mois ture stacks on Crooked River wa tersheds and electronic soil mois- feet is now 87 per cent of capacity. Storage in reservoirs on the Deschutes is now slightly better tnan last year at this time and 18 per cent better than the 1943- 57 average for April L Wickiup has 189,200 acre feet, Crane Prair ie has 38,900 acre feet and Cres cent Lake has 46,300 acre feet Ochoco reservoir is 27 per cent better than last year on April 1 although still only 63 per cent of average. It now holes 21,700 acre feet. Some Prlneviile reservoir water has been spilled and the reservoir now holds 88,400 acre feet Streamflow forecasts have rais ed slightly and now range from 90 to 115 per cent of average. The forecast on the main Des chutes at Benham Falls is 91 per cent or 550,000 acre feet for the April - September period. The Lit tle Deschutes near La Pine is ex pected to flow 102,000 or 90 per cent of average for this same pe riod. Squaw and Tumalo forecasts are 102 and 100 per cent of aver age for 56,000 and 55,000 acre feet respectively. Crooked River near Post fore cast Indicates a 148,000 acre feet for 115 per cent of average flow for the coming irrigation season. The inflow to Ochoco reservoir for the April July period is expected to be 110 per cent of the 1943-57 average or 37.000 acre feet The next report on snow sur veys and water supply conditions will.be issued on May 8, 1962. e temp might cover Hawaii service only WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy was reported today to be seriously considering use of the Taft-Hartley law to halt the 22-day-old West Coast maritime strike. Informed sources said the Presi dent might act today to start the necessary steps to apply for a court injunction that would inter rupt the walkout for 80 days. The sources said the possibility of restoring only shipping service to the island state of Hawaii was being considered by the adminii. tration. ' The alternative . would be to make the court injunction apply to all strike-bound ships. Hawaiian Gov. William Quinn repeatedly has urged the White House to help end the strike and said lt has cut off vital food sup plies. Returns te Capital Undersecretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz returned here today to report on his eftorts to mediate the dispute between the racuic Maritime Association and three unions involved. Wirti and Robert H. Moore, deputy director of tile Federal Mediation Service, were due to report their failure to achieve a settlement to Labor Secretary Ar thur J. Goldberg about noon, EST. Goldberg then was scheduled to report to the President on the deadlocked negotiations, ' The President invoked the Taft Hartley law last summer to halt an East Coast maritime strike, ' Would Name Board . Under the law, the chief execu tive declares that the walkout im perils the national health or safe ty and names a three-man board to report on the dispute. Once this report is made, the government can seek an injunc tion to halt the tieup for 80 days while negotiations continue. The strike could be resumed if there was no settlement at the end of this period. "There is no prospect for end ing the dispute through bargain ing or mediation," said Willard Wirtz, Undersecretary of Labor and a member of the panel, after the meeting. He added that no further talks between the three striking unions and the Pacific Maritime Association are sched uled. . Meanwhile, Gov. William F. Quinn of Hawaii sent an affidavit to Washington that could be used in Invoking the Taft-Hartley Act State Attorney General Shlro Kashiwa drew up the affidavit at the request of the U.S. Justice Department It described the harsh effects of the strike on the islands. The Justice Department called for the legal paper Thursday at the same time Goldberg told Quinn that President Kennedy was considering the Taft-Hartley in junction which would end the strike for 80 days. The governor has appealed to the President four times to use his powers to end the strike. Ecuador moves to break up pro-Castro group QUITO, Ecuador (UPI) The Defense Ministry, moving quickly to smash outbreaks of pro-Castro guerrilla activity In two separate areas following Ecuador's diplo matic break with Cuba, has ar rested 30 men on charges of plot ting to overthrow the government. A communique issued by the ministry Friday night said there was no need to proclaim a state of emergency because army troops are in full control of the situation in both sectors. All of the guerillas were be lieved to be Ecuadorians sympa thetic to the regime of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Interior (police) Minister Alfre do Albornoz Sanchez said loyal troops had restored order in the two trouble centers Santo Domin go de los Colorados, west of Quito and Quevedo, south of here on the road to Guayaquil. ' Defense Minister Francisco Ta marix Palacios said 30 men who seized a quantity of arms and ammunition in the Santo Domingo area were captured.
