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ieel giants retreat WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi dent Kennedy's unprecedented three-day blitzkrieg has forced the giants of the steel industry to abandon their price increase. Kennedy solved his biggost do mestic crisis yet by directing the administration in all-out combat against the $6-a-ton increase until, one by one, the price-lifters re treated. He accepted their unconditional surrender with a statement of mild praise that contrasted sharp ly with the furious charges of "ir responsible defiance" that he hurled at them on Wednesday. The revocation of the $6-a-tpn increase was regarded by Kenne dy forces as a major step toward control of inflation through a sys tem of voluntary wage-price re straint. It means prices of new cars, new homes, refrigerators, wash ers, dryers, tin cans and countless other consumer goods will not be forced up by higher steel costs now. Some of Kennedy's closest ad visers were amazed by the sud den collapse of the two biggest firms U.S. Steel and Bethlehem after an open split in industry ranks. It contrasted with steelmakers' do-or-die attitude in successfully reversing President Truman's sei zure of their mills in 1952, when they refused to accept a govern ment wage decision during the Korean War. Kennedy Welcomes News The President, who received the welcome news aboard the Navy warship Northampton as it started out on maneuvers from Norfolk, Va., said the American people were gratified by Bethlehem and U.S. Steel's decision. "In taking the action at this time, they are serving the public Interest and their actions will as sist our common objective of strengthening our country and our JAMES A. MANNING Believed hiding in Bend area 2nd suspect taken, third man sought A second suspect in the armed robbery of a Salem grocery store Thursday was arrested just east of Bend about 4 p.m. Friday, ap parently "lost" s he hiked west over U.S. Highway 20. He was identified as Joe Man ning, 20, a resident of Forest Grove. Accused of armed rob bery, his bond was set at $20,000. Still sought, and believed to be in Bend, is his brother, James A. Manning, 22, who was held here in March on a charge of false regis tration at a local motel. The third member of the trio accused of the Salem robbery is James Russell La Spina, 25, Rich mond, Va., who was arrested here at 8:15 Thursday night as he sat in a car on Bond street, Jtlone. The car was the one described as the one used in the Salem hold up, when $297 was taken from the Market Basket Grocery. The car had been borrowed from a friend. Joe Manning was picked up on U.S. Highway 20 about half a mile east of Sunset Home Friday after noon, walking toward Bend. Ap parently confused about his di rections, he had asked about the road to Klamath Falls. The youth had spent the night In the juniper country east of Bend. La Spina and Joe Manning were taken to Salem last night by Mar ion County sheriff's officers. Neither man was armed when ar fW4 Although the trio aooar- ently had a revolver and an auto matic when they stopped in sis ters Thursday, en route to Bend. They attempted to obtain ammu nition in Sisters. James Manning, described as dark and wearing blue jeans and a "T" shirt when last seen, has an ex-wife in Bend. Officers hold a "John Doe" warrant for his arrest, with armcci refcbery charged- JFK v . . I iBBffilWK'AI'WMH WW. ! WWW JL. 4 under pontine economy," he said. Kennedy had said the United States could not keep price stabil ity at home and compete in for eign markets if tho industry charged more than an average $150 a ton for steel. Despite the turnabout, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said he will continue to press a federal grand jury investigation of steel pricing to see if it violated crim inal antitrust laws. Some legal experts believed that charges of collusion would be dif ficult to sustain in court now that the increases have been cancelled. This strengthened the possibility that the jury's inquiry would con centrate on whether U.S. Steel Corp. exercises monopoly control over prices. Another grand jury already is investigating to see if antitrust violations exist in the sale of steel castings a fraction of the in dustry's operations but an obvious test of pricing policies. Others Followed Suit Tuesday night's announcement by U.S. Steel that it would raise prices across the board was fol lowed the next day by similar an nouncements from Republic Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Bethlehem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Nation al Steel, Pittsburgh Steel and Wheeling Steel. The revolt began when Inland Steel Co., a Chicago-based firm ranked eighth in production, re fused to join the parade and vowed to hold prices steady. Kai ser Steel Corp., a West Coast firm, joined with Inland as hold outs. Other firms Armco Steel, Al legheny Ludlura and Great Lakes Steel stayed uncommitted throughout the three-day drama. Sizing up the split, Bethlehem buckled and rescinded its raise. This East Coast firm does a big business with the Pentagon, espe cially in its shipbuilding division, and may have been influenced by the government's Uireat to boycott high-priced steel. "They'll all have to go back," said an elated Robert F, Kennedy when he was notified. They all did except Wheeling Steel, which promised a statement today. Bethlehem Provides Key The key development in the showdown appeared to be Bethle hem's renunciation. That meant that at least Kaiser, on the West Coast; Inland Steel, in the Mid west, and Bethlehem, in the East, could undersell competing firms across the nation. Quoted remarks of its president that seemed to indicate an on again, off-again position on price increases followed by an FBI investigation also may have figured in its decision. U.S. Steel's decision was an nounced by Its president, Leslie B. Worthington, within 72 hours after the increase was disclosed and 24 hours after it was publicly aeienaea as a must. Chase results in man c U famis.slTnf i,l 16 when the . SALEM (lljnond Panthers ii. killed and anoth, jured here Friday nigiibr(t(fi'eiieUie car they were in collided with an other auto being chased by sev eral police cars. Killed was Karl Valleau, 39, Salem. jtis passenger, Alfred Aeschlinianrti 47, also Salem, was reported In critical condition. Driver of the pursued vehicle, Robert Lcikem, 20, Salem, who was injured, was charged with reckless driving. His passengers wore not injured. They were Tracy I. Ramp, 17, Brooks; Dean Morso Eggiman, 21, and Glenda L. Gettis, 18, both Salem. Police said Leikem's car went past a radar unit at a prohibitive speed. When a patrol car gave chase, officers said, Leikem turned off the lights of his car and tried to elude his pursuers. Police said they chased him for several biocks before the collision. Five police cars were chasing the flee ing auto at the time of the acci dent, police said. Early start set by campaigners Campaigning for the student body election at Bend High School will start Monday at S a.m., to continue through the day. A bonfira rally will ba held at 7 p.m. on the high school cam' pus. The election assembly will be at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, followed by voting during the day, Advar.ce registration has been held, and candidates have been nominated. A two-party system is used in the school elections. Director Marks collapses Belle deliyersf PORTLAND (UPI) - A newly born 34-inch baby elephant wob bled around its mother. Belle, in Portland Zoo this morning, while the zoo director rested in a hos pital after collapsing from the strain. It was the first such birth in this country in 43 years. Belle, a 10-year-old Siamese ele phant, gave birth to the wee, grey baby at 5:58 this morning in the holding room of the elephant house. ' LJ m it n 59th Year Debre quits, Pompidou next premier PARIS (UPI) - Premier Mi chel Debre and his government resigned today. President Charles de Gaulle prepared to summon banker Georges Pompidou to form a new cabinet without delay. Debre and his ministers hand ed their resignations formally to De Gaulle at a final cabinet ses sion in the presidential Elysee Palace. They were accepted at once by the president Debre, who had presided over a 50-minute farewell meeting of his ministers at his Hotel Matig non office this morning, arrived about 15 minutes ahead of time, looking relaxed and smiling. He waved to newsmen and photographers as he walked up the Elysee Palace steps. The other cabinet ministers fol lowed in quick succession. The official communique an nouncing the cabinet's resignation was read to newsmen by Elysee Press Chief Jean Chauveau. It said: Accepts Resignation "Gen. De Gaulle, president of the republic, has accepted the resignation of the government which was presented to him by Prime Minister Michel Debre. "During the cabinet meeting on this occasion the head of state thanked the members of the gov ernment for their collaboration which helped him in the work of national recovery undertaken since January 1959." It then was announced that De Gaulle would receive Pompidou at 8 p.m. (12 noon EST). Government sources said De Gaulle has asked Pompidou to act quickly in forming the new govern ment. The cabinet session lasted just 15 minutes. The government's resignation ended a week of political sus pence in France. Pompidou is a political unknown. A farmer's son with a literary reputation and a successful busi ness career, Pompidou belongs to no political party, has never sat in parliament and has never held a cabinet post. But he is known to agree with De Gaulle's policies. This, along with the fact that he is the tirst premier in 150 years never to have held an elective office led observers to predict that the new government will be more tightly controlled than ever before by De Gaulle. It probably will be several days before Pompidou Is ready to an nounce his new cabinet. Ex-California governor Olson taken by death LOS ANGELES (UPD-Culbert L. Olson, who in 1939 became Cal ifornia's first Democratic gover nor since the turn of the century, died Friday at the age of 85. Citizens and government offi cials expressed regret on learning of Olson's death. Gov. Edmund G. Brown said, "California has lost a devoted servant who spent much of his energy and strength In the cause of the people of this state. "He was the governor of Cali fornia during difficult and trying times,' Brown said. "He never wavered in his determination to do wnat was best for all of the people." After one term. Olson was de feated by Earl Warren, now Chief Justice of th United States. The former New Deal governor supported labor and social re forms and opposed capiW punish ment during his four years tn of fice. He commuted the death sc iences of more persons than any California chief executive JLJL-O Three other female elephants were present, and one of them, Pet, tried to attack the baby. Zoo director Jack Marks and other attendants grabbed hooks to steer the three to separate quar ters. Then Marks, who has paced the floor with Belle for many days and nights during the past two months, collapsed and was rushed by ambulance to a hos pital. Hospital attendants said he BEND U "m Eight Pages i- - ita TENNIS TIME Fred Martin teems amued by the attempts of the Bend Bulletin's photographer to catch him in a tennis picture to illustrate Springtime in Central Oregon. Recent improve U.S. to offer Soviets new Berlin plan WASHINGTON (UPD-Officials said today the United States will offer Russia a new Berlin plan involving increased status for Communist East Germany and a NATO non-aggression pledge in Europe. These are two points in a four- part proposal which also provides for internationalization of Allied access, routes to Red encircled West Berlin and an exchange of pledges not to provide nuclear weapons to other countric. U.S. officials said the proposals will be laid before Soviot Ambas swlor Anatoly F. Dobrynin by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a conference scheduled here for Monday afternoon. Rusk hopes that the Western concessions can be exchanged for an easing of Soviet pressure on Berlin. The Communists are de manding that the Western Allies give up their occupation status in their sector of the city. The U. S. plan stops short of granting diplomatic recognition to Communist East Germany, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has asked. But it would give the Red German regime an Increased voice in control of traffic btween the city and Western Germany and also set up East-West Ger man committees to regulate trade, cultural and other rela tion a. The non aggression pledge would stem from an exchange of declarations between the NATO powers and the membert, of the Communist Warsaw pact to re spect existing borders along the Iron Curtain, sources said. WEATHER Cloudy Sunday with tew light how.rt; hlght eS-70; lows 45-50. High yjiiterday, 77 degrees. Lew lett nlgto, 41 degrees. Sunset today, e;47. Sunrise tomorrow, t:2l. Mother, baby doing fine Strain too much for zoo boss probablv would remain one Hnv They said he was exhausted and was suttenng Irom a strained shoulder muscle. Belle and tho baby were doing fine. The baby, estimated at 175 pounds, tottered to its feet within ten minutes and started nursing within a half hour. Mother Proactive Belle nuzzled it affectionately as it weaved through the straw and hid between her legs, wiggling its CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, April 14, 1962 V New designation 'Move' of McKenzie highway is planned Oregon's mile high McKenzie Highway, U.S. 126, apparently is to be "moved." The Oregon Stale Highway Commission has voted to ask the American Association of State Highway Officials' route number ing committee to approve a new location via Clear Lake and Belk- CYA feasibility study planned PORTLAND (UPD-Gov. Mark Hatfield said here Friday night that he was preparing legislation for the next session of me Oregon Legislature for the completion of a feasibility study for a Columbia River Authority. The legislature would have to authorize and provide for such a study. 6 Hatfield, speaking to the Propel ler Club at the Benson Hotel, said the Authority could Include Ore gon and Washington. He added that "I am also rec ommending to Gov. Albert Rosel lini that he submit identical pro posed legislation to the Wasliing ton Legislature." He said the study could con sider a bi-state port authority along the entire river "In both our states embracing all counties abutting the river or a bl-state port authority on both aides of the lower river." Hatfield said the study also could consider individual port au thorities wlhin each state embrac ing the counties which abut the river. He concluded that It was his "plan to move this subject from the discu&iion to the action stage." 18 inch trunk. Belle gave all signs of being a protective mother and zoo attendants kept their distance. The last recorded elephant birth in this country was April 29, 1918, when the old circus elephant, Princess Alice, gave birth to a baby at Salt Lake City. That baby died. Its death was believed to be the result of its inability to digest cow's milk after the mother refused to nurse it. Belle two months ago sparked II J? vLJ 11 J II All A JL JL-i. DAILY NEWSPAPER A. .,. ,--.f. . j ments on the courts near the Bend Junior High School have been bringing out more tennis players. nap Springs. The McKenzie Highway over the summit lava fields, through a region noted for Its recent vol canism and its close-up view of the Three Sisters, has never been a winter route. It is closed about six months out of each year by snow. Now nearing completion is the Clear Lake cutoff, a route that leads from the Santiam Highway past Clear Lake and Belknap Springs to a junction with the Mc Kenzie Highway west of the Cas cades. The Clear Lake-Belknap Springs route, to be finished this year, is to be a yoar-around road. U.S. 128 at present runs from Sisters west over the lava fields into the McKenzie River and Eu gene country. The now designa tion would take the route west from Sisters over the Santiam to the Clear Lake Junction, then down the McKenzie and Into Eu gene. It would be extended from Eugene to Florence, on the Ore gon coast. It is presumed that the present highway over the lava fields will be maintained In the vacation months, primarily as a tourist route. WASTES FEW WORDS DENVER (UPI) Art Lewis, a rancher in Delta County, Colo., is running (or the Republican nomination for Die Senate. But he doesn't believe in wasting words about it. Lewis informed slate GOP Chairman Jean K. Tool in a one sentence note. That was It. "I thought he'd send some bio graphical material and a picture so we could properly announce his candidacy." Tool said. "But I've waited more than a week and nothing came." Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON round the clock elephant house vigils when she started giving false birth alarms. She carried the baby for 633 days. Two of the elephants present at this morn ing's birth Rosy and Tui Hoa, also are expecting. Sex of the baby was not im mediately known. It was up to Belle's owner, Morgan Berry of Seattle, when she and the baby would make their first public appearance. Ber Ten Cents Fleet might is reviewed by President ABOARD USS NORTHAMPTON (UPI) President Kennedy, flanked by his top military ad visers, today reviewed the might of the Atlantic Fleet in bright but choppy weather off the North Carolina coast. The chief executive, standing on a wind-shielded deck outside the flag cabin of the cruiser Northampton, received full naval honors as two columns of 48 ships headed by the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Forrcstal passed in review. After tho review, Kennedy switched his blue presidential flag to the 85,000 ton nuclear- powered Enterprise for a morn ing of fleet antisubmarine and air fire power exercises before going ashore on Onslow Beach, N. C, for a Marine amphibious assault demonstration. Weather Improved considerably over Friday but the wind re mained gusty and the seas chop py. There was bright sunshine and the morning temperature was in the mid-times. The Northampton on which the President spent Friday night rolled acnlly in choppy waters off Cape Hatteras. But Kennedy, a former PT-boat skipper, found Lite weather r e s I f u 1. He got a good night's sleep after several evening hours of conversation with congressional leaders travel ing with him. Mercury climbs fo 77 degrees Temperature lit Bond Friday moved up to 77 degrees, to give the Deschutes country Its warm est weather of the year. From Friday'! high, the mercury drop ped to a mild 41 dfgvrcs last night. Mild temperatures are to con tinue, forecasts indicato. ry, who raised Belle at his Se attle home, said he planned to raise the baby to adulthood. He did not say where. Dr, Matthew Maberry, Belle's veterinarian, was present for the birth. Thonglaw, the ill-tempered fa. tlier, remained in isolation for the time being. He has been kept away from the public because the male elephant has a temper and can be dangerous. No. 110 60 wounded, captives backfall! MIAMI (UPI) Sixty wounded and ill ransomed captives of last year's Cuban invasion returned ta freedom and a tumultuous wel come today from 20,000 of their' refugee countrymen. As the four-cngined Pan Ameri can World Airways airliner which brought tho freed prisoners from Havana rolled to a stop, the hap py throng broke into cheers and tears. At the forefront, 15 members of the "Brigada Asalto", those of the original invasion force of some 1,500 who managed to escape Fi del Castro's militia at the Bay of Pigs beachhead, stood proudly be neath their gold and blue flag. . . Leading the small band of Bri gade 2506, the attack force, limped Rolando Novoa, a cnitch in one hand and the brigade flag in the other. He lost a foot in the inva sion nearly a year ago, on April 17. Sees Daughter - Typical of the scores of families and relatives waiting for the pris oners was Mrs. Juan Figueras, who brought her infant daughter, bom since tho invasion and never seen by her father. Juan Figueras was one of those returning today, and he was com ing home without a let Alan Stewart, port authority di rector, surveyed the huge inter national terminal and estimated the crowd at 20,000. More than 6,000 pressed onto two observation decks to get a glimpse of the re turning prisoners. Dr. Jose Miro Cardona and An tonio de Varona, leaders of the Cuban Revolutionary Front which directed the abortive Invasion, were among scores of Cuban ref ugee officials at the airport Picked by Comrades Members of the Cuban Family Committee which bargained with Castro for ransom of the prison ers said the 60 arriving today had been picked by their comrades in prison as the first to be sent home because their wounds wera the most serious. There were a number of amputees among them, the committee said, and others wera suffering badly from shrap nel and bullet wounds. One man htd a bullet in his head. The committee said there wera other wounded and ill captives re maining in Cuban prisons, among them 81 suffering with jaundice. The cost In U.S. dollars, which are to be deposited in a Canadian bank io secure the captives' free dom, had not been reported be fore the plane left Havana at 11:07 a.m. EST. Castro had set a collective price tag of $62 mil lion in cash for all 1.170 invasion prisoners. Their individual ran some range from $25,000 to $300, 000 each. Hearing planned Monday night on school budget A hearing on proposed l!W2-3 budget for Administrative School District No. 1 will ba held Mon day night In the library of junior high school in Bend. The hearing, which will bgin at 8 p.m., will be conducted by the district board. Estimated expenditurea Includ ed in the budget total $2.008.547.. 14. Of this amount $816,077.12 la outside the six per cen'. limita tion. School officials have estimated that the levy which will be re quired to balance the budget will represent less than a one mill in crease over current levies. A vote on the amount oufclda the six per cent limitation will ba takon In the district on Monday, May 7.
