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thai., . UHv. of Oregon Library o Offici mis optimistic on early summit WASHINGTON (UPD-U.S. offi cials today discounted the possi bility of an early summit meeting, despite an offer by President Kennedy and British Prime Min uter Harold Macmillan to consid er one if developments warrant. These officials said the nuclear test deadlock and continued Soviet pressure on Berlin appeared to rule out any summit conference in the near future. But they acknowledged that Kennedy and Macmillan, who con ferred here over the weekend, had left themselves plenty of latitude for a meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. In a joint communique Kennedy and Macmillan said they would consider a meeting with Khrush chev whenever there was any sign that it would be in the inter ests of peace and understanding. .High blast in megaton yield range WASHINGTON (UPD - Scien tists throughout the world will be notified in advance of three very high-altitude U.S. nuclear tests scheduled for June or July so they can make measurements of inter ests to science, the Atomic Ener gy Commission said today. The explosions are expected to cause brilliant auroral displays over a vast area of the Pacific and their electronic effects may be even more widespread. A Pentagon spokesman said the biggest of the three blasts will be "in the megaton yield range" equal to a million or more tons of TNT and will be at an altitude of "hundreds of kilometers." A kilometer is six tenths of a mile. The other two explosions, he said, will equal less than a meg aton. One will be at an altitude of "tens of kilometers" and the other at a level "hundreds of kil ometers" above the earth. All three of the shots are ex pected to be rocketed aloft from tiny Johnston Island, 711 miles southwest of Honolulu. President Kennedy, in announc ing the resumption of U.S. atmos pheric testing, emphasized that one of the main aims would be a study of the electronic effects of high-altitude nuclear explosions, especially on radar and other de tection systems. The Atomic Energy Commission said public notice would be given about four days in advance of each detonation. "This will permit geophysicists and other scientists throughout the world to make measurements of interest to the scientific commu nity," die AEC said. Meantime, U.S. scientists at the Pacific proving grounds were pre paring for the third shot of this country's new atmospheric series. Like the atmospheric shots sched uled for June and July, it could be held at Johnston Island. The two previous tests were held last Wednesday and Friday near British-held Christmas Island. Runaway fire destroys home A trash fire that got away de stroyed a Bend home Saturday afternoon. The Frank Vauticr residence, at 424 Aldcn Avenue, was complete ly involved in flames when the firemen arrived. The house burn ed rapidly, and according to fire men, was probably a total loss by the time the alarm was turned in. Vautier had come home for a meal, when he discovered the fire. Fireman answered a general alarm at 3:49 p.m. Sunday firemen made a run to the Bend golf course, but found controlled burning. Minimum confusion Time switch fairk Daylight savings time came to Central Oregon with a minimum of confusion Sunday. . .that is. a minimum of confusion for day light sanr.gs time. There were reported instances of church goers showing up late, but in most cases fishing took a laer toll than stopped-up clocks. The rVnd High School early bird classes had problems today, hut the villain was a fouled-up furnace. 'ilost of the youngsters were not The President and the Prime Minister noted Klirushchev's re cent statement that there should be no conference until there was a reasonable cliance it would be successful. The two Western leaders agreed there should be contacts with Rus sia at both high and low levels. This cleared the way for a Mac millan trip to Moscow, but British officials said there were no spe cific plans now for one. The communique was issued shortly before Macmillan left for a two-day visit to Canada. The Prime Minister, who arrived in Washington Friday, said he and the President would continue to hold periodic meetings. The communique said their day long meeting Saturday and brief pre-luncheon session Sunday con stituted a "general review of in ternational problems facing their two countries." Seek Test Ban On specific issues, the two leaders: "Expressed the determination of their two governments to con tinue to work for progress toward disarmament, including the end ing of nuclear tests." They ex pressed "regret" that Russia has not agreed to join "in an effective treaty which would end nuclear testing." Agreed that Secretary of State Dean Rusk should continue his talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin on Berlin. They said "these and other con tacts between East and West" were important and in this con nection offered Khrushchev a sum mit conference when the prospect for success exists. "Strongly reaffirmed their support for an independent and neutral Laos" under a coalition government pledged to avoid tak ing sides in the cold war. Voiced hopes that Britain's negotiations to enter Europe's Common Market would be "crowned with success." "Reviewed the situation of the NATO alliance In the light of the forthcoming meeting in Athens" of the ministerial council, which Rusk will attend for the United States. "Discussed problems of mu tual commercial interest, includ ing questions of shipping policy, tariffs and commodity problems." Macmillan was said to have again protested vigorously against the U.S. policy which requires that 50 per cent of American for eign aid shipments be carried in U.S. flag vessels. He declared that this was working a hardship on British shipping interests. Bend picked for GOP convention Bend has been selected as the site of the 1962 Oregon GOP con vention a post-primary meet ing required by a 1961 law. Oregon Republican Chairman Phil Roth announced that the meeting will be on Saturday, July 7, with J. Pat Metke, Bend, for mer state representative from Deschutes County, as general chairman. Several hundred members of the Republican party are ex pected to attend, Metke said. Metke said that plans for the GOP state convention here are still in the planning stage. He ac cepted the chairmanship this past weekend, after conferring with Roth. Roth flies to Washington, D C. Wednesday for a three-day con ference of national GOP leaders, and will return home in time for the Young Republican meetings in Oceanlake on May 11 and in Portland on May 12. It is expected that Roth will be in Bend for several days in ad vance of the GOP state conven tion, to assist Metke with ar rangements. Metke said the meeting place here has not yet been selected. on time, but they were pretty blue without any heat," studei.'. adviser Lloyd Gabriel said. "There were very few absences or reported cases of tardiness. The students like the idea. They'll probably adjust better than the teachers." At the Bend Junior High(??hool. few tardy slips were reported, but PrirQl Ralph May noted a rather hith mortality rate for the weekiy pre-class teacher's mect- Ulg. O Addresses Chamber group JFK urges peace between government, business WASHINGTON (UPD - Presi dent Kennedy told the U.S. Cham ber of Commerce today the time has come for business and gov ernment to stop throwing stones at each other and pull together for a more prosperous America. In a 23-minute address to the opening session of the chamber's 50th anniversary convention, Ken nedy strongly defended his ad ministration against charges of being antibusiness. He said there was a need for all segments of the economy labor, business and government 59th Year Gas merger is overturned by top court WASHINGTON UPI - The Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Power Commission cannot approve a merger of two pipelines when the government is challenging the same merger in court under antitrust laws. The 5-2 ruling set aside the mer ger of the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Pacific Northwest Pipe line Corp.. which took place with commission approval Dec. 31, 1959. The majority opinion was writ ten by Justice William O Doug las. Justice John M. Harlan wrote a dissent in which Justice Potter Stewart joined. Justices Felix Frankfurter and Byron R. White, took no part in the decision. Harlan protested that the ma jority had evolved "a new and surprising antitrust procedural rule," which could apply to all government agencies where anti trust laws are applicable. Artificial Imbalance He said the decision creates "a wholly artificial imbalance be tween antitrust law enforcement and administrative regulation..." Douglas, however, said that if an antitrust decision holds illegal a transaction approved earlier by the FPC "an unscrambling" would become necessary involving "a needless waste of time and money. "Also these unscrambling proc esses often raise complicated and perplexing problems on tax mat ters," he added. Douglas also said FPC approv al "is bound to carry momentum into the antitrust suit." "The very prospect of undoing what was done raises a powerful influence in the antitrust litiga tion," the opinion asserted. "The orderly procedure is for the com mission to await decision in the antitrust suit before taking ac tion." The commission approved the acquisition of assets in the El Paso case while a U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City delayed trial of a government civil suit under the Clayton Antitrust Law. California brought the case to the high court. The great bulk of El Paso's gas is sold for distribution in Califor nia. Its system extends from Tex as and New Mexico gas fields through Arizona and New Mexico to the California border. Before the merger Pacific Northwest operated from the Ca nadian border through Washing ton. Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. WEATHER Mostly fair tonight; partly cloudy Tuesday with high 57-62; low 30-35. High yesterday, 52 degrees. Low last night, 23 degrees. Sunet to day, 7:07. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:57. Some 'islands' smooth i.x"., own businesses appeared .0 :r u jast problem adjusts ing. In a se of "fast timers." there were stili a few small islands of conventional clock watchers. Golden Agers, for Instance, were sticking fast on the standard time route. And they, along with others who like "regular time," can get encouragement any time of the day or night by dialing TI 4-1212: "At the time, STANDARD TIME, will be. . ." to "avoid inflation, modernize our industry and improve the Ameri can position in world markets." In a reference to his success in forestalling a steel price increase earlier this month, the chief ex ecutive said tliat with proper co operation by all concerned, he hoped such events would not be necessary in the future. He cited a Biblical admonition that there is a "time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones." "It is time for us all to gather stones together to build this coun Twelve Pages May is expected fo bring light showers to area Early May is to bring Ucht showers to the plateau country east of the Oregon Cascades, the five-day forecast indictates. Show ers have been predicted for about Wednesday, and again near the end of the period, with the total moisture expected to be around a fourth of an inch. In Bend, the mercury dropped to a chilly 23 degrees last night following a sunny, but cool Sun day, with a high of 52 recorded. Fair weather Is expected to continue through Tuesday, with slightly warmer temperatures. Mountain roads were in good condition today, following the April storm that dropped up to a foot of snow on the divides tins past weekend. Early morning blaze destroys Long house By Helen Parks Bulletin Staff Writer FORT ROCK Fire destroyed the ranch house on the R. A. (Rube) Long property four miles northwest of Fort Rock town ear ly Sunday morning. A dance was in progress at the Fort Rock Grange Hall. One of the crowd noted the flames and the location of the fire was an nounced. Floyd Branch of Fort Rock and Clinton Basey's MC ranch crew from Klamath Marsh were first to leave the dance and arrive at the scene, where only the burn ing skeleton of the former two bedroom house remained erect. The men wet down the pump house and towed two trailer houses to a safe distance. By the time the group arrived. the barking of a dog had roused ranch hand Arden McRoynolds, who had been sleeping in his trail er nearby. The house was in reg ular use except for sleeping. Branch returned to Fort Rock to telephone the Longs, who live 15 miles northeast of Fort Rock. Fred Wright, whose trailer home is at the Long ranch head quarters, was at the dance. He noted that his electric clock stop ped at 12:57 a.m. standard time, indicating that electrical connec tions to the ranch house were severed at that time. Wright es timated that some 100 persons witnessed the final stages of the fire. In the rubble lay the remains of the old crank telephone and the modern dial model, among bro ken antique glassware that had belonged to Long's mother. Per sonal mementos lost included plaques emblematic of county and state "Grassman of the Year awards, and a treasured rifle. The Springfield 45-70 had been is sued to Long's father by the gov ernment, presumably during the Bannock War. for sell protec tion. Oregon Demos outnumber GOP SALEM U'PD-DemocraU eli gible to vote in Oregon's May pri mary election out number Repub licans by 73.971, the State Elec tions said today. This is nearly 2.000 down from November, 1!V), but dampened GOP claims that the Democratic voter registration edge would be cut deeply this year. For the May 10 election. Demo crats have a statewide registra tion total of 4.17.224 while the Re publicans have 3R3.253. There were 13 GiS in the "otJirs" cate gory, for a grandtotal of 8.V4.102. try as it must be built in the coming years," Kennedy told his capacity audience in Constitution Hall. Pleading for "assumption of re sonsibility by all of us," Kennedy said the government does not want "the added burden of de termining individual prices for in dividual products." Delegate reaction to the address was somewhat reserved. The most common response heard was that it was up to the administra tion to put pressure on labor to hold down wage demands and up CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, April 30, new J. ' 4 1 3 ! r v i 7) DRAWS ON ACCOUNT Mrs. Rose Newfon, long-time blood donor, will be absent when the Red Cross Bloodmobile makes its quarterly visit in Bend this Wednesday. She has given a doien pints of blood for others; got some in return when she underwent major surgery re cently. Porsons who can give blood are asked to make appointments at the Red Cross office. The bloodmobile will be here from 1:15 to 5:45 p.m., in the Elks basement on May 2. Hearing due tonight on COC budget A public hearing on Uie Central Oregon Area Education District proposed budget for the July 1. 1902-June 30, 13 fiscal year will be held this evening in the Bond Senior High School library. In accordance with state law, the meeting will be held on stand ard time, starling at 7 o'clock. This will be 8 p.m., fast time. Public comment on the budget is invited by members of the dis trict board, of which Owen M. Panner, Bend, is chairman. LaSclle E. Coles, Prineville, Is budget committee chairman, and Oliver R. Jones, Odin Falls, is secretary. The total levy involved, includ ing the operational budget and debt retirement for state match ing money on Central Oregon College buildings, is $I39.4!0. This is well within the two mill levy proposed in discussing the formation of the district, board members point out. The big district, embracing Jef ferson, Crook and Deschutes coun ties and parts of Klamath, Wasco and Lake, will vote on the budget at the May 18 election. This is also the date of the Oregon pri mary vote. DOW JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 6C5.33, off .97; 20 railroads 13S 48. off 0 28; 15 utili ties 126, off 1.81, and 65 stocks 230 28, off 2 20. Sales today were about 4 15 mil lion shares compared with 4.14 million shares Friday. youth killed DAYTON, Ore. (LTD Jack Halleman, Id, Dayton, was killed Saturday when a tractor flipped over onto him near here. to tlie unions themselves to be restrained. There was some feeling Ken nedy had done a good job of ex plaining the administration's point of view hut that he was not wholly persuasive. Some doubted a single speech could overcome what one delegate described as a historic antagonism between business and Democratic admini strations. These observations by delegates jibed with the lack of applause during the speech. One delegate recalled how enthusiastically the BUI DAILY NEWSPAPER iiitlltitiCl 4' tit .. . i 'Minn Plans revised City to offer 3 types of bridges for bids By Bill Thompson Bulletin Staff Writer Bend City Commissioners took another look at the proposed Portland Avenue bridge Saturday afternoon and agreed to offer three types of bridges for bidding August 8. The bridge was okayed by vot ers in a S'JO.OOO bond issue elec tion last fall, but the typo of structure to be constructed across the Deschutes near Pioneer Park has remained a question mark. In the "first edition" of a spec ial bridge meeting Friday eve- Mothers seeking resumption of standard time EUGENE (UP!) A group of mothers who call themselves the "Parents for Standard School Hours" said today they have some 500 signatures on a petition for resumption of standard time in public schools here. The mothers said they would send their children to school an hour late unless the schools go back on standard lime. The University of Oregon and many businesses have adopted fast time. But the m .-.!h"rs said that the schools were pressured into moving the classes ahead by community leaders. A spokesman for the group said :they sent a night letter to Presi- dent Kennedy Sunday asking him 'to intervene in Uie situation. 'Gather sfones together' chamber used to greet former President Dwight D. Elsenhower and his remark that he liked to address the chamber because it agreed with him. Kennedy laid great emphasis on the theme that there is a braid area of common interest between business and government rather than any natural conflict. Noting that businessmen are concerned about protecting their profit mar gin, he added, "We in tlio na tional government have a large stake in your profits." This reference to taxes drew a 1962 Ten Cents V 4 , A V ... 1 r,1Mean- I J--; ning, commissioners gave cily en gineer John Eaton the green light to design a steel-arch pipe design bric'ge (around $500 for design). Saturday they decided to go ahead with earlier plans to have the Oregon Highway Department design a bridge I presumably a poured-in-place cement slab-span structure as it has suggested). The commissioners also moved to invite builders of pre-strcssed concrete beams to submit their plans, with all three types of bridges to be submitted for bids August 8. The city had deposited $1500 with the highway department for bridge plans at Uie time of last fall's election. At Friday's meeting they voted 4-2 (after three tries) In ask Uie stale to return Uie $1500 deposit, minus expenditures. Saturday's action rescinded Uiis movo. More Companies Commissioner Richard Carlson said he believed Uie city would actually draw more companies into the bidding Uiis way. since contractors tend to specialize on a particulv one or two designs. Commissioners agreed to ask for specifications on the basic structure only, with Eaton to de sign and add specifications for fill and approaches. The total package will be con sidered by the commissioners bo fore awarding a contract. Construction of Uie bridge will pre-umahly Sgin after the end of the irrigation season, proliably in November. laugh and the only applause given by the chamber delegates during Kennedy's speech. The chief executive expressed confidence that the U.S. economy "in 1!3 will break all record.; in production, employment and profits." For their part, Kennedy urged businessmen to seek higher prof its through a greater volume of business, not larger profit mar gins on a smaller volume. He said this gave thorn a common cause with government bucause govern ment's aim is to stimulate pro duction, employment and profits. No. 123 Walker pilots craft over 48 miles upward EDWARDS AFB. Calif. (UP!) Test pilot Joe Walker soared Uie X15 rocket ship to an alti tude of 48'4 miles today to tha edge of space Uie highest point ever reached in a man-controlled irplanc. The National AeronauUcs and Space Adbinislratlon first an nounced Walker's altitude as 245.- 000 feet, or about 46 miles, but said Uiis figure was in error be cause of "a foul-up in tracking data." The corrected figure of 13,000 feet was 40,000 feet higher than the previous X15 altitude mark. "We feel we accomplished our missioi," said a NASA spokesman after the recheck of die figures. Walker was launched from a B52 mother ship at 10:23 a.m. PDT and was heard to say, "I'm on my way." The engine shut down came at 80,000 feet and he soared to Uie altitude of 245.000 feet. The highest Uie ship had previ ously flown was 41 miles Uie al titude mark for maimed planes until today. Eventually, It may climb to 100 miles above the earth. RepresentaUvcs of the NaUonal Aeronautics and Space AssociaUon witnessed the historic flight to certify it for an official world record. Walker's flight also was a break through in high altitude control. re-entry and recovery studies leading to future flights of manned space vehicles. Walker, 41, a veteran test pilot gunned Uie rocketship into a steep climb after it was dropped trom under Uie wing of Uie B52 at 45,000 feet He pushed Uie 57,000-pound thrust engine to full UirotUe for 81 seconds as he streaked upward. men shut It off at about 150.000 feet. The momentum catapulted Uia XI5 to its peak altitude of 245.000 feet while flying 3,645 miles an hour. Walker fell short of his flight plan which was aimed at an alti tude of at least 250,000 feet Speaker set for Young Demos' meet United Slates Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlctt of Alaska is flying to Oregon Uiis weekend from Washington to address Uie Satur day night dinner meoting of the stato Young Democrats who will hold Uicir annual convention in Bend at Uie Pilot Butte Inn. The Young Democrats will open Uieif two day session here Fri day, draft a platform and elect officers. Dan Marsh of Eugene Is the president of Uie YD's and Gary Anderson of Bond Is general chairman of the convention. John McDonald, YD representative for Uie second congressional district, Is due In Bend Tuesday to firm up arrangements for Uie con clave. Sen. BnrtleU is a native of Seal tie, who later moved to Fair banks. Alaska lo become a staff member of Uie Daily News-Miner. He served later as secretary to marc Anthony J. Diamond, who was tha delegate from Alaska In Congress before It's admission as a state. Ijitur, BarUett was elected as the delegate himself and served seven two year terms. Ho was elected to the Senate in 1958 and again in into. His pre snt term expires in 1967. it I