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EUaEUS, OREGON
in today s school vote opera until 9,
THE BEND BULLETIN f
WEATHER
TEMPERATURES
Occasional rain; high Tuesday
High yesterday, (8 degrees. Low
last night, 36 degrees. Sunset
today, 7:15. Sunrisa tomorrow,
4.48.
58-45; low IMS.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
59th Year
Eight Pages
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, May 7, 1962
Ten Cents
No. 129
Polls
DST
Freeman says
no favoritism
shown Estes
WASHINGTON (UPI) Am
culture Secretary Orville L. Free
man said today three Agriculture
Department employes may have
received favors from Texas finan
cier Billie Sol Estes but declared
there is no evidence that Estes
ever was shown anv favoritism
by the department. i
"I find no grounds for any ac
cusations that Estes was shown
any favoritism," Freeman told a
news conference called to discuss
department dealings with Estes,
who is under state and federal
indictment for fraud in Texas.
At a 76-minute news conference,
Freeman said that of the Uu-ee
persons who might have received
gratuities from Estes, one has
been fired, one has resigned, and
one who testified under oath that '
he took nothing is still being in
vestigated by the FBI.
Officials Resign
He referred to Emery E. Ja
cobs, a deputy administrator ol
the Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation Service, who re
signed after he was linked with
Estes gift-giving; William Morris,
staff assistant to former Assitant
Secretary James Ralph, who was
fired after he refused to answer
department questions, and to
Ralph, whose connection with the
Estes case is still in the hands
of the FBI.
Freeman said he knew that Es
tes was having difficulty with the
department over cotton allotments
when he was appointed to the Na
tional Cotton Advisory Council in
July, 1961.
He pointed out that trouble over
cotton allotments in many in
stances has been referred to as
a "lawyer's quarrel."
What one set of lawyers may
decide is illegal and another may
decide is legal and proper still
is a matter for the courts to de
cide. Freeman observed.
Freeman conceded in response
to questioning that in hindsight
the department probably should
have dealt with the Estes case
Avruwtitiraiclv Tip raid that
anv similar cases would be han-!
died more quickly in Uie tuture.
Had the department not fol-j
lowed its regular administrative i
procedures in the Estes case, he
said the department might have
become vulnerable to law suits,
He said there is still a probabil-
ity that the matter will be re
viewed in the courts.
Beginners' Day
schedule given
Children who will enter school
next fall, and their mothers, are
invited to Beginners' Day pro
grams this week in schools of the
Bend system. There will be pro
grams for the mothers and enter
tainment for the children. Re
freshments will be served.
The first in the series was this
afternoon, in LaPine. Others on
the schedule, all at 1:30 p.m. day
light time, are as follows: Tues
day, Young: Wednesday, Allen
Marshall; Thursday, Kenwood
Kingston; Friday, Reid - Thomp-
At each program, there will be of the World's Fair In Seattle,
talks by a mother, representing spent the night at the Mark Hop
!? ! i..,. . n ! kins Hotel. After the news con-
K me" and
Hyatt, director of special educa-
ed by Mrs. Walter Smead or Mr, ;
Gordon Brown: tne neaun w
partment by Miss Hiltje Hubftara
or Mrs. Jlarjone snincr.
Efforts have been made to
rea-h the parents of all prospec
tive first-graders. Any who have
not received individual notifica
tion are asked to attend the pro
gram at their nearest school.
Salinger arrives
in W. Germany
BONN, Germany (ITU-White
House Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger meets West German
press chief Felix von Eckardt to
day to discuss the best means of
"combatting fommunit propagan
da through Western government
information programs.
Salinger a r r i v e d Sunday for
three days of information policy
talks with West German olticiais.
Sal;- -er will go to Moscow , ever, me moismre la run ejprcm
Friday" for meetuigs with Aiexi to he hea'.
Ad'hrbei the editor of die gov- Temperatures in the five day
emment newspaper Izvestia and j period ill range between 55 and
.n-.n-law of Premier Nikiu.M for the higlu and 34 to 45 for
; fl Si'"' vTiil
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RALLY TIME The eighth and ninth grade girls above are not doing calisthenics but are il
lustrating how they will lead the Bend Junior rl ign scnool in rally drills next year. New ninth
grade rally girls are from left to right back row: Diane Beal, Cathye Creighton, queen, and
Cheryl Newell. Eighth grade members are Jolie Waller, left, front row, and Terri Spence.
Tifov fakes
new pokes at
United States
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Soviet
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, tour
ing San Francisco, today smiling
ly criticized the U.S. space pro
gram and automobile traffic.
Titov said at a press conference
that if he were invited to join
an American in a U.S. spacecraft,
"I would be a bit afraid because
there have been quite a lot of
failures in your program."
He said he had seen Lt. Col.
John Glenn's space craft, and re
marked, "It's not even good
enough for flying in orbit.
As for American automobiles,
me Diue-eyea cosmonaut oam,
seems to me you have to pay
some attention to this problem."
He said that ifs just a matter
of time before Americans will be
able to get places faster by walk
ing man Dy driving.
The Russian major parried
questions about which country
would land a man on the moon
first and about the existence of
God.
He said his grandfather be
lieved in God. but that his grand
mother did not, and kept throwing
religious pictures out the window.
The grandmother, he said, is still
alive, and the grandfather is not.
"We have an example here that
belief in God does not always
help. I believe in toil and labor
and the reason of man."
Titov declined to say who would
be first on the moon, but said
that he might favor some joint
space flights by Soviet and
American cosmonauts.
But such cooperation must wait
until the two nations have solved
the disarmament problem, Titov
said.
The 27-year-old cosmonaut, who
arrived with his wife, Tamara,
Sunday night after a two-day tour
f-ence.he met wiU, Acting May-
j or ro o
t-jeon at ed by Uie
; '
Low clouds
move over
mid-Oregon
Low clouds that tipped volcanic
buttes in the Bend area moved
into Central Oregon Sunday night
following a mild May day that
sent the temperature up to 68 de-
: grees.
Last nicht's low in Bend was
M degrees.
Despite the comparatively mild
weather, heavy gusts of wind
swept over Cenlral Oregon most
of Sunday afternoon.
The five-day forecast calls for
periods of rain tonight and again
near the end of the week. How-
I the lows.
Session winds up
Portlander selected
new leader of YD's
Young Democrats of Oregon re
turned to their homes over the
weekend after electing Mcrlyn
Gubser, Portland, as president for
the coming year in a late-developing
contest. Gubser is a graduate
student in education at the Uni
versity of Oregon.
Resolutions approved called for
United States participation in the
common market, called for the
election by the people of the state
superintendent of public instruc
tion rather than his appointment
by the governor and favored abo
lishing the present House Un
American Activities Committee.
Gubser on Sunday spoke before
a joint meeting of the Democratic
Central Committee and the Des
chutes County senior party organ
ization in the Labor Temple. He
expressed the Young Democrats'
Prineville fire
probe continues
Special to The Bulletin
PRINEVILLE Ron Swift, 25,
editor of the Central Oregonian,
moved this past weekend from a
home on West Third Street, scene
of an explosive five Friday night.
His temporary address has not
been disclosed.
The fire was the third attempt
on Swift's property in the past
week. Earlier, attempts had been
made to ignite the gasoline tanks
of two automobiles with paper,
but both efforts failed.
Before the fire, the newspaper
received a postcard, with a mes
sage in letters cut from a news
paper, threatening "more cars if
poisen (sic) goes in water."
Police were investigating the
possibility of a tie-in with recent
letters to the editor, appearing in
the Prineville paper, regarding
the fluoridation issue. The card
was at first believed to be the
work of a prankster.
Police questioned numerous in
dividuals over the weekend, but
did not indicate any progress is
being made in the investigation
of the circumstances surrounding
the fire.
Swift has been leaving his auto
mobile at the police station at
night
Prowler enters
Glander home j
Police were notified over the i
weekend that the Glander home
at 1325 Albany had been entered , t , the f jrst missile - carried
through removal of a clasp from I nuclear weapon tested by this
the front door. The report of the j country.
apparent entry was made by xhe Polaris was launched from
Wayne Glander, 1034 Columbia. tj,e zthm Allen, one of the na
The prowler also removed a ! tion's fleet of nuclear - powered
ha-.p from a tool box, but It was j submarines each capable of car
not immediately known whether ry'nR " "h missiles,
any of the tools were stolen. ' Tlia Atomic fcnerjy Commu-
appreciation of Bend's hospitality
during the two-day convention of
his group ui Bend.
Korean Vet Defeated
In the vote on officers, Gubser
Saturday afternoon won from
Richard W. Boetgcr, 27 year old
disabled Korean war veteran.
Gubser succeeds Dan Marsh of
Eugene.
The convention reached its cli
max Saturday night when Sena
tor E. L. Bartlett of Alaska ad
dressed the group. Senator Vern
on Cook of Troutdale was master
of ceremonies at the banquet,
held at the Pilot Butte Inn. Sena
tor Bartlett declared that approv
al of the common market for Eur
ope will stop the spread of com
munism there.
Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton introduced the senator
from Alaska.
Resolutions Passed
The YD's passed a number of
resolutions prior to adjournment.
These included: One that criti
cized Gov. Mark Hatfield for not
calling a special session of the
legislature to deal with the "what
time is it in your town" issue.
The YD's endorsed the admis
sion of any nation to the UN that
conforms to the charter of that
organization and called for the
ouster of those who do not.
They voiced support for world
government through the United
Nations and a world court mat
would be given strong authority.
Other Action
The YD's voted to abolish the
present seniority system in Con
gress and instead have the ma
jority and minority leaders wno
are elected by their parties ap
point the committees.
They went on record as sup
porting President Kennedy's
medi-care bill under social secur
ity. With slight modifications, they
voted to support the Neuberger
bill to allow lumbermen to ship
their products on foreign vessels
in order to better meet competition.
U. S. successfully test fires
live varhead from submarine
WASHINGTON (UPD -The
United States has successfully
test fired Its first operational bal
listic missile with a live nuclear
warhead from a Polaris subma
rine beneath the Pacific.
The atomic explosion, fifth In
the U. S. atmospheric series, was
set off at 7:45 p.m., EDT Sun
jav m iu. Christmas Island area
Government
snuffs revolt
in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) :
Venezuelan security forces con
ducted a massive search today
for members and sympathizers of
the Carupano revolt in a prelude
to a major crackdown on anti
government activities.
Soldiers, police and armed
farmers combed the countryside
around Carupano, a seaport 250
miles east of Caracas, for Com
munists, extremists and rebel ma
rines who fled the city after the
uprising was crushed Saturday
night. About 400 persons were re
ported under arrest.
The government announced Sun
day it was preparing an intensive
drive against Commuiusts, Castro
sympathizers and other subver
sive groups to prevent further at
tempts at toppling President Rom
ulo BetancourU
Defeat "Death Blow"
Interior Minister Carlos Andres
Perez called the defeat of rebel
forces at Carupano a "death
blow" to Communist and Castro
efforts to convert Venezuela into
a second Cuba."
The government has contended
that the two-day rebellion in Car
upano, site of a large naval base,
was Communist-inspired and sup
ported by followers of Cuban Pre
mier Fidel Castro.
The defeated rebel leader, Navy
Capt. Jesus T. Molina, and the
dozen or so officers arrested with
him after their surrender, were
being brought to Caracas to face
a court martial.
Under the presidential decree
suspending constitutional guaran
tees, security forces searched
farm ho-ses and trails around
Carupano and set up road blocks
in an effort to capture fleeing
rebcls and other subversive ele
ments.
Reports from the port city of
15,000 population said about 300
rebels were missing from the
force of 550 which had held con
trol there for 32 hours.
The unofficial casualty toll from
the fighting that ended the revolt
was 12 dead and about 50 wound
ed. Molina's small but determined
little military-civilian army was
overwhelmed in daylong fighting
Saturday. With about 100 machine
guns and mortars, the rebels
fought at least 2.000 troops which
Betancurt poured into Carupano
to smash the uprising as quickly
as possible.
Charges made
on stockpiling
WASHINGTON (UPP-The gov
ernment's strategic stockpile is
loaded with 5,044,000 pounds of
quartz crystal more than eight
times the estimated need for a
three-year war and 25 times an
nual U.S. consumption. Senate in
vestigators were told today.
Some of the stockpiled crystals
are "junk," an administration of
ficial told Sen. Stuart Symington's
special armed services investi
gating subcommittee.
The official, William N. Law
rence, an assistant director in the
Office of Emergency Planning,
said the administration was pre
paring a plan to dispose of sur
plus supplies.
But selling even 5 or 10 per
cent of the stockpile would break
the world market, Lawrence testi
fied. Lawrence said the government
bought most cf the crystals from
Brazil during the period from
World War II until 1956. The pur
chases included 8V7,O0O subspoci
fication crystals, he said.
tion did not disclose the distance
the missile traveled or the alti
tude of the detonation. But it was
believed to have been a full-range
test of the 1.200-mile Polaris.
The AEC also did not announce
the force of the explosion. How
ever, It was known that the Po
laris could carry a nuclear war
head with a punch equal to 5O0,
000 tons of TNT.
Rockets were used In high alti
tude U. 8. H-bomb tests in 158.
But Sunday's lest was Uie first
in which an operational missile
was fired with the nuclear war
head it could drop on an enemy.
The four previous nuclear de
vices tested in the current series
legalists suffer
Senate heads
seek to cut
off talkathon
WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate
leaders today filed their promised
cloture petition to force a vote
Wednesday on their move to gag
a southern talkathon against the
administration's voting rights bill.
Democratic leader Mike Mans
field filed the petition with 30
signatures. The petition needed
only 16 signers but Senate loaders
still faced an uphill task if they
are to win approval by two-thirds
of all senators voting for the
move to halt the talkfest itself.
The 30 senators signing the
petition included 20 Democrats
and 10 Republicans.
Mansfield made the move on
behalf of himself and Senate GOP
Leader Everett M. Dirkscn, 111.
Under Senate rulea the vote will
come about one hour after the
Senate meets Wednesday mem-
tag.
Sign Petitions
Besides Mansfield and Du-ksen
those signing the petition in
cluded:
Democrats Clair Engle, Calif.:
Lee Metcalf, Mont.; Frank E.
Moss, Utah; Maurine B. Neuberg
er, Ore.; and Wayne Morse, Ore.
Republicans Thomas H.
Kuchel, Calif.
Mansfield, in tribute to the Re
publicans joining him, said Dirk
sen has been a "tower of strength
in this situation." If the Senate
limits debate, he said, much ot
the credit belongs to the fair
minded senator from Illinois, Mr.
Dirksen."
The Democratic leader tnen
pave his answers to the two main
arguments against the literacy
test bill that lt IS unnecessury
and that the states have "un
qualified power" to fix voting
qualifications.
Protracted Litigation
Mansfield said present statutes
"may require the most protracted
litigation" whereas the pending
bill provides a "simple remedy."
On the second point, mansiieiu
said it is true that states have
the Dower and right to fix voting
qualifications but subject to "the
protective guarantees oi uie inn
and 15th amendments." Congress,
he said, "has the power and ob
ligation to make these amend
ments effective.
Congress should act, he added,
whenever it has become clear
that the right to vote is being
denied "whether by sophisticated
or simple-minded" methods.
DOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Press International
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 670.99, off 0.21; 20
railroads 139.60. off 1.08; 15 utili
lties 124 84, up 0.07, and 65 stocks
230.83, off 0 37.
Sales today were about 2.53 mil
lion shares compared with 3.01
million shares Friday.
were dropped from a plane. One
had an explosive force of from
one to five million tons of TNT.
The throe others were belioved to
have been around 100,000 tons
each.
The new test series, called Op
eration Dominic, started April 25.
The United States Is expected to
sot off a total of two to three
dozen shots during the next two
months.
The tests will be climaxed by
high altitude blasts In late June
or early July over Uie Johnston
Island test area. At least one of
thfe will be several hundred
miles hih.
District 1
school vote
is underway
Voters in Deschutes School Dis
trict No. 1 were casting ballots
this afternoon on a 1962-63 budg
et proposal which it is estimated
would increase local taxes less
than one mill.
Polls opened at 3 p.m., daylight
time, and will accept ballots un
til 9 p.m., daylight time.
Votes are being cast at three
polling places In Bend, the junior
high, Kenwood and Allen, as well
as at LaPine and Young schools.
At stake in the election is the
amount of the budget in excess
of the six per cent limitation.
This is a figure of $816,077.12.
Voters are also balloting on two
directorships for the seven-man
two candi-1
district board. Only
dates. Bert Hagen
and Ralph
Boese, are seeking the vacancies
Both men are incumbents.
The district board will meet at
the clerk's office following the
election to canvass votes.
France sets off
underground
blast in Sahara
PARIS (UPI) France set off
an underground nuclear test ex
plosion In the Sahara May 1, a
spokesman for Defense Minister
Pierre Messmer said today.
No official communique was is
sued for Uie time being. But Uie
ministry spokesman said the nu
clear blast took place in Uie new
French nuclear testing grounds In
Uie Hoggar Mountains in Uie Sa
hara. The Paris afternoon newspaper
Le Monde said the blast was in
Uie "weak medium range.
It was at least the fifth and
possibly the sixth nuclear test ex
plosion carried out Dy ranee in
Uie past two years.
Series of Four
A scries of four above-ground
blasts was carried out by Uie
French on Feb. 13, 1960; April 1,
1960; Dec. 27, 1960, and April 25,
1961.
After the 4th test explosion, Uie
government announced that Uie
scries of French tests in uie ai
mosphere had been completed.
The unusually reliable Le Monde
reported, however, that an earl
ier underground explosion had
been fired off several months ago.
Rut there was never any official
confirmation that such an explo
sion had taken place.
First news of the latest French
explosion came from Washington
and informed sources said this ap
peared to indicate it had been
monitored by American dctecuon
devices.
It was only about 12 hours af
ter Uie Washington reports ap
peared that Uie French coniirmed
Uie test explosion.
The fact that It coincided with
the NATO Council meeting in Ath
ens last week and with the Amer
ican test series In the Pacific
was regarded here as no mere
coincidence.
French President Charles de
Gaulle gave orders more than a
year and a half ago for France
tn slart building up an Indepen
dent nuclear striking force. He has
been nushini ahead with this de
spite strong U. S. disapproval ana
attempts to dissuade him from
Uie idea.
TROUBLI IN CHINA
WASHINGTON (UPD Assistant
Secretary of State W. Averell
Harriman said Sunday that "econ
omic disaster" would force Red
China to relax Its restrictions on
the Chinese people. He said Com
munist China has been plunged
Into "great economic difficulties"
by collapse of its food program.
ifing
Soviet planes
used to rush
aid to rebels
VIENTIANE. Laos (UPI) A
high Laotian government official
said today that Soviet aircraft al
ready are landing planeloads of
supplies for pro-Communist forces
in newly captured Nam Tha and
Muon Sing in northern Laos.
Acting Foreign Secretary Sisouk '
Na Champassac said Uie Red
sweep through Uie two north
western towns near the Chinese
Communist border would have
"formidable political conse
quences. He added that a sec
ond Communist offensive was
shaping up in southern Laos.
Sisouk told a news conference
I that pro-Communist forces had
captured three outposts east,
north and west of the southern
Laotian provincial capital of Sar
avane and had cut one of two
important roads leading from the
town.
The royal government official
insisted that Nam Tha was taken
Sunday by forces which included
four battalions from Red China's
4.1rd Division and seven battalions
from Communist North Viet Nam.
Sisouk said occupation of Nam
Tha was an "insult" to American
diplomats who had received per
sonal promises from the pro-Communist
rebel leaders that the
town would not be taken.
Critical of United States
He lashed out at Uie United
States for allegedly trusting Rus
sia's ability to keep the pro-Com
munist elements in Laos under
control.
What can we say about our
friends who have confidence in
the Communists," Sisouk asked
angrily.
Sisouk's outburst was Uie first
top level reaction here to Uie
rebel thrusts because the entire
inner circle of the Laotian gov
ernment was out of the country
when Nam Tha fell, seeking out
side support against Uie cut-off
of U.S. financial aid.
Sisouk, who rushed back here
today, said he had received "con
firmation" that further cuts in
American assistance had been
planned for early this month if
his government did not enter into
coalition with the procommu-
nift and neutral rebels in Laos.
Roval army troops were re
ported streaming today toward
Uie Thai border in retreat from
Nam Tha. where they suffered
their worst defeat since the Lao
tian civil war began.
US. draws
praise at
Athens meet
ATHENS (UPI - European
members of Uie NATO ministers
conference today praised U. S.
policy for putting Soviet leaden
on a more guarded course in In
ternational affairs.
Conference sources said U. S.
leadership of the 15-nation alli
ance was stronger than for some
time past, and Secretary of State
Dean Rusk won plaudits for his
diplomatic strategy.
The NATO council concluded a
four-day meeting here Sunday
with "firm assurances" from Uie
United States and Britain that
they will use all their military
might, Including nuclear weapons
to defend Uie alliance.
Rusk left Athens Sunday night
for Canberra for talks with offi
cials of Australia and New Zea
land, partners of the United
States In the Anzus Pact
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul
Henri Spaak, former NATO sec
retary general, said of V. S. pol
icy as outlined in Rusk's speech
to the meeting:
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