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Newspaper Page TextUniv. of Oregon Library BEND WEATHER Partly cloudy; highs -71; low JJ-4. TEMPERATURES High yesterday, 60 degrees. Low last nightf 39 degrees. Sunset today, 7:26. Sunriso tomorrow, 4: It. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 59th Year Sixteen Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, May 17, 1962 Ten Cents No. 138 MI T1 E ILPIUI City manager resignation accepted, 4-3 By Bill Thompson Bulletin Staff Writer City Manager Watler T. Thomp son's April 4 resignation was for mally accepted by city commis sioners 4-3 Wednesday night. Commissioners had deadlocked on this same motion May 2 when commissioners E. L. Nielsen, Richard Carlson and Paul Rea soner voted to accept his resig nation and commissioners T. D. Sexton, C. J. Rice and Jack Dempsey voted against the mo tion. Providing the pivotal vote last night was commissioner W. E. Miller, who voted with Carlson, Nielsen and Reasoner to accept Thompson's resignation. Miller did not attend the May 2 meet ing. A few minutes earlier, this same 4-3 lineup voted against ac cepting Thompson's proposal to stay on until after the Novem ber election when a new Commis sion could decide his fate. Reconsideration Asked At the May 2 meeting Thomp son, in a 6-0 vote, was asked to reconsider his resignation. He said he would, and promised to announce his decision last night. His letter to commissioners said: "On April 4, 1962, I submitted my resignation to the Bend City Commission to be effective July 1, 1962. "This action was as a result ef an early meeting with the Com mission mat same evening where I could get no clear-cut answer as to where I stood as City Man ager. Certain commissioners had made it quite clear that my time here was very limited. "Since January of 1961, three commissioners had told me in dividually that I was to resign so there would be no trouble, but never in a group or as a com mittee. . . Not Discussed "Throughout this period of time if the entire local governing body had asked me to sit down with them to discuss the matter, as Food poisoning probe underway JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) -Health authorities analyzed turkey salad today to determine what caused the apparent food poison ing of nearly 200 Negro school children and teachers. Two children were reported in critical condition. The salad was served for lunch Tuesday at the Pine Forest Ele mentary School Around 14 hours later, early Wednesday the first of a flood of sick calls from stu dents and teachers began. An estimated 164 students and 20 teachers stayed out of school Wednesday, but classes were con tinued for the balance of the school's 600 students. The ill students and teachers jammed Duval Medical Center and Brewster Hospital. As the condition of many grew worse, drugs were rushed to the medi cal center from oilier hospitals and drug stores by police escort NOMINATE and ELECT A Man Fully Qualified FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER Vote 22 (X) O. W. Grubb, County Commissioner Boost Central Oregon College over the last hurdle by voting measures 21 4 22 YES! Paid Pal. Adv. by 01 W. Grubb, Bend, Ora. should have been done, I feel we would not have the present situa tion. "As to the question, 'Do you want to stay?' the answer could jonly be yes. One would have to : travel far to find a city and people 'as fine as you will find in Bend. I "As to the question, 'Can you work with the present City Com ! mission?' I can only say that it I is imrjossible tn work with mm. missioners Nielsen, Reasoner and Carlson. I feel that the 3-3 split between those three and Mayor Dempsey, commissioners Sexton and Rice, will continue. I do not envy commissioner Miller's posi tion this places him in. . . "I can hardly consider the un animous vote on May 2, 1962, ask ing me to reconsider, a vote of confidence. It both surprised and confused me. In answer to that question. , .1 would be willing to stay on until after the fall elec tion and let the newly elected Commission make the decision." Acceptance Proposed Following the reading of the letter. Sexton moved that the Commission accept Thompson's proposal, stating that the city is in excellent financial condition. He added that the city could do a lot worse. Miller immediately let it be known where he stood. "I agree with commissioner Sexton that we could do a lot worse," Miller said. "But I also think we can do a lot better. I am going to vote no to commis sioner Sexton's motion." Then followed the 4-3 vote turn ing down Thompson's plan. Next, Reasoner moved to offic ially approve the April 4 resig nation. Attorney Gottlieb Baer, official spokesman for the "We-Want-Thompson" faction, asked attor ney Harry English if the motion to accept Thompson's resignation wasn't out of order in view of the fact that the Commission had asked him to reconsider and he had reconsidered. Motion In Order English answered that Reason er's motion was in order, and that this would finalize the mat ter subject, of course, to a la ter change in the commission ers' thinking. The motion then passed 4-3. The hint of a recall movement against the four voting to accept Thompson's resignation was later tossed out by restaurant owner Bob Blakely, who asked English to explain the recall procedure. Nielsen then asked whether a person, if recalled, could run again and received an affirm ative answer from English. "Well, if I'm recalled, you can i count on me running again," Niel- sen said. Question Posed Reasoner then asked if, provid ing there was a recall movement against three or four commis sioners, H might not be pos sible to include later recall peti tions in the same special vote. English said it would. Recalls, in order to be legal, must contain not less than 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast for the candidate for elec tive office receiving the largest number of votes at the last gen eral election. OLE W. GRUBB DEMOCRAT Familiar with area and Its problems. Raised and educated nine children during depression years. Six years Bend Street Super intendent. Three years County Commis sioner. Six yearf Justice of the Peace. Sixteen years Deschutes Co. Welfare Commission. One Term State Represent ative. Introduced the first Junior College bill that provided state money for the Central Oregon College. laiSiroack cist If talks with unions 'Kate' author to autograph books Friday The author of "Klondike Kate," the story of Kitty Rockwell of the Yukon, is to be in Bend Fri day for an autograph party. He is Ellis Lucia, widely-known Portland writer who visited Bend on a number of occasions while obtaining material for the story about "Klondike Kate," who spent many years of her life in Central Oregon, part of the time on a High Desert homestead and part of the time in Bend, at her home on Franklin Avenue. Lucia will be at the Book Cor ral, 106 Minnesota Avenue, in Bend Friday afternoon, to meet friends and autograph his books. Persons who have already pur chased the "Klondike Kate" book will be welcome to visit The Book Corral and get those books auto graphed. Lucia has also extended an in vitation to acquaintances of "Klondike Kate" in Prineville, Redmond, Madras and other com munities to visit with him during his afternoon visit to the local book store. The new volume, published by Hastings House, New York, is be ing well received. Carpenter has 50-50 chance of Saturday flight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Bad weather at sea and a plane crash that apparently wiped out a small emergency recovery force today left astronaut Scott Carpenter with only a 50-50 chance of making his scheduled orbital space flight Saturday. The weather shaped up as the chief stumbling block. Waves seven to ten feet high were re ported in the Atlantic between Bermuda and the Azores, where Carpenter would land if anything went wrong with his spacecraft during the early minutes of his flight. Officials said the plane that crashed was enroute to a track ing station at Zanzibar with sup port personnel for a small emer gency recovery team for Carpen ter's flight. All 14 persons aboard the plane, a C130, were believed killed. Sources at the cape stressed that the team that apparently was wiped out was not one of the three main recovery forces all of which are stationed in the Atlantic. Around Glob During manned orbital flights the United States posts small emergency forces around the globe just In case the capsule comes down in other than the pre arranged landing areas. It ap parently was such a force that was Involved in today's crash. Space agency spokesmen said that a substitute team was being flown to Zanzibar to replace the one killed in today's crash. They indicated that the loss of the team would not impede technical preparations for the flight. But weather was a growing problem. An official weather statement released by the space agency said that "intermittent cloudiness in the launch area 'at the cape! may be expected to cause tem porary debys." The high waves kicking up just east of Bermuda have been in evidence for days. Gromyko says Soviets planning to resume tests TOLBUCHLN. Bulgaria UPI Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said today the Soviet Union "will resume nuclear tests." Gromyko made his statement to United Press International shortly after he arrived here accompany ing Soviet Premier NiVita Khrush chev for a half-hour visit to this small community. Gromyko did not elaborate on the date of the projected resump tion of nuclear tests. He did not go beyond his statement: "Yes, we will resume nuclear tests." Asked to comment on the recent developments in Southeast Asia, Gromyko said: "The actions of the U.S. govern ment are very bad. These actions just complicate the situation. This is all I want to say." Only few heated Candidates get in final licks before primary vote on Friday By United Press International Campaigning for Friday's Ore gon primary ends today as Ore gon Democrats and Republicans prepared to pick their November candidates in an election which has sparked heated interest in only a few cases. Sen. Wayne Morse, seeking his fourth term, is running for the second time as a Democrat since he bolted the Republican party in 1952. It will be the first test of Morse's voting strength since he lost the 1960 Oregon presidential primary to President Kennedy. But his real test, should he win nomination Friday, will come in November. Morse is opposed in the primary by diaries Gilbert, a Portland labor union member. Gov. Mark Hatfield, who has opposition from George Altvater of Portland, has done little cam paigning in his bid for nomination for a second term. State Sen. Wal ter Pearson and Atty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton seek the Demo cratic nomination for governor, along with Dan Cox of Spring field and M. A. Yegge of Eugene. Hot Races The Thornton - Pearson battle, the six-way race for the Republi can Senate nomination and the fight for the Democratic nomina tion for Congress in the fourth district have had the most fire works. All six candidates for the GOP Senate bid have been critical of Morse, who was elected as a Re publican in 1944 and 1950. GOP voters will choose among ex-State Treasurer Sig Unander, Rep. Ed win R. Durno, Dr. Harold Living ston, Jim Bacaloff, R. F. Cook and Glenn Brixey. Both Durno, who has been in the state for three weeks, and Unander, also have hit hard at Kennedy Admin istration policies. Much of the hottest battling in the late stages has been between ex-Congressman Charles O. Por ter and House Speaker Robert Duncan, two of four candidates for the Democratic congressional nomination in the fourth district. State Sen. Robert Straub and Eugene Fireman Patrick Flynn found out (he four-man race to oppose State Rep. Carl Fisher, R Eugene, unopposed on the GOP ticket Norblad Not Opposed Rep. Walter Norblad is un opposed for nomination in the first district. Willis West, a Mult nomah County deputy district at torney, and Blaine Whipple, for mer executive secretary of the Democratic party, seek the bid to oppose him. In Eastern Oregon. Rep. Al UU- Barrier placed at Wetle sife Clean-up work was underway today in buildings adjacent to the Wetle store as carpenters erect ed a protective barricade in front of the fire-razed structure. Robert J. Wetle, who was In Seattle, Wash., on a buying trip when the fire broke out in the store Wednesday evening and swept through the building, re turned Thursday evening. Today, he joined his brother, Jack Wetle, and their sister. Mrs. Wayne Fad- dis, in planning for the future of the store. It has been announced that re construction will start as soon as insurance adjustment is com pleted and the debris is removed from the site. Everything in the store was lost. Firewalls were the only parts of the big building in tact when the names were con trolled after water was poured in to the building for more than three hours. This morning, a false front was erected on the street to protect passersby from possible injury from shattered glass or falling de bris. Store owners were in con ference with insurance represent atives. The loss from the fire was es timated at between $175,000 and y0.ono. The store was fairly well protected by insurance. Tbe Western Auto staff. In the former Mannheimer building im mediately north of the Wetle building, cleaned up this morning as the store was reopened for business. There was considerable smoke damage. South on Wall Street, cleanup was about completed In several stores, Into which dense, tarry smoke had found its way. contests man is unopposed for nomination on the Democratic side. Bend Publisher Robert Chandler, a sur prise entry on the GOP ticket, is opposed for nomination to Con gress by Everett Thoren of Elgin. Rep. Edith Green, D-Ore., has primary opposition from Mrs. Audrey Henry, a conservative, and druggist Howard Steinbach. Republicans seeking the third dis trict nomination are Stanley E. Hartman, Steinbach's drug store business partner, and Wint Black well. Other Races Voters also will choose between pfi i , mi.MB I.--- ELECTION PREPARATIONS Sheriff Forrest C. Sholes, left, end Deputy Robert V. Young, have been busy delivering ballot boxes and other election materials to the polling places throughout the county. Polls will be open Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. standard. Two college issues due in primary Throughout the Central Oregon area tomorrow, voters will re ceive a special ballot. It will provide for a vote on a proposal for local matching mon ey for state funds and for a col lege operating budget Measure No. 21 will read: 'Shall Central Oreeon Area Edu cation District be authorized to contract a bonded indebtedness in the sum of $125,000 by issuing its bonds in that amount for the pur pose of providing funds wiui which to acquire, construct, equip, and furnish a school building- or school buildings, and to ac quire all property, real and per sonal, appurtenant uiereto in ana for the said Central Oregon Area Education District. Proposal 22 will read: Shall Central Oregon Area Education District be authorized to levy a tax in the amount of $139,400 for the purpose of operating Central Oregon College tor the liscai year Iti2.fi3 Said amount of $139,490 being in excess of the limitation imposed by Article Al, section II, of the constitution oi uregon. Th nmnosed lew includes an amount for bond service, if the is sue is approved. Miss Deschutes show cancelled Jaycees announced today that their 19&2 Miss Deschutes County contest has been cancelled. Cancellation was decided on when it became apparent there was a lack of interest In the proj ect. Only four girls indicated any interest in the statewide event Finals of the Deschutes phase of the state contest had been set for June 16. In the statewide com petition, the winner will be named "Miss Oregon." Circuit Judges Arno Deneeke of Portland and Lyle Wolff of Baker for a Supreme Court position: be tween Peter Gunnar, incumbent, and Raymond Jones for tax court judge; decide on two measures and nominate candidates for the State House and Senate and labor commissioner. One of the measures would let legislators set their own salaries; the other would make it easier for new taxing district to set up their initial tax base. Pat Blair is unopposed for the GOP nomination for labor com missioner. Democratic incumbent -7 ... . " .aw . c. f r 1 "A V - IT t -.1 r Rides available Polls will operate on standard time By Ha S. Grant Bulletin Staff Writer Polls will open at Deschutes county's 39 precinct voting places Friday at 8 a.m. standard time, and will close at 8 p.m. standard time. For most people, on day light time schedules, this allows an extra hour to get to the polls. The time is 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. day liqht. Persons needing rides to the polls may call EV 2-4774. While the polls are open, liquor stores and bars will be closed, so the election will provide a day off, at least for the bar tenders. Courthouse employes will also have a "vacation," but the coun ty clerk's olfice will be stuffed to provide election information and assist election boards. The clerk and assistants will be in the office after the polls close, probably un til all the returns are in. Open as Usual Federal and city offices, and other places of business, will be open as usual. On the local level, interest is centered in the Central Oregon College bond issue and levy, the race for Democratic candidate for county commissioner, and the contest for Republican candi date for U.S. Representative. In the only county contest, O. W. Grubb, past state legislator, and Vernon L. Peck, Redmond Grange master and real estate man. are vieing for the chance to oppose George F. Baker, Re publican incumbent, for a com missioner's post In the November election. The Congressional contest is of special interest because a Bend man. Robert W. Chandler, Is a candidate for the Republican Norman Nilsen has opposition from Vic Davis. Nominations will be made for 13 Senate scats and all 60 House seats. Numerous local issues such as fluoridation in Prineville, author it) for city-owned buses in Port land and charter elections in Sher man, Jackson and Benton coun ties have added interest to the election. Secretary of State Howell Ap pling expects a 60 to 65 per cent voter turnout. The weather man forecast partly cloudy skies over most of the state for election day. -l'?--V.t. mr - I. '. 7 7-T: 't ! , i . - P . ""is ,. nomination, to oppose Al UUman, Democratic incumbent, in No vember. Voting places for the 39 pre cincts follow: Bend No. 1, Courthouse; Bend No. 2 and 2-A, Allen School; Bend No. 3 and No. 4, National Guard Armory; Bend No. 5, Deschutes County Library; Bend No. 6, Nor way Hall; Bend No. 7, Kenwood School gym; Bend No. 8, Pilot Butte Inn; Bend No. 9, Francis Stokesberry residence, 1001 E. Penn Avenue; Bend No. 10, Cath olic parish hall. Bend No. 11 and No. 11-A, Kon wood School gym; Eastern Star No. 12, Eastern Star Grange Hall; Tumnlo No. 13, Tumnlo Grange Hall: Plainvicw No. 14, Squaw Creek Irrigation office; Brooks-Scanlon No. 15, Ladies Guild Hall, Brooks S c n I o n Camp; Redmond No. 18 and Red mond No. 17. Redmond High School; Terrebonne No. 18, Ter rebonne Pioneer Hall. Placet Listed Redmond Grange No. 19 a n d No. 19 A. REA Office; Bonne Home No. 20, Wtigner luldence, 1604 Galveston Avenue; Pine For est No. 21 and No. 21-A. Pine Forest Grange Hall; Alfalfa No. 22, Alfalfa Grange Hull: LaPIni No. 24, LaPine School; Bend No. 25, Bend High School. Bend No. 2S, old First Presby terian Church. Harriman and Franklin: Bend No. 27, Norway Hall; Redmond No. 28 and No. 28-A, Catholic parish hall; Red mond No. 29 and No. 29-A. John Tuck gym; Sisters No. 30, Sisters High School gym; North Red mond No. 31, Mann Construction Co.; Bend No. 32, No. 32-A and No. 33. Trinity Lutheran Church, Uth and Greenwood. i Action could bring strike to industry CHICAGO (UPI) The nation's railroads today broke off negotia tions with five operating ra i 1 brotherhoods with a charge that the unions had refused to nego tiate on the issue of "featherbed ding." The act could saddle President Kennedy with the problem of heading off the first nation-wide rail strike in 16 years. J.E. Wolfe, chief bargainer for the roads and spokesman for the industry, said the railroads would . serve notice on the unions within 10 days whether they would put into effect a series of contro versial work rules changes recom mended by a presidential com mission. Within 30 Days If the railroads decide to put their changes into effect they would become effective within 30 days of the notice, Wolfe said. He said die railroads would also make an Immediate report on the negotiations breakdown to Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg. Wolfe said the railroads deci sion exhausted the strike-halting provisions of the Railway Labor Act and opened the door to a possible walkout. "But we concede It doos not de prive the President of his statu tory right to appoint an emer gency board," he said. , Charges Made The operating brotherhoods, representing 211.000 rail workers. have charged that the commis sion s recommenqatlons would re sult in loss of firemen's jobs. They rejected Uie commission re port and said they would not ' accept them as a basis for nego- -Uatians. Wolfe's news conference an nouncement came as a surprise. The roads and the brotherhoods have held 20 meetings since April 2. The railroads are also locked in another dispute with nonoperat ing rail employes over another presidential commission report which both sides havi dis approved. Wolfe used bitter language In announcing the breakoff. "The union's flat refusal to face up to the public responsibility and their continued defiance of the Presidential Work Rules Com mission leaves us no alternative," he said. Defiance Seen "The unions have announced both publicly and informally that they intend to defy the presiden tial commission and In their meet ings with us they have steadfastly refused to come to grips with the subject. "Any further meetings under these circumstances are s'mply a public delusion. It will be uselesf any longer to continue this trav esty on the collective bargaining process. Estes hearings are assured WASHINGTON (UPD The Senate investigations subcommit tee voted unanimously today to hold public hearings on Billie Sol Ettes multimillion dollar farm em pire to "got to the root" of any corruption or malfacsance. Chairman John L. McClellan, D Ark., announced the subcommit tee's action after a 90-minut meeting in his office. He said iiA-itHnfTtt will tocin as soon as the greatly augmented subcommittee staff can prepare lor tnem. The subcommittee also agreed unanimously to question certain witnesses behind closed doors In preparation for the public ses sions. The action came as President Kennedy held a 20-minute meeting with Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman, presumably to dis cuss the Estes case which al ready has Involved several of Freeman's subordinates The White House gave no de tails but there was speculation Freeman and the chief executive reviewed developments to dcte in anticipation of Kennedy's news conference later In the afternoon. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 Industrials M9.79. off 4.25; 20 railroads 138.38. unchanged; 13 utilities 122.19, off 0.31, and 65 slocks 224 55, off 0.96. Sales today were about 2 9S million shares compared with 3.3s million shares Wednesday.