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o Univ. of Oragoa Library EUGENE, OREGON WEATHER Showtrs mostly in mountain!; high Wednesday 5-S; low to night JJ-51. nn BEND BULLETI . TEMPERATURES High ytsterday, 65 degrees. Low last night, 33 dagroot. Sunset today, 7:31. Sunrisa tomorrow, 4:31. (Standard timo) CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER S9th Year Eight Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, May 22, 1962 Ten Cents No. 142 n E ISoSo plane with 2S i crashes in Germany U.S. to remove all grain from Estes elevators WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Agriculture Department today struck a multimillion dollar blow against the estate of Billie Sol Estes by announcing it will with draw all government-owned grain stored in elevators once controlled by the indicted Texas financier. About 42 million bushels of grain -worth about S50 million will be gradually moved out of the Estes elevators. The Agriculture Depart ment said the move would be in the "interest of public policy." George Barnes, an assistant to Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman, said it might take 18 months to get the grain moved out. He said the decision was made by Freeman. Withdrawal of the grain will mean that the receivership for Estes will lose its prime source ef revenue, since the government has been paying from $3 to $4 Tour of area by Portland Chamber due Members of the Portland Cham ber of Commerce will be in Bend late Wednesday for their first overnight stop on a tour that will take them through the heartland of Oregon. Traveling by bus, the group will leave Portland at S a.m. Wed nesday, pick up a delegation at Warm Springs, visit the Jim Brooks farm on the Agency Plains and stop for lunch in Madras. They will join the Madras Cham ber of Commerce and the m wanis Club in that luncheon pro gram. The Round Butte dam will be Visited Wednesday afternoon, and tour of Deschutes county will take place that afternoon. The night stop will be in Bend, with on informal dinner to be held at the Pine Tavern at 6:30 p.m. The group will head south from Bend early Thursday morning for Christinas Valley. The noon stop (that day will be at the Squaw Butte Range Experiment Station. The party will then move on to Seneca, with the second night stop set for John Day, where a dinner Will be held. From John Day on Friday, the tourists will swing west over the Ochocos to Ochoco Lake Park, men on to Prineville for a noon lunch with the Crook County Chamber of Commerce. Guides on the tour will be coun tv aeents. with Jim McAlister, Redmond, to meet the party at the Deschutes County line. The Bend Chamber of Com merce is making arrangements far the Wednesday night dinner in Bend. Group planned to kill De Gaulle PARTS (UPI Weapons found In the possession of the 15 Secret Army commandos who were plan ning to kill President Charles de SauUe included a bazooka and a quantity of dynamite, police sourc- caid tndnv. A rifle with a telescopic sight and a silencer, several revolvers, bazooka ammunition and other rockets, acid detonators for high explosive and plastic explosive of h Ivrx. used bv the OAS for its terror bombs also were found by security police in a Pans apart ment rented by a member of the The members of the gang, in tluding a woman, have been un der interrogation for the past 48 hours at security police head quarters here. Th cans leader was identified ts Jean-Loup Blanchy. a native of Trance but a long-time resident of Algeria. The woman was said to he his fiancee, Vania Peretti. Security police in Algiers got Bin, nf th nlot while erilluie Francois (Fanfan) Leca. an OAS man arrested and charged with a series of killings. DOW JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones final stock averages 10 industrials 638 34, off 12 25; 20 railroads 134.73, off 1 48; 15 utili ties 120 .19. off 1.58. and 65 stocks fciiM, off 3 55. Sales today were about 364 billion shares company! with 2.26 tmlijun shares Monday. million a year for the storage. Grain storage payments to Es tes have been frozen since March and Barnes said the depart ment now has about SI million in payments In escrow. Govarnmont Holds Money Barnes said none of the money will be released until the govern ment has received what it has coming. Presumably this means the government will subtract the $554,000 fine it levied on Estes for growing cotton in 1961 on land for which he had no allotments. Barnes made the announcement at the first of a series of news briefings the department plans to hold on the Estes case. Barnes also said that a federal court in Texas had approved a $10 million bond for Harry Moore, El Paso, who has been appointed receiver for Estes' affairs. Barnes said the bond, provided by an in surance company, would protect the government's interest in the case. Barnes said withdrawal of the grain from the Estes warehouses would, in effect, slap a black-list tag on the warehouses. He said the department did not intend to store any mors gram in the Es tes elevators. Barnes said some of the grain would be moved to ports for ex port, some would be sold on the spot, and some would be moved to other warehouses. No time was set for beginning the loading out process. No Federal Lottos Barnes emphasized that "up to now, the government has not lost a nickel in grain storage opera tions" in the Estes elevators. A House government operations subcommittee was to meet later today behind closed doors to chart its investigation of Estes' dealings with the grain storage program. Co-ed scales Mf. Mc Kin ley FAntBANKS, Alaska (UPI) A University of Alaska co-ed has become the second woman to reach the top of Mt McKinley, the highest mountain on the North American continent Anore Bucknell, 19, of Fair banks, reached the top of the 20,320-foot peak Sunday afternoon. Merrill Wien, an Alaska bush pilot, said today he saw Miss Bucknell and five male compan ions atop the mountain as he flew nearby. Miss Bucknell is the fourth woman ever to attempt the climb. The group climbed a route to the mountain top journeyed only three times previously, the first in 1912. Keith Jones, of Fairbanks, head ed the party which included Gary Kenwood, Paul Dix, Howard Kantner and Jim Mack, also of Fairbanks. 'Galaxy' girls pass inspection SEATTLE (UPI)-The "Girls of the Galaxy" show at the Seattle World's Fair got a new lease on life Monday night when its re opening passed the inspection of Ewen C. Dingwall, the fair s gen eral manager. Dingwall had closed the show down and said it wouldn't reopen until it changes its format "It is now a good show for the money, said Dingwall after Mon day night s inspection. Odds now better than even for astronaut shot Thursday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ' UPI ) Improving weather condi tions now give American space scientists better than even odds in favor of hurling astronaut Scott Carpenter, 37, Into orbit within the next 48 hours, the space agency said today. Despite the possible threat of two storm systems and heavy smoke from widespread fires in the Florida everglades, the space agency was optimistic about its chances for a launch between 5 a m. and 10:30 a.m. PDT Thurs day. Paul Hancy. a spoketman for O Docor group fires back af Kennedy NEW YORK (UPI)-The Amer ican Medical Association (AMA) mounted an unprecedented assault on President Kennedy's medical care program Monday night, call ing it a step toward nationalized medicine which still would not protect the neediest. Using a paid television forum (NBC network), AMA speakers tagged the King-Anderson bill to finance hospital care for the aged through Social Security a cruel hoax and a delusion." It wastefully covers millions who do not need it," declared Dr. Edward R. Annis of Miami. "It heartlessly ignores millions who do need coverage. It is not true insurance. It will create an enor mous and unpredictable burden on every working taxpayer. It of fers sharply limited benefits. It will undercut and de story the wholesome growth of pri vate, voluntary insurance and pre payment health programs for the aged which offer flexible benefits in the full range of individual needs." Historical lour group to stop here on Friday Oregon Historical Society mem bers on the first leg of a 1962 Roundup Tour that will take them to the Malheur Game Refuge and the historic Frenchglen area will be in Bend Friday noon. Their leaders, headed by Thorn. as- Vaughan, OHS director, will present the Bend Chamber of Commerce program that day, at Sambo's, on U.S. Highway 97 just south of the Bend city limits. Vaughan is expected to touch on the purpose of the annual tours, with mention of the historic re gion to be visited on the present trip. Last year on an Old Forts tour, the OHS members, most of them from Portland, visited pioneer military camps of interior Ore gon, including Camp Polk, near Sisters. That tour took the group across historic Sherars Bridge and Into the Mitchell and Camp Watson areas via Antelope. From Bend, the OHS party will continue on to Bums Friday night joined by a number of lo cal residents, for a reception at the Harney County Museum. Ear ly Saturday, the group will head for the Malheur Game Refuge, for guided tours of the bird areas, then will move south to the old P Ranch at Frenchlgen for a chuckwagon steak dinner and a program under the stars. It is urgent that all Bend people planning on attending the forum luncheon here Friday at Sambo's make reservation by calling the Chamber office, Marion E. Cady, manager, stresses. Vote taken PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI)-A re vised contract to cover 12,000 car penters and piljdrivers in Oregon and Southwest Washington went out Monday to members of two union councils that rejected an earlier version. Results of a membership vote by piledrivers and by Southwest Washington carpenters were to be tabulated Saturday. The two units turned down an earlier contract because they dis liked changes in overtime pay. Their rejection meant rejection by the whole Carpenters and Joiners Union in the region, even though the bigger Portland and Oregon Carpenters Councils approved it, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said that the technical preparations were moving along like clockwork. The main concern at present, he said, "is a lot of smoke from a lot of fire" in the Florida ever glades. The smoke is causing a high level haze along the Florida coastline and possibly will restrict the view of high-powered cameras lined along the coast and respon sible for backing the mission. However, Haney said there was a hi?h pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico and weathermen were op'.jnjitic that this would keep Dutch launch counter drive against foes HOLLANDIA, West New Guinea (UPI) Dutch troops launched a counter attack that "shattered" Indonesia forces and killed and wounded a cumber of the invad ers in twin drives around Fak Fak on the Onin Peninsula, the Netherlands Military Command announced today. The massive assault by com bined Dutch land, sea, and air forces to crush the Indonesians, estimated to number more than 400 paratroopers, is now being readied, Rear Adm. Leendert Ree- ser, commander of Dutcn lorces in West New Guinea, said. Reeser issued a communique re porting that a drive against the Indonesians north of Fak Fak shattered" their forces. "Several Indonesian paratroop ers were killed and a number in jured in the fighting north of Fak Fak in the Onin Peninsul , Kee- ser said. Loit Uniforms A radio transmitter, food, ra tions and mortar shells were cap tured. Some of the enemy have even lost their uniforms and have thrown away their equipment" (The Indonesian Defense Coun cil claimed the capture of the town of Terminabuan in a Radio Indonesia broadcast heard in To kyo. The town was captured after two days of "fierce fighting," the broadcast said. (In the Hague, the Dutch De fense Ministry said at least 10 In donesians, including three officers. had been killed and 15 others wounded in the fighting. It said one Dutch marine had been wounded and his condition is "good.") A second communique issued by Reeser disclosed preparations for a huge assault on the Indonesians. "My staff is preparing a com bined air, sea and land attack on these paras (paratroopers)," it said. "Air force, naval, and army units will be ordered to Kaimana, the Fak Fak area, and Termina- baun." In Four Areas Reeser said the Indonesian par atroopers had been dropped in four areas of the Dutch New Guinea south coast He said tak ing prisoners was difficult because the Indonesians were attempting to avoid open fighting. Earlier, the Dutch announced that women and children would be evacuated from six more towns because of the steadily increasing military action. Gov. Piet J. Plateel described the evacuations as a temporary safety measure because "military activities to withstand the Indo nesian aggression will be increas ing." I XI5 put through airflow tests EDWARDS AFB, Calif (UFD The X15 rocket ship scorched through the air at 3,500 miles an hour today in a test of airflow over its body. Air Force Maj. Bob Rushworth hit an altitude peak of approxi mately 90,000 feet in the 77-sec-onds of powered flight and follow ing glide before returning fuelless to this desert test base in less than 10 minutes. The test was to determine how air currents flow around the craft during maneuvers to get maxi mim use of the airflow. The pilot was carried aloft in the X15 beneath the wing of a B52 jet bomber and dropped at about 45.000 feet. the smoke haze fairly low to the ground and well dispersed. Haney also said there was a new ocean storm developing In the west central Atlantic but "It's not of grave concern" now be cause It's well north of the sched' uled flight path. A second storm system was slipping toward the southeast from the Midwest, but Project Mer cury weather forecasters Indicated that it apparently will not swing this far south. Today's schedule called for some simulated missions by Carpenter and his backup pilot b""rTmt-t i , " 5-77 . , , -'x SCHOLARS TO LETTER The student council of the Bend Junior High school will award letters and pint to outstanding scholars for achievement in specialized fields Wednesday. Faculty advisors checking the awards are from the left Warren Thompson, Wallace Wilson, and Jack Luti. Dairy princess candidates visit in Bend area Five young women who are candidates for the title of Central Oregon Dairy Princess were guests Monday noon of the Bend Kiwanis Club at the Pine Tavern. They are Nan Burke, Bend area; Loris Clevenger, Jefferson County; Georgia Hayden, Pleas ant Ridge; Pat Keevy, Clovcrdale, and Vicki Rachor, Crook County. Each candidate spoke briefly after being introduced to the club men by Jack Eberhard, who rep resented the Central Oregon Dairy Council, sponsors of the area competition. One of the young women will be named Dairy Princess on Dairy Day, June 2. Principal talk at the luncheon meeting was given by Gene Fa veil, Klamath Falls. He is lieu tenant governor of the Central and Southern Oregon Kiwanis Club division. Topic of his talk was "Free dom, Our Individual Responsibil ity." He voiced a strong plea for greater efforts in the fight against the menace of world communism. Favell urged the clubmen to study the aims and methods of communism and to join the fight by active participation in strengthening and fostering Am erican freedoms and ideals. The speaker was introduced by William Hudson, president of the local club. Guests at Hie meeting included Joyce Parker, a candidate for Queen of the Mirror Pond Water Pageant. She is jointly sponsored by the Kiwanis and Jaycee Clubs. Wayne Thompson introduced her to the club. Tank fragedy fakes lives of five men FORT HOOD, Tex. (UPI)-Five soldiers died Monday when their tank tumbled down a 30-foot em bankment Into a shallow creek. landed on its top and burst into Dame. Within seconds the M48 radium tank, someJjmes called a "steel coffin" by the Infantry, glowed red hot. The escape hatrlrwas jammed shut. The turret was buried in mud. There was no way for the soldiers to get out. The victims were not identified Immediately. The accident was the second In five months at Fort Hood involv ing a tank. Last January a tank collided with I truck loaded with soldiers. A gas tank exploded sQl eight soldiers were fatally burned, several others Injured. - l r"-)f Something new Letter avards due for young scholars A precedent in achievement recognition will be established Wednesday morning at Bend Jun ior High School, when the awards assembly will be held at 10 a.m. in the gymnasium. This will be the first presenta tion of a new type of letter awards, for outstanding students in specific subjects. The outstand ing student of each subject, in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, will receive an award. Seventh and eighth graders will receive letters suitable to be worn on sweaters. Ninth graders will receive pins. All parents of Junior High stu dents are invited to attend the Japanese flier who dropped bombs on Oregon to return on Thursday TOKYO (UPI) Wartime Naval Lt. Nobuo Fujita, who first saw Oregon from a plane loaded with fire bombs, returns there this week with good will in his heart and a gift in his hands. By his own account, published about a year ago In the Japanese press. Fujita Ls the only man who ever bombed the continental Unit ed States. The 51-year-old merchant ar rives Thursday in Portland on his way to Brookings, Ore., to take part in the local Azalea Festival. Later, he hopes to visit San Francisco and Los Angeles, He will be accompanied by his wife, Ayako and their 25-year-old son, Yasuyoshi. "I am going to Oregon at the invitation of the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce," Fujita told UPI. "I am looking forward to seeing people there to person ally thank them for their kind invitation. I am taking with me an old sword I carried during the Inst war. It Is about ooo or 700 years old. . .and one of my most treasured possessions. Giving Sword Away "I will present It to the Cham ber of Commerce as a token of my appreciation for its Invitation and to express my sincere desire for closer American Japanese friendship." Fujita said In an interview last year he flew two fire bomb mis sions over the forests of south western Oregon In a light recon naissance plane carried by a sub marine. The first, he recalled was on Sept. 9, 1042, the second 20 davs later. His bombs started forest fires, but they were not as effective as had been hoped, and the bomb ings were discontinued. X .... presentation ceremony, which will be broadcast by radio station KBND. Of 904 students at the school, 72 will receive awards. Madras is the only other school in the state with tliis type of award system. It J designed to give recognition to students who- are outstanding in specific subjects, rather than necessarily being all-around top students. Tie letters and pins have been purchased from student body funds, at a cost of about $250. A campaign to raise money for sweaters is planned for the fu ture. 'I hope to call on the mayor of Portland and extend greetings to him," Fujita said. "I met him in Tokyo recently." Fujita said he had been asked io speak before the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce. "I am prepared to make a speech thanking them for the in vitation and expressing my sin cere desire for closer America- Japan relations," he said. Woman killed east of Dalles THE DALLES (UPI)-A Wash ington state woman was killed when her car and one occupied by a Colorado family of seven collided late Monday about 20 miles east of here. The victim was Florence Mary Egan, 45, Wlshram, Wash. Her husband, Frank Egan, 52, escaped serious injury. State police said Die Colorado car left Highway 30, went over a bank and was partly submerged In the Deschutes River after the accident Lloyd Eugene Blackwelder, 38, Limun, Colo., suffered a broken leg and face injuries; his wife, Leotia Marie. 36, cuts and bruises, and a son, John Francis, 14, cuts and bruises. The othr four chil dren, Douglas, 12; Gregory, 10; Koilney leo, 9, and Kay, 4, ea caed injury. The accident happened just east of the Deschutes River bridge. Craft carried secret radar detection unit MUNICH, Germany (UPI) A U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane carrying 26 persons and secret ra dar detection devices tore apart in flight about two miles above the earth and crashed six miles east of Munich today. Police and military authorities said there was no sign of sur vivors. An Army official said 20 bodies were found and a search was con tinuing for the others. An Air Force spokesman said the four-engine Super Constellation carried five Navy officers, 17 Navy enlisted men and four Army enlisted men. The plane was assigned to a Navy base at Rota, Spain. It flew to Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Air Baso Sunday and was to have re turned after today's navigational training flight Not Ytt Known The cause of the crash was not yet known. But witnesses said the plane tore apart while flying at about 10,000 feet Traffic controllers said the pilot radioed for clearance for an emer gency landing, but apparently was unable to make the runway. A Pan American World Airways pilot, Capt O. Abrahamsen, gave the fust alarm. "There are pieces of fuselage falling past me," he radioed the Munich control tower. There s an airplane disintegrating." I see a tail section now, he reported. Abrahamsen was piloting a jet passenger liner on the Frankfurt Istanbul leg of a rouud-thiKworld flight. He was flying at 4,000 feet over Die edge of Munich when he spotted plununeting pieces of the Navy plane. Other witnesses on the ground said the tail section tore away and then other parts followed over a six mile course. The main portion of the' body remained intact and plowed into a fiold at the edge of a pine forest , , Fourteen fire crews from Mu nich and almost 200 U.S. troops fought the blazing wreckage more than an hour before extinguishing the flames. The plane was called a "Warn ing Star" by the Navy because of the huge bulge atop the body crammed with secret radar gear. Objecf seen blazing over mid-Oregon A blazing object bored through Central Oregon's moonless sky at 9:48, daylight time last night, dim med Venus momentarily In the western sky, then disintegrated about 20 degrees above the Cas cades. Bend amateur astronomers said It apparently was a very brilliant fireball. Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Her wick, driving toward Bend on the Central Oregon highway about four miles east of town, obtain ed a fine view of the object as it dropped toward the horizon and disintegrated in a fiery display. When the fireball first came within the range of visibility, as observed through the Herwick windshield, It was blue green. It turned to orange before disinte grating. Herwick described the object as "much brighter than Venus." the planet that now rules the evening sky over the Cascades. Phil F. Brognn, Bend. Pacific Northwest director of the Amer ican Meteor Society, said addi tional information about the fire ball from other observers will be appreciated. Wetle clearing nears completion Salvage and clearing operations at the Wetle Store, which was de stroyed by fire last week, will probably be finished this week. Jack Wetle said today. No date for start of construc tion of a new store has yet been set. he said. Meanwhile, Welle's are main taining an office at 835 Bond Street which is open from 9:30 a m. until 5:30 p.m. each day. Ac counts may be paid at this ad dress, he said. The store was destroyed by fire last Tuesday night c
