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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
S9th Year
Eight Pages
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, May 22, 1962
Ten Cents
No. 142
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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
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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.
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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.
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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