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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1962)
WEATHER Moitly cloud with some rain; high SS-U; low 40-44 ; southwest wind Ht, 59th Year n Rescue team line oversnot pg:.i,fX " . , . . . . f .j i I . j BREAK IN MAIN MAKES CRATER This it the scene of the break in the 18-inch main that poured water across Riverside this morning to flood Drale park and lower water pressure in all parts of the eity. The picture was taken shortly after water was turned off. The crater, some four feet deep and about 20 feet long, was quickly drained, to reveal the rupture in the 1 8-inch cast iron main and clear the way for installation of a new unit of pipe. Vaughan to fell pioneer story here on Friday The story of military camps that guarded pioneer trails in the Harney country nearly 100 years ago will be touched on by Thomas Vaughan, director of the Oregon Historical Society in his talk be fore the Bend Chamber of Com merce here Friday. The occasion will be a forum luncheon of the Chamber at Sambo's, starting at 12 o'clock. All Chamber members planning on attending the luncheon meet ing have been asked to telephone reservations to the Chamber of fice not later than early Friday morning. Vaughan will stop here en route to the Harney Valley and the Mal heur Game Refuge on the Ore gon H i s t o r i c a 1 Society's 1962 Roundup trek. About 1 p.m. Friday, just as the Chamber members are finish ing their forum meeting, two bus loads of OHS members are to ar rive from Portland, for a lunch stop here before continuing on to Burns Friday night. I En route east, the group will look over the old Camp Curry Fort site of 18(55-66. There will be a reception for the OHS "Trappers" Friday night in Burns. Early Saturday, the group will move south to the game refuge, with side trips into the Diamond crater country pian ned. A program under the stars will he held at French Glen at an evening roundup Saturday. The old site of Fort Harney, east of Burns, will be viewed ear' ly Sunday. SELECTION MADE DENVER (UPI Portland was selected here Wednesday as the site for the 1967 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of the United Stales. Twice bombed Japanese flier returns in peace to Oregon PORTLAND (LTD Nobuo Fu jita. 51. returned in peace today to the state he once bombed and said "it is a wonderful day in my life. . " Fujita. the only enemy pilot ever to bomb the United States mainland, flew In from Honolulu with his wife. Ayako, 4". and son and interpreter, Yasuyoshi, 25. Twenty years ago Fujita, flying a small plane launched from a s'.ihmarine. twice bombed forests in tie southern Oregon coast in nn IE Twenty Pages Opens crater to. Water main breaks in Drake Park area A break in an 18-inch cast iron main that delivers water from the Awbrey Heights reservoir to virtually all of east-side Be id broke this morning at 9:23 a.m. The break occurred at the Louisiana - Congress intersection. just across Riverside from Drake Park. Water from the main, pouring out at the rate of 20,000 gallons a minute, heaved pavement at the Louisiana Riverside intersection, Weather slows Jaycee clean-up campaign here Cool, showery weather is slow ing down the Bend Junior Cham ber of Commerce plans for a gen eral cleanup and paintup of this city on the eve of what is expect ed to be the area's biggest tour ist season. As a result the iudeine of en tries in the Jaycees' contest is be-1 ing extended until June 18. All entries must be submitted well in advance of that date, so judges can complete arrangements closely to look over newiy-paint-ed homes, renovated fences and beautified yards. New entry blanks will be found on pace 10 of The Bulletin today, and Jaycees urge that all local residents planning on doing some yard, home or lawn betterment, no matter how small, register at once. Bob Dimlap is general chair man of the cleanup, paintup proj ect for the Jaycees. The Jaycees plan, as one of their projects, the painting of a house of some wor thy Bend family. state forests utile efforts to start major for est fires. Today at the airport the mayor of BrookinRS, Ore., the town near est the bombed forests, and the president of Junior Chamber of Commerce there, were on hand to warmly welcome Fujita back. Oppeiction DacrteMi Dr. William McChesney, the Jaycee president said opposition by some Brookings war ve'erans to the visit has "quieted down." Jaycees raised money to finance BEND recov sent a flood over Drake Park and tumbled into the Deschutes near the Duncan McKay residence in miniature cataracts. A big lake formed in the park near the DAR memorial. The break was discovered by Mrs. E. C. Spring of Bend, who was driving over the intersection when she noted the pavement heaving and water spurting from a fissure just off Riverside. Bend Water Department mem bers in a short time cut off the water and detoured it to eastside areas through other mains. How ever, through the morning water pressure was down in all parts of town. It was one of the worst breaks in the history of Bond. Pavement slumped over the break and heaved at the inter section. All traffic in Uie area was detoured. Crater Drained Within half an hour, water de partment members drained the crater and located a long break m the cast iron main. It was ex pected that repairs would be com pleted this afternoon. The big main that broke this morning reaches from the Aw brey Heights reservoir across the river at Drake Park footbridge, then extends up Kansas. The cast iron main that crack ed this morning had been in place about three years. All traffic over the eastern sec tion of Riverside was barried to travel as water from the break poured over the pavement and in to the park. As a lake formed in the park, ducks quickly took advantage of the situation and were gaily cruis ing over the acre pool. (Also taa pictures on paga i.) the trip. McChesney and Mayor Fell Campbell were to take the Fujita family to Brookings today where they will attend the annaul Azalea Festival Saturday and Sunday. Fujita, wearing a brod smile, was met at the airport by a small crowd whirh also included news men, some Japanese and Howard Traver, executive assistant to Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk. "I just want to express thanks to ail of you for all of your kind i rvru,. n il CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, May 24, 1962 neks Ca Clingan freed second time in death case Special to The Bulletin MADRAS A Culver tavern owner who shot and killed a cus tomer, on Dec. 10, I960, was exon erated Wednesday for the second time, in the first jury trial in the spring term of circuit court in Jef ferson county. A jury of six men and six wom en deliberated only 35 minutes, to return a not guilty verdict for middle - aged George Washington Clingan. Clingan faced a charge of being a felon in possession of a concealable weapon. Clingan had gone on trial two previous times, late last year, on second degree murder charges. The first was a declared mistrial on a legal technicality. The sec ond ended with a ruling by the court that the murder was com mitted in self defense, and that a felon was entitled to protect himself against an assailant (Clingan had served less than a year of a sentence in California, in 1939, on an assault conviction.) Clingan shot and killed Larry Livermore, 37, a labor camp mi grant, who refused to leave the tavern after being unable to pay for a drink, then attacked the tavern owner with a bottle. Clin gan first tried to subdue the farm worker with a sap, but Livermore took it away from him and used it on Clingan. The tavern owner then got a gun and threatened to shoot if he didn't desist The shooting was witnessed by eight persons. Jury Members Members of yesterday's jury were Melvin Cloud, foreman: Ivy Sample, Marvared A. William, Edna R. Phifer. Jack Brown, Ralph Eckes, Shirley Seid and Ronald Watson, all of Madras; Wendal Marshall, Gateway, and Josephs V. Smith, Vera L. Jen nerjohn and Rose Wyatt, all of Warm Springs. Richard Tapken killed in tragic California crash Richard Tapken, 20, U.S. Navy, and a companion, were killed Wednesday morning in an auto mobile accident in San Diego. Tapken was the son of Richard Tapken Sr. of Bend, who was in San Diego for a visit with his son. Tapken and another young Na vy man were in a car that was struck by another being chased by police. The Bend youth and his companion were pulling out from a drive-in parking lot, and the approaching car, advancing at a high rata of speed, struck the auto broadside. Tapken was using his father's car, but the father was not present at the time. Tapken died two hours after the accident in a San Diego hospital. The other victim, whose name was not known here, was killed immediately. The three occupants of the other car, all youths, are in serious condition in a hospital Tapken attended Bend High School, and entered the Navy at the end of his senior year. He was a nephew of Mrs. Lyle Car- rington and the grandson of Mrs. Christine Tapken, both of Bend Funeral services will be h e 1 d Monday in San Diego, the boy's father has notified local rela tives. He went to the Navy base city last Saturday. ness," Fujita said, speaking through his son. "I Just want to meet all of you and express grati tude to all of you." His son said that when h 1 a father read accounts of opposition to his visit he was frightened at first but became reassured after exchanges of letters with people in Bmnkings and did not worry any more. Giving fwerd Away A highiht of Fujita's visit will BULLETI DAILY NEWSPAPER rpenf er from rea if Astronaut rides Aurora-7 3 times around earth; beacon guides planes to landing spot CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Scott Carpenter, 37, rode three times in orbit around the earth today but overshot his planned Atlantic landing area and gave re covery forces an anxious 40 min utes before they found him. Space officials lost radio contact with the astronaut shortly after 10:30 a.m. PDT and said it ap peared he had overshot by 200 miles the scheduled landing area 800 miles southeast of here. But a Navy search aircraft sub sequently picked up the space craft's rad;o landing beacon and followed it to find Carpenter perched in a life raft. . The spacecraft, Aurora-7, was riding the waves near the raft. At 11:32 a.m., the Navy plane reported after a close look that Carpenter was "apparently sitting comfortably in lus raft. Carpenter had embarked on his space fact-finding mission atop an Atlas rocket at 5:45 a.m. PDT after the smoothest countdown in the history of the Mercury man- ln-orbit program. Suspense at Finish The overshot brought his flight to a suspenseful conclusion which had officials and reporters biting their nails. An Air Force search plane ar rived over Carpenter's raft at 11:39 a.m. Two paramedics, men with par achutes, leaped into the sea to attach a large flotation bag to Aurora-7 to keep H afloat and to give Carpenter any help he need' ed while waiting for surface craft to recover him. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration estimated that Carpenter's Aurora-7 space craft touched down about 10:41 a.m. PDT about 1,000 miles south east of here. At 10:18 a.m., braking rockets to bring his craft down from or bit were fired as he approached the southwest coast of the United States. Carpenter had reported every thing aboard the craft in good condition for the fiery descent through the atmosphere to splash down in the Atlantic As expected, radio contact was lost during the descent because of ionization of the atmosphere by the 3,000-degree heat generated by air friction. Overshoots Landing Officials concluded when con tact was not quickly regained that Carpenter's craft had come in at an angle which meant ne naa overshot the mark. Carpenter had completed his first orbit at about 7:19 a.m. PDT and his second at about 8:47 a.m. There was a moment during his second orbit when ground moni tors feared it might be necessary to limit his flight to two orbits. This fear was caused by indi cations that the fuel supply for the spacecraft's jet controls was being used up too rapidly. Olli cials ordered Carpenter by radio to switch to hand control of the jets to conserve the supply. They decided after looking at the information transmitted from spacecraft Instruments that enough fuel was left to keep the cabin pointed right for another and final orbit. Depletion of control fuel forced termination after two orbits of the orbital flight made last November by Enos, the chimpanzee astro naut. John Glenn also experienced difficulty with his controls In his flight Feb. 20. But he was able to complete the scheduled three trips around the earth. Throughout his orbits, Carpenter performed experiments designed to pile up information of use to Opposition has 'quieted down' be presentation next Monday of his prized Samurai sword to the people of the Brookings area. The sword, which Fujita cirri ed on his bombing missions in 1942, nor mally would go to his son. The son said today, "if given to me it Is only a possession. But if given to the people of Brook inRs It must have much meaning. So I concur with my father's wishes." The busy schedule at Brookings Univ. of Oreson t , , t ' 1 I I 1 I i f "iff" J I . ' H , ' ' ,V , l ' 'fJ 7 - tr "lVr, . j ' LT. COMDR. Some anxious astronauts in lunar and planetary missions of the future. For the first time in the history of manned space flight, ha ate solid food bite-sized snacks which he said, went down all right de spite the space condition of weightlessness which tends to make objects float He said they were a little crumbly, however. Temperature Ritas On both of the first two orbits, the temperature inside Carpen ter's spacesuit rose somewhat over Australia when his Aurora-7 spacecraft was at Its apogee of 164 miles the highest altitude of his orbit. At one point the cabin temperature hit 102 degrees. Asked whether he was comforU able, he said: "I don't know. I'm feeling warm and perspiring, but I'm not really uncomfortable." He wore an air-conditioned suit. At the start of the second orbit, Carpenter released a tethered bal loon from the spacecraft in an experiment to determine visibility of different colors in space. This will help future spacemen orient themselves with other craft which they may approach In orbit The schedule for three orbits called for Carpenter to descend by parachute into the Atlantic about 800 miles southeast of the cape. After recovery he was to be flown to Grand Turk Island In the Bahamas for examination and a 48-hour rest before returning to also called for the Fujitas to visit the Redwood forests, fly up the coast in a private plane prob ably over the area bombed In 194? and a trip up Die Rogue River by mail boat Fujita, now a Tokyo business man, made his first bombing run on Sept 9, 1942 and his second one 20 days later. The same submarine also participated In shelling of Fort Stevens, near Astoria, Ore. Library N Ten Cents ' i A1 sea after MALCOLM SCOTT CARPENTER, USN moment at end of three-orbit flight today the' United Suites. The laconic Navy officer, report ing frequently as he sped through alternative night and day, limited remarks about himself to brief statements adding up to: "I feel fine." Carpenter and his ten-and-a-half Aurora-7 spacecraft roared Into space atop an Atlas rocket at 5:45 a.m. PDT. Five minutes later he was in an . orbit so safe and stable that he could have sailed far more than the scheduled three orbits. He was following nearly the same path pioneered by John Glenn Feb. 20. But he was per forming more scientific experi ments than Glenn was able to cram into his flight. As though proving that practice makes perfect, today's flight from the outset was the smoothest in the history of the Mercury man- ln-space program. The only delay in the countdown, 45 minutes, was caused by a persistent early morning haze. The three-orbit schedule called or his descent to sea 800 miles southeast of the cape about 10:30 a.m. PDT. Fuel Problem Reported However, conditions in the spacecraft Itself conceivably could shorten the flight. Ground moni tors reported Indications during the second orbit that hydrogen peroxide fuel fur the craft's atti tude controls was being used at an excessive rate. If too much controls fuel is used up too soon, it would be necessary to curtail the mission. Officials said Carpenter is "well aware" that if this occurred it would be necessary to end the flight after the second orbit At the start of his second trip around. Carpenter released a mul ticolored balloon, the size of a beachball, from what space offi cials called his "orbital labors torv." The object was to find out what colors are most visible in space This will help when the time comes in the U.S. lunar project to couple spacecraft and rockets In orbit. At one point In his first orbit, sensing instrument reported over TEMPERATURES High yesterday, 53 degrees. Lew last night, 34 degrees. Suntat today, 7:34. Sunrisa tomorrow, 4:29. (Standard Tima) No. 144 Australia that Carpenter's space- suit was heating up a little above normal. , . But Caroentcr quickly corrected this by stepping up the flow of the cooling fluid in the suit. He reported the temperature dropped from 82 to about 70 degrees. In struments had indicated his body temperature went above 100 de grees, but that turned out to be false. Said Carpenter, "I feci very comfortable." Less articulate than Glenn, who kept up a fairly steady patter of talk leavened with humor, the tough and wiry Carpenter skimped on words. Ftelt Ne Discomfort Like Glenn, he felt no discom fort from weightlessness, the space condition which induced nausea In Soviet cosmonaut Gher man S. Titnv In his 17-orblt flight Aug. 6-7, 1961. Titov's discomfort, however, did not set In until his fourth orbit and did not become pronounced until the sixth. Carpenter reported after going in orbit: "I am weightless. I am feeling good." His first orbit was completed about 7:19 a.m. PDT but space officials did not give out an offi cial time. BULLETIN CHICO, Calif. (UPI)-An explo ton today destroyed a Titan In tercontinental ballistic mltiila and Its underground tlla at a Titan complex near Chico, the Air Forea reported. Twenty-tour parsons suffered moke inhalation In the fiery blast, but there war n fatali ties, a spokaiman for Baal Air Fares Bat said. Th THan was net aqulppad with a nuclear warhead, th apokeimen said. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Prats International Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 Industrials 622.5S, 8.98; 24 railroads 131.97, off 0.80; 15 utili ties 117.0"., off 1.43, and 63 stocks 315.52. oU 'J. Sales M(ay were about 5.2S million shares compared with 4.43 million shares Wednesday. at
