The Bend bulletin., May 28, 1962, Page 1, Image 1

BEND BULLEf iff'
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Nrtly cloudy; high 73-78; low
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TEMPERATURES
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last night, 44 degrees. Sunset
today, 7:37. Sunrise tomorrow.
4:17. (Standard Time
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
59th Year
Ten Pages
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, May 28, 1962
Ten Cents
No. 147
lies affairs is underaay
IMJci
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nit tasng
Blast traced
to washroom
of airliner
CENTER VILLE, Iowa (UPD
Explosion of a dynamite-like sub
stance in a rear washroom caused
last week's jet airliner crash
which killed 45 persons, the Civil
Aeronautics Board (CAB) dis
closed Sunday night.
One official at the scene said,
"As practical people we can only
assume it was a bomb."
The Continental Airlines Boeing
707 plunged 39,000 feet into a shal
low gulley near Unionville, Mo.,
20 miles south of here, Tuesday
night.
CAB crash investigators, re
constructing the tail section of
the stricken plane, learned late
Sunday that the blast occurred in
a washroom under the vertical
fin of the aircraft The wash
room, on the right side of the
plane, behind a coat rack which
was directly back of the galley,
was used by both men and wom
en passengers and crew.
Blast Is Powerful
John Pahl, engineering division
chief of the 'CAB's Bureau of
Safety, said the blast was caused
by a "high velocity explosive"
similar to dynamite, but he could
not yet say that dynamite was
used.
However, Pahl said that dyna
mite was the "most convenient
type" of explosive which would
cause a blast of the intensity of
that which destroyed the airliner
and ended Continental's record of
28 years without a passenger fa
tality. Pahl said the explosive sub
stance blew a hole the height of
the entire rear portion of the
plane's fuselage and immediately
severed the tail section, although
the tail assembly might have re
mained attached by control ca
bles for a few seconds or minutes
after the crash.
Skin scrapings of victims were
under analysis at the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology in
Washington. C. D., in an effort to
determine the type of explosive
used.
Pahl said that present labora
tory techniques are so fine that if
enough residue from the explosive
is found, not only the type but the
manufacturer of the substance
can be determined.
FBI Gets Briefcase
Earlier Sunday the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation took posses
sion of a briefcase bearing the
initials "T. C. D. from Center
ville police.
The briefcase was found Sun
day by Gabe Rackie on his farm
a mile east of Cincinnati, Iowa,
12 miles north of Unionville, Mo.,
and eight miles south of here.
The passenger and crew list re
leased by Continental Airlines aft
er the crash contained no person
with the three initials on the
briefcase.
Insurance companies which
write in-flight policies began over
the weekend to process their rec
ords and determine the amount
of coverage of persons aboard
the piano.
FBI agents in Chicago were at
tempting to trace the travel pat
terns of the 37 passengers who
boarded the plane at O'Hare In
ternational Airport for the IlipM
to Los Angeles, by way of Kansas
City, Mo.
Market retreat
picks up steam
VFW vnnk" (ITPI) The retreat
on tine stock market went at a
rapid pace today with $9 billion
more in paper values wiped put
in selling so heavy at one point
the trpe was almost an hour late.
Since the high speed ticker was
r,,,i in orvim in IH30. tlie record
for lateness had stood at 34 min-J
utos since May, 103.1. That mark
was smashed near the noon hour
as the tape first fell 3-i minutes,
then 41 and finally 52 minutes bo
hind, as the avalanche of sell or
ders continued.
By that time the slump in pa
per values in six straight days
of selloffs was almost WO billion.
lxisses were all over the list.
Highly regarded issues like Nor
folk A Western. Kansas City
Southern and American Telephone
were down more than $s a share.
Other blue ctvps were off $2 to W.
The Pow Jones industrial av
erase at II am. FDT broke
through the "0 level to .W. nr,. off
13 n. The 600 level was the floor
predicted at year end by the most
pessimistic market forecasters in
case slump developed this year.
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MARBLE EXPERTS Don Lutz, left, displays huge trophy he won for winning class A (6
to 12 years old) Oregon marble title at Portland's Jantzen Beach Saturday. Bruce May, right,
finished fourth in class B division (13 to 15 yean eld). He's shown with fourth-place trophy
(center) and a special trophy (right) awarded to Bend Eagles Lodge in recognition of club's
many youth activities. Both Don end Bruce are students at Bend Junior High.
Petitions out
Report due Tuesday
on recall progress
By Bill Thompson ,
Bulletin Staff Writer
Recall petitions aimed at re
moving four city commissioners
are "all over town," but total
number of signatures obtained
thus far is still unknown.
The petitions, pushing for the
removal of commissioners Paul
Rcasoner, E. L. Nielsen, Richard
Carlson and William E. Miller,
were filed at the city hall last
week by a group calling itself the
"Citizens Committee for Fair City
Politics."
The group's attorney, Gottlieb
J. Baer, said several petitions
(not more than 20 signatures to
the page, according to the city
charter) have been filled.
He said he hoped to have a re-
Unmanned
satellite pur
up by Soviets
MOSCOW (UI'I) The Soviet
Union launched another unmanned
earth satellite today in its cur
rent series of tests aimed at put
ting a man on tl.e moon, the So
viet Tass news agency said.
Tass said the new satellite,
called Cosmos V, was circling
the earth every 102.75 nn.i'ites at
heights ranging from 12ii miles to
about 993 miles at its highest,
with "all systems functioning
normally."
Cosmos V's maximum distance
from the earth is greater by
somt 24 miles than an; of the
prev.ous siioU.
Describing Cosmos V as "a
routine artificial earth satellite."
Tass said the new Sputnik's or
bit of inclination to the equator
is 49 donna's, 4 minutes.
01 21 satellites known to have
been orbited by the Soviet Union,
five are known to be circling the
earth. The United States i as fired
70 known shots o( which 32 are still
in orbit. There has been one
iotyit Anglo-American launch.
Supreme Court turns down bid
for McDonald conviction review
WASHINGTON (UPI-Tlie Su
preme Court today refused to re
view to Oregon S!;ile Supreme
Court decisions upholding convic
tions of Levi S. Mt'DonnId for the
dynamiting of trucks operated by
two struck Portland newspapers.
Today's brief order leaves In
rffert both nrdcrt affirming Mc
Donald's convictions.
McDonald had asked for a re
hearing of two convictions on
grounds that newspaper and tele
port on the over-all progress of
the recall movement by Tuesday,
and noted petitions have been plac
ed throus' ;ut the city.
Under charter provisions, a
minimum of 920 valid signatures
is required to set up a special mu
nicipal election.
The 920 figure is obtained by
multiplying twenty-five per cent
times the total votes cast for Uie
commissioner receiving largest
number of votes in the last gen
eral election. This was 3639 votes
recorded by Nielsen.
The recall group has 90 days
after filing to obtain necessary
signatures. Separate petitions are
required for each commissioner
named.
Thus, in order to force a recall
vote of all four commissioners,
close to 4,000 valid signatures
would have to be obtained.
Bob Blakely is president of the
recall group and Walter Marken
is treasurer.
Petitions Drafted
The petitions were drawn up
after the above named four com
missioners voted to accept City
Manager Walter T. Thompson's
April 2 resignation at the May 16
Commission meeting.
Just prior to this rote, Thomp
son had offered to slay on until
the general election in November
(to let the voters decide) after
being asked by the Commission to
reconsider his resignation at uie
May 2 meeting.
Bing'
son hurt
tumble
in car
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Bing
Crosby's four-year-old son, Harry,
was reported in "good condition'
today in Children's Hospital
where he is recovering from in
juries suffered when he fell out
of a car while on a fishing trip
in Mexico.
Larry Crosby, Li-i crooner's
brother and spokesman for t h e
family, said Harry was flown
back from Baja, California. Satur
day after spending a night in a
hospital in Mexico.
vision publicity had prevented
him from receiving a fair trial.
McDonald was found guilty In
both Portland and Oregon City for
th-i dynamiting of trucks used by
the Oregon Journal and the Ore
conian during the strike that
started in November of 1959. The
dynamitings occurred Jan. 31,
McDonald, who had been a
member of the Slpreutypers' Un
ion negotiating cummitlee, was
Bend boy takes
Class A state
marble laurels
Special to The Bulletin
PORTLAND Don Lutz, 12-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
R. Lutz, 447 Greeley, '. -pped the
class A field (6 to 12 year; oj.
in the Oregon Marble Champion
ships Saturday at Portland's Jant
zen Beach.
And he gave class B winner
(13 to 15 years old) Ronald
Mowlds, Portland, a real battle
before being edged out for the
Oregon state crown and a trip to
the national marble tournament
at Greenville, Tenn.
Don beat Mowlds in the first
game of the best-of-thrce match,
and was edged out in the last two
games.
Bruce May, 13, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph B. May, 634 East
Fourth, finished fourth to Mowlds
in the older boys' division.
The pair, along with Bend en
trants Dunnie Hanks and Tommy
Tyler, were accompanied by
Ralph May, with the Bend Eagles
Club sponsoring the trips.
The Bend Eagles Club was also
honored by the Portland Orogon-
ian in recognition ol the bagies
youth activities, May receiving a
special trophy.
Library budget
discussion due
Financing of the Deschutes
County Library will be one of the
items to be discussed at tonight's
meeting of the County Budget
Committee, 8 o'clock standard
time in the county court room of
the courthouse.
The Bend budget committee
lopped $4577 from the city's share
of the library budget, at its meet
ing last Friday. City budget mem
bers said that they had expected
the county to pick up 70 per cent
of the $45,770 library budget this
year, leaving the city with a 30
per cent share ($13,731.).
The county had budgeted for
the library cn the same basis as
last year, 604?.
The city group says that un
der terms ol a verbal agreement.
the county was to pick up an in
creasingly larger share of the
tab. by 10 per cent jumps a year.
County Judge D. L. Penhollow In
formed the city by letter of the
county's action.
sentenced "to pay a line of $V)0
and serve a term not lo exceed
10 years in the Portland case. In
Oregon City he later was sv
tencrt) to serte 10 years with the
sentence to run consecutively with
the one imposed In Portend.
He has remained free on bond.
U Three brothers. Edward,
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diaries and William nyaer, aiiu
another young man. Gerald A.
Couzens. entered guilty pleas in
connoction with the dynamiting.
Posse stalks
young killer
of 5 persons
UNIONVILLE, Iowa (UPI) - A
quiet, methodical farmhand and
expert hunter who stalked and
killed five members of his family
was believed cornered today in a
maze of brush and timber-choked
gulleys near here.
A heavily armed posse ringed
the five-square-mile area where
Gayno Gilbert Smith, 24, was
thought to be lurking, still armed
with the "over-and-under" shotgun-rifle
combination used to kill
his aunt and uncle and their
three children at their rural
Hayesville, Iowa, farm home.
Smith was accused of killing
farmer Andrew McBeth, the iat-
ter's wife, Dora Mae, 42, and
their children, Amos and Anna,
19-year-old twins, and Mrs. Donna
Jean McBeth Kellogg, 17. Donna
Jean was a divorcee.
A fourth child, Patsy McBeth,
i, was wounded in the shoulder
during the "motiveless" mass
slaughter Saturday night and early
Sunday.
Abandons Auto
The search for Smith shifted
from Hayesville, 40 miles south
east, to Unionville when Smith's
abandoned car was found on a
country road 2V4 miles west of
this community of 175 persons.
The manhunt began about
a.m. Sunday when Patsy, sob
bing with fright and pain, stum
bled into a neighbor's home and
screamed, "Gayno shot us. 1 know
mother and dad are dead. I know
they're all dead. 1 don't know
why he did it. I don't know why
he did it"
Authorities said Smith took the
M:Beth children to a dance in
Bfignion, Iowa, Saturday night
and then slipped away from the
dance and returned to the farm
to kill the farmer and his wife,
firing four shots through a living
room window from the weapon,
consisting of a 410-gauge shotgun
barrel over a 22-caliber rifle
barrel.
Smith dragged the bodies to a
nearby garage, wiped up the
blood in the living room and re
moved fuses, leaving the house in
darkness, authorities said.
Then he returned to the dance,
picked up his four cousins, took
them to Hedrick, Iowa, for soft
drinks and sandwiches and
brought them back to the farm,
Patsy said.
When they arrived at the farm
Amos became suspicious because
of the darkened house and began
a search. He found the bodies of
his parents, the survivor said.
Patsy said Smith ran to the car,
crabbed the gun and "just started
shooting." Anna was shot in the
back and fell to the living room
floor. The others scattered, and
Smith, an expert hunter, began
stalking them, firing at sounds
and silhouettes.
Mrs. Kellogg was hit in the
chest and head and her body fell
across the bed where her son,
Perry, 6 months, lay sleeping and
unharmed.
Planners meet
here tonight
Another look at the subdivision
situation, in light of the new sub
division ordinance, will be taken
by the Bend Planning Commis
sion at Its monthly meeting 8 day
light time tonight In the City
Hall.
The recently passed ordinance
gives the Planning Commission
jurisdiction over subdivisions
within six miles of the city of
Bend.
The group has also been asked
to consider a request to vacate a
portion of street located at the
Bend Riverside Motel, and clo
sure of the Old Riley Road
through the motel property.
The specific charge was causing
injury to property by use of ex
plosives. McDonald. In seeking a review
of the second conviction, said pub
licity which deprived him of
fair trial had even more "cumula
tive impact" In Uie Oregon City
trial. His attorneys said he had
been "twice pre-tried in tho press
and on television once before his
Multnomah County trial and once
during the trial." q
Ex-Portland U
Murel Nehl is
Murel Nehl, 49, a longtime resi
dent of Bund whose feats on west
ern football fields just short of 30
years ago were a legend, died
Sunday evening about 7:45, victim
of a heart attack suffered at the
scene of an accident.
With his wife, Mildred, Nehl
was driving over the old Red
mond highway north of Bend, and
near the Cooley Road junction
reached an overturned car, with
two youths calling for help. One
was Lloyd W. Mills, 21, Bend, and
the other was Robert A. Currin,
22, Bend. Traveling north, their
car had left the old highway on a
curve near the Cooley Road inter
section and rolled over twice.
Mills was hospitalized.
NelU got out of his car to give
aid and suffered a heart attack.
He died at the accident scene.
Born at Woodburn
Born in Woodburn on July 2,
1913, Nehl won fame while play
ing for Columbia University, now
Portland University. By the time
of his graduation in 1934, Nehl's
prowess as a gridman was wide
ly known in the West.
Not only did Nehl excel in foot
ball, but in addition was expert
in basketball, track and baseball.
Nehl's great play in the 1934 sea
sun earned him a berth with the
West team in the Shrine game at
San Francisco. In Uiat contest,
Nehl made the longest run of the
day.
In 1933, the Pilots of Portland,
powered by Nehl, held Oregon to
a 14-7 victory. That was the year
that Mike Mikulak was an all
American on the Oregon team.
For a number of years after
leaving college, Nehl was a base
ball standout in the old Oregon
State League. Nehl wore the Bend
State kes another construction
shutdown as iron workers strike
PORTLAND (UPI) Another
heavy construction shutdown was
threatened in Oregon today when
iron workers failed to show up
for work in the first day of a new
strike.
Some 700 members of Local 29
of the International Association of
Bridge, Structural and Ornamen
tal Iron Workers are involved in
a dispute in Oregon and South
west Washington with five em
ployer groups.
John J. O'Halloran, secretary
and business representative of the
local, said the work halt was call
ed following a breakdown In ne
gotiations Saturday with the As
sociated General Contractors for
new contract.
He said the union wanted a two-
year contract calling for a wage
increase of 75 cents an hour lor
rodmcn rnd 68 cents an hour for
structural iron workers.
He said the local had been
without a contract since April 20
and had informed employers they
were not furnishing men without
an agreement.
O'Halloran said the local reject
ed an AGC offer of a three-year
contract calling for a wage in
crease of 16 cents each year.
The union will not picket con
struction projects unless workers
are brought In to do iron workers
jobs, he added.
Jack Cullinan, chairman oi uie
employers' negotiating group, said
the AGC s members wouia voie
on Uie local's demands on Tues
day. He said the groups could not
act without a vote because ot tne
financial burden involved in the
contract.
Federal Mediator George Walk-
Sgt.York is
'acutely ill'
JAMESTOWN, Tenn. (UPI)
Sgt. Alvin B. York, a red-haired
giant from tho Tennessee hills
whose skill with a rifle made him
a one-man army in World War I,
is "acutely ill" at a hospital
here.
The 74-year-old Medal of Honor
winner, bedridden since 19M, was
taken to Fentress County General
Hospital last Saturday. Dr. Guy
C. Plnkley, who has cared for
him for the past 25 years, said
York apparently had suffered a
gaslro-intestinal hemorrhage.
Plnkley said he saw no immed
iate cause for "too much alarm."
He said Sunday night tho bleed
ing had been checked.
Since 1942 York has fought off
lobar pneumonia, heart trouble,
high blood pressure, a hem
orrhnge In his right eye and a
stroke that left him partially par-
grid great
heart victim
MUREL NEHL
colors in baseball play for many
seasons.
Survivors Listed
Surviving Mr. Nehl -ire his wi
dow, the former Mildred Dugan,
whom he married in 1941, and
three children, Patricia, 16; Mich
ael, 12, and John, 7. Also surviv
ing is his mother. Mrs. Lena
Nehl, of Wc 'Hum, and a sister.
Mrs. Jack uibbon, Portland.
Funeral services for Mr. Nehl
are pending. The Niswonger and
Reynolds funeral Home is
charge.
A member of the Elks and the
Teamsters Union, Mr. Nehl was
employed here for many years by
the Neel Distributing Company,
Oregon State Police are investi
gating tho accident in which the
two Bend youths. Mills and Cur-
l rm, were involved.
er said no further talks were
scheduled.
Cullinan said employers would
attempt to keep construction proj
ects going "as long as practicably
possible." The employers' groups
involved are the Associated Gen
eral Contractors' heavy and build
ing divisions, tho Willamette Gen
eral Contractors Association of
Salem, the Steel and Wire Fabri
cators Association and the Eugene
Contractors Association.
In addition to wage demands.
iron workers asked for a 5 cent
increase in health and welfare
payments to 15 cents an hour, 15
cents an hour for a pension fund
to be started July 1 and increases
In present travel costs.
The present wage scale of the
iron workers is $3.72 an hour for
rodmen and $3.92 for structural
iron workers.
Meanwhile, a two-month-old dis
pute between contractors and un
ion carpenters and piledrivers in
Oregon and Southwest Washington
ended Saturday.
Piledrivers and the Southwest
Washington carpenters council ap
proved a revised contract submit
ted to them last week. The con
tract was substantially the same
as the one Uie two groups reject
ed earlier except it clarified when
overtime work would be paid at
time-and-a-half rates and when it
would be paid double time.
Bike
who
riders
violate
laws warned
' Effective at once, Bend bicycle
riders failing to observe city and
! state traffic rules will bo cited to
appear In juvenile court, Police
Chief Emil Moen announced to
day.
Officers are being Instructed by
Chief Moon to impound bicycles
of traffic offenders.
Principals of Bend schools have
been notified of the action to be
taken in the enforcement of bicy
cle regulations, and this informa
Hon- is being passed on to young
sters.
Chief Moen noted that the rules
governing bicycle riding are vir
tually the same as those for the
operation of cars.
Olficcrs Indicated they are
strictly to enforce bicycle rules
not In a move to get "hard boil
ed." but to avert Injuries to
vounasters who disregard rules
set for in cily ordinances.
Several serious accidents haw
occurred In recent years, Chief
Moen mentioned. Carelessness in
the operation of bicycles was
factor In many of the accidents.
Agriculture
official first
o testify
WASinNGTON (UPI) An Ag
riculture Department official tes
tified today that monUis before
the Billie Sol Estes scandals ex
ploded he received information
that the Texas farm manipulator
was liable for $7 millio.i or $8
miUion in mortgages not covered
m his financial statements.
The official, Roland F. Ballou,
made Uie statement in replying to
quesUons by Rep. L. H. Foun
tain, D-N.C, chairman of a House
government operations subcom
mittee which opened an inquiry to
day into Estes tangled affairs,
Ballou said he got Uie mortgage
information from a Dun and
Bradstreet report In September,
1961.
Ballou also said Uie Agriculture
Department began taking action
to safeguard Uie government's in
terest in Estes grain storage op
erations "prior to his arrest." But
under further questioning, Ballou
said Uiis action was started Uia
morning of March 29, 1962, only
hours before Estes wa. arrested.
Ballou said "stories a n d ru
mors had been circulating for
months Uiat Estes was "not as
solvent as he appeared to be."
But he said Estes was known as
"very fierce competitor in Uie
grain storage field."
Criminal Activity Suspected
Fountain began cross examina
tion of Ballou atte- Uie official
said In a prepared statement that
there was reason to believe that
Estes was guilty of a criminal
violation in his gram storage
dealings with the government.
BaUou said the matter had been
turned over to Uie FBI and Uie
Justice Department for possible
action. He said the aUegcd viola
Uon Involved falsa financial state
ments, which carries a penalty
of up to five years in prison upon
conviction.
Ballou said he based his con
clusion Uiat no favoritism was
shown Estes by Uie department
on his intimate acquaintanceship
of grain storage operations.
Ho said there was "absolutely
nothing to allegations" that Uie
department was put to additional
expense by moving grain from
tho Great Plains area of Kansas
to Estes' Texas elevators. Ballou
said it was common to move
grain from Uiat area to Texas
Gulf ports.
In describing the government s
crackdown on Estes, Ballou said
he was advised on March 28 con
siderable publicity had been giv
en in Texas to expressions of
concern by about 20 of Estes
creditors who feared for their in
vestments. FBI Investigates Loans
The next day, ho said, C H.
Moselcy, head of Uie Dallas area
Office of Uio Commodity Opera
lions told him by telephone the
FBI was looking into some of Es
tes' loans.
He said he Immediately called
a meeting of department offi
cials. It was "unanimously
agreed" to start taking inventor
ies of government grain in Estes
elevators, he said.
"Estes was arrested late Uiat
flernoon," Ballou told Uie sub
committee.
Meantime, Agriculture Secre
tary OrviUe L. Freeman refused
to modify a department order to
withdraw about 42 million bushels
of government-owned grain from
elevators once controlled by Es
tes. It is my belief that Uio do-
Dartment should not continue to
do business with or subsidize Uie
operations of Billie Sol tsles.
Freeman said.
He issued Uie statement after
conferring with Harry Moore,
court-appointed receiver lor tes
tes' crumpled grain storage and
fortiliier empire.
Moore, an El Paso, Tex., bank
er hoped to get the rain storage
licenses renewed on Estes' eleva
tors, to pe.-suado Uie department
to release enough grain storage
payments now held in escrow to
operate Uie receivership and to
get a modification of Uie order
to move gram from the Estes
warehouses.
Government Is Firm
Moore told newsmen Freeman
would not renew Uie storage U
censes, wotdd not release Uio
money now in escrow except un
der court order: and would not
modify Uie Older to withdraw tho
(,raln now in storage.
The grain storage paymenti
have been Uie prime source of
revenue for Uie receivership.
There Is about $1 million of stor
age payments now held In ev
crow.
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