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of Crj3on Library EUUENS, OKEOO.V WEATHER Filr; high Friday 7541; lew to night M-40. BEND BULLETINS s-r-Kii-r . 4:22. (Standard Tim.). CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 59th Year Sixteen Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, June 7, 1962 Ten Cents No. 155 GOP unfurls bitter blast at Democrats Unlv E'.;. W'''min,i '- , , i i.i.-jf- tW INFORMATION CENTER ERECTED A Bend-made Warring, ton vacation home has been erected on the Allen Grade School grounds to serve as a Bend Chamber of Commerce information center in the 1962 tourist season. At left is Ernest Warrington, designer of the units, manufactured at Lelco, Inc. Don Harpel Talks break off between TOC, lumber union PORTLAND (UPI) Wage talks between an employer group and another large lumber union ended in deadlock here Wed nesday. The negotiations between the Timber Operators Council (TOC) and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union broke off with neither side budging from its pre vious position. The union wants a wage in crease of 30 cents an hour and employers maintain that the in dustry cannot afford any increase. A meetinj Tuesday between TOC representatives and negotia tors or. the International Wood workers of America broke off in the same manner. The unions are making identical wage demands for both have strike authorizations from their members. Karl Glos, executive vice presi dent of TOC, said any further meetings are up to the unions. Between 55,000 and 60,000 mem bers of the two unions are work ing under a two-year contract, but they had the option of re opening wage talks June 1. Pension! Upped Employers at Wednesday's meeting pointed out that a 5-cent hourly hike in pension payments went into effect June 1. They said pension costs added in the last two years are now costing the lumber and wood products indus try approximately $2.5 million a year. Glos said when the industry granted the pension increases last year, it expected to be out of an economic slump. Instead, he said, the market is worse and political and civic leaders are attempting to help the industry. Representatives of both big un ions say they recognize the plight of the lumber industry, but point to wage increases granted in other industries. Threats of a strike have been soft-pedalled. The TOC says the average hourly pay in the industry is now $2.57 an hour, compared to $2.17 an hour in British Columbia. Ca nadian lumber has been under selling Northwest lumber in the eastern markets. The IWA, how ver, estimates the average Doug las Fir Belt wage is $2.18. The Timber Operators Council represents 191 lumber and wood products producers in Northern California, Oregon, Washington and Southern Alaska. The IWA was scheduled to start wage negotiations with one of the large independent companies, Simpson Timber Co., here today. Library to close children's area while work done The Auditorium area (children's room) at the Deschutes County Library will be closed off Friday and Saturday to permit work on the floor before the summer read ing project begins Monday, June 11. A limited number of children's books will be available in the hall way, head librarian Ivy G rover announced. Theme title for this year's read ing program is the "peacock read ing project," for first, second and third graders. The program will run from June 11 through August 15. Children read two books to col or another feather on the pea cock's tail Building by Lelco Tourist information center set by C of C Staffed by the Bend Chamber of Commerce, a tourist information center is to be established on East Third Street, in a Bend - made vacation home. The home, of large cabin size, will be a Warrington, a 14 by 24 foot pre-fabricated structure now being produced here by Lelco, Inc. The first of the pre-fab homes was set up Wednesday on the south side of the Allen Grade School grounds, facing the East Third Franklin intersection. There through the summer, Bend Chamber of Commerce per sonnel will be on the job to talk with tourists, tell them of the Deschutes recreation area and distribute literature. Built in sections, the new pre fabricated units can be assemb led by three people in three days or less. The exterior is structural Plan for selecting new manager to be formulated by commission By Bill Thompson Bulletin Staff Writer A special meeting to formulate plans for selection of a new city manager has been scheduled by the Bend City Commission for 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 12. Some 38 have applied for the vacancy created by the resigna tion of city manager Walter T. Thompson effective July 1. The City Commission set up the meeting at its regularly sched uled gathering Wednesday eve ning in the City Hall alter a mo tion for a two-man selection com mittee (Mayor Jack Dempsey and William E. Miller) was with drawn, j But finding a new city mana-1 gcr isn't the only problem facing the Commission. There is, for instance, the mat ter of closing the old Riley Road that runs through the Bend Riv erside Motel, north of Pioneer Park. The plan had been passed back to the city fathers with an OK from the Planning Commission, but more than 40 nearby residents were on hand last night to vigor ously protest any closing. Second Look After noting that the Planning Commission had decided to take a second look at the proposal, the city commissioners tossed the problem back to the planners. The closure is sought by motel owners as part of an improve ment expansion plan. Then there is the problem of insurance for city employes. Recently, the employes, given their choice of the present cover age or several alternate plans. voted 77-0 to continue the current OPS-New York Life Insurance pol icy. But, after strenuous objections from commissioner Paul Reason er, the final selection of city em ploye insurance was tabled for two weeks. Another problem confronting the commissioners is a garbage franchise. Earlier in the year, lo cal sanitation engineers were ask ed to submit their proposals for an exclusive garbage franchise. Carter on Hand And Fred Carter, owner of the Busy Bee Garbage Company, was Ion hand last night to ask just is at right. The pre-fabricated home was completed by yester day evening. The center will be staffed by the Bend Chamber of Commerce, with local visitors welcome to inspect the pre fabricated vacation cottage and the tourist displays. ly complete. The only small task left for the home owner is the selection and application of paint or stain. For an attractive, easily com pleted interior, it is recommend ed that the home builder install knotty pine panelling then, with a clear varnish finish, the inter ior is ready for use and will re quire a minimum amount of care, just a swipe with a damp cloth keeps walls in fine shape. Suggestions are offered for floor plans. The basic Warrington pro vides for the use of more than one unit in various arrangements for a year around home. A single unit serves as a sum mer cabin or a guest house. The new recreation units or guest houses were designed by Ernest G. Warrington of the Lel co staff. Each unit includes glass and doors. where the city currently stood on its earlier-announced plan to stu dy an exclusive garbage contract. Carter was assured that, should an exclusive franchise be adopt ed, present garbage collectors would have at least a year's no tice. Other problems, and-or action: 1. Rejection of remonstrance pe tition (36 per cent) against alley improvement in Wiestoria Addi tion;; 2. Final approval of tree sur geon license ($25 per year); 3. Delay on final okay of 10 year city street light contract be tween city and Pacific Power, pending amendment setting up joint responsibility between city and power company for policing of lights; First Reading 4. First reading of parking lot ordinance which sets up card sys tem for city-owned lots in back of City Hall and at Mutzig proper ty, corner Oregon and Lava Road. Spaces at both lots will be rented for $9 a quarter with users to display cards in rear windows. 5. Heard "warning" from Bill Nipper, 1806 Awbrey Road, that he would sue city if Rainey Build ing, north of Pilot Butte Inn, is rented to custom trailer plant. Nipper said he had been blocked by city building inspector irom renting building for furniture plant on grojids it did not con form to uniform building code. A report from the administration was asked; ; 6. Approved appointment of Bob Gabriel to Planning Commission; 7. Scheduled public hearing on city budget for Thursday, July 5. 8. Appointed William C. James as Emergency Planning Director, a post to cover disasters other than enemy attacks. James is al ready Civil Defense director for the county. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages; 30 industrials 602 20. off 1.71; 20 railroads 126 35, off 0 33; 15 utili ties 113 22, off 0 80, and 65 stocks 208 00, off 0.78. Sales today were about 2 76 mil lion shares compared wl'. h 4.19 million shares Wednesday. 'No win policy seen if Yugoslav aid is withheld WASHINGTON (UPI) Under-! secretary of State George W. Ball said today that denying aid to Communist Yugoslavia would constitute a "no win" policy in the cold war because it would .. luuy ui uiuse viiu wiumtriu new dash all hope for pro-Western els- ej support from the Cuban pa ments there. ! taints dlsnatched tn free their Ball made the statement before a Senate subcommittee less than 24 hours after the Senate adopt ed an amendment, aimed at Po land and Yugoslavia, which would ban aid for all Communist dominated nations. The State Department official was replying to questions by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C, who has leveled the "no win charge at State Department policy. Senate Democratic load ers hoped to muster enough votes to turn back a second challenge to President Kennedy's $4.6 bil lion aid bill a proposal by Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R-Iowa, to trim $400 million from the measure. Party leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., said he would do his best to defeat the Hickenlooper move. Ball, a witness before the Sen ate subcommittee which has been studying alleged muzzling of mili tary leaders, asked lor a tew minutes to put the Yugoslav ques tion "in perspective." Although he did not specuicai- ly mention Wednesday's Senate action, Bail said the United states, in an era of nuclear stalemate, must "work with the great histor ic trends which I am convinced are working on our side." This means, he said, working towards opening up the closed Communist societies. Ball said the Yugoslavs are a "proud people" who have devel oped an economic system quite different from standard Commu nist doctrine. Yugoslavia does 70 per cent of its trade with Western nations, the Yugoslav state does not own all property, and "West ern ideas flow in" by unjammed radio, he said. "Admittedly, this Is a Commu nist country," Ball said, "but coming up, the new generation. . . these people are Western-orient ed." Tumalo bridge closure is due Monday at 10 The Tumalo bridge, spanning the Deschutes River east of Gal' veston, will be closed to through traffic beginning 10 a m. Monday, city superintendent Percy Drost announced today, A new Oregon State Highway Commission bridge will be built this summor to replace the pres ent structure, constructed by the WPA in 1936. The new bridge, gateway to Bachelor Butte and the Cascade Lakes Highway, will be 140-fect long and 36-fcet wide, with five foot sidewalks on both sides. The bridge is to be completed by the latter part of August. Mo torists are advised to use either the Newport or Portland bridges during the construction period. LABOR STRIKES RISK WASHINGTON UPI - Strike activity Increased in April, the Labor Department's Statistics Bu Ircau reported today. It said 460 I strikes involving 155.000 workers occurred in April and accounted for 1,240,000 man-days of idle-Iness. WASHINGTON (UPI) Con gressional Republicans today ac cused President Kennedy's admin istration of "bankruptcy of lead ership" in foreign affairs and of destroying confidence at home. In foreign policy, they said "the overriding national goal must be victory over communism." On the domestic front, they pro posed an overhaul of the federal tax system, a balanced budget and a halt in the rise in federal spending, tax relief to encourage the use of private health insur ance and "selective federal as sistance" for education. The seven-page GOP policy statement, a campaign platform for the 1962 congressional elec tions, was drafted by 12-mem- ber committee and approved to day by caucuses of all Republi cans in the House and Senate. Harsh Indictment It included this harsh Indict ment of administration foreign policy: Despite this nation's position as the most powerful on earth, the brankruptcy of its leadership was shown at critical times in the past year. It was shown in Berlin and Cuba. It was shown In the hesitancy to resume nuclear testing when our national security demanded it. It was shown in the bluster followed by whimpering in respect to Laos. . . "Within the last 18 months a Communist military base has been established 90 miles from the coast of Florida. The tragic tim :.;,.. r , i. ...i. ,1. u i j i icountrv Dcrmitted the Commu nido in nists to achieve their greatest tri umph in a decade. We should never again tolerate such a fail we." Reps Contrail The Republicans said only i free, competitive economy could achieve the goal of steady econo mic progress but that the admin istration believed that government control was necessary. "The Incompetence of the New Frontier in economic policy Is manifest," they said. "It has de stroyed confidence. It has given the nation a multibillion dollar increase In federal spending and is on the way to its third unbal anced budget. Under it the nation has had the highest annual unemployment, the greatest number of business fail ures since the great depression, and the slowest recovery from re cession in the postwar period." Zoned strips on U.S. 97 sought The first legal step in Des chutes county toning, to provide for orderly development, was ta ken yesterday. Notices were post ed at three locations giving the County Court's intention to desig nate a strip of land along High way 97, from Bend to Redmond, for zoning. The zoning was requested by petitioners living on both sides of the highway, and was authorized at last week's meeting of the County Planning Commission. The petitioners have indicated that they want to protect exist ing and future homesites and bus inesses from future unsightly de velopments such as wrecking vards and slaughter houses. The strip In question Is one-nnu mile In width on each side of the highway, from the south city llnv its of Redmond to the north city limits of Bend After the petitions were check ed, they were found to have some 41 valid signatures. There were more than twice that number of signers. The signatures were checked in the office of Assessor Robert Lyons, to determine If they were those of residents within the mile-wide strip. Notices were posted by Road- master Char es L. Plummer at the south city limits of Redmond the north city limits of Bend and at Deschutes Junction. Hanna enters State Hospital SALEM (UPD-Hugh Dan Han- na, arrested for the beating of four Lake Oswego children last month, entered the Slate Hospital Wednesday. The 20-year-old Lake Oswego youth had waived grand Jury In vestigation and requested a psy chiatric examination after he was captured in Little Rock, Ark., and returned to Clackamas County. Manna was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Chinese no! represented at 'summit' MOSCOW (UPI)-The Commu nist economic summit conference ended today after two days of talks between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the lead ers of six Soviet bloc nations. Toss, the Soviet news agency, announced the end of the con ference but made no reference to closing communique or details of the discussions. Albania was banned from the conference and its ally in the ideological dispute with Moscow, Communist China, did not send its usual observer delegation. The absence of China and Albania in dicated that the Moscow-Peiping feud occupied a high place on the agenda, alongside the economic problems for which the con ference was called. The conference opened Wednes day with government heads and Communist party chiefs in atten dance from the Soviet Union, Po land, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and East Ger many. Details of tha closed ses sion in the Kremlin were not dis closed. '' The Communist leaders were assembled as a plenary session of the Council for Mutual Econo mic Assistance which coordinates industrial development and trade Within the Soviet bloc. The presence of the Communist world's top figures Lidicated the conference would extend its dis cussions beyond economic prob lems to such key issues as Ber lin and Germany, disarmament, rapprochement with Yugoslavia, and the Kremlin's ideological dif ferences with Peiping and Alba nia. Albania, a member, was exclud ed from the conference, presum- ibly because of its ideological break with Moscow lait fall. Albania and Communist China disagree with the Soviet leader- hip on Die de-Stalinlzation process and the Western posture vis-a-vis the West. Peiuing generally sends an ob server to the sessions, but a usu ally reliable source said there was no Chinese representative at Die current meeting. DraAe Park walk being relocated Distance of a section of foot path across the center of Drake park, near the old fountain area, is to be reduced to Die shortest line between two points. The project, now under way with the City Parks Department in charge, will eliminate the pres ent curve in the sidewalk, where it swings past the DAR Memorial marking the location of Bend's first school. The new section will be about 240 feet in length. Work of removing turf for the new path was to be completed to day. A concrete path will be con structed. Eventually, the old curved sec tion of walk will be removed. Two youngsters share honors in spelling bee WASHINGTON (UPI)-A Hnnd- it 111., boy and a Roswell, N.M. girl became cochampions of the 35th annual National Spelling Bee today after a see-saw battle of 59 words. Michael Day, 14, and Nattle Crawford, 13, battled to a draw when neither was able to spell the other down. On two other occasions, in 1950 and 1M57, there were cochampions. Spelling Bee Director Jam Wagner of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers called a halt to the contest after both youngsters failed on "esquamulose," which means "without scales, a smooth kin." Mercury drops under freezing for fifth night June temperature dropped to freezing again last night, for the fifth consecutive night and possi bly a record for the month. Bend's official low last night was 29.5 degrees. This was the lowest mark reported from any part of the country but there were several other cool spots in the Oregon country. Redmond reported a low of 31 degrees, and Baker a low of 33. It was mild at Klamath Falls, the low for the night being 44 de grees. The Dalles recorded a minimum of 45 degrees. Continued fair weather, slight ly warmer than yesterday's 65, has been predicted for the ensu ing 24 hours. No moisture is in sight. Forest Service seeking larger location here June It has been Bet as the date when the Deschutes Nation al Forest will consider proposals for a new and larger location for the Bend headquarters staff. For some 35 years, the Pes' chutes staff has been housed in .U- n .J n . rttri U..II.J1.... uie ircnu rum vmcu uuuuiug, m the upper floor. Space available there is about 3B00 square feet. About 6600 square feet will be re quired adequately to house the present staff of 37 members. In earlier years, all local Des chutes National Forest offices were housed in the Post Office building. These included the Bend and Fort Rock district staffs, now in their own quarters. This past year, the accounts section was moved from the Post Office build ing to a location just across Franklin. To obtain some additional space, quarters In the basement of the Post Office building were also occupied. The overall result, Forest Service officials noted, is an inconvenient arrangement. Supervisor A. A. Poust has in dicated that the invitation for bids for new office space has re sulted In one apparently good of fer, at a downtown location. However, this or other possible offers for rental space cannot be accepted until June 18, date set for the opening of proposals. Should the U.S. Forest Service vacate the Bend Post Office Building, it Is presumed the vaca ted space will be taken over by other federal agencies in Bend. Court to study Freeman appeal SALEM (UPI) Automatic ap peals of two condemned siayers were under advisement today by the State Supreme Court, which must decide if Jeannace June Freeman will become the first woman executed in Oregon. The court Wednesday heard ap peals of Larry West Shipley, con victed in the shooting of Linda Jean Stevens near Otis Junction, and Miss Freeman, convicted in the death of one of two children who were thrown Into the Crooked River Gorge last year. No woman has been executed by the state of Oregon and there has not been an execution in the state's gas chamber since 1953. The court recently affirmed the death sentence of Leeroy Sanford McUahuey for the slaying of 2-year-old Rod Cameron Holt In Central Point. A death data fur him will be set soon. An appeal in hii behalf Is planned to Gov. Mark Hatfield. In each of the Shipley and Free man cases another person was convicted. Glenn Douglas Dixon was sentenced to Ufa imprison ment in connection with Die slay ing of Miss Stevens. Gertrude Mae Nunei, alias Jacksrn, got life for the slaying of one of her two children. Estes report is slipped to N.Y. paper WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House subcommittee investigating the Billie Sol Estes case has fired a Republican aide for leak ing confidential information to newsmen, a highly placed Repub lican source said today. The source said that both Re publican and Democratic mem bers of the subcommittee had agreed to fire Robert Manuel, GOP minority counsel to the House operations subcommittee. The subcommittee is headed by Rep. L.H. Fountain, D-N.C. The group met in executive ses sion today. When the meeting broke up for a quorum call in the House, the Republican source said Manuel had been given a dismissal notice. The source said GOP committee members agreed to "go along" with the Demo crats on the matter. Prestige Involved "There's nothing else wa could do because the prestige of the, committee is involve d," the source said. "He admitted leaking the report lo the (New York) Herald Tribune." Manuel told UPI he gave the Herald Tribune an Agriculture Department report on Estes lbnf was stamped confidential. U6 ..,'J L: lu 7. o"u ma aimuii uii uie conumi- tee still was undecided but that he "guessed" he would be fired. As for the Estes report, Man uel said he could see no reason for the administration to refuse to turn It over to Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson and a Texas grand jury. I leaked it, Manuel said. Political friction among the committee members Investigating talcs farm operations has be come mora apparent in recent davs. It flared into the open as the committee called as a witness Dr. James T. Ralph, an agriculture department official who was fired for letting Estes pay for his long distance calls. Ralph was an assistant secre tary in charge of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, through which Estes worked many of his alleged schemes. Ralph was demoted last February and was training to ba agricultural attache to the Philip pines when Secretary Orville Freeman fired him. The department said Ralph was fired because he charged person al telephone calls to Estes. Ralph told United Press Inter national that he charged three telephone calls to a credit card he did not know belonged to Es tes. Other congressional news; Aid: Senate Democratic leaders hoped to muster enough votes to ward off another setback to Pres ident Kennedy's $4.6 billion for eign aid bill. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont, said ha would do his best to defeat a pro posed amendment that would cut $400 million out of the bill. Taxes: Senate liberals figure the House has given them a new means of forcing action on t h a administration's tax refnrm bill. They hoped to use a House-passed $4 billion tax extension bill to pry the reform measure out of the Senate Finance Committee. Two injured liision in co Two persons were injured this morning at 6:50 o'clock whan their cars collided at the Portland Avenue Awbrey Road intersec tion in west side Bend. One was Thomas Petrie, 1533 West 8th Street, Bend, who suf fered back and rib injuries and was taken to the St Charles Me morial Hospital in tha city am bulance. Driver of the other car was William V. HiUiard, Powell Butte, who suffered a leg injury. Petrie and Hilliard were alone in their cars when the intersec tion accident occurred. Bend po lice investigated. n
