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Univ. of Oragori Library -day Full-schedule of activities is planned By Phil F. Brogan Bulletin Staff Writer Pageant days are here! Central Oregonians were re minded of this fact today as a big arch took final shape on the Des chutes, floats moved into position behind the span and Queen Eu nice I and her princesses started their official reign. Coronation of the queen Wed nesday night marked the official opening of the pageant, but not ui.til Friday, Saturday and Sun day nights will illuminated floats move into the Deschutes through the rainbow arch. Theme of this year's river fete, being presented for the first time on non-July 4th holidays, will be "America's Moments of Great ness." Starts With Columbus It will be a thome starting with the westward sailing of the Co lumbus caravel to discover Amer ica and including such floats as battleships in action, the flight of the Lone Eagle over the Atlantic and the Pacific victory. Script for this year's pageant was written by John Stenkamp of KBND. Voices to be heard in the presentation will be those of Jane Cutter, Howard Hobson, Glenn Ratcliff, Bill Bowers, Dallas Quick, Ralph Curtis and Richard Boone, of "Have Gun, Will Tra vel" fame. Kessler Cannon will provide the live narration. Only two events are scheduled for Friday, as Pageant Days be gin. These will be the start of the Mirror Pond Pageant Sweep stakes tourriey at the Bend Golf Club and the opening of the gem and mineral show sponsored by the Deschutes Geology Club. Gamat Scheduled American Legion games will be on July 28 and 29, and art ex hibits at Drake Park will be on the same days. There will be square dancing on July 28, at Jun iper Park and the Kenwood gym nasium. A special dance for all high school and college students will be held on Saturday night at the Wallace Dance studio, with dancing planned for post-pageant hours. ' The Vikings from Junction City will be very much in evidence a ound town on July 28 and 29. On the morning of July 28, from 7 to 10 a.m., there will be a buck aroo breakfast at the Rim Rock Riders grounds. The gem and mineral show will be held on July 27, 28 and 29th. ai.d the golf tourney will last tlxough Sunday. One of the big events of the fete program will be the pet pa rade, to start at 10 a.m. on Satur day morning, July 28. Over the busy weekend, sum mer ski lifts will be in operation at Bachelor Butte, 21 miles west of Bend. Municipal Band plans concerts before Pageants A 15-number concert will be of fered by the Bend Municipal Band 8 p m. Friday, Saturday and Sun day prior to the Mirror Pond Pageant at Drake Park. The band is directed by Norm an K. Whitney. Marches will include Uie "Semper Fidelis" March, by John Phillip Sousa; Fillmore's "H i s Honor" March; and "Santa Ce cilia March," by Radaelli - Brit tian. Featured pop numbers will be "Put Your Arms Around Me Hon ey," arranged by Leonard; "Mr. Srndman," Ballard-Yoder; high lights from "Say Darling," by Styne-Herfurth; "Georgia on My Hind," Carmichael Leonard; "Rhumba Sincopada," by Ploy W; "I Want a Girl," arranged by Leonard; and "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon," also arranged by Leonard. Other scheduled numbers are "Patriotic Fantasy," by Cohan E 'et Yoder; "A Starlit Fan tasy," arranged by Hawkins; "The Iron Count Overture." by King; "Curtain at Eight," by Walters; and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," arrang ed by Erickson. Approval given for new bank The Oregon State Banking De- j partment has granted conditional approval for the establishment in Bend of branch of the Bank of 1 Central Oregon. I Final approval by the Federal Dt-posit Insurance Corporation is King awaited before construction pi ns are made, John Bauer, cashier of Bank of Central Ore gon, Redmond, has announced. It is planned to use the Hun ntll Buiiuing on Bond Street as the temporary location for the new bank. An option has bet-n ob-Uiued. Water Pageant gets underway on Friday THE BEND 59th Year CROWNED Q'LZli Eunice d. . atovee. in a ceremony last ngnt at tht tiki ballroom, bha Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenmqj. ' legend 5 Coronatiorriiejd Eunice Fix 52 Pageant Queen By Ha S. Grant Bulletin Staff Writer Eunice Fix, 19-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fix, was crowned queen of the 1962 Bend Water Pageant, in cere monies Wednesday evening at the ivenineai me ! music before .theprogram. issflifmnVdllli EvaTHocalist, Elks Temple. Princess da Slate, daughter Mrs. Joe Slate; Mariferetrai, daughter of Mr. and MtEJTVJI&jfa R. Gall: Anne Moodvl aaflgtr., of Dr. and Mrs. E. AlbW-Mrr and Joyce Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Welborn Paker. The queen was crowned by B. A. (Dutch) Stover, chairman for Bend's first Water Pageants, in 1933 and 1934. He and Kirs. Ray mond Gumpert, official chaperone for the court, were given special recognition by Kessler Cannon, master of ceremonies. Mrs. Gum pert, Die former Lois Maker, was queen of the Pageant i . 1934. Selection of the queen was made by the Pageant Committee, after each girl made a short speech, describing various offic ial appearances by the court Miss Fix described a trip to Klamath Falls, to participate in a parade July 4. Miss Parker, who spoke first, told about the court's first trip, to participate in the Albany Timber Carnival July 2. Accounts Civen The other girls gave accounts of the trip to Portland, last Wednes day and Thursday. Miss Slate de tailed luncheon on Uie River Queen and entertainment by Uie Rainmakers; Miss Moody, lunch eon at Trader Vic's as guests of the Portland Chamber of Com merce; Miss Gall, television ap pearances in Portland. The queen, who will attend the University of Oregon this fall, made a brief thank-you talk be fore leaving the stage, giving rec ognition to her sponsors, the Bend Linis Club; those wi:o had given support by buying their tickets from her, and her family, for "putting up" with her irregular schedule, in the gay whirl that will continue through next Sunday evening. The queen is a pretty hazel eyed brunette, who tips Uie scales a: 103 and measures 5 feet, 3'i inches. The up-and-down statis tics are 34-22,j-34. A Bend native, she is a 19f.2 graduate of the lo cal high school, and aspires to be an interior decorator. She was prom qneen this year and home c rmrg princess last year; she p'ved in Uie school band aid belonced to Pep Club. Thespians , and Honor Society Mi'jte by Ceminot Tlie queen's ball followed the ; glow widely Sxittcd hy lookouts, i gin. coronation, with music by Uie THis was the 2Mh fire reorted Orrsnn Stale Pnlire ami forest ( aminos. The court members, in ' in the same area, on an flu-acre j officials have investigated t h e their blue formal gowns, danced subdivided tract, in recent years. , fires, and recently an OSP fire Ihe first dance with their Pag- j In the period, two houses, one inspector was railed in. The Sa earn Committee escorts. (owned by Lee Wright, the other Item office of Ihe OSP was noti- Ann Moty, Pageant queen. in a whit sheath dress with Sixteen Pages-: T " F' was erowied Queen offh selec fuschia gloves to match Uie stage curtain, was escorted to Uie stage first. She gave her farewell speech to her subjects anr wish her successor a successful rei Dr. Rex Hornbeck played or ''.'V::.-,'. ot f Jfrl ilcontuV4-(K a4Uas.tuick, J1 Hi i tin Ri'ytt$sjw jsi'rown i utjt f .ran jonnson g.pils-1Wy presen v qWen-W1fJi a bouquet red roses. Judging of the queen was on a point basis. Maximum possibili ties were 40 points for ticket sales, 20 for poise and personality. 20 for Pageant promotion and 20 foi Uie votes of Uie oilier candi dates. Gem, mineral show to open Friday morning Deschutes Geology Club mem bers today moved gem material, fossils Hid artifacts into Uie for mer Economy Drug Store at the corner of Wall and Riverside for their Mirror Pond Pageant show. The show will open Friday norning at 10 o'clock and will continue through Saturday and S'jiday. On each pageant night, the show will close one hcur be fore fete time, except Sunday. when Uie closing hour will be 6 p.m. Paying a visit to the show as it opens will be Queen Eunice 1 ai.d members of her court. A feature of Uie three-day min eral and gem show will be a dis play of arrow-heads expected to be one of Uie most representative of Uie area ever exhibited here. Most of Uie "points" were col lected in Central Oregon, esoc- ially on old camping sites of In- di j. j The display will include much j cut and polished gem material. I Arson suspected in barn blaze near LaPine; 26th fire in area Fire, apparently of incendiary I nri'Tin rlasctrnvawl I Vial Ksrn nn th ' cb,r Rjgg; place of LaPine shortlv alter in n'rlnrk iast night and resulted in a ,hv Robert Stevenwn. and Uie Riggs bam ere destroyed. CENTtfACTfrREGON'S REGO "EetvCll eschutes tend Wafer Pageant by.' will raign over the water fete - 1 Pageant: court! greets ZcomsK delegation here Sea picture Mijiaga 7. ' ? ' A flying Zoomsl tWegnHoiH reached Bend Wednesday after noon after circling UiegeboiuLL JV'aaMft'etedtll j Iiili'l)Jiflarch ndTcIE Ifrl fA th. trlst i indvn of iiiilu: n persrais were in the Zoom- I left pmrnrfi- iBstopuiil a.U! E-c-Jtfiist, MMl4ned- ford. then crossed Uie Cascades to Klamath Falls. It was on the flight north to! Bend from Klamath Falls that WASHINGTON (UP1) Presi members of Uie party, traveling ! dent Kennedy scheduled a meet- in two planes, circled Crater Lake as an electric storm moved out of the south and a rainbow rimmed the caldera. "After that, we didn't care what happened we had seen everything," Mrs. Donald New house, member of the Zoomsi committee declared on her arriv al in Bend. Visitors Greeted . City, Bend Chamber of Com merce officials and others greet ed the visitors in Drake Park and "met" two unusual plane pas sengers "Zoom," a tiny turtle, and "Si." a sleepy owl from Uie Portland Zoo. Arrangements for the local re ception were made by Don Con ner. Bend Chamber president. Aside from Jossy and Mrs. New-house, others in the Portland group included Jack Marks, Port land Zoo director: Lorcn McKin Icy, OMSI director: George Freck, chairman of the Zoomsi auction procurement committee; Pat Wessinger, Jack Baldwin, Lcverett Richards and Dennis Buchanan. Local gifts to the auction In cluded packaged pine, formally presented to the Portland group by Freeman Sehultz, Brooks- Scanlon general manager. The otfwr fire? vrr m jack-! niM I act to nr am .n firi krrtLai . exit in the area So far this year i there have hren mm All it it believed, were of im endiaiv ori- j tied of last night's fire Deschutes sheriff's officers aid BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER County, Oregon, Thursday, July 26, 1962 Rain dumped on area by noisy storm Rain from a noisy electric storm dampened Bend Wednei day afternoon, to give Iha-tmnud iate area its heaviest rnojture of the months' . ... v . ;-. : The slorm officially yielded 0.11 of aji' inch of molshi: In Bend. ,Xen spot fu-es were started in the Heschitrt woods by Uie sent-- of storms that moved out of tile south in the eiternjon. Eight ot uie ten were in thai Fort Rock district, parts of which if rt heav ily drenched by showers: the pre vious day.'; : i .V'l ' One Uglitning fire was reported On Uie MetolliB district. 'arid one on the Oescettf districL The Bend district also reported one. Light, scattered rains i-xorruianjed . the alurma. . , .. :- . -. V A fire weather forecait receiv ed this morning at the Deschutes National Forest headquartarr in Bend Indicated a much decreased possibility of electric storma this aftertooo. -. " . M. .-' - However the forecast calla for still warmer weather, this ppu eiitly to last over Urn weehaiid.i-. . Accompanying the hot weather will be dangerously low humidity, the forecait adds, ' -V- v Possibttity of "tleeper" lifht ning fires showing op in the dry ing woods in Uxt warm days ahead posed ' a . serious ' threat, ; forest ers tsttHi. ' -'..: r.f' They have asked all persons in the woods over Uie weekend to exercise -jfreat care with firs, t Unrtetf nu Intamatlaiwl i A 8.000 Hct-Ai timber and brush I fire was biir.imi? out of control todaV on' tho Co'ville Indian Res- ervation In Washington ?' About" V rfi Svere- Wtiltin Uie - St nullum Warn Another? 100 men were 'epected to Join in the fllit against th ire.1' vM' Fifty small fire iverereiiolsd M mtltmnt forests m Oregon and Washington and 18 small blazes aere listed on, slaj Bad.-. Ja Orelffli' ill.mMtfclJ- r oulMosfWT were stiiilcd y liUtfng- ntr tenVMu-amVHt ken Uie nger u ith Mcdfora reJl cOfi ' Orefoni Ji idles! ing at 6:30 P.M., EDT, today with a group of Democratic sen ators and congressmen from Uie West and Pacific Northwest states to discuss problems of the lumber industry. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger told newsmen "we will have a statement fol lowing Uie meeting." Listed to aUend were Sens. Warren G. Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson, Wash.; Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger, Ore.; E. L. Bartlett, Alaska; Frank Church, Idaho; Clair Engle, Calif. Lee Metcalf, Mont. Representatives included Edith Green and Al Ullman, Ore; Julia B. Hansen, Wash.; Gracie Pfost, Idaho; Harold T. Johnson and Ciem Miller, Calif, and Arnold Olsen, Mont. CONDUCTING INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON (UPI)-An Agri culture Department spokesman said Wednesday Uie agency is in vestigating a "very sensitive" case different frrom Uiat of Billie Sol Estos. The Skcsman would only say that the case "has no relevance to any other current invesllga- tions, is not related to Uie Estes case, grain storage, commodities or personnel." ed m the preliminary inveatiga- linn lait niahf Over the years, the fires have ! occurred in an Ml acre tract be tween the old route of U.S. 97 and Little River, about two miles north of the Paulina Road Junc tion. The fires l,av resulted In great . concern to residents of Uie area. This concern Increased recently j with the announcement of an ad- jaccnt homeiite development. airea witn JFK Algeria teete on whk of -...I,, i .I,, M Action i'VniiM. OVilVII VVMIU spur French it . ' ALGIERS (UPll- Newly ind pendeat Algeria today apuioacne-i a-state of civil war between rival nationalist factions that could spur SOO.OOO French troops into actlou. i' Twelve hundred tough Berber boops vrfio. support Premloif Bon Youssef Ben Kliedda's Provisional Government (GPRA) were report, eu nmrdiinj on the city of Cort sUnUne.: ,si '.'. ,...; j ,' The eastern port city was seized Wednesday by forces loyal to dis sident Vicar Premier Ahmed Beo Bella. Today the GPRA's ambas-' sador' to Mali, Areski Boudlda, announced at Tizi Oireou that JO persons had been killed and doz ens wounded in the batde. ' I OUw Ben Bella supporters cap- hired Bone, apparently without s fight, land were, cheered by joy ous crowds. ?j Itiutd Warning Premier Ben Kliedda, practical ly the only-member of Uie Gl'RA stiU Jr.-r Algiers, issued a stato- mnt yVodnetday night warning " " W"1-'"" """""B leal.--, .win tiVv.rf'A y '."The) .danger of -Wit war are becoming real," he declared. ' mis process of deterioration must be "91ie- J'rerich 'goVernmerit, con cerned at the dlwppearance oi several hundred Eiiropealis il.Or- an, threatened to intervene to pro. tect its nationnls. Its 300,000 man nrmv in Altfpri'n hn hnen rntlfilied to barracks and bases since In- iapge-AW buaild pcveMoljhe asyl actiaijat s'miimeri's u.e. J U Honife Sccr Tlirie uLBed KhVldi's kilnft fcTire4ii3Tiii tlplviiithe Kab jlia ,Mounlait) stronghild 4 the where Uiey proclaimed their ih tention to defy Ben Bella's at tempted takeover of power. All Three Veterans The three are Belkacem Krim, Mohammed Boudiaf and Abdel Hafid Boussouf, all veterans of the long fight against France for Al gerian independence. The Berbers reported marching on Constantine were said to have been sent from Uie Tizi Ouzou area. There are about a million Ber bers in Kabylia and their 20,000 man Willaya army provided Uie French with some of their toughest battles during Uie seven-year war for independence. Ben Bella now appeared to con trol about three fourths of Algeria. 3-day operation of chairlift set for weekend The Bachelor Butte scenic chairlift rides will be offered from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Satur day and Sunday as part of Uie Mirror Pond Water Pageant ac tivities. Last Sunday, between 600 and 700 visited Uie area, with the total weekend crowd topping Uie 800 figure. Among the visitors ta' ing Uie scenic lift ride Inst weekend, al most a mile In length ard 1200 vertical feet in height, was a bus load of University of Oregon faculty. Last year and in earlier years, Uie fires have started generally in periods of low fire danger. This year a new pattern is being observed: Fires are starting ;n times of high fire hazard. Aside from Uie destruction of buildings, the fires have been list ed by federal forest officials as "nuisances," but they have tied up men and equipment. All tim ber blazes have been small Ten Cents ReaJ orce Filibuster seen on communications bill WASHINGTON UJ1 - Demo cratic lopponenti i(lhe admin- istranons s rornnmmcations satel lite bill todey'Iauiiched what ap peared to be Uie forerunner to a filibuster against Uie measure. - Sen. ,- Tiayne Mors. D-Ore., backed by' Sun. Ernest Gruening. D-Alaska,iJfvrrd Uie reading of Wedaesrisy's Journal of Senate pmrcedings at Uie outset of to day' session. Thisvroutine procedure Is usual ly dispensed with by unanimous consent, llie last lime Uie Jour nal was read was on Aug. 21, MR!',1 durlnf a fight on a civil rights amendment to an appro- . ...if Soblen plea for freedom is rejected LONDON (UP1) The three- member Court of Appeal today unanimously rejected a plea by convicted Soviet spy Dr. Robert A. Soblen, 61, that he be set free. Only action by Britain's home sec retary on a plea for political asy lum could now prevent his return to life imprisonment in the united States. The ailing psychiatrist's last known legal resort was his pend ing application to the British gov ernment for political asylum. lum decision is up to -ctary Henry Brooke. f Home Office spokesman said Brboke could act "in five minutes" ON at his discretion. Mlsraeli Interior Minister Moshe Shapiro meanwhile today rejected Soblcn's plea for permanent asy lum in Israel.) Soblen took the rejection of his appeal with passive resignauon, al- most as if he had expected it. Soblen jiimiwd $100,000 bail in New York last month and fled to Israel, which expelled him af ter a few days there. He was being returned to New York in custody of a U. S. mar shal on an Israeli airliner Jyly 1 when he slashed his wrists and stabbed himself in the stomach with a steak knife to force his re moval from the aircraft at Lon don Airport. British authorities claimed Sob len never was officially given per mission to land In England, Uiat he was being held in Brixton Pris on pending full convalescence from his self-inflicted wounds, and was technically "in transit" to New York. 2 more arrests made in Gravon burglary case Jack Gravon, 44, of 1545 W. Fifth, and Russell H. Defoe, 38, of 244 Delaware, were arraigned in District Court last night charges of conspiracy to burglar ize a dwelling. Their apprehension followed Ihe arrest two days ago of Leslie l.ukas, IB, and James O. Phares, 21, who admitted burglarizing and committing extensive damage to Uie home of Ola C. Gravon, wife of suspect Gravon who lives at 311 W. 15th. Defoe, a private Investigator, admitted in a signed statement that Gravon had commissioned him to arrange burglarization of the home of his wife, who has filed divorce proceedings against him Ball against Gravon and Defoe was set at $2,000. The four sus pects are being held in County Jail DOW JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones final stock averages: .10 industrials 579 61. up 4 94 ; 20 railroads 121 m, up 0 26: 15 utili ties 115 17, up 1.24, and 65 stocks 202 91, up 157. Sales today were about 2 79 million shares compared with 2.9 million shares Wednesday, WEATHER Mostly fair; highs 15-100; lows S0-70. No. 196 ww priations bill. Senate debate on the bill was slated to begin in Uie wake of heightened public interest stirred up by Uie successful experiments with the Telstar communications satellite in the past week. During Uie reading of Uie Jour nal, which look 23 minutes. Gruening twice asked that read ing clerk Edward 2. Mansur Jr. read "more slowly." Morse, who had refused lo tell newsmen earlier how long he would talk against Uie bill, had asked Uie presiding officer to di rect the clerk to read so that mem bers could understand what he was saying. The Journal is Uie official record of Uie previous day's proceedings. Senate sources said Uie oppo nents of Uie bill had at least 2.000 pages of prepared speech material to use against the satel lite bill. The legislation would cre ate a privately owned but government-regulated corporation to op erate future communications satel lites. The bill was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee, but -is opposed by Sen. Estes Kefau ver, D-Tenn., chairman of Uie an titrust and monopoly subcommit tee of the Judiciary Committee. 2 deaffis Warned on N.Y. blast BERLfN. N.Y. (UPD-A runa way propane gas trucK over turned Wednesday nifcht and ex ploded in this tiny community like a giganUc bomb. The truck driver was killed. La ter a woman was found dead in her bed. apparently of a heart attack resulting from shock, and more than 20 persons were in jured. The blast leveled 11 homes, a church md a garage. A witness said Uie trailer truck was racing down a hill when it jackknifed and exploded. The driver, IdentiUed by state police as Robert J. McLucas, 40, of Pomcroy, Pa., was hurled from the cab of tin truck which was carrying compressed propane gas. His body was found in driveway. One witness described it uiis way. "I was at Uie bottom of Uie hill when the truck jackknifed and It blew. There was just a big ball of flame and Uicn all I seen (sic) was a big bunch of flames Uie whole width of Uie town." A woman who was driving be hind Uie truck described Uie ex plosion as "a puff of smoke then a flash of light." Another woman called It "a ball of fire rolling down the street." The flames cut a deadly swath 200 yards wide for a distance of three football fields from the ex plosion site. Gromyko flies home after Rusk warning GENEVA (UPI) Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew home to Moscow today carry ing a warning from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that Uie United States intends to stand firm on Berlin. Gromyko followed Rusk's pat tern of Wednesday and did not Is sue any departure statement. American sources said the two had agreed to leave silently. They spent more than 10 hours together at Geneva talking about Berlin and oilier cold war prob lems but agreed on little else ex cept to keep contacts between Washington nnd Moscow open. Neither side budged In Its posi tions on the critical Issue of Ber lin. If anything, positions seemed to have hardened.