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""1;. of Oregon Librarv stora in state's histoiry dlraM Wo ropn THE BEND 59th Year Elsewhere Congressmen huff and puff near windup WASHINGTON (UPD- Huffing and puffing at the effort, the w eary 87th Congress today staggered close to the finish line in its week-long struggle for adjournment. The House shortly after conven ing at noon rounded up enough members to transact business, something it was unable to ac complish Friday night For the first time in 17 years the House Friday night had to quit work on legislation for lack of a quorum. The congressional efforts to wind up their business had some of the elements of a "Perils Of Pauline" thriller and a Mack Sen aett comedy. A House quorum is 218 mem bers. On today's rollcall 236 mem bers answered. Friday night the House was able to muster only 204 and was forced to quit until today. Congressional leaders have sent out urgent pleas to the missing members to return to Washington so that adjournment can be achieved. " ' Vatican City VATICAN CITY (UPD The Ecumenical Council recessed sud denly today after only one hour of its first working session following a dispute on voting procedure. As 3000 council fathers filed out of St. Peter's Basilica the council presidency of 10 cardinals remain ed behind to try to solve the dis agreement before the next general session scheduled for T u e s d a y morning. The surprising developme n t came as Pope John XXIII was re ceiving nearby in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel more than 800 representatives of the world press, including Russians. He admonished them "there arc no political machinations afoot" in the ecumenical council. Armed robbery suspect held City police are holding David Michael Spencer, 23, on suspicion of aimed robbery in connection with a service station holdup late last night in which $122 was taken from the till. Spencer, of Hollywood, N.M., was identified by Gene Pitts, operator of Terrace Texaco Serv ice Station on Highway S7 bouui, as the man who entered with a pistol and forced him to hand over the cash register contents. Spencer was later apprehended by police at the Trailways bus de pot where he apparently was at tempting to store a briefcase con taining the money. His bail was fixed at $5,000. Police believe that an automo bile stolen from in front of the Ideal Nursing Home was used in j the robbery and later abandon ed. Lorraine Kelly, of the home, first reported the missing car and later recovered it on Oregon Ave nue. The car closely resembles that said to be driven by the bandit during the holdup. Woman injured In accident A resident of Gilchrist, Mrs. Jean Chamblee, was injured in a traffic accident Friday evening south of LaPine, at the junction of U.S. 97 and Highway 30. Details of the accident were not available locally, but ambulance crewmen said a car and a truck driving on icy highway, appar ently were involved. Mrs. Cham blee was brought to St. Charles Memorial Hospital in the city am bulance. The attending physician said injuries apparently were not serious. Eight Pages Bend, Newsmen left the audience to be confronted by a flood of re ports of a "revolt in the council led by Achile Cardinal Lienart of France. A formal statement said Car dinal Lienart sought delay "be cause of the necessity of special consultation among members of the various ecclesiastical regions in making possible better knowledge of the candidates." for council offices. Monte Carlo MONTE CARLO (UPD French flying squads of customs officers maintained harassing customs checks along the border of tiny Monaco today. Moving from point to point on roads between Monaco and France, uniformed French cus toms officials halted cars, de manded identity papers of driv ers and passengers and asked, "Have you anything to declare?'' The action came alter tne breakdown of talks between France and Monaco over the French demand that the 368-acre pocket principality start paying taxes to France. Washington WASHINGTON (UPD The U.S Tariff Commission Friday con cluded a two - week hearing on whether to restrict Canada's $260 million - a - year softwood lumber sales in the United States, but its investigation of the issue is just beginning. The hearing ended with testi mony from a U.S. lumberman who blamed Canadian imports now said to be running at 15 per cent of U.S. consumption for his mill's shutdown. Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (UPD Presi dent Kennedy returned today to the western Pennsylvania scene of his first debate with Richard M. Nixon as a young congress man in 1947 and told a political rally that now, as then, the Dem ocrats are the party of prosperi ty while the Republicans favor a standstill. The President spoke in ideal In dian Summer weather at an out door gathering of a large crowd of cheering spectators in the City Hall Square of McKeesport, Pa., the first stop on a motorcade campaign tour of the Monongahela Valley. Oxford, Miss. OXFORD. Miss. (UPD U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton has signed an order withdrawing the government's appointment of psy chiatrist, Dr. Winfred Overholser from a sanity examination for former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker. The order, signed Friday, de leted a portion of a district court order of Oct. 6 which allowed the federal government to appoint one of two psychiatrists to examine Walker. Nothing like Big By Howard Applegata UPI Staff Wrlttr PORTLAND (UPD The big wind from the south started around 5 p.m. Little children came running home from play. "Mommy, their tree Mew down," a little girl ex claimed excitedly. A few minutes later she was in tears, holding on lo her mommy CENTRAL OREGON'S Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, October 13, TREE FALLS ON BEND HOME The gale that struck Bend Friday afternoon toppled many trees, including this on that fell on the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Waldron, M2? Awbrey. Waldron is pictured beside the big deciduous tree; Bruin-Cowboy game tonight Man electrocuted at Prineville as storm sweeps Central Oregon By Phil F. Brogan Bulletin Staff Wrlttr Central Oregon's worst wind storm in history, tailend of a Pacific-born typhoon, late Friday claimed one life; toppled trees over many homes, power and tele phone lines, blocked roads and left parts of Bend, Prineville and Redmond without light or power for hours. Dead is Carroll High, 23, of Granger, Wash., who was acci dentally electrocuted In Prineville Friday evening as the gale struck the Crooked River Valley. With two companions, he was driving through a wind whipped street when he noticed a broken power line. High jumped out of the car. attempted to remove the live wire and was killed. Throughout the area, there were many near accidents as trees top pled on homes and across high ways. Barometer Drops Gale winds struck interior Ore gon following a brief calm and sunny skies. As the barometer dropped to 28.98 inches, lowest re corded in Bend since January, 1942, when a low of 28.71 was reached, the wind struck, lashing a heavy rain through the area. Scores of trees toppled in Bend. Some hit homes. A big poplar fell over the Harry Waldron home at 1429 Awbrey; another toppled tree smashed the garage of E. J. Park er, 430 Florida. A big tree split down the center at the Joan Mo tel, 161 East Franklin. Falling trees and shattered limbs struck it before wind began in Portland for dear life. For the wind continued. The sound of cracking limbs and fall ing trees was everywhere. Glass shattered. Modern Portland had never seen or heard anything like it. Lights went out Many tele phones were out of service. Peo ple sat in their homes, helpless. A 600-foot television tower on the west hills, built to withstand BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER homes and garages on Newport, and other parts of town. The four - foot square chimney over the Allen Grade School boil er room was blown over, result ing in extensive damage to the building. Lira Broken Power and telephone lines throughout the area were broken by falling trees, with Prineville and Bend hardest hit. Outage of For additional storm pictures and news sea pages 3, 4, and 5. power was general in the area, and repair work was still under way today. The Bend - Prineville football game, scheduled for Prineville, was called off due to the storm. It will be played tonight. Pacific Power and Light Com pany dispatched crews to strickan Albany, west of the mountains, and in turn received help from areas to the east. Telephone crews were also moved into Central Oregon from storm free areas in Idaho and Washington. WEATHER Clearing tonight; thowers Sun day; highs 55-M; lows 33-3S. TEMPERATURES High yostarday, it degrees. Low last night, 37 dagroas. Sunset today, 5:25. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:11. winds of more than 100 knots, blew down. Radio station towers on ML Scott to the east blew over. In between the city suffered. At the airport weather station a gust of 79 rnUes per hour was re corded about 5:45 p.m. Then the measuring equipment went out. To the east at Troutdale a gust of 104 miles per hour was recorded. It went on for around three hours. Y 1962 Ten Cents that fell en hit houia, cauiing considerable damage. The houi is buried under limbs, to the right. Throughout the city, damage to homes was reported, mostly from shattered limbs.. However, Bend escaped the major damage reported west of Cascades. In Central Oregon, crews work ed through tlie night. It is expect ed that all service will be restor ed early in the afternoon. Work of making permanent repairs to temporary structures will then start. U.S. Forest Service officials ex pressed a fear today that the blowdown of timber in Central Oregon woods will be heavy, and may call for some emergency sal vage sales. Blocked by Tree Virtually all forest roads out of Bend were blocked by trees in the early evening, leaving hunters stranded in mountain camps. There was also temporary block ades of mountain highways. At the height of the storm, gale winds lashed the rain into sheets that halted traffic in some areas. However, in Bend, tlie precipita tion was not great, only 0.39 of an inch. That brought the total for the record six-day storm up to 2.13 Inches. The normal for Oc tober is about 0.80 of an inch. Eight emergency calls from all parts of town kept Bend firemen hustling during the storm. How ever, there was no major fire damage. Calls were received from several areas where tangled pow er lines were "sputtering." One call was from 742 West 14th where a tree had fallen across a chimney. Local weather observers said the storm was the worst "blow' in Bend's recorded history, with winds estimated at 60 miles an hour. Wild reports began coming in. Many proved unfounded. A ship was loose in the Willam ette River. That was so. It was taken in tow. Another ship broke loose and crashed against the Hawthorne bridge. The bridge was closed today. Warnings were broadcast for people to stay inside. There was danger from falling power lines. Most people coukin'i hear them. No. 263 No school a f Allen till Tuesday There will be no school at Allen Monday. This was the announcement made by Superintendent R. E. Jewell this morning, following a survey of damage to the build ing by the Friday evening storm. Blown over in the storm was the big brick chimney, four feet square, over the boiler room. In falling, the chimney caused extensive damage to the boil er room, on the east side of the building. . Rain , poured into breaks in the roof caused by the tumbling chimney. Crash of the structure was heard above the roar - of the storm. . . . Repair work was started early this morning with J. H.- McNeely in charge. Work will continue over the weekend and into Monday; Moneywise, the blow down of the Allen School chimney was the most costly damage to any struc ture in Bend. However, many homes were damaged by falling trees and top pling limbs. ' More showers Weathermen emerged from Port land wreckage long enough this morning to issue a 24-hour fore cast. That forecast calls for clear ing weather tonight, but with more showers expected to start about Sunday. High temperatures will range into the 55-60 bracket and lows will be slightly above freezing, the forecast adds. Eerie calm reported today about 5 But they stayed inside anyway hoping their roofs would hold. ' Looting was reported. National Guardsmen helped patrol areas where store windows were smashed. They went all the way back to 1880 for comparisons. Then i storm knocked over more than 500 trees on railroad tracks between Portland and Hillsboro. On Oct. 21 and 22 in 1934 winds -of 83 Tangled mess left in dead set at 9 PORTLAND (UPD The edge of Typhoon Freida cut a devas tating swath through western Ore gon Friday night, killing at least nine persons, causing uulukl mil lions of dollars in damage and leaving behind a trail of rubble such as the state had never seen. In addition to the deaths from falling trees, downed wires and flying glass, several deaths were reported from heart attacks. Washington recorded six dead and California 14 in the wake of the hurricane-force winds. In Portland, 161 persons were sent, to hospitals that worked through the night on auxiliary power in a city dark and crippled. The brightest lights at the height of the storm were from ex ploding insulators on power poles. Fifty-five persons were admitted and 106 were treated as outpa tients. Most of the injuries were inflicted by flying glass and fall ing trees. The streets and highways ot western Oregon were littered. Gov. Mark Hatfield, who Friday alerted the White House to a pos sible request for disaster area funds, today warned motorists to stay off the roads if possible. He said traffic was hindering mop-up operations. Officials said, 1 however, that public transportation suffered re markably ' little interruption and was operating close to normal to day. Transportation Regular Portland International Airport had to be closed to travel for about three hours Friday night But traffic was under way today. Highway and local bus lines re ported near-regular schedules. Some trains were running late today. A Union Pacific spokesman said that because of communica- ions failures and downed trees, brakemen had to go ahead of one train on foot and make sure the line was clear. Oregon State University officials said after surveying the damage at Multnomah Stadium that to day's football game with Washing ton would be played. Trouble - shooting crews from neighboring states were called in to Portland by air early today to help repair the damage to power stations and wires. Much of Portland remained without power today although power was restored to the down town area by crews wwking through most of the night. But in dividual lines along city streets would not be energized until each line was patroled for safety rea sons, a spokesman said. Water Rationed Elsewhere In the state, many towns remained without power. Some areas were on water ra tioning because power - driven pumps were not working. Oregon s historic State Capitol grounds In Salem, once a show case for the state, were reduced to a pile of junk. Trees that stood when Oregon became a state, were lorn out by the roots. A large statue toppled. A stained glass skylight in the Supreme Court building was shattered. The roof of the mam building at the Oregon State Hospital ripped away, exposing maximum securi ty wards of both male and female patients. With only early reports in late Friday, Hatfield termed the storm damage "incalculable." Landmarks, transmitting towers, homes and businesses were de stroyed. Big fires broke out at Junction City near Eugene and at Klamath Falls. Tlie steeple of historic Campbell Hall at Oregon College of F-dira-tion at Monmouth crumbled in the force of the wind Friday. p.m. miles per hour hit the Northwest interior. Winds of more than 70 mph were reported in 1951. But most agreed there had been nothing like this. Portland awoke this morning, a city of eerie calm. Trees that still stood were motionless. The sun peeked over Mt. Hood. People got up, ate cold break fasts and began planning on how to crtao up the mess. V wake, The Junction City fire destroyed grain-filled warehouse and six houses and damaged a veneer plant.. The Southern Pacific rauV id 9 main railroad line was blocked for two hours by fira fighting equipment.' The Klamath Falls fire destroyed a planing mill but firemen defied winds up to 78 miles-per-hour to keep it from spreading into a nearby residen tial area and another large milL Hatfield announced plans to make a statewide summary of the damage, which he called "incal culable at this moment." "Disaster Area" " He called the storm "a major catastrophe" and said it may be the worst in the state's history in terms of damage. Ho sent a telegram to Preside Kennedy which said in part: j "Windstorm damage here west of Cascade Range incalculable at this moment but this will serve to alert you to possible requests for declaration of disaster area." The governor said he hoped to have a report on the damage by noon today. He said he will de cide then whether to ask the President to declare a disaster area. He called a news confer ence for that time. A spokesman for Sea. Maurina Neuberger, D-Ore., said the Whits House had promised "irnrnediabe consideration" to any request tor federal assistance. At least five ot the dead were killed by falling trees. Two mora died when buildings collapsed,. 19 addition to nine violent deaths, four persons died of heart attacka during the storm and an unidenti fied body was found washed up on the beach at Newport . It was not known whether (ha body was that of a atorm victim or of one' of three persons lost when a charter boat capsized oil Winchester Bay several days ago. Thirteen Die - Known dead are: Curtis Michael Bice, 12, Rick reall, killed when a tree fell on him. DoJph Shutz. 16, Dayton, killed at West Salem when a tree fell on his car. Larry Johnson, 22, Eugene, kill ed when struck in the chest by a piece of flying glass. Ray Curtis, 85, Eugene, killed when a roof and wall at the Sun- sot Nursing Home at Eugene col lapsed. Michael Gonscl, 2, Portland, struck by a falling tree limb. Sara Jane Nordeen, 66, West Linn, struck by a falling tree. Carrol High, 23, Granger, Wash., electrocuted at Prineville when he touched a live power lino. Mrs. George Sanderson, 40, Gold Beach, killed by a falling tree. Olive Moffitt, 45, Warren, fatal ly Injured when a carport col lapsed. Heart attack victims were Her bert Beeson, 65; Margaret Hilda Blythe, 73, and D. O. Bevans, 54, all of Eugene, and August Sauey, 67, Clackamas. There was no count on the num ber of injuries. One Eugene hos pital treated 26 persons. Power companies worked around the clock and recruited extra help in a frantic attempt to clean up downed lines and restore service before anyone else was electrocuted. They estimated it might be four days before all lines are operating. Pacific Power and Light Co. brought In six crews from Spo kane at dawn. They were sched uled to be joined later by SO men from Yakima, Walla Walla and Sunnyside, Wash., and 20 from Wyoming and Montana. Portland General Electria bor rowed 25 men from Pacific Gat and Electric Co. in San Francisco. Damage Awesome Damage throughout the western nart nf the RbitA was awesome. The storm, the tailend of Typhoon Frieda, centered off the coast and whipped north at 50 mile an hour. In Portland, 40,000 telephone were reported out of service. The 7.000-ton freighter S.S. Washington broke away and floated to the middle of the Willamette River. It later was secured. Two other freighters, the Port land Victory and Scafalr, and the tanker Pueblo were beached at Swan Island lagoon. . A 350-foot landing craft, wailing to be scrapped, broke loose and jammed against the Hawthorne (Continuod on page 5.)
