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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1962)
Keimddy may anse IMnI law in bckkfti vm r r -wy. rv on 11 WEATHER Mostly cloudy, few rain or mow showers Thursday; highs 40-45; low 23-28. 59th Year Continuance ordered Anderson in Civil rights probe of case is planned BOISE (UPI) Federal Judge Chase A. Clark today ordered a week's continuance in the habeas corpus hearing of airman Gerald M. Anderson pending a civil rights investigation of the murder suspect's case. Judge Clark also warned of ficials from nearby Mountain Home Air Force Base they would be in violation of the still pend ing writ of habeas corpus if they remove Anderson from the court's jurisdiction. Captain Jolui Early. Base legal officer, denied the Air Force plan ned to fly Anderson to a military hospital outside the state later to day. U.S. attorney Sylvan Jeepson earlier had asked the court to grant a week's continuance in the case so the U.S. Department of justice could investigate a question of whether the airman's civil rights had been violated. Cltared of Charge Anderson on Monday was cleared in a state civil court of a first degree murder charge in the knife slaying last April 9 of Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, Mountain Home, But Tuesday the Air Force put Anderson back in military confinement and charged him with premediated murder not only in the death of the woman but in the stabbing the same night of her 2-year-old son, Danny. The state court had freed An derson after another man, Theo dore Thomas Dickie, confessed last week that he, and not An derson, had committed both crimes. Gestapo Tactics Judge Clark said the Air Force's subsequent action in the case "smacked of gestapo tac tics." In charging Anderson with premediated murder, the Air Force ordered him to undergo "immediately" psychiatric exami nation. A statement by Col. Charles A. Allard, Mountain Home Air Base commander, also cleared the of fice of special investigation of wrongdoing in obtaining Ander sen's "confession" to the slaying of Mrs. Johnson and her son on April 10. Allard said Maj. John Duree, legal officer from March AFB, Calif., believed after a two-day in vestigation that Anderson, 24, planned the slaying. Anderson said his confession to the OSI was obtained under threats his three children would be placed in a foster home and his wife, Jane, would be tried as an accomplice. Allard, in a telephone statement to newsmen, said charges were prepared "alleging the premedi tated murder of Mrs. Johnson and Daniel." Moisture seen in next 5 days Weather forecasts indicate that Oregon cast of the mountains will receive more than normal precip itation in the coming five days, with most of the moisture expect ed before Sunday. This forecast was received as clouds broke from the Cascades west of Bend this morning, to re veal the Three Sisters in wintry gowns. Snow extended well below timberline. The partly clearing weather dropped the temperature in Bend last night to 22 degrees. Packed snow, well sanded, cov ered Cascades passes this morn ing, with chains required by mo torists crossing the high McKen lie divide. Other passes were snow-covered, but chains were not required. Four inches of snow fell last night at Government Camp, and a similar depth was reported from the McKenzie divide. Only a trace of new snow was reported from to piedce members without re the Santiam and Willamette pass- gard to race, color, or creed." ts The State Board of Higher Edu THE BEND Ten Pages Vision testing equipment made available here The Bend Lions Club is making available approximately $1,000 for purchase of vision testing equip ment for use in schools of the county, George Warrington, club president, announced at Tues day's meeting of the group, at the Superior Lunch. Funds for this project were pri marily obtained by the Lions from their Home Show, held last Spring. These shows are to be made annual affairs. The vision testing equipment will not only be available in the Bend schools, but, through the of fice of Superintendent David Potter, In schools of the county. Ex-Netherlands queen dies in sleep at age 82 APELDOORN, Holland (UPI) Former Queen Wilhelmina, who ruled The Netherlands for 58 years and became a symbol of strength against Nazi aggression, died in her sleep early today of a heart ailment complicated by old age. She was 82. At her bedside in the wooded estate of Hot Loo Palace were her daughter. Queen Juliana; Prince Bernhard, Juliana's hus band: and two granddaughters, Princesses Margriet and Marijke. Heiress presumptive Princess Beatrix was summoned home from Hong Kong, her latest stop on a world tour. Princess Irine was flying back from London. This nation of 11.4 million was plunged into deep mourning for the beloved Queen Mother who had lifted its spirits and bolstered its courage during the darkest days of World War II. Flags were lowered to half staff. Holland's two radio net works interrupted their programs to broadcast news of the death and then observed 10 minutes si lence, followed by mourning mu sic. In accordance with her wishes, Wilhelmina will be "buried in white like my beloved husband, Prince Hendrik" in the Delft Cathedral. He died in 1934. The tombs are near that of William the Silent who founded Holland in the 16th Century. Wilhelmina, who escaped Nazi dive bombers May 13, 1940, and fled to a wartime exile in Eng land, had been ailing for several weeks. Medical bulletins were is sued at her own request. She had ruled from the throne longer than any other member of the House of Orange, ascending at the agi of 10 in 1890. She was officially crowned 8 years later. She stepped down from the throne Sept. 5, 1948, in favor of Juliana. SIGN PAY AGREEMENT WASHINGTON (UPI) Con tractors and unions at the Cape Canaveral missile base have signed an agreement providing for uniform work and pay bene fits for union and non union workers alike. A spokesman for the missile sites labor committee said Tues day that the agreement, reached after negotiations of more than year, goes into effect Dec. 1. Replies due Dec. U0 quizzes national EUGENE UPI - University of Oregon fraternities and sorori ties are being asked by letter if their national chapters have "un written" rules against pledging Negroes or members of other minority races. Arthur Flemming. president of the school, said the letters ask if ! the university chapters are "free Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Wednesday, hearing Indian troops making way to own lines NEW DELHI (UPD-More than 5,000 Indian troops cut off on the northeast frontier by attacking Communist Chinese troops a week ago have returned safely to their own lines, a Defense Ministry spokesman said today. The statement raised official es timates of those who have come back by 4,000 men, indicating that the Indian defeat at Se Pass in the North East Frontier Agency may have been a tactical loss but did not take a heavy toll of lives. The Indian 4th Division was cut off when the attacking Red Chi nese flanked its Himalayan Moun tain positions and emerged near the edge of the Assam Plains to the south, cutting the Se La-Bom-di La Road. Since then, Indian troops have been infiltrating back to thcir lines, although the government has declined to say anything about the fate of the division which was believed to have been trapped. The spokesman did not specify the areas from which the troops were returning and refused to give the number still missing. However, the return of the miss ing men could boost morale of the Indian army, which was shat tered in the border fighting with the Red Chinese. Both New Delhi and Peking are believed building up and regroup ing their forces in the border re gion during the Chinese-declared cease-fire which is to last until Dec. 1, when the Reds say they will pull back to the north and beyond a line of control that ex isted in 1959. The Chinese have warned the Indians not to move back into the territory the Peking forces leave, and said it had reserved the right to attack again if they do. In rearranging its forces, India has not sought military manpow er or missiles from the United States, Assistant. Secretary of State Averell Harriman said be fore leaving for Pakistan earlier today. Search parties continue grim task in Peru LIMA, Peru (UPI) Search parties set out at dawn today for the stark granite slopes of Las Cruces Hill to resume the grim task of collecting the bodies of 97 persons killed in Tuesday's Brazilian airliner crash. At least 15 of the dead were American. Fifty-six bodies had been re covered at nightfall Tuesday, when darkness forced suspension of the search. The only remains identified immediately were those of Maj. Gen. Jesus Melgar, agri culture minister in Peru's mili tary junta government, and his wife. The crash brought the five-day, world-wide toll of air crashes to 179 dead. The other 82 perished in crashes in Maryland. Brazil, France and Portuguese Africa. The plane that crashed Tues day, a 707 jet operated by Bra zips Varig Airline, was on i flight from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles. Lima was to have been its first stop. 10 cation has set a Jan. 1 deadline for elimination of any pledging restrictions against minorities. Flemming said the letters repre sent a step in compliance with the board's edict. Donald DuShane, dean of stu dents, said all 16 of the national sororities and all but two of the 20 national fraternities here have said they have no discriminatory clauses in their national charters. The two fraternities, ho vt ever, CENTRAL OREGON'S RUNAWAY CARS CRASH INTO NEW UNSTACKER A string of 17 lumber and chip laden cart broke loose early today and moved back into the Brooks-Scanlon yard, crashing into an unstacker under construction at a cost of $180,000. The Cost of living shows decrease during October WASHINGTON (UPI)-The cost of living declined one tenth of 1 per cent during October, the first decrease since December, 1961, the Department of Labor reported today. Another slight decline is antici pated in the November index, ac cording to Arnold E. Chase, di rector of the price division of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The decline, however, is not ex pected to set a trend. The Oc tober drop probably would not have occurred at all, Chase said, if the index had not risen six tenths of 1 per cent in September. That hike was attributed to the national farmers organization's withholding of livestock from the market. The strike was over by October and lower meat prices brought the index down. "The slight decline was a reac tion to a sharp increase in Sep tember," Chase said. The index for October stood at 106 per cent of the 1957-59 aver age. Despite the slight decline, it was 1.3 per cent higher than a year earlier, mostly because of steady increases in food and serv ices. Meat prices, despite their de cline after the strike, remained high. Chase said the price of beef was expected to continue at a high level during the winter because farmers were expected to keep cattle on the farm and feed them with low-cost feed rather than take them to market. Other factors contributing slight ly to the October decline were a drop in the price of gasoline and movie admissions, Chase said. Most other items were up. DOW JONES AVERAGES By Unittd Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 651.85, up 3.80; 20 railroads 136.58, up 0.44; 15 utili ties 125.59, up 0.56, and 65 stocks 226 37, up 1.12. Sales today were about 5.98 million shares compared with 5.5 million shares Tuesday. chapters about bias said their local chapters are free to pledge members without regard to race or religion. Flemming said that if there are replies that some unwritten dis criminatory policies exist he would then have to decide the next step. He said replies are due by Dec. 10. Flemming said the school was not trying to direct local Iraterni- ties or sororities to pledge Ne - BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER November 28, 1962 Damage heavy, 17 runaway railroad cars crash into new unstacker By Phil F. Brogan Bulletin Staff Writer Seventeen runaway railroad cars laden with lumber and chips entered the Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., yard about 6:45 a.m. today and crashed into a $180,000 unstacker under construction at the plant. No one was Injured, but dam age to the new unit, which was to replace the old unstacker around the first of the year, was extensive. Had the string of cars crashed into the unit 15 minutes later, a steel crew would have been work ing on top, some 30 feet above rail level. Two of the cars from the string of 17 struck the side of the new unstacker, twisting steel, tearing up concrete and virtually shifting the entire unit. One of these cars had a 100,00 pound ca pacity, the other 80,000 pounds. The lumber and chip ladon cars had been moved out of the Brooks Scanlon yard earlier in the night by an SP&S crew and spotted outside the gate. After the switch engine moved out, the string started rolling back toward the mill yard. Apparently the cars covered the quarter of a mile at no great speed, inasmuch as the area is fairly level, but the string struck 4-H members gain honors CHICAGO (UPI) Two Ore gon 4-H club members have won national honors at the 41st na tional 4-H Club Congress meet ing here, it was announced to day. Myrna Rantala, 20, Clatskanic, was given an WOO scholarship by the Whirlpool Foundation in home economics competition. Miss Ran tala is a junior at Oregon State University, and was named out standing freshman woman at OSU two years ago. Jim Udell, Lebanon, was award ed a WOO scholarship by Ameri can Forest Products Industries, Inc., in forestry competition. Board edict noted ! grocs or others but was trying to assure that these groups have the right to do so if they choose. DuShane said there were Negro members of any sorority or fraternity on the campus now, to his knowledge. The university newspaper. Daily Emerald, said editorially Tuesday the information should be gathered on the national loci, , too. Ten Cents view here is toward the unstacker, with two cars that went over a terminal barrier at left. The crash occurred shortly before a steel crew was to report for work. No one was injured. no one hurt with a terrific impact. Two of the cars went over the terminal rail block, to slide into the side of the unstacker. Wheels of the derailed cars cut deeply into the dirt but remained upright. The other 15 cars were not de railed, and were moved out of the yard later in the morning. Cause of the accident and circumstances that permitted the 17 cars to roll back into the yard are being in vestigated. Engineers agreed that the dam age to the $180,000 structure was great, and may necessitate the entire reconstruction of the un stacker unit automatic equip ment that was to be used in mov ing rough lumber to the dry sort ing chain, then resorting for grade before the lumber moved to the planers. The unstacker was under con Russians reported to have dropped 5-point Cuba plan UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (UPI) Russia was reported today to have dropped Fidel Castro's five point demands for a Cuban crisis settlement, including withdrawal from the Guanlanamo naval base by the United States. But Soviet Deputy Premier An astas I. Mikoyan was said by re liable sources to back Castro's re fusal of on-site inspection of of fensive weapons systems in Cuba unless the United States agrees to reciprocal inspection of "inva sion" bases in Florida and else where in the Western Hemi sphere. Mikoyan arranged a meeting today with Ambassador Adlal E. Stevenson and other top U.S. and Soviet crisis negotiators. The time had not been fixed definite- iy. Acting Secretary General Thant was reported to have told inti mates of the switch in the Soviet position. It was conveyed to him informants said, by Mikoyan in a private meeting before the U.N. chief was dinner host Monday night for the top negotiators from both sides. No Cuban was pres ent. Stevenson and John J. McCloy, chief of President Kennedy's Cu ban crisis diplomatic task force, made a full report on the dinner meeting to the President in Wash ington Tuesday. Rule Out Reciprocity Diplomats ruled out the possi bility of reciprocal inspection, as demanded by Castro with Russian backing. If this means that there is no possibility of international on-site inspection in Cuba alone. they believed, it means also that Kennedy would not give the "no invasion" pledge. No. 302 struction adjacent to tho new Brooks - Scanlon plant. Wayne Shields is general contractor in charge of work on the new addi tion to the modern plant, with the Fought Fabricating Co. of Port land providing the steel. The Moore Dry Kiln Co. of Portland provided the unstacker equip ment. One of tho derailed cars was from an Illinois Central string, the other was a Northern Pacific car. . Eleven of the cars were laden with lumber consigned to many parts of the United Slates, and the oilier six, loaded with chips, were consigned to a Longview, Wash , pulp plant. The morning crash in the Brooks - Scanlon yard will delay use of tho new unstacker until some time in tho coming year. This would leave the situation roughly where it was before the Security Council took up the cris is late in October. Reports on the latest position, which were confirmed neither by U.S. nor Soviet sources, dimmed prospects for a Security Council wrap-up of the crisis. One school of diplomatic thought was that, failing agree ment in today's negotiating ses sion, the United States, Russia, Cuba and Thant all would file let ters with the 11-nation council stating the position as they saw it and let the issue die a quiet diplomatic death here. WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy's meeting Thursday with Soviet Deputy Premier An- astas. I. Mikoyan may provide some clue as to the possibility of lowering East-West tensions now that the perilous phase of the Cuban crisis has passed. Officials said today the Presi dent vculd be willing to discuss Soviet-American relations and other critical issues In general terms but had no intention of doing any "negotiating" with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's number one trouble shooter. The White House announced late Tuesday that Kennedy would receive Mikoyan at 4:30 p.m EST Thursday and indicated that the main purpose of the meeting was to talk about remaining is sues in the Cuban crisis. TEMPERATURES High yesterday, 47 degrees. Law last night, 22 degrees. Sunset today, 4:30. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:17. Tieup impact on defenses given study WASHINGTON (UPI) - The government is considering invok ing the Taft-Hartley Act to bring a halt to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. strike, the Defense Depart ment said today. President Kennedy would have to invoke the act, which requires a 80-day cooling off period. Members of the International Association of Machinists struck Lockheed facilities in Florida, Cal ifornia and Hawaii early today. A Deiense Department spokes man said "one of the things that is being considered" is whether the Taft-Hartley Act should be in voked. Lockheed Is one of the nation's largest defense contractors, pro ducing Polaris missiles, Agena spacecraft, air transports, and numerous other items. The Pentagon spokesman said that the department was study ing, the impact the strike could have, surveying "alternate means of production" and requiring that any new contracts given Lockheed must have special scrutiny and specific approval of Army, Navy and Air Force secretaries. Enormous Number He said Lockheed had an "enor mous number of defense con tracts" but he was unable to name any product that was under consideration to be shifted to any other producer. The department announced Nov. 17 that it was considering wheth er alternate production sources could be used in event of a work stoppage at Lockheed. Meanwhile, union machinists were picketing Lockheed's produc tion plants and missile bases in a widespread strike affecting soma 55,000 employes from Cape Canav eral, Fla., to Hawaii. The strike was called at mid night by the International Associa tion of Machinists when negotia tors said they still were hopeless ly deadlocked on the crucial un ion shop Issue which had stalled mediation attempts.. Federal Mediator William Sim kins said ho would return to Washington to make a report to President Kennedy on the status of the deadlock. The President may order an 80-day cooling off period under the Taft-Hartley Act to end tho walkout. The Lockheed installation at Cape Canaveral was struck first at midnight EST and West Coast members walked off their jobs three hours later. Several hundred spectators milled with 40 or 50 pickets at the main gate of the major In stallation here of the California division that produces the F104 Starfighter and P3A Orion anti submarine patrol planes. . Plants Remain Open . Lockheed Vice President John Canaday said all plants are open and the firm was determined to make effort to minimize the ef fects (of the strike) and continue operations." The California division employes 24,000 workers here and at Palm dale. Calif. The Missiles and Space Division employs some 31,000 persons at Sunnyvale, Van Nuys, Santa Cruz, Rye Canyon and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and at Hono lulu and Cape Canaveral. Another 20,000 employes of Lock heed divisions at other locations, including Marietta, Ga., wore not affected by the walkout. Negotiations were broken oil hero at 10:30 p.m. PST Tuesday and pickets then took up placards and began chanting "the strike is on" as they marched at the gates. At Vandenberg and Point Ar- guello, launch sites for the Dis coverer, Midas, Samoa and other major space efforts, pickets con centrated on roads leading to the bases. Swedish plan said too Yague GENEVA (UPD-Sweden today urged the formation of an inter national scientific commission with on-site inspection powers to police a nuclear test moratorium. But the United States immediately poured cold water on the proposal by saying it was too vague. U. S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean again called on the Soviet Union to accept the principle of international on-site inspection el suspected nuclear blasts when the three-nation test ban subcommit tee of the 17-natlon Disarmament Conference composed of the Unit ed States, Britain and the Soviet Union held its 45th meeting. He accused the Soviets of en gaging in negative and uncon structive maneuvers to block the negotiations, but said the time was certainly right for a settle ment and that the United States would do everything possible to achieve a test ban treaty as quick ly as possible.
