Vessel dashed onto jetty, 24 in crew
rescued
See story Col. 4
THE BEND BULLETIN
WEATHER
Occasional mountain snow flur
rios, patch fog; highs 40-45:
low 20-25.
TEMPERATURES
High yesterday, 31 degrees. Lew
lest night, 28 degree. Sunset
today, 4:21. Sunrise tomorrow,
7:M.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
59th Year
Eight Pages
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, December 3, 1962
Ten Cents
No. 306
Sub-district
plan scrapped
by conference
By Bill Thompson
Bulletin Staff Writtr
The much . (dis)cussed Inler
fliountain Conference subdistrict
football plan was scrapped Satur
day, with high school officials vot
ing 7-3 to return to full round
obin football play next fall.
League directors, meeting in
Arlington, kayoed the controver
sial subdistrict football schedules
iter only one season of opera
lion. They also okayed the continu
ance of full-district round robin
May in basketball between the 10
league teams. Track and base
ball have been divided into sub
tjistricts since the sprawling "bus
line" conference opened in the
(all of 1959.
Firemen quell
serious blazes
at two homes
Flames threatened to destroy
two Bend area dwellings over the
reekend but were quelled through
quick action by city firemen.
Fire in a flue burned Into a rock
eneef wall early this morning at
r residence of Bill Eudy, Route
Box 112. The family of four
(iwas aroused by one of the chil
dren who woke from the smell of
amoke. The fire started on the
main Door at the base of the flue
fend quickly spread to the walls
end floor. Firemen, who said
Hrey arrived just in time to pre
vent total destruction of the home,
had to chop into the wall and
Boor area around the flue.
The Eudys were able to get
their children safely out of the
house and call fire crews to the
scene.
Another house fire broke out
Sunday morning at little past mid
night in the home of Del Lam
mers, 1101 Newport. Flames
spread from the flue of a wood
heater in the living room and car
ried up the walls of the living
room and kitchen. Mrs. Lammers
had to race her children through
the flaming kitchen to safety.
When firemen arrived the house
was ablaze with tongues of fire
leaping out the windows. Heavy
damage was sustained to the
home.
Saturday alarms summoned
firemen to two locales. St. Fran
cis Church officials reported
smoke oozing from an electric mo
tor in the building. A burning bar
rel at the 825 Federal block was
mistaken for a house by a man
who called the department. No
damage in either case was re
ported. Explorer Scout
troop to sell
Christmas trees
Explorer Scouts of Post 21,
sponsored by the First Methodist
Church of Bend, will be selling
Christmas trees and holly again
this year, from their miniature
'forest" at 803 East Third Street.
As part of their training for fu
ture citizenship, the Scouts bor
rowed money from a local bank
to purchase the trees. They will
be obligated to repay me sum
borrowed by December 31.
The post is organized as a
mountain search and rescue unit.
The boys have participated in
four organized searches for lost
persons this past summer. With
money from their tree sales, they
will purchase, build and equip a
mobile two-wheel trailer with first
aid and rescue gear, to be pre
pared for field work in the com
ing year.
With money from last year's
Christmas tree sales, the boys
bought a base station radio and
three "handi-talkies" for use on
their searches.
Larry Hutchins is president of
the group. Cliff Biake and Pete :
Perrine will manage the lot.
LUMBERMAN DIES
INDEPENDENCE. Ore. 'UPI
Joseph Crahane of Independence, j
' . . . i J: I
prominent lumberman, nas aim
here. He was 74.
The action was taken after di
rectors rejected an earlier motion
by Milton - Freewater calling for
subdistrict schedules in both foot
ball and basketball.
Full Round-Robin
Following this vote, discussion
centered around the full round
robin football schedule and a com
promise plan. The latter called
for an eight-game league sched
ule, with each team dropping one
long trip a year.
Finally directors voted 7-3 on
the motion for the full round-rob
in football schedule, giving each
of the 10 IC teams a full nine-
game league schedule and elimi
nating any outside competition.
The nine league games would
also prevent any chance of a play
off game, should a tie occur. In
the event of a tie, the team that
defeats the other in league play
will be awarded the IC berth in
state playoff competition.
This past season the 10 IC prep
football teams were divided into
subdistricts of five teams each
providing only four league games
for each school over the regular
season.
All Counters
But next year every game will
count in the football race. Bend,
for example, will open at home
against Pendleton, then play away
games at Mac Hi and La Grande.
A home game with Hermiston will
follow.
The Lava Bears will then play
at Madras, host Baker, play at
The Dalles and wind up at home
against Prineville and Redmond.
In other action at Arlington Sat
urday, directors voted as follows:
1. Eliminated district all-star
teams.
2. Accepted full round - robin
basketball schedules for this sea
son and for the 1963-64 season.
Each team will play 18 league
contests.
3. Set February 22 and 23 as
dates for the district WTCstling
meet in The Dalles. (A basketball
conflict kept Bend from hosting
this season's meet.)
Date Approved
4. Okayed May 18 as date for
district track meet at The Dalles
oval. 'The state B track meet on
that date prevented Bend from
hosting district meet.)
5. Established May 17-18 as
dates for district baseball play
offs at site of eastern subdistrict
winner.
6. Set district golf tournament
for May 11 at Prineville.
Attending the meeting from
Bend High were athletic director
Dick Geser. Principal Don Empcy
and coaches Bill Bauer, Chuck
Hudson and Hoot Moore.
Vandals spill
tombstone
Vandals, thought to be youths
on bicycles, pushed an expensive
tombstone monument off its base
Saturday afternoon and broke off
a large chunk of the corner.
The destruction was reported by
an official of the Central Oregon
Monument Company, at 935 E.
First, where monuments are dis
played in front of the building.
The granite monument, totally de
stroyed, was valued at $289. Bike
tracks on the driveway were the
only clues left by the vandals.
Vern Prodehl of the Coca Cola
Co. told police four boys stole a
$25 stainless steel display at the
senior high school Saturday night.
Prodehl left the display a mo
ment to go to the office when the
boys ran up, grabbed it, and
made off in a white four-door sedan.
Terry Baker picked by LA. Rams
CHICAGO (LTD Heisman
Trophy winner Terry Baker of
Oregon State was picked by the
Los Angeles Rams today as the
first choice of the annual National
Football League draft meeting.
Baker, also a star basekthall
player who throws the football
left-handed, leads the nation in to
tal offense and finished second
among the all-time college ground
cainers for one season as well
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I wltn Beavcr ne gained 4,960
Girl is burned
fafally frying
to rescue dog
PORTLAND (UPI) Saddia
Abercrombie, 7, suffered fatal
burns in a house fire here early
today when she darted back in
side the flaming house in a vain
attempt to rescue her dog.
She was dead on arrival at
Emanuel hospital. She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Abercrombie.
The father suffered burns.
Firemen said the fire broke out
about 5 a.m. in the two - story
frame house and caused an esti
mated $12,500 loss before it could
be brought under control.
Stevenson rips
story he backed
missile-site swap
WASHINGTON (UPI) Tile
White House reacted angrily to
day to a published report that
Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson
had favored trading U.S. missile
bases in Turkey, Italy and Bri
tain for Soviet missile sites in Cu
ba during the Cuban crisis.
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said he could
"state flatly" that Stevenson
"strongly supported the decision
taken by the President on the
quarantine. , ."
The charge was made in an
article in the Saturday Evening
Post written by Stewart Alsop,
its Washington editor, and Charles
Barlett, correspondent, columnist
and intimate friend of President
Kennedy. i
A spokesman for Stevenson in
New York Sunday night denied
the report as "inaccurate and
untrue."
The article led today to a dis
cussion in Salinger's office not
only about the position and status
of Stevenson, but of Kennedy's
relations with a close personal
friend who also writes for news
papers and magazines.
Stevenson was at the White
House during the morning for a
meeting of the National Security
Council Executive Committee. Re
porters saw him as he left the
President's office and asked him
if he had discussed the Saturday
Evening Post article with Ken
nedy. "The President brought it up
and told me about the statement
he is going to issue," the U.S.
Envoy to the United Nations said.
"I had not read the article
carefully, but I've read it enough
to find five inaccuracies in rapid
succession."
The statement to which Steven
son referred came not from Ken
nedy, but from Salinger. The
press secretary said:
"Proceedings of the National
Security Council have been secret
since its founding in 1947 and wul
continue to be."
OSU 'bowl' team
posts 2nd win
CORVALL1S (UPI) - Oregon
State University College Bowl
team members were still "at bat'
today after posting their second
straight victory in the national TV
scholar contest in New York Sun
day. OSU, first team from this state
ever to win on the show, defeated
the University of New Mexico
145-100 after beating Manhattan
ville College of New York last
week. This coming Sunday night
it will meet the University of Vir
ginia. On Sunday night's show, the
Beavers team was bolstered by a
brief appearance of football Heis
man winner Terry Baker.
yards.
This year he completed 112 of
202 passes, 15 of them for touch
downs, and scored nine touch
downs. The St Louis Cardinals, who
like the Rams had two first-round
draft picks, chose second and se
lected halfback Jerry Stovall of
Louisiana State.
Addition of Baker to the Rams'
roster gave Los Angeles three
I V'fKrin citmal reallr all I-Mm!
, j r, "o
j among the best in the nation. The
Oregon man
flees water
filled cabin
COOS BAY (UPI) The Alaska
Cedar, a 256-foot ship loaded with
lumber, was dashed onto the north
jetty in heavy seas here Sunday
but its crew of 24 men was res
cued. A helicopter helped in the res
cue. The vessel, owned by W. R.
Chamberlin 4 Co. of Portland,
was carried onto the jetty after
crossing the bar. It had picked up
a load of lumber at Hie Georgia
Pacific Corp at Coos Bay and was
headed for Crescent City, Calif.
One witness said the ship ap
peared to lose power and floun
dered in the heavy seas.
Seven crewmen were taken to a
hospital at North Bend with minor
injuries.
California Crew
They were: Capt. Noren Hall,
47, Anaheim, Calif.; James Mor
ris, 43, and Aaron Todalin, 39,
both of San Pedro, Calif.; Arthur
Vinell, 58, Long Beach, Calif.;
Charles Carlsted Jr., 36, Pacoima,
Calif., and James Berry, 34, and
John Hoy, 60, both oi Wilmington,
Calif.
The stricken ship, which was
built in 1943, was badly damaged.
It was being smashed by heavy
waves.
Earl McKillon. 36. Sdverton, a
crew member, nearly was drown
ed aboard the vessel. He said wa
ter poured into his cabin through
a porthole. - .
"I thought 1 was a goner," he
told a newsman. "I couldn't get
the door to my cabin open and
the water was up to my neck.
Thank God, someone opened the
door from the outside."
Helping in the rescue was Jim
Klotz, a pilot for the Evergreen
Helicopter Co. of McMinnville.
Klotz had been working in the
area and was called in to help.
He secured a line from the ship
to the jetty and then ferried the
crew members to a Coast Guard
lifeboat station.
Bend to host
'63 women's
pin tourney
Bend will host the 1963 State
Women's Bowling Tournament
next fall, Hazel Swincy, president
of the Bend Women's Bowling As
sociation, announced today.
The tourney, to be held on as
many weekends as needed, will
utilize both Greenwood and Cas
cade bowling alleys and will draw
top women bowlers from through
out the state. It will open in Oc
tober. This year's meet wound up at
Grants Pass Sunday, with Bend
winning over Pendleton for next
year's competition.
"We're hoping to gain more en
tries for our tournament," said
Mrs. Swiney, who also holds posi
tions on the board of directors of
the Oregon State Women's Bowl
ing Association and on the state
nominating committee.
"The entry list was quite low
at this year's meet as compared
with past tournaments."
Several Bend entrants finished
high up in the competition, with
final results to be published later
this week, Mrs. Swiney said.
DISCUSS STEEL OUTPUT
NEW DELHI (UPI) West
Ge r m a n industrialist Alfred
Krupp meets Prime Minister Ja
waharlal Nehru at lunch today
to discuss plans for tripling the
output of the Rourkela steel mill,
built by German technicians.
Rams, who also had two first
round draft picks last year, had
rookies Roman Gabriel of North
Carolina Slate and Ron Miller of
Wisconsin this season and acquis
ition of Baker made it likely the
team would try to trade one of
the trio before next season.
The Rams have won only one
of their 12 games this season and
Hirsch had been open to offers
to get the first draft choice. How
ever he said no trades could be
made until the ead of the season.
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STORM HITS - Central Oregon was hit by a rain storm over the weekend which left many
low spots covered with water for several ho urs. In Bend both the Franklin and Greenwood
underpasses were closed by the high water. Bob Shoemaker, 12, left, end Eric Olson, 14, took
advantage of the water to do a little boating In Franklin underpass. The dog Sandy would
not take a ride in the rubber boat but did go wading. (Nate Bull photo)
Truck, car hit
Sunday morning
at intersection
A produce freiglft truck and a
four-door sedan collided at the E,
Third-Revere intersection Sunday
morning. The giant truck and
trailer and the car finally came
to rest partly in the front yard
of Mayor Jack Dempscy on Re
vere.
Alice Ann Hutchinson. 18, of
1650 Jones Road, was approach
ing the Third Street intersection
from Revere with three young
family passengers when her
brakes apparently failed and the
car scooted into the path of the
northbound truck. The truck
braked and swerved, but struck
the car and both vehicles rode
down into the mayor's lawn.
Only reported injuries were sus
tained by Miss Hutchinson, who
suffered some abrasions. Her
passengers were Mary Rose Hut
chinson, 11; Timothy Adams
Hutchinson, 13, and Julie Eliza
beth Hutchinson, 7.
Miss Hutchinson told police her
brakes would not operate as she
approached the h i g h w a y . She
noted the car had just traveled
through high water.
Driving the struck was William
Brown Hall, 52, of Huntington
Park, Calif., with one passenger,
Howard J. Cronin, Jr., Los An
geles. DOW JONES AVERAGES
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 646.41, off 2 89; 20
railroads 138.45, off 0.52; 15 utili
ties 125.65, up 0.38, and 65 stocks
225.99, off 0.59.
Sales today were about 3.81 mil
lion shares compared with 4.57
million shares Friday.
St. Louis, Washington, Chicago,
and Detroit won coin tosses from
Minnesota, San Francisco, Pitts
burgh and New York to gain earl
ier picks in the first round. The
eight teams were tied with each
other in won-lost percentage after
Sunday's games and the tosses
were necessary to establish the
order of the draft, m inverse or
der depending on the won-lost per
centages. The teams which lost the coin
tosses will get the earlier selec
tion in alternate rounds.
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McKenzie closed
Mid-state
enveloped
By Phil F, Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
Winter suddenly enveloped the
Oregon Cascades over the week
end, choking mountain routes,
blocking the McKenzie Highway
for the season and isolating Bach
elor Butte, where the 1961 ski sea
son had been scheduled to move
into high gear Sunday.
A 24 hour rain, drenching at
times, fell in Bond, yielding 1.18
inches of moisture as it flooded
underpasses. The weekend mois-
Udall seeking
to block dam
WASHINGTON (UPP Interior
Secretary Stewart L. Udall today
sought to block private construc
tion of the high Mountain Sheep
Dam on the Snake River bewecn
Idaho and Oregon.
Udall filed a petition for inter
vention with the Federal Power
Commission in the Mountain
Sheep case.
His petition urged tho FPC to
reject applications of Pacific
Northwest Power Co. and the
Washington Public Power Supply
System for licenses to develop the
Mountain Sheep site, and to rec
ommend development of the
Mountain Sheep dam at tho ap
propriate time by the federal gov
ernment. Today was the deadline for fil
ing exceptions to a decision by
FPC Examiner William C. Levy
recommending that Pacific North
west Power Co. be granted a li
cense to build the high Mountain
Sheep Dam.
School census
planned here
The supplemental school census
of the Bend Administrative Dis
trict will be held in the next two
weeks, Mrs. Irene Colhrell, school
clerk, announced today.
Five or six women in the Bend
area will be catling at houses
where the count of school-age
I children is not already on record.
i
3
suddenly
by winter
lure brought Bend's total for 1062
up to 12.10 inches, just short of
the 12.15 average.
The five-day forecast indicates
that other disturbances are mov
ing in from the Pacific. Recur
ring rain has been forecast for
all Oregon east of the Cascades,
with cool temperatures to contin
ue. This, it was indicated, will
bring more snow to the high coun
try.
Bend measured 0.71 of an inch
for the Saturday night storm, and
0.47 on Sunday. Earlier, 0.06 was
recorded, bringing the total for
the new month to 1.24 of an inch.
Road Blocked
The heavy storm blocked the
road from Bend to Bachelor Butte
and there was no skiing there
Sunday. Some three feet of snow
fell on the butte Sunday.
Heaviest snow of the season fell
on mountain passes, with a 16
inch fall measured on the San
tiam from the Sunday storm.
Flurries were still drifting over
that divide this morning and
plows were operating. Motorists
were advised to carry cnains.
Roadside depth had reached 34
Inches.
The Government Camp divide
was also still in a storm this
morning, following a blustery
night with 16 inches measured
and with a roadside depth of 24
inches. Only three Inches of snow
fell on the Willamette divide, but
plows were operating there this
morning.
Equipment Withdrawn
As the heavy storm struck the
exposed McKenzie summit, equip
ment was withdrawn from that
high divide and, after making cer.
lain no motorists were stranded
the McKenzie was closed for the
1962-63 season.
Last fall, the McKenzie was
Hocked by a storm on November
22.
In Bend over the weekend, both
the Greenwood and Franklin un
derpasses were blocked for con
siderable periods, with traffic
forced to detour. Rivulets ran
through downtown gutters. Rain
fell through Saturday night and
up until about mid-afternoon Sun
day.
Despite the fact that tempera
turcs were low, only a trace of
snow Jell in Bend.
100 families
forced from
their homes
MEDFORD (UPI)- The Rogue
River and its tributaries were '
dropping today in Southern Ore
gon following a sudden Sunday
flood that resulted in some 100
families being evacuated.
Rainfall of up to four inches in
a 24-hour period shot streams up
rapidly, to as much as 7.7 feet
over flood stage Sunday.
Rain tapered off Sunday and
streams began dropping early this
morning. More rain was forecast
tonight, though. ' (
Families were taken from
homes in the Rogue River, Shady
Cove, Eagle Point, Gold Hill and
n Tl n-v. t i)iM
I UltUlU) roaa aicoa xiro iwiiuic
were helped witn nousing ny in
Red Cross and some of them were
taken to Grange Halls.
Red Cross, Civil Defense and
Jackson County sheriff's officers
worked In evacuating the families
and no casualties were reported.
The Rogue and Applegata Riv
ers In the Southern Oregon area
flooded, along with the Coquiua
River near Myrtle Point
Crests Late Sunday
Shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday
the Rogue crested at 19.7 feet, 7.T
feet over flood stage, at Gold Ray
Dam north of Medford.
The Applegate River was 6.1
feet over flood stage at 4 p.m. at
the Applegate store.
The high water flooded Highway
99, , which remained open, but
soma - secondary roads - were
closed. Slides were reported on
Highway 199 west of Grants Pass,
with one-way traffic near Idlewild.
Highway 66, between Ashland
and Klamath Falls, was closed at
Neil Creek because of a weakened
bridge. Detours were being used.
The Old Rogue River Highway
south of the Josephine County line
was closed as was the Lower Riv
er Road west of Grants Pass,
Traffic between Ashland and
Klamath Falls was routed over
the Dead Indian Road via Lake
of the Woods where between 11
and 15 inches of snow was report
ed. Motorists were advised to
carry chains.
Secondary highways near Myr
tle Point and Coquille were flood
ed.
Medford suffered extensive
flooding when storm sewers could
not handle the water. A number
of downtown store owners sand
bagged their doors to keep flood
waters out and four of the city's
eight bridges were closed when
Bear Creek overflowed.
T-H Law invoked
by President
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy today invoked the i
the Taft-Hartley Law in the labor
dispute involving the Lockheed
Aircraft Corp. and the Interna
tional Association of Machinists.
He instructed Atty. Gen. Rob
ert F. Kennedy to seek an im
mediate federal Injunction against
continuation of the Lockheed
strike.
Workers at Lockheed aircraft
and missile plants have returned
to work. But the President acted
after a special board of inquiry
found that the union security is
sue had not been settled and thus
the return to work was of a "pre
carious nature."
"Until Lockheed. . .and the. . .
machinists are able to agree on
new contracts covering the bar
gaining units involved, there can
be no assurance of continued op
erations," the inquiry board re
ported to the President.
Thereto, "in order 10 remove
a peril to the national safety and
to secure a resumption of trade,
commerce and transporation,"
Kennedy instructed the attorney
general to proceed under Section
208 of the Taft-Hartley Law and
enjoin continuance of the strike.
Granting of the Injunction will
produce at least an 80-day sta
tutory "cooling off" In the strike
and require the union members
to remain at work.
PROSECUTOR RESIGNING
JERUSALEM (UPD-Atty. Gen.
Gideon Hausncr, the prosecutor
at the trial of Adolf Elchmann,
is resigning, it was disclosed
Sunday.