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Onlv. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREQ0M WEATHER Fair through Sunday; high M 15; low MM. MM II il D II 1 1 K I II i II D II I .V H iA T temperatures HTML, JUJCilJU BUJLJLaimgfSS I degrees. Ltw degrees. Sunset SunriM Iww m, CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 60th Year Eight Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, December 8, 1962 Ten Cents No. 3 Mew York iraeTOpsipeirs sta 4mm strik Mine rescue crew sights body in shaft CARMICHAELS, Pa. (UPI) -Rescuers sighted a body in the Bobena No. 3 mine today but re covery was delayed because of a recurring "ventilation problem." Heavy concentrations of carbon monoxide slowed rescue efforts in the Frosty Run shaft where 37 men were trapped by an explo sion Thursday. A U.S. Steel Corp. spokesman said the body was found about 4,000 feet from an area where the men were working when the blast rocked the mine. Sighting of the body clouded hopes for survival of the others. "These men have to have their fellow men at heart," said a mine official, referring to the round-the-clock work of rescue teams since the explosion shook a sector of the huge mine near here. Still unanswered is the question: Are some of the trapped men alive or dead? Held Slim Hap Relatives and friends of the men cut off 680 feet beneath the surface continued to cling to a thin thread of hope that their hus bands, fathers or brothers would survive. By early morning, a progress report said the advance units had reached a point 4,000 feet from the face or end of a passageway where the miners were caught while they toiled at their work. The majority of those unaccount ed for had spent most of their working lives in the mines. But the rescue efforts clearly were a race against time. State Mines Secretary Lewis Evans said Friday night that if the present rate of penetration of the blast area was maintained, something definite probably would be known "in another 36 hours." That would be sometime Sunday morning. "We haven't given up hope," he aid. Rescuers Encounter Difficulty Authorities also expressed con cern for the miners participating bi the rescue effort in a section of the world's largest mechanized coal operation. James B. Girod, assistant superintendent of the Robena mine, said the eight, nine-man teams are working "under ex tremely difficult conditions." Each man carries a respirator good for a two-hour supply of ox ygen in the dangerous gas-filled areas. "Walking in an oxygen mask Is difficult, and physical la bor is even more difficult," Gi rod said. Among those aiding in the search are 44 miners who es caped from the deep underground shaft when the blast rocked the huge mine Thursday. Initial council session ends VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope John XXIII closed the first ses sion of the Ecumenical Council today confident that the "sharply divergent views" of the prelates taking part had helped the his toric gathering in its search for truth. The ailing, 81-year-old Pontiff, speaking clearly and firmly in Latin, said the first two - month session was "a slow and solemn introduction" and "a good begin ning." He expressed the hope that the second session opening on Sept. 8, 1963, would go ahead "more steadily and with greater speed." In his closing speech in St. Peter's Basilica. Pope John also mentioned his hope that the sec ond session would wind up the council, the 21st in church jistory and the first since 1870. The Pope, who has been ill with stomach trouble and anemia spent only about half an hour at the closing ceremonies. He did not attend the opening mass and remained only long enough to make a 25-minute speech from the huge throne set in front of the Basilica's main altar. PLAN TROOP HOUSING MOBILE, Ala. IUPI) Army engineers said Friday they plan to call for bids soon on construc tion of tent frames to house the 500 Army troops guarding Negro James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. The Army said the frames with wooden walls and floors were needed to get the troops "off the grwind" during the cold weather. 'Get the job done' Bridge bonds backed by C of C directors Strong support for the Portland Avenue bridge proposal next Fri day was expressed at yesterday's weekly meeting of the Bend Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. A resolution urging residents of Bend to approve the bridge bonds was approved in a unanimous vote of directors. The motion was offered bv Gor don McKay, who noted that voters are already on record in favor of the proposal. An election last year was voided on a technicality. The city, however, has continued work on a new bridge. In his motion. McKay noted that voters had already obligated themselves to construct the bridge and commended the city commission for "proceeding with the bridge project voted by the people." Lets get the Job done," Mc Kay told directors. Following approval of the mo tion, directors discussed various ways of bringing the importance of the election before the public Hoffa 'apprehensive,' asks for mistrial declaration NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) Five-foot-five-inch Jimmy Hoffa is a giant in a union of muscular six-foot truck drivers. The steel-fisted Hoffa fought his way to the top job in the powerful Teamsters union against formidable opposition. Employers who have sat- op posite him at the bargaining table say he is as tough-minded and unyielding a negotiator as he is a slugger with his fists. In various court cases, opposing attorneys have found him a shrewd and unshakable witness. Now the rugged, rough-and-ready Hoffa says he is "appre hensive." A Washington, D.C. laborer shot Hoffa with a pellet pistol in fed eral court Wednesday but the two pellets that struck him did not harm him physically. Homemade bomb set off on Norton A homemade bomb exploded in the street in front of an east side residence early this morning with a roar that awakened residents for blocks around. The bomb was set off in front of the home of K. W. Buxton, 1158 E. Norton. Witnesses coming out of their homes saw a vast puff of smoke rising from the street The explosion occurred shortly past 4 o clock. Investigating police found parts of the homemade instrument strewn about for as far as 1,000 feet. Several pieces of paper toweling were found in the street and on the lawns of neighbors. Police detected powder bums on the east curbstone 30 feet from the point of detonation. Robert Lyons, 1344 E. 12th, dis covered a piece of Hi-inch pipe about 7 inches in length which smelled strongly of black powder. Approximately 1,000 feet south of the Buxton home was a li-inch wooden plug, 2-inches long, with a groove cut lengthwise. Also found was a piece of dynamite fuse about 6 feet in length. Portions of the bomb were brought to police headquarters and the pipe was dusted for fin gerprints. PROTEST WESTERN AID LISBON UPI - Fifty persons demonstrated in front of the American and British embassies here Friday, carrying signs pro testing Western aid to India. India says Soviet aid comes on schedule NEW DELHI (UPI)-India to day was promised continuing fi nancial aid from the Soviet Union and large-scale arms aid from the United States. Finance Minister Morarji Desai told parliament today that Soviet funds were reaching India on schedule despite its border war with Communist China. U. S. Am bassador John Kenneth Galbraith said Friday that large amounts and mapped a campaign to get out a sizable number of voters next Friday. Chamber members will be informed of the election in a special Bulletin to be mailed out by the Chamber office. In ad dition service clubs will be con tacted and their memberships will be urged to get to the polls and vote in favor of the bond is sue. City Manager Hal P u d d y at tended the board meeting and dis cussed various aspects of the bridge situation with the direc tors. Puddy also furnished the board with a detailed study of down town parking recently completed by his office. Directors discussed the situa tion with Puddy and indicated that further study would be given the manager's report, which in cluded a number of recommenda tions for improving downtown parking. President Don Conner presided at the meeting, which was held at the Rustic Inn. In a sworn affidavit attached to a morion tor a mistrial filed Fri day by Hoffa's attorneys, the Teamsters' chief said that he is "apprehensive of his own safety if this case should proceed further at this time. ' The jury was not present when th assailant walked- up to Hoffa during the proceedings and began firing with the air pistol. Hoffa knocked the man down and appeared to regain his com' posure right away. He said shortly after the incident, "let's get on with the trial." The attack, the motion said, hns caused such "shock, stress and strain" on him to communicate fairly and fully with his counsel during the balance of this trial, and upon his capability of testi fying fully and freely in his own defense." Sayt Witnesses Are Nerveut Hoffa said in his affidavit the witnesses he had planned to call in his behalf are "nervous and apprehensive, and therefore the defendant believes they would not testify freely and fully in this case. Hoffa is charged with violating the Taft-Hartley law by allegedly accepting protection payoffs from Commercial earners, Inc., a na tionwide automobile transport firm. Ha has pleaded innocent to the charges. When the motion was filed court was not in session. After a mys- terious three-hour session behind close! doors in which the govern ment presented a motion in the absence of newsmen and specta tors, federal Judge William E Miller adjourned court Thursday. Bachelor Butte skiing listed as fair to good Skiing on packed runs at Bach elor Butte is fair to good, man ager Cliff Blann said today. Temperature this morning was 34 degrees with clear skies and no wind. The T-Bar, chalrlift and rope tow will frato today and Sunday. Chains should be carried as the last seven miles of road slick. The annual Jere GUlis Memo rial race, a novice event, will be held next Saturday and Sunday instead of this weekend as pre viously announced. Entry fee is $2 and should be sent to Skjersaa Ski Haus, 926 Greenwood Avenue, Bend, by next Friday. of American ammunition and weapons would begin arriving by sea early in the new year. Desai was asked if Chinese pressure had delayed the Soviet aid. "On the contrary," he re plied He said the power plants which Russia had said earlier would not be completely deliv ered on time are coming "accord ing to schedule." Desai placed the total amount Fund transfer said illegal by Thornton SALEM (UPI '-Transfer of $5.5 million from the veterans' bond sinking fund to bail out a predict ed general fund deficit would vio late Oregons constitution, Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said Fri day. Thornton told United Press In ternational the governor lacks au thority to make such a transfer, and said any enabling legislation adopted by the legislature would be in violation of the constitution. In his budget revealed last Sat urday, Gov. Mark Hatfield called for return of the $5.5 million as one of the measures necessary to keep the general fund in the black for the balance of the biennium. Opinion Cited Thornton cited an opinion hand ed down by his office Feb. 26, 1953. relating to the Oregon War Veterans' bond sinking fund. In that opinion. Thornton said The legislative assembly does not have the power to transfer or appropriate moneys from either the Oregon War Veterans' fund or the Oregon War Veterans' bond sinking fund to purposes other than those enumerated. 'Any attempt to transfer or use the funds for purposes other than those enumerated (in the enabling legislation which created the Ore gon War Veterans' bond sinking fund) would meet the full impact of the constitution." Tax Net Levied The constitutional amendment which created the veterans' fund included provision for a two-mill tax to raise the money. However, no tax was ever levied. The state had surplus funds and over a peri od of years the legislature gave $8,017,905 to the fund. No concern was expressed at the time that once the money was given the fund, it 'could not be legally withdrawn. Thornton said, "when a special fund is raised for a particular purpose under legislative authori ty by a special tax or bond issue or the like, or money is appro priated for a specified purpose, it cannot be used for any other pur pose either permanently or tem porarily until the - purpose for which it was intended has been fully accomplished." The 1953 ruling was issued in answer to a question from De partment of Veterans' Affairs Di rector H. C. Saalfeld. At that time Saalfeld wanted to know if monies from the fund could be used for rehabilitation work. Thornton said Friday the same ruling would apply In case of an attempt to return those monies to the state s general fund. In 1951. two years before Thorn ton issued his opinion, the legisla ture did authorize return of $2.5 million from the veterans' fund to the general fund. When asked by UPI it mat transfer was affected by his 1963 opinion, Thornton said, "that's a good question. Saalfeld told UPI Friday the veterans' fund now had "about $9.5 million revenue, more than enough to pay the $5.5 million" asked by Hatfield. Accident claims two brothers KLAMATH FALLS (UPI) - ley roads claimed two brothers in a two-car accident on Highway 97 just north of here early today. The victims were Identified aa Hubert LeRoy Ellison, 43, and James H. Ellison, 51, both of Springfield. Another brother, Bennie W. Elli son, 39, was hospitalized. Also hurt in the collision was Mrs. Alice M. Kutch, 66, Portland. She was listed in fair condition. State police said a car driven by Bennie Ellison slid on ice and crossed the highway into the path of a car driven by Robert Dale Kutch, 40, Portland. of Soviet economic aid at $500 million, of which usage agree ments have been reached with about $450 million. Most of this sum, he said, already has been utilized. Premier Jawaharlal Nehru told parliament that he has received assurances from Peking that the Communist invaders will give up all but two of the positions claimed by India on the northeast ! - 3iaA 47 Lit rrn i nnii i CARS, PASSENGERS BATTERED Four perioni war !n'ured around (0:30 p.m. Friday when the black hardtop sedan in fop photo and the late-modal convertible in the bottom picture crashed at East Third near Quimby. Taken to St. Charles Memorial Hospital war sedan driver Lowell A. Clark and his passenger, Carolyn Dooley; and convertible driver Gertrude Hobson and her passenger, Marilyn Lucas. (Chris Genna photos). Newburgh city manager facing chisel' count NEW YORK (UP!) - Joseph Med. Mitchell, the Newburgh, N.Y., city manager who made na tional headlines last year for his crackdown on what he described as welfare chisclers, goes to court here today to answes charges of conspiring to chisel a $20,000 fee for a real estate favor. The controversial 40-ycar-oId Mitchell was arrested Friday at Newburgh City Hall at the close of a City Council meeting by de tectives from the office of New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan. He was brought here for booking and released in $10,000 bail for arraignment later today in Manhattan Criminal Court Hogan said Mitchell demanded $20,000 to assure rezoning New burgh property owned by Steph en and Joseph Wahrhaftig, twin brothers of MonticeUo, N.Y. The Wahrhaftigs reported the demand to Hogan's office Monday and were told to pay the bribe as re quested to Mitchell's alleged ac complice, Lawrence J. De Masi, Jr., 42, Hogan said. Hogan said the brothers handed over the sum to De Masi, opera tor of a Hillsdale, N.J., real es tate and insurance agency, in a New York hotel Friday. Detec tives arrested De Masi as he left the hotel. Mitchell was picked up later, and detectives were report ed to have searched his oflice and taken certain records. Both Mitchell and De Masi were charged with four felony counts, three of bribery and one of conspiracy. They face a maxi mum sentence of 10 years in pris on and a $5,000 fine on each count if convicted. frontier. "We understand that they want to keep civil posts at Dhola and Longju (two former Indian out posts just south of the border)," Nehru said. Galbraith told a news confer ence that U. S. ships already were loading the arms in Ameri can ports for the 30-day trip. He identified the cargo only n 4 hospitalized after grinding crash here By Gerald Drapeau Bullttin Staff Writer Four young Bend persons are in St. Charles Memorial Hospital receiving treatment for injuries suffered in a two-car, head-on col lision Friday night on the E. Third Street Highway. They are Gertrude Ruth Hob- son, 21, 102 Adams Place; Lowell A. Clark, 19, 514 E. Norton; Carolyn Dooley, 19, 723 E. 11th, and Marilyn Lucas, 19, 43'i Irv ing. Doctors just before press time said the Hobson girl and Clark were in good condition. Informa tion on conditions of Miss Lucas and Miss Dooley was not avail able at press time. Time of the accident was about 10:30 Friday. Police said a south hound convertible driven by Miss Hobson went out of control after passing a vehicle ahead, and swerved across the lane into the path of the oncoming Clark car. The convertible smashed into the left front side of the Clark car and both came to rest about 15 feet from point of impact, near Quimby. The hoods of both cars were folded like accordions. Miss Lucas was a passenger in the Hobson car. Miss Dooley was in the car driven by Clark. Witnesses at the scene told po lice the convertible was traveling at a high rate of speed as it was passing the car leading it. Miss Hobson apparently managed to apply her brakes before the cars GIVES FREE RIDE LONDON (UPI) When a bus driver got out to see why persons had flagged him down Friday on a hill, he discovered that a small compact ear had become locked in his rear bumper and was dragged several blocks during the heavy fog that blanketed London. "beavy military equipment." He said the automatic weapons the United Slates airlifted to In dia last month have reached the forward line troops he visited Tuesday. Embassy sources said further shipments would come by sea. unless the Chinese mount another offensive. In that case, the airlift could be resumed in a master of hours. struck, and both held the high way. Police noted it was the second automobile accident occurring in the immediate area in less than a week. Last Sunday a car driv en by a young Bend girl collided with a freight uck-and-trailer on E Third at Revere. No serious injuries resulted although both ve hicles reeled over' the highway shoulder and down into the front yard of Mayor Jack Dempsey's home at the corner of Revere. Culver man feared plane crash victim RABAT, Morocco (UPI) Three U.S. servicemen and an American civilian were feared killed in the crash of a small plane off Gibral tar, a U.S. embassy spokesman here said Friday. He said word was received that a body believed that of Sgt. Al bert L. White, 31, has been wash ed ashore at La Linea, Spain, The three other Americans were still missing. White was a passenger in a Co manche four seater piloted by Staff Sgt. Virgil Huffman, 31, of Culver, Ore., the spokesman said Huffman was attached to the I,81st U.S. Air Force communica tions squadron at Nouasseur Air Base and was flying a plane own ed by a private club there. Another passenger aboard the flight was identified as Clarence Labbe, a civilian from Windsor Locks, Conn. The fourth person aboard the plane was identified only as an Air Force major. The spokesman said White lived in Rabat uith his wife, Edith, and two children. His par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Delmar White, live in Colerance, N. C, the spokesman said CALLS OFF SEARCH LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI I -Joseph O'Donnell forgot he had let his cat have the car. He told police to call off their search for his stolen car after he remembered he parked it in his garage so the auto's engine would keep his son's kitten warm, 'raft unions orce major lews outage NEW YORK (UPI) - Nine New York City newspapers were shut down today in a contract dispute with craft unions, blacking out nearly one-tenth of the nation's total daily newspaper circulation. Printers struck the New York Daily News, Times, World-Tele- gram and Sun, and Journal. American at 2 a.m. EST when a strike deadline passed without a contract settlement. The Publishers Association of New York City announced an hour later that the other five papers it represents had suspended public ation in order to avoid the In ternational Typographical Union's (ITU) "whip-saw tactics." This af fected the New York Herald Tri- bune. Mirror, Post, the Lone Is land Star-Journal and the Long Island Press. . Strike Is Caeth The 'newspaper void came at the peak of the Christmas shop ping rush and just before tha printing of the ad-filled Sunday editions. The strike probably will cost the publishers about $1.3 mil lion a day in income and tha city's 20,000 newspaper employes about $260,000 a day in salaries, based on figures for a similar strike in 1958. Bertram A. Powers, president of the ITU's local 6, said the other craft unions were supporting tha printers, who established picket lines at the four struck papers. The union had set a strike dead line for 12:01 a.m. EST but held their walkout in abeyance so tha printers could tain the strike lead. The ITU negotiators broke oft negotiations with tha publishers shortly after making; a new pro posal for a $10 weekly pay in crease the first year and $8.45 the second in a two year contract, a - reduction In the work week, high er differentials for night and over night work, and Increased vaca tion and sick leave. Tha pay de mand was 55 cents less thin their previous proposal. . ... Stand On Offer ; The publishers were reported la be standing on an $8 offer spread over two years, the amount that was accepted Nov, 8 by tha New York Newspaper Guild unit at the Dally News after an eight-day strike of editorial workers. Tha settlement has since been accept ed by six of seven city papers negotiating with tha Guild. Amory Bradford, chairman ot the publishers negotiating com mittee, told federal mediators at the negotiating table that tha printers had struck- while their negotiators were "placing on tha table its basis for negotiations. In view of this, he said, the heads of each of the newspapers in volved authorized tha following statement: "The selective strike ot four newspapers is a deliberate device to whip-saw the struck papers into making excesslva concessions for a settlement. . .Because the publishers can not submit to this tactlo and be cause tha other unions hava joined the Typographical Union, we have no choice but to stop publication. Britain's killer smog has lifted LONDON (UPI)-Tha deadliest smog in 10 years was just a bitter memory today to millions of Brit ons who had coughed and wheezed their way through four misearable days and nights of gray darkness. The choking smog that de scended on London and most of central Britain last Monday killed at least 136 persons, put hundreds in hospitals and cost companies and the government an estimated $33 million in lost revenues and added expenses, Milwaukfe editor is missing MILWAUKIE (UPI) R. Dale Johnson, 37, editor of tha Milwau kie Review, was missing for tha third day today and was feared a possible victim of amnesia. Johnson was last seen leaving his office Thursday morning. He had been treated for a ner vous condition, and his doctor said amnesia could arise. Johnson stands five feet 8'4 inches, weighs 133 pounds, and has thinning blond hair. ,
