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THE BEND BULLETIN WEATHER Considerable fog; high Wednes day 11-42; low tonight 27-34. TEMPERATURES High yesterday, 41 degrees. Low last night, 23 degrees. Sunut today, 4:27, Sunrise tomorrow, 7:10. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 60th Year Directors back coach Father whose boy dropped from team critical of athletic code By Bill Yattt Bulletin Staff Wrlttr The father of a boy dropped from the Bend Senior High School basketball team for drinking ap peared at a meeting of the Dis trict No. 1 School Board last night to protest what he said was an unfair application of the senior high school athletic code. H. C. Hickman, Denser Road, eharged that his hoy had been penalized because he "told the truth." According to Hickman, his boy Was one of several dropped from the team after they had admit ted to school officials that they bad been involved in a party at which they took drinks of gin. Hickman said that he had done tome investigating of his own and bad found out that other mem bers of the basketball team had been involved in the drinking. However, he said that since these boys had denied the drinking they were permitted to continue on the team. Cod Not Working "I don't believe the code is working if It makes liars out of the boys," Hickman said. In answer to Hickman, Board Chairman Bert Hagen said that Hickman should feel proud that his boy had told the truth. He aid that he felt that if other boys bad participated in the drinking and had lied about it they would in the end suffer much more than the Hickman boy. All members of the board who participated in a lengthy discus sion of the situation indicated their support of the coach, the pchoo! administration and in gen eral the manner in which the case had been handled. In addi tion, there was complete agree ment by directors regarding the beed far an athletio code and con trol over drinking and smoking. Chairman Hagen did agree, however, with Hickman that he, the father, should have been noti fied of the action taken by school authorities. He said he had found Pioneers eye museum plan Newly elected officers of the 700-member Deschutes Pioneers' Association have under consider ation a proposal which, if ap proved, will revive plans of the group for a museum featuring pio neer material of the area. This plan would call for space in the Central Oregon Commun ity College that is to take shape on the western slop of Awbrey Heights. The proposal was ad vanced by the Pioneers' museum committee and will be presented to COC officials for consideration. This museum plan was present ed for the first time at the annual business meeting of the Deschutes Pioneers' Association this past weekend in the Deschutes district court quarters in Bend. Purpose of this meeting was to elect offi cers for the coming year, trans act business and outline tentative plans for the Association's annual dinner meeting and program. That meeting will be held on January 19, at the Masonic Tem ple. D. Ray Miller was named presi dent of the Association and, with fellow officers, will be installed at the January meeting. He suc ceeds Steve Steidl, president this past year. Antone Fossen was named Nice president Relected were Laura Wonser, secretary, and Edith Hol linshead, treasurer. Committees were named to complete arrangements for the January 19 dinner meeting and program. HONEST JOHN MIDDLESBROUGH. England (UPI) John McWilliams, 51, pleaded guilty Monday to stealing a bicycle, even though police said none was reported missing. The judge said he believed Mc Williams' story, praised his hon esty, and sentenced him to a month in jail. Last of CARMICHAELS. Pa. (UPP The long agonizing wait was over. "They're dead all 37." The word came from deep in side an explosion-racked passage way of Robena No. 3 mine late Monday night The dead count was complete. There would be no Christmas this year in many homes in the coal mining communities of Bob town, Masontown. New Salem. Uniontown. McClellandtown, and Carmichaels. The tragedy began about 1 pro., EST, last Thursday. Eight Pagtx out from after the team. his son several dismissal from days the Empey at Moating Don Empey, principal of the senior high school, attended the meeting, and explained details of the incident involving the Hick man boy. He supported the action taken by the basketball coach and expressed his belief that the code in question is an important part of the athletic program. The principal noted that the code has received the approval of the student council, as well as the school board and the athletic department Despite the position taken by the school officials, Hickman con tinued during the discussion to take the position that the coge was unfair and unnecessary. He said that in addition to the 'Hello Santa' program set on Thursday Jaycees of Bend will sponsor their annual "Hello Santa" pro gram on Thursday, December 13, with the city's little people invited to make their wishes known to white-whiskered Santa. Santa will be directly available by telephone, as in past years. The program time Thursday will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. During those hours, youngsters should telephone either EV 2-4611 or EV 2-1511 to reach Santa. Telephones to receive the in coming calls for Santa will be made available by the First Na tional and U.S. National Banks of Bend. Santa's busy aides will be on the job and there will be little waiting. As calls are received, aides will jot down the Christmas gift wish es of youngsters. On Saturday, Santa Claus will make a public appearance in Bend beneath the big spruce Christmas tree on Oregon Ave nue adjacent to Wall. From his seat under the spruce. Santa will greet youngsters and distribute sacks of assorted yule candy, between 1 and 3 p.m., or until supplies are exhausted. Freight truck driver killed PORTLAND (UPI) A large freight truck struck a parked truck loaded with hay on the Ban field Freeway shortly before 6 a.m. today, killing the driver of the freight truck. Robert S. Martin, 47, Portland, was dead on arrival at a hos pital. Gordon R. Schmidt, 26, Stan field, driver of the hay truck, es caped injury. He was asleep in the cab of his vehicle at the time of the accident Minuteman is ready for war GREAT FALLS, Mont. (UPI) The Minuteman "instant" inter continental missile is ready for war. In a ceremony at Malmstrom Air Force Rase here today, de claring the solid fuel missile op erational, the Air Force revealed that 20 of the slender 54-foot rock ets are in place in underground silos in central Montana aimed at specific Communist targets and ready for firing on a moment's notice should war come. Ten of the missiles were ready for combat during the Cuban crisis. The ceremony marked the offi cial turnover of the first two Minuteman flights of 10 missiles each from the Air Force ballistic system division to the Strategic Air Command. bodies A devastating explosion ripped through a section of the Frosty Run shaft near here. It snuffed out 37 lives. But for nearly five agonizing days, parents, wives and children lived in hope and in vain. The grief stricken families, who had kept a long and silent vigil, filed out of the small depressing waiting room near the mouth of the deep, miles-long Frosty Run shaft upon learning that none of the miners had been found alive. There were few tears, but the wan and forlorn faces toM of Bnd, son dismissed from the basket ball team he also has a younger son who, he said, has shown out standing athletic potential. Hick man said he was not sure he would let the boy participate in the senior high school sports program if the code in question is continued. Near the end of the long dis cussion, Hickman insinuated that The Bulletin had not used names of young offenders when their parents were influential or promi nent members of the community. Reporter Answers This brought an answer from The Bulletin reporter covering the meeting. He said that the news paper has long maintained a pol icy of using names of young of fenders only when they have been arrested by proper law enforce ment officials. The reporter said that never in his 12 years with The Bulletin has a name furnished by police been withheld for any reason. There followed a strong state ment in support of school officials by a visitor at the meeting, Gor don Randall. He indicated that he felt some of Hickman's remarks cast a reflection on the school ad ministration and members of the board. Alva C. Goodrich, attorney for the school district, also took ex ception in strong language to re marks made by Hickman. At this point Chairman Hagen dismissed Hickman and the board moved on to other business. Toppled timber to be auctioned The Deschutes National Forest will offer for sale later this month storm-toppled timber in two areas, one in the Pitsua Butte area and the other in the East Siah Butte country. The Pitsua Butte timber, about 200,000 board feet of pine and 100,000 board feet of white fir and other species, will be offered for sale at an auction in the supervi sor's office at 2 p.m. on Decem ber 18. The blowdown timber cov ers approximately 26,900 acres. Also on December 18, at the same hour, the Deschutes Nation al Forest will hold an auction in which about 400,000 board feet of pine will be offered for sale, near East Siah Butte. The minimum acceptable bid for pine in the Pitsua Butte Wow down area has been set at $10.75, with $6.35 the asking price for the white fir and other species. The Forest Service has set $16.65 as the minimum acceptable bid for the pine on the East Siah Butte blowdown. Full information relative to the two blowdown sales can be ob tained from the U.S. Forest Serv ice office in Bend. Timber offered for sale is that toppled by the high wird of Oc tober 12. Newest college fad 'Spinning in clothes dryer ABILENE. Tex. (UPI)-A fresh man student at Abilene Christian College claimed a new record to day in a budding college fad guaranteed to make the partici pant dry behind the ears. William B (Bill) Warner, 19. San Angelo, Monday said he spun a dizzying total of 1.066 rounds in a coin-operated electric clothes dryer. Warner said the trip was not expensive. He went round-and-round for 25 minutes for an out lay of 25 cents. The spin was done with the dryer's heat control on low and the door open, Warner said. Seven students witnessed. Warner, none the worse for the wear, said the only ill effect was a slight, lingering dizziness. The previous record, Warner said, was 73 rounds by a student at Vanderbilt. in mine their emotions. Reflects Prayerful Ordaal Their silent grief reflected a prayerful ordeel undertaken in an uncomfortable corrugated iron building nestled in the snow-covered hills of southwestern Penn sylvania. Despite the evidence against survival, the rescue teams worked determinedly in the min ers' tradition of never giving up hope until the last missing man is found. Only the grim task of recover ing the last bodies and identify Dchuti County,. Oregon, Tuesday, December 1 1, School bonds awarded to Seattle firm The District No. 1 School Board last night awarded the $700,000 bond issue recently approved by district voters to Marshall M. Meyer, municipal bond firm of Seattle. The company was one of three firms bidding for the bonds and submitted a low interest figure of 3.1416. Other interest bids were First National Bank, Bend branch, 3.2702; United States National, Bend branch, 3.3376. Tne bonds will be delivered to the winning bidder within 60 days. They will be retired over a period of 20 years, with interest pay ments to total approximately $230,000. . Directors last night also set In motion a bid schedule on con struction provided by the bond sale. Included In the building pro gram are additions at the senior high school and construction of an industrial arts building and a new 8-classroom grade school. Jack Annand, district architect, was on hand at the meeting last night and presented the board with completed plans for the building program. Under the bid schedule, adver tising will begin on January 2. A second advertisement will be pub lished on January 9 and the bids will be opened at the Junior High School library on January 23. Specifications Proparod Annand reported that he had prepared specifications which would permit general contractors to bid three separate ways. Bids may be submitted for the entire program, for the grade school and for the work at the high school, including the additions and indus trial arts building. Also included in specifications is a stipulation that contractors give preference to competent lo cal labor in hiring workers. In other business last night the directors awarded a contract for insurance on musical equipment to Lumbermens Insurance. The bid was $445.62. Two other bids were received, both of which were over $500. ' The directors also approved in stallation of a sprinkler system over the Kenwood School fuel bin, site of a recent fire. The sprink ler has been urged by fire depart ment officials. The cost is esti mated at approximately $450. Trips Authorized Also authorized was a trip by Don Empey, Bend Senior High School principal, to the 47th an nual convention of Secondary School Principals In Pittsburgh, Penn., February 9 to 13. Empty has been asked to serve as chair man of a discussion on "Promis ing Practices in Experimentation in the Secondary - School Pro gram." Superintendent R. E. Jewell es timated that Empey's trip would cost the district about $400. He said he considered the invitation to Empey a fine honor for the ad ministrator and for the local dis trict. The directors decided to ask for fuel oil bids this year on an FOB Portland basis. The big opening will be held early in January. The meeting was held at the district clerk's office, with Chair man Bert Hagen presiding. Accident puts two in hospital Two youths were hospitalized early this morning, result of an accident on U.S. Highway 97 about half a mile north of the Deschutes Junction. Brought to the St. Charles Me morial Hospital in the city am bulance were Larry Woods and Walter R. Elkins, both of Ma dras. Their injuries were not seri ous, despite the fact that their car was wrecked. The youths were driving north toward Redmond on U.S. 97 when their car struck a slick spot, skid ded, rolled over several times and went into the roadside ditch, on the east side of the road. The car came to rest on its top. One of the occupants was thrown from the car. disaster found ing them remained. Identification was difficult because of the con dition of the bodies. Dr. Dave Fingle, a U.S. Steel Corp. physician, and Greene County Coroner Frank J. Behm said their findings showed the cause of death of the men whose bodies were brought to the sur face was the "tremendous force of the explosion." "Death was instantaneous," the two men said. Bagin Tedieue Search In a matter of hours after the explosion, rescue teams entered isnrdl Qi ??s3!wsssvvs' "wtat 'kcA. fov tlv 4 IPfl & I " II iiA.' ( SKI SIGNUP TIME Mrs. Lester Snider, right, signs up, from left, Greg Snider, Lena and Lorna Turner tor Skyliners ski school Dec, 26-30 at Bachelor Butte. Official registration will be held at recreation department's Harmon Hobby House from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Cost for the five lessons is $5, with a book of five round-trip bus tickets also available for $5. The Bachelor Ski School will handle instruction. Air Force seeks1 testimony from confessed slayer MOUNTAIN HOME. Idaho (UPI) Air Force officials re mained hopeful today they will get a civilian to repeat at a mili tary hearing his confession to murders they have charged to an airman. Tlie Air Force does not have the power to subpoena Theodore Thomas Dickie, 22, a confessed rape-slayer, to come to Mountain Home Air Force Base to testify at a hearing underway for Air man Gerald M. A:iucison, 24, San Diego. Whether or not Dickie takes the stand at a hearing being held to determine if Anderson should face a general court martial for pre meditated murder will depend on Dickie and civilian authorities. Maj. James Goddard. Air Force judge advocate representative who is conducting the hearings, said he would like Dickie to testify sometime this week. But in Boise, where Dickie is being held for the murder of a 10-year-old girl, Sheriff Myron Gil bert said he would be concerned about releasing Dickie to go any where because of safety reasons. He said the legal procedure is to obtain a court order for Dickie's appearance through the District Court. "I would like to have Dickie appear there in aid of the cause," Gilbert said. "But I've got to pro tect myself and not let him run around." Dickie and Anderson are charged with the knife-slayings last April of Mrs. Nancy Joy John son, 22, and her son, Danny, 2. Owl sucked into jet at Portland PORTLAND (UPI) A jet flight to the East Coast with 63 aboard was halted here Monday when the plane sucked in a large owl as it was starting to take off. The pilot braked the Boeing 720 to a halt without trouble. United Airlines said the jet would need a new engine. the gas-filled shaft to begin the long tedious search for the trapped men. Additional teams, gathered to aid the probe under constant dan ger from deadly methane gas. possible roof falls and the chance of another explosion. The 24 rescue members wore aided constantly by 75 to 80 vol unteers. Hope for the survival of die 37 trapped miners dimmed steadily as the long rescue effort pro gressed and then ended with the sighting of the final 11 bodies. 1962 Ml hy Car passes over boy but wheels do not hit him The reflection of sun on the windshield of a turning car was blamed Monday afternoon when Bruce Miller, 4, was struck down at the Greenwood Bond inter section. Although the body of the car passed over the child he was not struck by the wheels. Bruce was taken to St Charles Memorial Hospital for treatment of injuries and later released. Re portedly he suffered bruises and a cut beneath his chin. He lives at 933 S. Fourth with his mother Mrs. Louise Miller. Driving the car was James Wesley Matson, 60, of Route 1, Box 467. Matson told police he waited while the boy's baby sit ter and another child moved through the Bond crosswalk be fore he made his left turn from Greenwood. But the sudden flash of sunlight obscured the trailing Miller boy from his vision, he ex plained. Bridge bond vote due Friday City officials are preparing all necessary procedures for the sec ond bond election asking approval of $110,000 for the Portland Ave nue Bridge now under construc tion. Election day Is Friday, Decem ber 14 and polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Two polling statinas will accom modate all voters. Those living east of the river will vote in the city hall city commission room at Wall and Louisiana. West side residents aro to vote in the Ken wood School gymnasium. The ballot titlo of this measure will be worded thus: "Shall the City of Bend Charter of 1900 be amended by adding Chapter VIII providing for the issuance of ninety thousand ($90.0001 dollars City of Bend General Obligation Bonds to finance the removal ol the present Portland Avenue Bridge and to replace it with a new bridge and to provide ap proaches, appurtenances and fa cilities, necessary real property, casements, and rights-of-way and other facilities convenient and necessary therefor?" The first bond election held in September, 1961, was approved by voters by a majority of 445 fa voring to 264 opposed. However a legal technicality has required an other bond election. DOW JONES AVERAGES By Unittd Prats International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 645.16, up 008: 20 railroads 137.33, off 037; 15 utili ties 126 23, up 0.18, and 65 stocks 225.36. off 0.03. Sales today were about 3.7 million shares compared with 4 27 million shares Monday. Ten Cents mm, mli Action against high-pressure salesmen urged By Gerald Drapeau Bulletin Staff Wrlt.r Some sort of "clamping down" program on high-pressuro sales men who infiltnito small com munities with home-improvement bargains was urged by city commissioner Paul Reasoncr at tho board's noon luncheon Mon day. Reasoner asserted ho was per sonally familiar with four or five Deschutes County families who were taken in by fast - talking salesmen offering bargains in aluminum siding projects. The bargain fees agreed upon, he said, later grow to exorbitant figures which homeowners usually can not afford. Reasoner asked for commission action in strengthen ing the Green River ordinance which prohibits certain types of door-to-door soliciting. Bureau It Urged Reasoncr also requested forma tion of an official Better Business Bureau in Bend to enlighten the buying public on reputations of out-of-town sales firms. Ho noted that in some cases siding firms have charged as much as $130 for installation of a single square of aluminum ordinarily priced from $22 to $27 on the market. In other business city manager Hal Puddy reminded commission ers of the Friday, December 14 election asking $90,000 bond ap proval for construction of the Portland Avenuo Bridge. Puddy expressed his hope for a large turnout at the polls. Prospects of a foreign "sister city" for Bend were advanced a notch with a letter of request from Puddy to the local Rotary Club, formally asking assistance. Rotarians have voiced their will ingness to co-sponsor the project with necessary funds. Representative Duo Tho manager also read a let ter received from the Housing Homo Finance Agency in Seattle, announcing an agency represent ative would visit Bend on De cember 19 to explain particulars of urban renewal programs. Pud dy honed a joint meeting could he arranged with the planning commission at that time. Urban renewal has received close study by commissioners and Puddy in recent weeks. Report denied by Douglas WASHINGTON (UPI) Su preme Court Justice William O, Douglas denied today a published report that he is planning to re tire from the bench to join the Ford Foundation. Douglas issued a statement in response to the report contained in a column by Drew Pearson. No. 5 Drifts mount to eight feet at South Bend By United Press International A paralyzing snowstorm backed up by a zero cold wave closed schools and blocked travel through ', a six-state area in the Midwest I and East today. j The snowbound city of South ; Bend, Ind., where drifts mounted ' eight feet high, was under a state : of emergency for . the second straight day. Hundreds of motor ists spent the night in restaurants or joined a mile-long convoy of snow, plows in New York state. Ashtabula, Ohio, was battered by blizzard snows, cars were aban doned along snowy Erie, Pa., streets, and the University of Ten nessee called off final examina tions. The storm, one of a series to belt the nation's eastern half dur ing the past week, covered wide areas of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Now York, Pennsylvania and Ten nessee. ' Behind it a bitter cold wave knifed from Canada all the way to Florida. Low Marks Notod Temperatures included 17 below at Williston, . N.D., 16 below at both Dickinson, N.D., and Inter national Falls, Minn., and a record breaking 1 below at Chicago. Freezing cold covered au oi Florida except the Keys. Miami vacationers shivered in 29-degree weather and frost threatened the state's rich winter vegetable crops. At least 86 deaths had been blamed on the succession of storms. They included 21 each in both Ohio and Michigan, 10 in New England, 7 in New York State, 6 each in Kentucky and in Pennsylvania, 4 in Indiana, 3 each in Tennessee, West Virginia and Illinois, and 2 In Kansas. Highlights of the storm included: South Bend: There was no end to the storm howling off Lake Michigan. More snow was falling on top of tho 18 inches already on the ground and the county highway department said It might have to slop clearing roads be cause it was running out of places to put the snow. Fifty schools re mained closed by the city's worst storm in a decade. New York State: One of the worst storms in many years piled up 30 inches of snow in Jefferson and Lewis counties. Visibility was zero, schools were closed, and cars were stalled on streets and highways in dozens of communi ties. A Watertown resident said tho storm was "getting worse by the minute. We can't even sea across tho street" Michigan: The storm was of record breaking proportions and was worsened by 12 below tem peratures at Sault Ste. Marie. Schools were closed throughout the upper peninsula, in southwest Michigan, and along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Only one lane of traffic was moving on heavily travelled Interstate 94, the main route between Chicago and De troit, and many other main arteries were blocked tight. Rec ord snows included a foot and a half at Muskegon in 24 hours. Fog blanket moves over mid-Oregon Fog that blanketed much of northern Oregon, the Deschutes River Valley and tributaries for tiie past several days spread south Monday afternoon, to envel op much of the interior country. Thick fog covered Bend through most of the night and was a factor in halting the rapid drop of temp erature. Bend's minimum for the night even under the shroud of fog was 23 degrees. Early this morning, fog lifted from the upper Deschutes coun try and bright sunshine returned to Bend. Forecasts indicate that spotted foggy conditions are to continue through Wednesday. Tempera tures arc to remain low, with the high Wednesday predicted for the 35-42 degree bracket and with the night low expected to reach 27 degrees. Heavy, freezing fog resulted In some slick places on highways last night.
