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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1962)
r THE BEND BULLETIN WEATHER Occasional light rain; high Sat. urday 42-47; low tonight 13-40. TEMPERATURES " High ytlttrday, 49 degrees. Lew last night, 39 dtgrtai. Sunxl today, 4:27. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:33. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 60th Year Twelve Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Friday, December 14, 1962 Ten Cents No. 8 HELLO SANTA, GUESS WHAT?' David Mention, reven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mention, 605 East Ninth, sort of wished he were on television when he made his "Hello Santa" plea by telephone last night: He is badly in need of an important front tooth, and would like to have it by Christmas. Thousands talked to Santa or his aides here last night when the Jaycees held their annual "Hello Santa" program. Christmas rush well underway at Post Office Don't remind Bend Post Office workers that Christmas is only 11 days distant including two Sun days. Piles of packages and thou sands of letters moving stream like through the cancellation equipment are plenty of proof for the postal staff that Christmas is just around tho corner. The mailing rush was well un der way today, and yesterday's mark of more than 123,000 letters cancelled is expected to be far exceeded. Bags of yule packages are arriving in rapidly increasing numbers. Outgoing mailing is also in creasing in tempo and is expect ed to reach its peak by Decem ber 19 Tuesday of next week. The peak of incoming mail. Post master Farley J. Elliott expects, will be on either December 20 or 21. On Sunday, the Bend Post Of fice will divert all incoming pack ages to the Oregon National Guard Armory, a point from which they will be distributed to rural and star route carriers and to local parcel post vehicles up until Christmas. Reminder Issued However, postal patrons are re minded that there will be no dis tribution directly from the arm ory. As in the past, packages ad dressed to boxes or general de livery will be distributed from the Post Office. Tom Larson will be in charge of the Armory work. The Armory will be used only for the sorting of mail, to provide more work space in the main Post Office building. Extra help employed for the rush season will all be on the job by Monday. Special "furniture" used each season is already in place. For town deliveries, an extra vehicle is in use. and a special van is moving mail here from Portland. A huge load of yule packages reached Bend this morning. Loose joint may have caused Hillsboro tragedy HIIXSBORO. Ore. L"PI A loose joint in one of the timbers supporting uie sea. s ... , ., It 1 J n .. ne causea .i edy which took five lr.es here Wednesday. The men were killed and nine others injured t wo ser.ousl when the freshly-poured concrete dome collapsed on a new city wa- ter reservoir under construction. C. R. Lafferty. district supenn sndent of the Oregon State In dustrial Accident Commission, said the loose joint is "the most likely cause." He said the blame has not been fixed, however. Fourteen men pouring the lat of the concrete were plummeted more than 60 feet and buried in debris at the bottom of the reser- VMS. 1600 youngsters call Sanfa; visit due on Saturday Santa's fur-covered ears were still buzzing today, following Bend's annual "Hello Santa" pro gram in which a near record number of calls were received by the jovial northlander and his aides. Hugh McNair, general chair man of the event, said the pro gram was one of the most suc cessful ever held by the Jaycees in Bend. Approximately 1600 youngsters called, to make known their Christmas desires. These ranged from "a new ba by brother" to a "new front tooth." Most toy suggestions by youngsters were for well-known toys. Jaycees set up batteries of tele phones in the First National and U.S. National offices. Calls were received there. It was expected that youngsters would be ready for bed around 8:30, but calls were still coming in at 9:30 p.m. Santa will be back in Bend on Saturday, from 1 to 3 p.m., and will make a personal appearance under the big spruce at the Ore gon - Wall intersection. He will arrive on a fire truck, and will be heavily laden with gift-filled stockings. Pictures of youngsters chatting w ith Santa will be taken by Web Loy. Crash blamed on dense fog Special to Tha Bulletin REDMOND Dense fog that covered the area and reduced the visibility to about 300 feet was blamed for a truck-car crash on U.S. Highway 97 about seven miles south of Madras this morn ing. Douglas Evcrtson, Redmond, a passenger in the car. northbound, was injured and taken to the Cen tral Oregon District HospitaL Full details of the accident were not immediately available. The crash occurred when a truck with an attached trailer owned by the Deschutes Valley Potato Co. of Culver stalled as it was crossing the highway. Dick Lines, Culver, driver of the truck, said a car approached out of the fog before he could get the ve hicle started. Evertson, an employee of the Utah Construction Co. at the Round Butte Dam. was in the IU.UI WJ Ul und driveT o wtich , , a Jlr. q. fa , were n.,, Dut their names or , were not J. Everts0Iwas to . , - , , Schneider, Bend. DOW JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 648 09, up 2.89; 20 railroads 137.64, off 0.15; 15 util ities 127.56, up 0.51, and 65 stocks 226.79. up 0 74. Sales today were about 3 28 million shares compared with 3.38 million shares Thursday. Tentative okay given architect's master plan A detailed master plan archi tect's plan for development of Central Oregon College facilities on the Awbrey Heights site was tentatively accepted at the COC board meeting this week in the Bend High library. Board member Dick McRae, Prineville, reported on the Stale Board of Education's meeting in Astoria At that time McRae and COC President Don Pence pre sented the 10-year master plan. McRae also reported on results of another meeting in Astoria to form a state association of com munity colleges. McRae was then appointed to represent the board December 19 in Salem in another meeting on forming the state organization. He will be accompanied by Pence and Don Burdg. COC faculty member, who will represent the college teaching staff. Boyd Overhulse, the board's le gal counsel, presented a resolu tion for issuing $125,000 of dis trict bonds, authorized by voters last spring. Action Withheld After considerable discussion, the board decided to withold ac tion on advertising sale of bonds until the group's January meet ing. Site committee chairman Ru pert Park noted that all deeds and escrows on anticipated col lege property are now in the hands of the board, and that De schutes County is now building the main access road through the campus. Pence told the board that Prof. Kerr, executive secretary of the Northwest Association of Higher Schools, has advised the college to wait until the college's physi cal plant is constructed before ap plying for accreditation to the Northwest Association. William Miller will chairman a building committee, with Stuart Sheik and Rupert Park mem bers. Harney land probe continues PORTLAND (UPI) - Three scheduled witnesses were excused here Thursday from a federal grand jury probe into the affairs of a land company whose adver tisements have reached as far away as Hawaii. U.S. Atty. Sidney Lezak said the federal grand jury investigation of the Harney County Land De velopment Corp. of Burns was continuing. Lezak said the three witnesses, a rancher, a businessman and a clerk might be called later. The land company has come under fire from the Oregon Real j Estate Commissioner for its pro - motion of Oregon desert land. Cold wave is moderating in U.S. south By United Press International A monstrous cold wave one of the most destructive in history began to ease its grip on the staggered Southland today. However, Florida vegetable and citrus crop growers continued the saddened task of determining the extent of damage wrought by the harshest freeze in the state since 1899. Snows continued for the ninth straight day along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York. The series of snow storms and the record December cold wave left at least 191 persons dead the past nine days. As much as 80 per cent of Florida's $500 million citrus crop was frozen. Farmers from Lake Okeechobee northward reported almost total loss of truck crops and pastures by three consecutive nights of below-freezing tempera tures. Prices Reported Up Texas truck farms, which nar rowly escaped the Arctic blast, reported an immediate jump in vegetable prices when news of the Florida disaster was made known. Temperatures throughout the south plunged to record lows on Thursday. Tallahassee, Fla., had a temperature of 10, its coldest reading of the century. An 18.5 reading at Tampa was a record low. Miami beach vacationers didn't go near the water when the mercury slid to 35. Coldest temperatures in the na tion Thursday were in the South, where it was 18 below at Cross- ville, Tenn., and 17 below at Lon don, Ky. Fires, automobile accidents on slippery and snow-packed pave ments, the frigid temperatures and overexertion brought the weather death toll higher and higher. Hikes Death Toll... Weather-related mishaps caused at least 191 deaths. Ohio counted 35 deaths and Michigan 29. Blizzard conditions prevailed through parts of Michigan, Ohio and New York Thursday, with New York's Erie County receiv ing up to 15 inches of new snow. A foot of snow fell at Watertown, N.Y. Ohio received from one to three inches and snow and high winds continued to buffet Michigan's southwest section. The carbon-copy forecast for the snowbelt area read the same today as it had for more than a week: Ski areas say prospects good for weekend Good skiing is predicted this weekend at Bachelor Butte and Hoodoo Bowl areas but both areas are hoping for more snow before the Christmas rush. Bachelor Butte has a 46-inch to tal. At 7:30 this morning the weather was calm and clearing with a 30-degree temperature. Skiing surface is rated granu lar and drivers should carry chains because the last seven miles of road are still quite slick. The T-bar, rope tow and chair lift will operate this weekend. Featured events include the Jere Gillis junior novice ski races. Slalom will be held 10 a.m. Satur day, with downhill competition at 10 a.m. Sunday. Hoodoo has 18 inches of snow, and manager Ed Thurston is hopefully looking for more. Because of the snow depth, the chairlift will not operate, but there is good skiing in the rope tow areas, Thurston said. 'Curious Savage' BSHS offers comedy "The Curious Savage," John Patrick's heart-warming comedy about the quirks of mental pa tients in a small sanitarium, will be presented Saturday night by the drama department of Bend High School. Curtain time is 8:15. Tickets sell for 75 cents for adults and 35 cents for students other than those at the high school, who will be admitted free of charge. Lynette Lantz plays the part of Mrs. Savage, the leading role. The plot is centered around a mysterious 10 million dollars, and its effects on the Savage family ! and the Inmates. 1 The cast includes five guests at ' the institution, three members of Earth arinetr yes an Wemwos Heavily guarded Mona Lisa given big LE HAVRE, France (UPD-The Mona Lisa, one of the world's great art masterpieces, was given a tumultuous sendoff today as it sailed aboard the luxury liner France on a journey to the Unit ed States. The painting will be exhibited for three weeks at the National Gallery in Washington The 456-year-old portrait of the lady with the world's most fa mous smile was brought the 100 miles along a secret, circuitous route from Paris to Le Havre. It traveled in a truck flanked by five police cars and six motor cycle policemen over highways that were coated in part with ice and through valleys cloaked with mist. When Leonardo da Vinci's mas terpiece reached dockside in Le Havre, the securely wrapped Mo na Lisa had an exciting welcome and sendoff. Scores of reporters and photog- COC to offer 'Amahl' here on Sunday Central Oregon College will present the opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors," by Menotti, preceded by a short cantata, Sun day at 3 p.m. in the Bend High School auditorium. The public is Invited to attend, and there Is no admission charge. ' As in the past, soloists outside the college will sing some of the major roles in "Amahl," which is being presented for the third consecutive year. The cantata. "When the Christ Cliild Came." by Joseph W. Clokey, will also draw on the talent in the com munity. The cantata runs less than 20 minutes, and there will be a short intermission before the opera, which requires under an hour for performance. The opera tells musically the story of a crippled boy and his mother, surprised by a visit from the Wise Men on the way to Beth lehem. While the kings sleep, the mother tries to steal some of their gold to help her child. She is apprehended and forgiven, and told about the Child in Bethlehem. The mother wishes she could send a gift of her own, and Amahl offers his crutch, only to discover that he can walk. He accompan ies the Wise Men to Bethlehem. Brenda Butcher, seventh grader at Bend Junior High School, plays the part of Amahl, and Landra Strolher returns as the mother. The kings are Dennis Marvin, Nick Norton and David Froy. Sam Swaim is the page, and choir members appear as shepherds. Soloists taking part ir the can tata are Claudia Graves, Kathy Patton, Vernon Crawford, Sam Swaim and Uie Rev. John Bright of Trinity Episcopal Church. ADMITS LITTLE SUCCESS BOURNEMOUTH. England (UPI) Peter Walsh, 67, who lives next door to the Bourne mouth courts, appeared there Thursday for the 84th time on a charge of stealing eight pairs of socks. "I am a very unsuccessful thief," Walsh said after the judge fined him $56. "Every time I take something, I get caught Mrs. Savage's family and two staff members. In the closing scene, Billy Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forbes Rogers, appears as the little boy. Ken Bowden plays the part of Hannibal, who thinks he is a vio linist, and Phil Smith is Jeffery, obsessed with the belief that his face is disfigured. Charelotte Wright is cast as Mrs. Paddy, who paints sea scapes, although she has never seen the ocean, and hasn't spoken a word for years. Earlene Cran is Fairy May, who believes her self to be a beautiful young girl, and Collette Munice is Florence, who takes meticulous care of the doll she has substituted for the command! ttns raphers jostled a heavy police guard around the little truck as it arrived. Officials on hand included Tony Roche, the assistant prefect of the region; the deputy mayor of Le Havre; Reynold Arnould. director Le Havre's Museum; the U.S. consul, and Jean Chatclain, direc tor general of French museums. No Insurance Coverago Chatelain said the Mona Lisa was not covered by insurance dur ing its trip to the National Gal lery. He noted the extraordinary pre cautions taken to safeguard the painting during the trip, and said it was guaranteed against "partial deterioration" apparently by the firm which arranged the intricate packaging of the portrait painted on wood made fragile by the cen turies. Amid cheers, a customs officer stepped up to the metal crate con Radio-TV satellite sweeps earth, orbit near-perfect CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) America's new radio-tele- vision Relay satellite swept around earth In a near-perfect orbit today. But scientists called off a planned Intercontinental tele vision test alter getting indica tions of a possible power problem around the moonlet. The federal space agency said a test station at Nulley, N.J. turned on the 172-pound moonlet at 5:42 a.m. PST today and re ceived telemetry for approximate ly 55 minutes" on that orbit, the fifth for Relay. But they called off plans to beam test transmissions at the 17-year-old boy held in killing McMINNVlLLE, Ore. (UPI) A 17-year-old youth was in custody here today after a woman was shot to death at her home near Carlton Thursday. Being held by juvenile author ities was Larry Richard Waibcl of Carlton, a former inmate of the MacLarcn School for Boys at Woodburn. Yamhill County Sheriff Bud Mckkers said the youth signed a statement admitting the shooting of Mrs. May Pinncll, 69. No charges were filed. "The boy told me he went to the home to get a car," Mckkers said. Young Waibcl, who was released about six months ago after spend ing one year at MacLaren, was taken into custody by a Washing ton County sheriff's deputy. The shooting occurred at the back door of the house. Kestner F. Pinnell, 72, the vic tim's husband, said he heard his wife answer the door and then heard the shot. He said he found her body on the kitchen floor of the small home. Mckkers said Mrs. Pinnell was shot with a 30-caliber rifle. He said that his office had found a rifle of the same caliber which belonged to the youth. Curtain time: 8:15 Saturday baby that was taken from her. Family members are Dennis Newell as Titus, Dave Homing as Samuel and Jan Houck as Lilly Belle. Juanita Richards is Dr. Emmett, and Fawn Williams is Miss Willie, the nurse. The play is well - spiced with humor, the undertones of pathos providing contrast. It is in three acts, and will be presented against a background of drapery, with simple furnishings. Mrs. Judith Bauer, drama coach at the high school, is di rector, with Kathy Moody as stu dent assistant. Don Goodwin of the faculty is in charge of the set and lighting, assisted by the stagecraft class. John Holbrook is stage manager. U.S. showing due sendoff taining the painting and cleared it through customs with a touch of his hand. Then the crate was loaded on a baggage cart and escorted by eight members of the riot police through the dock buildings to the shipside. A double row of riot po lice lined the way, dressed in ceremonial uniforms, complete with lanyards and white gloves. At the gangplank, four burly stevedores took hold of the 180 pound crate and carried it ginger ly aboard the liner. Welcome to Great Lady They deposited the Mona Lisa in the ship's main lounge, where the master, Capt. Jean croiscllc. spoke a few whimsical words of welcome. "It is a great honor for us to receive this great lady, but her outward appearance is a bit frig id," he said, tapping the metal casing. satellite when "a quick look" at the radioed information "Indicated the power supply may be a little lower than normal." However, officials said "this cannot be confirmed" yet com pletely. A apace agency spokes man at Cape Canaveral said ; Is a problem but does not neces sarily mean that the whole thing is conked out by any degree. The space agency said that, in view of the possible problem, it was decided to suspend a tele vision test transmission that had been planned for the relay satel lite to link America and Europe during the sixth orbit. The station at Nutlcy would con tinue its remote "look" at Relay for the rest of the day, officials said. The trouble did not immediately cancel elaborate plans for a two- continent television show sched uled to be handled by Relay next week. Relay was hurled into orbit by the 14th successful shot in a row of the Douglas Delta Rocket Thursday night. The orbit, de scribed as "99 and 44-100 per cent perfect," sent Relay 4.612.18 miles into space at its deepest point, and 819.64 miles up at its closest approach to earth. The satellite was making one swing around the globe every three hours 5.09 minutes. The first test transmissions to day hopefully would have cleared the Relay to serve as a link in space for one of the most spec tacular Christmas television shows ever planned. The America- to-Europe-to America live telecast has been scheduled for next Wednesday morning. Scouts to sell trees on weekend Boy Scouts of Troop No. 24, with Robert Reif, assistant scout master In charge, will set up a yule forest Saturday noon, at the corner of Franklin and Siscmore, just across Uie street from the St. Charles Memorial Hospital. Reif said the boys have obtain ed, some fine trees, all firs, and, to obtain funds for troop activi ties, will sell them at nominal prices. The Scouts will open' their miniature yule forest Saturday at noon and will keep it open until dark. Bridge vote underway, polls open until 8 As of II o'clock this morning, 68 ballots in the east side pre cinct were cast in voting on the Portland Avenue bridge bond Is sue City officials said the ballots cast indicated that an average number of voters for this type of election had turned out. Voting will continue until 8 to night. East side voters should re port to the city hall commission room. West side voters should cast ballots in the Kenwood School band and music room. Light could be shed on old question WASHINGTON (UPI)-A record breaking command from Earth to day focused on Venus the eyes which the Mariner 2 spacecraft will use to report whether the cloud-shrouded planet might sus! tain life. It virtually assured scientists ot obtaining more information than ever before has been gained front . a foreign planet. " As the spacecraft reached its closest point to the planet on schedule at 12:01 p.m. PST, space agency officials said all Indica tions were the project was "an unqualified success." At that time Mariner was just over 21,000 miles from Venus. Tho command climaxed several tense hours for space scientists who have been waiting expectant ly since Aug. 27 in hopes of pene traing the age-old mystery of tha bright planet. Mechanism Fails Mariner was supposed to have turned on scanners automatically early today in preparation to be gin viewing Venus at 10:55 a.m. PST. But the spacecraft's built-in mechanism failed to trigger an electronic foreman, or sequencer at the scheduled tune. A. second attempt at automatic triggering at 3:41 a.m. PST also failed. Another attempt was possible after another three hows and 20 minutes, or at 6:01 a.m. But at 5:35 a.m., the Goldstone, Calif., tracking station sent a command to Mariner to turn on the scan ners. Command Was Racefveol Six and a half minutes later, after a 72-miilion mile round trip, the radio message from Mariner came back. The spacecraft had received Goldstone's command and had obeyed it Never before has any radio command been sent on such a long trip and been acted upon. As a result there was no need for the spacecraft to make a third attempt at fixing its eyes on Ve nus without a command from Earth. Today's probe climaxes a 109- day, 182 million-mile flight from Cape Canaveral. The 447-pound craft will pass within about 21,000 miles of Venus at 3:01 p.m. EST. At that moment of closest ap proach to Venus, Mariner will be about 36 million miles in straight line distance from the earth and cruising at 88,400 miles an hour on a curving path around tha sun. Much Information Mariner 2 already has transmhV ted the greatest amount of infor mation ever gleaned about mag netic fields, charged particles. cosmic dust, and solar winds is Interplanetary space. It already has smashed all rec ords for long-distance radio com munications. It has performed tha first successful course-correction maneuver in deep space. Today's brush with Venus will mark tha nearest approach ever made by a spacecraft to one of earth's plan etary neighbors. And in the 42-minute period be tween 1:55 p.m. and 2:37 p.m. EST it will provide man's first opportunity to obtain information from the vicinity of another plan- -et Would Pierce Cover In that period, if Mariner's in struments do not falter, the ra diometers will pierce the cloud cover and determine atmospheric and surface temperatures. They will search for signs of water va por and oxygen. Other instru ments will measure the planet's magnetic field, radiation belts, and gravitational force. What the instruments discover about Venus whether, for ex ample, it is a habitable world or an oven-like and lifeless desert may take weeks of tape proces sing and study to interpret. Mariner 2 left the Cape atop an Atlas-Agena B rocket Aug. 27. Figuring out the right course to carry the spacecraft from the moving earth toward Its moving target at varying speeds has been likened to hitting a fast-flying clay pigeon with a rifle fixed to a spinning merry-go-round. But, with the help of a slight change in course en route. ' the job was done and Mariner will pass Venus well within the planned range limits. ) I a
