Univ. of Oregon Library
EUGENE, OREGON
end voters approve bridge bonds, 627 to 15
Margin more
than 4 to 1 ;
up from '61
By Gerald Drapuu
Bullitln Staff Writer
Bend residents by a ratio of
better than four to one approved
a second bond sale election Fri
day, enabling the City to finance
construction on the Portland Ave
nue bridge.
Neither of the two voting pre
cincts received as many as 100
negative votes. Final total figure
showed 627 in favor, 150 against.
Broken down, voters at precinct
1 in city hall voted 339 yes to 97
no. At the west side precinct, in
Kenwood School, the final count
was 288 yes, and S3 no.
City manager Hal Puddy re
ported that the 777 persons who
turned out to vote on the bond
constituted an increase of 68 over
the 709 who voted in the Septem
ber, 1961 bridge bond election
which was later voided on a tech
nicality. At that time voters ap
proved the bond by a majority of
445 to 264.
The city manager admitted he
was greatly pleased with the re
sults, and called them an indica
tion of the progressive spirit of
the people of Bend.
Construction on the new pre
stressed, pre-cast structure over
the Deschutes actually started a
couple of months ago and should
be ready for motor and pedestrian
travel within 60 or 70 days. The
voters by their approval provided
$90,000 of the $94,577 needed to
build the bridge. The rest will be
drawn out of the City's street tax
fund.
The original bond contract was
signed by city commissioners on
Oct, 12, 1962. Advertising for bids
is scheduled to open on January
5, next year. Earliest possible
date for sale of the bonds is Janu
ary 24, and date of delivery will
be inscribed on the bonds on Feb
ruary 15.
Bond interest rates probably
will amount to approximately 1'A
per cent.
Payoff charges
denied by Hoffa
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI)
Teamsters Union President
James Hoffa Friday denied gov
ernment charges that he re
ceived a payoff to settle a strike
for a nationwide automobile
transport firm.
Testifying in his own behalf at
his $1 million conspiracy trial,
Hoffa was asked by defense at
torney James Haggerty if he ever
entered into an agreement with
Commercial Carriers, Inc., to
quell labor troubles at Commer
cial's car hauling terminal in
Flint, Mich.
"Absolutely not," Hoffa replied.
The Teamsters chief is on trial
in federal district court on
charges of receiving payments
from Commercial in violation of'
the Taft - Hartley law. He was
questioned for two hours Friday
and will continue his testimony
Monday,
The government contends Hoffa
and the late Teamsters Vice
President Owen Brennan received
more than $1 million in payments
Commercial made to Test Fleet,
Inc., for use of Test Fleet trucks.
Test Fleet was owned by the
wives of Hoffa and Brennan in
their maiden names.
Hoffa said he used some of the
Test Fleet dividends paid to his
wife to buy investments for him
self, but he considered the divi
dends as loans and always paid
Mrs. Hoffa back.
Big storm
was brewing
one year ago
A year ago today, one of Cen
tral Oregon's worst storms in
years was brewing.
Bend residents recalled this fact
this morning as the area enjoyed
spring-like weather, with light
showers dampening the area. Un
settled weather is to continue over
the weekend, but no repetition of
the storm of a year ago is ex
pected. That storm broke Saturday eve
ning, December 16. High winds
lashed the area, piling new snow
into drifts. By Sunday, the Bend
area was under a foot of snow.
its deepest in fie years.
Howling winds, it is recalled,
piled drifts over rural roads,
blockina traffic in some areas.
Tangled power lines left part of
Bend without electricity Moun
tain passes were blanketed with
deep snow.
In contrast with conditions of a
year ago, all routes over the Cas
cades this morning were free of
(now, with light rain falling.
The weekend forecasts indicate
tome lowering of temperature.
Some snow is expected in the
mountains and rain is predicted
fp the foothills.
THE BEND
60th Year
Across-board
tax cut asked
by President
NEW YORK (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy is shooting against
formidable congressional odds for
a 1963 "something for every
body" tax cut.
He fired a heavy opening round
in behalf of the program here
Friday night in an unusual ad
dress and a long qucstion-and-an-swer
period before 2.000 of the
nation's top industrialists and
business executives.
The President promised to hold
all federal expenditures other
than those for defense and space
to about current levels, but said
there could be no waiting for a
balanced budget to put a tax de
crease into effect.
The occasion was a black-tie
dinner given by the Economic
Club of New York in the grand
ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria
hotel. This afternoon, the Presi
dent planned to fly back to Wash
ington. While Kennedy outlined the ba
sic framework of his tax reduc
tion plan, out of deference to Con
gress he left the details and spe
cific rate changes to Treasury
Secretary Douglas Dillon when
he goes before the House Ways &
Means Committee early next
year.
Say Reduction Needed
The Chief Executive said an
across-the-board reduction in per
sonal and corporate income taxes
was needed early in 1063 "to cut
the fetters whfch hold back pri
vate spending."
"It is a paradoxical truth that
tax rates are too high today and
tax revenues are too low and
the soundest way to raise reve
nues in the long run is to cut the
rates now," he said.
He envisioned tax reduction
next year not as a "quickie" to
cope with a recession, but as an
overdue stop to build up purchas
ing power and encourage invest
ment. His long-term goal was to
reduce unemployment, stimu
late national production by $30
billion to $40 billion annually, and
thus improve the competitive po
sition of U.S. products abroad.
He said the administration pro
gram, embracing wide-scale tax
reform to eliminate inequities and
broaden the base, would "have
very difficult travelling at best"
in Congress.
Mills Expretw Concern
Chairman Wilbur E. Mills
of the Powerful Ways ti Means
Committee has expressed his
open concern about size of
the deficit expected to oe
about $8 billion this fiscal year
and his desire to see any tax
reduction coupled with increased
control of higher expenditures.
That is precisely the course
we intend to follow in 1963," Ken
nedy said in reference to Mills'
worry about higher government
costs.
In his speech Kennedy spoke of
the need for overall tax reform,
but in the qucstion-and-answer
session he said reform should not
be allowed to hold up tax reduc
tion. Too large a tax cut . . . could
result in inflation and insufficient
future revenues, but the greater
danger is a tax cut too little or
too late to be effective, he said.
I am confident that the enact
ment of the right bill next year
will in due course increase our
gross national product by several
times the amount of taxes ac
tually cut," Kennedy added.
WEATHER
Few shower; now in higher
ground; high 45-53; low 35-40.
Mariner cruises
WASHINGTON (UPI Mari
ner 2 cruised into eternity at
more than 85.000 miles-an-hour to
day leaving man with his first
exciting doseup look at lovely
and mysterious Venus.
Mariner's great moment came
Friday afternoon when H flashed
past earth's nearest planetary
neighbor. For 42 minutes it made
electronic soundings that should
establish once and for all wheth
er Venus is a dead or a possibly
living world.
It will take earth scientists
months of hard work .o decipher
all that this 447-pound spacecraft
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easS mime killed! I
Gaines named
chairman of
ski carnival
Doug Gaines, Bend radio execu
tive, has been named chairman of
local arrangements for the sec
ond annual collegiate winter car
nival to be held at the Bachelor
Butte ski area late in February.
Announcement of Gaines' ap
pointment was made at the Fn
day luncheon meeting of the Bend
Chamber of Commerce board of
directors.
In other business, directors
heard a report from Keith Molan,
local National Guard commander,
relative to possible changes under
recently announced reorganization
plans. Molan also outlined plans
for a recruitment campaign after
the first of the year and solicited
the chamber for its support.
Included in a tentative program
will be a chamber - sponsored for
um to promote the National
Guard program locally, especial
ly in recruitment of young men
for the Bend unit.
Directors also approved a prop
erty transfer which will permit
expansion of the North Pacific
Products plant at the southwest
edge of the city.
Manager Cady outlined to di
rectors details of a new Builders'
Plan Service which is being in
augurated by the Chamber of
fice. President Don Conner presided
at the meeting, held at the Pilot
Butte Inn.
Two judges rule
recount void
af St. Helens
ST. HELENS (UPD-Two cir
cuit court judges ruled Friday
that a recount of votes in the Co
lumbia County sheriffs' race is
void and declared Republican
candidate Roy S. Wilburn elected.
Judges J. S. Bohannan and Glen
Hieber agreed with Wilburn's
charges that the ballots had been
tampered with between the can
vass after the Nov. 6 election and
a recount Nov. 26.
Wilburn led Democratic incum
bent Spencer Ycunce by 100 votes,
4,273 to 4,173 in the initial can
vass. Younce then demanded a
recount and came out the winner
by 4t votes, 4,214 to 4,173.
Wilburn immediately filed a
civil suit asking that the recount
be declared void. He contended
that some ballots had been al
tered and others destroyed.
Columbia County Dist. Atty.
David B. Williamson said immedi
ately after the decision he will
continue an investigation in an at
tempt to find out who was re
sponsible for the fraud.
The two judges and one ot
Younce's attorneys, Marshall
Hjelte. were highly critical of the
election procedures of County
Clerk Robert Welwood.
"We observe there was a flag
rant lack of security" in handling
the ballots after the election,
Judge Bohannan said. Testimony
had indicated one door to the
vault w here the ballots were kept
did not lock and the key was
readily available to the other.
Younce said the recount was
not his idea. He said two of his
friends came forward on the last
day on which the recount demand
could be made and offered to put
uo the $340 necessary for filing
it. After some discussion he
agreed, Younce said.
Younce's attorneys had no com
ment about the possibility of an
appeal, but said they would have
a statement in a few days.
found out in its 109-day voyage to
Venus' backyard.
James E. Webb, director of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), said that
what Mariner discovered between
1:55 p.m. and 2:37 p m. EST Fri
day may add more "to mas'
knowledge of the planet Venus
than has been gained in all the
thousands of years of recorded
history."
Webb Praiw Mariner
Webb and other dignitaries
praised Mariner 2 in a televised
session at NASA headquarters as
the spacecraft was achieving the
CENTRAL OREGON'S
Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday,
NATO leaves
door open to
Russia talks
PARIS (UPI) The United
States and its Atlantic allies
pledged today to "respond appro
priately" to any hostile action but
held open the door for possible
East-West negotiations with Rus
sia. In a communique ending a
three-day session of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization minis
terial council they announced
agreement to "increase the effec
tiveness" of NATO conventional
forces and also to maintain "ad
equate and balanced forces" both
in the nuclear and conventional
fields.
They warned that in order to
progress towards an equitable
East-West settlement NATO must
maintain its defensive strength.
The communique praised the
tough action by the United States
over Cuba.
Saved from War
"The recent attempt by the So
viet Union to tilt the balance of
force against the West by secret
ly stationing nuclear missiles in
Cuba brought the world to the
verge of war," the communique
said.
"The peril was averted by the
firmness and restraint of the
United States, supported by the
alliance and other free nations."
, It said the policies of the alli
ance will continue to be guided
by "constant vigilance and unity
of purpose 'In a spirit ot inter
dependence.
Holding open the door for fu
ture East-West talks with Russia,
it said NATO policies also would
be guided by "readiness to exam
ine any reasonable possibility of
reducing international tension."
The communique described the
alliance as "sound and vigorous"
and said "the dynamism of
free societies continues to dem
onstrate its advantages in promot
ing world progress and well be
ing."
Spirit of Unity
The communique contained this
key phrase:
As a result of their discussion
the ministers were of the opin
ion that the alliance must show
itself vigilant and constantly dis
play a spirit of unity and solidar
ity, while at the same time hold
ing itself ready to consider every
reasonable possibility that would
enable a reduction of internation
al tension."
At the final session this morn
ing, the ministers heard a report
on plans for civil defense against
nuclear attack and a paper out
lining plans for military aid to
Greece and Turkey.
Defense ministers of the pact
nations approved a report call
ing for cooperation in arms de
velopment and production, hut of
ficials described their meeting as
"inconclusive."
2 NASA workers
fall to deaths
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (UPI) Two workmen on
a National Aeronautics and Space
Administration project were killed
Friday when they fell from atop
a liquid oxygen storage tank at
this desert test facility.
The victims were identified as
Donald J. Till, 30, Scotts Mills,
Ore., and Jonathan E. Openshaw,
53, Lancaster, Calif.
Till was a field engineer for the
Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. of
Salt Lake City. Utah. Openshaw
was a mechanical equipment in
spector for the Army Corps of
Engineers.
into eternity after Venus peek
"Venus encounter" that climaxed
its mission in space.
Mariner responded with a song
the melodious tones of radio
signals from deep space which
swelled in volume and intricacy
as it moved past and peered
through the never before plumbed
clouds that perpetually hide the
face of Venus from the gaze of
earthlings.
Having accomplished every
thing expected ot it. Mariner 2.
which has been called the ugly
duckling of space because of its
ungainly shape, is now embarked
on a manotonoi,'j ypyege around
DAILY NEWSPAPER
nN
YULE CONTRIBUTIONS Canned foods for needy veterans' families in Deschutes County era
inspected by Bruce May, left, junior high student body president, and William Selken, be.
fore they are pas.ed along to Deschutes Veteran Council for distribution. Each year the
Council, headed by Selken, distributes foods and toy to veterans' families in a "Christmas
Basket" program. Junior High students collect canned good in support of Council project.
(See story on page 4.) . - . ...
Bulletin to add
Sfeen's column
on Wall Street
In keeping with its policy of
continued paper improvement.
The Bulletin, starting Monday, is
to present a new feature, 'Wall
Street and You."
It is a stock market column,
prepared by Dennis Steen, who
started studying the stock market
and buying and selling stocks at
the age of 16. He has installed in
his home at Milton - Freewater
one of the few New York Stock
Exchange stock tickers in Ore
gon, and the only one in Eastern
Oregon. Currently, Steen is devot
ing his full time to the study of
the stock market, business trends
and related subjects.
This coming week, The Bulletin
will use two of Stecn's columns,
one on Monday, the other on Fri
day. After tlidt, the column will
appear weekly on Fridays.
'Dennis Steen has been writing
a column for the East Oregon-
ian on a once-a-week schedule this
year and we nave neon Dntn
surprised and pleased with the
results," J. W. Forrester, Jr., edi
tor of the East Orcgonian said.
He added:
"Knowing that almost every
body owns a little stock we had
anticipated fairly good readership
for the column. The response has
been much greater than that.
"He senses what the average
guy wants to know about Wall
Street and the stock market and
he writes in language the aver
age guy understands.
"I cannot recommend this col
umn too highly."
FLIES TO ALASKA
NEW YORK (LTD Frrancis
Cardinal Spellman flew to Alaska
Friday night to begin his annua
Christmas tour of American over
seas posts.
and around the sun which
presumably will last untd the
end of time.
At 10 seconds before 3 p.m.
EST Friday Mariner made its
closest approach to Venus the
closest ever made by a space
craft to any planet At that mo
ment it was something over 21,
000 miles from Venus and 35.9
million miles from the earth it
left Aug. 27.
Instruments Work Efficiently
With all its scientific instru
ments working at high efficiency,
it sent back to earth voluminous
data exrected to disclose for the
XETIN f
December 15, 1962
O U
' Crop losses heavy
Warm trend thaws
frozen U. S. South
By United Prats International
A welcome warming trend
thawed the frozen Southland to
day, and the Great Lakes region's
heavy snows- of the past 10 days
began to diminish.
However, four consecutive days
of below - freezing temperatures
left Florida and South Carolina
stunned from tremendous crop
losses.
The snow and cold killed at
least 224 persons. Ohio counted 36
dead, Michigan 32, Georgia 25,
Pennsylvania 14, Alabama and
New England 10 each, Indiana and
New York 9 each, Kentucky, West
Vriginia, Mississippi and Louisi
ana 8 each, Illinois, Tenncsec,
and South Carolina 7 each, Mis
souri and Texas 6 each, Florida
5. North Carolina 4, Kansas 2 and
Wisconsin, North Dakota and Min-
COC Christmas
'gift' due Sunday
Central Oregon Dillegc will pre
sent its annual Christmas gift to
the community, in the form of a
canUita and opera program Sun
day at 3 p.m. in the Bend High
School auditorium. Dallas Quick,
music instructor at the college, is
director.
"Amalil and the Night Visitors,"
by Menotti, will follow a short
cantata, "When the Christ Child
Came," by Joseph W. Clokey.
The college choir, augmented
by soloists of the local area, will
take part. Soloists in the two pro
ductions include Landra Strother,
Brenda Butcher. Dennis Marvin,
Nick Norton, David Frcy. Sam
Swaim, Claudia Graves, K a t h y
Patton. Vernon Crawford and the
Rev. John Bright
first lime:
Whether Venus is cool enough
to sustain life. Ground-based ob
servations have indicated Venus'
surface temperature is around 615
degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than
the boiling point of lead. II Mari
ner says that is the case, Venus
is dead.
The strength of Venus' gravi
tational and magnetic fields and
the possible existence of radiation
zones like that which envelop the
earth. This information is vital to
astronauts of the future who will
reconnoiter Venus in manned
spacecraft
Ten Cents
ywood
ncsola 1 each.
Agriculture Secretary Orville
Freeman designated 34 counties
in Florida's frozen citrus belt as
disaster areas, qualifying growers
for emergency loans. Freeman
said his department also may pur
chase 3J13.-IB5 cases of surplus
frozen orange Juico.
The Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation estimated it would
pay $4 million in claims to Florida
citrus growers, who wero hit by
the state s worst weather since
18!)9. Less than $700,000 was paid
after the disastrous 1957-58 freeze.
Total damage to vegetable and
citrus crops in Florida has been
estimated as high as $500 million.
A South Carolina truck farmer
estimated perhaps 50 per cent of
that state's truck crops were de
stroyed by the hard freeze. E.B.
Mitchell, who runs one of the
state's largest vegetable farms,
said farmers may be able to sal
vage some of their winter crop if
the weather improves enough to
allow somo plants to re-sprout.
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and
New York Friday were cheered
by an easing of the snow emerg
ency. Authorities called off plans
to rail out 500 Michigan National
Guardsmen to help open roads
and supply food to isolated fam
ilies. Light snow and freezing rain
fell today in Iowa and Illinois re
ceived light snow.
Today's warming trend was ex
pected to spread over the entire
Eastern half of the nation. Scat
tered snow flurries wero fore
cast for the Great Lakes and
Ohio Valley regions.
Minnesota regained the nation's
ranking as tho No. 1 cold spot
from the South.
Whether there is water in the
atmosphere of Venus. Scientists
agree that life like that on earth
cannot exist in the absence of
water.
Mariner 2 was launched from
Cape Canaveral. As of 3 pm.
EST Friday it had baveled about
182 million miles on the curving
path that carried it to Venus and
into orbit around the sun.
It had amassed the greatest
amount of knowledge ever
gleaned about the magnetic
fields, charged particles, solar
winds, and cosmic dust in space
anwg the planets.
TEMPERATURES
High yesterday, 5 degree. Lew
last night, 43 degree. Sunset
today, 4:23. Sunrise tomorrow.
No. 9
crash'
12 buildings
set afire in
plane tragedy
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.
(UP1 A Flying Tiger Constella
tion air freighter slicing through
dense fog at rooftop level crashed
in flames Friday night, setting a
dozen buildings Including house
and two factoriesafire.
Hours later, the coroner said
nine bodies had been recovered.
including all four men aboard the
four-engined Super H Constellation
which was approaching Lockheed
Air Terminal for a landing en
route from Chicago. Police and
firemen sifted through debris and
made a house-to-house count to
determine If there were additional
victims. Four of the known dead
were women.
At least five or six persons were
treated for injuries. From 10 to
12 cars were wrecked or dam
aged. Hears Exploilon
"I heard an explosion, a aerie
of popping noises, and then the
whole sky lit up," one housewife
said after the flaming wreckage
doscended yards from her home.
Debris was spewed over a square
mile area of this heavily populated
San Fernando Valley community.
After about 5,000 persons rushed
to the scane, hampering rescue
operations, a large section ot this
community IS miles northeast ot
downtown area was declared a
1 disaster area ana ui u va we
I general oubUc, --""' ,;v
The Federal Aviation Agency
tower at Lockheed Air Terminal
said the Constellation, carrying a
40,000 pound freight load, was on
instrument approach to the field,
"Evcrythuia appeared normal.
and he was in radio contact with
the tower," an FAA spokesman
id. That was about 10 p.m. PST.
The crash occurred moment'
later.
Veteran Pilot
The Constellation, piloted by 12-
year Flying Tiger veteran Capt.
Carl C. Rader Jr., 38. Burlingame.
Calif., struck a billboard and
sheared tops off trees before
breaking up into throe pieces as
it crashed. The central, cigar-like
section of the white-colored fuse
lage sheered into a house from
which the seven-member Antonio
Mosqucda family escaped almost
miraculously.
I thought it was an atomic
bomb," said Mosqueda, who was
sitting with most members of tho
family in tho living room.
Two of the victims wore work
ing at Rodeo Ink Co., an electron
ic firm, when pieces of the wreck
age crashed through the building
like wartime shells. Seven others
at work on the late shift presum
ably escaped, police said.
One of the victims, 16-year-oirj
Kathryn Roche, was killed in the
bathroom when wreckage burst
into her home.
UPI Staff Correspondents Jo
seph Finnigan and Ron Burton
described the crash scene as on
of complete turmoil, with the tog
adding an eerie background to the
desperate search through debris.
Mltto Apartment
Hie plane, which narrowly
missed one 30-unit apartment
building, shot one engine through
the wall of another factory as it
broke up in its skidding crash.
One part of the wreckage, the
cockpit, was against the side of
burned houses. The mangled triplo
tail of the Constellation also was
severed.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.
(UPI) The victims of Friday
night's collision-fire involving an
air freighter ot the t lying liger
Line included:
Aboard plane:
Capt. Carl C. Rader Jr., 3J,
Burlingame, Calif., the pilot.
David L. Crapo, 25, Comptori.
Calif., the co-pilot
Jack W. Grey, 33, San Maun,
Calif.
John A. Olson. Sunland, CaliL.
husband of a Flying Tiger as
ploye. Janet Olson.
Others included:
Kathryn Roche. 16, North Hol
lywood. Miss Roche was in one of tha
homes struck by the wreckage.
Jose Chavez, 20, Reseda.
Doris Malovin, 35, North Holly
wood. Mrs. Malovin and Chavez were
working in the Rcdco Ink Co.
electric firm building when pieces
ol the wreckage crashed into the
structure.