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o Univ. of Oragoa Library EUGSMS, ORSQQ'A THE BEND BULLETIN WEATHER Occasional rain through Tues day; high 42-47; lows 33-3. TEMPERATURES High yetterday, 4e degrees. Low last night, 36 degrees. Sunset today, 4:21. SunriM tomorrow, 7:35. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 60th Year Eight Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, December 17, 1962 Ten Cents No. 10 Battle with cancer lost by Laughton HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Award winning actor Charles Laughton is dead. The rotund, 63-year-old actor lost his long battle with cancer Saturday night. Actress Elsa Lanchester, his wife since 1929, was at his bed side when Laughton died in his sleep. The film and stage star's broth er, Frank Laughton, said Sunday funeral arrangements were pend ing because Miss Lanchester, who had kept up a cheerful front dur ing the long illness, was "taking the death quite hard." Laughton had been fighting the losing battle with cancer for nearly a year. He entered Cedars of Lebanon Hospital July 30 but on Nov. 30 was granted his last wish to die at home. Feh No Pain A family spokesman said Laughton was "feeling no pain toward the end. He had been in a coma for several hours and was Testing quietly under sedation be fore that" Laughton was mourned by his friends as a great talent and a great friend! '"Charles was a great grizzly bear and ha vainly tried to hide his big, pink plush heart," said actress Agnes Moorehead when she learned of his death. "I doubt if Mr. Laughton had any foes," actress Joan Crawford said. "He always frightened me and other people in our industry, but only by his great talent." "Laughton was an actor who dared," commented Kirk Douglas who appeared in "Spartacus" with Laughton in I960. "The mod- am trend in acting is to under play and, as a result, many ac tors come up doing nothing. But when Laughton was on the stage or screen, you knew it Baeom U.S. Citizens "A director couldn't hope to di rect Laughton picture," said Lewis Milestone, director of Lauzhton in "Jamaica Inn" 1938. "The best ha could hope for was to referee." Laughton and his wife became United States citizens in 1950. Ws have been wanting to very much for a long time," he said, -f took the stop with the deep est, religious convictions that this is what I want to do." Tha actor had no illusion about himself. The son of an innkeeper at Scarborough, England, where ha was bom July 1, 1899, Laugh ton asked for the character roles in which ha became famous. "On the screen I generally have been cast, mostly by my choice, as a wicked, blustering or untidy character. Now I am ready to admit that in real life Charles Laughton is all of those things. "I often bluster. I find it gets me my own way. I am notorious ly wicked especially to bores. Mountain Home ended hearing ft Rapid pickup of economy seen in 1964 SANTA VISITS BEND Old Saint Nick visited Band Saturday afternoon and long lines of local youngsters expressed their wishes to the old gentleman. Scott Noakes, 18 month old son of Norman Noakes from The Dalles, was not sure he liked the attention of Bob "Santa" Gard ner but the story did have a happy ending when Scott was presented with a bag of candy from the Jaycees. MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho (UPD The eight day military hearing for murder suspect Ger ald Anderson ended today with a plea from his attorney for a fast and fair trial if a trial is neces sary. Defense Atty. Robert McLaugh lin, Mountain Home, also recom mended more cooperation between the Air Force and civilian defense counsel In future felony interroga tions and investigations affecting airmen. Following final arguments by counsel. Maj. James Goddard, hearing officer, took the proceed ings under advisement. He will make a preliminary recommenda tion on the testimony to 15th Air Force headquarters at March AFB, Calif., and there a final de cision will be made. Anderson, 25, San Diego Calif.. Is accused by the Air Force of premeditated murder in the knife slavines last April 9 here of Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22. and her son, Daniel, 2'i. Anderson just last month was freed of a first degree murder charge in Mrs. Johnson's death by civil court aft er another man. Theodore Thomas Dickie, 22. Boise, confessed the crimes. However, the Air Force re-arrested Anderson and on the following day charged him with the murders. STAY SLIM AND FREE SOUTHAMPTON", Eng. ITU Commodore Geoffrey Wild, mas ter of the liner Canberra, said to day a plump fellow named Fred Haywood. 29, has been arrested at sea as a stowaway and put in the brig. But. Wild said. Haywood dieted for three weeks and when the ship docked in Naples he wricded through a 16-inch porthole and vanished Four boys admit vandalism, theft charges here Four Bend boys, ages 11 and 12, are being placed in detention and will be turned over to juvenile authorities to face a variety of charges dealing with burglary, larceny and vandalism. Included in a list of crimes ad mitted separately by the boys are the theft of $45 and two hunting rifles. One boy admitted he stole $43 several weeks ago from the librar ian's purse at Kenwood School. He told police he later broke into the school building with two oth er boys and took $1.75 from a teacher's desk. Three of the boys also confess ed that on Thursday night, De cember 13, they stole several col ored light bulbs from a Christ mas tree on uraice Koao, ana from the large merchants' tree at Oregon and Wall. The boys re lated how they broke some of the bulbs by flinging them at passing cars, and one said he broke a window in the Westminster Pres byterian Church on Newport with a bulb. Some of the bulbs were taken from the Christmas tree at Kenwood School. Police also recovered two rifles stolen a week ago by two of the bovs from a garage at the resi dence of Delbert Lammers, 1101 Newport. They concealed one in a woodshed nearby and the other in a woodpile. Another boy admitted his guilt in the theft of two water pistols taken from the 88c Store on Wall, as well as a candy sucker from a drug store. One youth told offi cers he had snapped at least three radio antennas from cars parked at west side residences. City po lice have had extra reserve offi cers cn dutv in that area during a ra?h of antenna-breaking activi ties in recent weeks. Deer blamed for accident A deer was blamed for an acci dent on the Cascade Lakes High way west of Bend at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when a car turned over and landed on its top. John V. Copren. San Francis co, was owner and operator oi a Increasing volume of maiL keeps P. O. workers busy Bend Post Office workers were active on two fronts this morn ing, in an effort to keep on top of the ever - increasing volume of Christmas mail. To handle incoming packages, an auxiliary station was set up at the Oregon National Guard arm ory. There early today, vans and trucks laden with incoming pack ages were unloaded, and lorn Larson, in charge of the distribu tion station, and his crew faced a mountainous task. At the armory, packages are being sorted for distribution to 5-day forecast indicates more rain for area The five-day forecast calls for heavy precipitation, mainly be fore Friday, and, with tempera tures expected to drop, there will be more snow in the Cascades. However, Central Oregon will enjoy above normal temperatures up until Thursday, with marks expected to fall below normal aft er that date, the forecast indi cates. Rain fell in Bend all last night, but it was light. Only 0.25 ot an inch was measured from the mild storm that boosted the area's an nual precipitation well above the long time normal. This morning, the total moisture for the year was measured at 12.40 inches. The normal is 12.15 inches. Bend enjoyed a mild 48 degree temperature Sunday. Four conse cutive frostless nights have been recorded since the series of high storms started moving in from the Pacific. Light snow fell in the Cascades above the 5.500 foot level Sunday. The line of new snow at Bache lor Butte was on the divide at Dutchman Flat Sunday. Light snow fell on the butte Sunday. All mountain roads were in good condition this morning. rural, star route and city car riers. Patrons with box numbers will receive their packages at the Post Office. The main office was also a busy scene this morning and hundreds of local residents who apparently spent Sunday wrapping gifts took those packages to the Post Office to be mailed. Two lines slowly moved toward the package-mailing through the morning hours. The volume of outgoing mail is expected to increase, with its peak due tomorrow or the follow ing day. Incoming mail will at tain its peak about December 20 or 21, Postmaster Farley J. El liott estimates. There is another Sunday on the calendar before Christmas, but it will do package mailers little good: Christmas will come only two days later and packages mail ed on the coming Sunday may not reach their destination by Christmas morning. The Bend Post Office windows will be open on Saturday, how ever. Education budget said inadequate SALEM (UPI)-The Oregon Col lege of Education student legisla tive information committee said today the proposed biennial budg et for higher education is inade quate to "support quality educa tion in Oregon." Clifford L. Cook, chairman, said the committee issued a three page report to the students and faculty which claimed the higher educa tion budget was short by $32.5 million. The committee said that suggested tuition increases might endanger students' financial posi tion, and could deny admission for students of low income fami lies. A report is being prepared which will be presented to each legislator in January, Cook said. SALEM (LTD A modest growth in Oregon's economy dur ing 1963, and a more rapid pickup in 1964, were forecast today by Oregon Tax Commission Chair man Charles H. Mack. Mack made the forecast as the three-day legislative fiscal orienta tion conference got under way here. Members of the 1963 Legislature gathered here for a comprehen sive briefing of proposed revenue and expenditure programs for the 1963-65 biennium. Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, D-Port- land, opened the meeting. He is chairman of the Legislative Fiscal Committee. Mack said "in looking at the prospects for Oregon in 1963 we are forced to conclude that there is no evidence in sight of any unusual gain." He predicted an economic growth of from one to two per cent next year, and about five per cent during 1964. He said if the growth next year is larger than expected, a smaller upswing would take place in 1964, For the period beyond 1904, Mack predicted Oregon's economy "will at least be able to keep up with tile national pattern. He said "our gain in 1953 will come from economic activities other than lumber and wood prod ucts and agriculture. "We expect gains to be recorded in wages paid by most other kinds of manufacturers, service enter prises, trade businesses ana gov ernments. "Many non-wage types of per sonal income will also increase," he said. In reviewing business during this year. Mack pointed out "con sumer spending has not come up to expectations. He said there were reports that Oregon's personal income in creased 8.2 per cent through Sep tember of this year. He explained this is a larger gain tnan in Can fornia or Washington, and was well above the national average of 6.3 per cent. "" "This year, by the usual indica tors, is a better year than 1961, but is not as good as the council of economic advisers anticipated last January, he said. 2 men mmfiliwei after sct away from odr HlDDH Rusk reports on N. Atlantic Council meet No decision made on appeal ST. HELENS (UPD Columbia County Sheriff Spencer Younce said today that "no decision" has been made on whether an appeal will be made of a ruling which will cost him his job. Circuit Judges -J. S. Bohannan and Glen Hiebcr ruled here Fri day that Republican Roy S. Wil burn defeated Younce, a Demo crat, for the sheriff's office in tlie general election last month. "I have not discussed the ruling as yet with my attorneys," Younce said. "We plan to get to gether either this week or next week." The judges declared that a re count of votes in the sheriff's race was void. They agreed with charg es by Wilburn that the ballots were tampered with between the count after the Nov. 6 election and the recount Nov. 26. Car 'borrowed' comes back with extra gasoline A 1962 model compact car was "borrowed" late Saturday night from a Central Oregon College student. Dick Longercar. The car was taken from the garage at the 42 Greeley resi dence where he is staying. When the vehicle was returned, the tank contained more gas than when it was taken. Longqrear did not hear the ve hide return. He said no property was missing. Small mud footprints on the floorboard indicated the car was taken by comparatively young thieves. WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy and members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council today heard a report from Secretary of State Dean Rusk on his recent meeting with the North Atlantic Council in Paris. Rusk returned Sunday and made his first . report at the White House today as Kennedy prepared to leave Tuesday lor nign-ievei talks in the Bahamas with British Prime Minister Harold Macmil-lan. Macmillan, who left London to day for Nassau, will greet the President on arrival. The two leaders will go to their separate quarters on Lyford Cay. They will not begin their tormai taucs unui Wednesday morning. The President will appear on nation-wide television twice today. Shortly after 2 p.m. PST he ap pears at the lighting ot the na tional Christmas tree ana again at 3:30 p.m. PST over the three major television networks in a one-hour review of his first two years in office. The review was taped Sunday in the President's office where he was interviewed by White House correspondents for the National Broadcasting Company, the Amer ican Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System. ABC and CBS will carry the show at 3:30 p.m. and NBC will tele vise (he program at 5:30 p.m. PST. Tuesday Kennedy will fly to Nassau in the Bahamas for two days of conferences with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on Anglo-American relations. Among the subjects to be taken up at the Kcnnedy-Macmillan con ference is British resentment at U.S. plans to scrap the SkyDoii missile on which Britain has de pended for Its primary nuclear de terrent. Kennedy plans to fly directly from Nassau to Palm Beach Thursday to join his wife and two children for the holidays. Great Britain, Europe battered by elements LONDON (UPI) - Winter floods, snows and winds up to 117 miles on hour caused heavy dam- ago and loss of life to parts of Britain and the European conti nent Sunday. Weather forecasters predicted more of the same today for the southeast coast of England. The hurricane-force winds which whipped across Great Britain Sunday, caused at least $2.8 mil lion damage. At least 43 persons were be lieved killed. Twenty-three crow members of the German freighter Nautilus were dead or missing after the ship sank off the Dutch coast early Sunday. Another 10 persons died in Brit ain in car acidents or when chimneys and roofs collapsed. Ten more were killed in Bavaria, where snow and ice turned roads into paths of death. Weather forecasters preaicieu moderating winds today, except on the south-east coast of Eng land, where more gales were ex pected to whip the English Chan nel to flood tide. . The winds riDoed up trees, smashed road signs to the grounds, twisted television aerials and toppled cnimneys ana wuus. 'Invincible' record again is tarnished N.Y. newspaper talks to resume NEW YORK (UPI) The New York Publishers Association and the striking printers union meet Tuesday in their first direct con frontation in almost a week in the 10-day old newspaper strike. Federal mediators, however, held little hope for a quick set tlement of the stalemate which has closed nine metropolitan area newspapers. Bertram S. Powers, president ot Local 67 of the International Ty pographical Union, issued a cau tious statement Sunday In which he insisted that his union was "flexible and willing to negotiate with an open mind." But Powers dimmed hopes for progress in tho bogged-down ne gotiations until the publishers do something." "So far," he said, "they have indicated theirs is a fixed posi tion. "They want to see how long we can hold out. Well, they arc not going to put out a paper until they start to negotiate." Warm Springs man included among victims By United Prtsi International Four persons lost their lives in Oregon traffic accidents during theweckend. Burnell Ernest Ober, 34, Port land, died shortly before midnight whon his pickup truck overturned east of the Portland city limits. He was pronounced dead on ar rival at Gresham General Hospi tal. Kenneth Qucahpama, 23, of Warm Springs, was killed Sunday when he was hit by a car on U.S. Highway 26 two miles southeast of Warm Springs. He was struck by a car driven by Wynema Squimpen, 20, Warm Srpings. A 17-year-old girl was killed In a one -car accident on the Colum bia River Scenic Highway 1V4 miles east of Bridal Veil Satur day. She was Donna Lee Oney, a senior at Marshall High School. The driver of the vehicle, Law rence Cordano, 18, Portland, was arrested by Multnomah County sheriff's deputies and charged with negligent homicide. His car skidded off the road and over a 12-foot embankment. Demil Hoover, 52, Taft, was fa tally Injured Friday night when his pickup truck collided with a car on U.S. Highway 30 near Rooster Rock State Park. In addition, Louis Parker, 48, Hood River, died in a Washington hospital Sunday of injuries suffer ed Oct. 9 when the car in which he was riding failed to negotiate a curve and rolled over IS miles north of Orondo, Wash. DOW JONES AVERAGES By Unlttd Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 645.49, off 2.60; 20 railroads 137.47, off 0.17; 15 utili ties 128.12, up 0.56, and 65 stocks 226.45, off 0.34. Sales today were about 3.59 mil lion shares compared with 3.28 million shares Friday. Donovan seeks final POW agreement SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The myth of "invincible Alcatraz," tar nished six months ago when three inmates disappeared from the is land prison in San Francisco Bay, was shattered a second time Sunday night when two convicts escaped from "The Rock." , Both men were captured in a matter of hours. John Paul Scott, 35, a Ken tucky bank robber, floated and swam three miles through the churning, rain-swept bay and land ed on a rock under the Golden Gate Bridge. - Scott and another bank robber. D. Lee Parker of Canton, Ohio, escaped from "The Rock" around 5:47 p.m. PST, when their ab sence was discovered. Found at Fort Point Parker was captured 28 min utes later as he shivered on a rock outcropping known as "LIU tie Alcatraz, only 100 yards oft the main island. . But Scott, using a makeshift set of water wings including an inflated shirt and several pair ot surgical gloves, made it to Fort Point, a Civil War fortress direct ly under the bridge on the San Franciaoo aide. He was seen there by two un identified teen-age boys who called the military police at the Presidio of San Francisco. A team of MP's and firemen captured tha shivering, speechless convict at about 7:30 p.m. A spokesman at Letterman Army Hospital, where) he was treated for exposure, said he had been in the water at least an hour and a half. It was the first instance of a convict actually negotiating tha cold, fast-moving bay and reach ing shore in the 28 years Alca traz has been a federal civilian prison. 'Wish I Had Made If On June 11, three bank robbers from tho South Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clarence disappeared off tha northeast edge of Alcatraz and have not been seen of heard trora since The FBI and federal prison authorities presume they drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. Late Sunday night Scott waa transferred from the hospital to a Coast Guard launch which re turned him to Alcatraz, about six hours after he left it "I wish I could have made ft," Scott yelled to reporters as ha was loaded onto the launch. Federal authorities declined to speculate on how Scott and Park er got out of their cells. The only clue came from a doctor who treated Scott. He said the convict disclosed he had used cleanser to smooth the bars, but would not say whether he sawed through them and if so, what Implement he used. A prison spokesman said there was "some indication" the two men escaped from the basement of their eating unit through a window. Parker Is serving a 50-year term for bank robbery, attempted escape and kidnaping. Scott was sentenced to 30 years for bank robbery and possession of unreg istered firearms. Alcatraz has been ordered "phased out" by the Justice De partment, with the closing date scheduled for some time in the next three years. The order came after the June escape, when the three convicts burrowed out of their cells with sharpened kitchen spoons. By United Prtn International James B. Donovan, chief nego tiator for the release of the 1,113 prisoners captured during the Bay car that struck a deer, one mile of Pigs invasion, left New York west of Bend. Copren applied his I suddenly Sunday night for Cuba brakes when, on rounding a . to try to complete tinai arrange- i curve, he sighted the deer. He lost control of the car. which skidded before rolling over. A possonser. John Brans. San Francisco, also escaped senous j injury. ments for the captive s release before Christmas. Donovan was accompanied by Alvaro Sanchez Jr., national chair man of the Cuban Families Com I mittee for the Liberation of Pris oners of War. and Mrs. Berta Bar reto, committee co-ordinator in Havana. The three were reported in Mi ami waiting final word of an ap pointment with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. A committee spokesman said Donovan received a phone call instructing him to leave for Cuba Sunday night. "We are very hopeful this whole situation can be cleared up in the next few days." a committee spokesman said. "We're back in a cliff hanging situation." In Washington, a State Depart ment oflicial said Donovan's pass port has been validated for a trip to Cuba Donovan, a key figure in the efforts to raise 62 million worth of medicine, food and other sup plies which Castro has demanded as "fines" for the prisoners, said Sunday in New York he could not comment on the status of the ne gotiations "for the time being." A spokesman for the American Red Cross said the Farrell Lines freighter African Pilot was standing by in Baltimore harbor to carry supplies to Cuba for the barter "when and if needed." A Farrell Lines spokesman in dicated the ship would sail today but declined to give its destina tion. A call went out for a sail ing crew to report. The Baltimore Sun said the ship tentatively was scheduled to sail for Miami today to pick up $13 million worth of medicines and food and then sail to Havana. It said the prisoners would be flown back. In Havana, a usually reliable informant said the deal was near completion, with only details re maining, such as which prisoners will be released first and how the exchange will be coordinated. Tools stolen at junior high A prowler or prowlers broke in to the bus garage at the junior high school over the weekend and made off with a considerable assortment of mechanic's tools. Bus driver Lewis Mitchell re ported the theft this morning. City police were still investi gating a, press time. J