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Univ. of Orsgon Library EUGENE, OREUO.'J THE BEND BULLETIN WEATHER Mostly fair; highs 47-55; lows 25-30. TEMPERATURES High yesterday, 5 degrees. Law lot night, 25 degrees. Sunset today, 4:2V. SunriM tomorrow, 7:1. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 60th Year Twenty Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, December 20, 1962 Ten Cents No. 13 Progress is made in talks by JFK, Mac NASSAU, Bahamas (UP1) President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan have made progress toward reconciling basic differences over Western nuclear problems, U.S. sources said today. The Anglo -American leaders discussed the case of independent vs. combined nuclear deterrent forces within the Western Al liance as they carried their sum. mil talks into a second day. Kennedy and Macmillan then instructed a joint committee of British and American defense ex perts to come up with a com mon course of action for an nouncement sometime Friday. Common Coal The fact that Anglo - American differences appeared to be con verging toward a common goal did not mean joint agreement on the controversy over the Skybolt missile. Diplomatic sources said the conflict over Skybolt, the bomber launched, 1.000-mile nuclear mis sile which Britain had counted on, would be minimized by a broader approach to the over-all matter of Western defenses. The President and prime minis ter with their top aides met for almost three hours this morning at the beach front quarters of Macmillan's villa. Then they shift ed to Kennedy's house for lunch. Another long discussion, dealing with the Chinese- Indian conflict, was set for the afternoon. Agreement It Expected U.S. sources were confident that before Kennedy and Macmillan conclude their talks at midday Friday, they will have agreed on i broad common course for West ern defenses, although detailed agreement may have to be assigned to experts of both na tions for further work. In addition to grappling with the complex issues touched off by the U.S. decision to halt invest ment of further funds In Skybolt, the big two this morning also ex plored the broad subject of East West relations in the wake of the Cuban crisis. They went Into probable Rus sian moves and policies in the aftermath of Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev's backdown on longrango missiles and jet bomb ers in Cuba. Noon en Friday Officials were confident Ken nedy and Macmillan would wind up their work about noon Friday, then have lunch with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker who is arriving for conferences with Macmillan. The talks originally were sched uled to end today, but they were so touchy that the two leaders decided to go on for another day. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announced early this morning that instead of winding up this afternoon as planned the two government chiefs would continue their con ference through Friday. Britain's sharp reaction to American plans to drop the Sky bolt missile program on w hich Britain had pegged the immedi ate future of its independent nu clear deterrent led to the more general review. Kennedy and Macmillan or dered their defense chiefs, Rob ert S. McNamara and Peter Thomeycroft, to have ready for them today comprehensive de fense policy papers setting forth the U.S. and British views of Sky bolt and the Western military posture. Pushinka left heh'inei. ihnunht - ' to be expecting WASHINGTON UPH -Caroline Kennedy's fluffy white mongrel, Pushinka, seems des . tined to spend a lonely Christmas at the White House, probably under a veterinarian's orders. Pushinka was left behind last week when Mrs. Jacqueline Ken nedy. Caroline and John Jr. flew : to Palm Beach. Fla., for the holi ; days. It was taken as another in- dication that Pushinka was ex- pectins and was advised not to I make the trip. The White Hou has confirmed f the possibility that Pushinka. a g'ft from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, may be pregnant. ; After showing signs of mother hood, she was sent to Walter Reed ; Army Hospital for a check up. no results of that examination have : keen disclosed. If Pushinka does become a another, it should take place early pxt year. The father would ap pear to be Charlie, Caroline's WeNh tenier. Both share the i same kennel at the White House. ...l.:l.- it.- j t.. -i -ttrrlka. the first Russian dog to ' txtit the earth. o os seen sri TO Some risk noted Three-month ban on vaccine lifted WASHINGTON (UPI) The government began a gamble today that full use of candy-flavored Sabin oral polio vaccine would help wipe out the crippling disease. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry Wednesday lifted a three month ban on use by adults of Type 3 Sabin vaccine, despite the risk some adults might catch polio from the vaccine. The action came on the recom mendations of the Public Health Service's special polio advisory committee which spent two days this week weighing evidence against the controversial live vac cine doses that may be given in syrup or a sugar lump. The advisers endorsed all three types of Sabin vaccine even though finding solid evidence that use of the vaccine in nonepidemic areas this year might have caused: Eleven polio cases, eight among persons over age 30, from 15 million Type 3 doses. Seven cases, four over age 30, among 31 million Type 1 doses. The committee said "the maxi mum potential risk for Types 1 and 3 is on the order of one per million or less over-all, but high er for those over 30 years of age." For Type 2, they found, "there is still no indication of risk." The committee and the surgeon general urged communities to "move ahead, using all three types of Sabin oral vaccine with particular emphasis on children Mona Lisa kept sealed in vault WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Mona Lisa, one of the world's greatest masterpieces, remained sealed in a vault beneath the Na tional Gallery of Art today while experts wondered whether she could still smile after her jour ney from France. Leonardo Da Vinci's 456-year- old classic arrived at the gallery, down Constitution Avenue from the Capitol, at mid-afternoon Wednesday. It was brought here by truck from New York follow ing its transatlantic trip aboard the S.S. France. No one has laid eyes on the Mona Lisa since she was crated in the Louvre museum in Paris for the journey to the United States and a special exhibition that will open Jan. 8. But museum experts planned to take the aluminum and plastic wraps off today and let the fra gile lady get adjusted to her new surroundings. The painting will remain in the vault until Jan. 8. Because the portrait is so fra gile, special precautions have been taken to prevent it from being subjected to strange tem peratures. The vault is being kept i at a temperature of 62 degrees, j with the humidity at 45 per cent, ! to match that of the Louvre. Throughout its stay in the vault ) the portrait will be guarded by j Secret Servicemen, who were or ; dered on the job by President Kennedv. Schweitzer calls upon U.N., Congolese to withdraw from province of Katanga BRUSSELS. (UPI i- Dr. Albert Schueitzer. famed philosopher, bumanitarian, has called for the withdrawal of all U N. and Congo lese troops from Katanga and world recognition of the inde pendence of the breakaway prov- i Ince of the old Belgian Congo. In an article published Wednes day on the front page of the ! Bruels newspaper Le Dernier Heurc. Schweitzer said the old : Congo state was formed "by per- suasion and by the force of arms, exc and young adults." They added, however, that "be cause the need for immunization diminishes with advancing age," Sabin vaccine should be used for adults "only with full recognition of its very small risk. The oral vaccine was recom mended for adults who faced higher-than-normal risks of con tracting natural polio, such as parents of young children, preg nant women, persons in epidemic situations and those planning for eign travel. The surgeon general said the combination of Sabin and Salk dead vaccine injections promise elimination of polio from this country. Terry pointed to the total of 650 U.S. polio cases this year, com pared to 58,000 a decade ago, and said "It is clear we are on our way." Fair weather continuing over region Fair weather, which yesterday brought out a host of Christmas shoppers, is expected to continue for the next 24 hours, but weath ermen say there is a disturbance off the Oregon coast. Whether this disturbance will move inland to bring the area a white Christmas is problematical. This morning, skies were cloud less as the December sun came over the Ochocos and the High Desert to shine on a frost-whitened terrain. Heavy white frost cov ered Bend streets at sunrise. The frost was so thick on streets that cars were skidding at intersec tions. Sanding crews were call ed out. While Central Oregon was en joying brilliant sunshine various parts of the state were under fog. Low clouds are predicted tonight for The Dalles area of the Colum bia gorge. There are fog patches in the La Grande country. Night fog was reported from valley points. Mid-Oregon skies at sunrise to day were entirely cloud free. The sky was still blue at noon. Downtown Bend Wednesday was a busy scene as Christmas shoppers took advantage of the ideal weather. Boise Cascade buys J-M plant KLAMATH FALLJ (UPI) -Boise Cascade Corp. has pur chased the Johns-Manville Corp. insulating board plant 22 miles north of here, it was announced Wednesday. Purchase price was not reveal ed. It was estimated that the plant was worth $12 million. Oper ations at the plant were discon tinued last May 4 following three years of partial operation. A spokesman for Boise Cascade said there were no immediate plans to put the plant back into operation. He said some of the equipment w ould be removed and taken to other Boise Cascade fa cilities. by forcing African peoples, big and small, to be part of it." He said the colonial era in Africa is over. The former Bel gian Congo, he said, now is made up of two parts, neither of which has claims on, or obligations, to the other. "Juridically they are absolutely independent one from the other," Schweitzer wrote. "No war, un dertaken hy one asainst the other to submit it in whatever fashion, has any juridical foundation. hand' Flight made back to Cuba by Donovan HAVANA (UPD-New York at torney James B. Donovan re turned to Havana today with two unidentified companions, ap parently to put the finishing touches to the Cuban invasion prisoners exchange deal. A chartered Pan American World Airways DC3 with Donovan and his companions landed here without prior publicity. At the airport to greet Donovan, who is spearheading U.S. efforts to free the 1,113 men Fidel Castro cap tured after the April, 1961, in vasion attempt, were Mrs. Bcrta Barreto and Virginia Betancourt What connection Donovan s two companions have wiUi the prisoner negotiations was not im mediately clear. The original three members of his bargaining team, Mrs. Barreto and Mrs. Betancourt and Alvaro Sanchez Jr., were left here Wednesday when the attorney left Havana for Miami. Cloaked In Stcrocy Donovan's visit to Miami was cloaked in secrecy and he dodged reporters and photographers both going and coming. Donovan slipped into Miami In ternational Airport Wednesday night after announcing In Havana he had received Castro's answer regarding the release of the men captured 19 months ago in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. Donovan eluded newsmen at the airport and was reported to have been whisked to a secret meeting with the Cuban families commit tee which he is representing in the negotiations with Castro. Castro was believed prepared to make an announcement about the proposed deal Wednesday night but he did not speak over the government-controlled Cuban radio network. Sources said, how ever, the conclusion of the talks was close at hand. (In Havana, a relative of the prisoners said the prisoners might be freed at any moment, although it probably will be early next week before they are released. Ftars Ara Over ("Thank God, all our fears are over," he said. "Now it is only a matter of days before our loved ones will be free.") Donovan said in his Havana statement that negotiators mot with Castro Wednesday eve ning and "a preliminary list of medicines and drugs already con tributed to the American Red Cross was submitted." He said the list "is being studied by the (Castro) government and an an alysis is being prepared." The statement said Donovan was flying to Miami "with t h e government analysis and to obtain the latest list of additional contributions." It added that Don ovan would return to the Cuban capital today. APPLICATION MADE PORTLAND (UPI) Portland city officials announced Wednes day they have applied for $410,000 from the federal government to reimburse the city for some of its Oct. 12 windstorm losses. The application was made under provisions of the National Disaster Act and was supervised by Port land civil defense director Jack Lowe. "No foreign country can assume to have the right to want to force one of these two Independents to submit itself to the other. It is incomprehensible that in our days a foreign state is in war with Katanga to force it to pay its dues to the other Congolese state. One wonders bow a civilized stale can undertake such a thing " This was obvious reference lo demands by the Central Congolese j territory and recognize and re government, supported by the 1 sped in the future that country's United Nations, that Katanga j independence." f N 3l vl THIS SCENE RAPIDLY CHANGED Bulletin photographer Nate Bull took this picture of a busy spot, the Bend Post Office mailing window, about the time the peak of outgoing mail was handled. Today, all was quiet at the Post Office, with com- Peak nearing on incoming yule mail Incoming Christmas mail was nearing its peak in Bend today as vans and trucks moved heavy loads here from Portland, but there is a possibility that the vol ume on Friday will exceed the 221 bags received this morning. The Christmas parcel post (Mckages are unloaded at the Oregon National Guard Armory in Bend, where they are sorted for rural and local deliveries. The peak of the outgoing mail this year was on Monday, De cember 17, somewhat earlier than usual, but expected because the coming weekend will be too close to Christmas to permit wrapping and mailing of packages for any points outside the immediate area. With the outgoing mailing peak already reached and with pack ages routed to the Armory, the Bend Post Office was quiet today, with comparatively few in front of the mailing window. Most of the morning, one clerk provided service for all patrons at the package-mailing window. Postmaster Farley J. Elliott said the office will be open Satur day afternoon to accommodate the last-minute mailers of Christ mas gifts. Hoffa case nearly ready for jury NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPD-The conspiracy trial of Teamsters un ion President James R. Hoffa may go to a federal court jury tod.-iy. Final arguments by attorneys and the judge's charges probably will consume most of today but the jury of seven men and five women is expected to get the case late this afternoon or early Friday. Hoffa is named in a two-count indictment charging violation of the Taft-Hartley law. He has pleaded innocent. The maximum penally on conviction of both counts would be two years In prison and-or $20,000 fine. Commercial Carriers Inc., a na tionwide automobile transport firm named in one count of the indictment, has pleaded no con test. It could be fined as much as $10,000. .hmiU .hor. ii. (mm II. rich mineral resources with the rest of the Congo. Schweitzer noted that the U.N. mission is not to make war, and added: "Reason and justice thus de mand that both this foreign stale 'the Central Governmenti and the United Nations immediately with ! draw their troops from Katangese In 4-o-2 Yote Move to restrict tree types loses A new tree-planting ordinance received second reading after much debate when city commis sioners assembled last night In city hall. . . .- , The new ruling will enable i. S. National Bank and other firms to plant decorativo trees on pub lic sidewalks in the downtown dis trict. Whether to restrict the planting to sidewalk tubs or permit their mounting in depressed hollows was one point of dispute. Com missioner R. A. Carlson objected to the digging up of sidewalks, and favored restriction of trees to Brooks-Scanlon offers top bid Brooks - Scanlon, Inc., Bend, was successful bidder for 19,200, 000 board feet of timber in the Quartz Mountain area of the Fort Rock district at an auction held here Wednesday afternoon in the Deschutes National Forest Office. Also seeking the stumpage was Leonard Lundgrcn, Bend sawmill operator. There were 63 raises in bidding that boosted the price of the timber from the appraised value of $135,290 to $324,360. the bid by Brooks-Scanlon that ended the auction. Bidding for the pine started at $7.60 per thousand board feet and increased to $17.05 in an auction that lasted the better part of an hour. Han Milius represented Brooks - Scanlon. Lundgrcn rep resented his firm, Lelco. For about two-thirds of the bid ding, raises were at the 10 cent level. Then they Increased to $1 a bid. The stumpage, which will be milled at the Brooks - Scanlon plant in Bend, is in the south eastern part of the Deschutes Na tional Forest, in the Fort Rock district. It will be hauled here over Brooks-Scanlon roads. Green reported in poor shape PROVIDENCE, R. I. (UPI) Former Sen. Theodore Francis Green. 95. the oldest person ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, was in a coma and in poor condition today at Jane Brown Hospital. He was admitted Wednesday after being stricken at his home, but his precise ailment was not disclosed. Green was a member of the Senate for 24 years, but was not a candidate lor re-eiccuon in im hccaU5 " faUin8 ind ""'' ing. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Pratt International Dow Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrial 648 ). up 1.55; 20 railroads 1378, up 0 52 15 utilities 128.14, up 0 50, and 65 stocks 227.50, up 0 69. Sales today were about 4.22 million shares compared with 4 million shares Wednesbiy. paratively few packages being presented for outgoing mail. Activity today shifted to the Oregon National Guard Armory, where incoming mail is being sorted for rural and local deliver ies. A total of 221 big bags of mail came in this morning. a single specie. He stressed thai certain trees could "get out of hand" and cause the City consid erable grief. But commissioners kept the en actment in motion on a 4-2 ma jority vote, mostly on the strength of provisions that require the park superintendent s approval of types of Irtos to be mounted, and the City's legal jurisdiction of tree maintenance and control. Com missioners Carlson and E. L. Nielsen opposed the motion. In other business commission ers gave second reading to the much - disputed dance ordinance which restricts young people's public dance hall hours and re quires supervision of a police ma tron and uniformed officer. Two proposed additions to the ruling that would authorize the police chief to decide when the policemen were needed and not needed, were dismissed on city attorney City attorney resigns post City commissioners unani mously gave a vote of confi. donee to Harry English last night after the city attorney an nounced he was terminating 10 years of service In thet poti tlon. English became city attorney ef Bend In January, 1952. His term, as well at those ef com missioners T. D. Sexton, Wil liam Miller end Peul Rtasonor, will officially expire en Decem ber 31. (In a telephone conversation with a Bulletin reporter this morning, English teld that he was leaving "by request.") City manager Hal Poddy told The Bulletin he Is considering several Bend attorneys to fill the post but has no official an nouncement to make at this time. Harry English's advice that both were probably unconstitutional. English said these clauses would allow the chief too much leeway. Commissioners also: 1. Awarded bids for the purchase of two pickup trucks from Rob berson Ford Sales. The trucks, $1 .MS and $1,780, will be used by the streets and water depart ments. 2. Awarded bids to furnish meals for city jail prisoners in 1963 to the Superior Cafe. Proclamation Signed 3. Aoprovcd and signed the pro clamation permitting sale of bonds for the new Portland Avenue Bridge. A. Gave second reading to a res olution to adopt chapter 51 of the appendix of the 1958 Building Code as an official record. 5. Accepted a proposal by Northwest Bell Telephone Co. to have two separate phone units In stalled In the city hall office and police headquarters, with the switchboard shifted to city hall. Added costs will he compensated by the dismissal of one police sec retary, with the recreation de- I partment secretary handling some of these duties at increase in wages. Irate man asks action on vandals An irate resident appeared at the Bend city commission meet ins last night with a vigorous re quest for City action in dealing with aerial-snapping vandals. William Leekcy, 147 Irving, told the body that vandals broke an aerial off bis car again Tuesday night, bringing to three the num ber of aerials he has lost since September 1. When commissioners considor- cd the putting up of reward mon ey as an Incentive for reporting the vandals, Leckey offered to throw in $10 of his money. A rash of aerial-snapping incidents and other vandalism has kept city police hustling the past couple of months. One of Lcekcy's suggestions, if any of these vandals are caught. Was to "have them out cleaning the streets with toothbrushes." Commissioners assured Leckey the police are doing everything possible to curb the destructive acts. Talks resumed in paper strike NEW YORK (UPI) Striking printers and newspaper publish ers today resume negotiations aimed at breaking the contract deadlock which closed nine big New York City dailies nearly two weeks ago. But prospects appeared dim for settling the strike quickly, despite marathon hargnining sessions and the efforts of federal medialors. Secretary of Labor W. Willord Wirtz has said it might go on all winter. After joint talks broko off on Wednesday, Stephen I. Schloss berg of the federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said the two sides are "very far apart." Representatives for Local 6 of the International Typographical Union and the New York Publish ers Association, the management group, met separately following the facc-to-face talks in the morn ing. The printers called the strike Dec. 8 against four of the nine papers Involved. By prior agree ment, the five others also closed down. Bertram A. Powers, president of Local 6, said he would send his men back to work on the five newspapers "with no strings at tached while negotiations contin ue." Powers said Uja, publishers re fused the offer. Woman dies in car plunge KLAMATH FALLS (UPI) - A Bakersfield, Calif., woman drown ed when her car plunged into as) irrigation ditch off U.S. Highway 97 some 10 miles south of here today. The victim was Mrs. Blanch Annabelle MrCullcn, 48. Fhe was driving the car. Her son, Thomas, 16. who was a passenger In the vehicle, escaped by climbing out a door.