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Univ. of Oregon Library EOSSHS, OREGON Dominic iti may o m s D IK m M W m UN to parley on Haitian war dilemma UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UPI Haiti today demanded a matting of the Security Council to consider the war threat aris ing from its quarrel with the Dominican Republic. Top diplomatic sources said Haitian Ambassador Carlet R. August submitted the request in a letter to French Ambassa dor Roger Seydoux, this month's council president. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPI) President Juan Bosch convoked his cabinet today for a report from military chiefs, strengthening belief the hour for a Dominican strike against Haiti may be imminent The meeting lasted an hour but no official comment was forth coming. However, Bosch summon ed U.S. Ambassador John Barlow Martin to the palace, presumably to give him a briefing on the meeting. An army spokesman said Domi nican infantry now were in at tack positions the length of the border separating the two coun tries on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Bosch madeno secret of his plans to invade Haiti if necessary to topple the dictatorial regime of President Francois Duvalier. The Organization of American States (OAS) stepped up its ef forts to head off a war between the two nations which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, only 55 miles from Cuba. President Duvalier vowed in Port-au-Prince he never would step down under pressure, he told his people: "I am a revolutionary in every sense not a sentimental type but one of the hard kind. . .1 have for my companion my rifle." In Washington, the OAS sched uled an emergency meeting to hear a report from three mem bers of the fact-finding mission it sent to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The mission members expressed doubt that Bosch would move against Haiti while ' the OAS was trying to solve the crisis. Move Into Position But Bosch moved troops, tanks and warships into position for an invasion, spurred on by a plea from Haitian political refugees in asylum in Port-au-Prince to save them from "savage assas sination" by Duvalier's police. Although no formal ultimatum was issued, Dominican officials hinted the attack could come at any time and might be preceded by heavy aerial bombardment of Duvalier's palace. U.S. Marines aboard a Navy task force within 30 miles of Port-au-Prince were alerted to move in to evacuate 1,000 Americans in the Haitian capital if fighting broke out. The Navy said it was ready to move on 10-minutes no tice. The British sent a Royal Navy frigate to international waters just off Haiti and the Admiralty in London said the ship would re move British residents if that be came necessary. 2 airmen found dead in plane IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (UPI) -The Air Force today identified the crew of a B47 bomber which crashed after a collision Friday nielli. The co-pilot parachuted to safe ly. Found dead in the wreckage of the plane were the pilot, Capt. Frani G. Zurnba, 32, and staff Sgt Lawrence E. Harrison, 35, the crew chief. Still missing, according to Moun tain Home Air Force Base offi cials, was Capt. Lorin T. Mat thews, 30. the navigator. They said paramedic rescue units and helicopters would re sume the search for Matthews to day. Zumba is survived by his wife. Donna, Riverside, Calif., two chil dren, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Zumba, Elmhurst, N.Y. Harrison's survivors are his wife, Elizabeth, Mountain Home AFB and three children, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Har rison, Wheelersburg. Ohio. Mat thews' wife. Helen, lives at Mountain Home AFB with their 3-year-old son. WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight; light V showers Tuesday; high M-tt; low tonight 0-4. chool election polls are open until 8 tonight THE BEND 60th Year LIONS MAKE READY FOR SHOW A crew of Lions met for breakfast this morning, then started work in erecting frames for Home Show booths in the Oregon National Guard armory. Pictured here is a frame-laden truck, with Frank Bockhold, general chairman of the show, and Glenn Ratcliff aboard. Booths quickly took shape. Parents protest Missouri Catholics rap ruling on buses JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UPI) A political-religious demonstra tion against Missouri's refusal to provide public school bus trans portation for parochial students was expected today to spread across the state. Catholic parents indicated that thousands of students would with draw today from church schools and enroll at public institutions. There is no apparent central au thority in the demonstration, but there are 172,000 Catholic students in Missouri who could demand public education. Massive enrollment by the stu dents could spell "financial disas ter" for Missouri, costing some $56 million more each year in state funds. There were scattered demonstra tions last Wednesday and Thurs day which grew and widened Fri day. Suburbs of St. Louis and Kansas City expected heavy en rollments today and some 1.500 Catholics said they would enter public schools today in this state capital town. Kill Bus Measure The Missouri House had a bill before it which would have ex tended school bus privileges to private and parochial schools. The House Judiciary Committee voted 19-8 Tuesday to kill the measure. There had been heated hearings concerning the proposal, but when the bill died the protests explod ed. The Roman Catholic Church has not sanctioned the demonstrations. I Some leaders said it was the right : of the individuals to protest and i others said they were dead against it. The main lobbyist for the bill, James Cox of Jefferson City, said there was no advanced planning in the demonstrations. Parents at the tiny town of St. Martin, nine miles west of here, started the demonstration enroll ments which spread rapidly. Other Catholic parents said they planned to enroll their children in public schools next fall because 'we can t afford to keep on voting bond issues for public schools and paying parochial tuition too." Rocky, bride honeymoon at ranch in Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his bride began a two-week hon eymoon at a sprawling lamuy cattle ranch today, remote from the political controversy stirred by their marriage back home. Rockefeller and the former Mrs. Margaretta Fitler (Happy) Mur phy settled down in relative iso lation on the 14.000-acre ranch and potato farm 125 miles west of Caracas. The newlyweds were over Ten Pages & Capitol sources said the House of Representatives may reconsid er the proposal today, in light of (he demonstrations. One legisla tive leader said it was the type of issue that ' you can t win by voting for or against. Tuesday is the deadline for reconsidering the measure. School vote under way in mid-state Polls opened at 2 p.m. today for annual school elections, and voters may cast their ballots un til 8 o'clock tonight Throughout Central Oregon, as elsewhere in the state, school bud gets are being submitted to the voters, and directors will be elect ed. Counties in the Central Ore gon College district will oe voting on the college budget, and at some precincts, directors whose terms are expiring will seek re election. In the Bend administrative dis trict, board members will be nam ed in two of the seven zones. The budget submitted for approval in cludes $849,119.12 which is outside the six per cent limitation. In Deschutes county, district elections will also be held at Redmond, Tumalo, Brothers, Al falfa, Terrebonne, Sisters and Cloverdale schools. In Redmond, polling places are at Union High and John Tuck schools, for the respective high school and grade school districts. Voters will also cast ballots for a member-at-large on the Des chutes County Rural District board. The candidate is Willard Bleything, Bend, for a three-year term. The budget election for the Rural District will be May 14. In Jefferson county, there is considerable interest in the elec tion, with 14 candidates seeking five posts on the new unified Ma dras School District whelmed by Venezuelans at an impromptu airport reception here Sunday when they arrived from New York. Later they flew by pri vate plane to Rockefeller's ranch near Valencia. "We came here for a honeymoon because we love Venezuela," the governor told the South Americans on hand to greet him at Caracas Airport. GOP Starts Reappraisal Back in Washington Republican I leaders begar, reappraisal of their CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, May 6, 1963 'I. 1 '63 Home Show due this week Lions attending a breakfast meeting this morning completed a discussion of plans for their 1963 Home Show, a weekend event then reported for work at the Ore gon National Guard armory. First task that faced the club men was that of erecting the frames for 45 booths in which Home Show exhibits will e plac ed, in preparation for the show . on Thursday, Friday and Satur day. The show will be held on Thurs day and Friday from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m., and on Saturday from 2 p.m. until 11 p.m. All space has been taken, Frank Bockhold, gen eral chairman for the Lions, re ported today. Sapce in 45 different booths will be used by merchants in display ing die latest in home equipment. Space in one area of the big arm ory is being set aside for the dis play of visual testing equipment purchased by the Lions from pro ceeds of their highly - successful 1962 Home Show. There will be no admission charge, clubmen stressed in ex tending an invitation to all Cen tral Oregonians to attend. There will be a number of new features this year, including or gan music. Cooperating with the Lions this year, Central Oregon College is to display electronic equipment in the Bend Junior High School, diagonally across Wall Street from the ONG armory. 55 teachers spurn contracts RIDGEFIELD, Wash. (UPI) None of the 55 teachers in the Ridgefield School district has re turned a signed contract for next year, Supt. W. Lyndle Moore re vealed today. The action is an apparent re taliation against school board ac tion two weeks ago freezing the salaries of' most teachers in the district. Moore said the board has set May 13 as a deadline for return ing the contracts. The Washington Legislature this year refused to appropriate addi tional money for schools. possible presidential candidates in light of Rockefeller's sudden re marriage Saturday. They found themselves in almost total dis agreement about the political ef fects of the move. Some felt the New York gover nor, who had been considered the strongest contender for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination, had committed political suicide by his marriage. Others said it would have no effect Rockefeller, 54, who was di - ss i n . - BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER Negroes plan new protests in Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)-Ne- gro leaders, encouraged by the first march on city jail in a 34 day campaign that did not result in mass arrests, planned more protests for today while federal officials sought to ease the ex plosive racial situation here. More than 2.000 singing, chant ing Negroes Sunday marched six blocks from a Negro church to a park across from the city jail. They were permitted by police to hold a 15-minute demonstration aimed at bolstering the spirits of more than 1,200 Negroes who re main in jail for previous demon strations. Burke Marshall, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division and considered the chief racial trouble-shooter of the Ken nedy administration, met with lo cal officials during the weekend in efforts to ease racial pressures. Both sides remained tight-lipped about the negotiations. U.S. Ally. Gen. Robert Kennedy canceled a weekend trip to keep an eye on the tense situation in this Deep South industrial center. Negro leaders predicted students who began skipping school by the hundreds last week to take part in the drive would play hooky en masse today to participate in the protests. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who predicted complete success for the protest movement in a sermon in Atlanta Sunday, was back here today to spearhead the drive. Neero comedian Dick Gregory, active In a recent Greenwood, Miss., Negro voter registration drive. was.to arrive later today by plane. Police Commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor had police keep a tight rein on the march Sunday and set up barricades complete with fire hoses around the park, but the demonstration was not broken up. Tanks move in but if was no blitz Tanks moved into Bend this morning but it was no blitz. Five of them were on a string of cars that rolled into town from the north and were placed on a siding, preparatory to unloading in the old box factory area of the Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., ground. , . Three of the tanks will be as signed to the Bend company of the second tank battalion, 303rd Armor, Oregon National Guard. Two will be moved "overland" to Redmond. Bend, Redmond and Burns ONG companies were recently assigned to a tank battalion of the 41st divi sion. The five tanks assigned the Bend and Redmond companies are of the medium type, with a big 90 MM gun mounted in front, and a machine gun. Each tank will carry a four-man crew. The tanks were brought to Cen tral Oregon on five flatcars from Fort Lewis, Wash. They have seen use, but are in top shape, cap tain Keith Molan, commanding of ficer of the Bend unit, noted. The tanks lack some of their equipment. Including periscopes, but will be fully outfitted in the immediate future. Then will com a period of Intensive training for the tank crews. The Bend tanks will be kept outside the ONG armory here, possibly in the compound. How ever, it will be impossible to get the tanks in the armory. vorced last year by his wife of 31 years, married Mrs. Murphy. 36, in a quiet ceremony Saturday. The bride, a mother of four, di vorced her husband. Dr. James R. Murphy, 35 days ago. The ceremony at the Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills, N.Y., climaxed a romance nobody ad mitted but which had been whis pered about in cafe society and hinted at in international society columns for months. Rockefeller himself refused to m mm Oregon ntrn Kiwanians nominate Bend man for Division 15A post (See alsa picture en page 7.) A Bend man. Bill Hudson, has been nominated for the post of lieutenant - governor of Division 15A of the Northwest Klwanis Club District. The action was taken at the spring conference of Kiwanians held in Bend over the -weekend. Final action on the selection will be taken at the district con vention in Anchorage, Alaska in August. Division 15A is comprised of clubs in Central and Southern Oregon and northern California. Highly Successful Club officials reported that the weekend conference here was highly successful, with a total of 161 Kiwanians and their wives at tending from 25 clubs. Division 15. comprised of clubs in the wu lamette Valley, joined with Divi sion 15A for the annual confer ence. Sessions were held at the Bend Golf Club. ' The program concluded with an inter - club luncheon on unaay with Norm Symons, president of the Bend Kiwams Club presiding. Speaker at the luncheon was Dis trict Governor Bedri Saad of Spokane. Entertainment included a vocal solo by Bob Kircher, Red mond, accompanied on the piano by Lois Gumpcrt of Bend. Memorial Message At the opening of the confer ence on Saturday The Rev. D. L. Penliouow, Bend Kiwaraan, de livered a memorial message in honor of the late E. Ron Rice of Medford. Mr. Rice was Pacific N.W. District Governor at the time of his recent death. His wife was an honored guest at the conference. Presiding at the conference meetings were U.-Gov. Merle E. Foland, Division 15A and Lt.-Gov. Wave Young, Division 15. Attending were officers irom the following clubs: A 1 1 u r a s , Calif.: Ashland, Bend, Coos Bay, Coquille, Emerald Empire (Eu gene), Eugene, Glide, oranis Pass, Clayton, Calif.; Klamath Falls, Llnkville, Medford, Prine ville, Redmond, River Road (Eu gene), Roseburg, Scappoose, Springfield, Spokane, Tulelake, TRAFFIC HAZARD PETERBOROUGH, England (UPI) Walter Cornelius' ambi tion to match President Kenne dy's challenge by walking 50 miles was frustrated today by po lice, who told him he would cre ate a traffic hazard. Cornelius, a 39year-old life guard, had planned to walk all 50 miles on his hands. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 713.77, off 4.31; 20 railroads 162.52, off 1.81; 15 utili ties 139.25, off 0.36, and 65 stocks 252.86, off 1.61. Saies today were about 4.09 mil lion shares compared with 4.76 million shares Friday. comment on his political future or the effect the marriage might have on his presidential aspira tions. Before leaving Idlewild In ternational Airport Sunday he told newsmen: "I know that some of you would like to discuss politics. But 1 don't think that this is the time or place for it. There will be time for that later." Both the governor and Mrs. Rockefeller, an attractive brunette, beamed with apparent happiness Ten Cents segins tiMion 71 iV': BILL HUDSON Calif.; Winston-Dillard, and Vre- ka. A former Redmond Kiwanian, Tommy Thompson, now of Clay ton, Call., and his wife also at tended. Social activities included a golf match and a dinner-dance Satur day evening. NW Ski Patrol to meet here The 1964 meeting of Iho Pacific Northwest Ski Patrol, a division of a national group, will be in Bend, with toboggan races to be held at Bachelor Buctte. This was the word brought here by Don Peters, first aid chief of the Bend Ski Patrol, and Buzz Silvers, who attended the annual meeting of the Northwest group in Yakima, Wash., over Uie week end. Officials present included Charles Schobinger of Denver, Colo., National Ski Patrol chair man: Kurt Bean, Seattle, Wash., division chairman, and Dick Brunswig, Medford, regional chairman. To permit a further exchange of ideas, the group decided to reinstate the first aid and tobog gan competition of earlier years, and under this program the tobog gan teams from the Northwest will participate. The Northwest meeting in 1964, about this Ume of year, will bring some 100 ski patrolmen to Bend. Discussed at the Yakima meeting were various ski patrol problems, first aid activities and other work that is increasing in scope as interest in skung con tinues. Assisting with arrangements for the 1964 meeting in Bend will be the newly elected leaders of the local ski patrol Dr. John Say, Prinevillc, patrol leader; Bill Shenk, Bend, assistant leader: John Barton, Bend, secretary- treasurer, and Don Peters, first aid chief. during their stops en route to the ranch. At Idlewild, Rockefeller said to newsmen It was "indeed a very happy occasion and a very great honor and pleasure to intro duce you to someone you have been looking for for a long time, Mrs. Rockefeller appeared slightly nervous as she faced bank of microphones and said "I'm very happv, and 1 know you'll understand that I'm slight ly overwhelmed at this moment." TEMPERATURES High yesterday, el degrees. Low last night, 40 degrees. Sunset today, 7:11. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:50, PST. No. 128 run - 20-24 Demo votes forecast by Speaker SALEM (UPI) Debate on a new constitution for Or eg on opened in the House today, with Democratic leadership predicting Democrats will supply more than half the 40 votes it needs to pass. House Speaker Clarence Barton predicted the document would get 20 to 24 votes from the 31 Demo crats in the House, Republican Minority Leader F. . Montgomery of Eugene de clined to estimate how many of the 29 Republicans would vote for it. GOP Gov. Mark HaUield, how ever, has endorsed constitutional revision. If the document got a two thirds vote of the House, and then of the Senate, it would go to the voters next May. The proposed new constitution would, replace Oregon's present one. written 105 years ago and amended 111 times. Two Years Work The Oregon Commission on Con stitutional Revision, appointed by action of the 1961 Legislature, be gan writing a new document two years ago. The commission's work was submitted to the legislature this January. House and Senate committees spent three and one half hours, meeting jointly, going over the document and revising parts of it. The committees ended up with a draft a little closer to Oregon'! present constitution than the com mission had proposed. There were only a lew differ ences between the two commit tees. The proposed constitution is less than half the length of the pres ent one. It contains 14 articles. two of them transitional. Changes Listed Tho new document would do these things: Get rid of obsolete provisions in the present constitution. Modernize language. Shift some provisions, and many procedural details to the statutes, a change that would in crease flexibility of the document for the future. Make some substantive changes. The major substantive change is Uiat proposed in the executive branch, where the governor would be made the single elective state wide executive officer. He would be checked by an elective. wateh-dog" secretary of stats with post-audit functions only. . Executive agencies, boards and commissions would be gathered into 20 departments. Senate Uncertain Even with House approval, the new constitution would face an uncertain future in the Senate. Senate President Ben Musa told newsmen a few hours before House debate began, "I'm not en chanted with it I'll vote against it and let it go at that. I haven t polled Senate members on their views, and there will he no arm twisting. . . 'I feel radical changes are un necessary at this time. There has been no major political scandal in this state in 50 years. Adopting one-man rule would be borrowing trouble. The attorney general should be elected, and should be the peoples' attorney. "There are some good things in the new constitution, but I think we would be wise to heed the Oregon Bar suggestion that' we give the proposal two wore years of study."