Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Bulletin. (Bend, OR) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1963)
of Oregon Llbrarv EUGENE, OfiECO.V The Bulilet: WpntllPr Partly cloudy; high Thurs cuiiiei day w H; ow tot).ght 3J 40 High yesterday, M degrees. Low last night, 40 degrees. Sunset today, 7:23. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:17, PST. Hi and Lo SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 60th Year Twelve Pages Wednesday, May 15, 1963 Ten Cents No. 136 'Very much on top of his mission' Fbdtess la CQep)!? into mhlt in puts unc AM CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) L. Gordon Cooper, 36, rocketed into space on America's longest orbital light today and hours later was reported in good spirits and health "and very much on top of his mission." The Air Force major rose into the sky atop an Atlas rocket at 6:04 a.m. PDT under orders, if all goes right, to soar around the earth 22 times in about 34 hours. As he went into his fourth orbit at 10:35 a.m. PDT, Walter C. Wil liams, operations chief of the Mercury flight program, issued this word: "He is very much on top of County Superintendent asks big increase for his office By Ha S. Grant Bulletin Staff Writer The passing of the Little Red Schoolhouse as a symbol of rural Americana, placing the big schoolhouse just as much "in the red" as the little one was, puts the office of the county school superintendent in the position of being liaison between the big dis tricts, the small districts, the ever more powerful state Depart ment of Education and, like it or not, the federal government. The county school superintend ent's office can go one way or the other. It can be eliminated entirely, or it can become a pow erful giant controlling large sums of public money, offering extra services which local boards are not apt to refuse, and influencing curriculum. In Deschutes county, the office "of Superintendent David Potter seems headed to empire builder's proportions. His budget for 1963 64 shows estimated expenditures of $58,212, up from $39,435 for the current year. The increase alone is almost as much as the total expenditures for the 1960-61 tax year. From $21,375 that year, ex penditures climbed to $27,032 in 1961-62. Big Salary Increase The new budget includes $11, 000 for the superintendent's sal ary, an increase from $8,500 this year. Potter's first in the office. His predecessor, Mrs. Velma Buckingham, received $6,749.88 in 1960-61, and $8,043.75 in 1961-62. Among new items In tins year's budget are $8,000 for a supervi sor to work with curriculum de velopment, $6,302 for visual aids and $1,000 for eductional TV. Both the latter two sums are to be matched by the federal govern ment, through the National De fense Education Act. The NDEA went into being six years ago, when the first Sputnik pushed the panic button and the current em phasis on math, science and for eign language education had its beginning. The bigness of the county sup erintendent's office has been known for some time to the Rural School Board, some of whose members admitted, in conversa tions with a Bulletin reporter, feel they are being subjected to pres sures from all directions. Rent Item Submitted Tlie bigness of the school sup erintendent's office became known to the general public a week or so ago when a $900 item for his rent, submitted to the county budget board, smoked out the information that the superin tendent is planning to move his office to Redmond. This stirred up a good-sized hornet's nest in Bend. Having the superintendent's of fice in the courthouse is tradi tional, and in Bend a matter of sentiment. (A matching $900 for rent is included in the Rural School District budget.) The reason for the move, the superintendent says, is that there isn't enough room in the court house for his materials par ticularly a film library now being built up and a more central location is desirable for servic ing the Deschutes county schools and developing a film lending service which is being negotiated with Crook county. It's no secret that the court house is bulging at the seams. The increased space required by the assessor, because ot tne reap oraisal program and subdivisions. and the ever-increasing files of records in the county clerk's of fice, contribute to the congestion. The county court is aware that a remodeling program to provide an addition to the building, or use of machinery to replace bulky files, will have to come. Brought to Head Tie acquisition of the county his mission. He is in good spirits and in good health." Cooper completed his first orbit at 7:38 a.m., his second at 9:06 a.m., and the third at 10:33 a.m. He had reported at the end of his second flash around the world that he was "very comfortable." Williams said after the third round trip that Cooper was per forming all of his space experi ments designed to aid the long er Gemini and Apollo moon flights of the future on schedule. Releases Flashing Lights One of his experiments, how ever, did not work out well. In this third orbit he released a 10- m Empire-building Spr66 mmammmsmassmmx school superintendent's film li-1 brary brings the matter to a head. His office is on the top floor, and it is inconvenient to carry heavy films up and down the stairs. There's no more space on that floor. A move for the school superin tendent somewhere appar ently is indicated, unless existing courthouse space can be utilized more efficiently. At present, about 60 per cent of the use of the county school sup erintendent's film library is by the Bend district The audio - visual aids director of the Bend system delivers films to and from the district's schools, including Young and LaPine. If the office moves, the superintendent's office will have to do its own leg work for the big Bend district. The county film library now consists of some 429 films, in- Plan offered for lower Deschutes SALEM (UPI) A $565,000 proj ect to open up a 20-mile section of the lower Deschutes River in Sherman County was presented Tuesday to a joint meeting of the Senate and House Natural Re sources Committees. Russell E. Getty, state director of the Bureau of Land Manage ment, said the project would be financed with federal funds if the money became available. The plan was prepared by a special state-federal inter agency study group. Getty recommended-construo-tion of a two -lane public road from Sherars Bridge on State Highway 216 near Maupin 20 miles north along the east bank of the Deschutes lo Mack Canyon. He also called for construction of three public recreation sites with camping and boat launching facilities. Long Range Plans The development plans for the Deschutes below Sherars Bridge are the first part of a long range recreation study of the entire low er Deschutes River basinr Getty said. Most of the land is not now ac cessible to the public, he said. Getty explained the proposed road would dead-end at Mack Canyon to preserve the wilderness character of the river downstream from that point He said Congress is considering an appropriation measure which would include finances for the project. He estimated the proposed de velopment would increase usage of the area from 3,000 to 75,000 people a year. Getty said the BLM would con tinue to administer the lands, road, and camping facilities. The State Game Commission would be responsibe for fish and wildlife resources. oy, oh CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) A partial transcript of the conversations between ground con- i trol communicators and astronaut L. Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7: At the time of liftoff: Control: 4, 3, 2, 1 Cooper: Roger liftoff, and clock is operating. Control: Roger, clock. Cooper: Sigma 7, Faith 7 on the way i Cooper was addressing Wal ter M. Schirra whose capsule was named Sigma 7. Schirra was the control communicator at Cape pound sphere, about the size of a duck pin bowling ball, carrying two flashing lights. The idea was to see whether astronauts could easily spot bea cons in the sky. Such beacons might be used to guide astronauts of the Gemini and Apollo pro grams to other spacecraft in orbit. But Cooper, according to the Mercury control center here, re ported he was not immediately able to see the lights from the little ball traveling near him in space. In an effort to get a glimpse of them, he took over personal con trol of his Faith 7 cabin, swing eluding those on rental and lease arrangements. This year the sup- ' orintnnrfpnt crwint fiinnOO fnr films beginning a four-year program. Half that amount came from the rural board, and half from the National Defense Education Act. Some 100 Films The Bend district now owns ap proximately 100 16 mm movie films, averaging $100 in cost, and approximately 2500 film strips, at $5 apiece. Present indications are that the Bend district will dis continue its own purchase of vis ual aids, and will borrow from the county film library. The two secretaries in the school superintendent's office, Mrs. Gladys Gardner and Mrs. Feme Fies. live in Bend. Moving the office to Redmond would mean a 30-mile drive daily lor them. Potter makes his home in Madras, in Jefferson County, an other bone of contention. Bend administrators agree that having a large selection of films available within the county would be a convenience. Orders from the State Department of Educa tion must be scheduled in March and April of the year preceding their intended use. A poll of Rural Board members who could be reached indicated unanimous approval of the move to Redmond. They are Hamlin Perkins, Tumalo, chairman; Emil J. Howell, Terrebonne; R. Wavne Hamby and Curtis Carlin, Bend, and Vernon Giles, Red mond. Lloyd H. Luelling, Bend, and Jesse C. Edgington, Sisters, could not be reached. If and when county school district reorganization is com pleted the area would logically be divided into two, or tnree, ad ministrative districts. (Added to the Bend district would be Red mond and Sisters districts, or pos sibly a joint district to adminis ter the entire north end of the county.) In that event, the county school superintendent's office could logically be eliminated. But there is good reason to won der, with the Rural School Board acting on reorganization matters, and the Board's chief employe, the superintendent, actually doing most of the work, whether or not the superintendent embarked on an empire-building spree will look with favor on a program which would eliminate his $11,000 per year job. Public schools set art exhibit Students of all Bend public schools, elementary through high, will participate in the final art ex hibit this year on Friday and Sat urday, May 17-18, in the Reid Thompson School auditorium. Friday's exhibit hours are 4 to 7 p.m.; Saturday's 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. These entries represent work per formed during the second school semester or which was not shown in the previous exhibit All work must be original. Exhibits include drawings, paintings, clay model ings, sculptures and prints. boy, is Canaveral.) Control: You Gordo. look good here. Cooper: Roger. Real good. buddy. Control: Good sport Cooper: Thirty seconds and fuel is go, oxygen is go, cabin pres sure is working. Control: Roger, you're looking beautiful. Cooper: (Inaudible) Control: That's a beauty, your clocks are in sync. Cooper: Faith 7, one minute and ing the craft around in space. Williams said it was possible the sphere was drifting too close to the cabin to be easily seen. Earlier, after reporting he was very comfortable, Cooper had added, "In fact, I had a little nap." He is scheduled to grab a full eight hours of sleep, if he wants it, starting after his ninth orbit tonight. At the start of his fourth orbit Cooper passed the marks set by America's first four astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, who made suborbital flights, and John Glenn and Scott Carpenter who each mads three orbits. New racial tension hits in Raleigh By United Press International Racial tensions eased in Birm ingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday but flared again in North Carolina's capital city of Raleigh. More than 800 Negroes staged "freedom march through downtown Raleigh Tuesday night to back up desegregation de mands. Police arrested 34 dem onstrators. There were no incidents during the march but there were some tense moments when the demon strators passed street corners fmwAnA ujilh whita vntilhc Pnlinn ..wv ...... charged 15 of the arrested group with assault against Leslie Fergu- son, assistant manager of a cafe teria, who was "put in a state of fear" during a sit-in attempt. Minister Back Desegregation - A bi-racial committee held a two-hour meeting in Raleigh Tuesday and bank official Victor Bell Jr. said "I think we made good progress in understanding each other and the problem." Ear lier the Raleigh Ministerial Asso ciation voted 42-1 in favor of de segregating business facilities. Birmingham was relatively quiet Tuesday and federal observ ers said the city's racial atmo sphere was "improving." They added, however, that federal troops would remain at nearby military bases because of the chance of "trouble developing quickly." Alabama Gov. George Wallace sent another telegram to Presi dent Kennedy demanding either the removal of the troops or pub lication of "the true fact of your military operation. . ." Wallace said the presence ot the troops was an "open invitation to a re sumption of street rioting by law less Negro mobs, on the assump tion they will be protected by fed eral military forces." Flames sweep Portland school PORTLAND (UPI) Fire swept through the Whitaker elementary school in northeast Portland early today, causing damage estimated at $750,000. The blaze, of undetermined ori gin, destroyed 20 classrooms of a building constructed in 1939 and one new addition. One new wing was saved. The three alarm blaze broke out about 2:30 a.m. and firemen remained at the scene until after daybreak mopping up. Classes for the students were canceled temporarily. A school official said it was possible class room space could be obtained at the Portland air base. Whitaker district residents voted April 26 to merge with the Port land district The merger be comes effective July 1. Tlie school was located at 5135 NE Columbia Blvd. it ever fuel is go, oxygen is go, cabin pressure 10 PSI (pounds per square inch) as scheduled, all sys tems go. Cooper: Control: tower. Cooper: off. Control off. There goes the tower. Roger. Confirm your Retro jettison switch Retro jettison switch Cooper: Roger. I am on pitch. Control: You look real pretty Spaceman Walter M. Schirra Jr. did six orbits last October. Length of Orbit Asked how long Cooper could stay in orbit, Walter Williams, Mercury operations director, said only that the capsule's orbit was such that it could stay aloft for "the expected lifetime of the mis sion." On previous manned flights, however, officials had said cap sules in similar orbits probably could have stayed up for a week or perhaps longer. This would be far too long for Cooper, who car ried only a three-day sflpply of oxygen. look ur new Readers of The Bulletin will notice that today's edition has a new look. Changes include dropping the word "Bend" from the name of the paper and addition of a full editorial page. There are also new features, a redesigned headline schedule and a rear rangement of Inside page ma terial. For a discussion of the changes see lead editorial on the "new look" editorial page. Haiti reins still held by Duvalier PORT - AU PRINCE, Haiti (UPI) President Francois Du- ,. ;J f;,l. , ; 4 1 """ """ of Haiti from within his heavily lortitied palace today despite the arrival of an announced deadline for his .assassination. Rumors circulated outsido the country, however, that he planned to fly to European exile today via the Dutch island of Curacao. A Haitian exile leader in Santo Domingo, capital of the neighbor ing Dominican Republic, charged Tuesday night that Dominican au thorities blocked preparations for invasion of Haiti today by raiding rebel headquarters near the border and taking arms away from 67 men. We planned to invade Haiti early Wednesday when constitu tional government ends, but now we are forced to postpone it," Jacques Cassagnol said. In New York, a spokesman for Pan American World Airways said Tuesday night that "a party of four registered in the name of Duvalier" had booked passage on a Pan Am flight from New York to Paris tonight The spokesman said there was no indication the "Duvalier" on the passenger manifest was the Haitian president. Both Pan Am and the Dutch airline KLM have direct flights to New York from- Willomstad, Cu racao, about 500 miles southeast of Haiti off the coast of Vene zuela. All indications in Port au -Prince were that Duvalier, whose legal six-year presidential term ended today, was still inside the massive white presidential palace in downtown Port-au-Prince with his wife and two teen-aged chil drcn. He has been seen out of the palace only once since April 21, when Haitian exiles an nounced in pamphlets air-dropped on Port - au - Prince that they would remove him by May 15. The palace was guarded by all five of the army s tanks, the pal ace guard which is believed to he fanatically loyal to Duvalier, and about 2,000 troops from the near by Dessalines barracks. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 724.34, up 4.50; 20 railroads 167.90, up 1.59; 15 utili ties 141.41, up 0.56, and 65 stocks 257.68, up 1.66. Sales today were about 5.65 million shares compared with 4.74 million shares Tuesday, clear up here! here. Cooper: It felt real pretty. Going into orbit: Control: Faith 7, you're right smack dab in the middle of the pint. (The narrow "window" in space the capsule must enter to achieve orbit.) Cooper: I am? Control: You're smack dab in the middle of the "go" plot. Faith 7, your turnaround looks beautiful. Cooper: Roger. Turnaround very nicely. What a feeling! Boy, oh Bulletin CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UPI) Astronaut L, Gordon Cooper began his fifth orbit of the earth today at 12:30 PDT. Mercury control reported that Cooper's Faith 7 spacecraft could stay up for as many as 91 orbits if the necessary life sup port equipment were aboard. "As we refine our data further we may find it (the spacecraft) may be good for more orbits than that," one of ficial said. Just before the astronaut went into his fifth orbit, his wife heard her husband talking by radio during the spacecraft's pass over the United States. Mrs. Cooper was quoted at saying It was "most reassuring" to hear his voice. One of tlie astronaut's first re marks after his roaring climb into orbit was, It felt real pretty. At the end of the first orbit, clocked at 7:38 a.m., his mentors on tlie ground told tlie blue-eyed. 147-pound astronaut he could go on for at least seven orbits. Would Land In Pacific If he is getting along all right at the end of seven orbits, he will go on for 17, then fo the full mission of 22 circuits. Completion of the planned flight would bring him down in the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles southeast of Mid way at around 4:20 p.m. PDT Thursday. If Cooper goes the full 22 orbits. he will pass over more than 100 countries and possessions. For the first time an American astronaut will fly over Communist territory. The planned track crosses Red China six times. After two orbits, the space agen cy recalculated tlie speed and flight path of Cooper's Faith 7 capsule as follows: Peak velocity: 17,546 miles an hour. Low point of orbit: 100.2 miles. High point: 165.8 miles. Time for one circuit of globe: 88.45 minutes. Lipscomb death heroin caused BALTIMORE, Md. (UPI) Bal timore medical examiners an nounced today they have conclud ed from laboratory teste that pro fessional football star Gene (Big Daddy) Lipscomb died "of an overdose of heroin. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Russell Fisher, in a statement, said a contributory factor in Lips comb's death Friday morning was "nonintoxicating amount of alco hol in the blood." Fisher revealed that his assist ant. Dr. Paul Schweda, reported this morning that his analysis found "unchanged heroin at the injection site in Lipscomb s arm, and large amounts of degradation products, mainly morphine in the bile as well as a trace of the same in the urine." Rural budget voted, 128-30 A handful of voters at six poll ing places passed the 1963-64 levy for the Deschutes County Rural School District Tuesday. The vote was 128 yes, 30 no. The vote was on the amount of the rural budget which exceeds the six per cent limitation. The amount voted on was $285,759.45. Tlie total levy is $866,828.68. Most of the amount is to provide a tax offset for equalization purposes. Only noticeable opposition was in the Bend district, where the vote was 20 yes, 18 no. Terre bonne had 13 yes votes: 6 no. The vote at other polling places follows LaPine: 18 yes, 2 no; Sisters, 38 yes, 2 no; Tumalo, 13 yes: Redmond, 26 yes, 2 no. boy! And there's the booster. Control: Looks real pretty? Cooper: Boy. oh boy, is it ever clear up here! Control: Great sport, isn't it? Cooper: Yeah. FBW (fly-by-wire a method of operating capsule controls) is working just like ad vertised. Control: Roger. I'm getting real good indications and pitch from here. A real good gadget. Cooper: Booster's still smoking. It looks silver, Wally. Control: Roger. ft r ASTRONAUT L. GORDON COOPER Out to smash previous U.S. records 'Beautiful!' ssmimmsimmsismmim Perfect launching thrill for Coopers TAYLOR LAKE VILLAGE, Tex. (UPI) "Beautiful," Mrs. L. Gor don Cooper said today of her hus band's faultless flight into space. Mrs Cooper sent the one-word description of her reaction out by Dave Schwartz, a public affairs officer for the National Aeronau tics and Space Administration, al most an hour after her husband's journey started. She said she would have no more to say for the time being. But Schwartz reported that Mrs. Cooper had a big smile on her face. Mrs. Cooper and her daughters, Camala, 14, and Janita, 13, went into a bedroom by themselves to watch the liftoff on a television set. Schwartz was in the living room. The family wanted to be alone at a moment when they might have watched Cooper die. Wife Smiles Broadly Instead, Cooper's wife and daughters saw him safely soar in to space. Schwartz said Mrs. Cooper and the girls stayed in the bedroom about 15 minutes. Then Mrs. Cooper came out, smiling broadly. Cooper telephoned about 30 min utes before the launch. About 20 minutes before, Dr. Charles A. Berry, chief of NASA's medical operations, telephoned. Mrs. Berry went into the Cooper nome aooui an hour after the liftoff. Schwartz said that Mrs. Cooper has asked him not to tell about 50 waiting reporters and television men anything not authorized by her. Mrs. Cooper and the girls were up at 4 a.m. pdt. They had a breakfast of hot rolls and grape fruit. The girls drank milk and Mrs. Cooper had a second cup of coffee. The only sign of life about the house when Cooper rocketed into snace was a gray and white cat sitting on top of the chimney ana Horses topic for discussion A city ordinance with restric tions on the keeping of horses in side city limits will be discussed tonight when city commissioners assemble for a regular meeting, 7:30 in city hall. Owners of horses and other live stock are expected toexpress their views and objections. In other action, the board will hear a planning commission re port concerning a new city street- improvement policy; discus Bend's dilapidated buildings, and consider an offer of assistance on street Improvements made last week by the Deschutes County Court REPLACEMENT SET SALEM (UPI) The House voted Tuesday afternoon to allow Douglas County to replace its present county court with a board of county commiuioneri. 1 flicking his tail. Mother Drops Knitting Cooper's mother, Mrs. Hattie Cooper, dropped a green afghan she was knitting at Tecumseh, Okla., as she watched her son's ascent on television. Tears came into her eyes and she went Into the kitchen to compose herself. 1 know Gordon was happy," his mother said. "No liftoff ever looked so good. I dreaded this takeoff." Cooper's two aged grandmoth ers also followed his flight by television and radio in Oklahoma. Cooper's mother decided to handle relations with the press, rather than use a go-between as Cooper's wife used Schwartz. Europe sees TV pictures of launching By United Press International Television viewers on two con tinents saw astronaut L. Gordon Cooper soar into orbit today. Americans, President Kennedy included, watched the Air Force major blasted into space on in stantaneous live telecasts from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and within a few hours millions of Europeans also saw the liftoff in a video taped transmission across the At lantic via Relay satellite. Other millions in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa followed the early stages of Cooper's orbit al mission on radio. His flight was covered minute-by-minute in some European countries and on the U.S. armed forces worldwide ra dio network. Pictures of the launch and other activities at Cape Canaveral were beamed to a 12-nation European network in a six-minute transmis sion via Relay, beginning at 9:25 a.m. pdt, when the satellite made its first usable pass after liftoff. "The pictures were of excellent quality," European technicians reported to the National Aeronau tics and Space Administration. From tlie British ground station at Goonhilly Downs, the Relay tele cast was transmitted on landline to a European network stretching from Spain to Finland and In cluding four Communist countries. Another transmission to Europe via Relay was scheduled between 3:55 and 4:17 p.m. pdt today and telecast by Telstar-2 was to follow an hour and a half later. On the inside General news 2, 3 Editorial page 4 Sports 8, 9 Comics 10 Classified 11
