ivR SJ Modern-day Tunis stands near the site of ancient Carthage The Bulletin, Saturday, July 20, 1963 MR. AND MRS. JAMES L. CROWELL , Borate plane ready as fire danger rises 'A borate piano was on a stand by basis at the Redmond Air Cen ter Friday, for the first time this season, as the fire hazard in the Deschutes country became acute. The danger due to dry forest debris, temperature and humidity was increased by a predicted 14 mile an hour wind. Forecasters also reported a 30 per cent chance of lightning storms in the area this afternoon, with the danger to increase to 40 per cent by Saturday. Foresters reported two fires, of the "smoke variety, shortly be fore noon. One was in Canyon Creek, In the Mctolius District, and the other was near North Twin Lake. Pilot flies X15 to new altitude record Friday ; EDWARDS AFB. Calif. UPI X1S veteran Joe Walker, 41, the world's fastest flying airplane pilot, Friday Uiundcred the rockot ! ship to a new world aircraft alti tude record of about 67 miles. A spaco agency spokesman told Walker, "You shot way over your mark." The climb into the high reaches ' of space by America's top civilian test pilot surpassed the previous mark of 59.8 miles high set in the X15 last year by Air Force Maj. "Bob White. But it did not make Walker a Ringed astronaut. ' Although his record smashing , flight was his third above tho 50- mile distanco where astronaut 'wings are won, he is not eligible for the honor because of being a "civilian flier. Only military pilots can become U astronauts. ' White, now is flying fighter 'planes, was the nation's first winged astronaut. The only other 1 one is Air Force Mnj. Bub Rush worth, who recently flew the X15 to a height of nearly 55 miles, i Space scientists said today's skyrocketing ascent was to prc , pare Walker for another record 1 altitude run within the next three ! weeks. ' Preliminary figures released by 'the National Aeronautics and Space Administration indicated Walker reached an altitudo of alut 315.000 fuct, compared with the former record of 314,750 feet, and a speed of 3,700 miles an hour more than five times the speed of sound. He soared high enough to view the entire western United States and the fringes of Canada and Mexico. Walker, father of four who has been a test pilot for 18 years, also holds the world airplane speed re cord of 4,104 m.p.h., which he set In the X15 last year. His flight today, which covered a distance of .115 miles in a mere 10 minutes, also was the longest jet in 90 tests of the X15. School owner pleads innocent PORTLAND (DPI) William Gressinger, who operates a school of human relations here, pleaded innocent in Circuit Court Friday to charges of conducting a school without a license. Gressinger Is accused of oper ating the school which conducted sales promotion and personality development courses, after its li cense was revoked by Hie Oregon Department of Education. I James Crowd wife, visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Leroy Crowd!, married recently in Sa lem, have been visiting in Bend this week. They will return Sun day to Portland, whore Crowell is a copy editor on The Oregonian Staff. He is the son of Mrs. Roy Crowell, 1004 Federal Street Tho bride, the former Judith Marie Baker, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Baker, Sa lem. The wedding was June 15 at tho Westminster United Presby terian Church in Salem. The Rev. John O. Najarlan of ficiated, assisted by the Rev. Al bert J. Wilson of Bremerton, Wash. Miss Ann Mackey, Bend, was ono of the bride's three attend ants. Richard Cannon, formerly of Bend and now of Portland, was one of the ushers. At the reception in the church parlors, Mrs. Kosslor Cannon, Bond, was one of the pourers. Prisoner pleads innocent to escape charge WALLA WALLA (UPI) - Rex Don Stamps, 25, pleaded innocent in Walla Walla County Superior Court Friday to charges of escap ing from the state penitentiary and committing armed robbery as he fled from the area. Stamps, a former Oregon State University basketball player, and John Eborlein, 26, Albuquerque, N. Mex., escaped from the mini mum security section of the Wash ington State Prison May 12. They were accused of entering the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson several miles away May 14 and tying up the couple before leaving with Johnson's wallet and pickup truck. The truck later was found In Spokane, Wash., where a holdup was committed by men matching their description early May 15. Tho two were captured in Kan sas City, Mo., June 5 after police fired several shots, wounding F.bcrlcin. Ebcrlcin remained in Kansas City to face an armed robbery charge. Both men had been sentenced to the state penitentiary from King County on robbery convic tions. Thoy had been due lor pa rolo this year. Stamps alse is an ex Albany High School basketball star. District court levies 2 fines Two Bend men recently paid fines in Deschutos County Dis trict Court. Max Walter Sanderson was fin ed $15 for violation of the basic rule. Keith Burkrum Byers, also of Bend, was arrested for failure to transfer title within 10 days. He was fined J 10. A Spingfield woman, Ivah Le- ona Hitch, was arrested tor im proper passing. She was fined $10. TRACTORS BREAK DOWN VIENNA (UPI) More than 1.500 tractors in Communist Bul garia are out of commission at the height of the harvesting sea son because of a scarcity of spare parts, according to the Bulgarian nespa)er Rabotnltshosko Delo. The newspaper, which arrived here Friday, said a number of fac tories failed to deliver parts in time for the harvest and that even when they did the parts were of such poor quality that the tractors broke down again in a few days. By Mlchatl Dtur UPI Staff Wrlftr TUNIS, Tunisia (UPI) A city that stood here was once described as "after Rome, the busiest and most corrupt center of the West." The city was Carthage and It was a Roman governor, who so described it almost 1,200 years ago. Carthage was already 1,600 years old. Modern buildings rise now from the Roman baths to look over the Mediterranean towards Italy. Freighters and oilers push through nearby waters, once the domain of the - Barbary Coast pirates. The Phoenicians, sailing west from what now is Lebanon found ed Carthage about 800 B.C. Through the next 2,700 years Ro mans, Arabs, Turks and French claimed the area. Spain made a pass at It In the 16th Century and the British controlled the seas around it 300 years later. The Allies drove the German army from Tunisia Into the Medi terranean In World War II. From this battering of cultures a predominantly Arab state arose to independence In 1957. A poor country by American and Euro pean standards, Tunisia is neu tral, pro-West and proud. Tunisia is an agricultural coun try. Much of the land, though fertile, is underdeveloped. The country covers 48,332 square miles, a little less than North Carolina and a little more than Indiana. It is half-way between the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal and, with Sicily, forms the barrier between the eastern and western Medterranean. Tuni sia's 900 miles of coastline gave It economic and political import ance hundreds of years ago. Tunisia is the smallest of the north African states in area, sand wiched between the Mediterran ean on the north and east, Libya to the south and Algeria to the west. There are 4,255,000 persons liv ing in Tunisia, about the same number as in Missouri. About 4 million of these are Tunisian Moslems. The remainder are Eu ropeans, mostly French and Ital ians, Jews and "foreign" Mos lems. The native Tunisian is either Arab or Berber, a fairer people than the Arabs. The country became autono mous March 20, 1956, after re ceiving increasing self-government measures from France since 1947, She became a full-fledged republic one year later undc President Habib Bourguiba. Bourguiba was re-elected presi dent In 1959 for a five-year term. The president's Neo-Destour or new constitution party is tne only ono in the country since the Communists were banned Jan. 1, 1963. Internationally, Tunisia belongs to the growing group of "neutral ist" or non-aligned nations the young emerging countries of Af rica and Asia who put their re spective developments before membership In cither of the world's power blocs. North Africans, particularly. with their history of colonial domination, see identification with Oregon man killed in France ORLEANS, France (UPI) A former Oregon man has been killed in an automobile accident near here and his wife remained in a coma. Dead is Major Edgar Darroll Crawford, 48, an Air Force me teorologist. His wife, Clco, was re ported in serious condition. The couple's four children, Su san, 15; Danny, 13; Sarah, 11, and Laurel, 7, were passengers in tho auto but suffered only bruises. Major Crawford was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Crawford of Portland. A graduate of Pacific University, he taught high school at Maupin before the war. Girls to compete for queen title Sptclal to Th Bulletin FORT ROCK Four North Lake County misses will vie Sun day for the title of queen of the second annual Christmas Valley rodeo to be held Saturday and Sunday, July 27-28. Contestants are Marilyn Ward, Fort Rock, who will be a senior at Bend High next year; Velma Roper, Summer Lake, to enter her junior year at Paisley; Janice Foster, Summer Lake, to be a senior at Paisley and her sister, Terry Ann who will be a fresh man at Oregon Stale University. Judging will be at 2 p.m. July 21 at the Christmas Valley arena, with Red Withers, Pais ley: Mel Hosebrook, Silver Lake and R. A. Long of Fort Rock as judges. Horsemanship will count 60 per cent and personality 40 per ct..l. The young ladles and the judges, with their wives, will be cnter taftied at dinner Sunday evening at Christmas Valley Lodge where the queen will be announced. The other three contestants will serve as princesses. the Communists or the West as submitting to "neo-colonialism." Tunisia is a "young" country. More than half its population is under 19 years of age. Arabic is the national and of ficial language although most educated Tunisians also speak French. Schooling Is obligatory up to the equivalent of the ninth grade. For higher education, there is the Moslem University of Zitouna in Tunis and the Institute of Ad vanced Studies. These will be in corporated into a new Tunisian university within six years. Students wishing to study abroad are encouraged by gov ernment grants. Many of the civil servants were educated in France, for instance. Geographically, Tunisia Is mountainous, fertile and fairly well watered. On the coast, the climate is temperate. Inland, in the Atlas Mountains, soft Medi terranean breezes give way to whipping winds, like Upper Mich igan on a November day. The Tunsian Sahara occupies the whole of the southern divi sion of Tunisia. But it is not all desert. Mountains, in the south east, reach more than 4,000 feet and vegetation is abundant. Rainfall averages about 22 inches a year compared to slight ly more than seven inches In Arizona and 43 in New York. In the Tunisian Sahara rainfall is uneven. Two or three years may pass with none, then there may be violent floods and storms. Besides agriculture, which em ploys more than 80 per cent of the work force, Tunisia also has minerals lead, phosphates and zinc. Since Independence her light industry, mostly fertilizers, car pets and shoes, has increased. So have her tourists. But the country is poor. More than one-third of her population earns less than $37 annually. People at this level would be farm laborers and peasants liv ing in primitive conditions in the country on a diet of bread and dishes made from rice, oats and barley. At a higher level there are people like Amer Ben Khaimas, a railway office clerk, who earns about $1,200 a year. He repre sents the growing lower middle class as Tunisia becomes industrialized. Amer, 37, his wife Lallah and their three children share a three room apartment with a kitchen and bathroom overlooking the sea in Tunis. The apartment is immaculate, but lightly furnished like most homes in hot countries. It has a small patio where the family oft en sits after the evening meal. Amer and Lallah pay six dinars a month for rent. Most of the rest of his salary goes for clothes for himself and food. Ho is also buying a German-made radio on time and putting some money away. A national health program pays doctor and hospital bills. As the world shrinks in the air age, Tunisia is discovering her potential as a tourist attraction. Hotels rise above spectacular stretches of white sand. Their Moorish arches, patios, fountains and mosaics blend with the surf, palm tree and cactus. Fifty miles southeast of Tunis is Hammamet, the best-developed holiday spot in the country. The ornate houses and swimming pools of European colonial of ficials have been replaced by ho tels and motels against the back ground of orango and lemon groves. Tunisia Is encouraging foreign firms to build hotels and is al ready developing tourist regions itself. xy - ' 1 Iff . ' ' i :i ft x 'JWm f .-x I J L . j - g-ffni im ... Hfrffl, hi a 5" mi, litii x" qM., i ilM 1- n Hum PLOTTING '63 CAMPAIGN United Fund officers and unit Hudson, (center), this year's vice president end campaign co-chairmen scan campaign figures in preparation for drive chairman, are Wayne Thompson (left) and Glenn Ratcliff, unit scheduled to open in September. Sitting are R. G. McFarland, co-chairmen. Fund personnel are meeting twice weekly now to UF president and Mrs. Don Koho, secretary. Flanking W. A. map strategy in reaching prescribed $35,200 goal. Parents, teachers have headed school integration in South By Al Kuettner UPI Staff Writer As racial segregation barriers have toppled in school districts of the South, grassroots citizens' organizations spearheaded by par ents and teachers often have paved the way for a peaceful transition. Since the days of the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock six years ago, the local action groups have had their fling at the civil rights is sue. Their names have become staccato symbols of the problem. SOS. ABLE. OASIS. HOPE. Those were the trademarks for Heavy smokers run cancer risk PORTLAND (UPD Those who smoke cigarettes heavily run 50 times the chance of dying from cancor of the lung as those who are not heavy smokers, the presi dent of the American Cancer So ciety has predicted. Dr. I. S. Ravdin, a renowned surgeon, told members of the Portland City Club Friday that he defines heavy smoking as con suming more than half a pack of cigarettes a day. Tho doctor, who referred to cig arettes as "coffin nails," stressed that no patient has ever been cured of cancer by a patent medi cine. FAILS TO FOIL THEFT EDMOND, Okla. (UPD Charles McChan padlocked his 12-foot boat to a tree with an unbreak able chain over the weekend. He returned Friday to find that thieves had felled the tree and made off with the boat, chain and padlock. UlSLUOnGER s. RmiDLDS INC. tyiinemlDirectors PAUL REYNOLDS DIRECTOR fa ll!emk lHt ORPIR OFlHt cotDtn sin However You Wish Any family wishing to do so may pay for our services over an extended period of time. This fact, coupled with the moderate cost of our service, means that families from all walks of life may call us with confidence. Hill AT IRVING AVENUE BEND. OREGON parents who banded together to insure continuing classes in the face of hometown integration. A new group in Birmingham has joined the others. Held First Meeting The organization is known as PEP for "Public Education Peace fully." It held its first meeting Tuesday night in Birmingham, which has been ordered to sub mit a school desegregation plan in August. J. Vernon Patrick, an attorney who lives "over the mountain" in the residential suburb of Vestavia, presided in a courtroom on the third floor of the Jefferson Coun ty Courthouse. With him up front were six or seven PEP leaders who had hoped to attract a crowd sympathetic to keeping schools open, even if desegregated. A crowd of approximately 350 packed the courtroom, spilling in to tile balcony. They carried pla cards with such remarks as "Bir mingham Betrayed But Not Beaten." Patrick and his PEP group tried to talk about schools but it did not go well. Ralph Edwards, a steel mill worker who identified himself to the crowd as a "red neck," told Patrick to "sit down, you don't even live in Birming ham." . Patrick Was Ignored Patrick's group had brought a projector and a documentary film about how Dallas, Tex., had peacefully d e s e gr e g a t e d its schools. The chairman asked someone in the back room to turn out the lights so the film could get started. He was ignored. The meeting finally broke up without any action. Outside seg regationist pickets paraded around the courthouse. Another Alabama grassroots ses sion went into action with better success. This was "Alabamians Behind Local Education" (ABLE) at Mobile, which also has been ordered to desegregate schools. The group was promptly designat ed as ABLE. An ABLE announcement said that "whatever our feeling on this issue, Mobilians must stand together again to preserve the school system for which we have worked and paid taxes." A delegation from Atlanta's "Help Our Public Education" (HOPE) and an "Organization for Assisting the Schools in Septem ber" (OASIS) went to Mobile re cently to confer and give advice. Mobile was following much of the Atlanta plan. "Save Our Schools" In New Orleans, a similar group was called "Save Our Schools" (S O-Sl. Jacksonville, Fla., picked the title of "Aid September Stu dents in Sensible Transition" (ASSIST). Five such groups were active in Virginia. Basically, the activities of cfl the groups were the same pro viding speakers for civic and com munity clubs and PTA meetings and lobbying before legislatures and local government bodies. They have worked to encourage discus sion of the problem. They have helped school and police officials in spotting and ironing out diffi culties before, during and after the transition. Mrs. Dan Burge, of Atlanta, a HOPE leader who went to Mo bile, said "We found there a group that didn't want to over turn tho community but simply wanted to prepare for this thing in a calm and intelligent way. They didn't want to bypass any thing except racial misunderstanding." CONCRETE WORK Grading, farms, finishing FREE ESTIMATES FINANCING AVAILABLE LYLE GARRISON 382-219? v.o Date: July 26, 27 & 28 Place: Drake Park W Time: Dusk Event: Bend Water Pageant PLEASE ATTEND THE B C CAFE Corner of 3rd & Franklin r ( iA . www ; i f, ft. :4 I, , Take A Trip To Mt. 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