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Pair through Thursday In Can
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High yesterday, U degrees.
Low last night, 40 degrees.
Sunset today, 1:11. Sunrise to
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60th Year
Twelve Pages
Wednesday, August 14, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 212
pemmmxsiyifal need noted
i Vote due Thursday
on COD hospital
I expansion program
By Lucille Jordan
Bulletin Staff Writer
REDMOND Fate of Central
Oregon District Hospital's long-hoped-for
expansion program will
again be placed in the hands of
district voters tomorrow at an
election in Redmond City Hall.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m.
until 8 p.m.
Decision to resubmit the pro
posed bond issue of $390,000 was
made after a study by the board
and a citizens' building commit
tee. The previous proposal, de
feated by only 39 votes, listed a
figure of $410,000, but $4500 has
been paid the architect for pre
liminary work; the hospital has
accumulated a $24,000 building
fund, and $9500 has been spent on
equipment listed in the previous
proposal (an inter-com sys
tem, doctors' call board and fire
alarm system).
Lengthy study has been given
possibility of cutting back the pro
posed construction, revising or
programming the project on a
progressive basis, but, because all
such projects must meet require
ments set up by the State Board
of Health, it was found that such
changes would not be financially
or physically feasible.
Immediate Start Sought
Both the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals and the
Oregon State Board of Health
have recommended that the pro
gram be started immediately.
COD Hospital received its long-
worked for accreditation last
April, along with the recommend
7 ation from the commission that
"Plans for new const ruction
should be continued to relieve the
overcrowding noted in many
areas and to provide more ade
quate facilities for the various de
partments of the hospital."
According to Fred Baer, hospit
al administrator, the construction
would solve several urgent prob
lems: Consolidate the maternity
department into one unit; provide
a complete pediatric section; pro
vide surgical recovery rooms, a
minor surgery room, a confer
ence room, office for director of
Seat belt clinic
set by Jaycees
Bend Jaycees will sponsor an
other in a series of seat belt clin
ics in Bend on Saturday, August
24, Dallas Merchant, chairman
for the program announced today.
The seat belts will be sold on
the parking lot between the police
station from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30
p.m. Costs of the belts installed
is $5.50. Anyone having a question
regarding the clinic may call Mer
chant at 382-1511.
DOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Press Intematiional
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 714.95, up 3.82: 20
railroads 170.9k off 1.29; 15 utili
ties 143.41, off 0.31, and 65 stocks
257.35, up 0.21.
Sales today were about 4.42 mil
lion shares compared with 4.45
million shares Tuesday.
BE IN
YOUR HOME
BEFORE
SCHOOL
STARTS
See all the home
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of today's
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nurses, mental unit, physical ther
apy unit and more bed space.
Estimated cost of the project
has been set at $24.53 per square
foot, including all furniture and
equipment for the new depart
ments. The new addition would
cover 13,513 square feet. Includ
ed in the figure is cost of remodel
ing 1739 square feet of the exist
ing structure.
Since Central Oregon District
Hospital opened its doors in Aug
ust, 1952, there have been 26,379
in-patients and 3465 births. There
have been no maternal or surgi
cal deaths. Records show that
the hospital, in a year's time, has
treated as many car accident pa
tients as some of the larger hos
pitals in metropolitan areas.
The number of out patients
treated in August, 1962, was 549
per cent higher than the number
treated in August, 1952, Baer
said. There were 22 per cent more
in-patients and 19 per cent more
newborns.
Major share of the increase in i
out-patients is due, Baer said, to ;
availability of more diagnostic i
tests in both the laboratory and
the x-ray departments, plus in-!
crease in industrial, highway and
home accidents and an increase
by one-third of the area's popula
tion in the past 11 years.
Surveys Made
On several occasions, Baer said,
governmental and industrial
agents have made a survey ot tne
hospital to determine if facilities
are adequate to handle an influx
of population if new industries
should locate in the area-. Ade
quacy of hospital facilities, along
with-schools and recreation areas,
plays a major role in final de
cisions on new industrial loca
tions, the agents told Baer.
Despite location of Hospitals in
anv area. Baer said, freedom of
choice always will play a part in
the picture. A high percentage ot
COD's patient load comes from
out of the district, but, on the oth
er hand, some district residents
prefer to go to other cities.
"This is as it should be," Baer
said.. "Some feel that a hospital
in Madras would make expansion
here unnecessary. A great many
thought St. Charles in Bend would
suffer when COD opened, but St.
Charles has built three additions
in the past ten years.
Influx Continues
"Despite what happens in Ma
dras," he continued, "the influx
of population in our own area con
tinues and I'm sure the hospital
would continue to be overcrowd
ed. It would take two years for a
complete hospital to be construct
ed and equipped after all prelimi
naries are completed. We are des
perately in need of more facilities
now."
Baer said the new wing would
ho tmiIv for use nine months after
groundbreaking. Total value of
the present plant and equipment
is an excess of one million dol
lars, accordine to the 1962 audit,
Eiehty-four people, most of them
women, are on the payroll. If the
new wing is constructed, the pay
roll would be increased to about
92. Baer said.
West Coast
drops flights
till Sept. 1
West Coast Airlines today sus
pended its operations out of the
Redmond Air Base, with no furth
er flights planned until September
1.
Reason given for the discontinu
ance of service was the need for
the repair of equipment, and tlie
lack of equipment to carry jut
schedules.
Flights have been intermittent
for the past several days.
There was no advance an
nouncement of plans for the can
cellation of all flights until Sep
tember 1, and the information
was not available here this morn
ing until a local resident called
the Redmond airport to make res
ervations. This past week, a radical
change in flight service out of
Redmond was announced. .
Agreement set
for federal
CD supervision
Deschutes county's Civil De
fense organization, along with
those of five other Oregon coun
ties, will be administered by the
federal government through the
state CD agency, if a plan draft
ed yesterday is approved by Gov
ernor Mark Hatfield.
The federal government, which
refused matching funds for the
cut-down state agency, tentative
ly agreed to provide supervision
for the six county civil defense
programs. A day-long meeting
was held Tuesday between Rob
ert W. Sandstrom, state" CD di
rector, and two federal officials.
Cole Sullivan, federal field rep
resentative for Oregon, and Dan
Campbell, region eight federal fi
nancial assistance officer, met
with Sandstrom.
Back In Budget
The Deschutes county Civil De
fense program, first scrapped by
the budget committee, was put
back in the budget at a continued
public hearing. It was first
thought that the county program
would be on a strictly county-federal
basis.
County Judge D. L. Penhollow
said today that the county will
discontinue obtaining surplus
property under the Civil Defense
program, so if a future budget
committee decides to eliminate
the program, it will be easier to
do so. Surplus property thus ac
quired must be returned, if a
county drops its Civil Defense
program.
The 1963 legislature slashed the
state CD organization from an 18
member agency to a three-member
coordinating staff. As a re
sult, federal matching funds were
withdrawn from the state agen
cy. A subsequent attempt to get
an additional $50,000 appropriation
was turned down by the State
Emergency Board, made up of
legislatures.
Tentative Approval
Also given tentative approval
yesterday in Salem were the use
of National Guard trucks and per
sonnel to stock fallout shelters,
continued operation of the state
communications center in the
basement of the capitol building,
and continued radiological moni
toring and training.
Sandstrom said he expected to
have the recommendations writ
ten and ready for submission to
the governor later this week.
MASON RESIGNS
COTTAGE GROVE (UPI)
Donald Mason, manager of the
Chamber of Commerce at Cottage
Grove, has resigned to accept a
similar position at Chehalis,
Wash.. Sept 1.
Preliminary tests
Lunar group
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
I A long lava tube io the rugged
i country northeast of Fort Rock
; today was the scene of prehmi
I nary tests which may be the key
to survival for the first American
, spacemen landing on the moon.
The cavern is the Derrick Cave,
i on Bureau of Land Management
land. Gathered there were North
i American Aviation personnel, a
' lunar geologist, a representative
I of the Oregon Department of Plan
I ning and Development and a Pa-
cific Northwest Bell official.
I Over the area today or later
Lack of funds
forces move,
pay cuts set
SALEM (UPI) -Layoff of 100
State Department of Employment
employes and cuts in pay for all
remaining employees was order
ed today.
As part of the cutback, branch
offices in Oceanlake, Mt. Angel
and Mt. Shasta, Calif., and Her
miston have been closed, and oth
er branch offices are being put on
a short day.
The cutbacks resulted because
of the failure of congress to pro
vide funds, department officials
said. The department was granted
an advance allotment for the first
quarter, pending approval by Con
gress of the normal money allot
ment. The cutback became neces
sary when a directive was Issued
restricting expenditures for the
quarter to the amount included in
the advance allotment.
Involved is about $1.1 million
dollars in federal money each
quarter.
Commissioner David H. Camer
on said he did not know how long
the emergency would last.
"Congress Has Failed"
"We operate on federal funds,
and Congres has failed to provide
the money, so we'll just have to
get along on what we have.
He said remaining employes
would be asked to take a one-step
cut in pay during the emergency.
The 100 employes who were laid
off are scattered throughout the
state.
About 650 employes would be
affected by the pay cuts.
The department has protested
the lack of funds to Sen. Wayne
Morse, D-Ore., and Rep. Al UU-
man, D-Ore. UUmaa is on the
House Appropriations Committee.
Other members of the congres
sional delegation also were noti
fied. Cameron pointed out that the of
fices closures come at a time
when farmers need workers to
harvest the peak late summer
crops and food processors are re
opening to process these crops.
'It also comes at a time when
much hiring is done through em
ployment service offices for the
back-to-school boost m business,
and at the very peak of the tour
ist season," Cameron noted.
He said the department oper
ates entirely on federal appropria
tions. He said that in addition to
the fact that Congres had failed
to appropirate money for this
quarter, budget cuts for fiscal
1964 are forecast.
Cohen severely
beaten by fellow
prison inmate
ATLANTA, Ga. (UPIt-Racka-teer
Meyer (Mickey) Cohen, 49,
was severely beaten with a pipe
today by a fellow inmate at the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
Cohen's condition was described
by the Justice Department in
Washington as "very serious"
and Warden E. M. Heritage said
a neurologist was examining he
California mobster who was serv
ing a 15-year term for tax evasion.
The Justice Department said
Cohen was attacked by an inmate
with a record as a mental patient
who struck Cohen on the head
with a length of pipe.
Heritage said Cohen, transfer
red to the Atlanta prison from
Alcatraz earlier this year, was
struck "two or three licks."
Both Heritage and FBI sources
said they did not think the at
tack bad any gangster connec
tions.
begin
will be flown a plane carrying
instruments, to determine the pos
sibility of locating caverns and
fumaroles from an aircraft.
Members of the group confer
red here this morning with the
Bend Chamber of Commerce in
dustrial committee. On Tuesday,
Dr. Jack Green, North American
Aviation geologist, spoke before
members of the Bend Lions Club
to explain the purpose of the Cen
tra Oregon cave studies.
Dr. Green said various types of
rock are being collected in the
area, to determine water content
that will serve as a standard for
Increased
mm
in
Ul
YARD-WIDE HOLE City crews are pictured working on a yard-wide trench along Bond
Street' for a new 12-inch water main. The original pipe was installed in 1921. Crews are
expected to complete the Greenwood to Franklin project in about one month. '
Bend Post Office
to end Saturday
window service
Effective on August 24, Satur
day window service at the Bend
Post Office will be halted, in
keeping with a national trend,
Postmaster Farley J. Elliott has
announced.
The Post Office presently re
mains open three and a Halt
hours on Saturday, in the morn
ing. This necesitatcs a stagger
ing of hours of workers who are
on a 40 hour week. Under the
new plan, members of the postal
crew will work five full days a
week, not four full days and two
half days as at present.
Elliott said there will be no cur
tailment of Saturday box service
or carrier delivery. Arrangements
for the distribution at the rear of
the Post Office for firms expect
ing Saturday packages have been
made. Stamp machines will be
available in the lobby, and the
Brandis substation will be in oper
ation for those wishing to mail
packages Saturday.
Pilot programs in the Saturday
closing of Post Offices have been
underway across the nation for
some time. Locally, a survey was
made to determine the number of
offices and firms closed on Satur
day. Postmaster Elliott said the
list is surprisingly long.
studying
investigations prior to the attempt
ed lunar landings. Also, he said
the morphology of lava tubes is
being studied, to determine what
protection such tubes, if they
exist on the moon, could provide
for earthmen.
To create an artifical density,
two tons of old railroad steel is
to be bundled and taken well back
into Derrick Cave. An attempt
will later be made to locate this
steel from the surface, through
magnet and gravity testing
equipment.
Later, a Pacific Northw est
Bell plane will be flown over the
wages, benefits due
n
Fraud charged
Federal suit filed
against Inn owners
PORTLAND (UPI) The gov
ernment today filed a complaint
against owners of the Pilot Butte
Inn In Bend charging a fraudulent
mortgage transfer. :
The lengthy complaint, filed in
Federal Court, claimed that Wil
liam and Gertrude Crobett paid
One Siamese
twin succumbs
LOS ANGELES (UPI) One
of the Siamese twin boys born
to a 16-year-old Glendale, Calif.,
motRer last Saturday died early
today from an infection of the
blood stream.
Daniel Bartlcy was separated
from his brother, David, Sunday
in a delicate three-hour operation
at Children's Hospital.
David, who has not shown
symptoms of the infection which
took his brother's life, was re
ported still on the critical list but
"holding his own.'
The Infants were joined from
the breastbone to the navel when
they were delivered to Rebecca
Bartley at Glendale Hospital.
Their combined weight was 14
pounds, 4 ounces.
Air
area, to make aerial tests in lo
cating the cave and its "density
anomaly" created there through
use of the steel. First tests in
locating the cave will be from
the ground.
The plane will also carry temp
erature measuring devices, for a
study of the possibility of locat
ing temperature zones. A flight is
planned over Newberry crater,
where there are soma "hot
spots."
Dr. Green, who holds that vol
camsm, not meteor impact, was
the dominant factor in creating
the moon rugged surface, be
feaCIHMl.
noDHDibeir tap
off a $279,000 mortgage in Decem
ber of 1955 and then had a false
mortgage assigned to a company
set up to defeat government liens.
The complaint alleged that when
the government attempted to fore
close on the liens, the company
Dickcrson, Inc., moved in and
claimed prior right under the
mortgage.
The government charged that as
a result of the mortgage transac
tion a fraud was perpetrated on
it and the Deschutes County Cir
cuit Court which foreclosed on the
alleged second mortgage Nov. 12,
1958.
The government also alleged the
Corbctts transferred title of the
Inn to their five children to de
feat taxes.
The complaint asked the Feder
al Court to set aside all property
transfers; set aside the Deschutes
court decree, and to foreclose on
the unpaid balance of the federal
tax liens. The government said
liens amounted to about $300,000
when placed in 1955. The com
plaint claimed the unpaid balance
amounts to $132,442.
The complaint also asked a pre
liminary injunction restraining any
further property transfers pending
disposition of the case. Federal
Judge William East set a hearing
for Aug. 26J
survey is planned
Cave
lieves volcanic features will asslii
man in surviving when lunar
landings aie made.
The North American Aviation
lunar geologist believes that 39
major features or phenomena
mav be explained by volcanic pro
cesses and 14 of these may also
be logically explained by meteor
ic impact processes. The re
mainder are explainable by im
pact only if geologically alien me-
said.
Slides were used in connection
with his talk to the Lions.
Only okay
by workers
now needed
PORTLAND (UPI) The Paci
fic Northwest's lengthy lumber
strike was all but over today aft
er negotiators for two striking un
ions and the Big Six employers'
bargaining association agreed on
a contract here Tuesday night.
The three-year agreement be
tween representatives of the In
ternational Woodworkers of Amer
ica (IWA) and tlie Lumber and
Sawmill Workers' (LSW) unions
and the Big Six if ratified by un
ion members would leave only an
estimated 500 men on strike. At
one time about 29,000 were idled.
About 6,400 men have been on
strike since June 5 against two
Big Six companies, St, Regis and
U.S. Plywood. The other lour
members shut down In retaliation
but reopened last week.
The proposed contract, which
calls for a 30',4-cent hourly raise
in wages and benefits during tlie
next three years, will be voted on
this week by IWA and LSW work
ers. Results of the referendum
balloting are expected to be an
nounced Sunday afternoon.
At tlie start of negotiations the
LSW had asked for a 60-cent hour
ly increase and the IWA a 40-cent
hike, both spread over three
years.
Another Meeting Sat
The unions meet here Thursday
afternoon with the 196-member
Timber Operators Council employ
ers' bargaining association. Some
TOC members already have set
tled new contracts.
The contract negotiating session
between tlie unions and the TOC
was scheduled by federal media
tors following the settlement be
tween the IWA-LSW representa
tives and the Big Six officials at
7 p.m. They had met off-and-on
since 9:30 a.m.
The agreement, similar to most
of the lumber contracts approved
previously in the region during the
strike, calls for a 10-cent hourly
pay Increase and a 2-cent hourly
skill differential retroactive to
June 1, an additional 5 cents Dec.
1, 6 cents next June 1, 6 cents
June 1 in 1965 and increased
travel pay for certain woods em
ployes next Jan. 1, averaging Vk
cents an hour.
The two sides also agreed to
form a joint study committee to
look into automation and other
major problems. The Big Six
dropped its demands for a change
in overtime pay for working
weekends.
Hatfield Comments
Gov. Mark Hatfield issued the
following statement after the set
tlement:
The division within the ranks
of management in the lumber in
dustry indicated the delicacy of
issues involved and the various
ways in "which they are affected.
All Oregonians are relieved that
our economy will be restored and
that fire and infestation dangers
will be lessened.
Rather than imposing itself.
government instead participated
through persuasion and counseled
both sides to continue negotiations
in good faith."
If the Big Six contract is rati
fied by union members and it is
expted to be the only major
struck company left would be the
Menasha Plywood division plant
at North Bend where some 325
employes are idle, Tlie Menasha
firm reached agreement in Coos
Bay Tuesday night with the LSW
for woods employes and about 85
loggers will return to work Thurs
day. The plywood division plant
remained closed with further talks
scheduled Thursday afternoon. Al
so still affected are some boom
operations.
Some 14.000 men returned to
work this month at four Big Six
companies following the end of
lockout