The Bulletin. (Bend, OR) 1963-current, August 15, 1963, Page 1, Image 1

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Moon bhm at
PrinevoIIe burns Kresse fflofioirs
Weather
High yesterday, 78 digrtii.
Low latt night, 36 degrees. Sun
set today, 8:10. Sunrise tomor
row, e:09, PDT. Fair in Centra
Oregon, but with some high
clouds.
The IBuililietin
SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
60th Year Twenty-Four Paget
Thursday, August 15, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 213
Scotland Yard cracks
mail train
at
case,
least five arrested
Some money
reportedly
is recovered
LONDON (UPI) - Scotland
Yard today cracked the $7.1 mil
lion mail train robbery case
one week to the day after it oc
curred. The police arrested Uiree men
and two women and it was unof
ficially reported that about $280,
000 of the . loot was re
covered. Unconfirmed reports
said eight other persons were
taken into custody. None were
Identified.
An official police announcement
said two of the men were seized
''for complicity in the mail rob
bery." They were arrested at Bourne
mouth, a seaside resort, less
than 100 miles from the place in
Buckinghamshire where a gang
of bandits hi-jacked a royal mail
train last Thursday and made off
with 120 bags containing 2',4 tons
of worn, but valid, pound notes.
Both men, according to the po
tlce. put up a struggle and had
to be subdued by arresting of
ficers. About 100,000 pounds
($280,000) was reportedly found
in two cars they had.
The other suspects a man and
two women were arrested in
raids on London homes by Scot
land Yard's "flying squad" of
detectives, but the police made no
formal announcement about them.
It was reported that about 500
pounds ($1,400) was recovered in
those raids.
A London newspaper (Evening
Standard) reported that another
man was arrested in Surrey and
that he was carrying 200.000
pounds ($560,000) of the record
loot. It said that the ruspect was
taken into custody at a house not
farm from the East Molesey police
station.
The money found in the pos
session of the two men arrested at
Bournemouth was said to be in
old notes, similar to the bills
which British banks had placed
on the train so that they could
be taken to London, de
stroyed, and replaced by new
currency.
A police source in the resort
city said the arrests followed a
tip from an unidentified woman
who became suspicious when the
men asked for rooms at, her
boarding house.
Biggest Break
The arrests appeared to be the
biggest break so far in police at
tempts to solve the daring rob
bery a week ago of the Glasgow
London mail train near Chedding
ton. The arrests followed the dis
covery Tuesday of the gang's
abandoned hideout a 200-year-old
farm near the village of Oak
ley in Buckinghamshire. Empty
mail sacks and half-eaten meals
indicated the gang had fled the
farm m a hurry.
Police at Bournemouth said the
two men were being questioned
by Det. Supt. Malcolm Fewtrell,
head of the Buckinghamshire
Criminal Investigation Division,
and Det. Supt. Gerald McArthur
of Scotland Yard.
Bournemouth is a popular re
sort 107 miles southwest of Lon
don. It is about 92 miles south of
the robbery scene.
Search Widespread
As the two men were being
questioned, police scoured the
country for additional clues to
the whereabouts of the gang and
the record cash loot.
New raids were carried out in
the London area Wednesday
night, and a large dossier of
clues taken from the farmhouse
near Oakley was being studied
minutely.
A senior Scotland Yard officer
said Wednesday night police
No developments
in death probe,
State Police say
The Investigation into the death
of Philip G. Reinhardt, 72, whose
body was found in the North Unit
canal northwest of Smith Rock,
continued today, but, Oregon
State Police reported, there are
no developments.
Earlier, officers said It appear
ed the well-to-do Powell Butte
rancher had been killed by a blow
on the head before his body
reached the canal, possibly at
some point west of Powell Butte.
Reinhardt left his home in the
moonlight on Monday, August 5.
Ten days later, the body of the
missing man was found entang
led in a fence across the main
North Unit Canal northeast of
Trail Crossing.
Quarterly visit
of Bloodmobile
due next week
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
make its quarterly visit to Cen
tral Oregon next week. It will be
in Bend Wednesday, August 21,
at the Elks Temple, and in Red
mond Thursday, August 22, at
Westminster Hall. The Redmond
visit is a change from the usual
Tuesday.
Quotas will be the usual 200
pints for Bend and 100 pints for
Redmond. Hours will be from 1:15
to 5:45 p.m. Wednesday in Bend,
and from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday
in Redmond.
Immediately preceding each of
the Bloodmobues will be special
drawings for open heart surgery
operations which will take place
in Portland the following days.
The blood drawn at the special
Youlou quits
in face of
howling mob
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (UPI)-
President Fulbert Youlou re
signed today in tiie face of a
howling mob which besieged his
; palace and screamed or his
ouster.
A Congolese army announce
ment said the army seized power
in this former French colony fol
lowing Youlou's resignation.
The unfrocked former Roman
Catholic priest who still calls him
self "abbe," quit after three days
of demonstrations and violence in
which at least five persons were
reported killed.
The army said the 46-ycar-old
Youlou signed his resignation at
1 p.m. and said it would remain
in power until a new cabinet is
formed.
(Authoritative sources in Wash
ington said the Congolese army
totals 700 men and the gendar
merie 500.)
The resignation came as an es
timated 10,000 persons chanted
demands outside the heavily
guarded palace that Youlou quit.
A spokesman for the French
forces here said Youlou's resig
nation has terminated the mili
tary support given him by mem
bers of the 2,000-man French
army garrison at the start of the
anti-government riots Tuesday.
The rioting was started when
an estimated 3,000 trade union
members marched on the city
jail in an attempt to free two of
their leaders.
They burned and looted the jail,
freed all the prsoners, burned
! down the television station and
looted private homes of several
government ministers.
When the demonstrations con-
drawing in Bend will be for a 33- tinned Wednesday, Youlou fired
year-old woman; that at Redmond
for a 47-year-old man.
The blood will be flown to Port
land by the Civil Air Patrol both
days.
Donors for these special draw
ings will be called by phone from
a list of donors who have the
same type blood as the patient to
be operated on, and from those
who, because they have not do
nated for more than a year, are
not classed as regular donors.
Use of regular donors, it was
pointed out, would jeopardize the
success of the regular drawings.
"If only one pint is missing, the
operation cannot take place," said
Mrs. Clare T. Taylor, executive
secretary of the Deschutes county
Red Cross chapter.
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Fire cuts off
phone service
in Crook city
By Phil P. Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
A fire that destroyed Kresse
Motor Co. in downtown Prineville
at noon today and threatened oth
er buildings in the downtown area
temporarily isolated the Crook
County city from the outside
world.
Cables from the nearby tele
phone building were ' urned and
all connections with outside points
were destroyed. Early this after
noon it was still impossible to
reach Prineville by telephone.
The flames for a time threaten
ed to spread to adjacent build
ings in the downtown area. A
great cloud of smoke rolled up
from the burning building and
was spotted at distant points by
forest lookouts.
Preliminary word from Prine
ville, via short wave radio, indi
cated that the fire was controlled
shortly after the noon hour. The
management announced that the
his cabinet members and was re
ported trying to form a new gov
ernment when he was forced to
quit
The rioters had demanded that
Youlou give up his plan for a one
party system, end alleged nepto
iism in government and include
trade union representatives in the
regime.
Only 3 fires
on Wednesday
By United Press International
Only three fires were reported
on state protected forest and
rangclands in Oregon Wednesday.
All three were man caused.
I Largest of the fires was a 40
DOW JONES AVERAGES acre grass blaze eight miles south
By United Press International j of La Grande. Officials said it re
Dow Jones final stock averages: i suited from debris burning, and
BIS DAY APPROACHING Six-year-old Amy Hayes bones up for the biggest event, so
far, in her young lifa tha opening of school. Amy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forn B.
Hayes, 1437 Davenport Avenue, will be a first grader. Bulletin Photo by Nats Bull)
mmmmmmimmism Merchants Set promotion itwrnwjammmm
Schools here open September 9
building would be rebuilt.
Preliminary reports indicated
that no one was injured.
Ten cars were destroyed, re
ports indicated. The Kresse Mo
tor Co. is dealer for the Chevro
let, Buick and Pontiac cars.
The building was diagonialy
across from the bank building. An
erratic breeze caused firemen
some difficulty, according to pre
liminary reports.
First knowledge here that a fire
was raging in Prineville came
when attempts were made to put
telephone calls through. Person
nel at the Bend office of the Pa
cific Northwest Bell then report
ed that cables had been burned
by a fire.
Oregon Stale Police were able
to make some contacts with the
area.
Efforts of The Bulletin to reach
adjacent ranches, outside of
Prineville, ran into a blank wall.'
Hatfield denies Howard's
claim that he now favors
referral of tax package
By Jane Brown
Bulletin Staff Writer
Back to School Days are here
again. Local school omcials at
putting the finishing touches on
preparations for opening day and
Bend merchants this week are
participating in a "back to
school" promotion in connection
with the approaching start of
school.
Public schools in Bend will open
on September 9 with a regular
day of classes to be held the tirst
day. A record enrollment of 3736
students is expected to crowd
through the doors of the 11 Bend
public schools.
Pre-school week activities will
begin on Tuesday, September 3
for over 170 teachers and adminis
trators. After general meetings in
the morning, they will retire to
their respective schools to outline
the years curriculum, organize
materials, and make plans for
registration.
Registration for all Bend stu
dents will be held September 6.
Elementary students will register
in the morning from 9 until noon
in their respective schools. An
orientation for new students and
tenth graders will be held on
Thursday, September 5, at the
senior high school. New r'.udents
will also have orientation at the
junior high on the same day.
There will be no double shift
ing in any of the elementary
schools if the new Bear Creek
School is ready for opening day
as planned. If the building isn t
ready, the students will double
shift at Allen School.
The new addition to the senior
high school should be in use by
the first of November. Until that
time, the estimated 908 students
at the high school will hold class
es wherever space can be found.
All other schools in Deschutes
County will open September 3,
following Labor Day. Teacher's
workshop will begin August 28 in
preparation of opening day. Reg
istration for Redmond schools will
be held Friday, August 30.
SALEM (UPI) J. Francyl
Howard claimed today that Gov.
Mark Hatfield had changed his
mind and now favored referral of
Uie 1963 legislature's $60 million
tax increase package.
Hatfield termed the claim To
tally ridiculous and utterly mis
leading.
Howard, editor of weekly news
papers in Corvallis and Albany, is
spearheading the drive to gain 23,
185 signatures to refer the tax
package to a special election Oct,
15.
The lead editorial of today's
Benton County Herald in Corval
lis, one of Howard's publications,
is titled "Governir Hatfield now
for referral."
Opposition Noted
Howard noted that earlier Hat
field had urged voters not to sign
referral petitions.
The governor stated that the
$60 million income tax law was
a mess and that he washed his
hands of this income tax gouge,"
the editorial said.
"Our readers will remember
that our governor refused to sign
this unnecded, unwanted and out-
Taylor assures Senate that Joint Chiefs backed
treaty without administration -'arm twisting
30 industrials 718.55, up 3.60; 20
railroads 173.36, up 2.46; 15 utili
ties 143.89, up 0.48, and 65 stocks
259.12, up 1.77.
Sales today were about 4.98 mil
lion shares compared with 4.42
million shares Wednesday.
while it was not on state protect
ed lands, was battled by state
personnel to keep it from spread
ing.
The other two blazes, both less
: than one acre in size, occurred in
I the Western Oregon District.
WASHINGTON UPI) Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor assured the
Senate today the Joint Chiefs of
Staff endorsed the nuclear test
ban treaty without any admini
stration "arm-twisting" and were
kept "constantly abreast" of its
development.
In public testimony before go
ing into an afternoon closed ses
sion with senators considering the
pact, the chairman of the joint
chiefs said:
The area of "high-yield" su
per nuclear weapons in which
Russia leads "has very little if
any military significance." The
joint chiefs feel use of more
smaller bombs on an enemy tar
get is better than dropping one
50 to 100 megaton weapon.
He is confident President
Kennedy will carry out "safe
guards" to the test pact by main
taining full lab and test facilities
and pushing underground testing
permitted in the treaty.
Past nuclear testing has
"tended to close the gap" and
let Russia gain on the United
States in nuclear weapons. He
said that if Russia had not been
able to test she "never would
have caught up" with this coun
try. He said the joint chiefs had
opposed a comprehensive test ban
because of fear the Soviets could
cheat and test underground while
the United States would not.
There are military "advan
tages" in the limited treaty, as
well as disadvantages. Reduction
of tensions that will improve the
chances of peace is a "military
advantage." he said, because
peace is the "primary hope" of
the military.
It is "conceivable" that Com.
munist China wants to expand in
to Soviet Asia and that Russia in
signing the limited treaty wanted
to take "some small step" to deal
with the China problem.
Taylor assured the Foreign Re
lations, Armed Services, Joint
Atomic Committee members con
sidering the treaty that the joint
chiefs suffered no "unusual pres
sures" from the administration in
endorsing the pact.
And he said he was kept fully
informed about negotiations on
the treaty and instructions given
Avorell Harnman, chief negotia
tor in Moscow, and passed this
along to the other military lead
ers.
Senators questioned Taylor at
length on the likelihood of the
United States maintaining all the
facilities for test readiness under
I the treaty.
Pay cuf plan
is abandoned
SALEM (UPI) Plans to have
650 state department of employ
ment workers take a one-step pay
cut were abandoned today, em
ployment Director David Cameron
announced.
Instead, all employes will be
laid off for one or two days next
month.
It was announced Wednesday
that 100 department employes
would be laid off, and that 650
remaining workers would get pay
cuts.
The S t a t e Civil Service Com
mission, which met here Wednes
day, voiced objection to the one
step reduction in the pay scale.
Instead the commission recom
mended one or two day layoffs.
The pay cuts will average about
$15 a month.
The cutbacks were ordered be
cause congress has failed to ap
propirate funds to operate the de
partment.
First
summer session ever
held
'64 Olympic ski team due in area Aug. 25
By Web Ruble
Bulletin Staff Writer
Yes, they're coming. Sunday,
August 25 is the day.
Seventeen young alpine athletes
are on their way to the cool Ore
gon Cascades to get in shape for
perhaps the greatest event of
their lives.
Bend. Bachelor Butto and Elk
Lake will be the three-cornered
training ground for the 1964 Olym
pic ski team.
Included on the team is Ore
eon's Jean Saubert of Lakeview.
knew the identity of some of the j She is a student at Oregon State
10 to 15 men who took part in ' University. Miss Saubert is the
the ambush. team's only representative from
"It is now a ouestion of find- the Pacific Northwest.
ir.g where they are," be said. 1 It will be the first time In his
tory that a U.S. Olympic ski
team has had a summer training
session. It also will be the first
gathering of the athletes as a
team.
Normally such an "vent would
rate a shouted warning of "here
they come!" Not so this bunch.
Nothing but work for two solid
weeks awaits the Olympians. Cen
tral Oregon's Elk Lake will house
the team dining its two week so
jurn here. The rugged, mountain
atmosphere will provide the right
isolation and create an atmos
phere for strict training. -
Little fanfare will accompany
the Olympians' visit. Immediate
ly upon their arriva'. the team
members w ill get right down to
business. No festivities will be of
fered them here.
Tough, deliberate Coach Bob
Beattie, offers the team mem
bers nothing but the business at
hand training. Team members
will make their initial assembly
in Portland, and will get a uni
form outfitting there. Immediate
ly upon finishing this, the Olym
pians will trek to Bend.
After they leave Bend, the Uni
ted States team will enroll at the
University of Colorado or other
colleges in the Denver area for
one term. Coach Beattie wants
them together so they will be
able to train together as a squad
on weekends.
Their visit to Bend and the
Bachelor Butte slopes was made
possible by the Bend Skyliners,
who caught wind of a rumor that
Coach Beattie was looking around
for a summer place in the west
to train his Olympic team. The
Skyliners learned this while at
tending a Pacific Northwest meet
ing at Wenatchee, Wash. Beattie
was head speaker there.
Hiking, rowing boats and gen
eral conditioning Is part of the
rugged schedule the Olympians
will follow. Most of the skiing,
itself, will be early morning ski
ing, from daybreak to about 8:30.
The skiers will want to be on
the slopes when the snow is the
hardest' Bachelor Butte's upper
I nope nav permanent bikw
fields.
After the skiers leave Bend and
take their fall term at Colorado,
the group will go to Europe ear
ly (about December 1) and pre
pare for the Olympics at Inns
bruck two months in advance.
Colorado's fall training grounds
will be St. Mary's Glacier near
Idaho Springs, Colo.
Besides Coach Beattie and Miss
Saubert the team roster will in
clude, old veteran Bud Werner of
Steamboat Springs, Colo.; Gordon
Eaton of Littleton, N.H.; Charles
Ferries of Houghton, Mich.; Jim
Heuga of Tahoe City. Calif.; Bill
Kidd, Jr., of Stowe, Vt.; Bill
Marlot of Aspen, Colo.; Rip Mo-
Manus, of Norwalk, Conn , and
Ni Orsi. Jr.. of Stockton, Calif.
Women alpine team members
are listed as. Barbara Ferries of
Houghton, Mich.; Jo.. Hannah,
of Ironconia, N.H.; Linda Mey
ers, of Bishop, Calif.; Margo
Wallers of Salt Lake City, and
Starr Walton. Sacramento. Calif.
Although the primary purpose
of the Cascades camp In to be
gin on-snow training, the Bache
lor Butte location will facilitate
publicity, the taking of pictures
and the like. Some are saying
that it is quite possible that the
1964 squad will be the best train
ed team to ever represent the
U.S.A.
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ragcous law. By doing this he de
layed the efforts to get referral
petitions printed for ten days," the
editorial said.
The editorial tlien declares, "Ilia
greatest single success in (Uie
campaign to get the tax bill re
ferred) and the most huluenuu
convert la Governor HalUold. pur
governor is a wise man and wise
men change their minds.
Letter Cited
We have in our newspaper of
fice a signed letter from our gov-
ernor...to a local Southern Pacifiu
Railroad man, in which he says,
quote:
"Oregon's constitution clear
ly affords the people Uie oppor
tunity to vote on any program of
expenditures that would require an
increase in taxes. It has been my
recommendation that, should .ad
ditional taxes bo required, the in
creases should be tied to tax re
form and the issues referred for
decision by (lie people."
Howard's editorial conclud
ed; "Thank you Governor Hat
field." The governor told United Press
International "I recommend
ed that an election be held on any
tax increase while the legislature
was in session. The Democrats
wouldn't let it happen.
There is no question the peo
ple have a right to vote. Earlier
this year, and in my budget mes
sage I said the legislature could
avoid problems by reaching an
early decision on taxes and hiv
ing an election while the legisla
ture was in session."
Hatfield said Howard's editorial
was utterly misleading, and
termed the suggestion that he had
changed his mind as "totally
ridiculous.
Hatfield today issued a state
ment reiterating his opposition to
refcral of the 1963 legislature's $60
million revenue increase package.
The statement declared:
"There are many people in Ore
gon who doubt that the tax law
written by the 1963 legislature
was the best of all possible bills.
share that view. At the same
time, it seems unthinkable that we
should flirt with fiscal chaos by
referring the best product on
which the legislature could agree.
'Those who are already con
cerned about the adequacy f
our education program, those who
are already concerned about the
weight of the property tax burden
know that the proposed referral
will endanger us on both counts.
I urge again that anyone consider
ing signing a referral petition re
cognize that no special legislative
session is likely to adopt a 'better'
measure than the one now on Uie
books."
OPINION REQUESTED
COOS BAY UP1) An attorney
general's opinion on the State For
estry Board's authority to lease
state timberland in Clatsop Coun
ty to Crown-Zellerbach Corp. for
a 75-year period was requested
Wednesday.
The request was made by the
State Forest Committee of the
board at a meeting here.
The committee also asked the
governor's Planning and Develop
ment Committee to make a basie
study of what such a lease
would do for the economy of
Clatsop County.