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Bui v. of Orgon Library EUGENE, 08EG0M The Fair through Sunday with FftrOfntf cloudy ptriods; highs, 70-7S; IUICUU5I lows, MM. JETIN High yesterday, 5$ degrees. Low last night, II degrees. Sunset today, 4:27. Sunset tomorrow, 7:7$, PDT. Hi and Lo SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 60th Year Eight Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Saturday, October 12, 1963 Ten Cents No. 262 ovie1ts f iree pirlesS disappeared ion mull held up 54 h ours U.S. convoy allowed to pass after being West Berlin cold war tension eases Troops loyal to Ben Bella take Michelet U.S. reveals earlier swap of prisoners BERLIN UPI The Soviets gave in to American determina tion today and allowed a 61-man U.S. Army convoy to roll into West Berlin aftor liolding it for M hours at checkpoints inside Communist East Germany. The troops in their 18 trucks and jeeps crossed the West Ber lin border at the Dreilinden checkpoint at 12:50 p.m. (7.30 a.m. EDT), four minutes after they began to roll out of the So viet control point at Babelsberg one mile away in East Germany. Twenty-four minutes later, a eonvoy of 164 men in 25 vehicles which had stayed in Babelsberg to support the trapped convoy be gan to drive on to West Ger many. It still had to face Soviet controls at Marienborn 110 miles away on the western border of East Germany. In Wast Barlin The other convoy already was In West Berlin. A U.S. Army spokesman saidi "The U.S. soldiers did not dis mount from their vehicles for a head count by the Soviets. This clearance procedure 'is the same as that which had been followed et the Marienborn end of the autobahn for this convoy early in the morning on October XI." The end of the Russian block ade of the American convoy ap parently ended the undeclared "war of nerves" incident caused by the Soviet decision to halt U.S. military traffia between Berlin and the West. The Russians had been playing a eat and mouse game with the IS . v e h l e 1 e U. S. convoy in Communist run East Germany for 48 hours. Friday a dozen So viet armored cars blocking the American convoy completely closed one lane of the principal superhighway to the West at the Berlin border. There was no immediate indi cation as to what conditions caused the Soviets to withdraw armored vehicles and troops which had been blocking the high way lifeline from West Germany to West Berlin. Technicality Blamed The United States had vigor ously protested the action which apparently started over somewhat of a technicality a Russian in sistence that American troops get out of trucks to be counted. American officers refused this de mand and the Russians refused to let them pass. Many administration officials here were gravely concerned even though the word they got from the Kremlin through various contacts was that the Soviets had not in tended this as a major Berlin clash and wanted to reach a set tlement. Help summoned by injured man after accident Intelligent action of a telephone repairman may have saved him from serious injury last night when a company truck he was operating plunged over an em bankment on the South Twin Lakes Highway. Resting in St. Charles Memorial Hospital following treatment for a head injury is William McGinnis, 41, of 246 Jefferson. An attending physician this morning called his injury minor. A member of the family said McGinnis was en route to Bend from Twin Lakes when he swerv ed to miss a deer and lost con trol of the truck. The shock of the impact left him unable to speak, but he managed to com municate with the Bend telephone office by continually flipping his mobile switch. The local ottice ra v - r : r' f ',1-. jffJ-'i.. SV in COACHES OF YESTERYEAR Men who coached Bend High School teams long ago were in the spotlight Friday when the Bend Shrine Club sponsored a dinner, as a salute to the old time gridmen. Here, in reminiscent moods, are Ted Sexton, coach in the war-year of 1918; Elmer V. Ward, who coached the Bend Railroad Day team of 1911 that defeated The Dalles, and B. A. Stover, who assisted with high school coaching here when not playing with the adulf town" Ham; - - .. (swi3s?wfw Curtain of time rolled back Early days of Bend football i retailed at special luncheon v By Phil F. Brogan Bulletin Staff Writer Early - day gridmen rolled back the curtain of time here Friday to describe football as it was played by Bend High School's first team, and those that followed it three days lo make the trip to Bend from Hie University of WASHINGTON (UP1) - U. S. officials have revealed for the first time that the return of two captured RB47 pilots by the Rus- ALGIERS (UPD Troops loyal sians in January 1961 was an ex to President Ahmed Ben Bella to-, change for two accused Soviet day occupied the Berber strong- j spies. hold of Michelet, from which rcb- j Tle disclosure 0f the deal for el forces withdrew Friday, a gov- (, RB47 fliers came Friday af- I ernmeni spunesniim aiuiuiiiiu!. ur ne announcement that the He said the government forces , United States and Russia had moved in without firing a shot, concurred another prisoner ex Earlier reports spoke of firing change, involving two accused along the road towards Michelet. Soviet spies and two Americans, There was no confirmation of the one a Roman Catholic priest, reports, but if they were correct charged with espionage. it was assumed that guerrillas in ' President Kennedy made the the hills overlooking the road dramatic announcement of the were harassing the government : return of the RB47 fliers at his forces. i first formal news conference Jan. The reports said a government , 25, liltil. column including tanks and re- The two men, Air Force Capts. coilless cannon was moving on Freeman B. Olmstead, 25, of El Michelet from Fort National, j mira, N. Y., and John R. Mc which the army occupied Friday. ! Kono, 28, of Tonganoxie, Kan., The spokesman said that gov-, were the only survivors of the ernmeni forces occupied Michelet ; six-man crew oi a jei recoiuiais- "in the same conditions as yestcr-1 sauce plane snot oown over uie day at Fort Nationa, Zarazga and I Barents Sea inside the Arctic Tirurda. without fil ing a shot." Circle, just north of Russia's Reliable sources said fmhting . Kola Peninsula, on July 1, 11)60. between rebels and a government I A Justice Department sikes- armorcd column broke out in the i man said Friday that two ac Ouadhias - Ichri Meridcn area, cused spies, Igor Yakovlevich alxiut 60 miles east of Algiers. Melekli and Willie Hirsch, were Hiicine Ait Ahmed and Col. Mo-! returned to the Russians the next hand El lladj. the principal retel monlh as part of tlie deal ior leaders, had left Michelet for a ! "'e release of the fliers. hiHpniit in the hills in anDarcnt MiMai-atinn for Guerrilla war- ! r. . -v r.--- fare, but the reports said some their Berber supporters remained in the town. Lookouts on nearby hilltops warned them of the approach of the government column. A government advance brought the simmering revolt close to all- out civil war. Friday but . the rebels withdrew, creating the pos sibility of a iong, drawn - out guerrilla war. Ben Bella was faced with a task that the French army could never accomplish subduing the tough Berbers of the Kabylia mountains. There were conflicting reprts on what happened Friday. The government said its troops cap tured three rebel-held towns with out a shot. The rebels said "blood flowed anew" in fighting around seven towns. Swap for spy team also includes US student held by Reds Prineville and back, aboard a ve hicle drawn by four horses. The young players, who had bought their own football gear and toss ed 50 cents each into a kitty to buy a football, found it necessary The occasion was a luncheon ' p,rrinev,ille " Weln program sponsored by the Bend Shrine Club, with Alfred Hunnell in charge and with Charles Davis presiding. Those present included two school officials Superin tendent R. E. Jewell and Princi pal Ray Talbert. Carrying the ball in the pro gram, largely devoted to reminis cences by old timers, was Claude day. School officials, with J. C. F. Harrington as principal, threaten ed to suspend the entire team if they took the day off. Principal Defied The team defied the principal, made the drive to Prineville, got up next morning to find three inches of snow on the ground then faced the Cowboys of yes- H. Kclley. a member of tlie first teryear. Bend lost, with the score team that represented Bend High School, without the sanction of school officials. Kelley, who illustrated his talk with photos of early-day teams, said Bend's first high school game was with Prineville, somewhere around 30 to 0. The players returned to school, but were not suspended: Such action would have cut tlie student body in alxiut half. Sharing the spotlight were "civilian" coaches of long ago Washington in 1!10; B. A. Stover, of Ohio State, and T. D. Sexton, who was coach in the influenza epidemic fall of 1918. Ward had played brilliant ball with the Uni versity of Washington as right halfback, and was graduated in 1909. Stover is an ex-Ohio State football player. Sexton saw serv ice with Tlie Dalles teams of ear ly days. The three touched on the prowess and defeats of teams of other years. Long before Notre Dame ever used the "T" formation to give it national attention, the Bend high school team of 1010 used that play, Kelley said. But the Bend players were not acquainted with passes, and when Prineville un leashed an aerial barrage, the tained I Soldiers comb disaster area I for more bodies Thanksgiving Day. 1910. It took ' Elmer V. Ward, who came to Rockefeller says Richard Nixon must be considered '64 hopeful EUGENE (LTD New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller said to day he believes that former Vice President Richard M. Nixon is a candidate for the 1964 GOP presi dential nomination. Rockefeller met with newsmen at the 13-state Western Republi can Conference. Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, another possible candidate for next year's GOP nomination, ar rives in this college community this afternoon. He speaks this evening. Rockefeller was asked what he felt Nixon's portion at (lie 1064 convention would be. He replied: "I think he's a candidate." "He has been makins consist ent comments on international af fairs and takinc a greater part in national and party affairs," Rock efeller said. "He sounds like a candidate." In reply to another question. absolutely Two treated after accident Special to The Bulletin REDMOND Two Portland men were brought to Central Ore gon District Hospital at 1:25 a.m. today from a one-car accident at the Bear Springs junction on High way 26. They are Sam Scott, 49, 6IB3 SW Barbour Boulevard, Portland, and Patrick Andersen, 20, 6625 SE 44th Street, Portland. The men said they were headed south ' when their car struck black ice "prehistoric Bears" were caught j and r0p(i off ,he ro.1(1 abralt flat-footed Speakers recalled that in one of the first Bend High School games, after the team got acquainted with passing, John Stcidl com pleted 11 out of 12 losses to How ard Young. Early day games w ith The Dal les were recalled. .Mostly, they were defeats, until Bend's Rail road Day in 1911. Pcnd won that game from the Indians 8 lo 0. Attentive Audience Included in the attentive audi ence were two Bend High School football players of the present, Jerrv Wetle and Mike Clark. vice president, "had a commit ment" from the party organiza tion to become the presidential nominee. Nixon lost by 119,000 .. , a ; u C Z '"CUJ'' . Speakers were Bend stars of more I don t think today anyone has . ,, ,, recent years among them Or val May and Pat Metke. Frequently the name of Byron Haines, considered one of the a lirm commitment irom me party organization," Rockefeller said. II (V: nlcn i, ' 1 0 Inu nt ' GoldwaT r. ad "poTnW .Ttai i f a!! Iv j 1 - u i of yesteryear, was heard. IJrtU mil ucr-ii avivA-ivj. t iU. . f . . . i i Of his two-way race with Gold- " !"" u i mgcr. a conauoer who nas won water. Rockefeller said that if the ' ,"lav who Rave their time and international acclaim, will move convention were held today "Id, " . . .. . " "" 15cm wonnay aooui i pin II p.m. They were brought to tlie lo cal hospital in the Madras ambulance. Scott received treatment for cuts and bruises. Anderson re ceived treatment for multiple bruises and abrasions. The two men remained in the hospital this morning. They said they were headed for Texas. BELLUNO, Italy (UPI)-Italian soldiers combed through a mass of muck and debris today, trying lo avert the threat of an epidemic by recovering the bodies of shal-lowly-buried victims of tlie Vajont dam disaster. An official spokesman said there was danger that polluted water from the area stricken in Wednesday night's flash flood might filter into tho reservoirs of Bclluno and other nearby towns. The spokesman said no attempt would be made lo recover the bodies of all of the 3.000 to 4.000 victims of the disaster. Ho said earth will be bulldozed over the bodies of deeply-buried victims in a day or two as an anti-cpidemic measure. More than 1.000 bodies have been recovered, but many still lie buried in the carlh and rub ble piled up by the flood. Resentment mounted among survivors of tlie disaster, many of whom believe they might have been warned in advance of tho huge landslide that thundered into Vajont Lake Wednesday night, splashing out a surge of floodwatcrs that wiped out eight villages in the Piavo Valley. Newspapers representing every shado of political opinion were demanding an official investiga tion to determine whether the landslide could have been fore seen. The Communist organ Unita. strongest supporter of the theory that the disaster might have been averted, said in its headline to day "It Was Murder!" Jaycee-sponsored Portland Symphony here Monday night be concerned, but it's October." Tlie New York governor said he intended lo announce at the end ! of this month or early next month whether he would be a candi date. He answered repeated questions on a possible running - mate by saying "I haven't gotten that far." As he left the news conference, Rockefeller encountered Goldwa ter demonstrators in the lobby of Rockefeller denied that he and Nixon had reached , the Eocene Hotel, the headquar- dioed the LaPine REA station and , any agreement on joint action at ters of the Western GOP con a crew was sent out after the in-1 the Republican National Conven- vention. jured man. tion which will be held in San A group of young Goldwater A Bend police ambulance met j Francisco next July. i supporters carried tall signs say- Ihe REA truck and brought Mc- j He said four years aco Nixon. ins. "Goldwater in W Rocke (iinni to Bend. because of hu seven years as .feller ignored them. The 70-niece Portland Symphony i Only one performance has been The Shrine luncheon primarily , Orchestra directed by Jacques scheduled for Bend, the Jaycecs stress. Tickets will be available up lo closing time this evening at Darrell's House of Music. On Monday, tlicy will also be avail able at the local hanks and the Bend Chamber of Commerce. Maestro Sinner's world - wide fame as a conductor dates to tlie High football players. AOI opposing fish j for its Central Oregon concert, The concert, expected to at. Iraft a rapacity audienre, will be in the Bend Senior High School auditorium and will start prompt ly at 8 p m. Tlie Portland Sym-' days immediately following World phony is being brought to Bend : War II a conflict in which he PORTLAND (LTD Associated , by the Jaycees, in one of their j served for 3',4 years in Pacific Oregon Industries has pone on ' m o s t ambitious undertakings : foxholes, winning three battle measure record against passage of an in-1 since organization in this city, itiative measure that would for- Ivan Thompson is in charge for bid commercial fishSj in t h e ' the Jaycees, assisted by all mem- Columbia River. bers of the group, stars. Morale remained a key problem even during the combat's waning days, and Singer was asked to take over leadership of The statewide employers' or- Thompson said the Portland the 147th Army Ground Forces ganization based its opposition on musicians will come here in one the contention tjw) tlie bill would j larsc teyhound bus, with their nut more than licenscdfsh- j instruments to bo in a second vc- lerr-.cn and 1,200 cannery workers hide. Headquarters will be at tlie I out of work, i j Pilot Butte Inn, band to bring music to the iroops. He noljonly brought music to the troops, but eventually to the world. NEW YORK (UP1) Two Americans who had been held prisoner in Russia a Roman Catholic priest with a sprightly step and sparkling eyes and a young graduati! student who looked as though he might be ill returned to freedom today and a joyous reunion with their fami lies and friends. The Rev. Waller Ciszek, 58, who vanished in Russia about 1910, and Marvin W. Makinen, 24, arrested while touring tlie Soviet Union in 1961, landed here at 6:56 a.m. EDT on a flight from London. They had been ex changed for two accused Soviet spies. Their physical appearance con trasted sharply. Fatlicr Ciszek appeared to be in good health. His eyes sparkled and he walked with a sprightly step. He was quick to answer all questions. Makincn's complexion was sal low. He walked slowly, with a slight stoop and was hesitant in answering questions. When asked alxiut his health, he said merely, "I'm all right." Father Ciszek, of Shenandoah, Pa., and Makinen, of Ashbunv ham, Mass., walked quickly past a crowd of newsmen into' the terminal at Idlewild Airport to meet relatives and friends, many of whom feared Uiey would never see them again. The former prisoners expres sed little emotion upon first leav ing the four-enclne turbo prop plane, and went directly to the terminal, keeping their eyes straight ahead, i They were swapped Friday for Ivan Egorov. a Soviet employe of the United Nations, and his wife, Aleksandra, who were ar rested in their apartment In Queens and charged with espial age. Speaks in Russian The Egorovs arrived In Copen hagen today aboard a Scandinavi an airliner. Tlvy were scheduled lo leave for Moscow lator in tlie day aboard a Soviet plane. Both Father Ciszek and Makin en refused to discuss the circum stances of their arrests and de tails about their imprisonment. Makinen. however, when pressed about his imprisonment, replied in a low voice, "I sup pose it was my confession." He did not elaborate. Father Ciszek had returned from the "dead." He had been declared legally dead in Schuyl kill County, Pa., several years ago. Tho stocky, grey-haired priest spoke in Russian, but appeared to understand the questions asked him in English. Of his release, he said, "I got tlie first hint of it last Monday afternoon." Tlie priest was bom barded with questions as he stood on a raised platform used for tel evision interviews in an airport press room. He was composed ana ex pressed little emotion beyond an occasion.il smile. Among the per sons present were a group of fel low priests and two of his sisters Mrs. Helen Gearhart, 40, Wasn ington, D.C., and Sister Mary Evangeline, provincial head of Bcmadine Sisters at Reading, Pa. "f haven't been able to sleep since I found out about his re lease." Mrs. Gearhart said. As in the case of Makinen, the priest's family and associates de clined to say what his immediate destination would be alter leav ing the airport. "His plans have not been ar ranged yet," Father McCawley said. Burst Into Tears At the reunion, both his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Makinen. burst Into tears. His father was so over come he had to sit down. Young Makinen, however, remained calm and somewhat placid in ap pearance, thrnuRuout the reunion and a subsequent news confer ence. But when he met his 8-year-old stepsister, Kathy, outside at the family car, be broke down. Sob bing, he hugged and kissed her repeatedly. Shortly before, while still com posed, Makinen said the first thing he wanted to do was "get a good rest and a sauna (steam- bath)." During the news conference, he refused to discuss tly5aspects of his arrest and imprisonment whitif began in July. 1S6L The t family attorney, Oliver S. Allen, of Boston, who acted for ths Makinens in their efforts to bring about their son's freedom, said, however, "much of the informa tion is already public... we can not reveal any more." Cats Frequent Letters Allen said Makinen had been conlined in Vladimir, about 100 miles from Moscow, and that Uw family had been able to write him regularly and "freely until re cently, when we were only al lowed to write one letter a month." Makinen's parents described their son's return "like a dream come true." His mother added. I always knew he'd come back sooner or later." Father Ciszek was the first oft the London-to-New York plane. Family once thought that priesf dead WASHINGTON (UPD The) return from Russia of the Rev. Walter Ciszek, a 58-year-old Ro man Catholic priest from Shenan doah, Pa., today climaxed State Department efforts in his behalf that spanned two administrations and more than eight years. - Father Ciszek and - another, American prisoner of tlie Rus sians, Marvin Makinen, 24, a stu -dent from Ashbumham, Mass., were exchanged for two accused Soviet spies Friday. Makinen had been imprisoned in the Soviet Un ion on spy charges since the sum mer of but the priest was believed to have been a prisoner of the Russians since about 1940. According to his sister, Mrs. Helen C. Gearhart of Washington, Father Ciszck's family had not seen or heard from him since thai outbreak of World War II in 1039, except for a brief message in 1955. Father Ciszek was born in Shenandoah on Nov. 4, 1904. A member of the Jesuit order. he went to Rome in 1934 after attending the order's seminary at Woodstock, Md. He was ordained at the Vatican in 1937 and a year later was assigned to a Jesuit seminary in Poland, near the) Russian frontier. Mrs. Gearhart said that in 104A the family was told by one ol tho Priests superiors that "the Bolsheviks" had taken him, ap parently when the Rusians in vaded Poland during tlie period of the short-lived Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact. She said he was believed dead until 1955 when one of his sisters, a nun in Reading, Pa., received a cryptic note, apparently smug gled out of Siberia where he was imprisoned on spy charges. The note said: "You may have forgotten me or you may have taken me for dead. I am alive. If you write to this address, 1'U reply." The envelope bore an ad dress in the Soviet Union. Since then, she said, the Stala Department "has worked very hard trying to get him out." Mrs. Gearhart said that she had planned to visit her brother in August and that Soviet authori ties had agreed to let him travel to Moscow to meet her. Couple rescued in store blaze PORTLAND (UPD Firemen pulled two persons from the roof of a grocery store early today aftor a fire gutted their noma and badly damaged the store at the front of the building. Bartcl and Mary Petrich. own, ere and operators of the Better Grocery and Market (of 1708 Southwest 14th Avenue) war awakened about 2 a.m. by the smell of smoke. They said they were unable to get down the stairs so they crawled onto the roof of the gro cery store and began shouting for help. The alarm was turned in by a passer-by. Damage to the building and contents was estimated at $1R. 000. Cause of the blaze was being investigated. - t I