tjitfr. of Oregon Library &UQSNB, OREGON C Tim Bulletin Fair and cool In Central Ore ForCCQSt 9n 'nrou9h Wednesday, with high temperatures in 28-33 range, lows from 7 to IS. High yesterday, 38 degree. Low last night, 12 degrees. Sunset today, 4:47. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:2, PST. Hi and lo SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 61st Year Peace Corps sum okayed by senators WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee gave unanimous approv al today to a bill authorizing $102 million for another year of the Peace Corps program. The House-passed measure now goes to the Senate, where approval without change would send it to the White House for President Johnson's signature. Passage of the authorization bill must precede the actual voting of funds for the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps originally asked Congress for $108 million for the current fiscal year but then reduced its request by $6 million. Last year Congress au thorized $63 million for the pro gram but appropriated $59 mil lion. Other congressional news: Aid: Defense Secretary Rob ert S. McNamara said he'd rather have Congress cut $405 million from the defense budget than from the foreign aid pro gram. In testimony read to the Senate Appropriations Commit tee, McNamara said there is more to national security than "excellence and strength in our own military establishment." House-Senate conferees author ized $1 billion in military aid for foreign nations $405 million less than the administration re quested. Commission: The House passed and sent to the Presi dent a Senate-approved bill to give special subpoena powers to the commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy. Commercials: The House Commerce Committee approved a bill to block the Federal Com munications Commission (FCC) from regulating the length or frequency of radio and televi sion commercials. The action came as the FCC held its sec ond day of hearings to see if rules should be established gov ero" -the-tfaunt ts( broadcast time devoted to commercials. Holdings: Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, said he was not satis fied with arrangements made by President Johnson to divest his family of control over ra dio and television interests. Gross said every member of FCC would be aware of the Johnson family's interests and that the chairman of the com mission holds office at the pleasure of the President. Work Week: President James B. Carey of the AFL-CIO Elec trical Workers Union told a House Labor subcommittee that a shorter work week would not only help achieve full employ ment but would also give a man "maximum personal use of his lifetime." Carey testified on bills that would reduce the present "straight time" work week in interstate commerce from 40 hours to a shorter period. Outgoing mail climbs steadily Outgoing Christmas mail is increasing in volume daily and is expected to reach its peak by next Monday. December 16, Postmaster Farley J. Elliott has announced. Elliott commended local res idents for their effort to get their Christmas packages in the mail early, to avoid the rush of the coming week. "Now is the time to mail," the Postmas ter emphasized, noting that clerks can handle without much difficulty outgoing parcels just as long as they come in a steady stream. To assist the early mailers, the Bend postoffice, normally closed that day, will remain open all day this coming Satur day. Incoming Christmas mail is also increasing in volume, but it is not expected to reach its peak before December 19 or 20. However, incoming mail may peak as early as December 18, a week from tomorrow. Extra help representing per sonnel well trained in their duties, will go on the job Mon day. There will be nine Christ mas assistants employed this year, to help handle the yule mail. Elliott said Christmas pack ages now being submitted for mailing are. with very lew ex ceptions, well wrapped. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press Intematiinal Dow Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 759 25. up 0.17: 20 railroads 174.77. up 1.11: 15 utilities 137.45. up 041, and 65 stocks 265.58. up 0.58. Ten Pages UAL strike could disrupt Gl holidays WASHINGTON (UPI) - A strike scheduled to start Dec. 19 against United Air Lines threatened today to disrupt the holiday travel plans of about 100,000 GI's heading home for Christmas. The walkout has been called by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) to back up demands for pay and benefit in creases for nearly 13,000 me chanics and other ground crew members. United, the nation's biggest domestic carrier, estimated that it would carry more than 800, 000 passengers during the forth coming holiday period if there were no work stoppage. Negotiators for the airline and the union were summoned to the offices of the National Mediation Board (NMB) again today to resume bargaining. Their talks were recessed last week after the company reject ed a union counter-proposal for settlement. New building for county road department due A new building for the Des chutes County Road Depart ment is to be built on county property at the corner of E. First Street and Olney Avenue, across First Street from the county shops. The county court will let bids Thursday, Decem ber 19, at 8 p.m. in the county courtroom at the courthouse. It is hoped that construction can get under way soon after the bids are let, possibly early in January, Charles Plummer, county roadmaster, said today. A period of 90 days is being al lowed for the construction, making the possible date for occupancy early in April. f -The Vaildmt, containing 1300 square feet, is to be of wood and pumice block construction, with a concrete floor. Outside dimensions are approximately 30 by 42 feet. The space will be divided into five rooms and two lavatories, with gyp board par titions. The rear of the building will be of wood, to allow for future extension if needed, Plummer said. The architectural firm of Stearns, Mention and Morris drew the plans. The building will provide space for a county planning de partment, on the assumption that this need will arise in the future. There will be office space that could be used for a county planner, and a drafting room. The rest of the space will provide an office for the roadmaster, an accounting de partment for the road depart ment and a reception room. There will be a vault for rec ords. At present, Plummer and the two road department bookkeep ers occupy an office about 12 by 14 feet in size, in the shop building. Plans call for utiliza tion of this space as a parts room, Plummer said. The road department budget for this year includes around $6,800 for new buildings. The amount was originally budgeted for an additional shed, but the need for office space later was felt to be greater, Plummer said. GOSSIP COURSE CARLISLE, England (UPII Roy Barker, head of a hair dressing school, said today he plans to include a course in "conversation" to teach his pu pils how to gossip with custom ers Board chairman savs Studebaker shutdown NEW YORK (UPI) - The chairman of the board for Studebaker Corp. said today the company's South Bend plant will be shut down within a week or two after it completes its present production sched ules. In a news conference here, Studebaker Board Chairman Randolph H. Guthrie said "we are sorry we find it necessary to put people out of work in South Bend. "We are doing it only be cause we lost so much money in the automobile business while in South Bend," Guthrie said. "The Hamilton (Ont.) move is the only way to stay in the business indefinitely and make a profit." to) LBJ briefs top leaders on defenses WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi- dent Johnson assured congres sional leaders today that the United States has the military strength to survive a surprise attack and destroy any aggres sor. Johnson made the statement at a briefing of top leaders both Democratic and Republi canof the House and Senate on the relative strength of U.S. and Soviet military forces. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Central Intelli gence Director John McCone participated in the hour - long briefing in the cabinet room of the White House. Afterward, the White House issued only a brief statement about the meeting. It said: "The discussion covered both the status as of today and as it is forecasted to be through the decade of the '60s. "The President emphasized that the U.S. military program will continue to provide for a strategic force sufficiently large to absorb a surprise attack and survive with sufficient power to be capable of destroying the aggressor." One More Step Today's briefing was reported to be one more step in John son's efforts to keep key con gressional figures fully in formed. The session was similar to a briefing given at the National Security Council meeting last week. It covered both conven tional and nuclear forces. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger noted that members of Congress have re ceived high-level military brief ings before but said he did not know if they ever got a com parison of Soviet and U.S. strength, such as was provided today. - It was understood that the President wanted to reassure Congress that defense economy measures he has approved will not - affect the preeminent American position in military power. In addition to the usual corps of Democratic leaders who at tended the weekly legislative breakfast, Johnson invited chairmen of the foreign rela tions, armed services and ap propriations committees of both houses of Congress. Among those present were Chairman Richard Russell, D Ga., of the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee, and Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations unit. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, HI., and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R Mass., a ranking member of the armed services group, also attended. Gaines freed of charge Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE The Crook county grand jury found there was not a true bill in the case of Charles H. Gaines, charged with statutory rape. The grand jury presented its findings in circuit court to Judge Robert H. Foley Monday afternoon. Gaines had been held in Crook county jail since his ar rest November 27, with bail set at $5,000. The grand jury also found there was insufficient evidence to bring in a true bill on the lesser charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. due in a week or two Studebaker announced it has shown a recent loss of $40 mil lion in trying to keep the South Bend plant open. "Studebaker was being bled white in South Bend," Guthrie said. "We just couldn't make It pay there." He said it would not be possi ble to move many technicians or other employes from South Bend. They will get severance pay, he said, while the hourly employes are covered under the contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW), giving them supplemental benefits. A total of 7.000 Stude baker employes veii.es losing their jobs just a few days be fore the Christmas holidays. Asked bow Studebaker can Tuesday, December 10, 1963 mmm New rights plea is made by President WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson today renewed his insistence that Congress act without unnecessary delay on civil rights legislation. He told Democratic congres sional leaders to impress on the House of Representatives that the issue "cannot be ig nored for another 100 years or even another 100 days." Johnson was quoted by Speaker John W. McCormack as making the remark after he was briefed on an effort to pry civil rights legislation out of the House Rules Committee through a discharge petition. To force the committee to give up control of the bill, the discharge petition must have 218 signatures or a majority of the House. The petition was filed Monday and in the first day attracted 131 signa tures. The number was ex pected to swell to 165 or 170 by Wednesday. McCormack said Johnson was told that the number of signers would grow in the coming days. McCormack told newsmen af ter the unusually long leader ship meeting with the Presi dent lasting about two hours that he hoped education and appropriation bills could be ap proved and . signed . Into law within the next two weeks. He said the President was "very much interested in the discharge petition on tne civil rights bill. Then McCormack added, reading from a type written note: "The President urged us to impress on the House that this great issue cannot be ignored for another 100 years or even another 100 days." The civil rights bill is de signed to fight racial discrimi nation in voting, education, em ployment, public accommoda tions and in the use of federal funds. Tippif fund still growing DALLAS (UPI) - Grateful America continued today to be stow gifts upon the widow and children of a hero policeman. Compassionate Americans al so sent money to the alien wid ow of a man who may have died in disgrace, suspected of assassinating the President. The fund for the family of J. D. Tippit, the officer who was slain while trying to arrest Lee Harvey Oswald, was officially at $174,688. Policemen said they expected it to exceed $200,000. Oswald's widow, a Russian born mother of two babies, had received $7,600. She remained in seclusion today, under guard of Secret Service agents. BOND ISSUE APPROVED PORTLAND (UPI) - Voters Monday approved a bond issue for a $163,000 addition to the new Rockwood School. The vote was 163 to 89. compete in the U.S. market with Canadian cars, Guthrie cited the higher retail costs of cars in Canada caused partly by an 11 per cent excise tax in Can ada which won't have to be paid on cars shipped to this country. He also pointed to the 8 per cent differential in the dollar ex change and said there is a much better opportunity of cut ting costs in Hamilton. Asked what effect the move would have on Studebaker's dealer setup in the United States, Byers A. Burlingame, president of the company, said "our dealers should be pleased to know that the company will at least stay in business." He said they will sell the cars made in Canada. agents f HELLO . . . SANTA? Vickie, 5l2, left, and Lane, 3'2. daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Mastrud, 1391 Newport Ave., put in a call to Santa Claus in advance of the Jay cees' Hello Santa program which commences tomorrow night at 6:30. Vickie appears to have a "small" list of "goodies" she wants fo r Christ mas. (Nate Bull photo). Central Oregon chilled by low mark for season Central Oregon at dawn this morning was chilled by its low est temperatures of the season as skies cleared to reveal snow covered mountains in all direc tions. A light blanket of snow covered the interior country. Sisters apparently was the coolest spot in the area this morning, with an unofficial low of 4 degrees reported. Out to the east, Brothers recorded a night low of 6, with a similar mark reported from Shaniko, on the high southern edge of a region that dips to the Colum bia. Bend recorded an official low of 12 degrees. The mercury dropped to that mark at 7:30 a.m. Meacham, in the Blue Mountains, was a bit cooler, with 10 degrees recorded. Us ually frigid Seneca, between Burns and John Day, was "warm," with a low of 16. Off to the east in the Blue Moun tains, Austin recorded a mini mum of 5 degrees. Even cooler weather is in prospect tonight for Central Oregon, forecasts indicate. In Bend, the mercury is expected to drop to or below 10 degrees, with 7 a possibility. Snow flurries were predicted for mountains in the remote eastern part of the state today, but clearing weather tonight is expected to drop the mercury there as low as 5 degrees. The Central Oregon forecast calls for mostly fair weather through Wednesday. Roads in all directions were snow - packed, result of Mon day's light falls. North of Crooked River, and between the bridge and Madras, cars were moving at a snail's pace this morning, result of dangerously slick roads. Many cars slipped into roadside ditches, but no in juries to occupants were report ed. Mountain passes were cover ed with packed, sanded snow this morning. Dr. Bennett sets retirement PORTLAND (UPI) -Dr. Frank B. Bennett, president of Eastern Oregon College at La Grande, will retire next Aug. 31 it was announced today. Dr. Bennett, 67, has headed the school for 12 years. The upcoming retirement was announced at the meeting of the State Board of Higher Educa tion here. seGdim possible e h Sirata Schedule' set -for programs in Bend schools Christmas programs in the Bend school system will start on Tuesday, December 17, and will continue through Friday, December 20, Norman K. Whit ney, director of music, has ai. nounced. All programs will be free of charge, with the public invited to attend. The system's yule week programs follow: Kingston, Tuesday, Decenwer 17, 2 p.m., at auditorium. . LaPine, Tuesday, December 17, 7 p.m.. at LaPine school. Kenwood, Wednesday, Decem ber 18, 2 p.m., at gymnasium. Allen, Thursday, December 19, 2:20 p.m., at auditorium. Senior High, Thursday, De cember 19, 8 p.m.. Senior High auditorium, for general public. Senior High, Friday, Decem ber 20, 9 a.m., auditorium, for student body and public. Junior High, Friday, Decem ber 20, 1 p.m., at Junior High auditorium. Two girls following taken chase CORVALLIS (UPI) Two 16-ycar-old Corvallis girls were in custody today after being chased in their car by city. county and state police and damaging three police cars. The girls were said to have taken the family car of one of them. They were chased at speeds up to 90 miles an hour south from Corvallis by city po lice. The Benton County sheriff's office picked up the chase near Monroe. The girls escaped a blockade at Monroe, crashed through an other blockade at Junction City, damaging a Junction City police car and a state police car. Benton County Deputy Sheriff Guy Murdock got ahead of them but, he said, they kept ramming into the rear of his car to keep from stooping. At times they were boxed in on three sides by police cars but refused to stop I They finally were halted at Santa Clara, on the outskirts of Eugene, almost 40 miles from Corvallis. ASKS IDENTIFICATION WASHINGTON (UPI) The Treasury Department an neunced Monday that it is re- enestme banks and other finan cial institutions to ask savings bonds owners for their taxpay er identification numbers when they collect Interest on bonds. The move is part of a cam paign by the Internal Revenue Service to make sure bond own ers report all their interest. Ten Cents ' W i mSdntd- program due on Wednesday Why not call Santa? It's that time again. Hello Santa", an annual pro ject of the Bend Junior Cham ber of Commerce, commences tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 6:30. Kiddies of all ages are en couraged to call Santa at three special Bend telephone numbers wnicn reporieaiy are on a ai red line with the North Pole. They are: 382-1511, 382-4611, and 382-1151. Santa Claus (Bend Jaycees) will answer the phones. Vice President Hugh McNair is chairmanning the project. Switchboards at the local phone office "really smoke", McNair said today, lie was re ferring to the deluge of phone calls the Jaycees received last year. They even had some long distance calls lrom oui-oi-iown Central Oregon points such as Madras, Gilchrist, Redmond, Prineville, etc. About 15 Jaycees will partici pate. Some of the conversation will be recorded for "posteri ty", McNair disclosed. Bend's two banks, First Na tional and U.S. National, and the Equitable Savings & Loan Co. are donating the use of their phones to the Jaycees. Oregon to have new automobile license plates SALEM (UPI) Three letter, three number license plates, with a larger "Oregon," but without the phrase "Pacific Wonderland," will begin appear ing on Oregon autos Jan. 1. But not everyone will have new style plates until 1968, be cause of a planned slow cnange over to the new stvlc. Color of the new plates will be gold letters on a blue back- eround. the same as at present. The new plates will be similar in aonearance to the present three letter, three number plates now In use In California and Washington. The department will not issue necial letter combinations on reauest to the general public The new license series will start with AAA 001. A few three let ter combinations will not be used for obvious reasons. The first new plates, the de partment said, will be issued to persons from out of state, pur chasers of new autos, and those replacing damaged or lost plates. No. 4 case Lie detector tests clear Foss, Barzie STATEL1NE, Nev. (UPI) -FBI agents today checked the mails for a possible ransom de mand for Frank Sinatra Jr., 19, kidnaped from his motel room at this Lake Tahoe gambling center Sunday night. Authorities theorized that a ransom note mailed Monday would show up today for deliv ery. They were checking incom ing mail at Lake Tahoe and at Reno, where the missing youth's famous father waited anxiously in a hotel. Tino Barzie, young Sinatra's manager, said he and Joe Foss, band member who was in the motel room at the time of the abduction, were given lie detec tor tests at the direction of the FBI. "There was nothing there," Barzie said. The manager said he believes Sinatra was kidnaped for ran som. "They're going through my mail now to see if I got any ransom letter," he said. Temperatures Drop Asked what he thought of the youth's chances of survival, ha said "It's awfully cold outside." Temperatures dropped to seven degrees ai mis snow-coverea oi erra Nevada resort this morn ing. Barzie said the FBI believes that Sinatra and the. abductors wera -still- in the area. Agents -were quietly checking many of the hundreds of closed summer cabins that dot tha area. Curtis O. Lynum. San Fran cisco, FBI agent in charge here, refused to discuss the investiga tion, declaring "we are doing all in our power to solve the case." In Reno, a friend described the elder Sinatra as "nervous, worried, tired and concerned." "He has always been kind of worried about this happening," the aide said. "The thought was always in the back of his mind and now of course it has been realized." Six Arrests Discounted The FBI no longer considered six heavily armed men arrested in the area late Monday as sus pects in the kidnaping. The six were wanted in connection with several Southern California bank robberies. Agents said Foss, Sin atra's roommate, was unable to make "a positive identification of any of the six men." The development apparently left police without a major clue to the kidnaping. Officials re peatedly refused to answer newsmen's questions, deepening the, mystery mat surrounds ine disappearance of the 19-year- old singer. Young Sinatra was forced from his room by two men bearing arms Sunday night about an hour before his 10 p.m. performance at a plush gambling casino with the Tom my Dorsey band. His room mate, Joe Foss, was bound and gagged and warned, "don't move for 10 minutes If you want to see the kid again." Police and FBI agents so far have refused to reveal If they have turned up any possible motives for the kidnaping or U any members of the young en tertainer's tamiiy nave neeo contacted by the kidnapers. Sledding areas for kids listed The following portions of roadway have been designated by the recreation department as sledding areas for children: Staats Hill from Delaware to Colorado, Shasta Hill from tlia crest to Riverside, W. 13th from Elgin to Fresno, W. Tenth from Portland to Ogden, Swim ming Pool Hill from the crest to Irving, East Norton Hill from E. Fourth to Fifth, East Norton from 12th to 11th, and E. Penn from Sixth to Seventh. City police are asking parents to co-operate by having their children use only these areas for sledding. All approaches are In process of being sanded, and motorists are asked to travel with extreme caution In these areas. . 0 5!