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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
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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
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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.
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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. .
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