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SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
61st Year
Eight Pages
Saturday, December 14, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 8
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Foreign aid
cut further
by committee
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Bouse Appropriations Commit
tee dropped its annual block
- buster on the foreign aid pro
gram today, voting only $2.8
billion In new funds for econom
ic and military assistance ori
ginally estimated to cost $4.9
billion.
The aid request for the cur
rent 12 months already had
been trimmed voluntarily by
the late President Kennedy to
$4.5 billion and Congress only
Civil rights
bill is dead
for session
' WASHINGTON (UPI) - For
all practical purposes, time ran
out today for passage of the civ
il rights bill in 1963.
"' The bffl, designed to eliminate
Kscrimination in voting, educa
tion, employment, public ac
commodations and the use of
federal funds, has been await
ing clearance by the House
Rules Committee since Nov. 21.
.'. House supporters of the
Sweeping bipartisan bill started
campaign last Monday to
force the bill out of the rules
committee. They began circula
tion of a discharge petition,
which would need the signa
tures of 218 House members to
Succeed In its purpose of bring
ing the measure to the floor.
The petition got more than
100 signatures immediately, but
(he campaign lagged later in
.the week. The petition had 158
names t the close of business
Friday.
In order to get the bill to the
floor on Dec. 23, last eligible
date for discharged bills to be
considered this month, the re
maining 60 signatures would
have to be on the petition be
fore adjournment today.
A bill to be called up under
(he discharge petition device
must have been on the House
calendar for seven legislative
days after the 218 signatures
were obtained. In addition, such
bills may be called up only on
the second and fourth Mondays
of a month.
Dec. 23 is the fourth Monday
of this month, and unless
the 218 names were collected by
the end of today's session, there
would be no chance of getting
the bill to the calendar for the
seven-day waiting period. The
next eligible dates would be
Jan. 13 and Jan. 27, 1964.
DAMAGE CASE FILED
PORTLAND (UPI) A suit
asking $150,000 in damages from
Pope & Talbot, Inc., has been
filed in federal court here.
Mrs. Marian L. McCombs al
leges the corporation was negli
gent In an accident which re
sulted in the death of her hus
band, Robert, 38, killed near
Corvallis Sept. 5.
The complaint states Mc
Combs was fatally Injured when
t log fell on him as his truck
Was being unloaded at a Pope
and Talbot operation.
TOO LATE
Insurance protection isn't retroactive.
So the cost of being too late can be a
heavy burden for those who "put off"
proper insurance coverage. Have you
protected yourself against the hazards
of fire, storm, theft or liability? We'll
gladly discuss with you how to secure
the best coverage at the least possible
cost a . without obligation, of course.
Let's talk it over, before it's too late!
GORDON
AGENCY
1036 Wall
Friday completed action on an
authorization bill limiting actual
appropriations to $3.6 billion, a
reduction of $900 million.
As that bill awaited the sig
nature of President Johnson to
day the appropriations commit
tee, which traditionally accords
foreign aid its roughest recep
tion, slapped the program for
the year with a further cut of
$800 million.
Raps Aid Programs
The committee, in a report to
the House where the heavily
pared money bill will be taken
up Monday, criticized past and
present aid programs as inef
ficient and wasteful. It said aid
plans for the current 12 months
showed that 100 of the world's
112 non-Communist nations were
expected to be cut in for a
share, despite the fact some
are unfriendly and others dis
play little attempt at self-help.
The report was drafted by
Rep. Otto E. Passman, D-La.,
chairman of an aid subcom
mittee and one of the severest
aid critics in Congress. Among
other points, the report said
some nations are getting U.S.
economic assistance so they can
pay off earlier loans from Rus
sia. Others getting help from
this country at the same time
have been big buyers of U.S.
gold, the committee asserted.
Today's bill, in a separate
section, also recommended a
cut in authorized funds for the
Peace Corps, from $102 million
previously approved by Con
gress to $89 million. The com
mittee said the Peace Corps
has been overextending itself.
Last year the Peace Corps got
$59 million.
Full Military Aid
Foreign assistance requests
were chopped all down the line,
except that the committee gave
the full $1 billion authorized for
direct military aid. But this
item already had been whacked
from a requested $1.4 billion in
the authorization bill.
For all kinds of economic as
sistance, including both grants
and loans, the committee al
lowed $1.8 billion, against the
$2.6 billion authorized and the
$3.1 billion included in the late
President Kennedy's revised : s
quest. Forecaster sees
possible snow
Despite blue skies over Cen
tral Oregon this morning and
cloudless mountains in the west,
the weatherman sees a chance
of "some snow through Sun
day." That same forecast, from the
Portland weather office, calls
for cloudy weather over the
weekend, with occasional rain
in the Portland area tonight and
Sunday.
Bend enjoyed a mild 53 de
grees yesterday, and a night
temperature that just touched
the freezing level.
All roads were in good winter
condition this morning, but with
slick spots on highways over
the mountains, and in shaded
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RANDALL
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Choir concert
due on Sunday
The annual church and Cen
tral Oregon College Christmas
choir concert will be Sunday at
7:30 p.m. in the Bend High
School auditorium. The public
is invited to attend.
Pallas Quick, music director
at COC, is the director, and
Kay Fish is accompanist.
Church choirs taking part are
the First Methodist, First Pres
byterian, Trinity Episcopal,
First Christian and Church of
the Nazarene.
The Rev. D. L. Penhollow
will lead the audience in sing
ing several carols with the
choirs, at the beginnning of the
program.
Petersen tells
of ouster word
atS.
Oregon
ASHLAND, Ore. (UPI) -Dr.
Alex Petersen, head of the phy
sical education department at
Southern Oregon College, said
today he had received word "by
campus mail" he was to be re
lieved of his duties at the end
of the current school quarter.
His statement came amid a
dispute within Southern Oregons
athletic family which broke into
the open Tuesday at an Oregon
Collegiate Conference meeting
in Portland.
Petersen, who criticized SOC
basketball practice and athletic
scholarships at the meeting, is
sued a statement defending his
role in the dispute.
It came after a shouting, pla
card waving crowd of some 200
students hanged Petersen in ef
figy on the college campus
Thursday night.
President Elmo Stevenson,
who had no immediate comment
on the reported dismissal, said
Thursday night's incident was
"regrettable" and that it may
have been incited by publicity.
Petersen told the OCC meet
ing that SOC started basketball
practice before the Nov. 1 open
ing date and charged that athle
tic scholarships had been is
sued by coaches instead of an
academic committee. Ted
Schopf, SOC athletic director
and basketball coach, denied the
practice charge, saying one
team meeting was held and that
other times students got togeth
er to practice without his super
vision. Stevenson said some scholar
ships were given without the en
tire 10-person committee operat
ing, but that no coach had given
any scholarship or grant on his
own.
Petersen said he had learned
"from a source outside our col
lege in another part of the state
that this was apparently in the
making" and had requested of
the president that "if I was to
be relieved, it should be done
at this time."
Petersen said, "I have not
shied from my responsibility be
fore. I do not now."
Accident takes
lives of five
DUANESBURG, N.Y. (UPI)
Five persons were killed Fri
day night when their car
crashed head-on into a tractor
trailer at an intersection near
here.
Police identified the victims
as the driver of the car, Donald
Carl Ingraham, 30; his wife
Frances 22; his son Carl Jr., 5;
his mother-in-law, Clara Walts,
and her son Gary, 5.
Authorities said all five were
riding in the front seat. The
driver of the tractor-trailer was
not injured.
The victims were pronounced
dead at the scene by the Sche
nectady County coroner.
State police said the Ingra
ham car had attempted to pass
a tractor-trailer in the east
bound lane and pulled out di
rectly into the path of a west
bound tractor-trailer.
3 men found guilty in mail fraud and
conspiracy in Lake Valley land trial
PENDLETON (UPI)-A feder
al court jury here Friday after
noon found three men guilty of
mail fraud and conspiracy in
connection with the sale of de
sert land 22 miles south of
Burns.
Four other defendants were
acquitted.
The verdict was returned aft
er about nine hours of delibera
tion. The trial lasted two
weeks.
Convicted in the sale of one-
FLBD nabs ttkee
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COMMUNITY COLLEGE PANELISTS "The Community College Image and its Future Pros
pects" was tha topic of these panelists Friday night, as the Oregon State Association of
Community Colleges opened its two-dsy conference. Seated, from left, are Rep. Ross
Morgan, Gresham; Rep. Kessler Cannon, Bend, and Malcolm Bauer of the Oregonian. Stand
ing is Arthur Fertig of Clatsop College, Astoria, who served as panel moderator.
Panel discussion held
COC has major role in giving
good 'image 'to state program
By Phil F. Brogan
Bullatln Staff Wrltsr
The Oregon "image" of the
state's rapidly expanding com
munity college system was pre
sented, discussed and lauded at
a conference in Bend last night,
with some 30 representatives of
community colleges, technical
and vocational schools present.
Occasion was the mid-winter
meeting of the Oregon State As
sociation of Community Col
leges, of which a Bend man,
Dr. Don Pence, is chairman.
Two of the state group's four
sections are represented at the
Bend conference, which was
nearing its end this afternoon.
A local institution, Central
Oregon College, several build
ings for which are now taking
shape on Awbrey Heights, had
a major role in the presenta
tion of the community college
"image." Because of low costs
Involved, Central Oregon Col
lege impressed the legislature,
Rep. Ross Morgan, Gresham,
representing the legislature's
ways and means committee,
said.
Rep. Morgan was one of three
panelists who headed discus
sions of the opening session last
night, in the Senior High School
library. The other panelists
were Malcolm Bauer of the
Oregonian and Rep. Kessler
Cannon, Bend.
"The Community College Im
age and Its Future Prospects,"
was the panel topic. State
school officials present included
Leon P. Minear. state superin
tendent of public instruction,
and Robert O. Hatton, his as
sistant in charge of community
colleges.
Also participating in the dis
cussiun was lrs. Samuel John
son. Redmond, member of the
state board of higher education.
Shortly before noon today, the
association members took time
out from their formal session to
visit the Central Oregon College
acre Lake Valley estate sites
were John Milton Phillips Jr.,
38, Evanston, 111.; Jack C. Cher
bo, 37, Chicago, and Richard
Dale Walker, 41, Los Angeles.
Found Innocent were Abra
ham L. Koolish, 70, and his
son, David, 42, both of Winnet
ka. Hi.; George Edward Isaacs,
31, Glendale, Calif., and Mau
rice Arthur Hall, 39, Beverly
Hills, Calif.
Sentencing of the three men
found guilty by the jury of six
O
and viewed to the west the
snow - whitened Cascade sky
line. Visitors agreed that no
other college In all America has
such scenery "adjacent to its
campus." Mountains were while
and clear.
Not only were the association
members impressed by the
view, but they were amazed to
Chou, Chen
launch four
of Africa
CAIRO (UPI) -Red China's
Premier Chou En-lai and For
eign Minister Chen Yi arrived
in Egypt today to begin an Af
rican tour which is expected to
take them to at least six na
tions. Peking Radio said the tour
will have "vital significance in
advancing China's friendship
with African countries."
Chou flew in from China by
way of Karachi, Pakistan. Chen
arrived from Nairobi, where he
attended ceremonies celebrat
ing the independence of Kenya.
Premier All Sabry met Chou
at the airport in place of Presi
dent Gamal A. Nasser, who
was in Tunis attending celebra
tions marking the withdrawal
of French forces from Bizerte.
Nasser's activities in Tunis
and the Bizerte celebrations rel
egated reports of Chou's visit
to second place on the front
pages of Cairo newspapers.
Press comments on the visit
were not entirely friendly.
This is Chou's first visit to
Egypt. During a week-iong stay
here he will talk with Nasser,
who is expected to return to
Cairo later today, and will vis
it points of interest in the capi
tal and surrounding areas.
men and six women was set for
Feb. 4 in Portland. They were
released on their own recogni
zance by Federal Judge John F.
Kilkenny.
The defendants were connect
ed with a 6,919-acre subdivision
in Harney County. More than
1,390 persons purchased $395
one-acre estate sites at $5 down
and $5 a month.
Government attorneys con
tended the property was pri
Mime
learn of the low cost of fine
buildings under construction on
the new campus. The Central
Oregon College, it was agreed,
is playing no small part in
painting a good image for com
munity colleges.
But, members of the panel
warned the group at last night's
meeting, community colleges,
as well as all state schools,
may lace tough times in the
near future. Rep. Morgan cau
tioned that last October's vote
indicated people of Oregon are
in no mood to approve any tax
plan. Should a sales tax mea
sure be initiated and defeated,
and should the school bond is
sue he defeated in May "we
are headed for real trouble,"
he said.
Not only schools, but local
taxpayers will face trouble, it
was pointed out, because it will
be up to the communities to
support their schools without
state help and because of the
loss of federal money due to
the lack of matching funds.
Oregon's education problems
at various levels were reviewed
last night and at this morn
ing's session. Presiding at the
morning meeting was Grant H.
Rinehart, board chairman of
Treasure Valley College, in On
tario. ''ihe State Picture of Com
munity Colleges" was the topic
of this morning's session, with
Minear as the principal speak
er. ESTIMATES MARCH COST
WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep.
George Huddleston, D-Ala., said
the Aug. 28 civil rights march
on Washington cost the tax
payers at least $805,000.
Huddleston said Friday that
Comptroller General Joseph
Campbell told him that money
for such things as gasoline,
communications, and time off
given to government employes
accounted for the total.
marily desert wasteland, not a
fertile paradise amidst moun
tains and lakes, as implied by
brochures used to promote the
project.
The defense denied the bro
chures were intended to deceive
also accused postal inspectors of
telling buyers their land was
worthless and of convicmg them
to halt payments.
The defendants were Indicted
last spring.
recovered
Arrests come 5 days
after young singer
seized at Lake Tahoe
By Vernon Scott
UPI Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The
kidnaping of singer Frank Si
natra Jr., was solved today
with the arrest of three men,
apparently amateurs at major
crime, and recovery of most of
the $240,000 ransom.
The FBI, suddenly breaking
its five-day silence, announced
the arrests shortly after mid
night PST (3 a.m. EST) and
within three hours the suspects
were arraigned, waived pre
liminary hearing and jailed in
lieu of $50,000 bail.
Agents in three Southern Cal
ifornia cities broke the baffling
case with one of the most inten
sive manhunts In FBI history,
seizing a painter, a one - time
professional boxer and a for
mer high school classmate of
Nancy Sinatra, the victim's sis
ter. Quick Arrests
The arrests came five days
after Frank Jr., was spirited at
oun point from a motel room
as he was anout to go on siage
with the Tommy Dorsey orches
tra at a Lake Tahoe gambung
SDa.
All out ?24,uuu or tne ransom
oaid bv his singer-actor father,
Frank Sinatra Sr., for his re
lease unharmed early Wednes
day was recovered.
Sinatra Sr, was elated at the
news. "Thank God it's over,"
he said in a statement which
also praised the FBI for "a
masterful operation."
The younger Sinatra re
mained in seclusion at his
mother's home in Bel-Air and
did not immediately comment.
Trio of Novices
The trio of apparent novices
in crime seized at the climax
of a swift and secretive FBI
search which by-passed normal
police channels were:
-John W. Irwin, 42. Holly
wood, a painter and Navy vet
eran with a long record of mi
nor offenses including arunK
and disorderly conduct and as
sault and battery.
Barry Worthington Keenan,
23, Los Angeles, a salesman
and high school classmate of
the victim's sister Nancy, pre
viously arrested for burglary
and petty theft.
Joseph Clyde Amsier, 23, or
Playa Del Rey, a beach front
community near Los Angeies, a
former boxer with three previ
ous arrests including an alcohol
violation and trespassing.
At a brief pre-dawn arraign
ment of Keenan and Amsier in
U.S. District Court in Los Ang
eles, Asst. U.S. Attorney Thom
as Sheridan lodged kidnap
charges and told the U.S. com
missioner the crime was pun
ishable by life imprisonment.
FBI sources said under the
Lindbergh kidnap law, a jury
may recommend the death pen
alty if the victim was harmed.
The FBI, which stucK to tne
terse language of its announce
ment, would not disclose
whether there were more than
three suspects in the case.
Frank Sinatra Sr. had previous
ly estimated eight or nine men
were involved.
A source in the Los Angeles
Police Department said he un
derstood there were no other
suspects in the case.
No Details
The FBI also would not dis
close details of the all - out
search In Nevada and Califor
nia which included a special
kidnap detail from the agency's
Washington headquarters.
However, from behind the
carefully - worded announce
ments there emerged a picture
of amateur criminals bungling
their way through one of the
most sensational kidnaping cas
es since World War II.
Young Sinatra was taken
from his motel room In the
busy gambling resort of Lake
Tahoe in a driving snowstorm
which had closed some high'
ways. Roadblocks were set up
Immediately but the kidnap car
supped through on a fluke be
cause officers were wajching
for two men Instead of the soli
tary driver who was visible in
the sedan.
1 Other developments which
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may have led to the kidnapers
downfall were rental of a hide
out in a quiet suburban com
munity near Los Angeles, giv
ing advance Information on
forthcoming telephone calls to
negotiate ransom, picking a
drop site for the ransom whlcn
could easily be photographed
with infra-red equipment which
the FBI was reported using,
and stealing and keeping a ring
marked "FS" from young Si
natra. The FBI also had serial num.
bers of most of tha ran
som money and was reported
to have treated some o! K
chemically.
Irwin was the first suspect to
be seized. He was picked tip at
Imperial Beach, Calif., at
a.m. PST (noon EST) Friday
even as tm agents In Los An
geles were hinting of an Im
pending break In the case.
Arraigned and Jailed
The painter, who had $47,938
of the ransom money with him.
was arraigned and ailed in
San Diego in lien of $50,000 bail.
Keenan, 23, a crewcut blond,
was arrested shortly before 11
p.m. PST (2 a.m. EST) at La
Canada, Calif., a Los Angeles
area community. He graduated
.Stage', return
is planned
STATELINE, Nev. (UPI;
A spokesman for Harrah's
Club said today Frank Sina
tra Jr. would return to tha
stage at the plush gambling
casino with Tommy Dorsey's
band either tonight or Sunday
night.
The young entertainer's
name was returned to Har
rah's marquee shortly after
he was freed by hi kidnap
ers. Young Sinatra ha been
resting from hi ordeal at hi
mother's west La Angela
home.
from the same high school M
Nancy fainatra.
Amsier. 23, was arrested m
Culver City, a community com-
petely surrounded by the City
ot los Angeies. Most ot tne ran
som money was located In tha
apartment where he was ar
rested. Keenan and Amsier arrived
at the Los Angeles FBI office
shortly after their arrests in a
car driven by William G. Si
mons, special agent In charge.
Kesembling calm college stu
dents, the pair were hustled in
to the office in handcuffs. About
two hours later they emerged
separately, still appearing un
ruffled and calm, and were
taken to the federal building foe
arraignment.
Waive Hearing
Both waived preliminary
hearing at the arraignment. Af
ter setting the $50,000 bail, U.S.
Commissioner Theodore H.
Hocke turned to Keenan and
said:
"Do you think your parents
will be able to post bail?"
Keenan answered:
"I don't think my parents
would be Interested."
Amsler's barely audible reply
to the same question was, "they
can't afford it and I don't think
they would be interested and I
don't blame them."
All three have police records,
but none had ever been charged
with a serious crime.
Simons, who cautioned news
men against questioning
Keenan and Amsier as the two
were first taken to the FBI of
fice, said he would have no
comment until later.
He would give no details of
the arrests or say how the FBI
traced the suspects.
QUICK VERDICT
CHESTER, England (UPI)
The judge told the jury to re
tire and consider a verdict Fri
day in a vehicular homicide
case but they told him there
was no need.
"We did it when we had a
ten-minute recess for tea. Not
guilty," the foreman said.
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