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SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
61st Year
Fourteen Pages
Tuesday, December 17, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 10
Fair destroys
loss esinaited aft neariy'ltaK
LBJ pledges
support to
world group
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
UPI) President Johnson
pledged full support to the Unit
ed Nations today and offered
a new year vow to make world
peace, civil rights and human
welfare "not an illusion but a
reality."
.. Delegates of 113 nations stood
as the President entered to be
gin his first U.N. speech as
Chief Executive. They stood
again and applauded for 42 sec
onds when he ended his 15
minute address with a pledge
that:
. "Any man and any nation
that seeks peace and hates
war and is willing to fight the
good fight against hunger and
disease and ignorance and mis
erywill find the United States
of America by their side, will
ing to walk with them every step
of the way. .
The delegates Interrupted the
President only once, applauding
for 12 seconds when he said:
"And more than ever we sup
port the United Nations as the
best instrument yet devised to
promote the peace of the world
and the well being of mankind."
Only Communist Albania and
Cuba did not join in the ap
plause, although their delegates
participated in the two standing
tributes to the President.
The General Assembly Hall
was packed, even .though the
public was barred under secu
rity restrictions even more se
vere than those in force when
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev and a company of world
leaders attended the 1960 ses
sion here.
The President stood alone on
the platform behind the black
marble dais after he was ac
companied there by the U. N.
chief of protocol.
Assembly President Carlos So
sa Rodriguez of Venezuela pre
sented him, saying simply:
"On behalf of the General As
sembly I have the honor to wel
come his excellency, Mr. Lyn
don B. Johnson, President of
the United States of America,
and to invite him to be good
enough to address the General
Assembly."
After the speech, Sosa
thanked the President and
asked delegates to remain in
their seats while he escort
ed Johnson from the hall.
Johnson warmly gave Sosa
and Secretary General Thant
his familiar hand-and-elbow
Texas handshake as they went
with him to the nearby Indone
sian lounge where he greeted
chairmen of the 113 U.N. dele
gates and their permanent rep
resentatives here.
DOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Press International
liow Jones final stock aver
ages: 30 industrials 766.38, up
4.74; 20 railroads 178.79, up
0.37; 15 utilities 138.22, off 0.09,
and 65 stocks 268.72, up 1.05.
IF YOU'VE LOST
PERSONAL PROPERTY
in the Allen School Fire
, these losses will be covered for
our household goods policy-holders.
This coverage includes your chil
dren's personal books, clothing, any
athletic equipment or musical
instruments.
TO EXPEDITE CLAIMS ON
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
please bring us a sales slip (if pur
chased recently) or an appraisal
of value from any local music
firm.
I.
GORDON RANDALL
1036 Wall AGENCY 3821421
Window here
is shattered
by sonic boom
Bend was rattled by a
sharp blast this morning at
9:30 that shattered an 8 by 12
foot plate glass window in the
Corner Snack, at the comer
of Franklin and Bond.
A sonic boom from a high,
flying jet apparently was the
cause of the sharp tremor
that brought many persons
out of their homes and offices
to see what happened. The
trail of a jet was sighted.
Because of the danger re
sulting from the broken glass,
the Corner Snack was temp
orarily closed, to permit of
window repair.
Two unidentified patrons
were seated next to the win
dow when it shattered. They
were not injured.
Mrs. James Riley It opera
tor of the Corner Snack. She
said the restaurant would be
reopened just as soon as the
window is replaced.
Roseburg youth
dies in plunge
near Everest
ROSEBURG (UPI)-A young
Roseburg adventurer was killed
Dec. 4 in a fall on the ap
proaches to Mt. Everest, his
parents were informed today.
The victim was Dave Wyatt,
20, a student at the University
of Chicago, who left Oregon
last September with two com
panions on a trip to Nepal.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Wyatt, received a telegram this
morning from Wyatt's two
young companions, Steve Mc
Carthy and Gary Payne, both
20, telling them of the tragedy.
In Washington, the State De
partment said the U.S. Embassy
at Katmandu, Nepal, reported
the youth was killed in the Tesi
Lapacha pass area. McCarthy
and Pavne. who reached Kat
mandu Monday night, said the
body had been buried at tne
site of the fall.
The State Department had no
further details.
Wyatt was a biology major at
the University of Chicago. Mc
Carthy was born in Seattle but
attended schools in Roseburg.
He and Payne are Reed College
students in Portland.
The youths planned to study
customs in Nepal and to collect
specimens for the Smithsonian
Institution and the Chicago Mu
seum of Natural History.
They received money and
equipment for the trip from
Oregon firms and also planned
to collect beetles and other
scientific specimens.
SALT TRUCK CRASHES
YORK, England (UPI) A
truck loaded with salt for icy
roads skidded and crashed on
an icy road Monday.
DESTRUCTION IN THE NIGHT Firs levels Bend's Allen
School, which was file last word in one-story frame construction
when it was built in 1931. Wall of flames is bizarre spectacle
THE MORNING AFTER Susan Marsh, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ronel Marsh, Boyd Acres, holds charred books as she
and Officer Myron Smith look over rubble in spot that was
Firemen go
all-out in
blaze effort
Initial efforts to control the
Allen School fire today required
use of every piece of Bend's
fire-fighting equipment except
ing one. A standby engine nor
mally stationed at the Brooks
Scanlon, Inc., lumber mill was
called to the fire station and re
mained there to answer possi
ble other calls, Fire Chief
Vernon Carlon said today.
All 16 of the fire depart
ment's full-time men were on
the job, Carlon said, with two
of them remaining at the fire
station. A total of 28 members
of Bend's Volunteer Fire De
partment assisted in fighting
the big blaze.
It was not necessary to call
in backup equipment from
neighboring communities, Car
lon said, although standby ar
rangements are in effect when
additional equipment is needed.
One fireman was Injured in
the blaze. Dick Walter suffer
ed a deep bum on one wrist.
He was treated as an out-patient
at St. Charles Memorial
Hospital, and released. Walter
and two other men were on the
roof, attempting to control the
spread of the fire, when the
roof of the center of the build
ing caved in. Neither of the oth
er two were injured..
Other firemen inside the
building less than a minute be
fore the cavein were ordered
outside by Chief Carlon. They
narrowly escaped injury.
"The fire had too much head
way to stop before we got
there," Carlon said. Fire had
spread through the attic by the
time men and equipment arriv
ed. Type of construction (the
building was built of wood) had
little to do with the loss, he
said, since original plans only
called for brick facing over
frame construction.
"Unless you can get inside a
building and on top if it, there
is not much you can do," Car
lon said. "The men were driven
off and out, and all we could do
was to make sure nothing else
burned.
yeair-oM Allen fadle
What
nowi
Proposals eyed for continuing
classes for Allen youngsters
Various proposals for continu- r
ation of
chnnl fnr thnsB sin. i
dents burned out in the Allen
school fire last night were un
der consideration today by ad
ministrators on the Bend school
district staff. A meeting of the
district's board, previously
scheduled for tomorrow night,
will make decisions as further
information becomes available.
Superintendent R. E. Jewell
said early today he doubted
there would be any school for
Allen youngsters until after the
Christmas holidays. These stu
dents, 449 of them, will be the
only ones immediately affected
by the fire.
After the Christmas vacation
fifth and sixth graders will go
to Kenwood and-or the new
Bear Creek school, probably on
a double-shift basis with stu
dents now at those schools, he
said. Double-shifting is neces
sary because of the need to
share library facilities and
gymnasia, both needed in tnose
grades.
Some primary students will
use two rooms still standing at
Allen. It will be necessary to
furnish heat, water, and power
to those rooms, in a small
building separate from the
structure which burned, l ney
had been connected to central
facilities at Allen. Others will
be spread throughout the sys
tem.
The big question ahead for
school administrators and the
board of trustees is what to do
next. A total of 13 classrooms,
office space, a library and a
gymnasium are needed to re
place space lost last night.
One immediate possibility Is
the enlargement of the Bear
Creek school. Plans called for
development of 16 rooms and a
gymnasium on the new aite.
Eight rooms were completed at
the start of this school year, at
1.
in the early morning hours, as structure becomes roaring in
ferno. Loss runs to half million dollars. East Side residents
watched as building crumbled to ruins.
Allen School library. Susan is first grader at school. Fire
destroyed not only building and furnishings, but many musical
instruments owned individually by students.
a cost of $240,000. The district's
architect already nas unai
working drawings on hand for
the gymnasium, and existing
plans for the first eight rooms
could be used to complete de
velopment in plenty of time for
the start of school next year, it
is believed.
The question then remaining,
Jewell said today, is where to
build the remaining rooms nec
essary. The Allen site has been
criticized for some time on two
grounds. One, the area is small
er than the state recommends.
Two, it is right alongside the
major north - south highway
through Bend. The highway has
created a noise problem for the
school. The school has created
a traffic problem for the high
way.
There has been considerable
Woocf vs. brick controversy
recalled by school blaze
Centering around construe-. were called on to design a mod
tion of the Allen Grade School j ern structure, "entirely of
in
1930-31 was a controversy
which Interested the entire city.
It was a controversy concern
ing wood vs. brick.
Original plan was to construct
a building that would be partly
of brick and partly of wood.
That proposal came in depres
sion days when lumber produc
tion in the local mills was at a
low ebb. Many mill workers
were without jobs.
"Use wood" was the cry. For
this reason, the plan to use
brick and stone in building the
Allen school aroused consider
able resentment. Actually, the
original plan did call for the
use of wood framing, floors,
and interior.
Eventually, the original plan
was scrapped, and architects
moot
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interest expressed in the site
for commercial development. If
the Interest still exists, and it
should be heightened now that
the site has become undevelop
ed property, the district may be
offered a chance to sell it, real
estate men said today.
If the site is sold, district ad
ministrators have long felt a
better site for a new school
would be on property now own
ed by the state on the north
west side of Pilot Butte. It may
be that a new school would be
constructed there.
The district carried Insurance
sufficient to replace the facil
ities lost in last night's fire, it
is believed. Final determination
cannot be made until the loss
is adjusted, and until bids can
be obtained for replacement of
I the burned-out building.
' pwiWOTsa pine, csa archiloc-
turally fitting into the land
scape. The result was the fine Allen
School, acclaimed one of the
best looking school structures in
the state in its day.
Recognizing the possible fire
hazard, plans for the building
called for many openings 130
windows and 80 doors.
In constructing the building,
400,000 board feet of lumber
was used. Also used were five
tons of nails, and 200.000 shing
les. Dimensions of the building
were 152 by 330 feet a long
building facing East Third
Street.
It was a 14 room structure,
with auditorium and gymnasium.
Jewell
building was
fully covered
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Stiff Wrlttr
Bend's 32-year-old Allen Grade
School on East Third Street,
erected in 1930-31 at a cost of
around $90,000, was destroyed
today by an early morning fire,
with the loss estimated at close
to half a million dollars.
Superintendent of Schools R.E.
Jewell said the building was
fully insured.
The fire was one of the most
costly in Bend's history a
history that covers the loss of
another school building, Central,
on a frosty morning on February
10, 1937, when it was being used
as a temporary courthouse.
A total of 449 children attend
ing classes in 14 different
rooms in the 330-foot long build
ing facing East Third, were out
of school today, result of the
fire. They may continue the
recess until after the Christmas
holidays.
Fire Source Unknown
The tire may not have origin
ated in the turnace room, as
first believed, investigating of
ficer! said .shortly jbefore .noonj
toaay. -mere -was no oviaence
that the furnace doors had
blown open. Several "blow-
backs" were reported in the
furnace room.
The Bend Fire Department is
requesting an inspection by
Waller Stichney, state fire mar
shal.
The fire was first spotted at
2:55 a.m. by Herbert Maker,
Bend police officer, who, ac
companied by Officer Frank
Stenkamp, was driving souin
over East Third Street. Maker
was coming over the north over
pass at the time, and radioed
his office. An immediate call
was radioed to the fire depart
ment and firemen were quick
ly on the scene.
Maker had passed the Allen
school only five minutes before
discovering the fire, when he
was headed north.
The fire spread quickly into
the gymnasium attic and the
auditorium, then through the
ridge roof. Firemen worked to
open both ends of the attic, to
rol tne lire DacK, dui ine
blaze was too far under way
and too hot. A collapse of the
attic followed.
Officer Maker spotted fire
on early-morning round
By Gerald Drapea'i 1
Bulltlln Stiff Wrlttr
The fire which consumed Al
len School this morning was
first spotted by Police Officer
Herb Maker at 2:56, while he
and Officer Frank Stenkamp
were on routine patrol.
Driving south on E. Third
Street, Maker spotted a column
of billowing smoke and alerted
the Fire Department by radio.
He called again when he was
close enough to the fire to know
its location.
"It took only three minutes or
less from the time I called, to
the time the first engines ar
rived." Maker said. "There
wasn't 8 soul on the streets,
and surprisingly enough, not
many people showed up behind
the firemen."
Maker said there was no traf
fic problem whatever. Cars of
volunteer firemen which stream
ed into the area found no ob
struction of curious pedestrians
to deal with. The volunteers ar
rived in rapid and orderly fash
ion, hut there was nothing they
could do to save the building.
A crowd of only 40 or 50 resi
dents assembled to watch the
spectacle. Most stood at a safe
distance back of the school
playground. It front of the
building, a power company
workman climbed up a utility
pole across Third Street and
severed wires which presented
School;
dollars
says
A southwest wind, not strong,
but capable of whipping the
flames, carried embers out Into
the trees and towards homes
just north and east of the
school grounds. Also endanger
ed, but saved, was the Allen
School annex, a building east of
the main structure.
One fireman, Dick Walter,
was injured. He was treated for
a wrist burn.
In their efforts to check the
flames, firemen fought the fire
from two fronts, the center rear
and the center front. The south'
For a full page of fire pic
tures see page 3. Additional
newt of Allen School fire ap
pear on page 2.
westerly wind carried the fire
into the north part of the build
ing.
Not only the building, but aU
lis contents. Including a ftaa
grade school library, were lost
in the night fire. Firemen and
spectators described; tne tire as
"intensely hot." People stand
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forced to move. The 330 by 152
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feet of lumber. ' ; v
Crowd Quickly Gather
Despite the early morning
hour, a crowd quickly gather
ed. Spectators watched as s
great cloud of smoke, brightly
illuminated by the fire, rolled
northeast across town.
Spectators included the prin
cipal, Ford Hunnell. There wera
tears in his eyes as he helpless
ly watched the flames engulf
the big building. Hunnen nas
been principal since 1943, hav
ing succeeded John Jensen,
principal from 1932 to 1943.
Ivan (iinther, with a year s serv
ice, was the first principal.
Without duties, at least temp
orarily, as a result of the fire
are 15 home room teachers.
Hundreds of spectators visit
ed the fire area today, to find
onlv narts of a few blackened
walls and the stone entrance in,
place. Among spectators were
many ot tne Alien pupus, ana
most of the teachers.
In the rubbish were many
personal belongings, as well as
school fixtures.
North and east of the flam
ing building, in the path of a
southwest wind, residents wera
frantically busy protecting their
homes.
All of us were out there with
hoses," said Mrs. John Wilson,
334 E. Hawthorne. "The sparks
were raining on our roofs and
lawns and bushes. But as soon
as they landed we got them
out."
A steady patrol of fire trucks
in the school area protected
neighborhood homes.
Sanfa to be at
municipal tree
here Saturday
Bend Jaycees are anticipating
as many as 400 kiddies Satur
day when Santa Claus makes
his annual visit to the munici
pal tree, Bob Baltimore, chair
man, announced today.
Bend firamen will datt var
Santa to the tree at Oregon and
Wall Streets at 1 p.m. Kiddies
will form a line down Oregon
Avenue towards the Pine Tav
ern. Jaycees will try to get all tha
children through by 4 p.m. How
ever, Santa will stay later If
necessary. Following his visit
with the children, Santa will vis
it St. Charles Memorial Hospital.
a danger to observers.
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