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Univ. of Or agon Library EUGENE, OBS5TW o O o o The Buj ' Partly cloudy tonight and FOrCCQSt Sunday in Central Oregon, with cooler weather. Low to night, IS to 20; high Sunday, 33-37. IW High yesterday, 41 rfegrwea. Low last night, 30 degrees. Sunset today, 4:29. SunWs tomorrow, 7:34, PST. Hi and lo SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 61st Year Eight Pages Saturday, December 21, 1963 Ten Cents No. 14 -jJE pMisiMwea He's encouraged tMms Duncan says Dunes differences aren't I Irreconcilable' 1 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Robert B. Duncan, D-Ore., said today that differences among members of the state's congres sional delegation over the pro posed Oregon Dunes National Seashore were not "irreconcil able." "I don't look for any split In the delegations," he (said. "Peo ple of good will can disagree over an issue without engaging in personalities." . Duncan, in whose district the proposed national seashore would be established, told Uni ted Press International he was "encouraged" by the progress on the park. The Oregon Democrat's com ments contrasted sharply with comments made earlier by Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., in a bit ing attack on the Senate In terior Committee. Blames Committee Morse accused the commit tee of having "split the Oregon delegation" by reporting out a bill which would provide for the condemnation of private prop erty for the proposed seashore. About 25 hurl i as streamliner jumps tracks COON RAPIDS, Iowa (UPI) The streamliner "City of Los Angeles" jumped the tracks while speeding at 79 miles an hour across snow-covered west em Iowa today, Injuring about 25 persons. . M th Injured warm hos pitalized but none was listed in serious condition. The Union Pacific-Milwaukee Road train, carrying 160 pas sengers, many on Christmas holiday trips, and about 40 crewmen and employes, appar ently struck a broken rail at the west edge of this small western Iowa community, rail road officials said. Sixteen of the 19 cars jumped the tracks and three cars two sleeping cars and a diner top pled onto their sides. Most of the passengers were asleep when the derailment oc curred about 2:15 a.m. Several said they were hurtled from their beds. One crewman said "I was thrown from one end of the car to the other." , A doctor at the scene said he gave first aid treatment to about 25 persons. Six persons were admitted to St. Anthony's Hospital in nearby Carroll but none was seriously hurt. ' They included two passengers and four crewmen. They were identified as Mrs. Dorothy Pickering, 74, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Mae Rhoda, 82, Milwaukee, Wis.; Henry Thom as, 60, Chicago; Edward Jones, Chicago; LeRoy Price, Los An geles, Calif., and Charles Duke, Chicago. Other Injured passengers Ban treatnf hv T)rl C.A. John- gon, the only doctor in this community of 1,560. Waif fill they fry fo fune fhaf package Bend postal workers are won dering if some forgetful person mailed the wrong pacuage Fri day. They found a radio transistor, In a neat leather case, in the mailbox at the Bend Post Of fice comer. Possibly, it was noted, some hurried person dropped tne transistor in the box, then tried to 'Turn on a package. The transistor will be return ed to the owner, if properly identified. Postmaster Farley J Elliott said. ; Bulletin ... ,,, . ,. ' ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (UPI) The Union Pacific "City of Portland" streamlln. er derailed about 53 miles east of here today. The 7-car train originated at Portland, Ore., and was en route to Denver. There was M immediate report of Injur ies er fatalities. ( "The committee will have to assume the responsibility for a bitter political controversy that will rage for some time in Ore gon," Morse told the Senate Thursday night. I do not like to see our dele gation involve itself in a Demo cratic civil war in my state," Morse said, "But that is what we are headed for. It ought to be avoided. Duncan said he had net had a chance to read Morse's speech and so could not comment on it. But in reply to questions, he said he did not foresee any problems for which a compro mise solution could not be found. In his Senate attack on the Oregon Dunes bill, Morse re peated his earlier contention that it was "not necessary to condemn one square foot" of private property for the park. The national seashore, Morse said, could be created entirely from state and federal lands. Bible Seeks Agreement Sen. Alan Bible, D-Nev., chair man of the subcommittee which hammered out the bill, ex pressed the hope that something satisfactory to Morse could be worked out. I understand there might be some discussion on the project at a later date in January or February," Bible said. Legislation to create the park was introduced in the House by Duncan and in the Senate by Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger, D Ore. As approved by the Senate Interior Committee, it would provide for a 30,000-acre park. The provision for condemna tion of private property was im mediately attacked by Morse and by four Republican mem bers of the committee. On the condemnation Issue, Duncan said it necessarily fol lowed once a decision was made to have recreational develop ment for public use. "I don t see how you can avoid having the ultimate power of condemnation, he said. Crashes take ives of 3 By United Press International Traffic accidents took three lives in Oregon Friday, two of them in a two-car collision near Scappoose. The victims were two-year-old Byron Hanson of Fortuna, Calif., Laveme Earl Lovell, 41, St. He lens, and Carol Jane Bnssett, 3, of Scanooose. The Hanson boy died in a Medford hospital late Friday of head injuries suffered when in an accident on U.S. Highway 199 about 24 miles southwest of Grants Pass. State Police said a car driven bv his father, Ronald D. Han son, slid on a curve and hit an embankment. Hanson and the boy were both thrown out and the boy struck the wheel of an other vehicle which had stop ped to avoid a collision. Neither Hanson nor his wife, Gloria, was injured. Lovell and the Brissett girl were involved in a collision on U.S. Highway 30 and were pro nounced dead on arrival at a St. Helens hospital. Santiam crash puts Sisters girl in hospital Special ts The Bulletin REDMOND Joanne Leit hauser, 20, Sisters, is in "good condition" here today at the Central Oregon District Hospi tal following a car-truck acci dent last night on the Santiam Pass, just east of the summit. Miss Leithauser was a passen ger in an auto driven by John Thompson, also of Sisters. Ac cording to report from Sisters, Thompson and Miss Leithauser were driving east to Sisters when a west bound truck and trailer "jack knifed" in front of them. It was snowing. Both Thompson and Miss Leithauser were taken to the Redmond hospital. Thompson was released soon after arrival with bruises. Oregon State Police had no report of the accident. The truck was owned by an undis closed couple from Lowell. It was hauling hay to the Wil lamette Valley. They're not so sure ihat rush is over Members of the small crew handling mail at the Bend Post Office annex at the Oregon Na tional Guard Armory do not join in the opinion that the Christmas mail rush is over. They were called on this morning to handle mail from more than 240 bags that reach ed here by van last night and early today. Another heavy de livery of incoming mail is ex pected over the weekend, Tom Larson, superintendent of the auxiliary station, said. Despite the heavy incoming mail this morning, it was quick ly sorted for rural and local de livery. At the main Post Office, how ever, the mail situation this morning was back near normal, with very few packages being submitted for mailing. There was a fairly heavy vol ume of letters and cards, how ever, to process in the stamp cancellation machine and make ready for outgoing mail. Postmaster Farley J. Elliott said there will be a delivery of Christmas package! around town Sunday. There will be no delivery Sunday of letter mail. 2 Turks killed as violence erupts in Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI) - Long - rankling enmity between Greeks and Turks erupted into violence here today for the first time since Cyprus became in dependent in 1960. Two Turks were killed and two Greeks and a Turk were wounded in two clashes. A huge crowd gathered at a protest meeting in the Turkish quarter, creating a threat of possible new disorders. There were reports the Turks might attempt a march through the city. Greek shops and offices in the Turkish quarter closed their doors as a precautionary measure. A police communique said the trouble started when a group of Turks refused to sub mit to a police search at dawn in a street between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot quarters. The Turks began shouting and then the crowd charged the police. Someone in the crowd opened fire with an automatic weapon and the police returned his fire. One Greek policeman was se riously wounded, and police later found a Turk who had been shot to death in the ex change. A Turkish woman who was seriously wounded during the gun battle died in a hospi tal. In the other incident, Greek and Turkish civilians clashed. One Greek and one Turk were wounded and taken to a hospi tal. Police said the situation was quickly brought under control, but armed police are patroling areas where the Greek and Turkish quarters adjoin to pre vent a new flareup. HAVE HOLIDAY SPIRIT LAWNDALE, Calif. (UPI) - Nearly $8,000 was taken from the Marino Federal Savings and Loan Association here Friday by two gunmen who did not for get the holiday spirit. A shopping bag they forced the teller to stuff the loot into had "Merry Christmas" written on it. Autumn fades into winter in snowy show of force Autumn was fading into win ter today with a show of force in the high country. Twelve inches of snow fell last night on the Santiam di vide, six inches added to the Warm Springs Junction pack, and four inches fell on the Wil lamette divide. Even the Ochocos, well east of the stormy Cascade summit, received snow, with three inch es reported on the highway pass between Prineville and Mitchell. More snow fell in the Ore gon ski areas, much to the de light of tow operators. From Bachelor Butte this morning came information that nine inches fell there during the night, to cover1 the ski hill with a total of 48 inchee. Thus was More records tumble over frozen North By United Press International Bitter cold broke more rec ords across the North today and sleet sprayed highways with ice throughout the Southern Plains. Temperatures dipped to freez ing along the Gulf Coast. The mercury dipped below zero at Chicago for the ninth consecutive day a record for December and plunged to 20 below at Watertown, N.Y. At midnight, Minneapol is, Minn., registered 13 below, St. Louis, Mo., zero and Louis ville, Ky., 7 above. A mixture of freezing rain, light snow and sleet brewed tra vel danger across parts of Ar kansas, Northern Louisiana and Mississippi. The Texas Panhan dle and Oklahoma also reported slippery highways. Hazardous driving warnings were posted for most of Missis sippi, bridges were closed in many areas of the state and po lice urged motorists to stay home unless travel was neces sary. The Illinois and Mississippi rivers were ice-covered above the Alton, 111., Dam and the Missouri River was blocked by ice at several points. Floating ice filled the Mississippi from Alton to Columbus, Ky., and the weather bureau said an ice gorge may develop today or Sunday at Greenfield Bend, near Cairo, HI. All Mississippi River barge traffic between St. Louis and Cairo was halted Friday be cause of extremely low water and the ice conditions. In other weather news: An ice truck at Minneapol is, Minn., froze up Friday in 18 below weather and deliveries were delayed. At Bemidjl, Minn., where the mercury fell to 35 below, a earden hose shattered into a dozen pieces when a motorist backed ovar it. . . A S-year-old boy who wan dered away from home and was missing for more than nine hours in freezing weather at Moiton, Ala., was found safe Friday, sleeping between two beagle hounds. The Ohio Fuel Gas Co. at Columbus said it delivered more gas to its customers Friday than ever before in its history. Low-temperature records set Friday included Columbus, Ohio 10 below; Waterloo, Iowa, 19 be low; Dubuque, Iowa, 14 below; Chicago, 9 below; Beloit, Wis., 18 below; Madison, Wis., 17 be low; Pittsburgh, Pa., 4 below; Indianapolis, Ind., 11 below. Trains slowed by cold wave PORTLAND (UPI) - Trains were arriving as much as 11 hours late here because of the cold wave in the East and Mid west, railroad officials reported today. Temperatures as low as 20 de grees below zero in the north ern plains states have frozen brake steam lines. Dispatchers said Northern Pa cific's North Coast Limited, jammed with holiday passengers was expected to arrive in Port land about 6 p.m. today. Its scheduled arrival time was 7 p.m. Friday. Great Northern's Empire Builder was running three hours late, as was Union Pacific's City of Portland. All run between Portland and Chicago. Union Pacific's Portland Rose from Kansas City was about an hour late. Ski people happy the deepest pack reported from any Oregon ski course. Total depth of snow at Tim berline this morning was 42 Inches, following a fall of 2 inches last night. The Hoodoo bowl received a fine fall of snow last night, and there will be considerable ski activity on the Hoodoo hills over the weekend. Bend received only a trace of snow and a trace of moisture from the welcome mountain storm Motorists crossing Cascades passes this morning were ad vised to carry chains. Packed snow covered all passes. Icy spots were reported from nos highways, with a numoen osg cidents reported, Partly cloudy P$tb) &$gpig8$ fSl B June? Youth black rw WW'wnMW!HsaHHsleiVM 1 FATAL ACCIDENT SCENE A Bend youth, George Helm, 22, was fatally injured about 9 o'clock this morning when this car skidded on black Ice about five miles south of the south city limits, on U.S. Highway 97, and crashed into a tree. Another youth, John Sigfrit, Bend, was slightly injured. The car virtually "wrapped around" the tree, State Officer Lee Moeller said. frmmmmmtsmim Visit relatives ttaisstmsmsm Berliners swarm through BERLIN (UPI) West Berlin ers by the thousands swarmed through the "Christmas crack" in the Communist wall today to hold brief reunions with rela tives they have not seen for more than two years. Lugging pillow cases and laundry bags full of food and cigarettes, they began stream ing past machine gun-armed Communist guards as soon as the barriers were lowered at 7 a.m. (1 a.m., EST). They must be back by midnight. West Berlin police predicted 20,000 persons would visit the Eastern zone today under the agreement by which West Ber liners are making their first trip across the anti-refugee wall since it went up 28 months ago. Many Carry Food Many emptied their cupboards lo take fruit, meat and even potatoes to their brothers and sisters on the wrong side of the barbed wire-and-concrete divi der. Some suspected the Commu nists opened the wall for poli tical reasons. But politics paled beside the emotional explosion of first reunions between moth ers and sons, grandfathers and granddaughters. The crossings, which started en masse Friday, will continue for 16 days more. Friday night, at the midnight deadline, reunited families hugged almost savagely at the moment of parting. At the Oberbaumbridge cross ing point, one middle-aged wom- n forecast for Central Oregon to night, with a similar condition to continue througn Sunday. Temperatures will be a bit cool er, with a possible low of 15 forecast for Bend tonight. Officially, winter will start at 6:02 a.m. Sunday, as the earth's north pole tilts slightly more than 23 degrees away from the sun, and long boreal shadows will be cast over the northern hemisphere. Sunday will be considered the shortest day of the year, but actually there will be little an- fcrence in the length of days for a week or more. e Gradually, days will start Itaortnnw knowing e winttS- efeMg, sad voB cogtinfle to HtWti sqpshine until the ik ice, strikes ,1 .i i i, i K?:f s hum ar iff yule crack an laughed and cried at the same time while she kissed her Western son goodbye. She also was clutching a very practical set of long underwear he had brought her as a gift. The wall, like all of Berlin, is blanketed with snow. An estimated 6,000 persons crossed it Friday. Many more were expected on a Saturday when most West Berliners are not working. Western newspapers reported that 170,000 West Berliners al ready have received passes from the platoon of deadpan Communist . functionaries who dole them out. The city govern ment asked the Communists to speed things up as huge lines formed in the falling snow long before daylight. West Berlin police reported that 19 persons were hospital ized of a total of 1,161 who col lapsed while waiting. One died. She was Mrs. Fran ziska Hoernig, 76. Her neigh bors said her "last wish" had been to see her 73-ycar-old sis ter in East Berlin. 12 hospitalized in bus-car crash PRAIRIE CITY (UPI) Twclve persons, most of them Prairie City High School stu dents were hospitalized Friday night when a school bus and two autos were involved in a crash on U.S. Highway 28. None of the 11 students were injured seriously. Another nine were treated at Blue Mountain Hospital in John Day and re leased. State Police said the students all lived in the Bates area, about 18 miles east of Prairie City. They had gone to Prairie City to see the Prairie City- Hereford basketball game ano were on their way home when the accident occurred. Police said a westbound car driven by Dennis Barrett, 19, of Prairie City struck the rear of a car containing Mr. and Mrs. Leland McGirr, Long Creek. The Barrett car then bounced Into the path of the bus, which went over the top of it. Barrett, who suffered multiple fractures, was transferred to a hospital at Caldwell, Idaho. Hospitalized at John Day were Robert Frazier, 14; Diane Phil lips, 15; Jacqueline McChesney, 13; Patricia McChesney, 17; Michael Phillips, 14; Elizabeth Thompson, 14; Alice Vincent, 16; Harvetta King, 12; Linda Hen atone, 14; Linda Coalwell, 14; and Susan May 14. m car r" id roreign a compromise worked ouf - WASHINGTON (UPI)-A new compromise on foreign aid was hammered out by haggard Sen ate and House negotiators to day, opening the way for a bat tle weary Congress to adjourn for the year. Acceptance of the compromise would remove the last stum bling block to adjournment and salvage a last ditch victory for President Johnson who sus tained a major setback on the legislation during an all night session. House Speaker John McCor- mack said House Rules Com mittee action would be needed to clear the way for a vote on the new proposal. The House convened at noon, and immedi ately began a roll call to deter mine whether the necessary quorum of 217 members was on hand to do business. The Senate also met at noon, with only a handful of senators present. Aides said the Senate could, if the point is forced, muster a quorum but barely. After five desultory minutes the Senate recessed subject to the call of the chair. In a session lasting about eight minutes, the joint con ferees made a slight modifica tion in the language which gives President Johnson discretion in underwriting credit for grain sales to Russia and the commu nist bloc. The compromise was sent back to the House for another showdown. Leaders hoped that because of the closeness of the vote early today a few vote switches or return of absentees might reverse the verdict. The agreement followed an all night meeting that brok? up after dawn. It gave President Johnson a chance to recoup af ter a stunning setback to his prestige in the early morning vote. The action capped what al ready has been the longest ses sion of Congress since World War II. Rep. Green dies in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - Rep. William J. Green Jr., 53, a power in national politics and boss of the Philadelphia Demo cratic organization, died today at Graduate Hospital. Green had been critically ill since he was admitted to the hospital oa Dec. 8 for emer gency surgery. r( suffered a reapse Friday wid his condi tion detcrbsrmd s&adily until there was g eoviplete loss of blood prtMi fflSQ,h came at 2:45a.m.,t?2$, tire George Helm killed, young driver hurt A Bend youth was killed and a Central Oregon College stu dent injured in a one-car acci dent five miles south of Bend this morning about 9 o'clock. Dead in the accident was George Helm, Jr., 22, Bureau of Land Management employee who made his home with his mother, Mrs. Ada Dameron, nurse's aid at the Sunset Home. Injured, not seriously, was John C. Sigfrit. 19, who came here from southern Oregon to attend Central Oregon College. The two youths had left this morning for a drive a short dis tance south. With biglnt as operator of the car, the young men drove as far south as the Camp Abbot turnoff on U.S. Highway 97, then started their return to Bend. South of City Just south of the Bend city limits, the car skidded on black ice, traveled a distance of 165 feet sidewise and crashed Into a roadside pine tree. The car virtually "wrapped around" the tree. Reaching the scene of the ac cident minutes after it happen ed was State Officer Lee Moel ler, who had been south to In vestigate a minor traffic acci dent. Helm was still alive In the Wreckage when Officer Moeller arnvea, ana was son to aim I cuss his condition; noting he had no feeling below his hips. Internal injuries were apparent ly a factor in the fatality. The youth died en route to the hos pital. Occupants of the car were brought to Bend in the city am bulance. The car left the highway on ihe east side, not far from the stale weighing station, and crashed into the pine, about 14 inches in diameter. The impact was well above the base. From the point of impact, and after partly wrapping around the tree, the demolished car fell to the ground. From California Helm's mother and her four children moved to Bend two months ago from Fresno, Calif. The other children, in addition to George, are John, employed in the area, and Mary and Georgia, who are attending Junior High School. George is also survived by a sister, in Jackson Villa, N.Y., and a brother, in Ontario, Calif. They are on their way to Bend. George was a faller for the Bu reau of Land Management. Sigfrit, whose injuries were reported as light, came here from Roseburg, where his par ents live. Eighth Tiros put into orbit CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) The United States rocketed Its eighth Tiros satellite Into orbit today to send back the first "instant" pictures of earth's weather. The camera-carrying motTet rode into the sky in the nose of a three stage Delta rocket that ran up an unprecedented 21st straight success. The rocket roared from Its launching pad atop a pillar of flame and smoke at 4:30 a.m. EST. Ten minutes later, the federal space agency said all stages had fired properly. Early information Indicated the satellite was whirling about earth in an orbit from 436 miles to 468 miles up. Scientists said Tiros -8 made one trip around the globe every 99 minutes. . STUDENTS MISS PARTY SYRACUSE. N.Y. (UPI) About 400 pupils at the Mea chen School eagerly looked for ward to the Christmas holiday vacation but were quite unhap py Friday when It began a day early. ' A six-inch wafer main broke In the basement of the school here, forcing officials to send the pupils home before they could hold their scheduled after noCh Christmas party.
