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Increasing clouds tonight,
ForCCQSt mostly cloudy Wednesday.
Few showers. High Wednes
day, 44-52. Low tonight, 26-30.
High yesterday, 52 degrees.
Low last night, 30 degrees.
Sunset today, 4:31. Sunrise
tomorrow, 7:33, PST.
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SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
61st Year
Sixteen Pages
Tuesday, December 24, 1963
Ten Cents
No. 16
IBui
Allen School
replacement
cost studied
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Stiff Writer
In a race against time, hope
ful that a contract for the con
struction of a new school or
schools can be let in time for
use of the new facilities by next
autumn, Bend school adminis
trators were continuing today
their study of problems result
ing from the Allen Grade
School fire of December 17.
Two contractors have been
asked to provide estimates of
replacement, with the value of
the Allen structure to be that
of the time of the fire.
Staff members continue their
effort to establish "member
ship" at Allen for the first
auarter of the 1963-64 school
year, to obtain basic school
suoDort funds irom tne siaie.
The allocation of the state funds
are based on average daily at
tendance. Debris Cleared
Debris is being cleared from
the Allen school fire area, to
make the site available for play
by first grade youngsters who
will attend "Little Allen" after
the first of the year.
The inventory of property in
the Allen building at the time
of the fire is near completion,
and will be presented in near
ly 100 pages. Allen teachers
have compiled this inventory,
with original costs, which must
now be changed to costs at the
time of the fire.
A study is being made to de
termine whether the huge chim
ney which still stands on the
Allen grounds can be consider
ed sound and not chargeable
against losses.
Of great assistance to admin
istrators in their complicated
work resulting from the fire is
the fact that duplicate of all
student records were kept on
file in the superintendent's of
fice. These will be used in de
termining the average daily at
tendance at Allen tnis past tan,
to obtain the basic school
funds. Parents will be asked to
supply date relative to pupils
who were aDseni.
Replacement cost of the Al-
len Grade School is being com
plicated by the fact that since
the building was constructed 32
years ago there have been a
number of additions or im
provements. Plans and specifi
cations of these plans are be-
inff made available for tne con
tractors who will provide the
overall reolacement estimate.
The results of a week of prob
ine the nibble of Allen School
by a three - man investigating
team have produced at least a
Drobable cause for the blaze.
When the structure was built,
four uorieht wooden studs were
put into place flush against the
chimney stack. These studs
served as supports for a lathe-
and-plaster wan.
Tapered Upward
Durinff the post-fire investiga
linn. it. was discovered that the
base of these studs all that
remained of them were burn
ed so that they tapered upward
from the stack-side out. Ac
cording to Five Chief Vern Car
Ion, the direction of taper would
have been reversed if the fire
had reached the studs from any
direction but the stack-side.
This fact seems to indicate that
heat from the stack triggered a
charring process in the studs
that carried over the years.
Nnwariavs. savs Carlon, build
ing code regulations would re
quire a clearance between a
stack and supporting studs.
Carlon also pointed to evi
dence indicating the fire must
have started from two to four
hours before its discovery. His
prime reason is found in an
overturned fan blower, located
above the stage area, which
could only have been overturn
ed after all structural material
had been bumed out from un
der it. This process required
considerable time.
When the fames reached
the electrical wiring in the
blower, an arc-burning process
Yule storm
again moves
info Oregon
A Christmas storm that slow
ed down off the Oregon coast
was again moving toward the
mainland todav. resulting in
predictions of rain in western FUNCHAL, Madeira (UPI) -Oregon
tonight and possibly Three rescue ships brought 533
some showers in Central Oregon survivors from the Lakonia dis
on Christmas. aster to Funchal today. Some
Forecasters make no mention i of tne surviving passengers im
of Christmas snow. . i mediately criticized the actions
of the crew alter tire DroKe out
Lakonia crew
under fire
by survivors
Specifically the forecast
the Bend area calls for
for
'in-
aboard the Greek cruise liner
180 miles to the northeast.
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ciouay Wednesday with a fewi ,, ; I
showers; highs, 46 to 52; lows I ?" ne. W0T";- "h wa nt
tonight, 26 to 30. .immediately identified said aft-
D ., . . . ... 1 er leaving one of the rescue
Port and faces showers both hj ..e had ,0 look after
tonight and on Christmas day. ; olll.Hselvcs, getting into lifeboats.
All Central Oregon was under There were no ladders, and we
a clear sky this morning, with nad to get off as best we
the Three Sisters and adjacent mu
peaks cast in a bluish hue in. In London, the Greek line is
the sunrise tints. sued an 0ffjcjai statement which
Bend's low temperature for said no reports had yet been
the night was 30 degrees, with , received about the fire,
white frost covering the ground Say Lifeboats Cheeked
ait uawil. 4inr i i
we idimui uuiiuiiciii uii is
olated incidents," the statement
said, "and can only say that
the lifeboats were definitely
properly equipped and all had
been checked during the refit
period before sailing."
Other passengers said the
fire, which broke out Sunday
night aboard the 20,314-ton lin
er, turned everything into
"chaos."
"One of us had to jump into
By United Press International the water," another passenger
J
inson
as w
beaS a
cores :imaiw.woc(oi?y:.
He awb defeated
Massive storm
churns into
New England
A massive storm churned up
the New England coast today,
spraying highways with ice and
dumping new snow inland
across New York Mate and
Pennsylvania
said. "Everyone was yelling
and asking for ladders but the
ladders didn't appear."
The company also said it had
received reports that 921 pas
sengers and crew members had
The Southland, vstill shivering j been rescued. The vessel car
at the thought of its first while
Christmas in years, struggled
to clear snow-clogged roads and
remove ice from.airport .run
ways. '
Temperatures fell lo record
lows across Dixie. Tennessee
became the nation's ice box
an all-time low of 13 degrees
below zero was recorded at
Memphis. December records
were set with a 1 below read
ing at Little Rock, Ark., and a
3 above mark at Fort Smith,
Ark.
Mobile, Ala., on the Gulf
Coast, recorded a 19-degree
reading and the hard freeze ex
tended southward into the lush
farm belt of the Rio Grande in
Texas.
The storm which dumped
heavy snow across the South
Monday churned up the North
Atlantic Coast today sideswip
ing the shore with gusty winds
and choppy seas.
Small craft warnings were
displayed from Eastport,
Maine, south to Florida.
Five inches of snow clogged
streets and roads in the Boston
area in six hours today and
lesser amounts spread inland.
No Bulletin
on Christmas
In keeping with a long es
tablished custom, and to
make It possible for its em
ployees to be at home with
their families, The Bulletin
will not be published tomor
row, Christmas Day.
ried a total of 1,036 passengers
and crew.
The three vessels which ar
rived here .this .morning were
the P'. '& 'O. liner Stratheden
with three survivors, the Argen
tine vessel Salta with 455. and
the American vessel Rio Grande
with 75 for a total of 533.
Two other vessels, the Pakis
tani freighter Mehdi and the
British cargo ship Montcalm,
were bringing in more survi
vors. The Mehdi was heading
for Funchal and the Montcalm
for Casablanca, Morocco.
The Greek line spokesman in
London said information had
been received that the 7,051-ton
American vessel Exporter had
picked up 76 survivors and the
1,029-ton French motor vessel
Barakat had picked up 22.
He said this brought the total
to 921, leaving 115 unaccounted
for.
A British plane today report
ed sighting 10 more bodies in
the waters around the burning
Lakonia, reducing the number
of passengers and crewmen
dead or unaccounted for to 105.
FINES CURSERS
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UPI)
Lester Friebe, a service station
operator who fines everyone a
dime who curses at his station,
has collected about $60 so far,
all of which will be used to buy
Christmas presents for needy
families.
Friebe reported Monday that
some folks just don't know how
to curse. He said one elderly
lady stepped up to the jar, mur
mured "good heavens," and
dropped in a dime.
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Aimed at vandals
City fathers order
JO o'clock curfew
Bend city fathers Monday de
cided that the only way to
stamp out vandalism in the city
is to hit it hard.
They devised a many-pronged
attack which will make it con
siderably more difficult for
youngsters to prey on other
peoples' property, and harder
on those caught in the act of
PLENTY OF TIME Lori Herron, from Sheridan, gets busy with her present wrapping, after a
little last-minute shopping. She is visiting in Redmond with her grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle
Frey. Stores will close at regular hours tonight, for calm Christmas Eve.
Weary lawmakers
agree to wind up
long session Monday ,
WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi- rel."
dent Johnson today won his first ; Smith said Russia still owes;
big struggle with Congress ! this country Sll billion lioiii.
when an unprecedented dawn j lend-lease shipments in World
session of the House voted down ' War !! , . i . ,
Its own attempt lo curb wheat I private bankers propose lo fi
sales to Communist nations. nance thawheat deal, if it ma
Johnson called the potion terializes? However, it is cx-.
"constructive" and said "I am 'peeled they will want their
sure that the nation Is grale- loans guaranteed by the Export-'
ful" to the lawmakers. ; Import Bank. The House tied lo:
Immediately afler the bitter-', a billion foreign aid bill a
l rnniPstmi voIr the wearv specific prohibition against any
!n . ,.. i 1,1. such emarantee.
journ the first session of the Today's House action cleared
88th Congress on Monday. This the way for final, belated ap
meant that for all practical pur- i proval of the aid bill, already
i ho inmrpst islnn nf almost six months overdue. It
I Congress in more than 20 years ! carries money to finance for-
was over. eign military ana economic as-
ti, rn noil vnio nn ihi sistance in the 12 months that
wheal credit ameniment to the 1 teRan on July 1. .
$3 billion foreign aid bill was ', House members first had ap
189 to 158. Voting in support of , proved the trade curb Monday
Johnson's stand were 187 Demo-1 of last week. Johnson persuad-
crats and 2 Republicans. ' Vot- l ed the fccnale, wnen u iook up
ing against it were 133 Itepubli- , me aid Dill, to rejeci me provi-
cans and 25 Democrats. . ,5'n. i cuiucieiro huiuuw
Wore Down Opponents ; - brought back to the House a
. , ... ,, , ,,;., 1 compromise putting Congress
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but destroyed the honeymoon
with the White House. The
House twice before had voted
doine it. The action follows sev-
Tufted he metaPeral weeks of complaints to po
began which mel ed the metal , 0ulraEed citizens, vie-
nto drippings wmcn . r ... c u fe.
icicles. The direcU(m of the stolen Christmas
droppuigof these icicles i proved , even sIain u.
The tOUOWUlg preveniauve
the fan blower had been over
turned.
APPLICATION APPROVED
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Housing and Home Finance
Agency Monday approved an ap
plication by the Lane County
Housing Authority to extend the
completion time for the Spring
field, Ore., urban renewal pro
ject to next June 30.
measures were either discuss
ed or decided upon:
1. A ten o'clock evening cur
few. The board decided to put
it into effect immediately. It re
quires that unless a youngster
under 18 years has legitimate
business on the streets of Bend
Sunday through Thursday
U n cha uHll ha an.
prehended by police. Commis
sioners instructed City Attorney
Ron Marceau to draft the mea
sure as an amendment to the
present after - hours ordinance.
to be acted upon at the next
regular session. The present
midnight curfew will apply on
ly on Fridays and Saturdays.
2. Additional police patrols.
Extra reserve and plainclothes
officers will begin patroling city
streets, starting tonight.
3. Offer of a reward. Com
missioners are considering of
fering a reward of, say, $100
for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of a van
dal. Reward money could be
paid out of fines assessed
against the parents of guilty
youngsters.
4. Full cooperation of citizens
Residents who see youngsters
on the streets after the curfew
hour will be encouraged to
phone their whereabouts to po
lice.
Jerusalem's
barriers
thrown open
JERUSALEM (UPI) - Israel
and Jordan today threw open
the barriers dividing this anci
ent Arab city between Arab
and Jew. More than 3,500 Is
raeli Christians crossed into the
old city for their annual Christ
mas reunions with relatives.
Many also went to worship at
Christian shrines in the old
city, normally cut off from them
by the Mandelbaum uaie. ine
dividing line has bristled with
military guards of both nations
since fighting in Palestine end
ed in an uneasy truce 15 years
ago.
Reminders of the armed truce
were everywhere. Pilgrims could
see Israeli and Jordanian sol
diers, checkpoint sandbags and
"dragons' teeth" tank traps
marking the border's no man's
land.
Most of the pilgrims will be
allowed to remain in Arab Jor
dan for 36 hours. Many carried
suitcases or bundles of gifts as
they were checked through the
date in a long, slow moving
line first by Israeli guards
and then by Jordanian soldiers.
Most of the pilgrims are Arab
Catholics. Both governments
permit them to cross over for
visits twice a year at Christ
mas and Easter.
The pilgrimage was somewhat
overshadowed this year by the
forthcoming visit of Pope Paul
VI next week. More than 5,000
Christian pilgrims were in Je
rusalem but observers felt the
crowds were smaller than us
ual, apparently because many
delaved their visits to coincide
with the visit of the pontiff
Jan. 4-6.
Services set ,
Annual observance
of Christmas due
West Berliners
throng through
gaps in wall
BERLIN (UPI) Throngs of
West Berliners carrying gifts to
brighten Christmas Eve for
their relatives In East Berlin
passed through gaps in the
Communist Berlin wall today.
Thousands of other West Ber
liners waited patiently in line
in the snow for passes to make
post-Christmas visits. The last
passes for Christmas Day visits
were issued Monday.
By lla Grant Hopper
Bulletin Staff Writer
Central Orcgonians, like peo
ple in most of the western
world, take pause tonight and
tomorrow for the observance ol
Christmas.
Traditional festivities of a re
ligious nature celebrate the
birth of Jesus of Nazareth, in a
manger in Bethlehem. Some of
the customs of the festival of
feasting and gift-giving are de
scendants of the ancient cele
bration of the winter solstice.
In Central Oregon, the possi
bility of a white Christmas in
the lowlands seemed remote
today, as the weatherman re
vised earlier predictions and
prophesied bluebird weather,
with sunshine and clear sKies.
At the higher elevations there
is plenty of snow, and persons
who want their Christmas wnue
can drive to the mountain coun
try for a closer look at the
snow - covered peaks. Skiers
have plenty ot the wmte sum
for their maneuvers on t h e
slats, and facilities will be oper
ating tomorrow at Bachelor.
Closed Christmas
The facilities at Hoodoo Bowl
will be closed Christmas Day,
but will be in operation Decem
ber 26, and continuously daily
through New Year's Day.
Activities for many will be
centered at home firesides, with
numerous families augmented
by the return of young people
from colleges, and the arrival
of visiting friends and relatives
from afar.
A number of churches will be
holding special service tonight
and tomorrow. Others presented
choral music and had Sunday
School programs on "Christmas
Sunday," which fell this year
on December 22.
Christmas carols starting at
11:45 tonight will usher in
yule services at St. Francis
Catholic Church fii Bend, with
midnight services to start at 12
o'clock. This will be a solemn
high mass, with fourth degree
Knights jot, Columbus serving as
a guard1 Of honor.
Masses on Christmas day will
be at 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m. and 11
a.m. These will all be low
masses. Benediction will follow
the 11 a.m. service..
Trinity Episcopal Church will
hold Its Christmas Eve service
starting at 10:30 p.m. and end
ing shortly after midnight.
There will be -choir music and
congregational caroling, with a
candlelight communion service.
Two Services
At First Lutheran Church,
similar Christmas eve services
will be held at 9 and 11 p.m.
There will be singing of Christ
mas carols, reading of the
Christmas gospel and a Christ
mas message under the theme
"No Room."
Each one who worships Is giv
en a candle to light for the
candlelit singing of the carol,
"Silent Night," and the utter
ance of a Christmas prayer. At
the earlier service a junior
choir will sing "How Glad I Am
Each Christmas Eve." At 11
o'clock the senior choir will
sing "A Slovak Christmas
Carol." Everyone is welcome to
attend either of these services.
A Christmas Day festive wor
ship service will be held at
F rst Lutheran Church at iu
a.m. The senior choir will sing,
"Chime, Happy Christmas
Bells." The Christmas message,
"An Unknown Story," will be
preached by the Rev, Richard
Knutzen.
Annual Communion
First Presbyterian Church
will hold its annual Christmas
Eve communion service at 11
p.m. The chancel choir, under
the direction of Nick Norton
will sing the anthems, "Mary
Marv. Where is Your Baby," by
Jester Hairston, and "Silent
Night! Holy Night!" The pas
tor, the Rev. James r. Mcuug-
in, will bring the communion
message, "Christmas is Tomor
row."
Business - wise, the shopping
season was drawing to a close
this afternoon, with many shop
pers making last-minute selec
tions for gift giving and prepar
ing the holiday feast.
Tomorrow will be observed
as a general holiday, and for
the most part, only essential
service establishments will . be
own.
for the controversial amend
ment to the foreign aid bill but
administration forces finally
wore down opponents with tac
tics that included an all-nig.it
session Friday night.
The Senate still must give
routine approval to the foreign
aid bill but this is scheduled
for Friday. Only the pending
Senate vote prevented Congress
from adjourning finally until
Jan. 7 when the second session
begins.
As a result, some House
members will have to stick
around through the Christmas
holidavs. - Most congressmen,
however, headed straight for
the highways and airports.
Bitter Wrangling
The extraordinary dawn ses
sion was marked right down to
the end by the bitter wrangling
and snappish debate that has
marked congressional reaction
to the storm that blew up over
the amendment.
Under the compromise plan
finally adopted the White House
must make the final decision on
whether attempts to trade with
Russia and other Ked nations
should be sweetened with U. S.
government credit guarantees
House.
That too was turned down in
an all-night House session Fri
day after Democratic members
had left town in large numbers.
Over the weekend, a frantic
scramble took place to get
get them back and to reverse
the decision.
Johnson himself delayed plans
to fly to Texas for Christmas.
He reportedly spent much of
the weekend on the telephone
with appeals for support to in
dividual members.
Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa,
demanded caustically today
whether Johnson planned now
to remain in town until the aid
bill with or without the trade
curb was finally passed.
Speaker McCormack shut off
any possible answer by ruling
that Gross' time had expired.
Rep. Olto Passman, D-La.,
told the House he was con
vinced that the wheat sale, as
recognized in international
trade, actually would be a cash
deal.
"And I'm convinced that If
we go through with this deal
we will receive $2 billion in
gold."
Passman, chairman of an ap
propriations subcommittee that
drafted the foreign aid bill said
if the United States did not
make the sale other countries
After serving more than a would, and they would be the
month In office, Johnson al- ones 10 realize me proms.
ready had drawn heavily on the
reservoir of good will that he
carried into the White House on
the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy on Nov. S2.
At today s early session mem
bers plainly were tired, some
of them angry, and all of them
ready for a quick final snow
down on the issue.
Debate was interrupted by
cries of "vote!" and loud grum
bling from one side or the
other. Some members who
wanted to talk were told blunt
ly to sit down and put their re
marks in the Congressional
Record.
And there was a final round
of charges and countercharges.
Rep. Charles A. Halleck, R
Ind., the GOP leader, said the
issue was whether or not to
help Russia get in better posi
tion to cause trouble "anywhere
in the world including Cuba."
Rep. Carl Albert, D-Okla., the
Democratic leader, shot back
hotly that this wasn't the ques
tion at all.
"We have a new President."
he reminded the members, "the
free world Is watching to see
whether he is strong enough to
be a reliable leader or whether
he Is weak."
Rep. Howard W. Smith, D-
Va., chairman of the rules com
mittee and the Southern con
servatlve leader, put it this
way:, "I'm willing to sell wheat
to Russia if they want to buy
it. But I want cash on the bar-
Cambodia flatly
rejects proposal
PNOMPENH. Cambodia
(UPI) Cambodia today flatly
rejected a United States pro
posal to send former Secretary
of State Dean Acheson to Cam
bodia as a mediator in the
strained relations between the
two countries.
The secretariat of the chief
of state here called a sugges
tion by Undersecretary ol htate
Averell Harriman that Cambo
dia invite Acheson an unac
ceptable "Imposition."
The announcement said that
If Cambodia officially invites
Acheson to Cambodia as pro
posed, it would negate the con
dition for reconciliation already
proposed by Cambodia, namely
the convocation of an Interna
tional conference on Cambodi
an neutrality.
Inviting Acheson, the an
nouncement said, would give the
impression that Cambodia had
withdrawn its own conditions
and was at fault In the dispute
with the United States over
American aid.
An open invitation to Acheson
"would do nothing but give
credulity to the American ac
cusations against Cambodia
and the Khmer Deonle,"