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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON JBui Showers 1st tonight In Cen FOrC CQSt r4' Oregon, but lomt tun Wednesday afternoon. High, 57 to o2. Low, 10 to 35. TIN High yesterday, 42 degrees. Low latt night, 21 degreei. Sunset today, 6:56. SunriM tomorrow, 5:11, P.S.T. Hi and la SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 61 st Year Ten Pages Tuesday, April 21, 1964 Ten Cents No. 116 Jackson dlasBnes Columbia. Uimi? diversion Slopes JLE NW senator tmmmmmesMsmxmsi.mmm 7Vo trains destroyed, 42nd Street sinks mmmmmMmmmmimmmsxmmmMmm N. Y. subway hit by worst blaze NEW YORK (UPI) - The worst subway fire in New York history raged through the shut tle station under Grand Central Terminal early today, destroy ing two trains, buckling girders and causing 42nd Street to sink. The fire, which will cause 127.000 daily subway riders to seek alternate transportation at least until Thursday, is esti mated to have caused between $1 million and $2 million in damages. Fire Commissioner Edward Thompson said 42nd Street, Manhattan's busiest crosstown throughfare, would have to be excavated in the area between Vanderbilt and Madison Av enues. Twisted vertical girder? and buckled beams two floors beneath the surface would have to be replaced before the dam aged block can be rebuilt, he said. Thirty-five fire fighting vehi cles and 200 firemen battled the blaze, which officials tentative ly blamed on an electrical fail ure in a shuttle train arriving from Times Square at 4:57 a.m. EST. The fire spread to a train on an adjoining track and gutted the tunnel and some small shops in the area. Both trains were evacuated without incident, police said. But intense, acrid smoke en gulfed Grand Central Terminal and the lower floors of nearby office buildings for several hours, and a few commuters suffered smoke inhalation. Police said six firemen had to be treated for smoke ex haustion and minor injuries, in cluding burns. Many firemen said they had never worked in such intense heat. Most had to wear smoke masks to get near the conflagration. "It was as hot down there as a man can possibly stand it, and even hotter," said Thomp son. "It was like Dante's In ferno. You couldn't see, couldn't breathe, and the only light was from the flames themselves." Flames licked up from sub way gratings into 42nd Street, which was filled with commut ers who sought refuge from the smoky terminal. For a time smoke so filled the famed thoroughfare that it was impos sible to see more than a block away, and traffic had to be halted between Fifth and Third Avenues. The trains one of four cars and the other of three were re duced to charred, twisted hulks. They were destroyed by heat so intense that it kept firemen from the scene for a half hour. Fire and water caused some damage to subway shops near the platform, and the shuttle station and tunnel were a mass of twisted beams, fallen plaster and blackened rubble. Service on the shuttle line to Times Square was suspended indef initely until the station is rebuilt. Bureau not sold on Benham Falls storage facility By Lucille Jordan Bulletin Staff Writer REDMOND The Bureau of Reclamation is not optimistic about a water storage facility at the Benham Falls site, John F. Mangan, area engineer from Sa lem, reported at a meeting in Redmond last night. "There are too many problems to be solved," Mangan said, adding: "If all we had to consider was the storage of water, a report could have been issued long ago. The divergence of opinions among various groups poses too manv oroblems. "We can't think only in terms of water storage, if we must 'maintain a minimum flow for the sake of fish, recreation and scenery. Too, new developments there would be flooded or other wise affected." Britain joins U.S., Russia in cutbacks WASHINGTON (UPI) Brit ain todav ioined the United Another big problem. Magan i States anil tho Soviet Union in said, is the heavy loss of water cutting back on the production at the Benham site. Consider- 0f uranium and plutonium for able time and money have been use m nuclear weapons, expended, he said, in surveying T announcing the u.S. move filfn. vlrJT "il t Monday, President Johnson said TZ ii 8 i"e believes the action will help M,nl! H ho L,Mnf ,JsPd y when "naUoS Mangan said he could not re-i r , 0,j ;,. rail nff hand , amn,,nt nf a ! Sna11 not Wt UP SWOrd W"" : iidiiuu ... British Prime Minister Sir Kenneth Evans named manager of air center Effective on April 26, Kenneth L. Evans, Sisters District rang er for the past three years, will become Redmond Air Center manager, it was announced to day by Supervisor A. A. Poust of the Deschutes National For est. Evans will be responsible to Poust for the overall manage ment of the Center, and in cer tain fields will be responsible to the North Pacific regional of fice, in connection with inter regional activities. The Deschutes National Forest through the new Redmond Air Center will be responsible for dispatching planes to five dif ferent forests, in fire emergen cies. Evans, his wife Claudia and their two children, Jennifer, 3, and Julieann, 2, will make their home in the manager's resi dence now under construction at the center. First Dhase work at the Cen ter is nearing completion, and will be in use in the coming fire season. A native of Toppenish, Wash., Evans is a graduate from Ore gon State University, school of forestry. He completed his col lege work in 1957, following time out for service in the Korean conflict. Evans entered U.S. Forest Service work in 1949, on the Deschutes. He was assistant Crescent district ranger before his promotion to Sisters ranger. Some spring rains expected in area tonight Forecasts Indicate that Cen tral Oregon late tonight will re ceive some spring showers but, the forecast adds, there will be some sun Wednesday afternoon. Indicating that the shower forecast may prove correct, high clouds were spreading over Central Oregon this morning. Despite the forecast of show ers, cool weather is to continue. with lows tonight expected to reach freezing in the Bend area. Last night the mercury here dropped to 31 degrees, following 62 high yesterday. cost estimate for constructing a bypass around the water loss area, but noted that it would be "very expensive." ' We doubt, he said, "if Ben ham Falls can ever be develop ed economically. We will have a report within a year,; as our funds cannot go on forever, but we don t promise to solve all tne problems. Considerable interest was dis played in regard to a good sized block of Prlneville reservoir wa ter still allocated. "Is it not true that the North Unit is asking for all the una! Alec Douglas-Home followed up tne U. S. and soviet moves to day when he told parliament in London that the British produc tion of military nuclear fuel Is being "gradually, terminated." He said that any Plutonium produced by civil reactors will not be used tor nuclear weap ons, and added: "her majesty's government have already ad justed their supplies of fissile material to the minimum neces sary to maintain our independ- nuclear deterrent and to ent located water?" asked George! meet all our detense require- Brewster, Redmond, attorney menis ior uie ioreeeame m for Central Oregon Irrigation ture." District. The original announcements Mangan replied that the North ; of the major step toward curb- Unit has asked for about 30,000 ing the arms race, the big acre feet, but that the total aest move to ease East - West amount to be allocated was be-: tensions since tne signing ot tne tween 36,000 and 48,000 acres, nuclear test ban treaty last Au The North Unit, he said, wants gust, were made simultaneously the water for supplemental pur-Monday by Johnson in New poses, and not to develop more land. He urged those requesting al location of the water to organ ize, citing as an example the York and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in Moscow. Douglas - Home's announce ment today left only France of the original four nations en- new Powell Butte District which i gaged in all-out nuclear produc hopes to gain some of the Prine- tion effort. French President ville Reservoir water. Charles de Gaulle has insisted Present for the meeting were that an independent nuclear 54 people representing 28 gov-; force js vital for his country, ernment agencies, irrigation dis-1 an() creation is one of his tricts, farm organizations and major aimS real estate developers. Johnson's decision received The regular business meeting warm endorsement today from of the Midstate Soil Conserva-1 Democratic legislative leaders, null uictcueu uie nuinu i , nthri mot i th h m St the Wtllte Reclamation report. Date selected for election The budget election of the In termediate Education District will be held May 21. The date was set last night, at a meet ing ot the board. House. Speaker John W. McCormack told reporters that "solid steps which mean progress toward peace but still maintain the se curity of our nation are con sistent with the national inter est, with the desires of our country, and the dreams of our people." Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said that "cer- Polling places are yet to be'tainlv the President is trving to selected, it was announced by chart a course toward peace. It Dean Nichols, Deschutes county gives hope to people and dissi school superintendent - elect, pates some uneasiness which They will be at most of the;seems to exist, places for regular school elec tions. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 826.45, up 1.91; 20 railroads 197.84, up 0.15; 15 utilities 139.63, off 0.46, and 65 stocks 288.03, up 0.27. In his statement, Khrushchev made no mention of his serious dispute with Communist China or of his warming relations with the West. He said the Rus sian cutback was "an opportu nity for improving mutual un derstanding with other states on the necessity of avoiding a nuclear war." Negro leader says stall-in still planned NEW YORK (UPI) -A Ne gro leader said today "no power on earth" can prevent a maesive civil rights stall-in demonstration Wednesday at the opening of the New York World's Fair. "Nothing can (top it not a court order, not police, not even Mayor Robert F. Wag ner," the Rev. Milton A. Cal amison declared. "It's gone too far now," he said. "Mayor Wagner could have stopped It by meeting with Negro leaders and giving some satiifactlon to our de mands but It's too I a t e. now. "The stall-in Is the only way to make people in New York feel the pain out of which the.. Negro people are crying." Damage heavy in drug store blaze at K.F. KLAMATH FALLS (UPI) -Fire roared through a suburban drug store in a shopping center just soutn ot nere eariy roaay, causing damage estimated at between ?30U,oou and jaau.ww. It was the largest monetary loss from a fire here in recent years. The blaze broke out in the L-shaped building in the Town and Country shopping center about 3:25 a.m. The building housed the drug store plus a variety store and a branch postoffice. Harry R. Waggoner, owner of the store who made the damage estimate, said it was planned to rebuild. Only the brick walls of the structure were left stand ing. Cause of the fire was not de termined. Suburban Fire Chief M. G. Gordon said the fire ap parently started near the center of the store. Nearly 75 firemen from four departments battled the flames for an hour before bringing them under control. Throughout the blaze, firemen heard a number of explosions, apparently bottles of drugs and chemicals. Chrysler notes high profits DETROIT (UPI) Chrysler Lorp. today reported the high est first quarter profits in the company's history. Chrysler President Lynn A. Townsend told stockholders first quarter profits came to 153.8 million, or $1.44 a share, com pared with profits of (36.2 mil lion, or 99 cents a share during the same period last year. White House says talks at critical point WASHINGTON (UPI) - The White House said today that ne gotiations in the prolonged rail dispute were now at "the crit ical stage of hard bargaining." White House press secretary George E. Reedy said federal mediators and representatives of management and the unions resumed marathon conferences shortly after noon EST in a crisis fr settlement o 016 raU tiwwiseenirssiniisiTa 1 1 , graceful im"' Nancy's interests many and varied IN CONTEST Nancy Bodtker, Deschutes County Dairy Princest candidate, will utilize her speech-malting ability In local finals May 23. Speech is her favorite subject at Redmond Union High School, where she is in the senior class. Today's talks began at mid night and went until 7 a.m EST before a recess was called. The 15-day truce achieved by President Johnson runs out at 12:01 a.m. local time Saturday the new deadline for a strike, "This thing is going very hot and neavy, very last ana luri ous," Reedy said. Gap Narrowed He told newsmen that def inite gains have been made to narrow the gap between union and management positions dur ing 10 days of talks under White House auspices. He said federal mediators ob tained package settlement pro posals from each side and boiled them down into a "work ing paper" that is now the fo cal point of the bargaining. Johnson, addressing a group of editors and broadcasters in the White House garden, said: "I think collective bargaining is hard at work. We're determined not to bury collective bargain ing." The chief executive again said he did not want to anticipate any steps the government might take to avoid a nationwide ran strike at midnight Friday if the settlement efforts fail. "Ample Time" Reedv said, however, there was "ample time" to work out a solution if both sides changed their position on what he termed the "toughest" issues. Bargaining now is "extremely hard and intensive" and centers on the working paper compiled by the mediators from the pro posals advanced by union and carrier negotiators. "If the very toughest and hardest issues can be solved, the rest could be taken care of by a few minutes conversa tion," Reedy said in analyzing the situation. But he cautioned that there would be no settlement unless agreement was reached on all the issues. UNUSUAL DEMONSTRATORS COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) Six unusual demonstra tors were scheduled to stage a parade of gratitude outside Par liament today to celebrate the circus entertainment tax ex emption. They were, from left to right, three Indian elephants and three Tunisian camels. (Editor's Note: This Is (he first In a aeries of Interviews with Central Oregon Dairy Princess candidate!. The win ner will be selected Saturday evening, May 23, at the Plea sant Ridge Grange Hall.) By Ha Grant Hopper Bulletin Staff Writer Eighteen-year-old Nancy Bod tker is a versatile miss who's equally at home making a speech, skiing down a snow covered mountain, or putting her prize Jerseys through their paces in the show ring at the Oregon State Fair. Tall and graceful, the blue eyed daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Folmer N. Bodtker, Tumalo, is County voter drop noted Deschutes county now has 10, 870 registered voters on the books. This is over 1500 less than before the general election two years ago, and nearly 700 less than in November, lDMJ, After the primary May 15, the poll books will be open again, until a month before the general election. Democrats still lead Republi cans, by about the same mar gin. Figures at the office of County Clerk Helen D a c e y show 5,087 Democrats, 4,776 Re publicans, and 107 in miscellan eous categories. In November, 19G0, there were 6,844 Demo crats, 5,439 Republicans, and 167 miscellaneous. Before the primary two years ago, there were 11,322 voters on the books. Of these, only 4,669 voted 2,411 Democrats, 2,226 Republicans, and 32 miscellane ous. (Persons other than mem bers of the two major parties may mark judicial ballots and vote on measures in the primary.) a senior at Redmond High School. True to the dairy indus try, she drinks milk. She favors deep - fried prawns for a bed time snack, and likes any col or, so long as it's red. Nancy and her sister, Nathele, have been nip-and-tuck at the State Fair year after year, vie ing for honors with their Jer seys, and competing in the show ring. Biggest thrill for Nancy was when she was grand cham pion dairy showman, in 1961. She had the champion Jersey in 1959 and 1962, and the reserve champion in 1961 and 1963. Nancy has been a 4-H c 1 u b member for the past six years, and has lived on a dairy eight years. Last year, she was Des chutes Jersey Princess. She wears her abundant blonde tresses in a neat modi fication of the bubble. She is a trim size 14, on a 5-9 frame, her 140 pounds well distributed for 37-26-36 tape measure sta tistics. She admires the late Presi dent John F. Kennedy, for his courage and understanding of American problems. She chose Carol Burnett as a favorite per sonality in the entertainment world, because of her versatil ity in performing. Planning to go on to college, Nancy is eyeing a possible ca reer as a high school teacher. She plans to major In mathe matics and science, probably transferring to Oregon State University after a year at Cen trnl Oregon College. Her hobbles Include horseback riding and rending. CHILDREN RAISE FUNDS EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (UPI) Dr. James Collins, superin tendent of Meadowbrook Hos pital, announced today the re ceipt of additional funds to fight cancer $3.18 raised by seven Massapequa, N.Y., chil dren who held a "penny carni val" for that purpose. issues angry ultimatum WASHINGTON (UPI) - Cali fornia and Arizona hopes for tapping the Columbia River foe needed water were dashed to day by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash. Jackson, chairman of the Sen ate Interior Committee, angrily served notice that any plan con templating meeting Southwest water problems by diversions from the Pacific Northwest riv er would be "dead" in his com mittee. Jackson wrathfully descended on an Interior subcommittee to deliver his ultimatum to sena tors considering Interior Secre tary Stewart L. Udall's multibil-lion-dollar Pacific Southwest wa ter plan. The Udall plan called for in creased water deliveries from Northern California but commit tee members had welcomed a suggestion by Sen. Len Jordan, R-ldaho, that the water be di verted from the Columbia In stead. "I want to tell you right now that if you're contemplating that, you're in for trouble," Jackson said in a sudden appearance be fore the subcommittee headed by Sen. Frank E. Moss, D- Utah. Hit First Appearance It was Jackson's first appear ance at the hearings on the re gional plan and on the proposed Central Arizona Project begun two weeks ago. The WasMnguxium unmeoiaw ly asked about plans for. te porting water Into the' Lower Colorado Basin and asked whether it was proposed to make such diversions from the Columbia. Northcutt Ely, an attorney for six California water agencies, was testifying and told Jackson that the idea was under consid eration. Jackson then angrily de nounced the proposal at length while startled committee mem bers sat silent. Ely finally told Jackson the proposal had been suggested by Jordan, who was quietly sitting at the opposite end of the com mittee table. Jordan, looking uncomforta ble, volunteered that he had only asked for studies of the proposal. "Did vou include tne annua River in that?" Jackson asked sarcastically. In making the proposal, Uie Idaho Republican made it clear he was offering it as an alter native to suggestions made earl ier in California that water be diverted from the Snake River in Idaho. Moss sought to mollify Jack son by telling him that the pro posed studies would not be due for three years. Moss had joined Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, R Calif., and Sen. Alan Bible, D Ncv., in welcoming Jordan's proposal. Alter tne nearing, jacKson told reporters that any plan for developing Southwest water re sources was dead It it includ ed diversions from the Colum bia River. The proposal, he said, had been made many times before and had been made "a scapegoat for the Southwcst's failure to solve its water problems." Jackson said tne proposal would provoke great opposition in the Pacific Northwest be- causa it was felt that once any diversion was made "there) would be no end to Iti In Seattle for mother's funeral mmtwmMmmmamtmmMmmtamMm&mmm mimMkuvmmJi Counterfeiter of slick $20 bills is arrested SEATTLE (UPI)-A counter feiter who came to town for his mother's funeral was arrested by the Secret Service Monday, breaking a small but efficient operation which had spent the ning said was not involved in the counterfeiting. Manning said Williams and Richard Charles Meier, who was sentenced to four years in prison at Leavenworth peniten- last three years passing some tiary in March for auto theft. of the slickest $20 bills outside ! had been passing phony money the Treasury Department. j all over the country for at least Allen Martin Williams, 45, j three years, was arrested at the home of a Williams had none of the sister who agent Prescott Man- i counterfeit money with him at the time of his arrest. No plates were recovered. The Seattle man was arrest ed on a warrant sworn out in Tacoma after department store employes identified Williams as the passer of a phony $20 bill in February. Manning said the bills were "the best I've seen in 24 years on this job" and that the Secret Service had little idea bow many of them weri since they were so hard to spot. The bills' only visible flaw was that the "i" in U.S. Treas urer Elizabeth Russel Smith's signature was not dotted, Man ning said. Williams. 45. had been on the loose since he forfeited $7,500 ball at Cheyenne, Wyo., where he and Meier were arrested on auto theft charges. He said he came here hoping to attend his mother's funeral last Thursday, but missed it. Williams was arraigned be fore U.S. Commissioner Walter J. Rcscburg on charges of pass ing counterfeit money and was being held on $75,000 bond. Manning said Meter would be brought to Tacoma from Leav enworth for prosecution if the two do not plead guilty and the cape gees to trial. After his arraignment, the le gally penniless Williams said "I'm at the end of my rope.' He said he had no hope of rais ing the $75,000. His only comment on arrest was: "How did you find me?" Williams and Meier had been arrested previously, mostly on petty larceny charges, but had no past record of counterfeiting Mannig said. Fund executives plan session here April 26, 27 The Oregon Conference tt Community Fund Executives will meet for two days m Bend April 28 and 27, It was an nounced at a Bend United Fund meeting this morning. Bend United Fund will host the meeting at the Pilot Butbs Inn. Some 22 fund executives and laymen will be here for the meeting, William Hudson, pres ident of the Bend UF organiza tion, said. The meeting will start with t dinner Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Pilot Butte Inn. Sessions Mon day will be held there. All members of the local Uni ted Fund are Invited to attend. Hudson soi&
