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SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON
61 st Year
Ten Pages
Tuesday, April 21, 1964
Ten Cents
No. 116
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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
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Mangan said he could not re-i r , 0,j ;,.
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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
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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&