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HIGHWAY LEGISLATION
Concern lest the legislation nrovidinir for post-war high
nrnv mnstrurtion with federal aid might take a different
course from that counted on in recent months now begins
to seem groundless. Such, at least, is the impression gainea
from a statement made by Highway Engineer K. n. Baiaocic
RnlHnrb-. who has been in Washintrton to appear before con
gressional committees handling the proposed road bills, has
recently returned ana ne nas siatea mar, me aesireu icgiaia
tion will probably be approved within 90 days.
The bill that Oregon interests have favored is that pro
moted bv the American Association of State Highway Of
f iclals. It was in expectation of its enactment that the Oregon
hiehwav commission undertook, beginning last fall, the
preparation of a program of highway improvement bene
fitting all parts of the state, under it was expected war.
after the war there would be spent annually for three years
some $19,000,000 the chief portion of which would be federal
aid.
While this association bill was pending a committee
named by President Roosevelt reported in favor of a so-
called regional highway program and at once fears developed
that this program might be offered in substitution for that
pronosed bv the association. It is a most ambitious plan
and contemplates large expenditures but instead of providing
for construction on a state wide basis it calls for the super
development of a few routes. In Oregon, for instance, the
regional program would include only the Oregon trail and
the Columbia highway into Portland (U.S. No. 30) and the
Pacific highway from Portland south through Salem and
Albany and so on to Medford and Ashland (U.S. No. 99).
Like the association program this one calls for cooperation
. with state funds. To undertake it, therefore, would mean
that the other, providing a more general development, could
not go forward nor would there be, after cooperation had
been given, state funds left for work on other parts of the
state system. The Baldock statement that the association bill
. probably will be approved seems to indicate that the threat
of danger from the regional plan has vanished.
One potential threat does remain. This is in the pro
vision in the association bill for the development of a regional
plan. If this bill is enacted with this section retained the
president might insist that the plan of his committee be
carried out under the authority there given. Let us hope
that this situation does not develop and let us urge the
adoption of the association bill as providing the fairest pro
gram of construction benefitting the greatest possible
number.
Treading on Brittle Eggs
Lightnings to London By Cepyrlskt, M44 HEX Serrlca, Iws.
V-MAIL ALWAYS GETS THERE
(Writers War Board) .
There is a real danger that overseas moil may be rationed.
We are sending 84.000,000 letters a week to our men on the
fighting fronts'and simply haven't enough cargo space for
this. Very often there has to be a choice between sending
bags of mail or plasma. It is unfair for us to force this choice
on the United States postal service.
The solution to this important problem is an easy one.
Use of V-mail. Forty-nine letters sent the V-mail wav ncennv
the same space as one letter sent in the ordinary wav. Tf
you haven't been availing yourself of this convenience it is
time to start. If you don't know how to use it ask about it
in your post ottice where you can also get V-mail paper,
l here is no mystery about it. It is simple. Furthermore v.
mail letters alwava renrh their rWti
any other way are far less certain. Over 200,000,000 V-mail
letters have been delivered and not one has been lost!
We all know that letters from home are the greatest
comfort that the men have. We cannot risk cheating them
out of any part of the happiness they get in this way. It is
patriotic to use V-mail.
THE HUMAN EQUATION
CHAPTER VIII
Weightiest and most unpredlc-
able of the factors guiding the des
tiny of the P-38's across the north
Atlantic was, of course, the weath
er. The aircraft were sound, de
pendable, but no piece of machin
ery is 100 per cent fool-proof, and
there was another factor to De
reckoned with. As for the men who
flew the planes, they were some
times less predictable than the
fighters themselves.
The following excerpts from a
letter by flight controller Lieutenant-Colonel
Landry to an offi
cer at the Maine base show clear
ly that sky-high overcasts which
turn planes back were by no
means the only headaches, suf
fered by the flight officers:
July
1030 GMT
John:
Oh, for the life oi a controller!
Here is the latest. The weather
locally was not too good this a.m.,
but about noon it improved to the
point where the dispatch of fight
ers looked good. All the fighters
the showers. They also saw a
high overcast ahead. Flying into
it, the two elements of four planes
immediately lost sight of each
other, as well as the Fortresses
which had been leading the way.
The Fortress pilot leading the
flrse element radioed that he was
going to lower down to water
level and "get on a course of 180 Fortress were unable
degrees." The fighters were to i across to the others.
follow the leader.
The first quartet executed a 180
turn, which put it on a course
leading directly back to Iceland
the only safe move under such
hazardous weather conditions.
The second element, however,
completely misinterpreted their
instructions. They let down to al
most water level, but instead of
making the prescribed turn, they
changed course to 180. They
were headed away from land
through clouds so thick that the
two P-38s on the wing of their
to see
Finally they broke out between
cloud layers and radioed to the
Fortress, "Do you Know where
we are?'
"No," was the reply.
ISEXA: A Hole In the Clouds.
Washington
Letter
,;
' By Peter Edson i .
(NEA Staff Correenondent) , j
First full report to the Amerl-1
can people on the production of
the new. war-horn mArsnpainm in.
.v f, . " . nil- Fi 1 I o -
here, Tomcat Black and Tomcat uustry is contained in a special
Blue, were ready to go at 1200 1 report of the senate Truman com-
imuuu uivesugaiing national de
fense production, which has just
ben released.' ..,
In 1039 only 3350. tons of mag
nesium were manufactured in the
United States, 2100 tons of which
ly set up nazi puppet government
at Budapest and remove regent.
premier, ana joreign minister iu
Germany.
Btuslav Soviets drive spear
head through Bessarabia to with
in 35 miles ot Rumanian frontier;
government organ Izvestia says
German regiments retreating
across Rumania.
Italy Allied troops making
slow progress through southwest
ern Cassino; Germans succeed In
reinforcing garrison and counter
attacking from surrounding hills.
Air War American Liberator
bombers and Thunderbolt fight-
erg attack Pas de Calais area of
France in daylight.
Pacific American airmen
smash Japanese convoy near We
wak, New Guinea; sink two load
ed transports and three armed
corvettes, killing 1,500 Japanese
troops.
Burma Allied troops capture
Sumprabum in northern Burma;
enemy spearhead on central front
still driving toward Chindwin
river.
Bend's Yesterdays
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
(March 21, 1929)
The city commissioners refuse
a request of Vern Singleton, cafe
proprietor, tnat tney rescind an
ordinance banning music in such
establishments between midnight
and 9 a. m. Singleton had installed
a nickel music machine.
Fire Chief Tom Carlon reports
vandals are throwing life buoys
into the river, and cuttings others
in two.
Drs. J. W. Thorn and R. W. Hen
dershott examine 26 children at
the "well baby" clinic.
. Robert W. Sawyer, member of
the state highway commission, C.
W. Wanzer, state highway engi
neer, and Thomas Davis, bureau
of public roads engineer, leave to
attend a highway conference at
Klamath Falls,
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
"-(March 21, 1919)
R. A. Ward of the First National
bank of Bend is scheduled to ad
dress a meeting of the County
Farm bureau at Cline Falls tonight.
Heodqusrters for Yew
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CITY DRUG
"The Home of Office Supplies."
909 Wall Street
Phone 555
Dr. J. C. Vandevert, city health
officer, urged enforcement of sani
tation lawa when he finds several
eating places in Bend "indescrib
ably filthy."
Maurice P. Cashman goes to
Portland on business.
Jay H. Upton of Prlneville
comes to Bend to attend to busi
ness in connection with the Forbes
estate.
County Chairman J. H. Haner
reports that the Armenian relief
fund has gone over the top in
Deschutes county. The quota was
$3100. . .
Three toots on Bend's new fire
siren means only a summons tor
volunteer firemen to report for
drill not a fire Chief Tom Car
lon explains.
Victory gardeners' should spade
their gardens early but not plant
until the ground has warmed up.
Dp. Grant Skinner
DENTIST 1
1036 Wall Street
Evenings by Appointment
0fke Phone 73 Bee. Phone SU-W
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, not
Greenland Mountain Time!) or
so I thought.
All pilots seemed to understand
excepting the four fighter pilots
of Tomcat Black, who took it up
on themselves to go on a hiking
signt-seeing trip to the ice cap.
At 1200 when I was prepared to
assemble pilots for briefing, I
found them absent. God!' Was I
mad. I sent out all sorts of search
ing parties. They searched all
afternoon. About 1700 ( 5 p.m.)
two of them returned. I did a
fair-sized amount of reprimand
ing, and when I asked them if
they could get ready to go in 15
minutes, one of them said he was
so tired he didn't think he should
Well, that topped it. Of
The mail brings a copy ot a Jackson day address made
by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker
it the old question rises asrain does thn rn
have these dinners in order to glorify Jackson or to get $100l course 1 wouldn't send them, and
a Viuw irom me omce noiacrs wno are forced to buy tickets?
Well, here it is spring again. Having had more or less
of March spring lion we now look for the spring lamb.
Others Say . . .
REYNOLDS TO LEAVE
(Klamath Herald & News)
Earl C. Reynolds has been sec
retary of the Klamath county
chamber of commerce since 1928,
and it will Just not seem like a
chamber of commerce for a while
after Earl leaves.
But he Is going, on April 1, to
become assistant manager of the
western division of the United
States chamber of commerce. The
appointment is a recognition of
his outstanding work In the cham
ber of commerce field.
Mr. Reynolds has a remarkable
talent for organization. Under
nis guidance, the Klamath cham
ber has been outstanding In Ore
gon and the Pacific coast. It has!
performed its work regularly and
efficiently, without the dissen
sions and difficulties that arlxe
so often among chambers else
where. Earl Reynolds, will be missed
nere.
40,000 Women
Graduated by
Ui S, S, Hunter
New York lpiMore than 40,
000 Waves. Spars and women
marines have received "boot"
training aboard the land-bound
U. S. S. Hunter since its commis
sioning in KM2 as a naval train
ing school, the third naval dis
trict has announced.
Originally designed to nccom-
MKHuiip oo.uiw Trainees per year,
didn't want to send an incomplete
lllgnt.
This was about 1730. About
1830 one more of the culprits came
In. I gave him a going over and
put htm In 'restricted to quarters.'
Did I say I had done this to the
other two? I did.
About this time the local
weatherman was getting doubt
ful and I decided against a move
ment today. It is now 0010 and
two of the jokers are still out.
They will be restricted also. . . .
Johnny, we'll never win this war
unless we imbue our men with
the idea of discipline and a sense
of the serious business they have
ahead of them. We've all been
led to believe that our manpower
were sold to Germany and JaDan
In 1943 United States production
was 195,000 tons and for 19-14, esti
mated at 265,500 tons. This tre
mendous increase is one of the
production miracles of the war,
but It also points towards the pos
sible uses for all this production
after the war. in what has fre
quently been hailed as the com
ing "light metals revolution.'
Some 46,000 tons of this year's
production of magnesium are be
ing set asiue lor a war depart
ment experimentation program
to find new uses for the metal,
especially in aircraft.
Development of magnesium nro-
duction In the United States has
Dcen involved by 10 years of legal
battling, on which the Truman
committee now throws some new
light and makes some new conclu
sions tending to absolve the two
principal pre-war American pro
ducers, Dow Chemical, American
Magnesium and Magnesium De
velopment Corporation the last
two being Aluminum Company of
America subsidiaries of much
abuse.
American Magnesium had
stopped production In 1927 after
Alcoa had lost $1,000,000. Dow
Chemical had also lost monev. but
it had pioneered a new low-cost
In 1941 the department of jus
tice obtained an anti-trust indict
ment against this combination
The American companies paid
fines of $140,000, canceled cross
licensing, agreed to roayalty-free
use.
Today, the United States gov
ernment has invested approxi
raately $515,000,000 in magnesium
production and fabricating. Pro
duction has been increased 80
times, the cost brought down to
20 '.-a cents a pound (aluminum
costs 14). Every pound of mag
nesium replacing aluminum in
plane construction permits that
plane to carry another half pound
of fuel or cargo.
Today there are two private
and 13 government plants, only
si of which are now producing
at capacity. Among them:
Dow Chemical produces mag
nesium by electrolysis of sea wa
ter or brine from wells at Midland,
Marysville and Ludington, Mich.,
Frecport and Velasco, Texas. Dow
"know-how" Is used by Diamond
Magnesium at Painesville, Ohio,
in recovery from the waste liquors
of lime production.
Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente,
Calif., plan, using magnesia ob
tained from brine or magneslte
ore, mixes it with coke in anelec
tric arc furnace.
Original costs of this metal
were over a dollar a pound, but
this has been reduced to 35 cents
per pound or cost of production,
whichever is less.
War Briefs
(By United Preae)
Hungary Germans completing
occupation of Hungary, reported-
overwhelm the world. It will not.
the former Bronx campus of i War Isn't a lark, and having more
Hunter college has rcsnundd toi bombers or more tanks or more
the military tread of 3(1.550 Waves' of anything Isn't the answer. It
and gigantic mass production will process, and American Magnesium
In addition to the 3.34 marines
and 1,914 Spars trained there be
fore their own schools were es
tablished. A ship's company of 1.000. most
ly Waves, processes recruit classes
averaging 4.SOO for each six week
period, with a curriculum ol na
val custom, history and discipline
-and drill.
Of the Waves graduales since
the first class, which entered Feb
is the Individual attitude that
makes tor victory. Well, nuts.
There I go again . . ."
e e e
Despite occasional lapses like
this, however, the expedition was
progressing with wonderful suc
cess. Many of the Lightnings had
reached Iceland, the first contact
with a habitation since leaving
Maine. Both Labrador and Green-
end of the
But here are rnnnratula
tlons over the fine Job he has 1(, 1943, 6,958 left the Hunier for land were strictly
in nnea, ann an expression ol con-1 yeomen s scnoois; went to! world propositions,
fidencc that he will handle it aviation schools and Rlatlnns: 5,1 The P-.Ws appeared out of the
well. 935 to the hospital corps: 4,07.i to western skies and came In to land
storekeepers' schools; 915 to radin on concrete runways thoughtfully
iiiiim j-iii hi pi-ih scnooi una hwui hi scnoois
for mail specialists, cooks and
bakers and business machine
operators. Of the remainder,
many qualified as yeomen on
completion of their preliminary
, training and otners went directly
to duty as seamen second class.
San Diego illi Fourth erade
children will he taught conversa
tional Spanish under a new pro
gram announced by Will C. Craw
ford, superintendent o f city
schools. The classes, which will
be held Informally, will use no
books or written matter. The pur
pose Is to give every student tak
ing the course a knowledge of
Spanish adequate to get by In
Mexico, only 15 miles south of
here.
constructs! by the Germans, who
a few years previously had con
structed most of the new Reykja
vik airdrome as well as the uni
versity buildings Just north of die
I1CK1.
The first elements to tackle the
last leg of the trans-Atlantic mass
(light totaled eicht Lichlnini:s. At
at, briefing time the pilots were told
could buy from Dow cheaper than
li wouui produce Itself. liut in
131, the Aluminum Company!
(Alcoa made an agreement with,
the principal German producer,'
I. G. Farbcn, formimi a new lolnt-1
ly owned Magnesium Develop
ment Corporation to control Far
hen patents and processes in the
United States.
Bend
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