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THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
The Bend Bulletin (Weekly) 11103 - 1931 The Iknil Hulletin (Daily) Eat. lull
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Entered ma Second Class Matter. January 6. 1917, at the l'oatoffire at llt'iid, Oregon,
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Good Luck, Kid
With all that there was in the world of grief, suffering
and sorrow wishes for a merry Christmas a week ago seemed
Almost a mockery, for many the grief and the sorrow will
persists for all time to come but to some the year just be
ginning can and will be happy and that is our wish that it
will be a happy year for all to whom happiness in any degree
is possible.
LAKE JOINS KLAMATH
Lake county, so we learn from the Examiner, has joined
Klamath in protesting the proposed Khevlin-Hixon-forest
service land and timber exchange. Its reasons are exactly the
same as those given by the Klamath court and discussed here
last week but there are certain differences between the case
as stated in the Examiner and that set out in the Herald and
News. Which story the two will stick by remains to be seen.
Let us indicate the differences and set out the facts.
The Klamath paper has it that the exchange would involve
about 16,000 acres of company land in Klamath county. The
Examiner says that 38,000 acres are included altogether of
which 12,000 are in Lake and 26,000 in Klamath. The fact is
that the total acreage offered in the exchange is 17,553 and
9,117 acres are in Lake and 8,436 in Klamath.
The comment made here last week on the seven Klamath
reasons for the protest applies equally to the same seven by
Lake with this exception. The tax base situation is slightly
different. The Lake tax base loss, however, in case the ex
change goes through would be trivial. .
As we have said there are 9,117 acres of Lake county land
involved. It is all cut-over and is eligible for classification
as reforestation land. If so classified it would produce an
nually $227.93 which would go part to the county and part
to local school districts. What the lands would pay in "taxes
were they not reclassified we have not yet been able to learn
but the sum would be only a few hundred dollars.
In Lake, as in Klamath, this loss of tax base argument has
no validity.
: . :
Weather of Past Year Mess,
Asserts Scribe Fred Othman
POINTLESS NOTES
One of our newspaper friends notes an OPA admission
that it knew of the prospective food shortage and need of
further ration restrictions back in October and he points to
the fact that in spite of this knowledge the announcement
was not made until after the election. And, we add, it was not
until after the election that the country learned that there
was, in truth, no Atlantic charter. And that our foreign policy
was to let Joe call the turn.
Still another friend says, "OPA must play fair with the
people to retain their support." Wants to keep that support
"valid indefinitely," as it were.
LIVED SFtooodwtiuLY.
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opytighl, E. P. Dutldn & Co., 1944;
laoea bains. Slow-moving white !
U.IU OlctlK bC'lVdllib YvL'lii hOOUl !
tiiL-ir tubivs wnn mo bcudie aim
In the midst of a dream Edward uifc.iiliea ieiuciaiu.e ul unburn
iduur. t iNegio gui came iruiu me .
COW-SIIOU Vitll U WUUUC'Il pull lull )
01 miiK. ai tne uoruor 01 an au-1
juiiinig lii'itl a wnue man 01 slt-1
A DAY IN A VIRGINIA
PLANTER'S LHK (AI'KII. 1713)
I
Swuin awoke, and lor a time he
hardly knew that lie had been
dreaming. It seemed very real
farms to purchase fleeces, carried
two' seven-pound weights bearing
the royal arms; the farmer select
ed a stone to balance these on a
scale and the "stone" became a
unit of weight.
In the first five years of system operation the Donnevillc
power administration sold. more than 21, billion kilowatt
hours of power. The total is large and the administration
makes a big point of the low kilowatt cost. Nothing is said,
however, about the Bonneville freedom from the taxation that
the privately owned electric utility pays. In 1912, for in
stance, private utilities paid taxes amounting to four mills
per kilowatt hour sold. Had Honneville paid taxes at the
same rate it would have put out $84,000,000 in the five year
period and it would have no net surplus of $12,000,000 but
rather an in-lhe-red item of $72,000,000.
Past Year Arid
And Also Chilly
Arid weather charactcried the
year 1944 in Central Oregon anil
Bend's precipitation lor the 12
months, iS.UO inches, was the third
lowest on record In the 12 years
history of the Head weather sta
tion, annual data released today
by local airways observers reveal.
Aside Irom the aridity and an
abnormally long period of fog In
liecember, the year was climatic
ally about normal.
Nearly two weeks of fog in De
cember set a record believed never
before equalled ill the upper Des
chutes county. On only two
days, however, did llend experi
ence dense fog, with visibility
under one-fourlh of a mile.
The year's precipitation was
4.01 Inches under the 12 year
normal, 12.91 Inches, the observ
ers reported. Only 21.5 inches of
snow fell in lirml in 191-1, com
pared with 4(1 inches the previous
year.
The year was also marked by
an unusually cool summer, the
highest recording of the year be
ing only 92 degrees, registered
in SeptemlxT. Lowest lempera
turc of the calendar year was live
above zero, recorded once in Jan
nary and twice In December.
turn from Seattle where they vis
ited relatives.
Miss Ruth McCorkle, former
Bend school teacher, returns here
for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Miio Chamberlain
and child of Lupine, are Dend
callers.
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Ration Calendar
Bureau Official
Is Bend Visitor
liy Frederick C. Oflimaii
(United Press Staff correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 1 (IB It was
too hot or too cold or too wet or
too dry all last year (that's of
ficial) and why I don't go back
to southern California (adv.) 1
do not know. No ice skates, is
one reason.
Everywhere else the weather in
1944 was bum. It was a mess. The
U. S. weather bureau isn't promis
ing anything any better for 1945;
all it's doing is reminding the
populace of last year's sunstrokes
and chilblains. The bureau's an
nual weather report, as you shall
see immediately, is a sorry docu
ment. Take it away, weather
bureau, and don't bring it back:
January: it was so doggone hot
that the buds began to swell as
far north as Minnesota. It was
the warmest January in 98 years.
February: BR-R-R-RR. Those
fool buds that swelled, wished
they hadn't. It was 30 below over
the northern plains and 40 below
at Golva, N. D. Blizzards swept
the middlcwest, ice covered every
road along the Atlantic seaboard
and I remember (adv. no. 2) sit
ting under my private lemon tree
in Hollywood, eating vanilla ice
i cream. An, me.
I March: snow fell all over, ex-
Icept in Memphis, Tenn., where
it was hail stones bigger man
baseballs. All right, don't take
my word for it. The weather
bureau said these spheres of ce
lestial ice were three inches
across: they smashed $3,000,000
worth of property. It took 16
bombs from a Flying Fortress to
break up an ice jam on the Yellow
stone river and get the flood out
of Miles City, Mont.
April: too darn much rain all
over the place. St. Louis had the
heaviest rain since 1S93 and the
biggest flood since 139-1. It never
had been so wet before in April
in Peoria, 111.
May: still raining, except where
it wasn't. It was 'he rainiest May
in 50 years in tl e midwest. The
Mississippi fliiud crest between
Keokuk and Hannibal was the
highest in history. In the cast,
cnntnmher: the Atlantic hurri
cane swept up the coast, killing
390 more people and blowing
down $100,000,000 more stuff.
October: another hurricane.
This one petered out in a hurry,
but it shook off a lot of Florida
oranges ahead of time.
November: this was the only
good month of the year: quiet,
the weather bureau said. It got
cold, though, and was 15 below
in the Dakotas.
December: it kept on getting
colder, the winds blew, the snows
snowed, and $10,000,000 worth of
Florida cabbages, spinach and
suchlike froze solid in one week.
Ice spread all over everything
east of the Mississippi, interrupt-
: . ntatinn Tt fPItainlV
ii,i T Sat downso'hardnightbe-was taken from the Glen 1
fore last in the middle of Upshur club and abandoned In Bend
"tat J
street that today I can'
at all
I'll take California. I thiur
weather bureau would, too
had Its choice. '
(Editor's note but then I
man never tried Florida.)
Two Cars Stolen!
Over Week End!
Two automobiles were stokf
Bend over the weekend, bt
quickly recovered by state!
city police who found no trati'
tne iiuevca, puin-t; reports s
today.
One car was stolen from
r T 1 .. 11 . , . , K
it was parked at Bond streetf;
Oregon avenue. The other!
InnmiH tn T .t Harnl4 A "M.. W
the Keamona army air held,
scene Horn Hie, yet it was misty -me nonunion was hitching a:
in spots, as dreams are. l'arts of' noise to tne Harness oi a plow. i
jit was lunny too, but at tirst he s Luwaiu iwain louueu lei-;
coukl not reine inner exacllv whv. ' snrelv over IIiir sunn! and neaie- t
Oh yes. He had been captured by I iui suene lie mougiu u is wuiiuei -1 A- Banks, regional director j f,.()m jew England to Virginia, it
a war party of the Tuscarora In-iiui to oe auve. uui mis pleasant I for the U. S. Bureau of rcclama- j was so dry that ducks never
dians wno iook him to their camp, j iuea nau haruiy entered ms i.unu . tion sw.nt the weekend in Bend I learned to swim.
nP.rmi; conferring with local bureau of- . June: turn on the air condition
uniiienuly ineinoi ics mat came .... ling. It was too blamed hot all
like armed men prepared to rav- j iicials and studying the progress j ovt,r a)d (of) dry jn tne east an1
Bend's Yesterdays j
. (
1 IITKKN VICARS A(iO
(Jan. t, 19;tm
(l-'rom 'lite Hulletin Kilel
With the commission and city1
manager form of government one
year old today in Bond, ("tinimis
sioners (Jeorge 1. (;ove, N. R. Oil
bert and J. F. Hosch announce
they will turn their attention to
codifying ordinance, and lists the
paving of Newport avenue as
one of the outstanding program;
for the New Year.
Dr. J. II. RnsenlMM g, l'rineil!e
physician. Is n Bend caller.
Mr. mid Mrs. Warren Wing le
imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini
Processed I-'ixnls: Hook 4 - Blue
stamps X.) through '., and A2 -OK
valid Indefinitely. Destroy AS
through ' and A5 through VV5.
Meat, liulter, i'lieese: Book 4
Red stumps 05 through X5 valid
indefinitely. Destroy AS through
ZS and A3 through 1'5.
Sugiir: Book 4 -Sugar stamp 3-1
valid indefinitely, 5 pounds. De
stroy sugar stamps 30. 31. 32 and
33.
I Shoes: Likinc Slumps Invalid.
Book 3 Airplane stamps 1-2-3
I valid Indefinitely.
Ousolhif ( iiimiiis: Not Vulid
I oless Kiultii'M-tl. "A" expires
j March 21, 1915. F.ach coupon
! worth four gallons.
I Stoves: Apply local board for
oil, gas stove certificates.
Wood, out.. Sawdust: Delivery
- by priorities based on needs.
i rin'iwii: i-erioti 1 anil i coupons i
; 1194314 series i ami period 1 and j
12 coupons 1191145 seriesi valid!
j through August 31, 1915. Not
more than 3ti per cent of season's
, rations should have been used to ,
, date. i
I Rats bite belter when fresh
I tasty bait is uscit in the trap.
Alter awhile they brought him
out to where they were ail sitting
around a fire, and from their ma
licious looks he knew that they
intended to make cruel sport of
him.
Then he stood up and began to
talk to them. All of a sudden he I
knew their language - -or so he !
dreamed and he made a jolly I
speech, and told some jokes. He :
was surprised at himself; he had ,
no idea that he could speak so
well. The Indians roared with
laughter.
Alter his thoughts about the
dream had drifted away Swain
was still only half awake, so
drowsy indeed that he did not re
alize where he was. Ho turned
over on the soft feather bed and
was about to drop Into a doze,
when he heard the hall clock
downslairs strike six. It had a
loud, dull, hummor-and-anvil note
that quivered In the air, and was
very different from the thin, sil
very sound of his own clock at
Belmore plantation. All at once
he knew (hat he was in the home
of his friend Henry Randall, near
Williamsburg, where he stayed as
a guest whenever he attended the
meetings of the House of Bur
gesses. The dark curtains of the
bed were drawn close together in
the fashion of those days, when
people were mortally afraid of
night air so he did not know (lie
suirhad risen.
e e
But he was wide aw ake at once
land before the last quivering
sound of the clock had died on the
I air he was getting up. It was his
j custom to rise at l every morn
ing: it was also the custom of
everybody else In colonial Vir
! ginia except u tew lazy sluggards.
I He went to a bedroom w indow
and looked upon the aw-akening
! day. The sun was just above the
' horizon. Its long, level rays gilded
I the tops of the pine trees and ran
across the brown fields. The April
I green of the new leaves on the
; trees made Intricate patterns
against the bleached whiteness of
the sky. Behind the house, in full
view from his room, were the
slaves' quarters tiny log cabins
with white smoke coming from
their clay chimneys. Near them
were the siables, the kitchen gar
den and the sprawling blank
Dr. Pauline Sears
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
(Gradiiutc miller Dr. A. T. Still)
No. Z Newberry lllilg.
Bend, Ore. I'lionu 410 V
Check Their Eyes
Don't send your girl or hoy to
st-litxit hiuidiiupix-ii with fault'
visltifl.
Dr. M. B. McKcnncy
OiTOMKTIUsr
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Contracting
Timor
Wiring ,.,
Commercial
and Industrial
Wiring Supplies
and
Appliances
General Electric Dealer
Sales and Service
age ana uestroy
in some way, Edward recalled,
he hau oilcnued ooveinor opois
woou. it ne only Knew what lie
hau uoue lie mignt maKe aiuenus,
out me governor wncn bskcu
poim-DiuiiK oy Harry ltanuau
sum mat Mr. Swain hau not ol
leiuieu mm in any way. rtevcr
tneioss, on thai same ciay, he with
urew uwaru bwuins proposed
appointment as ttcpuiy treasurer
ot Hie colony.
And mat was not all. At this
session oi mcnouse oi mu gesscs
ne sat uown on tne oeu to calcu
late tne uumoer ul uays on his
lmgeriips at this session oi A)
days he hau lost more than 50
pounds sterling at cards and dice,
it was more man he could aflord.
i Thank Ood, the session is now
j over, he mused, and 1 am going
; home today.
j Then mere was the disturbing
memory oi his urst attempt last
i Tuesday to make a speech in the
House of Burgesses.
I What a fool he had made of
hlmsclt!
see
I Before the house there was a
bill tor increasing the import duty
on slave's. It was already 20 shil
lings lor every Negro brought
into the colony, regardless ol age
I or sex, and now they were trying
to raise the duly to 5 shillings.
Just think of it. Tobacco down to
two pence n pound ami everything
else rising in price. An adult slave
was worth from 30 to 40 pounds,
but after one had been brought
into tlie colony it was a long tune
before he could be trained to farm
work, and many died in the lust
i year or two. T he proposal to raise
. me import duty was a destructive
I measure. Of this Ktlward Swain
1 had no doubt whatever, and he
had resolved to deliver a speech
against the Intl. I
But when he got up on his feet 1
and every lace was turned expect
antly toward him he felt very fool-
Ish. He forgot what he intended to I
say. i
I It had been humiliating. The
pleasant spring morning had lost j
its charm when it appeared:
-aiinst the background ol that
speech, lie took off his nightcap !
and went over to the pewter basin !
on a stand in the coi ner and !
soberly washed his face and ;
hands.
of the North Lmt Irrigation pro- , too wet in the middlcwest, and
ject. Banks was accompanied by that wasn't nil. Two tornadoes
Mrs. Banks, and they left this ' killed 154 people in West Virginia'
morning for the regional head- and Pennsylvania and blew away
quarters at Boise. j $5,000,000 worth of stuff.
Banks came to Bend Saturday July: everywhere, dry. Frogs
after attending the recent sessions were too hoarse to croak,
of the state reclamation associ- August: the drought turned into
lation at Salem, and inspecting one of the worst in years in the
the Rogue River project at Grants Ohio valley. Every 100 acre
Pass, and conferring with officials farm in southern Illinois was 70,
in charge of the Willamette valley 000 tons of water short and you
development. can ask the weather bureau, if
Headquarters for Director you want, how it figured out that
Banks are at (hand Coulee dam. one.
ake Every Day
sSlSI A A Good One
WASHINGTON COLUMN
Enjoy good health
have good fun doj
your best at your
job until the war's
! I hat s our re
cipe for full enjo
ment and full
benefits in the New
Year of 1945!
Remember Every Day
Is Bond Day!
Bend-Troy Laundry
60 Kansas
Phone H$
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I To Be Continued!
The English wool merchant in '
the Middle Ages, when visiting
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
By Peter ICdson
(United Press .staff Correspondent)
'T'RENCH people still have a number ot misconceptions about the
United States and the American war effort which the Psychological
Warfare Division of the Army and the Office of War Information are
trying to correct, says Edward W. Barrett, director of OWl's Over
seas Division, ust oacK irom an inspection trip tn
England, France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
One of the OW1 jobs has been to run a public
opinion survey group to keep abreast of what the
French think about the Yanks and from these
analyses it has been learned that sizable elements
of the population believe such things 'as that Ger
man war prisoners are coddled in the United State!
since they have a better and softer life than the
average Frenchman; that the present shortages of
coal, food and clothing for the French civil popula
tion are unnecessary or are being deliberately held
back; that there are large numbers of U. S. troops in
Paris who are somehow re.-ponsible for the short
ages; and that Americans are still barbarians with no regard for Uie
finer tilings of life.
T)ART of the difficulty in France today Is that the country is still
a lot of isolated communities. Electric power is limited, broad
casting is limited, communication services of all kinds are limited
and Uicre is a shortage of newsprint.
To fill gaps In the lack of information until the French can get
going again is n big part of the job of the Allied Psychological War
fare Division of joint British-American civilian-military authorities
working with the French government and trying to meet its requests.
Fourteen radio programs from New York, nine from London plus
four more relayed by British Broadcasting Corporation, are beamed
at the Frcnrh in French by medium and short wave.
Crowds of 800 an hour have been visiting "Since 1939," nn exhibi
tion of news photographs set up in Paris.
"pHOIX," a British-American Reader's Digest in French, goes out
250,000 copies a month. '"Voir," an OwT Look-type picture
weekly, goes out 420,000 copies a week. The French government
has asked that circulation be stopped up to three millions and the
price raised from 10 to 20 cents to make sure they'll get to the most
influential people. But the only sources of paper would be to cut
down on U. S. publications, so Uiat's out. A million copies of the
Life-like slick paper "Victory" magazine, printed in U. S. A., haven't
been delivered because of shipping shortage. A million cheap, paper
back, pneket-size book reprints include such titles as Grew's "Report
From Tokyo," Stettinius's "Lease-Lend,1 the Marshall, King and
Arnold reports, selections from Ernie Pyle. All these magazines and
ic uiu an" win pay ior uiemseivcs, says Barrett
I DBIUf a
(d n i n v h
HAPPIER
V W0RID i
It is time for the old world lo
turn over a new leaf and to
resolve to give up forpver the
' vice o war.
War has stained the pages of
history with blood. 11 has bowed
the human race in sorrow and
slavery. War has left our civilization
today neck - deep in the rubble and
dust of once precious things.
No change in the calendar can
bring relief; only change in the hearts
of those who love war and make war
for its own sake.
Perhaps we shall teach them
their final lesson this year
BANK OF BEND
A HOME OWNED INSTITUTION
Ell., PE-ACf?
S RESTORED
ONCfr" MOKE
IN TMET
MC Goosey
household.
The party is
over and
Freckles has
HAD A CHANiCc
TO SFF
Himself as
OTHERS SE
HIM '
TwiS is a FINE how-
HAS POP SEEN IT
NO! HE'S UPSTAIRS
SOAlNG HIS FET
IN HOI WA I R
Bv MERRILL BLOSSESj
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