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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON. THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1945
THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON TKESS
"to Bend Bulletin (Weekly) )foa . 1US1 The Bend Bulletin (Dally) Eat. 1911
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786 -7ad Wall Street Bend, Oreuon
Entered at Second Claua Matter, January 6, 1917, at the Poetoffice at Bend. Oregon,
Under Act of March , 1879
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CITY TAX RATES
Continuing its regular and helpful practice the U. of O.
bureau of municipal research, cooperating with the league of
Oregon cities, has just issued its bulletin on tax rates in Ore
gon cities for the year 1944-45. We have studied it with in
terest and, as in other years, have observed, in particular, the
Bend and the Redmond statistics.
The Bend tax levy for the current year, it will be remem
bered, is higher than that for the previous year. In levying a
higher tax Bend was in company with all but four cities in
the state with a population over 5,000. There are 16 of these
so that the city was one of a majority of 12. Thirteen of the
number had increased assessed valuations.
All over the state higher valuations were the rule, 149
cities showing increases as against 45 that had lower values.
The tax levies, however, calculated on a 50 per cent valuation
basis, average 18.7 mills as compared to 18.3 for the previous
year, or comparatively the same.
On a per capita basis Bend's city tax for 1944-45 was
one of the lowest in the over-5,000 population class, being
$12.37. Only Eugene with a tax of $8.09 and Pendleton with
$11.21 were under Bend. Bend's millage levy of 33.6, on the
other hand, was exceeded only by that of Klamath Falls with
a 35.8 figure.
Because of differences between true valuations and valua
tions found by the assessors in the various counties sutih
comparisons are, of course, misleading. The bureau, accord
ingly, has endeavored to set up figures that are more properly
comparable by calculating values on a 50 per cent basis. When
this is done Bend is found to have a per capita value of $449
and a tax rate of 27.5 mills which is the fourth highest in
its group. Albany, with a 16 mill rate, is at the bottom.
Redmond, Deschutes county's other incorporated city, is
also in the upper brackets in its class. The Redmond levy of
22 mills puts the city 12th from the top in tax levies, ninth
from the top in per capita levies and 15th in its tax rate on
a 50 per cent valuation basis. These standings are in a field
of 32 in the 1,000-2,500 population class.
E BOND PURCHASES IN DESCHUTES
Deschutes, according to the latest report, is one of six
Oregon counties that failed to reach its E bond quota in the
sixth war loan drive that cameto an official end last Satur
day. The Deschutes percentage of purchases was 95.2. Polk
and Lane were just above Deschutes with Multnomah, Colum
bia and Coos below, in the percentage column, the last named
reaching only 92.1 per cent of its E bond goal.
While we like to see Deschutes meeting fully every war
call made -we do not feel too down hearted over this particular
failure. Though the E bond goal was not reached the pur
chases of bonds in the county, taking all types together, was
in excess of the total quota and this, wo believe, has regularly
been the case.
We do not knbw how theso quotas of E and other bond
types are set but there is obviously a chance for error and for
calling on one county for too much and on another for too
little. That may be the reason for the Deschutes failure in this
instance a quoin actually out of proportion to its E bond
purchase ability.
Deschutes has always made a fine record in its contribu
tions to causes and it is interesting to note that it more than
met the call in the recent war chest drive while there are
still, the latest report shows, three counties that failed to do
so though they have high percentages of E bond purchases.
We would not want to lake an altogether sour-puss view
of the situation but when we read that the gain in receipts
at the Bend post office is believed to have been due to the
increased volume of overseas mail wo think that something
should be said about the higher
is just another tax. Three cents
local mail, eight instead of six for air mail, 13 instead of 10
for special delivery and various other higher rates must have
had something to do with the gain in receipts.
The procurement division of the treasury depart incut is
offering for sale about '100,000 compasses. Also it lists cream
pitchers, dessert plates, soup plates, bread and butter plates,
saucers, gravy bouts, egg cups, custard cups, vegetable dishes
and vinegar cruets. Wo are especially glad to see the end of
the gravy boat.
Bend's Yesterdays
I IITKKN YKAIIS A(iO
(Jan. 4, 19301
(From The Htillrtin Kile)
If lhe new snowfall does not
prcvcnl them from reaching their
playground in the MeKonlc coun
try, Miss Carol lioyd, chairman
of the house committee, promises
the Skyllners dalnly refreshments
when they go to their tobbogan
slide.
Sheriff Claude L. McCauley
warns farmers selling meat from
house to house that they must
have a state license.
The Inn annex, one of the oldest
Bend landmarks, Is to be moved
as soon as construction ot the new
wing on the Pilot Butte inn be
gins, It is announced.
W. .1. Holler, Den no Fox.
Oeoree J. Chllds and H. J. Me
Kinney urn the Judges, and Phil
F. Brogan the referee when Hoy
Scout Troop 20 wins in competi
tion held in the high school gym
nasium, Steve Pivinskl and Gladys Mon
Son obtain a license to wed.
George Sedgewiek, former Des
chutes county commissioner, goes
to Phoenix, All.., to spend the
winter.
Miss Violet Wallers returns to,
lhe University of Washington at j so far as the convoy captains
Seattle, after visiting Mr, and were concerned, with both Ge
Mrs. T. M. Wallers, her parents, man subs ripped apart by depth
here. charges.
R. H. Beck, salesman for the Earl, who enlisted in October.
Hudson-Duncan company, goes tol 19 1.1. trained at Farragtit. and
Portland to attend a company : later went through the Panaevi
sales meeting. I canal, from the Pacific to the At
Mrs. Charles Oilhanks has asllantic, on a destroyer,
house guests Mr. and Mrs. Louis I At present, lhe Bend sailor Is on
Dllne of Everett, Wash., and Clar-I a "PC" boat, on patrol duty.
postage cost which, alter all,
instead of the former t wo for
ence McKinney of Oakland. Calif.
Evergreen circles elect the bl
lowing officers for 1 !)(); Mrs. Hat
tie M. Brown, president; Mrs. Iteta
Fagg, vice president ; Mrs. Ina
Barber, treasurer, and Mrs. Etta
St. Ungc, press correspondent.
Sailor on Visit
To Home in Bend
"What wns your most thrilling
experience?
Earl E. Curry. Jr., fireman I. e.
who recently arrived here from
Miami, Fla., to spend a leave with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl E.
Curry, 101 Riverfront, was asked
that question, and he was a lilt
reluctant to answer. He had
served aboard a destroyer, the
greyhound of neenn warfare, unit
experiences pile up last aimaru
these speedy little warships.
Finally the young sailor decided
that the experience that stands
out most vividly in his mind was!
an attack by two German sub
marines on the convoy his de
stroyer was assisting in escort
Ing. That convoy was laden with
tanks and ammunition, and it
destination was Africa lust fol
lowing the Invasion of that con
tinent. But the nlcht scrimmage
came to n suecesstul cmicluslnr.
Data Presented
On Job Referrals
In the year of 1944 there were
1,715 referrals to employment
made by the Bend office of the
u. employment service, accord
ing to J. C. Branaman, manager,
and 1,482 of these referrals re-1
suited in Job placements. Included
in this group were 124 veterans
of world wars I and II. During
this time there were 28 place
ments made of Bend persons in
other areas. ,
These figures show a noticeable
decrease when compared with em
ployment figures for the year
1943. During that year there were
6,308 placements made, of which
.710 were in agriculture, with most
of the others being in heavy con
struction, the lumber industry,
and government establishments.
In addition to these figures, 422
people from the Bend area were
placed elsewhere in the state In
essential industry.
During 1943 there were 111 vet
eran placements. The wide differ
ence in statistics for the two years
can readily he accounted for when
it Is remembered that all military
construction in the Madras, Red
mond, and Bend areas was cleared
through the U. S. employment
service office here, Branaman
said. This included the construc
tion of Camp Abbot.
Construction Drops
With the exception of the North
Deschutes Irrigation project,
there has been very little heavy
construction in the area during
1944. The deactivation of Camp
Abbot likewise removed a source
of employment, which at one
time employed over 500 civilians.
In 1944 agriculture placements
were not handled by the U. S. em
ployment service as in the past,
due to a new government regula
tion.
While it is rather difficult to
prophesy what the year 1945 will
bring in the employment picture
in Bend, Branaman said, in all
probability the record for 1945
will more nearly compare with
that of 1944, as there are no in
dications at this time that the
heavy employment peak of 1943
will return.
The U. S. employment service
is located in room 103 of the
Deschutes county courthouse. In
addition to Branaman, other em
ployes of this service are Chase
E. St. Clair, senior employment
of fleer; ' Mrs. Esther Ballantyne,
employment officer, and Mrs.
June Krumme, who serves as of
fice secretary. Other personnel in
the office Include John Welsser,
of the state unemployment com
pensation commission, and Louis
Ilelphrey, Deschutes county vet
erans service officer.
Washington
Column
Itv I'eler Kdsoit
(NKA Stuff Cornuiiiinilcnt)
You have to read about the ra
dio programs you don't hear,
otherwise you don't know they're
there. Few people In the United
States have heard the programs
beamed to the Philippines from
KGEI in San Francisco, for in
stance, and the few people in this
country who have heard them
couldn't understand them because
they go out over the air in such
languages as Tagalog. Bicolano,
Cebuano, Ibang and MoroSulu,
all dialects spoken by the Fil -
iplnos.
lhese programs have one star
Carmen I.igaya who hasnt
had much press agenting but who
deserves a hand none the less lo
calise her tough assignment has
been to drive from the iflr the
enemy lady known as Tokyo
Rose, the English-speaking siren
who tor over three years has neen
playing records for the Jap prop
aganda machine in a vain effort
to make American soldiers home
sick und make them stop fighting-Carmen
Llgaya. as mistress of
ceremonies on one of the Philip-1
pine hour programs from KGEI,
gets fan mail from G.l.'s all oven
the Pacific, trom the Aleutians to
New Guinea, and she is credited
with having done a fine job fori
herself in blacking out Tokyo
Rose. Her main effort, however,
has been in her words and music
directed at her Philippine home
land. In that she puts her heart.
She was for two years under
Japanese misrule on the Islands
before she was evacuated and
found her way to San Francisco
to begin daily broadcasts of
American music and Filipino folk
songs to the Pacific.
Early in 1915 programs beamed
to the Phitimiincs will lie stpiiiwrl
j up ln)m n, present 15 shows
covering six hours to 2S shows
covering nine hours daily. The
army having taken over KGEI
tor broadcasts to American
troops, the inlonnation services
to non-military personnel will go
out over a companion station.
KGEX, to he oior.!ted by the of
fice of war information. All this
propaganda and related activities
in the Pacific are run by the
army's psychological warfare di-
! vision.
The OW I end of the Filipino
, radio activities has liecn in charge
of a young Hollywood screen and
radio writer. Larry Rhine, who
began operations IVc. 15.. 1!M1.
wilh two programs covering a
lull hour daily, a tut has Ivcn at
1 it ever sitKHV F.nlisting the aid-of
I Filipinos in the San Francisco
; community, he found announcers I
I lor each ol (he nine principal '
Prettiest Democrat In House
Gets Fussed, Asserts Othman
By Frederick C. Othman
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 4 mi Con
gress can pass some laws now.
Its okay. Legal. Strictly on the
up-and-up.
At least I think it Is. I sat
through the first session of the
79th congress in the house with
one eye on the Mesdames Luce
and Douglas and the other on the
jumbo-jumbo attached to pulling
the legislative plug and I do be
lieve the boys went through all
the necessary motions.
Between nominating Sam Ray
burn as speaker, electing him,
sending a committee out to find
him, appointing another commit
tee to notify the senate that he
had been elected, and naming a
third delegation to let President
Roosevelt know that they'd
opened shop, they also gazed upon
the two beautiful members.
You can't fool those congress
men. They appreciate handsome
females and if they laughed at
the first faux pas of Rep. Helen
Gahagan Douglas of Hollywood,
that was because they were not
themselves. Nervous, kind of.
Mrs. Douglas, most striking of
all the democrats in a black dress,
chalk white face and carmine Hps,
was looking into space when the
clerk reached her name on the
first roll ca.ll. He repeated it.
Rep. Mary Norton Jabbed Rep.
Douglas with her elbow.
"What?" 'asked the prettiest
democrat. "Oh. Present. (She
gulped and then she blushed.)
Here."
Haw-haw-haw, went the house
of representatives and Mrs. Doug
las biushed some more.
Calling of the roll continued,
the newsreel spotlights swung
over to the other side of the
dialects spoken on the island,
trained them in radio technique
and went on from there to de
velop news, church, entertain
ment and feature programs. In
the early days of Bataan and Cor
regidor, messages from wives and
families of soldiers trapped on the
islands made up a large part of
the program. Messages from Fili
pino leaders went out to their
people and after President Que
zon escaped on a submarine and
set up his government in Wash
ington, this radio was a link be
tween his headquarters and the
Philippines.
Redmond Schools
Back in Session
Redmond, Jan. 4 (Special)
Redmond high school classes were
resumed on Tuesday, Jan. 2. All
instructors were present and the
attendance evas high following the
holiday vacation.
Grade schools opened on Wed
nesday morning, Jan. 3. The at
tedance was good. Some cases of
absentees were reported due to
illness. A number of cases of
mumps were reported.
Powell Butte
Powell Butte, Jan. 3 (Special)
A large crowd attended the fifth
Sunday rally held at Howell Butte,
the last day of 194 1, and about 100
people enjoyed the potluck dinner
at noon. A little smaller crowd
was there for supper at 6 o'clock.
Representatives were here from
Sisters, Culver, Bend, Redmond
and Powell Butte. Madras was the
only church not represented,
George Fairfield of the Red
fmond church led the devotional
1 services at the afternoon session !
I with the main address by Edwin
P. Devt ees, state secretary of the I
men s Ninety and Nine brother
hood of the Churches of Christ of
Oregon. Following the address,
the annual election of officers for
the assembly of the Christian
Churches of Central Oregon was
' held and the following will serve
during tho coming year
O. O. Entriken of Bend, chair
man, H. H. Musick of Powell
Butte, vice-chairman, Mrs. W. E.
I'num of Redmond, secretary
treasurer. Tho program commit
tee of the churches include Merl
Ross of Bend, Mrs. Ladd Howard
of Redmond, Earl Russell of Sis
tors; Louis Flock of Powell Butte,
W. H. Hall of Madras and Mis.
W. C. Barber of Culver.
Following the Christian En
deavor meeting in the evening
, he devotional services worn l.vl
j i,v m,-s. N.,ia r,,ss ,,f iienri' and
the main address of the evening
was in charge of C. F. Swanders,
secretary of the Christian Church
Brotherhood in Oregon. The Pow
ell Butte choir, composed of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Vice and Mr. and
Mrs; Otto Pauls sang two special
numbers and group singing was
led by D. L. Penhollow.
The next meeting of the As-
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS "v MFRRIU Rl OWP
(See you later, mds J Mow comb peg's l gather. That ( I wonder what they're like) (M? 2SA FINETHINSA
s . ,Zl1FOLK.S ARE MOVING PEGS FOLKS ANYWAY, TO DRIVE PEOPLE YOU ASItTWP
' y OUT OF THEIR HOUSE? J DIONT GO FOR. AWAY? , tiJnA .JF
nJ4 THev've lived there- The peoplb who . J Z vp, Sv l QUESTION.
"rTH?!'. I!! I for. years Xjust naoved INTO T 7. n.in 7X-J ) AND SOMEBODY
MT- - v C,. this house . .Ov 'Vxm n 7VW,S methe
room, and there was ReD. Clare
Boothe Luce, the handsomest re
publican, playing with a four-year-old,
red-haired boy. (It is the cus
tom of congressmen to bring their
children to opening sessions. This
wasn't Mrs. Luce's child. He
seemed tu Lfclung to a portly re
publican across the aisle.) !
Mrs. Luce, in navy blue and
white with red flower on shoulder
and velvet bow in blonde curls,
made a pleasant sight as she
showed the child in blue rompers'
her eyeglasses. (Imagine that.1
Eyeglasses! She never did put 'em
on, however.) j
I would say offhand that if this ,
had been a beauty contest and Ij
had been the judge, my nod would :
have gone to Mrs. Luce. She j
looked livelier, somehow, than ,
Mrs. Douglas, but that was snap
judgment and subject to later re
vision.. (See? I'm talking like a
bureaucrat already.)
The high point of the afternoon
came when the congressmen elect
ed Rayburn as their speaker, and
appointed a committee of three
to escort him to his seat on the
dais. He knew the way; he'd been
sitting there for years. This com
mittee business was putting-on-the-dog.
The deluxe treatment.
The committeemen went to es
cort Rayburn and no Rayburn.
They looked all over, finally found i
him outside in the cloakroom, and
escorted him down the aisle, with i
pomp, circumstance and the Kleig
lights reflecting pinkly from his'
pate.
Then he spoke for about 15
minutes, reviewing congress' du-
ties and his .hopes for a better
world Jo come, and I don't knowj
when I've heard a more sincere
or a more graceful bit of oratory. I
sembly of the Christian Church
es of Central Oregon will be held
at Culver on April 29 and Mrs.
W. C. Barber will be in charge of
the program for the day.
Blood Donor Trip
Plans Completed
Twcnty-nineBend residents have
been listed to go to Portland to
morrow to give their blood at the
blood bank, on a trip sponsored by
the Beta Sigma Phi sorority, it
was announced today by Mrs.
Wayne Faddis, president of the
group. The party is scheduled to
leave here at 6:15 p. m. tomorrow,
making the journey to the Rose
City by special bus of the Pacific
Trailways.
Tickets, which cost the sorority
girls $208.50, are now available at
the stage depot, and persons in
the group desiring to go at an
other time may do so, Mrs. Faddis
said. The main requirement is
that they be at the blood bank
Saturday anytime between 8 a. m.
and 2:45 p. m.
Eleanor Bechen, director of the
sorority, will be in charge of the
trip. She warned the prosective
donors that they should eat noth
ing .but dry toast and coffee be
fore going to the blood center.
Second Trip riamied
It was disclosed today that four
other persons have already signed
up to go on the sorority's next
trip, the date of which has not yet
been set.
Funds being used by the Beta
Sigma Plii girls were raised by
them last summer for the pur
chase of books for the USO Serv
icemen's club. When the club was
discontinued and the book pur
chase became unnecessary, the
sorority members chose to spend
the money in furnishing transpor
tation for blood donors..
KNVY WELDER
Memphis, lenn. ill'1 Most en
vied man on the job at one of the
Memphis war plants is the weld
er lie always has hot lunches. He
brings his meat and cheese in a
lunch box, usually steak or frank
furters, which he cooks with his
welding torch. In his toolbox he
keeps a stock of mustard and hot
sauce.
Shoe Buyers Told
Of Stamp Dates
Following word'today from the
national OPA shoe rationing divis
ion that no changes will be made
in the current shoe regulations
affecting (he validity dates ot air
plane stamps 1, 2 and 3 in ration
hook three, Glen EY Fox, Portland
district OPA shoe rationing rep
resentative, said this means that
at least 30 days will lie given to
the public before any current shoe
stamps will be terminated.
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Present OPA shoe rationing
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Fox said that the statement
from Washington was made
"alter a careful survey of the
shoe supply situation throughout
the country."
This announcement should ease
the local buying situation by as
suring both the shoe trade and
their customers that all outstand
ing shoe stamps can and will be
honored, Fox declared.
R. M. Anderson
Succumbs Here
Russell Melvin Anderson, 29,
died last night at the St. Charles
hospital following1 a lingering illness.-
He was lorn in Noonan,
N. I, and had resided at 282 Jef
ferson street. Bend, for some
eight years.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Anderson,
Bend; six sisters, Mrs. Fritz Wal-
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Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p. m. Saturday from the Nis
wonger and Winslow chapel with
Rev. M. A. Thompson officiating.
Burial will' be in Greenwood cemetery.