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1 NEED FOR CANCER FUNDS
Well in advance the American Cancer society sends out
warning of its hrst major campaign tor funds. It will seek
?5,000,000 to finance a year's activities. For the work to be
undertaken the amount is conservatively estimated. As to the
source of the request Eric A. Johnston is chairman of tne
executive council of the society and chairman of tne cam
paign, which will be conducted in April. No further guarantee
of tne merit of the undertaking should be needed.
VVe know of course that cancer rates near tne top among
deadly diseases. Most of us had not known that it has been
far deadlier to Americans in each of tne war years tnan war
itself has been. Unless we were unusually well informed we
would iot know that an approximate bliu.OOO Americans are
; suffering from some form of cancer today, that, on the basis
of this ligure, 17,000,000 Americans now living will die of
cancer.
Whether cancer's rate of incidence is increasing or not
would be difficult indeed to say. Apparently it is increasing,
but this could be explained by the undoubted fact of closer
diagnosis. Regardless of this perhaps we should say in con
junction with this, for diagnosis is of"' necessity the first
weapon brought into play against the disease the figures
tell the story of a major threat which cannot be ignored.
Research, which is part of the American Cancer society's
program, may some day reduce this major threat to a minor
one. Toduy, however, early detection of the disease and
: prompt surgical treatment are what we must rely on, coupled,
it should be stressed, with detection of pre-cancerous condi
tions and periodic examinations to assure that these condi
tions are continuing under control.
Added facilities to implement the methods referred to
' are sought, a program of general education is required plus,
as already indicated, continuation of research on a larger
scale than has heretofore been possible. Without the discovery
of a single new cancer fact, however, it has been estimated,
the deatn rate can be reduced a conservative 25.
' Five million dollars, we would say, is a bargain price for
such results. , -
THE COST AND THE USE
Long strings of figures preceded by a dollar sign used to
be impressive, even if they were incomprehensible to the
finite mind. Government expenses, debts, costs of war have
made us less sensitive to such impressions than formerly and
consequently tne federal department of commerce report that
the nation's annual liquor bill is $7,000,000,000 loses some
what in its effective significance.
Someone has broken down this amount to show $54 as
the average American's share of this expenditure. If we go on
from there, we might point out that this is not all for liquor,
not by any means. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 60
is for taxes, f or alcoholic beverages are among the most highly
taxed of commodities. Whether .ihe . high, per drink prices
figure in the total does not appear. It may be considered fairly
certain that jobbers' and retailers' mark-ups, whether these
be by private dealers or state monopolies, are included.
Conclusions drawn from the gross figures would have
sounder basis if these figures were translated into actual
amount of alcohol consumed. Perhaps the American nation
is drinking more than heretofore, perhaps not. lnllated prices
swelling the total paid for any class of goods are no evidence of
comparative urfo.
TownsendClub
Reelects Officers
All officers were reelected when
the Bend Townsend club No. 1
met Friday lor an election at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kep
pors. The officers, Installed fol
fowinc the election, were: Mike
Kepuers, president; Mrs. Jack
Peterson, secretary, and Mis. A.
Smith, treasurer. '
Mrs. Georue Klein, from Huh
No. 40, Portland, was the principal
speaker of the evening. Refresh
ments were served following the
session.
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FIREMEN GET HOME WORK
New Albany, Ind. tin A paint
er working on a house next to
central fire station encountered a
sparrow's nest under the eaves
and set fire to it rather than take
chances with lice. Proximity of
the lire station held the resulting
loss on tne house to only ?2lX).
WOUNDED VET REGISTERS
Auburn, Ind.'HiVeteran Hugh
K. Farrlngton registered with the
DeKalb county selective service
board, even though he had been
wounded, Imprisoned by the Ger
mans, and returned home minus
one leg. He entered the army be
fore the selective service law was
passed.
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FOUR YOUNG MEN IN THE
uulu uuan
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The movement of gold-seeking
adventurers toward the newly
found California gold fields in
1849 and In -the early 50 s is quite
correctly described as a rusn
rather than a migration. When
ever people migrate to a new
country or to an old country
which is alien to them they go
as settlers and usually after long
preparation. They are accom
panied by their wives and chil
dren, for they are looking for a
new home, where they expect to
remain. There was nothing like
that in the famous gold rush,
which was dominated by a hys
terical recklessness. Men by the
thousands left their homes in the
eastern states and rushed pell
mell toward the setting sun.
This movement, which has no
parallel in American history, was
Inspired by the accidental discov
ery of gold In the Sacramento
valley In January, 1848. (Capt.
John A. Sutter, a prosaic-looking
German-Swiss, owned a large
tract of land In that region. The
population of California was
small, and there were great areas
of forest, desert, and mountain
ranges that were uninhabited.
Parts ot the territory had never
been explored. That Is probably
the reason why gold had not been
found much earlier.
Captain Sutter employed James
W. Marshall, a mill builder, to
put up a sawmill on Sutter's
Creek. In the course of this job
Marshall found some nuggets of
gold In the bed of the shallow
stream. He was not sure that the
little yellow pebbles were really
gold, but ho thought they were,
so he took them to his employer.
Sutter and Marshall messed ovt-r
the nuggets treating them with
acids for a week or so, and then
Sutter sent them to San Fran
cisco for further analysis. The
chemist's report that the nuggets
were pure gold leaked out within
a few days and there was a stam-!
pede of men of all classes and
conditions toward the Sacramento
valley. For a few months this
frenzy was limited to the inhnbi-
tants of California, for there was
no railroad or telegraph line
across the continent, and it took
many weeks to send letters on
their long journey around the
Horn, or across the Isthmus of
Panama. The news reached the
east in the early summer of 1818.
It came with prodigious tales
of wealth suddenly acquired, of
hills heavy with gold, of the sur
face of the ground covered by
the precious metal. Most of these
stories were fanciful lies, but
there was a stratum of truth in
some of them. Gold was to be
found, indeed, hut hard, back
breaking work was necessary, and
even then the finding of a fortune
in the ground was mainly a mat
ter of pure luck.
Ihe movement toward Califor
nia was under way in 1848, but!mayed by 0'nc of ,hV major diffl-
int. ?,ssume, Rreat Propor- culties ln a trip lo )he moonthd
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year. By the midsummer of 1819 j
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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, MONDAY. JAN. 22, 1945
Mr. Byrnes Objects
TxrjsTr atto "nr
DillribyUd
lit had become a stampede.
Farmers left their fields un-
tilled and went off with only aj
few dollars in their pockets. What
am it matter it tney reacned Cali
fornia without a cent? Gold could
be picked up from the ground.
Workmen quit their jobs without
notice and began to tramp across
the continent on foot, hoping to
join some wagon train In Mis
souri or Kansas. Small storekeep
ers not a few, but many adver
tised that they were selling their
goods at cost because they were
leaving for the land of gold. In
every town and village one might
buy gold-seekers' manuals, guides
and maps of the fabulous region.
But the psychological impulse
behind the gold rush was deeper
and more urgent than the desire
to gain wealth. For a vast num
ber of men it was a flight from
realitv: an pscarw for those who
were tired of the monotony of I
Aisle, nn.m nf tkoiv no,, if chnna anA '
CA1D1UILE) Ul t.Idl JJE.IJ Dliutd UIIU
trades, of their wives and fam
ilies. "If anybody wants to drop out
now's the time to do it," said
Jacob Birdsall, looking at the
three young men sitting around
the table. "As for me," he con
tinued, "I'm going, even if I have
to go alone."
"Aw, Jake, you know we're all
going, so what's the use of asking
us again?" This came from Andy
Gordon, who seemed annoyed by
Birdsall's question. "We ought to
Rocket Can Be Sent to Moon,
But Funds Not Yet Available
By Mnry Laing
(United I'rewi Staff Correspondent)
Chicneo. Jan. 22 till If you
want to get away from it all, R. L.
Farnsworth is your man.
Farnsworth is a tall vounc man
with brown, wavy hair and a
patch ot grey at the right temple,
iiP's president of the U. S. Rocket
1 society, incorporated in 1942. And
I he's Interested in going to the
moon.
Farnsworth, who works for a
, rubber company, said today that a
rocket enulrl hn sent to the moon
tomorrow, it someone were wil
ling to put up the necessary fund:
That's why he asked the depart -
ment of interior recently how to
put in a claim for land 011 the
moon.
The rocket enthusiast believes
it Is a job for big business. In fact,
he predicted planetary travel will
be big business some day. He isn't
sure how much that first trip
would cost.
Farnsworth's big worry about
rockets is their potentialities as a
weapon. He fears the Germans
will beat us to the moon and bomb
us from there.
Farnsworth, who has been in
terested in travel through space
i ....... . . ! ni ,4;..
he was
-newer of cravitatlnn.
j A transatlantic rocket, he said,
wuuiu iiecu a specu 01 lour miles
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
ioc.TH(tr FIRST
time in his life?
LARD IS CETTINa
6ood Grapes in
school, as1d he
MAS JUNIOR VOGL
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AS LONG AS eJUWIOR
DOES LACOS HOMfr
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WILL SUPER.
WE ONLY HOPF
THECE'S no
Slip -up
To
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by NIA Serrlce, lee
be on our way In a week, or we'll
have a late start. It would've been
better If we'd'left here a month
ago. Here it is the middle of
April, and they all say it takes
lour months to get out there "
"Takes longer'n that from
here," said the youngest member
of the party, whose name was
Tom Plunkett. "Anyway, that's
what it says in the guide book I
bought. It say there that It takes
four months from Independence,
Mo., or from St. Joseph, and we're
not at either one or those places.
but right here In our home town
of Memphis, Tenn. so it'll be
'bout a week ionger, starting from
nere,
"Yes.'yes," Birdsall said peev-
isniy. "i Know ail tnac rne rea
son I asked If any of you want to
drop out is that we'll have to buy
our things right away and get
going, it s now or never.
The fourth man present in the
back room of the grog shop
where they were seated was
Matthew Gordon, brother of An
drew. He raised his arms toward
the celling in a tired gesture,
yawned noisily and said, "My
God! Stop talking and da some
thing. Come on and let's lay in
some supplies. As it is we can't
leave under s week from now."
He rose from his chair and strode
toward the door with the others
following him. The California
gold rush had gained four new
recruits.
(To Bo Continued)
per second and would reach a
, height of 700 miles. To get away
from gravitation to the earth, a
( rocket would have to travel seven
miles per second. He figures it can
be done.
"It will be seen." he said, "that
without a payload of explosives,
ana with some enlargement, the
moon could he reached.
Once on the moon, the nassen
gers would live in their especially
built rocket and wear special
clothing until they constructed liv
ing quarters designed to combat
severe temperatures and other
conditions, according to Farns-
! worth's vision of the world of to-
temperature on the moon, accord,
ing to Farnsworth, gets to the ab
solute zero, which according to
the .almanac, is 459.6 degrees be
low zero, tahrenhelt.
"Of course, not all the building
equipment could be transported In
one rocket," he said. "It would be
necessary to send a number of
them with cargo and just one pas
senger." Why go to all this trouble?
icht Coughs
ue to colds . . . eased
without "dosing".
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Medal for Gallantry in Action
Awarded Sgt
Washington, Jan. 22 (tPi -The
army silver star for gallantry has
been awarded to Tom" Dewhurst,
Staff Sgt, infantry, 1905 W. Fifth
street, Bend, Ore., the war depart
ment announced today.
His citation read:
"In the Pacific area, on June 11,
1944, he led his squad as the point
of an assault platoon under heavy
fire against a well-entrenched en
emy position. The emplacement
was well-concealed, capable of pro
tecting a number of rneo and was
so well constructed that a direct
hit by mortar or, artillery fire
would have been necessary for Its
destruction. It was impracticable
to use mortars, and artillery was
not immediately available. When
the position was first observed, It
had the appearance of being de
serted, but Sgt Dewhurst de
ployed his squad to cover his ad
vance while he reconnoltered the
area, crawling through defilade
which provided cover until within
12 yards of the pillbox.
"When the Japanese opened fire
on the covering squad with auto
matic weapons he ' moved from
his protected position by short
splints to a point five yards from
Farnsworth has the answer.'
"The moon is a perfect astron-"
omlcal observatory," he explained,
"it's a splendid physics labora
tory, a geologist's dream; an un
paralleled source of power and a
perfect location for weather and
cartographic observation of the
earth. More than this, it is the key
to inter-planetary exploration.". ,
Next stop Marat;.',
Bend's Yesterdays
- (Jan. 22, 1930) ,
(From The Bulletin Files)
Automobiles stall in heavy
snow drifts on the Central Oregon
highway between Bend and Burns!
and the Burns mail is held up at
the Gap ranch awaiting a snow
plow. Members of the Bend chamber
of commerce hear a report that
there are now 11,650 volumes in
the county library.
A hole is'cut through 10 Inches
of ice on the Deschutes river for
the baptism of W. H. Cahalan,
1416 Fresno avenue.
A .Chie fire occurs in the home
of Capt. Ole Grubb of the Bend
fire department, at 1240 Milwau
kie street.
TWENTY-FIVE. YEARS AGO
(Jan. 22, 1920)
A. R. Roberts makes arrange
ments to bring in a carload of sur
plus army goods, including grocer-1
les, :clothlng andi drygoods, to
Bend to sell. I
For the benefit of employes,
The Shevlin-Hixon Company and:
Brooks-scanlon Lumber company ,
Inc. make arrangements for pro-1
curing world-wide news photos!
from underwood & Underwood.
County Clerk J. H. Haner re
ceives 1,000 copies of the federal:
game laws for distribution among j
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and inconvenience.
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133 Oregon . Phone 21
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Ue should
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TO BUILD UP
WHAT IP HE
REAL BOY
INTO A FIGHT.
Tom Dewhurst
the enemy and between bursts of
fire leaped up and reached a cor
ner of the pillbox. Sgt Dewhurst
threw two grenades into the aper
ture and then without regard for
the shots being fired by the Japa
nese, went to the right side of the
opening and emptied his Ml clip
into the remaining enemy. Exami
nation of the position revealed 11
dead, seven killed by rifle fire and
the rest mangled by grenades.
Later in the day Dewhurst was
wounded while leading his men in
the same gallant manner."
Sgt. Tom Dewhurst, who left
here with company I of the 4lst
division and went overseas in
March, 1942, was wounded on
Biak. He returned to the states
last fall and has visited his moth
er, Mrs. Wilson Dewhurst, 1905
West . Fifth street, twice since
then.
His second furlough will con
elude this week and he left yester
day for Dibble general hosiptal,
Palo Alto, Calif.
His brother Walter Dewhurst,
18, entered the army in late De
cember and is now taking basic
training at Camp Roberts, Caut
nimrods.
Mrs. Frank Kelley returns from
Newberg where she attended a
sister who was ill.
. Carey W. Foster is a Bend busi
ness visitor from Prinevule. -
Ration Calendar
Processed Foods: Book 4 Blue
stamps XS through Z5, and A2-G2
now valid.
Meat. Butter. Fats. Cheese:
Book 4 Red stamps Q5 through
X5 now validf
Sugar: Book 4 Sugar stamps
34 valid for 5 pounds. New sugar
stamp due Febraary 1.
Shoes: Loose, stamps invalid.
Book 3 Airplane stamps 1-2-3
valid indefinitely.
Gasoline Coupons: Not valid un
less endorsed. "A" 14 expires
March 21, each coupon worth 4
gallons.
stoves: Apply local eoara lor
oil, gas stove certificates.
Wood, Coal, Sawdust: See your
fuel dealer for priority on deliv
ery. .
Fuel Oil: Period 1 and 2 cou
pons valid through August 31. Not
more than 47 of season's rations
should have been used to date in
Portland area, 48 in Roseburg
area, and 38 in North Head area.
Army doctors and nurses have
saved over 97 per cent of all cas
ualties during the present war.
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Never Too Young to Learn
The Values of Cleanliness
Even little sister should know and understand
that good health depends so much upon the
cleanliness of clothes, bedding, table linens
and towels. Because this is so important you
can rely on the sanitary conditions under
which your wash i$ done in our up-to-date
laundry.
Bend-Troy Laundry
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Pillbox Yields
3 Prisoners
Seattle, Jan. 22 P1-Sgt, Wil
liam Whiteside Jr., who raptured
63 . nazis single-handedly while
looking for a place to sleep, mod
estly said today he was "lust
lucky to run into these Jerries,"
Whiteside, home on a 30-day
furlough, said he explored some
underground rooms in a pillbox
when he and a radio operator
were looking for a place to sleep.
At the end of a maze of tunnels
he discovered a German officer,
whom he captured by calling
"Alio, Hans!"
The officer led him to another
room where he found 18 Germans,
which he turned over to Ameri
can army officers outside the pill
box. Eager to pick up some souven
irs, Whiteside returned to the
underground passages and fired
his gun.
"In those tunnels, it sounded
like dozens of guns," he said. "Out
they came from every direction.
I was confused and scared. I
herded them against a wall, strip
ped them and sent them upstairs.
Whiteside, you fool, I said to my
self, what are you doing here?"
Whiteside's final bag was 63
nazis, including three "officers.
A big bomber flying to hit a
target 1,000 miles away, using 100
octane fuel, can carry a bomb load
5,00 pounds greater than if it used
87-octane gasoline.
HOW TO COME HOME WITH
Extra Reef
Points!
Just remember to take that
can of used fats to your
butcher. Get 2 red points
bonus for each pound. Keep
Saving Used Fata for the
Fighting Front!
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