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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1945
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THE KLAMATH PURCHASE FLAN
The Klamath and the Lake county courts, it will be remem
bered, set out seven grounds for their protest against the
proposed exchange by The Shevlin-Hixon Company of land
and timber for national forest land. One, in particular, as
serted that the arrangement contemplated a tax-dodging de
vice on the part of the company. The charge, made in ignor
ance, was speedily shown to be unfounded but, so far as we
have been able to discover, has never been retracted by cither
court. Had the charge been true the company would have
been open to severe criticism lor participating in an un
worthy act. Since it was not the company is entitled to clear
ance by the two courts and the longer they delay in with
drawing their charge the more prejudiced their position will
become. ,
Five of the grounds of protest, as well, have been shown to
be without validity. The single remaining one, relating to the
lack of any 25 per cent return to the counties out of the trans
action, is more particularly a protest against the general law
under which the exchange has been arranged rather than one
against this specific undertaking. We say this on the strength
of statements in the Epley column in the Klamath Herald and
News which have been quoted on this page.
In spite of this fact the Klamath court has recently been
reported as endeavoring to create or bring about a situation
under which the government will receive cash for its timber
and the counties, then, the 25 per cent division. The method
under consideration is for the county to purchase the Shevlin
Hixon timber included in the exchange transaction and for
the forest service to sell its timber.
The details of the plan have not been announced and,
indeed, they are probably still only tentative but the bounds
within which it will operate are obvious and therefore not
difficult of analysis. Analysis develops strange contradictions
in the Klamath attitude.
Possibly the most striking fact in the Klamath plan is that
if the contemplated purchase is made the Shevlin-Hixon lands
will go off the tax roll just as surely as they would go off
if the exchange goes through. And, it will be remembered,
point one in the Klamath-Lake protest was that the exchange
would put the title to the lands in "a tax-free agency."
And there is still more in this phase of the question. Let
Klamath buy the company timber and the county has immedi
ately involved itself in the expense of caring for it, managing
it as a county forest, paying for fire protection and so on. And
it would be years before there was a crop to pay a return.
Perhaps it should be recalled at this point that two ex
change transactions are involved in this controversy. On one
the cutting is-about finished. It has not begun on the other. So
far as we are informed there has' been a formal protest only
against the former but the latter is expected to stand or fail
with it. Neither from the news stories nor by inquiry of the
j i i i- i- i ,i
suae luresier nave we ueen aum-to, discover wnetner tne
purchase would be of the company lands in the first or sec
ond exchange or both. A state forest representative says
that the purchase contemplated would require almost $170,000
but the acreage on which his figures are based does not fit
either one. Let us, however, take that total of $170,000 and
do a little further analysis.
It is to be assumed that the proceeds of the government
timber sale would equal this $170,000 and of this sum 25 ner
cent return to the counties would be $42,500. This would not
go all to Klamath county, however, but would be divided
among the counties in which was situated the national forest
from which the timber came. If it came from the Deschutes
the Klamath share of $42,500 would be 23 per cent. If from
the Fremont the share would be 31.4 per cent. Let us take the
larger figure and in doing so we discover that the Klamath
return would be $13,450.. In other words, Klamath considers
spending $10,000 to get an immediate return of $13,450.
There would be further returns, of course, as the pur
chased timber was harvested but good forestry on a sustained
yield program would mean no more harvest for some years.
On the other hand, if the exchange went through, the national
forest acreage in the county would be increased and, by the
. tame token, the county's percentage share in such sales as
were made. The future promise many sales.
The present exchange proposals are desirable as offering
a means of blocking up the national forest acreage, giving a
larger area the benefits of sustained yield cutting and national
forest protection and providing logs for the war effort. The
Klamath proposal, if effective, would equally remove the lands
from the tax roll and give the county lands in a, shot-gun
pattern of ownership dillicult to manage and offering only
meagre returns.
We have said here before, and we now repeat, that we be
lieve that the counties should have a return out of these
exchange transactions. The simplest arrangement would be
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for a payment of 75 per cent in exchanged land and timber , Portland, are In San Francisco
and 25 per cent in cash that would go to the counties. Another j visiting with Gilbert Farsvedt
method would give the counties an annual payment in lieu of, who is stationed at Mare island,
taxes not based on forest receipts but on a regular acreage I Mrs. Idona Fix and daughters
basis. Klamath, we believe, would be making a contribution of Bend were Sunday visitors at
to the solution of the problem if it would work as hard to get the Kriger home.
rne law cnangea as u is worKing 10 recover tnat zo per cent in Mrs. sine MiKKeisen ana Aiirea
the manner proposed. It would be contributing to the war
effort, too. -
Bend's Yesterdays
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
(Feb. 21920)
The groundhog appears, sees
his shadow, and crawls back into
his hole for another six weeks of
winter. ,.:
O. M. Whlttineton, manager of
the Grand theater, reports seats
are being re-arranged In the show-
house to accomodate more patrons.
Classes begin at the new Carroll
Acres school, with Mrs. Perry
Scogglns as instructor.
Looking back over January, the
weatherman reports that it was
the warmest January in seven
years.
Crawfish are blamed for under
mining the earth wing dam at the
Bend, Water, Light and Power
company, which causes it to wash
nway. ,
Trappers, din ing January, bring
227 pelts of predatory animals to
the court house, and collect a total
of $740 in bounties.
Arrangements are completed
for the Bend fire department to
hold Its first annual minstrel show
did not accompany him.
House guests at the J. A. Black
stone home last week were his
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Blackstone, of Caribou,
Maine. It has been 17 years since
the brothers have met.
Mary Ellen Putnam was one of
a group of Redmond union high
school girls making the trip to
Burns last Friday to attend the
basketball game between Red
mond and Burns.
Roy Blackstone was absent
from school several days last
week because of illness.
A number of Tumalo folks at
tended the basketball game be
tween Redmond and Bend In
Bend Tuesday evening. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Darrle Johns have
returned from a wedding trip to
Portland and are at present visit
ing at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe C.
Henry.
were Sunday visitors at the Carl
Hansen home of Tumalo.
Mrs. Sine Mikkelsen attended a
party held at the Frank Jones
home in Redmond on Saturday
afternoon.
Prison Penalty
Threat Is Made
Washington, Feb. S (IP) The.
government will invoke prison
penalties of the Smith - Connally
anti-strike law against President
John L. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers and union members if
any work stoppage occurs in the
9 federally-operated bituminous
mines during negotiation of' a
new coal wage contract, it was
learned today.
Solid Fuels Administrator Har
old L. Ickes intends to retain
operation of these high produc
tive pits In Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Kentucky until a
new contract is signed. Ickes, it
was said, may relinquish them if
Lewis assures him there will be
no strikes whether or not an
agreement is reached by March 31,
the expiration of the present con
tract. Ickes has made one attempt to
obtain a no -strike pledge from
Lewis by asking the UMW presi
dent to consider the present con
tract extended until a new one is
made. Lewis, however, replied that
this was a decision for the joint
wage conference of operators find
union beginning here March 1.
Ickes is expected to make fur
ther overtures to Lewis prior to
the Feb. 26 meeting of the UMW
wage policy committee here be
cause he feels the country cannot
stand even a brief Interruption of
coal production in view of the
present shortage.
Others Say . . .
A NEW LOW IN POLITICS
. (Hood River News)
The firing of Jesse Jones to
make room for the hiring of Hen
ry Wallace, is just another of
those things, which cause Ameri
cans, outside of the inner circle
of politics, to wonder why political
debts must be paid even in war
time, at the expense of the na
tion and the great mass of the
people.
Most of us- know that Jesse
Jones has been doing a swell job
during a very trying period, and
that he has been keeping a watch
ful eye on the use of American
money through the various war
time channels. It has, on occasion,
been declared that Jesse Jones
has been evincing too much con
cern over disbursements which
were approved from above but,
so far as we know, this scrutiny
has not provoked any serious
break. But Jesse Jones has been
fired just like that to make
way for Henry Wallace, to whom
the president admits he owed a
political debt But the people of
America owed Mr. Wallace noth
ing, and there was no moaning
when he did what most people
wanted him to do relinquish his
hold on the vice-presidency, where
he didn't matter so much, anyway.
Now, within a few hours after
Mr. Roosevelt is officially inaugu
rated for a fourth term at the
White House, his first official act
is to fire a most capable secretary
of commerce and replace him with
a politician who knows nothing of
the duties to which he has been
promoted Henry Wallace.
It may have been a swell oppor
tunity for Mr. .Roosevelt to pay
an election debt, but it is definitely
tough on the great mass of the
American people, who must, at
the tiro of writing, look only to
the congress for relief from this
mess.
MOTORMAN GETS SHOCK
Indianapolis, Ind. (IB People
lose everything, but when a mo
torman loses his streetcar, that is
news of a sort. When a fire truck
and automobile crashed, several
streetcars lined up because of the
delay, so one motorman got out
to see what it was all about. He
came back, only to find his car
gone! Flagging a ride in an auto
mobile, he and the motorist went
in search of the lost streetcar. He
found it at a switch, to which it
had been moved by other com
pany employes.
TELLS THE STORY
Portland, Me. U Add appro
priate names: Dyer & Dyer, Inc.,
is the firm name of a Portland
cleansing concern.
U. S. Casualties
Reach 737,342
Washington, Feb. 2 ilP-Tota
U. S. combat casualties as olfl.
dally recorded by the war and
navy departments here reached
737,342 today. This figure was
higher than the last overall com
pilation on Jan. 25.
The new total included 650,420
army casualties and 86,922 navy
'casualties since Dec. 7, 1941. ;
Acting Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson said the army total
included names received by the
war department through Jan. 21.
It actually represented losses sul
fered up to near the end of De
cember, however.
The army figure thus would in
clude the bulk of army losses
suffered during the period oU
heaviest fighting in the Ardenne.-S
following the German break-
through assault which started
Dec. 166.
Of total army casualties, 121,.
676 were listed as dead, 379,638
wounded, 91,573 missing, and 57,.
533 prisoners of war. Of the
wounded, 186,026 have returned to
duty, Patterson said.
The navy total included 32,889
dead, 39,807 wounded, 9,750 miss- I
ing and 4,476 prisoners of war.
LIKED THE NAME?
Boston ilPi Petitioning the
Massachusetts Legislature to nul
lify the corporation charters of 14
medical schools which no longer
exist, doctors explained that one
student tried to enroll in the Berk
shire Medical college 75 years
after.it closed its doors.
Buy National War Bonds Now!
City Drug Co. City Drug Co. City Drug Co.
Madras Reports
Blood Donations
Madras, Feb. 2 (Special) A
group of 16 blood donors signed
up to go to Portland last Satur
day to the blood bank. Those
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lZT?W "iBht at ,h Libc,'lyGeorge Dee, Miss Walinebarrar;
W. Weber of Laplne, spends Enl HPnske. Ivan oisen. Albeit
IZcmke, Floyd Evick, W. C. Os-
horn, Joe Metis and William
V.
the week end In Bend.
L. O. Taylor, superintendent of
The Shevlin-Hixon Company box
factory, goes to Spokane on business.
Grant. From Warm Springs: Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Peal, Pauline Bet
terton, Mary J. Bautch and Law
rence Jones.
Jerry Thomas, Oscar Julseth
and Koy Peal were members of
the American 1-egion committee
who sponsored the trip.
Bend's Industrial Fund readied tho 50
mark last night meaning that there is $5,000
yet to be raised. The campaign will officially
close on February 12.
To assure your equal participation in (ho
dovolopmont of postwar Bend ... to meko
possible the study and planning so essential at
his time, mail your contribution in now . . .
you may bo sure hat it will be used to ... .
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Consumers Gcs
Tumalo
Tumalo, l-'eli. 2 (Special) A
community dance to raise funds
for the fight against infantile
paralysis is being held at the
Tumalo grange hull Saturday eve-
ninn hVh .1 Tr Vali- iu f,,-.
nishimt rm.si,. anH snneiai nnior. 1 cial I Sid Conklin and family at
taining numbers are being ar- i tended the wedding of Miss Mau-
langod for. Tumalo grange ' is I !'" hon,k, of Bcnd a1" I,onald
llg 1 He cl flair. Artiun ui i-ui urtiiu, uii ouiuuiy mi
Pleasant Ridge
Pleasnnt Ridge, Feb. 2 (Spe-
sponsoring
Joe Henry Jr., visited relatives
in Portland last week following
his trip therefor his. physical.
Others in the community making
me trip lor their physicals were
the Episcopal church in Bend.
Mrs. Hntliff is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Conklin of Bend
and a niece of Sid Conklin.
Mrs. T- C. Glllenwnter and Mrs.
Lee Allen and Ray John Cowan, j Shorty Wilcox were callers at the
Neil Davis has returned frem
Seattle, Wash., where ho went
last week to enter the naval air
corps. He Is home a wait ing call.
Carl Baker, Fred Shepurd and
Lee Allen attended an alt-day
Triple A meeting In Redmond
Sill ui day.
Mrs. Clarence Bailey, who is
making her home with her par
ems, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lindsey
while her husband Is serving in
the army, accompanied by her
small son, has been in California
the past few weeks visiting her
husband.
Tumalo grade school bus driven
by Mrs. Vida Andrew broke down
Tuesday morning north of Tum
alo and, until repairs can be made,
the children are being transport
ed with the one bus and private
cars.
J. Alton Thompson visited Tum
alo srlvonl Friday and the Hrxt of
this week during which time he
gave the children examinations in
their subject matter.
Clarence Spring is In California
this winter working in a defense
plant. His wife and two children
Conklin home on Tuesday of last
weea.
Mrs. G. A. Kriger is caring for
her grandson while his mother,
Mrs. Betty . Farsvedt and her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Farsvedt of
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Dr. Eden Quainton
Chairman of the Northwest Commission
to study the organization of Peace
will discuss
DUMBARTON OAKS
and thfc Postwar Organization
Safur day 12:30 p. m.
Pine Tavern
PUBLIC INVITED
Reservations for the luncheon must be made in advance
by calling The Pine Tavern or Mrs. Howard George.
Sponsored by the A. A. U. W.
Space courtesy Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company Inc.
The Shevlin-Hixon Company
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