THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. OREGON. fRlDAY. fEB.9. 1945
page Three
Attorneys Vie
With Farmers
As Lawmakers
By John W. Dunlap
(United Press Staff Correspondmt)
Salem, Ore., Feb. 9 lift Note to
future politicians if you're an at
J torney, you stand the best chance
of being elected to the Oregon leg
islature. A farmer is the next best bet.
The two occupations jointly dora
. Inate the makeup of the 43rd ses
sion. When it comes to political affil
iation, a democrat has one chance
in five in both houses. There are
only five bourbon senators and
10 representatives out of the 30
and 60-member houses.
Legislative experience proves
valuable and only two senators
Dr. William Moser and Paul Pat
terson, are freshmen. There are
11 newcomers in the house out of
60.
Strayer la Veteran
No one tops W. H. Strayer if
Baker with his 13 previous ses
sions in the senate. Sen. H. C.
' Wheeler of Dexter is next with 10
and Sen. W. E. Burke of Yamhill
and Rep. Harvey Wells of Port
land are tied with eight. Four
solons rate six earlier sessions
Sen. Dean Walker of Independ
ence and Reps. H. H. Chindgren of
Molalla, Henry Semon of Klamath
. Falls and Virgil Staples of On
tario. The reputation that comes to
legislators for oratory is second
nature to the lawyers. Running
down the roll call, the legal names
include Sens. Carson, Hilton,
Lamport, Mahoney, Paul Patter
son, Rand, Strayer, Walsh and
' Winslow, and Reps. Balderee,
Barry, Bengtson, Bennett, Fran
cis, Hall, Harvey, Heisler, Hen
dricks, J. O. Johnson, Marsh,
Steelhammer, and Van Dyke.
Holds Top Honors
While Speaker Eugene Marsh
of McMinnville gives the lawyers
top honors in the lower house,
flax farmer Howard C. Belton of
' Canby is president of the senate.
His fellow-farmers are Burke,
Engdahl, Jones, Newbry, Walker
and Wheeler. In the house, the
list includes Callaway, Chase,
Chindgren, Condit, Hesse, Him-
melwright, Jones, Kimberling,
Lage, Lindberg, Peterson and Se
mon. Insurance men rate third In
both houses, with Senators Pear
son, Wallace and Zurcher and
Representatives Dunlway, Fris
bie, Landon, Lonergan, Snyder,
Staples and Wells. c-;
. ; i Others Listed -, :
The senate has eight other occu-'
' pations.and the house about 27
others. The newspaper business
has only three, Sen. Merle Chess
man and Reps. Giles French and
M. J. Wilson. There's a night club
operator in the house, Jack Bain.
Dr. Johnson in the house and Drs.
Joel C. Booth and Moser in the
senate are the only physicians.
One house member has the dis
tinction of representing by far
the biggest group of citizens with
the same occupation. She is Mrs.
Anna Ellis, Garibaldi housewife.
Pleasant Ridge
Pleasant Ridge, Feb. 9 (Spe
cial) The 4-H club girls held
their first meeting of the year at
the home of their leader, Mrs.
George Masterson, on Saturday,
Feb. 3. All the old members at
tended, also three new ones, Erma
Flowers, June Schofield and
Marylin Van Meter. Officers elect
ed were Leta Lamb, president;
Beverly Strixner, vice president;
Margaret Conklin, secretary;
June Schofield, treasurer; Erma
Flowers, song leader, and Ola
Bristlin, reporter. Refreshments
were served by the hostess. The
next meeting will be at the home
of Beverly Strixner on Feb. 24.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bush and
daughter of Bend were Sunday
callers at the Rasmus Petersen
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vaughn of
Redmond were Sunday dinner
guests at the Rasmus Petersen
home.
Rasmus Petersen, Minnie Bur
son and Mr. and Mrs. Shorty Wil
cox spent Saturday evening at the
C. C. Gillenwater home.
Mrs. Don Kissler and children
cf Redmond were guests of Min
nie Burson on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Jan. 30, visitors at
the Mikkelsen home were Mrs.
Stanley Brown, Mrs. Koch, Mrs.
O. E. Anderson and Mrs. Carrie
Mills of Redmond and Mrs. Sid
Conklin.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Settlemeyer
of Brothers were Friday guests
at the Mikkelsen home.
On Thursday, Feb. 1, Mrs. Sid
Conklin had as luncheon guests
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brown, Mrs.
Koch, Mrs. O. E. Andersen and
Mrs. Carrie Mills of Redmond and
Mrs. Sine Mikkelsen.
Eleanor Bechen of Bend was a
Sunday dinner guest at the Sid
Conklin home.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hansen of
Tumalo were Sunday dinner
guests at the Mikkelsen home.
Monday afternoon guests of
Mrs. C. C. Gillenwater were Mrs.
Sine Mikkelsen, Mrs. Sid Conklin
and Mrs. A. Ahlstrom.
Mr. and Mrs. John Petersen and
son, William, of Redmond were
Monday callers at the home of J.
W. Petersen, Charles Schlickel
man and A. Ahlstrom.
The Deschutes-Pleasant Ridge
extension unit meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Sine Mik
kelsen on Thursday, Feb. 15.
Gen. MacArthur Looks Over Recaptured Airfield
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur (pointing) examines wreckage of Jap planes that were caught on the ground during
American bombing pf Mabalacat airfield, near Bamban, on road to Manila, Philippines capital liberated by
American troops. At left Is Col. Lloyd Lehrbas, aide to MacArthur. S 1 g n a 1 Corps photo.
Flying Forts Stoke Fires in Heart of Berlin
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A Flying Fortress of the Eighth Air Force passes over the heart ol Berlin as smoke rises from raging fires In
the Tempelhof area. This ship was one of foree of 1000 planes which unloaded 2500 tons ot bombs on Hitler
key city while Russian forces pounded to within 30 miles of the bomb-shattered Nazi capital.
High Desert Observations
By Johan Helnrich Peters t
"i (Former High Desert Homesteader) "
(Prflentd In th following article are
interesting' observation . of a high desert
homesteader observations based on the
study of Central Oregon mountains and
valleys, old laka beds and warped strata
over a long period of years. The Bulletin
does not subscribe to all geologic theories
presented by the writer, but it does assure
Its readers that the article Is replete with
interesting facta. Including Information
about hlgbj desert mirages, ancient lakes
and takes assertedly dehydrated through
man's attempt to improve on nature.)
i r aaMVi fe litre a hnnlr with
an old warped cover, pressed to-l
gether of different layers, which
shows us the period each layer is
composed of. Most men don't care
what there is under the sidewalk.
We people on the east side of the
Cascade mountains close to the
Oregon high desert have the op
portunity to Investigate at least
several layers of the warped,
bumpy cover, especially the
Hampton buttes or the remains of
them.
On the north side of Hogback
are shores of moraines (refuse pf
doom), the work of glaciers of
millions of years, where a lake is
covered with erosion of all eastern
Oregon. Icebergs drove against
and scratched the top ot tne low
er hills, cut their way through
and left walls of rock standing.
This hill Is composed of different
materials. The action of erosion is
shown on a hill by the moraine,
where the Barbed Wire ranch is
located. The pillars are standing
from 6 to 8 feet high and hardest
rock is on top. The rest of the
material is washed away. Only
several pieces or fragments of
petrified wood are found in the
buttes. But I found a broken piece
shaped as a weapon about one
half inch thick and six inches
long, thinned in the center to fas
ten In a split club as the stone age
men used for a weapon. It was
nicely pointed at the end. I found
a tooth three inches square which
must have fit in an elephant's
mouth.
On the road north from my
homestead we passed a place on
an old prehistoric river, with the
rocks exposed, and we can see the
layers two to three inches thick
which must have recorded the ero
sion from mountains. And the ash
es have formed the layers and
the bottom of the lakes. On the
road to the buttes to my winter
ranch we crossed a vein of ore and
I took a sample into Bend. Mr.
Miller from the Lumber Company
then took It away to be analyzed.
The report was 10 aluminum,
little gold, silver and other min
erals. Some mineral ore. Then I
found in a dried out creek bed ore
layers eight to fifteen feet wide.
Opal layers were In blocks eight
een inches thick.
Snakes Absent
On the north side of the buttes
are no rattle snakes. Only frogs
live there in the springs. The sage
hens have their mating place on
my ranch, and are seen in flocks to three feet high until the sage
of 40 to 50 for we never disturb
them. They walk around the yard
and sit on the water tanks. My
hired men did the work In har
vest time. Mostly hoboes, and they
would yell for my .22 rifle but I
advised them not to disturb them.
North from the Hampton buttes
are the foot hills from the Mow
ery mountains. These are much
older and have had rains. The
foot hills are vanished mountains.
The pebbles they are composed of
are round and show they have
traveled far in rivers and creeks.
Northwest are the Bear Creek
mountains in the lower foot hills
which are cultivated and good
soil. Lots of petrified wood is ex
posed. Chunks of body wood with
limbs and stumps of pallor red
and remind one of the redwood
forest which flourished millions
of years before in eastern Ore
gon, before the Cascade moun
tains shut off the dram of the
water to the Pacific ocean and
the inside lakes developed which
covered all of Central Oregon.
Then comes the disturbance of
earth quakes and tremors, the
crust of earth bursts, the lava was
pressed up in the creeks and
flowed over most of the lower
parts. After that the lake found
an nutlet through the Columbia
gorge. The Desert got pushed up
thousands of feet. The highest
point between Bend and Burns on
the Central Oregon highway is
4731 feet. It is east of the mail sta
tion of Brothers about 55 miles
from Bend. All the water east of
the Hampton buttes formed the
start of Crooked river, through
Book Creek which formed a lake
which now is called Alkali flat,
but the water cut itself an outlet
through the hills and emptied the
lake. The deepest point by the
G. I. ranch Is a deep little lake.
Another source of the water to
the Crooked river is the Cold
springs, the ranch named after it.
North from the buttes the water
runs west to Bear creek and joins
Crooked river. Directly west from
the buttes the drainage is to the
old prehistoric river bed which
cuts an outlet through Horse
ridge. But in this time most wa
ter vanished in the cracks of the
lava layers which shows plain as
the layers have been pushed up
by the rlmrocks which are some
places 150 feet high. The nearly
smooth layers of lava are broken
and. sunk down as the result of
water seepage in the cracks that
washed out the ashes between the
layers by eruptions of volcanoes.
The little creeks in the ravines of
the .buttes don't get far. They van
ish in the cracks of the lava.
Cracks and former rivers are
filled up with sand and ash stone.
My deep well 185 feet deep was
a filled ud creek or river bed. We
never struck rock in spite of the!
fact that not a hundred feet
around was rock at the surface.
Old timers told us the whole val
ley was full of bunch grass two
brush drifted In from the west and
reduced it to short grass.
Formation Different
The south side of the buttes
shows with different formation,
No glaciers developed there. The
top layers are of from one to two
feet of coarse red sandstone. In
the narrow creek beds they stick
from one to two feet over the soft
formation below. Some boulders
are hollowed from erosion and
form the dens of coyotes. Only
one place shows the volcano pres
sure where the basalt rock is
pushed up from twenty to thirty
feet (Thompson ranch), most ev
ery gully has a little spring, which
is a help to the stockman and at
tracts the game, especially ante
lope and deer. On the southeast
corner of the buttes is the so
called Cougar butte. The highest
point is about 6,400 feet above sea
level. At about 5,500 feet I have
my potato patch. Most of the time
I have a fair crop. One time I ran
out of potato seed and my wife
had some rutabaga seed from
our garden in Portland and I
throw this in the leftover rows.
Wo were lucky and the biggest
rows raised "beggles" seventeen
and - a half pounds. The lower
place (Sholer ranger and Juniper
forest ) was not cultivated. It was
red doby, hardly any giwn grass.
I took some home to our summer
ranch to test In the water tanks
and a prospector happened to
jcome along. He took an old dish
pan to pan the red uony ami
claimed It contained gold.
Southwest from the buttes are
the Frederick buttes. They are
not volcanic. And as the structure
is not in flat layers but verticle
so the surface moisture does not
run off, but sinks in the rocks.
Also, no creeks or spinrgs are
there. Closer to there the farmers
have wells and they are close to
300 to 600 feet deep before they
struck water.. Farther south In
the flat country are places where
the water on the surface stands
in the cracks of the lava (Schafter
springs they are called). In the
spring, the snow water runs In
the depressions and forms little
ponds which commonly hold water
until May or June. In the depres
sion time, the government sent
boys from the east. Heavy ma
chines were used to dig to con
nect the little springs with some
of the deep ditches. They opened
the cracks in the lava. It did not
do much good. The foothills of
the lower mountains connect with
the Jerry mountains to the Hamp
ton buttes forming a little valley
with a lltle lake called Dry lake.
But it keeps only water until July.
Further west opens a valley to the
north. Pringle flat is the name.
There is a spring where gas bub
bles up. Also, there must be a sub
terranean cave in the crust of the
earth full of some gas. I intended
to locate it but did not get the
time for I was in an accident that
has crippled me for life.
It is not necessary to travel to
the African deserts to see mirages,
for in places in the Hampton
buttes when it is clear weather
they can be seen in the west. Low
er in the horizon are often the
pictures of a little harbor town
with ships and houses with green
forests around. These pictures are
seen from our cabin in the dis
tance about one and a quarter
mile. From the rim rock we of
ten see a "double" in the air up-
siae down witn trees and every
thing. When the clouds are over
the Willamette valley we see them
on top like big mountains round
and covered with snow. The clouds
'In the summer time drift over the
desert and vanish like sugar in
hot water. It Is the healthiest
place in the United States.
Hospitalization for Rescued Prisoners
Their faces reflecting the ghastly ordeal they had endured as prisoners of the Japanese on Luzon,
these rescued allied prisoners of war, still wearing their ragged and torn clothing, check in at Luzon
evacuation hospital after their rescue by American rangers and Filipino guerillas.
Blood Donor Aid
Sale Scheduled' -
In order to supplement their
funds for sending blood donors to
the bank in Portland, members
of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority of
Bend will hold a rummage sale all
day tomorrow In the Burich build
ing adjacent to Erlckson's gro
cery, it was announced today. The
girls previously had been using
money they collected last summer
for the purpose of installing a
library in the USO servicemen's
club, now closed
Anothbr group of 42 persons
from the community were sched
uled to leave Bend this evening
for Portland, to donate their blood
at the bank tomorrow.
Buy National War Bonds Now!
Local Budget Law
Bill Introduced
Salem, Feb. 9 A bill to clarify
and improve the Local Budget
Law 'and to give taxpayers full
Information about their local gov
ernment's finances has been in
troduced at the 43rd legislative
assembly..
Sponsors of the measure, HB
335, say it has been drafted to
meet some of the objections to
the old law, under which there ;
was no provision for maintaining
the local government on a cash
basis until tax money is received.!
The old law was not clear as to
what constituted a transfer or
loan between funds or accounts
nor as to how detailed proposed
expenditures should be shown.
Also, some confusion resulted as
to what local governments were
covered by tne law.
The bill would permit local gov
ernments to establish cash re
serves of not to exceed 25 per cent
of each fund so that the county,
city or school district could oper
ate on a cash basis until tax
money is received.
Provisions Made
It also provides for the appoint
ment of a budget officer whose
duty It Is to prepare a prelimi
nary budget; that members of the
budget committee be appointed
for three years, with two-thirds
ot the committee continuing in
office from one year to the next;
that a personal property owner
be eligible for serving on the com
mittee and that travel expenses
be allowed committee members
to attend budget meetings.
Sinking funds may be estab
lished, but money cannot be spent
from them without either budget
ing for the expenditure or the!
expense being approved by a pub-1
11c meeting which has been prop-1
erly called. I
Other provisions of the bill per
mit the governing body to enter
into a contract for personal serv
ices of not over five years and
publication provisions are clari
fied by Including a sample form
In the law. Local governments
proposing expenditures of
what the law Intended and spon
sors of the bill say many of these
points have been clarified.
$5,000 a year would be required to
publish their budgets In some
newspaper of general circulation
printed near the area, In case
none is published therein.
Under the old law, budget Com
mittees and governing bodies
found it difficult to understand
TO OBSERVE DAY
Madras February 9 (Special)
over j Madras will observe the annual
"World Day of Prayer" February
16 with special services to be held
In the Christian church on the
evening of that date. A repre
sentative group of women from
all the local churches met Monday
afternoon to make arrangements
for the local 'observance.
JUST RECEIVED
LARGE SHIPMENT
ELECTRIC HOUSE
WIRING CABLE
and
RUBBER
COVERED WIRE
GET YOURS NOW!
Midstate Hardware Co.
"Serving All Central Oregon"
905 Wall Street
Phone 600
the unsung heroes uY)St f7fz '
i&0 Export 'lager - Beer
UNSUNG HEROES
The procurement of supplies, the routing of shipments, the
countless details of business and factory operation on a greatly
increased scale have had to be handled by fewer and fewer
men working longer and longer hours., ..men who have gladly
shouldered their load of increased taxes and bond payments
often made from incomes frozen at pre-war levels.
Of all the unsung heroes, "white collar" workers the almost
forgotten men have perhaps received the least recognition for
the vital part they have played in the war effort; for they, too,
have served without thought of praise.
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