THE BEISD BULLETIN, BENp, OREGON, MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1945
PAGE THftfcE
itate Legislature
Backlog of Work
By Eric V. Allen, Jr.
(United Preai Staff Correspondent)
Salem, Ore., Fab. 19 UPi Only
oM riavs of pay remain for mem-
tiers of the 43rd legislative ses-
ion but veteran lawmaxers sizing
p the backlog 01 lmporcam meas
res today predicted it will more
kplv be three weeks before the
fiiegon legislature adjourns.
About tnc only ineusuru ui rem
mportance yet aim ,u u,e guvcr-
ipr was the war-time extension 01
5 years for tne use or Dig trucKs
Oreeon highways, passed over
ihe week-end by the house unanl-
1 i.. C.K ithnn rmnin i.t.K
' nOUSiy. OUU1 WHICI inajui OUU-
octs as the budget, taxation, vet
rans affairs, education, unem
jloyment insurance, and salary
aises were confined mostly to the
louse of origin bottled up in
:ommittees.
614 Bills Introduced
While 614 bills have been intro
: luced in the first 41 days, as com
; )ared to 611 at the same date two
i ears ago, only 106 have gone to
; lie governor, as compared with
S5 in 1943. Members have chafed
:p it the triviality of floor action so
; ar but long hours are in prospect
; f. hen the major bills many com
jromised in committee to please
ill factions hit the floor.
Lawmakers are paid $8 per day
'or 50 days so an additional three
; veeks in Salem will mean at least
V j dozen days of free service.
The proposed veterans adminjs-
ration, headed by a $5000 direc
. or and advisory committee of
ieven chosen chiefly from veter
ans groups, finally reached the
Mouse floor with prospects of be-
Mig a special order of business
..Wednesday.
Progress Made
1 The joint ways and means com
Inittee was making good progress
tin the budget while senate mem-
5irs muled over house-approved
; aill raising pay of most top state
, officials.
This week may bring action on
-elated education bills, including
i 10-year financing plan for build
i ngs in the higher educational in
stitutions, which if passed prob--.
ably would require approval of
; the voters this year; and a tax
equalization measure for uniform
; Financing of rural schools (HB80,
Trench). The house taxation and
revenue committee is not believed
friendly to a plan to appropriate
another $5,000,000 to schools from
Income tax funds.
Problem Studied
, With labor and employers fairly
sjell agreed on most matters, the
enate labor and industries com
mittee is considering labor's oro
Jiosals to increase jobless bene
fits from S15 to $25 and increase
J lie payment period from 16 to 26
veeKs.
The senate may be asked today
n rppnncirlor rinfonr QatnrHav nf a
bill restorine Denalties eliminated
ily a previous legislature in con
nection with the payment of de
linquent and valorem taxes cov
ering 1931 and several subsequent
$ears. The taxpayer had 40 years
which to pay the delinquent
flaxes if ho paid his current tax,
but Sen. Frank Hilton said the
jjiew bill's penalties were too se
vere, with interest ranging from
ISO to 100 per cent.
Condemned
i VVr"l
Othman Studies Directory,
Gets Low-Down on High-Ups
Pvt Karl Hulten, above, ol
Cambridge. Mass., a U. 3. para
trooper, has been sentenced to
hang following his trial in Lon
don for thn murder of a taxi
driver. Condemned to die with
him is Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, a
strip-tease dancer who was his
companion on his "crime tour."
Carl A. Lyman
Leaving Service
Madras, Feb., 19 (Special)
Carl A. Lyman, who for the past
eight months has been doing
special work in the office of the
Jefferson Water Conservancy
District office from the U. S. Bu
reau of Reclamation, retired from
government service on February
1. Two weeks previous, Lyman
reached his 70th birthday, which
is retirement age. Lyman started
working for the government on
January 15, 1907.
Born in Oakland, Iowa, the son
of Semo and Eunice Lyman, he
moved to South Dakota with, his
parents, where for a number of
years they lived on a farm. They
returned to Iowa, however, and
young Carl attended high school
and worked as the school janitor
as well as being employed In a
store on Saturdays. The elder Ly-
man died when Carl was 15. After
graduating from high school, the
boy went to business college and
studied shorthand, typing and
some bookkeeping, later taking
correspondence work.
On January lb, 1907, he began
working for the government at
Rupert, Idaho, on the Minidoka
irrigation project as a store
keeper and then followed a per
iod of working in other depart
ments until in 1915 he entered the
project office. Here, he was made
chief cleric and then transferred
to the Denver Bureau of Recla
mation, but for only six months
when a call came to report in
Washington, D. C. This assign
ment lasted eight years then
back to Denver.
As a government auditor, Ly
man has been to such well-known
projects as Boulder, Grand Cou
lee and Shasta dams. Last June
he was assigned to the Jefferson
Water Conservancy District of
fice in connection with the re
quirements of the contract of Jan
uary 4, 1938 between the United
States and the Jefferson Water
Conservancy district.
Capt.C.M Dale
o Leave Service
Fort Lewis. Wash.. Feb. 19
Capt. Clarence M. Dale of 333
Ninth Ave.. Redmond. Ore., who
Jor the past three vears has serv-
icd in the army service forces, will
Irevert to inactive status on Mav
j, liHo, it was announced today
by Lt. Col. Harvey D. Taylor,
commanding the separation cen-
u-r nere.
t-aptain Datt will return to
Kedmond where he will resume
his profession of dentistrv.
"Like many of his fellow offi
cers, Capt. Dale responded to the
iiii lor patriotic men, and his val
uable experience contributed to
'he rapid organization and train
ing of our present day fighting
forces," Colonel Taylor said. He
also explained: "It is the policy
me army to relinquish special
ized personnel as soon as possible
to strengthen the support the
army must have from the home
.iront."
By Frederick C. Othman
(United Fnaa Staff CorttUMlident)
Washington, Feb. 19 (IB This
Is a review of a new book, price
$1.25, about the lives of some
great men and women.
These gents wrote the 79th Con
gressional Directory, themselves,
and if you want a sample, listen
to Sen. William J. Langer of
North Dakota, writing on William
j. Langer:
"Governor of North Dakota,
1933 until July 17, 1934, when he
was removed by the supreme
court of North Dakota: only per
son ever to be arrested in any
English speaking country for fil
ing an affidavit of prejudice
against a judge."
There are rags-to-ricnes stories
in this book and sagas of heroism,
There also is the information,
without any feminine pussyfoot
ing, that Rep. Helen Gahagan
Douglas, tjie California beauty, is
nearly d years oia.
Connecticut's Clare Booth Luce
Qnnniinrioa that aha ie a n I n r.
Wright, author, journalist, foreign 1 admitted nothing except that he's
Rep. Harold Henderson "Eat h-
man of Tennessee listed himself
as organizer of the famous One
Callus Fox Hunters association
of America. (That word "famous"
is the congressman's.) -
The authors- unanimously
turned out to be joiners from way
back: There isn't a lodge in
America unmentloned by at least
one of them. Sen. Olin D. John
son of South Carolina is a mem
ber of the American Legion,
Forty and Eight, Disabled Veter
ans, Baptist church, Mason,
Shrine, Optimist club, Jr. O.U.
A. M., Red Men, Woodmen of the
World, Knights of Pythias and
B. P. O. Elks. "
Rep. Joseph R. Bryson of the
same state is.a Legionnaire, Dis
abled Veteran, Baptist, Mason,
Shriner, Woodman, Redman, Jun
ior, Merrymaker, and United
Commercial Traveler. Rep. Wil
liam G. Stigler of Stlgler, Okla.,
is an enrolled Choctaw Indian.
Shortest biography in the book
is that of Rep. Pat Cannon, who
correspondent, and lecturer. If
you want ruggea, ne-man stun,
read the story of Rep. Charles R.
Savage of Shelton, Wash., who
says of himself:
"Learned nearly every job in
the logging industry,' including
the hard and dangerous work of
high climber, bucker, and feller,
at which he became an expert."
from Miami, Fla. Longest is the
story of Rep. Edward Oscar Mc
Cowen of Wheelersburg, O., who
in 42 lines told about his ances
tors, his rise from coal miner to
school teacher and his long and
distinctive record (he said so, him
self) as an Ohio educator.
Rep. John Lesinski of Michigan
took credit for starting the city
Flames Gut Heart of Manila Business District
(NBA Telephoto)
The grim horror of total war is awesomely Illustrated in this dramatic photo by Stanley Troutman, NKA
Acrae photographer for War Picture Pool, of the burned-out business district of Manila, gutted by (lames let
by Japanese as they fell back under merciless onslaught of victorious American Woods.
ot Hamtrack with 4,000 houses
he built at the age of 26. Rep.
William J. GaUagher, the street
sweeper from Minneapolis, listed
himself as a high school gradu
ate, working man, married.
"Mrs. Norton," wrote Rep.
Mary Norton of New Jersey: "is
the first woman to he elected to
congress from the democratic
party: the first to be appointed
chairman of a congressional com
mittee, the important committee
on the District of Columbia, and
now chairman of the committee
on labor."
From these few excerpts you've
noticed the modesty ot the au
thors. They have turned out the
doggondest book I ever read.
Should make a good doorstop, too.
James Lovelace
Badge Winner
With the 12th Armored Division
of the Seventh Army in France
(Special) Pfc. James S. Love
lace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
N. Lovelace, Route 1, Box 20-A,
Bend, Oregon, has been awarded
the Combat infantryman badge.
This badge is awarded for sat
isfactory performance of duty in
ground combat against the ene
my, and entitles the soldier to $10
per month additional pay. The
badge is worn on the left breast,
above the service ribbons.
The local soldier is a member of
the 12th armored division, com
manded by Major General Roder
ick R. Allen, and has been over
seas three months. His unit is one
of the newest on the front of
Lieut. General Alexander M.
Patch's American Seventh army.
Redmond Garden
Club to Meet
Redmond, Feb. 19 (Special)
The Redmond Garden club will
meet at the home of Mrs. J. C.
Harlan on Tuesday evening, Feb.
20. Mrs. Walter Heppner will be
In charge of the program.
Mrs. Harry Bollinger is presi
dent of the club. Members are be
ing urged to be present.
Deschutes Roads
Receive Gravel
Three miles of roads in the Al
falfa section were graveled last
week, George McAllister, Des
chutes county roadmaster, report
ed this morning. A mile of the
Johnson ranch road was graveled
as was a mile of the Dodds road
and a mile of the Alfalfa road,
running east from the store there.
This morning the entire crew
moved out to the Bear Creek road
where a dangerous rock point a
mile east of Six Corners will be
removed.
MISS LAWRENCE MENTIONED
"Pictures: Library Has Million,
Prehistoric to Present", a feature
articles in the Sunday Oregonian
of Feb. 18, mentions Miss Marion
Lawrence, as reference librarian
in Portland. A picture of Miss
Lawrence, daughter of the late
J. M. Lawrence, Bend pioneer, and
Mrs. Lawrence, is used. The ar
ticle deals with pictures in the
Portland library.
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