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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON. SATURDAY. MARCH 24. 1 945
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a Good record
Before now we have commented on the excellent driving
of the men at the steering wheels of the larger commercial
vehicles on our highways. That this record of fine performance
is continuing is called to attention by a news story of the week
which reported the presentation of non-accident, safe-driving
awards to 18 drivers of facinc 1 railways Dunes, jne jo, h
was noted, have a combined 55 man years of driving without
renortable accident. Individual awards recognize records
running as high as seven years of perfect driving.
When this is translated into miles the figures are imnres-
sive indeed- One man's work may mean driving in excess of
100,000 miles a year. Those with the longer service are well
cast the half-way mark on their way to a minion miles witn
records unmarred by any of the mishaps that the law says
shall be reported. For the group the total nears o.uuu.uuu
miles.
All driving on the system, it is shown by carefully kept
statistics, is Close to this standard, the highest annual rate
of reportable accidents (some of these are extremely trivial),
is .84 of one accident for every 100,000 miles. The rate of
two accidents for every 100,000 miles reported by another
system was recently considered worthy of comment by a na
tional publication.
It should be mentioned that the records which Pacific
Trailways drivers have been setting have not been made
under the most favorable conditions. No inconsiderable part
of the mileage covered is on mountain highways, with the un
certain weather of mountain areas. They pilot their heavily
loaded buses over ice and snow, through storm and sunshine,
on the open road and through dense city, trafiic. But the
record is maintained, even improved.
This does not merely happen. It starts with careful selec-
tion of men. A program of training, including thorough fa
miliarization witn the rules ot the system, follows, ending
with a period of driving under supervision before the new
man is placed in complete charge ot a bus.
And after that, of course, there is plenty of practice.
IN BRITAIN '
Worried over what you have been hearing about the coun
try s food supply .' Kead about food in Britain :
A Hot Potato
n yp&sJp WVS. 1&?.'-. VV
The food front has a hither bleak prospect If Britons
have to sustain a further meat cut In the near future.
Those who eat at restaurants and canteens manage com
fortably, but this is only a small proportion of the population,
and when It comes to small families in country districts,
where there are no restaurant accommodations, the existing
ration of 25 cents Worth of meat per person each week doesn't
go far.
Shell eggs are still Very scarce, wofking out to one or two
a month, although they are supplemented by dried eggs.
Milk recently was increased to 2'i pints a week against two
during the winter, but the theese ration has been cut and the
butter ration continues at two ounces with a quarter of a
pound of margarine a week.
PotatocB, one of the main diet standbys or fillups, were
seriously affected by the Unusual winter fronti but supplies
are adequate. Bread is unratloned but man cannot live on
this alone. -
In her column, "My Day,?' Mrs. Roosevelt recently wrote
that "Even the President feels a deep sense of responsibility"
in these solemn times, Glad to hear it.
It's Rhine whine that is comihg out of Germany now.
COMMUNICATIONS
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ters of current and local interest. Let
ters should be not over sou words in
length, on only one side of the psper
and, It possible, typewritten. Letters
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FROM COMMISSIONED
MUNKKKS
Bend, March 23, 1915
To tne Editor:
In Justice to myself I would like
to say that I seem to have been
misquoted or at least misunder
stood in regard to mjvremarks on
lighting at the City Commission
meeting ot March Hth.
little, If any, greater than last
year's poWcr cost (before the re
cent rate reduction), 1 thought
that a new lighting program
should be Included In our plans
frtr the post war period or perhaps
, In the near future if it proved
feasible.
I certainly did not intend to con
vey the Impression that an Im
proved lighting program should
replace, or be given preference
over, protects already planned.
MELVIN W. MUNKERS.
3 vfS7mii&m f
THE STORY: Nick Trent has a
feeling that someone has followed
him to Charley Strand's apart
ment from the Hudson's. On find
ing that his belongings have been
ransacked, he rings for the auto
matic lift to go out again. When
the door opens it discloses the
body of Magda Calavestri, her
throat cut from ear to ear.
e
A PERSONAL MATTER
VI
If I had known what I know
now, I should have gone down the
stairway, pushed Ihe first floor
button, returning the car to its
original position, and gone off to
some remote and deserted prom
ontory until tne wnoie weird bust-
nes had blown over. But I prided
myseit on Being. a good citizen.
Washington
Column
sulfation with Wallace since he
took the oath, and would seem a
fixture. Dallas lawyer Harold
Young, who was Wallace s secre
tary while he was vice president,
has moved to commerce as his
personal assistant. -:
One of Wallace's first luncheon
guests In his big new office was
Director of the Budget Harold L.
Smith. That started commerce
buzzing with all sorts of specula
tion,. Smith being in cnarge oi ail
executive agency reorganization.
Commerce already nas a num
ber of vacancies In top jobs,
caused by resignations of men go
ine back to private Industry at
double their government salaries.
All sorts of names have been
bandied about as candidates for
these lobs. Most of them are long
shots, but this speculation adds to
the fun of Washington's favorite
pastime reorganizing a depart
ment under a new doss.
What particularly pepped up
the commerce staff since the. ad
vent of Wallace is that they now
have a boss who Is showing an
interest in what they're doing
and is not preoccupied with RFC
and other federal loan agency at
fairs, as was Jesse Jones. In meet
ings with his department heads,
Wallace has already given his di
vision chiefs some new problems
to work on, has speeded them Up
on other projects already begun,
and they love it.
Wallace's particular domestic
pets are aid to small business and
the full employment program. His
immediate problem is employ
ment prospects in the first year
after the war in Europe, gauging
the effects of Immediate cutbacks
on war production.
He is equally hipped on the de
velopment of foreign trade as a
means to aiding employment at
home. Gathering accurate infor
mation on foreign demands and
foreign markets is one of the first
essentials here, and this raises
again the old problem of transfer
ring back to commeroe the com
mercial attaches now under the
state department.
cada to visit, her daughter, Ber.
nice.
"We saw it. Reauan." He Doint-
ed to the bedroom. "Mr. Trent, did
you know the dead woman?"
"I met her oncet"
"When?" .
"This afternoon."
Pat glanced at me and a veiled
look came into Mark'stycs.
"Who was she?"
"Magda Calavestri."
There was a long silence after
that. Marks went over to the fire-
Furthermore I have an overde-1 place and ran his finger along the
"I called you."
"Reagan." The Inspector ad
dressed one of the policemen and
indicated the apartment. "Give it
the nne nvpr " '
"What for?" I asked. "The body 4 af- secretary of commerce has
Is In the elevator car " i stirred up that moribund old in-
The insoector's smile became a I solution more than anything since
little more twisted,
By Peter Edson
(NEA Staff CorreaDondest)
Washington, D. C. Henry Wal-
! lace's assumption of his new job
KIKES KXTlNCl 1NI1HH
City firemen late yesterday
were ciiHcd upon to extinguish
In effect what I said was that two fires, which caused only
an adequate lighting system fori slight damage, they reported to-
the city of Bend was, in my esti
mation, of equal Importance to
some of the projects now planned
such as the swimming pool anil
sewer survey, also that, inasmuch
as it would not entail any initial
outlay of casl), and that the in
creased cost of power would be
day. one of the fires was In a
wood pile behind the Columbia
Mercantile company at Columbia
and Galveston avenues, and the
other was a brush fire near the
Gilchrist foul bridge.
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ederalSavings
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veloped sense of curiosity. So with j
tne laltn oi a righteous man doing
his duty I went back to Charley's
apartment and called the police.
Then, nourishing the foolish hope
that I stood outside of this nasty
business, I sat down and tried to
throw a little light into the dark
places of my brain.
Suddenly, as I sat there, I heard
the elevator click. I reached the
door just In time to see the last
thin bar of light diminish to
shadow on the grill-work, as the
car slid downward with the body
of Magda Calavestri. I had ne
glected to prop open the safety
door. My first impulse was to
chase down the stairway after It.
But prudence overcame this im
pulse. Resolutely I went back into
the apartment.
I heard steps outside the door.
Someone had hold of the knob
and, before I could move, the door
opened. There, pale and breath
less, stood Pat.
She looked as if she had tried
to run up three nights of stairs in
nothing flat.
"Nick!" she said and put her
hand to her throat.
I went for the brandy. She
downed a pony of the stuff neat
and sat back with eyes closed.
Finally, she opened her eves, and
Willi a kind of fatal calm, 'said:
"You'd never guess, Nick, what
i just saw.
"I don't have to guess. What on
earth are you doing here, Pal?"
Her eyes w idened.
"You saw it?"
I nodded.
"1 practically invented it. I
found her in the elevator, and,
when I went to call the police, I
forgot to prop open the saTely
gate."
"The police!" She shuddered
and closed her eyes again. "1
might have known. Trouble in
your shadow, Niek. Wherever you
go. rires start, epidemics break
nut, people declare War. I couldn't
sleep. I wanted to make peai-e
with you over tonight s affair. I
must have been mad to haw Eric
over . . . ."
She suddenly s ton nod nnrl
stared past me, her face as while 1
as milk. 1 turne.l and saw inn nn. I
, , , .... - I--
mviiM-ii .inn a nian. i ne presence
ot the pnluv is supposed to have a
n'Hssiinne rlteel, but ih.it de
pends upon which side of the law
one thinks he stands on. And the
man in plain clothes looked mi.
pleasantly purposeful. Now he
I nave me .1 dealhshivnl smii,.
"Sony to interrupt," he said,
"hut I'm Inspector Marks."
ne Had a twisted smile the
yi'iinc-old look of a man who had
learned that things are rarelv
wnal they sivin. He pushed his I
nai kick aim lingered his chin.
1 suspected as much," I said. I
Bend's Yesterdays
mantlepiece. He looked at the fin
ger critically, then rubbed the
dust off with his thumb.
"Calavestri," he said and looked
at Pat. "Did you know her?"
"I didn't even know Nick knew
her."
"I sec," Marks said In a tone
which Implied that he saw a lot
more than met the eye. "Now, Mr. !
Trent, if you will tell me what
happened."
"There's nothing to toll. I push
ed the elevator button, opened the :
door, and there she was."
"Then you came directly back I
up herpsand called the police?" j
"I was already Up here," I said. ,
Marks' eyebrows rose. !
"How do you account for. the !
body's being on the first floor?"
"I neglected to prop open the'
safety gate." I looked at Pat. i
"And when Miss Hudson rang for j
the car, it naturally returned to'
the first floor."
"You were going out and Miss :
Hudson was coming in?" i
"That's right." j
"What time was that?" I
"A little after 11, I should say." '
"You live here at the Common-!
wealth Apartments, Miss Hud
son?" "No, I live in Loulsburg
Square."
Marks was turning a packet of
matches in Ihe palm of his hand.
"What was the purpose of your
visit. Miss Hudson?"
Pat hit her lip. I
"I wanted to see Mr. Trent
about n personal matter."
At this moment1 Chartev ar
rived. He looked ut us all and
said:
"Am I intruding?"
(To He Conlinuudl
the days of Herbert Hoover.
There are more rumors in the
place than filing cabinets to hold
them, and what comes out is go
ing to be something to watch.
Reorganization of the staff is 'SUB
being held up pending the return g
to Washington of Undersecretary i B
Wayne Chatfitld Taylor, W'ho has 'g
been In Mexico City for the con-lil
ferenee of American republics. ! y
Taylor was a Jesse Jones ap- i H
pointee and he practically ran the )
department while Jones spent I jj
most of his time running the a
federal loan agency. Taylor hasiS
Indicated he would be glad to stay I
on under Wallace If asked, butlH
he mav not be asked. Dr. Amos
W. Taylor, head of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce,
has been in almost constant con-
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
. (March 24, 1930)
(From The Bulletin Files) '
Thirteen cars are derailed, tear
ing up 10,000 feet of track near
Wishram. No one is injured.
Four Eugene Obsidians ski
over the MCKenzie pass.
Sixty women sign up for a din
ner at the Pilot Butte inn to hear
Miss Martha Gasch, organizer for,i
Business and Professional wom
en's clubs, speak.
Mrs. H. A. Miller goes to Esta-
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The standardization of aircraft
parts is increasing production, de
creasing costs and saving lives.
PASSION WEEK
SERVIC
ES
Under the auspices of the
Bend Ministerial Association
CAPITOL THEATRE
March 26-27-28-29
Noon Hours: 12:15-12:55
Special Music Each Day
Paul Hornbeck, Song Leader
Wilson George, Pianist
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(March 24, 1920)
Ninety-eight lots In the High
land addition are bought, by J.
Ryan & company from the Bend
company.
Steps are "taken to form an
O.A.C. association in Bend.
Arthur DIzney of Madras, Is a
Bend business visitor.
R. N. Buchwalter returns from
Portland with a new stock of fish
ing equipment for his store.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
(March 24, 1915) .
Mayor Miller proclaims a
'clean-up week" for Bend.
B. A. Stover acts as toastmaster
when winners in a bowling tour
ney dine at the Pilot Butte Inn.
Norval Springer leaves for Seat
tle to sign up With the Seattle
baseball team.
C. P. Nlswonger and L. W.
Richardson spend the day In Red
mond,
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(March 24, 1910)
Organization of the Bend Com- night air attack.
merclal club is completnH , .
- ., fimuent: M e
len, vice president and J ft ft
er, treasurer.
Landlord O'Knno v
hotel, announces plans fnt
ing the hotel bowling aliev'
an annex. 6 le' into
L. D. Wlest reports the sat.
Wiestorla, newlv niotti..oi
to Bend, to C. W. Melville ST1
sentmg Seattle eanitnii...-
, The Wenandy-Bunton a,
incorporates and changes its
to the Central Oregon Auto
com.
TODAY IN GERMANYY
(By United Press)
The entire Rhine line thr.
ened to collapse under allied bn.
slaughts in the great drive to
meet the Russians who Wars
opening their offensive west nt
the Oder.
Thousands of pianos, streaking
out in advance of the ground ar
mles set raging fires across the
Ruhr as far as 150 miles from the
Kiune.
Berlin had its 32nd consecutive
TOflflORROW
Is Paper Collection Day
and this is
How Waste Paper Goes to War
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PACKED . , . Double-packed in heavy paper, the shell being inserted
into the container will travel to the battlefront in perfect condition.
Except for the largest sizes, all ammunition is shipped in paper.
esasssss
Climo ., . Three shells are clipped together for ease in handling.
Now they can be stacked without rolling. The water-proof paper
shell containers art strong enough to stand rough treatment,
FIREO ... . by one of our tanks, "dug-m'1 at the front. Those shell
' containers made from .your waste paper have dine their job to
speed the day of victory I -
Place Your Waste Paper
At a Collection Point Tomorrow!
This space furnished in cooperation with
ihe Bend Junior Chamber of Commerce
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