THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1945
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Ration Decrease
For Present Year
Washington, April 10 upiAmer
leans this year may be experienc
ing their slimmest rations of the
war but they still will fare much
better than their British allies, a
war food administration survey
showed today.
WFA economists predict now
that U. S, civilians, who last year
dined at a rate nine per cent above
the prewar level, will return to a
rate near that before Pearl Har
bor. The catch in this diet analy
sis, WFA admitted, is. that food
Americans like most, such as
meat, butter and sugar, will be
considerably scarcer than before
the war.
Situation Same
This is the same situation the
British have experienced for more
than five years. WFA reported
that, the British diet in 1945 will
be as nutritious as before the war.
But the "morale building" foods,
such as fresh oranges and eggs,
will continue to be rarities.
Generally speaking,' Canada's
food situation is superior either
to this country's or the United
Kingdom.
The growing scarcity of meat
has brought the loudest complaint
in this country. Americans, who
feasted on meat at a per capita
rate of 147 pounds in 1944, prob
ably will see their consumption
go down to 120 to 125 pounds this
year.
Before the war, the British ate
meat at about the same level as
Americans. But this year, the
British per capita supply is not
xpected to surpass the 107
pounds averaged last year.
Canadians Get More
Meantime, Canadians are ex
pected to consume an average of
134 pounds this year. This would
be 20 pounds more than the peace
time average.
WFA conceded that the United
Nations sugar supply will be the
tightest of any war year. Civilians
in this country, Canada and the
United Kingdom now are expect
ed to get an equal share of the
available stocks, or 78 pounds per
person for the year.
For U. S. civilians, this will
mean a drop of 10 pounds below
last year. It will be an increase of
nine pounds per person in the
United Kingdom while Canadian
consumption will be the same as
last year.
Officials fear that before the
year is out, sugar rations may be.
even smaller than indicated by
these figures.
One of the principal reasons is
that the Cuban sugar crop now
is forecast at 1,000,000 pounds
shorter than six weeks ago. '
Grange Hall
Grange Hall, April 10 (Special)
The Grange Hall Ladies aid will
meet Thursday, April 12, with
Mrs. Del Mattson.
The Eastern Star extension unit
met at the home of Mrs. Chester
Johnson in Bend last Thursday
with 13 ladies present. The topic,
"Touch-ups in Wood Furniture,"
was discussed by the project lead
ers, Mrs. Del Mattson and Mrs.
Arthur Robideaux. Mrs. Chester
Johnson will be in charge of the
rug exhibit at Homemaker's day
in Redmond, April 19. The next
meeting will be on May 3 at the
home of Mrs. R. I. Hamby with
Miss Elizabeth Boeckli, the home
agent, in charge. The topic of the
meeting will be "Dry Cleaning."
Miss Phyilis Frasier, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Frasier,
left Wednesday for Portland
where she is employed. She has
been visiting her parents for the
past month.
"Feed-a-Fighter" garden 4-H
club met Wednesday afternoon at
the Young school and filled out
their new record book. Visitors at
the meeting were Mrs. Charles
Boyd and Mrs. E. P. Bigelow. The
next meeting will be April 18.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Fitzgerald,
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Walters and
Homer Brown were visitors from
this community at the Pine For
est grange meeting, last Tuesday
evening.
The Home Economics club
meeting originally scneduled for
April 19 at the home of Mrs. Eu
gene Ackiey in Bend has been can
celled for this month because it
comes on homemaker's day In
Redmond, according to the club
chairman, Mrs. Homer Brown.
Grant Hilton is a patient in the
St. Charles hospital, where he has
been ill for six weeks.
The Victory Cooking 4-H club
met Saturday afternoon and
made final arrangements for the
Bombers Attack J qd Escort Vessel
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Escaped Convict
Trapped and Shot
Philadelphia, April 10 'Ut-Wil-
iiom Kussi'll, a!), one of 12 long-
ieim convicts who escaped from
the Eastern penitentiary one week
ago, was wounded critically last
nli;ht in a short range gun duel
wiih city detectives.
," I he shooting took place at the
home of a city policeman who
identified the convict when ho
stepped into the house.
, Kussell, wearliiH a nnvv uni
form, was shot seven times bv
chy detectives Allen Kleppinger
ami wiuiam Srh'iulor after he
rued one shot at them.-
Girl Is Bnit
.Police said KlcDDineer and
Schiader were at the home of pa
trolman Lawrence G a r v e y in
Fiankford in the hopes that Rus
sell would walk into the trap
prepared for him.
Refore he was jailed in April,
19-13. to serve 15 to 30 years for
participation in some 00 robberies,
Russell allegedly was a friend of
one of Garvey's daughters. The
nouse was watched since last
Tuesday's break in the belief he
might contact the girl.
I v INEA 7(;iii(iii
With one engine on fire, a B-25, of the Fifth Air Force makes Its run on a Jap escort vessel caught oft the
Soui China coast. Two' other U. S. bombers (center and right) take part in the attack. AAF photo.
tea they are giving for their moth
ers April 28.
Mrs. Clarence Walker made a
business trip to Redmond on Fri
day. .'
Ted Johnson of Bremerton,
Wash., visited with his aunt, Mrs.
Julia Pederson, for four days last
week on his way to Arizona.
Frank Pepper is seriously 111 in
the St. Charles hospital.
Maruyn Joyce Brown, small
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Brown, visited a few days last
week with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Varco, in the Plain
view community. i
Technical Sergeant Curtis Cur
tis Carlin is spending a two weeks
furlough with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Carlin, and his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Del Mattson. Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbur Carlin of Pasco, Wash.,
arrived Saturday night to spend
the week-end visiting his parents,
the Carlins and his brother and
sister.
Mrs. Ethel McLellan and son,
Buddy, left Thursday for The,
Dalles where Buddy will receive
medical treatment. Mrs. J. R.
Haynes is caring for her baby
daughter while her, mother is
away.
.LrjvMrsi Robert Cover is, in San
n-ancisco, visiting ner nusDand,
who is a patient in the army hos
pital there. Mrs. Cover is' the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Grissom and has been making her
home with them while her hus
band was overseas.
Billy Boyd visited at Young
school Wednesday.
Richardson
Richardson, April 10 (Special)
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Addison of
Silverton, former residents of the
community, were visiting old
neighbors Wednesday. They left
for their home in the valley
Thursday afternoon.
Pres Farber of Burns was a
Plans Vet Aid
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. Industry throughout the nation
eyes with interest the plan of
James H. Simpson, above, Chi
cago attorney, and former Ma-
.rine Corps captain, for getting
Jobs for returned veterans. His
"Industry for Veterans, Inc.," is
a non-profit oiganization that
asks Illinois employers to pledge
25 per cent of their postwar jobs
to returned servicemen. Simp
son served 22 months in the
Pacific theater of war.
guest at the Edith Beach home
last week.
Mrs. Peder Pedersen has 300
new baby chicks.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bice were
callers gt the Wilson Eakman
home on Saturday. '
Mr. and Mrs. Meade. Pedersen
of McMinnville left Wednesday
for their home in the valley after
visiting with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Peder Pedersen, for several
days.
1 A large number of the Richard
son community residents attend
ed the auction sale at the Rhodes
ranch Sunday.
, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Vodvick
were dinner guests at the Pete
Klobas home Sunday evening.
Rollback Ordered
In Cooks' Wages
Seattle, April 10 tunThe roll
back of cooks' wages in Bremer
ton from $16 to $8.64 a day will be
protested by the Bremerton local
of the Hotel, Restaurant and Bar
tenders union (AFL), it was re
vealed today.
Attorney L. Presley Gill, rep
resenting the union, said he would
ask the regional war labor board
to reconsider their decision re
ducing the restaurant employes'
wages. If their second decree- is
not favorable, the union will ap
peal to the national board. Gill
said.
The regional board in announc
ing its decision said the cooks'
wages were the highest on the Pa
cific coast. Gill said that wage
scales for Seattle cooks, however.
were higher than those in Bre
merton. '
Over the Top on Okinawa
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American doughboys of the 10th Army leave cover of an Irrigation ditch to drive toward enemy positions on
Okinawa. Yanks ore meeting ever Increasing opposition in their advance toward Nana, naval base and cap
. ital city ot the Island. -
McGlenn to Head
City's Railroad
Prineville; Ore., April 10 (111
Appointment or C. C. McGlenn
old time railroad engineer and ex
ecutive, as manager of the city of
rrinevule railway was announced
today.
He succeeds Charles W. Wood
ruff, manager since 1924. Wood
ruff has retired.
McGlenn, a former Montana res
ident, will manage one of the
shortest railroads In the world.
The 19-mile road connects the city
of Prineville with the Seattle,
Portland and Spokane railway
and with the Union Pacific rail
road at Prineville junction.
A general rehabilitation pno-
gram is under way on the rail
road, which now hauls mostly
freight.
Marines to Use
Coos Bay Coal
Coos Bay, Ore., April 10 UB
A contract for delivery of 27,300
tons of Coos Bay coal to the Klam
ath Falls, Ore., marine base one
of the largest ever awarded here
was announced by T. O. Toon,
president of the Coast Fuel Corp.,
of Coos Bay. '
Shipments from the Soutbnort
mine near here will begin on June
20, Toon isaid. One carload per
day will be dispatched.
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Bring Your Eyes
Out of the Dark
You can, by having u examine
them and then make a pair of
glasses for you that will cor
rect vision defects.
Dr. M. B. McKenney
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as
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A complete Local Finance Service handling
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and Used Cars.
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GETS HOME TOWN TANK
, Indianapolis ui Here is an
other wartime coincidence. A tank
presented tg the army by stu
dents of the Indianapolis Broad
Ripple high school was turned
over to the command of an In
dianapolis sergeant Robert L.
Davis on Luzon island In the
Philippines.
Tryst of POW
Abruptly Ended
Del Norte, Colo., April" 10 Uli
A nightly tryst between a German
prisoner of war and a 45-year-old
Del Norte woman was brought
to an abrupt end today;
Army and federal bureau of In
vestigation agents stepped in-last
night to curtuil the activities of a
prisoner at the nearby Monte Vis
ta camp who, they said, had been
slipping away at night for a ren
de.vous with the woman.
Every night, they reported, the
German managed to escape. He
spent the nights at the woman's
home and was back in camp be
fore daylight.
The meetings were Interrupted
when officers found the prisoner
at the woman's home. Deputy
Sheriff Harry Wells said that the
army and the'FBI would continue
investigations in. the case.
The woman, whose name was
withheld, was taken to the Rio
Grande county Jail. Monte Vista
authorities, meanwhile, attempted
to see that the prisoner stayed
nome nigms.
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INTUITIVE HEN
. Athol, Mass. iU'i A euinea hen
here displayed the intuition for
which members of her sex have
been famous. When its owner, ax
in hand, entered the coop, the hen
flew out, perched in a tree 60 feet
from the ground, and couldn't be
coaxed down for days.
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Railroad Noises
An editorial from the San Jose, Califortiia,"Evenitig News".
(San Jose is on the main line of Southern Pacific's Coast Line)
We HAVE always resented those snooty expressions, .
"across the tracks" or "down by tho tracks," with their
implication that there was something disreputable and
socially low-life about living near railroad tracks. After
living many years a block from the Espoe's rails, we rise
to say that there arc many worse places to live.
Living close to the railroad has ita obvious advantages
when you are a boy. Where is there a mora romantic
place than tho right of way, with wheezing switch en
gines, puffing freight (which travel so much faster now
than they used to) and speeding passenger trains?
Morning, noon aud night railroading holds attraction
for a boy, which in why bo many of them go into it,
finding a romance which never dulls until they die.
"But how can you stand the noise?" someone asks.
For from being bothered by the noises, you get so you
find them soothing and conducive to repose. You get so
you can tell the freight trains from the passengers, and
you distinguish the touch on the whistlo rope of thnl in
dividualistic engincman who makes his blasts so short,
sharp and distinctive.
' The various whistle notes represent to you these giant
creatures of fire and steel talking to one another over
long d istanccs and on winter nights, when tho wind is
blowing and the rain is pelting against the windows it is
pleasant to think of engineer and fireman, snug in their
cab with the fire roaring below them, shunting lines of
care up and down the glistening wet tracks.
If these night noises from the tracks are comfortable
and appealing to you during peace they have even more
of these qualities during war. You realize that both the
wars in which we are engaged aro transportation wars
and must be won not only in the foxholes and workshops
but on the railroads as well. Somo of the particularly
long truins you hear puffing and snorting these nights
aro troop trains and others are weighed down With war's
materiel. 1 1 is comfortable to reflect what a great job tho
railroadmen are doing, driving their trains and switching
their cars 24 hours a day, even while you aro asleep.
Back a few years, when trucks and buses started to
cut more and more deeply into railroad revenues, with
the airplane as an additional competitor just ahead, as a
boy living near tho tracks you may have wondered a
little worriedly if they would put your old friends, the
freights and passengers, out of business. It took the war
to show that a nation's need of railroads continues, that
no nation can bo great and strong without them. You
are reassured by that, and by the articles and drawings
that have been published of vastly improved equipment
which will help tho railroads get their share of traffic
after the war. Such things mean your friends will be able
to stay alive and that, drowsily safe and comfortable,
you will continue to hoar the trains chugging and puffing
through tho night.
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We thank the San Jose News for so beautifully putting
into words the way we railroaders, and many other people,
feel about trains.
The friendly
Southern Pacific