THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1946
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SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT COPY
Purported "authentic details" of the construction of
America's bomb and of accumulation of such weapons by
this country doubtless made interesting: reading for the sub
scribers to London's Daily Express, which published them.
To a less degree they "were of interest in this country, where
the account of the London paper's assertions again made
news.
Here, we would say, there was more likelihood that they
would be evaluated as imaginative writing of the sort fre
quently featured in the so-called magazine sections of some of
our metropolitan publications. Given an ounce of fact and a
hundredweight of conjecture, an uninhibited hack with a
free-wheeling typewriter can, and does, dash off copy of the
kind by the ream. You'll see it any Sunday, complete with
pseudo-scientific diagrams and "artist's conceptions". It
means nothing and the reading public is becoming increas
ingly aware of its lack of significance.
The Express story conforms closely to the standards of
this sort of fantastic sensationalism. Official recognition
has been limited to a stereotyped, "no comment", and this, in
deed, is as much as it merits.
SHORING UP SECONDARY EDUCATION
Recently Charles A. Sprague, in his Oregon Statesman
column "It Seems To Me", reviewed the progress made under
the unified state system of higher education set up in the gov
ernorship of I.- L. 1-atterson and he concluded with this
paragraph :
The institutions still have problems. Though having far
greater incomes than ever beiore the demands have gone up
in proportion. The problem of physical plant is extremely
critical. The problem of getting qualified faculty members
is baffling. How to get better preparatory work in lower
schools so colleges will not have to do so much "shoring up"
of defective secondary education also perplexes. But the
state system has emerged into a successfully functioning
organism, even if its character is different from what was
envisioned in the early years of unification.
' We call particular attention to this sentence in that nara-
graph "How to get better preparatory work in lower scRools
so colleges will not have to do so much 'shoring up' of de
fective secondary education also perplexes." One way, we
have an idea, is to follow the program now being carried out
here of having a thorough survey of the lower level education
al systems and then putting into effect the recommendations
of the experts making the survey.
In that field, we suggest, lies the greatest local opportunity
for betterments that will endure for many years.
- In the late forenoon on Wednesday the wire service carry
ing Oregon election returns tabulated' the figures for the state
contests as received from the various counties. In each case
there was a showing of the number of nrecincts in the countv
and the number from which reports had been received and '
out of the 36 counties there were only nine reporting complete j
returns. Deschutes, was one of the nine and we are proud j
of the record for it was made by the joint effort of our own j
and the KBND staff with the cooperation of the election and j
counting boards in the various precincts. As a matter of fact
the Deschutes report was complete and put on the wire several ;
nours Deiore tne state compilation was sent out Our thanks
go to all who assisted in making this record.
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Washington
Column
crash of 1029. Speaking of In
flation, Smithsonian has this to
say:
"Porcupine fishes have skins
which are covered with sharp
spines and which can (111 tht-lr
sack-like bodies with water or In
flate them with air until they form '
a ball about twee their normal ,
IK'PI Wuhinvtnn fnrrMfmnilent! I -l . 11,-1 .U t li.... I '
9ir. nt-ii int.- wum air (juinn
By Peter Edson up the sharp spines are erected to I
Washington, Nov. 7 If you (protect the creatures against
think there are a lot of queer fish their enemies. This inflation Is a
in this world, wait "till you read defense measure which takes
what the Smithsonian institution1 place almost automatically when
has to say about the situation. a fish is alarmed." j
The pood old Smithsonian is i Most observers of election1
one of the most reliable agencies ; trends are agreed that the com
in Washington. When things are' munist influence will continue to
in a terrible mess either on the! be a threat to U. S. politics. As
domestic or international fronts, the Simihsonlun puts it:
you can always count on "the "Scorpion fish have bodies cov
Smithsy to crash through withlpredwllhvenemoussplneswho.se
appropriate comment exactly poison is reputed to be sometimes
the correct appraisal to put every-! fatal even to man." ,
thing in proper perspective and 1
timed to pertection. bane, solid,
Fifty-one per cent of persons interview"' !i a recent na
tional poll did not know, so we read, what it means to
"balance the budget". Must have been members of the new
deal administration.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From Th Bulletin Rlad
FIFTEEN TEARS AGO
(November 7, 1931)
Ownership of 277 quarts of
beer is to be determined at a
session of municipal court this
afternoon. The beer was taken
from two Bend residences by
ponce oiticers.
The autogyro which attracted so
much attention two weeks ago
when it hovered over Bend, then
headed Into the north, was back
today and was the first type ever
to land on a local field. The
owner is C. E. Haines, a former
Bend man who was a logging
engineer for The Shevlin-Hixon
Company. It was piloted by
Claude A. Owen.
Two hundred Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs from all over the state
are here for the dedication of the
new I. O. O. F. temple at the
corner of Franklin and Sisemore.
! voraciously than at any time of
the year, according to anglers re
I turning from Newberry crater.
Ten inches of snow between
: Dutchman's flat and Lost lake
i were encountered by Bend motor
jists who made the Century drive
yesterday. -
More unmistakable evidence of
better business in Bend was given
today when C. J. Dugan of the
Bend Iron Wqrks said that work
on hand necessitated three cast-
! Ings a week, where formerly one
week was sufficient.
reasoned unhysterical
It was with expectantly trem
bling hands, therefore, that your
correspondent picked up the
Smithsonian Institution's an
nouncement which came in
marked, "For release Wednesday
afternoon, Nov. 6, 1946."
This would be it. The day after
election. Scientific analysis in
advance. A clear mandate for the
president on what to do about
price controls, Peron and Pales
tine, how to handle congress, John
L. Lewis and the atomic bomb.
The first paragraph read as follows:
A total of 39,000 fish, repre-
Broihers Separated 62
j Years Finally Reunited
I Palm Springs, Calif., Nov. 7 Ui
j Separated since their boyhood
.62 years ago,. George (Pop)
I Strebe, Sr., 72, Palm Springs cafe
man, today was reunited with his I
older brother, Alexander J. Stre
be, 77, of Seattle.
The two brothers last saw each
other in Lafayette, Ind.j in 1S84.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Vegetables Improved by freez
(November 7, 1921) ling include parsnips, leeks and
East lake trout are biting more bunching onions.
AaeerUaftmeMi
From where I sit ... Joe Marsh
Who Gets Of? Easiasf
Mea cr Women?
s1i1f
Maybe yon saw that poll on who
has the easiest life men or, wom
en? Of course, the meri voted that
the women did,, and the women
vice verso.
It would be the same in our town
take any family. Thad Phibbs
envies his Missus spending the day
at home, with no hot office to at
tend to. And Sue envies Thad his
luncheons with the boys; and his
evening glass of beer with friends
(while she cleans up the dishes in
the kitchen).
1 ,. Of course, none of It goes very
deep. Thad knows way deep down
that the Missus has plenty of work
running a house; and Sue knows
Thad's friendly glass of beer is well
deserved relaxation after a long
hard day's work.
From where I sit, most husbands
and wives may grumblo now and
then but they know in their
hearts it's a caso of live. and let
live, give and take, that comes out
pretty even in the end.
Copyright, 1916, United Statu Drcu.cn F oundation
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REPLIES TO IfOISTEK
Bend, Ore.
Nov. 6. 194G
To the Editor:
In reply to Rev. Bolster's letter.
Probably many people know that j
about 25 years ago, my mother, I
by taking in a few old folks to
care for, started the beginning of
the place Mr. Bolster so denounc-1
senting 250"species, some of which es- Sne was kind and Kood ,0i
are new to science were obtained ! ,hem .and soon. found it necessary j
for the Smithsonian Institution lu uullu UU,"M1 io ac-
collectlons from the waters commodate them. Whatever prof
around Rikini, site of the atomic!" mB was immediately put
bomb test." back into the place in her effort
Now what better comment on ' 10 make it more livable. If clr
the election could you have thanicumstances natl continued favor
that? ably perhaps It might have been
Are you concerned, today, about 1 possible to erect brick or stone
the outcome of the 1948 presiden-l buildings, however, I doubt that
tial elections, as shown by the ; any Individual alone, without ad
trend of the 1946 elections? Says' ditional funds from some other
the Smithsonian: (source, could have possibly built
"The Bikini waters . . . were!,he kind ' Plaee " seems to be
rich in a notable variety of fish , 'he opinion should have been
life. Some of the species col-; provided.
lected were quite curious." Just about the time the pres-
Do vou believe the election in-.mt "buildings were completed,
dlcates there will be continuing; 'he depression was upon us. Per
deadlock between the White , haps many Bend residents do not
House and congress? remember that at that time funds
"Trigger fish," reveals the 'r care, of indigents were not bc
Smithsonian Institution communl-!lnK matched by the State. The
que, "are creatures with riplrt' hills for the care of these people
spines which 'lock' automatically were sent to the county court and
when the animals are in danger, after approval a warrant Issued
so that they cannot be b-mt. They i in payment. By the year 1930 it
can be 'unlocked,' presumably by had been increasingly difficult to
a nerve reflex, by the fish them-trash these warrants. Finally the
selves, or by some scientist who "me came when the banks would
knows the preoise spinal process, no longer take any of them. I
or 'trigger" to touch. This 'lock- shall always remember with grat
ing' of the spine is also a defense "ude a certain grocery store own
measure. It makes the owner or who extended credit to my
very difficult for another fish to mother for as much as six
swallow." months at a time or until she
Yep. That's the answer. There ' could cash warrants to pay her
are to many trigger fish around , bills.
Washington and what this coun-1 Please remember it was reces
trv needs is a lot more scientists ary for the county to cut ex
who know the precise spinal pro- penses then, and reductions were
cesses to touch to break up fill- made in amounts for care of pa
busters, log-jams and stalemates. llents. In addition to this oflen
Stubborn congressmen shouldn't as much as 20 per cent discount
be permitted to lock their spines I of warrants had to be allowed be
so that they're hard to swallow. 1 fore anyone would cash them.
They're hard enough to take as ' Such conditions as these allowed
it is. only for maintenance and no im-
But will the Influence of the pravement.
reactionary southern bloc in con-1 If I believed that the other res
gress be reduced by the outcome Idents of Bend were all in accord
of this year's elections? Iwlth Mr. Bolster's views of our
The Smithsonian merely ob- efforts, I would certainly regret
serves that "Goat fishes . . . are having ever permitted the use of
named from two growths under! the buildings for the a?cd. At the
the mouth which look like chin time of ny mother's death' in
whiskers of goats." 1 1939, the court house had not yet
It is necessary to view with been built. The citv and county
alarm, of course, any election had no place to detain women
trend toward Inflationary pres- j prisoners, delinquents, etc., and
surcs such as brought on the i so we decided to try and continue
to enre for these, and the aged,
until the county could pruvule
county owned places.
During the war It would have
b"-cn much easier Just to let the
old folks go and use the houses
lor rental. It was noi easy to get
people to care for them during u
jierlod when more desirable work
was available.
In reference to the personal ex
perience with the dying man that
ir. Bolster describes since
there was only one patient to
whom oxygen was administered
during the past seven years. I
presume he was referring to a
couple who came here from Cali
fornia In 1944.
Shortly before the man's death
he was removed to St. Charles
Hospital (where I'm sure Mr.
Bolster will agree accommoda
tions arc of the best), but at the
lnsislenee of his wife was return
ed to the home again. Further
more the wife was not nn Inmate
but a ' paid employee, as employ,
ment records filed with state and
federal government will verify,
and private living quarters were
provided elsewhere on the prem
ises for her use. It was never nec
essary for her to stoy with her
husband In her off duty hours.
Dr. J. W. Thorn was the physi
cian in charge and can verify my
statements.
As to the "highly dangerous
wiring," aller an inspection of
the place last spring (19-181, I
received an order Issued from the
state fire marshal's office that
the electrical wiring must be
checked by a licensed electrician
and made to comply with state
electrical code. After some trou
ble in obtaining an electrician
this was done.
It is true the old folks are
housed in wooden buildings using
wood stoves; so are a lot of other
people In Bend, hut old folks
should not have to. Their fire
proof home Is indeed badly need
ed. I would like to point out
though that back through the
many years we have carried on
and through many difficulties
have slnceerly tried to do the
best with what we had.
Alice J. Weeks
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