WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25,
PAGE TWO
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON
1948
Minerals, Good
Breeding Boost
Gains of Steers
- Minerals, and better breeding
may play, a new role in cheaper
beefsteak production.
That's the opinion of Harry
Lindgren, O. S. C. extension ani
mal husbandman, who has re
cently reviewed results of min
eral feeding experiments conduct
ed by the Malheur -branch ex
perimental area at Ontario. Tests
carried on there indicate steers
fatten faster and more cheaply
on a ration containing a mineral,
though Lindgren points out that
no hard and fast rules may be
drawn from one test. Difference
in breeding showed up in differ
ence in rate of grain of animals
on the same ration.
In the Malheur feeding experi
ment carried on by Neil Hoffman,
station superintendent, and
Charles Custer, feeder, four pens
of eight Herford steers each were
led the following rations: ; fen
one was fed chopped alfalfa, corn
and bone meal. Pen two received
the same without the bone meal.
Pen three was fed chopped al
falfa, barley and bone meal, and
pen four received tne same wnn
out the mineral.
Pen three fed chopped alfalfa,
barley and the mineral supple
ment, bone meal made the
largest daily gain as well as the
lowest cost per pound of grain,
at M cents.
Gains Recorded
Entering the, feed lot, the 32
steers Included in the test aver
aged 880 pounds each; they
weighed out at an average of
1125 pounds each, or an average
gain of 245 pounds. In the top
pen, number three, the lowest
weight gain was put on by an
animal that gained 215 pounds.
The top animal gained 315
pounds. The top and bottom
weight gains In pen one were 180
and 325; pen two, 135 and, 280
pounds; and pen four, 160 and
280 pounds.
Lindgren points out that the
difference in gain between the
high and low animals indicates
difference in production effici
ency. Animals inherit these char
acteristics, hence it will pay live
stock producers to spot bulls that
sire the steers that make the
highest and most economical feed
gains.
Progeny testing work with beef
animals is now being carried on
at the Union, Squaw butte, North
rup creek and branches at the
central O. S. C. experiment sta
tions. -.. r- ; '
Aged Jumper Interests Tourists
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"Disgrace"-of Twin? 7
Solved by Murder
Saga, Japan itfi The merciless
killing of one of twin babies and
divorcing of, the "animal-like"
wife who brought such a disgrace
to. the husband's family was dis
closed by police in this still
strongly feudal southern Japan
province of Kyushu. :
Police reported that the aged
mother of the husband, fearing
that the birth of twins would be
come known and bring shame to
the household, suffocated one of
the twin girls; In connivance with
her son, she secretly buried the
corpse in the ancestral tomb,' .'
Then, police said, the old wom
an began a campaign which final
ly forced her son to divorce his
otherwise "faultless wife" ' for
fear that she would again give
birth to twins.' - ,
Japanese of the old school still
consider twins or other multiple
births in the same class with a
litter of dogs or pigs and often
give away all but one of the babies
born.
Superstition popular among
Buddhist Japanese holds that
.twins are the reincarnated forms
of men and women who died in
.double suicide pacts. Twins are
doomed to unhappy lives and ear
ly death, many Japanese believe,
unless they are separated and nev
er allowed to see each other.
Woman Crossing Keeper
Makes' Hut a Haven 1
St. Louis ilPi Weary switch
men find a haven at the railroad
crossing where Mrs. Katherlne
McMahon, official watchman, sits
In her hut and serves coffee to
them out of the window.
Her job is raising and lowering
the barrier gate at First and Rut
ger streets. But she Is not con
tent with the minor mechanical
duties. Mrs. McMahon widow of
a railroad man, has adorned the
crude little hut with bright col
ors, laying flowered linoleum on
the wooden floor and pictures of
her family on the walls.
Surrounding the shack Is a gar
den fjllcd with Iris and rod moss.
Fast Gangster Cars
Captured in Raid
Chicago (111 .Detectives raided
secret garage whore "souped
up" automobiles are built for Chi
cago hoodlums and bandit gangs.
Police tests showed that some
of the "hot rod" cars were capable
of accelerating to speeds of !K)
miles per hour, from a standstill,
within a few hundred feet.
Some were capable of speeds up
to 140 miles an hour on a straight
away. ,
Uno car wna in tne garage,
was a 1D34 Ford with a 1947 Mer
cury engine, equipped with duel
carburetors, dual mufflers, doub
le gas injectors and special gears.
It hit 140 miles an hour in a test
run. ' j
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: .. i - ;. U, S. Forest Service Photo;
This huge juniper, on the Central Oregon highway abbut five
miles east of Bend, was frequently, photographed this past sum
mer, by tourists; traveling over the east-west route. Age of this
still-growing tree is estimated at . more than 500 years. .
Students of Geology Inspect
volcanoes Opened by Man
When contractors riDDed apart
an old volcano near Redmond in
world war No. 2. days to provide
cinders for airport grading, .they
created one of the scenic won
ders of the mld-Deschutes region
dissected cone that provides
for students of geology a graphic
illustration of . the manner fire
mountains are made. ; .
This season, several parties of
student ' geologists have been
taken to the excavation, four
miles north of Redmond and Just
west of highway .97, and their
New Highways
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IndlrfH'g"ency,' and graded ;bey qhIJ
that point to the forest boundary.
This season, the contract for . the
surfacing of the 24.77 mile , sec
tion, from tne Indian agency to
the forest boundary, was let. This
surfacing job was scheduled for
completion this year, but may not
be finished until 1949. ,
. Now being graded is the Clear
creek-forest boundary section of
the new highway, with completion
set for this fall. Surfacing of this
unit may be let tnis autumn. This
section will extend the Warm
springs to the Waplnitla highway,
west of Bear springs.
It now appears that all units, of
the shortcut route will be com
pleted by mid-summer in 1949, but
use of the highway will not be
possible until the Mill creek span
Is completed. The new highway
will reduce the distance from Cen
tral Oregon to Portland about 32
miles. .
j professors have pointed to fea
tures tnat maxe tne dissected
cone unique.- These -features In
clude massive lava bombs and
strata Indicating that cinders
were thrown, from several vents.
Also, it has been noticed that the
old surface underlying the vol
cano, one of the Tetherow- buttes,
has been exposed. Visiting geolo
gists say that the dissected cone
is one of a series that probably
blazed along: a fissure several
thousand years ago. , t ; - ;..
In excavating' material ' ' from
the cone for use on the Redmond
airfield, contractors created a
huge amphitheater, large enough
for a football gridiron. . , . .
An old volcanic cone near Lava
butte was also deeply cut When
material was removed. for use at
.Camp-'AbHtt , In th)s2pone was
daverL,aava:?igj'
, Ih'cludecfm college groups that
studied the dissected Deschutes
volcanoes in the summer of 1948
was a field party from O. S. C,
under the supervision of Dr. W.
,D. Wilkinson. .He said the entire
story of yolcanism can be interp
reted from the Deschutes cones,
with Lava butte taken as the
"complete specimen." ;
Being Kept Off
American Tables
' By Dorothy Williams -
. mmifd PrM Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Aug. 25 (IP -The
food and drug administration said
today that thanks to Its new
powers It is keeping tons of bad
iooa on American tames.
Until a month ago it lacked
authority to do anything about
iooa wnicn Became contaminated
after it reached its destination.
It was powerless to. prevent
distribution of food which rotted
In warehouse or was defiled by
by rodents or insects while in
storage.
' Courts Hake Ruling , V
The courts had held that tho
federal government had no. right
to. seize bad food If the spoilage
occurred after the food ceased
moving In interstate commerce.
A recent act of consress. how
ever, gave the food and drug ad
ministration the authority
wanted to halt distribution of
such food.
The administration how may
declare spoiled 6r contaminated
food, unfit for hitman consump
tion and seize if by court order.
Within the past month, the ad
ministration has tagged . more
than 1,621,000 pounds about 811
tons of food as unfit.
' Bice Seized
Biggest seizure was 175.000
pounds of rice In a Los Aneeles
warehouse. Administration in
spectors said it was defiled by
rodents. .
They blamed rodents, too. for
ruining 156,000 pounds of sugar
In Tacoma, Wash. In St. Louis
beetles ruined 100,000 pounds of
rice grits.
In Oakland, Calif., rodents made
more than 48,000 pounds of farina
flour inedible for humans.
FATHER NEEDS HELP
New York (U' Women buy 75
per cent of the men's ties, shirts,
underwear and hose, according to
a survey made by the American
Women's Institute. Fifty-nine per
cent of the men who buy suits
are accompanied by women. The
only thing men can buy by them
selves is shoes, the survey con
cluded. : . ,. -'
Use classified ads In The Bulle
tin for quick results.
Florida Youth Aid
German Children
Gainesville, Fla. IP Florida's
farm youth, free of the prejur
dices of their fathers, are raising
money to buy playground equip
ment for the Children of Ger
many. ; '
The 254 boy members of the
Florida 4,H club are chipping. In
the money themselves. Their min
imum goal is $200. .
The group expressed plainly its
views toward America's traditional-enemy.
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', "What happened in- Germany
wasn't , the fault of the boys and
girls Oyer there. We want those
kids to Have some of the things
Jv have," said the farm-boy phil
anthropists. i- - . '
s f'Maybe," they added, "vve; can
help in our own little way to
make democracy work in Ger
many. .
Pioneers in Philippine
Schools Dying Out
Manila (IP Disease murder
and old age , have killed all but
a handful of 600 Americans who
volunteered to build the first' pub
lic school houses in the Philip
pines. -
They were young men and
women, most of them In their
twenties, when they answered a
U. S. army appeal for teachers
soon after the Spanish-American
war. They sailed for Manila in
the summer of 1901 aboard the
transport Thomas, and they call
ed themselves the Thomasites.
Carrying packs of textbooks
and carpenter's tools, they fanned
out into the fields and jungles of
the Philippine -archipelago. They
built classrooms out of bamboo
and thatch. Then they began the
slow and sometimes dangerous
Job of recruiting pupils.
Twenty-seven died the first
year. Nineteen were killed by
disease, six by knives and clubs
of savages, and two by accident.
Only 60 of the Thomasites still
remained in. the Philippines when
Pearl Harbor was bombed. All 60
were interned In Japanes concen
tration . camps where many of
them died. Most of those who sur
vived were broken in health, pen
niless and edging 70. .
New Car Popular
Executive Finds
Pontiac's longtime program of
expansion and modernization of
dealerships is matching the popu
larity of the Pontlac car through
out the country, Harry J. Kline-
ler, general manager of Pontiac
motor division, declared following
a 4,000 mile swing through the
the last 10 months Kllngler
and other Pontiac executives have
traveled approximately, 40,000
miles in dealer surveys..
"I am proud of Pontiac's posi
tion in the Industry both as to the
dealer organization and to prod
uct," Glingler said. "Everywhere
we went we found evidence of our
dealers' faith in the future of the
automobile industry and in Pon
tiac in particular; This is being
expressed In the form of new and
better buildings, in the installa
tion of modern equipment, in
alert, well trained staffs and in
an honest effort to gain and hold
good public opinion in their com
munities. Progress Made
"I feel that both dealers and the
Pontiac car have made marvelous
progress. Pontiac orders now are
approaching the 600,000 mark and
it was pleasing to note the en
thusiasm, people appear to have
for the' Pontiac car. Many per
sons, not connected with the in
dustry, went out oi tneir way to
tell me how much they liked our
car. And that, I think, is one of
the finest compliments which can
be paid a manufacturer." ;
Hydra-matic transmissions now
are being installed on 75 per cent
of Pontiac's total production, the
maximum number of automatic
transmission units Pontiac Is able
to obtain at this time.
STILL IN HARNESS
Syracuse. N. Y. (U'l Edwin
Mead began working for the Sol-
vay Process Co. 62 years ago. At
the age ot tu. ne s still at it ana
has no intention of retiring. Mead
worked himself up from ditch dig
ger to- adviser in the company's
electrical department.,.-. :
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Don't Miss the County Fair!
The 29th Annual Deschutes County Fsfr
Will Be Held in Redmond
August 27, 28 and 29.
LEE G. ALLEN MOTOR CO.
625 Franklin Ave.
Phone 1216
AN INVITATION . . .
To the People of Central Oregon!
We Sincerely Invite You to Visit Us Soon and Inspect the 1949
STUDEBAICER TRUCKS
AND PICKUPS
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New Design! New Comfort! New Power!
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Visit the 29th Deschutes County Fair
In Redmond August 27, 28 and 29
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FELIX MOTOR SALES
. STUDEBAKER SALES and SERVICE
1026 Bond : v Phone 561
Best Wishes
to the
County
Fair
August 27, 28, 29
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DIRECTORS
WARD H. COBLE
11. II. DeARMOND
CARL E. ERICKSON
GEO. P. GOVE
W. II. MYERS
H. A. MILLER
W. G. PEAK
F. R. PRINCE
J. L. VAN HUFFEL
YOU, Your FAMILY,
and Your FARM...
Saving today means having what you and yours need PLUS
those gracious luxuries throughout the tomorrows. Deschutes
Federal's savings plan is the sound way to acquire the machin
ery, extra land and cash necessary to your farming activities.
Come in and discuss any of your financial problems with us.
Bend
DESCHUTES SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCATION
Wall and Oregon
Phone 1315-J