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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, ;1 948,
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HIGHWAY COSTS
The Capital Journal of Salem has been printing some inter
esting tabulations obtained from the slate highway commis
sion, from which it draws the conclusion that Marion county
is not getting all the roads that it is entitled to. This may be
so for, in spite of population, taxable values, traffic density
and all the things that ordinarily make for recognition,
Marion stands 17th among the counties in state funds ex
pended for construction and ninth in expenditure of its own
funds and 26th in state maintenance. Perhaps the commission
has been trying all this time to avoid embarrassing the county
which contains the center of state government. Perhaps it has
felt that federal expenditures which will come to an approxi
mate $4,000,000 on the North Santiam would make up tor its
own omissions. Perhaps Marion was too modest in its claims
for highway building and was forgotten while the forward
ness of other counties was rewarded. As to these things we
do not know, but we would say that the Capital Journal has
made an excellent case.
There may be material for additional argument in the fact
that the counties surrounding Marion on the west side of the
mountains have all had greater expenditures and that these
could indicate higher standards, to which Marion county
roads should be raised.
Such improvement, of course, is a continuing problem con
fronting the commission. Unless a vast, overall program of
betterment is undertaken, with organization of equipment and
financing to effect its completion in a relatively short period,
there will probably never be a time when there are not
stretches of highway in the state which vary materially from
continuing parts of the same system. In the south end of Des
chutes and the northern end of Klamath county the contrast
with the new location of U. S. highway 97 is marked and
points unmistakably to the need for continuing on the older
road the standards exemplified on the new.
From the tabulations used by the Capital Journal the
ratings of central Oregon counties in maintenance and con
struction of highways are available and these, we are sure,
will also be of interest to our readers. The comparisons are
based on the record of 30 years, beginning with 1017. High
way maintenance in Deschutes county was $2,555,090.70, in
Crook $1,065,682.34 and in Jefferson $904,457.44. In the.
amount expended (including federal as well as state funds)
Deschutes county rated 15th among the counties, Crook 34th
and Jefferson 36th.
Construction gave a somewhat different picture. In Des
chutes $3,517,607.41 of state and federal money was spent
and $209,613.90 of county money, in Crook state and federal
funds used totaled $2,891,641.26 and county funds $259,357.50
and in Jefferson county state and federal expenditures ran
' to $2,536,976.86 and those by the county $165,282.18. Des
chutes was 30th, Crook 32nd and Jefferson 34th in the use of
state and federal funds. In the use of their own money, Des
chutes was 27th, Crook 26th and Jefferson 32nd.
The same tabulations, incidentally, show total construction
costs over the 30 year period of $258,876,033.61 from state
and federal sources and $18,540,163.37 from the counties of
Oregon. Maintenance cost $81,589,624.27.
Washington Scene
By Hunimii W. Nichols
(Un.tcd I'raM oiaft uurrubiHiiiuvnl)
Washington, Sept. 2 U' The
hen of today is so tar ahead of
Industry she's practically a menace.-
tier eggs won't lit the bas
ket, so to speak. They're too big,
a lot of 'em, for the cartons and
cases that are turned out on the
assembly line. The net result has
been a frightful breakage In eggs
shipped hither here and thither
yon.
So now the problem before Ag
riculture secretary Charles Bran
nan and his boys is: Which eoinos
first the carton or the egg? The
department, bless Us soul, stands
behind the hen.
The egg case people are not
protesting too much. They are
going along, though slowly,
building bigger boxes to keep up
The agriculture department,
back In 1918, washed and meas
ured some 2,800 eggs. Only about
18 per cent were over 2' inches
long. And only about 11 per cent
were more than 1 Inches In di
ameter. Practically pullet size, hy
modern standards.
So we come up to 1940 when
another survey was made. Biddy
was growing up lo bo a big girl
under scientific breeding, and
producing rounder and longer
eggs. But what did the egg car
ton people do about It? Not un
til 1948-for (he first time In al
most 30 years do we find a
change in egg cases and cartons.
About 116 of an Inch this way
and mat. it's almost enough, but
not quite.
Eggs are bigger and longer to
day and they're gelling bigger
and longer all the time. That has
prompted your government In
the dress of the department of
agriculture to encourage a com
mittee to get to work. It's work
ing hard and It's called the shell
egg container and packing com
mittee, one committee can't just
go along even on an egg roll
without help. So this one has hnlf
a dozen subcommittees. The big
and little committees have a
number of functions all or
which simmer down to the sim
ple fact that It's about time a
man can go to the henhouse and '
pluck an egg from under a hen
and feel reasonably sine that
when he packs It, it'll gel where
it's supposed to go.
The department is proud of the
progress that has been made In
th" past several months.
The report on cracked or
splashed cbee hasn't subsided too
much, but there has been an Im
provement
the department of agriculture,
that one out of every six eggs
shipped is too "tall" for the con
tainer. That results In what the
department calls a "hazard" and
what I would like to call "pre
scrambled eggs."
STATEHOUSE
JOTTINGS
James M. Montee, 85, a former stage coach driver, is the oldest
pilot on CAA records. The Los Angeles man, who began flying
when 85, shows his log book in Washington, D. C. He haj over
, - 3000 hours in the air. . -
By Ehlon Barrett
- (United l'rens Staff CorreHpontli'nO
Salem, Sept. 2 miOregon's
83rd state fair since 18U1 will
have "everything" even an em
peror's horse.
This comes straight from the
horse's mouth, so to speak. Fair
manager Leo Splt.bart saUl so
himself. However, Spltzbart
amended his statement hy say
ing, "Everything a respectable
lair should nave.
The horse to which Spitzhart
referred is the very same nag
that Admiral Bull llalsey said he
would ride down Tokyo's main
stem. The owner, Mick Ryan, a
former army officer and a hoss
trader senior grade, had a yen
for a horse so he swapped It off
a Japanese In Tokyo.
Ryan also has a good eye for
business, so, now he rents the
snow-white animal out to fairs
and the like as a sideshow attraction.
Midway Attraction
Splt.bart explained, carefully,
that It won't cost the fuirgoers
a single yen to see First Frost,
nee llatsushlmo. He'll be teth
ered right smack on the main
midway.
llatsushlmo will be making his
Initial appearance In the Pacific
northwest, llatsushlmo drew
record crowds at the Indiana slate
lair last year, according to Ryan.
A legend has It that First Frost,
a stallion, and his sister. First
Snow, are descendants of the
same horses that Napoleon Bona
parte cantered about Europe
astride.
llatsushlmo, First Frost or
Frosty (take your choice) was
reared In the Imperial stables
near China, Japan, estccially for
lllrohlto's use. Kyan salii the
nival animal is about 18 years
old.
Ryan assured Spithai I that the
horse would Ik- available for a
triumphant ride around the mid
way If the opening day- Uibur
laV, that Is -attendance exceeds
the lillil record of 77,.l(i(i.
Now Spltzharl's never been in
the navy like Admiral llalsey,
nut ne lias neon a hoard a few
bangtails before, which Is mure
than the admiral could say when
he boasted he would mount the
There Is still room for better 1 emperor's horse when Japan was
manaeement. The fact remains, i licked. Admiral llalsey never
according to an old ejjg man at did make that iokyo canter.
Washington
Column
By Peter Edson
(NEA Wiwhlnirton Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) Now that
regulations and orders have been
Issued by treasury and federal
reserve board, putting into effect
bank reserve and credit controls
passed by the special session of
congress, it's possible to make a
better idea on how much they're
going to curb inflation. The easy
answer is, "Not much."
In the 'first place they don't
cover enough of the economy
far less than a fourth, possibly
as little as 10 per cent. So if In
flation can still run hog wild
over more than three-fourths of
the economy including housing
and the cost of living it isn't
hard to see that there is still
plenty of room for prices to keep
on going up some more.
One other important factor is
that the MeCarthy-Wolcott hous
ing bill is Inflationary. Any hous
ing bill intended to make home
financing easier so as to encour
age construction of more houses
is bound to be Inflationary. The
important point Is that this hous
ing inflation is a calculated risk.
It must be taken because the need
for more shelter is considered
greater than the need lor check
ing inflation.
e e
Federal reserve board orders
Increasing bank reserve require
ments and discount rates, plus
treasury orders increasing inter
est rates on short term govern
ment loans are matters well up In
the stafosphere of high finance,
and don't trickle down to the
average citizen. In general, how
ever, the net effect of these or
ders is considered by the business
community as an Indication that
money is "lighter" as tile bank
ers say, and that It will be harder
to borrow.
There Is no Intention to curb
productive loans which will in
crease the supply of scarce goods
and so beat down prices. But
non-productive loans for expand
ing production of luxury Items
and non essentials will be clamp
ed down on.
The only thing in the congres
sional so-called anti-inflation bill
that hits the consumer is the
curb on Installment buying. Un
der the new regulation W, time
purchases of autos and eleven
specified lines of house furnish
ings and appliances costing up to
$5000 will be under control after
Sept. 20. Down payment must be
one-third on autos, one-fifth on
other Items. Repayment must be
within IS months If the purchase
Is for under $1000 and 18 months
If over $1000. And so on.
Hut charge accounts nre ex
empt from regulation. So are
purchases of Jewelry, stocks and
bonds, hospital and doctor bills,
farm and commercial loans and
i few other specified lines of con
sumer credit. People borrowing
money from banks will bo asked
to signify that they won t use the
money to buy regulation W items.
e
Real purpose of regulation W
Is to check over-expansion of con
sumer credit. Total consumer
credit Is now SH. 000,000.000. It
was held to less than $G.000,0O0,
000 during the war. It was less
than $10,000,000,000 before the
war. These figures have been
kicked around a great deal to
show Ilio need for credit controls,
lait they misrepresent the case.
Regulation W does not apply to
nil consumer credit -only to the
dozen lines of durable goods
bought on the Installment plan.
Total of this Installment buying
Is now $7,(100.000.01)0 as compared
with $-J.000,000,000 during the
war and nearly $C,0tX),O00,0J0
heroic.
So Installment buying Is less
than half of the total consumer
credit problem and II isn't so ter
ribly over-expanded from normal
levels.
The great big loophole, un
touched by congressional action,
is of course the cost of living.
, There is a lot of wishful thinking
about how the bumper wheat and
corn crops are going ;to bring
down all prices. But the price
of wheat has already dropped
more than enough to bring down
tne price oi bread and wnere
is it?
The corn crop still to be har
vested won't be transformed into
chickens till next winter, into
pork chops until next summer,
into beef lor a lull year.
The whole danger of inflation
is in the next year. As the above
record shows, congress did little
to meet that situation.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From-The Bulletin Files) .
Fifteen Years Ago, '.:
Sept. 2, 1933) ':;
The house-to-house NRA can
vass in Bend was almost com
pleted and Indications were that
the city was going "over the top"
with almost 100 per centiupport
of the program.
Bend was experiencing the
busiest sports week in its history
with tnree baseball games, loot
races, a wrestling card, a boxing
bout, auto races, and the play
offs for the, Bend Golf club cham
pionship. , ;s .
Announcement was made of the
sale of the D. T. Carmody resi
dence at 425 Congress to Ben E.
Whisenand, then proprietor of
the Bend Drug company.- ' ;. . ;
Bruce McMeen reported to po
lice that his car had been stolen
from a vacant lot near the Bend
company building.
Chemicals and Flame
Fight Forest Fires j- o
Salem dl'i Newly-developed
chemicals" and flame throwers are
being used to wipe out roadside
brush in Oregon, eliminating one
of the most dangerous forest fire
hazards. ,
Vance L. Morrison,' research
forester, described the chemicals
as "2-4D-Ammate" and "2-4D-Es-tors."
He said they have been used
successfully on salmonberry bush
es in Clatsop county, and now are
being used in other areas.-
The chemicals are sprayed on
the brush under 1,000 pounds of
pressure. Morrison said results
have been "very satisfactory"
with use of flame throwers. The
brush is burned under carefully-
guarded conditions to prevent the
spread of fire. .
Flathead Indians Scoop
Great White Father
Washington (Ui -The Flathead
Indians of Montana are doing
their best to save the "scalp" of
reclamation commissioner Mi
chael Straus.
Straus Is due to lose his job
next January because of an in
terlor appropriations bill "rider'
requiring the commissioner to be
a qualified engineer with five
years' experience. Straus is no
engineer.
But the Indian tribe has pre
sented him with a feather head
dress and christened him: "En
glneer of the Wilderness, Chief
white ueavcr."
Swift Courier Off Beat
Finds Himself Lost
Green Bay, Wis. Uli A mall-
man can get last when he strays
from the beaten path of deliver
ies. Police found a Sturgeon Bay,
Wis., mall carrier wandering help
lessly around downtown Green
Bay, He said he had parked his
car after coming hero lo shop at
a certain store and had forgotten
where he left the automobile.
Police took him to the store.
The car waa paired In front.
Marine From Guam Gets
To Serve Back Home
El Toro. Cal. UP) Enrique S.
Gogo, Guamanian, will return to
Guam soon in the uniform of
a United States marine, corps
officials announced here.
Gogo was born on the Pa
cific isle in 1926 and lived there
with his parents until the Japa
nese came.' He and his parents
were put in a labor concentra
tion camp.
When the marines recaptured
the island in 1943, Gogo was
freed.. His parents had been kill
ed by the Japanese.
uogo, scnooied in the U. S.
government school near his
home, bought passage to the
United States on a steamer to
enlist in the marine corps that
ireen mm. mis present duty unit
is arranging to send him back
to Guam to serve his four-year
enlistment with his remaining
relatives.
Deer and Cow Upset ,
Town's Tranquility
Bradford. N. II. UP" -Peer are
proving much too friendly ami
itiws too wild on Bradford's main
street.
The state fish and game de
partment had lo help residents
protect theclr gardens from deer,
which particularly liked cabbage.
Several men had to leave their
haying to corner a cow which
jumied the pasture fence of Les
ter . iiail.
Eugene and Baker
In Softball Finals
' Baker, Sept. 2 P Eugene and
Baker meet here tonight In the
finals of the 1948 Oregon state
softball tournament. -
The Eugene team clubbed Port
land 12 to 0 last night while Baker
eased out a 2 to 0 victory over
Medford.
Medford and Portland play In
a preliminary to the champion
ship tilt for third and fourth
places.
Coke Stevenson
362 Votes Ahead
Dallas, Tex.. Sept. 2 (U7 The
final taliy of votes in the demo
cratic runoff primary for U. S.
senator today put former Gov.
Coke Stevenson ahead of Rep.
Lyndon Johnson by just 362 votes.
The Texas election bureau an
nounced that complete returns
from all the 254 counties gave
Stevenson 494,330 votes to John
son's 493,968.
The bureau said It would con
tinue to check the totals and make
necessary revisions, but observers
agreed that Stevenson seemed to
have won.
Denver-Made Pre-Fab
Goes to Columbia
Denver iu?ia house manufac
tured in Denver's northern cli
mate has gone on display in Bo
gota, Colombia.
A 900-pound scale model of a
pre-fabricated house was flown
to the South American city.
David Feldman. the maker, said
he adready has received orders
for the tropical house of the fu
ture. He said it is of aluminum, is
put on a concrete base, has five
rooms and a bath, and sells for
less than $5,000.
"It can't rot, it's termlte-oroof.
and it never needs painting," Feld
man poimea oui.
But to the dismay of house
hungry Denverites, Feldman said
the structure Is not designed for
North America. It makes no provi
sions for snow or cold weather. .
Train Crew Pays Fare . ,
On Legion Special
Livingston, Mont. U There
are busmen's and postmen's hol-
iciays.
But a Northern Pacific railway
crew devised its own twist when
it paid its own fare on a train
it handled.
The Park post of the American
Legion promoted a special train
to Gardiner, Mont., for the an-
nual elk barbecue. The post had
10 guarantee a minimum of 188
fares.
Livingston is a railroad town
and many of- the Legionnaires are
railroad workers.
So the all-Legion train and en
gine crew paid $2.20 passenger
fares to help make up the guar,
antee.
City of 28,000 Boasts
Oi Being Debt-Free
Melrose, Mass. lli Having
paid the last $12,000 of its bills.
Melrose today is the only debt-
rree community among Massa
chusetts 39 cities.
Strictly a residential section.
the Boston suburb has fewer than
300 city employes and its com
pactness (4.9 miles) results in
savings on street repairs, fire
and police work.
Only 800. vacant lots remain in
the city, whose present popula
tion is 28,000. Little of the prop
erty Is tax-free and there are no
slums, l he present tax rate Is $42
per $1,000 valuation.
Speedway Demon Quails
At City Traffic Perils
West Frankfort, ill. ur Cliff
Borgere, noted "Iron man" of 16
Indianapolis speedway classics,
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doesn't hesitate to admit that city
traffic frightens him.
"You never know what they're
going to do," Bcrgorc said. "No
body bothers with hand signals.
And they come at you from all di
rections." "I'll continue to do my speed
ing on nice safe race tracks," Ber
gere said.
TOO MANY BUMPS
Denver lr Morris Goldstein,
owner of a leather goods manu
facturing company, asked a judge
to halt car parking in his next
door lot. Goldstein said parking
lot attendants bumped his wall ro
hard that it became "cracked and
weakened." lie also charged that
the bumps knocacd merchandise
off his shelves.
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