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BALANCE THE BUDGET
Quite apart from unfamiliar accounting involvements, Ore
iron budgets can be (and sometimes are) confusing to the tax-
payer. One reason is that they are for a two year period, while
the budgets with which the ordinary person has had more ex
perience those of cities, school districts and counties are
tor one year. Another reason is
ets are brought to public attention within a few weeks of each
other. One of these is the executive budget (prepared by an
appointed official to whom this task is delegated), the other
is the legislative budget, The first is a proposed schedule of
expenditures and revenue, the second is the result of decisions
by the legislature. It is the etfective budget.
The first is intended for legislative guidance but it is diffi
cult to see how the one now being prepared will be of any
great assistance to the state senators and representatives who
will go into session early in VJlu. from advance information
given by the state budget director, it will call for a matter of
540,000,000 in excess of the revenues in sight. The legislature
will either have to find more
money, new and higher taxes or it must do a drastic pruning
job on the suggested expenditures. This is to say nothing of
the fact that the legislature itself is not infrequently desirous
of adding state activities (and expenditures) and that any
such will of necessity increase the difficulty of the pruning
andor money raising operation.
One of the things that may be expected for the benefit of
greater spending is another move to release income tax sur
plus for. general use. This, it will be recalled, was a recom
mendation for balancing the executive budget, made to the
legislature at the 1947 session. It was rejected but, when it
became apparent this year that a deficit would exist before
the end of the biennium, an attorney general's opinion gave
assurance that such transfer of funds would be legal. Supreme
court ruling in the suit brought by Charles A. Sprague, for
mer governor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman, was to
the contrary, however, laying down the requirement that di
version could be legally achieved only by the enactment of a
tax levy on property, which income tax surplus could then
offset, But when the levy, slightly in excess of $6,000,000, was
submitted to the people at the general election on November 2,
it was defeated. Perhaps it was misunderstood. If so, it was
unmistakably a protest against what appeared to be addi
tional taxation. If understood, it could only have denoted a
stand against the spending for which the levy was asked or
against the general idea of deficit budgeting. Incidentally the
failure of the levy at the polls is an explanation for $6,000,000
of the $40,000,000 excess of expenditures over revenues
which Budget director George Aiken foresees for the next bi
ennium. Having tried all these ways to get at the income tax surplus,
those who are tempted by its opulence largely the result of
temporary suspension of the tax rebate provision of the
waiKer plan jina oi lowered pcrHonnlexomptions (now, re
stored) in individual income tax return can try again with
, another property tax levy or they can go to the root of the
; matter; they can seek amendment of the income tax provision
Of the constitution to remove the property tax relief feature
which was the basis of the supreme court's decision.
To succeed in such an undertaking would be to guarantee
the looting of the surplus fund and, with that done, to en
courage the raising of income tax rales, already among the
highest in the United States. To fail would leave the situation
as it is, with requested expenditures far beyond this slate's
ability to pay. '
The answer then, as we trust that it will bo in the coming
legislative session, would be simply close budget analysis and
removal of whatever expense estimates cannot be met by
foreseeable income. That, it seems to us, is the proper way
to achieve balance. Over-spending and tax inflation are things
that we can well do without.
Bend's Yesterdays
(Krom The Hulletln's Files)
FIFTEEN VKAHS AGO
(Nov, 30, 1U33)
Coach M. A. Cochran nml his
undefeated Lava Hoars, 22 strong,
are playing Medforrl Indav, in
Medford, for the 1!33 high sfhool
football championship of Oregon.
Bend Is Riven a good chance of
heating Medford, inasmuch as the
Bears walloped Klanialh Falls .30
to 0; The best Medford could do
was 7 to 0.
Eighty-nine men were at work
on civil works projects in les
chutes county today. Of this
number, 30 were on the Bend air
port, where a clearing project
has been started. Work on the
Deschutes road will be started
Monday.
Chess and checker players of
Bend last night organized a club
for all those Interested in the
games. Harry Sala was named
president and Paul Lorec secre
tary. TIIIKTY VKAHS AGO
(Nov. 30. WIS I
This is the last day on which
Christinas packages may he sent
to soldiers overseas, postal offi
cials have announced.
The Emergency hospital will
not be closed until Pocemhcr 7.
and not even then if conditions
In the city warrant the continua
tion of the institution to care for
influenza patients.
Wilhelm Ilolienzollern has sign
ed a document, in which he has
renounced the thrones of tier-
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or failure to receive the paper retrularly.
that, tor the state, two bung'
money more ways of raising
many and Prussia. The former
Kaiser is reported to be seriously
ill, a victim of pneumonia.
Newest Books
Leopards, drugs and diets are
Included in the reading fare of
fered this week among new hooks
being held for reservations at the
Deschutes county library. Tides
concerning these subjects are
"The Man-Mating Leopard of
Rudraprayag." hv Jim Corhett
lOxford); "Magic in a Bottle," by
Dr. Milton Silverman (Macmillanl
and "Eat and Reduce" bv Victor
11. Lindlahr (Garden City).
Bend resident Frank Bonham's
"Lost Stage Valley" (Simon
Schuster), a medium-sized opus
with a western-history tang, Is
also being displayed.
Other books up for reservation
include the following titles;
"Grace Livingston Hill Her
Story ami Her Writing," by .lean
Karr (Greenherg) ; "Green Sens
and White Ice Far North with
Captain Mac," by Miriam Mae
Mlllan (Dodd. Mead); "American
Women of Nursing." by Edna
Yost I Lippincott ; "The Web of
Evil." by Lucille Emerick (Poll
bledayl: "All About Marriage"
la novel I. bv Ethel Hueston
(Bobhs - Merrill), anil Earl Stan
ley Gardner's latest Perry Mason
whodunit "The Case of the Vaga
bond Virgin" (Morrow).
Pure latex Is the milky Juice
found inside the bark of the rub
Imm trees.
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WASHINGTON COLUMN
Ity Peter Kdson
(NEA Wwtlmixtun Corrtupumlent)
Washington (NEA) Any idea
that Harold L. Ickes might be call
ed back for a fat government Job
may have been kicked In the head
by Ickes himself. The Washing
ton rumor factory had it all doped
out that Ickes would be rewarded
for his pre-election endorsement
of Truman. What wasn't known
Is that Ickes practically repudiat
ed Truman in one of his columns,
written Just before election for
publication just alter, wrote
Ickes:
"Harry S. Truman, the seventh
of the American president by
chance, was able to win a nomina
tion at the end of his broken term.
And he failed of re-election. . . .
One may regret that he did not
have about mm advisers wno
were able coolly to appraise the
situation and tell him he would
not win.
The article containing these
lines was killed in all U. S. news
papers. But it got printed in the
Panama Star and Herald on Nov.
7, five days after election. Clip
pings have found their way oacK
to Washington and are being cir
culated with great glee in places
where they will do Ickes the leasi
good.
Most of the gossip about Immi
nent Truman cabinet changes has
now been generally discredited.
The rumors were started princi
pally by people who wanted the
Jobs themselves, or who wanted
present Jobholders removed for
purely selfish reasons. The presi
dent mav have missed a chance to
strike a blow for unity In his of-
i c al family by not spiking ru
mors before they got started.
The move to get Dean Acheson
made secretary of state, which
had a lot of backing from minor
officials in the state department,
received quite a setback when
lawyer Acheson appeared In Chi
cago as an attorney for the Du-
Fonts in an anti-trust mvesuga
tion. Federal security administrator
Oscar Ewlng, who wants to be
f rst secretary or the proposed
new cabinet department of health
and social welfare, is now handl
ing his own public relations prob
lems. Telephone calls that used to
go to the FSA press section are
now shunted ngnt lo swing s oi
fice. He has agreed to stay In his
office till 6 o'clock every night to
take calls from morning newspa
per correspondents who may have
late stories to write. Ewing re
cently got some bad publicity
over the hiring of a lunch-time
cook for his private office dining
room. Controller general L,intisay
Warren saldjt was unauthorized
and should be stopped. This may
be one reason Ewing has decided
to become his own press man.
When Interior secretary J. A.
Krug was making his western
states' Inspection, a California
farmer came up to him after one
meetlnc to urge early completion
of tile Central Valley project.
"You know," said the farmer,
"there .are two sounds which a
grower hales to hear above all
others. One is the cry of his baby,
awake In the night with the colic.
The other Is the coughing of his
irrigation pump, telling him there
is no more water in the well for
his crops."
William T. Baker, editor of the
Dally Chronicle in Ketchikan,
Alaska, has drawn up what he
calls a "laughldavit" for any ten
derfoot wanting to enter the ter
ritory in the future. Baker says
the democrat ic-cont rolled federal
government holds !)!UH per cenl
of the lands in Alaska. !)!).7i) per
cenl of the jobs and 100 per cent
of the natural resources. There
fore, any republican coming lo
Alaska from a state that went for
Dewey In the last election will
have lo be fingerprinted and post
$5000 bond. Also, he will have to
solemnly swear on the laughlda
vit form that "I shall henceforth
never say anything seditious
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against Missouri, the Missouri
waltz, or the Missouri mule, while
In the bounds of Alaska." On the
other hand, if the immigrant can
prove he voted democratic for the
past Vi years, ne win oe given uie
key to the Mother Lode.
Washington Scene
By llarinuii W. Nichols
(United 1'rcwt Stuff CurrotpumU'iit)
Washington, Nov. 30 HI') This
is open season on international
liars.
It's a season I created many
years ago. That of giving a pre
view of the finalists in the Bur
lington, Wis., big-fib contest. On
New Year's eve, O. C. Hulett,
who runs the Burlington bureau
of the Racine Journal-Times, al
ways goes on the air to present
in person the biggest liar of the
year.
I'm a member of the club. I've
got a card which says that "HWN
is a full-fledged liar, entitled to
every courtesy from liars every
where." Proud man I am!
So without any more fuss or
nonsense, here are some of the
finalists of the 1948 contest and
I scoop the world. The winner,
of course, knows he'll get a rub
ber medal!
Merle L. Zcller (104 C. Alzona
park) of Phoenis, Ariz., claims
this to be a true lie:
High Wind Blowing
"In the Newton county, Indiana
corn husking contest, I was en
tered against some very still com
petition from different corn
states. I would have won this con
test only I had to wait at the end
of the row to let all the corn I
had in the air to fall in the wagon
a high wind was blowing. I lost
the contest by a nubbin."
No comment from an old liar.
Teofilio P. Estaeion, of Manila,
the Philippines, wrote that he was
fascinated by a story which won
the 1946 liars' contest one about
a sweating fish. T. P. E. said
"pfffft!" He went out Into the
vast expanse of the Pacific, west
of Mindanao. On the 14th day he
and his gang engaged In a tug of
war with "the fightingest fish
ever known to man." After about
six hours, the boys succeeded In
hauling it over the side. And dog
gone! Quote: "It not only was
sweating, but had B. O."
Paul Walton Ledridge of radio
station WKLX in Lexington, Ky.,
has a little dandy. He said that
after Pearl Harbor he was at
tached to a ship carrying ammu
nition and the cooks came up
with a hot one. They took up bat
tle stations on the stern and
started throwing spuds at the
Japs as the waves of pianos came
over. And' to correct their aim,
I hey ran in an orange every third
shot for a tracer.
Iut of Nerve
Michael A. Ahern of Dorches
ter, Mass., has a lot of nerve. So
he says, anyhow. It was the night
of the first Lotils-Walcott fight.
Mr. A., who told his wife he was
going out after a paper, went to
a tavern to watch the perform
ance on television. Halfway
through the fight a small row
started in the gin mill and our
Mr. A. started giving with the
rights and lefts.
"Both Joes Louis and Walcott
stopped right there on the
screen. They watched me for 10
minutes. I met the champ later
personal -and he said he thought
I had the best right he'd ever
seen."
And here's a guy from West
Haven, Conn., who was a little
shy about presenting his lie be
cause he swears it is true. Gosh!
lie is Mr. Oscar H. Ginnow. He
got home one hot August night
all sweaty and fell the need of a
bath. So he shucked his pants and
underlhings and slid into a tub
nearly full of water.
After an hour, he claims he
still was perspiring so much that
he had to pull the plug half a
dozen times to keep the tub from
overflowing.
County Machine
Copies Thousands
Of Documents
If all the documents that the
county clerk's office has made
photostatic copies of during the
past three and a half years were
to be laid end to end on The
Dalles-California highway, a mo
torist might drive from the court
house and be almost to Redmond
before he saw the last one.
Since the photostat machine
was Installed in April, 1945, the
recorder in the clerk's office has
made at least one copy of 13,200
deeds, 9,000 mortgages, and 4,800
discharges. These figures, repre
senting copies made at the ap
proximate rate of 30 copies each
working day, do not Include dup
licates, miscellaneous records and
copies made other than for the
county.
Installed at an initial cost of
$2,800, the machine has more than
oaid for itself, according to the
staff in the county clerk's office.
It would take three people, typ
ing steadily and accurately to do
the job that is now handled by
one person and the machine, they
say. In approximately 30 min
utes from the time the sensitized
paper has been exposed to the doc
ument to be recorded, the photo
stat machine can, entirely auto
matically, turn out an exact and
unchangeable copy, with both
sides of the document reproduced
on one piece of paper. The ma
chine photographs, deve lopes,
washes and dries the copies at siz
es anywhere from one-half to
twice that of the original docu
ment. Farm Car Slates
Midstate Stops
Prineville, Nov. 30 Ranchers
of irrigated areas of Crook coun
ty are invited to visit the agri
cultural improvement car of the
Union Pacific railroad company,
which will stop at Madras on De
cember 7 and Redmond on the
next day, it was announced by E.
L. Woods, county agent. The car,
which is touring irrigated areas
of the Pacific northwest served
by the transcontinental line, will
leave Redmond for Bend, where
irrigation farmers will visit it, ac
cording to Geo. L. Penrose, agri
cultural agent of the rail line.
Word has been received from
railway officials that the car on
its itinerary next year will stop
at cuiver anu i-Tincviiie.
SKATE TO SLIMNESS
Fort Worth, Tex. Mi Members
of the Bashful Beginner's club are
doing a slick job. They are Fort
Worth housewives and mothers
learning to ice skate. Benefits are
twofold: they lose unnecded
weight and their figures are im
proved. BEND OIL HEATING
ENGINEERS
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Navy Reveals New Guided
Missile Povered by Jets
Washington, Nov. 30 (ID The
navy revealed today it has de
veloped a guided missile powered
by ram Jet engines and capable
of carrying deadly warheads at
almost supersonic speeds.
Known as the Gordon IV, the
navy said, the 22-foot long aerial
weapon already has stayed in the
air "more than 10 minutes"
longest sustained flight ever made
by a pilotless aircraft with a ram
jet engine.
The navy said the Gorgons were
piloted by remote control and
tracked by radar during a series
of tests at Point Mugu, Cal.
Flight information was telemeter
ed back to the ground by an elec
tronic "brain."
The announcement marked the
first time the navy had disclosed
that the ram jet has been attach
ed to a missile. The Gorgon's per
formance was regarded as greatly
significant in efforts to develop
pilotless aircraft capable of fly
ing faster than sound.
Capable of 1,500 MI'H
Although the navy said the Gor
gon was designed specifically to
ply at subsonic speeds, It was
pointed out that the ram jet en
gine is capable of about 1,500
miles an hour or almost twice
the speed of sound.
The ram jet, sometimes called
the "flying stovepipe," has no
moving parts except for a fuel
pump. It depends for forward
thrust on the difference between
the speed of the entering air and
the exhaust gasses.
The Gorgon IV was described as
an all-metal, high-winged mono
plane with a wing span of 10 feet
and length of 22 feet. Its gross
weight is 1600 pounds, 700 pounds
of it in aviation gasoline for the
ram jet engine.
Launched in Air
In the test flights, an air force
P-80 was used as a "mother"
plane to launch the Gorgons in
the air. Informed quarters said
they traveled around 600 miles an
hour and that one stayed in the
air 12 minutes and the other? for
around nine. . A "drag brake" was
used to keep them in the subsonic
speed zone.
The navy said the Gorgon, bo
sides being subject to control from
the ground, could be preset to
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perform level flight or dives,
banks and turns.
Thanks to an automatic para
chute device, several of the Gor
gons used in the tests came to
earth with relatively little aamage
after their fuel supply ran out
The ram jet engines for the
Gorgons were made by the Mar
quardt Aircraft Co. The craft it
self was designed and built by
the Glenn L. Martin Co.
Ochoco Road Bid
To Be Received
Prineville, Nov. 30 H. C. Hu
lett, supervisor of the Ochoco na
tional forest, revealed here yes
terday that the public roads ad
ministration will receive bids at
its Portland office on December
14 for grading 2.9 miles of a re
location of the Ochoco highway
in Wheeler county, between here
and Mitchell.
The federal road agency, de
clared to be cooperating with the
state highway department in
pushing the relocation of the
Ochoco route, a link of U. S. 28,
recently awarded to O'Neill Bros,
of Creswell, a contract for grad
ing 8.8 miles of the relocation in
Crook county.
The Creswell contractors now
have crews engaged on this work.
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Forces Combine
Recruiting Units
San Francisco, Nov, 30 IIP)
The army, navy, air force and
marines are consolidating their
recruiting offices wherever pos
sible In the nine western states,
they announced Saturday.
The action, designed to "achieve
economy and promote efficiency,"
is one of the first of several trial
programs for unifying services
and facilities of the armed forces
In California, Arizona, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oregon, Utah and Washington.
The military services said "pre
liminary action In the form of
joint use of office space" already
has been taken in Sacramento and
Salt Lake City.
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