THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. OREGON
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948
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WATCH THE BUDGETS
. Such terms as "creeping recession" in current economic
analysis, shrinkage in seasonal volume, a statement by the
secretary of agriculture that the United States has entered
the door of the era of plenty combine to suggest that some
amount of deflation may be a 'natural development in the
months ahead. Prices in a variety of commodities have al
ready dropped somewhat, natural consequence of adequate
or excess production and reduced buying. Manufacturers, in
view oi these circumstances and in view, also,' of undimin
ished costs, are reducing output. The consequent drop in cm
ployment, in industries ranging from luxury and semi-luxury
production to fir lumber manufacture will, if continuing,
mean less spending. Money, already tighter (sliirhtly higher
v interest rates have been brought about by federal reserve
bank requirements affecting loans by member banks) will be
somewhat less abundant under the influence of such reduc
tions. And tighter money, of course, is a deterrent to invest
ment aimed to create new capital assets.
All these things are the reverse of factors recognized in
inflation. They are steps down the spiral which we have been
ascending steadily in the post-war years. They are steps of the
kind which must be taken carefully to avoid stumbling.
With deflation possibilities in view, government, as well as
business and industry, must conduct its affairs with a greater
degree of caution than heretofore. Higher taxes (these have
been more than hinted for national and state expenditures)
should be unthinkable in a period of recession, whether
"creeping" or otherwise, or even in a period of levelling off,
if that is the 'meaning of the currently slight but definitely
manifest indications to which we have referred. Taxes start
with budgets and the budgets of national, state and local gov
ernments, all of which will be made up in late winter or early
spring of 1949, will benefit from much greater public scrutiny
than ordinary.
It will be a poor time to increase expense, an excellent time
to reduce it. Tax payers will do well to remember this. After
all, they have much to say (and customarily don't bother
about saying it) as to what the bill shall be. Theirs is the sole
responsibility for meeting it, once it has been incurred.
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WASHINGTON COLUMN
Wayne Morse says that he intends to ask the senate to
change its rules to prevent filibusters and make it possible for
a majority to cut off debate. That's a good idea and we won
der why Wayne did not himself refrain from use of the fili
buster in previous sessions. We wonder, too, how our junior
senator would feel about a rule forbidding the making of
speeches in an empty chamber simply to get them into the
congressional record and so make it possible to secure free
distribution in reprints carrying the quite true but wholly
misleading expression, "Not printed at government expense".
Pearl Harbor is described in acurrent news fealuVt
i". A little more
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"sleeping watchdog with one eye"bpen". A little more than
seven years ago it was an alert watchdog with both eyes
closed as we remember occurrences of that time.
Russia is reported to have agreed to discuss the Austrian
peace treaty with the western powers. Featured by 57 varie
tiesof "no" and followed by a veto, we suppose.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin's Files)
15 YEARS AGO
(December 21, 1933)
The city ot Bend will reduce Its
warrant debt $6000 or $7000 this
year. In spite of largo tax delin
quencies, it was indicated In the
monthly budget report submitted
to the city commission last night
by City manager C. G. Reiter.
Mrs. W. A. Braid is returning
Sunday from Portland, where
she has been taking a special phy
siotherapy course.
Springlike weather prevailed
here today as winter came offi
cially to interior Oregon.
Elected lo Bend chamber of
commerce board of directors yes
terday were Kenneth Sawyer,
George Chllds, Henry N. Fowler,
W. A. Lackaff, Glenn Thomas,
John Welle and Carl A. Johnson.
30 YEARS A(iO
(December 21, 1!)18)
Miss Viola Brown arrived hero
from Portland this morning lo
visit with her father, C. D. Brown.
W. D. Robinott of Summer
Lake has sold 33 head of cattle
for $3564.70. The price represents
a quotation of 10 cents a pound.
Mrs. M. W. Knickerbocker and
daughter, Rao, were week end vis
itors in Bend.
From "somewhere in Belgium"
a letter has been written by
Frank tirlmstead to his parents
In Bend, describing conditions ex
isting at the close of the war.
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Skyline Steak House
855 Wall Sr.
Phone 279
By Pelcr Edson
(NKA Washington Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) Consider
able soul searching is now in
Drocress in the business commu
nity. Business leaders seem to be
taking a new iook at ineir nanas
in the light of recent political and
economic developments. As for
reaching any agreement on what
cards they should lead wan, now-
ever, there as as many shades of
opinion as mere are patterns on
their conservative iuu suns.
CED the well-known commit
tee for economic development,
made up of top-drawer business
executives irom an over me conn
trv has lust dropped on Wash
ington another of its policy state
ments, rnis one is cauea "Mone
tary and Fiscal Policy for Great
er Economic Stability." Its pur
pose was to advise tne govern
ment on what ought to be done
about such things.
Business, with a capital B, has
always been critical ol govern
ment Beaucracy, also with a cap
ital B, for its multiplicity of
agencies. But when it came to
recommending a program for
achieving greater business stabil
ity, the best the CED boys could
do was suggest the creation of
still another government-
business-farmer-labor commission
to work on the problem for a
couple of years.
If the CED report had been pre
pared by a government agency, it
would be condemned for its
double-talk. It presents two pro
grams. One is for use in periods
of inflation. The other is for use
in periods of deflation.
But when CtO) cnairman wall
er Williams of Seattle and bank
er J. Cameron Thomson of Minn
eapolis came to Washington to
unveil tne statement tneir policy
committee had prepared, report
ers found it impossible to pin
them down on which program
they recommended using now.
Main emphasis or Mr. inom-
son's remarks was against the
federal reserve board's present
program of supporting govern
ment bond prices at par. He ad
mitted that If this support wore
withdrawn, the effect would be to
let Interest rates rise. Trying to
force up interest rates has been
a number one aim of the banking
community for a long, long time.
This program runs contrary to
what Beardsley Ruml, chairman
of R. H. Macy's, and many other
economists have been advocating.
Mr. Ruml, In Washington earlier
this year, made a major address
in which he declared the treasury
federal reserve bond price stabi
lization program was a sound
and commendable government
fiscal policy.
The Important point in such
differences of opinion is that
whenever anyone says, "Business
wants this," he is probably speak
ing only for himself or his own
little clique.
e
One of the common beliefs of
current capitalistic folklore is
that Bus mess is supposed to De
against .nationalization or social
ization of industry. Business Is
supposed to be all for freeing pri
vate entireprise from the dead
hand of government.
And vet the other day no less
a business spokesman than Eric
Johnston president of the Mo
tion Picture Producers and also
a member of the CED research
and policy committee in a Wash
ington Interview advocated that
the U. S. government should
create a billion-dollar fund to
guarantee private U. S. invest
ments In Europe. Purpose of this
guarantee, according to Johnson,
would be to keep Europe from
nationalizing Its industries.
The more you study this propo
sal, the more amazing it becomes.
It Is in Itself the essence of social
ism. It means that private enter
prise wants the government to
guarantee it against loss. It
means that U. S. business wants
the U. S. government to go social
istic in order to keep European
business from going socialistic.
There is still a great lacK oi
confidence in business leadership.
It is high time business leaders
re-examined their hands. But
statements from business leaders,
such as those cited here, make no
great contribution to re-establishing
that confidence.
Prineville Five
Loses Games
Prineville, Dec. 21 In return
games here Friday and Saturday
night wltn tne central foini ana
Myrtle Creek high schools, both
of which were victorious the pre
vious week end when the Crook
county high school made a tour to
southwestern Oregon, the local
school again lost both games.
Central Point won Friday night,
36 to 26, with Forward Hanson,
that team's star, making 14
points.
un Saturday nigiu tne locai
team was defeated 35 to 31 by
Myrtle Creek. In a curtain raiser,
the Prineville freshmen drubbed
the freshmen of the Culver high
school.
OF.
Gifts of lasting beauty, gifts that really please. Our '
stock is still replete with heart-warming treasures
that will say "Merry Christmas" in a warm and
friendly way.
New Shipment
4-pc. Silver
Tea Sets
22.50'
Tax Included
Many Scleclod Jewelry Gill
Items on Displny
Half'Prlce
Holmes & Edwards Silverware
Sterling Inlaid
Men's - Ladies' Watches Compacts
Ronson Lighters
Tie Chains
Clocks
Decanter Sets
Stone-sol Rings
Stemware
Tie Chains
Hollow Ware
Diamonds
Diamond Ear Drops
- China Pottery
Glassware
Dinner Rings
Vases Figurines
Silverware
Sterling
Costume Jewelry
I or lit.' (jifls you 17 ;ii'e it'ili pn'(',
.el your jowvlvr Lu your (initio.
Bear's Jewelry
Benson Building
If You Plan to Take a Trip
During the Holiday Season
. . . MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW
because the slrllnrs already are hratily booked for that period.
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Washington Scene
By Kantian W. Nichols
(United J'rcva Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Dec. 21 'IB The
scene was the plushy oval room
on the ground floor of the White
House whlcn serves as tne presi
dential office.
Johnle Throckmorton rubbed a
sandy-red stubble on his chin,
bowed his head and said:
"I'm sorry, Mr. President, but I
didn't get a chance to put on a
clean shirt, shave or brush up.
I've been on a bus all nlgnt. we
got here less than half an hour
ago. All l wanted was to snaKe
you by the band.
The presidential ngnt nana
shot out. Harry S. Truman is al
ways glad to greet a neighbor.
Johnie is from Springfield, Mo.
He halls from Independence.
Mr. T. said why didn't Johnle
tell his story?
Wants Handshake
Johnie brushed back a fuzzed
forelock and said it wasn't much.
He was forced to clip his educa
tion in the sixth grade at the age
of 14, leaving a motherless home.
Purpose in coming Here: Nothing,
except to shake the president's
hand.
From 14 on, a lot of cow-juicing
and hay-pitching and corn-shucking
on his uncle's farm. Johnie by
now was sweating. Natural awe
in such fancy company. Little
him and big Mr. T. The president
sensing the man's nervousness
jerked his tie a little to starboard;
maybe to relieve the tension.
All right, said 25 -year -old
Johnie, then there was the war.
Three years in the artillery in the
south Pacific. The landings. Bust
ed eardrums from the cannonfire.
A lot of hospitals.
,"Go on, sir," said the president.
Back to civilian life and a job
with one of the railroads pulling
into Springfield. - A switchman.
Then at 2:10 in the morning of
June 10, 1948, it happened.
Loses Legs
"I was trying to set a hand
brake on a cut of cars in the
yards, Mr. President," Johnie
said. "I thought I had it all set
when all of a sudden I found my
self under the wheels of one of
the cars. Both of my legs mangled
below the knees.
"Well, they thought it would be
all right, after they amputated. It
wasn't. One operation after an
other until now well, they've
taken off so much I can't wear ar
tificial limbs.
"I got a lawyer and sued. I did
n't do any good. That's water
over the dam. I'm not asking for
anything, Mr. President."
Johnie told the president that
the railroad workers his pals in
Springfield, kicked In for bus
fare.
The president looked at his
watch. In a couple of minutes the
press would come bouncing in for
a press conference.
Truman asked Jonnte to stick
around to sit right there beside
him in his wheel chair. Might get
a kick out of watching the re
porters put a president on the
pan.
Johnle got a kick, all right.
People Kept Waiting
And when the conference was
all over, the young man and the
president went on with chit-chat.
Presidential secretaries were
making all kinds of distress signs
in the rear of the oval room im
portant people waiting, .
Truman let some pretty big
ones cool heels until he had fin
ished his talk with neighbor
Singers, Writers
ram
Redmond, Dec. 21 (Special)
Redmond union high school's glee
club and creative, writing class
gave a "joint recital Sunday after
noon at the Baptist church.
A program of stories, poems
and skits, written by memoers oi
the class, was presented under the
direction of Mrs. 'lorn Lee, instructor.-
:
The glee club sang carols of
many nations, including "Christ
mas Snows of Sweden"; ' the
French song, "Bring a Torch,
Jeanette, Isabelle"; "Carol of the
Russian Children"; the English
song, "No Candle Was There and
No Fire", and an ancient plain
song, "O Come, O Come, Imman
uel." They also song "Lift Thine
Eyes" from Mendelssohn's "Ell
ja," an American Negro spiritual,
"Ole Ark's a-Movering," and the
Johnle. Then he shook the Mis
souri neighbor's hand warmly. No
pictures. No fanfare.
Said the man from Springfield:
"Thank you, Mr. President."
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1099 Brooks St. . Phone 831
Wheel
FOR BOYS
PULL TOYS
O Pudgy Pooch $1.00
Towner Tug $1.00
Duck's Mamma... $1.00
and 3 little ones
Helicopter $1.00
and Hangar.
Clatter Horse $1.00
Steering Wheel... $1.00
Meat Market $1.00
FOR GIRLS
Bottle Doll $1.00
Set Tin Dishes... $1.00
Washing Machine $1.00
Magic Book $1.00
Hollywood Doll.. $1.00
Doll Furniture,
per room ........ 75c
Place Mats, 2 sets $1.00
Pocket Dolly Book $1.00
Bakery $1.00
again at the
pinkenblu shop
I his lime il s CI. rislmus toys unci gifts . 'gifts
lliat mom nnd the little folks will appreciate . . .
gifts tlmt your purse will appreciate,- too be
cause tlicy cost just $1.00
FOR BABY
Look at These Values
Wringer Toys ...... 2 for $1.00
Wool Teddy Bears ... $1.00
Koo Zoo Blocks ......... '1.00
Wooden Beads ........ . 1.00
Bean Bags 4 for s 1.00
Merry-Go-Round ......... 1.00
And Many Other Gifts Items at
pinkenblu shop
llM Brooks Street
Near Chamber of Commerce
"Hallelujah Chorus," from Han.
del's "Messiah." n
The glee club was conducted by
Mr. Wesley Baker and acoompa
nled at the piano by Miss Jeanne
Staufcher and Miss Adele Thomn.
Gnn .
Mountainous country surround
ing Seattle has been recently sur.
veyed by portable radio receiver!
to determine ' the seriousness ol
the rough terrain on FM and tele
vision reception.
Shop HORNBECK'S First
JUST ARRIVED
SMART
KNITTING BAGS
In cloth and leather
combinations.
Suitable for street use.
2.15 to 3.S5
MINIATURE -
DRESDEN
FIGURINES
Dainty Beautiful
2.95
Milk Glass
Hanging Plates
May be laced with ribbon or
hung with metal hangers.
Plain 1.20
Scenes and Florals 8.20
Fine Pottery
Bowls, Baskets, Vases
Figurines, etc.
Exquisitely fashioned and
finished, but moderately
priced.
Made by California's
Caliente
and
Casa Verdugo
Bronze Horses
75c to 6.75
Just In Some New
Planter Lamps
10.50 and 11.50
Brass Desk or Table Lamp
9.95
Oilier attractive numbers
2.95 up
GENERAL ELECTRIC
STEAM
IRONS
17.95
REVERE
PISTOL - GRIP
WHISTLER
$4.95
Oilier , Kevero Sauce Tans,
Skillets, Double Boilers, etc.,
on hand; they make good
Christmas presents.
SPECIAL
While They Uist
PLAY BLOCKS
Koo Zoo, were 1.10 now .01)
Kusan Kubcs,
were 1.70 now 1.10
Trains, were 2.80 ... now 1.73
Hornbeclc's
GIFTS YARNS
HOUSEWARES
122 Oregon Ave. Thone 12
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