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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1948)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948 THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON PAGE SEVEN Potato Growers Approve Efforts Prinevllle, Dec. 24 Fred Pratt, who from his headquarters at Redmond is handling the price support purchase ol potatoes In Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties, has won the approval of local grower and shipper interests this week because of his efforts to divert the fullest possible movement of potatoes through regular commercial market chan nels instead of stimulating gov ernment buying. It was reported that up to De cember 18, the three counties had forwarded for the month a total of 390 cars of Netted' Gems or Deschutes Russetts as they are known to a great part of the trade. It is estimated that no more than 100 cars of this vol ume were taken over by the com modity credit corporation. . Movement at Lew Ebb Estimates place current stor age holdings in the three coun ties at 1,800 to 2,000 cars, which Is declared normal for the season. The movement of potatoes from all Central Oregon points is now at low ebb, a condition that is normal during the holiday sea son. Both grower and shipper inter ests of this area are prone to cri ticize Klamath basin potato grow ers for their heavy sales under price support. They are express ing approval of the department of agriculture in halting these pur chases after 2,000 cars had been bought for livestock food. If growers of this area, it is de clared, had pressed for govern ment buying to the extent ap parent in the Klamath basin, a shortage might well have been created with the result that mar kets relying on the district for supply would have been forced to call Xor mid-western Importa tions, a situation that developed last year. United Carries Heavier Volume Continued growth of airline transportation in Central Oregon is revealed by the following 1948 year-end figures from United Air Lines at the Bend-Redmond sta tion. : The total passengers flown in and out of this area amounted to 4,485 as compared to 4,462 for. 1947. Cargowise the breakdown was as follows: Mail poundage to taled 14,737, a gain. of 1 per cent; express poundage totaled .7,270, a gain of 72 per cent, and air freight poundage totaled 21,229 for a gain of 290 per cent. , Passengers were Xlown from Bend-Redmond to many points in the United States as well as to Europe, Hawaii and Australia. Year around weather conditions In regards to flying show that a Giant Ape Man Discovered ?v V (NBA Tdephote) ' Dr. Robert Broom, eminent South African paleontologist, now with the University ot California African Expedition near Johannesburg, South Africa, Is the discoverer ot the teeth ol the giant new ape man. Dr. Broom holds tooth of the new "Bwartkrans" ape man In his left hand, which almost matches canine in skull of Australian bushman which Dr. Broom holds. In his right hand, Dr, Broom holds canine of sterkf ontein Man, another fossil ape man type, which is less human in Its characteristics. At right-is William Berry, field executive In charge ol. the expedition In absence of Wendell Phillips. total of only 13 flights out of 726 scheduled flights had to be can celled. . . . United air freight shipments from tins area have tersely con sisted of trout, baby chicks, hatch' ing eggs, some fruit, and meat. Shipments coming in usually con sist of machine parts, clothing and flowers. . Reforestation Is handled ordin arily by nature, but man must ptent young trees on land denud ed by forest fires. ' ":'V. ;.' . ;," , Ai we (top lor o moment to with you o genuine American Christmas we olio wish to express our thanks for the patron age that has been ours. ' May the coming yeor hold for you untold happiness. Bend Garbage Co. Science at Work By Paul F. Kills (United 1'reu Science Writer) New York tinMan, if it ever becomes necessary, can live off the insects of the land. And, according to Dr. E. O. Essig, an entomologist of the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, Cat., man's plight on earth may lead to using insects as food. At a meeting of entomologists in New York, Dr. Essig recalled that Insects have been on the earth for some 50,000,000 years and that their survival rate is much better than man's. Each year, the insects take millions of tons of food away from man, and they follow man wherever he opens up new agricultural lands via irrigation or reclamation. Used In Many Lands Essig said it's about time that science made some earnest inves tigations into the possibility of using insects as food. He said human beings In many lands already are eating insects and that "probably the most gen erally available and preferred in sects the world over are locusts or migratory grasshoppers." The grasshoppers, he said, "oft en appeared unexpectedly from unknown lands in countless num bers and, while in most cases, they destroyed the local vegetation, in cluding crops, they became food for hungry human beings." He said certain types of grass hoppers now are being sold as food in Mexico and the Philip- Thompson & Wilson Paint Company T12 Franklin I'hone 1542-W I. Wim ALL KIND THOUGHTS .for 1 A AND THE YULETIDE 1 V JUAJwn ..y We pase, too, for a moment wi.h you to say, "Thanks'' for everything DESCHUTES ELECTRIC Hal Huston 838 Wall St. Phone 278 1 .We lust wont you tc know thot we . like vou ond wish you ever hopp'- nps in the worlfl Baldwin Dealer 05 Gilchrist Ave. Phone 1087 A BRIEF, BUT SINCERE YULE WISH.. f CHRISIOlflS Hutchins Motors Authorized Willys Dealer Corner Bond and Greenwood to: jreetincj6 Moy We Wish Each Of You A Aost Hoppy Christmas Artistic Beauty Salon Mary K. Hamalicr pines. In China, he reported, wa- tfp tiantlAo BM "Ninaiimajl fi-oati cooked, dried or pulverized jn soups and other ways." : Indians Eat Moths California Indians, he said, ate butterflies and moths. "They were eaten, either fresh, toasted, dried, boiled or roasted," he said. In Mexico; he said, white cater pillars are "put up in cans and sold at groceries," and in China no less than 50 species of insects are consumed in the dally diet. Dr. Essig also said that records show the Indians of the Monk Lake region In California gather ed and ate the ephydrld fly which were washed up on windows on the shores of the lake by windstorms. Here's a Right from the Heart May you be happy and contented ond may the New Year be one of true happiness. LYON'S CASH MARKET On South Highway Phone 97 Btca or Us Hem Extend PIGGLY WIGGLY To with THE OASIS 526 Arizona Phone 1148 If wo have) our wey,. old Santa will hovt sack full f orerythlng nice you moy hove wished for end few things more. And before you open your packages, per mit us to soy to oech of you 13 an HOKE ' Moiy & Van Dyke, Inc. S24 Bond St. Phone 881 Heartiest L T I ' I lltr V IVsVey Christmas Your cooperation and patronage, your goodwill . and friendship, have been splendid. We hope that we deserve the good things -that have come to us. Thanks many times over and Merry Christmas. From the Management and Employees of CHRISTMAS AHt BEST WISHES4 FOR YOUR HAPP!HES$ Mahoney Office Equipment 106 Minnesota Phone 89 Jttcni ike Spirit of Christmas (Prevail Everywhere Kvcry ni(.-nil)(.-r ol our ordiini.ulion - sinccruly oilers you our r.ordiiil isooj wishes for u mi:rry ci imsiMAS. Il is our uini liere ut Mnqill s to serve you-iti llu: fulure willi lite sumo consiJerutiou wc Imve euJeuvored lo muinluin duriiit,' our many years of service lo llic people ol Bend i und Central Oregon. : M(.-rry Clirislmus und I lappy New Yeur i Wel I, Anyway, We Wish You In all the hustle and bustle and excitement of the Christmos season, we're taking time out to send you a message of Good Cheer and to wish you a Yuletide second to none. Evans Fly Co. Sportsmen's Headquarters
