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THE BcN'D BULLETiM, BE'nD, OREGON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1 948
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OF TIME AND THE SILT
Recently, in his always interesting column, "It Seems To
JYle , in the Oregon statesman, ex-uovernor Unarlea A.
Sprague commented on the first pouring of concrete tor the
JMcMary dam. A so-called time capsule was in the tirst batch
and the faalem editor wondered what its history might be,
"How long will this dam stand?" he asked. And "When will
it be outmoded as a producer ot energy
Another question was "Or how long will it be before the
pool will fill with silt?" and that turned our thought to sta
tistics on the rate ot siltation recorded for various western
reclamation reservoirs. Some are startling; some not. so bad
except for the inexorable fact that given time and with no
preventive measures adopted all will ultimately bo holding
silt, not water.
Of the reservoirs for which we have figures the situation
is worst on the Zuni in New Mexico. This is a small reservoir
with an original capacity of only 15,811 acre feet. A year ago,
after a life of 23 years, its capacity had been reduced by 7b.9
per cent. Next to the Zuni, in the table that we have, comes
the Guernsey, in Wyoming, whose storage has been depleted
21.8 per cent in 12 years. The Elephant butte project in New
Mexico has lost 13.8 per cent of capacity in 20 years. We do
noc have the ligures lor Lake Mead, the reservoir above the
Hoover dam on the Colorado, but we have been told that un
less steps are taken lor effective control of up-stream erosion
the reservoir will be silted up in something like 100 years.
In these facts there is pointed up to the country the need
to keep the soil in place. Erosion, tne mother of silt, ruins the
land. Silt ruins the reservoirs. Volumes have been written
and thousands of words spoken on the barren future the
country faces if there is failure to take protective measures.
.The most serious aspect of the situation is the effect of
erosion and siltation on the food supply of a growing popu
lation. Officials of the department of agriculture, we believe, have
the best understanding of the national erosion problem and
are doing the most to meet it. It needs intelligent action and
that at once.
"Truman Plane 'Talked In"', says a newspaper headline.
Just like Truman and the presidency. In the latter case, how
ever, it was Truman himseif who did the talking.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin's Files;
15 YEARS AGO
(December 31, 1933)
Oscar Anuerson is winner of
the bend volunteer fire depart
ment's attendance award lor the
second consecutive year, with 74
points to his credit out of a pos
sible 76. Second award went to
M. E. Van Slckie and third to U.
YV. Grubb.
Henry Morganthau, Jr., acting
secretary ol the treasury, was
sworn in today as secretary of
the treasury, succeeding William
H. Woodin, who resigned because
oi Illness.
Bends weather lor 1933 goes
down in the records as the most
remarkable recorded here in at
last two decades, with extremes
of cold and unusual mildness.
30 YEARS AGO
(December 31. 1U18)
Unanimously chosen by mem
bers of the local Red Cross chap
ter at their annual meeting here
last night, J. P. Keyes was re
elected to head the organization
tnrougn the coming year.
Arrangements have been com
pleted whereby Italy obtains ap
proximately 75 per cent and
t ranee approximately 25 nor cent
of the Austrian nipiohiint marine,
consisting mostly lof cargo boats.
King Cieorge of England recent
ly Inspected the British airdrome
ship Furious, a novelty of the
British navy.
The Deschutes county war
board office was ordered from
Washington to re-open today, aft
er only a one-week vacation.
TWO MEN IIEU)
Oliver B. Hlbdon, Lapinc, and
Leo S. Gould, Bend, have been
arrested on intoxication counts,
according to Information on file
in the local police station. Hlb
don appeared in municipal court
yesterday evening and received a
$15 fine and a Jail sen
tence, records show.
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WASHINGTON COLUMN
iiooniuUMiuiuuiuttuiiiuiiiMa.
By Peter Edson
(NKA Wiwhinaton Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) This is a
fable and so, of course, isn t true
Hut Hkr. nil f. -ililcs. it nictures a
situation that might well come
If certain Deonle don't
watch out. It seems that an Inter-
itaiiinul -hurartpr named Santa
f'hmo wua found dead in bed with
his boots on one day. While ex
ternal evidence at first gave me
Imnrpssion that the old gaffer had
UnH a natural death there was
some suspicion that he had met
with foul piay. ine mystery was.
Who would dare to do such a dir
ty deed?
Mi- finite hurl pnnslHprpd him
self something of a ciuzen of the
world. He spoke many languages
fluently. That his, his money
talked. He maue nis nome in me
United States, and it was the tax-
nunnro nt that hrltrht anrl hnnnv
but inflated land who financed
most of the old man s interna
tional generosity.
A, first uhon tho nlrl rwlrrpr
had gone on his spending sprees
only once a year, nobody mind
ed, But since the early days of the
iiisk ha hnH hnnn in tha hahit flf
playing Santa Claus every day.
There was one whale of a
wake. Mourners came from all
over the world. Most of them
didn't have to come very far.
They were already there, waiting
for the next handout. They were
people whom the old goat had
tried to help In one way or an
other, over many years. Their
weeDing. walling and teeth gnash
ing was really something.
But as this emotional lag wore
off, and as the news got around
that Mr. Claus had died without
mentioning them in his will, the
woe turned to resentment against
the American taxpayers who had
been financing all these give-away
programs. It was they who must
have done this thing.
They had no right to do it,
complained the mourners. If the
American people were going to
behave that way, why 'all these
mourners and former beneficia
ries would simply go back home,
and Invite in the bad men from
the other side of the Iron curtain,
whom Mr. Claus had tried to keep
them from playing with. How
would these Americans like that?
These Americans, who had been
standing around the walls watch
ing the wake, finally had taken
as much as they could take. They
went outside the room where the
body was lying in state In state
of decay and bankruptcy and
conferred among themselves.
a a
Then a quaint and somewhat
uncouth citizen came back into
the roqm and, acting as spokes
man, addressed himself to the
former beneficiaries as follows:
"Jf you want to know who kill
ed Santa Claus, look for the stains
on your own hands. It was you
who done him In. You worked him
to death. Nobody could carry that
pack of his'n around 365 days a
year passin' out stuff.
"When the war came along, you
thought this old sucker" with a
Jerk towards the corpse "would
see you safely through. He did.
And how did you treat him?
"First you milked him on the
Lend-Lease racket. When the
war surplus stuff was sold you
at 10 and 25 cents on the dollar,
some of you tried to resell it at a
profit, and you kept the profit.
Or you let those guys from
across the tracks snitch it off'n
you.
"We backed the old spendthrift
to the limit. But that wasn't
enough. Now you want us to
sign up to help you fight your
wars. You try to let on that it
isn t your war, but our war. It's
your skins that have to be saved.
And you'll pardon us If we say
that from where we sit, it doesn't
look as though you were doing
everything you could to help
yourselves.
"wow, wnen you start oiaming
us for your troubles and saying
they're all our fault and our re
sponsibility to take care of, that
we can't take. That's why we de
cided to put Santa Claus out of
business. He's dead now. How do
you like it?"
Washington Scene
By llarman W. Nichols
(United Preaa Staff Correapondent)
Washington, Dec. 31 (IB "A
Wick Willy got Into his blow
torch, sparked up to a steady
boil, turned up the wick and leap
ed off."
That sentence would be enough
to send a psychiatrist hiking in
search of another psychiatrist.
But to jet pilots, who live in a
world all their own, it makes
sense.
What the boys were telling one
another was that a pilot got into
his F-80 jet-propelled "Shooting
Star," started the engine, waited
for it to warm up and took wing
into that wonderful yonder on a
training flight.
such talk even jars me top-
drawer brass at the Pentagon,
where double-talk Is a thing of
professional pride and even the
janitors respect "rank among
themselves by reason oi seniority.
The jumble in the lirst para
graph above came by mail from
Williams air force base, near
Phoenix, Ariz.
Wrote Book
The commander there is Col.
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Robert Scott, who wrote the best
selling "God Is My Co-pilot."
Col. Bob says that his crew of
jet cadets about to graduate as
second looyes pick up their new
language almost as fast as they
do the technics of Jet flying for
the simple reason the "weather
has been too darn nice and pilots
don't get enough experience fly
ing in soupy weather. "It's al
ways fair and sunny." (Phoenix
chamber of commerce please
note.)
Getting back to the jargon of
the boys who fly planes that trav
el 500 miles an hour and up:
In addition to a "Wick Willy," a
pilot is called a "Throttle Jockey,"
a "Firecan Jockey," a "Flame
Flier" or a "Pipe Pilot."
The plane itself is called a
"Blow Torch," a "Flame Throw
er," a "Squirt," a "Blast Furnace"
or a "Stove Pipe."
Don't Just Start It
When you start an engine you
don't just start It. You "build a
fire" or "spark it up." A smooth
running engine either "cooks" or
Is a "steady boll."
When a mechanic inspects an
engine he wouldn't be so simple
as to say so. He'd tell a pal he
was "trimming the wick," "tend
ing the burner" or "checking the
pipe."
The mechanic In the jet hangar
Is no longer a "grease monkey."
He's a "kerosene tender."
And the pilot, coming in, doesn't
chop the throttle, like he used to.
The Jet pilot "turns down the
wick. And when the engine
gives a wheeze and starts to die.
It "flames out."
More Slang
In Arizona when a jet man
over-shoots the runway he does
really more than that. He "lands
among the tules." ."Tules" are
trees which grow on the sands
there, or the unfortunate fellow
"joins the desert club."
A fuel guage is a "liquldmeter,"
And a snoopy private citizen look
ing over, .the plane is a "propeller
inspector."
Say, a couple of pilots meet one
another on the way to the flight
line on a nice day and the greet
ing they exchange is "Shore a
tnrusty day, ain't It?" That
means the atmosphere Is just
ngnt ior a jet-propelled junket.
Thrust replaced horsepower as
the unit of power in jets.
we ve been through the class.
Thrusty day, sir!
FORWARD
WITH HOPE
. i.
As we look forward to
,the New Year, we add
(bur hope with yours for
. a happy and prosperous
f(1949 for all our friends
;and neighbors.
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Cold Snap Longest
In Area's History
Prinevllle, Dec. 31 The period
of sustained cold weather, start
ing on December 14 and ending
last night when the minimum
temperature was only 35 degrees
above zero, Is a rare condition in
this area, according to Mrs. C. W.
Goodnight, whose ranch place Is
on the lower Crooked river road
and who Is cooperative weather
observer for the conununlty.
Mrs. Goodnight, who observed
that the community has frequent
ly experienced temperatures far
colder than the minimum of three
below zero for the period, de
clared, however, that shifts in the
wind usually occur within three
days to bring about moderation.
For the most part In the two
week period the minimum temp
eratures have ranged from IS to
five and six above. When the
maximum did rise above freezing,
Mrs. Goodnight cited, it was
such short durations that no
thawing occurred.
Carey W. Foster, a pioneer resi
dent, says he does not recall
many winters where the cold
weather has been so sustained
over a period of two weeks.
Skating- Enjoyed
The protracted cold weather
has given vacationing school chil
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the Ochoco reservoir to the east
of here has been too rough for
best ice skating, .numerous par
ties have motored there to enjoy
the sport and the fun of shore
bonfires.
Mrs. Goodnight declares that
the thin blanket of snow, which
has remained on fields of Cen
tral Oregon during the cold
weather has been a godsend to
farmers with newly seeded clover
fields. The snow probably saved
scores of growers of the Agency
plains district of the North Unit
of the Deschutes project In Jet
ferson county from severe dam
age to hundreds of acres of newly
seeded crops of clover. -
And, in order
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for our many
friends, we
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during this
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