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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1949)
PAGE SIX Jet Tube Trips Across Continent Vision of Savant Buffalo, N.Y. U; Subway trains in New York and other cities would be slow as a cater pillar in comparison with jet jobs envisioned by a local authority on supersonlcs and superstratospher ics. Dr. Joseph F. Foa, a scientist associated with the Cornell aero nautical laboratory here, foresees a tube-type cross country subway train which would move at speeds of better than 2,000 miles per hour. In a speech, Dr. Foa expressed doubt that air transportation will exceed the speed of sound in the nenr future. He predicted, how ever, the use of jet propulsion in lone-distance subway trains tra veling at fantastic speeds with terodvnamics or magnetic suspen sion inside tubes connecting the major cities of the United States." The scientist also predicted that jet propulsion, through the development of the gas turbine, will revolutionize the automobile engine Industry. "I am convinced that the gas turbine will eventually replace the reciprocating engine, even In the automobile," he declared. He explained that such turbin es have no cooling system and no distributor and would therefore start easily in cold weather. He added that a gas turbine, with a gear shift, would have no engine vibrations. , Museum Defies Figurehead Jinx Boston lFi An ancient jinx is icfcfied daily by officials of the - famed marine museum at the Old State House.' They challenge superstition by displaying a weather beaten ship's figurehead that tradition says was carved, and cursed, by a Greek boy in 1790. The curse, uttered because the boy wasn't paid for his work, jinxed the French man-of-war Ber ceau, first ship to carry the fig urehead. The Berceau was cap tured by an American ship and was dismantled here. The figure head was fixed to the vessel Caro line of Bath. Me. The Caroline was wrecked. But the figurehead was salvaged and placed on another ship, the square-rigged Maritana of Qulncy. The Maritana also was wrecked but again the figurehead was sal vaged. , Its next owner was the proprie tor of Boston's Lincoln wharf. Soon after he erected it in the archway of his pier, the wharf was destroyed by fire. Again the figurehead escaped destruction. It was saved from the flames and presented to the marine museum. Not long after wards, fire swept part of the mu seum. Again the figurehead was unharmed. Despite the dire predictions of waterfront folk, officials of the museum decided to keep the fig urehead on display. Nothing un toward has happened since, but that doesn't stop old mariners and some museum employes from keeping their fingers crossed. FORGETIULNKSS COSTLY Boston m Forgetting a brief case proved expensive for Pan American airways. Shortly after a plane took off for Lisbon, offi cials discovered the packet con taining foreign custom clearance documents and ordered the ship to return for them. To lighten the plane for the landing, it was nec essary to dump 700 gallons of gasoline, costing more than 30 cents a gallon, into the Atlantic ocean. VENETIAN BLINDSj Wood Slcel Aluminum FREE ESTIMATES Bend Venetian Blind Mfg. Co. BS8 E. Glen wood (Off of E. fith Street) Phone 1434) t0w ilZllLM)lEr Culver Culver, March 8 (Special) Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Homey and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Keeney attended the 25th anniversary of the Pine Forest grange Tuesday evening, Haystack H. E. club met with Mrs. Doris Corwin Tuesday after noon. Those attending were Mrs. Bea Law, Mrs. Frances Clark. Mrs. Vina Clark. Mrs. Retta I lor ney, Flora May Homey, Mrs. Marv Jenkins. Mrs. Fay Sheen, Mrs. Anna Whitman, Mrs. Nell Keeney and Mrs. Golda McDowell. C. R.' Hngman and daughter, Lorelie. and Mrs. Dwayne Hag, man were business visitors In Redmond Friday. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Homey were business visitors in Bend last Tuesday morning. Ellen Schalhorn was an over nleht euest with Carol Helen Hen derson in Redmond Friday night. They attended the basketball game at the Redmond gymna, slum. Culver people In Redmond Sat, urday were Mr. and Mrs. George Rodman and daughter, Sharon, Mr. and Mrs. Ward McRostie and family, Mrs. Denver Law and mother, Mrs. Scofield, Lorelie Hagman, Mrs. H. E. Keeney and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. freeman. The Culver Civic club will meet on March 17, at the home of Mrs. Betty Law for an all-day meeting. Bud Henderson called at the H. E. Keeney home Saturday morn ing. Haystack grange H. E. club ladies are planning on an open house party with a dinner and program at the grange hall Satur day night, March 12. Grange members and friends are invited. Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Rodman and family, of Madras, and Mr. and Mrs. Burgess Wright visited Sunday at the S. E. Rodman home. George Winchester, of Grand- view, was a visitor at the Harry Heising home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harris enter tained the following friends and relatives during the past weeK: Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dean and son, David, from Klamath Falls; a sis ter of Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Caroline Christman, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ball, of Redmond. There will be a basket dinner at the Christian church March 13, after which a meeting will be held to decide about building of a new parsonage. C. R. Hagman received word Sunday morning that his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hagman, passed away at her home In Willamina. Mrs. C. n. Hagman nas spent several days there helping care for her. Marlyn Greenwood was taken to the Medical Dental clinic in Redmond Saturday and under went surgery on Saturday after noon for appendicitis. B. Poole and Helen Keeney were visitors aq the H. E. 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Dr. George ts. Collins, univer sity of Rochester professor of physics, has developed a scintilla tion counter in preparation lor experiments to be done with the university's new DO,uuu,uuu-voit super cyclotron. Dr. Collins predicts wiae usage of the newly-developed method because of its better all-around performance. scintillation counters, ne saia, are 10 times as sensitive as the Geiger counter for certain types of rays and can count much fast er (100,000 counts per second as compared with about 10,000). Distinguishes Types In addition, the physicist said, the new counters in some cases can distinguish between types of rays emitted by radioactive sub stances, which the Geiger counter cannot do. Dr. Collins pointed out that the home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lundy and family of Grants Pass, were week end visitors at the C. Lundy home. Stanley Harris has been remod eling 'his barber shop to accom modate his son, Jimmy, who wlll Join him in the shop next week. A Large FRESH LOCAL RANCH EGGS Nalley's Fresher, Better Than Ever! TANG Salad Dressing Pint Jar 29c, Quart 53c THE BEND BULLETIN, By Hershberqer device probably will find applica tion in many branches of nuclear science, including medicine, be cause of its small size and versa tility. In one form, he said, it can be made small enough to be in serted into living animals tc measure radioactivity within cer tain organs. The scintillation counter mak es use of the fact that when a particle from a radioactive atom passes through a substance like naphthalene, from which moth balls are made, it makes a flash of light. Count Registered The light flash is made to fall on. a special tube called a photo multiplier tube, which registers a count. In that way, the number of particles passing through a piece of naphthalene can be de termined. Dr. Collins expects to use the new device in connection with the Rochester super cyclotron, soon to be put in operation, to detect the presence of mesons, about which little is known. Through it, he also hopes to determine the na ture of the decay product of me sons, which are important and short-lived particles. Dr. Collins and the group of physicists working with the cyclotron at the university hope through study of the newly-discovered meson to find out more about the source of atomic energy. dozen 59c PRODUCE Spltzenberfj Apples box $1.98 Juice Oranqes lb. 10c GREEN ONIONS and Radishes ... 2 bun. 19c U. S. No. 1 Potatoes ... 10 lbs. 45c LUMBER JACK SYRUP Rich in Maple Flavor IS In. Long John 24 07.. Jug Stylo tan 33c 79c N.B.C. Shredded Wheat... pkg. 17c Hunt's Catsup .... 14 oz. bottle 18c Kcmarknblc No. 2Vi can Peaches and Pears can 30c limit' Heinarkable No, 2 can Green Beans can 17c lliinl's Solid 1'ack No. 2 !i ran Tomatoes can 25c 2 49c 100 Wool Cardigan Sweaters $3.95 Nylon Slip-Over Sweaters $2.75 Blouses from $1.98 MARKET Phone 360 or 177 BEND, OREGON Science af Work By Paul F. Ellis (United Prm Science Writer V . Mount Palomar, Cal., March 9 (U'i The nation's top astronomers said today that the 200-inch mir ror telescope the world's most powerful had passed its first tests and soon will be revealing to man four times as much as the universe as he has ever seen. The scientist, Dr. Edwin P. Hub ble, research director of . the Mount Wllson-Palomor observa tory, reported that the "big eye" already has done what was ex pected quadrupled the amount of space in the heavens visible to astronomers. The big mirror, according to Dr. Hubble, will do even more. The day, he said, will come when the big telescope will go Into action on a few nights .of the year-r-nights during which there is no atmospheric dust, or Inter ference. As of now, the big mirror has a slightly up turned rim, estimated to be one-millionth of an inch. For ordinary observations, according to Dr. Huble, the mirror is okay as is but the extra refinement is needed for the mirror to do Its best on the best nights of observa tions. . Such "perfect" nights for ob servations are few and far be tween, according to Dr. Hubble. He said that probably there might be as many as a "dozen," or more likely, a half a dozen nights each year when the full power of the telescope can be used to its best advantage. Dr. Hubble said that It has not been decided whether it will -be necessary to take the big mirror out of the 300-ton telescopic ap paratus to shave down the up turned edge. The mirror sets at the bottom of a mesh of steel work that is enclosed in a great dome atop this 6100-foot moun tain. It collects the light from heavenly bodies such as the stars and "funnels" it into a po sition where photographic lenses can pick it up. No one actually looks through the "big eye." The work is done either by the photographic plate f All Service Work Quaranteed! yj A WARD, K4, MOTOR Vt'K ! 0:S rap GUARANTEED TUNE-UPS Some say you can't guarantee a tuneup but when we tune an engine we guarantee to make it perform properly, and to replace any worn parts with original equipment parts. That's why tune-ups by our ex perts ... - ARE WORTH MORE Yes, worth morel More than any tune-up made by less than a fully qualified and conscientous expert, using ALL of the most modern test ing equipment available, as ours do. BUT COST LESS Our tune-ups actually cost less because of that testing equipment (ours is the last word!) which saves time and makes for greater accuracy. 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According to Rizzo, the robot operates on electricity transmit ted through the air from a con trol box connected to ordinary house current. It took Rizzo eight years to build the mechanical marvel, and he's still working at it. With the help of- his family, Rizzo assem bled the 95-pound robot, using 833 wires and 53 switches. All of them are concealed within Robin's 95 pounds. The five-foqt Robin wears a size 47 suit, a 15 ,& shirt and size S'A shoes. Rizzo has had many offers from prospective purchasers but as yet hasn't decided what sort of career Robin will follow. or by spectrographlc equipment a device that measures the chemi cal or elementary structure f stars by recording the colors emitted from far off objects. at PormAC ...li. Ufi a 5 PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE PONTIAC G. M. C. Kansans Drink Liquor Legally Topeka, Kans., March 9 lU'i Kansans drank liquor legally in their homes and private clubs to day and for the first time in more than 68 years. Officially, the sunflower state's famous and stringent "bone dry" laws will be wiped off the books when an act of repeal is publish ed in the state newspaper late to day. But a ruling by the state's attorney general declared prohi bition repealed at midnight last night. The "repeal was demanded by the people In a referendum last November. It was passed by the legislature last week and Gov. Frank Carlson, who says he won't drink anyway, signed it Into law yesterday. The new measure permits: , 1. Kansans to bring up to one case of intoxicants into the state for their own use. 2. Possession and consumption in cities which voted wet In No vember. , . But it prohibited: 1. Public drinking outside pri vate homes or "duly recognized private clubs." 2. Sale of liquor by the drlnlr. Consumers must order set-ups at clubs. Liquor will be sold by packages within the state as soon as a liquor control commission, to be named by Carlson, begins func tioning In about two months. Services Held For Mitchell Man Mitchell, March 9 Funeral services were held here Saturday at 2 p.m. for Everett Wilson, a well known pioneer, whose life had been spent in this west Wheel er county stock district. His death, caused by a heart attack, was sudden. Interment followed at the Mitchell cemetery. Mr. Wilson, who was a bachelor, is survived by two brothers, Ber nard and Walter, of Mitchell; and a sister, Mrs. Edna Sigle of Long Beach, Wash. Phone 1595 rs . r, -vi lis L.JII m WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949 Education Meet Set at La Grande County school superintendent Velma Buckingham will leave for La Grande tomorrow whqre she will interview prospective teach, ers and attend the annual Eastern Oregon College of Education con. (erence for school officials. The conference will be held Saturday. Participating in the conference will be county school superlnten. dents, principals, and selected teacners irom over me state. Scheduled at the meet is thn presentation and adoption of iw. ommendations made at the last conierence. mere win also be special group meetings to consici. er suggestions on the various pnases oi tne teacner education urogram. Saturday noon thpr will be, a luncheon meeting for tne aiscussion oi recruitment. Round table discussions have also been slated. To encourage peanut cultiva tion in the Dominican Republic, agricultural machinery is being made available by the govei ment to f.armers at a nominal charge. mil For months, Lucky Lager brewmasters have been age ing and mellowing smooth Lucky Bock Beer.. Now it's ready for you to enjoy. Look for (he green and yellow label that marks (he choicest bock beer of all LUCKY BOCK! Try it tonight. INTMSTATl MtWIIIT C0.,VNC0UV,WUKi REWED IN DECEMBER- iBQCK YOU'Ll REMEMBERI Distributed by Deschutes Beverage Co. Redmond, Oregon 1111
