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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949
AncientAustralian
Crater Named
Meteorite Site
Sydney, Australia IB A vast
. ancient crater discovered by mod
ern aerial photography in a deso
late area of northwestern Austra
lia's backlands, is exciting scien
tists. The Australian magazine Walk
about, in an article by Charles R.
Holmes, published the first com
prehensive account ot the scien
tific mystery.
Known as Wolf Creek crater,
it is unique because of its belated
discovery and size. The late dis
covery was because of the remot
ness ot its location in the north
of the state of Western Australia.
The crater rivals the famed
Canyon Dlable find in the Arizona
desert in size, which measures
four-fifths of a mile across and
570 feet deep from its rim top.
The Wolf Creek discovery is an
estimated 2,800 feet across, ap
proximately 100 feet deep from
the level of the desert surround
ing it, and between 150 and 200
feet deep from the top of the rim.
Plane Makes Find
It was discovered June 21, 1947,
during an oil search flight by two
scientists of an Australian oil com
pany, Dr. Frank Reeves and N. B.
Sauves.
On Aug. 24, 1947, they accom
panied a land party which visited
the crater and ruled out earlier
possibilities that it might - have
been volcanic in origin. Their opin
ion that the crater was meteoric
subsequently was supported by
the Australian bureau of mineral
resources.
A geophysical party of the bu
reau, equipped with mine detec
tors and other sensitive instru
ments, will make an expedition to
the crater to hunt for meteoric
fragments or mass.
The crater lies in the bleak soli
tude 400 miles from the nearest
coastal town of Broome. Holmes
described the area as a vast "spin-nlfex-spattered
waste" in an area
of huge cattle holdings, where one
property may be as large as a
small European country.
Natives Unaware
The mystery of the age of the
crater is deepened by the fact that
it does not seem to figure in the
legends of the Australian abori
gines. An Australian Geographical so
ciety expedition visited the crater
in August,' 1948. Holmes quotes
this account of the crater and its
setting by journalist Arthur Up
Xield, a member of the expedition:
"The track from Hall's Creek
was easy enough to follow but
hard on the truck. ...
"We saw our objective ... a
long low ridge of golden rock
resting on a greyish green swell.
"As the truck could not go fur
ther, we set off on foot. Every
where for miles there is no rock
formation near the earth's surface
save that one long upthrust of yel
low Ironstone away across the
plain ahead of us. There were
only two sand dunes, some 50 feet
high, one stretching to infinity.
100 Feet Deep
"We arrived on the summit of
the crater and stood on the rim of
a completely circular wall of loose
rock, having uniform height.
Within the bowl the floor is al
most flat and probably a hundred
feet below the level of the plain
outside. Upon it grow the same
spinnifex and same sparse scrub
which thrive upon the vast ex
panse of flat country extending
beyond the eastern and southern
horizons.
"Although Andy and Stumpy
(the two aboriginal guides) had
never before stood on the wall and
gazed down Into the perfectly
formed bowl, they showed no anx
iety. It was obvious the place
had no signilicance in their tribal
legends."
Holmes said there may be an
other meteoric crater in the area.
He recounted: "Robert Way, now
73, told me how when he was ap
pointed postmaster and meteoroll
gical observer at Mall's Creek in
1905, he saw a huge fiery mass
streaking across the heavens.
Watches Her Son Die
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A mother's grief and hopes for her dying son Is dramatically shown in these photos of Mrs. Henrietta;
Wexler, of Venice, Calif., as she watches rescuers attempt to revive her son, Jay, three-years-old, who :
drowned when he fell into a storm drain. At right, Mrs. Wcxier buries her head in her hands, crosses
her fingers and prays. i
Research Plans
Told to Farmers
Powell Butte, March 11 Mal
colm Johnson, who was assigned
a year ago to take over the co
operative agricultural research in
Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson
counties, with the expense borne
jointly by the state and the three
counties, on Monday nignt report
ed to the Farmers' club here on
projects undertaken. Reviewing
the method by which the work is
carried on, Johnson cited that
each of the three counties named
an advisory committee which co
operated with a five-man commit
tee of the Oregon State college, In
cluding representatives from four
departments of the school of agri
culture and a representative of
the , college experiment station.
The college committee aided in
laying out work and in analysing
results, he said.
, Tests were made last year on
grains, potatoes and clovers. This
year, Johnson indicated, tests will
be started on ladino clover In
Jefferson county. Last year the
tests were limited to red and al
siko clover. Fertilizer tests did
not gain any appreciable conclu
sive results, Johnson said. He de
clared, however, that it Is Indicat
ed that use of sulphur in estab
lishing clover crops is a "must."
He said there Is indication of a
lack Of nitrogen in Jefferson coun
ty's land, needed in supplemental
degree in a substantial way for
potatoes and legumes as wen as
grain crops.
Test Promising;
Johnson said tests had shown
that Victory oats gave promise of
best results In this area. In bar
ley tests, Frontier and a Hannchen
hybrid made the best showing.
Johnson, however, advised ranch
ers against using new varieties in
any commercial plantings until
they have been thoroughly tried
out In further nursery and experi
mental plot tests.
Johnson said that fertilizer tests
made on potatoes last year were
disappointing in that no definite
conclusions had been established.
He declared, however, that use of
nitrogen apparently showed an
Increase in yield without having
been accompanied by any de
crease of volume In grading. Ef
forts are being made to ascertain
if nitrogen to potatoes should be
applied at one time or in several
applications throughout the sea
son. Zerolate Used
Johnson said that further tests
will be made in use of zerolate,
a preparation applied to cut seed
potatoes, aimed at preventing rot
ting after planting. Tests were
inconclusive last year because
weather and soil conditions were
ideal and untreated cut potatoes
showed no rot.
Johnson said that work of last
year and this will be largely aim
ed at establishing a basis for fur
ther widening the research in fu
ture years. The cooperative tests
In the three counties, he said, will
be expanded this year.
District Ranger
Takes New Job
Portland, March 11 Hi') Promo
tion of district forest ranger Roy
L. Weeman from the Mt. Hood
national forest to a Denver posi
tion was announced Wednesday
by Supervisor N. J. Penieh.
Weeman, now :n charge of the
Barlow district of Mt. Hood, will
be in charge of communications
planning for the Rocky mountain
region. He will assist in planning
a radio network in the 17 national
forests in Colorado, South Da
kota, Nebraska, Kansas and Wyo
ming. Weeman came to the Mt. Hood
forest in 1935 from the Chelan
forest in Washington. He has
been district ranger in charge of
the Columbia gorge, Clackamas
river, Lakes and Barlow district.
Weeman will be succeeded by
H. Donald Miller, a Washington
State college graduate who spe
cialized in range and wild life
management. The past two years
he has been engaged In range
survey work on the Ochoeo for
est, with headquarters at Prine
vllle. Both transfers are effective
April 1.
Pine Forest I
Pine Forest Crange, March tl
(Special) The following Pine
Forest grange members visited
the Eastern Star grange Tuesday
evening: Mrs. Cory Chambers,
Mrs. Gladys Garnic, Mrs. Lester
Kramer, Mrs. B. C. Straughn and
Mrs. Evelyn Watson. ;.'
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Halligan,
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Tucker and the
Misses Jenny Lee Woods and
Buena Jean Barton were initiated
In the first and second degrees at
Eastern Star grange Tuesday
evening. The Eastern Star and
Tumalo delegates will meet with
Pine Forest grange Tuesday,
March 15, for the third and fourth
degrees. The Pine Forest ladies
are asked to bring a cake ot
sandwiches. "
Mrs. Lawrence Foster and
daughter, Tmila, called at the H.
R. Tucker home Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Ralph Maddox called at
the John EngebretSen home Fri
day afternoon.
Mrs. Evelyn Watson, Guy Dit
mar and Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
Straughn spent Saturday evening
in Prineville visiting friends.
Mrs. Albert Walke's father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. O: W. Hep
burn, and Mrs. Walker's brother
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Max Hep
burn, and daughter, Cheryl, of
Joseph, visited the past week at
the Walker home. . -
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Dltmar and
daughters, of Prineville, visited
at the H. R. Tucker home Sunday
Mrs. Ditmar is Tucker's sister.-
The Misses Lois Utz and Dag
mar Wanichek are ill at home
this week.
The last meeting of the "Better
Dress' work shop was held at the
home of Mrs. J. R. Boyd March 4,
All dresses were to be finished
Friday. , (.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Colver at
tended a card party last Thursday
evening at the Felix Springstube
homo. There were four tables of
pinochle in play. Refreshments
were served at the close of the
southward to the desert lands.
"When the Wolf Creek crater
was discovered last year he Imme
diately thought It mav have caus
ed it.
"Even though this could not be
so, his story suggests there may
possibly be another meteoric cra
ter hidden in the desert wastes not
so very different farther south."
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Litter on Ranches
Prineville, March 11 The faces
of the heads of a number of local
families were decidedly red yes
terday when they were notified
that complaints had been made to
Sheriff Ralph Jordan of Crook
county by Carey W. Foster and
George Russell that said heads of
families had been using ranches
of Foster and Russell for the
dumping of tin cans, old garm
ents garbage and a litter of car
tons and old papers. Identifica
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made 'by names on old letters, on
the fly leaves of discarded books
and other like means. The offend
ers, it was reported, instead of
facing the consequences of formal
charges and subsequent fines,
might have been seen motoring
back . "to the' scenes of their
crimes," where they collected the
dumpings and hauled them away
to the official garbage dump. In
one instance, however, a family
denied that any of its members
had ever dumped any garbage on
the lands of any rancher near
Prineville, and Investigation prov
ed they had been unjustly charg
ed. It was shown that some of
their belongings had been taken
to the home of a relative. The ac
cumulation, which was identified
because of names on boxes, had
been transported to the ranches'
by the relative.
Foster and Russell perenially, It
is reported, have been annoyed
by the use made by careless and
thoughtless townspeople in trav
eling out on the convenient coun
ty roads and dumping the win
ter's accumulation of litter on
their land
Brooks Elected
Co-op President
Madras, March 11 The Jeffer
son County Co-op has elected
John Brooks its president for
1949. He succeeds John L. Camp
bell, a pioneer Agency plains
rancher, who has been president
of the group since its organization
three years ago. Brooks is a new
settler on the Agency plains sec
tion of the North unit of the Des
chutes project. Ben Evick and
Henry W. Thornton was re-elect
ed to the co-op directorate. Other
holdover members are William
Wood, Gordon Monroe and Albert
Zemke.
evening.
Mrs. Frank Gray and daugh
ter, Sherrill, attended a Theta
Rho district convention in Red
mond Saturday afternoon. A ban
quet followed in the evenirig.
: S'rank Gray is working in Mad
ras this week.
OSC Authority
Advises on Trees
Madras, March 11 Cecil Raw
lings, Oregon State college horti
cultural extension authority, who
was recently in the Little plains
district to hold pruning demon
strations at a home orchard being
established by Joe L. Waud, ;as
expressed til belief that several
varieties of various kinds of fruit
will do well in the higher eleva
tions of Central Oregon. Raw
lings has recommended the fol
lowing: grapes, Freilonla and
Concord; raspberries.Latham and
Chief; peaches, Hale, Haven and
Red Haven; and apples, Early
Williams, Rome Beauty and Mcintosh.
(cording to H. C. Hulett, Ochoco
.forest supervisor. 1 f '
Miller, graduate of Washington
State college, has worked in sev
eral of the national forests of
eastern Oregon, having gained
valuable timber sale administra
tion experience with the Umatilla
forest. He carried on special wild
life management studies in the
Malheur forest. His assignment
in the Ochoco forest carried him
to all four districts, where he as
sisted district rangers In wildlife
problems and those connected
with range management. . -
"We here at the Prineville of
fice are sorry to see Don Miller
leave us," declared Hulett, "but we
feel that he Is well qualified to
handle ,the important ranger job
on the Mt. Hood forest."
Wildlife Manager
To Go to Dufur
Prineville," March 11 II. Don
ald Miller, for the past two years
project staff member on wildlife
and range management activities
of the Ochoco natioal forest, will
move soon to Dufur, headquarters
of the Barlow district of the
Mount Hood national forest. Mill
er, who has gained a promotion
has been transferred to the Was
co county post to succeed Roy L.
Weeman, transferred from the
Barlow district rangership to the
Denver, Colo., regional office of
the national forest service, .ac-
Circuit Court
Convenes Monday
Prineville, March 11 Miss Nora
F. Stearns, Crook county clerk,
said yesterday that it is indicated
that a week may be required for
the Jury trials of five civil cases
on the docket of circuit court,
which will be convened Monday
by Judge Ralph S. Hamilton of
Bend, Two of the cases involve
claims for damages stemming
from alleged personal injuries
suffered in automobile accidents.
District attorney L. M. Bechtell
stated that the hold-over grand
jury will be called.
Adverse Weather
Slows Road Work
Prineville. March 11 County
Judge Asa . W. ; Battles declared
Tuesday that the Crook countv
road department, because of th
adverse conditions created the
past winter with heavy thaws fol
lowing the prolonged period o'f be
low freezing temperatures ami '
the heavy snow storms of the re.
moter higher elevations, has on.
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dicaps of recent years since Jan
uary 1. While Judge Battles de.
Clares that , the . department is
scraping the bottom of the finan
cial barrel, because of ,the ex
pense necessary to meet emeri
gencies, he said Crook county
roads are being brought back to
conditions better than had been
anticipated.
Judge Battles had his praise for
Wayne Lithgow, who had only
taken over his new duties as '
Crook county roadmaster the day
the first, heavy thaw 'occurred
following the freeze. Lithgow -who
formerly had been stationed
in the area as a member cf main
tenance personnel of the state
highway department, fortunately
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he has been on the job been able
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road funds available.
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