The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, May 27, 1949, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THE J5END BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1949 THE BEND BULLETIN ' and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS Th Bund Bulletin (weekly) luoa . lu ll The Uend Uulletln IDsllvl Eat. 1018 Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday and Certain Holiday by Tito Mend Uulletin 736. 7o Wall Blreat , bend. Oreaon Entered as Second Clau Matter, January 6. 1917. at the Poetofffca at Bend, Orwon Under Act of March S. 187U. BOBERT W. SAWYER EVlltor-Manaaer HKNKV N. FOWLER Auoelate Editor An Independent Newspaper Standing (or the Square Deal, Clean Business, Clean Politics anu uie sent interests oi nenu ana central urevon MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Br Mail By Carrier One Year 17.00 One Year 110.00 Biz Months St.UO SIX Months I 0.60 Thr. Months 12.60 One month , I 1.00 All Subscription, art DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Please notify dj of any ehanae of address or failure to receive the paper regularly, To Him TKaf Hath Shall Be Given LANDOWNER WATER PAYMENTS In an editorial in the Pendleton East-Oregonian discussing a recent magazine article, by Richard Neuberger in which comparisons between the states of Washington and Oregon were drawn appears this paragraph : Richard Neuberger's story would have been more com plete had he covered the Important preparatory work done by the men referred to but Mr. Neuberger is right in saying Oregon is more complacent regarding resource develop ment than is the state of Washington. There is much more irrigation underway or contemplated in Washington than in Oregon. In our neighbor state the program at Grand Coulee , calls for charging three fourths of the cost to the power feature, with the landowners paying but 25 per cent of the irrigation construction cost. The same policy should be ap plied in Oregon but that is not being done. We have been struck by the statement in that paragraph regarding the charge for the cost of the Grand Coulee (Co lumbia basin project) and the assertion that "the same policy should be applied in Oregon but that is not being done." If those words mean what they seem to mean the statement is completely erroneous. The Columbia basin nroiect is being built under an act adopted in March, 1943 and in the act the project was made subject to the provisions of the reclamation project act of 139 ana tney govern tne repayment oi ine project expenai tures. The particular provision relating to repayment is found in Sec. 9 (a) (3) and that calls for a finding by the secretary of the interior of the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users . It the project is lound leasioie tne water users are expected to repay on the basis of the secretary's findings. Repayment of other reimbursable costs is also pro vided for and there is a provision for a charge-oif ot non reimbursable costs such as those allocated to flood control and navigation. ' . Now then on the Columbia basin project the landowners , are not to repay 25 per cent of the irrigation construction cost. ' as such, as the East Oregonian seems to imply. They are to repay the amount that they are expected to be able to pay, according to the secretary's findings. If the figure is 25 per cent of the project cost that is sheer accident. And on govern .-"ment irrigation projects undertaken in Oregon the landowner-water user will pay on the same basis according to what has been found as his probable ability. This may turn out to be 25 per cent. It might be 40 per cent. In short, and contrary to the assertion of the Pendleton paper, the same policy (rule) is applied in Oregon as in Washington. COUNTY TAX PROSPECT Although Deschutes county's budget levy is apparently to be held within the six per cent limitation, the county's tax on real and personal property seems likely to be somewhat more noticeable in the coming fiscal year than under the budget now in effect. The reason for this is to be found in the recent suggestion of the assessor that county valuation totals may jiot change appreciably over those of a year agp. With six per cent added to the levy and no corresponding increase in tax base, the rate actually applied in the fall will go up a half mill or more. With the millage, taxes also will increase. Few will worry about this until the statements are sent out from the sheriff's office in November. At least there has been no evidencesof taxpayer concern as the budget sessions have been in progress. Appropriation seekers have been in attend ance and have got pretty much what they wanted. Any who may have believed that it is especially desirable just now to "hold the line", if not actually to start retrenching, stayed away. Presumably they will do their protesting at statement time when it can do no possible good. II jr'ii w W.. a5 ' r I , -Aw-.JIO MOST: : V V t. " iHimtnmiiimtt , miiiMiiiuitittiiiuiiiimniii',iiiiuiiiuiiiimiiiiimimimimiitmmim!tntmimiiii WASHINGTON COLUMN miiiifii,MJiiiiiimumiiriirimiii.Mii Others Say NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (National Grang;) Before plunging headlong into any scheme for national health Insurance, which is simply a eu phonious name for stale medicine, the American people need to keep posted on the working of the health plap put Into operation by the British labor government last July. Under the plan, the bulk of the doctors of Great Britain are co operating with the government In furnishing "free" medical care td about 95 per cent of the people. Under the National Health Ser vice act, as It Is called, everybody In the country is entitled to "free" medical treatment. This Includes the services of general praclloners, surgeons and specialists; out-patient and in-patient t real men I at hospitals; drugs, medicines and surgical ap pliances; dentures, spectacles and hearing aids; maternity and In fant care; together with treat ment for those who arc menially ill. It would, of course, be very naive to come to the conclusion that this means getting some thing for nothing, or that all mese "The history of liberty Is the history of the limitation of gov ernmental power, not the Increase of It. When we resist the concen tration of power we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what al ways precedes the destruction of human liberties." Out On the Farm Ity Hit S, (Irani May 27 If we don't get our garden planted, on the double, there won't bo any homegrown summer salads or ficsli beet greens on Calico Farm. I used to think that making a garden was a mere matter of spading up a little plot and sprinkling sculs in straight rows. That still seems like the logical procedure. But my mental pro cesses are still back in the horse and buggy days, the Great Me chanic tells me, and this Is the age of mechanized farming. Of course, the garden is about half as big as a football field, and it's a nice sporty little jaunt Just to i walk around It. j The G.M. ploughed the garden ! plot some weeks ago witn the tractor, and after going over it re-! IH-atedly with disks, harrows and oners, announced that t was By Peter Edson (NEA Washington Correspondent) '- Washington (NEA)--Next time you're in a mood to cuss out the bureaucrats the underworked and overpaid employes of the fed eral government wno are sup. ported by the taxpayers save one or two kind words for the "WOC." A "WOC" is government alphabet lingo for the people who work for Uncle Sam for nothing. There are about 65,000 of them 'on the payrolls." They are tech nically carried as employes work ing "With Out Compensation." The initials ' furnish' the name. They are the unsung heroes who contrinute as much of their time as they can lo' various govern ment enterprises, . expectine no other reward than the satisfac tion of knowing that they're hon est citizens doing something. for the good of their country. More than half of the WOC's are the volunteer members of the 3,600 draft boards operating throughout ' the country. They haven't been as busy as they were In wartimes, because the armed services have been getting all the recruits needed by enlistment. But the average draft board of three to five members has the important Job of local adminis tration of selective service regu lations. When the armed services call for draft quotas, draft board members meet regularly, go over registrations and deride who In their community is 1-A, and who is 4-F. Helping out the 13.000 draft board members are some 10,000 volunteer "advisers." Their Job Is to help the registrants fill out the various selective service forms and keep records for the board. Hardest working members of the draft board staffs, however, are the 7.000 or more doctors who give the preliminary physi cal examination to every draft registrant. There arc an average ot two medical officers for every draft board. Since all those people have to go on living in their own com iiiiiiiiiiipiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiimmum young- men 'who come before them, their-responsibility is not a small, one. That these people work without pay Is all the more to their credit. . . Veterans' administration places heavy reliance on its WOC work ers. At the head of the oroces' sion are some 11,000 "Gray La, aies. i ney go to scnool lor train ing,, then sign up for regular tours of duty in veterans' hospi tals for extra service. Information on the state of the nation's health, stream pollution and data for use in mortality sta tistics is furnished by some 4,200 WOC's working for- the federal security agency's public health service. . v Treasury's1 big savings bond campaigns each spring and fall would be impossible without thousands of WOC's and other volunteer workers. Last year they sold over $7,000,000,000 worth of bonds by house-to-house and officc-tooffice solicitations. Vernon L. Clark of Iowa, nation al director of the savings bond campaign, is himself working without compensation. Department of agriculture has more than 10,000 WOC assistants scattered all over the country. Some 2,100 are agricultural scl ents and laboratory workers on state payrolls. But they perform numerous reporting and advisory services for federal experimental stations where soil and plant siuuies are carried on. Volunteer weather observers number nearly 8,000. They are farmers, school teachers, stu dents, housewives everything. The government furnishes them with the necessary instruments. They make reports on which weather forecasts a.nd statistics are based. Degree of Honor Holds Inspection The Degree of Honor held an annllal Insrjeetinn Tuesrinv In thp Eagles hall, with Ethel Lindholm, state director; Minnie Davis Card, state organizer, both of Portland, and Dora Gales, state oast presi dent, of Bend, as Inspecting of ficers'. The Juveniles also held an inspection at the hall. Past state president Dora Gales was presented a gift of travel lugtfaee bV members of the orean- ization. She plans to attend the Degree of Honor national conven tion, wnicn soon wui De held in St. Paul, Minn. '' Lenis George and her class per formed a tap routine as part of the inspection ceremonv. Drills also were performed by the or ganization's drill team. rouowing the inspection re freshments were served. Out-of-town guests present for the ceremony were: Leah Powell, from the Tabor lodge in Portland, and Charlotte Eston, of Redmond. Japanese Pay Reparations to Four Nations By Earnent Hoberecht (United Press Staff Correspondent) Tokyo 'in The Japanese repa rations question still is one of the major problems which the allied nations must settle, but more than $23,000,000 worth of machinery and equipment already has been distributed to China, the Netherlands. Philippines and the United Kingdom under the in terim program. That was revealed bv Brie. Gen. Patrick H. Tansey, who handles tne reparations program for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Gen. Tansey said thus far al most 17,000 items of metal work ing machinery and equipment had teen distributed as lollows: China .-. $13,529,199.25 Netherlands 3,013,900.25 Philippines 4,855,943.00 united Kingdom 2,480,089.75 $23,879,132.25 'Reports from these nations in dicate that the equipment already is contributing to the rehabilita tion oi their war-damaged econo mies," Gen. Tansey said. under tne provisions oi the in terim directive issued by the U. S. government in April, 1947, the four nations, other than the U. S., which suffered most of the rav ages of the Pacific war and made the greatest contributions to the defeat of Japan, were authorized to receive do per cent of the Japa- nese Industrial assets determined to be war facilities or excess to the needs of the peace-time econ omy or. Japan. The lour nations selected were China, the Netherlands for the Dutch East Indies, the Philip pines, and the United Kingdom lor Malaya and Burma. By the terms of this directive Practical Finance Is Not Her Forte Atlanta IP The driver of an Atlanta trolley Is telling his pas sengers the story of a woman who funked her practical arith metic. . He laughingly relates how she thought she'd buy up a few trol ley tokens before a recent rate in crease took effect. "It was the last day for tokens to sell three for a quarter," he said. "The Increase was to make each of them cost about two thirds of a cent more." It seems the woman went from trolley to trolley, riding a block on each and buying three tokens for 25 cents each nip. "Somebody finally convinced her she was losing money," the driver said. "She failed to figure she was netting only two tokens for each two bits, since it took one of them every time for the ride." Bulletin classifieds Bring Results China was to receive 15 per cent and the other nations were to get five per cent each. "Twenty arsenals have been made available to these nations," Gen. Tansey said, "and 50 per cent of their machinery and equipment has been allocated and removed from Japan. An additional 25 per cent has been claimed and will be removed shortly." Gen. Tansey said that pending final settlement of the repara tions program, work has gone ahead on completing the inven tories and evaluations of a large portion of the 870 plants now held in custody by the allies. These plants are estimated to have a value Of $850,000,000.00. Electric Mixers HAMILTON BEACH SUNBEAM Coffee Makers UNIVERSAL SUNBEAM Electric Wiring No matter how large or small the job ... we can handle it. ESTIMATES AND EXPERT ADVICE AT NO COST TO YOU. BILL'S ELECTRIC W. T. (Bill) MOURA, Owner. 843 Hill Street Corner Greenwood Ave. Phone 1462-J Bend, Ore. Use classified ads in The Bulle tin for quick results. Time Unrelenting One moment out of all time becomes each person's own moment for departure from this earth. For those left to carry on, we offer the much needed complete and dig nified service . . . the final tribute. For Ambulance Service Phone 118 Niswonger AND Winslow MORTICIANS CIGARETTES TOO CHEAP Memphis. Tenn. tl Pnlirp knew something was wrong when they learned that a man was sell. Ing cigarettes for $1.25 per car ton. They arrested Eudv Baskin and he admitted he u snllintr munities, and must make decls- cigarettes supplied him by a por Ions affecting the lives of the 1 ter at a neighborhood store. services are aciua v nee:,...,.. .. ..... ... . . to the nubile. Tliev cost lm fii'T '. ' ""'.me Piam- money, and every citizen Is com pelled to contribute to the com mon pool, either directly, through specified rates, or through gener al taxation. Reports from reliable sources In Ixinilon are to the effect that most doctors are worked almost to death, and that the services the people are getting are far from satisfactory. Since medical care is supposed to be free, all kinds of people go to sec the doc tor, whether they really need him or not. This makes it extremely difficult for those who are actual ly ill to secure proper attention and care. Some physicians have as many as four thousand people on their lists, while a list of two thousand it common. In the Unit ed States as a whole, (he rallo is one physician for 831 eople. The concentration ol power In the hands of the government thai would Infallibly go with socialized medicine is a thing to foe feared and shunned. It was President VVooihgw Wilton who wJd; cr, a tricky iltle curiae! Hint spills out the seeds evenly and without waste, needed a little overhauling. A new sprocket and chain marie It good hh new, and now it's lvady lo drop the seeds scientifically and efficiently into the waiting trenches. There was a gopher in the trap last night, and that makes about 10 of the little rascals thai lost their battle with science. The pink Japanese honeysuckle that we transplanted last Mem orial day Is in bloom. The white one we planted at the other cor ner of the house didn't make It umiugn the winler, and we'll have to take It out u make loom for something else. SISTKK JOINS t'P TOO McdTord, Mass. ill'i When Mary T. Burke, 21, enlisted In the wom en's air force, she became Ihe ninth member of her family to enter Ihe armed services. The re cruiting officer who swore her In was her tu'oUier, Sgt. Julm Cuikv. See the New Hjcunlltorn. 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