PAGE EIGHT
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1949
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON
Muskegon Hard
Hit, Result of
Unemployment
' By Don II. Ball
' (United I'rtw Staff CorraiKHideiit) '
Muskeeon. Mich. Jutie 24 (LP)
An almost-visible smog of worry
h angs over this city of 100,000 res
idents with 13,000 out of work in
a virtually lull-blown postwar de
presslon.
A once-booming war industry
town, Muskegon is suffering from
a severe pin-point recession of a
type that may hit soon in other
united statestltles.
Worried leaders In the. com'
munity including labor union
ists, city and county officials, the
cnamDer oi commerce, and repre
sentatives of the Michigan unenv
ployment compensation commis
sion are striving desperately for
a solution to the sudden business
slump that caused wholesale lay
offs overnight.
Eugene O'Neill, area director of
the ' compensation commission,
said llatly, "ll this isn't a depres
sion, I've never seen one."
Many Newcomers
About one out of lour war jobs
nave vanisned.
Some civic leaders point out
that the city's number of em
ployed is about equal to that of
J.34U. .uut tnis does not take into
account that 8,000 families moved
here during the past nine years,
; Gov. G. Mcnnen Williams says
the city is the state's most criti
cal unemployment spot.
Typical of those pounding the
pavements daily seeking work is
Morris M. Allen, 29-year-old negro
who came here from Alabama
during the war.
With live children to sunnow
Allen has been able to find only
part-time work as a substitute cab
driver. He averaged $1.25 a day
for the two days he works and
receives a dole of $33.10 every
two weeks.
"The worst part of it is,"-he
saia, "i ve traveled all over Mlchl
gan and still couldn't find a job."
First Iron Warship
one, fa. in Plans are being
made to Junk the 106-year-old
U.S.S. Wolverine, the world's first
iron warship.
Various organizations, includ
ing Henry Ford's Dearborn mu
seum, have tried to get posses
sion of the vessel, but the Erie
Foundation for the Wolverine
failed to raise the thousands of
dollars' needed for . restoration
and decided to dismantle the ship.
The Wolverine's keel was laid
in Erie in 1843 and she maintain
ed order on Lake Erie far 80
years. The vessel was taken off
active duty several years ago and
docked for the last time at Pres
que Isle. - .
U. S. Cities Increase
Pnsion Benefits
Chicago (Ui Retirement or
pension plans are in effect for
municipal employes in 981 Amer
ican cities, according to the In
ternational City Managers' asso
ciation. In the last five years the num
ber of cities with retirement plans
covering all their employes has
almost doubled, the association
said, rising from 341 to G49.
During the same period, the
association said, the number of
cities belonging to state-adminis
tered pians rose from 250 to 418.
A survey of cities with more than
100,000 population indicates that
91 per cent 'provide retirement
systems for some or all of their
non-scnool employes.
DANCE
Sat., June 25
t
Eastern Star Grange
Music by
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Hospital Donors
Continued today, as an aid In
the hospital undertaking, Is a
list of paid-up subscribers to the
central ureeon Hospitals louna
ation. Names are listed as they
will appear in the memorial lob
by of the new hospital, undess the
foundation office, in the O'Kane
building, Jias teen .otherwise no
tified. Names of contributors
are . appearing in alphabetical
order, with earlier listings to be
added from time to time. Today,
the fallowing names were added
to the earlier alphabetical list
ings: Ralph G.'Adams.
Bend Electric Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Breedlove.
Clayton Constable.
Kathryn and Lorance Evers. '
Mr. and Mrs. Marc B. Jarmin.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Mahoney.
H. C. Nelson.
Margaret Powell.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Powell.
Clark and Judy Price,
The "ft" listing ot names fol
lows: J. H. Raddatz.
Bertram W. Ramsay.
uoraon ft. itanaail.
Ernest A. Ranger.
Melvin Raper.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Rasmussen.
G, E. Rasmussen.
Clyde H. Ratliff.
Carl V. Kaupach.
Charles H. Raycraft.
Mr. and Mrs. Georee W. Ray-
craft. .
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Ream.
Lloyd E. Reed.
Mr. and Mrs. Garold Reid. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Roland A. Rein-
hart.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Reis.
H. C. Reish.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Reiter.
Leona Retherford.
Taylor W. Rhoads.
Paul M. Rhoads.
Harold W. Rice.
Clifford R. Rich.
Mrs. Ethel B. Richards.
Kent J. Richens.
Paul F. Riedel
Ovid W. B. Riley.
it. j. Koaon. .
S. E. Roberts.
Arthur Rqbldeaux.
R. C. Robinson, M.D. . :
Lenard K. Robertson.
R. E. Roderick.
Dorothy Roebuck.
J. B. Rogers and family.
Anthony Rosengarthe. .
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ross.
Morris Rothkow.
'KewietttA Ruthf .. , -x 4
Lewis and Helen Kumbaugh.
Gertrude E. Russell.
Mary E. Ryan.
Allen M. Ryman. '
ii. L. Rynearson.
Mrs. Herbert L. Rasmussen. .
Duncan arid Marilyn Ross.
3. E. Rumble Jr.
Duncan A. Ross anil Earle C.
May. '
Art Rixe.
Ernie Rlxe. ' '
The name o( W.,C. Oulcley
was included in yesterday's list
ing, through an error,; it was re
ported from the headquarters of
fice. ' " '. ' ; "
Policy on China
Washlneton.'June 24 UP) Dip
lomatic" informants said todav
that the administration, Jin de
fense of its China policy, may
produce htthnHn curot ovlrtanrv
blaming Chiang Kai-Shek for the
collapse of nationalist (China.
TheBc sources said. 'the state de
partment is assembling a com
plete record of military failures
and political conniving under the
uniang regime, . .
Secretary ofSta,te Dean Ache
son guardedly acknowledged- at
his news conference yesterday
that preparation off a white paper
on untna is under, consideration.
Diplomatic infocmants believe
the department will attempt to
show that. ChlangJ wrecked plans
(or aciensc oi south qnina along
ine xangizo nvnr ime lor per
sonni reasons: that, he deliberate.
ly withdrew the entire nationalist
air force and riavy and -several
hundred thousand troops . from
the Ytngtse area In an effort to
force his recall to the, presidency.
They expect the projected white
paper also to establish that Chi
ang consistently ignored Ameri
can military advice. .
84 HVBX IN WRECK
Baltimore, June 24 UPThirty
four persons were injured today
when the driver of a New York to
Washington Greyhound bus "nod-
rlnrl" t hA ... . -f, ....
nui nv tut; tun, lull uil llie
j highway at Whltemarsh, eight
mtics norm oi note.
Coutrty police suid the bus ran
along the shoulder of the rond for
125 feet, struck a concrete culvert
and lranrd n 20-foot stream, mm.
Ing to a halt on the opposite bank.
They said" the pnsscngers were
thrown from their seals as the
bus struck the culvert and shat
tered It.
Australia Builds
Defensive Navy
By Ronald Stevens
(United Ptmt Suit Carrwlwndtnt)
Sydney. Australia IP Austra.
11a has taken delivery of her first
aircraft carrier, which gives her a
small self-contained task force
for the lint time since world
war I. '
The carrier is' the 14,000-ton
H.M.A.S. Sydney, formerly the
British carrier Terrible. '
Naval experts said that because
of the strategic transfer of United
States naval .power from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic, Australia's
acquisition of the carrier "was
worthwhile contribution to west
ern naval air striking power in
tne wmc.
United States carrier strength
in the Pacific comprises three
Z7,oou-ton craft and two small car
riers, plus four jeep type carriers
on the united states west coast.
Before the end of the year. Aus
tralia expects to take delivery of
a second carrier of the same class
as the Sydney, which it will call
the Melbourne.
The Sydney joins Australia's
present active service fleet of one
eignt-incn gun cruiser, live ae
stroyers and smaller ships, which
for the first time is commanded
by an Australian admiral, Rear
aamirai . a. iuinns,
Five-Year Plan Adopted
The $16,000,000 carrier was
bought under a $250,000,000 five-
year naval dciense plan adoptea
two years ago wntcn is scneauiea
by 1952 to bring Australian naval
strength in the Pacific to two
light carries, two cruisers and six
destroyers on active service.
The naval air arm is expected
to cost $73,000,000 in five years.
Under the defense scheme,
1947-48 naval strength of 10,000
men will Increase to 15,000 by
1951-52.
The Sydney's air group com
prises a fighter squadron of Sea
Furies and an anti-submarine,
bomber reconnaissance squadron
of Fairey Fircfjlcs. None carries
torpedoes. -
rianes Are fast
Sea Furies are said to be the
fastest piston-englned fighters in
the world today, with a combat
speed of 450 m.D.h. They have an
action radius of 760 miles. The
two-seater Fireflies have a maxi
mum range of 1,070 miles and
combat speed of 390 m.p.h.
A, naval spokesman said the
Sydney rwould remain, in Austra
lian waters' at present.1 After re
fitting at Sydney, -it will -.cruise
around the Australian coast and
probably later engage in maneu
vers with the Australian fleet.
The spokesman did not think it
Immediately - likely the carrier
would go to Hong Kong to
strengthen the British garrison
there.
He pointed out that suitable
Pacific bases for the Sydney in
cluded Singapore, Hong Kong,
Honolulu, San, Diego, Auckland,
and perhaps certain South Ameri
can ports. ,
SENTENCE COMPLETED
Everett Earl Wilson, 18-year-old
Redmond youth, was released
from the Deschutes county jail
Wednesday after serving a three
months sentence on a charge of
reckless driving.
He was driver of a truck involv
ed in an accident wmcn resulted
uvthe death, March 19, of 13-year-old
Archie Dale Shobe, also of
Redmond.
Wilson was Indicted in March
by a Deschutes county grand jury
on a charge of negligent homi
cide, but the charge was later
dropped and Wilson pleaded guil
ty to reckless driving.
Chlordane and toxaphene are
relatively new grasshopper poi
sons. DENTISTRY
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POLIO EPIDEMIC Youn? polio victim receives close attention at
San Angelo, Tex., where specialists from all parts of the H. S. have
converged to combat an epidemic of the dread disease. Polio in this
small West Texas town has reached an all-time high with 77 cases
under treatment In one 24-hour period 12 cases were admitted to
the hosoital and six discharged.
NAMED REPRESENTATIVE
Madras, June 24 Wayne
Foster. Jefferson county school
superintendent, has been named
to represent the Oregon state
association of county school su
perintendents in all counties east
of the Cascade mountains in the
Oregon Education association.
The selection was made at an an
nual conference of county super
intendents held in Salem.
NAMED DIRECTOR
Prineville, June 24 Lee Evans
of the Evans Pine Lumber com
pany of this city, has been named
to a two'year term as director of
Western Forest Industries asso
ciation.' The election to the posi
tion occurred last week at a
meeting In Corvallis of this re
gional organization of Indepen
dent loggers, sawmill operators,
remanufacturers and distributors.
LEAVES FOR EUROPE ...... .
Prineville, June 24 Leslie
J. Aldrich, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Aldrich of this city and
member of the class of 1945 of the
Crook county high school, left
Hartford, Conn., Tuesday on a
chartered plane for Europe as a
member of a Youth Argosy
group.
Mrs. Aldrich, the young man's
mother, said yesterday that her
son was one of 250 students from
states of this nation who are leav
ing this ; week to spend three
months in Europe on special edu
cation missions. Mrs. Aldrich said
the chartered planes are traveling
by way of New Foundland to
Ireland.
The local student will fly from
Ireland to Norway where he will
take a special course In public
relations at the University of
Oslo. Afterward he will visit In
Denmark and the British zone In
occupied Germany: Thence he
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will go to Le Havre, France,
where he will sail to Montreal,
Canada.
Young Aldrich 6pent the years
1946 and 1947 in the army. He
has been a student the past two
years in pre-englneering at Wil
lamette university.
Maryland Casualty Company
of Baltimore, In the SUte of Miryltnd. for
the year ended December SI. 1948. made to
Ute insurance commuuoner OI uw bum oi
Oregon, puruiuant to .aw:
Income
Net prmlumi received 957,353,615.06
Total kitereit, dividend and
real estate income 3,505,013.16
Income Xrom other sources.. ieo.34S.8ft
Total Income 60. 038,875.69
Disbursements .
Net amount paid for lowi22.300,097.B3
Loss adjustment expenses.-. 4,303,794.84
Underwriting expenses 30,700,433.68
Dividends paid to stockhold
ers ( Cash l, 197. 782. &l; 1,197,783.61
Dividends ptid or credited to '
policyholders none
All other expenditures (In
cluding Investment ex-
' peases $02,529.91 3,301,457.99
: Total disbursements 50.6B3,5&S.0S
i , AdmHte Assets
Value of real estate owned
(market value $ 3,040,337.86
Loans on mortgages and col
lateral, etc. 3,034,359.89
Value ot bonds owned (amor
tizcdl 58,566,367.08
Value of stocks owned (mar
ket value! 14,550,363.00
Cash In banks and on hand- 9,476,310.13
Premiums In course of collec
tion written since Septem
ber 30. 1948 - 0.388.967.10
Interest and rents due and
accrued 1S6.626.83
Other assets (net) 606,786.06
Total admitted Assets SB7,718,B05.73
Liabilities, Surplus and Other Fundi
Total unpaid claims $35,686,316.06
jmimmea iou aajunmcm ex-
neiute for unn&id claims 1.316.044.66
Total unearned premiums 26,538,064.80
AU Diner jibohiucs a, riz, sao.ua
. Tnlil liahllltlPM. rnt fan.
Ital $71,385,663-60
capital pnio up a.ajo.iu.uu
Reserve (or contingencies 3.570,336.08
Unaislzned funds ( surplus ) 18,334,864.04
Surplus as regards pollcy
. holders $36,433,243.13
Total $97,718,905.73
Business In Oregon for the Year
Net premiums received . $ 408,256.97
nt tosses paia
)iviarnai pnia
Policyholders
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New Prineville
Chief Approved
Prineville, June 24 Stuart
Sheik, chairman ot the police
committee ot the Prineville city
council, announced yeste r d a y
that Oliver P. Reeve of Portland
had been unanimously approved
as the successor to fcarl naw,
chief of police here. Shaw recent
ly tendered his resignation.
Reeve, 41 and for eight years
assistant police chief at North
Bend, was later for five years
senior inspector for the Oregon
liquor control commission. He
recently has been a deputy con
stable in Multnomah county.
Durlne world war No. II he serv
ed as a chief petty officer for 27
months in the navy.
Reeve will assume his new du
ties on July 1. Shaw, who had
served as Prineville police chief
for a year, has not announced
his intentions for the future.
Contour farming, according to
one farmer, is farming around
the hill instead of over it.
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