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THE BEND BULLETIN,' BEND,. OREGON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 194?
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ACCENTUATING THE MYSTERY
The Portland story of a "mysterious flying object", re
ported by air line pilots and. prominently headlined, turns out
to have a little more foundation in fact than the hundreds of
flying saucer yarns that have preceeded it but only a little
more. The pilots apparently had seen lights, as they claimed,
but the lights were flares on Mt. Hood and the Crag Rats who
set them, while able mountaineers, faster, we are told, than
average humans in ascending and descending alpine slopes,
are still hardly to be classified as "flying objects". Imagina
tion, as in the many reports and rumors of the kind that have
clamored for attention in recent years, was still the chief
factor.
An odd aspect of this sort of thing is the manner in
which the individual's imaginings may be reflected in mass
imaginings. So, the report of a peculiar incident is bound to be
followed by other reports, subconsciously confirming, but
often in varying details denying, the original concept. And
so, in the days that followed since the pilots saw lights on a
mountainside and filled in the space between the lights with
a non-existent "flying object", other people have been seeing
things in various places. The reports, of course, feature lights,
for it was lights that the first witnesses had reported. Nat
urally the new imaginings have followed the pattern.
Still, with all the help that is being given, the story is dying
down. It is no longer receiving the display emphasis that was
at first acorded it Presently it will be dropped and then, in
deed, it will be well on its way to being forgotten.
That it should be is only natural for, after all, it wasn't
much of a story. Still, it is too bad that it cannot be treasured
as a memory to be brought forth to dispel credulity when the
next tall tale makes its appearance. There will be opportunity
. for such use, you may be sure.
We have spoken of imagination in the development of the
incident There was another factor that should not be over
lookedthe unintelligent and unwarranted attitude taken
by the military in the investigation of the affair. In brief, the
airline pilots making the report were "ordered" not to talk to
reporters, according to the news story used by The Oregonian.
If this were so, and there is no reason at hand for doubting
it the investigators chose the best method which could have
been employed for suggesting that here was something of the
utmost importance, something so alarming that the people
must be spared knowledge of it or so vital that no chance
must be taken of it coming to the attention of possible
enemies. The investigators, it is evident could benefit from
a short course in public relations.
There is more to it than this, however. The military is as
suming authority which it has no right to assume when it
seeks to abrogate the right of free speech. An order of the
kind could, with propriety, be given to military personnel;
beyond that, there is neither propriety nor right It is censor
ship, no less, something to which America, happily, has not
yet come except in time of war. And the war is over.
In case the officers who sought to ring down the sound
proof curtain in Portland have overlooked this fact they
should be reminded with emphasis.
Out on the Farm
By Ila 8. Grant
Aug. 4 Cooler weather gave i
us a new louse on life, ami Inst '
night 1 lelt like cooking a liinner ,
for the first time this week. It's
our policy to use up what's on
hand until grocery-buying day, j
so I got busy reading all the j
recipe books to get an idea fori
concocting something out of a '
No. h can of crab meat. - I
I found a recipe that was given ;
to me by my mother, and had ;
been handed down to her. It cull-
ed for "a pint of fresh shrimps
and a gill of cream,' among other
things. After maKlng substitu
tions and revisions. I came up
with a casserole dish that was a
more delicate shade of pink than
sea coral, and tasty enough for
company, any day. j
I measured things as I went, so
Td know how to do It again if we
liked U. This is "the procedure: !
Melt 14 tablespoons of butter
in an iron skillet. Add cup of
finely diced onion, and saute
lightly, not letting the onion
brown. Then add the shredded
crab meat (about 1 cup) and V i
cup of tomato catsup, season with
Mi teaspoon salt and a dash ofi
each celery salt and black pepper '
and add three cups of hot cooked
rice and H cup cream. It's ready i
to serve when it's heated through,
but since I was using the oven ;
anyway, I put the mixture In a
greased casserole and let it hakej
along with a pan of bran muffins.
While they were baking, I made a 1
salad of leaf lettuce from the;
garden, and a pitcher of Ice tea. j
The casserole dish makes six i
generous servings, but the three j
of us ate it all. ,
I always cook too much rice, i
but there are lots of ways to use
up what is left. For a delicious,
dessert, whip about 1 cup of
thick cream, sweeten and flavor j
to taste, and fold in about two '
cups of cooked, cooled rice and :
one small can of drained crushed
pineapple. Top each serving with
a maraschino cherry.
TV A INDEX LOWEST
One of the main arguments in recent use by administration
spokesmen for a Columbia valley authority has been that the
northwest needs it to provide electric power, which will pro
vide employment, which will provide prosperity. In all of
these things, the valley authority boys would have us believe,
the Pacific northwest is sadly deficient. They would have us
believe, too, that only through a CVA can these things come
to us. ,
They make us very weary. The Pacific northwest, it so
happens, is a part of the Pacific coast, one of the most nros-
perous sections of the country. Federal tax figures tell the
story. Here the average family payment to the U. S. treasury
is $1,047. This is an index of ability to pay, for much of feder
al taxation is keyed on size of income (a sliding scale for
this) , on purchase of luxuries and on amusements, the volume
of-which is in close relation to standards of living. Only in the
east north central group of states, where federal taxation
averages $1,338 a family, and in the middle Atlantic states,
$1,555, is the Pacific average exceeded.
In comparison, the states which comprise the greater part
of the TVA, model for the Columbia valley authority, have
the lowest average federal tax in the whole United States. In
these TVA states the payment per family is ?525, slightly
more than half the average in the Pacific states.
So that is the kind' of prosperity that valley authorities
bring. Not very tempting, is it? The northwest, it seems to
us, can do nicely without one.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Fllesj
THIRTY YEARS AGO
(August 4, 1919)
In preparation lor the construc
tion of a road to Klk lake by the
way of bparks lake, William
Spioat of tue .Deschutes national
forest has been authorized to
start a location survey.
Contracts for tne construction
of The Ualies-CalUornta highway
from Bend to the north county
line will be received by the state
highway commission ut Its meet
ing this week. .
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Thorn of Sil
ver lake were visitors in Bend
today. .
Approximately 11,000 acres
have been added to the resources
of northern Dake county tnrougn
the drying up of Silver Jake.
Squatters are erecting cabins on
land that was under water uuly a
lew years ago.
BOY RESCUED
Yosemite National Park. Cal'
Aug. 4 iU' Helicopter pilot Kay
Doming today brought back to
safely a San Francisco boy who
fractured his skull in a remote
mountain area of Yoscmilc park
lour days ago.
Doming ilew 12-year-old Ter
ence Hantaan, son of San Fran
cisco attorney Vincent Hallinan,
from Benson lake, 8,500 feet up in
the Siena Nevada mountains, to
While Wolf, a settlement in the
valley.
There the boy was transferred
from the plane to an ambulance
and rushed to Lewis memorial
hospital, 36 miles away.
Germans Demand
Stronger Beer
Hamburg, Germany IT Ger
man brewmasters, faced with a
declining market at home and
abroad, ara petitioning allied au
thorities for permission to put
some pre-war pep back Into their
beer.
German beer has come a long
way from the watery brew
turned out just after the war.
Last autumn's improved grain
supplies made it possible to in
crease its alcoholic strength to
75 per cent of the pre-war brew.
But Germans, and foreigners,
still are not drinking it in large
quantities.
British zone brewery directors
at a meeting in Dortmund, found
that "German consumption of
beer is way below pre-war stan
dard and lucre is no hope of bet
ter business in the near future."
The directors announced that
they were working at only 2T
per cent of capacity. They asked
the German economic council to
release another 350.000 tons of
grain to brew 350,000,000 gallons
of pcacc-lime quality beer.
One thing besides the quality
that keeps Germans from drink
ing beer is the price. Pre-war a
pint cost the equivalent of Ihree
American cents. Now it is 20.
Beer hall waiters no longer au
tomatically set a pint before a
newly-arrived customer with the
certainty that that's what he
wants. Now they wait until the
customer orders one,
Fossils Forty
Million Years
Old Discovered
By Kenneth Lamb , ;
(United Preu Staff Correspondent)
Eastend. Sask. HPi Four men
are digging at the edge of a ra
vine for bones that would turn
back the pages of history about ;
40.000.000 years. . j
They are searching for the fos-;
sils of animals that roamed thes
prairies after the great inland
sea which once covered the plains ;
had receded to the Gulf of Mexi
co. The party likely would unearth j
many bones of the titianothere, ;
an animal about the size of a cir
cus elephant and something like
a rhinoceros In appearance. i
The bone-hunters are L. Stern-'
berg, leader of the expedition : Al
lan Weare and R. Hornell, all of
the Royal Ontario Museum of
Palaeontology, Toronto, and Chris
Cochlan, Regina student.
They made camp near a ranch
house on the north bank of
Frenchman River. Close by are
deep ravines and coulees where
the party prospected exposures.
Expect Many I- Inds
Here Sternberg and his co
workers concentrated on the so
called Oligocene beds, in which
they would find traces of animals
which existed 40,000,000 years
ago. When exposed rock shows
more than a few bone fragments,
the men remove the earth from
above the rock layer and examine
it in detail.
They expect to find skulls and
jaws and numerous odd bones of
the titianothere and two types of
rhinoceros, one about the size of
a horse and another about the
size of a small pony.
Teeth and odd bones might
leave clues to wolves, cats, small
deer; giant pigs, rabbits, beaver,
oreodon (an extinct sheep-sized
animal) and the three-toed horse.
The horse, foreruner of today's
animal, then was the size of a
collie dog.
Because complete skeletons of
these animals have not been
found in Canada, the searchers
would consider their mission a
complete success if they unearth
ed a whole or even part of a skeleton.
Bones Chiseled Out
Large bones, when found In
hard rock, have to be chiseled out.
A margin of rock is left around
the specimen to protect It. Then
to preserve it, the bone Is shel
lacked, and first covered with rice
or tissue paper and hen with bur
lap strips dipped in plaster of
I'aris. t inally the bones are nack
ed In a box and sent to the mu
seum laboratory at Toronto,
where the fossils are removed
from the rock.
Small bones and teeth arc more
easily handled. They are simply
wrapped in paper and sent on
tneir way.
In Toronto, Ihe scattered bones
will be fitted and wired together
for exhibit.
After their search for mammal
bones In the Oligocene beds, the
fossil-collectors Intend to work
near Switt Current, Sask., where
earlier rocks were located. In
those sediments they hoped to
find traces of the earliest known
horse, about the size of a fox, the
rhlnocerous, rodents, Insect-eaters
and flesh-eaters.
Central and South America
have over 10,000 tree species; the
United States has about 800.
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USED FURNITURE
CLEARANCE SPECIALS
High Chair '6.85
Ivory Finished.
5-Piece Dinette Set '29.50
Light Oak.
Walnut Dining Table 19.50
Extension.
Odd Dining Chairs ., '6.75
In Walnut, Mahogany, Maple.
Tapestry Davenport ....... '24.50
Simmons Metal Bed '4.95
Walnut Bookcase '24.50
Adjustable Shrives.
Bendix Ironer : . '99.50
I'sed Only a Year, Guaranteed.
Easy Spin Dry Washer '74.50
Guaranteed, Cooks Like New.
2-PIECE SUITE
Large davenport, makes into a full size bed and
chair. In rich volour cover. Regular price, 2 pieces
$198.50 now only :
'148.85
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Fine mohair living room sulies davenport and chair.
Finest quality, made to sell at tiW.H0, now only
'199.95
. Thayer
Baby Carriages
Our entire stork now
marked down to
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priced from $19.95.
$24.75
Baby Cribs
In either white or na
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'19.95
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$135 Oil Burning . $98.50
Water Heater Fireside Chair
Full enamel, 30 gallon itae. Vrlour and tapelry uplioaterod.
'62.50 '48.85
$195 ' $244.50
Oil Burning Range Montag Electric Range
Full enameled range. A" '""'"''I. 3 "irfar. nulla and
deep-well cooker.
'89.95 s 198.50
$84.509x12 Regular $11.50 Square Yard
Axminster Rugs Broadloom Carpet
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ALL STEEL $17,75
Lawn Chair High Chairs
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and bench. Now
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'99.95
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'15.95 Nits Stand:... '4.95
.Maple I'lnUh
'16.50 Vanity Benches. '6.65
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'12.95 Bed Springs... '5.95
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'17.50 Bunk Beds ..... '4.85
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$349.50 Philco
11 cu. ft. Refrigerator
1919 model with large freezer locker, ad
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now
'299.50
Pottery Dinnerware
While petal pattern net for six. Less than
Vi price..
'14.98
'16.95 35-pc Dinnerware
.Sleiibenville pattern a wonderful value!
'4.49
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Chrome dinette set with red linen mlrallle top labia. chairs.
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'14.95
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Heavy duly, kIx . Ineh ( blades.
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