THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON
WEpNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1949
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THE BEND BULLETIN
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WE HOPE YOU LIKE IT, TOO
Pride and relief are minified as we present The Bulletin's
annual county fair edition today. Each, we think, is readily
explained. We are proud because this issue is not only con
siderably larger than any of its predecessors but because it
also constitutes a more inclusive picture of the resources and
progress of the central Oregon country D,eschutes, Jefferson
and Crook counties. Its scope is wider and it is more effective
ly illustrated.
Preparation for this annual edition has been in process
through the summer months. In addition to the day-by-day
task of newspaper production, there has been the assembling
and digesting of information for the wide range of special
articles, there has been the taking of any number of photo
graphs and the careful selection from these of the ones es
pecially worthy of reproduction to supplement the subject
matter of today's issue. Composing and press departments, as
well as news and advertising rooms have been unusually busy
places.
Now the job is done and there is the natural relief that fol
lows completion of a long-drawn, exacting task. We like to
think that it has been worth while but we shall leave final
judgment as to this to our readers.
NOT A POLICE PROJECT
Readers of Portland papers, whether residents of Mult
nomah county or not, have been shocked to learn of the man
ner in which official pressure has been brought to bear in
promoting the sale of advertising space in a "Sheriff's Year
book". The sheriff's own endorsement gave solicitors all the
sales arguments they needed and the book, which has no
value whatever as an advertising medium, was nevertheless
heavily used for the ostensible purpose of advertising.
Few of the space buyers, however, could have been so in
experienced as to suppose that they were getting value in
this manner; few could have been unaware that, in this indi
rect way, they were being asked for a donation. Most must
have realized that here was opportunity, not to advertise,
but to find favor in the sheriff's eyes. Presumably his dis
favor was the alternative and this, clearly, was something
which it was well to avoid. So the space was sold.
A racket, of course, but, after all, Multnomah county's
racket, and we had not intended to refer to it. But then, in a
promotion which has been conducted in Bend, there came to
be used claims of official endorsement, again the chief sales
argument of a solicitor who was offering display sfjace in a
traffic booklet and who allowed his prospects to believe that
he was working hand in glove with the city's police.
Let us emphasize at once that no written endorsement was'
given here. Passive approval was all, given when the city
commission agreed to accept 3,000 copies of the booklet for
distribution through the police. But no written sanction was
needed; the man used the telephone. Nor was more than
passivity required in the approval ; the man supplied the em
phasis. Typically, prospects were told that "We are putting
. this out for the police department" and "it will be used in the
schools in safety education", after which would' come the
suggestion that the prospect buy space. Why the police should
be interested in the sale of advertisirfg was not explained, nor
did the voice elaborate on the function of paid display miscel
lany'in teaching traffic safety.
The Chamber of Commerce committee on advertising, it
should be observed, had withheld approval when it passed on
the promotion and had so advised the general membership
Some receiving calls purchased, nevertheless. One who did not
was influenced chiefly, he said, by the words which same to
him over the telephone. "This is of the police
department", the caller announced, giving his name (omitted
here) before going into his sales talk. The prospect didn't
quite like the approach and thought it over for a few days and
presently was reading in Portland papers of pressure brought
by the sheriff in that city to stimulate yearbook space buying.
It made him wonder. So he checked on the name given by his
caller. There was no such person on the Bend force.
It is largely because of the occurrence just related that we
have presented this account. The reported statement, so easily
disproved, should,- we think, discredit other claims of police
connection or interest which were made in the solicitation
ftnd denied at police headquarters. r.
In brief, the police department did not sponsor the sales
campaign but its name was used to put over the campaign
a dubious bit of business which should not be forgotten. The
memory may be useful some day in dealing with other promotions.
WASHINGTON COLUMN
umimiuiiiuiHHMiutu
By lVtT Kdstut
(NKA W ahlnulin l'iirmionK'ntl
Washington INEA ) Foreign
pressure to get the United States
to Increase the price of gold is
making no headway. The whole
Idea is generally regarded here
as the wackiest thing since Brit
ish Foreign minister Ernest Bev
in popped oft at a trades union
meeting a couple ot years ago,
suggesting that the United States
redistribute the gold in Fort
Knox, Itee.
The theory behind the gold
price drive is briefly this: The
United States now, buys all newly
mined gold offered at $35 a fine
ounce. In the U-year period, 1937
through 1948, the U.S. bought
$12,500,000,000 worth of gold To
tal world production in this pe
riod, outside of Russia, was S12,
800.OCO.000. The U.S. now holds
two-thirds of all the world's gold
S24.t)00.000.000 out of $37,000,-
000.000 worth.
Most of the pressure for In
creasing U.S. gold prices comes
from South Africa. For the last
15 years. South Africa has been
selling the U.S. from $400,000,000
to $500,000,000 worth of gold a
year. But even South Africa has
been running short of dollars. So
her finance minister, Dr. Nicholas
C. Havenga, has been visiting
tne capitals oi turope, trying to
win converts to his scheme to
have the U.S. increase the price
of gold.
One of the principal arguments
used Is that there has been no
increase in the price of gold since
1934. Since then the price of near
ly everything else has advanced.
Therefore it is said that the price
of gold Is out of line with other
prices.
in theory. It the United States
raised the price of gold from $35
to say $55 or $70 a fine ounce,
it would give South Africa and
Great Britain more dollars with
which to buy more goods in
America. Also, it would increase
the value of Britain's dwindling
gold reserve. This would presum
ably enable the British to stave
off disaster a little bit longer,
strengthening hope for Improved
conditions, some day. somehow.
These are what might be called
the short-term advantages of hav
ing the United States increase
the price of gold, it is a slick
financial trick to help the Brit
ish out of another bad hole. But
anyone who takes a long-range
view of the situation can see in
it only a business that might do
the rest of the world great harm,
Once the. price of gold was
raised artificially, it would be
practically impossible to get it
down again. The United' States
would be stuck with this high
price forever and ever
Net effect of a rise in gold
prices would be another gift by
the United Slates to the ritltlsh.
The U.S. now buvs about $700,
000,000 worth of gold from Brit
ish dominions every year. Dou
bling the price would double the
amount. It would be a plain sub
sidy. There Is no reason why the
U.S. should buy more gold, or
pay more for It.
It has been argued that rais
ing the price of gold would en
able the United Slates to reap a
handsome profit on the nearly
$5,000,000,000 worth of gold now
burled at Fort Knox. Doubling
the price would make the value
$50,000,000,000.
But what good would that be?
If the gold reserve were given
this new high value and used to
back up a new issue of currency
for paying off the public debt,
the effect would be highly infla
tionary. It would create tremen
dous credit control problems Just
at a time when every effort has
been made to reduce the amount
of money in circulation. It would
endanger the value of $250,000.
000.000 worth of U.S. bonds now
held by private citizens and all
their other investments.
What the whole gold price
drive seems to add up to is a
stall or a counter movement
against the demand that the Brit
ish revalue the pound sterling.
They would no doubt like to find
some way to shove the bill for
that on the American taxpayer,
too.
Out on the Farm
lly IU S. Grant
Redmond Legion
Plans Installation
William AtLee. Bend, district
commander of the American Le
gion, will be a special guest of
Ray Johnson Kst No. 44. Red
mond, when new officers are in
stalled Thursday at 8 p.m. in the
Redmond grange hall. Vice-district
commander Langston Fisher.
Madras, also will be present.
The officers will be installed i
bv Robert Tull. past commander.;
Thev are: J. W. McDowell, com-j
marider; Lawrence Wetherell.
first vice-commander: O. W. !
Primm, second vice-commander:
Marion Taylor, chaplain; Joe
Tuckfield, sergeant-at-arms; John
Wangler. service officer; Pharis
Timpy, adjutant, and Sidney Tay
lor, historian. Carl Degner is re
tiring commander.
Members of the auxiliary have
been invited to attend the installation.
Aug. 21 There was a hrtiutl
ful brown egg In the hen house
last night. It must have been a
pullet egg, the first effort of one
of the young chickens. Tho
Young Man poured pellets into
the feeding tiny with a generous
hand, hoping that a hearty meal
would encourage more of the hens
to pay their board bill.
The chief set the sprinkler sys
tem going in the pasture, while I
got dinner. There "wasn't a thing
in the house," but living on the
land makes one resourceful, and
It's a challenge to "make a fine
dinner out of nothing," as my ma
gician friend always says.
There was some sliced bacon In
the refrigerator, and it turned
out to be quite a dish. I made
"bacon birds," a neat trick to have
up your sleeve in ease company
drops in at meal time and there's
no meat. Make your favorite
bread dressing, form in small rolls
and wind half slices of bacon
around them. Bake at about 375
degrees until bacon is browned.
For the three of us, I used the
following ingredients for the
dressing: 3 cups fresh bread
cubes, 1 teaspoon sage, ! tea
spoon salt. ! teaspoon pepper,
dash of each celery salt and gar
lie salt, 2 tablespoons chopped
onion. 1 tablespoon water, 1 egg,
1 tablespoon melted butter. Mix
seasonings with onion and bread.
Beat egg with water until light
and thick, mix in and add butter,
tossing lightly. This amount
made six small rolls.
Since I had the oven hot. I
made a batch of bran muffins,
and when they came out, I had a
cake, made from packaged mix.
ready to go In. The rest of the
meal came out of the garden.
There were mashed rutahaims.
steamed zucchini and leaf-lettuce
salad. For a quick dressing,
measure the following into a
small Jar that has a screw-top lid:
3 tablespoons salad oil, 3 table
spoons vinegar; 1 tablesiwon su
gar. l teason pupnrel mus
tard, teas()oon paprika, tea
spoon salt, a pinch of whole cel
ery seeds and a dash of garlic
salt. Shake well and pour over
salad greens,
After dinner, the Young Man
and I wr-nt to the community fair
at Ihe grange hall in our neigh
borhood. The mainniolh unions
displayed there made me green
with envy. Calico Farm's second
best zucchini won a blue ribbon,
though, and llu minimum lower
arrangement by Yours Truly won
second place. It was alfalfa blos
soms, wild daisies from the illicit
bank and two little clumps of blos
soms from the bcgonln plant. The
container Is one of my treasures.
It's a tiny teapot hand painted by
my mother. Fore and aft, It In
decorated with a delicate oriental
scene, with the sacred Mount
Fujiyama in the distance.
Oh, yes. Did I forget to men
tion the first-place winner? It
was an exquisite little arrange
ment of cnl-faccd violas, in a
pitcher yellow as butter and only
an inch tall. Mrs. F. W, Wells was
the artist.
IIOUNIMT HTAKTS
I 1'endlelon, Aug. !M '"'
; sands of vlsllors were arriving
in Pendleton today for four days
of bronco burning, parades, and
colcbrailnit that goes Into the an
nual I'euilletun round-up.
With fall' iiiul warmer weather
predicted Inditv In the eowhoy
lown, visitors filled all hotel ninl
motel accomiiiodallotiN, lriivin
only a few rooms In piivai,.
homes open. The Indiana. mmiIiiI
their own Mousing plntilenm liv
luting along their tcopcm ninl
setting up an Indian village mi
Out round up grounds.
Bulletin Classifieds firing Results
Electrical
Wiring
Commercial and Domestic
CONTRACTING
No Job too large or too mull.
Kittlnmtm liladly Given
Deschutes Electric
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KM Wall SU Phone 278
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HOUSE GETS PICKED ON
Fort Worth, Tex. 'ID E. It.
Sailing wonders what's going to
happen to his house next year.
Three times now, once each year,
for tlfc past three season:, cars
have collided in front of his house
and smashed into it.
Others Say
TOO MUCH WELFARE STATfc
IN ISA
(Oregon Statesman)
About the strangest comment
we have read respecting Britain's
precarious financial situation, was
that of Foreign minister Bevin in
the course of a debate in the
house of commons. He put the
blame for Britain's plight to the
adoption of the "welfare state"
for social security in the United
States. He mentioned in particu
lar our payment of high support
prices for farm products, our
"high" (American labor will en
joy this) unemployment insur
ance allowances and high sick
payments. He was concerned
also over the possibility of our go
ing in for an expensive health in
surance program.
Coming from a minister in a
government which has gone
whole hog for cradle-to-grave se
curity this indeed is something.
Bevin insists that the Marshall
plan aid must not be curtailed but
must be carried on to the "final
fruition of European coopera
tion." America, in other Words,
should continue to pick Up the
check, even at the expense of
clipping the benefits for its farm
ers, the unemployed and the sick.
That runs into immediate conflict
with the home folk who complain
that we have billions for Europe
but do not take proper care of our
own aged and infirm. Some
thing's wrong somewhere.
. The Wall Street Journal sums
it up: "We can luxuriate in but
one welfare state at a time. Some
body in this case the United
States must keep solvent so as
to be able to foot the bills.'
Wait until the congressmen
hear from home about this.
CHARON DIDN'T COLLECT
Washington 'IP) Excavations
in Egyptian tombs have uncover
ed mummies with coins in their
hands, the Egyptian embassy re
ports. The tombs date from Ro
man times, when it was believed
,lnnl U...J 1 I U .
r who ferried them across the River
I Styx.
Bennett's Machine Shop
1114 Roosevelt Ave.
Bend, Ore.
Phone 1132
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AUTO TRUCK TRACTOR REPAIRS '
Crankshaft 'Grinding, also Grind Shaft in Car
MOTOR REBUILDING
Welding Electric and Acetylene
HEAVY EQUIPMENT REPAIR
SCHOOL
ore ram
m Tha world waited
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We've got it
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In 5 colors: blue,
maroon, gray,
black or brown.
Men's styles . . . and
women's, too. Come
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yourself to Water
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Cabinet Type 59c
Zipper type 98c
Zipper Note
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Others
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16-color Crayola. 19c
24-color Crayoncx 35c
6-colorec! Pencils 35c
12-colored Pencils 65c
Pee-Chee Portfolio 1 0c
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Wood Rulers
Metal Edge 10c
Compass 10c
Protractors 10c
Composition
Books 15c
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Index Cards . 15c
Art Gum Erasers.. 5c
Le Pages
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the County Fair
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