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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1949
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POWER SALE PREFERENCES
A provision of the law under which the Bonneville power
administration operates requires that the power it markets
be made available first to municipalities, cooperatives and
other publicly owned utility systems. Some experts argue
that Dr. Raver's interpretation of this clause and his actions
under it are not justified. However, there it stands and even
assuming that Raver is wrong and the critics right there will
be no change in Bonneville's procedures under it until a court
or the congress orders otherwise.
Recently Dr. Raver announced that in 1950 he was reducing
deliveries of kilowatts to the five major private utilities now
receiving Bonneville power. They get it under short term
contracts since Raver will make none for long periods and
he has said that he may cut out the private utilities altogether
in 1951. The power of which the private utilities will be de
prived Raver will turn over to the publicly owned systems.
When we say that Raver is reducing deliveries to the pri
vate companies in 1950 and may cut them out altogether in
1951 we are using the words in which the news was given out
Actually, of course, the power is not taken from the compan
ies but from their customers, actual and potential. They are
the ones who really suffer and Raver's ability to make them
suffer is to be remembered when CVA advocates protest that
under the CVA bill (S. 1645) no electric utility may be taken
over by condemnation. '
On every side we see the interior department, of which
Bonneville is a bureau, doing its best to prevent private util
ity expansion. Now we see Bonneville putting a squeeze pn
private utility customers by making it impossible, or at least
difficult, for the utilities serving them to make deliveries of
kilowatts. Is it not quite clear that here conditions are being
developed that will lead those customers to ask for Bonneville
service or the utilities themselves to throw in the sponge?
Oh, no. There's no condemnation possible under the CVA
bill but there are brutal ways of destroying private investment.
WASHINGTON COLUMN
ataa
The preference given federal agencies, states and electric
cooperatives in the disposition of federally produced power,
such as Raver is enforcing in his Bonneville sales, is develop
ing a cruel and, at the same time, almost funny situation on
the Missouri. Under the Pick-Sloan plan important projects
are going forward in both North and South Dakota for the!
development of flood control, power and reclamation. Just
next to these states, to the south, is Nebraska and Nebraska is
wholly given over to public power. As a public power state
Nebraska claims first rights in this power produced in the
two Dakotas though there is a home market for it through the
private utilities in the two states.
Is there justification for a law out of which such results
can flow?
The Pendleton East Oregonian says that :
McNary dam will generate a million kilowatts ol firm
power, acording to the engineer who is btailding it. Chiet
Joseph darn is also underway and is nearby. Grand Coulee,
the largest in the world, is in operation. There are to be four
dams on the lower Snake and a giant dam at Hell's canvon.
This inland district is to be the center of the greatest electric
supply in the civilized world.
All this power development told about by the Pendleton pa
per is coming without any CVA. As the East Oregonian has
been about the only supporter of the CVA idea in Oregon we
wonder if it now feels that an authority is needed to bring
about necessary power development.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From Thp Bulletin Files
Thirty Years Ago
(Dec. 9, 1919)
Ten inches of snow covered the
ground in Bend today, with the
storm still in progress at noon.
Roads were almost impassable
for motor vehicles. Last night's
minimum temperature was seven
ut'iuw zero.
Some 500 deer and antelote are
killed annually in central Oregon
out of season, A. J. Moore, dis
trict attarney, believes. He has
urged the appointment of paid
game wardens for the area.
Predictions that the world will
end on December 16, 1919, are
absurd, declares H. C. Hartranft,
Bend pastor. He has made a close
study of prophesies of the scrip
tures and believes the world's end
is still 1000 years distant.
Man must learn
himself from radiation before the
successful development of atomic
energy can be accomplished.
Fremont Journal
Note: The Fremont party 106 year, aire
today was morinir south from the uppe
Deschutes country "through aplendid pirn
forests." after crowing the Little
chutes on Dec 8, 1843.
December 9. The trail leads
always through splendid pine for-
ipsts. Crossing dividing grounds
by a very fine road, we descended
very gently towards the south.
The weather was pleasant, and
we halted late. The soil was very
much like that of yesterday; and
on me sunace of a hill, near our
encampment, were displayed beds
of pumice stone; but the soil pro
duced no grass, and again the
animals fared badly.
(To be continued.)
ALARM ANSWERED
Firemen were called Wednes
day at 2:20 p.m. to the home of
A. H. Marshall, 245 Newport,
where smoke in the basement
caused alarm. No fire was discovered.
Rv IVihikIiw Iju-M-n
1NEA Staff Correspondent)
WashlnRton NEA ) America
has received its first reverse
Marshall plan aid. Last spring
the economic cooperation admin
istration brought JO young Hutch
farmers to the U. S. to learn
American farming methods. Now
that rhey are on their way home,
it appears that they contributed
more to U, S. farming than they
are taking away with them.
They all spent the summer and
fall oii various farms all over the
country, working and studying.
Here are some of the (hlngs they
left behind.
In the state of Washington a
group of fruit farmers were
shown how to trim and coax newly-planted
trees so that when
they begin bearing fruit limbs,
are stronger and they have a
more desirable shape.
General American practice Is to
plant them and Just let them
grow until they are ready to bear.
In the state of Maine one of the
young Dutch farmers showed a
farmer how to ger a bigger yield
by planting potatoes closer to
gether. In Illinois a group of farmers
was given a demonstration on
how to string a new wire fence
with a tractor, saving the pur
chase of special machinery for
that purpose.
In Wisconsin the farmers In
one neighborhood learned how to
store manure to get several
times more efficiency out of It
when it Is used as fertilizer.
Whenever It was discovered
that one of the Dutch farmers
was in an area, he suddenly was
in great demand as a sneaker be
fore farm groups. Mostly the
voting visiting agriculturists were
asked to talk abour farming
methods in Holland. They wil
lingly obliged.
However, there was plenty of
learnlm; on the part of the Dutch
men, they admitted, when fhey
assembled at ECA headquarters
just before starting the trip home.
Among the things that impressed
them most was the excellent san
itation maintained on the dairy
farms of Wisconsin, the efficient
packaging and handling methods
employed by almost all U. S.
farmers, the. use of money-saving
machinery and the new varieties
of vegetables and iruits wmcn
farm research is constantly producing.
No. 1 on the list of impressions
they are taking back with them
is how hard U. S. farmers work.
C M. Van Beekom, one of the 30.
explains: "Before we came here
we had heard of the fine clothes.
fine cars and fine homes all Amer
ican farmers had. Now we have
discovered how hard thev work
for such things. During harvest
American farmers work Sundays,
and holidays. Dutch farmers
never work on these days, regard
les of harvest's, and Americans
work many more hours in the
day, every day, than we do back
home."
All 30 of the group agreed that
the automobile made the most
difference in a comparison of gen
eral farm living conditions in Hol
land and America. Willom Plasier
says: "All American farmers have
some kind of a car. This means
they can get into the city and
town as often as they want. It
practically makes them city peo
ple. In my country, where prac
tically no farmers have automo
biles, it is a rare occasion to get
off the farm."
On the matter of American
farmers' daughters they were also
awed. Because of their rosier
natural complexions in the morn
ing the Dutch lads preferred to
see the lasses of their own coun
try at that part of the day. But
in the evening, they agmerf, they
liked to look at the American
girls better, "with their drug store
complexions."
The "loot" they planned to take
back with them Included clout
ing, clgiirets, portable radios and
milk-shake machines.
Bridges Defense Confident
Bui State Promises Surprise
Notrt Tti f ..Howl it U iM.tr h aunt mar
.ttw th iltrv-tom-ntM In .!. I',! Hnv
vfks of th n t iai trial of lUrrr ltritlgtM,
I I'lO lutiualmr l..ir. Th
! umrrnriifiH U ullt'iii .tn.it .t .miv that
I Hri.lt. . a iMtmi'MitUl a mi ly u
ami mat AUauraiiaii-oot n lamtr iraavr
litsl wtifn It .IriiKtl lit? u a fommuiiut
at KU naturaliaatiott livaiitm In 1144,
Out on the Farm
By Ilk S. Grant
Dec. 9 -Snow can cover every
thing with a fleecy blanket In
such a little while. Then with a
little sunshine, it mny be gone.
The Young Man has been look
ing in the skies every morning
and hoping the snow would come.
It just doesn't seem like Christ
mas without It.
This morning on the way to
town, the road was dry, the skies
were blue directly overhead, and
a low bank of clouds hid the
mountains. Then suddenly the all
was filled with downy crystals.
And Just as suddenly, the sun
came out and dispelled the magic.
With imperfect memory and
the common tendency to glamor
ize the past, I Insist that when I
was a child, it always snowed for
at least two weeks before Christ
mas. ICverything was a white
fairyland, sprinkled with silver
spangles. The snow would pack
down on the streets, and a Hist a I
carrier, John C Todd, delivered
Christmas mail in a horse-drawn
sleigh. Bells on the horse's neck
tinkled merrily, as the cutter glid
ed along through the quiet
streets.
COLLECTIONS GOOD
Portland. Dec. 9 tut Eighty per
cent of Multnomah county's taxes
have been paid, but the sheriff's
office said today the &25.514.0S4
collected already exceeds any
other tax quarter in history-
Another S5.0S4.225 remains to
be collected on the 1949-50 taxroll,
the office noted.
On the bright side for some
taxpayers, the office said nearly
$3,000 had been mailed back to
pn perty owners who overpaid
their taxes.
Ily lanic C. Aittlertion
(United I'm. Staff Correspondent)
San Francisco, Deo. 0 tut F.
Joseph lVmohue, chief govern
ment prosecutor in the commu
nist perjury-conspiracy trial of
CIO longshore leader Harry
Bridges, said today he soon will
call a "big gun" surprise witness.
Ponohuc said he had one more
minor witness, a San Francisco
businessman, to testify today on
what he termed the "Schomaker
phase" of the case, then would
spring the surprise witness.
"The defense would go crazy If
they knew who our next big wit
ness Is," he said.
But the defense was Just ns
confident that the trial was going
well for them in this, its third
week, as Donnhue was confident
in his prosecution case.
HrlilgcH Confident
The 56-year-old Bridges himself
said he could see "nothing new"
in the evidence produced so far
by the government in Its effort
to prove he perjured himself at
his naturalization hearing in 1945
when he denied he ever was or
hail been a communist.
"As far as' the main points are
concerned, everything points to a
fourth 'frameup'," the chief of
75.1X10 west coast longshoremen
said, referring to the govern
ment's unsuccessful efforts In the
past to deport him. "It's the same
old reasons, same old Issues,
same old stuff threats and in
timidations." Vincent Halllnan, fiery attor
ney whose clashes with District
Judge Ceorge B. Harris marked
the early days of the trial, said
"all" the government has produc
ed so far is testimony by John
Hospital Donors
The Central Oregon HosplUilu
foundation today announced the
names of M additional persons
and groups Ihut have completed
puynu-nts of pledge to the Me
morial hiMpllal iMiipulgn. Some
of the diinoiH aio ncison who
contributed lo the second cam
paign. iNamcR of the Illinois, us
they will appeal- on the Memorial
K. Allen School Student
If. (Slwes) Si-homaker, huskv ex
waterfront worker and admit ted
cxcominunlsl who said Bridges
Joined the party In 1!:W.
"All they have is Schomaker'a
stalemenl that Bridges signed
ami received a party honk," 1 Inlll
nan said. "He Is entirely dlscVed-
lied. The other thing ho dealt I hospital rosier, follow
., .... n ,miiK.
Hut Ponohuc, spuelal assistant
I'.S. attorney general, said pros
pects are "excellent" for proving
the state's case against Bridges
and two of his union aides, J, it.
KolH'itson and Henry Schmidt,
accused of conspiring to back
up Bridges' nun communist avow
al. Bridges. Holiertsiin and Schmidt
face prison term of up to seven
years and fines of SKiiHH) ( con
victed, while the 1LAVU chief can
be deported to his native Aus
tralia If found guilty.
IIF.NI) MAN NAMK1
Portland, Dec. 9 lleorge
Griffls, Portland, promotion man
ager of The Oregonian, has been
elected president of the Oregon
Advertising club, succeeding Lau
rie K. Boss. Frank Loggan, of
radio station KLIN D, Bend. Ore.,
wus named second vice-president.
Bulletin Classifieds Bring Result
SUITS -
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Body
Bernard V. Anderson
Mis. J, F. Arnold
Bend Furniture company
Bend Junior Civic league
Jack and Janlceo Duipco
licorgtf H. Brewster
Mrs. I-ay L. Catlln
Central Oregon Practlcul Nurs
es association
N. K Cioiui
1 lelen M. Dai-ey
Paul Dletrlt-k
Mrs. Lloyd Fraslei-
William I), (iiiudlu
Ada Hellberg
Bruce and Betty Market!
Mr. anil Mrs. Ci-orgc W, Meyers
Oregon Slate Employee i'imso'
clallnu .
M. M. Oronu
Leonard H. Peters
Pine Forest Orange
(i. Salisbury
T. D. Sexton
Sterling M. Sorenson
Frances B, Thompson
JOINS HANK KTAI F
Redmond. Dec. 0 Hoy Car
penter, miiniiccr of the Ifedmnnd
branch of the I'. S. National hank.
has announced that Barney I'll-
I. ii- linu iiiliieil tin, hiilllf Mhlff llllll
will bo 111 chai'iie of the nolo tie-
inrimeni. ruger come iroin inir
lend iilflie lii Portland, where ho
upiiu flilef I'lnt'lf Thin addition
wiin made following the death of
Harry lillliertson, wno was iimnih
taut malinger. Clement Croghan
l.. tl. okiktlulmil nuiiuiucr mill
Jim Keller Is In charge of the loan
leiartnient,
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PACT APPROVED
The Hague. The Netherlands,
Dec. 9 itPi The lower house today
approved by a 71 to 29 vote the
pact transferring sovereignty to
the republic of Indosenia next
Jan. 1.
The vote was five more than
the necessary two thirds.
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DAY
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at
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1 Corner Wall and Franklin
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