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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949
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WHO REMEMBERS "THE SCARLET TIDE"?
An article in the Oregon Journal's Sunday magazine recalls
the fact that the first moving picture striking at communism
was filmed here at Bend. "The Scarlet Tide' was the title
and those of us who were around about SO years ago remem
ber the taking of the picture and the company of actors and
actresses who participated.
Just what the plot was we cannot remember but we do
recall that there was a knock down light between two char
acters out in the timber and that there were interior scenes
done in the home of H. E. Allen, then assistant manager in
the Brooks-Scanlon office.
One prize boner was permitted to get into the picture. This
was to leave the name of The Shevlin-Hixon Company on an
engine that came down along the tracks by the power house
pulling a train of logs. We forget the name of the company
given in other parts of the picture but it was not Shevlin
Hixon. This was a silent picture, of course. Even so if it could be
resurrected and brought back for a showing we think it
would draw a crowd. We are not sure but it might even go
as the comedy on the nights it showed.
In a news story reporting developments in the field of elec
tronics we find this :
In years to come, the engineers speculated, the tradi
tional business convention may be outmoded. Its substitute
may well be telephone television. Such a setup would allow
across-the-desk conversations between men many miles
apart. They would no longer need spend time and money
traveling to conventions.
The reporter who wrote that, we should-say, has never
attended a convention.
A letter to the editor appearing in the Portland Oregonian
offers the theory that cancer is spread by rats and suggests
that it would be interesting to learn whether Bend, Prineville
and Redmond are cancer free. Unfortunately not. Incidence
of the disease in these communities, while not unusually high.
is high enough. There is no local proof in support of the
correspondent s nenet. e are nappy at the absence of rats,
" however. Some day we may be rid of the other evil.
Just another evidence of the importance of water was rm-pn
here last night when the municipal ice skating rink was
opened. The flooding required in preparing the rink is one of
the uses that is expressly forbidden in New York this winter.
There water is a scarce luxury while in Bend, in the winter
season at least, there is an abundance for all purposes.
In the two years that Floyd West has served as manager of
the Bend chamber of commerce he has made many friends
and not a single enemy. He leaves with the best wishes of all
in the three central Oregon counties for whom he has worked
and with whom he has cooperated.
Fremont, Journal
Note The Fremont exploring party
left Ahert lake on December 22, 1843.
and beaded eastward, makinir a "dry"
cam in an area a'here Indiana had
previously encamped.
December 22 To-day we left
this forbidding lake. Impassable
rocky ridges barred our progress
to the eastward, and I according
ly bore off towards the south,
over an extensive sage plain. At
a considerable distance ahead, and
a little on our left, was a range
of snowy mountains, and the
country declined gradually to
wards the foot of a high and
nearer ridge Immediately before
us, which presented the feature
of black precipices, now becom
ing common to the country. On
the summit ot the ridge, snow
was visible; and there being every
indication of a stream at its
base, we rode on until after dark,
but were unable to reach it, and
halted among the sage bushes on
the open plain, without either
grass or water. The two India
rubber bags had been filled with
water in the morning, which af
forded sufficient for the camp;
and rain in the night formed
pools, which relieved the thirst of
the animals. Where we encamp
ed on the bleak sandy plain, the
Indians had made huts or circular
enclosures, about four feet high
and twelve feet broad, of arte
misia bushes. Whether these had
been forts or houses, or what they
had been doing in such a desert
place, we could not ascertain.
(To ba tontinued)
Out on the Farm
By lis S. Grant
Dec. 21 One of our npfph.
bors has gone in for raising pigs
on a targe scale. He built them
a new nouse, and hovers over
tnem like a mother.
One little pig out of the last
litter caught cold and nearly died.
He developed pneumonia, and aft
er two shots of penicillin, one of
sulfa, and one of a heart stimu
lant, he still was a sick littlo ne.
Our friend took the little fellow
in the house, and made him a
bed in the furnace room. On an
impulse, he got out a jar of well-
known ointment, advertised for
the relief of colds, and smeared
the salve thickly over the pa
tient's nose and "chest" He cov
ered him lightly and resigned
mm to nis late.
Would you believe it?" asked
ine neignDor. lhe next morn
ing the pig had quit wheezine.
ana ne aciea line he had just a
iignt case ot snitlles.
You'll get him so sooiled he'll
have to live in the house the rest
oi nis lite, l cautioned.
That was a week aeo. If he
keeps improving at his present
pace, soon he'll be back in the
pen with the other pigs. "We'll
miss the little shaver," the neigh
oor aumuiea.
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Files)
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(Dec. 22, 1904)
Incorporation of Bend was fa
vored bv a vote of 101 to 3 in the
election this week. A. W. Good-
willie was named Bend's first
mayor.
A bear that crossed the Des
chutes river in Bend this week
was chased eastward and shot by
B. H. Langtry. I he bears ap
pearance caused considerable ex
citement in the village.
A. J. Henneman, of Culver,
came to Bend this week with
a wagon load of pota'oes.
Ralph Spencer, who has been
TIME TO STOP
Maiden, Mass. UP! Norman
Thurston was towing an automo
bile when the tow-bar Snapped
and the driverless car:
Sidoswiped his own vehicle.
Knocked over a tree.
Felled an elsctric light pole.
Bowled over a gasoline station
pump.
Stopped.
Washington
Column
Bv IVtvr Kdson
th'FA VYhtnvun t'.vrreepi'ndent
Washington tNEAl Now testi
mony on possible wartime sliip
nunts of uranium salts front the
U.S. to soviet Russia presents a
tantalizing mystery. U will pinlv
ably be impossible to find any
medium who can contact the late
Harry Hopkins in the spirit world
as easily as the Russian embassy
could got him on the wire in
Washington.
As disclosed by senior Investi
gator Louis J. hussoll and ox
air force MaJ. George Kaooy Jor
dan before the house un-American
activities committee, two lend
lease shipments of uranium salts
were made by air through Great
Kalis, Mont., and Fairbanks. Alas
ka. Assuming that the shipments
were made as described, the big
question is how much good they
may have done the Russians.
One of the atomic secrets re
vealed at the end of the war con
cerned this fact that the Russians
had requisitioned some uranium
compounds through the lend-lease
administration. There was con
siderable argument at the time
over whether to give them any
or not. If the request wore re
fused, it might arouse Russian
suspicions that the U.S. govern
ment was trying to develop an
atomic bomb.
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The decision was finally made
to give the Russians a little ma
terial not enough to do them
any good just enough to quiet
their curiosity and make them
think the United States attached
no particular importance to uran
ium products. In the light of testi
mony now being disclosed, the
ruse was a complete failure.
Investigator Russell's state
ment is that on February 1. 1SH3,
the Russian purchasing commis
sion in Washington requisitioned
220 pounds of uranium oxide, 220
pounds of uranium nitrate, and
25 pounds of uranium metal.
The figures in the Russian
requisition are of particular in
terest. They are not just acci
dental -numbers. As the official
Smyth report on nuclear fission
was to disclose in 1945. the "criti
cal mass" of fissionable material
necessary for an atomic explo
sion "is generally regarded as b
tween one and 100 kilograms."
This is two to 220 pounds.
The Russians may therefore
have thought they knew how
much to ask for to make a bomb.
But they may also have been a
little mixed up in their intelli
gence reports and their chemis
try- As the bmyth report also ex
plains, this critical mass of from
two to 220 pounds of fissionable
material would have to be sepa
rated from 140 times as much
natural uranium.
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Another interesting detail is
that when the order was filled,
only 200 pounds of uranium oxide
were shipped, instead of the 220.
I he 2o pounds of uranium met
al which the Russians asked for
could have been used in experi
ments on conversion into Plu
tonium the operation carried on
at the Kanford, Wash., atomic
energy plant. Whether it would
have been enough to do the Rus
sians any good is beside the
point, because there is no record
this order was ever filled.
But the Russians soon discov
ered their mistake in not asking
for enough natural uranium salts
to do them any good. On March
19. 1943. the; requisitioned "sev
eral tons" of ranium nitrate and
uranium oxide.
There wasn't that much avail
able, as by this time all U.S. sup
plies were reserved for the gov
ernment. The Russians were able
to buy 500 pounds of each salt
from Canada, however, and they
were shipped through Great Falls
by air, guarded by machine guns,
according to Major Jordan,
to Major Jordan.
The Russians made another in
quiry through the U.S. war pro
duction board for from 10 to 15
tons of uranium salts in August,
1943. By that time the Canadian
government had also stopped
sales, so the Russians got no
more.
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west of Carlyle Triplet's place.
HUNTERS ARRESTED
Astoria, Dec. 21 'Ui Five Clat
sop county duck hunters were ar
raigned in justice court here yes
terday for Oregon state game
code violations.
The men were charged with dis
turbing wheat as a "lure and
enticement" to draw wild ducks
within range of their guns.
The men, Marsh Hoffman, Rob
ert Larson, Richard Ball, Robert
Hawkins and Thomas Baldwin, all
pleaded innocent.
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