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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1949 PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS Tlit Bnit Bulletin (eklr IWU.IM1 Tl. Hand Mullrt'a. (Pall,) Krt. ll ribliad Kvrr Altvrnuuo aUcritt tiujiilair and Ci-rlam Huliuaya by Tin IVnl lliillclin 7Ha.7aa Wall Strarf Band. Orvmn BnUrt M Baeund Uaaa MalUr, January . Il' at the foalolfica at Band, Urwuo Un.lar Act ot Man la.. R0I1KRT W. BAWYKR Editor.Mana-ar Jt V N. FOWI.tR Aoclal KJIU Aa indapandant Nawi,alr atamlinv for tha H'lr I)al, Cli-an Huainvaa, Ciaaa Initio and tha rUt Inleraala fr Band and I'anlral Oraano MKMIIKR AUDIT BUKKAU OF CIRCULATIONS II Mail Br Carrtar Ona Yanr l?.oa Ona V 110.00 Wi ilunlr, K.OO En Montha I M Thraa Mentha . Ona llonl 11.00 All Subscription, ara DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Plcaaa notify ua of any chans of ntldraaa or failure to racaiva tha papar raaularty. 315 WASHINGTON COLUMN By Totor Edwin ( N HA WafttunaUMi Corraalwndv&t) Washington (NEA) Federal housing exHllter TlRhe E. Woods has thus far found it necessary in reimmise rent controls In only three out of the nearlv aX) prevl-1 returns In January, to the tun it . i m.. I nf ci Kihi niii i tj ivin luin m.i ! expediter coiild come back In January and ask for a deficiency appropriation. a a a This is exactly what Mr, Woods prio&os to do when congress ously decontrolled areas. Titty are Americus, Ha.; a part of bon; erset county, south of Johnstown, Pa., and Harrodsburg, Ky. In each case, rents had risen precipitously after the controls had been removed. But it was the local rent control boards that rec ommended reimposition of ceil ings to the federal government, and not the other way around. Two other petitions for reimposi tion of rent controls have been denied by the federal expediter, because rents had not risen un duly after ceilings came off. All those facts are now being kicked around by the real estate lobby in Washington as evidence that" rent controls are no longer necessarv. National Association DECREASING PRECIPITATION Before ua are two newspaper stories about water supplies. One, from the New York Herald Tribune, has the caption, "U. S. Yearly Rainfall Declining", and the other from the Orcgoniun, "Area Streams Losing Water." The story under that first head was written because of the eastern interest in New York city's water shortage. The second was the re port of a meeting recently held in Portland. The two tie together. The New 1 ork story was built on weather bureau records j covering more than half a century for each state. "Out of the ; statistics", says the story, "come the facts that the Atlantic 0f Real'Estate Boards has lust and the Pacific coast states, the northern tier of states and i made a report on a national sur- the 'dust bowl' are getting drier and the lower Mississippi valley and the Ohio valley are getting wetter." "This change", it is said, "is part of a long-term world-wide change in climate pattern." In the four states competing for the record for decreased rainfall we find Oregon with a loss of 3.7S inches. The others are Wisconsin, 3.84 inches, New Jersey 3.81 and Washington 3.77. It would be interesting to have a more complete account of the Oregon situation. Without it we are guessing that the state's 50 years of records are of the region west of the Cas cades and most of us are jocosely ready to say that Portland and the Willamette valley could well do with less rainfall. It is a fact, however, that irrigation becomes increasingly im portant west of the mountains and it would be the part of wisdom, with the long future ahead, to begin the study of me way to manage every Dir. ot the water ot that region. The Portland news story confirms that from New York so far as the west is concerned. According to it there is "a 'con- stantly downward trend' in the amount of water flowing in Kas "ft STS It ?sZZ ins. out nonetneiess true, inai Woods has done more decontrol ling than have the cities and states. Local communities are holding back. No large city has decon trolled. i On the state level. Arizona and Utah have removed all rent con trols by action of local boards. Nebraska and Texas state legis latures removed all rent controls. Wisconsin has substituted state for federal control. Alabama has vey, tending to show that wner ever controls have been removed, there have been no skyrocketing rents and no mass evictions only isolated adjustments to iron out inequities. a a a The picture is that although one-third of the rental areas have been decontrolled, only one -seventh of the actual rental units have been decontrolled. Nobody knows what would happen if all : these areas were precipitously do-: controlled. Even with limited de-; ; control, tne tnireau oi taoor sia 1 iititirM! msr nf liv-lni? rent index has shown a rise of two points from 119.5 to 121.5 between December, 194S, and October, 1949, the latest figure available. Expediter Woods has been pushing decontrol as fast as he of S3.5O0.0OO to $4,000.1X10. litis Is the extra amount now estimated as necessary to continue controls through June 30, 1950, the pres ent expiration date. Whether the new congress will extend rent control authority for another year beyond this date 1 the big question. There Is. of course, no deny ing that new housing construo Hon is gradually catching up with demand. The 1,000.000 new units started this year establishes an all-time record, greater than the 937,000 units begun in 1925, About 35.000 of this years starts are- publicly financed rental units. Housing expediter Woods says the safe time to remove all rent controls will be when the new federal rental housing construe tion program really gets rolling. He estimates this will take "about a year." This would put a cut-oft date at approximately January 1. 1951. Extending it to June 30. 1951. would provide a margin of safety. Heal estate interests are pro pared to fight any such exten sion with everything they have, including the killing of all ap propriations for rent-control enforcement. Out on the Farm By ll 8. Grant the principal western streams." "The flow of the Columbia river," it was reported, "has declined 30 per cent in the past iu years. The Columbia's waters come, of course, in the most part from states other than Oregon and thus the figures mean that rainfall or, more exactly, precipitation which includes snow as well as rain is decreasing in Idaho and Montana as well as in Oregon and Washington. Here in central Oregon where we have records of both pre cipitation and of stream flow a paradoxical situation exists. We know that the annual run-off of the Deschutes river is less by many hundreds of acre-feet than it was 30 and mnro years ,Wr Here at Bend, however, there is little change in ! passed a law which will remove the figures of precipitation. Short years and long years occur ! controls next May. So 43 of the but there is no discernible regular nattern Those of us who go into the mountains do know, neverthe less, that in the past 30 years glaciers have receded and snow fields disappeared. Whatever the local precipitation records may show there is no, doubt that the mountain snow fall is lessening. Incidentally, this fact of a declining flow in the Columbia' should be the answer to the proposal to take water from that river to California. Even if it is nmwri that tha mo-;., all-ti.me need for use in the Columbia basin can be prophe sied and a surplus shown how can a draft from that surplus for California be justified in the face of the record of a de clining supply? , A friend of ours in a government agency that uses a great, great deal of fairly costly propaganda sent us holiday greet ings on decorated paper and we were glad to hear from him , r?u- w,e were lnterested t( nte his hand-written postscript This letterhead was not purchased with government funds '" Maybe we have influence after all. 48 states, plus the District of Co lumbia, still think rent controls are necessary for a while longer. ; The housing -expediter's office has been forced to rush decontrol for a simple lack of money for enforcement. The last session of congress cut rent control approp- Fremont Journal Doc. 28 Just four more days until the aging 1949 will abdicate and the Infant 1950 will begin his ix'lgn. On Calico farm, we'll try to accomplish lit four days every thing that we've been planning all year to do. The, Chief is putting wallbnard on the stairway and the front hall, and early next year we'll try to got It papered. I rather fancy a pattern with wide stripes, put on horizontally to "shorten" the apparent height of the stair way. On one side ot the hallway Is the cocoa-brown den, unci on the other side the dining room, papered in chintzy cabbage roses. For the hall, paper with pinkish mauve and light tan striHs seems to bo a natural. There Is a small window at tho foot of the stairs, which needs a narrow frame ami shallow shelves for tiny pieces of ruby glassware. Ami why not paint the colling gold, to match the brass grille of the hanging lamp in the dining room? This gold wiling idea is an out-and-out steal, the led Shoops' Chinese-red entry hall, with gold ceiling, is the hand somest thing I've ever seen. Battle of Budget Impends in Washington 2 DIE IN WRECK Orient. Ore.. Doc. 28 nit Alva Sherman Smith, 35, Doting, Ore., an unidentified woman, and dog were killed when an automobile rounded a curve on highway 50 and struck a tree, the Multnomah county sheriff's office said today. By Raymond Ijdir (llnllail Praia gtaft CorriHniUnl) Washington, Doc. 'AH iui Dem ocrat and republicans In con gress squared off today for the 1950 buttle of the budget. Their preliminary spar ring erased all doubt that federal Miullng anil the $J,KT0,(N)O.IHM deficit piled up to date will lie a chief purllhun Issue ut the now session starting next Tuesday, Senate democratic louder Seott W. Lucas, III., faced by UOP de mands for un end to "slap-happy fiscal policies," conceded that dcfl cits are u "terrible evil" but said they a iv a cold wur uld to world peace. lite republican broadside was fired by senate HOI' loader Ken neth S. Wherry, Neb., and Kep. John Tabor, N.V.. ranking minor ity member of the house appro priations committee. Wherry derided President Tru. man for advocating an lucre'isc in taxes "to give the SHudthrift socialist more many to squan der." "Buying Vole" Talior protested that Mr. Tru man, In "uttemptlng to buy votes." apparent I v has contused the U. S. and democratic teens urles. Lucas, In a Havana, 111., Sccch formally announcing his cuinll ilacy for reelection, described an unbalanced budget as "a terrible evil." Hut he added: "If wo must make a choice be tween a period of deficit flnane lug to strengthen our chance 'for peace or running the chance of engaging In un atomic war, I will lee aro r uht now that I prefer tho link of ttetlclt flmindng." Wherry said In a formal state ment that he found during the congrcHKloiiul recess that the (m-u-pie buck home want a drastic cut in the cost of government ami a balanced budget. Seek Balanced Budget "Instead ot talking about In- INU'ltKI) IN ACCIIIKNT I'rlnovllle, Doe, ljiwreiico St in I ton, who has liecn a patient at the Prlnovllle hospital, follow ing an automobile ueeldenl Sun day night, Is ilue to he released, It was reported today. Ills In juries Included multiple bruises and abrasions, Paul Thallfor who was u passenger In the ear Stratum was driving when the accident occurred, was not injur ed enough tu be hospitalized. The youths had driven to tho lookout point lit Ochiieo state park Sunday night. When they started back tn the city down u steep grade, a tiro blow out, cans lug the cur to run Into a ditch and overturn. The vehicle was badlv damaged. Stratum, home on vacation from the New Mexico School of Minos at Socorro, Is I lie son of Frank Stratum, manager of tin1 I'rlnovllle airport. Thullfcr Is the son of Joe Thullfcr, financial tH- siHtunt supervisor of the Ochoco national forest. creasing taxes to give the upend- llirllt Noclallsts more money tu squander," ho said, "congress should bring the budget Into bal ance bv culling expenditures to (It the cloth." Tabor said ho was convinced by talks Willi huinheils of voters that tho people no longer win tillered I'lcnldciil liuiiiau sliiphappy fiscal policies" I lie prekiiieiit seems 10 no un able to distinguish between lliu federal treasury anil the treas ury of the dcumcrullc parly," ho said. Iho tactics of attempting to buy votes wllh the votcis' own money is not new. Nobody Is lie lug tooled, least of all the Amer ican taxpayer." 1 lltr.MAN Klf.l.1.1) Philadelphia." Pee. 2H Mil - Ono fireman was killed and five nth. ors were injured by u collapsing roof lust night while flghllug a two alarm tiro In a wholesale produce market. The firemen hud entered the L. Piistner Fruit and Produce Cu. building afler the blae had been brought under control. Fire chief John t Cost ordered his men to vacate the burning threostory building when he found Iho struc ture weakened by the (Ire. Ik'fore the men could get nut, the roof collapsed. A score of fire lighters, who had iiuiile their way to the street, Ignored their own safety and entered the upier floors lo rescue tho six men trap ped by tho fallen roof. December 27 We continued up the valley of the stream, the principal branch of which here issues from a bed of high moun tains. We turned up a branch to the left, and fell into an Indian trail, which conducted us by a good road over open bottoms along the creek, where the snow was five or six inches deep. Grad ually ascending, the trail led through a good broad pass in the mountain, where we found the snow about one foot deep. There were some remarkably large ce dars in the pass, which were cov ered with an unusual quality of frost, which we supposed might possibly indicate the neighbor hpod of water; and as. in the arbi trary position of Mary's lake, we were already beginning to look for it, this circumstance contrib uted to our hope of finding it near. Descending from the moun tain, we reached another basin, on the flat lake bed of which we found no water, and encamped among the sage on the bordering plain, where the snow was still about one foot deep. Among tms the gra6S was remarkably green, nations by a third roughly $9,-1 and to-night the animals fared 1 000.000. This was done with the tolerably well. ; j distinct understanding that the f To be continued) t Bend's Yesterdays ' tfTom The Bulletin Files) TKIKTY YEARS AGO (Dec. 28, 1919) Cattle on the high desert are dying in large numbers from a mysterious malady, stockmen re port. One rancher has lost 40 head. Carrier service will start in Bend on April 1, Postmaster W. H. Hudson has been advised, j The Bend city council has re oelved a petition bearing 140 names and requesting that a wa gon bridge be constructed over the Deschutes in this city at the site of the former Bend Com pany footbridge. Shortage of fuel at O.A.C. ne cessitated an early closing of that school for the holidays and stu dents are now home. Early betting favors Oregon over Harvard in the New Year's game at Pasadena. NO WORKEE! Hong Kong, r c. 28 'UV-Trol-ley cars disappjared from the streets of Hong Kong today as a result of a labor dispute. Union officials said the trolley workers had been locked out as a result of their four -day "go slow" strike, in which the trolleys operated but conductors refused to collect fares. A company spokesman said conductors who refused to collect fares were being dismissed. EARLY RESIDENT DIES Haycreek, Dec. 28 Pioneer residents of the Haycreek district of Jefferson county have ju"t learned of the death of Pcvt Tur ner, early-day homesteader, at Auburn, Calif. Turner, it was re called, won wide recognition for the music instruction he gave children in pioneer homestead homes. Turner made no charge, instructing the children out of his love for music. Better Heating for Small Homes? ASK ABOUT THE ARCOLINER The Arcoliner Wet Base Oil Boiler Is designed excluiivclr for oil bttraiog to meet the demand for dean, carefree, complete. automatic heating: in smaller itzed homes. Wet base construction increases efficiency, prevents overheating floor in otilirj rooms or other bx floor installations. Colorfully modern Canyon Two-Tone Red jacket is fully insulated. The Arcoliner burns Iowoit fuel oil efficiently and economically. if. 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VANCE T.COYNER'S ' 68Fii PHONE 50 Taaa la HCN'r J. TAU0. MC Nttowl. nif Manfer naakg. GttAIIIVAlUf Iff Hard to believe but ThisBuick costs less than Butter! MAYBE you never thought of it that way, since you don't buy butter in 3600-pound lots. But pound for pound, this pride ful Buick Special sells today for less than store-bought butter! Actually, it costs less per pound than some of the cars in the so called "lowest price" bracket' less than any other straight-eight on the market. vfow that's a pretty important yardstick. Because cost-per-pound is a pretty stable measure of a car's merit. It takes skilful engineering, careful buying, efficient manufacturing to -keep this figure around the half dollar rnark and that's where it is on the 1950 Special 4-door Sedan. Hie real point, of course, is that this is a Buick at that figure. W him hvllvr automobllim art built -HLtCK mill build lltvm- Buick styling. Buick valve-in-hcad straight-eight power. Buick steadi ness and roadability. The gentle cushioning power of Buick 4 whecl coil springing. Buick room, finish, standing with a special plus these days in greater maneuverability ta help you slip into light parking spaces and home-size garages. Buick's unmistakable appearance, through gracefully tapering fenders and that new"Buick first," that sturdy, shock -absorbing, triple-purpose bumper-guard grille. All this tit price tags that "sound Hie a six" and a cosi-jier-Jmiiud right dote n with the very lowest! So if you can afford butter, why not a Buick? Talk to your dealer about it delivered prices, trade ins, delivery 'dates, all the rest und make your next car a Buick. r ALL YOURS FOR ONLY $2097.00 Tho roomy 3-patt9nQ9r 7950 Sucfc SHCIAl Coups shown caivari for thit figure, phi $lal and local foxoi if any. Pricoi tubjocl lo chong without notic: PWcas may vary st'gMf in adjoining communiUet ou fo transportation chargo$. DYNAFLOW PMCi RtDUCID $40. Thit 1950 Buick SPfCAl is avoilabh with Dnaflow Drive of $40 leu than NovtmtW prcei. SPECAUV iVOtY BEND GARAGE COMPANY 709 Wail Street Phone 193 Phone your BUICK dealer tor demonstration Right Now I FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Mow's WITH TUG 6ruesomelyc500o BEAMlB BUSINESS. I TMEY'PE SELLING LIKE k" LA ROSY? X-PLATINUM HOTCAKEW v.. .VA'Wfc .. ) il .tf I Fprck'S over? at STUF PI E BEAM'S NOW lABOUT ANORDSR FOR, Six dozen. GLACKEdsf L MOPE ME SUCCEEDED . By Merrill Blossor 'MrVA. WEATBALLTno 7) f BUT HE RKFU0GS A'f'WA 510 Delaware Street Phone 513
