n
b
: e
-, v
It
t
t
: S
' P
PAGE FOUR
THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRiiL OREGON PBESS
Tha Bnd Bulletin (weakly) 1B0S-11I31 The Bend Bulletin (Dally) Est. UK
Published Every Afternuuo lUceiil Sunday and CerUin Holiday by The Bend Bulletin
He-7Se Wall Street Bnd, Oroion
Entered, aa Second Clan Matter. January . 1617, at the Postoffiee at Bind. Oraaon
Uuder Act of March , IS7.
ROBERT W. SAWYER Editor-Manauer HKNKY N. FOWLER Associate Editor
An Independent Newspaper Standing fur the Square Deal. Clean Business, Clean Politici
and the Beet Interest of Bend and Central Oregun
MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS
By MaU
Ona Year $7.00
Bix Mentha S4.00
Three Montha '..$2.60
All Subscriptions are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
PleuM notify us of any chanx of address or failure to receive the paper mrularly.
REDUCED TAX YIELDS, BUDGET "CUSHIONS"
Aside from the fact that both city of Bend and Deschutes
county audits were done by
which, after all, is somewhat wciilentul, the exhaustive re
ports on these audita have one thing in common and this of
the utmost importance to local government the warning
which they give of diminishing returns from property taxa
tion. In calling attention to this
f est over a three-year period, the auditor is resorting to no
alarmist tactics ; accountants do not work in that way, he is
merely stating the facts as they are gleaned from the books
of the municipalities and projecting them as forecasts. Most
, business men, especially those who must keep their eye on
credits, will agree with his conclusions. Collections have been
becoming slower; it is likely that they may become slower
yet.
In spite of the inducement
taxes given in the torm of a discount which may be as high
as three per cent, collection of city taxes has dropped steadily
from 90.4 per cent in the fiscal year of 1946-1947 to 84.5 per
cent in the fiscal year of 1948-49, for which the current audit
report was compiled. The county percentage in 1948-49 was
close to this ratio with 85. The delinquencies thus revealed
are of a size to throw a heavy
, operation. They are symptomatic, we think, of a slightly less
ened prosperity and also of a growing distaste for increasing
budgets national, state and
for increasing overall rates of taxation.
As was pointed out by the auditor, the county will now have
relief from the load which it has heretofore been required to
assume, namely, a considerable amount of the discount to tax
payers. All collections for cities and school districts as well
as for the county itself are made by the county. The dis
count which, in justice, should have been a debit apportioned
to all municipal organizations, has been viewed as the sole ob-
. ligation of the county general fund. How this worked out may
be seen in the showing that, while the county collected 85 per
cent of its levy, 27.4 per cent of the general fund levy was
wiped out by discounts, leaving 57.6 per cent net to the gen
eral fund. The city's 84.5 per cent was its own. So also were
the percentages collected by the county for the other incor
porated cities and for the school districts. What should right
fully have been. charged to them piled up to make the alarm-
' ing shrinkage in county general fund actual receipts.
But, while the county benefits from the change, it may be
readily seen that the other municipalities will have to figure
on lowered income if their levies remain constant. They must
choose between higher taxes and more careful operation.
Anothef general observation which may be drawn from
the audit reports on county and city, and from that of the
Bend school district, earlier completed, as well is in regard
to the cash balances held at year's end. In each case these
resulted from underestimating the amount of cash which
, would be on hand at the beginning of tljie budget; period and
.from over-estimating amounts, which would be required to
carry on various activities of county, city or district through
the year.
Some of this under-estimating and over-estimating, it oc
curs to us, may have been intentional. "Cushioning" a budget
is not an unusual practice and, while not in strict accordance
with the objectives of sound accounting, finds some justifica
tion in need. Under the system of discounting tax payments,
already referred to, the "take" is concentrated in November
" when the first payment on tax bills is due. Residual payments.
especially the final one, which
budget year, are negligible. The
faces a recurrent shortage of funds from the beginning of
its fiscal year on July 1 until late in November or early in De
cember when distribution of the heavy first collection is made.
The "cushion" saves the municipality the necessity of issuing
warrants or negotiating short term loans in the period when
tax payments are low.
Even so, the miscalculations which provide this relief are
not good budgeting. If done intentionally they are an avoid
ance of the provisions of the
better, in recognition of the effects of the tax collection nieth-
ods now used, that a carry-over from the old fiscal year be
legalized so that it would be properly and openly budgeted
Out on the Farm
By I la S. Grant
Fob. 11 Everyone knows Hint
tomorrow is u very special day.
for Americans, because It's ttie
birthday ot the tall, lean, angular
rail-splitter who put his Ideals
above all thought of sell, and
never lost faith in the belief that
right makes might.
Now right here I'd like to nom
inate gingerbread as the national
dessert for Feb. 12. All other holi
days have their special foods, so
why not uncoins iiiruuiay
There are boiled eggs for Easier,
roast turkey for inanksgiving,
Irish potatoes for St. Patrick's
day, and cherry pie for Washing
ton's birthday.
Gingerbread is n natural for
Lincoln's birthday, because it was I
one of his favorile dishes, accord-1
ing to one of his biographers. He I
Is quoted as saying, "I don't
s'pose anybody on earth likes gin-
gerbread better'n I do and gets
less'n I do." I'll bet he liked,
it made with molasses and lots of
spice and served warm, with
country butter. There's lots to be i
said for a topping of whipped ;
cream and a maraschino cherry !
garnish, but for plain, every day.
"Honest Abe" goodness, fancy!
trappings afon't necessary. !
When Lincoln commented on n
subject even as prosaic as ginger
bread, his listeners must have
sensed the Inherent sadness of a
kind and lonely heart. It was that
same gentle, timid prairie lad.
hungering for gingei bread and
for affection, who admitted years
later In a letter to n friend, "I
have endured a great de tl of ridi
cule without much malice; and
have received a great deal of
kindness, not quite free from ridicule."
By Carrier
Ona Year 110.00
Six Months 5 60
On Month $1.00
the same firm of accountants
trend, which has been mam
for early payment of property
burden on successful municipal
local for increasing levies and
is in the first quarter of the
municipality, that is to say.
local budget law. It would be
Lindgren to Meet
4-H Club Leaders
Harry Lindgren, animal hus
bandry specialist from Oregon
slate college, Monday will meet
with 4-H livestock club leaders
at the fairgrounds in Redmond.
The meeting, to begin at 7:30
p. m., will feature reports on
weight gains and feeding pro
grams of livestock in club proj
ects. A 41 1 club meeting for dairy
project leaders also has been
planned for 7:30 p, m, Tuesday
at the fairgrounds. Harold Ewalt,
dairy specialist from the college,
will be present.
Electrical
Wiring
Coninirrrlal and Domestic
CONTRACTING
No lej too larirr or too small,
KNtlmales Gladly Given
Deschutes Electric
HAL HUSTON
Out
Its' .
WASHINGTON COLUMN
By Peler Edson
(NEA Washington Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) This will
be a piece about Robert M. Aver-
ill and his wife, "Peg," their three
children and the March ot Dimes.
Bob Averill's story may tell a
lot of people things they don't
know about the March of Dimes,
and provide a good reason for
making a late contribution.
He's an assistant to the presi
dent of Capital Airlines in private
life. Three years ago he was
working in Chicago. The family
was getting ready to move Into a
new house which they were build
ing, and looking forward to it;.
His two boys they were live
and three then' and a baby
daughter eight months old all
came down with an attack of Feb
ruary flu. The youngsters got
over it. Then Mrs. Averill got it.
Walking across the bedroom one
night she collapsed,
Her husband put her to bed and
called the doctor. Next morning
he ordered her to a hosnttt P"d
pronounced the verdict. Infantile
paralysis. She would never waiK
again.
Plans for the new house van
ished. He borrowed another
$1000 from his company. And
then at the end of that first
week, he got a leter from the
Cook county chapter of the Infan
tile Paralysis foundation.
Bob had never heard of it. nut
the letter told him simply that
the foundation had learned ot nis
wife's illness. It stood realty, will
ing and able to help him if it
could 1 financially if necessary.
Dob went around to see what it
was all about.
This was the first offer he got
of answers to the questions he
wanted to know. They' told him
what the disease of infantile pa
ralysis was. What the treatment
was. What he would have to plan
for.
Thoy asked him what his In
come was. What his probable ex
penses would be. They wanted to
know where he could park his
three youngstei-s. or who would
take care of them.
lhcy asked
about his insurance, and Insisted
Something fo Talk Abouf!
OUR SPECIAL
It's hard to make this sound convincing,
for when we tell you how fine the dinner
is, you won't believe the price and if
you believe the price, you won't imagine
how delicious the dinner can be.
BUT one trial will convince you! Take a
chance you can't lose!
TRAILWAYS COFFEE SHOP
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. OREGON
of Sight, Out of Mind
that the payments be kept up.
Then thev struck a balance of
what Bob Averill would be able
to contribute towards his wife s
care. The f oundation saia it
would provide the rest.
First year's costs for Mrs. Aver
ill's care were $18,000. Iff the
three years since she was first
stricken, the costs have been
about $35,000. Mr. Averill has
been able to contribute about
$14,000 of this. The Foundation
has made up the difference.
For a time Mrs. Averill made
progress. Then a year ago she
caught another cold. Since then
she has required constant nurs
ing. She now requires oxygen
for about 12 out of every 24 hours.
Nevertheless, she came home last
November, and she. again lives
with her family.
This Is Just one man's one
family's experience with infantile
paralysis. Since the Infantile Pa
ralvsLs Foundation was created In
1938, It has helped over 150,000
families in much the same way
that it has helped the Averills.
The Foundation spent $31,000.-
000 last year just to help families
like Bob Averills care lor lnian
tile paralysis victims. But care
isn't the important thing, says
Bob Averill, and neither is cure,
where cure is possible. The Im
portant thing now is the researcn
which seeks to find the cause and
the preventives;
Five cents out of every dime
given in the annual March of
Dimes drive to aid the Infantile
Paralysis Foundation now stays
in the state or the area where
it is donaterl, to care for the local
victims. The other nickel goes
into the national fund for re
search, for administration and for
the emergency fund that s set
aside to fight epidemics when and
wherever thev break out.
At the end of last year, the
Foundation was broke.
Descendants of 11 chinchillas
brought with great difficulty
from the high Andes to the
United Slates in 1923 are now
so numerous that they stock hun
dreds of chinchilla ranches cur
rently operating in this country.
DINNER
Wido choice of deli
cious foods, tempt
ingly prepared!
Wire Television
Now in Prospect
Chicago, Feb. 11 (IB The
Zenith Radio corporation has re
ceived approval from the federal
communications commission to
transmit current movies to home
television receivers over telephone
lines.
Zenith president E. F. McDon
ald said a contract to cover the
revolutionary step was signed
with the Illinois Bell Telephone
company yesterday. He added
that negotiations are under way
with film companies. .
McDonald st-: the FCC granted
Zenith permission to bring cur
rent pictures to 300 subscribers
at' $1 a picture during a 30-day
test period.
One-half the impulses creating
the picture will appear on the
television screens of non-subscribers.
They will see only a blur.
The other half will be sent oy
telephone over the new setup
known as phonevision.
A gadget provided to subscrib
ers will bring the impulses to
gether to make a complete pic
ture.
McDonald said the FCC would
watch the setup closely during the
test period to determine if it is
"economlca::y feasible."
"I would predict that if there
should ever be another prize fight
on the scale of the Dempsey-Tun-ney
fight, the take over phone
vision would be 10,000 times that
at the gate," he said.
The Mississippi river has added
50 square miles to the area of
Louisiana in the past century.
3
SAVE ON
O Prescriptions
O Drugs
O Tobaccos
O Magazines
O Cosmetics
QUALITY .
with Economy
at
ECONOMY
DRUGS
801 Wall St.
rhone 823
FRECKLES AND HIS
THE IRK WHO OKORTED TU'S BOX APFAREMTLy OONT WUEM ITGOWSTO V pME.' HOW
VAMTtO A CEOfHIN BtV TO 6IO, A BO rJOTED FOR-- LOOK AT DOUjU. I'M JUST A . ABOUT START-
uw TW&tnNesst is there a Tightwad here? I mpi j heedless playboy 1 in& the ,
r- rf-gyy. ., v, r-.. - , V " V SQUANDERING A bidding?
es sL. i a "T aiassii-' .aj' tu iT
Nationalists Hit
U.S. Property
With Air Bombs
Washington, Feb. 11 iui The
Chinese air force today appeared
to be in the process 6f making
the U.S. government regret its
disparaging remarks about the
efficiency of nationalist fliers.
In the so-called China white
paper, the United States com
mented that the Chinese air
force, in effect, couldn't hit a
thing, despite the vast quantities
of American aid it had received.
But yesterday the state depart
ment complained because the
same air force had badly dam
aged important American-owned
installations in Shanghai during
a recent series of raids on the
communist-held Chinese metropo
lis. On Dally Basis
Since the last week in January,
Chinese embassy officials said,
the nationalists have been bomb
ing Shanghai on an almost daily
basis. CAF uses American planes
and its pilots are American-,
trained.
On January 26, property of the
British -American Tobacco com
pany was damaged to the tune
of about $250,000. On February
6, installations of the Shanghai
Power company and the Stand
ard Vacuum Oil company were
bombed, with damage totaling al
most $6,000,000.
The communists broadcast that
the February 6 raid was carried
out by 12 four-motored Libera
tors, two twin-motored B-25 s, two
Mustang fighters and one P-38
fighter.
The state department disclosed
vesterdav that it had made its
first protest to the nationalists
on January 27 the day after the
bombing of British-American to
bacco company and were then
assured that the air force would
"try their utmost to avoid Ameri
can property."
Others Say
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE?
(Oregon Statesman)
Is it an occupational disease
for government engineers to
underestimate costs of projects?
If so, the army engineers must
have it bad.
Here is a comment made in
congress by the watchdog of the
treasury in the 80th congress,
Cong. John Taber of New York:
Mr. Speaker, I have been tre
mendously disturbed by the hear
ings that have been released irom
the appropriations committee in
dicating that the chief of the
army engineers has estimated
that the cost in the fiscal year
1951 lor certain rivers and har
bors and flood - control projects,
including flood control on the
Mississippi river, will be in
creased $583,000,000 over the fig
ures that were sent up here for
the fiscal year 1949. Some esti
mates of the cost of individual
projects have in that period been
multiplied by five. This is one
of the most terrific increases I
have ever heard of, when a proj
ect is appropriated for in one
year and then in the next year
the estimate of cost is increased."
Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results
WHO'S WHO IN BEND
AN ALPHABETICAL CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY
, OF RELIABLE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICES
CESSPOOL SERVICE
Cesspool & Septic Tanks
Complete Service
Bent of Materials Furnished
Our periodical Inspection will
Insure you more efficient
operation.
B. F. Rhodes & Son
Phone SBfrW or .1-W
CLEANING
DRY CLEANING
OF QUALITY
Repair and Bat Blocking
Capitol Cleaners
Weill
ELECTRICAL
CONTRACT WIRING
All Types
G. E. LAMPS
RANGE REPAIRING
WIRING MATERIALS
BILL'S ELECTRIC
942 Hill at Greenwood
Phone 14B2-J
For Night Calls Phone 846 R
FRIENDS
Politics Cited
By Dr. Nourse,
For Resignation
Washington, Feb. 11 LP Dr.
Edwin G. Nourse Friday said he
quit as chairman of the presi
dent's council of economic ad
visers because the other mem
bers wanted to play politics.
Nourse said in the current Is
sue of Collier's magazine that he
disagreed with his fellow council
members Leon H." Keyserling
and Dr. John D. Clark-Mn the
council's proper relationship with
the Dresident.
He said he always believed the
council should confine itself sole
ly to a cold, objective, profes
sional analysis of the economic
situation without regard to poli
tics whatsoever.
But the other members, he said,
"were emphatic that the council
should come to the president
with a single definite policy rec
ommendation and do our best to
'sell' it to him.
No Further Discussion
"After he had bought It--or
taken a different policy line
they thought the council should
be prepared to testify on the
president's policy if asked to do
so by the congress."
Nourse denied that his resig
nation was prompted by his crit
icism of Mr. Truman's deficit
spending policies. He said that,
even before he criticized the pro
gram, he had submitted his resig
nation and insisted that it become
effective last Nov. 1.
Whenever the council gave the
president a report, Nourse said,
Mr. Truman's "almost unvarying
formula was: 'I'll take this home
with me (or on the Williams
burg) and read it with great
care. Then we can discuss it fur
ther.' "But never from the first an
nual report of January, 1947, to
the third midyear report of 1949
did such a discussion material
ize." SAVE
FOR A
SUNNY
DAY!
JAND
SERVICE
Refrigeration
Wafer Pumps
Washing- Machines
Oil Heaters
OH Burners
Also Electric Motor Service.
Mike's Electric Repair
. Shop
1645 Galveston. Phone 1557-W
MONUMENTS
For Monuments and Markers
In world's finest granites.
Guaranteed satisfaction.
Your Cemetery Sexton
Ray Carlson
SM Georgia Phone S88-M
OIL BURNERS
STEAM, HOT WATER and
WARM AIR SYSTEMS
Oregon Heating Co.
734 E. Fourth
Call 513, day or night.
MM i
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1950
CARRIER AT HONG KONG
Hong Kong, Feb. 11 lBThe
United States aircraft carrier
Boxer arrived at Hong Kong to
day to strengthen the American
fleet in the western Pacific.
The Boxer, commanded by Rear
Adm. W. F. Boone, will remain
here until Thursday, departing
then for an unspecified destina
tion. Use classified ada in The Bulle
tin for quick results.
ThtvijouKnow!
The answers to everyday
insurance problems
By ANDREW FOLEY and
GORDON IL RANDALL
Insurance Counselors
QUESTION: Can you tell me
just what the difference is be
tween automobile collision in
surance and property damage
insurance?
ANSWER: Automobile colli
sion insurance takes care of
the damage to the insured per
son's car. Property damage in
surance pays for damage to
the automobiles or other prop
erty belonging to persons other
than the insured.
If ' you'll address your own
insurance questions to this of
fice. weUl try to give you the
correct answers and there will
be no charge or obligation of
any tuna.
FOLEY & RANDALL
233 Oregon, . Phone 1870
Make those Idle dreams come
' true! Regular saving is the for
mula for acquiring a home of
your own, future security. Your
savings earn more here, accumu
late faster to make your dreams
come true sooner.
iiiffiiMiiiiii uwt,nuita lummy
"ederalSavings
LOAN ASSOCIATION
Refrigerator Service
All Types of Mechanical
Xervlcaj On
REFRIGERATORS
HOUSEHOLD
COMMERCIAL
Oregon Equipment Co.
IBS E. Greenwood Phone 888
ROOFING
SHINGLES SIDING -INSULATION
ROOFING
Free Estimates Given
Use Our Easy Payment Plan
Central Oregon
Roofing Co.
832 Bond Phone 1270
COMMERCIAL PRINTING
OF QUALITY
PHOTOGRAPHIC OFFSET
LETTERPRESS
The Bend Bulletin
Phone 56
By Merrill Blosser
TWF NITY C F KIT? '
OM SECOND TMOUGMr".
MAKE IT A WHOLE" .
TWO BITSi CASH.'
838 Wall St, Thone 278
Corner Greenwood and Bond
I'hono 36J
tin lor quick results.
Use classified ads in The Bulle