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PAGE FOUR THE REND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1950 THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OKECiON PBESS The Bend Bulletin (Weekly) 11)03-11)31 The Bend Bulletin (Daily) Est. 1916 Published very Afteruuon Except Sunday and Certain Holiday by The ttend Hullelin do - 105 wail DUeet iii-iia, ureauu Entered as Second Class Matter, JHnuary fl, 1917. at the Poctofflce at Bend, Oregon Under Act of March fl, 18111. ROBERT W. SAWYER Edltor-Manaiim- JIKNHY N. FOWI.KR-Assoclata Editor An Independent Newspaper Standing for the K'ltisre Deal, Clean Business, Clean Politic and the Hi?! i nterests of Bend and Central Uruwn MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS " Ru Muil Itv Csrripr One Yeai $7.00 One Y.-ir 10.00 Si Months 1.0l) Hi Months ft nu Three Months 2.60 One Month st un All Subscriptions are DUE and l'AYAHl.K IN ADVANCE Please notify us of any chaiiKe of address or failure to receive the paper regularly. T.OW RECLAMATION LAW WAS MADE We said here, on February 6, that President Truman's program for Columbia river development included an objec . tion to the use of the interest component (of power rates) for reclamation project repayment purposes. That was our inter pretation of a sentence on the subject in the U. P. news report though there went with it a parenthetical sentence saying the statement of objection was subject to several interpreta tions. We reprint the two sentences from the story of the Truman program in which it was said that the president among other things Orders the reclamation bureau not to use for project re payment the Interest on Its power investments except as pre sently authorized by reclamation law. (This stipulation was sub ject to several interpretations because the bureau claims it may nnw use nower interest revenue for repayment.) Now we turn toward the reluctant conclusion that our in terpretation was incorrect for in a story from Washington ot a senate committee hearing we lind tins : R. W. Jones, representing Budget Director Frank Pace, told the committee an amendment submitted by the bureau con templated that all interest from basin projects will he used for nrmnnwor prists na nrnviiled undpr the reclamation law. That is a flat statement that the interest component is to be used for purposes other than interest. There will be a charge for interest in the power rate but the income will not be used for interest. It will be used tor "non-power costs ' while interest on the government bonds that have gone into the basin project will be provided from some other source, the tax payer. It seems to us that it is hardly fair to expect the tax payers of the country to pay this bill. Indeed, it seems to us to savor of dishonesty to collect money ostensibly for interest and then to use it for a purpose other than interest while the interest that is paid is collected from another source. Now look back at that second quoted paragraph and obr serve its final clause, "as provided under the reclamation law". This certainly seems to throw an aura of respectability around the whole business. If this is something for which the law provides it must be all right, the uninformed will say. Well, the answer is that the reference is not to the law as enacted by congress. It is to the law as declared by a solicitor of the department of the interior in an opinion contrary to one prepared by the solicitor of the bureau of reclamation. The department lawyer, that is, over-ruled the bureau lawyer. And there's more to the story. When an attempt was made to bring about a re-statement of the law by the congress and a declaration of its original intent the bureau of reclamation moved heaven and earth to prevent that re-statement. So far it has been successful and since the opinion has not been re versed by congress this interest use is now said to be "as pro vided under the reclamation law." . t , That is misleading.. WASHINGTON COLUMN UHiiliHIlljllllltl.WllllfllN IT ALL DEPENDS A couple of items in Eleanor Roosevelt's column, "My Day", have caught our eye and caused us to wonder. One is about the governorship of California. "I wonder", Mrs. Roosevelt writes, "how the Republican party feels about Governor Earl Warren of California, a former vice presidential candidate, filing for re-election on a non-partisan basis." The question has nothing to do, we suppose, with the prospective candidacy for the governorship of Mrs. Roosevelt's son, James. Or does it mean that James will keep himself pure and refuse to file as Warren proposed to do. And we wonder if Mrs. Roosevelt wondered about it when Franklin, Jr. filed in New York on more than one ticket. On another day Mrs. Roosevelt was discussing the "Voice of America" and urging the importance of information. "The people should have a right to be heard," she said, "and at least we should know more about what is going on." As, for in stance, did the people of America after Yalta, we suggest. Dr. Einstein, warning that the United States and Russia may annihilate the world in the urgency of their efforts to perfect the hydrogen bomb, sees peace only in the opposite direction from such rivalry. As usual, the renowned physicist gives mankind something to think about. His further state ment that the nations must make a solemn renunciation of violence and mass destruction in order to eliminate fear and distrust is as incontrovertible as one of his own equations and far easier to understand. Next, to change human and Russian nature so that the formula can be accepted. By Peter Ed son (NEA Washington Correspondent) Washington (NEA) One rat recently came close to wrecking the whole economy of the U. S. zone in South Korea. Ever since Way, 1U48, when the Russians in North Korea shut off deliveries of hydro-electric power to the Ko rean republic, the U. S. S. Jacona, a navy floating electric generator ship, has been feeding power into the Korean grid. But one day a rat shortcireuited one of the gen erating units, in trying to main tain tiie load, another generating unit overheated and burned out. Use of electricity had to be curb ed, shutting down many small businesses, spare parts had to be flown in to make repairs and re store production. The U. S. econ omic co-operation administration is now building a bU,uoo-kw. steam plant and a ,000-kw. hydro-elec tric plant to provide permanent and independent power supply when the Jacona is withdrawn. Federal security administrator Oscar Ewing was born In ureens burg, Ind., tne town made famous by reason of the tree that grows on tne root or its court house steeple. Greensburg is proud of that tree, and employs tree sur geons to see that it stays healthy, ivir. Ewlng gets kidded. that this is where he got his first ideas for compulsory health insurance. Kenneth P. Landon, a former missionary in Siam, got into gov ernment service at the start of Hie war and since 1943 has been in the southeast Asia division of the state department. Few people know it, but Landon is author of what is said to be one of the most authoritative and prophetic books on this area, "Southeast Asia Crossroads ot Religion." Landon's wife, Margaret Dorothy Landon, also writes. Her "Anna and the King of Siam" turned out to be a best seller and a live-star movie to boot. Every time there is public an nouncement on the possibility of flying to the moon in a rocket snip there is a big rush of applica tions for jobs as pilot or crew member. Tne air force gets many such letters and so do tne univer sities doing research on superson ic speed projects. The letters show that a majority of these vol unteers are not crackpots. They are mostly world war II pilots and young scientists who want to be in on this historical achievement. Here's the way the atomic en- Bend's Yesterdays (From The Bulletin Files Thirty Years Ago (February 16, l'JM) Work has been completed on the new footbridge over tne Des chutes river in Bend. The new spun, constructed by M. J. Daniel son, opens the river to boating, inasmucn as ample clearance for boats has been provided. Methodists of Bend plan to erect a $10,000 church. The deci sion was reached following a fa vorable vole of the congregation. Members of the Lupine school hoard have been asked to resign. Petitions were submitted to the county court here alter Sheriff S. E. Roberts sent a deputy to the southern Deschutes county town to provide protection for a mem ber of the board who feared vio lence. Bob Lewellyn, veteran trapper, brought 59 marten and nine mink skins into Bond today, to show for his winter's work in the upper Deschutes country. ergy commission's new semi an nual report describes the kind of business it's in: "An atom is so small that about a hundred billion billion of them are contained in the head of a pin. The nucleus the object of study in nuclear science is some ten thousand times smaller than the atom. If an atom were expanded to the size of a concert hall, its central nucleus would be smaller than a housefly. The nucleus con stitutes nearly all the mass of the atom, and, consequently, the mass of all things. A piece of solid nu clear material the size of a child's marble would weigh more than 200 million tons." In another place, the AEC re port tells something about the measuring devices it has had to have perfected to handle these minute quantities. Time intervals in billionths of a second can now be counted for measurements of radioactivity. A quartz fiber bal ance will show weight differences of a billionth of an ounce. And a device called a fluorophotometer is able to measure quantities smaller than a trillionth of an ounce. " Redmond Plans Hospital Vote it Redmond, Feb. 16 The Central Oregon District Hospital board held a special meeting Tuesday evening in the offices of Chester Lackey, member of the board. In addition to all board members, others present were Drs. Howard Wells, Raymond Jones and Rob ert Unger of Redmond, radiolo gist Dr. Charles Donley of Bend; the architect, Gerald Scott of Portland, and a representative of Tidball and Pierson, consulting engineers. , Other Redmond citi zens at the meeting, acting in an advisory capacity, were M. E. La rive, Jack Elliott, B. L. Fleck. C. E. Thompson and Fred McDonald. Scott presented the tentative plans which he had prepared, and minor changes were made on the recommendations of the doctors present. It was brought out that the hoard has an option on a 400 bv 600 foot site bordering the old highway in the Rennolds addition north of Redmond. The site pro vides a complete panorama of the western skyline. The railroad tracks and highway are in sight but not close enough to be a dis turbing factor and the site is out of the airplane lane. As stoon as the architects esti mate the cost of the hospital proj ect a date will be set for a bond vote. Attorney M. A. Cunning was authorized to proceed with the necessary legal angles of the bond issue. The hoard will meet regularly teh first Monday of every month. NO EXTRADITION' Los Angeles, Feb. 16 (Hi A threat of prison vanished today after hanging 30 years over 73-year-old Charles Zlnd. Gov. Earl Warren notified the municipal court he would not ex tradite the former Dayton, O., man to finish an 18-month sent ence in Ohio for passing a $6 bad check. "He has ' unquestionably reha bilitated himself," Warren said. Zlnd was released to join his five children In Phoenix, Ariz. One out of every three persons tested for an Oklahoma driver's license last year failed. Ofhers Say VEKY COMPLICATED (London, Eng., Daily Express) Mrs. Nessle Gibbons wanted a knob for her gas conker. She went to the gas board showrooms. Hut she said yt-sterday, "The salesman said he would have to send a man to make a survey." In a few days a man called, looked over the cooker, and said: "You must fill up a form. But I haven't one with me." lie came hack with the form next day and showed Mrs. Gib bons how to fill it In. Two days later a van arrived. The driver handed Mrs. Gibbons a small box. Inside was the knob. RACKET CHARGED Washington, Feb. l(i (111 Sen. Sheridan Downey, I)., Calif., wants a federal Investigation of a talent scout "racket" in the Los Angeles area. lie plans to ask Ernest Tolin, acting U. S. attorney or southern California, to investigate phoney scouts who are said to be de frauding would-be actors and actresses. She screwed It on. Next day another gasman ar rived to fit the knob. And a fort night after that the account came in: "To supplying push-knob to operate top of cooker Is. 2d." Attached to it were six hints on "Gas Economy." OLD TMlUSt, Tool Aaw&V ' Get the Jump on Spring Clean up soiled walls with Miracle WALL TONE POPULAR VELVETY SMOOTH WALL FINISH Dries in 40 minutes Goes a long ways 3.49 gal. 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County Judge Asa Battles' office Wednesday morning re ported that he had not arrived, having telephoned that he "was stuck in' the mud." Judge Battles later said that county road conditions, while ex tremely annoying for rural resi dents, were no worse than for the average winter and far less dam aging than during last winter's record long spell of zero weather. American farmers are using twice as many tractors today as they did in 1941, the total being about 3,400,000. Out on the Farm By Ha 8. Grant Feb. 16 The. water came at last. Two days ago, the first trickle reached Calico farm. Yesterday the stream was still muddy, but this morning it looked clear. To night we'll fill the cistern. Whenever there's water in the ditch, the little waterfall is a con stant joy. The busy bubbling had increased to a gentle roar this morning, and the familiar refrain was sweet music. It will soon be time to start working the ground, and the Chief is busy nearly every night, get ting the tractors in shape for the spring plowing. Now that the snow has left the pasture, Gypsy seldom visits her feed rack, but nibbles at the grass that will soon be getting green. STOCKMAN CANDIDATE Washington, Feb. 16 HP) Rep. Lowell Stockman, R., Ore., an nounced today that he will seek reelection from Oregon's second congressional district. He has been in congress since 1943. Fats and oil continue to be in short supply in Europe. at Tumalo Mall Saturday, Feb. 18fh Music by Crooked River Ramblers So bring it on down, We'll all be found At Tumalo town. Use Bulletin Want Ads for Best Results! YOU GET ALL THESE NEW EXTRA-VALUE FEATURES EXCLUSIVE SPIRALAT0R washes wore 'Clothes cleaner, faster. Every garment gets tqnal washing action in all parts of tub. ' NEW IMPROVED P0WR HUSH-RINSE AND CONVENIENT FILL AND RINSE FAUCET You rinse full : load right in spinning bas ket. No set tubs needed. 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