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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON SATURDAY. MARCH 11, 1 950 THE BEND BULLETIN . and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS Ih;B1'? Bulletin (Weekly) 1MS-1981 . The Bend Bulletin (Dally) Et 18U Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday and Certain Holidays by Tha lli-nd bulletin 718. 78 Wall Street - - Bind. Oreiion Entered as Second Claw Matter. January 6. 1017, at the Poatofflee at Bend, Orexon Under Act sf March a, IB7U. ROBERT W. SAWYER Edltor-Manajrer - 11EN1IY N. FOWLER Associate Editor An Independent Newoaper 8tandina- for the Square Deal, Clean Business, Clean Polities and the Beet Interests of Bend and Central Orea-on MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS By Matt By Carrier Ona Tear , 17.00 One Year 110.00 Six Months 14.00 8i Months 16.(0 injee Monlns U.50 One Month 11.00 All Subscriptions are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Please notify us of any change of address or failure to receive the paper regularly. JAYCEE OPERATIONS If economy and efficiency should replace extravagance and waste ill our federal government, a large slice of credit would properly go to the junior Chamber of Commerce. The mem bers of this organization, more commonly known to them selves and others as Jaycees, are the boys who have been plugging for months for total ennctment of the recommenda tions of the Hoover commission. They have been talking it up, making speeches wherever they could get an audience, direct ly and over the radio. They have promoted dissemination of printed information regarding the findings of the commis sion on organization of the executive branch of the govern ment (Hoover commission), as newspaper advertising, news, drawings, direct mail folders. If the Jaycees have neglected any way of spreading the economic gospel, we don't know what it is. They call this activity "Operation Economy". As we have suggested, it has been going on for some time. It is definitely not a flash in the pan. The Jaycees are in for a long drag on this one and know it. They could be pardoned if they consid ered it hopeless and started on something easier, something certain of success. Passive resistance is the most discourag ing that may be encountered and that is the sort of resistance' that the Hoover commission report and the Jaycee operation have been meeting. But they are carrying on. Gradually, it seems to us, a degree of interest is being awakened. People are asking why a government business must be so much more costly to operate tnan a private dus iness and are arriving at the conclusion that it isn't at all necessary and that it is time to do something about it. Their tax bills could do very handily with some heavy reduction. They are getting tired of feeding their substance to the tax eaters of the federal bureaus and departments. Understand ing such as this and demand for something better are the things that the Jaycees have Deen trying to aevciop. They have another idea now tieing in with what has al ready been achieved. They call this "Operation Townhall" and their purpose in urging it is to make direct contact on specific issues between congressmen and their constituents. The idea, starting right here in the Bend chapter of the Junior Chamber, has been endorsed by the state organization and has had no frowns from the national Junior Chamber. Specifically, this operation would consist of summoning the U. S. representatives and senators ot a state to a series 01 town meetings in their home state, where they could dis cuss key questions with constituents, find out what the people wish them to do and let the people know their intentions. -Congressmen, it seems to us, should welcome the oppor tunity which will thus be extended to 'obtain a quick cross section of citizen opinion. If they avail themselves of the op portunity we think they will find through -"Operation Town' Hall" that "Operation Economy" is not just an abstract idea or the catchy phrasing of a service organization "objective". They will find it, instead, a concrete, hard-hitting program ..which a live, intelligent group of young Americans is backing. The Jaycees really mean business. ; t , , ' . WATER THIS SUMMER? ' While city drillers are still exploring for new sources of flow from which to augment the city's water supply, the sea son of heavy use is rapidly approaching. No fault of the Bend administration that water .has. not been found. Its officials have been diligent in. their quest. Every possibility that could be suggested has been or is being investigated, includ ing that at Camp Abbot, which may or may not be found feasible from the standpoints of engineering and cost. Whether it is or not and whether or not any now unguessod source may be found, it is apparent that development could not be had in time to meet this year's needs. Supply in 1949 was insufficient for the use and waste that went on. Increased number of services since then will add to the load. There will be no additional water to alleviate the situation. It can be met, however, by eliminating waste, and waste can be eliminated by charging for it. This involves metering and we believe that the time is drawing near when Bend must choose between the inconvenience and danger of water short age and a system of measuring which will insure equitable billing to users. More and more cities are turning to this method and are finding that it does save water and that it results in suitic iency where supply had been thought to be insufficient. The news bulletin issued by the Public Administration clearing house, discussing the question, has this to say : British Fog A Bit Thick, What? fin seen, at' WASHINGTON COLUMN iiiiiiiiiiiiMMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiNitiiiiiiiiniiiimjimtitiiiiililliiuuuumiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiii As an example of savins effected through use of meters, the American Public Works association cited Hallway, N. J., a city'oi 20,000 population. In 1941, faced with a rirmiKhl and with its water source, the Railway river, almost dry, the city passed a law to install meters. Previously, the city had sold its water on a flat-rate frontage basis to everyone other than industry. Imme diately after meters were Installed, water usiifje per person in the city dropped It! gallons per day. City officials believe that in large part this saving was brought about through repairs to dripping faucets, leaky mains and running toilet tanks, bnder the flat-rate system there was no incentive to stop leaks promptly and 24-hour a day leaks can amount to a relatively large gallonage over a period of time. Bend also can stop waste by metering but if any benefits are to be had this year the decision must be readied' shortly. By Peter Edson (NEA Washington Ctirrcuixinilt'nt) Washington The government's price support program for dairy products Is sometimes referred to as "the cow brassiere" urogram, but it really isn't quite that bad. The government .doesn't support cows. It doesn't e'ven support the price of fluid milk. There's been no need of that, because the pi Ice of fluid milk in the free market has stayed high. And from a nutri tional standpoint, there never lias been too much fluid milk for the demand, except in the more rural dairy farm areas like upper Wis consin. They are too far away from city markets for profitable handling of their fresh milk as such. What these more remote milk producers do is ship to the proc essors the creameries, the cheese factories, the milk driers. During the war there was of course a great shortage of butter, cheese and dried milk. To encourage production, the Steagall amend ment to the 1942 farm bill au thorized the government to sup port milk a.nd lis products at 90 per cent of parity. This was con tinued in the IIope-Aiken farm bill of 1948. The Gore-Anderson farm bill of 1949 authorized con tinued government support of prices on milk, buttcrfat and the products thereof at 7a to 90 per cent ot parltv. Late in 1948 and early in 1949 the market Tor manufacturers' milk products dropped sharply, and the government moved In to support them. Butterfnt supports were put on In February 1949. In April, supports were put on dried skim milk "nonfat milk solids" the trade likes to call them to gel away from the "dry" and "skim" ideas. And in July sup ports were put on checsft. culture has found itself accumu lating larger and larger surplus stocks. As of mid-February the picture on stocks' purchased to support prices In 1949 and 1950 was this: Non-fat dry milk solids 366,- 000,000 pounds purchased at a cost of $41,000,000. Unsold stocks on hand were 208,000,000 pounds valued at $24,700,ouu. Butter 114,000,000 pounds pur chased at a cost of $69,000,000. On hand are 87.500.000 pounds, val ued at $52,300,000. Cheese 25.500,000 pounds pur chased at a cost of $8,000,000. On hand are 22.900.000 pounds, val ued at $7,300,000. What these add up to are total purchases of $118,000,000, with unsold stocks on hand valued at $84,300,000. t These supplies are scattered in commercial cold storage and dry storage warehouses all through the dairy farm belt trom New York to Minnesota. The govern ment has to pay the storage costs. e e The dried milk and cheese are expected to keep indefinitely, and the butter, a couple of years, If properly stored. The stocks are kept fresh by disposing of old stocks first, as new stocks are bought. ' The government buys its sup plies wherever carload lots are assembled. It thus does business with the creameries, cheese fac tories, milk driers and dairy co ops not with the dairy farmers directly. But the prices paid to the processors are calculated at levels intended to keep the price which the processors pay the farmers for milk and butterfnt at 79 per cent of parity. The prospect for 1950 is that the government will have to con tinue purchases at a heavy rate. This has been an open winter in most of the dairy farm areas. The cows have given more milk. EXPENSIVE TALK St. Paul, Minn. HP) It cost John G. Erickson of St. Paul $1.78 V, per word to tell an officer what he thought of him. Erickson an swered a policeman's whistle at an intersection by 14 well-chosen words: "When a man gets a star an his chest it goes to his head." Erickson paid a $25 fine on a dis orderly conduct charge. Anti-Sabotage Law Enacted Paris, March 11 'III An anti sabotage law to safeguard Amer ican arms shipments to France against communist interference won final parliamentary approval today as many of the nation's ports were in the grip of strikes and unrest. The council of the republic or upper chamber of parliament vot ed 279 to 20 for the law after an all-night session. As they had done in the national assembly, communists fought It bitterly. The law providing prison terms for saboteurs and agitators seem, ed certain of being ready for use next week when the first ship ment of American aid reaches France. With President Vincent Auriol's signature and publication in the official journal, the measure will become the government's most powerful weapon against the communist-threatened sabotage of American aid under the Atlantic pact. Strikes already were on in Mar seille and Bordeaux, and were threatening other French ports. Dockers at Bordeaux were call ed out yestercav when a ship arrived to take on military sup plies ior rrencn troops in inao. China. The labor troubles In the ports were part of a nation-wide move ment. Some 500,000 workers were idle. Employers and non-commu nist unions said the number vas below 300,000. Communist un- inon said it was nearly 1,000,000. A strike of insurance employ es in the Paris area spread slow ly. About 9,000 of the 34,000 em ployes in the area were on strike. Out on the Farm By n S. Grant March '11 Sing a song of springtime, of bluebirds in the snow. Scores of English spar rows, sitting in a row. The birds on Calico farm .held sort of a spring festival yester day, but this morning they must have been high in the treetops, waiting for the sun to warm tilings up. I saw the first bluebird of the season two days ago. He was so brightly colored, and sat so quiet, ly on a post in the pasture, that I thought he was one of those little wooden markers, painted and put there by my mother, who has been known to do such things. But as I watched, he spread his wings and soared Into the sky, and I knew he was real. I saw him again yesterday, swinging on a thistle like a tuft of down, and making low flights from one dry clump of grass to another, In search of a few weed seeds for his breaKtast. t One little bluebird all alone looks lonesome indeed, and I hope he'll soon find a prim, dull.coated little lady bluebird and set up housekeeping. We have houses to rent in the poplar tree, for a song. BROKEN IN YOUNG Fair Haven, Vt. Ui Boys from Fair Haven high school will make a grand catch for lucky girls in a few years. They're beirig taught cooking, mending, darning and household buying In the boys' home economics class. MUST PREPARE, WARNED San Bernardino. Cal.. March 11 dpi An air force chief says the unitea states must get ready now to meet a surprise all-out atomic attack. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenbere. chief of the air force staff, told the Orange festival here Russia soon will have the planes and bombs needed to launch an atomic attack in considerable strength." "An atomic offensive might suddenly be launched against us without warning in one concen trated effort designed to saturate our limited defenses," he said last night. Danger from radioactive mater. ials is thought by some scientists to be less under certain conditions at extremely high altitudes than it is nearer the ground. Present support price levels arc about 79 per cent of parity. The dairy industry thinks this is loo low. Hut even at this level the government has had to buy more butter, cheese and dried milk than it can dispose of. At first the government stocks were sold to Marshall plan coun tries and to the army, with no loss to the government. But as demands for these supplies have dropped, the department of agri- I' .n juiimmaiin.' iMMmntmmiiitUvimn as, CBV " O B Bl rce-upening! AFTER COMPLETELY REDECORATING Tuesday, March 14th Chefs Inn Cafe SOUTH HIGHWAY SERVING , Hot Cakes from our own recipe. O Chicken Fried Steaks that are really different. nBBSBeaWLeellsa QUICKLY! at Economy Drugs Opposite Postofflce. Phone 323 In the many years that he resided in the central Oregon country, Eugene Ackiey worked earnestly for the advance-1 ment of the community. Active in irrigation affairs, consci-! entious in effort on behalf of the organizations in which hoi held membership, considerate and understandinir in his hu man relationships, he earned and held the regard of a wide circle of acquaintances and friends. Death came to Gene Ackiey Thursday following a highway accident. He will be sincerely mourned. TAX CITS IN PROSPECT Washington, March 11 'IB ! House democrats believed today! they had found a formula for cutting excise taxes by tieihaps $1,000,000,000 and making up lor most of the loss. j The excises to be cut are those added during the war, including the 20 per cent taxes on jewelry, furs, luggage and toilet prepara tions. The loss of revenue is to he made up, according to the demo cratic plans, by closing some of the so-called "loopholes" in pres ent tax laws and perhaps by boosting corporal ion, estate and gilt taxes. 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