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X. PAGE EIGHT THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1950 Big Sum Spent ' Just to Store Farm Surpluses By Vincent J. Burke fUniu-il Prt Staff C'orrwiKiink-nt) Washington, March 13 mi The government is paying about $10. 000,000 a month to store its vast holdings of farm surpluses, agri culture officials estimated today. ' This is part of the cost of f urm price supports. The government now has about $1,000,000,000 in vested in 31 farm products held off the market to bolster prices. That's about double the invest ment a year ago. No exact estimate of storage costs is possible. Such costs are not kept separately on the gov ernment's books but are lumped in periodically an part of the gov- ' ernmenl s investment in each ol the surplus crops. But officials estimate the rate at which these costs are running now probably is about 120,000, 000 a year. These storage costs probably will go higher this summer. It will happen when corn farmers surrender title to hundreds of mil lions of bushels of 1949-crop corn now held under the government crop loan program. Already Have Loans The farmers, who already have received government loans equal to the support price, now are storing this corn free of charge in their own bins. The govern ment will have to foot the stor age bill when it takes title to the corn. The operation is a little differ ent in the case of surplus wheat and cotton under loan. The gov ernment will have to pay current storage charges for that portion of the 1949-crop stocks which It takes title to this spring. The officials' storage cost es timate takes into account the fact that the government will not have to take over all of the 1949-crop wheat and cotton now under loan. Some farmers will regain posses sion of their crops by paying off loans, storage costs and other charges against the commodity. Interest charges on tlie price support money involved is run ning now at a rate of more than 550,000,000 a year. Thus, even if the government didn't take over any more farm surpluses the cost Df holding the present stocks would run about $170,000,000 a year. And that 'doesn't take into account future storage costs on 1949-crop corn Uncle Sam will have dumped in his lap next summer. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams 11 LEMME 1 1 CAME TO WATCH FOR ) APP THIS TO IT" I 1 HAVE SI&IO& O' SPRING I SO ALWAYS - J YOUR. ) ANP MAYBE HEAR ) HAVE A GA& f PENCIL. A ROBIN IN3. ( OR MUZZLE OR VOUR BUT FOR A SHEET 1 WHEW A FAT- l FOUNTAIM I SO SMALL AN' THIN A HEAP WORKS 1 , PEN.' f (A FATHEAD WRAPPEP ) I- A CROSSWORD ifY-mTf ' -y, A IXXk5HNJJTJlN PUZZLBf' p'1' RUSHING THE SEASON ?i i.'S.M m. Dr. Sander Faces Hearing April 12 Concord, N.H , March 13 nil The state board of registration In medicine today set April 12 for a hearing to determine whether Dr. Hermann N. Sander should be al lowed to resume the practice of medicine in this state. The hearing, closed to the pub. lie, will start at 19 a.m. In the state house at Concord. Dr. Sand er will be permitted to appear with legal counsel if he wants to do so. Dr. Sander's mercy murder trial ended Thursday In his ac quittal. He Was accused of hast ening the death of Mrs. Abbie C. Boirotto, Ii9, a flying cancer pa. tient, by injecting air into her veins last Dec. 4. The hearing date was announc ed by Dr. John S. Wheeler, exec utive secretary and member of the state board. Dr. Wheeler said the basis for the heal ing is the same as it was when Dr. Sander originally was called to appear before the board last January. Early Decision rtuo At that time, Dr. Wheeler said the board wanted to ask Dr. Sand er questions about a notation he put in a hospital record that he had injected 10 cubic centimeters of air four times in succession Into a patient's veins. The nota tion said the patient died within 10 minutes. ! Dr. Wheeler said the state , board probably would announce its decision in Dr. Sander's case i immediately after the hearing. ' Meanwhile, euthanasia propon. : cnts withdrew from New Hump, shire so as not to prejudice the' tnal of Dr. Sander by the state board. A "mercy death" meeting scheduled for Friday was post poned indefinitely. Mrs. Kubertson Jones of New York, executive vice-president of the Kuthanasia Society of Amer ica, said the scheduled Manches ter meeting was postponed be. cause "close friends of Dr. Sand er are of the opinion that the holding of such a meeting while his case is still to come before the board might be Injurious to him." Pickpocket Out Of Jail-Briefly Oakland, Calif., March, 13 tn Mrs. Lucy Elizabeth Worthing ton, a Bible-reading 73-year-old woman who once claimed she was one of the world's best pick pockets, gets out of jail today. But not for long. Kansas or California authorities both have warrants out for her arrest. The state prison for women at Leavenworth,. Kans., wants her extradited for parole violation on second degree burglary charges. And Long Beach, Uallf., wants her an the grand theft charge. Mrs. Worthlngton was arrested in nearby Berkeley, last October lor vagrancy. She admitted that during her crime career she stole "close to $500,000." . It started in Lansing, Kans., with a jail sentence when she was 33. In sawing her way out of jail, she dropped to the ground and broke her arm. Two nice men, who had just been doing a holdup down the street, saw me jump," she said. Years later, I met them in Los Angeles, and they introduced me to Bugsy Siegel (who later was killed in a gangland slaying), a. wonderful person. "I took some stuff in boxes across the border for Bugsy, and just three days before he died, he gave me a check for $10,000." . She told police her favorite psalm was, "The Lord is my shep ard, I shall not want," because the words had come true for her so often. . .c . "It's been a wonderful life of travel and fun," she said. The police are all such nice gentle men and my Bible such a comfort. "Mostly when they catch me, they think I look so nice, they just make me give back the money people Just keep leaving it where it's easy to get and then put me on a train." She came to Berkeley, Calif., last Tall because it has "so many churches." On the train from Salt Lake City, she said detec tives eyed her carefully, "as if I'd be stupid enough to steal any thing on a train." Police said she had been ar rested at least 50 times. license: examiner due A drivers' license examiner wil be on duty in Bend this Fri day, March 17. at 1050 Bond street between the hours of 9 a m. and 5 p.m.' Persons wishing licenses or permits to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled clos ing hour in order to assure com pletion of their applications with a minimum of delay. Airport to Get Nev Ppwer Line Prlnevlile',' March 13 Harold Henninger, manager of the Pa cific Power :& Light Co., said yes terday that a construction crew is now engaged In building a new line to the Prineville airport, located three miles west of the city on U. S. highway 28 between here and Redmond. Thfc airport is now served by a private generating system. The extension of the new line will make available floodlights for parking automobiles at the Pow ell Butte Farmers' club spring frolics. It will also make possible a lighting system for niglvt op erations at the field. The Pacific Telephone Tele graph Co. has also announced that a direct line soon will be extended to the airport, managed by Frank Strattan who also op erates an air school. March Weather Provides Mixture Chicago, March 13 dn-A March mixture of freezing rain, snow, high winds and cold plagued the nation today. Storms turned highways Into hazardous ribbons of ice and snow inmany areas, and at least 18 persons died during the week end in highway accidents and other mishaps attributed to bad weather. Snow Ml today in a narrow belt from western New York to northern Indiana. South of the snow stretched a narrow strip of freezing rain, and still farther south rain fell from the middle Atlantic seaboard westward into Arkansas and east Texas. Sub-zero temperatures were re ported in the northern Rockies, the Pakotas, and much of Minne sota and Wisconsin, with Boze man, Mont., recording a 14-de-gree below reading early today. Caves occur only where lime stone strata can be dissolved by water which percolates through the rocks and gradually enlarg es small cracks or pores into 'caverns. . 4mwA Salinas Saucer Latest Puzzle Salinas, Calif., March 13 U A "flying saucer"- that' frightened residents as, it frolicked through the California sky probably was a meteor. University of Califor nia astronomers said today. Dr. Olln Eggen of the univer sity observatory on nearby Mount Hamilton said the meteor must have been a "fair-sized one, large enough to get down close to earth before burning out." A score of persons called the sheriff's office and fie local news paper Saturday night to report a bright object in the skies. Some said it dove on their automobiles, others said it was looping the loop and another said it zipped across the horizon. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, amateur photographer Bette Mal les wondered whether she had taken a. picture of a flying saucer. She planned to give scientists pictures of a disk-like object she said she photographed In a sun set sky. MissMalles said she was about to take a picture ot a small plane flying over nearby Hawthorne air field when she saw something shining closer by. She snapped the shutter on It. "Doughnut" Shown When she developed the film, she found she had exposed a lum inous oblong "doughtnut" with a dark center, suggesting a hole. Ahead of the disK was a circular blob, somewhat resembling a miniature sun. ( Lines of light seemed to project backward from the "sun" toward the "doughnut," and a cone.like fainf light connected with the blob, to the disk. Another cone of light projected backward from the disk to another blob of light. The most vivid description of the Salinas "saucer" came from Mrs. Sam Raguindin of Chualar, Calif. She said she was driving south of Salinas when it "swoop ed down" over her par. She thought it was a meteor at first, but she changed her mind when it appeared headed for her. "I got scared and stopped the car," she said. "The thing looked like two dinner plates placed to- - . DANGER. OVERRATED Los Angeles, March 13 LP Radiation dangers of atomic bombs have been overrated but blast and burn effects are more terrible than realiml, an army radiation expert says. "Eighty-five per cent of the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagas aki were from shock and fires," Col. P. Coaney said, "and only 15 per cent died of radiation burns. Cooney addressed 100 doctors yesterday at a post graduate as sembly of the College of Medical evangelists. gether. "It caine down to what looked like about 2,000 feet. As it came close, it gave off a strong bluish white light that hurt our eyes like a welder's torch." Then, she continued, the saucer seemed to "loop the loop" and whizzed away southwards. Five minutes later, market own er Hiram Don called to report a bright object in the sky. He said ft had a fiery tail and was trav eling "quite close" to the ground. Other witnesses said the object looked like a meteor or falling star, "although not exactly." Japanese Mine Ashore on Coast Seattle, March 13 UPi A naval demolition crew was preparing today to destroy a horned Jap anese mine found washed up on tiie bench near Florence, Ore. 'The "J-B" type mine, the third found on the. Pacific coast this year, was spotted by a civilian and reported to the Siuslaw, Ore., coast guard station. 5 Lt. Cmilr. Robert W. Dart and Warrant Officer Kenneth E. Tay lor left for Florence early today to explode the mine by rifle fire. Juan Ortiz of Seville was the first white man to reside in America. He' lived in Alabama from 1520 until 1539. 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