PXGE FOUR
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1950
THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
Th. Bend Bulletin (Weekly) 1908-ieM The Bend Bulletin (Dally) Et 1916
Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday and Certain Holidays by The Hend Uulletin
788 788 Wall Street Bend, Oregon
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ISSUES AND VOTES
Anyone who follows elections at all closely cannot tut mar
vel now and then at the keen interest displayed in relatively
trivial issues and the calm, amounting almost to apathy, with
which questions of great importance are too often received.
In- Bend this month there has been full cause for such won
derment, first in the enthusiasm shown in the city advisory
election and then in the slight recognition which voters gave
when the school district's excess levy was at stake.
Let us point out that, in the main, the city of Bend and the
Bend school district occupy the same ground, possess the
same wealth in land, improvements and chattels, and have
the same registered voters. The school district does, of course,
have somewhat more of each of these than the city. All of the
city of Bend is within the school district; not all of the school
district is within the city of Bend. Nevertheless it.was for the
city balloting that 2,443 voters turned out, while in the dis
trict election 394 recorded their opinions at the polls.
As school district elections go, it wasn't so bad. The number
was slightly greater than that at the levy election in 1948 and
far greater than the few dozen who went to the trouble to "X"
their simple ballots and decide the extent of district taxation
in many of the years preceding. But in this voting Tuesday,
a matter of $268,467.17 was at issue, well over half of the
district's proposed tax levy for operation and maintenance
for the 1950-51 fiscal year.
Now the city of Bend has a registered voting strongth of
6,543. That of the school district is difficult to give exactly
because its boundaries do not coincide with precinct boundar
ies, and it is by precincts that the registration is taken. We
know, however, that there are more voters in the district than
in the city and so it may readily be computed that approxi
mately six per cent of the voters passed upon this tax of
$268,467.17. Those who Voted for it were only four per cent
of the registration. ,
Understand that we have no quarrel with the results. The
money is needed and will be carefully expended. But we shud
der at the willingness of the majority to leave such decisions
to the minority. That is not government by the people. For the
outstanding modern example or minority rule and what it
leads to, consider Russia.
But get back to the city election. It was called solely to
offer advice to the commission on daylight saving and wheth
er or not to require dogs to be tied up. It was unneeded advice
on .subjects not of primary consequence, yet 2,443 men and
women rushed to give it, then anxiously awaited news of the
results.
It is apparent that such things interested them greatly and
equally apparent that the matter of a $268,467.17 tax levy,
on which depended the operation of their public school sys
tem, interested them but slightly. We don't know just why.
FEW COUNTIES FILL CHESTS
' In line with what we were saying Tuesday regarding the
multiplicity of camnaiKns for funds and the failure of most of
them to attain the arbitrarily determined quota, reports just
received from Oregon Chest headquarters are, we chink, ot
considerable interest. A few of the counties had made a go of
it by April 1; more ot them hadn t. Hood Hiver, Clackamas,
Sherman, Harney, Grant, Curry, Lane, Gilliam, Multnomah,
Baker and Wasco completed their work, balancing local and
state chest budgets. The rest of the counties, of which of
course Deschutes is one, had chests that were from 6.833 per
cent to 71.b72 per cent empty.
To make it exact, 31.421 per cent of the Deschutes county
chest remained to be filled at a time when all this was sun
posed to be finished. In the meantime other drives had conic
and gone, some successfully, some unsuccessfully. Enough of
them, it seems, to make a chest program, which is supposed to
be all-inclusive and isn t, extremely dilticult to put over.
Enough of them also, according to our observation, to en
able people to find out how very easy it is to say no.
Referring once more to our Tuesday discussion, a correc
tion is in order as to the record of success in funds campaigns
in the past five year period. The Red Cross made it in 1948
under the chairmanship of W, J, Uaer. Not only was the
$8,000 goal reached but continued solicitation brought the to
tal close to $9,000.
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Cold War
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American Influence In eastern
Europe which was culminated In
the closing of American "Ulnar
ics" in Czechoslovakia and I he
ouster of a U.S. embassy attache
on "spy" charges.
3. The long-dormant soviet cam
paign to gain control of the Dar
danelles flared anew as the con
trolled Moscow press attacked
Turkey mid demanded revision
of the Montreux convention de
signed to keep Russian warships
out of the Mediterranean.
4. Increased pressure on Kin
land to force her more firmly into
the Russian orbit through thinly
veiled charges that Klnuish
Americans are spying on the sov
iet union.
In its Trieste note, Russia said
the situation has become "intol
erable in the Adriatic seaport. It '
charged that the western powers
had violated their obligations un- j
der the Italian peace treaty, which
set up Trieste as a free territory
and provided for appointment of :
a governor by the U.S. security j
council.
Russia Ignored the fact that the
security council never svas able
to agree on a governor, and that
the United States, Britain and ;
Franco proposed in March, ISMS,
that the territory be returned to
Italy.
That proposal still Is the offi
cial basis fif American policy, al
though U.S. officials now ac
knowledge that any settlement
"must take Yugoslavia's Interests
Into account." This is widely in
terpreted as the result ot heller
relations with Yugoslavia follow
lug Marshal Tito's break with the
krcmlin. !
Mary Ferguson
Dies at Spokane
Mrs. Mary Ferguson, 8(i. for
mer long time Head resident, died
early this morning in Spokane,
where she has been making her
home with n son, llollie, since
last fall.
Mrs. Ferguson had lived in
Hend approximately 30 years. Slit
was a member of the Hend Meth
odist church and for !( years a
member of the Rebekah lodge.
Survivors include a son, Ralph,
of Hend.
Complete ordinary and funeral
arrangements will he announced
later by Nlswonger-Winslow fu
neral homo.
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single houses, row houses, apart
ments, Hats, trailers, tents, rented
rooms, hotels or other institu
tions. The census taker will also have
to determine how old housing
units are, and how many are di
lapidated. He will .have to count
houses with hot and cold running
water, cold water only, outside
faucets, hand pumps, wells, bath
tubs, showers, outside privies, ra
dios, TV's, iceboxes, kitchen sinks
or no such fixtures at all. Also,
how many families have to share
such facilities.
All this detailed information,
involving some 30 questions, each
with from two to five possible
answers, ought to give a pretty
accurate picture of America's
housing situation. It will also be
good market data for manufac
turers and merchants of house
furnishings.
All this housing data can then
be coupled with answers to the
most controversial question of all,
which every fifth person must an
swer. It is, "Last year, how much
money did you earn working as
an employe for wages or sal
ary?" This will provide a good
basis for determining just what
Income, groups need what hous
ing, and what price they can af
ford to pay for it. This Is the.
key to all housing legislation.
The questions on employment
:about 20 of them are going to
give an accurate answer to un
employment conditions. There
has been much criticism of pres
ent bureau of census sample sur
veys on unemployment. The pres
ent figure of over '1.G00.000 is con
sidered low, in that it does not
Include workers laid off, tempor
arily unemployed, or working
only part-time. If all these cate
gories were included, unemploy
ment might be over G.000,000.
By Peter Edson
(NEA Wushinictan Correspondent)
Washington (NEA) A lot of
the questions being asked by cen
sus takers these next few weeks
may seem pretty silly. For in
stance:
'If your house Is rented fur
nished, what would it rent for
unlurmshed .'
"Did this person do any work
at all last week, not counting
worn around the house?"
"Last year, how much money
did his relatives in this household
receive from Interest, dividends,
veterans' allowances, pensions,
rents, or other income, aside from
earnings?" i
For farmers, there are a couple
of hundred special questions to
fill out, on both sides of a big
sheet of paper. They want to
know everything about the farm
er's life, including how many
cantaloupes, cowpeas, tame dew
berries and turkeys over four
months old ho raised.
All these seemingly silly ques
tions are supposed to have a pur
pose. It may take a year and a
half to compile the answers.
By that time a lot of data may
be out of flato. The country is
growing faster than many ex
perts thought possible. Marriage
and birth rates are up. Total
population will be over 151,000,
000. Farm population is declin
ing. -There may be 47,000,000
families.
All these things create new
problems for congress. Answers
to the census taker's questions
may he the basis- tor new farm,
housing, social security, education
and other legislation for the next
10 years.
Take housing. All housing le
gislation proposed or passed since
the end of the war has been based
on conflicting estimates of sup
ply and demand. Private industry
home builders Insist they can take
care of the situation. Advocates
of more public housing insist that
the private building industry
hasn't taken adequate care of the
situation In the past and won't
be able to do II hi the future.
The 1 !).-)() census taker's first
housing question is to determine
how many families are living in
CHANGE REQUESTED
. United Air Lines today asked
the civil aeronautics board to in
clude Redmond as a co-intermediate
point with Bend on its route
certificate, according to J. C. Sc
dell, station manager here.
"Such inclusion," Sedell said,
"will make official a service which
has existed in actuality since
United began operations to Bend
Redmond October 1, 1946."
The designation "Bend-Red-raon"
regularly has been used in
Unlted's passenger schedules, al
though the airline only has been
able to list Bend in its official air
freight traffic.
Use classified ads In The Bulletli.
for quirk results.
ONE SOLUTION
T.ltelirieUl Minn Amil '.'1 (111
The county treasurer today won
dered just' how to take this note j
which accompanied Theodore B. i
Larsons real estate tax return: j
"The cannibals had a way of j
solving high taxes. When they j
got higher than the cost of food, i
they ale the tax collector." '
Use classified ads In The Bulletin
lor quick results.
Some 6,000 American h'gh
schools are now offering some
lorm of automobile-driving edu
cation to about hull a million
etudenu.
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Flood Threat
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area showed water content 41.7
per cent above normal. He said
the stream flow in the Spokane
river would approach the record
1948 high. The Chelan reservoir
was 45 per cent above normal and
would be filled by June 1. He
termed 1950 "another lush year"
for the northwest power pool.
W. T. Frost, Medford weather
forecaster, said western Oregon's
record snowfall had Increased 19
per cent since March 1. He said
the water content was 63 per
cent greater than In 1948 and
90 per cent above average. A
new snow record was set at Cas
cade summit near the Willamette
pass highway with 106.4 inches
of snow containing 51.3 inches
of water, Frost said.
Frost said the flood potential
was great in the Willamette, San
tiam and McKenzie rivers.
There will be less than average
precipitation in the Columbia ba
sin in the next 30 days with
weather slightly warmer titan the
season average, Col. E. S. Elli
son of the weather bureau predicted.
School Music
Event Slated
A grade and junior high school
music festival has been slated for
Friday, April 28, it was announc
ed today by Don Pence, director
of music for Bend schools.
The program will be held at
the high school gymnasium and
will begin at 8 p. m.
Participating will be the begin
ners and advanced bands and or
chestras of Kenwood and Allen
schools, chorus groups from the
Allen, Kenwood, and Reid schools,
tonette bands from Reid and Yew
Lane schools and the Junior high
school band.
A similar program is planned
for the junior and senior high
school on May 12.
Tickets for both programs are
available from students.
OUT ON THE FARM
By n S. Grant
April 21 Everyone knows
about the "serenade of the bells,"
but I think the "serenade of the
frogs" is just as romantic. The
frogs were singing part-music last
night, with lusty voices. We first
noticed their noctural harmoniz
ing about a week ago. How they
can congregate in such large num
bers, so soon after the ditch is
turned on for the season, is a
mystery to me.
Do the frogs burrow down in
the stream beds for the winter,
and sleep soundly while ice and
snow cover their resting place?
o they float down from the
source of the water, when the
Irrigation season starts? Or did
they rain down from the heavens
on a cloud of mist, or sail on a
saucer from the planet Mars? It
doesn't seem likely that they
would develop from tiny polywogs
to grown-up frogs with baritone
voices in two short weeks.
I must remember to spend a
sunny summer day dreaming by
the ditch bank. Maybe I can
figure It out
Of a total of 162 surplus bison
of Yellowstone park slaughtered
the past winter, the carcasses of
161 were sent to Indian schools
and Indian reservations.
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