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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OBEGON PBESS - SlblJhS? f v.1?1 ,!Jr'"').lW,;lil?1 ' Tta. Bend Bull.ttaJD.il,) Ert. ltl fail 1 w.n J..erWK,a xcHi Surnuw utd CtrUio BoJUIm. by Th. Beii Bull.Un EnUMd u gMocd dm lUttar. J.nuw inn, .t'th. Fortolflw at Bond, Orwm Under Act o Uareh I, int. , BOBERT W. SAWYER Idltor-Huiunr HENRY N. FOWLER Auoelato Editor An Independtnt Ntwinpw SUnitliut for th. Square Dral. Clean Buiineaa. Clm Politic id the Beat Intereata of Bend and Central Oregon MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS By Mail , . Bj Carrier On. :.... .. 811 Month. 1 . $4.60 . Six month! Tore. Montha 12.40 . One Month AU SubaertDtiona are DUja and PAYAHLB IN AnvANCR Plemea notify na of any ehanira of addreaa or failure to receive the paper regularly. ,112.0(1 ..(6.00 ..S1.M ' SOME TV A FACTS The Northwest public power association met in Portland last Week. The sales Dromotion manacrer of the Chattannoera. Tenn., electric power board was amontr those present and many questions were put to him about the TVA. According to a news report or the meeting this manager, when asked wnetner otner parts or the nation are footing the bill for power development in tne Tennessee valley, said, . , any money spent is being paid back with interest over a long amortization Deriod. He spoke, also, of the money saved in power rates by Chat tanooga consumers. Now we hannen to have on hand a codv of the renort on the audit of Tennessee valley authority for the fiscal .year enqea June bu, made try the comptroller general of the .united states, it does not agree with the sales promotion manager. This report shows that the investment "allocated by the (TVA) board to power" on June 30, 1949 was $431,- wuu.uuu. tf unds irom the sale of bonds in the amount of ?65, 072,500 had gone into the power investment. The balance had come chiefly from appropriations. Some $41,902,121 only was represented by the value of transfers from the army. Read now what the audit report says of the interest paid on the investment in power operations and remember that if a util ity pays little or no Interest on the money that has gone into no uiveaiiiieiib u, can oner low rates, as at unattanooga. The report says:. ' The government's investment in the Authority's power pro- fram is represented by appropriations, bonds issued to the United tates Treasury, and transfers from the Department of the V Army. The only portion that bears Interest is the bonds. Al though the bonds call ior Interest of 1 per cent, 2Vt per cent, , 2 per cent, and 2tt per cent, or an average rate of 2.32 per cent at June 30, 1949, the actual interest paid by the Authority to June 30, 1949, by temporary agreeement was 1 per cent. Effective August 16, 1949. the interest rate was Inerpaspri hv tho ITnlttui States treasury to 2 per cent until f urther notice. This rate was 1 1949PUted t0 e 0081 01 money to the treasury as of May 31, Section 14 of the TVA Act states it is the policy of the act that, in order as soon as practicable to make the power projects self liquidating, the surplus power shall be sold at rates which, in the opinion of the board, when applied to the normal capacity of the Authority s power facilities, will produce gross revenues in ex . cess of. the cost of production of the power. Unless all of the i costs to the Government of the power operations are included in the Authority's statement of power operations, the relation between power gross revenues and costs cannot be- completely established, and it cannot be shown conclusively that the power i operations are self-supporting. , On the basis of this authoritative report we should say that the gentleman from Chattanooga was wrong. The sit uation is as described by Wendell Willkie in the quotation we have used before: "The Tennessee river flows through five states and drains the nation." Nor is the country footing the bill for power operations alone. The authority owns and operates five public-use ter minals. And the audit report says, "Eachiof the terminals has operated at a loss each .Veer since it wa.4, nut. in nnornrinTi with the exception of Guhtersville,?which' showed a. small pront in lwa resulting irom the handling of military ve hicles."' ..' Another TVA activity is fertilizer production. In the year uiiutu cAtiininauuu 11 anuwea losses, also. It is unfortunate that these facts from officinl not given as much space in the news as that given to the uungs saia at me pudiic power association meeting. ' TRY THESE. TOO In his Bill-Board column in the Klamath Herald and News Bill Jenkins cecently told of a visit to Portland and then said, ui, ma juui uuy, Liie luiiuwing : Stopped at a couple of spots in Eugene, as is my custom and asked how the Willamette Pass road was. Was told that it was impassable, or so close to that there was little use In taking it. Best way to go would be the Uoseburg, Grants Pass, Medford, Grcensprlngs route. After asking I made it home in something shortly over three hours, construction along the dam site and all. Seems that old rumor still per sists desolte all we can do to rlisnel It We are glad to read that one can make good time over the Willamette and now we invite Bill Jenkins to try the North Santiam and the Warm Springs routes and give his readers a report on mem. ... Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's running mate on the progressive iicnet two years ago, will be out of a public job' come next January and he has signed up for appearances in several operettas including "The Desert Song." Singing "One A1U1JC IVC BUl.UDf, f-'Vn'... h r J v. TO - msv' B-D. B. VI tqa trick. Koprlated through the coaTtetj of tba Bt, LooU Vmt-p WASHINGTON COLUMN By Douglas Larsen (NEA Staff Correspondent) SALT WATER TO CAI.1KOK NIA, Mil. TRUMAN? (Astorian-Budget) President Truman, in his sar castic reply to Rep. Norblad's let ter of disapproval of plans to di vert Columbia river water to Cal ifornia, leaves no doubt that he believes the project practical and that he is in favor of It. So we might as well make up our minds that hundreds of thou sands of dollars of the people's money will be spent by Mr. Tru man and his aides in making sur veys of the proposal. However, there seems little ex cuse for Mr. Truman's sneering reply to Mr. Norblad. Certainly there Is nothinR wrong in Mr. Norblad's roptrr. ing of a protest on behalf of the people of the northwest, who have a vital Interest in the Columbia river and the use of Its wnter. It wag rather petty of Mr. Truman to be sarcastic In his reply. Mr. Truman suggests tnat Mr. "Norblad and his colleagues '"In form yourselves more fully on the situation before you come to a conclusion that this project can . not and should not be done." He himself, however, either Is pretty ignorant about the Colum bia river or pretty careless with his language, for he says that "there has never been any Inten tion to divert any water from the Columbia river, except at the point where It flows into the Pa cific ocean." The "point" where the Colum bia river flows Into the Pacific isiahout Deiow isionn, neiween inp two jetties. Suivly Mr. Truman does not propose to start his pipeline there? The Columbia river at the point where it flows into the Pacific ocean is well mixed with ocean water, due' to the flow of the tides In and out of the estuary. Colum bia river water pumped 700 miles or more from that point to Cali fornia would be little different in quality from Pacific ocean water pumped out of San Francisco Really. Mr. Truman! Ynn rlnn't intend to pump salt water 700 miles into a state that has the Pacific ocean to provide its own oic waier supply, do you? Mayhe you, too, should inform yourself a little more fully on the situation. NORBI.AH makks a case (Oregon City Banner-Courier) Those who will have read the exchange of letters between Con gressman Norblad of Oregon and President Truman on diverting Columbia river water to Califor nia, will discern that the presi dent s statements are general ities, based on vague knowledge, while Representative Norblad builds up his case like a trained lawyer who knows his facts. The president makes a snide remark about Mr. Norblad's "col leagues in the northwest" as having "made the statement thai (rand Coulee dam would serve only coyotes, ground hogs and Jack rabbits" The president should know his history better or tell Mr Nor blad which "colleagues." Mr. Tru man was apparently thinking of a statement reputed to a mem- nor of congress a centurv non letting Oregon Into the union a statement attributed to Daniel Webster but never prop erly substantiated, thai the whole Oregon country was only good fur coyotes, ground hogs and jack rabbits. it U very doubtful, indeed, that Washington With its trarll. tional sensitivity to national and world crises. Washineton's social life has already begun to adjust to the new order of things caused Dy me snooting in Korea. What with tensions mounting. contracts getting bigger, deci sions becoming more momentous and the pace generally stepping up, it's to be expected that the towns main means of relaxation should gear itself to meet the new demands, Well, it can be re ported with satisfactfon that those persons responsible for keeping the city's social wheels turning have resDonded magnif icently to the challenge, Summers In Washington are notoriously dull in the cocktail party and reception departments. But no sooner did the reds in North Korea begin their infa mous crossing of the -38th paral lel in force than the seasonal low in subsidized conviviality sharply reverse itself. Caterers were forced to call their waiters back from nearbv vacation spots. Liquor dealers had to rebuild stocks quickly, so cial secretaries disappeared from the Wardman nark Dool. and hn. tels were forced to halt some Qf their midsummer redecorating. Whatever rating history might give to the Korean crisis, it'll never be said that Washington's hostesses didn't give it its proper due. . Looking toward the normally souped-up .party pace this com ing fall, it promises to be closer to an all-out war level than one would expect from a mere police action affair. Gwenn Cafritz, the attractive,- Dior-dressed, current Out on the Farm By lis S. Grant Sept. 21 Something's always just around the corner. This time it's winter. There hasn't been a killing frost, out Calico way, but the rowing season Is practically over. The fields look spent and weary, and ready for a rest. The pastures are getting spot ty, and all too soon, stock feed ing will start, and the huge hay stacks will begin to shrink. Even now, the cows get extra feed at milking time, because when they leave the barns at niuht It'o inn uhi r ior mem 10 orowse. The potato vines are turning yellbw, but they're still erect and luxuriant. Everyone Is waiting ior a goou irost, to stal l the digging- On Calico farm, the harvest will consist of pulling the corn stalks and feeding them to But tercup. She's crazy about corn, which proves that she's a crea ture of unusual wisdom and good taste. RKTl'RNS TO COKVAI.I.IS Madras, Sept. 21 John Hess, former instructor In ennineeriiio at Oregon State college, who had been here since last fall assisting his mother, Mrs. W. J. Hess in operation of a drygooris store fol lowing mo sudden death of his father, a former citv councilman, has returned to Corvallis with his family. Hess will engage in grad uate work aimed at a master's de gree in engineering. W. J. Hess was fatally stricken while attending a city council meeting. No. .1 hostess of the city, sums it up in this succinct fashion: "Conversations' will be even more significant this winter than they have been since the end of the war." ' ... However, the most reliable of all guides op what the city is in for in the party way is Carolyn Hagner Shaw's fall edition of Washington's social register which has' just gone to press. With only partial mobilization, Mrs. Shaw's book includes more than 1,000 new names And she admits tha,t she'll probably have to put out a midwinter supple ment to take care of the great influx. On the other hand, the number of persons 1 normally ' droDDed from the book because of trans fers and persons just leaving town is low. - About the most important name deleted from the new edition is that of C. V. Whitney, one of the richest men in the world. He has left town since quitting as assis tant secretary of commerce. The two highest rankine new names in Mrs. Shaw's book, she reports, are those of W. Averell Harrlman, the president's assis tant on foreign affairs, and Thom as K, Finletter, the new secre tary of) the air force. Still an other important new name, espe cially significant in the social whirl,- is that of John Paul Sim mons, the state department's new chief of protocol. It just so hap pens inai summons is not a stui-fed-shlrt type, usually associated wan noiuers ol jobs of that type. He's already a party favorite. They're saying that Mrs Tru man is relieved that she will con tinue to be excused from throw; ing the traditional White House receptions because the building is oeing renovated, me Blair house where the first family now re sides Is completely inadequate for gainerings or any size, although if tiie burning urge to entertain was there, it could probably be done In one of the mansions available for such purposes in the city. on Embassy row the Dredic- lions are that the swollen diplo matic population will do Its part to keep the tempo torrid. It's a sort of mathematical certainty that an embassy will entertain In direct proportion to the seri ousness of ils country's crisis at home. There's one exception to this rule. A call to the Russian em bassy asking what ils plans were for the coming social season pro duced the following conversa tion: "You'll have to ask the man who is In charge of that func tion." When asked to be put in touch with that person, the reply was: "He's in Moscow." hose who opposed Grand Coulee ever said anything of the kind. Certainly they weren't Norblad's colleagues Ior Norblad was a youngster practicing law when Coulee was started, and a fight- UK kuiukt ani-oaa wncn it was being completed. The federal government hav ing taken claim t0 the oil tide liinds of California, the president might now see what he could do lii pipe the oil to the northwest, pil is a California resource; Co- iiiiui.in nei water is a north W7i "?m,rcr- An even exchange Use classified ads in The Bulletin Where to Find CHRISTIAN SUPPLIES! Religious Books O Christian Correspond ence Notes Ail Occasions Greeting Cards Religious Record Albums Art Plaques Famous Christian Paintings Triumphant Life Calendars Wall Mottoes Sunshine arid Doehla Christmas Cards Come In and e our lovely awmrtim-ni of samples. I'laee your order early to Insure proper delivery. Christian Supply Canter 1 Minnesota Thnne HM8-J Long Beach, Calif. (IP) Wom en whose only sin Is behig un able to resist a double chocolate malted for, the road have taken a leaf from Alcoholics Anony mous In their battle with avoir dupois. 'f They've banded together as Fatties Anonymous and operate on the same principles as the successful anti-tlppllng organiza tion. . .. The 250-pound-and-over heavy weights meet regularly to dis cuss diet, scan the scales and work out together. 1?le., ormal meetings have their lighter moments, at least no far as the agenda goes. - Fatties put aside thoughts of fats, sugars, starches and carbo' hydrates when their nm nf Trust moans in close harmony about hips that never come in. Heavyweights Get Together The group's president, a night club entertainer whose - pound age earned her the club name of Miss 281, spices members' testi monials about their faithful diet ing with ad lb comments. "AU of you gals are going lo be a lot more splc - when you've got less span," she promises. As for herself. Miss 281 says. "I used to have a ' shipshape figure. But I developed an enlarg ed keel." Members' mutual aid doesn't stop, however, after the meeting. They give each other, pep talks when they get the urge to topple off the dry toast wagon. The over-tempted Fatty calls another member for a psycholog ical pick-up, a system they say has hacked away poundage and inches from their outsize meas urements. . , Many of the determined reduc ers admit they Joined in hopes of trimming their hips o snare a man. But any dreams they may have of a shortcut by. way ol finding a similarly afflicted male already in the club have failed to come true thus far,. ' -'. " ' "We'd like to have a few men members," Miss 281 says. "But somehow none ever joins." THURSDAY." SEPTEMBER,' 21. m ACCIDENT FATAT Portland, Sept. 21 iu ? 1.: - McReyneids. 56, TualathTL. killed W nlov,, ...u- 77 - - ----- ut'Jl h a crasher Intn na.lrA.i .... lul crashed Into parked automnhn on JtawthorneVboulevarda7utu2 suffered a heart attack. Bulletin aasslfledsBrigp, NOT TOO DUMB! . . Brunswick, Germany, Sept. 21 IP) A 14-year-old school girl was asked to write an essay on the! coming west uerman census. She wrote: "A census takes place once before a war starts to find out how many 'people are living and once after the war to see now many are left, over." "NULLO" NATCBE'8 DEODORANT The Green Medicine report In August Reader's Din SAFELY STOPS body. bii and foot odor! , Available at ECONOMY DRUGS, Inc Bend Furnitures Feature Among New Arrivals Values You 11 enjoy shopping Bend Furniture Company You'll be thrilled with the new arrivals. for fall plug the generous savings offered. Make it point to visit Bend Furniture Company! . Oregon Trail Bunk Beds Just the thing for the boy's 'room. Finest construction lo cally made from Ponderosa pine fashioned with the best. $49.95 t nTT BABY CRIBS An .excellent asortment of styles and sizes. 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