V
PAGE FOUR
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. OREGON
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950
THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
Th Bend Bulletin (Weekly) ieot-1981 The Band Bulletin (D.llj) Eit 191S
Pubyihed Evr Afternoon Except Sunuw ud Certain Holidtyo by The Bend Bulletin
?na Wall Street ' Benlli 0raI011
Entered u Second Claaa Matter. JenuMrr B. 1917. at tha Foatofflca at Bend, Oregon
Under Act oi March I, 187V.
ROBERT W. SAWYER Editor-Manager . HENRY N. FOWLER Aaeoclata Editor
An Independent Nawapaner Standing for the Square Deal, Clean Buaineaa, Clean Politico
and the Beat lntareata of Bend and Central Oregon
: MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS
By MaU . By Carrier
One Year 18.60 One Year lit 00
81a Month. 14.50 Six montha tU.OO
Three Month! 2.l0 One Month 11.00
All Subacrlptlona are DUal and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE .
: Fleaea notify no of any ehanga of addreaa or failure to receive the paper regularly.
WHEN FIGHTING FIRE
When the . subject of highway transport gasoline de
liveries to local service stations was being considered by
the city commission early in the spring one of the points
of special interest was that of fire hazard It was admitted
at that time that althpugh, risk would be lessened if the size of
tankers was limited to 1,500 gallons, danger of fire would not
be eliminated. Transferral of gasoline from one storage to an
other of necessity presented a danger of combustion which
was not presented when no transfer was being made. Clipper
deliveries were forbidden to reduce the risk represented by
large loads. Regulations covering the manner in which gas
oline is drawn off into service station storage from the de
livery truck were enacted to minimize the second danger.
The wisdom of restricting siae of delivery trucks was
shown at the fire Monday afternoon when a small truck
which was making a dump at the Park service station was
pushed out of the way before its contents could be involved
in the blaze. No such man-handling of one of the huge clip
per transports would have been possible. But the fact that
mere was lire ai au is iiiuicttuuii mat an imijjui muil piuviaiuu
of the ordinance was not scrupulously followed. Section 4 of
the ordinance requires :
The operator of any vehicle delivering petroleum products
shall remain at the control valve of such vehicle at all
times while such products are being discharged there
from. The fact of the matter is -that it was gasoline overflow
ing the service station's underground tank while delivery
was being made that provided opportunity for the fire. How
it was ignited is uncertain. What is more important is that
it was there to be ignited. The driver of the truck had mis
judged the storage capacity remaining in the tank, it was
reported by the fire. chief. Of the accuracy of this statement
there can be no question but we think it fair ito assume also
that close control of the delivery might well have compen
sated for such misjudgment. Beyond this point full praisei
is due for the truck operator's rescue of a man threatened
with asphyxiation in a nearby burning building. It is this
act that we. choose to remember. The need, however, for
strict observance of ordinance provisions by oil company
employes and for equally strict enforcement of its own rules
by the city remains apparent.
Since Monday various criticisms of the manner in which
the fire department handled the blaze have come to attention.
In them there is fact and there is also misunderstanding.
Facts merit recognition and it is as important that under
standing should replace misunderstanding.
The statements that the department answered the call
with only two men and that it used'water on the flames in
stead of the chemicals which should be used on u gasoline fire
are true and these are the basis of the criticism. But they are
only part of the truth.
Here is the rest of the truth : ''. , ,
The house crew at the fire station numbers three. Two
of the three responded to the call, the third properly remain
ing on duty at the station. Members of the volunteer fire
department, however, summoned by the alarm, left their
jobs and hastened to the scene. In the end there was a total
of 18 firemen fighting the flames.
The fire was reported by telephone from the nearby Park
grocery, which was given as the source of the call. It was the
grocery which was naturally assumed at fire headquurters
to be the location of the blaze. So the skeleton crew manned
a pumper, equipped to fight an ordinary fire. Arrived at the
secene they realized the need for a foamite outfit but the
flames could not be neglected because of thRt. They did the
best with what they had and their best was pretty good. The
delivery truck was saved from coming to explosion heat until
it could be pushed away. The adjoining' building was pro
tected in a measure by water. It was inevitable that the
means used should flood the underground tank, forcing more
gasoline to overflow and provide fresh fuel tor the flames
until the chemicals came to combat them but, even so, if
was found possible to close the tank opening under cover oi
water spray. The general result was prevention of what could
have been utter disaster. When the chemical truck came later
it finished the job.
So much for clarification. Now as to some conclusions
which we believe are warranted.
The size of the house crew at the fire station should be
increased but this, it is to be emphasized, is not the respon
sibility of the fire department, which can only advise and
recommend. It is the responsibility of the city, of its budget
makers and of the people who vote on the levies without
which budgets in Benu are rather meaningless.
Equipment, if this is possible, should be of a kind which
will provide for any emergency. Chemical tanks installed on
hose trucks or pumpers would give a gratifying margin of
protection. Again, granting always mechanical feasibility,
availability of such dual purpose equipment must depend in
the final analysis on budgeting and levy support.
Bend can have just as good fire fighting equipment, just
as strong a fire department as it is willing to pay lor.
Polio Strikes 3d
Child in Family
Portland. Oct. 2 l'Ui The third
child of widowed Mrs. Frances
Meyer of Portland was being
treated In Doernbecher hospital
for spinal polio today.
Larry Meyer, 11, and Jerry, 10,
are reported recovering In Ilola
day Park hospital from the dis
ease and Jay. 6, wus the latest
viclim in the family.
Mrs.- Meyer said the costs of
treatment of all three were being
paid by the Multnomah county
chapter of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis.
Jerry was temporarily In an
Iron lung but was improved, Lar
ry's arms, legs and nock were af
fected and Jay's symptoms were
a still back, neck and leg. The
older two brothers were admitted
three days apart late last month.
IN-ll lKI IN ACCIDENT
Piineville. Oct. 21 (Special I
Gilbert Bushnell. 22, was brought
to the Piineville .hospital last
niRht for treatment of injuries re
ceived in an automobile acc ident
near Madras Friday evening.
Bushnell, a resident of the Gate
way community, suffered -a leg
fracture". Details of the accident
were not learned here.
Out on the Farm
By Ha S. Grant
Oct. 21 Cranberries ait; on
the market now, and if you use
a few now and then with your
every-nay meals, you II he glad
you didn't wait until Thanksgiv
ing. One of our favorite dishes for
this time of year is Mrs. Marion
Poor's tart cianherry salad.
The ingredients are 1 package
lemon-flavored gelatine. 1 pint hot
water, 2 cups law cranberries, 1
cup raw apples, 1 whole orange
and "i cup sugar.
Dissolve gelatine In hot water.
Put cranberries, apples and or
ange (including peel) through
food chopper. Mix with sugar
and let stand half hour. Add to
gelatine mixture and chill.
Plans Pasco Trip
Prlneville, Oct. 21 At the
urging of Charles E. Strtcklin,
state engineer of Oregon, and
William M. Welsh, executive sec
retary of the National Reclama
tion association, local citizens in
terested In development of the'
the Crooked river project will go
to Pasco, Wash., on Thursday,
November- 2, to attend a meeting
called by the Columbia Basin
commission. The session, it was
reported by Vernon E. Bjorklund,
will be devoted exclusively to a
discussion of the so-called com-,
prehenslve plan and basin ac
count. In a letter to LaSelle Coles,
manager of the Ochoco irriga
tion district and member of the
reclamation committee of the lo
cal chamber of commerce, Strick
lin stated that the Pasco meeting
has been called for the purpose of
thoroughly considering the draft
of the revision of the bill intro
duced last summer by Senator
Magnuson of Washington
(S.3428) which covers the propos
al of financing reclamation pro
jects partially by revenue from
power sales of dams in the Co
lumbia basin. Continuing, Stride
lin said:
"This bill, as perhaps you are
aware, provides for setting up
a basin account and the method
of providing assistance to irriga
tion projects in which It Is found
that water users cannot repay the
total construction cost under fed
eral laws, and authorize certain
Irrigation projects including the
Crooked River project.''
"It appears to me that It would
be very desirable if you and
Judge A. R. Bowman could at
tend this meeting for the purpose
of becoming familiar with the
terms and conditions of the new
bill. .
-"If coneress ever enacts a law
containing principles set forth in
the draft, it would appear that it
would be necessary that Oregon
support the same. In the past
considerable objections have been
raised'ln Oregon against the prin
ciples of a basin account and us
ing the Interest component. It is
my impression that the use of the
interest component is understood
by few in Oregon."
Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Files)
THIRTY YEARS AGO
(October 21, 1950)
Street letter boxes, ordered
months ago, have finally arrived
in tsend and win te erected at
once. , .
S. C. Seeds, who' arrived this
week from Denver, Colo.,- has
been named nssistant postmaster
in Bend, Postmaster W. H. Hud
son has, announced. Seeds has
been in the postal service many
years.
E. L. Clark was In Bend from
Lupine earlier this week, to hear
the address by Sen. C. L. McNary.
The annual harvest of trout
eggs for the Tumalo hatchery
is now under way, Pearl Lynes,
hatchery superintendent, reports.
The eggs will be obtained at the
Elk lake spawning grounds.
Others Soy
TWO SHIRT FLEGEL
(Oregon Statesman)
Republicans have been Retting
a laugh showing two of Flegol's
campaign cards. On one the pic
ture shows him wearing a rough
flannel shirt open at the neck;
the other carries a studio photo
of a formally dressed Portland
attorney. One card for the docks
and logging camps, say the repub
lican critics; the other for the
business trade.
POTATO PRICE DROPS
Washington. Oct. 21 Ul' Con
sumers looking for cheaper vege
tables next year may have to
stick to'a potato diet.
The agriculture . department
said today that farm prices for
the 1951 potato crop probably will
drop to the lowest level in 10
years but prices of other vege
tables are likely to be higher.
It said potatoes should cost
less next year because govern
ment price supports end with the
marketing of 1950 crop. Support
programs have been holding up
potato prices for 10 years.
Aw, What's the Use?
WASHINGTON COLUMN
HHMMiMiiiiMMiiiiMi:imMiniiniiii)iiiiMMiiiiiMiiHtmHiiMiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiMiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiitiiimiiimfiiiniiiiiuai
pei' person . which
SCHEME BACKFIRES
Portland. Oct. 21 Uli A seem
ingly foolproof short-term "con"
trick backfired on Andrew J.
Bushman. 37. of Chiloquln. Ore.,
and he found himself facing a
term in federal prison today.
Bushman was convicted of us
ing the malls to defraud.
He took care of an elderly man
who was nearly blind, wrote let
ters to him allegedly signed by
his sister in Klamath Falls ask
ing for money and read them to
his employer. Money the semi
Invalid gave him to mall to the
sister, Bushman pocketed.
By Peter Edson
(NEA Wanhinston Correspondent)
London (NEA) While the
American housewife grumbles in
creasingly at high prices in the
midst of apparent plenty, her
British cousin has an exactly op
posite complaint to' make. Here
prices are kept down by careful
controls and subsidies that have
not been lifted since the war. But
supplies are limited, and carefully
rationed.
Many young British wives who
have been married in the past ten
years have never known any oth
er system. They have never had
the experience of going into a
free market and buying all of
everything they wanted and could
afford to1 pay for. Here there is
a constant hunt for enough. The
family shopper who is not always
on the prowl when supplies are
brought to her stores may not get
her proper share.
Things are better now than they
were during the war, of course.
Clothing is no longer rationed.
Fish, fresh fruits and vegetable
rations were recently lifted. Coal
is still rationed. There is still' a
terrible housing shortage. Newly
married couples may register for
new accommodations, but the
waiting lists are long. At present
rates of construction, the appli
cants may not be able to move in
for years.
a a a
Rents are still tightly controlled
In an effort to keep down the cost
of living. The controls apply,
however, only on new housing and
on accommodations "rated" fnr
tax purposes at 100 pounds (280
dollars) a year. And on all prop
erties for rent, the landlords have
found ways to charge extra :'or
furnishings and the extras.
Every housewife must register
with one store and buy her ration
eel foods there. On tlie foods that
are allocated instead of rationed,
the allocations are given on the
stores whenever supplies are
available, and the store divides up
the supply. When no supply, no
allocation.
The British ration list today
looks like this:
All fats are rationed to about a
half pound per person a week.
Say four ounces of margarine,
three ounces of butter,.two ounc
es of lard.
sugar is rationed four ounces
per person per week.
The bacon ration has varied
from two to four ounces a week.
The meat ration is one shilling
and four pence worth per week
5Qronr
QUICKLY, at
Economy Drugs
Opposite I'oamrfle. Phone S2S
person , which means tne
equivalent of two chops a week.
Usually the family saves rations
to buy the weekly "joint" which
has so long been British standard
fare. Cooked meat and sausages,
five shillings worth a week.
Butchers are controlled on how
they cut the meat. They can't
filet out the steaks, but have to
cut them up as part of the joint.
The bones, as in purchase of half
a leg of lamb, are weighed in as
part of the meat, and at the same
price.
Cheese is rationed, if made in
England, to two ounces a week.
Imported cheese is unrationed,
but prices are higher.
a
Tea Is rationed to two ounces
a week, per person, which isn't
nearly enough for a nation of tea
drinkers, when a half pound will
make only four or five pots.
Children get a tea ration. Chil
dren under five feet get half the
quantity of meat and more milk
and eggs. In winter the milk sup
ply may get down to two pints a
week. In summer it is two or
three pints a day.
Every effort is made to increase
the children's food supply. There
are free orange juice and cod liver
oil at schools, and there is a gov
ernment subsidized school lunch
at noon.
All rationed foods are suDSidiz
ed, in fact, except candy. The
candy ration is a pound and a
quarter per person per month.
Britishers still queue up for
everything on the ration list. The
wonder is that they do it uncom
plainingly. There Is no black
market. There Is a good supply
of food in the restaurants, and
there is a lot of eating out if the
family can afford it, to supple
ment meager rations. '
There is a shortage of Scotch
whisky, most of which goes Into
the export program. But the pubs
still do a booming buisness. That's
like always.
Polio in Oregon
Above Last Year
By Paul F. Ellis
(United Preaa Science Editor)
New York, Oct. 21 iu Al
though the number of polio cases
this year will fall below the 1949
total, at least 12 states are run
ning ahead of the figures last
year.
In the nation last year 35,913
cases of polio were reported
the worst year in uimcu
history. Up to the week ending
Oct. 14 this year, 24,947 cases
were reportea.
m,- 11 piniv uhlph nro renort-
ing more polio this year and the
comparative Iicur-h ate.
Pennsylvania, 19501,021: J43
cko. M,n.hm R28 and 193: Vir
ginia 1.002 and 286; North Caro
lina 6U6 and zoo; oouin viuim,
380 and 97; Georgia 320 and 182;
t-in-Mn iu oh 517- Kentucky
584 and 555; Mississippi 314 and
302; Texas ana -s,uo.l;
ho 130 and 4iz; uregon oo
and 236. .
Peak SepteniDer so
tvi ctatlcrlr-G furnished bv the
public health service of the fed-
1 .nnii-itir aaenov disclosed
that the peak Incidence of polio
this year occurreo uuiiuk
week ended Sept. 23. the latest
week in any year during the last
20 with the exception of 1932.
While mere nas oen no atrar
tific proof that polio is brought
hv hnt wpathpr. the disease.
statistically speaking, becomes
more prevalent as tne not. ui.v
months come along. Many parts
of the country had a late spring
in 1950, and the fall so far has
been moderate. This may be the
reason for the late peak of inci
dence. T).-.Ht i-ocoarnVi Cf-IPYltistc he.
lieve, is caused by three types of
virus and they say that one day
tha rlnftnro will find a drU2 that
will kill the polio virus. In the
meantime, a successiui vaccine
mav be developed, the research
ers believe.
HOSPITAL BROADCAST SET
A radio broadcast relative to
progress of work on St. Charles
hospital prepared here yesterday
by John W. Maloney, Seattle
Wash., architect, will be released
over KBND on the Central Ore
gon Hospitals foundation pro.
gram next Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Tie date for the broadcast an
nounced in The Bulletin yester
day was in error.
TRANSIENT ARRESTED
Hartley Wren, a transient, was
arrested in Bend this morning on
an intoxication charge. City rec.
ords show that he was booked
here on a similar charge earlier
in the month.
LOTS EXPENSIVE j
Longvicw, Wash., Oct. 21 Uli
Lnngview's largest unimproved
business district property sale in
history was completed yesterday
with the filing of 14 lot deeds at
the county courthouse at Kelso.
Safeway Stores. Inc., bought a
city block on which a new stme
will be riveted. Reliable sources
s.iid the lot sold for a total of
S&.000.
Crankshaft Grinding
Reground Shafts Carried in Stock for Exchange
CONNECTING RODS RECONDITIONED
BEARINGS RESIZED
Bearing Rebabitting Motor Rebuilding
DRAKE'S AUTO SHOP
935 Harriman Street
Phone 79 5-J
Never
Too Young to Start!
To the youngster who is just beginning to earn
money of his own, we say this truth: It's never
too soon to start the thrift habit of regular
saving, which means building financial secur
ity for later years.
Never too soon and seldom too late! For
those of us still earning can improve our po
sitions by this habit make the years ahead
more secure years.
Best of all, we can earn while saving. Des
chutes Federal savings accounts (insured up
to $10,000) pay generous dividends of 2.
.
5" rPI'l U'l(:
ederalSavings
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
CHEAP BREAD
Corvallis. Oct. 21 HPi A bread
price war in downtown stores
brought prices down to one cent
a loaf today, but buyers were
limited to a loaf at a a time.
A chain store started the bat
tle bv cutting its normal 20-cent
price. Soon it went to 10 cents
and yesterday hit the penny
mark.
There were no long lines of
housewives, who seemed more
amused than enthused over the
rivalry. One suggested that a
similar fight over meat prices
mould be more beneficial.
The answers to everyday
insurance problems
By GORDON RANDALL
Insurance Counsellor
QUESTION: Does the word
"fnlliclnn" In niltnmnhiln i
surance mean that you must
actually coinae wun another
car before the Insurance Com
pany will pay for the damage?
ANSWER: Of course not! Us
ually that form of insurance
is called "Collision and Upset"
and it covers collisions with
other cars, with stationary ob
jects, overturning and many
other things.
-ft If you'll address your own insurance
questions to this office, we'll try to give
you the correct answers and there will
be no charge or obligation of any kind.
Gordon Randall
Agency
233 Oregon Phone 1870
Dr. James E. Peterson
CHIROPODIST
and
FOOT SPECIALIST
Hours 9 to 6:30 Daily
Closed Thursday Afternong
Evenings by Appointment
Phone 2125
Penney Bldg, Bend, Oregon
New Shipment!-
Available for Immediate Delivery
Metal Desks
Mstd Office Chairs
Metal File Cabinets
Metal Safes
Calculating Machines
Bookkeeping Machines
9 Adding Machines
Cash Registers
Typewriters
All available now for immediate delivery. Choose
yours early and avoid being disappointed.
ORDER NOW!
Christmas Cards
From Hallmark's Album Selections.
RIKSI
STATIONERY & OFFICE SUPPLY
1011 Broolcj Street
Phone ID
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
NOW.' amd Give 'em
k both BAgeeis
By Merrill Blosser
- " 1 '! yugffv . ...
f . S-pX f HAW. HAW, HAW.' ) DlDOLD WELUWELLwASmmm BASV )
r " i it mM mt m m m i v f r . k. i r r - .. . i t- i i
UJ I r-rrr U W W ' F Willi I im iwT.- y uu vtK! A u.... -
1 "- ' v ' ' mm Ve.. W-w(1.rlrt taw, imV vt. r. . ,tf. uTW r.a? J