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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
FRIDAY, MARCH 21. i952
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; KLAMATH AND HELLS CANYON
Down in Klamath county, we learn from Deb Addison s
column in the Herald and News, a situation is developing
rather like that on the Snake river in connection with the
proposed Hells Canyon program. The facts were brought
out in a radio program in which there participated, among
others, A. N. Murray, of the Bureau of Reclamation, and
John Boyle, general manager of the California and Oregon
Power Co. Each, the Bureau on one side and Copco on the
other, wants to build a power plant at a site on the Klamath
river. Addison reported Boyle as stating that "the Bureau
wanted to do exactly what Copco had been planning on and
trying to get the right to do for-20 years, using the same
amount of tyater, in about the same places ... the same
amount of water that Copco's using now.? , -
,- (That last bit we take to mean- that Copco already has
a plant upstream from the site referred to and wants to use
the water from it farther down.) .
We gather from the Addison report that the dedication
of the water to use at the new site will not jeopardize recla
mation and in that fact the situation" differs from that on
tVio KnnVe TH.-ihn intprpsts fear that the demand for water
at Hells Canyon will limit their irrigation and they do not
trust the words in trie Hens uanyon mns (n.a. oiio anu
S. 2812). that define the irrigation rights. y v
" Senator Morse, by the way, expressed hiihself in that
three-hour speech on the Hells Canyon bill as perfectly sat
isfied with that wording. Morse, however, is not an Idaho
irriff.flt.or '. ' ' ' '
. : ft did not appear in the Addison column who has the next
move: The issue seems clear just as at Hells Canyon. Shall
a government bureau or private enterprise make the invest-
mentf - .
TWO CENTENNIALS
There are to be several reclamation celebrations this sum
mer. The Bureau of Reclamation will commemorate the fifti
eth anniversary of the enactment of the first federal recla-
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muiiuii law, Ai iauutr jjtaiiB icawnMeo, ,11 , oiie w .uw
delivery of water to the Columbia basin project will be cele
brated and special events in North Dakota, Colorado and Wyo
ming are being planned in connection with reclamation de
velopment All these are getting publicity but another of un
1 usual significance here in Oregon has hardly been noted.
.We refer .to the centennial of reclamation in Oregon to be
celebrated in Medford in October. I was in that vicinity, in
Jackson cdunty that water was first diverted for- irrigation
and the Oregon Reclamation Congress will direct a part of the
program of its annual meeting to ,the observance and the
memorializing of that event ' ,
- Incidentally, now in 1952 Jackson county is 100 years old.
These events need a press agent. ,
The proposed federal budget shows more than $17,000,000
in salaries for press agents for various departments and agen
cies of government. The figure does not include such things as
stationery, ottice equipment ana general overneaa. i ne paper
waste in such activities we have commented on many times
although government would doubtless call it use. Most news
papers, we think, will agree that it is possible to get along
quite satisfactorily without the "news" releases through
which Washington publicity men seek to glorify the govern
ment activities of which they are a part. Here should be a fine
, place to start cost cutting.
In the political game, President Truman pitched a curve
to General Eisenhower when he told the press that the favored
presidential -candidate is at liberty to return from Europe
"any time he deems it sate ana proper, uow ana ouisuie.
Best bet today is that Ike will get a base on balls and that
he will come home in November.
Parties Expected to Hammer at Non-Voters;
Only About Half of U.S. Adults too to foils
Annual Frolics
Plans Progress
: POWELL, BUTTE, March 21
Charles Minson, chairman of the
general committee of the Powell
Butte Farmers' Cluli for the 18th
annual Spring Frolics of the farm
group, reported yesterday that
Intensive work has hcen launched
for making the 1!)52 party, sche
duled for n hangar of the Red
mond airport Saturday evening,
April 5, one of the largest ever
held. The annual dance and coun
try store of the farmers' club is
expected to attract attendance
from all communities of Central
Oregon and outside points.
The annual Spring Frolics
came Into being for the purpose
of raising funds for meritorious
civic undertakings throughout
Crook and Deschutes counties.
Since the frolics were launched
the farmers' organization has
raised and disbursed around $11,
000 for promotion of various en
terprises of general community
welfare. In 1918 It contributed
$500 as a memorial to the late
Jerrv lleston, called the father of
the Farmers club, to tne fioneer
Memorial hospital at Prineville.
A like sum was contributed to the
St. Charles Memorial Hospital at
Bond. It plans this year on con
tributing $500 to a community
hospital being erected at Kca
mond.
The annual parties of the Farm
ers' club are rotated Between
Prineville. Bend and Redmond.
That of 1951 was held at Bend.
WASHINGTON, March 21 (CQ)
Register and Vote!" -. -Thn
nation's 97 million potential
voters will hear that cry dozens of
times between now ana wovemoer.
But, despite the importance of
the outcome, results ol past elec
tions indicate that nearly nan 01
those over 21 will not vote in No
vember, according to Congression
al Quarterly. ' , '
Some cannot, others can but will
not. Resardless of the reasons, the
fact that so many will not partici
pate in the decisions at tne pons is
a source of general concern, shar
ed by both major political parties.
With primaries ' already begun
and to occur frequently until the
big general election in November,
the Democrats and ' Republicans
have at least one thought in com
mon: Get Americans to the polls.
Both parties want a handsome
turnout in the 1952 elections, and
both are mapping get-out-the-vote
campaigns. These were markedly
successful in their first test. After
vigorous campaigning in New
Hampshire, a total of 129,066 votes
were cast in Republican and Dem
ocratic primaries a record for
Presidential primaries in that
state. Both the Republicans, with
92,225 voting, and the Democrats
with 36,841 went far over pre-election
estimates.
Nation wide Drives
- In the next few months, the ma
jor political organizations will car
ry their appeals for maximum
voter participation into every
state. President Truman and Vice
President Albcn W. Barkley will
make get-out-the-vote appeals
while campaigning for the Demo
cratic Party. .
The Republicans will resume
their schools of politics success
fully launched in 1950 to train
GOP workers, mainly volunteers.
Some of these even will be pressed
into service as "baby sitters" while
mothers go to the polls on election
day. ' . ,
Stimulation of election interest
bv another means through legisla
tionhas been proposed in numer
ous bills introduced in the present
Congress. Among such proposals
is leeislation backed by the Mon
tana Congressional delegation that
would give everyone a half-holiday
to vote on election day.
Sen. Blair Moody (D Mich.) and
Rep. Arthur G. Klein (D N.Y.)
would give all citizens the vote at
18. (Georgia residents already
have this right.) Believing that a
man who is not too young to fight
is not too young to vote,' Rep. Ed
win Arthur Hall (R N.Y.) would
remove for servicemen all age
limitations on voting.
Light" Voters
nut President Truman. Congress,
and the major parties have a big
ion aneaa u tney are iu uei aiay-
at-homcs" to the polls on; clectloft
day. ;
In the last presidential election
year 1948 anly .52 per cent
of the 93.704.000 Americans 21
vears of aee or over voted in the
contest between Mr. Truman and
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Voter par
ticipation in 1948 was lower than
it was in 1944 and 1940.
In the 1948 general election, 49
per cent of the nation's adults vot
ed in Congressional races and 48
per cent in Senate races, i nis voie
was higher1 than the 1950 vote,
when on v 42 ner cent ot ine ao,-
833,000 potential voters balloted in
electing Representatives ana h per
..nnl voted in the senate races.
Voter turnout is lower in primary
elections except in the South where
the primaries arc decisive.
The American is a "iigiu voier
in comparison to the- voters of to
talitarian countries . like Russia
and democratic countries like
Australia, Belgium and the Nether
lands where non-voters are penal
ized. Voting is 95-99 per cent of
adult population in these countries.
Even with 85 per cent illiteracy,
India had a 60 per cent turnout of
voters in its first national election
which ended last month.
Study Asked
Rep. Jacob K. Javits (R N.Y.)
'wants to establish a bipartisan'
commission to study why so many
Americans don't vote. An analysis
made by the Library of Congress
of the reasons given by 600 non-
voters 'for their failure to vote
points up some problems.
The non-voters said they don't
know enough about the candidates;
it's "tweedledum and weedledee
no choice is given voters by the
parties; registering and voting are
too difficult. Some are barred by
legal restrictions, others complain
ed of corruption, or listed other
reasons. -. .-..,.' ' ..
Some non-voters said they would
be more inclined to vote under one
or more of the following condi
tions: If unbiased, concise infor
mation were available on candi
dates and issues, if better promo
tion methods were used, if voting
were compulsory,' and if tax ex
emptions were allowed for voting.
Several million adults living in
this country cannot vote: -Aliens,
convicts and the insane. Negroes
are discouraged from voting in
parts of the South.
Women apparently, have never
been as interested as men in vot
ing. However, there are now near
ly 2 million more women than men
21 years or older, according to the
1950 census. .. - -
And women may outvote Tnen
this year for the first ,time in the
nation's history., .. : i
Services Planned
By Local Church
Rev. Raymond Wilder of Port
Angeles, Wash., is in Bend to assist
Rev. Dean C: Poindexter and mem
bers of First Methodist Church with
special lenten services. He will ad
dress Methodists of Central Ore
gon at a service tonight at 7:30 at
the local church, and will speak at
a vouth rally Saturday evening, at
the morning service Sunday, and
evenings next week through Friday.
The local church is cooperating
in the United Evangelistic Mission
sponsored jointly by Methodist con
gregations of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho during the week of
March 23-28. Each cooperating
church will have in its pulpit a
guest pastor who will preach Sun
day morning and each following
evening through Friday. :
In addition to hisa work (in the
pulpit, Rev.- Wilder will instruct
24 teams of laymen who will call
on non-members to invite them into
the fellowship of the congregation,
Minerals once thought worth
less are suddenly becoming vital
to our economy.
GILBERT'S
Insurance Agency
1015 Hall St Vhone 1940
ALL TYPES OF INSURANCE
FIRE CONTROLLED
- POWELL BUTTE, March 21
A bucket brigade of neighbors
and arrival of equipment, from the
Prineville fire department : Tues
day evening prevented flames
from a burning . woodshed and
storage room from spreading to
the adjoining Powell Butte store
of Shelbunv Ayres, just opposite
the Powell Butte grade school on
U. S. highway 126. The damage
o the fire, the cause of which
was not determined, was neglig
ible, Ayres reported. ' tm. ,
V' MOKE IRON CURTAIN?
LOS ANGELES, March 21 (IB
Adrian E. Gory, CARE mission
chief in Japan and Korea, express
ed the fear here Friday that kus-
sia may pull the iron curtain over
Japan by underselling the United
States. ,
'An evidence of this danger are
the recent sales to Japanese indus
try of Russian coal t add oil for
less than one-third the American
prices," Gory said.
- uory ana nis wite are. nere on
six-wqeks leave from tljo Orient.
Mid-Oregon Man
Gets Purple Heart
WITH THE 1ST CAVALRY DI
VISION IN JAPAN, March 21
Cpl. Milton Holliday of Warm
SDrines. Ore.,-was recently award
ed the Purple Heart for wounds
received while fighting in Korea
with the 1st Cavalry Division.
The decoration was Iconferred
on Holliday in Japan where the
division is now stationed. -
He was wounded on October d,
1951, near Yonchon, Korea, while
a member of the &tn uava.iry; ueg
iment. ' .' . . ' .
Home Nursing
Classes Set
In response to numerous requests,
the Deschutes County Red Cross
chapter will sponsor a new series
of duplicate afternoon and evening
classes in home nursing, it was
announced today by Mrs. Ross
Farnham, home nursing chairman.
The new course will start the tnira
week in April, and registration
should be completed at the Red
Cross office without delay, it was
announced.
Only the first 12 applicants for
each of the classes will be accept
ed, it was announced. Mrs. Oscar
Larson will be- the instructor.
The classes will' hold two-hour
sessions twice weekly, until seven
lessons for each group are com
pleted. ? .
The afternoon class will meet
Monday and Wednesday afternoons,
beginning April 14. The evening
class will meet Tuesday and Thurs
day evenings, beginning April 15.
Class sessions will be from 2 to 4
p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m., in the
Red Cross office. .
Current courses will be com
pleted -March 31 and April 1, re-,
spectively. - . ,
Bend's Yesferdays
. (From The Bulletin Files)
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(Friday, March 21, 1S07)
A few Bend people were caught
by the recent additions to the for
est reserves. A homestead which
W. B. Sellers had filed on in the
Silver Lake country has been tak
en Into the federal reserve.- ;
A Cornett stage line driver Who
was recently discharged, got on
a "bender" Saturday night and
shot up the neighborhood in the
vicinity of the new bank building.
Extension of the telephone line
into Sisters will be completed this
week. The local exchange will be
in the Alex Smith store.
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. -' HEARING SET ' 'v-:
'.' MADRAS, March 21 Acting on
petition presented from all parts
of vthe. rural area, the Jefferson
county court has set Wednesday,
April 9, as tbe date for a hearing
on establishing a rural fire pro
tection district which will covet"
virtually the entire 50,000 acres
o the North Unit Irrigation dis;
trict. A preponderance of senti
ment favoring the proposed dis
trict indicates that opposition will
be neplieible. and It Is pxnented
that the court will then set a date
for an election on the proposi
tion. It is proposed to establish
fire fighting equipment for the
rural areas at both Madras and
Culver.
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OPENING PLANNED
PRINEVILLE, March 21 With
Friday, March 28, set as the date
of the event, merchants of Prine
ville are now' engaged in ihtens-;
ive preparations lor 'theii"arihual
spring opening. The dominating
feature of the opening will be the
offering of merchandise values to
shoppers of central Oregon 'as far
to the west as warm springs In
dian reservation and the lumber
and resort town of Sisters to
points in the stock ranch districts
of Wheeler county on the east, it
was declared by Floyd Satterlee,
chairman of the committee ar
ranging for the special day.
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