Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1952)
PAGE FOUR THE' BEND "BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952 THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OREGON PUKSS The Bend Bulletin (Weekly) 1B0S-1U31 TRe Bend Bulletin (Daily) EaL 1911 Publiihed Every Afternoon Except Sunday and Certain Holidays by The bend Bulletin 736 . 136 Wall Street fcnd, Oraxon Entered ai Second Claw Matter, January 6, 1S17, at the Foatoffica at Bend. Oregon Under Avt of March a, 1879 ROBERT W. SAWYER Editor-Manager HKNRY N. FOWLER AaucUta Editor An Independent Mewapaper Standing for the Square Deal, Clean Business, Clean Politics and the Best Interests of Bend and Central Oregon, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS By MaU Br Carrier One Year 18.60 ' One Year 111.00 Six Months 14.60 Six Months 16 00 Three Months 12.10 One Month 11.00 All Subscriptions are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Pleas notify us of any change of address or failure to receiva the paper regularly. FOR INSURANCE RATE CONTROL Because most of us these clays own some kind of automo bile the news that the price or automobile insurance is to be advanced once more is as generally painful as would be an announcement that hamburger had gone up five cents a pound. It is no less painful when we discover that it is only one kind of auto insurance, namely that covering property damage, that is to, cost more. We know that, given sound evi dence of need, other items in the insurance structure have been advanced heretofore and can be advanced again. Taking the mere matter of protection against property damage, the charge is to go up one-third. The causes for this are varied and not directly in all cases the result of inflation. When we learn that the dollar cost of the average iront end accident has gone up from $100 to ?290 in the past 11 years and that of the average rear end accident from $10 to ?D0 in the same period, and pause to reflect that these are bills that insurance companies must pay out of insurance premiums and their invested returns, we know that here is inflation at work. The job cost more because it is a car (using a Bmall, popular make as an example) which could be had lor $1,150 in 1941 and costs $2,600 now. The parts which have to be used have probably gone up correspondingly and the workman who makes the repair is drawing somewnere around 100 per cent more money for putting in an hour of time than he did in 1941. . Indirectly there is the threat 'of greater expense in the open-handed damage appraisal of the latter day jury. Perhaps the jury is not entirely to blame. If it kept its eye on the legislature, which a few years ago tipped the price of a human life from $10,000 to $15,000, it may have deduced that this was a trend and should, hence, be followed. More cost for the policy holder to bear. There is still anqther factor which, fortunately, has noth ing to do, either directly -or indirectly, with inflation. It is the driving factor. Cars are better built, more safely built than ever before. They are more easily controlled than ever before. But human beings take advantage of the improve ments that have been made to drive with greater speed; to take greater chances. Better automobile engineering has availed little in reduction of accidents. Better driving, less speedy driving, more careful driving, can reduce greatly the number of accidonts for which eyery policy holder is paying and for which he pays more whenever their cost increases. The driver, beyond all others, is tile one who can cut the cost of an accident. Hp can cut it by preventing it. When he does it he is cutting the cqst of insurance. A lower rate is the result. The driver has the say. UNFORTUNATE LOCATION Whether the men who gave Pilot Butte to the state for a public park would object to the added use to which it is now beuig put wo do not know. The gift was free and clear. I hero were no strings, no conditions, although there was the detimte, if unwritten, understanding that the gift was for park purposes. Perhaps, since the park's greatest value', is as an elevation from which to view the scene to the north.Uhe west and the south, there would be no objection to the structure recently completed at the summit for highway department broadcast purposes. It does not interfere, that is, with any of those out ooks Having had something to do, however, with the gift of the Butte to the state and knowing the donors as we did wo think they would object vigorously to the placement of this disfiguring object where it is. . For radio purposes it would have been equally satisfactory to place this work 50 feet or more around to the left or south. Inero it would bo inconspicuous. Visitors leaving the summit would hardly notice it. As they came around the turn they would still be looking at the distant hills. As it is placed now the structure-is smack, the first thing seen as one levels off irom the ascent to take the driveway around the ton. It is not a park structure nor a park asset. r,,,.. if!'?!1, gl'cnt deal of thought was given to the develop ment at the summit of Pilot Butte. It is most unfortunate that this piece of radio business was not placed where its pres enceprobably a necessary evil would be least objection- "They Went Thataway" County Agent NEWS By GENE LEAR Dcwchiitcs County Agent Washington Column NEA Waafiiiiuton ComtifKHujenO 'WASHINGTON For lllcRiilly trying to ship strutcjjlc mtueilnls, henimi the Iron Curium, the trail Ins licenses ot nearly '100 export iiiK firms hnvc heen suspended during the last four years. Some suspensions for minor vi olations have been for only u few months. Olliers are to run' tor the duration or the present emergen cy. In criminal cases Involving some of the worst offenders, pris on sentences of up to u year and fines of up to $10,000 have been imposed. The current list of exporters on the suspended list malnlained bv the Office of International Trade in Department of Commerce con tains nearly 2X) firm names. Over three-fourths of them are Ameri can exporters. Most have offices " Now iork, but a few operate out of New Orleans, San Fran cisco and Miami. , ,',c, others, J2 are Swiss, right British, five Dutch, four Helglan. four Italian, two each from Tangier and Trieste, one each in IJclilenslcin, Union of South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and Denmark. As far as the American export ing companies under suspension ?.m.,"'CCI'm''l onp " ' mazing angles is thai many of ' " ""I r foreign business men ami naturalised Americans. At one lime or another many of then, have been subjected to Com munist or Nazi persecution stmllT'l8. firf.1 han,t Whi" spiead of totalitarianism means hc.v nevertheless cannot resis he temptation for profit hv trad- tiK will, what should be Iheir worst enemy. A few case histories liom the past year's work of Investigating and enforcine II. s. ..v.,.. trois Indicate the nature and the viii.i-iy oi products handled in this illegal trade: Anna ami Willi Jim S It'i-ficMnti, of Chelsea, Mass., denied export I'livin-gi-s ior inree months for trans-shipping J.000 tons of Ca nadian wool rags to Poland uuougn tne united Slates with out proper license. Dante Cortl of Prato, Italv, de nied oil V. S. export privileges for the duration of the emergency for suhmlninc n r.-iien ,,,n... for license to import 100,001) bales "i w. o. union, valued at Stil.aUO, 000. David Zetland. New York ex porter, denied all export license privileges for manipulating trans shipment of 82 steel roller bear ings valued at S12.000 from Bel gium to Switzerland, A. E. Rattier Chemical Co. of New York, denied all export priv ileges for planning to export a large shipment of aluminum ox ide to Belgium, for later delivery to Hungary. a e In the past year the United Slates has seized 260 shipments valued at $415,000 because they were intended for ultimate deliv ery behind the Iron Curtain. In addition, export of another mil- nun miliar s worm 01 supplies w as 1 stopped wlille still in the paper work stage. This is admittedly a small haul, considering that the total volume i of U. S. exports In 1031 was about 1 S15 billion. The amount of con-: traband intended for shipment be hind the Iron Curtain and actu ally caught Is approximately i 1, 100 of i per cent of this total Most of the monev the farmers of this county receive for all their crops and livestock marketed is spent right here In. the countv. Because of this fact It is impor tant to an oi Tis. whether we live on a farm or in town, to do our part to keep all phases of agri culture In the county on a sound Dasis. as tne income or farmers In the county has a chance to In crease from new or better farm enterprises the greater the In come is likely to be for those liv ing in the towns. Incidentally the farmers In the trade area of Deschutes county towns have an annual income of about 10 million dollars, accord ing to figures from the last cen sus report. When we recognize how Impor tant agricultural production and Income Is to our community we all want to cooperate in helping 10 encourage ana improve the lot of our farmers. This all ties nto the doe Drob- lem In our county. You may won der what the agricultural pros perity nas to uo with dogs! Be lieve me, it has a lot to do with It. For example, farm flock sheep raising Is a profitable farm en terprise but many of our farm ers have stayed out of this enter prise because of dogs. They are afraid the dogs will kill their sheep. Several farmers -have raised sheep bui have quit because of tne nog promcm. two of these I could mention are George Elliott and B. C. Allen of Redmond. Doug Ward of Bend tried raising sheep on nis larm out tne dogs killed too many. There have been others. loo, who have quit; quite a few otners wno have never started be cause they know of others' ex periences. Turkey raising is another en terprise that has suffered some from the dog problem. Recently Mrs. E. D. Elrod, a turkey raiser north of Redmond, had a dog get In her turkey flock and kill six of them. Her loss was greater than the 6 dead because of dam ago to many others. She reports clogs as a constant problem to be considered In her turkey raising business. Not too long ago Charles Urban, southwest of Redmond, lost about 50 voting turkeys kill ed by dogs. A year or so ago dogs got into the chickens being rais ed by L. E. Cabe of Terrebonne and about a thousand were killed In one night. A hundred or so more died later because they had been injured. Those of you who are not tur key raisers may havo wondered why a tent is located near where the turkeys are being raised. I am thinking of Ray Knowles' place south of Redmond. He has tills tent there because he sleeps there every night to protect his turkeys from night prowling dogs. If the turkeys are being raised any distance from the house, a legal trade. How much got through that wasn't caught, there Is no way of knowing. But U. S. officials believe it Isn't much. To stop even the !:1ckle that was caught cost a great deal more than the value of the goods them- j selves. Every. U. S. customs offi-l eials is on the lookout for such ! shipments. And it takes nearly I 1.000 government officials in Washington. In U. . ports, in ' Europe and throughout the rest of the world to plan the policy, and liolice the paper-work to eet the job done. It costs at least 55 million and maybe double. night watchman must be nearby. Our sheep and turkey- raisers who are located near towns have had this problem for many years how. The farm people have spent a lot of time studying the prob lem. The laws that have been In effect have required dogs be li censed In order to raise funds to pay for damages caused to poul try and livestock. According to County Judge C. L. Allen, the funds raised have been only enough to pay 35 to 40 per cent of the value of claims submitted for stock and poultry losses. Generally, it seems, dogs that become the worst problem are those that are raised in town. They are not used to livestock like farm raised dogs and so na turally chase them when stock run from them in the dark. Any iarm dog tnat Kins stock general ly does not get a second chance! In order to try to correct this situation the county court was asked to declare the countv a dog control district. A hearings was neio Dy tne court ana according to present dog control laws the county was declared a district for dog control. Three farmers were appointed by the court to supervise the district. These farmers are Jim Short. Gene El liott and L. E. Cabe, all of Red mond. This board has entered Into contracts with Bend and Red mond. Both cities have dog con trol ordinances and by pooling tunas the county district and cit ies now have hired a full time enforcement official. This official Is Walter C. Johnson. Bend. His phone Is Bend 415. Ho and Mrs. Johnson are also operators of the county home, located on highway 20, just east of Pilot Butte. Mrs. Johnson has been depu tized by the county and cities sc as to be able. to enforce present laws. Under the "Dog Control DIsj trlct" law every dog in the county except seeing eye dogs and breed ers with kennels must be licensed according to Jim Short, a mem ber of the supervisory board. Anyone harboring an' unlicensed dog is subject to a $10 fine plus costs in justice court more if In police courts. The board and Johnson all hope it won t be necessary to have any one fined. They know most peo ple appreciate how Serious the problem is for the community and that everyone will want to cooperate. There havo been some "home less" and unclaimed dogs at large in the county. Sam Shaver, coun ty trapper, has found in some cases these and other dogs have been killing deer this spring and summer in several areas In the south and east parts of the coun ty. L. M. MnUiiscn. head of the Oregon Game Commission office In Bend, says he has seen dogs running and- killing deer In the Bend area. The plan that has been adopted here In the county has been tried and is working In other counties in the state. Livestock and poul try losses have been reduced and the people in those counties are satisfied with the program. We hope It works as well here. Dog licenses can be purchased in LaPine, Sisters, Bend and Red mond. If you know of a dog without a home, call Mr. Johnson at Bend and he will trv to find a home for it. Others Say MEKTIXG HKI.n REDMOND. A u g. 21 Des chutes county PMA office announc es a meeting Monday night. Angus' 25, 8 p.m. in Westminster hall Redmond. All county farmers air ranchers are urged to attend th( meeling rnlled for the purpose o drawing up the practices that uil be used in the IBM ACP handbook. Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results. MIKE AND THE OBFRUSTICATORS (Idaho Statesman) j Thestf will be just a few kind words addressed to that dear old bureaucrat, Michael Ware Straus, commissioner of reclamation and tireless high priest of the federal drive to nationalize the power in dustry. Mike was in Boise on Wednes day to put out one of his typical pitches on Hells Canyon and the rascally power interests, and to assure one and all that not only Is his own heart pure but so is that of each and every one of his faithful underlings. There wasn't a dry eye in the house, so we un derstand, after Mike told the re porters of how he wants to bring the blessings of government pow er to Idaho. But Mike suspects there is evil opposition ranged, againct him, and that western concern over water rights is largely hokum. As a matter of fact, he declared, all those who worry about water rights are merely "obfrusticating" the Issue. Now that, we believe, marks a new high even for an old, word mangier such as Michael. "Ob frusticating ..." We know there is such a word as "obfuscating," which means to confuse the issue, and there is iuch a word as "frustrating," but for the life of us we never heard af "obfrusticating." . Maybe Brother Straus has de cided to make a name for him self as a coiner of new words. 4nd perhaps he should. He hasn't convinced anybody ! the nobility of his aims thus 'ar by using the ones already in Webster. Kurt Schumacher Dies in Germany BONN. Germany. Aug. 21 OB XurUSchumacher, one-armed, one legged West German Socialist lead ?r who was considered Germany's greatest enemy of Communism. Jied at his home late Wednesday night. The 57-year-old head of Germa ny's second largest political party, the Social Democrats, died of coro nary thromlxisis. Tele-fun by Warten Goodrich "She lavs there Is no mrh number. I guess this personal number list ol mine Is a little old!". . , Get your free book let for local and out-of-town numbers at any Pacific Telephone business office. Speaker Here Says General 'Captive of Dewey Forces Although General Eisenhower "is a fine gentleman and a loyal. outstanding American" he Is the captive candidate of the ruthless, bone-crushing Dewey machine, whose administration will be full of heartbreaks and handcuffs If he is elected president next No vember. This was the prophecy voiced yesterday by Dr. Charles Titus, professor of politics at the Uni versity of California at Los Ang eles, in a talk before members of the Bend Rotary club. In a fighting talk that pulled no punches, the speaker tore the hide off both political parties as he related incidents which he said he had observed at the national conventions of both political par ties during the past four years. . He expressed grave doubt that Stevenson and Sparkman, should they win in November, could clean up the corruption and crook edness which now permeates the national administration in Wash ington. It is the history of politi cal parties thai they become cor rupt and inc'.olent if they remain in power too long, he told his hearers. ' He referred to James Roosevelt, former Democratic state chair man In California, as "that New York carpet-bagger," who tried to set himself up as boss of Califor nia four years ago. Young Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., he said, was a "double cross er," who ostensibly worked for the nomination of Averill Harri man at the recent Democratic con vention, but who, through devious ways, sought to cross up Harri man and win the nomination for vice-president for himself. Dr. Titus was particularly crit ical of the Americans for Demo cratic Action, whom he referred to as "that bunch of punks," who tried to wreck their party both this year and four years ago over the civil rights controversy. The speaker expressed the be lief that the party which wins in November probably will be in power for the last time. He pro phesied that a depression is in the offing, and this, together" with the Korean situation, will obliter ate the winning party during the coming four years, it-was his be lief. Dr. Titus associated William O. Douglas, associate justice of the U. S. supreme court, with the A. D. A., and spoke disparagingly of the jurist's political philosophy. "Douglas likes to tell people he rode the rails back to New York as a youth and W9rked his way through college," the speaker said. "But it so happens that I POP QUELLS FIRE ELIZABETHTOWN, 111. API A soft drink bottler, Harry Dorris, finds soda pop can squelch a fire as well as quench thirst. A blaze broke out in paper and shingles aboard a truck and Dorris killed the fire by shaking bottle after bottle with his thumb over the uncapped top and squirting pop on I the flames. 1 know the man up in Walla Walla who paid Douglas' expenses through Columbia University." Concluding his talk, Dr. Titus told the Kotarians that he really didn't know just how he would vote in November. Although he suggested that General Eisenhow er doesn't know as much about practical politics as a high school senior, he felt the country would be in good hands if he should be elected president. He thought, too, that Stevenson would make a good executive were he able to divorce his administration from the corruption of the current Democratic regime which is now in power. "After all, we are all Ameri cans," he said in conclusion. "And after the votes have been count ed we will all let bygones be by gones and forget the bitterness of the campaign. As loyal Amer icans with a deep love of coun try, we will work together for the good of. our nation." Packing Company ? Purchase told if! REDMOND, Aug. 21 nouncement is made of pureh nf Rerimnnri Par-l,l ':wlae The business which hVfc3' years been carried on here bv i W. Christensen of Redmnna : J C. H. Christensen and A. D.tZ of Tillamook, under the nanTT Redmond Packing company i,,. cessors of horse meat, hasba purchased by a subsidiary ofi bers Bros. Milling company k was announced today by a.' b Herold,. Albers' president The company which win earn on this business is the Redmond Packing company, a new Oreso! corporation, and J. w. Christen! sen, former manager of the bS iness here has been made vies, president of that company Rm mond Packing company will em. ploy personnel of the former or ganization. The success of home vegetal gardens in hot dry weather depend, on keeping the soil moist to tht depth of plant roots; roughly that is the depth of a shovel blade Go to the DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR in Redmond by r 9 Regular and Special Buses a Schedule for EVERY EVENT! JUDGING, Thursday, Friday and Saturday: Leave Bend, 8:00 a. m., 1Z:45 p. m., 2:00 p. m. MEL VENTER SHOW, 8:00 p. m. Friday: Leave Bend 6:30 p. m., return 10:30 p. m. CHILDREN'S and STREET PARADES, Sat. afternoon: Leave Bend 12:45 p. m. and 2:00 p. m. RODEO Saturday, 7:30 p.m.: Leave Bend 6:30 p. m. - BUCKAROO BREAKFAST, Sunday 5:30 a. m. Leave Bend 4:00 a. m. RODEO, Sunday 1:30 p.m. i Leave Bend 1:15 p. m. j ' ' . t- Fare: one-way, 35c; round-trip, 65c; children, half-fare.!' AVOID PARKING WORRIES GO TRAILWAYS i It took o nly TWO days FOR FARMER'S INSURANCE TO SETTLE A '1325.00 CLAIM Just TWO Days! The second day after this ear was demolished in a head-on collision, the owner received a check for the value of tho auto. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED . . . ON AUGUST 17 ot 2:30 P. M. this car. owned by Mrs. Maude Meecham, Boise, Idaho, was damaged extens ively in a head-on collision about 10 miles, north ol Gilchrist, Oregon. ON AUGUST 18 Mrs. Meecham, a Farmer's Insur ance policy holder, reported the accident to agent F. Keith Shepard. ON AUGUST 19 at NOON an accurate estimate of the damage was determined and Mrs. Meecham re ceived a check lor S1.32S.00 from Tom Duffy, local resident Farmer's Insurance adjuster. Yes ... to many in surance buyers this prompt settlement is unusual. But with cus tomers of FAMER'S INSURANCE GROUP . . . this fast service is taken for granted! Auto-Fire-Truck Farmer's .Insurance Group 1029 Brooks St. Martbo Hicks Prineviiie Phone 6XI F. Keith Shepard Donald Nelson Bcdmond Phone 220 Phone 331 Ken Bailey Crescent Plione GllchriM S
