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r f The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, July 21. 1954 W THE BEND BULLETIN , and CENTRAL OEEGON PBESS An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher ' Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Member. Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered u Second Claw Matter, January . 1917 at Jio Poit Office at Bend, Or 1 , Ron under. Act of March A. 1876. Save" the Cans and Scenery The kind of tourist (and of home folks, too) earning the label of litterbuc has never been as rare as could be wished. Now there is some indication that his tribe is increasing in central Oregon. A week-end guest who has crossed the mountains by the McKenzie Pass a hundred times and more, told us: "From Springfield to Sisters you see roadside trash that has apparently been dropped from the windows or passing cars. Beer bottles and beer cans predomi nate, perhaps because they are the sort of trash which will accumulate and will not eventually be removed by wind ana rain." - . He had never seen the condition so bad, he reported, especially in the mountain pass area. He wondered if a different, less desirable kind of traveler might be coming through the northwest. Our own conclusion in the matter is that the class of travelers this year is neither better nor worse than in the past but that there are more and that, following the law of averages, there are more litterbugs. Per haps something can be done about them. Certainly it should for they are down-grading the aesthetic values of our greatest natural resource, scenery, and are ' bringing disappointment to thousands who come to the central Oregon country to see that scenery. It has occurred to us that perhaps the beer induslry could do something about this and that perhaps it should inasmuch as its containers figure so prominent ly in the problem. Only the other day we received a promotion . release urging us to cook with beer and telling how to do it and offering us a free cook book making clear all the mysteries of beer cuisine. Most interesting, but since receiving the McKenzie Highway report we have thought that a better public relations plan than this could be found. Why not use a sticker on each bottle or can giving disposal advice, a "Save the Scenery4' sticker suggest ing retention of the container until a garbage recep tacle is at hand? This would not be 100 per cent ef fective, we know, but it would help. We think it would help the beer industry, too. And, of course, there is no reason that packagers of foodstuirs and cigarets and other things that travelers use should not pick up the same idea. There's no charge for it. People and the Weather In Kampala, Uganda, the government has decided to stop broadcasting weather reports. Natives, aware that the reports were put out by the government, re garded the forecasts as government promises that the weather would be what it was predicted to be. When the forecasts were wrong the natives grumbled and concluded that they just couldn't believe anything the government said. I In our own country forecasters have a high degree of accuracy. Scientific instruments and techniques have taken most of the guess work out of predicting the weather. Yet the weather prophets are occasionally wrong and when they are they hear about it in no un certain terms. The howl raised by the people who had planned a picnic on the strength of the forecast that it would be a fair day and then encountered rain is no less indignant than that raised by the natives of Uganda. People are people, whatever part of the world they live in. "M eow "ArT w?-- Mtfrnty r i0Mm!:h;gu H--y-A kmMxm ' .Ati;-:v V---: &-v m& To The Editor (The following Irtlrr, rccrivrd by A. J. (Jauuw, Itrmtkft-HcanJon, Inc., itencral mauuicrr, from U Irvinir. lerrrlary of the 1'ine Industrial ItelatltHin (om ni it lee. Inr.. prrtaina to cditorialK in The Hrnd ltullrtin and lu a kttrr from Tim Sullivan, addressed to The Uulletin). Growth of the Language Rolling happily along the highway the other day we were saddened by a roadside sign which suggested that either the constitutional provision against cruel and un usual punishment was being ignored or that word de rivation was proceeding in a particularly illogical and horrible way. . "Broiled Burgers," the sign read, and we had visions of citizens writhing on the grill under the sadistic eye of a lord high executioner. We knew that couldn't be, of course, but it was a moment or two before it dawned on us that the sign writer was telling about hamburgers and that it was these delicacies that were being broiled tor public regalement. There was still the connotation of cruelty, although no longer to the citizenry. It was rather the language that was being tortured, in a shocking sort of linguistic mayhem "that severs a word from its origin and loaves the term, therefore, meaningless except tor the deluu tion that has been arbitrarily and carelessly wished upon it. A far cry indeed from a city named for its forest setting to a word which properly means onlv the resident of any town or city, and which is now forced to mean something quite different. It all started with Hamburg, the city in question. In its adjective form, following fairly well established ru inary custom, the name was bestowed on a viand pre pared of chopped, suitably seasoned beef Hamburger steak. Ihen steak was dropped and present lv the dis tinctive part of the name was excised to facilitate new combinitive use. Such oddities as "cheeseburger , "chil lburger were graued onto the language. And now "burgers" for roadside broiling. Worst of all, they'll probably stay. Quotable Quotes White Man Wipes Out Giant Herds The American people want no .appeasement of Com munists. The American people will refuse to support the United Nations if Red China becomes a member. Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson. The possibilities of the (Italian) government con trolling its own internal difficulties are much better than they were a year ago. Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, U. S. Ambassador to Italy. We will respect Hk internal affairs of the Central American countries and we will follow an inter-American policy. Our government will maintain diplomatic relations with those countries that sustain the same principles we believe in. President Carlos Annas of Guatemala's ruling junta. Dear Mr. Glassow: Thanks for the two editorial clippings from the liend Bulletin issues of June 28 and July 1. We have received, too, the clipping from the Bulletin, issue of July 2, by which Tim Sullivan attempts to justify the strike against five Central Oregon lumber and wood products companies. There is an amazing statement, edited to officers of IVVA Local 6-7, in the July 1 editorial. It indi cates that negotiations affecting Central Oregon have been con ducted by WA District G and PIRC. You know, as a member of the PIRC employer committee, that the negotiations were with the IWA Northwest Regional Ne gotiating Committee of Portland. If union officers are confused by the complicated negotiating con trol system used by the IVVA-CIO, the union members have a right to view their participation in this strike with mixed emotions. Mr. Sullivan's letter calls atten tion to a rise in the Consumer's Price Index as justification for part of the IWA wage demand. It uses a period of two years as a measuring stick, and ignores the fact that the Consumer s Price In- ex was dropping as negotiations proceeded. No consideration was given to the lact that average straight time earnings have crept up l..lepcr hour since the last icross the Iroard increase, or that he wage increases given by this ndustry. if another period of time is selected, would be nearly twice the rise in the Consumer's Price Index (Comparison with 19I7-I'J iveragel. The productivity argument is more than misleading. You will recall that, m negotiations, the union spokesman admitted their productivity figures were all Douglas Kir figures, and that the IWA bad no productivity figures from the Western Pine producing areas. This came us no surprise to employers because we do not have published industry figures on productivity available to us, liner. There is reason to believe. however, that our product ivitv- measured in terms if the man hours required to produce and ship a thousand feet of lumber has not changed materially in the last 1U years. Additional utiliza tion, refining, and packaging hours have balanced any techno logical improvement. (Douglas Kir employers eltectively refuted the union argument hv demon si ruling only a slight productivity increase m their area. I The IWA coupled its demand for job analysis and evaluation with a demand lor standardization "I pay by job titles at all companies They want centralized control of this individual operation problem, i Standardisation and centralized: control makes accurate analysis anil evaluation useless. Besides.' the analysis and evaluation is al-l ways going m at the local level in the legal process of collective; bargaining and contract adininis-j tration., Research does not reveal a practice :l eeks vacation after live years of employment in American industry. The lumber induslry, during the inflationar.v period o,f the HUu's, often estab lished wage-cost patterns. The The IWA vacation demand expects the industry to establish a trend during a lane of disturbing indus try economics. We do not know of any across the Itoai d increases of jc per hour in the Cent ml Oregon area last year. In fact, less than '2MI em ployees in the Western Pine pro ducing; area receiv ed it ..They rep resent alwut :i per cent of the Since the dawn of history, no where else in the world has man ever seen the vast numbers of large mammals once found on the great grasslands of North Amer ica. Not even the teeming myriads of grazing animals of South Af ricazebras, wild beasts and an telopes begin to approach the multitudes of pronghorn antelope, bison, and elk that ranged in America less than 100 years ago. Early travelers and naturalists estimate that 50 to 75 millions of pronghorn ranged the northern great plains, congregating each fall in enormous, loosely organ ized herds. For centuries, until ISM, (Jicse fleet, graceful animals provided meat and hides for the plains' Indians. Then the. white man cumc: by 1008, the millions of antelope had melted to less than 20,000! Once the big-antlered elk, or wapiti, roamed the northern two- thirds in central America, from the Berkshires to the Pacific ex cepting the great basin and from northern Alberta to southern New Mexico. By WOO, the elk had dis appeared from 00 per cent of its range. Today a few herds remain in Canada (Saskatchewan. Manito ba and Alberta), and in the U. S. (Yellowstone - (liand Teton park irea and the Olympic peninsula). One hundored million or more bison, better known as the buf falo, once grazed from western Pennsylvania to southern Idaho, rom the Croat Slave Lake in northwest Canada to northern Florida, with the heaviest con centration in the central grass land valley. Without doubt, ton-for-lon. there has never been such a massing of one species since man arrived iince that lime. Profit margins ire sharply reduced, and are liminnted completely from some companies now on strike. Respon sible management does not agree to cost increases at times like this, and responsible union leaders lo not call and perpetuate strikes to make matters worse for all concerned employers, employ cesand communities. 1.. IltVl.NVj, !la S. Grant's Sage Brushings Last year the Chief laid a few Klamath Fa July 6, Ill.M Secret ory Ore. I AMAtiK'Sl IT I II.KI A damage suit for $-1,918 was brought in circuit court yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Gardner against the U. S. National Bank of Portland. The couple alleges that the bank supplied them in correct information when they were negotiating lo buy a motel. on earth. When spring came, the massing of the buffalo must have been un forgettable! To produce the tre mendous herds that existed, buf faloes must have poured in from every ridge and into the valleys. From the Red river and the Sas katchewan, from the Missouri and the Platte from everywhere, black streams of these massive animals rushed down into the central val leys. Herds joined herds, until great masses moved northward, pos sessed by the migration fever. On ward, northward they moved. leaving the landscape strewn with their dead. And these giant herds of mil lions again fed into the still larg er expanse of the great central plains, until an incredible army ol millions, tens of millions, an army 50 miles wide and 125 miles long, moved like a sea of black backs. shoulder to shoulder, while over head wheeled countless birds of prey and on the outskirts prowled timber wolves, wolverines, lynx, grisslies and coyotes, all ready to cut out the stragglers or pull down the weak. This was in the late 1700s. Then civilization rolled westward. By 1S20, not a buffalo was left east of the Mississippi. ' By ' the '50's and '6l)'s, the slaughter really began, hastened by the transcontinental railroads which brought men to cut down buffalo and antelope, and cattle to devour the grass. The greater number of these millions was wasted: most were killed merely for their hides, or their tongues alone, or for sheer sport their' unskinned carcasses left to rot. By the turn of the century, only 500 or so buffalo remained alive in all America. Iji these days il is almost im possible to imagine such a vast gathering of wild animals we have only considered the antelope, elk and buffalo but there were also deer, moose, caribou, snow-! shoe hares, mountain sheep and i goats--a number of animals such I as have never been gathered in any part of the world since his- lory began. ! And today? ! Remnants of these gigantic , herds are living precariously, on! the perilous 'edge of extinction. tCiiiiyrik'ht. l'-IVI. by t'r-f. l!urn0 I rocks tn a square In the back yard, and stuck them together with cement. It was the founda tion for an outdoor fireplace. The other day we decided we wanted a big fire, so the Chief and Friend Electrician puea up some more rocks, at the back and sides of the slab, and laid an old piece of iron on top, for sort of a grill. Just a temporary job. All the time the work was go inc on. the self-styled fireplace builders explained that later on, they would tear tne wnoie mmg down and build it over, accord ing to specifications. Or some thing. They insisted that there should be a towering chimney, and a built-in wood box, and lots of mortar to keep everything in place. Being women, the Sagebrush editor and the electrician's wife insisted that the fireplace looked much better sort of casual and irregular. We explained that the Important thing is tne open-lire effect. Lots of elaborate mason ry is superfluous and somewhat unattractive. Well, that evening we gave the fireplace a trial run, and every thing went fine. The fire gave light and heat and comfort. And what more could you ask? The next night there were guests, and we built another fire. The wind direction had changed, and smoke tunneled out on all sides, in black cough-provoking clouds. The old gag about smoke following beauty got a thorough workout, and everyone must have been beautiful, indeed. This goes Ho show that the old bromides aren't always right. Where there's smoke there's an amateur stone mason. The banty hen is what you'd call an optimist. She refuses to face the facts of life. We were cleaning up the back yard the other day. and when we moveu some boards that were piled at the end of the garage, we found her underneath, hovering over a nest of eggs. Because we are more worldly-wise than she, we tHiit uhe could sit forpvnr and would never know the joys . i l 1 M,., c ..1- i Ol moineiiiouu. nui i sues counting on those particular eggs. Now that the wood pUe is moved away, the hen is in plain view to all who happen by. The kittens appraise m.- situation ...Ofr, nnnuirterablp interest-, but keep a respectable distance. Jiggs, tne crmany, approacnes the hen occasionally and kisses hAi, nn the head, so she shnnlH know she's loved and wanted; Perhaps we can arrange with a hatchery for two or three baby chickens. Bend Contractor Offers Best Bid Low bid for the construction in LaPine of a headquarters building for the Midstale Electric Cooper ative, Inc., has been awarded to John G. DeGree, Bend, il was an nounced today by George Lari mer, Midstate manager. DeGrce's bid lor the work was 5H0.850. It was the lowest of seven bids received, and the con tract award was made by the directors. . The headquarters building, to bo erected in the southeast part ol LaPinc adjacent to the Mc- Cahe property, will be of cement block construction, 73 by 82 feet. it win noia two oinces, ana win have space for a four-car garage md a small materials warehouse. The building is to be completed ,in !)0 days, under terms of the con tract award. Construction is to get under way at once. The Midstate Kieclric Coopera tive, Inc., is at present renting quarters in a coi ner of the Hich way Center store in LaPine. SHEER 4; half-size marvel at an amazingly low . , 12.95 Our nomination for the prettiest, most flattering fashion of the year! This slenderizing coaldress is cleverly styled by Mynette of wonderfully washable sheer Bemberg rayon in an interesting new print. If boasts a dickey front that lends a smart redlngote look, and . a tiny price tag that hardly seems possiblel Choose from exciting new colors in proportioned-to-FIT sizes l4'2 i 24'2. Otrier styles up to 14.95 Summer Kat-.-n on Wood Order today! Save on Winter fuel. 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