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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.
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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.
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What disturbs me . . . is a erowine attitude in this
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of foreign policy and if the United Nations does not a 'T,n' ,,, ,
r - i-i ix. t mally. as veu know, our prices
follow a course of action which we think it ought to,.p rtmn to Sh.hlV (,ss ,.,' m)
follow, then we will retire from the United Nations. icveis, our wage and wage-fringe
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