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THE BEND BULLETIN
, mai CZNTBjLL OREGON PBESS
'" An Independent Newspaper
v Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
PhS F. Srogan, Associate Editor
Member, Audit Bureau of Ctrculatioiu
KntaraJ n 8mn4 Olu Hut. January I, a tha Poat Oirica at Btni. Ora-
torn anaar Ka of March a, 187t.
4-, The Bend Bulletin. Saturday. December 18. 1954
Shaniko? A Familiar Name. . .
t A place name strange to'most Central Oregonians of
1964 showed up in the news recently. It was "Shaniko",
afd it appeared in news stories in connection with the
discovery near the southern Wasco county town of the
bidy of a man believed- to have been murdered.
I There was a time when Shaniko, on the high flats
of a brush-covered plateau, was known to every person
irf. the then-isolated mid-Oregon region.
;j Shaniko, end of the rails up until 1911, when the
fijfst train reached Bend, was the jumping-off point for
thousands moving into the interior from all parts of the
eminent, in search of land or timber. Those were the
days when the lure of the Bend country was great.
Land seekers shipped their household goods to Shan
irs& from states as distant as Florida, and hurried into
tfjje.high desert to homestead. Others hurried by stage
fpom Shaniko to the village of Bend, toward which two
great railroads were constructing lines of steel up the
Deschutes gorge.
C Still othe, t came "overland" from Shaniko, to file
on timber claims.
But even before the land and timber .rush days,
Shaniko was a name known across the nation. For a
period of nearly 10 years, following the construction of
the Columbia Southern railroad to Shaniko in 1900, the
southern Wasco town was known as the wool capital of
America.
In a single year, 1904, an estimated 5,000,000
pounds of wool were shipped from Shaniko.
That wool was moved to the rails from Silver Lake,
Mitchell, Prineville and Antelope on freight outfits that
slowly moved behind the gentle tingle of leaders' bells.
And even before the wool era, Shaniko had a history
that dated to 1878 when a German, A. Sch?rneckau filed
on a homestead at Cross Hollows. Indians in those early
days called him "Shaniko". Later William Farr bought
the Scherneckau ranch, and Farr in turn moved on to
the new town of Antelope when things got dead in Cross
Hollows.
Then suddenly in 1899 came news that the Colum
bia Southern was to extend south, and on May 13, 1900,
the first work train came puffing in from the north.
Shaniko on that date took its place on the map of west
ern America. .
Shaniko started its decline when the Hill and liar-
riman .systems pushed south along the Deschutes gorgp
to the railroad at Bend. Later Shaniko was abandoned as
a rail terminus, and the stuol was stripped to the north.
: But ShanW is not a ghost town. Traffic over U.S.
Highway 97 rolls through its western edge. And for old
timers the town remains as a signal post of memories of
days of long ago days when all freight destined for the
new towns of Madras, Redmond and Bend was unloaded
from cars in Shaniko and piled aboard freight wagons.
Incidentally, it was from Shaniko that the handpress
and type used in printing The Bulletin over half a cen
tury ago was moved, in a small wagon drawn by two
horses.
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Alliance Church
Planning Special
Yule Service
Special Chr'stmas services will
be held at the Alliance church,!
520 Lava road, Sunday, Dec. 19.
The pastor, Rev.' James Thomp
son, has chosen for the subject
of his morning message, "The
Word Made Flesh." Leonard Van
Leuven will sing "The Holy City."
At 7:30 Sunday evening the an
nual Sunday school program will
be hela ac the church. The pro
Tram will include nnntion of the
Christmas story, a Christmas film
strip, songs by a junior choir and
a pantomime featuring the chil-''
dren of the Sunday school. Other
special features of the evening
services will include the hymn.
"Ivory Palaces," by a women's
trio, and the carol, "We Three
Kings," by a men's trio. The pas
tor will sing "O Holy Night
Trio members are Leonard Van
Leuven, James Miller, Bill Col
burn and the Misses Beverly
Shoults, Betty Mae Ipock and Ruth
Moore.
In charge of special arrange
ments are a Chr'stmas committee
composed of Mrs. John Noffsker,
Miss Mary Forbes and Miss Betty
Lou. The public is cordially invited
to attend the services, they an
nounce.
Foreign Economic Policies
Need Tighter Coordination
Forest Fire Indicator
Relative humidity by itself is not a sure yardstick
$f forest fire danger, Robert Kirkpatrick, Portland Met
"eorologist, told the Western Forestry conference held in
San Francisco recently.
"Almost everywhere in Western Oregon and Wash
ington logging shuts down when humidity drops to 30
. per cent," Kirkpatrick told his listeners. Most of those
'.familar with fire conditions will admit this rule has mer
uit, he said, but others refuse to believe the forest fire
problem is solved by such close-downs at 30 per cent hu--midity.
J Kirkpatrick went on to tell of a fire danger meter
developed by a Seattle meteorologist, reported in use by
-a number of timber operators. Ihe meter integrates
Itwind speed, fuel moisture content and the condition of
"vegetative growth with the relative humidity. When all
2the.se factors are considered, he said, the fire danger
measurement is much more reliable.
J As an illustration, Kirkpatrick cited the 1951 Vin
Jcont Creek fire in western Oregon. The fire made its
Jbiggcst gain on a day when the humidity did not drop
below 45 per cent and spread less than half that three
day.r-latcr when the humidity reading was only 30 per
cent. The fire danger meter correctly forecast the con
Sditions, having taken into account wind velocity and fuel
mt moisture content., no said.
S If proven over a period of time, the meter prom
ises to be a big aid to fire fighters and loggers alike.
By PETER EOSON
NEA Washington Corespondent
WASHINGTON (NEA) One
of the biggest problems of the
Eisenhower administration in the
coming year will be to get its
foreign economic policies straight
ened out.
The lack of coordination on
these matters was most recently
demonstrated at the Inter-American
Conference of Finance and
Economic Ministers in Rio do Jan
eiro, Brazil.
The U. S. delegation to this all
important meeting went to Rio
with a very definite, carefully
woiked-out program. Its basis was
that there would not be any grand
iose giveaway to the Latin-American
good neighbors. Instead, they
were to be treated as business
partners. Individual loans and oth
er assistance were to bo offered
instead, for sound projects only.
The American (bam to sell this
program was headed by Secretary
of the Treasury George M. Hum-
Herbert Hoover, Jr., Assistant Sec
retary of State Henry F. Holland,
who is in charge of inter-American
affairs.
Secretary Holland had made a
swing around South America last
summer to lay the groundwork
for (his new policy. Secretary
Hoover had previously been em
ployed as geologist by a number
of Latin-American republics, so he
knew his way around. It was Sec
retary Humphrey's first trip to
the Southern Hemisphere, but he
was Mr. U. S. Money.
The American delegation had no
more than arrived in Rio and
opened the conference than three
things happened
One Foreign Operations Admin
istrator Harold E. Slassrn held a
news conference in Washington in
which he revealed thai the Ad
ministration was considering a
now ana enlarged Asia aid pro
gram, smaller but on the order
of the Marshall Plan for Europe.
This news, cabled lo Rio. threw
the Latinos into an uproar. The
new good-partner program wasn't
tny too popular with them in the
first place. They all fell that they
were Uncle Sam's oldest and best
friends nnd that they had been
given the short end of the stick
The United Slates had given hit
lions of postwar aid to Europe,
while .it had shortchanged the
American cousins. Now the U. S.
was propos.Mg to give otner bil
lions to Asia, while it still held out
on Latin America.
As one Latin-American delega
tion spokesman explained to Sec
retary Humphrey In effect: "We
know that what you are proposing
for us is right, but you have done
such foolish things all over the
world, that we think you, shqujd
give us more, too.
Two Cong. James G. Fulton
(R., Pa.) arivod in Rio about the
lime the conference opened,
observer" for the House Foreign
Affairs Committee. But he made
public statement to the effect
that Secretary Humphrey had
come to Rio "with an empty briof
case." . -m
The effect was to make "other
delegations feel that the policy of
Messrs. Humphrey, Hoover and
iHolland did not have the approval
of the American Congress. Fulton
proposed a billion-dollar aid pro
gram for Latin America as a substitute.
Three This idea was .further
encouraged by Sen. Homer E.
Capehart (R., Ind.) who was'an
official member of the delegation1.
He announced in Rio that in the
next Congress he would propose
priority for Lai in-American econo
mic aid.
It took all the persuasion that
Secretaries Humphrey, Hoover and :
Holland could muster, ably backed
up by Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrew Ovcrby, to pro
vent the conference from being
wrecked. In the end, they think
they succeeded.
The effects of all this hullabar
loo, however, are apt to be just as
pronounced m Washington as tlioy
were in Rio.
In Ihe first place, it is now ad
mitted that Governor Stassen's
trial balloon for an Asia aid pro
gram was most unfortunate as to
timing. This break may hurt more
than help what was intended to be
i well-meant effort to keep free
Asia from going Communist.
Honor Roll Gets
Two New Names
The names of two Bend students
were added this week, at the end
of the fi.ll quarter, to the Central
Oregon College honor roll. They
are June Scott, with a grade point
average ot i.lii lor ll course
hours, and Enid Cox, with a
G.P.A. of 3.63 for 16 hours.
A student must earn a 3.5 G.P.A
out of a possible 4.0 to be , placed
on the honor roll. Scholarship
recognition is based on the stu
dent's carrying at least ten course
hours.
Four other C.O.C. students were
named for exceeding a 3.0 G.P.A.
, They are Nolan Turner of Bend
with a 3.36 for 11 hours; Ramona
Darby of Prineville, with a 3.30
.'or 10 hours; Loyal Strom of Bend,
with a 3.29 for Vo hours; and
Fred. Stenkamp of Bend with a
3.19 for 16 hours.
. Both Miss Scott and Stenkamp
have been named befdre for high
grades at C.O.C.
PUT JN SERVICE
Special to The Bulletin
MADRAS The rock crusher
which was approved by Jefferson
county voters recently has been
received and assembled and put
through its first workout, Judge
Henry Dussault reports.
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Quotable Quotes
That (Americas being ready. for war) docs not
; mean bpinjf truculent or provocative pr militaristic-
5 Secretary of State Dulles.
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Anything they (Red Chneso) can do, we can do
3 belter ... Democracy is better than dictatorship.
For nearly four yearn ... I have had to wait in si
i icnce wnne in my absence a myth has been developed. I
g hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel
tho myth. Alger Hiss goes free.
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Wo must go back to the l.ible the whole Bible.
qji Wo must return to the discipline that made our fathers
n atrong. Methodist Bishop Richard Raines of Indiana-'
Church Planning
Christmas Rites
The urinunl Christmas prosrom
it Kirst Christian church will be
hi'M Sunday, Dec. Ill at 7::i0 u.m
at the church. It will be climaxed
by a presentation of "white gifi.-.
for the King," lo be sent to Ihe
denomination's home for the aged
at Beaverton.
The beginners In the Sunday
school, under direr-lion of Mrs.
Del O'Pay, will Rive reciliitions.
Mrs. Biihby BaumRardner's first
and second grade boys and girls
will present an exercise, "Chil
dren All Like Christmas."
Children of the primary depart
merit, directed by Mrs. Cecil
Moore, will take pari In a pag
eant, "Children At The Manger."
The juniors, directed by Mrs. II.
Cecil Bever. will present two num
bers. "And There Were Shop
herds" and "A Nnrwcigian Christ
mas Cnml."
A mixed group will depict Ihe
"Story of the Christmas Flowers"
in a playlet, nnd the Intermediate
and high school groups will sing
Christmas soiu.s.
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REPAIRS
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DIRECTORS
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Association President
Carl E. Erickson
Erlckson's Food Market
Walter G. Peak
Association Secretary-Manager
H. H. DeArmond
Attorney at Law
Ward H. Coble
Lumbcrmrns Insurance Agency
H. A. Miller
. The Milltr Lumber Co.
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Retired
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Retired '
W. H. Myers
Alexander-Stewart LiiiiiIht Co.
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