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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1955)
t THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTS AL OREGON I'BESS An Independent Newspaper ' Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher - Fhll P. Broffun, Associate Editor Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered u Second Clue Matter, January ' Bon under Act of 4 The Bend Bulletin. Who's Right ThisTime? y The man who writes favorite newspaper seemed wnen ne was called on his in a headliie referring to a With an air of great superiority, one staff mem ber told the poor fellow thart it was "skid road," not "skid row," to which he referred. The headline-writer came back to show one and all that the big United Press, trophe The Bulletin and most of the other small dalies in the state used, had said This, he was told, is no excuse. All good headline writers should know that the improper term was used in the wire story, correct that story and use the proper term in the headline. Particularly should this be true of a headline-writer from a community which depends in ' large part on the logging industry, like the area where the proper term got f But this fellow is persistent'. Monday and .Tuesday, when the papers from around the state began to come into the office, he looked them over and pretty soon he was back again. . ' "Look here," he said triumphantly. And, whatta ya know, of all the out-state news papers which used the term in headlines; only two used it properly, as ''skid road'.' instead of "skid row." Those two were the dailies published at Astoria and Coos Bay. , And only the Astoria paper corrected the spelling in the wire story itself. And so comes Ihe problem. Who is right? i ' For many years workers on newspaper copy desks have been warned to watch for the term, to make sure they use "skid road" when they-mean "skid road." In spite of this, however, the other term has been creep ing into newspapers and magazines and over the air with increasing frequency. ; Perhaps the Wrong term has been used so often that the majority of the people believe it is right. Could be. Learn the Correct Way A Central Oregon father Sunday was discussing the "learn to shoot" program tieing conducted by Bend Po lice Chief John Truett. (In case you're not familiar with the program, Tru ett conducts two classes concurrently.. One is for boys 8-12, the other for lads 12-16. He teaches the youngsters the-proper methods of handling guns safely, and the boys actually fire weapons on an indoor range at the National Guard armory. The smaller boys work with BB guns, the older group practices with .22 caliber rifles. One large group finished the course a few weeks ages another will start in a few more days. Anyone interested in registering his or her son can do so by calling Truett at the Bond Police department, 1492.) "I think it's a fine idea, but I'm not sure Billy is old enough," said the father, "lie's only eight, and I don't want him to start handling guns yet. He's eager to have a BB gun, keeps pestering nie for one, but so far I've told him 'no'." The boy's mother had time, and then broke in with: "You may not want him to start handling guns, but he has already. One of BB gun, and Billy shoots it Which, to us, points up the big value of Truett s program. Boys are going to handle guns occasionally, whether . or not they own one. It would seem much more desir able to have a youngster learn how to handle a firearm the proper way, learning good safety practices from a competent instructor, than to have a tragic accident occur or to have parents face bills for damage caused. The training program to date has been carried on entirely by the police department, at the expense of the department. Anyone who is desirous of giving members of the police force a helping hand with some of the ex - penses is invited to drop off a check at the. Bend police department. There's even 15 minutes of free parking in front of the door. School Name Needed? What about a name fi'r the new Bend high school? At present the million dollar structure that will soon I..1 1 tU- 1 I ..P I I., l...ilwr lane Miciit.'eWii mi." iMniti:i.L j'tu , wi mtt u ,.- in-m iv- ferred to as the senior high school. The building to be bo vacated will be known, presumably, as the junior high school. Gradually as the names become attached to the build ings and take on a bit of dignity, they will be capitalized as the Bend Senior High School and the Bend Junior High School. Both names are a bit long. Of course the new plant can be referred to as the I'.end High School. But that is a name that has been attached to the present building, jii ;iwntoMi Mend, for three decades. There may be some confusion, for a period of years. There has been a tendency in metropolitan areas to attach the names of presidents to high schools, with Washington apparently leading the list. In other cities, like Salem,-the location determines the name of new schools. ., .. Bend, of course, will only have one senior high - school Possibly it is best that it be known as Bond High s.hntil with tho "senior" Senior High School" would not do. Residents of the community may have other ideas The. Bulletin will find space 6, 11U7 at the Foat Office at Bend. Ore. March 8, 1879. Tuesday. February 15. 1955 most of the headlines in our properly crushed Saturday use of the term "skid row disastrous Chicaco fire. whose story on the catas "skid row" in the story. its start. been listening during this the neighborhood boys has a once in a while." part understood. "Bend I'nion for all wishing U express Yhey're Edson in Washington 'Uncle' Footing By I'ETKR EDSON NKA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) The Unilcd Stales is having to foot a large share of the Viot Nam refu gee relief and resettlement pro grams, although this government look no pari in the Geneva, Switzer land, conference which ended the lighting in Indochina. In spile of this lack of official connections with the Indochinese situation, the U. S. Foreign Opera tions Administration has allocated $: million for relief of non-Com munist refugees fleeing from Ihe Red-controlled northern. Victminh V area to the free southern area. Part of this money will go to re imburse the U. S. Navy for helping move these refugees. And another $25 million of KOA money has been allocated for commercial im ports of supplies needed to build up Ihe free Viet Nnm economy. The irony of the situation is that Ihe U. S. must continue to pay tho costs of a deal It took no part In making. Next' slop In the Eisenhower administration's drive to get the U. S. government out of competi tion with privnle industry is ex ported to be a Department of De fense direcllve taking decision over Ihe fate of its manufacturing and servicing operations out of the hands of Ihe secretaries of Army, Navy and Air force. Assistanl Secretary of Defense Thomas 1 Pike, in chaif of sup ply and logistics, lias recommend ed litis step to Defense Secretary Charles K. Wilson. Since the three service secretaries have shown an inclination to hang on lo their Inisiness-lype enterprises, the idea is lo end their control and give it to Sonvtaiy Wilson. Another step to he taken later will be to close out the revolving funds under which many of those operations are kept going from year lo year without appi-opnalion. No one knows for sure how much mon ey is in these funds. The total has been estimated at from $2 billion to $i billion. Turning this amount of money back lo Ihe Treasury could be enough lo wipe out dhc next year's government deficit and balance tin budget. Korean ambassador to Washing ton. Dr. You Chan Vans;, is hardly one for diplomatic niceties when he has something to say. 'We are witnessing weird doings on the pail ol individuals and na tions which we thought were 01 our side.'' he declared recently "We arc asked to embrace eon eepls which arc beguiling and so nflf. Phone 788 5X Experts at Refined Bill, As Usual duclive to many. 'Coexistence' is one of these. They even throw in an adjective ahead of it. They call it 'peaceful' coexiteneem "Well, to use an American slangfffrade - nine girls and four hoys. expression, said the scrappy little ambassador, "that, my friends, is the bunk. Civil Service Commission's spe cial program to find hew jobs for fired or "rifted" government employes let go because of a re duction in force has placed some 7000 persons since it began opera tions: in June, 1903. . .. . .-, ,.' The Separated Career Employes pragram, as it s called, is current ly trying to locate positions for over 1500 unemployed Civil Service career workers. ' - 1 Since Jan. 31, 1953, shortly after the Republican administration took over, there have been over 155,000 government employes let go. Not quite 10 per cent, or 14,000 put in applications with the SCE to find new jobs, but 5500 canceled these applications. Another 1200, approx imately, found new jobs for them selves in government on Iheir own initiative, or they were transferred lo new jobs within their own agen cy. Approximately 430 government career workers are placed in new jobs every month. The main pur pose of the SCE program has been lo keep trained and experienced workers in Ihe government, if they are qualified for jobs in other agen cies. Vojtrch Bares, a Czechoslovak factory officialn related in a recent issue of the Czech publication Svel Prace how he learned to handle the thorny problem of socialist criticisms at factory meetings. As translated by Free Europe Press, this is the story: At, first Bares made Ihe mistake of criticizing a comrade. T h is pleased the other workers, but tin criticized comrade refused lo speak lo him afterward. Bares then un- derlook to praise the same com rade at the next meeting. The two became reconciled. Bui Bares llten found himself ostracised by other workers. Finally Bares got up and criti cized himself. He was given a standing ovation by the entire lac lory work force. In conclusion, Bares wrote: "This I recommend lo you. Neither criti cize nor praise, but indulge thor oughly In self-criticism, and you will become a hero us I have." A mole can dig a tunnel at ihe rale ol 15 feel an hour and such tunnels have been traced to the length ot a half mile. LOCAL CARTAGE WAREHOUSING STORAGE of your of your murchondiit household goods L'- MOVING MOTOR S. local or long FREIGHT T) """ I SERVICE CONSOlDATD Torture Numerical Rut For Schoolroom OVERTON, Neb. (UP) A seventh-eighth grade schoolroom here is plagued by the number 13. There are 13 pupils in Ihe sev enth grade nine boys and four girls. There are 13 pupils in the eighth The 13 in the seventh grade are 13 years old, so are the eighth graders. There are 13 members of both classes of Irish origin, while the her 13 are of German origin, from Lf " T f" IMSMMIIRSsgSMI I Mill I I "illSl'T"' Dodf! lolen present: Dinny Ihomis in "MaV Room lot Diddy," ABC Grahp Organization Disputes Debunkers' Figures By ARTHUR IflGBKE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON (UP) How, many of the converts who declared their faith at evangelist Billy Graham's big London crusade last year have stayed converted? This question was causing lively discussion in London today as Graham prepared for a "return engagement" of the evangelical meetings a year ago which drew 1,827,789 spectators and made 34,- B41 converts. "Independent surveys" have been publicized saying only 15 per cent of Graham's converts were active churchgoers a year after making their "decision for Christ Lome Sanny, Graham's "assist ant director of follow up,1' was amazed. "I'd like to know where they got those figures,", he said. "We have a big statistics department, and it's all we can do to keep track of converts for three months after BUS SIEKRA SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (UP) A record 270. 'WO visitors vacationed here last season and another 730,000 trav eled through the forest area either n sightseeing tribs or en route to other areas. Forest Supervisor 'jjon R. Thomas said improved campgrounds in the area were used 730.000 visitor days, com )ared with 510,000 in the 1953 sea son. Future Growth Mapped by Area " MEXICALI, Mex. (UP) The government of the state of Lower California has signed an agree ment with a firm of engineers to prepare a detailed study of the state and advise on how improve ments may best be made. Gov. Braulio Maldonado signed tho contract with Ingenieria y Ar quitectura Internacionales, a Mex ican corporation associated with the Washington firm of Thomas B. Bourne. The- list of items to be studied include the construction of super highways throughout the state, de velopment of hyrdo-electric pow er, water resources, sewage dis posal and a slorm drainage. Results of the survey will be used as a guide to the govern ment and as a means of bring- ing foreign capital into the slate. Steals the OH me costliest Rules Ihe How do you think it fools to own this new Dodge? Well, the look in people's eyes tells you that no cur ul any price has captured America's heart so com pletely. It's not just its bigness and length up to 9 inches longer than other cars muma they make their decision." Own Statistics Disclosing the Graham organiza tion's own statistics for the first time, Sanny said it appeared two thirds of the converts stayed con verted for at least three months. He said that of the 34,611 con verts who signed up during the three months of Graham's crusade last spring, clergymen sent the Graham team "signed receipts" for 23,595. This number of converts had followed through by Tontacting a local church. The clergymen reported that 20.350 of these, or 86 per cent, were attending church three months later. Another 2209, or 10 per cent, had declared an intention to start going to church, while 1036 or four per cent had "fallen away." Sanny said the Graham team had decided' to release its figures with misgivings. They might be. misunderstood. "Obviously." said Sanny, who is 34 and a native of Le Mars, la., Muskegon Cops Give Real Action MUSKEGON, Mich. (UP) When a woman called the subur ban Roosevelt police station for help, she got plenty of it. Four police chiefs, two patrol men and the county safety di rector answered her distress call. The chiefs, who had just attend ed a meeting, were having cof fee in a restaurant near the gas station from where the woman made her call. The officer on the desk who got the woman's call immediately telephoned Ihe res taurant and Police Chief Eugene Brothers of Roosevelt, Chief Don Vielenheimor of Muskegon Town ship, Chief John J. Eilers of Mon tague, Chief Fred Castenholz of Muskegon, County Safely Direc tor Louis Meisch and two patrol men went into action. The woman told them her boy friend had threatened to kill her and they arrested him as he tried to get rid of a gun, police said. PUUSE RETURNED HAGERSTOWN, Ind. (UP)- Mrs. James Nelson, who lost her purse nine years ago, got it back recently. It was in a package in her mailbox addressed to her in her maiden name. As far as :;he could recall nothing was missing. rood m floihing style ... Ihe new Dodge Custom Royol lancer wilh Three-Tone styling. in its class. It's the fact that the ;i-,v Dodge has all the features, and evn: mure style, than the most costly curs c:i the road. (You can keep it a secret that a new Dodge costs only a few dollars a month more than one of the "low price three!") the DODGE n. uR-r tsmosEu . . . Au tuautsa aheaui TV e Bert Parks in "Break the Bank," ABC motor "the only converts we can report on are those the churches tell us about." American Figures How do the "follow up" statistics for London compare with those available on Graham's acUvity In America? In Chattanooga, Tenn., Sanny said, local clergymen reported on 73 per cent of the converts and said 93 per cent of these were at tending church or in contact with a church three months afterward. In Detroit, churches sent replies on 57 per cent of the converts, and 82 1-2 per cent of these were going to church or expecting to. Sanny and his chief, Dawson Trotman, made a career of the "follow up" after a Graham ap pearance in a city. They are presi dent and vice president of "The Navigators," a worldwide organi zation. , "Billy recruited us for his organ ization four years ago," Sanny ex plained. "He was lying awake nights worrying about whether the people he converted were staying converted. . "As Billy says, evangelism is only five per cent of the job. Follow up is the other 95 per cent. Billy tries to set the converts on the right path. It's up to the churches to lead them along that path." ' ' Mod your fleet hunting of tithing trip really pay for lltelf. Toke along a Preeiilon Rodlollon Goigo, Counter or Scintillator. Compact, lightweight end ruggedly built, Ihti hlghlytontilivo Inttrumonti Can net you a record URANIUM dltcovtry. Over S2.SO0.0OO In Government Bonuioi hae been paid (or URANIUM ditceeorlei In the pott 2 yeart. Currently, $130,000 a month li paid la people iuit like you. Precition Rodiotion Inttrumenti ore the finer) Inttrumenlt made for URANIUM proipoctlng. 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