THE BEND BULLETIN
7 1 and CENTRAL OREGON PBE83
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
Phil P. Brocan, Associate Editor
Member. Audit Bureau of Circulation
Intend M Baeond Clua Mattar. Juuary 6, 1U17 u the I'M Offlu at Bend, Ore-
mon under Act ot Maxcb I, MM.
A The Bend Bulletin. Wednesday, March 9, 1955
Solomon-Like Decision
J , It would be rather superfluous to discuss at much
length the decision made last week by Portland's Judge
Ronald E. Long, or to compliment him for the wisdom
of that decision.
', Judge Long, a veteran of Portland's juvenile court,
had under consideration the case of a little girl who
needed a blood transfusion prior to. having her tonsils
removed. Doctors testified the removal was necessary
to the child's health, and that her condition was such
tfiat the transfusion was necessary.
- The mother of the child refused, on grounds that
she belongs to a religious sect which prohibits "feeding
ohlblood." The judge then gave custody of the child to
hfei; father for the purposes of allowing the transfusion.
t ; Judge Long said, in announcing his decision:
t ; "Parents may make martyrs of themselves, but they
have no right to make martyrs of their children before
tBe children reach the age of discretion. The right to
practice religion freely does not include the liberty to
expose the community or the child to communicable
disease or the latter to ill health or death."
? Does anyone disagree?
kittle Paradise of the Pacific
J The editor of The Bulletin, and we presume the ed
itors of the rest of the daily newspapers of. the state,
each week receives a letter from an unknown friend who
sjgns a pen-name to his epistles.
The letter is from the chamber of commerce of
Yachats, Oregon, and each week extoils the pleasures of
visiting this city, which must be a veritable garden spot
of the Pacific Coast (jg).
5 , This week's letter, for example, tells us that clnm
njers have been clamming mightily, a couple of well
ktipwn resorts are under new management, the rock
hjunting is air to middling and that fishing off the rocks
h'as been excellent. We're even told where to see a bear
oj-'two.
3 The letter makes interesting reading in some other
wise rather dull mail. We'll share it with readers of The
ulletin hereafter. It's a pretty clover tourist promotion
gimmick that the corresponding committee 'of the Bend
chamber could very well copy.
"What's Cookin?"
Bend Yesterdays
FORTY FIVE YEARS AOO
From The Bulletin, Mart , 110
Wiesloria" is the name of the
new Bend townsite field with the
Crook County Court in Prineville.
This includes 120 acres of the L. D.
Wiest homestead adjoining Bend.
Floyd Dement has started the
construction of a two-story frame
building, 30 by 140 feet, on his
lot at the corner of Bend and Min
nesota. The ground floor will be
occupied by Dement 's hardware
store.
W. J. McGillvray, in from his
ranch six miles southeast of Bend,
reports farmers in that area have
started their spring plowing.
G'nn H. Slack of Spirit Lake.
Iowa, writes that he expects to be
present to watch the growing of
Bend and surrounding country the
coming summer. He has an acreage-
under the Arnold ditch south
of town.
Word has been received that
two Great Northern trains were
swept from the track near the
west portal of the tunnel through
the Cascades in Washington by an
avalanche. Some 80 persons are
missing.
Two Velie cars have reached
Bond, for operation on the stage
run between Bend and Haight s.
The drivers, who brought the ears
in from Shaniko, found the roads
almost impassable. They carried
block and tackle to help each oth
er in the worst places.
Edson in Washington
Aid to Education Debate Due
By I'ETER EDSON
deciding what an unsafe or obso-
higher Income Tax Looms
(Albany Democrat-Herald)
, Prospect that either a sales tux or a property tax
will be relisd on to provide any part of the $55,000,000
still needed to bring the -1955-57 Oregon budget into
balance appears to bo fading as the legislative assembly
nSovea into the home stretch for this session. The finger
of' the House taxation committee's tax program points
right in the direction of the income tax, with such ad
ditional odds and ends as a 5 per cent tax on telephone
bjlls, expected to bring in $fi, 500,000, aiid an increase in
tfie insurance premium tax to yield $1,250,000.
J While attention, naturally, is directed at the kind of
tax that will be used to raise tjie amount needed, the
btisically important tiring, it seems, is the sum that will
hve to be raised. That is 55,000,000 which looks like
aout $35 for every man, woman and child in Oregon
Opponents of one type of tax or another are doing what
jeckcying they can to keep their particular group from
paying what they regard as more than its share; ini
probably ' everybody will, in one way or another, have
tS bear a part of the expense. Since a very considerable
blidy of the state's population pays no direct tax, many
ol those who do pay will find themselves contributing
much more than the estimated per capita of $:f5. Neither
the telephone tax nor the insurance premium levy is
going to bo very popular; but the fellow who can name
a. really popular lax that is still fair and effective can
riiovc right up to the head of the class.
' Neither the sales tax nor the state property tax is
yi't entirely out of consideration. Chairman Stewart of
tfie House taxation committee indicates that the tenta
tive program of his group is only for the current bi
eiinium and that other sources of funds will later have
to be sought.
Evidently the legislators are giving the most serious
attention to the state's fiscal problems. Whatever de
(jsion they reach should be permitted to stand for the
ljiennium; but the prospect of escaping a referendum
mi any measure that will raise very much money is not
lrright. Let us hope that the people will have the chance
U get in line with all the rest of the states in permit
ting attachment of the emergency clause to revemie-
Uiising measures, which so often deal with emergencies
U real as anythat confront us. It should not be possible
for a small percentage of voters to hamstring the fiscal
efforts of their elected representatives.
NEA Washington t'orresiMmdcnt
WASHINGTON (NEAI Tile
battle in Washington over the
U.S. schoolroom shorlugc is wheth
er the federal government slum
contribute much, little or nothing
in the way of financial aid to stales
needing additional 'school facilities.
This subject will lie much in the
news during March ns the House
Committee on Education and La
bor goes through long hearings on
conflicting points of view. This in
vestigation will be before the full
HO-member committee, with Chair
man uiuham A. hiarrten tu.,
N.C.) an opponent of federal aid
to education, presiding.
The first week will be given
over to congressmen Who have
presented bills on aid to education.
There ure at least a dozen ot these
bills tn the House, not countini:
four principal bills in the Senate.
The Senate Committee on Labor
and Public Welfare, which handles
educational mailers, may try to
draft a bill and get it passed while
the lluuse is still holding hearings.
The Senate is much more in favor
ot federal aid for public schools
than the House.
The second week of the House
hearings will be given over to the
opponents of federal aid. As Hep.
Ralph Gwinn (U.. N.Y.I, another
opponent of federal school aid put
it, 'We want to hear from the de
fendants in this case."
Third week of the House hear
ings will bring out the story
these who favor federal aid.
National Education
American Federations of Teach
ers, and so on.
The hearings will close with the
views of the Eisenhower admin
istration, which presents the mid
dle ginund of small direct school
districts for most of the program.
The majority report takes the
position that there is no state
which could not do more to solve
its own shortages.
One of the main difficulties is to
find where the shortages are. Any
idea that the need is spread even
ly across the country is all wrong.
Actually, the problem breaks
down Into three parts:
One is taking care of the normal
school population growth from
year to year. This is L.MIO.OOO chil
dren and they reiiuire .'iii.ono more
schoolrooms every year. N e i
school construction has Wen iilile
more than this the last few
years.
The second part is unsafe and
obsolete school facilities. This v.
the biggest part of the problem
IVpetiding on standanls ued 'r
letc school is, this need is put at
from 120,000 more classrooms in
the most recent 43-stute survey of
19.V2, to a projected estimate of
210,000 for today.
Overcrowding in mulliple-s hilt
schools unci temporary, improvised
schoolrooms over stores or in base
ments and Quonset huts the third
part of the shortage is found in
73,01)0 to SO.OOO classrooms.
About 9 per cent of the total
school population of 30 million
youngsters, or around 2,700,000, are
now slacked in such overcrowded
schools. This if the real school
shortage.
Dr. Samuel M. Brownell, Jr.,
U.S. commissioner of education,
says that a new 27-slate survey
shows one third of this problem is
found in only two states. They are
Alabama, which has 330.000 chil
dren in overcrowded schoolrooms,
and Indiana, which has 3G5.000.
One half of the overcruwding
problem, says Dr. Brownell, can
he found in five states. These are
Indiana and Alabama plus Missis
sippi with lfiO.OnO youngsters ill
ill overcrowded classrooms. Minne
sota with 111,000 and New Yoik
with 330,000.
This is an. interesting list rich
ol i New York with a high per capita
like i income, prosperous Indiana and
Association, .Minnesotu well up the scale, Ala
bama and Mississippi toward the
bottom. Solve their shortages and
half the overcrowding problem is
licked.
Ski Trip Taken
By Scout Jroop
SISTERS Boy Scout Troop No.
39 went on a ski trip to the Hoo
doo Ski Bowl Sunday, March
The boys left Sisters Sunday morn
ing und returned that same eve
ning after spending most of the
day on the slopes.
Adults and guests who accom
panied the scouts were Scoutmas
ter Phil Shoemaker, assistant
scoutmaster Bernard Cole, his wife
and daughters, Sharon and Karen
and his son, Douglas, and Gerald
Benson. Scouts making the trip
were Gary Benson. Lee 1 nomas
Donny Mouser. Buzzy Endicotl
Bill Bemhry. Jim McGregor, and
Ted llerlinger.
The Scouts are making plans to
plant trees on their tree farm in
the near future.
Quotable Quotes
- Miymuc anyuimg is untie lor the aveinge ncrsnn
republicans oppose it and cry politics. Ki p. John Mc-
IfJurniack (D.-Mass.)
1
- Being a salesgirl was a a d wav to eel used In
-punching doorbells and the experience was valuable when!
II found myself punching doorbells for the Democrats.
'Carol Ludington, head of Democrats' primary campaign
-in Michigan.
.
;," '. Sometime this year unemployment will be dose In
Jive' million. Leon Keyserling, former economic advi
ur. 7
. I learned a lot sitting and listening. DnvcTope,
jfjlcvclund Indian, explains value of riding bench.
Deti hides County
SPORTSMEN'S
ASSOC.
MEETING
and
DUTCH LUNCH
Saturday Allernoon
.March 13 1 p.m.
Moose I,odi;o Hull
FREE LUNCH
mid
REFRESHMENTS
.Meii-liHiidise Awiirds
Sporlis .Movie
1 I'-clton of Otf leers
If i hi lik to fish, hunt
YOU'RE INVITED
ANKLE IN.IL'KKI)
Special to The Ktllletill
SISTERS Dave Johnson, Sis
ters high school teacher, received
an ankle injury while skiing at
Hoodoo Sunday.
Who's Laundry?
Yeh, That's It
PEORIA, 111. (UP) Assist
ant Fire Chief Rudy Kneer radioed
a police dispatcher to check the
owner of Woo's Laundry here and
isk him to open the door.
The fireman had answered an
alirm at the laundry address, and
wanted to get in to see if the place
was okay.
"Who's laundry? asked dis
patcher Roy King.
."That's right," Kneer replied.
King consulted a city directory.
WRONC. CHARGE
DBS MOINES, Iowa (UP)
Harry Reeves has asked the Iowa
Legislature for $60,000 damages on
grounds he spent 16 years in the
state prison on a "wrong" charge.
Reeves was convicted of a jewel
theft. He said the robbery was
merely a cover-up to defraud an
insurance company and he should
have been sentenced for conspiracy.
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