THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OBEOON PRESS
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
" Phil F. Brog-an, Associate Editor
Mnmhup Audit RurMil of ftreulatlofM
BnUnd u Bwond CUu lUtur. Jsnuary . 111 M tiie Po.1 Ottlc at Bend. Ore-
ton under Act ol Marco , lew.
Handwriting on the Wall
4 The Bend Bulletin, Friday. March 18, 195S
Balls of Fire
In 'the Oregon country, fireball chasing apparently
Is becoming a popular outdoor sport. -
Fireballs are those blazing meteors that occasionally
hlnoVi flnminn nofVia oevnao nnprhuoaf alrina anrl orrpjltlv
' arouse the public. Through the years, nothing has been
done about them.
Now a widely scattered group. of observers not only
. i i it -I . 11 l l 1 I
cnart me course or me itreoans, out, cuicumw mcir
heights, trace their ground course, determine their points
of disappearance and even give them names.
"So what?" it may be asked.
Fireballs aloft are not of much value, other than for
the thrill they provide earthlings as the planetary rocks
cut through the earth's atmosphere and burn into star
f dust.
But occasionally these chunks of Broken planets lau
to earth and are recovered. Once on the earth they be
come meteorites. Their nrevailin? nrice. at last ouotation.s.
was $1.00 a pound. Of course, a huge meteorite, like the
Willamette or some of its kin, would be worth a small
fortune.
How would a person go about locating meteorites?
This question brings us right back to a discussion of this
new outdoor sport of meteor chasing.
Observers gather fireball data much in the same man
ner a forest fire spotter charts a blaze. Readings are
screened by Dr. J. Hugh Pruett, Eugene astronomer and
area director of the American Meteor Society.
Consider the manner Dr. Pruett will determine the
path of the noisy meteor observed in Oregon on March 8 :
Using observations from all parts of the state, he will de
termine the height at which the fireball appeared and dis
appeared. He will determine the point where the meteor
exploded, with a roar that shook buildings in the north
part of Deschutes county.
Under, the spot where the explosion occurred, mete
orites may be found.
This, it may be charged, is all theory. Hardly. This
method of locating meteorites under exploding fireballs
has been widely used in the western states in the past two
decades, with the wastes of the southwest providing some
of the best material.
vide data for the location of meteorites. That was in con
nection with the tracing of the Washffligal meteor in
Washington a number of years ago. Dr. Pruett made the
triangulation, determined the points of explosion and pro
vided the information for a ground party.
At the point designated by Dr. Pruett, a meteorite
was found.
Ed son in Washington
Welcome Back
It is good to note the editorials of Charles Stanton,
editor of the Roscburg News-Review, appearing once
again on that newspaper's pages. One of the best-informed
writers in the slate on natural resource subjects,
Stanton has been away from his desk because of a'
serious illness far too long.
Pumice Gains Recognition
By I'KTKK UDSO.V
N'ftA Washington 'orrcsHndcnt
WASHINGTON (NKA Demo
cratic National Commit lee Chair
man Paul Huller's statement that
Mrs. Eisenhower's health mildit
prevent the President from being
a candidate for re-election is only
one of his reasons for hclieviiu!
Ike won't run aain. Anions But
ler's oilier aruum-nts are these:
I. The President feels that by
l!)rS ho will have the job he was
elected to do.
The President does not really
like Hie While House job.
3. The President's appeal to the
voters will not be as grout in 9riG.
1. The Democrats can beat the
Itcbuhllonns in I'M.
All tills is perhaps more wishful
thinking than sound political rea
soning. There couldn't be a less
informed aulhorily on what noes
on in the minds of a Republican
President than the chairman of the
Democratic Nalional Committee-
They are his views, however, for
what they are worth.
Democratic Chairman Butler's
statement in New York that
Mrs. Eisenhower's health was not
loo (jiKid and that this would
cause the President not to run
created u storm of Republican
erilicism in Washington, as fully
reported in the news columns.
One IhintrMi'. Huller has shown
a ureal capacity for in the few
mouths he has been Democralir
Nalional Chairman is to stampede
(lie Republican elephants. Whether
he does this by accident or on
purpose is not vet
efteel is the same,
at this rale, he'
body crazy by November. Ul.Vi
Chairman P.utlers contention
that the Democrats can win the
l'.t.M; election, rocardloss of e.-mdi.
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technical data available for the assistance of architects.1 , " , h .
iiiuiiei is ot course paid n hand-
builders and structural engineers. some salary to promote and pubii-
U is a wonder that such a group was not lormod a "us pomi of view-
number of years back. But now that it is organized, it will
be no surprise to northwest builders to find the Institute
'has a Central Oregon background and that two Hem! men
-Are among its leaders.
r Deschutes communities in the past decade have pio
neered in the production of pumice and in the sponsor
ship of engineering and const nut ion studies that have re
pealed the fine qualities of the light aggregate.
f. Available for those studies have been some of the fin
est pumice on the continent a product believed by
many to be even superior to that in countries of southern
TSuropo where the use of pumice as tin aggregate dates to
early Greek and Roman civilizations.
Deschutes puntico is not mere ash blown into billow-
illir clnlllls frntn evnlnrlimr Vfdc.'iniios then ill-,, mm.) nvoi- ' "alks.
-i t, ... , - t. . HUM das heme a regular auto-
the landscape. It is a rock froth from erupting mountains. wMr s,'ne,i.,ie w,n R0 into efieet
Pumice in the region directly west of liend ami iu;i'tweon i:,nd and Prineviiie. Two
the Deschutes canvon downstream to Tuinalo ork'imiled srveii-passrn.'.cr Mitchell cars mil
,. t .... .. .,. ... . .. . . ,, , , , ,. i he placed on the line
iiuuiiii uMiidiu mid unit, bhv ii iimi uir luuiiinu iieill
A nalional organization with a Central Oregon back
ground recently came into existence at a conference of
concrete manufacturers in Cleveland, 0.
It is the Pumiei Institute. Heading it up are two
Pend men, Lloyd A. Williamson, president, and William
E. Miller, secretary. Primary objective of the organization
will be to advertise and promote the use of pumice, and
to unify the efforts of producers, importers and manufac
turers of the lightweight aggregate now used extensively
concrete masonry.
Also, the newly-formed Pumice Institute will make
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Wishful Thinking by Butler?
there were in 1952. The appeal of
General Eisenhower as a war hem
plus gripes over 20 years of
Democratic control are held
responsible for the 33-to-26-million
vote.
Democrats now say they have
to change only three million votes
to win. They point to the latest
Gallup poll projections, indicating
more Democrats in t h e country
than Republicans-
If the I!).' vote should bo smal
ler than in Vi2, it would bo a
reversal of all past trends. For the
Democrats to win in a small vote
election would also be a reversal
of past theories that the bigger
llio vole, the better the Demo
cratic, prosjiocts for victory.
Election results of 1954 provide
the major arguments for Denio
eralic beliefs their JOfiti chances
are improved.
They claim now that Republican
slale legislatures in New York,
California and other slates ger
rymandered the Democrats out of
H Congressional seats, which
should have been added to their
present 1!9 seat majority.
They can point to '11 Demo
cratic governors now in office.
In stale legislatures, the Demo
crats claim a net gain in lOM of
111! House seals and ' lOli Senate
seals. They now control L'5 Lower
Houses and 20 Senates in slate
legislatures, with two stales evenly
divided.
Approximately one-lhird of the
sugar consumed in the world is
clear. The net I """"! '. " " l,m s"r "wis,
l( he keeps on!'"'" ""nlS fr"m s":"' ""'
haw rvt'fy-
NW Plants Face
Power Cutback
PORTLAND (UP) Northwest
industrial plants affected by a 35
per cent reduction of "interrupt!-;
ble" power effective next Monday
faced the alternative today of
buying more costly steam or im
ported power or of facing payroll
and production cutbacks.
Bonneville Power Administrator
William A. Pearl said yesterday
intprruptible power deliveries to
1-1 firms would be curtailed during
daylight hours because of the gen
eral cold weather and low stream
flows.
The Aluminum Company of
America at Vancouver, Wash., an
nounced last night it would go
ahead with purchase of higher cost
power to avoid a production cut
back. If the firm were to operate
on the reduced power, about 100
workers- would be affected.
Reynolds Metals C o m p a n y,
which has plants at Longview and
Troutdale, said it was studying
possibility of. buying higher-rate
power. A spokesman said that !."
per cent of the Longvicw plant
power and 16 per cent of the
Troutdale power was interruptible.
Dr. Pearl said that if possible
power would be imported from
British Columbia and that if not
steam generators in Portland, Se
attle and Longvicw would be put
into use.
Interruptible power is that sold
to heavy users at a rate lower
than firm power with understand
ing service can be halted in case
and of a hortage. Firm power com
mittments were not affected.
Letfers
To the Editor:
I have teen reading your edi
torials on the selection of high
school text . books and I am led
to say that moral education should
begin on the first day and continue
to the very last day of the school
period. Moral education, or the
science of right and wrong, is the
most important subject that could
possibly be taught, for upon it de
pends the highest and best uses of
the mental and physical activities.
To what good purpose is a keen
ly trained mind if that sharpness
is used for crime? A present well
knopi example, Chessman by
name now waiting the death pen
alty, is a case in point. If he had
been taught thoroughly enough to
convince him of the wroncness and
foolishness of such horrible deeds
he could not have done them. So
ciety is partly to blame.
But the U.S. constitution forbids
the teaching of religion in the pub
lic schools, nor is that necessarv
for the teaching of morals for
there are innumerable examples!
ouisioe of the Bible of ereat and
good men whose unselfish deeds
and lives could safely be used as
models. And memory gems of
high quality moral poetry could
be learned.
But, you may say, the homes
should do this moral teaching.
Yes, admittedly. But many homes
do not do it, and some children
don't have any homes. And the
churches? Well, the time a child
spends in church or Sunday school
is entirely insufficient to be effee-J
uve in moral training, and besides
children don't have to go to school
where they can be reached and
given this so necessary moral
training. Moral training is like the
railing along a steep and sharply
curving mountain road. It helps
keep you in the right road. Crime i
fighters place the railing at the
bottom of the cliff where they can
pick you up after you have fallen.
and it is too late. I
CHRIS M. RASMUSSEN,
1034 E. 10th Street
Bend, Oregon
March 17, 1955
WORKKKS Kit. I. Kit
KELSO, Wash. (UP) James A.
McLeod, 59, of Kelso, was killed
Wednesday afternoon when his rail
road repair speeder collided hpad-
on with a north bound Northern
Pacific 'freight train about five
miles north of Kelso.
William C. Hammond. 22, also
of Kelso, managed to jump before
the crash. McLeod, a signal main
tenance man. was thrown onlo the
tracks.
The two men bad been on t rail
repair job and Were reluming to
Kelso when the accident occurred.
Brimstone from salt domes of
Texas and Louisiana accounts for
85 per cent of the sulphur supply
of the United States.
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from The Itiillelin, Mar. 17. I!lln
Krom Washington it is repelled
that Sen Chamberlain of Oregon
will S'Mii introduce a hill provid
iiiK fur final disMMtion of all
lands embraced in Indian reserva
tions in this slate.
At a meclin- of the common
i here this week, n resolution w as
introduced calling tor the construc
tion of ei..:hl blocks of wooden side-
craters ittul vents in the ra.stern Cascades.
What of the future of pumice?
It's possible that llcnd will become national head
quarters for the now Pumice Institute and that there will
bo established here laboratories and pilot plants lo pro
vide further proof that volcanic froth is superior as an
aggrt'Kato.
l'roof has already been obtained that pumice pro
vides an excellent shield against deadly rays emanating
from atomic blusts.
Possibly nature through its own "super weapons."
mighty volcanoes that occasionally shake the globe and
send into the heavens plumes more impressive than thnso
from nuclear blasts, litis provided in pumice the pintn
tidn needed ugainst atomic attacks.
John V. Stevens. Oregon Trttnk
presidenl, has anilotineed that his
line will not end al Madras, bill
will continue on seiilh lo IVnd.
S II. Snyder, who has a h.iine-s'e-id
near liend reporis thai on
slill afternoons he can hear the
hi astini! of railroad hielders in the
Pe-iehutes pace fur to the north
Plans for a my baseball team
m I'MO will be made al a meeting
to be held Sana dav at the Hold
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