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THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor
Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations
Entered ai Second Clua MatUir, January 6, 1(17 at the Pout Olflca at Bend. Ure
son under Act of March 8, IbKJ.
The Greater Light
4 The Bend Bulletin. Tuesday. March 22. 1955
Too Much Success
Dwight Newton, The Bulletin's proofreader for the
past few months, is an accomplished writer of Western
.stories. Like most writers of Western stories, our Mr.
Newton seldom markets his output under his own name,
' preferring the anonymity of a series of pen names.
Mr. Newton had a fine schedule worked up for him-
: self. Ho spent the early hours of his day perusing the
columns of proof for errors. lie found a number each
day, some of them the responsibility of the back.shop and
some of them the fault of the various writers who con
tribute to each day's paper. He then covered the proofs
-with the little hieroglyphics which indicated the.neces.snry
corrections.
After lunch he turned to his own writing chores, and
he was good at them.
Too good, in fact, for he now has a backlog of story
orders from publishers which must be filled within a
.specified time limit. The orders are so pressing that
;;he must devote full time to them, leaving no time avail
able for his part-time chore of reading proof for The
-Bulletin. .
Mr. Newton's success, therefore, becomes our loss.
We have, however, found another part-time author
who wants to move his family to Bend, which town he
feels is the perfect place to carry on his writing chores.
He'll be on tap in a few days. We suspect, if his pattern
follows that established by Mr. Newton, that he may be
only the second in what may come to be a long line of
part-time authors who read Bulletin proof on the side.
In the meantime, Louise Brogan, part-time gardener,
is handling the proof chores at The Bulletin.
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Professor Makes! Class Changes Meeting Time
Study of Algae
How Silly Can We Get?
So the post office has banned the sending of the two
official Russian publications, Pravda and I.vestia,
through the mails excepting to certain classes of recipi
ents. , This seems to bo a pretty silly ruling for a country
' which has long prided itself as guaranteeing complete
freedom of information ' no matter what the type to
all its citizens. It might better have come from the
Russians, from whom we have come to expect such
things.
Edson in Washington
Ike Aids Driver in Distress
By I'KTKll KDKUX
NKA Washington Correspondent
WASI IINGTON I NEA I Spring
comes early in Washington, and on
a warm, wet day recently a capi
tal eilizon and wife they prefer
nol to he named were driving out
Massachusetts Ave., IV W. In suh-
right six-feet-three but he isn't
quite big enough to bo responsible
for the eight million births record
ed in 1953 and 1951.
Defense Secretary C. E. Wilson
has invited 17 newspaper political
cartoonists who have drawn funny
pictures of him and sent him their
Out of Screwball Corner?
One of the San Francisco newspapers several years
ugo used to keep a pair of chairs in the corner of the
'. editorial reception room. The location of the chairs was
"dubbed "screwball corner" by some of the members of
the newspaper's irreverent reportoi ial staff.
Cotrain types of visitors were shown to this corner
and were interviewed by a reporter for the paper. The
same irreverent newsroom characters used to call the re
I porter the "perpetual motion machine editor."
; Visitors to "screwball corner" generally fell into. one
of two types. Some had some mechanical invention of
great note they were finally willing to unveil before what
should have been a breathlessly-awaiting public (hence
the nickname for the reporter). Others had some social
.'or moral plan which was sure to save the world from
I going to heck in a basket, as it seemed to be doing in
1 those Battle of Britain days.
; Occasionally, but only occasionally, the reporter as
signed to this "beat" came Up with a good story. Usually
it was of the tongue-in-cheek type, which poked gentle
fun at the visitor and his invention or plan.
All this is by way of leading up to commenting on
a story which appeared in our favorite newspaper the
' other day.
The story was datelined Madison, Wisconsin, and
I went something like this :
Charles Keen, owner of a Madison machine shop,
-has invented a new automobile, which lie culls the "Keen
" Steamliner." The car is powered with a steam engine.
Z (Shades of the Stanley Steamer.)
Z Keen's, car is quiet, "warms up" in ,'55 seconds instead
-of the equal number of minutes it used to take the origi
nal American steam-powered automobile, burns practical-
ly anything for fuel, has "tremendous" pickup, and will
Z go so fast he's afraid to open it up. So far he has done 80
miles per hour in it, at a fuel rate of 25 miles to the gal
lon ( water.
Those who remember the Stanley will be glad to note
that Keen's Steanilinor is said to be much safer. Keen
says it can't blow up, eliminating one hazard which used
to bother Stanley owners.
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me car nas no gear sum anil no ciuicli anil can go
in reverse as fast it goes forward. It really has all sorts
of good features for people who like to drive backwards
tis well as those who like to head in the conventional di
rection. The big automobile manufacturers apparently haven't
been beating a path to the door of Mr. Keen. They ate too
taken up with their present no-clutch, no gear shift mod
els and are thinking about the gas turbine drives of the
fill ure.
But one former "perpetual motion machine edilor"
of the past wishes Mr. Keen either had invented his car
a few years ago in San Francisco or in the Bend of the
present. It would have been awfully nice for one of the
visitors to "screwball corner" to have had a working mod
el of his invention.
urban Maryland, they spotted a originals to come have lunch Willi
him at the Pentagon. The four
Washington cartoonists. Talburt of
Seripps-llownrd, Borryman, Her
block and Crockett will be there
Hut the other invitations went clear
across the country to include Fitz
parick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Scot Lang of Milwaukee Journal
and Howard Fisher of Portland,
Ore.; Journal.
Itehind (his invitation Is ad in
torcstiiif; situation. Secretary Wil
son, being mechanically minded,
can figure out anything with a
slide rule and blueprints. But bow
cartoonists can think up ideas for
funny drawings is beyond him.
He has all these originals framed
in his office. The dirtier the' dig
in them, the better he likes them.
He wauls lo meet the creators face
to face to find out bow they do it.
"I have long admired he ability
and facility wilh which you gentle
men in the profession point up the
events in the news." Secretary Wil
son wrote each of the cartoonists.
'I hope that you will be able to
give me something of an insight on
how you do il at Ibis luncheon and
gel-togelher."
Rep. Hare K. Hoffman (R..
woman in distress. Her car bad
become hopelessly stuck in the
mini of an unfinished driveway.
The man stopped his own ear
and tried (o give the lady help.
Hul afler several tries In? found it
impossible lo push (he slack cur
one way or the other. In the mean
time a steady stream of cars had
wbt'zed by on the busy thorough
faro, but nolle slopped to give aid.
Just as (hir man was about to
give up and go call for a tow truck
a long black limousine pulled up
to a slop. Four husky men piled
out. In no time nt all tiiey freed
l!ie stuck car. The woman driver
got out. shook hands all around
and was most profuse In her
thanks to the five men who bad
helped her.
"Don't thank us, thank the Pres
ident," came the reply.
"What President',"' asked t h e
woman.
'Our President."
And before she could spell "Ike"
the President was pointed out t
her. sitting in his own car, and
waiting for the four Secret Service
men to complete their Boy Scout
deed for the day.
Cuming from Burning Tree golf
course, the sharp-eyed President
bad noted the woman stuck in the
mud and the man trying to help
her. The President had slopped bis
own car and asked the Secret
Service detail in the trailing car
lo give her a hand. Hut the Secret
Servicemen didn't ask what her
name was.
Ilobeil V. Burgess, director of
the 1!. S. Bureau of the Census.
it inlroduced for a speech before
a Washington group of statisticians
and economists the other day as.
The man responsible (or the grunt
increase in V. S. population in the
two years since he took office."
Mr. Burgess is a big man all
WACO, Tex. (UP) A biology
professor believes that the blue
green algae that grow on stagnant
water may have definite medicinal
value.
Dr. Floyd F. Davidson, a pro
fessor ot biology at Baylor Uni
versity, said he is not sure about
the toxic properties of the algae,
but his hopes for finding a new
source of antibiotics sounded rea
sonable enough for the National
Institutes of Health to award him
a three-year $12,828 grant to con
duet research.
Davidson hopes his project will
result in isolation of a substance
that can be used in fighting con
laminative bacteria in the human
body.
Certain blue-green algaa, some-
nmes called water bloom, are
highly poisonous to certain ani
mals, Davidson said. Fish cannot
live in the water where these algae
are present, and dogs and cattle
have been known to die after eat
ing them or afler drinking water
in which they grow.
Various Studies
He said the blue-groon algae are
less common than the green algae
wi'h which most people are famil
iar. The type in which he is inter
ested has a slightly bluish tint, yet
is sometimes difficult to differen
tiate from the common green
variety.
Studies will be made of the rela
tionship ot the blue-green algae to
the bacterial flora in ponds and
streams. He believes he will find
that bacteria do not flourish as
well in waters where certain blue
green algae grow in abundenace.
Secondly, he will carry the algae
into his laboratory to investigate
the possible harmful effects on
other contaminative organisms.
This will be done through special
cultures grown under careful sci
entific conditions.
The hamster, one of science's
laboratory animals, will be used in
the investigation's third phase
determining the extent of injury
inflicted on animals by blue-green
algae or their toxic substances.
Final stages of Davidson's re
search will seek to isolate the al
gae's toxic substances, and study
Cornell Given
Argentine Books
ITHACA, N. Y. I UP) Cor
nell University alumni in Argen
dcaling with the historical, politi
a collection of some 600 books
cal, social, economic, literary and
tina have given their alma maler
culture life of (heir counU-y.
R. Francisco Apeschc, class of
1914, said (be gift is in partial pay
ment to the United Slates of the
services of 22 American women
teachers who went to Argentina
some SO years ago.
The collection contains a 53-
volume set of the works of former THE HKAI, THING
President Domingo F. Sarmicnto, MONTPELIER, VI. (UP)
Argentina's great educator who j When Verrmont's Speaker of the
hired the young women to teach I House signs Ins "John Hancock" to
and organize a school system in I official documents, he does just
bis country. that. John Hancock is his name
The American Association of bers of the community as well as
University Women Central Ore
gon college sponsored money man
agement class which was original
ly scheduled to meet on Mondays
and Wednesdays will change to
Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the
first meeting of the new schedule
the evening of March 22.
At the first meeting of the class
on March 16, J. w. saunacrs,
president of Western Investor's
fund, Portlund, spoke. The Tues
day evening meeting will be spent
in review and discussion of Saun
ders' talk. On March 21, Ben Fan
ning of the U.S. Nationul Bank
will discuss banking services,
trusts, and wills.
The class is open to all mcm-
to AAUW members. Fees for non
members is $3.50 and for AAUW
members, $2.50. Covered by the
fee is a complete kit of materials.
Mrs. W. A. Vun Hise is chair
man of the discuss group.
ARTHRITIS?
I have been womlerfully blenned Jn he
inn reflated to active life after being
crippled in ncar!y every joint in my
btniy and with niuHCtiiar gorenewa from
head to foot. 1 had Rheumatoid Arthritu
and other form of Klieuniatiam, haniis
deformed and my ankles were net.
Limited kphcb prohibits telling you
more here but if you will write me, I
will reply at once and Ull you how 1 re
ceived thi wonderful relief.
Mrs. Lela S. Wier
2805 Arbor HilU Drive-oft P.O. Box 2ti(J5
Jackson 7. Miaaisttippi
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tolling voieowji.ys logi'llicr. One of our newest money
savers is a special casing (above) which fits over splices in
plastic covered cable. We simply bolt it together and seal
the edges and ends with a special compound. This protects
the splice against air and moisture. With, this casing, plastic
covered cable can bo put in faster and at even lower cost.
It's another way we've found to provide more service, bet
ter service, at low cost to you. Pacific Telephone works
to make your telephone a bigger value every day.
Mich.) is often kidded because hp
loi.L'it v.i mn. h III.-,. Il,e If, I,, Will !
Kernel's. Hut their dispositions are
considerably dilferent. The dour
MichiisuidtT has now let it be
known that lie would really prefer
to be mistaken for Mae West. -"I
mean as she looked years ai;o."
Kldor statesman Bernard Bar
neb, who has made more than one
Uillinc. on the U. S. stock market,
is scheduled lo be one of the last
Witnesses before Chairman .1. Wil
,liani Kiilbribt's Senate Banking
committee investigation of die
hot tin.
One of Fosy Grandpa Barurh's
oft-iuoted maxims is: "When the
market becomes Pac,o One news,
that's the time to sell."
Se These 2 Big Winners in 1955
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Quotable Quotes
The istfiio when I.iticnlti entered the White House
was whether the American Union .should be preserved.
Now the coiistitutioiiid issue is, .shall the union lie kept
American. Sen. John Briiker (K Ohio).
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