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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1955)
THE'BEND BULLETIN nd CENTRAL OREGON PBESS An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor .fnUni u Second Claaa Hll. January 6. 1917 at lha I'ort OIIIm at Bend. Ora- oa nadw Act of March t, WW. 4 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday March 23, 1955 Straw Along Roadsides Various mid-Oregon highways are taking on a farm . jrard appearance these early spring doys, and the miles of . straw neapea on road emuanKmeius is mystifying motor ; is'ts. ' South of Bend, the straw-blanketed roadsides are in ; evidence froji the Lava Butte area to the Willamette junc tion, along U.S. Highway 97. Straw appeared aloig the Warm Springs highway . -roadsides more recently. ".' The straw, which reflects sunlight like pumice banks Isn a bright day, is a covering for a new seed mixture, already successfully tried along the Columbia river. The straw is carefully spread over the seeded em bankments, then sprayed with a mixture which appears to be successful in keeping it in place even under the stiff tug of March winds. Once the grass mixture gets a start in the normally arid embankments, it may flourish even under the warm sun of summer days. Test plots have indicated that the seed mixture will eventually blanket the banks of deep "uts in emerald green. - Here's hoping deer in the area do not develop an ap petite for the chemical sprinkled straw. Some 200 of these "animals were killed in the past year between Bend and ,the Fremont junction. If they stop to graze on the wayside hay the mortal ity may be higher. But we are sure they won't. Deer this time of the year are interested in green grass, not straw. Miller's Statement :: Leslie A. Miller, former governor of the State of Wy oming and long a student of water and reclamation in the west, recently appeared before a Congressional committee studying proposals to develop the -upper Colorado River watershed. The Colorado River Storage Project, recommended by the Eisenhower administration to Congress, has be come one of the hottest political items in the recent his tory of reclamation legislation. It has been attacked strongly on the ground that its proposed Echo Park Dam would flood parts of the Dinosaur National Monument. Governor Miller, however, went after the project on entirely different grounds. Here, are some of the points he made: 1. The argument about putting the waters to bene ficial use immediately in order to protect the allocation made by the Colorado River Compact is fallacious. The Compact provides that the allocation is "in perpetuity" nnd that clause of the Compact has never been chal- lunged. ' . 2. The pstininfprl crista nf irriiiit.imi hnnpfif.q pven . on the basis of Reclamation Bureau estimates which al , most always are 'way too low are too high by far con ; sldering the type of land to benefit and the crops which -, can be rained on it. 3. New irrigation has been most successfully brought into being without federal subsidy in the past, there is no r reason to doubt that it cannot still be done. 4. Permanent allocation of the present Upper Colo - rado water supply for irrigation purposes would perman- entry damage the chances for industrial development in the area, which has the world's greatest concentration of energy fuel sources coal, oil, oil shale, gas and urani um now known. These can be used most profitably near their present locations, and vast amounts of water will be necessary. Miller's statement to the cummittee supported the view of Gov. Ed C. Johnson of Colorado, that under .some circumstances development could be carried on at lower cost and moro efficiently by the use of state and local funds rather than through a gigantic federal program. His statement makes sense. Some of his philosophy should lie taken into account in the planning of any fu ture reclamation project, small or large. Monument to Commie .Integrity """"I'Thar liillwaii -ii jKZfcrZrDCI. mi Jlla S. Grant's Brushings Ours is one of those houses versa. There arc dogs in lour Edson in Washington Fight Over Echo Park Underway By I'lOTKK K1ISOM NBA WiinIiIiikIiiii C'orrfspolKlent WASHINGTON (NKAI The battle (if Kcho Park is hcKimiiiiK to echo loudly in congressional committee' rooms and behind the scenery. What's involved here is a contest ainnhi; southwestern states for control of water in the Colorado River system. From the point of view of a a neutrid observer, it is u perfect example of the confu sion that results when attempts are made to settle interstate disputes at the local level, rather than in the national interest. The arguments that the two sides throw nl each other are vieious and in s o m e cases misleading. Present indications are that if the controversy Is settled by this Con gress, it will he the result of a political log-rolling deal worthy of Paul Human. Tin' billion-dollar project to build two water storage dams in the upper Colorado system has been kicking around for five years. One dam would be at Glen Canyon. Ariz., 13 miles below the Utah line The other would be at Kcho Park. Colo., on the tributary Green Riv er, three miles east of the Utah line. The two dams would have a com bined potential power capacity of a million kilowatts and provide ir rigation water for over 100,11(10 acres ol land in 11 projeets. They would also store water for down stream di-liery in dry years. President Kisenhower flew over the sites during bis Colorado va cation last summer and declared there was no sense in not usuigi them. The Administration program' tor Ibis year calls for an initial' $5 million to begin work if Con gress authorizes the project. The total cost is estimated at SMS million over a '.'tl-yenr period. Kevenue from the sale ol power and irrigation rights xoulii begin to lcpay costs atter eight yeai"s. OntM'iilinn to tins nrn.ioct comes Reading over the issues of the Congressional Record .largely from the downstream Colo since the start of the current session of Congress a little!';"1" ,,f Arizona and Ever-Blooming Politics signed it except Arizona which, with California, wanted more. Congress thereupon passed a lim itation act, giving the downstream states 7.5 million acre-feet ol wa ter a year. A test case on this division is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The big complication here is that Mother Nature hasn't always co operated on this division. Some times the upper Colorado can de liver 25 million acre-feet a year. Sometimes it can deliver only four. million acre-leet a year. Last year was a dry year. Powcr and witter deliveries from Hoover Dam have boon cut up to 20 .pre cent. California and Arizona are protesting. This is where much of the opposition to Echo Purk and Glen Canyon comes from. In making their fight, all kinds of appeals have been made. One has Ix'cn to arouse national parks fans to protest that Echo Park, Dam would flood out Dinosaur Na tional Monument. Hop. Craig Hosmer (R Calif.) :ts now raised a new objection. It is that atomic power plants w ill soon make hyth-oeleetrie power ob solete, so why build any more dams? It so happens, however, that there is another dam project in which southern California has great interest. This is the Trinity River development in northern Californ Here is the making of a big deal. Rep. Clair Kngle ID., Calif.). chairman of the House Interior Committee, comes from the Trin ity River area. He has introduced a bill to reauthorize and enlarge this project. Uist year both committees ap proved Echo Park Dam, but the issue was not brought to a vote. This year the word has gone out from the Senate side that unless Hie House approves Echo Park, the Senate will not appiove Trinity River. That's the way things get done in Washington. over two months ago, it is easy to discern the first shoots of that common weed, ever-blooming politicus, peeking up through the mass of debate on various issues. Although it is about a year and a hull' until the KXDISII IIOI.IHT rtOSTON (UP) Eugene national political conventions vi presidential nominees for lite l!)f(i elections (rom U's Angeles, which is the I Yates. 'M. of Moriford, was chuck ing user of Colorado water auditing with friends in a cafe. A po tolorado power from the Hoover jlicoman overheard him say how dam. ihe had successfully staged a hold- Tins fight goes hack :tl years tojnp using a bunch of radishes as a 'thi- days when slates m the Coin- j gun. Yates was arrested and sen- assemble til pick t lie irado basin made a 'r-mpacl lodi-jtenced to a year in jail on a it in ir,,m.. v""' ""' "Vl'r '''er nctwoon np-cu.irge ol rootling a druggist ol ii is m nt i .1..,,,,.,,..,,,.,, ,,t.,... u -., any assumeii now mat me opponents win near tne miliar names of Eisenhower and Stevenson. j It is less than a year, however, until the firt of the preferential primary elections in New Hampshire , comes up. In the meantime members and leaders of both' parties are jockeying for position. I Because of this the Record is beginning to fill up' with self-serving political statements, made by members of both parties. So far the copies of the periodical we, have seen contain remarks of this type on practically' any given subject, with the single exception of foreign policy. (We haven't given up hope yet. though. We haven't seen the copies of the Record just after some of the Yalta documents were made public, but from the looks of the news stories there will In? an argument on foreign policy in retrospect, if not at present.) The Record has a number of statements of this type already. : During the next year they may be expected to grow, both in number and vigr, in the plentiful supply of warm, moist kir and nutrient found in the halls of Congress. . ' Yes, ever-blooming politicus should lme a good crop this year. RANGE BULL SALE WEDNESDAY MARCH 30th -10 A.M. Open Consignment Consignments Welcome KLAMATH LIVESTOCK INC. Phone Klamath Falls 3974 BERKELEY, Calif. (UP) Rats can be as blind as bats, but both can find their way around in total darkness by a method simi lar to radar. Tnree psychologists at the Uni versity of California have obtained the first positive evidence that rats, like bats, can produce ultra sonic cries and can hear sounds too high for humans to distinguish, search a step-further, showed that rats use the ability to get around in the dark. The ultrasonic noises bounce hack to the animals off solid ob jects, thereby revealing th eloea tion of the obstacles. The scien tists used blind rats in their experi ments, teaching the animals to find Uieir way through a maze ol a feed box. where there's apt to be dog hair on the rug, and two or three cats curled up on the davenport. May- oe mai a wny we get such a kick out of the "Lassie1' show, Sunday evening on KOIN-TV. The star of the piece, of course is a beautiful female oollie so in telligent and well-trained that it's hard to believe. It's amazing enougn tnat she can open doors, run errands and pull little chil dren out of streams. But the way she can express emotions, as called for in the script, is a talent seldom found in animals. We take her so much for granted that sometimes we fail to appreciate her fine acting, when she walks down a lane with ears and tail drooping, expressing dejection, or bounds in through an open win dow with eyes shining -and tail wagging, the picture of ex uberance. Last Sunday, she got her teeth into an emotion usually reserved for human actresses jealousy. Lassie's young master became the owner of a pony, and in his excitement over the new pet, ne glected the dog. Several times he forgot to feed her, and there was no time for romping or taking walks. Then one evening lassie looked for the boy in the barn, and in finding him, frightened the colt. Shaken with rage, the little hov eried. "Get out of here. Las- Isie, and don't ever come back!" j She did get out. And the way she i walked down the road, looking back occasionally in bewilder ment, was enough to break your heart. Lassie didn't come home for din ner, and the little boy went to bed sadly, knowing he had hurt her feelings. As the story unfolded, the boy crawled out the window and went to look for the dog. In the meantime, Lassie went home, found the bed empty, aroused the rest of the family and lead the search. They found the boy miles ?iway. of course, grounded by a sprained ankle. After a little rest and a little doctoring, he was good as new. That's the simplest kind of a story, but one that's close to the heart. And I like stories with a moral. It's a sad thing, indeed, when a hoy or a man thinks he can hwc just one friend at a time. Exnlam it as you will, since homes out of 10, and one dog out of every three of these is a pure bred. Mel Ellis, Milwaukee Journal outdoor editor, claims in a current piece that after 300 years of try ing this breed and that, the ma ioritv of dog fanciers have settled on a pretty practical pooch, the tail-wagging, rugged and resound ing hunting hound, the beagle. Mel claims that there are n number of reasons why the beagle has replaced the cocker spaniel as the number one dog. The bea ele is a simple sort of dog," he says, "certainly not a complex fellow. But neither are most Amer icans." In the 1954 American Kennel club registration totals, the beagle was the leader, with the boxer standing second. Behind the boxer, the rest of 195-1's top ten lined up like this: Cocker, dachshund, cm hauhau, collie, German Shepherd, Boston terrior, Pekingese and poodle. In the March issue of The Elks Magazine, Ed Faust uses a good many words to say that he's really a great dog man, but he likes only well-behaved dogs belonging to people who, while being son- hearted about their dogs, haven't become soft headed. Addressing the dog, Faust says "I'll be polite and admire each of your tricks once around only. Encores are out. Don't come to visit us Mr Faust. You wouldn't have a good time. Ten times in an evening, Jiggs would steal from his place by the furnace register and nudge 'Beat Feet' May Be Your Fault ST. PAUL, Minn. (UP) If you have "beat feet," it's prob ably your own fault. At least, that's the opinion of Minnesota doctors who reported in a state medical association bulle tin that the feet take abuse few other parts of the body have to take. First, feet are not necessarily a "foot long." They stretch during the day, becoming longer in the evening than they were in the morning. They are. also longer when you walk on them than when you sit down. And they swell when they re hot. The doctors said shoes should lie purchased with an eye to this process of lengthening and swell ing, and that alternating pairs of shoes, also is a good idea. your hand with his muzzle, to do the only trick he knows standing still while someone strokes his head. You would be very irritated, Mr. Faust. And we would be very un comfortable. It's too bad Jiggs has such disagreeable habits. But I'm afraid we wouldn't change him, even if we could. Special Flavor For March Butter Brickie ICE CREAM . ARDCN FARMS CO. The three psychologists next I World War II this country has plan to test other animals to learn I gone to Ihe dogs to the extent that just how common "animal radar" j22'-4 million pooches are now be is. ing cared for by people, and vice APPLICATION BLANK 5TH ANNUAL HOBBY HANDCRAFT SHOW Sponsored by Reid-Thompson P.T.A. and City Recreation Dept Thompson School March 26 & 27 Name Address Phone I would like to enter the following in the show: I will need space. Signed Mai! to Recreation Dept. City Hall, Bend. For additional information Phone 1024, Bend. 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