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6 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, April 27, 1955
? Ila S. Grant's
Sage
Bntshings
Some days everything goes
wrofifi. That's the way It was yes
terday. And it was all on account
of tuy diet.
I Say this even though I woke
UP thinking it was Sunday. And
my diet had nothing to do with
that. It was Just one of those
things.
By the time I realized It wasn't
Sunday, after all, it was late.
But I fixed my standard break
fastone soft-boiled egg, one or
ange and one slice of dry toast
just as though I had all the time
In the world. Then I graDDod
the lunch I had packed the night
before, swept the snow off the
Black Maria, and took off.
All morning long I kept think
lng about the good lunch I was go
ing to have. A jar of spinach, a
hard-boiled egg, two stalks ot eel
ery and an apple. (I bought a
sack of apples that morning at
the grocery store.)
At noon I tackled the. lunch
sack with great gusto. I
had forgotten to put in the boiled
egg. The spinach was the rem
nant of a now-distant meal and
had spoiled. I ate the celery and
two apples. Then I went across the
street and had a hamburger.
Often, thingti aren't as bad as
they seem. What looked like a
blizzard Monday night turned out
to bo a mild April folly. Tuesday
morning only two or three people
said "Merry flirlHtmas," and by
Tuesday noon the. snow was gone,
and folks had almost forgotten the
freak storm. But the stories arc
worth repeating.
There are some women who will
endure even pioneer hardships to
enjoy a game of bridge. Just con
sider this episode:
Wlmn rtip nnnr.hll7zflrd whistled
through Bend Monday evening, a J
group of the girls headed north
for the home of one of their mem
bers, west of the river and just
north of the Bend city limits.
One carload was stranded even
before getting started: Ohainless,
sawdustless tires made it Impossi
ble for that car to get up the
jstnon Incline al tlie Pilot Butte
Inn corner on Newport, or the
Portland avenue incline adjacent
to U. S. 97. So the group back
tracked and called a taxi.
All went fine until the taximan
came to the turn-off from the high-
way north of Bend and the rugged
arm bridge over the river. He
was also without chains or snow
tires and the snow was piling up.
There, at the highway's edge, the
cab driver stopped.
But not the women. Some of
them were without rubbers, but
they got out of the taxi, hiked
across the bridge and up the west
slope to the farm house.
And, so they reported, a grand
time was enjoyed by all with the
possible exception of Die man of
the house. Around midnight he
drove the earless group back to
town.
It takes more tlian a snow storm
to cancel a game of bridge.
"My, aren't you fortunate In go-
lng to a nice cool place like Ore
gon!"
That's what Mrs. Janet Ford's
friends told her when she .left Los
Angeles and Its nnseasonal "heat
wave" last week, after spending
the winter with one of her daugh
ters, looking forward to spring In
Central Oregon, she was heading
for Bend to visit another daugh
ter, Mrs. II. 8. Davis.
In Bend a few mornings later,
Mrs. Ford looked out on a white
world. Three Inches of snow cov
ered tho greening grass.
Mrs. Ford's prophetic friends
will be glad to know that Califor
nia doesn't have a corner on "un
usual" weather.
I'm sorry now that I ate that
hamburger. I wish I had ordered
banana cream pie instead.
Camera Used
In Retina Study
COLUMBUS, 0. (UP) An
Improved camera for taking pic
tures of the retina of the eye and
ttn making possible studies of dis
eases not connected with the eye,
has been developed at Ohio State
University.
The professors who developed
the camera pointed out that the
retina Is the only aren of the body
in which arteries and veins can
be directly observed while func
tioning. This makes it possible for
doctors to look at the retina and
diagnose not only eye diseases
but ailments such as diabetes and
hieh blood pressure.
The advantages of the new cam
era are that It has produced bet
ter color pictures of the retina
than have been obtainable with
other types of cameras.
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R EM EM B E R I NC These new
stamps were issued recently at
Ghent, Belgium, In honor of an
exhibition marking the 400th
anniversary ot the abdication
of Charles ' V as emperor of
Germany and king of Spain.
Upper stamp, reproduced from
a painting by Louis Gallait,
shows Charles abdicating in
1555 at age 50. Lower stamp
shows Charles as a baby lying
in his crib. The son of Philip,
archduke of Austria, is sur
rounded by his family and
court followers.
Voters Swing
Away From
Extreme Wings
By CHARLES M. MCCAN'N
I'nlted Presa Staff Correspondent
German, French and Austrian
voters all swung away from the
extreme left and the extreme right
in politics in the provincial elec
tions held on Sunday.
In all three countries, the re
sults showed a healthy trend tow
ard moderation in poliucs.
Communism continued to lose
strenth, as it has done in Western
Europe year by year since the
critical Italian general election of
1918.
But the greatest loss was suf
fered by the extreme right wing
party of Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
who only a few years ago had hope
of making himself dictator of
France.
The de Gaullist defeat was of
disastrous proportions. There was
even speculation in Paris whether
it might not foretell the death of
the movement which de Gaulle
started in 1947.
Trend To Middle
There was nothing of note in the
elections in any of the three covin
tries except the trend toward the
middle of the road.
The West German election was
held in the important state of Sax
ony.
There the Socialists who oppose
rearmament got more votes than
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's
Christian Democrats did.
But the Socialists lost the major
ity which they had held in the
state legislature, with the aid of
other groups In a coalition, since
1951.
The Communists lost one of their
three seats, and the extreme right
wing splinter groups also lost
strength.
The feeble Austrian Communist
Party polled only 4 per cent of the
votes, compared to 5.2 per cent in
1950, in the election in the Rus
sian-occupied province of lower
Austria.
Communists Lose
The French provincial election.!
were held all over the country. Th?
Communists grained a handful of
seats i nprovincial councils by mak
ing deals with the Socialists. But
they lost in popidar votes.
The Social Democratic Party,
which is the holdover of de
Gaulle's onetime "rally of the
French people, lost 79 of the 151
seats it had held In the provincial
councils, corresponding to state
legislatures.
Frenchmen may still honor the
free France leader of World
War II, but they certainly are not
voting for him tiny longer.
De Gaulle headed the provisional
government of France after the
war. He went into retirement, only
to merge in 1917 as the leader of
a new political party.
There was open talk that he
might succeed In making himself
dictator. But he failed, and there
is little chance thnt he can ever
make another comeback.
TIIHKK IN TllltKB
BINGHAM, Me. - (UP) Mrs.
Idclla Fogg was stopped twice by
one slate trooper and once by a
second within three liours or
charges of driving without a 11
cense.. Trial Justice Maurice Alk-
ins fined her $5 and costs the first
time, suspended a similar sentence
the second time anil filed the third
charge.
M'ST LOOK
MIAMI BKACI1, Fla. (UP)
Circuit Judge Pat Cannon, who
weighs 300 pounds, greeted the 3"t;i
annual convention of the Associat
ed Retail Bakers of America with
this reprimand: "Look at what
your cookies have done to me "
STKWF.D FK.AKL
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (UP)
The oyster stew business
boomed In the Palmer Grill here
after a nurse, Mrs. Nina Clark,
discovered a pearl In her serving.
.The pearl was appraised at $t'0.
Break Reported
In Bomb-Hoaxes
PORTLAND (UP) Police today
reported their first major break
In the bomb - hoaxes that have
plagued the area recently with
arrest of a 20-year-old youth yes
terday afternoon who officers suid
admitted one threat.
Edward K. llenson, a shipping
clerk at Dnhnken, Inc., was held
under $10,000 bail on a charge of
threatening to commit a felony bv
mailing a threatening note to his
firm last week. The letter warned
a Iwmb would explode at the
wholesale house yesterday but pi
lice uncovered no bomb.
Henson denied any part In an
other threats.
Henson told police he just in
tended "a practical joke."
"At no time did I contemplate
setting off a bomb, since I haven't
the knowledge to do so," the youth
said.
Oregon is one of the few states
permitting slogans on its ballots
cut CnfttHma &yt
He Thinks Uranium Hunters May Be Off on Wrong Track
Congressman SAM COON
WASHINGTON, D. a
They say now that August 15
will be adjournment day so that
means that we are half way
through the First Session of the
84th Congress. Let's take a look
and gee what has been done so
far. There has been an awful lot
of legislation introduced in Con
gress but very little of it has be
come law. I know comparisons are
"odious" and so I am not going
to compare, the 84th Congress with
the 83rd Congress but I can't help
but note that this last year we
had already passed through the
House and Senate many important
Appropriation bills and had sent
them to the president to be signed.
While this year only three minor
Appropriation bills have been
signed thus far by both House and
Senate and sent to the President.
Since the Easter recess there
have been a number of Oregon!
ans in to see me, including Mrs.
Albert Powers, of Coos Bay, who
is Slate Regent of the Oregon
Daughters of the American Revo
lution. It certainly makes me
proud to have our state so well
represented at these national
meetings.
Ernie and Velma Fatland of
Condon were also in town and we
had quite a visit for both are so
well informed on what's going on
out in the District. Another visitor
to Washington was some one
whom, my constituents came down
here to see for ten years, my pre
decessor, Lowell Stockman. It is
always good to see Lowell. He is
really "Mr. Oregon."
As you know from the press I
have introduced a bill calling for
construction of the multi-purpose
John Day Dam on the Columbia
River now. It has taken a lot of
work, thought, and time to draw
up this piece of legislation which, j
in my opinion, is as important as
any that will be before the 81th
Congress. However, I did not in
troduce it until after I had seen
thousands of tho completed ques
tionnaires which I sent out. A big
majority of a good cross section
of the voters of Eastern Oregon
were unhesitating in their answers
to the question concerning the
John Day multi - purpose dam.
They want it built now. The John
Day Dam, under my hill, H.R.
5789, will be a federal dam. It will
be. owned, built, controlled, and
operated entirely by the Federal
government at all times. At no
time will the government have any
partner in the project.
As vou know, and as I have
pointed out, in pixvious newslet
ters and broadcasts, the John Day
oroject has been authorized since
1950. However, and I want you to
keep this in your mind, authoriza
tion of a project does not mean
construction can begin. For in
stance, if the present Hells Can
yon bill passes this Congress, it
would not mean that work would
start on Hells Canyon. It takes
hundreds of millions of dollars to
build a dam and that money must
be raised by the federal govern
ment. Under my John Day bill the
government will sell the power, to
be generated, 'before the dam is
built, and with this money, from
power sales, the government will
pay the. construction cost. It is as
simple as that. When the govern
ment raises the money by having
Congress appropriate it, it is taken
from the general tax fund and is
paid back with the money received
from the. sale of the power. In
that way your tax money is used,
the budget is increased, and so,
naturally, taxes are higher until
the money is paid back by market
ing the power. Under my bill the
process is reversed, your tax
money is not used, the budget is
not increased and naturally, taxes
are not raised. In other words. In
stead of borrowing to build and
then paying Kick out of our re
turns from power sales, we are
selling in advance, and using the
money received in order to get
the dam under construction.
By JOHN COI.TON
I'nlted 1'ress Staff Correspondent
HOUSTON, Tex. I UP) Week
end "prospectors" hunting for ura
nium from the Sierras to New Jer
sey may lie on the wrong track.
Robert A. Stothart, a petroleum
geologist who chases radioactive
will-o'-the-wisps in search of oil,
is convinced that surfuce depots
of the alum bomb stuff have been
pretty well worked over.
"Especially in the Colorado pla
teau where Charlie Steen made
his big strike," Stothart said
"And even Steen had to go down
about 100 feet or so to get to the
main vein. At least 95 per. cent
of our ore potential Is under
ground." j
And that means, said Stothart,
that Joe Public, who gives up ills
week-end fishing trip to ramble
over hill and dale listening to his
Geiger counter for the tell - tale
"click" may have to become a
speleologist.
That means going underground;
m ire properly, digging around in
caves where outcroppings of the
deep underground veins of "buzz
rock" might be found.
Not that some lucky soda clerk
with a Geiger or a scintillator
can't become another Steen, the
once poor - boy geologist who
couldn't even afford a Geiger. One
fellow recently found some urani
um in his own backyard in New
Jersey.
"We used to think that this
country didn't have loo much ura
nium," said Stothart, "but we've
found out differently. We're load
ed with it and you're apt to find
it anywhere.".
And Joe Public is inclined to be
lieve. Fortune - hunters are scan
ning California rocks. West Tex
ans are waiting on government
ore tests. Another Texan recently
announced a strike in Illinois.
Housewives are talking about
alpha, beta and gamma rays over
the back fence, and even a school
has gotten into the act. St. Mary's
University in San Antonio, Texas,
has enrolled more than 1,000 stu
dents, for classes in prospecting.
But Stothart, who maps "hot"
areas for the Atomic Energy Com
mission when he finds them wlulo
hunting oil, has a word of warn
ing. Everything Uiat "clicks" is
not uranium, he said.
"There always some radioactiv
ity around, especially in large oil
fields where there are concentra
tions of hydrocarbons and gas,"
he said. "And there are cosmic
rays, and uny number of radia
tions that can activate a Geiger."
We get most of our musical
terms from the Italian language.
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