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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1955)
THE BEND BULLETIN and CKNTKAL ORKGON PRK8S An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher Poll F. BrDgui. Amoclate Editor Member. Audit Bureau of Circulation Entarad a. Scond ClaM Mattar. Janoarr . 1111 at th. Foal Offte. at Bi-nH. Or ' aon ondar Aat of March t, 1170. 4 The Bend Bulletin, Monday, June 20, 1955 High Stumpage Prices There has boon a good deal of comment of Into about Ihe high price of stumpage in timber sales, and Home un Justified criticism of the selling agencies becHU.se there is vo big a variation between the appraisal price and the sales price. ; The appraisal price is a minimum, in the first place, and each agency putting up stumpage hopes and rather expects that some higher bids will be received. In the second place, there apparently is developing a Shortage of logs in some areas of the state. To be brutal about it, mill capacity is much higher in Oregon than is the capacity of our forests to produce logs. ; The way sales have been going in some of the fir areas, particularly, it would not be at all surprising to sec some mills going out of business. Capturing The Aurora Rheostatie lighting is to be used in rainbow illumin ation of the Mirror pond pageant arch this year, we note by the news. Through the use of electric resistors, lights can be so controlled that colors will slowly fade and blend into other hues, in much the same manner as auroral lights blaze, lade and rekindle in the northern sky on wintry nights. ! Use of rheostats in the control of arch illumination 3s something Bill Lackaff and his assistants have had in Jnind for many years. Now the dream is to be realized. I Old timers will recall the first illumination of Des titutes pageant floats, more than two decades ago. Them vas nothing rheostatie about those lights lanterns pwinging from floats in a dark river. Many Bend residents of yesteryear will remember the prize-winning float. It was a pioneer wagon, its make believe oxen partly submerged in the water. On the seat of that covered wagon was the late O. D. Allingham, his faithful dog by his side. And on the side :of the wagon, swinging with the motion of the waves, was la kerosene lantern, only faintly visible from the shore. There was no arch that year and there was little illumination for the floats. ; Then came the first grand arches of the river fete and illumination by electricity. Eventually electric lights were made available for the floats, through use of a boom and trolley contact with the floats. Ever since the first arch spanned the fairland fore bay facing Pageant park, illumination has been controlled through use of contact switches. This made possible spec tacular lighting, but the rainbow effect was lost because of the sudden shifts in color combinations. Now rheostatie illumination is to be used for the first time. In effect, beautiful auroras of the polar region are to be captured and brought to Bend's Mirror pond. UN.'s Tenth AnniversaryStill Coexisting I nia feme. !. Jf Edson in Washington Natural Gas Battle on Again Hump In A Highway On the north route of U. S. Highway 07 in Kmc. is a dangerous vertical curve, just beyond Revere. U is a "hump" that has already etaiincd one life, as the result of a traffic accident in earlier years on the south slope of the sharp elevation over which passes ar terial traffic. It is a hump that would not he tolerated on an open highway in these days of fast-moving .traffic. ' Now, with the northward extension of business on Kast I'M r t street, over which pass the routes of U. S. 07 and U. S. 20, a new traffic danger is faced. On Sunday evening, persons in the area obtained a preview of a near tragedy in the making. There was a concentration of parked cars in front of and adjacent to the new restaurant, just over the high way hump to the north. South along the highway rolled a light truck as a car was being backed out from the restaurant. The truck swerved as a car, seemingly moving at a speed in excess of the 25-mile an hour posted warning, came from the south. I There was no crash Sunday evening. Hut next time there may be one. liecause of its location in the city, it would not be advisable to remove the hump through deep excavation in the vertical curve. l!ut it would be advisable to widen the roadbed in the area to provide a passing lane. And in the meantime some effort should be made to slow traffic over the hump and, through use of signs, warn motorists of the extreme danger. By PKTKR KDSOV NKA WiiHliliiKtoil ('urn'spomlri.t WASHINGTON (NBA) The battle to irvo natural gas field prices from Federal Power Com mission regulation has been knocking around Congress for sev en years which should be long enough to settle anything except a dispute with a Russian. Co ngressional opinion di vides sharply along two lines. Sena tors and representatives from states that are the big gas producers favor removal of the present I-TC control authority. In this connection, one of Ihe more amusing chameleon acts in Congress is to watch 1 emocrats from the five southwestern slates where H't per cent of the gas comes from. They suddenly cease to be come champions of the ppc-pul's rights whenever anything affecting the welfare of oil and gas pro ducers comes up. On the other side of the fence are congressmen who come from slates that are largely consumers of nat-, ural gas distributed through the vast network of interstate pipelines. They naturally favor keeping FI'C price controls on. What makes this issue of general interest is that the question ultimately gets down to hitting peo ple where they live. This is in iheir pocket hunks when they pay their gas bills. The Natural Gas Act of l!t:i8 gave KPC control over both transporta tion and sales of natural gas in interstate commerce. In li).")0, altera Iwo-yenr struggle Congress passed Sen. Mob Kerr's bill to exempt the production and gathering of natural gas fi-nm this regulation. President Tinman ve toed it. Four years later the Supreme Court by r to 3 decided that KPC had jurisdiction over the rates of all wholesalers of natural gas. That should hnvc settled the issue. It didn't. Last February President Eisen hower's Advisory Committee on Fnergy Supplies and Resources, under Defense. Mobilization Direc tor Arthur S. Flemming, filed a new policy report after six months' study, ft recommended that inter state transmission of natural gas and its "subsequent' wholesaling for retail distribution should be under KPC regulation. The word "subsequent" was most important, for it would exempt from price regulation 'all natund gas sold by pi-oducors at the well head. This is exactly what the gas producers want. The new policy statement was taken as an indication that if the Kerr bill of VS.) were passed by the present Congress, President Ei senhower might sign it where Truman had vetoed it. As if lo support this view, the Republican chairman of FPC, Je rome J. K u y k e n d a 1 1, asked Congress to take away his commis sion's present power to regulate, gas prices at wellhead. So now mere are seven bills in the House and six in the Senate to; amend the Natural Gas Act. A few would redefine and confirm KPC authority to regulate gas prices. M"s: would free natural gas pro duction from KPC regulation. The House Interstate Commerce Commit lee has completed hearings and is revising a bill introduced hy Hep. Oren Harris (D-Arki. There are Senate hearings on a bill hy ,T. William Kulbright (D-Arkl. The lobbies, pressure groups and press agencies built up by both sides in this argument are, of course, tremendous. Gas pmdueer and pipeline com panies are against regulation. Gas retailers, municipalities and representatives of consumer organ iations like the labor unions an' for continued KPC regulation. Mayor Joseph S. Clark, Jr., of Philadelphia and "rfl other mayors of major cities with a total popu lation of over :iO million have tesli- NO CAT SEATTLE, Wash. (UP) A puzzled policeman couldn't see what was wi-ong when an unidenti fied woman telephoned to complain that a neightxir was calling his cat eveiy half hour. "He doesn't have a cat," the woman explained. The number of days spent in Denmark hy American tourists in creased 31.7 per cent during 1WV1. fied for regulation. Mayor Atex M. Clark of Inifianapolis came to Washington to testify as spokes man for a list of lot) mayors who are against FPC regulation. The real answer depends on the are against FPC regulation. The real answer depends on the effect on prices. The lobby for the 8000 independ ent producer s meaning those having no corporate connections with distributors argues that con exploration and new production. tinned regulation will discourage exploration and new production. They say this will tend to drive prices higher. i Their more valid argument is that coal mining and crude oil production and distribution are not under price regulation of any j kind. So why should gas be con I trolled in a free economy? Representatives of the municipal ities and consumer groups argue j that lifting FPC controls would in evitably tie followed by price rises In distributoi-s and consumers. I ..eland Olds- former FPC chair man, now a consultant to Public Affairs Institute and Donald Mont gomery of the Auto Workers says these increases might amount to as much as-800 million dollars a year for the 27 million home con sumers and two million commer cial users. Every five-cent increase per thousand cubic feet at the well head would cost consumers $1,700, ono.000, they say. Last year field prices averaged 11 cents per thousand cubic feet. Retail prices ranged from fi2 cents in the Mountain states to 5-fl in New England. -r.'l Ha S. Grant's 'if, - -i I'm Sage Brushings so carried away witii my petunia culture that I'm anxious to share this fascinating hobby with everyone. Why not make the petunia the national flower? It's the only flower I can think of at the moment that comes in all three of the national colors red, j white' and blue, (or the two nation al colors and the one non color, if you want lo be stuffy. I know that white isn't, a color, but it's handier to consider it as one.) When you try to do something sweeping, like promoting a nation- d flower, you're bound to run into all kinds of trouble. And Congress has enough to worry about, as it is. I heard one time that when a Congressman opens his grumpy mail from home, he'd vote for snapdragons as the logical choice for a national flower. Then come election time, he'd be in favor of the forget-me-not. That's the way it goes. Bob Kra.ier of the Eugene Register-Guard reports that a move lo make the dandelion the nation- il flower is viewed with approval. 'If it were," says Bob "it would become rare and expensive. Then1 it would die off as rare and cxpen-, sivc flowers always do." j Spe.iking nf flowers, here's a new one. When I n at the nnrs cry buying pelmiiiiN (lie other day, Hob Keys showed nit a converNa- j lion piece. " j This new number is fly-eating plant, put up in a tricky redwood planter, .lust the thing to give to I a lune bride. j The plants are natives of the! Coos Itay area. An enterprising 1 promoter Ihero potted a batch ofj tlient In (he hiind-iiiiidc planters,' and shipped them off to nurseries j around the state. Hob was going, to take one home, hut his wife1 hhUI it would give her the creeps, j to have a cannibal in the house. I think they're sort of cute, my-1 self. I I The electronic genius of Allen! Du Mont, dead of The Du Mont! Television network, was in the1 spotlight on VaI Mu crow's "Person' to Person" show Friday night on KOIN-TV. Du Mont has half a doz- j en TV sets in his luxurious home. I and another on his yacht. He wasj one of the first persons to have a telephone installed in his automo-l bile. Ihs corporation is doing re search on the electrical impulses of the human brain. Questioned about air travel, Du Mont said that he avoids nlanes whenever he can. Said that they have "too many gadgets" that might got out of fix. How about that? Carol Hiuiey,- llely dancer fea tured in JlroadwHy'it "Pajama Game," miN .Marrow's first guest. She hhowrd somo of her antique and gave a quick demonstration of the iiMinbo. Her husband, Lar ry lilyden, home from hit Kan Franeiseo play, helped with th interview. Carol said that he an excellent ballroom danrer, and that she'ft teaching him Nome tap dance steps "and graceful things." A very charming young couple. The cast of "The Indian Fight er" moved today from the Ben ham Kalis location to the Metolius. to wind up the shooting at an "In dian camp." It's a safe guess that the per formers wore glad to get to a spot PI Nil ALL PLAYING DA. SANTA CRUZ, CaW. (UP) -Dist. Atty. Charles L. Moore of Santa Cruz County is out to play every plnball machine m his coun ty to see if they're illegal. He said only three of the 43 he's played so fax are on the up and up. where there's green grass under foot. It was mighty dusty at the Benham Kails location, but the di rectors weren't complaining. That's what they wanted. In fact, before they brought the company here, they talked with a local pumice plant operator and took samples of the finely-ground abra sive. They had planned to scatter pumice on the location and acti vate it with fans, if necessary, to simulate dust storms. It wasn't necessary. Now that the swimming pool U open for the wason, we can ex pect to have a large floating population. Green Slabs Selectai Heavy Wood Phone 767 Brookings Wood Yard NEED NEW TIRES But Short of Cash? Let Portland Loan Finance Them for You! NO MONEY DOWN! NO MINIMUM FINANCE CHARGE FIRST INSTALLMENT NOT DUE FOR A MONTH AND A HALF. For as little as $fi.50 per month you can put a new set of tires and tubes on your car Simply ask your favorite tire dealer for ' PORTLAND LOAN FINANCING PORTLAND LOAN CO. SI 86 85 Oregon Ave., Bend Phone 173 Quotable Quotes a W hat it Ixiil.s down In in tlmt It will h:ivo In lie rvn y man fur him.self. Tlir IksI way to sui vivi- is In ln win-re (lie (A) hnnih isn't. John I'oknrny, Cleveland':! rivil defense chief. I dnn'l knnw what tn dn with il (her share of mil lion (Mini's) . I'm not interested in il rinht new. Kirsl I want In finish my (ninsinn) course, ami that will he two ninrc years. Yvonne. Dionne. No other country has as many colleges and universi ties as wo have. In fact the proportion of our young peo ple who ko to college here in America today is from five to ten times as large as in the leading nations of Kurno. Henjainin V. Tail less, former I'. S. Steel head. This (I'.S.) government's .principal malady is am liivaleiice, pliancy and irresolution at the summit. Sen. ilotrph McCarthy. GOING STRONG VM0ES GALOitE in Stipes Furniture Pre-lnvenlory SALE FREE DELIVERY In Our Trading Area OPEN EVENINGS DURING SALE A, C. Stipe Furniture Co. 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