The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, August 24, 1955, Page 28, Image 28

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    SKYVIEW OF AIRFIELD This is an aerial view of the Bend Municipal airport, with the But
ler road approach visible in the lower right corner. Pat Gibson, airport manager, plans extensive
improvements for the operation. (Bond Bulletin Photo)
Aircraft service
Goal of Manager
Of Bend Airport
Bend's municipal airport, if aU
the plans of lis tenacious manager.
Tat V. Gibbon, have smooth sail
ing, will be one of the most at
tractive private - use airfields in
Oregon in a few years.
It eventually will have a picnic
ground, two guest cabins, thfc
runways, and four spare cars fur
visitors.
The picnic ground will allow
more people to use the airport for
family outings and sight - seeing
flights. The guest cabins and free
spare cars will attract mil-oMown
businessmen and transient flyers.
Will Fueltltalo landing
The ninwiys will permit all-weather,
except instrument, landings.
One 3, 000-font landing strip, run
ning northeast and southwest, will
be added to the present north-south
4,000-foot paved runway and 2.800-
f(Kt northwest - southeast landing
path.
The 180-acre airport, long a con
troversial item on the city's bud
get, has witnessed considerable
growth In the last two years, par
ticularly so In the last two months,
The growth and Gibson's plans
have, in fact, convinced members
of the city commission that it may
be an asset rallier than a liability
to the city.
OhlectlniiM Volecil
Ah recently as May, several
members of the city budget com
mittee voiyed objection to the con
tinuous subsidy of the nirjort op
eration. One urged that it be sold
or abandoned. In July, the com
mission signed a five- year lease
with Gibson.
Built fn 1!M2, theairor1 had the
present North-South runway paved
seven yeaj-s later. The city has
invested approximately $llfi,000 in
the field.
Immediate plans for the airport,
however, are a ground aviation
course and a campaign to popular
ize private flying.
The ground course, to be offered
through (be Onlral Oregon Com
iminily College possibly this fall,
will include lectures on metein--olog-y,
simple mechanics, basic air
craft engineering ami radio com
munications. It will he a -lO-hmir
course.
Will Iteilure luui;r
ine nrsi siep in the campaign
on nying. tiihson said, will he j
reduction of tuition charge. To taki
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HARD AT WORK Pat Gibson, Bond Municipal airport man
ager, is shown here working on one of the number of planes in
the airport hangar. (Bend Bulletin Photo)
a complete flying course and to service in aircraft and engine ro-
gel a license now, one has to
spend $275. But Gibson hopes when
the volume of students increases,
he can cut it down to $L'50. He
has four training planes.
Augmenting his charter service
is another plan of his. lie wants
to add a four-seater aircraft to his
present fleet.
The Civil Air Patrol, of which
Gibson is the Hend commander,
Is planning a larger program. CAP
has about K0 members in this an-.i
using the municipal airport's faci
lities. Breakfast and luncheon flights
will be sponsored to stimulate !o
cal aviation interests. Aviafionen
Ihusiasls could fly to other parts
of the stale for ou'ings. breakfast,
and fishing under such special
programs.
lao (ilven Instruction
Gibson said that he has taught
nearly 100 persons to fly in the
past four years. At present 12 stu
dents are completing their flying
'ourxe. There ;:re seven additional
Indents in inactive status. j
Belween 1.500 and 2,000 light
planes from all over the counlry!
slop at the Mend airport each year,
The present volume of business of
the nirpoit, Gibson staled, is dou
ble that of two years ago.
"I epeel Hie volume will acain
Inutile in the next two or I hive
years," hi addrd.
The llrnd field, allium -li much
smaller than the licdnvind airnori. :
handle
about the same amou.it
of private living
The
Kcdnmntt
lit f p m., (
a 21-li-nir
lii port usually
whereas Gilwtn
keeps
Here's Health To
Your Family . . .
Woture's Goodness At Us Best
O MiSk Crecrn O Butter
O Ice Cream O Cottage
Cheese
Don't Miss The
FAR
Pridcjy-Saturdcty-Sunday
51 Greenwood
pairs, refueling, and weather in-
formation.
When be took over the airport
operations four years ago, two
planes were stalioned there. There
are 12 now.
The airport has a bright future.
The only handicap, Gibson ad
mitted, is that it is too far from
the city limits: 7'-: miles from the
city center.
New Rules Face
Fair Exhibitors
At County Show
Some ni'W mis fare exhibitors
who plnn In iMili'r dl'lii'lis in the
nri'illi', handwork and rlnlhini; di
vision of tin- Ui'schuli's counlv
fair this yoar.
Kxhihilors must bo ivsidenls of
Contral Oi'opon.
Tht'.v iniisl bo Iho makers of thr
lirlos Ihoy sill'inil for' onlry.
No arliolo ran ho ontoroii thai
lias pivvioiMy boon exhibited at
the fair.
Ail arlielos must be clean. No
soiled, unfinished or worn artieles
will be eonsidi'red in Iho juilein
All elnlhiim and needlework must
be pressed.
If an exhibi! is unworthy, no
I will bo Kiven, oven though
one article has been entered
nrlv
in the c!a-
-
li
rivi
the
nlders on boat-; ivtvigating tlv"
s of Portugal are longer than
vessels.
GRADE A p:
Phone 101
Center Striping .
Unit Developed
Rhode Islaild now has what of
ficials have described as "a mon
ster of a machine" to apply the
white line down the middle of its
highways.
Before, according to the Ameri
can Public Works association, the
whole job of laying the white lines
on the stale s 875 miles of high
way had to be done by walking
crews pushing wagons and they
were hard-pressed to finish the job
in a year. Now. with the machine,
officials expeet to be able to line
all the highways and even get
'iround to re-doing the most used
highways every nine months.
The machine which costs $5, 100
covers about 60 miles a day as It
cruises along at six to eight mil".s
an hour leaving its trail behind
it. It spreads an average of 100
gallons an hour.
Converted Transport
It Is a converted highway work
er's transport which carries the
bulk of the painting equipment and
nulls a small trailer that contains
the painting "guns" and their con
trols. A small wheel similar tn
the nose wheel on an airplane
bomber is stuck nearly 20 feet in
front of the transport, on the end
of a long beam. This serves as a
sight along which the driver peers
to make sure the line will he
straight. Seated bcsl le the. driver
is n nnn who on' ivitrs an inter
com sets and directs the two paint
ers who ride the trailer, tellin"
iHen wb"'l to nut dewn solid traf
fic lines or single or double lines
and when a line starts or ends.
Right behind the cab of th
transport is a two-cycle gsolin'
engine end eomnressor which pi"-
80 pounds of pressure into each
of two 60-gallon oaint tanks at the
rear of the vehiele. The paint i
ined from the tanks down to the
low railer where it is shot onto;
the highway through the "guns.
3,000 Porcupines,
Killed in Woods
Possibly as a result of an in
tensified extermination campaign.
the porcupine population in the
pinelands east of the Casadcs ap
pears to be on the drop.
This trend was discussed by
members of the Deschutes Re
search Center advisory committee
earlier in the year.
Willard K. Nelson, Fish and Wild
Life service representative in the
district, said that the porcupine
catch in the Deschutes area by
I he service trappers remained
fairlv constant during the past 19
years.
Porcupines, ieison said, are jioi
cyclic, as a female gives birth t.i
only one a year. Populations, he,
noted, tend to build up slowly.
Nelson said no correlation be-i
tween porcupines and coyote num
bers can be found. However, wild
cats appears to be u porcupine
enemy.
The Fish' and Wild Life service
leader said that there is some evi
dence disease may be reducing the
numlKT of porcupines.
:t,IHHl Pnrkies Killed
John McDonald, supervisor of
the Fremont National forest, saU
that more than 3,000 porcupines
bad been killed on the Fremont
forest.
More than 200 wre killed in n
small area in Klamath county,
where the porkies were reporting
damaging even "edible' logging
equipment.
4 The tend Bulletin, Wednesday, August 24, 195S
North Unit Produce Value
Shows Big Increase in Year
Value of North Unit produce In
creased more than one million dol
lars in a single year, between thp
1953 season and that of 1954, data
now available reveals.
The various mid - Oregon dis
tricts produced an estimate of
more than $14,000,000 with the
North Unit this past year account
ing for $6,9-16,383. Figures indicate
that the big project in Jefferson
county, embracing 50,000 acres,
has nearly doubled the value of
Cenral Oregon crop yields.
In the previous year, the North
Unit lands showed a gross return
of $5,892,612. 1
U.S. 97 Travel
I
Shows Bra Gain
Cars are moving over U.S. High
way 97 in the vicinity of Lava
butte, about ten miles south of
Bend, at the rate of nearly 3,000
every 24 hours, with a big gain
noted this season, data provided by
automatic electric computer
set up by highway officials re
vealed. The June count revealed that an
average of 2.935 cars passed over
that part of the north-south high
way each day in June, 1954.
The June travel figure for this
year showed a gain of 16.5 per
cent over the travel for the same
tion that U.S. 97 north and south
nonth last year. I
Travel gains bear out the predic-
through Oivgon would show big
gains when modernization work is
completed.
This season, contracts were
called for the betterment of the:
last remaining units of U.S. 97 be-;
'tween Bend and .Klamath Falls. j
Pnrk Lure Tourists
Much of the travel over the fast,
straight route is "park to park";
travel, motel operators believe, j
Seasonally when the north entrance '
to Crater lake, via the Diamond
lake cutoff, is opened to travel. !
tourist travel over the highway ,
takes a big jump. !
The June travel over U.S. 20 just
east of Bend revealed a drop in
June this year. Last year in June
the daily average was 732, com
pared with 6S7 this year.
Drop in travel over U.S. 20 re
mains a mystery, inasmuch as that
route has also been extensively
modernized in the past two year,
with a feeder from the ION cut
off. State Route 78, completed.
Gracious dining al llie nationally known Pine I avern in its (fiiiel and
delightful setting facing Bends famed Elinor Pond is an experience
that in linger in pleasant memories for years to come. Here ire de
mand the most exacting requirements in the selection and preparation
of the finest possible foods. Here, too, the thoughtful service adds
greatly to your dining enjoyment.
Attend the
Deschutes County Fair
Friday Saturday Sunday
- Crop returns for the present
year will not be available until
late In the season, possibly Nov
ember or later. There is a possib
ility that the gross value of crop.
this year will be slightly under
those of the past year due to ad
verse growjng conditions and a de
pressed farm market.
The gross value of crops grown
on the Central Oregon district
lands this past year was estimated
at J3.257.150, or $11,203,533 for the
two big projects.
The Ochoco, Lone Pine, Tumalo
and Arnold added to the area's
crop income.
Onion Yield HiRh
Dry onions yielded the biggest
per acre income on the North Un
it, with $752.38 as the per acre re
turn. However, the acreage was
rather small, 16. Potatoes yielded
$507.81 per acre, with 6,435 acres
planted, and the total value of the
project's potato crop was plated
at $3,267,764 this past year.
High yields were general on all
North Unit lands.
serving Central
Years
Industrial O
tiTjff i
Household
Columbia National All Types
WATER HEATERS GJE. LAMPS
Bids Submitted Without Obligation
Our Congratulations To
The Fair Association, The Agriculturists and Industrialists of our
Community in Presenting Again The
DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR
AUGUST 26- 27 - 28
We Urge Everyone To Attend
The
Pine Tavern
Nuisance Insects
OREGON STATE COLLEGE A
trio of Oregon State college scien
tists has received a J24.000 gran:
from the National Science founde.
tion to study the nutritional re
quirements and chemical behavioi
of various nuisance iasects.
Although there arc some 500,000
species of insects, little is known
about their oody cncmisiry am.
'low thev stav alive.
One of the goals of this research
will be to work out the basic steps
by which various insects break
1own foods to furilinh energy fo:
flight, reproduction, and other es
sential life processes.
As an outcome of this work, it
mav be easier to develop bug kil
lers less dangerous to animals anci
humans.
rtipmiral and nutritional require
ments will be studied fn the blow
iiy, honey bee, pea aphid and cu
cumber beetle. In addition to gain
int? basic information on insects
the studv of these lower forms will
bring about a better understanding
of body chemistry of humans and
higher animals.
The honey hee will be used he-
cause of its high chemical activity,
due in turn to its great muscular
activity.
Smith Electric
1183 Wall St. Phone 98
Electric Wiring Contractor
Oregon for 27
Commercial
Booked for Study
Making the study will be Ver
wn H. Cheldelin. director of the
OSC Science Research institute:
P. 0. Ritcher, head of entomology;
ind R. W. Newburgh, assistant pro
fessor of chemistry.
INDEPENDENCE DIRGE
Chopin's famous funeral march
does not express grief over the
death of an individual, but expres
ses the Polish, composer's feelings
over the loss of the independence
of his native land. .
CHANGEABLE MINE
First mica mine in the United
States was the Ruggles, which op
ened at Grafton. N.H.. in 1803. Ur
anium was identified at this mine
a half century ago, but it now pro
duces feldspar.
f Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo,
Brail's two largest cities, have
irected the world's tallest rein
forced concrete buildings. Al
though this method of construction
is not a Brazilian invention, the
techniques were advanced there.
Now foreign engineers visit Bra
zil to learn about concrete struc-
tures.
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