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 t-VJ W V7 if. 'x 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. ft