The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, December 06, 1955, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE BEND BULLETIN Mconui owsoon pkS Robert W. Chandler,- Editor and Publiiner Phi! F. Broxw. Aftaodate Editor Member. Atrttt Bureau of OtranUtora An Independent Newpapr 4 Th Bend Bulletin, Tuesday, December 6, 1955 Let's Keep a Head on Those Shoulders Farm Program Race There seems to be a race underway between Repub licans and Democrats to gee who can come up first with a new farm program. The Democrats even are fighting (boxing rather daintily, to be sure, rather than slugging it out) among themselves over whether or not flexible price supports belong in the program. Bernard Baruch, the "Elder Statesman" of two Demo cratic administrations, has jumped into the fight now. In a memorandum to Chairman Allen J. Kllender (D-La.,) of the Senate Agricultore Committee, Baruch en dorsed the administration's flexible price support pro gram and also suggested that: 1. The government rent or purchase poorer farms to remove them from production. He said they could be planted with trees to promote conser vation and replenish the nation's timber supply. 2. Surplus farm products be stockpiled for pos sible emergencies. 8. Surpluses be distributed for humanitarian purposes, chiefly abroad. 4. Acreage restrictions be retained to prevent too much land from being planted. 6. Government and industry cooperate to help find new markets and uses for surpluses. It sounds much mord sensible than proposals which have been advanced by Averoll Harriman, another New York Democrat. The Tourisf Flyways The nianner in which Americans swing through the 48 states on their annual vacations is intriguing. Unlike birds following definite flyways, tourists ap pear to deviate a bit from beaten paths, possibly to try new trails. '.' Consider tourist trends in the 1955 Vacation season. For vacation purposes, American motor travel in the season was approximately 10 per cent above that for 1954. ; ; ' i In all but two areas, California and Alaska, travel gains were reported. California noted a drop of 3 per cent, Alaska 18,pcr cent. Mexico noted a big gain, 61 per cent, as did western Canada, with a 31 per cent increase. Travel to the Pa cific northwest showed a gain of 13 per cent, and in the southwest the gain was 22 per cent.- Travel Into national) parks rose 5 per cent over 1954. Why should California and Alaska, long the objective ot touring AmericnrtH, Rhow a drop In the 1955 season? Smog in southern California might be responsible for part of the drop, American Automobile Association of ficials agree.. No reason is given for the slump in Alaska's tourist business. It is a bit strange that the Pacific Northwest should show a gain of 13 per cent at the same time Alaskan tour ist patronage dropped. Perhaps Oregon, which howed a nice gain in tour ist travel this past season, is 'meeting success in its ef forts to lure and capture those tourists who do not follow the beaten paths. ri ' Hn 0i II I M I II & VIV , , I XLW NEA Ser!c. Inc. .-! ;'?.'ii?Vil,:.l-.i ' V SUfil President's Acres at Gettysburg Are Handled Through Partnership Edson In Washington Foreign Aid Hassle Looming By PETKIt EDSON ed by ex-President Herbert Hov- NEA Washington Corriiipoiwleiil Letters Against Health Insurance Deception State insurance commissioners met at New York City on Thursday to net on n code of honest advertising for the 500 or moro companies selling health insurance in the United States, The code is expected to prevent de ception in a business that has grown by leans and bounds during recent years. Any state adopting the code could punish violations by w ithdrawing the privilege of selling insurance in that state. More than 105,000.000 Americans are now covered bv some form of health insurance, over half of them by policies put out by private companies. Complaints by thousands of policy-holders show that they're not aware ot limitations on benefits payable. While most of the private companies insist that their policies be fully explained to every prospective purchaser, some have engaged in misleading practices. Forty-one have been hauled up before the Federal Trade Commis sion for alleged deception. Most of these, contending that they are not subject to the F.T.C., call their operations fully regulated by state insurance commissioners. While termed an "advertising code' the proposed rules apply to prepared sales talks and representations by agents, as well as to published, broadcast, billboard, di rect mail and all other types of promotion. They arc de signed in the main to explain how benefits are limited and to forbid concealment of Waiting periods, rights of the company to cancel the policy, and use of phony testi monials, and similar deceptive usages. The codo is supported by most responsible insurance companies. They fear that extravagant claims by others could give the whole health insurance business a black rye. (East Oregonian, remllrton.) WASHINTON (UP) The annu al hassle over continuance oi for eign aid is beginning earlier than usual. American technical exports and advisers at the Big four foreign Ministers Conference are coming back to town with dire shakes oi the heud. The word is that, insofar as the cold war is concerned, it's going to be a hard winter. It is predicted that every U.S. resource will be needed against urtoriiauonat com munism. From Gettysburg, however, comes the word that the U.S. budg et is to be balanced this year and next, wilVy niuy. The year s budget calls for for eign atd expenditures ot $3.9 bil lion. (For military assistance, $2.15 billion. For economic deensu sup port, $1.75 billion. J Total expendi tures for the vear ending last June 30 were around $4.5 billion. International Cooperation Admin istrator John B. Hollister who succeeded Harold Slassen on the I foreign aid job and niw works un-1 der supervision of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles says the budget now being prepared for next year is not far slmrt of this year's. A plan is under consideration. however, to cut economic aid ex penditures by ardund $3"j0 million. This would be put in a soecial re serve for emergencies. Whether this would be a saving or mere bookkeeping isn't clear, It is interesting to note that this J-'iftl million figure is only a little short of the S'MOQ million saving in foreign economic aid recommend- er's Commission on reorganization. Several factors may upset these ideas of economy. On the military side, nothing has as yet been charged off for equip ping the new Westt German army. If the French pull out or are kicked out of the Viet Nam, the U.S. will have to pick up a bigger tab there. And strengthening 6t the southeast Asia military forces will cost more money. South Korean and Nation alist China aid will be increased. On the economic side, there will be a $35 million, oncshot expen diture to set up the new Interna tional Finance Corp. lending agency. If Congress approves a big new giveaway of U.S. farm surpluses the cost could be heavy. Direct U.S. technical assistance to individual underdeveloped coun tries is expected to increase to nearly $100 million. Aid is now go ing to 65 countries. Several new ones may be added. American assistance to free' world countries in setting up atom ic energy research reactors for peaceful uses will cost an unde termined additional millions. ! Congressional sentiment in the past few years has been heavily in favor of reducing overseas aid as fast as -possible. Junketing con gressmen have come home almost unanimous in their belief that most foreign countries are now largely self-supporting. The ' trend is towards helping those in need by loans ramer than outright grants. But the new Russian challenge of economic warfare must be me head on Quotable Quotes I am not entering this campaign for the exercise. Adlai Stevenson. Whether they are dressed as angels or not, they are real devils in disguise murderers. Actor liela Lugosi on drug pushers, who try to enlist aid of young people. As I'm a Democrat, t think Mr, Stevenson is the out standing candidate and Senator (Estes) Kefauver is likely tu-bc-v.ee! presidu.it Sen. Mike Mansfield (D- Mont). To the Editor: For a long time I have been seeking an American pen pal and came across your address through our American library at Lagos. I shall be happy if you can publish my name and address or my let ter in your newspaper as an Afri can youth who wishes to corre spond and exchange . views and gifts. I have some African goods, such as ebony carving, thorn carving, brass carving, daggers, snake skin slippers, snake skin hand bags, coconuts, eggs, seeds, Afri can combs, caps, berets, etc. I would exchange these for color ful knit shirts, slacks, jackets, cameras hats, caps, shoes, belts, nylon shirts. I promise to reply by airmail, Thanking you for your immediate attention. M. Ola Motajo, 12, Saba Court (Massey) Lagos, Nigeria, B.W.A. . DIDN'T HAVE IT TOKYO (UP) Police in the in dustrial city of Osaka are looking for members of an anti-Communist league who have been using a heli copter to shower leaflets on Osaka, site of the current Chinese Com munist trade fair. The Japanese press reported ,to day that one set of leaflets caused pedestrians to stampede the fair grounds. The leaflets, promised "free Chinese beer and noodles which the Red Chinese didn'i have. GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP) The farm problem now agitating politi cians and farmers is about the same on President Eisenhower's tighUy-policed Pennsylvania acres as elsewhere, but with a difference. Several differences, perhaps. The main differncee probably is that Mr. Eisenhower isn't a farm er. Everyone knows that, of course. But perhaps everyone doesn't know that the President's 189 acres actually are leased for operation to a couple of friends who have other neighboring acres. The whole, including the Presi dent's patch runs up to about 600 acres and is operated by a partnership. The partners are P. G. Byars, a Tyler, Tex., oil man, and George E. Allen, one-time Southern foot-! ball star at Cumberland Univer sity and author of a book, "Presi dents Who Have Known Me." The partners do not exactly farm the property, either. Brig Gen. Arthur Nevins is in charge of over all operations, with special atten tion to the beautification of the Eisenhower acres. Nevins is a long time Eisenhower intimate. And, then, there are the actual farmers who tend the stock and crops. Allen is a small town boy, him self, but no farmer. This week when the President's own brown Swiss was having trouble calving, Allen fled the scene although the President stood by with consider able interest. Mother and calf both are doing well. Most of the stock on the four farms making up the 600 acres belongs to the partnership. But the several hogs, beef cattle and such presented personally to the Presi dent are his although they are tended and marketed, if for sale. by the partnership. The partners and the Presi dent with respect to his few hogs have something in common this year with the corn-hog farmers who are raising considerable cain with the Republican Party about; prices. The partners and the Presi dent are not going to make any money on their hogs. Chances are they will sell at a loss if they sH at all. ThVy probaby won't get back the cost of the feed. One reason for that, however, is that the partnership and Eisen-! hower hogs are being fed a special scientific diet. There is a solid report here that Mr. Eisenhower j is convinced that his hogs could , be fed for a darn sight less and.j maybe, bring a profit. But they are getting the special diet, just the same. The Aberdeen Angus beef cattle which have had the most publicity among the livestock on the Eisen hower and associated acres should show a profit this year. The Presi dent and the partners will keep one or two good bulls, keep the best heifers, and market the steers and any heifers which might be less than tops. If Mr. Eisenhower were able to get out and circulate among his Adams County neighbors, he would find that things were not going quite as well for them as on the financially-buttressed 600 ' acres among which he lives and which his partners operate. The Adams County farm agent reports the area now to be suffer ing from a general agricultural slump. Adams County farmers are reported generally dissatisfied, The county marketed 20,000 hogs in 1954 for a total of $683,913. The price ranged from $2.40 to $2.60 hundred. The 19dd price has slumped to $1.60. Farmers say they are lucky if they can get that. Adams County cherries are down in a year from 11 to seven cen s a pound; apples from $5 per hun dred pounds to about $2.50. The county's dairy industry is doing the best of the lot, though off a bit from last year. . There are hints that the Presi dent's neighbors have invested too much in farm machinery. They are hit by higher factory waes which make hands more expensive w hard to get. GRAPHIC EVALUATION WASHINGTON (UP) The j ernment today offered "a grap geologic evaluation of the gen distribution of pre-mesozoic, m zoic and cenozoic rocks, inter ting tectonic elements of Ala and emphasizing major gecn clinal and geoanticlinal tren In short, a new map shov major changes ir. Alaska s formations for the past 200 mil years an important' dbeuni for oil prospectors. IMHJBBOW Y0UU LOVE m TAKE A BOTTi HOME . TODAY I' Amtrlco'i Finest KtntucVy Straight Bourbon WfllM 6 Yean Otd-86 Proof Dilfrlfaulf hut Canada Dry Gingtr Al, inc., Nfrw WELL SUPPLIED LEE. N. H. tUP) Month-old Jonathan Rehy has seven giv.it- grandparents- grandparents. as well four Bend Yesterdays FIFTY VKAKS A(iO From Tlw Biillotln, 1. 3, liifli The Shnniko Republican reports j that "A. M. Drake, first man to introduce irrigation on the Des chutes river and who now dwells in a modern log mansion on the banks of the beautiful Deschutes," was a visitor in the southern Was co county city recently. Lost Sunday, on the Cave road between the Arnold ranch and Bend a large saddle blanket. The finder will receive a reward by returning the blanket to Flor ence McCaim, in Bend. Charles D. Rowe arrived in Bend from Moscow, Idaho, this past week and has taken over the man agement of The Bend Bulletin The Linsters are remodeling their sawmill and installing new machinery, A logging crew is in the woods and sawing will start i in a Ixn it two weeks. Dr. U. C. Coe, while chasing n coyote he had shot, suffered an ac cident recently. The horse Dr. Cop was riding slipped and fell and ihe doctor came out ot the mixup with a badry sprained ankle. Work on Bend's new school building will get under way Mon day morning. WTNTKR I):AKTKKS FT NEW YORK lUPi Nashua, the late William Woodward Jr.'s great colt, will winter at the Clai borne Farm at Paris. Ky., tins year, irainer Sunny .lim Kiusun tlions announced today. 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