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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1957)
T In Nurse Carries With Part-Time Doctor Aid By Ron BAKBKK . polio cases occuring prior to 1956 ,. No Full Time Doctor I Heahh blTZ Wr?," Wel-Child conferences were re "out y court hoL hn T' f sumcd in 1956 and continued! iTMfXinM! lhe r,r wi'h Dr; fieee rm.j.j - II, L- Cul,s' Pediatric consultant of crease To, rL?nfr'le ""!,he s,ate ' nertamcd Z 5, , r 'V'CCS ' in '"'"S'-- Th" conferences were ! performed ,n recent months. ; Md in Bond Redmondi i Working under direction of Ililtje Sisters, Madras, Lone Pine- and Hubbard, supervising nurse, and Powell Butte. i SrElt'T "'lh 0iiCM'S "T 1 Tl irfflce has been without sorv-! fnt r I , 'nCf''CaSud. "!work. iw,s t a full-time health officer! in several fields of publ.c health., for about one yeal. and during tnis ; Unique in Oregon, the area ; time operations in child guidance ' health department is the only j clinics, dental health program and 1 three-county district in the state. I other services have been hamper-1 covering Deschutes, Jefferson and ed. i Crook counties. Serving as part-time health : The agency is responsible to the j ficers have been Dr. J. W. Thorn, i uisinci coara oi Health which isiuend; Dr. Evan Thomas, Madras; made up of the members of the Dr. S. F. Toevs, Redmond and Dr. three county courts. It is staffed Norman Coleman, Prineville. by personnel especially training in j Tri-County nurses include Miss public health, a physician, similar-: Hubbard, Mrs. Lenor Thornton, ian, public health nurses and ' Redmond ; Mrs. Lois Huntley clerks. I'revriitiiin is Stressed First and legal responsibility of i the office is control of communi-! cable disease, effected by immuni zation programs against those di seases for which preventative vac cines have been developed. It is an agency for preserving and improving the health of oil people of the community by pre- ventative measures, Miss Hubbard explained. The department cooperates with private physicians, other health i agencies and community groups ; having an interest in some phase ' of health. , ' j ' A continuing educational pro-; gram in matters pertaining to: health is maintained. The first six months of the cur-! rent year, personnel carried on a ' varied program of immunizations, conducted a polio vaccination pro gram in the schools, with volun teer assistance of local M.D.'s and handled a variety of office and field visits. Polio Vaccines Given Immunizations given included 2, 001 for smallpox, 3,084 for dipther ia, 1,805 for whooping cough and 3,071 for tetanus. During the polio vaccination pro gram, which featured administra tion of government-purchased polio vaccine, 4,184 school children from throughout the area received shots. In addition, 242 pre-school children and 19 pregnant women were given vaccine. Three cases of polio were re ported from January through June. One, of the ron-paralytlc variety, had received vaccine, and the two : paralytic cases had not received I "cuh0!s j . Jru! Schools topped office and field . visits with 862. Other visit classi-j Uealions: I Tuberculosis, 207; communicable uistranr, -mi, wm.mi i' ... . . i uiai.-ci.-ttr, t,. i", ,.t.,,,. j New Til Tests Started A new program of tuberculin paten testing was in. in uw fall of 1956, with 2,899 students receiving the quick, simple test, i Of the total, 44 children had posi- j tive reactions. Grades included in the patch' testing were first, seventh, eighth, j a portion of the ninth and all of Crook County High School. r..-; n,'winrioy; v,ct c,ir. i vevs were conducted bv the Ore-1 the lalhe. Here, a one-eighth inch gon state board of health and Tri-, slire i taken off the revolving Ins County, nssisted by the Deschutes ! and f.'d onto other conveyors which countv and "Jefferson county T13 j tr-Vo it !n the next step, and Health associations. Th" dinner sounres un the layer Of the 11.966 persons who re-; "-m'n7 off the ronvovors. or. when ceived x-rays from mobile units ; the lathe has turned out an un which took stations throughout the ' hvon et. cuts two or fo'ir foot mid-Oregon area, 279 were recall-' widths. The pieces continue on con ed for the larger confirmatory ' veyors while workers sort out the chest x-ray. Of these, 1?,0 were re- ;iZOSi rnqdy for feeding into the ferred for further medical super-, dryer. The discarded serans from vision or hculth department follow-1 nerP a,.p fpd into a chipper, which up. I readies them for shipping to pa- The 130 included 114 who were p(r mns referred for further checks on non-1 jt takos 25 minutes for a shet urgent chest conditions, l.i sus- pected of having active tubercu losis and three suspected of having lung cancer. During the whole of 197,6. im munizations against diptheria and tetanus were given to 3,3 IS chil dren, whooping cough immuniza tions to 2.126. and shots ngviinst smallpox to 1,708 children. A total of 331 immunizations against other diseases were given by health de partment personnel with the 211 polio immunizations predomina ting. There were 15 cases of polio re ported in the Tri-County arra dur ing 1955. eight of which were classified as non-paralytic and sev en counted as paralytic. No Polio In ltljfl In 1956, for the first time in at least 10 years, no Cases of polio were reported. Last year, the medical and nurs ing staffs were involved in -4 1 of fice or field visits in the interest of communicable disease control; 217 visits in behalf of tuberculo sis: 555 visits to infants and pre school children; 2.106 visits to the school-aged child: -111 visits for crippled children and adults and 356 trips to see persons with chron ic diseases. There were 116 visits in behalf of mental hralth. For 1955. there were "33 com municable d:Msc control trips: 328 for tuberriiosis control; in fants and pre-school childrrn, S06; school-aged children. 2.0.-0; r-ip-pled children and adults. 4.",7: chronic disease, 63 and mental health, 82. Also in 1956. 3.16-1 school children were screened for honing defects, nnd. 81 inves'ig.itinns were made in the intercut of inf-f!i"Us h,pa- tUii, dscnter.vs. tjii-j.d lever and, ouniy Health Services On Big Job Prineville; Mrs. Doris Suratt, Mad- i ras. Mrs. Emma Snelling recently resigned as nurse in Bend and a replacement has not yet been ob- tained. A. W. Westfall is sanitarian and in summer months he is assisted by Clayton D. Smith. Clerks, who also function as reg istrars for vital statistics in their respective counties, are Mrs. Lois Dearth and Mrs. Alice Agan, Bend; Mrs. Kay McGreer, Mad- ras; Mrs. Grace Beal, Prineville. Madras Plywood ill Slices Up Large Footage By AI.LEV GREKN Bulletin Correspondent There's just no small way to get into the plywood business. That's the feeling a person has after in specting the big Jefferson Plywood corporation plant north of Madras. Nearly two million dollars have been invested in this operation, which goes through an estimated 100,000 board feet' of timber in a single day. The total payroll for the plant includes over 120 men. A plywood plant and lumber mill use the same thing in manufactur ing but the former requires great er precision. This becomes readily evident as you follow a log from one end of the operation to the finished product. To begin the process, specially-: mountain. Kris melted in the Spring and merged with selected Douglas fir logs are!. . . . . - , . . . brought into the pond. Most of fellow flakes to seep into Elk Lake west of Bend. them come from the Warm Springs Little Kris didn't know it but he was already on the Indian reservation or Sisters area books of Aubrey E. Perry, veteran watermaster of the juresis. DPinre iney can oe Sianen the 'green end." they are j oucKeo into iu-i men lengtns. loss are m 0 v e d down tnrollRh a long covered floatway, I proiectina the supply from freest-! in winter, to the barker which spins them around in removing the bark. One-eighth Tnrh Slices Conveyors now carry the "skin ned" wood to the rhi-ger. which feeds one of the most important machines in the entire operation. o( rc(,n wnod (0 go through the d:ver, which is really an immense oven. Ofi-fcd burners keep the temperature nar 3.")0 degrees, and four huge fans insure hot air cir culation to take the moisture out of the wood. Three shifts a day, sevn days a week, run the dryer to keep the supply of cured wood on hand for the gluing operation. Hot and Cold Pressed At the glue presses, the final as sembling and gluing together of , th" pieces takes place. Both hot and cold presses are used, depend-1 ing on the wood. After the glued plywood sheets age in stacks long enough to be considered set, they are trimmed to the standard eight by four foot size, ni inches thick, and loaded into hoxears for shipping to east ern markets. The loading ramps p-e ri?ht i"side the buildings, so ie total effect of weather is little i onvwh'ro in the process. The pnnt. just rompletinT its first year of oration, has f"en changes when it is broken to the n'atried with htdowns caused by j saddle. This happened when Kris th" wik luroher mrk". hut i it found his pace increasing gradual wwnt nimir.7 i least two shifts 1 jy ss ne ,t Little Lava lake and five divs a week on everything, i nn-dinT i steady industry with i i h:7 payroll. Sn ,,.,,,. erv;n "f rfrawVr-1 -e 3 (O 4 0rees SVVIH p-OVid- , ' . . . .i,-). t,e min'tnurn i-,lv remnrments , ' r, n-i. Kt-. n? V-tim'n r. Wv.rrJ n-hwi . .... " r"7"T1 ,n "- pnd.t.en. they - suon'v a much C as a serving of "ran mice. You can save ironing time hy, fk!ni clothes from the dryer' vh:'e 'hey are s'ihtly damp. Fold ; and smooth out the wrinkles. I -, t'i1 -vTri .: - SS-.. . -s-ri' ' . 'i. i i-. -aart.. FOUR LIFELINES TO FARMLANDS Airview at the north city limits of Bend of the Deschutes river's biggest diversion dam for irrigation districts. The num eral "I" shows the broad ditch that travels to the 50,000 North Unit acres around Madras. No. "2" shows one of the COI (Central Oregon Irrigation district) can als starting for the Redmond and Lone Pine areas. No. 3 is the slim Swalley Life of a Snow flake Tells Story of River By .DON H. HIGGINS Bulletin Staff Writer A snowflake named Kris floated down from the winter sky last November TWrhntP rivpr wctnm Hi drift The Soil Conation ice had wised up Perry in Decem ber after measuring the snow. From Elk lake Kris ducked un derground and meandered through lava beds eastward into Mud lake. From its southern bank he disap peared with millions of compan ions and made his way through tiny caverns never seen by man. But Perry knew where he was. Kris came up miles to the south in Big Lava lake and sparkled in the sun as he floated on slowly through a channel into Little Lava lake. Kris Is lie-Discovered Up to this time the life of little Kris and his playmates had seem ingly never been directed toward any definite goal. For ell he knew he was a member of Omar Khay-; yam s aimless Willy Nilly Flow 5I i r m WATERMASTER PERRY Metering near the source ing" family. But, when he passed along slowly and gently among his kindred to the southern end of Lit tle Lava lake, the career of that one-time lazy little snowflake changed. It changed as abruptly as the life of a wild mustang colt drifted along between two banks I of a stream, The stream was the visible be ginning of (he Deschutes river. Ani ' WM men that Kris was re- C0"IPd " '" Mi cated to the purposes of man. Watermaster Aubrey Perry . ' stood there in midstream, counted Kr.s hjs mvrlad tempontWfi doeked tMr 5pow, (h?r .ever.1ov- ing boss. on To Crane Prairie The watermaster sang out the, details to his assistant. Milton I Thorman, who sat on the bank with i r t i and settled on a slope of Elk AT CRANE PRAIRIE 1 2-sided headgate screens a pad in his lap and made rapid : calculations with the aid of a rat ing taible evolved from a special geological survey of the Deschutes watershed by the U. S. Department I of the Interior. I On went Kris, heedless of the ; fact that he had become an entry i in the irrigation history of Central Oregon, therefore of the Nation. On went the little transmogrified 1 snowflake down the sloping river, ! past Snow creek where others joined him and jostled along un- i der the scrutiny of holiday fisher men in Cow Camp. SlfLi MM m I And so it went until Kris reach 1 ed the first big mobilization center for melted snowflokes at Crane J : Prairie reservoir. Young Kris had iraveiea id mus irom r.iK ixiw. At Crane Prairie he rested brief ly while hosts of others joined him through streams from Big and Lit tle Cultus (which in Indian lang uage means "No good") lakes, and other lofty catch basins of Nature MEASURING FROM ALOK Where water is deep ' j Increase Without Director V. H. "Had" Coahran, caretak er, watched over Kris and the rest of the mob ut Crane Prairie. When Watermaster Perry gave the word, "Had" opened the head gates and sent them in measured numbers through the 12-sided screen. Over the 4am they fell with a big splash eroo and into the Deschutes, free flowing again. - While they swished along, Per- W nnlwt Ihoit cnoar! anil .mlumn again. This time the watermaster sat in a cable car suspended above the stream, dropping his wa ter meter to the bottom at inter vals as he drew his one-man pow er device along from bank to bank. Through a deep forest the river bore them along another half mile to the vast water acreage of Wicki up. Ono Drop In A Jlliion There are 10,000 surface acres in Wickiup reservoir end the average depth is 20 feet when it is full 200,000 acre feet at maximum ca pacity: much of the liquid wealth of Central Oregon agriculture. Kris found himself pooled in that big puddle with billions, trillions. decillions of driblets like himself. What a mob! About that time a rancher at the far end of the North Unit Irriga tion district phoned the office at Madras that he needed some wa ter. Other farmers chimed in. Manager Al Mansfield of the COI forwarded some requests from his. members. There were thirsty crops and cattle here, there and yonder. They all phoned Perry who knew almost to a quart how much each district was entitled to receive. There was plenty this summer to meet all needs. The watermaster radiophoned Jack Taylor to set t'f" jwy' iy,'--" . a,.-. ....;$ MILTON THORMAN Perry's assistant ihe gauge for the number of second-feet he required. Shooting The Dem hull's Caretaker Taylor responded. He climbed down into the belly of the big control structure and turned the wheel of the huge needle valves through which the Des chutes river runs before it ever can get a fftot further. Back of the 90-foot-high dam of nt Ihe top of the national produc Wickiup that holds back the re-'. tion list in supplying this total. serve oi me enure runott irom higher up. Kris besnn moving. His k- hv.". --.."-. lry jn America a development Riant headeales were raised. He .. . . . , tumbled with the other millions oi j !!l , . mn en i in drop, into one of the two pen- lhp ?n '"L , n " stocks - metal tunnel, each more "" Grassland Seeds." by than eight feet in diameter - and D. Hill, head of the farm crops rushed in hkick dark past the re-' department at Oregon State col cording gauge, emerging into the : l0' nmI w- A- "heeler, director bright sun in flying white foam ' of gricultitral research for the over jagged rocks at the exit; and Fi"1'1 Seed Institute of North Amor on his wav. , Down and down went Kris north- ditch that takes water to 6,800 acres north of Bend. No. "4" is the Tumalo dis trict water that is diverted above the dam just downstream from Pioneer park. These four flows irrigate about 108,000 acres of productive farms in Central Ore gon in aadition to supplying water for domestic use. The water that goes over the dam flows on to produce power along its length and part of the Columbia's. WICKIUP DAM Water released from gales east over Pringle Falls and Ben ham Falls swiftly 1 Into the out skirts of Bend and then, sedately under control, taking easy descents over the mill, power and Tumalo dams. It looked like he was due for another big tumble from the irrigation dam a mile south of Bend, but It didn't happen. Kris Does Ills Bit Instead, a few feet short of this dam, Kris was shunted out of main traffic and sent through the North Unit headgates and into the long ditch that traverses 60 miles of the Deschutes plateau northward ; past Redmond, past Madras and i on to the farthest ranch. His six ' CERRY RADIOPHONES INSTRUCTIONS "Set it back 200 (second feet)" Oregon Seed Growth High To seed awl maintain the grass- report ever issued on grass and lands of America each year, it re .1 l''Kumc seeds used for forage, pas indies some 200 trillion grass and hire, soil conservation and other legume seeds with Oregon ranking! tult plantings in the U.S. Thrse statistics and the story of the development of the seed Indus- The book is the most complete I months of life as a quondam snow- ' flake were fated to end after the , four days of this journey. A ditch rider told Campbell that Kris was coming and the rancher "irrigated." Kris did his small bit in moistening the soil of a wheat field about 6,000 feet lower than his apogee or highest point as a snowflake above the slope of far off Elk mountain half a year ago. Kris' elements were separated then and combined perhaps with others into the wheat muffin you are eating tonight at supper. And, as you're doing this. It might not be amiss To murmur, "Thank you, Kris." r FOAMING TOWARD FARMS Starting from big reservoir ' 3 The West has moved into the center of the stage in seed produc j lion in this country ami appears to be the mam salvation" tor seed-hungry Midwest and Eastern stales. Hill reports. The diversity of soil and climatic j conditions in the Western States 1 make It possible to produce a wide j variety of top quality seeds. Ore-; gon is particularly well suited. Three of the Western seed pro ducing areas are singled out possessing enormous pot, ntial Jefferson county. r ' ii t II r LI in Farm Agents Give Outlook In Jefferson By A. W. BIMKI.V AM) JAY MMlKlt Jefferson County Farm Agents The crop price outlook for 1957 is setting the stage for another dis appointing year if trends now in prospect continue. In spite of promise of Improved yields over 1056 production, farm income this year probably will again average less than the cost of production for many fanners due to further price declines. The following is the pres ent situation in regard to the ma jor crop prospects: Grass Seed Better Morion Bluegrass took the lead acreage wise in li37 with an esti mated 2500 acres. Yields seem to be averaging slightly belter than ' former years. Seed seems to be slightly heavier Willi less "dou bles." Part of the increased over all yield is due to the fact that 1 major production is from two and i three year old stands, j Creeping red fescue seed fields nre producing well with Pennlawn, Illahee, and Trinity strains all be ing grown. About 250 acres of red creeping fescue will be harvested with Pennlawn showing the high est acreage. Other grasses in production in 1057 include Palnmic and S143 or chard grass, the wheat grasses, timothy and Kentucky Bluegrass. Laillno Seed Itads Ladino Clover 'again leads the legume seeds with about 1800 'os even though prices are low. Kenland Red Clover has declined to about 500 acres and Alsike Clo ver continues to occupy about 800 acres. Alfalfa for seed harvest in 1057 will total about 200 acres. The legume seed set is difficult to assess at this time of year, however, indications point to an other bumper crop of these seeds. Grain Crops Look Good Wheat fields afe looking good with the exception of some which show loot-rot dumage and leal rust. Very little stem rust has shown up in 1957. The wheat stem worm slightly damaged some fields during early 'summer. New varieties looking good under dry land conditions include Burt and Columbia. The new variety, Omar, has so far shown no indications of superiority over Elmar under ir rigation for this area. Barley and oats are making good production in most cases. The new Centore oat' released by the Cen tral Oregon Experiment Station is ' producing exceptionally well. Potntoea Good and Bad Potato fields seem to be either very good or very bad depending on date nnd condition of soiJ at planting time. Many fields show considerable Rizoctomia, ' Late Breaking Virus, and Blackleg. A few fields planted back to locally grown seed show considerable leaf roll infestation. Some fields have thin stands due to holding treated seed too long during rainy weather before plant ing. Most severe stand reductions resulted where seed was treated with antibiotic for ring rot control. In general, however, the pros pects are for a slightly improved i harvest over 195G. Alfalfa Hay Improves A high inventory for alfalfa hay is building up due to the carry over from ln.Vi and good produc tion in 1057. Most hay is of good quality with considerable move ment lo dairymen at a reduced price from 1956. J20fl Aenti In Peppermint About 1200 acres on the North Unit Project are producing pepper mint in 1957. Outlook is for a good crop of oil, however, harvest is just starting. Price quotations are currently $1.50 per lb., almost one fifth lower than 195fi prices. Cillllu Outlook Better The last major marketing year has put fat cattle in a more favor able situation. Those who feed by product feeds, which included straw, chaff, and clippings plus cull spuds made a few dollars. The type of cattle fed during the past year has been a factor in what made Ihe money for the feed lot operalor. The lower grade feed ers made as much money or more in some cases, especially where by-product feeds were utilized. On top quality cattle fed for Ihe sum mer market a grain ration can be substituted for cull spuds. Lamb feeding has possibilities for those inlerested in fattening lambs. A ewe-lamb program par ticularly where some range land is available for lambing lias pro spects of picking up a few dollars. AiIvIhi, .More IIoch Hog raising shouldn't be over- I looked n.s a money maker for those I Interested and who like hogs. The j sow and lifter program has been trnni At ,, l), tUn Hct W9P MnM k sh)( prodr(x, orl irri. (rd ,r);tmp p.,5hlre ta jp((prsnn c,inn. am, hnM rtown m for M(.h p,)Und nf Rain Pork b(,,n? jmiyirlrr fr consumption. This fal and winter should see livestock prices in line with the pa.,1 yPar. However, many factors our economy can upset the prices of livestock that we now have. We can nnd should expect marke' prices lo be suppressed some durine the coming fall and winter muiHIu.
