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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1957)
THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OKKGON PRESS Robert W. Chandler. Editor and Publisher Phil F. Brngan, Associate Editor Memlicr, Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered as Second Class Matter, January 8, 1917, at the Post Office at Bend, Oregon, under Act of Match 3, 1879 An Independent Newspaper 4 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, August 2T, 1957 Big Ones out of Little Ones PHILOMATH, Oregon The Chapman plant here makes big ones out of little ones. That is, it makes boards jut of chips. But the boards are a different type, designed tor different uses and are manufactured in a different manner than similar products previously made in other plants. Basically, the Chapman product is chipboard. As such t doesn't differ radically in appearance, to the untrained yc, from other such boards. To make it, the plant here uses old magazines and ilaner shavings from a nearby planing mill. A person ised to seeing shavings from a pine mill, however, would not recognize the raw material. Over in Bend we would tall them chips. . A layer of pulp from the old magazines is placed on a moving belt. On .top of the pulp goes a mat of wood par ticles, about three inches thick, and another layer of pulp Is spread over the top. This goes into a hot press, and a few minutes later the finished product, except for trim ming, conies out. The particle board, covered with paper, can be sawed and painted and is widely used for wall and roof sheathing and floor underlayment in this area. This is one of the big places the product is different. Most particle board goes into core stock, and has similar uses. It generally is rather high priced. The board made here competes with plywood and sells for less than the sandwich board. Most particle board has a lot of high-priced phenolic resin in it, to bind the chips together. The Chapman com pany uses soybean meal for a binder, at about 20 per cent of the cost of the resin. The presses used in manufacturing plywood, hard board and particle boards in other plants are "batch" presses. That is, one bunch of boards cooks at a time, then the press opens, is unloaded and reloaded. The Chapman-designed and built press here is differ ent. It is continuous in operation. A "green" board goes in at the bottom, rises under heat and pressure and comes out at the top. There is no stop for loading and unloading. There are 48 openings in the machine, which processes 48 boards at a time. The plant here is a prototype, an,d lots of people spend lots of time looking it over. Included on the guest list are a number of persons from other countries, as well ns a number of industrialists. Other plants like this one are being set up in various parts of the United States, and still others are planned for the future. Gap to Fill The sudden death Sunday night of Dr. Peter Chern enlfoff will leave a big gap in their youth program for members of the Kiwanis club to fill. Dr. Chernenkoff had been one of those most interested in the program, and had given generously of both time and money in helping its various activities. As Others See It Bond has dog troubles, too. At least the editor of The Bulletin thinks so. At any rate he announces that petitions are available at The Bulletin office to call for an election to repeal the dog ordinance. This city law requires dogs to be kept l ied up or on a leash or under tne owner s con-, Irol from April 1 to October 1, and its enforcement has; stirred up dog owners. "Down with dogcatchers," says The Bulletin. "Down with editors," the non-lovers of dogs may reply. (Oregon Statesman, Salem) In the Wrong Business? Walter Reuther, head of the giant UniU. . rk- rrs union and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO, is in the wrong business, lie should be either a public relations man or a politician. (There are those who claim Reuther Hlready is more interested in politics than in the welfare of union mem bers, but that's beside the point.) In support of this statement we point to Reuther's gesture of a few days ago. First, with considerable fanfare, he addressed a let ter to the presidents of the Big Three automobile manu facturers, suggesting they cut the price of automobiles f 100 each. If this is done, he noted, the union will take the cut "into consideration" during collective bargaining sessions next year. Next, he wrote a letter to President Eisenhower, send ing copies of his letters to the Big Three. His whole idea, he said to the President, is to comply with the latter's re quest for an effort by labor and management to keep prices down. Actually, there arc several holes in Reuther's cam paign. First, be doesn't make clear whether or not the( union will offer to cut wages or other employment costs next year. His organization's part in the whole deal is very vague. Second, management has always considered pricing policy as its own prerogative. The manufacturers undoubt edly will turn down his proposal. At least part and prob ably a big part of their reason will be that they don't want Reuther on the management side of the table. They have enough trouble with him during bargaining and grievance sessions. But Reuther will have made his point with a large number of people, and we have a suspicion that's what he was trying to do all along. Reuther pulled off one of the best public relations rampaigns of the century a couple of years ago when he built up long before negotiations actually started a great public acceptance for his principle of the Guaran teed Annual Wage. Then, when he didn't actually get it, he pulled anoth ?r great public relations campaign in persuading the mora obers of the union that they did have it. ReutluT is in the wrong business "Go on, Pick It Up YOU Dropped It" Onus x J? v. Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Here ore some ironies about the breast-beating of the Justice Department lor a tough civil rights bill, a bill even tougher than that now urged by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Irony No. 1 Attorney General Browncll and the Justice Depart ment have played ball for four years with Sen. Jim Eastland of Mississippi, bitterest opponent of civil rights. No Judges, U.S. at torneys or U.S. marshals have been appointed in Mississippi with out his okay. Irony No. 2 Attorney General Browncll gave private backstage encouragement last year to the move to oust the one Negro who is a memler of the Republican national committee, Perry Howard of Mississippi. Howard has been a national committeeman longer than anyone in history 33 years a matter -of pride to Negroes. Browncll encouraged the drive to oust him. Irony No. .1 Browncll has been working to build up the Re publican party in the South through K. O. Spencer, owner of the Walth all Hotel in Jackson. Miss., in which the Mississippi White Citi zens Council was first organized. The council has 'had an office in room 203 of the hotel. Browncll usually entertains Spencer in his home when the Mississippian comes to Washington. Keeping Alive The Issue Irony No. 4 For four years the justice department dragged its feel on civil rights, thereby mak ing it on issue In the 1956 presi dential election. Today the justice department is opposing the senate bill, thereby keeping civil rights an issue in the 1358 congressional election. Sen. Tom Hcnnings, Missouri Democrat, whose great-grandfather was one of the biggest slave holders in Georgia, developed some of the fuels regarding this stalling in a withering cross-examination of Browncll last year. "You have come up with no program during your our years, until April 1, I believe," senator Hcnnings challenged. f Browncll replied that he had worked on such civil rights as restaurant .segregation, discrimin ation in the armed forces, and kindred measures. "You know these were initiated in the preceding administration," Hennings was quick to point out. "A great many of them, yes," Brownell admitted. "We welcome your suggestion that there be a commission on civil rights in the department of Justice," Hennings continued. "At my request on March 22, 1955, this letter was addressed to you." He then read Browncll a letter one year old asking or his views on legislation proposing a civil rights commission. "There was no reply from you whatsoever over a year ago re lating to the establishment of a commission or a division," Hen nings pressed. The attorney general squirmed and sparred. He could give no ade quate explanation. Real fact is that while civil rights was being push ed for four years by Hennings and Congressman Celler in the house, thoy got no help from Brownell or from his Justice Department or from the Eisenhower administra tion. Truman On Tobacco Senator Ncuberger of Oregon has received a letter from Hurry Tru man congratulating him on his stand to .remove tobacco from the list of basic crops. "When the white man landed in, the new world," wrote Truman, "he gave the Indian white men's diseases and the Indian Rave him tobacco. PEKrcAr mjbi MEMPHIS. Tenn. (UP) Ben Brooks, 48, had a good excuse or not being able to pay s traffic ticket he got last Jan. 5 (or not having a driver's license and city inspection tag. On the date he was to appear in court here he was in West Memphis, Jailed on ,a drunk driving charge. I don't know which has been worse." The FBI BUI A distinguished, much - loved member of congress was talking about the FBI bill to reverse the supreme court on the Jencks case. "The FBI has a file on every senator, every member of con gress," he said. "Suppose I should die and then when I couldn't de fend myself, the FBI file on me should be opened by court order." This diagnosis indicates how lit tle congress knows about a piece of legislation which J. Edgar Hoover demands be rushed through con gress in record time. In the first place. FBI files un der the supreme court ruling could never be opened alter a man is dead, but only on the demand of the man who is involved, and then only if he is being prosecuted by the government. I, for instance, the congressman who had this mis understanding of the supreme court ruling should happen to be prosecuted by the government on the strength of FBI testimony, then, and only then, could other statements by an FBI witness against him be used from the FBI files to see if that witness was telling the truth. No undercover agents would be disclosed for the simple reason that no files can be opened unless an FBI witness is already on the witness stand in public court. Then, only statements made by him and pertaining to the defend ant can be produced from the files, under the supreme court rul ing. Note Patient, painstaking Sen. Joe O'Mahonoy ol Wyoming has been ironing out some of the kinks in the hastily written FBI bill which Hoover wants rammed through congress. He now has it in much better shape than the bill which breezed through the house judiciary committee without some congressman even reading it. Ulcers and Civil Rights Tension has mounted in congress as stratcgistis of both parties dick er over the civil rights bill. Back stage, the cloakrooms and corri dors have been a-buzz, with the latest moves and counter moves. Young Democrat Dick Boiling of Kansas City emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Sam Rayburn in which Rayburn prom ised to help free the bill from the hostile clutches of Democrat How ard Smith of Virginia, chairman of the rules committee. Even so, Boiling looked worried. - "How goes the battle?" asked Jimmy Roosevelt of Los Angeles. "Well, I've still got my nerve, I hope, in -the singular sense," re plied Boiling. "My nerves, in the plural sense, are in bad shape. My wile tells me if It keeps up I'll really get the ulcer I should have already." answer the schoolbelE in... shoes Likt fh three Ri, good shoes ore alto important to your youngsters' school day. Red Goose Shoes are built to pro- ide etra comfort and long wear in h I ate tt ityles ond colon. 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ABC-TV will stable six of the newcomers "Colt .45," "Ma verick," "Sugarfoot," "Tombstone Territory," "Zorro" and "The Real McCoys." New One-Hour Epic CBS . TV is chippirui in with "Have Gun, Will Travel" and NBC-TV will slot "Restless Gun," "The Californians" and "Wagon Train," a one-hour epic. Situation comedies will account for 19 of the fall berths, five of them new entries. You'll continue to see suoh oldies as "Burns and Allen," "Life of Riley," "Decem ber Bride" and "Father Knows Best." You can also expect to glim the new "Eve Arden Show," "Bachelor Father," "Leave it to Beaver" and "Dick and the Duc hess" on CBS-TV. NBC-TV Is tout ing "Sally,'' with Joan Caulficld. There'll be a clutch of new musi cals this autumn with ABC-TV un veiling four fronted by Frank Sin atra, Pat Boone, Patrice Munsei and Guy Mitchell. CBS-TV's musi cal effort is the 60-minute "Big Record" with Pattl Page and NBC - TV is packaging shows helmed by Giseie Mackenzie and Rosie Clooney. Flsher-Gobc! Show nrp.tv also is hich on its new , one-hour Tuesday program which combines the talents ol fcaaie r isn er and George Gobel. Some of the other offerings on tan nrp "Pprrv Mason" (one hour) and "Harbor Master" on CBS-TV, the "Walter Winchell Show" and "O.S.S." on ABC-TV and "Sus picion" (one hour), "The Court of Last Resort" and "The Thin Man" on NBC-TV. NBC-TV will unpack age the only new quiz, "What's It For" with Hal March. What you won't see is Sid Cae sar, Jackie- Gleason, the Robert Montgomery and Kaiser Alumin um drama hours, tne Arthur God frey Wednesday night show, "Lux Video," "Hey Jeannie," "Cross roads," and "Blondie." Tksu'uA all sunk in their chan nels. And If this season follows the form of other seasons, uiey u soon be joined by a clusier ol fresh victims. SHIP VISITS PORT BARI, Italy (UP) A Japanese ship has entered this Italian Adri atic port for the first time in 33 rvirt officials said today. The vessel was the fishing boat Hokomaru from Tokyo. 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