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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1957)
Bomb Blast Or Natural Disaster Have No Terrors For Bend Family Nelson Shelter Ready for Siege By DOJf H. HIGGINS Bulletin Stalf Writer The usually sunny high plateau of Deschutes county is one of the safest places in the world today for a home. The same is generally true of Jefferson and Crook coun ties which combine with Deschutes to compose the tri-county area of Central Oregon. People here sleep peacefully with no deepset fear of flood, earthquake or burning streams of molten lava from volcanic erup tion. Hurricanes are unknown in local history. Once in a dozen moons a little twister of wind called a "Devil duster" tears up a few acres ' and flattens some farm buildings. There are no tornadoes. Now and again lightning strikes but rarely kills. Hail does a bit of damage. As for flood, it cannot happen to the people along the Deschutes river. Writer Phil Brogan has oft en pointed this out, and in one il luminating article in The Bend Bulletin he told why, in detail. The porous lava of high levels and the volcanic soils below absorb excess water like giant sponges before it can overflow the banks. There has been no widespread pestilence, no famine in this fa vored area of Nature, and modern jcience has broughi further pro tection from such disasters. Shangri-la. the mythical haven of the late President Franklin De lano Roosevelt, had nothing on Central Oregon for mass safety from bodily harm. But there has come from far off a tiny menace to this land of health and freedom from disaster. It is a disaster threat gradually growing larger, more ominous a danger of annihilation by the hand of man. An atom bomb disaster is the threat. The people of Central Oregon have been warned again and again and again, as the late FDR used to say about various things. He pronounced it like two words, "a gain and a gain and a gain." Re member? With few exceptions the people of Central Oregon have ignored the warnings. Phooey! It will nev er happen here. Bombs cost cash money. No one would waste one in this area. The people of Cameron parish in southern Louisiana in June shrug ged off repeated pleas from offi cials to get out of there. The ef fect of that brushoff was hundreds of bodies rotting in the humid swamps after Hurricane Audrey wept them to death. Some of them got out. They are living today and mourning the loss of lifelong friends and neigh bors. There are a few families here abouts who are preparing to live through deadly radioactive fallout from a bomb blast anywhere with in hundreds of miles of Bend, Red mond, Prineville or Madras. One of these families is that of Mrs. Kathryn Nelson, who lives with two of her children in a white cottage at 502 Lava road in Bend. Mrs. Nelson has heeded the warn ing. If an atom bomb strikes Port land tomorrow or even a nearer it- " a A., US- ' L Greenwood Memorial Mausoleum The Greenwood Memorial Mausoleum has walls of massive strength to stand against the world and Its elements as a symbol of the everlasting haven of eternal peace. When you select entombment in the Greenwood Memorial Mausoleum, you honor the departed with the reverence of all great stone tombs everywhere. Your memories join the hallowed companies of those which have come down through the ages. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT Nisivonger & Winslow Funeral Home i PREPARED AGAINST DISASTER Mrs. Kathryn M. Nelson is shown in the bomb shelter cottage at S02 Lava road, well prepared with food, water and communication for herself ai two children in ease of heavy radiation fallout or other disaster. (Bend Bulletin Photo) place in Central Oregon that is a target on the Soviet list known to the secret . intelligence forces of i our government, Mrs. Nelson will ' go into her cellar with her chil ' dren. This will be done after they : had taken a quick bath to wash j off any immediate .contamination. I Her home's electric power and ! water supply will be cut off. She will dole out the 50 gallons in her i hot water heater tank during the days of entombment. I Lack of electricity will not dis may Mrs. Nelson. Her 11-year-old I son, Jimmy, has rigged up a bike lamp to a storage battery. The I basement retreat will be lighted. i She has a camp stove and fuel, blankets, cots and sleeping bags. I Jimmy, too, has assembled a i portable radio with a walkie-talkie I type antenna. Mrs. Nelson will be able to hear what the government is broadcasting in the outside world. She will learn through this portable radio when it is safe to go outside again. There will be days, perhaps even weeks, of no possible way to get food except what she has provided in advance. And Mrs. Nelson has provided enough to last for weeks, if need be. She has four 25-pound cans containing white flour, wheat flour, spaghetti and whole grain wheat. There are powdered milk, beans, meats and fruit in smaller con-' tainers. Each parcel has been wrapped and sealed in plastic bags, inside and out if possible. The big cans have been prepared by manufacturers- especially for atomic blast emergency. Mrs. Nelson will wash all of her food containers in a solution of I ciorox or purex wnen sne enters me ceuar. ane Keeps ner reingera tor full of food and will be able in a short time, as she has been told by radio, to get it. Refrigerators NOW OPEN FOR INSPECTION. -- are fairly safe from fallout con tamination. One fine day Mrs. Nelson's port able radio will sound the All Clear. Like other provident souls she may remember John Godfrey Saxe's lines in the "Old Man's Motto": Whatever be thy fate today Remember, "This will pass awny." Mrs. Nelson and her children will emerge and take a look around. She hopes she will find her friends and fellow citizens alive, and not strewn dead, and rotting over the streets and lawns. But in the present state of indif ference and helplessness, here is what the Pentagon experts esti mate will happen if a fleet of Soviet bombers strikes the nation now: Killed or wounded in the U.S. 56,000.000 people. Blasted into a mass of rubble and blood: 69 cities. For five years the Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Research Council has been study ing the reaction of the American public to warnings. It has learned positively that . , .most Americans won't listen to warnings. They just won't admit to themselves that something aw ful may happen to them. The people of Waco, Texas, scof fed at a warning broadcast by the U.S. Weather bureau that a torna do would strike their city. It kill ed 114 of them. Rio Grande Valley residents re fused to get out of the Eagle Pass area when repeatedly warned of an approaching flood. One hundred and thirty were drowned. Cameron parish people pooh poohed official warning that Hur ricane Audrey would strike. They died by the hundreds. There are scores of other in stances. "Now hear this!" as the tough , mat. : .- , ... m f her nd her Champ Joe Brown Expecting Win CHICAGO (UP) Lightweight champion Joe Brown rates his TV opponent tonight, Joey Lopes, as a tough boy, but he thought today he might ring up the 28th knockout of his career. ' "I won't have to look for him," Brown said. "He'll be there. So if I can nail him, I'll knock him out." Brown, who has won 63 battles, lost 14 and drawn 8, will not risk his title in the 10-round bout, since it is an overweight -match. He ex pected to weigh about 137 and Lopes, 29, expected to weigh 133. "They tell me Lopes has never been knocked out," Brown said, "and I taow he's a good rough tough fighter. But he's a club fighter. When I fought (Orlando) Zulucta, he'd never been knocked off his feet, so tonight I'm going to try to establish another first and finish Lopes. skipper of the Mister Roberts ship was wont to bellow: GET READY. YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE. YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO GET HURT. And it will not cost you much cash money to protect your selves. If you haven't saved previous printed instructions, write to the Federal Civil Defense administra tion for the pamphlet called "Home Protection Exercises" for your family. The address is Superin tendent of Documents, U.S. Gov ernment Printing Office, Washing ton 25, D.C. The price is 15 cents. Practical Pointers Dwellers Planning Persons who have had no farm experience, yet want to buy a piece of ground, may want to con sider how country life differs from living in an urban area. Many people who live in town are frus trated farmers. If they lived on farms in childhood, perhaps they yearn to get back on the land. If they have never lived in the coun try, very likely they need profes sional guidance In selecting a plot that they can handle. The size of the farm depends upon the type of country living they desire. There are four main categories that may be considered. These are: 1) A country home with little or no farming. Such a location might include a yard for outdoor living, a place for flowers, and even a small garden. The house might be located on a tract of land the size of a city lot or be set in a wooded or native area. 2) A country homo with space for producing some of the family food supply. One-half to one acre Blay provide space for vegetables, fruits, and small animals such as chickens and rabbits. If you wish to raise larger animals for milk or meat, plnn to have at least two or three acres for pasture and winter feed. 31 A country home, family food mi 1 IBB! ( v Given to City Life on a Farm supply, and some income from the sale of products. Small farms are usually less efficient In production, so money actually received from the sale of products on the aver age part-time farm supplies only a small part of the family income. Twenty-five acres is considered by some experts to be the maximum amount that a man or a couple can handle and still have a job or jobs away from home. 4) A small farm as the first step toward a full-time farm. Some families buy a small farm with the hope of expanding it in time to a full-time farm. However, most small farms cannot satisfactorily be expanded to a full-time opera tion. 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The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, August 21, 1957 9 Oregon's Tax Structure Bad PORTLAND (UP) Owen R. Cheatham, president of the only Portland based firm that is listed as one of the nation's 500 biggest corporations, said here Monday night that Oregon's tax structure "stinks," but he predicted a re vival for the lagging lumber in dustry anyway. Cheatham, president of the Georgia - Pacific lumber corpora tion, commented at a news con ference that "Oregon's tx struc ture is so bad eventually it will have to be changed. It's the worst in the United States." It definitely is a handicap to economic growth, he said. , Cheutham added tbnt Georgia Pacilic is in Oregon "because the timber is here." lie predicted that the new KHA down payment re quirements should boost new hous ing starts back above one million next year and he expects the 1955 boom to return by 1959. Despite general lethurgy in other sections of the Industry. Georgia 'Pacific last year reported increased sales and profits and Cheatham expects sales of 150 Advice on farm living can be ob tained from County Agent James McAllister, Chadwick building, 354 S. Seventh street, Redmond. An Extension bulletin on the subject is also available at his office. Phone Lincoln 8-2435. no dresses and shirts. to miss 5!o 47c yd. 1012 Wall Open Daily 9 0 0 0 )0Xsa2ffl LESS ATyiM million dollars this year. , lie said the firm's planned ex pansion would emphasize greater utilization of timber products and cited the new krnft paper mill due to go into productions Jan. 1 at Toledo. Georgia Pacific now owns 2o0, 000 acres of Oregon timberland and Cheatham called western Ore gon "the best timber-growing area on the face of the earth." There are 25 farms In Deschutes county that each sell more than $25,000 per year In crops or live- ' stock. Plagued Day And Night with Bladder 'Discomfort? 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