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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. If a full-time farm is the
goal, careful planning of the future
possibilities Tor the place you are
considering is necessary. It may
be necessary to buy additional
land, or move to another farm at
a later date. ,
A 40-acre farm is usually too
small for a full-time operation and
too large for a spare-time hobby.
Some part-time farmers who like
to have a large expanse of ground
around them solve the problem by
renting pasture or hay land to pro
fessional farmers in their 'neigh
borhood. Many take a fling at farm
life and later return to town.
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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
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McAllister, Chadwick building, 354
S. Seventh street, Redmond. An
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lie said the firm's planned ex
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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
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There are 25 farms In Deschutes
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