THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
. I'bil K. Brogui, Associate Editor
Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation!
Entered Second Class Matter, January , 1917, at Die Post Office
at Bend, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1119.
An Independent Newtpaper
The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, Sept. 18. 1757
'"gggg; A Class in Lawlessness
A Pioneer's Dreams
A Central Oregon town that shared pioneer history
with Prineville will have its first surfaced road before
the month ends.
That town is Antelope, in southern Wasco county.
Antelope was a busy frontier town long before Madras
or Redmond took shape on the map of Oregon. It was the
jum'poff point as early as 50 years ago for families moving
into the isolated upper Deschutes country to found the
town of Bend.
In earlier decades, Antelope, a village on a creek of
the same name, was the point where freighters, miners,
stockmen and others stopped before moving into the Mit
chell, John Day and Canyon City areas.
Antelope became a bustling town shortly after the
turn of the century when the OWR & N extended its rails
south from Biggs to ghaniko, on the high flats just to the
north.
Through the dusty streets of Antelope rolled freight
wagons, some of them piled high with wool en route to
the world's largest wool-shipping point, Shaniko.
Cowmen rode the rutted streets of Antelope, and so
did posses, such as the one following the slayer of Roder
ick Grant That slayer, incidentally, was found at his camp-
fire on a frosty morning, and died under blazing guns.
Antelope, it would seem in those days, faced a great
future, as the center of a rangeland empire, the trading
point for homesteaders who had filed on a million acres
of land and the second largest town in interior Oregon
But fate ruled otherwise.
When Oregon started its highways, it was the Cow
Canyon route, not the Antelope road, that it selected for
Improvement. The Cow Canyon road became a part of
U.S. Highway 97. Antelope was by-passed.
Through the years. Antelope's population dwindled.
It has been called a ghost town.
And through the years, dust continued to swirl
through the main street a road that had carried the
wealth of a growing inland empire. The road to Shaniko
was improved a bit, but not surfaced.
Antelope, the rangeland outpost of early days, remain
ed in the dust.
Now the eight-mile stretch of road up the hill and
across the flats to a junction with U.S. 97 at Shaniko is
to be surfaced. Oiling work started today.
From Antelope, the surfacing eventually will be ex
tended over the new grade to Clarno, and on to the John
Day highway at Fossil.
Possibly Vasco county some day will see fit to sur
face the road down Antelope Creek to a junction with U.S.
97 at the foot of Cow Canyon.
Then Antelope, the pioneer town bypassed by progress,
will see a half century dream come true.
Sharing those dreams through the years was John
Siivertooth, mid-Oregon pioneer. I
He will watch with interest the paving crews moving
in from the north.
Our 'Atomic Cloud
Central Oregonians earlier this week spotted on the
southwest horizon a spectacular cloud, with a billowing,
atomic top.
From 'this cloud, the observers said, "fallout" ap
peared to be dripping. They wondered if one of the atomic
clouds from the Nevada testing grounds had reversed its
field and was heading into the north.
The lone, spectacular cloud, it developed, was a thun
derhead, which developed as cool, moist air from the Pacif
ic moved inland to collide witk an existing warm front that
had boosted temperatures into the high 'eighties.
But what about the "fallout" T
Weatherman have a name for this. They call it virga
precipitation that starts falling from a cloud, but never
reaches the earth. Virga appears as streamers or rain
hail or snow. It evaporates before reaching the earth.
It would have been great if some of this "fallout'1
had reached the earth, to dampen arid rangelands and
moisten the deer country.
In the past four months Bend has measured only 0.40
hundred of an inch of moisture.
MorI parts of the Mojave desert receive more than this
in a similar period.
Washington Merry -Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
LousingUp Litter
We've praised the State Highway Department's litter
barrel program a couple of times Without knowing what
a struggle it has been.
Keeping 630 litter barrels along the state's principal
highways emptied was something of a routine chore, we
assumed. We were praising an agency for accepting the
routine with less boring chores like clearing slides, battling
snowdrifts and tho like.
But now we learn that it costs S 32,000 a year to empty
them, partly because of some moro-than-routine reasons.
For example, barrel custodians have found lawn clip
pings in barrels miles from habitations and there are many
other indications that litter has been interpreted to mean
lot of things besides normal items used by a traveler or
camper.
The Highway Department has also discovered we
presume by finding one in a litter barrel that a motel at
the beach has notices posted in its cabins which read "Col
lect all your garbage when you vacate cabin and deposit
in litter barrels along highway."
But things aren't so bad. Down in California the High
way Department has to chain its barrels to trees. (Salem
Capital Jurnal.)
Quotable Quotes
"Kvery American is profoundly concerned with the
present situation which has assumed international pro
portions." Massachusetts Gov. Foster Furcolo, on a pro
posal to submit Little Rock's integration controversy to
a bi-nartisan group of governors.
WASHINGTON Governor Or-
val Faubus, who blew up the seg
regation storm in Arkansas, was
helped into oftice by Negroes who
sold their vote.
An overwhelming majority of the
65,000 Negroes, who voted in the
1954 Arkansas primary, cast their
ballots for Faubus. This gave him
more than the 5,000-vote margin
by which he defeated ex-Governor
Francis Cherry.
Evidence has now come to light
that the Faubus forces paid cash
on the barrelhead for Negro votes.
This has stirred Mrs. L. C. Bates,
who heads the national association
for the advancement of colored
people in Arkansas, to preach re
pentance to her people
"It Is unfortunate that Negroes
put Faubus in ofIce," she told
this column. "We hope the Negro
won't be so quick to sell his vote
in the future. We believe the Neg
ro has been convinced his constitu
tional rights are more valuable
than a few tainted dollars. It is
time for Negro voters to stop be
ing misled by professional exploit
ers. The day of vote selling has
passed."
She knew several Negroes who
were paid to vote for Faubus and
Negro leaders who took money to
campaign for him, Mrs. Bales
said. This was confirmed by I. S.
McClinton, president of the Arkan
sas Democratic voters association,
and other responsible Negro lead
ers. This column also talked to
Negroes who acknowledged they
had accepted "expense money"
from the Faubus forces.
The Rev. w. H. Hall, who di
rected Faubus' campaign among
the colored people, denied receiv
ing more than a "nominal sum."
"No more than $500 pa s s e d
through my hands, counting what
I got," he told this column. Most
of the money went to car-owners
to haul voters to the polls, he
said.
Queen Needn't Stretch
On secret state department or
ders, Chrysler engineers are alter
ing the limousines Queen Eliza
beth will use in America, The
problem is to jack up the back
seats without hoisting her feet off
the floor.
It will take two parade limou
sines to keep up with the queen.
These will be identical, fawn-colored
Chryslers. While one is de
livering her to her plane, the oth
er will be waiting at the next air
port for her arrival.
So that the queen and public can
get a better view of each other,
the state department ordered the
back seats raised four inches.
This caused consternation, how
ever, over whether her royal high
ness' legs might be left dangling.
Chrysler engineers, who are
working on such precision projects
as the Jupiter guided missile, got
out their slide rules and calculated
Queen Elizabeth's measurements
from her pictures. Then they hunt-1
ed up girl with the same specifi
cations. The model tried out the accentu
ated seats, couldn't touch the floor,
result: engineers are now eleva
ting the floor.
Note: Every move the queen is
expected to make in America has
been caroiUy rehearse with stop
watches. Her cavalcade will slow
down for crowds, speed up as the
spectators thin out. This should
take her through cities, the time
keepers figure, at about the same
rate as the average driver who
obeys the traffic laws.
Weary But Wis
Dress-shop diplomat Max Gluck,
new ambassador to" Ceylon who
couldn't name that country's prime
minister, took such a cram course
on Ceylon that he left for his post
last week In a state of "extreme
exhaustion."
He even carried a doctor's certif
icate to prove it. However, its pur
pose wasn't to impress the Ceylon
ese with how hard he'd studied
but to ward off attorneys who
wanted his deposition in a $185,000
lawsuit.
The suit was filed by M. J. Spie
gel, Chicago businessman, who
charged that Gluck had neglected
to make the final payment on a
chain-store purchase.
The doctor declared Gluck was
so worn out from state depart
ment briefings hat it would be
"dangerous" for him to testify.
Spiegel's attorneys offered to post
pone the deposition and keep
Gluck in this country by court or
der until his health improved.
Thereupon the harassed ambassa
dor decided he felt well enough
to answer a few questions.
He spent the morning under
cross-examination, but failed to
show up for the afternoon session.
He sent word to Judge Saul Strert
of the New York county supreme
court that he was too ill to continue.
The judge finally let Gluck, pre
sumably still exhausted, take off
for Ceylon without completing his
deposition.
Hoffa Polls Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa, embattled crown
prince of the Teamsters Union,
made 60 long-distance phone calls
last week to teamster leaders
around the country.
In the words of the marriage
covenant, he asked whether they
would take him for better or
worse. Would they stand by him,
he asked, no matter what congress
or the AFL-CIO said about him?
Could he count on their support,
he demanded, even If the AFL-CIO
should expel the teamsters Union?
Every last one took a loyalty
oath to support Hoffa down to the
last ballot at the forthcoming
teamsters convention. Insiders
claim the 60 leaders control
enough delegates to sew up the
presidency for him.
Note: No matter what the news
papers say about him, Hoffa is a
hero to a little band of Cheyenne
Indians at Lome Deer, Mont. He
contributes quietly, but regularly
to a small factory that provides
jobs for the Cheyennes.
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All Right, Now,
To Call it Persia
TEHRAN, Iran, (UP)-Ifs all
right to call it Persia again.
The Iranian cabinet said it had
decided the word Persia could be
used interchangeable with Iran to
end confusion among foreigners
who sometimes confuse Iran with
Iraq.
Iran remains the official name,
however, and Iranians will continue
to call it that. But the cabinet said
It was hopeless to expect foreign
ers to stop calling the country by
its old name, Persia.
LKATI1ER ENSEMBLES
Leather wallets, pocket cases
and key cases are ensembled with
belt leathers and colorings, this
fall, to make a wardrobe of leath
er accessories tor the fastidious
man.
Loewe Charged "
With Non-Suport
LOS ANGELES (UP) Composer
Frederick Loewe, 56. who wrote
the music1 for "My Fair Lady,"
today faced a separate mainten
ance suit brought by his "fair
lady" of 26 years.
Mrs. Ernestine Loewe, 49, one
time manager for Hattie Carnegie,
Tuesday charged the song writer
with non - support in the suit. She
asked the $7,500 a month alimony.
The suit claimed that Loewe was
"enjoying" a $450,000 income a
year from royalties on the Broad
way hit.. Mrs. Loewe said she was
destitute' now and living on bor
rowed money.
The couple was married in New
York June 13, 1931, and separated
!n April, 1950.
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