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THE BEND BULLETIN
4 Wednesday, April 22, 1959 An Independent Newspaper
Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Circulation Manager
William A. Yates, Managing Editor Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent
' Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
Entered as Second Class Matter, January 6, 1917, at the Post Office at Bend, Oregon, under Act
of March 3, 1879
He's a good sporfs editor but he
needs to learn more geography
Bill Thompson, sports editor of The
Bulletin, Is one of the best men ever to
hold down the job. But, his background
and training In sports apparently didn't
include learning mucn bdoui geogra
phy. Thompson Insists on calling It Mt.
Bachelor instead of Bachelor Butte.
; We can see why.
Thompson was raised around Spo
kane, And up in that country a 5,000
foot bump on the landscape is called
Mt. Spokane.
He worked for a while at the Pen
dleton East Oregonian. That's hilly
country, but the hills are pretty low.
Just before he came to Bend he was
working in Tucson, Arizona, on the flat
desert.
So it's easy to understand why a
fellow with this background would
think Bachelor is a veritable giant
among mountains.
Actually, of course, it isn't.
The official name is Bachelor
Butte, a name that was plenty good
enough until rather recently. Then a
private corporation was formed to start
a ski development on its slopes. The
corporation, as was its right, named it
self Mt. Bachelor, Inc.
That, however, is no reason at all
to change the name of the whole darn
ed hill, mountain or butte, as you pre
fer. This is no more right than it would
be to change the name of the Deschutes
River to the Red River, Just because
someone happened to build a dude
ranch somewhere on its shores and call
ed it the Red River Ranch.
Until the Board of Geographic
Names makes an official change, the
promontory will be known in this news
paper as Bachelor Butte.
And that goes for Thompson, too.
This is something we've needed
Under the direction of Vance Peav
py, Central Oregon College is moving
into the summer school area this year,
with a session due to start June 22 and
end August 25.
The program will be entirely self
supporting, In that tuition fees charged
students will be sufficient to cover op
erating costs, and no funds will be need
ed from the state or district property
tax payers.
This in itself is newsworthy.
But there is a most important as
pect to the whole program, as a quick
Elance at the schedule of courses will
show.
Basically, the session is designed
to furnish a review In the important
fields of mathematics, science and Eng
lish for students who will be attending
college for the first time this fall. It al
so will provide a makeup session for
COC or other college students who ran
into academic difficulties this year.
Since these three fields, plus the
languages, are the ones most college
students find difficult in their first year,
the summer school offers an opportun
ity to get a jump on other college fresh
men this fall.
Another course, typing for young
sters in the junior high school age
group most of whom can't write well
enough so others can read their efforts
easily will not only be popular but al
so valuable.
This is a forward move for Oregon's
only junior college. It seems to be well
planned as it approaches reality, which
is welcome, too.
Here's hoping Herter can measure up
As was expected, President Elsen
hower nominated Christian Herter, top
State Department official and former
Governor, to take the position of Secre
tary of State being vacated by cancer
stricken John Foster Dulles.
Herter, one or the two top officias
in the State Department under Dulles,
had been readied to carry out Dulles'
immediate assignments since it first
was discovered the latter had cancer.
Dulles had shaped U. S. foreign
policy, for better or worse, for six years.
Prior to that, ns U. S. Senator and as a
top foreign policy advisor, be had a
hand in making policy.
Dulles is widely regarded as a
strong man, and his policies generally
were accepted by U.S. allies. It remains
to be seen if Herter can do as well.
Our own choice if Mr. Eisenhower
had asked, which lie didn't would
have been Adlai Stevenson.
But the job didn't go to Stevenson,
and there is no reason to suspect that
it will at any time in the future under
the present administration.
For the next couple of years, at
least, here's hoping Herter can meas
ure up to the capabilities of Dulles,
w ho did a darned good Job for six years.
Quotable quotes
Westward ho! God bless you! Let
her go! Harry Truman, sending off
a train of seven covered wagons drawn
by Missouri mules and horses, which
rolled out of Independence on a 2,000
mile westward trek.
We have given the world the im
pression that we are bidding for friend
ship as traders bid for a sack of wheat.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.),
complaining that Americans too often
assign ignoble motives to their noble
deeds.
I would be very happy just to be
alone. They don't do me a favor by
putting so many guards over me.
Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro, on
the heavy security guard with which he
is surrounded on his U. S. visit.
MERRY-GO-SOUND
Chicago Negro
teams
Alabama group -
Letters
ro Hie Editor
Money added to forest budget
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Congressman
Frank Boykin of Alabuma is con
sidered the No. 1 champion of the
Ku Klux Klan and the White Citi
zens Councils in southern Ala
bama. Gov. John Patterson is
considered by many the No. 1
Negro-hater in the state 'if Ala
bama. But last week the No. 1
Negro congressman in Washing
ton, William Dawson, climbed in
to bed with them to sidetrack a
grand jury which was working for
clean government in Alabama.
The details of what happened
would flabbergast the Uninitiated.
Here are some of them.
Arthur Perlman, investigator of
the Gcernment Operations Com
mittee which Congressman ' aw
son, Chicago Democrat, heads,
had gone to Alabama to investi
gate a smelly highway situation.
Governor Pattersons campaign
manager, now finance director,
Charles Meriwether, had been
charged with trying to increase
the appraisal of a piece of federal
highway land from $1 to $180,000
in order to pay a political debt to
another of the governor's hench
men, Bill Delaney of Mobile. The
federal government would pay 90
per cent of the $180,000: so Uncle
Sam, in effect, would be paying
off Patterson s friends.
The charge was made officially
in the Alabama state legislature
by a preacher turned legislator,
Charles Trimmier of Mobile.
When investigator Perlman ar
rived in Alabama, lie was received
on Sunday, April 5 at the gover
nor's mansion in Montgomery and
there questioned Charles Meri
wether in the governor's presence.
The cross-examination continued
from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Mysterious Phone Call
The key question was whether
Meriwether had telephoned Tom
Cochran, one of the land apprais
ers, on February 8 to say that the
state would not appeal if Delaney
was awarded $180,000 tor the
dumping of highway muck on his
land.
Meriwether flatly denied mak
ing the phone call.
Two days later, Perlman was in
Mobile and asked Frank Drane,
manager of the Admiral Semmcs
Hotel, for the record of Meriwcth-
cr's phone calls on February 7 and
8. Drane hesitated, consulted his
lawyer, finally produced them
The phone-call records had been
tampered with.
"Has anyone asked to sec this
record?" the congressional invest
igator asked.
Drane huddled with his attorney.
"Yes," he finally answered.
"Who?"
"Meriwether."
"When?"
"Sunday night at 8 p.m."
In other words, Meriwether had
left the cross-examining session at
the governor's mansion at 6 p.m.
Sunday in Montgomery and flown
immediately to Mobile. It is 180
miles from Montgomery to Mo
bile. Perlman checked all com-
mercial lines and found that Meri
wether had not taken a commer
cial plane.
He must have taken a National
Guard plane with, of course, the
governor's approval. Two Nation
al Guard planes had been sen', to
Mobile on the day of preacher -legislator
Trimmier's charges In
order to get alibiing statements.
Yet despite this record brought
back to Washington by Chairman
Dawson's own investigator, Daw
son learned up with Govern.ir Pat
terson and Congressman Boykin
to sidetrack a Mobile gra id jury
seeking to ascertain the guilty
parties.
After huddling with rate-baiter
Boykin, the Negro congressman
either sent, or outhon.nl to be
To the Editor:
1 read an article in Wednesday's
Bulletin, written by Howard Ap-
egate that was very interesting
to me, as it concerned my hus
band's family's early history in
Oregon. My husband's grandfath
er knew the older Applegates very
well.
I do not know if they came
west in the same v agon train or
not, but I do know that they set
tled near them at Oakland, and
lived there a number of years be
fore going on to thi Wallowa Val
ley in 1872.
My husband's father, Francis
Powers made a trip in the Nine
teen twenties, to visit the site of
their old home, and visited at the
old Applcgate home. According to
my father-in-law, it was a ramb
ling farmhouse, built of hand i
hewn oak logs. I do not know if
it is still standing. Somewhere in
the family there is a picture of
that house as it looked then.
In our possession there is a book
written by James Powers, 8 broth
er of Francis Powers, written
about the Frontier days of Ore
gon and the life of Winslow Phelps
Powers. It deals a lot with the
crossing of the Plains and early
Oregon history. It tells of the In- j
dian wars, and the moving of the
Indians from the Wallowa Valley
to the reservation.
One story deals with this val
ley, as the writer, James Powers,
his father and two other men were
moving 1100 head of sheep from
Oakland to their new home at Wal
lowa. Winslow Powers had traded
his home at Oakland for the sheep
and $300. James was but nine
years old at the time. One night
the sheep disappeared from where
they had left them at a little val-1
Icy, going on to find water. Only
200 of the sheep could be found, so j
Mr. Powers left the little boy with I
the two men to travel on to Crook-1
cd River. The men later aban-1
doned him, stole all the food and
bedding. He went on to the riv-1
er, and there he found a farm-!
house, where a man by the name
of Larkin Weaver lived, with his
wife and three sons. They took i
him in and took care of his sheep
until his father came looking for
him. They then proceeded on to
Wallowa through the Lone Pine
Gap and out that way. The rest
of the sheep were never found.
A grandson of this man lives In ;
Bend, his name is Charles Wea
ver. I have corresponded with j
him to try to get more informa-1
tion. !
I thought this story might be of '
interest to you as it concerns Ore-!
gon history.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ralph Powers
Prineville, Oregon,
April 18. 1959
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Richard Ncuberger (D-Ore.) Tues
day announced Senate appropria
tions adding three million dollars
to the Forest Service budget, in
cluding $500,000 for access roads
and trails.
The action came in a supple
mental fund bill for the Interior
Department and forest service.
The Appropriations Committee
said added money was to be used
in areas that are especially bur
dened with unemployment "where
such work will be of benefit to
our forests from the standpoint of
conservation."
Ncuberger said Oregon areas
which probably would qualify for
participation in added funds in
clude Mt. Hood, Siuslaw, Willam
ette, Umpqua, Siskiyou and Uma
tilla national forests.
These forests are located in
areas designated as having liAor
surplus by the Department of La
bor. The Committee also added one
million dollars to the Bureau of
Land Management access roads
1 program ana iw.uuu iu
ate timber sales on O-and-C lands.
I
Hearing aid
bill approved
SALEM UPI A bill licensing
hpnrind ;iiH Healers and control
ling their advertising to prevent
misrepresentation passed me un
gon House Tuesday and was sent
to the Senate.
Rep. Norman Howard ID-Portland)
carried the bill on the floor
to a 51-8 victory.
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i The incumbent chief was elected
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I permitted, for the first time, to
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sent, a telegram direct to the
grand jury stating: "There is not
a scintilla of evidence in the land
case. We washed our hands of this
case on the floor of the House
yesterday."
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