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THE BEND BULLETIN
Wednesday, April 29, 1959
An Independent Newspaper
Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor
William A. Yates, Managing Editor
Lou W. Meyers, Circulation Manager
Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
Entered ti Second Clasi Matter, January 6, 1917, at the Post Office at Bend, Oregon, under Act
of March 3, 1879
It's lucky one was able to walk,
or they would all be there still
Three persons are alive today bn
cause one of Ihem still was able to walk
after a piano crash.
The crash occurred early Sunday
In the Willamette pass area, on a flight
from Reno to Springfield. A student
pilot aboard on a cross-country train
ing trip was able to make it to Highway
58. lie was picked up by a passing mo
torist and taken to Oakridge. Rescue
parties reached the other two persons
and got thmri out of the wreckage last
Sunday.
The whole outfit Is lucky one per
son was able to walk.
If all three had been Incapacitated
by their Injuries, It is doubtful any of
them would bo alive In a few more days.
At least partly to blame for this
state of affairs is the Oregon air search
and rescue operation as run by Earl
Snyder of the State Board of Aeronau
tics. To the best of our recollection, not
nrm person has been rescued from a
downed airplane in Oregon In the past
five years unless:
1. The plane went down In sight
or hearing of someone not involved In
the accident.
2. Someone was able to walk away
from the crash and get help.
Even when someone was able to
walk away, It has not always meant
rescue, as witness the two men who
went down on the slope of the South
Sister, got out of the wreckage, and
then died before they were found.
We are not familiar with the sta
tistical records of search and rescue
programs in other states.
But it is Impossible for them to be
worse than the Oregon records. And it
is probable that they are better.
Only one thing has kept a big out
cry from arising in the past over Sny
der's direction of this important pro
gram. Ail his mistakes arc dead.
Move over, Senator Naterlinl
A few weeks ngo this newspaper
nominated Senator Andrew Naterlin
of Newport for nn award ns Oregon's
worst legislator of this session.
Wc spoke too soon.
We wish to withdraw the nomina
tion. In Senator Naterlin's old spot we
would place Senator Walter J. Pearson
of Portland, president of the Senate.
This Is based on a quick shuffle he
pulled last week.
Senator Pearson, up until Friday,
had not been too bad. But he made an
outstanding record In reverse in
a real short time.
On Friday Pearson sent the higher
education appropriations bill to the Sen
ate State and Federal Affairs com
mittee thereby fracturing two im
portant precedents just to impose
his personal wishes on (lie rest of the
legislature and the people of the state.
The Eugene Register-Guard had
an excellent description ar.d comment
on this fiasro:
"Friday when Senate President Walter .1.
IVarson shunted the higher education appro
priation bill to llio .Senate Stale and Federal
Affairs Committee, he broke two important prec
edents for no hotter reason than to attempt
personal command over t lie fate of the bill.
"First. Pearson sent the bill to a committee
he can generally control although, customarily,
such a bill ould have been referred to the
Ways and Means Committee. Tearson knew that
the Joint Ways and Means Committee had already
concurred that the bill was about the best it
could devise, lie knew further that the House
had endorsed the bill and that the Senate likely
would follow suit. So he tossed a monkey wrench
Into the works.
"Then, to be sure that the people of Oregon
wouldn't have a chance to see how he tightened
political screws with that wrench, he held a
closed meeting with the State and Federal
Affairs Committee, barring the press and the
public.
"Such secret committee sessions have, fortu
nately, been absent from Oregon's legislative
assemblies for many years. Heretofore, legis
lators have been content to deliberate, argue,
compromise and reach their decisions out in
the 0en.
"Senator Pearson's actions were more than
highhanded. They constituted a quick two-step
in the wrong direction, away from the orderly,
0enly conducted legislative process which the
peoplo of this state have come to rely upon and
which they should now be stirred to protect.
"A flood of public protests should be directed
to the Legislature immediately, to let the House
and the Senate know Oregonians won't tolerate
one-man rule of either house, that they expect
their solons to quash every such attempt, start
ing with Walter Pearson."
Fortunately, the move didn't
succeed. But that's no excuse.
You can't lay this boo-boo of Pear
son's at the door of either stupidity
or lack of experience in state govern
ment, either.
Move over, Senator Naterlin.
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Adm. Lewis
Strauss, who chafes restlessly be
fore the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee, has two inter
esting dinner invitations this week
aimed at building up sentiment
for his confirmation as Secretary
of Commerce. Reaction to the two
dinner invitations is mixed. Here
they are, together with the reac
tion: Dinner No. 1 is tendered April
30 by the American Good Govern
ment Society to present a medal
to Admiral Strauss and Senator
McClellan of Arkansas.
Dinner No. 2 by the American
Physical Society May 1 at which
Admiral Strauss is to be the honor
guest.
In the case of dinner No. 2.
hundreds of letters have been
written by scientists protesting
the invitation to Strauss and blam
ing the invitation on Robert Hun
toon, who works for Strauss as
deputy director of the Bureau of
Standards. Huntoon is in charge
of local dinner arrangements.
Behind dinner No. 1 is the
American Telephone and Tele
graph Company, plus leaders of
the National Association of Manu
facturers and other business
groups.
The Good Government Medal
Significantly, ex-Congressman
Ed Gossett of Texas, now working
for the telephone company, has
been offering blocks of tickets to
friends to attend the Strauss din
ner. Grover Sellers, former attor
ney general of Texas, also work
ing with the telephone company,
has been helping promote the
dinner.
The telephone company through
its subsidiary, Western Electric,
operates the Sandia Corporation
at Albuquerque, N. Mex., for the
Atomic Energy Commission; is
also recipient of some of the big
gest government contracts, includ
ing the SAGE early warning sys
tem in the Arctic.
The American Good Govern
ment Society is an interesting or
ganization which has a propensity
for bolstering conservative public
officials, sometimes when they
seem to be in most trouble. It was
this organization which gave a
gold medal to Gov. Allan Shivers
of Texas just as he was running
in a hot race against Sen. Ralph
Yarborough and right after his
land commissioner and two insur
ance commissioners were being
prosecuted.
It has also awarded medals to
Congressman Howard Smith of
Virginia who time after time has
bottled up bills opposed by the
National Association of Manufac
turers; nnother medal to Con
gressman Bill Colmcr of Missis
sippi, who invariably joins Smith
in his bottling operations; also to
Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota,
unflinching champion of the late
Joe McCarthy; and others.
"Last Strauss Committee"
The second dinner invitation to
Admiral Strauss, that given by the
American Physical Society, has
caused one group of scientists to
organize the "Last Strauss Com
mittee." a play on the manner in
which the admiral pronounces his
name as in straws. This com
mittee has sent 12.000 post cards
to every member of the Society
asking what they think of Strauss
as a spokesman of the Physical
World.
Tlio committee includes such
scientists as Jay Orear of Cor
nell; John dc Wire of Cornell,
William Higanhotham of Brook
haven Laboratories; Edwin Sal
peter, Cornell; Hartland Snyder,
Brookhavcn: George Vineyard,
Brookhaven: and Robert R. Wil
son of Cornell.
One of the most vigorous pro
tests against the Strauss mvita
tion comes from a former presi
dent of the American Phvsical
Society who wrote his colleaiiues:
"I believe a large proportion of
Pat on the back department
Readers of The Bulletin's sports
pages probably have noticed something
about the scores run up by Rond school
track teams in recent weeks.
They are getting higher, almost on
a week-by-week basis.
Bend high school still has not been
able to beat Redmond, recent power
house of track in Central Oregon.
But discerning readers may have
noticed the scores of 1ln seventh and
righth grade competitions this season.
They do not bode well for Redmond
success in the future.
The scores, of course, are made by
the youngsters who are competing.
But the reason there are so many
of them competing as compared to the
paucity of team candidates in recent
years and that they are doing so well,
is largely due to the coaching and lead
ership the kids are getting.
Nothing reflects enthusiasm and
know-how so quickly as does a school's
athletic record.
The enthusiasm in track this year
comes from Hoot Moore, head track
coach, and his two assistants. Jack
I.utz and Bill Arnold. All three are
teachers In the junior high school here.
Under their guidance, track here is
being restored to Its rightful place in
the spring sports calendar.
our memlwrs will not consider it
appropriate that we extend this
honor and token of our respect to
Lewis Strauss.
"Is not Strauss the man who
long fought against the policy of
allowing even the scientists of al
lied nations to have minute quan
tities of radioactive materials for
medical research or the therapeu
tic relief of human suffering?
"Is not Strauss the man who
sought to exercise one-man dic
tatorial control over all atomic
energy matters in America by
ingeniously combining his role as
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission with that of scienti
fic adviser to the President, using
this double role to justify keeping
his fellow commissioners in ignor
ance of atomic energy affairs?
"Is not Strauss the man who
greatly retarded the development
of high energy practice physics in
American by refusing to support
a bold imaginative program for
the construction of multibillion
volt particle accelerators?
"Is not Strauss the man who so
long misled the President and
misinformed the public about the
fallout dangers associated with
the large-scale testing of nuclear
weapons, so that only this year
has there come about a general
public awareness of these dangers?
"Is not Strauss the man who
was principally responsible for di
recting the security persecution of
our former president, J. R. Op-
penheimer?
"Five years ago all these things
were going on in secret while the
American people watched on tele
vision to see Sen. Joseph McCar
thy day after day attack the in
tegrity of Army scientists at Ft.
Monmouth. Let our dinner serve
as a fifth anniversary of those
events.
It looks as if the admiral would
have two interesting dinners to at
tend this week.
4 Lamb Jerseys
get fop ratings
Four Jersey cows in the herd
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lamb
have been named on the "leading
living lifetime producer list" just
released by the American Jersey
Cattle Club. The list of living high
producers is issued once a year.
For the first time, cows on the
list have also been designated with
a type rating, which refers to ap
pearance alone. Of the 104 cows on
the list, 39 received type ratings
of "excellent." Fifty-two were
very good, eleven were good
plus" and one was "good." One
was not classified.
The high classification rating
shows that a good looking cow
lasts longer and produces better
than a poor type cow, Mrs. Lamb
said. Ratings and ages of the four
cows from Uie Lamb herd on ths
list bear out this observation.
Two of the cows were rated
"excellent." They arc Standard
Neva, who will be 17 ,n August,
and Primer's Lady Annette, who
will be 14 in June. Primer'.-, Jen
nifer, age 12. was rated "eiy
good," and Primer's Chessie Cher
ub, age 12'4, "good plus."
To qualify for the cur-cnt list,
cows must have been alivj cn
Dec. 31. 1938.
PLANNING NEW MUSEUM
NEW YORK (UPH-Architect
Edward D. Stone said Tuesday
construction will begin late this
summer on a $l,loo.noo, 10-story
art museum in mid-Manhattan.
The museum, expected to be
opened by October. I960, was
commissioned by millionaire Hun
tington Hartford and has been
tentatively named "The Gallery
of Modern Art."
Letters--
hi the Editor
To the Editor:
From different directions
throughout the nation, I have re
ceived copies of your editorial
dated April 14, 1959, wherein you
attempt to reflect on the character
and activities of a grand old pat
riot Robert Edward Edmond
son. Readers who do not know Ed
mondson will not be interested in
what you wrote. The thousands
over the nation who do know him
and the fight he has made to as
sist those who are battling to save
our Republic, will be incensed
over your effort to smear the
memory of a great American.
The New Deal attempted to de
stroy patriots who, like Edmond-
son, were opposed to our entering
World War II. The government of
that day worked for four years
in an attempt to find evidence
against them. They failed com
pletely. Finally, an honorable
judge threw the case out of court
as a travesty on justice a dis
grace It now stands as a great
blot on the escutcheon of our Republic.
You criticise Edmondson for his
stand on fluoridation. I am not
an authority on the subject. How
ever, I am impressed with the
evidence coming from the great
city of New York where thou
sands of dollars were spent over a
period of years investigating the
subject, resulting in repeated de
cisions to keep the water of New
York City pure and clear of flu
oride. That left a large supply
available for rat poison, where it
is extensively used.
The United States of America, is
now drifting to the left and to its
doom. In the process, many pat
riots, like Edmondson, must be
smeared and purged as the de
struction goes on. If and when re
covery comes for the nation, the
name of Robert Edward Edmond
son should be inscribed high on
the roll of those heroes who could
not be intimidated as they fought
day and night for the preserva
tion of our Republic as it was con
ceived and Organized.
George Van Horn Moseley,
(Maj. General U. S. Army
Ret'd.)
Atlanta, Ga.,
April 27, 1939
To the Editor:
I am mailing your paper in
formation you may apply to the
history of early day Farewell
Bend referring to Dr. Nichols and
Mr. John Sisemore. Dr. Nichols
raised four tons of red onions in
1905 three to five inches in dia
meter on the west side of the Des
chutes river opposite where the
Stevens Hotel and boarding house
set.
Dr. Nichols also raised two and
a half acres of russets (netted
gems) potatoes at the south end
of the East meadows. One balmy
day he asked me to go fishing
with him. We walked down to the
anchored row boat 200 feet above
the Sisemore bridge East side
carrying two large dish pans and
two dipping nets, no pole and
line nor willow or string. Dr.
Nichols rowed out and up the cen
ter of the river about 3.000 feet
above the bridge, he laid down
the oars, let boat drift down
stream.
We started dipping fish. I never
saw so many fish, rainbow trout.
There were thousands. There
must have been millions of them,
they were so thick and crowded
that they were swimming near the
crest of the stream. We were not
long dipping the dish pans full of
six and eight trout. Every one had
fish for dinner that evening, pop
ulation 32 - seven men, six wom
en, nine girls and 10 boys. You
can understand why Bend had so
many early day 4th of July fish
frys east of the pioneer school
house in present Drake Park. Mr.
Stevens had a two acre garden
plot, raised turnips, radishes, let
tuce and cabbage, blackberries
and gooseberries surrounded with
a four foot picket fence, hotel lo
cated in the northeast corner.
One day Mr. Sisemore was shoot
ing at a helldiver, 30-30 rifle, sit
ing on the water about five feet
from the east river bank, 125
yards above the bridge where we
stood. He fired at the bird three
times, everytime the bird dived
just in time to save its life. We
walked down the river aways and
on returning the helldiver had
flown away,
Mr. John Sisemore took up res
idence at 47 Oregon Avenue in
Bend, 1907. He had an all gold set
of dentures, costing five hundred
dollars.
Later in 1908 a Mrs. Arnold
operated the first bakery in Bend
at the same location and later oc
cupied by Chief of Police Bert
Roberts.
Sincerely yours,
Chet Moore
Bend, Oregon,
April 28, 1959
Goy. Williams
sees disaster
for Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (UPI) Gov.
G. Mennen Williams drafted a
timetable for state fiscal collapse
today after ordering payless pay
days for lawmakers and judges.
The order followed an unexpect
ed decision by state Senate Re
publicans Tuesday to shelve a
stop-gap plan to convert the vet
erans trust fund to cash.
This will do incredible and
lasting damage to the state," Wil
liams said. "It is a disaster of
the first magnitude."
Williams scheduled a cabinet
meeting today to formulate "an
orderly program for the suspen
sion of essential state obligations
until such time as the legislature
provides money to meet them." i
Williams halted processing of ,
about 325 checks totaling more
than $100,000 for the legislature, I
supreme and circuit courts. I
Williams said the $3,100,000 pay-!
roll scheduled May 7 for 28,000
other state employes, including
himself, will not be met unless
emergency funds arc provided.
The order came less than two
hours after a GOP Senate caucus
voted solidly to junk a plan to
cash in the veterans trust fund.
Culver students
to participate
Special te The Bulletin
MADRAS Six high school mu
sicians from Culver will take part
in the "Music in May" festival to
be held May 7-9 at Pacific Univer
sity, Forest Grove, Oregon.
According to the school, the six
are Christina Rodman, Reata Ma
cy, Larry Neidigh, Mike Daly,
Frd Monroe and Eddie Macy.
Four of the Culver high school
students will be members of the
mixed choir; one will play with
the festival orchestra and one with
the band.
Chorus members will be Reata
Macy, Larry Neidigh, Mike Daly
and Fred Monroe.
Christina Rodman will be a
member of the 220 piece band and
Eddie Macy is scheduled to play
trumpet with the 100 piece orches
tra. The six will join 550 other mu
sicians from 91 Oregon and Wash
ington high schools for the music
festival.
The grand concert of the three
day festival will be held May 9 at
8 p.m. in the Forest Grove union
high school gymnasium, the
school said.
Publi
ic
Notice
Healy's Furniture Co.
will offer for sale the
remaining stock of
merchandise, fixtures
and office equipment
from its closed-out
branch store at The
Dalles, Oregon.
The merchandise will
go on sale Thursday,
April 30, at their Bar
gain House, Minnesota
St., next to the Fire
Hall.
The company has
made this change in
order to consolidate its
stores in Central Ore
gon and to better
serve the people of
this area.
What to do till
the doctor comes
Emergencies strike with
sudden swiftnevi. A slip.
a fall, collision is seldom
announced. So be prepared. At least one member
of tery family should have a working knowledge
of first aid. There ire books on the subject and
the American Red Cross gives classes w here such
information and training can be acquired. Va
recommend that you, or someone in your house
hold, acquire the know-how. Another worthy
recommendation is to maintain a supply of first
aid medications on hand at all times antiseptic,
gaue bandages, adhesive tape, alcohol, soothing
creams, etc. The coit is small and we'll be glad
to assist you in your selection.
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