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THE BEND BULLETIN
4 The Bend Bulletin, August 1, 1959 An Independent Newspaper
Phil F. Bregan, Asioclete Editor Lou W. Meyers, Circulation Manager
William A. Yates, Managing Editor Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent
Robert W. Chandler Editor and Publisher
Entered ai Second Class Matter, January 6, 1917, at the Post Office at Bend, Oregon, under Act
of March 3, 1679.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Johnson battles for his
initial love baseball
Neuberger, at this early date,
finds one down, one more fo go
Senator Wayne Lyman Morse told
a reporter in Washington the other day
that he would not carry his feud with
Senator Richard L. Neuberger into next
year's general election.
In other words, Wayne Lyman will
not campaign for a Republican for
Neubcrger's job. If he can't beat Neu
berger in the primary, he'll sit this
one out.
And, he admitted, finding a go'
candidate to oppose Neuberger in '
Democratic primary would be tr
perhaps Impossible.
In view of the reluctance of i.
responsible, well-known Democrat I
oppose Neuberger, we imagine it will
be impossible to beat him in the pri
mary. Friends have long known this was
Neubcrger's biggest worry.
How many extreme partisans
would vote for someone else just be
cause Wayne Lyman wanted them to,
was the question.
Apparently that question has been
answered by Wayne Lyman himself.
There aren't enough of the extreme
Morse partisans left to do the job.
Neuberger, then, is to be spared
serious opposition in next year's Dem
ocratic primary and can focus his at
ntion on the general election in the
1 of 1960.
And, unless Pete Gunnar can find
1 t not just token opposition
ithin the next few months, Neuberg
er will rack up a one-sided win in
November, 1960, real one-sided.
Which Is probably just the way
it will happen.
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON - Big Ed John
son, who used to fire locomotives
on the Union Pacific between
western Kansas and Denver, took
an airplane down to Washington
from New York the oilier day to
testify against baseball monopoly.
Big Ed felt right at home going
back to Washington. He spent
eighteen years of his life there as
V. S. Senator from Colorado
about as many years as he spent
as a railroad laborer on the Union
Pacific, then telegrapher then
train dispatcher and locomotive
fireman. He also has felt at home
in the state house in Denver, hav
ing served two terms as governor
and four terms in the Colorado
legislature.
But big Ed didn't feel much at
home in an airplane. You could
tell that by the way he tried to
stuff an unwieldy brief case un
der the scat in front of him, in
stead of beneath him. As a re
sult, he couldn't stretch his legs.
And when you're six feet four you
need to stretch.
However, airplanes have revol
utionized baseball, Ed Johnson
confided to me. And that is one
reason he is crusading for anoth
er baseball league. Even when
Big Ed served in the U. S. Senate,
he was president of the Western
Baseball League. Now that he's
retired from active politics at the
age of 75, he's giving all his time
to baseball.
'San Juan, Puerto Rico, is base
ball crazy," he explained. "And
they want to be part of our new
big league. With airplane trans
portation you can get to San
Juan,, as easy as Los Angeles or
San Francisco. The major ball
teams have their own airplanes
now.
Players are Monopolized
"But our chief problem is the
baseball monopoly," continued the
man who -is trying to break it.
"That's why I'm going to Wash
ington to testify before Senator
Kefouver's Anti-Monopoly Com
mittee. The two major leagues
don't want a rival, and especially
the major ball clubs don't want
to give up their monopoly on
players they don't need.
Some of the clubs have 400
players under contract each.
Every May 20 they cut down their
actual team to 25 men, but they
keep 400 under contract just to
keep them from getting into the
hands of other rival clubs.
Letters
to Hie Editor
Trying 'em out on a new battleground
The Portland Beavers, notoriously
unsuccessful both on the baseball field
and at the boxoffice in recent years,
have decided to try to make money
from baseball in a new fashion. The
club Is suing the major leagues, and
asking big damages.
This opens up an entire new side
of baseball, where good lawyers be
come as important as a flashy short
stop who can hit .300.
It will require setting up a whole
list of new standards, too.
For example, a good hitting out
fielder who can play every day always
has been worth more money than a
good pitcher, who can pitch only every
four days.
. Now, the legal education will be
Important, too.
Will one graduate of Harvard Law
School, for example, be worth four
University of Arkansas men, or only
three?
Strange set of sights, indeed
The Oregon Journal sees in the
dismissal of an Indictment against
Clyde Crosby by the State Supreme
Court this week "the Inst of the Vice
capades." ; While it is true that the Portland
vice investigations probably oppos
ed at the start by The Journal because
bf jealousy of the attention gained by
The Orcgonlnn did have certain
showish overtones, that paper's final
analysis of the whole situation leaves
something to be desired.
The Journal has attempted to
downplay the whole business simply
because it didn't like Jim Eikins, as
near as we can figure It out. Eikins, of
course, Is not a particularly loveablc
character. But it is not necessary to
refuse to listen to a man's story, as
The Journal would have us do in the
Eikins case, simply because you don't
like the way be brushes his teeth or
cuts his hair.
The show is not over, in any event.
There are a number of Oregonians, we'll
wager, who do not relish the sight of
the state's largest city being mayored
by a man who flunked a lie detector
test which he requested, who are not
proud that Portland's mayor found it
necessary to take the Fifth before a
Congressional committee.
The party is over, to be sure. It
ended without accomplishing much. '
At least part of the blame for the
way things turned out must be assum
ed by The Journal and the strange
course of conduct it elected to follow
early in the game.
'As Hawaii goes, so goes the nation?'
', Some Republicans are confident
that the results of Hawaii's first state
hood election points toward resurgence
of the party. Their thought possibly is
this:
'. "As Hawaii goes, so goes the na
tion." But Hawaii is far west of the main
land and east of the International date
line. Its votes on national election days
will not be counted until the mainland
election Is history.
In the old days, Maine had the
time advantage In setting the voting
pattern for the country.
Hawaiians can't set such a pattern,
but they can vote for the presidential
winner. .
Quotable quotes
I will not disclose the details of
our conversation, hut I think I can
safely say this much, that everything
is pointing to a happy union of the
two young people. Rev. Oiav Gnuto
stad, after a talk with an old friend of
Anne-Marie Rasmusson, reported fian
ree of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's 2.'1-ye;tr-old
son Steven.
The Bulletin welcomes contri
butions to this column from our
readers. Letters must be signed
with the real name of the
writer, which will be withheld
on request, and may not contain
libelous material.
To the Editor:
It would be well for anyone
writing on national loan drives,
long term or short term bonds of
any issue, to carefully review the
sorry mess that the Federal Re- j
serve Corporation , a private
money monopoly have gotten oilr ,
country into and to look care
fully on both sides of the record. ;
First to study that part again
of our Constitution reading: "Only
Congress has the power to coin
money and put the value there
on." Therefore when the Federal
Reserve issues $20 billions of mon
ey, and puts on the U.S. Treasury
seal, charging the U.S., an ex
horbitant interest, why not in
stead have the Congress issue this
same amount of money, and with
out interest
Also remember that this same
Federal Reserve does not own
this privilege, it was only "farm
ed" out to them.
Then emphasize the fact that
ever since 1914. at various times
Congress has piddled with Investi
gations of its own mistakes and
has failed to burn out this mone-i
tary cancer, and the FR whose
head, McChesney Martin, says
"I am above the law" and I re
fuse to give out any financial
statements to cither selected con
gressmen or senators (Sen. Ma
lone and Kerr, 1957).
As tile result of the manipula
tion of money during the past for
ty years by FRS. the "country's"
business generally is not boom
ing, only for the selected few.
FR is also founder and author of
the little discussed Bank Credit
Inflation, now .1 per cent per year
and compounding.
The Federal Reserve System
will lead the ration to the brink
of disaster and abscond with gold,
if it can't appoint a dictator, and
don't let anyone (ell you to the
contrary.
Frank K. Haskell
Salem. Oregon,
July 31, 'l!Wl !
To the Editor:
We wish to thank yon for the
excellent newspaper coverage on
the recent polio clinic.
Without your help on this pro
gram it cuuld not have been a
success.
Again lhauk you.
.Sincerely,
(innlon Brown, sec'y
Bend Junior ChamlxT
of Commerce
BcihI, Ovegon.
July 28, 19;9
Big Ed pulled a rule book of 'he
major leagues out of his brief case
and turned to rule 2. It read:
"Since the supply of skilled
players is not equal to the de
mand, the major league clubs
shall not have title to more than
forty (40) player contracts at any
time." ,
"That's their own rule," contin
ued the ex-senator from Colorado,
"but they don't live up to it. And
when they keep 400 players under
contract in order to prevent other
clubs from using them, that's mo
nopoly." I asked how many players the
Washington Senators had under
contract.
"That's one of the poorer clubs.
I think Griffith has about 150.
However, the St. Louis Cardinals
right now have 435 players under
contract.
"What happened to your west
ern baseball league?" I asked the
man who had been its president.
"The majors put us out of busi
ness. They just told us we couldn t
have any more players, and that
was that. We couldn't operate any
more. However," said the man
who so long was a power in the
U. S. Senate, "I believe Estes
Kefauver now has 'em on the run
and the prospect of a third major
league will break up the player
monopoly."
Miss America Contest
Toasts were going the rounds at
the dinner given by Gen. and Mrs.
Tim Mclnerney at the F Street
Club in honor of the Tony Bid
dies. Old friends had gathered to
pay tribute to the man who had
served as ambassador to Poland,
then as ambassador to all the
exiled countries during the war,
then as a member of Eisenhow
er's SHAPE staff in Paris, and
now is adjutant general of Penn
sylvania. House Speaker Sam Rayburn
was there, with his old Republi
can friend ex-Speaker Joe Mar
tin, and a lot of senators, togeth
er with Chip Robert of Georgia,
who, when Democratic national
treasurer, used to tell how he
called Ambassador Biddle in Po
land to "borrow" $90,000 from him
to rescue the Democratic party
from bankruptcy.
After the first toast, Biddle,
with a waistline no different from
the day he won the tennis cham
pionship in France 25 years ago,
made a little speech ot apprecia
tion to his old friends.
Then rose a surprise speaker
Mrs. Biddle.
"Tony just hates to go shop
ping," she confided. "I never can
get him to go anywhere with me
to buy anything. But this after
noon after we arrived in Wash
ington and hadn't too much time
to dress for dinner, Tony insist
ed on going shopping. He bought
a tape measure and a pair of binoculars.
's shots
signaled first
blaze in Bend
By Phil F. Brogan
Bulletin Staff Writer
Billy Robinson, sleeping on the
billiard table at the O'Kane sa
loon, awakened at 3 a.m. as hot
embers fell on him, from the ceil
ing above. He jumped off the ta
ble, raced to the door and emptied
a revolver into the pre-dawn,
spring air.
Those shots announced Bend's
first fire, which destroyed the
O'Kane saloon bn the corner of
Oregon and Bond streets on April
27, 1005. The loss was $4,000.
A probe into the rubble revealed
that the only possessions untouch
ed were the cash register, a few
bottles of liquor, a telephone and
a painting of the Three Sisters
white and cool to the timberline.
Robinson's pistol shots on that
April morning long ago failed to
awaken many residents of the vil
lage. But two boys, who lived sev
eral blocks from the saloon, rush
ed down the grade with a tank of
water, recently brought from the
river. Fire fighters soaked blan
kets to place around sides of ad
jacent buildings. A small build
ing was rolled from the paths of
the flames.
Fire Dies Down
The fire finally died down. A
conflagration in the village had
been averted.
After the excitement died down
on the spring morning, one of the
onlookers discovered two water
barrels directly in front of the
wreckage of the saloon!
In July of that year, Bend's wa
ter system consisting of mains,
hydrants, a 30,000 gallon storage
tank on "Hospital Hill" .and a
"ram", which in those days was
considered a marvel of efficiency,
were installed. By the end of 1910,
Bend had 11 hydrants, two fire
carts and 1,000 feet of hose.
Late in July, 1905, the first
Bend fire department was form
ed, with S. C. Caldwell as chief.
First occasion to test the new de
partment came on December 29,
1906, when part of the original Pi
lot Butte Inn was destroyed.
Bend s worst early - day blaze
destroyed the Henry Linster saw
mill just north of town, on July
18, 1903. A bucket brigade was
used in fighting that fire.
Hose Carts Replaced
It was not until 1918 that "mod
ern" fire fighting equipment re
placed hose carts with then hum
an dray teams. Bend's mtdern
department came into exis.ence
on February 11, 1919, with Tom
W. Carlon as the first chief,
Possibly the most destnetive
fire in Bend's history up to the
mid-century was that which de
stroyed the Deschutes county
courthouse, a former school build
ing, on the wintry morning of
Short look
has fashion
world agog
By United Press International
PARIS (UPI) Shock waves
caused by the House of Dior's
new short skirts rippled through
the fashion world today but for
most critics and buyers the shock
was a pleasant one.
The exposed kneecaps introduced
Thursday by Dior designer Yves
St. Laurent were a bit too much
for British critics, but for almost
everyone else the short look was
as bracing as- a cold dip just
fine when you get used to it.
The newspaper France S o i r
said today St. Laurent, is "en
gaged in a battle of the bare knee
with the other Paris dressmak
ers," most of whom are pushing
longer skirts this year.
' Chances are better than even,
according to the fashion profes
sionals, that the "new short look'"
will enhance the prestige of the
multi-million dollar House of Dior.
Even if it backfires on St.
Laurent, the world will not know
it for at least a season. Buyers
it for at least a season. Buyers
say that it takes that long or
longer for American women to
"digest" a new Paris fashion and
to accept or reject it.
Many of the buyers went back
to Dior's today for a second look
to decide which models to take
home for reproduction.
St. Laurent was under heavy
fire from the British press.
"Whatever you feel about fash
ion, women don't fall for the out
rageous!" headlined the London
Daily Express, noting that St.
Laurent's hem-hiking had won
him "publicity but not esteem."
GENTLE REMINDER
LONDON (UPD The South
London borough of Southwark has
adopted a more direct method
than some American cities of
combatting the smog problem. To
back up a campaign against
smoky chimneys, it reminded its
residents of what happened to a
man who was convicted of "caus
ing a filthy and fuliginous vapor
by burning raw coal" in 1370. He
was hanged.
The catastrophic flood of the
Hwang-ho River In China In 1887
took 900,000 lives. .
February 10, 1937. Starting from
unknown causes, the lire quickly
enveloped the sprawling building,
destroying records that dated
back to the formation of the coun
ty.
It was a fire that could have
left titles of homes and lands
clouded through the decades. But,
fortunately, there were duplicate
records, which in turn had been
transcribed from the old Crook
county records, in the vaults of
an abstract firm later purchased
by the Bend Abstract Co.
Much of the background for this
history of Bend was obtained from
those valuable records.
No. usi -Synopsis
of Annu.il statement for
the ear ended December 31, 158
ol the Michigan Mutual Ll.uilny Com
lanv ol 26 Welt Adams Avenue, De
troit 26, In the State 0 Michigan
nade to the Insurance Commissioner
,1 the State ol Oreion, pursuant to
iw:
ADMITTED ASSET!
Bonds, J47, I28.33i. 14.
Stocks, S2.160.640.00.
Mortgage loans on real estate, e.
Real estate, less 0 encumbrances,
i.iial .806.1 7.
Cash and bank deposits, 84,023.-
'lB-,J- ., .
Agents balancea or uncollected pre
niums, 16.402. 826. SI.
Interest, dividends and real estste
icome due and accrued. $288,643.16.
Other assets, 8113,517 86.
Total admitted assets, 868,139,871.18.
LIABILITIES, SUBPLUI
AND OTHER FUNDS
Losses, 833,661.362.72.
Loss adjustment expenses, 89,834,
24 90.
Unearned p-cnlums, $14,921,761.84.
All other llaeilltlea, $3, 203,230.69.
Total llabllltlea, except capital, $94..
320,608.85.
Guaranty Funds $1,000,0000.60.
Reserve for Investment Fluctua
tions, $1,000,000.00.
Res. for Div. not Declared 11,-
000.000.00.
Unassigned fundi (surplus) 88,111,-
363 41.
Surplus ar regards policyholders,
111.119.363.41.
Total, 865,139,878.26,
STATEMENT OP INCOME '
Premiums earned, 844,789,603.48.
Losses Incurred, $26,195,140.93.
Loss expenses Incurred, 85,153,668.51
Other underwriting expenses incur
ed. $9,066,222.97.
Total underwriting dedueUens, t41,
335.029.44.
Net underwriting fain or loss, 83,.
154,574.04.
Investment Income, $!,338,73t.et.
Other income, $53,311,70,
Total, before federal income taxes,
$4,846,624.43.
Federal Income taxes Incurred,
$405,213.28.
Net Income, $4,441,411.15.
Dividends to stoclcholdera, 0.
Dividends to policy holders, $843,
942.70. Capita changes (net) 0.
Other items affecting Surplus (nit)
$303,587.39.
Total capital and surplus 1 1 e ae
netl, $4,340,355.11.
Increase in surplus Is regsrds pol
icyholders, $101,056.04.
BUSINESS IN OREGON
FOR THE YEAR
Direct premiums received, $l,$38,ll.
Direct losses paid, $1,865.74.
Dividends paid or credited to pol
icyholders, $176.37.
Principal office in Oregon, none.
THE FIDELITY AND CASUALTY
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