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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1961)
a. i mr fanmrT2aJ' Ui iiu ....- .1.'.... L-..,,,. ,, ,.p a,,, , a! WALL STREET GETTING SHORTER? In this "condensed" view of downtown Wall street Bend's main street appears to be taking on much shorter dimensions. The squashed look of buildings and cars is the optical effect made through the use of a powerful felephoto lens from a distance of several blocks. Shown here are the three blocks from Minnesota avenue to Greenwood avenue. Note the slight difference in the size of the cars In the foreground and background. Cars are actually three blocks apart. Attempts fo get man info space started back in 1780 By Paul Eve UPI Staff Writer PARIS (UPI) -Attempts to get a man into space really began in Trance in the 1780s. Ignoring such legendary charac ters as Daedalus and Icarus, and assuming no one ever took Leo nardo da Vinci's flying machine off the drawing-board, French men Charles Pilatre do Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes are credited with being the first two men off the ground. As happens now, their ascent was preceded by one in which animals were sent up to see whether they would come back alive, and thus whether it would be reasonably safe for man to fol low. But "up" in those days was not very far. It was only a year after two French brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, had discov ered that it was possible to get a balloon into the air that Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis made their bid to enter the heavens. The Monteoiflers watched clouds in the sky, decided they were masses of vapor, and con cluded that the fact they were vapor had put them where they were. On this basis they decided that any bag of light material containing a vapor or smoke would rise. Build Fire Tn 1782 they built a fire in a field near Annonny, 40 miles from Lyons, suspended a bag of paper over it and found mat It rose into the air. Later they repealed the experiment in front of a large crowd, filling a large linen globe with smoke, and watched it as cend. In the balloon craze that fol lowed, numerous experiments were carried out. One by a Paris , professor used the Idea of a bal loon filled witli hydrogen, which was made by mixing an enor- mous amount of sulphuric acid and ; Iron filings. Daily bulletins were Issued on ; the progress of filling tills 1783 space vehicle with hydrogen. His- ' tory records that when it finally ", went up it stayed aloft for an hour before It fell into a field 15 ' miles away where Indignant and superstitious peasants hacked it to pieces. A few months later, the Mont- ' flolfiors repeated their expert ments with an elaborate bag that contained a sheep, a cock and a duck In a cage below it Records show that the only harm suffored was an Injury to the cock's right wing. The sheep kicked it before the ascent started. A short time nftor that, Pilatre do Rozier tried sovernl ascents in a captive balloon. Finally he and the marquis slopped Into a free balloon Nov. 21, 1783, and soared up over the Invalides and the Ecole Milllaire, landing beyond the city limits after 25 minutes in the air. Employs Heated Air The balloon was of the- Mont Holders' "flrcbnlloon" type filled with heated air to make It ascend and brought down by Its own weight when the air inside it cooled off and no longer pro vided lcvitalion. Whether Pilatre de Rozier and the marquis knew when they sot off that they could not go far and would have to coma down again it not known. But only 10 days later, Profos sor J.A.C. Charles, a French sci entist who had been experiment ing with the hydrogen-filled bal loon, set off in one, got his bal last arrangements wrong and, probably for all he knew, was well on hi: way to the stars when the balloon stopped rising at 2.- 000 feet and came down gently miles away. ' , Charles complained on landing of a violent pain in his right ear and jaw, the first recorded astro medical data ever given. The French experiments were the forerunners of many in Brit ain. It was only two years later 1785 that an American, Dr. J. Jeffries, and a Frenchman, Joan Pierre Blanchard, crossed the English Channel in a balloon. Kennedy bows fo Swiss pressure WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi dent Kennedy, bowing to Swiss pressure, has decided not to ap point Earl E. T. Smith to be U.S. ambassador to Switzerland. The President announced Wednesday night that he had agreed with "real regret" to with draw the selection after Smith asked him to do so. The Swiss were disgruntled over Smith's appointment because he was the Eisenhower administra tion's ambassador to Cuba in the last days of the Batista regime. and, has made no secret of his aversion to the Castro revolution ary government. The Swiss have been represent ing U.S. interests in Cuba since the United States broke off diplo matic relations with Castro, and they felt Smith's presence in their country might compromise their work for the United States in Havana. Bend Bulletin Classified Adi 12 The Bend Bulletin, Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961 1 f J juppun IIUICU for measure on fishing boats It's annual meeting time for nation's stockholders By Henry J. Bechtold UPI Staff Writer NEW YORK (UPI) Corporate democracy will be practiced to the hilt in the next two months. It's annual meeting time, and more than 13 million stockholders will have a chance to express their corporate views at thou sands of meetings across the country. It was not too long ago that one of the limiting factors f these meetings was traveL The many meetings held in this city, for example, would of necessity cause inconvenience and expendi ture of time and money to stock holders outside the metropolitan area. ; . However, with the Introduction of closed-circuit television, not only was a new means found to hurdle the problem of geography, but a ner'-found opportunity to afforded stockholders anywhere In the United States to participate with management in corporate discussions. The first coast-to-coast gather ing of stockholders ever held a General Mills closed-circuit meet ing a few years back proved highly successful. Seven cities were linked in the large-screen telecast New York, Chicago, Bos ton, Buffalo, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Shareholdings Dispersed Looking back, when a corpora tion was largely a community en deavor, virtually all shareholders could and did attend stockholder meetings. But as the Midwest and West began to be settled, shareholdings became widely dis persed. By the late 1920s wide spread public ownership of secur ities was a recognized fact; the era of the small shareholder had arrived. Here Is where the travel prob lem arose. Few people could af ford the time and money to at tend stockholder meetings. And free and general discussion at the meetings became a nostalgic memory and the public share holder became the absentee own er of the Twentieth Century. Proxy regulations set up in the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 helped fill this breach. At the same time, some firms took steps to make their shar e holder meetings more accessible and convenient to far-flung mem bership. In 1939 General Mills in novated the regional meeting, and in 1934 the company held eight such meetings. The first uses of closed-circuit television for stockholder meet ings were to accommodate over flow attendance. In 1935, more than 3,000 shareholders registered for a General Electric Co. meet inga much larger crowd than could be seated comfortably in the armory in Schenectady, N.Y. The problem was solved by a number of stockholders watching the proceedings over large-screen closed-circuit TV in a nearby theater. Started In 1957 The first annual meeting em ploying closed - circuit television between two cities took place on April 16, 1057 when American Machine & Foundry linked share owners and management gath ered in New York and Chicago. Two weeks later International Business Machines also employed this new medium to treat 1,200 stockholders, gathered in a hotel ballroom in New York City, to a half-hour tour of its Poughkeep sie, N. Y. plant, 75 miles away, and to explain and demonstrate operation of IBM computers. Then came the coast-to-coast General Mills meeting, made pos sible through the production and network facilities of Theatre Net work Television, Inc. By means cf two-way radio, stockholders in all seven cities were able to en gage in a question and answer as a result the original theory of session with management. SALEM (UPD-The House Tax Committee heard strong support Wednesday for a bill that would exempt commercial fishing boats from property taxes. There was no testimony against the measure, HBM35 sponsored by Rep. William Holmstrom, D Gearhart. Holmstrom said commercial boats should be on a tax par with pleasure boats, already exempt. He said the burden shifted from commercial boats to other classes of property would be "very small." Robert Rittenhouse, Oregon Ma rine director, concurred and said commercial fishermen pay a host of other taxes. Besides tills, they are generally "good Samaritans" and their very presence on water ways is a safety factor for pleas ure boaters in distress. License Substituted Under the bill, commercial boats would be exempt only if they were licensed by the state. The license fee would be in lieu of , a property tax, as it Is with cars. William Westerholm of Astoria put the Columbia River Fisher men's Protective Association on Gem, mineral group to meet The newly-orrinized High Des ert Gem and Mineral Society will meet in the district courtroom, basement of the Deschutes County court house, on Friday evening at 7:30. Purpose of the meeting will be to pass on constitution and by laws and to elect officers. Juniors from 10 to 17 years in terested in the lapidary arts are being invited to attend, to get ac quainted with club members and the program planned for the 1961 season. All interested in the gem min erals of the region are being in vited to attend. NEEDS ONtY LIGHT . PHILLIPSBURG (UPI)-A thief climbed a 100-foot forestry tower near here during the night and pried a lock from a trap door to gain entry to the cabin. The state conservation commission reported the only item missing was a 50 vatt light bulb. record for the bill. He Is execu tive secretary. Also for the bill are the Oregon Marine Trades Association, Co lumbia Basin River Operators, and Coos Bay Tug and Barge Co. Speaking for all three, Portland Attorney Thomas J. White said the bill would be an incentive for licensing of boats in Oregon, keeping Washington state from picking up tees. SUNRISE BAKERY Friday & Saturday Specials At Retail Store MARBLE CHIFFON CAKE 89C 1 29 small Cookies 3 Doz. $1.00 HONEY-SAVING MAGIC DURING DCE ( 1SCH wmmm - 10:99 CHAIRMAN NAMED PORTLAND (UPI) Ex-Gov. Elmo Smith has been named chairman of the 11 Cancer Cm ade in Oregon. The crusade will be under way in April. mm mm Holland Dutch Vi Gal, Wheaties, Grape Nut Flakes, Kellogg's Corn Flakes & Cherrios CME MR Tastewell Duncan Hines Yellow, White, Devils Food - Scot-Towels r--j White or Colored n rapeir Ifowels 130 Ft. Rolls kljOO 0f00 1 00 PAN-READY fdccij rovcoc riiLjn t it i Lit? 2-lb. Avg. Bridgmon Bros. Only Each Season With Crescent Pepper For A Delicious Flavor. 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