7.: mm m. The ambidexfrous lover THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Thursday, May 2, 1963 Robtrt W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher Phil P. Brogan, Associate Editor Loran E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent An Independent Newspaper Jack McDermett, Advertising Manager Leu W. Meyers, Circulation Manager William A. Yatee, Managing Editor .. Entered u Second CIM Matter. January 8. 1917, at the Poet Offlce at Bind. Orfaul under Aft ot Marco J. TO Pub a Mailed dally expert Sunday and certain hoUdaya oy The Bend Bulletin. Inc. Giles French retires from the newspaper business, and Eastern Oregon loses out Eastern Oregon has lost one of its I most vocal and effective spokesmen. ; He hasn't died. Just retired. The spokesman is, of course, Giles French, for 32 years editor of the Sher man County Journal at Moro. And with French out of the picture, Oregon news papers just aren't going to be the same. French and Mrs. French, "my print er," have sold the Journal. The new . operation takes over this week. By most standards the Journal is not a big paper. Its circulation never quite manages to get to 900. Most often it contains four pages. Most of the copy for that 32 years has been written by French, and most of the linotype work has been done by his wife. But there was something about the Journal which didn't show up in the statistics. And that something was Giles French. The Journal had an influence far beyond the boundaries of Sherman County. Part of the influence came from French's column In the paper. One item we remember in particular went something like this: "There is nothing quite so satis fying as the hissing sound of escaping hot air from a punctured stuffed shirt." Part of the Influence came from French's outside writings. He is author of "The Golden Land," a history of his county, by far the most readable of the spate of histories which came out about Confusion It didn't bother much If you stayed at homo, but if you travelled, oh, brother! "It" was the time mess in Oregon last summer, fortunately ended by ac tion of the voters in November. The feeling often was expressed this was an Oregon mess. Well, it's still a mess elsewhere. That old saw nbout people not be ing able to agree on the time of day has more truth to it than nonsense. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia observe summer time, but only 14 of them observe it on a state wide basis, the others preserving some degree of local option. Eleven of the states follow "fast time" from the end of April to the end of October, but 17 begin or terminate it In other months. Such confusion makes the river of time anything but smooth. The Trans portation Association of America cites the case of a bus which operates over a 33-mllo stretch of highway between Steubenvillo, Ohio, and Moutulsville, W. Va., and passes through seven dif ferent time zones. Because federal law Still requires the railroads tc operate on standard time, many of them are forced to publish two kinds of time tables, one based on standard time for use of employees and the other report ing passenger train schedules on local Quotable quotes Just imagine what fun this country rould have waiting to hear who will be the nation's newest millionaire every 30 days. Rep. Roman Pucincki, D- the time of the Oregon Centennial. He's written a biography of Pete (no rela tion) French, the California and Harney county cattle operator which will be as good. French is credited with being the father of one of the most effective Eastern Oregon blocs ever to serve in the Btate legislature. And some of the stories he can tell about the workings of the group are real lulus. Giles French was, and is, a political conservative. He was probably the most articulate conservative spokesman in Oregon. Unlike some who write of polit ical events, he thought before he wrote. Even those who disagreed with him found his views well expressed. Giles French is a believer in the use of forceful language. He told visi tors there wasn't much use in saying something if it was going to be said in such mild language the readers would not know whether you were for or against it. Giles and his printer will take some time off, now. They have talked about a little travelling, and may try it, for a while. But one suspects they will spend most of their time in Sher man county, watching the county, the state and the nation from that vantage point. And talking with the hu.v.'; ids of friends who will be waiting iov the French viewpoint on matters of interest. time (standard and daylight) for the convenience of the traveling public. Thousands of Americans miss their train or bus or plane every year be cause of confusion over time. In its latest annual report, the In terstate Commerce Commission again calls attention to the problems of clock confusion and recommends the enact ment by Congress of a uniform system of time standards to end it. A bill based on the I.C.C. recommendation has been introduced by Sen. Warren G. Magnu son (D Wash.) and will be the subject of healings opening before the Senate Commerce Committee on Monday, April The I.C.C. bill is sure to provoke strong opposition from the states rightists not to mention the farmers because it would effectively prevent any state or local community from deciding for itself whether it wanted daylight time. Sen. Norris Cotton (R N.H.) has come up with an alterna tive bill which would preserve this local option but at the same time direct the Secretary of Commerce to use his power of persuasion to promote the adoption of uniform time. The signifi cant development is that more and more people agree that something must be done to end the present bewildering uncertainty over the time of day. III., who Interprets the New Hampshire lottery bill as starling a nation-wide trend. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Pearson's brother never let handicaps stop him By Drew Pearson Washington, D.C. April 29, 1963 Dear Grandson, I am writing this letter while looking out on our old Georgetown garden, a garden where your Un cle Leon sometimes used to sit in the sunshine of a spring day. Un cle Leon was a man who loved the sun and the spring, is he loved people and loved life. He will not see them anymore, for he died today. You did not know Uncle Leon very well, because he uvea New York and you moved to Calf fornia when you were quite small. But you do have two younger brothers and you know how im portant they are. Sometimes they may bother you when you rc try ing to study; or sometimes they may not help you with the dishes the way you think they should. But you always know that they are the best friends you've got and will stand by you when any one else is picking on you. That was the way my brother was with me. He was two years younger than I, and when he was only four years old he had polio, which the doctors didn t know how to cope with in those days, and which paralyzed one side of his body. Though he recovered In part, it left him with a semi-paralyzed ight arm. After that, when uncle Leon was only about six, he had rheu matic fever which left him with a seriously weakened heart. A 1 1 through life he had these handi caps; yet they never got him down. In fact, he was always much the more cheerful member of the Pearson brothers, and the more courageous. When we were small boys in Swarthmore, Pa., we used to sell eggs which our grandfather sent us by the crate from Kan sas; and I would ring the door bell, then sland out of the way to let Uncle Leon do the talking. Trapping Skunks We were together constantly In those younger days. We used to ap skunks in the suburbs out side Philadelphia, and when I was twelve and he was ten we pub lished a magazine together The Crum Creek Club Monthly printed on a mimeograph machine and illustrated with original photos. We sold it to our parents and other parents for ten cents. It was our first literary venture. During World War I, Uncle Le on was a sergeant major, and I was only a corporal, which pleas ed him very much because he then outranked his older brother. Because of his bad arm he could not get into the army right away, but toward the end of the war, when they lowered the physical standards, they accepted him to do paper work. After the war, when I was do ing Quaker relief work in Serbia, Uncle Leon came to see me. It was a long trip one third of the way around the world to sec a brother; and part of the way he rode on the top of a freight train, because there weren't many pas senger trains in the Balkans in those post war days. We were building villages in a New bulk plant being built Special to The Bulletin REDMOND A new bulk plant for gasoline and oil is being con structed north of Redmond by Robert R. Comstock, owner of Mid-Oregon Oil Company. To Include an office, warehouse and four 20,000-gnllon storage tanks, tho new business is being constructed on land purchased April 1 from Mr. and Mrs. Lad die Jordan. The property includes 60 acres of land, with one-half mile front ago on both Highway 97 and the old Prinevillo highway. Also in cluded in the transaction was the Jordan home. Comstock says he is negotiating with several major oil compan ies, but, ns yet, has signed no contract. The company has its own tanker trucks for hauling re- troleum products. Scheduled to open May 15. the business will employ G. C. Wilcox, E. L. Stev ens and Walter L. Mault. The Jnrdans have purchased 8'i acres from Bill Van Dick 2'i miles west of Redmond, where they are constructing a new home. Employers face safety penalties SALEM (UPP Employers with poor safely records will pay a new penalty under an "experience rating" amendment to the stale workmen's compensa tion law rushed through the House and signed by the governor Wednes day. Hie bill, just introduced in Hie Senate seven days earlier, was sped to the governor's desk be cause rates for the next year must be mailed out May 1. Your Lecel ELECTROLUX Dealer PHIL FHILBROOK V M2SJ 1304 E. 3rd war-torn area on the edge of Mon tenegro, and he offered to help. I remember giving him a horse and asking him to drive a cow with a new calf from one of the villages to our headquarters in Pec, 15 kilometers away. As I look back from my more recent experiences with cows, this was about the toughest job I could ask anyone to do. But despite his weak heart he did it My brother taught for a time at Haverford school. But during the early New Deal days I suggested that he come to Washington and heb me write the column. He did. and for ten years he contri buted a great deal to thi spice and humor and color of the col umn. I used to be responsible for much of the acid and vitriol; but the milk of human kindness in his heart helped to balance it. I have missed him and the column has missed him ever since. A Poet at Heart Aftei ten years in Washington, Uncle ton went to Pans for the International News Service, then joined the National Broadcasting Company in Paris, later in New York. There I think he did his best work. Uncle Leon loved his work and he died loving it. He felt that ra dio and TV should cover more than crime news and politics; and he persuaded NBC to let him re port on the theater openings, the new books, the magazines. This became his feature. And during the newspaper strike in New York he was especially busy. But he loved being busy. All this time Uncle J-eon had managed to plug along at a fairly heavy pace de spite a weak heart and a with ered arm. And all this time he was the most cheerful member of the family. There was poetry in his soul. And I shall always cher ish some of the poems that he wrote, even if they were never published. Last week, tired from making up for the news vacuum during the New York newspaper strike, Uncle Leon suffered a heart at tack just before he was about to go on the air. He lingered on for about ten days, then this morning the old heart which had borne up so faithfully for 63 years, finally gave out. I just wanted to tell you about my little brother, and to hope that you have the wonderful priv ilege of having your little broth ers with you for a long, long time. Love from, Your Grandfather Late snowfalls increase pack, survey reveals Special to The Bulletin REDMOND Late spring snow falls in the Cascades have in creased the snow pack consider ably, SCS snow survey crew dis covered Tuesday. At Windigo Pass, they found 73 inches of snow with 24.4 inches water content, compared to 90 with 42.7. Normal water content is 52.5 inches. At Willamette Pass, they measured 79.3 snow with 27.4 water, compared to 85 with 39 last year and a norm of 45.9 water. New Crescent Iake is bare, as it was last year, but normal water content is 6.3. Other bare courses are the Pau lina "Y", Mowich, Three Creek Meadows, Three Creek Butte and Black Pine Springs. All of these were bare last year, except Three Creek Meadows, which had 38 inches of snow with 16.4 water. Normal water content here is 16.8. There are 87 inches of snow with 36 water at Dutchman Flat, compared to 112 with 53.4 water at this time last year. Norm is 89 water. At Tangent, they found 15 inches snow with 6 water, com pared to 12 with 5.2 last year and a norm of 11.9 water. The survey was made by Dar win Gregg, Madras, and Maurice Benson, lledmond, SCS technic ians: Al Mansfield, manager of Central Oregon Irrigation Dis trict, and Curtis Komning of Arn old Irrigation District. This was the final snow survey of the year, according to Ted Thorson, SCS technician. He has expressed his appreciation to personnel of the irrigation dis tricts who helped conduct the sur veys this year. Accidents take lives of two ONTARIO, Ore. (UPI) Two Forest Grove residents were killed and two more injured Wednesday when their car went off U.S. High way 1!6 near the community of Ironside and somersaulted. Killed were Henry Timothy Pin- nel!, 87, and Gertrude Layton, 58. The injured were Pinnell's wife, Margaret, 35, and Everett L. Rogers, 50. They were taken to Ontario Hospital with undeter mined injuries but were not be lieved to be critically hurt. State Police said all four were thrown from the car. LetterS to the Editor LB!1 j 1 The Bulletin -I come, renlrlbullon. tlU column in Me rrvder. id lers muil contain w - and add rate ol the eender. whlrn nj be wltnheld nl lite nempuper e die-cn-tlon. loiter, niey be edited to con. form to it directive! nl Utile and lle. Yeomans backs plan for seashore park To the Editor: I am soundly convinced there should be no hesitation on the part of responsible agencies in es tablishing a National Seashore Recreation Area along the Oregon Coast as specified in SB 1137. When the late Senator Richard Neuberger first introduced legis lation in 1959 proposing a similar but more comprehensive protective unit, I supported his measure, having recently evalua ted the California coastline under contract to the California Recrea tion Plan Committee. In carrying out that assignment, I found pub lic pressure for non-existent pub lic shoreline already far beyond the capacity of the resource to meet either existing or projected needs. Such pressure is now ex pressing, and wilt continue to ex press itseit northward, where a farsighted slate park acquisition policy has insured public owner ship of many miles of outstand ing scenic shoreline. And yet the demand for shore line experience, even along the richly endowed and partially pro- Redisricting plans offered SALEM (UPI) Two nearly- identical congressional rodistricU ing proposals which differed wide ly with a plan proposed by Rep. John Mosser, R - Portland, were submitted Wednesday to the House Planning and Development Committee. The nearly-alike plans were sub mitted by House Speaker Clarence Barton and Myron Katz, spokes man for the Bipartisan League to Retain Equal Representation. Observers anticipated the com mittee would adopt the plan sug gested by Barton. Barton's plan includes all of the City of Portland in the third dis trict, but adds Eastern Multno mah County to a first district made up of Clackamas, Washing ton, Columbia, Clatsop, Tillamook, Yamhill and Polk counties. Marion and Linn counties would be added to all of Eastern Oregon to create an expanded second district. tected Oregon coast, presently overtaxes existing state facilities during seasonal peaks. In my opinion, "strip" parks, located for the most part in a narrow belt west of highway 101, are unable to absorb any kind of mass rec reation use. The Dunes area, if declared a National Seashore, would help absorb the great num erical pressures planners project for sea, sand and lake experi ences. Where such outdoor exper iences can be found in combina tion, the value of its expressant resource becomes a national con cern: one in which local pressure objections should be regarded as relatively insignificant. In cannot concur with the se vere alterations that have been made in the original proposed legislation, namely (1) the depri vation of the Park Service's right to condemnation in the public In terest and (2) transportation of industrial wastes through park lands and waters. I believe such drastic compromises could well set an example for future deter ioration of all park and recrea tion areas, existing or proposed, permitting encroachments of a nature highly incompatible with the best outdoor recreation plan ning and design principles. Nevertheless. I wish to go on record in support of SB 1137 as a compromise measure. The Dunes Area holds high scenic, scientific and educational value. It is uni que and outstanding. It should by all means be reserved for all time for a coming population destined, unfortunately, to face an ever de creasing outdoor recreation re source and open space comple ment: a population of approxi mately 300 million by the year 2000. They are entitled to profit by our protection and preserva tion of every single mile or acre of coastal shoreline holding sig nificant outdoor recreation poten tial. Thank you. W. C. Yeomans Bend, Oregon, May 1, 1963 CASCADE LANDSCAPING COMPANY Shrub Planting Lawns Lawn Car Garden Pools Patios Built Carports Fences PH. 382-3493 Si w SAGE & SAND SPORTSWEAR SHOP 106 MINNESOTA AVE. WESTERN WEAR . . . introducing to Central Oregon MISS PAT America's leading fashion authority . . . with some of the spiciest separates of the year! LADY LEE and RANCH MAID JEANS GOLDEN SPUR, TRAIL RIDGE and ROUND-UP WESTERN SHIRTS SATURDAY MAY 4 FREE! FREE COFFEE AND COOKIES ALL DAY SAT. B sure to regiiter for our free drawing with a val uable merchandise certifi cate! Drawing to be held Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Win ner will be notified. A$iiting Gladys Harriott during the Grand Opening wi be Mrs. Helen Kittredge and Mrs. Doris Copingcr 1,1 "ft A tK (Vr SA N l 106 MINNESOTA AVE. 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