The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, March 03, 1962, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextBirth of a nation THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Saturday, March 3, 1962 An Independent Newspaper Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Jack McDtrmott, Advertising Manager Clenn Cushman, General Manager Lou W. Meyers, Circulation Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent William A. Yates, Managing Editor Robert W. Chandler, Editor end Publisher Enured Second CTjim mtler. Jinuary . 1W7. at OH Pott Office at Bend, Onion, under Aet of March l U7. Pub llhd daily except Sunday end certain holiday! by The bend Bulletin. Inc. compulsory auto insurance Js such good thing, why are states so slow to adopt it? State Son. Bob Strati!) of Eugene has switched his tactics, His proposal for compulsory auto Insurance in Ore gon is now being attempted as an amendment to the constitution, rather than as an initiated statute. Because measures like this have been written into the Oregon constitution rather than in the state's statutes the 1961 Jegislature saw fit to create a commis sion to revise the state's basic docu ment. In all fairness to Straub, this is perhaps the only way ho could get his measure on the ballot this year. He 'previously had started the wheels in "jn o 1 1 o n on an initiative petition. In surance men had moved to block the petition by filing an action with the ' Supreme Court, and the insurers are in no hurry to join the issues in court. One suspects Straub realizes his pro posal has no place in the constitution. AH the legal maneuvering is one thing. Whether or not compulsory auto mobile insurance is a necessity or de sirable is another. Straub's m e a s u r e , as we under stand it, is in three parts. One would require the insuring of all automobiles, insofar as public liability coverage is concerned. A second would allow auto mobile Insurance companies operating in Oregon to offer group auto coverage, much like the group health and acci dent insurance now generally available in the stale. The third part of the pro posal would create a state-owned in surance agency to sell liability insur ance to the public. In our opinion the first of the three parts is largely unnecessary, the second could be simply done by the legislature, and the third is undesirable. About 96 per cent of the autos own ed by Oregon residents are insured. Each policy carries a clause, mandatory in this state, which provides coverage in case of an accident Involving an un insured automobile. And this coverage is broader than that which would be offered by the state under Straub's scheme. No one of the states which have compulsory auto Insurance there are only three, Mas sachusetts, New York, and North Caro lina protects you if the other car is registered outside the state. In Oregon, where a third of the summer traffic is composed of cars registered in other states, the present provision is much more satisfactory than the compulsory provision suggested by Straub. Compulsory insurance, with every one Insured against everything, sounds good. But when you find out autos in Massachusetts, for example, pay twice as much for insurance as motorists in Oregon, the bloom goes off the rose quickly. New York's insurance premi ums are the highest in the United States. North Carolina has had com pulsory insurance for only four years. Auto rates have increased 40 per cent during that timo. Oregonians have as much com punction for their fellow man as resi dents of any other state. But when their fellow man is adequately protect ed already, when it has not been demon strated he will be any better off under Straub's proposal, and when it's going to cost him a lot of money for a nebu lous improvement of something which is working well already, it's highly im probable they'll buy it. Something to stir up a storm in a hurry Any discussion of religion in the public schools is always sure to stir up a storm in a hurry, even though such is not the intention. Each side of the con troversy, and there are far more than two, has its vocal adherents. Each is ready to jump without any considera tion of the others' points of view. Perhaps a different light can be put on the subject by quoting from part of an editorial which recently appeared in the Mcdford Mail-Tribune. It said: The Rev. William Saladin, of the Phoe nix First rrcshylerinn church, made a valid and important point in the Mail Tribune's Communications column yesterday. Ho pointed out that while it Is unfair to teach any specific form of religion in the public schools, there is every reason to teach religion, inasmuch as it has had, and continues to have, a very great role in society. As a matter of fact, there arc few if any things pertaining to mankind which are not valid subjects for teaching at one educa tional level or other. As there Is a vast dif ference between "teaching Communism" and "leaching about Communism," so there Is between "teaching religion" and "teach ing about religion." It all mention of religion were to be excised from school curricula, (lie courses would immediately become incomplete and Invalid. For religion is one of the major forces in history. How could one explain the Crusades, or the Reformation, or the age-long conflict ot Christianity and Mohammedanism or, indeed, the settlement of North America-ami all their results, without teaching t about religion? WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Threats by Klan fail to impress Sen. Sparkman The answer is, of course, that it can't. But all this is a far cry from teaching, as a part of the school cur riculum or during school hours, the beliefs of any particular sect or denomi nation. It is this teaching to which most opponents of religious instruction ob ject. This is what members of the Amer ican Civil Liberties Union objected to in a presentation before a subcommittee of Oregon's Constitutional Revision Commission the other day. A shortened I press account of the ACLU proposal, j without any of the arguments which were presented for or against it, has caused a slight furore in some Oregon circles. Members of the commission have been receiving form loiters from two or three towns in the state which indicate at least a few persons oppose the ACLU Idea. Those who are for religion in the public schools are almost without ex ception in favor of one type of religion, Protestant Christianity. If one asks them if they favor equally the admix ture of Roman Catholicism, or Bhud dism, or Judaism, into the school cur riculum ho soon finds they favor their own religious beliefs as being the only "right" ones, and that all the "wrong" ones should be barred. Those who favor more religious instruction in schools also are prone to forget that the biggest single religious group in this country is that group which doesn't attend any church, not through force of circumstances but through choice. I By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON The Ku Klux Klan has got into the act against the United . Nations $100,000,000 bond issue and has been pressur ing Alabama's senators to vote against It. The reaction of the two senators has been diametrically opposite. Sen. John Sparkman of Hunls ville has ignored the Klan and is standing with President Kennedy for the UN. Sen. Lister Hill of Montgomery has agreed with the Klan and wrote it a letter signed "With kindest regards and best wishes." His office says he had taken this view before the Klan gut into the act. The Klan's letter to Lister Hill was signed by Robert Shelton, im perial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, now wizard of the United Klaus of America, Shelton is the same Klansman who was embraced by Charles Meriwether whom Kennedy ap pointed a director of the Export Import Bank. Both Sparkman and Hill voted lor Meriwether s con firmation. What touched off the Klan fra cas was Senator Sparkman's sup port of Die UN bond issue. When he stood up for Kennedy and the UN, Shelton began stirring up the Klansmen In Alabama against him. This began the first week In January. On January 8, Senator Hill came out publicly against buying bonds to bail out the indebted UN. When queried by this column, his office claimed that the senator had no idea, when he made the statement, that the Klan was be hind the anti-bond campaign. Later, the imperial wizard fired off his letter threatening Spark man at the polls lor his stand on the bond issue. "Based upon your left-wing vot ing record, so Communist inspir ed," wrote Shelton, "there seems little hope of the leopard's chang ing its spots, "But wo can assure you that the Klan will successfully bag the man-cater, in your next try at the polls, and render him powerless to continue killing this nation." Copies were mailed to the two Alabama senators from the Klan's Tuscaloosa, Ala., headquarters. The Klan letterhead could not be mistaken. Senator Hill has chalk ed up a notable record for bet ter hospitals, and better neaim in the USA. He is able to read. Sparkman, the target of the at tack, paid no attention to the Klan. But Hill gets nervous over the rustle of the bed sheets. 'I want to thank you," he re plied, "for sending me the copy of your letter to Senator Spark man. As you may know, I have already stated that I oppose the proposal to purchase $100,000,000 worth of United Nations bonds, and I intend to vote against it. With kindest regards and all good wishes. ' Note A disarmingly small, mild man for an imperial wizard, Shelton quarreled with the Rev. Alvin Horn for Klan leadership a few years ago and eventually set up his own outfit which he called the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He later changed the name to Uni ted Klans of America in order to give it national scope. Headlines and Footnotes Jim llagerty. the new ABC net work mogul, pulled a ten strike when he hired Howard K. Smith after CHS fired him. Smith has been getting off some of the most virile comment of any commen tator on TV in fact, the only one who really gets to the bot tom of things in Washington. . . Sam Dcvine, tho COP congress man from Ohio, with three daugh ters, plus a wife, says "family considerations forced me to enter politics I couldn't get a word in edgewise at home.". . .Anti education lobbyists who point to the fact that Abe Lincoln was edu cated without federal aid find it convenient to overlook the fact that the public schools of Illinois which Lincoln attended were sup ported by the salo of federally owned land. Lincoln also signed the Merrill Act, July 2. 1862, a fodoral-aid-to-sehools law, previ ously vetoed by President Bucha nan. . .Sen. Herman Talmadge, the cagey Georgian, told an At lanta audience the other day how organized minorities tried to make congressmen "kneel and knuckle under." In the next breath he told Georgians how a minority of 18 or 19 senators was able to filibuster civil rights leg islation to defeat. . .President Kennedy moved with lightning speed when Sen. Bill Fulbright of Arkansas asked him to investigate reports that Camp Chaffee In Ar kansas was being closed by the Pentagon. JFK, who wants Ful bright re - elected, immediately authorized a statement that Chaf fee would be kept open. ..Bill Thatcher, who operates a big grain elevator as part of the Farmers' Union in Minnesota, is out of step with the rank and file of his own farmers. They oppose the re-election of Sen. Milt Young of North Dakota, whom Thatcher is supporting. Parking Privilege The nation's capital is like all other large cities in at least one respect. A sure way to get a tral- fic ticket is to park in front of a fire hydrant. The standard as sessment or collateral for this in fraction is $5. . Influence usually will not help the offender. Whether he be c senator, a congressman, a cabi net officer of just an ordinary citizen, the chances are his auto mobile will be tagged. In fact, only one individual has been able consistently to get away with it in the entire history of the Washington Police Department. This lucky person was Alia Clary, personal secretary to the late Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas. The much - loved "Miss Clary" parked her car every day in front of a fire hydrant during tne many years she worked for Rayburn without ever getting a ticket. This parking space, near the east front steps leading into the house side of the Capitol, was as signed for her personal use by the House sergeant-at-arms. So Miss Clary always parked there, fireplug or no. Now that she has retired and Speaker Rayburn is dead, how ever, there is a large red and white sign at the place where Miss Clary's car used to stand. It reads: "No parking at any time." Delay of tests weakness sign, senator charges By Fred M. McManui UPI Staff Writer DENVER (UPI) Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., said Friday night President Kennedy's deci sion to wait two months to re sume nuclear testing in the at mosphere was a sign of weakness. "Why give them (the Russians) two days? What did they give us when they resumed testing?" he said. "I just don't understand this man (Kennedy). He is strong, then timid, then strong again. Our biggest mistake was to stop testing. If we are to start again, we should start now," Goldwater said. He termed Kennedy's ad dress "a good speech to start with, but it wound up with weak ness." The Republican attacked Ken nedy's speech at a $lOO-a-plate fund-raising dinner sponsored by the Colorado GOP. The dinner capped a two-day whirlwind tour of Colorado by the senator. An es timated 6,000 persons heard Gold water speak at several appear ances Friday. Goldwater Heckled At the University of Colorado in Boulder, Goldwater was heck led by the Young Socialist League of CU. Goldwater devoted much of his address at CU to the league, which numbered about 25. The total audience at the school numbered about 2,700. During the day, Goldwater also called for withdrawal of U. S. diplomatic recognition of Russia, warned against unilateral disarm ament and defined his views of the John Birch Society and the Minutcmen. "One of the biggest mistakes we've made in the ideological war with Communism was the recognition of Russia." he said. Of the Birch Society, Goldwater said: "I don't know why they call themselves conservatives. They're just in the business of selling anti Communist speeches." He made a similar statement about the Minutemen. EASY ON JAYWALKERS ST. LOUIS. Mo. (UPI) The Board of Aldermen has made it easier for jaywalkers. The board voted Friday to drop the fine for the misdemeanor from $7 to $2. r i It , ! ' .'. 3 i .... ?t.V ".- 6) "Funerals Within The Reach Of All" "Your Confident Is Our Sacred Trust" JSiswoncfer & Reynolds Hill at lring Ave. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Thone F.V 21471 J v ...... - t Jfy$re j, 1 M fvv w n .l,..'-..t. SMALL BOY HELPS MOM Neal Tompkins, five, helps his mother resfoclt the shelves of their family store at Fort Rock, tha village's only business enterprise. Soma 34 households receiva mail at the tiny postoffice located in the store. Post Office back at old location at Fort Rock Special to Th Bulletin FORT ROCK The Fort Rock post office, serving 34 households in the Fort Rock Valley, has been returned to the building it occu pied 20 years ago and for some 20 years prior. Mrs. Ilene Tompkins dispenses mail through one small window in her tiny office which occupies a corner of the Tompkins store. In a different corner of the building Minnie Sweeney Stitz who now owns and operates Horse Ranch Lodge, handed out letters and par cels between 1935 and 1942 to around 60 patrons. She served more like 300 while a CCC Camp was located at Cabin Lake, in the Deschutes National Forest east of here. The Charles Tompkins keep store across the street west of the rubble remaining from the fire that swept tlirough the Hergerts' combined store, restaurant, post office and dwelling March 11, 1961. The rejuvenated store, built in 1925, is small, but cozy. Custom ers gather about the wood stove while the mail is being sorted at noontime. Nearby, tiny Judy Tompkins sleeps in her bassinet. During a lull her brother Neal is likely to help their mother restock the shelves. It took lots of fixing before the 'open" sign could go in the win dow, according to Tompkins. Load upon load of junk was hauled off. The building was leveled up, a lean-to torn off and the remainder sealed with plywood, with long accumulated dust sifting down at every hammer stroke. Electric wiring was part of the renova tion. The Tompkins moved to Fort Rock in 1960. They took over tho business begun by Mr. and Mrs. Bud Baert several months after last year's fire wiped out the vil lage s small business area, mov ing it to the present location. WAITING PERIOD SHREWSBURY, England (UPI) Hotel owner Dennis Verity can't drive the 2t-foot-long limousine he recently bought complete with bar. His license was lifted for two years Friday for driving un der the influence of alcohol. I Letters I to the Editor "When men differ In opinion, both sides ought equally to have tha advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Plane service called 'half hearted attempt' To the Editor: I agree 100 per cent with your editorial of March 1. I We tried the much publicized service of "West Coast Airlines" on a trip to Portland and return and once was enough. I The plane was late, 3 or 4 hours late which would have been suf-; ficient time to drive to Portland. The airplane was not the F-27 j prop-jot, but the old noisy DC3, ! cold, and not pressurized. ! Wo were ablo to compare the two airplanes because our return was on the newer more comfort able pressurized F-27. The rest rooms were filthy and the personnel treated us with in difference, as though the Bend- Redmond airport was a place to serve timo on the way up, and not a service of this area and people. Yes Bend is better off without air passenger service than this half hearted attempt. Sincerely. Clinton M. Olson, Jr. Bend. Oregon, March 2, 1962 Bomb package charge denied DENVER (UPI I A Sacramen to, Calif., man pleaded innocent Friday in Denver District Court to a charge of having mailed a j bomb package to a woman at j Eckort, Colo. i David W. Wion. 53, told the court that he did not send the bomb to Mrs. Mildred Tandy, 46. i who suffered the loss of both ! hands and other injuries when a package she opened Jan. 18, ex ploded. , Denver psychiatrist Dr. Robert Cohen told the District Court ; judge that Wion Is sane and ca- ' pablo of standing trial. j HEAD CANCER DRIVE NEW YORK (UPI) Former1 Oregon Gov. Elmo Smith and re tired Army Gen. Ixslie R. Groves will serve as joint leaders of the American Cancer Society's 1962 fund drive and educational cru sade during April. Report issued on lumber loss to Canadians PORTLAND (UPI) Western lumbermen and railroads are los ing more than $50 million a year to Canada in railroad lumber shipments, the West Coast Lum bermen's Association said today, Canadian transit car lumber shipments to the United States have increased from 35,000 to 60,000 rail carloads in recent years, WCLA traffic manager K. C. Batchelder said. At the same time, shipments from the western states have dwindled from 35.000 to 10,000 cars, he said. Batchelder said crux of the problem is tho 15 day free "delay in transit" permitted to Canadian shippers, allowing shippers to find a buyer while the "transit car" in enroutc. ' He said the U.S. shipper must pay for the same "warehousing on rails privilege." Batchelder said the situation is costing U. S. lumbermen at least $43 million a year and the rail roads at least $10 million. (Jo "who me?" Yes, that's right! YOU . can earn important cash savings on your home insurance with General's "All-in-One" Homeowners Policy. Call us today! 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