Birth of a nation
THE BEND BULLETIN
4 Saturday, March 3, 1962 An Independent Newspaper
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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.
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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.
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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.
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