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FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES
By Charles V. Stanton
We have begun observance of the 100th anniversary
of the War Between the States, commonly known aa the
Civil War.
While we spend a period in which we relive this terrible
event in our history, and in which tourist promotion will
draw millions to the old battlefields and historic spots, we
will, I fear, fail to gain the lessons we should have learned
from that struggle.
The war was brought on by radicals. It wag the most
costly war in which this nation ever engaged, as we look
at percentages of national wealth, deaths and injuries (in
comparison with number of people engaged), property loss
es and other such factors.
The United States in other military actions has been
generous in its victories. It has aided the vanquished.
But the South suffered terrible indignities from the North
during the days of Reconstruction, when northern Carpet
baggers ruled with cruel and criminal methods.
We're taught that the War Between the States was
fought over the issue of slavery. But slavery was only a
secondary matter. It was used freely, however, by radi
cals to stir up sentiment. '
We're taught that the Emancipation Proclamation was
issued as a great humanitarian -act. But the truth is that
it was a political move to keep England and France
from recognizing the South, and did not even apply to cer
tain border states where slavery existed but where the
states were not in rebellion.
Philosophies Concerned
The War Between the States was a political and eco
nomic war, not one in which the Negro was concerned,
except as a side issue.
It was a war of philosophies.
In its early years the United States was an agricul
tural country. The states agreed to Unite because they
were quite alike in their economy and needed cooperation
between one another.
But the North began to develop industrially. Previous
ly the country had obtained its manufactured goods from
Europe. The American states in spite of the Revolution
were peasant colonies of Great Britain and supplied raw
products for Great Britain's factories. The South fur
nished great quantities of cotton for British textile mills.
But the North sought to crowd out British competition
with its own mills. Economic pressures were applied
through northern banks, northern shipping and by attact
ing slavery, because slave
production profitable.
Until a comparatively
South was on equal footing with the North politically. But,
because of larger population, resulting from industry and
higher prosperity, the North gained political control.
The Democratic-Republican party had split in 1829.
The Democrats had taken over political control, but the
Republican faction began to gain strength, particularly in
the North, and, after swapping terms with the Democrats
several times, took over control of the government with
the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Same Problems Faced)
( The question, complicated by political, economic and
humanitarian influences, was whether the form of govern
ment we had adopted was a confederation of separate
(dates, or whether the federal government was the prime
authority. The South held that each state was autonomous
and had the right to withdraw from the Union, which is
what the southern stales attempted to do.
But the northerners, headed by Lincoln, held that the
Union was-paramount. The President declared war to
keep the southern states from seceding.
When Britain and France were about ready to recog
nize and help the Confederacy, the Emancipation Procla
mation was issued to render
, my unprofitable and thereby scare out assistance from
Europe.
It is quite evident that the Civil War was fought pri
marily over the question of slates' rights, not slavery.
The question of the rights of the, respective states remains
today. Is the federal government usurping powers belong
ing to the states? The southern states objected to being
pushed around by the North. Is the North pushing the
South around today?
During this time of observance of the anniversary of
the War Between the States we'll be fed reams of litera
ture attempting to present the racial issue as the primary
feature of our titanic struggle. We're already observing
this approach in articles appearing in our newspapers and
' elsewhere.
But it would be well, I believe, that we look deeper
than this secondary issue and thoroughly consider the fun
damental philosophies philosophies which exist today.
New Solons Given Briefing
On Handling Of Legislation
SALEM (AP)-The steps required
tn pass a bill in the Oregon Legis
lature were outlined here, pri
marily for freshman members, at
a legislative orientation confer
ence. Sam R. Haley, legislative coun
sel, told the House and Senate
members that measures come be
fore the session in varying forms
as bills, resolutions, memorials
and others.
Haley aaid a hill begins with
the idea which the legislator de
velops or has suggested to him
by constituents.
Then, Haley said, it proceeds
In this way:
The bill is drafted and presented
to the chief clerk, then goes to
the engrossed and enrolled bill
room.
From there the bill goes to the
clerk of the house in which It
originated for first reading. The
next day it gets a second reading.
After that the presiding officer
of the house involved senda It to
the appropriate committee, which
can report It out favorably or un
favorably, am and it, substitute an
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labor made the South's cotton
few years before the war the
the South's one-crop econo-
other measur or send It out with
a majority and minority report.
If reported out by the commit
tee, the bill is read for a third
time, debated and voted upon. If
pisaea, it goes to tne otner house
for the same procedure.
If both houses pass the bill It
goes to the governor for signature
and then, if signed, to the secre
tary of state to be printed with
other laws passed in the session.
Bills defeated in one hone and
passed in the other are conferred
upon in joint committee in an ef
fort at compromise.
Sen. Jean Lewis, D-Portland.
outlined the purpose of House and
Senate rules and presented them
briefly. She said this hi the first
session of the Oregon legislature
with rules governing conference
committees.
Dr. Krank Roberts, Portland
Slate College professor who Is
chieC clerk of the House, discussed
parliamentary procedure.
A resume of aervices to legis
lators was presented by state offi
cials including Atty. Gen. Robert
Y. Thornton and Harold F. Phil
lippe, assistant secretary of state.
In The Day's News
By FRANK
I think everyone must agree
that Washington (using wasning
ton as a generic term for our fed
eral government) is full of prob
lems. There's Laos. (Even its name
suggests problems. As ordinarily
pronounced, it sounds like LOUSE,
which starts us worrying about
how via can keeo from getting any
worse loused up in that part of
tne world.)
There's Cuba, including Castro.
There's Africa. There's the con
tinuing problem of Mr. Kroosh and
how to dandle the old rascal. Then
there's GOLD, which we don't
seem to have enough of to enable
us to go on living in the open
handed way we've become accus
tomed to living.
The list seems endless.
Well-
With Inauguration Day only a
week and a half off, SOMETHING
NEW in the way of Washington
problems has been added:
WHAT TO WEAR ON INAUG
URATION DAY.
A simple problem?
Easily solved?
That's what you and I, living out
here in the wide open spaces, think.
Back in Washington, it's differ
ent. What to wear on Inauguration
Day is so important there that the
GOP held a PARTY CONFER
ENCE on it yesterday. It was
discussed pro and con.
The final decision, as has been
James Marlow
Adlai's Law Firm Tapped
For Kennedy Appointees
WASHINGTON (AP) Prcsi-1
dent-elect Kennedy is going
through Adlai Stevenson s law
firm like a vacuum cleaner.
He has already picked three
members of the firm including
Stevenson for top jobs in his ad
ministration, is expected to name
another shortly, and gave two key
posts to former Stevenson law-as
sociates.
All were long-time friends of
Stevenson and his backers for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion. But when Kennedy got it this
year, they worked for him. And
all know him personally, too.
It could be assumed Kennedy
was paying off a political debt
to them and or Stevenson for the
help they gave him this year or
was acknowledging his debt to the
liberal view they represent and
represented in the campaign.
But this writer contacted a num
ber of people who know all the
men given these choice assign
ments and they prefer to think
Kennedy did his picking because
these friends of Stevenson are
brainy, distinguished men.
These are the three members
of the firm already tapped: Stev
enson, as ambassador to the Unit
ed Nations; Newton W. Minow,
chairman of the Federal Com
munications Commission: and W.
Willard Wirtz, undersecretary of
labor.
Kennedy shortly is expected to
name another member of the
Stevenson Chicago law office
William Blair as an ambassador.
Blair, rich in his own right and
able to pay an ambassador's bills,
is a long-time Kennedy family
friend.
Kennedy chose George W. Ball,
associated with Stevenson in a
Chicago law firm back in the ear
ly 1940s, as undersecretary of
state for economic affairs.
Another former law associate, J.
Edward Day of Los Angeles, was
picked as postmaster general. Day,
now an insurance executive, was
in the Stevenson law firm in 1945
49. .
Minow 34, served as law clerk
for the then Chief Justice Fred
Vinson and was administrative as
sistant to Stevenson when the lat
ter was governor of Illinois more
than eight years ago.
Wirtz, 46, has a long experience
in the labor field and has known
The Cartoonist
I i , ...
JENKINS
the case so often in our history,
was a compromise. It was decid
ed to leave it on the basis of every
man for himself. Senator Everett
M. Dirksen, of Illinois, the Repub
lican leader in the senate, announc
ing the momentous decision to the
reporters, said:
"We decided to let every man
decide for Himself on the occasion
There may even be some who will
wear formal or ShMI-formal at
tiresuch as striped trousers and
SHORT coats."
i
The base cowards!
How is the Grand Old Parly to
survive if its present stalwarts are
as wishy-washy in their convic
tions as that decision seems to in
dicate?
At the GOP conference, Senator
George D. Aiken, of Vermont, took
a dim view of formal attire WHEN
THE VOTERS ARE LOOKING ON.
He recalled that at a reception in
Canada for the then King and
Queen of Britain he wore a top
nat, striped pants and a cutaway
coat. He told his fellow conferees:
"There were about 400 Vermont
ers there. It almost nipped my po
litical career in the bud."
He added to the reporters: "The
Republicans at the conference held
mostly to the point of view that
JFK's assumption of the Presi
dency on January 20 will be an in
auguration and not a coronation,
and we'll wear business suits."
Meaning that no chances will be
taken with the voters.
the man who will be his new boss,
Arthur Goldberg, secretary of la
bor, a long time. It's Goldberg
who may have done the actual
picking of Wirtz.
Besides being a professor of law
at Northwestern University, Wirtz
is also an arbitrator in labor dis
putes. During the war he served
on various government bodies.
Like many others called to Wash
ington, Wirtz went to Harvard
the law school.
Ball at 51 has an international
law practice, has crossed the At
lantic perhaps more times than
he can remember, and is member
of a law firm which has offices
in Washington, New York, Paris
and Brussels.
Back in the New Deal days of
President Roosevelt, Ball worked
in the Agriculture and Treasury
departments and, during the war,
in the Lend-Lease Administration.
Blair, better known to newsmen
than any of the others, was a
constant companion of Stevenson
in his presidential bids and tra
veled abroad with him.
Borrowed Topper
To Go With Mark
SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark O.
Hatfield says he has a borrowed
black silk stove pipe hat and Mrs.
Hatfield had a new dress in readi
ness for the inauguration of John
F. Kennedy as president.
The inauguration will be Jan. 20
in Washington, D. C, and the
Hatfields will attend. Hatfield
said it was customary for gover
nors to attend.
Mrs. Hatfield, asked what she
would wear, said: "I have a new
gown ordered for the Mardi Gras
Ball here in Salem and it's on its
way I'll just wear it a week ear
lier, that's all."
The gown was made In New
York by the same people who
made one for Mrs. Abraham Ribi
coff, Mrs. Averell llarriman and
for others expected to attend the
inauguration. Mrs. llallield said.
Hatfield told a news conference
that he was looking for a hat to
rent and Travis Cross, his press
secretary, said this brought many
offers to him.
Says:
'You Just Try It"
HIGH DESERT HISTORY
Bend Bulletin
Central Oregon's High Desert
has its moods.
The plateau, rimmed by old vol
canoes and tilted mountain, is im
pressive under an electrical storm
in mid summer, it is inspiring un
der its occasional coat of snow in
winter. It is awesome at night
when its rims are marked by star
ry skylines.
Moods of the desert vary from
dawn to dusk, from day to day,
from month to month. There is a
special mood in early winter when
shadows are long and dusk comes
early.
All are interpretative moods.
They make it possible for the mo
torist driving over U.S. Highway
20 from Bend to Burns to probe
into the region's ancient Pist.
In evening shadows or when the
rising sun tips snowy peaks, the
story of the region unfolds.
Across this area long ago flowed
a river, abundantly fed by runoff
in Oregon's pluvial days. Outlines
of that old river bed are visible
in the winter sha-iows.
- In the Millican area of the pres
ent once existed a tree-fringed lake
that mirrored the peaks of Pine
Mountain. The faint outline of that
old lake can be traced in the soft
light of the morning sun.
Across Horse Ridge in distant
days slashed a river that cut a
gorge some 300 feet deep. The bed
of that river viewed under the
flood light of a full moon is plainly
visible.
Across the Millican - Brothers
plains of ages ago flamed volcan
oes, some of which sent streams
of lava into the Dry River gorge.
The old lava flows take on a spec
tacular appearance when evening
shadows lengthen.
In some distant geological epoch,
earth forces twisted horizons into
serpentined ridges, visible even in
mid-day.
Just west of high Hampton, close
to Hampton Butte, a big lake once
flooded the area. The basin once
occupied by that lake is cast in
striking relief when winter shad
ows creep across the plateau.
This high land, with its inter
pretative moods, is the region
known as Oregon's High Desert.
Hal Boyle
Pasternak Has Launched
Campaign To Save Mankind
NEW YORK (AP)-Film pro
ducer Joe Pasternak has launched
an open-ear campaign to save
manKind.
"If people would just listen." he
said, "think how much better the
world would be! It could be a
wonderful world.
"But nobody listens anv more,
"In our vocabulary there Is a
period at the end. of a sentence.
But who listens until anybody
limshcs a sentence? Nobody. We
don't hear each other any more."
f astcrnaK, who is quite serious
about his open-ear crusade, came
here in 1921 as an immigrant
youth from Hungary. He had a
high school education, but knew
no English.
His uncle, a factory worker,
met him at Ellis Island and said:
"You should have come 20 years
ago. There was opportunity then.
Now it is gone."
"He was a fine man," said Joe.
"But he was wrong. Opportunity
is always here if you know what
you want to do, and love to do it."
Starting as a bu.sboy in a studio
commissary, Pasicrnak tried to
be an actor and failed. He then
worked his way up from a fourth
assistant director to become one
of the world's top producers.
I got good advice and 1 lis
tened to it," he said.
In 25 years his 75 films have
grossed a quarter of a billion
dollars.
Joe is a genial, sandy-haired,
blue-eved little man whose own
struggle has left him with a deep
sympathy for the underdog.
He embarked on his favorite
(heme the price of not listening
id.itorial
On old maps it appears as a part
of the Great Sandy Desert. Early
explorers called it the Artemisia
Desert.
Some persons consider the High
Desert to be a dreary land, monot
onous, sage-covered and slashed
by gulleys.
They are the people who fail to
interpret the desert's varying
moods.
WINTER WONDERLAND
Pendleton East Oregonian
The travel information Division
of the state Highway Department
has been trying to sell Oregon as a
year around vacationland. A na
tiunal advertising program has
been telling prospective travelers
that they can come to Oregon any
time of the year and have a good
time in good weather, the pitch
has had moderate success.
We suppose that any person who
was considering a trip to Oregon
other than during the summer
months would be thinking of hunt
ing or fishing or skiing. He un
doubtedly would -question whether
he could do any of those things in
good weather. We can assure him
that he can.
We spent a couple-of days this
week on the coast, at Astoria and
Cannon Beach. The weather was so
good it was almost unbelievable.
It was so warm people were walk
ing the beaches in their shirt
sleeves. The moon shining on the
ocean was beautiful.
Having lived on the coast we
knew, of course, that some of the
best weather in that part of the
state comes during the winter
months. But we had forgotten how
good the winter weather there can
be.
This is something the Travel In
formation Division can emphasize
in its advertising that is directed
to wintertime travelers. At the
same time the word should get
around to all Oreponians. Almost
every Oregonlan who goes to the
beach plans his trip for the sum
mer months. Manv would go in
the winter months, we're sure, if
they knew how delightful the
weather can be. Motels on the
coast can have an extra "pay day"
during the week between Christ
mas and New Year's.
We spoke to an old lady at a
at lunch when a waiter brought
him boiled fish instead of the
broiled Fish he had ordered.
"He didn't listen," remarked
Joe sorrowfully. "Nobody takes
the time simply to listen.
"You go to a cocktail party and
nobody waits to hear the punch
line of a story. They are trying
to think up one to top it even be
fore it is told.
"Think how much better the
business world would be if em
ployes would really listen to
bosses, and if bosses would really
listen to their employes.
"Think how much better family
life would be if children would
only listen to their parents, and
parents would listen to their own
children.
"We don't listen to our doctors,
our dentists, our lawyers, our
teachers, our religious leaders.
Worst of all, we don't even listen
any longer to our own conscience.
"I don't mean we should be yes
men or puppets, but we should
open our cars and at least listen
until the other person finishes his
sentence.
"Thank God, my wife listened
to me when I proposed. 'I love
you, and I want to marry you,'
I told her. If she hadn't let me
finish the sentence, if she had in
terrupted me well, 1 wouldn't
have three children now."
Joe looked at the boiled fish on
his plate, took a bite, and sighed.
"Period!" he said. "Thanks for
listening."
107 More Waifs
Arrive In State
PORTLAND (AP)-A chartered
airliner has arrived in Portland
from the Far East, bringing 107
Korean orphans to new homes in
the United Slates.
Despite the hour, 5 a.m. more
than 100 persons were at Portland
International Airport to greet the
youngsters and Harry Holt, the
Creswell, Ore., farmer who helped
arrange the adoptions.
It was the third largest group
of orphans in Holt's baby lift, and
orouglil lo 2,171 the number of
Korean waifs he has brought to
this country.
The children will go to new
homes in 24 states. Nine were
adopted by Oregon families. Holt
said he will return lo Korea Sun
day, but added he did not know
when he will bring back more
orphans.
At the airport, newsmen told
Holt that Communist North Korea
had broadcast Tuesday that or
phans were being taken to the
I'nited States where they were
"resold to plantation owners and
capitalists as child slaves."
"Oh. is that so. Well, that's
something," Holt said.
Actress Wins Divorce
From Mexican Banker
I.OS ANGELES '(AP)-TV ac
tress Joan Tyler won a divorce
Monday from a Mexican banker
on testimony he failed to provide
a home for her.
Miss Tyler, 27. said her hus
band. Antonio Ruffo, 34. would not
t.ike her to his home in La Paz.
Mexico, because he did not want
his family to know about the mar
riage. lier attorney received court ap
proval for a settlement giving her
Sloo a month alimony for three
vears. $75 a month theretiter and
SIAO a month for support of their
daughter, Laura, 3. i
Comment
little store at Cannon Beach about
the weather. She said, "Oh, yes,
this is one of the best times of the
year. It's too bad more people
don't know how beautiful it is here
in December."
We told her we lived in eastern
Oregon and she said. "Oh my
goodness, it must be cold over
there. Why, all of you people in
eastern Oregon should come down
here in December. You must tell
your, friends about our weather."
We shall indeed. However, if you
plan a wintertime trip to the coast
try lo stretch it out to several
days. We couldn't have stayed long
er this week, but it was difficult to
leave even though we knew we had
the cold of eastern Ore
gon for the beautiful, warm weath
er on the coast in Decmber is as
pleasant as leaving the heat of
eastern Oregon in July or August
for the cool breezes that come off
the ocean J.W.F.
SOARING SIXTIES
Orison Statesman, Saltm
A year ago the "soaring Sixties"
were ushered in with enthusiastic
acclaim. As 1961 dawns there is a
disposition to change the participal
adjective to "slanting" with the
inclination downward. For the
economy failed to reach the heights
predicted with the ending of the
steel strike. The steel industry
itself went into a recession.
And yet when the ledgers for
1960 were closed, it was found that
the year had been better than av
erage. I clip the following summa
tion from the column of Nate
White, financial editor of the Chris
tian Science Monitor:
Total income: Highest on
record.
Labor income: Highest on
record.
Farm proprietors' income:
Up over 1959, 1956, 1957, 1955,
but below 1958 and the years
of the Korean war.
Business and professional
proprietors' income: Highest
on record.
Rental income of persons:
Highest on record.
Dividends: Highest on rec
ord. Nonagricultural personal in
come: Highest on record.
Net interest: Highest on rec
ord. Corporate profits: Second
highest year on record but off
about $1,500,000,000 from last
year.
Automobile year: Second
best in history.
Retail sales: Best in history,
up at least $5,000,000,000 over
last year.
Foreign trade that is,
sales of United States products
overseas. Running a surplus of
about $6,000,000 for the year
Reader
Restrictions Aren't End Of
To The Editor:
Replying to statements in the let
ter of Carol Borrow, I would say
that not all teenagers are hood
lums. Only very small people
would make such an assertion.
Some grown-ups are hoodlums, and
so are some teenagers. Unfortun
ately, in most areas of our lives it
is the handful of hoodlums (big
and little) who cause restrictions
on the actions of the rest of us.
"Big" people must be restricted
because of the actions of the very
few.
I do not know why the teenagers
can't go to their hangout any
more. 1 am sure that those who
write would not harm a fly. But
somewhere, and since the days of
the Stone Age, there is one person
who will harm a million flies. To
prevent that we must say that this
thing cannot be allowed anyone
anymore.
But I am sure that because of
restrictions this is not the end of
the world for good teenagers.
I would say to Carol and others
of the same opinion that you do not
absolutely have to have a place
to go to with your friends because,
really, you have a million places
to go.
A few suggestions to teenagers:
Have you ever baked a cake
from scratch? Not a "store
bought" preparation. Or have you
ever in your life made cookies or
doughnuts? Can you sew, knit or
crochet, make your very own
sweater? Do you know the names
of the flowers and shrubs in your
mother s yard, how to tend them.
what care this one needs, or which
will bloom late in the fall; what
will live long; how to care for
each?
On a Saturday afternoon you
could use up two whole hours
washing and shining your dad's
car.
Can you operate the washing
machine and get clothes washed
clean?
Have you ever learned to play
chess? Who knows, you might go
nuts over it!
What about a good book? Surely
you enjoy movies and, if so, the
book from which that movie was
made positively has to be better
than the movie itself.
Do vou read anvthine in the
paper? Did you find this letter your
self (or would you have)? follow
some political or government lead
er's life. Now is a good time with
all the new faces in government.
Record everything some person
says or does, check them off later
to ascertain if he does what he
sayj he will. Be an authority in
ine one person you select to study.
You can do this with just the front
page of The News-Review.
We do not expect the teenager to
be a "Brain," nor do we particu
larly want it. But, as sure as today
will end and tomorrow will come,
the teenager will become a grown
up too, just as we once were teen
agers. And please believe me when
I say that it is no stretch of Ihc
imagination to visualize the hus
band of one of our young girls ly
ing dead in a place called Laos,
for example. This has been hap
pening a billion times since there
was a man. Now, it won't hurt
for total export sales of about
$20,000,000,000.
There are industries and areas
that are hurting, and unemploy
ment is mounting. But as we look
back we can see that 1960 rates
as a good year. As for the future
the outlook is not immediately
bright, but there is an underlying
confidence that the 1960s really
will soar, though not without dips
such as we now seem to be riding.
We just can't expect every year to
be better than the last.
What about the future? Proh- i
ably "more of the same." Author
ities say the "long time outlook is
good." That may be their way of
admitting' that the short time fu
ture doesn't look very good. Few
there are who predict a quick up
turn in the economy. That may be
a sign of caution but more prob.
ably it is an admission of ignor
ance as to what the immediate
course of business will be.
It's another New Year; and 1M1
will prove another year, food for
some, a year of misfortune for
others, probably for most Ameri
cans it will be, like 1960, a pretty
good year after all. Charles A.
Sprague
HOW MUCH PROFIT
Sutherlin Sun-Tribun
When you buy $10 worth of gro
ceries, how much of that stays with
the store in the form of profit?
It's a safe bet tb.it a great major
ity of shoppers couldn't answer
that question with any degree of
accuracy. They would probably put
the profit factor at a much high
er proportion than it actually is.
The National Association of Food
Chains and the Harvard Business
School Division of Research have
issued their fifth annual survey of
margins, expenses and profits in
the food chain industry. In 1959,
net profits worked out to about 1.4
per cent of the sales dollar which
means it came to 14 cents on a
typical $10 bag of groceries. There
was nothing unusual about this.
the profit was practically the same
in 1958, 1.38 per cent.
Over the years, profit margins
have held remarkably stable, in
the general neighborhood of a cent-and-a-half
on the dollar. Expenses,
by way of contrast, have shown
substantial increases, with payroll
costs leading the way, followed by
advertising and promotion expense,
and real estate costs.
Summing up, the profit on food
sales is so small, percentagewise,
that it would take an exceedingly
canny shopper to notice the differ-
ence if there were no profit at all.
Pretty much the same thing is
true in other basic retail lines
profits commonly run around 3
cents on the sales dollar. That is
the principle on which mass dis
tribution rests very small unit
profits add up to an adequate to
tal profit because of big volume.
Opinions
World For Teen-Agers
us to try and discover a little
something about the why and
wherefores of this, will it?
In 'the meantime, there surely
are many places the teenager can
have his Coke, meet his friends,
dance. There would be no use to
live if this could not be so.
Maybe as some of the teenagers
have said, you can't get your own
"place." I'll bet the ones who de
cided you could not have the old
place will be right in their help
ing you. Just ask them!
Nothing to do? I hope those who
said this in their letters to the
newspaper will save those letters
and read them 20 years from to
day. Why, there is much to do!
I probably haven't convinced any
teenager, but will they tell me the
same thing 20 years from today?
Melvin Boyce
N. Myrtle Rt.
Jlyrtle Creek, Ore.
Dope Smugglers
Get Long Terms
NEW YORK (AP)-A judge Wed
nesday called a former Guatemal
an ambassador a betrayer of his
family, government and religion,
and sentenced him to 15 years
in prison for smuggling millions
of dollars worth of heroin inio
the United States.
U.S. Dist. Judge Archie O. Daw
son delivered the tongue-lashing
to Maurico Rosal, former ambas
sador to Belgium and the Nether
lands. Three other men arrested with
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possessing 116 pounds of pure he-
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on the open market, were sen
tenced to terms ranging from 9
to 15 years.
Dawson sentenced Nicholas Cal
amaris, 47, a Manhattan long
shoreman, to 15 years. Calamaris
was accused of arranging pay
ment for the narcotics and for dis
tribution of the drugs.
Sentenced to nine years each
wcra Etienne Tarditi, 56, a French
national with an electronics busi
ness in Paris; and Charles Bour
bonnais, 39, a former airline stew
ard, of Queens, N.Y.
All the defendants had pleaded
guilty.
Two Fatally Beaten
In Belgian Strikes
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -Two
people have been fatally
wounded during demonstrations in
the three-week-old Belgian strike,
and there also have been several
traffic fatalities as a result of
barricades thrown up by strikers.
The two men shot were an un
employed painter, who was killed
by a passerby trying to rescue a
gendarme from the crowd during
a Brussels demonstration, and a
Liege wo;l:er, who was wounded
during a strikers' attack on a
Liege railroad station last Friday.