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COUNTDOWN The Editor's Corner 6y Charles V. Slanton 4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Exchange "I had many pre-conceived idea about the Americans before I came. I expected things to be a lot different from things in my country, and they cer tainly were. . . ." This is a passage from an English assignment written in May by a Chilean youth who has Bpent the last year living in Roseburg as part of its citizenry. ; Luis Castillo in this revelation of his feelings shows the American Field Serv ices program at its best. It is a sensi tive and considered summing up which shows Americans (of the Douglas Coun ty variety, anyway) as they probably are, without ever really seeing them selves that way. .' Here in Roseburg, he lived with the . Harold Glover family in an atmosphere which apparently will stay with him the rest of his life. i "Throughout the year, I've been a part of a family, and we have shared al kinds of experiences together," he says. "They have been so much kind to me that now they are like my own fam ily, my own father and mother, my own brothers and sisters. It has been through Iffem, mainly, that I've gotten to know lite Americans and learned to respect arid love them. And this is the greatest gain I have acquired from coming and living with Americans : I have now a bet tar understanding of them." i This new understanding includes the following appraisals: "In general terms, the American thinks that he lives for working, with brief intervals of resting, aimed at se curing the efficiency of future activity. The Latin American thinks he lives for leisure, with occasional lapses of work, aimed to make the leisure possible. The North American wants to produce ; t h e Latin American, enjoy life." Luis draws no conclusion on which of these attitudes is best, but he leaves the feeling that perhaps a happy medium might be hit. THE LIGHTER SIDE: if V By DICK WEST Unlltd Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) - I esti mate that the Pentagon has been the target of 5,280 jokes, give or take the one about the lady tour ist who rushed up to an assistant secretary and cried: "Show me the way out of here quick! I'm about to have a baby I" "You shouldn't have come In her in your condition," the as sistant secretary admonished. "I wasn't in this condition when 1 came in," she retorted. The Pentagon, with Its maze of rings, floors, corridors and bays, has been the subject of so much jocularity I didn't think it was possible for anyone to compose a new variation on Uie theme. But the other day 1 got a call from a press agent who was plugging a movie called "The Ureal Escape," based on the mass breakout of Allied prisoners from a German PoV camp dur ing World War II. 'Brought Technical Advisor He had with him C. Wallace Kloody of Toronto, a former pilot with the Itoyal Canadian Air Force who had been a key figure In. I he breakout and who served as technical adviser for the film. "I've got a great idea," the publicist told me. "f'loody is sup iward to be an expert in this field, so left see If he can find his way out of the Pentagon." "It won't sell," I replied. "It's been overdone. There are 5,280 jokes about people trying to find their way out of the Pentagon. Did you hear the one about the lady tourist who..." A few minutes later the press agent called me back. "Okay," he said, "if it's no good having him try to find hi way out of the Pentagon, how about seeing If he can find his way In?" "Max, baby, you're a genius," I said. "A man with your brains ought lo be running the studio. Or better yet, running the Penta goa" 1; M S. e Mam St. . . "' Ori Talapftona 0r.har MJII .Jv . . " maitrr Mar , int, at tha poll affica ,t ttoireute, Ort ev umfar act at Marcri J. PunhinM Dally Eicrat Sunday by NEWS-RFVIEW PUBLISHING CO V arannar CuDIIUw i.TtT. "'"-"v"" l iwmur at tha Unllad Pratt InlamatKwI. Nt s.ryka. Audit Buraati at Clrrulallor, ana lha Or toon NtotMptr Puollihart Atloclallon. National Adv.m.irva P.apraia,ilalla It Nttrtnaptf Aa...liia ..,a Co., Ruia ulln, San Franclica Calif SUBSCRIPTION KATES tatrtat ano Poiaburi P o. Bovti 1 month. II. i t month.. lit SO, yH,, ni M iJl. ' """"V ' nontna. ta.SOt a month.!, at Ml 1 vaar S"mlrt2:"iS."a0'","' MuT monthi, tlt Wi 1 yaar Program Proves Worthwhile Entry To Pentagon Isn't Easy Either In less time than It takes a cab driver to locate the "river en trance" he finally let us out at the "mall entrance" we were standing before the Pentagon waiting for Floody to lead us in. Juit Follow Signs Actually, it isn't too difficult to find your way into the Pentagon. All you have to do is follow the signs. The first signs we followed was marked "To Baya." When we returned from Chesa peake Bay, we went back to the Pentagon and started over. Another sign read "Stairs- Down Only." Presumably it is for the use of Pentagon officials who have been kicked upstairs. Finally, we came to a corridor in which was posted a diagram of the Pentagon interior. It had a red arrow pointing to a snot that was labeled "You Are Here." About five minutes later we saw another diagram that was identical except that the label on tne arrow said "What Are You Doing Back Here Again?" As wo wore leaving the building, by way of Manila Bay. a funny tiling happened. A lady tourist rushed up to us and cried: "Get me out of here quick! "I'm about lo have a baby!" WASHINGTON WINDOW Segregationist Effort Puffs To Halt By LYLI C. WILSON United Press International The Southern segregationist ef fort to prevent President Ken nedy's re - election by offering Southern raters slates of un pledged presidential electors in the one-time Solid South has huf fed and puffed itself into a dead end. Alabama and Mississippi will have slates of unpledged electors. Georgia may have an unpledged slate at the will of Ihe state Dem ocratic organiiatinn. Hut Ihe proj ect was voted down last week in Louisiana and seems to have run out of gas in Florida. Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi have 10, 12 and 7 electors, respectively. The device of Ihe unpledged slates of presidential electors is designed to prevent the Electoral College from casting a majority vote for President. That could happen If Ihe total electoral vote were split three ways. There ere 53S voles in the Electoral College. The hare majority sufficient lo elect Is 270 votes. ll T u t'uuiu-mi prt-siucmiai rieciors. - I And it did seem reasonable to be- The L.S. Constitution provides ' heve that Southerners who went Hi k tn Pre,"denl be elect-1 to a lot of trouble to elect un M ly the House of Represenla-1 pledged electors would not there uvei when the Electoral College j after permit those electora to si THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 He was apparently vastly impressed by the American attitude that anything could be achieved. "It wouldn't be absurd to say Ameri cans are collectively skeptical regard ing limitations considered inherent" in tackling projects. "The result," he says, "is that this ingenuity has created things previously regarded as impossible." At the same time, Luis was slightly puzzled at what he considered an incon sistency to this skepticism. He noted that Americans appear to have complete and unquestioning faith In commonly ac cepted rules, such as in driving. "The Latin American sees things dif ferently," he says. "He does not think that the rule must always prevail. As an example, suppose a Latin American driv ing a car along an American highway comes to a stop sign. He would not nec essarily stop as an American would." The young Chilean explains that the Latin American would stop only if a cat were coming, but he wouldn't just for the sake of obeying the order. "There were no cars whatsoever on the highway; therefore, it was not necessary to stop, although the rule ordered it," Luis says. These impressions were just facets of an apparent over-all new understanding of the American for him. "To sum up," he says, "I feel I've learned a great deal, much more than what I would have learned if I had stay ed in my country and attended college for 50 years." The American Field Services pro gram was established to assure this kind of understanding and tolerance. It seems likely that goal was achieved with Luis. He will return to Chile as a mis sionary to emphasize that Americans may be different from Chileans in some ways, but they have the same basic de sires and emotions which make us all human. Reader Opinions Reckless Drivers Called Threat To The Children To The Editor: " I'm speaking up for the children against reckless drivers; those drivers who have no respect for speed laws nor for warning signs on private and public roads. Is the thrill such drivers experi ence so great, or are they in such a hurry that they can afford to gamble a life? The stakes indeed are high, let me tell you I There's no insurance in the world that can repay the loss of a loved one to a family. If reckless drivers would stop and think of a child lying on the road with life's blood flowing out, they would realise that it would be too late then to say, "I'm sor ry." Or, perhaps, they might at tempt the feeble excuse of an "ac cident." Some drivers seem to think our roads are to be used as a drag strip, or a place where no-holds-barred driving may be practiced, just so they can get where they're going as fast as they can. Our government is for the peo ple, by the people, to protect everyone. When drivers secure their license they accept the re sponsibility of operating1 a car properly. But some seem to forget the responsibility that goes with the license. They do not conform to the fart that the license furn ishes a privilege that should never be abused. In front of my house I have a' is unable lo elect. Hie Constitu tion also provides that ir Ihe question should reach the House, each slate shall cast only one vole. Southerners have been dreaming and hoping for such a presidential election in which their states would possess a bal ance of power. If all of Ihe Mississippi. Ala- oama ami Georgia electors were unpledged next year, they could ! be withheld from or cast for the candidate of either major party, j if Goldwater finally decides to If the major candidates split the! seek Ihe Republican nomination remaining 515 electoral votes 1 he will be expected to make a about evenly, it is ohvuius that I pre ronvention campaign in the the major candidate who could j South. As a conservative Repub atlract most or all of Ihe 23 un- i liran he surelv will do that. The pledged votes would be elected lair Sen. Robert A. Taft alwas Presudent Thai was a pretty dream while It lasted. Some of the supporters of Sen. Harry Goldwater iR Aril.) had been enjoying that dream. Their dream was that Ihe unpledged elector device would enable Southern conservatives to east a vote for Goldwater without actually voting for a slate of Re- By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In the cold war race to control men's minds and hearts, the for eign student occupies an import ant place. In the United States there are more than bO.OOO such students, many of whom later will play important roles in their own coun tries and whose future attitudes may well be determined by the impressions they receive now. And it is with this same know ledge in mind that recruiters from Peking, Sofia, Moscow and Prague also seek out the foreign student. Special Communist targets, have been students from the emerging African nations, and Moscow went so far as to name a university after Patrice Lu mumba, the slain Congo leader. But for a variety of reasons the Communists have been de feating their own purposes. Africans Segregated At Patrice Lumumba liniver city, African students have com plained of segregation and regi mentation. They also have com plained that more of their time is taken up with ideology than with the subjects they came to study. " In Sofia, Bulgaria, last Febru ary between 350 and 500 students from Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Togo. Mali. Kenya and Somali rebelled against the regime and decided to continue their studies elsewhere, mostly in western Europe and a few in the United States. They complained about living and study conditions, hut more specifically against Bulgarian re fusal to permit an all - Africa study union when the Bulgarians sign where reckless drivers may see it clearly. .. It says: "Don't use my children to learn your lesson. If you have no re spect for the speed limit, 1 shall take action against you." To the people who have slowed down, 1 give my heartfelt thanks ' Mary R. Diedrich P. O. Box 18 Sutherlin, Ore. sure Kennedy's re election. Whatever merit there may have been in the theory that a conservative Republican would he Ihe ultimate beneficiary of the unpledged elector strategy, the thing remains wholly theoretical. If the Republican nominee for President hopes next year lo ob tain major support in the South. he will have lo go into the South ern States and nmmirn fnr th,ii- support. sought conservative convention delegate strength in Ihe South. The collapse of the unpledged elector ploy will add lo the pres sure on Repuhican politicians to come soon to a frank, firm and public announcement of race re lations policy. This will be pres sure on individual Republicans more than on the party as such. The party speaks with 1,000 voices and confuses policy, ac cordingly. Individuals, however, can speak clearly and the lime is running out on all hands to speak up. Communists Hurt Selves In Project already had recognized an all Arab Union. To the Africans this smacked of color discrimination. In more recent weeks, a series of incidents also based on color barriers and also involving Afri can students have erupted in Czechoslovakia. In the latest one, Ghanian, Gui neas and Ethiopian students bat tled Czechs, one of whom had yelled a disparaging remark at a Czech girl accompanying one of the Africans to a cafe dance. Crowing Resentment In Czechoslovakia, the out breaks are said to be the result of growing Czech resentment over the increasing amount of econo poinic aid being extended to under-developed countries. The Czechs blame foreign aid for the deterioration In their own standard of living, once the high In The Day's Hews - By FRANK Do you remember the Walrus in Lewis Carroll's Through the Look-ing-Glass? If so, you will recall that at a certain point it struck an altitude and remarked: "The time has come (the Wal rus said) "To talk of many things: "Of shoes and ships and seal ing wax "Of cabbages and kings "And why the sea is boiling hot "And whether pigs have wings." Well- The news today is like that. Let's talk first about the kings. It is reported from Geneva that President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev are near agreement on Ihe much-talked-of HOT LINE which would be a teletype line run- nintr nvnrlnmt frnm MnsrnW In l.nn Hon and thence by ocean cable to the National Command Center in Washington and from there direct ly to the White House. The idea is that in the last final pinch, when it looked like nuclear war was inevitable and just about to begin, President JFK and Pre mier Kroosh could get together over the hot line and call it off. It sounds wonderful. But there's a fly in the ointment. This is the fly: Of Lenin's Ten Commandments, this is the Ninth: "Promises are like piecrust: made to be broken." Suppose Mr. Kroosh DID agree to call it off? How could we know he would keep his word? Now for the cabbages. In Verona. Italy, a leopard es caped yesterdsy from the city zoo. The watchman at a nearby public school saw the animal and called - ,,. not look well. It is alright if you zoos animal keeper who hurried ,.j5n () nd ulk (tw min. lo the scene, made the same noil- , cin,r at lhe gate or in le es he makes each day when he!car blll not loIwr than fjv, or feeds Ihe animals and the leopard . ,en nijnutes. If vou wih him lo stay came running up. hungry and do- j onger than that, ask him into the cile. The leopard's philosophy: LITTLE i-IX sW'.l VI .-Jri Some people's idea of rough ing it is Saving to vmjik from the fir side of the portuno, lot to the oHxe. OCT'' est of all the Communist bloc na tions. Considering the size of Czecho slovakia this aid has in fact been enormous, amounting to more than all the other Red European satellites put together. From 1956 to 1960. it amounted to $500 mil lion dollars, second only to the Soviet Union. Czech military aid has extended from Cuba to Indonesia and points in between. Meat has become increasingly scarce, arousing special resent ment among a people who know that Czech meat is being shipped both to East Germany and Cuba. Consumer goods have become in creasingly shoddy. But whatever the cause, wheth er the discrimination be practiced in Prague, Sofia or Moscow, for the Africans it is a disillusion ment. JENKINS "Whose bread sing." I eal, his song I And- ln San Francisco the other day, a wallaby (a pint-size kangaroo) escaped from Ihe zoo, and they've had a heck of a time catching it. Every time they are about to lay hands on it, it gives a mighty leap and gets away. An Australian the other day of fered this advice: "To catch a wal laby, first grasp it by the tail and lift its hind legs off the ground SO IT CAN'T JUMP." It's a smart idea. But it's a little like the recipe for making rabbit soup: FIRST CATCH YOUR RABBIT. Before lifting a wallaby off the ground by the tail, so that it can't jump, you must first get hold of the creature's tail. At last reports, the wallaby was still on the loose. 9n 2)aJ Taken from the tilts 40 YEARS AGO June 11, 1923 From Mrs. Ellsbury's Advice to Ihe Lovelorn column Dear Mrs. Ellsbury: Is there any harm in standing at a gate and talking with a young man when he brings you home? Is it proper to sit in the ear and talk for a few minutes be fore going into the house? Babe There is nothing bad or incorrect about either, hut it does I nouse. U YEARS AGO June 1). mi Mavbe it was the turn nf Jim i Braddock and Joe Gould to "see j something" when they watched Max Schmelling work out yester- day for his June 23 shot at Joe Louis crown Anyway, they were iust as defin ite about their preriirtiuns as Max uas about hat he saw before he ftnubt Louis for the iirst time BradilcM-k said he didn't th:nk Max, despite his good condition, could hold Louis off for more than seven rounds. It YEARS AGO June 1), 15J This jfin spring ea;her lai 'Dead Hand' Now Controls Water Pollution In U.S. Congressman John D. Dingell, Mich., long active in con nervation legislation in the Congress, reportedly is not satis fied with the way in which the federal government is han dling the matter of water pollution control. He is preparing to seek transfer of water pollution "con trol from the Department of Health, Education and Wel fare and place it under a new Federal Water Control Ad ministration under the Department of the Interior. The new agency would be headed by a commissioner. The congressman, in my opinion, has good reason to be disgusted with the "dead hand" now controlling pollution. ' Whether a transfer of authority would do any" good is an- other matter. ; . Congressman Dingell is quoted as saying: It is my conviction that en actment of this legislation, by removing pollution abatement activities from under the dead hand of the Public Health Serv ice, will be the first step to ward effectively making our nation's waterways healthy once more. Over 100 million Americans get their drinking water today from rivers car rying radioactive materials, detergents, toxic chemicals, untreated sewage, industrial wastes, rotting animal carcass es, and effluents from mortuar ies and hospitals, among other things. His statement was made before the Natural Resources and Power Subcommittee of the House Com mittee on Governmental Opera tions. Another person testifying before the subcommittee was James M. Quigley, an assistant secretary representing the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He spoke of the necessity of keep ing water clean for maximum re use, but, in two hours of ques tioning, laid heavy emphasis on need for more research. Research, it seems to me, is the refuge and alibi of those who would do nothing. Excuse Found There is no question but that re search is most important, but, as an excuse for procrastination, it becomes an abuse that should not be tolerated. Perhaps 1 am unjust in my cnti cism, but it seems to me this lack - adaisical approach to the problem of water pollution isn't exclusive with the federal government. Here in Oregon we have a State Sanitary Authority that, in my op inion, is more interested in pre serving positions and payrolls than Carnation Cuts Farmer Prices SALEM (UPI) A 36-cent drop in the price paid to farmers for milk was announced this week by Carnation Milk, one of the largest milk buyers in the mid-Willamette 1 Valley area. The cut from $5.86 lo S5.50 for ' 100 pounds is retroactive to June 1, Carnation advised producers. I Mayflower and Curly's dairies in Salem said they did not plan to change prices until a hearing slated for June 24 is held in Sa lem. The ;3 legislature approved a milk price stabilization law, which; was signed last week by Gov. Mark Hatfield. ! The June 24 hearing in Salem j is the first of several planned un-1 der the new law to set prices paid ' to producers for milk. There were no indications that the price paid by consumers for milk would be reduced. Meadowland Dairy, Eugene, an nounced earlier this year it would : cut prices 36 cents for grade A boltle and can milk effective June 1. It was not known if other dis tributors would move to drop 'prices before the first hearings on the new price stabilization law I were held. Cjone Jij of The Nawi-Rtview I brought about a unique situation for the Douglas County Welfare ! Commission, according to Mrs. Lois i Baker, director. Emergency vvcl lare funds, expenditures of which usually begin drying up in March, I slill are being spent heavily. Be tween too and 2s0 cases a month Ihe rale for winter's hard times still are being taken rare of. And a goodly share of those asking for county relief are young people. 6" RENT a ma WESTINGHOUSE DISHWASHER At lift m $7 par month attar imoll atalittry I tar vice charge. .ant a Uaest Ririrt)tar, Waidar, Dryer, ftanajt r TV for at little i $5 per mttrh. MI . I. Oak in aggressively working toward elimination of water and air pollu tion. I have been very critical, from time-to-time, of our State Sanitary Authority because of what I feel is its listlessness. At the same1 time, however, this state agency lacks laws to control the problem adequately. . . j Every time our legislature has been asked to put some teeth in the state's sanitary laws, industry has come forward with vigorous protests. The legislature has yield ed again and again to industrial pleas for more time before clean ing up pollution. Pressures Great While this is true in Oregon it also is true with the federal gov ernment. Secretary Quigley,. in his appearance before the subcommit tee reportedly termed the pres sures against water pollution con trol as being "quite expensive." "We have yet to shut down an industry or defeat a mayor," he said, apparently speaking of indus trial and political opposition to con trol measures. So long as our efforts toward pollution control lack effective leg islation and authority, we're bound to have a high degree of bureau cracy with a limited measure of accomplishment. And that goes for both federal and state control. Congressman Dingell, in my op inion, is correct in his insistence upon more efficient and active pol lution abatement. But I question any satisfactory solution will he found until we become a little j tougher in our approach to the problem. The Show In '63 Roseburf Skywoyt AIRCRAFT SHOWING Saturday, June 15 10 AM till 5 PM In New CESSNA SKYMASTER New Alrplanei You'll Celine Sky matter See SaM Pro nee Helicopter Iriei the entire FemMy Far fun titled day. a.CKllC O' , r,. ttvn Saurhtrn Orn' UrfMt ircrH thowinf . . . featuring Can . . . Amtrictt'i mtft pulr ir- Saturday, )un 15 Roseburg Skyways Roseburg, Oregon ASK AIOUT OUR USI-IT-NOW UY-IT-LATIR PLAN! m '. ,1
