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:
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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
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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.
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a ma
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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.
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