OREGON
daily emerald
World News & Sports
Supplement
Vol. 74, No. 187
Monday, July 2, 1973
Will his image tarnish ?
By JUDITH MARTIN
(C) 1973, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Smokey the Bear not
only doesn’t smoke, but he doesn’t drink,
take drugs, tell dirty jokes or run around
with smoldering women. That is he hadn’t
up till last month.
Nobody’s accusing him of playing with
dirt now. But June 11 was the day that
Rudolph Wendelin, the U.S. Forest Ser
vice’s “caretaker of the Smoker image,”
retired, and since no specific replacement
has been named, Smokey seems to be
more or less cm the honor system.
Wendelin is aware of the temptations
that can beset a well-meaning bear in
rolled-up blue jeans who spends a good
part of his life on his knees praying that
God will “Please, make people more
careful! ”
Only recently, Smokey had to be rescued
from the following entanglements:
— Appearing drunk on the front of a
sweatshirt and suggesting, “Preserve
wildlife, throw a party.”
— Moonlighting as an endorser of two
fire alarm companies, a store and a fur
nace manufacturer.
— Being serenaded with a song called
“Smokey, you’re a hokey kind of bear.”
— Hustling drinks at a bar called the
Fire House, by leering out of the napkins
and saying, “Put out the fire! Try a
Smokey Bar cocktail. (You may keep the
mug.)”
All of these were considered violations of
the Smokey Bear Act, a 1952 law in which
the Forest Service was given the power to
license commercial Smokey items — a
lucrative business in dolls, T-shirts, songs,
comic books, ash trays and other
novelties, which earn about $200,000 in
royalties a year for the fire prevention
program.
Wendelin’s standards are that such
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On strike: Dead bodies pile up
NEW YORK (UPI) - Thousands of
unburied coffins piled up at strike-bound
cemeteries, an unpreeendented lawyers
strike loomed, and contracts for nearly
200,000 city employes expired here Sun
day.
In addition, a hospital strike continued in
Brooklyn and food employes for one airline
walked off their jobs at Kennedy Airport.
Sam Cimaglia, head of the 1,700-member
cemetery workers’ union, is scheduled to
appear before the State Court of Appeals in
Albany today to plead that a lower court
order demanding his men return to work is
unconstitutional.
The strike by Local 365 of the Cemetery
Workers and Green Attendants entered its
22nd day as 5,200 bodies backed up at 47
metropolitan area cemeteries.
City health officials, alarmed at the
growing number of delayed burials, have
advised that plastic pouches be used to
encase bodies.
In other labor action, emergency
negotiations began Sunday with the union
represents ting lawyers of the Legal Aid
Society in a last ditch attempt to avoid the
city’s first lawyers’ strike set to begin this
morning.
The Society, a non-profit group,
represents some 75 per cent of the
defendants in the city courts under an $8
million contract with the city to provide
representation for those who cannot afford
private attorneys.
The union is demanding increased wage,
health and pension benefits and is
demanding the right to determine the
number of clients they can defend.
Contracts between the city and major
public employe unions representating
60,000 police, firemen, sanitation workers
and 120,000 non-uniformed municipal
workers expired at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
Work was expected to continue as union
leaders apparently waited a new city
administration in the fall and the results of
the state legislature’s attempt to reform
the pension system for public employes.
In Brooklyn, some 400 non-medical
employes at Wyckoff Heights Hospital
continued their strike. Pickets surrounded
the 300-bed facility and a hospital
spokesman said the 81 non-surgical
patients at the Bethany Division of the
hospital were being evacuated.
Nixon sees end to
soaring prices soon
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) —
President Nixon went on nationwide radio
Sunday to give American consumers a pep
talk, claiming a bumper crop this fall will
bring relief from soaring food prices.
The President, speaking from his home
here, provided no new information about
his plans for continuing anti-inflation
action when the current price freeze ex
pires.
In his 15-minute prerecorded speech
broadcast on the first day of the govern
ment’s fiscal year Nixon demonstrated
concern about inflation, now running at an
annual rate of 9 per cent—50 per cent
higher than when he took office in 1969. He
also defended “Phase 3Vi>” of his economic
stabilization program.
He blamed a combination of bad
weather conditions and increased world
demand for the record-breaking cost of
food, now 38 per cent higher than a year
ago.
“In the long run, the one thing—and the
only thing—that will keep prices down is
sufficient supply to meet the demand,
coupled with responsible fiscal 'and
monetary policies,” he said. “The object
of our policies is not simply to have low
prices. We could have low prices and
nothing to buy at those prices.
“The object is to maintain a stable
prosperity at a sustainable rate of growth
so that we can enjoy an increasing
abundance with job security.”
While farmers were suffering in 1972
from “some of the worst weather for crops
and livestock that America has ever ex
perienced,” foreign demand for U.S.
products shot up by 50 per cent, the
President said.
He urged Congress to act quickly and
empower him to impose export controls on
goods in short supply, saying such
measures only would be needed for a short
while.
He conceded that the freeze had created
some inequities and contributed to the
scarcity of some items.
President signs
compromise bills
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) —
President Nixon signed a package of
compromise bills Sunday raising Social
Security benefits next year, cutting off
funds for U.S. combat in Indochina after
Aug. 15, and continuing government
spending and borrowing authority.
All the legislation was passed the day
before by Congress and flown to Nixon’s
home here for his signature, averting a
stalemate that had threatened to leave
government agencies without operating
funds when the 1973 fiscal year ended at
midnight Saturday.
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Inside this issue
WORLD NEWS
• The traditional old beer breweries
are sinking fast as the Big Three garner
almost half the business in the country
(page3).
• A be**f breaker tells why he
thinks the price freeze came at the
worst possible time (page 5).
•The world map we’re used to using
is inaccurate and should be replaced,
says a German historian (page 10).
• \ Supreme Court ruling banning
higher tuition for out-of-state residents
at the University of Connecticut does
not seem to affect Oregon univer
sities—yet (page 2).
• The truth, by Jules Feiffer (page
3).
SPORTS NEWS
• David Eisenhower, the president’s
son-in-law, is writing a sports column
for a Philadelphia paper.
• Can Hank Aaron really beat Babe
Ruth’s records?