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Part Orford News, Thursday, April 17, 1969 Weed Control In Garrison Lake jfo x r t O r f o r d ERMRRI Post Office Box 5 97465 Port Orford, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Second class m ail privileges authorized at Port Orford, Ore. Louis L, Felsheim ................................... Editor and Publisher Paul L, Peterson ................... .................... Managing Editor Subscription In Curry County (per year in advance) ............... .. $3. 00 Outside Curry County ......................................... .. $3. SO* Single Copy......................... ........................................... 10 Cents Announcements, Notices, New» and Advertising Must be in the Office by 5 0 0 p. m. Tuesdays ■ M E M B E R --------------- NEWSPAPER \ PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N e W A Associatigli L PER Founded 1885 Salem Scene by Everett E. Cutter New Legislators Relish Experience The excitement of challenge, devotion to constituents and re spect for the quality of legis lators In general are Just three points forming a common bond between two new lawmakers here. Sen. Sam Dement, 48, rep resents Coos and Curry coun ties In the upper chamber. Rep. Jack Ripper, 48, represents Coos County In the House. Sen. Dement Is a Republican and Rep. Ripper Is a Democrat, so they can be expected to have their differences of opinion. Their first-term Impres sions a re sim ilar on many counts, however, and perhaps reflect aspirations and fru stra tions of all freshman legisla tors. One of those frustrations, according to Rep. Ripper, Is the newcomer's handicap of not always knowing every Implica tion of bills before him. He admits to a lot of night study. “ Old-timers recognize the same old bills, Introduced ses sion after session,*' he says. “ Often they act on them with out the extensive debate you might expect—this Is some times startling.'' If the veteran lawmakers sometimes move too swiftly for newcomers, they are also able allies in showing them the ropes. Both Sen. Dement and Rep. Ripper have made a point of getting acquainted, In following certain bills through the legislative process, with solons In their opposite cham bers. Both, for example, are spon soring specific bills In the in terest of their districts. Team ing up with others from their area, they Introduced legis lation to allow government ne gotiation with the state forester for Industrial and domestic wa ter supply development In the Elliott Forest area. " I feel I am fortunate In getting to know many House members of both parties, who a re cooperating to give this Senate-passed bill their con sideration,'' says Sen. De ment. Similarly, Rep. Ripper feels he Is doing well on four bills for his area, passed by the House and now following the route through Senate com mittee. High ,n their list of “ fresh man Impressions’’ Is their re gard for co-workers. Sen. De ment Is pleased “ to find them of higher quality than I an ticipated;” Rep. Ripper terms their educational level as “ cer tainly a cut above the average, and It hasn’t always been that way.” Both men receive many let ters from home. Rep. Ripper recently mailed out 1,200 ques tionnaires on the “hot” Is sues—sales tax, sex education, abortion, 18-year-old vote— and says he Is getting better than 50% response. The best thing, he says, Is the fact that “ one of every 10 respondents writes me a letter, telling me how pleased he Is to be asked. It brings people a lot closer to a feeling of participation In the govern mental process.” Sen. Dement, a Myrtle Rilnt cattle and sheep rancher of pioneer descent, agrees that correspondence from the peo ple he represents carries weight In the decisions he must make. "A lot of form letters come in, especially on emotional Is sues such as fluoridation, 18- year-old voting and sex educa tion,” he says. “ It’s obvious that the signer didn’t really write them, and we take them with a grain of salt. On the other hand, a thoughtful per sonal letter prompts me to give an Issue more consid eration.” And to emphasize the value of legislative correspondence: “ On one bill, 1 knew certain people were against It, but that some others from my area w ere for It. I also knew that the latter had been encouraged to contact me, but they didn't and so I couldn’t be sure what they thought. “ Their Inaction Indicated they didn't care, and I voted against the bill.” Both the Republican senator and Democratic representa tive are apprehensive about the forthcoming sales tax election. Each, for his own reasons, voted against referral of the Issue. Both express relief that It Is going to be finally de cided. Rep. Ripper, a North Bend Junior High School history tea cher, claims he ran for office because of the lack of tax re form action taken by the 1965 and 1967 legislative bodies. Right or wrong, he says, “ we have at least done more than the last two legislatures even with a special session.” Sen. Dement serves on five standing committees; the great e r number of House members allows Rep. Ripper to divide his time among only three. Both find their biggest chal lenge In the Intensive, educa tional work of committee hear ings and debate. An almost equal challenge, they observe, Is keeping upwlth bills not in their own commit tees. They become Informed on these by talking with other law makers or government of ficials, by consulting lobbyists on both sides of a question, or by personally researching cur rent laws or other reference «ources. r “ We have the top people to explain everything, and this Is an education In Itself,” says Rep. Ripper, who returned to college in 1961 after 17 years in the restaurant business. “ It is a fascinating ex perience—the first time I can remember where I want to get up extra early and chop down here to work.” B ill Restricts Obsene Matter ¿COUNTY NEWS, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I E I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Weed control will begin on the Northeast part of Garrison Lake when the water temper ature reaches 60 degrees or above. This will also be timed not to interfere with dumping fish Into the lake next week or with the opening of fishing season later this month, ac cording to Wallace Wade, weed control man. This chemical, Kuron, Is not harmful to humans and only de trimental to fish In a case of extreme concentration of the chemical. Wade suggests that no water be used from this treated portion to irrigate such plants as tomatoes or beans for about a month. More hardy plants will not be affected as the concentration of chemical is only two parts per million parts of water. The destroyer began oper off the Third Corps area I ations of South Vietnam. With dir I ections from an airborne spot ter aircraft, the ship fixed its A M P H E TA M IN E S I gunfire upon enemy targets lo I cated 18 miles north of Ham Tam, destroying two stru I ctures. SLANG NAMES: Speed, Pep pills, Dexies, Ups, Bennies, I During a second mission, Drivers,Crossroads, Footballs, Co-pilots, Hearts, Crystal. I Agerholm fired its five Inch gunfire against three enemy WHAT THEY ARE: Amphetamines a r e stimulants, I structures. The airborne spot prescribed by physicians chiefly to reduce appetite in I ter reported all targets de o b e s e patients and to relieve minor cases of mental and a secondary fire I stroyed depression. They are often taken by truck drivers, col started In an area used as an lege students "cramming" for exams and others who I enemy supply base near Ham wish to stay awake for long periods of time. I Tam. I Sheep And Wool Day HOW TAKEN: Orally, as a tablet or capsule, or intra venously. I annual Sheep and Wool I Day The PRIMARY EFFECT: Normal doses produce wakefulness, will a t Ctegan State increased alertness and initiative and a great deal of I Uaiv rsity be held this coming Satur activity. Large doses—such as might be received by the body through injection—produce exaggerated feelings I day, April 19, from 9:30 a .m .to of confidence, power and well being. Amphetamines I 3:30 p. m. according to Walt can also act as i powerful aphrodisiac and can give the I Schroeder, Curry county exten sion agent. user an immediate rush of pleasurable feelings. Habitual Items cn the program include users often take amphetamines continuously for three or I f o u r days, eating nothing, "on the go" constantly... I a discussion of A Sneep Produc tion Model far Maximum Nu until they black out from exhaustion. I Hogue, tritional E f f i c i e n c y by Et. Professor of animal nu HOW SPOTTED: Heavy users may exhibit restlessness I trition a t Cornell University. or nervousness, with tremor of hands, dilated pupils, dryness of mouth and excessive perspiration. They may I Another item includes Produc be talkative and h a v e delusions and hallucinations. I tion from Sheep a n d Cattle Grazing Subclover-Grass P a s- Smaller doses will produce an almost abnormal cheer fulness a n d unusual increase inactivity; however, if I tures, the introduction of con usage is heavy and prolonged, the user may exhibit I test winners in the "Make It YourselfWithWool" contest,be symptoms thatclosely resemble paranoid schizophrenia. I haviour patterns of sheep, a re DANGERS: "Speed kills" is«’a slogan that teenagers I port on foot rot experimental themselves h a v e tacked onto methedrine and it can I work and a tour of sheep graz generally be applied to all other amphetamines, as ing trials at Camp Adair re well. While the chugs are not physically addictive, us I search station. ers can be "hooked" emotionally and psychologically. Since the body builds up a tolerance to amphetamines, I usage is often a one-way street—toward heavier and I more frequent doses. The dangers are threefold: I 1. Users are inclined to be violent, particularly if and I when they enter a paranoic stage. 2. Users are highly susceptible to such ailments as I pneumonia, malnutrition and exhaustion, as a result of going without food and sleep for prolonged periods of I I tim e. 3. Users can develop high blood pressure, abnormal I heart rhythms,heart attacks and permanent brain dam I age. I (Reprinted with permission from Alcohol and Ekug I Section, Mental Health Division. ) I By order, the Board of Coun ty Commissioners reappointed Lee Fountain to a three year term on the County Planning Commission, to expire April 1, 1972. In a motion the Commission approved the amount of $125.50 The major portion of Scratch for payment to two indigent Pad this week is being devoted cases. t o a commentary originally Bill Wick, Bill McNeal, Bob aired over KVI-TV in May of Courtrlght and Walt Schroeder, 1968 by its authcr, Bob Roberts. repiesenting the Marine Lab Pat Starr brought a copy to me oratory at Port Orford andOre- after ithad appeared in a Seat gon State University, met with tle newspaper.. . and I’m pas the Board of County Commis sing it on to you for what YOU sioners and enumerated the can get out of i t . . . which is areas of success In the Port plenty I hope. Orford laboratory. The Board of Commission I'VE HAD IT! ers approved the issuance of a "There's something that needs Class B License to Lloyd D. to be said about this country. and Mary Sue Russel and Bon A.-id since no one seems to have nie McGovern of Brookings. the gumption to say it, I guess In an order the Board ap it's up to m e. proved hiring Lois Eileen Web- "I have had it up to here with ley as Secretarial Assistant persons who are trying deliber to the Curry County Planning ately to tear my country apart. Commission. And it's way past tim e to throw On Monday, the Board of a t me that tired old wheeze a - Commissioners met with two bout being a Flag-waver. You're groups of high school students dam nedrightl'm a Flag-waver, who are interested in a youth and I got the right to be one the center. hard way. A hearing on the vacation "I have had it with pubescent of a portion of the old Port punks, wallowing in self-pity, Orford to Langlois road, lying who make a display of deplor to the editor . . . in Section 4, Township23 South, ing t h e i r birth into a world which—to use their sissy ex In reading of the efforts of Range 15 West, WM, Wednes day morr '.ng at 10:00 o’clock. pression—they didn't m ake. these various groups and In "Well, I didn't m a k e the dividuals who are trying to get There being no objections pre world I was bom in either. And some aid from the County Com-- sented, the Board of Commis neither did the men I know who mlssloners for their various sioners approved the vacation. The Board of Commissioners are worthy of respect. They just school districts by using some went a bout and made something of the O. and C. funds as an met with Keeney and Havey, out of it. offset against property tax, It architects; Hal Myrand, State "The men I grew up w ith seems to me they should all get Board of Health; Don Horton, were fetched up in a logging together and form a countywide contractor; Geo. Mateer, Clerk camp. They were the immigrant property taxpayer’s league of the Works and Ken Thomp sons of every cast-off race there which I think would have more son, Hospital Administrator, Wednesday. Purpose of the con is. And they didn't have a hell Influence with the County Court. of a lo t of knowledge at home It Is plain to see in compar ference was to detail proced to start them off, either. ing Curry County’s budget with u r e s relative to the modern "But I can write you a song the budgets of other counties ization project of Curry Gen about the son of a Po Valley that all IS not well. I have eral Hospital. The regular Wednesday coal miner who becam e a na- felt for some time that our tionally-renowned physicist; a - local governments were grow afternoon road d e p a r t m e n t meeting was held in session bout doctors, lawyers, teachers, ing faster than the Commun forestr specialists,conservation ity. I think our County Com with Commissioners Tucker, expert ,and men of the cloth— missioners and budget com Hale and Colegiove and Lot in th< Seattle-T acom a area— mittee should take a second look Robinson, Ed Sypher, Bruce tending. Air Command. who . im e out of that logging at some of these programs Shaner and Myron Baumer at- Captain Haight, a 1959 grad The following reports were c a m ;. And about the son of a and projects financed with these uate of Pacific High School, heard: Dani h m echanic who is one of O. and C. funds, that may have ported from all county income. An agreement has been sign received his B,S. degree in 1964 the best friends I've got. to be subsidized with property It is unfair that only school ed between Ken Rogge and the from the University of Oregon "S odon't give me your whin tax money If we should hap expenditure should be available county for a right of way on and was commissioned there in g , whimpering, self-pitying pen to lose a large share of for taxpayer scrutiny and ap Sixes. through the Air Force Reserve clap-trap about how this coun the O. and C. money through proval. Program proposal for oiling Officers Training Corps pro try is letting you down. gram. Congressional action which There is no limitation on of roads for 1969-70. "I have had it with hippies, seems very possible. If this what O & C funds can be spent His wife, Gwen, Is the daugh Fences and other improve brainless intellectuals, writers should happen Curry County for. It has been an unwritten ments are being constructed on ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell who c a n 't write, painters who would be In real trouble. agreement that l/3rd be used the Winchuck; also oiling is to Dart of Hawthorne, Calif. c a n 't paint, teachers who c a n 't I have heard It said that If for maintenance of access be done. teach, administrators who c a n 't these O. and C. funds were roads, but I see no reason why City Hall street In Gold Beach administrate, entertainers who used to offset property taxes this fact should excuse the whole and shop road being prepared DAHRENS’ SHIP fancy themselves sociologists, that the large timber operators amount from being subject to for oiling. DESTROYS TARGETS and Negroes who castigate as would be the principle bene taxpayer determination. In this Overlay to be done on upper USS AGERHOLM at sea "Uncle Toms" the very men ficiaries which is probably true, matter, the commissioners Winchuck. March 26—B o lle r m a n Third who have d o n e the most to but on the other hand I can’t should be the representatives of Lobster creek bridge h a s Class Gregory L. Dahrens, demonstrate to all of us the see us taxing ourselves into the taxpayers who elect them. been completed; piling was dri USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Les most important quality in Am bankruptcy Just to spite some If they adopt such a high ven to give better stability. ter Dahrens of Port Orford, is e r i c a . . . individual enterprise big company. After all, these handed attitude, we should let Slip-out on Haga bluff near serving aboard the destroyer andresponsibility.. . Dr. George timber operators provide allv- them know that they are our completion. USS Agerholm. W a s h i n g t o n Carver, Archie llhood for the larger half of servants, and to shape up or ship Hunters Creek Heights road For the f i r s t time In three Moore, Bert Williams, Booker T. the citizens in Curry County out. There is no reason, that has one more day’s work to years, Agerholm has hoisted its W ashington, Roy W ilkins,J ustice and also make this O. and C. I can see, why the tax state complete. battle ensign In combat off the Thurgood Marshall, Duke El fund possible by providing a ments issued to the taxpayers Shoulder work on J e rry ’s Flat coast of Vietnam, providing lington, Count Basie, Nat Cole, market for this O. and C. tim should not show the whole situ road to be done. gunfire support for the U.S. the M i l l s Brothers, and their ber. Slip-out on Sixes road near ation: property tax and income fa th e r.. . and many more. It seems to me that we should from O & C funds and other Rock Creek to be maintained. "I've had it with those cere create a tax climate that would sources; against this, where Asphalt equipment will be bral giants who think it's smart draw new industry Into the it Is spent, without segregating ready for spring work. to invite drug advocates to le c C o u n ty rather than trying to certain functions, for which ture in their classrooms, and drive out what industry we have. county g o v e r n m e n t declaims with teaching curiosities like I predict that if the present responsibility (like schools and th it one in the Mercer Island political and economic trend School District who invited a continues that by the year 1980 hospitals) from others which VALPARAISO, FLA.—U. S. Black Power spokesman to dis Curry County will have a popu are the commissioners’ " p ri Air Force Captain Leon L. pense a lecture on Flag-burning. lation of 6000 or 7000 and a vate affair.” As it stands the taxpayer Is Haight, son of Mr. and Mrs. "I've had it with people who majority of them will be work are setting about deliberately ing in the courthouse or for not shown properly where the Lester E. Haight of Cape Blan total tax dollars are going. O co Road, Sixes, has received 11 to rip up m ankind's noblest ex Its related activities. & C funds started, just as much, awards of the Air Medal at periment in decency. as tax dollars. I, for one, re Eglln AFB, Fla., for air action "And I'm going to tell you Respectfully, sent the commissioners’ letter In Southeast Asia. something. If you think you're CONRAD E. COLSON which tells the taxpayer, In Captain Haight was cited for going to tear down my country's Box 313 effect, “ It’s none of your busi his outstanding airmanship and Flag and destroy the institutions Port Orford, Ore. ness!” It’s time we had com courage as a forward air con my friends and members of my missioners In there who recog troller on successful and Im fam ily h a v e fought and died nize that It is the taxpayers’ portant missions under hazard for, you're going to have to business. ous conditions. He now holds clim b over me first. to the editor: 12 Air Medals. "And, buddy, you'd better get Norman H. Crowhurst The captain Is now at Eg up awful early in the morning. " Recent county developments Gold Beach, Oregon lln in a unit of the Tactical -P - perturb me. The trend toward C hildren.. . especially w e e voting down school budgets re youngsters.. . are a c o n s t a n t flects a combination of two source of wonderment. . . a n d things—I am not sure In what our three-year-old daughter is proportions: (1) a rebellion certainly no exception. against ever-increasing taxes; The other day bride was sit (2) a feeling that our education ting down and the youngster dollar Is not buying Its walked over and lovingly put "money’s worth.” her arm around bride's neck. I’d rather not c o m m e n t fur "Mommy, " she asked, "will ther on the second point now, you fix my doll for me?" because It seems more urgent "Why,sure honey," bride said, that taxpayers should let our "what's the m atter with it?" county commissioners know ex Without a change of expres plicitly how they feel. The sion the l i t t l e one replied, group called the Association of "It's DEAD. " School Boards had done this, ☆ -P - to which the commissioners in Away back in 1916 Mrs. Mat effect r e s p o n d e d , “ No Dice, f grandma) Fleetwood,a resident that’s our money.” here since 1951, began saving I contend that O & C funds, clippings of former President as county Income, are county Eisenhower and his family. All money, and therefore should be the clippings were then faith handied as the taxpayers want, fully placed in order in a scrap not at the caprice of commis 9 lr 1 book for 3 8 years. The scrapbook sioners who virtually say, “ It’s was ;»esented to the Eisenhowers none of your business how we RUBBER TIRED in 1954 and now Mrs. Fleetwood spend it—you can’t have any ☆ is the proud poeeener of a letter for schools I” from the White House signed by It Is county Income, Just as Mrs. Eisenhower. much as local property tax is. -P - All public functions are sup- RUBBER TIRED»CRAWLER Postmaster Norm Baker tells me that Social Security infor m ation and forms .ire available M U S IC BY at the post o ffic e ... up-dated and replenished a lx mt once per m o n th .. . for your convenience. t o th e E d ito r Senate Bill 92 which would help to prevent obscene mat erial from falling Into the hands of minors was brought up for a hearing In Salem Thursday. House Minority Leader, Jason Boe, D-Reedsport, one of the chief sponsors of the measure along with Sen. A1 Flegel, Sen ate Majority Leader, testified that he felt It was now Imper ative to pass such legislation. "Pornography has become a multi-million dollar business that preys to a great extent on the sexual curious lty of youth,” he said. "This bill only applies to minors and Is based on a New York statute which has been upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court.” The Court has consistently upheld the right of a state to protect the well-being of Its young peo ple. In effect, it has said that a state can determine which types of literature and pict ures may be harmful to child ren while not necessarily harm ful to adults. The proposed Oregon statute tuts been mod eled quite closely on the tested New York state law. "Any conscientious person who looks at the filth now avail able to the young people In Oregon will be absolutely shocked,” the Minority Leader stated. “ A U. S. Senate Sub committee investigating Ju venile delinquency pointed out the dangers of obscene material and Its peculiar resemblance to narcotics addiction. A young mind once “ hooked” Inevitably hunts for stronger, some thing with a greater thrill. The dealer of pornography preys on tills addiction for every nickel that It's worth. This measure would strike directly at those who sell obscene m aterial. It is designed to close that out let and give the law enforce ment officers a tool to pro secute those who distribute this —P - filth. Got your ticket to the Quar Representatives from Salem Academy, the St. Vincent de terback Club's old-tim e grange Paul Society, the Knights of ilance yet ’ Better hurry, Charlie, Columbus, the Citizens for l>e- it's April 25. cent Literature, the Portland Mayor's office and the State PTA appeared to support SB 92 along with Multnomah Coun / w fc ty District Attorney, George s r je t f m Van Hoomlssen. 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