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1100 BUGS-HA HO I P I L O T THURSDAY OCTOBER ¿0, .9 5"_______ W A w a f iB P IL O T -O DÆCFOitorr NT W SF-X Ek b * ! ' « * ■ Au /-> (O tlC At f- I — » v / a s s o c ia ’ e* « ' J u > « iv iu m i r v iu ia iti u n c in o « waner *t • » w < r « .r BewAo—a On , «^4 wafer m ar> y Marta J j t » Ray P iu rci J « Murphy Sftear« e«4 /-»AbbMrr« . ÄVBSOJKnOM »ATES $’* ï**' ’ A4‘**’ » <X.v> O f , OÄ >■ £ z '~’ m M atta JUSTICE E!CT B L IN D ..................................... Often ae have been diacourgaged ax -tax pass-» for as tic e, *ben we se e some obrbxia -rongs passed o ter and grossed over, and some borderline cases s .a t t c - d to the fWieet extent of the letter of the law. However, last -eek in the Circuit Court p re sided over by Jjdge Dal King, the real m eam ^ of justice a a s firmly brought home. We refer to the .ocally celebrated trial of four o u t-o f-s ta te fishermen, who were arrested .ast summer by «»>»*• police on a charge of Ulegai possession of silver salmon. The trial received attentl.a from the entire fisting industry in California, Oregon *nd Washington, and because the men »ere arrested in Che too Cove it provided a great deal of local interest. Th fishermen claimed that they were blown in here by ad verse weather conditions, and a.though they could have made it to Cr«-scent City it -ouid have been longer, and thus more haz ardous to do so. The state police arrested the men. seized a quanity of their silv er s, and required them to post ball. Later J»»dge Hans Nelson held court on them, and fined them forbreah- ing th* letter of the la»--having silver salmon in their p o sse ss ion in Oregon at a time when such possession was Ulegai. We don't have any quarrel with Nelson, or with the S t a t e police, although we were more than a little agitated at the time. We think that their Job is to uphold the law--aad that is what we are paying them for--and we don’t ejq>ect le ss. However, the facts are, and Judge Kh< was wise enough of a jurist to see that, the men had violated ONLY THE LETTER OF THE LAW, and not the INTENT. In other words--and we s a i d this at the time the law was not meant to apply to distressed v e s se ls, »hich put into Oregon waters with no intent to violate the Oregon law. If these men were caught fish k* for sUvers in Oregon waters --and they weren’t, or if they were caught trving to sell »he s il vers in Oregon, which they weren't--then we would feel justified In lowering th»- boom. Technically, of course, they had broken the Oregon law by having possession. But obviously these men bad nt> criminal intent. They m erely put in at B rookins to get out of a storm. This in our opinion does not constitute breakup a law--and our opinion happily coincides with Judg* King We find it darn nice to be right for once, and again we report that true justice Isn't blind at all. INVISIBLE ADVERTISING There Is always something new and different in the world we live in. Now a researcher in the east has come ip with a wooder- ous develcpmeot. It is what you call a ' sneaky approach' to the buying pub. ic . The product is flashed upon a screen, either in th«- theatre or on TV at a thousandths of a second You can't see it--but It hits your subconscious level, and then you are sigipose to run out and buy something. It was tried first in a theatre and It supposedly increased the sale of popcorn by 81 percent, ust by flashing on the screen "buy popcorn" every few seconds. People ta th audience craved popcorn, am went out and pur chased it. We don't know what reaction the m« U d would get if the words "Jump in the Lake" were flasbeo. alt ,rt we assume that th. mind won't let the person do something i: doesn't want to. Psychologists also report that It might work in a theatre, but the craving won't last long enough to get you down to the corner store for a new hat. Personally, we prefer the old visual method, such as the P i lot, where people can study the ads for an hour or so before thev make up their minds. 3 SKETCHBOOK »HD FiSAI/l for what it 's worth (LIFFO RD ROWE What with all the criticism .eve.ec at television these days it is rather heart-warming to have a kind word spoken in its beha.f even though =puch an oc currence may be a rare one. Sort of reminds one of »hat ancient yarn related to a mean old odger -ho had just passed on and -hose mourners were racking their minds trying to find aosse redeeming quality to offer in the deceased s favor. F i n a l l y , after much h e a d scratching oae fellow shattered momentarily the o p p r e s s ive g .o o m by asserttt^ proudly, You know be was sure a good •h istler '. So I -a s somewhat pleased a • eek or so ago to read about a youngster in »ashn<ton -ho having been kidnapped .ater ad mitted that he hac been able to effect his escape with a trick he had learned on TV. Now, of course, to say som e thing of that sort about television almost amounts to treason, for today the twenty-four inch screer is being b.anted for practically every fating of modern society In fact, ft is gradually taking th Iim. .lght from the comic book. Whether it be Juvenile delinquen cy- the increase in the divorce rate, or the alarming fact that Rumors and denials of im pending international currency athletic events are suffering revaluations are creating chaotic financially because people pre conditions in world monetary fer to stay at home, the goat is markets lately. A devaluation always the name--old boogey of foreign currencies would man TV is the one to biame. mean that more E i^lish pounds, Germ an marks, or French franrt If a kid steals a car, society says he learned it from television could be bought with American dollars. —too many crime pictures. If a kid doesn't have his history An American tourist in Europe lesson prepared, it is because would find that hie dollar would he was watching television In buy more. Foreign manufacturer stead of studying. If the wife lets and miners could sell their pro her housekeeping go to pot and ducts at lower p rices in the hubby packs up and leaves, TV United States. Our own man is to blame. ufacturers, however, would find So naturally it was reallyen- it more difficult to compete in cour aging to learn that the Wash b o th overseas and d o m e s tic ington lad had acquired something markets. beneficial from television. After In spite of repeated denials o: all, it does seem logical that if imminent devaluation by Peter one can be stimulated to bad deeds Thorneycroft, British Chanceilo from the flicker box, it must also of the Exchequer, fear for tht follow that he can be pointed to stability of the English pound has wards some good ones also been pronounced. This fright has After all, it’s the good guy who been translated into an exodus gets the kiss from the heroine from pounds into the German Just before the commercial; and mark. The mark’s greater buy certainly any moron who prefers ing power and strong gold reser getting shot or going to jail rather ve position has attracted both than doing some kissing certainly timid and speculative capital. deserves to get his wish. In a frantic effort to preserve th e purchasing power of the pound, Great Britian took the drastic step of hiking its bank rate from an already steep 5 % tqa stunning 7%. The bank rate in Great Britian determines JOE MURPHY interest costs to borrowers. England hopes that higher in terest rates will pull back fund- w h ic h h a v e been fleeing the Naturally, a story like this has to come out durir^ the hunting country. Although some ob ser season or it wouldn't be a real high class season. A very r<-l i vers interpret the action as an ab.e person told me that Archie Anderson is, or has been over indication that the pound will be in Eastern Oregon hunting deer. We don't know if he has nailed stablized at all co sts, many are one or not. At any rate this person told me that he has seen a still skeptic. big four point buck lunching in Archie's back yard, for three o r ' The inability of Britian and four days in a row. McVay's borne is in the city limits of Brook ings In other words it would have been cb eap er-bu t not so much France to hold the line on man ufacturing costs has precipita fun to lean out the living room window and shoot a deer. ted the difficulty. Germany has stoutly contained i n f 1 a t i o nary We got to talking about Spudnik, the Russian built moon, and pressures; i t s manufactured naturally the talk got around to the possibility of ever reaching s ^ lL T 'X ' Per9OD’ *b° 13 ° n the conservative s X goods exports are lower priced and more competitive than those H ^ s ^ A « k V ^ i Ve m ia Wt>uld ever reach the moon. of Britain and France. He said that he based his thinking along the same line as his con- . e n „ , v e father. wbo after , U n , „ „ look a, “ a“ tomX A solution to the problem is not easy to achieve. Britian and aa that eventual.y the -hom eless carria<e " might be practical France are exhorting Germany “ tn m v el ’ ,ree“ ' b“‘ “ " " " W6Uld W '“ ed for ln,cr to raise the value of the mark. Germany feels that it c annot af ford to thus increase the prices The Russian moon brings up a few other things also. Surely of its e x p o r t s to the United the songwriters will be able to do something about that Just L of the p ossib E itles, like, Only a p a p e r l ^ States. German leaders content th a t it is already difficult to Harvest Sputnik’ , and "Carolina Sputnik". earn enough dollars to pay for The Pilot »as honored with ’a \7 s h from ‘the managing editor .spiraling Imports of U .S. Coal o^one of the W ilm e tte valley dailies, who c a m e ^ X t n Brook- and othe r goods. The root of the troubles is in X 4 X d w^Zh * W PrDduCtlon Pilot. He -a s impressed with the ae» operation. A few weeks ago anotherdsi- flation, of course. Unless Brit _X publisher from California came up sp ecifica lly to view the ian and France attain some sort plant and to see bow we were doing I* of stability, the problem will worsen as time p a sses. If the We he-arc toll that there are more bratwurst sandwiches beinc two countries are serious in theli so.d at the ME-aukee baseball stadium than hot dogs Which attempt to preserve current ex ,«U e . dfeh. M L . ^ e e U ,or ft, beer. change ratios for their moneys, go right along with it. Which is leading le to the r. , deflationary tactics maybe nec hj xh. time this paper hits the streets Milwauk^ -m essary. Unpalatable wage and ** World S e r ie s - o r I’U have made a fool of m v -J i^ * On price controls, discouragement if they don't win about 95 percent of the fam» ‘ H° * ever of excessive capital spending be disappointed. It se^ms that X ^ l X S t tariffs, import bans, or export b e e « « they here heeb o„ fh r o J t^ ^ L e ' J ^ I“ subsidies might ensue. <he uedertOf— hleh 1. the „ r y r e « o n that H.rry ? r ^ i The business scene is review^« the election way back in 1948 w»n r» rum an won weekly by the Research Depart from Bratwurst to politics in th isp a r < r m h sT l l" g ment of J. Henry Heiser 1 Co. while I'm ahead. P 80 1 A b e t t e r quit Investment Managers, with of f i c e s in principal West Coast cities. PIPE DREAMS FISHERMAN B HERE Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cobb of Portland are in Brookings visit - lng at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.V. Jones. Mr. Cobb p la n s or staying for a w eek--or until he can do some real fiahlK In the Che too.
