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CUfcENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955
We Didn't Steal the' Willamette
Marjorie, how about talcing a, let
ter? This one goes to J. H. (Rip) Van
.Winkle, editor of the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier.
.
Dear Rip:
; Now, look, you're going loo far. You
object, in your editorial of July 20, to
the "fact" that "Just north of Eugene,
there is a fast-growing community also
known as Willamette," and that "The
Lane County Willamette sponsored an
entry in the 'Miss Oregon' contest at
Seaside." You say in your editorial that
there is a Clackamas County community
also bearing the Willamette name, and
that while this Clackamas County com
munity has lots of pretty girls, it is too
staid to enter one in a beauty contest.
You wind up saying, "We just don't
want our lovely town mixed up with
the Lane County upstart that lacked
Imagination in copying the name well
established for many years before the
southern community was even an idea."
Local pride is something we under
stand up here at the head of the valley,
but we think you probably ought to be
shaped up a little on your information.
In the first place the "fast growing com
munity',1 known as Willamette must be
Willamette City, which is not north of
Eugene, but southeast, hard by Oakridge.
Or do you mean Willamette high school,
which is north of Eugene?
In the second place our girl earned
her title fair and square. She was not
"Miss Willamette" hut "Miss Willamette
land," a monicker she earned by coming
in second in the state's "Miss Universe"
contest in Salem. Site got the title in Sa
lem, not up here. She lives in Eugene,
her name is Barbara Lee and she is cute.
In the third place, our claim to the
Willamette name for a community is as
good as yours, maybe better. The town
of Wlllammette Forks was established
in Linn County Jan. 10, 1851, and re
survey put it in Lane County March
4, 1852 (which was also the date q,f ttie
inauguration pf Franklin Pierce), and
at that time the spelling was changed to
Willamette. Rather late, on March 14,
185-1, a town, of Willamette was estab
lished in Yamhill County, and the spell
ing was changed to Willammette before
the post office was closed, presumably
for lack of customers, on July 27, 1852.
Our Willamette, meanwhile, was a pros
perous community and remained as a
post .office until 1884. Preston's map
shows it, in 1856, as being three miles
north of Coburg. Another Yamhill
County town, Wallamette, was estab
lished in 1853 and closed in 1857. So, the
way we read the book, our claim is
pretty good.
You write, in your engaging edito
rial, as if the Willamette were a round
ish river, all in Clackamas County. Last
time we saw it, it was rather longish,
running from up in our Cascades down
past Sauvies Island. It's ours to begin
with, although you're welcome to it
after we're through with it.
Moreover, if the affinity of the Wil
lamette for Oregon City is so great, why
does the river go past your town so darn
fast? Last time we stopped by the his
torical marker and looked out across the
gorge, it seemed as if the river just
couldn't wait to get to Multnomah
County.
Furthermore, why' is it, as you sug
gest, that a staid community can't enter
a girl in a beauty contest? We're pretty
staid sometimes, and we did it.
That's about all for now. Let's be
friends and figure that Willamette be
longs to both of us, although you can't
have it till we're through. Sign that,
"Yours in the interest of accuracy."
Corrupt Practices
The federal government's case against
the United Automobile Workers will, we
hope, go to court and settle the ques
tion of how much part a labor union
may play in electing "friends of labor"
to high office. The federal indictment
says the U.A.W., a C.I.O. affiliate, vio
lated the section of the federal corrupt
practices act which prohibits a bank,
corporation or labor union from using
general funds for political purposes. The
U.A.W., perhaps the most powerful labor
union in America today, should be hold
strictly accountable under terms of the
law.
It has been the position of this news
paper that labor unions should he al
lowed, even encouraged, to engage in
political activity. That, as much as "col
lective bargaining." is one of the pri
mary functions of Big Labor. It is a
function that many union members have
come to expect.
However that docs not mean that the
union should he permitted to use gen
eral funds, paid involuntarily in some
cases as dues from "captive members,"
to promote political ends that the captive
members don't approw. Rather, as the
law suggests, the union should act only
as a general headquarters through which
separate funds, collected and earmarked
for that purpose, ate spent in a political
venture that has the favor of most, if not
all, union members.
H will be a -sad ikiy for American
politics" if labor unions are barred com
pletely from political activity. But it will,
be equally sad if their activity js not
held within legal ilicck
salary Mr. Lattimore was drawing, but
our guess is that the three-year "vaca
tion with pay" must have cost the uni
versity at least $30,000. Mr. Lattimore
spent that, and his savings, on his de
fense, even though his lawyers worked
without fee.
When it appeared he'd need another
$40,000 to fight his case through the
supreme court. Mr. Lattimore almost
gave up. He didn't have the $40,000.
But George Roas, a Johns Hopkins phil
osophy professor, set out to raise the
money. He got $36,000 from 1,800 dif
ferent persons. That was spent, too, be
fore the government dropped its charges.
Observing that "It is better to walk
with Owen Lattimore through the fires
of senatorial persecution than to suffer
the sort of trial given Beria in Russia,"
Mr. Johnson credits three factors with
saving Mr. Lattimore from the Beria
stylc justice. First is the fact that
"American courts arc not yet prostituted
to the exigencies of politics; second, the
American bar is not yet prostituted to
the philosophy of fees first and justice
afterward; and third, American univer
sities arc not yet prostituted to Fal
staff's theory that honor is a word, a
mouthful of wind, as compared to com
fort and safety. "
Expensive
.
A niv jlat on tin ordeal if Owen
Lattimore i provided by Grftilri W.
Johnsnrpin Ike New Republic. Mf. John
son. former Ba')orp Sun editorial
jvritor and a historian, t0s ?.lout the
ihanials: of the case involving his
fello Baltimorian, Mr. Lattimore. o
a Johns Hopkins University, where
Mr. Lattimore was working when his
case came up, continued his salary al
though it dropped him from active
teaching. That went on for three years.
Mr. Johnson doesn't say how much
Green Ones?
The city of Salem is putting its po-
lico'inon in "plain colored car's." which
means cars of green, grey, brown, ma
roon, or two-toiHv Thus Salem drivers
c.iw't glance in the rear-view mjrror and,
spot tie 4-op when he i a couple nf
blocks away. This is in contrast to the
Eugene systeu of painting" police cars
in colors ami designs that positively
shriek "Police." ,
ive recall lfoti Ted Brown, our
formoipoiio, hiTf. 't out to see that
'e presence o.police cars nva. in itself,
o a deterrent to idiotic driving. 1. he felt,
ity police in marked cars Anile) get
aroum? tow n often enough to show Se
'citizens that they ugc on yie job. citi
zens would tread less heavily on their
accelerators. Thus there would be few
er accidents. He felt that influencing
drivers to drive safely was more im
portant than arresting those who drove
' wildly. We think he was right.
The-SpisBell Ringer
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DORIS FL&ESON
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DfnocratAwit Fe&turfe
In DixQn-Yate3-Iivestisation
WASHH'GTON-ien. Estes Ke- Tl ctrcumstaies under which
fauver has add,ressd k pite Adams entered the PionTfav,
note to Sherman Ada'ms, Pjfsi- jnqUjry wre an investigator's
fnt Elsenhower's aide, , am The ck,irmin 0( the Se.
and. Exchange Commis-
ate anti-modopo- subcommittee sion, J. Sinclair Armstrong was
his role in the Dixog lates con- refusing to tell the subcomiitl"
tract. The note sugegsts that why the SECsuddenly cancelled
with the President iit Geneva, hcari?s on !h financing of the
there is no desire to press Adam. contract the day the House was
to apnear immediately s'net he scheduled to vote on it. Arm-
nTust be. unusually busy. strong said Attorney. General
It rnifld. cf( course, be added Bfnwnell naa anvisea mm uus-
IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
Chief ReDlieS punshiment for their misdemean-
' ors, you would have some demons1
SPRINGFIELD (To the Editor) on your hands. If you have an
-In answer to the article in the '".""v' 1UK"- "m',- . Vu .
Register-Guard, under Mail Bag,
entitled "WANTS ACTION," by
Helen O. Pridmore residing at
150 West E Street in Springfield.
Miss Pridmore stales that a
sex deviate has been running
loose in Springfield for several
years and you recommend that
we should put on a special police
hunt for this subject, declaring
it an emergency.
You are correct it has been
classified as an emergency with
us for a long time and we are
and have been bending every cf
tentiaries." You will "find that
the United States built the Tirst
penitentiary, the Pennsylvania
type with individual cells, in
I'm scared to death that some of
our otherwise sensible people may
forget.
We can reasonably expect suc
cess at Geneva and I will be first
to say I don't have any idea how
to define "success" in this con
text. I fully expect Geneva to be
1783. The notion at that time was a milestone on the long haul; the
that through solitary confinement confidence and hope expressed
by radio and newspaper is, in
deed justified. We have had a
long, cold war; it is the same one
we got excited about 7 Decem
ber 41, remember?
There is a particularly surpris
ing trick of judo that has as its'
first step the accepting of the
handclasp of friendship. In order
and reading of the Bible, the in
mate would be reformed because
he could see nothing and do
nothing except read the "Good
Book." The intentions were good,
but it just didn't work. The en
cyclopaedia will tell you that it
caused more insanity than refor
mation. All people need HOPE;
fort to aoorehend this subicct lncy nteu lo ce uwl u"- to achieve the aim of world dom-
for the safety of all concerned, working toward some goal and ination, the fat shrewdies that
Our police have investigated sev- are mal(in8 progress and that run Russia, Inc. can afford lo
oral calls on this subject. Often someone cares about their peace hold our hands for a while. Until
the calls come in after a lapse ot mincl ancl tncir suffering. Then enough of the political budget-
of time after the subject has left ,00- tnink ot tno custodians and cutters have slashed our defense
which handicaps. We have one guards. What a life for them, mechanisms to small pieces; that
lady who was attacked by this Jvlan s innumanity toward man re- long they will wait. You sec, it
liecis, retracts ana pivots arounn,
cutting its swath in human suf
fering.
We now have scientific knowl
subject who can identify him,
now living in Germany. We have
esent her photographs of all the
known and suspected subjects to
see if she can identify this sub
ject. Suspects we have picked up
have been viewed by victims in
police lineups, but only the lady
mentioned in Germany can
identify this subject as far as
we know. In the past there has
been a great number of suspects
and at this time there is still a
number of suspecls under sur
veillance that arc known to us.
Police officers on all three
shifts have spent many hours on
their off duty time in civilian
clothes searching for this badly
wanted subject.
If you have any further sug
gestions, or know anyone who
may have any helpful informa
tion concerning this subject, we
will be more than pleased to in- rnKr Half Wav?
vestigate any leads that will help nly ndll-VVdy.
anytime
has struck me that the pattern
is repeating itself in world af
fairs: the Reds were losing in
Korea; we could beat them and
edge in the treatment of behavior kn(;w u ? inst,ei"' l 'I""
problems. Let's use it.
Do you know what a noted
psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger
has lo say about mental illness?
He says, "of all the serious dis
eases that confront mankind,
mental illness is one of the most
hopeful of recovery." We need
more mental health clinics and
more trained people to work in
the hospitals, clinics and research
laboratories. We need a better
informed public,
MRS. FLORENCE REED COOK
156 Elkay Drive, Eugene
locate this subject
day or night.
Respectfully,
HARRY W. HOWARD,
Chief of Police.
Is Concerned
Et'GKNE (To the Editor) I
am concerned about our institu
tional problems. An incident oc
curs in the fields of juvenile de
linquency, crime or mental ill- S1DEGLANCES
ness and the public is incensed
and aroused. Then what? The vio
lators are committed to an insti
tution and the public nods its
head in approval. The public is
told that we have experts in the
correctional and treatment insti
tutions where the inmates are
properly guided and instructed.
And that is ahout all the public
knows.
Incidents occur occasionally, '
such as prison riots. The public
then shudders and sympathies
with the, prison authorities, fret
fng p.erhaps we need harsher
methods of dealing with these
incorrigible and ''mean crim
inals." True, the criminals shoulrt
not run the in!itutions. and "the
public ocds to be protected from
criminal acls. Rut, cVl ou er
top lo vond- how these inmates
were.kving rior to th rioting
The Walla 14 .Jla incident is an
cN'nplo. These men were ineg
retation. Do'you know what tha'
means' It means in Orcw'm that
ty are locked up in -KtniiliMl
cells with hltle ot no exerci-,
no knowledge othow lothry
jWill be so confined. We win
about the humane treatment of
our dojs cat s'but ha!tiout
our hum?ti hemes? I'o resident
would Vep a human being in a
roo?n for any length of time, the
Humane SiH'icty would be af'r
that individual. Yet, we tnli rate
that condition in our correctional '
Institutions Think of onr vvn
children. If jou used that sort of
SPRINGFIELD (To the Editor)
Re: Editorial, "Can We 'Push
Back the Indians'"
Your comments were quite to
the point hut, 1 feel you only
went about half-way.
It worried me to know, for a
lot of years, that any time I heard whites of their eyes, in Geneva.
a trans-continental bomber over- c. .
head it very easily might be Sincerely,
carrying a red star on it. Geneva RICHARD W. WOODBURY
is not going to eliminate that but 321 "E" St.
ammunition they started firing
words and time at us across a
conference table ... they won
too! (In a war, someone loses
and someone wins. Korea was a
war. We did not win in Korea.
Therefore, we lost.) Probably be
cause of better intelligence ser
vices, the Reds think we could
obliterate them - - - in a sense,
they are losing . - - they have
had to make some concessions
to get us to Geneva but they're
playing to win (they can hold
hands a while) so, now, watch the
time and word ammo roll.
Yes, Bulganin and his 'happi
ness boys' are the star attraction
in Geneva this week". The cast is
gigantic. You may well listen to
some of the lyrics but they won't
tell you the "score ".
And while the whole world
watches Ivan's boys vodka-ize the
whole of Switzerland. I sincerely
hope the boys flying patrols out
of Thule keep their eyes peeled
and their trigger fingers warm.
You see- - -, we arc seeing the
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that there is no desire cn the
subcommittee's part' to put on.
the star actor of "Dixon-Yates
while 'Geneva is monopolizing-the"
nation's headlines. For in dis
covering that Adams played a
part in that controversial affair,
Democsats have at last, arrived
where they have longed to be,
which i squarely in the immedi
ate vicinity of the President's
desk.
AS' 4 3TANT PRESIDENT
Adams' duties can truly be de-
fell within the president's prohi
bition on revealing prfvate White
House conversations. m
ADAMS CALLING
With this clear indication that ,
at last they were getting some- f
where the subcommittee sent
Armstrong home to talk it over
with the attorney general. The
next day the SEC chairman testi
fied that Adams had. called and
asked for postponement. Then
he clammed up again.
The subcommittee didn't mind
serihed ns those nf assistant Dresi- that new hose of attempted sec-
dent and Eisenhower himself has recy at all.' It is too happy to
have reason to can a presioen
tial intimate, a roan closely iden
tified with the President in the
public mind. Washington at least
knows that "Adams calling" rates
next to "Eisenhower calling" in
the power to get action.
Adams, charming socially and
gruff politically, has not been
tested as a congressional witness.
said "Sherm" makes his life
possible. This feeling of obliga
tion was the real reason for -the
President's recent New England
safari, Adams being a former
governor and member of the
House from New Hampshire.
With Adams, Kefauver hopes to
break the jinx which has marked
other Democratic efforts to put
the blame for mismanagement in 'The question of how he will do
the President's lap. Parents wor- in his baptism of fire will crowd
ry about the Salk vaccine con- the hearing with curious specta-
fusion but they blame Mrs. Hob- tors.
by. Educators are angry about He is in a difficult position,
inaction in the school field but He must know the whole story
they blame Mrs. Hobby, Treasury 0f Dixon-Yates. If he takes
Secretary Humphrey and the refuge behind the President's
Democratic Congress. The postal prohibition as Armstrong first
workers arc mad at the Post- attempted to do, it will produce
master General. Secretary Dulles an effect of secrecy bound to be
takes the rap on foreign policy. harmful politically. This is one
It is all very discouraging for hearing in which both sides will
a party in search of an issue. be wary and well-prepared.
FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
Citizens Uncertain About
Neighborhood Full of Cops
WASHINGTON All I know
for certain about the super-secret,
hush-hush Central Intelligence
Agency is the fact that its bosst
Allen W. Dulles, smokes an ex
cellent grade of pipe tobacco.
tor of the weekly Providence
(name of our township) Journal,
and Carleton Massey, our county
manager, said you couldn't stop
progress. '
They figured our precincts
Fragrant. Probably costs him $3 would be built up soon by new
per pound.
All other information concern
ing his globe-girdling organiza
tion of sleuths to me is a mystery,
which rapidly is growing mystcri
ouser, Consider, for instance, surplus
property from the Central In
telligence Agency. This property
is secret. I tried to get some idea
what it might be, aside from
maybe an oversupply of false
residents, anyhow, and why not
get some high-class ones, like
those CIA people? I, myself,
not know how high-class CIA
folks are, because the only one
1 can recognize is Dulles, the
pipe-smoker. His helpers may be
the finest citizens there are, but
there's no way of telling because
none of 'em even will admit they
work for him.
(Copyright,. 1955, by United
'So They Say'-
whiskers, but the man from the feature syndicate, inc.)
General Services Administration
said he could say only that it was
confidential equipment. His job
is to get rid of it.
So it would seem that secret
bidders must make secret bids
on secret merchandise, which
they're not going to be allowed
to see. Here I'm spoofing a little,
but not much. This CIA business
is so danged secret that to an
outsider like me it begins to look
ludicrous.
Give them (parents of delin
quent children) a big fine, not
the jail. The jail is only for guys
that steal and hit people on the
head and things like that.
Rocky Graziano, onetime ju
venile delinquent who became
middleweight champion.
COPS IN MUFTI
That brings us to (op sleuth
Dulles, smoking his beautiful
smelling pipe, and appearing be
fore the Senate Appropriations
Committee , on the subject of
w here he's going to build his new,
$4R 000.000 headquarters.
Reporters like me had to leave,
of course. Dulles' testimony had
to he secret. But it's hard to keep
a secret in a Senate committee
room and I'd hardly been allowed
to return an hour and a half later,
before I was told confidentially
that Dulles had insisted he want
ed to locate his intelligence cen
ter at Langley, Va.
In the field of long range planes,
the Soviets are lagging behind
the West and specifically behind
the United States.
General Gruenlhcr, SHAPE
commander.
Throw away an orange? I like
oranges.
Boxer Harold Johnson when
asked why he didn't discard
an orange which was alleged
ly doped.
.
My banker tells me if I don't
quit it, I'm going to have to move
my overdraft elsewhere. So from
now on, 1 11 be glad to send such
Well sir. this happens to be half a (four-color United States) map
a mile down the pike from mv
own beaten-up acres at McLean
and into the room rushed a score
or more of my neighbors to dis
cover, if they could, what the
international hawkshaws intended
to do to our countryside.
About half of them fieured the
CIA would be a
neighborhood; the other half
were bitter against turning our
rural area into a city full of cops
in mufti.
Attorney Sam N'ecl, who
boucht a horse from me a while
back, chargrd that Dulles in
tended .to build a junior.sized
pentacna smack-dab in the mid
dle of what we residents like to
call our farms. 'otnsellor Kocef
T Fisher insisted the CIA's proj
ected building would be six-and-a-tialf
times bigger tha the pres
ent department of state, whicll
isn't exactly a two-room shack.
ROTfl SIDK
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to anyone who wants it and w ho
encloses S4.
Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tox), says
he's going broke sending out
maps that cost him $4 each.
They (Russia) will have lo in
vent it lltnmi. ,..hl .....
boon to our v h,,t r ., .i... i ,
..i i-unr iii.il in me enu
they will say they were first.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson
(D-Wash). .' 4
I predict we will have a two
hour work day because of auto
mation. Albert Whitchouse, director of
United Steelworkers and viceV
president Nationar Council ok
Churches.
You have e;ther.gnt to. talk or
you have fc shoot. An t I think
if is much better to a than
$0001.
' t- i." , . ." . S(,n- Homer Capehart on pro-.
.Fishers ca eolations indicated . pose-, BigTour conference
to Dim. he said, that the VIA in- . i
trndc to frect a strucire large a u
enouch V hold 16.100 federaP
hawkshfws ar0! secretaries Dulis
mutterel prott. but he chose
not to tell how manymp es he
actually would have. That's a. e-
crei, too. 0
Fisher insisted that 0,rh 9.
miehty influx of tcdcra?dctfc-
memrer r e
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"Smith, I've enjoyed this evening1! fun no end! What
make it nicer is I know you're one employe who wouldn't
try to polish me up for a raisel", 0 f
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