THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTBAL OKEGON PRESS
An Independent ewspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor
Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations
Enteral m Second Clue Matter, January 6. Itl? at the Po-it Office at Bend. Ore
goo under Act of March 3, 1B79.
4 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, January 12. 1955
How to Win, Friends
Vernon Liirson, the roal estate and insurance man
who recently was elected to the Bend "city commission
(by such a narrow margin he now calls himself "Land
- slide Larson") was in attendance at a recent meeting of
the League of Oregon Cities.
One of the things he picked up there along with
a lot of ideas was a so-called "oath of office for new
city officials". It may make you laugh, we hope it does,
but it contains a number of the things people seem to
expect from city commissioners. The "oath" follows;
"Do you solemnly swear that you will diligently
seek to increase the efficiency of city administration to
the end that taxes will be decreased and services extend
ed?
". . .That you will, upon annexation of a new area
to the city, immediately provide the new territory with
streets, sidewalks, sewers, police and fire protection
city parks and a public library without taxing the new
constituents and without additional cost to the present
city taxpayers?
", . .That you will use the new type non-fixable
parking tickets except for all those who say they voted
for you?
, ". . .That you will provide ample off and on-street
parking, non-metered parking with no time restrictions,
with no other charges, adjacent to all stores and other
places of business?
". . .That you will not permit slot machines, punch
boards, or raffles under any, conditions except where
the proceeds will be used by a social, fraternal or patri
otic organization?
". . .That you will persuade the highway commis
sion and its staff to install blinker lights, crosswalks,
signals or other devices at every intersection designated
by any self-appointed group of local traffic experts with
out cost to the city?
". . .That you will prohibit by ordinance all dogs
from running at large excepting those dogs that do not
dig, molest, destroy or desecrate lawns, trees, flower
beds and gardens?
". , .That you will not permit the city garbage dump
to give off obnoxious odors at any time and that you will
forbid rats to breed therein?
". . .That if, by chance, you fire asked to speak to
groups, associations, agencies, service clubs and conven
tions you will speak out vehemently on all issues and
yet say nothing that cannot be later denied?
State of the Union
All Logical Men
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Sage Brushings
By I LA S. GRANT
seen Liberace on
lived. Even
doctors told him to
candles and take a
pianist didn't de-
public lor several
be assumed that
I the programs are made about a
month ahead and released on
film.
Last week, Liberaee was at his
best. He turned on all the charm,
:l I : I., 1 4IA in
music. Then, with the aid of a
device known as "intentional dou
ble exposure," he played a duet
with himself. One Liberace, in
ii white tie and tails, played long
hair. The other Liberace, in while
' dinner jacket and black tie, played
short-hair. It is possible that both
Liberates wore the same pants.
Then later on, Liberace (in white
tie and tailsi. played "As Time
Goes By." Time did ro by, right
before your vpry eyes, and with
the assistance of more trick photo
liraphv, Liberace Riew old very
gracefully, and finished up wear
ing salin smoking jacket, andj
sporting a luxuriant mustache and
silver hair, still thick and curly.
Then Liberace gave the plug for
his sponsor. It was a little mono
logue delivered to his brother,
George, who never talks, but nods
and smiles in agreement. All the
lime, he was patting the bankroll
on the piano. The pitch was some
thing alxiut security, in their old
ige. (Tied in nicely with tne mus
tache and silver hair.)
I understand that all the ribbing
Liberace gets doesn't bother him
a bit. He and his brother George
get a big kick out of the jokes.
In fact, they just laugh and laugh.
All the way to the bank.
south, all the way. Some took thei'i
cars as far as Klamath Falls, then
hnarderl the train On Snndav. the
dav after the came, the ctouds
divided for the trip home. I
Somewhere south of Red Bluff,
the highway and the train track
are parallel for quite a stretch.
Mr. and Mi's. Ft J. Hafstad and
Howard and Jessie Reed, in the
U.S. Officials Say Reds Would
By ;KNK I). SVMOMIS
I'nited Press Stuff Correspondent
(Wall Street Journal)
Richard Neulterger is the new Democratic senator
from Oregon, but lie has arrived in Washington with
some arguments on public power that have an old, famil
iar ring.
Senator Neuberger litis been very critical of the Ad
ministration's "partnership" policy in the development
ol electric power projects; tins policy would encourage
local interests to build and operate power facilities in
multi-purpose dams while the Federal Government
would pay irrigation, flood control and similar costs. But
Mr. Neuberger goes beyond the usual arguments of pub
lic power advocates who contend that some projects it re
too big for private groups, or that the Federal Govern
ment will build them cheaper, or the like. i
Mr. Neuberger simply says the Government should
stay in the power business in order to make motley. The
partnership policy, he contends, is wrong because it
would end a money-making arrangement for the Govern
ment. The Government would be "surrendering revenue"
to let private companies run the power facilities.
Well, we will pass over for the moment the question
of how much money the Government does make out of
making electricity a lot depends on the bookkeeping.
What interests us is this idea that it is nefarious for the
Government to "surrender revenue" by letting private
companies run a business.
If that is to be the criterion (and if you assume a
political agency can run business efficiently) then it
would be equally true that the Government is "surrend
ering revenue" to allow General Fleet ric to sell the dy
namos that make the Government's electricity or the
electric light bulbs that burn it.
As matters now stand, the Government gets only
about half the profits in taxes and lets the shareholders
divide the other half. Fven alter the Government taxes
the shareholders iiulix iduallv on what thev divide, there
is still a little bit left that the Government didn't get.
The same would be true, of course, about the reven
ue the Government surrenders by not making automo
biles or steel or by not running the railroads or the tele
phone system. And for that matter, the1 Government
.surrenders .some by not owning your house or your farm
and making you pay rent fur it.
What deprives Senator Neuberger's idea of any
newness is that it has been propounded by Socialists
from Karl Marx to the l.riti.sh Labor Tarty: the Labor
Party actually did apply it to Britain's steel business. It
is the idea that the rewards i f cntcrpri.it do not belong
to the people who individually make them possible, but
to tile-collective entity of "g eminent" which will then
dispose of them as it sees fit.
Senator Neuberger is here applying this argument
tuily to the electric power business. But the premise that
it is wrong for the government to surrender revenue to
private business is a broad one, and tho.se who adopt it
SAIGON (UP) Underground
Communist organizations already
control alxiut 50 per cent of Vict
Nam. The question is, can Ameri
can, r reneh and r roe Viol Nam
leaders stifle those inroads before
the all-Vict Nam elections in the
summer of l'JTiG.
Most informed American offi
cials here admit if the elections
were held today, the Communists
would win.
They admit, too, it is a long
shot proK)silion whether the West
can ever save Vict Nam from
Communist grasp.
"Whether we like il or nut we've
gut our money on Hits long shot,
a U.S. military officer told mc
"And if we lose here I honestly
believe we've lost Asia."
II is possible in this rcfugee-
crowilcd capital to find every de
gree of outlook from abject pessi
mism to soaring optimism.
.Morale low
The French, low in morale and
exhausted after eight years of war
ire generally pessimistic.
Viet Namese officials are nptim
ist it. Ihcir nationalistic emotions
wore buoyed up by Ibe culling of
lies wilh I he French. They liave a
fighting determination to win back
the northern halt of their country
Unfortunately, however, Saigon
is rife wilh indecision, intrigue,
confusion, bitterness and feuds.
Progress is made in some fields
while ground is lost in others.
Behind this confusion is the fact
that Communist underground or
ganizations control about half the
population. The West's jiroticm is
to win the support ol these people
before the litrrli elections.
A big bottleneck to accomplish
ing litis appears to be the lack of
in overall American plan of ac
tum. There is hope this will ho
rectified when Gen. .1. Lawton Col
lins, President Kiscnhowcr's spec
ial envoy, returns to Washington
to report next month.
.Much lSittcrncss
There is much bitterness among
Viet Namese government and mil
itary leaders as a result of indica
tions the United States does not
intend to commit itself too deeply
here, but instead plans to rely on
i-etalialory provisions of the
SKATO pact if violence threatens
South Vict Nam.
Collins himself has boon ex
tremely quiet about his findings.
Hut members of his slaff and
American embassy officials, along
wilh Viet Namese and French
Widespread Use
Of Polio Serum
Possible in State
PORTLAND (UPI If the cur
rent nation-wide Salk polio vac
cine tests are successful, at least
90,000 additional Oregon children
may receive the preventive serum
this year, the State Board of
Health said today.
Plans call for the innuculalion of
all first and second grade children
throughout the state and third and
fourth graders in trial areas of
Multnomah, Marion and I-nnc
counties if parents or guardians
request the vaccine.
Results of the national trials are
expected to be announced iiIkiuI
April 1, according to Dr. Harold
Kricksnn. state health officer.
Hafstads' car, approached just as
the Shasta Daylight rounded a
bend. Mrs. Jim Mayne, on the
train, noticed the local automobile
and waved. The folks in the car
recognized her and waved back.
Cheerio!
Now that the ice pond is the
most popular twit-age reereutioh
spot in town, there's a golden op
portunity for some young fellow
to set himself up ' us a skating
teacher, and make a killing. But
would he charge by the hour, or by
the sitting?
BULOVA
TRADE-IN
EVENT
Trade in your old watch
now on a new Bulova
Gent's or Woman's watch .
. . . Dress, Waterproof
and Self-Winding styles.
As Much $ACK
An Allowance
For Your Old Watch.
Niebergall Jewelry
sext to t apllol Theater
WHY HE A TENANT? M.nr Hcellrnt
home-buys at easy terma In Um claaaifk-d
Kvery twelve months, about this
time, when tho old year is dead
and the new one Is in suiiclillini;
('lollies, sung hits of I lie past sev
eral decade Ret a thorough re
hashing on radio and TV. Be real-
izn that, indeed, sumo juzz tunes
will never die. Kven though they
are frequently murdered.
A dozen Central Oregonians who
attended the East-West foolhall
game New Year s day in san
Francisco brought back stories of
fine weather, stadium color and
big-city night life. Here's a "small
world" item worth passing on.
Some of the Bondites drove
AI'I'OINT.MKNT MADK
CORVALLIS (UP) LaVerne
Johnson, 27-year-old Corvallis at
torney, has been appointed city
attorney here. He is a graduate
of the University of Oregon law
school in and has practiced
law with a local firm for the past
two years.
mendations will include:
1. Throw the full support of the
United Slates behind the still weak
government of Ngo Dinh Diem,
president of the council of min
isters. He ileitis such support if
he is to break down the influence
of various religious and military
groups plotting against him.
2. Completely reorganize the ar
my under American training moth
oils and indoctrinate its men wilh
tho idea they are to serve Un
people, not exploit them.
A large-scale military and ec
onomic aid program. Collins may
loaders who have talked with him. I recommend that :,00-niillion dollars
indicate his broad policy, recom-be appropralod for 1i,.",r.
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