Jack Ling Tells of His Life
At UN HeadquariersinN. Y.
(The following In the second of
two articles on the United Na
tions by Jack Ling, a former
Bulletin tit< member who Is now
with the U.N. In New York City.)
By JACK LING
Special to The Bulletin
Over two months ago I left my
newspaper work in Bend and came
to work in this marble-and-glass
building in New York. To be sure,
there is no resemblance between
me rwo ernes.
The Wall street and Broadway
here are busier and livelier, but
the Wall street and Broadway in
Bend ace cleaner and friendlier.
And Deschutes river is certainly
prettier than the East river.
However. I can get a good view
of the city from my office on the
2-lih floor just as good as the view
of Bend from Pilot Butte; though
here I miss the leisurely ride on
the Butte's ascending road.
Where I am now is the United
Nations Permanent Headquarters,
the busiest tourist - spot in New
York. Several hundred take the
one-dollar guided tour every day.
It is no accidertt, because here the
tourist can find costumes worn by
all peoples and hear tongues spo
ken in all lands. :
More important is, of course,
what goes on here. For this is the
nerve center of the world; what
takes place here may affect the
destiny of mankind.
The buildings here rise from an
Follies Provides
Scholarship Sum
SHcliil to The Bulletin
REDMOND Home talent col
Iuborated Thursday and Friday
nights in presenting the Juniper
Follies (or the benefit of the Parent-Teacher
scholarship fund. Walt
Thomas' casual emceeing tied the
entertainment together and added
to the audience's enjoyment.
Thomas was chairman for the
follies, with PTA officers and Hugh
Hartman assisting.
The program included "Ye Olde
Photo Album" with Mrs. Al Miller
tile narrator, and pictures from
tl(e album portrayed by Harvey
Gates, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mad
sen, Mrs. Etta Fields, Mrs. Jo
hanna Durgan, Mrs. George
Heighes, Mrs. Hazel Harding, Mrs.
Calvin Urell, Miss Joyce Mc
Arlhur, Mrs. Dolly Herns, Billy
Sate, Mrs. Beatrice Vader, and in
fant Deborah Dacus.
Mrs. Edward Hoffman played
piano selections, there was a read
ing by Mrs; Jeff Tackett, dancing
by Miss Mary Cowden and by
Linda Baker, Linda Best and Linda
Fprd. Phil Hector, playing - the
French horn, was accompanied by
Brenda Eakin.
'A hillbilly skit by Jaycees and
Jaycee-ettes cast the following:
Mrs. George Taylor, Carl Copper,
Mrs. Robert Finzer, Mrs. Bill
Adams, Mrs. Don Wells, Mrs. Ted
Crowell, Mis. Keith Clark, Mrs.
RUssell Washburn, Dr. Mel Sipe,
Brian Pendleton, Bill Mayfield, Al
Sehrunk, W. R. Carter and Tom
Cyrus.
A script reading of an adaption
of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and
Men", prepared by Thomas, in
cluded Mrs. Fred Elliott, George
Watts, Harold Clapp and Thomas.
Presented in "Mr. Sycamore",
the. story of a tired postman who
longed for peace and quiet, were
George Taylor, Mrs. Donald Gard
ner, Brian Pendleton, Bill Ander
son, Mrs. John Rood, Dr. Charles
Dudley, Mrs. Walter Lantz. How
ard Milton, Clarence Hughbanks,
Ed Hoffman, Jean Butler, George
Rakestraw, Jack Hartley, Bill
Biirk, Miss Margaret Harris, John
Sedell. Mi s. Lawrence Eason. Mrs.
Gene Endicott, and Mrs. George
Rakestraw, director.
You can be SURE . . .
if it's
WESTINGHOUSE
Big Announcement
TOMORROW
Grand Opening
Friday, October 28
lS-acre tract in the heart of New
York City. An international terri
tory, the site, was purchased by
the U.'N. with an $8,500,000 contri
bution from John U. Rockefeller
Jr.
Tallest Building
The Sectetariat puilding. tallest
of the roup, consists of 39 stories
(505 ft.) above ground and three
stories underground. Its exterior
facings are of aluminum, glass and
marble. The windowless ends of
the building are faced with 2,000
tons of Vermont Marble. The blue-
green glass in the 5,400 aluminum
framed windows is specially made
to absorb the heat and reduce sol
ar radiation.
The Genera Assembly building
has a sloping double concave
shape, Is topped with a dome and
faces a landscaped plaza. Its audi
torium where the Assembly's ple
nary sessions are held houses more
than 2,000 people. Council cham
beis and conference rooms are h
cated between the Assembly and
the Secretariat buildings. A seven-
story library is on the other side
of the towering Secretariat build
ing. All these 1 units are intercon
nected. Contrary to the tendency In
crowded Manhattan, more than
tliree-fourOis of the site is devoted
to lawns, landscaping and gardens.
The construction cost was $66,500.
000, of which $65,000,000 was made
available by the U.S. government
as an interest-Jree loan to be re
paid over, a period of 31 years
Architects began' their work early,
1947. Construction was started!
in the fall of 1949 and completed a
year and a half later.
The waterfront property skirting
the East river was unimpressive
when the U.N. first acquired it. Its
cobbles toned streets were lined
with meat-packing houses, brewer
ies, and run - down -tenements.
Early historical records show that
the fiist settlers in the area were
two English tabaco growers, who
were authorized by the Director-
General oi New Netherlands in
1639 to establish a plantation and
residence here, known as Turtle
Bay Farm, as a, reward for their
previous activities in a campaign
against flhe American Indians dur
ing the establishment of the colony
of Virginia.
Several Skirmisher!
Several skirmishes of the Amer
ican War of Independence took
place here. It was near here that
the American patriot, Nathan Hale,
captain In the Continental Army,
was hanged in, 1776 for attempting
to gain information for General
George .Washington.
Busy and important as it Is, not
everyone in this neighborhood
knows about this place. Once o
maid in a residential hotel across
from the U.N. asked a visiting of
ficial what business he was in. He
said: 'I'm here for a meeting of
the United Nations oVer there."
Oh so that's what that glass
building is!" the maid trilled, 'I've':
been wondering, what they made
over there. You see, I used to work
in a factory, too." '
WITH IRISH TOUCH
SHANNON -AIRPORT, Ireland
(UP) This international airport
celebrated its 10th anniversary as
a transatlantic base today by serv
ing passengers coffee and cream
with an Irish touch.
The Irish touch was a potent one
it was Irish whiskey. The drink
is Called 'Gaelic Coffee.
UNUSUAL INTERVIEW
LONDON (UP) Dally Herald
correspondent Hugh Pilcher cabled
from Malta today that he had a
most unusual exclusive Interview
with Maltese Premier Dam Mint
ofif. He said Mintotf saved him from
drowning during a water polo,
game.
ti
POLO, RANGELAND TYPE Central Oregonians saw their first ggame of Palmetto polo here
Sunday afternoon when members of the Clackamas County Saddle Club association came here
to serve as instructors, then participate in starting play. This is a view of action on the Rim Rock
Riders' field, with the rider at the left getting ready to move the ball goalward. (Bend Bulletin
Photo).
Klamath Man
Top 'Grassman'
PORTLAND (UP) Oregon's
'Urassman of the Year" is Llovd
Gift, Klamath county rancher. The
Portland Chamber of Commerce,
sponsor of the grassman contests,
named George Milne, a Tillamook
dairy fanner, as second place win-
ner.
Gift will be Oregon's entry in
the regional contest and will re
ceive $300 as a state award pro
vided by the United States Nation
al Bank. Milne will receive $200.
Gift's ranch consists of 6000
acres once considered worthless
land in the Langell valley. On 700
acres Gift dug five miles of drain
age ditches, increased the storage
reservoir, leveled the land, and
seeded it to a grass-legume mix
ture. On 1000 acres of scab rock land
dotted with sagebrush and juniper
he achieved a total transformation
of soil that once defied cultivation,
according to the grassman contest
committee.
Before improvements, 40 acres
of Gift s land were required to
support one beef animal. The re
quirement today is one and one-
half acre,
The Gift ranch now carries 800
head of Hereford cattle, including
300 cows,
The eight-man selection commit
tee- said Milne produces lush
growths of grass on some of the
poorest soil in western Oregon.
Through the use of adnptcd grass
es and legumes, irrigation, and an
intensive fertilization program,
Milne is able to supply feed for
39 head of Jerseys on his tight
clay soil.
Senator Morse
Becomes Gramp
PORTLAND (UP) Sen. and
Mrs, Wayne Morse received word
here yesterday that they had be
come grandparents for the first
time.
The Senator got a telegram from
his eldest daughter, Nancy, in
Hartesville, S.C., which read:
Dear Grandfather. How are
you. I am fine. Weigh seven
pounds. Mother, Daddy and Grand
mother fine. All my love,
(Signed) Melanie Campbell."
Mrs. Campbell, the former Nan
cy Morse, is married to a pulp-and-paper
business executive ir
Hartsville. Morse said he will fly
to South Carolina in November to
see his granddaughter.
SAVE
with
QUALITY
"There's Nothing
Finer Than . . .
Stromberg - Carlson
Newsmen Fear Ike's Illness
May Scuttle Press Parleys
By LYLK C. WILSON
United Tress Stuff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (UP) Newsmen
fear President isenhower's illness
may scuttle the White House press
conference system.
Radio, television, magazine and
newspaper reporters in Washing
ton enjoy and cherish their routine
access to the chief of state which
is not matched elsewhere. Some
commentators on government have
compared the White House news
conference with the British Par
liament's question hour as a vital
part of the governmental process.
I here have been occasions not
many ' when news conference
questioners have forgotten thy
were addressing the President of
the United States. i
Red faced and angry, Mr. Eisen
hower has pitched back at them.!
But the White House word long
since was that he had come to!
enjoy his contacts with the news!
men and women. White House
press Secretary James C. Hagerty
made the most of that and opened
the weekly conferences to tele
vision, with an option to determine
what could be used.
Free Wheeling Affairs
White House conferences nro
free wheeling affairs in which the
President has been liberal with
news despite a sometimes tend
ency to filibuster with an odd kind
of doubletalk. Abandonment of the
While House news conference
system could reduce tiie flow of
basic information to the public in a
big way.
It is not likely that the Pres
ident will on his own end or curtail
his meetings with the press and
other media. But Mrs. Eisenhower
will have something to say about
the President's way of life when
he returns to the White House. And
his doctors will possess an effec
tive veto over exertions they may
deem to be dangerous. There lies
the threat to the news conffnencc
system and it seems to be a real
one. The doctors know as does the
President that a news conference
is a heavy physical and menial
burden.
There has been no effort in
Denver so far to discus wilh Mr.
Eisenhower the details of duty
when he resumes his White House
office, which is expected to be
around Jan. 1. Nor will such de
tails be discussed for some time.
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If the doctors decide against news
conferences, there is no substitute
handy. Vice President Richard M
Nixon would take on the chore if
requested to do so. Bi t he would
be on an explosive i-'pot, subject
to questions covering the whole
area of national life. Presidents
have embarrassed themselves by
speaking out of turn under such
circumstances.
Running Great Risks
A vice president would be run
ning far greater risks ,of putting
his foot in his mouth and would
have more trouble getting it out
again than would the head man.
White House chief of staff Sherman
Adams, wilh his hour-by-hour ac
cess to the President, probably
would be in a better position than
Nixon to take the news confer
ences, if there must be a substi
tute. There is me possibility that the
conferences .might be put on a
written question basis with such to
be submit ted to the President and
the answers to be brought back
by some spokesman. That is some
thing fit to give an old time Wash
ington reporter the quivers and
snakes; a frustrating paper
curtain.
The Un'ueu tress paged cabinet
officers to learn whether they
would step up their conference
schedules if White House confer
ences wore abolished. Several
thought they might do that.
On the whole, there seemed to
be willingness to do what might
bo possible to make up. for an
absence of White House confer
ences. But the hard fact' is lhat
tlmre is no substitute for the Pres
ident, in person with the last and
authoritative word.
APPROPRIATE
AUBURN. Neb. (UP)-Gov. Vic
tor Anderson, attending a fall fes
tival here after his second trip to
the state prison In five months lo
help slop a riot, got a serenade.
The festival band marched to the
governor's stand and played Ihc
Prisoner's Song."
One of the tiniest hoofed mam
mals is the mouse deer or Cheyro
tain of tropical Asia and Africa.
About a loot high, the male is
hornless but has short tusks.
Watch enlarges
to thaw detatli
of Beauty"
Wall
The Bend Bulletin, Wed.,
Professor Thinks
Must Learn Facts
By DF.LOS SMITH
lulled Press SHemv Hdilur
NEW YORK (UP) Prof. II.J
Mutter's full position on Ihe future
of the human race U that it wiU
have little if any future after a
thousand years or so unless It
learns the facts of genetics anil
starts taking those facts very
seriously. ,
The learned, scholarly Muller,
who received a Nobel Prize in
medicine and physiology In
wus the center of a furore recently
when he wa.sn t permitted to de
liver a paper on atomic bomb
radiation damage to human germ
cells at the Geneva conference on
the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
Atomic radiation damage to
germ cells, however, was only a
purt of his position which he has
now expanded in full detail and
in only semi-technical language.
In brief, it is that at the rale the
advances and refinements of civil-
iation are going, the race is
doomed to extinction eventually-
wilh or without the liydrogon
bomb.
Muller ciiose a scientific foium
ttie pages of the Scientific
American for his e.)osilion,
which began with a primer of the
fundamentals of genetics. Sketch
ily given, for brevity, they are as
follows:
flellt'f Cliunge Slowly
The genes contained In Hie (.erm
cells, which convey all inherited
characteristics, change or 'mu
tate" at a very low rate naturally.
These changes or nuitntlons arc
almost all harmful, either Immed-
lately or potentially. The Individ
ual bearing them mav die nre.
maturely or they may lessen his
fol-MlitV OP thV mnv lint.a thole
effect in his descendants. But
nature has established an eqnilib-
OKTTINO CKOWDKO
LOS ANGELES (UP) Dr. How
ard J. Nelson, University of Cali
fornia geographer, reports that
99,000,000 Americans now live on
one per cent of the nation's total
land area. This has resulted In ur
ban land values being raised to a
point where they are worth more
than all me non-urban land put
logemer.
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October 26, 1955 3a
Human Race
of Genetics
rium, obviously ihe nteo has not
only persisted but has increased
n numbers and the quality of its
members has steadily improved.
But now man himself is inter
fering with nature's equilibrium by
stepping up nature's slow rate f
change or mutatiun of his own
germ cells. Here Muller spoke very
critically of the medical profession
for its free use of x-rays which
in heavy doses or in accumulations
of light doses mutate genes. Also
x-rays are being employed more
and more in Iiulustty. -
Furthermore, there's good scien
tific reason Tor believing that var
ious chemicals, singly and in com
bination, can step up the mutation
rate, too. Here, he pointed with
qualified suspicion to substances
containing caffeine, such as coffee.
Harmful denes Increasing
Third, are the remarkable ad
vances of medicine and sanitation.
They , disturb nature's equilibrium,
too, because individuals who in a
more primitive society would have
died young of Inherited constitu
tional weaknesses, now live and
reproduce, passing on those harm
ful genes.
By mathematical progression,
the reservoirs of harmful genes
in the human race as a whole are
increasing. Dr. Muller, who is pro
fessor of genetics at Indiana Uni
versity, was able lo demonstrate
mathematically that the end of the
road a thousand years from now
could be extinction. Even a war
fought with atomic bombs would
only shorten the road.
He saw a way of avoiding this
and the way 'does n,ot by any
means abandon modern social
techniques or call for a return to1
Ihe fabulous golden ago of noble
savages or even of rugged individ
ualism.
In essence, that way is the
attainment of such general know
ledge of genet leal facts that those
persons '-who were relatively heav
ily loaded wilh genetic defects
would consider It their obligation,
even fcf those defects had been
Inrgely counteracted, to refrain
from transmitting their genes, ex
cept when they also possessed
genes of such unusual value that
the gains for their descendants1
was likely to outweigh the loss,
ove Vkar nrirrvD
WATERFORD, Conn. (UP)
While Wuterfurd prepared for
Hurricane Connie, First Selectman
Sylvester J. Perkins received a
government check in the mail lor
$l,059.4G. It was to cover damages
caused in the town by last year's
hurricanes. .
The Athenians, Spartans and
Corinthians played a ball-kicking
game 2,500 years ago, probably the
forerunner of modem football, and
the Greeks had a name f jr it
"episkurOs." -.
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