THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OKKGON PRESS
Robert W. Chandler. Editor and Publisher
Phil F. Brngan, Associate Editor
Memlicr, Audit Bureau of Circulations
Entered as Second Class Matter, January 8, 1917, at the Post Office
at Bend, Oregon, under Act of Match 3, 1879
An Independent Newspaper
4 The Bend Bulletin, Wednesday, August 2T, 1957
Big Ones out of Little Ones
PHILOMATH, Oregon The Chapman plant here
makes big ones out of little ones. That is, it makes boards
jut of chips. But the boards are a different type, designed
tor different uses and are manufactured in a different
manner than similar products previously made in other
plants.
Basically, the Chapman product is chipboard. As such
t doesn't differ radically in appearance, to the untrained
yc, from other such boards.
To make it, the plant here uses old magazines and
ilaner shavings from a nearby planing mill. A person
ised to seeing shavings from a pine mill, however, would
not recognize the raw material. Over in Bend we would
tall them chips. .
A layer of pulp from the old magazines is placed on
a moving belt. On .top of the pulp goes a mat of wood par
ticles, about three inches thick, and another layer of pulp
Is spread over the top. This goes into a hot press, and a
few minutes later the finished product, except for trim
ming, conies out. The particle board, covered with paper,
can be sawed and painted and is widely used for wall and
roof sheathing and floor underlayment in this area.
This is one of the big places the product is different.
Most particle board goes into core stock, and has similar
uses. It generally is rather high priced. The board made
here competes with plywood and sells for less than the
sandwich board.
Most particle board has a lot of high-priced phenolic
resin in it, to bind the chips together. The Chapman com
pany uses soybean meal for a binder, at about 20 per cent
of the cost of the resin.
The presses used in manufacturing plywood, hard
board and particle boards in other plants are "batch"
presses. That is, one bunch of boards cooks at a time, then
the press opens, is unloaded and reloaded.
The Chapman-designed and built press here is differ
ent. It is continuous in operation. A "green" board goes in
at the bottom, rises under heat and pressure and comes
out at the top. There is no stop for loading and unloading.
There are 48 openings in the machine, which processes 48
boards at a time.
The plant here is a prototype, an,d lots of people
spend lots of time looking it over. Included on the guest
list are a number of persons from other countries, as well
ns a number of industrialists. Other plants like this one
are being set up in various parts of the United States, and
still others are planned for the future.
Gap to Fill
The sudden death Sunday night of Dr. Peter Chern
enlfoff will leave a big gap in their youth program for
members of the Kiwanis club to fill. Dr. Chernenkoff had
been one of those most interested in the program, and had
given generously of both time and money in helping its
various activities.
As Others See It
Bond has dog troubles, too. At least the editor of The
Bulletin thinks so. At any rate he announces that petitions
are available at The Bulletin office to call for an election
to repeal the dog ordinance. This city law requires dogs
to be kept l ied up or on a leash or under tne owner s con-,
Irol from April 1 to October 1, and its enforcement has;
stirred up dog owners. "Down with dogcatchers," says
The Bulletin. "Down with editors," the non-lovers of dogs
may reply. (Oregon Statesman, Salem)
In the Wrong Business?
Walter Reuther, head of the giant UniU. . rk-
rrs union and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO, is in the
wrong business, lie should be either a public relations man
or a politician.
(There are those who claim Reuther Hlready is more
interested in politics than in the welfare of union mem
bers, but that's beside the point.)
In support of this statement we point to Reuther's
gesture of a few days ago.
First, with considerable fanfare, he addressed a let
ter to the presidents of the Big Three automobile manu
facturers, suggesting they cut the price of automobiles
f 100 each.
If this is done, he noted, the union will take the cut
"into consideration" during collective bargaining sessions
next year.
Next, he wrote a letter to President Eisenhower, send
ing copies of his letters to the Big Three. His whole idea,
he said to the President, is to comply with the latter's re
quest for an effort by labor and management to keep
prices down.
Actually, there arc several holes in Reuther's cam
paign. First, be doesn't make clear whether or not the(
union will offer to cut wages or other employment costs
next year. His organization's part in the whole deal is very
vague.
Second, management has always considered pricing
policy as its own prerogative. The manufacturers undoubt
edly will turn down his proposal. At least part and prob
ably a big part of their reason will be that they don't
want Reuther on the management side of the table. They
have enough trouble with him during bargaining and
grievance sessions.
But Reuther will have made his point with a large
number of people, and we have a suspicion that's what he
was trying to do all along.
Reuther pulled off one of the best public relations
rampaigns of the century a couple of years ago when he
built up long before negotiations actually started a
great public acceptance for his principle of the Guaran
teed Annual Wage.
Then, when he didn't actually get it, he pulled anoth
?r great public relations campaign in persuading the mora
obers of the union that they did have it.
ReutluT is in the wrong business
"Go on, Pick It Up YOU Dropped It"
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Washington Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON Here ore some
ironies about the breast-beating of
the Justice Department lor a
tough civil rights bill, a bill even
tougher than that now urged by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People:
Irony No. 1 Attorney General
Browncll and the Justice Depart
ment have played ball for four
years with Sen. Jim Eastland of
Mississippi, bitterest opponent of
civil rights. No Judges, U.S. at
torneys or U.S. marshals have
been appointed in Mississippi with
out his okay.
Irony No. 2 Attorney General
Browncll gave private backstage
encouragement last year to the
move to oust the one Negro who
is a memler of the Republican
national committee, Perry Howard
of Mississippi. Howard has been
a national committeeman longer
than anyone in history 33 years
a matter -of pride to Negroes.
Browncll encouraged the drive to
oust him.
Irony No. .1 Browncll has
been working to build up the Re
publican party in the South through
K. O. Spencer, owner of the Walth
all Hotel in Jackson. Miss., in
which the Mississippi White Citi
zens Council was first organized.
The council has 'had an office in
room 203 of the hotel. Browncll
usually entertains Spencer in his
home when the Mississippian
comes to Washington.
Keeping Alive The Issue
Irony No. 4 For four years
the justice department dragged its
feel on civil rights, thereby mak
ing it on issue In the 1956 presi
dential election. Today the justice
department is opposing the senate
bill, thereby keeping civil rights
an issue in the 1358 congressional
election.
Sen. Tom Hcnnings, Missouri
Democrat, whose great-grandfather
was one of the biggest slave
holders in Georgia, developed
some of the fuels regarding this
stalling in a withering cross-examination
of Browncll last year.
"You have come up with no
program during your our years,
until April 1, I believe," senator
Hcnnings challenged. f
Browncll replied that he had
worked on such civil rights as
restaurant .segregation, discrimin
ation in the armed forces, and
kindred measures.
"You know these were initiated
in the preceding administration,"
Hennings was quick to point out.
"A great many of them, yes,"
Brownell admitted.
"We welcome your suggestion
that there be a commission on
civil rights in the department of
Justice," Hennings continued. "At
my request on March 22, 1955, this
letter was addressed to you."
He then read Browncll a letter
one year old asking or his views
on legislation proposing a civil
rights commission.
"There was no reply from you
whatsoever over a year ago re
lating to the establishment of a
commission or a division," Hen
nings pressed.
The attorney general squirmed
and sparred. He could give no ade
quate explanation. Real fact is that
while civil rights was being push
ed for four years by Hennings and
Congressman Celler in the house,
thoy got no help from Brownell or
from his Justice Department or
from the Eisenhower administra
tion. Truman On Tobacco
Senator Ncuberger of Oregon has
received a letter from Hurry Tru
man congratulating him on his
stand to .remove tobacco from the
list of basic crops. "When the
white man landed in, the new
world," wrote Truman, "he gave
the Indian white men's diseases
and the Indian Rave him tobacco.
PEKrcAr mjbi
MEMPHIS. Tenn. (UP) Ben
Brooks, 48, had a good excuse or
not being able to pay s traffic
ticket he got last Jan. 5 (or not
having a driver's license and city
inspection tag. On the date he was
to appear in court here he was
in West Memphis, Jailed on ,a
drunk driving charge.
I don't know which has been
worse."
The FBI BUI
A distinguished, much - loved
member of congress was talking
about the FBI bill to reverse the
supreme court on the Jencks case.
"The FBI has a file on every
senator, every member of con
gress," he said. "Suppose I should
die and then when I couldn't de
fend myself, the FBI file on me
should be opened by court order."
This diagnosis indicates how lit
tle congress knows about a piece of
legislation which J. Edgar Hoover
demands be rushed through con
gress in record time.
In the first place. FBI files un
der the supreme court ruling could
never be opened alter a man is
dead, but only on the demand of
the man who is involved, and then
only if he is being prosecuted by
the government. I, for instance,
the congressman who had this mis
understanding of the supreme
court ruling should happen to be
prosecuted by the government on
the strength of FBI testimony,
then, and only then, could other
statements by an FBI witness
against him be used from the FBI
files to see if that witness was
telling the truth.
No undercover agents would be
disclosed for the simple reason
that no files can be opened unless
an FBI witness is already on the
witness stand in public court.
Then, only statements made by
him and pertaining to the defend
ant can be produced from the
files, under the supreme court rul
ing. Note Patient, painstaking Sen.
Joe O'Mahonoy ol Wyoming has
been ironing out some of the kinks
in the hastily written FBI bill
which Hoover wants rammed
through congress. He now has it in
much better shape than the bill
which breezed through the house
judiciary committee without some
congressman even reading it.
Ulcers and Civil Rights
Tension has mounted in congress
as stratcgistis of both parties dick
er over the civil rights bill. Back
stage, the cloakrooms and corri
dors have been a-buzz, with the
latest moves and counter moves.
Young Democrat Dick Boiling
of Kansas City emerged from a
meeting with House Speaker Sam
Rayburn in which Rayburn prom
ised to help free the bill from the
hostile clutches of Democrat How
ard Smith of Virginia, chairman
of the rules committee. Even so,
Boiling looked worried.
- "How goes the battle?" asked
Jimmy Roosevelt of Los Angeles.
"Well, I've still got my nerve,
I hope, in -the singular sense," re
plied Boiling. "My nerves, in the
plural sense, are in bad shape.
My wile tells me if It keeps up
I'll really get the ulcer I should
have already."
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Fight Seen Won By Hollywood
By H'UXIAM KWALD
United Press Stiff Correspondent
NEW YORK (UP)-You'U see e
lot of adult westerns on TV this
fal but not many adult easterns.
Hollywood has won the battle as
origination point for TV shows. As
a result, most of your TV fare will
be on film this season with wes
terns and situation comedies the
principal staples.
Of the 112 evening shows defin-itely-tentatively
set (a Madison
Ave. phrase meaning: "If-there-are-any-more
changes-we'U - just
slit our throats") on the three net
works, only 41 will be live. And
only 27 shows on the nighttime
roster will be beamed out of Man
hattan. Adult westerns (those are the
ones in which the cowboy is smart
er than the horse) comprise the
bulk of the new shows. There'll
be 10 new oaters along with seven
old ones. ABC-TV will stable six of
the newcomers "Colt .45," "Ma
verick," "Sugarfoot," "Tombstone
Territory," "Zorro" and "The Real
McCoys."
New One-Hour Epic
CBS . TV is chippirui in with
"Have Gun, Will Travel" and
NBC-TV will slot "Restless Gun,"
"The Californians" and "Wagon
Train," a one-hour epic.
Situation comedies will account
for 19 of the fall berths, five of
them new entries. You'll continue
to see suoh oldies as "Burns and
Allen," "Life of Riley," "Decem
ber Bride" and "Father Knows
Best." You can also expect to
glim the new "Eve Arden Show,"
"Bachelor Father," "Leave it to
Beaver" and "Dick and the Duc
hess" on CBS-TV. NBC-TV Is tout
ing "Sally,'' with Joan Caulficld.
There'll be a clutch of new musi
cals this autumn with ABC-TV un
veiling four fronted by Frank Sin
atra, Pat Boone, Patrice Munsei
and Guy Mitchell. CBS-TV's musi
cal effort is the 60-minute "Big
Record" with Pattl Page and
NBC - TV is packaging shows
helmed by Giseie Mackenzie and
Rosie Clooney.
Flsher-Gobc! Show
nrp.tv also is hich on its new ,
one-hour Tuesday program which
combines the talents ol fcaaie r isn
er and George Gobel.
Some of the other offerings on
tan nrp "Pprrv Mason" (one hour)
and "Harbor Master" on CBS-TV,
the "Walter Winchell Show" and
"O.S.S." on ABC-TV and "Sus
picion" (one hour), "The Court of
Last Resort" and "The Thin Man"
on NBC-TV. NBC-TV will unpack
age the only new quiz, "What's
It For" with Hal March.
What you won't see is Sid Cae
sar, Jackie- Gleason, the Robert
Montgomery and Kaiser Alumin
um drama hours, tne Arthur God
frey Wednesday night show, "Lux
Video," "Hey Jeannie," "Cross
roads," and "Blondie."
Tksu'uA all sunk in their chan
nels. And If this season follows
the form of other seasons, uiey u
soon be joined by a clusier ol
fresh victims.
SHIP VISITS PORT
BARI, Italy (UP) A Japanese
ship has entered this Italian Adri
atic port for the first time in 33
rvirt officials said today.
The vessel was the fishing boat
Hokomaru from Tokyo. It was re
turning from an expedition in the
South African seas and unloaded
several tons of fish here.
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