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THE BEND BULLETIN
and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS
Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher
Phil. F. Brogan, Associate Editor
William A. Yatts, Managing Editor
Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Supt.
An Independent Newspaper
Entered at Second Clasi Matter, January 6, 1917. at the
Pott Office at Bend, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1879
4 The Bend Bulletin, Tuesday, March 24, 1959
On censorship
Few would disagree that it is desirable to keep
obscene literature away from children. When it comes
to methods of doing it there is wide disagreement.
A few years ago Bend city fathers became mildly
alarmed at the increase of undesirable material on
local newstands. Dealers and distributors were con
sulted and a sort of individual censorship plan was
worked out. For a while the situation improved, but
girlie magazines, lurid "comics" and other such trash
are hard to control and before long they had crept
back on many stands.
More recently an attempt was made to stir up
interest among parents in a campaign to "clean up
the stands" but apparently nothing came of the move.
In Eugene earlier this month an indictment
charging a newstand dealer with selling obscene and
indecent literature was dismissed by Circuit Judge
A. T. Goodwin, who said Oregon law on which the
indictment was based was unconstitutional.
Judge Goodwin, who was a newspaperman before
he was a judge, said the statute conflicts with the
Constitution's guarantees of freedom of speech and
press. He added that "one man's literature may be
another man's obscenity."
This week a bill designed to censor publications
available to children was introduced in the House at
Salem. It would prohibit dissemination of obscene
matter and prescribe standards for determining ob
scenity. One can sympathize with the intent of the meas
ure. Still as Judge Goodwin wisely points out, determi
nation of what's obscene is a thorny issue and sub
ject to various interpretations. Newspapermen have
for many years watched various legislative attempts
to solve the problem with mixed feelings.
To an American editor steeped in traditions of
a free press, the word "censorship" is repugnant.
A far better method of control, certainly, would
be for parents to take a greater Interest in what their
children are reading and where necessary exercise
a little parental censorship. No question of press
freedom would then be involved.
Perpetual motion
An electric car designed especially for suburban
ites that costs $750, weighs 350 pounds, runs 50 miles
a day on one charge and operates on three dollars
a month for electricity is in the design stage. This
bit of information came In the mail the other day
from the publisher of an electronics magazine.
The car, the Shopper-Commuter, is "basically a
low platform on three or four small wheels with low
pressure tires. The body in conventional and con
vertible models will be made of reinforced plastic."
Auto batteries will supply the three-to-five horse
power needed for the vehicle's 40-milo-per-hour speed.
The batteries will automatically recharge on down
hill grades.
(This is perpetual motion, if you hadn't recogniz
ed it.)
There is a dandy gadget designed to assist the
driver in stopping the car in emergencies. If the driver
tromps hard enough on the floor-board accelerator
it will act as a brake. Of course there may be a few
hundred wrecks until drivers get used to that brain
storm. Budget-plan revolution?
An American airline has come up with a plan
for people who like to watch South American revO'
lutions in progress, but who are short of dough.
The plan is under the guise of "excursion" travel
It offers big savings of $301.40 from Miami to Buenos
Aires; $289.64 from New York to Buenos Aires and
It stresses the fact that these special rates are avail
able throughout the year.
This special trip includes stops in Caracas, Tort
of Spain, Rio do Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, and
Porto Alogre.
Although the airline doesn't mention any tips
about how to obtain the difference between the sav
ing and the cost of the trip; it Is still a handy plan to
keep in mind for the next revolution.
Will you please get off the line!
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
U. S. seen in middle of
next Caribbean tempest
By Drew Pearton
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. - If
you sit on the shore of northwest
Haiti and look out across that 50
milc stretch of azure blue Carib
bean called the Windward Pas
sage you would never guess that
trouble lurked beyond. A native
fishing boat meanders by, pushed
by a home-made sail. An ocean
freighter cuts a slim rift of white
in the blue as it follows the route
taken by British frigates, Spanish
pirates, and Carib revolutionaries
since the days of Columbus 450
years ago.
Barely discernible behind a
clump of trees, however, and
pointing out toward the 50-milc
stretch of sea is a French 75 can
non of World War I. Lolling be
side it are Haitian soldiers strip
ped to the waist, enjoying the
spring sunshine. They are suppos
ed to be guarding northwest Haiti
from the new menace which wor
ries the Caribbean Castroism.
Just 50 miles across that blue
water is Cuba's Oriente Province
where Fidel Castro hid and
fought. Across that passage thou
sands of Haitians have sailed
seeking work on Oriente sugar
plantations. Across that passage,
three times a week until recently.
have been beamed broadcasts
from radio rrogrcso, exhorting
Haitians to rise up against Presi
dent Duvalier. And from across
that passage President Duvalier
worries over the Haitian exiles
and Haitian sugar workers and
Castro's bearded warriors expect
cd to invade his country.
U.S.A. It in the Middle
The invasion might be classified
as just another tempest in a coun
try which has boon racked by
tempestuous revolts ever since
Toussaint L'Ouvcrturc kicked the
French out of the world's first Nc
gro republic. But for Americans
it will be extremely important,
for two reasons: 1 The U.S.A.
Quotable quotes
If only I !.d had sense enough to stay stupid.
We're taking on a man's world-and It's hell. Sunday
Dispatch columnist Anne Scott-James, yearning for
the good old days when women were women.
I am very happy, very proud to have been able
to save my ship. But I am sorry about all that wine.
Capt. Manio Petris, after saving his grounded wine
tanker by pumping 250,000 gallons of wine into the
sea.
I think we are inexterminable, like flies and
bugs. You can't really exterminate them. There will
always be some In cracks and crevices and that's us.
Poet Robert Frost, on the theory that man will
destroy civilization and himself with his more and
more formidable military weapons.
I wouldn't he surprised. They will want to get
the data and I shouldn't he surprised but what they
will. Adm. Arlcigh Burke, chief of naval operations,
on whether he expected Russia to conduct test shots
similar to the secret U. S. nuclear blasts in space.
Nothing but bad weather reports, but those big
waves kept me awake nicely. Texas pilot Bill Mullin
telling of weather conditions over the Atlantic on
his non-stop flight from Houston, Tex., to Yeovilton.
Two youngsters
found safe
ATLANTA. Cn. (UPI) - Two
small children, missing since their
father abducted them Monday and
later shot himself to death, were
found safe early today.
Brenda Gail Norton, 3. and Ed
die Norton Jr., 5, were located at
a local nursery to climax an in
tense search that lasted through
the night.
Officers relumed the children
to their mother, Mrs. Eddie M.
Norton, who had feared they
might have been killed.
Their father, 25, a shipping
clerk, took his own life nbout 30
minutes after taking the children
away from the home of his es
tranged wife.
While more than 500 police, civ
il defense workers and volunteers
hunted for the children during
the night, they were safe and
sound in the nursery, whose staff
knew nothing of the case.
Operators of the nursery said
Norton left the children there
Monday. Members of the staff
learned of the hig search this
morning and notified authorities.
Mrs. Norton had gone to re
quest a peace warrant against lier
husband, who was visiting her.
when he took the children.
Norton returned to the home
alone and just as Mrs Norton and
her brother arrived, he shot him
self through the head with a shotgun.
will be right in the middle; 2
Castro has his eyes on the entire
Caribbean.
His invasion of Haiti would not
be aimed at President Francois
Duvalier, the Michigan University-educated
country doctor who
holds uncertain reign over the
black republic, but at Generalis
simo Rafael Trujillo, who holds
tight reign over the Dominican
Republic just beyond.
Fidel Castro has sworn "Death
to Dictators!" and Haiti is in the
path of the No. 1 dictator of the
Caribbean.
He also has his eyes on the son
of another famous dictator, Presi
dent Luis Somoza, whose swag
gering Marine Corps-trained fa
ther so long ruled the tropical
Republic of Nicaragua.
In fact, Castro may have even
larger aims. He has become an
embryo Nasser of the Caribbean
with an ambition to cement these
strategic islands with Central
America into a sort of "United
Carib Republic." And just as Nas
ser electrified the Arab world by
taking Suez, some of Castro's co
horts advise him not to stop until
he has demanded the Panama Ca
nal be operated for the benefit of
Carib countries.
Dictatort vs. Democratt
This may be a long lime in the
making. For the moment, the line
up in the Caribbean is the three
democrats versus the three dicta
tors President Bctancourt of
Venezuela, Gov. Munoz Marin of
Puerto Rico, and Castro, versus
Somoza of Nicaragua, Duvalier of
Haiti, and Trujillo of the Domini
can Republic.
The description Is not entirely
accurate, since Duvalier was elect
ed, and Somoza has inaugurated
democracy reforms, while Munoz
Marin governs part of the U.S.A.
Nevertheless, in a loose way, that
is the line-up of Caribbean rivalry
with the United States sweating
in the middle.
Our predicament results from
the embarrassing fact that we do
not want to back dictators, yet at
the same time we can't tolerate
war. Under the nonaggression
pacts of the Pan American union,
the United States is pledged to in
tervene, with other nations, to
protect any member from attack.
Vet if we intervened to
luoietl Haiti and the Dominican
Republic we are put in the posi
tion of defending the No. 1 dicta
tor of the Caribbean Generalis
simo Trujillo.
Milton Eisenhower, worried
over the unpopularity of dictators,
has recommended to his brother
that he cut off U.S. support to
dictators. He has even scrutinized
the (act that we buy Sfis.000,000
worth of goods from Dictator Tru
jillo ev ery year one-half his ex
ports and raised the question
of whether we shouldn't cut them
off.
Vet simultaneously we are
pledged by Pan American treaties
to protect Trujillo if he is invaded.
That's our predicament.
Meanwhile, the little band ot
Haitian soldiers lolling in the sun
around that French 75 artillery
piece looking out over the azure
blue of the Windward Passage can
no more prevent an invasion from
Cuba than a water pistol. They
were completely surprised and
decidedly miffed to have Bernard
Piederich, editor of the Haitian
Sun. walk up beyond them the oth
er day while they were asleep
Castro's forces could land at
night and hide out just as long in
the hills of Haiti as they did in
the hills of Cuba's Oriente Prov
ince which was a long lime.
Appraisal said
not high enough
.WASHINGTON (UPD-The Sen
ate Indian affairs subcommittee
was told Monday that an ap
praisal of Klamath Indian prop
erty in Oregon is not high enough.
A recent appraisal set realization
value of the property at 90 mil
lion dollars.
Boyd Jackson and Jesse Kirk,
members of the Klamath Indian
tribal executive committee, said
they were not satisfied with a
first appraisal of 121 million dol
lars. Jackson suggested a figure
of around 159 million dollars.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D
Ore.) said. "It's an irony that as
a result of your protest over 121
million dollars, we are now down
to 90 million dollars. I regret this,
yet it was the Klamath tribe that
wanted the review."
Jackson Indicated the govern
ment may face a lawsuit over the
amount.
Alaska B-girls I
appear to be
thing of past
JUNEAU, Alaska (UPD-Alas-ka's
B-girls, the "drink up" kids
of the 4iith state, apparently have
reached the end of the trail.
B-girls and their forerunners,
the dance hall girls, have been
a part of Alaska ever since the
first sourdough hit it rich in the
gold fields.
In Alaska's gold rush days,
dance hall girls flocked to the
territory by boat to carve their
own pages in Alaska's gaudy his
tory. Miners found in the dance
halls an oasis of gaiety and, in
the process, often departed poor
er but happier.
Many of the dance hall girls
found romance in the territory
and later became among the
most respected citizens in the
northland.
In later years, B-girls took over
the practice of enticing customers
to "drink up" in various Alaska
night spots. Many doubled as en
tertainers. "It's my turn to entertain the
boys, honey, why don't you buy
another round?" was a standard
bit.
Monday, this bit of Alaskana
died forever when the Senate
passed an anti B-girl measure by
a vote of 19-1. The bill now goes
before Acting Gov. Hugh Wade
for his signature.
The lone dissenter in the Sen
ate was Senate President William
Beltz. He joined with Rep. Robert
Sheldon in declaring the lone
"nay" in each house.
In debate in the House a week
ago, Sheldon made the declara
tion that a bit of Alaskana would
die with the passing of the
B-girls. He added that many peo
ple respected in the state today
plied customers to drink in the
famous saloons of Alaska s roar
ing past.
Hunt bill back
in committee
SALEM (UPI)-A bill allowing
establishment of private hunting
preserves was back in committee
today.
The House voted not to concur
in a Senate amendment which
would call for the preserves to be
open to the public. The action
came in opposition to the bill it
self, not to the amendment.
House Speaker Robert Duncan
ruled out motions by Rep. Kath
erine Musa (D-The Dalles) and
Rep Keith Skelton (D - Eugene)
which would have killed the bill
for the session. It finally wound
up in conference committee.
Opponents said they feared it
would put too much Oregon land
under private control.
SAGEBRUSHINCS
Ides of March bov out;
troubles just started
By tla S. Grant
Bulletin Staff Writer
Spring arrived right
At 12:55 a.m. Saturday,
parts. At Calico Farm, no one got
up to welcome the new season.
Except me. I was already up,
watching the late-late movie on
TV. That is, I hadn't gone to bed
yet.
The departure of the Ides of
March got me to thinking. The
ancient Romans called the per
iod from March 15 to 22 the Ides
of March, you know. In that week,
dire things always were happen
ing. Like Julius Caesar's murder.
All through the Ides of March,
and before that, as a matter of
fact, I'd been telling the Chief that
the ditch bank needed its spring
grooming. Actually, it hadn't been
groomed for a number of springs.
How come the ditch bank needs
to be groomed? Well, it's this
way. Joe.
The irrigation season is from
the first of April to the end of
September, more or less. The oth
er six months, there is no water
in the ditches. At intervals dur
ing this dry period, the irriga
tion company sends a crew with a
small tractor out in the hinter
land to clean the ditches. Later
als, they're called.
Well, we have sort of a main
lateral going through our front
yard. It's very pretty to look at,
when it's full of water. When it's
not full of water, it's sort of ugly.
Especially when there's an ac-
Bay area hit
by light quake
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A
light earthquake rattled windows
and dishes in parts of the San
Francisco Bay area Monday night
but there were no reports of
damage.
The temblor, first recorded at
6:21 p.m. p.s.t. (9:21 p.m. e.s.t.),
was felt as far away as San Jose,
50 miles south of here. The San
Jose sheriff's office said it had
one call describing the quake as
a "light rumble with a gentle
rolling motion."
University of California seismo
olgist Don Tocher said the quake
registered 4.25 on the Richter
scale and was centered 65 miles
from Berkeley. He described the
quake as "purely local" and not
an aftershock of the strong quake
that hit the bay area earlier this
month.
CONFERENCE SET
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi
dent Eisenhower will hold a news
conference Wednesday morning,
the White House said today.
I cumulation of several years scrap.
! ings on the banks. The ditch coiti
on time. ) Pay dredges the bottom, and
in these scool,s thc silt "p on top' Pretty
soon, the nann is so tan you can
harcllv look over it to see the
mountains.
That's what was bothering me.
The irritation reaches its peak
during the Ides of March. And so
far, I hadn't committed any mur
ders. The first day of Spring, the
chief brought a great big bulldoz
er home from the neighbors. I
guess it's a bulldozer. It has a
big blade in front, that scrapes
like crazy.
Now the ditch bank is as smooth
as a salesman's line. The bulldoz
er, with the Chief at the wheel,
pushed all the sod and silt out on
the road. It needed filling, any
way. The bulldozer driver got so
carried away that he scraped half
an acre or so, all the way from
the ditch bank to the property
line.
Now the road is so level that
the Voting Man can drive his car
into the yard, without tearing off
the lake plugs when he crosses
thc bridge. A bluebird flitted
around all day Sunday, picking
weed seeds out of the soft earth.
The dogs and cats had a fine time,
playing in thc diggings.
Now the Chief has two more
problems. He has to go back over
the ground with a garden rake,
and fill in the spots where the
scoop dug too deep. And he has
to build a bluebird house. It's
good luck to have bluebirds in
your front yard. And when a blue
bird hangs around all day, he's
looking for a location.
The Chief says that so far as
he's concerned, troubles don't
cease with the Ides of March.
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