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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Obscure officer brings new orders for NATO L'Cf'i.W C' t TV il. m f w ' 17 J7i !l Y T Jr. ' f Ifi .V. :iri 'v' ' f--aaw : f 1 'Sorry, buf Comrade Confucius now say charify doesn'f begin af home THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Monday, August 21, 1961 An Independent Newspaper Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Jack McDermott, Advtrtitlng Managar Glenn Cushman, General Manager Lou M. Meyers, Circulation Manager Lortn E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent William A. Yates, Managing Editor Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher rnterad lit sunn flan Mmwr. January . 1I7. at h roil Offlr. at Band. Onion, under Act 01 Marco I, in, Pub. Ilahed flail, eicapt Himda, and eartaln hnlldara br Tha Band Mttllalln. Inc. Here's a labor leader who doesn'f like government 'help' in strikes A few days ago we wondered If the assistance of Gov. Hatfield in set tling a recent Oregon strike (and of President Kennedy in offering assist ance in a New York labor dispute) was good or bad. We came to the conclusion that possible abuses were more to be feared than the possible help was worth. Our view is not an unpopular one In some labor circles. Joseph A. Beirne, president of the communications workers union and a vice president of the AFL-CIO took up our point In a recent editorial in his union's newspaper. Not long ago, a labor leader was regarded as a bush leaguer if he set tled a big strike outside the White House and a sandlot player if he set tled outside Washington. Beirne says he is worried about the future of collective bargaining be cause he sees "so many in the field of labor and management looking to the government for their answers." In his union newspaper, Beirne writes that in the early months of the Kennedy administration "we have seen more top level labor-management rep resentatives yield to government solutions- of negotiating problems than we have seen for a decade. He was remembering those post war years under the Truman adminis tration when business and union lead ers trooped to the White House to await their turn for attempts to settle disputes in the auto, steel, coal and rail way industries. Other big strikes were settled in the office of the secretary of labor. Being called to the While House became a status symbol for n strike leader. In one dispute, settled In the Labor Department, government media tors grumbled that the union side would have taken a pay cut If it could just sign Its new contract In the White House. Labor was usually, but not always, accused then of seeking government in tervention to get more favorable settle ments. Even John L. Lewis, who thunder ed against government intervention, made his breakthrough to start the Mine Workers' welfare fund in nego tiations with the government, not the coal industry. The trend was reversed under the Eisenhower administration, although then Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey was reported Involved in settling the 195G steel strike. And, after President Eisenhower repeatedly insist ed that the government should stay out of the 1959 steel dispute, he gave Vice President Richard M. Nixon credentials to work for a settlement. Whether labor or management was more responsible for inviting federal in tervention in the big postwar strikes, Beirne puts them on an equal basis now. He says ho is not accusing the gov ernment of taking over collective bar gaining and that it is "natural for a strong president and a strong secretary of labor to provide the answers when asked, even urged, to provide those answers." What is happening, he says, Is that the government "is moving in to occupy a vacuum." Beirne refers to no specific cases, but he could be talking about the New York tugboat strike last winter and the recent maritime strike. In the offing is the threat of an auto strike, which the administration would view as almost disastrous for an economy just emerging from recession. Beirne points to the passage In Ken nedy's inaugural address in which the President said Americans should ask not what their country can do for them but what they can do for their country. Labor and industry can meet this chal lenge, says Boirne, by negotiating their own contracts without asking the gov ernment to sit in. Safety regulation implemented This is action long overdue: Bend police have been ordered by Chief Emil Moen to clear Drake Park footbridge of fishermen. A city ordinance prohibits such fishing. Drake Tark footbridge for the past several seasons has been a popular spot even more popular than the "Fishing Bridge" in Yellowstone Na tional Park. There are hazards connected with fishing from the Bend span. Pedes trians have beeh complaining that they Humor from others "You've never been to a psychia trist?" exclaimed a girl-about-town to her best friend. "Why, you must he crazy!" Frank Farrell in New York World-Telegram and Sun. The doctor was discussing health find it difficult to weave their way through a barrier of hooked lines whip ped over bridge and water. But the greatest hazard Is to youngsters who fish from the bridge. A youngster fell from Drake Park bridge a number of years ago. He died in the Deschutes. And so did the man who attempted to rescue him. Bend officers are not being hard boiled In enforcing the no-fishing regu lations. They are implementing a safety ruling. and hygiene with his spinster patient. "Even though you take a bath every day, you can't stay healthy just by bathing alone." "Maybe not, doctor," snapped the lady, "but I'm still going to bathe alone." Uncle Mat's Monthly Letter. By Jack Anderson Editor's Note While Drew Pearson Is en route to Russia to cover the current crisis, his as sociate, Jack Anderson, is cov ering the Washington front. WASHINGTON - Of 32 differ ent plans for dealing with the Ber lin crisis, the NATO high com mand Is still struggling to compre hend the latest which was deliv ered in the middle ot their delib erations by an obscure Lieutenant Colonel from the Pentagon. The NATO leaders were already deep in the details of a military master plan, worked out by our joint chiefs of staff, when Lt Col. D. C. Armstrong showed up In Pans with new orders. He announced that the joint chiefs' plan, brought over only a few days earlier by Maj. Gen. Da vid Gray, had been scrapped. A new strategy had been prepared Armstrong said, by his civilian boss: Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze, a man of piercing eyes and dynamic sway. The Nitze blueprint for saving Berlin, of course. Is top secret. It can be said only that he favors using military force to b r e a k through the blockade, if the Reds should Impose one. On this point, his plan differs from that advanced by the joint chiefs only in the details. Nitze is more optimistic about calling the Soviet bluff, more obscure about military moves. Armstrong, a short but suave of ficer, arrived in Paris on August 1, carrying the Nitze panacea in a padlocked briefcase. The British and French learned of his purpose even ahead of the Americans who had just outlined the joint chiefs' proposals to the NATO council. Cable Order Ignored Dismayed, they cabled the State Department for higher instruction on what to do about Armstrong's sudden appearance on the scene. Back came a cable, dated Aug ust 3, directing Armstrong not to present any new strategy to the NATO council. Whether he didn't see the cable in time or simply disregarded it isn't clear. But he went ahead with his mission and laid Nilze's proposals, before the council as the latest U.S. policy. The French, after due consider ation, complained that they could not understand the new military instructions which were phrased in vague civilian terms. The Brit ish postponed passing judgment upon the plan until it had been ap praised by their own military chiefs. Meanwhile, the NATO generals don't know what they're supposed to do in case of a Berlin showdown. Politics and Oil Oil lobbyist Elmer Patman, the middleman in the attempted bribe of Sen. Francis Case five years ago, is trying to mix politics and oil again on Capitol Hill. Patman used to pass out politi cal contributions for Superior Oil Company until he made the error in judgment of sending an emis sary to Case with a $2,500 offer for his vote on natural gas legisla tion. The South Dakota senator turned it down with such loud in dignation that it precipitated a full dress Senate investigation. . The affair cost Patman a $2,500 fine, phis a one-year suspended sentence, for failing to register as a lobbyist. Apparently unrepentant, he Is now using his cousin, Texas Con gressman Wright Patman, to bring pressuro on the Interior Depart ment to award Superior Oil an import quota. The congressman, who has the benevolent look of a country pas tor, has often battled for Uie public interest. But his latest crusade was timed and phrased more to benefit cousin Elmer. Scarcely 13 days after Elmer at tacked the import program for dis criminating against Superior Oil, the congressman ordered his House Small Business committee to investigate oil imports. El mer's testimony and Wright's an nouncement sounded curiously alike. merit sounded curiously aliko. "Domestic producers are not be ing aided by the (oil import) pro gram. The program as administer ed is monopolistic," charged. El mer at an Interior Department hearing. Congressional Echo Wright, in his announcement, put it this way: "The House Small Business committee will make a thorough investigation of the pres ent foreign crude oil imixirt pro gram to determine whether it is weakening the domestic oil indus try and fostering monopoly con trol." Said Elmer: "You will observe that there are refiners with import quotas that never heard of a bar rel of oil until they got a quota with some tickets that they could trade for something else." Echoed Wright: "Itefinerg in all parts of the t'nitod States are giv en foreign oil quoins and ration tickets to buy Una cheap foreign oil. Must of litem have never used foreign oil and can't use It." S.il Elmer: "(When these peo ple get quota tickets and they could sell them for $1 or $1 25 a BAB AUTO WRECKING CO. For Road Tested Partsl AaMa a TTwka M4la torn l!t to laaf ft Hour TtrarSar Bantra tVnrt Hwrm Hat FV t-S?S barrel, they traded their tickets for cash and not for crude, and let's quit kidding one .jfiother about it)." Echoed Elmer: "It appears that cash markets for these ration tickets are in operation and inland refiners are selling their quotas to coastal refiners at prices rang ing from $1 to al.25 a barrel." Said Elmer: "It is a sign of the future that only 14 college fresh men enrolled in petroleum engi neering this spring at the Universi ty of Texas ... As lute as the fall of 1357, the university was giving training to 134 freshmen in petro leum engineering." Congressman Patman admitted to this column that he had discus sed oil imports with his cousin but denied that he ordered an investi gation to help Superior Oil get an import quota. I- Letters to the Editor Tha Bnllfftln aralcoma contribution! to Oil column from It reudera. Lat ter mutt contain tha correct noma and ail.lrei ol the fender, tvtilrb may be withheld at the neWMMItur'a dis cretion. Iltera mar be edited to con form to the dictates ol taite and style. Poncho Villa story traced by writer To the Editor: Every now and then some one will put a letter in your paper about this free country. Well sure it is if you don't critize the policy of the elite in power. Now you know all about the bat tle at the Alamo, which was long before Poncho Villa was born. Did you ever hear of the battle or massacre along the Mexican bor der and what it was all about? Villa was a revolutionist. Robin Hood reformist fighting the graft ing Mexican government. Our gov ernment backed the government of Mexico against Villa. Large bat tles were going on along the bor der. Villa had some of the govern ment forces trapped. So we moved the Mexican government troops through U.S. soil to attack Villa in the rear, and furnished arms to their soldiers. We are always but ting in other people's business. So Villa paid us back by attacking our cavalry one dark New Years night near Columbis, New Mexico with a bunch of Yaqui Indians. Our boys were in bed when Yaqui hit Uie cavalry camp. They killed a lot of the boys in bed, burned the hay, shot a lot of horses. This was a massacre. Did you ever hear of this? The State Depart ment kept it quiet. We sent Negro 9th Cavalry after Villa but he got into the moun tains. So the next place Villa showed up was on the Hurst Ranch throe million acre spread. Thousands of cattle and horses. Villa told F. Stone who was the boss not to let the sun shine on him again in Mexico. F. Stone owned the peninsula- ranch north of Redmond. He could tell you all about this. F. Stone sold his ranch a few years ago. The story goes that it cost Uncle Sam $50,000 to get Villa finished off. A friend of mine was with Villa for some time. He was the man that took Billy the Kid in the gang at Trinidad, Colorado in the seventies. A. Mcglitsch Redmond, Oregm, Aug. 21, 1961 Sheba wins Virginia City camel race VIRGINIA ClTY, Nev. (UPD Sheba, spurred by maternal love, won the annual camel race here Sunday. Competing riders attributed Sheba's victory to the fact that her daughter, Heba, was posted at Uie finish line. Sponsored by the Riverside. Calif.. Press-Enterprise, the desert-raised one-humper from Indio, Calif., won four of the five races held on Uie final day of a three day revel in this historic mining town. Sheba covered Uie downtown street race course In a record .12 seconds with Indio businessman Frank LytUo in the irons. Virginia City's population swelled from its normal 400 to nn estimated 9.000 for the races. The great Comstock I.ode silver strike occurred near Virginia City a cen tury ago. The triumphant dromedary was a Joint entry of Uie Enterprise and the Indio Pate Festival. 'J: ' 4 .,' .H-ifJ jSjTf .! V li IN BERLIN Tank-supported United States troops In West Berlin infiltrate a mock-up town near the Soviet lone border during maneuvers. Captain wants U.S. to bargain with vessel . NORFOLK, Va. (UPD-A Cu ban sea captain said Sunday he has asked President Kennedy to use the ship he hnacked to bar gain WiUi Uie Castro government for his relatives and those of 10 fellow defectors. But Jorge Agustin Navarro said his request did not take into ac count a court hearing which could also affect Uie fate of tho Bahia de Nipe, a 3,800 ton Cuban freighter originally bound for the Baltic Sea and possibly Soviet ports. Navarro, 45, a trim, gray haired mariner, diverted the mer chant ship to Norfolk last week to seek political asylum with 10 of his 33 crew members. , He told a news conference Sun day he had suggested tiiat the President use Uie $1 million freighter to make sure that Cuba would not retaliate against the families of the defectors and to bargain for Uie families' freedom. The court hearing, scheduled to resume today, was to determine whether Uie Coast Guard can keep federal marshals from at taching the ship in order to set tle claims against its owners Uie Cuban government and the Navi era Facuba S.A. Shipping Co. The State Department said shortly after the Bahia de Nipe arrived here Uiat the ship and its 23 remaining crewmen would be allowed to return to Cuba. But wiUiin hours, four suits to taling more than $750,000 were filed in U.S. District Court against the vessel's owners. When federal marshals attempt ed to board Uie 323-foot vessel to post notice of seizure, the Coast Guard shooed them away. The Coast Guard argued it had authority to "prevent any person, article or Uiing from entering a ship" when it is deemed that Uie entry would threaten to create "disturbances to international re lations." Grounding due for aircraft WASHINGTON (UPD-All civil ian aircraft will be grounded for 12 hours starting 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 (PST). The Air Transport Association said commercial and private fly ing will be halted for Operation Sky Shield II, tho second nation wide test of Uie continent's air defenses. About 50 airline flights In the Pacific Northwest will be affect ed, but some will change sched ules. Temperatures Temperatures during Uie 24 hours ending early today. High West Berliners take heart from 2 U.S. moves WASHINGTON (UPI) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's Berlin visit and Uie arrival of an other 1,500 U.S. troops reassured West Berliners that America will defend them, according to Secre tary of State Dean Rusk. Rusk said "Uie events of the last two days have reassured" Uie people of West Berlin, dis mayed at the Communist closing of the East Berlin border. Rusk, appearing on a television interview Sunday, rejected sug gestions that the United States was slow in replying to Uie Com munist action. An "instantane ous" reaction would not bd t h e best course in Uie Berlin situa- Uon, he said. Rusk, declining to say at what point Uie United States might re sort to force in Berlin, said the U.S. aim was to protect the West's "vital interest" there by peaceful means. "We will not be pushed out of West Berlin," he said. The West's vital interests in Berlin, Rusk said, were Uie free dom and security " West Ber liners, Western access to Uie city and continued presence of West ern troops in the city. He predicted that Russia and the West would eventually sit down at the conference table to settle the Berlin situation, which he said involved a larger issue "Uie great world wide confronta ion between the Sino-Soviet bloc and Uie free world." Rusk said Uiere would be "follow up" moves to Johnson's visit in Uie diplomatic field, but declined to discuss Uiem. If the Berlin crisis worsens, he said, it will be laid before the United Nations. New machine washes off cows in jig time ARTESIA. Calif. (UPI) Teo Albers thinks he has invented Uie greatest thing for cows since mink-lined automatic milkers a very hygienic machine that washes a bovine in 4'i seconds. Tho contraption is called a "cowash" and might develop the cleanest, if not the most contented cows in the world. Albers. a native of Holland who came to Uie United States in 1946, says Uie cow enters a concrete block-walled runway, activates a spring valve to turn on Uie show er, sloshes to -Uie next station and gets a speedy scrubbing, rubdown and rinse. It is something like an automatic car wash. The invenUon requires onlv Uiree gallons of water per animal and saves better than one third of the milker's time. California law insists a dairy cow must be washed daily. No such law exists for people. Testimony due in Norris case HACKENSACK, N.J. (UPI) A court hears psychiatric testi mony today in the case of a 28-year-old man charged with at tempting to send a threatening telegram to President Kennedy. Judge Benjamin P. Galanti or dered Hirman B. Norris of West New York, N. J., to appear be fore the Bergen County Court to hear further testimony by doc tors and a psychiatrist. Last week, Dr. Laurence E. Collins, a psychiatrist and retired clinical director of Uie Greystone Park mental institution, testified tiiat Norris suffered from a par anoia reaction and was anti-social. He said Norris was a danger to himself and to others. Norris was arrested last July 9 while trying to send the telegram to Kennedy. It read: "You have taken Uie bait. You would raUier see a war than de port one man. For that I am re lieved of all duty to my fellow men. I have ordered your assas sination. I give my word; make your peace with your God. I will have you killed as soon as it can be arranged." RESOLUTIONS DUE CHEHALIS, Wash. 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