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mvm-Tzii 'GVe me yoir Vec, yoir poor--' WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Solons taking quiet look at another JFK selection THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Tuesday, February 13, 1962 An Independent Newspaper Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Jack McDermott, Advertising Manager Glenn Cushman, General Manager Lou W. Meyera, Circulation Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent William A. Yates, Managing Editor Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher Inured Second Clmi Mslter. January 6. 1S1T. at the Post Omee at Both. On son. under Art March t. 1879. Pub llihtd dully except Sunily and cerialn hnlldayi by The Bend BulHtln. Inc. Drawing up farm problem by Kennedy is no easier than it was for predecessors President Kennedy's farm bill for managed agriculture is interpreted by administration experts as tough for the commercial farmer, cost-reducing for the treasury, beneficial for the urban dweller, and a lease on life for the mar ginal farmer. Not all farm experts agree with the administration's authorities. Officials look at it this way: It could be tough for the commer cial farmer in that he has a take-it-or-cave-it choice of w o r k i n g his land under production (supply) manage ment, or producing as he will without benefit of government price support. There is also the possibilily that the government could use surplus stocks of wheat and feed grains to compel farm ers to accept proposed control meas ures. It would be cost-reducing for the treasury in that reduced surpluses would cut t ho cost of government-owned grain storage. Also, reduced produc tion would slash the amount the government would pay in price prop ping. Under Ihe proposed dairy pro gram, for example, the amount of government help would be limited to about half the cost of the current program. These cost reductions would be gained only with the strict produc tion controls envisioned by the admini stration. For the urban dweller, the bill holds promise of broad, rural-like open areas greenbelts in close proximity to cities. Land retired from crop pro duction would bo put to conservation and recreation uses, such as trees, grass, fishing ponds, camping areas, and the like. Marginal farmers those who scrape out a precarious living from their acres would be involved in a rural renewal program, a cleanup of rural slum areas. Industrial resources would be brought to the marginal farmer to enable him to stay on the land and to help him enjoy a better standard of living. Here again devel opment of recreational areas would play a part. The problem here is per suading industry to move farther from its markets just to give n lift to the other guy. All this Is the administration's plan to raise agriculture into a "common sense" food and agriculture program built around "abundance, balance, con servation, and development." Basically, the Kennedy farm bill says that the government just can't afford to continue to support prices of agricultural commodities that continue to create surpluses. A new approach is needed, the administration feels. During the Eisenhower adminis tration the thinking was that lower price supports would remove incentives for farmers to overproduce. But there were no adequate acreage and other production controls, which Congress refused to grant. Consequently, with a lower market price staring him in the face, the farmer had to produce in quantity to keep up his income. As a result, the cost of sup porting farm products during the eight years of the Eisenhower administration was the most expensive in history. Also, many farmers were forced off the land and into other occupations, continuing a trend which has been going on ever since the Spanish-American War. The Kennedy administration is saying in its proposed legislation that if the mechanism is provided for farm ers to make the necessary adjustments, they'll choose to make those adjust ments in preference to unlimited pro duction and unsupported prices. In offering a take-it-or-leave-it proposition, the administration appar ently believes that farmers, mindful of alternatives, will support the Kennedy farm program. The proposed legislation envisions adequate supplies for consumers, ex port, international relief, and reserves for national security. It provides for farmer referenda approval by a two thirds majority before integral parts of the program can be put into effect. Charles B. Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the toughness of the proposals "makes a mockery of the proposed Democratic farmer referenda." He charged "naked coercion." Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman said if agriculture were to be returned to a free market situation, "farmers would experience a searing farm depression." Republicans have a full pot With the entry of Dr. Edwin Dur no, a real rock-ribbed conservative, the Republicans have a full pot of candi dates who would like to run against Wayne Morse this fall. Durno's an nouncement makes five who seek the honor of opposing the current champ. Durno's announcement leaves the Republicans short of a candidate to run, probably against Bob Duncan, for the Medford doctor's present Congres sional spot. But. Durno had not been Humor from others Jones was sadly wending his way homeward, w rapped in a blanket, when he met the cop mi the beat. Cop: "Hoy, you, aren't you a pok- rated too highly as a prospect to suc ceed himself, anyway. This may be a graceful way out of a possible beatincr. At least there are now two candi dates of major stature in the race Dur no just jumped into. And this is to the good for the Republicans. Morse will be unopposed, at least he will be unoppos ed by any candidate who has a real chance to beat him. The Republicans probably will gain if a real strong cam paign is waged upon the issues. cr player?" Jones: "That I'm not, but I Just left a couple of guys who are." National Grange Monthly. By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON - Senators are taking a close, quiet look at anoth er Kennedy appointee, Harold Woodward, who has been named to the Federal Power Commis sion. This would give him a voice in making billion-dollar decisions affecting the oil and gas industry. The senators have dug up the record of an old Chicago scandal involving Woodward and his fath er. The father, Judge Charles Woodward, assigned several equ ity cases to the law firm that em ployed Harold. The firm collected a total of $225,889.89 In attorney and receiver fees from these cases. Simultaneously, Harold Wood ward's salary was raised from $3,000 to $13,000 a year. For fjood measure, another $5,000 was paid to him in fees and bonuses. The senators also have learned that Woodward continued his law practice on the side, In violation of state law, while he served as an assistant commissioner on the Il linois Commerce Commission. Woodward admitted to this col umn that he kept his law office open but claimed he refused to accept any cases during the 1953 54 period in question. Rather than give up his law practice, he got around the law by requesting a demotion from assistant commissioner to hearing examiner. As for the equity-case scandal, Woodward pleaded that he had re pented on his part In it and had satisfied the Chicago Bar Associa tion which has endorsed him for positions of public trust. Meanwhile, the Senate Com merce Commission has postponed action on Woodward's confirma tion until it can learn more about his law practice. How's That, Comrade? White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who struggled with the language barrier during his talks with Soviet Press Chief Mikhail Kharlamov, is intrigued with the fabulous new machines that translate Russian into Eng lish quicker than it takes to think. The only hitch is that the ma chine translations are sometimes too literal. Salinger tells of one message, for instance, that came out: "Whiskey is willing but meat is weak." The puzzled operators finally figured out that the machine meant to say: "The spirit is will ing but the flesh is weak." Mexican Ambassador Carrillo Florcs tells of another machine which was supposed to say: "Out of sight, out of mind." Instead, the message came out: "A blind idiot." Note The White House has received private word from Mos cow that Kharlamov, following his visit with Salinger, has been pro moted. He is now in charge of all radio and television in the Soviet Union. This may mean that the Kremlin is ready to go ahead with Salinger's proposal to exchange TV appearances permitting Presi dent Kennedy to talk to the Rus sian people and Premier Khrush chev to speak to the American public. Army Martyr? A new right-wing martyr, more polished than the stumbling Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, may be about to storm out of the Army. He is Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau, tbe Army's research chief and fa vorite after-dinner speaker, who is already assuming a martyr's pose in private. A spellbinder on the stump, lie has been averaging a speech a week. The main theme of his pur ple oratory has been the evils of communism. This has brought him into con flict with the Defense Department censors who have been obliged to delete an occasional anti-Communist passage for diplomatic reasons. For instance, Trudeau's refer ences to "world communism" were changed to "Sino-Soviet com munism." It has been U.S. policy, under both Democratic and Re publican rule, to split Communist ugoslavia away from the Smo Sovict bloc. 1 heicforc, the State Department likes to discriminate in official nr. Km are MhUl W l i0552rV3? BRU65 fX rrf-Ati'DAylbsiG i r.V.;-ANYTIME' in cm EMERGENCY?,. speeches between "world commu nism," which would include Yugo slavia, and "Sino-Soviet commu nism," which would not. But Trudeau went crying to Sen. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Dixiecrat, about this suppression. In his outcry against military muzzling, Thurmond cited ten anti-Communist references which he said had been censored out of of ficers' speeches. It turned out that all ten came from Trudeau's speeches. On the witness stand, Trudeau darkly questioned the "motiva tion" of the censors who made these deletions. Yet he failed to explain why the censors, if their motives were suspicious, neglect ed to cut out other acid, anti Communist phrases. In fact, most of Trudeau's criti cism of communism was left un changed. His civilian superiors under standably don't want a general around who goes behind their back to the Senate and who doesn't un derstand the subtle diplomatic reasons for rewording official speeches occasionally. Result: Trudeau will be eased out of the Army in a few weeks. Sensing this, he is making a bid for the No. 2 spot at the Central Intelligence Agency. Ironically, Trudeau was bounced as Army Intelligence chief in 1955 for try ing to influence Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer against the CIA's operation in Germany. President Kennedy has let it be known that he has no intention of appointing Trudeau to the CIA. Demos seeking to firm party responsibility By United Press International Steps to firm up party respon sibility were taken as Democrats in Washington and Lincoln Coun ties approved platforms during tile weekend. The Washington County conven tion instructed the county chair man to find out whether candi dates for the legislature will vote with the party majority in choos ing officers and to make the in formation public. The group also instructed the county central committee to en dorse as many primary candi dates as it considers qualified. The Lincoln County delegates voted for tbe unit rule in electing officers in the Oregon legislature. Thoy also voted in favor of a Pacific Northwest California power Intertie and in favor of Sen. Maurine Neuberger's Oregon Dunes proposal. At Newport, the Oregon Finance Department was rapped in a key note speech by slate Rep. Corne lls Bateson, D-Salem. Rateson called the department's' individual negotiations with four firms for purchase of asphalt "a dangerous precedent." State fi nance Director Freeman llolmer announced the individual talks after the department rejected four identical bids. U.S. is deeply committed in Southeast Asia By United Press International The appointment of a four-star general to head up U. S. military assistance to South Viet Nam em phasizes just how deeply the Unit ed States is comimtted to halt ing the march of communism in Southeast Asia. The announcement naming Gen. Paul Harkins to the United States Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam was accompanied by a Pentagon spokesman's reminder that American forces in South Viet Nam are "not in combat." It is true that so far U. S. troops are not stretched out across the country as they were in Ko rea. The three or four thousand American military men in South Viet Nam would make up less than a quarter of one reinforced U. S. division. But the appointment of a four star general to tbe new command inevitably raises tiie question, is the United States heading toward a shooting war in Viet Nam? The answer probably Is that not even the men at tbe top know for sure. They hope not Prepared to Shoot But one high-ranking American in Saigon grimly put it this way to UPI correspondent Merton D. Perry: "If we have to get out of here, they will have to shoot us out." President Kennedy put it some what more mildly when he said "we are assisting in every way we properly can" in Soutii Viet Nam. That assistance includes American-piloted helicopters to airlift Vietnamese troops into action against guerrilla hideouts and to deprive the Communists of one of the advantages of tlieir extreme mobility. It includes tough U. S. Rangers who train the Vietnamese in guer rilla tactics and accompany them on missions. It includes sea patrols in an attempt to cut off reinforcements from reaching the Communist fighters from North Viet Nam. In terms of money, it means that the United States is invest ing around $2 billion in the hope that South Viet Nam can become a bulwark strong enough also to afford protection to Thailand, Cambodia and Malaya. Military men and equipment can if necessary, be withdrawn. Other Problems Exist When Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor visited South Viet Nam early last fall at Kennedy's request, he seemed to come away with, the conviction that manpower was not South Viet Nam's chief problem. For while Communist guerrillas have been increasing constantly tlieir military sway, they also have been capturing men's minds, using nationalism and agrarian re forms among their chief weapons. Under U. S. pressure, South Vie namesc President Ngo Dinli Diem lias promised far-reaching re forms. The question now is how he carries them out and whether the program of stepped up U. S. aid can give him time. SAGEBRUSHINGS Maybe Bells was looking for TV badman position By I la S. Grant Bulletin Staff Writer Laughs are where you find them, and The Bulletin news staff had a good hee-haw yesterday about the picture of Clarence Bells, looking for teeth to fix. Clarence Bells, looking for teeth to fix. Clarence is not a tooth fixer, of course, as the story explained. Actually, he works for the employ ment service. In the picture, Clarence looked as though he was wearing a six shooter and holding a tire iron. This isn't true, either. He would be the last person in the world to use force to get customers for Uie Central Oregon Dental Clinic. Actually, the project is a very worthy one, and certainly is wor thy of patronage. You can buy a fur coat, and you can buy a sports car. but you can't buy a beautiful smile, once your teeth are gone. Then all you can buy is a set of dentures. And they cost plenty of money, loo. Kids whose parents can't afford to have their teeth fixed certain ly should take advantage of the clinic. There'll be brigher days for evciyonc, goodness knows. And the dentists who arc giving their services, and the Jaycees who are sponsoring the clinic, will be re- Police quizzing murder suspect PORTLAND UPI- Police to day questioned Royal Kenneth Hayes, 24, to find out what led to the slaying of a security guard at the Oregon Journal building on Front Avenue early Monday. Hayes turned himself in to po lice a short while after Theodore Ross, 54, an employe of the Wal lace Security Agency, was shot in the lobby of the building. Hayes was a former part time employe of the agency. Police said Hayes gave confus ing accounts and mentioned in two of them that he had planned to kill himself. Hayes' wife said Ross and her husband had been good friends. The shooting occurred about 2 a.m. Hayes was booked on a first degree murder charge. Accident injures Arthur Priaulx PORTLAND (UPD-Arlhur W. Priaulx, director of public infor mation for the West Coast Lum bermen's Association, suffered se rious injuries in an automobile accident near Las Vegas, Nov., Sunday. Priaulx suffered a broken neck and will be confined several days in a Las Vegas hospital, his wife said. Mrs. Priaulx reported that she and her husband were driving in a small foreign car Sunday when their car was struck from behind. Mrs. Priaulx escaped with minor injuries. paid when the Indigent children flash them a toothy grin. But I think we'll just keep the picture of Clarence on file. Ws could use it in all sorts of situa tions. Like "looking for the friend ly plumber." Bend residents who hobnobbed with members of the Richard Boone company, these two sum mere past, saw some familiar faces on the "Have Gun, Will Travel" show Saturday night. Several of the leading parts were played by members of the regular company, who have been studying acting under tutelage of their boss, Paladin. The diamond - selling villain was played by Joe Dimmit, the ward robe man. Joe was the target of one of Paladin's practical jokes last summer in Bend. When the company arrived in town, posters reading "Welcome Joe Dimmit" were in all the store windows. It seems Dimmit had been stealing the show in other towns where the company was on location. The leading man, who was dis appointed in love because his dream girl turned out to be a sa loon doll, was Hal Needham, one of tiie company's most daring stunt men. In this piece he didn't do any stunts, but he roughed up the saloon considerably. He's the chap who did many of the hazordous tricks when the company was in Bend. On one oc casion, he suffered a leg injury when he was required to leap out of a tall pine tree, land on the bank of the Deschutes, roll into the water and float down the river. He completed the take, but spent some time in a cast later, for his efforts. Another familiar face was that of Stewart East, also a stunt man, who was one of the bad guys. Rural carrier exam pla nned Applications are being accepted for an examination for rural car. rier at the Terrebonne Post Of fice. Postmaster A. R. Hammer of that Deschutes county town has announced. Applicants must take a written test for the position. They must havs resided in the area of de livery for one year, and must have reached age of 18. Complete information relative to the examination requirements can be obtained from Postmaster Hammer. DRAPERIES He thinks Reds can be rooted from Viet Nam TOKYO (UPI) Communist China denounced today sleppcd-up American military aid to South Vict Nam and called it "a grave threat to peace in Indochina and Asia." But U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Alan D. Shapley. who just re turned to Tokyo from South Viet Nam, said it was his personal opinion that it would be virtually impossible for Red China to inter vene as it did in Korea. Shapley said he was "quite sure the Communists will be rooted out of Viet Nam but he predicted it would take several years. Shapley said the problems of distance, terrain and logistics were so great "I think there is no possibility of . . . any large scale Chinese intervention." Commands Pacific Marines Shapley is the commanding gen eral of U.S. Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific. He made his re marks at a news conference at the same time a Communist New China News Agency broadcast quoting a commentary in the of ficial Peiping People's Daily news paper was being monitored here. "The establishment of the U.S. command for aggression in South Viet Nam is an act in further violation of the Geneva agree ment." the broadcast said. "We believe that it is necessary to put an immediate end to U.S. armed intervention and military adventures in South Viet Nam in order to safeguard peace in Asia." Possible Chinese Intervention The Communist charge of viola tions of the Geneva convention ap parently was a reference to the American formation of military assistance command to help boat back Communist forces in South Viet Nam. Shapley said it was possible the American action could bring di rect Chinese intervention. But lie said it was "strictly" his personal opinion that would not happen and he also doubted there would be further "heavy infiltration" from Communist North Viet Nam. Beautl Pleat is not a fab ric, it's a mechanical de vice to perfectly pleat your fabric. f) No buckram or ttitlenlng need ed Simple top horn 4) Can be hun lined or unlined. with valance or cornice t Beautl Pleat rods are ol flntu Quality ai Btfaud Plea! it eel pleat er un conditionally guaranteed CUSTOM DRAPES OF ALL TYPES "Everything For Your Windows" TRI-C0UNTY Window Products Bend E7 2-2824 Prineville HI 7-7095 Tt is. 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