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4 Tuesday, February 20, 1962 . An Independent Newspaper
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Co. Glenn's frip through space didn't
fake place in a news vacuum, anyway
Lt. Col. John Glenn, the Marine
test pilot, has become America's first
man to successfully orbit the earth.
Although the trip took place In the
weightless vacuum of outer space, no
action of any man ever before has been
so thoroughly covered by news media.
One can contrast this, If he wishes,
with Russian orbits. No one outside of
Russia knows for sure how many fail
ures occurred, although several are sus
pected. Khrushchev and his lackeys are
the only persons even inside Russia
who know all the details of Soviet
space attempts. .
Glenn's shot, and, the preparations
for It, were carried on under lights, in
a goldfish bowl so to speak.
The pressure of having the whole
world watching over his shoulder seems
to have rested easily upon Glenn, al
though he indicated more than once he
was aware of it. It is one of the slight
penalties of our system, he admitted.
He and others feel the advantages far
outweigh the disadvantages.
The publicity given our space
program is one of the reasons lt has
lagged somewhat behind the Russian
program. To be sure, space research
was practically eliminated in the plan
ning during the Truman administration,
and it took .several years to cntch up.
But, with all the world watching, it
was just darned poor business to have
a complete failure. Russia, carrying out
her tests in secrecy, could afford major
mistakes. This country, with the cam
eras aimed and running, could not. Our
testing program needed to be more
complete, our preparations more
thorough, than those of our space-age
competition.
There are those who felt the plac
ing of a man into orbit was a stunt,
that the same results could have been
obtained through the use of animals
and our highly sophisticated Instrumen
tation systems. This school thinks the
, man In space program Is designed more
for Its publicity values than for any
valuable information which might be
gained from lt.
With this we can't agree, for one
reason. We may have the instruments,
but our animals are not intelligent
enough. They can be trained to perform
certain functions, but their level of
performance Is rather low. Then, per
haps more important, their ability to
describe the things they see, feel, and
do, is completely lacking.
It may be tough on the occupants
to live in a goldfish bowl. But untold
millions of Americans got a giant thrill
this morning when Glenn lifted off the
launching pads at Cape Canaveral. This
alone may have been worth all the time,
money, and effort.
Competition is only good reason
Teacher organizations In Central
Or n seem to have met with little
gen, .no enthusiasm from school board
members in the new salary schedules
which are being proposed. With the
shortened work year enjoyed by teach
ers, salary scales for beginners in the
trade are already at a level of over $100
per week. Increases greater than the
rise In the cost of living find little favor.
The only real problem is one of
competition. Lower salary scales than
p.re general around the state mean the
best young teachers go elsewhere. One
school administrator reports his system
has a tough time attracting the new
teachers he really wants; too often, he
says, he has to be satisfied with less
than the best.
If this competitive factor is a real
problem in one area it must be felt to
at least some degree in others. If it is
a real problem school boards will be
forced to make adjustments greater
than they think desirable under the
circumstances.
Portland papers outdo old Denver Post
Stories of the old Denver Tost are
legion in the newspaper business. Some
of them came from staff members who
moved on to other fields, and a number
came from Gene Fowler's book "Tim
berline," written a number of years
after Fowler had become a movie
writer.
One of the yarns which caused
great glee in news offices around the
country was the manner in which Fow
ler treated the birth of a baby elephant
which belonged to a Post-owned circus.
Fowler was quite critical of the news
Humor from others
Howard Young overheard it in the
lobby of one of the town's biggest cor
porations (one stenographer grumping
to another):
"If the company puts in a four-day
week, who's gonna compensate us for
the two coffee breaks we'll lose?"
Herb Caen in San Francisco Chronicle.
handling of the story.
Fowler is dead now. The Tost is
out of the circus business. But we have
a couple of contenders for newer honors
in Oregon.
Those who have gone through the
files of the Tost during the elephant
rearing attempts, and then who look at
the two Portland dailies of the past few
weeks, will find the local papers devot
ing considerably more space to the
elephant episode at the Portland zoo
than the Post ever did to its own ele
phant.
Headline in the Hollywood Re
porter: "Screen Gems Spreading Out."
If I've told those starlets once, I've
told them one hundred times quit
hanging around those drug stores
drinking malts. Art Ryon in Los An
geles Times.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
McNamara service move
slices supply duplication
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON One of the
big arguments for unifying the
Army, Navy and Air Force was
to cut out duplication. The three
services In the past have bought
different kinds of ladies under
wear, mca's shirts, combat boots,
dishes for mess halls, and a
hundred and one other things in
eluding even carpenter's squares.
There are only 12 inches in a
square no matter how you make
it, but the Army, Navy, Air
Force, and even the Marines, had
about six different kinds of car
penter's squares.
And no Secretary of Defense,
despite brave words, has hither
to been able to knock the services
heads together to get them to co
ordinate. However, Secretary of
Defense McNamara called In the
secretaries of the Army, Navy
and Air Force, plus the Chiefs of
Staff, and had them Inspect an
exhibit of shirts, women's exer
cise clothes, helmets, belts, shoe
laces, sheet?, blankets, and other
paraphernalia ordered by the dif
ferent services in competition
with each other.
It was agreed there need be no
duplication of any of these except
for two Hems helmets and belt
buckles. The Navy, it was agreed,
needed a certain type of helmet
to withstand salt-water spray on
airplane carriers. When it came
to be t buckles, it was louna tnai
the Army and Navy used shiny
brass buckles; the Marines used
Kennedy seeks
higher pay for
U.S. workers
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy today asked Con
gross for a $1 billion pay Increase
for 1,640,000 white-collar govern
ment workers over the next three
years to bring their salaries into
line with private industry.
In a special message to tne
House and Senate, Kennedy pro
posed reform of the federal pay
system to provide for wage hikes
ranging from s.7 per cent ior
clerical workers to 35 per cent for
top-bracket employes. "
The proposed 10 per cent boost
In the federal payroll would be
spread over three annual stages,
starting Jan. 1, 1963, with tne tirst
year accounting for about four and
one-half per cent of the raise.
Achieve, Maintain Proficiency
Kennedy said that enactment of
tho reform plan was fundamental
to the "maintenance of a standard
of excellence in the federal serv
ice." He said it was "essential
If we are to achieve and maintain
proficiency In the federal government."
The President stressed the need
for putting the pay of top-flight
professional workers on a par
with private enterprise, in order
to attract and retain competent
personnel.
The plan calls for tne aaoiuon
of two new top-level grades,
grado 19 and grade 20, to the
federal pay scale.
At present the top classilicauon
Is grado 18. The proposed legisla
tion would apply to four federal
statutory pay plans the Classifi
cation Act, the Postal Field Serv
ice Compensation Act, the For
eign Service Act and the medicine
and surgory salary system of the
Veterans' Administration.
Minimum $40 Increase
Tn tho first year a worker clas
sified as GS-1, the lowest grade,
would receive a $40 Increase with
a salary hike -from $3,185 to $3,225.
A grade 18 workers would get a
salary boost in the first year from
$18,500 to $20,315.
Grade 5 workers, mostly senior
clerks, would receive a 6.8 per
cent increase, about $.130 over a
three-year poriod; grado 6 work
ers would receive an 8.2 per cent
boost and grade 7, 9.1 per cent.
The largest bloc of government
workers, about 168.000, are classi
fied as grade 4. They would re
ceive a 6.5 per cent salary hike.
A mall carrier would get a $168
raise the first year.
Putnam honored
by school group
ATLANTIC CITY (UPD- Rex
Putnam, former Oregon supcrin
tendent of public instruction was
honored with a distinguished serv
ice award from the American As
sociation of School Administra
tors Monday night. He was one
of six educators honored.
Putnam was unablo to attend
and Ewald Turner of Pendleton,
Ore., president of Uie National
Education Association, accepted
the award on his behalf.
Watford Reed, staff writer of
the Oregon Journal, won a na
tion reporting certificate from
the Education Writers Associa
tion. '
ABUSED ABUSE
WASHINGTON (UFIl - Rep.
John V. Lindsay, R-N.Y., has
called for repeal of a law which
permits congressmen to send
large amounts of unaddiessed.
postace-frec literature to constitu
ents Iwk home.
This abuse has no business
being abused," he told tlw House
Monday.
a black buckle.
"Wait a minute," Interrupted
Gen. Dave Shoup of the Marines,
"that black buckle may not seem
Important to you, but if there's a
glint of sunlight on a brass buckle
during a Marine combat opera
tion, that glint of sunlight might
mean the difference in a man's
life."
It was agreed therefore that the
Marines could keep their black
buckles. However, Secretary Mc
Namara concluded the session as
follows: "I'll cive you just 30 days
to get the same standards for
everything else. If you can't
agree," he said, "then the sec
retary of each department with
the Chiefs of Staff will report to
me.
No one reported. They were
able to work out the same stand
ards for undershirts, women's ex
ercise clothes, bed sheets, dishes,
and a hundred and one other com
modities for the first time in U.S.
history.
Saud Blasts Nasser
Not much was leaked out re
garding the conference between
President Kennedy and King Saud
of Saudi Arabia, but one surpris
ing development was a diatribe
that the wealthiest king in the
world delivered against his old
ally. President Nasser of Egypt.
The two were once close friends
and allies. Saud even lent Nasser
$200,000,000 of oil royalties which
he collected in advance from the
Arabian American Oil Company
in order to fight Israel and buck
the British over the Suez Canal.
But recently Saud has felt that
Nasser was playing footsie with
Moscow while simultaneously try
ine to curry favor with the West,
and that he was not to be trusted.
His explosion against Nasser to
Kennedy was vigorous and vitriolic.
Jewish-Arab Cooperation
A dinner took place in Detroit
the other day which would have
been a lesson to Nasser, King
Saud and other Arab leaders. It
was a dinner in honor of a Leba
nese city councilman of Highland
Park, Mich., Sam Saide. A large
number of Arab friends of Coun
cilman Salde were present; also
a largo number of Jews.
The climax came wnen uoasi-
master William Freedman, a
Jew, presented Sam Saide, an
Arab, with a glowing introduc
tion. Leaders of the Arab states
should have been present.
The Great Came of Politics
There have been some great
politicians In tho White House.
Calvin Coolidce. a Republican;
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and now
John F. Kennedy is the latest po
litical past-master.
A lot ot people tninK pontics is
dirty business. But at the Detroit
dinner in which the Jews paid tri
bute to an Arab, I heard that
Arab, Councilman Saide, give the
best description of politics I ever
heard.
Saide Is a man who worked his
way up from the precinct level.
He said: "You hear uncompli
mentary things said about pol
iticians. The dictionary says 'poli
tics is the science of civil gov
ernments and a politician is one
skilled in political science." We
workers in the political vineyards
know politics as the hard work
of ringing doorbells, passing out
literature In the rain and cold, or
neglecting our private business
or spending far less time with our
families than we would wisn, ot
being rebuffed and Insulted, some
times of being victims ot vicious
lies.
"Many good citizens abhor poll
tics as a dirty game and expect
our vast complex government to
run Itself. They wonder wny we
stay in politics.
"Sometimes we wonder our
selves. But down: deep in our
hearts we know. We know that
with the success of civil govern
ment politics is a noble profes
sion and the moral responsibility
of everyone who loves his coun
try. We know that without strong.
active, dedicated politicians every
precinct worker to President, we
could not enjoy the benefits of
our beloved country for a week
So spoke Sam Saide, the politi
cian son of an Arab who worked
his way up to be a city council
man of Highland Park, Mich.
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JFK draws fire
on appointments
to judgeships
CHICAGO (UPD-The chairman
of the American Bar Associa
tion's (ABA) Judicial Committee
Monday criticized President Ken
nedy for not appointing Republi
cans to federal judgeships.
Bernard G. Segal, Philadelphia,
said all but three of President
Kennedy's 85 nominations for life
time terms to the federal bench
have been Democrats.
Of the 68 so far confirmed by
appointment, seven were not qual
ified by the committee," Segal
said.
Segal told the ABA House of
Delegates his committee was "dis
appointed over the imbalance in
judicial appointments."
When the President took office
the party affiliation of federal
judges was just about evenly di
vided between Republicans and
Democrats for the first time in
more than a generation," Segal
said.
"Imbalance has again set in."
In a surprise appearance, Dep
uty Atty. Gea Byron White denied
politics played a major role in
selection of judges.
"There Is nothing odious about
the preference for Democrats,"
White said. "The central question
in choosing them (the appointees)
was ability, not politics."
Segal said the three non-Democrats
recommended by the Presi
dent were recess appointees desig
nated by President Eisenhower
two Republicans and a Liberal
party member from New York.
White said Kennedy soon would
name some Republicans to the
bench.
NEED $5 TUNERS
NEW YORK (UPD Tho Board
of Education has about 5,000 out
of the tune pianos on hand and
no piano tuner.
The board has been trying to
get the instruments tuned for
three years, but the budget al
lows only $5 per piano while the
going rate is $10 to $12.
Apparently there are no $5 pi
ano tuners in New York.
No hitch seen
in peace pact
PARIS (UPD French officials
expressed confidence today that
there would be no hitch in the
signing of a pact to end the
seven-year-old Algerian war.
Officials said it was conceivable
that "minor changes" might have
to be made but there will be no
"basic changes."
The Algerian rebel provisional
government was summoned to
meet in Tunis today to hear the
report on the negotiations with
French officials that ended Sunday
night.
Wednesday the rebels' parlia
mentthe 60-member National
Council of the Algerian Revolution
(CNRA1 will meet in Tripoli,
Libya, to study the agreement.
The four rebel negotiators who
returned to Tunis Monday were
extremely cautious in their state
ments about the negotiations.
Foreign Minister Saad Dahlab
said the talks were "not yet end
ed" although they had made a lot
of progress and "can resume with
good results."
French officials viewed this as
Dahlab's way of saying that the
results of the negotiations still
must be ratified by the rebel
parliament.
Minister of State Lakhdar Ben
Tobbal put it more bluntly: "Now
we have to face the second hur
dlethat of the CNRA."
French officials saw no problem
in getting French cabinet and Na
tional Assembly approval since
President Charles de Gaulle's in
fluence in both is overwhelming.
French officials had set Feb. 25
as a target date for a ceasefire
but present indications are that it
will not come until later in the
month or perhaps early in March.
West maintains
Berlin flights
despite threats
BERLIN (UPD-Western offi
cials said today the Western Al
lies will maintain their Berlin
flights despite Soviet threats to
interfere with them.
They rejected a Russian claim
to the right to monopolize the
Berlin air lanes through satura
tion flights by Soviet military aircraft.
The West said it had a right to
unrestricted access to Berlin by
air, would hold the Soviets re
sponsible for any incidents and
protect Western Allied air' traffic
if necessary, i
Informed sources said the West
is ready to provide fighter pscorts
for transports carrying passengers.
The Russians did not attempt
tn rpstripf Wistprn flirrhts in Ihp
three 20-mile Berlin air corridors
above East Germany today, West
ern officials said. But the Rus
sians, in a note released Monday
night, told the Western Allies they
would continue their harassing
flights in the corridors.
SEEKS REELECTION
SALEM (UPI) State Rep.
Clinton P. Haight Jr., D-Baker,
filed for re-election Monday. He
represents Baker and Grant
counties.
John N. Hutchens, Ontario Dem
ocrat, filed for Malheur County
district attorney.
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Letters
to the Editor
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"When men differ In opinion,
both sides ought equally to have
the advantage of being heard
by the public." Bnamln
Franklin.
Indian 'land grab'
subject of writer
To the Editor:
As a spokesman for some of the
Indians I would of liked to put a
question to Mr. Gus Hall which
is: "Now you know both the Dem
ocrats and Republicans have no
program to pay the Indians for
the land that was taken away by
force of arms. India has taken
Goa back after 451 years of Por
tuguese rule. Would you back an
honest honorable program toward
the Indians, or would you do like
some so called Americans who
pound their chest, wave the flag,
and say this is my country, and
never pay a cent for this wonder
ful place?"
How does Webster's dictionary
describe theft? And there are
some good people on this earth
who will judge you.
A. J. Mcgtilsch
Redmond, Oregon,
Feb. 19, 1962
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