1. T. 1 't . V. i, , j P Y.' " ' d IVefiriht our oountHi's battle If he Atmu and the Navu ihey will iind the sstt&t&r -a duaided bu The United. States -Maitrnesl Jo?n Genn rewses Marine Corps Hymn THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Tuesday, February 20, 1962 . An Independent Newspaper Phil P. Brogan, Associate Editor Jack McDermott, Advertising Manager Glenn Cuihmin, General Manager Lou W. Meyers, ClrcolaHon Manager .Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent William A. Yates, Managing Editor Robert W. Chandler, Editor and Publisher "enteral u (Moid Ct. Mattar. January S, HIT. at tht Pt OtflM t Band. Ottw, tmdtr Act of Marcs , H7. Pub IUhd dally turept Sunday anil ccnaln holiday! or Tna Ban d Bulntln. Inc. 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. x'im'':::- h rirzfe-TEi- muss 'n J 1VH KOftOMY DRUM mi Mimir I ai i . n a v i nKin V ii ' s 1 .i . ANYTIME ,.; in cm EMERGENCY' - MM mm COMPLETES COURSE Stanton S. Sherwood Jr., Ma rine private, has just finished -a four-week individual combat training course at Camp Pen dleton. He is the son of Mr. end Mrs. Stanton S. Sherwood Sr., 903 McKlnley Avenue, Bend. 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. I - ..' !. - Letters to the Editor V si "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 don't worry, Mom! Twi-Nighterg, Venetian blinds have slats that snap back ruler straight! Spring-tempered aluminum slaufl wont bend out ot shape ! intH special baked enamel finishl washes clean ... yet never rusts, chins or peels! Wipe-clean plas tic tapes won't fade, stretch oil tray. And rlexalura 1 wi-Nighteil blinds are extra good-looking loo . . . come in a choice of oveifj 200 decorator color combinational including the newest linen look and birch finishes. Phone for a free esti- jCJufti male today. 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