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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1962)
'Wrl 4 mA OnVWI 1 II . Ulf II t I ill II I l HI 1 ' V' A1 s I' V i , IS - ' !' I 8 'Gangway!' THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Wednesday, February 21, 1962 An Independent Newspaper Phil F. Brogan, Auoeli Bdltor UiY McDtrmott, AoWHiIng Mngr Gl.nn Cuihnwi, Cental M.nager Lou W. Myr, Circulation Mngr Loran E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent . William A. Yatta, Managing Bdltor Robtrt W. Chandlar, Editor and Publlthar Pressure builds up on President Kennedy as decision time on nuclear fesfs nears Pickets,' many of the young men with beards and a number of the girls dressed in leotards, marched around the White House the other day, pro testing the possibility of the United States resuming atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. And this week Mr. Kennedy heard a plea from Hugh Gait $klll, head of the British Labor party, asking this country to forego nuclear testing. The problem, of course, is fallout. Many persons are worried about the effect of fallout from atmospheric tests on food and water supplies, and upon genetic traits of future generations. There doesn't seem to be much to worry about, from all we can determine, fallout is only dangerous to those near by, and any such testing of large-scale weapons will be conducted at Christ mas Island in the P a c i f i c, which is about as far from anyplace as you can get. A few hours in front of a television set can give you more radioactive ex posure than the fallout from all nuclear tests ever conducted. So the danger here seems to be slight. If fallout is the largest danger, nuclear tests in the atmosphere should resume whenever we are ready to start them. There are those who oppose nu clear testing because they feel it is a form of sword-rattling which this coun- Public property This Is still a free country. But the more crowded it gets, the less free it can bo. That's just the nature of things. The Oregon Fish Commission has Just taken a step, a necessary step, to re strict one excerclse of our freedom. No longer, under fish commission edict, may anybody and everybody despoil certain coastal tide pools of their ma rine life. Oregon tidclands remain public property, of course. But that doesn't mean that w e can harvest them without restriction. These scenic and scientific treasures must be husbanded. This re striction on our "freedom" will bring some criticism, to be sure. We saw the same thing in the case of our national forests. Those forests belong to everybody. Thus, why can't any citizen arm himself with an axe and a shovel and take from those forests anything he pleases? That was the sort WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Peace march was answer to American right wing Letters to the Ed itor By Draw Pearson WASHINGTON The two 18-ycar-olds, one a brunette and one a redhead, had a stringbag full of groceries and two little suit cases. They had sat up on a bus all the way from Lake Forest, It was an old bus seven years old rented for the stu dents peace marcn to wasning ton, and it broke down. Also they came through the blizzard. So they didn't get here in time to partake of the coffee which the President sent out to the picket line In front of the White House. But they had arrived in lime to sleep on the floor of Washing Ion churches and to picket the next day. "The Methodist church es were the most nospuamc, they said. Then they added, "no, all of them were." Four hundred had started in buses from Chicago and their stops along the way were suppos ed to 1m staggered so they would not swamp the eating houses. But it didn't work out that way, so they were lucky to have their own food along in that little string bag. It was all rather expensive, they said, and they had to pay for It out of their school allow ances.. However, anyining iney Tb Bulletin wlcome. conulbutluiu tu tills iuluMin frunl IU reudrrf. I.el utn nitm contain the ournt'l nitnw were found guilty, paid the fines, , j- - "SSJSK "JS deducted the cost of legal fees rretiut,. i iiti jo "- lurm M bh;miij w. -'- plus fines from income taxes, and went on violating the law. j .g-J ave America Judge Gancy slopped all that, i , :-i ii,tt' e- did it not only with stiff fines 1 f rom special interests He- and jail sentences, but with a ringing statement from the bench warning the electrical manufac turers that they were contribut ing to communism by flouting the American principle of free competition. Note 1 Judge Ganey pays tribute to two Republicans, Bob Bicks, then chief of the antitrust division, and Attorney General Bill Rogers, for Iheir eloquent pleas in the electrical case which led to the convictions. Note 2 General Electric does not seem to be hurling much from its jail sentences and heavy fines. It made a 21 per cent profit last year. Mint control hearing set A public hearing to amend the mint control area order and regu lations will be held by the State could do for peace was worth the i Department of Agriculture March try should not undertake. But this reasoning is not particularly valid, either. At present, there are only two countries in the world which are cap able of carrying on a nuclear war, Russia and the United States. Since we presumably have too much sense to consider nationwide suicide, Russia is our only possible source of fear. And the present and indicated future state of our weapons and defense system Indicates strongly that Russia, which doesn't want to commit national suicide either, will not start any war. But keeping the defense state high means testing. And since testing in volves nuclear explosions a missile is a fine thing but it doesn't do any damage without a warhead the limi ted underground tests in the desert don't give us all the answers we need. Regardless of the opinions of the bearded, or the leotard-clad, or the British Labor parly, we'll wager a vote of the American people would show an overwhelming preference for resump tion of atmospheric testing. " Particularly since it is the only effective way of conducting certain tests, to gain knowledge we need, is such a testing program necessary. Mr. Kennedy should know those who are doing the protesting may be strong idealists. But they aren't very practical. of question that was asked when the present forest preservation system was set up. The answer is obvious. It's the same answer that must bo given those who feel the tidepools "belong to every body, so . . ." One of these days, we're going to have tighter controls on the fossil beds, which attract, more collectors every year. A lot of treasures have been lost because amateur "hone collectors" de spoiled these collections. In central Ore gon scientists discovered a jaw bone ol a mastodon, It was being used as a door stop by somebody who admired pretty rocks. W here it came from, where the rest of the skeleton is, no body knows. But that jawbone made a fine doorstop. Put another way, these things be long, to everybody, but they don't belong to anybody. effort. They started reading the rules from a mimeographed sheet. A. Be well groomed at all limes." My wife showed them where they could tidy their hair. B. Be warmly dressed. Mrs. P. produced some boots and socks. C. Under no circumstances answer the people who make rude remarks. "No, that is just not possible for me," the redhead said. "I can't help talking back. "But you can't do that, re plied the brunette. ."The whole point of this thing is to be like Mahatma Ghandi nonviolence." So out they went into the snow and Hie slush to register their protest for peace. Answer to Right Wing President Kennedy has been worrying quite rightly about the potent, growing right wing in the United States. In southern California. Texas, and parts of Florida, a movement not unlike the neo-fascists who have been trying to wreck France has ta ken rout. In a sense, the silent bus loads of students who converged on Washington from as far away as Seattle, were like last week's si lent marchers in Paris who filled the streets in protest against po lice brutality. They too were an answer to the right. But this student peace march the biggest in history was more significant. When 4,000 youngsters desert the movies and weekend sports, save up their al lowance money and arc willing to sleep on floors and get their feet half frozen in the snow to regis ter Iheir concern over nuclear war and atmospheric bomb-testing and Iheir conviction that civil defense shelters do more harm than good then this means something. It means that the youth of Am erica are thinking. It means they want to exercise a voice in gov ernment. It means that the crusty observations of such aging con gressmen as California's Cheti Holifield, "someone filled them full of baloney," are not good enough fur this modern genera tion. It also means that the young President is probably much closer to the people than Barry Goldwa ter and that the President was wise in welcoming the "turn to ward peace council" to Washing ton and expressing approval ol Iheir participation in the affairs of the nation, Philadelphians this week are honoring a judge who made anti trust history J. Cullen Gancy of the U.S. District Court. Judge Gancy made that history when he sentenced three execu tives of General Electric lo jail, plus executives ol Weslingliouse and oilier big electrical manufac turing firms, also assessed the biggest fines in antitrust history. Prior to this, most judges had given a slap on the wrist to big corporations which violated the antitrust law. As a result viola tions of the law became a habit. Big corporations had case after case filed against tnem. t n e y at 1 p.m. in the conference room of the Courthouse at Mad ras. Inspections last year showed scattered infestations of verticil Hum wilt. A proposed change in the control order will require in spection of mint fields during July to permit early treatment of in fected fields where wilt is found. Previously, inspection could take place during July or August. Another proposed amendment requires that no root stock may be sold except from fields certi fied to meet standards and regu lations. Such fields will require an additional post harvest inspection. URGE NUCLEAR RESUMPTION WASHINGTON (UPD Repub lican congressional leaders have urged President Kennedy to order immediate resumption of atmos pheric nuclear tasls. Tn the Editor: Again the dragon is out for pelf, spreading poison breath pamph lets over Die land opposing S. 1740, "legislation requiring full disclos ure of costs of credit an un- j usual position for a national busi- ness association, a trade organi ' zation which supposedly is dedi cated to preserving sound private enterprise, ethical and honest bus iness practices," says !enaior Paul Douglas in his letter to The Editor, Mcdford Mail Tribune, February 6, 1962. Habitually the USCC seems lo oppose anything for future peo ple's welfare and promoie any thing to fill the big special inter ests' money coffers, now. Dec. 16, 1952 one Richard Smitn, USCC secretary, on a speaking tour informed a 7-man audience at the Jackson Hotel, Medford, (after a treating round at the dimly-lit bar) that USCC plans would turn National Parks, Na tional Forests, etc. over to special private interests to exploit. Smith said "schools would be flooded witli propaganda to teach chil dren, teachers, parents, the pub lic, to believe our way." A July, 1961 USCC publication condemns the U.S. Forest Serv ice long-range forest plan. Pri vate special interests' demonstra tions of sound, ethical,- honest, business practices" show mil lions of acres of destroyed for est and grazing lands, mute evi dences of big special interests' care for any land or people. Read "Looters of Uie Public Domain" re forests; William Vogt's "Road to Survival" for de cline and destruction of God-given abundances; Vance Packard's "The Waste Makers," for planned early obsolescence, waste of vital resources, price-fixing, etc. by manufacturers, "free enter prise" at work; free plunder of Uie public by the most power ful. Is any "foreign aid" needed to Fall of building results in suit PENDLETON (UPI)-A $25,932 law suit has been filed in Circuit Court here as a result of col lapse of a building in I960. The action was filed by Del Brown. He asked Uie amount from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Slangier and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Slan gier. The Slangier brothers were owners of a building that was burned early in 1960. The action states that about a month later, a wall collapsed and ell onto an adjacent business hasten such business methods, po litical practices, down that slip pery, happy road of civilization's decay? They crave not peace, just more power. And by tlicir wealth buying corruptive political power weaken and destroy civilization. Then another power takes over. Do you think ours an exception? Every President since George Washington's appeal to Patrick Henry, January 15, 1779, may well have cried out: "Help save Amer ica from pertinacious selfish spec ial interests. Only lob years b BWn llimjiuiu mum iiv ui son) since Sacajawea guided Lewis and Clark expedition through 2000 miles of unspoiled wilderness to the Pacific. Had Gilford Piiichot'r teachings or' T. R.'s declaration of May 13, 1908 been heeded America and the people would have fared better, and we'd have millions of acres of primeval wilderness now, and the U.S. Forest Service rehabili tation not needed. John Gribble Medford, Oregon, Feb. 19, 1962 'Disparaging' remarks about team resented To Uie Editor: What is Uie matter with Mr. Winbigler making such disparag ing remarks about his wrestling team? I am not an expert on such matters but I was a witness to the matches at Prineville on Sat urday and it seemed to me Uiat the Bend team members wres Ued their hearts out. We are justly proud of our Prineville team. A gr eat deal of -credit must go (o our fine coadi Mr. Yingling. who takes a great interest in his boys and is always Uiere with a hand shake and good word to each boy after every bout whether he wins or loses. Maybe if Mr. Winbigler took the time to offer the praise and en couragement his team deserves he would not have to alibi himself by vilifying his team. 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