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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
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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.
Yours sincerely,
Myrra Shivers
Prineville, Oregon,
Feb. 20. 1962 .
NOTICE:
We Will Be Closed
Thurs., Feb. 22nd
Bend-Portland Truck Service
Consolidated Freightways
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Shrinking world department
Tor those interest d in trivia:
You might consider that astro
naut John Glenn, Jr., yesterday went
from day to night and back again, from
Humor from others
Little drops of water,
Little flakes of snow,
Make the mighty traffic
Mighty, mighty slow.
Cockle Bur
inter to summer and back again, and
from Feb. 20 to 21 and back again
three times in less than five hours.
You can't take it with you
and taxes make it clear
The also sad fact
That you can't keep it here.
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