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THE BEND BULLETIN
4 Tuesday, March 6, 1962 An Independent Newspaper
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Loran E. Dyar, Machanlcal Superintendent William A. Yatai, Managing Editor
Robert W. Chandlar, Editor and Publiihar
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Uihad daily awapt Sunday and cartatn hnllrtays by Tha Band Hallatln. tno.
Glenn's ride, missile developments bring
us to threshhold of the ultimate weapon
Military h i s t o r y is replete with
Stories of the a 1 1 e m p t s to develop
What, for lack of a better term, we have
always called the ultimate weapon.
This is something against which there
is no known defense, and which com
pletely outclasses any weapons of retal
iation existing at the time.
- Perhaps the first such weapon was
the club. Held In the hand, it allowed
Its user to stay out of range, and tre
mendously increased the force of his
blow. Then came the spear, which made
ihe club out of date. And so it has gone,
"through bows and arrows, to guns, to
bombs, to hydrogen warheads on inter
continental missiles.
- - A high-ranking military official in
.Washington, a close friend of Lyle C.
Wilson who has been reporting the
Washington news scene for more years
than he likes to admit, told the other
day of his impressions of the signifi
cance of John Glenn's fast ride through
space. Here's Wilson's account of the
conversation:
A military friend of mine with much experience
In air warfare put astronaut John II. Glenn's
achievement in focus for mc. In frightening focus.
My friend said: "The greatest danger our
country faces flows from the following possibilities:
"Science and technology have reached a state
which makes it possible to place in space weapons
which can control the people of the earth. Such
weapons can he developed for an expenditure of
few billions of dollars and be available by 1970 to
1973.
"The Russians are aware of this possibility.
Ihtvp may be agreement that space be reserved
for peaceful purposes and that no weapons be
placed in orbit. If such an agreement were made,
we would keep it and no funds would be appropri
ated for space weapons. Tho Russians can be ex.
pected to go full out, despite any treaty agreement,
to develop such weapons.
"Thus, In 1970 or thereabouts the people would
be forced to surrender.
"The antidote to such catastrophe is to proceed
Good move
Despite the black eyes it has been
accumulating in the fight over medical
care for the aged, the American Medical
Assn. is sure to get applause from all
, quarters for its now plan to help in
crease the nation's supply of young
doctors.
Beginning next month, t ho AMA
will underwrite loans for medical stu
dents, interns, and physicians in resi
dent training to help them complete
their medical educations. Qualified
Students and doctors will be able to
borrow as much as $10,000 over a period
of seven years, at five and one-half per
cent interest, with no collateral requir
ed. Repayments need not begin until
five months after the borrowers com
plete their training.
This AMA program may not accom
plish the 50 per cent gain in physicians'
ranks which some authorities say our
Humor from others
"He made an unusually good after
dinner speech."
"What did he say?"
"Waiter, give mc the check."
GMAC News and Views.
with all speed, energy and effort to develop opti
mum weapons for space. Equal priority must be
given to the earliest development of defense sys
tems against space weapons.
"No other problem facing the United States
today is of equal importance or fraught with such
fateful consequences."
My military friend was thinking out loud. He
Is an Intelligent man of sound judgment. He does
not indulge in loose talk nor in superlatives. When
he uses such words as "the greatest danger our
country faces today," he means exactly that.
So, too, when he says that under certain con
ditions the United States, defenseless, would have
to surrender. He means that in absolute terms and
within the time stated, less than 15 years.
This, then, is something for U.S. citizens to
consider and to understand. Joseph L. Mylcr is
Uie very competent reporter who experts for United
Press International the news of the atomic and
H-bombs.
"Joe," I said to liim, "what is the optimum
weapon my friend mentioned?"
"Oil, you know," Joe replied, "it's that orbital
H-bomb. You put it in orbit under electronic con
trol. It spins around the earth until you decide
where you want it to strike. Then, still under con
trol, you bring it over the target, obtain its re
entry and lot it go. BOOM!!"
"Do we have it, or do the Russians?"
"No, we don't have It," Joe replied. "The RiiS'
sians could do it rather easily, however, because
they already have put in orbit very weighty objects.
You remember, just the other day, Khrushchev
was talking about what he called fantastic new
Russian weapon."
"This space weapon," I suggested, "would be
something like the Sword of Damocles, wouldn't
it?"
"Yeah," said Joe, "sort of, maybe. But this
orbital H-bomb is no fable."
Earlier I had said to my friend:
"You really mean surrender?"
"Yeah." ha said, "I really mean the United
States could be forced to surrender."
If this isn't the ultimate weapon,
it will do until one comes along.
nation must have by 1975. More medical
schools will be required to help bring
about such an Impressive result, and
more youngsters with the attitudes and
intelligence medicine requires will have
to be attracted to these schools. Cur
rently, many potential physicians are
being drawn to careers in other scienti
fic fields because they feel medicine is
too demanding.
However, it is reassuring to know
now that any capable aspirant for a ca
reer as a physician need no longer settle
for less, simply because he hasn't
enough to finance his medical educa
tion. The effect of the AMA loan pro
gram surely will be an Important
increase in the number of physicians
we have to tend our ills as our popula
tion continues to expand, (Eugene
Register-Guard)
Politician:: "How did you like my
speech on the farm program?"
Hiram: "Twarnt bad, but a good
soaking rain would hev bin better."
National Grange Monthly.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Minutemen have rifles
ready for 'U.N. invasion'
By Draw Pearson
WASHINGTON A secret
meeting of the Minutemen took
place in the National Guard Arm
ory near the UCLA campus in
Los Angeles the other day in
which a bizarre plan was outlined
to defend the United States from
Tccupation by the United Nations
"They'll have big smiling
Swedes and Irish and Italians oc
cupying us, like in the Congo,"
the Minuteman commander warn
ed about 40 armed "patriots"
gathered secretly in one part of
the armory.
The Minutemen are a group of
volunteers, described by their na
tional commander, Robert De
Pugh, as "men who will crawl
out of holes as a hard-knit combat
outfit" trained for guerrilla war
"if the bomb falls."
In southern California these
grass - roots guerrillas claim to
have a strength of 2,000 men,
each with a rifle and 100 rounds
of ammunition, and 800 with ma
chine guns.
The first California commander
of the Minutemen, Troy Hough
ton, alias Troy Boyle and Troy
pany has been holding up in Phil
adelphia the telegrams that you
send to congressmen telling them
how to vote on bills holding
them up until after the bills were
passed. Then they put in a special
seventy-five-cent rate to get tele
grams directly to Washington, I
have documented proof of this.
They were holding them up in
Philadelphia."
These are the men who say they
will save the United States in case
of atomic war.
Maupin woman
is named states
mother of '62
CORVALLIS (UPD-Mrs. Peter
J. Kirsch, wife of a retired
Maupin iarmer, Monday was
named Oregon's mother for 1962.
The announcement was made
by Mrs. C. P. McCracken, chair-
r-p.. was pic-sea up lor lauing ' of le sclection commiUee,
to rePLster for a spy offense, ....
while the San Diego commander,
William Colley, was arrested for
indecent exposure.
At the recent meeting near the
UCLA campus, the Minutemen's
commander was introduced only
as "Jack," apparently to protect
his identity. This column, how-
ever, can report in detail exactly
what was said.
Alter a hair - raising warning
that the United States was in
grave danger of being taken over,
Commander Jack bellowed:
"How will this take-over come?
won't go into the conspiracy
and the group within our govern
ment that are doing away with
the constitution. You are aware
of that or you wouldn't be here.
There are many ways they
could do it.
Red Chinata in Mexico
"The UN is one of the ways.
All the power that we're giving to
the UN. Our counterintelligence
units report large numbers of Chi
nese Communist troops in Baja,
California and on the Mexican
mainland. There are several
hundred thousand of these crack
shock troops. Of course, if they
invaded they wouldn't get very
far, maybe only up to Long
Beach. One American is worth ten
Chinks.
"But the UN would declare an
act of overt aggression and would
come in and occupy us. They'd do
away with our constitution and
put in new laws like their men
tal health laws. Do you know
about mental health laws? They
can arrest you and then they'll
give you a shot that'll make you
a schizophrenic and then they'll
try you and find you insane.
"Of course you'll have big smil
ing Swedes and Irish and Italians
occupying, like in tiie Congo. Ital
ians you know Italy just went
Communist. The other day their
government went Communist.
That's when we must rise up.
"There are lots of guys, some
times whole blocks, who have
bought rifles and plan to stand in
the doorway and shoot. That's no
good. When the man is killed, his
wife'll still be ravaged raped.
And his properly pillaged. We
want to train people to survive.
"The Congo shows what can
happen. The UN crushed Tsliom
bc. Tho UN can be anywhere in
the world in a flash.
"They're taking silver off the
market, you know. It's getting as
hard to buy as gold. Did you ever
look at any bill over a dollar
say a five or a ten? It's not a sil
ver certificate. It's a Federal Re
serve note. It's just paper. And
the Federal Reserve is part of
the International Bank with head
quarters in Switzerland. It's con
trolled by the UN, not by the Uni
ted Stales. They can split your
money overnight, just like they
split slock. You can have $10,000
in (lie bank and the next morn
ing it can be worth $r,noO.
"Road the UN charter," exhort
ed Commander Jack to his pa
triots. "That filthy rag! You know
it was written by our friend Alger
Hiss, a convicted Commiuiist. Did
you know the California constitu
tion was changed and amended
in line with the UN charter? It
used to be like the U.S. constitu
tion, with a few minor changes.
Now it's like the UN charter.
"Did you know that you can bo
arrested for speaking agaiivst the
UN on the street corner and you'll
be tried by the world court? It's
in the UN charter. Read it!
Kannedy a Dictator
"Kennedy has more power than
any other President has ever
Even if it's against the will of the
people. When he went to sec
Khrushchev and you know
every lime the President goes to
one of those meetings he concedes
something when he went lo see
Khrushchev, Congress told him
ho couldn't go. But he went any-
y. he just issued an executive
order. Against Congress. againt
the will of the people. There were
rl. the bark paces of all the
newspapers up and down the
coast telling him not to go. You
could see all the names of all tho
people Rut he went anyway.
"Is the tape recorder oik a-k-
ed the Minuteman commander,
"well. I'll tell you something A
very well-known telegraph corn-
Mrs. Kirsch, 72, is the mother
of three sons and a daughter.
Her oldest son, Ted, 43, is man
ager of Sun Valley farms at
Myrtle Point.
Her daughter, Gortrudo (Mrs.
John Hoss), 41, was listed in the
1943-44 edition of "Who's Who
Among Students in American Uni
versities and Colleges."
Ernest, 44, is a county agent
at Condon. Paul, 37, is a disabled
war veteran living at home.
Before her marriage, early in
the century, tho 1962 Oregon
mother filed a claim on unbroken
homestead land in the Criterion
area of Wasco County. While
proving up on her claim she
taught school in a one-room
school house for several years.
After her marriage she taught
Sunday school. In 1942 their home
burned and the family moved to
Maupin.
Ted was graduated from Ore
gon State University and won a
national award as the outstanding
4-H boy of Oregon. Gertrude and
Ernest also are graduates of
Oregon State.
Mrs. Kirsch has been a 4-H
loader for 37 years and is still
active in the program. She was
president of the Wasco County
Leaders Association for a year
and drove 50 miles to conduct tho
business meetings at The Dalles.
Mrs. Kirsch will go to New
York in May to attend the Ameri
can Mothers Association meeting
where she will compote for the
national mother of the year
award.
American
photographer
roughed up
ALGIERS, Algeria (UPD-Two
men believed to be members of
the outlawed Secret Army Organi
zation wounded an American news
photographer here Monday night
and warned him to leave Algeria.
For reasons of safety the in
jured photographer was not iden
tified. He was not seriously in
jured.
Twenty-four hours after the OAS
had forced 11 Italian journalists
to leave Algiers, the photographer
was returning to his office Mon
day night when two young men
stopped him inside the entrance.
"Are you a journalist?" one of
the men asked in the dimly light
ed hallway.
"Yes," replied the photog
rapher. One of the youths suddenly drew
his hand with nil open razor
across the lower part of the pho
tographer's face, opening a cut on
his jaw.
'That's just in the nature of
warning," the razor slasher said.
"You will have to leave."
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OLD PAPER TELLS RAIL STORY Ernie Steigleder, left, who came to Fort Rock during home
stead days, and Charles Tomplins look at a 1926 newspaper found between the walls of tha
recently renovated store building. The news centered around a proposal to cross the Fort Rock
Valley by rail.
Musty old newspaper found,
plan for railroad recalled
Special to Tha Bulletin
FORT ROCK Big news for
Fort Rock in days gone by was
recalled by a musty old newspa
per uncovered while renovating
an abandoned building here to
serve once more as a store.
Splashed in big type on the front
page of the July 17, 1926 "Central
Oregon Press." was the story that
the Public Utilities Commission
had ordered the Union Pacific
Railroad to build the cross state
line from Crane to Crescent Lake.
If built, this line would have
crossed the Harney Valley south
Bend 50 32
Astoria 50 44
Baker 31 33
Rrookings 34 45
i Burns 48 34
j K. Falls 40 35
Medford 61 44
Newport 35 45
N. Bend 51 43
Portland 50 41
Redmond 52 33
Salem 51 44
The Dalles 4t 36
j Chicago 31 71
Los Angeles 63 48
New York 38 34
San Fran. 51 48
Washington 37 34
j to the Editor
"When men differ in opinion,
both sides ought equally to have
the advantage of being heard
by tha public." Banjamin
Franklin.
Non-churched group's
religion is mystery
To the Editor:
Your editorial in the March 3
issue of The Bulletin has made it
clear, I think, that we can not
introduce into our public schools
the teaching of beliefs peculiar to
any church group in exclusion of
others. This, of course, is not
workable nor would it be right in
a system ot education that in
cludes people of different back
grounds with different beliefs.
The only satisfactory answer to
the question of religious educa
tion in the school, 1 believe, can
be found in the establishment of
separate Christian schools sup
ported and controlled by a church
group or by a society of parents
ot like beliefs. Such schools have
been operating extensively and
successfully in our land for many
years, notably by tho Lutheran
Church, the Roman Catholic
Church, and the Reformed and
Presbyterian Churches.
But' the thing. Mr. Editor, that
has me puzzled is your assertion
that "the biggest single religi
ous group in this country is that
group which doesn't attend any
church." What kind of religious
group is this that has no interest
in the church and that has no
need of its services? Has this
"religious group" advanced so
far along religious lines that for
them the Church has become ob
solete? We would like to know
just what religious beliefs this
non - churched "religious group"
holds to and where they got their
beliefs.
Still puzzled!
Sincerely.
Edward P. Wybenga
Bend. Oregon,
March 5. 1962
of Burns, passed south of Wagon
tire Mountain, crossed the Christ
mas Lake and Fort Rock Valleys
to reach Crescent Lake where it
would join the just then completed
Southern Pacific Cascade Line.
Hopes ran high at Fort Rock
for in those days the area was
far removed from transportation.
Several Fort Rock people testi
fied before ICC hearings and the
case attracted regional and even
national attention. The late Hen
ry M. Parks, who took an active
part in favor of the line, had a
copy of the published testimony
which was the size of a mail or
der catalog. It would appear,
judging from the testimony, that
emotions were steamed up simi
lar to the recent fight between
Southern Pacific and Santa Fc for
control of the Western Pacific.
Testimony appeared then, too,
from persons and organizations
not too closely associated with the
line.
While the hearings dragged on
for a long time, it was actually
the great depression which shat
tered Fort Rock hopes for a rail
road. Had the line been built, it would
have been an operating depart
ment's dream for grades and
curves were slight, from tne
standpoint of on-line industries
and local traffic the picture would
have been bleak, judging from the
look along the route today.
Sun bleached survey stakes
from this proposed railroad can
still be found in portions of the
Fort Rock Valley today even
though the locating party worked
through here about 1909, much
earlier than the hearings.
Weathered stakes lying flat on
the desert sand, a yellowed news
paper found in the walls of an
old building are the only tangible
remains of Fort Rock's railroad
ambitions.
NEWS SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON UPI Presi
dent Kennedy will hold a news
conference at 3:30 p.m. EST.
Wednesday. The White House said
that there had not yet been any
network requests for live television.
World Day of
Prayer planned
Special to The Bulletin
REDMOND Citizens In the
Redmond area have been invited
to take part in a special obser
vance of World Day of Prayer
Friday from 1 until 3 p.m. in the
Redmond Christian Church.
Theme of the observance is
"The Church Purchased With
His Blood." A nationwide proj
ect, the special day places em
phasis on prayer for Christians
in many areas of the world where
worship and witnessing are re
stricted or prohibited.
SPRING IN AIR
MOUNT VERNON, III. (UPI
There was snow in the air here
Monday but Mrs. Elnora Wilbanks
reported a harbinger of spring
someone stole her lawnmower.
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