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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Lucky Luciano fold how he got ouf of Sing Sing '...Add nitroglycerin and stand back' , THE BEND BULLETIN -'4 Thursday, March IS, 1962 , An Independent Newspaper Phil P. Brotj.n, Aiie-clt Editor Jack McDrmett, Advertising Manager Glenn Cuihmtn, Oenerel Manager Leu W. Meyers, Circulation Manager Leren E. Dyer, Machanlcal Superintendent William A. Yatet, Managing Editor Robert W. Chandler, Edlter end Publisher Enfrtd u Itvmi Clin tUtUr. Jinulry . HIT. it Uia Huat OKlc. at stand. OWson. undat Ad at Mrca I. U79. Pub flihM dally exc.pt 8unay aji c.rtam holiday, by Th. band btiillatln. Inc. Status of public funds is no guarantee they will be managed or spent wisely As was suspected at the time of the action, there has been a rumble of criti cism directed at the action of the Oregon Constitutional Revision Commi slon In voting to remove highway fund earmarking from the state's basic legal document. The commission voted to place the matter In the statutes. The commission's vote, if we inter pret accurately the sense of the meet ing at which the vote was taken, was largely predicated upon two points. ;' First, earmarking of funds for special purposes is not found in the federal constitution or the constitutions of most states. It is not found In any of the modern state constitutions. Second, road funds are the only revenues so earmarked In Oregon; all other funds are taken care of by statute, although most of the state's revenues are desig nated for special purposes of one sort or another. Under these circumstances, it seem ed to make little sense to make such a sacred cow of highway funds, rather than game funds, for an example, or others. ' Fears have been expressed that unless the funds are set aside by the constitution, there may be mismanage ment In their handling, or the legis lature may divert them to other uses. The first of these fears is, in our opinion at least, completely unjustified. Earmarking, constitutional or other wise, is no guarantee of good manage ment of funds. The-management success will be measured by the caliber of the men doing the managing, not by any provisions whicli set them aside for one purpose or another. A relatively quick survey of various state highway fund scandals over the past will quickly show that money can be misspent, regardless of constitution al or statutory provisions to the con trary. Some of the worst-run highway departments have their funds guaran teed by the state's constitution; some of the best are in the same boat. It seems to us the worry that the legislature will possibly clip into road funds for other purposes is a slander against two groups. First is the voters of the state. Ore gon in general has chosen pretty wisely in selecting its public officers. Members of the legislature have been no excep tion. Oregon has a legislative syslcm which is the envy of some of its neigh boring states, in spile of the fact that Oregon voters have insisted on paying coolie wages for the Job. This has been due in large' part to a pretty literate, generally well-informed group of voters. The second group involved is the legislature, which has played a key role in providing funds for long-range development in several other fields, has done so pretty carefully, and which has not dipped into other earmarked funds in the past. There Is no reason, the voters continuing to be alert, why this situation should change for the worse in the future. On that COC bond issue Z Directors of the new Central Ore gon College district last night unani mously voted to ask approval, at' the May 18 primary election, of a $125,000 bond issue for construction of buildings when the college site is finally selected. Under a law passed by the 19G1 legislature, the state will pay three fourths of building costs, exclusive of furniture and fixtures, and site acqui sition and development costs. The state department of education has set aside 5255,000 for matching purposes during the current state fiscal bi-ennium. The bond issue, if approved by the voters, would provide local funds to go with the state's contribution, and would pay for furnishing the building and site development, it is expected. District directors also went over the final district budget for 1 ho next year last night. II is expected t ho final budget will provide funds for service of the bond issue and still slay within the 2 mill limit a number of board mem bers have set as a maximum. Oilmen believed hunting 'traps' u Leasing activity by oil companies Ig a source of much conjecture in Ore gon west of the Cascades. Especially Interesting Is the fact that a number of companies are block ing off land close to the western Cas cade foothills. In the Eugene area there as even a prnelratlon of the foothills well up the Lower McKenzie River valley. What is the significance of the Cbothill leasing? Company geologists have the answer, of course, but they are not talking. I But geology of the area does pro Vle at least part of the answer. i Long eons ago warm waters of the ancient Pacific oceans washed the western foothills of the volcanic West oin Cascades, ancestral to the present High Cascades. Oceans of two epochs massed their sediments in the trough, em-lier flunked by a long line of highly volcanic isles in the west. Marine shells in rocks of the old Willamette basin tell part of the story of the ancient seas. Those shells are found In formations under Eugene and in the country north to Salem. It Is evident that the old Eocene Oligocene seas were prolific of marine life the stuff from'whirM earth oils are presumed to have been derived. As the Willamette basin marine beds piled up in the Coast Range-Cascade trough, the volcanic Cascades continued to build in the west. In places, the Columbia or Cascade lava covered the upturned edges of the ocean beds. These conditions were ideal for oil "traps" close to the Cascade foot hills. Oilmen are interested in such pos sible oil traps. The result Is the present oil and gas lease activity. By Draw Pearson WASHINGTON Lucky Luci ano, onetime kingpin of the New York underworld, has been dead several weeks now but he has left a trail of interesting circum stances and confessions behind him. Luciano got quite mellow in his later years and used to talk qujlc frankly with U.S. agents on the trail of (lie Mafia, which has its. roots in both Italy and the United States. Lucky was careful about any revelations dealing with friends, but didn t hesitate to talk about himself and about gangsters who were dead. His most interesting confession was how he got out of Sing Sing during tho war, when he was mysteriously released and allow- cd to return to Italy, allegedly to help with waterfront activities along the Italian coast prior to the U.S. landing. "They claim 1 got out because of my efforts to help the Navy," Luciano told U.S. agents. "That wasn't it at all. "I was getting tired of silting up there in prison and I had my lawyers dig up everything they could on a very prominent offic ial. When they finished they brought me a book. The stuff on him was terrible. "So I told the lawyer that if I didn't get out of Sing Sing this book would be published. 1 told them to tell him that if they think I was bad they should see the stuff we have on him. "That was what got me out, When American agents asked Luciano about the death of Albert Anaslasia who was shot in a hotel barber chair, his explanation was "Anastasla uouldn t move over. He had the same explanation regarding the murder of Frank Scalizl. "He didn't do enough to move over, was Lucky 1 explan ation, Luciano went to his death with a fear of Harry Anslingcr, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, still haunting him. On one occasion agents had caught a narcotics peddler in Milan after he had trusted friends and gone into a deal wjth. a federal agent In dis guise. Luciano was furious. "Joe was greedy," he said. "I have told my boys when you start getting greedy and start dealing with somebody, always keep in mind that fellow Anslingcr, When the Russians land on the moon, the first man they will meet will be Anslinger, searching for nar cotics." Note For some time Luciano received largo amounts of money from his former friends of the American Mafia reported to be part of the take on Las Vegas and New Jersey gambling. At limes this was reported to rim as high as $30,000 a month. His old cronies obviously didn't like send ing this much money to Italy every month, but for some time thev kept it up. That was how Lucky lived like a king in Nap les. Then suddenly the money slopped. Why it stopped, who slopped it, and whether this was connected with Luciano's demise still remains a mystery. All is Not Lova In Alabama Congressman Frank "all Is made for love" Boykin of Ala bama still wears a broad and happy smile, but things aren't quito so happy for him in Ala bama this year. He has to run not in his own home district of Mobile but at large in the entire tatc of Alabama. This means he may be defeated. The congressman, who has sev eral thousand acres of turkey, hear, and dcei-hunting preserves, is determined not to take defeat easily, however. Boykin has bo- come one of the wealthiest mem bers of Congress. His real-estate ventures in Maryland, to say nothing of Alabama, have been extremely profitable. He figured recently in the Maryland Savings and Loan investigation. So he is now spreading money around Alabama as if It were Mardl Gras confetti. He is mail ing a personal Jr-llcr to Alabama's approximately 800,000 voters, which will cns.1 him around $130, 000. Oilier Alabama congressmen can't possibly afford Ibis. On lop of this, he either paid or promised to pay a retainer ro puted to be around $5,000 to a country weekly editor for his sup port and political advice. The editor is Charles Barnes, of the Choctaw Advocate which bloomed forth with a front page editorial on February 22 with genial photo of Boykin and 1 glowing endorsement. "We .wholeheartedly recom mend the re-election of our pres ent coivre'sfiiian; Frank Boykin. the dean of the Alabama congres sional delegation. "We urge our renders." said the editorial, "to cast their bal lot in favor of the re-election of Congressman Frank W. Boykin, enabling him to return to Wash ington and continue his work in our best interests." The congressman, however, reckoned without the owner of tho paper, Mrs. Matt L. Blount. Mrs. Blount is a lady not easily sway ed by Boykin'a motto "All is made for love." Mrs. Blount sensed that some thing was wrong with her editor, and made an investigation. So one week later, the Choctaw Advocate came out with a front page editorial in heavy type with a large black line around it. "The Choctaw: Advocate," it read, 'does not endorse Boykin's cand idacy and hereby retracts and withdraws that article. "Charles Barnes, who has been employed as editor," continued publisher Blount, "has been en gaged in private conferences with Mr. Boykin. On one occasion Mr. Barnes flew to Washington for a conference. Mr. Barnes has stat ed that this Washington trip was at the request and the expense of Mr. Boykin. . .Mr. Barnes has admitted since publication of the article that he was promised val uable consideration in return for printing the Boykin article. "The Choctaw Advocate will ac cept and publish paid political ad vertisements from all candidates, but this newspaper will endorse no candidate." That ended that. Mrs. Blount's nephew Is running for Congress against Boykin. She loved him more than she loved the man wno claims that all is made for love. Kennedy signs training bill WASHINGTON (UP!) - Presi dent Kennedy today signed the manpower training bill that he placed first among his proposals to Congress this year for bolster ing the nation s economy. The President's signature opened the Way for the federal government to I a u n c h a thrce- vear, $435 million program this summer. It is designed to retrain up to a million Americans whose jobs have been eliminated by the arrival of automation or the dis appearance of old markets. The bill was the first major item of New .Frontier legislation to bocortia law since Congress re turned to work in January. It also was the No. 1 domestic request in Kennedy's State of the Union Message. He said then that the proposal would help "stop the waste of able-bodied men and women who want to work but whose only skill has been re placed by a machine, moved wnn a mill or shut down with a mine." A federally sponsored job re training program is not altogether new a small training system al ready is underway . as part of the 1961 Area Redevelopment Law. But It is keyed to providing pools of labor to lure new industry into depressed areas. The new program win be a iuu scale effort to get jobless Ameri cans off relief rolls and on pri vate payrolls. Because the length of training courses will vary, esti mates of the number of workers to benefit have varied from 600, OOO to 1 million. , The federal government will pay the full cost of the program in its first two years; states will match the federal outlay in the third year,, and presumably there after. This also could affect the number of trainees. Temperaiures ng the 24 . PST today. 1 High Low 1 55 23, Letters to the Ed Th. BuMrtta welcome eontrlhutlon. lo this column from Its iraar. ura tttosl contain tlto eorr.-t nam. ana address of the aerator, whk-h nuur tio withheld at lh. newspaper', dls rrftUon. Lrtlark may b adlud tu con form to the dictate of last, and aula. Governor gets blame for 'doom of dunes' To tho Editor: President Kennedy's message on conservation debvered to the Congress last week contained a strong and eloquent plea for nine national seashores and parks. The Oregon Dunes was not among them. I know Uiis omission comes as a cruel disappointment to those devoted citizens and organizations who have, labored unceasingly these past several years to pre serve this extraordinary seashore from despoliation through neglect and through commercial and in dustrial exploitation. In the past, the Administration warmly endorsed tho establish ment of an Oregon Dunes Nation al Seashore. This year 'the Ad ministration Is silent. Why? The sand dunes themselves, to g e t h e r with the surrounding lakes, forests, beaches and ocean, remain the same spectacular ag gregation Of natural phenomena mat lias inspired conservationists, including the independent Nation al Park Service Advisory Board, to designate the dunes area as uniquely . qualified for national seashore status. What then has caused the Ad ministration to withdraw its sup port from this project? I believe that the President and the Secre tary of Interior have reached the conclusion that the people of Ore gon are not interested in the crea tion of an Oregon Dunes National Seashore. I believe they have reached Uiis conclusion reluctant ly, convinced by the dismal in difference and tniculence display ed by the highest officials of the state of Oregon. Governor Hatfield has long pur ported to recognize the just claims of the dunes area to na tional seashore status. On Janu ary 23, I960, the late Senator Neu berger, at the request of the Gov ernor, introduced in the Senate a bill to grant national seashore status to the dunes, Governor Hat field's bill was in large part iden tical to a bill previously Introduc ed by the late Senator, though it contained certain significant differences. Senate Bill 992 whicii I intro duced in the last session of Con gress represents an earnest and conscientious effort to compro mise these differences. Tho ex clusion of the. Sea Lion Caves. JO itor miles north of Florence and the Talikenitch Tree Farm, the prior approval of the State of Oregon to acquire state-owned lands, the prior approval of other Federal agencies to acquire Federal land, the advisory board of Oregon resi dents, the occupancy of resi dences until the last surviving child reaches age 21, the right of lease and conveyance of occu pancy rights, the moratorium on property acquisition when zoned, the in-llcu payments of taxes, the use, in accordance with stale laws, of water trapped under the dunes, the transportation and dis posal of wastes, the program for sand dunes stabilization, the prior agreement of the State of Oregon for highway relocation, the payment of highway reloca tion costs, and the required con sultation with state officials be fore hunting and fishing regula tions are adopted each of these provisions was designed to meet bona fide objections and to pre serve, to the greatest extent pos sible, historic state and local jur isdictional responsibilities consist ent with preservation of this out standing natural sanctuary with in America's National Park Sys tem. Every reasonable effort has been made to meet honest objec tion. Everyone acquainted with the history and background of this legislation can testify that S. 992 represents considerable com promise from the initially propos ed seashore bills. Indeed, in the considered opinion of many con servationists, the bill has already gone considerably further in com promise than is deemed wise. Nevertheless, on February 9 of tlits year, in a speech delivered to Lane County Republicans. Gov ernor Hatfield expressed his un equivocal opposition to S. 992. In so doing, the Governor declined to recognize the strenuous efforts of compromise which had been made, but was content with the mere repetition of identical objec tions which he has been making since January 1900. Yet S. 992 has fairly attempted to meet all of these objections. Thus, I can not help but feel that national status for the dunes under any bill has now been fore closed by the ceaseless, though tacit, opposition of Governor Hat field. On March' 2, Governor Hatfield released a statement roundly con demning the Administration for its failure to seek national devel opment of the Dunes area. No barrage of rhetoric, however, can conceal the fact that the Gov ernor, is. himself the principal architect of the doom of the Ore gon Dunes National Seashore. Maurine B. Neubergcr, United States Senator Washington, D.C.. .March 8, 1962 Public given thanks for dimes march aid To the Editor: "It is better to give than to re ceive." This seems to be the pre sumption on which many charity researchers base their drive, and it holds as true here in Bend as anvwherc. This past week saw the official conclusion of the 1962 March of Dimes Drive. The time and ef fort put into such a campaign is not generally realized. The com pensation for this is two-fold; first is the cooperation of cer tain individuals, groups, and pub lic information media wlucn al ways are put on call. The second is of c 0 u r s e , the financial re sponse of the community. , May wo thank the public for their generous response. Sincerely, . . Benny Russell, . '' County Chairman Dr. Herbert Berrcth, Bend Chairman , . Bend. Oregon. March 13, 1962 Man electrocuted working in attic Tim DAI.I.F.S (UPI) Cecil Cole. 49. The Dalles, was electro- r-iiioH while workine on wiring in the attic of his home here Wednesday. The Wasco County sheriff s ol fif eairl Cole was killed when he came in contact with a 220-volt wire. - FAT OVERWEIGHT Available to you without a doctor! pre acrlpUun. our drug called ODRINEX. you mint lose usiy (at in 7 days or war money bark. No strenuous everclse. la aUves. massage or taking of so-called reducing candles, erai-kers or cookies, or chewing gum. ODRINEX is a tiny tablet and easily swallowed. 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