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THE BEND, BULLETIN
4 Monday, May 21, 1962 An Independent Newspaper
f hll Bregan, Associate Editor Jeck McDermott, Advertising Manager
Cltnn Cushmen, General Manager Leu W. Meyers, Circulation Manager
Leren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent William A Yatei, Managing Editor
Robert W. Chandler, Editor end Publisher
rntererl Second Clase Mailer. January " 1917. at tha Foal Office at Bend. Oregon, under Act of March S, 1575. Pub
lished dally except Sunday and certain holldaya by Tlie Bend Bulletin. Inc.
Oldsters have a chance fo build a new
political machine to outshadow Townsend
The politics of medical care for the
aging is building up another big politi
cal pressure group in the United States
from which more is likely to be heard
rather than less.
Anyone who remembers the Town
send old age pension plan that bloomed
In the 1930s will have some idea of
what oldsters can do when organized.
The old folks fell for it with a whoop
of delight Headquarters was in Los
Angeles.
Great sums of money accumulated
there. Contributors, few of them young,
showered down with their $1 and $2
bills and an occasional $5. The plan
held Its own national political conven
tion in 1936 in the great Cleveland hall
Just vacated by the Republicans, who
had nominated Alf M. Landon for presi
dent. When the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith
ended his speech, which was an appeal
for contributions, the old folks stormed
the stage, filling hats and buckets with
$1 and $2 bills.
The Townsend old age pension
plan was a major factor in persuading
Congress to enact Social Security legis
lation. That legislation disorganized
but did not wholly quiet its bencfac
tees. They kept the heat on Congress so
that it has been customary since for
Congress to regularly hike Social Se
curity payments, usually in election
years. All of that was nearly 30 years
ago. The old folk have not had much
if any organization or leadership since
Dr. Townsend disappeared.
The medicare dispute is changing
that. Operating now in Washington at
an address conveniently close to the
U. S. Capitol where the medicare votes
will be cast is the National Council of
Senior Citizens. This organization rep
resenting the oldsters is committed to
the Kennedy administration plan for
medicare through Social Security.
Its political base could be enor
mous. It could be as great, for example,
as is the political base of organized
labor. Given organization locally and
nationally, the old folk could become a
balance of power vote in many elec
tions. In that role, the ciders could dic
tate to political parties as organized
labor or racial groups dictate. In 1955
there were in the United States just
more than 14 million persons aged 65
years or more. In March of I960 this
number had grown to 15.6 million.
The Statistical Abstract of the
United States says in 1959 there were
in this country 236,818 physicians;
100,615 ' dentists; and a year before
460,000 registered nurses. The medical
profession is well organized and better
able than the larger numbers of the
oldsters to get its story to the people.
But the old folk have the adminis
tration going for them in this political
contest.
Good name for future school in Bend
In some future year, possibly not
too distant, another grade school will
be built In Bend west of the Deschutes.
Naturally an appropriate name will be
sought.
Wyeth Grade School? That might
be a good suggestion. Nathaniel Wyeth
was the first white man, so far as his
torians know, to visit the present site
of Bend. With his trappers, he crossed
the present Kenwood Grade School
grounds late In 183 1, to spend a stormy
Christmas In his tent a short distance
up the Deschutes river.
Awbrcy Grade School? That also
would be a good name. Marshall Aw
brey, Mexican war veteran, was pos
sibly the first white man to consider
Bend as a home site. In the 'seventies
of the last century he made camp west
of the Deschutes In Bend, near the
Harmon playfield location of the pres
ent. Then, when spring came, he plant
ed a crop to raise some hay for his
horses. The crop was frosted one bit
terly cool May night and Awbrcy
moved downstream to the present Turn
alo area.
But both Wyeth n Awbrcy have
been honored with place names, Wyeth
by a statPm on the railroad in the Col
umbia gorge and Awbrcy by a Bend
landmark, Awbrey Heights.
Dossibly there are other names
that should be considered by school
men of the future in naming a westside
grade school, but there is one now
fresh In mind that should be carefully
filed for consideration.
It is the name of Nell Tifft Arm
strong. She died in Bend this past week
end, after long service to her commu
nity. Mrs. Armstrong, then Nell Tifft,
joined the Bend school system in dis
tant 1919, fresh out of school and newly
from the mid-west. For years she was
principal for the Retd Grade School
which, Incidentally, was also named
for an early-day teacher, Ruth Rcid
Overturf, now of Hood River.
Mrs. Armstrong married, then re
tired to raise her family. Later she
served for a number of years as a di
rector of the Bend school system, then
stepped from the district board to re
enter her chosen field, teaching. For
some eight years she was a member of
the staff of Kenwood Grade School,
close to her home on Harmon Boule
vard.
Naming a school after a commu
nity leader has precedents in Bend. In
addition to Reid Grade School, another
castside school was named for a direc
tor and community lender.
That school is Allen, named for the
late Herbert K. Allen, assistant mana
ger of Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., at the time
of his death.
WASHIJSPSTCSSI MERRY-
Fr&artrttn an
tor Ms farm
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Orville Free
man stood in line at a reception
commemorating the 100th anni
versary of the founding of the
Agriculture Department. A 100th
birthday should be a happy occa
sion, but this one was not.
Twelve hours before, Freeman
had fired his Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, the third member
of his staff to get embroiled with
a get-rich-quick Texan who had
dispensed cash and clothes to in
fluence people.
Orville Freeman had come to
Washington with a beautiful wife
and high hopes of licking the
toughest domestic problem con
fronting the nation the farm
surpluses.
This did not mean that he was
entirely naive. It is true that he
had watched every man who tack
led the agriculture problem in re
cent years leave with his reputa-
Vance named
Army secretary
NEW YORK (UPD-Cyrus R.
Vance, 45, an attorney and World
War II naval officer, Sunday was
named secretary of the Army by
Fresident Kennedy to succeed
Elvis Stahr.
Vance, general counsel of the
Department of Defense in Wash
ington, will take over June 30
when Stahr's resignation becomes
effective. His appointment to the
$22,000-a-year job is subject to
Senate confirmation.
He served on destroyers in both
the Atlantic and Pacific during
the war after entering the Navy
in 1942. Ho was discharged in
1946 with the rank of lieutenant.
Vance was born in Clarksburg,
W. Va., and graduated from Yale
Law School. Ho Is married to the
former Grace Soane and has five
children. The family lives in Washington.
Serving in various government
counsel positions, Vance from 1957
to 1960 was special counsel to the
Senate preparedness investigating
subcommittee of the armed serv
ices committee. It was in this
position that he first worked with
the subcommittee's inquiry into
the satellite and missile pro
grams. Later he was counsel for
hearings on the U.S. defense and
space programs.
Stahr resigned June 30 to Be
come president of Indiana Univer
sity. He was president of West
Virginia University when he ac
cepted the Army secretary post.
There was speculation that he
was quitting because of disagree
ments with Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara and Ken
nedy over Army reorganization
plans and development of the
Army's Nike Zeus anti-missile
missile.
Weekly auction
report issued
Special to The Bulletin
REDMOND Cattle sales
Thursday at the Redmond Auc
tion Yard totaled 289, compared
to 461 head last week. Fifty-eight
hogs and 14 sheep wore sold. At
tlie earlier sale, 66 hogs and 36
slieop went through tlie ring.
Only standard quality slaughter
steers were offered, those going
for 21.75-23.70; utility slaughter
heifers, 19.30-20.25; commercial
cows. 16.40-17.90; utility, 13.60-16.-10,
and canner cutters, 11.80
14.30. Utility - commercial bulls
sold for 19.50.
Standard good veal calves
brought 28 25; heavy killer calves,
24.50. Baby calves sold by Uie
head, beef and beef mixed, 15-
57.50; Holsteins, 24-42.50, and oth
er dairy types, 14-20.
Good choice feeder steers, 500-
700 Its., brought 21.50-26.50; com
mon-medium. 400-700 lbs., 19.10
23.50; good-choice heifers, 500-700
lbs., 24.40; common - medium,
400-700 lbs.. 18.10-21.75.
Good - choice steer calves, 300
500 lbs., brought 28.25-28.50; com
mon medium. 300-500 lbs., 22.10-
28.75; good choice heifer calves
300-500 lbs., 23.75-24.80; common'
medium. 250-500 lbs., 21-25.80. No
single stock cows were offered.
Medium-good pairs brought 187.-50-222.50.
U S. No. 1 and 2 market hogs,
180-220 lbs., went for 17.40-1920;
U.S. No. 3. 16.70-17.10; sows, 12.-
90-16, and weaner pigs. 9.50-15 per
head. Ewes and lambs went for
15-18 per pair.
PLANS U.S. VISIT
LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxem
bourg (IT1 Grand Puclif.'
Charlotte, tlie ruler of this tiny
duchy, will visit the United St;itos
this fall at President Kennedy's
invitation, according to a court
announcement here.
GO-ROUND
eager-beaver
proposal
tion In tatters. Henry Wallace,
the seed expert from Iowa whose
father had been Secretary of Ag
riculture, had been branded a
butcherer of little pigs. Charley
Brannan had been scoffed at as a
visionary who wanted a direct
subsidy for agriculture. While
Ezra Taft Benson got kicked in
the seat of the pants by every
farm organization every time he
took a step in any direction or
even when he just sat on his
chair.
Orville Freeman, therefore, was
something of an optimist when he
figured he could cut surpluses. He
was not only an optimist but he
had direct orders from JFK to
cut the budget.
Wooing Congress
In Minnesota as governor, Free
man had learned one thing you
had to get along with your legis
lature or else you got nowhere.
So in Washington he set out to
woo and understand the two agri
culture committees of Congress
and the powerful cotton, tobacco,
wheat, feed grain, dairy, sugar,
and peanut lobbies which influ
ence them.
A day or two after he took the
oath as Secretary of Agriculture,
Orville went up to see Allen El
lender, tlie crusty senator from
Louisiana, who rides herd on the
Senate Agriculture Committee. He
knocked on the door of a secret
office near the roof of the Capitol
Building.
Come in, grumbled a gruff
voice on the other side.
The man behind that voice peer
ed quizzically from behind his
glasses.
"So you're the new secretary of
Agriculture," he grunted. "What's
your program?
"That s what I ve come to talk
to you about," said Freeman, who
had been one of the youngest gov
ernors of Minnesota and looked
even younger than he is.
At the end of a long talk, the
chairman of the Agriculture Com
mittee grudgingly remarked;
"Maybe you'll do."
Since then. Freeman has gone
out of his way to clear every ma
jor appointment and every major
policy with Ellender, and the sen
ator from Louisiana has become
his devoted friend. He has fought
like a tiger for Freeman's farm
bill, which he had never done for
any other Secretary of Agricul
ture.
Applause From Congress
Even when he doesn't agree,
Ellender has fought When Free
man urged a change in public
law 480 regarding the sale of sur
plus food abroad, the senator ar
gued against it but finally said:
"Son, if you want it that way,
OK. I don't agree with you, but
go ahead."
Freeman has spent hours con
ferring individually with every
member of tlie potent House and
Senate Agriculture Committees
including Republicans even
though he knew he couldn't get
all their votes. And they have be
come so laudatory of the new
Secretary of Agriculture that
when he arrived at the House
Committee to present his farm
bill, every man rose and applaud
ed. This is unprecedented. Most
agriculture committees have
glowered and heckled.
But Freeman, unattended by
tlie customary battery of advi
sers, has testified for hours ex
plaining farm figures and policy.
Congressmen who have studied
farm problems for years, who
considered him a city slicker,
have been impressed.
Thus, Freeman concentrated on
what so many other secretaries
neglected selling his program
to Congress. He also took trip aft
er trip across the USA selling his
program to farm organizations.
A man who is a salesman is
seldom a good administrator, and
Orville Freeman, whether good or
bad, was not around much to ad
ministrate. Furthermore, a man
who woos Congress must give
jobs to friends of congressmen,
and they in turn do favors for
other friends of congressmen.
Long before Orville Freeman
took office, the Department of Ag
riculture had become one of the
biggest political grab bags, with
grain bins, warehouses, field
agents scattered over the nation,
in a position to make or unmake
fortunes for big dealers.
That's why tilings have blown
up inside tlie Agriculture Depart
ment. And that s whv Orville
Freeman, as he stood in line to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of
tlie Agriculture Department, was
not a happy man.
Another column on troubles In
side tlie Agriculture Department
wul follow soon.
RECORD PUFFER
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (UPD
Jerry N. Stafford. 19. of Reed
City. Mich., set a new U.S. col.
legiate pipe smoking record Sat
urday by keeping his briar burn
ing 83 minutes and 28 seconds.
FMC disputes
charges made
by columnist
Special to The Bulletin
SAN JOSE, California Paul
L. Davies, Chairman of FMC Cor
poration, today said that com
ments and alleged facts published
by Washington columnist Drew
Pearson on May 4, charging that
the Army had unfairly awarded
FMC a multi-million dollar de
fense contract, was a thoroughly
distorted and libelous h o d g e
podge of misrepresentation.
Basis for the contention was the
columnist's report that FMC Cor
poration had been awarded a non
competitive contract to produce
2,832 (M113) armored personnel
carriers for the Army, and the
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing
Company was low bidder by $1,-
000 per vehicle.
Davies said that contrary to
Pearson's charges, the M113 pro
curement referred to was highly
competitive; the government re
ceived bids from eight companies
including General Motors, Chry
sler, International Harvester,
Studebaker - Packard, AUiChal
mers and others. He then said
that on undisputed testimony of
the Army, backed by documenta
tion, FMC's bid was lower than
the next lowest bid (Allis-Chai-
mers) by $5.1 million. "In fact,"
Davies pointed out, "when com
puted on the basis of cash savings
to tlie government, FMC's bid was
lowest by $7.5 million.
It is extremely regrettable
that a national spokesman of the
stature of Pearson should develop
and publish such misinformation
that serves to discredit both the
Army and our Company," declar
ed the FMC chairman.
Davies then stated: "In a letter
to the Hebert subcommittee, cop
ies of which were freely and pub
licly available to Drew Pearson
and any other newspaperman.
long before the erroneous column
ot May 4 appeared in print, our
company clearly and unequivocal
ly established that in a long se
ries of competitive awards by the
Army, we had consistently been
the lowest bidder for the design.
development, and production of
M113 armored personnel car
riers.
The M113 is a lightweight, am
phibious, air droppable armored
personnel carrier. According to
Davies, it was designed and
brought into production by FMC,
in cooperation with the Army Or
dinance Corps, in record time and
with resulting savings of hundreds
of millions of dollars to the Army,
compared with the cost of prior
vehicles. The carrier is now be
ing used by our Armed Forces in
West Germany and other crucial
areas.
Overseas farm
study planned
By United Press International
Four groups of agricultural ex
tension workers will leave next
month to explore the problems of
expanding markets for American
farm products overseas.
The extension teams will visit
four major areas, one going to
Western Europe a second to Af
rica and the Middle East, a third
to Southern Asia and the fourth
to the Caribbean area.
The four teams will leave about
June 15 and return about July 23.
Their goal will be to help give
American farmers and profes
sional farm workers a better un
derstanding of the food and fiber
needs of foreign countries, and
some of the problems of modern
export sales.
The teams will be drawn from
state extension services across the
nation. A total of 21 extension
economists will be included in the
groups. They will represent state
land grant colleges from Califor
nia to Vermont and from Minne
sota to Florida. Each of the teams
will also be accompanied by Ag
riculture Department experts in
the areas to be visited.
When the teams return, they
will develop discussion material
for use in alerting farm people
to the particular needs of the ex
port market.
Cannery workers
receive boost
SALEM (UPI)-Members of the
Cannery Workers Union and Cali
fornia Packing Corp. Friday sign
ed an agreement providing six to
14-ccnt-an-hour wage increases for
each of tlie next two years.
Tie workers are members of
lxii 670. The contract approved
Friday was the first of 17 being
negotiated by the union in the
Willamette Valley.
The previous contracts expired
either May 1 or June 1.
Model airplane
plant featured
by magazine
Special to The Bulletin
NEW YORK, N.Y. Easy to
assemble and fun to fly describes
the balsa-wood airplane and gli
der models made by North Pa
cific Products Company of Bend,
Oregon and featured in the June
issue of Mechanix Illustrated
magazine.
The reason these gliders and
rubber band-powered models are
so easy to fly, it is noted, is tlie
patented plastic clip which serves
as the fastening device for join
ing the wings and the fuselage.
The clip, invented by Charles H.
Cleveland, president of North Pa
cific Products, enabled him to
make plane and glider models
that fly better and cost less to
produce.
The clip, according to the na
tional science monthly, allows
each wing of a plane to be pro
duced separately. The unique clip
allows the wings to be produced
flat and in two halves, eliminat
ing the conventional warping and
slotting at the fuselage.
The company now produces ten
different rubber band - powered
models. The most popular glider
is the five-cent Strato, smallest
model in the line.
MORE HOME OWNERS
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Census Bureau has reported that
more Americans are living in
their own homes than in rented
dwellings.
The bureau said Sunday the
1960 census showed that of 53
million occupied dwelling units, 32
million were habitated by persons
who owned them or were buying
them. The remaining units were
occupied by renters.
Figures given
on shipments
REDMOND Number of 400
cwt carlots of potatoes shipped
from the Oreson - California mar
keting area during the past week
was 346, reports Merrill Wood,
manager of the marketing com
mittee.
This brings the season's total to
22,282 carlots, compared to 14,993
by this time last year. Seventy
one per cent, or 246 carlots, went
to tlie fresh market and the re
mainder was diverted to other
outlets.
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