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THE BEND BULLETIN
4 Thursday, June 21, 1962 An Independent Newspaper
Soberf W. Chandler. Editor and Publiihtr Jack McDarmott, Advertising Manager
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Canadian election meant something to the
Northwest, but no agreement as to what
It Is obvious that Monday's Cana
dian election means something to res
idents of the Pacific Northwest. The
problem is, no one seems to know
exactly just what it does mean.
A slip in the number of seats in the
Canadian parliament held by Prime
Minister Diefenbaker's Conservative
party, to where the Social Credit party
of Western Canada holds the balance
of power, resulted when the ballots
were counted.
VV. A. C. Bennett, Brit ish Columbia
premier and head of the Socred party,
thinks the results are just fine, thank
you.
Bennett said Monday night the
Socreds would use their balance of
power In parliament to, among other
things, force speedy ratification of the
Columbia River treaty.
Bennett issued an ultimatum to
Prime Minister John Diefenbakcr.
The Socred premier said Diefen
baker's minority government would
face defeat in the House of Commons if
It did not ratify the Columbia Treaty
Immediately.
Bennett, who described Monday as
"the happiest day of my life," said:
"And with Sociai Credit holding the
balance of power there is no question
about the Columbia project. It will go
ahead right away. We will expect a
session of Parliament right nway to
ratify the treaty."
The United States has ratified the
International treaty for development of
the Columbia, which flows from British
Columbia through (lie U.S. to the Paci
fic Ocean. However, Canadian ratifica
tion has been blocked by disagreement
between the conservatives In Ottowa
.and the Socreds in Victoria over the
export of surplus power. B.C. wants to
sell the surplus power to the United
States but Ottowa opposes such export
of power.
"Social Credit will put the country
first, but there will be no alliance, no
collusion, no coalition" with the Tories,
said Bennett. "If they won't bring in
dynamic policies there is no reason to
keep them In power."
He said the election results were
"wonderful news for this province. We
have always been treated unfairly by
Ottowa, and now we are assured of a
better deal."
Then there's the view expressed
by U.S. Senator Maurine Neuberger.
She doesn't think puich of Premier Ben
nett. She voiced concern over the Cana
dian election result.
She said "it is tragic that Canadian
leadership will bo subject to the dicta
tion of the irresponsible Social Credit
party which now holds the balance of
power."
Mrs. Neuberger said the elections
mean for the "sorely pressed Northwest
lumber industry. . . the end to the hope
that the Canadian government will
move to lessen the competitive advan
tage of Canadian lumbermen over their
American counterparts."
She also said the election means
there will be no ratification of the Col
umbia River project in the "forseeable
future" and that "we will be forced to
adopt alternative programs for the de
velopment of Columbia River power."
One suspects we'll have to wait
some time to find out just how the
election did change the lumber and
power situations in the Northwest, and
that when the change Is known it will
not be so extreme as hoped by Bennett
and feared by Mrs. Neuberger.
Geographers were no push-overs
Oregon Geographers Names Board
members at their semi-annual meeting
In Astoria this past weekend obviously
were In no push-over mood for the ap
proval of new names for state features.
The board was asked to consider
the largest number of propsed new
names in the history of t tie group. Only
about one-third were approved. Some
were rejected, some were tabled for
further study.
One of the two proposed new names
that received unanimous approval of
the Oregon Historical Society's board
was that designating a three-acre, forest-fringed,
clear lake of the upper Des
chutes country as Ilosmer Lake. That
body of water presently is known as
Mud Lake.
If the Oregon board's recommenda
tion receives the final approval of the
United States Board of Geographic
Names In Washington, D.C., the little
body of water in the lava-dammed
meadows near Klk Lake wUl honor the
late raul II. Ilosmer.
But, members of the Oregon board
stressed at their Astoria conference, the
USBGN hangs tough in changing
names. Some mlchtv pood reason must
be advanced. The national board will
not change a well-known and generally'
recognized name even to honor a gov
ernor, or a president.
But the Oregon board believes
there Is good reason In changing the
name of Mud Lake: It Is not a mud lake.
Presumably the lake got its name from
the clouds of pumice silt stirred from
the bottom in earlier years by trash
fish. These fish have been eliminated,
and replaced with Atlantic salmon.
Furthermore, until s a 1 m o n were
planted a few years back, Mud lake was
virtually "lost" in the region, known to
few. Mud Lake Is not 1 ! s t cf in Mc
Arthur's Oregon Geographic Names.
In approving the name Ilosmer
Lake for the small body of water, the
national names board will hardly be
establishing a precedent for other name
changes.
Such action will primarily be recti
fication of a najne, Mud Lake, wrongly
applied by some disgruntled angler of
past years who either got stuck in the
mud trying to reach the lake by ear
early In the season, or found the bottom
pumice churned up by carp on arrival.
We vote for Hosmcr Lake.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-RCbWO
Officials undismayed at
task of reforming cons
By Drew Pearson
SAN FRANCISCO Walking
along the catwalk around Alca
traz. I noticed a prisoner working
alongside the incinerator look up
and wave at Fred Wilkinson, as
sistant director of the Federal Bu
reau of Prisons.
"That's George McCoy," ex
plained Wilkinson. "We transfer
red him here after he killed Rem
ington at Lewisburg."
Wilkinson referred to William
Remington, the former Commu
nist official in the Commerce De
partment, who was murdered in
his cell by McCoy and two other
prisoners at the Lewisburg peni
tentiary. McCoy is one of the orig
ina. feuding McCoys ot Kentucky,
and still thinks he did a patriotic
service in killing Remington.
Director Wilkinson once served
as warden at Lewisburg, and 0.
G. Blackwell, now warden at AI
catrnz, was his assistant. They
have grown up in the federal pri-so-
system, seem undiscouraged
by the difficult, sometimes hope
less job of reforming men, of
making hardened criminals rea
lize that there is a better way of
lifo.
Their chief, James V. Bennett,
director of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons, is one of the most dedi
cated men in prison work. Both
h.; and Wilkinson know almost
every important criminal in fed
eral penitentiaries, understand
their problems both in prison and
at home. They can tell you wheth
er a wife is waiting to help en
courage a man when he comes
home, or whether she has given
up and sued for divorce.
Wilkinson has worked in so
many other prisons that 150 out
of the 268 Inmates at Alcatraz
have served under him.
As we walked around the cat
walk, a Negro prisoner called up
from the exercise pen below. He
had held up a bank near Andrews
Air Force Base in Maryland.
"Mr. Wilkinson," he called,
"when you gonna transfer me out
of here?"
Where do you wani to go?"
asked the assistant director.
"Back to Atlanta," wj the re
ply.
Another prisoner standing be
side him wanted to go to Arizona.
'He wants to go to our Flor
ence, Ariz., institution because ne
comes from Arizona," Wilkinson
explained. "We've had a lot of
trouble with him, had to transfer
hint from one place to another.
Bu' now he's settling down. He's
due to be discharged in short
time, but unfortunately his wife
is divorcing him and he won't
have much to go back to."
The three prisoners stood, in
Navy peajackets, in the cold wind
which swept over San Francisco
bay. There weren t enough pri
soners off duty horn the work
shops to get up a handball game
and they stood looking off at the
skyscrapers of San Francisco, the
Golden Gate Bridge, and all the
unattainable joys of life that lay
beyond.
Skeptical Grandchildren
George E. Johnson, a vigorous
American who was born on the
Greek islands just off the Turkish
coast, has become one cf the lead
ing citizens cf Sacramento. Its top
leaders pay tribute to his contri
butions to the community. But
some of its junior citizens are
skeptical.
The other day his grandchildren
approached him on this subject.
"Pnpu," they said, (Papu being
Greek for grandfather,) "we have
told the children at school that
you have a pkvto of President
Kennedy signed by the President,
but they won't believe us. Will
you let us tako your photograph
of President Kennedy to school?"
"A photograph of the President
should not be handed around
among people," replied Papu
Johnson, "but you can bring them
hero and show it to them."
About that time. President Ken
nedy punctuated his friendship for
Johnson by inviting him to a state
luncheon In honor of Archbishop
Makarios, president of Cyprus,
who now governs another Greek
island off the coast of Turkey.
Alcatrai-Ge-Round
When you have been on Alca
traz you can understand the ac
curacy and poignancy of the new
motion picture, "Reprieve," Mil
lard Kaufmann's gripping story of
a prisoner in the death cell who
at the last minute is reprieved
. . .The toughest criminals of the
I'SA are not foreign born, but
white Anglo-Americans. Out of the
2Sfl Alcatraz inmates, 1.9 are An
glos, 75 Negro, two Chinese-Japanese,
three Indian, ten Mexican,
and one Puerto Rican. The Jap
anese, according to pen author
ities, almost never commit vio
lent crime. The toughest crim
inals are native midwesterners.
Tlw criminal "circuit" used to ex
tend from Kansas City U- St. Paul,
riht through middle America. . .
It takes 160 prison personnel to
handle the 2W Inmates of Alca
traz, an illustration of the fact
that crime doesn't pay either, for
the criminal or for the taxpayer
RADIUM NEEDLES LOST
CATAN'ZAHO. Italy (IPD -Technicians
with geiger counters
seari'luxl through refuse In the
city dump tod.iy looking for two
costly and dangerous radium nee
dles. Authorities said the needles
were thrown away absent-mindedly
by ( hospital nurse Wednesday.
who has to support him. , .Pri
son personnel are part of the Civil
Service System, especially train
ed for the work. But it's difficult
to hire prison guards. Govern
ment v'iy is low compared with
high wages in San Francisco, and
the work is inclined to be depress
ing. Inmates at Alcatraz, as in most
prisons, pass through a metal-detection
machine which can even
detect metallic foil in a cigarette
pack. Inmates must have cigar
ettes packed in nonmetallic pa
per, also wooden belt buckles and
wooden supports in their shoes
. . .The average sentence for Al
catraz prisoners is 25 years, but
their average stay on the rock Is
five years. When they Improve
they can go back to other institu
tions. Most prevalent crimes for
which they are sentenced are
bank robbery, kidnaping, and
narcotics.. . .Average age of pri
soners is 34. . .Their average IQ
is 100. , .The library at Alcatraz
is more in demand than almost
any other in the USA. Prisoners
go in for heavy reading espec
ially philosophy and sociology.
They can take extension courses
courtesy of the University of Cali
fornia, Penn State University,
and the International Correspond
ence School. Though heavy
v. eights are available in the exer
cise pen, prisoners have not used
them as weapons against each
other. They seem to respect the
importance of keeping their exer
cise pen free from any violence. 1
Find session held by Rusk wiffi DeMumlle
PARIS (UPI) Secretary of
State Dean Rusk arranged a fin
al conference with French For
eign Minister Maurice Couve de
Murville today before taking off
on a morale-boosting visit to
West Berlin.
Having failed to bring French
arid American nuclear policies in
line, Rusk and Couve de Mur
ville decided to devote their last
session to economic cooperation
and aid to underdeveloped coun
tries. Rusk was able to set aside only
2'i hours from his busy schedule
for the Berlin visit Originally it
4 cases handled
in city court
Four cases, all involving traffic
violations, were disposed of Wed
nesday evening in Bend Municipal
court.
Michael Jon Clark, 727 Mar
shall, Bend, arrested on June 19
on an excessive noise charge, was
fined $5 and costs. Robert M. Sto
koe, Seattle, Wash., arrested on
June 10, for excessive motor
noise, forfeited $17.50.
Carol Lynn Roebuck, 521 Flor
ida, arrested on June 8 on an ex
pired vehicle license charge, for
feited $7-50. Charles W. Lewis, Sa
lem, arrested for disobeying a
traffic light, forfeited $12.50.
EXPERIENCING DEFLATION
ARTESIA, N. M. (UPI) -At-tesia
is experiencing deflation.
Price wars have cut gasoline
prices to 24 cents a gallon and
hambergs to eight for $1.
was not on the itinerary but was
injected later as a demonstration
of continued full U. S. support for
West Berliners in the face of
Communist harassment.
Rusk will fly to Bonn this eve
ning for meetings with West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
and Foreign Minister Gerhard
Schroeder.
Rusk wound up his Paris talks
without making a dent in Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle's determi
nation to build up an independent
French nuclear striking force.
Rusk made it clear that
although the United States must
recognize French nuclear arma
ment as a fact, it still objects to
the "proliferation" of nuclear
striking forces in the world.
Sources on both sides said
Rusk and French officials cleared
up some misunderstandings
about each other's intentions but
there was not even a hint that
either side sympathized with the
other's point of view.
At one point Rusk asked wheth
er France would cooperate with
the United States in nuclear stra
tegic planning once the French
nuclear force had been es
tablished. Couve de Murville, according to
French sources, replied that the
question deserved "serious con
sideration" but that the French
nuclear furco had not grown suf
ficiently to make such talks time-
I Iv vet.
Nevertheless, Rusk was taking
with him assurances that France
would fight alongside the United
States in case of attack against
NATO.
FISHERMEN TO LOBBY
WASHINGTON (UPI) Fish
ermen will soon have a lobbying
group in Washington to help them
get higher prices for their catch.
The Seafarer's Union an
nounced that its 16 locals would
be represented by an organization
known as the National Conference
of Fishermen and Fish Cannery
Workers. The group will attempt
to remove a provision of an anti
trust law that bars fishermen's
unions from bargaining on prices
of fish before they sail on a voyage.
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