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About The Bulletin. (Bend, OR) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1963)
Maybe it's fafal hope!' .Vffi:?i?;4-.jP2'-!:V . . j)ii.;iy ) i,w.Jiy ji; w,' ',, iinn 1 1, 11,111 iiji iiiii. iiii..ni)niii.iiiniMi :The broadening of our interests is the reason behind the change in our name l The Bulletin today makes a ; number of changes in appearance, ;some changes in content, a few 'changes in format, and a change in name. The changes in appearance tare to help readers find sections and regular features more easily. The ."changes in content will increase the amount of news delivered to read ers, and to add a couple of features which have been in demand. The changes in format are to make it possible to add the additional con--tent. And the change in name is 'because the new nam,e better de scribes our ever-broadening field of interest. i; We shall have more space for local and state news by making pages 2 and 3 our local and state pages. For many years this material has appeared on page 5. There simply isn't room on a single page for all the news of this type we want to print The Bulletin has long wanted to Increase the amount of national and international news we publish. An expanded newspaper will make this possible. For some time we have been considering our eauonai ana opinion page. Effective today, this will be a full page, five days a week. On it will appear two new features. . One is a series of Washington reports by A. Robert Smith, charac terized . by one of his fellow ob servers of the national capital as "one of the best reporters in Wash ington." Smith reports only for Ore gon newspapers, and his coverage has been featured for several years in leading Oregon daily newspapers. (Smith is an author, too. He ; wrote "Tiger in the Senate," a biog ; raphy of Oregon's senior Senator, - Wayne Morse, which was widely ac l claimed by critics when it was pub ; llshed last year. It is generally con- - sldered to be the best of recent biographies of national political I figures.) We're adding a crossword puz Misunderstandings over ! Viewed from this distance, Ilii ; nois seems to be a paradox insofar; ; as birth control is involved. The ' Illinois legislature early this week ', turned down a proposal to allow ; welfare officials to distribute birth ; control information and Materials to those welfare recipients who re ', quest it. At the same time, the Chicago Daily News, which publish ed an excellent study of birth con trol in Illinois, received surprisingly little public criticism, and none at all from the hierarchy of the Cath olic church in the Chicago area. This last fact is perhaps more Important than the first. Chicago has the largest Catholic diocese in this country. And the popular belief is that the Caiholic church is un alterably opposed to all attempts to control the size of families. The popular belief Is in error, of course. Some methods of birth control have been recognizpd by the Catholic church for a number of years. Other methods are recog nized under special circumstances. And there is considerable evidence that top-level Catholic theologians are moving toward a broader recog T zle, in response to a number of re quests even demands from readers who enjoy crossword puz zles. The editor doesn't particularly like crossword puzzles. The puzzles will be printed on the editorial page, for the benefit of readers who don't particularly like the editorials. And we're changing the name of the paper. It isn't a radical change. Effec tive today the word "Bend" is being dropped from the name of the paper. Over a period of time it will be dropped from the office forms, let terheads, envelopes, etc. The paper will continue to be published by the same legal entity which has publish ed in recent years, The Bend Bulle tin, Inc. Most readers, we have found, refer to this newspaper as The Bul letin, and have done so for a Jong time. Most of our staff members do, too, even though we have spelled it out, The Bend Bulletin, for many years. That, of course, is not the sole reason for the change. Less than 10 years ago over three-fourths of the newspaper's cir culation was inside the city limits of Bend, and in the immediate sur rounding area. Over the years a gradual change has come about. Even though our Bend circulation is at an all-time high, it is a much smaller portion of the total. Sales within the Bend city limits now ac count for less than half our total circulation. The Bulletin has found increasing favor with readers from other parts of Central Oregon. Our news coverage of other Central Oregon areas has expanded rather substantially over the years. We expect to continue this expan sion. The newspaper has grown in size and, hopefully, will continue to grow. More space has been avail able for printing of news from out side of Bend. So, starting today, it's The Bulletin. birth control nition of needs for birth control and methods of inhibition of pregnan cies. A prominent Catholic doctor invented the pill which is coming into wider and wider use in birth control programs. The silence of the church is some areas in which it was once rather outspoken has been taken as an indication the whole subject is under examination. The pressure for birth control, in Illinois and elsewhere, comes from sources which fear the earth soon will not have room for its population, as well as from those who would like to see it practiced more widely in cases where the eco nomic situations of families put two and two-thirds strikes against each new child in the family. Quotable quotes It's ridiculous to say that we don't have unions in the South which are not discriminating. AFL-CIO President George Meany, acknowl edging that some racial segregation exists in the labor movement. My Nickel's Worth "When mm differ in opinion, both tides ought oqually to have the advantage of being heard by the public." Benamin Franklin. Reflectorized lights move called 'robber To the Editor: Plans (or the one million dollar passenger motor vehicle license plate robbery of 1963 have been announced. The people of Oregon can sit back, relax, and enjoy it. The leader of this band of mod ern day brigands is none other than Coos and Curry Counties' own Democratic Senator Richard F. Chapman. The extortion wea pon is Traffic Safety. The million dollar bullets are reflectorized li cense plates. The victims of this bold daylight holdup are the peo ple of Oregon. We will either pay directly a million dollars for re flectorized license plates, or t h e Highway Department will suffer a loss to the dedicated highway fund of a million dollars. Here on the Oregon coast where the air is clear and the thinking sharp we support the importance of traffic safety. We also support highway construction as import ant to the traffic safety. The routes Tillamook - Astoria, Cor vallis - Newport. Salem - 20 Mir acle Miles, Klamath Falls - Med ford, Roseburg . Coos Bay, Win nimuca to Coos Bay and many more routes in Oregon have a priority need for this million dol lars. It would also be one mil lion dollars well spent in the in terest of traffic safety. It is important that our Driver Improvement and High School Driver Training programs as well as our Oregon State Police have more trained personnel. All of these are vital and have true mer it in traffic safety. A million dol lars invested in any of these pro grams is a million dollars well spent A million dollars of our money spent on the reflectorized license plate scandalizes the good name of traffic safety. Very truly yours, James F. Johnson Coos Bay, Oregon, May 10, 1963 Washington Merry-go-round Alabama race riots play hob with Kennedy's bills By Draw Pearson WASHINGTON One result of the Alabama race riots has been the prolonged absence of one Ala bama congressman from Wash ington. He is Carl Elliott of Jas per, who happens to be Die man Kennedy got appointed to the House Rules Committee for the specific purpose of breaking the Republican - Dixiecrat hold on that bottle-neck committee and thereby unblock Kennedy legisla tion. What hasn't been widely pub licized is that Rep. Elliott has now turned against Kennedy on certain important issues. That is one reason he is remaining in Ala bama. Specifically Elliott is against the Youth Employment Corps legislation, now before the Rules Committee. This is a measure to create camps for unemployed youths in order to keep them off the streets and reduce juvenile crime. The corps would operate somewhat similarly to the CCC camps before the war which cleaned up the forests, drained swamps and improved the rec reation areas. Elliott is against this bill be cause the youths camps would be integrated, and the race question has become so hot in Alabama, partly as a result of the Birming ham dnmonstrations, that any congressman who voted for inte gration, even indirectly, would be defeated. If Elliott remains away from Washington, there will be a tie vote in the Rules Committee and the Youth Corps Rill will be de feated, if he returns to Washing ton, he'll vote no. and it will also be defeated. And because Kenne dy is unpopular in Alabama, El liott may vote against other vital measures. This highlights the unwieldy me chanics of government on Capi tol Hill today, whereby one or two men can block legislation of in terest to millions. First Dulles Airport Creh The most embarrassed gentle men in Washington today are two top officials of the Federal Avia tion Administration, which sets the safety regulations for all Uni ted Slates aircraft. Dr. Mervin K. Strickler Jr.. and his assistant Ralph R. Lovenng, whose job it is to educate air craft owners, pilots and manufac turers about aviation safety, are responsible for the first aviation crash at the famed new Dulles In ternational Airport Levering was piloting an FAA f B i r TI71 B-CI JL III U JF LIJ IJI J I 11 Vvrneoy, May 15, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Phf W ChsMltr, Ed'r Phil P. Brcoan, Aici Editor Lorn E. Dynr, Mech. Sup t. F"'o-aH Pm V: 1&T9. rutMd duly Tim bml Bulitun. Inc. Morse position on Oregon Dunes proposals is largely unknown By A. Robert Smith Bulletin Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Senate hear ings on the Neuberger bill to create an Oregon Dunes National Seashore have caused a favorable climate for approval of the legis lation, but probably in modified form. Members of the Senate Interior Committee want to tramp up and down a few dunes before they cast their votes on the bill, but this is routine procedure which strengthens the arguments of the committee when they send new park bills to the Senate and ask for their passage. The only major decision the committee will probably confront is whether to chop off the last nine miles of the park proposed by Sen. Maurine Neuberger south of Ten Mile Creek. This sector has never been included in previ ous bills and has met with critic ism from industrial interests in the Coos Bay area. The idea for including this dis puted strip came from the Na tional Park Service early this year when Mrs. Neuberger was redrafting her compromise bill. The senator has no strong convic tion that it is vitally necessary to the concept of a seashore park. It may become a bargaining point in later discussions on reconciling differences between her bill and that of Rep. Robert Duncan. Beyond that uncertainty, the hearings left only one obvious question mark about who stands for what with respect to this con troversy: the riddle of Sen. Wayne Morse's position. Morse failed to appear at the hearings held here last Wednes day or Thursday. He was given routine permission to file a state ment of his position, but when the hearings closed it had not been filed. Reportedly he wants to review the transcript of testi mony before presenting his own views. Morse's attitude toward the dunes park concept has been enig matic ever since it was first sug- leased Piper Comanche from Washington National Airport and swung in for a practice approach at Dulles at 9:23 a.m. The $20,000 plane crashed with "substantial damage to the aircraft, roughly estimated at $5,500." The men were unhurt. Aviation officials refused to comment, but Lovering simply forgot the first rule of a would-be pilot lower the wheels when coming in for a landing. The FAA ordinarily investi gates non-fatal light plane acci dents such as this but since this involves its own personnel, the in vestigation was turned over to the Civil Aeronautics Board. Civil Aeronautics Board per sonnel, who have no love for the FAA. refused to comment, but giggled when queried. An FAA spokesman explained that Lovering and his boss Strick ler. chief of FAA's Aviation Edu cation Division, were flying be cause they "have to maintain pro ficiency as pilots" in order to command the respect of the avia tion industry when they are edu cating the industry on safety. Birth Control in Washington The only Washingtonians so far known to have approached the Catholic papal delegate. Arch bishop Egidio Vagnozzi, regarding birth control are Mrs. Florence Mahoney and Mrs. Ymelda Dix on. They never hesitate to ask the representative of Pope John in Washington when the Vatican is going to see the light of day re garding birth control and the world's population increase. The other day. Mrs. Mahoney entertained another prominent Catholic. Dr. John Rock, who al so advocates birth control and ap pears to have made some pro gress in converting other Catho lics. "The papal pronouncements im ply that the church will welcome a development of improved, re liable, natural methods of fertU ity regulation." Dr. Rock told lis teners. "The need is to find new techniques and effective methods which all religious groups can morally accept." President Kennedy was a little wary when recently asked in his press conference about Dr. Rock's ideas. But the President went fur ther than some of the hierarchy would have him go in cautiously stating that the t'nited States gov ernment w-ould provide birth con trol information to foreign govern ments which asked for it This was the pledge he made in his preelection campaign. TT T "IT'nnTTVT Jck McPrrcH, Adv. Mnat Lou W. Mevr, Cire Mng William A. Yt, Managing Ed. at tk r-At ("v vTj eweff S-jr.My And mua bofrUy by Capital. Report gested by the late Sen. Richard L. Neuberger four years ago, pos sibly because at that time the two senators were engaged in a sear ing personal feud and they ap peared to welcome more occa sions to disagree than to agree. After Dick Neuberger's death in I960, a group of his Senate col leagues quickly introduced a dunes park bill which would name the park as a memorial, the Rich ard L. Neuberger National Sea shore. Morse did not join in that movement of tribute. He opposed, he said, the provi sion in the early Neuberger bill giving the Secretary of the Inter ior right to condemn residential property in the area. When the Kennedy Adminis tration took over and Secretary Stewart Udal put steam behind the idea of adding new seashores to the national park system. Con gress approved bills for seashore parks at Cape Cod, Mass.; Point Reyes, Calif.; and Padre Island, Tex. But Udall set Oregon Dunes aside for tactical reasons. i -. There were three reasons for the delay. One was Forest Serv ice hostility to letting the Park Service bite into their territory, but Udall worked out an agree ment with Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman earlier this year to eliminate this obstacle. Anoth er was the opposition of the con gressman from Oregon who rep resented that coastal area during 1961 and 1962, Republican Edwin R. Durno. The 1962 elections brought a new congressman, Dun can, who favors the park idea, but with a bill including less pri vate landholdings than would be involved in the Neuberger bill. Finally, during last year Sen. Morse privately opposed any ad ministration action on the dunes issue because he was running for re-election and didn't want to have to take sides on this touchy question at that time. Udal kept the proposal on ice. And Mrs. Neuberger accommodated her senior colleague by not pressing the issue until this year. About 10 days ago Morse pri vately told both Mrs. Neuberger and Duncan he would support some kind of park bill. But Glenn Jackson, chairman of the state highway commission, said Morse told him he liked Jackson's idea for a state dunes park. Organized conservation groups are urging Morse to support a federal park. Mrs. Neuberger observed dur ing the hearings that those who objected to giving the federal gov- Barbs All it takes is owing money to make some people lose their memory. Mail carriers appeared in Southern town parade, with no post cards to read. There are a lot of women who live in a shoe that fits so tightly they don't know what to do. It's funny how people pray for deli vary from temptation and then walk alone Into a used-ear lot..... Charges fly as wheat vote nears By Caylord P. Godwin UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - Lead ers of major farm groups advo cating farmer approval of the ad ministration's 1964 wheat program said today opponents have resort ed to "emotional appeals ap proaching demagnguery." Farmers will vote in a nation wide referendum May 21 whether to accept or reject the adminis tration's 1!R4 wheat program which calls for tight production and marketing controls. Two thirds of those voting in the ref erendum must approve the pro gram before it can be put into effect. "There has been a tirade against the program unparalleled in the history of farm referen dums." the leaders said in a statement. "Emotional appeals ap proaching demagoguery havs been substituted for fact by op ponents in a deliberate attempt to confuse farmers who will vote, as well as the genera public." The American Farm Bureau Federation is the chief opponent of the program. The farm leaders who issued the statement are associated in the National Wheat Committee, an organization formed to encourage farmer approval of the program. Signers of the statement included Hersche! N-som, master. Nation al Grane"; M W Thatcher, presi dent. National Federation of Gram cooperative: James G. Pattnn. President, National Farmers Un ion; Glen Bayre. r-riHeni, Na tional Aisviat!on "f Wheat Grow ers: Fred V Heinkel. President. Missouri Farmers Association; an Oren Staley. President, National Farmers Organization. eminent condemnation power over private property have been strangely silent in not objecting to the idea of the state highway commission taking over the area, despite the state's power to con demn property. Her own bill has dropped the condemnation fea ture, except for commercial prop erty, so that home owners could live on permanently inside the park unless they decided to sell out. With Senate action unlikely be fore July or August, after a sen atorial visit to the dunes, Wayne Morse will have plenty of time to decide at long last which way to jump on this four-year-old propos al for an Oregon Dunes National Seashore. Committee nears final action on , ( thr6e-W3V bill ' SALEM (UPI) The House Labor and Industries Committee reared final action Tuesday on rewriting a Senate "three way" workmen's compensation bill. Mixed feelings are expected from both management and labor. The House committee made two key policy decisions. It agreed with labor that the State Industrial Accident Commis sion should handle all claims. It agreed with management that private insurance should be al lowed to compete with the state in writing industrial accident in surance. A third kind of insur ance, self insurance, also would be allowed. The bill, in addition, provides a substantial benefit increase. The House committee adopted a draft of technical amendments and ordered final language draft ed. Signs are If the bill clears the committee and the House, there may be trouble in obtaining Sen ate concurrence to amendments. From BR This legislature aiding '65 sales tax attempts By Zen Stark UPI Staff Writer Oregon sales tax advocates may be inching closer to getting their program to the people. While it appears unlikely it will happen now, indications are the sales tax issue could dominate the 1965 session of the Oregon leg islature. An increasing number of legis lators including many strong anti-sales tax lawmakers feel the voters should be given a chance to make the decision. It's been over a decade since there has been a statewide vote on a sales tax. At present, the House is strong ly anti-sales tax, and the Senate is pro-sales tax. In both 1959 and 1961 the Senate substituted a sales tax for House approved tax measures. The House was able to vote down the maneuver on both occasions. Nationally, 37 states now impose sales taxes. Oregon's neighbors to the north and south, Washington and Cali fornia, levy sales taxes. Proponents argue it is a "pain less" tax, and in most cases pro duces more revenue than antici pated. Opponents charge a sales tax is unfair to low-income families. Indiana was the latest state to impose a sales tax. Four other states have boosted existing rates this year to meet the need for more revenue. Several other states are consid ering rate boosts. Others have closed "loopholes" and tightened up collection procedures. 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Pearson UPI Staff Writer SALEM (UPI) The VVturrl Plan" of legislative apportionment would "give a mandate" to go as close as possible to a 3-1 disparity in voter strength, a legislator warned here Tuesday. : Sen. Don Willner, D - Portland, made the remarks as the Senate Committee on Constitutional Re vision continued consideration ot a House-passed new state consti tution. The plan of Sen. Anthony Ytur ri, R-Ontario, was accepted in principle by the committee last week, over opposition from Will ner and two others. The House had approved Oregon's present apportionment plan. The committee still must act on specific apportionment language, and Willner and others continued efforts to get closer to the present plan. . . Effect Noted Willner said the effect of the. Yturri plan would be to add four representatives to the House, three from Eastern Oregon, and five senators to the Senate, two from Eastern Oregon. Yturri replied his plan was based on formula recognizing only population figures. He said It would remove inconsistencies in the present population plan and make it workable. Yturri said under Oregon's pres ent plan, the disproportion in vo ter strength could go as high as 4-1. The committee decided the leg islature should continue to meet every two years. The House passed version had made annual meetings optional. The committee reversed Its ac tion of last week and restored new broader language on protec tion of an accused person against double jeopardy. . , It tentatively defeated a move to change the effective date of the document from Jan. 1. 1967, to July 1, 1966, but the votes of two absent committee member could pass the motion. Salem per cent hike which would take its sales tax to 4.5 per cent, high est in the nation. The states that do not how levy a sales tax, in addition to Oregon, are Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mon tana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Virginia. Last year the sales tax states collected more than $5 billion. While a sales tax may be "pain less," it is not without its head aches. Some states ease the problem by collecting the tax on every thing. But when there are exceptions, there are headaches. If you ex empt food, do you also exempt restaurant meals? If drugs are exempted, are such items as aspirin and band-aids considered drugs? The sales tax plan that was killed in the House this session exempted food and farm supplies. A businessman who has to pay a sales tax when he buys a de livery truck won't agree that a farmer should be exempt from the tax when he buys a tractor. There are collection problems, and costs. The Tax Commission would have to employ an army of audi tors to keep an eye on retailers, and more auditors to handle the additional paper work. The need for more money is adding impact to the demand for a sales tax. Legislators can sidestep having to make the decision by voting to let the people make their own decision. 3S"BaBy 40 Hotnerie stoit 41 Tops of beads 42 Footpath 43 Depend 44 S-nn ls!tni 46 Grafted (her.l 47 Gaelic 48 Profound 50 Greek letter l ! p I I IS (i B I H Is fll Ul n rj n rs rs b li T p"sj a Is"" ' !rF rrrF"rs" a Sr,--fe--5r 'ijiip n irif" rrpr 3 a rj a a q 3 3 57 wm p