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'Can you spare
a minute, Mr. President?'
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BLM Director Landstrom kicked '
upstairs after many protests
T fMy NickeTs Worthrj
'The Silent Spring' started a new
look at the pest-killing chemicals
v Rachel Carson, a competent
scientist and a more-than-competent
writer, started a great furore with
the publication of her book, "The
Silent Spring." The volume attacked
aU.bf.Lthe 1 pest-killing chemicals
Whldh came into use in recent years,
ever since DDT wiped out malaria
in the Pacific Islands during World
WarIL
Miss Carson has been accused,
nd justly so, of over-painting the
picture. A great deal of good has
came from the wise use of such
chemical", a facet of the picture
which Miss Carson did not see fit
to discuss. As a matter of fact, with
out the use of such chemicals the
world's population would not be as
well fed or as . well housed or as
well clothed as it Js today. It is
equally true the chemicals, partic
ularly when not handled or used
in strict accordance with the in- '
Structions of the manufacturers,
have caused problems to wildlife
and people.
f , "The " Silent Spring" received
wide distribution through its choice
as a selection of one of the large
book clubs. (Who says Americans
don't know how to read?) It de
veloped a large, and vocal, follow
ing. Those who bought Miss Car
sort's story without bothering to
look. Into the other side began to
make themselves heard.
As a result, President Kennedy
asked his Science Advisory Com
mittee to study the use of pesticides
and recommend a policy for the
Federal government to follow in re
ducing the hazards. The committee's
report is now public. It should prove
comforting to both sides in which
has become a mounting controversy.
Briefly, the report does not
make any recommendations which
would result in the stopping of the
use of the chemicals, as has been
advocated by som'e"of the" "more '6r-'
dent followers of Miss Carson. But
it does recommend greater study of
their long-range effects upon the
human environment, a study which
would seem timely, indeed.
The chemicals- proved, .them-
selves highly effective, in,, getting
rid of some pests wihch have bother
ed man for many years. They have
largely eliminated the disease of
malaria, for example, from some
sections of the earth particularly
in this country through control
of the mosquito population. They .
have increased the production of
many of our basic foods. We have
paid a price in some instances for
their use. Fortunately, the price has
not been exorbitant, as yet. With
more study of their possible draw
backs, they should perform a use
ful function for man for the rest of
his time on earth.' '
By A. Robert Smith
Bullttln Staff Wrlttr
WASHINGTON The director
I of the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, Karl S. Landstrom, has
been kicked upstairs by Interior
(Secretary Stewart Udall.
On June I Landstrom via re
linquish the reins of the agency
: which administers the nation's
' vast Dublic domain lands and tne
OfcC forcstlands of Western Ore
gon to Charles H. Stoddard, who
: for the past two years nas neaaeu
! the Interior Department's re-
sources program staff.
L'dall has created a new post
' for Landstrom entitled assistant
i to the secretary of Interior for
i land utilization. In announcing
j this shift, l'dall noted that former
I Secretary Harold Ickes had crca
i tod stch a post during the New
Deal but that it has not been in
existence for the last decade.
Secretary Udall added that "re-
establishment of the position at
tins time is imperative in view
of the unprecedented interests
and emphasis on the land utiliza-
; lion programs of the Department
as evidenced by the augmentation
of seashore lands, wet land, wild
erness areas, outdoor recreation
and etc., with their attendant con
troversial uses."
Privately, however, administra
tion and congressional sources
say what is also known to Land
strom: that Udall decided to move
Landstrom because of rumblings
of discontent about his adminis
tration of BLM and his lack of
favorable relations with members
of the House and Senate.
Landstrom is a career man in
his field, starting when he joined
the Department of Agriculture in
1937 after graduation from the
University of Oregon. He served
as an economist in flood control
and water conservation work. In
1949 he joined BLM as regional
chief of lands and minerals for the
Northwest at Portland.
Subsequently, after transferring
to Washington with BLM, Land
strom was engaged by the House
Interior Committee as a consult-
Another gift from the Longs
Rube Long, the sage of the Fort
Rock country, recently made
another public gift of part of his
lands with unusual scenic or his
toric value. Long and Mrs. Long
presented to the federal government
the famous Fort Rock Cave. It was
In the cave that a pair of Indian
sandals was discovered which
when dated by the radioactive car
bon method proved to be more
than 9,000 years old.
This is not the first gift of this
sort from the Longs. A year ago
Mr. and Mrs. Long deeded a portion
of Fort Rock to the state of Oregon,
so the entire rock could be included
in the state park system. The Longs
have lived in the area a long time
(no pun intended) and have been an
important p:;rt of the community.
Their gifts of these lands are only
part of their records of public service.
A break for Father
The headline above appeared
on the front page of Monday's edi
tion of the Wall Street Journal. The
Bulletin's editor, a six-time father
himself, naturally was interested.
The rest of the headline was even
more encouraging. It described a
trend on the part of young couples
to cut down on the expenses of wed
dings. The father of five daughters
could not help being Interested. The
story bore out the statements in
the headline.
If it is true, that brides are
choosing less expensive gowns, and
that more persons are serving cold
cuts than pheasant under glass for
the wedding supper, the outlook for
the future is promising, indeed. If
more brides would rather have
champagne punch than champagne,
with a resultant saving of three
fourths of the cost, the implications
for any father could be great. And
a father who is looking forward to
the financing of five weddings can
find real hope for what otherwise
was almost sure to be a debt-ridden
future.
Misrepresentation doesn't help cause
A pamphlet, "The Root of Op
position," published by the National
Education Association to drum up
support for federal aid to education,
may turn out to accomplish just the
opposite. Federal aid to education
Is not a universally popular idea,
and the NEA pamphlet probably
will not make It any more popular.
The writer of the NEA leaflet
is a man who is handy with words,
but apparently is weak on his his
tory. He characterizes the school
aid fight as a "fight" between the
people with wealth and the people
with the kids." This has not been
the genesis of the battle at all. Much
of the opposition to federal aid
comes from rural areas and small
towns of the country.
The NEA has been guilty of mis
representation before on this same
subject. The number of necessary
classrooms, according to the propa
gandists for federal aid, is smaller
than the number which Is being
built each year in this country. Try
ing to turn the battle over federal
aid into something it is not will not
assist the cause at all.
ant on mining and public lands.
Id that post he became acquaint
ed with Congressman Stewart
Udall. who was a committee
member. After President Kenne
dy tapped Udall for his cabinet,
Landstrom went back to Interior
with Udall as director of BLM.
The chief western pressures on
BLM the past two years have
been from a segment of the cattle
Industry which depends heavily on
using public lands for grazing. Al
though BLM manages much com
mercial timberland in western
Oregon, it escaped most of the
protests from Northwest lumber
men of the past year and a half
which were aimed primarily at
the Forest Service.
The cattlemen, however, have
been up in arms over cuts in
grazing allotments and an in
crease in grazing fees. Last
February this pressure built up
in hearings conducted by the Sen
ate public lands subcommittee
headed by Sen. Alan Bible, D
Nev. He and other senators wrote
Udall asking him to defer raising
the grazing fee. Udall a few days
later raised the fee, but left it
still lower than fees charged by
- the Forest Service, and much less
than the going rate from private
landholders.
Since then, either consequently
, or not. Interior has noted an in
difference In the Senate Interior
Committee to Udall's requests for
new public land legislation. Some
bills he has requested ha.en't
even been introduced for lack of
a Senate sponsor.
At the same time, Landstrom
has rubbed members of Congress
the wrong way on a number of
occasions, usually in instances
which suggest inflexibility or
stubbornness on his part, con
gressional sources say.
"I don't know whether he's the
round peg in the square hole or
vice versa," said one congress
man, "but he's been in the wrong
hole."
He said Udall has confidence
in Landstrom as a competent
technician in his field and sin
cerely expects to use him on spec
ial assignments, and rot just
shunt him aside into tome bur
eaucratic backwater.
One recent incident apparently
irritated Udall and members of
Congress. When the House Ap
propriations Committee finished
trimming the Interior appropria
tion bill, Landstrom dispatched
letters to congressmen from west
ern states telling them how many
federal jobs would be lost in their
states if the BLM budget was
compelled to conform with the
committee's bill. When Udall
found out about the Landstrom
letter, congressional offices were
promptly advised to ignore it, that
the department's strategy was to
accept the committee's version of
the Interior bill without a fuss.
Udall's method of replacing
Landstrom contrasts with the fu
ror created in 195$ when Secre
tary Douglas McKay announced
he was replacing Incumbent BLM
Director Marion Clawson, a hold
over from the Truman adminis
tration, with Ed Woozley of Ida
ho. Clawson claimed civil service
status and refused to leave grace
fully. But when he griped openly
to a newsman, McKay charged
insubordination and abolished the
position of the director of BLM
which removed Clawson.
A new position, administrator
of BLM, was created, to which
Woozley was appointed. About six
months later, after things had
died down, Woozley's title was
changed to director of BLM, and
the shift was completed.
Clawson went to a private out'
fit called Resources for the Fu
ture, which is financed by the
Ford Foundation. By keeping
Landstrom in a new position,
Udall avoided any public display
of differences which provoked
him to make his first change in
the team he recruited to run the
Interior Department. Stoddard,
the new BLM director, came to
Interior from Resources for the
Future, where for five years he
served as a resource economist
working on land, forestry, wild
life, park and soil conservation
problems.
Senate-House conferees appear
headed for deadlock over taxes
By Zan Stark
' UPI Staff Writer
SALEM -(UPI) Senate-House
tax conferees appeared headed
for a possible deadlock today with
no compromise in sight on ciga
rette and net receipts tax pro
posals. The four - man committee met
for one hour Monday afternoon,
then recessed until this afternoon
to give the State Tax Commission
more time in which to prepare
alternate tax schedules.
After meeting Saturday and
Sunday, and seemingly ncaring an
agreement, and conferees sounded
out colleagues before Monday's
meeting to see if their tentative
agreements would be approved.
Apparently colleagues were not
enthusiastic about planned com
promises. Conferees include Senate Tax
Committee Chairman Boyd Over-,
hulse, D-Madras; Sen. Robert Elf
Strom, R-Salcm; House Tax Com
mittee Chairman Richard Ey
mann, D-Marcola, and Rep. Victor
Atiyeh. R-Portland.
Hangs Tough
Atiyeh said Monday he was not
Jobless picture
given by Wirtz
WASHINGTON (UPI) Labor
Secretary W. Willard Wirtz told
Congress Monday that one-fifth
of the nation's work force 14 mil
lion persons were hit by the un
employment problem last year.
Wirtz testified before a Senate
labor subcommittee, studying the
U.S. manpower situation with spe
cial attention to automation and
its effect. He said monthly unem
ployment figures average about 4
million, but he said these statis
tics don't tell the whole story.
Wiitz said "reliable estimates
. . . indicate that approximately
14 million men and women were
unemployed at some time furing
1962."
Commerce Secretary Luther
Hodges, following Wirtz to the wit
ness chair pointed up a paradox
between his department and the
Labor Department.
Wirtz is trying to find ways to
reduce unemployment. Hodges
said, while the Commerce Depart
ment is trying to get Industry to
adopt technological changes that
would cut down the manpower
supply.
The Bulletin
Tuesday, May 21, 1963
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager
Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Leu W. Mtyr, Clrc. Managar
Lortn E. Dytr, Mach. Sup't. William A. Yatts, Managing Ed.
Kntmd u Stood CUM Jnurr 1 IS1T tht row Ofrlca at Bend Cretun
under A.M irf Varvh a. 1ST Publufttd dally axcept Sunday and wrtala holidui ay
Tlx tnd Bulltun. Inc.
yet willing to give up a cigarette
tav, and asked the tax commis
sion to submit figures for an in
come tax measure combined with
a 3-cent a pack cigarette tax.
Atiyeh also said he was not yet
willing to abandon the House-approved
net receipts feature which
has the endorsement of Gov.
Mark Hatfield.
- A 3-cent a pack cigarette tax
would raise $12 million. Atiyeh
said he saw no reason to share
any of this with cities.
Overhulse said he would poll the
Senate on the 3-cent proposal, al
though he was not enthusiastic.
Eymann suggested a minimum
tax formula based on a $5 filing
fee, or 1 per cent of income. He
said it would be a base-broadening
feature.
Overhulse replied "we will con
sider that. If we make that con
cession what will we get in re
turn. Will you drop the cigarette
tax?"
'Big Concession'
Eymann replied "we've given
up the net receipts feature, that
was a big concession."
It was at this point that Atiyeh
said he was not yet willing to give
up the cigarette tax or the net
receipts feature.
Elfstrom said he wanted figures
on a 5 per cent standard deduc
tion, coupled with a capital gains
feature. He also suggested a
change in the tax credit to $25
for a personal exemption, and
$17.30 for each dependent.
Eymann commented "you're go
ing to have a tough time selling
capital gains in the House."
Barbs
An Indiana thief broke a plate
glass window to steal some
watches. He was caught and got
seven years bad luck.
You can either pay attention
to tha taw whan driving, or spead
and aim at it.
"Whan man differ in (pinion,
bath aidas ought equally to have
hSa advantage of being hoard
by ma public." Benjamin
Franklin.
Writer says millions
fail to contribute
To the Editor:
Out of 186,000,000 Americans,
136,000,000 contribute nothing
whatever to the economic and
cultural well being of the nation
and the world, at least nothing
regarded by our materialistic so
ciety as worthy of monetary re
ward. This statistic is not the con
coction of some socialist detract
or of the Glorious Land's immacu
late system. It comes indirectly,
but accurately, right out of the
mouths of those same government
bureaucrats and industry heads
who constantly tell us how pros
perous, free and pure in heart we
all are. The Oregonian, April 7:
"A release by the labor depart
ment. . .shows that 24,000,000
women are included in the labor
force. They constitute 34 per cent
of the entire force."
This algebraically admits a to
tal labor force of roughly 70,000,-
Some stockings are so sheer
today, they're gone tomorrow.
Lots of girls who know how to
iwim wilt bo taught by lifaguardi
this summer.
000. (The labor force Is defiiied
by the U.S. Statistical Abstract as
the "economically active segment
of the population." Honestly stat
ed, it is the earning segment as
opposed to the charity receiving
segment.) Of this total of fully
and partially employed (taxable)
people, millions are engaged in
occupations productive of neither
material benefits nor cultural be
quests armament production,
military service, insurance, bank
ing, lending, gambling, all adver
tising and selling which is super,
fluous to the education and HON
EST guidance of the consumer;
20,000,000 would be a low, low es
timate of those employed in these
parasite institutions. (How little
necessary it is to exaggerate!)
With all due abhorrence of the
fiendish new system in which
every healthy adult works, can
the U.S. afford 136,000,000 unpro
ductive people? I suspect that the
Communists know that automa
tion is power in the degree that
it is combined with people.
E. L. Forster
Portland, Oregon, k
May 19. 1963
'ahiiigtoiiRlcrry-go-rpund
ti Jti'ifrft"' ' tt-r rVni- if'ai'r'i"''-"
Some phony testimony
presented to Senate
them convince me that some very
clever but spurious documents
have been placed before the Mc
Clellan committee.
Note Another interesting point
that aroused my skepticism was
the Kyber Khan's testimony that
a total of $135,824,000 had been de
posited in the Pahlavi Foundation
in 1962 and early 1963, presum
ably from foreign aid funds. A
check at the State Department
disclosed that the total foreign aid
to Iran for 1962 had been only
$71,300,000, of which $44,800,000
took the form of grants; $26,500,
000 in loans.
At the conclusion of the week
end meetings, conferees had ten
tativcly agreed to a $20 depend
ency credit, and elimination of
the net receipts feature.
The main disagreement Sunday
centered around whether the min
imum fee should be a flat $5-$10
proposed by the Senate, or a per
centage as proposed by the House.
Conferees indicated they might
meet well into Tuesday night in
an effort to reach a compromise.
Other Highlights
Milk A bill to control milk
prices to dairymen cleared the
Senate and returned to the House
for concurrence in amendments.
Jobless The Senate approved a
House-passed bill to raise unem
ployment compensation benefits.
Governor Gov. Mark Hatfield
stressed the importance of tax re
form and better pay for higher
education faculty at his weekly
news conference.
FROM OTHER PENS
Faster service
Leroy Gordon Cooper went
around the world 22 Umes in 84
hours. The statistically minded
might like to know that that is
just about 30 minutes more time
than it took Charles A. Lindbergh
to fly across the Atlantic 36 years
ago next Monday. (Eugene Register-Guard)
Vive la image!
Problems, problems, problems.
The world's full of them.
For example, one of the rea
sons for founding the Peace Corps
was to do something about the
"ugly American" image.
Now the French have started
their own peace corps to work in
that country's former colonies.
And what are they going to do
with it? Help stamp out the image
of French people as sexy.
Every country should have such
image problems.
What kind of woman does the
French government want for its
peace corps? One who is serious
minded, hard-working and of "not
too evident sensuality." That's
what the regulations say.
There are two troubles with this
approach.
First, it likely will leave the
home front in even greater dan-
ger and worsen the image (Vive
la France!) by increasing the ra
tio of sensual to non-sensual types.
Second, it doesn't matter much
whether they're sensual or not
when you recruit them: after six
months in the jungle they'll look
just like Bank to their male
peace corps colleagues.
But if the De Gaulle govern
ment persists, and can't find
enough ungirlish girls, we're sure
Sergeant Shriver and his USPC
lads could arrange a little girls-across-the-sea
exchange. (Salem
Capital Journal)
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON The Senate
Government Operations Commit
tee met behind closed doors last
week to hear startling testimony
from Kyber Khan, an exiled Iran
ian leader, that a list of distin
guished Americans had received
million-dollar contributions from
a foundation owned by the Shah
of Iran and his family.
The committee, under the chair
manship of Sen. John McClellan,
D-Ark., was probing waste in for
eign aid. and the witness claimed
that large chunks of foreign aid
to Iran had been siphoned off into
the Pahlavi Foundation, owned by
the Shah and his twin sister, Prin
cess Ashras. Part of it, he testi
fied, had then been given to Amer
icans. He produced photostats of rec
ords of the Union Bank of Swit
zerland showing the dates of
checks, the names of persons to
whom they were drawn, and noti
tions that they had been cashed.
The photostats allegedly show
ed that on Feb. 2 and April 2,
1962, checks for $1,000,000 each
had been drawn to Mrs. Loy Hen
derson, wife of the former U.S.
ambassador to Iran; George V.
Allen,., another . former ambassa
dor to Iran; Julius Holmes, the
present ambassador to Iran; and
Allen Dulles, former head of Cen
tral Intelligence.
There was also a notation of a
check for $500,000 to Henry Luce,
publisher of Time, Life, and For
tune. The Kyber Khan informed the
senators that the checks had been
drawn just before the Shah of
Iran had arrived in the United
States on his visit of April 16,
1962.
Learning of the testimony, I
asked former ambassador George
Allen about the alleged payment
to him. He was flabbergasted. It
was obviously the first he had
heard of the matter. Later he
talked to members of the McClel
lan committee, asked for a full
and thorough investigation.
When I talked to former ambas
sador Loy Henderson he was
equally amazed and horrified.
"Why should I be teaching at
American University to make
ends meet if my wife had receiv
ed a million dollars?" be said.
Ambassador Henderson is also
making modest instalment pay
ments on a house which he would
not be doing if he had received
a windfall of $1,000,000.
Mr. Luce, Ambassador Holmes,
and Allen Dulles were out of the
country. But my knowledge of the
character of all the parties con
cerned and my talks with two of
The new Kennedy offspring Is
not going to be born in the White
House, even though his father
was born In a private home. This
has been decreed by the While
House doctors, who say the new
baby will probably be a Caesarean
and they want the most up-to-date
facilities on hand for the delivery
The fact that President Kenne
dy was not born in a hospital
came out during a recent talk be
tween the President and a 99-year-old
doctor, E. E. Novak of
New Prague, Minn., whom Sen,
Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Mtan.,
took to the White" House for 'a
chat. '
Humphrey explained to
President that Dr. Novak Has
practiced medicine for 68 years
and has delivered more than 5,
000 babies.
"You know, I delivered most of
them at home," added the aged
but alert doctor.
"I was born at home, not in a
hospital," remarked the Presi
dent. Then he turned to Humph
rey and asked: "How about you,
Hubert?"
"Me, too," said the senator.
"I was born over a drugstore."
Young Demos
praise stand
by 9 senators
PORTLAND (UPI) Nine Dem
ocratic state senators who say
they will oppose the revised state
constitution unless the apportion
ment plan is changed were
praised Sunday night by the
, Young Democrats of Great
er Portland.
President Richard Lehne an
nounced the group's executive
board had passed a resolution
calling for substitution of an ap
portionment plan proposed by
Sens. Don Willner. D-Portland,
and Glen Startler, D-Eugene.
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