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About The Bulletin. (Bend, OR) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1963)
Off fo fhe races zThe 1963 session of fhe Oregon "Legislature made new records The Legislative assembly has adjourned and gone home until Jan uary, 1965. Fortunately. This legislature set records which one fondly hopes never will be equalled in Oregon again. It was -in session the longest of any as- - sembly in the state's history; it t managed to accomplish far less than ' a great many of its predecessors. It was the highest-paid legislature in Oregon history, The state got more for its money when it paid legisla- i tors $3 per day. f : Members of the legislature con ' vened In Salem in January, knowing :,' full well they faced challenges greater than any Oregon lawmaking body to meet since the end of World War, IL There were so many major Z things to be accomplished, so many "r major issues to be faced, it was a - foregone conclusion this would have to be a most productive assembly j to meet all the state's problems. It -, wasn't productive; somehow it man " aged to avoid coming to grips with most of the major issues. 2 There were any number of ways - in which the lawmakers could have I met the state's financial squeeze. ; They could have referred a possible " sales tax to voters, for example, but " the leadership of the House of Rep X resentatives and its taxation com- mittee were so set against a sales Z tax they even refused to let the people have a chance to express their opinions on the matter. ; A number of suggestions were made for broadening Oregon's too- : Lumber versus animals narrow tax base. But the Legisla ture was satisfied just to pile an other bracket or two on top of one of the highest state income taxes in the United States, raising it about 24 per cent It failed to come to grips with the need to streamline Oregon's basic government, when it failed to refer the proposed new Constitution to the people. It failed even to straighten out a minor part of the trouble, when it denied the request of the Governor for a major re organization of natural resources agencies. The power plays in the Oregon legislature this session were so frank, open, and brutal as to make Big Daddy Unruh of California look like a prayer meeting leader. The whole business seems to have start ed with House Speaker CJarence Barton, who accomplished his pur poses by such statesmanlike con duct as ordering House members of the Joint Ways and Means commit tee to boycott meetings to prevent committee votes on legislation he opposed. When Barton kicked up his heels the Senate retaliated, not un expectedly, and the whole session degenerated. The legislature failed Oregon education. It failed the state's gov ernment, and it failed the people who sent its members to Salem. But it did get its pay raise, a raise which will give most legisla tors upwards of $4,000 per year, for two years for a part-time job. It was only during the legisla tive hassle over deer hunting in Ore gon that many of the state's citizens became aware strong support of the state's management of deer hunts came from the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and private timber owners in Ore gon. Now the Northwest Forest Fest Action Council, a coordinating group of public and private agencies, has given some concrete reasons for such support Rabbits, mice, deer, porcupines, and even the uncommon bear, all take their toll from forested lands. Seeds and young trees are the prin cipal victims a single rabbit can chew the tops off 100 two-year-old -My Nickel's Worth trees in one mad, mad, night. The problem arises from the rapid changes occasioned by log ging. Where a virgin stand of timber will support relatively little wildlife, a logged-off stand permits a popula tion explosion, to take advantage of the greater amount of animal food produced when sunlight gets through to the forest floor. The Council's propaganda points up the need for the balancing of animal populations. This is a prob lem which has been recognized by the Oregon Game Commission for a number of years, and is to a large degree responsible for the Commis sion's planning of animal hunts throughout the state. Bracero voe will hasten changes Congress has voted to terminate the "bracero" program, which saw Mexican nationals working on American farms under temporary immigration permits ever since the days of World War II. Called "slave labor" by opponents, those who have seen the system in action have a far less critical view of it. Much of the labor done bv the braceros always has been done by others than native-born Americans. Japanese were a big source of such work, for many years, on the West Coast. Americans of Mexican de scent were a major source of work ers until recently. The work is tedious and fatiguing. It requires little skill. It is unattractive to most Americans. But the Mexican nationals liked it. Wages in this country and living conditions for workers were much better than in their own country. Mexico has an unemployment prob lem, too, among the unskilled farm laborer primarily, and the bracero program was a big help in alleviat ing that particular trouble. Mechanization is coming fast in the fields in which the bracero used to perform most. Mechanical and chemical weeding has taken the man with the hoe out of row crop fields. Most nuts are now harvested with machines, as are prunes. Peaches, the canning kind, will be machine harvested in a few years. Removal of the braceros will only serve to speed up the process in those and other crops. "When men difftr In opinion, both sides ought equally to havo tho advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Writer doubts need for Civil Defense To the Editor: When private citizens are dis couraged from questioning gov ernment agencies and information then democracy is in danger. Some private citizens attempted to question the government Civil Defense agency Wednesday night. They were discouraged. Their questions and honest doubts as to the value of CD is not an isolated case of insanity. One has only to pick up a respectable scientific journal to realize that a great majority of scientists believe that Civil Defense is what one scien tist calls "fraud by computer." The "facts" that we are given by Civil Defense are not facts at all but subjects of dispute. Can you survive? A report from a committee of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science states, "Any shelter sys tem short of one that places the nation's entire population and in dustry permanently underground can be negated by a correspond ing Increase in the attacker's pow er." The deeper we go, the big ger the bombs can be (and are being) made. Dr. Jerome B. Wies ner, the President's science ad visor stated, in 1962, "There ap pears to be no practical program that would avoid large-scale loss of life." Dr. James Van Allen, the physicist who detected the ra diation belts circling the earth, head of University of Iowa's phy sics department, says. "It is ex tremely dangerous to give the im pression to the public that the building of fallout shelters will enable the average citizen to sur vive a nuclear war." How much nuclear knowledge do we have? The minimum dura tion for staying in a fallout shel ter seems to be two weeks, other estimates are six months to two years. Which estimate is correct? What will life be like in a shel ter if one does survive? From all reports, it would be a continued nightmare. Another example of the confusion concerns air supply and ventilation. Radiation travels in straight lines, we don't need doors, etc., is stated by CD. But an internationally famous physi cist. Dr. Lapp, states that air does turn corners and radiated dust and particles could be car ried by air, even through ventilat ing systesm. To suggest, further more, that bombs will fall in cities only, assumes that missiles have more delivery accuracy than they might have or that they have limited and localized power. Why have the CD experts and their exponents been attacked by scien tists the world over for minimiz ing the dangers, and talking be yond the available knowledge? Our nuclear knowledge involves minimum and maximum esti mates. The reliance by CD ex perts on minimal hazard and de struction is misleading. What can CD mean? Most ex perts seem to agree that if there is a war it will be the end of all that we know and cherish. They also seem to agree that the CD movement has accelerated the arms race and increased the chances of war. Moreover, if there is no war our concerted ef forts in the military area might cost us our democracy. CD is closely linked with the Pentagon. Already we have seen a neighbor against neighbor move so that people think of taking their shot guns into their shelters to "pro tect" themselves against their neighbors. We have seen the emergence of a new lobby for militarism. With CD we have seen a hysterical fear of communism so that people are even more afraid to question. Washington, Jefferson, and the Adams broth ers would cringe to see such an encroachment of military and state controls over the individual. Let's use our money for more worthwhile causes such as in our schools, helping the mentally ill, etc Peace at any price? No! This is what the militarists are really claiming. It is sad to see the peo ple of a democracy giving up and digging in. Surely with our demo cratic heritage we must seek oth er ways of pursuing peace instead of pursuing war. As General Douglas MacArthur says. "We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the uni versal wish for peace which is rapidly becoming a universal nec essity into actuality." Dr. J. Frank, nationally known psychia trist says. "Only if we assume we have a solution will our minds be free to find one . .and humanity is no worse off than before. If we continue on the present course, the end of the human adventure is in sight." Mrs. Hilda K. Speth Bend. Oregon. June 3, ISM RETAINS EXEMPTION WASHINGTON tt'PP - The House Ways 4 Means Committee turned down an administration re quest Tuesday for tighter restric tions on the $100 duty free allow, ance given I'.S. tourists return ing from abroad. The committee approved without change a two year extension of the existing allowance. Papal Succession Notes on choice of a new Pope Even if Pope John XXIII had not recently died there would be a certain amount of specula tion about a successor. There always is at the Vatican. The successor could be an American, but the likelihood is considered slight The name at one time most frequently mentioned in Church as well as lay circles was that of Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, perhaps the best known of all the Sacred College of Cardinals. But Cardinal Spellman recently celebrated his 74th birthday. This would not exclude him; An gelo Guiseppe Cardinal Roncalli was elected 262nd Roman Catholic Pope in October 1958, less than a month before his 77th birthday. But natives of great powers are rarely chosen, in deference to the tradition that the Papacy must be guarded against any hint that it is the instrument of any nation's politics. The next Pope almost certainly will have been a cardinal, although in theory a priest of lower rank or even a layman could be elected. A commentary on the Canon Law provides that the occupant of the Holy See must be a Catholic male, capable of accepting the priesthood. He must have reached the age of reason, which is seven. The College of Cardinals, which will elect the next Pope, numbers 82. For more than 400 years it was limited to 70, but Pope John ex panded it Three are members in pectore, whose names are not divulged because of possible dan ger to them. Pope John's predecessor, Pius XII, to some extent "de-Italianized" the Catholic hierarchy in 1946. At present 32 Cardinals are Italian. The United States has five. Among the names most frequently mentioned now as successors to Pope John are Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, the "liberal" arch bishop of Milan: Peter Gregory Cardinal Agagian ian, Armenian-born head of the Sacred Congrega tion for the Propagation of the Faith; Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, Patriarch of Venice: and Gia como Cardinal Lercaro, Archbishop of Bologna Cardinal Agagianian was mentioned four years ago when Pope Pius died. Although a "foreigner," he speaks Italian with a clear Roman accent. Cardinal Montini is the unofficial favorite of Pope John, but this has no certain influence. The Pope-elect takes his choice of names. Cardinal Roncalli took the name John XXIII, reviving a papal title out of use since the death of John XXII in 1334. An Italian has been Pope since Pope Hadrian VI of Holland, who reigned little more than a year 1522-23. Vatican observers like to point out that all the Popes of the 20th century, all of course Italians, have been strong ones and Pope John despite his age not the least. The actual voting for a successor will take place in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican, with only the cardinals present A two-thirds-plus-one majority is necessary for a choice. Occasionally it comes by the "accessit" method whereby an elector agrees that his ballot may be changed to go to the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes. Eleven ballots were required for the election of Pope John. Negotiations among the cardinals on a Pope's successor are forbidden, but a Pope may discuss the succession with the cardinals. The enthrone ment of a new Pope usually takes place on the Sunday or Holy Day following the election. mstmwmsmm f!W i mw jsw , !. v f Capital Report.,: Airline industry wants to beef up systems at Oregon airports By A. Robert Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON - The commer cial airline industry wants the federal government to help stimu late growth of the nation's small er city airports through more de pendable scheduled air service. The Air Transport Association, trade organization of the major airlines, this week . convened a symposium here to focus atten tion on its contention that the gov ernment ought to change its pol icy governing installation of air port safety aids for foul weather flying at "non-hub" airports. Under existing policy, an air port has to be used by a specified number of paying passengers be fore it qualifies for various facil ities, such as a control tower operated by the Federal Aviation Agency, or instrument landing de vices. ATA advocates a new pol icy under which each airport would get a minimum package of equipment financed by federal funds to minimize flight cancella tions in inclement weather and thus foster more reliable air serv ice and greater public use. ATA lists among the nation's 395 non-hub airports 13 in Ore gon: Astoria, Baker, Bend - Red mond, Burns, Corvallis - Albany, Eugene, Klamath Falls, Lake view, North Bend Coos Bay, On tario Payette, Pendleton, Rose burg and Salem. Of these, only four have receiv ed the Instrument Landing Sys tem (ILS) which permits flying as long as the ceiling doesn't drop below 200 feet and visibility is as great as a half mile. Those with ILS are Eugene, Medford, Pen dleton and Klamath Falls, in ad dition to Portland. Because the other airports lack ILS. flying is curtailed sooner in soup weather. At Salem the mini mum ceiling is 300 feet with three quarters of a mile visibility. At Corvallis - Albany it's 500 feet and one mile. At Bend - Redmond it's 700 feet and one mile. At Roscburg it's 1400 feet and two miles. At Astoria and North Bend Coos Bay it's 1200 feet and one mile, and at Baker It's 1700 feet and one mile, ATA reported. Throughout the country ATA said of 493 airports, 184 have ILS; and of these, 120 have a 200 feet and half mile minimum. Over 300 have minimums that are more than 300 feet and three quarters of a mile, and these "are the ones that need help," ATA con tends. Federal aid for airport develop ments falls into two categories. Funds for runways and parking aprons and runway lights are pro vided on a 50-50 matching basis with the local airport operating agency, but funds for safety equipment such as radar, ILS or runway approach lighting are en tirely federal with no matching requirements. Congress has provided $75 mil lion annually in recent years for federal matching funds. The amount for safety devices has run around $114 million for each of the past two years. "We believe in building up air ports," explained a Federal Avia tion Agency spokesman. "We're promoting airports in small com munities, but we have about twice as much demand as we have money each year." The Eisenhower administration tried to phase out airport aid. In 1954 all aid was eliminated from the federal budget. There was so much unfavorable reaction that it was resumed the following year. But there is opposition to the expanded air program from one influential quarter, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association re cently urged Congress to cut the FAA budget by 37 per cent. Many of its members fly their own planes and don't favor federal spending on programs that will make the nation's airways more crowded. FAA must balance its program to take into account the needs of three elements: the military, with 30.000 planes: the commercial air lines, with 2100 planes and the private operators, with 80,000 planes. Each uses the nation's airways with about equal fre quency. ATA and the FAA have a com mon concern for the average citi zen who occasionally needs to use a commercial airline for a quick trip, but FAA says it is doing all it can with its budget, which is larger than it used to be. ATA contends it could do more by pro moting development of less expen sive safety devices. An ILS costs $270,000. A stand ard approach lighting system costs $175,000. Other devices cost nearly a half million dollars, FAA figures show. FAA is trying to bring down these costs and AYA says there is hope that the ILS cost can be cut in half. ATA didn't offer a cost figure covering its recommended mini mum package for small airports, but it did argue that in the long run greater use of small airports will save the government some or all of the $68 million which now goes out in subsidies to the short haul airlines who are still strug gling to reach the break - even point that would end their sub sidized status. Danish premier v calls off trip to Soviet Russia By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer . Notes from the foreign news cables: Sound-Off: Danish Premier Jens O. Krag suddenly canceled a visit to Mos cow which was to havo started this week, using as his excuse Denmark's June 25 ' referendum on land laws. However, still on the schedule is an expected visit from another distinguished guest, British Labor party leader Harold Wilson. Wilson, who hopes to be Britain's next prime minister, is expected to hear Premier Nikita Khrushchev's views on Soviet. British trade and nuclear testing. It probably is too soon to expect an answer from the Kremlin to the latest Kennedy-Macmillan urgings for a test ban. But there is no indication that the Russians are willing to change their pres ent, stand. Marks for Rubles: Look for an increase in trade between West Germany and the Soviet Union. Such an increase would partly be the result of Krupp Manager Berthold Beitx's recent visit to Moscow and partly of stepped-up efforts by Soviet diplomats in West Germany. So viet Ambassador to Bonn Andrej Smirnov visited tne sprawling Henschel locomotive and truck -factories in Kassel last week and said the Soviet Union was look ing forward to long-term eoonomifl cooperation with the West Ger mans. "Buy Japanese The Japanese government is considering Hs own version of "buy American." "Buy American" has cut into Japan's exports to the tune of $40 million alone in the military trucks Japan used to sell every year to the United States. The government insists its policy won't be retaliatory. It will give Japanese products no edge, but will buy them only when they are just as cheap and as good as foreign products. But the basic idea will be to help keep imports balanced with exports. Philippines: Philippine President Diosdada Macapagal may have been a little hurt when Indonesian President Sukarno and Malayan Prime Min ister Tengku Abdul Rahman failed to include him in their summit conference in Tokyo. Macapagal has considered himself a mediator in their dispute over establish ment of the Malaysian Federation and doesn't like to be left out of key decisions. um .. .. u-,),iiii p mmmmmmm -go-rou Charm school fails to charm union members Circus Days Answer to Previous Pimle ACROSS S Stage whispers 1 Side show IS" P0"1 6 Circus "Annie Dispatches Oakley 9 Twice pinnate fl Top 10 Arrow poison 12 Hebrew month 13 Italian atw 4 Girl's name loSursftcal removal 16 Thrones 20 Condemns 22 Demolishes 24 Belonging to her 3ft wed aeer 5 Penetrate 19 Fathers 21 PamiuJ 23 Male child 24 Coal ?cutUe 27 Stinging insect 29 Individuals 32 AnteJooes 34 Armed' fleet 36 Surreodtr by deed 37 Give ear to M Obstacle 39 Raced 41 Befor 42 Coterie 44 Unit of energy 46 Conceal 49 Puff do S3 Mait dnnk M Difficulties SS Mover' truck 57 An jje red 58 Pastries 59 Manner"! direction (W Pedestal part 61 Domestic slave DOWN lWeiRM deduction 2 Paradise 5 Cartoon i.tt 4 targe plant 6 Favorite 40 Looked eloselv 4A Ancient inch ?fl More a&hen 43 Lukewarm capital SO German stream 45 Slant SO Kind of deer SI Rational S3 African riw 35 Having ridges 46 Rescue 47 Enthusiastic ardor 61 Adolescent one 52 EssenUal being 55 BusUe I B 13 U 15 6 D 18 I 9 Il0 ) Ti 13 14 " H1'" 20 51 3 4 U U rfZl p"! "3 30 131 3 11 Wi 35 "" JJ ("144 o T"p Wt5 53 51 lii 3 54 55 56 57 58 55 55 61 By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON - When the atomic merchant vessel Savannah was about ready to put to sea during the Eisenhower adminis tration the Atomic Energy Com mission sent members of its crew to a charm school. The charm course was conduct ed by Molesworth Associates in New York City and chiefly con sisted of viewing a couple of tele phone company films on how to treat the public politely, plus a press conference and lunch at the Downtown Athletic Club. Total cost to the government: $5,000. The charm course, however, did not seem to take. Last Septem ber during crew trouble, the en gineers shut off the toilets on the Savannah, then the refrigerators, the air cooling and the electric stoves. Uncle Sam had spent four years training them to operate atomic equipment but trouble with the engineers continued. Finally, just as the Savannah was about to sail to European ports with a paid passenger list to win friends and show the atom ic might of the USA, the engi neers continued uncAarming, their contract was cancelled and the ship was laid up for six months. Secretary of Commerce Luth er Hodges noted that the engi neers were paid $14,000 to $22,000 a year and that the Eisenhower administration had spent not $53,. 000,000 as estimated, but $90,000, 000 building the Savannah. Obvi ously Hodges was not in a charm ing mood. His new No. 1 assistant. Frank lin Roosevelt, Jr., can be just as charming as his late father, but obviously he was not in a charming mood either when he made a blunt announcement can celling not only the engineers' contract but also the government contract with the States Marine Lines, which had been commis sioned1 to operate the Savannah. GOP Politic Both Secretary Hodges and Un dersecretary Roosevelt, however, were discreet regarding a set of facts which reflected on a high up official of the Kennedy admin istration John McCone. chief of Central Intelligence. It happened that the beginning of the inefficiency which has dog ged America's most famous atom ic peacetime vessel dates back to the strange manner in which the ship's operating contract was let to a strong GOP backer. In the spring of 1958 Clarence Morse, the Maritime administra tor, appointed a committee of ex perts to recommend which steam ship line was best qualified to operate the spanking new Savan nah. The six experts, all career shipping men with no political axes to grind, reviewed the sev en lines and recommended the American President Lines, with more than thirty years of Ameri can flag experience, as the best qualified. Barbs With those long-range cameras H would be cheaper to stay home and take your vacation pictures. Tht travtl bug that bit thou, and of Americans each yur It the littl el' mosquito. Any taxi driver could give you a list of people who are driven to drink. You have ts males allowance for college students, say a pro fessor. How wall Dad knew HI NtUSPATLR EXTLRPR1&S ASSN. The Bulletin Wednesday, June 5, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Jack MeDermott, Ad. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Leu W. Meyers, Clre. Manager Loren E. Dyer. Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. E-jerl u Sen! cuj Miner. Jamjarr 1SU. t tr Post ornce et Bena. Oreim. K'sSaaiiuaii' bl" W Sunday and ortau Scidv5 i, mm r I, i
