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7 do believe he's frying to fell us something!' Washington Mcnygo-round ; Kennedy administration has been deserted by its principal Negro ally in efforts on civil rights Bobby and Jimmy are due to start another round in federal courts A r j t , j j, i,,. M si irucjtii plaint Jiixy jiaa jc turned a 28-count, 55 page indict ment for fraud against Jimmy Hoffa, boss of the giant Teamsters Union, and seven other men. This is merely the last in a series of legal actions against Hoffa which began after he first confronted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy at that time was chief of the staff of a select Senate committee headed by John L. McClellan of Arkansas. Hof fa was vice-president of his union. The McClellan committee report was quite critical of Hoffa, to put It mildly. At the same time, it brought to light evidence which later resulted In the conviction of the then head of the Teamsters, Dave Beck of Seattle. Though the committee did not approve of Hoffa, It made his accession to leadership In the union inevitable. During the first couple of years of Hoffa's reign he operated under a court trusteeship. He finally man aged to squirm out from under that, and has had no serious threats to his power over Teamster affairs since. Except for the courts. Hoffa has been in court so many times he could pass a bar examina tion. His calendar Is as full of court appearances as that of a successful lawyer. He doesn't keep a schedule any longer, he keeps a docket. He carries an extra set of fingerprint cards around in his pocket, so he won t waste a lot of time when he Is arraigned. He's paying a legal department almost as large as that of the Attorney General. Uncredited honor Someone in Lane county has done this area an honor, sort of. Hanging in the railroad station in Eugene are a couple of pictures of the scenic wonders of Lane county, with suitable captions, designed to Impress railroad travellers with the beauty of Lane, and what a fine place it is to do business. What has all this got him?. Well, so far at least, It has kept him out of jail. He first was tried for at tempting to bribe a federal agent. His lawyer succeeded in having a number of Negroes on the jury, and . then brought in Joe Lewis, a legiti mate hero to members of his race, to make a show of Joe's friendship with Jimmy. And there was a trial In Tennes see. Evidence now indicates there was more attempted jury tampering with that one than Clarence Darrow was accused of in the McNamara case. Hoffa goes to bed under so many Indictments he doesn't need blankets. The current charges are serious. They accuse Hoffa and the other defendants of obtaining, through fraud, more than $20 million in loans from a Teamsters pension fund, and diverting over $1 million of that for their own personal gain. The loans are spread all over the country those in the Los Angeles area seem to have been singularly unsuccessful ones for the lending body, judging by normal loan standards. Bobby Kennedy is after Hoffa, to be sure. Bobby is tough. And so is Jimmy. Most persons, one sus pects, would like to see Bobby win. But the long series of actions begin, too, to look something like persecu tion of Hoffa. And if Hoffa can be persecuted, so can everyone else. Hoffa is losing no opportunity to make such claims, and you can be sure his attorneys will bring the matter up on appeal if ever he is convicted. Trouble Is, one of the pictures was not taken in Lane county. It is a photograph of the late Paul Hos mer, seated in a canoe in exception ally still, clear, water. In Deschutes county. A companion picture ap peared in Lite magazine several years ago, and gained wide circulation. That 'family farm' again Congressional opponents of the bracero (Mexican national farm laborer) program, in debate on the now-defeated bill to extend the pro gram, persisted in saying the only beneficiaries of Mexican labor are "corporation" farmers, that "family" farmers do not hire much labor. In so saying they display considerable ignorance of the facts. The braceros are used, on "cor poration" and "family" farms alike which are faced with seasonal de mands for large numbers of labor ers. When peaches, or peal's, or ap ples, or tomatoes, are ripe, you pick ?em or lose 'em. It make little rlif Jnstance and disappearing pretty ferenre whether you farm 100 acres or 1,000 acres. There's no way to stretch out the harvest. The "family" farm is an aged political tradition, hoary with all sorts of implications, which is be coming more common in some types of farm production livestock, for rapidly in others fresh fruit and vegetables, for examples. Some of our elected officials should leave Washington once in a while and walk around a few farms. Perhaps they would learn the facts of modern farm life. Quotable quotes I'm not going to be conceited. I'll just tell my friends that I met the President. Eleven -year -old Joey Renzi, blind since birth, on meeting President Kennedy. By failure of such presidential action a vacuum was created, and this gave the opponents of integra tion time to marshal their forces. Integration leader Rev. Martin Luther King on federal action fol lowing the 1954 Supreme Court de cision on school Integration. We should buy sugar at the cheapest price even if it means buy ing it abroad. Rep. Charles A. Vanik, D-Oiiio, on the rise in sugar prices. Hurt feelings may have caused the stormy dissent By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON - There was more than just the question of Colorado River water that caused the flare-up between the two old est justices of the Supreme Court in point of service Hugo Black and William 0. Douglas. The real reason was woman. These two had battled on the same side for 25 years, in agree ment 99 per cent of the time. Most of the time they bucked pow erful majorities, sometimes in curred vicious cirticism. There have been demands for their im peachment and removal from the court, but always they stuck to gether. However, a coolness developed last fall when it became known in Intimate court circles that Jus tice Douglas was planning anoth er divorce. Justice Black had taken the lib erty of talking to his close friend when the latter's first divorce was in the offing. Their wives had been as intimate as they were, and Hugo told the younger justice that he was making a mistake. Not even his old friend could stop Douglas, however. He married Mrs. Mercedes Davidson. Last summer, when Justice Douglas moved toward a second divorce, once again he fell under the disapproving eye of his old friend. Black felt the divorce would hurt the court at a crucial time. This affected not only their personal relations but their court opinions, and reached a climax with Douglas's stormy dissent against Black's opinion in the 'Colorado River case this week. Mr. Justice Stonnit? Legal circles have been flabber gasted at rumors that the White House is planning to appoint Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi to the Supreme Court when Justice Douglas retires. Stennis is a Mississippi moder ate and has the respect of his col leagues, but his appointment would meet with severe criticism in the North. Stennis is a friend of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and has given him advice in the difficult Mississippi race problem. Be cause he is a moderate and be cause Gov. Ross Barnett is just the opposite, it's likely that Bar nett will defeat Stennis when he runs against him for the Senate next year. It's reported that the President and his brother are considering the appointment of a southern justice to the Supreme Court as a move to appease the South in 1954. Military vt Democracy The most important election to watch this month comes up in Peru on Sunday when the mili tary junta now running that coun try is staging its vote for presi dent. The last election, held exactly one year ago, resulted in the election of Victor Haya De La Torre, an anti-Communist, pro labor liberal who represents the landless Indians and had spent many years in exile. He was pro United States and strongly anti Communist. But because he be lieved in social reforms, the Peru vian military kicked him out. Interesting fact is that Haya's Aprista party is about the only one campaigning in Peru today. The other candidates, ex-President Manuel Odria and Fernando Belaunde have been making few speeches. You would hardly know that an election is being held in Peru. This has led to speculation that the Peruvian military might call off the voting at the last minute. Or, if Haya is elected again, they will probably throw him out once again. The Peruvian military has been largely equipped, supported, and trained by the U.S. military. Some have studied at West Point and Annapolis. .The United States warned them in advance of last June's election that it was oppos ed to a military take-over. But that made no difference. The mili tary took over anyway fully confident that the Kennedy admin istration would not withhold funds. They were right. The Kennedy administration granted recogni tion of the military junta in Ar gentina, and later the military takeover in Guatemala. The State Department even sent into exile the forthright U.S. Ambassador James Loeb, who had opposed the Peruvian mili tary. He has been without a job ever since. Note Latin Americans read the papers. U.S. support for mili tary regimes has probably hurt the United States more in demo cratic Latin countries than all our support for the Alliance for Progress. Optimism .noted in plans for Malaysian Federation By Phil Newtom UPI Staff Wrltar One of the chief reasons for the optimism that at the end of August a new Malaysian Federa tion will be born out of former British holdings in southeast Asia is a sheet of paper about four inches long, colored green and yellow. It is the Malayan dollar, worth about 33 United States cents. It gives businessmen and poli ticians alike confidence that Mal aysia will become a reality de spite the vehement opposition of Indonesia and the somewhat les ser opposition of the Philippines. The Malayan dollar represents the surest way to buy rice in southeast Asia. It is the region's hardest currency and already is in use throughout the Malaysia territories. Singapore, for example, will gain little politically from mem bership in the federation and might even lose some revenues to the fedeal government. Saak Protection But Singapore"s Chinese, mak ing up 75 per cent of the 1.75 million population, look upon the federation both as protection from the instability of Indonesia and from the ambitions of Red China. Businessmen of the Borneo ter ritories of Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo echo the same sen timents. The result has been that even with the short rebellion in Brunei to build upon, the anti-Malaysian forces have had little success. The man whose brain-child the federation is. is Malayan Prime Minister Tencku Abdul Rahman, noted for tough talk screened by soft words. In Malaya, the British left be hind a going economy based on tin and rubber. t'nder Prince Rahman, the Malayans have expanded these facilities and sought means to di versify the economy. Roads have been built. Jungle lands cleared, heallh and Irrigation programs un dertaken. Foreipn reserves are equal to nearly fiw million. In Tokyo last week. Prince Rahman met with Indonesian President Sukarno in an effort to bring a halt to the insults which for months their two nations have been exchanging. Note Dissimilarities Newsmen were quick to note the dissimilarities between the two men of such similar back grounds. Both speak a Malayan tongue and both are Moslems. But Sukarno is attempting to lead his nation along a confused path of "Guided Democracy" which includes nationalization of industry. He proclaims neutrality but frequently seems to lean heav ily toward the Communists. He charges that the new federa tion is an attempt by former co lonial powers to surround Indo nesia. Prince Rahman believes frank ly in capitalism and that Malay sia's future lies with close cooperation with the West. Co-existence with communism, he be lieves, would be to invite a Red Chinese take-over. His hopes for federation rest primarily on Malay's stability and relative prosperity. Despite the soft words of the final com munique, Indonesia remains his greatest threat. It is unlikely that Sukarno's appetite for terri tory has been satisfied by his success against the Dutrh in New Guinea. Barbs You'll feel better if you stop to think that what doesn't happen could be a lot worse than what dues. Pity the mother of children who do as many things as the neigh bors think they do. When you find a husband dig ging in the garden these days it's likely he's going fishing. How can t man show a proper blood pressure when a pretty nurse Is taking it? .;-, .--..t-. -j a t -T-fl The Bulletin Friday, June 7,1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil f. Bregan, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Cire. Manager Loren E. Dyer. Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates. Managing Ed. .Ti J?. "."tT '-.-' lt. st IN. r-M Of.-, it trn. W1 By Lyla C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer The Kennedy Administration has been deserted by its principal Negro ally in the effort to keep the civil rights controversy in the courts and off the streets. The ally was the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACPI. But NAACP took the civil rights dis pute to the streets in Philadel phia with mass picketing against job discrimination. Later Roy C. Wilkins, NAACP national secre tary, joined the Jackson, Miss., street demonstrators and was ar rested. Heretofore. NAACP has been the Negroes' legal counsel. It was NAACP that confronted the Supreme Court with the argu ments that obtained the Court's order for desegregation of public schools. But the legal process has proved to be too slow for impa tient Negroes, just as the Ken nedy's Administration's major strategy effort proved too slow. Registration Reasonable The Kennedy strategy was to obtain registration and voting rights for Southern Negroes. That would be the moderate, reason able, least abrasive way to as- Cause for joy, sorrow found in 1st quarter By Jesse Bogue UPI Staff Writer NEW YORK (UPI)- The pa per - packaging industry nation wide found causes for joy and for sorrow also in the first quarter of 1963. a survey of results report ed by 25 major companies show ed. Aggregate sales were about 2 per cent higher than those of January-March, 19fi2. The quar ter's rate of domestic paper pro duction slipped from 92.8 per cent in 1962 to 92.3 in 1963. Despite a rising trend in op erating costs bewailed by nearly all producers, the earnings were only three per cent under those reported in the first quarter of last year. Some companies re ported sales gains, in one case running as high as 8.4 per cent above the corresponding figure of the previous quarter-year. Earnings VS Sales On the plus side, Weyerhaeuser Company, producer of timber and paperboard, showed net earn ings up 24 per cent on a sales in crease of less than 14 per cent for the quarter; Scott Paper Company had a six per cent sales increase, and 15 per cent rise in earnings compared to the previous year's; Container Cor poration of America showed a comparative 12 per cent earnings improvement, and sales up four per cent. But: Champion Papers, while one per cent higher in sales, found earnings for the quarter off five per cent compared with the 1962 period: Giant Interna tional Paper in the quarter found Its sales up 4-10th of one per cent, but net earnings declining a little more than 10 per cent. Overall among the 25 compani es, 60 per cent were able to report higher sales in the year's first quarter compared to 1962. The other 40 per cent saw declines as high as eight per cent Prices Hold Key Seven of the companies report ed net earnings above those for the period a year earlier; three were unchanged; the others were lower. Many reasons are advanced by the companies for the overall showing. Some had production problems in new plants; labor costs rose: newspaper strikes curtail newsprint sales, and other strikes had an adverse effect; the severe winter cramped sales generally. Price increases have been an nounced on a variety of paper products during recent months: Union Bag-Camp paper raised prices of grocery bags and sacks early in the year, followed with another 10 per cent increase as of June 1. Last year, these lines were cut 35 per cent, and the levels still are well under those posted at the start of 1962. Portland may get appeal PORTLAND (UPD - Portland city commissioners may yet hear a personal appeal from national civil defense director S. L. Pitt man. Mayor Terry Schmnk said Thursday the city officials, sitting as a budget committee, may ar range an informal meeting with Pittman while he is here for a City Club speaking engagement June 21. They turned down a meeting to discuss abandonment of the city's civil defense prop-am two weeks ago. Schrunk made his statement In answer to an appeal from Louis E Starr, an attorney and former national commander of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars Starr served as state civil defense di rector under four Oregna gov- sure the Neeroes' civil rights . permit them to vote. The other rights then would follow. The white man got his civil rights guaranteed that way. The white man needed many more than 100 years to accomplish that, however, if you date the beginning of basic white civil rights no further back than 1215 A.D. That was the year of the Magna Carta. Taking into account the civil disorders in Birmingham, Jack- Other pens . . . Clean Expect now and harken to a lot of mass media messages in behalf of the "Keep America Beautiful" program. This is a priority promotion for the Adver tising Council, national non-profit organization which has had marked success in motivating popular support of a variety of public interest campaigns. We sincerely hope the council is as successful in this effort as it has been in such promotions as the sale of U.S. savings bonds. And, we accordingly commend to our readers these points the coun cil has made about the need for anti-litter enlightening of the pop ulace: Steadily increasing travel and vacationing and more and more products wrapped and pack aged in containers of glass, paper, metal and other materials have combined to make this country's cleanup problems multi-million dollar matters of public concern. Carelessness and bad habits are responsible for the rubbish that mars our streets, highways and vacation spots. It makes sense and it promises big savings in dollars and cents to urge that every American fight the litter habit, at home, on the streets and highways and along all the byways. As the Advertising Council has summarized the alternatives, it's up to us to keep this nation clean and attractive or to live in ever worsening squalor. It's a beauti ful nation, so let's take care not to mess it up. (Eugene Register Guard.) Jobbed again The people have been jobbed again. For four months they have been paying an extra 15 cents on each bottle of liquor. This was Governor Hatfield's idea. He told the liquor commission to increase prices because the state needs the money. Also, however, he asked that the Legislature repeal the law which makes Oregon resi dents carry around that silly per mit. The Legislature, also mindful of the state's need for money, isn't about to eliminate the permit and the $685,000 it will add to the treasury in the next two years. Also, of course, the Legislature is delighted with the more than $4 million the price increase is bring ing in. Wouldn't it be funny now If the governor told his liquor commis sion to pull the price back down to last fall's level? (Eugene Register-Guard.) The tesf George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, has been up North seeing how the colored folks are getting along. Fact is, he insists, they are treated better in the South than they are in New York. The governor probably knows a lot about that kind of thing, be cause he's so concerned about the colored folks and has their inter ests always at heart. But why doesn't somebody ask him why thousands of southern Negroes go into the industrial cities of the North every year, but almost none go back to Alabama. (Eugene Register-Guard.) son. Miss.. Philadelphia and else where, plus the movement al NAACP from the court room in to the street, the Kennedy Ad ministration had no alternative; but to adopt its present civil rights strategy. The Administra tion was compelled to move to other ground. The time of the moderate, rea sonable, least abrasive approach to the problem of civil rights had run out. The direct actionisti among Negro leaders were taking over. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., was predicting riots in the streets of Washington, D.C. He was telling radio audience at home and abroad that the bat tle for civil rights was just about over because the white man wa scared. Children Used Negro children also were Inject ed into the controversy. Negro adults sent the grade schoolers into the streets to challenge local police power. A misplay then with a gun, a dog or a night stick could have triggered bloody violence in most streets at every major U.S. city. It hasn't happened that way yet But it could. . All of this is some measure, but not all of the measure of tha crisis the Kennedy Brothers now clearly see and which they now seek to control with more federal legislation. Their objective is to speed-up the process of making; effective the civil rights commit ments of the constitution, of the laws and even of the Democratia party platform. President Kennedy re-stated his purpose in his May 8 news conference: "I've made it clear since assuming the Presidency that I would use all available means to protect human rights and uphold the law of tha land." If Congress authorizes federal shortcuts to court orders in be half of civil rights, Kennedy is committed to order up the armed forces in support if necessary, mmmmemimmmmemmmMam It's another world Great day for teenagers By Elizabeth Chenoweth Friday is a great day tor teetv agers. Today we get our report cards and will be out of school. After nine months of being coop ed up, we want to get out and do things that we have not been abla to do all of the school year. Wa are looking for excitement In previous articles.. I hava stressed the need of more recrea tion for the teenagers of Bend, Well, now you are going to be sor ry that you didn't take ma up on it soon. There are going to be many teenagers who have jobs for tha summer and so will be busy. There are also going to be soma that join various teams, such as the swimming team and tha base ball team, and some that go on vacation but these are only a) small minority. A great many teenagers will have nothing to do but waste time, and the only place that they can do this is downtown where they are away from their parents. They will be window shopping, loitering on the premises of the stores of Bend, jamming traffic, and making walking down tha sidewalk a difficult job. Now, if we only had a place to go this wouldn't happen. There are many people who think that having more recreation is a good idea, but they don't want to have to put any work into it. There are others who disagree with me and think that I hava no right or enough knowledge to write this and previous articles on the need for recreation. Well, now you are going to be sorrvl Watch out! Here we comet Opposites ACROSS 1 Opposite of cold 4 Opposite of many 8 Opposite erf female 12 Opposite of wsw 13 Row 14 Avoacn 15 Opposite of starved 1ft Aggressive 18 Revolves 20 AsMslacti 21 Opposite of mora 32 Norse god of poetry 24 Concern 26 Biblical name 27 Cleaning implement 30 Reluctant 32 Celestial structure 34 Separator 35 Redacted 36 Measures of cloth 37 Ceremony 39 Converts into leather 40 Always 41 Encountered 42 Opposite oi ' arrive 45 Avoidance 49 Get to know 51 Mineral rock 5? 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