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'You got tr Ybtf con ge a? opinion you want on possible length of the strike The Northwest, plagued for the last two summers by prolonged strike-lockout situations in construc tion, is now in the starting stages of a strike-lockout in the forest prod ucts industry. And you can get any guess you want as to the length of the dispute, or as to whether or not it will spread to more mills and to allied industries, such as pulp and paper. Negotiations, and their prelimi naries, have been under way for some time. On the face of it, it ap pears bargainers for the companies and their workmen are not for apart, put apparently the faces are deceiv ing. Statements indicate the union involved wants wage increases of nearly double what employer nego tiating teams have offered. Even then, the two figures do not appear Xo be a great distance apart for this Stage of the game. Wire service stories from Port land have quoted union sources as baying present wages average be tween $2.10 and $2.20 per hour. Em ployer sources have said cash wages for loggers average slightly over $3 per hour, nearly $4 per hour when ringe benefits are calculated. "Khe state's Employment Service quotes hourly wages in the lumber industry as averaging $2.74, including over time but not counting vacations, in surance, pensions, and other fringe costs. You can take your own choice. Some observers believe the strike-lockout will be of short dura tion. Almost as many disagree. When talks were broken off, the union struck U. S. Plywood Corp. and St. Regis Paper Company. The four other companies represented in the six-company negotiating group Weyerhaeuser, Crown-Zcllerbach, International Paper, and Rayonier immediately began shutting down their operations, on the theory that a strike against one of the compa- Senseless 'fun' Almost every year, it seems, one or the other of the Central Oregon communities sees the festivities at tendant upon high school gradua tion turn into tragedy for a family. The party at Shevlin Park Friday night which resulted in the death of Pat Young was this year's contribu tion to the annual record. This is "fun," in the confused style of a bunch of youngsters who feel the ending of 12 years of grade and high school is some sort of mag ic mark, to bo celebrated with a great deal more enthusiasm than -judgment. The tragedies come from .too much liquor in stomachs unac customed to it, or too much speed by drivers who don't know how to handle it, or both. 2 A number of attempts have been made in the past to so organize .the festivities as to eliminate much of the danger. Some such attempts Iwere great successes. Others were Spoiled by youngsters who refused to take a proper part, or by parents who insisted on assisting their own teen-agers and their friends break She rules. Neither course of conduct anything to admire. a golden spike?' nies was a strike against all. Ob viously, the companies feared being whipsawed. Union members will re ceive no unemployment benefits in either Oregon or Washington, and the union's treasury is not equipped to pay big strike benefits to mem bers such as are common in some industries. The union, The International Woodworkers of America, bases its public case upon the fact that it vol untarily gave up a wage increase last year, in the face of heavy pres sure from the companies. The com panies point out their own economic situation, better than a year ago, but forest products still must be classed as a depressed industry by normal industrial profit margin standards. There is still another factor in volved. Another union, the Lumber and Sawmill Workers, is involved in negotiations with still another group of employers. And Georgia-Pacific, one of the largest corporations in the field, is negotiating separately. Generally the pattern is for one or two companies to reach agreement with the union, setting a general area of agreement which is followed by most others. Whether this will be the outcome of the present situation is anyone's guess. About all that can be hoped by those not directly involved is that agreement is reached, and soon. The shutdown, and the prospect of fur ther spread of the strike-lockout, hurts the general economy of the Northwest, an economy which is heavily based upon forest products. Timber sales activities have been heavier than usual, with most of the blowdown from the Columbus Day storm having been put on the mar ket. If this is not cut this summer we can expect a big beetle infesta tion by next spring, with heavy pub lic expense to fight it. The Young family has our sym pathy. A number of families in sim ilar circumstances have had the same sympathy in the past, and un less someone cares to do something about it, we suspect a number will be entitled to it in the years to come. Quotable quotes In this day, In this land which leads the free peoples, we cannot afford citizens who arc insensitive to public affairs. Army Secretary Cyrus R. Vance, telling graduates at Virginia Military Institute of the need for a knowledge of public af fairs. Were we, as the symbol of dem ocratic government, to surrender this opportunity to the leading ad vocate of the Communist Ideology, we could no longer stand large in our own image, or In the image that other nations have of us and the free society we represent. NASA head James Webb, predicting that a cut back in the U.S. space program would cost America its free world leadership. Steel Magazine sees adjustments on orders following settlement CLEVELAND. Ohio (UPI) Settlement of steel labor negotia tions will trigger some order ad justments, but it won't precipi tate a market collapse, Steel Magazine predicted today. The national weekly based its prediction on the following two reasons: 1. Users haven't gone overboard on Inventory building. Since the first of the year, they've in creased stocks by no more than 2.5 million tons while their build up prior to last year's agreement was nearly twice that size. 2. They're consuming steel at a near record rate about 6.7 mil lion tons per month. Keeping consumption at a high pitch is the automotive demand which Is second only to that of 1955. Requirements of other in dustriesconstruction, appliance manufacturing, machinery, farm equipment, freight car building, and canmaking also are booming. Above Seasonal Demand Steel said market conditions are anything but depressed. Despite a sharp drop in order entry attribut able to the slowdown in inventory building, demand is well above average for the season. Orders for bars, beams, hot rolled strip, and coated sheets are slipping, but there's not much de ferment or cancellation of tonnage on the books. Cold rolled sheets, wide plates, and semifinished products are holding their own. Meanwhile, rails, reinforcing bars, and tubular Items are on Washington jVIerry-g0roimd If depends a is faking the By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON The rules of junketing are completely differ ent, depending on just who it is who's taking the junkets. For instance, fifteen news photo graphers and newsmen are being dropped from the President's trip to Italy and Germany because one plane is overcrowded, and the White House says it can't afford the expense of hiring another. Yet each newsman pays for his own airplane flight. The White House supplies the plane and correlates the flight, but members of the press are paying passengers. Here are some interesting con trasts regarding other junkets: 1. Secretary of Defense McNa mara recently commandeered an entire jet for himself and wife and flew from Washington to Hon olulu for a weekend. 2. Last fall, Ike's old plane, The Columbine, flew the House Bank ing and Currency Committee con gressmen and their wives around the world on a de luxe junket at government expense. 3. This winter, special de luxe junkets were arranged for con gressmen to visit Guantanamo and scowl across the barbed wire at Castro. It became almost a commuting service all at the taxpayers' expense. 4. Rep. Mendel Rivers of South Carolina gets a special Air Force plane free, almost whenever he asks for it, to take him back to Charleston, S. C, for weekends. 5. Top Navy admirals used spec ial planes to fly to Puerto Rico last month to mingle with Navy lobbyists at the annual Navy Lea gue Jamboree. Yet tho White House kicks fif teen photographers and reporters who want to pay their fares, off the presidential trip to Europe on the grounds of economy. Wives are Boss At a bull session of the Federal Communications Commission, the men who regidatc radio-TV sta tions recently were confessing how they themselves are subject to their wives. "Who is the boss In your house?" Commissioner Robert Lee demanded of Commissioner Rosel Hyde. "My wife," Hyde said without Barbs The majority of new cars travel about the same two or three months on credit. It seems that everything but criminals Is blamed for crime. It'll be a natural American boy who goes barefoot, stubs his toe and gets stone bruises this sum mer. After crack-up it's the road hog who does the most squealing. The Bulletin Monday, Juna 10, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Clre. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Moch. Sup't. William A. Yatet, Managing Ed. "''rut so.na cms Mailer. Jar-nary . ml. at the fv.it utile at Bend, utopm. ?? L i -i1. M"'II 1 lS,i- Pul,i'! dU cei Sunday and certain hoti.iai ta Ti Hand Bulletin. Inc. the upswing. Most mills are sold out through mid-August on gal vanized sheets, through July on wide plates and cold rolled sheets, through July on wide plates and cold rolled sheets, and through June on hot rolled items. S Another Climb Major service center distributors say their May shipments were 10 per cent higher than April's and they're predicting a similar up trend this month. Steel said since orders have passed their peak, emphasis has been on mill shipments. Customers are pushing as hard as ever for quick delivery, a clear indication that they have not overbuilt their inventories. May shipments topped April's by six to eight per cent but should have fceen higher. Steel said they were held down to some extent by shortages of trucks and freight cars. Steelmakers expect June ship ments to surpass last month's by five per cent. They figure "car ryovers" from May will offset any deferments of tonnage from June to July. Steel production appears to be topping out around 85 per cent of unofficial ingot capacity. The mag azine estimates production last week reached 2,609,000 net tons and looks for output this week to be about the same. Scrap prices slipped $2.00 a gross ton to $25.83, lowest since the week ending December 5. lot on who junkets hesitation, "In my house, I am the boss," boasted Commissioner Lee. "And my wife has authorized me to say so." Wheat-Cotton Axis If you want to see whether there's going to be a wheat bill or not, watch the joint operations of Senators Milt Young, the North Dakota Republican, and Dick Russell, the Georgia Democrat, together with Lister Hill, the Ala bama Democrat. Though they come from opposite parts of the USA and belong to different po litical parties, they follow a very similar vote pattern. In Senate cloakrooms, their co operation is called the wheat-cotton axis. The North Dakotan sticks with Russell and Hill on cotton while the Georgia and Alabama senators stick with Young on wheat. It doesn't make any difference what the Secretary of Agriculture says, they can us ually call the time when it comes to the two great stable farm com modities of the USA. Much of their power derives from the fact that all three are members of the Appropriations Committee for Agriculture, and can pass appropriations bills af fecting farmers. Or they retali ate against other appropriations bills favored by senators who don't vote for wheat and cotton. Fishy Ambassador When President Kennedy turn ed up at the big birthday dinner in New York the other day, he bumped into his new ambassador for fish, former Sen. Bon Smith of Massachusetts. With Uiem was Sen. Warren Magnuson, D-Wash., chief fish champion of the Senate, and the man who persuaded Kennedy to appoint a special ambassador to protect the fishing industry in its problems with Ecuador, Japan, and the Soviet. Ambassador Smith, an old friend of Kennedy's, was looking elegant in white tie and tails. "What are you doing there?" joked the President. "Why aren't you down at the Fulton Fish Mar ket with your fishing togs on?" Early next morning Ambas sador Smith telephoned to say that he was at the Fulton Fish Mar ket. Note: Smith's No. 1 problem is probably going to be with Can ada. A few days after the salubri ous conference between JFK and new Prime Minister Lester Pearson, the Canadian govern ment banned all American fishing boats within the 12-mile limit The administration is trying to play down this fishing crisis, but it could become as important as the Bomarc missile argument be tween Kennedy and ex-P rime Minister Diefenbaker. The United States claims American fisher men have the right to fish within three miles of the Canadian coast, in other words up to the inter national boundary. Canada is now cutting the old prohibition boun dary fixed under the Hoover ad ministration by which the United States claimed the right to stop and search foreign vessels up to 12 miles offshore. i c?- -xk Red-blooded Americans on Oregon Ave. in Capital say 'nyet' to Communists By A. Robert Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON The most heated East-West dispute in Wash ington at the moment finds the Soviets backing down a bit, while the red-blooded American resi dents of Oregon Avenue here are shouting "nyet!" to a small scale attempt at Communist expansion ism in the western hemisphere. The issue is whether Russia should be allowed to relocate its embassy from downtown Wash ington. 33 blocks up 16th Street from the White House, to a 15 acre estate on Oregon Avenue on the fringe of the District of Co lumbia five miles from down town. The Chevy Chase Citizens Association, whose members live in the area, are up in arms against it. The State Department wants to accommodate the Russians. This is not, as the John Birchers might suspect, a sell-out of American citizens by diplomats who are soft on communism. It is internation al back-scratching designed to se cure better quarters in Moscow for the cramped American em bassy. The decision is up to a local Washington zoning board, for an embassy chancery (office) is le gally an office building which cannot enter a residential neigh borhood without permission. If the Soviets get their permit, they would tear down the exist ing Tudor mansion on the estate Sis J t AW ' PT State lawmakers cause ripple when they decide to chop back on civil defense Editors note: The 141-day 1961 legislature cried, laughed, joked and prayed together. It was a session that had its sentations, successes and failures. Fifth of six. By Zan Stark and Ann H. Pearson UPI Staff Writers Salem (UPI) Oregon created a national ripple when it became the first state in the nation to turn against civil defense. "Oregon can lead the nation In having the guts to abandon a pro gram of digging holes in the ground," Sen. Ted Hallock, D Portland, urged as the Senate voted to strip the 18-man agency to a 3-member coordinating staff. Gov. Mark Hatfield promised a "bare knuckle" fight to save CD, but could not enlist public sup port. The months-long battle was fa tally unnerving to local CD out posts. Portland abolished its civil defense organization. Others served notice they would do so too. Legislators said the slate CD organization was helpless during the Columbus Day storm. They called CD a "do nothing" agency. House Speaker Clarence Barton accused Hatfield of flouting legis ts. wt .t "T - J Other pens . . . Braceros The action of Congress in chop ping off the bracero procurement program as of December 31 caught California by surprise. Mexican field labor has been an important factor in the state's mammoth fruit and vegetable harvest for many years. The bra cero program has provided a sup plementary labor source that was valuable in the war years. However, despite grower sup port, the program has been under increasing attack recently. The persistence of unemployment in many U.S. areas generated pres sures to bar seasonal labor im portation. There is still a chance that the bracero program will be revived and extended for another year. But it is doubtful if growers can count on braceros for many more years, judging by the temper of Congress. Can the multi-million-dollar Cal ifornia harvest be garnered by domestic labor? The growers say few American workers will accept so-called "stoop labor" jobs in the crops. Labor union officials counter with charges that U.S. labor does not receive the benefits Mexican workers get such as housing, transportation to work, and place ment scheduling to assure rela tively steady employment. (These benefits are likely to be required for Americans in any revived bracero legislation.) It is pointed out that only 7.000 of California's lOO.nno truck crop operators now employ braceros. The rest employ domestic help or harvest mechanically. However, the largest growers are number ed among the 7.000 who use im ported help. It now seems inevitable that the fruit and truck crop industry must plan to operate without supple mental Mexican labor sometime soon. If it develops after trial that sufficient American help is not available, given the same job con ditions as braceros. the growers should have little opposition in petitioning Congress for a new bracero program adequate to their needs. (Los Angeles Times.) Capital -Rcporf : '':' and put up a 150-room, $2 million, four-story structure. The Citizens Association claims its members can't co-exist with this sort of thing because it would bring a commercial use into one of the city's lovliest residential areas, in terfering with tho low-lying sky line of the area, creating distur bances due to traffic, and who knows what else. All the persuasive power of the Stato Department hasn't budged them or pried a permit out of the zoning board since the dispute bet gan two months ago. So the Russians have offered to back their chancery 20 feet down the hill and to trim four feet off the height. They will also pull in the width by 36 feet and screen it with shrubbery. Already one public hearing has been held by the zoning board, and another is scheduled on the compromise plan in June. The So viets are reportedly dismayed over the power of a handful of voteless citizens to block their move. The Russians aren't the only ones with embassy troubles. The recent increase in the number of new nations has forced the chan cery issue upon many residen tial neighborhoods in Washington. And since many are African na tions, the question is tinged with racial undertones in instances where the Africans have applied for a site in an all-white neigh borhood. lative intent when he learned work had started on a $36,000 CD headquarters in the Capitol base ment. Workmen today were scurrying to complete the huge offices be fore the end of the month when the present CD appropriation ends. Variety Of Sensations The session was highlighted by a variety of sensations. The Senate and House petulant ly demanded the governor discon nect the speaker in his office which allowed him to tune in on floor debate. The legislature replaced worn out typewriters with new electric models, and stirred charges of .excessive spending. The controversial three - way workmen's compensation bill was so viciously lobbied that legiti mate lobbyists were embarrassed. Senators used their "remon strance" period to blister the gov ernor. Hatfield countered on his televised "Report to the People." Barton and Senate President Ben Musa inaugurated a daily press conference. The mother of athletic star Ter ry Baker testified in favor of a Sunday closing law. The measure drew the biggest crowds of the session before it was killed in committee. Trains stopped while the rail road brotherhoods came to Salem to score a grand slam victory when the legislature refused to throw out the full crew law. A newsman was subpoenaed to describe the 16 executions he had witnessed in the gas chamber. An expected emotional impact on consideration of anti-death penalty bills was removed when two exe cutions scheduled during the ses sion were stayed. Rules Fights Barton and Rep. Joe Rogers. R Independence, fought over rules throughout the session, sometimes generating anger, sometimes laughter. Daylight saving time an explo sive issue two years ago caused hardly a ripple when lawmakers voted to extend it to the end of October. H awaii ACROSS (I Mouths 1 Hawaiian island change 5 Hawaiian food ' "m"S 8 Island in Hawaii 12 Coarse stock (law) 9 English feed musician 30 Employer 3 1 Followers 19 Man's nickname 21 Electrical conductor 24 Portico 13 Vase 14 Formerly 15 Lubricates 16 Haaleoed 17 Dirk 18 Calming 20 Possessors 22 Letter ot alphabet 23 Contend 24 Fitted tire 27 Conflict 28 Dye group 31 Amphibian 32 Festival 33 Tear 34 Choose 35 Learned 36 Girl's name 37 Tree 38 Emmet 39Wakiki 40 Anger 41 Hawaiian garland 42 New ly w eds 45 Followed 49 Oriental food 50 Boy's nickname 52 Encourage 53 Willow genus 54 Self-love 5 Guard bar Nobleman 57 Lair 53 Otherwise DOWN 1 Woodwind 2 Melody 3 Dutch painter 4 Not treated, as paper 5 Let rid of 2o Beer flavoring 26 Solemn auirniauoH 27 Direction 28 Plane surface 29 Metal 30 Colored fish of Atlantic NEW SPATER The German and Dutch govern ments are building new chancer ies in fashionable residential areas, but they diplomatically avoided trouble by inviting their new neighbors in to talk about their plans. Maybe they even add ed a few names to their social invitation list. Sen. J. William Fulbrlght, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants to ban further embassy encroachment. He is sore because the French embassy, which is next door to his home, is planning a new office, building. The argument against compell ing the embassies to remain in commercial buildings downtown is that this is more expensive property, perhaps too dear for the newer nations. Fulbright'i answer is direct: "We pay for most of the chanceries anyway through foreign aid." This argu ment can't be made for the Rus sians. Basically, the problem Is due to a long-standing mistake in not following L'Enfant's original plan for Washington, which envisioned developing Embassy Row along the Mall, that broad grassy sweep from the Capitol to the Washing ton Monument. This would have pleased virtually everyone, espec ially Congress, perched up on Cap itol Hill where it could look down on the foreigners. That is still the preferred angle of vision of many congressmen. There was the drama - packed moment when House members stood in silent prayer after learn ing astronaut L. Gordon Cooper would have to use manual con trols to end his 22-orbit flight. The Camp Withycombe scandal got a thorough going-over which resulted in a revision of the Na tional Guard's budget and ac counting procedures. A legislative favorite a bill to restrict trading stamps came to life in mid-session, drew moder ate crowds at hearings, then died in committee. v Humor attached itself to a bill to allow counties to regulate stray cats. The bill was the butt of jokes from every quarter. But cat lovers didn't think it was funny, and authored a flood of letters objecting to the levity shown by legislators who were still chuck ling as they voted the measure into law. My NkktMwl W'nrtfi "When men differ In opinion, both (ides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Senior High student get commendation To the Editor: The Bend Senior High Scnool has been using some of the facil ities of the First Presbyterian Church for the school year just concluded. On behalf of the con gregation, I would like to take this opportunity to commend the Senior High students involved in the classes here. We were most pleased with the way these stu dents conducted themselves. We would like to take this op portunity to express our appre ciation to these young people. Sincerely, Leroy Rhodes, Clerk of Session First Presbyterian Church Bend, Oregon, June 6, 1963 32 Won by stratagem 42 Type of cheese 4o Feminine appellation 44 Froster 46 Soviet rreer 47 Shield 35 Merchandise 3$ Time for relaxation 39 "Big 40 L topian 4 Cancel 41 Hawaiian fniil 51 Time period Answer to Prerloue Punte sis esRBraattHsEJH 1 I2 3 I 5 Z H I IS 19 110 111 !2 i7 H i3 iM r? 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