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Countdown nil 4pf&, ... "i- J -V-V ishinton Merry-go -round Possibility of another world war faces the third American generation in row r " Our whole population is growing older, not Just Central Oregon's A Bend resident complains about the community's economic climate, "it is, she said, so hard for young '.I persons to find jobs here that the population characteristics of the town (and the rest of Central Ore- gon, too for that matter) were ' changing rapidly. A large chunk of ; the population here, she said, is now over 65 years of age. ' And it's true. A larger portion J of the population not only of ; Central Oregon, but of all the United States Is over 65 than was the case even as short a time ago as I ten years. And it's true smaller t communities have, at first glance at least, fewer economic and job op- portunltles than many larger cities. : This assumes more importance than " ordinary because of the mobile nature of our population locally and nationally. Back in 1900, in the United States only one person out of 25 was 65 or older. The population of Bend at the time was about 15 per sons. So far as can be determined, none of them were 65 or over. Crook county, which at the time en compassed the areas which now are included In Deschutes and Jefferson, had fewer than 4,000 persons. If , the national average held true, about 160 were over the age of 65. Nationally, one out of each 11 persons now is 65 or over. Lots of things have led to this increase. One major factor Is considerably better medical care. Some illnesses which were major killers only a few years ago have been licked by var ious vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical treatment. Surgery has ad vanced, and the man who probably would have died of injuries suffered when bucked off a horse in 1900 now lives after being smashed up fnr mom badlv in an auto accident. Better public health measures have eliminated, or practically elimi nated, a number of killers. Another factor has been machine improvement. Machinery of 60 years ago was far more dangerous to op erate than the machinery of today. All these things have increased the life span. It is inevitable that more and more persons live past the age of 65. The percentage of aged persons is higher in small, relatively isolated communities all over the country, and is not smaller here. Smaller towns draw more than the average number of retired persons. More of their young people go to bigger cities, where a man- can leave a job on Friday night and be at work in a new one on Monday morning with far more ease than he can in a small er community. There are no more jobs available in the big city, per thousand of population, but the total is high because of the larger popula tion. To a man who may want to change jobs at some time in the future, it's comforting to know there may be several places to seek other work. Factors such as these have led to a higher average age among the population of Eastern Oregon as a whole than among the population of Portland, for example. One of each ten persons in Eastern Oregon Is 65 or older. The figure is supposed to reach one of each 12 by 1980. It's a changing world in which we live, and characteristics of our population are going to change with it. There is nothing In the figures to indicate Bend, or any other place in Central Oregon, is going to hell in a handbasket any faster than the rest of the country. Attention, track nuts For those who have been Inter ested in track times and distances throughout the spring, hero are some samples taken from two Cali fornia high school leagues, not even necessarily the top leagues in that State: high jump, 6 feet, 8'a inches; mile run, 4:17.9; 880 yard run, 1:52.8; 120 yard high hurdles, 13.9; pole vault, 14 feet, 8'a inches; 180 yard low hurdles, :18.8; 100 yard dash, 9.5 seconds. Long tradition, plus good competition, plus top-grade coaching, plus Unexcelled training conditions still make California the hotbed of schoolboy track and field. End of a long career Formal announcement has been made of the impending retirement '- of Olive Jameson, for the past 28 Z- years administrator of the Des- chutes County Public Welfare Com - mission. It is the end of a long I', career of high-grade public service. Z. Miss Jameson has not pleased every- one with the job she has done. That -Inconsistent? The Oregon Education Associa-J- tlon has stated the group's disagree ment with some other teacher groups in moving down the road I toward trade unionism. Particularly ; criticised was a New York teacher organization which called for rather militant action, including strikes where teacher pay demands were not met Yet the OEA now reports it has T hired a staff member for the purpose . of assisting teachers to negotiate contracts with school boards would have been impossible, and she knew it. But she performed her duties well and faithfully, within the framework of directions from the commission and the statutes, and with sympathy and compassion for those with whose assistance she was charged. throughout Oregon. One must pre sume the main object of negotia tions assisted by the OEA staffer is more money. Secondary objectives would probably be shorter hours, better working conditions, and more employer-paid fringes. This, it would appear, is just the sort of function a trade union performs for its members. Is the OEA being Inconsistent, decrying trade unionism on the one hand and practicing it on the other? By Drew Pearson (Editor's Not Drew Pear, ton's column today takes tha form of a letttr to his tldtst grand: on, Drtw Arnold.) Washington, D.C. June 11, 1963 Dear Grandson, I have just come back from the class reunion at Swarthmore that you weren't able to attend. You were probably right In not com ing, because my friends were much too old for you, though they would have enjoyed meeting you. I had to make a speech before my old classmates, which is al ways hard to do, because they know you so well. But before I made it, I looked up some rec ords of what was going on when I was in college just at the end of World War I. And since these are things you may have to worry about some day, I thought I would write you about them. Looking through the college pa per, The Phoenix, which I edited, I found in the issue of June 9, 1919, a letter from a student, in the Army, William Tomlinson, written from St. Nazaire, France. "There seems to have been some friction between U.S. sold iers and French civilians," he said. "A small riot took place during which some Americans and more Frenchmen were shot. Negro stevedores from the quart ermasters office do all the loading on the docks and French civilians can't get jobs." The letter reminded me that to day, 44 years later and after a Second World W.ar, we are still having problems with France, though the Negro problem has moved back to the United States. I also read in the same issue of the college newspaper: "Professor William I. Hull returned from his trip abroad working with the Peace Conference, May 31. Dr. Hull will only say that in his opin ion there are in the peace treaty trm . .. js.- -x.ua 33 good points and 39 bad pointes . . .the treaty must be amended, or the 39 bad points cut out." Prof. Hull was a Quaker teach er of history who used to teach me, and what he predicted turned out to be too true. The peace treaty, signed after World I, fail ed. We fought another war, and we are now trying to make the second peace treaty work. If we can't make it work, you and oth er boys of your age may find yourselves fighting a third war one which you had nothing to do with bringing on, but which you will have to fight anyway sim ply because your fathers and grandfathers were pot sufficiently diligent and far-sighted. I also read in this Issue of the college paper a reference to the manner in which my roommate, Russell Terradell of Trenton, N. J., had both legs and an arm shot away in the battle of the Argonne when "going over the top" against fiendish enemy artillery fire. That was a type of almost hand-to-hand fighting with rifles and bayonets in which not many men were killed, though the savagery of the killing was terrible. If the fathers and grandfathers of today let the children of the next generation in for another war, there will be no hand-to-hand fighting between men trained to fight. Instead people who know nothing about war, including wom en and children who had nothing to do with bringing on war, will be slaughtered wholesale. Because the weapons will not be the old-fashioned rifles that I trained with, but nuclear bombs which will lay waste whole cities and poison the atmosphere of con tinents. This is not a very happy thing to write about to a boy in high school. Perhaps you should have come with me to the class reunion so as to have cheered me up. Nevertheless these are things we Capital Report Forest products industry appears to have won fight By A. Robert Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON - The forest products industry has apparently won its campaign against a tax increase under the Kennedy ad ministration's tax revision pro posals. The House Ways and Means Committee, in the process of drafting a big new tax bill, has killed the administration's idea for a sharp cutback in the capi tal gains allowance on timber sales one of the most beneficial features of the federal tax laws for many companies in the for estry products field since World War II. Under a tax law adopted in . 1944, companies selling timber paid taxes on its increased val uation at the capital gains rate of 25 per cent. This year the Treas ury Department proposed elimi nating this low rate and taxing such profits as ordinary income, either at the much higher person al income rate or the prevail ing corporate tax rate which is currently 52 per cent. The Treasury figured this change would cost industry and benefit the government by $90 million. $75 million from corpora tions in the lumber, paper and plywood businesses and $15 mil lion from Individual timber own ers. Treasury officials claimed present law helped the large corp orations chiefly, such as Wey erhaeuser which paid at a rate of 27 per cent in 19151, Georgia-Pacific which paid 28 per cent and U.S. Plywood paid 30 per cent. During hearings on tho tax bill before the Ways and Means Com mittee, industry witnesses stress ed that good conservation prac tices, such as the growth of pri vate tree farms, were possible only under capital gains treat ment. They said a change would be detrimental to this long-range effort at providing new timber supplies and that many corpora tions would simply cut and get out. The Forest Service backed up the general contentions of the for est products industry in a report subsequently made to the Treas ury Department but never made public, according to Rep. Al L'U man, D-Ore.. the Northwest rep resentative on the Ways and Means Committee. "Treasury admitted its position was not sound." said Ullman, "after the Forest Service said its proposal would seriously affect re forestation." ' As tentatively approved by the committee, explained Congress man Ullman, timber owned by an individual would continue to get the same capital gains treatment as the present law provides, un less he has owned it for over three years. This means that owned by an individual and sold under contract or used in a business after being held from six months to three years would be computed as fol lows: half the gain in that capi tal asset would be added to the individual's taxable personal in come but it could not be taxed at a higher rate than the 25 per cent capital gains level. If the person holds the timber over three years, only 30 per cent of the gain need be added to the person's taxable personal income and it could be taxed at no more than 19',4 per cent. Ullman said the theory of this change is that the committee ex pects it to stimulate the economy by giving tax incentives for prop erty owners to sell capital assets that are not currently being uti lized. While these decisions by the committee only affect individual holdings, Ullman said it is vir tually certain that tho rate for corporations won't be changed. This means that while the tax bill won't increase tax rates, neither will it reduce the capital gains maximum level from 25 to 22 per cent, as Kennedy request ed. "I don't believe the committee will make that change," Ullman said. "It would be too much of a bonanza for big corporations." Treasury officials had said big corporations gained chiefly from the present law. They reported that of 7,000 firms which shared in $77.7 million in capital pains in 1961. 20 big corporations divided $47 million of It. Tragedy takes 13th victim ESCALANTE, Utah UPI -The 13th victim of the Escalante scouting expedition disaster died Wednesday night in a Panguitch, Utah, hospital, raising the toll to seven Boy Scouts and six adults. Marvin Porchalis, 29. Salt Lake City, died after remaining in cri tical condition since the tracedy 35 miles southwrst of here Mon day afternoon. have to face. However, I am not as discour aged as I sound for this rea son: War has become so horrible that the strongest nations Rus sia and the United States are worried about it and the respon sible leaders are leaning over backward to avoid it. As you know, I have talked to Premier Khrushchev about these problems and I reported after I saw him that I was convinced he did not want war. One year later at the time he withdrew his mis siles from Cuba, it seemed to me he demonstrated that fact. I have also talked to President Kennedy and he once said: "I don't want history to record that Kennedy and Khrushchev set the world on fire with atomic war." I know that Kennedy means this, and this week he made a very important speech bearing this out by pledging not to test any more nuclear weapons in the atmosphere if other rations also refrained. He also reminded the American people that Russia and the United States have never op posed each other on the battle field which a lot of Americans have forgotten. I also read in the college paper of June 9, 1919, a tribute by the class valedictorian to the mem bers of our class killed in battle and a plea not to let them down. To that end, we adopted as our class motto: "Carry on." Unfortunately we did let them down. We did not "carry on." We let the world drift into anoth er horrible war. and the big ques tion today is whether we will let the victims of World War II and the potential victims of World War III down again. These are not happy things to think about, but they have to be thought about. We cannot run away from thorn. I shall write to you about them again. Love, Your Grandfather Conservation victory seen WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Sen ate Interior Committee Wednes day recommended passage of a bill introduced by Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, R-Calif., for preservation of the Tulelake Wildlife Refuge on the Oregon-California border. Approval of the Kuchel bill in stead of a. bill by Sen. Clair En gle, D-Calif., was viewed as a vic tory for conservationists. The bill was amended to in clude language specifying that the present pattern of land leasing for farming operations might be continued. But Kuchel said the amendment would not weaken ad ministration of the land "for the major purpose of waterfowl management." Tub Bulletin Thursday, June 13, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Jack McDtrmott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers. Clre. Manager Loran E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates. Managing Ed. Wwtrt at IW.! CiaM Mailer. January 1 191T. at the P..W Otnea at be-M. oreeft. icr a.-. ... ...B.n rwuww oaigr except ainoajr and cartas ackMJia bjr The Hertd BuliaUn. tnc i WaBffimriiTfn'rrtMfl Mv Nickel's Worth The Bulletin wlm rnntrlhutlnns In this column from lu miliars. Let ter mint contain tha correct name and address of tlie sender, which may ha withheld nt the newspaper's dis cretion, letters mar be edited to enn form to the dlnscUves of taste and style Writer says some other answer needed To the Editor: This will be quite brief, as was your comment in the June 10 is sue entitled, "Senseless 'Fun'." I feel it was somewhat unjust to connect the Shevlin Park tragedy to graduation weekend, especial ly when the people principally in volved had been out of school at least a year. Obviously those in volved were not drinking because they were indulging in the "fun" celebrated after reaching the "magic mark." Admittedly, a ma jority of ex-seniors drank, but this does not justify blaming the death of a young man on gradua tion night. The drinking problem of Bend youth can't be isolated to a sin pie weekend or a single cause. It is a problem even,' weekend and must be dealt with as such. Just over-organizing certain events won't eliminate future tra gedies: I wish it could be that easy. Some other answer will have to he found. Sincerely yours, Judi Skorpcn Bend, Orepon, June 10, 1963 Flaws in society draw criticism To the Editor: I sympathize with Sam Swain and agree with the comments he made in his letter to the editor. The creative thinkers of this na tion's younger generation must go through tremendous mental tur moil while maturing into adults, especially if they are growing in to adults who refuse to be humbly obedient to the security orienta ted mores of society. There are some tremendous flaws in our society as exempli fied by the racial problem and the high incidence of divorces. Many of our future leaders are dispiisted by these hypocrisies, and 1 hope they will strive to modify ard to improve our de caying culture. Walter Meyer Bond. Orepon, June 12, 3 Southern move to block Kennedy huffs and puffs into dead end By Lylt C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer The Southern segregationist ef fort to prevent President Ken nedy's re - election by offering Southern voters slates of un pledged presidential electors in the one-time Solid South has huf fed and puffed itself into a dead end- ... Alabama and Mississippi will have slates of unpledged electors. Georgia may have an unpledged slate at the will of the state Dem ocratic organization. But the proj ect was voted down last week in Louisiana and seems to have run out of gas in Florida. Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi have 10, 12 and 7 electors, respectively. The device of the unpledged slates of presidential electors is designed to prevent the Electoral College from casting a majority vote for President. That could happen if the total electoral vote were split three ways. There are 538 votes in the Electoral College. The bare majority sufficient to elect is 270 votes. Up To Housa The U.S. Constitution provides that the President shall be elect ed by the House of Representa tives when the Electoral College is unable to elect. The Constitu tion also provides that if the question should reach the House, each state shall cast only one vote. Southerners have been dreaming and hoping for such a presidential election in which their states would possess a bal ance of power. If all of the Mississippi, Ala bama and Georgia electors were unpledged next year, they could be withheld from or cast for the candidate of either major party. If the major candidates split the remaining 515 electoral votes about evenly, it is obvious that the major candidate who could attract most or all of the 23 un- pledged votes would be elected President. - That was a pretty dream while it lasted. Some of the supporten of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) had been enjoying that dream. Their dream was that th unpledged elector device would enable Southern conservatives to cast a vote for Goldwater without actually voting for a slate of Re publican presidential electors. And it did seem reasonable to be lieve that Southerners who went to a lot of trouble to elect un pledged electors would not there after permit those electors to as sure Kennedy's re-election. Must Campaign -Whatever merit there may have been in the theory that a conservative Republican would be the ultimate beneficiary of tha unpledged elector strategy, tha thing remains wholly theoretical. If the Republican nominee for President hopes next year to ob tain major support in the South, he will have to go into the South ern states and campaign for their support. If Goldwater finally decide ta seek the Republican nomination he will be expected to make a pre-convention campaign in tha South. As a conservative Repub lican he surely will do that. Tha late Sen. Robert A. Taft always sought conservative convention delegate strength in the South. The collapse of the unpledged elector ploy will add to the pres sure on Repubican politicians to come soon to a frank, firm and public announcement of race re lations policy. This will be pres sure on individual Republicans more than on the party as such. The party speaks with 1,000 voices and confuses policy, ac cordingly. Individuals, however, can speak clearly and the tima is running out on all hands to speak up. Telegrams, calls, letters pour in to Hatfield office By Zan Stark UPI Staff Writar SALEM (UPI) Pressure to approve or reject measures ap proved by the 1963 legislature is now focused on the governor's office. The governor's staff is buried under an avalanche of telegrams, telephone calls, letters and per sonal visits. During the record 141-day ses sion, the legislature approved - about 650 measures. While the session was on, the governor had five days in which to take action. Gov. Mark Hatfield now has un til June 26 to act. He already had vetoed two bills, and let five become law without signature. By mid-Wednesday he had sign ed 485 measures. He still had about 165 on which to act Barbs It's tough enough for a man to have a financial failure with out having to seek out new friends. It's funny how much easier it Is to sleep just when it's tima to get up. No salesman can put a new hat on your head and make it feel as good as it does when you put it on yourself. In poker tha joker may ba wild and in bridge a husband. Hatfield has three choices. Ha can veto a bill, he can sign it, or he can file it without signa ture with the secretary of state. There is no "pocket veto" In Oregon. The governor has to veto a measure to kill It If ha signs a measure, or files it with tha secretary of state without signa ture, it becomes law. Bills without the emergency clause or a special effective data become law on Sept. 2, the 90th day after tha legislature's ad journment. Warne Nunn, Hatfield's execu tive assistant; Travis Cross, tha governor's press secretary, and legal counsel Loren Hicks wada through the bills. Nunn and Cross keep track of the phone calls, letters and tele grams, and attempt to schedule appointments for those who want to talk to the governor. Hicks makes a last legal review and complete summary of tha bills. He prepares a statement for and against each measure before it is sent on to the governor's desk for final consideration. It's a slow process. The legisla ture adjourned 10 days ago, but some 77 bills still hadn't been sent up to the governor's office. They were being printed, or were waiting signature by Senate President Ben Musa, or Housa Speaker Clarence Barton. While the legislature was in ses sion, tho individual lawmakers took the brunt of lobbying for and against various proposals. 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