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Possibility of another world war faces
the third American generation in row
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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
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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.
When the session ended the en
tire focus of attention shifted ta
the governor's office.
The pressure won't be off until
June 26, the legal deadline for
action.
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