The Bulletin., July 18, 1963, Page 4, Image 4

Man's reach should exceed his grasp-
Canadians exploit Saturday's eclipse;
U.S. medics caution of eye damage
Poor old Ho and Hsi would be
far more confused if they lived in
the present instead of some 4,000
years ago.
I They were Chinese astronomers,
and they failed to forecast a total
eclipse in 2137 B.C. that left most of
China in darkness. When it appeared
that a dragon was devouring the
Oriental sun, Chinese swarmed
through streets, beating drums and
Imploring the sun-eater to lay off.
Immediately the two astronomers
were called on the royal carpet, and
ordered beheaded.
If the star savants lived today
they would have no worries about
the 1963 eclipse it is an event
that has been timed to the Second
and Its narrow track across the earth
from Japan through Alaska and
Canada to Maine traced. ;
, faced the astronomers this Satur
day, July 20, is whether to look at
the sun, or not to look.
Thousands are moving Into the
eclipse path of totality across Can
ada, for a look at the moon slowly
rolling eastward across the face of
the sun just as the jaws of the
mythical dragon closed in on the
solar orb to the horror of the ancient'
Chinese.
Motels and inns in the path of
the eclipse are booked solid. Ells
worth, Me., will start its week-long
200th birthday with the crowning
of a bicentennial queen when the
shadow begins to steal across the
face of the sun.
The state of Maine expects
100,000 extra tourists and a $10 mil
lion shot in the summer season arm
as the result of man's curiosity
and Maine's cooperation. The Astro-
Zippers more helpful here
Editorial writers on the Eugene
Register-Guard and the Medford
Mail Tribune recently engaged in
an experiment to determine just
what would happen if a letter were
mailed using only the new ZIP code
..following the address of the pro-
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and state. The city and slate desig
nations, they reasoned, have become
superfluous with the adoption of ZIP
-codes, which in themselves are more
"precise designations.
Following this line of reasoning,
the man In Medford addressed a let
ter to his fellow in Eugene. On the
envelope he put the man's name,
the name of the newspaper, and the
ZIP code. On another letter he
placed the name, name of the news
paper, and the name of the city and
state. The second letter was de
livered promptly. The first was "re
turned for better address."
One of the fellows who writes
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trigued by the report. He tried the
same thing, addressing a postcard
to the Eugene man, and using the
ZIP code instead of the city and
state designation.
It was delivered promptly the
next morning, without being return
ed to the sender for a more complete
address.
But there was one difference.
A helpful citizen, employed in
the Bend Post Office, carefully
erased part of the address, inserted
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nomical League is to hold its annual
convention at the University , of
Maine, to get a good view of the
eclipse.
Scientists will be stationed
along the Canadian trail of dark
ness, and an Air Force plane will
carry an astronomer at 1000 miles
an hour in the path of the eclipse,
to provide more observing time.
While Canadians are making a
"spectacular" out of the total eclipse
as a tourist attraction, medical men
and eye specialists south of the
border are gravely warning would
be sun watchers not to look skyward.
They say there is no safe? way to
look directly at the sun. They stress
that even dark glasses and photo
graph negatives do not stop the
damaging infra-red rays which
actually burn the retina and cause
partial or complete blindness.
Vision specialists say the best
way is for amateurs to project the
sun's rays on a white card with a
lens or even a pinhole in a piece
of cardboard, and watch the eclipse
on a white card. Children should
have adult supervision.
Another safe way to see the
eclipse, say the medical men, is to
watch it on television.
Actually, a partial eclipse of the
sun is of little interest merely
the slow passage of the moon in
front of the sun. For astronomers,
however, a total eclipse is of great
scientific interest, particularly in
connection with the study of the
corona, the zodiacal light and the
"bending" of the sun's rays.
It will be well to leave the ob
servation of the eclipse to the astronomers.
the name of the city and state, and
then put the ZIP code at the end.
The whole thing still makes
ZIP codes look sort of silly. But the
Bend Post Office surely must get
some sort of pat on the back for
being so darned helpful to its lazy
patrons.
Quotable quotes
What I am interested in, is see
ing both bills enacted before the
end of the year. President Ken
nedy, indicating he did not much
care which bill, civil rights or taxes,
Democratic leaders scheduled first
for legislative action.
I don't know what my plans
are. Singer Eddie Fisher, denying
rumors he would marry New York
model Renata Boeck.
I guess I'm getting better now.
Miss U.S.A., Marita Ozers, recall
ing that she was runnerup in a Chi
cago beauty contest two years ago.
They tricked lis. If necessary,
we will picket the homes of individ
ual board members. We'll follow
them to dinner and we'll follow
them to church. The Rev. Elton
Cox. a CORE field secretary, charg
ing that the Chicago Board of Edu
cation broke an agreement with
racial demonstrators by blocking a
sit-in at a conference room.
Senator embarrassed by
fast action on request
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Senator John
Pastore of Rhode Island is the
son of Italian immigrants who has
proved that " democracy really
works In the United States by be
ing elected governor of his state,
then the first Italo American
ever to reach the Senate. He is a
modest, hard-working Democrat,
doesn't throw his weight around
but can jump down the throat of
a fellow senator when necessary.
He tackled Sen. Strom Thurmond
when the South Carolinian was
heckling CBS President Frank
Stanton and almost blew him out
of the Senate hearing room.
The senator from Rhode Island
is also an adoring father, and the
, other day telephoned the white
House to get his pretty daughter
Frances a summer job in the gov
ernment in order to further her
study of political science at Mary
mount College, New York.
As a result Frances, aged 19,
found herself with a $72 a week
clerical job with AID at a desk in
Annex I. an old building near the
State Department. This was not a
bad salary for a summer job of
two to three months, but it didn't
fit into Frances' Ideas on study
ing political science. She was un
happy. Frances has been keeping house
for her father during the sum
mer, and that evening told him
about the new job. Next day, Sen.
Pastore called the White House
again to sec if Frances couldn't
get a less isolated assignment.
Apparently he didn't realize
what a call from him could do.
But as a member of the Senate
Appropriations Committee Pas
tore votes the money for foreign
aid and foreign aid is under heavy
attack.
At any rate, AID offices react
ed and vigorously.
Frances soon found herself in
the shiny new State Department
building, replacing Mrs. Clarine
Asbell, a $114 a week reception
ist. "My, that was an awful old
building." Frances said after ar
riving in the State Department.
Frances's salary remained the
same $72, and Mrs. Asbell did not
take a cut, but she has been mov
ed to another desk where she
serves as a kind of utility em
ployee, filling in for other person-
Baath Party rivaling Nasser
UAR ideology in Syria, Iraq
By Ray J. Moloney
UPI Staff Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD Signs
have appeared of a possible ris
ing tide against the Baath party
control in Syria and Iraq, both
locked in a bitter ideological
conflict with U.A.R.'s President
Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Svria is now deep in a political
crisis which has seen its Baath
government maneuver repeatedly
to avoid an open clash with the
non-Baa thists.
Iraq recently announced t he
crushing of "a vile Communist
plot," but the reports reaching
here indicate that the plotters
were by no means only Commu
nist. In both Iraq and Syria observ
ers believe the trouble stems
from Baath Insistence on placing
Its own men however inexper
ienced in key positions.
This policy is claimed to be fos
tering a steadily increasing anti
Baath attitude in the civil serv
ice and the armed forces, where
seniority has sometimes been ig
nored. Had Strong Following
The Syrian crisis began last
month with a Baathist bid to clip
the wings of Defense Minister
Ziad Al Hariri, a man with a
strong personal following in the
army, by transferring abroad or
discharging a number of his close
army associates.
Hariri battled the move bit
terly. Hut the National Revolutionary
Council stripped Hariri of his
post and sent him to European
exile July 8.
The failure of the Baatii to
grant adequate representation to
Syrian Nasserile elements in the
post-coup cabinet sparked t h e
crisis and put in doubt the es
tablishment of tho tripartite Unit
ed Arab federation of Iraq, Syria
and Egypt.
The reasons for the clash are
complex. Both support Arab na
tionalism and Arab unity but
they differ diametrically on who
should lead this part of the world.
Factor In Uprising
No such figure as Hariri yet
exists in Iraq. But there the an
ger against the "Baathisation" of
The Bulletin
Thursday, July 18, 1963
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor
Glenn Cuihman, Gen. Manager Jack McOermorf, Adv. Manager
Phil F. Brogan. Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Clre. Manager
Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Managing Ed.
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nel during vacation periods.
However, the effect on other
aid personnel over the favoritism
shown to "the senator's daugh
ter" was one of indignation. In
the end Frances was so unhappy
she almost resigned. The sena
tor was unhappy too, remarked
that he didn't realize a phone call
from him would have such reper
cussions. Soapy Drinking Water
While the United States pollutes
its streams with non-solvent de
tergents, West Germany, which
helped discover detergents, has
banned the use of detergents. The
West German government has
passed a law against the use of
A.B.S., (alkyl benzine sulphon
ate), the substance which is ruin
ing American drinking water.
, Rep. Henry Reuss, D-Wis., who
is battling for a similar law in
the United States, states that the
American soap industry is spend
ing $250 million a year for ad
vertising to sell detergents and
only $5,000,000 a year on research
to change the unhealthy aspect of
detergents.
"If I were in industry,, I would
not be proud the fact that we
spent 2 per cent as much trying
to get rid of harmful detergents
as we spent trying to tell the pub
lic that detergents are good for
you, that they are 99.44 per cent
pure, etc.," Reuss told the Gov
ernment Operations Committee.
"This is a false set of values."
Reuss added that West German
officials had told him that they be
lieved in "free enterprise," but
they also believed it was the duty
of government to protect their
people from an "assault on their
aesthetic sense and on their health
and on their fish life," caused by
detergent pollution.
"Is the detergent a pollutant
from the standpoint that it is in
jurious to public health?" inquir
ed GOP Rep. Robert McClory of
Illinois. "I mean in drinking wa
ter." Reuss replied that A.B.S. had
not yet been found to be a cause
of cancer or not to be in
experiments on rats, but he add
ed: "Yes, it certainly is a pollutant.
A glass of drinking water, with a
head of foam on it, is unacsthctic.
Foam should be on beer, not on
drinking water."
the army appears to have been
a major factor in the recent brief
uprising at the strategic El Rash
id military camp outside Baghdad,
according to reports received here
through diplomatic channels.
The camp contains a large
number of Communist and Kurd
ish prisoners, and the reports
claim that most of these were re
leased and armed by dissident
army units In preparation for a
march on Baghdad.
Something like two-thirds of the
Iraqi army is presently engaged
in the campaign against the Kurd
ish nationalists in the north.
Any serious trouble in the re
maining units could face the
Baath administration with a se
rious danger.
In both Syria and Iraq there is
also discontent among the busi
ness communities, whose activi
ties have been virtually stalled as
a result of future uncertainties
arising out of the Baath-Nasser
crisis.
CAB offers
WCA be given
Tacoma rights
WASHINGTON (UPD A Civil
Aeronautics Board examiner rec
ommended Wednesday that West
Coast Airlines be given permanent
authority to servo Tacoma, Wash.
Chief Ex a m 1 n cr Francis W.
Brown said the city's new airport
now under construction, plus an
area population of more than
383,000 warrant direct air service.
Tacoma residents now use the
Scattle-Tacoma International Air
port located more than 20 miles
from the city. The CAB originally
deleted Tacoma from West
Coast's routes because it had no
airport of its own.
Brown rejected a move by
Northwest Airlines to require
West Coast to make at least one
stop on flights between Tacoma
and Portland and Spokane. The
examiner said there was no evi
dence that West Coast's Tacoma
service would divert traffic from
Northwest.
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Paragraphs
If the nation is going to distri
bute children in schools according
to any plan, it should so arrange
them that children of similar abil
ity are together. Integrating them
by black and white makes no
sense; doing so by intelligence
might.
Y'oung men, we note, are wear
ing vests. How new fashioned I
Down in Utah the school teach
ers are on strike until the state
puts more money into schools. It
is another example of the worker
taking over the job of manage
ment and could lead to a taxpay
er revolt. Utah will probably find
teachers maybe with fewer de
grees but less arrogance; with
less training but more intelli
gence. No wonder our experts are not
received well abroad. They are
often a nuisance at home.
Now the internal revenue de
partment says you can deduct
from your tax the cost of quiet
meals, but not liquor. But liquor
is quicker. (Giles French in Sher
man County Journal.)
Zip, sckmip
Motivated by (1) the spirit of
scientific investigation, and (2) a
desire to give favorable publicity
to the Post Office's new zip code
program, we hatched a little
scheme with a friend in Eugene
the other day.
His name is Bob Frazier and
he's associate editor of the Eu
gene Register-Guard.
We wrote him a note, making a
carbon copy of It. We put the orig
inal in one envelope, the copy in
another. The first we addressed:
Bob Frazier
Register-Guard
Eugene, Ore.
The other we addressed:
Bob Frazier
Register-Guard
97401
That 97401 is the zip code for
Eugene. We wanted to see which
letter would get there first. We
dropped them in the mail at the
same time.
After all the publicity about how
the new zip code would speed de
livery of the mail, because mail
handlers could sort through num
bers faster than written-out ad
dresses, we expected the zip code
envelope to zip to Eugene in noth
ing flat.
Well, the envelope with "Eu
gene, Ore." on it was delivered
the following day.
Tho envelope with "97401" on
it was back on our desk the fol
lowing day, stamped "Returned
for better address."
Zip, shmipl
(Medford Mail Tribune.)
Santiam
The State Scenic Area Commis
sion, which defines the stretches
of state highways along which ad
vertising panels (billboards) are
banned, will consider two petitions
for such prohibition on Tuesday,
July Kith at 10 a.m. Rooms 202-3
Labor and Industries building.
One has been filed by the Mill
City Garden Club and would have
the ban apply to Highway 20, from
its junction with Highway 22 (the
North Santiam Highway) east to
the west city limits of Sisters. This
is the stretch over the summit of
the Cascades.
The other petition, filed by the
Mill City Women's Club, asks for
the ban on billboards on Highway
22 from its junction iwth Inter
state S just east of Salem, to its
junction with Highway 20. The
two petitions thus cover the whole
route from near Salem to Sisters.
This is a fine, scenic route, es
pecially above Mill City past De
troit reservoir and Summit lake,
and deserves protection from un
sightly billboards. Another section
which should be kept free from
advertising panels is that where
the road breaks out from the hills
and gives a view of Salem and
the valley. If the commission
doesn't see fit to grant the peti
tions in full we hope these por
tions at least may be spared the
sign-blight. (Oregon Statesman,
Salem.)
Richard Nixon
tours Budapest
BUDAPEST, Hungary (UPD
Kormer Vice President Richard
M. Nixon visited the American
legation and toured Budapest's
open air markets Wednesday.
U.S. officials at the legation
said Nixon did not visit Jozsef
Cardinal Mindszenty, who lives
in political asylum in the embas
sy. The United States has tried
to avoid aggravating relations
with Hungary over the Cardinal's
presence.
"A meeting between Cardinal
Mindszenty and Nixon is out of
the question," Charge d'Affaires
Turner Shclton said.
Hundreds of Hungarians fol
lowed the former vice president
on a walk through city streets,
many of them stepping up to
shake his hand.
S0.000 VISIT EXHIBIT
VIENNA, Austria (LTD Mora
than 50.000 Bnlcarians visited an
American plastics exhibit in Sofia
on its opening day. U.S. diplo
matic sources said Wednesday.
By Phil Newsom
UPI Staff Writer
Perhaps unfortunately for the
bad taste that could come later,
there is a mounting feeling that
the world is at the threshold of
profound changes. In Western
capitals the hope is that it will be
for the better.
Chief basis for this hope is the
widening split between the Soviet
Union and its Red Chinese allies,
and the corollary belief that a
split with Red China would make
Nikita Khrushchev more amen
able toward reaching understand
ing with the West.
may aid
management of
Oregon wildfowl
WASHINGTON (UPI) A bill
passed by the Senate Monday will
provide a permanent basis for the
management of four wildfowl ref
uges in the Klamath Basin of Cal
ifornia and Oregon, its sponsor
said Tuesday.
The measure now goes to the
House.
The bill, introduced by Sen.
Thomas H. Kuchel, R - Calif.,
affected the Tule Lake, Lower
Klamath, Upper Klamath and
Clear Lake national wildlife ref
uges. The Senate bill included an
amendment to continue the pres
ent pattern of leasing lands in
five units of the Lower Klamath
and Tule Lake refuges: the Klam
ath Straits unit, the Southwest
Sump, the League of Nations unit,
(he Henzel Lease and the Frog
Pond unit.
The leased lands would be used
for growing grain, forage and
soil - building crops, with other
public lands reserved for water
fowl purposes.
The bill calls for the government-owned
lands in the four ref
uges in the Pacific Flyway to be
administered for the major pur
pose of waterfowl management.
Kuchel, in urging a favorable
vote on the bill, termed it "one of
the most important pieces of con
servation legislation" which the
present Congress would consider.
The California Republican said
the Interior Committee had turned
down a request by the Klamath
Irrigation District in Oregon that
6,365 acres of the Lower Klamath
Refuge by placed under private
ownership. He said the commit
tee had concluded that the prop
erty "should remain in public
ownership for the ultimate high
est utilization in the refuge com
plex." Sen. Clair Engle, D-Calif., and
12 other senators joined Kuchel
in co-sponsoring the legislation.
Highway Users
ask for setup
SALEM (UPI) The Oregon
Highway Users Conference this
week asked Gov. Mark Hatfield
to appoint a statewide citizens
traffic safety committee to make
highway safety recommendations
to legislative groups.
Noting the record highway
death rate in Die state, George
Dewey, secretary of the Oregon
Farm Bureau and chairman of
the Highway Users group, said
Use new committee should also
stimulate highway and traffic
safety on the local level.
The Oregon Highway Users Con
ference is made up of 27 state
highways in their business.
AGREEMENT ANNOUNCED
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI)
Burma will ship farm products,
minerals, oil seed and other
goods to Yugoslavia in return for
motor vehicles, farm machinery,
textiles and chemical products
under a new trade agreement an
nounced here Wednesday.
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rock
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13 Weight o(
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14 Magic
15 Malts
16 Fringed
shoulder pad
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21 Stripling
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24 Cracked
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27 Mire
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33 Ascended
36 Babylonian
moon-god
37 Mustering of
troops
39 Urn
40 Lock of hair
(Scot.)
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42 Made of ajb.
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49 Dei erted Infant
51 Rowing tool
52 Charity
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goddess
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mounds
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9 Grooves
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11 Driving
command (pL)
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former
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apparatus
23 Recompense
24 Brothers
25 Son of Jacob
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certain tropical
plants
Mounting feeling in West that
world is on threshold of change
Lending support to these hopes
have been a number of factors:
In Moscow, the ideologlca
battle between the two Communisi
giants has been going accordinj
to the script laid down weeks am
months ago by the warring pro
paganda organs of the two nation!
and no compromise appears ii
sight.
Khrushchev's own apparen
belief, as reported to NATO bj
Belgian Foreign Minister Pau
Henri Spaak, Is that now Is th(
time to reach some agreement or
at least a partial nuclear test bai
and that such an agreement i:
possible in the talks which begai
this week.
Of lesser importance but i
straw in the wind, the arrival Ii
Moscow this week, at the Soviets
invitation, of an Indian team seek
ing Russian air-to-air missiles an
other arms and equipment whosi
use clearly would be intended a:
defense against Red China.
Fancy Outruns Fact
In London, where hopes of ai
eventual accord with the So
viets always have run higher thai
in Washington, fancy has so fai
outstripped fact as to lead t
speculation that partial agreemen
now on a nuclear test bai
naturally would lead to an East
West summit.
The factors leading to thesi
mounting hopes have been report
ed from Western capitals bj
correspondents with access t
high sources.
But a note of caution is no
amiss.
A warning note came fron
chief U.S. negotiator Averell Har
riman who said before leaving
ing London that a test-ban agree
ment is "not in the bag by a Ion;
shot."
Khrushchev admittedly has bij
problems on his hands.
But he did not reach his higl
estate in the Soviet hierarchy bj
giving away all the cards in hii
hand in advance
In the Red Chinese he face I
formidable adversary.
Uses Threat As Weapon
One of. his strongest weapon
against them is the threat tha
he will reach accord with thi
West, a possibility which he nov
is encouraging.
On their part, the Chinese al
ready have labelled the ideologi
cal talks in Moscow a failure, bu
they also say they can be pa
tient.
Agreement can come now or
year from now or later. Thi
Chinese have been careful not U
stir the enmity of the Soviet peo
pic. All of their fire has beet
centered upon Khrushchev per
sonally and they are banking oi
his downfall.
Meanwhile, they also will b
careful to keep their lines to Mos
cow open.
As for a test ban, it already h
too late for any such agreemenl
to Include either France or Rec
China, and without the latter es
pecially, sooner or later must be
come almost meaningless.
If a change for the better is
on the way, it still must be re
garded as practically Invisible.
Barbs
Two women were arrested ir
a New Jersey town for forgery.
Bad signs of the times.
Summer cabins always an
equipped with a place when
Mom can spend her vacation con
tinuing to cook and do tha dishes.
Have you encountered a waiter
with enough nerve to put the
check down face up?
Wonder if tha gals in tha de
tective television shows have to
take scream tests?
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