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Wesf Ooasr s taking us rubes in
Central Oregon for a ride, slowly
Us rubes In Central Oregon are
losing the battle with West Coast
Airlines. The battle, that is, to keep
some semblance of decent North
South service.
The latest round went to West
Coast without question. And it may
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Coast has fixed it up so they can't
possibly expect much passenger
business out of Central Oregon. This
' would mean closing down the Bend
Redmond stopover point, something
the airline has apparently wanted
to do for some time.
Readers may or may not have
noticed a three paragraph story
with a Redmond dateline which ap
peared in The Bulletin earlier this
week. The whole story was there.
It said that West Coast, effective
August 1, has increased the time
going to San Francisco by about
three hours and to Portland by
about a half hour.
Specifically, here is what has
happened:
Instead of leaving Bend-Redmond
at 10:02 a.m. with a stop in
Klamath Falls and arrival In San
Francisco at 1:35 p.m., you must now
leave at 7:40 a.m., stop at Roseburg,
Medford, and Klamath Falls and . . .
arrive in San Francisco at 1:05 p.m.
This is a flight of just about three
hours longer, if we figure correctly.
Flying to Portland, West Coast
has added a stop at Corvallis to its
Salem stop and this will Increase
time by about a half hour.
That Isn't so bad except that it
NATO's
At the outset of the fighting in
Korea in 1950, the United States
had no tank in the Far East capable
of engaging the obsolescent Russian
T-34. South Korean units, in fact,
had no tanks of any description be
cause the United States was deter
mined to show the world that its
intentions in Korea were nonaggres
sive. The heavily-armored fist of the
North Korean invaders smashed
through the ROK lines challenged
only by suicide squads with satchel
charges. Soon what the Germans
call "panzer fever" seized the de
fenders. Whatever chance the nu
merically superior ROK army had
of handling the invasion without
help from American troops was end
ed. The rest is dismal history.
Armor could hardly prove de
cisive in any European ground war.
Even so, more than usual signifi
cance attaches to the current de
velopment of tanks by France and
Germany. Five, years ago the two
nations joined to develop a "Europa"
tank capable of facing the Russian
T-5-1. Experts from each country
worked on their own models sep
arately. But when the time came to
combine the best features of the
two, the disagreement on its speci
fications became irreconcilable.
France recently displayed its model,
caiicd the AMX, a 32.5-ton model
capable of 43 mile-an-hour speed.
Now the Germans are preparing
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is virtually Impossible to fly to
Portland one day, transact business
and fly back the next, because of
arrival and departure times. (And
there was a time in this modern
high-speed age when we thought it
would be nice to be able to fly to
Portland and back In the same day,
but that didn't work out).
Passengers will arrive in Port
land about 2:30 p.m. or later. It
takes anywhere from 30 to 50 min
utes to get to downtown Portland,
depending upon the mode of trans
portation. After that there isn't
much time to see business contacts
before offices close at 5 p.m.
The morning flight back to Cen
tral Oregon doesn't leave any time
to transact business, so there you
are.
West Coast officials said the
latest change was made to "increase
business."
This may be true for planes
stopping in Roseburg, Medford or
Corvallis, we don't know. But it cer
tainly won't increase boardings at
Bend-Redmond airport. Like as not,
fewer and fewer people will fly and
more and more will drive their cars
or take bus transportation.
And this will lend substance to
West Coast's yearly argument that
it should be allowed to quit its
Central Oregon stop because there
is no need for it.
West Coast, as another Oregon
newspaper said recently, is taking
all of us rubes for a ride, but slowly.
to unveil, probably early in August,
their 40-ton, 40-mile-an-hour model,
called the Standard Panzer. Bonn is
expected to put the tank into pro
duction no later than September.
German industrialists are happy at
the prospect of a $500 million order
necessary to replace, at $250,000
apiece, the 2,000 outmoded U.S.
made M-47s and M-4Ss the Germans
now have.
Meanwhile, the United States is
in the process of equipping its forces
in Europe with the 50-ton M-liO
tank. But the New Yeark Herald
Tribune directs attention to reports
that West Germany may provide the
United States with Standard Panzers
to be turned over to other NATO
allies. Almost lost in the turmoil
over Franco-German manufacturing
rivalries and the possible impact of
the tank competition on U.S. balance
of payments is the question of which
tank of the three is best capable of
halting Communist armor.
Quotable quotes
I wish to take this opportunity
on behalf of the Chinese people to
express our resolute support of the
American Negroes in their struggle
against racial discrimination and for
freedom and equal rights. Com
munist Chinese leader Mao Tse
Tung, In a statement issued by the
New China News Agency.
United States now frying to catch up
with Russia in undersea explorations
By A. Robert Smith
Bulletin Correspondent
(Editor'! Note: Thit U th.
itcond In a series by our Wash
lngton correspondent on th In
tent rivalry between th Uni
ted Statu and Russia in th
newly expanding field of ocean
ography because of its military
as well as peaceful utility.)
WASHINGTON Soviet Rus
sia's oceanography fleet, deploy
ed to learn the vital secrets of the
world's oceans, is more than
twice as large as the American
oceanography fleet.
But the United States has em
barked upon a shipbuilding pro
gram as part of the Kennedy ad
ministration's quiet but determin
ed effort to overcome the Sov'et
lead in undersea research and
exploration which has certain mil
itary importance and peaceful
economic significance of uncer
tain dimensions.
While the race to land a man
on the moon has captured world
wide attention, both powers have
simultaneously entered a race to
get to the bottom of the seas to
unlock the treasure house of scien
tific knowledge which the oceans
have guarded from man ever
since he pushed off from shore in
ancient times.
The Soviet oceanography fleet
consists of 158 ships, according to
U.S. Navy estimates. The Ameri
can oceanography fleet consists of
76 vessels, and most of these are
over-age ships converted from
some prior use or taken from the
"mothball fleet" to conduct
oceanic research on a make-shift
basis.
But during the past year the
first three brand new American
ships, designed and built specific
ally for modern oceanographic re
search, have put to sea. This is
the first installment on a con
struction program which a high
Navy officials says we "desper
ately need." The administration's
10-ycar oceanography plan calls
for 120 oceanography ships by
1072.
Government officials say Rus
sia has 75 ships operated by its
Navy and 83 non-Navy ships.
Soma of these are modern, well
Afiuipped vessels assigned to ba
sic research. Their best known re
search ships include the 6,000-ton
Mikhail Lomonosov, built in 1957
with 16 oceanographic laborator-
les and space for about 75 scien
tists aboard; the 12,000-ton Ob,
built in 1953; and the Sveryanka,
a research submarine.
Some Russian vessels combine
oceanography data collection with
military intelligence and commer
cial fishing not far off the Ameri
can coast, both East and West,
in international waters.
While the comparative sizes of
the fleets provide an index of the
Soviet and American oceanogra
phy efforts, Rear Admiral E. C.
Stcphan points out that more than
mere ships are required for an
American businessmen of
organize Marshall Plan of
By Drew Pearson
ATHENS The most danger
ous part of any jet flight out of
Idlewild Airport comes about six
ty seconds after your plane has
left the ground. It occurs a hun
dred times a day and it's the
fault of government red tape.
About sixty seconds after leav
ing the ground, your jet is order
ed to throttle down. Passengers
have an eerie sensation that the
engines have failed and the plane
is about to make a forced land
ing. There is a moment of
breathless silence. Then the pow
er comes on again.
When I talked to the pilot about
this I found that every jet leav
ing Idlewild is ordered by the New
York Port Authority to cut down
power nt about 600 feet altitude.
"We get a five-second count
down from the tower," explained
the pilot, "and at Die count of zero
we have to cut back our engines
no matter what The passengers
don't know it. but it's the most
dangerous part of their flight to
Europe. It's called 'noise abate
ment.' I suppose some local poli
tician put the pressure on, I
don't know. All I know is that at
that particular point in the flight
we have no power to maneuver.
If we had to get out of the way
of another plane or some emer
gency arose, we'd be out of luck."
What has happened is that all
international passengers are the
victims of the growing controver
sy which has arisen between those
who live on the ground and those
who fly over the ground near air
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Friday, August 9, 1963
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effective program. The ships col
lect a large amount of data about
-the oceans, but this data must
be processed and reduced to us
able form for various military and
civilian purposes. In this vital
area American officials believe
they are ahead of the Russians.
"Their oceanographic program
is hampered by lack of precise
positioning capability, lack of
modern precision Instrumentation
for data acquisition and by the
lack of modern data processing
equipment for rapid handling of
survey research data," said Ad
miral Stephan, director of ocean
ography under the chief of naval
operations.
"There is every indication that
the Russian oceanography fleet
has a data acquisition capability
that has far outstripped their abil
ity to analyze and process this
data into a usable form. They
probably are better equipped to
do oceanography in support of
fishing operations than they are
to do the more precise and com
plicated military oceanography."
To solve its own data analysis
problem, the U.S. Navy created
the National Oceanographic Data
Center, located in an abandoned
naval gun factory in Washington,
D.C. With modern computors, the
Navy expects to analyze raw data
transmitted from ships at sea;
then the processed data will be
transmitted back to the ships
where scientists aboard will be
able to determine whether their
oceanographic research has been
adequate in that area and they
can move on to another part of
the sea.
This Data Center is but one of
tiie new functions of an old line
Navy agency, the Hydrographic
Office, which a year ago was re
named the Naval Oceanographic
Office, to suggest Us expanded
functions. Previously, it was lim
ited to producing the navigation
al maps and charts that guide
every vessel, large and small, on
the oceans or coastal and inland
waters.
Today the Oceanographic Office
is hard at work mapping the bot
tom of the oceans, determining
wave conditions which affect
shipping and naval operations,
and researching sub - surface
temperatures and currents all
of which has immense military
value in this age of deep diving,
long range nuclear-powered mis
sile - firing submarines. It is pre
sumed the Soviets are doing simi
lar work for similar reasons.
The cost of keeping an oceano
graphic research ship at sea is
about $2000 per day. Each temp
erature reading of the oceans at
different seasons and varying
depths costs about $20 when taken
from a ship. To cut this cost, the
Navy has developed buoys equip
ped with thermistors which c u t
the cost to about 75 cents per
measurement.
Washington Merry-go
ports. While the debate continues,
that first minute of flight by the
giant jets flying to Los Angeles,
San Francisco, London, Rome and
Paris is the most dangerous pari
of the journey.
American businessmen of
Greek origin have organized a
private and unofficial Marshall
plan of their own for the Greek
economy, and it is having import
ant effects.
Greece and Turkey were the
first countries, then in desperate
economic straits, to benefit from
the Truman docrtrine in 1947 and
later the Marshall Plan. The con
trast between the limping Greece
which I saw after the war and
the pulsating, vigorous Greece of
today is amazing. But U.S. aid
has now stopped, and this tiny,
rocky country with just about the
same population bs the city of
New York is on its own.
It is doing fairly well, thanks
to Greek ingenuity and enter
prise. But some far-sighted Amer
icans have gambled their time
and money to help out, ranging
from Zanos, the Dayton, Ohio,
confectioner who has established
the most famous Ice-cream kitch
en in Athens, to Charles Politis.
the plastics manufacturer, and
Tom Pappas, the Boston (ina.1
cier. Politis, a New Yorker, who
served in Greece with the U.S.
Air Force and was a hero of the
Ploesti raids, established a small
plastics company here in 1!M6
which now employs 450 workers
and next year w ill double that. He
"We are ahead of everybody in
this field," declared a Navy
occanographer.
Mapping the ocean floor is the
major function of the ocean sur
vey effort, which also includes as
certaining the magnetic and gra
vity properties of the deep sea,
tlie physical, chemical and biolog
ical characteristics of the water,
the geological characteristics of
bottom sediments, and the meteor
ology of the overlying atmos
phere. The Navy is aided by the Coast
and Geodetic Survey and the Bu
reau of Commercial Fisheries in
this effort. A new Navy ship, de
signed just for this purpose, is
scheduled to start operations next
year.
Today the only manned vehicle
for exploring the bottom is the
Navy's Trieste, which has only a
two-mile horizontal range. The
Navy is considering building more
advanced vehicles for cruising
along the ocean floor at depths
ranging from 5000 to 20,000 feet,
which would take care of 90 per
cent of the bottom, and two other
vehicles capable of descending to
36,000 feet for deep trench invest
igations. Ocean surveys and bottom map
ping are crucial to the operations
of the Navy's expanding fleet of
Polaris submarines which today
cruise assigned stations at sea as
an effective deterrent to Soviet
aggression.
Speaking of the Polaris sub,
Rep. Daniel Flood, D-Pa., a
member of the House subcommit
tee on defense appropriations,
said in recent hearings: "here we
have this fantastic weapons sys
tem about which we are all excit
ed. We are grinding them out like
pancakes. Everybody tells us they
will protect the free world from
this and that, and they are not
worth very much without
oceanography."
Congressman Flood said the Na
vey, with congressional sanction,
wants to place a circle of Polaris
subs around the Communist-held
land mass within four years. Ad
miral Stephan said the oceano
graphy program is geared to
meet such a time-table.
Before each Polaris sub takes
its assigned station at sea, the
Navy makes an ocean survey of
the area. Currently the Navy has
11 Polaris subs in the fleet of 28
atomic - power submarines. The
goal of 86 nuclear subs by the end
of the decade is divided about
equally between Polaris subs
which could fire at inland targets
thousands of miles away, and at
tack subs used against foreign
submarines.
To clear their watery stations
far at sea, the Navy must con
tinue to step up its quest far deep
sea secrets, locating unknown
sea mounts, charting the courses
of raging deep sea rivers.
(Next Capitol Hill skin-diving.)
round
Greek origin
their own
has developed a revolutionary
new kind of plastic container and
is now producing half a million
yogurt containers a day, a quart
er of a million milk containers
daily, also vinegar containers,
and will soon start manufacturing
plastic bottles for olive oil.
Politis's factory features air
cooling, modern toilet facilities,
and a profit-sharing plan. Other
Greek industrialists complain
that he's spoiling the workers, but
he continues to set American
standards for Greek workers.
By far the most ambitious pri
vate aid for Greece is being
launched by Tom Pappas, former
Republican National Committee
man from Massachusetts, former
ambassador to Uruguay, and one
of the big money raisers for Ike
in the 1952 and 1956 elections.
Pappas is raising around $160,
000.000 to build an oil refinery,
a petro-chemical plant, and a
steel mill in the Salonika area
projects which will revolutionize
that important part of Greece. He
has enlisted the support of Stand
ard Oil of New Jersey. And
whereas the United States gov
ernment put up $150,000,000 in
loans and grants to build a steel
mill in Turkey (after Turkey hir
ed Tom Dewey as attorney), Pap
pas is raising the $160,000,000 on
his own.
At first some of the Greek news
papers were skeptical, wrote edi
torials critical of Pappas's mo
tives. But gradually they have
come around to realize that the
development of the Salonika area
will be a great thing for Greece,
and that this American son of
Greek parents is doing on his own
what governments have had to
do in other countries.
As for Pappas himself, he says:
"I have one son. I've made plenty
of money. All I have left in life
is to make a good name for my
family."
The big reftnery, steel mill and
chemical plant on the plains of
Macedonia should be a unique
monument to an immigrant with
vision,
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Civil rights
march starts
to take shape
By United Press International
Integrationists picketed city
halls, supermarkets, department
stores, a Brooklyn hospital con
struction site and locked them
selves in chains in one city
Thursday in the nationwide civil
rights drive.
And across the country a mas
sive "freedom flight" of buses,
trains and airliners began to take
shape for the August 28 civil
rights march of an estimated
100,000 persons on Washington.
Dozens of chanting teen-age
demonstrators locked themselves
together with chains strung out
across a busy street in Elizabeth,
N.J., and then tossed away the
key.
Several girls fainted In the
noisy demonstration in the mid
day heat. Police had to cut the
chains from the demonstrators.
Traffic was stalled about an hour.
A 33-year-old woman was arrest
ed on disorderly conduct charges.
The Southern Education Report
ing (SER) service said the larg
est number of school districts in
Southern and border states to ra
cially integrate classrooms since
1956 would mix white and Negro
pupils beginning in the fall school
term.
SER said about 113 districts
were scheduled to desegregate,
raising to 1,092 the number of in
tegrated districts in the 17-state
area. Of these, 95 plan to inte
grate voluntarily and 18 submit
ted to federal court orders.
The so-called "freedom fleet"
was expected to include more
than 2,000 buses, 14 chartered
trains and five airliners to bring
the marchers to the nation's capi
tal. The Hollywood March Commit
tee announced it would send two
plane loads of stars to participate
in the march.
One historian said the march
may be the largest in U.S. his
tory. Skinner back
on U.S. soil
NEW YORK (UPI) Lowell
D. Skinner, a former American
prisoner of war who chose to re
main in Communist China at the
end of the Korea War, stepped
onto U.S. soil today for the first
time In more than nine years.
A flight from Tokyo brought the
former GI into New York Inter
national Airport early today. He
was greeted by neither relatives
nor friends when he stepped from
. the airliner. Only a few newsmen
and an immigration official were
on hand when the turncoat de
barked. Skinner, 32, was shaven and
neatly dressed. He said, "I def
initely have plans," but refused
to say what they were. He read
a telegram from his mother, Mrs.
Brady D. Skinner of Akron, Ohio,
and said it indicated a job was
waiting for him at home. He gave
no details.
Skinner, traveling alone, was
met at the airport by an official
of the Immigration and Naturali
zation Service. He was traveling
on a certificate of identity issued
him by U.S. officials in Hong
Kong in lieu of a passport.
Skinner confirmed he was re
maining in New York overnight,
but refused to reveal his plans,
other than to say he would go to
Akron "as soon as possible."
FIRE ON CIVILIANS
TIBERIAS. Israel UPI)-Syri-an
troops opened fire on Israeli
civilians three hours after Pre
mier Levi Eshkol visited the area
Thursday, Israeli officials said.
No casualties were reported in
the salvo of automatic weapons
fire on farmers working the
fields of the Haon settlement,
where a similar outbreak of gun
fire occurred Thursday, the offi
cials said.
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"Whan men differ In opinion,
both sides ought equally to hav
th advantage of being heard
by th public." Benjamin
Franklin.
Adverse vote could
danger accreditation
To the Editor:
As a citizen of the Redmond
community I urge everyone to
vote in favor of the bond issue
which will be put before the voters
on August 15th for enlarging the
Central Oregon District Hospital.
I am a former director of Cen
tral Oregon District Hospital and
I am quite familiar with the oper
ation of the hospital.
The hospital was fortunate to
receive accreditation this sum
mer, but this was granted with
the understanding that steps will
be taken to relieve the crowded
conditions and provide more ade
quate facilities for the various de
partments of the hospital. Accre
ditation will not be renewed un
less this is accomplished.
Please don't let the board of di
rectors down when you go to the
polls on August 15th.
Yours truly,
Priday B. Holmes
Redmond, Oregon,
August 7, 1963
It's Another World
Student writer
says language
needs attention
By Elizabeth Cehnoweth
Language is one of the most
important parts of our life. With
out language we couldn't com
municate with each other.
In the musical comedy "My
Fair Lady," one of the songs
states "Why can't the English
teach their children how to
speak?" It goes on to say "In
America they haven't used it for
years." referring to English, I am
inclined to agree and add "Why
can't the Americans teach their
children how to speak?"
It seems that in the mad race of
time many people tend to regard
language as unimportant.
In school English is stressed,
but even there a lot of teachers
shouldn't be allowed to open their
mouths.
The problem Is many parents
don't care what they say or how
they say it. Remember like fath
er like son. After a time of hear
ing people speak English any way
they want to, it is hard to remem
ber which way is correct.
People should be proud of the
American language. They should
try to speak it correctly, and pass
it on to their decendents. Many
times a person is judged by his
speech.
Remember to recollect that
there ain't no tongue talking that
tis any better than this here Am
erican talk no howl
Barbs
The careless season is when it's
the pheasants, ducks and quail
that are supposed to be shot
A Kansas girl of 17 said the
got married because she got tired
of working at home. What rare
sense off humorl
If you're planning to let a teen
age son paint your house this fall
be sure to buy enough paint to
cover part of his clothes.
Sit-down strikes are quit often
due to conditions the workers can't
stand for.
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