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The rough inn. in n alU4l.'.i,iL'!i ?A officials are trying fo drum up protest storm against Lausche bill Sen. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio has put a bill in the Senate hopper which has aroused a flood of mail propaganda from some electric co operatives to their members. Laus che would severely restrict future activities of the Rural Electrifica tion Administration (REA) and its customers, the rural electric coop eratives. The coops are an outgrowth of a program of the Franklin D. Roose velt New Deal. In some areas of the country electric utilities had been slow to-'extend their services to farm customers. There was little use of electric-powered machinery on the farms of those days, and few major electric appliances were used in farm homes. The managers of utili ties did not foresee growth in these fields; they saw only the large amount of line construction neces sary to serve relatively few custom ers. Only about one American farm in 10 had electric energy delivery. The REA changed all that. It made loans to electric cooperatives, and its activities made the privately owned utilities take another look at the situation. Now about 98 per cent . of all American farms have electric service from central plants. Most of the rest mainly in the West where landholdings are large and distances great have their own generating plants. Lausche wants to proscribe the future activities of the cooperatives. There has been little problem In the Northwest, but in some parts of the country there have been rather se vere conflicts as coops set up dis tribution lines to tap customers al ready served by utilities. Lausche would stop further loans to coops unless the funds so obtained are Don't wait State Senate President Ben Mu sa has been making speeches in re cent weeks saying Governor Mark Hatfield eventually "will thank me for making" a much-discussed ap pointment recently while Hatfield was out of the state. Ben made the same speech here Sunday, a few days before leaving on a state-fi Did Old Gosh, attitudes on divorce change. When Rocky ditched Mary to squire Happy, there were the usual outcries of shock or whatever those outcries should be called. Some of our editorial friends suggested that Rocky wasn't fit to be President, or even governor. Any man who would take another's wife, they said, wasn't fit for coyote bait. This is, or has been in the past, a pretty normal attitude from puri tanical Americans who believe that a life contract should be kept. But a surprising number of people wished Rocky and Happy happiness and didn't cast a back ward glance about his political abil ities. Included in this were some pretty influential people who abhor divorce themselves. Now comes Old Fighter himself to shake things up, but did he? Old Fighter is more well know n as Supreme Court Justice William road to '64 ''V ''V' ,imiii lui. m jii.irw around, Ben Fighter shake things up? 0 A Sr 'J m ...-. i used solely for extending electric service in rural areas, where such service is not now obtainable. The Lausche bill would do one more thing. Coops now borrow mon ey from the REA at a statutory rate of 2 per cent. This was slightly less than the cost of government money in 1935, when the REA was estab lished. The new bill would set the interest rate at the average cost of the money to the government, now about double the statutory 2 per cent rate. The bill will get consider able support on this point, since a number of coops have purchased government securities with their reserve funds. As a result, they are able to borrow money from the gov ernment at 2 per cent and then turn around and lend a portion of it to the same government at about four per cent. The interest subsidy is one the coops no longer need. Most are in good financial condition. And it makes little sense to grant them lower rates than the low rates the government can obtain for them through the loan-bonding combina tion which provides their funds. As far as the first part of the Lausche bill is concerned, the REA and the coops are wasting a lot of effort attempting to drum up sup port. Such support is not generally needed. Almost every member of Congress has a coop in or near his district. The REA has done an ad mirable job in most areas, and most members of Congress will not want to appear to hamstring the agency. The REA and the coops should support the proposal to end the in terest subsidy. It no longer serves a reasonable public purpose. nanced junket to Hawaii, where he will stay in a state-paid room in a luxury Waikiki Beach hotel. There is no doubt Musa was within his legal rights when he made the appointment. But it would be highly dangerous to his health if he attempted to hold his breath, awaiting Hatfield's approval. O. Douglas. After he divorced his wife, who also took a new mate, and married a 23-year-old, public outcry was fairly quiet. About all we've heard are man type remarks like, "gad, for a 64-year-old, he sure thinks young," or, "the old boy must have something." Rocky and Old Fighter are a coupk of pretty prominent people. The Taylor-Burton circus is some thing Americans have come to ex pect from Hollywood types. But gen erally, our public figures, with few exceptions, have had to hide their human failings from the rest of us. Perhaps our ideas of morality are changing. Or maybe people just don't care. We don't know. We do remember that Adlai Stevenson, who got a divorce a long time ago, and didn't marry some body else's wife either, was roundly criticized in the 1932 and 1956 cam paigns, for his failure to stay married. The old practice of farming fish for food may be in for some major changes By Robtrt A. Smith Bulletin Corespondent (Editor's Note: Fourth In series on tho Implication of th government's intensified ocean ography program and the race between the United States and Russia to learn the mysteries of the ocean depths.) WASHINGTON "I don't sie why we can't farm fish just like cows," sayd Dr. Robert L. Ed wards, gazing out to sea from his laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., the American mecca ior occanographers. Dr. Edwards, a government bio logist, was talking about his hopes for making the ocean fish re source more dependable and more plentiful, not of rearing food fish in ponds or lakes as fish farming is usually thought of. The logistics of "farming" the oceans would be incredible, Dr. Edwards concedes, but he be lieves man will one day know enough about the marine life of the oceans to influence and alter that mysterious life cycle for the benefit of future generations. This is not just an academic consideration which intrigues a pipe-smoking scientist. The world fish catch, which reached 90 bil lion pounds in 1961, is rising each year. The catch seems to double about every 12 years. No one knows for certain how much ad ditional fishing the oceans can sustain without serious depletion of most food fish species. Several species already show evidence of the ravages of over-fishing. But some fisheries experts think the ocean could sustain a catch that is five times greater than the present one." In any event, the world popula tion boom and the likely increase in commercial fishing by coastal countries that have severe food shortages point inevitably to a rapid rise in the world catch in the years immediately ahead. Dr. Edwards, deputy director of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries lab at Woods Hole, is stimulating oceanographic re search efforts aimed at increas ing the ocean fish population. Fish produce billions of eggs that perish due to disease, predators or other unfavorable factors in their natural environment. Bio logists estimate that only about one of every 10,000 eggs produce fish which reach maturity. Dr. Edwards is confident that oceano graphcrs will learn how to in crease the survival rate so that ; Washington , Merry-go-round Innocent teen-agers wind up on smut mailing lists By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON Sex and smut peddlers are now offering the names and addresses of unsus pecting teen-age girls to any per vert with the price. Although the names are copied from innocent lists, the buyers are encouraged to believe that the girls volunteered their names and are looking for "fast company." Alarmed and anguished par ents, whose daughters have sud denly been deluged with foul mail, have appealed to the Jus tice Department and the Post Of fice without results. The federal laws apparently aren't broad enough to deal with the offenders. However, Connecticut Sen. Tom Dodd has ordered his Senate Juv enile Delinquency Subcommittee to investigate the racket. He has promised to introduce whatever new legislation may be required. The "porographic gangsters," as Dodd calls them, often pick up names by advertising for pen pals In reputable teen magazines. Another technique is to appeal to starry-eyed girls who long to break into the movies. A typical come-on, clipped from a fan mag azine by Senate investigators, urges: "Photos wanted for publication amateur or professional mo dels, show girls, lady wrestlers and all young girls are Invited to send their photos and tell us about their careers or the careers they'd like to have. Interesting pin-ups. exotic lingerie or noveltv poses are ok. If you want to break into the movies you can get your start here." Mailing Lists For that matter, anyone who has ever attended school, sub scribed to a magazine, placed a mail order, or purchased a car runs the risk of getting listed. The traffic in names and addresses from all sources has become a The Bulletin Tuesday, August 13, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler. Editor Glenn Cushman, Con. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Mamejet Phil P. Brooen, Associate Editor Leu W. Meyer, Clre. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. Willlem A Yates, Managing Ed. Intend ea Sectod Cum Matter ternary 0. If IT. et uw Pin omre it bero urrrun. u.ir Art of SUrvh 1 isrs. Publii.ed wily ejicept Sunday and certain hoUly b TTw Bend Bulleun. Inc. Capital Report the fish population may one day be doubled. Such an optimistic goal can be reached, he notes, only through an intensive research effort. To gether data and specimens for laboratory analysis, Woods Hole this spring received a brand new research ship, Albatross IV, the first ever designed and built by the U.S. specifically for fisheries research. It cost $2.1 million. During a recent four-day Atlan tic cruise, this reporter observed the ship's scientists and technic ians set out their big 60 by 80 foot nylon net from this stevn trawler and restrieve some 20 ma rine species. The Albatross has labs where 16 specialists can work. It even has closed circuit television equipment to permit the scientists on shipboard to watch the activities of fish many fathoms below when a camera is dropped with the net. Raymond Fritz, chief scientist on the Albatross, notes that the abundance of commercial fish varies drastically from year to year unaccountably. By spending 200 days a year at sea, Fritz hopes the Albatross will learn more of the mysterious habits of groundfish species such as cod, haddock, silver hake, redfish, flounder and sea scallop. "The ideal is to get maximum sustained yield fisheries," said Fritz. "In some cases we may be over-fishing, and in others under fishing. We need more biological information." David Miller, a marine zoolog ist, specializes in studying what happens to various species in their first year after spawning, the period when groundfish ma ture. He hopes to make a syste matic survey from 150 sampling stations scattered about the Gulf of Maine to collect eggs and lar vae in search of clues as to how to arrest infant mortality among fish. The Albatross and Woods Hole are responsible for the Northwest Atlantic between Nova Scotia and New York. Other research ships will in the near future operate in conjunction with new labs at Seat tle, La Jolla, Calif., and Beau fort, N.C. This is but one facet of the na tion's intensified oceanography ef fort conducted by some 20 govern ment agencies and a host of state and private institutions, including Oregon State University and he University of Washington, each of which operates its own research thriving business. Young, innocent girls may end up on a variety of sex lists. For a 2 fee; anyone can obtain names and addresses of girls in any age group, short girls, tall girls, sin gle girls. Catholic girls, college girls, redheads, b r u n e t s , or blondes. The lists are offered by local ities, nationalities, and occupa tion. Examples: "Chicago girls, 17-25"; "50 Hawaiian and oriental girls, 13-30;" "100 nurses, all ages;" "50 beauty contest win ners." The lists come segregated or in tegrated: "White men who write colored ladies" or "colored ladies who write white men." Special lists for any area will be made up on request. One ped dler advertises: "We have 10,000 teen addresses and can make a list for your area." Lists of young boys' names al so are available. One distraught parent complained to Senate in vestigators that a minor son, who had subscribed to a physical fit ness ad, received mail offering unbelievably salacious material. As a sample, a perverted sex pic ture was enclosed. Another horrified parent said her minor son started to receive "smut literature" after his army address was published. A group of parents, writing to Attorney General Robert Ken nedy, summed up the problem in these urgent words: "It is not necessary to go into complete detail as to the dangers involved when the names of inno cent girls are placed in the hand? of perverts who have been misled in their thinking that they have lengthy lists of names of promis culous young girls. If ever pre ventive methods were to be em ployed In the field of crime con trol, this is certainly the instance." ''"'V'-. vessel. While other oceanographers fo cus on the over-riding military aspects of the total effort, the mission of the Albatross is geared to the plight of the American fisherman and his concern over depleted fisheries and rising for eign competition. As Donald L. McKernan, director of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, put it, "international fishery problems are increasing and seriously threaten the welfare of Canadian and U.S. fishermen." Just as Pacific coast fishermen have feit the impact of foreign competition off the Northwest and Alaskan coast for salmon, halibut and crab from Japan and Russia, New England fishermen have been hurt by competitors crowd ing in upon their traditional fish ing grounds, notably the Grand Banks and Georges Banks. A recent example of the result, said Fritz, is the decline of the ocean perch, or redfish, the main stay of Glouchester, Mass., for two decades. Last year the catch was 124 million pounds, lowest since 1044 and less than half the record catch of 258 million pounds taken in 1951. There's no mystery about this decline it's due to over-fishing, Fritz said. Some say that Russian factory ships which play these waters contributed to this by nearly de pleting the Canadian redfish two years ago. Now the Russians are said to be taking great quanti ties of whiting at the expense of American trawlers. "It's economic warfare. They're raiding our breadbasket," says Walter Beatteay, skipper of t h e Albatross, and a native of Mas sachusetts. But back at Woods Hole. Dr. Edwards disagrees, saying too little is known as yet whether increased fishing or oth er factors are responsible. Canada tried without success to get the 13-nation International Commission for North Atlantic Fisheries to limit the redfish catch. But it only standardized the size of mesh in nets five years ago to permit greater escapement of immature fish. Before the decline of redfish, New England witnessed the vir tual disappearances of the ma k erel. For thsese and other eco nomic reasons, such as rising costs of replacing aged fishing boats and inflated costs of marine insurance. New England's com mercial fishing is in the dol drums. The U.S. has slipped from sec ond to filth rank among the world's great fishing nations; and Massachusetts has dropped be hind California and Alaska in value of its annual catch. Wash ington ranks 9th and Oregon 14th. In fact, the U.S. has become a net importing nation in terms of fish. Since 1959 the value of fish imports has exceeded the value of the domestic catch. Last year the value of imports was $473 mil lion, the value of the domestic catch $381 million. The goal of sustained-yield fish eries is a long-range one. The sud den decline of the California sar dine some years ago and the one third dip in the supply of the Pa cific Northwest's Dungeness crab last year point up its importance to the Pacific coast, just as the decline of the mackerel and red fish make it meaningful to New England. Sustained - yields of desirable fish species, the Albatross scien tists believe, can only be achiev ed through adequate research up on which sound conservation can be based. If they should make some remarkable discoveries on ways of increasing the ocean fish population, so much the easier to avert depletion. But it will be fruitless if the fishing countries fail to act on their findings to pre vent over-fishing. If that is the ultimate responsi bility of the politicians and their fish consuming constituents the world around, at least the oceano graphers are determined to con front them with the most complete biological data on which to work out agreements for sustained yield fisheries in perpetuity. State school super okeys dropout plan SALEM l"PI A national pro gram to curb high school dropouts today had the endorsement of Leon P. Minejir, state superin tendent of public instruction. "At the request of President Kennedy, I am unping parents to do everything possible to have their school-age youngsters in sclifol this fall." Minear said. In Oregon about 5.90O students will not return to the clasrooms (his fall, estimates Glen Weaver, supervisor of occupational guid ance in the state department of education. Nationally it is estimated that about 3on,')00 who were in school this past year and not yet gradu ated can be expected to drop out this fall. - in.n. ...... ...... ....ii .i ... ji.m.n.ji u I... 1.11114. . 1 "f u m 1 1,. iy '-My Nickel's Woilli "When men differ in opinion, both aides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Good neighbor policy 'starts right at home' To the Editor: They talk of countries having the good neighbor policy, I think it starts right in the home. We are young folks and have never had any trouble with any one until we moved to this place; they started an argument with us about our dog, who is penned up in our backyard because of the dog tie-up law. These neighbors have a small Dachshund who stuck his nose through the fence and Scotty (our dog) bit him on the nose. They bawled us out but we did not say too much, and later on we went over to apologize, but never got a chance to say a word. The woman began calling us names and was otherwise obnox ious. Ever since then they have tried in every way to cause us trouble. They watch everything we do, and in general try to hound us in every way. So to keep them and us from bothering each other, we plan to build a high seclusion fence. This may sound petty, but it is serious on our part and petty on theirs because if the dog had kept his nose on his own side of the fence, things would be different. Nations start wars over small things sometimes; we hope for the day when there will be real peace both with the nations and the neighbors. The nations are learning to talk over things with each other at the U.N. So ought we to do the same thing but when one party doesn't have the courtesy to even listen to an apology, I feel they Barnett action called political by Meredith JACKSON. Miss. (UPI) Gov. Ross R. Barnett has moved to block the graduation of James H. Meredith from the University of Mississippi next Sunday. Mere dith termed Barnett's action "purely political." Barnett, who personally barred Meredith from the school for a time last fall, asked the school to withhold the Negro's diploma until an investigation of certain anti-segregation statements Mere dith is alleged to have made. Meredith is scheduled to re ceive his bachelor's degree Sun day. Barnett said in a statement Monday he believed the 30-year-old Meredith violated a directive by university president John D. Williams which advised students and faculty against making pub lic statements about the desegre gation crisis. Barnett claimed Meredith has made a number of statements to newsmen which "clearly and un mistakeably" violate the terms of the directive. Meredith, who was enrolled at Ole Miss last September with the backing of federal troops after a night of campus rioting, called Barnett's move "purely politi cal.' "It might be pretty hard for Gov. Barnett's forces to win an election if I graduate," Meredith said when contacted at his dor mitory. Barnett is reportedly backing Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson against former Gov. J. P. Coleman in Mississippi's current governor's race. GETS CABINET OFFER WASHINGTON (UPI) An in formed source said Monday that Rep. Ross Bass, D-Tenn., has been offered the postmaster gen eral's post. v Fictional ACROSS 1 "Othello character 8 "Taming of Shrew" character S Hardy heroine 12 Mud 13 Sorrow 14 Auk genus 15 Commenders 17 Descendant 18 liolate 19 Ice glider 20 Otherwise 21 Article 22 Expand 8 Zigiaggers 9 Lamb's pen name 10 Gael 11 Rational 16 Girl's name (var.) 19 Diaphanous 21 Pith helmet 22 Lively 23 Trudge 24 Mattress filler 25 Have on 26 Whirlpool 23 Lift up -'u issuing 31 Colored, edible 38 fishes 24 Afrikaner 25 Us 27 Prared 28 Colza oil 90 A perfume 32 Angry 33 Yards (ab.) 34 Ceremony 35 Visionary 36 Mountain defile 37 Do wrong 33 Oratity 41 Chortles 44 Described "Brer Rabbit" 45 Scott character 46 Aromatic herb 47 Cloth measure 4ft Compass point 49 Couples 50 Trinket 51 Turn aside DOWN 1 t.HUe derils 2 English river 3 Depraved 4 0le t North T uropean 6 Leirninc 7 AiiirmaUve I p a 4 IS 14 B I la 16 MOr ir u xk re is a r wr;- nr H hi gf 31 "js 3i n3 n Zr m M jw rT4i !THT n i ' "to t ? (3 3 t 51 get a sadistic pleasure in making people uncomfortable. Mis. M. R. Hoyt Crescent, Oregon, August 12, 1963 Goldwater called man to battle 'frontier' To the Editor: I am deeply disturbed by the state of our nation today. In creased racial tensions, fiscal ir responsibility, a Communist Cuba, loss of states' rights these are the accomplishments of the lib eral New Frontier. I am sick of this kind of "progress," but we will get more of the same by con tinuing to vote for liberal candi dates forced on us by our Demo cratic Party and the liberal mi nority of the Republican Parr. We must have a conservative In the White House in 1964, or face national chaos and confusion. The Democratic Party is so thoroughly indoctrinated in liber alism that we must depend on the conservative majority of the Re publican Party to provide us with an honest choice of candidates not a liberal versus a liberal, but a conservative versus a liberal. I see Barry Goldwater as the one man who can fight the New Fron tier and win. Apparently I am not alone in that belief. I understand that over sixty thousand (60, 000) petitions are being circulated by "Citizens for Goldwater," Val ley Forge, Penn., urging the Re publican convention to nominate the senator for president. This group also provides all kinds of material and helps for organizing local Goldwater groups. I have al- j ready sent in my own request, and it occurred to me that many of your readers might wish to do so, too. My conscience simply will nol let me sit by and watch my be loved country being torn to shreds by men who have tried to make a dirty word of patriotism and at tempted to reduce the meaning of our Constitution to absolute nothing. I declare myself here and now as a Southern Democrat for Sen ator Barry Goldwater, and I in tend to see him through to vic tory! Yours truly, Mrs. M. G. Price Winston-Salem, N.C, August 2, 1963 Californian lauds Mirror Pond show To the Editor: Mis. McNair and I were very fortunate in being able to attend your Bend Water Pageant re cently and although we had been residents of Oregon for a number of years, we had no idea that your city presented such a beau tiful pageant. Not only was it beautiful but very well organized and most interesting. You may be assured that Mrs. McNair and I plan on attending future Bend Water Pageants. Congratulations to all of you who participated in this beautiful program. Sincerely yours, Hugh McNair Palm Desert, Calif., August 8, 1963 Barbs Happiness Is where you find it and one of the best places is in a good, cheerful home. A man with a sour disposition makes his wife get up with a grouch in the morning. We wish so many people would n't wash their cars and plan pic nics except when rain is desper ately needed. A Nebraska man was arrested for speeding and giving a strange girl a ride in his car. 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