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?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
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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
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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."
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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.
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"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
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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. Both auto
and driver had pick-up.
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