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s Gift horse? IK iH'Vf la... ww.Y Eiiiiiii ma luwupiii i-i i urn in , ii mi ,jn muiii iwiniijiii "mi Washington M?rrygoround George Brewster a fitting appointee to an important job for the area Federal District Judge Gus J. Solomon, presiding judge for Oregon In the federal court system, has ap pointed George Brewster, Redmond attorney, to serve as federal court Commissioner for Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. The post is an important one for the area, and Brewster is a fitting appointee, i A federal Commissioner is known to students of judicial admin istration as a' committing magis trate. His duties are somewhat like those of the justice of the peace In the state system. Persons involved In federal actions at law make their Initial appearances before him. He sets ball in criminal cases. The appointment of Brewster is the culmination of a long scries of events. For several years it has been apparent there was a need for such an officer in this area. The need oc curs, In large part, because of the difficulty of enforcing federal regu lations on federal lands. Those who violate regulations involving the use of motorized vehicles in wilder ness areas of the national forests, for example, have been almost com pletely free of fear of prosecution. Prior to the appointment of Brews ter as Commissioner, officers mak ing arrests for such violations were required to bring their charges be fore the federal court In Portland. The natural result was few charges were brought. Several attempts have been made In recent legislatures to make Shades of inflation A group of English criminals robbed a mail train of an estimated $8 million last week. Jesse James, until now known as the greatest In the dark The end of the long strike-lockout In the Pacific Northwest forest products industry is near. The lock out phase ended a few days ago, and each day brings news of new settlements between unions and tim ber operators. Final settlement with the big operators, which will almost certainly set the pattern for the in dustry as a whole, is imminent Yet the public, and many employes of the companies involved, still is in the dark as to the money Issues in the strike. There's an old saw to the ef fect that figures don't lie, but liars can figure. This is not meant to ac cuse anyone on either side of a lack of veracity in the current situation. But each side, naturally enough, presented figures In such a manner as to put its best foot forward. Thus ;at the start of negotiations the unions were informing us the aver age wage rate in the industry was "about a dollar per hour lower than the figure presented by mangement. ; , Now, it appears, the settlement pattern is developing around a fig Jire of 30'a cents per hour over a .three-year period. But even this is ;open to varying interpretations. The ;30'; cents will go to all employes, and not all of it is In cash. The 30' 2 cents, it seems, is union-computed cost to employers of the settlement. One imagines the figure will vary .between various employers. Part such' violations a breach of state law, so that cases could be tried in state district or justice courts. But such attempts failed of passage. After the 1963 legislature de clined to pass the necessary state legislation a Central Oregon resi dent interested in the problem wrote to Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger. At her suggestion, Judge Solomon agreed to appoint a commissioner for the area, providing a suitable person could be found who would be willing to serve. Brewster's name was suggested. He met several important qualifica tions, in the views of those who made the recommendation. He was legally trained, and had consider able experience In trial work in Cen tral Oregon. He was universally re spected for his honesty and integri ty. He was reducing the amount of time he was spending on his own law practice, which would give him lime to perform the job. Judge So lomon, and his fellows on the U. S. bench in Oregon, agreed, and the appointment was made. It is of par ticular significance in the area be cause it fills a gap in the court sys tem, both for officers of the law, and the residents of the area. The thanks of Central Oregon lans who realized the need for a U. S. Commissioner In the area go to Judge Solomon and his colleagues, and to Senator Neuberger, for her interest in the problem. Esfes Kefauver spent his life for his strict views ,. T f f Capital Report , t train robber of all time, averaged less than $5 thousand per robbery in a career which lasted many years. of the money will go to logging crews for travel time under certain circumstances. Another portion will be used to adjust, what the unions feel, and management apparently agrees, have been inequities between various job classifications. Still an other portion, around 24 cents, will actually go to almost all workers in the form of cash raises over the next three years. It appears the strike is being settled. But lots of persons still are in the dark about the exact basis of the settlement. Quotable quotes The explosion Is a reminder that 1 he enemies and adversaries of the Moscow treaty have not given up. A Moscow Radio broadcast com menting on the new U.S. under ground nuclear test. Only a few are heroic or popu lar figures in the forefront of t h e Negroes' struggle for equal rights. But without exception, they are persons who in recent years have taken an active part in the shaping of Negroes' destiny on a broad re gional or national scale. Ebony magazine. listing its selection of the nation's 100 most influential Negroes. By Jack Andersen WASHINGTON If President Kennedy should choose to expand his book, "Profiles in Courage," I suggest he write about the only man who ever bested him in politics, who took the vice presi dential nomination away from him in 1956: the late Sen. Estes Kefauver This Lincoln of a man, home spun, ungainly, often stood alone in the United States Senate. But he stood tall. Consider these flashbacks: Flashback, 1956 Kefauver dug deep into his own pocket, mortgaging his home and hiring out as a lecturer, to pay off old campaign bills. Yet as a presi dential candidate in 1956, despite his campaign poverty, he refused a $10,000 contribution with strings attached. All he had to do was condemn, in a public speech, a United Na tions pronouncement against Is rael. This would be worth $10,000 to his destitute campaign, he was told. But Kefauver, though pro Israel, refused to bargain for his contributions. Flashback, 1954 The late Sen ator Joe McCarthy threatened to attack Kefauver in Tennessee, painting him as a political pink. If Kefauver accepted an invitation to speak against McCarthy in Wisconsin. Estes took up the warning with his staff, listened silently as each one begged him not to pick a fight with McCarthy on the eve of the Tennessee elections. He thanked them for their advice, then quiet ly announced his decision: "Mc Carthy is bad for the country. I reckon I'll have to say so." Minority of One Flashback, 1954 Stung by charges they were soft on com. munism. Democratic senators in troduced a bill to outlaw the Com- munist Party and dared the Re publicans to vote for it. This would have subjected people to prosecu tion because of their political be liefs. But the Republicans accepted tlie challenge and lined up unani mously with the Democrats for the bill. Only Kefauver, refusing to play politics, stood against it. His anguished political advisers warned that his stand would be misinterpreted back home, that he would be called a Red. "The least you can do," beg ged a friend, phoning from Ten nessee, "is duck out on the vote." The the final rollcall was 81 to 1: Kefauver was the lone dis senter. (Later, the bill was pigeonholed after FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover joined Kefauver in waring that it not only would be unconstitu tional but would drive the Com munists underground.) Flashback, 1952 In the presi dential race. Kefauver bucked the party bosses, beat all comers In the primaries, and entered the Democratic Convention with the most pledged delegates. Still, he needed more support to win the nomination. Texas Governor Allen Shivers, boss of the big Texas delegation, chose this cruicial moment to pay a secret call on Kefauver. Shi vers wanted to know how the sen ator felt about turning the tide lands over to the states, so the big oil companies could drill for oil. No Deal Would Kefauver agree to let Congress decide the issue and not use the veto if he were elected president? No, said Kefauver. Would Kefauver agree to turn off shore oil over to the states with in a three-mile limit? No, Kefau ver said again. Thus Texas slipped irretrievab ly from his grasp. And he lost the nomination on the third bal lot after leading the first two. Flashback, 1950 Digging inlo organized crime, Kefauver turn ed over a compost pile of gang land political connections. Deep In the pile was a $2,500 contribu tion that crime Czar Frank Cos tello had given to the Democratic National Committee in 1947. "Is this to be brought out at the public hearings?" demanded Democratic leaders. "It is." said the senator. And it was Flashback. 1949 Though a southerner. Kefauver managed to stir up the mighty wrath of the South by supporting civil rights Irrigation. When a resolution was offered to curb Senate filibusters. Kefauver at once announced sup port for it. Thus the Senate was treated to the unusual spectacle of a sena tor speaking with southern accent agiinst the filibuster. Flashback. 19T0 Kefauver came out of the Tennessee hills to the I'niversitv of Tennessee, a straw suitcase in one hand, a cap perched atop his head. Tightly drawn against his huge bulk was an ill-fitting suit, which seemed red in one light, green in another. Across his chest in a neat row were all the ribbons Estes had accumulated for perfect attend ance at Sunday School. He was greeted by a cousin, Thomas Walker, who dutifully brought Kefauver into his fratern ity. That alternating red-and-green, mailorder suit offended the eyes of Estes' fraternity brothers. (Not to mention his yellow shoes, his shrunken cap, his array of Sunday School pins.) Solemnly, they conspired to swipe Kefauver's colorful clothes and force him to buy a new ward robe. Thus began the mystery of the missing duds, which was to puzzle Estes throughout his fresh man year. He would return from class to find a pair of orange socks gone. A week later his shoes disappear ed. Then his cap. And one night, while he slept, the miracle suit of two colors vanished into the night. From this unlikely beginning, Estes Kefauver went on to be come editor of the college news paper, president of the junior class, president of the All-Students Club, president of the South ern Federation of College Stu dents, and a football star who earned the affectionate nickname, "Old Ironsides." He continued on to Yale and academic glory. He became a corporation lawyer, a congress man, a senator and a presiden tial candidate. But he never lost touch with the Tennessee hills, with the everyday people who make up the backbone of America. They are the ones now who will miss him the most. : Taxpayer should seek better use of defense funds By Lyle C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer The American taxpayer would be well advised and within his rights to demand that the nation al Defense Department make better use of the said taxpayers' money. Or, maybe, some alert member of Congress should call the Pen tagon to account for some of its torn fool methods of doing busi ness. The angry, taxpayer and alert member of Congress need do no more than to refer to the numerous reports by the comp troller general of the United States on the wasteful practices of the Pentagon brass, military and civilian. Joseph Campbell is the comp troller general. His job is to audit the books of all spending depart ments and agencies and to tell Congress what he turns up. What turns up is a shocking story of waste, extravagance and stupid ity, notably in the department of national defense. In a single mail this week were three reports from Campbell, each running about 25 pages and each relating that some fathead in the Pentagon had wasted another bundle of the taxpayers' dollars. There was, for example, the re port on "unnecessary annual ex penditures by the Departments of the Air Force and the Navy for leasing commercial facilities to store petroleum products tn the San Francisco area instead of using excess government owned petroleum facilities at the Navy fuel department. Point Mo late. Richmond. Calif." Campbell reported that the Navy's surplus oil storage capa city at Point Molate averaged 450.000 barrels for the past three years. America's long-range program to intensify oceanographic research reported in distress By Robert A. Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON America's long-range program to intensify oceanographic research to beat the Soviets to the bottom of the . sea in the broadest sense is in distress. It's not because the federal oceanography program is being deliberately torpedoed but appar ently because, like the ill-fated submarine Thresher, it is jeo pardized by malfunctioning in cri tical parts. One malfunction is evident on Capitol Hill. Congress on the one hand has been passing bills which exhort the president to undertake a comprehensive, long -term oceanographic program; but Con gress, on the other hand, l as been chopping millions of dollars from President Kennedy's ocean ographic budget which was to im plement such a comprehensive program. Like exploration in outer space, oceanographic exploration in the inner space of the deep oceans is a relatively new concept to Con gress. President Kennedy has ask ed Congress for funds to more than double the government's ef fort in both fields. After assum ing office in 1961, Kennedy sent Congress a special message on oceanography to support his re quest for a $106 million program. He said: "Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge up on it. Although understanding of our marine environment and maps of the ocean floor would afford to our military forces a demonstrable advantage, we have thus far neglected oceanography. We do not have adequate charts of more than one or two per cent of the oceans. "The seas also offer a wealth of nutritional resources. They al ready are a principal source of protein. They can provide many times the current food supply if we but learn to garner and hus band this self-renewing larder. . . "Mineral resources on land will ultimately reach their limit. But the oceans hold untapped sources of such basic minerals as salt, potassium and magnesium in vir tually limitless quantities. We will be able to extract additional ele ments from sea water, such as manganese, nickel,! cobalt and other elements known to abound on the ocean floor, as soon as the processes are developed to make it economically feasible. "To predict, and perhaps some day to control, changes in weather and climate is of the utmost im portance to man everywhere. These changes are controlled to a large and yet unknown extent by what happens in the ocean. Ocean and atmosphere work to gether in a still mysterious way to determine our climate. Addi tional research is necessary to identify the factors in this inter play. "These are some of the reasons My Nickel's; V : . Hi &2 Barbs Peanuts are called a good sub stitute for meat, but there's no substitute for peanuts at the ball park. If time really cures everything parents of delinquent youths can have hope. When a girl wants to learn to swim there's always some smart duck who is willing to teach her. One thing that makes you feel better it giving to the Red Cross until It hurts. The Bulletin Wednesday, August 14, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler. Editor Glenn Cushmen, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Bro9n, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers. Clrc. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. Etuerert u Scf Cum Matter .lar-uarr S. 1917. at tn Putt Office at Herd. oreavn. under Act cr March a. u73, Fubuanad oaUr except Sunday and cenala boudays be Tha Bend Builaun. Inc. The. Bulletin welcomes mntributlnns tn thif column from 1U reader. Let ters mint contain the correct nanM nnd adriret of the sender, which mar he withheld at the newinaper's dis cretion, letters nmy he edited tn con form to the directives of tasu and style. Patient backing hospital extension To the Editor: As this letter is being written there are three patients lying in beds in the corridors of Central Oregon District Hospital. Also, my nurses tell me that every room in the materntiry department is oc cupied by new mothers. These facts are indicative that Bedmond and the immediate sur rounding area are really growing. Certainly, as Redmond grows so grow the businesses and services of our fine city. Since our hospital opened Its doors our population has increas ed one-third. During the past few years there have been many medical specialists move into this area and are using the hospital facilities regularly. All of us who are interested in progress for Cen tral Oreeen should support the fine sen-ices rendered by our hos pital and its personnel. I cast my vote by absentee bal lot, and ask all of you to get out on Thursdav and vote "yes" for the bonds that can keep our hos pital services un to the demands of the community. Yours truly, Vern McGowan. President Bedmond Chamber of Com merce Redmond. Oregon. Aupist 13 13 (Editer's Note: Mr. McGowan l a patient In the hoipitel. He It reeuoeratinq from a heart attack Incurred a a volunteer fireman during the Trte Knot Pine Mill fire.) CONFERENCE SET TILLAMOOK HTP - The Ore son Justice of the Peace Associa tion will hold its annual confer ence here Thursday and Friday. About 50 justices of the peace are expected. which compel us to embark upon a national effort to oceanogra phy." Congress offered no basic quar rel wiili this stated objective. It gave Kennedy $101 million of the $106 million he asked for oceano graphy that year. Moreover, Sen. Warren G. Mag nuson, D-Wash., became a vocal champion of intensified oceano graphic research after conducting extensive hearings in the Senate Commerce Committee of which he is chairman. Magnuson in July, 1961, brought from his committee a bill to authorize a 10-year ocean ographic buildup of research ships and shore facilities. Opponents charged that the cost of the Magnuson bill, esti mated at $691.5 million over 10 years, was excessive in view of other defense expenditures. They also noted that the government agencies said the bill wasn't nec essary because authority in law already existed to carry out such a program. Magnuson claimed the bill would give them "legislative guidance" and the Senate passed the bill SO to 32. The House buried Magnuson's bill and last year passed one of its own to create a National Oceanographic Council to develop and coordinate a long range oceanography program. The House bill didn't mention how much, if any, should be spent, except for adding a $19,000 appointee to the White House staff to assist the president's science advisor in oceanography. Kenne dy pocket vetoed it without ex planation. Magnuson says he con ferred with Kennedy at the time and agreed the veto was a suit able fate for this relatively mean ingless bilL A new bill, with aclministration backing, was approved a few weeks ago by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. It declares that it is U.S. policy "to develop, encourage and main lain a coordinated, comprehen sive and long-range national pro gram in oceanography for the benefit of mankind, defense against attack from the oceans, and operation of our own surface and subsurface naval forces with maximum efficiency, rehabilita tion of our commercial fisheries, and increased utilization of these and other resources." Moreover, this bill says "furth erance of this policy requires that adequate provision be made for continuing systematic research, studies and surveys of the ocean and its resources, and of the to tal marine environment, the de velopment of new and improved equipment for oceanographic re search and surveys, the education and training of scientists and technicians through a sustained and effective program, and en couragement of international co operation in marine research and surveys in the national interest." The bill would require the pres ident to develop such a program by assigning various oceanogra phic duties among federal agen cies. Kennedy has done this. The bill would require the presi dent to report to Congress each February on the general status of the oceanography effort, the amount of funds Congress should appropriate for marine sciences for each federal agency, and fu ture plans including any new leg islation required to meet the na tional oceanographic goals. Such an annual appraisal could provide a meaningful picture if it were candid enough to point fp shortcomings as well as advances. For example, one of the most needed items in the Navy pro gram is new ships, and yet Con gress this summer "saved" $20 million by rejecting two of the three new ships the Navy re quested. With the present oceanographic aCaSSJSETsS About Travel fleet available to the Navy, Its bottom mapping and other tasks would take 30 to 40 years. To re duce this time period, the Na vy figures it needs three new ships annually but only Con gress can provide the funds. The desire to economize is a-' ways popular, but it hasn't crip-, pled the race to the moon as no ticeably as it has the race to the bottom of the sea. But congressional short-changing isn't the only handicap ocean ography suffers and some say it's not the most serious problem. "Our main problem is getting qualified oceanographic person nel," said a Navy official. He and others have made hun dreds of talks in high schools to stimulate interest in oceanogra phy as a career. A measure of the expansion of education in this field is that before World Warf, II only three colleges offered de grees in oceanography, while to day 17 offer degrees in marine sciences and about 33 have an oceanography curriculum. The most widely recognized In clude University of Washington, Oregon State University, UCLA, and Scripps Institution at La Jol la. Calif., on the Pacific Coast; Texas A & M and the Univer sity of Miami in the South; and Johns Hopkins, Columbia Univer sity, University of Rhode Island, and Woods Hole Oceanographia Institution on the Atlantic Coast Despite the expansion in ocean ographic curricula, it is difficult to secure sufficient teaching staffs because most skilled oceanogra pliers would prefer to be engag ed in actual research. Fewer than 100 degrees in oceanography are awarded yearly. Kennedy's 10-year program op timistically anticipates an annual 10 per cent growth in oceanogra phic manpower compared to about a seven per cent growth rate for all sciences. This is ex pected to result from transfer ol scientists from other basic fields such as physics, geology, chemis try, biology, math and engineer ing. The worst shortages are expect ed in the areas of physical and meteorological oceano g r a p h y, with scarcities also in systematic biologists, marine geophysicists and geochemists. Marine biolog ists and geologists are being trained at an adequate rate. The Soveit Union also has man power shortage problems. Her professional oceanographic staff is estimated at 500 to 700 scient ists and 1600 technicians, smaller than the American staff. Despite the cold war rivalry and the national security emphasis on the buildup of oceanographic re search by both the United States and Russia, both governments era cooperating with 30 other nations in the International Indian Ocean Expedition, a 5-year effort to learn more about the least known of the world's oceans. Another such effort is the International Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic. The U.S. plans to invest $70 to $90 million in such cooperative ventures in the coming decade. While Russia and the U.S. lead in oceanography research, Japan, the United Kingdom and Canada are also making substantial ef forts and 39 other countries are active in the common quest to solve the riddles of the deep. And although military strategy is the impelling force in the major efforts of the big powers, the oceanography efforts of the small nations suggest the universal urga to participate in this bold adven ture of man in the alien environ ment of the ocean depths which is destined to bring back magnifi cent treasures for generations to come in a world stabalized by peace. Answer to Previous Punte ACROSS S Gnndparental 1 Mean, of travel 4 water travel means (Distance in travel 12 Eggs 13 star State" 14 Roman road 11 Oriental poxgy 16 Decreeing 18 Plane aim SO Pauses 21 Sturgeon eve, 22 God of love 24 Early 25 Arabian rmU 27 Street (ab.) 30 "Lilv maid of Astolat" 32 Graceful dance 34 Where balloons travel 35 Goune reversed (her.) 36. 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