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14 ew more cays should what decision has been For some weeks there has been speculation as to the eventual fate of the 58 American "Students" who made the trip to Cuba this summer In spite of refusal of the State De partment to grant them passport visas for the trip. The 58 went ahead anyway, after warnings from the President and the State Department that such a trip would be held to be "not in the interest of the United States." Some members of the group are bona fide students. Others, however, were known Communist organizers and leading lights in the Fair Play for Cuba committee, a Castro-financed organization which has been a leading aploglst for the bearded dic tator. To get around the passport re Btrlctions, the students flew to Czechoslovakia, and then boarded a flight for Havana. A long way, in deed, to go to reach an island only 90 miles off the Florida coast. They are returning via the same route. Our government has evidence which proves the entire junket was spon sored and subsidized by the Castro government. And President Ken nedy, at August press conference, Issued a mild threat. "The passports of all those who took the trip would be lifted," he said, and "other steps may be considered in regard to a few who are not students but who afe Communists." One of the group, Todd Stuart, a Harvard student, on July 31 said lri Havana that he didn't believe the government could take away their passports. This was after learning by Miami radio that the passports had been revoked. "A few years ago," Stuart said, "the Supreme Court ruled that a passport is pri vate property." - Stuart was referring to a rul ing of 1958. The Supreme Court also held that the Secretary of State had no authority to deny passports on the basis of an applicant's associa tions or beliefs. The House of Representatives in Dark cloud for high school grads Many bright-eyed June grad uates of Central Oregon high schools will pass briefly under a dark cloud this fall as they are pushed out of the nest onto a college campus. For some, the transition may be long; they may never be able to make necessary adjustments. Though mother and dad may be just a telephone call away, stu dents do find themselves on their own. The gay lark of social and acudemic freedom must turn Into social and academic responsibility. Otherwise, they will find themselves at home "working." Group living is quite an adjust ment to young adults of both sexes. Most freshmen are not used to hav ing 300 boys and girls who are more then willing to take Coke breaks, borrow clothes, or be constant com panions until the wee hours of the morning. The 35 or 40 pages of reading In each of six classes will no longer be put off so easily until the next day. Students find that when they are simply a name or number, they can't pat the teacher on the back and give the excuse that they had various meetings to attend or company the n h mm tell us made 1958 and 1959 passed a bill giving the State Department authority to bar passports to Communists, but the Senate did not act in either year. A 1960 report of the House Un American Activities Committee rec ommended that the Secretary of State be authorized to deny pass ports to persons "whose purpose in traveling abroad" was to "advance the objectives of Communists." And in January 1962 the Department of State Issued new regulation deny ing to Communist Party members but providing that they be allowed a hearing. The case against the students would not appear to be governed by the 1958 ruling, for they willfully violated terms under which the pass ports had been issued. A more likely parallel is the case of William Wor thy, Jr.. Negro newspaperman who spent 41 days in Red China in 1956 and two days In Hungary In 1957 In violation of passport regulations. The State Department refused to re new Worthy's passport. The refusal was upheld by the U.S. Court of Ap peals in Washington, and the Su preme Court in December 1959 de nied a review. (Bans on travel by newspapermen in Red China and Hungary were later lifted.) Worthy ran afoul of the law again two years ago when he ship ped for Mexico where no pass port is needed but left the ship at Havana because, he said, he was ill. He stayed 11 weeks writing arti cles for his paper. He returned by plane in October. Curiously, six months passed before he was indict ed for violation of the McCarran Walter Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. He was convicted and last Sept. 17 was sentenced to three months in jail and a year on pro bation. The conviction is being ap pealed. Worthy's prosecution was un usual, to say the least. Indications are that the erring students will fare better with the government, except, perhaps for those who are not really students. previous night Cheat-sheets and ponies aren't so highly regarded in the college mid-term of final. There is always the fear of the guy next to you who is sending himself through school. One term or semester later, those students who have learned to budget their time, both academic ally and socially, will find they have made the grade (or grades). Those who don't return and feel that col lege isn't their cup of tea will go down some other avenue of life only to find that they still have the les son of self-discipline to learn. Quotable quotes It Is a God-given Instinct. Used right, it is a wonderful servant. Used wrong, it is a terrible tyrant. Evangelist Billy Graham in a ser mon on sex. Our bodies numbering over 100,000 will bear witness will serve historic notice that jobs and free dom are needed now. From the 12-page manual outlining plans for next week's civil rights march on Washington. U. S. MAILS: WORLD'S Where else Post Office By Harry Ferguson UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - The U. S. Post Office Department would like for you to believe that the best buy in the nation today in terms of value received is a five-cent stamp. It supports Uie argument by citing the fact that a letter going from one state to another passes through 16 separ ate processes and the address on the envelope must be correctly read by at least eight persons. Unless each of the eight per sons is operating at 100 per cent efficiency, there is going to be a snafu. Every human being is fallible at some time and that Is why it occasionally takes a week for a letter from New York City to be delivered across the Hudson River in Jersey City. When you drop a letter into a mail box, you set in motion this intricate process: A truck rushes Uie letter to the central post of fice. It is run through what is called a "stacker" which turns all 1119 envelopes right side up and post marks them. Then the mail is "cased" by states. Then it is "cased" by cities, meaning that all the mail des tined for one city is placed in the same case. This is where trouble can occur. If a Milwaukee letter gets in the Minneapolis case, it may take a week to straighten things out. Mail for each city then is "tied out" put into a big bundle and then into a huge pouch. It goes to the appropriate trains or air planes and here, too, a slight er ror can cause chaos. Trucks are waiting at the des tination city to carry the mail to the central post office. There takes place a "primary separa tion" letters are sorted accord ing to postal sub-stations. Then there is a "secondary separa tion," meaning the same letters are sorted according to carrier routes. Trucks carry the mail to the Wasliin The oil lobbyists are active at all levels, protecting that allowance By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON Texas oil ty coon Bedford Wynne dropped by the Democratic National Commit tee last week to discuss campaign contributions and lax changes. The two subjects are not unre lated. Indeed, oilmen have learn ed that the bigger their contribu tions, the safer their tax bene fits. Wynne was closeted for 45 min utes with Dick Maquire, a back room politician, who handles fi nances and favors for the Demo cratic party. Maquire never for gets a big contributor who may be in need of government considera tion. There are a few more deserv ing contributors than oilman Wynne, who staged a $l,000-a-plate dinner last January to pay off Uie Democratic debt. The din ner raised a whopping $500,900, largely from the oil crowd. Shortly after this happy event, Wynne's oil partner, John Murchi son, paid a private 90-minute call on the President. The visit was never announced, and no one over heard their conversation. But Murchison returned to Tex as smiling, and told fellow oilmen not to worry about tax reforms. Now the House Ways and Means Committee is putting Uie finishing touches on a tax bill. Wynne chose this moment to show up in Wash ington and volunteer his services again to raise money for the Dcm- Berlin wall has not solved E. Germany's problem, nor has it stabilized Red regime By Joseph B. Fleming UPI Staff Writer BERLIN (UPI) "Conditions are so bad in the prison that even the keepers are escaping." That's a popular West Ber lincrs' description of East Berlin two years after the building of the anti-refugee wall that divides the city. The wall, built by the Commu nists on Aug. 13, 1961, has not solved the satellite East Ger mans' problems, nor has it helped stabilize the regime as the Com munists had hoped. H did halt the mass flood of refugees that threatened to bleed East Germany white. But East Germans still brave dec.th almost daily to flee by every conceivable means. And the prison's keepers The Bulletin Tuesday, August 20, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Leu W. Meyers, Cire. Manager Loren B. Oyer. Moch. Sup'l.. William A. Vates. Managing Ed. wija IkkiI CUtm Mitr Unian . llt. u trw fvu omce II m Urtavn. n- Vr ,-( of x ist publlti4 ul!r IMSI Sunda, and ccr.aH hoUd7l to i4 0nl tiuilfUo. Inc. BIGGEST BUSINESS (2) will a nickel buy so much? offers nation's 'best buy' appropriate sub-station post of fices where the letters are sort ed again according to individual addresses. Then the postman picks up the letters and delivers 'hem. This is a cumbersome process, subject to human error, and the Post Office Department is seek ing short cuts. One of them is the ZIP code, which works like this you address a letter as follows: Mr. John Doe 3300 North Dinwiddie Street Arlington, Va. 22207. The five numbers are the ZIP code. The 7 indicates the postal zone. The first 2 identifies the national postal area, which in this case consists of six states. The second 2 indicates the sub division postal area, northern Virginia. The th'ird 2 Identifies the post office, Arlington. The 07 points out the sub-station from which the mail Is to be delivered to North Dinwiddie Street. With the ZIP code a postal clerk can tell at a glance pre cisely where the letter Is going. It also opens up the possibility that eventually mail can be sort ed by machines capable of read ing code numbers. The ZIP code originally was designed for cor porations with heavy mailing lists, but anybody can get a number by applying to his postmaster. The Post Office Department says 80 per cent of the letters reacting to the ZIP code have been favorable. But an angry minority has been writing to newspapers and magazines pro testing that if this keeps up we are all going to become num bers rather than persons. "ZIP, schmip" wrote J. Paul Hunter of Williamstown, Mass., to Time magazine in an angry let ter, which he signed: "208-24-6254 (Social Security), 413-4583360 (telephone), 319 (col lege), 92167 (ZIP). Time's editors replied sympa thetically, but said they were honor bound to tell Hunter that on ffton Merry- o ocratic cause In 1964. Wynne's trip was probably un necessary. For there is little dan ger that the congressmen will plug Uie most gaping of all tax loopholes: the oil depiction allow ance. Slick Oil Lobby Behind the congressmen, crack ling Uie velvet whip, are the oil lobbyists. They are Uie most skilled, most elite of all Washing ton pressure people. Well-tailored and turned out, they are skilled at the "soft sell," seldom are found engaged in blatant lobbying. They belong to the hush-hush, plush-plush Carlton Club on the second floor of Washington's Sher aton - Carlton Hotel. Here, in an atmosphere of elegant dignity, they entertain congressmen and government officials. There are afternoon poker and gin games, subdued bull sessions, lots of liq uor. When their oil privileges are Uireatened, however, these back room boys can drop Uieir dignity and lobby at any level it takes to win. They can retain a senator's law firm, if necessary, or deliver campaign cash to a needy con gressman. Those who cannot be persuaded or pressured are investigated. During the gas bill fight, Uie oil lobby ran a complete genealogy on senators, who suddenly receiv ed letters from almost forgotten relatives asking them to support the police, soldiers and border guards are escaping In ever increasing numbers. Would Risk Western officials say the Com munists would risk the almost complete depopulation of East Germany if they took the wall down now. Two years ago when the wall went up East Germans were fleeing the West Berlin hole in the Iron Curtain at the rate of up to 100 an hour. In July, the last full month be fore the wall, 30.000 East Ger mans walked or rode across the East-West border. The wall along the 26-mile East-West Rerlin border halted that mass flow. In the two years since the wall 16.456 rcfucees have managed to get to the West. their subscription list he was oooooj71t342014. That ended the correspondence and time marches on. A large headache to Uie Post Office Department is that 80 per cent of the day's mail is deposit ed after S p.m. In New York City alone seven million pieces of mail more than the daily mail vol ume of all Canada goes into the slots after 5 p.m. The Post Office Department is fighting this bottle-neck by trying to persuade big corporations to deposit their mail at intervals throughout the day. Another device for speeding de livery is called ABCD (acceler ated business collection and de livery). It works only Inside the business districts of cities. If you drop a letter in a box marked ABCD before 11 a.m., the Post Office Department will guarantee to deliver it by 3 p.m. of the same day. This was tried out last year in Lansing, Mich., worked well and is now used in more than 40 cities. Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who has just resigned to return to private business, is an imaginative fellow and he kept coming up with ideas for speed ing up the mails. One day he got to thinking about the plight of the postman who has to deliver mail in tall buildings and he came up with VIM (vertical improved mail). It is now being tried in the 20-story Crown Zellerbach building in San Francisco. VIM is a system of dumb wait ers operating from the building's central mail room. Each tenant has a big locked box which Is sent up periodically to his floor. He opens the box with his key, takes out the mail and puts in the outgoing letters. You can have as many deliveries per day as you choose and get rid of the out going mail at the same time. Tomorrow: Problems of the postmen biting dogs and amorous women. roil ncl the bill. Commented Sen. George Aiken, Vermont Republican: "They have checked on who you have ever been associated with, who are your friends, who has supported you in the past, anybody who has ever worked for you or with you. And they get them to contact you." The giant is Standard Oil of New Jersey, which also does the most subUe job of disguising its power. It maintains only a modest office in Washington, and handles government relates from New York City, thus attracting less at tention. Eso's Quiet Men The quiet, suave squads of Standard Oil men, who commute regularly between Manhattan and Washington, are discreeUy di rected by Judge Cecil Morgan, a dignified gray-thatched Louisiana genUeman. The genial judge works closely with Humble Oil, whose Washing ton office is headed by young, handsome Walter Sprague, an tx Eiscnhower official. Gulf Oil's Washington office is run by Kermit Roosevelt, grand son of rough-riding T.R. Socony uses Chris Herter, Jr., son of the former Secretary of State; and Texaco has Jim Pipkin, a roly poly Texas politician type. These men pull powerful strings both on Capitol Hill and in Uie government departments down town. The first year 12,000 got out. Strengthened controls Uie second year cut Uie number to 4,456. But the number of escaping soldiers and police has increased. The first year 400 soldiers, bor der guards and policemen fled. The second year 904. Only fear of retaliation against their families and lack of oppor tunity keep most border guards from fleeing, defectors have re ported. Despised By Civilians Morale is said to be extremely low because the soldiers are de spised by civilians for guarding the wall. Pfc. Manfred Tucker, 21, who fled to the V. S. Army's Check point Charlie last month, said "no matter how crowded a train is no other passenger will take a vacant seat next to a border guard. "I was stationed In East Ber lin almost two years ago and never got to know a girl. They wouldn't talk to us. Outside of Uy men in my company I had no friends." Pftf Hrinx Heger. 20. who also fled, said: "More than half of my unit would defect to the West in the . first few days if war broke out." U.S.-Soviet accord has raised question of Red China's course By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer Just as the nuclear test ban agreement has aroused specula tion over possible ncv areas of agreement between the Uiuted States and the Soviet Union, so there also is room for legitimate speculation over the course now to be followed by Red China. President Kennedy piirased it in somber tones when he said at his Aug. 1 news conference that a continuation of present Red Chi nese policies into the 1970's could create a situation potentially more dangerous than any since the end of World War II. The failure of the two Commu nist giants to settle Uieir dispute in last month's Moscow meetings effectively isolated Peking from Moscow, and the nuclear agree ment simply added to Red Chi nese frustration. This is a frustration of long -standing, having Its roots in steadfast U. S. opposition to Red Chinese expansions and now abet ted by Soviet refusal to help the Chinese develop a nuclear arsen al of their own. It may be expected that Red China will move strongly now to consolidate her influence over the Communist parties of Asia, and to extend it over similar parties in Africa and South America, us ing the color line as one of her weapons. She also may be expected to continue boring from within tac tics. She has denounced the lea dership of the World Federation of Trade Unions, the Internation al Union of Students and the World Federation of Democratic Youth for supporting the Nuclear Treaty. But she has made no move to withdraw membership in such Communist organizations. Militarily she is able to pose a threat in Korea, in southeast Asia and against India. But reckless as the Red Chi nese leadership has been with words, it has shown no real desire to take on a fight it is certain to lose. With the U. S. 7th Fleet patrol Other pens . . . Stan the most Big league baseball will lose one . of its real institutions this fall when Stan "The Man" Musial hangs up his spikes. Musial has been a St. Louis Car dinal mainstay for 22 years. He won three National League Most Valuable Player awards. He led the league In batting seven times. He holds National League records for the most runs (1,939), most games (2,987), most hits (3,610), most doubles (721), most times at bat (10,881) and most runs batted in (1,937). He holds the major lea gue record for total bases (6,099). He never won a home run title, but his 472 round-trippers place him sixth on Uie all-time home run list. The 42-year-old Musial also is one of the game's finest sports men and gentlemen. He will be missed, but remembered, by fans everywhere. (Salem Capital Jour nal.) Barbs Some politicians name names, others just call them. We'd be almost willing to let some reformers shut up every thing If it included their mouths. When mother docs fall house cleaning she may find an egg or two hidden for the kids at Easter. The need of a shave is con sidered one of the best chaperons. Authors ACROSS 1 American humorist 4 "Ivanhoe" author C "Gold Bug" author 12 "Diamond - ' 13 Titter 14 Morsel 15 Escape (slsng) IS Soul (Hindu) 17 Creek 18 Roman official 20 Plug up 22 Oil of orange 24 Author of 'Spectator 25 Craw 4 Madame de , writer 5 Whale (comb, form) 6 Resistance unit 7 Beverage 8 Dogma 9 0. Henry 10 Bird 11 Storehouse 19 Humble at Observe 23 Lizard 24 Raw material 27 Mediterranean herb genus 29 Direct current (ab) 30 Kipling's "Just Stories" 26 Gun (slang) 28 Sooner than 29 French writer 31 Town plaza (Italian X Holy (Hindu) 35 Nothing 38 Arrest Island 39 Thulium aside 41 Hardens 4al Winebibber 45 Creator of . "Doll s House." 48 Some 47 Cordage fibre M I have (eontr.) 52 Jap statesman 5.1 Impassive MBorn Si Negative prefix &6 Author of "Tennessee's Partner" 97 Worm DOWN 1 Author of "A Kentucky Cardinal' J Crown 1 Nr? York, tows ling the Straits of Formosa, sha has made no real move against the Chiang Kai-Shek stronghold or even against the off-shore islands of Quemoys or the Mat sus. When shooting broke out along the Korean truce line and three Americans died there last month, there was a flurry of speculation that this might be the start of a new Chinese-directed attempt to start something. South Korean Election Finally, more than to anything else, it was attributed to the sea son and to a desire to disrupt approaching South Korean elec tions. The chance that Red China, with an obsolete air force and without nuclear weapons, would start a major action against such a lineup seems Increasingly re mote. But, meanwhile, the nuclear re actor given to Peking by the Russians in 1958 continues to cook its bomb-making material and in 10 years the picture could be different. Active season for political 'balloons' ahead By Dick West UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) In politics, it is important to be able to distinguish between a trial balloon and a lead balloon. Many a politician has turned loose what he thought was a trial balloon only to have it drop on his foot and fracture a couple of tootsies. Others have been known to rupture their lungs trying to blow air into the uninflatable variety. Despite such hazards, however, it appears that we are in for a rather active balloon season dur ing the next few months. The 1964 national conventions are still about a year away and already a couple of exploratory gasbags have appeared on the horizon. When last seen they were los- ing altitude fast. Apparently the launchers were unable to get all the lead out. Trial balloons have one thing in common a certain amount of flatulence. Beyond that they may vary widely in shape and size. Possibly there are a -number of children, and maybe a few under-privileged adults, who have never seen a trial balloon. For their benefit, and for others who may need a refresher course in trial balloon recognition, I shall undertake to list the identi fying featurs of some of the more familiar types. "Friends of Sen. Lungbuster are quietly working behind the scenes in an effort to obtain the presidential nomination for him next year. . ." The key word there, the one that stamps it as the work of a trial balloonist, is "quietly." If his friends thought that Lungbuster really had a chance, they already -would have hired a brass hand. Should this balloon produce any sort of reaction other than hys terical laughter, a second one will be sent aloft. "Some of the prospective candi dates for next year's presidential nomination are quietly working behind the scenes in a 'Stop Lungbuster maneuver. . ." A balloon of that sort gels its lift from the fact that the person being stopped actually has never started. It presages the launch ing of still another type. "Sen. Lungbuster had quietly passed the word that he would not accept second place on the ticket." Answer to Previous Pinzie 32 Japanese cult 33 Author of "Lillian" 34 Chevahcr'a island 38 Lump 37 Arsenical gas 38 Steers 39 Creator of 'Huck Finn" 40 Erse 42 Female kin 43 Cuts 48 Station (lb J 49 Hill 50 Ignited I m Ajkl aIsIwIaIJoIvIeIrI 1ER El IL O I Ft er e rTsI glrllREs!sMgAS Tlel IfflASMEKQ Fi ' sE Si Ms: HSEJi UbH aim fylgltryB err e SlaSjHMlIjSjBlM AgTS E RTt E ISWq SilE T 12 3 4 i 6 17 18 I U 0 111' Ti rs ti f! if 1 ij 5F -pyr 53j n 4i Ri u 44 p 4 7T 4 Mj 5l 3 5 55 55 si
