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The suspense is murder! 0 St U A. rkJ tf i" weal M ' fi'mllT 1 Few persons Pearson Ws 7e change in K's actually knOW position on various German problems whdt's in bill 3d. -..-...n-S.!.-!-.:' WHT9pJ?ai)a' Somefimes fhe position of the man makes the sen tence stiff er Down In Oceanlake a group of citizens Is working up a petition to Governor Mark O. Hatfield, asking him to excerise executive clemency In behalf of one of their fellow resi dents convicted of a crime. The con vict is a former justice of the peace In Taft, tried last summer on t w o counts of forgery. The justice, a man named Benson, was charged with forging checks on the lumber com pany where he was employed as an accountant. - The main theme of those seek ing the petition signatures, If we read the press reports correctly, is that the sentence two three-year sentences, running at the same time, actually is too harsh. One of the leaders In the movement put it this way to a reporter the other day: "We don't uy he's not guilty," V John Othui, Neotsu, ald. "But w do 5 tay" th three-year sentence li exag ; geraled compartd to thlngi you raad ' about In tht paper. If they havo In- fluence, thty gat off with lighter sen neat." i Benson was involved in lots of things in that coastal area. He was ill addition to being an accountant and justice of the peace, the pro prietor of an insurance agency, and a good church member. He must have been a busy man, indeed. , Those seeking the clemency perhaps are unfamiliar with one tendency of the courts. And that is to set stiffer sentences for a person In a position of trust or responsibili ty who commits a crime than might be Imposed upon another citizen who commits the same crime. A good example of this is seen Teenage marriage The frequently - heard remark that people are marrying younger than ever is a gross understatement. Last year, 54.8 of all brides and one out of five bridegrooms in Ore gon, married for the first time, came from the teenage population. On the other side of the coin are staggering divorce statistics. Of the 853 wives under 25 years-of-age who sought divorces In Oregon last year, 615 first were married as teen agers. In other words, 72 of wives seeking divorce were married as teenagers and divorced within ten years. Few marriages actually last ten years. The greatest number of divorces in 19(52 occurred after the couple had celebrated their first anniversary, but before they had in the handling of income tax viola tions by the federal courts. A law yer, or a tax accountant, who cheats on his income tax is almost always certain to receive some sort of pri son term. The same seems to be true of newspaper editors. The courts feel members of these groups occupy special positions of trust, because of their occupations. A retail clerk who cheats on income tax may quite possibly get off with paying back taxes, penalties, interest, a fine, and being put on probation. This, you might feel, is stiff enough punish ment for a relatively small amount (In dollars) of cheating. But a law yer, or accountant, involved in the same thing, almost always will be booked into a federal reformatory or prison, even if only for a short term. Newspaper editors quite likely will suffer the same fate. One case which is being watch ed with some Interest now is that of James M. Landis, adviser to three Democratic Presidents of this coun try, former Dean of the Harvard Law School, and former head of two . Independent government agencies. Landis was hailed into court for failure to report a large sum in in come on which he should have paid taxes. The penalty will be announc ed soon, but it is almost sure to in clude some time in custody. The amount involved in the con victions of the Taft justice of the peace may have been relatively small. But any man who sets him self up to judge the actions of his fellow man must expect a relatively stiff sentence if he transgresses him self, no matter how little. celebrated their second. Of the total of 6000 divorces and annulments in the state last year, over 2000 mar riages ended within five years of the wedding day. It seems to be a vicious circle. Divorces are comparatively easy to acquire. ("Cruel and inhuman treat ment" is an all-inclusive term.) Be cause of this, there often is little concern for an enduring relation ship with another person. There Is little that can bo done to stop teenage marriages and little that can be done to save thorn when they hit the rocks. Though counsel ing through professionals, clergy men, or even parents might be of aid, few of the youngsters involv ed are even aduit enough to realize its benefits. How silly can West Coast get? West Coast Airlines has an nounced a new, temporary schedule which allows Central Oregonians to leave this area early in the morning, go to Portland, and return before (just barely) the next work day. The new schedule will serve precious few passengers. West Coast probably can check with station agents at the points involved, and Just let the plane sit in Portland, rather than making a useless flight. A passenger wishing to take advantage of the pew schedule will leave the Redmond nlrpopt at 3:15 a.m. (That's right, in the morning.) After a couple of stops at Corval lis and Salem he will arrive in Portland at 4:44 a.m. And that cer tainly is early enough to get in a business day in Portland, where most stores and offices don't open for busi ness until 9 a.m., or later. West Coast gives you plenty of time to do business, too. Don't rush. Your return plane will leave at 1:30 a.m., the next day. After the inter mediate stops it will arrive back in Redmond at 3 a.m. That's 23 hours and 45 minutes after you loft, mak ing the day just a wee bit long. But It certainly does give you plenty of time to shop in Portland, whore stores close about 5:30 p.m. And you don't have to hurry getting to the airport to catch the return plane. How silly can West Coast got? By Draw Pearson GAGHA, Georgia, U.S.S.R. The last time I interviewed Khru shchev on the shores of the Black Sea, the Berlin crisis was at its peak and he gave his ideas on the Berlin problem with consider able vigor. This time he was more sympathetic, though still empha tic that the German question was the key to European peace. "The German question is like a case of appendicitis,' he said. "Everyone understands it's harm ful but the patient doesn't want to be operated on, so lie walks around and aggravates his dis ease. "Everyone wants a sett!rrrsy:t on the German question. It would improve relations not only be tween the United States and the Soviet Union, but all countries. I am sure this is the wish of Presi dent Kennedy. "It would seem quite reason able to let the people of West Berlin develop their future as they wish, but along comes Adenauer and objects. He then starts bcr gaining between Kennedy and De Gaulle and Berlin becomes a pawn. "However, it is Inconceivabb that we should have war. Why should we go to war over Ade nauer's claims?" When I asked Khrushchev for his present ideas on settling Ber lin, he replied, "a peace treaty should be signed between the two German states. One goes toward capitalism and the other goes for ward to socialism. But we must let them work out their future. We must sign a treaty guaran teeing routes of access and guar anteeing noninterference in their internal affairs. We must give West Berlin a chance to develop the way it wants. "This will be a reasonable so lution. It would not infringe on either of the two states, but would give them a chance to develop as they wish. We want Germany to become a socialist state. You want Germany to become a capi talist state. This cannot be ar ranged around a round-table." I didn't understand the translation of this and asked for an explana tion. A Table of Any Shape "You got me wrong," explained Mr. K. "I was ironic about the roundtable. The shape of the ta ble has nothing to do with it. It will not help us to talk at any shape table. No side will yield, so the only solution is to sign a peace treaty and let Germany work out its own solution." "Would this mean that Bonn would give up its demand for re unification?" asked Agnes Mey er, who participated In the inter view. "Yes, this is so," replied Khru shchev, "but there again in a peace treaty we can meet the na tional wishes of the people and there can be unification of the two German states provided there is agreement between the two German governments. "On what basis will they agree?" Khrushchev asked, then answered his own question: "Maybe capitalistic, maybe so cialistic. It is up to them to dis cuss and decide." I asked him whether he and Dean Rusk made any progress in settling these matters. "No," he replied. "We've only exchanged views. We decided not to bring up this question now, not until the test-ban treaty has been disposed of. Then we will proceed to other questions. We also decid- U. S. MAILS: WORLD'S BIGGEST BUSINESS (4) ed to pay some attention to the non - aggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw pact na tions, but we didn't decide any thing except to come back and discuss it all later." Put German Question First I asked whether there was any priority regarding which subject should be discussed first. Mr. K. replied, "these matters are not linked in any way. Of course, it would be more desirable to dis cuss the German question first be cause it is a major one. Discus sion on a non-aggression pact is easier. It is a moral matter." I recalled a conversation with Major Willi Brandt in West Ber lin last year in which he advo cated putting part of the United Nations in West Berlin. "I have said we favor the de ployment of part of the UN in Berlin," Khrushchev observed, "but that does not mean there will be no control at the border dividing Berlin. All states have their borders and guard them and it is time for the West to get used to that fact. East Germany will guard its border." When I asked Khrushchev about reports that he might visit Pope Paul, he left the door open with this reply: "Replying In office -like lang uage, I may state that so far my plans do not include such a vis it." Then he went on to say, "the late Pope John was a man of whom it might be said 'he felt the pulse of the time.' He was much wiser than his predecessor. He understood the times we live in." Khrushchev discussed the ques tion of mutual trust and, briefly, Red China, as will be reported tomorrow. Who's most popular fellow in country? 'Occupant' he gets all that junk mail By Harry Ferguson UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) The most popular fellow in the whole United States is named "occu pant." He gets a steady stream of mail, most of which he quick ly conveys without opening to the waste basket. This is what many embittred persons call "junk mail." The U. S. Post Office Department pre fers to call it "bulk mail" and can advance several valid reasons why it is a good thing for the country. ' Eighteen billion pieces of this third clas mail flow into the mail boxes of Americans each year and a good bit of its does not even have their name in the ad dress. It simply is addressed to "occupant." Most Americans are resigned to Ihcir fate and do nothing about the tilings stuffed into their mail boxes, but occasional ly a bold spirit revolts and takes up arms against the government. Such a one is Mis. Robert L. Richard of Palo Alto, Calif., a sort of Joan of Arc who organized a crusade against "junk mail' by collecting 100 pounds of it and shipping it to the Post Office De partment here in Washington. Starts With Letter "It all started with a begging letter I received," sho said. "It came all the way from Alabama to Palo Alto. It contained a letter, a return envelope and two pieces of literature. It was from an or ganization I'd never heard of and I would never dream of contribu ting to it." Mrs. Richard invited her neigh bors to help and they responded by filling up her clothes basket, her garbage can. several cardbord cartons and a large box. Off went the "junk mail" to Washington where it lauded with a dull thud. Nothing happened. Mrs. Richard is still getting "junk mail' and w ill continue to do so. Like death and taxes, it is inevitable. The Post Office Department t:ikcs in $94 million a year in third class mail revenue. It charges 2-i. cents a piece and next year the cost will go up to 2H cents. It probably could go much hiqhcr without discouraging the people who send out bulk mail. The whole thing has become firm ly built into the structure of the American economy and its re moval would result In chaos and probably a sizeable number of bankruptcies. How It Works It works this way: There are firms such as R. L. Polk Co., which keeps lists of persons by classification automobile own ers, pet lovers, fishermen, goiters, chefs, do- it - yourself carpenters, motorcycle riders and anything else you care to name. Say a manufacturer of fishing rods comes up with a new product. He goes to R. L. Polk and Co., and rents their fisherman list and subsequently the advertising mat ter goes forward. In this case the third class mail is addressed to persons by name. But a soap com pany, for instance, may blanket the country with third-class mail addressed only to "occupant." The size of a mailing by a busi ness concern can very widely. A firm selling bull dozers may send out only 5,000 letters. A candy manufacturer may send out 60 million. And what about the re sponse? Many charitable and non profit organizations use third class mail and they get the high est ratio of responses, sometimes as much as 75 per cent. Business firms which enclose coupons to be returned have achieved results as high as 20 per cent. But al most every user of third class mail considers it is a worth while investment if five per cent of the people respond in some fashion. The Post Office Department, of course, is strictly under the con trol of Congress which decides how much money shall be ap propriated each year. And Con gress itself is a great lover of bulk mail because its members can flood constituents with letters at no personal cost. Gets Lump Sum This is known as "franking" and it is unnecessary to describe the contents of mail from con gressmen because everybody has had experience with it, especially in the weeks leading up to an election. In return for the privi lege of franking mail. Congress votes a lump sum each year to the Post Office, That makes it unnecessary for the individual congressman to stand up and bo counted as to how many pieces of mail he is dumping on the voters. Is there any way to get your name off mailing lists? Apparent ly not without considerable in convenience to yourself. Maxwell Sackheim of Clearwater, Fla., was advised by the St. Peters burg. Kla.. Post Office to write to the mailers and ask them to eliminate his name. In his reply, Sackheim gave the Post office Department both bar rels: "You reveal a shocking ignor ance of modern business sales meUiods. To remove my name from mailing lists I would have to: "Cancel my subscription to Time Magazine. Fortune. Forbes, Reader's Digest. Saturday Even ing Post. Advertising Age. Amer ican Home. Better Homes & Gar dons, the Flower Grower and a dozen other publications. "Order my name removed from Who's Who in America, Com merce & Industry, Rotary Club of Clearwater, the Chamber of Com merce, Poor's Director of Direc tors, Free and Accepted Masons, Mecca Temple, East Bay Country Club, YMCA, The Red Cross, the Cancer Fund, the Clearwater City Directory and the telephone di rectory, American Express credit card, Standard Oil credit" card, several financial institutions and banks, the Book of the Month lub, the Literary Guild and the Columbia Record Club." In case you are wondering how your name gets on mailing lists, Sackheim has provided the an swer. Tomorrow: Detectives of the U.S. Mails The War Against P tonography). By Zan Stark UPI Staff Writer SALEM (UPI) - While thou sands of persons throughout Ore gon either oppose or support a referral of the 1963 legislature's $60 million tax increase package, few of them know what's in the revenue bill. The package adopted by the legislature includes three :najor divisions a liberalized capital gains tax offset by increases in the corporate excise tax, a one shot speedup of withholding tax collections to be used only if needed, and increases in personal income tax rates. The personal income tax in crease would raise an additional $48 million. The one-shot speedup would bring in another $12 mil lion just before the end of the current biennium. Income Features Listed The main features of the new personal income tax bill are these: Removal of the federal in come tax deduction. Joint treatment for head of household. Students allowed as depend ency credit. Full extra credit for blind persons. One-half extra credit for sen ior citizens (over 65). $22 tax credit for personal and dependence deductions. Unlimited medical deduction above 5 per cent of income. 5 per cent optional standard deduction. Fractional rates ranging from 2 to 7V4 per cent. Base broadening via a $5 fil ing fee, 1 per cent of the adjusted gross income, or the tax, which ever is higher. Federal Tax Smaller Elimination of the federal in come tax deduction will mean that state income tax payments will go up substantially, but fed eral income tax payments will be reduced. In effect, the federal govern ment will be paying a part of the state tax bill. As an example, take the case of a family of four with a $5,000 income. The state tax goes up $35, but because that is deductible from federal payments the federal tax would be reduced by $7, re ducing the out of pocket cost of the tax increase to $28. Examples of how other income levels will be affected: A single person with a $1,000 income will pay an additional $2, a couple would pay $10 more, and a family of four $10 more. $4,000 income Single person $25 more, couple $19 more, family of four an additional $115. $7,000 income Single person $43 more, couple $43 more, family of four an additional $55. $9,000 income Single person $46 more, couple $56 more, family of four an additional $74. More and more he watches television less and less The Bulletin Thursday, August 22, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack M-.Dtrmott, Ad. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Clrc Manager Loren E. Dyer. Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. Rvrart aa .Vomd C!u Vtr- i4-utr 4. 191? at Pit utnrt at Hfrwl (tTffl utr A--t Ma'trf S, tTS J'uMnti.! .Mil ixi-tv Sun.H ami rriln ft.tt.K.i h Trit bnd bulletin. Inc. By Dick West UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) More and more I found myself watch ing television less and less. And this worried me. Other people were watching television as much as ever. Why was I different? Was there some thing wrong with me? For weeks I went around brooding about this. Meanwhile, I began losing weight. Became pale and listless. Tongue coated. The way I always get when I'm brooding about something. Finally I asked Dr. Swizzle about it. Dr. Swizzle said I should try to analyze what was estranging me from television. He said that if I understood the problem it might make me feel better. I did and I feel better already. Not first rate yet, but better. It seems that I got along fine as long as the networks were bringing television into the living room. The trouble started when they began bringing the living room into television. Looking back on it. I think the first symptoms occurred with a program called "Charade Party." We were playing charades about five nights a week then. On the sixth night we would turn on the set and there would be people playing charades on tele vision. I have a mental block about what happened the seventh night. Perhaps that is just as well. After that came a program called "Open End." People sit ting around yakking. yakking, yakking. Spilling roffee aid get ting cigarette ashes all ever everything. It is true they weie important people, but It wasn't much dif ferent from the nights we had the neighbors ill. I think that must have been when I began getting television confused with reality. Then the commercials changed. Or some of them did. They be gan using real live people instead of actors. People just like the folks next door, which Is saying a lot. Once or twice I thought I caught a glimpse of my wife standing by the washing machine and telling the announcer how good the soap was. It was kind of eerie. I might have survived all of that, might have stayed glued to the tube, except that this sum mer I tuned in on a new pro gram. Bless my soul if they weren't showing home movies on television. Home movies, the scourge of civilization. Home movies being piped right into my own living room. I don't trust television now ex cept when there's a ball game on. Fortunately, some of my best friends aren't ball players. Worlh ; "When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to hav the advantage ot being heard by the public." Bnamin Franklin. Connections denied, 'illusion' cleared To the Editor: In the interest of clarification and for the edification of the gen eral public, we would like to state a few pertinent facts relative to two items of public interest and concern. First, there is no connection personally or financially between M.R.S. Company, Inc., and the undersigned. Second, there is no collusion be tween the Bend Chamber of Com merce and their off-street parking area and the undersigned. It has come to our attention that some individuals and or groups have been laboring under the illusion of one or both of the above untruths. Very truly yours, Bruin Field Developer! James O. Arntz Charles W. Rickabaugh Bend, Oregon, Aug. 19, 1963 Other pens . . . New friends It's going to be interesting to see what's in store for the con sumer as a result of the high level reorganization under vay in the Agriculture Department. The report from Washington is that a new assistant secretary will be put in charge of marketing and consumer affairs to expand sub stantially the department's con sumer activities. Perhaps this development shouldn't be any surprise. After all, the number of farms and farmers has been decreasing while the number of Agriculture Department employes has been steadily increasing. So naturally Secretary Freeman had to find something new for all those em ployes to do. Anyway, putting more of them to work in the consumer's behalf sounds like a wonderful idea. For it's been the consumer who's been suffering, all these years, from the department's farm policies which have helped to boost the price of many foods higher than they ought to be. It's the consum er who also has been paying the tax bills for the Agriculture De partment's costly subsidies, pries supports and controls. So the department seems a highly appropriate place for a consumer section. And if these of ficials really have the consumer's interest at heart, they won't have any trouble telling Mr. Freeman exactly what to do. (Wall Street Journal.) CAT REWARDED READING, England (UPI) William Butler, 73, left his cat, Tibber, $1,400 in his will because she served as a "watchdog" each night when he went out for a drink, it was disclosed Wednesday. Barbs When it finally makes you fast to live there's no sense in living too fast. Washington is full of people who pass down the laws and jails with people who pass them up. Tree Talk Nature has the best aircooling system during which we roast to pieces in the summer. To live to be 100, drink a glass . of milk every single day for 1,200 months. 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