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'Go away boy, you bofher me!' 4WashingloKvMeiTvgorouncl Mo in grandfather's day JFK fakes dim view of his daughter's poetry Once again, a strike of railway men is set for midnight; will be costly I For the umpteenth time, the nation's railroads have announced new work rules to become effective at midnight tonight. And once again, rail Unions have said a strike will be called effective the time the work rules become operative. The public, we fear, faced with an on again-off again situation for nearly four years, Ss tired of the whole business. The two sides abhor compulsory arbitra tion, but neither is bargaining real istically, and arbitration seems to be the only way out. Drivers on Central Oregon high ways are familiar with the number of truck lines running In and through the area. They are not so familiar with the number of rail cars moved In and out excepting In Prineville, where the city-owned railroad makes enough money to , eliminate property taxes. There Is a busy rail freight here, however, most of it In lumber, as might be expected. Potatoes are an important source of seasonal shipments.. It's hard to assess what a rail road strike would cost this area. Shipments of food and necessities probably would move In and out without too much trouble. That food which Is moved into the area over rails could be transferred to trucks without much of a problem. Some outgoing shipments of lumber might be moved by trains operated by supervisory personnel, but it Is doubtful. A long strike could do a lot of harm to a lumber Industry already plagued by poor markets end, in the case of some operators, a long strike of its own. How much does a big strike cost? Nobody can say for sure, of course, but experts have made some Informative appraisals. During the 1959 steel strike it was estimated that $70 million was being lost In wages every week, and $300 million in production. At its peak 375,000 non-steel workers were idled by the strike. The 116-day strike longest ever in the industry caused a decline in gross national product in the third quarter of 1959 of $5.9 bil lion from the second quarter annual rate of $484.5 billion. Take this year's 114-day New York City newspaper strike. Em ployees lost $50.4 million in wages and benefits. The papers lost $108 million in advertising and circula tion revenue. No one can really tell what the impact on business in Man hattan was, but conservative esti mates start at $300 million. Nobody, again, can really tote up in advance the cost of a railroad strike. Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. on Aug. 21 gave the House Commerce Com mittee a few gruesome approxima tions. A month-long rail strike, Roose velt said, would throw 6.5 million Americans out of work, boosting the unemployment rate to 15 per cent. It could cost the nation as mueh as $25 billion. Some other samples of the im pact of a long strike: 30 per cent of defense shipments normally going by rail could not be switched to other carriers. Our balance of pay merits problem would be further worsened by tied up exports. Liquid chlorine, which cannot be shipped by truck, would jiot be available for the sewage systems of large cities. Big cities that depend on commuter trains would suffer a "traffic catas trophe," and some big factories would close at once. Coal and other mines would shut down. Farmers would face "great economic hard ships." Grave public health prob lems would arise. Roosevelt's testimony was an ticipated by a Washington Post survey prior to the July 29 deadline which was later moved up to Aug. 29. This showed that in 1962 rail roads accounted for more than 43 per cent of carriers' 1.4 trillion ton miles. The study put the cost of a 30 day strike at $75 billion. Some of this, of course, would be retrieved by a very sharp rebound when the strike ended. About 60 per cent of normal rail traffic could not be moved. The railroads' 100,000 refrig erated cars could not possibly be replaced; the available refrigerator trucks are now fully utilized. Of 12 million trucks registered in the na tion scarcely more than 1 million are first-class combinations of tractor-trailers capable of efficient inter city transportation. The impact of a rail strike would, of course multiply almost to the point of explosion with the pass ing days and weeks. Roosevelt ac knowledged that most industries have at least a week's supply of materials on hand. After that, "the economic costs of the strike would surge upward at a rapidly accelerat ing rate as more and more industries exhausted their stocks." Send Phil to the moon He hasn't volunteered for the Job yet, but one Oregon newspaper suggested this country send Phil Brogan of The Bulletin's staff to the moon. The newspaper, the Oregon Statesman of Salem, has a kindly feeling toward Brogan. They don't want him to make the first trip; the second would be okay. But, here's how the suggestion was made: The Bend Chamber of Commerce board had a singular place to meet last Friday In a lava cave In Lake County. M miles southeast of Bend. It wasn't just a stunt. They had heard Dr. Jack Green, geologist for North American Aviation, discuss the studies he is mak ing of the cave and other lava sections of Central Oregon as part of prepara tions for landing on the moon. Dr. Green's theory is that the craters on the face of the moon are products of vulcanism, while others be lieve they are caused by impact ef collision with celestial fragments. Dr. Green thinks there may be raves simi lar to the Oregon lava raves on the moon. They hope through these studies to get some criteria by which to de termine the character of the moon's surface through fly-over with instru ments, before landing is attempted. Bend has many claims to fame; but If It serves as a steppingstone to the moon, this will top them all. Maybe Phil Brogan can go on the second trip and come back w ith a report on the moon's geology. By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON Not long ago, Caroline Kennedy burst into her! father's White House office and announced she had learned a new poem. "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, I love you," she recited. The President beamed; Caro line pirouetted. Then she offered to recite another poem that cou sin Chris Lawford had taught her. "There was a little girl, who had a little curl; she slipped on the grass, and fell on her . . .!" Caroline chirped, ending with a naughty word. The President fixed her with a scowl that sent her scampering. Then he grabbed the telephone, called brother-in-law, Peter Law ford, and scorched him for per mitting his son to teach Caroline off-color pooms. This wasn't the first time JFK has shown annoyance with his Hollywood brother-in-law. Once Lawford caught a ride in the presidential plane to Palm Beach, Fla. He sat up front with the small coterie around the Pres ident until someone mentioned that a Kennedy friend, William Thompson, was aboard. The President sent a sergeant to fetch Thompson, but there was no vacant seat. With a stern look at Lawford, JFK said: "Peter, disappear!" The actor moved meekly to the back of the plane, later saw the President again as they were dis embarking. "Where are you going to stay, Peter?" asked Kennedy. "Where you stay," suggested Lawford. "You're not staying with me," said the President brittlely. Then over his shoulder, he add ed: "Let me know, and I'll call you." "I won't hold my breath," said Lawford with a nervous laugh. "No," agreed the President, "don't." Confessions of a Killer Racketeer Joseph Valachi's confessions must have jolted many lawmen who have refused to believe that the underworld is guided by a secret and sinister Sicilian society. The skeptics in the International Association of Chiefs of Police, for instance, forced the organiza tion to disband its organized crime committee two years ago. They pooh-poohed its chairman, Chief Edward J. Allen of Santa Ana, Calif., for insisting that crime was not only organized but largely controlled by the Sicilians. While Valachi has revealed the inner workings of this dreaded so ciety, he has shocked government attorneys even more with his grisly stories of gangland killings. He has presented a picture of underworld executioners, some of them with more than 50 murders to their cedit, who are as blase as they are skilled at the trade of death. Valachi has told of his own role in at least a dozen slay ings. Animals in the Nude Friends of Alan Abel, founder of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, claim he has played a gigantic joke upon the country. He is preparing to confess in a magazine article, they say, that the whole idea started out as a happy hoax. His disciples have picketed the White House, attempted to clothe the animals at the San Francisco Zoo, bombarded the society's New York headquarters with pictures of pets modestly clad. One Santa Barbara, Calif., woman tried to donate MO.000 to the cause of clothing naked ani mals. But Abel rejected the of fer, is careful not to accept con tributions from the public. A Broadway promoter and erst while fertilizer salesman, Abel hired bit-actor Buck Henry to play the, role of the society's president! G. Clifford Prout. Abel accepted more modest billing for himself as Bruce Spencer, the so ciety's vice president. Goldwater Guide The professionals booming Sen. Barry Goldwater for president are secretly using the AFL-CIO hand book, "How To Win," as their po litical guide. Convinced this is the best po litical manual ever written, F. Clifton White, the national draft Goldwater director, appropriated $15 to buy three copies. He was afraid to be seen at AFL-CIO headquarters, however, lest he lose his standing in the Goldwater movement. So he sent an office girl to make the pur chase, cautioned her to give a phony name and office. She identified herself at the AFL-CIO as "Jack Anderson's sec retary," then delivered the three manuals to Goldwater headquarters. Washington already has plenty of racial problems of its own By Louis Casscls UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPD-March-ing on Washington to call atten tion to racial problems is like carrying coals to Newcastle. The nation's capital already has plenty of racial problems of its own. It is the only U. S. city in which Negroes outnumber whites. Its 456,000 Negro and 344,000 white residents live year-round in acute awareness of the tensions that build up in a city when it desegregates it a rate generally considered to slow by one race, and too fast by the other. Ten years ago, Washington was a city with segregated schools and public facilities. Today, Negroes enjoy unrestric ted acess to hotels, restaurants, theaters and other public accom modations. To refuse service to any person because of his race is a crime punishable by law. The public school system has licen completely integrated since 1954. Washington's principal industry, the federal government, hires and promotes without regard to race. About three-fourths of the resi dential areas within the dis'xict of Columbia boundaries are oc cupied predominantly or exclu sively by Negroes. To white residents, the change has been dizzy fast. They grumble about Negroes "taking over" the city. And they blame Negroes for the high rate of aggravated as saults, robberies and other crimes which have made it unsafe to walk the streets of the capital at night. To Negroes, the barriers which have fallen are less conspicuous than the formidable ones which still remain. They grumble about the informal but effective con spiracy between lending institu tions and real estate interests which keeps them from obtaining homes in the all-white suburbs, and compels them to pay out rageous prices for overcrowded Replacement of human identity with numbers seen as product of mid-Twentieth Century : - housing in the Inner city. They blame discrimination for the fact that Negro Incomes average only 70 per cent of white incomes, and Negro youths are four times as likely to be unemployed as white youths. Despite their frictions and mutual resentments, Washington's whites and Negroes have one great common bond. Both are freighteu ed by the possibility that accumu lated tensions might blow off in a major race riot. This specter has haunted the city since last Thanksgiving day, when 300 persons were injured in a Negro-white melee which broke out in the D. C. stadium follow ing a football game. Fear of a raco riot has made responsible Negro leaders chary of resorting to such weapons as mas sive sit-ins or picketing demon strations here. And it has made responsible white leaders aware thai uicre is no time to lose in removing the remaining road blocks to equality of opportunity. It has also made both groups a little nervous about Wednes day's "March on Washington." That's why Negro leaders have been at such pains to insure an orderly, peaceful rally. And it's one reason why white religious bodies have gone to great ends to make the march a biracial protest against injustice instpad of an all-Negro show. Because both groups recognize the powder-keg potential of Wash ington, some observers feel that the capital is actually less likely to experience a trajor race riot than a city which is complacent about tho state of its race rcla Hons. Another safety factor in the Washington situation Is the feel ing, which exists even among the most impatient Negro leaders, that the city is making progress, that it is moving steadily in the direction of greater equality. Housing is the chief bone of contention at present. By Barney Seibert UPI Staff Writer Your grandfather couldn't have played the numbers game. The gradual replacement of hu man identity with numbers is a product of the mid-20th Century. Night shopping gaining ground By Jess Bogue UPI Staff Writer NEW YORK (UPI) - Those lights which burn Into the evening over the shopping center parking lots have a corresponding glow in the balance sheets of the stores around them, a new survey re ports. The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) here has released a management report, dealing with the profitability of night operations and based on responses from 245 centers. The reasons for the customers' desire for night shopping opportu nities is, of course, a different story. The trek to the suburbs in metropolitan areas; the increas ing use of the automobile and the parking problems it has entailed; the usual consumer's or house wife's preference for doing most of the shopping in one package, all have helped. But the ICSC survey said that night openings in shopping centers have growing importance to the weekly gross sales volume tig ures. More than one-third, or 37.7 per cent of them, estimate that a half to three-fourths of their weekly volume is done between 6 p.m. and closing, usually at 9 p.m. Another 36.7 per cent estimated that 30 to 50 per cent of their total gross sales could be attrib uted to evening-hour openings. The remaining 25.6 per cent said night sales represented 5 to 25 per cent of the total gross. Of the responding stores, only one per cent said they had no night openings, and 36.7 per cent were open six nights a week. Groups to map vote campaign PORTLAND (UPI) Officers of the state's education organiza tions were to meet today as a committee to plan a campaign to sell voters on the legislature's $60 million income measure be fore Oct. 15. The bill's fate will be deter mined in a special election brought by referral. The committee chairman is Mrs. Stephen Turol, Portland, president of the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers. The committee also invited la bor and industry groups to join in the campaign to save the tax bill from defeat. Most of the $60 million in new taxes would go to local school districts and state operated uni versities and colleges, according to the committee. The group was formed at a meeting of the Oregon Education Association, PTA and Oregon School Boards Association. Dropout fund distribution set PORTLAND (UPI) - Portland is the only major West Coast city which will not receive a share of the President's emergency fund to campaign against school drop outs. Seattle will get $5,000; San Francisco, $5,000; San Diego, $6, 500, and Los Angeles, $16,000. The allocations ranged from $300 to $20,000 and were based on local district anti-dropout plan outlined to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Wel fare. The President's $250,000 grant was being distributed to 62 school districts in 23 states. Local school officials indicated Portland may not receive funds because the city's dropout rate is less than that of other cities. In the 19th Century birth re gistration was uncommon end a task for the churches in many areas. Death certification was not required. There were no credit cards, Social Security numbers, or Federal Bureau of Investiga tion fingerprint files. Military serial numbers came into existence with World War I. It wasn't until the final decade of the 19th Century that auto li censing began. Before that, many were suspi cious of numbers. Puritan Oliver Cromwell said, "A few honest men are better than numbers." Abolitionist William Lloyd Gar rison said, "The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend on numbers." Beilby Porteus, an 18th Cen tury poet, said, "Princes, were privileged to kill and numbers sanctified the crime." Samuel Johnson said, "Round numbers are always false." Essayist Syd ney Smith said, "Nothing was so fallacious as facts, except fig ures." Accepts German's Motto But 20th Century man accepted the motto of 16th Century Ger man mathematician Adam Riese: "Figures don't lie." With the multiplicity of num bers, the gradual conversion of identity into a digit is causing many 20th Century scholars con cern. Semantical S. I. Hayakawa of Primary laws Hatfield to s San Francisco State College say "A man needs recognition of him self. He needs to be identified as a unique individual. He doesn't want to be known by a number and he will rebel against it and the system." Sociologist Bruno BettelhMm of the University of Chicago says the numbers game "is a part of the general mechanization of the world in which we live. It is a symptom of the general deper sonalization of society. We must take steps to preserve the dig nity and identity of . the) in dividual." Even in the prisons, . where every man has a number, there was revolt against the num bers systems. M y r 1 Alexander, Southern Illinois University criminologist and former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said the trend away from numbers be gan in the federal penal system about 25 years ago. Called By Name Numbers are still used In fed eral prisons, but only for record keeping, and prisoners are called by name, not number. "It is significant that the in herent dignity of a man's name need not he taken away from him merely because he enters prison," Alexander said. But such isolated revolts show no sign of stemming the numeri cal avalanche elsewhere. may permit tay neutral By Zan Stark UPI Staff Writer SALEM (UPI) Oregon's unique primary election laws may give Gov. Mark Hatfield an excuse to remain neutral during the strug gle for national leadership of the Republican party. Hatfield, often mentioned as a vice presidential possibility, and sometimes as a presidential dark horse, expects to head the Ore gon delegation to the Republican National Convention in San Fran cisco next summer. Neutrality could enhance Hat field's dark horse position. Under Oregon law. delegates are required to support the win ner of Oregon's May 15 presi dential primary election. The law requires delegates to stick with the primary victor for the first two ballots, until re leased, or until their candidate receives less than 35 per cent of the convention vote. The Oregon primary could be one of the most significant in the nation because all the front-running contenders may be candi dates. Oregon law requires Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. to list the name of every leading contender on the ballot. This in cludes anyone Appling finds is "generally advocated or recog nized in national news media throughout the United States." A candidate's name may also be placed on the ballot by petition. In Hatfield's Favor Appling, a Republican, has al ready started scanning eight major newspapers and five na tional magazines to determine whom is being "generally advo cated." Hatfield. 41, has indicated he will not direct his support to any one Republican until tho state's voters indicate their choice at the primary. It's a situation balanced in Hat field's favor. The law gives Hatfield ar: op portunity to avoid the risk of backing the wrong man. Also, with all major candidates faced with having to win the Ore-It..-,. 2 ' . ; -:'r gon primary if they want to win the national nomination,' Hatfield will be required by ,law to sup port the man who appears most likely to succeed at San Fran cisco. . . ;.. Nobody expects President John F. Kennedy to have opposition on the Democratic side. This is a reverse of the po litical situation in 1960 when for mer Vice President Richard Nix on dominated Republican thinking, and the Democrats had a wide open power battle. In 1960 Appling listed Nixon and New York Gov. Nelson Rocke feller on the Republican ballot, but Rockefeller withdrew. GOP Conference Slated On the Democratic, ballot Ap pling listed then Sens. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the lata Sen. Estes Kefauver, Adlai Ste venson, and Sens. Hubert Hum phreys and Stuart Symington. Oregon Sen. Wayne Morse got on the ballot by petition. Stevenson and Kefauver both filed with drawal statements. Nixon and Kennedy won- the primary, and later their party nominations. Hatfield may find his neutral ity role a blessing In October when the Republican Western States Conference is held at Eu gene. Hatfield is scheduled to keynote the conference Oct. 11. The next day Rockefeller and Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater now apparent front runners in the Republican party power struggle are slated to test their strength in Oregon. It's doubtful that Rockefeller and Goldwater will seek each other out, as both are scheduled to speak at different times. But Hatfield can be expected to spend time with each, and may discover neutrality can be a use ful political lifesaver. With Hatfiel l expected to play the role of a neutral, and Ap pling required by law to put lead ing Republican hopefuls to t h e test of the ballot, the Oregon po litical stage will be focused in the national spotlight. Toddlers' Tale Answer to Previous Purele Barbs Some office seekers don't even get a good run for their money. A thief caught In Illinois had seven women's watches. Where he Is now, what difference does It make what time It Is? The Bulletin Wednesday, August 28, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Clenn Cinhman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan. Attoclato Editor Del Uuelmen, Circ. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yatet, Managing Ed. Entered u sowl cuu Mar.tr. -iajuare ft. WIT. at uta rVal Ornca at bend, uretv u-.lr Art of Marvh & 1ST. Published oallr exctM Sunday ar.d caruia buUdus or Tne band Bulletin. Inc. If it isn't the early bird, it's the fish that gets the worm. After trying all other methods to reduce some folks simply live within their seams. 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