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o o o o Carrying Gol8$afer on both shoulders Faf deficit assured E ro o trn a vo .770 a ong slx-hou DODGER STADIUM, Los An geles This Is a fine place in which -to watch a baseball game. The sla t 'dium Is brand new, surrounded by Sample parking space In the middle J 'of a metropolitan area where two -cars to the family is a way of life. Sit doesn't have the screwy layout " of Yankee stadium in New York, t where the playing field has an ex ' tremely short right field fence, rle- t. signed to take advantage of Babe ?; Ruth's ability to hit long flies Just 'inside the first base foul line. In T'cidentally, It Is the first privately i. financed major league facility to be t! built in this country since Yankee ; stadium, which was opened 40 years ago. lit !?;.' There was only one error made In the construction of 1ho entire facility, but it showed up in full force Saturday, during the opening .. game of the Los Angeles section of ; this year's World Serins. The traf- fic engineer goofed. On paper, or '' from the air, his plan must have looked pretty good. But on the ; ground it doesn't work quite the way i it was Intended. The reason for the : snafu appears to be the tendency of Southern California drivers to swing from lane to lane, to dart in and out of traffic, to try to gain a - ear-length or two over the rest of the mob. Dodger stadium sits in the mld ,v die of a hock of a lot, of high-value .. Los Angeles real estate. It's only a few blocks from City Hall, nnd is Just a whoop and a holler from the main freeway interchange, where nil Los Angeles traffic seems to wind up sooner or later, usually about ; five o'clock in the afternoon. The stadium seats a few over 55,000 per ' sons, and is built in several layers to try to keep the cash customers near the game. Around the stadium it self, on three sides, is a giant park- ing lot, covering about a bundled ' acres. The Bend visitors at the game had things all figured out the first i day, or so they thought. They made a reconnaissance the day before, nnd I found the parking area their ticket ; said they should use. They left the - place they were staying a short T 15-minute drive from Chavez Ravine well over an hour and a half he- fore game time. They sat down just in time to stand up again for the T Star Spangled Banner. But they ". were lucky. Ginger Drysdale, w ife of ; the Dodger pitcher, didn't get into i her seat until the third inning, and she was not alone. . ? SVi t v. o ne we can join The Bulletin favors a "yes" vote in the October 13 tav vote; this would be a vole against the ishes of those who sponsored the election. But there is one croup we ran join. A bunch of Douglas county resi dents has started the wheels in mo tion to reduce the salaries voted to themselves by members of the Ore gon legislature a few months ago. Until this year Oregon legisla- Big-time spenders never had it so good as past 3 months v4 Capital : Report 1 hour baseball game r day of labor The parking lot listed on our ticket was full. Obviously someone else had been told to use the same lot, and just as obviously, many people had used lots not specified on their tickets. No one was direct ing traffic, after all, the parking area is laid out so traffic flows con tinuously throughout the area, and sooner or later each car in theory at least goes by an empty park ing space. The Dodger management counted not, however, on the Los Angeles driver. As a result traffic was one giant snarl. Late drivers began to take advantage of the lack of traffic police; they simply parked alongside the roadways, got out, locked their cars, and headed for their seats. Five lanes of traffic quickly became one, further compli cating the jam. The Saturday game was a cliff hanger all the way. The Dodgers picked up a run in the first inning, and that was the end of the scoring. Drysdale allowed only three hits, struck out nine Yankees (Mickey Mantle twice) and threw only 10!) pitches in nine innings. It was a quick game. The crowd started fil ing out of the stadium only a few minutes more than two hours after the first pitch was thrown. The clogged roadways were still there. No traffic moved at all until all the late parkers had come hack, started their cars, and driven off. In the meantime people just sal. It was a nice day for sitting. Drivers sat on fenders, and chatted wilh newly-made friends. Quite a few youngsters had brought, foot balls in their cars. The air was full of passes, thrown wilh varying de grees of expertise. A few groups even tried to play touch tackle in the lanes between the rows of park ed cars. Traffic was absolutely still in our big parking lot for '15 min utes. Then il began to move, slowly. Once you got out of the parking lot things were easy. Los Angeles police were on the job, and doing it well. Traffic moved quickly. But the stadium is private property. The Dodgers have to provide policing there. There may have been few pickpockets always a part of the scene at big events like this but the traffic policing was inadequate. The "rent-a-cops." as one wsg put it, were too few and too inexperi enced to handle the joh. And so it took over two boms to get back home, well over an hour of which was spent in the parking lot. By Lyle C. Wilton UPI Staff Writer The big-time spenders of the taxpayers' dollars never had it so good in peacetime as during the past three months. These months comprise the first quar ter of the 1964 fiscal year. ' Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon must have been greatly cheered by the Treasury's first quarter spending figures. Dillon believes big-time spending and Treasury deficits are good busi. ness for everybody including the common man and, of course, the Democratic party. If Dillon is right about that, things will be looking up for the Democrats as they go into the J!)fi4 presidential campaign and for the common man. Dillon, the Democrats and the common man should rest easy. They are as sured of another big fat deficit when the books close next June 30 on fiscal '64. Some citizens will not be as en thusiastic as Secretary Dillon about, the first quarter Treasury figures. These will be citizens with life insurance policies, pen sions, money in the bank and oth er assets measured in terms of U.S. dollars. These big fat defi cits gradually are creating a cur rency inflation that sweats the dollar of its purchasing power. Valua Shrinks The U.S. dollar was worth 43 6 cents in October, 1962, in compar ison with its purchasing power in 1939. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes its consumer price index for October of this year, the dollar will have slumped a little to about 45 cents. Not much perhaps, but overall it adds up to 55 cents in 24 years. At that rale we will have a two bit dollar in 10 years or so and then a dollar worth a dime, a nickel and a penny. At that point the pensioners, the prudent sav- ers, the family collecting life In surance on a breadwinner all of these are likely to be out in the woods fighting the squirrels for nuts. The Treasury does not regular ly publish figures for expendi tures and receipts. It did at one time on a daily basis. What is daily now is an accounting of "withdrawals" from and "depos its" in the Treasury. These fig ures roughly represent expendi tures and tax revenue. The daily figure also includes the public debt, the gold balance and some additional matter, including fig ures for the same period in the last previous year. There is a lag of several days. Withdrawals Increase Thus, the Treasury has report ed that as of Sept. 30, 1963, with drawals since July 1 were $31.3 billion compared with $29.4 bil lion in 1962. Deposits were $28.9 billion so far this year and $26.8 last. Since Sept. 30, 1962. the pub lic debt increased by $7.3 billion to $306.9 billion, a record that should encourage Secretary Dil lon, if not the Democratic party. The U.S. gold hoard, mean time, had shrunk since Sept. 30, 1962 by $485 million to $15.5 bil lion, a statistic that will encour age nobody unless, perhaps, it be Nikita Khrushchev. The Treasury probably will col lect more than $100 billion in taxes in this fiscal year. But that won't be enough to pay the bills incurred by the politicians in be half of the U.S. government. De posits so far in this fiscal year are more than $2 billion greater than in the like period last year. But the spenders still are able to get rid of the dollars faster than they roll into the Treasury. It is a fact little noted that most of these tax dollars are from the pockets of the little fel lows, the common man. The little guys will find out about that some day. My Nickel's Worth Ttwi Bulletin welcomes contributions tn tills rnlunin from lu readers, let ter nttint contain the correct noma and ndtre of tlm Bender, which may he. withheld at the, newspaper's din. eretion. l-elters nmy In, edited tn con form to the directives of taste and style. Community college threat is noted To the Editor: We Oregon voters are being called upon to make an important decision October 15. Never before has there been a greater need to understand the real issues involv ed in an election measure. Ore gon's constitution requires that expenditures must be balanced by income therefore a tax pro gram had to be enacted to pro duce an approximate $60 million to balance a general fund budget of million. The $404 million general fund accounts for approx imately one-third of total state expenditures. The two - thirds is spent for highways, game com mission, SIAC. etc., and is fi nanced from dedicated fluids from which none of the $60 million could be taken. About 60 per cent of the general fund budget is appropriated for education. State aid to iocal school districts through the Basic School support fund and from appropria tions for special education pro grams account for 35 per cent of the state general fund. It is clear that education, because it repre sents this sizable portion of the general fund budget, has probably the most at stake In the referen dum. State general fund support of elementary and secondary educa tion began in 1!M2 with educators and taxpayers alike recognizing that real properly could no long er cany the entire burden ol edu cation. It was the people in 1946 who approved the present Basic School Support Fund. The voters in 1950 and Hie Legislatures since have consistently attempted to lighten the properly tax burden and equalize educational oppor lunily by increasing the size of the fund. It is significant to re member that the fund was in creased by $19 million in 1961 and 516 million in 1963. making a total increase of $35 million during the past two sessions. This amount would have been otherwise levied as local property taxes. A NO vote could be interpreted Barbs tors li.ni received fi.no per year for several years. By v ote of the peoplp, the lei;isl,'itme was rjveti authority to set salaries ol its own members. There was considerable surprise when the legislators set the figure at S-.'.'iO per month, plus a penerous expense allowance. The Poncl.'is county group would reduce this figure to.?lL"i per month. Presumably, the expense allowances would still stand. Gossip may not hae a leg to stand on but it sure can travel ntighiy fast. Trie sinqle man spent mors money for dinners and shews on h gal than ha docs en his wile. I that the people no longer believe that the state should maintain its present level of support which is now about 36 per cent of local district operating costs. Actually, many state groups, including edu cation, school boards. Grange, Farm Bureau, PTA and others have positions urging that the state provide 50 per cent of oper ating costs or more from state revenue sources. State government expenditures and particularly those for higher education and community col leges must keep pace with popula tion trends. The citizens of Ore gon have long held that educa tion should be available to all and not a privilege for the wealthy few. Enrollment in schools of higher education, including com munity colleges, has increased considerably in recent years. There are approximately 25 per cent more high school seniors this year than graduated in 1963, and 60 per cent more juniors this year than there were seniors in 1962 63. Meeting the educational needs of this increasing number will re quire greater state funds. The growth of community colleges will help to educate these stu dents at somewhat lower costs than possible in our four-year in stitutions. With college funds in jeopardy an even greater burden will be placed on community col leges. The question that plagues the state Legislature is liow to meet community college building and operating costs without add ing to the property tax burden. The 1963 Legislature reduced tlie percentage of stale support for community colleges and greater cuts would be in prospect if the tax program is defeated. Oregon has had a tradition of stable even conservative governmental finance. There has not been a major state tax in crease since 1955, although prop erty taxes have increased sub stantially. Our per capita state lax is ninth out of the eleven Western states, although we prob ably would be somewhat higher if total state and local taxes were considered. This pattern of an orderly meet ing of the most pressing needs for state funds is the real issue in the October 15 election. Our tax structure is reviewed every two years by the legislature, or the people may Initiate change. A YES vote will indicate that th at izens of Oregon are willing to pay for the services that they have requested and that are nec essary in our growing state. Kucene H. Fisher. Chairman Orecnn Slate Foard of Edu cation and Member Elkton School Board Oakland. Oregon, October 3. 1963 Porter returns from Cuba 'encouraged,' but without securing prisoner release By A.' Robert Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON - Ex-Congressman Charles 0. Porter of Oregon has returned from a 12-day trip to Cuba "encouraged" about the prospect of the Castro govern ment releasing political prisoners but without securing a general amnesty. Porter went to Havana in a dual capacity as attorney represent ing an incorporated group of friends and relatives of imprison ed Cubans; and as a journalist to write an article for Look maga zine. Castro's position, said Porter, Is that "a general amnesty would have to be deferred until the Uni ted States stopped its aggressive actions through CIA-financed at tacks on Cuba." Asked what attacks Castro meant. Porter said the Cuban leader referred mostly to bomb ing attacks by light planes, usual ly approaching Cuba from the Ba hamas. Porter said a housing project was hit while he was in Havana, killing one man. Another attack recently hit a lumber mill in Oriente Province, he said, and others have been aimed at indus trial plants. "They are sporadic and aren't of military importance," said Porter, "but they keep the Cuban people stirred up." Porter said he had no informa tion on whether the CIA Is sup porting these attacks. He said in the early days of the Castro revol ution, it is said that the large sugar companies helped finance counter revolutionary elements but that they have since given up this as "money down a rathole." Cuban officials believe the CIA is the chief means of support left for counter - revolutionaries, as Castro calls them, according to Porter. Porter said Castro is not anxi ous to release prisoners whom he presumes will subsequently be re cruited by the CIA for intelligence or counter - revolutionary efforts. He said there is no official count of the number of such prisoners, but that Cubans deny there are as many as 75,000, the estimate Por ter received from the relatives he represents. Castro agreed to permit forma tion of a counterpart organization in Havana, said Porter, to work with the government on creating standards by which certain pri soners might be released on an orderly basis. He said the priority categories would be those who had served a quarter of their sent ences, women, the sick and aged and heads of families. Porter said diplomatic sources estimate there are 30,000 Cubans who are seeking to leave Cuba. A slow but steady stream is leav ing via Mexico, he said, and many more would go to the United States if they could get transpor tation. The Cuban govemme.it does not forbid their leaving, said porter, except to prevent then taking either posessions or money with them. The Eugene attorney said he may return to Cuba for further talks but probably not for several months. He was denied a request to visit the prisons where the political prisoners are held. He got outside Havana only once, to visit a chicken farm Castro wanted him to see. Porter said he spent the remainder of his time talking with diplomats from allied countries about conditions in Diba, meeting with his clients who are in Ha vana, and reading Castro's speeches prior to two long talks with the Cuban dictator. On one occasion Porter said he and Castro talked into the night from 9 p.m. until 3:45 a m., and on another occasion from 9:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Upon his return to Washington this past weekend. Porter report ed on his talks to one of President Kennedy's White House aides, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Kennedy administration did not officially recognize Porter's mission to Havana as an effort to gain release of political prison ers. He secured permission for the trip only in the capacity of a journalist. .Wastiliigtdn Merry-go-round Did major oil company help toss out Dominican leader? French doubt civil war come in Algeria By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer Notes from the foreign news cables: Face-Saving: Despite Algerian Premier Ah med Ben Bella's tough talk against the Kabylian rebels, French officials are confident there will be no civil war in Al geria. They believe Ben Bella will do everything to reach a face-saving compromise. Ben Bel la does not have the military strength to conquer the rebels' Kabylia mountain stronghold which several hundred thousand French troops also failed to re duce during the Algerian war. So far as French relations with Ben Bella are concerned, the French have reacted angrily to the nationalization of all French farmland in Algeria but the French will think twice before taking any sharp reprisals. They want at all costs to avoid pro voking Ben Bella into seizing the Sahara oilfields, too. Macmillan's Future: Political insiders say it still is a 50-50 bet whether British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will yield Conservative party leader ship in advance of the coming general elections. Talk now is he is under fire in party councils not so much for staying on but for not making his own wishes clear. It is being argued that this is hamstringing party planning. On .Maemillan's side it is said he is equivocating because he feels there is no agreement on any one man to succeed him. More light on his plans may come when he makes the windup speech at this week's Conservative party con gress. Red Feelers: Berlin experts are on the alert for some probing moves by Com munist East Germany after Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer turns over his post to Ludwig Erhard. Rightly or wrongly, many Com munists feel there is a possibility Erhard will follow a more "flex ible" policy toward the east bloc than Adenauer. East Germany desperately wants credits and trade with West Germany. One move might be to see whether some minor concession, such as permission to West Berliners to visit Fast Berlin, would draw a favorable response from Erhard on financial questions. Spanish Cabinet: Madrid observers expect a shuffle of Generalissimo Francis co Franco's cabinet this fall, but predict no chance in the coun try's basic policies. Ministers effected wtiuld be those whose views are considered outmoded in a period when Spain is liberal izing and moving toward full in tegration in the Western wwld. Khrushchev: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev is preparing a report on Russia's chronic agricultural problems for the November meet ing of the central committee. "5H By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON - A charge that Texaco conspired with the Do minican Army through Its Domin ican representative, Duane D. Lu ther, to throw out President Juan Bosch was made behind the clos ed doors of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. Morse demanded that U.S. Am bassador John B. Martin and As sistant Secretary of State Ed Mar tin come up to the Senate Com mittee to answer this and other questions regarding the Domini can revolution and the rising tide of military revolt in Latin Amer ica. Luther is an ex-OSS officer who actively supported the political opponent of President Bosch. Viri avo Fiallo. Sen. Morse asked whether it was not true that the Texaco representative had con tributed $2,500 toward the cam paign expenses of Fiallo and had later conspired to get Bosch out when the Texaco candidate was defeated. Ambassador Martin replied that he had met Luther socially but that it was apparent from the start that they did not see eye to eye on American policy. Luther made it clear that he was opposed to U.S. policy in the Dominican Republic and showed consider able hostility. This made it awkward for the ambassador to be in contact with Luther. Therefore he said he was unable to testify whether Luther had had anything to do with the revolution which threw out Presi dent Bosch. There was no ques tion, however, he said, that Luth er was highly critical of Bosch. "Americans have a right to criticize any place in the world," spoke up Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S.D., in defense of Texaco. "I'm not talking about criti cism." replied Morse. "I'm talk ing about whether this fellow was in league with the military to up set a constitutional regime. I want the State Department to file a list of every decree which Pres ident Bosch issued which the oil companies opposed." Assistant Secretary Martin promised to comply. Bosch's Story Meanwhile, I telephoned Presi dent Bosch in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he has taken refuge following his overthrow. He said he had heard of Te.xaco's opposi tion to him but did not know how extensive it was. "During the preceding adminis tration," the former president ex plained. "Esso Standard Oil ob tained a contract for a refinery. Shell and the Texas Company were both associated with Stand ard. . "But I refused to maintain the contract. Standard retired from the contract. They negotiated with me last March and I must say that they gave up their contract in a very gallant way with no de mand for indemnification of any kind. "However," said President Bosch, "the Texas people were very angry. I do not know wheth er they gave any money to my opposition, though I have heard it in the Dominican Republic. I was working so hard I had no time to check on people. "On September 24, the last day I was in office." continued the only elected President of the Do minican Republic in 30 years. "I received a survey for the build ing of an oil refinery to be built by and for the Dominican govern ment. The survey was delivered tn me by The Kellogg Company, a very reputable engineering firm in the United States. But the re finery was to be built for us, not for a foreign oil company. "My estimates showed that in 20 years the Esso-Standard con tract would have meant a profit of $300 million for Standard, Tex aco, and Shell. I wanted this to go to the Dominican people, not to foreign companies." I then telephoned Mr. Luther in Santo Domingo. After giving my name and after some delay, ths overseas telephone operator re ported that Mr. Luther did not wish to take the call from me. Variety Bit Afwwer to Previous PuttT w-.ty y a - i Behind the wheel of sn su'fi is no plar for the successf'il business man who wont stop at anything If you're a pleaMnf person you don't have to drink like a fish to keep in the swim. The Bulletin Tuesday, October 8, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman. Gen. Manager Jack McDermctt, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Del Usselman, Cire. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Supt. William A. 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