o o To arms Me sack coos are is 1 1 jj i 77?e normal course of a 'murder trial is completely reversed in this one A few months ago a Negro named Medgar Evers, field secretary in Mississippi for the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People, was shot and killed in front of his home. He was slain with a high-powered rifle, which police found a few hours later in some bushes near the scene. Ballistics tests apparently proved the rifle the source of the fatal bullet. On the rifle was a fingerprint, which was sent to the FBI. The fingerprint was traced, to the satisfaction of a Jackson grand jury, to a man named Beckwith, who was indicted and arrested. He retained, an attorney. Then started an unusual chain of events, one which completely reversed the norm al pre-trial procedure in a case of this type. Quite often, in murder cases, attorneys for the defense request psychiatric examination for their client. If a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is not possible in the state, the mental condition of the defendant is referred to as often as possible during the course of a trial. Often it is nearly the whole content of the closing arguments of the defense. The prosecution, on the other hand, usually tries to counteract psychiatric testimony. Its job, fre quently, is to make the defendant out to be a perfectly sane man, who planned and carried out the murder in cold blood. But not this time. Immediately following Beck with's arrest the prosecuting attor ney, not the counsel for the defense, asked a judge to commit Beckwith to a state mental hospital for exam ination and possible treatment. This was done. After a few weeks, Beck- Unfortunate Members of the Oregon State Bar have turned down the proposal to establish a fund to reimburse any client suffering loss through illegal means used by an Oregon lawyer. The vote was 658 for the proposal and 1,079 against. 109 Oregon law yers declared they had insufficient information on the matter to enable Boardman in good hands It's pretty easy to question the decision of the Legislature to put the Boardman project into the hands of the state's department of Vet erans Affairs. It may even be easy to question some aspects of the en tire Boardman deal. It's hard to agree with the assessment of the Boardman operation held by Howard Morgan, part-time Deschutes county resident. Mogan is equipped with the 20-20 vision of hindsight, and his visual acuity is heightened by his desire to become governor of Oregon. The Legislature lias dropped coming' with's attorney, not the prosecutor, asked a court to release Beckwith, so he might stand trial. The prose cution opposed the move, and car ried the unfavorable decision of a lower court to the Mississippi Su preme Court Just last week the state's high court upheld the de fense, and ordered Beckwith released to stand trial. What's the reason for the switch? Why is the defense so de termined to bring its man to trial, when It is faced with what appears to be a pretty strong circumstantial case against him? Why is the pros ecution so intent on keeping him cooped up in a mental hospital, rather than taking a chance on sending him to prison and possible execution? The whole answer lies in the state's present racial problem, Mis sissippi has never, in 100 years, sen tenced a white man to death for the murder of a Negro, no matter what the circumstances. It has legally executed many Negroes for crimes against whites, crimes generally considered in other states to be less heinous than murder. That is Point One. Point Two is similar. Few Ne groes ever serve on juries in Mis sissippi. It is quite probable that if Negroes are put on the Beckwith jury they will be few in number. The most they could do, if they be lieve Beckwith guilty, is cause a hung jury. The prosecution, apparently, fears it cannot get a conviction. And underlying this is the fear that an acquittal will result in considerable racial unrest in Mississippi. And a number of white Mississlppians would like to see Beckwith convict ed for just that reason. them to make up their minds. This is unfortunate. Such funds have been established in some other countries, and are being set up fairly rapidly In many other states. It is too bad Oregon lawyers seem almost certain to be at the tag end of the state legal groups which adopt cliciit " indemnification funds. Boardman into the Veterans Affairs office only because the department has money. Some members may have voted in part for the shift as a slap at Governor Hatfield, who has taken more lumps than he deserves In recent weeks. But the main reason for the vote was the financial situation of the department. No matter what the reason, Boardman is in good hands. Hub Saalfeld, director of the department, Is one ef the state's two 'or three top professional administrators. He is capable of doing a good job on any duty assigned to him. Soviet Russia continues its African effort By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer Atlhough not one of Black Af rica's 25 newly independent na tions has gone Communist, So viet Russia never stops trying. These efforts are both open and subversive and recent days have provided two more exam ples. In Leopoldville, The Con go, Congolese police roughed up and held two Soviet diplomats accused of carrying compromis ing documents. The Russians have been suspected of backing a Congolese government-in-exile. Moving openly in Somalia, the Russians closed a deal to help equip a Somalian army of 20.000 which, according to West em experts, is far larger than the country needs and which, it is feared, is intended for use against Somalia's neighbors, either Ethiopia or Kenya. Washington estimates of So viet arms exports since the first deal with Egypt in 1955 place the total at around $3 billion. Indonesia Best Customer Probably the best customer has been Indonesia, which has received about a third of the total. Also high on the list is Cuba. Since these weapons were in tended either for use against governments friendly to the West or at least to stir up trou ble for the West, a summary put together, by analysts of Ra dio Free Europe is interesting. Some idea of the scale of So viet arms shipments to Egypt may be had from the fact that in the Sinai clash with Israel, the Israelis captured more than 300 Soviet - built T-34 tanks, about 600 guns and about 4,000 Soviet-made jeeps or tanks. Moscow also has delivered to the U.A.R. submarines, destroy ers and torpedo boats. In black Africa, Guinea bought some 8,000 rifles and some armored vehicles from the Soviet Union and then pro ceeded to kick out the Soviet ambassador. A Costly Mistake Iraq also so far has been a costly Soviet mistake. The country has modern T-54 Rus sian tanks, Mig-21 jet fighters and Soviet transports. Yet Iraq oil continues to flow to the West, Kuwait is still "unliber ated" and the most use the weapons have has been against the Kurds who receive at least the tacit support of the Soviet Union. Afghanistan obtained both Migs and small arms from the Russians as a threat against pro-Western Pakistan. But when Pakistan began flirting with Red China, the Russians decid ed to compete with Peking for Pakistan favors. The Indonesian armed forces, despite huge supplies from the Soviet Union, remain under what is basically an anti-Communist leadership. The Indone sian Communist party is siding with Peking against Moscow. Cuba represented one of the Soviet Union's greatest post-war success stories. Yet Cuba is re ported shopping around in West ern Europe in an attempt to reduce its dependence upon Russia and Castro has sided with Red China in refusing to sign the partial nuclear test ban. The Radio Free Europe anal ysis concludes: "If the Soviet arms export drive was aimed at acquiring political leverage in the underdeveloped countries, it has on balance been a costly failure." Mv Nickel V k Wbrth i ; . "When men differ In opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. 'Early Christmas' brings new rebuke To the Editor: We wish to join Mrs. Gerda Links and Mrs. June Dealy in their rebuke against the placing of Christmas decorations so prematurely. Of course the lame excuse ot not having help later on Is sup posed to rectify this deplorable situation. Upon entering a department store looking for traditional Thanksgiving decor, we search ed through four aisles of Christ mas decorations (and I do mean searched!. We finally found six packages of Thanks giving napkins and one dilapi dated paper turkey thrown askew in a comer. And so, the only word fitting the situation arises commer cialism. It is our belief the Pilgrims Upheld Thanksgiving Pay to give "thanks." and celebrated Christmas December 2oth. Sincerely, Mrs. Marie I.ewerenz Mis. Lola Pausch Bend. Oregon. Niv; 21, 13 Kennedy's college construction bill labeled mostly handouts by Norblad By Yvonne Franklin ' Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON - Rep. Walt er Norblad blasted the Kennedy Administration's college con struction bill this week as most ly "just plain hand-outs." "This bill provides for the bulk (of the money) to be sim ply gifts to the schools and for this reason I voted against it," he said. "The figure is around $250 million in grants, and next year it will be about $300 mil lion per year. "The amount in loans is $120 million with reasonable inter est. I don't see that it is our function to dish out $300 million a year. Loans I don't object to." Norblad was asked what he thought about funds in the high er education bill which had been written in especially to aid construction for a proposed graduate research center in the Portland area. "I don't know a thing about it," Norblad said, "I presume it would be a good thing, but all I know is what a recent edi torial said about it. I haven't heard from anybody in my dis trict about it." The three year, $1.2 billion aid to college construction bill has passed both Houses of Con gress, survived a Senate-House conference which ironed out major differences, and the final Lady senator would be asset to GOP ticket By Lyle C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer The Republican Parly has grown shabby in defeat. It is short on self-confidence and in the confidence it inspires among others. Under these gloomy conditions it is an as tonishment to all right-minded persons that the GOP fails to kidnap or elope with the lovely Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R Maine. The lady is willing. She is muttering about entering the Republican presidential pri mary next March in New Hampshire. Then why do not Sen. Barry Goldwater, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Richard M. Nixon and others among the Republican leadership sound off as a cheering section for Mrs. Smith? Why? I'll tell you why. It is because Republican leaders are a kind of stick-in-the-mud out fit. They think but they don't think very big. They are unable to think big enough to think of a woman on a presidential ticket. Glamorize Ticket They will not think of Mrs. Smith on their 1964 ticket as the vice presidential nominee until after the November elec tion and the Republicans have been licked again and look even more shabby than usual. Only then will the Republican lead ers wonder out loud to them selves what they might have done to pretty up their 1964 ticket so that the voters would like it. "Maybe we shoulda put Mar garet on there for veep," some one will mutter. "Yeah," another will agree. Maybe? For gosh sakes. Republicans, if you put that pretty Margaret Smith on the ticket next year and the Democrats don't kick Lyndon Johnson off to name a woman, also, the Kennedys will be licked for sure. It docs not take very big thinking to think that a competent, smart it helps if she is pretty, too woman on a presidential ticket would almost assure that ticket's election. Equal Rights The handwriting is not on the wall, it has been in the Consti tution oi the United States since Aug. 26, 1920. On that day more than 40 years ago, became ef fective the 19th amendment providing votes for women. There was a lot of whooping-it-up in 1960 about a Catholic in the White House and the sin of bigotry. Friends, If it is bigotry to oppose a presidential candi date because of religion, what is it to oppose a presidential candidate because she is a woman? Whatever it is, it isn't right. Stupid, maybe. The Bulletin Friday, November 22, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cuihmen, Gen. Maneger Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Bregan, Associate Editor Del Utselman, Cire. Maneger Loren E. Dyer, Meeh. Supt. William A. Yates, Managing Id. rvi urrttr Act ol Varvh 3. 1T9. fci'.la?i by The Bend Bulletin. Inc. Capital Report bill was passed in the House two weeks' ago. The bill has not come up for a final vote on the conference report in the Senate because Sen. Wayne Morse will not al low the bill to be voted on until House conferees come to terms on the Vocational Education bill, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said this week. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY) told a reporter that Morse had informed the House conferees that he (Morse) will not hold another conference on the Vocational Education bill until after Thanksgiving be cause "he can't get his mem bers together." Powell said it looked as if this year was becoming a dupli cation of last year when the higher education bill died at the end of a bitter congressional session. Although some members of the House committee doubt whether Morse really wants a higher education bill, Powell said "he didn't question Morse's good faith." Questioned as to what his views were on the hold-up on the bill, Rep. Al Quie (R-Minn.) key Republican conferee said, "Evidently Morse wants to ex tract as much from the Admin istration as he can get as his price for letting the higher edu cation bill come to the Senate Washington Merry-go-rounl ; Russian editors urge U.S. to patch up Cuban relations By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON During the height of the Professor Barg hoorn crisis I had an interest ing and very frank talk with five Russian literary men who had just arrived In Washington. They included two of the top editors of the Soviet Nikolai Polyanov of Izvestia, Nikolai Inozemtsev of Pravda, Boris Polevoi, author of war novels, Prof. Nikolai Mostovets, the historian, and Lev Bezymensky, editor of the New Times, who is the son of the famed poet Alex Bezymensky. Since Soviet newspapers are part of the government, these men spoke with a certain de gree of authority. They also spoke with great frankness, ap parent friendship and some times with considerable humor. Said Author Polevoi regarding an American newsman who had heckled him regarding Profes sor Barghoorn: "He was trying to make an elephant out of a fly and then sell ivory." Our conversation ranged from Goldwater and Rockefeller to Fidel Castro: from Berlin to Red China; but especially how the United States and Russia could improve relations. Asked Polyanov of Izvestia: "You have what you call your black horses. One of them is named Romney. Does he have a chance to he president?" "Nichivo," I replied, using one of the few words in my Russian vocabulary. They were greatly interested in the right - wingism of Gold water, the Rockefeller divorce as it affected the woman's vote, and Kennedy's reelection chances. Theirs was the natural curiosity of men who knew they would have to coexist with the next President of the United Slates. Schedule For Peace Finally the conversation got around to peace. "After the test ban treaty was signed," said Editor Inozemtsev of Pravada. "the Russian people thought we had launched a very important era of better under standing. But recently there have been incidents; so people are worried. What can be done to got back to better under standing permanently?" "Now you are asking me to be Secretary of State," I spar red. "That is exactly right," re plied the Pravda editor. I suggested three tilings: ) A Soviet - American understand ing regarding Cuba; 2) Placing observers of one country on the soil of the other to prevent surprise attack: 3) The elimina tion of incidents along the Ber lin autobahn. "The American people arc very sensitive regarding Cuba." I explained. "It is close to us and we fought one war over it, r:- i tii i,i ota daily e.v-eiti Sunlar it tm1. ana cei " floor." Rep. Charles Goodell, (R-NY) another influential Republican conferee, said, "Frankly, I think Morse is using the higher education bill and vocational education as pawns in some power game." Opponents of a higher educa tion bill, such as the Council of State School Officers, whose Executive Secretary Edgar Ful ler last year took credit for de feating the bill, along with Pro testants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, reportedly want to delay passage of the higher edu cation bill until they get the bills they want, then scuttle it. These are extension of Im pacted Aid (funds to locations "impacted" with children as a result of federal installations) and the National Defense Edu cation Act. These two measures have not passed the House. NDEA is still before Rep. Edith Green's education sub committee and Impacted Aid is stalled in the House Rules Com mittee because of a civil rights rider. However, Morse's committee added the two measures to the Vocational Education bill. The House and Seante conferees must now reach a compromise on 3 bills before the Senator will allow the House - passed higher education bill to reach the Senate for a vote. just as you fought a war with Finland in 1940. Today Cuba because of the hurricane needs wheat. We have surplus wheat. You are getting tired of giving aid to Cuba. Besides, Castro is not very grateful. He is flirting with China. If it were not for the temperament of Castro we could probably resume our friendship with the Cuban people through hurricane relief." The editor of Pravda said that when Castro was in Moscow last May he had talked with him and that Castro had made it clear he must reestablish co operation with the United States Mr. Inozemtsev volunteered this information by way of suggest ing Castro might be easier to get along with than I thought. The conversation regarding Cuba continued for some time. Tt was interesting that none of the Russian visitors considered it a victory for Moscow to have established socialism so close to the United States. One suggest ed a Kennedy - Khrushchev con ference to patch up relations between the United States and Cuba. "Your illustration of Finland is a good one," said novelist Polevoi. "It is true that we had a war with Finland. Finland is near us, just as Cuba is to you. But we patched things up and now relations are excellent. We hope you can do the same. When I was in Cuba the people were upset by the constant raids against their shores. These raids aren't getting you anywhere. They are only caus ing ill will and bitterness." One of the most important questions raised by the Russian visitors was why the United States had not proceeded with the nonaggrcssion pact between the NATO countries and War saw Pact countries, as proposed when the test ban treaty was signed. Moon Rocket ACROSS 1 Moon 5 Rocket launch site 8 Count - 12 Volume 13 Old musical note 14 Iroquoian Indian 3 Egg dish 4 Number 5 Ancient Arabian city 6 Straighten 1 Small fishes 8 Morning moisture 8 Talker 10 Extends 15 RefutaUve 11 Requires 17 Walk in uratM 16 Heaned no 18 Whole 20 Jacksoniana 19 Solicited 21 prdU 22 Female deer 23 Parsonage 24 Batsman's associates (cricket) 25 Alaskan island 27 Future rocket target 29 Malt beverage 31 Mr. HolU 32 Operated 33 Function 34 Spar 38 Outcry 39 Faucet 40 Dropsy 44 Swamp 48 Past 47 Storehouse 48 Single point 49 Close 51 Russian cavalrymen 53 Greek earth codde&s M Fruit drink 55 Fat M Individuals 57 AfiirnuUve 58 Italian prince DOWX 1 Lieu . O 26 Seamen 2. Cl.- 30 Printer's measure SI Gulf state (ab.) a oroasrnan Mvctprv finurp noted in Soviet space program By Alvin B. Webb Jr. UPI Staff Writer CAPE CANAVERAL' (UPI)- ' Into the mysterious fabric of the Soviet Union's space pro gram is woven an elusive fig ure identified only as the "Chief Designer." He is honored as the creator of the giant Vostok spaceships that haven taken six Russian cosmonauts on spectacular voy ages into orbit. He constantly crops up as a voice at the other end of the line in radio conversations with the high-flying Soviet spacemen. He makes pronouncements about Russian spaca programs ranging from weather satellites to plans for building huge plat forms in orbit around Earth and for landing cosmonauts on the moon. And, if only one-fourth of the accomplishments the Soviets give him credit for are true, the Chief Designer is a scien tific genius fit to stand beside Albert Einstein, Robert God dard, Neils Bohr and Wernher von Braun in science's hall of fame. Who is He? But just who is the Chief De signer? No one this side of the Iron Curtain seems to have any Idea. And Russia isn't saying yet. One name, however, is get ling more and more mention in speculation as to the identify of the Chief Designer. He is Val entin P. Glushko, a member of the Soviet Academy of Scien ces. Glushko seems nearly as mys terious as the man he Is sup posed to be. He is 58 years old, has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences since 1958 and has been a bureau mem ber of the Soviet Department of Technical Sciences since 1960. He is identified variously as a military technologist and as a combustion and rocket expert. In the outpouring of papers, treatises and studies by Rus sian scientists, Glushko's name appears rarely. In 1926, when only 21 years old, Glushko wrote an article for a Leningrad scientific jour nal in which he speculated on the use of an earth satellite to "observe and photograph inac cessible countries." "Can . . . Burn Cities" In the same article, Glushko mentioned that, with the aid of. giant mirrors on such a satel lite, "one can detonate muni tions factories, provoke whirl winds and storms, annihilate marching troops, burn cities and, in general, wreak colossal devastation." Yuri A. Gagarin, Russia's first orbiting astronaut, de scribed his initial meeting with the Chief Designer: "We saw a broad-shouldered, merry, witty man, a real Rus sian . . . and he treated us as equals, as his chief assistants." Barbs It's easy to borrow money from a bank if you can show enough evidence that you really don't need it. Bus fares went up in an east ern town. Another jolt for standing army. IA7A What the baby elephant said to its mother's mother: "My, what big ears you have, grand ma!" A doctor says sandals and moccasins can causa flat feet. Put 'em on, teenager, and set tle down. 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