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37?e &g stories of 1963 reflect a
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V Each year, toward the end of
the year, editors of The Bulletin join
colleagues on hundreds of American
newspapers in casting ballots on the
top ten stories of the year. Criteria
used Include such features as signifi
cance, impact, interest, and read
ability. (Incidentally, for the bene
fit of Oregon's senior Senator, this
is the only cooperative endeavour
In which Tho Bulletin joins other
newspapers. Unlike his apparent im
pression, no one here pets together
with anyone to determine how much
space shall ba given 1o Morselan
(Speeches on various subjects.)
Each year, as the list is com
piled, it's amazing to note the wide
variety of human effort and be
havior reflected in the top stories.
This year they ranged from the ob
vious No. 1, the assassination of
President Kennedy and the succes
sion of President Johnson, to No.
10, the birth and continued progress
of the Fischer quintuplets.
The Kennedy story edged out
what was sure to have been in first
place otherwise, tho efforts of Ne
groes In this country to end discrim
ination against members of their
race. Until the events in Dallas, the
Integration story in this country
had received, in total, far more news
space in American newspapers than
any other story of the year. Integra
tion had been covered in such widely-scattered
events as bombings in
the South, and Supremo Court deci
sions from Washington.
The rest of the list, in order,
Included:
3. The death of Pope John
XXIII, and succession of
U Paul VI.
4. The space flight of Gordon
Cooper.
5. The signing of the nuclear
test ban.
He's not the only one
; Is vandalism on the increase in
Bend?
6. The assassination of Premier
Diem and his brother in Viet
Nam.
7. The loss of the submarine
Thresher.
8. The Profumo scandal.
9. The Supreme Court's prayer
in schools decision.
10. Fischer quintuplets.
Of interest is the widespread
origin of the stories. Those who com
plain that Americans have little
knowledge of the rest of the world
should take a look at the list. One
of the stories came from outer space.
Three others either were entirely
foreign in origin or, as in the case of
the test ban, had strong foreign ties.
There may be some surprise
that the Profumo scandal reached
the top ten. There should not be.
Completely aside from its racy as
pects, the Profumo business had a
profound effect on the government
of one of our major world allies. It
came close to putting the British
government in such a position that
it could not take an effective part
in talks leading to the test-ban
treaty, for example. It hastened the
descent from power of Prime Minis
ter Macinillan.
The Thresher story, while not
completely world-shaking, had all
the elements of human interest pos
sible to find. There was first the
mystery. Within a few hours it was
presumed the Thresher was lost.
Then came tho search, the hope
that some survivors might yet be
rescued. There was the painstaking
gathering of evidence of the Thresh
er's fate.
There was truly a wide variety
of human interests mirrored in the
news of 10li3. It was probably the
biggest news year since the end of
World War II.
Z Or are we just hearing1 more
about it right now? A man who saw
that rock shatter a window at the
school board meeting this week
thinks vandalism has grown out of
proportion in the past year.
He cites Instances like the fol
lowing, all in the last two weeks:
Item: Several trees, saved in
building the new wing at the high
school, were maliciously chopped
flown. The same night, windows
were broken out of the high school.
Item: A $500 hunting dog was
shot and left in the street near the
ownpr's home where four children
played in the yard.
Item: Thirty lights were sto!i
from one outside Christmas tree in
the West Hills area and twenty from
another. Several broken lights were
found along the road.
Item: Two windows w ere broken
out of a garage in the east end. The
owner? a woman, complained to her
neighbors. The next night, two more
windows were broken.
The list of items could go on
and on. Our friend is hopping mad.
He's not the only one.
Quotable quotes
I'm sure it will be over very
soon and everybody will be very
happy. Actress Elizabeth Taylor's
fourth husband, singer Eddie Fisher,
looking ahead to his divorce so she
could be free to marry actor Richard
Burton.
If I can be tried for a Joke and
found guilty then that is the extent
of it. Russell Were McLarry, 21,
rharced with threatening to kill
President Kennedy the night before
the assassination.
A lot of tears were flowing.
West Berliner Mrs. Ruth Schumach
er, 20, returning from a pre-Christ-mas
visit to her parents in East Ber
lin who saw their 20-month old
grandson for the first time.
By Harry Ferguson
UPI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A
person who urges a slowdown
or halt to automation is engag
ing in an exercise in futility.
The iron laws of competition
offer the American manufactur
er this choice automate or go
out of business.
The Packard automobile dis
appeared from the highways of
the nation because the company
could not meet the competition
from rivals who had automated.
A flood of transistor radios
from Japan forced six Ameri
can companies to go in for au
tomation. They were able to
cut prices from $39.95 to $14.95,
and the imports from Japan
dropped 50 per cent in volume.
So the inevitable prospect for
the future Is more automation,
more sophisticated machines
and more problems for the
economists and sociologists.
The time is not too distant
when a worker will not have to
pick up his paycheck. A com
puter will determine the
amount due him on pay day,
deduct Social Security, income
tax withholding and insurance.
Then it will notify another com
puter in a bank to credit the
remaining money to the work
er's account.
Used In Pentagon
Computers already are fight
ing wars against each other in
the Pentagon. One group of
them is in charge of officers
leading the attacking Red
army. The other is under the
command of the defending Blue
army. They solve problems of
strategy, battlefield tactics and
logistics, and when it Is all over
they tell which side won in this
theoretical attack on the Unit
ed States.
Without computers, progress
in the development of atomic
energy would come to a dead
halt. They operate valves and
controls inside atomic reactors.
A man who tried to do it would
be killed instantly.
The determining factor In
whether automation will throw
as many as 25 million persons
out of work in the next 10 ysars
seems to be the speed at which
it is introduced. It is a common
saying that there has been
more technological advance in
the last 50 years then there was
In the previous 1,000. Ninety per
cent of the drugs and pharma
ceuticals in use today were de
veloped in the last 10 years.
Shy From Slowdown
The demand for a deliberate,
planned slowdown is almost
nonexistent. This reporter could
find only one man who advo
cated it. He is Vaux Owen,
president of the National Fed
eration of Federal Employes
who testified before the Senate
subcommittee on employment
and manpower. What he advo
cated was a "moratorium on all
procurement or rental by the
federal government of any ad
ditional automation machines
except for the purposes of clear
defense needs."
This suggestion shocked the
committee. They compared the
Idea with the Luddite move
ment In England a group of
workers who organized to de
stroy the machines that were
forcing some of them out of
their jobs. No bill providing for
federal restraint on the prog
ress of automation has even the
smallest chance of passing Con
gress. Even if the next 10 years
bring no big breakthrough in
the development of machines,
the problem of unemployment is
worrisome enough. For some
time now the rate of unemploy
ment in the United States has
clung stubbornly to around 5
per cent of the work force. The
prospects seem to be that It
soon will get worse because
there is an uneven race going
on between the number of new
jobs and the number of people
born.
, Washington Merry-go-round
LBJ's rush announcements
could hurt bargaining
My Nickel's Worth
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON - Last Satur
day, a day which is a holiday
for organized labor and most
government officials, Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey of Minnesota,
the Democratic whip, got a call
at home.
"What're you doing at
home?" asked a familiar voice.
"I thought you'd be in Tokyo
or Tel Aviv."
It was the President of the
United States.
"I want your Ideas on
wheat," President Johnson con
tinued, "and I need 'em by 3:30
tomorrow afternoon."
He went on to give some of
his own ideas on wheat legisla
tion, and asked the senator for
his. Humphrey had introduced a
wheat bill, following the Farm
Bureau-led revolt of wheat
farmers against the Kennedy
Freeman wheat program last
May.
Next day was Sunday and,
the wheat problem being an in
tricate one. Sen. Humphrey did
not deliver his ideas at the
White House by 3:30. Promptly
at 3:30 he got another phone
call.
"Where's that wheat program
of yours?" asked the President
of the United States.
Humphrey had worked most
of the day and part of the
night. Finally he got a wheat
program over to the White
House. In broad outline his plan
calls for voluntary controls and
for price supports for farmers
accepting these controls.
Acheson Still Advises
The new President is operat
ing with deft sureness when it
comes to domestic legislation.
He watches his old friends in
Congress with the efficient con
cern of a hen piloting an un
ruly flock of chicks through a
tomato patch. He has more
legislative know-how than any
other President in this century.
On foreign policy, however,
Johnson is inclined to OK posi
tion papers too rapidly. Lyndon
is accustomed to fast action: so
when an adviser puts a policy
outline in front of him and it
sounds reasonable, he approves
it.
This was the Inside reason
why the new President got him
self and the nation in the posi
tion of throwing away his ace
cards just before he sits down
at his Texas ranch after Christ
mas with the new chancellor of
Germany, Ludwig Erhard.
Johnson, who understands
tough Texas poker, is not in the
habit of throwing away his
aces. But in this case he is re
ported to have taken the advice
of ex-Secretary of State Dean
Acheson and his astute relative
by marriage. McGoorge Bundy,
tlie White House adviser on for
eign affairs. The Acheson pol
icy has been described by some
State Department officials as
making the United States a sat
ellite of West Germany.
What Johnson did was to OK
a pledge to keep six U.S. divi
sions in Europe chiefly in Ger
many. By so doing. Johnson tossed
away his power to bargain ef
fectively over German tariffs
against U.S. chickens, discrimi
nation against other American
farm products, the drain on the
dollar, and especially adjust
ments with Russia to ease the
cold war.
Germany is Key to Cold War
The Germans have been on
tenterhooks that the United
States would withdraw one or
two American divisions ever
since Operation Big Lift. And
the real truth is that President
Kennedy and Secretary of De
fense McNamara had planned
to do so until both Chancellor
Adenauer and President de
Gaulle began squawking.
What some State Department
advisers proposed was that the
question of keeping the full quo
ta of American troops in Eur
ope be kept up in the air until
after Chancellor Erhard's con
versations in Texas, so as to
give I.BJ a chance to do some
bargaining. Johnson had even
refused to see German news
men in order to keep a free
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Writer is critical
of local movies
To the Editor:
I should like to commend
Mrs. Thompson for her letter
concerning the movies being
shown at the local theatre. I
think a lot of adults would be
shocked at the trash that is
shown week after week, if they
would take the time to see for
themselves.
I also agree that If a double
feature is shown, it should be
of the same "calibre" as the
main show or the main fea
ture should be shown first so
the children could leave.
One good feature and one or
two shorts would be much bet
ter and they would not be out
so late and as Mrs. Thomp
son said, walking home after
ward. Published ratings should
help parents decide whether to
allow their children to attend.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jack Jones
Bend, Oregon,
Dec. 16, 1963
Owning arms seen
free man's right
To the Editor:
In reading your editorial of
December 10, I was surprised
to see that you called about 25,
000,000 to 35,000,000 Americans,
myself included, extremists all
because we as Americans re
sist the people who would de
prive us of our inherited right
to own and possess arms. In
your editorial and I quote,
"Those who object to rigid re
strictions on private ownership
of firearms frequently point out
that the constitution protects
the right of the people to keep
and bear arms. The constitution
however relates that right to
maintenance of a well regulat
ed militia." What I have to say
to this is that Hitler had a well
regulated milita, too.
Sir, I do not believe that our
strength lies in our Army or
Navy, but in the American peo
ple and in our constitution as
set down by our forefathers.
It seems a pity that some of
our national magazines and pa
pers seem to prefer sensational
ism to responsible and educa
tional journalism. While I will
defend any man's right to his
opinion in print, I feel that this
same freedom should be extend
ed to the positive side of sport
ing firearms and guns in gen
eral. I would like to point out that
article two of the Bill of Rights
of the United States of America
states, "The right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not
be infringed." Those are not
Idle words. They were not half
heartedly inserted at some of
the ill conceived after thought
on the part of the founding fath
ers. Since the Bill of Rights
guarantees such basic rights as
freedom of speech, worship and
press as well as the right to
bear arms, it is strikingly pe
culiar that certain segments of
our national press appear in
tent on abridging any of these
freedoms. One would think that
members of the press consid
ering their long battle to pre
serve their freedom from cen
sorship and government control
would realize that any restric
tion imposed on anv of the arti
cles of the Bill of" Rights is a
two edged sword that also
might be applied to others. Our
Whenever it's snowing kids liberties are interdependent up-
shovel walks to make room for on each other and perhaps one
more snow. liberty, for example, freedom
of the press, cannot long sur-
Men run for blocks and blocks vive free from jeopardy without
to see a tire, followed by women the healthy maintenance of all
when the fire sale starts. the other liberties outlined in
The Bulletin
Friday, December 20, 1963
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor
Glenn Cuihman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager
Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Del Usselman, Cire. Manager
Lerea E. Dyer, Mech. Supt. William A. Yates, Managing Ed.
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hand.
But the Acheson axis which
still has great power in the
State Department, and which
believes that U.S. policy should
bow to German policy, had its
way.
This put Secretary of State
Rusk in the position of urging
Germany and our NATO allies
to improve relations with the
Soviet in order to help Khrush
chev in his battle with the Red
Chinese, but of having no bar
gaining power with our NATO
allies to induce them to do this.
It also put Secretary of De
fense McNamara in the diffi
cult position of urging our
NATO allies to fill their quot
as of troops for NATO without
being able to threaten to with
draw U.S. troops if they didn't.
$100,000 bail
set for .YanoY
by appeals court
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) The
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
3rd Circuit Thursday approved
$100,000 bail for Igor A. Ivanov,
33, a Russian chauffeur indicted
with an American engineer on
charges of spying against the
United States.
Three appeals court Judges
approved the high bail for
Ivanov but failed to rule on a
similar appeal from John Bu
tenko, 38, Orange, N.J., who
worked for the International
Electric Corp., Paramus, N.J.
Ivanov and Butenko were ar
rested in Englewood, N.J., and
later Indicted by a federal
grand jury in Newark on three
counts of conspiring to transmit
secrets of the Strategic Air
Command.
Three members of the Soviet
delegation were also accused
but were protected by diplomat
ic immunity and later oxpelled
from this country.
The ruling Thursday by ap
peals court Chief Judge John
Biggs, Jr., and judges William
Hastie and William F. Smith
restricted Ivanov's travel to
New Jersey and New York
City.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William Brennan said recently
following bail appeals by Buten
ko and Ivanov that their cases
should be reconsidered. He re
commended bail for Ivanov.
U.S. attorney Sanford Jaffee
of Newark said Thursday that
the government would not op
pose bail for the Russian, who
Is employed by a Soviet trading
company in New York.
Barbs
None of our business is what
lots of us seem to be most Inter
ested in.
If you want to stop smoking
forever, just quit until you're
completely out of debt.
our Bill of Rights. History indi
cates that the Bill of Rights
was conceived as a separate
entity from the Constitution to
underline the vast importance
of the individual right of man
in our Republic.
I would hate to think any of
us regardless of our personal
prejudices concerning huntiag
and fire arms would casually
throw away any of these per
sonal liberties so dearly won
and preserved by our fellow
citizens in the last 186 years.
Are our memories so short
that we forget the lesson so
well taught in World War II to
the Norwegian people, as well
as to us, after 125 years of
peace to find themselves being
invaded. No milita to speak of,
the people didn't even know
how to use arms. But look at
them today, one of the lead
ing countries in NATO. Be we
ever so stupid as to believe that
peace will come with the ban
ning of arms from America or
the world, we should read the
Bible a little more and use it a
little less for a dust catcher. I
believe it states there will be
wars and rumors of war. Tak
ing the good book at its word,
I prefer to keep my arms and
without any restrictions.
One of our great presidents,
Theodore Roosevelt, had this to
say on the subject: "The rifle
is the free man's weapon. The
man who uses it well in the
chase shows that he can at
need use it also in war."
Sincerely yours,
Sidney B. Clark
Bend, Oregon,
Dec. 13, 1963
Indian question
termed irrelevant
To the Editor:
While I found the reply of
Mr. Meglitsch (dated Dec.
12th) to my letter of Dec. 6th,
interesting, it was not at all to
the point. Both the article of
Drew Pearson and the reply of
Mr. M's attack the Rev. Carl
Mclntire as a man and do not
deal with the principles in ques
tion. In debate of principles
argumentum ad hominen (those
directed against personalities)
are invalid. Tn addition irrele
vant material is injected into
the discussion.
What does the Golden Age
Rest Home have to do with the
point at hand? I suppose that
it is because Mr. Mclntire does
not accept the "medicare" pro
posals. Many thousands of peo
ple do not, but not because
they are unsympathetic toward
the problems of the aged. "Med
icare" is unworkable as its
coverage is limited both as to
persons covered (only those
under Social Security) and ex
tent (neither everything nor
anything completely is covered).
The program Is unnecessary ai
the Kerr-Mills and private char
ity presently give better cover
age. The program is not the
biblical concept because the
care of the aged belongs to the
family and not to the state.
Douglas MacArthur once said
that all of the world's problems
are theological (i.e., religious).
In this case failure to honor
one's parents is the basic reli
gious concept being violated by
many.
Concerning another point of
the reply: the Rev. Mclntire
has constantly offered his paid
radio time for any person or
organization to debate with him
the issues involved. I have
never seen Pearson offer Mcln
tire his column to answer the
attacks made upon him. In
answer as to what Mclntire has
done for the needy, one needs
only to consider the work of his
church and the church councils
that he represents to answer.
One point only will I mention,
that for several consecutive
years Mclntire has raised over
$100,000 each year for Korean
relief through his church, pro
gram, and paper. Again, I urge
all who would like to know the
other side of the man to write
to him and receive free his
materials. The address is Rev.
Carl Mclntire. Collingswood,
New Jersey. The bread that
Mclntire eats is the Bread of
life, the Word of God lnscriptu
rated and incarnate; the song
that he sings is the song of
those who have been saved by
the blood of Jesus Christ.
What does the fact that Mr.
M is an American Indian have
to do with the matter at hand?
I have a great love, admiration,
and sympathy for his people.
My four adopted children are
from the Mandan Sioux and the
Chippewa tribes. I want them
to grow up in a free democracy
proud to be Americans both
according to nationality and
blood. Should I ever meet Mr.
M, he had better be able to
answer the many questions that
I would ask concerning the
history of the local tribes.
The fact that Harvey Lee
Oswald was a Communist does
not need to be answered, for
all the evidence from the begin
ning proved that beyond ques
tion. The larger question as to
whether he was alone involved,
or part of a plot remains un
answered. Yours truly,
Thomas A. Beech
Bend, Oregon
Dec. 18, 1963
EXPECTED AT CEREMONY
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy Is ex
pected to go to New York Tues
day to attend the ceremony re
naming Idlewild Airport in hon
or of his slain brother.
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