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About The Bulletin. (Bend, OR) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1963)
'As a maffer of fact, I have several ideas on the subject' Central Oregon towns should act next year to Improve Images to travellers A Bend citizen touched off dis cussion of a subject at a pre-Christ-mas gathering of Central Oregon residents. Why, she asked, doesn't ;her city do something positive to 'give tourists a more favorable im pression of the town? Others joined in, and before long a civic self-improvement program was outlined for several of the towns in the area. The complainant was talking about the appearance of Bend to those who "just passed through." She noted that In earlier years visi tors passed through the business ' rontdr' nf tlio nnmmnnltv Trt rln sn they had to pass at least one park. Some passed two. And all over the country Bend was remembered as "the town with those beautiful parks." m ji.. J . . . . , e 10 improve uiu uowiuowii imi- fic situation, and to avoid slowing down those who had no particular . reason to stop here, the highway Was IHUVCUi XI lltl3 ipi.lt ill WIS! regards. Matter of fact, the down town traffic situation in the past ten days would have been complete ly impossible had the highway route not been moved. The re-routing has accomplished its original purpose. But It has left Bend as an undis tinguished memory in the minds of a number of travellers. Entrances to the city are not very attractive, and present highway routing makes the entire town an entrance. Practically every city and town In Central Oregon is faced with a similar existing or potential prob lem. The sole exception at the present time is Sisters. Either of the two main approaches from the west are well protected by property own ership. Approaches from the east, although perhaps not so well pro tected, are in no immediate danger. The three main approach routes to Prineville are among the most attractive, naturally, in the state. The view coming down the grade from the west is spectacular. The sight as you approacH from the east is one of the most pleasant to be found anywhere. The road in from Madras is not as spectacular as either of the others, but there cer tainly is nothing wrong with it. But Prineville, like Bend, or Redmond, or Madras, could use some sprucing up as the city limits are approached. It was not always thus. A few years ago the impression given by each town to the casual visitor was better than it is today. The need for improvement has gone past the stage where much can be accomplished by the indi vidual property owner, acting alone. It is going to take some concerted effort to get much done. A long range program will take the cooper ation of property owners, local Chambers of Commerce, the cities involved, and all three Central Ore gon counties. The Central Oregon Chamber of Commerce has been, by its very nature, more of a coordination than an action group. But this might be just the time for the member groups of the Central Oregon Chamber to Initiate some action. The services of an expert in civic beautificntion might be obtained at relatively little cost. A little willpower and some constant pressure on the growing problem could result in some big strides toward Its cure. Fair-sized gain in economy seen for 1963 By Joseph D. Hutnyan UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - The nation's economy is expected to show "a fair-sized gain" this year despite a brief slowdown following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. That was the Christmas Day word from the Commerce De partment which reported that an upturn in steel production paced a continued slow advance in business activity in Novem ber. "There was a temporary in terruption in the tempo of eco nomic activity for a period im mediately after the assassina tion of President Kennedy," the report said. "The upward momentum was resumed, however, reflecting basic underlying strength of the economic forces." The Office of Business Eco nomics cited these signs of economic strength in its month ly review: Retail sales showed a quick recovery in the first week of December, following "sharp and widespread declines" immedi ately after the assassination. Iron and steel production continued the rise begun in August. The spurt was due to renewed buying by steel con sumers, whose inventories were running low. The automobile Industry produced 875,000 cars and trucks in November a record for the month despite tempor ary work stoppages at some im portant plants. Construction of homes and apartments also picked up last month. The department said that bus iness confidence has been bol stered by prospects for a tax cut. The administration's $11 billion tax cut bill, approved by the House, is now before the Senate Finance Committee. But the measure is slated to take effect Jan. 1, even if Congress doesn't get around to passing it until months later. What really messed up wheat compromise was feeble Demo leadership in the House Bobcats brought to life No, bobcats don't attack humans. On the contrary, they will go to great lengths to stay away from people. At the same time, there is one man in Bend who thinks that bob cats still prowl some areas of the city from time to time in search of food. He makes quite a case for his point of view In an interesting book soon to be published under the title, "World of the Bobcat." The author, who probably knows more about bobcats than any body else in these parts is Joe Van Wormer, wildlife photographer and writer who makes his home in Bend. This is Van Wormer's first book although ho has done hundreds of articles for national magazines. "World of the Bobcat," published by the Lippincott Company, reflects several years of research on the part of the author. His research came through hunting bobcats, photographing them, studying pet bobcats in the Bend area and corresponding with literally hundreds of wildlife ex ptVts. From thi vast rtrvolr, Vn Wormer hn put togthr 8 rtmarfc , able account of th t tflfctbAt - few of itg ever ft-e. - No, bobcats aren't becoming ex- By Lyle C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer Somebody around the White House has been calling House Republican leader Charles A. Halleck that blankety blank ro-and-so. And the same anony mous somebody has been call ing names, too, at the Republi can membership of the House. The White House complaint is about so-and-so Halleck and his political pals who blocked final House action last week on the foreign aid bill. More spe cifically, the House balked at a compromise agreement with the Senate whereby the U. S. government indirectly would provide the credit to enable the Soviet Union to buy U. S. wheat. President Johnson's outrage was described as terrible to look upon. This sin of Halleck and his Republican conspira tors against the public welfare was described as evil beyond belief. Halleck's perfidy was described as on a monumental pattern. Friends, it is to laugh. Not, perhaps, to laugh at the delay in enactment of the foreign aid bill. But for the idea that Hal leck & Co., were responsi ble for undercutting the wheat credit compromise, all hands with any understanding of sim ple arithmetic should reserve a resounding ho-ho-ho. Democrats Blamed What messed up the wheat credit compromise was the feeble Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives. The Democrats have a fat ma jority in the House. The party standing is: Democrats 255; Republicans 178. When the chips were down last Saturday, however, on the wheat credit vote there were present and voting only 159 Democrats; Of these, 26 voted against the ad ministration. The Republicans mustered 115 votes against the wheat credit and the project lost by a tally of 141 to 136, three Republicans having bolt ed their own party leadership. One more effort was made Saturday to approve a slightly different compromise proposal. This effort foundered also on the shoals of weak Democratic leadership. The leaders' prob lem was that they could not persuade their troops to re main on the battlefield nor to return to it. To get the second compro mise to the House floor for a vote, the leadership needed favorable action by the House Rules Committee. Only s i x Rules Committee members showed up, two short of a quo rum. There are 10 Democratic members of rules, two more than a bare quorum, but only six showed. Majority Party Responsible It is a fact that there were a couple of Republican Rules Committee members in Wash ington 'wo could have appeared, thus providing a quorum for business. But the responsibility for the functioning of the com mittee or the House itself lies squarely with the majority par ty by reason of its numbers. It is being remarked around the Press Club and elsewhere among the politically asiute that the idea of assigning an anony mous White House spokesman, as was done last week, to de nounce the Republicans and to call Charley Halleck a so-and-so was a very strange idea, indeed. Demoncratic administrations have been for years leaking the word that Charley was a so-and-so. It is hardly off-record news or, for that matter, news at all. The real news from Congress last week was Democratic absenteeism. -:3 , ; 5fas-hiugton Merry-go-round Republicans out to harass, embarrass new president tinct. We just don't see them. In 1961, there were over 2,000 pelts turned in to authorities in Oregon. The number exceeded 3,000 the year before. No. they don't really make good pets although there are a few fami lies in this area that have kept young ones. Yes, they are hard to spot. They do most of their hunting at night and hide in the daytime. When they are out in the daytime their natural color makes them al most impossible to spot. There Is much more In this book, due for publication in early January. It has a background in Central Oregon and should bring added interest to this area. It should also bring addrd Inter est to its author, who is probably more interesting than any book he might write. Van Wormr is a former certified public accountant who quit that, husiimni In 1949 to concent rite on outdoor photography and writ ing. His list o creriita in national magazines attaa to hi success in his ne- fiald. If "Vorlfl of tb Bob est" 6 asampVs, n is litftiie for tartf triuetpfisf in jhft W'tt-Wrttiug My. Nickel's Worth "When men differ In opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage) of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Communism resented in its varied forms To the Editor: During all my adulthood I have been unalterably opposed to communism and its teach ings. Imagine my consternation to find that there is one even worse the one advocated by Alex Booth of Redmond. Lloyd W. Robinson Sisters, Oregon, Dec. 19, 1963 Why crucify for wrongs of another? To the Editor: Sometime ago you printed a letter by a Mr. Hodges of Klamath Falls. In the letter he decried the idea of giving as sistance to Mrs. Oswald. Mr. Hodges seemed to write his let ter in the name of patriotism, yet Ills letter struck to the heart of President Kennedy's ideals of a better world through help to the undcr-privleged. On December 18, you printed another letter from a Mr. Booth of Redmond. I get the impres sion from this letter that Mr. Booth is opposed to assisting Mrs. Oswald because it is the Christian thing to do. Another who was killed because H I s ideals were too high for man to understand. Then I realized that although I did not agree with Booth or Hodges. I was no better than they. Why? Because in my com placency I had done nothing to wards that assistance. That while not in thought, I was in action agreeing with the Hodges, Booths, Oswalds and Rubys. It is my unders t a n d 1 n g , through the papers, radio, and TV that Mrs. Tippit is assured of her future. You have offered to forward any contributions, so I am tak ing advantage of your offer. Will you please forward the en closed check to Mrs. Oswald and help me remove myself from the category of those who would crucify one for the wrongs of another? Thanking you, D. D. Tussing rVnd, Oregon, Dec. 19, 1963 By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON - Most people don't know it, and Charlie Hal leck doesn't list it in his own who's who biography, but his middle name is "Abraham," for his father, Abraham Halleck, who in turn was named for the patron saint of the Republican party, Lincoln. The fact that Charlie Halleck wants to forget his middle name may have some freudian connection with the fact that as Republican Leader of the House, he is not engaging in the tactics which sent this nation into a tailspin after the assassi nation of Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln's death, the Congress, already backbiting and sniping at Lincoln, pro ceeded to hammer at his suc cessor, Vice President Andrew Johnson, with such savage fe rocity that the progress of the nation was set back by a gen eration. Today Halleck is trying to do the same thing to another John son in the White House. This is essentially what the in - fighting and doublecrossing were about in the House of Rep resentatives during the hectic days when Congress was sup posed to adjourn but didn't. To understand it, you have to understand Charlie Halleck. You have to go back to the bit ter battle inside Republican ranks when the Nixon forces on Capitol Hill pulled wires to re place GOP Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts with the shrewd and ruthless Chart Abraham Halleck of Indiana. Charlie had come to Wash ington an ambitious bui unitf fluent young attorney from northern Indiana in 1935. If Charlie had much more money in his pocket than enough to pay his carfare to Washington he didn't show it. But ten years later, right after the war when cars were almost impossible to buy, Charlie showed up with two Cadillacs, while his son, who attended the not inexpen sive St. Albans School, used to drive a Cadillac convertible. As a congressman, Halleck has battled against about every thing that would help the con sumer, including some mea sures which would help his own district. GOP Battle When Halleck managed to kick out Joe Martin as Repub lican leader in 1959 observers figured the warm cooperation Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had been giv ing Eisenhower would end. Johnson in the Senate and Rayburn in the House had gone down the line for Eisenhower on every major foreign policy the French Indo-China crisis, near war in the Formosan Straits, the Suez crisis, the landing of U.S. Marines in Leb anon. Each time Johnson and Rayburn had placed foreign pol icy ahead of partisan politics and supported the Republican administration. Among other things they sup ported Ike's policy of lending not selling wheat and other products to Yugoslavia and Po land, the same principle against which Halleck made such bit ter speeches when it comes to selling gram to Russia. Even after Halleck ousted Joe Martin, Johnson and Ray burn continued to support the Republican President. And when Ike came back from his summit conference fiasco in Paris after one of the worst bloopers of modern diplomacy the U-2 incident Lyndon Johnson, now President, with his friend Sam Rayburn, were down at the airport to meet Ike as a sign of American po litical solidarity. Halleck's Patriotism In contrast, immediately after Johnson became President one month ago, Halleck decided that the shoe would not be on the other foot. First he began to plug for adjournment. He knew that the longer he could shove legislative action- away from the emotional period following Kennedy's death, the easier it would be to upset, harass, and embarrass Johnson. Halleck's tactics began, very quietly, two weeks ago when he got the GOP policy committee to oppose the vocational train ing bill. It had been deadlocked in joint House and Senate Com mittee for weeks, but the new President, using his persuasive telephone technique, persuaded Adam Clayton Powell to un block it. The bill, Johnson told Powell, meant jobs for thou sands of Negro youths. But suddenly, President John son found himself up against Charlie Halleck and his delay ing tactics. A letter was written to every Republican congress man, a motion was made to re commit and Charles Goodell of New York, hitherto an ardent civil rights advocate suddenly reversed himself, and for the purpose of political tactics, be came a segregationist. He whis pered to southern congressmen that the bill would desegregate southern work schools. Adam Powell denied this. Nevertheless, the Halleck stra tegy was so shrewd and so ruthless that a bill which had previously passed the House 300 to 30. was almost defeated on a motion to recommit. The vote was 193 to 180 for the bill. This was the signal to insid ers that Halleck was out to adopt gutter in-fighting against President Johnson behind the scenes, no matter how much he might appear to support him in front of the footlights. This was also the prelude to Halleck's moves and counter moves to embarrass the new President, whom he professes to admire, by foot-dragging, dou blecrossing and under - cutting the foreign aid bill with its wheat sale provision, just as Congress was try ing to go home for Christmas. Stock Exchange has impressive volume figures By Jesse Bogue UPI Staff Writer NEW YORK (UPI)-The New York Stock Exchange is report ing some impressive figures on volume of trading this year, a big 10-digit number breaking a 34-year record. The old record stock volume of 1,124,800,410 stood since one of the wildest years in the long history of the exchange, 1929. But old timers, while not dis paraging this year's market ac tivity and its recovery from the slump of mid-1962, can cite statistics to show that for turn over, the trading of shares available for transactions, the dying year of 1963 ranks well down the list. Traders and investors today have far more shares in which to deal than did those mostly . unfortunate Individuals who were caught up in the swirl of 1929's hectic trading. The turnover this year has been running at about 15 per cent; the average of shares list ed is at about the 8 billion mark. But in 1929, the average num ber of shares listed was only about 942 million, about one eighth of those recorded now and the per cent of turnover in that hectic year was 119, or about eight times the rate at which it has been showing this year. Elmer C. Walzer, former UPI financial editor, gave an illus tration of what these differences mean when he compared the market break of May, 1962, to the crash of 1929. On the last Tuesday of May of last year, sales were 14,750,000 shares, second only to the 16.410.030 shares traded Oct. 29, 1929. But the market was seven times big ger on the basis of shares list ed, Walzer noted, and to dupli cate the big day of 1929, the sales would have had to reach 112 million shares. The approximate 15 per cent turnover this year has been slightly higher than the 13 per cent of last year, but as recent ly as 1955 it was as high as 19 ppr cent. Barbs o0 The Bulletin Thursday, December 26, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. .Chandler, Editor Dean CieSbcian, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, AdvC Manager PW I t" BrojOM, Associate Editor Del Usselman, Circ. Manager iJWVO, $ Otfr, ,ech. Supt. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. Jitered m SecvfKl Cu Mutter. January S. MIT at Ua Pot Offlca at Bend. Or. Cni. un.ler Act et Marvh 5. 1ST, ruUUncd daily fJicept Suilay and certain (Cl..daja by rt Bnd Bulletin, Inc. -Gunfire reminds of uncertain Cyprus future By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer Gunfire echoing on the Medi terranean island of Cyprus is a reminder of an unhappy past and an uncertain future. For three years since Cyprus achieved independence on Aug. 16, 1960, a restless peace has prevailed under a constitution which sought to protect in equal portions the rights of 400,000 Greeks and the 100,00v Turks who form the islands minority. , It is an impostible constftu tion patched together to escape an impossible siluition marked by years of bloody violence and a near-break between Greece and Turkey and an accompany ing threat to NATO defenses in the eastern Mediterranean. The violence beg;n in 1952, when a blackbeard-d, Ameri can educated Ortholpx priest became archbishop if Cyprus under the title Malvios III and used his office toiress his campaign for "enosis'y-union with Greece, and indeendence from Britain. 1 It reached its peak In 1955 and 1956 when Eoka, thj Greek terrorist organization (turned the main street of Nicola, the capital, into "murderj mile" and nearly 1,000 person were killed or wounded. j Agreement A Patchwrk With Turkey demandig par tition of the island andjreece demanding its union land neither they nor the Cbriots able to agree on a solufcn, a council of Zurich reacted a patchwork agreement liter completed in London. It provided for a repubfc of Cyprus to be headed h a Greek president and a Tukish vice president, each will a right of veto. The division of authority ex tended even down to tie jom munity level, and affetfec all phases of government, intlud ing foreign affairs, ta; laws and the makeup of the fmy. This is the issue whib has proved unworkable. Thi divi sion between Greeks andTurks has led to failure to collect taxes and Turkish Vice Presi dent Fazil Kutchuk to coiplain that he is kept ignorantrf af fairs which he has the rht to veto. Makearios, who becam the country's first president and stiil holds the post, on hisslda has complained that septate Greek and Turkish authoritin the communities is unworksle, and he blames the Turks tor making it so. i He has demanded consti tional changes which the Tuts say would infringe upon thir rights. I Cause Of Violence) 1 These changes were the la derlying causes of the most cent clashes in which ioth, Greeks and Turks died, i Underlying the violence also was the Turkish belief thatthe Greeks slill have not given up their desire for union Tith Greece, although it specifiilly is forbidden by the Zirich agreement. Feeding Turkish suspicsns was Makarios' own asserlon last March that the Efca "struggle is not yet ended." Makarios has said that C$ nis is "more inclined to e West than the East," but ie has not hesitated to complete many barter deals with Con munist countries. I Meanwhile, the struggle i Cyprus can only be of beneft to Cyprus' own Communis; party, the best organized in fie country, powerful in municipal governments and in labor. So far, the Communists havt been willing to bide their true. Answer to Previous Pujile k Travel Talk A thief broke into an Illinois drug store and all he got for his pains was a carton of rubbing alcohol. It makes us tired te tvea think of the things we have planned to do. Closets and drawers are where little kids find Christmas presents that were hidden there to keep them from finding them. A man drew a five-year sen tence for robbing a fraternity house. He really got initiated. 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