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A political 'unknown of four months
ago is now in the race's forefront
'. Four months ago, a quick re
view of our file Indicates, practical
ly no one west of the Mississippi
river ever heard of a man named
illiam Scranton. During the inter
vening period, he has moved up rap
Idly in the political world. Four
months ago William Scranton was
the young Governor of Pennsylvan
ia., He's still that; he's also become
a leading candidate for the Republi
can nomination for President. .
For the past three and one-half
years there's been no doubt about
the identity of the Democratic candi
date for President next year. Until
shortly after noon on Nov. 22, 1963,.
it was going to be John F. Kennedy,
.no doubt of it. There was equally
little doubt only a few hours later
It will be Lyndon Johnson as of now.
The only thing which could inter
vene would be Mr. Johnson's death
or incapacity. The speculation,
therefore, has revolved around pos
sible opponents to either the late Mr.
Kennedy,' or Mr. Johnson.
Immediately after the election
of Mr. Kennedy, it appeared his 1964
opponent would be Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York. Rockefel
ler's divorce and subsequent remar
riage dropped his stock so low it is
doubtful if he can make a successful
comeback, although he's trying, and
hard. He has set up organizations In
various states, organizations report
edly well supplied with funds and
manpower. He has in Oregon secured
the services of an extremely able
chairman in Bill Walsh of Coos Bay.
Then came the Goldwater boom.
Senator Barry Goldwater became
somewhat of a political Messiah to
various fractionated interests of
both parties. He appealed to the
conservative. But he also appealed
to the racist and the radical right,
although he made no effort to do so.
He was the front-runner, until the
' tragic and untimely death of Mr.
Kennedy. His stock has slipped bad
ly since, as the nomination became
more attractive.
Various other possibilities were
mentioned even prior to the death
- of Mr. Kennedy. The mentions came
most frequently from those who did
not want to see the nomination go
to Senator Goldwater. Most came
from the North, the East, and por
tions of the West They came from
officeholders and would-be candi
dates who feared in large measure
their own chances would be badly
hurt by the presence of Goldwater.
on the same ticket
Most often mentioned was Rich
ard Nixon, who came about as close
to winning as a man could come,
without winning. Nixon made it
clear he did not want the job. He
did not make it clear that he would
not accept It If it were offered to
him. Others mentioned with some
frequency included Scranton, Gov
ernor Romney of Michigan, and oc
casionally Governor Hatfield of Ore
gon. The past five weeks has seen a
drop in Goldwater's popularity, no
increase in that of Rockefeller. Nix
on has gained somewhat. Romney
and Hatfield have not made much
headway. And Scranton has enjoyed
an almost amazing boomlet. More
persons want to know more about
him.
Scranton has one necessary
qualification. He is rich. He has
others. He has served in the execu
tive branch of government, as a
White House liaison man for the
State Department He served a term
in Congress. He can win elections.
He defeated strong candidates
when he sought his present office,
and when he ran for Congress. He
comes from a big state; Pennsyl
vania has 29 electoral votes. He's
generally considered to have per
formed well since he became Gover
nor. He's well-educated, Yale and
Yale Law School. He offers some
thing which Republicans will need;
he's a fresh personality. He's young,
and vigorous. His wife is an attrac
tive personality, who enjoys cam
paigning. Scranton has come a long way
in recent weeks. He's sure, if he can
avoid enough primaries, to be a
strong force to contend with at the
convention In San Francisco next
July.
-Not meant as a deterrent
That juvenile judge In Walla
-Walla, Washington, who runs a
' secret court, allowing no informa
' tlon outside the doors to the press,
. may be defeating his purpose in the
end.
He has said that he has Imposed
ecrecy because "It is impossible for
us to see that publication of names
has been a crime deterrent as far
as juvenile court is concerned." This
may be right
But the judge and most other
people who agree that he is taking
the right course of action, are for
getting that publication of juvenile
proceedings is not meant by news
papers to be a deterrent to juvenile
crime.
Publication of juvenile court
news comes under the heading of
public right of access to tiie business
being conducted within public lnstl-
EDITOR'S NOTE: This It
th second of four dispatches
dealing with places Pope Paul
VI will visit on his pilgrim
age to the Holy Land begin
ning Jan. 4. It describes the
town of Nazareth.
By Eliav Simon
UPI Staff Writer
NAZARETH, Israel (UPI)
The worn hills of Galilee hid
Nazareth from the pages of his
tory until the Gospels turned it
into a shrine venerated through
out Christendom.
It was the boyhood home of
Christ. Here he preached the
sermon in the synagogue that
led to his rejection by the Naz
arenes, and here he played
amid the shavings and dust of
Joseph's carpentry shop.
Pilgrims today can still see
the spot where the shop stood.
Mary's well is here in Nazar
eth and women still come to It
for their water, returning home
with pitchers carried upon their
heads.
Nazareth was a place that
made almost no mark in this
ancient land. So obscure was it,
the Gospel of John tells us, that
Nathanael asked in disbelief,
"Can there any good thing
good come out of Nazareth?"
Philip replied, "come and see"
Jesus of Nazareth.
Much The Same
Pope Paul VI will find it a
city that looks not greatly dif
ferent than at the time of Christ.
Nothing remains of course of
the actual buildings, but change
comes slowly in Galilee and
what was destroyed by ravag
ing armies was rebuilt as it had
been before.
Most of the modern Nazarenes
wear Western clothes. Yet,
many still dress In the flowing
robes that were common in Bib
lical times. The population is
now about 25,000, most of them
Arab Christians. About 10,000 of
them are Roman Catholics.
Roman soldiers sacked the
town on their way to major at
tacks on Japha in 67 A.D., and
it is believed that the Nazareth
of the Gospels perished. Only
caves in the rocks provided
refuge. Eusebius, citing Julius
Africanus, says "relatives of the
Lord" presumably the de
scendants of the family of Jos
eph and Mary were scattered
throughout the countryside.
But politics and military stra
tegy sent Titus to sack Jerusa
lem, and the seeds of Nazar-
Washington Merry-go-round
Lawmakers should be paid
according to days worked
tutions. There are plenty of past
examples of harsh and restrictive
action on the part of the judiciary
and some law enforcement types
who haven't been subject to the
light of public scrutiny.
The Bulletin publishes Juvenile
names when a felony has been com
mitted or when the violation in
volves liquor or moving traffic. Like
most Oregon newspapers we use dis
cretion in reporting juvenile court
business to the public.
We do not believe that the with
holding of records of public business
will serve as a crime deterrent for
juveniles any more than it would
for those over 18 years old. The
dangers of "closed courts" should
be evident to even the most vocal
of those who would have us bury
our heads In the sand and hide our
Juvenile crimes behind steel doors.
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON - On Decem
ber 12 this writer opined that
congressmen are generally un
derpaid and entitled to a raise
In salary. I now find myself un
der the necessity of eating part
of my own words.
It is true that the living ex
penses of senators and con
gressmen are high. But looking
over the absentee records of
some congressmen at the pres
ent session of the 88th Con
gress, it is obvious that many
of them do not deserve a raise.
In fact, if a corporation execu
tive, or a farm hand, or a fac
tory worker chalked up the
same attendance record of
some of these congressmen, he
would be fired.
Because of slipshod attend
ance, the habit of flying all
over the world at the taxpay
ers' expense, conflicts of inter
est, do-nothingism, procrastina
tion, blocking of legislation by
one man, the current 88th Con
gress has probably sunk lower
in the public esteem than any
other in recent history.
I regret to report this, be
cause in my opinion a respect
ed Congress Is vital to respect
for government. If public re
spect for Congress drops, pub
lic respect for government also
drops. This is one way to un
dermine democracy and help
communism.
Therefore I should like to pro
pose an independent agency to
keep tabs on Congress, on its
attendance, its conflicts of in
terest, and its junkets.
Congressional Accounting
Office
Some years ago, Congress set
up the General Accounting Of
fice to keep tabs on government
spending. Its chief, the comp
troller general, is appointed for
a term of fourteen years and
no one can remove him. This
gives him great independence.
Be can look down the throat of
the executive branch of govern
ment and examine every tooth
in its head. As a result, the
GAO has saved millions of dol
lars over the years.
However, the General Ac
counting Office has the power
to scrutinize only the executive
branch of government. It can
not focus on Congress. And
what is needed today is a new
"Congressional Accounting Of
fice" to audit congressional ex
pense accounts, inform the pub
lic regarding absentee records
and report on whether junkets
are a waste of the taxpayers'
money.
Furthermore if congressmen
insist on taking long vacations
or ducking out of key votes, let
them be paid accordingly. Give
them the raise in pay which
they want from $22,500 to
$.15,000 per year. But also dock
them if they duck out of Wash
ington during business days.
It should not be necessary
for the President of the United
States to get on the phone and
urge congressmen to come back
to work, as LBJ had to do just
before Christmas. Nor should it
be the duly of the party whip
to phone or telegraph them.
Congressmen are oid enough to
read and write, most of them
are even able to read the oath
of office they took to carry out
their duties.
Relaxing In the Islands
For instance. Rep. Richard
Boiling, the Kansas City Demo
crat, was on a boat, cruising
off the Virgin Islands, when
Henry Wilson of the While
House staff got hold of him to
ask that he fly back to Wash
ington and help vote the foreign
aid bill out of the Rules Com
mittee. Boiling is a member of
that committee.
The ship-to-shore radio phone
on which Wilson appealed to
Boiling didn't work very well.
Despite this Boiling told a
heart - rending story of how in
the past whenever he wanted to
get a couple of days off he was
summoned back to Washington
to vote. Last March, he said he
had gone to Michigan with
some Kansas City friends to
hunt, when he got a call from
Washington to come back. He
came back, Dick lamented, and
never was able to rejoin his
friends in Michigan.
This time, the congressman
from Kansas City said, he was
going to stay in the waters of
the Virgin Islands and relax.
The weak point in Boiling's
sorrowful complaint is that it
was not his right to go hunt
ing in Michigan in the first
place. His job was in Washing
ton tending to the business for
which the voters elected him.
Even when President Johnson
got on the ship - to - shore tele
phone to beg Boiling to come
back, he refused.
So also did Rep. Chet Holl
field of California, long time
leader of the so-called "Demo
cratic Study Group," which' has
been scolding old line congress
men for blocking bills and de
laying tactics. When urgent
phone calls were made to Holi
field in California, he refused
to come back and earn his sal
ary. Rep. Everett Burkhalter of
North Hollywood, Calif., was
another absentee. Various at
tempts were made to locate
him, but he had gone hunting.
Burkhalter chalked up a not
able victory in 1962 when he de
feated John Birchite Edgar Hie
stand. Burkhalter has had a
good attendance record in the
past. Before coming to Congress
he was an electrician in Holly
wood's motion picture studios,
and if he had walked out on an
important shooting he would
not have been paid. Or he
might have been disciplined.
Another Democrat who did
not turn up for the crucial vote
on foreign aid was Rep. Dante
Fascell of Miami. The late
President Kennedy had gone
down to Florida to attend a
$100-a-plate dinner at which he
gave Fascell a big election
boost. But when the chips were
down on an important bill initi
ated by Kennedy, Fascell was
away basking in the Florida
sunshine.
When urged to come back, he
did so. But. he was not willing
lo leave Florida early enough
to reach Washington in time to
vole on the two-thirds at first
necessary to pass the foreign
aid bill. Fascell left Florida so
late that the snow would not per
mit him to land in Washington.
A "Congressional Accounting
Office" could pay congressmen
according to the number of
days they work, check on their
law firms, their conflicts of in
terest and their junkets. Never
before has anyone regulated
Congress. But it's about time.
MYSTERY IS SOLVED
MANITOWOC. Wis. (UPH
The sheep which vanished Sun
day from the Nativity scene in
downtown Manitowoc has been
located.
Police found the sheep Mon
day on the farm of its owner,
who explained that he visited
the display and found the sheep
had given birth to a lamb. He
took both animals back to the
farm for shelter against the
zero cold.
The Bulletin
Tuesday, December 31, 1963
An Independent Newspaper
Robert W. Chandler, Editor
Glenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McOermoH, Adv. Manager
Phil P. Brogan, Aisociate Editor Del Uaielmen, Circ. Manager
Loren I. Dyer, Mech. Supt. William A. Yetes, Managing Ed.
reared aa vcun) Clan Matter. Jatvurv a. U!7 at t? r Office at Pend. or.
ton. uMer Act cf Ma-vh .V 1T9, rubllabed daily tax! Sunday and certain
boudaaa bar XT Band Builaao, Inc.
eth's rebirth were cast when
refugees from the City of David
came to quiet Galilee.
By the third century A.D.
there was a Jewish community
in Nazareth. In 614 A.D., the
men of Nazareth joined Chosroes
II of Persia and helped him
sack the churches of Jerusa
lem. When the emperor Hera
clius drove out the Persians,
the Christians put Jewish Naz
areth to the sword.
Christ Leaves City
Christ left Nazareth for Cap
ernaum (Tel Hum) on the
northwest shore of the Sea of
Galilee when he started his
ministry. It was the place,
Matthew tells us, He considered
"His own city."
Pope Paul will visit and pray
at the places where the New
Testament says Christ centered
His public activities.
Here the disciple Simon Pet
er the St. Peter Roman Cath
olics venerate as the first Pope
had his house. It was the
Sea of Galilee upon which the
New Testament relates Christ
walked, and it was these wat
ers and the sweeping winds that
he rebuked and commanded to
be calm. Violent storms still
rush down from the surround
ing hills and catch fishermen,
using nets similar to those of
Biblical times, far from shore.
The sea, 13 miles long and
seven miles across at its wid
est, is entirely under the sover
eignty of Israel. Hostile Syria is
on the opposite side, and sev
eral Arab Jewish clashes have
taken place in the area in re
cent years. ,
(Next, Bethlehem)
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Capital Report
Udall seeking to fortify himself with
new chief by hiring press secretary
By A. Robert Smith
Bulletin Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-Interior Sec
retary Stewart Udall is bring
ing in a new press secretary,
his third in three years, this
time a Texan and former aide
to President Lyndon B. John
son. The change Is an apparent ef
fort by Udall to fortify himself
politically with the new chief
executive. His new aide will be
Charles Boatner, a former city
editor of the Fort Worth Star
Telegram who joined Johnson's
staff after Johnson became vice
president.
The outgoing press secretary,
It's Another World
Student guilt
should be
beyond doubt
By Elliabeth Chenoweth
Teachers have a great influ
ence on teenagers. This Is be
cause teachers are around us
all day, five days a week. Thus
teenagers are mildly brain
washed almost every day.
To begin with, a teacher
teaches us the rules by which
one is supposed to exist in
school. Of course every teach
er has a different set of rules,
but this is of little importance.
All the student has to do is
change his habits with every
class.
Now no teacher would be
complete without his lectures to
the class on how we should con
centrate on the present and pre
pare for the future. They al
ways give the student a little
talk that goes somewhat as
follows. "Now I know exactly
what you people feel, because
I was just like you. I didn't do
very much studying and was a
regular 'smart-aleck'. For this
reason I know exactly why you
act like you do. Now that I've
grown up I know that I should
have gotten more out of
school." While the teacher has
made this practically daily dec
laration, one of the students has
probably been talking. The
teacher, seeing this, usually
turns red in the face, goes over
to him, pounds him on the
head, and kicks him out of
class. Of course, this shows that
the teacher has complete under
standing of teenagers. Also aft
er getting practically the same
speech from almost every
teacher one begins to wonder if
all teachers were juvenile de
linquents at one time and had
to become teachers.
One of the greatest freedoms
here in the U.S. is that a man
is innocent until proven guilty.
I am beginning to wonder if this
just applies to the adult class.
After being taught in school of
this great freedom in our law,
one finds that in school one Is
guilty until proven innocent.
When one is late for school and
Is sent to get a slip that will
get him in his class, one Is im
mediately asked in a terrifying
tone of voice, "Why were you
late?" This of course causes
one's courage to melt. Then
when one tries to explain why
one was late, one's voice
sounds so guilty that the teach
er starts turning red. Now the
teacher has already decided
you're guilty of hooky. The
teacher gives you a lecture that
makes you want to fade away
or crawl into a comer. Maybe
this Is a good way to keep stu
dents from skipping, but is this
an example of how teachers
practice what they praach?
Now I am not completely
acainst teachers. In fact. I like
them, but everyone has their
faults. Remember: Practice
what you preach in every way,
unless you want to end up in
my column soma day!
James N. Faber of Seattle, is
planning to return to the public
relations business on the Pacif
ic Coast. His departure report
edly is by mutual consent. It
has been in the works for some
time.
Faber was hired by Udall in
August, 1961, after Udall had
come under fire for a faux pas
here and there which some ad
ministration officials blamed
his first press secretary for. So
out went C. Herschel Schooley,
whom Udall had inherited from
his predecessor, Fred Seaton.
Schooley subsequently was hir
ed by the conservative Texas
senator, John Tower, which sug
gests the ideological gap be
tween Schooley and Udall, who
is most liberal.
Whether Faber was instru
mental or not, Udall soon man
aged to avoid the sort of trou
ble he seemed to invite in his
early months in the cabinet.
But Faber said he only wish
ed to stay two years. In mid
November, before President
Kennedy's death, he set his own
date for leaving and recom
mended two possible candidates
for the job, one of whom was
Boatner.
After Johnson became Presi
dent, Udall determined that
Boatner was ably suited for the
job for reportedly Johnson
has not been altogether pleased
with Udall's performance as In
terior Secretary, a condition
which a Johnson man on his
personal staff might help to
remedy.
One version of Udall's current
situation is that Johnson be
lieves he has been preoccupied
with outdoor recreation prob
lems and consequently has not
made the most of the more tra
ditional New Deal conservation
programs In such fields as pub
lic power, irrigation, mining
and Indian affairs.
Udall has probably said more
on the need for more parks,
such as at Oregon Dunes, and
other recreation facilities than
all these other topics combined.
He even wrote a book recently
published entitled "The Quiet
Crisis" about his concerns in
FORGIVE AND FORGET
LONDON (UPI) - Mandy
Rice-Davies, a central figure in
the Profumo scandal, said to
day she invited former Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan and
former War Minister John Pro
fumo to her New Year's Eve
party.
"It's time to let bygones be
bygones," she said.
this area.
It may be that Johnson has
not forgotten how Udall took
the Arizona delegation away
from Johnson and lined then
up for Kennedy before the I960
Democratic convention, a small
coup which helped Kennedy
take the nomination from John
son on the first ballot.
But reportedly Johnson thinks
Udall has not been strong
enough in the traditional New
Deal resource areas. If so, it
may reflect the difference be
tween Kennedy and Johnson in
this policy area.
Johnson, as a young New
Deal congressman from The
Texas plains, became an early
adherent of public power dams,
rural electrification and irriga
tion. Kennedy, as a Boston con
gressman, often voted against
such programs; when he later
advocated them as president, It
was not with the same all-out
zeal that characterized the
Roosevelt-Truman approach.
When Udall disappointed pub
lic power groups in the past
several years, it didn't hurt
him at the White House, for he
was properly representing his
chief's point of view. On the
whole, however, Kennedy and
Udall showed greater sympathy
for public power than -for the
private utilities, notably in ad
vocating the Hanford atomic
power project which Kennedy
broke ground for last fall In his
first visit to the Pacific North
west. Any changes at Interior to re
flect Johnson's outlook will
doubtless be changes of em
phasis that will be gradual and
subtle, as far as the public Is
concerned, but signs of change
can be expected.
Barbs
It's funny how a young man
will chase a girl until she
catches him.
When you lend a friend five
bucks and never see him again.
It's worth it.
Thirty Is a nice age for a
woman, especially i she's
forty.
If all school kids who snooze
In class were placed and te end
they'd be more comfortable.
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