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'Wow look at 'em go!' ;.; f Panama them pay u The first impression for many of us at the start of the Panamanian uprising was that the United States ought to send a division of Marines there to quiet things down. But as news of the outbreak leaks back to us in the United States, it becomes evident that we already have enough soldiers there and that the story of Panama isn't all black and white. There are shades of gray. The disorders apparently start ed over the flying or non-flying of the Panamanian flag. An expert on Panama outlined it thusly: Last year, Panama argued for and got a signed agreement that the Panamanian flag would be flown beside the American flag. This agreement hasn't always been ob served. There are several Ameri cans who have lived in Panama for years who have little use for the Panama people. Our expert friend said they probably told their chil dren that the Panamanian flag shouldn't be flown beside the Ameri can flag and the children agreed with them. Result was that the Pana manians who don't like the Ameri cans there any better than the Americans like them, exhorted their children to get the Panamanian flag up where it belonged. Result: a fight which eventually led to the riot which eventually led to tear gas and gunfire which led to at least 24 deaths. ' There is little doubt that fol- Guess what students reading Now the Elmira school board Is reading that J. D. Salinger book to determine if it is proper for high school students. I That's the book that was re moved from the school reading list after some parents objected. It had been placed on a list by a high school English teacher. The school Hatfield Those who are experts in pre dicting the outcome of elections and even down to the slate of candidates before election, and this includes most of us, will be Interested In how the teevee people see the presiden tial race. Two of the nation's leading television news commentators this week picked Oregon's Mark Hatfield to run for vice president on the Re publican ticket. The two were Chet Huntley of NBC and Ron Cochran of ABC The Huntley-Cochran ticket was com posed of Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania for president and Hat field for his running mate. Walter Cronklte of CBS, who has been pretty well dominating the teevee news scene this fall and wants fo renegotiate, let up damages to our property wins Teevee veep race lowers of Fidel Castro seized upon the moment to Intensify the violence which included burning of American buildings and the destruction of American automobiles and property. It doesn't take many trained men to incite a mob to action and this apparently happened in Panama. Now, where do we go from here? Well, we certainly won't pull out of the Canal Zone where we have rights "in perpetuity." As an economic and military base, the canal zone is just too important to simply discard. Should we be willing to re negotiate the treaty as Panamanian President Roberto F. Chiari de mands? Under certain circum stances, we would say yes. But we wouldn't negotiate a thing until that country reimburses the United States and its citizens for all losses and damage to gov ernment and private property that occurred during the riots. If Panama isn't willing to do this, then we see no basis for dis cussion. It is about time that our so called friends in Latin and South America find out that they can't go around beating us up and destroy ing our property without some resti tution, even If it is slight. At the same time, someone ought to straighten out the Ameri cans there on the flying of the Pan amanian flag. If flying their flag beside ours will satisfy Panama, lets do it. superintendent later took it off. While the school board mem bers are reading the book to see if it is okay for the students to read, we will give you three guesses as to what the students are reading. Name of the book? Uh, uh. We are going to wait to see what the Elmira school board says, too. winter,, thinks former Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon will be the presi dential nominee with Barry Gold water as vice president. President Lyndon Johnson was the unanimous selection for the Democratic nomination. Cronklte thought California governor Ed mund (Pat) Brown' would be the second man, Huntley predicted Peace Corps Director Sargent Shrlv cr and Cochran selected Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey. The Scranton-Hatfield ticket would have to be considered a long shot at this time. If It doesn't ma terialize, everyone will probably have forgotten it anyway by con vention time. But if it does. Huntley and Cochran will be sure that none of us forget who called the shot. Acrs revoluf ionized image of fhe President By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON - It has now been about fifty days since a new President of the U n i t e d States entered the White House, and during that time not a sin gle policy of the late President has been changed. Yet the en tire presidential image has been changed from press confer ences, to relations with Con gress, to easygoing informality, Most observers expected LBJ to be a me-too President. But no man has so changed the presidential image in so short a time without changing a sin gle policy. Quipped UPI's Merriman Smith after a press conference Madrid-Moscow ties still seen long way off By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Wrltar Notes from the foreign news cables: Change of Heart: Although it is the opinion in Madrid that full diplomatic re lations between Madrid and Moscow are a long way off, sounding-out talks between the two are expected to continue during 1964. Generalissimo Francisco Franco apparently favors increased commercial relations first. Moscow wants diplomatic accord to precede commercial talks. So far as Spain is concerned, an Import ant condition is the return of Spanish gold reserves shipped to Russia by the Spanish repub lic in 1937. Its present value is estimated at $550 million. Spain can prove the gold belongs to her because republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin returned con firming documents to the Mad rid government before he died in exile in Paris. Impasse: It now is considered all but certain that there will be no early talks between Presidents Johnson and Charles de Gaulle probably not this year at all. There have been no formal in vitations. But in informal soundings through diplomatic channels, De Gaulle has made it clear he does not want to visit the United States In the near future and Johnson has rebuffed the De Gaulle idea of a meeting in Martinique on the general's way back from Mexi co in March. De Gaulle-Italy: De Gaulle, disappointed at re sults to date of the year-old French-German alliance, is ex pected soon to show his annoy ance by trying to create some sort of new "special relation ship" with Italy. The particu lar source of De Gaulle's an noyance is the growing tie be tween West Germany and the United States. He will make a big pitch for closer French Italian relations during Italian President Antonio Segni's state visit to Paris next month. Japanese Preiaurot: Prime Minister Hayata Ikeda of Japan will be under strong pressure to match any diploma tic concession that De Gaulle may make to Red China. If the French stop short of diplo matic recognition but establish trade and cultural missions in Peking, Japan will follow suit. The Japanese will hesitate to go all the way on recognizing Red China for fear of offending the United States, their best customer. But if a band wagon to Peking gets rolling, Japan intends to be aboard. Two of Tokyo's "big three" newspapers already are urging Ikeda to "stabilize" his relations with Red China. Pretturei on British: The British, their military es tablishment already stretched by world-wide commitments, are beginning to worry that they may be left holding the bag In Cyprus. Chances for an early peaceful settlement of tho conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriote are rated slim and British troops there could be tied down for a long time. The hope would be for the Unit ed Nations to take over, permit ting withdrawal of British forces before too long. SUPREME COURT MEETS WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Supreme Court meets today to hand down opinions and orders before starting a second week of arguments In the January sessions. The Bulletin Monday, January 13, 1964 An Independent Nwipapr Robert W. Chandler, Editor Cltnn Cuihmin, Gtn. Mner Jack McDtrmetf, Adv. Manager Phil F. Broom, Auoclate Editor Del Uaulman, Cire. Managtr Loron E. Dytr, Math. Sup. William A. Yatat. Managing Ed. tereit at Srvmd Clan Mailer. January t, U1T- at tre rest Ofn.-e at Bend. Ore. wi. undrr Art urr J. Nil, ruNUtal daily taceni Sunday and certain noudui by The Bend feuUaun. Dae, at the LBJ ranch: "Never be fore in history has a President held a press conference using a bale of hay for a podium and then made his exit on horse back." Observed a society editor: "Never before has the W h i t e House staff been given orders to get up a reception for 300 congressmen on three hours' notice and put it across." Said a White House policeman to newspaper guests: "Just drive up the front driveway, park, and walk in the front door like rich folks." Remarked one White House employee: "Nothing around here is the same. Now we've got just plain, cotton - pickin' Folks." Not in a good many years if ever has the Business Ad visory Council been invited to the White House for dinner to read the President's State of the Union message in advance, or the AFL-CIO Executive Coun cil to lunch to read the mess age; or the foreign correspond ents been given a personal tour of the living quarters of the White House by the President himself, including his own bed room where his pajamas lay neatly folded on his turned down bed. Seldom before has a visiting head of state been given such thoughtful treatment as Chan cellor Ludwig Erhard from the box of cigars chosen by cig ar connoisseur Pierre Salinger; to the book on his bedside ta ble, "Pioneers of These Hills," telling how the Germans settled the LBJ part of Texas; to the German language sermon preached by the Lutheran min ister; to the special quiche Lorraine, or cheese custard pie, specially prepared by the First Lady. Finally, there has seldom been such vigor in a President's relations with Congress. Yes, the presidential Image has changed completely without changing a single policy. Th Telephoning President The White House operates one of the most efficient telephone switchboards in the nation's capital. Its hello - girls are ex perts. But frequently when you call the White House these days, you find its lines are jammed. One reason is the telephoning of the President himself. The other day Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine got a phone call from the President. She was on the Senate floor, where she usually is, but was called into the Republican cloakroom by a Senate page. The President said he didn't have anything special to talk about but didn't want any wail to be built up between them. He hoped that she would come down and see him sometime. Senator Smith replied that she didn't feel any wall was being built up. "We're too old friends for that," she said. Three days later, on a Sun day, Mrs. Smith got another phone call from Lyndon to wish her a happy birthday. He said he'd been thinking about her on the previous day her birthday but was so swamped he had not called her. He told Senator Smith that he had been talking with the Pent agon regarding the cut-back of bases, and that the Portsmouth Klttery Point submarine base was on the original list to be closed. "But I told the Pentagon, 'I don't want to do this to the lady from Maine. Take it back and review it.' Of course," he added to Mrs. Smith, "we may have to close It eventually." Naturally this was not pleas ant news to the senator from Maine, and she wanted to know what the Navy would do in case of emergency. She also asked: "How are you going to have a yardstick to see whether the private yards are over charging the government or not? The government will be at the mercy of the private yards if you close Kittery." Johnson replied that there would always be at least one shipyard on the East Coast and one on the West Coast, probab ly Boston and Bremerton, Wash. The next day Senator Smith made a speech staling that she couldn't oppose the closing of any naval yard if its operation was no longer justified, but she hoped that the workers could be given as much notice as possi ble In order to find other jobs. Note Senator Smith is an exception to the average con gressman, most of whom are squawking to high heaven over the closing of naval and mili tary bases in their districts. p :::VPN 'Report Rep. Ullman doesn't buy argument that reform needed for liberal legislation By A. Robert Smith Bulletin Staff Wrltar WASHINGTON - Rep. Al Ullman is one liberal Democrat who doesn't buy the argument that Congress is in need of drastic reform to smooth the way for enactment of a liberal legislative program such as Presidents Kennedy and John son have advocated. Many critics of the perform ance, or lack of performance, of Congress during the past year have contended that too much power is vested in t h e hands of senior lawmakers, many of whom are not sympa thetic with proposals for changes in social, education and civil rights fields. Congressman Ullman believes, to the contrary, that Congress is acutely sensitive to public opinion and that when it fails to act on any major proposal it is because Congress senses pub lic hostility or indifference. Confining his views to the House of Representatives, which has been the more con servative of the two bodies in recent years, Ullman said "it is the best mirror of America you could get." Ullman, a member of the powerful Ways and Means Com mittee which wrote the pending tax reduction bill, said con gressmen could tell that "the people were not behind the tax bill for the first six months of last year until President Ken nedy and his businessmen's My The Bulletin welromes contributions to tills rolumn from Its renders, tot ter must contain the correct name and address of the sender, which may be withheld at the newipaper'a dis cretion. Letters may he edited to con form to the directives of taste and style. City's curfew law termed restrictive To the Editor: And then we come to the 10:00 curfew now in effect. . . evidently the teens aren't fully aware of the problem prompt ing such a restrictive measure. It also seems that those well meaning citizens who slapped this curfew upon the shoulders of the unsuspecting kids haven't managed to explain their ac tions convincingly. Those of the Seniot High School (and those of the Junior High. . .as the case may be) who enjoy their freedom at nights resent the early hour they are commanded to be home. They argue that any juvenile delinquents who derive pleasure from snapping anten nas or smashing windows will continue their damaging antics Talks planned at Vatican VATICAN CITY (UPI) -A high-ranking envoy of the East ern Orthodox Church was due for talks with the Vatican on fu ture steps toward Christian unity. The visit of Metropoli tan Athenagoras of Thiatiron is an outcome of Pope Paul VI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land which high Vatican sources say will be followed up by trips to India and possibly the Unit ed States. Metropolitan Athenagoras Is the personal envoy of Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople, spiritual head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, who held an historic meeting with Pope Paul in Jerusalem earlier this month. The success of the Holy Land pilgrimage apparently has en couraged the Pope to go to Bombay Nov. 28 to Dec. 10 for the Eucharistic Congress there. The purpose of the gathering of clerics and priests is to glorify the consecrated bread and wine by public adoration to increase devotion generally. The sources said the Pope might also visit the United States in the "not too distant future," possibly during the World's Fair which will run April 22-Oct. 18 this year and about the same period In 1965. Barbs Even a homely man can get safely through all traffic lights on his good looks. When people go to a mevlt to forget everything wt with It would include munching popcorn out loud. Jingle bells, jingle bells, there Isn't much Jingle in Dad's pock ets now that Christmas is over. Alimony Is what on porson often pays for tho mittak two pooplt rnada. committee helped to influence opinion in its favor. You could not have passed the bill before August for that reason. The mood of the country is terribly important." The next big issue facing his committee is the administra tion's plan for adding medical care to the Social Security sys tem. Hearings are underway. President Johnson, echoing Kennedy's advocacy, asked for its passage by this summer. "I think it will be touch and go," said the Baker lawmaker,' mainly because it isn't clear how the country stands on this issue as yet. "There's been a tremendous campaign against it by doc tors," he said. "They've sown seeds of doubt. So many people vacillate. It's not clear what the majority opinion is at this time. I don't get many letters or see many newspaper editorials for it. So in a situation like this Congress thinks 'Why do some thing people don't want?" Congressman Ullman, how ever, has no doubts about the medicare bill. He is for it and wants Congress to enact it. "The private insurance com panies have failed miserably to cope with the problem," he contended. "I think providing medical care within the reach of the aged is a basic problem that our society must cope with." The critical ingredient in get-, ting congressional action lies 'NickeFs Wort with or without the 10:00 cur few. And, because of the early hour of darkness, any vanda lism can be just as easy at 10:00 as at 11:00. In all prob ability (the kids insist), many of these offenders are 18 years or older, and consequently the new curfew won't affect them. Also, those habitual offenders who are responsible for numer ous acts of vandalism in the past will no doubt continue to come and go as they please. They are the sly ones who will be smart enough not to get caught. However, perhaps the early curfew recently introduced will produce the desired results. On ly the future can tell whether this attempt to bring vandal ism to a halt will prove effec tive. Unfortunately, I fear that until satisfactory results are evident, the teens under restric tion will continue to resent this deprivation of their freedom as well as the obvious shout of doubt of their integrity and good conduct this measure is directing at them. Sincerely, Kit Metke Bend, Oregon, Jan. 10, 1964. Antiquities Act held communistic To the Editor: Is that arrowhead you just picked up on Public Domain worth five hundred dollars? Quite a price tag that the U.S. Forest Service can force you to pay if you "appropriate any ob ject situated on lands controlled or owned by the government of the United States" yes, of America, not Russia. Public Law 209, "The Ameri can Antiquities Act of June 8, 1906," apparently gives the Des chutes National Forest officials, the logical and legal right to use police actions to control the vandalistic activities of "pot hunters" or the activities of any person taking any object, which At the Opera ACROSS 8 Winced 1 "Magic Flute 9 Male sheep composer 10 Ohio Indians 7 Opera by Bizet H Enlist 13 Culmination 12 Certain tides 14 Tennyson heroine 15 Mythical lion 16 Maple seed 17 Spherical body 18 Verdi's "U 21 Decrease: 22 Ireland 23 California city 25 tlido 2ti Reverberation 28 Eskimo but v.) SO Fat 32 Continent 33 "BartoreJ m by Smelam I 19 Head of hair SO Part ot finger 22 Sin 23 Son (Ft.) 24 Brown 26 Bitter velch 27 Performing xo seaman ' 29 Snow vehicles 30 Obtain ' 31 Unaccompanied 33 Nee ' 35Suraeriansan noun ' 3d Arctic explorer 40 Quotation collection 41 Receipt ab 42 Moslem decreet 44 KnottT 47 Craving 48 Remain closed 49 Heretofore. 50 Roonded DOWN 1 Open by Massenet 2 Musical opu 3 Voodoo divinities 4 Epoch 6 Pacific turmeric 6 Number 7 Frinck, composer not in sweeping changes in con gressional organization, he maintained, but in having a president who can take his case to the public and convince them that his program is right: Ull man thinks Kennedy did that with the tax bill, which assur ed its passage in the House, whose members keep their ears close to the ground. He thinks Johnson will be able to do the same thing on medical care this year. Ullman agrees with congres sional critics on one point: that the House Rules Committee too often obstructs legislation which has popular support. But Ull man is wary of joining any re bellion at th2 present. "I think as soon as Judge (Howard) Smith retires it will be possible to do something," he said of the powerful 80-year-old Virginia congressman who is chairman of the Rules Com mittee. "Big personalitieis play a big role here and Judge Smith is a big personality." Ullman said he expected that within five years the House will adopt a new rule prohibiting the Rules Committee from blocking any bill from reaching the floor for debate for longer than 60 days. But he doesn't support or visualize any more drastic changes, such as eliminating the seniority system which places the greatest power in the hands of those who survive the longest. ' 1 could include a pine cone, an agate, any type of material for that matter, or even the finding of any old pioneer gun, wagon wheel or other objects that might be of historical interest. That old sun-blued bottle, or a bit of broken glass could be con traband. The forest goblins will get you if you don't watch out. In my old - fashioned Ameri can opinion, I still believe the right of the individual is of prime importance. It may well be that the public will placidly accept a police-slate type of gov ernment, issuing orders from or through some knot-headed, bureaucratic department head in Washington, D.C. These bird brained, wooden headed puppets should have their strings cut. These same people will tell you that expanding populations de mand the sacrifice of individual rights to satisfy the masses. Maybe the "Wave of the Fu ture," is communism? If this be so, then let us bow our heads at each sunrise and thank our benevolent dictatorship issuing orders from the capitol; let us join in the true comradeship and obey the will of our Mas ter. Under such a system it would be unwise to write to your congressman, or to criti cize our commune. Even today, the powers of our people in elected positions are limited, so why write? Let John do your writing, you haven't time to de fend your rights while you still have them. In another year or two, you will be stuck with a seven dol lar sticker, and without one, you will be subject to trespass, anytime you might stop on Pub lic Domain even to eat a picnic lunch. Well my friends, smile while you can, for soon the smile may well be on the face of the forest tiger. Remember, do nothing, have nothing! 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