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About The Bulletin. (Bend, OR) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1964)
r 'Nothing really a mere scratch' l! Since when has brotherhood become so controversial that it must be hidden? A hobby show was held In Bend ilast weekend. It was the most recent In a long line of such affairs spon sored by Reid-Thompson PTA. In Jater years the show has become a big one, and part of the work in volved In producing it has fallen jpon the city recreation depart ment. It has become such an affair as to require the services of more Chairmen and committees than most modern dogs have fleas. It might even have more chairmen and com mittees than are good for it, if events of the past few days are any indica tion. The theme of the show this year was "America, Land of the Free." It gave committees, designers, and exhibitors a chance to use their Imagination. Most of the resulting ideas came from a knowledge of history, and reflected modern-day impressions of colonial America, and the early days of the Republic. A couple of persons thought some modern history might be in order. They checked with one of the many chairmen, and were told their idea was acceptable. What they wanted to do was to demonstrate that, in parts of this country, at least, freedom is a mat ter of degree. In certain areas, as dveryone knows, your right to exer cise your freedom is in direct ratio to the lightness of the skin with which you were born. (This is not new, nor a new problem. Racial and religious problems have been in volved in this national mixing pot ever since the days of the Pilgrims. And the Pilgrims, and others, came here because of religious persecu tion in Europe.) To demonstrate the point, two women designed and prepared a set of four posters. Each referred, in some manner, to the need for racial tolerance. One, for example, was a quotation from the late Eleanor Roosevelt. Another quoted from the song, "America, the Beautiful." A third contained pictures of young- Call Hub Perhaps the State of Oregon, in the midst of recurring financial troubles, is looking in the wrong direction for a way out Perhaps it should try the system being used by H. C (Hub) Saalfeld, the state's director of veterans affairs. The main job of Saalfeld's agen cy Is to run the state's veteran loan program. He finances the program through the sale of bonds. The pro ceeds of bond sales are loaned to eligible veterans, at interest. The repayments retire the bonds, pay Interest on them, and make the state a tidy profit. The profits have help ed the state out of a couple of finan cial binds in the past Saalfeld made some money for his agency last week. He sold $30 million In bonds, and bought 530 million In U.S. government securi ties. He sold the bonds for an Inter est cost to the state of 2.95 per cent He bought the treasury bills for an interest Income to the state of 3.81 to 3.87 per cent And a one per cent sters of various racial origins. The fourth contained a picture of a Ne gro youth. Under it was the show's theme, with a word added. It read, "America, Land of the (almost) Free." We have seen the posters in question, and thought none of them objectionable. It might have been that someone could consider the fourth-mentioned a little strong, but it would have been hard to come to that conclusion, in our opinion. From this point on, the story gets confusing. To make it short, the posters were not put up. There are varying stories as to the reasons the posters were not displayed. Disapproval of them was expressed by two or three persons involved in the show. None was expressed by some others who saw them. Some of the chairmen blame some of the others for the decision not to display the posters. Others blame a city employe, who says he knew nothing about it; there is no reason to doubt him. Still others say it was all a big mixup. Some sort of mixup it was, in deed. Racial problems have been relatively few here. They will remain few only if the city and area main tain an enlightened and tolerant citizenry. Enlightenment comes hard when the subject is hidden from view by self-appointed censors. There certainly is no need to fear disturbances, or incidents, over the display of three of four simple post ers or signs at a PTA function. Those who disagree with them, in almost every case, will not publicly ac knowledge a degree of bigotry which would make such signs objection able. The incident is not a large one. About the only problem seems to have been tjiat someone around the hobby and craft show had the mis taken idea that this country's racial problem Is completely sectional, and will be cured if hidden from public view. gain in interest on $30 million is lots of money. Perhaps the state should have Hub sell more bonds. If he would sell enough there would be no need for income taxes, or property taxes. Saalfeld, if he could just sell enough bonds, could provide enough Income to run all the state's programs. It wouldn't work that way, of course. There are some very practi cal considerations which would keep it from working. But what a deal if it would. Oregon would own the rest of the United States. And be making money on the deal. Another summit of Soviet-bloc nations seen By Phil Newsom UPI Stiff Wrlttr Another Soviet-bloc summit conference seems to We in the making, this time in Budapest. Ostensible excuse for the meeting would be the April 4 anniversary of the German de feat in Hungary at which So viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is to be a distinguished guest. Other reports, however, from both Moscow and Eastern Eu rope say that the real subject is to be Red China. It may be recalled that it was in June, 1960, in Budapest, a neighboring East European cap ital, that the name-calling be tween the Soviet Union and Red China erupted during a similar summit meeting and the outside world first began to learn of the widening rift between the two. The occasion was a Romanian Communist party congress at which Khrushchev reiterated his policy of peaceful coexistence, declared that Communists "can not repeat today mechanically what Lenin said many decades ago" and said that "in our day only madmen and maniacs launch calls for a new world war." Drastic Step Possible Since in the intervening years the quarrel, and the reasons for it have been well publicized, an other meeting now to go over the same subject must arouse speculation, And since the personal en mity between Khrushchev and Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung is so deep as to make reconcilia tion seem impossible, the spec ulation inevitably leads to the possibility that some other dras tic step is under consideration. The most drastic step would seem to be a formal break be tween the two, thus making of ficial a quarrel which already has divided the Communist world into two camps. Lending weight to speculation that an important move is in the making have been reports that for the last two weeks Khrush chev has been consulting Communist-bloc leaders on the fu ture of Sino-Soviet relations and that the Communist parties of Western Europe, Italy, France and elsewhere, also have been holding important discussions in anticipation of a showdown. Italian Communist leader Pal miro 'i'ogliatti has sided with Khrushchev in the dispute but has been reported disturbed by a break within his own ranks and the emergence of an ex treme wing opposed to his pol icy of comparative restraint in domestic politics. This wing seems closer aligned to the pol icies of Peking rather than Mos cow. Warning to China A meeting of the Soviet par ty's Central Committee in Mos cow last month also was report ed to have approved a still un published letter to the Chinese warning that Soviet propaganda attacks against the Red Chinese would be resumed unless the Chinese stopped theirs against the Soviet Union. Reasons to doubt a complete break between the two remain as valid now as in 1960, if only for the fact that despite differ ences over method, the joint goal of a victory for worldwide communism remains tha same. A break dividing Communist parties throughout the world could even endanger Khrush chev. An opposing theory is that the Red Chinese now favor a break and are attempting to push Khrushchev into making it. This would stem from a belief that they no longer require Soviet aid, and, with the added pres tige of French recognition, al ready are on the verge of break ing out of isolation. Barbs Gags are what some people pull constantly and ought to have over their mouths. Being early for a doctor's ap pointment gives you a chance to read 1961 magazines. No dissent from Sen. Goldwater' s claim that he goofed in New Hampshire race , Women seem to be more In terested in what they overhear than in just what they hear. A Texas man bet he could drink a gallon of wine In one sitting. He wen and the funeral was three days later. By Lyle C. Wilson UPI Staff Wrlttr There has been no dissent from the claim by Sen. Barry Goldwater that he goofed in his New Hampshire presidential preference primary campaign. The senator was clobbered in March whereas it was reason able to believe in January that he was comfortably a front runner. Perhaps the Goldwater goof was his proposal that So cial Security should be volun tary. The old folk could not be expected to like that. They know their Social Security money does not come from their own contributions during their earning years. Their pen sions come from the contribu tions of younger employed men and women who are being taxed today for their support. The working man and woman now paying a percentage of earnings as a Social Security tax knows that succeeding gen erations of workers will be taxed when the current crop of workers is retired. Under a voluntary system, the current workers would have no assur ance that the next generation would continue to pay up. There would not be much incentive for voluntary Social Security pay ments to support the old folks if there was no assurance that you would be paid off when it comes your turn. That is why the senator's proposal was sharply countered by assertions that it would bankrupt the Social Security system. There are a great many old folk In New Hamp shire. Nearly 9 per cent of New Hampshire's population is over 65 old enough to be receiving Social Security checks under old age survivors and disability insurance system. The national average is 7.1 per cent. In Cali fornia it is 6.6; Nebraska, 8.7; Oregon, 8.3; Florida, 8.S; South ...Z.-Ci.s& Dakota, 8.2. It is obvious, therefore, that the Social Security retirees could be molded into a sub stantial voting bloc, for or against. What could mold them more firmly against a candi date than a proposal suspected of looking toward the bank ruptcy of the Social Security system? Goldwater may be able to ex plain his Social Security pro posal in terms which would re assure the pensioners. But if he made any such explanation in New Hampshire, the word didn't get around. The senator could protect himself from a lot of misinter pretation if he would limit him self in each speech to a single subject and explore that sub ject fully so there would be no misunderstanding of what he meant. This is peculiarly true In the area of the graduated income tax. "I Tobacco firms facing showdown over advertising; mail protests to FTC say public health ignored By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON After the greatest advertising build-up of all time, the cigaret industry has been summoned before the Federal Trade Commission for a showdown over its advertis ing claims. The hearings will begin Monday. The commissioners will take testimony from parents and teachers, doctors and patients hundreds of whom already have bombarded the FTC with de mands that the cigaret hucks ters be muzzled. Not even the tobacco com panies will dare to appear too callous toward public health. They are expected to plead for more rp- h before they must label c' as a health haz ard. It w. .3ny years ago that Ubo.j firms advertised cigarets as a cure for jangled nerves, upset stomach, and oth er ailments which, doctors now claim, cigarets often cause. "For digestion's sake, smoke Camels," urged one ad. "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigaret." "Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfield," prom ised another. "Not a cough in a carload. . . the throat - tested cigaret. . .so safe, so pure it's used to filter the air in leading hospitals," cried other pitchmen. Ashtray Heroes Indeed, some cigaret commer cials still associate smoke and tobacco with robust athletes, rugged men, and active ladies, all glowing with health. Note At least three baseball heroes who formerly posed for cigaret commercials Whitey Ford, Roger Maris, and Mickey Mantle have stopped smok ing. Ford explained to sports writers that he has been pitch ing better since he gave up cig arets. Mantle went so far as to endorse an anti-smoking pill. Similar sentiments are ex pressed in the FTC's mail on cigarets. One complaint came from Herbert L. Taylor of West Palm Beach, Fla., who claimed the smoking habit had given him a bad case of emphysema. He wrote bitterly: "A 16-year - old says, 'Why should I not smoke? There is Arnold Palmer, he smokes, and is one of the top pros and top money winners and smoking does not bother him.'. . .Frank ly I would like nothing better than to have that money-hungry guy live with me for just a week and see what it Is like to gasp for breath 24 hours a day, stay awake most of every night, not knowing when you will be drawing your last breath. I guarantee you he would quit and never accept another dime from any tobacco company." The strongest letters, how ever, have been written by doc tors. "Time is long past due," wrote Dr. Gustavus A. Peters of the Mayo Clinic, "when proper controls should be exercised by the government in the sale of tobacco which, with its decep tive advertising, ignores the health of the consumer, has been a menace to public health." Ne Way to Inhale Dr. John Kirchner, professor of Otolaryngology at Yale, wrote to the FTC that he had operated on several hundred pa tients suffering from cancer of the larynx, "only one of whom was a nonsmoker. "It seems incredible In a so- Quotable quotes THE BULLETIN I have been In fights all my life . . . I'm going to win this one and I'm going to show the world I'm right James R, Hoffa, Teamster Union president, announcing appeal plans following his sentence to eight years in a federal prison. f ' Friday, March 13, 1964 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Idlter Glenn Cushman, Gen. Menseer Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil P. Broean, Associate Idlter Del Usselmen, Ore. Manager Loren I. Dyer. Mech. Supt. William A. Yates, Managing Id. Entered as Se.Ml CLiu Matter. Jaruary S 1S1T. at the Ftoat Office at Bend. Ore- im. under A.t of Marnt 3. ure, published daily except staMaj and boddaya W Use Mod BuUetu, Ha, ciety such as ours the consum er never hears the other side of this (cigaret) debate," he protested. "My impulse when watching cigaret commercials is to show immediately after wards photos of former smok ers who now have no larynx, no vocal mechanism, not even a means of inhaling smoke through the mouth." Echoed Dr. David D. Rustein, head of Harvard's Preventive pan . i we in !Mv Nicked fUrui "When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Writer has good word for Dr. Kleinsorge To the Editor: Your Webfoot State holds warm affection from this writ er. He cannot forget the child hood stories of his mother. She travelled in Oregon territory when only transportation was Flathead canoe. There then were no bridle paths in the for est. It has been the lot of under signed, long member American Association for Advancement of Science and a score of Academ ies, across USA, to have some insight into the progress of re search. Is it not dramatically pictured when USA pays ranch ers (writer is owner of a string of California ranches) to not produce, thus increasing an ir ritating national crop surplus? Then, in contrast, note Soviet failure to produce food, hence their buying from Uncle Sam. Is not the primal force in all this the work of such devoted educators as Dr. Paul Klein sorge of your own University of Oregon? My parents being edu cators, and grandfather an overseas professor, I can sense the devoted idealism that prompts a man thus to invest his life. The same intellect used in commercial life could easily make such a one a millionaire. Should we not honor such de voted scientists? Sincerely, C. M. Goethe Sacramento, Calif., March 12, 1964 Upper stage fails to ignite CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -The United States today failed in an attempt to rocket a tiny gold-plated laboratory 23.000 miles into space to leam more about the earth's magnetic field. The Air Force said the upper stage of the four-stage Blue Scout Jr. rocket failed to ignite as it climbed into space sev eral hundred miles above earth and about 2,000 miles down range. Preliminary data Indicated that the 33-pound payload sep arated from the dead rocket and "some usable information was received," the Air Force said. The probe was fired into the clear blue sky at 6:40 a. m. EST. The first few minutes of flight appeared normal and its long white trail of smoke and vapor was seen for about four minutes. Scientists said the shot's pri mary purpose was to find out what happens when charged particles come streaming in from the sun and collide with the outer fringes of earth's magnetic field. Medicine School: "On TV, when a serious health hazard is per mitted to be presented under the guise of springtime love, ro mance, and masculine virility, the citizen is deprived of the op portunity of making an objec tive decision. Some of us, who because of our profession have to watch lung cancer patients die, feel bitter about the aura of seduction which crowns cig aret advertising on TV." Except for the tobacco firms, only one Kentucky tobacco grower wrote to the FTC in de fense of cigaret commercials. Even-Handed Justice The Lyndon Johnsons have brought some of the informality of the LBJ ranch to the stately White House. Not long ago, for instance, the President's daugh ter, Lynda Bird, burst into his outer office to find Supreme Court Justice William Douglas waiting. "Hey there!" blurted Lynda. "What have you been up to lately?" "Why," smiled Justice Doug las, "I've just been sitting around and dispensing justice with an even hand." News Nuggets Senator Henry "Scoop" Jack son, D-Wash., has found a way to cash in on the snob appeal of his wealthy constituents. For a $1,000 campaign contribution, he will give out advance copies of his itinerary. This permits the contributors to impress their friends by knowing-ahead of the newspapers when the senator is coming to town. . .The travel log of Roswell Gilpatric, the re cently retired Deputy Defense Secretary, shows -he- used A i r Force planes and helicopters to fly him to New York City for Broadway plays and to beat the traffic jams between the Penta gon and his Grasonville, Md., home. . .Although President Johnson has refused to specu late at his press conferences as to who will run against him in November, he has told friends privately that he expects the Republican candidate to be Richard Nixon. . .To save mon ey, the President not only switches off unnecessary lights around the White House, he is also using up his old vice-presidential stationery. . .Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz is con ducting a quiet campaign to get himself appointed chairman of the President's committee on Equal Employment Opportuni ties, the Fair-Employment Com mittee that Johnson himself headed while he was Vice President. U.S. postal service loses sense of drama By Dick West UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - The trouble with the U.S. postal service is that it has lost its sense of drama. Not since the days of the Pony Express has carrying the mail packed a real punch. The glory that once belonged to the postal service has been taken over by such glamorized government agencies as the FBI, the CIA and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. There has now arisen, how ever, a unique opportunity for the postal service to recapture some of its old aura of adven ture and excitement. It recently was announced that letter carriers across the nation are being armed with a new weapon an aerosol spray dog repellent. The stuff comes in a plastic container which the postman clips onto his belt. If he finds a snarling dog standing between him and a mailbox, he can draw his repellent sprayer and open fire. Effective Spray The sprayer, which contains about two dozen shots of a harmless oil and pepper mix ture, is reported to be effective at ranges up to 12 feet. Do you see what I see In this? I see the makings of a television series based on the adventures of the fastest draw in the postal service. The program can be called "Sam Code, Postal Dog Fight er" and it should do for the postman what Ben Casey has done for your stodgy old family physician. As I see it, Sam Code is tha Gary Cooper type, Doesn't talk much, but when he smiles that crooked little smile of his the girls just go ape. Roving Assignment Sam has a roving, trouble shooting assignment. Anywhere there is a vicious dog on a post al route, that is where you will find Sam Code. The big scene takes place at high noon. Our hero, substitut ing for the regular postman, approaches a house which har bors a pedigreed chow with a nasty reputation. Step by step, the steel-nerved repellent slinger, advances to ward the mailbox. The chow, teeth bared and hair bristling, runs out from under the rhodo dendron bush and blocks hi path. "I'm calling your bluff, Fido," Sam sneers. "You've made a smorgasbord out of postman for the last time." After the commercial, we tea Sam at the door delivering U pieces of junk mail and two de partment store bills. Then, with a crooked little smile, he Is off to face a bad tempered boxer. Morning dallies drop circulation PHILADELPHIA (UPI)-Clr-culation of daily newspapers In the United States dropped slightly last year, according to the 1964 Ayer Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals about to be published. The directory showed the combined circulation of English-language dailies In 1963 was 59.404,333, a drop of 621,363 from 1962. Morning newspaper circula tion accounted for the loss. The morning circulation fell 940,000 to 23,817,524 while the circula tion of evening papers In creased 225,495 to 35,130,634. 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