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Newspaper Page Texting what his embattled troops term to do. wanted to make sure everything was clear' Reform of state's prisons should get high priority during next legislature , A story out of Salem reports that the State Board of Control is making plans for a sweeping reform of Oregon's prison system. That's good news indeed. The board, which administers state institutions, will ask the next legislature to approve these five recommendations: l 1. Creation of a state Division of Corrections within the Board of Control. It would supervise the two prisons and the boys and girls training schools, and take over the Parole Board's functions. 2. That circuit judges sentence criminals to the division, which then would decide where to put them. The judges now choose the Institution. 3. A work release program so tjiat prisoners could take outside jfbs during the day and spend the night in prison. This also would in clude a "halfway house" to prepare prisoners for release. 4. Authority to transfer boys from MacLaren School to either of the prisons. Boys who get too tough to handle at MacLaren often are turned loose now. 5. Authority to set up a research program to investigate ways to re habilitate prisoners, and to study which phases of the present program The liberal Mr. Percy The Illinois primary, Tuesday, features the political debut of Charles H. Percy, 44-year-old board chairman of Boll & Howell, and by all accounts it will be a successful one. He is favored to capture the Re publican gubernatorial nomination against 37-year-old state treasurer William J. Scott, and win the right to oppose Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner in the November general election. Percy announced in July 1963 that he would campaign for the nom ination. But G.O.P. regulars thought his brand of "progressive conserva tism" put more emphasis on the first word than the Inst, and rallied be hind Charles F. Carpentier, 67-year-old Illinois Secretary of StateLast January, however, Carpentier suffer ed a heart attack, withdrew from the race, and endorsed Percy's can didacy. Percy's "liberal" image stems from his prior service to the Republi can party first as chairman of a Quotable quotes We will defend ourselves to the end, anyway we have nowhere else to go. The leader of the out numbered Turkish Cypriot defenders or the crucial Kyrenia Pass explain in- All of us were tumbling down with the snow. Then the awful thing happened the snow also started sliding down from the opposite slope. Except for Buddy and Barbl, all of us managed to ride the avalanche out. German skier Fritz Wagne bergor describing how he managed to escape the snow avalanche which are working. The board, which consists of the governor, the secretary of state, and the state treasurer, has repeatedly said that our present prison system is not working. The claim is based on the fact that two-thirds of the prison inmates today have served at least one previous sentence. Under the board's proposed pro gram, all discharged prisoners would get employment and other help, as well as supervision for a while. This type of help is given only to the two-thirds who are paroled while about 600 are discharged yearly without any help at all. The rehabilitation plan would continue in the local communities, where local agencies would help the discharged men make their adjust ment to society. Here in Central Ore gon, preliminary plans for a local program have already been laid. The proposed Division of Cor rections would be headed by a pro fessional administrator much like the present Mental Health Division is now run. The 1965 legislature should give these proposals top priority. Oregon is long overdue in equipping its pris oners to lead a normal life in the outside world. special committee set up in 1959 to chart long-range Republican goals, and again as chairman of the 1960 platform committee. The progressive tone imparted to the 1960 platform under Percy's direction is remember ed with distaste in conservative cir cles; Sen. Barry Goldwater (R. Ariz.) at the time called the Nixon-Rockefeller accord that led to its forma tion "the Munich of the Republican Party." But the various Republican fac tions may well unite behind Percy, if only because they want a winner. If the example of George Romney of Michigan is valid, Midwest voters seem to like industrialists who have been in the habit of meeting pay rolls. Percy keeps pointing out in speeches that 2,000 young people a week are coming on the job market in Illinois. The implication is that, if elected, he will somehow find em ployment for them. killed U.S. skier Wallace (Bud) Wer ner and a German girl. I really think that we will get the pants beat orf us if we try to have a vote for cloture at this rather equitable, gentlemanly pace. Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., explaining why he does not favor a cloture vote to end debate on the civil rights bill at this time. It was fantastic. Kees Lod ders, father of Dutch beauty queen Catherina Lodders, describing his daughter's marriage to Negro singer Chubby Checker. Capital Report Touchy racial, religious issues face Kennedy during testimony this week on poverty measure By Yvonne) Franklin Bullttln Staff Wrlttr WASHINGTON The political skirmishing over the war on poverty is underway in the House Education and Labor Committee; and touchy racial and religious landmines were laid for Attorney General Robert Kennedy this week during his testimony. Most Committee Republicans were seeking, but had not yet found the weapon to use against the $1 billion legislation. Who wants to seem to be against a war on poverty? Kennedy appeared in a small committeeroom packed to the rafters and overflowing into the hallway, and he emerged three hours' later unscathed. He read his testimony in a lifeless mono tone which only picked up in spiritedness as he was challeng ed by committee Republicans. The complacent politician, upon his entrance he had clasped hands with every Representative and staff person on the com mittee and extended a palm and a grin to the male stenotyper who greeted him. "This problem (of poverty) Is going to be with us a very long time," Kennedy said, "just as the civil rights problem is not going to disappear with the pas sage of legislation. "What is important is that we as a people are beginning to face up to them, and not act as if they don't exist." He stressed that local action was the key to the program's success. Rep. William Ayers (R-Ohio) was set upon and verbally thrashed by both Northern and Southern Democrats when he said that the proposed Job Corps would be all Negro. He reasoned that since only 40,000 out of one million job-less youth would be eligible and that Ne groes comprised the highest percentage of rejectees for the draft, of school dropouts and delinquents therefore the Corps would be Negro. He also im- 15-second limit put lawmakers at disadvantage By Dick West UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI)-When President Johnson was serving as Senate Democratic leader he would occasionally hail the pas sage of an important bill as "one of the Senate's finest hours." The House of Representatives has its finest hours, too, and I would say that one of them came during an evening last week when it passed the food stamp bill. It was not the passage of the legislation, however, that made this hour so fine. Rather, it was the parliamentary tangle that developed during debate on one of the proposed amendments. For a glorious 10 minutes preceding the vote on the amendment, the situation was such that House members were required to limit their speeches to 15 seconds. After witnessing that, the oth er wonders of the world seem anticlimactic. Awesome Spectacle Believe thee me, it was an awesome spectacle. For anyone who is not stand ing barefoot on a lighted cigar butt, 15 seconds passes in a helluva hurry. But for a con gressman with words to dis gorge, the limits of 15 seconds are excruciating. Why we've got some lawgiv ers who spend 72 seconds just clearing their throats. One con gressional orator with a slight stammer often spends 21 sec onds on a single syllable. Dramatic, or pregnant, paus es lasting upwards of 27 seconds are not at all Infre quent. Speakers who are not ex ceptionally limber will spend 18 seconds getting their arms In position to point with pride. A few of the older members, who have false teeth, can easily consume 12 seconds whistling an "S." As you might Imagine, the 15 second limitation was a trau matic experience for a group such as this. I expect it will take psychiatric consultations for some of them to recover. Great Hardship The restriction natural ly worked Its greatest hardship on Southern congressmen. Some of them can't finish saying "y'all" in that length of time. Also severely handicapped were the more cmdite lawmak ers who customarily lace their orating with a lot of big words. You can't fit much multi syllable syntax into 15 seconds even if you use contractions. I didn't realize just how con fining the 15-second limit could be, however, until a congress man from the Lone Star State was recognized by the chair. plied that Negroes have a lower IQ. Kennedy denied that the Corps would be all Negro. Rep. Phil Landrum (D-Ga.) retorted that "Negroes are not the only poor people in the world." and spoke of poverty in his rural part of Georgia. "To the extent that the Negro is involved," said Landrum, "I want it clearly understood that I am going to do everything I can to relieve the blight (of poverty) on the American sce ne. I think (the bill) is drafted so as to relieve poverty where ever it occurs and whatever color it appears in." Rep. Edith Green was shocked at Ayers' remarks, telling him that all measuring tests by ex perts show that there is no in herent difference between races in native intelligence. Negro committee chairman Adam Clayton Powell had orig inally sponsored the bill, how ever withdrew in favor of Lan drum as the bill's author. This was thought to be a master stroke of President Johnson in getting an influential Southern Member to pilot the bill through Congress and to win Southern support. Landrum defends and explains the bill in the hearing. When witnesses make clear that all sections of the bill are to be applied without regard to skin color that the Job Corps camps will be integrated Lan drum offers no comment. Rep. Charles Goodell (R-NY), whose questioning indicated a sympathetic attitude toward Ne groes, said that he was concern ed about the high percentage of draft rejectees for mental fit nessparticularly in the South. He pointed out that while the national average of rejects for mental fitness was 21 per cent, the average for Mississippi was 44 per cent. South Carolina 46.5 per cent and Louisiana 40 per cent 53 per cent of them Negro. "Do you agree,"he asked Writer risks life to reach Turkish Cypriot position EDITOR'S Note: UPI cor respondent Ray J. Moloney risked rifle and mortar fire to reach a Turkish Cypriot position on a mountain peak during a battle with Greek Cypriote. In the following de layed dispatch, he describes the action and his conversa tion with the Turkisk Cypriot commander. By Ray J. Moloney UPI Staff Writer WHISKY PEAK, Cyprus (De layed) (UPI) As Greek and Turkish Cypriots fought each other with machine guns, mor tars and rifles, I climbed for two hours today to reach a peak overlooking the strategic Kyrenia Pass. The peak is one of three straddling the Nicosia-Kyrenia Highway which runs north to Turkish Cypriot strongholds and to the important port of Kyrenia. The peaks have been dubbed Whisky, Brandy and Gin by Canadian troops of the United Nations peace force. At the top of Whisky peak I found a small band of Turkish Cypriots about 25 of them, ranging in age from 15 to 35 defending the pass against an estimated 450 Greek Cypriots. Barry favored in Illinois vote CHICAGO (UPI) - Illinois voters go to the polls Tuesday in the nation's third presiden tial election of the year. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater is the odds on favorite to win the Republi can vote. Goldwater faces Sen. Margar et Chase Smith, R-Maine. Both have put in little more than token appearances on the state's campaign trail. Goldwater backers, however, have predicted that the Arizona Republican will win and win big. Illinois, they say, is Gold water country. Former Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon called off a write in campaign on his behalf in the Interests of "party unity." Backers of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge also dropped their write-in campaign as the pri mary drew near. There is no contest in the Democratic race. The Bulletin Monday, April 13, 1964 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman, Gtn. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil f. Brogan, Associate Editor Del Usselman, Ore. Manager Loren E. Dyer. Mech. Supt. William A. Yates. Managing Id. Entered as Secund Cls MAlter. Jaruery 1 1:T tt im otnee at Bend, i fm. under Act ot March 1 1STI. Published dally except Stadur aed canaa oUdafs or The Bend Bulletin, loo. w w ana Kennedy, "that one of the chief problems Is the Negro and his lack of opportunity and need for special opportunity?" Kennedy did agree, describing the "deficient education" which the Negro receives in the South. ". . .When Negroes move out and come into the northern cit ies (they are) still uneducated and also unemployed. Then, this becomes not just a local but a national problem," he maintain ed. He had said earlier to Ayers that this situation "reflects up on those of us who are white." Kennedy said the handicaps in the North for youngsters are un educated parents, often unem ployed, who are unable or un willing to provide incentive for the young to make the most of educational opportunities. Even then, he said, the worst teach ers are often found in the most "difficult" slum schools. "Local communities need to face up to these problems," he said, "perhaps change their educational system and start putting the very best teachers in the slum areas and take steps where the young children, aged three, four and five, can learn what books are." He was alluding In talking of the very young children to ex perimental nursery schools throughout the country, using special techniques aimed at the culturally disadvantaged child to make him ready for the new world of school and books. Kennedy was questioned close ly by both Republicans and Democrats over the eligibility of private schools and organiza tions for federal funds. Title II of the bill provides $315 million the first year for urban and rural community action pro grams, initiated at the local level, to get at the roots of poverty. The bill would permit religious organizations to par ticipate; however federal grants to projects Involving religious instructions or churches would be prohibited. Both the Turks and a five man Canadian patrol sent to in vestigate the fighting said the Greek Cypriot concentration was the strongest battle forma tion since the crisis began in December. Break Control The Greek Cypriot attack ap peared designed to break the Turkish Cypriot control of the pass and thereby isolate the Turkish national army contin gent dug in along the highway. The advance Turkish Cypriot positions were within 200 yards of the advanced Greek Cypriot positions. The commander of the Turk ish Cypriots, about 30 years old who refused to give his name, alleged that the Canadian pa trol made no real attempt to stop the Greek Cypriot attack. The Turkish Cypriot leader, talking as we lay face downwards to avoid the bullets whistling overhead, said the Greek Cypriots tried to use the cover of the U.N. flag to ad vance. Former Officers The Turkish cypriot forces on "Whisky" are mainly former Turkish Cypriot officers and men of the Cyprus army. But they include some police and some youths. Two tents and some twisted trees provide a shelter from the wind and rain just below the firing line. Ammunition and food bread, olives and tea are brought up by donkey every day along a corkscrew path. The leader told me: "I am certain Turkey will invade Cy prus soon otherwise there is no point in our continuing to defend ourselves here." Helped with tea despite her age DOVER, England (UPI) Miss Alice Howland celebrated her 100th birthday today by get ting up shortly after 5 a.m., as is customary for her, and help ing to make tea for her friends in the old people's home where she lives at nearby St. Marga ret's Bay. Miss Howland has very de cided views on teen-age girls who scream and swoon at pop stars like the ''6631168." "Unladylike" is her verdict. ssssmsssmaax Washington Mcrry-go-romm y Dirksen applied pressure to help client collect debt By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON The Idea that senators should divulge the sources of their outside income has been resisted strenuously by the wise and witty Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-M., who delivered an ultimatum on the senate floor that he would not open his fi nancial books to the public. "The senator from Illinois has not reduced himself to a class B citizen yet," he snorted indig nantly. It now turns out that Dirksen has collected income from a Peoria, 111., law firm whose clients include some of the na tion's biggest corporations. In at least one instance, this column has established that Dirksen rammed a bill through the Sen ate to help one of the law firm's clients collect a $290,000 debt. Most senators come to Con gress from the legal profession, and few bother to remove their names from their law firms' doors, as judges are required to do. Indeed, some members of Congress use their law firms as a front to trade on their politi cal influence. Dirksen didn't even bother to take up the law until three years after he entered Congress. Now he Is associated with the law firm of Davis, Morgan and Witherell. This column has been unable to find any record that he has ever appeared in court or handled a case for the firm. It may be significant, how ever, that some giant corpora tions have gone to Peoria to hire his firm. Among them have been International Harvester, In ternational Paper, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline, Pabst Brew ing, State Farm Insurance, Home Savings and Loan, Mid States Steel and Wire, Keystone Steel and Wire, Brass Foundry, National Lock, and two dozen others. Bill Collector One past client was Lankton, Ziegle, Terry and Associates, an engineering firm which built a $2,900,000 housing project in Hai ti a few years ago. It was nam ed Magloire City in honor of the Haitian president then in power. After he was overthrown, his successors lost interest in Mag loire City and neglected to pay the $290,000 balance owed to the company. Dirksen promptly put all the political pressure he could bring to bear on little Haiti to pay up. He made more than a dozen calls all the way up to the Secretary of State in an attempt to settle the claim for the company that had hired his law firm. When Haiti still failed to cough up the cash, Dirksen in troduced an amendment to bar foreign aid to any Country that doesn't pay its debts to Ameri can citizens. Without mentioning any names, he cited this case in his argument on the Senate floor: "The sum of $290,000 in prin cipal and interest remains," he Barbs We'll bet a lot of people would like to have one of those "Post No Bills" signs put on their mailbox. You can lost your health get ting wealthy and then lose your wealth getting healthy. The average wife is not only weary, but quite spent after a day of shopping. Don't always blame a teen ager for running away from home it may be the parents. Texas Tale ACROSS 12 Crafty 1 US. president lSDowrone! from Texas 19 Spanish dialect (.Texas river 20 Ota radium 13 Short melodr . "r 14 Shakespearean 2'fowtr (airy 22Umprey 15 Commanders 2 Leave 1 Cheese factory ?vlier 17Diner 2:L!ri,,. ... 19 AUatfa 28 Descendant of 23 Bailiffs Mohammed 27 Detainer 35 Delude 29 Sodium chloride 3 MuU pari M I.i. l-ni.u,.. 3d Hurt 91 Hindu sacred 39 SiaUc electric word unitiabJ 92 Mongrel 33 Hostelry 34 Hypothetical structural unit 38 Borden 37 Adjacent 39 Hennita 41 Bodies of trrta 43 Prances 44 Face (inter 46 Texas monument 49 Permit S4 Southern trees 83 Infernal regloa M Dgda 7 Spader DOWN ! Preserve 2 Mouths JProsoua 4 Seine I Texas products t Italian strait 40 Hairdo I 12 13 14 15 B 17 I la la llo III ill j il i? 1111 ii r -I i I bo il 151 r a TTSTT a IT -a a ZT'5rCr -2 n Snjjn I" IE15" K f 5 jb b U 5 53 jj y I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I 'I 7 Noted cartoonist 9 Mexican dene 9 Effaces 10 One hundred two (Roman! 11 Above icontiO summed up, "for which the con tractor and architect are at present indebted to the bank in . Illinois. But they cannot get their money. "I raised the question with the ambassador five different times. I discussed it with the former Secretary of State. I have discussed it perhaps half a dozen times with the present Secretary of the T r e a s u r y . There are assurances and assur ances; but assurances do not pay the bill. "It is astonishing that U. S. citizens are asked to pay taxes, a portion of which will be used to render foreign aid to the very country which is Indebted to them." Dirksen not only omitted the name of the company; he also neglected to mention it had re tained his law firm. Sen. Tom Dodd, D-Conn., op. posed Dirksen's amendment, "Many persons in my s t a t e have been having difficulty in collecting from foreign govern ments," he said, "but I have grave doubts that the way now proposed is the proper way to go about it. In fact, I think the step now proposed is a very dangerous one. No matter how heart - rending or sympathy arousing such matters are, in ternational courts and other kinds of machinery have been established for their adjudica tion." But Dirksen's amendment passed, and his law firm's client was able to collect (though it still claims the interest hasn't been paid). Note Another corporation, Freight Forwarders, picked up Dirksen's bills last year at the Carousel, the seaside motel that Bobby Baker built. Morris For gash, the company president, has also entertained Dirksen aboard his yacht. At the same time, the company was deeply interested in freight legislation pending before the Senate. Academy exams due on July 13 The competitive United State: Civil Service Designation Exam ination used in connection with securing a nomination to the United States Air Force, Mer chant Marine, Military, and Na val Academies will be held Monday, July 13, at 29 Oregon cities, it was announced by Sen ator Maurine B. Neuberger. The purpose of the examina tion is to provide an objective testing method to aid senators and representatives in the selec tion of nominees to the four academies. Qualified young men who are seeking a nomination should write Senator Neuberger or oth er members of the Oregon Con gressional delegation for author ization to take this test, it was announced. Senator Neuberger explained that her nominations to the academies are based on merit from scores obtained in the Civil Service Designation Exam ination and passage of the pre liminary physical. A list of cities in Oregon where examinations are sched uled to be held include Bend and Prineville. BURNED HIS HAND LANCASTER, Calif. (UPI) "I lit a match and burned my hand," Otto Arbuckle explained to firemen when they answered a fire alarm and found him ly ing on a lawn. Behind him were the smoking ruins of a house that had burned to the ground. Arbuckle was arrested cn a charge of being drunk. Antwsr t Previous Pirate I 42 Hanemu'l knot SO Bible ediliost 45 Happy (ab. 46 Anthropoid tlMarttert 47 54 (Roman) direction 48 Collection of 62 Over (prefix) sayings S3 Worm Is;el.ieim isiciRieis 5 e!A T TWNL E Nllsl I CE EISIE g BaasjmgTg PIAIL "eItiTIE PIAInI I ILlEl BJve iri! I sT iNitolvlelCI SjSljQill lAR r' il Afe t plej.E tieIsItisI , iSiTieiEcSblbi " A "IPffT " Kail-I 1 Iff E I- A"iTiEjPr P EiNIOT E e Ej5TffB1 e vIaIde?