ing 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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