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Publuhed w eekly every Thursday by
By
This session o f tin- Congress
the nation w ill undoubtedly
face one o f its severest tests
ns :i d em ocracy.
• • •
EDITORIALS
FREE PALAVER
The butue w ill be a v e r the
proposed
re p e a l ol
Set lion
H -B o< the T a il-H a r tle y t i t
which p erm its states to pass
law s b arrin g the closed shop,
or
the
so-called
"rig h t-to -
w o rk " law s presently in force
in IM stales.
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By Paul Hornbeck
OREGON G .O .P . REFUSES TO FACE F A C T S ..............We have
reason to believe that the large majority of Oregon Republican
rank-and-filers are conservative. But the party leaden in the
state refuse to recognise the fact and are scared to death that
the Democrats w ill attach the conservative label to them and
they just can't stand any such onus because it would rob them
of conformity. They want to conform to the Democrats'
winning image.
Why doesn't somebody get it over to them that there is a very
sizable proportion of the Democratic rank-and-file that is also
conservative and would welcome the opportunity of crossing
the line into a conservative haven.
Peter Gunnar et al learned some of the facts in his recent fight
to retain the Republican state chairmanship. But he and the
Governor didn't learn enough to turn them from their leaning to
socialism. They are just as determined as ever to turn the
Republican party into a socialistic grab corps, just like the
Democrats have done with their party.
And here in Jackson county the Republican leaders are just
as adamant in their determination to conform to the eastern
Rockefeller- Scranton- Javits- Romney le ft wing minority—
anything to go along with the powerful Democrats. So for
their big Lincoln Day dinner they w ill bend their eats to
Pennsylvania's Senator Scott. As a humanitarian jesture we
suggest they first go to Lincoln's tomb and tighten his body
bands— so the poor fellow won't be able to turn over too many
times.
POPULATION PROBLEM; C OM M UNISM WANTS F A M IN E .............
During the past week there appeared in leading newspapers
in the nation a page ad to President Johnson. It was signed
by 83 prominent people, including college presidents,
newspaper editors and writers, former representatives o f our
government and m ilitary forces, bankers, industrial heath,
medical men and religious leaders. It pointed out the presence
of famine spots around the world and pointed up the expectation
that famine w ill reach disastrous magnitude before long. It
revealed die fact that food production in most countries of the
world is either declining or no more than staying lev e l, while
population is Increasing by leaps and bounds.
"The United States has shipped abroad, sin ce.. . 1954, food
products amounting to the gigantic sum of $12 billion, mostly
on a give-away basis." It went on to adm it that even should
we continue this tremendous largess to the exhaustion of our
own land, the eventual world famine trend would be little
affected. The burden of the message was that the only way to
prevent the holocaust of famine was to stop the population
increase. The profound conclusion was that this population
problem is our transcendent challenge and the President was
implored to place it ahead of every other project facing our
nation today.
No suggestion for action was made. But the last sentence was
significant. It reads.,
significant. It reads, "Hunger brings tu rm oil- - and turm oil, as
we have learned, creates the atmosphere in which the commun
ists seek to conquer the earth. "
Now we do not know what these good people who sent this
open message to the President think can be done about the
popilation problem. We are fairly sure they have in mind an
effort at birth control. Our government and other governments
can and probably w ill make some effort; in fact, it has already
started. But intelligent people should not be so naive as to
expect any appreciable check on world population increase
through birth control education. A square look at facts,
including human nature and the tim e elem ent w ill reveal that
P u b lic
opinion polls
show that the
public is sub-
s i a n 11 a 11 y
a g a in s t r e
peal of Sec
tion H -B .T h e
nation s inde-
pcntleiit busi
ness p ro p rie
tors.
voting
through t h e
C. W . H a r d e r
N a tio n a l F e d e ra tio n of In d e
pendent Business, strongly op-
imsc tins re p e a l And as was
presented to tin
Congress,
about o ne-th ird of the union
m e m b e rs oppose re|»-:il
C. W I L S O N
11
HARDER
debt by d e liv e rin g m illio n s »1
w o rk e r* into c a p tiv ity .
• • •
It is p ro bably impossible to
rtnd at any lim e p rio r in A n w r-
lean history w here naked p<>\\.
e l has been so unleashed to
negate the w ill of the m a jo rity ,
and at the sam e tim e d e liv e r
a larg e segm ent of the |»>|iu-
la l i o n into bondagi
F o r es
sentially
th e re Is little d ll
ference in saying to a m in i
th a t you shall not eat w ithout
pay uig trib u te to the union
bosses and in saying you shall
not eat unless you a re chained
to a galley our T h e re is sume
d ilte re n e e ui d egree, but none
in p rin c ip le.
• • •
It is not inconceivable if
the A m e ric a n people su b m it to
this p o litic a l pow er p la y , es
p ec ia lly since Su prem e Court
decisions have now m ade It
possible for unions to be run
by eum m u nists. th a t the shades
w ill be d ra w n even m o re close
. ly to blol out the shining light
of A m e ric a n liberty and tre e -
dom w hich was such a beacon
of hope to the e n tire w orld.
• • •
T h e re is of course, a last
• • a
ditch recourse the m a jo rity of
In fac t, the hard core of the I
the people have before the c u r
d riv e to m ake e v e ry w o rk e r
tains a rc closed
subject Io union con tro l stem s
• • •
Iro n ) the union leaders who
T h a t is lo w rite or w ire Sen
w ant Io be able to collect d ue*
ators and Congressm en, e x
fro m a ll. T h e ir desire is aided
pressing th e ir views.
and prosecuted by those who J
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m ade p o litical c a m p a ig n p ro m
At B unker H ill the d estiny of
ises In the union leaders.
the A m e ric a n people rested
• • »
w ith the com m on people who
Thus, the a tte m p t is to d is re w ere both dedicated anil in
g ard m a jo rity w ill in o rd er to d ignant.
pay olT a p o litic a l debt
• • •
• • •
T he destiny
of A m e ric a n
In anc ie n t H o m e p olitical freedo m again rests w ith the
debts w e re often paid out by- A m e ric a n people. II the people
p ro vid ing fre e spectacles in the w rite th e ir view s lo th e ir m e m
( olisseum w ith c a p tiv e g la d i bers of Congress and th e ir sen
ators. In m odern A m e ric a it ators. the ligh t of freedom can
is sought lo pay off a p o litic a l s till be p reserved.
t Nuii.Hial »tderail.^i .4 I rw tetre mien I Hu* 1 tre«'
High School Pupils Invited
To Enter News Story Contest
High school students through
out Oregon are again invited to
enter the annual high school
newspaper article contest, t h e
sponsoring Oregon Wheat G row
ers League announced t h i a
week.
Don Woodward of Pendleton,
president of the grower organ
ization, said that two subjects
have been selected for t h i s
y e a r’s competition — “ Advant
ages of Wheat in the Everyday
D ie t” and “ Production and M a r
keting of Oregon W heat.” The
contest opened Jan. 3 and cloe-
Demo Platform
Convention
Set »
The Jackson County Demo
cratic Platform Convention w ill
be held in Ashland at the M a rk
Antony Hotel on Feb. M , ac
cording to E. M . Madden, Jack-
ion County Recorder.
Registration for the event
starts at 9 a m. on Feb. 5.
Principal speaker for the con
vention w ill be Robert Straub,
Oregon State Treasurer. He w ill
speak at a Feb. 8 banquet. Any
registered Dem orat is invited.
A reception w ill precede the
dinner from 8-7 p.m. State Rep
resentative James Redden w ill
be the master of ceremonies.
Co-chairman for the convention
w ill be Ralph Poston of M ed
ford.
es with entries postmarked on
or before M ay 1.
Woodward announced that all
Oregon students in grades nine
through twelve a re eligible to
compete, with the exception of
those whose parents hold offi
cer posts in the W heat League
or the Oregon W heat Commis
sion.
E n try blanks and research
m aterials m ay be obtained by
w riting to the Oregon Wheat
G rowers League. P 0 Box 400
Pendleton. Essays submitted on
either of the two subjects must
be typed and should not exceed
1,500 words.
Cash Awards
Cash awards w ill be made for
the winning entries. Woodward
reported, with $75 going to the
author of the best article, and
$50, $35 and $15 prizes for the
second, third and fourth place
entries. The winning papers w ill
be published in a number of
Oregon newspapers and farm
journals, he said, and the win
ner w ill be a special guest of
the W heat League at its annual
state meeting in December,
Entries w ill be judged, t h e
league president said, on origin
a lity , subject m atter, spelling
and composition and summ ary.
In addition to the four cash
awards, m erit certificates w ill
be presented to 25 runners-up.
W inner of the Wheat League's
1965 newspaper article contest
was Linda Glennie, a h i g h
school sophomore from Pendle
ton.
the scheme just won't work effectively. Forced application of
some controls would not be beyond the contemplation of some,
but the results would indeed be sanguinary in the long run.
Well-intentioned people just as w ell get It through their
heads that from now on, as long as humanity continues to
excercise dominion in this earth, population is going to increase
prodigiously In spite of everything and anything they can do
about it. The only related problem that is in some measure
solvable is the production of food. Food production can be
increased just as prodigiously as the increase in population.
But it cannot be done by desk-top agrarian planners distri
buting fiats and subsidies, as in the United States, not by
collective farming as in Communistic Russia, nor by other
socialistic schemes and practices being employed in many
other nations of the earth. From the inception of our own
nation until the 1930's, the American people demonstrated
how it can be done. Most of the teeming millions of the
earth could take care of themselves If they were given the
liberty to do to. Some of them would need capital and
become w illing instruments for our destruction, because it
has so tar brought the popular votes for continuing them in
power. And most of them want to perpetuate themselves
in office much more than they want to perpetuate Am erica
nism, Doesn't sound resonable, and it isn't. But it is a
sad fact.
Famine? Charles Shuman, President of the American
Farm Bureau, sayst
"The world does not need to starve, if
the underdeveloped areas can be induced to accept the in
centive method of capital form ation--com petitive capita
lism , The farming business can be good if we give farm
fam ilies the opportunity a nJ the incentive to use their abi
lities and resources to produce things that our customers
w a n t."
Dealing with this subject several weeks ago, this column
suggested that such an unlikely thing as religion is retarding
the production of food for the world. An experienced Assoc
•gricultursl education, which should be the objective and
the lim it of our foreign aid program. Those who would not
iated Press writer recently returned from a visit to India. He
said, "Indian farmers are unable to produce enough food far
the rapidly expanding human population, not to mention
care to accept such would deserve no more of our sympaty
or concern.
vast numbers of rats, monkeys, sacred cows and other ani
One other very important point bared in that last Un»
which we quoted from the ad is that our American leaders,
Including Mr. Johnson and his whole administration, know
very w ell that Is the unaltered objective of the Comm.mtw»,
they "seek to conquer the earth. " Hunger and famine never
In history brought troublesome turmoil except when It was
whipped up by a few opportunist trouble makers.
But truly,
the Communist are past and present master* in the art of
trouble m aking-.for the expediency of gaining their own.
ends. And one of their most effective expedients is the In
ducing of a ll kinds of government controls. They know it
w ill k ill any nation's industry, agriculture and a ll other pro
ductive project*. W ittingly or unwittingly our leaden have
I
T H U R S D A Y , JA N . 13, 19««
C F N T F AL P O IN T T IM E S
P AG I 2
f
mals .
Many Indians are reluctant to k ill any living thing, an
attitude that stems from the
variety of religion or beliefs,
and the common Hindu belief in transmigration of r li e ,
wherein a human may be reborn an anim al or insect......... The
frain lost to rats would not only be enough to remove the
present threat of famine, but would transform India into a
food-surplus n atio n ."
I f Americ ans would use their inmate common sense and
practice it among themselves, they could redeem American
ism and perhaps lead the world back to some semblance of
sanity at the same tim e .
Instead of yelling our needs to the
White House, let's begin demanding less freehand looseness
with our money and products.
The Editor, Sir;
One im m utable truism of life
to that the eesieet thing to take
aw ay from someone to that
which he does not know he poe
tesses E v e r hear the queetion,
“ W hat became of such and such
a right or privilege w e once
had?” The (ruth to, not enough
of you knew about and appreci
ated having that right or p riv il
ege or were w illing to demand
its retention. Hence, It was lost.
Why should anyone strive to
deprive you of theee priceless
possessions? Sometime, a mis
taken faith upon the p a rt of
concientious law m akers b u t ,
more often, a determ ined effort
by powerful selfish interests and
for personal gain.
Section la A r t 9 of your con
stitution clearly makes all tax
measures subject to referen
dum.
Y o ur last
Legislature
passed H JR 24, allowing any
tax b ill to c a rry the “ emergen
cy clause” , thereby enabling it
to become law without being
subject to referendum. T o be
brutally frank, it would allow
any tax bill to be ram m ed
down your throat. How contro
versial to this bill? Passed by
the House (no surprise) but de
feat J on its first trip to the
Senate, it was recalled for re
consideration and passed by a
narrow m argin by rationalizing
that, since it entailed a constitu
tional am endment, final deter
mination would have to be made
by a Vote of the people. The
dead albatross to now hanging
about your neck.
Yes, you w ill actually be ask
ed, at the coming election, to
surrender one of your constitu
tional rights which has guarded
you faithfully since Oregon’s in
ception. Proponents of the m ea
sure w ill, of course, prior to
the election, ngske every at
tempt to convince you of the
vast advantage of placing your
future totally in the hands of
menters and that (lik e unto
the income tax fiasco of 1994)
Oregon w ill become bankrupt,
d ry up and blow aw ay If they
are thwarted. A prom inent Tax
Comm ittee m em ber has stated
for publication, " T h e Legisla
ture can never peas a good tax
reform program as long as they
are "ham pered” by not being
able to put on the emergency
clause.” I challenge thia state
ment w ith the conviction that no
kind of dilem m a, ta x o r other
wise, can ever be solved by
the simple expedient of rem ov
ing a constitutional right of the
people. D ilem m as just aren’t
corrected this way.
"W e, the people” to a most
powerful concept but only If ex
ercised. W ill you deliberately
vote aw ay your constitutional
righto?
V icto r H . Croxton
Central Point
The E d ito r, Sir;
D a n S m o o t ’ s Christmas
Broadcast, taken from his book,
" T H E H O P E O F T H E W O R L D ,”
was a beautiful thing. W i t h
strong and loving hands he
paints a tremendously thrilling
picture in words of the relation
ship between A m erica a n d
Christianity.
Our finite minds cannot grasp
the infinite love and mercy
which sent our Savior into the
world. But Smoot points o u t
that Christians can, and did,
grasp the idea that such love
from our Heavenly F a t h e r
makes each one of His "child
ren” of individual, infinite im
portance to H im . He sent His
only begotten Son into the world
to make a blood atomement for
individual human beings, not
for the masses, or society.
From Christianity sprang this,
the most revolutionary idea ev
er born into the world • that
the individual human being, no
m atter how lowly, is of infinite
importance • more important
than the masses, vastly more
important than human govern
ment. The life of Jesus, H i s
teachings, and every act of His
disciples stress this idea, magni
fy it, and make it the very core
of Christian faith.
And afte r germ inating in the
minds of men for 18 centuries
this simply stupendous Christian
idea, “ the sacrednesa and in
finite worth of the human per
sonality ... found expression in
à C h arter of Government fo r a
great nation, the United States
of A m eric a.’
In our magnificent Declara
tion of Independence appear
these marvelous words, “ We
hold these truths to be self evi
dent, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed
by their C reator with certain
unalienable rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the
persuit of Happiness ’
In the first ten amendments
to the Constitution our founding
fathers did an am azing, unheard
of thing. In place of asking
Governm ent for any rights they
specifically ltoted certain God-
given rights which the govern
ment M U S T not. C O U L D n o t
tam per w ith. The individual cit
izen was supreme, the Govern
ment his se rv an t
As Smoot puts it, *T h a
strength and culture of Am erica
w ere built on faith in Jesus
Christ.* W hile. “ The strength
and culture of Communism-So
cialism -Fascism a re built on
faith in the alm ighty State, or
Governm ent ... the individual to
nothing; the State (o r society, or
the masses, or government) is
everything... no treatm ent o f
the individual is considered
abuse; m urder, kidnapping, a r
son, robbery, blackm ail, treason
- all are justified if meted out
to serve the Socialistic cause.
L. C Powell
Grants Pass
lot with cheerfullnesa except for
that new beck ya rd fence. When
we moved into the city from
Bellview that fenced back yard
became a challenge. He would
ra th e r ait on the front steps
and w ait for our return. I built
it higher and he went through
it or under. He outsmarted that
fence at every turn. Only last
F riday I stapled another ten dol
lars worth of woven wire on it,
but Saturday he found h it last
hole.
We returned from a New
Y ea r's breakfast to find him
dead, the victim of vicious Stry
chnine.
His tra il was plain in the
snow. Down the street, up a
drivew ay and through a back
yard to an alley. Each trash
can investigated and then out
to the next street and up. one
block over. Then through a yard
or two back to the alley, out
to his street again, across and
then the tracks showed where
he foundered and roee to dreg
him self home. A twenty minute
,au nt if he tended each poet
and shrub.
We tried so very herd to keep
him in hie back yard , even took
h im to w ork with us when the
T o the Editort
fence had a known leak. We
Many thank > should be ex
know that he w alked in your
tended to the Editor of the
flowers, he might even have
Times for his fine work In so
been the culprit who knocked
over your trash can. I would
short a period of tim e.
have cleaned it up for you if
Central Point has been a
you had but called him to you
city for some tim e. With the
and read m y num ber on his
arrival of the Times, it has be
tag. I would have eppologized
come a more important city.
and paid for any damage.
And now M r. Poisoner, I hope
l a m a strong believer of
that your methods Justify the
newspaper reading. I hope
results and that you elim inated
citizens of Central Point feel
the nuisance which envoked you
th<* tame way. In return, the
to take the life of my pet for
I ehall try very hard to find
Editor w ill feel his efforts have
you. Perhaps in another way I
not been waisted.
can let you feel the emptiness
The efforts of Sgt. Jim Corliss
of that kitchen corner or look
fearless, gifted, with a wonder jn to the innocent eyes of my
four-year-old grandson and tell
ful penonality appearing on the
him why “ T u t” is not there to
city streets, a ll help to make a
play with him M aybe you could
fine c ity . With the help of
flush the pheasants from a
Police C hief Edward Zander, the brush pile or tell me when the
Fire Department and other
telephone rings, that I cannot
hear. You, who can start a New
city personnel, Central Point
Y e a r with this dastardly art
is certainly becoming a proud
should be easy to find and I
city.
w ill look upon you.
The c ity government has come
Whitland T. Locke
276 Harrison Street
a long way in Its few short yean
Ashland
US National
Names Region
M an ag er
B. C. Swells, vice president
and m anager a t U. 8. National
Bank of Oregon's M etropolitan
branch, has been named man
ager of the bank's newly creat
ed southern region, President
E. J. K olar has announced.
The southern region encom
passes the area from D ra in
south to the California line and
from the Pacific Ocean east to
Lakeview.
There are six regions based
on geography and population in
the realignm ent of U. S. Nation
al's senior management struc
ture that was approved at last
Thursday’s monthly board m eet
ing, Kolar said. Five of the re
gions are in the western h alf of
the state, and the sixth co vert
the eaatern half.
Swails haa been with U. 8.
National for 25 years and has
been manager of the M etropoli
tan branch since December,
1963. P rio r to that he was man
ager of both the Astoria a n d
Sheridan branches. In addition
to his 25 years with U. S. N a
tional, he was a National Bank
Exam iner with the U. S. Comp
troller of the Currency in Wash
ington, D .C ., for four y e a n .
County Makes
Interest Funds
Interest earned through In
vestment of county funds not
Im m ediately needed b r o u g h t
more than $100,000 to Jackson
County in the past six months,
according to County Treasarer
Chet W. Guches. The exact
amount. $100,454.98, is the high
est figure ever earned during a
six month period in Jackaon
County and covers the period
of July 1, 1965, to Jan. 3. 1996,
Guches stated This compares
with approxim ately $92,000 earn
ed in the same period last year.
The general county fund «rill
benefit in the amount of $96,-
921.43 and school district bond
and interest funds, irrigation dis
tricts and sanitary districts ac
count for the balance.
Three reasons were given by
Guches for the increased in
terest earning: Jackaon county
received the revenue from O
and C allotm ent about six wreaks
earlier than usual thia p a s t
year and was able to put the
money on tim e deposit sooner;
higher interest rates and keep
ing a sm aller amount in the
demand account of the county.
The treasurer’s office to at
tempting to keep approxim ately
90 to 95 per cent of the county’s
available money on tim e depos
its in local downtown banks,
Guches added.
of existence. A good job w ell
done as I see it.
Sincerely,
Howard H . Brown
907 Gilm an Rd.
Medford
The E d ito r, Sir;
He was my friend, he under
stood
A ll the vagaries of my mood
When I was happy, he was
9«y
When I was sad, he seemed
that way
He held with trusty common
sente
A ll I told him in confidence
He died... and now I look
around
,
A friend like that i t seldom
found
I m it t h it kindly pretence yet
A dog like that it hard to
9«
W ill H. Locke
D ear Sir,
I wish to compliment you on
your recent article concerning
the State of U. 5. Finances. It
Is the clearest and most concise
article that I have ever read in
any publication and that goes
for the W all Street Journal
and New York Tim as. Please
tend me half dosen copiez and
b ill me for the same.
Respectfully,
Carlton Deggeller
Ski Tips
Here are some ski tips from
the M t Ashland Ski Patrol:
L— When you put on your ski
boots, settle your heel into the
heel of the boot by banging it on
the floor before lacing.
2. —Unlace your boots at noon
to rest your feet and this also
insures a new and snug lacing
job for the afternoon’s skiing.
3. — Polish your boots with
good skiboot w ax afte r they-Are
dry following each weekend of
use.
|
4 —Safety Bindings—adjust to
fit your ability and type of slope
you ski. I f adjusted properly
for both sideways and frontal
release they should pop free
with a hard blow of your fist to
the side heel of the boot when
locked in the binding
Happy Skiing.
S till Stand
Traces ui the ancient Ro
n i a n lortifications — s to n e
drinking t r o u g h s , gateways
and the ruins of stone guard
h o u s e s — still stand in Eng
land
T U T L O W __________
Funny how these words w rit
ten by my father many years
ago come to mind. He was just
a medium sized " y a lle r” dog
of doubtful origin named Tut-
low. He looked directly at you
with soft brown eyes and hit
bushy tail was always ready
with a friendly wag. He node
with equal comfort in an a ir-
plane or my old pickup and
trotted at the heels of m y big
yellow horse obeying the com
mand to heel with understand
ing.
His claim to fam e came when
he appeared with rrqy daughter
in a photograph which waa fea
tured by the Richfield Oil Com
pany in their 1959 Wildflower1
Booklet featuring the Oregon
Centennial. Accepted with wel
come by some of the West’s
leading motels and hotels he
carried him self with dignity. He
never once in his ten years plac
ed a paw on a peice of fu rn i
ture and denied the run of the
house, found h it w arm corner
in the kitchen. He accepted h it
4
"For pvr« old fovoromant rad tops», you can't boot Amorko« «Itili
ond bow -how ,"