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CENTRAL POINT T. PACES CRURAL POINT TIMS Published weekly every Thursday by CENTRAL POINT TIM ES, IN C . P. O. Box 846 216 E. Pine St. Central Point, Ore Entered as second class m all matter at the post oftice at Central Point, Ore. 97501, under act of Congress Mar, 3, 4 1 9 7 / Subscription $3.00 per year la Jackson C o ., $3. 50 Ik the State of Oregon and $4.00 outside the state. N IW IP A P K R P U B IIS N IR S ASSOCIATION EDITORIALS FREE PALAVER By Paul Hornbeck ; UNCLE SAM. M .D . ‘. r Ole Sam has been serving his internship since 1933. T o - ‘ tnorrow he takes over as the boss pill-pusher and sawbones. • His training has been varied— just about a ll-inclu sive. If any- oae doubts that statement, one should try to think of some phase of one's life which is not restrictively or dotingly touch ed by the federal patrone. And now, whether we like his bed side manners or not, we w ill take Sam's prescriptions to the corner drug store. •> ' From Smith to Jones • ' H e 'll set our bones And read our concensus in his stethoscope. H e 'll be our wet nurse Then order the hearse W ailing "N a il on the lid; I gave the wrong dope." ;<• For the record, some of us oldsters want it strictly under stood that we did a ll we could to prevent our national legisla to r s from making this monstrous mistake in the name of social Compasaion. But the boys in the driver's seat insist on change. .No matter bow good a custom or service or commodity, it must make way for change. To the modern Intelligentsia, change is progress, regardless of where we go from the point of change. Amusing side of it is the doctrine that no change must be a turning back. Anything that has been tried before, or used be- ;fcre, or practiced before--that is totally passe. Y et in the face of this, we progressively modernistic Americans split our ^britches getting ourselves involved in an entire system of m e- 'dicinal paternalism from which the Swedes, the Belgians and the Britons are trying just now to extricate themselves after ■years of failure and distress. Oh, we are progressive. Beginning tomorrow, there w ill be a terTific demand for Sew hospitals a ll over this country; and we w ill build a lot of ¡A iem . I f we the people don't build them, Papa Sam w ill. I-And where w ill Papa Sam get the money? You take a long ..Breath and guest. But of course in a case like this we mustn't -consider monetary cost, so we won't consider monetary cost. ^•toit • plethora of hospitals demands nurses and doctors and in- ■ femes and technicians and dieticians, to say nothing of thous- *.<nds of other service personnel. Where are they coming from? •A few yean ago when private health insurance began to blos- available hospital beds began to be occupied by the fe l- IJLnv who needed a rest cure and a ll of a sudden had to blow his ■hose two times in a half hour. Now that the taxpayer w ill be jjje k in g up the tab, medical men estimate that the increase .among older folks who sign in at the hospital for medical care W ill see July conservatively up 4<X over June. Great Society legislators w ill progressively lower age lim its as quickly as pos- Ifib le . • • T im e was when it took several yean for s doctor to get his ,M D . Going to have to reduce that to a few months. Same for tones and technicians. Knowledge and experience and e ffic i- eht training and surgical skill are an extravagance of the past. Sam is going to take care of our physical shortcomings in i l l own NEW way. 7 ' We oldsters are presumed to rejoice that the widow down Ute Itreet who irons and tends kids for a living w ill join our me chanic who cares for our late model car and the grocery man -who sells us our high-priced bacon in helping us pay our doctor and medicine bills. Old Doc himself w ill contribute his "dis- • ofl count. " Our electrician and T V man w ill have to chip in, tod. Good old American companion. Only it's a little hard to think of compassion as you listen to the curses of the taxpayer <s he writes his April 15th check. During Britain's eighteen years of nationalized medicine, .thousands of English doctors have moved to new fields of prac tice in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South A frica. ;400 per year. They are leaving England now at the rate of Doctors' strikes in Europe are becoming common W A S H IN G T O N " f AND A A A I I By C. W I L S O N One of the most interesting prices they pay are due to the things to watch for in this era very programs their union of mounting consume« puces heads worked to bring about, is to see how rapidly a sub these workers are going to be stantial number of the mem very unhappy. bers of labor unions realize • • • the primrose path their lead Actually, to employers, prln ers have led them down. elpally the big corporations. It • • • makes little difference If they For It must be borne In mind pay an employee $3.13 per that much of hour, or if they pay the em the increased ployee <3 per hour and then coat of living pay government another 13 and the close cents per hour aa payroll tax. gap between It still figures out to a S3.IS Income a n d per hour labor coat. living costa a a a have b e e n And it is this figure that created by goes into the determination of welfare mea cost of production. This cost sures promo, is figured in the cost of pro led by union ducing raw materials, in the leaders. C. W . H a rd e r cost of transportation of them, • • • Increased coverage by social and the cost of manufacturing security, medicare, unemploy these raw materials into the ment insurance, and other pro finished products. • • • grams are supported by taxes Then when the finished prod only. The taxes come from both the workers' pay. and ucta go to the wholesale chan nels, the mark up is on costs from the employers. • « • : reflecting labor at S3.13 per Already, according to pub hour, not at S3.M. Thus, as the lished reports, a substantial product moves through chan number of workers are looking "ela to the ultimate buyer this askance a the new deduc extra cost In the form of pay tions made irom pay checks. ro** taxes Is pyramided to raise • * • consumer prices. a a a They are not finding the Great Society so great when it Thus, union members must comes to putting meat on the j eventually wake up to the fact table. In most cases they are that when pie in the sky is taking less money home, but promised them in the skies paying more for what they buy. over the Potomac, they can be * * * sure that the dough to make This, In itself, is quite dis that pie is going to be sup comforting to them. But soon plied by them. • • • er, or later, they are going to come to realize an even more And then will come the real! uncomfortable fart. ration that they cannot afford • * a to relax and let George do it. When they realize that a i because chances are George large share of the increased i will do them in. It is estimated that damage caused by pollution to crops, metals, livestock, defacing of personal and public property and other effects costs the United States $11 billion an nually. Real name of Lenin, found er of the Soviet Union, was Vladim ir Ilyich Ulyanov. He took the name Lenin in 1901. diligently overlooked or played down as extremism and the im perialism of free enterprise. The most deplorable aspect of the matter is that we are forced to admit the success of the program of managed news in this free land of ours. Political lines have been obliterated. Recent contact with fine, intelligent people of both Democrat ic and Republican affiliation in Southern Oregon has revealed an almost complete acquiescence to the onslaught of resurgent socialism. One friend, a Democrat who campaigned in last month's primary on issues contrary to the socialistic trend, was beaten. We know of no successful Republican candidate who permitted himself to campaign on the basis of any issue hostile to the socialistic schemes of the Democrats in power. ”1 stand on my record" was the persuasive argument of both democrat and republican. And research in each instance revealed that "m y record" was a day-by-day pursuit of "financial aid for my constituents" from the public trough, A splendid lecturer on A mericanism, speaking in another state, recently said, " It is heartening and at the same tim e an awsome thought that when the American citizen enters his vot ing booth next November to elect an entire new House of Rep resentatives and one-third of the Senate, the major responsibil ity for continuing our bankrupting farm control fiasco, and the dissipation of our wealth over the entire habitable earth, w ill pass from Washington to him . The voter must decide which he prefers— sanity, or continued p olitical recklessness In govern ment. 11 Theoretically he is right; we trust that in his state the theory w ill become actual. But in Oregon it w ill remain theory only, for the simple reason that p olitical lines do not furnish us any choice. From Governor down to local officials, Oregon Republican candidates oppose Democratic socialism only in de gree. So the only choice of those who choose to vote the Re publican ticket in Oregon is the doubtful privilege of backing the lesser of two evils. Managed news has done a great job of indoctrination. For the last three weeks the public has been saturated with hours upon hours of radio and T V reports about the Meredith inarch from Tennessee to Mississippi. According to the reports, while the march went on, 4, 000 Negroes were registered to vote In Mississippi, inference being that the march was responsible for ;that private health insurance companies are beginning to thrive '-again. English people who can afford it are w illin g to pay ex- >tra money to obtain personalized service fromwhat is left of England's m edical profession. ;• Y et is it doubtful that we Americans w ill ever learn. We >have been informed by the Great Society at to what Is best for us. Who are we to become so oldfathioned and UNJNformed a: > td pass up any opportunity to fcQNform ? So vote for the con- formers; anyone else is an extremist. h iiltim illio n a ire Bobby Kennedy, who wants to give his blood to the V ie t Cong and who goes to South Africa and not only tells them how bad they are, but bow bad his America is, is lavished with millions of dollars worth of free radio and T V tim e and newspaper and magazine space in his supposedly con cealed campaign for the presidency, Adam Clayton Powell is chairman of a committee which is supposed to carry on an investigation of the rottenness of the poverty war. < I f Captain Lonesome B ill Carpenter were not extremist, we Would te ll you bow we honor and admire and appreciate him . But his starkly extreme "Put the napalm right on us" classifies ' him . At one national writer words it i "The Captain's greatness . »fill he remembered long after the whole kaboodle of bewhisk- • cred, sign-carrying, filth-shouting critics of the Vietnam war M s been forgotten." Patriotic extremism keeps cropping up In spite of the Great Society and U . Thant, and Alger Hisses, and ; (efn H a ll, and Bobby Kennedy, et aL ’M enaced news is a powerful non - sec r et weapon Managed news is simply giving to the public a slanted ver A few of the proponents, copiously blessed with lying tongues, including the great Sargent Shriver, te ll of the great progress of the war, hour upon hour of it . Powell then ends the "hearings" and when asked why, says "Because I am chairman and that is a l l . " This is reported without adverse criticism . What was not reported by the newsboys was that the committee minority presented the names of 65 people whom they wanted to testify about the conduct of the poverty war. Not one of them was heard. The Mississippi march gets three weeks of big front page, headline treatm ent. Almost daily race riots in Northern cities get 1 0 -line treatment on an inside page. A ll Southerners ex cept a few Fulbrights are bigots. Martin Luther King is the typ. ic a l modern Moses as he urges his minions to break what he pronounces as bad laws. sion of those events (important or unimportant) which transpire from dey to day which seem to the managers effectively promo Managed News, thou art a jew el; and in Southern Oregon thou hast so far been a success. We trust that 1966 is a year for tional far the various causes of the Great Society. But that is not a ll, for even that would fa ll short of the desired effect if progressive change, when truthful education replaces managed Indoctrination. events unfavorable to Great Society causes were not ECONOMY MARKET ” "ÏÏ! HARDER^ ; .iX 8 h it England for $363 m illio n . The total for 1966 w ill be ?384 BILLION, with m edical service becoming so degenerated ¿ EXTREMIST WARRIORS 420 E pine r SMALL BUSINESS a ll of th e m --a slick slanting of the news. They did not bother to te ll that hundreds of thousands of Negroes in Mississippi were thoroughly disgusted with the marchers and their extremist leaders, Martin Luther King, et a l. The responsible Negroes realize how their cause is suffering from such antics. 'Cost to the government for the first year of state medicine in THURSDAY, JUNE 30, I: 8 to 9 DAILY Guest Editorial COMPLETE BEVERAGE LINE FRUITS & PRODUCE DELICATESSEN 9 to 9 SUNDAY U I INC IS VALLEY NEWS. • • • • • • « Con V/e Wave The Flag Too Much? UUIRS ioiior In four days this nation w ill celebrate the Fourth of July. It w ill celebrate In many ways; with speeches, picnics, fam ily outingi, fireworks displays. The flags To the Editon w ill wave. Can we wave the flag too much? S .L . Love, the author of "The Quiet Betrayal", pres visited a friend out Table ident of Independence H a ll in Chicago, formerly of the "Know Your History Hour" on radio, once received a letter from a listener that read, "Your programs are = wonderful- especially the no-com mercials- but you ~ are waving the flag too m uch." Love's reply, reprinted in in fu ll as it has been in national magazines, newspapers, radio, the Congressional Record, wasi A few years ago, we often Rock Road, and she showed uz some peculiar insects which frequented damp places id and around her shower stall. Since that tim e, we have found them in or around our home, and It might interest readers to learn whet they ere, in order to watch for them and avoid them. Is it possible to wave the flag too much? Pro In the shadows, they look vided, of course, that you wave it with integ like small scorpions, of which rity? Is it possible to study Lincoln or Shake there are many in this area, u speare too much ? Is it possible to read the Bible dead wood and in cracks in too much? ★ The great, the good, the true, are sandy slopes. They are, how inexhaustible for inspiration, example and ever, SOLPUGID (sol-pew-gid; strength. I believe that we are not waving our a relative of the spider, but do not spin a web. flag enough, not nearly enough ★ It seems to who While this is a semi-to trop me that we are developing a tendency to he icallrucct, they are being Hmid or even apologetic about waving the stars found in ever more northern hnd stripes. Walk up and down the streets on areas; Nevada, Colorado, ' July 4th and count the flags. It is our nation’s Utah and now Southern Oregon birthday, a sacred day in world history, the most In C alifornia, they are often important day of America. Why isn’t the flag called Sun Scorpion, Wind flying on every rooftop and from every home Scorpios or Deer K ille r. and building? This complacent attitude is strong The Solpugid is rarely over evidence of cancerous patriotic decay. The flag an inch long, is a scorpion is a symbol of our national unity. It is the tan with most hairy legs and spirit of our undying devotion to our country. head, the latter being rather It stands for the best that is in us . .. for loyalty, drop shaped, with the two character, and faith in democracy ★ Isn’t our dark eyes side by side on the flag a synonym of the United States of Amer top of the head. ica?? Does it not represent man’s greatest, They move very fast, runn, noblest, most sublime dream? Is it not the zen ing here and there In search of food and seeking out light ith of achievement, the goal to which genera* which has attracted insects it tions have aspired? ★ Ladies and gentlemen, 1 feeds upon. It is nocturnal, believe it is time for us . . . for the mad, rush-, hiding in the day and coming ing Twentieth Century American . . . to stop out at night, often seen clim b for a moment and think. Let us arrest our near ing the screen near a porch Reverential admiration of material success and light or running about nqar a fetum *to-the spiritual and ethical values. Let :sm p fire to catch Insects Us imbue and rekindle in ourselves and our chil drawn out by thelight. dren the so-called old-fashioned way of patriot* The most impressive feature, ism, a burning devotion to the principles and giving it a fierce reputation, ideals upon which our country was founded ★ is a large pair of plncan, at Should not every home own and proudly display first appearing to he arms at the colors on holidays and other such occasions? legs held in a forward position, as it runs about. When pro Isn’t the flag Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Frank voked, it grasps the enemy lin, Washington, Nathan Hale, Gettysburg and with these pincers, pulls it Valley Forge, Paul Revere, Jackson and other self forward, then gives a great men and women who have given us our most painful pinch with two heritage. When you look at the flag can’t you smaller pincers at the front of see the Alamo, Corrigedor, Pearl Harbor, The It's headfsmall, but most pow Monitor, The Merrimac, Wake Island, and Ko erful). rea? Lest we forget, isn’t the flag Flanders The toe of your shoe, a sock Field. Bataan, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Babe Ruth, lying by, or your clothe» left and Davy Crockett? The great events of our on the floor, a ll are excellent past and present are wrapped up in our flag places for him to hide during ★It is a symbol of this blessed nation, a giant the day, so it is wise to »hake in industry, education and Commerce. Millions garments before exposing ten der toes or limbs to these of fertile square miles, wheatlands, coal mines, powerful pincers. steel plants. Our great republic, the chosen in* Undoubtedly, your readers fant destined to be man’s last and remaining are acquainted with the very hope for suffering humanity, a shining beacon large Stag Beetle which is att of light, noble and glorious, the haven for the racted by outside lights at oppressed and persecuted and truly God’s gift night, and who can give a child (or Parent) a very pain to mankind. ★ That is what the flag means to me. Can we ful pinch. A doctor, relately new here, mentioned that we wave it too much? I don’t think so. had no worries from Black ' & S .O .C . STUDENTS MAKE y * • in ’dB A file s » HONOR ROLL •4$» • ■ F Í ' i V í H . i i U ' . ’ A'f IH Fifty-nine Southern Ore- Widow spiders, but quickly relented when, a week later, I brought him several In a glass Jar that had tinned up a - round home . We have cent! pedes also, but they rarely ed perfect 4 .0 grade point July 1,1147— The first U. S. Postage stamps were issued by average« Spring term, the Post Office Department in Wayne M . Hood, Registrar, New York City. The issue con announced this week. In sisted of two stamps: a 54 red- addition, 201 students made brown stamp depicting Ben the boner roll by attaining a jamin Franklin and a 104 black stamp bearing the likeness of grade point average o f 3 .5 George Washington. or better. July 4 ,17 74 — The Declara Those from Central Point tion of Independence was wereiDavid M. Knox, signed first by John Hancock Low ana K . Rogers, Mary of Massachusetts, President of C . Stuart, and James R. the Continental Congress, and then by Charles Thomson, Titus. secretary in Philadelphia, Pa. Gold H ill; John A . Jeksch. July fi, 1435— The Liberty Jacksonville Pamela J, Bell cracked as it tolled for the Cam pbell, Jayne D . M eri- f u n e r a l o f C h ie f J u a tic e ckel, and Gary L. Smda- Marshall. baker. July 14. 1945 — The first atom bomb was exploded in a test at Alamogordo A ir Base. The original Holy Alliance July SI» 1771 — The first D o c to r o f L a w s h o n o ra ry of nations In 1015 consisted degree by Harvard College was of Austria, Prussia and Rus sla. awarded to John Winthrop roach such size, that one has to ba more than casually care* ful to avoid handling or tread ing on them. T o newcomers, I wish to say we do have rattlesMkes. Con monly, a bit colder than they wish, they are less active than usual, and they rarely rgttle until it almost too late to be forwarned. They w ill be found on sunny tide» of Logs, or along trails where grist is thin enough to permit the sun light to warm them, hut Just long enough to hide them frotr the unwary hiker who won't know of their preset*.»: until bitten. When walking along ■ruch trails, It is wise to throw a ball sired stone so thqt it tolls along the tra il for some distance, as a w arnlagu».. I snakes and opening the trail. A good dog O) tw >>i a her of goats, w ill lit i| . an area of these d., viperi and it has been fotx .hat kittens w ljl dlscovei >iem, tease them uqttl they are driven to ra ttle , when their presence becomes known. Although "Oregon" seems I. stand for "rain, snow, wisjtyr land to the r»>st ot the nation, we , who have lived here ter many years, know that our area is truly "the banana bei aud lias the tropical drawback as w e ll as blessings. A Reader Mrs. V irg in ia D. Card. T o the Editor) The Stewart Udall, Intcrlc Secretary, Charles Stoddard and Kuzsell Getty controversy seems more offensive as mors exposed to light and more facets observed. Perhaps 'tis w ell for the people to kuow more of Administrative act ivities. Interior Secretaries seem to have a yen for deals that sometimes go askew. Inter ior Sec. Fall spent year» in prison for his part at the Taa- pex Dome oils case. Interior Sec. Bellinger, after a (ew skirmishes with Gifford Pin» chot and Louis Glavis, found the Alaska coal case too hot, and himself out of the arena. Interior Sec. Stewart Udall's attempt to clear the political atmoephere by firing Charles Stoddard and trying to kick Russell Cetty upstairs, seem» to have ricocheted, and the dust is not yet cleared away. These episodes bring to mind the Bellinger tangle with our C hief Forester , Gifford Plnchot, and General Land Office Claims Engineer, Louis Glavis, of half a cent ury ago. Relllnger fired Glavis for insubordination b * cause he differed with Bell inger over his planned Ala«ka coal deal. Plnchot resigned as C hief Forester and Presi dent T a ft let Bellinger resign. Then came the big fight be tween Teddy Rootevelt and T a ft, and more Department adjustments My work In National Forest Land classlf- icatlon, and as Special C lair Inspector of land claims wit in National Forests of Oregon and Washington, caused me to be specially interested in the Bellinger case. What became of the Teapot Dome oils ? Probably tucked away in some big syndicate's w allet, and Alaska coal claims maybe met the same fate. Why do Interior Secretaries pull such deals ? Too much authority over too much pub lic dom ain,— America's nat ural resources I Too much bribery ! Both briber end bribed know they're both the Ives. Too much authority to too few, and one delegating al most unlim ited authority to another ( as LBJ to A tty. Ge« Kitzenbach, et a l,) la tor f '° the U .S . Constttutlou, or thi C iv il Roghts act of 1966. W such maneuvers and blunder our "Land oi the Free" is hs ing dragged down to a one- world dictatorship, a one- churcn state, ---s la v e ry . John E. 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