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1 IIF.PPNF.R URK. nttttntimittmiuiiiiitmiuiiiiiiiiuBtiuiimiiKmtumiatumnitmnt Horse sense Bv KRJkKSTV. JOINER Monday's Oregon Journal carried a UPI story about how San Antonio, Tex., police captured a suspected slayer of 47 people. One paragraph read: "When Carrasco was finally corralled by officers who handcuffed him, his wife, Rosa, " dashed to his side and kissed him. Police said she would be charged with murder." That's pretty stiff penalty to impose on a wife for kissing her husband! A couple of Oregon men have done what all the high-priced, over-educated engineers and scientists haven't been able to do: come up with an auto engine that runs on "nothing." It runs on compressed air, which is about as close to nothing as one can get. It starts with a squirt of compressed air from a tank, then it continues to run by recycling the same air. And it works with internal combustion engines. Patents have been granted the inventors, John Lunsford and Steve Hudspeth of Springfield, Ore. Lunsford is a millwright for Cone Lumber Co., Goshen, and Hudspeth is an electrician for Rosboro Lumber Co. We will now be treated to the not uncommon spectacle of General Motors and the other automobile manufacturers throwing every stumbling block in the way of perfection and distribution of this air-fueled engine. Their investment in conventional gas-fueled engines is too enormous to change until the issue is forced upon them. Remember how General Motors and all the other American car companies sneered at the Wankel rotary engine and said it was impractical? Now they've got a Japanese-built Mazda with that same rotary engine for competition, and it serves them right. According to the Terror of Willow Creek, people are just not using their heads about meeting the gasoline shortage. They should do like he does, he says. Only go places that are downhill ! And over at Jim Roger's famous Hamlin Tavern, one of his more consistent customers argues that gasoline and alcohol certainly do mix. It's just that the olives get stuck in the carburetor. The Oregon State Police had better take note of that! Only 150 persons took advantage of the weekend Health Fair to get valuable dental and medical assistance. A few weeks ago I paid a physician to provide me with the same services offered free at the Health Fair. It cost me more than $90. This makes me wonder if more people would have turned out had there been soda pop, ice cream cones, balloons or hotdogs on the free list instead of vital health services. Health Fair personnel were highly critical of the lack of interest here. The Fair has done far better elsewhere. At lone, for example, 165 persons showed up. This comparison in attendance isn't much encouragement for the Fair to return next year to serve people who have been known in the past to complain of the lack of such vital medical services. Perhaps it isn't worth the effort, but I spend considerable time trying to find what makes the so-called environment alist tick. I'm not talking about the kind that includes people in their list of "things to save." I'm talking about the lunatic fringe that wants predatory animals preserved at the expense of people and animals alike. I have just read a booklet put out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington called "Let's Dump the Dump." One page 14 it says to "exterminate rats." How come they want rats killed and not coyotes, mountain lion, bears, chicken hawks and rattlesnakes? It's a safe bet that some of the environmental do-gooders have had their toes bitten by rats, so they're "agin 'em." But surely the rat has as good and valid a place in our environment as the coyote and bear. Or did God err in putting them here? The Department of Agriculture at Salem has issued a statement that should bring joy unrestrained to Environ mental Do-Gooders. Predators killed 2,142 lambs during the fiscal year ending June 30. Along with 1,299 turkeys, 681 sheep, 414 calves, 31 goats, 842 chickens, 233 ducks, 110 geese, four cows, two peacocks, 15 pigs and 24 rabbits. While Do-Gooders are saving predators, how about a round of applause for fanners and ranchers who provide the food for them? They deserve something for setting the table for mangy coyotes. REMEMBER THIS? REMINISCE I 55 Years Ago 1918 James Gentry and"WTilson Bayless, residents of Albina, Heppner's southern suburb, will enter the wheat raising game and take up farming on a large scale. Harry Groshen, son af Mr. and Mrs. Vic Groshens of Heppner, was on the United States ship San Diego, torpedoed off New York last week, and his mother received from the Navy department at Washington, the following telegram: "Bureau very glad to report your son Harry Alexander Groshen. fireman second class U.S.N, reported as rescued from U.S.S. San Diego and landed at .New York." One sergeant and five men of the Oregon State Police arrived at Heppner last evening from Pendleton, to remain in this section during the harvest season or until further orders. These men are here to cooperate with the local home guard and fire-fighters and will be ready to go any part of the county where needed. Joe Howell came in from Hardman yesterday to get a badly cut finger attended to by the doctor. Joe was foolish enough to use the axe on his finger when cutting some kindling wood to start the fire for supper Tuesday evening. Dr. Winnard patched up the injured member and Joe thinks he will put it up to his wife to get the kindling hereafter. GAZETTE-TIMES .MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER AMrm: MrMr. Ofb nu. Tel. Wt-mt, P.O. mm XXI. Tk Mippmr emm mt nlMlttiwd Marcft M, IMS. Tft I r THM MMMkK Mm. I, tttl. OnnlHIM is. mi. Enmt Ermt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 5 iM-mr Imp! tmmr. I t w GAZFTTF-TIMF.S. Thurmdn. July S. 1173 ailtllimUlillUliUllltlllllllllllllilill 9 i Pwkltslwr ..PfwtsfTApfiy-Spwtv pr rr m OiUM. M MjiX iU ct. b c t. EDITOR: I read with dismay the proposal tc raise campsite fees to $4 per day. Stale parks are taxpayer provided facilities, originally to give the public a chance to get out of the crowded towns and cities. Tax funds were used to acauire these site nd developed them. At $4 a da v thev are out of reach of those on Social Security and other fixed income of the aged. If the philosophy of each camp paying its way is to prevail, in lieu of being a public service, then these parks should be sold to private operators. I know of one private mobile home travel trailer park with full hookups, showers and laundry facilities. The rate is $12.50 a week. Adjacent to it is a Park Service campground with no electricity, sewer or showers. The rate is $2 per day or $14 per week. Only the inefficiency of public park operators calls for higher rates than commercial parks. The private operator must be making enough to pay'for his land, pay his taxes and have a reasonable profit. The National Park Service has none of these obligations. Now our Oregon State Parks show evidence of greater inefficiency that the National Park Service. In my opinion. 50 cents a day should be a maximum charge for use of a public park, any place, anywhere. Whether it 's federal, state, county or city, these agencies don't have to pay taxes or show a profit-and if on their current prices they are not building up a surplus, they are inefficient. Sell them to private operators so the fees wjl) go down. JAMES H. DRISCOLL, Heppner EDITOR: I received the July 12 issue of the Gazette-Times in my mail box today. . I probably never have told you this, but I have for years subscribed to weekly newspapers in all parts of the United States. The ones you have published I have always considered among the outstanding ones. You remind me a lot of Vinegar Joe Stilwell, who never . said or wrote anything that didn't amuse me. I'm sorry the Fates didn't permit you to relocate in Texas. Our loss is Oregon's gain. EDITOR: We heard with delight of your return to newspaper work! Our only remorse is that it no longer is in our area. Your wit, superb quality of writing, and a point of view which we consider practical and loaded with common sense, will be sorely missed in these parts! You performed a fine service to this community in countless ways and I'm sure that you will do so in Heppner. It is one thing to be a critic. It is something else to do it with such style. At the same time no one can fault you for not giving credit and support when it was due! We do not intend to be left out ! Enclosed you will find $6 for a year's subscription. The administration and board of trustees of the Forestville School District have not forgotten your just and comprehensive coverage. RAYMON A. PARNAY, District Superintendent, Forestville Union School District, Forestville, Ca. EDITOR: Enclosed is my check for six inflated U.S. dollars. Please send your dubious newspaper, retroactive to your first issue. I am anxious to see if it's legible enough to read. Also it will be interesting to see if all that fresh air in Oregon has done anything to clear your smoggy mind. M.J. DELGADO, Sebastopol, Ca. EDITOR: Ellis Thomson ended his ninth trip to Europe some time ago and has mailed me his travelogue. He went via Islandk Airlines in the interest of economy. Arriving in Germany he found polluted air and smog al over the Rhine Valley, which was a great disappointment Heidelberg was as beautiful as ever, especially from th middle of the Nectar River from the old bridge, with everything bathed in moonlight. Having breakfast at the same time as Ellis was Mike V. o: Detroit, now retired and returning to the scenes of hi childhood. They teamed up for the day and took a train foi Stuttgart, which is a beautiful city but like so many cities ir Germany, the center was all torn up with new construction In the evening he joined new acquaintances, Hans, Jimmy and Andre, for dinner with none of them speaking English Ellis said "My German is nein' but Andre spoke French' (Ellis does too). His next stop was Munich. Ellis, being a painter in his owr right, visited the gallery at the Alte Pinakothek to see tht marvelous paintings, also to The Hauskenkunst, where ht disliked all the modern art. Then for a stroll through "m beloved English Gardens." He says "My companion on the train the next day was Wally, an American soldier in civvies who had been going tc a special class in Germany. His was an interesting story-He had married an Italian girl and when his tour of duty was over had returned to the State. His bride loathed this country, so be had to re-enlist and was able to return U tMTl ujte wmic "" "I think it's The mail pouch WILLIAN BOYD SINCLAIR, Lockhart.Tex. the Presidentl" Italy." Ellis added, "Here I had thought European girls let huuby wear the pants-for a while, anyway." "I might add that the German timetables are the easiest to read in Europe. Once you have decided whether 'Angfart and Abfart' means incoming or outgoing." In Insbruck, an Austrian Alpine village, he had dinner with a Canadian college professor. "We arrived in Venice about 10 a.m. and It never looked more beautiful." They took an hour to search his luggage, looking for bombs. "As usual. I enjoyed the lasagna served at Harry's Bar, getting some of the first batch of the day." In late afternoon he took a train for Trieste. Along the way he met an English-speaking Italian; an Australian baker, returning to his home town of Trieste on his annual summer trip; and a young Yugoslavian baker also working in Australia. "I took the 9:30 a.m. bus for Yugoslavia, the first stop "in Rijeka. The bus fare was $3, but I wondered why I seemed to have two tickets just alike. It finally dawned on me that the ticket seller had decided there was a 'little woman' with me." I convinced him I was solo, which was a good thing, as a tearful girl saying good-bye to her husband needed a seat and the bus was full." They were detained a long time at the Yugoslavian border to get a visa stamp on passports. The countryside and coast were lovely and so was Rijeka. The bus trip to Split (?) seemed endless, and upon arriving, there were no restaurants in sight as the station was "out in the sticks". He finally found the Mansoor Hotel up the hill, but no food. But the next morning a walk through a narrow street took him into a lovely city. Later he took a bus and was seated next to two very pleasant lads from German. He arrived after dark in Dubrovnik and found the Dalmatian Coast lovely. After a bit of haggling he finally got a nice room inside the walled town, the Hotel Dubrovna. "I have fallen in love with Yugoslavia. The people are marvelous and there is nothing to indicate they are living under Communism. You see pictures of Tito everywhere. Automobiles are not allowed inside the walls, which adds a great deal of charm." He said he found a war movie which was filmed in Dubrovnik, so once again he could drink in the beauty of this centuries old walled city, jutting out over the Adriatic. He was awakened by the noise of the market people setting up their stalls in the square next to the hotel. In the movie Raf Vallone bought some grapes "at the exact location I had bought grapes." The walk around the city atop the walls is an unforgetable experience. There was no polluted water and millions of fish were swimming around. "I decided to take a plane to Belgrade, the capital, which to them is Beograd." In waiting for the flight he talked to two charming girls named Maria and Lilana, returning from the United States to Belgrade. They spoke perfect English and were still students. "I broke completely when I saw what Liliana had lugged by plane, across with her over the wide Atlantic-a shopping bag chuck full of Kellogg's 19 cereal!" Ellis stayed at the new Yugoslavia Hotel ($11). His bellhop was a red-headed lad from California. The hotel lobbies and dining room are "out of this world, with the rear having a vista of the majestic Danube." Waiting for his flight to Istanbul Ellis met a young English girl named Christine and Teame (pronounced Tern) a young man from Ethiopia. They enjoyed the art gallery even if Ellis lost Teame twice, "once in Roman antiquities and again in early Yugoslavia." Then Ellis left for Bulgaria in a coach ice cold. He said he loathed the country of Bulgaria, which was comparable to his first visit to East Berlin. The countryside was nothing to see, they were never allowed to descend from the coach, and not a soul waved as the train passed. Sofia was a depressing gray place. Ellis was left with Jean, a French hippie complete with beard and long unwashed hair but a great sense of humor. "He seemed to be bound for Australia-eventually-a true drifter." They were joined by Said, a young Arab from my Continued Pg. 5.' COW POKES "Now, w coukint have a fomily, w thoi th stork fer tumpin' to otr By Ace Reid Mayor of DEAR MISTER EDITOR: Did you see where they Invented a machine to keep you alert on the Job? It's called a "attention level analyzer" and it's got alarms that go off if you doze off and even If your mind wonders off of what you're doing. It's suposed to be special good fer long distance pilots and trucks drivers, but the fellers decided at the country store Saturday night that this contraption is good fer every body from politicians to con gregations. Bug Honkum reported to the fellers where he had saw by the papers that the attention level analyzer works by meas uring your brain waves. If the wave pattern changes while you're hooked to the machine, the alarms go off to get you back on the right track. Bug said the piece didn't say, but he reckoned the machine don't care what you're thinking as long as you keep thinking it. There's a heap of places that gadget will come in handy, bug allowed, and he would like to start by setting one up at his church on Sunday morning. Actual, Bug said, we would need two at the church, one fer the preacher and the other fer the congregation. If they got past the first hymn afore nis old lady started . thinking whuther she cut off the stove under the pot roast it would be a blessing, Bug said. Farthermore, if the preach er got halfway through his text without throwing in somepun on the cnlection Bug said he'd be surprised. Bug said it wouldn't do to This 500-year best seller a film hit By Justine Weatherford "Jesus Christ Superstar" is showing at Portland's Bagdad Theater on East Hawthorne. The film, directed by Nor man Jewison who also direct ed "Fiddler on the Roof," differs considerably from the garish stage production. It was filmed entirely in Israel. The opera presents a startling juxtaposition of the contemp orary with the ancient. It is hip yet reverent, contemp orary yet biblical, lay yet religious, inconoclast yet traditional. The Tuesday evening I attended was the second after it opened in Portland. The theater was filled for the 9 p.m. showing, with younger viewers in the majority. It was not difficult to park the car near the Bagdad. The film is just under two hours long. The Sunday Oregonian's critic, John Wendeborn, states "Chances are it will run quite a spell, attacks on it notwithstanding." "Superstar" views Christ as Read the book, then fire the plumber Many simple plumbing and home maintenance problems could be handled by amateurs if they had the "know-how." ine Oregon aiate University Extension Service has pub lished two fact sheets to help provide it. One is Fact Sheet 193, "Simple Home Maintenance." This tells how to lubricate sliding doors, noisy friction catches and locks that are hard to turn. It explains how to handle other small repair jobs like unsticking windows and drawers and silencing squeaky floors. Included are illustrated in structions explaining how to fasten pictures or heavy objects to different kinds of k:-:k:x Where to write Sen. Mark Hatfield, 463 Washington. D.C. 20510. : V .Sen. Robert Pack wood. 6327 New Senate Office : bldg.. Washington, D.C. 205101 K Rep. Al Ullmaa. 2410 Rijburn House Office Bldg.. , nasnuigion. U.tZ0515. g S Rep. Wendell Wyatt. 414 Cannon House Office Bldg.. $ Washington, D.C. 20515. $ i i Hardman hook politicians up to the attention level analyzer cause the bells would drive every body crazy. Probably, Bug said, the machine would blow all Its fuses when them Congressmen started talking saving and thinking spending. Fact Is, declared Bug, you seldom find a politician that can think and talk at the same ( time anyhow. Clem Webster said It would be Interesting to see what would happen If you set the attention analyzer on freeze and turned It loose In Con gress. If we could catch them Congressmen while they got this latest price freeze on their minds, we might get them thinking about freezing Guv ernment to, Clem said. If we could jest get a freeze on flagpoles. Gem allowed, that would help. Clem had taw where the Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment got a new 45 foot flagpole. Right away, the next door Department of Trans portation put up a pair of 75 foot poles. HUD come right back with two 80 foot poles fer a total flagpole bill of $26,500. And Clem had saw where a lounge fer House members recent put in new carpet at $32,000, new drapes that cost $22,000 and $45,000 worth of fancy light fixtures. Mister Editor, I don't see much future in Guvernment fer the attention analyzer unless we can git it programed to think save, and to keep the taxpayers awake long enuff to git em to the polls. Yours truly, MAYOR ROY a man and injects various 20th century symbolism which heightens the impact. Jets, tanks and Las Vegas choreo graphy are woven into the presentation. Several out standing members from the Broadway production and the concert tour group hold their original roles. The National Observer's critic, Bruce Cook, rates it as "Consistently interesting and occasionally moving." He feels that Direc tor Jewison has done much to give vitality to the music and lyrics by the young English writers, Composer Andrew Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice. . I found this film exhilarat ing. Because I was not familiar with the lyrics, I had some difficulty following Judas (Carl Anderson) par ticularly as most of his singing was at a faster pace than the other leads. I especially enjoyed Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene, Ted Neeley as Jesus Christ, and the rather comic Joshus Mostel as King Herod. walls, usuing molly or toggle bolts or screw anchors. Fact Sheet 192, "Home Plumbing Problems," cover tools needed and how to do home plumbing repairs like unclogging drains and fixing leaky faucets. Just as impor tant, it explains what causes common plumbing problems and how to prevent them. Authors of the fact sheets are Dorothy F. Brown, OSU Extension housing-home furn ishings specialist, and Wilbur W. Burkhart, area extension agent. Both publications are avail able free from County Exten sion offices or the Bulletin Clerk, OSU, Corvallis 97331. Old Senate Office Bide . u.C. 20510
