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iuitmr uire cuette-times. Tru. oriwr u. n illayor of Hardman BESSS1 VKH !. li Horse sense Bv ERNEST V. JOINER Perhaps someone can explain to me. and to readers of this newspaper, the thinking of the state bar association toward advertising The bar long ago ruled that for an attorney to advertise constitutes an "unprofessional and unethical"' act for which he may be held accountable by the association On the other hand, the Oregon Bar Association each week sends to all newspapers in the state a column of helpful legal hints entitled. The Family Lawyer. The idea is to convince new spa per editors that it is a "public service" for them to run these columns free of charge Note the inconsistency Is it ethical and professional for many lawyers to advertise and promote their welfare, but unethical and unprofessional for one lawyer to do the same wing Is it unethical and unprofessional to pay a newspaper for a law yer s advertising space, but ethical and professional if the lawyer can persuade the newspaper to run the same advertising free of charge" It appears to me that the bar has adopted the attitude that any advertising it can get free is ethical but f. it must be paid for. it 's unethical As far as The Family Lawyer column is concerned, it will go into the Gazette Times' garbage can until it's paid for Oregon lawyers charge their clients $50 an hour for their services They can well afford a couple of bucks for something that de such a gd job of promoting their own interests I have noted over the years that more and more professions are discovering that advertising is "unethical." After vears of building up their professional image through advertising that acquaints the public with their services and the desirability of using them, they have become successful and sassy enough to join together to declare it unprofessional and unethical" to advertise the services hey formerly did They didn't think in like manner when tney were turning backfiips for hamburgers and resoling their shoes with the backs of school tablets It should be a persona! decision as to whether advertising is good or bad. needed or not needed. What I resent is these freshly anointed guardians of the public good donning their holy robes of professionalism to relegate advertising to a position usually reserved for shady ladies Af'er two years of observing Veterans Day on the fourth Monday in October, hereinafter referred to as Oct 22. Oregon this year returns to the traditional Nov 1 1 date which marks the armistice ending World War I. except in Heppner. of course, where the post office will be closed Oct 22. which will make things just fine because the post office will be closed when all the businesses are open, and the post office will be open Nov. 12 when all the stores, schools and grandma's knitting class will be closed, except that Veterans Dav this year will be observed as a state holiday on Nov. 12 because Nov I! falls on Sunday, and any idiot knows that you can't go fishing twice in one day But Monday. Nov 12. is a holiday for state employees, and some banks that don't eiect to take Oct. 22 may settle for Nov. 11. Federal workers will continue to observe the fourth Monday in October as the holiday, which is. as aforementioned. Oct 22. which has nothing to do with Nov. 12. Classes in state colleges and universities will be open both dates, and public scnoois and communi'y colleges will observe the November date except those that will stay with Oct. 22. On the other hand. The Wagon Wheel Boozetorium and Hamlin's Tavern. House of Great Spirits will be open Oct. 22. Oct. 23: Nov. 12 and 13. and even before and after. The Amalmagated Mushroom Pickers Local No 39 has decided to close down operations both dates, but the Steak Sauce Society will stay open due to a dispute as 10 what dav i? reallv is and some members complaining they didn't know yet what is an armistice. The Gazette-Times, which does not recognize any holidays except Christmas. Thanksgiving and Robert . Lee's Birthday, will remain open on both Oct. 22 and Nov. 12 It is for a certainty that a direc'ive will arrive at the Heppner Post Office before this paper hits the street directing this branch to U close both dates: 2 be open both dates: or. (3' go for Dec. 7. But there is one thine you may be sure of. This newspaper will continue to brine you the last minute news on observations of Veterans Dav. which, hopefully, will be held henceforth on July 4. Veterans Day has been cancelled due to a conflict of interest be ween Oct 22 and Nov. 12 The Award for Meritorious Service just conferred upon Mrs Sadie Parrish by Miss Frances G. Knight. Director of the Passport Office of the U.S. Department of State, may seem to some like just another pat from a politician. It isn't Miss Kmgh is no politician. During her tenure as chief of the passport division, she has streamlined operations to reduce me time and cost involved in issuing passports to American Citizens She achieved one distinction that no other government "bureaucrat" has in modern times-each year her department returns to the U.S. government's general fund millions of dollars in profit! Such has been her efficiency that passports are normally received by the applicant within 10 days: and such has been her efficiency tha she heads, as far as I can determine, the only federal office that consistently turns in an annual profit from the operation. -As a result. Miss Kmgh! has been under constant attack from other civil service departmental heads Members of Congress, alert to the possibility that one office showing a profit may set a "dangerous precedent." have openly urged that Miss Knight be replaced with a less efficient and dedicated director. She has. to put it like it is. struck terror into the hearts of confirmed government spenders. I know of no other person in the federal establishment from whom I would rather receive an award ;hr ti k'mghr For ?he sake of the American, people. I hope she can hang onto her job. COW POKES By Ace Reid - ' O 1 -5WV d "Here we go again!" The mail pouch EDITOR: Page 3 in the Oct 4 issue of the Gazette-Times, which was devoted to 4-H Club Week and its 5 5 million young members nationally with particular emphasis on Morrow County, struck a nostalgic nerve with me. More than 23 y ears ago when I was editor of a semi-weekly newspaper in Alhambra. Calif., a young lady named Mrs Ruth Watkinson came in with her husband and two children and applied for a photographer's job. Ruth showed me samples of her work, but better yet took some pictures on the spot and then rushed into the darkroom from which she emerged moments later with sparkling plossy prints She was hired It wasn't until months later that I learned Ruth's story, and this would probably interest Morrow County 's oldest 4-H Club leader. Everett Struckmier of Boardman. She admitted shyly one day. "You've probably heard of my mother. Mrs Lettie Fields, of Shenandoah. Iowa " I hadn't, so she explained. "She founded the 4-H Club movement " Ruth had a couple of famous grandfathers, too. One was Henry Field, the Iowa seed company owner who broadcast over his owti radio station. KFNF 'Kind Friends Need Friends1. The other was Dr. Benjamin Shambaugh. distinguished chief of the University of Iow a Political Science Department Last I heard many years ago. Ruth, her husband. Bob. and two kids were heading for the wide-open spaces in Oregon. Wouid that be the John Day country ? DEL SCHRADER. Arcadia. Ca. ED. NOTE -Thanks. Del. for that interesting information. Perhaps some of our readers would know Ruth and Bob Watkinson. If so. advise us and we will put them in touch with their old friend Del Schrader i Now, about the environment . . . EDITOR'S NOTE-This whimsy with a moral was submitted by Zella Prindle. It was published in the March. 1973 issue of WoodaM's Better Camping, in a department known as The Deacon Seat, conducted by Bill Riviere. There really isn't much to be said for the month of March. Not up in this country, at least. Winter relents its grasp slowly, reluctantly, the storied promise of spring yet weeks away. Hunting season is long gone, trapping has ended, and it's still a short eternity to trout fishing. If I had my way. we'd drop March from the calendar. There seemed no way to do this, so I snowshoed over to Cletus Dingiey's cabin, timing my arrival for supper, of course Knocking was neediess-he'd heard the crunch of my bearpaws-and I shoved the door open. The kettle on the old Kineo range spouted calorie-laden vapors. "'Smells almost good enough for bear-bait." I said. "You go? enough for wo" "I seen yecomin crost the lake.' Clete replied 'Tossed in some kitchen scrapin's." He set out an extra plate. "Pot roast." he added "Small junk o'moose haunch." We set to. the meat tender, the potatoes broth-browned, the carrots sweet and firm, the onions asserting themselves delicately Country butter disappeared into the saieratus bis cuits, and as ior the coffee, a small dog could have made tracks on it In time. I sopped up my plate with the last biscuit, and then belched "Ye km work the! gas off by wipin'." Clete said Afterwards we fired up. Old Horsehair Aromatic Parlor Mix'ure easily overwhelming my Reindeer Moss Rum-Tinted Rough Cut. We sat w ithout words, each contemplating the kerosene lamp s tiny was man s "Oooh, I bet tHis is flxin to hurt!" conientment-siience. a warm cabin, full bellies, and full pipes Then came the buzzing, distant and faint at first. It grew to a snarl, and finally to a roar, headed our way. "Snow mobile?" I suggested "Ain't never heard a chain saw travel the? fast." Clete said The machine charged into the campyard. the engine sputiered. then silence, footsteps, and a knock on the door. "Ml open lf 'n ye'Ii push." Cleie said, raising his voice only slightly A red snow mobile suit, tupped by a yellow helmet, entered. Buckles unbuckled, snaps unsnapped. zippers unzippered. and a mar. emerged "Are you Mr Dingiey'" he asked "Even Cum in . ." "'I am Boswell Bndkins I came to s-e you about . ." "The I! keep i era spell Oimbou? o'thet outfit an' sit down. Hv ye et supper'" "Yes I veea'en " Brodkms started peeling off his ringing '"Cup o coffee, then"" " Please I'd like that " Clete introduced me. filled three iTfchoue tin cups w ih coffee, turned up the kerosene lamp. We draped ourselves around the shed-door table There was small talk for a couple of mmu'es "I ca! elate vihj gi' sum'hin" impur'inf on yer mind." Clete suggested fir.aih "I s about the Pasadumkeag State Forest." Brodkms eAptained Ttwy are gome to cut timber in there " "I heam sell :rxy wuz." CVte said "The state put the timber ou m bids Pa sadumkeag wuz high bidder " The EDITOR Here is our $6 for another year's subscription I feel you are doing a good job on my home town paper You see. I have only been gone from Heppner for a year. I do have one question What is this Mayor of Hardman deal every week' I must have missed something somepla'. To me it doesn't seem to make much sense I have spent a lot of happy times out there w ith my Grandparents McDanie! At first I thought maybe ii was going to tell some history of -Hardman. but to me you are poking fun at the people from , there and I don't feel that is right. We were planning on coming to Heppner for Grandparents Marshall s golden wedding anniversary, but were in the middle of a move F'or all the people who didn't know, my husband went back into the Air Force and is stationed at McChord Air Force Base Our address is 211)0 112th St S. Apt. H-6. Tacoma. Wn U44 I am another member of the graduating class of li9 and have enjoyed all the stories about classmates as did Kay Huson MONA LISA MARSHALL) PELESKY. Tacoma. i ED NOTE -Each week Mayor Roy pays tribute to the solid, commonsense type of thinking that characterized pioneer settlers of Hardman-the kind of thinking that made this country the greatest and w hich. please God. w ill never go out of style The Mayor is a philosopher and a wit of the Josh Billings and Will Rogers schools. He comments on everything in this fast-paced society. He uses strange language because 1 1 it is the kind once used on the western frontier and 2' because it slows the reader dowii to make him digest the kernel of the message. He is disappointed anyone thinks he is insulting the Hardman he loves, for no such thing is intended He has. in my opinion, done more to put Hardman on the map in three months than anybody else has in 3i years Thank you for allow mg me to explain Mayor Roy . EDITOR: I hav e read some of your articles concerning ecology, etc.. in your newspaper and asked myself, "is this guy for real"? Well, readers out there rest in peace. We all do not think saving our earth and nature's animals from man's desecration as the joke of the year. I fail to understand why mankind must control everything tha' is in a wild state the course of rivers, the height of mountains, and creatures of the w ild. Even hunting has developed in a psychic need for mar. to assert his dominion over wildlife by cutting down wild and free animals in the name of "sport" and not food for survival. Added to this is the cruel and heartless form many rodeos take and in the name of " entertainment ." And then there art the predator "control" programs: Can man really conserve one species by destroying another? In the long run. I doubt ii very much. Has mankind become so sick and demented that he cannot enjoy a pure and pristine earth and revel in natures 's natural and beauty and wonders" Must her creatures be abused tc satisfy man s insatiable appetite for killing, torturing and maiming? Need our Mother Earth be senselessly polluted and ravaged all in the name of progress, to eventually find we have progressed so far we have swallowed ourselves in our own garbage and greed? The following food for thought is quoted from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fedor M. Dostoyevsky: Love animals: God had given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled Do not trouble their joy. don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God s intent. Man. do not pride yourself on superiority to animals: they are without sin, and you. with greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it. and ieave traces of your foulness after you alas, it is true of almost everyone of us! KATHY HARRISON. Albany. Ore. ED NOTE-See "Now. about the environment . . .". this page.' "Passadumkeag" Clete referred to is the Passadumkeag Lumber. Pulp. Apple Box. Tongue Depressor, and Toothpick Company "They f igger ter cut 70.(jO cords o'pulp." Clete added, "an' nigh on ter a million feet o'long logs " "But that is state forest It belongs to the people. It should not be cut'" "Ye got a good reason fer not cuttirf it?" Clete asked "It should be saved from desecration for future genera tions, for the enjoyment of all. its pristine beauty forever preserved " Clete glanced at me He tamped down the Old Horsehair, tilted the pipe bowl over the lamp, and revived the glow, puffing slowly as Brodkms went on. "This callous indifference to our environment, this rape of the woodlands, must be halted." "W hat ye got in mind?" Clete asked "The Save The Forests League . "I ain't beam tell of it Who belongs ter it?" ""It's made up of concerned environmentalists. We would like the Seboomook Guides' Association to join us to save the Passadumkeag State Fores' from loggers " " How do ye cat elate ter do this?" "by haung the forest made into a state park, to be preserved fr everyone's enjoyment " Clete pimdered his coffee mug a moment, then glanced up at the vimIot i ( entrnut-d M page C' DEAR MISTER EDITOR: A item in the paper said more and more folk U going back ' to imall town to ihop That it ood newt, and if we can git rid of drive in winder fer everthing from bank! lo funeral homes, we can git back lo the business of dealing with one another face lo fttce . The piece didn "I say why folks are trading more with their friends m their hometown stores, but I figger they got lonesome I reckon I'm lo old a dog lo learn modem shopping tricks, but I ain't ehoul lo poke my money thru a hole in a bank wall, and I git tired lo quick Irving to walk them miles of rows of goods at Ihem big shopping centers. I would ruther walk in a store, set down and tell the folks whal I wanl and. bv darn, set there til Ihey git me satisfied. I mentioned about the trade coming back to the small towns during the session at the country store Saturday night. Zeke Grubb come up with his theory fast. He said il use lo be a feller couldn't see much in a small town, but nowadays wimmen dress about alike everwhere. Bug Hook urn allowed that the reason was thai small town folks is staying at home cause they're afraid of gitting run over by all the bicycles zipping around Ihem shopping center parking lots. Practical speaking, said Ed Doolittle. he was glad to see they was more bicycles than cars sold in this country last year. He said it made recall the days when bicycles was transportation. Fer a generation, they was fer exercise, allowed Ed. and now people are finding out agin that you can actual git from place to place with em. The next thing you know, went on Ed. small towns will have their own bicycle shops and if gas prices Seep going up and supply down, we might even git back lo the blacksmith shop. Actual, said Clem Webster, the hlacksmith is back. Clem had saw where colleges is offering training as farriers." and that's a fancy word fer a feller that shoes horses. Blacksmiths are called farriers. Clem said, cause thses days they are pulling down incomes right up there with bnckmasons. doctors and plumbers Mister Editor, with all the scratching and scrambling in high and low places over power and money, it's good lo think about the days when all you had to do to keep up with the Joneses was walk as fast as they did Now we spend it afore we git it. and if we don't have credit we can't git credit. I saw where this small tow n in North Carolina couldn't sell bonds lo pav fer work on the sewer system cause the town never had gone in debt afore and didn't have a credit rating. We got to fuller our Federal Guvernment's example. Where would this country be if our leaders in Wasnington hadn't gone in debt $300 billion to git us someplace? Yours truly . MAYOR Roy. Miracle Malpractice Bv LESTER KIXSOLVING Diabetes is once more proving to be the Waterloo of the faith healers. In August there were deaths in both Canada and California due lo faith-inspired throwing away of insulin. In Toronto, potential faith-healer Mark Cowan told a coroner 's jury that he had hoped to use his 20 year-old w ife as an exhibit of a "miracle cure" and went on to dispose of her insulin. In Barstow . Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Parker were jailed on charges of manslaughter after they withdrew insulin from their ll-year-old son. Wesley. The Parkers then joined some 2U0 other people in stating a ghoul's delight in the local funeral home. They attracted national attention by refusing to allow the boy to be buried for six days because, they assured everyone, his resurrection was imminent. (The boy was finally buried and the parents are currently held in lieu of SIO.WH) bail. The Parkers claim that they were told by a visiting evangelist at the Barstow Assembly of God. that their boy had been healed of his diabetes But the Rev William Robertson, the denomination's Southern California District Superintendent, told this column that A Parker, months earlier, had become involved in a furious argument regarding the denomination's failure to share his belief in demon possession, and B The visiting preacher had not preached on faith healing, had never told the Parkers that their boy was healed, and had only prayed for healing, "We believe in divine healing that does not endorse or condone throwing away of life-saving medications merely because the individual is presumed healed." commented the Rev. Mr. Robertson. It is. of course, easy for the emotional people who jam faith healers' services to misunderstand the sermon. This kind of misunderstanding may well have been the reason why on July 5. 1959 diabetic Wanda Beach. 37. threw aw ay her insulin and died after telephoning her mother lo explain that she had been "completely cured" by a traveling faith healer named Oral Roberts. Roberts, now a very big time TV producer, 'having deserted the Pentacostal Holiness Church for the Methodists i was not available for comment at Oral Roberts University or. according to staffers there, anywhere else. None of the staffers at this glittering campus Uhe pride of Tubai knew anything about Wanda Beach. There is no question, however, about misunderstanding of the late faith healer A. A. Allen, who wrote: "The gift of healing needs no help from doctors, for it is all-powerful to remote a cancer or a tumor." The Rev. Mr. Allen died in 1970. in a San Francisco hotel room, of what Coroner Henry Turkel diagnosed as "acute alcoholism "! Then in March of 1954. Van Nuys. Ca . school teacher Cora Louihe Su'herland died of tuberculosis after having exposed thousands of school children to the disease because she had refused, as a Christian Scientist, to lake an X-ray. Instead, reported Time Magazine, she resorted to a Christian Science practitioner who charged her $65 per f month to "treat" her w ith prayer and readings from Mary Baker Eddy. It remains a mystery why this lethal perversion of the freedom of religion is tolerated in the same nation where one must spend years of study to obtain a physicians license, and is forever thereafter threatened with malpractice suits. To contend that freedom of religion is at stake is to suggest that it would be permissable for religious fanatics to revive the worship of Moleeh II Kings 23 JO and its insistence on burning children lo death as an act of human sacrifice. Such a fmrriMe fate was. of course, not the intent of the Parkers of Barstow But like Cora Louise Sutherland, young Wesley is no less dead as the vietum of what should be m-ogmzed and prosecuted as miracle malpractice.
