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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
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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.