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Horse sense
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Last week in this column mention was made of the open
method in which people in this section of Oregon conduct
business; how they have faith and confidence in each other in
their business dealings. Something happened the other day
that proved the point. Ernie Ceresa was at lone High School
taking pictures of a football game when he noticed another
photographer, loaded down with expensive and sophisticated
photo equipment, who was also taking pictures of the game.
K'rnie introduced himself to the man. a Mr. Duncan, who
owned a photo shop in Baker, and said he wished he had that
kind of equipment. "No problem," Duncan said, handing
Ernie the equipment he was admiring. "Take it, try it out,
and if you like it. 1 11 let you have it at my cost. "But you
don't know me or even where I work." the astonished Ernie
replied, and managed to give him his card as the fellow
climbed into his car and departed for Baker, leaving Ernie
holding more than $2tKi worth of electronic flash equipment
that would do credit to the New York Times photo section.
Two weeks went by without any word from Duncan, so we
called him on the' phone "If you like the stuff, send me
$151.50," he said. You don't find that kind of dealing in other
parts of the country. Bill Weatherford once bought a new car
from Fulleton Chevrolet, and told Roice Fulleton he was
going to drive it to Canada. "I'll pay you when I get back," he
said, driving off in the new car. Roice didn't even have Bill's
name on a slip of paper!
Not evervbody . of course, can come here and do business
in this manner. One pays his bills, gets a reputation for fair
dealing, and gets to be known as a man of his word. After
that, he can enjov the' trust of his friends and neighbors.
That's the way it should be. No man is entitled to the
confidence of people until he earns it. And to keep that
confidence he must keep on earning it. day in and day out. A
small price to pay for such a priceless possession.
a Gov. Tom McCall makes things lively in his state. The
colorful and flamboyant executive has presided over a
multi-million dollar publicity campaign to entice visitors to
Oregon. And just when 10 million out-of-staters began to
believe him, he makes a trip to Santa Barbara. Ca., to
announce that his administration is considering measures to
keep tourists out of Oregon!
He told his audience in Santa Barbara that tourists are in
danger of destroying "what they come to see" in Oregon: and
that 10.5 million tourists a year means 21 million feet
trampling over our flora and fauna." (Come on, governor!
Flora, being plant matter, can be trampled by foot, but
fauna ? i . Methinks the governor may be suffering from a new
bui popular malady. Instant Ecology.
1 assume the governor has considered the constitution
alitv of personally regulating inlerstate commerce, which
means lhat he will not be permitted to erect custom offices
and issue passports to qualified visitors.
What he could do is undertake a propaganda campaign
designed to acquaint Oregonians with the dubious blessing of
doing without the $450 million left in the state each year by
out -of-state visitors. It could be that the state doesn't need the
money as badly as it needs untrampled flora and fauna.
At present. Oregon taxpayers are having to pay for
expensive advertising to attract visitors here. Since 1935. the
Travel Information Unit of the State Highway Division has'
been placing ads in more than 140 newspapers and
magazines annually, and buying time on dozens of television
and radio stations across America, urging visitors to come
and enjoy Oregon's goodies. Taxpayers also pay the salaries
for a staff that sends out vacation news stories and scenic
photographs to more than 500 newspapers and magazines
each year, all calculated to lure visitors to Oregon. The
governor could halt this expense and at the same time slow
down the influx of visitors from abroad.
a Another step toward his announced policy of insularity
would be to wipe out the State Information Centers that
provide maps, brochures and special information that assist
visitors in enjoying their vacations. The centers at Ashland,
Astoria. Klamath Falls and Portland could be closed, saving
a great deal of money and electrical energy, while
discouraging visitors. At the same time he could use his
influence to disband the Oregon Travel Industry Conference,
a private organization that engages in the shady promotion of
tourism in Oregon among people all over the world. The
Oregon Chamber of Executives, which cooperates with the
Highway Division in maintaining 40 certified tourist
information centers in Oregon, could be persuaded through
lovalty and patriotism to cease and desist. Has this
administration thought about secession?
The money saved by closing down these polluting and
ecologically damaging agencies could be diverted to a new
program to be called Operation Bad Mouth. This bureau
would be charged with fostering bad feeling toward Oregon.
It could be headed by Howard Cosell or Don RickJes, who
have had considerable success in alienating people. Oregon's
many Chambers of Commerce could stop bragging about
their towns and stop lying about their population and payroll
figures. Special medals and incentives could be devised for
presentation to citizens who do the best job of downgrading
Oregon as a place to visit. Only as a last resort, any
Oregonian found guilty of asking friends and relatives from
outside" to visit him might suffer revocation of his
citizenship, plus other penalties as the governor may decide.
Convincing ' other Americans" that Oregon is a lousy place
lo visit could be the over-all aim of Operation Bad Mouth.
I have enough faith in the American people to believe
that once it be known they are unwanted in Oregon, they
won't come
Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and
prosperous by letting the government take care of him should
take a close look at the American Indian.
Dave Harrison, manager of the Columbia Basin Electric
Cooperative, is a patient, long -suffering man. He has to be.
for he deals with state and federal bureaucracies. These
state and federal bureaucracies have for the past many
months been urging people to curtail the use of electricity.
Columbia Basin decided to do its part. It spent thousands ot
dollars on a publicity campaign to educate the public in ways
to conserve electricity. It worked well. Whereupon the
Bonneville Power Administration, the federal agency that
furnishes CB with its power, fined Columbia Basin $100 the
other day-for selling less power this year than it did last
war'.
Tim t '
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"Do I smell blood?"
Mayor of Hardman
DKAH MISTER EDITOR:
The fellers was back on I'FOs during the session at
the country store Saturday night, and Zeke Grubb
announced that he had thought the situation up one side
and down the other, and he had figgered out that L'FO
means unknown frightened observer. The way Zeke
worked it out. all the sightings around the country
lately is of space pilgrims looking fer a place to live.
What must 've happened, w ent on Zeke, is that where
they come from was running out of everything, and
they are wanting to get out and start all over, like the
folks that kept moving west in this country til they run
out of country. When we had to stop, California was the
result. Zeke said, anc' now California's six-lane roads,
hamburger stands and hotrods is backfiring east to the
other ocean and the next east-to-west wave of
civilization might be more than we can stand.
Zeke figgered them unknown frightened observers is
finding to much of what they left home to git away
from. It's odd. allowed Zeke. that while them pore
devils is here looking fer a home, we got folks thinking
serious about the day when we're going to have to set
up colonies under the ocean and on the moon jest to
have enuff room fer everbody to move around on this
old world. The grass is alius greener on the other
feller's planet, was Zeke's words.
Picking up this line of thinking. Ed Doolittle said he
wondered if the I'FOs had checked out China. Ed said
he saw this report on China in a magazine, and it told
how that is the only major country in the world that
balances it budget ever year. They ain't no modern
problems in China like deficit spending, Ed said, and
over here the guvernmcnt and everybody in it and
under it is living on credit. Ed said he had saw where
eight out of ever NXI Americans owes more than all
they got in the world is worth, and two out of the eight
has got monthly payments that amount to more than
their income ever month.
-These folks. Ed said, are like the feller that said the
only way he could afford to buy apples fer $1.25 a peck
and sell em fer $1 was to do a mighty big volume of
business.
Clem Webster said he wasn't wishing the UFOs bad
luck, but it might be a good idee fer them to look in on
the Russians and Chinese. Since the rest of this world
can't understand em. it might turn out that these space
pilgrims could fit right in. On the other hand, them
Russians is subject to trade the pilgrims right out of
their green, four-legged pants fer a few bushels of U.S.
wheat they got at a real bargain.
Personal. Mister Editor, I figger the UFO sightings
will dropoff to nothing as winter sets in and folks won't
be out as much. But if we run out of heat, we may turn
out to be frightened observers looking fer rescue.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
I enjoyed the feature story about Grandma Gracie. It was
excellent.
The one featuring Hardman 's history was the best I have
read. Letters from Mayor Roy are, to me. a homey way of
expressing provocative thoughts, besides bringing to mind a
place and people that could otherwise be forgotten.
I hope you will continue to publish such interesting stories
about persons and places.
This letter is written to let you know that I appreciate the
manner in which you finally responded to criticism.
MRS. ESTHER BARNETT,
lone.
EDITOR:
You seem to have a real mad for what you call Instant
Ecologists. But you never have come right out and said you
were for or against conservation of our natural resources, or
whether you thought industry should be allowed to continue
its damaging and polluting way.
I find it very hard to believe that you just don't care what
happens to our forests, air, streams and wildlife.
ELBERT DANIELS,
Corvallis.
i EI). NOTE: I care very much about preserving forests, air,'
streams and wildlife. But it took 200 years to get us in the
mess we're in now, and our Instant Ecologists aren't going to
undo 200 yf-ars of damage in 20 minutes. We can reverse
things gradually without seriously dislocating the economy.
This sudden, mad dash toward "ecology now" is responsible,
mainlv. for our shortages in many critical fields, such as
energy. I shall expand on this in the Horse Sense column
soon, i
Four duvs after the running mate he twice selected
became U.S. history's Vice Presidential felon.
Resident Richard Nixon went to church for the first
time in almost six months.
More precisely, he went downstairs to the East
Room of the White House, where, under giant portraits
of George and Martha Washington. Abraham Lincoln
and John Quincy Adams, he holds his very own church.
Richard Milhous Nixon is still carried as an "active
member" of the East Whittier Friends Church in
California - one of whose elderly members told a
writer for The Christian Century magazine the
following:
"I lived in Whittier for six years and the only time
he (Nixon) came to our church was to have some
pictures taken during a political campaign. When he
was in this area over a Sunday and went to church at
all, it was usually to one of the swanky churches on
Wilshire Boulevard."
Since Watergate, the church's board has twice
discussed whether Active Member Nixon should be
dropped for continous inactivity - even to the extent of
never attending Washington's Friends Church where
Herbert Hoover worshipped regularly.
And despite the fact that these Whittier Quukers
apparent lv quaked at the thought of disowning Friend
Nixon, the President still appears to prefer to run his
own church.
The result is not quite as blatant as Charlemagne
snatching his crown from the Pope's hands in oi ler to
crown himself. Nor is it quite comparable to the
wealthy Texan who, when asked if he belonged to the
local church replied:
"Hell no! The local church belongs to me!"
There is, however, no mistaking who runs things in
Nixon's Church. For in striking contrast to most
churches and synagogues, which open with praise of
God in hymn or prayer, the Nixon Church leads off
worship with "Opening Remarks" by You Know Who.
And even if such a folksy peroration is really needed, it
would appear to be far more appropriate at the close of
the service-and only then if delivered by Mrs. Nixon.
The President does permii the visiting preacner to do
the praying although the singing is done by a visiting
choir, (in this particular occasion the preacher was a ,
Presbyterian minister who doubles as a Republican
Congressman from Indiana. The Rev. and Hon.
William Hudnut's sermon, "The Religion of Abraham
Lincoln," was well delivered, and the subject was
guaranteed not to offend or embarrass the Proprietor
of the Nixon Church, who. after the service, shakes
hands with the congregation - just like the preacher.
While watching this greeting of the parishioners, I
w as hailed by Wyoming's thoroughly congenial Junior
Senator Cliff Hansen, who iqvited me to join him in the
Presidential receiving line.
Both the President and Mrs. Nixon were polite; he
crisp and understandably concerned to keep the line
moving -- she the essence of grace and charm. Our
meeting took approximately 25 seconds.
Three seconds later, however, I was confronted by a
furious young man named Jack D'Arcy, who works for
President Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Zeigler. Eyes
flashing and nostrils flaring, D'Arcy informed me that
I was guilty of "unethical behavior" because I, as a ' '
journalist, had gone through that line which, he said,
was out of bounds for journalists.
Never having been told of this ground rule, and in
seven years as a religion reporter never having been
segregated in a church coffee hour (although I was
once thrown of? the campus of Bob Jones University)
Mr, D'Arcy's accusation seemed especially annoying.
Perhaps. I thought later, Mr. D'Arcy was simply
trying to protect the President - just like those
exemplars of "ethical behavior" Haldeman, Ehr
lichman, Mitchell and Dean (none of whom
incidentally was among the parishioners that Sunday
at the Nixon Church).
Coffee makes the world go 'round Heppner, tool
By DONAI-I) J. FREDERICK
The coffee break-that pop
ular forum for the exchange of
ideas, gripes, and gossip-is
one of America's hottest
fringe benefits.
More than 9) per cent of all
' employed persons in the
United States have coffee
available to them in office or
factory. They drink about 50
million cups during daily
coffee breaks.
Although Americans con
sume some 40 per cent of the
world's coffee imports, their
drinking habits rarely are
imitated in other countries,
the National Geographic So
ciety says.
The Japanese prefer coffee
at least twice as sweet as the
average American brew. The
Swedes like theirs much
stronger.
Italians relish cafe espres
so, a dark, rich liquid concoc
ted in a gleaming, steaming,
spouting monster of a ma
chine. Ugandans make a
savory blend of coffee and
bananas.
In Arabia, where the coffee
plant first was cultivated, the
beans are roasted, pulverized,
and boiled for each brew . Few
business deals are completed
w ithout a cup of coffee. Arabs
consider a water chaser after
a coffee break a breach of
etiquette.
The name for coffee in
almost every country of the
world comes from the Arabian
word qahwah-an honored title
meaning "that which gives
strength "--and its Turkish
derivative, kahveh.
The beverage once was so
popular in Turkey that if a
husband failed to keep his wife
supplied with the brew, she
had grounds for divorce.
In its thousand-year history,
coffee has blended with many
whims. When the Italians first
took to the drink, they seemed
more concerned with clarity
than flavor. To settle the
grounds, they added egg
shells, codfish skin, and
isinglass.
Prussia's Frederick the
Great limited coffee-roasting
licenses to the cream of
society, and warned the poor
that drinking the beverage
caused sterility.
Undaunted, illegal roasters
thrived, and Frederick, who
brewed his coffee with cham
pagne, had to employ a corps
of "coffee smellers' to follow
the unmistakable aroma and
arrest the lawbreakers.
Coffee was more readily
accepted in Austria. The
Viennese today drink gallons
of coffee and are finicky
about the way it is served A
traveler once saw an elderly
Viennese gentleman carry his
cup from a dark coffee house
interior outdoors to make sure
it was the exact color he had
ordered.
The Boston Tea Party
converted many Americans to
coffee drinking almost over
night.
Later, the pioneers who
settled the West always man
aged to find room for some
coffee beans in their crowded
covered wagons. The precious
commodity often was used as
a peace offering to the
Indians, who quickly devel
oped a taste for the beverage.
Coffee retained its popu
larity even after the West was
won. An old range tradition
calls for testing coffee with a
horseshoe-when the shoe
floats, the coffee's ready.
The Round Table at the Wagon Wheel Restaurant fills up with lleppner's town "wheels" at
about H:M a.m. every ek day to josh. joke, rehash current events and drink coffee. It was
in such an atmosphere thai local businessmen decided to raise the first $73,000 locally to
build Lake I'rnland. Many of the city's problems are aired (even solved) here. They meet
again at 2:1M p.m.. but the morning srssion is the more productive. At 8:45 a.m.. give or take
a minute, there is a coin-flipping to srr who pays for the coffee. At this session, left to right,
are: ( lint Mctjuarrie. Howard Bryant. Bill Uratherford. LeRoy Gardner and Police Chief
Dean Oilman.