IIKPI'NKR (ORE.) GAZKTTKTIMFS. Thurtdsy, November 1$, 1973
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Residents of Heppner will have a chance to go to the polls
Dec. S and make amenda for 20 years of neglect of their city
water system. The present system never met any accepted
standards in the first place. The well-intentioned people who
built it were interested in getting water at the least possible
cost, a philosophy thay too often proves to be the most
expensive route, as this one was. The years have merely
compounded the mistakes made in the beginning, and added
to the cost of finally bringing the water system to standard.
Let's get things straight . There is no reasonable choice in this
election. The bonds must be approved. If they are not,
residents will have to take full responsibility for the fact that
high and elementary schools are being furnished only 15 and
20 per cent, respectively, of the water required by state
standards. A fire at either school could hardly be combatted
with present pressure. The chances ot an even worse
calamity, I leave to your imagination. If those bonds are not
approved, every home in town stands in danger of total
destruction should it catch fire. If they are not approved, fire
insurance rates are almost sure to be raised. If they are not,
water is almost sure to be rationed to present users. If they
are not. present water rates will have to be raised, perhaps
doubled, to keep repairing the Mickey Mouse system now in
use. In the end. they system must surely collapse. No water,
no town. As I said, there is no reasonable alternative to
citizens turning out in force and approving the bond issue to
solve this town's present and future water problems.
Gov. McCall's efforts to keep visitors out of Oregon must
be paying off. For the first time in the history of their
operation, Oregon's six port of entry information centers
show 15 per cent fewer visitors for the six-month season
which ended Oct. 31, as compared with figures for the same
period last year.
Did you know that belching cows are the No. 1 source of
air pollution in the United States? The Environmental
Protection Agency said so in a recent issueof its house organ,
EPAlog. To quote the article correctly: "Burping cows must
rank as the number one source of air pollution in the
U.S." The story goes on to relate how cows "burp 50 million
, tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere annually,' and that
10 cows burp enough gas to heat a small home." Brilliant.
Those are the boys who are running the country now! To its
credit. EPA later said it had made an error and that the
whole thing was just a joke. According to the professional
journal. Modern Veterinary Practice, it sure was. The 50
million tons was to low a figure, MVP editorialized:
furthermore, "those emissions definitely don't come from
f the area of the head." And the publication, Feedlot
Management, commented that it goes to prove what farmers
and ranchers have long suspected-that there isn't a person
"at EPA who knows the front of a cow from the rear!
U.S. News & World Report recently took our native
environmentalists to task for their all-out assault upon the
basis of American production-energy. Pollution control
restrictions that go beyond all bounds of reason have resulted
I Jn , fuel shortages for production of electricity. The
" "environmentalists' attack upon nuclear power has set that
;fiete back many years. Without energy, manufacturing of
' consumer goods has been slowed, resulting in shortages in
many areas and higher costs in all areas. These attacks are
upon industry, whose technology and productivity has made
American the strongest and wealthiest nation in the world.
Bu no longer, the report says. The United States, thanks to a
diliberate campaign to cripple U.S. energy production, now
r ranks fifth among the major nations in terms of production
as measured by total output per person. And, it adds, the
position of the United States as the wealthiest nation in the
world in highly questionable. Lack of production means a
lack of wealth ; a lack of wealth is a lack of power ; and lack of
power means loss of world leadership. U.S. News & World
Report has said what I have said here-that the irresponsible
and short-sighted ecology nuts have brought this country to
the brink of disaster. That's why all of them must be
;: considered as my enemies. They have succeeded in doing
- within a few years what our sworn enemies, including Russia
and China, have failed to do-topple the U.S. from its
dominant position abroad and sow confusion and discord at
home. The foes of American capitalism never had better
allies than our native "ecology nuts."
Lois Winchester is back from the Humane Society
convention intlantarndr accorongro Tierftlail Pouch
communique, the animals are safe again. I was interested to
hear that she enjoyed hearing a speech by Ashley Montagu,
anthropologist and social biologist. Mr. Montagu is the
author of "The Anatomy of Swearing, "from which I recently
quoted generously in a column extolling the virtues of good,
honest, lusty swearing-and which got me excommunicated
from the cultured community! I was also intrigued to hear
about Amanda Blake (Miss Kitty on "Gunsmoke") and her
encounter with a cowboy who took a dim view of her
association with the Humane Society. Miss Kitty, belted the
guy in the midsection. It made me wonder why Lois and her
associates in the Humane Society got such a satisfying
charge out of this incident; whereas, had a human being
administered a "big backhand whack in the middle" to an
animal he would, with the blessing of the Humane Society,
been fined or imprisoned for cruelty to animals. I suppose the
moral is that it is laudable for one human being to hurt
. another, but criminal for a human being to hurt an animal.
Which brings me back to my original thesis : I like people
more than I like animals, and in a showdown between the
two. my sympathy is with people.
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"Was it me or was it Watergate?"
The mail pouch
DEAR MAYOR ROY OF HARDMAN:
I wuz readin the other day where you might be forced out of
office in Hardman.
How soon we fergit once we leave our home town, get a
edgecation and live in a big town like Heppner. Mr. Mayor, if
I wuznt so edgecated, or if you'd slow down a little and throw
in a "you all" onct in a while, I bet I could pass you off as one
of us! I aint saying you aint as good as us, and I believe I
could make you Mayor of St. Charles, Va., my home town.
I wuz from a small coal mine town, but to the eyes of a little
girl that town looked awful big. Still, I used to love to see a
big city and be in a place where they didn't have those little
houses behind the big houses. And I used to wish I wuz so far
away I'd never hear of the town of St. Charles. Va. That
happened to me. Mr. Mayor.
Well, after being gone for 28 years I'd love to see it wrote
about in the paper so I could remember St. Charles. Va. I
went back there this summer. It'll be a ghost town in another
two yrs, just like Hardman. But I'd like to be reminded once
in a while that there was once a booming town of St. Charles.
Va.
So. if you have to move to a new town I'd be plumb proud to
make you Mayor of St. Charles, Va. (honorary, of course.)
I could send your column to my friends that are left there,
and even them as has wandered to bigger places, and they
will be proud to read about the good old days and shed a few
nostalgic tears for a town that is dying but yet will live on
because there is a Mayor Roy of St.Charles (honorary, of
course.) . . .
The way I figger, a small town is like a human being
after they're needed by so many people for so many years it's
sad when they get too old and run down to be any use to
nobody any more. Then, Mister Mayor, that's when they
need someone to help them remember the good old days,
good times, dear friends and loved ones. Aint that what
memories are for, remembering?
ANNA MAE STEAGALL,
Heppner.
EDITOR:
The Humane Society of the United Sates held its annual
conference Oct. 18-21 at Atlanta. The theme was "Of Man,
Animals and Morals." The program consisted of animal
control programs, wildlife, humane education, legislation,
animals in biomedical researcn, rodeos, investigation
procedures, fund-raising, animals in school projects and
euthanasia methods. . .
The accomplishments of the HSUS in the past 12 months
have been tremendous. The results will soon make mammoth
strides to make this a better world for people and animals to
live in. The keynote address, "Of Man, Animals and Morals"
was given by Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, social
biologist, authoreditor.
A forum on wildlife was presented by Nathaniel P. Reed,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, U.S.
Department of Interior; and Roger Caras, naturalist, author,
radio-TV personality and vice-president of HSUS.
To me, one of the most important forums was on humane
education, presented with the help of Stuart R. Westerlund,
Ph. D., HSUS director of education development, former
chairman. Department of Graduate Studies in Education,
University of Tulsa; John J. Dommers of New England
Regional Office, director of education; Dale Hylton,
director, HSUS Youth Activities Division; and Eileen
Whitlock, assistant director, HSUS education development.
Their work is now being tested and used in schools in 10
states. Humane education will help halt and prevent crime
and violence quicker that all other methods that today so
miserably fail. This form of education will not only teach
honesty, integrity, mercy, justice, compassion and respect
for all life, but could very well produce some future leaders
for our country who would take a stand against the evil,
corrupt vices of today. It would behoove all citizens (even the
churches) to lend a shoulder to the wheel of progressive
humane education and get it to rolling as soon as possible.
Thanks to President John Hoyt for his promise to me at
Salt Lake City and Reno last October that he would help me
outlaw steer -busting. Under his direction, Robert C. Bay,
D.V.M., has produced with the aid of college students, who
are taking courses in photography, the most sensational
colored movies of rodeo-The results in slow motion are just
incredible; and expose facts that the naked eye fails to pick
up in the arena. Their plans are to get it on spot TV programs
to educate the public, like the recent one that exposes the
cruelty of pet over-population.
We had the privilege of enjoying a tea sponsored by Miss
Amanda Blake-Miss Kitty of "Gunsmoke," HSUS director.
Members at the banquet certainly gave her a lusty cheer
when they heard the story of her encounter with a big
cowboy. He was unhappy with her after hearing her
testimony to try to get some rodeo cruelty outlawed. He
bellowed at her, "After that, he would never watch her in
Gunsmoke ever again." Her response was a big backhand
whack in the middle. She is not very big, but really carries a
mammoth wallop for insulting cowboys. . .
LOIS WINCHESTER,
Heppner
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Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I tee by the papers where office worker fer this big
company had a Ihrow-away day. They wen! through all their
filet and got rid of all the paperwork (hat had been put on
microfilm or replaced by more records.
In one day, according to the piece, they cleaned out 1,050
file cabinet and not only saved 1150.000 on the coat of new
files, they found some office space they thought was lost
ferever,
Saturday night at the country store I mentioned this Item
to the fellers. Republican Ed Doolittle, that ain't had a happy
thought since Watergate opened, said he wondered what
would happen if guvernment at all levels was to have t
throw-away day. Ed said we'd have empty public buildings
all over the country. And we'd find a heap of empty chairs
behind a lot of cleanedout desks to, was Ed's words.
Why is It, Ed wanted to know, that everything we do In this
country, from making copies to running short, we do to much
or.
Ed said he was reminded of a story 45 year ago about a
hunting trip Will Rogers took to Africa. The Saturday
Evening Post was paying him $1 a word to send back pieces
on what he was doing. Ever time Will got a shot at some
animal he'd put It in his report, and he'd alius write that he
went "bang, bang, bang" at whatever It was. The magazine
sent him a telegram and told him to quit shooting so much,
cause he was costing em $1 a -shot.
Will's dollar-a-shot ain't a drop in the bucket to what It's
costing taxpayers to set down what all is said and done in
guvernment, Ed said, and after all is said and done they is a
heap more said than done. It costs us $200 a page to put out
the Congressional Record, and that ain't a start. Ed said he
had saw this piece where copies of speeches made in the
Senate in the last session of Congress weighed 218 pounds and
run to nearly 20 million words. And when you think of all
them agencies with their millions of memos in quadruplicate,
Mister Editor, it ain't no wonder we're running short of paper
like we are everthing else.
Fathermore. allowed Clem Webster, onct a guvernment
record is in the file, it's there ferever. Clem said people in
guvernment have a mortal fear that what they do won't be
official unless it's wrote down, and fer Ed's benefit he added
that a heap of em in Washington are wishing they had thought
of a throw-away day a long time ago.
Actual, Ed said, we have to start with gitting rid of people
in guvernment and work up to the paperwork. He had saw
where the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare was
cutting his public relations staff 70 per cent. He got rid of 184
jobsand70consultants,andhe found 680 people that could be
put on other work. On top of saving $20 million, the move will
git rid of 275 HEW publications, and still leave plenty.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
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BY
LESTER KINSOLVING
WASHINGTON - Full page newspaper ads, radio spot
announcements and posters plastered to every available
space within five miles of the White House all heralded his
coming.
So did a small regiment of eager and politely aggressive
youth who sold tickets for $9 to his three lectures.
But the giant photographs of the serene, majestic and
well-retouched face of the Rev. Sun Myong Moon are
deceiving. For the preaching style of this founder of Korea's
Holy Spirit Association for The Unification of World
Christianity (Unification Church, for short) is neither quietly
Confucian nor Shangri-La-like.
Instead, the Rev. Mr. Moon, whose young followers
venerate him, comes on like Charlie Chan in convulsions.
This impression is implemented by Bo Hi Pak, an
earnest-looking young man who resembles actor Keye Luke.
Pak translates all of Moon's alternately howled and hissed
blend of cliches, simple Fundamentalism, Oriental
incomprehensibilities and anti-communism.
The Rev. Mr. Moon is engaged in his second national tour,
which will take him to 21 major U.S. cities. In Washington, on
a Sunday night, he attracted a capacity crowd of 1500. Most of
this predominantly youthful crowd loudly applauded Moon's
"two-hour speech - thus manifesting the lingering
susceptibility of many American youth to anything Oriental,
however outlandish.
For Moon's interminable harangue resembled a tobacco
auction conducted by an ex-drill master of the Kamikaze
Corps during an earthquake.
"Christianity Today" magazine reports that Moon was
excommunicated by the Presbyterian Church in 1948, and
that the sect he organized in 1954 maintains that since he is
married to the Holy Spirit (who is Moon's comely wife,
number three) he will succeed where the "Jewish Christ"
failed.
The Rev. Mr. Moon was not available for interview
because, according to his public relations department, "his
schedule is tight." Neither was the treasurer of the
Unification Church, a William Torrey, who replied that "no
useful purpose would be served" by allowing the press to
have access to any of the Sun Moon Church's financial
records.
These records could include spectacular wedding fees on
the occasion in 1970 when the Rev. Mr. Moon attracted
international attention (along with the envy of every wedding
chapel in Las Vegas) by officiating at the marriages of 777
couples all at once.
The stockyard effect of this massive matrimony is
explained away by one Unification Church brochure which
contends that this unusual event demonstrated "love within
the family unit is the key to world peace."
But when asked if these 777 marriages had, therefore, also
been consummated in unison, assorted spokesmen for the
denomination (either giggling or furious) refused to
comment.
Apparently they feel that they don't have to explain
anything. For after all, no matter what their leader does or
says his press kit contains a powerful form of endorsement
which should be of especial interest to the citizens of North
and South Carolina, New York and Massachusetts.
For the beaming Sun Moon has somehow managed to have
himself photographed while shaking hands with U.S.
Senators Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, James Buckley and
Edward Kennedy.
"WHew, my doctor told me if I didn't quit
drinkin' it would kill me, and it nearly did today!"
This is Mike, man's best friend, the Bill Weatherfords'
dug. and a frequent visitor to the office of the Gaxette
Timrv So frequent, in fact, that be has been accused of
writing the newspaper's Hone Sense column.
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