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BY
LESTER KINSOI.VIWt
Horse sense
By
ERNEST V. JOINER
I have been asked to publish a U.S. Senate resolution
proclaiming April 30 as a National Day of Humiliation,
Fasting and Prayer. This would be something akin to
flogging a dead horse. We have already been adequately
humiliated by such things as Arab oil, Watergate, Negroes
snooting down whites in San Francisco and the Democrats
who met in Salem last week to demand nationalization of the
oil industry. At that, these Democrats performed better than
the 1972 convention at Klamath Falls where delegates voted
to abolish private property and tear down all jails! I think
we've been through enough humiliation without setting up a
special day to dignify the sorry mess. As for Fasting, the
wheal deals with Russia and China, soaring food costs,
unbridled inflation and confiscatory taxes have imposed a
Fasting program on the American people already. What we
need more is a Let's Eat Day. That leaves Prayer. We've
been doing a fair share of that. too. We have prayed to be
delivered from crafty and thieving politicians (much like the
ones who voted for the National Day of Humiliation, Fasting
and Prayer resolution ) . We are way ahead of our praying for
Congressmen to come home from their junkets and go to
work. A prayer, one I think the Lord might smile upon, is one
enlisting His help in liquidating the Congress that has labored
so hard to heap humiliation and enforced fasting upon so
many Americans. So on April 30 you are invited to
. commingle your prayers with mine for a speedy, divine
dissolution of a humiliating Congress.
I will never make it as an engineer. On Feb. 6 1 wrote to
Manel Electronics of Los Angeles. "Gentlemen: I have a
L'her 4000 Report -L tape recorder, five years old, that needs
repair. The power unit connected to the recorder by a grey
lead wire, Z175 unit, modified for use with Ni-Cad batteries,
causes the unit to heal up and blow its fuses. Please advise
what the trouble is. and whether it should be sent to you for
repair." Monday 1 got my letter back with a note scrawled
across the page in red ink: "Your batteries are dead."
If I ever had a doubt about women's ability to function
successfully in public office, the doubt is removed. I have
been introduced to Miss Janiece Crimmins, who is serving
her second term in the Indiana General Assembly with a
distinction hard to believe. She is the only member of the 150
in that body who did not introduce a bill at the current
session. She never introduced a bill at the last session. She
has never introduced a bill in her life. Why? Here's her
answer: "I see no reason to dream up some new law just to
appear busy. Most new laws are either going to cost someone
money or take away someone's liberties. "We're
overregulating. overprotecting and overdirecting the people.
Passing 300 new laws a year is not what the people want."
Miss Crimmins would be shocked indeed at the 3.000 bills
f 'iptroduced in the last session of the Oregon Legislature;
5 which, as she points out, either relieved the people of their
T money or deprived them of their liberty. She says that if she
ever does introduce a bill it will be one to limit legislators to
only one bill per session. She is a rare legislator, one who
neither robs nor enslaves her constituents.
Ii would be asking too much for Oregon legislators to
follow Miss Crimmins' leadership. But there could be a
'Compromise. If legislators were charged $500 for each bill .
, they introduce (to cover the cost of printing and paying for
We lime consumed by other legislators in debating it !. there '
would be fewer laws enacted in Oregon. It would require that
each legislator put his money where his mouth is. and that
each bill would be considered with great care and in depth
before its passage.
POTPOl'RRI-Last week Heppner enjoyed its first
70-degree weather this spring. One could hear buds bursting
out. The warm sun was inviting, and it invited Leroy Gardner
and Herman Winter to go to Boardman for a meeting of the
Port of Morrow board of directors. They drove over together,
enjoyed a fine lunch and had a nice drive back. It was a
wonderful afternoon, but not very productive. They were a
week early for the board meeting A virgin is a member of
the army of the unenjoyed. . . The Peter Lennons up Willow
Creek have chickens that lay only green eggs. The chickens
come from South America. One variety lays red eggs. Saves
dyeing them on Easter. Delicious flavor, too . . . St. Angela
Davis, communist, patron saint of the revolutionists, spoke
Friday at Eugene under sponsorship of the University of
Oregon Erb Memorial Union Cultural Forum, which makes
Oregon one up on Texas for hiring a convicted criminal at
North Texas Slate College to teach, counsel and inspire
students . . .
No. the Procurement Department is not where one goes
to pick up a date. It is part of the state's Department of
General Services at Salem, which has a Thought Tank for
sale The Division of Continuing Education at Portland must
be going out of the "thought" business, for it lists for sale this
Dictaphone Thought Tank. Model 191A. 14 years old and
probably unused. If you've got any heavy thinking to do. the
selling price is S1.700. which is cheaper than maintaining a
wife to do it for you. Call James Ziegler. 229-4807. Portland,
during office hours. Naturally.
Oregon has just spent $55,400 of taxpayers' money for a
handsome newspaper section urging Oregonians to take their
vacations at home this year. It is an impressive invitation to
stay put. but it will bring no joy to Morrow County. The
perfidious perpetrators of this costly broadside ferreted out
every insignificant pea festival, icecream orgy, quilting bee,
clambake and rhododendron derby in Oregon for natives lo
visit this summer. But Heppner s famed rodeo wasn't even
mentioned. To add insult to injury. Heppner isn't even listed
on the many maps published. Sure. Echo is there. So is
Stanfield. But no Heppner. However, all is not lost. Where
fees and taxes are concerned every official in the state knows
where Heppner is. and the first name, middle initial and last
name of all its citizens. Thanks.
When a parking meter "bites" the chief of police, it's
news Chief Dean Oilman parked his pickup in front of the
City Hall Thursday and began minding his own business.
Officer Morris saw the vehicle parked illegally and wrote up
a violation. The chief had failed to feed the two-headed
monster, so there's one more vote for excising these
cancerous coin-guzzlers from our civic midst.
"A guy could get drunk on this shtuff!"
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
I would like to say that those of us who were born and
raised in Heppner and around Morrow County woa'd
certainly enjoy seeing more local news coverage of the
Heppner people.
You seem to have a fairly good coverage of lone, Lexing
ton. Kinzua, Boardman and Irrigon news, but it is really
lacking in Heppner items.
I understand you feel this type of news items is so much
"hogwash," but it would make the paper more enjoyable to
those of us who no longer live in the area yet still subscribe
to the paper.
DORIS HODGE.
Richland, Wn.
ED. NOTE: If Heppner residents will call or mail us their
items we will be glad to publish them.
EDITOR:
As a recent guest panelist on your rap session on drugs, I
wish to express my congratulations. Your numerical show of
interested and concerned citizens from within your
community was most impressive, but I was even more
pleased that you were all actually seeking to educate and
prepare yourselves for the model of prevention rather than
treatment, after-the-fact. Your anticipation of community
expansion and increased pressures will most certainly be
helpful .
At this time. I would like to voice some clarification of a
recent report of the panel discussion, which might have been
misunderstood. Specifically, they are in reference to
classification of the kinds of drug problems we run into and
the relative danger and treatment of each kind.
I did not mean to indicate that people on narcotics or in dt's
are on a "bad trip." People in dt 's from withdrawal of alcohol
are indeed in a dangerous physiological state. Without proper
medical care, this condition may proceed to death.
Likewise, anyone w ho has overdosed on barbituates or is in
a state of withdrawal from barbituates is in a crucial state of
health, and. as such, faces death if not properly treated.
Anyone who has overdosed on narcotics is in this same
danger. However, if forced into a stale of withdrawal, they
will be uncomfortable, but not in a serious life-threatening
condition.
All of these conditions require a most alert and well-trained
medical team. and. of necessity, their medical treatment
needs to be within a hospital setting.
A "bad trip." which specifically refers to another group of
drugs called hallucinogens, is very difficult to treat within a
hospital; partially because of the agitated and distrustful
condition of the person himself, but also because it may likely
create so many disturbances within the hospital for other
seriously ill patients. With proper training, that is the one and
only condition of overdose or misuse of drugs that I would
suggest handling outside of a hospital.
BEAJEAN TAKEI. RN.
LaGrande.
EDITOR:
the SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS
( NO S.R! 'I'LlNClH
Give credit where deserved.
If the fuel situation has eased and if all our needs were met
during the more critical times, we should recognize why this
might havecomeabout. True, most consumers cooperated in
conservation practices like reducing pleasure trips or
combining trips when one might satisfy needs instead of two
or more
What might not be generally recognized, however, is the no
small part our local distributors of fuel have played in getting
through the timesof shortages. I think it is agreed to be more
pleasant to solve situations through voluntary methods than
have enforced regulation employed. That is how the fuel
crisis was handled at local levels, and for the most part,
distributors worked out acceptable methods with their
customers. The efforts by distributors to see that no one
experienced undue hardship was in fact a hardship on
themselves through considerable higher expenses. It costs a
lot more in expense to deliver, say 10.000 gallons of furnace
oil lo 60 customers than to 30. Some was delivered to
everyone so that no one was completely out. instead of filling
as many completely up while the supply lasted and the rest
could get it someplace else.
This kind of action only comes from people who are truly
concerned about the welfare of others. We should all be
thankful for this kind of business man in our communities.
DAVID McLEOD,
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Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Some serious problems come up on the agender at the
country store Saturday night, and as usual the fellers boiled
em down to bedrock solutions.
They was so busy viewing with alarm they didn't even bow
toward Mecca when the feller that runs the store announced
he had got a new gasoline shipmunt and they could git a extra
tankful this week.
You recall they have been pickup pooling, and Bug
Hookum look a terrible chest cold after riding home from the
store in the rain on Ihe back of Zeke Grubb's truck.
First off, Ed Doolittle reported where he had saw that the
Army is boycotting Harvard. He said they won't let officers
go there fer special training cause Harvard dropped ROTC
and don't share the Pentagon's views in general. Ed was of a
mind thai if soldiers jest git to go to schools that side with the
Pentagon, that'll be the best insurance we could buy agin a
military takeover in this country. Fer shore, them officers
won't ever work up no political ambition where they'll be
studying.
Ed said he was special interested in Harvard, cause not to
many years back we had a over -supply of Harvard men in
Guvernment. They was somepun magic to voters about a
feller that had been to Harvard and hobnobbed with all them
experts that understood deficits of strength, overkill and
touch football.
Ed recollected one feller that got elected to the county
planning board cause he said he had been thru Harvard. It
turned out he had walked acrost the campus onct on a visit.
Zeke reported he had discovered a serious weakness in our
form of Guvernment, and he allowed it's no wonder we've
been having trouble keeping our vice presidents. Zeke said
he's been reading the bank ads in the big Sunday papers, and
he ain't saw a single bank that don't list at least half a dozen
vice presidents. And Zeke said he noted that insurance
companies don't ever try to gil along with less than three vice
presidents.
Everbody knows that insurance and banking is in a hole lot
better shape right now than the Administration in
Washington. Instead of borrowing money they're lending it,
and whoever heard of a insurance company or a bank
operating in the red, Zeke wanted to know.
The least Ihe federal Guvernment can do is set up a team of
vice presidents, was Zeke's words.
Clem Webster was agreed with Zeke that the
Administration" needs more Harvard men, more vice
presidents or more somepun. He had saw where the
economists are perdicling that the 1974-75 federal budget will
be $300 billion and we'll run $10 billion in the hole. That means
we'll have a $350 billion budget and go in the red at least $20
billion. Gem said we might wind up with a recession and
runaway inflation at Ihe same time, and not even the bank
and insurance vice presidents will be able to figger whuther
to step on Ihe economy's brakes or gas.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
NEW YORK - For two of the clergy who signed the
notorious Black Manifesto in 1969, the chickens seem not only
to have come home to roost - but to have laid eggs all over
Ihe National Council of Churches (NCC).
The two clergymen are Ihe Rev. Doctors Sterling Cary and
Lucius Walker, who are now "Ihe establishment," as
president and division head, respectively, of the NCC (31
denominations with estimated membership of nearly 40
million).
Late this winter, however, a gang of even more militant
blacks from Harlem seized and occupied for two days the
entire eighth floor of the NCC headquarters building on
Riverside Drive.
They arrived equipped with neatly mimeographed press
releases, which reported among other things: "With
clock-like precision, a group of 30 arrived and took
command."
These press releases also advised: "Try as we may, we
have difficulty finding a more shameless example of Uncle
Tomism" lhan "Lucius Walker, whose open treachery
continues."
Walker not only set up the Black Manifesto conference in
Detroit, bul has since used his office in NCC headquarters to
siphon church money lo African terrorist groups. He
appeared at a press conference during the occupation, and
was not simply meek, but completely silent (an historical
precedent).
President Cary devoted almost Ihe entire opening
statement of his press conference to a thoroughly
transparent groveling to the intruders. But when questioned
by newsmen, Cary actually dared to observe that:
"Buildings are private property. Landlords have a right to
protect their property . . . They (the intruders on the eighth
floor) have sealed the fire doors in violation of the City Fire
Ordiance, placing in jeopardy the lives of people in this
building."
But when asked why, therefore, he had not asked the police
to stop this 26-hour jeopardizing of peoples' lives (including
numerous black NCC employees)' President Cary promptly
and nervously passed the question (and Ihe buck) to NCC
General Secretary Claire Randall.
"That is a premature question! "growled the imposing Ms.
Randall, a red hot womens libber whose resignation the
intruders also demanded. "We must negotiate with them
first."
Among other impressive titles, the intruders indentify
themselves as "The National Committee To Reinstate
Father Chapman." The Rev. Robert Chapman is an
Episcopal priest whose manners and mode of operation
compare favorably with the gentlemanly restraint of the
hammerhead shark.
Chapman was finally terminated as an NCC staffer last
year, after it had become painfully obvious that his one real
competence was in maligning as "racist" anyone who
happened to incur his displeasure.
When, however, he was dropped and 4 of the 7 staffers in
his division were retained. Father Chapman manifested
another talent: his abilitly to recruit neighborhood hoodlums
to disrupt NCC meetings, occupy floors and seize filing
cabinets.
President Cary told his press conference that Father
Chapman has done "a superb job."
When asked why, therefore, Chapman was terminated,
President Cary again promptly and nervously passed Ihe
question (and the bucki to Episcopal Bishop Roger
Blanchard, who "explained" as follows:
It was felt that we had to acquire persons who could
function in a collegia! style and act as generalists."
Do these impressive words mean that Chapman is unfit for
Ihe job?
"I didn't say that!" countered the Bishop angrilv and
anxiously, "I said he doesn't fit the job description "
(Conclusion: Father Chapman is not unfit for the job for
which he is not fit )
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Crossroads
Report
DEAR EDITOR:
I see where a professor of
criminology look off from
leaching for a while to get
some actual experience in the
field by working as a cop.
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And he learned that much of
what he had been teaching
wasn't so, because the Doctors
of Criminology who doclorized
him didn't know the fads of
crime either.
Which suggests that Con
gressmen should have lo take
frequent breaks from their
lawmaking chores lo learn
how it is lo try lo make an
honest living at useful labor
under Ihe lax handicap they
put on this way of life.
D.E.SCOTT.
Crossroads. U.S.A.
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