Heppner, Ore., Gazette-Times, Thursday, Aug. 22, 1974
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Murde r in
Jerusalem
By LESTER KINSOLVING
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I ERNEST V. JOINER
Gene Pierce believes in giving credit where credit is due.
Which is why he dropped off a copy of Doug Baker's recent
column in the Oregon Journal that carried this item: "A
Baker Street Irregular who wants to start some kind of con-,
troversy or other (I won't fight with him) says the 'girls at
the Golden West Tavern and Dragon's I Lounge have the
prettiest legs you'll see west of Heppner."' Take your bow
girls, then go home and take off those unflattering blue
jeans!
While the Ford Administration is agonizing on how to cut
federal spending and thus lessen the inflationary spiral, it
might begin by saving the $420,000 which the U.S. Agency for
International Development has given Oregon State Univer
sity to study weed control on farms in Latin America, Asia
and Africa. Just what business it is of Americans how
foreign farmers pluck their weeds isn't readily apparent.
But if an Asian or African farmer's tussle with weeds is so
damned important to America, how about sending them all a
letter which begins, "First, get yourself a hoe . . .".
In a rush to do all the "things to do today" Americans are
prone to pass up many chances to pass out kind words until
those who deserve them are gone. Then there are-eulogies
and testaments to some wonderful people who could have
used the recognition when they were alive. The day before
Harold Cohn was hospitalized for a stroke we had gained his
consent to publish some of the highlights of his life. Now he is
joined in the hospital by Mrs. John (Zetta) Brosnan of upper
Little Butter Creek. She and Harold Cohn are "first citizens"
to those who know and love them. Zetta Hager was born in
Heppner in 1888 and was the first child to be baptized in the
first St. Patrick's Church on the hill where the Legion Hall
now stands. Her husband, John, who died in 1952, was the son
of a founding father, Irishman Jeremiah Brosnan. Newly
wed. Zetta and John moved to the Brosnan Ranch at Lena in
1908 where she continued to reign over this fine establish
ment which has been operated for many years by their son,
Jerry, and his wife, Marian; their son, Eddie, and his wife,
Lorraine; and five fifth-generation Brosnans.
.Modest Harold Cohn came to Heppner when he was two
weeks old (he was born in San Francisco). He went through
grade and high schools in Heppner, finishing in the 12-mem-ber
class of 1912, the last class to come from the old wooden
building up where the hospital now stands. He has always
been a loyal citizen of his country, his county, and of this little
city named for his uncle. Henry Heppner. He has generously
supported many worthwhile causes, and has quietly helped
so many people throughout his 80 years. He has been out
standing in his life's work as a sheep merchant. As such, he
has a national and international reputation as being tops in
his field. No other Heppnerite has deeper roots here than
Harold Cohn. Now both Harold and Zetta are in Pioneer
Memorial Hospital. Our hope is that we may yet have the op
portunity to tell them how much they mean to so many
people, and do it before they leave us forever.
One hour after the above item was written, news came
Biat Mr. Cohn had died. I regret he never lived to be assured
thai this community held him in high esteem, and that his ex
emplary life was such an inspiration to so many.)
It's hard to find an honest man these days. Well, how
about an honest boy? Two honest boys? Jim and John
Jepson, 10 and 11 years old, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Jepsen
If lone, were w aiting to see their aunt, Mrs. Elsie Louden, off
tn a plane to Baltimore. Md., from Portland International
Airport last Sunday. The two boys decided to make the
rounds of telephone booths to see if they could find some
spare change in the return slots. They hit the jackpot;
$175 a $100 bill, a $50, $20 and a $5. They took the money to
their father, who contacted a security guard. While they
were deciding what to do with the money a stranger
approached the guard and asked if anyone had turned in any
money. He described the bills, the phone booth where they
were found, and the money was turned over to him. The boys
refused the offer of a reward. Finally, with the help of the
security guard, the stranger convinced the youngsters that
their honest deed was worthy of a reward. So each of the
boys got a $10 reward from a grateful and relieved stranger.
There is a housing crisis in Heppner, but this is ridicu
lous. Dick Mitchell, who has served as appraiser in the
coun'y assessor's office, has been staying at "the Heppner
Hotel for five weeks while waiting to find housing for his wife
and five children. Thursday he gave up. quit his job and join
ed his family who has been staying in Portland hoping for a
home in Heppner.
It brings no cheer in these quarters that President Ford
has named Nelson Rockefeller as his vice-president. The
international bankers, of which Rockefeller is one, already
manipulate and control the world. One would think that is
sufficient to satisfy the ego-power structure of any man. At
this point Americans could do no better than pray for a long
and healthy life for President Ford. If that seems harsh, take
a look at what happened to the State of New York under
Rockefeller's governorship.
There is a growing disposition in Congress to forgive and
forget former President Richard Nixon; to quietly quash the
' impeachment charges on grounds that the man has been
punished enough already. That would be a tragedy for the
American people and for history. If this happens, neither the
people nor the historians will ever be able to establish the
crimes Mr. Nixon committed, and history would reflect what
many people believe today that Richard Nixon was "hound
ed" into resignation without provable cause. On the basis of
solid evidence already aired, Mr. Nixon broke the law. That
fact must become a matter of record if this is indeed a nation
of laws and not of men. It is incredible that Congress, having
performed so nobly thus far, should dismiss the charges
against Nixon; while, at the same time, convicting and
. sentencing to prison those who acted under his direction.
the SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS
"What's A Nice Guy Like You
Doing In A Position Like That?!"
CROSSROADS '
REPORT
DEAR EDITOR:
I see where a Pennsylvania
man was fined $475 by one of
our low-and-mighty judges.
He was charged and ruled
guilty of letting weeds grow in
his front yard.
A weed, ruled His Honor, is
any plant wich grows where it
is not wanted by anybody who
has achieved Judge status.
So the citizen paid $475 for
his mistake in thinking he is a
free American with as much
right to want weeds in his yard
as millions of other men have
to want hair on their faces.
D. E. SCOTT,
Crossroads, U.S.A.
quoteunquote
"Most people believe the
federal government has
grown too big, that it spends
far too much money, that what
it does spend is frequently
wasted, that it has lost touch
with the citizens, that it
employs too many presump
tuous bureaucrats, and that it
blunders on, not in control of
itself nor controlled by others.
And they are right." Sen.
Mark O. Hatfield.
"Age doesn't matter, unless
you're a cheese." J. Paul
Getty, Industrialist.
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
Last week's paper carried a story, "Fair board appeals for
support," which, it seems to me, was a little tardy and a bit
strange, loo.
Several persons have been eager to help by buying and
wearing 1974 Fair Buttons, but so far have not been able to
obtain them. These buttons are good publicity gimmicks
aside from being a state requirement in that admission must
be charged in some manner for entrance to the fairgrounds.
It seems to me these buttons should have been put into
circulation back about the time of the Sidewalk Sale. Many
who might have bought them then will not be here this
weekend, thus reducing the fair's gate receipts.
JUSTINE WEATHERFORD,
r Heppner.
More drivers are
losing licenses
Oregon motorists continue to lose their driving privileges
in greater numbers than last year, according to statistics
released Thursday by the Oregon Motor Vehicles Division.
During July, 6,597 drivers lost their licenses compared to
4,978 license suspensions during July 1973, a 32 per cent
increase. During the first seven months of 1974, 38,799
drivers licenses have been suspended, a 21 per cent increase
over the first seven months of 1973.
Reversing a trend during the first half of the year,
suspensions for driving under the influence of intoxicating
liquor showed a 14 per cent increase in July. During the
month, 1,078 drivers were convicted of driving after drinking.
For the year, DUIL convictions are 1 per cent below the total
for the first seven months of 1973.
The Motor Vehicles Division received 45,458 notices of
conviction for traffic violations from Oregon courts in July,
bringing the year's total to 266,220, 8.3 per cent above the
total for the same period of 1973.
The division also noted that two drivers have now received
mandatory 10-year license revocations for convictions under
Oregon's new Habitual Traffic Offender Law. Accumulation
of three or more convictions for major traffic offenses or 20
or more convictions for moving violations of any kind within
five years makes a driver eligible for prosecution under the
law.
Fossil Beds may be
national monument
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Leg-islation
to create a national
monument in the John Day
Fossil Beds area of Central
Oregon is expected to come up
for a vote in the House of
Representatives Tuesday,
Congressman Al Ullman re
ports. Ullman, who sponsored the
bill, said he did not expect
strong opposition to it.
Part of an omnibus proposal
dealing with a number of sites
of historical and geological
interest around the country,
the measure proposes in
corporating three Oregon
state parks and some adjacent
federal land into a national
monument to be run by the
U.S. Park Service.
Two units of the monument
would be in Wheeler County
and one in Grant County.
Under an arrangement with
the state of Oregon, the parks
are to be ceded to the federal
government.
Considered one of the most
valuable archeological finds
in the nation, the fossil beds
were originally discovered by
amateur geologist Thomas
Condon.
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Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The heat of summer ain't a good time to hold group studies
on the general state of the human race, Mister Editor, and
the fellers proved this agin Saturday night at the country
store.
The feller that runs the store air conditions his place with
one of them overhead fans he's alius sticking his broom
handle in when he's dusting shelves, so the condition of his
conference room helps heated discussions, and it sell more
soda pop to boot.
Ed Gonty, the Terror of Willow Crick, lit in about a notice
of a warehouse sale that had come in the mail. He allowed it
said now was a good time to start Christmas shopping and
pick up them little items you alius are scrounging around fer
at the last minute. Ed said his old lady allowed she would like
to go except that her "intuition" told her everything would be
picked over.
The way folks has got the calendar messed up these days,
declared Ed, we might as well depend on wimmen's intuition
as anything else. Ed said intuition is to wimmen what
hindsight, foresignt and insight is to men, and that it was
invented by wimmin when they figgered out they couldn't
get the truth out of their menfolk by asking questions.
Anyhow, Mister Editor, Ed said we might as well do our
Christmas shopping in August, cause we're still paying last
year's bills, and gitting ready to borrow on wages we'll make
three years from now to go in debt for next year's car that
comes out in September. Half the folks m the country
probable ain't even got a calendar in the house, was The
Terror's words.
Bill Weatherford stomped in from the wash house to report
he saw this magazine piece that said they is 25 million
fishermen in this country and the next day he read a report
on a speech by some feller running fer office that claimed
they is 25 million chronic liars in this country.
Bill was of the mind that the two figgers came out to
perfect to be a accident, and all the folks in office, running fer
office and thinking about running fer office would add
another million to the liars column. Bill said it's powerful
hard to git the truth out of anybody that's been clost to a
fishing pole or a bill to spend public money.
General speaking, the fellers was agreed with Bill on his
report where this column writer said the only policy working
in politics right now is never say anything to the voters that
makes sense.
Ron Palmer, who is a newcomer to the store wants to know
how come a man can shoot hisself on a Saturday night outside
the OPRY House and nobody knows nothing about it til
Monday, special when the sheriff was sitting in the dance hall
crost the street where it happened. He allowed the mayor
ought maybe be impeached for neglect fer not finding the
body sooner. The mayor allowed we take things easier
- around here and besides, that feller wasn't going anywhere
anyhow. And why is it that ever time August gits here
somebody wants to tar and fether the mayor. Last year it
was account the mayor spoke pore English.
Well, personal, I try to seperate the facts and figgers on all
these things. You see a woman in a girdle, that's her figger.
You have to see her without the girdle to git the facts.
COW POKES
Your truly,
MAYOR ROY.
By Ace Reid
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By REV. LESTER KINSOLVING
JERUSALEM-The elderly lady who was working as a
checker in the Supcrsol supermarket here remembered
vividly the 23rd of February 1969.
For this was the day that Palestinian terrorists-in full
accordance with their apparent battle cry ("Women and
children first!") placed bombs in the vegetable oil and
candy counters of this supermarket,
Two Hebrew University students, Edward Joffe and Leon
Kanner, were killed and a number of other civilians
wounded.
Two Arab sisters named Odeh, ages 22 and 24, were
arrested, tried, convicted and are presently serving
sentences of life imprisonment for murder in the first degree. t
But the Jerusalem Post reported that the Odeh sisters were
driven through police and military check points by another
Arab-the Rev. Elia Khadler Khalil Khoury, age 45. The
Rev, Mr. Khoury was at that time pastor of the Anglican
(Episcopal) church in Ramallah, in the West Bank just north
of Jerusalem.
By striking contrast to the life sentences handed down to
the Odeh sisters, the Rev. Mr, Khoury was merely deported
across the Jordan. Today he is the Anglican church's parish
priest in Amman.
"There is no case against him," explained the Rev. Canon
Faik Haddad, who has just been appointed by the Archbishop
of Canterbury to be bishop of a new diocese of Jerusalem,
which will include Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and which
will replace the English archbishopric.
Bishop-designate Haddad was unable to explain why, if in
fact there is "no case against him," the Anglican Church has
failed to conduct any official investigation or even to move
in court to have the Rev. Mr. Khoury 's deportation set aside.
But the files of The Jerusalem Post as fully verified and
implemented by the highest authorities of the Military
Government of Judea and Samaria reveal the following
case concerning the Rev. Mr. Khoury:
On Feb. 23, 1969, while in clerical garb, the Rev. Mr.
Khoury drove the Odeh sisters through the checkpoints with
their bombs in the trunk of his car, a Hillman.
When the police and soldiers searched his rectory in
Ramallah they discovered explosives which the Rev. Mr.
Khoury confessed to having stored, as the leading link
between Arab terrorist groups in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip.
The Rev. Mr. Khoury, in clergy garb, was able quite easily
to transport letters, money, guns and bombs for the Popular
Front For The Liberation of Palestine of George
Habash one of the leaders in the Palestinian campaign of
murdering civilians and skyjacking.
The Jerusalem Post reported, and the military
government has ' recalled vividly that "considerable
pressure" was immediately put upon Israel's Foreign Office
by local and overseas Christian clergy groups, who
demanded the release of Khoury.
Hence, because Israel is extraordinarily sensitive about
Christian clergy, the government agreed to deport, rather
than imprison the Rev. Mr. Khoury particularly when he
and Anglican Bishop Najib Cuba'jp of Jerusalem signed a
promise that Khoury would involve himself in no more
political activities.
But the Rev. Mr. Khoury was no more than across the
Jordon River than he immediately violated this promise, and
was promptly hired by the World Council of Churches.
Only this past June, the Rev. Mr. Khoury was one of 19
people elected in Cairo to the Executive Committee of the
Palestine Liberation Organization,, the umbrella organ
ization for several Arab terrorist groups, one of which (Al
Fatah) nominated him.
- The Rev. Khoury's diocese refuses even to investigate his
bloody ministry. And next Good Friday more than 7,000 U. S.
Episcopal churches will send their Good Friday offerings to
this diocese "For work in the Holy Land."
In England there is additional support from the Jerusalem
and East Mission, whose assests are more than $1 million. As
for the Archbishop of Canterbury, his press agent, Stephen
Bonarjee, told me that His Grace was "on holiday and cannot
be disturbed. Besides, this all happened over five years
ago."
But the two university students are still dead-and, for that
matter, the Crucifixion was still longer ago. Perhaps the
Church of England may be willing to take action if enough
laymen in America and Britain, when asked to contribute
money "For work in The Holy Land," contribute instead a
note with the reminder "Thou Shalt Do No Murder" lest
the Rev. Mr. Khoury's bloody friends hit Nazareth next and
massacre the family of a Jewish carpenter.
"We're Trying To Get Back To The Basics.
Do You Have Milk In Glass Bottles?"
"You wanted a spirited boss, wul the reason this
one looks bad is because he's overly spirited and
he's wort out!"
GAZETTE-TIMES
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