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Heppner, Ore., Gazette-Times, Thursday, Aug. 29, 1974
CROSSROADS
The bishops
attempt to
compromise
By LESTER KINSOLVING
REPORT
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ERNEST V. JOINER
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DEAR EDITOR:
The No. 1 Unpardonable Sin
these days is for an employer
to prefer some particular
color, sex, brain capacity,
etc., when he is hiring.
This is called Discrimina
tion, and Discrimination in
Employment has been out
lawed by the acts of numerous
lawmakers who, presumably,
select their own helpers by
throwing darts at a board full
of names.
The only legally blessed
Discrimination in Employ
ment nowadays is refusing to
hire anybody who won't split
his .pay check with a labor
union boss.
D.E.SCOTT,
Crossroads, U.S.A.
quoteunquote
"II should be the function of
medicine to have people die
young as late as possible. "
Ernest L. Wynder, president,
American Health Foundation.
It was revealed in Washington last week that Secretary
of Defense James. R. Schlesinger and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff kept close watch to make certain no orders were given
to military units "outside the normal chain of command"
during the time Congress voted three bills of impeachment
against former president Richard Nixon and the
president's resignation on Aug. 9. One of the best kept "open
secrets" is that the president has been given the power by
Congress to declare a state of national emergency and to
suspend constitutional rights. Obviously, the military was on
the alert should the departing president attempt to maintain
his position by exercising the dangerous power given him by
Congress-declaring a state of emergency and enforcing it by
military force. This action by the Pentagon officials may
dismay those who believe the military would welcome an
opportunity to ascend to a governing role in this country. On
the contrary, we have the laudable spectacle of the military
organizing to thwart any attempt by the commander-in-chief
to exercise military power to take over the government.
Instead of subverting constitutional rights as military critics
are prone to change, here we have the military prepared to
block a possible attempt to suspend the constitution and
impose military law. In this instance the military has acted
in the highest and best interests of the nation. It remains for
Congress to void the act that gives such broad, sweeping and
probably unconstitutional powers to the president.
It would be inappropriate not to express gratitude to the
inflation-fighting Congress that is expected to deal a crushing
blow to inflation within the next few days by putting an
additional 10-cent per gallon federal tax on gasoline. It is, as
any fool can plainly see, the only way to reduce the cost of
living by raising the prices of essential commodities. To
really end inflation, Congress might also put a 10-cent per
pound tax on meat in the market. With nobody able to buy
meat, there will be an abundance of it around, which will
cure the shortage problem.
It is hard to keep people away from the Heppner parade
that precedes the annual rodeo. There was Fred Mankin,
who "sprung" himself from Pioneer Memorial Hospital for
the occasion, and who was such a leader in rodeo activities in
past years. And there was Leta Humphrey Thomas, who
came from Portland; Mrs. Fred Hoskins Sr. and Edith
Nicholson, lone: Hazel Hamlin with her guest from the
hospital, Genia Huston, and many other veterans of this
affair that began more than 50 years ago. Another surprise
rider in the parade was Mrs. Georgia Packwood, wife of Sen.
Bob Packwood. One of the nicest features of the impromptu'
and thoroughly unorganized parade is that nobody knows
who or what will be in it. Which means every entry is a
surprise one.
Two great Americans, pioneers in aviation, have died
within three days of each other. Charles Lindberg, 72, who
flew the Spirit of St. Louis solo from New York to Paris in
1927. died on Maui Monday. Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky
died Saturday in New York at the age of 80. He designed
the P-35 and Thunderbolt fighter planes, invented the
automatic pilot for aerial flight, in-flight refueling, the first
automatic synchronized bombsight and helped develop the
Sperry gyroscope. Global air flight began with Lindberg's
feat. With de Seversky's aeronautical engineering genius,
aviation has been brought to its present-day state of
sophistication and safety. The two men were totally
different. Lindberg tried to warn the U.S. to keep out of
World War II; de Seversky buoyed American hopes of
winning the war by authoring the book, "Victory Through Air
Power." Lindberg was modest and retiring; de Seversky
was outspoken and gregarious. One was American born ; the
other Russian-born. But all their lives both were great
Americans, the stature of which we may never see again.
Why, I have been pondering, doesn't Heppner turn itself
into an old-time, western frontier cowtown? And at the rodeo
last week a visitor was heard to make this statement: "This
town could become a national attraction if it would only
remodel its store fronts to reflect a typical cowtown, and it
wouldn't take any money because it already has the old
buildings that go with it!" He's right, too. All across the
nation small towns, towns left stranded by industry, ghost
towns, towns time has forgotten are being revitalized
simply be restoring existing businesses, and by the generous
use of paint and a few construction twists to impart a nostal
gic touch of distinction. Heppner is an ideal town for such a
restoration. Most of the buildings are eood but old. and would
require little renovation to bring them to a vibrant life a
wagon wheel here, an oil buring lamp there, a hitching post,
watering trough, a couple of swinging doors and lots of gay
paint. For little or nothing an expert in these matters could
be gotten as a consultant. He could design store fronts,
suggest decorative touches and specify harmonious colors. I
doubt there is a building in town that could not be put into a
pioneer condition for less than $2,000 about the cost of a fine
horse or bull ! Heppner already has a reputation for being a
remote town with a pioneer flavor, and one that wants to stay
that way. Well, it can, with a little imagination and a few
bucks, and it would be fun doing it, and profitable, too. We
don't have to change things too much, just capitalize on and
accent what we already have. There's enough imaginative
people in Morrow County to plan the city's face-lifting.
There's $20 million in our two banks to indicate the money is
here. Is there somebody to get it started? Wonder if our new
Heppner Lions Club would want to "bite the bullet" on this
one?
This issue has been given over mostly to pictures and
stories about the fair and rodeo. More pictures and results of
the fair competition will be run next week. The pictures to be
run will be selected by the editors, and there is no need for
any proud parent to be aggrieved if his or her child's picture
does not appear. We obviously can't run the hundreds of
pictures we took of the many events; and just as obvious, we
cannot permit our selection of pictures to be determined by
popular vote. Just be grateful we devote so much space and
attention to these events. It never happened before, you
know! We are indebted to Greg Sweeney and Jay Devin of
Lexington for their invaluable help in photographing the
rodeo.
THf
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Oregon.
Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The session at the country store got off to a rousing good
start Saturday night. The fellers was congratulating their
selves on the power of their suggestion, and they went on to
take a look at how things in general is going according to
their plan.
Clem Webster brung a clipping where a outfit in London,
England has come out with a cowcatcher fer cars. Clem
pointed out to the fellers that they voted six months ago to put
scoops on the front of cars to give folks on the street a
chanct to git picked up instead of run over.
With all the cars on the road, the fellers had said, they ain't
no way a pedestrain can stay our of the way of all of em. And
now Clem had this picture showing a pritty gal modeling a
"pedestrian catcher" on a car in London, which proves that
word of discussions at the store really git around.
And before the fellers could git over the excitement of
inventing a pedestrian catcher, Ed Doolittle reported where
colleges all over the country are hurting fer students this fall.
Enrollment is off and costs is up and the schools is caught in
the squeeze, said Ed.
This come as no suprise to the fellers cause they had called
fer a cutback in college two year ago. Ed said he recollected
back then he said we was bringing up a nation of younguns
that could read in four languages and couldn't replace a light
bulb and that he had got to where a high school diploma was
the education equal of a birth certificate.
The fellers come out strong then fer more attention to
keeping the world running and less on studying why it won't
run. Ed minded.
As fer teaching old dogs new tricks, Bug Hookum alius is
first to point out that trying new tricks is what makes dogs
old.
Bug says when he figgered out his old lady means no when
she says no and maybe when she says yes he knowed all he
needed to git along in life, except that when she calls him
three times a day she expects his hands clean and his feet
under the table in five minutes or less. What got Bug thinking
about old dogs and old tricks was this report he saw out of
Seattle.
Bug said two members of our generation, Gerald
Pea tody, 74, and his sidekick Blackie Audett, 72, are back in
jail fer trying the same old trick. Bug had saw this item
where the two was caught bank robbing three months after
they got out of federal prison fer robbing banks. Bug said he
can't figger if them boys are jest working at the only trade
they know, or they're trying to prove that in spite of
everthing you hear these days, crime still don't pay fer
everbody.
Speaking of prisons, Zeke Grubb reported where the
Georgia attorney general has ruled that convicts in that state
has got to pay sales tax like everbody else. Which shows you
might escape from prison, but never from taxes.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
EDITOR: .
After visiting you in Heppner the last week in May I flew
over to the Aberdeen region on the Washington coast where I
had a delightful visit with one of my younger sisters, Janet
Jones, and her rather large family, in the Elma, Chehalis and
Seattle area.
Janet as a young girl worked on the Gazette-Times,
operating the confounded Simplex typesetting machine, a
forerunner to our Model K Linotype. She then married an
Eight Mile lad, LeRoy Jones, and not long thereafter they
moved to the Aberdeen sector and had a large dairy spread
at Hemptulips for several years.
Mr. Jones died in 1972. Janet had 11 children, 9 of whom are
living. She also has 29 grandchildren and 31
great-grandchildren, according to the latest census. A new
great-granddaughter arrived in Seattle while I was there.
Since returning to San Jose at the end of July I found the
Gazette-Times of some five issues; the others never showed
up at all and the sporadic postal delivery has now become the
norm. I am surprised when a copy does arrive on this
hit-or-miss basis. . . there was a time when the GT arrived at
my door not later than Saturday week issue, and seldom
later than the following Monday. Since I do not have much to
do anyway, I just sit with my fingers crossed. Makes me
appreciate the paper that much more when I get it!
Have looked forward to reading your Horse Sense, Mayor
Roy and other editorial features in addition to the local
news. Hope the delivery, by a miracle, will get better
instead of worse. If it improves I will be the first to let you
know.
ART CRAWFORD,
San Jose, Ca.
(ED. NOTE-Cheer up Art. Postmaster Hubert Wilson is
going to straighten all this for us.)
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
I've enjoyed the Gazette-Times, so am enclosing my check
to cover another year's subscription.
Also, I want to thank you for having John Chamberlain as
your guest columnist while you were on vacation. He was
like a breath of fresh air, and to me he made a lot of good
sense, and he did not have to use a hatchet to do it.
Thanks again, Mr. Joiner. You raised my opinion of news
paper people several notches. It had hit rock bottom, so to
speak. How about having Mr. Chamberlain back, if possible?
FRANCES THOMPSON,
Cazadero, Ca.
EDITOR:
I want to answer Dr. Stashak (Gazette-Times, Aug. 8).
That survey showing $20,000 annual average income (for
doctors) must have been about 1945? Most doctors are now
clearing more than $70,000 per year and $140,000 is not con
sidered unusual.
Harvard Medical School had 3500 applicants and only ac
cepted 350 last year.
Forty per cent of all doctors licensed to practice in the last
decade in the USA did not graduate from American medical
schools. Would-be medical careers, please note.
There are over a thousand small towns in the 3500 to 5500
population category that cannot get doctors.
The doctors of osteopathy got so politically strong in Calif
ornia that the MDs asked them to drop the DO in favor of MD
classification.
Some 1500 medical students of the University of Texas get
more tax dollars than 40,000 students at Austin main branch.
I recently paid one of these "altruistic" boys $300 for exact
ly two minutes of his great brain time to remove a tiny fish
bone in my wife's throat and a little old cardiogram and
blood test done by a doctor's nurse cost $75.
The head at Massachusetts General Hospital recently said
on national TV, "Ninety per cent of all hysterectomies are
not needed and some 50 per cent of all surgery done in the
USA should not be done." t
CHARLES SPEAR,
Sherman, Tex.
CHICAGO-After two days of wrestling with the knotty
problem of three retired bishops who staged an illegal
ordination to the priesthood of 11 women, the Episcopal
Church's House of Bishops apparently thought they had the
problem solved with a compromise.
They ruled invalid the alleged ordination conducted by
Bishops Daniel Corrigan, Robert DeWitt and Edward Welles
(assisted by Bishop Antonio Ramos of Costa Rica) in Phila
delphia on July 29.
At the same time, these bishops who had created a national
Episcopal furor were merely knuckle-rapped, with a
criticism ("violating the legislative process of the whole
church") rather than the formal charges drawn up by 45
bishops including: (A) Violation of the Rubrics (directions K
of the Book of Common Prayer; (B) Violation of ordination
vows two counts, and; (C) Violation of the denomination's
constitution and canons (laws) six counts.
Under any of these charges, the offending bishops could be
deposed (unfrocked), Perhaps the 45 bishops thought that by
a last -minute withdrawing of these chargesafter the House
voted the ordinations invalid they could placate the
Episcopal far left wing.
They should have known better.
Within minutes of the bishops' ruling of invalidity, a press
release was issued by 10 of the 11 women deacons present,
which blasted the bishops.
"Each of us will make her own decision as to how and when
to affirm the priesthood she knows to be hers," announced
the obviously furious ladies.
Their press release went on to charge that the bishops
really have no right to make such a decision without con
sulting the other House (Deputies) of the General
Convention, which is the denomination's highest authority:
or between meetings of this body (every three years) the
Episcopal Executive Council.
But this protest was made by the ladies only AFTER the
bishops had ruled the ordinations invalid. Would they have
so challenged the authority of the bishops had there been a
ruling in their favor?
"Of course not!" laughed one of them, Mrs. Bruce Cheek of
Annadale, Va. who recently was photographed being
carried about in vestments on the shoulders of the Rev.
William Wendt, one of Washington, D.C.'s leading ecclesias
tical jesters.
The bishops were further blasted by black militant Charles
Willie, an unsolicited guest at the meeting, who intruded
upon a press briefing area set up for Presiding Bishop John
Allin. Dr. Willie, of Syracuse University, was in the midst of
his loud and rather ludicrous attempt to imitate Martin
Luther King, when he was asked about the rather embarrass
ing fact that womens' ordination to the priesthood is favored
by a ma jority of the bishops but has been held up by his
very own House of Deputies (priests and laity.).
Why under these circumstances does Dr. Willie not resign
from his vice-presidency of this allegedly detestable House?
Willie: "My office is irrelevant to the action of the House of
Bishops!" (But only three days later Willie followed this
suggestion and resigned providing the best news the
Episcopal Church has had in a decade).
What is equally hypocritical is the fact that one of these
offending bishops, Edward Welles, less than a decade ago
voted for a formal House of Bishops censure of San
Francisco's controversial Bishop James Pike, for "Offen
sive and highly disturbing irresponsible statements."
Pike, announced Welles, was a "Publicity seeker with a
deep-rooted martyr complex, who may be thirsting for a
heresy trial."
When the House of Bishops holds its regular meeting in
October it might well consider a posthumous lifting of the
censure against Bishop Pike, who for all his controversial
statements had never approximated the deliberate
disobedience to canons and ordination vows of Bishop Welles
and his cohorts.
And, if the House of Bishops has any loyalty to its recently
installed Presiding Bishop Allin, it whould certainly conduct
an investigation to see if Allin's predecessor, Bishop John E.
Mines (a strong advocate of female priests), was in any way
involved in the advance planning of this bogus ordination.
For when asked if he had anything to do with creating this
national crisis for his successor, Bishop llines repeatedly re
fused to comment.
BAtwtr-iMC
"What This Country Needs Is
Less Governing And More Corn Farming"
P. S Heppner should build a small two-doctor clinic with
attached 20-bed hospital. Then go to medical school, DO or
MD, and offer private ownership after the doctors pay the
note over 20 years.
EDITOR:
I want to tell the truth about my Army life, not what some
recruiter tells you.
When you first arrive at Ft. Jackson or Ft. McClellan, you
spend four days to a week in the reception station. There you
receive uniforms, shots and learn how to make a bed, army
style.
Then you ship to the basic training barracks. By the way,
the food at the reception station is awful. When we shipped to
the basic barracks, I thought the food wasn't so bad, but I've
changed my mind. Sometimes it's real good, and sometimes
it's bad.
The basic barracks aren't so good either. South Carolina is
nothing but a beach, and the sand sticks to our shoes and
ruins the floor wax jobs.
We can't have candy or food up in the barracks because of
. cockroaches. During the summer it gets very hot here, espe
cially when you're drilling. Every hour we get a 10-minute
break to smoke, take a drink of water, or to talk.
I started basic last Friday. We have classes from 7:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday we have half a day of classes
and we get the afternoon off. Sunday is a totally free day.
I'll write more later and answer any questions you may
have.
PVT. BARBARA LISA CUTSFORTH,
543-S8-4343,
C-17-5 (2nd Platoon),
Fort Jackson, S.C. 29207
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