Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1975)
, Heppper, Ore.! Gtuette-Times, Thursday, Jan. 16, 1975 ''"".' ..... i. M or of Hardman -in: ni tl Page 2 May (Oliod 'J g m .; union V I Horse sense f 'ml .11 ' By KKMSTV.JOIXKK The U. S. Department of Justice has filed suit Against AT&T, Western Electric and Bell Telephone Laboratories for "monopolizing and conspiring to monopolize telecomrhuni cation service and equipment." The irony is inescapable: here an insolvent corporation is trying to tell three solvent corporations how to run their business. Here is a case of a - -non-producing corporation engaged in dragging down productive corporations that employ more than one million people at high wages; and three that have put telephones in more homes in America than exist in the rest of the world combined and have 'done it at less cost to the consumer. I paid more for telephone service in 1928 (when a dollar was a dollar i than I pay in 1975 (when a dollar is a quarter). T Obviously, such "enemies of the people" must be punished for providing them with the world's finest communications system at prices the lowest income worker can afford. A dog won't do it. but it is in the nature of man to bite the hand that feeds him: The success of American free enterprise is no better indicated than by observing the low esteem in which the American people hold the business and industrial community that has played such a great role in providing the - world's best standard of living for the American people. A recent survey by Opinion Research Corporation shows that " 20 per cent of U. S. teenagers believe that the American ' husiness system is "very bad" or that the "bad outweighs the good." Why would teenagers hold such beliefs? Are they taught at home that business is immoral? Are they taught it in church? Probably not. But it is an established fact that they are being taught in many public schools and universities that American business is greedy, grasping, oppressor of labor who have no social consciousness or morality, and are ' only interested in profits. By contrast, take the teenagers who are members of . Junior Achievement programs. Achievers are those who get first-hand experience by actually running a company that produces a product or a service that people will buy. Junior Achievers are concerned with making profit to pay for w ages '. and materials, with enough left over to repay their stockholders for the money they advanced. On the same opinion poll, only 4.3 per cent believed that business was .. "very bad." Achievers, by working in the free enterprise 1 system, realized the problems involved in making a product the people w ill buy at a price that will pay production costs ; and return a fair share to investors. They were not taken in by the anti-business pap dispensed in so many schools by teachers, who should know better and whose jobs depend largely upon whether or not business makes its profits. It is 'irony that schools and colleges that teach that American' t. business and industry in our free enterprise system is bad ' -are the prime beneficiaries of the free enterprise system. '.Take (.away from schools and colleges the grants, endowments., scholarships, research facilities, gifts of '"money, gifts of school buildings'and equipment and all " those taxes and the whole system wouid collapse. Then our outspoken foes of free enterprise could engage in a more desirable pursuit such as selling apples on the street. m Why ajerican.onoraniinjhe;,ways)fihej5ruave V 'ftiTrprlsP ?vltcm 7 One reason is. of course, that schools and - .colleges- fl few ccurses-'rJff1 ecwrnnlci'i",1'': thai do are more apt to picture business in its worst light. The statistical truth is that the average American business earns ; about 4.3 per cent profit a year from its operation. Yet polls show that the American people believe business gets 28 cents as profit out of every dollar it grosses. College students are better informed they believe business nets 20 cents profit after taxes from each dollar of gross! Another reason Americans remain largely ignorant of their system is that politicians find it profitable to attack corporations Big Business. More and more they combine to place more and ' more taxes upon them and to regulate them to the point of confiscation. There is hardly a sin that politicians haven't w assigned to Big Business, including all j our current economic woes. There is one sin of which our private enferprise system Big Business" is guilty. It has not even provided for its defense by fighting back. It has been guilty of failing to educate the American people as to its true role in a free society. It has founded no colleges, as have the revolutionaries and social scientists. It seldom refutes the untruths preached over the land by the enemies of private enierprise. nor does it retaliate or counter-attack. It stands mule in the dock. What can private enterprise do to save itself from destruction, and w ith it our free society? It can stop funding colleges and universities that teach profit is a sin. It can take the money w ithheld from educational institutions and throw it into defeating the politicians who condemn private enierprise as a crime against the people. It can match on every stump the long-haired social scientists who harangue i. around the clock 'about the evils of an "uncontrolled" " economy. It can establish a university where parents may "1 send their children to learn about the American economy, w hat it means and what it achieves. It can hold seminars in '.. every town and city to bring to grassroots America the success story of private enterprise. It can stop being - ashamed of making a profit and stop apologizing for its success. It can tell the truth about how mass production has ; saved thi5 nation at least twice from slavery, and how that - production helps keep; freedom around the world. It can tell how Big Business, frwre than any segment of society, pays J the freight for social and welfare programs, provides the jobs, takes the risks, and provides all of us with highest z standard of living all the while throwing billions across the ' sea for the benefit of the backward, lazy or less fortunate. ' There is a Labor Day and a full week dedicated to the indigestible doughnut --but no American Business Day to call attention to the .most unique and successful production s machine ever devised by man. We have a Be Kind to' '; Pussycats Week, but not a single day to recognize business community. Such a proposal passed the Senate May 2, 1974. That proposal named May 13 as American Business Day - because on that day in 1607 Jamestown was founded bjt, colonists who came here under sponsorship of the Virginia "Company of London a private business venture. So it was a private business venture that gave birth to this country in the ..first place: and why doesn't your child know about that? Y What Heppner needs is a king -sized Pied Piper to handle ',' our rats. Giant, wharf-size rats, Claude Buschke fought one to a draw last Wednesday night in front of his home on West l'nion Avenue.. It.fetiLoowed that day ifitnriw this rat in the street on front of his house about 10 o'clogr. Not wanting jp ; disturb his neighbourly firing a shotgun, he grabbed a pellet ''gun, went outsid$3trd:fired at the rat. The pellet must have hit, because thefahumped into the air, but came down charging towardBwchke. Claude tried to ward off the attack by swinging the butt of the gun. He missed, and the rat nailed fiirn by the trouser leg. He got free, and the rat took off toward Willow Creek". Police Officer Chuck Holt found it easy fo track the rat, but couldn't locate him. Holt said one of these rats chewed up a dog a while back, and that recently he ' helped kill one on the window ledge of Bob Abram's law office. 1 "Boogity, Boogity..." Doctors . . w 1 ' 1 (Continued from Page 1) Roth doctors are now pra cticing In Pendleton, bill say they already have many patients from Morrow County. They have also expressed a desire to have an answer to the community's problem by the first of February as they have been asked by another city in Idaho to set up practice there. Last year Pioneer Memorial Hospital lost approximately $511,000. and the deficit hud to ho made up by Morrow County taxpayers. The two doctors project that if they come to Heppner the hospital could be put on a break-even basis within six months. Thus it would appear that if the county doe not furnish the clinic, to cost about $40,000. it will face subsidizing the hospital out of taxes as it has in the past. Actually, one observer noted, it will cost taxpayers more not to build the clinic than it will to go ahead and spend the money, build the clinic, and insure the presence of two practicing physicians. In other business, Judge Junes announced that the possibility of removing some of i he curves on Hwy. 74. as well as widening the road, may famine a reality in the near future. The stale plans to studv the project from I.ex billion to the Willow Creek (indue, and if approved, the "tale will s'nd an estimated l 7 million dollars in the project This includes the cost ol a new bridge with the remainder to be spent on Inuliway relocation work. The mail pouch Doherty looks at KPITolt county schools mm No government, civic or labor leader has the guts to advocate the cure needed for our depression and inlkyinn -letting the laws of supply and demand take their course. "' " Note the cattle industry- 5o cents a pound for beef a year .-n;o. and now we have a surplus of 5 per cent and 25-eenl beef. The'siirplus would right itself if the packers, meat cutters and retailers wouldn't imxse an artificial dam across this product. The automobile industry settled with labor at a wage of st; to per hour, and almost immediately turned UIO.OUO men out on tlx- street . l-iKw11' industry priced themselves right "mit fthe market . as'the cattlemen did If labor would redus-" their wages one hall, take $.1 per. Jhwifo uick.tnj-sl$f: ';nia"iVrcur cars uoiiWhe reduced St.ooo each and every one could go back to. work. j The same is true of all products. We would reach a new natural level, and inflation and depression would right themselves ' ' ' Iilir is out biggest surplus. As it is now. almost all cinlo mm! checks are overdrafts on the federal treasury, and are mere printed slips of paper. A dollar was a dollar in I'M",, now it's worth about :io cents, and in 10 to 15 years it will worth nothing. We'll lake the cut then, so why not lake it now'.' . . ' U-i me wnnt out that housing is perhaps our best example oi how an industry can be priced out of the market. 0 W. CUTSFORTH. Heppner. EDITOR: At the head of Column One. page 2 of your paper published under date ol Jan 2. 1975. is material that 1 think is worthy of honorable mention It took a liltletime for the last two (using Ihe slang vernacular to "soak in." You may have forgotten those words, so I'll just enlighten von. They were "AND" "KTC." It really gave me quite a laugh. While we're dealing with alphabetical organizations I would like to add a few more. While I was in the grammer grades 75 years auo we were told there were 26 letters in our alphabet . The alphabet has stood up quite well, retaining the original 2(i letters after so many years of mutilation, don't on think'.' Well, here are a few more of the above-mentioned alphabetical organizations, namelv and to-wit: P0W, COD, DST. PDQ. AWOL. IKS. MIA. BVD. DC. BC. PWA. SOS, MIA. EXREL. VIP. PC. LCM. IICF, LCM, ETUX, ETVR, AKA. GAP. FDIC. E&OE. NSF. KP. HCF. CE&TA; KJ&l'AA. OP( CRAG. TSB. NASL, FEA, VD. IED, OLCC, OSS. KT AL Maybe some other of your subscribers can think of some others I have seen all of the above in print. So they must be. It must be a good and efficient alphabet to stand all that hammering and still be surviving! GROVERC.CURTISS, Cecil. EDITOR: On behalf of the Heppner Lions dub I would like to publicly express our thanks to Cliff Williams, Melvin McDaniel and Tom Hughes in helping "bring" Santa to the kids of Heppner' and to those at the hospital. : Also, our club greatly appreciated the efforts of Ernie Ceresa in heading the club project of "Santa Calling" the kids of the area. DAVE HARRISON, Secretary, Heppner Lions Club. Member i the Associated t'nivcrsitv Women saw Supl Mall Doherty look into his crvsial hall for Morrow Court l Schools at their meeting Tuesday evening in lone. Doherty told the women that schools can now look forward to seeing the end of the "nun reader" fa-cause of the larite amounts of money j jKiiiroL lulu school -leading programs. The metric sv stem "will ImH'oHP a' p.irt (if'm'a(H-:i' einaties education. In terms of earlv childhood education the handieapM'd will receive more training in Morrow County. This is already being taeililaled The new gradua tion requirements, h much discussed topic last year, are now in the stage of practical development A qiii-stimmaire pertaining lo recommendations being considered by the area long range planning committees and the county long range planning committee was dis tributed to each member. Doherty told the group lhal In other business. AAl'W w ill he sMiiisoring the tin voice Colh-ue ol Idaho Choir. Satur day. Feb 8. in concert at the Heppner High School Calelor iinn The concert will fa-gin at 5 p in A dinner is being planned between the concert and the basketball game. The group also voted $50 donated lo the Heppner Child Ih-velopiiient Center. The group, w ill not hold a r'euular meeting in February fa-cause of the College of Malm concert. They will meet, however, for a bAsim-ss meet ing on Tuesday evening. Feb. then- are 150 more students in Morrow County schools this year than last year. School eiiiollmeniH will increase over tin- next five years, and the lotm ranye planning commit lees are try ing lo deal with needed expansion. Sue Dun can, a member of AAL'W. has replaced Ruth Maatta. on the Heppner Lexington long ramie planning commit tee. Time fo apply for summer foresi jobs Most of the temporary summer jobs on the l.'malilla National Forest will be filled from applications received on the forest during the period Jan. 1 Feb 15 Clerical positions will be filled from a list of people who have passed the Civil Service Commission's Summer Em ployment Exam. Application forms are available at the Forest Ser vice headquarters at 2517 S. W, Hailey, Pendleton, at district ranger office in Hepp ner or by calling the toll-free number.' 800-452-4910. A booklet explaining how to apply to take the Summer Employment Exam can be obtained from the Forest Service. The deadline for filing for the written test is Jan. 17. 1975. -y It applications are received by January 17. applicants will be scheduled for the test during the month of February, Interest in summer jobs in national forests has increased during the past few years. Last year Id times as .many people applied as there were jobs available. For this reason, one should not apply solely with the Forest Service for a summer job. Minimum age for most applicants is 18. The Morrow County School Board will meet this month in lone, The meeting is schedul ed Monday, Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m., in the high school cafeteria, The public is welcome. March of Dimes drive planned ? a V X- -X :: f.i x- X :: x x x X THE GAZETTE-TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER Box 337, Heppner, Ore. 97836 Subscription rate : $6 per year in Oregon, $7 elsewhere Ernest. V.. Joiner, Publisher Published every Thursday and entered as a second-class matter at the post office at Heppner, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Second-das postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. X X X -X- -x ;. X X -x- X- " X A meeting was held Thurs day at the home of Donna Bergstrom to kick-off the 1975 campaign for the March of Dimes in Morrow County. Attending was Joan Dahl berg. Portland, Eastern Ore gon field representative. Those serving currently on the board are: Morrow County officers;, Donna Bergstrom, campaign director; Pat Gen try, treasurer; Patsy Tom, secretary; Daryce Franzen, public health chairman; San dy Duvall, publicity; Cindy Green, public schools chair man; Sherree Mahoney, mail er chairman; Carolyn Cole, Mothers March chairman. Mothers March chairmen for towns in Morrow County are: Iericc Martin, Heppner; Marian Robinson, Iexington; Diana Hams, lone; Mary Lou Daltoso, Boardman; and, Francine Evans, Irrigon, Other board members are Ann Schwarz, Gaudia Hughes and Bill Lande. Resources are building in the scholarship fund. The county March of Dimes scholarships are available to any male or female entering the nursing profession. i DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I . ...... ..... I see by the papers where the sale of new cars Is down somepun awful, and it looks like they are pulling the hole economy under with em. This piece I read said ever 1975 Jpar that aln'l sold Is costing a job In the car-making industry, and that Ter ever cur maker lhal loses his job three people are losing Iheirs in work that supplies the car parts. Car dealers is like n bad cold, When they sneeze they spread germs over everhody , and if they gil a sore throat from no sales the feller that makes the parts gits newmonla from no Job, Zeke was talking about how used cars was selling good nowimd he recalled a few years ago when we was sending all our Junk cars lo Hungry fer them to use the spare parts to keep their cars on the road. If the parts people git laid off as car sales drop, Zeke allowed, we might have to recall our junks, , , Zeke said he had come up with a Idee fer the car makers that farmers and ranchers use with good results. Go ahead and make all thecars and sell em lo the Guvernmenl, The U. S, Department of Automobiles could set production quoters and price support to cover the cost of the car and pervide work fer all the car makers and suppliers. The cars could be stored in big underground parking lots, or look out to sea and buried The folks that is gitling laid off would have jobs and the Government would save the cost of paying unemployment and welfare and gil new cars In the bargain, Hill Wealherford wasn't full agreed with Zeke's answer to what the car people call the overrun problem, but he said it weren't new with the farmers. He said he had saw back w hen some of the big papers was changing from metal printing to printing from film that the shop union had people making pages Iw lct. They w ould make em in metal like their conlrncl called fer, then throw the metal away and make em in film The idee of make work has fa-en around since them pharows kept thousands of foks lo busy building pyramids lo rise up agin em, was Hill's words. Actual, broke in Ed Gonly. there's ways lo control folks thai we ain't seen yet. Ed was talking about the way the Itiissians turn everihing into a tool to use agin us. They buy our heal, and all kind of pains hit us. from the price of a loaf of bread to cattle that we can't afford to feed Back last fall. Kd said, the word got out that Russia was bidding on 500,000 Ions of sugar, and our market went slap cray Now we re paving five times fer sugar what we were a year ago, and we're buying sugar from Mexico that we wouldn't use in normal limes And the Russians didn't even buy the sugar, Kd said, they just spread the rumor they might Personal. Mister Editor. I hope we ain't come to the day of Guvernmenl by Russian rumor in this country. Suppose they start hinting nfani! dealing in American gold like they have In Mideast oil" Yours truly. MAYOR ROY. Church support f of Chavez C 1L.JJ Tl By t.FSTFH hi vsoi VIM; Cesar Chavez, the charismatic leader of the I'mled Farmworkers of America, AFLCIO. has very probably attracted more endorsements and support from the churches than any other lalmr leader in U. S. history. This support Is continuing despite an article in the New York Tunes w hich details substantial evidence lhal the I'FW has recently lost almost allot lis contracts, as well as most of its membership, lo the Teamsters l'nion. ('have himself was in Europe nl the tune of this report, meeting with and eliciting the highest praise from Pope Paul VI and the Rev. !r Philip Potter. General Secretary of the World Council of Churches In California, the Rev Wayne C. Ilarlmire. director of the National Farmworkers Ministry of Ihe National Council of Churches i wrote on Aug. 2: "Cesar Chavez has devoted his life lo building a democratic union that can free farmworkers from dependence and poverty." Just how fr-e are Ihe farmworkers from dependence upon the leaders of I'FW? And how much democracy is there in this union'' Answers to these basic questions seemed evident during a Dec 12 interview with one of Chavez' closest aides. Gilbert Padilla. Secretary-Treasurer of the I'FW. During the interview . at Ihe I'FW boycott headquarters in Ihe Takoma Park section of Washington, Padilla was asked alxiui resirts that Chavez has described population control and planned parenthood as "a plot against the poor." Replied Padilla : "True. There are no contraceptives given out in our t'FW clinics tin Calexico. San Luis-near Yuma. IMano, Fresno and Salinas i. We don'l believe In contraception, or in abortion, which isn't allowed in our clinics, either." How do Ihe rank and file members of the I'FW feel about tins'' "We poll the membership on everything." replied Padilla, his voice showing just a touch of indignation at the very suggestion of any high level paternalism by the high command of Cesar Chavez' union. When exactly was the I'FW membership polled to determine their wishes in regard to these two controversial issues? Padilla: "I don't remember the dates." Did the results of this poll indicate any sharp divergence from Ihe recurrent national polls which have shown that majorities of faith the population as a whole, as well as Catholics in particular, do nol approve of any prohibition of contraceptives or the banning of abortions no matter what Ihe circumstances? Padilla: "Well, it wasn't really a poll. It was surveys." How many UFW members were surveyed? Padilla: "In those days we had thousands." How many of these thousands were surveyed regarding their wishes concerning availability of contraceptives or abortions in their union's clinics? Padilla: "They don't pay for those clinics the growers do." (His tone of voice had now shifted from indignation to dark outrage.) Bui since the growers would hardly pay for clinics unless the workers worked, are not these clinics in actuality earned fringe benefits, earned by the workers themselves? Padilla: "Historically contraceptives and abortions have never fa-en used in our community. I for one am opposed to them." ,., Since this information made it apparent that Mr. Padilla and his eight fellow members of the board of directors of th$ Chavez union had themselves decided what was best for thfl rank and file members, I asked how many women were among these decision-makers on this matter of pregnancy, "One," answered Padilla, Among the more than 300 contracts which the UFW had with the growers at the beginning of 1973, how many are still in existence? "Two," replied Padilla. Among the 60,000 UFW members reported at that time, the New York Times article reports that "fewer than 5,000" still remain. "It s 15,000," countered Padilla. Does he have any evidence for this claim? Well, not immediately at hand, "but we will have, shortly, when the annual report is drawn up," he said.