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Ore.! Gtuette-Times, Thursday, Jan. 16, 1975
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I
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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.