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) The American Civil Liberties Union (which I regard as
neither American nor civil) was recently successful in
getting a felon appointed as a juror in Los Angeles. This
probably stretches the common law admonishment that an
accused is entitled to be tried by a jury of his "peers," and it
is certainly not what the founding fathers had in mind when
they wrote into the constitution that an accused must be tried
; by an "impartial jury." This act probably sets a precedent,
and we may look forward to criminals sitting on juries that
t try suspected criminals; which is responsible, considering
that the lunatics are already running the asylums and
prisoners are in charge of the prisons. Webster's dictionary
defines a- peer as "one that is of equal standing with
another;" therefore, one criminal on the jury and one
( accused in the dock suggests "equal standing." I can
understand the ACLU's point of view. Obviously, a criminal
is better able to understand and appreciate and have more
' compassion for an accused than would a stuffy old
law-abider. "Relating" is the new social surge. Very
important. So, invoking the same principle that a felon's
f place is sitting in the jury box instead of standing in front of
? t. I suggest that henceforth only rapists be permitted to sit as
i jurors in a rape case, because a rapist can best "relate" to
another rapist. Only muggers should sit in judgment on an
accused mugger, because muggers have this community of
interests and understanding that a "straight" could never
have. Murder defendants, naturally, must be judged by
murderers in order to uphold the specific requirement of the
U. S. Constitution that a person accused of crime shall be
tried by an "impartial jury." Now, if the new social science
places criminals in the jury box, does it not follow that judges
should also be criminals? If it is unfair to try an accused
without a criminal on the jury, it must be unfair to try an
accused without a criminal on the bench.
I had no idea how prophetic I was in announcing last
week the advent of the Silly Season. First, we get felons on
the jury. Now comes the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation over Pendleton way to seek (and they
certainly shall find) an all-Indian police force and judicial
system to enforce Indian tribal law, Indian culture and
presumably some white man law. Appeals from the proposed
all-Indian court is directed to federal district court, which
shows what our red brothers think of Oregon's judiciary.
Gen. Custer wouldn't like this at all. But the idea is sure to be
popular and to expand. If there is going to be all-Indian police
' and courts, what about the same treatment for black men,
yellow men and brown men? I would suggest the equal
consideration for white men, but that would be racial
discrimination at its worst! Once we have law and courts on a
race basis (except that whites must be excluded), it might
become socially necessary to create police forces and courts
made up of all-Catholic, all-Protestant and all-Jew
communities. The possibilities are limitless for getting a fair
shake by one's own peer group. How about all-male,
-female and all-homosexual police and judges? Or are we
just going to stop with setting up a sweet deal for the Indians?
For years the social planners, misty-eyed liberals and"
intellectual pygmies have been working mightily to make
everybody equal in every way even to the point of
embracing communism. Tiiey are the same people who
pushed us into the United Rations, Women's Lib, the non-sex
movement and equal opportunity employment and who
have all but rewritten the language in a drive to any
reference to eliminate race, age, sex. religion or nationality.
Vet here they are. Janus-faced, setting up special police and
'courts based 100 per cent on race. Incredible.
The Umatilla Indian incident reminds me of the cowboy
who was riding along the Oregon Trail back in the 1850s, and
in the distance saw an Indian stretched out with his ear to the
ground. The cowboy had always heard that Indians could put
their ears to the ground and detect such things as running
horses, stampeding buffalo and other animal migration.
Curious as to what the Indian was listening to, he rode near,
: tied his horse, and approached the Indian. "How!" he said,
giving the hand greeting. "What you listen to?" The Indian
raised his hand in greeting, and without taking his ear from
the ground replied : "Stage coach . . . two men on top, one ride
. shotgun . . . four people inside stagecoach . . . one little boy
with birthday cake on lap . . . " The cowboy was amazed.
. "You mean you can hear all that with your ear to the
; ground?" he asked. "No,'.' the Indian said haltingly,
stagecoach run over me . . . half-hour ago."
I have a feeling this racial fragmentation of law
enforcement and judiciary powers will be regretted by the
Indians themselves. Races generally oppress their own kind,
. as witness what goes on in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh,
China. Chad. Gambia. Ethiopia and a host of African
mini-nations. Before it's over the Umatilla Indians may feel
as though that stagecoach ran over the lot of them.
9 Sen. Ken Jernstedt confirmed from Salem last week
what so many Oregonians already know bureaucracy is
stifling state economic development. Here's what he said;
"This week our joint committee on economic development
held a most interesting hearing. Its purpose was to try to
determine at least a part of the 'log jams' that state
government through its regulatory agencies has placed in
the way of development in the State of Oregon. The
bombshell of the hearing was the fact that over $1 billion
worth of proposed plants, hotels, motels, manufacturing
establishments, etc., are now at a standstill because agencies
have not handed out a decision! At a time when our state
needs stimulation it is astounding that we, as a people, are
being held up by our own agencies. We also heard testimony
on how the Department of Health has thrown obstacles in the
way of the development of many sewer and water
projects again a deterent to growth . . . This same
committee listened to the members and staff of the
Department of Environmental Quality. This is one of several
state agencies that are on the hot spot at this time for
allegedly holding up economic development in our state. If
any message came out of this hearing, it is that changes
should be made in their procedures that would insure a faster
decision on the part of the commission when an application is
made." Most of these agencies, I believe, should never have
been created. All of them should be held answerable to the
people for their crimes against Oregon's economy. Sic'em,
senator!
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MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Box 337, Heppner, Ore. 97836
Subscription rate: $6 per year in
Oregon, $7 elsewhere
Ernest V.Joinar, 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-class postage paid at Heppner, Oregon.
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EDITOR:
1. Won't you please take time to read and study some of the
papers published by former editors of the Heppner
Gazette-Times? In them you will find little newsy items of
people visiting people, of social events, club meetings and
4 H events.
2. 4-H members are encouraged to keep scrapbooks and
these scrapbooks are important when they apply for
scholarships. Scrapbooks aren't complete if there aren't
newspaper items about the club members. 4-H members
aren't submitting items because the news events they have
sent in were not printed.
3. If their items are not meeting your requirements for
publication, then do as other editors have done cooperate
with the 4-H office an have training sessions for news
reporters.
4. People in our communities are busy and people outside
of the community like to read about the old friends "al
home." Your reporters have tried but you have discarded
Iheir writings, loo.
Come on. let's have some "warmth and friendship" in the
local paper.
The Gazette-Times has been in my parents' home and my
home for many years, and I'd like to be interested in it for a
few more. ,
5. I am involved in the new Morrow County Historical
Society and your publication of items submitted so far has
been satisfactory, thank you. But why weren't the news items
and membership application printed together? .
RUTH E. McCABE,
lone.
i ED. NOTE Thanks for your letter. Why is it everybody
knows better than I how to run a newspaper! We are not
printingthe "newsy items" because very few people go to the
trouble to call or send them in. We print 90 per cent of all
items submited. which must be some kind of a record among
newspapers. We do not phone everybody in the county every
week to pester them for news, but we would hope every per
son in the county would place a toll free call and let us have
the items. We want them. To answer your criticism in
order: 1. No. we will not study the works of former editors;
we're interested only in what we are doing today. 2. 4-H
reporters will have their items published when they are
submitted and if they make sense. If scrapbooks are
important. I suggest the various 4-H Clubs appoint as
reporters literate persons who know what a news item is. 3. It
doesn't take a training session to educate reporters. All it
takes is the ability to write a complete sentence and to
remember to include the cardinal elements: Who, What,
Where. When and Why. Please no more of this: "We met at
Joe's house, talked about dogs, 8 were present. We had a good
time" garbage. Kids- who write like that don't deserve a
scholarship. 4. We're busy too, including evenings, Sundays
and holidays. 5. Because we had a choice of separating the
two or leaving them out. I'm glad you gave us another
opportunity to explain that in order to publish newsy items
we have to have the cooperation of those who want them
published. We had a wonderful item today about a
conservation meeting. It gave the time, place, speaker,
subject matter. Terrific story. But the person who submitted
it neglected to say what day the meeting would be held! The
reporter in your town of lone has just resigned because
people won't turn in news items to her. She was a good
reporter and we hate to lose her. )
EDITOR:
I started a letter to Mr. French but decided a public
accusation, although not meant as such, should receive a
public apology.
As he said, I should have checked first or at least not
mentioned the location of the cemetery involved. I am glad to
learn, however, that the cemetery had not been molested.
Having lived away from Morrow County for some years one
tends to forget that there is not the vandelism there that is so
rampant here in the valley. It is not always the owner of land
that destroys that which is on it.
I also noticed another error in my previous letter when I
read it in the paper. I did not mean to imply that when using a
tape recorder one should hide it, simply not make a fuss
about it. No one drew this to my attention, though I'm sure
many of your noticed it.
FRANCES COX GRIFFIN,
Beaver ton.
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Bullish On America
Applications ready
for YCC openings
Applications will be accept
ed Feb 15 through Mar. 15 for
a limited number of 'openings
in the Youth Conservation
Corps lYCCi operated by the
State of Oregon. V. S. Depart
ment of the Interior, and the
I' S Forest Service
The youth program, a ht
mnnent one entering its fifth
year, is designed to provide
temporary employment dur
ing the summer for young men
and women of nil races and
economic backgrounds. Ap
plicants must lie at least 15
and not yet 19 years of age and
have an interest in the natural
environment '
Participants in the YCC
learn by being introduced to
environmental problems, con
tributing to their solutions,
and working with the
management and develop
ment of our public lands.
This year in Oregon, the
YCC program enrollment is
expected to reach 225, slightly
under last year's total.
In the past years, the YCC
Dates set for
ASCS meeting
David Mclx'od, executive
director of the Morrow County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service Office,
announced a statewide con
ference of Oregon county
committeemen will be held at
Salishan Iidge at Gleneden
Beach on Mar. 4 and 5.
Planning to attend from
Morrow County are Elmer E.
Padberg. Thomas E. Currin,
Delmer A. Hug, Harold Kerr,
and the ASCS office staff.
A highlight of the confer
ence will be an address by
Andrew J. Mair," Coordinator
of the Food for Peace Pro
gram for the agency for inter
national development. Mr,
Mair recently returned to this
position from an assignment
in which he assisted with
preparations for the World
Food Conference that took
place in Rome last November.
Mr. Mair has an impressive
earlier record with ASCS
starting in 1954. He served as
Deputy Administrator for
Commodity Operations for a
number of years before mov
ing to the Department of State
for assignments to American
embassies in Italy, Afghani
stan, Turkey and the Nether
lands. In 1969 he returned to
the Dept. of Agriculture under
an appointment as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Inter
national Affairs and Com
modity Operations before re
turning to the Department of
State in his present position.
has taken part in and com
pleted projects involving
stream improvement, timber
thinning, range fencing, trail
clearing, and construction of
recreation facilities, among
others
Young men and women
work side by side at several
resident and non-resident
camps, starling aboul the last
wtvk in June and continuing
eight weeks into mid-August.
Persons interested in the
program may obtain further
information from high school
counselors, stale employment
offices, or from the Gover
nor's Commission on Youth,
77." Court St.. Salem, Ore..
'.17:1111.
Forest Service ramps are
planned for the Ochoco, Ml.
Hood. Siuslaw. and Umatilla
National Forests, with De
partment of Interior camps at
the Malheur Wildlife Refuge,
Crater Like National Park,
and the Horning Tree Nursery
near Cotton. A non-resident
camp may be operated in the
Portland area.
Mr. Mair will discuss foreign
market opportunities and
world needs for U. S. agri
cultural products.
laical committeemen will
have several opportunities for
floor discussion of ASCS
administrative and program
matters. It is not anticipated
that a 1975 conservation prac
tice cost -sharing program will
be announced by the date of
the conference because funds
for such a program are
temporarily frozen while the
Congress considers a recision
requested by (he administra
tion. However, ASCS officials
from Washington attending
the conference will be inter
ested in recommendations by
local committeemen as to the
type of program they need to
help meet their local conser
vation problems.
COURTESY OF
FAST OKEGOMAN
The following (heft Is
brought to you through the
courtesy of the East Ore
gonian dated Feb. 13, 1975:
Two thefts were reported to
Morrow County Sheriff John
Mollahan Wednesday. Wood
row Webb reported the theft of
a Mm rifle and a 30-06 rifle
valued at $250. Joyce Kraft
reported the lost of a gold ring
valued at $100 and a stereo set.
Roth thefts took place Satur
day and were from a trailer
house on Willow Creek.
Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The fellers spent most of the session at the country itort
Saturday night looking at the linings of some of the dark
clouds hanging over his country. They started discussing the
briRhl side of American life In 1975 after BUI Weatherford
reported he had saw where there Is a movement glttlng
started called People fer Positive Thinking. Bill said maybe
if everbody worked hard at It the Idee might even spread to
Republicans. '
Ed Gonty called Rill's hand quick. Ed said the problem! In
this country go beyond politics, and the first positive Hep
would be (0 rclize that our domestic policy fer the past
several administrations has been run on the tweedledee
tweedledum plan, with the dum gitling the best of It.
As a general thing, allowed Ed, the two party system Is the
best form of free Guvernment. but sometime they pull In
different directions until nobody knows which way the
country ought to be going, It would be a good Idee, went on
Ed. to collect all the oddballs from the two parties into a thlr
one, then the Democrats and Republicans could git down tt
running the country.
Actual, allowed Rug Hookum, trying to find silver In eon
of our clouds is like the pilot that told the folks on the plane hi
had some good news and some bad news. The bad newt wai
lhal he was lost, but the good news was they had a itronf
tailwind and was making real good time.
Wherever we're going, declared Bug, we seem to be In I
big hurry to git there.
Zeke Grubb said he had saw by the papers where they aln'
any pore houses in this country today. At first when he reax
that. Zeke said he felt bad. cause he had been keeping his ok
lady in line fer years by telling her they'd wind up In the pon
house if she didn't cut back on her spending. But Zeke aald In
got lo feeling better when he reminded hisself that he didn't
need no control over that situation, cause he wasn't bringln
in anything to spend.
General speaking, the fellers were trying to go along wltt
positive thinking. Bug said it was mighty comforting to know
that the new Congress was at work holding up Its record ot
being the biggest giveaway program on earth.
Rug said the Lord helps those that help Ihelrself. but thai
Congress will help anybody.
We already got low-rent public housing fer folks that would
be in them pore houses we done away with, Bug said, and now
we're talking about hard cash to replace the food stamp and
other bothersome forms of welfare.
There's good news on the foreign aid front, according to
Ed He said he saw where 161 countries owe the United State
more than $33 billion and loo of them are behind In their
payments. With interest rates what they are, Ed said, w
might have to call in some of the notes. One of the country'
in debt to us is Iran, that owes $36 million.
Maybe we look a mortgage on some of Iran's oil wells, and
we can foreclose, was Ed's words.
Your truly,
MAYOR ROY. :
WASHINGTON-Repeatedly, annoyed passenger In the
long lines in front of the Eastern Airlines ticket counter In the
congested Washington National Airport have been further
frustrated by especially aggravating non passenger.
These intruders, who aggressively peddle book and
pamphlets, are among the world' noisiest-nosiest and
nastiest cults of pseudo-orienlal exhlbitionist-the Hare
Krishna chanters.
There have been in the last six months 50 complaint filed
with the airport police, which might have resulted in more
arrests were it not for the time requirement which airline
passengers can rarely afford. Police have themselves
arrested 10 of these Krishnite. for such offense a
obstructing free passage, as well as larceny.
"What is really tragic." observes Rex Davenport, station
manager for Northwest Orient Airline, "l to tee to many
young service men who are victimized by these
people-especially the G I who it asked to contribute and who
believes them when they say they will get them change for a
10 or 20 dollar bill."
"Then they have another habit," note Davenport. "They
fill all the coin-operated lockers with their literature, without
paying for the key. Why anyone would want to steal such stuff
is beyond me, but they post one guard while they deny all
passengers the right to use the locker."
There are similar complaints concerning the Krishnite In
Dulles Airport as well as in airport acrosa the nation. "1
hear Atlanta has been swarming with these people,"
remarked Davenport.
In Chicago' O'Hare Airport there have been complaint
not only of annoyance and of shortchanging of servicemen,
but of molesting girls, as well.
Harried and usually hurried airport passenger who are
being subjected to this harassment should be interested to
know that much of it is due to the effort of Ralph Nader,
however indirectly.
For when Nader' Aviation Consumer Action Project
successfully sued for the right to leaflet air line passenger
on public property (airport), attorney for the Krishnite
began demanding the right for their client to "practice their
religion" (I.e. solicit passenger for money).
In their D. C. airport invasion, the male Krishnite
generally cover their shaven heads with wigs and wear
modern garb instead of their peach-colored sheet. They also
refrain from their customary street corner performance a
a cymbal-clanging horde of loud and repetitive apouter.
(The same 12 word chant about Hare Krishna, I repeated
endlessly,)
The idea that freedom of religion mean that airline
passengers should have to go on being accosted by thi
gaggle of insistent beggcr simply crle out for the relief of
common sense in a high court.
Meanwhile, it would be interesting Indeed If several clergy
and laity from certain churches In Southwest Virginia and
Eastern Tennessee suddenly appeared to "practice their
religion" during the rush hour at D. C. National.
These religionist could no doubt extract far more by way '
of contributions than even the most aggressive Krishna
chanter. For they could meet all Incoming passenger and
extend to them the right hand of fellowship-while clutching
in the left hand the appurtenance of their faith (rattier,
copperheads, water moccasins and coral makes). (SeeThe
Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 16, Vere 18.)
When the Krishnite first began attracting attention on the
streets of San Francisco and Berkeley in early 1970, the
information counselor at the Consulate of India In San
Francisco was asked about their purported origin In India.
You don't tee any Indian in that group, do you?" asked
K. Raghunath. "Thi I a United State organization. There
are various sect with something like this, but It doesn't exist
In India.
Airports
invaded by
Hare Krish niter.
By LESTER KINSOLVING