Durno Takes Look Backward
At Congressional Experience
Dr. Edwin R. Durno, speak'
tag as a "private citizen,"
took a brief look backward at
his congressional experience
Monday, then cast a searching
eye over a number of this
country's current problems.
In an address to the noon
luncheon pf the Medford
Chamber of Commerce
Roundtable, the former con
gressman from Oregon's
fourth district, said politics
was an "interesting, exciting
and some times rewarding
business," and that he was
"happy to have served."
But Dr. Durno expressed
concern that the last three ad
ministrations have "spent loo
much money," with the tell
tale danger signal of the un
balanced budget.
'Horrible Climate'
He termed Washington,
D.C., as a city with a "hor
rible climate," a "great
hodge-podge of people," a con
tinual construction and re
modeling boom, and a higher
per capita increase in crime
and juvenile delinquency than
any other city in the United
States.
Turning to the composition
of the House of Representa
tives, the speaker said the
intermediate bloc of southern
Democrats - posed midway
between the Republicans and
northern Democrats - holds
the "balance of power" in
congress. He said press talk
of a "coalition" was inaccur
ate. "The southern Democrats
do not participate in any
coalition unless it suits the
purpose of the south," he said.
Dr. Durno sketched out a
number of the major prob
lems which this session of
congress faces.
Sweeping Changes Forecast
In Federal Landlord Rules
By ELMER LAMMI
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - Sweep
ing changes in the rules un
der which Uncle Sam plays
landlord over vast expanses
of public lands in the west
may be in the making.
Western senators, swamped
by complaints from home,
have become increasingly crit-
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In the area of foreign pol-
icy, the speaker pleaded for
more support for President
Kennedy, "the only man in
the country who knows all
the facts, who has all the
available information" about
a particular situation such as
Cuba.
The speaker said he "felt
sorry" for the president be
cause of the enormous pres
sures and responsibilities of
the office.
"But I do not feel sorry for
those persons around him,"
Dr. Durno said. "Many of the
people close to the president
are outright Socialists. I won't
call them Communists, but
they are Socialists."
Urges Charter Revision
Dr. Durno urged revision
of the charter of the United
Nations, which he said has be
come a "forum for talk." He
said he did not agree with
the charter provisions which
give equal vote to all mem
bers, regardless of size or the
literacy level of its popula
tion. The speaker objected,
too, that the "United States
is paying 50 per cent of the
UN's bills."
The nation's foreign aid
program he criticized as being
"inefficient, corrupt and
wasteful, a program which
provides money for poten
tates, with little of it trickling
down to the people."
"The Peace Corps is a
good thing because it exports
Americanism," he said, but
he warned that some of Presi
dent Kennedy's advisors want
to see it transformed into an
"international" organization,
and he urged the Roundtable
members to write their sen
ators and representatives to
oppose such a move. He also
ical of the way the lands are
administered and are prepar
ing to take a hard look at the
antiquated public land laws.
Pressure for an overhaul also
is growing in the house.
Most of the criticism is fall
ing on the Bureau of Land
Management, a branch of the
Interior Department which
reigns over 477 million acres
of public land. Counting lands
no longer owned by the fed
eral government but in which
it still retains mineral rights,
the BLM has responsibility
for some 800 million acres
about one-third of the entire
area of. the United States.
Western legislators - pres-
surcd by angry constituents -
are complaining that the agen
cy's administration often is
capricious, arbitrary and
snarled by red tape.
Bible Announces Proba
Thus it hardly came as a
surprise when Sen. Alan Bi
ble (D-Nev.), chairman of the
Public Lands subcommittee,
announced that his committee
would make a "sweeping in
vestigation."
"I concluded it was high
time we had an investigation
of the administration of the
agency and the land laws
themselves," he said.
A hard look at the BLM
and land laws also is expected
to be taken by the House In
terior committee, where an
other Nevadan Rep. Wal-
ter S. Baring heads the
Public Lands subcommittee.
Their studies could lead to
junking of laws dating back
to horse and buggy days and
their replacement with what
Bible, a lawyer, said would
be "modern, streamlined
laws."
Bible's announcement came
soon after western senators
had protested an Interior De
partment decision to raise
grazing fees by some 50 per
cent. Bible and other sena
tors, under pressure from
stockmen, had asked that the
increase be put off pending
more study.
Hike Angers Stockmen
The fees were raised after
Assistant Interior Secretary
John A. Carver Jr., and BLM
Director Karl Landstrom ap-
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said he was against formation
of a domestic peace corps.
Assistance Needed
Dr. Durno agreed that some
form of medical assistance
for the aged was needed, but
strongly urged that it not be
instituted as part of the Social
Security program.
"It would be much better
under a private system," he
said. He warned that such a
program would undermine
Social Security and "make it
more insolvent than it already
is."
America is a "mature na
tion," he said, and its people
have an abundance of ma
terial goods. But its "golden
years may be over," he said,
unless certain drastic changes
are effected.
"We must curtail the grab
for power, reduce the bu
reaucacy, balance the budget,
cut down on spending (par
ticularly foreign aid), and
close loopholes in the tax
structure," he warned.
Expresses Concern
Dr. Durno also expressed
concern over the "matching
funds" procedure, which he
said is being employed in
nearly all government
agencies and programs.
"Matching funds are the
bait which catches the fish,"
he said, "and you and I are
the suckers."
The speaker said flatly
there is a "managed press in
America." He said news is
managed not by distortion or
necessarily quoting out of
context, but rather by what
the newsman leaves out of his
story.
"Things have been left out
of reports of talks I have
given right here in this com
munity," he said.
peared before Bible's commit
tee to say that fees were "in-
defensively low." And despite
the outraged cries of western
stockmen, some legislators
privately agreed that the fees
-lower than those of any state
for state lands-could stand up
ward revision.
However, Bible - stung by
the department's failure to
hold up the fee increase-said
the first phase of his investi
gation would deal with ad
ministration of the Taylor
Grazing Act of 1934.
The act provides the rules
under which western stock
men are allotted public lands
for grazing cattle and sheep.
Even more galling to cattle
men than the increase in graz
ing fees are what they consid
er often arbitrary cuts in al
lotments.
After disposing of the graz
ing problem, Bible said, the
committee probably will move
on to the general land laws-
including the Homestead Act,
the Small Tracts Act and des
ert entry laws. All of them,
according to Bible and other
critics, are bogged down in
red tape and confusion.
Sen. Gruening Upset
Attention will be turned,
among other things, to what
Bible called cumbersome
appeals procedures, which
have aroused the ire of Sen.
Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska).
Guening, angered by what
he has called "dictatorial ac
tions of BLM officials in deal
ing with Alaska homesteaders,
has again introduced legisla
tion to set up an independent
appeals board. Appeals now
are handled within the inte
rior department, and many
citizens have spent years in
frustrating efforts to gain
benefits.
Landstorm, hard - working
and unassuming head of BLM
has defended the agency but
admits there are shortcom
ings and that the public land
laws need modernization. In
fact, he told congress the
agency itself will suggest
some changes.
Library Approved
At Portland Stale
Eugene - (UPD - The State
Board of Higher Education's
building committee today ap
proved of a new five-story li
brary for Portland State Col
lege. The building committee rec
ommended architects go
ahead with plans for the li
brary. It would be located
two blocks south of the lone
Plaza and occupy more than
half a block on S. W. Harri
son st. between 10th and Park
aves.
If the legislature approves
funds construction is sched
uled to start next winter.
The library would supple
ment Portland State's existing
! library. The present one has
a seating capacity fur only
700 of the school's 5,500 stu
dents. The new library would be
planned to eventually rise to
11 stories. Enrollment
Portland State may reach 20,
000 in 20 years, officials have
said.
MEDFORD
Death of Eugene Pilot
May Have Hastened the
Downfall of Trujillo
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington (Special) - The
mysterious death of a young
Oregon flier in the Dominican
Republic six years ago is be
lieved to have contributed in
the end to the downfall of
Gen. Raphael Leonidas Tru
jillo, the dictator who had
him liquidated.
This is the latest ironic
twist in the tale of intrigue
which began in December,
1956, when Gerald Lester
Murphy of Eugene, Ore., van
ished in Ciudad Trujillo, the
capital of the Dominican Re
public. In the months that 10I
lowed, the insistent protests
of a freshman Oregon con
gressman, Charles O. Porter,
plus detective work by gov
ernment agents and a nation
al magazine story built the
case into an international in
cident. Last week Porter, a Eugene
attorney no longer in Con
gress, attended the inaugur
ation of the first freely elect
ed Dominican president in 38
years, Juan Bosch, whom he
had met in 1958 when Porter
was busy denouncing the
friendly attitude of the Amer
ican government toward the
Trujillo dictatorship.
Tragic Events
After 10 days in the Do
minican capital interviewing
persons still living who knew
young Murphy and were eye
witnesses to some of the
tragic events before and after
his "disappearance," Porter
returned with this account:
Murphy, as a flier in the
service of the Trujillo govern
ment, was fatally connected -but
perhaps innocently - with
the sensational abduction of
Prof. Jesus de Galindez from
the Columbia university cam
pus in New York in March,
1956. Murphy told friends in
Ciudad Trujillo subsequently
that he flew the plane in
which Galindez was taken to
Trujillo's Caribbean strong
Portland Officer
To Discuss Check
Cases at Law Class
James E. Matteson, Port
land, detective in the Mult
nomah county sheriff's office,
will discuss the investigation
of bad checks in the first ad
vanced class for law enforce
ment officers in Medford
Wednesday, March 13.
A native Portlander, Matte
son has been with the detec
tive division since July, 1951,
and has served in the sher
iff's office for more than 20
years.
This is the first class In
the 1963 series of advanced
training programs for law en
forcement officers through
out the state. Classes will be
held in 15 Oregon cities.
The classes are sponsored
by the Oregon Association of
City Police Officers and the
Oregon State Sheriffs associa
tion in cooperation with the
federal bureau of investiga
tion, the Oregon state police,
the League of Oicgon Cities,
and the bureau of municipal
research and service of the
University of Oregon.
The school will be held
twice a week for three weeks
and will be attended by all
Medford police officers. Two
sessions daily will be held at
12:30 to 3:30 and 6:30 to 9:30
p.m. at Hedrick Junior High
school.
Other classes will co ;r
such subjects as courtroom
case preparation, demeanor
and procedures, auto theft,
interviews, confessions and
signed statements, practical
photography, and dangerous
drugs.
Russia's 'Buzzing'
Charges Rejected
Washington - (UPD - The
State Department Monday re
jected new Moscow Radio
charges that U.S. Air Force
planes have "buzzed" Soviet
ships at sea.
Spokesman Lincoln White
said U.S. patrol aircraft rou
tinely "identify" vessels in
international waters, "par
ticularly in the ocean ap
proaches to the U.S." But he
said, "the pilots of these air
craft are under explicit in
structions not to approach
closer than is necessary for
this Identification purpose.'
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hold. The professor, whom
Trujillo hated because Galin
dez had written a caustic bi
ography of the dictator, was
lured into a trap in New
York, drugged and put aboard
Murphy's plane in the guise
of a sick person.
This much of the story was
deduced several years ago
r o m fragmentary informa
tion skillfully pieced together
by Life magazine.
After Porter in 1957 set off
ruckus in Congress about
Murphy's disappearance, the
Trujillo government manufac
tured an explanation that the
Oregon boy had been killed
by Octavio de la Maza, a fel
low Dominican flier with
whom he was alleged to have
quarreled, and de la Maza
then hanged himself in re
morse, leaving a note explain
ing how it happened.
Suicide Not
This, says Porter, was an
absolute hoax. According to
information he gained last
week, Murphy was murdered
by Trujillo's henchman after
talking too freely around
Ciudad Trujillo about his role
in the notorious Galindez
kidnapping, which had gained
substantial publicity in the
American press. Galindez met
the same fate after insulting
the dictator to his face. A
Dominican woman who help
ed bait the trap for the pro
fessor in New York was also
said to have been liquidated.
A lot -of Communist eyes are
watching the financial strength
of our government and of our
people like hawks. That's because
1 their leaders have said they
would "bury us" economically
' and they're waiting for it to
happen.
It must be a continuing dis
appointment to them that, year
after year, U.S. savers put or
leave so much of their savings in
the hands of our government, in
U.S. Savings Bonds.
This stake that Savings Bond
OREGON
De la Maza, instead of
hanging himself in remorse,
was tortured in prison by
secret police who wanted him
to sign a "suicide" note "con
fessing" to killing Murphy.
He refused, was killed, and
the signature was forged,
Porter said he was told.
When Porter as a congress
man and the State Depart
ment refused to accept the
suicide story, the Trujillo
government tried hush
money. An American attor
ney who represented the Do
minican government suggest
ed to Porter that a suit for
damages in behalf of Mur
phy's parents might bring
$50,000. He was right. A
lawyer retained in the Do
minican Republic took $10,
000 of it for his fee, the
American lawyer took anoth
er $5000 before the balance
was sent to Porter, perhaps
with the idea that the con
gressman would take a cut
and stop protesting. Porter
sent the $39,000 to the flier's
parents, who at first refused
to accept it but later relented.
How did Murphy's death
figure in the downfall of Tru
jillo? Octavio de la Maza, the
flier sacrificed in the heinous
coverup of Murphy's murder,
had a brother named Antonio
- and Antonio was one of the
key men in the 1961 assassina
tion of Trujillo.
He who lived by the sword,
died by the sword.
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Plans (or Sale
Of Fish Lake
Resort Announced
Negotiations are under way
between Mr. and Mrs. G. B.
Dance, Rogue River, and Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Morris, own
ers of the Fish Lake Resort,
for the purchase of the resort,
it has been announced.
The U. S. Forest Service is
in the process of formulating
a new special use permit for
the Dances, forestry officials
said today, but it has not been
completed. It was noted that
the permit could cither be a
term permit, specifying a cer
tain number of years, or could
be for an indefinite period.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris, 2514
Country Club dr., Medford,
also operate the Willow Lake
Reservoir resort.
Pacific Power and Light
company plans to construct a
power line to Fish Lake some
time this summer. Right of
way through both the Rogue
River and Wimena National
forests has been arranged and
two timber sales for clearing
have been made. It was re
ported that right of way clear
ing is nearly completed.
The power line will connect
with the line to Lake of the
Woods.
With the completion of that
section of the Winnemucca-to-the-Sea
highway to Highway
62, the resort will be changed
from a summer resort to full
year operation. It includes 11
cabins, a lodge, store, restau
rant, boats, campgrounds and
trailer facilities.
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