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Thousands Strike By Air, ieirj ':-:tIi :v-:' i Days lhu - lllJeiikirt What about the Berlin situation? J'he stock market thinks it's bet ter. It resumed its advance Thurs day morning in brisk trading. At noon, the Dow Jones maustriai av erage is up 1.62 points at 719.82. The rail average is up 1.43 points at 142.33. Prices on the American Stock Ex cliange moved generally higher during the morning.. Why? Well, we and the communists are exchanging NOTES instead of Domos. That is usually interpreted as a good sign. Iwhat about the notes? Here's a samnle: !Ve, the British and the French h$ve just sent notes to the Krem lin protesting what happened in Bbrlin. The notes are identical. They say the "scaling of the East West Berlin border by the East German communists was a fla efant and particularly serious vio lation ot the tjUADKl-FAtt'm'E STATUS of Berlin." When the diplomats use language like that, we can relax. When they begin to use the short Anglo-bax oif words is the time to worry. 'Getting away from the affairs of litis troubled world, mure than i thousand of the world's astronom cts are gathered at Berkeley for the 11th assembly of the Interna tional Astronomical Union. 'A Frenchman, Dr. G. Courtcs ot the Haul Provence observatory at St. Michel, tells his contempor aries that be has discovered tremendous glowing object in an island universe far beyond the Milky Way. What causes it to gow? He says there seems to be no LIGHT around to cause it to glow by reflection. He thinks it might be hydrogen gas, and the gas might be burning. How big is 11? lllold your hat. 'Dr. Courtes says it is about 30, 060 light years in diameter. How big Is i light year? '.ONE LIGHT YEAR IS EQUAL TO SIX QUADRILLION MILES. 'That raises another question How big is a Quadrillion? ,'Wcll. i A quadrillion is a thousand trll lions. A trillion is a thousand bil lions. A billion is a thousand mil lions. A million is a thousand thou sands. ;Figure it out for yourself. Any way, this object that Dr. Courtes has spotted out in space is QUITE AN OBJECT. It's bigger than our national debt. In conclusion, here is an extract from the findings of the astrono mers who are gathered at Berke ley: ."Astronomers are finding many lopsided and chaotic galaxies (Milky Ways) out in space. One of these galaxies seems to be RUN NING AWAY FROM VS at half the speed of light zipping 93.000 miles farther away every second." r '.Hmmmmmmm. It may be inhabited, and lis in habitants may have heard of the screwball stale of affairs on our planet AND ARE GETTING AWAY FROM US AS FAST AS THEY CAN. They could hardly be blamed. Alligator Too Much For Army Officers FT. STEWART, Ca. (AP) A B.foot alligator proved too ram bunctious for three Army officers from Ft. Stewart. ICapt. II. E. Motley said he and the other officers were driving a truck on tho Army reservation last week when they spotted the reptile crawling along the road and "slopped to have a little fun." i"We took a canoe paddle out of the truck and poked it at the alligator." he said, "it snapped the pa (kilo in two. We start ed bark toward the truck. So did the alligator. "We got another paddle and tried to beat tho alligator off hut it splintered that paddle, too." i Motley said they climbed Into the truck and the alligator then crawled under the vehicle, chew ing off the tailpipo and muffler and biting the axle. I At that point, Motley said, the officers deckled they were no match for the reptile and drove away quickly. The News -Review Published by N.wi-R.yi.w Publlihini C. 34S S. t. Mala St.. Rntburf, Oregon ; CHARLES V. STANTON ; Editor ; GEORGE CASTILLO ; Managing Editor Jlrmbcr of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers ; Association, th Audit Bureau of Circulation .Entered as second class matter May 7, 1820, at the post office at i Hoseburj, Oregon, under act of March 2. 1873 ; Subscription Rales on Classified Advertising Pag EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The Newt-Review, Roieburg PIE IN THE SKY By Charles V. Stanton Writing in his column In The Days News, Frank Jenk inn said recently: "These uncommitted neutrals can't be so dumb as to ignore what has been going on before their eyes. Can't they? Jenkins, along with many other observers, contends that the flight of East German be enough to convince anyone The East German resident, Jenkins points out, is being treated as a "serf." Those who would flee to freedom are facing a wall of bayonets. Barriers have been erected to halt the embarrassing movement from East to West. Anyone who will stop and think, even briefly, will real ize that communism -is failing to give the East German the things he wants and believes he has a right to expect. The realization should be sobering to those people and those nations to which communism is beckoning so invit ingly. But again I must question, Stomach Vs. Brains When a man's hungry his ing his stomach. What does the (Juban "serf?" He's always been a thing of his own. He's acquainted with hunger. In fact, a great many Cuban peasants have never experienced a full meal. Here in the United States stand the situation pertaining to the proverty-ridden peo ple in other parts of the world. Communists show them selves much more understanding. That's one reason com munism has spread throughout so much of the world and promises to make still greater gains unless we adopt a ditierent approach. We seek to win friends ahd influence people by giving money. We've given billions. But our foreign aid has gone largely into countries where there are only two classes of people, the very rich and the tions have helped the rich, taxing care or the poor. The poor vastly outnumber with thoughts of getting enough to eat, they easily become political pawns. In many parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, a large majority of people are serfs. They have no hope of ever being anything except serfs. Their onlv hone is that thev limn'f Dliirmra lin T -.w., w umajo uc uiniKjy Bcna. Alley uuii i. tars vvnu men masters may be. They want only enough to eat. Promises Believed While thinking neonle realize that the exnrlna nf nennlp from East Germany is indicative of communism's failure, many millions of people don't even think of that aspect. They only want food. They can't eat American green- DaCKS. The Communists don't fill teeu mem wun promises. You say that people won Oh yeah? We Americans consider ourselves educated, thinking people, but for the past 30 years we've been electing politi cians on the basis of promises. We don't need food, but we listen to any politician who will promise us the soft life. We sell our freedom to politicians who bribe us with our own money, politicians y.iuio u mo smvc, puiuiciuns who speii k Doiaiv as canal dates and forget their promises when elected. We permit puuuciuns to pile up mitre debts. DO ltic ana who snnnnrr. uiuKiuinn ui ii-ee npeiiuiiiir. win cial interests as a means of sent to a staggering national spending, an on the strength We aren't hungry. Can ARE hungry for yielding to true American way of life pi oniiNea : Hal Boyle What's A Citified Cat Do When She Visits A Farm? SPARTA. N. J. (APi What does a city cat do when she goes to the country? Well, for one thing, she gives you the time of your life just watching her have the time of her life. For three years I.adv Dottle has been a real cool big city cat, as aloof and sophisticated as the pampered ladies who dwell on Park Avenue. She has led almost as sheltered an existence as they. For three years she has looked out at life from the windows of our eighth-floor Manhattan apart ment, gravely watching the rains pelt against the panes, the snow flakes swirl outside like tiny white gnosis, tne soaring gulls crying faintly afar, the rusty freighters of the world plow up and down tne cast inver. For three years Lady Dottie has been more or less an apartment house prisoner, but a cheerful one. Then we took her for a week's vacation to a 150-year-old farm house here Iu the friendly New Jersey countryside, and it was as if she had been born a second time in another universe. Everything was strange and new to Lady Dottie. At first she was lonesome and afraid in a world she never made. Everything startled her. She stepped out on the lawn under the wide-armed century old maple trees as gingerly as if she wero walking on heated glass. Each time a car roared by on the high way, screened by a green fence of sweet cedars, she flattened and her cars twitched. A horse bearing a little girl in a big-brimmed cowboy hat came ADDYE WRIGHT Business Manager DON HAGEDORN Display Adv. Mgr. Ore. Mon., Aug. 21, 1961 residents to the West should of the failures of communism, will people THINK? only thinking pertains to fill peasant care about being a serf. He's never had any. many of us fail to under very poor. Our contribu but they haven't gone far in the rich. Filled constantly rrl . J ti. L them with frmrl hut thpv rln t swallow promises? who promise us security from e Diavinor inorsip. with snp. gaining reelection. We con debt, to continued deficit of promises. we blame people who actually promises when we desert thp In return for pie-in-the-sky galloping down a side road Lady Dottie had never seen i horse before In her life. She flat tened, her ears went down' and she began to back crawl like crab. An apple plopped to the ground from a tree behind her. She leaped three feet into the air, then streaked for home like Willie Mays on a base steal. Then she became aware of the grass. Cats love an occasional taste of green things. That first day Lady Dottie nibbled so much grass she was too nervous to eat her food she became sick at the stomach twice. But each day she has become more venturesome and self-confi. dent. Her veneer of sophistication has vanished. She spends the long summer hours chasing chip munks ana prowling the wood piles and barns looking for field mice. She has developed an inor dinate appetite for milk. "She must be catching and eat ing those mice," said my wife "How do you know?" I asked. "Cats always drink more milk when they make a menu of mouse," replied Frances, who comes from a small town in Mis souri. "Everybody knows that Well, 1 didn't know it. and I'm still not sura it's so. Wives are always making a big sweeping statement like that, and then try to convince their husbands it's gospel truth. Three bluoiays in a sidcyard ce dar tree are Lady Dottie's chief enemies. Every time they see her black and white body slipping sin uously near, they alert every oth er wild thing in the area by screaming at her. Lady Dottie doesn't like being given "the bird" by a trio of hirk jays. She would swarm right up the tree after them except for one thing. Wa clipped her claws in ad vance, so she wouldn't harm any feathered thing. But she has proved her valor in a better way. Twice dogs have wandered into the yard. Lady Dottie's bark never arched in panic. Her yellow eyes widened j and glared like two angry egg yolks, and she crouched ready to attarx. r.ach time it was the dog who turned and left. No night wanderer, I.adv Dottie comes indoors willingly at bed-i DEAR ABBY Abigail Van Buren You're Oversensitive Lady! DEAR ABBY: My older brother recently passed away. It was God's blessing because he had been sick in the hospital for over a year, and there was no hone for him. While he was in the hos pital I went to see him often, and brought him little things to cheer him up. The week after his fu neral I got a note in the mail from my brother's wife THANK ING me for being so kind to her husband. Abby, I am deeply hurt. This man was my own flesh and blood brother, and I don t think I need to be THANKED for being good to him during his illness. I want to speak to his wife about it, but my children tell me to for get it. I am not going to forget it. But first I want you to tell me what to say to her. HEART-BROKEN SISTER Dear Sister: I agree with your children. Your brother's wife did not want to slight you; therefore, when she thanked everyone else for their kindness to her husband, she included you. Let the matter drop. Your sister-in-law has enough to worry about. DEAR A3BY: My husband drinks. When he really gets a snootful, he goes out on the porch, flaps his elbows and crows like a rooster. - What is the meaning of this? ROOSTER'S WIFE DEAR WIFE: Maybe he's trying James Marlow The Real Issue On Berlin Is Showdown With Soviets WASHINGTON (AP) If you read the fine print in Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson's pep talk to the West Berliners, you'll notice the distinction being made between dream and reality, but not as bluntly as stated here. It's the kind of distinction which might make peaceful set tlement of the Berlin rumpus a little more possible. The dream is that the Commu nist government of East Germany doesn't exist and that divided Germany can be reunited. The reality is that it does exist and that Germany won't be reunited any time soon. When Communists sealed off East Berlin with barbed wire to stop the flood of East German refugees to West Berlin last week, depressed West Berliners com plained because the Allies did nothing more' than protest. There could hardly have been direct intervention without war with the Soviet Union. So President Kennedy sent Johnson over to boost morale and promise American support in pro tecting West Berlin but not East Berlin from communism. Johnson delivered the message. But, while saying nothing at all about active support for the East Germans, he did say this: "In the short run, the barbed wire is there and it will not go away by a wave of the hand. But in the long run this unwise effort will fail. "Lift your eyes from these bar riers and ask yourselves: Who can really believe that history will deny Germany and Berlin their natural unity?" In other words: The Allies will not interfere in what happens in East Germany, and any unifica tion of the two Germanys must remain a long hope only. What history does make clear is that the allies do not consider East Germany or East Berlin a problem to fight over. Their hands-off performance . now is only a repetition of 1953. That year anti-Communist Gcr mans revolted, the Russians smashed them with tanks, and the allies did nothing. To the allies, their real prob Iem is to keep the Communists from closing off West Berlin whose ZVa million people, 111) miles inside Communist East Germany, give their allegiance to the West. The Allies have refused to rec ognize the East German Commu nistsSoviet puppets but hardly more so than the other satellite governments as the legitimate rulers of East Germany. To do so would be to agree to the permanent division of Ger many, which is the last thing West German Chancellor Aden auer wants. So the West has kept needling Premier Khrushchev to permit unification, knowing it's the last thing he wants. It makes good propaganda, but it solves nothing. And there is some irony in it. The Allies, because of agree ments with Moscow, claim the right to keep troops in West Ber lin. All allied military supplies and personnel for that city must pass through or over East Ger many. These supply routes are controlled by the Russians. But this amounts to only about five per cent of all traffic in sup time. Only bums sleep outdoors, she sleeps at the feet of my wife, purring so loudly it sounds like distant thunder. This happy week of enchanted freedom will soon be over for Lady Dottie. Will she ever be as ion - tent again in a big-city apart - ment? When she gazes out the wind - dows with her great inscrutable eyes, what will she really see the cozy comfort there, or the life of liberty she has known in the country here? or HaVei im ml to tell you it's time you woke up. He's a lush. DEAR ABBY: I feel terrible. My best friend dropped me because my sister had her baby three months early. My friend told me to my face that she couldn't go around with me any more because it might hurt her reputation. Abby, I never did anything wrong, and I don't think it is fair that I should suffer for something my sister did. What should I do? I am 13. NEEDS A FRIEND DEAR NEEDS: Your "friend doesn't know the meaning of true friendship, so you haven't lost much. Just continue to be a good girl, and you will win the friend ship of someone who accepts you for what YOU are, and realises that you are not your sister's keeper. CONFIDENTIAL TO LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: Look again. "Are things rough?" Let Abby help you solve your problem. For a personal reply,' enclose a stamp ed, self-addressed envelope and sent to Box 336S, Beverly Hills, Calif. For Abby's booklet, "How To Have A Lovely Wedding," send 50c to Abby, Box 3365, Beverly Hills, Calif. plies and people moving to West Berlin. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Sunday night the other 95 per cent is civilian traffic which the East German government lets through by agreement with the West German government. So, while the West does not of ficially recognize the East Ger mans as legitimate, it does in ef fect recognize them and is deal ing with them every day. Now Khrushchev wants the West to give official recognition. But he says whether or not the West does, he will turn control of all traffic to West Berlin over to the East Germans before the year ends. So the West, for Aden auer's sake, may still try to re fuse official recognition while settling for guarantees that the routes to Berlin will not be shut off. Rusk said Sunday night sub ordinating all other reasons for defending Berlin to this single one that the real issue on Berlin is a showdown with the Soviet Un ion, meaning, of course, can the Russians cut off the city? But the West after its standoff attitude on East Berlin and East Germany in 1953 and again now and in view of Johnsons state ment can hardly any longer make much of an issue on unifi cation. Negroes Finance White Missionary ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) A! white minister last week finished an intensive training program f i nanced primarily by Negro churches, to prepare him for his forthcoming assignment as a mis sionary in Hong Kong. The Rjv. Thomas Tune, 32, put in 60 hours a week 10 hours a day, six days a week over a two month period preparing for his new job. He completed his capsule course in Chinese, a prerequisite for his forthcoming foreign assignment in Hong Kong. Ordinarily the course takes a year but he did it in six weeks. Tune is believed to be the first United States white evangelist sent by a Negro church to do missionary work abroad. Officials at Michigan Christian Junior College near Rochester also believe he is the first student to take such a cram course in Chinese in a Christian college any where in the country. "I feci like a guinea pig," said the Kentucky-born minister, "but the experience has been extreme ly worthwhile and enjoyable." "My course in Chinese was something like the one the army offers in eight weeks to teach Cuban refugees the English lan guage," he explained. The Murray, Ky., minister said he completed a book on spoken Chinese in five weeks and then concentrated on reading and writ ing the language. Two Mountain Climbers Are Happy On Survival ESTES PARK. Colo. (AP) Two young mountain climbers, rested and once more well fed, were happy today at surviving two rainpcltcd nights on 14,255-foot : "ngs i eaK. I Ju''o K. Mast. IS. of Richmond. ! Ind.. and Richard Boldrey. 20. of ' St. Clair Shore. Mioh., walked off j the peak and met- mvmhfns of a ! searching party whioh set out at , aawn r rtday. Miss .Mast is a freshman at Kal- amazoo (Mich.) College and Bol drey is a junior at Roosevelt Uni versity in Chicago. i Editorial Comment SP'S HEALTH SECRETS Eugene Register-Guard The cover article of the August 11 issue of Time will, no doubt, be read with interest in many parts of the land, but in none will it be read more avidly than here. The article deals with the South ern Pacific Co., and this is the heart of the' SP's most valuable rail freight service area. The "friendly Southern Pacific" has probably been subjected to more criticism in Oregon during recent years than anywhere else west of St. Louis. At the same time, the SP is one of Oregon's principal taxpayers, and. in Eugene, a mat- or employer. What's good for the SP may not be necessarily good for Oregon, but whatever happens to the SP is of vital importance to uregomans. The Time article used the per sonality of SP President Donald Joseph McKay Russell to give col or to its lengthy compilation of facts about the tP. Then, citing this railroad as the healthiest in an industry that is generally sick, almost sick to death, Time con trasts the SP's performance with the nation's overall railroading situation. Time's facts seem to lead to the conclusion that the SP is relatively healthy because of aggressive management and would be healthier if this management were not so bound by government al regulations. Then, by inference, it indicates that other U.S. rail roads would similarly benefit if they had Don Russell's concern for efficiency and costs along with less regulation or, at least, fewer government - imposed dis advantages in their competitions with other transportation systems. Of course, the SP's current at tempt to gain control of the West ern Pacific is included in the Time report. Considering this as a con test with the Santa Fe, and re membering the so-called jinx ef fect that Time cover stardom has had upon a number of athletes, politicians and others, aP boosters may be dismayed that President Russell's picture appears on the Aug. 11 cover. In any event, all who do read the Time piece will be impressed by the great num ber of jinxing problems with which Russell and all other U.S. railroad presidents must cope. Time makes it quite clear that the SP is not trying to merely stay in business though dozens of other U.S. roads would be glad of just that prospect. Under Don Russell's throttle hand, the SP is HERE ARE A TEW EARLY HINTS THAT WILL ASSURE YOU OF A COMFORTABLY HEATED HOME DURING THE FALL AND WINTER SEASON: Have heating equipment cleaned and inspected. ft Be sure pilot light and burners are working properly. ft See that all controls are in perfect working condition and that equip ment is properly vented. 0 Check heat supply to each room. Clean or replace air filters if necessary. Replace old or inadequate heating units with modern automatic gas heating equipment NOW hofnr. thc cold weather rush. CURE HEATING TROUBLES BEFORE COLD WEATHER COMES VISIT OUR OFFICE OR CALL YOUR HEATING CONTRACTOR TODAY Live modern... for less... with PHONE OR 2-1653 hiehhalline it toward the day when the government willing, that is it will operate a "transportation supermarket ' in wmcn snippers are offered the choice of rail, high- i.way or water movement of their freight. No doubt the SP will always be subjected to boxcarsful of criticism in this locale, if for no other reason than that it is the only railroad operating east and west out of the Eugene area. But after-reading the Time article there will be fewer who complain that the SP isn't trying, and trying hard, to be one railroad that is not forced into receivership. There may even be more who will pause and realize how dependent the SP and this lumber - manufacturing - shipping part of Oregon are upon each oth er for mutual successes. FISH FLOUR Eugene Register-Guard Fish flour made by grinding up and dehydrating whole fish is now reported to be the world's cheapest and most abundant source of animal protein. Furthermore, the U.S. and Rus sia are vying with one another to see which can develop means of producing this highly nutritious, easily transported, easily stored food item in volume quantities. Both intend to use fish flour for shipment to needy nations. Each hopes for a cold war victory as a result. "Insider's Newsletter," publish ed by the same people who put out Look magazine, says fish flour is tasteless and odorless. In research laboratories it has been proved a powerful deterrent to both mal nutrition and diseases resulting from improper diet. According to this report, Russia is rushing plans to produce fish flour on factory ships right at sea. In the U.S. a Massachusetts cor noration has a plant ready to be gin commercial production as soon as standards are established by the Food and Drug Administration. Here, for once, it seems tne com war rivalry may be producing a valuable contribution to the whole of mankind. All of our shipments of standard si'rplu food items to underdeveloped lands, and all of the Russians' exports of foods which they have literally taken from the mouths of their own peo Die. have been of no lasting signi ficance. But. if fish flour can be economically produced in either the U.S. or Russia, it can soon be produced in or near Chili, In www Wrm Reception! 'CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC UTILITIES COMPANY donesia, India and Korea. Millions who might have starved or have gone through life half-starved may be fed reasonably well. This outcome, whether it be ac tually initiated by the U.S. or the USSR, would auger well for the cause of human freedom. Remov al of the fear of want would be a deterrent against "belly commu nism." Thus it should oe Ameri ca's aim to see that fish flour production methods are perfected quickly and these methods, rather than the mere product, are estab lished in every nation where they can be utilized. PEA SHORTCAKE Springfield (Mass.) Union The countryman is capable ot helping his peers in many ways if only they would accept his coun sel. He could begin witn nis fam ily, but as a man learns, his help meet and offspring, especially teen age daughters, often have different and intransigent ideas. Consider the matter of pea shortcake. Green peas, fresh from the garden, are a special delight to a man who raises a big crop along a six-foot-high trellis. The pea crop is important; it gives a man a cnance to wont in nis gar den early in the spring; it is heartening to watch the vines climb head high. The blossoms are attractive, and the masses of long pods promise a big crop. Two centuries ago, peas wera important. Scientists think peas reached our shores from the West Indies about 1700. Etymologists ar gue pleasantly and futiley whether we should write "pease" or "peas." Wo know that in India, the land of cowpea origin, there are some 50 different names for this legume. The facts are interesting but relatively unimportant. The vital concern is to change the nation's eating procedure. Garden peas, not over 30 minutes from vine o table, should always be served as pea shortcake. Open two crisp-crusted biscuits in a soup plate; use plenty ot butter or margarine on them. Then over the four halves pour a full pint of peas and the juice in which they were cooked. Be sure there is plenty of juice. There is some thing peculiarly tasty and" satis fying about this dish, and any man who lets wife and daughters block him from his constitutional right to this flavorful dish deserves to have a mess of wiry parsley driz zled over his meat and potatoes. PACIFIC BUILDING A GAS
