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La Grande, Oregon Under the Aet of Mamli , 181
Nuisance Value
In any fresh look at the values by which men live
; in this world in the mid-2flth century, let us not forget
the value of the nuisance.
; Either in private or public life, the nuisance operates
'on the general notion that he will beat you by wearing
'you down. He figures you will have neither the time
, nor the patience, nor wish to risk the. stakes involved
'! in whatever enterprise is at the heart of the matter.
' Thus, every year, thousands of civil cases are filed by
I men whose cause is not just but who reason that their
'opponents cannot or will not undertake the' time and
i expense of a court trial. The result is settlement: a cold
.) dollar recognition of nuisance value,
i This is a game played sometimes by unscrupulous
firms which decline to pay bills, competing the creditor
jto sue or take a cents-on-the-dollar payment to avoid
j that trouble.
Then there are the lawmakers, especially at the state
level, who regularly toss certain "nuisance" bills into
j the legislative hopper. These usually are designed to
i regulate this or that industry or enterprise. Suspicion
J is wide that a "pay-off" kills such bills. It is hard to
i prove, but occasionally such a case is nailed down tight.
In too many places and far too often, this business
iof being a nuisance is practiced with calculated purpose,
i In its most usual form, it represents a kind of blackmail
by delay. The practitioner seems to say: "Come across,
i or I'll steal your time, and maybe your money, too.
On the international level, Soviet communism has
i elevated nuisance value to a science. It is indeed a basic
j and frequently a' critical part of Russian world diplo
tmacy. The good Soviet diplomat is the man who can
J outsit nil. opposition, torture a subject to death, fray
I the edges of the sternest opposing resolve,
j At that level, the cause of peace and justice is con
i tinuously, clouded by the phony claims, the delays and
f the' scheming ' tactics of the'" professional' nuisance
' diplomats. .
i At the levels close to home, the air is thickened by
false claims for services rendered, phony charges of
damages, unpaid bills, and so on through a host of nui-
sance devices.
) In the society of free men, there will be more justice
land more freedom when ways are found if ever they
ican be to devalue the nuisance utterly and completely.
jit's A Winning Formula
1 It's getting 'on toward campaign time, and I he mo-
ment is at hand to advise the 'budding politician who
really wants to make a score with the voters. v
Judging from the successful ventures already on
'record, this is the way to bring it off:
Get yourself an old, battered hat and a tired, shiny
; suit. Then pile into an old car, preferably a seedy con-
vertible and hit the road. Toss some literature hap
! hazprdly on the back seat. It doesn't pay to look too
; well organized.
If it's practical, take the wife along, but keep her in
sweaters and skirts except at dinner affairs.. If you've
i got a son who can sing and strum a guitar, fine. Send
ihim along with the advance man sotting up the tour
dates.
! Prowl the back roads, show up on farmers' porches
; in machine shops, at factory gates in the cool dawn.
Look a bit dusty and disheveled from time to time.
If these things don't do, it;' then politics isn't what it
i used to be.
MARSHMALLOWS Billy Kcarns (center)
seems to be checking a hot marshmallow be
fore consuming the sizzling bit of fluff while
Mike Merrill (right) watches, fascinated. Tom
my Wells (left) ignores the pair while cooking
up another for himself. . The group of nearly
100 Eastern Oregon College professors, instruc
tors and summer school students, consumed
over 500 marshmallows at the evening bonfire
session. Boys above are all sons of college in
structors. (Observer Photos)
Naguib: Forgotten Strongman
CAIRO (UPI What has hap
pened to Gen. Mohammed Naguib,
the forgotten strongman of the
Egyptian revolution-
Chances are you II find him
playing tennis or reading news
papers at the Al Marg mansion in
northeastern suburb of Cairo.
It was Gen. Naguib, then 51.
who led the revolt that deposed
King Farouk late in July, 1952,
and later became president and
premier of Egypt.
Now, Naguib lives a life of ease
al the mansion. He cannot leave
the grounds, but inside he is com
pletely free. He even sends out
for meals from Cairo s best res
taurants to vary his fare.
There are reports he talks to
Barbs
Caddies are young men who, att he 19th hole, are left
! holding the bag.
Side Glances
I l Ml
Quotes
From The
News
Reg.' U.S. Pat. Off.
United Press International
NEW YORK: Mayor Robert
Wagner, removing himself from
Ihe race for the Democratic nom
Ination for the Senate:
"I would refuse a draft. There
will not be any draft movement,'
Nasser by telephone. But Nasser
last year told an interviewer
that he does not see Naguib.
But the shaggy-haired, rugged
faced general was in turn ousted
by Gamal Abdel Nasser and put
under arrest in November, 1054.
He was never brought to trial.
The Al Marg "palace" has over
20 rooms surrounded by gardens
and farm plots where Naguib
spends most of his day playing ten
nis with the officers guarding him
or receiving friends and relatives
who are allowed to visit.
Occasionally he hunts pigeons
and ducks.
The general still rises early
every morning to play tennis,
read the papers and have break
fast with his family. The news
papers and magazines he reads
come from all over the world no
reading matter is withheld from
him.
Naguib never misses a radio
news bulletin and was reported
joyous tue day of the Iraqi revolt
He has three wives. Each
spends a week with him in turn.
Most of his children are abroad
at foreign schools studying at
government expense. Naguib him
self wanted them to study abroad
and often calls them by long dis
tance telephone.
Naguib writes and receives fre-
quent letters from relatives and
friends.
But otherwise, he is the forgot
ten man of Egypt. The local press
no longer mentions him.
"I do not seek personal power,"
he once said. "I want to rid Egypt
of its enemies. I must, because if
I fail Egypt will fall to dust."
Now he has finished his job,
forced out of the way while Nas
ser seeks to solidify the Arab nations.
More Inmates In U.S. Prisons
In '57 Than Before In History
LOS ANGELES: Grandma Lo-
mie Pticket, who is fighting cvic
lion from her house so work on a
new freeway can continue,
housing:
"People can buy Cadillacs with
money paid for their houses and
then live in the Cadillacs while
they drive around the freeways in
them.
BEIRUT. Lebanon: Rebel chief
Saeb Salam, expressing satisfac
tion at President-elect Fuad Che
hab's expressed attitude toward
the presence of American troops
in Lebanon:
"We are happy to note that the
new president has assigned as his
first national objective the with
drawal of foreign forces."
WASHINGTON: Sen. Joseph C.
O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) warning of
the insidious nature of inaltion in
connection with the current rise
in steel prices:
Industrial leaders can t allow
the government and people 1c
suffer great economic losses be
cause of inflation and hope to
escape themselves."
WASHINGTON IUPI) There
were more inmates in U.S. prisons
last year than in any other year
in the nation s history, the 1' ed
oral Bureau of Prisons reported
Tuesday.
But the number of women pris
oners declined.
In a year-end review, Bureau
Director James V. Bennett re
ported that there were 195.414
prisoners confined in slate and
federal jails and reformatories on
Dec. 31, 1957.
The growing prison population,
5,849 inmates or 3.1 per cent over
1956. was due partly to an in-
CHICAGO: Air safety expert D.
W. Spicknlmire. criticizing the fir
ing of missiles into airplane flight
lanes by amateur rocketeers:
At thnt time, if there is an air
craft within range, the rocket may
latch onto it, and we are going
lo have an nir tragedy."
M. Of. A M
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Lt' mo I traded my green beans for your dessert.
, so hew much 1 my part of tha check?"
Physicist Predicts
Agreement To Halt
Nuclear Tests
PORTLAND lUPH Dr. Linus
Pauling, a native Portiander and
j Nobel prize winning physicist,
predicted here today an imminent
agreement among the atomic
powers of the world to halt nu
clear tests. .
He assorted that scientists now
conferring at Geneva were close'
lo agreement on a detection pro
gram -that would' outlaw atomic
and hydrogen tests.
Continuing his crusade against
the hazards of atomic fallout. Dr.
Pauling said here that contamina
tion from tests conducted so far
threaten to produce mental and
physical defects in hundreds of
thousands of children still unborn.
He claimed that one and a half
million more children might die
of nuclear injury shortly after
birth.
He conceded he had no proof
Chuckles
In The
News
United Press International
VALLAURIS, France lUPH
An aspiring bullfighter had an
unexpected comedown on his first
appearance in the local ring Mon
day.
The youth, appearing in a nov
ice competition, made an elegant
pass as the bull rushed by. The
bull's horn sheared his side,
missing his flesh but neatly
slicing his trousers from h I s
waist.
NEW' ORLEANS UPI) - An
unidentified soldier complained to
police Monday that someone had
stolen his watch while he was
swimming.
Police, learning he had left
both the watch and his trunks on
a seawall when he went into the
water, arrested him (or indecent
exposure.
HERNE BAY, England (UPD
A boat in a crew race Monday
was about to got underway when
a three and - a -half-pound bass
plopped into Ihe craft.
Unperturbed, the racers finished
the contest then used the bass
for dinner.
BILLINGS, Mont. (UPl-Aftei
Pepe le Pew, a tame, deodorized
skunk, escaped Monday night, his
owners were happy to hear a
skunk had been spotted in th?
bnsement of a nearby residence.
The owners, telephone operators
Frances Moore and Jessie Guth
rie, went to the scene and cap
tured the skunk.
Wrong skunk.
DES MOINES, Iowa (UP1
Better days are in store for
home owners.
The Iowa State Fair plans to
exhibit 'a lawnmower with head
lights, horn, three speeds for
ward, a reverse and a radio.
ORANGE. Conn. (UPD The
winner of a new car at a carnival
here will have to confine his
driving to the back-seat variety.
The 1958 automobile was
awarded to Col. Jet, a four-
crease in commitments to slate
institutions, Bennett said.
It means there were 110 prison
ers tor every 400,000 persons in
the country as a whole.
Bennett's report showed the rise
in the prison population Lisi year
was proportionately higher in
state prisons than in federal in
stitutions. Mate prisoners num
bered 174,994 at the end of 1957,
up 5,563 or 3.3 per cent over Ihe
previous year.
The number behind barj in fed
eral penitentiaries and reforma
tories totaled 20,420, an increase
of 286 or 1.4 per cent.
The number of women in jail
at the end of 1957 was 7,301 a
drop of 74 inmates from the same
period m 1956.
Bennett said that 30 states re
corded increases in persons serv
ing time. Of these, the top seven
included New Mexico with a 16.2
per cent increase; Forida, 11 per
cent; Arizona, 10.7 per cent; In
diana, 9 per cent; Texas and Cal
ifornia, 8.9 per cent each, and
Wyoming, 8 per cent.
Bennett also noted 2,306 prison
ers broke out of jail last year.
Of this number 2,210 escaped
from state prisons.
of defective births attributable to
atomic fallout but he said there year-old boxer dog belonging to
was evidence of such births. Robert Luce.
Enforcement
Officials Accept
Advisory Posts
SALEM (UPD Three public
enforcement officials have ac
cepted appointment to the state
teletype network advisory com
mittee, James F. Johnson, direc
tor of motor vehicles, announced.
New members are Francis W.
Linklater, district attorney of
Washington county; Glenn H.
Klokhorst, Coos Bay chief of po
lice; and Rupert L. Gillmouthe,
sheriff of Hood River county.
Within the past year the tele
type network has grown into a
state-wide service for law enforce-
College
Group Has
'Outing'
Last weekend close to 100 East
ern Oregon College professors,
instructors and summer session
I'jollege students dropped then
books and took off for Snath
camp on the south fork of the
Lostine River" in the Wallowa
Mountains for a two-day rest.
The campout is the highlight
;f the Eastern Oregon Collegt
summer session and gives thi
jtudents, who attend, a break be
tore their final week of examina
tions. The instructors, of course,
also get a well-earned break.
Bob Quinn, EOC athletic direc
or, is- in charge of the Summci
Recreation Program and this yeai
selected, for the first time, the
well-kept Shady camp 18 miles
up the Lostine River and at the
2nd of the road in the Wallo
was.
Most of the group arrived
'sometime" during the afternoon
on Friday and, of course, there
vas a scramble for sleeping spots
close to the kitchen. A delegation
)I "quartermasters" had arrived
early Friday morning to set up
kitchen facilities.
Youngsters immediately disap
peared in all directions. Fisher
men in the group grabbed then
equipment and went '.'upstream
and downstream." Dr. Alvin
Kaiser was probably the most suc
cessful, bringing home seven fine
trout.
Towards evening on Friday the
"strays" wandered into camp for
a meal of spaghetti and meatballs,
salad, bread and butter, cookies
and fruit and lots of hot coffee.
At the campfire later in the
evening, Quinn unpacked marsh
mallows and the youngsters roast
ed them, passing them out to the
'old folks."
Dr. Lynn Bishop, music depart
ment head at EOC, led the assem
bled group in "firelight favor
ites" and Dr. Kaiser and Quinn
?ntertained the youngsters with
stories.
Early in the morning, after a
hearty breakfast of hot cakes, ba
con and eggs, fruit juice and cof
fee, three different groups start
ed off into the mountains on
hikes. One group journeyed to
Eagle Cap, 10 mile hike up rug
ged mountains, the second walk-
d to Lost Lake, and the third to
another lake. '
Late in the evening the hikers,
tired but hungry, returned and
after a huge dinner, most packed
the kids into their atttos for the
return trip to La Grande and
the books.
For both instructors and stud
ents the campout was "just what
the doctor ordered before final
exams." -
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LUNCHES Nearly 100 lunches were "madsup'
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by the lunch
committee on Friday night so early mormng niicon cjuio arao
one" before moving into the mountains. Chris Johnsan and un
identified girl (left) assist Dr. Lyr.n Bish6p and college Librar
ian Helen Bliss (in background). John Nightingale (right) inspects
the contents. ' '
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BREAKFAST Early morning light revealed Dr. Lee Johnson
(right) and Dr. W. D. Spear cooking pancakes for hikers who were
impatient to be off ir.to the wilds. By inaccurate count, 400 pan
cakes were consumed by the group, the chefs reported. Dr. John
son is in the history department at EOC Dr. Spear teaches so
cial and political science. ' ' '
Crook County
Cattleman Of
Year Named
PRINEVILLE (UPD Choice of
Crook county cattleman of the
year has been released by Ed
Coles, secretary of the Oregon
Cattlemen's association with of
fices in Prineville.
Crook county's cattleman is A.
R. Teater, resident of the Post re
gion in southeastern Crook coun
ty. Teater and his family own
6,840 acres of range land, and op
erate a cow-calf- yearling opera
tion of 500 head.
Additional grazing range in
cludes 8,800 acres, Taylor Grazing
land and 6.400 acres federal forest
land.
Teater's name joins others
counties select representatives
who will be candidates for the
honor of 1958 Oregon Cattleman
of the year. The state selection
will be announced at the OCA an
nual meeting to be held in Red
mond October 31, November 1
and 2.
Rate Increase
Granted Natural
Gas Company
SALEM (UPD Public Utility
Commissioner Howard Morgan
has announced approval of a
rate increase totalling some
$55,000 annually to 1,135 residen-
ment agencies. Johnson said that 1 tial and commercial customers of
his new annoinlments were de-.the Cascade Natural Gas Lorn-
signed to follow this trend toward
expansion in that they represented
a wide geographic distribution.
The Motor Vehicle Department
acts as control center for the law
enforcement network because of
its immediate access to vehicle
and driver records.
RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD Har
old F. Slade, vice president of the
Federal Reserve Bank here, has
announced his retirement, . ef
fective at the end of this month.
His successor will be Abram B.
Merritt, now senior assistant man
ager of the Portland office.
Slade entered service with the
bank in March, 1918.
A new photographic paper makes
a visible print instantly. It is for
use in recording instrumental data.
pony in the' Pendleton, Baker,
Athena and Weston" areas of east
ern Oregon.
He denied, however, company
proposals which automatically
would have passed on to con
sumers any increase in costs im
posed by the Pacific Northwest
Pipeline Corporation, the sole sup
plier of natural gas to Cascade.
He also turned down a plan
which would have eliminated any
pro-rating of bills to customers.
Morgan said the new rate
schedules will increase Cascade's
operation revenues and will pro
vide a rate of return of about 2.91
per cent based on 1957 operations.
He was highly critical of the
company's previous management
for having filed with the PUC in
1956 a rate case in which tariffs
and reports were "unrealistically
low."
THE CREMATION Dr. Alvin Kaisor, head of the EOC English
department, gives a rendition of the "Cremation of Sam McGee"
at the bonfire held at the campout on Fricjay night. Youngsters
sans and daughters of instructors and sumiTur session students,
whooped and hollered in glee. Bob Quinn, director of the sum
mer recreation program, also received applause as he related
'Anything." . :,
House Members Charge Space
rrogram.'Pre-Sputnik Model'
WASHINGTON UPD - Hn.iP
Space Committee m p m h p r c
charged Tuesday Ihe administra-
yiuposeu new space pro
gram is - a "pre-Spulnik model"
that lacks "boldness, imagination
and courage."
Republican and Democratic
members led by House Democra
tic leader John W. McCormick
committee chairman, said Ihe na
tion's survival is involved if Die
nited Slates fails to overtake
Russia in space.
"I don't want to catch up with
the Russians," McCormack said
1 want to go ahead of 'em "
The charges disclosed serious
dissatisfaction of many members
J)' the House committee with Dr
Hugh Dryden's National Advisorv
Committee for Aeronautics -"VA.C.Ai
nucleus and planum
group for Hie New National Aero
nautics and. Space Administration
IN.A.S.A,!.' -
Members'-said they are greally
disappointed Dryden Iras nol pro
poser! a ;far more ambitious ini
tial program for N. A S. A created
by legislation that Congress pass
ed with virtually no opposition
and President Eisenhower signed
last mohtbv
Rep. "Te Melcalf (D-Mont.l
said "it would be a tragic thing
for the nation" if the president ap
pointed Dryden head of N.A.S.A.
Rep. James G. Fulton 'R-Pa.l
said there, is a "complete differ
ence of philosophy between Dry
den and some committee mem
bers" .
The administration and Dryden
have asked Congress for a 343
million dollar budget for
N.A S.A during li.scal 1959, the 12
month eliding next June 20.