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Obstrvar, La Grande, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 9, 1958 Page 2 LA GRANDE Established IIH , , , , Li Grinds, Ortgon Dally Except Sunday Publlihea Br the Grande Ronde Valloy Publishing- Company , ;...' . V. E. Woybrot, l'rosldont lUif C. ANDERSON .''. Editor 4 Publisher GEORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director .-' Member Audit United Press WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC. National Ilepreanntatlvea Los Angolcfl San Francinco Portland Scattlo Denver Now York Chicago Detroit SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier By Motor Route BY 1 Month . 6 Months ...1.25 ...6.50 'Sintered aa Second Claaa Matter at the Poat Office of La Grande, Orogon Under the Aot or March 8, 1817 : Out" Superiority Complex , i v.lftuf anyone evpr, seen any American Pyramids? Qr an ; .American Taj Mahal? .Naturally not. But the existence : 'of these architectural wonders in Egypt and India dem '. ohs'triitcs a lesson that we seem not to have learned too ; . . . , , . ,; . . , -ft'8 ;n!s: P,a' a "lave society, driven to its limits', can ; produce 'maryels of architecture, engineering-, .science and 'material output to rival or outdo any free society. ; ;'This being so, we should not have been ci'iushed and shaken as we were when the Soviet XJnioiV.beat us to ,' the punch with bigger earth satellites propelled by obvi- ously. rnpre powerful rockets than we possessed Up to ', thht 'tittie,, ;. , . To. Edward, Crankshaw, English historian, writing in ; the. New York Times Magazine, the fact that Ameri ', cans reacted as they did was, 'an indication that they j lack, true confidence in themsclvves, , i ;. 'Crankshaw" is deeply fond of America and apprecia I Wye of 'Ke, things which, make it great. Therefore we ' have to .listen , when, he tells us that we have been obses I setf Ytft'lV success, especially in the material, .worn, and i with the idea of .our. superiority over all other peoples. ! -In truth it is not given to jiny people, iiot even Ameri ; cans, to , be so universally superior. Those of us who i read thoughtfully or have viewed other peoples and place.j, Syith open 'eyes and minds understand this. But i too maiV'Of us have clung to this illusion as if it were , all we had. 'tlri Villi. r fh'a ntmolans Kill Hin' R..if iol, k. n'mi , . ; yip KU .VtlDOtlllia ,UU. bill. ,J1 ItlOII, W I IZ . UV1 llltlll.3, j thc.I'Vbnch, the Swiss, to mention just a handful, do i some things better than we. We in our turn surpass J thorn in .varying respects. -'; iBt't' there is no supremo virtue, no proof of superi- brijty,, in the. fac't we produce MORE of many of the material things of. this age. Heal mesui-ements must be in.qiiility;.'not quantity.. , ' ' j, Crankshaj believes Aniericans 'will find ' real confi ! (lehce -in- themselves When, they determine the true ' sbuiveVof their strength, when they recognize for good ! and all what, is genuinely unique in their way of life. v;;Tp, him America , is an "upright society of self-res--pectlhg;,,l)um'ah., beings banded together in. mutual sup J'port agains); the elemental, forces, against tyrants, against Everything that threatens, the free development J of individual. decency,. freedom and "responsibility." . . This America, he is sure, is not one that Russia can I "citch up with" by launching Sputniks or anything j else. ,. . '.,Xhis America the real America, is still a beacon of J libevty for all the world. And.it is a country whose standing in the', .world's eyes need not rise or fall with J the latest 'j'roduction figures. Its place will be secure. ; Grass Roots Report 1 . We:J&ve,'.iew.s for you. Tom Sawyer's tinio-tosted whitewashing, technique can no longer be used by the handy man, to get the youngster to mow the lawn. A hew power mower features lights, horns, gearshift and a comfy seat. Who would want to give up the job of manicuring the turf with this glamor gadget? In fact, the problem is to keep the small fry away from it. We mourn the passing of another facet of the "good old days." ; Barbs A doctor says it's healthier to kiss a girl on her photograph. And maybe hold her hand with gloves on. Cling to your friends is good advice but not for all their worth. Side Glances "What atfrla.do you suggest Bureau of Circulation Full Leased Wire 1.25 Month 1.40 Month 15.00 Year 10.80 Year MAIL S Months 1 Year ... 3.80 12.00 8-11 for my husband? He says ---Wi sh i n', NEA Europeans By WELLINGTON LONG . United Press International - BONN, Germany (UPI) West (European governments generally seem relieved . that the Middle Eastern crisis will be debated in Uie United Nations General As sembly rather than at a more ex clusive ."summit meeting." France would have been the Quotes From The News (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) United Press International LAS VEGAS, Nov., The Most Itev. Bishop Robert J. Dwyer, warning Roman Catholics against the trend toward nudity and in decent entertainment along the famed Las Vegas "Strip": There is no vacation from the Ten Commandments." HOLLYWOOD Actress Mari lyn Monroe, expressing happiness at the dismissal of a contempt of Congress conviction against her playwright' husband, Arthur Miller: - 'I'm very happy for my hus band, but . 1 am even happier for the truth arid justice that do exist in our country." NEWPORT, R. I. Capt. Karl Anderson, skipper of the (tinker Graham, which collided with an other tanker und exploded, causing the death of 15 crewmen and injuring 3G others: "U s an awful thing to think about. All those men dead and all that damage." UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, in dicating this country's position in the forthcoming General Assembly discussion on the Middle East: We believe the General As sembly will want to deal con structively with the fundamental, broad problems involved and not be satisfied with mere stopgaps. New Jersey Governor To Visit Holmes KA1 IfM lllPllfinv HiiIipiI D Holmes will play official host tins' eekend to Democratic oov. hod-i-l n Mnvncr nf New .lorscv. vvhn has scheduled two major public appearances in Oregon on his tour f the U.S. The Governor will introduce iov. Meyncr Sunday afternoon at Clackamas county barbecue and ninir. nl fiinhv whom lw 'is scheduled lo be featured speaker. At 4:30 . p.m. Sunday Meyncr will be gtiest at a reception at the Portland home oi t. uirora iinvlrUnn. Democratic National Committeeman for Oregon. On Monday, noin governors havt ve speaking roles at the nation convention of the National As- nl soc 'Intion of County Officials in 1 'ortland. Gov. Meyncr will de- liv ver the keynote address. Later in the week. Gov. Holmes will be host to former Iowa Gov ernor Leo A. Hoegh. now federal civil defense administrator, who is making a tour of Oregon CD fa cilities. The two will confer Wed nesday. Cauliflower is recorded in human history as early as the 0th cen tury B. C." Wait in', Wonder i Service, Inc.' Relieved At only West European government participating in such a summit" session. . Paris was claiming for itself the right to appear at that meeting as West Europe s spokesman. But most, other West European governments are unsympathetic with the French posture in North Africa. They feared France would try at a "summit" meeting to commit other West European gov ernments to actions in which the latter did not believe. With the great debate now to be held in the 81-member General Assembly, the West Europeans are, to a greater degree, masters of their own destiny. On the minus side, however, West Europeans realize that a General Assembly debate must end with a counting of noses. That could put .' the West ' Europeans, most of whom are allied with the Jury Acquits Sheriff Of BeatingCharge WATER VALLEY, Miss. (UPII An all-white jury Thursday ac quitted a Mississippi sheriff of charges he beat a Negro prisoner to death in a case tried before the same judge who presided over the Emmctt Till case. The dead man's wife immedi ately announced she would leave this tiny community for good be cause she was "scared." The jury, made up of farmers and mechanics, deliberated 28 minutes before finding Yalobusna County Sheriff J.G. I Buster I Trc loar, 3(i, innocent of manslaughter in the death of deliveryman Wood row Wilson Daniels. While the jury was out, Circuit Judge Curtis Swango warned the courtroom crowd: "There mur.i be absolutely no demonstrations when the verdict is read." Swango also presided over the trial in 1955 of two white men accused of kill ing Emmctt Till, a young Negro who allegedly whistled at a white woman. The men were acquitted. But the verdict was greeted by groans from agallery of Negroes who had observed the four-day proceedings from the courtroom balcony. There were no further demonstrations. "I'm getting out of Wajcr Val ley for good." said Mrs. Annie Margaret Daniels, the Negro's widow. "I'm hurt and I'm scared. 1 don't know how I'm ever going lo pay Wilson's . medical and fu neral expenses and take care of our five children." Prosecution witnesses luld the jury Treloar beat Daniels repeat edly with a blackjack while the Negor was in jail on a bootleg ging charge. . Treloar admitted striking Dan iels in defense of himself and other prisoners, but denied hitting the deliveryman on the head. After the trial he picked up the blackjack and put it in his pocket. Russian Roulette Fatal To Youth OAKLAND lUPli A 17-year-old youth played a game of Rus sian roulette Thursday and lost. The boy, Willie Warren, killed himself in the home of a friend. Charles Moore, 18. police said. Warren picked up a revolver in Moore's home, inserted a bullet in one of the five chambers and said. "I think I'll play Russian roulette." , lie pulled the trigger once and nothing happened. He pulled it a second' time. A bullet entered his right temple. He died instnhtlv. ri7 When UN talk Uniled States and Britain through the North Atlantic Treaty alliance or the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, in an em barrassing situation. West European governments were annoyed that the U.S. land ed troops in Lebanon without con sulting its allies first. And even post facto consultation and expla nation has failed to convince all European leaders that the Ameri can action was the best possible move, legal though it may have been. v , But it is one thing for the West Europeans to carp at the U.S. be hind closed doors. It is quite an other thing for them to vote against the U.S. in the United Na tions but it might be 'equally dif ficult for many European leaders to justify to their own constituents a vote for a resolution expressing full support of the American ac tions in Lebanon. Much will depend on Ihe word ing of any resolutions the U.S. may bring before the General As sembly. Probably the U.S. will have to "water down" its resolu tions considerably, as it did its resolutions on the Hungarian ques tion in late 1956. The West Germans are probably more relieved at latest develop ments than any of their neigh bors. Bonn has always held that the United Nations was the proper forum in which to handle Middle Eastern questions, political and economic. For that reason, Germany in general supports the plan of Ital ian Premier Amintore Fanfani to channel economic aid to the Arab Uates through the U.N. And West Germany is in the po litical advantageous posilion of not being a member of the United Nations. As an accredited observ er at the New York headquarters. it can make its influence felt, but it doesn't have to stand up and be counted. West Germany also feared that a summit conference might degen erate into horse-trading in which there would be an agreement to neutralize the Middle East in re turn for similar neutralization of central Europe. Official Bonn opposes neutraliza tion of central Europe, and sees less chance of such a deal being arranged at the U.N. than at a "summit" session. Final Session In Water Fight Monday SAN FRANCISCO (UP!) .The Colorado River water suit will be gin Monday before Supreme Court The suit was brought against California by Arizona to establish clear title to 2,800.000 acre feet of Colorado River flow annually, plus- the flow of the Gila River System. The federal government and other lower basin states have since become involved in the legal dispute. California will present lis re buttal case during final hearings, which arc scheduled to end by Sept. 1 at Rifkind's insistence. Gov. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona conferred with his state's attorneys here Thursday and said he was "salislicd with the prog ress that has been made." Asked about rumors from Phoe nix that . Arizona planned to change its strategy in the suit, McFarland said, "I wouldn t put it that way. I wouldn't sav there was a change in strategy." McFarland left by plaK today for Caspar. Vyo..to visit Arizona military units in summer training. Salvation Army Profile Helps Those Who Need By LOUIS CASSELS Uniled Press International Jesus shocked the religious lead ers of his day by associating with bums, prostitutes and other sin ners. , . In this respect, as in others, the Salvation Army faithfully follows in its Master s footsteps. For nearly a century, its blue uniformed soldiers have been scandalizing respectable church folk by beating tambourines on street corners, holding prayer meetings in jails, and mingling unashamed with the outcasts of society. ' The Salvation Army was found ed by an English minister named William Bootlv who felt that the regular churches were failing to reach out to the people who need ed them most desperately. In 1865, Booth set up a dilapidated tent in London's grubby East End and 'began to preach tho Christian gospel to " thieves, " gamblers, drunkards and street-walkers. He won many converts but the Senator, Gore's Renomindfion Eases Worries Of South Demos By RAYMOND LAHR ' United Presslnternational WASHINGTON (UPI I"-' Sen. Albert Gore's renomination in Thursday's Tennessee Democratic primary eases the worries of Southern Democratic moderates and liberals. But it does not mean a marked shift in the trend shown only last week by Gov. Orval Faubus' runaway victory in the Arkansas primary. Despite increased racial tension in the South because of the con flict over school integration, Gore won renomination against a tra ditional Dixie style campaign con ducted by Prentice Cooper, a for mer governor. Cooper attacked Gore for voting for the Civil Rights Bill in the Senate last year and for failing to sign the Southern Annual Union Junior Rodeo Results Told , Georgia Elliott of Redmond won t"he Girls' all-round award and also the Senior Girls' cow riding title last Sunday at tho Second Annual Union County Jun ior Rodeo held at Union.' Boys' all-around honors went' lo Jim Walker of Durkce. He also won the buckle for senior cow cutting. Over 80 contestants were on hand to compete for top honors in the 12 events on the rodeo program. ' Officials said, "it was a tremendous success." Other results, senior division: Bareback riding Ambers Thornburg, Terrebonne, Ore., was named the combined winner for the two days. He was awarded a belt buckle. Tiedown Calf Roping: -Bill Stephens, Union. Bulldogging: Joe Baker, Caldwell. Cow Cut ting: Tom Norton, Ashwood; Jim Walker, Durkce. Texas Barrel Race: Larry Porter, Pilot Rock. Saddle Bronc Riding: Gene Jor don, Mitchell. Cow Riding: Boys, Jim Beck, Imbler. Girls, Marcella Peterson Conley. Junior Results: Calf Riding: Mike Stitzel, Union. Breakaway Calf Roping: Larry Davis, Home dale, Idaho. Cow Cutting: Kath leen Norton Ashwood. Texas Barrel Race: Kathleen Norton, Ashwood, Steer Decorating;! Ed die Newton John Day, Stake Race: Bob Stephen, Union. Guild Expected To Decide On Defense Fund SAN JOSE (UPD The Amer ican Newspaper Guild, meeting in its 25th annual convention,' was expected to decide whether lo "plough" a larger proportion of dues into its defense fund. The guild's international execu tive board has recommended that the present strike fund of $350,000' be raised to one million dollars. It has also recommended that' each guild local put 5 per cent of its dues into its own defense funds. A committee report on the de-; fense fund topic was expected to come before a general session. .In Wednesdays session, tne A.N.G. adopted a resolution ur ging President Eisenhower to sign; a "right to know" Dili torDinaing numerous federal agencies from denying the public access to their records. West Coast Employment Increased In May, June SAN FRANCISCO 1 UPI' west Coast employment increased with more than seasonal strength be tween May and June, according to the tl.S. Department of Labor. By mid-June, 5.700,000 wage and salary workers were employed in California. Oregon and Washington.- That did not include agricul tural and domestic employes. churches did not want them. So Booth put them to work to save others like themselves. Within a few years there were thousands, of them conducting open-air services in London streets. They 7 were called "the hallelujah army.'! : The nickname cave Booth an idea. In 1878, he organized his fast-growing band along military lines and gave it the official title, the Salvation Army. The following year the first Salvation Army unit in the United States was organ ized by Lieutenant Eliza Shirley, an English girl who had moved to Philadelphia with her parents. Today the Salvation Army has 10,792 local "corps" and "out posts" in 86 countries: Its U.S. branch, one of the largest, has more than 250,000 members. The national commander is Commis sioner Norman S. Marshall, whose headquarters are in New York. The Army's primary mission is still the' same as it was when General Booth set up his tent in congressional bloc's "manifesto" against mixing the races in schools. He also took a more con servative line than Gore on for eign aid and foreign trade." 'Gore's victory could not be in terpreted as evidence of any slackening in .racial tension. But his defeat would have' -been 'a loud; clear signal to southern 'pol iticians that taking the extremist position on the segregation issue was essential to political Sufvval. There was- a widespread -belief among Democrats in the' Senate that Gore's real trouble was not his record but his failure to give enough attention to fence repair in his home state:! ;v ' ' 1 Incumbent ' members' of 'Con gress usually are heavy favorites when they seek renomination. No senator who has sought renomina tion this year' has been defeated in the primaries so far-. Gore, the 15th to be renominated, won the hard way and by a margin that was 'less than overwhelming. -Gore's victory ' was 'Similar to that won two weeks ago by Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex an other Southern moderate' who vot ed for the 1957' Civil 'Rights Bill. Yarborough won more, e a s i 1 y against aconservalive challenger. But between . Texas . arid Tennes see lies Arkansas: And between the Texas and Tennessee -primaries came the Arkansas -primary and the third-term -nomination of Faubus, who . has become . the symbol of Southern white resis tance to racial integration, i ' - Gore and Yarborough can be expected to be among those South ern Democrats fighting for a united Democratic party in the 1960 presidential campaign.. Oth ers will be less interested in keep ing the South in the national par ty. This whole . subject- no doubt will get formal or informal atten tion from' the Southern Demo cratic leaders, meeting for unan nounced purposes, at Columbia, S.C., this weekend, Accident Injuries Fatal To Youth HOOD RIVER (UPI) A 19-year-old Albany youth died" Wed nesday night from injuries suffer ed Sunday when a car in which he was a passenger went out of control and rolled over several times near Cascade Locks on Highway 30. The youth is Leland Dale Plogg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Plogg, Sr., of Albany. , Two other teen-agers who were in the car, one of them the driver, escaped with minor injuries. ' . Survivors include the parents, three brothers and a sister. IMPORTED FEATURE The internationally known famous Flor enie Troupe, th first American appearance of the "Parisian Sen sations," of the "eilverstrand" executing the, ultimate of all dar ing and clever manipulations on the tight wire will thrill La Grande circus fans at the matinee and night performance of Al G. Kelley and Miller. Bros, largest circus cominn to M.ivfrick grounds on Monday, Aug. IS. 1 Shows It Help Most London lo preach the Christian gospel. But today its ministry to down-and-outers includes their physical as well as their spiritual needs. . , .-."' To outsiders, the impressive fact about, the . Salvation Army's far-flung welfare program is' its utter lack of squeamishness. It helps the people who need help the most, and doesn't worry about getting ils hands dirty in the process. ' ' ' In more than 100 U. S. cities, there are Salvation Army rehabil itation centers' where men who have "lost their grip on life" are nurtured back to self-respect and self-support through work-therapy and counselingThese centers ac cept the real skid-row alcoholics who are too destitute and too dis organized lo get effective help anywhere else. Other Salvation Army services are almost. po, numerous to list. The Army,, for example, pro vides lodging houses for the in digent and , for unwed mothers: camps for slum children; Christ mas cheer for. poor families; con ducts religious services for pris oners, organizes golden age clubs for the elderly, and sponsors rec reation centers for servicemen. Its help is given solely on the basis of need. .The cynic is as wel come as the convert. There are ho passive members in the Salvation Army. Everyone who enrolls as a soldier is ex pected to devote as much time as possible to the Army's work. ' Commissioned officers, the or dained ministers of the Army, arc trained at the four "cadet schools" in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco. They receive extremely modest sal aries; out of which they must pur chase their; own food and uni forms. If they marry, they must marry another Salvation Army of ficer. They live "on post" at Sal vation Army centers and are sub ject to call :for duly 24 hours a day. - . ::,' Despite rigid economy which holds overhead, costs to a mini mum, the Army's vast program of welfare services requires far more money than can be contrib uted by itskbwn faithfuliy-tithing but generally poor membership. The Army looks to the public to bridge this gap. In some com' munities, itTconducts an annual "maintenance' appeal." In some, it participates in Community Chest or united givers campaigns. In recent 'yetfrs, the Army has revived 'considerable -'financial support from members of the "re spectable" Christian churches who, no lorigei' scandalized, are just a bit humbled by the -men and women in .the blue uniforms. PUC Chief OKs Greyhound Lines' Service Cut SALEM (UPD Public Utility Commissioner " Howard Morgan approved an application for Greyhound- bus lines to abandon its service over U. S. Highway 99 West between McMinnville and Corvallis. He also authorized Valley Stages lo extend its bus service -over a portion of the same route between McMinnville and Monmouth. "This actiort 'will become effec tive Aug. 18 and is in the public interest," Morgan said, "because it will provide convenient trans portation, better designed and more practicable." Only one round-trip daily was offered by Greyhound, while Val ley Stages will make three round- trips on weekdays between Salem and McMinnville and will sched ule two runs on Sundays and holi days. 1 Morgan said Valley Stages' op erating costs were lower over the route. ns positively wun "' ..... I
