Workers May Not Be As Well Off
As Their Daily Pay Indicates
By LYLE C. WILSON
; United Prats International
WASHINGTON (IIPI1 The
' aristocrats among the citizens of
all countries who labor in the
great factories of industry arc the
-American hands who arc drawing
down a bit more than $17 a day
lor a five-day week.
Or, arc these American factory
, workers really the best paid, best
off. among the world's factory
. hands? It is likely that they arc.
H also is possible, however, that
these highly paid midcentury
, workers arc not so well off as
their daily pay indicates.
; It is their misfortune and the
misfortune of all other Americans
gainfully empioyea wai me rela
tively high earnings which they
enjoy are paid in dollars which
are somewhat phony. These are
not phony dollars in the sense that
the Secret Service would suspect
them of being run off an illicit
money press. They arc . much
worse than counterfeit money in
at least one respect. . ,
That respect is that the Ameri
can citizen who must accept his
pay in these legally phony dollars
is without protection against the
injustice of it all. If these were
nmtntnrftiit HnllhrK. thfi ' faplnrv
hand could and would spurn them,
SAC, British Air Force Units
Compete In Joint Exercise
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MAHtii Ai'U, cam. lui-i;
Crack bomber crews of the Stra
tegic' Air Command and the Brit
it h Air Korce bared their nuclear
attack strength for public record
Monday in the 10th annual SAC
bombing and navigation competi
tion. The crews will fly nearly half
a million miles in the week-long
competition, "bombing" with their
radar sights three target cities in
the West.
Holmes Urges
Federal Aid
For Education
; SALEM UPI Education is a
national job, as well as a slate
and community job, Gov. Robert
D. Holmes told Oregon high
school heads here Monday in a call
for general federal aid to educa
tion program.
; The govornor lold the opening
session of tho Oregon Association
of - Secondary School Principals
that he believed a good fcderal-
aid-to-oducalion bill could be writ
ten retaining local control and
with minimum administrative
costs. ."
' "It is in the national interest
to have good schools, and as I
have said for years, we cannot be
happy simply because we in Ore
gon have a good school system.
A bad system in another slate Is
of no help to us at all,". Gov.
Holmes said.
The governor said tho demands
for better and wider educational
opportunities' and the inclusion of
health and welfare activities in
tho school prdgrams left little op
portunity for. reductions in school
laxatlqns. -
Possible shifting of some so
called non - academic activities,
now carried on by the schools,
to other public agencies' was sug
gested by the governor, both as
a means of relieving tho burdens
of , school administrators and -to
cut costs of school operations.
It was the 30th annual fall con
fcrence for the association.
Key'speuker will be Dr. George
Shattuck, president of the Nation
al Association of Secondary School
principals. ;
The first wave of bombers be
gan lifting themselves from the
runways hero and at Castle Air
Force Base, near Merced, Calif.,
shortly after daybreak. .
Seventy-eight SAC bombers, in
cluding the B52 Stratofortress, the
B47 Stratojet and the B36 Peace
maker, representing 39 SAC wings
and eight crews of the RAF are
participating in the joint exercise.
Only silent salvos were Jircd.
There was-no more battle noise
than the click of an electrical
switch sending a radar impulse
against a single shingle on the
northwest corner of Hennessy's
department store in Butte, Mont.,
a Highway Department garage in
Boise, Idaho, and a smoke stack
at the International Minerals and
Chemical Co. in San Jose, Calif.
The planes fly so high only sil
ver vapor trails are visible during
the day and only a distant rumble
is audible at night.
Technicians at radar listening
posts in the target areas score
the hits and misses of the bomb
ers 50,000 feet overhead. ' ..
The competition stresses pin
point accuracy. 'The "payload" of
just one BS2 would incinerate a
city the size of Chicago, but SAC
demands its crews prove they can
lay it on such targets as the
square corner of Hennessey's store
in Butte.
Ted Sidor Speaks
At Commercial
Club Meeting '
UNION (Special) J. A. B. Mc
Arthur presided at -the commer
cial, club meeting held, Tueseday
evening, , , Seventeen members
were present.' Following the no
host dinner, Ted Sidor, union
County extension agent, spoke.
; A letter from Wayne Ferguson,
nay or, regarding road signs for
Union from the junction of high
way 30 wns road,
Jim Wishail, secretary is to
find out from Ernest Burrows of
Unemployment service in La
Grande it itinerate' payment ser
vice will be set up in Union.
The merchants of Union will
be. asked to put the trush cans
inside during Halloween.
Carl Posey reported he contact
ed Hie city council and (hoy have
a site picked out for a suntiary
land fill for Union and hope to
he able lo get 11,
Tuesday, Oct. 14, will bo Bar
berry Clean' Up Day. Barberry
plants act as a home for rust that
is so destructive to gruln.
The group voted for the com
mercial club to donate $25 to
ward a show or other entertain
ment for Halloween for tho boys
Hid girls of the vicinity.
NATO Confab
On CyprusMay
Solve Crisis
PARIS (UPI) Reports that
Briluin, Greece and Turkey have
agreed in principle to a' NATO
mediation conference on Cyprus
were greeted here today as a ma
jor step toward solving the is
land's crisis and averting a pos
sible thveat to the NATO alliance.
The reports said agreement was
reached Monday night at a meet
ing of the permanent NATO coun
cil, but that arrangements for the
conference were delayed pending
ratification, by tho three govern
ments involved in the dispute
Sources said the answers could
be expected by next Wedncsduy.
The plan was reported to call
for a meeting of official delegates
from Britain, Greece and Turkey
and members of the local Greek
and Turkish communities on Cy
prus. Other members of the Atlantic
Pact, presumably the United
States, France and Italy, were to
attend tho conference as "mediators."
Young Hoolums
Spray Street With
Bullets; Boy Hurt
.TORRANCE, Calif (UPI) A
carload of juvenile hoodlums roar
ed through a street Sundiiy night
and indiscriminately sprayed it
with bullets. One 14-year-old boy
was shot ' and a woman and
a girl nurrowly escaped.
Robert Hernandez Lunn, 14,
.. -o u.minilml In Mm left fool With
nuo ' ui- ... -
u '.22-calibcr slug. Mrs. Helen
Dnna RrunPMrtnn. 49. mid a 13-
llOllvva -o , .
year-old girl, both walking along
the streets at inc ume, were mis
sed by the hail of bullets.
Police in t this suburban Los
Angeles city said tho youths ap
parently wore mombers of a juv-
Hunter's Body
Found In Burnt
River By Police
BAKER (UPD The body of a
Clatskanic hunter, Frank Floren
Berglund, 41, was found in a foot
and half of water in the Burnt
river about 40 miles southwest of
here Monday.
The Baker county sheriffs of
fice said Bcrglund had been hunt
ing with Iwo friends and became
separated from them late Sunday
night. He whs reported missing
early Monday.
Borglund's companions, Thomas
Freeman and James Phillips of
Portland, told the sheriff that
Bcrglund liked to hunt alone.
Freeman said that they beeume
alarmed when' Bcrglund did not
show up and a report was made.
Sheriff Dclnuir Dixon and stale
police came upon the body about
0 a.m. Monday.
Coroner Thud Really said an
autopsy will be performed to do
lerminc cause of death.
Body Identified
By Mother, Brothers
PORTLAND (UPD The Mult
nomuh county coroner's offici
said Monday a man believed slab
here Sept. 1 was identified Sun
day as Willis Edgar Wcbly, 35
a native of Ephrala. Wash.
Deputy Coroner William Farrcl'
said the victim's mother, of Spo
kane, Wash., and two brothers
made the identification.
Weblcy's body was found near
the east end of the Steel bridge
in tho Willamette River. Detectives
said they believed the man had
been beaten and dumped in the
river.
demanding that his pay be in le
gal tender at full value. The q.S.
government would back up the
hand in that demand and, further,
move fast and hard to cut off the
supply of counterfeit by destroy
ing its source and by jailing its
maker.
.No such threat of punishment
menaces the American politicians,
the political pressure groups, the
big spenders and such who largely
are responsible for the fact that
the $17-per-day pocketed by the
average factory hand is not $17
per day at all but a mere fraction
of that comfortable sum. The pol
iticians of botli parties are about;
equally responsible for tms situa
tion, and for cause:
Either they will not or they can
not chance the prevailing trend
toward bigger and bigger govern
ment, more and more spending,
greater and greater deficits and
higher and higher taxes. The end
result of this trend, of course, is
national disaster brought on by
what is called currency inflation.
This national disaster would de
stroy the American way of life.
The government ana omcr aeoi
ors would get some good of it.
The government, for example, has
been borrowing money from the
citizens over a period of nearly
30 years to pay its debts. For
purposes of comparison, let us
say that the dollars the govern
ment borrowed in 1939 and the
dollars paid to factory hands in
that year wore worth 100 cents.
A 1939 debt incurred in terms
of 100-cenl dollars could be paid
off today with dollars relatively
worth a bit less than 50 cents.
The 1939 factory hand who was
paid, say, $10 a day in 100 cent
dollars gets $17 a day now. But
his dollars are 50-cent dollars, so
the factory worker's real daily
wage today in terms of purchas
ing power is about $8.50.
That is what is happening to the
purchasing power of the U.S. dol
lar which once upon a time was
tho symbol of stable value. No
more!
Things could be worse, however,
and they are. Tax Foundation,
Inc., calculated last spring thai
direct and hidden taxes now com
bine to take about one-third of the
income of the average- American
family.
,The responsibility for these bur
densome taxes, like that for cur
rency inflation, belongs to the pol
iticians of both parties and to the
big time spenders who egg them
on.
I r, ' v -
N. Powder Soldier
Gets Transfer
Private Willard Fordice son of
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fordice of
North Powder, who has been sta
tioned in Ford Ord, Calif., for the
past few months is now being
transferred lo Fort Lewis, Wash.,
where he will train, in motor
maintenance.
He was a member of the 1958
graduating class at North Powder.
Farm Bureau
Slates Election
Of Officers
Election of officers will take
rlacc at the La Grande Farm
Bureau center meeting to be held
Thursday, Oct. 16 at the Farm
Bureau hall in Island City.
. Marion T. Wcathcrford, candi
date for Congress, will be a gucsl
at the 7:30 p.m., potluck supper
and the short business meeting to
follow. Later, at 8:45 p.m., he Is
jchcduled to be interviewed at a
public meeting in the hall.
Court Refuses
To Review Two
Teamster Cases
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court Monday refused to
review the cases of two West
Coast teamsters officials who won
reversal of contempt of Congress
convictions by challenging tho au
thority of the Senate investiga
tions subcommittee.
, The ruling left standing a ver
dict of the U.S. Court of Appeals
in the cases of Frank Brewster,
former chairman of the Western
Conference of Teamsters, and Nu
gent LaPoma, secretary-treasurer
of Local 174 in Seattle.
The two leaded were convicted
on contempt charges by a U.S.
District Court here for failing to
answer questions and produce rec
ords for the subcommittee's in
quiry into financial statements
and tax-exempt privileges of la
bor unions. They argued that the
subcommittee, a panel of the Sen
ate Government Operations Com
mittee, had no jurisdiction tor an
investigation of labor unions and
labor leaders.
Brewster did testify later before
the special Senate Rackets Com
mittee established lo conduct a
broad inquiry inlo abuses in labor
management relations.
The U.S. Court of Appeals re
versed both convictions. The gov
ernment then asked for a Su
preme Court review contending
that the appeals court reversals
would "severely and "improper
ly" restrict the authority of the
Government Operations Commit
tee nnd Us Investigating arm.
Final Cub Scout
Training Session
Set Wednesday
The tnird ana linai uud scoui
Leaders Trainingprogram will be
held Wcdpesday at 7:30 p.m. at
La Grande High School, Jack
Lew, cub scout official, said Mon
day. Lew said Cub Scout officials
here have been "highly elated"
at the turnout for the last two
meetings. Over 50 persons at
tended the first two training ses
sions, he said.
He urged everyone interested in
cub scouting to attend the final
nrneram. Loren Hughes is in
I'tiarge of the training sessions
with Jim Sherrick, assisting.
Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tuei., Oct. 14, 1951 Page
Market Quotations
By United Press Inttrnttlonel
New York Stocks
NEW YORK (UPI) Heavy
profit taking hit the stock market
today with prices receding late
in the session on tickers that
were falling behind the market.
Chrysler lost 2 points. Metals
were hard hit. Selling spread to
other sections of the list that had
been strong recently. Chemi
calis, some of the shipbuilders,
aluminums, office equipments,
and specials in places were hard
hit.
The market hit its best levels
of the day around noon when in
dustrials were at their best level
in history, rails up a bit and utili
ties at a new 28-ycar high.
The realizing increased in force
as the close ncared. It hit all
departments even including the
oils which for a change had been
strong.
Heaviest trading centered on
such issues as Studebaker-Pack-ard,
Shell Transport, Bethlehem
Steel, Benguet Consolidated Min
ing, Royal Dutch, National The
atres, American Motors, Alumin
um, American Metal Climax, and
Boeing.
Strong specials through most of
the day included Texas Instru
ments, Caterpillpr Tractor, Col
gate, Eversharp, Litton Industries
and Hccht Co., all of which made
new highs for the year.
Bulletin
NEW YORK UPI Tickers
fell behind 11 minutes today. Hie
latest the stock market has run
since June 10, 1957, when the
tape was 14 minutes behind on
President Eisenhower's . "stom
ach ache."
Control Board
Considers Cottage
For Fairview Home
cat itm (IIPI1 'I'hfi Stnto Board
of Control Monday considered plans
ri. n nrnnnsprl nnn - nmiHiluiorv
cottage at Fairview home for the
mentally retarded here.
Tim nnw circular buildine would
house about 170-190 patients and
cost approximately svuu.uuu.
CimnrintomlfMlt Or IrVlll Hi
said the idea of the structure was
to get similar types of patients
together in the best possible work
ing arrangement.
Plunu nmct I'iippivn finitl !in
proval from the Board and (hen
be submitted to the l!).i9 Legisla
turc.
'High Strung'
YouthFacesCharge
In Parent's Death
OMAHA, Neb. (UPI) Authori
itics are prcpiircd to file charges
against a ''high strung" Omaha
youth who they said signed a
statement admitting he killed his
parents in .an argument over a
car.
William Leslie Arnold. Ill, took
police lo his backyard Saturday
and showed them vherc ho had
uried the bodies of his purenls
wo weeks ago in a shallow grave
in a flower bed.
An autopsy on the decomposed
bodies of his father, William, 42.
ind mother, Opel, 40. showed he
had pumped six bullets inlo each
of his parents from a .22 caliber
rifle.
Police said the Arnold youth, a
student at Omaha's Central High
School, admitted shooting Ids par
ents on Sept. 27 when his mother
forbid him to use one of the fam
ily's two cars for a Saturday night
date. '
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
Cattle 300; supply includes long
load heifers; trade active, steady;
few good steers 25.25-25.50; choice
steers Monday 26.50-27.25; stand
ard steers today 23.50-25; Utility
20-22.50; standard heifers 22.50-24;
utility 18.50-21; good-choice heifers
Monday 24.50 26.50; utility cows
today 17-19.50; canners-cutters 14-
16, Holstein cutters to 17; utility
bulls 23-24.
Calves 75; steady; choice veal-
crs 30-33; good 27-29; cull-utility
15-31.
Hogs 250; trade moderately ac
tive, butchers strong lo 25c high
er; sows steady; U.S. 1 and 2
butchers 180-235 lb. 20.25 - 20.75
mixed grade lots- 19.50-20; 240-270
lb. 19-19.50; sows 300-550 lb. 16-50-
19.50.'
Sheep 800; trade slow, market
not established; choice slaughter
lambs Monday 20.75 - 21; good-
choice feeders 17.50 - 19.50; cult
good ewes 3-7.50.
PORTLAND DAIRY
Eees To retailers: Grade AA
large 46-48C; A large 44-45c; AA
medium 39-42e: A medium 3H-4UC;
AA small 30-31C; carton l-3c additional.
Butter To retailers: A A and
Grade A prints, 6B-69c lb.; carton
lc higher; B prints, 6667c.
PORTLAND GRAIN
White wheat 2.03
Soft white, H.R. applicable 2.03
White club 2.03
Hard red winter, ordinary 2.02
Hard white baart, ordinary 2.0o
Oats no bid
Barley 49.50
Marine Recruiters j
To Be Here Wednesday
The United States Marine Corps
is a specialist organization that
prides itself on "Building Men."
The Marine Corps has 140 schools
tlmt train men for 470 specialist
jobs, many of these schools have
civilian applications.
The Marine Recruiters Sgts.
Jefferson and Pond will be in
the La Grande post otliee on
Wednesday and encourage visita
linnc from voune men who may
qualify for the United States Ma-
line Corps.
Recapping
Turley's
St
special:
COMMUNICATION
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A. F- A. M.,
Wednesday, ;6et. 15th .
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SAW, GAS THEFT TOLD
Leo Bolham, Cove, reported the
'theft of a chain saw, a five-gal
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The items left at Burnt Cor
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