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EDITORIAL PAGE
i; La Grande - Observer
HXtl y Monday, My 25, 1959
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'National Pastime1 Is Dying Fast
Editors's Note: Bob Mullin is a Sen
, lor at the University o( Oregon, major
ing in Journalism. His home town is
Oswego. This guest editorial was de- .
., veloped from his thesis entitled: ;
"Baseball is Dying Fast." ,'
By BOB MULLIN
, University of Oregon 1
Two friends meeting on the street:
, "Hey Fred, Let's go to the baseball game
this afternoon."
"Like to, Pete, but I want to watch the
big league game on T.V. . . . Besides, the
traffic",
; "Yeah, guess you've got a point there.
Maybe we can have a game of golf one of
these days. Just got a new set of clubs."
And so two more Americans did not go
to the ball park that day.
. Organized baseball, still known as our
"national pastime." is headed toward an
inevitable death if the downward trend
in game attendance throughout the nation
continues.
The major and minor baseball leagues,
which broke all-time attendance marks
ten years ago, now actually face the posi
i bility of non-existance within the next
decade. -
The home-town slugger, the seventh-in-ing
stretch and the barking umpire may
be just a memory by 1969 if nothing is
done to halt the game's decline.
' i The minor leagues topped 42 millions in
total attendance in 1949. But today they
draw less than one-third that many
through the turnstiles.
And even the major leagues, which have
resorted to desperate franchise transfers
' since 1952, have fallen in annual attend
i ance from 22 to 17 millions since 1948.
These figures, shocking as they may
seem, do not represent the end figure of
'the decline.
Unless baseball men take a serious and
objective look at the ever weakening cond
, dition of organized baseball, there is rea-
son to believe that this downward attend
ance trend will continue until the game
. finally goes bankrupt. ,
Thus far, little action has been taken to
put an end to the decline.
! Baseball men must realize that the
; game's decline is caused for the most part
.by their own selfish actions and their
; stubborn resistance to reform,
r The actions of major league owners is
' the biggest reason for organized baseball's
r current situation. In three ways these own
icrs have, almost exclusively, caused the
current plight of minor leagues.
First, they have invaded minor league
i territory with weekly telecasts of major
- league games.
: The result has been that fans in minor
league towns sit at home watching top
t flight major league baseball on television
i while home town minor league clubs play
. in almost-empty parks
i Even worse, these fans are being "train
; ed" to stay at home and it may soon be
, .too late to lure them back to local ball
parks, whatever is done.
Second, big league owners have hurt
fan interest by constantly manipulating
minor league talent through the farm sys
tem and through the drafting of players.
Break Me May
RILEY D. ALLEN
. GEORGE S. CHALLIS
H. E. PHILBY
TOM HUMES
Often, a minor league team ends a season
with a completely altered lineup from that
with which it opened. ......
This not only disrupts the organization
of a minor league club, it tends to dis
courage fan loyalUy, with serious conseq
uences to attendance. ..
Third, five of the big league owners, in
an effort to keep their own teams from
losing money, have moved to former minor
league cities.
Such moves have forced large-scale shuf
fels in the minors and thus have hurt atten
dance figures for the smaller clubs. And
there is talk of still more big league fran
chise moves.
In addition to major league actions that
have hurt minor league attendance, all of
organized baseball has suffered financially
from changing cultural conditions in post
war America.
Along with population increase in most
American cities, there has been a distinct
rise in suburban living. And these increas
es have gone hand in hand in discouraging
attendance at baseball games.
For the suburbanite, the ball park is too
far away, for the city dweller, the ball park
is too difficult to reach because of increas
ed traffic and parking problems.
Furthermore, a high post-war prosper
ity has given the potential fan the opport
unity to participate in a wider range of
leisure time activities.
Finally, many ball park neighborhoods
have deteriorated to the point where fans
feel it is "risky business" being near them.
All these factors have contributed to
baseball's present predicament and base
ball men must recognize them in order to
attack the problem of halting attendance
declines. ,.
They must keep In closer touch with
the problems which constantly confront
'the game at its different levels.
They must become more tightly knit. '
And they must give the commissioner
of baseball more power so that individual
and selfish interests do not have a chance
to exploit the game.
If these things are dono with the best
interests of baseball as a whole always in
mind, then organized baseball can and
will contiue to entertain America as our
"national pastime."
Barbs - v
Mom will bo taking1 the kids to a va
cation resort this summer and keep right
on being tired out.
It's nil right to say that spring reigns,
but more like it to spell it "rains,"
In a bargain sale a woman may take
the chance of ruining one dress in order
to buy another.
Now comes the time when a wife will
sweep the front room with a glance and
then go out and have fun in the garden.
In Indiana a boy chewed fifty sticks of
gum at one time. He'll be forever blow
ing bubbles.
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Three Textile
Get Strauss Payoff
WASHINGTON The dav be.
tore tne Senate commerce com.
mittee voted on his confirmation
secretary oi commerce Lewis
Strauss made a political pay-off.
to three senators Pastore of
Rhode Island, Thurmond of South
Carolina,'' and : Cotton .of New
Hampshire who helped salvage
his one-vote victory. The pay-off
had to do with stricter controls
of foreign textiles, especially Jap
anese.
However, one pay-off backfired
-o badly that it made John
Pastore, the bouncing little Denv
erat from Rhode Island, hit the
ceiling and almost change his
mind about voting for Strauss.
What made Pastore mad was that
Sen. Lcverett Saltonstall of Mass
achusetts, Republican, not Pas
tore, Democrat, was permitted to
announce the creation of a new
governmental textile agency.
The whole inside story illustra
tes the ruthlessncss with which
Senate votes are sometimes bart
ered in a tough confirmation bat
tle, and how such a battle can un
dermine an administration's for
eign policy.
Here are the unrevealcd high
lights
1. Because U. S. military bases
in Japan are so important, the
Eisenhower administration has re
used to put mandatory controls
on Japanese textiles. Instead, Ja
pan itself has imposed voluntary
control. Such a policy has been
urged by the state and defense
departments in order to keep Ja
pan an active free-world ally in
the cold war against Red China
2. Because Admiral Strauss's
confirmation as secretary of com
merce is personally important to
Mrauss and politically important
to EisenhoWcr, the White House
agreed to a special agency to in
vestigate textile imports, with ex
pected stricter controls on Jap
anese products later.
3. Ex-Gov. Tom Dewey of New
York, former GOP candidate for
president, accepted a fee of $100,
000 a year to push Japanese tex
tiles in the United States. Dewey
is the man primarily responsible
for nominating Eisenhower in
1952, and still has great influence
at the White House. Dewey, in
cidentally, accepted the fee one
day after the White House an
nounced formation ot tne special
agency on tcxtillcs.
Therefore. two. prominent Re-
oublicans. Dewcv and Strauss,
will be battling on opposite sides
of the textile fence.
BackttM Buttonnonna i
Admiral - Strauss'rWcksrafflH
buttonholing among textile sen
ators began some time ago, It
was aided by certain big textile
firms, notably Burlington indus
tries of North Carolina. In the
middle of the Senate hearings ov
er his confirmation, Strauss took
a quick trip to Greensboro, N. C,
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
WASHINGTON President El
senhower, on the death of John
Foster Dulles:
'From the example of John
Foster Dulles, brave in living,
brave in dying, let us each hold
with all ' fervor to the verities
which inspired him." ,
GENEVA Secretary of State
Christian A. Hortcr, on Dulles'
death:
'The death of John Foster Dul
les will sadden-all peoples devoted
to the cause of peace with justice
Ho was a great statesman, firmly
dedicated to high principles, who
worked incessantly to promote'
the national interests of the
United States, and a community of
law among nations.
SAN MARCOS, Tex. Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson, proposing a "meeting of
the many" of all non-Communist
nations:
"Where the Soviets have sought
meeting of the few, let us init-
ate a meeting of the many. Let us
as a new dimension of our own
foreign policy invite the many
nations of the great non-Corn
munist world to a meeting at the
summit here in the new world."
ST. LOUIS Douglas C. Draper
whose son was torn apart by
pack of wild dogs:
I ve seen those dogs 100 times
and wanted to shoot them but
didn't want to get in trouble."
NEW YORK-Iracli Tscretelli.
77, a. Social ..Democratic Party
leader in Russia from 1906 to 1917
and opponent of Nikolai Lenin,
died Friday of cancer.
He left lhissin in J920 and lived
In Paris until 1950; when he came
to the United States. He had been
writing a history of the Russian
revolution.
CHAPLIN, Conn. Dr. Ernest A
Back. 78, noted entomologist who
helped eradicate the citrus fruit
fly, died Thursday. ,
LARC1IMONT. N Y. Hni-vov
Manss.- 73. a former Dresiripni n'f
the Bayer Co. Inc.. aspirin, mak
ers, died Friday. Manss also was
a director of Sterling Drug Inc.,
of which Bayer is a division. Ho
was a native of Cincinnati. Ohin
Solons
to address a textile meeting
where Spencer Love, chairman of
Burlington industries, called the
Senate hearings an unwarranted
"political vendetta."
Prior to that, Strauss dropped
in on Senator Thurmond to talk
textiles, told how he began his
business career as a salesman in
the Carolinas, how he had used
his influence to set mondatory
controls on oil imports 'into ' the
United States. The implication'
was that he would do the same
for the textile industry.
Senator Thurmond complained
that the textile recession had hit
South Carolina hard, said textile
mills constituted 75 per cent of
South Carolina's '- industry, that
the defense department consider
ed textiles second only to steel
in terms of military essentiality.
At about the same time, Strauss
had promised ' the- three textile
senators on the commerce com
mittee that he would do his
best to establish thoir proposed
interagency board to consider
the problem of textiles. This,
however, was opposed by the
state department and by Presi
dent Eisenhower who feared such
a board would be like waving a
red flag at Japan. '
When a group of -New England
governors called on Ike to urge
such a board, the President turn
ed thumbs down. Such a board,
he told Gov. . Christopher Del
Sestro Sf Rhode Island, would es
tablish a wrong precedent . -
Wrong Announcer -
However, as the time approach
ed for the commerce committee
vote on Strauss's nomination, the
president began to shift
. The committee vote was due
May 19. On May 18, Undersecre
tary of Commerce Fred Mueller,
right-hand man to Strauss, went
to the White House.-, yhe votes of
two textile senators, Pastore of
Rhode Island and Thurmond of
South Carolina, next were essen
tial. Cotton of New Hampshire,
a Republican, would vote for
Strauss anyway. . But the two
Democratic textile votes meant
the difference between total de
feat or partial victory..
So Mueller came back. with
White House okay for lha politic
al oav-off.
Next morning, just' before the
Senate committee voted, Sena
tor Pastore read in the newspap
ers, that the special textile com
mittee was to be formed. This
was what he had been working
on-for a long time. 'But Pastore
: jUot plcpscd. Quite the oppo-
II irc-annost'lm Me ceiling,
'or who should make the an
nouncement', but a Republican
Senator - Saltonstall of Massa
chtisctts The White House,
knowing Salty is up for a tough
rt'-clcction fight - next year, had
given the announcement to him.
The bouncing - little , senator
from Rhode; Island finally curb
ed his resentment ,and went into
committee to vote for Strauss. If
he's confirmed, the textile sena
tors expect big things from
Strauss in the way of textile con
trols. But ipere H be quite a
battle between Republican Strauss
add Republican Tom Dewey be
fore its all over.
Earthquake Kills
8-Year-Old Girl
MEXICO CITY (UPD A strong
earthquake shook central Mexico
Sunday, killing an 8-year-old girl
and injuring eight persons. Some
buildings were badly damaged.
,The Tacubaya Seismograph Sta
tion 'at Mexico City reported that
the tremor reached a, strength of
five on the Mercalli scale. The
epicenter could not be located
Two church Steeples were top
pled at Etla, Oaxaca. One of them
crushed little Olivia Ferrat.
At Actlan, in the state of Pue-
bla, a brick shaken loose from a
church struck a young girl on the
head and knocked her out but she
was not seriously injured.
Ten old buildings at Oaxaca
were severely damaged by the
quake.
'First Aid Plant'
Used By Indians
LA JOLLA. Calif. (UPD-Baja
California Indians have a "first
aid plant" which they claim stops
bleeding, cures sore throats and
gets rid of warts. i
Biologist Conrad Limbaught of
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
said he recently learned of- the
plant while in Baja California
when a young Indian cut his hand.
The youth walked to the plant,,
which looks like a geranium,
broke its stem and squeezed its
milky sap into his wound. The
bleeding stopped immediately,
Ltmbaugh said. ;
He said the Indians call the
plant "lomboy" and claim they
have been using it since ancient
times. He said its scientific name
is Jatropha cincrcs.
URGES DEFENSE EXPANSION
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPll
The nation's civil defense mobil
ization director said Thursday
every community should enlarge
local civil defense operations to
prepare far a surprise nuclear
bomb -attack. Virgil Couch said
all first aid programs and com
munications of local units should
be expandedin preparation for
such attacks.
Eisenhower
In Mourning For Dulles
WASHINGTON (UPD Presi-
dent Eisenhower took the illness
and death of John Foster Dulles
as one of the major emotional
blows of his life.
Out of personal sorrow as much
as formal respect he put. aside
most official engagements today
and invited the country to join
him in national mourning for the
former secretary of state.
The President showed his sad
ness in other ways his dejected
expression when he called at the
Dulles home late Sunday; his hand
written' public tribute to his old
friend: his resentment at the in
evitable publicity given Dulles in
his last days of suffering life. "
In a formal proclamation to the
nation, the President said:
"From the example of John
Foster Dulles, brave in living,
brave in dying, let us each' hold
with all fervor to the verities
which inspired him."
Pencils Personal Feelings -
Sunday morning, while the town
folk of Gettysburg, Pa., streamed
Unemployment
Up Need For More Benef its
WASHINGTON (UPD Labor
Secretary James P. Mitchell said
today a new study ot unemploy
ment underlined the need for im
proved jobless benefits and federal
aid to distressed areas,
Mitchell summed up the charts
and statistics in a 40-page Labor
Department booklet ' in these
words:
The economy in general is
making a sustained and vigorous
recovery, but there remains peo
ple and places -which are not
sharing that general prosperity."
He sent copies' of the report,
entitled "The Unemployed Spring
1959," to every member of Con.
gress and all state governors to
dramatize the need for legislation
to attack problems created by
long-term joblessness.
Tnrinv's ronnrt followed dis
closure by the Labor Department
Thursday night that 14 major in.
dustrial centers have been re
moved from its list of areas of
"substantial unemployment."
The department said a brisk
pickup in hiring in the last two
months probably would continue
through mid-summer in most of
Little Rock
Recall Vote
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD
record turnout expected today
in a recall election for the six-
member school board, split down
(he middle between segregationist
and racially moderate fractions.
, The voters will re-elect or
defeat the three members who
fired 44 school teachers and three
other members considered racially
moderate.
The election climaxed a bitter
fight between a citizens' group
formed in opposition to the firings
of the teachers, called "Stop This
Outrageous Purge and segrega
tionist groups.
.School board members have
clashed over the racial question.
Three of them are staunch segre
gationists. The other three are
"moderates" on the racial ques
tion and oppose Gov. Orval Fau
bus, who closed the city's four
high schools last fall to block
Supreme Court-ordered integra
tion.
' The antl-Faubus group initiated
the recall election following the
May 5 school board meeting when
board members Robert W. Laster
Ed I. McKinley and Ben D. Row
land purged the teachers whom
they accused of being in "sym
pathy with integration."
The rest of the board, Everett
Tucker Jr., Russell H. Matson
Jr. and Ted L. Lamb, walked out
of the meeting when the segrega
tionists proposed the firings. The
firings then proceeded.
Shortly after the "Stop" group
proposed the recall of Laster,
McKinley and Rowland, the degre-
gationist Mothers' League of Cen
tral High gathered enough signa
tures for a recall of Tucker, Mat
son and Lamb.
Tucker, Matson and Lamb were
once branded "intcgrationists" by
Faubus but he held off until Fri
day, before actually taking sides
Faubus went on television to
warn that if the segregationists
did not win the election, violence
of the. type which accompanied
integration, of Central High School
in 1957 . might return.
Of integration Faubus said, "I
will resist with all my might and
it will pass only' by trampling
over 'my prostrate form." "
Lumber Mill Damaged
By Fire At Tillamook
TILLAMOOK (UPD HtC
caused about $125,000 damage to
the huge Buchncr Lumber' Com
pany mill here late Saturday
burning two kilns, a planer mill,
a large amount of lumber, four
trucks, a boiler house, machine
stop,' cooling shed and other equip
ment. .
The blaze's cause was undeter
mined. Parts of the tire, control
led in about an hour and a half
by firemen, continued to smolder
Sunday. .... . . .
Leads
toward their churches, the Presi
dent sat alone on the sunporch of
his farm home, scribbling in pen
cil on a long .yellow pad a
statement of his personal feelings
at the passing of Dulles.'
The PresMent 'jotted down that
Dulles in his opiniop was "one of
the truly great men ,of our time."
"He was a foe only, to tyranny,"
Eisenhower wrote. '"Because he
believed in the dignity of men and
in their brotherhood" under God,
he was an ardent supporter of
their deepest hopes" and aspira
tions. ' 1 -
"From his life 'and his work,
humanity will, in-(the years to
come, gain renewed inspiration to
work ever harder .for the attain
ment of the goal. of' peace with
justice. In the pursuit of that goal,
he ignored every., personal cost
and sacrifice, however great."
The drugged, painful end of the
man Eisenhower called "cham
pion of freedom!'- colored the
President's emotions' heavily for
days before he received the death
Study Points
the nation. But only slight gains
were foreseen in auto and steel
plants. '( i
'Mitchell ordered n the special
study on the unemployed to ob
tain a detailed breakdown of the
national unemployment figures an
nounced monthly by the Labor and
Commerce Departments. Here are
highlights from the- report:
"About 1,400,000 persons have
been jobless for at least IS weeks
and 700,000 of these have been job
hunting for six months or more.
This group of Jong term un
employed is concentrated largely
in the Northeast and- north cen
tral states and includes a high
percentage of Negroes, unskilled
and 'older workers. .
"This is the most serious aspect
of the .current problem of unem
ployment, Mitchell said.
- Compensation Nef Adequate
-One-third of tho 3,627,000 unem
ployed in April were out of work
for five weeks or Jess.. They were
apparently changing, jobs or enter
ing the labor force. ,'
The existing unemployment
compensation system -"is not ade
quate" because too many workers
have exhausted their rights to
benefits and two-fifths of all job
less persons,, )ax.t,,mQn1Jh wpxe,,npt
covered. '"-
Laborers 'and . semi-skilled
workers accounUVor two out of
every five unemployed workers
while those in vtyitte collar jobs
had a relatively low rate of job
lessness. r-'i.
The booklet shows that unem-
ployment has dropped by 1,900,000
in the year since business re
covery started -but 'has not yet
fallen to pre-recession levels.
Louis Plans
Moscow Hoot'
VIENNA (UPD-t-Louis "Satch
mo" Armstrong's gonna toot his
trumpet in Moscow even if cer
tain folk are blown' hot and cold
about the idea, v.
"Those persons, are more inter
ested in money than in good will
and prestige," he said Friday be
fore leaving for Munich. He hint
ed that "those persons" were in
nts nana.
"They say we. won't be able
to take rubles out of Russia if
we play there," said Satchmo.
"But I'm not interested in mon
ey and I think that the good will
my band will create 'In Poland and
Russia will more than compensate
what money we, would lose on the
venture.
- Satchmo was a sellout here.
He said that he is determined
to cut through "all this unnec
essary red tape" to achieve the
sane behind the ' Iron Curtain
and "to prove to the world that
Russia and Poland have the same
soul for music ' as other coun
tries." Playmate's. Rifle
Takes Boy's Life
PRINEVILLE (UPD An
eight-year-old ttfyaa killed in-
Mauuy oaiuroay .wren a gun neld
by his playmate accidentally dis
charged. , jr
Killed was Mickey Green, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ncal Evans.
Princville. , . A,
Police said, thai Robin Smith,
also 8, son of Mi. and Mrs. John
Snow, was showW' his playmate
a gun that his patients had giver
him about two wecfe ago.
The .22 caliberrlfle discharged
when the child took jt from a gun
cabinet. The buUcf'pcnetrated the
boy's chest andA, came out , his
back. v
Kuchel Predicts
Nixon lm.1960
LONG BEACH., Calif. (UPD-
Sen. Thomas 'Koehel (R-Calif.)
has predicted Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon will $p the Republi
can choice in i960, without opposi
tion from NewVi Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller, j
Addressing the'' annual spring
conference of Sbfrhrn California
Nation
news by telephone early Sunday'
at his Pennsylvania farm.
The President had followed Dul
les' battle with cancer on a daily,
sometimes hourly, basis' as the
doctors reported from Walter
Reed .Army Hospital. .' Several '
times a week, the President went
to the hospital to do what be could '
to cheer his friend. "
Eisenhower did not '- want - his
most valued adviser in govern
ment to succumb to the idea that
his usefulness" was. at - an end.
Even when Dulles was numbed by
pain-killing drugs, the President
patiently outlined world events
and asked the failing statesman
his views. . s
' For at least the past 10 days,
the President checked first thing
in the morning to learn how Dul
les had passed the night. Sunday,
Eisenhower was up early at his
farm preparing 1 to attend 8:30
a.m. services at the Gettysburg
Presbyterian Church where he
had prayed on other Sundays for
Dulles' recovery.
Doctor Telephones News
Shortly before 8 o'clock, the
telephone rang. It was Maj. Gen. '
Howard McC. Snyder, the Presi
dent's physician, in Washington.
Dulles was dead. Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty called a mo
ment later with the same sad
tidings, and the President told
him to come to Gettysburg, i
The saddened President then
reached Deputy Secretary of State
C. Douglas Dillon and asked that
he telephone the news at once to
Secretary Christian A. Herter in
Geneva. He also told the Secret
Service to call the church and tell
the pastor he was not coming to
services. He looked out the win
dow and asked that bis .flag be'
lowered to half-staff.. -
Then the pensive Eisenhower
picked up a pencil and note pad
and walked out on his porch
where a late spring sun poured
through the glass panels. .
Hagerty reached the farm and
the President turned over to him
the penciled draft. Hagerty. typed
it,- himself, then read the - state
ment to White House reporters
waiting in Gettysburg.
The President told Hagerty that
both he and Mrs, . Eisenhower
would attend the funeral in the
National Cathedral. The President,
at least, will go on to the ceme
tery for the interment.
Wagon Train ,
Facing Test
BRIDGEPORT, Neb (UPD
One of the most rugged stretches
of the original Oregon Trail lies
just ahead, members of the Ore
gon Centennial wagon train were
told here Sunday night.
Paul Henderson, local historian,
briefed the fifty-niners on about
250 miles of eastern Wyoming
wilderness that caused the real
pioneers many hardships.' The
stretch might result in IS days or
so of isolation, Henderson said.
"It's going to make Us or break
us," one of the modern pioneers
gasped.
The wagon train set out today
for Bayard, Neb. The only other
scheduled stop in Nebraska is at
Scotts Bluff. After that the wag
ons head into Wyoming...
Early Sunday the Bridgeport
Chamber of Commerce and Lions
Club took members of the train
on a tour in antique cars of
Courthouse " Rock and ' Jailhouse
Rock, local spots of interest.
Another highlight of Sunday's
activity "was a present of a pair
of rattlesnake earrings to each
woman member of the train. The
earrings were given by Mr. and
Mrs. John Clausen of Dix, Neb.,
whose son Bruce lives in Beaver
ton, Ore. .
DARE PANTY RAID
NASHVILLE, Tenn.' (UPD.
Four freshmen coeds were sus
pended Friday at Vanderbilt Uni
versity for telephoning freshmen
boys and daring them to stage a
panty raid.
United Press International , Edi
tors Saturday night, the whip for
the GOP in the upper house
said:.- . .
"Nixon is way out ' in front In
popularity." ' , ; .
Rockefeller, he pointed out, has
said before he would not be a pres
idential contender.' ' .
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