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si it I I 5SARCH ME, O SOD, AND KNOW H MY HEART :TRY ME, AND KNOW- MY THOUGHTS : AND SEE IF THERE H BE ANY WICKED WAY IN ME " t -.. . . EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Observer Thursday, June 4, 1959 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" PUBLISHED BY THE l-A KRANDU PUBLISHING COMPANY Kotwrt W. Chendlr. President U. UcClelland. Jr., Vica 1'reildent t Detroit Revolution Is involution jn Detroit is lormaiiy un derway. The first of the Rig Three automolnlo (Tnak'rs' "compact" cara will reiich the ..public in the next model year, late 'this fall. Designed to compete with the Stude ". laker' "Lark" and the liunihler line, Chevrolet's "Convair," Ford's "Falcon" and. Plymouth's "Valiant" will provide an iiUennediate range between the stan dard U. S. car and the European econo my import. 'I'y the fall of 1960 six piore Anu'i ican inake "compacts" are expected to lx on ' the market, while the fall of 1961 will probably see the entry of "luxury com pacts" offered by Cadillac, Lincoln and ' ; Imperial. ' This planning, however, is just one in i a series of stages in the American car manufacturers rocketing plans for sat urating the car buyer with chances to ;eltct a new car. i l!y the fall of 1962 the Big Three and ; possibly American Motors are expected to unveil their version of the European small car to compete directly in the ."economy" field. None of these cars is designed as a re , placement for existing U. S. lines. Gen eral Motors, Ford and Chrysler are al ready working on 1960 standard-size 'models. By the fall of 1961 or 1965 these three manufacturers are expected to have about 80 cars on the road, complete ly different from anything being pro- duced by them today. ' Fortune magazine has observed that jili this designing and engineering ; "makes it appeal1 that Detroit has been ) stung by the vehement critics of its Changes In Collective Bargaining Steelworkers President I Donald says he is so disturbed by what he calls the steel industry's refusal to do any more than go through the motions ;of collective bargaining that he is con 'sidering bringing charges before the IN LRU. I What he has to say tends to bear out iwhat a union speaker said about collec tive bargaining in a Portland speech last jweek. George Brooks of the Pulp, Sul phite and Paper Mill Workers described j tlie typical negotiation in which the uni on presents demands that management' ; receives with dismay. Then follows a "gestation period" during which the em ployes "get used 4o the idea that they" aren't going to get a 3.") cent hourly in crease and the employer gels used to the , jidea that . . he's not going to settle real cheap this year." j Brooks contended that the most stal jwart friend of industrial peace is bore dom. "ItTias settled more contracts than ' have been settled by strikes," he said. I Cpllective bargaining started out to be just what the name implies. Employer 'and employes made a bargain, intended to be of benefit to both parties. Each did his best to persuade the other that what it wanted was fair and just, and persua jiiaveness played a major part in the pro WHITE MAN EL ACK HEARJ RILEY D. ALLEN GEORGE S. CHALLIS H. E. PHIIJiY TOM HUMES ol chrome. Total cost to answer Detroit's critics will rutt-as hijfh as five billion dollars without even considering the heavy in- troduction expenses that, are usually added into the cost of product fhanges. I All this money will be pumped into the main channels of production in tjiis country from the'steel arid aluminum suppliers down to the smallest parts -Jobber. It will help lead the developing economic boom. But with 30 new car lines being added to the already mammoth inventory of styles and designs the game of choosing your means of transportation will become nil the mure confusing. Agencies will in herit advertising headaches. If the American "economy" cars mea sure up to their European counterparts in craftmauship and economy, the im port dealer may find himself having dif ficulty moving his stock. Certainly the marginal import entries will disappear. The much abused used car dealer may be placed in a similar position with many of his cars standing idle as car buyers find it just as convenient to select a new small automobile. In girding for an all-out battle fn the car market the Big Three has signaled its intentions of meeting competition. It should be small consolation to the front runners in economy and compact car marketing to exult in the fact they have brought the larger companiesaround to their manufacturing techniques. The big winner in the coming fight for the auto buyer's dollar, after all, is going to be the auto buver himself. David Mc- ceedings. The process seems to have changed", at least in the major industries, and a num ler of factors have come to have more .bearing on negotiations than what is said back and forth across the bargaining table. ' , Judging from the number of negoti ations that end in strikes, it seems safe to conclude that the changed pattern of collective bargaining-is not for the better. on it. Why is it that when you attain success some friends tell you you're just plain lucky? When opportunity is distinguished as hard "work it keeps lots of people from succeeding. A lot of conversation over the back hedge is hung on a clothes line. , -v laziness is a man's pocket the jack in the :'S 'is Publisher . Adv. Director Managing Editor Circulation Mgr. Underway worship of bigness, power and the flash Barbs Never judge the value of the contents of a girl's head by the number of locks what makes the jack in fix a flat tire instead of car..U'unk. DREW PEARSON Sam Rayburn By Gift For WASHINGTON Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77 years old and with 45 years of devoted public service to bis credit, stands in danger of spoiling some cf it, thanks to his library in Bonham, Tex. Mr. Sam wants to raise an en dowment to pay for the upkeep of the library, and bas the turn down of. $200,000 from Secretary of the Treasuty Bob Anderson, al so another $200,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Ander son would not contribute the money personally, but would raise it from friends. speaker Rayburn s friends, in turn, say this would put him un der obligation to the wealthy friends of Secretary Anderson and to the Rockefeller family even though both groups have the best intentions in the world. You can t receive large amounts of money like this even from the finest philanthropist and for the most worthy cause, without feel ing an obligation. Already, savs congressional friends cf Mr. Sam, he has been pulling-his punches on the Demo cratic legislative program. The days when he fought to pass the holding corporation act to split up the big corporations, and the securities and exchange act to po lice Wall Street, are long over. Recently Mr. Sam has pioneered no new legislation. He did put up a fight for the housing bill But. aside from that, there has been little attempt to live up to the Democratic platform Last week, immediately after the Dulles funeral, Sam flew with Secretary Anderson to Perrin Field, Sherman, Tex., near his home. Anderson used a special government plane to visit his Texas ranch, then picked up Sam for the return flight to Washing tun This chummy relationship be tween the secretar yof the treas rry, Republican, and the speak er of the House of Representa lives, Democrat, would become all the closer if Sam accepted 5200,000 from Anderson's friendsJ for his library. The Social Lobby It's interesting what the friends cf Admiral Strauss will do to in fluence senate vctes for his con firmaticn as secretary ol com merce. Last week Vice President Nix on, close friend of Strauss, gave a highly exclusive dinner party for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer cf Germany. The only cabinet member invited was Strauss, and the only senator invited -was Mar caret Chase Smith of Maine, Re publican, who is on the fence re farding Stress's 'conformation. Senator Smith, though not a mem ber of the senate foreign relations committee, was singled out from all other senators for this exclu sive dinner. i But, at the last minute Mrs. Smith didn't make it. She sent word that she was detained by a senate vote which wasn't call ed until 10 p.m. Senator Smith has a record of not missing a single roll-call vote since June 1, 1955. She has been present to answer yea or nay for a total ef 570 votes and she didn't want to break that record. She did not know until later, in cidentally, that plans had been made to have her get better ac quainted with the cabinet officer who very much wants her vote for his conformation. Unevenhanded Justice Last January an FBI agent call ed at the Trades ynionist Print ing Co. of Washington and inter QUOTES FROM THE NEWS WASHINGTON President Ei senhower, on the possibility of anti-semitism being injected into the Senate fight over the nomina tion of Lewis L. Strauss as secre tary of commerce: "We have here a man of the highest type of character, ability iwho) devoted many years of his life to public service, and to see such a false charge thrown at him in order to belittle him or hurt him would be very, very sad, I think." MILWAUKEE, Wis. Gilbert A. Knueppel. administrator of the es tate of Albert Friedrich, 86-year-old recluse who amassed more than half a million dollars by playing the stock market: "No one had any idea what a financial genius Friedrich really had been until we found a fortune in securities in the garbage pail.'1 WASHINGTON Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), urging enact ment of a six-point program to use surplus crops to help needy and under-nourished families: "Repeatedly the Department of Agriculture has asserted a reluct ance to use surplus food stocks to teed the hungry. The department perhaps justifiably takes the position that it is not in the 'wel fare" business." FORT MADISON, Iowa L. H. Pickard. on four convicts who overpowered him and a ccllhouse captain and sowed their way out of the Iowa State Penitentiary: "They knew just what to do and they went about it." Is Tempted His Library viewed Fred S. Walker, its man ager, regarding 50,000 circulars ordered by a union official for the campaign of Congressrian Thomas F. Johnson, Democrat, of 'he eastern shore of Maryland. Again last week, two FBI agents called on the same printing com pany regarding the same circular, It was claimed that the circu lar carried no personal signature, only the name "Citizens Commi ttee for Tom Johnson for Cong ress," -which is against the law. Also, the union might be in vio lation of the Taft-Hartley act. Meanwhile, the FBI has done nothing about that $5,000 check given by Bill Keck of Superior Oil Co. to the Eisenhower dinner committee right in the middle of the drive by Superior Oil and oth er oil companies to pass a natur al gas bill. Also, the Justice Department has done nothing about the trial of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem Democrat, who came out for Ike in 1956 when he felt the hot breath of the law on his neck. After a nine-month delay, Powell was indicted. Now there has been another year's de lay and Ike's friend, Congress man Powell, has not gone on trial, Ike's Veto Troubles President Eisenhower is going to be in a box when it comes to vetoing the big $2,100,000,000 housing bill. Federal housing money on which the huge building industry is dependent will be used up on or about June 15. - By that time, the FHA will scrape the bottom of the mortgage barrel and the huge building industry will begin to grind to a stop. That's the iaside reason why Congressman Albert Rains of Ala buma will send the new housing bill to the President's desk on or about June 16. If Ike got it much earlier he could veto the bill and his supporters in congress might have time to pass a new law au- thorizig private- mortage money but eliminating slum clearance and public housing. Ike wants the mortgage money, but not the slum clearance-public housing. However, the new package housing bill will be a tough one for Ike to veto. If he sends the bill back to congress, the Demo crats have enough votes to hold up the entire housing bill indef initely. While they can't pass it over Ike's veto, they can delay, until the construction industry puts the monkey where the Dem ocrats think it belongs on Ike s back. , Red Squeeze Play Those who study the diploma tic cables are concerned over a new Communist squeeze play Liewing over, the Formosa strait. There s been increased shelling of the effshore islands, and an American converted bomber, car rying a Chinese Nationalist crew, was shot down by the Red Chi- r.ese. U.S. diplomats figure this is a triple play to pressure the United States regarding Berlin. One end cf the triple play is in Albania, one in Geneva, and the third in Red China. Wayne Won't Support Dick In Election WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Wayne L. Morse D-Ore.) said that he will not support Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) for re election and will place their "dif ferences'" before Oregon voters next year. Morse, whose rift with his jun ior colleague has been widening over the past two- years, re emphasized statements he made last week. "I shall take to the people of Oregon in 1960 my differences of opinion with (Neuberger) on what I consider a series of very vital issues," he said. "I shall not sup port him for reelection." The 46-year-old Neuberger, only recently recovered from a cancer attack, has not said whether he will seek another term. The only apparent slackening in the rift between him and Morse came early this year when Morse led the Senate in welcoming Neu berger back from his illness. Morse campaigned vigorously throughout Oregon in 1954 when Neuberger, generally rated the underdog, unseated Sen. Guy Cor don (R-Ore.l. At the time, Morse hailed Neuberger's victory as a great triumph for liberalism. , Bift differences gradually sprang up and' the split widened. In announcing his open opposi tion, Morse did not detail the "differences of opinion" or list the "vital issues" on which he found fault with Neuberger. . Neuberger would not elaborate on a statement he made last week. He said then he had "no ill will or malice against Morse" and "certainly hoped" the two could remain friends. The younger senator said he had "done my best in the Senate to make an honest, fair record based' on my conscience and such knowledge as I have. I have tried to avoid political abuse and ex treme partisanship. I have felt that I should make judgments based on facts rather than malice against other people." Rumors Sqy United Auto Workers Are Warming Up To Humphrey By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON I UPI ) From a couple of sources which have spe cial interest in Michigan politics comes the word that the United Automobile Workers (UAW1 union is warming to the presidential candidacy of Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.). If true, that report should be marked down as a prime political fact of life. UAW's head man is Walter P. Reuther one of the smartest of the left-wing opera tors who dominate the Democratic Party in the North. It was Reu ther, in the 1956 Democratic na tional convention, who broke a deadlock and brought about the almost instant nomination of Adlai E. Stevenson. It is no reflection on Reuther, the UAW or the State of Michigan to report that the U. S. Commu nist Party keeps an especially keen eye on Michigan politics. 1 v--? i MINISTERS CONFER Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb (left) and Selwyn Lloyd (right) pause with West Ger many's Heinrich von Brentano in doorway of French delegation headquarters following a morning meeting of the Western ministers in Geneva. President Eisen hower said yesterday that progress thus far had failed -to make a summit conference this summer justifiable. FHA Farm Loans Now Farm operating loans are now available through the Farmers Home Administration, the Pend leton FHA office has announced. ' Operating loans are made for the purchase of machinery, live stock, equipment, fertilizer, seed, tractor fuel and other farm and home operatng expenses needed to carry out efficient farming operations on family-type farms. According to the . FHA, loans are also available to applicants who have part-time employment off the farm provided they are established farmers conducting substantial fanning operations and spending the major portion of their time farming. Such op erators must have dependable sources of outside income. The loans are repayable over periods of one to seven years. with an interest rate of five per cent. The amount that can be loaned is based on the needs and bility of the borrower to repay, the FHA said. So Many Idiot Could By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) Re porters here outnumber congress men two to one, and a visiting village idiot could call a press conference with reasonable assur ance somebody would come. Any prime minister at all is a cinch on arrival to draw maybe 18 or 20 news and picture men. A queen should be good for 50 or better. But to count on a turnout of 100 or so you have to be some body special, as in this case two monkeys, namad Able and Baker. The Misses Able and Baker were just back from a short Ca ribbean tour, as you probably saw. And in looking back on it thert is reason to suspect that right from the start these mon keys were trying to make people out of us newsmen. Mob On Hand In the first place, they couldn't make up their minds when to ap pear. Throughout the day there were bulletins from the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration, a local travel agent for monkeys, constantly revising their estimated time of arrival. At 4:58 p.m. the city news wire on which we all depend for such vital in formation carried this fourth and final communique: The Commie weekly publication, "The Worker," usually contains a Detroit column which often is quite well informed. This column recently said that Michigan's Gov. G. Mennen iSoapy) Williams no longer had UAW backing for the 1960 Democratic nomination, "if he ever had it." Humphrey Or Douglas UAW, according to "The Work er," was leaning to Humphrey or Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.i. with S?n. John F. Kennedy D-Mass. favored for vice president. This word is likely to give Kennedy strategists chills and fevers, they are running their boy for presi dent, no less. Kennedy must have labor backing-to .win any nomina tion. A kindly political writer in De troit checked on the Humphrey-Douglas-Kennedy report and came up with this: At an early spring meeting of Democratic Midwestern leaders. fil T: VSl t v-sa , i Operating Available Ability to repay . a loan made for operating a family-type farm is determined by the earning cap acity of the farm and the opera tions the farmer intends to car ry on. The Farmers Home Ad ministration supervisor assists e?ch loan applicant in preparing a complete farm and home plan. No loan can be made unless this plan shows the farm income to be sufficient to provide the fam ily a good living, pay operating expenses, cover depreciation costs, pay debts and leave a rea sonable amount for reserve. Applicants must be citizens of the United States, have had satis factory farm experience or train ing, and be unable to obtain crcd it from other sources at a reason able rate. He must also have, cr be able to rent, a suitable fam ily-type farm. Additional information regard ing loans may be obtained at the FHA office in Pendleton, 105 S.E. Byers Ave. Reporters Even Village Call Press "The NASA now advises the space monkeys will arrive at An drews Air Force Base at 8 p.m. NASA also promises there will be no further changes." On the strength of this an ap propriate mob of reporters and lensmen was on hand at the air port to accord Able and Baker the kind of reception considered their due as VIPs or very im portant primates. The girls came in on schedule, but were tired. Their advisers passed out word any comments they had on the 15-minute trip out, in a Jupiter rocket at 10,000 miles an hour, or the 6'i hour final leg of the trip back, in an Air Force plane at 275 miles an hour, would have to wait for a press conference t h e following day. This was set for 2 p.m. in the space agency's confe'ence hall, a remodelled carriage house in an alley. I lost the address and might never have found it except for the snarls, cries and general un roar on which I set an unerring course in from the street. Politely, as is customary among us reporters, I fought my way in side and towards the focus of ac tion. Climbing finally over" the front-most row of undertaker's chairs I was confronted with a a UAW spokesman representing the Wisconsin-Minnesota area said firmly that Humphrey was the UAW- candidate. UAW headquar ters in Detroit countered, how ever, that the international union had taken no position on the 1960 nomination' although UAW leaders in Minnesota and Wisconsin might well be for Humphrey. The kindly political writer, however, is' convinced that the UAW high 'command actually is quietly backing Humphrey al though not very actively at this time. " A further-opinion is that Reu ther is not likely soon to go on record; that;-more likely, he will be silent- until the Democratic presidential situation' is clarified considerably. Reasonable enough, Reuther would like to back a win ner. " Never Committed To Williams VThe .UAW high command never officially has committed it self to Gov. Williams. Williams' I960 chances are becoming in creasingly dim. Reuther is not likely to give the governor a hand unless that trend is changed in a big way. Here's the sum-up from De troit of current Williams political strategy: "The Williams camp in Michigan has been making some definite moves to disassociate it self in the public mind from Reu- her Ann ine daw snmn inn - I '-- "-- - "i wiuuiii nave s-Jbeen grabbing every out-of-state newsman who stops by, trying to ; plant tne idea mat Keuther is not i now and will not in the future nation. neumer ana tne uaw mignt not be big enough to nominate Hum phrey, but they might be big enough to stop Kennedy. Ken nedy's job now would appear to be to woo. Reuther and to woo him good.i"i Five From Area Get Degrees Five students from the La Grande area Will receive degrees at the 90th annual commencement exercises at Oregon State College June 8. Students listed from La Grande are Howard C. Hogg, agri culture; Audrey L. McCanse and Joanne II. ; McDonald, business and technology; Richard L. Mc Manus and Norman F. Wells, Ali cel, engineering. Miss McCanse is enc of 111 students to gradu ates with honors this year. A total of approximately 1,655 Jegrecs will be conferred this year by Oregon State College. Commencement exercises will begin at' 10 a.m. Baccalaureate service will be Sunday, June 7, at 11 a.m. with Dr. Theodore A. Gill, presi dent of San Francisco Theological Seminary, as speaker. Both com mencement and baccaulaureate programs will be held in the OSC coliseum. ''' 1 Baker Survives Surgeon's Knife PENSACOLA. Fla. (UPI) Baker, the Smaller half of the U.S. space flying monkey team, successfully underwent surgery Tuesday and was pronounced in excellent shape. The navy announced the one pound squirrel monkey underwent a simple operation for removal of two electrodes without anesthesia. Able. Baker's fellow monkey passenger on their historic 300 mile high ride inside a Jupiter missile last week, died Monday night during a similar operation in which anesthesia was adminis tered. Able 'died on the operating table at FL - Knox, Ky. Able' was the heavier of the two, weighing seven pounds. Conference riot scene on the stage. "Where are the monkeys?" I yelled, into the ear of a lady I had just elbowed politely aside. "I think1, she replied, icly, over the furor, "they are the ones without cameras." It was possible almost at once to confirm ' this. The monkeys were smaller. They also were the ones who i weren't making a sound, or at least if they were nobody could hear it. Unfortunately, monkeys are sensitive to temperature changes, and by the time the lensmen were through the mercury stood at 105 on the 'Stage. Able and Baker were too bushed to go on. Escorts rushed them off to rest at the local Army and Navy hos pitals, respectively, and 15 other space experts were run in as their spokesmen. In one hour and 20 minutes we drew out of them what it was the girls had wanted to say. , ... This was that space travel was nothing, compared to meeting the press. Our next visitor, according to the city news wire, is Lodwig Erhard. the vice chancellor of West Germany, and I feel kind of sorry for him. Everybody knows how tough it is to follow an ani mal act. v