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: "Tf Put It Another .Way Muscle" EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Observer Friday, June 5, 1959 ' "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit'' ' PUBLISHED BY THE RIT.EV f AT.T.F.W Pnhlishoi- Robxrt W. Chandler. President 4. M. McClollmnd, Jr., Vies Prtsaidant UKOKGE S. CIIALLIS Adv. Director II. K. PHIIJ3Y Managing Editor TOM HUMUS .......; - Circulation Mgr. Wa Iter Pea rson Does It Again t TlKise 'whft' beliive that Hie 'key to a good legialutive session lies with interim, pomniitteesr-their assijmnient.s, makeup (ind later utilization have a right to Ik; ippalled atr-thH outright -aabotajfe of l'Jfil' i Senate ,. President Wultcr Pearson, in his interim committee appointments, an nounced Saturday, has done a fine job of choosing his men for least effect, i The poorest, dullest men bent on,ques jtinnahle goals 'ahow up most often on the dial'. One good man shows up not once. Koine others only once or twice. v ) Moliroe Swdetland, one" Of the;states "most knowledgeable men in the field of education laws, is not on the education committee. Instead, he's on the commit tee' to study criminal law.. Yet he isn't a lawyer. ; ' ' ' Of ll committees only two Legisla tive Counsel and Fiscal have a makeup winch shows promise. We realize that Pearson does have an overabundance of material to work with, and that House appointnientsjnay tend to balance things out. Hut that still doesn't justify stack ing. (Salem Capital-Journal) We Know The Wolf Is Still Around As a youth Nikita Khrushchev must have been profoundly impressed by the story of the boy who cried "wolf." That boy, just for fun, frightened his companions several times by shouting a warning, "wolf, wolf I" when nctually there was no wolf. Then one day a wolf did come and his companions-had gotten so used to his false warnings that they paid no heed, and the wolf caught them. Khrushchev should know that Ameri cans, and others, are so used to his dire warnings that they are not taken seri ously. Thus he can periodically forecast, our doom at the hands of the Commun ists without risk of stirring us out of our apathy about the Russian menace. In a speech Sunday, for example, he said this: ". -" "No matter how much aging capital ism is trying to prolong its existence, it is doomed because it will be replaced by the new victorious system-communism." Now compare that threat with one that another Russian, Dmitri Manuilsky, uttered before the Lenin school of Poli tical Warfare in 1930: "War to the hilt between Communism and capitalism is inevitable but at this time in 1930 we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come around 1950 or 19(). To win . . . we will need the element of surprise." Then he went on to say: "So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular p-aco movement on' record. The capital istic countries stupid and decadent will rejoice to cooperate in their destruc tion. They will leap at a chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down . . . wo shall smash them with our clenched fists." The "peace movement" of Russia so far. has boon anything but spectapular. In fact the Berlin crisis seems almost in tended to keep us from letting our guard down. Nevertheless the steady day in and day out Red party line is one of peace and it makes, an impression, what Khrushchev says notwithstanding. Meanwhile Soviet espionage and infil tration is going quietly along, the FBI reports, as energetically as ever. This month, says J. Fdgar Hoover, the Reds are increasing their efforts to recruit .voting people in vital industries. Espion age is so prevalent that the FBI has ben referring an average of one case a day to the Justice Department over an 18 month period. l!ut are we average citizens disturbed? Not particularly. It Is difficult to keep disturbed' about something that goes on year in and year out.'The Red menace is there, always threatening. We're aware of that. But cries of "wolf" just don't set our hair on end any more. This doesn't mean we don't know the wolf is still there and may show up un-t He's Justified, But The Hard Way i ne statements or ine lormer operator of the Salem City Transit Lines has been justified by recent events. But it's been done the hard way. ' We're indebted for this intelligence to Jim Welch of the Salem Capital-Journal. Here's how he put it: It has been many a year since an in vestor wanting his dollars to grow has put them into city bus line stock any where in the country. But a report of the driver-owned suc cessor to City Transit Lines inSalem must be a surprise to even the most pessimistic observer. In four months of operations on a share-and-share-alike basis with no over head help and little capital involved, drivers have been working r5 and (SO hours j yeek to keep the firm brpaking even. "They have been able only to pay themselves 30 cents an hour less than their rate before the old company's col lapse. ; And the old rate, compared to many a journeyman's pay, was not good. There are several possible conclusions. First, that all the talk about the dif ficulty of keeping bus lines operative to day is not exaggerated. And, second, that there are times when an employer legiti mately cannot increase pay. The beginning of the end for the old firm came when drivers demanded an increase. It is obvious, now that the in crease just wasn't there to give. The drivers have seen the other side of the diminished coin and, fortunately for the Salem area, aren't appalled by it. Barbs When you're satisfied to sit back and take things as they come, they don't! DREW PEARSON Most Senators Made Up Their Minds In Advance Steel Negotiators Resume Talks To Prevent Nationwide Strike WASHINGTON Richard M. Nixon, who shot up to the second political post in the nation in a relatively short period of time, sat not far from Andrei Gromyko, who shot up to the important post of foreign minister of Soviet Russ ia also in a short period of time. They were at the foreign mini sters luncheon given by President Eisenhower after the Dulles fun eral. ' "Mr. Gromyko,' said the Vice President pleasantly, "I am some times mistaken for you. Traveling abroad they sometimes think I am the Foreign Minister., of the Soviet Union." "And I," replied Gromyko, "am sometimes mistaken for you. They say there goes Vice President Nix on." H Note U's been a long time since Nixon defeated Congress woman Helen Gahagan Douglas for the Senate in California on the charge that she followed the Com munist line in Congress. Strauss Nose-Count Even before the long and pain staking hearings on Adm. Lewis Strauss had been published, most Senators had made up their minds on how they would vote. Many had purely personal reasons en tirely unconnected with the dynamite-laden record. Here are some of the Senators who have made up their minds and some who haven't, plus their back ground motives: Sen. Stuart Symington, Missouri wavering. He confides: "Admiral Strauss is a social friend. It would be embarrassing not to vote for him." Sen. Richard Neubcrger, Oregon wavering. "He's a personal friend of my family." Sen. Willis Robertson, Virginia For. The dominating Senator from Virginia, Harry. Byrd, has set the line for Strauss, and Robertson always follows Byrd. Sen. Jennings Randolph, West Virginia Wavering: He used to be Vice President of Capital Airlines which has transportation problems before the government. Secretary of Commerce Strauss is now try ing to bring the whole field of transportation under his authority. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS j United Press International ' NEW YORK David J. McDon ald, president of the United Steel workers Union, on the possibility of a strike against the sieel indus try: "" ' '. "We are just working for a peaceful settlement.' We are not thinking in terms of a strike. II is industry that has been talking strike." ' ' ' ' .WASHINGTON Rep. Charles 0. Porter (D-Ore.), proposing U. S. recognition of Communist China: "It is pure wishful thinking to predict that it (Communist China) will fall of its own dead weight." OMAHA, Neb. Doomed mass slayer Charles Starkweather, on federal court rejection of his ap peal for another hearing: "Just tell 'em no comment." LOS ANGELES Charles R. Sligh Jr., executive vice president of the National Assn. of Manufac turers, on labor unions: "Unions are a potential political force. Our manufacturers, unfor tunately, are not a political force today." - Pearson Signs Extradition , Papers For. Hunt SALEM (UPI) ' Acting Gov. Walter Pearson Thursday signed papers to extradite to Oregon Richard Allen Hunt, 26, who is wanted for wounding an Oregon police chief and kidnaping an other. . Hunt, on the FBI's 10 most wanted list, was captured without a struggle on a ranch 35 miles west of Thermopolis, Wyo., Tues day. Sheriff George Miller and a deputy from Linn county were to leave today to pick up Hunt and return him to Oregon. Pearson signed the papers in the absence of Gov. Mark Hat field who is on a trip to the east coast. Hunt has already verbally waived extradition to Oregon. The young man is accused of abducting lkirrisburg Police Chief E. G. McPhee March 24 and later shooting and wounding Browns ville Police Chief Robert Kemnow at a roadblock. Kemnow has now recovered. The fugitive told Wyoming sher iff Eddie Todorovich that he fled through California, Nevada. Ari zona and New Mexico before ar riving in Wyoming where he got a job as a cowhand on the isolated ranch in April. STEWART CIVILIAN AGAIN HOLLYWOOD (UPI - Col James Stewart returns to work to day as actor Jimmy Stewart. Stewart, finished with a tour of duty nt Vandenberg and March Air Force Bases, went back to work nt Revue-International t0 complete cutting and narration of "Cowboy Five Seven." a half, hour documentary film Randolph denies, however, that this influences his position. Sen. Albert Gore, Tennessee For. His great friend and political benefactor, Bernard Barucn, is tor Strauss. Albert votes with Baruch. Son Jack Kennedy wavering. Jack doesn't say so, but in the back of his mind is the possibility that if he becomes President he will have rnnfirmation troubles too. On the other hand, his fellow Catholic, colleague Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, has warn ed thai nnv Presidential hopeful who votes for Strauss will stamp himself as a tight-control Presi dent not likely to cooperate with Congress. Sen. Bob Kerr, Oklahoma For. Intimate friend of Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico who would usually support Anderson in his battle against Strauss. However, Kerr panted Senator An derson to support him on an a mendment to the insuranec law benefiting Texas and Oklahoma in surance companies. Anderson re fused. Since then, Kerr has been buttonholing votes for Strauss a gainst his old friend. Onetime Oil Friend Price Daniel of Texas was con sidered a dyed-in-the-wool cham pion of the oil and gas companies when he servea in me u.s. senate from Texas. With Daniel back In Texas today as Governor, how ever, the oil and gas companies are fuming and sputtering against their onetime friend. - , What Governor Daniel has done is demand that the big pipeline companies pay their share of the tax load for the state of Texas. Compared with the pipeline com panies of Louisiana, the , Texas pipeline moguls get off with a mere tax slap on the wrist, it tney paw taxes at the same rate as in Louisiana, Texas would have hundred million dollars surplus in its treasury. However, Daniel's former gas and oil friends are now yelling ' trai tor, especially Tennessee gas transmission, El Paso natural gas, and Herman and George Brown of Texas Eastern. The latter are special friends of Sen. Lyndon Johnson. : Before Daniel was ejected to the U.S. Senate he staged a fam ous battle against a sales tax pro posed by the then Governor "Pap. py' O'Daniel. It was Price who led the ."immortal 56" legislators in demanding higher taxes on big business, not higher taxes on the consumer. He won. ;Tnlnv ne Hnvprnnr hp is pmiallv embattled with his own legisla ture, much to the great displeasure oi tne pipeline industry. Washington Pipeline Cleveland voters have been send ing Sen. Steve Young, of Ohio, Joe Newman's "Father Goose" rhyme. It reads: "Seid Senator Young (And he wins our applause), while straining at Adams, - why swallow Strauss? Never were words more courageously flung, but 'such are the things that you do when you are Young." . . . Sen. Thruston ' Morton, new Re publican Chairman, asked Ike to let him attend future cabinet meet ings. Morton argued that the GOP should have a voice in policy de cisions affecting 1960. Ike was hesitant Morton had better luck when he invited the admini strative assistants of 11 Senators who face re-election . next year. They were not hesitant. He fed hem sandwiches and coca-cola No bourbon though Morton comes from the Bourbon State. NEW YORK (UPI) Negoti ators for the United Steelworkers of America resume their dead locked contract talks with the steel industry today under orders to issue a "bargain-or-else ultima tum to the companies. The union has charged that the industry's demand for IT one-year wage freeze amounts to failure to bargain in good faith on a con tract to replace the one that ex pires June 30. Thursday, the International Ex ecutive Board of the union or dered its negotiators to "serve notice" on the industry bargain ing team to get down to serious contract talks. The board said the industry's "absolute unwillingness" to nego tiate a contract endangers the prospects of a peaceful settle ment. The board also authorized the union's officers to summon the Congregation Is Willing To 'Forgive And Forget' SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI) The congregation . at Trinity Bap tist Church took an attitude of "forgive and forget" today to ward their married pastor who publicly disclosed that he had been "improperly" involved with a woman church member. Church leaders indicated they Will not move to replace the Rev. W. S. McBirnie, and one said he would be a better preacher for having "the guts to admit he did something wrong." The handsome 39-year-old pas- Duu XX and ?D2XS concrete-brick mortar irP!1 f 1 Just add wafer to DRY CONCRETE MIX Utt for tldtwalki, patio, foot inqi, sttpi, basv.curbs, poit holt any concrott im- standardi provtmtnt, JUST ( Wl ADD g WATER l Available at: La Grande Lumber Van Petten Lumber Cancer Society ' Mapping Plans For Campaign . BOSTON (UPI) The American Cancer Society began mapping plans today for an intensive anti smoking campaign with particular emphasis on teen-agers. In New York, Timothy V. Har nett, chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee labeled the campaign a "one sided propaganda effort." The campaign, approved Thurs day by the society's board of directors, will be designed to "bring to the attention of physi cians and the public and particu larly teen-agers facts about can cer and smoking." Dr. Howard C. Taylor, chair man of the society's special com mittee on tobacco and cancer, said a committee of statisticians, social scientists and communica tion specialist would handle the campaign which he called, ."a to tal educational effort." -i . The society's staff has been di rected to prepare plans and esti mate costs for the program, aimed at "modification of the smoking habit in a community," Taylor said. The staff, Taylor said, also will prepare studies of. smokers and non-smokers and "those physiolo gical, . psychological and . social factors responsible for the initia tion, continuation and cessation of smoking." " Hartnett said In New York that clinical' and laboratory research has failed to support the cancer society's views on lung cancer. For example, he said, numerous experiments in which animals have been forced to inhale large amounts of tobacco smoke have consistently failed to cause lung cancer. "not a scratch or mar. . ." WHEN YOU MOVE BY MAYFLOWER Ateerica Moat ftacomavarf' Mover Thousands write Mayflower because they liked the service. Trained men, equipment and ' methods meet Mayflower's . "Accredited" standards the highest you'll find. 1S29 Jefferson i For Free Estimate Call WO 3-2331 tor, father of a high school foot ball player, shocked 800 church members Wednesday night with his disclosures. Many wept. One woman fainted. Dr. McBirnie said overwork had left him "easy prey" and he had become "involved'' with a wom an whom he had sought to help in a marital rift. He did not detail what he meant by "involvement" except to say that it was "of the kind that I now recognize to have been im proper." He did not resign his $15,000 - a-year pastorate at the church that he had helped build from 94 members nine years ago to a present membership of 3,300. Instead he asked the congregation to replace him. Clarence Boatright, an attorney who heads the 70-man governing Board of Deacons and who also is chairman of the five-man pas toral relations committee, said 90 per cent of the deacons and all members of the pastoral .commit tee favored keeping the minister. "It's certainly not a resignation and certainly no demand by the board that he leave." Boatright said. , Niki Pays Budapest A 'Friendship Visit' uuuAftbT (urn soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev ar rived here today from Albania for a two-day "friendship visit." The Soviet leader arrived aboard a Russian TU104 jet passenger plane. He had spent U days in Albania, making speeches and meeting with leaders of several Communist satellite countries. With Khrushchev aboard the jet was Soviet Defense Minister, Ko dion Malinovsky. ' MINE KILLS SOLDIER ' JERUSALEM, Israel (UPI) One Israeli soldier was killed and five , .were, wounded .Thursday! wiicn a iuna mine oiew up uiuler their army truck along the Egyp tian border near Nitzana, a ft army spokesman said. Wage Policy Committee to New York for a strategy meeting on the contract deadlock. David J. McDonald, president of the USW, said no date has been set for this meeting but he said one will be called "in the near future." This 171-man group is the top policy-making body of the Steel workers Union and the authoriza tion to call the committee into session underscores the serious ness of the present contract snag. McDonald said after a two-hour meeting with the executive board that the nation's Steelworkers are "firm and determined" to win a better contract this year. R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus try negotiator, Thursday again reaffirmed that the industry is solidly united in- its efforts to hold the line on employment costs this year. Crowd Turns Out For Wagon Train DOUGLAS, Wyo. (UPI) More than 2000 persons lhied the streets of this small eastern Wyoming community Thursday to watch the Oregon Cavalcade of covered wagons parade down the main street en route to Casper and the Red Desert. Camp was made Thursday at 1:30 p.m. near Natural Bridge, a local landmark 14 miles east of Glenrock. The route of travel Thursday took the seven covered wagons over a portion of the Old Oregon Trail and the new U.S. interstate highways. Members of the caravan were shown the location of early pio neer graves along the route. Thyrza Pelling, Oswego, located an early day Sioux Indian camp site near the Oregon Trail south of here. Remains of teepee rounds could be clearly ' seen on the prairie, i LAUNCH CROSSING RESUMES LAS P ALMAS, Canary Islands ( UPI Three U. S. Air Force men and a cat sailed away from this Atlantic Island Thursday to begin the longest . lap of their 6,000 mile voyage to America in a 45-foot launch. The three ar rived here May 29 after bringing their launch, the Sara ' Linda, along the European coast . from . England. . ' ACTRESS LEAVES HOSPITAL , ,. LONDON (UPI) Actress Kay Kendall, , wife of,,' Rex Harrison, left a Londbn hospital Thursday night after several days' treat ment Tor bronchitis. A spokesman said Miss Kendull was expected to return to Paris this week end to resume work on a film she was making with Yul Brynner. Folks, icrry we haue to interrupt Your Electric Service There will be a temporary power inierrupiion in ssrvice from 4:00 a.m. lo 6:00 a.m. SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH This Will Affect Service In Union Only! This service interruption is necessary for workmen to safely replace 22,000 volt line switches in the Union Substation. 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