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LA ORANtlE PUBI.IHHINU C'OMPANT
Robert W. Chandler. Prealdant
J. U. MvOlnllaod, Jr., Vies president
tuetday, June, 9 1959
"A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit"
RILEY D. ALLEN ..'.... Publisher
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TOM HUMES .T.. . Circulation Mgr.
I One Approach, But Is It Right?
Representative Herbert Zelenko of New
York and Senator Richard JVeubergor of
Oregon again this year are sponsors of
identical legislation to give a tux break to
older federal income tax payers. .
On the face the proposal, is attractive,
particularly to those over 4f. Hot we
doubt it is the right answer to what has
become a problem. 1 .
The proposed bill will allow increasing
tax deductions after the age of 45. Start
ing in that year a taxpayer would be able
to take a ''depletion allowance" of one
per cent per year. A taxpayer of 55 would
get a ten per cent allowance, for example,
and on up. .
It is true that human beings do not re
tain their full mental and physical vigor
until the ends of their lives. In this re
gard the Zelenko-Neuberger proposal has
ds only merit. In effect, it would give the
individual taxpayer some of the special
treatment given the much larger corpor
ate taxpayers.
Rut the removal of the special treatment
is the basic problem, and that ii where the
attack ought to come. It makes more sense
to remove the inequities from our present
lax laws than to add new ones. Two wrongs
still do not make a right. -,
,. The special treatment for corporations
and large taxpayers and those engaged in
various businesses was applied by Con
gress to soften the impact of present high
tax rates.
But there's no real reason for oil com
panies, for example, to be allowed a 27
per cent depletion allowance in the first
place. And it most certainly should not be
continued after the facilities have long
been paid out. '
Nor. is there any reason why capital
gains provisions should be applied in the
normal .course of commercial activity, as
they are in some case.
Doing away with the special treatment
for everyone, rather than adding more
special --treatment for new classes of tax
payers, is the better answer.
Only To The 'Wise Is It Sufficient
. .There's an old proverb to the effect that
"a word to the wise is sufficient."
If that's (rue, Oregon's population con
tains far fewer than normal wise people.
This thought was occasioned by a tele
phone call from a doctor friend. He read1
a paragraph from the back page of the
state's weekly repprt on communicable di
seases. It went:
. One new case of paralytic poliomyelitis
was reported this week, bringing lo seven
the number so far this year. This is more
than twice the number reported for the
corresponding period last year. Of further
significance is the fact that six of the nine
polio cases of all types this year have been
reported since the seasonal low about April
1, and Jour of these six cases have been
paralytic.
Hoth Type I and Type III polio viruses
have been isolated by Die state laboratory
rece ntly. Such information suggests that we
shoold intensify our efforts at polio immu
nization as rapidly as possible' if we are to
avoid .'outbreaks of paralytic polio this year.
The 'danger period for polio runs to
ae 40. Still, only fewer than one-third of
the persons in this age bracket have had
the fullf ourse of three shots required to
produce maximum immunity from polio.
Only.'a sudden upsurge of vaccinations
will prdve the old adage that a word to the
wise is sufficient.
Is This Courage Misplaced?
rm . i' r ! . a 1 .. 1 1 1 1 1 . ..
ine iNauonat coxing Association nas
taken his championship away from Sugar
Ray Rpbinson, on the ground that he didn't
defend it often enough.
But, the NBA hasn't bothered Floyd Pat
terson, the heavyweight, champ, who
doesn't fight as often as Robinson.
Nor has the NBA done anything about
Jpltiint tho o.'inifclorc nut rtf hnYinf?. Fran-
kie Carbo still seems io be a big shot in
NBA territory.
Some boxing writers have said it took
courage to take the title away from Rob
inson. We would have preferred to see the
courage used on someone bigger, if the
NBA wanted to make a test.
WorkersShould
Check Earnings
Record Often
Do you know that you have an
individual social security account
with your name and social secur
ity number on it? This account
shows all wages reported for you
by your employers during your
lifetime and all self-employment
net earnings you have reported
when you filed your income tax
return.
Tills. record is kept by the Ac
counting division of the Social
Security Administration in Balti
more. Your record accurately
shows what your employers have
reported, or what . you have re
ported as a self-employed person.
But, if your employer has made an
error on his tax returns, or you
have made an error in filing jour
income tax return, this error may
affect future benefits to you or
your family. You should take
steps to learn about it.
You can get a special post card
for this purpose at your local so
cial security office to send to Bal
timore for a statement of your
earnings After you receive the
statement, check it against your
own records. If they do not aijree,
contact your local security office
and they will take action, to cor
rect it. Hemember, there" is a lime
limitaton firr correcting your rec
ord,' and for this reason you
should check your account at
least once every three years
Auldin Preseott Buys
Purebred Shorthorn
Auldin Present t of La Grande
has purchased a purebred Milking
Shorthorn from Lester hnciton,
The animal is Shelton's Flower
l2li(i352, a heifer calf sired by
Sterns' Thief 12th P209120, and
out of Shelton's Constance P225-
i.on
lleenrH of the transfer of own
ership has been made by the Am
erican Milking Shorthorn Sociey
at Springfield, Mo.
FRENCH KILL 471
ALGIICHS. Algeria (UPD -
Krench forces killed or wounded
471 Algerian rebels and took 211
others prisoner last week, the
French army reported Monday
night. French losses were put at
M killed.
DREW PEARSON
Atlantic Congress Talks
Can Bring Understanding
luiuu.n. I nave attended a
great many international confer
ences as a newsman, but this At
lantic congress is the first I have
attended as an official delgate.
I hope it won't wreck the confer
ence. .
If so, the only consolation will
be that other international confer
ences have ended in pieces of pa
per called treaties which were
torn up shortly after they were
signed. This one won't end in a
treaty because the some 600 dele
gates from 14 NATO countries
can't sign a treaty. But they can
?mve at a better understanding
which is something that can't be
torn up overnight.
One of the first big conf"ren-
ees I attended resulted in the Kel
logg pact to outlaw war. The sun
shone very brightly into the Salle
Horloge that August day in 1928
es the statesmen of the world
gathered In Paris to put their
signatures on the solemn pact
pledging their governments to
outlaw war. It was a day of hope,
but only three years after that
Japanese troops fanned out over
Manchuria in violation of the pact,
six years before Mussolini's Black
Shirts marched across Ethiopia
and 10 years before Hitler invad
ed Poland.
Stimson Power Out
At a later conference, in Lon
don in 1930, I watched Henry L.
Stimson, secretary of state under
Herbert Hoover, struggle valiant
ly all winter to persuade the
world's naval powers to a limit
of 10,000-ton cruisers. He failed.
His failure was because his chief
in the White House cut the
ground from under his proposal
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
EDWARDS AFB, Calif. Test
pilot Scott Crossfield, on landing
the experimental rocket ship X-15
after a powerless glide from 38
000 feet:
'You still fly an aircraft by the
seat of your pants.
WASHINGTON President Ei
senhower on his proposals for new
economic legislation:
"This is a fight to make sure
that a dollar earned today will to
morrow buy for the housewife an
equal amount of groceries.
PHOENIX, Ariz. Nato Manuel
Gloria Jr., driver of the truck in
which 16 migrant farm workers
were killed and 32 injured: '
"I fell asleep at the wheel.
When I woke up, the truck was
on fire and the guys in the back
were screaming."
LONDON Evaneglist Billy Gra
ham, on the dangers of the
world's preoccupation with sex:
"I think the new generation
coming along is far better ac
quainted with Jayne Mansfield's
statistics than it is with the Sec
ond Commandment which orders
that 'thou shalt not make unto
thee any image.' "
Truck Accident
Kills Laborers
PHOENIX (UPD At least 11
cotton farm laborers were killed
at S a.m. yesterday when their
truck crashed into a tree in South
Phoenix and caught on fire.
Thirty two others were hospital
ized at Memorial Hospital here.
The driver, Nato Manuel dor
ian Jr.. Mesa, Ariz., told Phoenix
radio station newsman Bob Scott
of KRIZ he fell asleep at the
wheel. Manuel said the truck was
on fire when he awoke. He suf
fered multiple injuries, serious but
not critical. Glorian was one of
the few imburncd. ..
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Burris,
residents of the area, were first
at the scene. Burris, a rural fire
man, unsuccessfully battled the
blaze with a garden hose. He said
two explosions occurred while he
was there.
He and his wife, a hospital
technician, rendered first aid.
The truck belonged to Garin Co.
of Mesa. The men were Mexican
contract laborers on their way to
the garlic harvest in Tolleson,
near here.
of a consultative pact agreeing
only to consult other nations in
case war threatened. There was
no pledge to help, merely to con
suit. Yet leaders of the Republi
can narty and Hoover wouldn't
agree.
Yesterday I walked by St.
James's palace where Secretary
Stimson had negotiated so patien
tly for three long months to
bring about that naval agreement.
Outwardly, nothing has ccangea
Her majesty's guards, in Scarlet
jackets and bearskin headgear,
still pace up and down as in the
chorus from ' The Chocolate sol
dier." .
Naval Vessels Outdated
But actually, everything has
changed. The naval vessels that
-Stimson tried to limit are now
-ut-cf-date, automatically limited
by modern missiles. The consul
iative pact Hoover balked at has
been replaced by the hard-and-fast
NATO alliance pledging not slow,
deliberate . consultation, but in
stantaneous mutual aid with U.
S. armies stationed in Europe on
the alert and ready to enforce
that aid.
It has been only 29 years since
Hoover refused to consult our
Allies in case of war but, in that
short period of little more than
one generation, American isola
tion has become well out-of-date
It's only 10 years since President
Truman pledged instantaneous
aid through NATO, but already it
is partly out-of-date.
NATO Weakened
NATO has weakened, which is
one reason why 600 peoples' dele
gates from NATO countries are
here to strengthen it. The reason
why the alliance has weakened is
not so mucn because ot r ranees
withdrawal of troops from NATO
to Algeria nor British economy in
withdrawing her troops from Ger
many, but because of a Russian
Sputnik that went beeping across
the heavens Oct. 4, 1957.
That began the missile age. It
began the realization in the
hearts of West Europeans that
the next war would not be fought
by land armies at the Marne, the
Rhine or along the hedgerows of
Normandy, but high in the air
across the Atlantic. And the
probable targets would not be
London, Rome and Paris, but Mos
cow and Washington, Chicago and
Petrograd, Kiev and Los Angeles
Seattle and Odessa. Europe will
be looking up watching the heav
ens as these herculean long-range
missiles zoom across oceans at
tv- Herculean enemies.
- Strength In Peoples' Hope
That is the basic reason why
NATO has weakened. That's also
why Khrushchev has been talking
tough over Berlin and why Gro-
myko has been so hard to budge
at Geneva. However, Russia has
weaknesses too.
The weakest point in the Soviet
armor ana - simultaneously oui
rreatest strength is the ardent de
sire of the Russian people tc
avoid war. This is something ev
ery American observer, official
or unofficial, reports as a fact. It
nrovided the most important
foundation of all on which to build
for Deace. Already we have built
on it with the exchange oi cui
tural and scholastic sports groups
between the USA and the USSR.
One goal of this conference
will be to build further and at
the same time to strengthen and
unify the European community.
This is not an easy task. When
you solidify and strengthen West
Eurooe vou automatically scare
Moscow, especially wnen it s aone
bv governments. However mis
Atlantic congress is a comerence
f neonle of all walks of life
members of congress and parlia
ment, scientists, teacners, dusi
nessmen, farm leaders, labor leaders.
They aren't negotiating any
treaties which can be torn up to
morrow, but they are strengthen-
ng this time the basic founda
tion for better unaersiananiB
hich can't easily be torn up.
Prince Philip
May Be First
To Fly Saucer
COWES, England (UPD The
chances looked good today for
Prince Philip to be the first mem
ber of the royal family to fly a
flying saucer.
The Queen's husband was visit
ing the Isle of Wight, where the
Saunders-Roe Hovercraft first
flew over the weekend, and offi
cials of the company expected
ihm to visitt heir testing area to
day. It would be a simple matter for
the Prince, an expert pilot, to
learn the controls of the saucer
and to bring it up to its maximum
altitude of about one yard. The
craft flies on the ducted fan prin
ciple, without wings or convention
al profilers.
Buckingham Palace declined to
comment on the Prince's plans. J
Chuckles In
The News
United Press International
MEMPHIS, Tenn. UPI A
finance company called off a con
test to guess the amount of mort
ey in a horn of plenty display
when a thief walked off with the
window-displayed coins. The right
answer, the company sam, was
about $20.
LUTON, England (UPD It
rained blue rain here Monday.
The unnatural tint was attributed
to dust in the air from the dem
olition of an old dye works.
CHICAGO (UPD City Archi
tect Paul Gerhardt, who is also
chief of maintenance for the mu
nicipal central office building,
solved one of Chicago's traffic
problems Monday. He eased the
congestion in the fifth-floor men's
lounge by suspending 10 city jani
tors he found lounging overtime.
CHICAGO (UPD The Illinois
State Employment Service is
hunting jobs for 315 office work
ers. They are claims examiners
and clerks for the Unemployment
Compensation Division, scheduled
for release because of a drop in
claims.
SHARING AMERICA'S ABUNDANCE
Foreign Aid
Many Church
Selfish;?
Too
Leaders Think
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Staff Writer
At a time when critics are de
nouncing foreign aid as a "give
away," it is a bit startling to
hear somebody say that the real
trouble with the U. S. aid program
is that it's too selfish.
Yet that is precisely what some
American church leaders are say
ing. They are appealing to Congress
to overhaul the aid program thor
oughlynot to save money, but
to make it a more effective instru
ment for sharing America's abun
dance with the two-thirds of hu
manity that lives in chronic
misery.
These church leaders who in
clude spokesmen for major Pro
testant and Catholic organizations
believe the government has
made an historic mistake in "sell
ing" foreign aid to the American
public on the basis of national
self-interest.
They would like to see less em
phasis on buying or building allies
against Communism, and more
emphasis on helping people sim
ply because they are people.
Moral Obligation
That is what Dr. Donald C.
Stone tried to tell the House For
eign Affairs Committee when he
appeared before it recently as
spokesman for the National Coun
cil of Churches. Dr. Stone is dean
of the University of Pittsburgh's
graduate school of public and in
ternational affairs, and a member
of the National Council's depart
ment of international affairs.
He said the U. S. aid program,
as presently constituted, is con
spicuously lacking in "moral and
religious" motivations. A nation
can hardly claim to be acting out
of unselfish generosity, he added,
when it "furthers the economic
development of other countries
primarily in the interest of its
own security and as a means of
obstructing the outreach of an
enemy."
Dr. Stone argued that America
would be "infinitely more success
ful" in creating conditions for
peace if it were less obsessed with
getting a practical, political
"return" on its foreign aid invest
ment. A similar stand was taken by
the Catholic Association for Inter
national Peace in a recent policy
statement entitled ."A Christian
Position on U. S. Foreign Aid.'.'
foreign economic- assistance
should be . . . motivated by our
sense . of moral obligation," the
Catholic statement said, adding
that moral motives are "unfortu
nately obscured by , the present
structure of the aid program.
"As a country blessed with an
U.A.R..LEBANON PACT
CAIRO (UPI) The United Arab
Republic and Lebanon signed an
economic agreement Sunday.
U.A.R. Finance Minister Abdel
Moneim Kaysouni said it would
"promote our aim of establishing
Arab economic unity and an Arab
common market." The agreement
slashed customs duties and re
duced by half the fees on the
movement of persons between the
two countries.
abundance of resources, we must
recognize economic aid as simply
our particular contribution toward
the enhancement of the commoiM
good or general - welfare of the
community pf nations.
'Economic1 ; assistance should
therefore be channeled to under
developed countries, whether al
lied with us or not. for the pri
mary purpose of promoting their
social and economic develop
ment."
Military Aid Backed U
These church organizations are
not opposed to military aid piab
grams designed to strengthen al
lies against Communist imperial
ism. The Catholic statement, for
example, says, explicitly that "so-
long as there exists a major
threat to the peace of the world,
by military aggression and armed
subversion, the United States must
continue to furnish military assist
ance to its allies..." jf
What Jhe church leaders do seek
is a clear distinction between mtHH
tary aid, extended for the sake or
our own security, and economic
aid, extended as a recognition uf
moral obligation toward those liv
ing in chronic want. 1 ;;
They believe that the distinction
is deliberately played down in the
present program, because of Ad
ministration fears that Cong -ess
or the . taxpayers would rebel
against any aid spending that was
essentially unselfish m purpose.
The churchmen may be over
optimistic about the American
people. But they are convinced
that most Americans really, want
to be generous toward less fortu
iate people, and that they .would
be shocked if they realized, not
how much but how relatively little
they 7 are presently spending on
economic aid.
The total comes to- about 1.5
billion dollars a year, or four
tenths of one per cent of the U.S.
gross national product.
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