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La Grande Observer
PUBLISHED BY TUB
LA. CRANLlU 1'UUMBHINU COMPANY
Robttrt W.-Chandler. Pruldont
M. MeCIllnd, Jr., Vic Proildont
Pass The
A bipartisan group of 17 senators 12
Democrats and 5 Republicans is spon
soring the . reintroduced bill to create a
"national preservation synteni for the
permanent good pf the whole people.'; Its
purpose is, as Senator Humphrey puts it,
to 'preserve the remnants of unspoiled
wilderness lands still remaining in our
national forest, parks, and wildlife re
fuges." For the first time the Government
would recognize the heritage of pure
wilderness and protect it against graz
ing, timbering, and even roads irtul pic
nic grounds, and no bureau chief or Cabi
net officer could alter this policy by Kx
ecutive order. Specific areas of the na
tional lands would be set aside, and new
land would be bought for wilderness pre
servation if necessary.
The way the sponsorship of this bill
spreads from coast to coast and joins
both parties is a testimonial to it. I'.e
sides Senator Humphrey, of Minnesota,
the Democratic backers are Senators
I toughs, of Illinois; Clark, of Pennsyl
vania; Lausche, of Ohio; Proxmire, of
Another Opportunity He Shouldn't Miss
Sheldon Sackett, publisher of the Coos
Bay World (nee Times) has announced
he will start a daily paper in San .lose,
. Calif., where the existing dailies have
' been shut down by a strike for over three
months.
A 'story from St. Louis, notes that
both papers in that city were shut down
by a strike.
Not So Far
An editorial writer for the Oregon
Journal, in commenting upon the test
flight of the X-15, notes that, the con
traption cannot be called a missile be
cause it glides, and doesn't plunge.
Well, the X-15 was cut loose at an
altitude of 38,000 feet, and four miuutes
later it was on the ground. It landed
This Is The Best Product Yet
Oregon newspapers have been sprout-'
ing Centennial editions this spring at a
rate only slightly behind the sprout of
weed seeds In our garden.
The best job done to date was the one
just completed by the Salem Capital
Journal, under the direction of Bill
Mainwaring.
What makes it even more impressive
is that this is Mainwaring's first full
time newspaper project. He's had sum
mer jobs before, but the Centennial as
signment was hia first after school and
military service, i
Mainwaring's done an excellent job of
proving that a special edition can be
''Stick 'Em Up!".
EDITORIAL PAGE
WadneUdy, June 17, 1959
'A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit"
Rn.ftY I). AIJ.EN
GKOKGE S. CHAIJJS
TOM HUMES ......
Wilderness
From A Missile
The usual
uill get
Publisher
Adv. Direetor
CirculaUon Mgr.
Bill
Wisconsin; Williams, of New Jersey;
Mansfield and Murray, of Montana;
Morse and Neuberger, of Oregon; and
Byrd and Randolph, of West Virginia.
The Republicans are Mrs. Smith, of
.Maine, and ,Viley, of Wisconsin; Mar
tin, 6f Iowa; Ijinger, of North Dakota;
ami Muiull, of South Dakota.
Proper' users of the wilderness lands,
cult Its grazers, for example, would be
amply protected. The wilderness bill has
been revised for that purpose. But at the
same time, these bits and corners of the
iiatioiiid heritage would be marked for
retention in their natural state, free
from the despoliation that so often goes
with occupation by lyimankind.
A ureal deal of misinformation is be
ing spread in opposition to the wilder
ness hill by selfish interests which hope
to prevent its passage. Surely a bill with
so much merit that it brings, together
Mrs. Smith and Senator Mundt on the
Republican side, Senator Luusche and
Senator Douglas among the Democrats,
will not be obscured by misrepresenta
tion, no matter how expertly contrived.
(St. l,ouis Post Dispatch)
Sackett owns the press used by the
former Brooklyn Kagle, killed by a strike
a few years back.
lie ought to take it to St. Iiouis, Ixiuie,
ami start still another World.
We'll buy a subscription to that one,
loo, along with the Worlds of Portland,
Seattle, Santa Rosa, Oakland, San Fran
cisco, San Jose anil IVu'tsmouth, Virginia.
on a skid, not wheels, at 270 miles
per hour.
Dropping at a rate of 0,500 feet per
minute and landing lit 270 miles per hour
may not. sound like much to the bold
pilots of the Journal's editorial page..
But to the old, not bold, pilots in our
chairs it sounds a lot like a missile.
something besides a money - raising
scheme during a weak season of the year.
i
Barbs
Hohlit is got a 100-pound cheese from an
Ohio cheese factory, or it just up and walk
ed off.
It takes more than just getting out on
a bright day to really find your place in
the sun. - .
Women love to wear extremely high
pointed heels, but men would hate to be
in their shoes.
number of gals on the beaches
son-struck this season. ,
DREW PEARSON
GOP-Dixiecrat
Operates As
WASHINGTON. Thirty-three
top Republicans in the House of
Representatives are hoping to
keep it secret, but they have
worked out such a hard-and-fast
ueal with southern Democrats
that you would think they be
longed to the same party.
They have organized whips and
assistant whips to work together
on at least six major economic
and social measures, whether
Eisenhower favors them or not.
Severel Dixiecratv- Republican
coalitions have1" operated in the
past, but never with such iron
clad discipline as the one now or
ganized. The 33 Republicans have
evt'n agreed to meet regularly
with 33 Dixiecrats on major mea.
sures before the House. At these
meetings tentative strategy will
b" worked out, a "nose count"
made of the prospective votes,
and whips instructed to whip
each side into line
Significantly, the leader of the
coalition is none other than Ike's
own GOP leader in the House
"TWO CADILLAC" Charlie Hal
leek of Indiana. The Democratic
leader is Congressman Howard
Smith from northern Virginia.
Significantly also, Halleck,
though Ike's leader, is vigorously
oiiDosing Ike by pushing the Su
ureme Court override bill. This
bill, introduced by Congressman
Smith, would drastically curtail
the power and jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court. Eisenhower has
taken a stand against it, but Hal
leek, whom Ike helped elect ov
er 'Old Faithful" Joe Martin, is
working the other way.
Other bills the coalition has se
cretly decided to block include:
1. Federal aid to education.
2. The Kenncdy-Ervin anti-rack
eteering and labor reform bill.
3. The Flood-Douglas factory
loan bill to aid areas suffering
from acute unemployment.
4. The community facilities bill
(or aid in supplying sewage and
sanitation.
5. The new housing bill.
On the other hand, the coali
lion has just added $50,000 to the
LETTERS
Maximum length 300 words.
No anonymous letter but true
name will bo withheld on re
quest. To the Editor:
Senator Jacob K. Javits of New
York proposes further "liberaliz
ing" of the McCarran-Walter Im
migration Code (o admit Ruman
ian (Eastern European) refugees
in addition to the number ad
missible under our immigration
laws. As usual, such proposal
comes from a New York Cong
ressman. From the beginning of
the enactment of effective immi
gration legislation, opposition has
come from New York. Dr. E. A.
Ross, in his standard work on im
migration, "The Old World in the
New," published 45 years ago,
slates that New York congress
men led the fight against the
then, pending immigration bill;
that the New York congressional
delegation lined up solidly in op
position to the literacy test. (Page
144.) Nevertheless, congress ev
entually enacted effective immi
gration legislation, now known as
the McCarran-Walter Immigration
Code. The opposition has been
seeking to by-pass its provisions
by "liberalizing" amendments,
and, as nearly half a century ago,
under New York leadership.
Senator Herbert Lehman of
New York led the opposition in
the Senate until his retirement.
Senator Javits has taken his place.
In the House of Representatives,
Mr. Emanuel Celler of New York
has long been leader of the oppo
sition. One of Congressman Cel-
ler's most conspicuous supporters
from outside New York is Con
gressman James Roosevelt of the
California Twenty-sixth Congres
sional district. Election statistics
show that Congressman Roose
velt's District is not representa
tive of California.
Congressman Roosevelt ran for
Governor on the Democratic
ticket in 1950. He received 1,-
728,349 less votes than the num
ber of Californians registered as
Democrats. His Republican oppon
ent, Earl Warren, although be
coming unpopular, received 516,-
:)42 more votes than the Republi
can registration. It was not a
Warren victory. . It was a Roose
velt defeat.
California defeated the Fair
Employment Practice innovation.
F.E.P.C., by a majority cf 1,006,
:)4!. But F.E.P.C. carried in
Congressman Roosevelt's Congres
sional District by a staggering
majority. In Precinct 1657, for
-xnmplc, the vote was 180 for F.
E.P.C. to 17 against; in Precinct
oll, 173 for to 7 against.
In 1950, Richard Nixcn, now
vice president, was elected to the
United States Senate by a major
ity of 680,947. But his opponent
.v.rried Congressman Roosevelt's
district by overwhelming major
ily. In seven sample precincts,
Nixon received 263 votes to his
opponent's 1.297.
Neither Congressman Roose
velt nor his District are in step
with the vast majority of Cali
fornians. Sincerely,
Franklin Michborn
Coalition
One Party
'Eisenhower budect for the con
trol of water lilies and vegetation
which clog up southern rivers.
The $500,000 had been deleted by
the House aDDrooriations com
mittee for economy reasons, but
Charlie IlalieeK, aespue nis puo-lir-
Wmres about sDendinfi. priv
ately decided to add this to the
budget.
Ho sent word secretly to Rep.
nttn pactman of T.nuisianna that
he was making this $500,000 con
cession for southern river control
as a gesture to the new alliance.
Mickey Cohen Reform
Mickey Cohen, ex-ruler of the
T.ne Anpeles underworld, came to
see me the other day. Mickey
served time for his many sins ana
now appears to be trying to leao
a ctraiL'ht life. This isn't easy
for any ex-convict, especially one
as notorious as Micxey. every
thing you do is likely to be sus
pect. Mickey came to me not on be
half of himself, however, but to
niaH fnr a eirl who got 15 years
from a Texas court for the pos
session of one marijuana cigar
ette. She is Juniata blusner, a
night club dancer under the
name of "Gandy Barr," who had
her nnartment raided in Dallas
nnt 97 1057. under circumstanc
es which one Texas judge de
nounced. .
nn cigarette was found on
her. She claims this was given
her by a menu tor satexeepmg.
Whether true or not. the sen-
tenre Candv Barr was handed by
the Texas court 15 years was
one ot tne most severe mnis
tnrv
Two Negroes caught in posses
sion of norcotics at aDoui me
same time in Dallas were given
nnlv six months each, though one
had two previous offenses and the
other three. Even dope-pushers,
the most heinous of all those in
the dope racket because their pro
fession is pusning" dope on
those trying to reform, aren't us
ually given as much as IS years
-though tney snouia De.
In thp Texas court of crimi
nal anneals. Judee Llovd W. Dav
idson wrote a blistering dissent
claiming that Candy's conviction
resulted from an illegal searcn
.varrant. He said:
"So the time has come In this
state when peace officers can
irixlr in Iho door of one's home
and search and ransack it at will
and without any lawful authority
to do so and in total disregard of
i hp law . . . if that is eaual jus
tice, under law, I want no part
of it . . . if a conviction obtain
on under such circumstances is
due process of the law, then there
no due process of law."
Whpn Mirkev Cohen was lord
of the Los Angeles underworld
I did my best to expose his oper
ations. Now that he's leading a
straieht life I'd like to helD him.
Among other things, he has been
speaking at boys' reformatories,
urging them not to make tne mis
takes he did.
Investigation of Candy Barr's
casi (Convinces '. me Mickey is
rinM in ft-vincr in heln her. Fif
teen years is an unprecedented
punishment tor a nrsi oiienuer
in a mariiuann case. And I hope
Gov. Price Daniel of Texas, who
did a great service to the nation
by investigating the narcotics
racket when he was in tne sen
ate, will review Candy uarrs
case.
Supreme Court
Splits Again
Over Issues
WASHINGTON (UPD The conservative-liberal
split in the Su-
today in a ruling that sanctioned
secret judicial inquiries by states.
A five-man majority upheld a
criminal f n n t P. IT1 d t iudement
against two Brooklyn private de
tectives. The two balked at an
swering questions in a special In
vestigation of "ambulance chas
ing" and other questionable prac
tices among lawyers of the Kings
County bar in New York.
Dissenting Justice Hugo L.
Black accused the majority bf re
treating from their highest duty,
"that of maintaining unimpaired
rights and liberties guaranteed by
the . . . Bill of Rights."
Black was joined by Chief Jus
tice Earl Warren and Justices Wil
liam O. Douglas and William J.
Brennan Jr.
The same four justices protest
ed last week when the court gave
what they considered too strong
support to the Investigative pow
ers of Congress and state legis
lative committees.
The two detectives. Neal Percu
dani and Howard Bluestein, said
their constitutional rights were
impaired because their lawyers
were barred from the hearing,
conducted by State Justice George
A. Arkwright.
Justice John M. Harlan, who
often speaks for the Supreme
Court's conservative wing, said to
strike down the state proceedings
would limit state power far be
yond anything required In earlier
"right to counsel-' rulings.
Harlan emphasized that the Ark
wright hearings were not criminal
proceedings and that the detec
tives were witnesses, not defend
ants. '
Scientific Theory In Research
In Cancer Has Many Bad Results
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Staff Writer
NEW YORK (UPD The scien
tific theory ' which has guided
much of the total world effort to
solve the cancer riddle for more
than 50 years, "has resulted in no
good thing, but in much that is
bad."
This is no ordinary criticism be
cause it is the criticism of Dr.
Peyton Kous who, though he is
largely unknown to the general
public, is a grade-A international
celebrity in cancer science.
Some of the "bad,'' he said, is
that devotion to the theory has
caused many scientists to con
elude cancer is "inherent" in life
itself and therefore can't be solved
until the very secrets of life are
solved.
"Here is fatalism to blast many
a hope and effort, . he continued,
"fortunately, the public, now em
powering large-scale attempts to
cure cancer, are a hard-headed
generation. They have learned the
lesson of the antibiotics, substan
ces transcending all medical pre
conceptions.
Research Urge Dulled
But "most serious" of the "bad'1
is the effect of the theory on scien
Johnson Tries
To Speed Vote
Oh Strauss
WASHINGTON (UPI) Seriate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson moved today to speed the
controversy over Commerce Sec
retary Lewis L. Strauss to a show
down vote.
The Texan announced that he
would seek a unanimous agree
ment to limit debate by alloting
"several hours" to each side to
complete its arguments. Johnson
said he would schedule overtime
sessions and a Saturday meeting
if debate was riot limited.
Johnson's statement seemed to
be aimed at Senate Republican
Leader Everett M. Dirksen (III.)
Dirksen told newsmen Monday
that he opposed a vote this week
after Wednesday.
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-
Wyo.) was scheduled to take the
floor today in the bitter fight. An
outspoken critic of Strauss, O'
Mahoney said he would show the
nominee was a proponent of "the
un-American theory," that public
business should be conducted in
secrecy if the administration want
ed it that way.
The Senate also was put on no
tice Monday that one of its cham
pion long distance talkers plans
to "speak at some length'' on the
Strauss nomination. That was the
word from Sen. Wayne Morse ID
Ore.) who once held the Senate's
filibuster record.
Morse made it clear that he
would oppose the nomination. He
announced that the subject of his
speech would be "enemy of the
people.
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tific research workers, "it acts
as a tranquilizer on those, whe
believe in it," said Dr. Rous, "and
this at a time when every .works' '
should feel goaded now and agair
by his ignorance of what cancel
is."
The theory U the "somatic mu
tation hypothesis," and it shoulc1
be understood that in science
theory is most useful. You take4r
the known facts and from the way
you relate them to one another,
you try to get an idea of the na
ture of the unknown facts. When
you get that idea, you have some
thing to .prove or disprove.
The most conspicuous fact about
cancer is that cancerous cells
arise somehow out of the normal
cells which are called somatic or
body cells to distinguish them from
the germ cells which have the
power to initiate new and inde
pendent life. Germ cells "mu
tate" or change and when it hap
pens, their descendants can be
freed of laws which governed the
parents.
From this last fact, you can
get the idea that somatic cells
also mutate. When you add the
fact that cancerous cells are out
laws when compared to the normal
cells from which they originated;
you have the "somatic mutation
hypothesis." But the followers of
this theory, Dr. Rous said, .have
yet to prove that (he somatic
cells of human beings mutate.
They have proved that the so
matic cells of plants and of the
lower forms of animal life do mu
tate and this, of course, has given
more reason for faith in the theo
ry. They have - also proved that
"hundreds" of chemical sub-j
stances and outside conditions can
start the cancerous process in hu
man bodies, but they have yet to
show that any of these set off
"mutations" in normal somatic
cells.
Rous' Theory
Dr. Rous, who will be 80 years
old next October, is an adherent
of the theory that viruses set off
the cancer process he proved be
yond any quibble that a certain
type of cancer of chickens is
caused by a particular virus. That
cancer is now called the "Rous
virus sarcoma." It is the basis
of his celebrity in science, al
though he has made many more
contributions.
Since his discovery, a number of
other viral cancers have been dis
covered, but only in animals. So far
no human cancer has been proved
to be viral of origin. However,
these animal facts are the basis
of the theory that viruses cause
human cancers.
If so, Dr. Rous' references to
INVITED TO MOVIE SET
VIENNA (UPD Italian screen
star Sophia Loren has invited So
viet Defense Minister Marshal
Rodion Malinovsky to sit in on
the filming of her latest movie
"Olympica." Malinovsky current
ly is on a state visit to Austria,
where the Paramount production
is being shot on location.
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e lesson the "hard-headed" pub
ic learned from the antibiotics, is
apt. The antiobiotics cure diseases
;aused by bacteria which once
vere considered incurable, as can
cer still is. From this fact a
heory can be developed that it
ould be possible to deal with
humaj cancer viruses (if they ex-
Sl jusi as eiiecuveiy.
i Dr. Rous, a native of Baltimore,
ias been affiliated with the Rocke
feller Institute since 1909. He at
tpeked the "somatic (mutation
fhoory'' in the technical journal,
("Nature." . '
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
. ' PHILADELPHIA Thruston
B. Morton, chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, be
fore the Industrial Union Coun
cil: .
"I seriously doubt that it is in
the best interest of labor to place
bo many of' its eggs in the Dem
ocrats', political basket."
, LONDON Lord Boothby, advis
ing the Royal Institute of Char
tered Surveyors to forget about
Lmeasuring the moon:
you can see me aamn moon
every night and it does not look
very promising to me." 1
PARIS American evangelist
Billy Graham, commenting on a
reported religious revival in Rus
sia where he has just visited:
i "I was not surprised to hear
that, since I could read on the
faces of the people a great spirit
ual hunger and some sort of in
security that only God can solve."
i CHICAGO Philip Nesius. step
father of David. Pickles Nesius,
14, who beat his mother with a
tomahawk and strangled her:
! "I've forgiven him. What's done
is done."
Wagon Train
Bests Schedule
SOUTH PASS CITY, Wyo. (UPI)
Seven covered wagons traveling
the Oregon Trail neared South
Pass Tuesday after covering a
rough 50 miles in the Sweetwater
primitive area in two days, in
stead of the scheduled three.
. The "On To Oregon'' train's
next scheduled stop was 10 miles
south of Pacific Spring Wednes
day where the 26 members of the
train were to meet chiefs of the
Arapahoe and Shoshoni Indian
tribes for a peace pipe smoking
ceremony.
The 2,000-mile journey was un
dertaken by the Oregon residents
as a feature of the Oregon Cen
tennial celebration. They hope to
reach Independence, Ore., in Au
gust. Thursday, the wagon is sched
uled to be a t Farson, and at
Kemmerer June 21.
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