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Time to Hit tbe.Eield.otCJ over, EDITORIAL PAGE 1 GRANDE OBSERVER Monday, June 22, 1959, Page 2 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" published by tub ! R1LEY ALLEN ', 1..,. Publisher I.A CRANPVJ piJULiHIlINC .COMPANY GEORGE S. CHAIXIS 1 Adv. Director ' . ' TOM IITJMES Circulation Mgr. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Ojf Lobby Hired Planes Iri Effort To Beat Brown Here's A Question For Ullman Congressman Al Ullman of this district has sent a questionnaire, apparently to selected voters a gimmick which' is be coming a favorite with members of the national legislature. - ' Ordinarily there isn't too much value i In these mail ballots, for two reasons. ; First, the sample is not drawn ho bs to get an accurate picture of the district as a whole. The sample frequently is over loaded with members of one party) or the mailing list covers only those who have written to the Congresman in. the past.-; . . , . - ... -.v i r Second, the questions too often are drawn in such a fashion as to get the answers the Congressman wants, to sup port, his own already-taken stand. Sort .of a ' "have you slopped beating your wife'' program. . , " The. second fault was the one which killed oa far as we were concerned any value there- might have been in the questionnaires 'mailed .. out by former Congressman 'Sam Coon. ' , . ;'A friend has shown, us one of Ullman's mail ballots. It's apparent he has avoided the second pitfall. The subject matter is pretty much across the board and the questions are worded as fairly as one could ejepect. We don't know how the sample Avhs obtained,-?' It would bq a fine idea if UJ'man would . report, when the ballots have-been re turned, the results of the survey. Ull man's views on many of the subjects in the poll are fairly well known, and it would also be interesting to know if he changes his mind if the survey shows that the voters are greatly in disagree ment with him. Now, we .have a question for Rep. Ullman. 1 Where do you stand in the current hassle between Senators Morse and Neu berger? Which do you favor? Each of the other members of the Oregon delegation have made their views known iii the-past couple of weeks. You have remained silent. Since the others nre willing to stand upland be counted, this is the least we can' expect from you. ih Came First Doesn't Matter Now With grain and poultry surpluses it's almost the same ojd question as it was with the chicken and the egg the ques tion pt which'came first. Egg producers are now' going broke in part because of the high price of grain, feed, and wheat and other feed is high because of federal government price supports, which come from tax payments, part of which of course come from egg producers. In the hardest hit area New Jersey the bankruptcy rate among poultry farm ers this year has already hit 17.1 per . cent. In lesser degree the pinch is being felt as well throughout the country. : The U. S. Agricultural Marketing Ser ylce.reports that in mid-April the average price- received Jy the farmer for eggs was 28.1c a dozen 10.4c below the price a year. ago. And prices have been falling off since, hovering around the' 1941 low. )I4vi Jersey farmers are selling for 80c a dozen eggs that cost them 39c a dozen to "produce. Fowl prices aro similarly de pressed. ' : r - How did poultry farmers get into their present- bind? Well, . for one ; thing, they-'re too efficient for their own good. Production of eggs this year is up T per centvover 1958, against a rise of only per cent ftr population, a ' i 'J with' the demand for, more and more foit in World Wat IV "egg' factories" ' sprang up and, output' virtually exploded. Flocks now range up to a million birds. Mass hatcheriesi more scientific feeding, use-' of antibiotics even the piping in of ' music to keep the) layers happy-r-all these add up to great overproduction. ' ,At be same, time, the government sup port " Of wheat and, corn lias raised the post of keeping the hens a worki Feed prices, have, increased 400, per cent since ,1939. arui they represent mom than 60 per ent of the poultry farmer's total . (;-M i 'if ("'. ' ; outlay. Just to bring a day-old chick into its laying period costs about $2. What to do about it? ' Lobbyists for the farmers are suggesting federal pro duction controls, price supports, other emergency measures. Fut as Herman I. Miller, poultry specialist for the Market ing Service, points out, 1.7 million farms produce the nation's eggs, and these are marketed in 25,000 outlets. Just to police production and sale would require more supervisors than we have egg farmers. The Department of Agriculture on June 2 announced that it would begin a program of weekly purchase of frozen whole eggs. And since April 16, when purchase of dried eggs for the school lunch program was stopped, the Depart ment has been buying died eggs to stabilize prices. The cost of the school lunch and price stabilization . programs hft topped $15 million. ''hail-man Harold D. Colley (D-N.C.) of the House Agriculture Committee on June 6 challenged Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Taft Benson to use more of the " so-called Section 82 funds for egg purchases. The reference is to a provision of 1085 amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act which authorizes the usy 5f 80 per cent of customs receipts to pa'y bounties on farm -exports equal to thf" difference between domestic and wrl&jrice8. Some $300 million is avail- Meanwhile, the small farmer, rather than the egg factory proprietor, is suffer ing, and the already decimated ranks of sinaU- operators are dwindling. The day when the farmer's wife kept chickens an?! sold the eggs for pin-money has vir tually ! disappeared, but the old rural saying is truer than ever "Zip goes the egg mnely." '' WASHINGTON The same Howard KecK and his same Su perior Oil company which fiot mixed up in the attempt to briue Sen. Francis Case of South Dakota during the battle over the feder al natural gas act, pulled a fast one the other day in California. Working with other oil com panies, chiefly Standard Oil of California, Superior flew fcur Re publican assemblymen to Sacra ment' to block the oil severance tax proposed by Democratic Gov. I'at Urown. . The chartered planes ' which flew the assemblymen back to Sacramento at oil copany expense were more than just a neat lob bying trick. They will mean: 1. A cut in planned pay raises for California schoolteachers and slate professors. ' 2. The national limclght thrown on the Rockefeller family and the candidacy of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. It happens that Standard Oil of California is not only a Rockefel ler company, but one which an swers directly to the word of the Rockefellers. This was tested out graphically in a spectacular man per when the late Harold Ickes demanded that Standard of Cali fornia rehire Ralph Davics, who had taken leave from the com pvny as president to work for the war petroleum board. Ickes de manded that Davies get his job back. But the Rockefellers said no. And that was that. In the recent California lobying battle involving both Superior Oil and Standard, Governor Brown had proposed a two per cent sev crance tax. California is the only oil-producing state in the USA without such a tax. The tax bill was immediately opposed by Harold Morton, potent lobbyist for Superior Oil and other com- nunics. whose son-in-law, Joe Shell, is strategically placed in the California Assembly as Re oublican floor leader. Finally Governor Brown got the bill out of the revenue and tax committee where it had been blocked, and got it referred to the ways and means committee. Whereupon the oil lobby mov ed to reconsider and send it back' to a pigeonhole in he revenue and tax commit tee. The oil lobby needed 41 votes to win, but was four votes shy. So special airplanes were chart ered. They flew Allen Paltec back from Carmel; James Holm es from Santa Barbara; and Har dd Levering and Bruce Reagon from a fishing trip nearuincy, north of Sacramento- 1 7 Result: the oil lobby won. Cali fornia remains the only oil-pro- oucing state in the USA without a severance lax. Backstage Pressure The President Have a "so what" answer to a recent press-confer ence qucstiun regarding me ioi bying to confirm Adm. Lewis itrauss as secretary oi commi-iuc. Here is part of the pressure cam paign such as Washington had seldom seen before, .some of it very close to Ike: Senator Cannon of Nevada Secretary of Agriculture Benson, a disciple of tho Mormon church. induced leading Mormons in Ncveda to pressure Senator Can nun to vote for Strauss. This was what Cannon referred to when he told the Senate of the terri fic . lobbying campaign for Strauss. Senators Jordan and Erwin of North Carolina Gen. Kenneth Royal, former secretary of the Army, now a Well Street attor ney, made a special trip to Wash ington to urge the Democrats to switch their votes to Strauss. Royall is a North Carolinian, has been a guest at the White House, and is the attorney for Kllis Slater, the Seagrams whis key executive and bridge-playing partner of the president. Mrs, Slater accompanied Mrs. Eisen bower to the Elizabeth Arden beauty ranch in Arizona in the Presidential plane last year, and her husband arranged for the In- seminaton of one of Ike's black Angus heifers by Slater's prize bull. Sen. Tom Todd of Connecticut- Announced his vote for Strauss as induced by the Admiral's "courage, competence, intellect- i'al power." Actually, however, it was pressure from Gov. Abe Ru icoff of Connecticut which influ enced his vote. Ribicoff advised Dodd that a vote for Strauss was l he way to clinch the Jewish vote in that state. Harlem Globetrotters The famed Harlem Globetrot ters, sometimes called diplomats in short pants, are going to Mos cow this summer. They will play nne basketball games in various Russian cities, beginning with the Lenin Central Stadium in Mos cow, July 6. Interesting fact about the trip is that the Russian cultural com mittee is financing it.- Moscow propaganda in the past has focus ed a lot of attention on race re lations in the USA. Yet now a f:mous Negro basketball team will tour Russia as visual proof that Negro athletes hold a high place in this country. The travel ing expenses of the Globetrotters to and from Russia, plus a cash ruble payment for the games, will all be paid by the Soviets. . Abe Saperstein, who. has gen: crously sent the Globetrotters with me to North Africa and Alas ka on two different Christmases 'o entertain American troops, be gan negotiating direct with tha Russian embassy in Washington some months ago. The embassy had various questions to ask, but from the start seemed: , anxious to have the Globetrotters visit the Soviet Union. -. LETTERS QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International WASHINGTON Secretary or State Christian A. Ilcrter, ort the Geneva foreign ministers confer ence: "In nil the discussion, my West ern colleagues and I had foremost intmind the freedom of the more than two million people of West Berlin." LONDON Author-editor Mal colm Muggeridge, rebutting evan gelist Billy Graham's contention that New York's Central Park is more moral than London's Hyde Park: i "If after dusk few couples ven ture to take advantage of such privacy as Central Park affords, it is out of fear rather than pru dery." G ETTYSBURG. Pa.-President Eisenhower, on giving $5 to his frequent cad-.ly, Hoy Eairman, 13, whose church allemlauco prevent ed him from caililying for the President : "Here, Hoy. Thai's for going to church todny." FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -Mrs. Margaret J. Priere. of Dos Moines, lown. on being crowned Mrs. America: "I had no idea I would win. I still can't believe it." Maximum length 300 words. No anonymous letters but true name will be withheld en re quest. ....... To The Editor: The Retail Merchants Associa tion of the Chamber of Commerce is grateful to your paper for its active support of the recent La Grande Centennial Clean-Up Cam paign. r Also, special thanks arc due Dale Fredericks, general chairman of the event. Local organizations which generously contributed time and effort to the program were, th? Eagles, Jaycees, Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and the Soroptimisls- The cooperation of the City of La Grande was also most helpful. Sincerely, Loren Hughes " President To the Editor: We would like to cxpresse our thanks and appreciation to the La Grande Observer and its staff for, the fine coverage it gave our 33rd Grand Assembly sessions, held in La Grande June 14, IS and 16. The city of La Grande was most cooperative and courteous, the city manager, the officials and the police department We are very grateful. To you all a hie Thank You. La Grande Assembly No. 13 Order of the Rainbow for Girls. - 'I HAVE SEEN THEM' Communist Leader Embarrassed By His Party India s By PHIL NEWSOM UPI SUM Writer The leader of India's Commu lists has one great embarrass merit. ; ' . ' U has never met such party dignitaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Tse Tung ' or Chou En-lai, whom Prime Minister Jawuharlal Nehru counts among his. friends. Of . course, he says,. I have seen them. . fie was especially irked by an article in the official Soviet mag azine New. Times which said that India now. is "taking the path of socialism, by peaceful methods that, path has been advocated for many- years by Jawaharlal Neh ru' v - ' .; To Ajoy Ghosh it seemed a fi nal slur. As editor of Indian commu nism, Ghosh has had to undergo more than one embarrassment. He made no attempt to defend Soviet brutality in crushing the Hungarian revolt. Instead, he de plored it In terms stronger than Nehru's. - . - Party Under Fire Especially embarrassing and al most reducing him to silence was Red China's crushing of the re volt in Tibet. - Now his party Is under serious fire in Kerala, the southern state where it has had its greatest suc cess in India. Socialist and Congress Party Caddy Was Late; Ike Gives Tip GETTYSBURG. Fa. UPI Ppmiiicni F.isenhowcr save one of his caddies $5 Sunday for going to church and thereby gelling to. ine golf course late. , -., The boy, Roy Fairman Jr., 13, n.,rt hie mnlhnr nrn F.niSCODallanS. However they decided to go to the4 President's churcn, ine geivysows Presbyterian. r, ... When the services were over the President jumped into his chauffeur-driven limousine and headed for the course. By the time Roy ant Ih.M-B hv nlhur. means, it was too late to caddy for the Chief Executive. - i L The President, however, hod spotted the lad in church and on inquiry of the pastor, learned that it was not Roy's regular church. Later, on the golf course when Eisenhower finished playing, he saw Roy lurking under the trees. He called the boy over to bira, folded $5 into his hand, and said, "Here, Roy. That's for going to church today." Oakridge Youth pies In 'Automobile' Mishap EUGENE ' (UPD An' Oakfldee youth was killed and another criti cally hurt Sunday when their, au tomobile crashed into a ditch on a curve of Highway SS west of Cukridge. Killed was John King Snyder, 19. Peter Henry Hedricks, 20, al so of Oakridge, was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital here where at tendants late Sunday said his con dition was critical. . Both -were thrown from the car, state police said. ., , , Hatfield Lauds Strike Agreement SALEM (UPD-Gov.- Mark Hat field said today that Oregon was fortunate that further delay in important projects and additional economic loss had been avoided by settlement of the Pile Drivers dispute. I am confident that the settle ment was reached without ill will primarily- because of the state and federal officers taking an early role in the proceedings when requested to do so by both sides," the governor said. He added: "This office is deeply grateful for the expressions of appreciation which hove been forwarded to me for whatever help I may have been and we have likewise dis patched telegrams of gratitude to the national president of the Pile Drivers unioit and to Mr. George Walker, the federal conciliator, for their part in reaching agreement." if ... i - m t leaders have seized upon Commu nist attempts to gain control of privato schools to launch a pas sive resistance- campaign whose ultimate goal is to force the coh munist government's resignation. It has Nehru's sympathy if. not approval. i Communist Party figures for In dia never kave been published, but aie believed to. run anywhere from 00.000 to 100.000. 4 Air Pollution l! Experts Meet ; ' LOS (ANGELES (UPD-Air pol lution experts from throughout the nation today began a five - day meeting of the Air Pollution Con trol Assn.-. with about 1,000. dele gates present and a forecast of medium to heavy smog. ' Seventy papers involving smog problems will be read in the course of the meeting of scien tists, engineers and government officials.. , . -I Harry M. Pier, executive secre tary of the association, said cities and industry now spend more than $250 million yearly on. air pollution, control devices. He jaM Los Angles.' smog problem : js probably worse than any other city's. f - 'I "This makes Los Angeles an ideal spot for our discussion," he said. ,,-- . The local county air pollution control district predicted medium to heavy smog for today with a possible alert. Shake Up Is Due Frondizi Cabinet ' BUENOS AIRES. Argentina, (UPI l President Arturo Frondjzi will shake up his cabinet and re place some commanders of mili tary districts to end his crisis with the military, well informed sources reported today. , The sources said the govern ment, elected with the help of Peronists and Communists last year, appeared to be shedding its leftist associations and emerging more and - more to the right as the army demanded. Frondizi seemed to have come through the crisis in relatively good shape. -i Despite wild stories printed the end of last week in Argentine newspapers and broadcasts by ra dio stations, there was no move to impose censorship. But with this small core they were able to capture 27 seats in the parliamentary elections of. I!i57 and to become the largest 'and most vocal opposition group. . Nor have the aims of Indian communism ever been very clear 'ly defined beyond the general , terms of land for the landless,. ' nationalization of large industries, confiscation of foreign business in terests and severance of ties with the British Commonwealth. . Inroads In Labor . In recent years it has, modified its policy uf violence and s-.ibo-tuge which prior to 1!50 bordered . on open revolt. But while small in numbers, the Communists hove been a consist-'-ent thorn in the flesh of Nehru's Congress Party and. their recent gains have forced Congress Party leaders to assess their own weak- ' nesses. Some of the Red gains have come through disillusionment. For millions of India's impoverished, national freedom was not what they expected. They still had to , pay taxes and rent, they still had to pay railroad fares and prices continued their upward spiral. Communism's greatest strength in India lies in the south where failure of the monsoons for five . straight years brought mass star vation, in the big industrial cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Cawn pore, and in West Bengal in the northeast. They made heavy inroads into the unions, especially railroad. But despite all this, when meas- ' ured against India's total popula tion of roughly 400 million people, communism's gains have been relatively small in the 255 years it has been organized in India. ' But Nehru and his leaders know the ingredients are there. ' - The government is striving des perately to increase both its in dustrial and its agricultural output to feed one of the world's fastest growing populations. Should the government fail, then communism is there ready to . step in. CABINET WORK To Meet Every NeexJI Residential Commercial Industrial Miller's Cabinet Shop': Greenwood and Jefferson - ; - i Tho United States National Bank Or PORTLAND RESOURCES . 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