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"Gangway! EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Tuesday, June 23J959 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" rUBLifliiKD bt the ' RILEY D. ALLEN,.; Publisher LA grandis publishing compant GEORGE S. CHALLIS .-. Adv. Director TOM HUMES,:...- - Circulation Mgr. Ideal Classroom For U.S. Professors Thirty of America's leading geology teachers, some of them authors of books dealing with the earth sciences, are spend ing 12 days in Oregon. ; Five of the 12 days will be devoted to Central Oregon's vast laboratory of the cons, a region that has given much to the science of geology since that distant year when a pastor-geologist, Thomas Condon, wandered over the colored John Day hills with pick in hand and Bible in pocket. Why are these 30 geologists, who are at tending a summer conference at Oregon State College under a National Science Foundation grant, devoting a third of their time to the Central Oregon field? The professors are engaged in a con centrated study of a "stratigraphy and structural development of the Mesozoic period of Pacific Coast geology." Central Oregon holds some of the western Ameri ca's grandest exposures of strata of the world's age of reptiles. Over the basement of Central Oregon long ago, before the Cascades appeared oh the western skyline and lava flooded an cient valleys, great seas engulfed the in terior country. For years, geologists have been tracing these ancient seas, and they have discovered shores and sediments of many oceans, and in mountain tops have found marine fossils. Some of tho greatest seas that rolled over this part of the state millions of years ago were those of the Mesozoic, the long age of reptiles which to the east of the Rockies yielded the great dinosaurs. In the vicinity of Suplee, Izce and Sene ca near the heart of Oregon are a number of Jurassic formations, laid down in the reptilian era. Geologists have Jcscribed sections holding some 30,000 feet of mar ine sediments. Names have been given some of the great oceans whose embay mcnts covered most of Oregon long ago, Honk-Honking Every effort should be made here to treat visiting motorists with courtesy, in Oregon's Centennial year. Many of the visitors will be unfamiliar with streets and highways. Some, confused, will stop at intersections, or in making turns. Ordinarily, such action is the signal for cars behind to honk blatantly. Patience and courtesy should be used instead. Local drivers also should bear in mind that visiting motorists might not know all Df Oregon's traffic laws. Oregon's right of way law, speed law, turning law and some Dthers differ from those in other states. Certainly local residents should not lean a bit harder on their horns just because they note the confused motorist ahead is Children Drown In Snake River NYSSA (UPI) Two stepchil dren of Angel Martinez, Nyssa area farm worker, drowned In the Snake river Monday when they stopped Into deep water while wading. Martinez managed to pluck a third stepchild from the MY Orbit's the Right Way!' as Condon's "islands" pushed their way through primordial oceans. One of the Mesozoic seas is known as the Donovan, northeast of Burns. , It left a I , rich -record of its marine life shells now entombed in ageless rocks. The name "Donovan" given the Mesozoic sea may seem quite modern. It is. The formation was named for a ranch. Other formations and the ancient seas they represent include the Lonesome, the Colpitts, the Robertson and the Mowich. Accompanying the geologists on their five-day trip into Central Oregon will be a man who is well acquainted with the re gion. He is Dr. E. L. Packard, formerly of Oregon, now of Stanford. It was Dr. Pack ard, while at the University of Oregon, who some 35 years ago focused the at tention of the world of science on the in terior country as the result of spectacular discoveries. These discoveries included the roots of Oregon's "Triassic Alps." height of which is believed to have been about three miles. Othfer discoveries were new marine locali ties holding a wealth of fossils. On a ridge east of Suplee was found a reef of fossiliz ed clams, of a strange elongated type. Boundaries of old seas were extended through field work, and newly-found seas were named. Tho earth scientists ascertained that oc eans continued to roll over interior Oregon until the. dawn of the Recent, when there occurcd a grand uplift of the interior coun . try. Last of the seas to leave their fossil record in Oregon were those of the fading age of reptiles. Wflare glad that these top geology teachers, with Dr. W. D. Wilkinson of OSC as director, will have an opportunity to visit Central Oregon. In all America there is no better out door laboratory for the study of the earth sciences. Is Not Proper in a car bearing an out-of-state license. The honking might result in a reaction noted at a downtown intersection this past weekend: ". A motorist did not get his car going at the intersection immediately after the light changed. There was a loud honking at the rear, where an impatient youth was behind the wheel. The motorist honked at got out of his car, walked back and roundly "cussed out" tho youth. By the time he got back to his car, the light had changed. So both motorists, one still mad, the other apparently subdued, waited until the green arrow again appeared. swift current. Drowned were Mngdntcna Mar line, 11, and her 13 -year -old brother, Reyes. Tho stepfather was able to grab little Guadalupe, 9, but the older two wcro swept out of reach downstream. Sheriff's officers recovered the body of the boy and were conduct ing dragging operations, for the girl. Greeting MUTTON AGAINST TAXES B1NFIF.LD. England (UPP Erncst Price, the benevolenl butcher of BinticUl, explained today why he decided to sell mutton at a penny a pound. "It's tho tax man or the housewife." he said. "I prefer the housewife. I don'l want to make a big profit and have to pay more Income tax. 1 cover myself on other meat." DREW PEARSON SAYS: White House At First Refused To Use Jets WASHINGTON Drama such as the Senate seldom sees took ilace behind the scenes when the world's No. 1 deliberative body finally refused confirmation of a cabinet member for one of the few times time in history. Sel dom does the public get any sense of this drama. They see the senators debate on the floor. They feel the tenseness of the oting. But not even the press is permitted in Senate cloakrooms. However, here is what happened backstage as the Senate voted on Lewis L. Strauss as secretary of lommcrce. Republican leaders were huddl ng with GOP leader Sen. Ever- ut Dirksen of Illinois. They had hree absentee senators, whose otcs they badly needed. One of them, Thurston Morton of Ken- lucky, could get back to vote by commercial plane. The others, Wallace Bennett of Utah and Mil ton Young of North Dakota, could not except by military let. A call was made to the White House. Gen. Jerry Persons, who re placed Sherman Adams as assist ant president, was asked to rush two air force jets to the rescue. Persons demurred. He said there were only two in the country. unbeknownst to the others, Sen. Norris Cotton of New Hamp shire "walked into another office, picked up the phone and called Admiral Strauss. 'Do you want to be confirm ed?" he asked. "If so, you'd bet ter call the White House and put the heat cn them for two jets, Strauss did. The two jets, one a tanker, the other a jet trainer, brought Bennett and Young to Washington at the taxpayers' ex pense Republican Filibuster As early as June 12, Sen. Lyn don Johnson had asked for unan imous consent for a Senate vote. He kept repeating the request. On one occasion, Sen. Wayne Morse, Democrat of Oregon objected, said he wanted to speak at length. Finally, Johnson called Morse aside. "Let's let the Republi cans do the objecting, he advis ed. "They aren't ready for a vote; and they want to put the exusc on you. "All right," replied Morse. "I'll stay off the floor, or stay on the lloor, or do whatever you say. Johnson then asked unanimous consent to vote after eight hours of debate, divided equally. . Re publicans , looked hopefully at lylorse, but,,jc made no objection. Reluctantly GOP Leader Dirksen rose. "I am afraid I must object, he said. It was after this that Rcpubli cans frantically called the White House to get jet planes to bring in their absent senators. During the night debate which followed, Vice President Nixon was huddling backstage trying to change some votes. Presiding over the Senate in 'his place was Sen. Bob Bartlctt, Alaska Democrat. Suddenly Nixon in structed Sen. Aiidy Schocppcl, Kansas Republican, to order Bart lctt out of the chair and take over himself. What Nixon feared was a mo tion by Senator Johnson to table the Strauss appointment. This could not be debated. It would mean an immediate vote with three GOP senators absent. So Nixon wanted a Republican pre siding over the Senate, not a Democrat who might rule favor ably to Johnson. Johnson Civet a Vot Johnson, however, had no real intention of calling for a vote to tabic the Strauss nomination. Privately" he told Dirksen: "Im not going to rule out a motion to table," he said, "but I'll give you my word that you'll qct plenty of advance notice if I do.' QUOTES FROM THE NEWS SPRINGFIELD, Mo. War den Russell O. Suttlc of the U.S. Medical Center for the criminally insane, on rioting inmates who held five guards hostage: "Wc are in no position to ne gotiate until we hear something from them. Thcy'ald they'll call us when they arc ready to talk." BATON ROUGE, Ln.-Ll. Gov. Lcthcr Frazar, declining to take over as acting governor while Gov. Eavl K. Long is being held in a mental institution: "I don't know what I'm going to do." TALLAHASSEE, F!a. Tho Rev. David II. Brooks; a Negro minis 'cr, applauding the life sentences Sivcn four white youths for rap ing a Negro coed: "But I cannot help thinking of he four Negroes now in the death louse at our state prison for aping white women." WASIUNGTON-Gov. I.croy Col 'ins of Florida reporting that President Eisenhower advised him and eight other governors to stay in a good humor during their trip to Russia: "I told him that if they don't say anything bad about Robert E. Lee I . won't say anything bad about Lenin." "That's fair enough," Dirksen replied. He urged, however, that the vote go over until the next day. "No," replied Johnson. "You've been yelling for a vote. And we're going to vote tonight. I've been accused of harassing and persecuting this man. I've been trying to get a vote for a week and we'll get one tonight. You say your last senator, Milt Young, will be here at 3:30 .a.m. We11 wait for mm ana tnen vote." Sen. Tom Kuchcl of California, Republican whip, came over to the desk of Sen. Clint Anderson of New Mexico who had been masterminding Democratic strat egy. ."How do you sec it?" he asked. "As I see it," replied Anderson Lyndon Johnson has put you in one heck of a box. Here is the great liberal. Senator Javits of New York, who crusaded against filibusters, now filibustering. Here is Goldwatcr filibustering, If you Republicans want to fili buster for two or three days you've set a pattern for us and we can continue. If you don t want to vote now on your man we can hold up the vote indcfl nitcly. Actually, Dirksen knew the Re publicans didn't have the votes even with all three absentees present. He was stalling for time, The Johnson forces thought they had the votes, but wercn t quite sure. Inside a room off the Sen ate, Harry Byrd of Virginia, Jim Eastland of Mississippi, and Bob Kerr of Oklahoma, all Democrats, were sitting over tneir Douroon, masterminding strategy for the Strauss Republicans. Goldwittr Explodtt A Senate functionary who had been with them finally brought out the word: "They've only got 48 voles, and they're counting on Muskie (Maine) and Williams (N. J.)" The Johnson forces knew these two Democratic senators had been wavering but had fin ally made up their minds to vote imainst Strauss. That made 46 votes for Strauss, even after Young of North Dakota returned So with Young still flying toward Washington, Johnson approached Dirksen and offered to give the Republicans one pro-Strauss Democratic vote. That was why Mansfield of Montana, who was present, paired with the absent Young. . The vote was called. Nixon .! 1- , I U ' 1.. t Un,.!, tie. j But there was no tie. It came but as anti-Strauss forces expected 49 to 46 against him. Sen. Barry Goldwatcr was liv id with rage. Jumping to his feet he approached Sen. George Smathcrs of Florida, Democrat, who had voted against Strauss. Without saying a word Goldwatcr rushed Smathcrs, his fists out. Smathcrs, who is lean and athle tic. turned the Arizona senator aside with his shoulder as a foot ball runner turns off a tackier. "What's the matter with you?" ho asked. "Do you want to step outside?" Senator Goldwatcr apparently had expected Smathcrs to vote for Strauss, and was so wrought ud he lost control of himself. He turned and left the Senate floor. Supreme Court, Congress Agree On Secret Files WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court and Congress were in agreement today on how to protect secret government files and at the same time give crimi nal defendants the information they need for a fair trial. In a 5 to 4 decision which will serve as a guide for all federal judges, the high tribundal Mon day upheld the constitutionality of the so-called "Jencks law. This law, passed in 1957, lists what government data must be disclosed to defendants and under what circumstances. Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote the long opinion. Three other rul ings upholding convictions of de fendants who claimed their at torneys were improperly denied the right to examine government files also clarified the court's reasoning in the original Jencks decision two years ago. In a big batch of rulings hand ed down as it rushed toward pos sible adjournment next Monday, the court: Denied a hearing to convicted mass killer Charles Starkweath er, thus lifting his stay of execu tion in the Nebraska electric chair. Ordered a federal district court in Little Rock, Ark., to re examine a challenge to four "anli-NAACP laws" approved by the Arkansas Legislature last year. MAY TAKE CRUISE - PARIS (UPIi Newly married French actress Brigittc Bardot may spend part of her honey moon cruising the Mediterranean on a yacht, informed sources said today. The "Sex Kitten," who married actor Jacques Charrier, went into seclusion with her groom in her Paris apartment after the wedding Thursday, but there were reports the ncwlywcds planned to leave soon for a cruise on producer ttaoul Levy's yacht. EFFECTIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Churches As Greatest By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Staff Writer Gone are the days when the be ginning of summer marked the end of organized church programs for children. Today the situation is just the reverse. Instead of lapsing into va cation doldrums after Memorial Day, churches now regard "the summer months as their greatest opportunity for Christian teaching. This summer, about three- fourths of the nation's Protestant churches will conduct vacation church schools. The total enroll ment probably will exceed 8 mil lion children. Most vacation church schools begin in June, soon after the pub lic schools close. The typical school operates from 9 a.m. until Letters To The Editor House Bill 72 called by Senator pimick, the most important bill that the Legislature has passed affecting Douglas County, was ve toed at the end of the session by Governor Hatfield. We of the Oregon Log and Lum ber Truckers L?ague, have for 3 years pressed for legislation contained In HB 72. The veto by Governor Hatfield has not changed our thinking; the legislation Is still needed. Briofiy, this bill would have re quired a new applicant for a log haulers permit to show the need for his service before the granting of the permit. Were he able to show the need, the Public Utilities Commissioner would grant the per mit. If sufficient service were beings performed in the area cov ered in his application, the permit would have been denied, thus re moving unnecessary competition in a highly competitive field. With the exception of log and dump trucks, all other volume haulers now enjoy this protection. Th second section of HB 72 gave to the Public Utilities Com missioner the power to classify roads with respect to surface, width, and to fix, after hearing. fair and just rates for the haul as indicated by the types of roads used. Again, this protection is avai'able to other haulers exclud ing log and dump trucks! Logging truck operators in Ore gon are completely unregulated. There is no bar to the entrance of additional operators to this field even though it should be plain to the least prudent observer that there is an abundance and very probably a surplus of oper ators and equipment available at any time during the year. There is nothing to prevent established operators in the adjoining states from sending their trucks into Oregon to look for hauling con tracts during the winter months when work is not available in their own states. Even if this latter development did not occur, it is a normal fact that approximately half of the Oregon mills close down during the winter season when logging roads are , in bad con dition, and this fact alone is suf ficient to insure something like a 100 over-supply of trucks dur ing a substantial portion of the year. It seems to be sharp prac tice for many lumber companies in Oregon to reduce the hauling rates which they are willing to pay during the winter months to a fraction of the normal rates, know- James Hagerty Making Progress After Surgery WASHINGTON (UPI) White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was reported making satisfactory progress today fol lowing an operation for a remov al of an acutely inflamed appen dix. The operation, performed Mon day by Army Surgeon General Maj. Gen. Leonard u. Hcaton. was reported successful. Hagerty was said to be resting as com fortably as could be expected. He was to remain in a post operative room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center until this afternoon. He then will be trans ferred to the hospital section re served for top officials and rank ing military officers. Hagerty had not felt well for several days before entering the hospital Monday morning. Associ ate Press Secretary Anne Wheat on said he suffered seme symp toms during the week end and continued to feci uncomfortable. She said physicians decided then on an immediate operation. FOURTH "WELCOME" CITY MONTGOMERY, Ala. UPI- This city Is the fourth in Alabama to bear an official Ku Klux Klan 'welcome'' sign. An eight-foot high sign, bearing a picture of a white-robed horseman, was erect ed over the week end just outside the city limits amongst a group of church and civic club welcoming signs. Consider Opportunity noon, Monday through Friday, for a two week period. But the program has proved so popular with children and parents that some churches have lengthened the term to four weeks. Appeals To Youngsters A good vacation church school is designed to appeal to young people of every age bracket from pre-kindergarten to high school. Bible study and worship are interspersed with play pe riods, handicrafts, and group ac tivities. Each class has its own special ' project. A kindergarten group, for example, may build and furnish a model church of cardboard, while a junior high group rehearses and stages a play. Some church leaders are con- ing that with a surplus of hauling facilities In the market and with many of the operators reduced t6 desperate circumstances by the nerd for making payments on their equipment, it is possible to have their logs hauled below the actual cost of operation during the winter months. It has been stated that regula tions of the type found in HB 72 did not work in California. Ac tually it was not tried in that state. Similar legislation was passed in the first part of the 1957 assembly. In the second half of the assem bly, timber operators set up a plaintive wail that they had not been heard (this is reminiscent of Salem, 1959) and the legislation was rescinded. We are informed that in Wash ington the regulatory system work' cd very well at the outset in 1935", that the system was not mod ernized to keep pace with chang ing times, and a reorganization of enforcement practice is now under advisement. " Through the foresight of its pro ponents, HB 72 carried an effec tive date of January 1, I960. This was to allow time for thi PUC department to set up for its ad ministration. Further, in the evciil thaifurther enabling legislation was needed or administrative streamlining indicated, only nhV season wou'd be affected before the legislature would again con vene at which time such problems could be aired. ! It seems unfortunate tint after the considerations given the bill by both Houses before its final pas sage, Mr. Hatfield should choose to place his veto upon it. The people of Oregon have thr right to expect log trucks or any trucks on our highways to be well maintained, safely loaded and driven with due regard to the rights of others. , The operators of these trucks have the right to expect that their hauling agreements bs based upon the cost of the haul plus a fair profit, with consideration given to ability and equipment rather than the current deciding factor, "How cheaply can you haul." We do not doubt that Governor Hatfield had reasons; perhaps to him important reasons, for vetoing HB 72. However, the ones ex pressed to date seem to be excuses, not real reasons. Thank you, Claude A. Davis President, Ore. Log & Lbr. Truckers League 1277 Commercial " Coos Bay, Ore. "Why should a slow-poke burn me up?" i When you're driving:, your attitude can hill! When the stupidity or carelessness of other drivers makes you fume, watch yourself! If you let your anger take control of your car, you can literally kill or be killed yourself! Nearly 37,000 people died in traffic accidents last year. Many were victims of good drivers who for one fatal moment allowed their emotions to boil over. Chock your boiling point and stay a safe driver. Published in an efori Id save lives, in cooperation with the National Saety Cogactf and The Advertising Council. , LA GRANDE. OBSERVER- Summer vinced that children receive more effective religious education in two weeks of vacation school than in a whole year of Sunday school. They point out that the average Sunday school . class period is from 30 to 45 minutes long. Just as the teacher is getting into sub ject, the bell rings and further in struction has to be postponed until a week later. In vacation schools,'7 teachers are not faced with such severe time limitations. . 1 Even more ideal conditions for religious training are offered- by church-sponsored summer camps. Here children can be brought into a happy, healthful and distinctly Christian environment for 24 hours a day. With the right kind of leadership and program, a church camp can become a place where young people not only learn about but live Christian principles. ' Growing In Popularity ', Although church camping is still on a fairly small scale, compared to vacation church schools, it is rapidly g-owing in popularity. Last year, there were about 7,000 church camps in this country with a total attendance of morq than 700,000 young people. Church lead ers look for an increase of about 15 per cent in the number of camps and campers thi' summer. In addition to these live-in camps, many churches are now sponsoring day camps on the out skirts of cities. Buses transport the children to camp in the morn ing and home again at night. Another new development which seems to be catching hold in many areas is the "family retreat" at which parents and children spend a week end or a full week to gether at a church camp. Theoretically, at least, summer programs like these can be an effective instrument of evange lism, enabling churches to reach many children who do not come to regular Sunday school or wor-' ship services. But a survey by the research bureau of the National Council of Churches last summer showed that the vast majority of children enrolled in church camps and schools were from families which were already active in church life. . tf , "Vacation programs .. are now being used in most churches as an effective means of reaching un-churched children," the . bu reau reported. It said the most conspicuous failure of Protestant summer pro grams was in reaching children of low-income families. Morse Sponsors Forest Measure WASHINGTON (UPD Twenty senators proposed legislation to day designed to accelerate the development of roads and trails in national forests. : Sens. James E. Murray D Mont.) and Wayne Morse (D Ore.) are the chief sponsors of the bill, which would implement part of a long range national for est program proposed recently by Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson. The Benson program calls for an investment of more than $2,200, 000,000 in forests over the next 12 years. Under the Murray-Morse bill expenditures for the program would be put on an escalator bas is: $40,000,000 in 1962; $50,000,000 in 1963, and $60,000,000 in subse quent years. The present annual authorization for the program is $30,000,000.