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'His Head Says 'No' But His Feet . . . KtA Jtnlct, Inc. I EDITORIAL PAGE IXGRANDE OBSERVER Thursday, June, 25, 1959 - "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" published by tub RILEY D. ALLEN Publisher LA grand., pububhino compant GEORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director . V . TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. Preserving The Court's Freedom The U. S. Supreme Court is on a tack to the right, and division among the justices seems to have hardened. This course, if left unchanged, threatens to change the emphasis from individual rights to the rights '! government in court rulings. The new majority is formed by Justi ces Felix Frankfurter, Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker and Potter Stewart; these justices are opposed by Justices, Earl Warren, Hugh Black, William O. Douglas and William J. Brennan. The new majority was formed when Frankfurter and Harlan swung the bal ance of power to the court's conservative wing in a recent series of civil liberties tests. Two cases can'be cited in this indicated shift. The high court upheld the convic tion of Lloyd Barenblatt, a teacher, who as a witness before the House Un-American-Activities Committee refused to an swer the question whether he was then a member of the Communist party. The Supreme Court also sustained a New Hampshire contempt conviction of Pr. Willard Uphaus for refusing to give the state attorney the guest list of an avowed pacifist group. These decisions alter the interpreta tion placed by the court in these areas in a 1957 case and a 1956 case concerning an Illinois labor leader and an alleged Communist in Pennsylvania. In the first case the high court held that a conviction of John Watkins should be reversed. Watkins had refused to tell the House Un-American Activities Com mittee the names of past associates sus pected of being Communists. At the time the court said it felt the congressional commit'tee was exposing merely for the sake of exposure and had not made clear the "pertinency" of its questions. In the Nelson case, the second case, it was held that only the federal govern ment could prosecute for sedition against the United States. Many interpreted this to mean that all state sedition laws were thereby voided. In sustaining the convic tion of Dr. Uphaus, however, the court .now says that only sedition against the federal government is ruled out of state jurisdiction and this by the terms of the Smith' Act." Barenblatt did not raise the issue of pertinency of the committee's question ing at the time of his hearing; Watkins did. In the Barenblatt decision the court .avoided condemning, legislative inquiries of this type and in both of the recent de cisions civil liberties the Barenblatt and Uphaus cases the court has made it cleaitht refusal to answer questions of congressmen does not insure immunity from prosecution. As William II. Stringer of The Christi- ' an Science Monitor has noted, the most important upshot of these two decisions . is that the high court has recognized the ' continued need for Congress to hold wide powers in investigating the Communist conspiracy. The liberal dissenters on the bench have indicated they will continue to fight this apparent swing to more governmen tal regulation and resultant reduction of individual safeguards. Their reduction to a minority status may work to the court's and the nation's advantage however.'" Members in the House have drawn up a strong court-curbing bill based on con gressional fears that liberal decisions in recent years have aided Communists and criminals in evading the law. With the swing to a more conservative position in the Supreme Court, enough of the mom entum behind the bill may be lost to pre serve the court's traditional freedoms, freedoms needed to look after the rights of this nation's citizens. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Ike Could Have Prevented Battle Over Lewis Strauss I HYDE'S o Island City Erie Stanley Gardner Sets Court Appearance For Man m . OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. (UPD Mystery writer Earl Stanley Gardner planned to make an un precedented court appearance to day seeking a new trial for a Tex as man serving a life term for kidnaping. He was scheduled to ask U. District Judge W. R. Wallace to Give Marion Isom Bowling. 43, of Wichita Falls. Tex., a new trial apparently on the basis of new evidence uncovered by the mag' azine-sponsored "Court of Last Re' sort." . JORDAN GETS GRANT AMMAN. Jordan (UPD The British government has given Jordan $1,400,000 to help complete a new acsert road - to AqaDa, a Red Sea port on the Gulf of Aqaba, a British embassy spokes man announced Wednesday. The road insures Jordan free access to the port. Other roads to Aqaba cut through Syria and are subject to a blockade. Gardner declined to comment on the case. He said he wanted to avoid "trial by ncwspaiwr." But he snid the Bowling enso will be the first time since the "Court of Last Resort" was formed in 1948 that any of its members have ap peared in court. Ho snid they nor mally work through an appeal to the people Bowling and Foster Uowon were convicted by a federal court jury at Ada, Okla., on March 4. 1957 of kidnaping and criminally .as saulting a 22-year-old Duncan, Okla., waitress. '. ,i 1 , The petition for a new trial will mark the first time in 12 years that Gardner, noted criminal in vestigator and creator of fupcr lawycr Perry Mason, has ap peared in court. He will appear as "a friend of the court." ' . Gardner said Bowling's wife asked the "Court of Last Resort" to help her husband nine years ago. State Employee Wins Top Award SALEM (UPD W. O. Widdows, State Highway Department Assist ant Engineer, is co-winner of the Howes Award for engineering achievement for 1959. Widdows' share of the award, consisting of a bronze plaque and $250. was made at the Western Association of State Highway of ficials now in convention at Bil lings, Mont., . It was announced here today. ' W. C. Williams. State Highway Engineer and president of the as sociation said an Arizona highway engineer1 shared the honors. Recognition came to Widdows for more efficient cquippient to paint stripes down highways. The new system permits heating the paint before it Is applied, al lowing 30 per cent faster application. ASNE URGES ACTION WASHINGTON (UPD The president of the American Society of Newspaper Kditors has urged quick Senate action on a recom- WASHINGTON Hugh O'Brian, who stars as Wyatt Earp in the TV dramatic series that has made wicniia, Kans., famous, sat near the rear of Congress man Holifield's investigation of radioactive fallout. He sat hrough the entire' hearing as interested as one of the specta tors of is own TV drama. Finally John Donnelly, assist ant to Congressman Holifielri went up to him. What are you doine here?" asked the curious Donnelly. i ve lust spent a week in Afri. ca with Dr. Sweitzer," reDlied the Hollywood actor. "And he is so worried about the effect of ra dioactive fallout on civilization that I decided to attend these hearings." He added that he intended to continue watching the hearings for a week and then do a TV show on the dangers of atomic war. Holifield's hearings are showing that any nation which starts atomic war could be win. ea oui py its own fallout. Broken Promise OnlV thA ' insiders renliv-i M but President Eisenhower could nave saved himself a lot of head aches over Admiral Strauss if he had carried out his promise to Under Secretary of Commerce waiter Williams. Williams had served for five years under Secretary of Com merce Sinclair Weeks with the explicit understanding that he would replace Weeks when Weeks went to Boston. Williams had been the chief organizer of the citizens-for-Eizenhower clubs and served as their national chair man in the 1952 campaign. It was he who helped raise the $2,000,- 000 to blanket the TV networks with those famous spot appear ances of Eisenhower during the l.ist two weeks of his campaign. After Ike won, Williams was made under secretary of com merce with the understanding that he would be promoted to the cabinet later. Williams is progressive businessman from Seattle, was an early organ izer - of the committee for economic development, believes small business must 4e support ed to retain the principle of free competition. Though not happy with Week s big business policies, he remain' ed in the, commerce department, waiting for him to resign. Final ly. Weeks did so. Whereupon Eis enhower reversed himself. - Ex Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey persuaded -lim to ap point his friend, Admiral Straus, partner in one of the biggest Wall Street investment firms, to succeed Weeks. Tired of waiting, and fed up with big business poluces, Wil liams resigned. ' Alabama for Kennedy It was just 30 years ago that Sen. "Tom-Tom" Hcflin of Ala bama was taking the floor of the U. S. Senate almost daily to warn the nation of the "dangerous men ace of the Pope in Rome." It was also just 30 years ago that part of the solid south went for a Republican, Herbert Hoover, against Democratic candidate, Al Smith because Smith was a Cath olic. And it was only about a year ago that John Patterson was ciccted governor of Alabama with the enthusiastic support of Robert Shclton, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. However, last week the same Governor Patterson sat in the of fice of Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Catholic, and pledged his support to deliver Alabama's delegates to Kennedy in 1960. Furthermore he offer ed to help Kennedy get delegates in other southern states. Kennedy was pleased. But he discreetly cautioned the governor uf Alabama that if he won too many southern delegates too ear ly it might hurt him in the north. He intimated that tho South should hold back. Governor Patterson, however, warned that the real Issue in the South was not Catholicism, but a third party. He reported that Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas had addressed the Alabama leg islature recently and had all the earmarks of wanting to run for president. He also pointed out there would be a two-prong drive in the South one for Faubus the other by Sen. Herman Tat made of Georgia to organize for Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Therefore, Kennedy should not wait too long. The young Massachusetts sen ator didn't comment on this need for speed. But he did discuss with Patterson his strategy else where, especially Ohio. "I think I could go into Ohio and beat Mike Di Salle," he sad. referring to the Democratic gov ernor of Ohio who is expected to be Ohio's favorite-son candi date. "1)1 Salle isn't as popular as nc was when first elected. In fact, he's always had a hard time run ning. I think I might just go in to Ohio and tangle with him. There are 65 delegates in Ohio, the fourth largest in the Demo cratic party." If Kennedy does enter Ohio, it will mean a race between two Catholic Democrats which is quite a change for a state which in the early 1020's was dominated po litically by the Ku Klux Klan. Note Kennedy probably won't find it possible to capture all of Alabama's delegates, even with the potent backing of Governor Patterson. There is strong Lyn don Johnson sentiment in Ala b.ima. Niggardly General Electric Ralph J. Cordiner. chairman of General Electric and second high est salaried businessman in the rition, got a letter .the other day from James B. Carey, president of International Union of Elec trical workers, offering help: "Somehow that's a disturbing figure $399,999.50!" wrote Car ey, referring to Cordiner's salary. "It reflects a degree of cheapness and pettiness and even penny pinching on the part of your em ployer; I mean the company s failure to add 50 cents just four bits to your income to round it off to an even $400,000. For our part we think you de serve that additional four bits, Jk L 1 1 C IiaiL UUU, 1IIUIC HVlliu jw. like to have someone negotiate this increase for you? We'll be elad to put our union s bargain ing facilities at your disposal (signed) James B. Carey." Stockholders File Suits Against Springfield Firm EUGENE (UPI) Two stock holder suits were filed in circuit court here Wednesday against the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Springfield. Georgia-Pacific Corporation, one of the stockholders, filed a peti tion asking that Booth Kelly be forced to produce a record of its stock holders for examination. Robert S. Miller, another Booth Kelly stockholder, filed against the company asking that he be allowed to examine the Booth Kelly bylaws. Circuit Judge Alfred T. Goodwin granted a writ directing Booth Kelly to produce the record of stockholders and the bylaws or show cause why the petitions should not be allowed. He set a hearing on both suits for next Monday. Georgia Pacific charged in its suit that Booth-Kelly officials re fused, to allow Georgia Pacifie representatives to examine the list and Miller said the Same thing about the bylaws. Watch In Shark Still Mystery; Sheriff Checks LOS ANGELES (UPD The sheriff's office today checked re ports of missing persons to de termine if any of them owned a wrist watch which was found in the stomach of a 12 foot shark killed last Monday. The crime laboratory examined the seven jewel Latham Swiss made watch which had a gold plated expansion band. It had a squarish face, gold numbers and gold borders, investigators said. Mrs. Helen Gehle, of Compton, Calif., said Wednesday the watch resembled one worn by her hus band, Edwin, 57. He vanished on a boat trip between Santa Bar bara Island and- Catalina Island off the southern California coast about June 4. mendntion by the Senate Rules Committee that payroll informa tion on Senate employes be made available to the public. J. R. Wig gins, the ASNE president and ex ecutive editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald, called the committee's action "gratifying." Pendleton Bomb threat Is Hoax PENDLETON (UPD A down town bank, the First Federal Sav ings and Loan Association, and several adjoining businesses here were emptied Wednesday after noon by a telephoned bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax'. Police said the call was re ceived by Dorothy Hartnett, who works at the bank. She said a voice described as that of a youngster attempting to disguise himself told her a bomb was in the bank and would go off "in just 15 minutes." - As a precautionary measure, police ordered the bank and sev eral other buildings evacuated. A search was made, no explosives found, and the employes were back at their jobs in about one hour. Big Voter Turnout Is Predicted In Hawaii HONOLULU (UPD-Edward E. Johnston, secretary of Hawaii, predicted today that 85 per cent of Hawaii's 174,000 registered vot ers would turn out Saturday to put their stamp of approval on statehood and nominate candi dates. Johnston said, "for years Ha waii has had the best voter turn out in the United States in its territorial .elections, and I am sure that a good many people will want to be able to tell their grandchildren they voted for statehood." , For A Big 4th of July! SPARKLERS CAPS CAP GUNS FOUNTAINS and other novelties Hayonnaise KRAFT'S Qt. aT 1 far "UYONMAlSl , Jar I J mm a 18-0z. JIF PEANUT BUTTER WW Jars fH)3( FROZEN FOODS ZT7 1 TRY ' -IHint GOODl i ainane FROZEN FOODS w Vegetable Items 6 pkgs. SL00 PIES Apple or Cherry at' J 39 M PEACH OR BOY- AQi SENBERRY Ea.Wl FAIRLANE FROZEN Strawberries or E $1(00 Raspberries - pk9$- a JIM , 14-Oz. Bottles HEINZ Tomato Calsup fresh Fnnst grade COUNTRY JjUUM AA 2 - 7' ';:2.-. 8S)e LARGE EXTRA LARGE i 1 - - ..i FREE CARTON! j. 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