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Observer, La Grand; Ore., Saf., June 37. 1959 Page 6 Symbol Of Polish Peasant's Independence Is Red Target By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer Under communism in Poland, the horse has remained a sym bol both o( the Polish peasant's independence and his anti-communism. Now the government proposes to remove the horse, i First Secretary Wladyslaw Go mulka disclosed the plan to a so cial meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Under Poland's seven-yea' plan, the state would put 122,000 trac tors into the fields by 15 instead of the 80.000 previously planned, and at the same time wuu'd re duce the number of horses by 300,000 The Polish peasant always has been cool toward com.nunism a:l Christina Crawford Credits Mom For The Basic Lessons By CAY PAULEY UPI Staff Writer NEW VOKK i UPI i -If Chris tina Crawford succeeds as an ac tress, some of the credit must go to her famous mother who has taught the basic lessons will. Joan Crawford's dauglil-r sat down at "brunch" to talk candid ly of the way the actress has reared her four adopted children, of her own desire to succeed in her mother's profession, and what it is like to try for a name uf your own when your mother already is an institution, "Mommie believed in disci pline." said her 20 - year - old AF Scientists Study Failure Of Satellite VANDENBEKG AIR FORCE BASE. Calif. UPI i Air Force scientists today studied data transmitted during the short flight of Discoverer IV last Thursday to try to iron out the "small bugs" that caused its failure to orbit. ' It was the second successive failure of a discoverer satellite to enter a polar orbit. The Air Force has not indicat ed when the next launching would occur, but Discoverer shots have been made once a month from this West Coast missile-satellite launch site. The Discoverer III launching was delayed until early June for technical and weather reasons. The Air Force said that Discov erer IV burned up minutes after it left the launching pad when it re-entered the earth's atmosphere several miles south of here. , Principal goal of the latest launching was to make the world's first recovery of a satellite cap sule from outer space. Unlike its predecessor, the Discoverer IV carried jio life of any kind and was .strictly a "hardware" shot Discoverer III carried four black mice to oblivion when it failed to orbit. The Air Force blamed two "minor malfunctions" for its failure. The Discoverer program is in tended to lead toward manned moons and military reconnaisance satellites. Two previous shots. Discoverer I and II, reached orbit and the Air Force hailed the achievements as 90 per cent successful. But a "life capsule" has yet to be re covered from a shot and scien tists say the odds of doing so arc about 900 to I. Discoverer II was hailed by scientists as the first "controlla ble" satellite. Launched in April of 1"9, the shot marked the first successful ejection of a "package" from outer space. The "package," or "capsule" as it also is known, was not recovered. A lengthy search in the Arctic area proved fruitless. Actresses Lose Flowing For Roles By VERNON SCOTT UPI Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD i UPI i Vera Miles will shave her blonde hair to the scalp next month for a new movie In which Italian sexpot C.inn Lollobrigida also will go the Yul Brynner route. Few beauty queens are willing to lose their locks for "art." but Vera is undisturbed by the pros pect of appearing bald. "I've been fA-ling and examin ing my head for the past few days," the petite actress admit ted, "and I discovered several strange bumps and contours on it. I may look pretty funny without any hair. "Gina and I. along with three other girls, play Yugoslavian women who are caught consort ing with German officers during the occupation. We pay for our indiscretions by having our hair shorn off." The picture. "The Five Wom en," is scheduled to be filmed in Rome and on location ' in the he has been especially cool to ward any plan which would de prive him of ownership of his land and force him into collecti vization. The new plan is both a gim mick to overcome his opposition and a signpost along the precari ous road Gomulka has had to travel to preserve the delicate balance between his own and the Moscow governments on the one hand and the explosive senti ments of the Russian-hating Pol ish pvop'e on the other. Gomulka, as avowed a Commu nist as Hussian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, took over his pres ent post Oct. 21, 1956 on a wave of anti-Stalin sentiment which for a time endorsed a loosening of daughter. "She used to tell us, If you don't !ea"n discipline... self-discipline. . . in the home, you'll get it in life. And life can lie awfully cruel.' No Place For Hysterics I "She taught me the importance of promptness, of hard work. . . of couH-ration with others, and that there is no place for hysterics and tenieramcnt. "She drummed in good groom ing. Mommie firmly believes that cleanliness is next to Godliness." Christina is the eldest of four children there are also Christo pher, 1C, at present in school in upstate New York and planning. his sister said, "to be a deep sea diver"; and the twins, Cathy and Cindy, 12, in school on the West Coast and "too young to have fig ured what they want to be." "Mommie didn't try to influence me one way or the other in what I wanted to do," said Christina. "I guess she felt if I didn't know that acting is a hard life, having lived in the midst of It so long, I would never learn. Grey-Eyed Natural Blonde l ma Crawford Is a very pretty, gray-eyed, natural blonde whose facial structure promises to mature into one similar to her mother's, even though there is no blood relationship. She weighs 122 pounds and candidly observed that "Mother is a little thinner in the right places than I am." She stands five feet, four inches tall. although she appears to be five leet six or seven. "Posture does it." she said. "Mom's lessons again." The actress who was "doing Gil bert and Sullivan in school by the time 1 was 11" studied fine arts at Carnegie Tech. Pittsburgh, and has been taking acting lessons with Sanford Meisner of the Neigh borhood Playhouse in New V'ork and with director Frank Corsaro at Actors' Studio. Cove Scout Troop Plans Busy Month July wi'l be a busy month for the members of Boy Scout Troop 114. Cove. The troop has six events planned for the month end ing with a weeks stay at Wallowa Camp. The schedule: June 30; Swimming, leave church at 6:45 with transportation pro vid' d by the Rough Itider Patrol. Ju'y 9; Overnight camping trip. The troop will leave the church at 4 p.m. Sunday and return the next morning. July 14: Troop Board of Review. July 21; Troop Court of Honor to he held at the church. July 26; Physical checkup for Scouts going to camp. July 26 to Aug. 1; Wallowa Camp. Eighteen boys will make the trip to the camp where camping, swim ming, rifle and archery facilities are available. During the week the Scouts will niak- an over night trip to the high lakes. In 'The Five Women' Yugoslavian O'ps. Because the head-shaving scene takes place early In the story, Vera and her companions will wear wigs for 12 of the 13-week shooting schedule. "I'll wear a wig off screen, too, until my hair grows out to crew cut length," she smiled. "I hope I'm not mistaken for a college boy." Vera is a departure from the usual movie star. Her appearance is of small moment. In most of her pictures the blue-eyed star plays roles that would frighten Marilyn Monroe back to posing for calendars. "It's not that I don't have an ego,'' Vera explained. "I'd rather have people say. 'Yes, she's a good actress' rather than hear them comment on my beauty. That 'a why 1 don't worry about looking dreadful on the screen. In 'The FBI Story' I age to 54 years old, and I can't count the num ber of limes I've played pregnant women. satellite control from Moscow and permitted some slight independ ence in tl.c march of each indi vidual nation toward socialism 'communism Gomulka had helped set up the Communist Polish state, but, along with leaders of other satel lite states, came under Stalin's suspicions as a Titoist. He was luckier than some, for instead of being hanged he was let off with a prison sentence. He emerged from prison in April, l'lSfi, after five years, and six months later took over as head of Poland's Communist parly. It was at an extremely delicate time in Poland's relations with the Kremlin bosses. The Poznan riots occurred in June, ISM. and included outright attacks against the Communist Party headquarters. Nikolai Bulganin, the Russian premier, on a visit to Warsaw blamed -"imerialist agents" for the outbreaks. Polish leaders were move hon est. They said the rioters had "just grievances.'' In his first months in office, Gomulka moved swiftly to consol idate his small independences. He removed Stalinists from office, released churchmen from jail, re moved some of the restraints from the Polish people, obtained agreements limiting movements of Soviet troops on Polish soil, and obtained loans und other aid from the United States. But, as Khrushchev grew in power, so did Russian pressure tactics against Warsaw. The new farm plan is a case in point.- Gomulka owed a large portion ol his popularity to his known op ooit:oci to collectivization of farms. But the present plan is a backdoor approach to just that. With loss of the horse, the peas ant loses his independence and the state-owned tractor becomes the symbol of his slavery to the state. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS . United Press International NEW YORK Ingemar Johans son, on knocking out Flovd Patter son to win the world's heavy weight championship: "I knew that my right hand wou'd do it and now Floyd Patter son knows it." NEW YORK Flnvrl Pntforwin on whether he had ever heen h it harder than by Johansson: evidently not." WASHINGTON-Sen. . John F Kennedy (D-Mass. , accusing riona oi tailing to clean up his union by removing unsavory of ficials: "I have no confidence in vmir ability or willingness to eel rid of any . of these p'.-ople. I have no hope of your every cleaning un the Teamsters Union." RANGOON. Burma Soviet din. lomat Alexander Urevitch Knzna- cheev, on defecting to the West: 'I believe that Communism is evil because it deprives individual man of his pride and self respect. Communism reduces man to a subhuman level where he is n slave of the party and its rulinc matters. SIGNS INCOME BILL WASHINGTON UPI Presi dent Eisenhower Thursday signed into law a bill increasing income taxes on life insurance companies by about W) per cent. The law will levy about 500 million dollars in taxes on l(t'8 insurance indus try income. Locks "I want my career to span many, many years. I also realize beauty doesn t endure that long It would be terrible to end up one of those actresses who try to keep tip with youthful beauty and fail. Vera, a native of Pratt. Kan knows the power of a beautiful face and figure. She placed third in the 1948 Miss America con test. "That's what started me off in movies," she said. "But -beautiful faces come and go in this busi ness. Anyway, beauty is overrat ed. I know too many beautiful people who are quite ugly once you get to know them. On the other hand, some homely people are truly beautiful. "Name one? Sure, Jimmy Du rante. He is a very beautiful per son underneath his outward ap pearanres. "So I'm not worried about shav ing off my hair. It's the pcrfornv ance that counts, and the public remembers that long after they forget a beautiful face." DREW PEARSON SAYS: Taxes And Estranged Wife Caused Long's Mental Upset WASHINGTON. No matter! Significantly, Mrs. Long left Ba- what happens to the harassed and beleaguered Gov. Karl Long's mental problems, he faces almost crtain income tax prosecution. In fact, worry over tax problems is believed to have contributed ma- erially to the governor's mental disturbance. For well over a year, a battery af about 12 internal revenue 'ag ents has been scrutinizing the fi nancial activities of Governor lrng, especially a new home he built in Baton Rouge, and various deposits in the City National Bank of Baton Rouge. This account contains an am ount reported to be in excess of $100,000, which i.iternal revenue has described as bribes and g.fts. but which the governor describes 'campaign contributions." Part of the money is reported to have come from the T: amsters at the time Governor Long removd the right-to-work bill from the Louisia na statute hooks on July 21, 1956, hcirtly after he took office for his second term. The law had been pissed July 21, 11)54, when he was nit of office. Also involved is a payment to the governor at the time he ve toed the Mississippi Bar Pilots Bill. Whin 1 uskid Louis Rousell, New Orleans oilman, what he knew about this payment, he was ompletcly frank. "Earl Bennings brought $5,000 to me to deliver to the governor. which I did. Bennings, he explained, repre rented a group of steamship com panics which didn't want the Mis sissippi Bar Pilot's Bill to become law. 'Did the governor vto the bill?" I asked. "He did." "Did you deliver the money be fore ,or after he vetoed the bill" "Just before. "Did you tell the governor that this was a campaign contribu tion?" "No. I was just a messenger boy. I didn't tell him anything." 'He has said that some of these payments to him were campaign funds for his re-election,' I ex plained. "That sounds like what they say in Baton Rouge, when you pay $10,000 to a state legislator," re plied the frank Mr. Rousell. "If he's a lawyer, it's a legal fee. If he isn't, it's a bribe." "Have you made any affidavits about this payment?" I asked. 'No," Rousell replied. "I was mbpoenacd to testify in front of Ihe intelligence unit of internal revenue and I told them just what happened. I told you. Bennings made an affidavit, but I just tes tified." In a state that takes its politics raw and its bourbon early in the morning, and where Earls broth er Huey was shot down in a corri dor of the capitol, Finrl Long has been a better than average gover nor. He has increased the pay of ichoolteachers, built better roads. championed labor and in the lat ter case got rewarded for it. His troubles result from: No. 1, those rewards; No. 2, a recent diet uf Dexedrinc to pep him up, with sleeping pills to put him to sleep. plus plentiful doses of bourbon and vodka in between; No. 3. the -strangement of his wife, Blanche. Mrs. Long had been his most loyal partner and supporter. But recently estrangement resulted in a bitter quarrel from which Mrs. l.ong emerged severely beaten. She summoned two heavy-set ho pital orderlies to be on hand con stantly in the executive mansion. but after that the governor got more violent, kicked out window panes, became so obstreperous that his nephew. Dr. Arthur Long, was summoned to give him a series of j quirting shots and send him to Galveston. The governor had built up such J an immunity that a similar am i ount of morphine administered Inj an ordinary man might have kill-; ed him. From Galveston, Gover nor I-ong phoned his secretary in Baton Rouge: "Blanche had bet ter not be in the executive man sion when I come back. She'd bet er not be in the new house. In fact, she'd better not be in Baton Rouge." FCC Grants Power Increase To Area The Federal "Communication Commission has granted a permit to change channel 6, channel 70, La Grande, from 10 to 100 watts, ac cording to Harlow Speckhart, sec retary-treasurer of the Grande Ronde TV Association. The increase in watagc will af fect only channel six and will im prove reception in La Grande and Union. J. P. McCoskrie Dies In Roseburg At Age 70 J. P. McCoskrie. 70, a former resident of La Grande died this morning in a Roseburg hospital. McCoskrie moved to Eugene from La Grande. He will be buried in Eugene. He is survived by his wife Laura. Eugene, a sister Helen I.au. Port land, two children. Col. Roland K. McCoskrie and Mrs. Jean liiwar. Portland, two stepchildren. Mrs. Verna Perrine. La Grande and Harvey Lee. Klamath Falls and five grandtliildriu. ton Rouge two days ago, just be tore the governors latest sanity hearing But what weighed most heavily on Long's mind was His income tax troubles. He had argued to in ternal revenue that the'"gifts" he had received were for campaign contributions, therefore not .in come and not taxable. His argument ran aground on the Louisiana constitution, which prohibits a governor from suc ceeding himself. If he couldn't suc- irced himself, how couhj he ac- :-cpt campaign contributions '0A revenue argued. This was why Earl Long was maneuvering to re iign, let the lieutenant governor take over, then announce for an other term. And it was U.mg's appeal to the joint session of the state legisla ture which, when shown on tele vision, resulted in such over whelming public reaction. The in side story of this speech and more details regarding the governors tax problems will be given in an arly column. Oregon Bound Wagon Train Loses Driver MONTPELlER. Ida. U PK-An attack of tick fever caused anoth er loss to Ihe Oregon Centennial wagon train here Friday. Weaver Clark, driver of the Hillsboro wagon, was rushed to the Montpelier county hospital by his grandson, Hubert Fineout, aft er suffering a relapse of the fever. Hospital attendants said he would !e hospitalized for several days. Clark contracted the fever through the Little Colorado Desert in western Wyoming last week. Clark was first treated for the disease at Kemmerer. Wyo., and returned to the caravan. He said the arduous drive over the rough, steep Sublette cut-off taken by the wagons Thursday was "too much for me and I be came overly tired." ' This morning the caravan of Conestogas paraded past the hos pital in tribute to "Pop" Clark, who is to catch up with the wag ons somewhere on Highway 30. the Old Oregon Trail, through Ida ho, when he recovers. . NASSER VISITS SELASSIE CAIRO I UPI i United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser and visiting Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia con ferred Thursday for more than an hour on "political affairs." Observer Classified Ads Get Real Cool Results! Prance Raises Franc Parity And Dignity By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Staff Writer NEW YORK (UPI ' France is making a reverse split on its franc, effective July I. On that date a new franc will iu in ooeration at a rate equal to 100 old francs. To find out how much things cost in terms of the new franc the French consumer knocks off two zeros from the price in old francs. jQlCnmO SKS For Trumpet SPOLETO. Italy lUPD Louis I' .Satchmo") Armstrong, well on the way to recovery after on at tack of pneumonia, is already reaching tor the golden trumpat which made him famous. "Hey. man. when a' e you gonna give me my trumpet back?" the Jazz King asked his doctor Friday night. A nurse at Spoleto Hospital said Armstrong had a restful night Fri day night. She said he slept well. "Not for a while, pops," the doctor replied- "We want you to be a real well man first." Dr. Alexander Schielf, who regu larly accompanies Armstrong on his foreign tours, said he doesn't think it will be long before the famed jazz trumpeter is fully re covered. "I believe he is over the hump now," Schiff said. "If he keeps on the way he is, he will be up and around again shortly. "If things go as well as they are going now, we'll go back to Rome in a few days. After a day or so of rest, we will go on to New Yo:k." Armstrong's wife Lucille said she wants him to rest for at least two months before he goes back to work. "He just works all the time," she said. "He doesn't know when to quit." Armstrong was stricken early Tuesday, shortly after he arrived in this medieval mountain town to play at a music festival. At first his condition did not appear seri ous, but it took an abrupt turn for the worse on Wednesday. "Wednesday was the worst day." Armstrong said last night. "I real ly felt low, but now Ol' Pops is on the way back." Two other famous jazz musici ansSidney Bechet and Lester oung had died in recent weeks, and worried friends and fans bombarded the Spoleto hospital with cables, letters and telephone calls seeking reassurance as to nis condition. For examole an article now sel ling for 2.000 francs will cost- 20 new francs. This puts the franc back to its old parity and doesn't change anything but the dignity of the currency which it raises by 100 fold. Meantime, there are some sen ators he:e who are talking about starting up the printing presses to take care of our government bond maturities. They don t say print money to pay off the matur ing bonds, but it's the same thing. They want the Federal Reserve to buy them. If the Fed does that it would have to print dollar bills. And that same thing ruined currencies of many a country in tbe past. i And it called for the use ol some big numbers. The latest French move reduces the size ol the numbers to be used there Germany ran its printing pres ses to turn out marks after World War I. The findl total on marks outstanding looked like this: . 4.585.34ti.OUO.OO0.O0O.O0n. That reads 4 sextillion, 5115 quintillion, 34C quadrillion. Or it could be read roughly: alwut 4!; and a half billion billion. Savings Vanished And then the mark expired. And with it all the savings of the people. That's the inflation that comes of using the printing pres ses. France suffered similarly before Napoleon took over with a sound currency. There is no count avail able on the French francs out standing before they expired in a printing press inflation in the early 19th century. Perhaps, if the inflation senators have their way here we ought to brush up on big numbers to count the dollars we'd need for a loaf of bread. Archimedes some 2.000 years ago devised some big figure! and he didn't have the nice little gadget which we call a zero. He gave King Gelon an answer to the question: How many grains of. sand would be required to fill the. universe. Since we have zeros to work with our job would be simpler than the Greek mathematician s. We could add zeros on and on until we got up to what the late mathematical expert Edward Kassner called a googol. A googol is the figure one with 100 zeros attached. Kassner figured that the grains of sand on the Coney Island beach didn't come to a googol. They amounted only to the figure one with 20 zeros attached. If we needed to go above a googol, we could go to a googoplex which is the figure ten raised to Mot Dog! i Classified Ads Are Real Cool Cats! Just sit back and relax - Let a Classified Ad do all the work Simply Dial WO 3-3161 Let an "ad-visor" help you place your ad -then enjoy some Real Cool Results- Bargain Rat e-6 Days for Price of 4 Just $1.50 (2 line ad) To Old In July the. googol power. It could also be expressed 10 to the 100th power of 10. It would De a nee oi u big number. The dullar would be gone before we got to that mon strosity, i The Old Shell Came Editorially, the Wall Street Journal calls the senatorial sug gestion an example of the old shell game. In that game the ....I. .. I y,nnnunlA.I V,,, ll.n nt. II ICKt-i J vviivi ohu vj titv oi ler of the spieler. The Journal notes that no one would pay attention to a senator's suggestion that we print dollar bills to provide the gove-nment witli billions, but we pay altentien to one who suggests having the Federal Reserve System buy gov ernment securities in whatever amounts are necessary to "hold down intcre.it rates." The editorial notes that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have explained what will hapiien d we try to take the seemingly "easy" way out, and adds: "But these complexities are not easily understood by high school students. Nor have the American people yet had a bitter enough experience to see thrtt the Feder Reserve ban would be as efficient an engine of inflation as the old fashioned printing press.'' Final Preparations For Space Capsules VAN NUYS, Calif. (UPD-Final preparations were underway today on two one-ton capsules to carry man into space as part of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration's Project Mercury. Developed by McDonnell Air craft of St. Louis, Mo., the two cansules' arrived here Friday. Thoy will be equipped with "com plete landing systems," Air Force officers said. Flotation and locator devices will be furnished by the radio plane division of Northrop Corp. The models then will be trans ported to El Centra, Calif., for a series of qualification, full system drop tests over the Salton Sea, an inland body of water 130 miles southeast of Los Angeles. PITTSBURGH PAINTS! Stay Brighter . . . Longer! Pittsburgh For All Purposes Miller's Cabinet Shop Greenwood and Jefferson
