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N i" x John Q. and the Little'Woman TWO BIT5, NOTHIW ( WAT'S ONE OF V CM MEW DREW PEARSON SAYS: Housing Bill's Failure May Jeopardize Building . WASHINGTON Eisenhower probably didn't moan to play his cards tlmt Way. hut he has just handed the Democratic 'ton- aross in issue that will either tear the Lyndon Johnson D"mo- cats and the Liberal Democrats into two fiercely divided camp nr unite them in harmony. The issue is his veto of the housing till W4 NEA Service. InC; .EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Friday, July 10, 1959 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" "'- allkn Publisher GKORGE S. CI1ALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. rt'p.MSHKn nv tiir GRANDE i U'HI.ISl 1 1 NU CUM PANT Baseball's Big Cash Bonanzas TM, IT - me u.a. supreme Court continues to look the other way, but if any additional proof were needed that bijr league base ball is big business as well as sport, this years two All-Star jranies would supply it. The 26th annual meeting of American and Nartional league stars came on July 7 in Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, the National League city Indicated by the long established rotation of locaie. A month later Aug. 3 virtually tha same teams meet in the Los Angeles Coliseum. The players themselves Suggested the second game this year. They will get the same division of profits as in the regular game. Sixty per cent of both games' take after taxes 'and expenses will go to the players' pension fund and -10 per cent to the "central fund" of the major leagues which is used to support minor leagues, baseball veterans whose playing days pre dated the founding of the pension plan, and juvenile baseball. Only the fans and Arch Ward, the Chicago sportswriter who dreamed up the first one, were enamoured of the All Star game in the begininng. Players re sented the extra travel, managers didn't like the threat of their pitching rotation, and owners didn't like to see the players getting the major share of the loot. The regular All-Star game in Pitts burgh has plenty of attractions for the fans, though good baseball may not neces sarily be one of them. The lowly Wash ington Senators, this year showing occa sional flashes of (adequacy, have placed a man on the American League first team, a muscular young third baseman with the impossible name of Harmon Killebrew, who just happens to be leading his own . league in runs batted in and both leagues in home runs. This year as last the first teams were selected by a vote of players, managers, and coaches, and some fine old baseball names fell by the wayside, replaced by younger men. However, Casey Stengel, manager of the American League team,' and Fred Honey, manager of the Na tionals were allowed to round out .a 2.") man squad, including pitchers, after the selection by vote of the eight-man first team. The new method of selection, institut ed last year, seems fair and virtually eliminates any ballot-stuffing such as occasionally occurred, it was alleged, when the teams were picked by vote of the fans. Certainly the players them selves, as Killebrew has pointed out. consider being named by a jury of their peers the greater honor. The reason for the rush to approve a second All-Star game this year was eco nomic, pure and simple. This will be the last year the huge Ixis Angeles Coliseum, seating 93,0(10, will be available for base ball. Players and everybody else con cerned wanted to cash that card while it was still trump. Hut just as the Coliseum was never designed for baseball, one could argue that neither was the All-Star game, ex cept as a kind of vast, sentimental show. Starting players must remain for at least three innings, barring injuries. And pitchers are lifted after three frames, no matter how much stuff they may be showing. I !ut with the two shows this year bringing in $500,000 in television and radio lights alone, it's easy to see why the players qualify for fat pensions at the age of 50. Weed Tree Becomes New Cinderella Once considered a weed tree, fit only for poles of Indian lodges 'or fence rails, Pious contorta, better known as Icidgepole pine, has emerged as the Citidirlla tree of the Oregon woods. ,i The final emergence tuik place this week when Johns-Manville formally open ed its multimillion dollari plant in the Klamath basin near Chiloquin. It is a plant entirely devoted to the manufacture of products from lodgeole pine. State officers were present. So were dignitaries of the commercial world. Pri marily, the formal opening of the plant was a salute to a new Oregon industry. Hut it also marked the first big. scale utilization of a species of tree abundant not only in the Klamath country, but in the. Bend area and in other parts of the state. . . - It was recognized that the Johns Manville Corporation's huge operation in the Klamath basin could serve as a pilot plant for the guidance of other com munities where Pinus contorta, the fast growing lodgepole pine covers thousands of acres. At the Klamath plant, tres from C to 11 inches in rli,init.-r are I; rig hat vest ed in the Sun Mountain area. An average log only ( inches in diameter and about (Hi feel, long will make a sheet of insulat ing board 1 feet wide by IWt long by ',2 inch thick. Fvery bit of the free, except twigs and needles, is used. Kvcn the bark provides fuel for the piant. Under a long-term contract with the Government, Johns Manville will take about 30,000 cords of hxlgepole pine a year from the Fremont and Rogue Kiver National Forests. Insulating Ixiards made from the pulp of lodgepoL1 pine have wide and increas ing uses in the construction field. The Klamath plant serves most of the western states. ... , , . .. . Truly, the lowly lodgopole pine in a Cinderella tree. Pinus contorta of the pumic lands is rapidly Incoming a valued natural resource. Barbs College fall term, fall guy. xys are looking ahead to the when Dad will again lc the Most men are indifferent to outer ?pice. They iu ;t w unt a little inner sx-hce in a parking To et the inside story of why this is going to make or break the Democrats you have to know the following developments that h.-.ve traii-.pircd in the privacy of Senate cloakrooms: Cloakroom Development No. 1 Sen. Joe Clark of Pennsylvania. one of only three Democrats to be elected mayor of Philadelphia since the civil Wur and therefore in a position to speak for north em Democrats, has been showing other Democratic senators a chart of how Lyndon Johnson has fail ed to support the Democratic party. In cac after case, Clark's chart shows, the man who was elected leader of the Democratic Senate has failed to vote with the Democrats. Clark maintains that Johnson doesn't deserve to serve as Democratic leader. Cloakroom Development No. 2 Johnson himself is weeping on the shoulders of his Republican friends over the ingratitude of President Eisenhower. He is call ing Ike an an "all-or-nothing man," a man who doesn't appre ciatc compromise. Lyndon tells Republican senators that he. Johnson, has stuck out his own neck with Democrats to try to give Eisenhower compromise leg islation approaching what he wanted, whereupon Eisenhower ve toes it. Johnson Fumes The veto of the housing bill has made Johnson especially sore. This bill was scaled down on Johnson's specific orders to meet Eisenhower's approval. It was cut by Senate-House conferees from $2,675,000,000 as passed by the Senate and $2,100,000,000 as passed bv the House to only SI. 375,400.000. Slum clearance urban renewal) alone was scaled from the Senate figure of $2 100,000.000 over a six-year pen od to $900,000,000 over a two vear period. Now in the face of Ike's veto, Democratic rebels are saying "Wc told you so. Why compro nJsc in the first place? If the president is going to veto John son's attempts to give him what he wants, why not pass the Dem ocratic program in the first place? Nothing could have stren gthencd their hand more against Lyndon Johnson than Ike s latest veto. Cloakroom Development No Occurred in the privacy of the Senate foreign relations commit tee. when Deputy Premier Koz lov was lunching with its mem tiers. He was talking about hous ing, admitted that at the present the United State was ahead. Then he proudly unfolded program for Soviet housing con sidcrably more ambitious than the one Eisenhower has just ve toed. 'We have just launched a seven-year program to build 25,000,000 apartment units, Koz lov .said. "In addition we arc starting for the first time a pro gram for loans to build rural homes, which will permit Soviet citizens to own their own homes, after they have repaid the loans. Democratic senators point out that if the Soviet puts this pro i;ram across while Ike vetoes the American housing bill, Khrush chev will be quite justified in boasting as he did to Avcrill liar QUOTES FROM THE NEWS CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla.-Thc Defense Department, on the pres ent status of the Jupiter missile: . "Jupiter has attained an unus ual degree of reliability and ac curacy and is ready for opera tional use." WASHINGTON Former Re publican Sen. George Bender of Ohio, now anti-corruption clean-up man for the Teamsters Union, de scribing the union's headquarters in the capital: It reminds me of a church of fice. There Is no gambling, no liquor drinking of any kind going on there. It is run very efficient ly." WASHINGTON - Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, after reveal ing that some retired military of ficers had tried to pressure him on government contracts: No officer, no retired officer, no member of Congress has ever had any influence on me." WASHINGTON Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. John son, attacking President Eisen hower' threat to recall Congress in special session: ' "On Tuesday wc have a veto of a 'housing i bill on the grounds that it would authorize excessive spending. On Wednesday, we are told that we might be called bark n special session if we don't send enough, '' nmaii, mat I lie i SSR in lew years would surpass the USA. ' Cloakroom Development No. ' 4 Rebellious Democrats point out that they have Eisenhower over the housing barrel. AH they hi.vc to do is repass the same housing bill he just vetoed and keep on repassing it. venlunlly he will have to sign it if they are tough enough. The reason he will have to sign it is because the housing bill con tains mortgage money authority for FHA upon which the entire construction industry' depends. The FHA has already exhausted Us mortgage money and is writ ing IOU's.to keep the building boom going. So if congress doesn't choose to pass the housing bill, Eiscn bower's own friends will suffer most. This is the argument be ing made by tougher leaders of the Democratic liberal bloc. Whe ther they can get their leader from Texas to be that tough re mains to be seen. So far he has believed in compromise. Under the Dome Republicans may consider it political heresy, but the Presi dent's daughter-in-law, Barbara Eisenhower, listened to a Demo cratic speech the other day and hked it so well sh? asked for a copy. The surprised speaker was Maryland s bright young con gressman John Foley who deliv ered a rip-snorting address to the Washington, D.C., Junior League. He didn't realize Barbara was in the audience until she sent for a copy of his speech the next day . . . Unfortunately he had spoken without a text. Rath or than disappoint the President's daughter-inlaw, Foley sat down and wrote a speech especially for her. . . . Wyoming s up-and-coming Sen. Gale McGcc is still struggling to pay off his cam paign debts. A former history professor, he owes over $2,000 which he is paying out of lecture fees. He turned f down a post election offer from private in terests to pick up ' all his cam paign bills. .'. . Sen. Estes Kefau vcr's ' 17-year old daughter Linda designed their new summer home at Lookout Mountain, Tenn. The Kefauvers liked her ideas and let her do the job free of pa ternal kibitzing ... A light pole. struck by lightning, crashed into Indiana Sen. Vance Hartkc's front ysrd the other night and heavy rains cascaded over the window sill into his new Washington home. He routed his five young sters out of bed to man the rops. ' ' I Astronauts Know 'How It Feels To Float Weightless In Space By JOSEPH L. MYLER of the centrifuge. 25 limes lh.-.t United Press International ,,f normal gravity. They know LANGLEY RESEARCH CEN other extremes; that of. the TEH, 'a. (LTD The seven Evan's pressure deep underwater Mercury astronauts training for one of the most eerie anil haz ardous adventures man has tx-en called on to undertake a trip into unknown outer space know how it feels to float weightless in air or to spin wildly at high Sieeds. They have experienced these extremes of gravity; weightless ness, or zero gravity, and the pull and of the laboratory pressure chamber. They also have experienced the horror of eating baked potatoes minus the skins and with nothing but a thick steak to solace them. They have tumbled ludicrously during periods of weightlessness, of zero gravity, such as will be I lie standard oierating condition ot space travelers. They have gone skin-diving in the weird Hot War Over Formosa Is Push-Button Affair By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writtr The hot war that breaks out from time to time over the For mosa Strait seems to be sort of a push-button affair, dependent during certain seasons of the year on whims of the weather and at others on the whims of the Com munists. The weather is fairly constant, and it is now accepted that from the fall of the year until early spring, the choppy waters of the strait will provide a natural bar rier to any attempt by Red China to mount a direct attack against Murder Charge To Be Filed LAS VEGAS, Nev. UPP The district attorney's office said it probably will file today a first degree murder charge against Robert K. Ervin, 21, confessed slayer of a 5-ycar-old neighbor girl. District Attorney George Folley said a psychiatric examination of Ervin showed he was "able to tell the difference between right and wrong and therefore is real ly sane." . Ervin was arrested Wednesday for the slaying of Dolores Staf ford, daughter of Las Vegas Re view Journal state circulation manager St. Elmo Stafford. Her beaten and stabbed body was found in the attic of Ervin's home Tuesday after an all-night search Jet Aqe Flyers' Get New Uniform The V. S. Air Force has adopted a new formal uniform,' featuring a short mess jacket, dark trousers, cummerbund, and bow tic. The summer version of this uni form with n white iaeket instead of winter's midnight-blue; is made of a lightweight wash-and-wear fabric. All the jacket needs Is washing by hand or machine and drip drying, with little ironing. SIDEWALK BABY FINE NEW YORK UIPD Mrs. Betty Kasmin. 30. and the 6'fc-potind daughter born fo her 0$ the side walk in front of lier home were reported : In fine condition today at Cohimbus' Hospital. Mrs. Kns min was returning from a visit to her obstetrician- and about lo enter hr home when she became aware that the birth Was Immi nent. Her cry was heard 'by a public ' health nurse, Marion Klaus' who assisted in delivering the healthy infant." ; - ' ITHE OANMOORE , JfOTEL All Transient Guests. All those who -oine,' return. Rates not' high,' pot low. (Free Garage,-TVl' and Ra dios'. "We have reputation for clqanlificsj. KtitWitlons by LD phone refunded en request upon arrival. - WIT SW MsMwm Portland, Ore. ' Soviet Tests Will Double Strontium 90 WASHINGTON UPI Radio active strontium !H) in children s bones is expected eventually lo double in some U.S. areas as n result primarily of the dirty nu clear tests staged by Russia last October. This was reported today by Merril Eisenbtid, manager of the New York oixrations office of the Atomic Energy Commission. According to Eisenbud's calcu lations, the ultimate bone concen tration of radiastiontium assum ing no further contamination of the atmosphere hy bomb tests- will be far below the so-called maximum permissible limit. And ' the radiation du.se deli vered to the bones will he only a fraction of that from nutural radiation sources. Writing in the magazine "Sci ence, Eisenbud updated previous reports to take into account fall out from the-extremely radioac tive Soviet tests last fall. Strontium 90 is the worst of the long-lasting worldwide fallout haz ards. It contaminates the soil and by way of grass gets into cow's milk. From the milk it gets into human bones. Enough of it ran cause bone cancer and possibly cancer of the blood. Eisenbud's new rcoort dealt specifically with New York state for which the most data is avail able. For 1958 the concentration of strontium 90 in New York milk averaged 5.9 strontium units. Ei senbud said. He estimated that the figure eventually will reach a peak, about 10 years from now, of II strontium units. Hoffa Is Taking Key Role In Dock Union Contracts LOS ANGELES (LTD Team ster President James Hoffa ap parently is taking a key role in major United States dock unions, but there is no indication the Teamsters will formally merge with Harry Bridges' longshore men's union, according to a Los Angeles publication. The Daily Journal of Commerce speculated Wednesday about Hof fa's role in shipping contracts with longshoremen. It said in all probability Hoffa is being consulted on terms of the new contract being negotiated between the International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union headed hy Bridges and the Pacific Maritime Association which represents West Coast ship operators. i President Chiang Kai Slick's bas tion on Formosa. The Red Chinese are less con stant. For example, no one ever has satisfactorily explained the Red decision to bombard only on every other day the Nationalist held offshore islands of Quemoy. There have been occasional sus picions that the Reds, in coopera tion with their Soviet allies, - use their push-button tactics in the Formosa Strait area as an artifi cial, crisis-creating instrument to divert Western eyes from a bud ding' crisis elsewhere in the world, or to shield a sudden switch in world Communism's global plans. Planes Clash So, this week Soviet-built MIG jet fighters sallied out from the Red Chinese mainland, and clashed over the Matsu islands with Nationalist pilots flying American-huilt Sabrujets. The Nationalist rcH)it said it was a one-sided 5-0 victory for the Sabres. The Mntsus also lie just off the lied Chinese mainland, alwut 120 miles north of the Qucmoys. Together they ure in a position effectively to block the Red ports ol roochow and Amoy. Until the Reds obtained longer range artillery across from the Matsus, the Qucmoys were the favorite targets of Red gunners who last August dumped more than 40.000 shells on the latter in one record day. Activity Picks Up In recent days there has been a noticeable pickup of Red activ ity against both the Qucmoys and the .Matsus which, in addition to being able to harass Red ship ping, also are the outermost de fense posts for Formosa.. It is perhaps coincidence that the recent attacks have a parallel in the Red offunsive mounted against the offshore islands last year. Then, as now. Soviet Premier Nikila Khrushchev was pressing for a summit conference. There was speculation then that Khrushchev had persuaded the Red Chinese to step up thrir at tacks as a means of impressing upon Western leaders the immi nent need of a summit conference on world problems ranging from Ijic future of Formosa to the fu ture of Berlin. Pressure Suspected Shortly after that Khrushchev's desire for a summit meeting chilled, and the simulation then was that he did so under pres sure of the Chinese Reds who were irked because they had not been included In the summit in vitation. Before' the Big Four foreign ministers met in Geneva this year, there were predictions that the Reds would stage a diversion ary maneuver somewhere. The Formosa area was one of the sites mentioned. Present Red intentions still are vague. Last year's diversionary attacks against the Nationalists' island outposts resulted in Orien tal loss of face for the Reds be cause of decisive action by the U. S. Seventh Fleet. The Reds have no reason to believe the Seventh Fleet would not act just us decisively again. other -world of the sea They have been immured in pressure chambers, made to serve as guinea pigs to test spe cial "low-residue" space diets i minus potato skins', put through exhausting medical studies, sub Jected to innumerable scientific lectures. They have been quizzed, PioIkkI. and watched like so many laboratory specimens. Constantly in the past four months it has been impressed upon them that one day, about two years hence, one of them will undertake a strange journey from which tie can hoie to return safe- ly ftuy if a multitude of opera Itions ami gadgets work as planned. How are the astronauts stand ing mi? How do they look? How do they feel? How do they like each other after being herded to gether for months? How do they axe tneir space mentors and med ical tormentors? The one-word answer to all these questions is: fine. These men, ranging in age from 32 to 37. are bronzed, lean, healthy, keen-eyed and, lo all outward appearances seeming, happy. Weightletsness Lots of Fun How is it when weightlessness takes over and the pit of the stomach loses its anchor to earth? "A lot of fun." What's it like" to be whirled in a centrifuge until flie forces tugging at you are 25 times the normal pull of gravityj ''An extremely interest ing experience; I wouldn't have missed it." These men are training for per haps the most eerie and hazard ous adventure modern man has been called upon to undertake. But, though serious, there is noth ing grim about them. A lecturer remarks that "wc have a reason able hope of gelling the astronaut back alive." Tlic seven candidates, sitting In the front row, laugh as though a joke had been made. Two of them shake hands in mock solemnity. From left to right there is not a single visible flicker of apprehen sion. , The astronauts were picked ear ly this year from 32 of the na tion's finest military test pilots to train for the manned satellite pro gram, dublied Project Mercury. which was kicked 0.7 last Octo ber by the National Aeronaut tics and Space Administration 'NASA). ! But according to the project di rector, a naturally conservative 45-year-old named Robert R.. Gil ruth. 1 ''we have no accomplish ments lo report just plans and lirst steps. "Mfe do not need any new scien tific breakthroughs," Gilruth said. "We do," however, expect 'many difficulties and surprises as the program develops." ' But he believes the astronauts have a better chance than some pioneers of the past. Recalling Charles A. Lindbergh's 1927 flight to Paris in an overloaded single- engine plane that almost didn't get off the ground, he observed: "These boys will have a better chance than he did." 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