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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
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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." ; - '
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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."
BOUNCE-LOCKS WHEELS
OLATHE. Kan. (UPI' A vet
eran airline pilot bounced the
wheels of his crippled plane 'on
the ground to lock them in place
Tuesday, then landed the airliner
with 43 persons aboard without a
hitch. The crew of Braniff Flight
526 from San Antonio to Chicago
tried for an hour and a half to
lock the landing gear. Finally,
Capt.' W. W. Garbett touched
down lightly at the Olathe Naval
Air Station, locking the wheels in
place. Jle made another approach
and landed smoothly. ,
PARK HERMIT COMMITTED
LOS ANGELES 'IIPII Den
nis Farrell, hermit of Griffith
Park, was committed lo Sepulvc-
ia veterans Administration Hos
pital Tuesday nftiT he was found
mentally ill at a sanity hearing
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