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IX GRANDE OBSERVER
Thursday, Jul 16, 1959
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Do Senators . Have Spare Time?
Peter Cunnar, Republican state cen
tral committee chairman, was carrying
his message to Central Oregon over the
weekend.
Gunnar's message, of course, was a
strictly political one in behalf of his com
mittee. Jle makes no pretertse of trying
to do anything other than his job, which
is to try to elect Republicans to office
and to try to revitalize the Republican
party in Oregon.
It is necessary to do the latter, if we
are to enjoy . the fruits of two-party
government in' this state. Not all will
agree, however, that it's always neces
sary to elect Republican candidates, par
ticularly where the Republicans are un
able to put up a candidate with the
.stature of his Democratic opponent.
From a Republican point of view,
Cunnar sees his biggest job as one of
defeating Senator Neuberger next year.
This would be, indeed, a feat of consider
able note.
To do this Cunnar needs to accom
plish two things.
First, he must tear down Senator NVu
berger, who is generally well regarded by
voters of the state.
Second, he must build up someone who
ran run against Neuberger and have
some chance to win.
At least, this is the order which Cun
nar has assigned to the two jobs. Others
might feel and many of them do that
the order would be better if reversed.
In seeking to accomplish his first aim,
Cunnar has been making two pitches.
1. The feud between Senators Neu
berger and Morse is a phony, dreamed
up by the two men for the sole purpose
of helping Neuberger in his campaign
for reelection next year.
2. There is something improper and
unethical about Neuln-rger writing maga
zine articles while he is a member of the
Senate.
A comment or two on each oint might
be in order.
First, the feud. There are some smart
people in the newspher business, in
spite of the claims in some of the letters
to the editor. Search as one might, he is
unable to find any resonsible newsman
in Washington who has any feeling w hat
soever that the feud is phony. Signs of
of it have been apparent to anyone who
wanted to look for the past three years.
In Washington, the town where it's im
possible to keep a secret, a phony feud
would not last long.
Second, is there anything improper: or
unethical about Neuberger's writing?
In view of all the facts, we think not.
Neither Neuberger nor his wife, so far
as anyone knows, has any private finan
cial means. Most members of the Senate
find it necessary to supplement their
Senatorial incomes from some other
source. Some have private fortunes.
Others make speeches. Others receive
incomes from law finns of which they
are members.
Neuberger happens to write magazine
articles. Part of the proceeds,, incident
ally, have gone to establish scholarships
in half a dozen or more Oregon colleges.
NeuU'rger is a facile writer, who finds
writing relaxing. He can turn out stuff
in his spare time which the rest of us
would have to work over for weeks.
The w hole case, then, rests on whether
or not his writing interferes with his
duties as a Senator, whether, in fact,
we feel a Senator has any "spare" time.
It is impossible to show where Neu
U'rger has neglected his duties for his
writing. His attendance record, for ex
ample, is lietter than that of Rep. Nor
blad, who doesn't write articles for maga
zines. Which brings up the spare time angle.
Do we, merely by electing a man to
political office, high-paid or not, imme
diately have an iron-bound claim to all
his waking liours?
Probably not. Corporation officers,
and presidents of the United States, both
of whom receive considerably more money
than a Senator play golf, don't they?
The re-election of Senator Neuberger,
if he seeks it, is practically a foregone
conclusion.
Cunnar might spend his time mora
fruitfully working on the state offices
secretary of state and state treasurer
which will be open next year, as well as
the legislative posts. Congressional races
and county contests where his party
might actually have a chance.
To take on Neuberger, on these two
points, would seem to be a waste of time.
Fugitive Dies
After Battle
With Officers
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) A
young fugitive who told of killing
27-year-old mother of two chil
dren in a love pact shot and
killed himself Wednesday night at
the climax of a two-hour assault
i on his hideout by more than 20
policemen.
' Robert L. Kilmer, 27. a Fres
no, Calif., null worker, took his
own lile as police wearing bullet
proof vests and armed with shot
guns and (ear gas bombs stormed
his apartment while a crowd of
about 1.000 persons watched.
He had been sought since Inst
Thursday when the nearly mule
body of attractive Mrs. Mary Ann
Prestridge. also of Fresno, was
found stuffed in a car trunk
Don Decker, 28. a boyhood
friend of Kilmer and occupant
with his mother of the apartment
where Kilmer was hiding, tipped
police where to find the fugitive.
Decker said Kilmer enme to his
apartment near the Samuel Gold
wyn Studio lu4 Friday. He said
he was unaware of Kilmer's in
volvement in the slaying until
several nights ago when the fugi
tive look a newspaper from under
the seat in his car and showed
him a story about the murder.
He admitted shooting Mrs
Trestridge two times in the head.
Decker said.
Kilmer told Decker he met Mrs
Prestridge the night of July 3 in
a "lovers lane" in Fresno where
she told him she "wanted to die'
if she couldn't be with him.
Docker said he asked Kilmer
why he killed her and the fugi
tive answered, "I'd do anything
she told me to do.
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
Enemy Of Benson Barred
From Visit To Russia
WASHINGTON There's some
thing very perculiar about the
manner in which the administra
tion is stalling about a trip to
Russia by group of senators and
public, power experts.
The administration has en
couraged or sponsored trips to
Russia by the Harlem Globetrot
ters, housing experts, plumbers,
I'orgy and Bess," Ubor leaders,
steel executives, all sorts of musi
cians, actors, orchestras, students
and prolessors.
But when it come to a trip
10 examine Moscow s massive
nyuro-eiectric power projects
r.valing TV A and surpassing
Grand Coulee by a group spon-
ored oy lour henate committees,
the state department has staged
sit-down.
Reason for the sit-down isn't
admitted by any state depart
ment official. However, it can
be revealed that the Eisenhower
administration is first of all de
termined to bur anyone who help
ed to defeat Secretary of Agri
culture Benson regarding rural
lectrification. The man who did
this is Clyde Ellis, president of
the RKA co-ops, who is slated to
yo to Russia with the senators.
Second, the administration is
not anxious to have anyone go to
Russia who can come back and
report that Moscow is getting
ahead of the USA when it comes
to public hydroelectric power.
On the list approved for the
Russian inspection trip is Alex
Radin, president of the American
Public Power association.
Mr. Radin and his association
have backed Grand Coulee dam,
Bonneville dam, the Tennessee
Valley Authority, and other
g r e at hydroelectric projects
which supplied the power that
develuped the first atom bomb.
It happens that Russia is now
building five dams, all larger
than the largest hydroelectic dam
ii the USA Grand Coulee. This
is a development which Premier
Khrushchev undoubtedly had in
mind when he told Averell Har
riman the other day that Rus
sia would surpass the United
States.
For weeks, however, the state
and interior departments have
been stalling on permission for
a delegation of senators, congress
men, and experts, including Clyde
Ellis and Alex Radin, to go to
Russia.
It just doesn't pay to organize
an attempt to override Eisen
hower s veto as Ellis did on the
REA bill. And it doesn't pay to
boost public power projects too
enthusiastically.
Long en Scrap Iron
While embattled Gov. Long of
Louisiana has been making head
lines with irrationalism, is neph
ew in Washington, Sen. Russell
Long, has been making no head
lines with an unglamorous but
important battle against monopo
ly. He has gone to bat for thous
ands of little scrap-iron dealers
who have been suffering from
the scrap-iron syndicate domina
ted by Luria Brothers.
For some time, the federal
trade commission has been con
ducting a slowpoke probe of the
scrap-iron monopoly. But while it
poked, more and more small
scrap dealers have gone to the
wall.
"It's all too typical of the fed
eral trade commission," charged
Senator Long. "It takes 14,000
pages of testimony and spends
six or eight or 15 years working
on the problem and by the time it
finally comes out with a recom
mendation, the people it set out
to help have all gone out of bus
iness. They go bankrupt for
years before the federal trade
commission can nuke up its
mind."
While the trade commission
was trying to make up its mind,
the Senate small business com
mittee with Long and Sen. Wayne
Morse of Oregon spearheading
the probe, put Myron L. Chase,
long-time attorney for Luria
Brothers, through such a grilling
that he may be cited for perjury.
Testifying in the morning,
Chase swore:
"We haven't had any merger
except for a very small opera
tion in Canada. Nothing in the
United States that 1 know of, and
so I would say that very little
business in the last nine years
has been the result of a merger.
Conflicting Testimony
After lunch, however. Senate
questioning secured damaging ad
mission from Chase that Luria
had bought the assets of the Max
Schlessberg Co., of Chicago; had
put Charles and Jack Forcheim
er of St. Louis on its payroll,
thereby getting control of the
Forcheimer Co.; and had a close
working agreement with Western
Steel International, considered
a dummy of Lurias'.
Because of conflicting testi-
CONVICTS ORDERED BACK
I'ETHOS. Tcnn. (L'I'I' Convict-miners
who participated in a
31-hour revolt at Brushy Mountain
State Prison will return to the
mine Monday. Asst. Warden Jack
Cromer said other convicts
worked In two other prison mines
Wednesday, but the 86 rebels re
mained at the prison while dyna
mite experts disarmed 11 booby
traps found deep in No. 7 mine
where the convicts had rigged
them to explode if stepped on.
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
United Press International
WASHINGTON President Ei
senhower, discussing his prob
lems of getting along with the
House and Senate:
"Now, when it comes down to
the relations of any President
with a Congress controlled by
the opposite party, 1 just say this
it is no bed of roses."
NEW YORK A statement by
union proposal ior creation oi a
three-man fact-finding board to
help end the steel strike:
"We know the facts. You know
the facts. We do not need third
parties to find them out for us."
FALLS CITY, Neb-Mrs. John
Reger. on her husband, the Rev.
John Reger. 31, who deserted
her and their 11-year-old son last
September:
"We've had a rough time since
his disappearance. I'll do every
thing I can to make it Just as
rough as I can on him. He de
serves it."
inony, Senator Long announced:
'I suspect they may have per
jured themselves. One reason I
had a Republican as well as a
Democratic senator sitting mere
was that it looked to me as if
these people were saying quite
a few things that just didn't ap
pear to be true.
'I warned them that I was
hying the proper foundation and
that if they were perjuring
themselves, they could be prose
cuted criminally."
Son-ln Law Finch Body;'
Of 76-Year-Old Man "
FLORENCE. Ore. IPI The
body of Elbert Straight, 76. miss
ing since June 29, was found in
some hrtmh Wmlneul.-iv MHithwu!
of Canary about five miles fiomlhii dog along on his vacation was
here.
The victim's son in -law. Charles
Panschow, located the body. Au
thorities said Straight apparently
died of exposure.
Straight was the object of a
widespread search when he van
ished after setting out to pick ber
ries. When the official hunt was
discontinued for lack of clues, rel
atives continued to look fur him.
SOLDIER SHAVES RECORD
LONDON U I'd British Army,
Lt. Barry Lynch Wednesday raced
from Paris to Loudon in 57 min
utes, three seconds a new rec
ord in the 11-day Itleiiut Jubilee
race sponsored by the London
Daily Mail. Lynch, using a motor
cycle, , a helicopter and a jet"
plane for the trip, shaved. 44 sue-
Police Search
For Dog, Owner
SACRAMENTO. Calif. 'UPD-
Fa A-inn tmiricl uhri hrniiaht
uuhl in Sierra-Nevada resort
areas today after his dog bit a
child in Barstew. Calif.
The 'dog owner Is Forrest D.
Smith. California highway patrol
men said that if he isn't found
today, the child will undergo ex
tensive Pasteur treatments for
rabies.
Smith was believed en route to
Carson City. Nev.. by way of
Yo.semite National Park and Lake
Tahoe. He was driving a late
model Plymouth station wagon
With Arizona license plates AJW
4!Hi. The dog bit the Barstow child
July 7.
ontls from the old record set Mon
day by t'apt. It. B. Walker of the
British Army.
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