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Spice in the Stew DREW PEARSON SAYS. Actor Jimmy Stewart Bows To Ladv Senator WASHINGTON Jimmy Stewart. ever thought of being, it far more tin hoi uiui Mono iHiffir-iltt In 0Af nlnmif with lkn who hat won many a woman's heart with hi arlintf in "Mr Smith Goc to Washington." "The - f-.. I .uuiiins bbvi Hit Bic;i mnuilves Glenn Miller Story." "The Spirit decided there was going to be a of St. Louis" and many other showdown with the union. The movies, has been forced to sur render to the lone lady of the senate- lie has finally put in all his chief users of stetl. and those who NtA Stoic I EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Monday, July 20, 1959 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" RILEY D. ALLEN Publisher ruHUHHBn hy thb ruuiisner U ORANDU I'UUi.ianiNO COMPANY GEORGE S. CHALLIS ...Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. Humphrey's Plan Is No Surprise Senator Hubert Humphrey's announce ment of the other clay, that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomina tion for the U. S. Presidency, was no surprise, to put it mildly. For Senator Humphrey, of all the likely Democrats, is most on the spot. His Senate term expires next year, and he must find out, and early, if he has a real chance for the Presidential nomina tion. If his chances are-slim, he has to get into the Minnesota primary be fore it's too late to stand for re-election. What are Humphrey's chances in Ore gon ? . t Well, the situation is complicated by a law passed by the last session of the state's legislature. Under its provisions the ballots will be made up by Secretary of State Howell Appling, who decides what names are to appear. Because of this law, it is almost cer tain that Humphrey's name, along with that of Adlai Stevenson, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Lyndon Johnson and Senator Stuart Symington, will appear on the Oregon primary ballot next May- The least one could say about this lineup is that it represents all the various shadesf of thinking in the Democratic party. The latter two named are playing a waiting game, and probably will make no Oregon moves. The big battle will come between Stevenson, Kennedy and Humphrey, and their supporters. Right now, Stevenson probably would win this race, by a healthy margin. Ken nedy has a certain amount of glamor, and probably would run second. Hum phrey, who is a liberal liberal, will have to work hard te beat the other two. He probably will have the behind-the-scenes support of Wayne Lyman Morse, for whatever it's worth. Stevenson has little chance in the convention, though, because he's lost the race twice already. Which means that Humphrey if he can make a strong enough showing in a number of pri maries could get the nomination, even if he probably never could be elected. All this is written ten months before the primary, of course, and is subject to considerable change as voters become more familiar with the candidates and the issues. It may help explain why it was neces sary for Senator Humphrey's campaign train to start down the track way ahead of the others, even if by so doing it takes a big chance of running out of steam be fore it gets to the next town. Sure Sign Of An Approaching Election IVulali Hand, acting chairman of Ore gon's Democratic party, has levelled n blast at Howell Appling, appointed Secre tary of State a few months ago to fill the unexpired term created when Mark Hat field was elected Coventor. This was not wholly unexpected. What is surprising is how early the blast came. Appling was appointed with two ideas in mind.' First, he was to do a good job as Secretary of State. This he is doing. Second, he was to do enough campaign ing to get himself re-elected a year from November. Only the day after election will tell whether he has successfully done this. I'.ut he's off to a heck of a good start. Appling is a man of education and ideas, lie is litarate in expressing those ideas, and does an excellent job in front of a group, Inrge or small. Matter of fact, one miht even call him an "intellectual" if that word didn't antagonize some Democrats, who feel they have a monopoly on intellectuals. As a result, he's done a darned good job on the campaigning feature of his duties. He's becoming well and favor ably known around the state. To understand, Heulah Hand's dis comfort, you must realize a couple of other things. She's from Milwaukie, which also hap pens to be the home of State Sen. Mon roe Sweetland. And Sweetland unless he's changed his mind in recent weeks intends to run against Appling in November, 1960. Any thing to cut Appling down to size will be a help to Sweetland. This might fall into the ho-hum class, excepting that it's the first sure sign of interest in state offices in the next election. The Good Old Days The end of the crop year is approach ing for many I'nion county farmers. Loads of barley are beginning to arrive at elevators, seed grasses are ready for threshing, wheat harvest is only n few days away, and cherries will ba picked within the next couple of weeks. City newspapers, we supiose, would I write editorials about the good old days at this time of the year. Looking around at all the modern, laboc-saving machinery in use, however, we can't help but feel most persons work ing on farms would just as soon be work ing now, instead of in the good old days, which might have been good, but were awfully hard work. reserve Hying time to qualify for promotion as a reserve air force general. He surrendered after Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine remained adamant that it was not fair to drnD mm ftt) nrm less-glamorized air force officers because tney tailed to fill reserve requirements, then turn around and let a star-stuffed actor g-t promot-d without flying time. So just before the end of the fiscal year June 30, Stewart man aged to squeeze in the required flying time, and Mrs. Smith is now voting for his confirmation Sh" will also give the green light to Gen. John B. Montgomery, an air force officer who left the Air Force for a lush salary with Am erican Airlines, then transferred to General electric, now wants to b an air force reserve general, Earlier Senator Smith objected because Montgomery hadn't fulfill ed his flying time. So the General Electric tycoon has nut only been up in the ozone in his flying ma chine, but is even taking corres pondence courses to pass air force reserve requirements all in defer ence to a lady who believes in equal reserve standards regardless of glamor. Steel Strike Crost-Fira To gauge what's going to happen in the steel strike you have to un derstand some of the difficult cross-currents inside the union, in side the steel industry, and inside the Eisenhower administration Here are some of them: Cross-current No. 1 ts inside the United Steelworkers where David J. McDonald has not been too popular with his men. In April 1957. Donald C Rarick. a relative unknown, ran against McDonald for president and rolled up the amazing total of Z23.S18 votes. McDonald got 404.172. Rarick had no build-up, no chance to cam paign, and his vote was largely one of protest against McDonald During the current steel nego tiations, most union members have not wanted to strike. Too many had been out of work during the '57-58 recession. Now that the strike has been called, however, it should solidify McDonald's union behind him. He didn't want the strike, but will benefit from it. Cross-current No. 2 is among the steel executives. In the past they have played ball with McDon ald, and he with them. It has been a cooperative union-industry rela tionshio. When wage increases were granted, the increase was passed on to the public plus. Recently, however, a new set of executives has taken over Big Steel. The days of Ben Fairless, who worked his way up from coal miner to be chairman of the giant U.S. Steel Corporation, are over Younger, tougher Roger Blough is now running U.S. Steel. Eugene Grace. 82 year-old one time czar of Bethlehem Steel, and Tom Girdler, Iron-fisted boss of Republic Steel, resisted union or ganization like tyrants. But once the union was recognized, they cooperated. New executives have replaced them. Charles White, new head of Republic Steel is more profane than any steel puddler QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International difficult to get along with than Tom Girdler. Months ago, the steel executives decision went higher up than even the steel industry. The bankers the auto manufacturers as the sit around the Duqucsne club in Pittsburgh, all decided that now was the time and McDonald's union the place to take a stand against tne continued round of wage hikes. Crow-current No. 3 is Inside the administration, between the Presi dent on one hand and Vice Presi dent Nixon with Secretary of Labor James Mitchell on the other. Nixon and Mitchell have hoped for a compromise. Nixon even suggested to some of his steel friends that they could afford a wage increase of eight cents an hour without passing the increase on in higher prices. He got a flat turndown. Neither Nixon nor Mitchell could push their ideas, however, in the face of Ike's opposition and Ike has been sold on an adamant policy of keeping hands off. The m-n who sold him are the three who are perhaps closer to him than any others in the world and all of them steel executives Ex- Secretary of the Treasury Hum- ihr-y. now hfal of National Steel, Jim Black, vice president of Re public; and George Allen, director of Republic. This was why a federal mediator didn't get into the picture until the last day of the talks, which is unheard of when the nation faces a major economic shutdown. Conclusion: The strike will be a long one, unless Ike and friends decide to conclude a settlement. If so. they can end it almost overnight. Backstage at Ceneva Secretary Herter is arguing as much with French Foreign Minis ter Couve De Murville as he is with Foreign Minister Gromyko. De Murville came back from Paris with the touches! kind of Instrue- lions from General !e Oaiillo ...ain.i .urin'mi: any compromise of the allied stand Berlin. As n rpo.lt Herter has been meeting as much with the French as he has with the Russians. . . . 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