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LA" GRANDE OBSERVER
Friday, July 24, 1959
"A Modern Newspaper Witli Tim Pioneer Spirit"
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As Respectable As Any Group
Some Americans of Italian wireslry
are indignant about recent pulilirity
linking prominent racketeers to Italian
origins.
In a big broadside sent to newspapers
by the "Order of Italian Sons and 1:iukIi
ters of America," and headed "The Ma
fia: Fact or Fable?" An attempt is made
to show that organized crime and Itali
ans have nothing in common.
This broadside admits that all of the
60 people present at the Novemlx'r, 19.ri7
Apalachin conference were of -Italian
origin, and most had criminal records.
"We do not defend them in the least,"
the Italian order states. "We do not con
done them. Instead we must and do cas
tigate, chastise, condemn and excoriate
them. We vilify them. We hate them."
This anger comes about because "A
palachin illegitimately fathered the spec
tre of the Mafia in America today." TV
and movieg started using Italian person
alities as villains again.
The net result: "Twelve million decent
men, women and children of Italian ori
gin are being forced to pay the price for
the misdeeds of a slovenly hundred fold
of cheap racketeers."
The order of Italian Sons and laurh
.t.ers may be over-sensitive on this point.
A recent investigation disclosed that all
the leaders in a particularly bad racke
teering union in New York bore Jewish
names. No one has suggested that this
automatically means that all Jewish peo
ple have a crooked streak in them. ,
.Similarly the existence of the Mafia
in Sicily, Italy or the United States, in
the past or. rij;ht now, does not mean
that Italian people, or persons of Italian
descent, are by nature not law abiding.
The oider of Italian Sons and Daugh
ters protests against CliS running a
movie about Al Capone. It objects to a
popular comic strip portraying an Italian
female movie star as a "pig-girl."
America is made up of people of vir
tually all nationalities. None but the
Indians are pure Americans. No one can
offer acceptable proof that one group of
Americans, whether they are of Italian,
Jewish. French, Irish, Oriental, or any
oilier nationality, is any better or worse
in --their general moral characteristics
than any other American groups. Ac
cordingly the presentation of evidence
that the ancient Mafia still exists in
this country is not an attempt to prove
that Italian Americans are less honest
and respectable than any other group.
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
We Hope They Don't Use It
The Imbler Fire District has a new
resuscitator.
This might not draw much attention.
The new piece of equipment might never
be used.
We hope not.
A resuscitator is strictly emergency
equipment. When it has to be called into
use, someone is in real trouble.
l'.ut the equipment too, is like nn in
surance policy. It's added protection for
those in the district who might suffer
heart attacks, get obstructions in the
throat, come close to drowning, or suffer
an elect ric shock.
l'.ut we hojie the fire district never
has ti) use it.
Headline-Hunting Solons
Play Into Castro's Hands
Minimum Wage Hike Would Cause Trouble
The federal minimum wage is fl an
hour. Organized labor is pushing for an
increase to ?1.2.r. Asked at his press
conference what he thought about this.
President Eisenhower said he agrees
with Sec. of Ijibor Mitchell that nuel.
an increase would simply pour more fuel
on the inflationary fires.
Why would it be that? The answer
lies in the phrase "wage differential."
Highly prized by a skilled worker is the
difference between his earning ability
and that of an unskilled person. Thus
if the very bottom legal wage, scale was
increased by 25 per cent over night, the
differential between unskilled and skil
led labor would be narrowed considera
bly. This would result in ' immediate
pressure to push all wage scales up pro
portionately. This is naturally a desirable thing for
those whose business it is to get wage
scales increased, But when forced wage
increases are simply passed on to the
public in the form of higher prices, as
they almost invariably are, they are un
desirable to those trying to keep infla
tion from pushing the cost tf living
any hivher.
T'u.l's vdial Ike hail in mind when he
came out against the $1.2.r minimum
wage bill.
Barbs
Fellows who burn the candle at IwMh
" ends often find themselves caught in the
middle.
The cost of meat is so high a yiung
man can't a I ford to call his girl "lambie
pie."
Folks bitten by mosquitoes immedi
ately develop an itch to get window
screens.
WASHINGTON The inside
story can now be told how im
munition commissioner Joe Swing
and red-hunter Julian Sourwine
kept Kidel Castro s escaped Air
Kuice Chief, Maj. Pedro Luis
Diaz Lanz, away from the State
Department until they could ex
ploit him for their own purposes.
Tln-ir conspiracy resulted in
sensational headlines that sev
erely damaged i'an-American re
lations. It also gave Castro an op
portunity to blast the U.S. for
interfering in Cuban affairs when
actually we have remained meti
culously out.
What most North Americans
may not realize is mat sen.
lames Kastland of. Mississippi,
chairman of the Internal Security
('umiiiitte, is unpopular with dark-
skinned Latin Americans not only
or advocating white supremacy
but for championing the Domini
can rte public s naieu Dictator,
Kafael Trujillu. So when Major
Lanz testified under Eastland's
auspicess, it played right into
Castro's hands.
Major Lanz happens to be
against all dictators, whether it
is Castro, under whom he once
fought, or Trujillo, whose kind
he fought against. But being in
nocent of American politics, Lanz
was easily hoodwinked by East
land's agents. Result: by remind
ing Latin America that Eastland
had praised Dictator Trujillo lav
ishly in a speech to the Domini
can legislature, -astro was able
to discount the sincere young Ma
jor's testimony.
Here is how he was maneuvered
away irom tne state department
into Eastland's clutches.
How They Escaped
Before he fled from Cuba, Lanz
used Associated Press Correspon
dent Harold Milks as a go-between
to inform the American Embassy
of his plans to defect. His half
brother, Sergio Diaz Urull, sailed
into Havana harbor in a sailboat
to pick him up.
The brothers loaded a small
arsenal of weapons aboard the
boat before casting off. They were
accompanied by Lanz 19-year-old
wife, Tania. and a faithful friend,
Carlos Echegoyen. They had one
anxious moment at the docks
when a Cuban patrol helicopter
hovered overhead, then, settled
down less than 20 yardss away.
But the helicopter crew apparently
was interested in something else.
Upon their arrival at a Miami
oil dock. Brull promptly called
the customs office, which notified
immigration authorities. When
they discovered the Cuban wet
backs included Castro's former
air force head, district immigra
tion director Edward Ahrens in
Miami sent word to commission
er Swing in Washington.
Army intelligence officers, who
had been tipped off by the mili
tary attache in Havana, also
showed up. But upon orders from
General Swing, a West Point
classmate of Eisenhower's, the
immigration authorities whisked
Lanz away from army intelligence
and held him incommunicado on
a yacht. The state department,
which is supposed to handle in
ternational matters, was kept in
the dark.
An Eye For Headlines
Instead, Swing called Eastland's
committee and reported Lanzs
arrival to its counsel, Julian
Sourwine. Recognizing the head
line value of such a prize wit
ness, Sourwine arranged with
A lot of modern art is like the other
side of the moon Obscure. .
Swing for Lanz to be turned over
to the committee. Next day Frank
Schroeder, a committee Investi
gator, showed up in Miami with
a subpoena.
The ex-cuban air force chief, of
course, was eager io cooperate
with American authorities and had
no idea the committee simply
wanted to exploit him for head
lines. Sourwine carefully coached
him on what he should say and
how he should answer.
The first hearing was held be
hind closed doors; after which
Sourwine solemnly instructed the
Major not to speak to newspaper
men for at least a week. What
Lanz didn't know was that Sour
wine had arranged to let a friend,
Milwaukee publicity man- Robert
Siegrist, break the exclusive story.
But Sourwine hadn't calculated
on Connecticut's Sen. Tom Dodd,
committee member, who re
fused to keep the closed-door
testimony secret even for a week.
When Dodd threatened to re
lease it himself, Lanz was hasti
ly called back to repeat in open
session what he had told the
committee behind closed doors.
At one point, the hearing was
dramatically interrupted while a
bomb-disposal crew searched the
room for an elleged bomb.
After the hearing Sourwine se
cretly sent Lanz to Robert Sie
grist s home in Milwaukee ' for
security reasons." With cavalier
disregard for his guests securi
ty, however, Siegrist arranged a
radio interview at his home and
negotiated to sell Lanz' story to
Life Magazine.
Life finally paid $2,000 for the
rights to the Lanz story, and the
Cuban refugee dutifully allowed
himself to be interviewed by Siegrist.
Then, sick of all the fanfare,
Lanz fled from Milwaukee, as he
had from Cuba, to seek a quiet
life in Texas.
Headlines and Footnotes
Arizona's flamboyant GOP sen
ator, Barry Goldwater, has won
his dogged battle to get the Sen
ate rackets committee to investi
gate his arch-foe. Auto Workers'
Boss Walter Reuther.. The Re
publicans will be permitted to
investiagte their charges that
auto union officials have misused
i volunteer fund, called the
'flower fund," which Reuther
claims is collected to fight Com
munism and racketeering in the
labor movement. The Republi
cans want to subpoena Richard
T. Cesser, a UAW vice president
in Toledo . . . Dictator Kassem of
Iraq is on the verge of a crackup.
He's been virtually living in his
office, getting only three and
four hours sleep, and is so tired
that his doctors have warned him
that if he doesn't slow down, they
won't be responsible.
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CHICAGO Society girl Jac
queline Gay Hart, missing from
her home in Newark, N.J. for two
dnvs before being found here
talking to her fiance by tele
phone:
"They've taken my ring. Come
get me, corne get me.
NORFOLK, Va. Postmaster
General Arthur E. Summerfield
serving notice that he intends to
continue his fight to ban from the
mails the uneensorcd version of
the 1). II. Lawrence novel "Lady
Chatterleys lover:
"If that book is not filth, pray
tell me what is filth.
MARION. Ohio Patrolman
Lloyd Potter, after United Press
International told him George
Patrick Geigor. 27, whom Ohio
police had arrested for speeding
was wanted for the murder of his
ex wifes father in Jeannette, Pa
"I nearly fell out of my chair
when I I'l told me we had a sus
pected murderer. The lieutenant
who brought in Geiger nearly
dropped over himself.
MICHIGAN cm'. Ind. - Lake
land Town Marshall Ed Warner,
discussing difficulties involved in
a hunt for possibly dangerous
mountain lion believed prowling
the heavily-populated Lake Michi
gan resort area:
"There also are the cranks
Last night, while fast asleep, I
was awakened by prowler who
grow led.
Lake County's
Geyser Eyed
For Tourists
LAKEV1EW (UPU A hot
springs geyser which erupted
near here on the Charles Crump
ranch may become a tourist at
traction if the Lake county Cham
ber of Commerce has it's way.
The geyser is thought to be the
only continuous one in the world
State engineer 'Lewis A. Stanley
wants the geyser capped because
he said it is wasting water.
Secretary of state Howell Ap
ling has recommended that the
geyser be made into a tourist at
traction. Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton earlier asked the Ther
mol Power Co., of Nevada to cap
it because, of a dispute regarding
permits to drill the well in the
first place.
Charles Crump said he would
give the land to the county for a
park if the county court and
Chamber of Commerce are Inter
ested. The Chamber said it is interested.
Hope Clowns
For Charity
LONDON UPII Bob Hope
clowned for charity in a post
midnight matinee today despite
his pledge to give up benefit per
formances for the sake of his
health.
Hope abandoned charity shows
and many other extra activities
last winter after incurring a blood
clot in one eye and dizzy spells
from overwork.
But he was on stage at the Pal
ladium until 2 a.m. London time
today as the top star of a hundred-member
cast performing, for
the Actors Orphanage, a stage
charity that supports 35 orphans.
Audrey Hepburn also defied
doctors orders to appear. She is
convalescing after losing a baby
two weeks ago and wes told not
to travel from Switzerland until
August.
"I just skidded in under the
deadline, she said.
Hope made an elaborate show
of taking it easy during his act.
He was stretched out full length
on a pink chaise lounge singing
a song called "lazy" and remark
ing to the audience he was "too
pooped to pucker.
"My doctor savs its O.K. to
chase girls if I forget v?hat I'm
chasing them for, he said.
"Imagine admiring Jayne
Mansfield for her acting," Bob
added.
TO FINANCE TOURIST PLAN
WASHINGTON UPI The
United States plans to finance a
tourist promotion project which
Israel has been urging for two
years, it was revealed today. Al
bert E. Farwell, chief of the Near
East division of the International
Cooperation Administration, told
the House Appropriations Commit
tee that $30,000 from a technical
aid fund of $1,600,000 was era
marked for the Tourist Corp. of
tourist industry.
Lower Crop Production
Seen For Current Year
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day mid-year prospects point
lower crop production this year
than last, but a rising livestock
volume is likely to keep total
farm put put w ithin 2 per cent ot
the la peak.
The department said crop pro
duct ion, though down 4 per cent
from 1M5. is well aliove any other
past year.
Corn is the big gainer with I
per cent more acreage and huili
yields expected to boost the pros
pective crop to 4.250.000 bushels,
up 424,000,000 bushels from last
year's record. Crops of oats and
barley are smaller and the feed
grain total probably will fall, a
little short of l58.
Old Wagons
Enter Parade
Two covered wagons will be fa
tured in the main parade at Klj;in.
Sunday at 11:30 a m.
Pendleton's Main Street Cow
boys and Drum and liugle corps
will be on hand along with the
Pendleton Round up queen and
her court. .
The Walla Walla Wagonettes
will be entered and the queen and
court from the South Eastern
Washington Fair Frontier Days
will also be there.
The Chief Joseph Days Queen
and court have been invited. .'
The La Grande Blue Mountain
Boys will be making a .special
trip down from the hills for the
occasion.
The Elgin high school1 band is
scheduled to take part.
There will also be new cars arid
equipment from La Grande en
tered. 3
Several valley riding clubs will
enter und there will also be, en
tries from across (lie mountain".
Some comic entries ore also
expected.
Ray McCall, who has worked
with the parade almost every
year, reports that Mhey will be
gin assembling at 11 a.m. Sunday.
The three judges are unannoun
ced as yet, but McCall says they
plan to have one local and two
out-of-town people.
Ken Henry is McCall's co-chairman.
Cash prizes will be given for
float entries.
tion IS Up o pei inn. aimers
planted 28 per cent more cotton
than last year. Soybean .acreage
is down, alter consecutive yearn
of increase.
'Hie crop outlixik still is tenta
tive. Weather developments the
remainder of the growing season
can alter production prospects
consider jll'.
Meat animals and poultry prod
ucts are leading the way to a new
high in production of livestock
and livestock products. Hig pro.
duct ion is likely to reach 104,500,.
000 head, a new peacetime
record.
Kfjg production topped 1958 by 5
mt cent in the first half upd the
year's total is expected to exceed
the liifAi record. Broiler produc
tion also was up. The 1D59 turkey
crop is likely to break the 1957
record. Milk output has been run
ning a little below 1958, partly
because favorable prices for
slaughter animals has stimulated
heavy culling in dairy herds.
Net farm income for the first
halt of l."9 was 8 per cent below
the ame period last year, on an
annual rate basis. Department
economists estimated 1958 net
farm income would -be off $1,;;;,.
ooo.diK) from last year, Production
expenses were 3 per cent higher
than last' year. Prices were high
er for all major production items
except feed and fertilizer which
declined.
Harvest started in Oregon as
hot-dry days pushed maturity in
the Pacific Northwest. About one
third of Montana's winter wheat
shows a golden hue indicating
near harvest time.
Army Experimenting
With Bone Mender
WASHINGTON (UPIl The
Army says it has an experimen
tal plastic glue designed to repair
broken bones and gets a patient
on his feet in two days.
The substance could prove vi
tally important to ground forces
because 60 per cent of combat
casualties are bone fractures, the
Army said.
The plastic, a polyurethane
polymer, is a foam which can
bind broken bones together until
bone cells grow through the sub
stance. Natural bone eventually
would replace the plastic.
CJ HI Are your tires being sent
tjAfi! out of La Grande for recapping?
DON'T PAY THAT EXTRA FREIGHT
Have your recapping done locally.
Bring your tire needs to a tire specialist.
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Through a mountain stream deep in Avintaquin Canyon,
NO MOUNTAIN CAT, MISTER.
That's a Chevy with Positraction!
That 3134 FleeUide has the sure
footed ways of a big western bob
cat. Roams through high brush
country that would buck the life
out of most trucks. Crosses
streams without benefit of a
bridge. Climbs talus grades
where pinon won't even grow. But
that's all routine for this Chevy,
equipped with Positraction rear
axle. It's hard at it every day for
the Utah Fish and Came com
mission. Figure about 60,000
miles of mountaineering before
this Chevy is traded. And yet the
district officer who drives it
would bet his badge the tie rods
won't even need replacing!
Out in that wild, climbing Utah
country. Chevy's suspension and
frame and brakes, its Positrac
tion rear axle and Thriftmaster
6 power are proving themselves
under, rougher conditions than
most test engineers could dream
up. They're proving that Chev
rolet'! advanced engineering and
design ideas pay off in spades
when the going gels especially
mean and dirty.
Positraction, of course, Is a
big plus on this job, providing
the sure grip needed to dig
through mud, snow, loose sand,
whatever comes along. Could be
that a Positraction-equipped V2
ton pickup is the answer for your
area of operation. Or maybe a
4-wheel drive Chevy. We've pot
trucks that specialize in getting
in and out of any kind of coun
try. Talk to your dealer about
your needs. He'll show you what
tough trucks are made of.
'Optional at extra cost
No job's too tough for a Chevrolet truck! cpw
Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the 0go"Centennjal Exposition in Portland, and see your local authorized Chevrolet dealer
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