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Feilow Traveler M MIA Stnic. be. EDITORIAL PAGE IXGRANDE OBSERVER Friday, July 31, 1959 f "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" RILEY D. ALLEN Publisher PUBLISHED Br THB vnm.n ruuiuocr LA ORANDB pubushino coiiPANT GEORGE S. CIIALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES ... Circulation Mgr. Simply A New Sales Gimmick When first reports were made asso ciating cigarette smoking with lung ! cancer, the tobacco industry naturally ) took a defensive attitude and undertook J at once to prove that such claims were wrong. J Indications that it is not entirely ; successful in these efforts can be seen t in Borne of the devices being employed now to increase the sale of cigarettes.'' f The heavy emphasis on filter cigar j ettes, cigarettes with "less tars," the : filters that are recessed to prevent con- tact between the lips and tongue and i the filter all suggest that cigarette ; makers are yielding at least a little to the scientists who claim with greater emphasis than ever that smoking is a contributing cause of lung cancer. The use of tobacco is so habit forming that there seems little chance that the consumption of tobacco will be reduced no matter how frightening are the sta tistics produced by the researchers. The cigarette makers are aware of this, for in the five years since the cancer scare was first announced, cigarette consump tion has increased 20 per cent. And in that same period population growth was only 11 per cent. Why then the concerted effort within the cigarette industry to introduce new filters, "air conditioned" papers, and emphasis on slogans that indicate, that some brands are "safer" than others? ! The answer has to do with salesmanship. Cigarettes have- always been a highly - competitive industry. The health angle simply provides a new gimmick. Many people who smoke believe that their habit is hazardous to some degree. Therefore it is good sales appeal to offer some thing that purports to be less hazardous than what has been offered before. Thus the cigarette smoker can puff away, re assured that being insulated from to bacco tby a half inch of stiff paper or plastic filter, reduced by a great deal his chances of suffering ill effects. We Can Do Little Now But Apologize Among those traveling with Nixon in typical southerner. Russia is Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution in Atlanta, Ga. At Leningrad shipyard workers crowded around him and impressed McGill by their friendly attitude. Then someone asked the inevitable question about Little Rock and why America is unfair to people because their skins are colored. "This is a tough question which can't be answered when one discusses it in a familiar language," McGill reported. Through an interpreter he found it im possible. Then he commented: "Race discrimination is a cancer in American life and the sooner we realize and bring ourselves to do the right and civilized thing to end it, the stronger we will be." That is quite a statement, coming from an editor south of the Mason-Dixon line, but it is not the first time he has voiced these sentiments. McGill is not a But lest we get to thinking that racial discrimination is confined to the southern states; consider a current situation here in the state of Washington. Stato law prohibits discrimination be cause of race, color or religion in the sale of publicly assisted housing. The Seattle Real Estate Hoard is paying the costs of a suit intended to prevent the sale of an FIIA financed house to a Negro family. Offsetting incidents like this are some instances of broadening tolerance. At the Seattle trial a Japanese American testified that it had been the experience of Nisei that once they had settled in an all white neighborhood they soon gained acceptance. In Hawaii the people have voted as a state for the first time with little evidence that the candi dates were judged according to their race. DREW PEARSON SAYS. Nikita Told Nixon Truth About Red Missile Might WASHINGTON There was irony in the (act that Nikita Khrushchev'i unprecedented and on the whole healthy public de bate at the American Exposition in Masco w was staged with the man who has consistently urged more American concentration on missiles. When Khrushchev threw in vice President Nixon's face the warning "We have means at our disposal which can have very bad consequences" and again when ne said, obviously referring to missiles, "But ours are better if you want to compete' Nixon knew Krushchev was telling the truth. u was Nixon wno urged a franker policy in telling Amcri can people haw far behind Rus sia we were when the first Rus sian bputniK was launched on Oct. 4, 1957. He was overruled by the White House. In the approxi mately two years since then, we have lagged even farther behind. And the real reason Foreign Minister Gromyko has been so tough at Geneva is because Rus sia is now ahead of the United States in every military depart ment except sea power. ' Here is the box score on Soviet vs. American military strength, which both Nixon and Khrush chev had in mind when they de bated in Moscow: Intercontinental missiles: Rus sia suddenly resumed testing in tercontinental missiles in March after a long lapse. From this, Secretary of Defense McElroy hopefully concluded that the lap se meant the Russians, like us, were having trouble with their long-distance missile. Other ex perts believe Russia stopped fir ing the big missiles simply be cause she was busy producing them. In any event, there can be no mistaking the fact Russia has been blasting off about four mis siles a month since March from her great test center northeast of the Caspian Sea. Our power ful radar" eyes in Turkey have potted the missiles take off; an other radar station in the Aleu- tions has followed the warheads as they plunged back to earth. Only two of the big missiles have been hurled a full 5.000 milei. The remaining 18 which we were able to track went 3.500 to 4.5O0 miles. Whether these were test models or production models, howrver, remains a question mark. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International NEW YORK American fash ion designer Norman Norcll, com menting on the House of Dior's fashion decree for knee-high skirts: I don't think knees are that pretty. My bet is that women will wear them 'hems) wnere tney damn well want to anyway. MENOMON1E. Wis. Roman Mroz. 20, of Chicago, describing the derailment of seven cars of the Northwestern Railroad's crack Twin Cities 400" in which at least 100 persons were injured: There was a rumbling noise and it felt like the car was going to roll completely over. We opened the door which was right above our heads and it felt about 300 pounds heavy. It was a mira cle we weren't all killed. WASHINGTON National La bor Relations Board examiner John F. Funke. ordering a pub lishing firm to rehire eight print ers fired for allegedly being fresh to female employes: "Contiguous employment o I male and female in offices and plants has inevitably led to a re laxation of formal barriers and to a tolerance of casual bandinage and conduct not free from over tones of sex." WASHINGTON Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) of the House o m m e r c e subcommittee, an nouncing that his group will in- estigate charges that some now- defunct TV quiz shows were rigged: If this is true, then the Ameri can people have been defrauded i large scale. Our own 1CB.M firings have been plagued by minor malfunc tions. It is no military secret that we have tested 26 Atlas ICBM's, of which eleven have been suc cessful, six partially successful, and nine complete failures. In contrast, our monitor shows that 75 per cent of the Russian ICBM tests have been successful Tbey have operated with, alarming re liability. The first of our 5,500 mile Atlas missiles were supposed to be combat-ready in July. But five misfires in a row have delay ed the operational date until September or October. It is doubtful that we will have the 10 operational Atlases that Sec retary McElroy promised by the end of the year. Russia ought to have ten times that number. Intermediate missiles: Russia is known to have 750 medium -range missiles ready to launch against our overseas bases. They include both T-4's, which can shoot 1,000 miles and T-2's, which can hit targets up to 1,800 miles away. Our first squadron of 1,200 mile Thor missiles was delivered to England last winter and was supposed to be ready for com bat by January. It didn't become operational until June. This now gives us 15 interme diate missiles against Russia's 750. We should whip another 15 missile squadron into shape be fore the summer is over. Altoge ther, we will set up four squa drons in England. We also hope to locate four squadrons in Italy perhaps four more in Turkey after we have built about 200 launching sites. Our present schedule als calls for halting production altogether some respects than our own. intermediate missiles. Underwater missiles: We have taken actual photographs of Sov iet submarines equipped with vertical launching tubes. These are capable of firing stub-nosed Comet missiles from underwater hiding-places at targets 700 miles inland. Russia has also stepped up its submarine activity in American waters during the past three years. Apparently the Reds have even planted secret trans millers along the ocean bottom near our shores. These serve as homing devices to guide other, submarines. In contrast, we won't be able to launch underwater missiles un til late 1960. These will be 1,200 milc Polaris missiles, which have fizzled in preliminary tests at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The test program will be stepped up for the next 12 months. Then the Navy may attempt a shipboard aunching from a surface ship. If this succeeds, the Navy will try firing Polaris missiles from sub merged submarines, all carrying winged Regulus missiles, which must be fired from the surface. Our total submarine fleet, count ing 80 used for training or stored in mothballs, is less than 200. Russian atomic subs: Thanks to Adm. Hyman Rickover, how ever, we are well ahead of Rus sia in designing and constructing atomic submarines. But the lat est intelligence reports claim Russia will soon launch its first two atomic subs. In atomic weapons, Russia has caught up with us in quality and is not far behind in quantity, we have picked up enough informa tion from Russian nuclear tests to convince our scientists that Russia has developed compact hydrogen wa'rheads better in seme respects than our own. In conventional weapons, Rus sia still maintains an overwhelm- IMMUNITY FOR WORLD JUDGES ' k Fulbright To Think Would Like Time Over The Problem Fun & Thrills Await You It Was A Good Performance Some people are blunt and brutally frank by nature. They are the kind who will tell you just what they think in plain words with little regard for any adverse consequences. ' They belong to the call-a-spade-a-spade school. The premier of Russia is one of these. His off the cuff exchange of sharp words with Vice President Nixon wasn't any thing new. As Adlai Stevenson said to day, it was the same when he interviewed him. And Averell Harriman was shocked and "alarmed" by the "blunt and brutal" language Nikita Khrushchev used during two lengthy meetings with the former New York governor. Thus no particular significance can be placed on the Nixon-Khrushchev word -ducL The Red leader simply talked to the vice president as he talks to every one. The way Nixon handled the situa tion reflected considerable credit to him. He wasn't taken aback. He didn't quaver in the face of the strong words from the man the world most fears. He spoke up to hint. He talked just as plain as Khrushchev. It was a good performance. . Barbs I'ist fall derby hats were promoted this spring old-fashioned stiff sailor t raw. hats. look out, men, high button Bhoifc may be next. "Press for heat Then ignore it" says a fashion story headline. But will th heat ignore you? at the CHIEF JOSEPH DAYS FRI.. SAT., SUN., JULY 31-AUG. 1-2 JOSEPH, OREGON Arena Rodeo Stock Furnished By HARLEY TUCKER JOSEPH, OREGON By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON UPI - What the State Department man wanted was to make visiting judges of the World Court immune to our traffic cops, red lights and other such legal hazards. The senators, though, came up with a different approach. Why not cut membership of the court from IS judges to S, or maybe even 3, one of them wondered Another intimated we might throw the visiting judges some cases to try. I'm pretty sure the idea was that these August jurists, who do their work in the Hague, then wouldn't have time to run around and get into trouble. Of course nobody said any of the judges had yet run afoul of the law, here or elsewhere. Leonard C. Meeker, the State Department's acting legal adviser, told the Foreign Relations Com mittee he was sure "this sort of problem would scarcely exist at all." In that case, Chairmaa J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) won dered, why was Meeker here seeking to make the judges im mune, and exactly from what? Meeker said we want the judges to feel welcome here, that is all. And when he said immune, that's just what he meant. "Regarding any matter?" Ful bright inquired. That is cor rect," Meeker replied. Fulbright was under the impres sion the judges are already im mune, everywhere, on all mat ters pertaining to the court and its cases. Meeker said that was right. But they don't do course work all the time. And I guess that's where they got to the crux of this delicate international mat ter. Cat Lead Aired "Do they have a great many cases before them these days? Fulbright asked. "No sir, they do not," Meeker replied. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) asked how many, exactly. Meeker said since 1946. when the old League of Nations Court was reestablished under the Unit ed Nations, "There have been I LAUDS HAWAII VOTE DEGYTARSK, U.S.S.R. (UPI) Touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon Thursday hailed the Re publican victory in Hawaii as "the best shot in the arm the party nas Had in the last two years.' ing superiority. Her land army is 'still 175 divisions; ours has dwindled fo 14 effective divi sions. The Red army also has bet ter modern rifles, self-propelled assault artillery, armored person nel carriers, heavy tanks, and grasshopping helicopters. Russia still has about 20.000 combat jet planes to our 18,000. While her fighter planes are prooaoiy superior to ours, our btrategic Air Command is still considered a more effective bomber force. Russia has been testing a new, supersonic, bom ber which might be the forerun ner of the world's first atomic bomber. Her atomic aircraft pro gram is believed to be ahead of ours. i On the high seas, wc still surpass Russia in fleet strength. But the Red surface fleet is now second only to our own. while her submarine fleet is superior. Russia hasn't bothered to build any airplane carriers, perhaps because carriers may be as out moded as battleships in this at omic age. think 23 or 24 cases," plus may be a dozen advisory opinions. "What do they do when they sit?" asked Fulbright. 'They have fairly elaborate procedures," Meeker began. "But if they don't have cases, what do they do?" Fulbright per sisted. Well that, it seems, is the prob lem. Sometimes they go home, to such diverse places as Russia, Mexico, and Formosa. Sometimes they prefer to visit around, and the United States is always glad to see , tourists. Fewer Judges Suggested - Especially, I guess, tourists with salaries of $20,000 a year, lax free, plus an allowance for travel expenses. . Mansfield thought maybe fewer judges could handle the load. Ful bright indicated that some people think more work for the court is the answer. Meeker said President Eisenhower is among those who subscribe to this view. Fulbright got to wondering again what prompted the immu nity bill. Meeker said it was re quested by the United Nations In 1946, when it set up the court. Fulbright said he guessed since the State Department had waited 13 years to lay the request be fore Congress, nobody would mind if he thought it over a while. So come over anytime, judges. But for now, anyway, I wouldn't recommend thumbing your nose at the law. MAN OF THE WEEK: Vice President Richard Nixon On Russian Jaunt By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer The man-of-the-week: Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The place: The Soviet Union. The quote: ' The moment we place either one of these power ful nations (the U. S. and Rus sia), in a position where it has no choice but accept dictation or fight, then you are playing with the most destructive force in the world." Never in the history of the So viet Union had the Russian peo ple been treated to such a spec tacle. Here on quick-tongued Premier Nikita Khrushchev's own totalitar ian grounds, a visitor was trading verbal punch for punch with him and arguing the American case as Ivan, the Russian man in the street, had never heard it before. Khrushchev Seems Pleased Strangely, Khrushchev seemed to like it. And Nixon was on the way to becoming a popular Russian hero. 1 116 Ul 9 nuaaia vis it had not been so auspicious. Khrushchev had wondered public ly What his motives were in mak ing the trip. The welcoming crowd at Moscow's airport was thin and the Teception cool. Moscow news papers had buried the news of his visit so that few acually were aware of his coming. At the moment of Nixon's ar rival Khrushchev was at a mass Jnsi Received . . FOR YOUR WRITING PLEASURE A new shipment of Eaton's Fine Letter Papers For All Occasions McGLASSON'S STATIONERY 1104 Adam meeting denouncing the U. S.'s "Captive Nations Week." It was, he said, "provocative" interference in "our internal af fairs." The debate begun in the kitchen of the model home in the Ameri can exhibit in Moscow continued through the formal opening of the exhibit, through a roast beef din ner hosted by Nixon for Khrush chev at the U. S. Embassy and through long private talks at the latter's dacha or summer house. Longest High4.vel Talk It was the longest, highest-level talk ever held between a mem ber of the U. S. government and Khrushchev. Whether either man actually won the debate or had succeeded in getting the other to change any of his ideas would be doubtful. In general, as Nixon proceeded to Leningrad, to Novosibirsk in Siberia and to Sverdlovsk, he at tracted crowds which were both large and friendly. Occasionally, he ran into hecklers who ap peared obviously to have been primed. From Russia Nixon was to pro ceed to Poland where another study in contrasts was possible. Khrushchev was there last week and his reception was polite but loss than enthusiastic. We're Buzziii WrrhBu ATHLETES ...big fm or tand of . . . wear OR. NOUS CONTACT LENSES FOR SAFETYI Buck Backstop m a- V Wears wmacxs .iro-rr i Catcher r0tor "".A" Vu mite league cuumea . " i u am ww.- . , elate to .tte rxnv - vaokee Brave. .ports regular lwjefcl re CONTACT tt,m for about M ween.1 . i Mtt mom in w - . . . an rj ..L. 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