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"Listen Do Your Hear One Complaint?" EDITORIAL PAGE XA GRANDE- OBSERVER Monday, August 3, 1959 Page 4 "A Modern Newspaper Willi The Pioneer Spirit" LA uranue 1'UULiKiiiNa couPANT CKOKCE S. CIIAIJ.IS Adv. Director TOM HUMES. Circulation Mgr. He Won't Go Voluntarily ljuile naturally lloijert Kennedy hopes James lloffa will make good liis llireat to sue him for The counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee is confident that the very serious charges he lias been making in public about the Team sters boss are true and challenges lloffa to prove they are not. i Kennedy has openly accused lloffa of misusing1 union funds, putting gangsters in high office in the union, making secret deals with employers to enrich himself and "continuously betraying union members." Those are pretty serious charges. If lloffa does not take his accuser to court. he is all but admitting that thev are true. So whether he does make good his threat to sue Kennedy will be a significant de cision on his part. Our guess is that he won't dare, lloffa knows how much evidence there is against him. lle's.been libeled before. A national magazine once designated him in largo typevas VFublic Kiiciny N(i. 1." I!ut he didn't sue. Jloffa clings to tho protection provided by the maxim that a person must be presumed . innocent until proven guilty. And the only place you can be formally proven guilty is in a court lie won't go to court voluntarily, Another Excuse To Look Elsewhere Influential Republican Senators have rumbled their disapproval of Secretary Ilerter's plan to name Charles K. I.lilen as his special advisor. If a fight over a proposed appointment develops as expect ed the losses can be great on both sides. At stake is Ilerter's position as master of his own operation, the State Depart ment. In the balance is Bohlen's decision whether to retire from government ser vice for a more remunerative private job. : In proposing that Bullion, our ambassa dor to the Philippines, be named his special advisor, Herter frankly admits that Bohlen has much more experience in dealing with the Russians and under stands them far better than he does. Herter in proposing the foreign spe cialist for the job indicates that he. in tends to shape and use the state depart ment to fit the country's needs as he views them. In offering Bullion's name. Herter has made it clear he intends to hew out his own policies rather than follow the lead of his predecessor, John Foster Dulles. Dulles considered himself every bit as much of nn authority on Russia as Hohlen; he was responsible for pulling Bohlen out of the Moscow post and send ing him to Manila. The post proposed for Bullion does not require Senate confirmation, but Sen ators Dirksen, Bridges, lliekenlooper and Young have indicated they are op posed to the proposed assignment. Republican opposition to liohlen rests largely on the part he played as inter preter as advisor to President Franklin I . Roosevelt at the Yalta conference. Bohlen has defended the Yalta agree ments as sound. Failure of the agree ments, he maintains, is the direct result of the Soviet Union's subsequent rejec tion of the terms it had negotiated and pledged to live up to. It ia fairly certain that Herter did not approach Bohlen on the question of serv ing" as special advisor without President Eisenhower's tacit approval. Without lresidential opposition to the npixiint ment it is not likely the Republican Sen ators will press the attack against Bohlen too far. If these same congressmen mount a large enough offensive against the gov ernment officer, however, Bohlen will be presented with an excellent opportunity to retire rather than embarrass the Re publican Administration. Should he retire the country will lose a key foreign-oriented official; the Ad ministration and the Republican party will be weakened in the face of a Presi dential election year, and the rest of the world will have one more excuse to look elsewhere for leadership. Barbs "Father knows Best" is something lliat.no one else in the family knows. Many a man at the bench overlooks his wife while looking over the bathing beauties. Security is easy for manicurists. They have their jobs nailed down. The best kind of a check to keep on yourself is one that you can cash in on. A Colorado man left home because his wife wouldn't cook. Often the word is "couldn't." ' When the thermometer gets up around 00 the ambition of most people is not to have anv. A person doesn't have to be intoxicated to drive the way some people do. In most cases pushing ahead opens the door to success a lot letter than just pull. The answer to why some drivers get bad breaks and others don't ' is bad brakes. A judge says it's easy to keep a sweet disposition. Sure, if you have plenty of sugar left after bills. Any driver who puts his hands or arms out of a car window is sticking his neck out. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Big Ed Johnson Fighting For First Love - Baseball WASIII.N'CTON-Big Ed Johnson who used to fire locomotives on the Union Pacific between Western Kansas and Denver, took an air plane down to Washington from New York the other day to testify against uaseoaii monopoly. ISig Kd felt right at home going hack lo Washington. He spent 18 years of his life there as U.S. senator from, Colorado about as many years as he spent as a rail road laborer on the Union Pacific then telegrapher, then train dis patcher and locomotive fireman lie also has felt at home in the Slate House in Denver, having served two terms as governor and lour terms in the Colorado legis lature. But Big Ed didn't feel much at home in an airplane. You could tell that by the way he tried to stuff an unwieldly brief case under the seat in front of him, instead of beneath him. As a result, he couldn't stretch his legs. And when you're six feet four you need to stretch. However, airplanes have revolu tionized bast-ball, Ed Johnson con fided to me. And that is one rea son he is crusading for another baseball league. Even when Big Ed served in the U.S. Senate, he was president of the Western Baseball League. Now that he's retired from active politics at the age of 75, he's giving all his time lo baseball. "San Juan, Puerto Rico, is base ball crazy," he explained. "And they want to be part of our new big league. With airplane trans portation you can get to San Juan as easy as Los Angeles and San Francisco. The major ball teams have their own airplanes now. Players Are Monopoliied "But our chief problem is the baseball monopoly," continued the man who is trying to break it. "That's why I'm going to Wash ington to testify before , Senator Kefauvver's anti-monopoliy com mittee. The two major leagues don't want a rival, and especially the major ball clubs don't want to give up their monopoly on players they don't need. ' Some of the clubs have 400 players under contract, each. Every May 20 they cut down their actual team to 25 men, but they keep' 400 under contract just to keep them from getting Into the hands of other rival clubs." Big Ed pulled a rule book of the major leagues out of his brief case and turned to rule 2. It rends: 'Since the supply of skilled players is not equal to the demand, the major league clubs shall not have title to fnore than forty (40) player contracts at any time. That s their own rule," con tinued the ex-senator from Colo rado, "but they don't live up to it. And when they keep 400 players under contract in order to prevent other clubs from using them, that's monopoly." I asked how many players the Washington Senators had under contract. -That's one of the poorer clubs. f think Griffith has about 150. However, the St. Louis Cardinals right now have 435 players under contract.' "What happened to your Western Baseball League?" I asked the man who had been its president. The majors put us out of busi ness. They just told us we couldn't have any more players, and that was that. We couldn't operate any more. However," said the man who so long was a power in the U.S. Senate, "I believe Estes he fauver now has 'em on the run and the prospect of a third major league will break up the player monopoly. Toasts were going the rounds at the dinner given by Gen. and Mrs. Tim Mclnerney at the F Street Club in honor of the Tony Biddies Old frienlds had gathered to pay tribute to the man who had served as ambassador to Poland, then as ambassador to all the exiled coun tries during the war, then as a member of Eisenhower's SHAPE staff in Paris, and now Is adjutant general of Pennsylvania. House Speaker Sam Rayburn was there, with his old Republican friend, Ex-Speaker Joe Martin, and a lot of senators, together with Chip Robert of Georgia, who, when Democratic National Treasurer, used to tell how he called Am bassador Biddle In Poland to "bor row syo.ono from mm to rescue the Democratic party from ban kruptcy. ' After the first toast, Biddle, with a waistline no different from the day he won the tennis champion ship in France 25 years ago, made a little speech of appreciation to his old friends. Then rose a surprise speaker- Mrs. Biddle. "Tony just hates to go shop ping," she confided. "I never can get him to go anywhere with me to buy anything. But this after noon after we arrived in Washing ton and hadn't too much time to dress for dinner. Tony insisted on going shopping. He bought a tape measure and a pair of binoculars You see, he's just been ap pointed a judge in the Miss Amer ica contest." QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International MOSCOW Vice President Richard M. Nixon, recommending that Nikita Khrushchev be i vited to visit the United States: "He would see that our econ omy is strong ana productive, and while his visit would not con vert him to capitalism any more than my visit here would convert me to communism, it would serve to change his ideas of how our system works. SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, on the engagement of his son Steven, to the family's former maid. Norwegian Anne Marie liasmussen : "We couldn't be happier. She is a wonderful girl. ALEXANDRIA. La. Gov. K Long, threatening to have national Democratic committeeman Ca- mille Gravel removed from a po litical rally: 'If you don t keep your clap trap shut. I'm going lo have you removed as a common heckler." WASHINGTON Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R ind.', on the pro posed invitation to Nikita Khrush chev to visit the United States: "I. for one, am not ready to forgive them (the Russiansi for their post sins" Rockefeller Has New Help For GOP Spot WASHINGTON (UPI) Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York had new support today for the GOP presidential nomination from a former backer of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Sen. Homer E. Capehart R- Ind), generally regarded as a member of the Republican con servative wing, came out for Rockefeller amid predictions that Vice President Richard M. Nixon's chances for the nomina tion have been1 helped by his Rus sian trip. House Republican leader Charles A. Halleck Ind.(. mean while, announced his willingness to be the running mate of either one. HaiiecK said ne woum ac cept the GOP vice presidential nomination if it were offered to him. Halleck refused to declare a preference between Nixon and Rockefeller for the top spot. How ever, he said he believed Nixon would win the nomination if the GOP conventionwere held today. Rockefeller said at the gover nors' conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that he would not rule out the possibility of becom in ga candidate for the nomina tion although he is not now a candidate. He said Nixon was the leading candidate. Capehart. who backed Taft for the Republican nomination in 1952. said Sunday he had no doubt that the GOP could win next year if Rockefeller headed the ticket. New Missile Due Army And Marines WASHINGTON (UPI) The Army and Marines are going to equip infantrymen with a new guided missile designed to knock down low-flying combat planes. Sketchy details of the new weapon, called "the Redeye,' were disclosed and test models were shown as part of the annu al three-day meeting here of the Assn. of the U.S. Army. -The Redeye looks like a World War II anti-tank bazooka. The weapon, fired from the shoulder, has an infra-red "heat seeker" in its nose which will carry it to a strafing or bombing airplane that gets within range. The Redeye and its launcher weigh 20 pounds. The weapon is four feet long. The Army has awarded a six-million-dollar contract to develop the weapon to Convair Division of General Dynamics- Corp., which will do the work at its Po mona, Calif., plant. Bank Clearings Exceed Billion PORTLAND (UPI) Bank clearings exceeded a billion dol lars during July and building per mits during the month topped the totals of both June, 1959 and July, 1958 to indicate a brighter economic picture for Portland. The billion-dollar bank amount is the second time such a clear ing has occured. The increase in city building permits resulted despite the new j planning anu tuning mc Wlllg put into operation which brought a processing slowdown. Building permits for suburban Multnomah county also exceeded the June figure but were 304.000 behind July. 1958. New housing starts, however. lagged behind both a year ago and the figure In June for Port land and its unincorporated sub urbs. Now III Progress. . The TOPSHOP'S Semi-Annual Famous name fashions in dresses, playwear, shoes, coats, suits, blouses, hosiery, lingeries and sweaters . . all are offered at re ductions up to half price during our big semiannual clearance sale now underway. 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