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4 What's the Rush? There Aren't Any Votes Up There' in i-i mff7 f w m y . .1 fmm m,jmVrf.M mm. , ill ,f DREW PEARSON SAYS: Steel Companies Rush To Get Indiana Dunes EDITORIAL PAGE IXGRANDE OBSERVER Tuesday, August 11, 1959 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" RII.EY D. AIJN Jblisher CA cranlik 1'UbLlBHiNQ compant GEORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. Merchant Marine Wants Its Cut The armed forces are not the only organizations fighting for a bigger si in re of the defense dollur. The "fourth arm of national defense" the Merchant Ma rine is carrying on a spirited campaign for its cut. .... Key to the battle being offered by shipping interests in this country is the rumored military plan to de-emphasize surface transportation in overseas move ments of cargo and personnel. The Pa cific Coast shipping industry considers the threat serious enough to carry its case to Congress. In testimony presented to the lions' Armed Services Committee, Kalpli I!. Dewey, president of the Pacific Ameri can Steamship Assn., alerted the com mittee to what he tonus "administrative erosion" of the role of shipping in this country. In speaking for the major American flag steamship lines serving the Pacific Coast, Dewey argued that a sealifl is obviously not out-of-date. To cement his argument he stated that a "typical" long haul military cargo airlift which requires 122 cargo planes and five tankships 21 days to accomplish can be handled by one Mariner class cargo ship in just 22 days with no'need for tankship re-supply and much less cost. , lie rejects the theory that we could rely on foreign flag merchant ships in a NATO shipping pool to supply global interests in an emergency. . Dewey said the PASSA supports a Maritime-Navy report as the minimum steps necessary to keep the status pn as regards the quality aud quantity of this country's surface fleet. The report calls for increasing the subsidizing dry-cargo fleet, building two supeiiiner passenger vessels, disposing of obsolete Liberty ships in the reserve fleet yet retain a priority list of first line vessels at maximum readiness, and keeping effective control over U.S. ownjd ships that operate under foreign flags. Vice Admiral 11. K. Wilson, deputy chief of naval operations, stated earlier that under the "most optimistic assump tions and on a quantitative basis only the I'nited States still possesses a marginal capability to carry out the sea trans portation tasks for a general war." Several false impressisions have gain ed wide circulation in this country. First, that the merchant marine has been made obsolete by nuclear warfare. Second, that fiant airlifts can supply tactical forces in a nuclear war. Air Force Ceil. Nathan P. Twining has staled that in the event of nuclear war merchant ships would be able to carry essential raw materials to major population centers of the world and our armed forces overseas after land trans port had been knocked out. Ifc-spite the optimism of air1 cargo carriers in this country for the future of air traffic they speak in terms of years before air cargo revenues will exceed passenger revenues and almost as long before the full potential of air cargo movements is realized. We must now rely on the surface fleet to move these cargoes. There is little likelihood this reliance will be diminished in the near future. Paving The Way For Federal agencies can't spend money without the approval of Congress. They are required to submit their budgets plans for spending to Congress through the President. Thus the President can revise a bureau's budget before it goes to Congress. President Eisenhower has signed a bill which provides an exception to this rule. It is Tennessee Valley Authority (similar to the Bonneville Administra tion) self financing bill. It provides that TVA must submit its budget to Congress through the President, but he cannot make changes. Thus he is by-passed. The budget that goes to Congress will be automatically approved in 90 days un less Congress acts to the contrary. Rep. Russell Mack predicted Ike would veto the bill because of this peculiar provision, but he didn't, explaining that leaders of both parties had assured him this objectionable clause would be re pealed in a subsequent statute. TVA has always enjoyed favored status in that it did not have to pay interest, as P.onneville does, on the money advanced for consumption of dams and transmission lines. This bill Our Area requires TVA to repay with interest most of the 1.2 billion dollars that Con gress has loaned to it since 1931. Al leady P.onneville has paid 1S9 million dollars in interest on its indebtedness to the Treasury. The main portion of the new TVA bill gives it authority to issue up to 7"i() million dollars in revenue bonds to expand its power operations. This same authority is sought for' the Northwest by backers of the Columbia Power Corp. bill. (living independent Inn-rowing powers to TVA should pave the way for the same thing in our area if it is determined that this is the best way to get capital for expansion. Barbs Maybe it's the fact that he has to foot the bills that sometimes makes dad a chronic kicker. i When mom wants dad to keep the -lawn up she sura can make a mountain out f h lot of ant hills. . WASHINGTON A battle be Iween two giant steel corpora tions and a proposed national park is taking place inside the Sinate interior committee. Lin ed up on one side is Bethlehem Steel and George Humphrey, po tent ex-secrelary of the treausy now head of National Steel.' On the other side is about 5,000 acres of the beautiful Indiana sand dunes, which a group of senators want to preserve as a national park. Located between Chicago and Gary, Ind., the Indiana dunes are i bunt the only remaining mecca for recreation and wildlife left iv the push of industrialization West of the dunes is Chicago's lirimy factory land which sprawls out into Indiana. On the east is Gary, lnd., second greatest steel tenter in the world. The Sand Dunes, with their extra-ordinary collection of trees, flowers, birds and unsullied bathing beaches axe sandwiched between. p;x-secretary Humphrey, who once called the proposed St. Lawrence seaway A socialistic ditch," reversed himself after his company secured huge Lab rador ore deposits, and he now wants to put a mill on the Indi una sand dunes to use ore im ported from Labrador via the seaway. This has aroused the opposition of Sens. I'au Douglas of Chicago, Ernest Gruening, the ex-gover nor of Alaska, Dick Neuberger of Oregon, and - Frank Moss of Utah. Senators Moss and Gruen ing flew to the Indiana dunes, wrote an enthousiatic report op posing steel mills, urging a na tional park. In the secrecy of the interior ommittee, however, three Re publicans have lined up with the steel mills. They are: Dworshak of Idaho, Allott of Colorado, and Martin of Iowa. Dworshak's state adjoins one of the finest national parks in the world, Yel lowstone, with more geysers than in all the rest of the world combined. Senator Allott of Colorado also njoys such famous national play grounds as its Mesa Verde nation al park, and the J(ocky Mountain national park, However, when it comes to preserving one of the few re maining beauty spots of indus trial Indiana, these Senators sid- d with Bethlehem steel and Na tional Steel. Note: Executives of National Steel contributed $37,200 to. the GOP at the last presidential election; Bethlehem Steel execu lives contributed $3,850; Great Lakes Steel executives, associat d with National Steel, gave $18.- 200. National Steel during the second quarter of this year up- nid its profits from $6,527,762 to $22.9.57,018, or a profit of $3.06, per share compared with 88 cents a share. Vengeance by Strauss' Friends One report that went the ounds of Senate cloakrooms dur ing the confirmation battle over Adm. Lewis Strauss was that of retaliation against senators who voted afiainst the proposed Sec tary of Commerce. Backstage pressure was greater than during any other confirma tion fight in this century. Chat hum Mills, Burlington Mills, and (Jen. Kenneth Royall, the big te xtile lawyer, all pressured Sen ators Jordan and Krvin'of North Carolina. They withstood the pressure. The Coco Cola inter- QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International WASHINGTON House Speak er Sam Hayburn, supporting the middle of the road Elliot labor reform bill in a nationwide radio address: When a bill is being fought by both Jimmy Holla (head of he International Brotherhood of Teamsters) and the labor -haters hat in its elf is a pretty good rec ommendation." LITTLE ROCK Several uni dentified teen-age boys, speaking to newsmen at a rally of white students who last year attended the all-white private T. J. Raney High School which has announced it will not reopen: The only reason we would go to n integrated school will be to cause trouble." riTTSBl'RGH David J. Mc- llonald. president of the striking I'nited Steclworkers l!nion, blam ing industry for the deadlock and indicating he might not return to the negotiations until industry gives ground: "There have been no negotia tions since we went to New ork. The industry took its stand on April 10 and hasn t changed it.' BATON ROl'GE, La. Gov. Karl Long, berating the Legisla ture after it abruptly voted to ad journ the special session he had called less than an hour after the session started: Go on home. I'm not especial ly nngry at anybody and there ill be no repercussions. . .go on home and brag." ests, headed by Bob Woodruff and Bill Robinson, both golfing partners of Ike's pressured Sen ator Talmadge of Georgia. John L. Lewis of the United Mine workers pressured Senators Randolph and Byrd from the coal mining state of West Virginia They also refused to switch Lewis even put through a per sonal call to Sen. Lyndon John son a few hours before the final vote, urging him to support Strauss. He voted the other way. Nobody realy expected that retaliation against those who op posed Strauss would come soon or be so blatant. However, in Albuquerque last week, Joseph Rendon, who has run for con giess on the Republican ticket announced that he would run against Sen. Clinton Anderson Democrat of New Mexico, the man who led the anti-Strauss forces. Rendon told friends that he had been offered more than $220,000 to help defeat Anderson. I received six telephone calls in the past week, Rendon said "The people who offered to fi ranee my campaign are friends of Lewis Strauss. "It might take up to half million dollars to defeat Ander son," ne said. "I nave been of fered more than $250,000." Senator Anderson, who has lung and distinguished record in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the cabinet, has been considering retirement from pub lic life. Announcement that Strauss's backers would flood New Mexico with money to de feat him will probably make him run again. Capital Chaff Washington Socialites have been talking about a romance be tween 89-year-old Daisy Ham man, the grand old lady of the Democratic party, and 91-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, oldest man to serve In the Senate. Mrs. Harri man says it isn't so . . . Sena tor "Call me Ken" Keating of New York won his nickname by the way in which he tells the la dies to drop the title "Senator." "Just call me Ken," he says . . . Bill Helis, the big New Orleans oil tycoon, had breakfast with Jimmy Davis in New Orleans the other day and tenatively explored backing the crooning ex-gover nor of Louisiana for another term against Earl Long. Helis is chairman of the Louisiana Miner als board . -. . Speaker Sam lUyburn tipped off Congressman Mike Kirwan of Ohio the other day that Sen. Lyndon Johnson, his fellow Texan, will definitely be a candidate for president . jimmy Stewart, the motion pic ture actor, now an Air Force re serve general, is bowing to Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and spending his 15 days active duty in the Pentagon as a pub lie relations officer. Mrs. Smith insisted that reserve officers serve in jobs for which they are qualified. MILLION DOLLARS IS STILL MONEY TO HIM Rep. Smith Makes A Point Of Leaving At Wrong Time By PRANK ELEAZER UPI Stafff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) This is the period, sometimes referred to locally as barn burning time.' when House liberals start mani festing unaccustomed concern for the health, welfare, and where abouts of Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va). Especially the whereabouts. Smith is 76. He is a banker who still thinks a million dollars is money, especially when it's bor rowed. He also has other peculi arities, including a tendency to drop out of sight along toward the end of each congressional session. It't not so much that the liber als can't do without Howard Smith's1 company. What gets them is that he is the all-powereful chairman of the very powerful House Rules Committee, and when he disappears some of their favorite bills seems always' to fade out of the picture. bommittf Routes Bills The rules committee's job is to route Dills from other commit tees to the House floor. When Jt doesn't, they usually die. About this time last year the committee had a roomful of busi ness, including a couple of bills whicn judge Smith felt sure would cost money. One would have kt the Tennessee Valley Authority sell bonds to expand power prp duction., ( So one August day he didn't a swer when the House clerk called his name on- the roll. Neither did he answer the following day. Rep Watkins Abbitt (D-Va.) hinwd helpfully that the judge was Cold War In Kingdom Of Laos Turning Hot As Conflict In Open By RONALD P. KRISS UPI Staff Writer LETTERS Maximum length 300 words. No anonymous loftors but truo nam will bo withhold on request. To the Editor: A five-week speech clinic was helit here this summer. T wish to thank the following people and organizations tor maKing me re cent speech clinic a successiui experience for the sDeech handi capped children involved. Miss Genevieve Nelson of the Welfare Deoartment who knock ed on at least 100 doors until she found foster homes for some ol the children who came to the rlinir- the A. B. Rauwao'fs and Paul, Andy and Theresa for tak ing three of tne cnuaren into their home and making them so k.nnv that none of them wanted to go home when the clinic was over; the teachers at tne ACKer man Elementary School for their holn with tho children in their classrooms; Mrs. Carla Point who kept a child; the Lions, Soropti mist and Rotarv Clubs for their contributions for the mainten ance of one of the children; tne City Manager and City Commis sioners who donated free swim tickets; Mrs. Georgia Osterholme who donated her time and sum to see that the children were in enod health: the teachers from out of town attending summer school who went out of tneir v.nv to take some of the children home on weekends; and many others. Even with some of the unfor tunate incidents which occurred. I believe that the Summer Speech Clinic was a success. All of the children improved their speech to some extent Thank you, all of ou. Sincerely, Bruce P. Ryan Director ALPS FATALITIES FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI More than 60 persons lost their lives in climbing accidents in the German and Austrain Alps dur ing the first three and one-half months of this year, a survey showed today. The figure was slightly down from lost year'.' TOKYO (UPI) The cold war is turning hot In the tiny king dom of Laos, strategic heart of southeast Asia. . It could turn red-hot in a mo ment, or even explode. ForvLaos has become a miniature cockpit in which the forces making for tension in Asia are in direct open conflict. American-armed troops of the royal Laotian army are battling in the remote, mountainous north with Communist rebels who are armed by Communist China and North Viet Nam. Not many men are involved, probably fewer than 2,000, but this makes the situation no less explosive. At Least (00 Rebels Land-locked Laos is virtually in the dead center of southeast Asia. The borders of this 86,000-square- mile nation touch on Red China and North Viet Nam, neutralist Burma and Cambodia and pro Western Thailand and South Viet Nam t- ..- ...: For 620 uneasy miles it shares its border with Red China and North Viet Nam. And, by no co incidence, it is along these bord ers in the northern provinces that Red rebels are now fighting with government troops. The rebels, at least 600 strong, are remnants of a Communist army that swarmed across the North Viet Namese border into Laos in the closing days of the Indochinese War. The Reds seized the provinces of Phong Saly and Sam Neua and clung to them when the Geneva agreements were signed in 1954.' Simmering $ Years Since then, the government has been trying to absorb the Com munist Pathet Lao troops and Neo Lao Hakxat politicians without be ing swallowed itself. This attempt has kept Laos sim mering for five years and it is impossible to say whether the situation will finally come to a boil now. Trouble began two months ago when one battalion of Pathet Lao troops resisted integration and fled one night to the mountains near the Viet Nam border. Two weeks ago the rebels stepped up their scale of opera tions, previously limited to a few small raids. They attacked towns in Sam Neua Province rn battalion strength, cutting roads and de stroying a radio station. The government rushed in para troopers to cope with what had suddenly become a serious situa tion, endangering the w hole north ern sector. Vientiane said its troops had brought the fighting under control, but raids and guer rila fighting persisted. North Viet Nam Accused . The royal government officially accused North Viet Nam of arm ing and reingfrcino the rebels. Some weapons weer said to have come from Red China. Both Britain and the U.S. have accepted the Laotian charges of intervention and have expressed "deep concern" over the fighting. But both have said it is up to Laos to bring the problem to the United Nations. Laos falls under the protection of the Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganization but has said it will go to the U.N. before it goes to SEATO. British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, repr senting the two nations that to chaired the Geneva talks in 1954. met in Geneva last week to dis cuss the tense Laos situation. . . It is unlikely, however, that Laos would permit the commis sion to return, even if Britain were to approve such a course. Sana aikone politely sent the mission packing early this year, telling it that it had nothing left to do in his country. He is not expected to ask it back. aboard the submarine Nautilus which that very day was beneath the North Pole. I guess that wasn't so, because when Judge Smith returned, 10 days later, he wore a nice tan. Also an enigmatic smile. He didn't say where he had been. ' Arrives for Last Ritas - He got back though just in time for last rites to be said for the TVA bill which the Congress, only now, one year later, finally has revived and enacted. Coupled with other measures lost in the rush to adjourn, Ab bitt said happily that Smith's va cation, whatever it cost Smith, had saved the taxpayers $10,000, 000,000. '' The vanishing judge set a prece dent even more upsetting to the liberal bloc the previous year. The Judiciary Committee, un der F.ep. Emanuel Celler D N.Y.), had approved a strong civil rights bill at that time. Manny and Judge Smith have much in common. Both are mem bers of the House. But apparently they don't speak the same lan guage. On March 2 Manny asked Smith to clear the civil rights bill. It was May 2 before Smith seemed able to hear him. Bill Sent to House He took up the bill May 2 and must have found it interesting. On May 17 he was still taking testi mony. Other committee members found their interest lagging though and, over the judge's pro test, finally cleared the bill for a vote in the House. The House passed the bill, and sent it to the Senate. It was amended and came back to the House for considera tion of the Senate amendments. This, according to the Rule book which Smith reveres third only to the constitution and the bible, required a fresh clearance from the Rules Committee. It was mid-August, and members were ready to quit for the year. Smith himself was so anxious to leave he couldn't wait for adjournment. He just left. The liberals chaffed a while, and finally went into ac tion to by-pass the judge. This they can do, provided they have plenty of time. After days of delay they smashed the parlia mentary roadblocks. They con vened the Rules Committee with out him just as Smith walked, smiling, into the room. Barn Burns Down His barn had burned down, out in Loudon County, Va., he ex plained, and it had taken him 10 days to rebuild it. Now the Judiciary Committee has approved another civil rights bill. Smith has said he will con sider a request for clearance once he gets it in writing, along with a proper printed report on the bill. After that, Smith will need time to think. I have heard that the judge's mowing machine shows signs of collapsing. I know for a fact he has a bad tooth, and no telling how long it might take if the den tist says it has to be fixed. His grandchildren in Texas are re ported demanding to see him. The liberals had best hire a de tective if they want to keep their eye on the judge. OUTSTANDING ACCEPTANCE FOR THE CAR THAT STANDS OUT THE II Jk 0 Jh IT II Zll II II A. mm v t mm mm m mm mm JLZJJUL QJL Ml. 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