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"It Isn't Cloudy That's Kennedy
Raising a Lot of Dust"
EDITORIAL PAGE
IXGRANDE OBSERVER
Friday, August 14, 1959
PUBLISHED BT THB
Ji QRANDB PUBIJSHINQ COMPANY
"A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit"
RILEY D. ALLEN Publisher
GEORGE S. CHALUS -Adv. Director
TOM HUMES ... Circulation Mgr.
Costs Go Up Faster Than Income
Merger of the two afternoon news
papers in San Francisco, announced this
week after speculation of over a year,
into the News-Call Bulletin, was not un
expected. For in San Francisco, as everywhere
else, newspaper expenses have increased
faster than revenues. In order to stay
in business, many publishers have been
forced to cheapen their products, as' was
the case in the Bay Area afternoon field.
The result has been a series of mer
gers and consolidations, along witji a
number of newspapers just going out
of business altogether, in recent years.
There are now only seven cities in the
United States where there are more than
two newspaper ownerships. Of over
1,500 cities in this country in which
daily newspapers are published, fewer
than 50 have competing newspaers of
any sort.
This means, of course, that most news
papers have monopolies of newspapers
in their fields. - '
The situation, however, is not so
serious as it might have been 30 or more
years ago. At that time newspapers
and magazines offered almost the sole
means of communication.
Now, with the slow growth of radio
over the 30 years and the fantastic
growth of television in the past ten
years or so people do not have to buy
a particular newspaper in order to inform
themselves. More rapid transportation
has allowed vcompet it jon on the news
stand, just as electronics has given other
forms of news media.
The whole problem is one of production
costs of labor, newsprint and all other
things a newspaper must have rising
faster than income.
For many years rather strict union
regulations made it almost impossible
to look for more economical means of
production. Publishers who tried to find
ways of cutting production costs often
faced strike actions by old-line trade
union organizations.
There was still another problem. News
paper publishers on the whole are rather
intensely individualistic men. As a result
there was little or nearly no research
into improved methods of production.
Now, however, there are signs that
within the next few years less expensive
forms of production equipment at least,
less expensive to operate will be avail
able. The larger ncwspaers in some arras
are beginning to experiment with some
of this new equipment now. It only re
mains to be seen if it can be produced
cheaply enough for some of the smaller
dailies and larger weeklies to be able to
afford the new types of machinery.
Until, however, such equipment can be
produced and used, and until it can be
used without crippling qualifications es
tablished by one or two of the half
dozen or more newspaper craft unions,
mergers and consolidations will be the
order of the day.
Tou All'
Cheering is heard from south of the
Mason-Dixon line. That master of Eng
lish, Winston Churchill, after addressing
a group said, "I will not say good-bye to
you all." Queen Elizabeth II is reported
to have adopted the expression which
was common in the reign of Klizalwth I.
"Yll," she is reported to have said upon
occasion. In North Carolina, the Greens
boro Daily News gloats that the Con
federacy has been vindicated. The Char
lotte News congratulates the Queen and
her distinguished subject upon their re
turn to classic English.
It remains for the Louisville Courier
Journal to sound the warning note. "You
all" has been abused too long by Yankees
to whom the expression does not belong.
They use it in the singular, which is
wrong as wrong can be. But a true.south
erner can appear to use it in the singu
lar and get away with it, "How do you
all make a whisky sour?" the Louisville
paper says a southerner can ask. The
bartender who replies does so not only
for himself, but for the management and
for all the other bartenders who work
there.
IX'wey-eyed Yankee belles, wishing to
enhance their charm by appearing south
ern, sometimes try to get away with the
expression, but invariably they louse it
up. It takes a southerner, born and bred,
to use it right. Then it sounds good.
It's southern charm at its best. Like the
genuine article everywhere, however, it
defies imitation. We'd just as soon leave
it as the preserve of the American south
erner. Even Winnie and the Queen ought
to leave it alone.
(Eugene Register-Guard)
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
There's A Civil Rights
Sleeper In Labor Bill
ELGIN BRIEFS
M. Gordons
Have Son Born
Mr. and Mn. Morton Gordon of
Fairbanks, Alaska, are parents of
a son born Monday. Aug. 10. 11c
has been named Merrill Ray. Hp
has a brother. Gilbert. Grand
parent are maternal, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Wade, and paternal,
Mr. end Mrs. Wiley Gordon.
Ellis Cheney returned to Elgin
Saturday from Sacramento, Calif.,
where he has worked this summer
on the railroad.' He signed in at
KOC Sunday. He will start prac
ticing for the Shrine East-West
B football team.
Mr. and Mrs. L B. Van Dyke
and her son, Jimmy Galligher of
Boise, Idaho, were weekend guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Verlc Sagers.
Visits Grandparents
Yaugh Dixon of Milton-Freewater
is visiting his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Hallgarth.
Mr. and Mrs. Limr Warren
David and Sally are spending a
weeks vacation at bun alley,
Idaho.
Gladys Evans of Portland was a
weekend visitor of Mrs. Jessie
Stevenson.
WASHINGTON Congressman
Phil Landrum of Georgia, co
author of the tough Landrum
Griffin labor bill, is a strong and
consistent battler against civil
rights. On this isjue Landrum has
never let the South down. And
he would rise up in righteous
wrath, as he did when he called
his fellow Democrat, Ray Madden
of Indiana, a "son of !" on a
kindred labor mater, if anyone
ever Insinuted that he had be
trayed the South on civil rights.
However, tucked away in the
Landrum-Griffin labor bill is a
sleeper which has some Southern
congressmen worried. Others would
be worried if they had read the
bill. But the fact is that about
one-half of the house will vote on
the labor bill without having read
it, and two-thirds will vote without
having studied it carefully.
Those who pave studied the
bill, however, have discovered that
Congressman Landrum has insert
ed under section 101 a flat pro
vision for the integration of labor
unions. It provides in effect that
negroes may meet with white
union members. They shall be
free to "assemble freely with
other members; and express any
views, arguments, or opinions . . ."
That Isn't all. Section 102 of the
bill which the Georgia congress
man is urging Southern colleagues
to support contains another sleep
er. It is the right to bring an
injunction in federal court to en
force the rights of a union mem
ber, whether white or negro.
Section 101 states that anyone
whose rights are infringed on "may
bring action in the District Court
of the United States."
This is exactly the same pro
vision whicn boutnern congress
men, after a lot of hard work,
managed to knock out of the civil
rights bill now before " congress.
Yet these same congressmen are
being urged by Congressman Lan
drum to vote a similar provision
in the labor bill into law.
Inside Deal on Housing
Over the angry objections of a
few liberals, senate leader Lyn
don Johnson and President Eisen
hower have made a tacit deal to
rush through a modified housing
bill that will reduce the price tag
on housing but retain the features
Ike didn't like. Johnson passed
the word to Alabama's amiable
Sen. John Sparkman, the senate
housing chairman, to soften the
housing bill instead of attempting
to override Ike's veto.
In turn, Ike sent word to Capitol
Hill that he will accept a new
housing bill with a few token modi
fications. The bill will still contain
federal grants for public housing,-
slum clearance, urban planning.
housing. These provisions are dis
and direct loans for old folks'
tasteful to the president, but he
is willing to accept them in return
for budget savings.
Sen. Paul Douglas, Illinois uemo-
crat, put up a biter battle behind
closed doors against capitulating
to the president. It wasn't sup
posed to be published, but he
complained that the senate has
been blunting the big issue until
legislation has become "homo
genized."
"I believe in legislation in the
tradition of Norris and La Fol
lette," Douglas declared, referring
to the late great liberal senators,
George Norris of Nebraska and
Robert La Follette of Wisconsin
"The legislative process is a
process of education. You don't
use the legislative process to piece
together an ad hoc bill. Once
the principles are established and
the people in a democracy are
educated, details will fall into
place."
He urged his colleagues to fight
for principle even at the risk of
losing the first round.
Crumbs from the Table
"If we make a habit of ca
pitulating." he warned, "we will
become dominated by the execu
live branch."
He called upon the housing sub
committee to vote in favor of over
riding the president's veto. He
charged that any compromise bill
wouldn't be "only half a loaf, but
just a few crumbs from the table."
Douglas was supported by Sen.
Joe Clark, Pennsylvania Democrat,
who urged senators at the closed-
door meeting: "I think we ought
to take this to the senate floor
even though we may fail to over
ride, because I think there are
things that ought to be aired."
Chairman Sparkman agreed
that the president's veto message
had been inflammatory and "didn't
tell the whole truth." He agreed
that it might be possible to round
up enough votes in the senate to
override the veto. But, he report
ed, "word from the White House
is that the veto couldn't be over-ridden."
Indiana's fair-minded Sen. Hom
er Capehart, the senior Repub
lican on the housing committee,
suggested: "Now that all the poli
tics has been milked out of the
bill, all we have to do is make a
few changes and send the bill
back."
Capehart had been fuming pri
vately over the fact that the
White House has been dealing with
lower ranking Sen. Prescott Bush,
Connecticut Republican, on hous
ing matters, because Capehart s
views on housing are too liberal
to suit the President.
In the showdown voting, a
Southern Republican coalition
agreed to accept the President's
veto and offer him a modified bill.
Senator Sparkman, With Fulbright
of Arkansas, voted with Repub
licans Capehart, Bush, and Beall
o( Maryland against attempting to
over-ride the veto. Senators Clark,
Williams of New Jersey, and
Muskie of Maine supported Doug
las Fulbright and Muskie weren't
present at the closed-door meeting,
but voted by proxy.
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
United Press International
i.itti.R ROCK. Ark. Mrs. L.
C. Bates, president of the Arkan
sas National Assn. lor me na
vancement of Colored People, ask
ino President Eisenhower for pro
tection after her house guard was
arrested for carrying a concaieu
weapon: '
"Despite repeated bombing, at
tacks by gunfire and rocks and
other assaults on our home ...
hnih lw.-i1 and federal authorities
have declined to provide the
minimum physical protection we
have requested.
ISl.IP. N Y. Francis Blouth,
27, quoted by police after con
fessing to the murders of three
lone workers in Long Island eat
ing places:
"If I had had more bullets 1
would have shot more people."
FRIESI.AND, Wis. Railad
official Virn Husscy, describing
the delicate operation of righting
an overturned propane gas car to
prevent an explosion:
"We had to work fast. We
couldn't waste any time. No one
even talked when they didn't
have to."
ATLANTA Mrs. Opie Quisen
berry. 28. explaining why she
gave several of her eight chil
dren t o relatives and allegedly
for ailption:
"I didn't know what to do. Even
if I got all my children bark. I
still couldn't take care of them.
After all, I don't have any money."
MISS CANADA SELECTED
BIRLINGTON, Ont. (IPI)
A blue-eyed, honey-blonde teach
ers college graduate early today
was crowned Miss Canada of 1959,
winning $1,000 aid the right to
compete in the Miss America con
test. Rosemary Catherine Keen
an, 19. of Fredericktown. N.B., a
37 23 36 beauty who plays piano
as well as she looks, defeated 23
other lovelies in the three-day
pageant.
Rackets Committee's Kennedy
Gives His Views Of Hearings
EDITOR'S NOTEl In the fol
lowing dispatch, the chief coun
sel of the Senate Rackets Com
mittee concludes that dealing
with corruption Is a problem
for business and the bar for
all Americans as well as un
ions. By ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Rackets Committee Counsel
Written For UPI
WASHINGTON ( UPI In two
and a half years, the Senate
Rackets Committee has heard a
parade of witnesses who have
told stories of theft, extortion,
double-dealing or other forms
of man's mistreatment of his fel
low man.
A great deal of this kind of tes
timony, has led some people to
the conclusion that the fault lies
solely with labor. Nothing could
be further from the truth. The
committee has looked into rela
tively few unions, and where cor
ruption has been shown, the AFL
CIO has often moved vigorously
and effectively to deal with the
problem. The expulsion from the
AFL-CIO of the Teamsters and
Bakery & Confectionery Workers
Unions are two such examples.
At the same time, the commit
tee has looked into some SO com
panies and corporations. No bus
iness group has yet to take any
action comparable to that of la
bor against these business enter
prises which have been shown to
have engaged in unsavory practices.
In addition, we have bad a
number of lawyers about whom
there has been serious derogatory
information. Some lawyers have
invoked the Fifth Amendment be
fore the committee. Yet, bar as
sociations have yet to take the
first action against any of these
offending members of the legal
profession.
Not Labor Problem Alone
The corruption we have uncov
ered weaves from labor to man
agement to lawyers to all seg
ments of our society. This is not
labor's problem any more than it
is management's or the taxpay
er's problem. It is a problem that
strikes at every one of us; this
corruption is a problem for all of
us as Americans.
The committee of necessity has
had to explore the seamy side in
the field of labor-management re
lations, but a great many people
showed ' great courage and we
should not lose sight of their
brave fight against tyranny and
corruption.
James Luken of Cincinnati is
such an example. A leading
Teamster official, he provided a
marked contrast to the 100 fel
low Teamster leaders who ap
peared before the committee and
invoked the Fifth Amendment. He
testified forthrightly about his
fight with James R. Hoffa since
he became head of a Milk Wagon
Drivers local in Cincinnati, and
then head of the Joint Council
there. i
He told without dramatics the
threats to his life how a hearse
showed up at his home one day
to pick up his body; bow flowers
were sent to his funeral.
Fight With Hoffa's "Man"
He told of his bitter fights with
William Presser, the president of
the Ohio Conference of Team
sters, whom the committee has
labelled corrupt. He related how
Hoffa told him: "If you want to
get ahead in the Teamsters in
Ohio, you take orders from Bill
Presser. He's my man." When
Presser appeared before the com
mittee he invoked the i Fifth
Amendment.
The committee has found that
the mark of corrupt labor lead
ership is its affinity for close re
lationship with employers; the
frequent sell-out of union mem
bers. In Ohio, where the contracts
are higher than the Hoffa-negoti-ated
Michigan contracts, Luken
and his associates have had to
fight "side deals' executed by
Hoffa with large trucking com
panies, to the detriment of the
members. In New York, where
the contracts are far superior to
those negotiated in the Midwest,
Teamster official Tom Hickey
stood his ground against Hoffa in
1954 and won for them wage in
creases far in excess of what Hof
fa had told the large motor car
riers they could settle for.
PLAN POLAR TRIP
MOSCOW (UPI) The All-
Union Arctic and Antarctic Re
search Institute in Leningrad has
begun preparations for the Soviet
Union's fifth expedition to the
Antarctic,
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Luken and Hickey are but two
.nioa nf the maioritv J
Teamster officials throughout the
country wno are nunc ana who
devote their energies to the im
provement of conditions of their
fellow workers.
One of the committee's most in
spiring witnesses was John Mo
Niff, a 23-year-old lawyer whose
New York group took up the
cause of thousands of Negro and
Puerto Rican workers, working
for sweatshop wages and under
sweatshop conditions in small
manufacturing plants In cw
York.
Hp found cart of the root nf
the problem was corruptly led
locals of tne oia unn-Aru (now
ih- Allied Industrial Workers i n.
ion). But he also found that for
every crooked labor leader there
was a greedy employer, only too
eager to do business at the ex
pense of his workers and in the
interest ot nis nigner proms. Mc
iff's fight was made much hard
r hv the attitude of these em.
ployers who maintained that the
signing ot sweemeari contracts
was just part of routine business
practices.
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