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Don't Go Too Far Away J .' y ., DO NOT f DISTURB (TOO MUCH) - EDITORIAL ' PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Monday,, August 17, 1959 "A Modern Newspaper With The pioneer Spirit" RILEY D. ALLEN i PUBLISHED BT THB LA O RAND B rUBUSUINO COMPANT GEORGE S. CHAIXJS . TOM HUMES Publisher .......Adv. Director . Circulation Mgr. Automation And Higher Wages The only way some industries can keep on meeting the demands for higher wages by strong unions is by developing mechanical processes that do the work men used to do. It's called automation. ; If fewer men, using new machines', can do the same amount of work that larger crew formerly did, they can' be paid more per hour without running up jhe cost of what they are producing. The longshore union, one of the strong est in the nation, has succeeded under the Harry Bridges regime in winning wage and fringe benefits for its mem bers that have made. longshoring one of the top paid trades. It used to rank only a little above common labor. Longshore jobs are so much desired that there is always a waiting list. A man doesn't join the union. He has to be voted in. High labor costs on the waterfront didn't bring about automation in the loading and discharging of ship cargoes as quickly as some expected, but it is coming. The new contract between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Associa tion takes cognizance of it in a way that may be unique. The union has agreed not to resist automation providing longshoremen are given a share of the savings that wjll be made by the employers through in creased productivity under automation. The first year this will amount to 1.5 million dollars. Also the employer cannot lay off men replaced by machines. But as they re tire, . die or quit, replacements do not need to be hired. An outsider can never evaluate accur ately what is in something so intricate as a labor contract, but there is an ele ment of common sense apparent in this agreement that is a credit to both the union and the employers. " It is easy to imagine an earlier period when the introduction of labor saving devices on the docks would have meant automatically a coast wide strike. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Nikita May Have The Last Laugh On Military Bases WASHINGTON. It may seem a long way between Nixon's con versations with Khrushchev in Moscow and the conference of Pan American fcreiisn ministers it Santiago, Chile, but there's an important connection between them just the same. In Moscow, Krushchev com plained to Nixon that the United States had ringed Russia with a bulwark of military bases which were a threat to peace. In retaliation for that ring of bases, the Soviet now finds it self in a position where it may soon be able to ring the United State with unfriendly countries, perhaps eventually military bas es. For Cuba, now governed by anti-American Fidel Castro, and influenced by Communist advis ers, is just as close to the United States as Turkey and Pakistan are to Russia. Furthermore, Castro has been branching out with raids on Panama, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republican, -with view to setting up new anti- American, possibly pro-Commun ist, governments in those key countries, all of them as import ant to the safety of the United States as Turkey and Pakistan are to Russia. This is what the Santiago con ference is all about. It's called by the Pan American Union to try to work out a solid front of Pan American states against in vasion, war, and, in effect, pro- Communist penetration of the Caribbean. However, the United States will face rough sledding And this is not due particularly to the operations of Moscow. It is due to fumbling in Washington, neglect of the Good Neighbor policy, and the natural demand ol poorer populations of the Car ibbean for a higher standard ol living. While we worry about what s going on in Laos on the other side of the globe, or in Iraq in the Near East, we have paid al- QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International Smoking And Early Another survey connecting cigarette smoking with early death has been made. And as usual, the tobacco industry won't like it. This is a U. S. Public Health Service survey. It is a study of the deaths of 200,000 veterans whose smoking habits were known. Death rate from lung cancer was ten Death times 1,000 per cent higher among cigarette smokers than among non-, smokers. From coronary heart disease it was fi3 per cent more. The rates for deaths front respiratory diseases, ulcers and cirrhosis of the liver also were greater. Think of that the next time you buy a pack of cigarettes. SINGING COMMERCIAL IS RECEIVING NEW DIGNITY By DOC QUICC UPI Staff Writer NEW YORK (UPI) The singing commercial, an Institu tion as American as the apple pie or if you prefer the rattlesnake or the poison Ivy, is reaching for a new oinacle of dignity. A local firm that manufactures singing commercials is offering a series of workshop seminars to which advertising agencies can send their flannel-bearing person nel. There they wfll get schooling In the loftier qualities of the Jin-gle-music that sells. Just when in history the singing commercial burst upon the public is a matter of some dispute. One school holds that the first usage occurred in the dim past when the first cave mother sang to her tot the first primitive lullaby ex tolling the superior virtues of sleep. Study Better Jungles Among the subjects to be ex amined at the seminar are "the trend towards better jingles" and "sound effects can be beautiful." The project la being offered by ForreU. Thomas and Polack As sociates, an outfit that has con fected and put on radio and TV more than w singing commercials. "Music and singing can put across any sales message." said Gene Forrell. a partner of the firm, in a news conference an nouncing the seminar. "For ex ample, the next presidential Cam paign will be the most musical in history." It wouldn't have to go. far to sot that record. There was some attempt at convention time in lt56 to get the song fires blazing The Democrats made a deter mined effort with a song that began. "Oh, the Democratic Par ty is for you and you and you ..." It turned out to be something less than a national race. . Never Left Hangar They also had one, donated by Alan Jay Lerner and set to the tune of one of the hit songs ol his musical "My Fair Lady," that opened with the forthright assertion that "we'll start cam paigning in the morning" and had as its refrain: "Adlai's gonna win this time." Somehow or other, it not only never got off the ground it didn't even leave the hangar. The Messrs. Forrell, Thomas, and Polack, however, are mon strously clever and could be just the ones to put musio into politics. They've done it with fire Young Demos Want Dam Named After Dave Epps PORTLAND (UPD-The execu tive board of the Oregon Young Democrats Sunday blasted the proposal to change the name of Green Peter Dam to Douglas McKay dam. A resolution adopted by the group requests that the proposed dam be renamed after Dave Epps, late Democratic chairman instead of after McKay. Salt Lake City Girl , Wins Accordion Event LONG BEACH, Calif. (I'PD-Twenty-year-old Frances Flower, of 204 Douglas St., Salt Lake City. Utah, was chosen 1959 grand prize winner Sunday night in the fourth annual Western States Accordion Festival in Municipal Auditorium. Miss Flower was awarded a $250 savings bond and a trophy for her performance of the third movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto In E Minor. prevention. As a public service to the city for a fire prevention drive they've written a song. One of its rhymes goes: "I overloaded an electric socket and now I'm stone cold dead in de mocket." , GETTYSBURG, Pa. Presi dent Eisenhower, expressing sor row at the death of Fleet Adm. William F. (Bull) Halscy: , "His great personal contribution to the successful campaigns in the Pacific and the exploits of the forces under his command are a brilliant part of American mili tary history." WASHINGTON Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-lnd.), stressing in a newsletter inai me uimea States will uphold the doctrine of non-intervention even though that might open the way to charges of supporting Latin American dic tatorships: "The fact is that both Nicara gua and the Dominican Republic have stable governments, and in a topsy turvy world we are inter ested in stable governments. ' PLAINSBORO, N.J. Mrs Thomas A. Powner. commenting on the disclosure that hidden mi crophones listened in on her, her husband and their children during the 14 days they spent in an atomic "fallout" shelter: Of course, we would have lived much differently if we had known we were being recoraea. we would have been much more self-conscious." LOS ANGELES Police Offi cer Austin Burt Fernwald, 36, who had delivered three babies from parents who couldn't get to the hospital on time, alter he had to do the same for his own wife: 'I wasn't at all nervous unlil I started to drive home. Then it hit me. I really took it easy going home.". most no attention to a situation which has been stewing right under our noses for several years. So It will be difficult, if not impossible, for Secretary Her tcr to pick up the pieces and put them together in a few days or a few weeks. Note: Approximately" 700 mer cenary Spanish soldiers, sent by Dictator Franco, are now in the Dominican Republic. To have Spanish soldiers in country once under Spain, within a few miles of the United States, would have brought headlines of horror from the U.S.A. a few years ago. Today, with nobody worrying, developments are brewing which may cause considerably more than worry. Ike Doten't Understand Bill President , Eisenhower spoke with great conviction and sincer ity in urging passage of the Landrum-Griffin labor bill the other night. But listeners who understand labor matters are wondering who wrote his speech Whoever did let the president in for an amazing, unforgivable mistake. It showed he hadn't re ally studied the labor bill any better than most congressmen, Citing the problem of a myth ical furniture manufacturer, Eis enhower said: "The employees vote against joining a particular union. Instead of picketing the plant itself . . . they picket the stores which sell the furniture. The purpose is to prevent those stores from handling that furni ture. "How can anyone justify this kind of pressure against stores which are not involved in any dispute?" The president asked his TV audience. "They are in nocent by-standers. This kind of action is designed to make the stores bring pressure on the fur niture plant and its employes GOP Solons'Letters To The Editor Seek Facts to force these employes into union they don't want. This is an example of a secondary boycott. I want that sort of thing stop pod. So does America! What most of Ikes listeners did not know, however, was that this sort of thing was stopped in America 12 years ago by the Taft Hartley act, which not only outlaws this type of picketing but requires the federal government to bring an immediate injunction in federal court to prevent ex actly the type of secondary boy cott the President told the Am erican people he wanted out lawed. Ike really ought to get another speech-writer. Ike, vs. Sam President Eisenhower told an off-the-record newspaper dinner the other night that he would favor Speaker Sam Rayburn as Democratic nominee for pres ident. However, Ike's TV speech against the modern labor bill favored by Rayburn means that the chips are down between these two powerful men. Checking over trie congression al! nose-count to see who would vote for the tough Landrum Griffin bill which Ike supports and who would vote for the moderate bill which Mr. Sam supports. Sam got a discourag ing report from Democratic whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma. "We ran be certain of only 192 'sure Democratic votes against the Landrum bill," he said, "plus 10 Republican votes out of a pos sible 22 doubtful Republicans. "How about Texas? ' asked Sam, who has represented that state in congress for 43 years. Albert replied that as of then he could be sure that only three Tex as congressmen would vote against the Landrum bill. "We'll do better than that, Carl," insisted the speaker. "I'll get at least eight votes from Texas. That is a difference of five votes in our calculations, and a switch of five votes from one side to the other side amounts to 10 in a roll call. We'll need all the votes from Texas we can get." ONLY E0 MORE DAYS unlil lhe UNION COUNTY FAIR Thursday, Friday & Saturday August 27-28-29 PLAN TO BRING THE FAMILYI On Strike NEW YORK (UPI) Two Re Kiblican senators will introduce a resolution today calling on Presi dent Eisenhower to make public tne facts Dentnd the steel strike Sens. Jacob K. Javits of New York and George D. Aiken of Ver mont said in a joint -statement Sunday that, given the facts, "the great national jury of the people of the United States, should be able to crystallize the weight of public opinion to bring about a settlement or indicate what fur ther steps may be taken to bring it about." Thus they proposed that the President 'share with the people the facts found for hi.n by his own fact-finder," Secretary of La bor James P. Mitchell. Negotiations aimed at ending the six-week strike were to re sume today after a week-end re cess between the United- Steel- workers of America and the stele industry bargaining team. Joseph F. Finnegan, chief of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serv ice, was to take part in today's negotiations. Javits and Aiken said that lack of progress toward a solution of the strike seemed to be leading toward use of the national emer gency provision of the Taft-Hart ley Act. This would provide for creation of a fact-finding board and issuance of a federal injunc tion which would order steel strik ers back to work for an. 80-day period on grounds that the nation al welfare would otherwise suffer. Meanwhile, negotiations would continue. "We do not believe the country should wait until the emergency calls for Taft-Hartley procedures but should get the facts now," Javits and Aiken said in their statement. Pickets Patrol Metals Plant In Portland PORTLAND (UPI) Pickets to day continued to patrol the Union Carbide Metals Co. plant here' The plant was closed Saturday night by a strike of local 3103 of the United Steelworkers of Amer ica. The walkout idled IS workers. The strike began when a three year Contract with the company ended Saturday. Union officials rejected a company offer to ex tend the contract 60 days while negotiations on a new pact could be continued. E. L. Hix, plant superintendent, said the union rejected the offer because the same offer was not made to another local on strike at another of the firm's plants in Atabula, Ohio. The Ohio plant has been on strike since July 13. A rather unique event has tak en place in the community of La Grande. Seldom does communl iv have presented in its midst a nrniturtion of the caliber of "Doctor, in Buckskin Clad," authored by local talent, directed by local talent, and played by lo cal talent. Dr. Al Kaiser of EOC made possible this play to La Grande in Oregon's Centennial year. At ter research and study, he wrote the script which dramatically portrays major episodes in the life of Marcus Whitman follow ing the theme of dedication through a missionary medical service. This missionary-medicai service was climaxed in a massa- , r The massacre in not shown in )h dramatization but the dramatization conveys the emo tional involvements leading to i ho massacre. Wallace Johnson and Rhodes Lewis were rcpons ble for the musical scores tnat provided the prelude, the inter ludes. inH the Dostlude. wun fine feeling for the total drama tization, the authors have bound the nroduction together with musical finesse. Richard Hiatt, Assistant Professor of dramatics at EOC, directed the play. He chose the cast from the citizens of La Grande, students and ex students of the college. The mu sicians who made up the chorus and orchestra were local folk. AH participants gave fine accounts nf themselves in the productioa and certain of them deserve the special mention given them by press and radio for oustandiog performance. A grant from, the Oregon State Fine Arts Committee and the backing of the EOC Advance ment Association made possible the financing of this production. This help made possible the elab- Estacada Couple Dies When Car Leaves Road ESTACADA (UPI) An Esta- cada couple was killed Saturday night when a foreign ..made car plunged off the Clackamas river road about 16 miles east of here. Dead are John Turnbull, 53, and his wife Emily, SO. Clackamas County Sheriff's offi cers said the auto rolled down a 350-foot embankment and came to rest at the edge of the Clackamas river. orate stage settings and costly lighting equipment. This production, It seems to me, has given La Grande some thing unique, something that U La Grande's own. Many commun ities in the United States are annually presenting similar his toric dramatizations as features lor public entertainment and as devices to attract and hold tour ists in their communities. "Doc tor, in Buckskin Clad" played nine times on three successive evenings on three successive weeks in La Grande. It also played a special performance for the Wagon Train, making ten local performances. Members of the Wagon Train were so im pressed that the suggestion came from them that the play be Invit ed to Independence, Oregon at a special event in the finale for the Wagon Train's trek across the nation. Many, of our people have now seen the production and know its quality. A decision as to whe ther those responsible for this dramatization should be encour aged to present it annually as a part of our tourist season must soon be made. We welcome com munity opinion at this point. Re gardless of what this decision may be, I am sure our community feels indebted to the cast, the authors of the musical scores, the property personnel, the dir ector, Richard Hiatt, and the author, Dr. Al Kaiser, for a fine contribution to La Grande and eastern Oregon in this 1959 Cen tennial year. Frank B. Bennett President, Eastern Oregon College . WASH YOUR HAIR THE NEW EASY WAY I NEW SINGLE HANDLE FAUCET Wm. Bohnenkamp Plumbing Heating Sheet Metal 1607 Adams Ave. Ph. WO 3-4731 NOW! ! ! THE FAMOUS . 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