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Water Ski ing's Fun If You Know How 1 rrxfl Wvvv I -Mb w fee I U NIA Stnlu, lc EDITORIAL PAGE LA'GRANDE OBSERVER friday,. August 21, 1959 "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" I. R1I.EY D. AI J.EN Publisher PUBLISHED BY THB Ul oranuis publish. no compant GEORGE S. CIIALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. The Once-Pure Air Of The West One of the big advantages the West has over the rest of the country at least in the minds of those who live in the rest of the country is Die clearness and freshness of the Western air. Western -novels particularly h'ave capi t talized on this theme and exploited it. The hero can always see at least f0 miles ahead as ha rides off into the sunset. Well, Duster, that may be the way you read it. But don't expect to find that clear air too often this year. Oh, by comparison the air out here still is clear and clean by comparison with other areas in the country, that is. But by comparison with our own area, say 30 years ago, we're losing the fight. Clean air means the air is free of : moisture and foreign particles, usually either dust or smoke. 1 That's why the dry area east of the Cascades, for example, usually has clean er air than the country on the sunset side of the mountains. But excessive dryness this year has added to those other two causes of most air (pollution, dust and smoke. Forest fires over a major portion of the west have caused smoky conditions far worse than usual. And the extreme dryness has caused considerably more dust than is normal. To be frank, a pall hangs over much of the West this year. Fly down, if you will, the east side of the Cascade summit into Northern Cali fornia. It used to be that a person could see mountains from Rainier on the north to .Shasta on the south. No kidding. Not this summer, though. Now one can barely distinguish Mt. Uopd to the north. Shasta doesn't come into flight until you get down to the Klamath Marsh, or beyond. One used to be able to see, about the time he got opposite Shasta on Civil Airway Amber 8, the strange form of the Sutter Buttes rising out of the mid dle of the Sacramento Valley, far to the south. Now, you fly sixty miles farther down the country before the Buttes come into sight. From the air over Red Bluff it was easy to see the country around Chester and Susanville. But not this summer. Side visibility over the weekend, for example, was limited to less than 10 miles. Again the cause, forest fires and dust. And this is in the clear, non-citified part of the West. One has to use in struments to grope his way through the Ix)s Angeles area. San Francisco, on occasion, is not much better. F.ven Portland pours considerable quantities of pollutants into the air each 2 1 hours. The hero in the Western novels is going to have to change. From now on, when he rides off into that sunset, he'll be wiping the tears from his eyes. Tears caused by smoke, dust and in dustrial fumes. They'll Want To Get It Over With Don't be surprised if Congress gets busy and has its annual fight over civil rights legislation right away, rather than put this unpleasantness off till the end of the session as usual. Congres sional leaders realize that the displays of bigotry which prevents enactment of laws concerning discrimination because of race, or religion constitutes dirty linen showing when a visitor comes. And who is coming? Why Premier Khrushchev. How would it be to have him in Washington, DC while in the halls of Congress a debate was raging over a law guaranteeing that a colored citizen should have as much right to cast his vote as a white citizen? Khrushchev will have at least 150 correspondents following him around, straining to catch every word he says. What lie would have to say about such a phase of American democracy would make interesting read ing to the vast majority of the world's people who are not white. With one or two well phrased sentences he could undo most of the good achieved by our billions in foreign aid. Ml L..ll till llm rtvil so uongress win nunuo . . ... rights matter to get it disposed oi be fore Khrushchev arrives. In fact. Con gress wants to adjourn before he gets here, so there will be no embarrassment about whether he should or should not be invited to address the legislators. This situation ought to give the Presi dent an idea. Any time in the future when he wants Congress to get moving and wind up a slow session, he could hint that a big-wig Communist might come visiting. Barbs It's easy to find popularity if you enjoy being bored. All some people save for n rainy day is the nerve to borrow a friend's umbrella,. Tons of dirt circulate in the air of big cities every year. People WILL gossip! Coif season is when, even though married, women .will spend a lot of time looking for a husband. It's nicer to feel for the unfortunate poor if you do it by feeling in your pocket. Airplane courtships are quite common. What if a girl throws the fellow over? DREW PEARSON SAYS: Nixon Found Nikita Drank Little Vodka Durinq Visit WASHINGTON. Vice presl dent Nixon invited a few key senators to a private luncheon the other day and confided his personal impressions of Nikita Khrushchev. After swearing the senators to secrecy, Nixon told how he vow d not to get a single vodka ahead .-of the Soviet Premier, in older to keep his mind clear for their talks. "During our Sunday afternoon together," Nixon reported, "I made up my mind I would drink only what he did and no more. We didn't drink anything until the business was over. "It would he a mistake,' the Vice President concluded, "to think that Krushchev is drinking loo much vodka. Nixon said the Russian leader was a different man in private Iran in public. 'Like a lot of us politicians, when he gets in front of a big crowd he can t help but ham it up, observed ftixon. "But in private, he is very controlled and well informed erroneously in formed but informed. He obv iously has received a lot of bad information about us. He thinks our people don't like the sys tein and the leaders they live un Icr and are waiting to revolt. Ap parently he believes that." The Vice president was startled to find that Khrushchev had editorials on his desk. that had been printed in influential Am erican newspapers ine previous day. He read them even before l got to see them," said Nixon. He noted that the Kremlin boss was 'sensitive" to American editor ial opinion. Byrd Worries About Rd Tax. During their private talks, WALLOWA BRIEFS Mrs. Vance, Son, Return WALLOW A (Special) Mrs. Hay Vance and son, Kenton, came back from John Day last Wed nesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards of la Grande spent the weekend here with his brother, Howard Kuwards and family. Mrs. W. Snook and son Mar vin and daughter, Wanda, visit- 1 La Grande last Wednesday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert .losic, at St. Joseph Hospital, Aug. 1, son, Ernest Robert, weight 7 lb., 12 oz. Mr. and Mrs. Kill Simpson and hildrcn returned from a vaca tion with relatives at Las Animas, Colo. " Harry Running and his moth , Mrs. Ida Running, came in Sunday from San Francisco to visit his brother and son Ken nth and family. Mrs. Ted McKcnzio and child en came home from Brewster. Idaho, Thursday, where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Bob Sheets and family. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tippett left Thursday for Portland to spend a week's vacation. After spending two weeks with her brother. Ed Clemens, Mrs Hattie Short and children left for Seattle Sunday last. Mrs. Evelyn Park and Jo Ann returned this week from Seattle and Portland where they spent ten days visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Gene Fuller and children returned to their home in La Grande last Wednesday after vis iting for some days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy S Collins. Mrs. Donald McClain and chil dien returned Friday from a 10 clay visit with relatives in Port land and Vancouver, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. David Dailey spent last Wednesday in La Grande visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Max McKenrte came back to Wallowa Wednes day alter a brief visit in Boise, Idaho. Joyce Milligan of Enterprise visited her aunt, Mrs. L. Lively, last Thursday. Khrushchev was alternately harsh and conciliatory, which Nixon took to be deliberate, hot-and-cold tactics. Khrushchev was boastful about Russia's "superior" mis siles, which he tossed verbally around the world, telling how few it would take to knock out London, Paris and New York. The most disturbing problem connected with Khrushchev's forthcoming visit was raised by Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia Democrat, who asked about the danger of some crackpot or mal content taking a shot at the No. 1 Communist. "My God!" declared Nixon, throwing up his hands, "that's what worries us the most!" Earlier, the fiscal-minded Byrd unintentionally caused his col leagues to roar with laughter by asking the question that always ,ecms to concern him most. "What is the highest tax bracket they have on those rich people?" he asked Nixon about the Sov iet upper crust. After the laughter subsided, Nixon said he didn't know. But another Khruschchev interview er, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, volunteered that it was 13 per cent. Senator Mike Mansfield, Mon tana Democrat, asked why Card inal Wysmtski had refused to set Nixon in Warsaw. The Vice President explained that Poland has "religious tol eration" if not religious free dom, and that the Communist government even subsidizes par ochial schools. "It might have been harmful to this delicate relationship for me to be in direct contact with the cardinal," he said. He didn't mention that he had sought an audience with Cardinal Wyzynski against the state department's advice and that the cardinal was the one who politely declined. Not Much Democracy Nixon said he was most im pressed with the impact he made on factory workers when he stop ped by to shake hands. He re- culled the "tremendous look of amazement" on their faces when his identity was explained. He said the Communist lead ers ignore tne common people, thinking in terms of efficiency instead of human , values. The managerial class ride in Cadil lacs with the shades pulled down and never bother with the com mon working people. They think in terms of pro duction figures and efficiency," observed Nixon. "They , don't think in human terms. Describing the reaction of the factory workers over meeting the American Vice President, he said: "Here was a big guy in the American government who had come down to their level and shaken hands with the people. At first their faces would look startled, then a pleased expression would break out." Nixon said Khrushchev "was Crop Dusting Pilot Thankful For Investment STOCKTON, Calif. UPI -Pilot Allan Blewett bought a crash helmet Wednesday al though he had never worn one in his hazardous work as a crop duster. Thursday, Blewett's head went through the dashboard of his plane when the craft smashed through two trees, sheared off a power pole and crashed on a road. The pilot walked away from the crash without injuries. "It was the best investment I ever made," Blewett said, rap ping his scarred helmet. Father Tells Plan To Change His Sex LONDON UPI Alec Daw son, 45-year-old garage mechanic and father of three children, said today he would undergo a series of operations that would change him into a woman. "When I come out of Guy's Hos pital in nine months' time I shall have changed my sex and my name," he said. "After that 1 shall make a fresh start." Dawson, proprietor of a garage in Wootton, said his decision to change his sex meant "a clean break" with his family wife Peg, 43, and his three children, John, 21, Stephen, 15, and Bar bara, 8. "1 have always had feminine characteristics," Dawson said. "Even as a youth, my friends called me Alice. I ought to have gone for treatment years ago, but I kept putting it off for the sake of my family." Albany Man Dies In Plane Crash NEWPORT. Ore. (UPI)-A light private plane plunged into a resi dential district three miles south of here Thursday, killing Jack Draper, 39, prominent Albany home builder. The falling plane narrowly missed a home as it ploughed into the ground in the Surfland residential area. Ironically, water spraying from a main ruptured by the impact extinguished a fire which broke out in the wreckage. The plane hit the ground less than 50 feet from t he home of Jen a Feld, a Newport hospital nurse. TRAIN "DIVE BOMBED" ARAIMACHI, Japan (UPI A Siberian Black Kite dive bomb ed the Hayabusa (Falcon) express train near here Monday, shatter ing the windshield of the loco motive and causing a five minute delay. The big bird was killed instantly. out to clobber me" the first couple days, then settled down and became more friendly. After the confidential lunch eon, even Nixon's most outspoke en Democratic critics agreed he had increased in stature, that he had done a competent job. Mental Test Due For Boy After Attack NEW SALEM STATE PARK HI. (LTD- A mental test was being arranged today for the 13-year-old son of a Michigan minis ter who stabbed a bride honey mooning at this Abraham Lincoln shrine. Police said Glen Sampson, son of the Rev. Orval Sampson of the Conregational Church of Hart Mich., showed no remorse over the attack on Mrs. Bruce Braiti ard, 25, of Hamden, Conn. "He acts like he hasn't got a worry in the world," police saiJ. "He isn't the least concerned." Police said the boy offered no explanation for the attack. State's Attorney John Grosboll said Glen would undergo a psy chiatric examination at Godfrey, HI., to detrmine if he should ' be charged with assault with a dead ly weapon. Grosboll said delin quency charges were certain to to be filed against him. Glen stole into a bathhouse Thursday morning and grabbed Mrs. Brainard from behind. He clamped one hand over her mouth to stifle her screams and with the other drove a six-inch steak kntfe into her chest. Mrs. Brainard, bleeding ' pio fusely, slumped to the floor as the boy ran from the bathhouse. She said he was "giggling" as he made his escape. A passerby heard the woman's screams and found her lying on the floor. She was taken to a near by doctor who said the wound was not serious, although the knife came within a half-inch, of her heart. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Prs International WASHINGTON - AFL-CIO Vice President James B. Carey, in a letter to the 229 House members who voted last week to substi tute the Landrum-Griffin bill for a milder labor reform measure: "We wish to assure you . . . that we shall do all in our power to prove to the working men and women in your district that you have cast your lot against them and they should therefore take ap propriate action at the ballot box." STFHRAV1LLE. Calif.. Sierra County. District Attorney Gordon I. Smith, after tiling a murder complaint against Larry Lord Motherwell in connection with the slaying of a rich Washington, D. C. widow: "It's not the easiest case In the world to prove, but we think we've got enough to go after him." LOS ANGELES A secretly recorded voice that police charge is that of Kris Albert, wealthy Beverly Hills motel owner, offer ing a farm worker $1,000 to kill his crippled wife as an "act of mercy": "It isn't worth that much, Mike. Believe you tne, I've been tempt ed to do it mysetf at times, but then the finger would always point to me, who else? I go in there and just stuff a pillow up against her mouth and in three minutes, she's a goner. But as soon as this would happen, they'd check on me." fit Do You Know There are many kinds of fire insurance? Inflated prices on homes can cause increased insurance rates. We can cover all your insurance needs in one policy. Complete protection at low cost. Your claim is handled locally, and it receives the immediate atten tion of our office. EAUfI INSURANCE AGENCY 105 Depot La Grande WO 3-2125 New Site Found For OTI Plant KLAMATH FALLS UTH - A new site for Oregon Technical Institute has been selected by the OTI Site Fund Committee. The choice is subject to formal ap proval by the State Board of Higher Education Yeni Owens, committee chair man, announced the selection of the site, at the north edge of the city limits here adjacent to Kit Carson Way. Owens said the committee still lacks $lti.!MO of the $40,000 needed for purchase of the tract. He said local citizens have pledged assist ance in raising the remainder. Slate board approval was as sured for the proposal, Owens said. FORMOSA MEETING DELAYED WAKSAW il'PD The wh.nl- uled Aug. 26 meeting between' t inted Slates Ambassador Jacob Beam and Communist Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping Nan on the Formosa question has been postponed until Sept. 1 "tor ad ministrative reasons, the V. S embassy announced. Two Chevy middleweight: prove their rawhide staminal ie: ' . infest &mMPf; iff Top hands on high-country hauls ! Ask any trucker who's been over Wolf Creek Pass, 10,850 feet up in the San Juans : a 9-mile pull to the summit and low gear all the way down. Mr. C. H. Phillips of Alamosa, Colorado, has a 6403 and a 6503 Chevrolet truck that are up over this route the year round, taking sheep and beef to ' pasture, later marketing the stock in Denver. In less than a year his Chevy middleweight have averaged about 50,000 miles of this kind of treatment-and they're going stronger than ever ! Watch Chevy trucks at work out in range country. It's a sight to see the way they pack into high-up mountain pastures and handle through brush and rock like a cowman's favorite cutting horse. Take any truck work for that matter. Chevy middleweight probably handle a bigger variety of jobs than any trucks alive. About anything you name, includ ing work that used to be reserved strictly for bigger rigs. When a truck's built the way a Chevy is, lean-muscled and rawhide-tough, it takes to ugly trails the same way most trucks roll over the highway. It just keeps going, without a big to-do, but looking good every mile of the way. How they do it is your Chevrolet deal er's department. He'll be glad to supply details and specifications on the type of models you need. No job's too tough for a Chevrolet truck! r'Ffo " Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the Oregon Ceitennial Txposilion in . Portland, and see your local "mlhorired Chevrolet dealer 1415 ADAMS II. J. GOSS MOTOR CO. J LA GRANDE WO 3-2712