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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1959)
Jack in the Box DREW PEARSON SAYS: EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER j J ; Tuosdsy, August 25 195? "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" Olfios I RILEY D. ALLEN Publisher LA ofix5'puui.i8HiNO company GEORGE S. CIIALLIS Adv. Director I A M T TOM HUMES .. Circulation Mgr. It Could Happen Here .The'Rjj'ifht tremors which were felt in La' Gmde lust week proves that this area js'rfot exempt entirely from earth quakes." Any mountainous region may have one or both the principle causes of quakes.--" Earth movements caused by faulting, folding and subsequent slippage or volcanic activity can cause the shock Waves which radiate out from the center of the activity much as the ripples caused on a stream of water when a pebble is cast into it. This brings up the important' point of whether we still want to trust to luck that our schools will be spared. With full knowledge that the type of insur ance needed to cover the buildings costs a lot of money, immediate steps should be taken to provide the "Extended Cover age" needed to give us the protection we need for our entire system of school buildings. Assuredly the district is in no condition financially to rebuild or to have major repair work done, if the next temblor has a reading of 8 on the liichter scale instead of a harmless 1 or 2. Who knows? The Puget Sound area had not had a serious quake prior to 19 16, either. Iut there was one then and one just a couple of years later of almost equal intensity. Preventing Another Disaster The Roseburg disaster caused by a truck loaded with dynamite and a com bination of ammonium nitrate and diesel oil called, "Nitro-Cargo-Nitrate," should not happen in La Grande. City Ordin ance No. 1659 prevents the parking w ith in the city limits of vehicles loaded with explosives. This does not eliminate all the danjrr, however. A vehicle loaded with qfcftsives parked just outside the city,J$ms could be almost as dangerous and, adestructiye to property and lives as one that was parked within the city limits. v, We hope the Union County officials are alert to this jeopardy and are sub sequently, on guard and, if corrective measures have not already been taken, they should be soon. "Once burned, twice cautious," is an old adage that should take on double meaning in this case. We hope that our neighboring cities will become concerned enough about the danger to review their ordinances to determine whether they could have a similar disaster in their city.. -An explosion of such magnitude hap-. pening in most any village in the state in the busy part of the day would take a much larger toll of dead and in jured than was suffered at Roseburg. It was only a miracle that there were not a great many more. Gap In Forest Laws Why are so many laws regarding use of Oregon's forests ignored both by vio lators and officialdom? Hecaus? most Oregon forests are federal forests pro tected by federal law. This means that violators must be taken before the U.S. commissioner in Portland which is impractical in all but the most grave offenses. Resides, state and local officials aren't eager or expect ed to move into the tangles of federal court procedures. When lookouts are damaged, wilder ness areas defaced or motor vehicles taken into primitive areas there should be a convenient way to handle the matter locally through justice or district courts. The remedy is fairly simple. In fact it would be no chore at nil for the next Legislature simply to adopt the appro priate federal statutes as state law. 1 tetter still, a forest use code taking care of this and other gaps could be written specifically for Oregon's needs. ' (Salem Capital-Journal) Upland Bird Hunters After two better than average seasons, Oregon upland bird hunters face poor conditions this year. -. For some unknown reason unknown at this stage of the game, at any rate this year's bird crop is much smaller Ijhan jimal. '! Observers locally have noticed fewer than the usual number of chicks in each ferood. Fewer quail have leen seen. Thi confirmed by the studies of the Game Commission all over the Eastern part of the state. Weather conditions have been as good Not So Lucky this year for young birds as in previous years, 8o that's apparently not a factor. Last year, however, quail hatched three broods in a number of cases. The second batch is just beginning to show now, and a third seems out of the ques tion. New duck regulations promise better hunting for Pacific shooters than those in the rest of the country. Rut that luck apparently is not going to hold for area hunters of pheasant, quail, chukars, Hungarian partridge, sage hens and other upland birds. Sen. Hennings Wages Fight To Get Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON Sen. Tom Hen nings or Missouri, whose great grandfather owned more slaves than any other plantation own er in Georgia and whose grand father wai an oCicer in the con federate army, has been waging a quiet, frustrating drive to put across a civil right bill at this session of congress. Up until this week he was extremely patient For over a month Hennings has been presiding over the judiciary subcommittee considering a civil rights bill, but Southern Senators have stalled. They have b?en polite good-humored, effective. Sen. Sam Krvin of North Carolina has quoted at length from Aesop's fables and ecited Biblical quotatiens from Nicodemus, the pharisee who came to see Jesus iff the night to ques tion him about his miracles. During one of the last closed door committee sessions, when Hennings moved to speed up the civil rights bills, Senator Frvin asked delay in order to read the record. "Will the Senator from North Carolina change his mind if he reads the record?" 'asked the Senator from Missouri. "He's read most of it anyway. He made most of it with his own testimony Will re-reading it change bis posi tion even an inch? Is he like Joseph Smith, waiting to receive the word from the Angel Monroni?" continued Hennings, re ferring to the Mormon angel who appeared before the Prophet Jo seph Smith in a vision. "I've learned Aesop's fables by heart. I've heard the Senator extol the virtues of Nicodemus I'm quite sure he was a great man But he's been dead many years and it's time to take up the pres ent. I move that we terminate our hearings now." When there was further objec tion, the grandson of the pre-civil war slave-holder finally bypassed his committee and introduced the civil rights bill as an amendment to a minor Senate bill from the government operations committee Note Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas has stated that a civil rights bill will be passed before Congress adjourns. Two Candidates for President Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, who spent eight hours with Premier Khrushchev In the Kremlin, telephoned Vice Presi dent Nixon alter his return from visiting with Khrushchev. 'Dick, I want you to know. greted Humphrey, "that I am one of those who think your trip was good for America, good for world peace, and," he added slyly, good for you. Gloria Swanson and Miss Dulles A hitherto unrevealed incident in the long, tragic illness of John Foster Dulles has just been dis closed by Gloria Swanson, the famed actress, who has starred in more movies than she can remember. When Dulles was stricken with cancer, Miss Swanson telephoned his sister, Eleanor Dulles, who is the German expert in the state department. "I'm only a movie actress but I know Krebiozen has helped many cancer patients, she said, re ferring to the treatment for cancer pioneered by Dr. Slevan Durovic of Chicago and championed by Dr. Andrew Ivy of the University of Illinois Medical School. I agree with you," Miss Dulles replied, "but my brother is sur- QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International TOMS RIVER, N.J. Ocean County Prosecutor Howard Evart, tracing a prison fire that killed eight inmates to an inflammable tranquillizer solution and a ciga ret slipped to a deranged pris oner by a trusty: It was an act of kindness, but he gave it to the wrong guy." W ASHINGTON Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon Johnson i Tex. ), on possible adjournment of Congress to avoid taking part in greeting Soviet Premier Niki ta S. Khrushchev next month: "I don't believe that the fact that the President has invited a visitor to this country and he has accepted is any reason for mem bers of Congress to flee the cap ital." MINNEAPOLIS Vice Presi dent Nixon, reiterating that Presi dent Eisenhower will not carry on private negotiations on Berlin with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev: "Any settlement of any ques tion will have to be made with all appropriate parties present." LOS ANGELES An unnamed detective, suggesting that pretty University of Southern California coed Linda Edna Martin was stabbed to death by a prowler as she stepped from a bath in her fiance's apartment: "I think myself It was a strang er. Whoever was in there appar ently was surprised by her and when she screamed, he stabbed her. There wasn't much of a fight." rounded by too many people his wife and all those doctors who are frightened by the AMA." Miss Swanson points out that the American Medical Association has fought a long battle against krebiozen, though such famed physicians as Dr. Ivy have cham pioned it as a treatment to alle viate, though not a surefire cure for. cancer. Nevy Should Handle Space Ships Rear Admiral Jack Monroe, com mander of the Pacific Missile I Range and outspoken advocate of P the Navy's role in space, has I f come up with a new reason why sailors should man future space ships. "It is quite likely," he ex plained in a recent speech, "they will resemble destroyers in size and weight more, thaa they will aircraft. ... It one looks at the second and third generation of space vehicles, one can envision an extremely large space ship that will be nuclear-propelled. One could imagine a vehicle that is probably the size of a destroyer or larger and possessing five or ten or more million pounds of thrust." Admiral Monroe described his vision of rocket-powered destroyers whizzing through space as a logical extension of sea power. 1 '"Hie sea power of this nation, he declared, "will be wedded to usable space power . . .' we hope that from space will come benefits to increase the navy's mobility and flexibility, for mobility is the ageless stories of navies. It is the ageless story of sea power. . . . Throughout all history each new in strument has added to the totality of sea power, and we hop: that space technilogy also will." Note The Admiral neglected to get his speech cleared at the de fense department, is now in hot water for his partisan dreams of space travel. Mailbag Governor Earl Long of Louisiana, Baton Rouge I have talked to your nephew, Senator Russell Long, and am convinced he did not de liberately conspire to have you committed to further his own po litical purposes. Russell had been offered an honorary ' degree of Doctor of Laws by Loyola Ini versity, the same degree awarded his father Huey. He flew down to New Orleans to deliver the graduation address, so by mere coincidence happened to be in the state at the time your commit ment proceedings took place. Russell tells me that he has been and still is concerned over your health and feels that you should take an extended rest. However he Insists he doesn't want to run for Governor Louisiana. I am convinced he much prefers being in the U.S. Senate where he is doing a good job. I lr hi .nD i- . I WALKING SUIT FOR FALL r I t .'!e Joan Boone is modeling a black, yellow and brown wool walking suit, new in fash ion this fall. The suit has a long jacket and a straight skirt. It may be seen at Mont gomery Ward Company. "' (Observer: photo) m Mississippi Voters Cast Ballots Today JACKSON. Miss. (UPI) An estimated 415.000 Mississippi vot ers go to the polls today to elect a new governor in the Democrat ic runoff primary. Nomination in the' primary is tantamount to election in Mississippi where Re publicans are only a nominal force. ' Voters will choose between Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin, 47, and Jack son Attorney Ross Barnett, 60. Gartin and Barnett ousted Charles Sullivan from the race in the first primary three weeks ago when Barnett polled 155.508 votes, Gartin 151,043 and Sullivan 131, 729 in the 82 counties. Gov. J. P. Coleman Is generally known to favor Gartin, although Coleman has not openly said so. Coleman is ineligible to succeed himself, a fact that is one of Bar nett s big issues. He has claimed Gartin is conspiring with Cole man and former Gov. Hugh White to set up a political dic tatorship. The second primary campaign fight was described by some ob servers as one of the bitterest in Mississippi's political history. LETTERS Maximum Iwiflth 300 words. No anonymous letters but true name will be withheld on re quest. To The Editor:" May I express our appreciation for the church announcements be ing on Friday which makes them of use on rural routes, and for the farm section. We also enjoy the many pictures. Our church announcement is en closed. Yours very truljP, Virginia Hug (Mrs. Bernal Hug, Jr.) Elgin Aug. 24. METER-MAIDS NEW YORK UP! The New York City Board of Estimate Thursday approved a bill' creat ing a "meter maid" force to pa trol the city's 50,000 parking me ters. About 100 women will be hired as "meter maids." Will Wealth Affect The Rasmussens? By ROBERT MUSEL UPI Staff Writer SOGNE, Norway UPD Sup pose you live in a very small town and one of your neighbors' children married into a mint of money. It would only be patural to speculate how this might change your neighbor's way of life. In this very small town today there was just such speculation about Kristian Rasmussen, the re tired grocer whose daughter Anne Marie Saturday married into one of the wealthiest and most pow erful families in the world the Rockefellers. Some of it was the friendliest kind of discussion, and some of it was tinged by envy just what you would expect anywhere in the world. Live In Small Cottage The Rasmussens live in a small wood and concrete cottage. They are one of the few families who do not have a telephone. At one time Rasmussen ran a general store on the off-shore island of Boroya, but he sold out and "re tired" that is, he became a lob ster exporter, which is a season able trade. Small town folks close ranks in a sort of conspiracy when out siders pry. The other day when Steven bought Anne Marie a zith er the local music shop refused to tell the price. "I'll buy one then," said an exasperated journalist. "1 would not sell it to you." snapped the salesgirl. So today in Sogne friends and critics would speak only anonymously. Fewer Business Worries Rasmussen will have fewer bus iness worries than in the past. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, Anne Marie's new father-in-law, invited the Rasmussens to visit the United States. The bride's father spent an es timated year's incohie on the wedding and the expense of such a trip for three people might now be beyond him. "But I don't think he will have any troubles finding financing for the trip, eh" said a taxi driver. Friends said with a loving daughter, they would not have to worry alwut their old age. one villager said they haven t lost a daughter they've sained a millionaire. VFW Planning Dance The VFW in sponsoring dance at the Sacajawea Hotel, SepL 12 at 8:30 p.m. with the proceeds going to the Veterans' Memorial Fund. The money will be used to finish paying off the memor ial constructed' earlier in the year. Joe' Schooler tnd his Western ers, will furnish music for the event in the main ballroom of the hotel. TRUMAN AND BENNY HOLLYWOOD (UPI i A widely known amateur musician, former President Harry Truman, will team up with another amateur musician of note, comedian Jack Benny. Oct. is on television. Tru iran will be a guest oa Benny's show on the Columbia Broadcast ing System TV network. Come Downlown for La Grande's '..ijI j mi TOMORROW NIGHT! We Will Be Open To 9 O'Clock FREE FOOTBALL! ; i 1 t. iO tor I To Introduce Our New J SHOES FOR BOYS J - .1 ni. This rugged junior-size football free wit moulded-rubber h each p aim c: $g& IOv $h Jfcv Widths Sixes Y f O , V'. Widths N7S Hsgy B to D S J ; llfc . We are happy and proud to introduce Jrmn Jrs. tq f our young customers. The Jarman company is now faking shoea for boys which feature the good looks and long wear that have made Jarman a favorite men's brand. or, many years. 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