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Speaking of Summits . . EDITORIAL PAGE !LA GRANDE OBSERVER : 3 Thursday, August 27, 1959 s "A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit" : ' ' " RILEY D. ALLEN . . . Publisher r Pimi.lSHRD BT TUB ruuuanw La (i raj ok I'ubuishino compant GEORGE & CHALLIS :.Ad. Director I TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. I Considering All Aspects Of War . Nice Teople shudder when plans are jlaid to destroy others with insidious wea i pons. They were aghast when we rhop Tped the atomic bomb on Japan. They J would cry out if this country announced it wns producing chemical, biological and .radiological weapons for use in case of I war. Yet they would be anions the dead J and maimed if an enemy used such wea- pons against them. . ! This country is now producing these : "unseen killers", but while military re- search goes about its task of creating J more lethal weapons a great hush-hush 'surrounds the effort. This shroud of sec recy is potentially more dangerous than j the weapons themselves. More than a year ago it was reported I by the U. S. Army Information Digest that Russia was developing new military I gases and teaching its soldiers how to : use them as weapons. Like Russia, the i United States has a "family" of these ; gases in production or ready for. use. . : Among these gases are so-called psyc : ho-chemical gases which are colorless and odorless and can be used to stupefy the j population of entire nations for 21 to IS hours. Others cause cowardice or irrat : ional behavior. Still others are lethal. The gasea can be delivered to a target by mis-, Isiles or spread from ships even submar ines a few miles offshore. ; In addition to development of gases that poison or debilitate, major nations Tare reported trying to manufacture new biological agents of infection. Kxperts teaching a recent course for armed ser vices medical officers at tho Naval Med ;ical Center in liethesda, Md., agreed that Russia can stage a biological warfare "Pearl Harbor." How large is America's stake in chemical-biological-radiological warfare? . In terms of dollars we are spending between 35 and 40 million dollars in CBR research. The House Space Committtee has recom mended stepping up this expenditure to 125 million dollars a year for the next two or three years to match Communist spending. , , But without public discussion about this type of warfare little presure is being applied to Congress to provide the funds. Public discussion is not boing en couraged, either, one official charges. Maj. Gen V. M. Creasy, retired, for mer Army Chemical Corps chief, believes public discussion on CHR warfare is be ing suppressed by our Defense and State Departments because "they feel it might upset the national equilibrium". At least one Congressman, Rep. R. V. Kasten meier, (D-Vis), is willing to run this risk and has called for a full and open discussion of hazards involved. Industrialist Cyrus Katon will play host to an annual six-day meeting of some of this country's leading thinkers this week in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. Topic of the meeting is "Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare." It is hoped this meeting may provide the spark for wide spread discussion of this subject. Now that we can measure the risks of total war in terms of annihilation it is im perative we consider all the aspects of war however distasteful they may be and promote development of those weap ons which will serve as deterrents to war. DREW PEARSON SAYS. Headline Writers Have It Wrong Headline writers last week made much ;of the fact that young Steven Rocke . feller wed "a poor Norwegian girl." , Actually, the girl wasn't poor, nor was her family. She had worked in the Rocke feller home as a maid, to be sure, Uit spent most of her time in this country as an exchange student. Her father is comfortably fixed, by Norwegian stand ards. True, she's poor by Rockefeller stand . ards. v f But, then, so's everyone else. Kennedy Sdys Catholics Opposing His Nomination Best Defense . . . A Buckingham Palace guardsman has jbeen confined to barracks since an I American tourist 10 days ago charged .that he kicked her right in front of the palace. Now he's in receipt of a 10 'shillings donation from a New Britain, .Conn., resident who wrote the guards iman: i I am an American, but an American who realizes that American women j tourists-as well as American w omen ': in general, need to be kicked, not once, but often. i It's generally understood that the ierrant guardsman stomped four instead ;of the regulation one pace forward after being persistently bedeviled by the wom an in question. aRiting the bear-hatted Cold :it renin private from the front, v,o simply was tx slow in retreat. If these circumstances have been ac curately reported, 10 shillings seems a paltry reward for Guardsman Victor Footer. Perhaps other Americans, cha grined by the incident and by the poor repute Americans have earned them selves generally' as tourists abroad, will add to the sum. If not, the charge of "irregular conduct" against Footer should be withdrawn. He should be cited as the innovator of a new. military technique one as effective against saucy d:imes as was the old British square against whirl ing dervishes. (F.ugene Register-Guard) WASHINGTON. Sen.'' Jack Kennedy, leading ' Democratic candidate for president, held a jcercl dinner ' with newspaper men the other day, at which he told them that prominent Catho lics are opposing his nomination, and named them. He said their epposition stems from two reasons: 1. They don't want tho Catholic issue raised In a political cam paign. 2. They don't wwt the Catho lic church connected with the Democratic party. Kennedy named toe leading Catholics opposing him as Gov. Pat Brown of California; Gov. David Lawrence, first Catholic sver elected governor of Pennsyl vania; Gov. Mike Di Salle of Ohio; and Gov. Stephen Mc Nichols of Colorado. '' Note: Governor Lawrence has confided to several friends that he is fearful that Catholicism is a political handicap. H figures he lost 100,000 votes because of it in Pennsylvania. ' Labor Compromise The Senate and House confer ees now sweating over a labor bill may not know it yet but a deal appears to be in the making which should save them a lot pf headaches. Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota has been selling Sen. Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader, on th? idea of splitting the labor bill into two parts. One would deal with racketeer ing only, and would be passed immediately. The second' would deal with amendments to the Taft-Hartley act and would be passed when the congress reconvenes either in October or January. Johnson.' is Toady to give his personal word to the Republicans that this- second bill would come up as an early order of business. What mast people don t real ize, even including many mem bers of congress who voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill, is that the Senate bill is much tougher against labor racketeering. Six titles of the Senate bill deal with labor racketeering and only the seventh title with amendments to the Taft-Hartley act. The Landrum-Griffin bill pass ed by the House, on the other hand, is much east or on labor racketeering though tougher on union organization. ' It would make it virtually impossible for unions to Organize in the south. Some congressmen are just waking up to the fact that Jimmy Hoffa is chortling over ' th? Landrum-Griffin bill and predict ing that it will be so hard on weaker unions to operate that they'll end up by joining the teamsters. - The Humphrey-Johnson strate gy will b.i to get the labor rack cteering part of the bill passed immediately. There is ' little disagreement that there must be a tough anti racketeering bill. George Meany, AEL-CIO presi dent, is among those who are d? manding action. However, the debate on chang es in the Taft-Hartley act could co on for weeks. That is why it is proposed to postpone consider ation until after a recess. Note: Lyndon Johnson propos ed exactly this same strategy to labor leaders last v winter, but the building trades wire oppos ed. Secret Labor Parley Meanwhile House and Senate conferees on the labor bill have QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International Barbs I Asking a friend "How aro you?" often lends, to he ii ih'r . all of the . MIom's troubles. BONN. Germany President arlrirpssinc a welcom ing crowd at the Bonn Airport as he arrived to begin his round of talks with European leaders: "The American people stand by ..a,,- -Ia in accitrin.0 ' th.lt the JUUi UV O loyal free people of free Berlin will, like yourselves, continue al ways to enjoy that great privi lege." Miismw Soviet Premier Ni- liltn S Khrushchev, ill a letter to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, warning that East-west war would be "tantamount to sui cide" and discussing the future Eisenhower - Khrushchev meetings: It may be that we are on tne eve of a historic turn in me policy of the two blocs from fur ther isolation to gradual rapproch-nn-nl and adjustment of the out standing issues to ensure peace ful coexistence of all stales. ins Avr.Ki fs Roval Air Force Wirtg Commander John L. R. Bowman, a British space scien list, discussing the conditions un der which space pioneers might ork: It mleht be desirable to let the space man have a martini a day on his off hours." CHICAGO Arthur Brown, 48. telling police why he killed his 41-year-old wife: "We d been married 17 years ahl for 17 vears she nagged me every day. I shot her and shot her ami hot here to 'Mil h.i uj." I been battling behind closed doors. However, this column can report the highlights of what has happened During early discussions, th? Senate side of the conference yielded 13 times, the House con fereos 3 times. Senator Kennedy, who co-authored the Senate bill, did a skillful job of parrying anti-labor arguments, but adopted the strategy of yielding en less Im portant matters in order to stand pat on major points. Pint concession made by the senators was regarding the Sen ate bill's provision that employ ers must file reports on shady payments to labor leaders' or la bor consultants. Rep. Graham Harden of North Carolina, chair man of the House labor commit tee, refused to budge on this. The Landrum-Griffin bill con tains no ban on employers' pay-1 mcnts to labor consultants or bribes to labor members, fen. Kennedy argued that the rackets committee ahd unearthed evi dence of bribes paid to union of ficials through labor consultants and that bribery by employers was just as bad as bribery by la bor. He demanded that employ ers make a record of such pay ments as provided by the Senate hill. Barden still refused to budge. The North Carolina congress man also wanted to exempt em ployers from testifying if they had discussed evidence with their lawyers. This brought vigorous objections from Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon. New Fifth Amendent "Tho law of privilege does not extend to the client," he remon strated." It only extends to the attorney. I want the congress man from North Carolina to know that he is writing a fifth amendment into this bill to pro tect employers.' ' The issue was finally referred o he staff for further study. Barden also refused to compro mise on the Landrum-Griffin re quirement that any union mem ber could copy a complete list of union members'. Morse de scribd this as union-busting. The list of union membership is sacred," he argued. "There are residents of internationals who are not able to get the member ship lists of locals under them. All it's necessary for an em ployer to do is pay one union stooge to get the list and he can then proceed to break up the union. Or one member can sell the list to an advertising agency for a merchandise campaign. Thocs lists are extremely valu able. " ' House conferees went off in the cornaer of the room to whis per over Morse's arguments, then came back to ask that the matter be referred to the staff for study. Next day the conferee agreed to strike ' out the word "copy" but permit union mem bers to inspect membership lists instead. Entertainment License Is Sought By Beatniks VENICE. Calif. UPI Beat niks plan a full-scale "artistic as sault" on a police board commis sion today to win approval of an entertainment license for their lo cal hangout. The sandal-clad rebels, engaged in a bitter tussle with most of the other residents of this Los Angeles community, vowed to show up by the hundreds at today's hearing and offer testimony in a unique way through paintings, songs and poems. Lawrence Lipton, poet and un official spokesman for the free wheeling crowd which has taken Venice as its Own, composed a poem which he intends to read as his testimony. It's entitled "Poem in Protest Against The Lockout of Poets, Painters and Musicians from the Gas House, Venice West." Lipton was slightly apologetic about the length of the title to the poem which he wrote especially for the occasion, but explained: "Some titles for poems just seem to grow and grow." Lipton said another regular at the gas house, the beatnik center which is seeking the entertainment license, will sing a ballad called "A Ballad of Pelttioi in Venice West." The singer, Julie Meredith, will accompany herself oi the guitar while she sings the ballad as her testimony. "Others, like painters," said Lipton, "will bring paintings in and display them as their testi mony." A three-man board of the com mission was to determine if the Three Men Held In Assassination Try In Havana HAVANA U'PP Police lo day were holding three men for (he attempted assassination of Lt. Eduarrto Aulet, commander of the security guard at the presi dential palace. Acco-ding to authorities, the three fired at Aulet from an auto mobile as he was leaving a hos. p;tal in suburban Vedado earl Wednesday. Aulet, who was not hit. returned the fire and his at tackers sped away, sideswiping a parked car as they did. Police later spotted the dam aged car and arrested the three men. gas house wil! win the license, needed if the pu-.ic is to be ad mitted to look at beatnik paint ings and hear beatnik jazz and poetry mere. m m LETTERS Maximum length 300 words. No anonymous letters but true name will be withheld en re quest. To th Editor: Last night, according to your pi.per. a hay scramble was plan ned for the "small fry" of our city. " ' My two children, ages three ana (ive years went with the hope of findine a single nenny in the hay. They were both happy in antici pation of tne event. ITnnn arrival, thft coins were scattered by adults, and' children ranging in age from twelve to eighteen years, knocked down1 stepped on my two as well as many other "small fry" there. More than onn child left the :cramble in' tears. The paper specifically stated mn f rv Whv can't an event. be planned occasionally for the I little ones without these big bruisers spoiling their funr . Nam? witnneia Dy request. i Nixon's Oregon Plans ! Are Not Certain Yet ' SALEM (UPI State Repub lic r-hnlrmnn Peter Gunnar 1 said today he did not know wheth- j er Vice President Kicnnra Nixon would be available for political meetings while in Oregon to ded icate The Dalles dam in October. Nixon sent word Wednesday he would be on hand to dedicate the big dam on Oct. 10. Nixon is one of at least three possible presidential candidates whA nlnn tn visit Oregon in the near future. Others include Dem ocratic Sens. John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey and possibly Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who might stop in Oregon on a return trip from Alaska. MICKY MUST PAY LOS ANGELES IP1 A judge Wednesday ordered Mickey Cohen to pay $4,000 damages to a waiter he attacked last year in a Hollywood nightclub. Superior Court Judge Joseph L. Call set the amount after a long hearing ( a f 4)imo civil dtinia. suit file.1 by Arthur Black. 30 OF YOUR FOOD BILLS at JOEL'S SAHPLMG r . 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