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LA' GRANDE OBSERVER
Friday, August 28, 1959
"A Modern Newspaper With The Pioneer Spirit"
RILEY D. AIJ.EN Publisher
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Day's Complaint Is Off Base
Albert M. Duy, Oregon state fisheries
director, is way off lnwe in a complaint
made to Ia Grande's city manager about
conditions at the city airport.
Duy apparently got the heck scared
out of him recently during a nijjht land
ing at the field. At least, such was
indicated in a letter to retiring City
Manager Fred Young.
Day had been over into the Snake
river country, and returned to Ijji Grande
after dark. His pilot was headed toward
the north and approached for a, landing
on the north-south runway. The field's
longest runwgy had been closed for re
pairs, and such information was on file
at all civil airways radio facilities.
"As the pilot came into the darkened
field for a landing, he noticed the (tower
and telegraph wires alongside the rail
road track at the south end of the field.
Kortunutely, he jumped his plane over
these wires just in time to avoid a crash.
... It was one of the most, dangerous
landings that I have ever experienced,
and I have flown in Alaska, Mexico.
Canada, and all parts of the United
States," Day Mated.
To begin with, the pilot was way too
low. The wires at the south end of the
field are only about 35 feet high, and are
considerably more than a quarter of a
mile from the end of the runway. Had
the pilot not seen the wires he could very
possibly have hit the ground 300 yards
or more short of the runway.
Irct-he second place, the wires are
noted on the reverse side of all aviation
charts. Most pilots check these charts,
the Airman's Guide or the Notices to
Airmen (NOTAM) before flying into
strange fields.
In the third place, the runway in ques
tion has approach lights, which were on
at the time of the incident, but which
were not observed apparently because
the pilot was too low. '
Any one of three or four routine
checks by the pilot, either in person or
by radio, would have informed him of
the condition, which is so slight as not
to k considered dangerous by Federal
Aviation Agency officials, who certainly
do not take aviation safety matters
lightly.
No one likes to be frightened by a
near miss, in an airplane or in a car.
Mr. Day reacts to near misses like every
other person. He was frightened.
l!ut rather tliau complaining about the ,
airport, which is a good one all things
considerod he sholud either get Jiis
pilot on the ball or change pilots.
Inflation Talk Brings
Times are good, but people are uneasy.
Increasing labor strife is a symptom.
Kmployment rose to an all time high of
C7.C million in mid-July. More people
than ever before have jobs. I'.ut another
report from the government fact finders
shows that the cost of living is still inch
ing up. It is at an all time liiuli too.
At the AFI-C10 convention one
speaker took the position that too much
talk about inflation is bad for the coun
try. He said such talk scares people and
makes them reluctant to invest and take
a chance on the future. He thinks a lot
of inflation talk is generated by em
ployers intent on blaming rising wage
rates for rising prices.
Putting it the other, way around, it
could be said that this union speaker is
touchy on the subject of !alor's con
tribution to inflation and is trying to
minimize inflation in order to take the
wind out of the sails of employers who
shed tears over inflation at the bargain-,
ing table.
We are Inclined to agree with those
vho contend that inflation moves along
partly because so few understand it. The
Uneasiness
Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for
Kconomic Growth took this position when
it wrote its recent 1,000 word comment
on the nation's economic position. When
ever it came to a place where the word
"in flat ion" normally would have been
Used, it wrote "rises in the general price
level."
Kveryone is aware that prices are
high. If we talked more nlxitit high
prices and less about inflation the whole
problem might be more understandable.
Whatever pushes prices up Is inflation
ary. "
And if anyone tells you it doesn't
niakq any difference at a time when more
people i than ever are working, nsk the
person who is retired and is living on a
pension, or the man who invested In
government bonds and held them to ma
turity, or anyone who is trying to pro
vide for his future by saving for retire
nieut. Or nsk the union member if he still
' enjoys the benefits of the wage increase
he had to go on strike for or whether it
somehow vanishes, due to "rises in the
general price level," known otherwise as
inflation.
DREW PEARSON SAYS
European Leaders Worry
Over U.S.-Soviet Deal
WASHINGTON The big (actor
behind President Eisenhower's
talks as he sits down with the
leaders of Western Europe results
from essentially the same problem
as that which confronted Franklin
Roosevelt at Yalta when he sat
down wtih Stalin.
Stalin at that time was ready
to make a deal which' virtually
amounted to dividing up the world
into three spheres of. influence
among .the then three great pow
ers. The British were to be su
preme in Western Europe and
Africa: the United States in the
Western Hemisphere and the West
ern Orient including Japan, the
Philippines. Russia was to be
supreme In Central turope and
the rest of Asia.
Roosevelt vetoed the Idea, though
a modmed deal was made be
tween Winston Churchill and
Stalin to divide up the Balkans
under spheres of influence, the
British taking jurisdiction over
Yugoslavia and Greece; the Rus
sians over Rumania, Bulgaria and
Albania. Stalin, it should be noted
carried out his part of the agree
ment to the letter, according to
Churchill's memoirs.
During the years that have
passed, the French, British and
other West Europeans have nursed
a lurking worry that the world's
two greatest powers, the USA and
USSR, might form a loose al
liance which would devide the
world into two general spheres ot
influence.
USA-USSR Deal?
Basically this is what worries
De Gaulle and Adenauer and Pre
mier Segnl of Italy right now.
worries the British much less
The British, fearful of being caught
in the middle of an atomic was
between the USA and USSR, have
reversed their position completely.
Once worried sick over the idea
of American-Russian partnership,
they are now encouraging it.
But Chancellor Adenauer knows
that close cooperation between the
USA and USSR means that his
ideas for the unity of Germany
will go glimmering. He also
knows that German ambitions for
regaining the provinces of east
Germany now held by Poland will
never be fulfilled. He also knows
that Germany's best role is to be
the balance of power between Rus
sia and the United States.
President De Gaulle also sees
Russian-American friendship as
blocking his grandiose ambition
for a French comeback. The Idea
of Khrushchev and Eisenhower
sitting down together infuriates
him, chiefly because it is tacit
recognition that they represent
the world's two great powers.
And France is not included.
De Gaulle has been spurring his
diplomats to organize the United
States of Europe so that in' the
future there will not be two but
three world powers the USA, the
USSR, and the US of Europe
with Charles De Gaulle represent
ing the latter.
It's this personal Jealousy plus
balance-of-power politics that Eis
enhower has to cope with during
his conference in Europe.
Taxes Vs. Taxes
High-ups in the justice depart
ment once again are dragging their
feet on the Alabama income tax
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
United Press International
TO OPEN CONSULATES
WASHINGTON UPI) The
United States and Poland wijl re
open their consulates in wach
other's country "in the near fu
ture." The State Department said
the action stem from an agree
ment last year and reflects a
gradual Improvement in relations
with Poland since the end of the
Stalin era,. ....
SULLIVANS VISIT SULLIVANS
LISBON Portugal dpi
Five young Sullivan brothers
were guests Wednesday aboard
the U. S. destroyer "Sullivans."
named for the five brothers killed
in nnvnl action in 1942 The young
Sullivans are sons of Col Charles
P. Sullivan, of Eureka. Ill . U S
air nttarhe in Lisbon. They arc
mA rvUfcui to the "lighting Sul-
SCHINES ANNOUNCE BABY
HOLLYWOOD (l'Pl-The wife
of hotel heir G. David Schine
gave birth Wednesday night to a
6 pound. B ounce girl at Cedars of
Lebanon Hospital, it was dis
closed Thursday. Schine was an
assistant of the late Sen. Joseph
McCarthy.
livaiis" of World War II fame.
NEW YORK Boris Kolod
ozhn. first secretary of the So
iet Embassy, criticizing Ameri
can courts as he put the four
young Kozmin brothers aboard a
plane for Russia to rejoin their
parents:
"American justice detained
them for live years. They were
taken from their parents. We are
glad to deliver them back to
their parents."
NEW YORK The Rev. C. Kil
mer Myers, conducting in New
York's richest and most famous
church the funeral for a 15-year-old
Negro girl killed because of a
gang fight Sunday night:
"If you cared about her. then
let this be your memorial to her.
Let there be no more sudden
death in the streets ot the lower
east side."
LONDON Novelist A. J. Cro
nin, complaining that after a 23
year fight the Soviet government
would not even pay him in caviar
the royalties for three million
copies of his books sold in the
USSR:
"Meanwhile, I receive from my
Russian readers an enormous ef
fusive fan mail and requests for
autographs and photographs. This
is undoubtedly the unkindest cut
of all."
MOSCOW Leonard Bernstein,
conductor of the New York Phil
harmonic orchestra, replying to a
Soviet music critic who called
him "cocky" and Immodest for
interrupting a concert to explain
modern music and for repeating
one composition.
"Repetition of it had been de
manded by the audience ... their
rhythmic clapping meant 'again.'
So in my very best Russian
asked if they wanted the piece
again and, when they responded
with cheers, I played it."
case involving three political
henchmen of Gen. Wilton B. Per
sons' brother, the ex-governor of
Alabama. The case appears on
the way of becoming one of the
most politically influenced in the
Justice department.
On Jan. 12 this column exposed
the fact that the Treasury depart
ment had recommended criminal
prosecution of three Alabama poll
ticians who had raised money for
Ex-governor Persons when he was
Governor of Alabama. Persons Is
the brother to Gen. "Slick" Per
sons who replaced Sherman Adams
as No. 1 White House assitsant
It was revealed on Jan. 12 and
in subsequent columns that the
Treasury recommended criminal
prosecution on Dec. 15, 1957, but
the Justice department in a letter
dated March 10. 1958 refused to
prosecute. Usually tax recom
mendations by the treasury's in
ternal revenue service are consid
ered almost mandatory upon the
Justice department. If the Justice
d-partment does not prosecute,
it usual'y develops that political
influence has been exerted.
One day after publication of the
Jan. 12, 1959 column, the Justice
department hastily reopened the
Alabama tax case, and, after a
flurry of activity, arrested the
three men named by this column.
They are: Jimmy Thrower, ex
mayor of Dothan, former member
of the Alabama ABC liquor board;
S. E. Gellerstedt, who was on the
payroll of Berke Brothers Dis
tillery and Taylor Wines: Donald
D. Solomon, in whose Headland
National Bank some of the liquor
political money was deposited.
Finally on March 9 the three
men were formally charged with
tax evasion. The charge was made
just a few days before the statute
of limitations would have expired.
This, however, was five and a
half months ago. Since then noth
ing has happened. A federal grand
jury has been called in Birming
ham to consider various fed
eral cases, but the Justice de
partment in Washington, as of
this writing, has not sent the
three cases to Alabama for prosecution.
Officials In the U.S. attorneys
office in Birmingham say they
can't prosecute without the facts
and files, and the files are care
fully secreted in Washington.
Baker Boy In Critical
Condtion In Portland
PORTLAND (UPD Barton
Wood, 9. Baker, remained in crit
ical condition in a local hospital
today from a head injury suffered
Thursday in a fall from a bicycle
at Baker.
The youth, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Wood of Baker, was
flown here by Don's Flying Serv
ice.
Attendants at Providence hos
pital said his condition remained
unchanged throughout the night.
House Space Group Concerned
More Of Missilles Than Stork
By FRANK ELEAZER
UPI Staff Writw
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
trouble with so many graduate
students, the witness seemed to
be saying, is their wives. They
keep getting pregnant.
So naturally I stuck around to
see if the House Space Commit
tee had anything to propose.
This committee had always
seemed more concerned with mis- plenty of worry. As I
siles than storks. As a matter of message, when we bun
fenses, efficiently until we know
more about the ocean."
And it's not only the Russians
we have to worry about, accord
ing to Riley. He said we may be
bringing on another Ice Age. This
could bury our northern states un
der glaciers and snow, right down
into Ohio.
That's just a theory, he said.
But it's causing oceanographers
got the
coal aid
fact it's been so busy star gazing 0il we throw off carbon dioxide,
this year it hasn t had time for which tends to hold heat
a number of pressing problems on
earth.
One of these, committee mem
bers heard recently, is what all
we don't know about our oceans.
So they had called in some ex
perts on oceanography. And I'm
afraid the experts confirmed the
worst that the members had
heard.
We know more about the sur
face of the moon, said Dr. Gor
don A. Riley, than we do about
tne floor of the ocean. Kiley is
professor of oceanography at Yale
and a member of the Oceanogra
phy Committee of the- National
Academy of Sciences.
How About Ice Aoe
He said while we spend billions
of dollars to try to get into space,
we've doled out a paltry few mil
lions to una out what goes on in
the ocean. And he seemed to
think we could lose the next war
under the water.
"We have a wonderful new
weapons system, probably the
best in the world, in the Polaris
missile submarine," Dr. Riley
said. "Yet we cannot use our sub
marines, and our submarine de-
Sen. Humphrey
To Take Swing
Through Oregon
FUKTLA.NU (DPI) Presiden
tial aspirant Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey ID -Minn) will make a
whirlwind five-day tour of Oregon
Oct. 4 8. according to Beulah
Hand, acting chairman of the
Democratic party of Oregon.
Humphrey will open his Oregon
visit with an address at the an
nual Tillamook Chowder Feed,
Sunday, Oct. 4.
A two-day stay in Portland will
be highlighted by a $2.50-a plate
dinner Oct. 6.
He will make a two-day flying
tour of Oregon Oct. 7-8. He will
address a breakfast in The Dalles,
a luncheon in Pendleton, an after
noon meeting in Redmond and a
dinner rally in Klamath Falls on
Oct. 7.
Then he will finish his visit of
the state on Oct. 8 with break
fast in Medford, luncheon in Rose-
burg, and a dinner meeting in
Coos Bay .
He will return- to Portland that
night.
Mrs. Hand said Humphrey also
will attend meetings in St. Helens
and Oregon City during his two
days in Portland.
Theory Explained
It's a fact the earth for years
has been getting wanner, lie said,
and the arctic ice is beginning to
melt. This means more open
waler in the arctic which, in turn,
means more evaporation. This re
sults in more snow. And this
starts another pileup of ice, a-;d
eventually another go-round with
the glaciers.
Some people think this process
could show some upsetting effects
within the next 100 years. Whe'h
er man is bringing it on himself
or not. by releasing all that car
bon dioxide, Riley said, we ought
to find out for sure what's
going on. .(
That's how he happened to stm t
talking about graduate -studies,
their wives, and their babies. ,Jle
said there are Only about tioo
qualified oceanographers In this
country, and not near enough
young scientists learning the
trade.
Described As "Poor Relations"
Bright young men in other set
entific pursuits get fellowships
and help from the government
while they learn, he said, but "we
are poor relations," and about all
a g-aduate student in oceanogra
phy can hope for is maybe $1,500
or $2,000 a year.
"A couple can live In reasons
b'e comfort if the spouse has a
job," he said. "But there is hard
ly a professor in the country who
has not faced the dreary specta
cle of a student with a pregnant
wife.
"What should be a source of
great happiness in any family it
a dreaded occurrence in the life
of a g-aduate student. It general
ly means dropping out o( school
or a poverty-pinched prolonged
existence at the graduate level",
Kiley said Congress should pass
a law to give oceanography stu
dents special government help,
like maybe $4,000 a year. Then
they could enjoy their pabies and
this branch of science could start
catching up.
Chairman Overton Brooks D
La ) said (lie committee would
Ihink about this. Meantime, I
guess we remain at sea.
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