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Top News Media For Jokes
By FRAJK ELEAZER
UPI Staf Writtr
WASHINGTON ILTH-A well
meaning congressman whose
identity charitably has been for
gotten got the idea some years
ago that he was a writer. He
started sending a weekly newslet
ter to the papers back home and
to some of the community lead
ers. In light of subsequent develop
ments, this legislative innovation
currently is being compared to
the introduction into this country
from England of the first star
ling, bark in the IBM's. Congres
sional newsletters now go out
from capitol post offices each
week by the hundreds of thou
sands of copies.
Some of. them are worth read
ing and they sure are the best
way to circulate jokes since tele
vision was invented.
In anticipation of the start of
the Pan American games in Chi
cago later this wck. Hep. Siffex
R. Yates, WW1 was assuring his
4.2O0 readers recently of Con
gress' unfailing and kindly inter
est in sports.
MORE SPORTS
HEART-MIND OF SF
SPLIT OVER NL TITLE
SAN FRANCISCO UPH -
There's a tug-o-war going on be
tween the heart and the mind of
San Francisco officialdom these
days on whether they want the
Giants to win the National League
pennant.
Of course, the citizens of Los
Angeles, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh
have just as much say about the
outcome of the hectic race. But,
right now, the Giants are in front.
Oh, sure, the Golden Caters
want Bill Rigney's crew to win.
"But, to tell you the truth,"
said one man, "I'm afraid the fa
cilities we may have to offer will
give us a black eye as a major
league city."
Seals Stadium Out
There's one thing for sure: The
series, if the Giants win, will be
played in the new, partially-completed
Candlestick Park Stadium.
Seals Stadium is out as a possibil
ity because of the little (23,500)
seating capacity.
Mayor George Christopher as
sures all who will listen that:
A. The Giants will win the pen-
TO VISIT FLORIDA
FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla.
. UPI Heavyweight champion
Ingemar Johansson will fly to
Florida sometime after Sept. 15
for a two-week visit. The Swedish
titleholdcr is due in California
early in October to start work in
a motion picture.
nant.
B. Candlestick Park will be
ready.
Said another official (none of
them want to be quoted):
"Deep down in my heart, I
want the Giants to win and I pull
for 'em every time they come to
bat. But as a matter of common
sense it would be better if the
Giants missed this one and won
in I960.
"By then we will be able to of
fer the finest, most up-to-date sta
dium in the country."
May Ba 39.000 Seats
Recent rushing of work has in
creased the possibility that there
may be as many as 39,000 seats
ready for a World Series. This
means 7,000 more than promised
a month ago. And every extra seat
reduces the headaches that have
been following Giant ticket mana
ger Pete Hoffman around these
days.
Actually, Hoffman and president
Horace Stoneham should have no
complaint.
It should be a pleasure to have
too many customers and not
enough seats compared with the
New York situation where they
had too many scats and too few
customers.
Meanwhile, Giant manager Bill
Rigney marshalls his forces in an
all-out effort to win the champion
ship letting the headaches fall
where they may.
U.S. Swimmers Maintain
Record Setting Pace
CHICAGO I UPI i The United
States was running away with the
swimming competition in the Pan
American games today, but its
record setting pace in piling up
gold medals was slowing down.
Not that the U.S. wasn't doing
all right in the championship de
partment it had won 58 of the
75 gold medals decided so far, but
percentagewise, Thursday was
the worst day in that department
because the U.S. picked up only
12 of the 19 contested.
Equals Record
Of Thursday's gold medals, the
U.S. won four of them in swim
ming, sweeping all events. Today
It was expected to win five more.
Of the 21 gold, silver and bronze
medals in swimming thus far the
U.S. had won 20 losing only
one third place bronze medalion.
A 15-year-old Saratoga. Calif.,
high school girl, Chris Von Saltza,
hit a record 2:18 5 to win the
women's 200 meter freestyle, per
haps her first of five gold medals,
and teammates Shirley Stobs, Mi
ami, Fla., and Joan Spillane.
Houston, Tex., took the next med
al positions.
Another U.S. gold medal was
pushed aside, tcmpo'arily, at
least, by a protest. It was made
against Allen C. Bell, Somerville,
N.J., after he had a record time
of 1:12 2 in the 1.000 meter time
trial in cycling. Some Latin
American groups claimed he was
pushed, and after judges ruled he
had to ride again, the test was
deferred until today.
Boxers Win Thraa Mtdals
Should he fail to equal his pre
vious time, then Anezio Argcnao.
Brazil, with 1:12.3. could win.
while David Staul). the other U.S.
entrant from Daly City, Calif
could step up with a time of
1:124.
U.S. boxers won three of five
gold medals awarded in boxing,
and narrowly missed a fourth
when featherweight Charles
Brown, Cincinnati, lost a one
point decision to Carlos Aro. Ar
gentina, because of head butting
in tiic uiira round.
Only one of five tennis gold
medals went to the U.S. It was
won by Althea Gibson. New York,
In the women's singles, while
Chile's Lcis Ayala took the men's
singles crown. Mexico's teams
won both the men's and women's
doubles and the nv'xcd doubles.
He said he had just hea'd in
the House cloakroom about a fel
low who led his horse into a ma-1
jor league ball park and demand
ed that the manager give him a
try out. The team must have been ;
in a pretty Daa slump. Anyway, i
Yates said the manager sent the 1 1
horse into the outfield andii.
knocked him some flies. The
horse caught each ball in his
mouth and snapped it back with
a whip of his neck.
"Can he hit" the manager
asked. "Try him," said the
horse's owner. They put a bat in
the horse's mouth and he stepped
up to the plate. He hit every
pitch out of sight.
"He's great," the manager
said. "We'll use him tomorrow."
The bases were loaded when
the horse came to bat. He hit the
first pitch into left field, then
stood there pawing the ground.
"Run, you fool," the manager
shouted. "Why doesn't he run"
"If he could run," the horse's
owner replied sadly, "he'd be at
Arlington Park."
Nobody knows exactly how
many of the 537 House and Sen
ate members have been over
come with a desire to write their
own columns. Surveys indicate
the number is at least 300. Many
letters have press runs of 10.000
copies or more.
Bread Segregation
Unlike Yates, most of the au
thors obviously believe the way
to stay out of trouble is to shun
anything either amusing or con
troversial. But Rep. Jim Wright
iD-Tex.) is one who is willing to
be both.
When "The Three Little Pigs"
was discovered recently to have
implications beyond those we had
thought, and after a furor was
raised over a child's book about
black and white rabbits, Wright
took tongue in cheek and told his
Texas readers somelody was pro
posing that a law be passed re
quiring grocers to keep white
and brown bread on separate
shelves.
"Asked what significance there
could be in a loaf of bread, the
advocate fixes his questioner with
a baleful eye,'' Wright said, "and
demands, 'Do you want your
daughter to marry a heel?"
Rep. Glenn Cunningham (It
Neb.l is another congressional
columnist who knows what makes
news. Early this year he reported
that more than 100 House mem
bers had put their relatives on
the congressional payroll.
Tries For Laughs
Not only did he come right out
and mention this unmentionable
subject, but he offered to forward
a list of the offenders, their kin
folks, and the salaries paid them.
Cunningham also always tries
for a laugh. A while back he got
one he hadn't figured on. He re
lated that one night after he and
Mrs. Cunningham turned off the
TV set. he went upstairs to bed
while she went to the kitchen to
fix sandwiches for the children's
lunches next day.
Fifteen minutes later the TV
burst into flames. Mrs. Cunning
ham spoiled the fire and althoucn
the set was ruined the house was
saved. Cunningham rhetorically
said, "We hate to think what
might have happened" if Mrs.
Cunningham had gone upstairs
with him.
'Well, what might have hap
pened?" a number of his readers
wrote in to inquire.
that Floyd Bradshaw, H25 Jack
SIGNS WITH WARRIORS son Ave., was the operator of a
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Guy vehicle involved in an accident.
IMARKETS
By United Press International
MSGT. W. F. WILLIS
New Recruiting Officer
New Recruiter
For La Grande
Sent By Army
The United States Army an
iiuuuceu uie appuuiuneni oi a
new recruiting officer for La
Grande yesterday.
MSgt. W. F. Willis has been
assigned to the Baker recruiting
office and will take over recruit
ing duties in La Grande. Willis
will be in the recruiting office
at the Post Office every Tuesday
and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Willis comes to the eastern
Oregon area from overseas duty
in Germany where he was Sgt.
Major of the Eighth Signal Bat
talion. The new recruiter has
more than 12 years active service
with the Army and this will be
his second tour of duty as a re
cruiter. First duty in this capacity came
in Long Beach, Calif., where Wil
lis enlisted an entire platoon at
one time.
Willis, who was assigned to the
area Aug. 25, will make his home
in Baker. He is married and has
two daughters.
Persons wishing to contact Wil
lis may write to the U.S. Army
Recruiting station, Rooms One and
Two, Alexander Bldg., Baker or
call 3 2941 in Baker.
NEW YORK STOCKS
NEW YORK i UPI i The stock
market advanced today.
Attendance in Wall Street dwin
dled as many traders began the
Ions Labor Day weekend early
A number of blue chip stocks
added a point or more. Boeing was
the upside feature in the air
crafts on talk of a big new gov
ernmcnt contract for the B52
bomber. Alcoa and Reynolds met
support in the aluminums and
U.S. Steel was up around a point
in its group.
American Motors rose mort
than a point in the autos hut Ford
was off around a point. The elec
ironies were higher on balance.
The railroad average was hurt by
i loss of around a point in At
Untie Coast Line. Richfield added
around a point in a firm oil group
Some of the drugs tacked on a
point or more. Thiokol rose more
than 2.
PORTLAND DAIRY
PORTLAND (UPI I Dairy
market:
Eggs To retailers: Grade AA
extra Urge, 50-53c doz.; AA large,
47-50c: A large. 44-47c; AA medi
um, 37-40c: AA small, 26 23c, car
tons 1 3c additional.
Butter To retailers: AA and
grade A prints, 69c lb.; carton.
lc higher; B prints, 76c.
Cheese (medium cured i To
retailers: A grade cheddar single
daisies, 41-51c: processed Ameri
can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 40-43C.
Hatfield Says
Cops To Enforce
Fishing Laws
SALEM i UPI I Gov. Mark
Hatfield said today he had
friendly phone conversation with
Gov. Albert Roscllini of Washing
ton over the hassle on salmon
fishing at the mouth of the Co
lumbia river.
Hatfield said he agreed with
Roscllini that legislative interim
committees of the two states
should study the problem in an
attempt to come up with some
solution.
Merchants In Plan
To Fete Students
Retail merchants met at noon
today, with plans made to set
up a welcome program for approx
imately 300 students who will be
freshmen enrolled at Eastern
Oregon College here this fall.
Lorcn Hughes, Retail Merch
ants Association president, has
stressed the importance of mem
bers taking an active part in
the program.
La Grande Motorist
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Rodgers, former Temple Univui
sity Ail-American, has signed his
1959-60 contract with the Philadel
phia Warriors of the National
Basketball Assn.
uraasnaw s car at me time o
the accident was parked at the
curb. The other driver backed
into the Bradshaw vehicle, accord
ing to Mrs. Bradshaw.
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PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND l'PI (L'SDAl
The North Portland livestock
market will be close on Monday,
Labor Day.
The weekly report.
Cattle 3225: choice 958-1114 lb
steers 28.75-29.10: low choice 28
28 25; good steers 26.50-27.75; fed
heifers good and low-choice 27:
utility cows 16.50-1850; canners-
cutters 13-14.50, few 15; utility
bulls 22-23.
Calves 485; good-choice veal-
ers and calves 26-30; few 20.50
31; utility-standard 19-25; culls
down to 13: good-choice stock
steer and heifer calves 26-31.
Hogs 2325; butchers mostly 50c
lower; 1 and 2 at 16.75-17; mixed
grades 16-16.50; sows under 330
lb. 14-14 50, above that 12-13.50.
Sheep 2950; good-choice wooled
slaughter lambs 19-19.50; good
choice mostly good shorn lambs
No. 2 pelts 17-18; medium-good
light feeders 12-14; ewes 2-4.50.
DISCUSS RELEASES
WARSAW I UPI) U.S. Am
bassador Jacob Beam and Chi
nese Communist Ambassador
Wang Ping-nan again have dis
cussed the possible release of four
Americans still being held in Red
Chinese prisons, reliable sources
said today.
ESTABLISH RELATIONS
TOKYO (UPI I -Japan and Ru
mania have re-established diplo
matic relations following an ex
change of letters on the matter,
the foreign office announced Tuesday.
HE ONLY ARRANGED APPOINTMENTS
Retired Admiral Denies
Using Influence On Navy
By FRANK ELEAZER
UPI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (UPH-I guess
House investigators have about
given up trying to put a finger
on what President Eisenhower
called the munt ons lobby.
Chairman F. Edward Ilebcrt
ID-La.) after 25 days of hearings
admits that his Armed Services
subcommittee hasn't found one of
those terrible fellows who were
supposed to be putting pressure
on the military to buy one or an
other plane, missile, or weapon.
True, the subcommittee has
turned up a whole bunch of high
ranking retired military men,
drawing nice pay checks from de
fense contractors and also sub
stamal retirement pay from the
armed forces.
But these were all men of the
highest fame and repute, and
none of them was ever accused
of anything improper. Mostly,
they were commended for their
patriotic service and zeal.
Fachttlar Is Witness
Take Monday's hearing. The
witness was Adm. William M.
Fechteler, former chief of naval
operations and later commander
in chief of NATO forces in south-
Man Sought
In Widow's
Bomb Death
SEATTLE (UPI) The possibil
ity an "embittered acquaintance"
may have planted a homemade
bomb that killed a Seattle widow
was being investigated today.
Austin Seth, detective sergeant,
said new information from rela
tives led to a "strong possibility"
the slaying was a vengeance
murder.
Police said a man "well known"
to the widow was being sought
as a suspect.
Mrs. Pearl Kongsle, 62, was
killed Wednesday night and- two
neighborhood friends slightly in
jured when, despite a friend's
warning, she picked up a brown
paper bag in front of her home.
"The whole thing exploded right
in her face," said Mrs. Alberta.
one of two neighbors who had
stopped by for a good night visit.
Seth said the possibility of a
teen-age prank that backfired had
not been ruled out.
CONCLUDES VISIT
HAMBURG. Germany (UPI) -
U. S. Chief Justice Earl Warren
concludes his West German visit
today by participating in a Ham
burg court proceeding and later
delivering a lecture on "The Su
preme Court in the United
States." Warren will leave for
Copenhagen Saturday.
ern Europe. .
Fechteler was released from ac
tive duty on Nov. 30. 1956. and
the next day went to work for
General Electric. He got i385O0
last year as a long-range plan
ning consultant for GE's atomic
products - division. He also gets
$12,176 yearly in retirement pay
from the Navy.
Fechteler said he wouldn't risk
his good reputation by trying to
influence the Navy in GE's be
half. And besides, he said no man
has that kind of influence.
He said he never discussed con
tracts with anybody, in or out of
the Navy. All he ever did, he
said, was set up appointments for
other company officials with peo
ple he knew, like the secretary
of Navy and the chief of 'naval
operations.
Calls Himself Messenger
"Really I was just a convenient
glorified messenger boy, if you
want to say that," he suggested.
"You had the key to the door
and you opened ." said Hebert.
"That is correct," said Fech
teler. Everybody lauded the admiral
for his long distinguished service
and his cooperation in the matter
at hand.
Rep. Leon H. Gavin (R-Pa.)
commented that Fechteler's story
was like that of all the other fa
mous admirals and generals the
subcommittee had heard. Their
private employers had sought
them out, Gavin said, for the
knowledge they had of defense
needs, and for help they could
give in steering company officials
to the right spots in the Penta
gon. Fechteler said this was, indeed,
about what had happened.
There was one other matter at
the subcommittee's last scheduled
hearing, This was to tie up loose
ends of a story that for awhile
had looked like Hebert's most
promising lead.
Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover.
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Navy atomic exert and father of
the nuclear submarine, had been
the only witness to come right out
and say he had been subjected to
pressure. By whom? Hebert had
asked. He'd rather not say, Rick
over replied.
The admiral, at Hebert's insist
ence, agreed to provide the
names if they wouldn't be made
public. Now Hebert reported that
Rickover, ut a closed session, list
ed three names.
"As to the first named person,'
said Hebert, "Adm. Rickover tes
tified that in a personal letter
from one naval officer to another,
a proposed naval duty assignment
for Admiral Rickover had been
opposed. Adm. Rickover got the
assignment in question.
"The second named person was
the only one with whom Adm.
Rickover had a personal contact.
As to that person, Adm. Rickover
testified. . .'I think not much can
be made of that, sir'."
As to the third person named,
Hebert said "the testimony is that
that person had made no contact
and had no conversation with
Adm. Rickover at any time on
any subject." a
"The foregoing, the chairman
announced without comment,
"completes the record."
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