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The Wraiths . ; . 1 "4 'SS f v'AT'tl'cpcwKA TIME WUEM A GUY, V '. 'vi -vnt n nr nUlN' rV ALL HIMSELF.' i.-,v-r v NEA 5ric, Inc. EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Tuesday, September 8, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. RII.EY D. ALLEN . Publisher ohaSSb puBEi5sSTNSHcoiiP4jfT GHADY PANNELL Managing Editor LA GRAND IB PUBWUHINQ COMPANT GEORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. Protection From Polio We are having a polio epidemic. So far there have been 61 paralytic cases and four deaths reported in Oregon. Does this mean that Sulk vaccine is pot as effective as expected? No, it simply means, that latye numbers o people, including some children, haven't been vaccinated. iThe annual report of the National oundation, which is now concerned with rthritis, and crippling birth defects as well as polio, today says that the day when polio epidemics will no longer threaten anywhere in America i still "years away." This glum forecast is based on the fact that at the end of 1958 98,000,000 Americans were still en tirely unprotected by vaccine. This doesn't mean that many people are unaware of the protection the vac cine offers. Nor does it mean they are stupid or do not trust the drug. It simply confirms an opinion we have long held that in any large group of people there is a certain percentage who assume that life ia so full of risks that it is a matter of luck, as much as anything, if yuu get along without mishap. Such people will rationalize that if they bother ed to go after a polio shot, they might get hit by a car walking across the street to the doctor's office. Or if they were immune to polio, some other disease would get them. In short, polio is just one risk among thousands, so why bother? Such reasoning is selfish. Point out to a person that he may not be worried about himself, but if he gets polio he helfis perpetuate a disease, and he may pass it on unknowingly to some child, ("letting Salk shots is not only for one's own protection, but for others too. Getting After The Union Crooks "No honest trade union or employer has cause to fear this legislation." litis was the comment of Sec. of Ijilxr Mitchell upon final approval by the Con gressional conference committee on the labor reform bill. ' Those who study the provision of the bill cannot but agree, lite fears and apprehensions that prompted union lead ers to oppose the measure are as ground less as those that have prompted these same men to denounce the Taft-Hartley law for the last 13 years. When asked to explain why Taft Hartley was called a "Slave labor" bill, the standard explanation concerned that section which pertained to voting by strikers. Under TaftHIartley strikers could not vote in an NLUR recognition election, but persons hired to replace strikers could. Thus, by some twist of semantics, the law could be termed "slave labor." Very few times did this happen how ever, and now even this objectionable part of Taft-Hartley has leen corrected. The law which Congress has just finished putting together provides that strikers who have been replaced may vote in a bargaining election in the struck plant for one year after the start of the strike. This new law may take care of Hoffa. It provides that no person may serve as a union official until five years after he has finished serving a prison sentence for any one of a long list of felonies. Many of those close to Hoffa thus will lo ineligible to carry on. Without them he may lose the iron grip he still retains on the Teamster union. Rank and file union members are granted many new rights in the new law. They can inspect union books and records, if they can't get justice under regular union rules and procedures, they ran go to court. They can, and in fact must, vote by secret ballot on local union officers at least once every three years and on national officers once every five years. We doubt if there will be as much clamor over Laridrum-Griffin as there was over Taft-Hartley for the reason that it contains so much of obvious bene fit to organized labor members as well as the public generally. Taft-Hartley was denounced for the benefit of uninformed voters who didn't understand the law. Lamlntm-Griffin will become known as the law that gets after the crooks in unions. It will be hard- for the poli ticians to denounce that. DREW PEARSON SAYS. Carey Blames Hoffa For New Labor Measure HENRYETTA. Okla. UPI AFL-CIO leader Jamea B. Carey Rays the new "anti - union' Lan-drum-Griffin Rill should be named "the Hoffa Bill" because "rot and decay" in the Teamsters Union caused it to be passed. Carey, AFL-CIO vice president and head of the big Electrical Workers Union, spoke Monday tp a crowd of more than 25.000 ga thered at a Labor Day celubra. lion in this eastern Oklahoma Industrial center. Cnroy titled his talk. "Anti-Labor Day. 19'9." ". . . It's face it." h. said. "This new anti-union li'tiiitum is a major victory for rewtion. big business and industry. It's a ma jor victory not only hy Itself, but in terms of future plnns hy the reactionaries to reduce the labor movement to impolcm-y . ." Carey castigated Teamster's President James Holla mid former teamsters boss David Deck. The democratic laNir movement wouldn't be saddled iih this op pressive legislation today If it weren't lor the rot and uecav that A "BREAK-IN" LOS ANGELES (Un A ninc-ycar-old boy "broke" Inlo bank Monday without even trying very hard. Michael Ilorlin of East 1-os An geles pulled the lid off a vent pipe while playing on the root of the Pacific Savings k Loan Bank. He crawled in and fell 23 feet to the teller's case. Ike Scrapping Policies Of Dulles; Takes Charge Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa and their gangster and Murder Inc. pals spread and are still trying to spread In the union move ment, Carey said. (Editors Not Drew Pear son, on a work-and-play va cation comes back to his typewriter today to comment on Eisenhower's European tour and its efftct on pluv ious American policy.) WASHINGTON - Watching the eminently successful trip of Pres ident Eisenhower through Europe, I can't help but recall a historic day in Washington last May when the flag-draped coffin of John Foster Dulles lay in state in the national cathedral. Foreign Min ikters from as far as Japan flew to pay their respect and homage. tven dour Andre Oromyko, Dul les' protagonist at many confer ences, and gnarled old Chancel lor Adenauer, Dulles' friend at many conferences, took the long trip across the Atlantic. They came because Dulles' friend, the President of the Unit ed States, decreed that the Sec reary of State should have a state funeral. Mrs. Dulles had plan ned a quiet family ceremony, but a deeply grieving president per sonally took charge of all funer al arrangements, even specifying the type of dress to be worn, and preparing the list of honor guests. He wanted the man who had worked so tirelessly to solve the problems of the world to have, in death, the recognition of the world. As a result, not even Presidents Roosevelt, Harding and McKinley, who died in office were buried with such ceremony It was just two months and five days later that President Eisen hower began scrapping the poli cies of John Foster Dulles. He would be the last to admit this. And perhaps he didn't even real ize he was scrapping Dulles' pol icies. But he did it first by in viting Nikita Khrushchev of the Kremlin to pay a personal visit to the White House, an invitation which Mr. Dulles had emphatic ally and consistently opposed un less our riRhts in Berlin were first guaranteed. They were not guaranteed, but Khrushchev was invited anyway. Ike went even lurther by ac cepting Khrushchev's invitation to come to Moscow, which brought gasps of dismay from close friends of John Foster Dulles. Ike Becomes a Dulles Then one by one, the President proceeded to throw overboard or discridit, without specifically naming them or . perhaps even realizing that he was doing so. the watchwords and policies of his late secretary of state. The only policy he kept was that of personal negotiation. Stepping into the Dulles shoes of the travcling-diplomat-salcsman, he proceeded to carry his own ideas direct to the trouble spots and troubled statesmen of Europe. He has been so successful that many diplomats wish the Presi dent had become his own secre tary of state long ago. But in so doing, here is what happened to the policies of Mr. Dulles: 'Massive retaliation was a ba sic policy coined by Dulles in warning that the United Mates had "great capacity to retaliate instantly, by means and at plac es of our choosing." In contrast President Eisenhower told the world in his TV chat with Prime Minister MacMillan: "People QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International WASHINGTON President Ei senhower, reporting that he and the other Allied leaders were agreed on tactics in the quest for peace. "I am quite certain that for the moment at least everything is going splendidly." SALT LAKE CITY. I tah-AKL-ClO President George Meany. predicting that the striking United Steelworkers Union will win its wage demands and that other un ions will win similar wage in creases : "Once the victory (of the Steel workers) is attained, the general mobilization of employer resist ance against wage increases to workers in other industries will be broken." CHICAGO Stanley Lane, pon dering the problems that beset him after he refloated a sunken 20-ton ex-Navy amphibian plane that originally cost him sas.ono and would cost another tavooo to repair: "I can't use It. I can't move it. I can't leave it where it is and I can't give it away." VATICAN CITY - The Vatican city newspaper Osservatore Ho- mano, condemning beauty con tests in an editorial: "It is not a coincidence that in those cattle market-like display, undressing is an indisputable condition." want peace so much that one of these days governments had bet ter get out of their way and let them have it." "Brink of war" This Dulles policy, outlined in Life Maga zine in 1950. completely evapor ated at the Geneva foreign min isters conference, when the Unit ed States ducked any showdown of power over Berlin and sent Vice President Nixon on a peace mission to Moscow instead. "Liberate the satellites" This basic Dulles policy was thrown out when Mr. Nixon conferred officially with the Communist leaders of satellite Poland, there by switching the old policy of "liberation" to one of friend .ship." Eisenhower further scrap ped the liberation policy when, during his Bonn, Germany, press conference, he said he would not discuss the liberation of former German territory referring to that held by Poland. Failure from within Dulles h;d argued, privately and pub licly, that the Soviet-Communist system would come tumbling down of its own errors. As late as Feb. 26, 1956, testifying before the Senate foreign relations committee, he said: "They (the Russians) have made little prog i-ess in the last few years . . . the fact is that they have fail ed and tliey have got to devise new policies." In Moscow, following Dulles' death, Vice President Nixon, broadcasting to the Russian peo ple, paid tribute to the "thriv ing productivity of the factory ccmplex of the Urals . . . the ef ficient modern equipment of your factories ... the competitive drive for progress evident on ev ery side . . . and most of all the people.' Direct disarmament In Decem ber, 1956, Harold Stassen, then in charge of disarmament, plead ed with Eisenhower for permis sion to fly to Moscow to carry on direct disarmament talks with the Kremlin. He was convinced the Russians were ready not on lv for disarmament, but a 10- ycar peace pact with the United States. Dulles vetoed tne stas sen trip, eased Stassen out as disarmament specialist. Today, one definite objective of the Khrushchev - Eisenhower exchange is disarmament. There is also hope of new understana- nc nossibly a 10-year peace pect between Russia and the United States.,,. White House adviser won i aa- niit, of course, that Mr. Dulles policies have been scrapped. But the diulomats will. And among both foreign and American dip lomats, it is believed that Mr. Eisenhower's personal assump tion of the reins of foreign policy is one of the healthiest develop ments of his seven years in of Beatniks Planning Full Show LOS ANGELES UPII -A tx- lice commission hearing was to re sume today on an application by beatniks for an entertainment li cense, and the beats planned a full show of music, poetry and art. "It's our turn today," said beat nik chieftain Lawrence Lipton 'The Venice Civic Union had their turn last week. We expect the commission to hear our side in the manner in which we wish to present it. We want to bring living evidence that we are ar tists. Lipton and company applied for the license for the beatniks' club house in nearby Venice. The club house, called the Gas House, has been the object of criticism by the Civic Union, which reacts vio lently to the beats' assertion that Venice is "a lovely slum, and we love it." The hearing officer said at the recess of the hearings last week that he wasn't interested in the beatniks' art, only in testimony concerning their conduct. "We have paintings to show, mu sic to play and poetry to recite," insisted Lipton. "If we can't pre sent this evidence of our art, then as far as we're concerned, the hearings are over. "The other side testified that there was drinking, homosexuals, so-called habituees and the crime of just plain sitting all this was going on at the Gas House." Lipton, author of the best seller on beatniks, "The Holy Barbar ians," said the civic union had tried to make a crime story out of an art story. They hate artists. They talk about known homosexuals and criminals being in or near the Gas House but these never were doing any crime while in the Gas House u they were in it." 'MISH MASH' You Want To Be A Reporter? Forget Hollywood Movies OBITS REMEMBER WHEN . . . 25 years ago Mt. Emily Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars selected candidates for new offices. Competing were C. N. Tal bott, A. L. Kennedy and George Kennedy of La Grande, and a Mr. Blakney of Elgin, for post com mander: Herbert Evans, J. E. Lan ders, Porter Dial and Monte Sul- lins, senior vice commander: Rol lin Thomas and H. A. Scott, junior vice commander; Porter Dial and Icster Kingsley, quartermaster; Henry Hess, post advocate; H. S. Scott. Hoy Kurtz and Don Natott, chaplain; and P. J. Barron, officer of the day. And a son, the sixth, had been born the day before to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. F. Loyd. La Grande. . . 15 years ago the war was still headline copy, with the Rus sians poised at the Prussian gate way city of Ostroleka, and the Americans penetrating German soil for the first time during the war. In the Pacific, it was reported that several high-ranking Japan ese naval officers had met death through a bombing attack by B-17 bombers. The Japanese parliament had called a special session to dis cuss the gains being made by Am erican troops in the Pacific. In La Grande, 1,617 students were enrolled in the city school system midway through the first week of fall opening. It was a record. NEW YORK (UPI) Dr. D. Leigh Colvin, 79, Prohibitionist Party candidate for president of the United States in 1936, died Monday. Colvin became an active prohibitionist when he was 19, and at his death was president of the International Reform Federation of Washington and hono-ary pres ident of the World Prohibition Federation of London. NEW YORK (UPI) Jennings Tofel, 67, jn American expres sionist painter whose works are on exhibit in a number of muse ums both in the United States and abroad, died Monday. CHICAGO (UPI) Leverett S. Lyon, 73, an economist, educator, and former head of the Chicago Assn. of Commerce and Industry, died Monday. Lyon, who retired in 1954, also had been executive vice-president of the Brookings In stitution. Washington D C, a pri vate research and educational or ganization, and dean of the School of Commerce and Finance of Washington University in St. Louis. DETROIT (UPI) Rep. Char line White (D-Detroit). the first Negro woman ever 'elected to the Michigan Legislature, was found dead Monday in her home. Mrs. White was serving her fifth term in the Legislature. Mrs. White was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Sept. 1, 1920. HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Mrs. Sadie Warner Halper, sister of movie pioneers Jack and Albert Warner and wife of the late Louis J. Halper, also a prominent film executive, died Monday at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. She was 64. Bandits Heist Safeway Supermarket At Medford MEDKOKD I UPI Two bandits forced an assistant manager of the new Safeway supermarket here to open the store safe Sun day. The pair stuffed an estimated $2,000 to $5,000 dollars into paper sacks and then wheeled the loot to the front door and fled. John Franklin Barger, the as sistant manager, told police the men flashed guns and forced him to open a safe which is in the store office. The holdup occurred about 15 minutes before closing time, he said. NOISE HEARING WASHINGTON tlTD - The House Commerce Committee will hold an on-the-spot hearing Labor Day on complaints about the noise f jet planes flying in and out lM New York's Idlewild Airport. 24-HOUR I , AMBULANCE I; 1 SERVICE Established to serve you in every way that, we possibly can. Serving the La Grande area Phon WO 3-5022 Maybe you, young fellow, want to be a newspaper reporter in a vear or two. You have those twinkling stars in your eyes and have seen a few Hollywood movies about the life of a reporter. He's a real go get ter, tells the editor where to head in whenever he feels like it and usua'ly has an expensive looking apartment with hot and cold run ning liquor. 1 Well, young fellow, you can for get about that phase of a repoit- er's life the Hollywood variety- things just don't break like that, at lesst not since we became one 14 years ago; or we possibly could have been working on the "wrong' newspapers. Even m Las Vegas, where we spent almost nine years of news paper work, and that was a hec tic town to cover, reporters "did n't quite" live or act as reporters MUST live and act in Hollywood. It's a fairly simple, plodding type of work. But it's the most in teresting profession we have yet to meet; although there are days whea the newsbeat actually can be nearly as dead as yesterday's headline. There is one beat here in La Grande we have been interested in and that is the county court house run. Why, one might wonder the county courthouse, because most everyone says "there's nev er any news there." But, they're wrong. There Is news there, even if some of the workers at the courthouse say "nothing ever happens here other than the usual business." It may be routine business at that, but any reporter can weed out the routine from the news and come up with something, even if it means a feature or two about the people who staff the staid o'cl structure. Among the people there take Sheriff H. A. Klinghammer, for ex ample. His line of work is "really routine" and he says hardly ever anything happens out of his office. However, one day he may partici- Then, there is Judge C. K. Me- Cormick. He handles juvenile cases, etc., but, since there seems to be little or no juvenile problems i many papers prefer nut to phy this up because it may "glory such young individuals!, the jude is in rather a hum drum role news wise. But don't stop and leave his of fice. He says that he has d -voted around 25 years working for the public. There is a good feature story angle on this. Any man or woman who has spent this muih time in a public role h?s surely gone through many intcreMing things. The assessor's office we visited was really humming, and t'nion County Assessor R. M. (l)iekl Hartsock didn't let us go empty handed. He came up with a couple of stories and -is bound to be a good news source from time to time. Another interesting angh in Hartsock's of lice was something he mentioned about his new and young chief appraiser, Roy L. Long. This man scored a perfect mark on a real stiff test he took for the job. He was comp ting with young, crack aspiran's at the time and admitted that "he didn't have their academic background. Mrs. Veda Couzens, superinten dent of county schools, also "tame through" with a story that was timely, and the reporter's visit to Mrs. Cou?-ns' of I ice paid off. It also savrd her having to make a special trip to the newspaper, and that is one poi"' t remember: a reporter should be on the scene despite "h id s and high water." Mrs. Elizabeth Hungerford, county treasurer, had no news, but she did have a very warm smile and is . indeed a rather per sonable county worker. Circuit Judge A. F. Brownton was, and is now, out of town on his official duties. Whn he re turns, there is all probability he will have one or more news stor ies. District Attorney George Ander son is located in office down'own, but a tiip to his office netted a pate in a manhunt of some type. omH ,. .j .ln. hl. He gets posters on "wanted crim-j jurjs(lictjon js cmlnty.wide ne is inals" and one day may and pos sibly has in his police life nab a person listed on the "wanted" sheet. Negroes Want A Segregated Neighborhood JACKSON, Miss. (UPD A white store owner gave up Fri day night on plans to build a home in a Negro neighlxirhood when Negroes in the area protest ed that it should be kept segre gated. A petition signed by 82 Negroes protested the plans of W. J. Gar rett. 62. to build a three-bedroom home for himself, his wife and three daughters in a Negro sec tion of this Mississippi capital. The petition asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, that Garrett be refused a home build ing permit. "We believe the races should be segregated as far as possible," the Negroes stated, "and for these purposes this petition is re spectfully submitted. i "It would be our impression that if the situation were reversed you would someway prevent a colored person from doing the same thing in an exclusively white neighborhood. ;f "Some of us have our homes paid for. We are proud of our homes and our community." "Mr. Garrett has three teen-age daughters and, of course, there are a lot of young colored boys in this area." the petition said. "We do not want anything to hap pen which would cause any trouble." sitting in a favorable position for news. C. L. Graham is county clerk. He has had no actual news stories in the several trips we paid the courthouse, but this doesn't mean his office should be dropped and forgotten by a reporter. By listing all or most of the county officials in this manner is at least one way of getting their name in print, particularly the ones who feel that "nothing ever happens in my o.'fice." So, to you young reporters who want to get a start, if a possible news source waves you away, don't leave at first: talk a few minutes and something may be mentioned tli. t will lead to a story. At least you can report to an impatient editor: "It was a dull day at the county courthouse," and perhaps you can write at least one paragraph to this effect. Grady Panned SAVE on Fine Furniiure Fcr The Home at LA GRANDE FURNITURE WAREHOUSE East Adams Avenue WHEN YOU ARE PAST 43 Your Pharmacist is working in your be half, keeping stride with new miratlc drugs which help maintain good health and increase lifecxpectancy for you. Prescription filled promptlyl I mm (ms) pupa GOOD HEALTH TO ALL FROM REK ALL