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t 'Come, See and Forget About Conquering" DREW PEARSON SAYSi EDITORIAL PAGE IXGRANDE OBSERVER Friday, September 11, 1959 - t "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. PUBLISHED BY THB IA ORANDM PUatUfeUilNO COM PUTT RILEY D. ALLEN r ........... Publisher GRADY PANNELX - Managing Editor GEORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. La Grande Crime Rate Very Low La Grande people may not know "it. but their city ranks at the bottom of the "crime heap" in population percent age estimates for the state of Oregon and is way below the national average for towns of thisaize. When J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, released his national statistics covering all types of crime several days ago, La Grande residents should have patted themselves with pride. : According to Police Chief Oliver Reeve, crime is just about nil in this city. And when asked about juvenile problems, he said the younger set gave his police force little trouble. ., This is, indeed, something for all civic minded citizens of this area to be proud of. The Show That Just Didn't Go Over Oregon's Centennial observance at Portland ends its hundred-day run soon, plagued to the end. The Labor Day week end, which should have been a big one, was bothered by bad weather, no help at all to a show which has failed to click from the start. The Centennial celebration at the start was somewhat of a gimmick 'to put a new roof on the PI building. At the end it seems it has accomplished not too much more than that. This is in spite' of a lot of hard work by members of. the Centennial commis sion, who have spent time and money of their own in large amounts to put over the show. It's hard to assess all the reasons a show of this type fails. It was a pretty good exposition, all things considered.. Of course, it was no World's Fair in the San Francisco, Chicago or New York style of the late Thirties. And once this fact became apparent, people stayed away in droves. , . Part of the blame must attach to the Portland newspapers, which blew up the show as something fit for the Second Coming. The show didn't live up to the advance billing It got. And there's noth ing like this comment to kill an exposi tion: - ' . ' ' ' "Well, I heard it was going to be pretty good, but after seeing it I'm not im pressed." - It was not lack of hard work on the part of the Commission that made the show fail. It was just that indefinable something which makes promoters guess wrong on their packages fairly regularly. Round-Up A Real Community Job A handout from the Pendleton Round- Up Association is the reminder that Ore gon's biggest rodeo is about to go into action again. Round-Up activities this year begin Sept. 16. We've heard that no one of the di rectors receives any pay for working on the Pendleton show truly one of rodeo's major league events. If this is true, and there's no reason to doubt it, the performance is all the more remarkable. Of nil the big-time shows, rendlcton has one distinction the city is the small est to put on a rodeo of this caliber. The Round-Up is a real community show, and the results are well worth all the effort that goes into it. How To Gain Access To Public Lands Prodding by Oregon Sen. Richard L. Neubcrger has led to a scheduled hear ing in Portland next month by a Senate Interior subcommittee on how to make more public land accessible to more of the public. Sen. Neuberger will conduct th hear ings during which several pertinent ques tions will be raised.' Theso should, and probably will be, on such topics as to why hunters, fishermen, and nature lov ers, in many instances, find public desig nated land areas "off limits" by no-tres passing signs. The pattern of land ownership in the Western states, where government and private holding in large block often are intermingled, pose serious questions of public access, according to the Junior sen ator. ; He also pointed out that in some cases the lack of access results in tho virtual locking up of resources on the public-held land and makes proper management of the forest, land and wildlife assets most difficult. Range Fires Set At Vale VALE (irPD Two range fires about four miles apart near here burned 500 to WO acres late Wed nesday and early Thursday. A Bu reau of Land Management official said both were deliberately set. ; Max Olson. BLM (ire control officer here, aid the firet were in the Tub Mountain area about 15 mile from Vale. The flamei were extinguished about 140 a m. "There's no doubt about it," be said. "They were set." The first blaze was reported at 5:02 p.m. Wednesday. Olson sight ed the second (ire from the air as he flew ever the first blase in scouting plane. . - Two other fires In the same general area within the past few days also were believed of In cendiary origin. Who's In Charge Of Labor Affairs? Cabinet Wonders (Editors Note: While Drew Pearson Is on a "work and play vacation," his column is being written by his associ ate. Jack Anderson.) WASHINGTON. The back- stage tugging and tussling over labor reform legislation has brouiiht to a head a feud inside the President's official family hjtufn Rcretarv of Ijlhor Jim Mitchell and Postmaster Gener al Art Summerfield. Iin2 annoved over Summer- fiplH'c AhitpKsinn with labor mat ters, Mitchell finally threw up his hanas in despair wnen tne postmaster general took over the lobbying campaign to pass the Landrum-Griffin bill. Thi ic a labor hill which has nothing .to do with the post of fir It wag utt tn Mitchell, not Summerfield, to decide how to decide to steer it through con gress. Except for setting forth the administrations views in a letter to Congressman George Wallhauser (R., N.J.), Mitchell left the lobbying to the legisla tive experts from the White House and labor department But Summerfield marched up to Capitol Hill, set up a com mand post in Illinois, Congress man Les Arends' office close by the House floor and summoned wavering Republicans into his presence. He put on the heat with the skill of a housewife cooking Sun Hau H inner. On some he used threats to cut off their post of fice patronage. To others, ne simply pleaded: "The President amit thi bill badlv. He's de pending on you. Please dont let him down." Pressure Cooker Amnnff Ihncp whn stuck their beads in Summerfield's pressure cooker were Congressmen Bill Cahill and Frank Osmers ot New Jersey, Bob Corbett and John Saylor of Pennsylvania, Arch Ward or West Virginia, Bin Bray of Indiana and Fred Sen wengel of Iowa. All voted ex wtii nnnnsite to the wav Sum merfield instructed them. The reason the postmaster gen eral temporarily dropped his campaign against smutty litera ture to iead the fight for labor rotnrm wa tn aoDease the Re publican bosses in his home state of Michigan. He has been on the defensive with them over many Vicsnhnwer Dolicies. but their stand on the labor issue happily coincided. Knowing the GOP powers in uiithitfan nrA more interested In cracking down on labor unions than cleaning up the mans, sum m.rfiplrt leaned into the middle ni tha labor reform battle. By this be hopes to gain their sup port for the vice presiaenuai nomination, a prize Mitchell also ii known to covet. is.. tha InHir appretarv wish AJUl Hi.. " - es Summerfield would campaign for the vice presidency in nis ,. HonartmenL At a recent cabinet meeting, Mitchell offer ed not to interfere with tne mails if Summerfield would keep his nose out of the labor depart menL Lobbyists' Tactics in tiAmnt hv the trucking inhhv in hrine congressional pres sure on the Interstate Commerce Commission has backlired nxe a truck with a bad engine. The truckers helped prepare lottor which Sen. George Smathers, Florida Democrat, un uiittinirlv ftisned. When he found out how the letter had been us ed, however, he fired off a sec ond letter withdrawing the first. The issue: The truckers hop ed to influence the ICC's decision on piggy-back service, the name given to the railroads' practice of hauling trailers on flatcars for les than trucks can pull them over the highways. Those in the trucking business under standably would like to outlaw tbe practice. To give political emphasis to their arguments before the ICC, their lobbyists slipped around to see Senator Smathers who, as chairman of the Senate's surface transportation subcommittee, is a big power in this field. Without taking sides, Smathers agreed to investigate their com plaints and asked Frank Barton of the subcommittee staff to draft a letter to the ICC for his sig nature. Loaded Letter The letter was supposed to in vite the commissioners simply to participate in an informal discus sion. But Barton permitted the trucking lobbyists to help com pose it. They twisted the letter into a propaganda document for the truckers. Sample: "Some of the rates being published for perfor mance of piggy-back service are destructively low and violate the established principles of trans portation rate-making.' Barton delivered the finished composition to Smathers as he was about to board a plane. With only a quick glance at it, he scrawled his signature across the bottom. Next day he learned that his letter had been written to influ ence the ICC's decision on the piggy-back cases. He hastilly dic tated another letter, declaring: "It has long been my personal view that the commission was in the best position to decide problems of this type and cer tainly it was not my wish to be pictured as an advocate of be ing on either one side or the other of an active litigation going on. For these reasons, I respect fully request that the commis sion ignore in toto my (previous) letter." Two big guns in the Republi can party Kentucky's Sen Thruston Morton, GOP national chairman, and Pennsylvania's Congressman Dick Simpson, GOP congressional campaign chairman. recently flew to Kansas City to gether. Browsing through a news magazine, Simpson came upon a report that he was the Republican congressman Ike dislikes most . . "I wonder who the hell put this out," snorted Simpsym, point ing out the passage to his seat mate. Morton discreetly didn't mention that the passage was based upon his own remarks to newsmen at an off-the-record din ner . . President Eisenhower, before his European departure tried to make up with Simpson by phoning him and thanking him warmly for his help in push ing the Landrum-Griffin labor reform bill through the House. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International REMEMBER WHEN 9 vpar at? ft a laree dcle- Portland Chamber of Commerce people visited the La Grande area: tnree men enusi ed in Company E, 186th Infantry of the National Guard here. They Clifford Houten. Claude Whiteside and Richard F. Hous ton. Tha I Rrande civic band left rn. Panillotnn In attain serve as the official Roundup and Happy Canyon Band; tne second wara Mutual of the LDS Church had 200 people in attendance at the nnoninir fill sncinl of the church o . , ... F. Andrews, presioeni oi inr men's organization, presided. Miss Helen Hendrickson was the star soloist Thro race of scarlet fever mnnrtpH in Union Coun ty by county health otliclals as quarantine posters weni up. in veara a fo Luxembourg rn tn advancing American fight ing men, and the vaunted Sieg fried Line was Deing pounaea Dy 'sttk aftiiinrv lire. A La Grande man, 1st Lt Lyle 1 Xlmrhi1 23. P138 Dllot. met death In Italy, according to a telegram received by his wife. Mclba. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. U C Moorehead of iKia ailv Special tribute was paid to WASP Georgia Belle Gehring of 2604 North Birch Street She u.. aiifa nf I t. Fred Cehrinc who was serving overseas. She was local college graduate ana taught In La Grande scnooi sys tern before joining the service. WASHINGTON President Ei senhower, describing in a nation wide radio-TV address his hopes for his forthcoming exchange of visits with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev: "It is my profound hope that some real progress will be forth coming, even though no one would be so bold as to predict such an outcome." NEW YORK - Rookie Patrol man Richard Ware, 22, who had several bottles, sticks and stones thrown at him by a hostile crowd when he arrested two teen-age Wall Street Eyes 'Foundation' Of Bull Market Sans Inflation NEW YORK UPI Wall Street is asking if the bull mar ket, reputedly built on an infla tion premise, can exist without inflation. This question comes up at a time when the prime interest rate rate for the best credit rating borrowings is at 5 per cent with talk of an eventual per cent. High money rates could bring deflation eventually, , the experts point out. Also it is noted that so far the administration has kept a firm hand on the budget which many had thought would be out of whack. . Astronaut Would Be Survivor CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (UPI) Project Mercury scientists, who have the job of getting a man into space and back, said today that if a member of the Mercury astronaut team had been in a test space capsule fired Wednes day he would have survived. The confident opinions of the scientists demonstrated the dra matic progress of the United States in preparations for putting a human into orbit around the earth. The test shot Wednesday "did not come out log per cent success ful" Robert R.' Gilruth, director of the Mercury Project, said, but constituted a "major step" to ward the final goal. He cautioned that many more steps must follow, however, be fore a man actually is put into orbit. The capsule fired Wednes day was not designed to orbit. Because of a failure in the At las missile used to launch the 9.5-foot capsule on a straightaway night down the Atlantic tracking range, the funnel-shaped vehicle failed to, achieve the 2,000-mile range planned for the test. Watching as the huge missile blasted off was Lt. Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, one of the seven Mercury astronauts, hand-picked to ride in space someday. After the Atlas and capsule had been in flight about two minutes before the trouble in the missile developed Shepard joshed about his job with other blockhouse oc cupants. One scientist estimated that any human aboard the test capsule would have been subjected to a force about IS times the pull of gravity. This was because the capsule. instead of easing gradually into the earths dense air blanket, plunged back toward the Atlantic at a steep angle because of the Atlas malfunction. gang members, describing his job: "You get something thrown at you every night. They come from roofs and doorways. You don't see anybody, but the kids stand oft and jeer. . .There you are out there trying to do a job, and the kids are laughing and jeering at you. It makes you, feel pretty fun ny sometimes." ..' OAKLAND. Md. Roy Dixon, 14, describing the crash of a school bus and a train that killed seven children and injured 19 others: "It seemed everybody ruBhed to the doors of the bus all at once. One girl she got stuck in the door. I didn t know what to do. Finally somebody pushed her out. . .Later I saw some blood on the door." High money, a balanced budget fairly steady prices, prospect of a non inflationary steel settle ment, and talk of a possible cut back in defense spending all spell deflation. Many experts refuse to go along with the idea that inflation has been licked. And some ex perts hold that we can have a rising market without the aid of inflation. An advocate . of the latter a rising market without inflation is the big mutual fund sponsor. Distributors Group, Inc. It has this to say on the subject: "If we accept inflation as vir tually the only reason for invest ing in common stocks and the idea that the stock market will rise in proportion to the decline in the value of the dollar we find a sizable increase in com mon stock prices still unaccount ed for. Stock Prices Tripled "According to this idea, the stock market, during the past 20 years, 'should have doubled to off set the halving of the dollar's buying power and no more. But the price of common stocks has nearly tripled. Why the addition al appreciation? "This is significant 'additional' appreciation and is due to the in herent dynamic qualities of com mon stock." The firm notes a steady rise in expenditures for new plant and equipment and for research and believes this is a sound reason for investment in com mon stocks today entirely aside OBITS United Press International t- NEW YORK - Mrs. Jessie Tay lor Corbett, widow of James J. (Gentleman Jim) Corhpti wnrWs heavyweight boxing champion from 1892 to 1897. died Thursday. She was in her eighties. t RIVERSIDE, Conn.- Frederick S. Mallette, 53, an expert on air pollution control, died Thursday after being in poor health for two years. i DARIEN, Conn. Alexander R. M. Bovle. 71. former iriviciirpr and director of the Lehn and Fink Products Corp.. died Thursday. I from inflation. "Also." it adds, "it Is a posi tive reason, and a more thought ful one than the purely negative desire to flee the dollar" by hold ing only minimum reserves in such sound investment as bonds and savings deposits where inflation erodes the buying power of principal faster than interest can add to it." Now for a look at tbe other side of' the coin to answer the question if inflation has been licked. The New York Federal Reserve Bank points that the current sit uation which forces the Treasury to issue nothing but short term issues is inflationary. "As the debt shortens, ownership tends to shift from 'savings-type' investors to investors who hold govern ments as a 'money substitute,' " says the bank. Puts Funds into Active use "Thus the Treasury, in effect, borrows funds that would other wise be idle and releases longer term funds that flow into active use." Incidentally higher rates of interest being paid by the Treas ury will add to government out lays. Barron's estimates the in crease in interest payments on the national debt this year' will boost the budget figure by a half billion dollars. Barron's also sees other addi tions to the expenditure side that will throw the budget out of whack upward momentum of such programs as the develop ment loan fund, soil bank, space activities, veterans' pensions and public housing and worjsa is fig ured at $1.5 billion. Other additions include $350 million to the postal deficit be cause of failure to raise postal rates; $100 million for medical research. Barron's looks for a $79 billion expenditure in this fiscal year, against an estimated $77 billion. And it sees another $2 billion added for fiscal 1916. -- MOORE BUSINESS FORMS McGlasson's STATIONERY NOW AT The Wheel 'Snack Time Menu In response to popular demand we've extended our kitchen hours to enable our customers to enjoy a "Snack" or a com plete dinner from the time we open until the time we close. 3 P.M. till 2:15 A.M. daily except Sunday Along Wilh Our FAMOUS STEAK DINNERS We Are Featuring Spaghetti with Hushrooms. ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOUI 'ROD AND JAN' the two versatiles on the Hammond Organ and drums starting their RETURN ENGAGE MENT Friday, September 11, and nightly thereafter. Pfl (. nr. M 1 MMi V J fj y 3 (I 'HI I ' I - imfWlii li'im 1 1111 tMiniii'iitiii ' " r nUnriiin :tm ir "-' 1 ffna j At your Mercury dealer's today! This is our final windup sale of the year. 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