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First We Have to See if There REALLY Is a Fire llNEA StrvittjM, EDITORIAL PAGE LA' GRANDE OBSERVER Wednesday, September 16, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. PUBLISHED BY THB J UA ORANDH PUULI8UINO COMPAWT RILEY D. ALLEN Publisher GRADV PANNELL ..- Managing Editor GEORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. DREW PEARSON SAYS: e i The Quest For Oil A number of dry holes, including two in Central Oregon, have been drilled by oil companies in recent years, but the search is not at an end. Word from Salem indicates that in terest in possible oil and gas deposits' in the Willamette Valley may lead to further drilling in that region before the end of the present year. A number of oil companies have leased Willamette Valley land. However, the State Department of Geology nnd Miner al Industries reports that the companies have not yet asked for permits to drill, as is required under Oregon's new oil code. Apparently, one of the hot spots in the Willamette Valley is the Lebanon country. Traces of oil and gas have been found there. But, of course, such traces cannot be taken as proof that there are large oil reserves under those rounded hills that crown into the western should er of the original Cascades. " Yet, if we were just drilling a hole for the fun of the thing, without having to pay the half-million dollar cost, we know of no more interesting locality than that around the western slopes of those old Cascades. , Oceans for many eons swept over that region. Once it was part of a vast cm bayment into which poured the debris of volcanoes on the ocean flank, as well as on the inland flank. Under the Willamette Valley soils are the beds of many ancient seas. Through those old sea beds emerged the volcanies in the "Ring of Fire" that crowd to the western foothills of the Cascades. Ior is interest in oil east of the Cas cades of Oregon entirely dead. Kiggest current operation in the oil and gas field is the Humble Oil and Refining Com pany'sexploration on some 300,000 acres in Lake county. This was leased earlier in the year. Only recently, the county of Lakemade additional land available, for leasing to the firm. Humble over a period of several years hits been carefully probing the region. The probing reached well int" Central Oregon, and once Humble had a field office in Bend. But when leases were made, only Lake County land was sought. Frobing through seismic and gravity methods must have yielded some encour aging results, judging from the big leases being made by Humble. There are two guesses as to what Humble is seeking in the Lake county region. One is that the company hopes to find gas or oil in the upturned, trap ped edges of old tertiary lake beds of the region. The guess is that Humble is attempting to find in south-central Oregon some of the same formations that have yielded gas or oil in California. Geologists have long known that the old Cretaceous for mations of California extended into east ern Oregon. In the Mitchell country, one horizon of the Cretaceous, the Chico, has been given a California name. Possibly the preliminary probing in I-ake county by Humble has been en couraging. But it will take real money, represented by the drilling of several wells possibly to a depth of 10,000 feet, to find out. We will watch from the sidelines, and wish the probers the best of luck. See You At The Football Game! not take ii in and give the Tigers a good boost before the "counters" start. . . Football season got off to a rousing start locally Friday night as La Grande and Union squared off in the opener for both clubs. Enthusiastic fans urged their teams to win. There was only one thing wrong there just weren't enough fans. The weather was rood and both ball clubs fought hard. They were playing both for the fun of the game and for their communities. The boys deserve the support of the community. The stands should be filled to overflowing to encourage the team. They are doing their fair share to bring honor to us. Let's give our support in person, i This year the Tigers are playing In a new league which Coach Franz Haun be lieves will be "tougher." The local boys will be facing Bend, Prineville and Red mond for the first time. The next home game is Oct. 2 with La Grande playing Bend in what should be a good game. This Friday night the game is at Baker. It's not a very lrrfrriw- Why See you at the ball game. Barbs Women economize by doing their own cooking, says a writer. Maybe because hubby eats less. A Maine man claims he broke a tooth on a cherry pit in a piece of pie. Now he wants to put the bite on the restaurant. When a girl gets to reading too many men like a book, she's; likely to be left on the shelf. A doctor says the happy-go-lucky girl carries her years lightly. And, as she gets older, starts dropping them. Beauty gets a Jtirl a lot of dates that keep her from getting her beauty sleep. A dentist's bill often clearly indicates that there is gold in them thar fHlsr Soviet Educational Goals Suppressed By White House WASHINGTON U. S. Survey of Soviet education is suppressed tor one year; It might have in fluenced Congress to pass an aid to-education bill; U. S. commis ioner of education was also cen sored. Ten days before Nikita Khrush chev was due to meet President bisenhower in Washington, the iusenhower administration re leased i highly laudatory report on the educational system built up Dy Mr. Khrushchev. The report, prepared bv Eisen bower's office of education warned: "We cannot afford to be t pathetic about educational tie velopments in the USSR. Clearly me soviet union is pent on ov ertaking and surpassing us as a world power. The official report then went on to tell how money was no problem to Soviet educators how Russia was spending 10 to 13 per cent ol its budget on edu cation compared with our 9 per cent; how laboratory and teach ing equipment were excellent classes small, and teachers qual uied. in contrast to overcrowd ed American schools where some classes have to operate in shifts, the small classes in Soviet schools made "the most profound im pression on American investi gators. But there was one very extra ordinary aspect of this report about which nothing was said It was suppressed for one year and three months. The American educators, in eluding Lawrence G. Derthick, U. S. commissioner of education, had gone to Russia in May 1958. Their report was not published until September 1959. Why was it that the Eisenhower adminis tration did not want the American people to know that Russian ed ucation had made a certain de gree of progress toward Khrush chev's threat that "we will bury you"? Red-Faced Silence Careful inquiry around the of fice of education found officials cither mum or running for cover. There was red-faced silence. But from reliable sources it was learned that the suppression went even deeper than the 15- month delay in publishing the re port. For on June 13, 1958, short ly after Commissioner Derthick returned from Russia he made a speech before the National Press Club in which he said the So viet educational system had made a tremendous impression" on the U. S. educators and warn ed: i Russia regards education with a kind of grand passion and is using it to reach and overreach the United States." Shortly after Commissioner Derthick made his speech, how ever, he received a stop-order from the office of his boss, Sec retary of Health, Education, and Welfare Flcmming, telling him to make no more speeches. He Was not to publicize the alarm ing findings on Soviet education. Simultaneously the report, was kept gathering dust for one year and three months. Meanwhile. Russian education continued to boast that Russia would surpass the United States, and the Eis enhower administration continu ed to oppose the federal school construction bill to help Ameri ican schools keep up with Rus sia. It' happens that Secretary Ar thur Flemming, Derthick's boss, is one of the more liberal mem bers of the Eisenhower cabinet and a strong believer in educa tion. However, he had received orders direct from the White House to piegonhole the report on education. Reason for this was very sim ple. If the report praising Soviet education had been published on schedule during the summei of 1958 it would have played in to the hands of Democratic con gressmcn who were trying t( pass a school construction bill Eisenhower was opposed to thi bill. In October, after Congress ad journed, a part of the report was released. But again during the 1959 session of Congress, thi major part of the survey continu ed t be hushed up. Finally, as Congress approach ed the last throes of its late summer 1959 session, and after Adm. Hyman Rickover was cross examined at a closed-door session of the House appropriations Com m it tee regarding suppression of the Soviet report, the report was released. By that time it was too late for Congress to pass the aid-to-education bill which Ike opposed. Note 1 Ike even vetoed the housing bill because it contain ed $50,000,000 to help colleges build classrooms. Note 2 Admiral Rickover, father of the atomic submarine, told congressmen that Russian high school students of 17 had received as much education as Amercian students after two years of college. Khrushchev-Co-Round Premier Khrushchev is bank ing on his speech before the United Nations to convince the world of Russia's desire for peace. , Inside word is that he will urge the United Nations to meet in Moscow next year so its members can see for themselves that the eold war is over . . .The Russian premier wants to visit Disneyland when he's in Los An peles. but Ambassador Menshi- kev doesn't think it's dignified. Besides, on the only day Khrush chev could get there, a Saturday, 75,000 people would be at Disney land and- the security problem would be difficult . . . The Rus sian Embassy isn't enthusiastic about sending Nikita to Camp David in a helicopter. American whirlybirds aren't considered safe by the Russians . . . The State Department has turned ov er to Secret Senrice quite a few letters from crackpots threaten ing the Russian leader. These letters, though anonymous, fol low a pattern, and the Secret Ser vice has a file of them previous ly sent to the President. They c?n be tracked down by compar ing penmanship . . . CIA Di rector Allen Dulles has been urg ing Ike to visit Siberian cities, not confine his trip to Moscow and Leningrad as planned. Dul les anDarent v wants Ike to serve as a sort of glorified spy to look at Siberian defense installations, hitherto unvisited by foreigners. . . Sen. Barry Goldwater ol Ari zona is scheduled to address a big Chicago rally against me Khrushchev visit. Some of his friends are buying white feathers iiom chicken dealers to send to Nixon and Eisenhower as a sym bol of cowardice. REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago plans were being made fon the annual Un ion County Fair to be held later in week. Mrs. Kate Ilanley headed the Fair committee. A Northeast Oregon high school football and athletic lea gue was organized. It was known as the Blue Mountain Football League, with teams from La Grande, Baker, Pendleton, Union, Enterprise and Milton-Freewater. A La Grande man, Ira Woodie, headed the new athletic conference. ThcVFW post of La Grande hosted Joint conference of veter ans in observance of the 35th anniversary of Veterans of For eign Wars. The local American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps ranked fourth in state competition and attended centennial celebration at Boise, Idaho. ... 15 years ago the La Grande High School football season prepared for opener against The Dalles Indians. Starters for La Grande were to be Sherwood and Marrs, ends; Hyde and Cyr. tackles; Smythe and tldridgo, guards; and Carey, quarterback; Courtney and Camp, halfbacks, and Terry, fullback. A big fire it Elgjn, estimated at $200,000, destroyed the Elgin warehouse. Alfred T. Owsley, of the Union Grain Growers Asso ciation, termed the fire a disas trous one. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS Unittd Press International iiMtTKn NATIONS. N.Y. Gen eral Assembly President Victor Andres Bclaunde of Peru, opening the 1959 session: The past centuries uvea unuci the false and presumptuous sign nf the so-called "will to power1 Today, mankind not only needs to live but also must live unaer tne sign of 'will for justice'." inivTsvtt.i.R. Ala. Sen. Stu art Symington, (D-Mo.) comment mo n RiKsinn Prime Minister Ni kita S. Khrushchev's visit: I rniccnH hv HI air HOUSO UUS ( Tuesday I and it was something to see tne nuge turn- munist flag flying ouisiae. mana ma urnndnr what would have happened 10 years ago if Mr. Truman invuea mr. Biaun over here. He probably would have been Impeached." Washington Soviet Pre- mir Nilcim S Khrushchev, mak ing a toast at the White House dinner in his honor: If ue were weak countries. then II u-niiM ho another matter. because when the weak quarrel. they are just scratcning eacn nlhrr's fare and it takes iust a couple of days for a cosmeticiar and everything comes out right again. But if we quarrel, then not only our countries can suffer co lossal damage but the other coun tries of the world will also be in volved in a world shambles." ATOM TALKS SET VIENNA. Austria (UPI The International Atomic Energy Agency will hold its third general conference In . Vienna beginning Sept. 22. it was announced today. At the same time, the Austrian government reported that the United States, Britain and the So viet Union will provide Austria with uranium through the world Atoms-For-Peace organization. Konrad Adenauer 'Looks Back' On 10 Years Of West Germany By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer A man of seemingly frail physi cal stature but a Hercules in the shaping of free world destinies ob serves an anniversary today. In the hullabaloo surrounding Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's U.S. visit, it might pass almost unnoticed. It was 10 years ago, at the age of 73, that Konrad Adenauer took over as chancellor of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany. He has held the job ever since. standing as a stubborn rock against which the political ambi tions of lesser men have shat tered in his own West Germany and as a bulwark frustrating the aims of this same Khrushchev to take over the whole of Germany for Communism. Khrushchev has reserved some of his bitterest words for Ade nauer whose parchment skin, sunken eyes and outward frailty would seem at odds with the spir it of a man who thrives on a bat tle and who has proved himself one of Germany's most astute pol iticians. Champion Against Communism And as a champion against Communism, it was significant that it was Adenauer whom Presi dent Eisenhower first sought out in Europe to explain the purpose of this week's talks with Khru shchev. AHunntiAr'a Met concern was that Iher. hiiilri he no "Sell OUt' of West Germany, and especially no sell-out of West Berlin. In Germany, Adenauer affee tionately is called "the old man In 1933 it seemed that his pub lie career should be finished. The Nazis ousted him then, as mayor of Cologne. He came back to the job after 12 years of en forced Idleness only to be fired again by the British in 1945. But at the age of 70 he founded the Christian Democratic Union which came to power with the birth of the new republic In 1949 and elected him chancellor by the margin of a single vote. The vot ers re-elected hun in 1953 by an amazing majority and he has re mained in power ever since. With his political allies, he is assured a working majority of approxi mately 100 votes in the German Bundestag. - Believes In Adenauer Alone This amazing man is both a guaranty of German democracy and at the same time the oppo site of the democratic spirit. He believes firmly in no one but Adenauer. Thus it was that in June he re versed himself on a previous de cision to run for the West Ger many presidency, a job of pomp and circumstances but little real America Holds Fascination For Soviet Union's Chief WASHINGTON (UPI) Color- curity precautions, the extensive ful and articulate Nikita S. Khru shchev today began to translate into reality one of his favorite adaees: "To see once is better than to read one hundred times." For Khrushchev as well as for Lenin and Stalin, America always has had a strange fascination. He nublicly told a group of Ameri can governors who visited Mos cow this summer, we would nice to be like you and what is wrong with that." Lenin lived in a period of ex treme, externally imposed isola tion. Stalin preferred to immure himself inside the Kremlin walls. Khrushchev alone, the first genu inely proletarian Soviet leader, has made extensive travel an in strument of national policy. Issues Genuine Challenge Stalin spoke of a goal "to catch up and surpass tne most .ad vanced capitalist country." Khru shchev has turned this slogan into a' genuine challenge to give Rus sia a standard of living Detter than America within the foresee able future. For the next 13 days, the So viet premier will have a first-hand look into the realities of Ameri can power of which he has read hundred times. When Khrushchev visited Eng land in 1956 he complained that British authorities erected an ar tificial barrier between himself and the people. He claimed that he was not permitted to see everything and everybody he was interested in. There are no grounds for such charges with regard to the Amer ican tour. The United States is wide open to the Soviet visitors and everything within reason has been made accessible to them. Only Bird's Eye View It is only due to the normal se- TORCH FOR NIKITA ROME (UPI) The Rome news paper II Tempo today published a cartoon titled Preparations for Khrushchev. It shows two Ameri cans staring at the Statue of Lib erty. The caption: "Maybe wed better cover it up. He might think it a provocation. trans-continental itinerary and the attempt to crowd too much within a brief time that the Khrushchev party will get no more than a bird's eye view of the United States. Some Americans have justified the unprecedented invitation to Khrushchev on ground that it would be useful for his personal education on American affairs. It has been said that the visit might help to remove some of his possi ble misconceptions about Ameri can power, about the unity of the people and the government, and the firmness of American foreign policy. But it is by no means evident that Khrushchev suffers from such misconceptions or, if he does, that this brief visit will eliminate them. On the contrary, there is evidence that he is rea sonably well briefed on America. "I do not have to go to Amer ica to see how strong, and rich that country is," Khrushchev said recently and added, "that I know already." power, in aomg bo, ne ruiniessiy cast aside Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the man credited with most of West Germany's present prosperity but a man whom Adenauer did not trust to retain the unyielding line followed by Adenauer himself in his inter national relations. His hifih-handed action against the popular Erhard caused both consternation and resentment within the party, but Adenauer held fast and won. Today, at 83, he is West Ger many's chancellor for the foresee able future. He still loves a fight, is one of Communism's most im placcable foes, and one of a united Europe's most zealous champions. OBITS United Press International VENICE, Italy Marcel Cuve Her, Belgian composer and con ductor, died here of a heart at tack Monday night. DUNEDIN, Fla. 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