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Tuesday, September 22; 1959 i.,im
"Without or with friend or foe, we prin t your daily world as it goes" Byron.
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Segment Which Doesn't Go Along
One of the notable phenomena of Ore
gon political life in the pust three ywys
has been the press approbation of U.S.
Senator Richard L. Neubcrirer.
Neuberirer was opposed by nil Oregon
daily newspaiiera except those in Coos
Bay and" Pendleton when he first ran for
his office in 1951. Most of his early
actions In the Senate met with dis
approval. .
During: his first couple of years in the
Senate, however, Neuberger changed, l
came more responsible and more mature,
we think.
Editorial writers seemed to lx more
willing: t take a look, instead of firinjr
away, too.
As a result Neuljerg-er began to bask
in a now, for him, public esteem.
1 '.ut.it isn't unanimous, by any means.
As proof, t.-ike a look at the column by
Raymond Woley, the former Roosevelt
I'.rain Truster now the voice of a con
siderable conservative group, in the cur
rent issue of Newsweek magazine. .
Moley, after blasting away at Neu
lierger for a full column, ends with these
two s"iitences:
"What the growing Northwest needs
is something new. Also a few fresh
faces in Congress."
All Hail, The Mighty
Izvestia in Moscow' paints this mis
leading: picture of the "welcome" given
Khrushchev in Washington:
"The streets of Washington arc pack
ed with people . . . the applause1 grows
into ovation . .' . along the way they
warmly greeted Khrushchev . . . you hoar
friendly shouts at Khrushchev."
There is more to this deceptive reporting-
than a desire to flatter the boss.
It is a planned effort to delude the
Russian people. But why? Those who
keep a. wary eye on the Communists
think they have the answer. It is this:
The Russians have been. brought up to
believe that the villains of the world
consist only of a handful of "monopo
lists."! The "working class," of any
country, is "down trodden" until lilier
ated. ..
v The people who line the streets to
watch Khrushchev as he passes by are
mostly "workers,"- not members of the
"ruling class." Therefore they must love
Mr. K. Cometh
Khrushchev, the liberator. So they
must shout with joy, in the columns of
l.vestia if not, any where else.
This may seem stupid enough, but it
is also dangerous. There is always dan
ger to world pence when the people in
a country ruled by a dictator are con-
vinced that the people of another country
are not resolutely against them. The
Russian people, for example, might
come to believe that the American
people would welcome the chance to be
"liliorated" Russian style. Thus they
might be willing to risk war on the
. ''assumption that the American people
wouldn't fight back.
There were those who warned that
inviting the Red dictator was a mistake.
We are not yet ready to concede that it
was entirely, but insofar as it mndo pos
sible the presentation of this false pic
ture of American sentiment to the Rus
sian people, it was a mistake.
'Car-ltis' And The Younger Set
"When car-itis begins, don't act as if cognize the prestige factor, attached by
It's a sure sign of juvenile delinquency." ' ' young set to owning a car.
This is the advice given by a writer , At a risk of antagonizing a large group
whose article "A Dad, A Boy and a Car" of the motor minded we would advocate
appears in the September issue of Family m
Circle.!
The writer suggests seven ways a
father can help his son (or daughter as
the case may be) live through that peri
od of his life when a car becomes the
most Important thing: in the universe.
Talk cars with your boy to give the
car urge a sense of respectability. IV
patient. Set a good example. Remember
that you made mistakes. Stand by your
boy but uphold the law. Insist that your
boy earn his own money for gas. oil ami
repairs. Help work out a plan w here pur
chase Is sensible and not unduly burden
some on the youth.
Such a list makes food sense to us. e
would be among the last to say that
every young man or woman needs a car,
but we would be among the first to le
thal parents resist the entreaties of high
school age youngsters to permit them to
have a car. Obvious exceptions must I
made whore the boy carna his own mon
ey to buy and maintain a car and where
a student lives out of town and is not on
a bus route.
. Rut even in the instances where ex
ceptions are to be made the parent should
exercise firm and enlightened control
over the driving habits of his offspring.
Barbs
I-ots of folks go on vacation and get
intoUie old summertime rut, but most
citioNare getting the roads repaired.
The shine folks take to a new car
ought to be used on it after it gets old.
DREW PEARSON SAYS:"
Soothing Syrup' By Nixon
On Russ Moon Shot Scored
WASHINGTON Inside facts
jbout hitting the moon when
Vice President Nixon said there
was no real proof Russia had hit
the moon, he was indulging in
what he bad onre privately cri
ticized among other Eisenhower
officials "soothing syrup." Real
fact is that everthing the Rus
sians said about the moon, shot
was true and we knew it. Our
scientists followed the moon shot
from the very start and knew
when it was going to hit. When
it came within the moons orbit,
(hey saw it speed up, which
meant it was inside the moon's
(gravitational pull. When this
happened we knew it couldn't
miss . . . Nixon was right on one
point, namely that Russia had
made three unsuccessful tries to
hit the moon in the last two
weeks. The fourth succeeded
. what he didn't mention was
that prior to this Russia had
been making repeated shots
traight up, for a distance of
300 miles into the outer atmos
phere. Our tracking stations
picked up all these shots and we
concluded they were trying to
put a man into outer space and
bung him back just before Khru
shchev arrived . . . these at
tempts were abandoned prob
ably for the same reason the USA
can t put a man into outer space.
too many cosmic rays. These de
form or even kill a man. They
turn mice's hair from gray to
while in a few minutes
when the Russians found they
couldn't lick the cosmic rays they
switched to the easier job of hit
ting the moon.
Moon Shot Scandal
Madison avenue yields to bud
get. .real scandal of the Russian
moon shot is that the USA could
have hit the moon probably
ahead of Russia. Reason it did
n't is hard for Mr. John Q. Pub
lic to understand, but it governs
almost everything in Washington
these days the budget. Eisen
hower economizers figured it
vould cost too much ... we had
made five unsuccessful attempts
to hit the moon Aug. 17, '58;
Oct. 11. '58; Nov. 8, '58; Dec.
6, '58; March 4, 59. Then we
slopped. It was getting expen
sive . . . Eisenhower has the
famed Madison Avenue experts,
Batten, Barton, Durstine and Os
borne, come to Washington once
or twice a week to advise him on
public relations yet he let Khru
shchev pull the greatest publi
city stunt of all on the eve
of his visit just because the
budget bureau didn't want to
spend the money . . . Several
missile men inside the Defense
Department and the National
Space Agency urged that we
keep on aiming for the moon.
There were plenty of missiles ly
ing around Cape Canaveral avail
able for moon shots. But the
administration simply refused to
spend the money . . 'meanwhile
the Russians were spending money
with bang-bang-bang gusto to hit
the moon first. For Communists
who don't believe in capitalism,
they certainly appreciated Madi
son Avenue techniques!
Military value of moon when
Keith Glennan and Herbert F.
York, our two- top space execu
tives, said that hitting the moon
had no military significance,- one
U.S. military officer wisecracked:
That's like saying a pistol has
no military significance because
it's shot at a target instead of
a man." . . . Experts admit pri
vately that the Russian moon shot
shows its missiles have develop
ed pin-point accuracy. Ours are
accurate too, but it would be a
grave mistake to discount Rus
sian accuracy . . . most accur
ate shot we've made was the Atlas
test from Vandenberg Air Force
Base. Calif., into the mid-Pacific
about two weeks before Khrush
chev's arrival. It hit one mile
beyond the target and two miles
to the left, which at a range of
4.4(H) miles is considered pin
point. Carrying a hydrogen war
head, it would havve knocked
New York City off the map even
SEA MANEUVERS OPEN
NAPLES, Italy IVVV Units of
the powerful U.S. 6th Fleet today
opened week-long maneuvers in
Greek and Turkish waters as
part of (he NATO exercise "Side
Step." The maneuvers named
"Crescent Mace"
if it hit two miles to the left . . .
amazing unknown fact about this
Atlas shot was that the White
House at first turned thumbs
down on any publicity. It order
ed the Air Force to test the mis
sile in secret It was worried
about rattling our missiles be
fore Khrushchevs arrival. The
Air Force replied:
"You can't keep .this shot se
cret any more than you can
keep an earthquake secret It
will almost rattle adjacent peo
ple out of their beds. Also some
one's likely to see it land." . . .
Finally, only three hours before
the test, the usually Madison:
avenue-minded White House
countermanded its secrecy or
der ... A British Overseas Air
line plane, Incidently, did spot
the big missile land in the mid
Pacific. It saw the vapor trail
plus the splash as it hit the wa
ter. It was traveling at 15,000
miles an hour.
We Lest Face
Loss of face and trust failure
to hit the moon ahead of Rus
sia lost us face in most parts of
the world. Failure to admit Rus
sia's achievement lost us trust.
When Nixon said there was no
proof the Russians had hit the
moon, it had a very familiar
ring. Exactly two years ago, min
us IT days, when Russia launch
ed the first Sputnik Oct. 4, 1957,
a chorus of deprecating state
ments flowed from administra
tion spokesmen. "The administrat
ion is not interested In serving a
high score in an outer space bas
ketball game," said Sherman
Adams . . ."We never thought of
our program as one which was
in a race with the Soviets," said
White House Secretary Jim Hag
erty . . . "The real danger of the
Sputnik is that some too-eager
people may demand hasty and
sensational action regardless of
cost in an attempt to surpass
what they have done," said Sec
retary of the Treasury Humphrey
. . . Nobody is going to drop any
thing on you from a satellite
while you are asleep, so don't
worry about it," said Secretary
of Defense Wilson ... so the
general public was soothed back
into a condition of complacency.
The rest of the world was not so
easily soothed. NATO began to
weaken. Russia began to make
political gains among the un
committed countries. And when
the big test came over Berlin
we. found ourselves minus the'
military strength for a showdown.
That's why we are talking to
Khrushchev today . . In other
words, the administration has
now been caught twice trying to
turn U.S. scientific defeats in
to victories.
REMEMBER WHEN
. . 25 years ago the headlines
told of capture of prime suspect
in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping.
Bernard Richard Hauptman was
being held by the federal author
ities. (He was later electrocut
ed.)
Locally the annual Grange Fair
and Home Products Show was
set to open. A preview before the
first night's show revealed some
outstanding displays that includ
ed tobacco and sweet potatoes.
Top exhibits were entered by
Clara Gekeler, Elgin, local wool
and homemade yarn; Karl Stack-
land, Jr., Cove, Frank King of
May Park, W. R. Gekeler of near
La Grande, and others. The Blue
Mountain, Cricket Flat, Wolf
Creek, Mount Fannie and Pleas
ant Grove granges were compli
mented.
Reporting in with the first
buck killed in this area on the
opening of deer season was Her
man Yeske.
. 15 vears ago Hitler took
over personal command of the
Western front; more help was
promised to China from Ameri-
i.
The American Legion in na
tional convention proposed the
establishment of a world police
force.
City Manager Ed Ford and sev
ral commissioners were depart
ing for Portland to attend a meet
ing on post war aviation plans.
Tribute was Daid to Pvt. Paul
Keith Roe, son of Mr. and Mrs.
K F. Roe, 1603 X Ave., who was
serving in the infantry in the
Southwest Pacific.
CHUCKLES IN THE NEWS
United Press International
ANXIOUS PRISONER
DALTON, Ga. tl'PP Emmit
Scott, 25. a prisoner at a state
work camp, apparently was just
too anxious.
When he saw a chance to escape
he took it, even though he had
applied for a parole. Scott was
recaptured over the week end.
His parole papers came back
approved.
The parole was revoked.
BITE PAYS OFF
TOKYO tlTI Newly-appointed
hank watchman Shigeru Enomoto.
IS. thought quickly when confront
ed with a knife-wielding robber
during his first night on duty
Sunday.
He bit the robber's knife hand.
The surprised crook dropped the
knife and fled.
PREACHER USES PIN-UPS
BIRMINGHAM, England .ITI
The Rev. Nick Stacey, a former
British Olympic track star, be
came editor of the Church of Eng
land's Birmingham Christian
News and pushed its circulation
from 1.000 to 35.000.
But his parishioners don't like
the way he's done it. He prints
pin-ups. "We can foresee the
time when he will be using pic
tures of nudes," complained Mrs.
Edith Rich, a local churchgoer.
Stacey responded "I shall con
tinue to use pin-ups where approp
riate. After all, 35.000 people
can't be wrong."
MODEL NOT MODEL
CANTERBURY, England (UPI
The Model Tavern didn't live up
to its name Sunday.
The night before. 50 bachelors
turned up on a spree. Landlord
Guy Riddle announced in the
morning that the pub dinn't have
a drop of beer left
Nikita New U.S. Club Member
Who Doesn't Like' VP Nixon
WASHINGTON UPI Niki
ta S. Khrushchev has joined up
with that considerable company
of persons who don't like Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
The I-don't-like-Nixon brigade
is considerably smaller than it
was some years ago. It lost
strength notably after the Vice
President's visit to the Soviet Un
ion. Nixon's kitchen debate with
Khrushchev in Moscow made the
Vice President some new friends,
probably a great many of them.
The debate did not endear him
to Khrushchev, however. Mr. K's
feelings about Nixon were on dis
play when he visited Washington
He told National Press Club hosts
last week that Nixon had arrived
in the Soviet Union with miscon
ceptions about . Russia and had
gone home with them unchanged.
Later, to a question from host
U.S. Senators about the Russian
Lunik, Khrushchev snapped:
"Why don't you ask your Vice
President. HE knows all the an
swers." Nixon's reaction to Moscow's
announcement that the Russians
had hit the moon was that there
was no proof they had done any
such thing; that the claim might
be a propaganda phoney. Per
haps the Vice President will con
tinue to needle Khrushchev. It
could be good politics for him to
do so.
The record shows plainly thai
Nixon was not responsible for the
invitation to Khrushchev to visit
the United States. He is firmly
identified with the visit, however.,
by his recent swing through the
Soviet Union and by one other
political factor.
That is the aggressive manner,
in which Nixon undertook to an
swer the objections of those minis
erous American citizens who pro
claimed that the invitation for
Khrushchev to come here was ill
advised, ill-timed, a national dis
grace or worse.
Nixon had been asked in Poland
if he had invited Khrushchev
when in Moscow. Nixon replied
with emphasis that he had not.
that the invitation was on Presi
dent Eisenhower's initiative. He
continued to disavow responsibil
ity for Khrushchev.
The air shortly was full of
complaint against the project.
some of it in hprd and arresting
language. For example. Sen.
Thomas DodJ iD-Conn.l said this
In the U.S. Senate:
t "Think about it for a moment.
, "What would the Senate and
he country have thought if in
1M9 President Roosevelt had in
vited Adolf Hitler to a barnstorm
ing tour of the United States
(i-esh from his conquest of Czech
oslovakia, Austria and Poland.
Can we imagine Hitler (as a
guest i in the White. House?"
, That is a lough question. There
were others. Nixon met the bar
tune as he has been accustomed
Ljo defend Eisenhower administra
tion policy, heau-on. lie aevoted
to a defense of the Khrushchev
program most of a speech before
the American Legion convention
in Minneapolis. He had, in fact,
known that negotiations were go
ing on when he visited the Soviet
Union. Back Hume, he realized
that if the Khrushchev visit soured
and fouled out, he, Nixon, would
suffer by public assumption that
he had been a party to the whole
thing.
'L'Affaire Khrushchev still
could sour. If so, Nixon's politi
cal prospects would sour some,
too.
Management, Stockholders Draw
Closer Together 'After Troubles
By ELMER C. WALZER
UPI Staff Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) Industry's
difficulties with labor, prices, and
money are drawing management
and stockholders closer together,
according to Wall Street opinion.
The stockholder, often consid
ered the forgotten man, is finding
his lot more bearable in his re
lations with his company.
Management is studying ways
of wooing the aid of stockholders
in many tough situations. And it
all may end up with the share-
owners finding their pay raised
in the form of higher dividends
No little interest centers on
some advice given companies on
their stockholder relations by Carl
J. Forsberg, president of Wiscon
sin Power and Light Company.
Forsberg's ideas are contained
in the Edison Electric . Institute
New Japanese
Constitution
'Rears Head'
By PHIL NEWSOM
' UPI Staff Writer
One of the left-overs from
World War II and the brave new
world that never quite emerged Is
the constitution of present-day
Japan.
Largely, it was imposed upon
the Japanese by the United
States. Tuesday, it is proving a
two-edged sword which could up
set the whole U. S. defense con.
cept fdr the free nations of Asia.
The present constitution was
promulgated Nov. 3, 1946, in the
comparatively early days after
the end of the war. It brought
about three fundamental changes
in the Japanese political system.
It destroyed the theory of the
emperor's divinity, it renounced
forever war and the threat of
war, and it banned the mainte
nance of land, sea and air forces
or other war potential.
U.S. Occupation Begins
U. S. occupation of Japan ended
on April 28. 1952, when the Japa
nese regained their status as a
sovereign people. The new consti
tution long since had shown its
weaknesses but nothing ever had
been done to change it, largely
due to pressure from the leftist-
leaning socialists.
Chief weakness was the clause
which forbade Japan even from
maintaining defensive forces.
On June 25, 1950, the Commu
nists Invaded South Korea, less
than an hour's flying time from
the tip of Japan. And on July 9.
1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
acted in his role of commander-in-chief
of occupying forces in Ja
pan and authorized establishment
of a 73,000-man "national police
reserve.
It was the beginning of a new
Japanese army but it ignoied Uie
constitution.
, Becomes Staunch Ally
Meanwhile. Japan continued to
develop as one of the United
States' staunchest allies in Asia.
permitting indefinite maintenance
of U. S. bases and milita-y man
power on Japanese territory.
The threat to that happy rela
tionship came in a violent riot
which erupted in July. 1957. at the
big U.S. air base at Tachikawa.
Government surveyors were
measuring farm lots which were
to be used for extending Tachi
kawa's runways when lcftwing
students and labor leaders
crashed fences and fought with
police. More than Soon persons
were Involved and some were ar
rested. They were charged with violat
ing the special criminal law which
protects U.S. military facilities.
bulletin for September.
His company was in real diffi
culty some 25 years ago when its
common stock was 80 per cent
held by a holding company and
the preferred held by Wisconsin
citizens, most of them customers
of the company.
The company's stock had drop
ped while investors worried about
dividends and at the same time
had difficulty paying their elec
tric bills. Then, too, efforts were
being made to create a state-
owned electric system.
So the company took its troub
les direct to the stockholder w hich
had been increased through oper
ation of the utility holding com
pany act. . ,
The stockholders weer told about
the adverse political climate.
which threatened its existence.
The company frankly luid its
earnings and dividend problems
on the table and asked the aid of
the stockholders to advocate in
brought state ownership.
Committees of stockholders,
ranging in size from six to 20
members were organized in each
operating district to represent the
interests of all the shareowners
of the area and act as a liaison
between management and stock
holders. '
According to Forsberg, the
stockholders rallied to the aid of
the company. None of its fran
chises was lost, business picked
up, and more Wisconsin citizens
bought common stock.
The company has drawn up a
four-fold public relations goal
which it says the stockholders
are helping it to meet. These ob
jectives are:
" "1. Customers, to provide the
best in utility service at the 'low- .
rest equitable rates for' the terri-.
tory served.
k'"2. .Employes, to maintain the
test working conditions and 'the
highest wages in keeping with the
ertases- iir the use of electriM'size of 'the community and the
service. Also they were asked to
oppose the bills that would have
Moon Rocket
Findings Told
MOSCOW UPIi Russia's
moon rocket made "fundamental
discoveries" of importance for
the solution of the problems of
the origin of the moon and the
earth, a top Soviet scientist said
today.
Academician Leonid Sedov said
the discoveries resulting from ra
dio measurements taken by the
moon rocket on its journey
through space "are being pin
pointed and will soon be published
to become the property of world
science," the Soviet news agen
cy Tass reported.
Tass quoted Sedov as saying:
"Deciphered data on the meas
urements carried out close to the
moon by scientific instruments
and transmitted to earth by ra
dio signals have led to funda
mental discoveries which in par
ticular are of importance for the
solution of the problems of the
origin of the moon and the earth."
Alexander Nesmeyanov, presi
dent of the USSR Academy of
Sciences, opened the meeting with
the statement that "now there is
not just hope but confidence that
man will reach the moon and the
near planets not in the distant fu
ture . . . but in the lives of many
present here.-'
success of the company.
"3. Stockholders, to earn and
pay to the stockholders the fair
return on , their investment to
which they are entitled.
"4. Communities, to be a w'orthy'
member of each community they
serve.'
The ' theme of the company
since it adopted its plan to ob
tain stockholder cooperation has
been to keep the stockholders in
formed of all phases of the busi
ness. -
It does this through comprehen
sive reports on earnings and gen
eral business conditions. Oral re
ports are made to stockholders
with the aid of charts, graphs,
slides and photographs. Seventeen
general stockholders meetings
were held last year.
Forsberg said management and
stockholders alike realize the use
fulness of present stockholder
committee organizations and want
them continued.,
"The stockholder relations pro
gram," he says, "is an important
element in the strength of 'the
company. It gives management
the feeling that in Wisconsin,
where its sphere of action lies.
it can rely on the support of a
large segment of its stockholders
to support its actions and its judg
ments, v
"Stockholders, in turn, are grat
ified to have an important part
in a home industry and to have
the confidence and concern of
management which shares its
plans and problems with them."
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