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" i 11 I II f Ml ' ' I t 4:- Observer, Li Grande, Ore., Wed., Sept. 23, 1959 Page 8 Nikita Is 'Playing' Two Games In U.S. v1 fa MISSIN3 PARENTS Seven youngsters appear at Mission Emergency Hospital in San Francisco, Calif., wondering what happened to mom and dad. The children, who have not seen their parents since Monday, phoned the police to report them miss ing. They will be cared for by the Youth Center until their parents can be located. The children are deft to right) Carol Murray, 12, with Wanda, 2; Terry, 9; Patricia, 11, holding Jimmy; Michaell, 10; and Rusty, 6. Shows Closeup To American Public , By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writtr Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev, in the first full week of ,his visit, has provided the Ameri can people with an interesting closeup both of himself and his objectives. Results have not always been to his liking, but, alternating between an outpouring of the Khrushchev charm and hot bursts of anger, he has: Called U.S. labor leaders "cap italistic stooges'' and told them: "You defend your system, I de fend mine. Our positions' are ir reconcilable." Ducked questions regarding Hungary and charges of Commu nist aggression in Laos on grounds they Involved third na- Enterprise People At The Round-Up EXTEhTRISE (Special) Post muster Iljrcld Lay and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hays, were among t:.e many from Wallowa Countv who attended the Pend- lions and had no part in h s talks : i ti:t..j urc u.uicu Italia. ; , i,.J ., C,..rA.. I.i., n it'll iiuuiiu uaiuiunj. i ' i i ing to Pendleton was Miss Mar ELGIN BRIEFS Women Visit Home Town ELGIN Spccial-Mrs. 'Loin Calbert of Grants Pass, and her sister. Mrs. Florence Champion cf Yakima, Wash., were Saturday guests oi Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stringham. Mrs. Stringham is a .cousin of the ' ladies who are from one of Elgin's oldest pio neer families. They are two of the seven daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Uobert Stevenson, who at one time owned what is now known as the Stevenson addi tinn in Elgin. They were very interested to -sec their old home town and the changes made. Wallowa Lake ..was their goal for Saturday and planned to return to Elgin Sun day to visit Mrs. Martha Russell -who lives with her son in law "and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mel 'in Barnes. ;' Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stringham left Sunday for Portland on a Christmas buying trip for their City Drug store. Enroute home Tuesday they will meet their daughter Barbara (Mrs. Russell Peterson) and daughter Lori whe .will come to Pendleton by plane Jlrom their Salt Lake City home. . Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Rasmus cen and her mother of Pima, Ariz., are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ncls Rasmussen. John Parsons, son of Mr, and Mrs. Glenn Parsons suffered a broken indext finger on his left hand while practicing football at school Wednesday. Similarly refused lo answer questions of freedom of the press in Russia on grounds they consti tuted interference in Russia's in ternal affairs. Earns Billing Presented himself as a man of peace "It would be sheer mad ness to allow a new wo Id war to come to a head. . .war must be averted and eace must be as sured." Thus he lived up to advance billing as a shrewd debater, a man given to sudden bursts of anger from which he subsided just as quickly, and a tough, dedi cated Communist who believed and said the Communist system ultimately would "bury" capital ism, if not by war, then by sheer weight of prodiict'oi. Before the United Nations, he unveiled his latest disarmament p oKsal, which he acknowledged in advance probably would be un acceptable to the West. But he was using his greatest forum, the I'.N. platform, which he knew would carry his words over the heads of the delegates and to all the neutral and unde cided nations of the world. His proposal that) 'Oil nations disarm within four yen's was a t'topian proposal which ignored the practicalities such as inter national distrust which is not erased by words alone. Continuation of Thtme I It was a pressure play designed to have its greatest impact in As u. Africa and among the in- j dcr-dcveloped nations . of Latin America. It was a continuation of the swords-into-plow shares theme Khrushchev had advanced ear lier. The fact that similar thoughts had been expressed much earlier by the West made no difference. The idea now belonged lo Khru shchev. In Britain, there Is a strong force which advocates that Brit ain drop its nuclear weapons pro gram altogether. In Frankfurt, Germany, a ban-the-bomb organi zation prominently displays pic tures of Frankfurt as it lay lev elled after World War II. Some NATO nations ban U.S. missile bases on their territories. Final results of the Khrushchev visit must await his talks with President Eisenhower. Meanwhile, for Khrushchev, things are going about as planned. joiie Martin, county clerk, who was accompanied by Superinten dent and Mrs. Perry 11. Price of Imbler. WASHINGTON IT1 It Is a matter of individual opinion which of two games Nikita S. Khrush chev is playi"g in the United States. It may b- the Carney's shell game in which the local yokels are invited to look for the hidden pea. Or, perhaps it is the gimmicked gome of hcads-l-win-and-tails-you lose. The shell game aspect of Khrushchev's performance devel ops from what apiears to be his purpose in establishing his own standards by which he wants people everywhere to, form an opinion. , Khrushchev is i having . pretty good luck with that. The com munications systems of the free and the Communist worlds have been meshed for his use. Khrush chev has established for Commu nists everywhere what they must regard as a basic fact of his American journey. It is that the U.S. Government isolated him from the com mon people of the United States. Equally established as Communist gospel everywhere is something else for which Khrushchev desires acceptance as a basic fact. Man Of Peace It is that he came here as a simple man of peace with a plan for peace. Communists behind the Iron Curtain must believe that too. They will have nothing else to believe. American or British or French Communists also must believe it a'though thy will have been exposed to both sides of the story. The other side of the story is summed up best in tri idea that Khrushchev's aim is peace-at-no price. That is, that he docs, In fact, desire peace but not at the cost of mutual concessions which would require his side to give as well as to take. Tails l-win-heads-you-lose! To complete the standards by which Khrushchev desires that his American journey be judged, he has established for Commu nists everywhere another basic fact. It is that while isolated by gov ernment design from the peace loving American commo'iers, he has been surrounded, heckled, in sulted, abused by representatives of the w ar-mongcring American upper classes. Favors Communist! This set of standa'ds is loaded against the United States a id in favor of the Communists. It is unhappily likely that Khrushchev will go home with no thaw in the cold war. The Communist Party line explanation is ready-made by Khrushchev's adroit propaganda creating standards by which his American journey may be judged. The line will be this: That the masters of the American people prevented Khrushchev from get ting through to the common man; that these war mongering mas ters thus . were able to reject peace; that this rejection was accompanied by discourtesies dis honoring the Premier and the Missionaries Feted (College Bound UNION Special) The Rev. n(' BOVS And GirU Vlr t m f. Gilmun miKvirnuries to the Apache Indians in Arizona, were at the Assembly of God Church Wednesday and Thurs day. Slides were shown and potluck dinner was served Thurs day afternoon. Soviet people. That Is' what Communists. American and foreign, would be told to believe, and they would believe it. Some other soft headed Americans may believe it, too. From Union UNION (Special) Among the students from Union going away to college this year are the fol lowing: Niles Marticns, Richard Barr, Steve Bateman, Richard Pollard and Marcia MacPherson are all Loing to EOC. Bob Bell and John Crouler will attend Oregon State College. 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