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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1959)
-Oh, and Also No Inspection' ... , 0 . - . . ft - WASHINGTON Newspaper men had all left the Senate gal lery at 6:22 a.m. when the Senate finally adjourned, and didn't know that Vice President Nixon had to break a final tie vote be tween the Republicans and Democrats. There were only two senators present Lyndon Johnson of Tex as, Democratic leader, and Ever ett Dirksen of Illinois, Republican leader. Every other member of the Senate had gone home. But these two had to wait for a con current resolution from the House of Representatives to ad journ. When it arrived shortlv after 6 a.m., Senator Johnson moved: "Mr. President, under the provision of the House concur rent resolution 440, I move that the Senate stand adjourned sine ie." I object," promptly voted Sen ator Dirksen, the only Republi can present. "Mr. President," said Johnson. I ask for a division." Since there appears to be a tie vote," said Vice President Nix on, "the chair votes aye." It was, of course, a joke played by Dirksen and later he took his objection out of the Congression al Record. If you look at the rec ord today you'll find that the vice president had to break a tie but you won't find that Dirksen voted against adjournment How ever, he did. They Like "Etk" When President Eisenhower rode down the Champs Elysees EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Wednesday, September 30, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. P17TIL,I!!HED BY THB UA. ORANDB PUBU811INQ COMPANY RILEY D. ALLEN GRADY PANNELL .... GEORGE S. CHALLIS . ..- Publisher Managing Editor Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. The Pot Calls The Kettle Black Labor Secretary James Mitchell has indicated that President Eisenhower feels collective bargaining is on trial in .the seven week, old steel strike. Mitchell said as much after conferrinp; with the President on the deadlocked steel contract negotiations, and then urged that the steel unions and industry representatives get, down to hard, in tensive bargaining and settle the strike with volunteer methods Actually the steel deadlock should not ! be considered a showdown of whether collective bargaining is or is not a good phase of labor-management relations, be- . cause what exists in the steel industry is not true collective bargaining at all. Here is a case where, one union has : rounded up all or nearly all the workers ! in a given industry into one camp. Then it goes to the seven steel firms that manufacture most of the nation's steel : and makes certain demands. Those de- mands are backed up by the power of i this one big union to shut down the steel production of the nation. The steel work ers union has a monopoly of steel labor. ; Thus it is one big union versus seven steel companies. The union had to give its representa tives authority to call a strike in order for them to press effectively for their demands at the bargaining table. The employers, tired of being accused of leading the inflationary spiral, and feel ing that the public if not the govern-' ment would support a firm stand, re fused to give in. So the Steel union had to walk out. It had threatened to do so, and it had to carry out the threat. This isn't collective bargaining. It is power play against power play. It is two Titians vieing for the upper hand. What is reasonable, what is logical, what is fair and what is best for all concerned becomes less a consideration than whe ther one big union is or is not powerful enough to again assert its will as it has become accustomed to doing. There is more to collective bargaining than this kind of conduct. If anything is on trial it is whether monopoly unions have any more of a place in the American scheme of things than monopoly industries. We Still Need A Place To Build It t Ike signed the housing bill recently. This means a lot to our economy, depen dent as it is so much on maintaining a healthy market for building materials. It's a "billion dollar" bill, with 650 million dollars going for urban renewal and 250 million for low interest loans on college dormitories. But there is more in it than that of importance to the lumber and plywood industries. The FHA is authorized to insure an other 8 billion dollars in home loans, and at the same time the interest rate on FHA insured loans was increased from ZV to 5 per. cent. This is intended to encourage lending institutions to make more FHA loans. In some places it is virtually impossible for a family who wants to build a house .to be able to bor row under the FHA program. Further more the maximum" that can be spent on an FHA insured house was increased from $20,000 to $22,500. Minimum down payments on homes costing more than $13,500 are reduced. All these actions have one objective to encourage more building. There isn't a town or city in the country that is not in need of better housing. La Grande is an outstanding example. There is enough . housing to go around, of course. Every one has a roof over his head. But when it is a very old roof, or when a family is crowded into too small a house, or even when a couple have too much room in a house built when the children were young, there is need for new housing. People want better housing. A Vacancy need not be considered, as it once was, a sijrn of bad times. It can be a sign of ' good times, if who ever moved out did not move away, but simply moved into something better. fBirds Of A Feather Flock Together' : Khrushchev is sour on many of the : places he has visited, but he loves San : Francisco. And no wonder. That is the : one place where he found a group who '. welcomed him literally with open arms, i This welcome was accorded him by - Harry Bridges and his cohorts when he dropped in at the headquarters of the '. ILWU. Bridges has been voicing and ; following1 the Communist party line for years, and his union was expelled from I the CIO as a consequence. So it's no ' wonder that Mr.,K is his hero. Elsewhere there have leen few evi dences of warm, open affection for the Soviet leader. What few Communists there are left in this country obviously aren't showing their faces in public these days, even when the No. 1 Com munist comes visiting. Barbs The younger generation learns quickly from the older, says a writer. Watch your step, parents! recently with President De Gaul-change Aliens mind. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Nixon Had To Break Deadlock Before Senate Could Adjourn le. the crowds could see Eisen hower tell a story. They could ee that it relaxed the stern fea tures of De Gaule, but nobody knew what Ike was talking about. Here is what he said. Eisenhower, who does speak some French was telling De Gaul le, who does speak some English, of his first experience in Paris in 1951 when he arrived with Ma mic to assume command ol S1IAPK. The crowds then were also big, but what they shouted worried Mamie and Ike. So, one evening he mentioned his worry to President Coty. "What does the crowd say that concerns you?" asked President Coty. "Whenever we go, explained Eisenhower, "they always shou at us 'Eek Eek!' And it mus' mean something bad because wt can't find it in any French die tionary." So President Coty had to ter "Ike" that all Frenchmen pro nounce it "Eek." Allen Refuses "Bribe' Some personal byplay in the White House went unnoticed ai the close of Congress when Pres ident .Eisenhower oflered t "bribe" of a pair of pistols ti veteran GOP Congressman Le Allen cf Illinois if he would not retire from Congress. Allen, who has served in Con grcss for 27 years, has decided not to run again in 1960: but Charlie Halleck of Indiana, the Republican leader, asked Eisen hower to use his influence to "I-eo Is too valuable a man In lose, Mr. President," said Hal leek. "He is one cf the most de pendable, hard working members of Congress, an asset to our par ty and to the country. but his many friends in Congress hive been unable to change his mind about retiring. Can you help us?" "His home environment is lur ing him away, no doubt," inter posed Sen. Everett Dirksen. also from Illinois. "Mr Piesid-nt, you ought to see the place l.eo hails from. Galena, Illinois, is one of the most beautiful spots n the world. General (irant also ?ame from there." The congressmen were stand ng in the White House trophy oom, and turning to some of his ncdals the President tuld Allen lie could have his pick it he would stay. Finally Ike picked up one of his most prized pus iessions, a pair of pearl-handled pistols. "Now, Leo will you come jack?" he said. "No, Mr. President,' chuckled Mien. "All right then, let's dispense vith the horseplay," said Eisen lower. "You are needed in Con ;ress, I.co. Is there any better eason for you to change your nind?" "I have devoted most of my ife to serving the people, as you lave, Mr. President," replied the 10-year-old Allen. "You are lcav ng the government next year. .'ve decided to bow out at the iame time." Note Allen is loo regular a Republican party man to talk about it, but close friends say, a factor in his retirement was the shoddy treatment the White House gave his friend, ex Speaker loe Martin, when Joe wis de crowned by Halleck as the lead REMEMBER WHEN . . . 25 years ago Fred Read Mas hospitalized as the first l.unting accident victim of the young deer season when his gunJAmercan League pennant and accidentally discharged. " oppoe the St. Louis F.OC gridders rolled up their first win of the opening football season by smashing ISoise Junior College of Idaho by an 18 0 score, t'red Patterson sparked play for the Mountaineers who were cod siderably lighter and inexperienc id in comparison of the team the season before. Edward Arrcwsmith was an in er of the House of Reprcscnta lives. Capital News Capsules Friend of USA Milton J. Shapp, president of Jerrold Elec tronics Corporation in Philadel phia, has saved the State De partment from offending a Sov iet visitor who had helped Am means in Russia. Shapp had headed a delegation of young business executives who went to Russia to inspect So viet factories. Evjeni Levin of the Soviet scientific and techno li.gical committee slashed red t;,pe in order to show the visit ins Americans everything they wanted to see. l ater Levin paid a return vis it to the United States and asked lor a simple extension of his visa. The State Department turned him down. Shapp hurriedly con tacted the State Department and explained how helpful Levin had been to the Americans in Russia. As a result, the State Depart ment reversed itself the last minute and permitted the Rus sian to stay longer. Lost cane Gen. William Har ris did recover his cane. When he dropped it out cf a helicopter teresting speaker at the Lions club luncheon meeting . He told of the Ariel Dam construction oork on the Lewis River in Wavhingtcn. Nationally, Detroit won the Cardinals' Gas House Gang for the world flag. ! ... 15 years aso Dr.- Roben J. Masske, president of Eastern Oregon College, accepted an- in vitation from President Frank lin I). Rocsevelt to attend a White House conference on Rural Edu cation. Reita Murrey of Enterprise won an KOC scholarship under auspices of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Price of La Grande; Freshman Days were observed at the col lege, with Roy L. Skcen as chair man of the committee In charge, and Lyle H. Johnson, registrar, assisting. Mind.nanao was raided by U. S. bombers in the Pacific fight ing, while the war in Europe was progressing favorable for the Allies. Mrs. T. B. I.umsden, Union County Red Cross chairman, call ed for local volunteers to assist in rolling bandages. The ARC quota here was 189.000 bandages. Tribute was paid to Capt. Garth D. Westenskow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Wcstcnsttow, Imbler, and husband of the form er Faum Ivie of Bicknell, Utah. at Fort Bragg, Maj. Fletcher Grentenbcrg recruited a 17-man search party and Sgt. Jose Riog sent another 14 man detail to hunt for the cane. After scour ing the woods for an hour and a half, the 31 soldiers came out triumphantly waving the cane. The Army says that General Har ris did not order the search. jBCfit anPoniiac! Another fresh one from Pontiact .The inspired beauty of perfect proportion! jThe precision control of Wide-Track Wheel Design! The softer ride of supple suspension! The wide choice of vigorous Tempest V-8 Engines) , tailored to economy; or high performance!. The car craftsmen who developed Wide-Tract Wheels, the innovation that brought a new standard of roadability to-the American passenger car, present another fresh original for 1960! ( With clean, crisp lines they've composed a delightful Tightness ' ' of form with unity and rhythm. 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