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LA GRANDE OBSERVER
Friday, October 2, 1959
"Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byroa
PCBLiRHrn rt tub ' RLD' M1 - Publisher
yk. 0!! SJ-M'fH'.i Managing Editor
GhORGE S. CHALLIS Adv. Director
TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr.
Hatfield Gets Stuck In Sand
There is a lot of comment, in some
West Coast papers about the announced
opposition of Governor Mark Hatfield
a change of position, incidentally to
the proposal that a national seashore
recreation area be created in Oregon.
At the time we failed to understand
- the opposition of Hatfield.
Then, in the mail, came the full
. "study" of Dan Allen, former Kujrene
laundryman and Hatfield's appointee as
executive secretary of Oregon's coni
Mittee on natural resources.
After reading the study several times
we are more than ever at a loss to ex
plain Hatfield's opposition on any solid
grounds.
We originally had been unwilling to
accept. Hatfield's opposition as being
from political motives. l!ut we have
changed our position.
There is no other logical reason for
his stand in this mater.
And, it fits the pattern.
Hatfield's hand-picked chairman of the
state Republican central committee, Pete
Gunner, has been making a series of
rather vicious attacks on Oregon's Sen
ator Richard L. Neuberger.
' It has become rather obvious that the
attacks have more than tacit support
from Hatfield.
Neuberger has championed the park
proposal.
(Incidentally, the original proposal is
not Neuberger's. It is the result of a
study by the National Park Service of
the Department of the Interior. And
the last -time we looked at the record
this still was under the jurisdiction of
one Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of
the United States and certainly no mem
ber of Neuberger'? political faith.)
Prior to his election, Hatfield told the
people of Oregon he was willing in
technical matters to take the recom
mendations of qualified technical people,
arrived at without political pressure.
Well, in the first place, Allen is tech
nically well qualified in the field of
recreation.
The other members of the committee
W-who supported the governor's stand
"unanimously" we are told all owe
. their jobs to boards and commissions
appointed by Hatfield.
And the governor himself showed an
appalling ignorance of the recreation
field when he told reporters:
"I don't see where there is much
recreation in big piles of sand."
Now, this line of reasoning brings up
some interesting questions.
Does he want to turn Crater Lake
to take a nearby example back to the
Indians? The water is too cold for
swimming, and the lake is down in a big
hole, too.
loes he want to turn Yellowstone
Wk to the aborigines? The water there,
or a great deal of it, is either too hot or
too cold for swimming.
How about i the Grand Canyon?
There's not much recreation in a big
ditch, to follow the same line of Mr.
Hatfield.
The "study" on which Hatfield's
position is based reads like the minutes
of the meeting of the Western Ijtne Tax
payers Association which was predict
ing the outcome several weeks before
the report was finished.
I'nless Hatfield is willing to look at
Iwth sides of the question and appar
ently he is not his study is of no value
whatsoever.
National park facilities are created by
compromise, something the Park Service
and most proponents of the proposal are
willing to do. Hatfield has lost stature
in his unreasoning opposition, based
upon very little real information.
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
Khrushchev Boasting In U.S.
Of Soviet Aim Could Be True
WASHINGTON The most im-jare some points to consider:
portant deduction to be drawn
from Nikita Khrushchev's trip to
the USA is that he was telling the
truth.
The American people over a
long period of time have got into
Let's Be Different In Laos
: It's already tomorrow in I-aos and
many other countries the United States
should be concerned with.
If our foreign aid programs are to
succeed, we need more people in the
field like those portrayed in AP.C-TVs
film documentation "Hie Splendid Am
ericans." In an effort .to offset some of the
conclusions drawn from the recent best
seller, "The Ugly Americans," the re
porting team interviewed Americans in
the jungle-locked nation of Ijios in South
cast Asia.
These Americans are working for our
government or private foundations. They
list among their number a Negro with
a doctorate in philosophy, a California
agriculture specialist and a physician.
Their job is to improve the living stand
ard, to equip the Laotians with knowedge
to help themselves.
"I have no .Intention of making (the
Loatians) air-conditioned, chrome-plated
Americans." This is how Dr. Thomas A.
Dooley Jr., head of a medical team in
I nns, explains what he is not doing in
t he small, independent nation. It is the
key to all our efforts abroad.
We must convince other people that
we do not want to remake the world in
the image of American free enterprise
and mass production. Fortunate to have
developed technical skills and blessed
with adequate resources, we have lx
come a nation of wealth and jiower. We
must be willing to show others how
they might best utilize their resources.
An efficient group of American volun
teers, pitifully small in numbers con
sidering our stake in world affairs, is'
working in the field to show nationals
how they can develop new skills. In
most cases they are cultivateing friends
for the United States in a manner more
subtle than most Americans realize.
the habit, understandably, cf dis
counting Soviet statements. In
recent years American militarv
uoservers nave noi. iney have
luuiiQ nidi noviri statements on
military and scientific matters
are bolstered by fact. The Am
erican people, therefore, in mak
ing a final evaluation of the most
historic visit of any foreign Dcr
sonage in this century, should not
discount Khrushchev's statements
on two important points:
1. That the Soviet Union wants
peace.
2. That the Soviet government
is determined to overtake the
United States industrially and
economically, and to demonstrate
that communism is better than
capitalism.
When Khrushchev said, in his
farewell statement, that today's
rich America has reached "the
ceiling of achievement in the cap
italistic world," and that Russia
will surpass us in 10 to 12 years,
there is no reason to doubt that
he was and is determined to make
those words come true. He was
telling the truth as he sees it.
So, if the American people dis
count him they will be doing
themselves a disservice.
This writer, who co-authored a
book, "USA Second-Class Pow
er?," gets no satisfaction from
pointing out that this challenge
to the United States was predict
ed and outlined in detail just one
year ago.
Somb.r Prediction
The emergence of Russia from
the wheelbarrow age to the atom
ic age is the greatest miracle of
modern times," it was said at
that time.
It was also stated: "It is not
pleasant to criticize the United
States of America. He who does
so is accused of losing faith in
his country. But we cannot sit
back and wait for bickering in
side the Kremlin to deliver Kus
sia Into our hands. The walls of
the Kremlin, are not like the
walls of Jericho. They win not
come tumbling down after seven
statements by John Foster Dul
les. Nor will they yield to a
civilization in which an Elvis
Presley makes more than the
president of the United States,
n which truck drivers in Chicago
are paid more than many school
teachers, in which one-third, uf
all prescriptions filled at drug-
tores are for tranquuizing puis.
The big question, now that Mr.
Khrushchev has laid down his
challenge frankly and publicly to
the American people, is wnai we
ar cninc to do about it. Here
Point No. 1 We have to recog
nize the fact that the heart of
the capitalistic system is free
competition and, therefore, we
cannot run out of the competitive
challenge Khrushchev has laid
NEWS CHUCKLES
United Press International
DISCRIMINATING BURGLARS
ROCKFORD. 111. L'IM - The
Owens department store was
robbed of $35,000 in cash and furs
over the weekend. Today they
published the following advertise
ment in a local paper:
"Burglars prefer Owen's qual
ity. So will you, but we recom
mend the hours from 9 30 a m. to
5 p.m. so we can service you per
sonally." WANTS COLORED UMBRELLAS
LONDON tl'PI The Duke of
Bedford, who shocked some aris
tocrats by opening his stately
home to paying sightseers. Wed
nesday scored another British
tradition staid black unhrellas.
The duke told the umbrella
makers association "I sometimes
wish men's umbrellas could be a
little more exciting. Nothing adds
more to the gloom of the day
than masses of black umbrellas.''
FISH STORY
FELIXSTOWE. Knglaml H'PI
Michael Jolly, 25, turned around
in his rowboat Wednesday when
he heard a strange plop. He
found a one-pound bass wriggling
on the- floor.
"I don't know who was more
surprised, mo or the fish," Jolly
said
BOY SEEKS GIRL
PALOS VKKDKS KSTATF.S,
Calif. (UPI "My boa constrictor
is harmless it's nothing to worry
about" attorney Sam Major as
sured police Wednesday.
He said his pet snake shed its
'skin and then slipped out of his
cage apparently in search of a
girl boa.
"It's the mating season," he
said.
WILL FOLLOW ORDERS
LEEDS. England tl'PI Julia
Gaitskell. daughter of Labor Par
ty Leader Hugh Gaitskell, was
campaigning from door-to-door for
her father Wednesday.
Al one home the housewife in
terrupted Miss Gaitskell's spiel to
say: "111 be voting labor and my
husband will do as he's told "
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La Grand
down
For approximately 100 years
we experienced a very tough
competitive challenge from the
British empire, which long re
garded us an an upstart republic
whose success endangered mon
archies and the divine right of
kings and empires. We weather
ed and won that competiticn. To
day, somewhat like the British
empire, we are challenged by
an upstart new system. We will
go the way of the British, or will
we beat Nikita at his own game?
Point No. 2 We cannot keep
our heads in the sands of ignor
ance and expect to thwart the
Khrushchev challenge. It does
n't pay to brand as unpatriotic
anyone who warns that Russia is
pushing ahead. Senator Mc
Carthy made a career of casting
suspicion on anyone who admit
ted there was anything good
about Russia, which is one rea
son we are lagging behind in
space achievement today.
The fact is that Russia today is
ahead cf or equal to us in the
following:
1. Missiles According to the
statement of secretary of defense,
McElroy, we have no plan for
catching up with Russia in the
dread long-range intercontinen
tal ballistic missile. According
to Adm. Arlcigh Burke, we are
dangerously behind Russia in the
ability to launch underwater
missiles from submarines.
2. Satellites According to
Keith Glennan, head of the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration, we are far behind
Russia .in launching satellites
and according to Wernhcr Von
Braun, the famed German scin
tist, it will take us several years
to catch up.
3. Hydroelectric power Accor
ding to the Senate Interior Com
mittee, Russia has built five hy
droelectric power projects far
bigger than our biggest, Grand
Coulee Dam.
4. Aviation Not only was Rus
sia the first to fly a jet passen
ger plane to the United States,
but our air intelligence tells us
that she is ahead of us in combat
air strength.
The further fact is that Rus-
visiting Moscow report that in
following:.
1. Education The U. S. office
of education brought back from
Moscow an amazing report of
progress in Russian schools and
teaching. The report was sup-
pressd for one whole year. Al
together it was a total of three
years late. It bore out what John
Kennedy, publisher of the Sioux
Falls (S.D.) Argus-Leader and
ex-Sen. William Benton of Con
necticut had warned the United
States three years before.
2. Medicine American doctors
visiting Moscow report that in
some respects Russian medical
science is abreast or even ahead
of ours. They were surprisd that
Russia was able to graft the
head of a dog on the body of an
other.
3. In industrial production Rus
sia is still behind, but last year
during our recession, the total
industrial production of the So
viet orbit was slightly ahead of
ours.
Our Farm production, general
industrial production, and the
output of consumer goods are
still well ahead of Russia's. But
f Mr. Khrushchev is able, through
a period of peace, to switch from
war production to peace produc
tion, he may give us a real run
for our money there too.
Point No. 3 We have to face
the fact that the Soviet operates
with a plan; we don't. We tight
en credit one month to control in
flation, loosen credit the next.
We appropriate too much money
one year, cut the budget too much
'Smart' Grandchildren Of Ike
Can Benefit From Savings Plan
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI Staff Writ.r
President Eisenhower stems to
have set up an individual savings
plan for each of his grand
children, the details of which slip
out only in rare public disclosure
The children are the daughters
and son of Maj. and Mrs. Juhn
S. Eisenhower. The family lives
in a renovated, attractively dec
orated schoolhouse on the north
west corner of the President's
farm in Gettysburg.
The three older children, David.
11; Barbara Anne. 10; Susan
Elaine, 7. attend public school in
Gettysburg. Their deal with grand
father is $1 for an "A" on their
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
United Press International
MILAN Maria Callas on her
husband's separation suit in which
he charged she was infatuated
with another man:
"I am not used to washing dirty
laundry in public."
NEW YORK Debbie Rey
nolds, who spent two days as a
dime dance girl to soak up at
mosphere for her next film:
"Most of my partners were real
gentlemen, but one Lothario told
me I was too beautiful to be real
and then bit me on the shoulder,"
MADISON. Wis. Sen. Hubert
Humphrey in calling for greater
effort on the part of the govern
ment if we are to survive in this
century:
"We cannot fly to the moon
while our political feet are stuck
in the mud.
BATON ROUGE, La. Gov
Earl K. Long on his efforts to
avoid being taken to a mental
ward at Galveston, Tex , last
May:
"I yelled for help to get the
bonecrushers off, but nobody
came."
Late Wayne Morris
Wanted Booze For
'Funeral Party'
HOLLYWOOD ILTI Actor
Wayne Morris wrote his own final
script in his own handwriting
a will in which he asked that $300
be spent for booze and canapes
instead of a funeral so his friends
wouldn't go away sober.
Morris, 45, died of a heart at
tack Sept. 14 while on a Navy
carrier in San Francisco Bay. He
was an ace in World War II.
'One hundred dollars shall be
expended at the discretion of my
closest surviving relatives for the
purpose of buying booze and
canapes for my friends," he wrote
in his Aug. 16, li).5, will. "On
second thought, make it $300.
because I don't want my friends
to go away sober or serious. This
is to take the place of a funeral
or memorial service."
Morris1 will was filed for pro
bate Wednesday. He left his entire
estate to his widow. Patricia, ex
cept for $1. which was left to
Bert De Wayne Morris III. his son
by his first wife, Leonora 'Bub
bles Schinasi Morris llornblower,
a New York tobacco heiress.
the next. We have no national
plan for systematic development
of our rivers, prevention of floods.
We do this according to politic
al whim or the influence of cer
tain lobbies. Meanwhile, Russia
pushes ahead with a planned
economy.
That is the challenge Nikita
Khrushchev has laid down, and
that is the most important mean
ing of his visit.
This is not a pleasant report.
However, the ingredients of great
ness have not gone out of the
bones of the American people.
They are equal to great challenge
if thev know the facts.
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report cards, 50 cents for a "B".
And recently, the President
told of his savings plan for -Mary
Jean who will be four years old
next December. At the end of the
day, the President gives all the
loose change in his pockets to his
valet, John Moaney, who promptly
deposits it in the White House
equivalent of a piggy bank for
young Mary Jean.
Another family note: Susan is
turning into a proficient young
horsewoman under the tutelage of
a riding instructor and almost
daily periods in a training ring
on the Eisenhower farm. She's
won several horse show ribbons
in the Gettysburg area.
Young David was taking golf
REMEMBER WHEN
... 25 years ago. Miss Othella
Gray, State Highway Department
employe here, was transferred to
a higher post following eight years
of service at La Grande. She for
merly worked with'the local Cham
ber of Commerce.
Pledged to fraternities and sor
orities at Oregon State College
were the following: Barbara Cool
idge, Dale Standley. Charles Wal
num, all of La Grande, and Rodney
Miller, Union.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miller an
nounced the birth of a baby son,
born at their 1302 J Ave., resi
dence. The boy weighed in at 9'-j
pounds. No name had been chosen
for the tot.
... 15 years ago, Rebecca Will
iams of La Grande was serving
with the WAVES. She was the dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs Raymond
Williams, 1301 O Ave.
The mortgage on their church
property was burned by the local
Presbytery, and plans were im
mediately launched for a youth
center building. A. B. Olson, board
chairman; C. H. Humphrey, and
Mr. and Mrs. Ella Rynearson offi
ciated at the ceremony.
On the sports scene it was the
Tigers and Browns deadlocked in
the closing American League sea
son pennant race.
lessons at the Gettysburg Country
Club some time ago, but this type
of instruction has been shelved.
The President told friends re
cently that David had to give up
playing golf, as well as taking les
sons, because his school program
becomes increasingly demanding.
David, too. is becoming interested
in other sports, including foot,
ball. . j
The visit of Soviet - Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev to this
country had one effect: It pro.
duced an upsurge in the applies
tions from reporters who want to
accompany President Eisenhower
to Russia. j
There were something over 30
applications on file even before
Khrushchev arrived in the United
States. Now Press Secretary Jim
Hagerty faces the problem of how
to, keep the number of reporters
and photographers within logistical
reason. ;
This poses a difficult problem
for Jim, the workings of a free
press versus the intricacies of
moving an enormous working
party halfway around the world.
While the Khrushchev party was
in the United States, their photo
graphers devoted a good bit of
film to making pictures of Ameri
can Secret Service Agents and
power plants, even down to small
neighborhood transformer stations.
One Russian movie man works
for a government theater news
reel, detached himself from the
Khrushchev party in Pittsburgh
and raced to Washington ahead
of the Soviet Premier.
The photographer then went to
Lafayette square in front of the
White House. He unerringly sta
tioned himself behind a group of
enthusiasts when Khrushchev
drove by an hour later on his way
from the airport to Blair House.
Thus, the film man from Mos
cow was able to get a picture
of a throng applauding the Pre
mier, and the White House in the
background. It should go well in
the Russian movie house. Parti
cularly the part where the "Amer
icans" on Pennsylvania Avenue
whipped out -Soviet flags and
waved them at Khrushchev.
FROM THE TIGER'S LAIR
GAA Plans Softball Tourney
When Enough Girls Sign Up
GAA will be playing softball Tri-IIi-Y and Hi-Y officers and
and will get a tournament under
way when enough girls sign up
for the sport. Plans for an in
itiation party are being discuss
ed.
Quill and Scroll held its first
meeting Sept. 28. Officers for
he year are president, Carol
McClure; vice-president, Joyce
Young; and secretary, Janice
Young.
The FIIA held a spaghetti din
ner for all the new members of
the club Sept. 23. Following
the dinner, Kriss Tomjack, Ore
gon's state president, and Mary
Virginia Speckhart gave talks on
their trip to the National FIIA
convention held in Chicago this
summer.
After-Game Dance
Friday, following the Bend-
I.a Grande football game, the
Mimir staff is sponsoring an af
tergame dance. Admission for
the dance is 15 cents per person
and 25 cents per couple.
uitin club elected the follow
ing students for this year's of
ficers: president, Rod Chandler;
vice president, Diantha Kelsce;
secretary, Kathy Jones; and trea
surer, Darcia Landers. The coun
cil members held a meeting Sept.
i ana arew up a new constitu
tion for the club.
advisors attended a convention
in Pendleton, Sept. 26. ' The meet
ing was held in the high school
building from 10 in the morn
ing until four in the afternoon.
Students attending received many
idas on activities and ways of
improving their clubs. '
Initiation Held
FFA held1 their formal Initia
tion Sunday evening from 6 until
8. State officers presided over
the meeting. Refreshments were
served following the initiation.1-
The Service club members have
chosen navy blue skirts and wee
kits with white roll-up sleeve
blouses and white shoes for their
outfits. Purpose of this club is
for the girls to take tickets at
games and give out programs at
concerts. This club is a new
Girls' League service committee.
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