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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1959)
Puppeteer .7 J W m kih I DREW PEARSON SAYS: NEA Servica, Inc. EDITORIAL PAGE OLA GRANDE OBSERVER ! Wednesday, October 7, 1959 I "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. J (A ORANOHI fUBUBHINO COM P AWT RII.EY D. ALI.FN Publisher URADY FANNKIX Managing Editor tiKOHCE S. CIIAIXIS Adv. Director TOM HUMES Circulation Mgr. 1919 Black Year For White Sox 'The Chicago White Sox won th American League pennant fair and j 'square, and they probably won't appro $ elate 'any reminders of what happened ! last time the White Sox went into the World Series 40 years ago. There is no point in briiiidiiK up what did happen except to emphasize thai it j couldn't happen again, mainly because the motives that prompted players to j "throw" the World Series of lui'J have 2 been removed. j The incredible story of the Chicajvo '.'"Black" sox was uncovered by a l'hihulcl j'phia baseball writer a year after it Imp- pened. The White Sox of 1919 were iv- puted to be One of the greatest teams of I all times. Hut they were also probaHy the most underpaid team of all times t and very much divided. A current magazine article reorts that the scholarly team captain, IMilie Collins, wouldn't even speak to one fac tion of his teammates off the fii-M, and would speak to it only when absolutely necessary orl the field. Thev were a t rough bunch of ball players, and when i it is considered that Kd "Knuckles" C'i ! cotta, was getting only fd.ono for his I greatest season, it is no wonder that he i and six of his teammates w ere easy prey J for professional gamblers who offered them each $10,000 if they would throw the series. ! Cicotte was such a skillful pitcher that J he could control the games w hen he was on the mound. Others would hit or nol hit at will. They made it look good. The scries ended up with Cincinnati winning five games to three. Tie whole thinjr wound up a scanda lous shambles. The players who were in on the fix didn't get their pay-off. Kight of them were indicted, including the famous "Shoeless" Jo Jackson, there were four confessions which, incident ally, mysteriously disappeared but in the end all were acquitted. v Tbe 1919 scandal resulted in organized baseball determining to discipline itself. Kenncsaw Mountain Landis was appoint ed as the new czar. He banished eight of the l'.lack Sox from baseball for life. The worst tragedy was the disillusion ment of many baseball fans, and the fact that the national Sort's good name had Imvii so badly liesmirched. Nowadays ball players are well paid compared to 1919, so no player could ex cuse his conduct as Kd Cicotte did that he "done it for the wife and kiddies," and those who police baseball keep such a close eye on things that it would be virtually impossible for some men on one team to be bribed to throw games. When The White Sox nnd the Ixis An geles Podgers are having at it, there will le dollar signs dangling in front of all players, but they'll be legitimate ones. All World Series pariticipants get handsome lonuses. but to the victors goes the lion's share of the loot from the turnstiles. New CCC Viewed With Mixed Emotions j There is before a House of Kepresenta ('tives committee which doesn't seem to ! have done much with it a proposal to ; establish a Youth Conservation Corps in i this country. The senate posed the bill. .This is somewhat along the lines of the old Civilian Conservation Corps, which operated in the period from the early days of the New Peal until the outbreak of World War II. From two points of view the proposal is a bad one. It calls for increased gov ernment expenditures at a time when an '.increase in the cost of government is de cidedly unnecessary and unpopular. And at a time of generally full em ployment, make-work programs are not necessary. This country is more likely to face a labor shortage than a labor surplus in the next few years. These two main objections cover tne bad side of the proposal, j For this area and indeed for most f'of the Pacific Northwest which is so ! largely owned by the federal government i there is another side. There are several uses of this land. ! There are three principal non-destructive J uses the raisin? of trees, the produc ! tion of forage and the use of the land J and its streams and lakes for recreation iurjxises. 1 - The annual financial returns per acre of land - from the publicly-owned por tions of the Northwest is low. More money is received by the government and the stales and counties from west side areas, but the average for the east ern port ions of Oregon and Washington runs around a dollar per acre per year from all sources. More intensive management of the lands--a concentrated pruning program in the pine forests, for example would ret in n lir dividends. Kange lands could be improved through reseedinir programs, the construction of water diversions and other well-known improvement programs. Improvement of game and fish habitat and feed conditions, construction of camp facilities, would improve recreation uses. These three uses provide large sums of motiey to the Northwest. Taken to gether they provide well over two-thirds of our income in this area. l or purely selfish reasons, then, es tablishment of a Youth Conservation Corps, to operate in the type of projects outlined, would be an excellent move. ('in' must not expect the immediate return of the old CCC organization, how- Soviets Occupied Space As U.S. Troops Guarded School WASHINGTON It was ju.st'what had happened Iwo years axo yesterday that Russia scored its greatest scien tific victory over the United Slates by launching the (irst Sputnik. II weighed 400 pounds. In the interim Kussia has launch line weighing 3.000 pounds. Our largest weighed SO pounds. At that time it was said that Kussia occupied outer space, while the t inted States occupied Central llih School in Little Hock. One year later, Oct. 5. 1958. the I'nited Stati-s suffered a dif lerent kind of defeat when the llinton High School in Tennes see, which had bowed to a court order to admit nine Negro chil dren, was almost completely de stroyed by three well placed charges of dynamite. There were those who said at the time that Russia's earlier con quest of outer space was not as disastrous as the fear which gripped many communities as bombs damaged a total of some 80 schools, churches, synagogues and homes. In Cliton, a little town of about 6.000 tucked away in the hills I Tennessee, the school board bad met on Oct. 4 to consider new junior high school. Next morning they awoke to find the senior high school gutted. The town needed two schools instead of one. On the morning; of the explo sion, people came out in the early dawn in their pajamas wondering They saw the schoolhouse they had work id so hard to build and still had not entirely paid for. It was in rums. Strong men wepl. But the strong men of that community also showed more de termination in combating hate lhan scientists have shown in conquering outer space. That day, a Sunday, the Clinton chool board determined that not one day of school should be miss ed. Regardless of the vengeance of dynamiters, they decided. school must continue. It did. School moved to nearby Oak Ridge; people pitched in to scrub Moors, move desks, and not one day was lost. No Halo in Washington It was only after locating the children in Oak Ridge that the Clinton school board went to Washington to see President Eis enhower. They were philosoph iral at first about the fact that he was "too busy" to see them But after getting only piddling promises of help from his assist ants and learning that he took that afternoon off and left short ly thereafter for three days of paying bridge with Cliff Rob erts, his investment banker, George Allen, the White House jester, and Alton Jones of Cities Service, they wondered whethe the President placed bridge playing ahead of children. "When we were forced to in tegrate," said Judge Yarnell, "the government gave us no pro- Icrtinn. Tnry saiil the nrttrrtun 1 the school and the chil-lim was a local proDiem. Ivow wncii our schoolhouse is blown up. jga:n Washington says this is your problem. It isn t fair." However, a lot of other people decided it was their problem. Contributions began pouring in from all over the nation, especi ally irom fecnoui cniioit-u. n.t t I : ....- ..' IUUIIU UliU II VWM II C VVIIIS l buy a brick for the new school house, and hundreds of schools all over the country collected a nickel each from their children to rebuilt the Clinton school Other people, including the AFL Building Trades who offer ed their labor. Mayor Richard ion Dilworth of Philadelphia. station WC1IB in Detroit, Nel son Rockefeller in Albany, Son. Estes Kefauvcr and a whole cn.ss section of the United States, chip ped in to help make the rebuilt schoolhouse in Tennessee a sym bol of American determination to combat terror. As of today, the Clinton school house is being rebuilt. The chil dren are still going to school in Oak Ridge until it's finished. But the work is progressing. Some more money could be used to do the jcb up right, and anyone wanting to help write direct to the Clinton schoolhouse, Clinton, Tenn. But the important fact is that although we still may be behind Russia in the conquest of outer REMEMBER WHEN . . . 25 years ago. HowardfC. 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