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Sumpin's Gotta Give! .l?M5 ..:'....: Vj . NEA Stmct. Im. EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Monday, October 12, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, wo print your daily world as it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager Stemple Spilled The Beans Those with good memories mnv recall when Charles Van Doren was astonish ing television audiences with his amaz ing ability to answer complicated ques tions. The prize money he was slioon.i for built up rapidly into six figures. And they may recall a contestant named Herbert Stempel who appeared to chal lenge him and who lost out. Today Stempel told a Congressional subcommittee that before the broadcast he was furnished all the answers to the questions he was to be asked, and coach ed in how to act while trying to think of the right answers. He was told also that he had to be dropin'd, "for the good of the show." Th us is revealed again how Hie oper ators of one prominent quiz show and others may have followed similar prac tices manipulated so as to build up sus pense and keep the audiences tuned in. The public was made fools of, if it be lieved it was on the up and up, and the majority apparently did. The chairman of the committee look ing into the matter says legislation may be necessary to "make a reetition of any such deceptive practice too risky to attempt in the future." It is not likely that any broadcaster would try the quiz show gimmick again. It has been too thoroughly discredited. Hut someone will think of something else. What surprises us is that the tele vision industry itself hasn't done more to jxilice itself against such unscrupulous promoters. The broadcaster ought to have more concern with maintaining public confidence in what is heard on the air being truthful and accurate. Morgan Lake Road? It's A Cowtrail To the newcomers here. Morgan I.ake atop the high peaks west-southwest of Ia Grande offers pleasant relaxation and a chance at the outdoors within a short driving distance. Hut it takes a hardy soul, indeed, to traverse the winding, narrow mountain trail, and one who has made the trip recently may think long and hard before that second jaunt. The road, if it can bo termed one, is actually not much more now than a cowtrail and a city slicker would run the risk of giving up life, limb and automo bile on that rough, rutted climb. It would seem that both the city and county would be doing something about the road, for it Is traversed with some regularity by people who have business and pleasure up that way. It seems that before several hard rains of the summer the road conditions lead ing to Morgan Iake were fair to good, and it presented an enjoyable outing family style. Today, however, there is a vast change on that certain surface of the peak. One must drive with snail-like movement, the courage of a pioneer on the old Oregon Trail and, generally, with heart in the mouth. A couple of sweeps by a road grader would go a long way in smoothing down the deep ruts and washed-out gulleys. This is something for the powcrs-that-be to think about. Higher Interest Rates Pretty soon we'll be hearing com plaints about "tight money" again. Money to loan is getting scarcer. That means interest rates are higher. Kig banks have raised their "prime rate" to 5 per cent. That is the rate they charge their best customers large corporations, for example when they need to borrow some money. Others have to pay more. This situation has the world's biggest borrower, the U.S. Government, in a pinch. The Treasury borrows by issuing and selling lxmds. If no one wants those bonds it soon runs out of money. Irately it has been difficult to sell savings bonds the series E and H which are offered regularly to the public because savers could get a better return on their money through other investments. To remedy that situation Congress is getting ready to raise the interest rate that will be paid on E and If bonds from 3.26 per cent to at least ZV per cert. But Congress hasn't yielded to Treasury Dept. pressure to increase interest rates on long term government bonds. The In Offing coiling now is 4 V4 per cent. And they are not selling. Why should anyone buy term governments &t that rate when they can get short trm governments, municipals and corporation bonds that yield more return? The Democratic Congress doesn't want to lie accused of playing into the hands of the "big bankers" by increasing the return bankers get for lending money to the government. Rut there will be no alternative, if present trends continue. What are those trends that are caus ing a scarcity of money to lend? Supply and demand. These are prosperous times. People want to build. Those who pro duce goods need to expand and build. All this takes money. And since few in dividuals or businesses can build up re serves for such needs, they must borrow from the banks, insurance companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions -anywhere that people who have savings put their money to earn interest. When requests for loans get to exceed ing the amount these depositories of savings have to lend, up goes interest. DREW PEARSON SAYS, President Of Mexico Pays Respects To Ike And U.S. WASHINGTON For appro! mately nio years it would have been political suicide lor a presi det of Mexico to visit the capital of the United Stales. Relations oeiween me iwo countries Were embittered by the war of 1848, the Kersning expedition ot 1917, (ne bombardment of Tampico by the American Navy mat same year and by tne controversy over ex propnated oil and cattle lands Today, however. President Lopez Mateos of Mexico has arrived in Washington for an official visit and is due to get the same full drss welcome accorded Premier Khrushchev of the USSR. Indicative of the improving re lations between the United States and Mexico recently, one other Mexican resident, Miguel Aleman visited Washington in 1947, while Ruiz Cortines came to White Sul phur Springs in 1956. These are the only presidents of Mexico to venture official visits beyond the edge of the Rio Grande. Mexican sentiment toward the United States was too unfriendly for any presi dent to do much visiting. It wou'd be incorrect to report that Mexicans today whoop and holler with enthusiasm over friendship with the so-called 'colossus of the north." They don't toss their sombreros in the air. But th-y are much more friendly. And the current visit of one of the most dynamic figures to hold the office of president is further proof of that fact. Onetime Socialist When Lopez Mateos was elected Mexico City's business community predicted that left-wing labor would dominate the country. Lo pez had been secretary of labor. was a member of the Mexican Socialist party. Some people shook their heads in dismay, call ed the new president a dangerous radical. Two months after Lopez Mateos was inaugurated, the National Railway Workers Union, 60.000 strong, called a sudden strike. The government labor board promptly called the strike illegal and the strike leaders had to ac cept an offer they had previously rejected. The union bosses wait ed awhile, then called another strike. This time the former secretary of labor and friend of labor. Lo pez Mateos, threw the strike leaders in jail for "promoting so cial dissolution" a crime speci fied in Mexico's penal code. Si iryilnneously he ordered tin ex pulsion of two attaches of the Soviet Embassy for stirring up labor strife. The strike was brok en. Railway workers started the trains running again. Since then the new Mexican president has taken a strong stand Radioactivity In Air Over Eastern U.S.1 Takes Drop WASHINGTON UPI Con centrations of radioactivity in the surface air over the eastern United States dropped by as much as 50 per cent from June to July, the Atomic Energy Com mission reports. Rut it also said that Strontium 90 levels in milk at Mandan. N.D., in May were the highest ever re ported in the I'nited States. By July, however, the levels had dropped to about that of last winter. Strontium-90 levels in milk amnios for the New York City area in June were tne nignesi ever reported for that area. They still were within permissible levels and not as high as found earlier at other areas. The AEC report, second in a quarterly series, also said data indicated that whole wheat bread sampled in New York in May contained five times as much strontium-90 as white bread test ed at the same time. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International NEW YORK A friend of the Franklin I). Roosevelt family tell ing why Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's cake for her birthday Sunday fol lowed custom and had only 21 candles: "Oh nobody ever has more than 21 candles." LONDON Field Marshall Lord Montgomery remarking on the Conservative sweep in the British elections: "Of course. I am not surprised I have great faith in the good sense of the British people." NEW YORK Big Joe Rosen- field, Jr. on the $1,210,000 bequest to his "Happiness Exchange Foun dation." a radio program, in the will of Mrs. May Rockwell race: 'It s a dream come true " PELAFIKI.D. Wis. Mavor Raymond Wandschneider report ing $ in the city treasury pre- ents the town from hiring police men and there have been two un solved burglaries: "It's getting very embarrassing for me." : to solidify Mexican currency (with the help of the I . S. treasury and the international monetary fundi; has thrown out political cronies and awarded jobs on th? merit system: raised cain with bureaucrats who were late get ting to work: and has noticeably improved relations with the Unit- ed States. Note Lopz Mateos will prof ably discuss with President Eis enhower and Prime Minister Die fenbaker of Canada the idea of a North American common mar ket. The United States helped pro mote a European common mar ket only to find American goods frozen out of that market. There fore, the idea of a North Ameri ca common market among M-xi-co. Canada and the United States is an idea almost certain to be discussed during the Lopez Mateos trip. Khrushchev-Co-Round The Khrushchev visit was prob ably the best-covered news story of this decade, but even so not everything leaked out. Here are a few things that didn't: The New York Times was the only American newspaper Khru shchev had read to him. Every' day he had an interpreter read it to him almost from stem to stern . . .In the afternoon, be fore Khrushchev left for Camp Da vid, he, with Ambassador Men shikov and Foreign Minister Gro myko. went into the little back yard behind Blair House with a mountain of papers. Khrushchev was In shirt sleeves. took off his shoes, propped his feet on a table, and they huddled for an hour in the sunshine be fore he left for Camp David . . . on September 25. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland gave a dinner in a fifth-floor suite of the Sheriton-Carlton hotel for Sergei Khrushchev and 10 other members of the party, all in the production field. It lasted from 8 to 11. The food tab came to $177.50; liquor $98. If and when trade opens up with Russia, Eaton will have the inside track. . . . The Russian au thor. M. A. Sholokhov, and Khru shchev appeared very close friends; Sholokhov dictated Mr. K's farewell television message to a secretary from Khrushchev's hand-written notes. Mrs. Roosevelt at 75 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who will be 75 years o'd this week, says she doesn't want ayone to write about hr birlnday. How ever, a few days later on Oct. 1J she Will operate in a way that can't avoid making news. At lunch in New York that day, she will discuss progress in the fight against cancer, with Health. Education, and Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming. Dr. John R. Heller of the National Cancer Institute, and others, in a seminar sponsored by the AFL CIO with the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. After lunch Mrs. Roosevelt will fly to Washington wh"re she will be feted at a diamond jubilee dinner with Supreme Court Jus tices EaTl Warren and William O. Douglas. Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Faye Emerson, her ex-daughter-in-law, Mrs. Al'ie S. Freed, chairman of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Washing ton, and Dr. Milton L. Elsberg. president of Drug Fair. It's a schedule geared for a lady of about 45. Don't Let Them . Down American Red Cross Is Agency Which Benefits From UF Drive Pretty Blonde Denies Armed Robbery Rap BIRMINGHAM, Ala. UPI Mrs. Kathryn Anderson, 30-year-old statuesque blonde "model housewife." goes on trial today for robbing two savings and loan associations here while she was pregnant with her third child. Mrs. Anderson, free under $10, 000 bond, was accused of taking $2,974 from the firms at gunpoint early last year. She has main tained her innocence since her ar rest by the FBI May 29, 1958. If convicted, Mrs. Anderson could bo sentenced to either 25 years in prison or fined $10,000 or both. The City Federal Savings and Loan Assn. was robbed on Feb. 28, 1958, and the Jefferson Fed eral Savings and Loan Assn. on May 22. 1958. The branch offices are located two doors apart in suburban Homewood, directly across the street from the Home wood police station and about 3 miles from the Anderson's ranch type home in Cahaba Heights. Mrs. Anderson, considered a "model housewife" by former neighbors, was an active PTA worker before her arrest. Since then, they have taken their son, Damon, 9. out of school. Charles II. Anderson Jr.. Mrs. Anderson's husband, said "He was very upset about it and you know how children can be unintentional ly cruel to each other." Anderson, an insurance man, said the charges against his wife were a "horrible mistake." The FBI said three women em ployes of the savings and loan firms tiive identified the woman as the one who held up the companies. (Editor's Note The Obser ver, in the public interest, is presenting a series of articles on local organiiations which benefit from tthe United Fund drive. Today's agency is the American Red Cress.) The American Red Cross pri marily represents people helping people. It is a channel through which assistance may be given where it is needed most, when it is needed most and being ad ministered carefully by trained personnel made to do the most good. All of the 5.400 chapters of the American Red Cross are chart ered by the United States govern ment and each chapter is required to give four mandatory services: 1. Service to the Armed forces. 2. Aid in time of disaster. 3. Public information. 4. Fund rais ing. The Union county chapter of fers 11 additional services to the community. The blood program under which b'ood is collected by the Blood mobile from the Boise regional center and redistributed, without cost, to local hospitals, is one of the best known projects. Dur ing 1958 a total of 736 pints were Used In this county in addition to fibrinogen, serum albumen and gamma globul.n. Had this blood been purchased by the recipients the cost to them would have been $29,080, a sum greater than the entire goal of th? I'nited Fund. Gray Ladies A Gray Lady and Motor group developed early in 1955 was the first all-community service group of this nature to-be active in th Pacific area. There are 40 members of these combined ser vices who visit two hospitals, two homes for the aged and Hot Lake Nursing home once each week. First aid classes are offered to industry and to a'l those in the community who are interested in securing this training. Union county has nine qualified instruc tors to teach this subject. Home nursing is also available with seven instructors trained to serve when needed. The Red Cross courses in home nursing arid first aid are considered so valuable that Civil Defense has recommended that every family have at least one ra?mber quali fied in these fields so that, in case of disaster or attack, the needs of the family might be cared for without professional medical assistance. The La Grande Neighborhood Club has accepted the responsi bility of canteen service at the blood drawings and wherever needed. These women have served at every drawing during the past three years. Service to veterans includes the; assistance with claims, counselling and various other aids. At the present time financial assistance in this chapter is limited, by shortage of funds, to mandatory loans and grants to members of the armed forces and their depen dents. Water Safety Water safety is offered by the Red Cross through Eastern Ore gon College and by Red Cross trained instructors at both the Cove, swimming pool and Memor ial pool in La Grande. It is the po'icy of the local chapter to add at last two trained instructors each year to the number avail able in the community. There are now 11 qualified teachers who handle several hundred potential swimmrs each season. The members of the Happy Cir cle club handled production in the local chapter and accept requests from the veteran's hospital at Walla Walla for comfort articles which may be sewed and which are not supplied the patients by the government. Staff aides form'a group of volunteers who assist in the local office with typing, filing and give other necessary office assistance. Eastern Oregon College stud dents assist with various Red Cross activities, the yearly blood drawing held at the college being one of the major projects. Junior Red Cross, a service to the children of the community in which they participate in a great many types of activities, is being reactivated this year. One of the most important phases of this service is the contacts established between American students and those in schoo's in foreign countries. REMEMBER WHEN ... 5 years aso, 8.074 Union County voters veer registered pri or to general elections. Republi cans outnumbered registered Dem ocrats by 4.025 to 3.192. O'hor reg istrants included 81 ind-p'-ndents. 27 Socialists, 19 Prohibitionists and seven Progressives. The continuing October heat wave registered a sizzling 84 to climb toward a record, with hot ter days predicted. Advance Night was observed by Hope Chapter, Order of the East ern Star, and Mrs. Marie Ritter serving as worthy matron of the group. ... 15 years ago, Observer headlines told of U. S. Navy car ryig the war toward Japan, with ships of American fleet in the Southwest Pacific . pounding ap held islands. First Lt. Thomas A. Myers of Elgin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Myers, was wounded in the in vasion of islands in the Pacific. He was serving with a Marine Corps oul.'it. A Union girl. Joselle Davis, won the canning award at three-state 4 H contest at Portland. She was awarded blue ribbon. Locally, the Knights Templar observed its 50th anniversary. OBITS NEW YORK "ITIi James Andrew McGarry, 41. a promin ent New York advertising man. died Sunday following a long ill ness. SUMMIT. N. J. t'PI i Edward J. Slater, 67. former president of the New Jersey Teamsters Joint Council, died of a heart attack Friday at Overlook Hospital. WASHINGTON UP1 -Edward A. Moymhan. 55. former president of a New York liquor wholesalers and importers firm. died of a heart attack here San- Seasonal Farm Wage Rates Hit Record Highs In U.S. WASHINGTON (UPD Seasonal farm wage rates have hit new record highs in every region of the country, an Agriculture De partment report shows. For the nation as a whole, the average hourly wage for farm workers was 80 6 cents an hour, up one per cent from last year. The largest regional increases reported were 3 to 4 per cent in the wcst-northcentral, south cen tral and Pacific states, the de partment said. Altogether, there were 9.300,000 Americans working on farms in late September. The figure was NEWS CHUCKLES WRONG FURNITURE LONDON lUPIl Court bail iffs pocketed their warrant to seize Patrick Driscoll's furniture and went about their job. When they hauled the furniture into court Friday, they discovered they had taken it from the wrong house. ANGRY WIVES' HOME TOKYO apli Tokyo wives who quarrel with their husbands soon will no longer have to pack up and go home to mother. The M.troplitan Welfare Bureau disclosed it ,s planning to put up a building to house angry wives until their domestic quarrels are patched up. PICKS WRONG HOUSE PUEBLO. Colo. (UPII Ex convict llouad skip Houston. 32: told officers he picked a Pue blo. Colo, address at random to use on phony checks spread" uuuugn voiorado and Montana. He didn't learn until he was arrested Friday that Police Chief Roy Harper lives in the house' he1 selected. down 1 per cent from the same period a year a;o. WASHINGTON (ITU Non - fat dry milk has been removed from the list of government surplus commodities eligible for barter. Agriculture Department officials said the move was made because government stocks of milk powder are small at present. Under the barter ' program, farm surpluses arc swapped for strategic min erals and other materials from abroad. WASHINGTON I t'PI) An Agri culture Department economist says farm price support programs can't solve the income problems of families in low-income rural areas. Buis T. Inman said this was one of the findings jn a federal-state study of the problems of low in come areas. The study was done under the administration's rural development program. Inman said the main trouble in such farm areas is underemploy ment and the failure to make full use of farm resources. One solution, he said, was in dustrial development. Another list ed was more training to help farm people qualify for better jobs both on and off the farm. Inman said the study found that the problems of farmers can't be handled apart from the economic troubles of non-farmers- living in the same areas. Both groups, he said, have to be helped at the same time by the same program. WASHINGTON UPl-The first water conservation stamp ever is sued in the United States will come out early next year. The Agriculture Department said the stamp will be a four center. It will be released during the 7th National Watershed Con gress here. .