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Viv .- V. :'- v- RICOCHET . ..'";: .-. ... '( "'--: ";' , . EDITORIAL PAGE LA' GRANDE OBSERVER Tuesday, October 13, 1959 "Without or Willi friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. Ill LEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor George Uiallis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager The Glory Days of Logging Fades Progress continues to take the uluni our out of logging. The .steam donkey It) long gone. The steam lokie is nil but gone. Now the era of the liixli climber is fading and one of these days when Albany ot Corvallis holds a tree top ing contest, there will lie no contest ants. . Reports are that steel spar trees, rin ged on the ground and then hoisted into place, are cheaper by far than topping a tall fir and rigging it from the p. round up. For one thing the wood in a tree big enough for a spar is worth alxtut $100 and it is ruined for lumber by spikes Iteinir driven much longer to ritf n than one of the ne riggers' pay fur the steel spar may cost wilh but it pavs fur ler. And tin's isn't all. sive step in the woods minute yarding. It wi to bulliln.e roads so to the log rather th the truck. The time logger won't have to or chew snoose. into it. It takes standing spar tree w steel ones and hour is high. A $:?(),()(() to start itself in short or- The next progres is supposed to eli- II be cheaper, some the trucks can go in pull the log to may come when a wear corked boots What Money Can't Buy New York City, near hysteria over a wave of teenage crime which has cost a number of lives over recent weeks, has discovered that it already is spending $60 million a year to combat juvenile delinquency. 1 This is just an illustration that the mere spending of money won't cure all Ills. Of course, Americans have long been aware that there are some things money won't buy; such as love, respect, hap- Jiiness. But occasionally we still are hocked that money poured into a "good cause" doesn't produce the results we expected. A good example may lx found in our spending for education. When Sputnik shocked America into awareness of its missile lag behind Russia, the cry went up for more money for schools. Now we're beginning to realize that quality of teaching is more vital than plush school buildings and air-conditioned class rooms. Money can't buy genius, but in spired teachers can turn out good schol ars who will become able engineers and scientists. We're all pretty much aware that juv enile delinquency is more likely to be overcome in the home than it is in the city council, no matter how many addi tional millions are exH'iided. The money, heaven knows, is important to a country as far in debt and as heavi ly taxed as this one. Hut even more wor risome is our demonstrated tendency to pour in money and neglect to contribute what is required thought, time, indi vidual attention. We seem to find it hard er to put forth required efforts, often, than to write checks. And checks won't always do the job. Neuberger Talks Horse Our own Sen. Neuberger is the only Democratic leader we know of, outside the conservative South, who talks out loud about the immensity of the national debt burden. No one in politics talks about the eight billion dollars a year which must be paid out in interest on that debt unless he wants to make a painful point, the point being that any new public spending must be paid for out of taxes, not by deficit financing. In a talk at Oregon City recently Neu berger denounced anew the type of legis- Sense About Taxes lator who will vote for all appropriations and against all taxes, lie also denounced those candidates for office who promise more spending for various governmental services but avoid the issue of new taxes to pay for them. Ncuterger, who is up for re-election next year, has the political courage to talk about fiscal sanity in public affairs because he knows it makes sense to voters. He was elected to the Senate by people who knew him as a state legis lator when he talked the same way. Eastern Oregonians Answer Poll How do Lastern Oregon people feel fe about three pertinent questions asked of them in a questionnaire mailed by Congressman Al Ullman? Strongly . . . that's how they feel. The colon's public opinion poll that reached into La Grande and every other area community in this immediate two county section registered the heaviest sentiment on the following mail-back forms: " "' Revised fa mi program: effective labor reform legislation; United Nations Inter national Police Force. The heaviest sentiment in opposition to proposals before the Congress came in the fields of trade with Red China, continuation of the soil bank program, and a Khrushchev summit meeting in the .U.S. (The 111 was taken prior to President l'isenhawer's recent invita tion to the Russian leader.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: General Had National Guard Plane For Hauling Lobsters WASHINGTON Some people have the idea that I get satisfac tion out of torturing generals and admirals over airplane junkets at the taxpayers' expense. Actually I don't. I even get into trouble with my wife, who is the daughter of an Army general, grew up in the Army, and says (hat officers work hard enough to deserve a few perquisites. Maybe she's right. Nevertheless it seems to me the public is en titled to know about these things so it tan judge for itself. In line with this belief, I had occasion to phone Maj. Gen. Wil liam II. Abendroth, head of the D C. National Guard, to ask him if a National Guard plane had flown SO chicken lobsters down from Maine for a dinner he gave at his home in rails Church, Va. No. ' replied me general, "no thing like that ever happened. 'Weren't you giving a dinner for C. T. Newberry, the chain store executive," I asked, "and serving some nice fresh lobsters just flown in from Maine?" 'No," insisted General Abend roth. "I don't remeber anything like that." "Did you send a National Guard plane out to Wisconsin on July 14 with a large party of Elks aboard?" "There was a plane went out to Wisconsin; but they were chiefly Washington businessmen aboard. not Elks," Explained the general "They went out to National Guard maneuvers. I think it's a good idea for leading Washingtonians to know more about the National Guard. We need their support." Pilot Has Another Story I couldn't disagree with the genearl on this, but carrying out my role of the hard-boiled invese- tigalor, I then called the co-pilot ol the alleged lobster plane, Col VN.lliam McColl, and asked htm whether he had brought 90 chick en lobsters from Kennebunkport, Maine for the General s dinner party. 'Yes, we brought some lob sters down from Maine." Colonel McColl replied quite frankly. A little later, either General Abendroth and Colonel McColl compared notes or the general refreshed his memory. At any rate, he called back to say that he now recalled that some lobsters had been flown from Maine in a National Guard plane. "It was a routine flight," he ex plained, "a training flight and while the pilots were in Maine they brought back some lobsters. They just collected some lobsters and put them in the plane." What did they do, crawl all over the plane?" I asked, trying to introduce a little levity. Oh, no." said General Abend roth. horrified. "We'd never let them crawl all over the plane." 'I he general seemed so concern ed and like such a nice guy th;f I hated to pursue the inquiry fur ther. However, regarding the trip to Wisconsin, a check call to the exalted ruler of the Elks estab lished the fact that the flight to Wisconsin did chiefly have Elks aboard; that there had been an other flight to Indiantown Gap, Pa., with the exalted ruler of the Elks, and another where an Elks official was given a flight in a jet fighter and thereafter was called 'Ace : plus another flight to Mil chel Field for a meeting wltb New York horse show official! Worthy Charity Com Into Red Some of these flights were in a good cause namely, the Inter national Horse Show staged by the Elks for the benefit of the D C. Crippled Children Society. The Elks have worked hard at this, but last year went in' the red $30,000 largely because of the very heavy cost of hiring the Na tional Guard Armory. This is where General Abend roth enters the picture. He is both chairman of the Internationa Horse Show and a member of the three-man board which governs the National Guard Armory. A onetime cavalryman, the gen eral loves horses and wants to promote horses even if he has taken to the air to get lobsters down from Maine for dinner par ties. As chairman of the Interna tional Horse Show, the general is promoting a very worth-while and noble enterprise which the na tion's capital is proud of. However, when the horse show is staged in the National Guard Armory of which the general is a governor, the Elks, who are footing the bill for the horse show to help out crippled children, complain that they are being overcharged. "The amount o( rent is exorbi tant," complained Exalted Ruler Edward J. Doyle in a letter to Washington Elks. 'The armory board has raised the rent from the original figure of $12,000 to $16,000." The Elks were tabbed $1,000 a day for the main armory floor, $l.ooo a day for the basement to house the horses, plus $500 a day for moving in, $500 a day for mov ing out, plus various charges for carpentry work, cleaning up, etc. The total bill was $11,000. According to General Abendroth, however, these charges are fixed. They can't be reduced for one and not for another. The new ex alted ruler, James Peake, agrees with this. Some Elks, however, wish that their members, who are not afraid of hard work, were permitted to do some of the cleaning up, guard ing, and carpentering instead of having it farmed out with a 10 per cent overriding commission paid to the armory. And since the tax payers money is used by General Abendroth for free airplane rides around the country, they wish some of it could be used to re duce the high tab charged them by General Abendroth and the armory board. Anyway it's a good horse show for an important charity and may be the Elks will make some money this year. Nikita's Sales Talk To Red China On Peace Disregarded By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer The Chinese Reds lost little time in demonstrating they are not wholly in accord with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's cur rent peace campaign. Khrushchev gave it the "hard sell" in Peiping. This is not the time, he said, to "lest the stability of the capitalist system by force." At another point he told his Communist Chinese allies: "We . . . must do everything possible to preclude war as a means for settling outstanding questions." Hut scarcely were the words out of his mouth before Marshal Lin I'ao. Red China's new defense minister, rose beneath a canopy of low-flying jet fighters and bombers to announce, "we will definitely liberate Taiwan and oth er islands." Confer In Secret In I.in's audience was Ho Chi Minh. whose Communist satellite Vietnamese state continued its ra dio blasts against the I'nited States and the llittle pro-Western Indochinese state of Laos. Throughout, the Chinese had no criticism but little praise for the hopeful communique which con clude! the President Eisenhower Khrushchev talks at Camp David For the better part of the fol lowing four days longer than the Khrushchev-Eisenhower meeting Khrushchev and Chinese Red leader Mao Tse-tung conferred in secret. On Sunday, Khrushchev left Pei ping for the Soviet Siberian port of Vladivostok. There was no communique, no announced re sults of the long secret sessions Just the usual Communist plati tudes of friendship. Khrushchev Remains Silent In Vladivostok, Khrushchev's si lence continoed-ra slate unusual, indeed for him. It may be considered certain that Khrushchev asked Mao not to rock the international boat at this time in his new dealings with the I'nited States. There had been some indication that Khrushchev would ask the Chi nes, as a ges ture of new international goodwill, to release five Americans now held in Chinese jails. There was no sign that either had met with affirmative action. Not any of this may be taken as a weakening of the Soviet-Red Chinese axis. At the moment, each is too important to the other. Chines Lag Behind Chinese reluctance to go along totally with Khrushchev's plans may have other reasons, too. Communist China's development as a Communist state and indus trially, is far behind Russia. While Russia now seeks to fix its satellite boundaries on a line running through the middle of Eu rope, China is seeking aggressive to expand. Further, the United States must remain Red China's No. 1 hate. The I'nited States bars the Communist way to the Quemoys. the Matsus and finally, to For mosa. The U.S. blocks the way to Laos and to all of southeast Asia. The U.S. stood as a barrier in Korea. NEWS CHUCKLES United Press International KEEP THE CHANGE SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Two funmen escaped in a getaway car after a fast-paced hotel holdup during the week end. They took the entire contents of the cash box 11 cents. BUSY FIVE YEARS NOTTINGHAM, England (UPD Peter Tapsell said he was so grateful for his election to Parli ament that he would visit every home in his constituency during his five year term. The consti tuency contains 22.000 homes. which averages out to 85 homes a week. MYRA WEAKENS OXFORD. England ITI Twelve nurses in this University City today revealed a sleight set back in their new no-datet club The newly-elected club president, nurse Myra Davies, who had promised to lead the girls to cul ture Instead of boys, resigned after she had been out with a undergraduate two nights in a row. AROUND THE SUN: LUNIK i' !;;& W$ fa lunik iii yKy;m&w:t October 4, 195 f ' ( PIONEER IV ..-""V Mores J, I'M. .. rllaketr Al Mufti EARTH SATELLITES: Lifetime: rVDI ftRER. VI Alio. 7 lacs I . &VANGUARDl-Mor.i7.,9JIv .I VANGUARD lll-S.pt. ,a. ,9J9 '00 f -UgVANGUARD 17. l959-"- & EXPLORER 1-Jon. 31. I9J U EXPLORER IV-Ju!y 26. iSSPUTNir ""7 '3, V DISCOVERER Vr-Au9.i9. ,.J9" P1SC0VIRR V-A" . 1959 " COSMIC CONGESTION Year III of the Space Age got off to a spectacular start when Russia sent a rocket Lunik III -around the moon. If it manages to stay in orbit, it will bring to two the number of current Russian earth satellites, as against eight American. Both countries have an artificial "planet" circling the sun. In the two years since Sputnik I, the U S has launched 12 successful earth satellites (out of 18 tries); Russia three. Several U.S. attempts to hit or circle the moon have failed; Russia hit the moon once (Lunik U). Any Russian failures are not known. Many .Thousands Of Pilgrims At Fatima Shrine FATIMA. Portugal (UPI Pil grims' by the hundreds of thou sands were in Fatima today to observe the 42nd anniversary of the 1917 visions of the Virgin Mary seen by three Portuguese children. A long, winding candlelight pro cession opened the impressive rites Monday night. These are re peated on the 12th and 13th of every month from ilay through October. It was in those months that the three illiterate shepherd children insisted they had seen and spoken with the Virgin Mary. Warnings passed on by the chil dren included the "necessity for much prayer and penance and a hint of things to come. In their understanding, the pen ance called for consisted mainly in "performing one's daily tasks well." The special Roman Catholic services and masses through the night vigil culminate at high noon in a Solemn High Mass. It was at noon that the children reported they had their monthly rendez vous with "the beautiful lady from heaven. REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago, beef steaks and pot roasts were advertised by local groceary stores and meat markets for 16 cents and nine cents, respectively. Coffee was selling for 31 cents a can. Pretty Boy Floyd, notorious un derworld hoodlum of the pro hibition era, was the subject of an intense manhunt by police. The current October heat wave set a new record high for the day with a sizzling 91 degrees. It was the warmest October day ever experienced by oldtimers in Eastern Oregon. ... 15 years ago. Lt.' jg N. W. Frees Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Frees Sr., former La Grande resident, was awarded DKC with the Air Force in South west Pacific. He was local school student prior to his parents mov ing to Salem. Thousands of bobby sox fans rioted at an outdoor performance given in New York by Frank Sinatra. He was to the younger female generation then what Elvis Presley is today. Observer headlines said that girles were swooning "all over QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International BRASSCHAAT. Belgium-Group Capt. Peter Townsena, lormer suitor of Britain s rrincess Mar garet, after being asked by news man uhere his forthcoming mar riage to Belgian heiress Marie Luce Jamagne would, take place: "We would like to marry as dis creetly as possible, but I realize it will be difficult wun you guys around." CHICAGO Capt. Cy Thompson, 39, of Toronto, pilot of the Trans Canada Airlines Viscount that circled Chicago for two hours wilh a faulty landing gear, then land ed safety, describing his de cision to try for a belly-landing: "I had ample time to make a decision. It was a normal emer gency." ROME Pope John XXIII, ct.itin? in his first SDeech in Eng lish that he believed the Roman Katholic Church would soon beati fy Mother Elizabeth Seaton, American convert-founder of the U. S. 'parochial school system: "And now, repeating the thoughts expressed in Latin, we wish to tell you in your own lan guage of the pleasure it gives us to be able to share with you this happy occasion. HERSIIEYVILLE. 111., Chief Deputy Sheriff Melvin Leach, dis closing that James Palmer, 21. already accused of two "mad dog" killings in the Midwest, had blurted out a confession to a third slaying in Tennessee: "We were discussing the mur ders and shootings, and he ap parently just decided to tell me about the one in Tennessee, too. I don't know why he took me into his confidence." OBITS United Press International UNIVERSITY PARK. Pa. (UPI) Dr. Wheeler Pedlar Davey, 73, retired research professor of phy sics and chemistry at Pennsyl vania State University, died Monday. NEW YORK i UPI) Henry William Felt. 85, former presi dent of J. P. Felt & Co., elec trotypers, died Sunday. WATERTOWN, Mass. (UPI) Dr. Isabelle D. Kerr, 78, a Bos ton nose and throat specialist, died Monday. the place" whenever Sinatra crooned. The La Grande Tigers, riding an unbeaten football record, were prepping for the "big game" against Pendleton. : The United States National Bank Or PORTLAND RESOURCES Cash en Hand end Due from Bonks United States Government Bonds.. Municipal end Other Bonds Loons and Discounts Net. . , . Stock in Federal Reserve Bank . Bank Premises (Including Branches) Customers' Liability on Acceptances Interest Earned a.i n .. $ 155,197,138.53 246,823,885.60 80,731,848.67 393,045,982.98 1,380,000.00 13,062,819.99 23,549.86 f 3,352,796.43 746,247.61 $ 894,364,269.6? LIABILITIES Capital $ 23,000,000.00 Surplus 23,000,000.00 - . - Undivided Profits , . . . . 24,085,571.91 $ 70,085,571 9f Reserves for Interest, Taxes, etc 7,095,808.04 Acceptances 23,549.86 Dividends Declared 747,500.00 Deposits 802,973,949.68 Interest Collected Not Earned 7,559,651.57, Other Liabilities 5,878,238.61 $ 894,364t26T6Z - TM. itotoiMrf IkMh 71 knclm k Ortaoa hub officii rot riANO, MIOON LA OlIICT BRANCH or IMI UNITIO ITAIII NATIONAL SANK Of POIHAND QRIAON'S OWN STAfiwiH IaHk 6Frta