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.4 s - 'It's Nice to Know We'll HAVE Another Spring" fp DREW PEARSON SAYS: Missouri Solon Probes U.S. Juvenile Delinquency Climb WASHINGTON While most of s hit colleagues are relaxing at home or enjoying junkets, Son. Tom llenninis of Missouri has been probing intj the most sinis ter social problem of our times the alarming growth of juve nile delinquency in major cities. After extensive hearings on teen-age hood him ism in New York, Hennings will spend the first three weeks of November in Los Angeles, San Diego and San rrancisco, probing youthful law- lessness and the drug traflic. Because of its close access to the Mexican border, I.os Angeles has long been one of the na tion's two wnr.il centers of nar cotics violations; is also a dis tribution depot from which dope pushers throughout the country obtain supplies. But law enforcement officials in Los Angeles and in San Diego, both close to the wide-open dives of Tijuana, have found that the border influence has grave dan gers for footloose youths. It is virtually impossible," re ported one Senate investigator, "to walk a block down a Tijuana street without being accosted by solicitations for immoral acts, pornographic material, or narcotics." Crime To Worsen California's Attorney General Stanley Mosk, Congressman Jam es Roosevelt, and others who have urged Hennings to look into the situation are convinced ju venile crime will worsen unless EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Wednesday, October 14, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher' Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager To Keep The Record Straight Senator Morse in his current awing is blaming- his poor press on the news papers, not putting the blamo where it belongs, which is on Senator Morse. This is a favorite trick of the Sena tor. A few years back one of his suppor ters, Howard Morgan, wrote letters to Oregon newspapers complaining that Morse's "leadership" on a bill had been ignored by Oregon newspapers bectiu.se their editorial pages were unfriendly to him. A graduate student at the University of Oregon' took copies of newspapers from all over the United States, includ ing those whose editorial pages were friendly to the Senator as well as thoss who obviously didn't like him. He found the Senator's leadership was universally ignored . He then went through the Congress ional Quarterly, a non-partisan seri?s of reports on Congressional activity. In three weeks of this service there was one mention of Morse, a mention which did not give him any great credit for "leadership." The trouble with the Morse "record" s that it's just what Morse wants to make it at the time. And what he usually wants to make of 'it is the impression left with listeners that 9i) other Senators, -135 members of the House, the President and his Cabin et, newspapermen and various other cat egories of the national imputation all are stupid, party hacks, numbskulls, dupes and stixiges. Kveryone's still out of step but V;tvne. 10 Years And Millions But No Case A long, long story came to an end last week when a federal judge finally came up with a solution, to the complicated I)uPont-General Motors case. In the end justice was done, but it took t"n years, and probably millions of dollars in legal fees to arrive at a solution that should have been reached at the outset. Dupont invested in General Motors stock in 1917 when the automobile busi ness ' was still in its infancy. DuPont makes paint and lacquer, which arc used extensively by tin automobile makers, so it wasn't long before suspicions were aroused that General Motors had to buy automobile paint from Pit Pont because DuPont owned so much stock. The Fed eral Trade Commission and the Depart ment of Justice made a study of the matter In 1927 but took no action. It was not until 1919 that the anti trust division of the U.S. Department of Justice got around to filing a formal complaint, charging that it was wrong for a supplier to own so much of the stock of one of its beat customers. Three years later Judge Walter J. La Buy ruled that the government did not have a case. The IXp' tmenf Of Justice apjiealed. Two years later the Supreme Court by vote Of four to two held that the case should be heard again inasmuch as DuPont ownership of General Motors stock indicated that there wns a ' rea sonable Probability" that DuPont would receive preference in supplying General Motors. It was then that the Department of Justice proposed to the court that Du Pont be forced either to sell all its stock in General Motors or distribute that stock to the stockholders of DuPont. In ternal Revenue then ruled that such a distribution of stock would be taxable as ordinary income. This meant that eVeh" fli6tlgh PuPont stockholders were not gaining anything since through their ownership of DuPont stock they a'tvady owned the General Motors stock they would be receiving they would have to pay income tax on the whole transaction. The unfairness of such a deal was obvious to nil, but nevertheless that was what the Department of Jus tice demanded. Judge Lal'.uy came up with an equit able proposition. Since the whole object ive was to prevent DuPont from exer cising undue influence with General Mo tors, all that had to bo done was to pre vent DuPont from voting the GM stock it owned and prevent it from acquiring any more stock. So the voting rights of the DuPont stock will be transferred to DuPont stockholders, with no adverse tax effects, and DuPont officers and direct tors will bp prohibited from serving as officers or directors of the General Mo tors Corp. It could be said that the government, after 10 years, won its case. And so it did but in all that time it was never able to show that what it suspected was true at all that one big corporation was telling another big corporation' what to do. It is good to know that the govern ment is looking out for the public in terest in its diligent enforcement of the Sheiman and Clayton anti-trust acts. There are seven large steel companies, for example, that produce most of the nation's steel. They can't merge. They can't get together and fix prices. But there is nothing to prevent one union from organizing all of their workers into one union and shutting them all down simultaneously, thus depriving the na tion of its supply of steel. That's not contrary to the public interest. At least not yet. drastic steps are taken to (1) curb diug smuggling from. Mi'Xica, and i2i prevent young people from crossing the border unless accompanied by a parent or responsible adult. j Most recently wrote Hennings: "I believe facts to justify such action can be established by your committee's iniiiirv into the liar cUics iraftic that flourishes south i f the border, and by . . the high incidence of venere.il. disease among teen-agers in the Su: Diego area." Note L'nlike some congress-: lonul headline hunters, Hennings doesn't hold hejrings for person-, ul publicity, lie backs up his prohi-s wild legislation. Within the last two years, the Missouri lan has pushed two major ami j delinquency measures tumuli Congress, curbing the interstate I nil I ic of switchblade knives anl pornographic literature,. Lopez Matees' Plane President Adolpho Ixipez Ma teo's of Mexico, leader of a proud and independent people, demon strated that independence in fly ing to Washington. The State Department in plan ning his trip thought it would lie a nice ge-ture to send one of the three brand new Hoeing 7u7 jets, recently acquired by the Air Koice lor President Kiscii- bower's u-e, down to Mexico C'iiy to pick up the presidential party. Antcnio ( arrillo Klores, Mexican envoy to the United Stales, was advised of this plan, lull win Ti he passed the wind along to his government, baclcl came a polite but lirm rejoin der: "The offer is appreciated, but the president will fly to Washing ton in his own airplane." The Mexican plane, bought a short time ago to replace a veter an DC-3 used by two preceding Mexican presidents, is a Fair child Turgoprop, i seating 12 per sons. Named "Kl Insurgente" r'Thc Insurgent"), it has a pres sureized cabin, radio telephone, .in electronic cookstove. and the latest type radar. With a cruis ing speed -f close to 500 miles in hour, the plane is nearly a? fast as most commercial jets. On ono leg of his tour, how ever, Lopez Mateos will bow to the need for supersonic time- saving. Returning to the United States from Canada on Oct. 17 he will travel in an Air Force F 103 from Niagara Falls to Austin Tex., to visit Sen. Lyndon John son. OBITS IIADDONKIKLD. N.J. -l'II Mrs. Mattie Kastlack Driscoll. 78. mother of former New Jersey Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll, died at her home Tuesday. BATAVIA, N Y. UPD Milton H. Miller. 73. editor and publisher of the liatavia Daily News, died ul (lenesee Memorial Hospital Tuesday. I'lllLADKLPHIA i CPI ' George II. Johnson, 74, president of the Belleview - Stratford Hotel, died at his suburban home Tuesday. NEW YORK HIPP Miss Rita M. Holland, 61, executive of the REMEMBER WHEN . . 25 years ago, the La Grande High School football team scor ed an upset when the Tigers de feated The Dalles. 6-0. A Wat den to DoBoie touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter was the clincher. " The Grande Ronde valley heat wave that sent temperatures, soaring into the low 90s was suddenly broken with a 12 inch rainfall which plunged tempera-1 tures down to 58 degrees. Idaho College trounced East ern Oregon Normal footbal team' 20 to 0. EON coach Bob Quinn was unable to be present due to the death of his father. Anotheri factor that hurt locals was ab-' sence of triple-threat star Fred f'etterson, out with an injury. ... 15 years ago, Athens', Greece was liberated by Greek patriots; while in the Pacific the Japanese were hard pressed a. i-und the Formosa area. North Powder reported its War Chest quota of $370 had been reached. Chris Johnson Jr , chest iearier, announced that -hi- com munity had gene over the top. The La Grande drive, however, was lagging far behind. - Orna Tabor and Jacequline Weise, La Grande, were partici pating in final capping exercises for U.S. Cadet Nur.se Corpse rain ees at EOC here. Others In the ceremony were Better Westen skow, Imbler: Lillian Gray, Min am; Freda Hays, Lillian Houck. Enterprise; and Florence, Marks, Iinnaha. QUOTES FROM THE NEWS United Press International L'ANSE, Mich. Sixteen-year-old Ku-teie Paquet after slaying his girl friend's lU-year-old sister and her father: -i just did it. I don't know why." COl.t MBI S, Ohio Mrs. Vir ginia Cerda. 25. on the birth of her son 2tl hours after her four other child-cn perished in a fire: 1 think we will call him Paul that is the English for my hus band's name. Pablo.'1 personnel department of the Cali fornia Texas Oil Corp., died .Tuesday. ASIIV1I.I.E, N.C. 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