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o Mountain Fighters' DREW PEARSON SAYS.- Nikita Would Have Enjoyed Scenic Awes Of Disneyland LOS ANGKI.ES After ' Nikitalother cities could use it to ( EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Friday, November 6, 195 "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 A New Miracle In Surgery A medical miracle story from Hay ward, Calif., is a heartening thinjr to read. A man's leg was almost completely severed in an accident yet two HurReons were able to sew it back together suc cessfully. The fact that the doctors even attempted such a difficult task is some thing of a tribute to the medical pro fession. Many persons are concerned about the reports that doctors are being made overly cautious by the increasing num ber of malpractice suits being filed. Not all medical treatment can be successful. When it isn't, a person may decide to blame his own failure to heal up properly on the doctor and files suit either to get out of paying a bill or in a real attempt to force payment of damages. To avoid any chance of being caught in such a suit some doctors, at least, try to avoid any diagnosis that is not certain or any treatment that might lead to any kind of complications. There is more insistence on laboratory tests and referrals to specialists in order to make sure that no later accusation of neglect can be made. Such concern for the patient may be fine but it isn't when a doctor has to make a quick decision in an emergency and risk not being successful in an at tempt to save a limb or a life. It would have been very easy for the doctors in Hayward to decile on a successful am putation rather than a highly risky patch-up job. Symington's Standing Due To Truman Representative Al Ullman was asked in a high school assembly the other day the name of the man he thought would wind up with the Democratic nomination for President of the U. S. next year. He named Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri. A few days earlier, a poll of over 3.000 Democratic county chairmen in the country showed Symington running well ahead of a number of other can didates or potential candidates who have been much more active. Svmington has not, so far us we can find, made any campaign trips, nor has he made much effort to work with party officials or to build up a campaign or ganization. Senator Wayne Morse doesn't like him, but that's to Symington's favor. Symington is Harry Truman's can didate. He was Truman's Secretary of the Air Force, is a long-time friend of the former President, and ran for the Senate at Truman's urging. Truman has been active among his friends in support Of Symington's can didacy. It is this support, and some minor help from unofficial Air Force alumni organizations, which have made a front runner of Symington. Scientists Compound Our Confusion Every day. it seems, someone comes up with a new scientific find of some sort or another. And high school and college science of 20 or so years ago isn t exactly the kind of background one needs to un derstand the new findings. It took quite a while, for example be fore we could understand why one Army rocket went 400 miles or so up into the air, and then returned to eartlr Another rocket went a hundred or so miles into space, and went into orbit. One would think that the force of gravity would pull the second rocket back to earth, just as it did the first But no, 'tisn't so. The satellite rocket was launched in a path so that centrifugal force exactly counteracted the force of gravity, so we're told. And the explanation seems reasonable enough, we guess. . . , , . .. But one thing seemed to be just as it used to be back in the days of high school chemistry and physics. No one coulcf invent a perpetual motion machine. At the same time it was impos sible to turn a ton of matter ,to more than a ton. You might change it into dif ferent forms, but the same amount re-maincd. This was a sort of comforting thought. At least the scientists had left us with one basic precept from those early courses. That is, they did until the other day. A researcher from the Standard Oil company laboratories in Richmond, Calif., look away our last vestige of comfort. The company found a way it said, and there is no reason to doubt the statement to turn 100 barrels of low-grade fuel oil f'ock Into 103 barrels of high-test gaso line. Golly, 103 barrels for 100. That's close to Derpctuid motion in itself. And that's not all. Fuel oil has been In excess supply for several years although you might not guess so from its price and (here has been a comparative short aRe of high-test gasoline. t. 103 barrels from 100. That's almost in the realm of black magic. Barbs Most doctors speak only one language, l,ut are familiar with many tongues. have a choice: mind your own business, or undermine it. Khrushchev put up such a wail over having been Darred fro Disneyland, I decided to take an other look at this famous play. ground union nan uisney ha carved out of an old orange grove just outside Ijus Angeles. Actually I didn't really need Khrushchev as an excuse, be cause my three California grand sons were itching to go. Anyway, we went and I reallv can't blame Khrushchev for be ing disappointed. I also suspect that the State Department and the Los Angeles police made their biggest mistake in barring him from this combination of fairyland, fantasyland, vacation land and jungleland. He probab ly would have borrowed Walt Disney to set up a similar chil dren's paradise in Moscow; which would have been very healthy be cause nations which put children first think tw;ce before they fight. Not to gloat over Mr. K be cause I was awe to enjoy what he couldn t, but merely t0 tell him about the fantasies of Dis neyland, here is a firsthand re port: K Would Love It Submerged in one of Disney's 'atomic" submarines. They were built by Todd Shipyard, designed by Adm. Joe Fowler, and look like the real thing. You peer through portholes at sharks, hellfish, even mermaids, a chest of gold spilling out from a wreck which the pirates sunk in the days of the Spanish Main. very reausuc. u revealed no atomic secrets, Mr. K, but you would have loved it. How Disnev was aoie to squeeze acres of wa ter into this playground, some of it under the Matterhorn Moun tain is more mysterious to me than an atomic submarine. And how he got the water in arid southern California is perhaps a greater one. Tobogganed down Mount Mat terhorn. This has all the thrill of Coney Island shoot-the-chute. only more scenic. You shoot through the inside of a mountain then down the outside, ride under the spray of a 50-foot waterfall watch live Swiss mountain climb crs scaling the peak. My grand sons insisted on three toboggan trips down the mountain. May be you would have enjoyed that many, Mr. K, but for me one was enough . . . rode around Disney land in the monorail. This one rail streamliner which circles brealhtesly over thous ands of people with several tcore passengers inside, is old hat to Europeans. The Germans invent ed it. But if Washington. D. C. was not asleep at the switch, it would use the monorail instead of tearing up acres and acres of historic streets designed by L'En fant in George Washington's day QUOTES IN THE NEWS United Press International NEW YORK TV star Dave Garroway, breaking up before the cameras while discussing the plight of Charles Van Doren. who had appeared regularly on Gar roway's "Today" show: lie was my friend. ou cot to know .somebody pretty well al five o'clock in the morning What do you want me to sav' I can only say I'm heartsick." WASHINGTON Department store owner Max Hess, of Allen- town, Pa., charging that he hal paid newspaper columnists and television shows to give him ad vertising plugs: mis is common practice- paying to get plugs. WASHINGTON President Fi senhower, after being reminded at his press conference thai his hour and 10 minute visit with New York Gov. Nelson A. Rock.-. feller last week was the longest he has seen any visitor since So viet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev: This is the- first tune thit 1 knew that anyone was keeping a stop watch on me when I had a visitor." TIMI'KRLY, Eligliind irii Sheila Winkley, 27, who has civ en away two of her chil,ir. asking an American couple to come forward and t.ike a babv she expects in February. It isn't that I doti t lit. t,. bies. but I just do noi want the trouble connected with ih ry passengers to outlying ports Detail Perfect Traveled on the Santa Fe Dis nevland railroad through Grand Canyon a deep, realistic repli ca of tne great gash in Arizona; mountain lions in the trees along side the canyon; also coyotes, rattle-nake, prairie dogs . Disney is a man for detail. The conductor and brakeman wear the exact uniforms and insignia of the Santa Fe Railroad vests open on a hot day. About 3.- 800 people staff Disneyland in the peak summer months, many of them college professors, high school teachers and college stu dents. One school principal who put my youngsters into the nun ature auto races has been work ing there four years. He works weekends in the winter ... a small army of gardeners keep the petunias, the marigolds, the red hot poker, the baby's breath looking as immaculate as the roy al gardens of the queen of Fjig land Streets and sidewalks lined with beauty are conducive to neatness. People don't throw chewinggum wrappers amcng the flowers. You would have got quite a kick out of jungleland, Mr. K. The jungle guide steers a boat through tropical waters with orchids and jungle mist dripping over your head. A hippo comes up under the boat, the guide shoots him. An alligator teaches its baby how to .swim. A python is in a tree overhead. Two giant gorillas roar as the boat passes, a lion jumps on a zetra, an elepnant lunges at the boat. My five-year-old grandson has his heart in his mouth even though he knew the animals were made of plastic and were mechanized to lunge and roar at every boat passing through those jungle waters. Then there's the main street ot Disnevland the stores, the Gold en Horse hnoc, xne ineaire, me old fashined photo studio, the Swift emporium every detail reminiscent of the Gay Nineties You would have enjoyed this bit of American history, Mr. K, including the cracker barrels in Swift's store, the pot-bellied stove, the chairs around it, the keg of cider, the ancient coffee grinder, and the wall-telephones. If you lake down the receiver you bear two women gossiping on the party line. Walt Disney has even put this on a recording for juu to hear in Swift's store. , ..Enjoyod $y All . i Jill sorts .of . people come to Disneyland from arry Truman to the crbwn prince of Ethiopia, to French Ambassador Herve Al phand, to the men of the Brazil ian navy, who were much in evidence when we were there. On your next trip to the USA, we hope the Los Angeles police will let you come, Mr. K. You'll en joy every bit of it including the sign over the Disneyland hotel Parents without children are not welcome," and the other sign near the entrance: "Lost parents pply here for children." A lot of Americans liked the fart that you brought your chil dren over to see us, Mr. K. And we know you'll enjoy President Eisenhower's grandchildren. If we could just leave things to the kids, there wouldn't be any more wars. So I hope next time you come you'll see American child ren and some who aren't chil dren any more but still like to be voung relax at Disneyland. Or why don't you write Walt Disney to create a duplicate for you in Moscow? Nelson Rockefeller's 'Wealth' Could Be Big Political Factor (EDITOR'S NOTE: This ii the last in a two-part series discussing the pros and cons of whether Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller will announce (or the COP presidential nomination in opposition to Vice President Nixon. The following spotlights his political life as on of the world's weelthies men.) By JACK V. FOX United Press International NEW YORK U'PIi Will too much money spoil Nelson Rocke feller's chances for the Reu)li can presidential nomination'.' It's a fair question and certain ly one both the Republican Party and Rockefeller will weigh before the GOP convention decides next summer on its candidate. Rockefeller has a personal for tune estimated at loo million dol- -rs Invested at 4 ner -would bring him an income of UlMiut W.W0 a week - before t it'S , ue President Richard A. Nix ,,ti on the other hand, comes . Hum modest circumstances and i iin ore past occasion made con oilerahlc Point of the fact his w jte owned only a cloth coat. Americans have become accus i tinned to fairly wealthy presi dents as presidential candidates Hut nothing like a Rockefeller The consensus seems to be that ; tus great inherited fortune would i nut hurt Rockefeller. Veteran Ja c ib Javits, the Republican tj -S senator from New York, says the question was disposed of when Rockefeller was elected governor last year. Returns Children's Gift Rockefeller as governor has Iraqi Premier Suffers From Shots Of Wou!d-Be Assassin By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer There is evidence that Iraqi Premier Abdel Karmin Kassem doctors had proved incapable of treat ins him and that Russian doctors had been flown in Whatever the facts, the method was much more seriously hurt in of treatment has changed. A de- the attempted assassination cision to leave bullet remnants in against him than the outside world was allowed to know. There also is evidence that his Arab neighbors, notably Jordan and the United Arab Republic. nave Deen watcning events since with an indecisive mixture of hoie and apprehension. The machinegun attack on Kas sem occurred on Bagdad s Nar- tow Rashid Street on Oct. 7. An official announcement said he was hit in the left hand, the left arm and the shoulder. It was emphasized the wounds were not serious. Yet nearly one month later. Kassem still is in the hospital and latest reports say he will be there another 10 days. Busy Denying Reports Since Oct. 7 the Baghdad Radio has been usy denying various reports, most of them circulated by those admittedly unfriendly to Kassem. One was that Kassem had died. Another, that Iraqi OBITS United Press International REMEMBER WHEN . . .25 years ago. Huey Long of Louisiana said he favored state secession from the Union as one way to end the depression. He w as later assassinated. Democratic party election mar chers in Hazleton. Pa., wero fired on by a mob, with four being kill ed and 14 others wounded. A deep freeze hit the Grande Ronde Valley following rains which ended a late October heat wave. . . 15 years ago. the U.S. Army was ordered to seize struck war plants in Toledo, O., by President Roosevelt. Living costs hit an all-time war era high across the nation, the start of a period of high costs. Special tribute was paid to Pfc Glen Campbell, scrviing overseas in Australia. His wife was the for mer Arlene Choate. Summerville He was a graduate of Imbler High School. Mrs II. E. Brownton hosted a "Service With A Smile" STONE'S UfflOll ACBOSS FBfVuN.MlWAY 30 EAST ACROSS FROM BLUE MTN. BOWLING LANES Pickup & Dlivery Within City Limit A' No Extra Charge! . f '"VITE YOU TO GIVE US A TRY. IMS OIL fMAN?IU 'ER UP! LUBRICATION JOBS, OIL CHANCES. TIRES AND ACCESSORII ?T0NES UNION 76 Operated by Bob end ilm Stm ES WO J-34W CHICAGO i UPI i Paul V Galvin, 64, founder and chairman of the board of Motorola, Inc . died Thursday night. NYACK, N.J. I UPI I Paul Pertgord," 77, author, teacher and World War I hero, died Wednes day night of a heart attack. Pcrigord left his studies at Harvard University to enlist as a private in 1914. He rose through the ranks to captain and re ceived numerous decorations in cluding the Croix de Guerre. Returning from the military he wrote several books on history and politics and toured the nation for President Woodrow Wilson to promote the League of Nations. Later he lived in Pasadena. Calif where he founded the Pasadena Community Playhouse. NEW YORK i UPI' - Sidney Smith Whelan, "1. a former to bacco executive, died Thursday at his Park Avenue home after a brief illness. Kassem's arm was reversed and it now appears another operation may be necessary to remove the whole slug. The mixture of hope and ap prehension being demonstrated in Jordan and the UAR springs from two sources. Chaos certainly would result should Kassem be removed from the ruling seat in Iraq. Neither Would Stand By Whether this would be of most benefit to the Arab nationalists or to the Communists is prob lematical. But neither King Hus sein of Jordan nor president Ab del Gamal Nasser of the UAR would be likely to stand idly by while the Communists look over Neither Hussein nor Nasser wastes any love on Kassem Hussein because he regards him self as head of the Hashemite dynasty which was toppled in the Iraq Revolution last year, and Nasser because of his battle with Kassem for leadership of the Arab world. But if either were to attempt to intervene in Iraq, it is most probable some sort of legality would be sought. That form pres ently is lacking. Uneasiness again is stirring in the Middle East and, as he was a year ago, Kassem once more is the center. NEW YORK i UPI' - V. Staf ford Cleary. of Tenafly. N J., a prominent New York banker, died Thursday in a hospital following a short illness. dinner meeting of Chapter I. PEO. at her home, w ith Mrs. Hazel Shoe maker assisting Mrs. George Cur- rey gave a book review during the event. Greyhound Asks For Route Change Greyhound Corporation of Port land has filed an application with the Public Utility Commissioner to abandon its route and service over old Highway 30 from its junction with the new highway east of Meaeham through Kamela to its junction win the new high way west of Perry. The transportation firm has a pplied for approval of regular route service over the new highway be tween the above two junctions. A hearing will be held before the commissioner. Joncl C. Hill. Nov. 17 at the Chamber of Comm erce building in Pendleton. The session is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. cent, that gone to great pnins to make sure his admiwsirauu" """ oi gift-accepting He even returned a dime sent him by a schoolchil. dreti's grouo in memory of the habit of his grandfather, John D. His own money has been used on many occasions that could have been charged to the state. He had a lavish inaugural ball, but he picked up the tab. The grounds around the executive mansion in Albany are being landscaped at a lrsonal cost of upwards of 0.tx. He has turned over to state use two adjoinr g five-floor townhous es in the very exclusive high rent district otf Fifth Avenue on 55th Street in Manhattan. It is now the New York City head quarters of the state government. One of his acts of generosity took an amu;ing twist. The governor of New York is furnished a Cadillac limousine with the No 1 state license plate. Rockefeller wanted the li cense but ne preieueu ins own custom-built Chrysler, estimated to have cost around 115,000. Rockefeller gave the car to the state. But it was so wiae his garage at the mansion had to be enlarged and so tall that the ramp at the state Capitol where the governor enters had to be lowered. Uses Personal Convair Past governors have used small airplanes normally kept busy by the conservation and other departments But Rockefeller instead uses the Convair bought by the Rockefel ler brothers from Henry Ford HI. It has a drawing room with space for about 20 passengers. Rockefeller picks up expense of the extra fuel and crew personnel. If someone had been writing a script, they couldn't have done better for humanizing Rockefeller than having his son, Steven, mar ry his new bride from a modest Norwegian family. Last month the new Mrs. Rock efeller's father came here to visit his daughter. Rockefeller on that occasion for the first time opened to reporters and photographers the fabulous ancestral estate which John D. built near Tarry- town, NY. A year and a half ago, very few people could have identified Nelson Rockefeller. Far more would have known something about one of his fonr brothers, Winthrop, whose marriage and six million dollar divorce settle ment on Bobo Rockefeller made national headlines. But Nelson has come " very quickly to the national forefront. He has a tremendous capacity for" making friends. Anyone who has watched him campaign realizes that he genuinely likes Deoole. The way it looks now, it will be that popular magnetism that could give him the party's nomi nation over Nixon. SB Ph. WO 3-3651 L Grande 703 K When you put on your BOTH, OF COURSE! Actually, both pictures ar of Dr. Nolei' )).yar 1dl daughter who hat worn contact lentei 16 hours a day for tha past two years. And . . . ,h, wttrf Jark graan tinted contact lenses for swimming and skiing. A dramatic illustration of the cosmetic & psychological benefits to be derived from wearing contact lenses. why not tend trie WHOLE girl back to ichool? 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