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The Moment of Truth i DREW PEARSON SAYS: NEA Scrvict, Inc. EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Tuesday, November 10, 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 You Can Help Halt Inflation Important Election Being Held In Phil ippines Today WASHINGTON While Pana I In addition to earning out the manians an- noting against the iemocratic niinciole of free elec Intted States and while Cuban- turns. FiliDinn candidates are w (or whom we once (ought a war .ng with each other to claim of independence are damning the luend.-hip with the I nilcd State tnited State-, the Philippines Grccrtr-Mirilyn M)nro (or which we al-o (ought, held an! Out in llollvwix d. Manlvn Mon election today. I,- e. the voluutuous blonde, has It will be quite a contrast to' become more imnortant as a the attitude of our onetime! recter of official dignitaries I'iends in Cuba and Panama. I'han Mayor .Virus I'oulson ol In the Philippines they held 1 us Angeles or Ambassador elections; they don't postpone Dick Patterson in New Y.rk. them as Fidel (astro has done in! ThotiKh her welcome t j Nikita Cuba. Also they don't go in (or Khrushchev was well publicized dictatorship as do some Carib her welcome to President Sukar bean countries. They held heated no of Indonesia (ailed to hit the and intense elections in which headlines. about 90 per cent of the per.plci Sukarno is famed around the get out and vote. They don't ..crid (or hi keen admiration have to be iirjed. This is in di-Hor (emimne beauty. M.vs Mon reel contrast to the people of ' roe not only was in the reception New York who last week didn't line to meet the president if In turn out in sullicient numbers toid. nesia but she had been care pass a school bund bill to help tneir naoiy sagging educational system. In the Philippine Islands, peo pie will vote for mayors of cities and for governors. Judging from the intensity of the campaign you fully coached to give him a hear ty welcome. At first she wa-. equal to the occasion. Throwing her arms around President Sukarno she exclaim ed: "I'm so nleased to meet the would think they were voting for ' president of India " president. There mil be some "I'm president of Indonesia," hooting, but there's also been 'promoted President Sukaron. violence from time li time around "Never heaid r( it." said the the polling places o( Kentucky Irank Marilvn. and Harlem. I , friendship thereupon ended I rforc It began While the public I I " Matching the headline- eu ' gcd TV shows, an important but less spectacular issue el public .uteres! radio is bel-:' the Federal Communication Com mission. It's the allccatn-n ol clear channel radio luc".-c- -lerhaps the last which 'icr .H he allocated in the I SA The FCC has g.ven until Vj nlcrested parties to til'.' c-::i nents as to who should get these hannels. Chief question is whether tlie-e i hannels should go to schools ami universities or to the already larie number cf commercial li censees now pouring disc jocke music out to the American peo ple. The National Association of F.ducational Broadcasters. ni'"'t t ii t4 in Detroit last wccl.. urged ,norc use of radio and tele, ision lor educatu n. They pointed out ,h-it a recent survey by the C S Olfice of (education shows tie mendous strides in education by Sovit t Russia. The broadcasters, led by V il liain G. Harley of the I'nucr.-ity ,i Wisconsin, Jack Mcliride t he I'niversity 0 Nebraska. ani Hubert Coleman of Michigan State i'niversity, have work' d out a plan (cr university television (or Ohio. Illinois, Indiana, .Miihigan ml Kentucky, by which an an' plane, circling overhead, will hruadcast through hii'h powered TV equipment. The Ford 1 'win dati'in is making this pos.ible. Congressmen are watchm.! the allocation (,f these 21 remaining b ar i.mIi,, el,;,,,!,, K for a clue as to hetliir the H C icallv plans to enforce the public inter est statute m the cummunica t urns act U S. Aliened Spy The world wa- mv-lificd when I" American Kmha security ollicer i Mc,,w . H;i-,,-ll Lang die. was suddenly nJeied de ported on the char-e that ! e ha.! tneu to py on Soviet Ku-sia. 1 he Ain-i lean F.mbjssy. in turn, charged that l.angelle had been sei) by a group of liussi ans. rouvhid up. held some time and finally rclca-i.l Neither of these was the c rrect story Here is the inside stoiv id what hap pened. Langelle is an electronics ex pert whose job il was to make sure that the Aey: ican F.inbas sy in Mi.seew was not buggei' or w ire tapped by Sovi -l Intelli eence. The iiu -ians have long been anxious to get hold o( one f these c-:pert,s. Tin y want to know what devices ihe I'nited Slates uses to safeguard its em l assies abroad. So. some months ai;o they ap I reached lancelle about the ide; of working as a s. v I y tin I'SSH. Lamtclle promptly re oorted this to his -upniois in ihe embassy, who instructed him t.: play along with th" Hus.-ians and see what happened. Lang- He did. Plans were discussed tthe.'ehy he was lo come ever to ihe Red side. I'.ut at the hie. meeting where Ihe Kus ians ex pected Liingelle lo make Ihe final n;,p he told Ihem lie had , , n : l his mind imcI policy agents wcic lui mil They were so irate that il-, roughed up l.angelle, even liua'eiied to announce publicly I at he was a secret Russian spy. l.an-'1' l' stood h s ground. Even uiaiA ihe Russians gave up. tuni'd b'i loose, but ordered .m io leave Moscow on the ex ti,.,. that he had been trying ... Kus-ImH spies to work 'or tl'.e ISA. Dog Loses Bark After Haloween Lark In Wallowa WAl.l-l'WA iSpeciali A serious ii'ierma-n of Halloween has been a . ltd "Siain'iie Morton was fully a ware f 'ht festivities about tu develop When the first nui 'imers -tai'ieil ihmii the walk of Mrs. J. K M ifoii's home. "Scaiiipic" bo ;an a series of barks, accompan , v In tu'ds up and down on the ftaye :,'- r! Ai H " clock. "Scanpie" main taiiiid her ijreetii'.ggs. but the cli na h;;-l been reached, she was gro-vi."- bourse. V. oei the 43rd "tricker'' advanc ed a'd retired, "Scampie" was giov r-i a trifle fainter, and on the 74th it she retired with what w.'is a .red to be a case of laryn gitis Taking her to the Wallowa Veter inar ans' hospital at Enterprise v. ns c hi suii ; is-l, hut rest and care at liuine was all that was needed President I.isenliower and Vice Presi dent Nixon hi'lptd launch a crusade against inflation recently and told how everyone can help. Their advice hoils down to this: Make yourself heard. Write to your congressman. Wire your senator. Send your opinions to the White House and to other federal officials. A chorus of millions of voices will have an effect. They will, that is, if Uiey are in some kind of harmony. And they must say some things that Congress and the federal jrovernnu'nt is not used to hear ing. They must urge against deficit spending; against new and costly gov ernment services; against subsidies and grants in aid and for drlit retirement; tax reduction and a balance.! budget. The voice of the people all too often is a divided and selfish voice. It is a voice of wants. One group wants one thing and another wants another. I tut every want is expensive. Only recently has Un tax pinch been acute enough to bring expressions 'that were for less govern ment spending and less inflation. Maybe this sort of crusade will get somewhere, though similar efforts in the past have not. Ike made a dire predic tion of what will happen, if inflation is not checked through a curl) in govern ment spending and in other ways. He said the alternative is "economic dictator ship." That, incidentally is w hat Khrush chev confidently predicted for us. Study Shows Fluoride Beneficial To Teeth A strong case for fluorides in water supplies to prevent tooth decay is found in a western research tvport, now avail able at Oregon State College. The five-state study shows that bene ficial amounts of fluoride in water supplies reduced tooth decay as much as "." percent among teenagers. A total of 2,l)(')8 youngsters between II and 16 years of age were examined in Oregon, Washington. I'tah, Montana and Idaho in the study. Youngsters examined were native born. They were reared in the areas included in the study. None had re ceived any oral applications of fhioi id . Such "treatments" reached Ihem only through water supplies in their home communities. Almost all the youngsters needed dental care. Ninety-five percent of those living in fluoride-free areas needed attention compared with 77 percent of those who lived in areas with fluoride in the water. In the fluoride-free areas, less than one percent of the children were free from any past or present denial troubles. Only 4 per cent had their dental work adequately completed. Girls in all age groups had a higher number of decayed, niissinjr and filled teeth than boys but girls' teeth had received better care. Oregon youths had a high number of "bad teeth." I'.ut they ranked below some of the other areas studies, especial ly in Yakima and Snohomish counties in Washington and Cotier d'Alcne in Idaho. Youngsters living along the Oregon Coast and in the Willamette Valley have worse dental records than those in Cen tral Oregon, the study revealed. Is it possible that altitude and climate may be factors in tooth decay or pres ervation? Researchers considered that angle. They compared dental needs of youths living in areas of the same altitude and climate in the five states. Youths living in higher altitudes, a I Hive feet, seemed to have fewer dental worries than those living at lower eleva tions. Hut sunshine, liunual temperature rang", relative humidity and rainfall did not appear to have an appreciable effect mi youngsters' teeth in any of the areas studied. Results of the five-state study have he. n compiled by two researchers, from OSC. lr. (lertrude Tank and Ih. Clara A. Storviek. Their report is in pamphlet form, "Variation in Pental Caries ex perience among Children in Five Western States." There is no charge for the pamphlets. They may be obtained at any of the county extension offices. In the area, we are sine, are many persons w ho will be directly interested in the studies that show "beneficial amounts uf fluoride in water supp'.ies reduced tooth decay as much as ""i percent among teenagers in five western states." Grand Jury Holds Special Meet Here The Union County grand jury was expected to meet again this morning to complete information from witnesses, presumamy on th fatal auto accident east of La Grande city limits Aur 28 when a local youth was killed. The jury met until noon yes terday and heard witnesMs be fore adjourning. Michael ('. Lynch as, the vie tim o( a two-car accident ju-t east o( town last August State Police investigated at the accident scene. Gavin Attends State Cattlemen's Meetinq Charles Gavin, I'nion County Kxtension agent, led today for Portland where he will attend the annual convention of the Ore Sen Cattlemen's Association. The conference opens on Wed r.csd.iy and concludes early Kri day. 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