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irrfl -.1 .tsy'i i." t ; v--a 1 1 .,,':. t ' iti" 1 mmc , "rrLr- -i, .awn- m mm rv ci-.i . in th EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Wednesday, November 11, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print ymir daily world as it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor " George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager Is TV Expected To Be Is the American public raged ulxtut crooked TV shows as nearly everyone keeps saying;? We doubt if re is an editorial paste in the country that hasn't taken it for c ranted that the great majority of the nation is jsvn uinely shocked by the confessions of in tellectual dishonesty. Now conies a story from New York saying that both the major TV networks are starting to get a flood of mail and it turns out that most of the letters are from people who are sticking up for quiz shows generally and for Charles Van Ioren in particular. He may be a tarn ished hero but he is still, nevertheless, a hero to a great many. Probably it is true that the "great majority" to which editorial writers re Well, We Won Finally one international standing lias been cleared up. Ike was not playing golF while the invasion of Kurope was underway. Yiscnut Alan brooke said in a book of memoirs just published that Ike was "on the golf links at Reims entirely detached and taking practically no part in the war." There was no conclusion to be drawn from this but that Alanbrooke was ac cusing Ike of fiddling around playing golf while Kurope burned. What else would anylmdy be doing on a golf links except playing golf? Columnist Doesn't Favor Mixed Marriages Sammy Pavis Jr., the entertainer, is of the union w ill carry the handicap fro II. : . 1 I 1 .... t. a Negro. He is engaged to cer from Canada who is white. The re sult is something of a furor, especially within the girl's family. Our advice columnist, Ann lenders, had something to say on this Mil.irt recently. Among the many thousands of human problems that have come to her attention since she began writing her column, have been a great number of marital problems resulting from wives and husbands not having enough in com mon race and religion. Whites should marry whites. A color ed person should marry a colored person. A person who is Catholic should seek a mate who is Catholic. The way Miss Landers looks at it, it's not so much a question of tolerance or morality or anything of the kind. In stead it is a matter of what it takes to make a successful marriage. Sammy Davis Jr. and the dancer may be compatible in all ways, but there will be two strikes against them if they marry, and any offspring that may come Count Our Blessings .' really us mit- fer are being silently indignant and are not writing letters. This newspaper gets a fair quota of letters to the editor but as of this morning none had come in angrily denouncing deception on the air waves. The letters New York is getting may result mainly from people feeling sorry for the poor school teacher who let all those evil men talk him into doing something that was dishonest but "real ly didn't hurt anybody." It is a compliment to the general state of American morals if the majority really are shocked by the great fraud, but there's just a chance that the com pliment is not deserved. I-W's wait and set! what is the status of Van Doren and the others in the public eye after the smoke of exposure has cleared away. The misunder War. Regardless As it turns out Eisenhower's head quarters were located on a boniled out golf course. That's why he was there. Alanbrooke now tries to deny that he implied Ike was actually playing golf at imply that, why would he not simply say a crucial time. Hut if he wasn't trying to that Ike was in his headquarters office, lather than "on the golf links"? It is often easy to twist words around and take a dig at someone unintentional ly, or even to do it intentionally but not to appear to be. man y a dan Until. Barbs Unite often, the hole truth It's logical than ou listen A k elor envies married The 1 hole j to dig ot no Sometimes it's hard to tell who's be hind all that make-up. A Florida man was ordered to sell a horse to get money to pay alimony. Trot ting out the dough. I W Farcial? certain golfers don't tell about their scores. that you should talk less one mouth and two ears. sometimes is a man who men until he gets mar- est wav to get out of a financial in. t'nly a dumb person will guess the age a woman correctly after she reaches DRLW r'LARSON SAYS: Ike Could Bring Lasting Peace To Jerusalem Area WASHINGTON' If President Eisenhower ulil make one more stop on his lurlhcominK trip t0 the Middle Ka-t and Europe he might he ulilc to accomplish a reciiruitiulioii as important as that between linn and Khrushchev at tamp David. A meeting between the Ion leaders of the Jewish and Arab worlds has newr Deen held since Israel's independence in May 1!HH. The two peoples have arm ed border guards facing each other night and uay. Near tn(, pot where Christ was buried in old Jerusalem. Aran soldiers pace Ihe parapets overlooking the new city of Jerusalem. At a mo ments notice they are ready to lire. liut this ana where was pro claimed peace on earth, good will to men" might be able to achieve that goal if President Eisenhower called for a face-to lace summit meeting between lewish anil Arab leaders. Arab leaders would hesitate about accepting. But it would be hard to relume to sit down with the president of the United Stat Phony TV Commercial Here are more of the phony TV advertisements which have been getting by on the networks though barred by newspapers lliey illustrate ine massive (heating orgamed to defraud the Aim-ru an people," which ( ail F. Hanson, Washington, D C, superintendent of schools, and thcr educators have denounced. I.estoil. a cleaning fluid manu factured ! the Adell Chemical Company ot Ilolyoke, Mass., has been using a series of TV com mcrcials showing how its bottle its on top of a stove or near a lighted camlle. thus giving the impression that I.estoil is not in lammalile and can be used safe ly near heat and fire. Unlike a newspaper advertisement, this impression is conveyed pictorially n TV without spelling the claim out in so many words. Actually l.e-loil has a danger uslv low flash point and is a de finite fire hazard. Yet here arc some of the I.estoil TV commer cials which have been fooling the meriean pi.tketbook just as TV ipn. shows fooled the American mind: A small boy cleans a test tube f his chemical set with I.estoil near a lighted candle, while the iinouncer says: "This is Jimmy, a budding young themist in the Smith family, who has been ex perimenting with his mother's hot lie of I.estoil, the all-purpose liquid detergent." An open bottle of I.estoil rests n top of a radiator, while a housewife cleans the surround ing wall area. The audio declar es: "Watch Lestoil clean away I hose finger marks and the ugly soot from the walls above radia tors." n open bottle of I.estoil sits 'MISH MASH' November 11 Was Once Day That Was Part Of America By GRADY PANNELL There is something sadly lack ing on November 11th each year We don't even refer to that day any more as Armistice day. In stead, it's a 24 hour period w hich lumps all veterans since World War I into one tangled bit of significance. Veterans Day Nov. 11 as it henceforth. is to be known through an Act of Congress, could be built to even bigger status than the old November 11 of bygone days. Few seem to care, however. Ron Out of Town If grandad today put on his World War 1 uniform and strut ted down the sidewalk m Nov. 11 he might be run out of town in many places. He's partly to blame for letting this one day ol the year sink almost into olili ion. There was once a time, though, when Armistice Day meant some thing. No community was too small to stage a parade of the REYNOLDS Insurance Agency WO 3-3121 I cm top of a stove The audio an nnuces: "Stove tops, front ant hack, shine when Lestoil re moves unsightly dirt." The Federal Trade Commisisor -howing more courage than th Federal Communications Commis ion. has now stepped in to bar all the above commercials as "un lair and deceptive" because pur thasers are not warned of the precautions necessary for homi use. and because Lestoil "create: a definite fire hazard." Rigged TV Music Quiz shows are not the onl things that are rigged on radio and television. And now that CBS President Frank Stanton has called for an end to deception, the American Federation o( Musicians is de manding an end to canned music made by foreign orchestras at cut rates, which are dubbed intc American TV and radio shows lor practically nothing. Mean while many Americans musicians are out of work. "Does the new 'morality' in lude music?" asked Musicians Local 47 of Hollywood in a paid newspaper ad. TV Fun.rl Television cameramen grumbl td last week because Sam Ray liurn wouldn't let them televise ibeir own big show. Rayburn's orders barred them Irom the hearing room where the television industry was on '.rial for rigging quiz shows. As a result the cameraman set up their equipment in the corridor to cftch witnesses on their way out But the congressmen smuggled une prize witness, orchestra lead er Xavier Cugat, out a side door to avoid the TV cameras. .Muttered one cameraman: Rayburn won't even let us at tend our own funeral." Washington Pipeline Sen. Jack Kennedy is the only Democratic candidate to refute Nelson Rockefeller's statement that atomic bomb tests should continue. Rockefelleer, who was under secretary of health, educa tion, and welfare, should realize the grave danger of radioactive contamination, and Senator Ken nedy called him on it . . . you can write "finis" to the poli tical career of "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky two-time governor, one tune senator, once czar of Am erican baseball, and would-be candidate for president . . . Sev eral postmasters had their jobs Ihreatened unless they voted for Postmaster Hobart Wehking of Cintinnati to be president of the National Association of Post masters. Postmaster General Summerfield was credited with pulling wires for Wehking, who's a very strong Republican . . . The Air Force brass are grudgingly preparing to close another fight er base to comply with Ike's economy orders. "old boys" who would flock from every crossroads in the country into town. Bands would play, the "old soldiers" would strut and little kids would stand in wide-eyed amazement at this bit of Ameri eana displayed. Graves Decorated Every gravestone in America that told of the heroics of some soldier or sailor of WWI vintage would be freshly decorated, and there would be combined relig ious services and even windy politicians as part of the Armis tice ritual. Granted, today, the oldsters have lost much of their strut and are bulging at the seams but many do find time to make the annual American Legion or VWF conventions and march a few blocks with the rest of the gang. This doesn't bring back Arm istice Hay to every hamlet in the land. The day has been lost forever we fear. careful homeowners firm up , - their confidence with General's "All In-One" Home owners Insurance the finest, one policy coverage you can buy today. Careful, "preferred risk" homeowner! save money, too, because their pride in their posses sions means better insurance at tower cost Call us todayl QENEBAt, YsT ivy cat OKI. nil U.S. 'Battle Monuments' Body Debates Memorial To Pershing By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Staff Wriur WASHINGTON (UPIi- This is to propose that someone seize the American Battle Monuments Com mission firmly, as a housewife seizes a rug. and then shake it 'the Commission, that isi if only 0 observe the fall-out. The fall out ihould he considerable although tot deattly. Your correspondent spent half an hour or more tryi" 10 obtain from the commission an swers to a couple of simple ques ions about a project to erect in Washington a monument to the late Gen. John J. Pershing There has been some discussion about U.S. Planning Type Military WASHINGTON Hfl - The United States pushed ahead today with plans to develop and build its first military space ship, a winged. Buck Rogers-like glider called the Dyna Soar. The space craft, which has been under study since June, 19"8. will be boosted into orbit by a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile It will be able to orbit the earth or to fly for lesser distances and then glide back through the at mostphere to a normal landing It thus would be more flexible than the Civilian spate agency's Mercury manned satellite which is scheduled to put the first Amer ican astronaut into orbit in 11 Mercury Needs Parachute The mercury is essentially a capsule boosted into orbit by an Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile but is not a flying ma chine with wings. It will return from space dangling on a para chute. The Air Force did not estimate when it expected the first Dyna Soar to fly. Other sources said it would be possible to hare first experimental manned flights in three years and operational mili tary vehicles in five or six years, if sufficient money were put into the program. Military missions for the Dyna Soar have not been specified. Au thorities indicated, however, that REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago. Eastern Ore gon Normal was prepping for the big grid game against Monmouth Normal for the Oregeon Normal football championship. Coach Bob Quinn s hopes were high. La Grande High was set for a road trip to Baker in an all-im portant high school football tus sle. The Eagles Auxiliary held a uccessful benefit card party. Mrs. Minnie Cobey, chairman, reported that 15 tables were in operation at once. Prizes went to Mrs. Eunice Bush and Ma Ian Mavoritch for high and to Mrs. Lovan and Charles Shew- maker for second high. ... .15 years ago, American oldicrs were making huge gains in the drive for Metz. with tanks and infantry only two Tines from the German border. Britain's Winston Churchill revealed for the first time that Germans were hitting England with super bombs, the vaunted V-2 faster-than-sound rockets. M. W. Kiddle was reelected mayor of Island City; A. B. Mill- r was Wallowa County sheriff winner, and George Ferguson elected as new councilman of Cnion in area elections. Lt. Keith Patten. La Grande. was reported as having led a pa trol ot inlantry credited with knocking out a Japanese unit that was slowing up general advances1 in the Leyte invasion. He was the son of Mrs. Teresa Patten licre. I Knotty Pine Includes biokcase headboard, double dresser and chest of drawers. NOTHING DOWN . . . $1.75 PER WK. La Grande WEEKDAYS 10 e.m.-7 p.m. th f n. ,, MAn anft especially, whether it should In clude a horse. Pershing as a cavalry officer. Washington already is thick with bronze statues of generals and i heir horses, these being, how ever, mostly of whiskery Civil war brass who never saw a tank or, even, a jeep. Pershing was the last of the horse-drawn high military brass. Your correspondent wanted to in quire whether the Battle Monu ments Commissirm was Dlanning to deprive the nation's highest ranking cavalryman of his horse. Does Pershing get a horse or uueau i ue get a norse. tout 'Buck Rogers' Space Craft it most likely would be used to do reconnaissance and bombing, rather than as an air defense or logistics ship. , Boeing, Martin Win Contract The Air Force Monday gave the Boeing and Martin aircraft corn- panics a go-ahead to develop and buiiu ine uyna Soar. - The Air Force said the Boeing Airplane Co. Seattle, Wash., will manufacture the spaceship portion of the Uyna Soar and will be re sponsible for mating the vehicle to its booster and testing it. The Martin Co.. Baltimore, Md will produce the booster rocket According to Air Force officials this will be Martin's 300.000-pound thrust Titan missile. QUOTES IN THE NEWS United Press International 1'AKIS President Charles de Gaulle, stating there is no chance France will abandon plans to ex plode a nuclear weapon: "In endowing herself with nu clear armaments, France is per haps rendering a service to the world balance of power. NEW YORK Ambrose E Stevens, executive vice president and general manager of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., charging that the government's warning of possible cranberry contamination was ill-ad vised: "There was a lot of publicity on this kind of thing once about cigarettes, but 1 haven't see any cigarettes taken off the market like they re doing (with cranber ries) in San Francisco." Miami i nomas jacobson, a radio correspondent for the Mu tual Broadcasting System who was held for three hours by Cu ban police, describing his feelings on his return to the United States: "It sounds corny to say I wanted to kiss the ground when we landed, but believe me, that's how I felt." . , DES MOINES. Iowa Col. Thurston T. Paul, deputy com mander of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsvilje, Ala., after a Navy doctor dis puted his statement that the space monkey Baker was preg nant: , "If the Navy says she isn't that's good enough for me." ASK CULTURAL EXTENSION MOSCOW i UPI i Negotiations began Friday to extend the two year cultural exchange agree ment between Ihe Soviet Union and the United States. Plumbing Supplies, Custom Cutting & Threedina at La Grande Hardware 3-PC. BEDROOM SETS 129 95 NOTHING DOWN ONLY $2.25 PER WEEK Furniiure EAST ADAMS AVENUE- the question. Kunarowna Dgins u-pii vou would have thought I was Irving to extract from the commission some secret monu-1 v r..- 11-....1.1 1 1 -.. ti, i ment plans loi nonu nui in, A courteous captain who fielded the first telephone cull knew some thing about the horse business but said I should talk to Col. Walker. The captam even tried to trans fer my call to Col. Walker's tele phone. The commission's switch board, or someiMjuy, uiutftru inai; the line went dead. i The thougbtlui captain had given me Col. Walker's extension num ber, however, so I placed another call. This time me commission s pbx board became absolutely baf fled by the extension number I offered, and I suddenly was rout ed again lo the obliging Captain. The Captain, my friend by now. said he would go to Col. Walker's office and call me from there. "Call you in two minutes," said his cheery voice. "Roger," I said, trying to main tain a military bearing. Colonel Is Out 1 The Captain was back in two minutes to report that Col. Walker was not in and would not immed iately return, so my Captain sug gested that 1 talk to Col. Shaw. The pbx board still was taking a firm position against transferring calls. My Captain said he would go to Col. Shaw's oltice and call me frcm there and THEN I could ask about Gen. Pershing's horse. He called from Col. Shaw's of fice right away but only to report .hat Col. Shaw felt that I should talk to Col. Walker. "Look," 1 hollered, "all I want to know is about Pershing and his horse." Vup. the Captain agreed, but Col. Shaw thought I should talk to Col. Walker. At that point your correspondent gave up, frustrated, a bit angry and not any less per suaded, after more than 30 years covering this town, that the mili tary is peculiarly gifted in the art of snafu. And, another thing, the commis sion ' will be hearing from me again if they put Pershing in a jeep or tank or some torn fool thing like that. LETTERS Maximum length 300 wards. No anonymous letters but true name will be withheld on re quest. To The Editor: We. the teen-agers of a Grande, have been trying for the last two weeks to get our hour of request and rock and roll mu sic on the local radio station from 8 to 9. The parents have the radio all day and rest of the evening to hear their requests. Why can't us teenagers have just one hour? Would the parents and people of La Grande let the station know their teenagers like rock and roll? Diane Christensen Linda Goodwin Mary Lou DcVore Donna Viola FELT PIECES ALL SIZES Red, Green, White 1QQ 72" Wide ,90 Per Yard HOBBY SHOP Weekly Specials Plastic Top Includes bookcase headboard, double dresser St chest of drawers. Light finish. 159) 95 Warehouse SATURDAYS 10 .m.-4:30 p.m.