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EDITORIAL PAGE
LA GRANDE OBSERVER
Friday, November 13, 1959
"Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron.
RILEY ALLEN, publisher
Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challls, advertising director
Tom Humes, circulation manager
Don't Take It Too Seriously
A feller we know was getting worried.
That worried ua because lie is about the
'"finest 'filler we know. It seems that a
sten-slster publication from the state's
proudest metropolis was and is supplying,
by innuendo, the information to elimin
ate him and a lot of us husbands in
dividually and collectively.
It might be a good thing, too, except
it's done in the guise of a public service
which sorta takes it through the back
door. It doesn't make it any the less a
fact, he thought.
We refer, of course, to a daily column
being published, currently sometimes,
about "nagging wives" and their deroga
tory effect on their husband's health.
My worries got me to thinking. And
that's not good because the more I
thought the more I became convinced
that I too had the symptoms. And symp
toms, according to Dr. Le Gear's doctor
book are not something you take lightly
symptoms are bad.
Now, my health, up to that time, had
been quite tolerable. That is because I
have had a pretty good wife, up to that
time. The "symptoms," however, indi
cated a general breakdown in my health
lethargy, tiredness and even spots be
fore my eyes. I believed it due to the
constant application of complex psycholo
gy suggested by the diabolical column.
I am pretty sure it was the column
that did it. It all started about the time
the "thing" made its second appearance.
With each attack of heart burn, I could
trace its cause back to a huge helping
of some fiendish dish served me at the
last meal. Then there were the heart flut
ters which were directly attributable to
some misconduct on the part of the
plotter, and there it was as plain as the
nose on your face column after column
and symptom after symptom parallelling
each other to the point they could be
no longer ignored.
Well, thinking to warn my friends in
time to avoid an untimely demise, I be
gan to ask about their state of health.
Alack, there is no doubt about; they,
too, were undergoing the same treat
ment, they told me.
Maybe being reared in Missouri had
something to do with my being somewhat '
obstreperous and leatheraided. Much too
often, I am told I "have to be shown."
But this time was a revelation I shall
not soon forget. Seeing my daughter use
the bathroom scales with metronomic
regularity I thought I could sneak in, get
on them, take a quick look and retire
without anyone being the wiser. Well,
1 couldn't. I was caught in the act like
a thief in the dark. Something over one
tenth of a ton they read. It was dis
concerting and there was an involuntary
string of some of the most unprintable
epithets ever to reverberate in an other
wise civilized household. Involuntary,
though they were, they reached the ten
der ears of daughter whereupon apolo
gies, profuse as they were, were highly
inadequate and the whole lot of my sus
picions came to light after the thorough
grilling and brain washing given me by
the daughter and the little woman.
It came out in the "discussion" that
followed that my lethargy and tiredness
was, in all probability, caused by my
"unpersonable, intolerable obesity." The
spots before my eyes previously have
not been satisfactorily explained. There
is no doubt about what caused those cas
cading before my eyes since, however.
But I am still in a tizzzy. Even though
my restoration of faith in the little
woman is complete and henceforth un
alterable there is remaining the su
preme disillusionment that you can't
believe everything you read in the
papers. (That doesn't apply to small
dailies like this one, for instance just
the big city variety.)
It is done; someone had to say. The
role of martyr fits my personality and
has charged up my halo to where it twin
kles like a tilted pin ball machine.
But like another person who recently
made the news in a somewhat more in
famous expose, "I'm fflad it is over."
After all, the TV networks did catch
up with and cast out their publicans and
sinners. The least the Fourth Estate
can do is to warn the public about possi
ble cupidity in our own ranks.
The Chance Of A Taxpayer's Lifetime
WASHINT.TOlsr. D. C. In front of
the Internal Revenue Service building
here a little group of men are walking
back and forth, carrying signs marked
"Unfair."
They are, of course, pickets. But, they
aren't protesting against the tax laws.
'They're a bunch of window cleaners,
protesting the employment policies of
a contractor.
This is, however, a wonderful choice of
locations;
'mr if tViA nifLof will inst atfiv nn
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the job until next April 15, the date most
Americans have chosen to cuss the IRS,
perhaps a normal labor dispute will turn
into a means of noetic justice.
Barbs
Owing money can be dangerous to
some people, making them lose their
memory.
DREW PEARSON SAYS
Chicago Policeman Touring
Europe With Capone 'Heir'
WASHINGTON The strange
case of Chicago s no. i criminal
touring Europe with a Chicago
police lieutenant nas just been
(lashed to Washington by the Ital
ian police.
The Chicago racketeer is Tony
Accardo, successor to Al Capone
as czar ol the Chicago underworld.
The policeman is Lieut. Anthony
Oe Grazo, supposed to root out
crime in Chicago.
The two men checked into
Rome's fashionable Excelsior Ho
tel last week with their wives,
taking in expensive suite with a
joint living room. They had hard
ly unpacked before Dominico Ro
berto, an exiled Chicago gang
ster, now living in Italy, moved
into the room across the hall.
What the Accardo party didn't
know was that it had been follow
ed across Europe by the Inter
national Criminal Police Organ
ization, better known as Inter
pol. In Geneva, the Swiss police
snapped pictures of the gangster
and the Chicago cop touring together.
Upon learning he was making
a grand tour of Europe witih Chi
cago's No. 1 criminal, the Chica
go police department promptly
suspended Lieut. De Grazo. This
isn't the first time De Grazo has
been suspended. Twenty - five
years ago he was suspended for
allegedly taking a bribe but was
returned to the force after a few
days off duty. The record of this
earlier suspension has now disap
peared mysteriously from the
Chicago police files.
Note their cross-the-hall visi
tor in Rome, Dominico Roberto
alias Dan Roberts, was deported
from the U. S. as an undesirable
in 1935. He has a police record
dating back to the roaring "Twenties.
Ract and Religion
Mayor Ben West of Nashville,
Tenn., who gets the overwhelm
ing vote of both whites and Ne
groes, tells this story about re
ligion and the race problem:
An old colored man came into
a Nashville church and sat unob
trusively in the back row. After
ward, the preacher came up to
him and said: "Tom, I suppose
you know that you just caused
all sorts of commotion when you
came in here."
Tom didn't seem to realize that
he was unwanted. The preacher
continued:
Now Tom, suppose you go and
talk this over with God and see
he wants you to come back
heah next Sunday." ,
Later in the week the preach
er saw Tom again and asked
him whether he had discussed
the matter with the Lord
Yes. suh, I done talked de
matter ovah wid de Lord," repli
ed Tom, "An' he told me, 'Tom,
doan yo worry about dat at
all. Ah've been tryin' to get in
dat church myself, evah since
the day it was built.
Srrik Again in 80 Days
Biggest question-mark in the
industrial world today is whether
the United Steelworkers will go
out on strike again after the 80-
day Taft-Hartley injunction per
iod is over, inis wim-r p in
dicting that they will.
Reason: Industry and tne w hue
House handled this strike with
inexcusable ineptitude. Vt hat they
did solidified the ranks of labor.
The steel union didn't want a
strike. Many members didn't
like their president. They came
close to voting him out some
time ago.
Other labor leaders didn t like
Dave McDonald. Walter Reuth
cr, head of the Auto Workers,
has long been peeved at him.
John L. Lewis of the Mine Work
ers has called McDonald a play
boy actor. But Reuther has vot
ed him $1,000,000. Other labor
leaders have gone to bat for Mc
Donald. Labor is now united.
Why? Labor sees this as an
industry showdown against one
union which later will spread to
other unions.
They watched the following
1. Ike didn't permit federal
mediation to head off the strike
until the day the strike started
June 30. This is unprecedent
cd. But Ike's golf cabinet kept
telling him to stay out, they could
handle it, that labor had to be
put in its place.
Steal's Hous Guest
2. George Humphrey, ex-secretary
of the treasury, now head of
National Steel; George Allen,
Ike's farm-golf-bridge partner
who is a director of Republic
Steel; and Jim Black, vice presi
dent of Republic, were bis top
advisers. Labor knew this. They
resented the fact that Ike would
go to California as the House
Guest of George Allen in the very
middle of the strike. They won
dered what public reaction would
have been if Ike had been enter
tained for a week by Dave Mc
Donald instead:
3. The President didn't step
into the strike picture personally
until early October, though urged
repeatedly to do so by his sec-
reary of labor and by vice Pres
ident Nixon. Once in September
when he proposed a fact-finding
board he withdrew the offer
quickly after his steel friends
opposed. Gerald Morgan, former
attorney for U.S. Steel, now No.
assistant to Ike in the White
House, wrote and signed the let
ter vetoing the fact-finding
board.
4. The steel industry isn't
hurting from the strike. It's pay
ing for it but of federal taxes.
Union members are hurting. And
this makes them sorer than ever.
They watched the industry roll
up the biggest profits in history
during the first half of the year.
NEWS CHUCKLES
United Prett International
GOOD BOOKS
CARLTON. England l'PI'
Municipal librarian Herbert
Steele1 complained Tuesday thai
borrowers were using books as
teapot stands, towels, mops
grease removers, teething rings,
and weapons to throw at dugs
and cats.
CO-ED FOOTBALL
fort worth t.v 1 1 I'll In
tramural football at Texas Chris
tian University tnilav heroines co
educational.
Siama Phi Ensilnn Fraternity
is scheduled to play Delta Gam
ma Sorority.
BRAVE WITNESS
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) Petite
Mrs. Lorelei Ravenson stepped
off the witness stand while testi
fying in a civil suit Tuesday and
caught bare-handed a mouse that
had invaded the courtroom.
Her 225-pound attorney took ref
uge atop the nearest chair.
ALMOST DEAD BUSINESS
NOTTINGHAM, England UPI
Justice Wintringham N. Stable
complained Tuesday that "the
magistrate's position (in a crim
inal easel is rather like that of
an undertaker too late to do
any good."
COOKIE ADVICE
WASHINGTON (UPII Ar
thur J. Goldberg, chief counsel of
the United Steelworkers Union,
ate at a Chinese restaurant
Saturday after the Supreme Court
rejected his challenge of a Taft-
partly, they say, because they
worked hard. Now they know
that the industry can take its
strike losses out of taxes which
otherwise It would pay to Uncle
Sam on these huge profits.
These are reasons why the
men are almost certain to go back
on strike after the 80-day Taft
Hartley injunction expires.
Ron Olmstead Shows Slides
Of Africa, Worlds Fair '58
ELGIN (Special-Ron Olm-iof his brother and sister-in-law,
cad, Portland, was an overinght
tuest of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Bur
ton last Thursday. A group of
triends gathered at the Burton
home that evening to view slides
Olmstead had taken on his trip
through Africa in 1958; also of the
Mr and Mrs- Jim Williamson.
The Blue Mountain Grange held
installation of officers Saturday.
The Rockwall Grange furnished
the cookies.
Hazel Kreels. Mountain Grove.
Mo. arrived Friday to spend
.ihnut three weeks at the home
of her brother and sister-in-law.
then attend a college of his choice
on a scholarship he has received.
Mrs. Emma Kuehn and Mrs. El-
;or Anderson left for Eugene last
Thursday where they attended
Meetings on Friday and Satur-
iay. Mrs. Kuehn was a delegate
tor the Unicn County Education
al Association and Mrs. Anderson
for the Elgin association.
Pendleton Confab
Teachers going to Pendleton,
Tuesday to visit scrools were Mrs.
Kvangeline Buschke and Mrs.
Wilma Cason. They attended a
linner and evening meeting.
Elgin 4-H leaders attending
the meetings held in Island City
recently were Mr. and Mrs. Ein
st Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Moles, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Blan
chard, Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Ta
meris. The meeting was spon
sored by the Farm Bureau.
Dale Williamson of Roseburg
was a weekend guest at the home
Hartley back-to-work injunction
Inside his fortune cookie was
this advice: "Govern yourself ac
cordingly." WELL-TO-DO ,
BARNESLEY, England (UPI)
Seventeen-year-old Raymond
Hawkesworth's father, trying to
prevent Raymond from getting
court permission to marry, told
the court that Raymond "hasn't
got a penny."
Raymond countered -by telling
the judge he had saved up $19.60.
The judge okayed the marriage.
daughter, Helen.
Bill Dver, son 01 Mr. and Mrs.
Shelby Dyer was taken to the
r.rande Ronde hospital last Mon
day after cutting his hand while
working at v unman-1 norn Lum
ber company.
LETTERS
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To the Editor: 5
Also any one else who might be
interested. f
I have lived in La Grande for
many years, since 1894 when La
Grande was just a mud hole and
I believe I've done my share both
in labor and in paying taxes.
I do not think that the voters
are so much against the Bond is
sue as most people seem to think.
We all know some kind of dis
posal plant must be had and it
looks like it takes a lot of money
to do the job.
Neither do I believe the good
folks of Island City had much to
do with the voting. I feel it would
be a disgrace to our wonderful
valley to build a duck pond to
empty sewage into, so let us all
get together and build a mechani
cal plant, something we can be
proud of in years to come.
Respectfully,
H. S. Brooks.
REMEMBER WHEN
... 25 years ago, a book chat
was held by the La Grande Pub
lic Library with the public in
vited to attend. Alfred Myers,
Miss Helen Graham, Charles Gra
ham and Mrs. Sanford Adler gave
book reviews.
Mrs. Clarence A. Kopp enter
tained the ladies of St. Peter's
Episcopal church, with Mrs. El
la Russell and Mrs. J. D. Slater
serving refreshments.
Wards was advertising winter
snow tires at $9.40 each, auto
heaters at $5.95 and electric per
colators at $3.49.
... 15 years ago, special tribute
was paid to Barton Broms, 20.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Monty Broms.
Kamela. He was serving in the
Southwest Pacific. He graduated
from La Grande High and was
EOC student when he entered
service.
The local Christian church hon
ored La Grande men and women
in the armed service. A total of
108 names Was added to their ser
vice scroll. Feature of the affair
was a special song by Retty ft
and a fitting talk by Roy Skeen.
La Grande High Tigers defeat
ed Baker, 37-0. to win conference
play undefeated. Th unbeaten
locals challenged Roosevelt lisn,
coastal champions, to stale cham
pionship game here.
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