Ike Shows
Before 'Battle Of Budget' Meet
AUGUSTA, Ga HTV -Backstairs
at the While Hoii
The news .hotographers seldom
nave seen President Eisenhower
openly a"gry as he was here
the other day.
It was the da he conferred
with the high cmmand of the
Defense Department en next
year's military bii'U'et. The Pres
ident and Defense Seeretary Neil
H. McKlroy were walking from
the President's office to the
trophy room of the Augusta Na
tional Golf Club where the mam
meeting was to be held.
' When the President saw the
newsmen start to .snap pictures of
him walking with McKlroy. Kisen
hower swore audihly to the secre
tary, "you'd think those blankety
blank men would have enough
pictures of me by now."
Then, when the President dis
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
Heads Roll Over Research
Of Drugs-Cancer Relation
WASHINGTON 't he public of the large chemical companies
doesn't know it. but the battle Mold m that they had fired their
over food tdditives and cancer-1 medical director because he was
suspected chemicals has been so j loo interested in carcinogens in
cutthroat that four doctors and
scientists lost th- ir jobs when they
took firm stands against certain
companies and institutions in
terested in the continued use o.
these additives and chemicals.
This is part of the real hack
ground of the cranb'rry dispute
It's been brewing for a long time,
and only came to a head when
the Food and Drug Administra
tion was given power by a recent
act of Congress to crack down on
farmers, cosmetic companies, food
and chemical companies imme
diately, without protract d hear
ings in the courts.
The cancer firings of doctors
was spelled out in testimony be
fore the House Interstate Com
merce committee when it tighten,
ed the Food and Drug Act last
year. The doctors who got fired
were:
Dr. William E. Smith, dropped
from New York University
when he persisted in warn
ing of cancer hazards in
Industry.
Dr. William C. llurp.r,
dropped by Du Pont when
he published a pap-r show
ing that beta naphthylamine
used for dyes) produced
cancer in dogs.
Dr. Arthur Vorwald, dropped
as director of I lie SaraniO 1
Laboratory when he report-
ed that lung cancer cou'd
b induced by a chemical
dust of industrial import
ance. . Dr. Robert Collier Page, who
was eased out us medical
director of Standard Oil of
New Jersey when he cam
paigned for a major study
of cancer-inducing proper
ties of chemicals.
Battle ot Doctors
Dr. Smith, a resident of Engle
wood, N.J.. doing research on
food additives for the American
Academy of Nutrition, testified at
length on this before the Inter
state Commerce committee.
"In 19'iu." he said, "the National
Cancer Institute of the U.S. Public
Health Service estab'ished a pro
gram for the study of environ
mental chemical factors in cancer.
"Within a few years Dr. A. J.
Lanza, then director ef the In
stitute of Industrial Medicine at
New York University, told me
that he hud been retained by a
group of chemical industries to cull
upon the surgeon general iof the
U S. Public Health Service) and
object to studies conducted under
this program. He slated that his
objections had been successful and
that all field studies by the Na
tional Cancer Institute in this pro
gram would be stopped. They were.
"A few years lat-r I showed this
same gentlemen data indicating a
cancer hazard for men employed
in another industry that had re
tained him as a consultant. He
advised me to keep out of this
problem, and shortly thereafter
notified me that my appointment
as associate professor of industrial
medicine nt N Y. University would
net be renewed. It was not re
newed. "Last year an official of one
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DANIELS FUNERAL HOME
Ire Against Photogs
covered that arrangements had
Ix-cn made to make a group pic
ture ol the Uelense Department
conferees inside the trophy room,
he hit the ceiling.
He said that under no condi
lions would the cameramen be
permitted to step inside the club
building.
ine pnoiograpners nau no
choice but to stand there and
take Kisenhower's displeasure full
blast, this despite the fact that
it was a member of the Presi
dent's own staff who made ar
rangements for shooting the pic
lures inside.
The cameramen were told when
lo be at the club, where to set
up lights for the television movie
cameras and where to place the
cameras.
When Eisenhower said curtly,
"I'm not going to have them in
their products.
"This experience is not unique,'
testilied Dr. Smith. "Government
university and industrial research
in this field has been obstructed
while aiwlogists for carcinogens
are in great demand.
Carcinogens are cancer-produc
ing cells.
Cancer Research Stopped
There were some attempted de
nials of Dr. Smith's statement.
But his testimony was substantial
cd by other doctors. One of these
was Dr. W. C. Hueper, formerly
with Du Pont, and now in charge
of the environmental cancer sec
tion of the National Cancer In
stitute. He wrote:
"My activities in fieldwork on
environmental cancer for the
I'.S. Public Health Service) was
discontinued during the latter part
of the summer of 1951 when I was
requested to stop such activities
and have no further contacts with
industry or state health depart
ments in matters of environmental
and occupational cancer.
"This event was brought about
by a complaint, as I was officially
told, about my activities In regard
to studying conditions bringing
about lung cancers among work
ers employed in the chromate in
dustry, made to my superiors in
Washington in behalf and in the
interest ot the American chrcv
mate industry by Dr. Lanza, as its
medical representative.
"Dr. Lanza apparently acted in
the role of a lobbyist, because in
a telephone conversation on
July 25. 1951. I had In regard to
this mailer with (the late) Mr.
O. F. Tarr. vice president. Mu
tual Chemical Co., I was to'd
Dr. Lama had taken this step in
behalf of the chromate industry.
"Due to these lobbying activities
of Dr. Lanza." continued Dr.
Hucprr. "not only my field studies
have come to an end since 1951.
but there was for some reason
serious interference with my ex
perimental work in the field of
occupational cancer. It was only
after a rather long delay that I
final'y succeeded in reactivating
this program."
Dr. Smith, testifying before the
congressional committee which
strengthened the Food and Drug
Act, also said: "I wou'd like to
say that in all of my comments
this morning my personal ex
perience is of no importance to
anybody but myself. I have de
voted 21) years to medical research.
I have a wife and three children.
I got entangled In this problem
of carcinogens and the result is
that I have no job and no prospect
of every being able to continue in
the field lo which I have devoted
my scienti.ic career. . . .
"I am perfectly expendable;
but when I see one man afliT the
other who is engaged in this kind '
of research end up pushed out of
his work, or out of his career, I
believe that this is a problem that
is iinpoitant for the public health
And it is for that reason that I
have spoken openly as 1 have to
day." Thus is waged the battle of cran
berries, chemicals, and food adili
lives over cancer.
EVERY WEEK
the club." the newsrel men quick-
ly disassembled tneir ngms
glalihed their hand cameras and
made pictures of the group stand
ing outside the building.
These photographers are not
particularly delicate or unduly
sensitive peoole. Neither are they
completely i-sensitive. As far as
the Washirg'on men are con
cerned, there is no known in
stance of any cameramen trying
to invade the President's privacy
at the Augusta National. They go
inside the club only on invitation
Thus, it seems only natural that
they should be puzzled by the
President's outbursts and scowls
in their direction, and all over
something a member of his own
stall had arranged, apparently in
the blissful belief that this was
the way Eisenhower would want
it.
A President is only human in
complaining occasionally about
the incessant demands for more
and more newspicture coverage.
Hut a President might find his
own life a bit more comfortable
if he realized that constant pho
tographic attention really reflects
the constant desire of the Ameri
can publ.c to see. read and hear
more and more about the man
in the White House.
Among Mrs. Kisenhower's gifts
on her lard birthday was a rare
first edition of "Iten Hur," by
fabulous l.h century novel by
Lew Wallace which recently was
made into their major movie.
And in a completely unrelated
development but brought to mind
by the Itoman Empire back
ground of "lien Hur," a traveller
well known to the White House
some time ago sent back to a
friend at liioo Pennsylvania Ave
nue a postcard Irom Koine show
ing the huge Coliseum.
Across the top of the heroic
old structure was penciled a
crude scoreboard showing "Lions
6, Christians 0."
REMEMBER WHEN
. . . 25 years ago, the "Old
Oregon Trail" was so clogged w ith
snow and ice that travel was at
a virtual standstill over a 24-
hour period following a savage
and early winter thrust. Eight
inches of snow fell at Meacham.
with rain in La Grande and snow
throughout the valley areas.
Four lettermen answered La
Grande High School Coach Ira
Woodie's call for first basketball
practice. They were Ralph De
Boie, Earl Petersen, Victor Bean
and Don Stilt.
The Eastern Oregon Normal
Lettermen s Club planned its an
nual dance at the school audi
torium, with Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Quinn, Mr. and Mrs. John Miller.
Miss Larson and Gerald Burnett,
club presidents, serving as hosts.
. . 15 years ago, the Rotarians
were mapping plans for their
annual Thanksgiving party, with
II. E. Dixon as chairman. Rev
Arthur J. Stanley was lined up
as guest speaker for the affair.
Nationally, congressional hear
ings opened on the "real story"
behind the Pearl Harbor attack.
with several V. S. military' heads
expected to bite the dust.
Tribute was paid to Sgt. Ern
est Newberg, 22, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bessie Simpson here. He
was stationed in India.
The La Giande Tigers were
kiven one-touchdown edge
against Invading Roosevelt High
of Portland, but Tiger mentor
Cece Sherwood had his fingers
crossed.
2 Marriage Licenses
Issued At Courthouse
Two marriage licenses have been
issued at the I'nion County court
house recorder's office.
They are for Clarence A. Kopp
and Sarah A. Simmons, both of
Cov, and Franklin H. Williams.
1904 Third St., and Lois L. Murray,
1703 First St. this city.
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names meinoaisi Lhurch
Tom Foster, Minister
Church School, classes for all
ages, 9 a m. .Morning worship at
10. Methodist Youth Fellowship
7 p.m.
North Powder
Community Church
Tarn Foster, Minister
Church school 10 a.m. Classes
for all ages. Morning worship 11.
L.D.S. Church
Elgin Ward
Priesthood Mtg., 9:15 i.m.. Sun
day school, 10 30a.m. Sacrament
Mtg. 1145 a.m.
L.D.S. Church
Union, Oregon
Bishop Arnold Kohltr
Sundav school 10:30 a.m. Young
peoples' meeting. Sacrament meet-
ng Sunday, l.M p.m.
Faith Lutheran
(Missouri Synod)
6th and N
(Neighborhood House)
Rev. W. F. Biel, pastor
Adult Bible class and Sunday
chool at 4 pm. Worship at 5 j.
m.
First Presbyterian
Sixth and Washington
Rev. Louis M. Samson, pastor
Suday School, S.ij a.m. Morn
ing worship 11.
Kingdom Hall of
Jehovah's Witnesses
Residing Minister, M. Burling
Morning service, 9 a.m. 3 p.m..
Public talk.
Calvary Baptist
COVE, OREGON
Rev. M. Murl Cauowiy, pastor
Sunday school 10 a.m. Morning
worship 11. Evening worship 8
oung peop.es meeting 7 p.m.;
training union. 7 p m.
Asscrt-bly of God
IMBLER
Reverend Frank N. Crane
Sundoy .school 9:45 a.m. Morn
ing worship, 11. Evening Worship,
30 p.m.
Church of Christ
Corner X end Spruce
Bible study, 10 a m. Morning
Worship, 11. Lord's Supper, 11:45.
Evening service, 7:30.
L.D.S. Church
FIRST WARD
Walter A. Bean, bishop
Sunday: 8:45 a.m.. Priesthood
meeting. 10 a m., Sunday school;
1:30 p.m.. Sacrament meeting.
SECOND WARD
Melvin Westenskow, bishop
Sunday Services: Priesthood
meeting 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School
11 a.m.; Sacrament service 6:30
p m. in lower chapel.
Union Methodist
Rev. Dwight Williams
Sunday school 10 a m. Morning
worship 11. Young people's meet
ing 6:30 Youth Fellowship and
Junior Youth Fellowship.
Cove Methodist
Rev. Dwight Williams
Sunday school 9 a m. Morning
worship 9:45. Young people's meet
ing Sunday evening, 6.30. Methodist
Youth Fellowship.
First Baptist Church
ELGIN
JOHN LOVELESS, pastor
Sunday school 9:45 a.m. Morning
worship 11. Baptist Training Union
7 p.m. Evening worship 8. Cooper
ating with Southern Baptist conven
tion, Summerville
Baptist Church
Mr. Lester Johnson, pastor
Sunday school, 9:45 a.m. .Morn
ing worship. 11 a.m. Evening wor
ship. 7:30 p.m. Y'oung people's
meeting. 7 p.m.. Training I'nion.
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church of Nazarena
(Union, Ortgon)
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ing worship 11 a m. Evening
worship 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Sixth and Spring
Rev. Victor Zachariat
Sunday school 9 45 a m. Morn
ing worship 11. Evening worship
7:50 Young people's meeting 6:30
There are four aae groups meet
ing. Jr. High BY, 6:30.
Hendrix Methodist
2103 North Fir
Rtv. Neal van Loon, pastor
Sunday school, 9 45 a.m. Morn
ing worship, 11 a.m. Evening
worship. 7:30 p.m. Young people's
meeting, 7 p.m.
Methodist Church
Elgin, Oregon
Rev. V. A. Bolen, pastor
Sunday school. 10 a.m. Morning
wo. ship, 11 a m. Young people's
nv-eting. Youth Choir, 6 p.m.
M.Y.F.. 7 p.m.
Full Gospel Pentecostal
Church
Elder ZEDELL JACKSON, pastor
Sunday School 10 a m. Morning
Aorship 11:15 YPCW 7 p.m. Even
worship 8 p.m.
HOUSING SHORTAGE
Continued From Page 1.
names over a single bell. The in
formation is there for the look
ing. I did a great deal of look
ing and counting. The result of
my personal survey indicated an
average of three families to one
jpartment.
Each family has one bedroom.
Curtains sometimes separate the
b ds. A common kitchen is used
n shifts unless friendly families
wish to cook together and eat to
gether. One bathroom serves
three families. Neighborhood
bath houses help to alleviate the
bathroom problem.
The common living room is
sometimes used as a combination
dining room. I asked a waiter in
the Metropole Hotel how he
managed under the communal
living setup. "We are lucky," he
stid, "our neighbors are friendly
and cooperative. But most peo
ple have one kind of trouble or
another."
COURT COMPLAINTS
The variety of troubles the
waiter was referring to provided
me with a full afternoon of list
ening when I visited the People's
Court. Typical complaints:
"Mrs. Erinovitch cooks cabbage
every night for spite because she
kftows my husband doesn't like
Ihe smell . . ."
"Mr. Seminoroff peeks behind
the curtains when my young
daughters are undressing ..."
"The Nerodnoyas get drunk and
fight all the time. We haven't had
a good night's sleep in months.
My husband cannot do his job
in the medical laboratory without
rest ..."
'The housing shortage inevitab
ly has hatched ' a multitude of
moral problems including in
cest. Overcrowding living condi
tions have kept the birth rate
down in the face of the govern
ment's efforts to encourage larg
er families.
Immediate'y after the war a
campaign was launched to glori
fy motherhood.
Millions of men had been kill
ed and disabled and the low-
birth rate was a cause for ma
jor concern.
"A child is the greatest con
tribution a woman can make to
the state," the regime proclaim
ed. Medals, bonuses, complete
layettes, larger apartments and
vacations in the country' w ot
ft red as incentives.
the better your living
TOMORROW
Grande Roiide
Symphony Opens
Season Here
Heralded as one of the finest group in
its 14-year history, the Grande Ronde
Symphony Orchestra opens its concert
season at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
in the Eastern Oregon College Theatre,
under the direction of Dr. L. Rhodes
Lewis. Guest soloist will be Nadia Kout
ifn, versatile end attractive Philadelphia
violinist. Admission tickets will be avail
bit at the door.
, Natjona
Achieves Billion
Dollar Resources
PORTLAND a'PD The First
i National Bank of Oregon
an-
nounced today it has -become the
state's first bank to achieve a
billion dollars in resources.
Bank President C. B. Stephen
son made the announcement and
said that although it required 80
years for the bank to reach the
half billion dollar mark in assets,
the second half billion was
posted in 14 years.
The First National was char
tered on Sept. 8, 1865. Stephenson
said "the lively pace of Oregon's
present economy is reflected in
the bank's billion dollar state
ment." Welby Vaughan Again
Heads Wheat League
Welby W. Vaughon. chairman of
the river development committee.
Oregon Wheat Growers League,
La Grande, was reelected a re
gional counly vice president of
Inland Empire Waterways Asso
ciation at the 2Gth annuul conven
tion in Lcwiston, Ida., recently.
The association has 15 Oregon
regional county vie president, 19
in Washington and 11 in Idaho.
The program was not as ef-
fective as the government
nau
hoped. The authorities had to
lace the fact that too many wo
men between 18 and 35 were dy
ing at the hands of quack abor
tionists and others were being
butchered and left sterile.
BOLD STEP
In November of 1955 the So
viet officials took a bold step
Abortions were legalized for mar
tied and unmarried women alike
An employe of a Moscow ho
tel whom I will call Tanya said,
"I have had two abortions in the
lust three years and am not
ashamed to admit it. The contra
ceptives don't work. We have
three children and we don't want
any more.
"How does a woman go about
getting an abortion?"
"It is simple, like having a
tooth extracted, but you must go
within the first three months or
they will refuse to operate
"what is the procedure?"
"You must go to the clinic in
your district, have an interview
with the obstetrician who recites
automatically the glories of moth
erhood and tries to talk you out
o it. You- tell him you are de
termined and he gives you a pink
slip and schedules you for sur
gery. The operation and surgery
are free and you get three weeks
off with pay."
Russia's housing problem, rea
sonably enough, has created a
serious health problem. The in
cidence of tuberculosis is high
ip Russia. Fatalities resulting
from infectious diseases are led
only by heart disease and cancer.
The Asiatic flue epidemic
which hit Moscow hard in 1957
reached panic proportions. Iso
lation was recommended by doc
tors, but crowded quarters made
this virtually impossible.
The sociological problems pro
duced by the housing shortage
are devastating. Y'oung couples
wait years to marry because they
can find no place to live. Eleo
nora, my interpreter, an attractive
girl of 22, has been engaged to a
l!6year-old engineer for three
years.
We cannot be married for at
least two more years. It will take
I IN CONCERT
This Sunday, Nov. 22
i At 4 p.m.
I I ' College Theatre
I Y0UR
GRANDE RONDE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
' . in its first La Grande
HI performance of the season
, FEATURING
NADIA KOUTZEN
World Famous Violinist
AS GUEST ARTIST
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matter off
FACT
I5i
Tn 1763, men began syste
matically to dig out the debris
and uncover the Italian towns
of Pompeii and Herculaneum
which were completely cov
ered with mud and lava from
the great eruption of Mount
Vesuvius on Aug. 24, 79 A D.
The towns are of special im
portance because they were
not destroyed but simply
buried and preserved and are
valuable in studying how the
ancient Romans lived.
C Kruyclnprdla Itritsimlet
Jerusha Robertson
Services Monday
Jerusha Clara Robertson, 86, a
t'nion housewife, died at I'nion.
Thursday.
Services will be held in the
Don Dempsey's Funeral Chapel,
Monday at 2 p.m. The Rev. V.
Zacharias will officiate. Burial
to be in the Hillcrest cemetery.
Mrs. Robertson Was born at
Lewisberg, W. V. June 12. 1873
and had been a resident of Un
ion for 26 years.
Survivo:s are the children.
Jessie E. Stareo, Cove. Marlon
Hamilton, Klamath. Calif., Ruth
Brown, Union, and Lester Ed
ward Robertson, White Salmon,
Wash.; a brother. Robert S. Hall,
La Grande; four sisters, Martha
Cole, Eugene, Emma V. Griffin.
Seattle, Wash., Alice E. Shane,
Emmett, Idaho, and Irene Strad
ley, Milton Freewatcr; two grand
children and four great grand
children. La Grande Youth Wins
Musical Scholarship
A La Grande youth has won the
first John Stark Evans music schol
arship at Lewis and Clark College.
The recipient is Joe Berglund, a
sophomore and music education
major.
He plays trumpet in the Lewis
and Clark Symphonic band and
orchestra. The scholarship is a
memorial to the late Dr. John
Stark Evans, former head of the
Lewis and Clark music depart
ment.
that long to get an apartment,"
she said.
And how do you feel about
this?" I asked her.
With no sign of rancor or bit
terness she replied, "Things are
better today for the people than
they have ever been. The gov
ernment is dong its best." And
then she added, "I will wait
like everyone else. I am a Russian
and Russians are' patient peo
ple." MONDAY: A Day In The Peo
ple's Court.
THE WHEEL
will be open
Thanksgiving Day
Serving Turkey Dinner
For The Whole Family
NOON TIL 8 P.M.
Salem Hearing
On Fertilizer
Elements Due
The state department of agri
culture will public hear
ing on proposed secondary ele
ments for fertilizers Tuesday, 2
p.m. at its headquarters in Salem.
The lat legislature authorized
the department to establish, by
regulation and after public hear
ing, a secondary list of elements
which manufacturers may guar
antee in 'fertilizers sold in Ore
gon. I'p to this point, only nitro
gen, phosphoric acid and potash
are guaranteed, with laboratory
analyses geared to these items.
The experiment station at Ore
fori Slate College has assisted
the department in setting up the
recommendations to be made at
the hearing.
These call for minimum
amounts, in percentage terms, of: v I
calcium, I per cent; magnesium
and sulphur, each 5 10 per cent;
copper, iion and maganese, each
1 lo per cent; boron, molybde
num and zinc, each 1100 per
cent.
Inteic-ted persons unable to
attend tiie hearing may sub
mit written statements to O. K.
Heals, chief Division of Foods
and Dairies, State Department cf
Agriculture, Salem.
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