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ggEW PEARSON ;AYS; U.S., Soviets Near A-Test Ban Signing On Antarctic WASHINGTON The day alter ,neva atomic conference have been Thanksgiving the '2 countries :,",st cooperative. L'.S. delegates ;rr w:,h ,hc zsz &. b""n ' com,,Mv Lara, " '"""'I Th -owes, may be one of guaranteeing the p ace (f th t hl. Krt.aU.sl r.-asons for giving area and providing for m- H anks which the American pco- speciion to prevent almnic bomb pic have had since the Pilgrim explosions for military On (mew.-..... . 1 ---....,,. wmi ,,im iam.u H continent 'Fathers gave thanks lor their f ii-l precarious year on the Am to be irnnnri nut tl... Iri.:itv was almost certain to be signed! .. KK.K I0""" P!y$ . .. 11 pays ut it v iiic-iiiutT oi ino the hnlrimit ........ ... mJKu Klux Man in Alabama. -'yway. Significantly KusMa was further than any other nation in Wn"n K-"1 lUm "rand Preventing atomic atom bomb,' r:'"" "f ,nr . tests I threw his weight behind John T. . . j'atlcrsnn anil eiecieo mm gov- n k . . . . . -"'"r Alabama. Shelton was . i"!1'"7 A"b"mb Uvh B "lv " labur the soviet delegates want In go one ,,- (;0()(lncn rut)ber lant , better and ban even scientific Tlls(.aloosa ,iut after Patlcrson atomic tests. The argument in i(.lalnl. Kt,vi.rnur suddenly his s.de the secret meetings has been (rtim(,s ,,()!sl)1I1ed. Goodrich friendly but continued. At one ,,,.,, Kn(.lllin from , nrM Herman I'hleger. V. S..j.,r u,,iriIrf,.,n . ,-hipf ...i... arguing with the! . ijvc for the stato ot .,. point aeiegale, was Russians. "Drew Person," he entreated has announced that we are Ko- Icioodrich tog to suceed in signing this his toric treaty and yet we are still separated." Aside from the disputed point the delegates are now agreed, end the treaty will he signed this week. Many diplomats re gard this as a precedent for peace more far-reaching than any tak en since the organization of the .United Nations. For, with the I'nitcd Sides and Hussia agreeing to the princi ple of inspection and to the ban ning of military atomic explos ions, an important step has been Uken toward applying the same system to other areas. The tasic difference between the I'nitcd States and Russian viewpoints has been international inspection. In the past Russia hat hung back. However, driving from Dcs Moines to ("oon Rapids, Iowa. Khrushchev informed corn farm er Koswcll Oa:st that he was ready to accept inspection. He repeated this to Adlai Steven son, later to Kisenhowcr at t amp David. Since then Russian dele gates at the Geneva atomic con . ference have been most cooper ative. U.S. delegates at the Ge- REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago, l.a Gnndc was select! d for an important American Legion meeting. I'nion. Wallowa and Baker County pos's were to attend the regional conlab. The city and valley areas were blanketed by it sudden snow storm which dumped four inches of the while stuff.' It was the heaviest single snowfall since February of 1!W3 when three inches were recorded in one per.od. In Kuropc, Hitler had his troops poised for a possible attack against the Saar plebiscite region. Ingcr Wel's. merit . . . IS years ago. 12 local Hoy Scouts rec-'ived awards at a court of honor. Tlry were Hcyd Hadden ahd Leland Johnson. Star awards; Gerald Motr, L. Johnson, Roder ick French. Hubert Madscn. Ah in Madsen, Donald Smith, merit badges.' Also Doug Tainey, Max son, Rob Wilkins, Rill Charles Bracked, special badges. The l.a Grande High School Tigers w-re rated a slight edge against Mcd.'ord for the state prep football championship finals to be played in Portland Dec. 2li. A total of 28 local gridders were to make the lilp for Coach Cece Sherwood. BANNERS PLANNED MADRID i VIM i Madrid's main streets nnd monuments will get new lights and banners in honor of the forthcoming visit of President Kisenhowcr. The mayor of Madrid, the count of May aide, said a completely new light ing system will be installed abng the tree-lined fnstcllnna and He coletos boulevards down which the President will ride on his ar rival here Dec. it. hama. At fust this didn't seem to help It was not the low bid der on a state tire contract and u pcarcd to have lost gut to U.S. I, oval which submitted the low rid. But at this point the grand dra gon of the Ku Klux Klan got busy. And last month the state purchasing office threw out the lew bid of U. S. Royal and ne gotiated a deal with B. F. Good rich for $1, 600.000. Note Governor Patterson has not followed the Klan in regard to other matters. The Klan, is anti-Catholic hut Patterson led among southern governors in hacking Sen. Jack Kennedy of .Vassachusetls for president. Pat terson also defeated conserva tive Alabama forces to pass a tax I nigrum to help Alabama's pub lic schools. COP TV-Rigging Republican congressmen are having seecond thoughts about the rigged TV quizzes they have recorded with high government officials for political campaign purposes. They hope there'll be no backfire. Both radio and television shows have been prepared by the Re publican congressional commit tee in which the government big shots appear to be interviewed by individual congressmen. Actually there was no interview. The pat, political answers were recorded in advance. The questions were dubbed in afterwards in the voices of the dillerent congress men. It is just as rigged as any thing on the networ.'i. However, in this way, each congressman can impress the home folks by appearing on the same show with big name Wash ington personalities. A typical example is budget boss Maurice Stans who gave the GOP committee a five minute in terview defending President Kis enhower's balanced budget. The committee offered this interview along with others to Republican congressmen. The Republican national com mittee's letter explained: "To use this interview on your radio rrogram. call the House record ing studio for an appointment to be recorded askiing the questiuns on the attached script. Mr. Stans' answers, w hich have already been recorded on tape, will then be dubbed in the proper place." Kven the questions the con gressmen were supposed to ask were written out for them by the GOP committee. Tim. Out Time magazine has quietly set tled out of court with Teamster Official Bill Bufalinn whom the magazine falsely linked with racketeers. He has collected $15, 0(H) and will receive another $10. 000 next year. As a bonus, the magazine presented him with a family tree, eight feet long, which its investigators compiled in a vain attempt to prove he was ro tated to racketeers . . . the set tlement is had news fr Senate racket buster Bob Kennedy whom Rufalino is also suing (ur air ing the same charges against hum over television. j U.S. Scientists Agree On One Thing America Trails Soviets Editor'! Not.: How da scion tittt .rriv at th.ir estimate that America i so many yean tehind-or ahead of th. Rus sians in a ' ''.Id of ipac. explcrabor What do these .sti rratet mea'? A-d what it th. scon theet today in th. various coitcsts? UP' corr.tpond.it Joseph L. Mylor givlt torn, of In. answer;, in th. following dit pa'ch. By JOSEPH L. MYLER UPI Staff Writ.r WASH I Mi TON 'ITI -Scientist X says the United States is at least two years behind the Russians in spa-e. Scientist V says lice years. Scientist ' says maybe a decade. Such estimates are guesses. Kven if one of them was nuht. no IS scientist can pos.-ilily know vh'ii or whether this coun try ever will catch up. Only the llussuns are in a position to make a logical esti mate of the gap between them and us. They a e privy to most of the I S space capabilities and plans, which are public property, whereas this country knows little about theirs Whc'i scientists say the I'nileil States is behind the Russians, they mean mainly that it lacks their space muscle. They have the more iwwerful rockets wilh which to boost scientific payloads into space. This country has launched more satellites and space probes the score is aliout IS to six. But two years after pound Sputnik I. the heaviest scientific satellite America had managed to put up was 90-pound Kxplorer VII So it was more than two years behind Russia's first and feeblest space achievement. C.S. oflicals say the Russians went to work on powerful boost-1 ers seven years before this conn-' try did. By some time in !'! the I'mled States expects to hav a rocket vehicle capable ol matching muscles with the boost er that put Russia's 2 1125-pound Sputnik HI in orbit May lii. l'l.'.H By l4-85 America may have a rocket roughly twice as powerful as those wh;ch flung the Soviet I.uniks into the sky. No Rotting On Laur.lt But no U.S. space official ex pects the Russians to rest on their laurels in the meantime. To catch nil with a camera took a u'.es while picture The Russians have gone dra matically onward and upward in each of their s x mace shots while America, lor the most part, was rcietitioii.sly firing a multi plicity of satellites and probes which blazed no new trails. Coniantut Unfavorable The consensus appears to be that while U.S. science matches the Huss ans', it is far behind in space engineering. According to Pickering, it will take us years to acquire the engineering expe rience that the space age de mands. In atomic developments, the United States still claims the lead. Cha'rman John A. McCone of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com mission said after a tour of Sov iet nuclear power establishments and laboratories that "we are ahead" and are likely to stay there . U.S. officials contend that the Russians built, their big rockets Observer, La Grande, Ore., Sal., Nov. 28, 1959 Page 6 Among Valley Farmers By County Agntt T.d Sidor and Charl.i Gavin BY TEO JIDOR And CHUCK GAVIN Union County Agents The period of Nov. 20-26 a! because their hydrogen warheads ! set aside as Farm-City Week were primitively big ana awx ward. But according to McCone the Russians, too, have developed "the light, high-yield warhead." This, he said, has paid th 'm "two handsome dividends." The Russians can now deliver nuclear warheads at greater distances than first anticipated. McCone said, and they can put huge pay loads into space. "Hence," McCone said, "in this area they hold an advantage we cannot easily overtake." DRINKING Continued From Pag. ) A policeman or a friend usually brings the drunk to a sobering up station. Sometimes he wanders in alone. He is given a steam bath, a cold shower, hot black ceffee. and a bed for the night. His clothes are taken and returned th- next day, washed rnd ironed. There is a fee of $1. No jail sentences or fine is im posed unless the diunk has been in a brawl, used vulgar language or been involved in a fight with a policeman. If a drunk patronizes the station too frequency he may wind up in jail. Alcoholism among Russian wo men is uncommon. I never saw a Russian woman drunk in public. I saw many men in restaurants who were rowdy and well pos tered but the uom-n accompany ing them fc med ober. The fc m ".It habitual drinkers are usii'M yiirostitutes, I was told. Th.'y have a dif'icult time plying their trade since laws against prostitution are rigidly enforced. Hotel rooms are assigned only to travelers from other cities who arc armed with passports. A prcs'itute cannot check into a hold because her passport shows a local address. Most pros titutkas las they are called' visit clients in the morning when it is easier to walk unnoticed by the Russians and i t-0,e' d,'s't cl"rks which operate City Okehs Dance License Applicant An application from a Seaside (Oregon) man for license for a public dance has been granted by the city commission. Pat Mason requested the license for a dance at the armory Dec. 4 from 9 pm. te 1 a.m. the following day. The license request was granted on the recommendation of Police Chief Oliver Reeve. Dance license fee is $5 for one night. City commissioners also will renew the city's lease with John J. Gregory for 180 acres of pasture land on city-owned property at the airport. The land, commonly known as the "airport pasture. has been leased by Gregory since Keb. 5, 1954. The commission agreed to ex tend the lease for another five years at an annual rate of $240. eventually take over the lead. I on every the United States would have to; hotel. Moor iof almost every come up with a rate of progress greater than theirs. Has the United Slates established a de velopment program capable ol pulliiig it even with the Russians? The answer, according to a noted American space scientists, is "no." According to this scient ist. Dr. Will am II. Pickering, the United Slates is not comiieling with the Russians in space. Pick ering, director of the jet propul sion laboratory at Pasadena. Calif., said this country must work harder or declare itself out of the race. In many respects U S. scientific accomplishments in space, de spite weaker muscles, have been greater than the Russians'. We discovered the radiation zones named after Dr. James A.ZVan Allen of the State University of Iowa. Americans discovered that Un earth is sightly pear-shaped. They also learned that the atmos phere is denser and hotter at satellite altitudes than had been supposed. Virtu Of Nec.stity Since the United States lacked rocket power, it made a virtue of 'necessity and carried the art of miniaturization perhaps farther than the Russians have. Where the Russians allot pounds for a specific instrument, this country can afford only ounces. U.S. scientists are fond of say ing that some American satililes and prolH'S have been "mure sophisticated" than the heavier and roomier Russian versions. Hut in space ixivver and engi neering the Russia-is have dem onstrated sensational superiority. U S. scientists were overwhelmed with admiration for the skills which enable the Russians to put a rocket behind the moon and then orient it in space for 40 min- A taxi driver who is caught procuring clients for a prostitute or permitting his cab to be used as a portiblo b'd'.oom is fined heav ily. Kor a second offense tv must serve a jail sentence and can no longer operate a taxi. Students caught associating with prostitutes are temporarily sus pended from schoo' and put on prohatirn." A thiid of ense m ans dismissal from school and "assignment" to a job. Although there are no statistics Russian students do not fre quently run cfoul o' the law. Perhaps they are too busy to get into trouble or perhaps they are awrre of what can happen to one who finds hims'df at the mercv of Russian "justice." Russian law is shot throuch with cruel inequities. Prof. Harold Herman, a professor of law at Harvard University, told me in a Moscow courtroom that "an Am erican can i appreciate what a magnificent instrument our own constitution is and how it protects the rights of the individual until he witnesses the Russian legal machinery in action. In Russia, a person susected (not convicted' of a crime may he picked up and held incommunicado for as long as a year without bene ;it of formal chargers. He cannot see family, friends or a lawyer. While he languishes in jail his accuser may be gathering all sorts of evidence against him. According to Russian law. if the prosecution does not fe-el the vr dict is hard enough, the prosecutor c?n app-al the case and try to get the punishment increase-d. A Rus sian woman may take her husband to court and charge him with rape if he forces her to have relations against her will. Incest, however ftauio launch! comtra-corning UMIK III OrouM MM Oftd Mft. Fiftt photographs ot tor tide Ot woa .r. rclMM. to world. j.'.l IJ ki . . - ... . J M.nurtt Mocmiiiori ono i , -J1' I CooonmonalTJCoBMnrortt. faity Mol L. 1 I " m li quit u moor rony m mnmm r I (('I Dodatn tot Chicogs L. frV.-i -Gowrnmtnt y jf V I Whit. So to tok. World lcCC li I J infoktt Toll Hortle Low ) 3 I Srit ii gomw. jflf.WJ 1 ,0 dockworiort itt.kt "F 1 s ""1 f y " to'' G"" t,01',' y '""" -'- y fK 1 ""N f .r.how otki ter"" i tar Le. AO.I rooat 1 I Toll Hortlfy injanchoa ' for , k.rot rrof f jTi"87iMl Anli"r "' i'nk. 1,3 14,000 Kv I I PiiCiaitw,,!!,, ESHSEI Omrt f . V ' Vo kills J; on. "" pholdt rMwit. bat 7 v , A y I fcxmd attf r. f im .owa ckoac. h -T" irona wipn ot dolM sj kwOarCoilr. ortockt U $. ttnkt onrart 1 1 1 rti dof f . Tillogat oa ml cost! ot 1 Iw Uall.t "koarkiags" -X y m aionrti andt; (fioauaai Matrto; daota toll ta.rad ( Moron, "T yC. ia ralotod indottna ' ' ia Hiwiiondl, P- .'JL-Pf j', r , or. told orf. Here in Union County with tne Farmer Merchant banquet, the Chamber of Commerce farm tour and other events that link the farmer with main street, we pro bably have one of the strongest programs in the state. If other areas could be as familiar with the farm problems as this one. e certainly wouldn't have the problems we have now statewide, and nationally. It is significant to note that in our Ten-Year Planning Confer ence report under industrial de velopment, the committee recog nized that our farm lands was the most important county resource we have. The committee report states, "When we think of indus trial development, our thoughts automatically turn to smoke stacks, large factories and con gested areas. Your committer feels that this is not so; that farming is our largest industry I; we could add $10 income per acre to our tillable land, our income would increase by almost S2.000.000. We therefore, believe that a large area of potential in come lies in increased producti vity brought about by new crops or new varieties of crops This is the season for annual and statewide meetings. Of im portance to this area are the an nual Seed League meeting to be held in Corvallis. on Nov. 30 through Dec. 2. The annual Wheat League meets in Pendic le n from Die. 3. through 5. Both are going to be well attended by farmers and others from this area. By attending the annual meet ing of the Oregon Weed Confer ence we were hnmcht un on omc of the latest methods on chemical weed control. The re searchers and chemical represen tatives came up with a list of new chemicals as long as your arm, some of which would fit into our a-ea quite well. I find though, that all of us, at least in Eastern Oregon, have one common foe that is chcatgras,s. A number of good results have been obtain ed by using a new chemical At razine on wheat and some of our grasses. They did find detrimen tal results on the use of the chem ical on bluegrass. One of the farmers in the Med ford area, has been doing a good job using Karmex, but this must be used in conjunction with ex tensive irrigation. OBITS United Pr.ts International 1NDI ANAl'OUS 'll'l' Re lired bi -hop Titus Lowe. 81, for mer notio'ial head ol t'.-.e Method ist Church, died Kri.'ny in a hos pital here SARANAC I.AKK. N. Y. iUpi George 'icter Martin, 58, au thor of "The Bells of St. Ma-y's" and "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes." committed strcide in his room at the Will Rogers Memo morial Hospital here, it was re vealed Friday. pkthi.i:iii:m. pa. wvi - Percy F. Albee, 74, no'ed artist, died Thursday at his home near Spring! own. NORSTAD HONORED LISBON 1 UPI ' The Portu guese government bcstuej the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Aviz on Gen. Lauris Norstad. Supreme Allied commander in Kurope. in cercm.niies Friday. Producers who had milk cows in the county who made that hon or roll in Dili A testing for the I dairy business. month of August was Al Miller with three cows. In September, Miller had one and C'ictus Hoh sladt had one. In a partial re port fur October, Hohstadt had four cows. These nine cows be longing to these producers pro duced a total of 19.4116 pounds of milk and 744 pounds of butter tat. We have "()-cow herds in Ore gon that do not make this pro- ductson and this is another ex ample of why it ":ivs to carry on a ti-sting program if you are f" ing to continue si;., in,: in the EOC Instructor ' To Attend Meet Miss Alenc Gossage, Eastern Oregon College assistant profes sor of education and supervisor of teaching, has been invited to attend an executive meeting of the National Educational Asso ciation in Washington, D. C Jan. 710. Miss Gossage is one of two na tional delegates recently appoint ed to the executive position in the NEA Kindergarten-Primary department. The NEA department is con cerned with emphasis on the values and promotion of kinder garten programs throughout the United Stales. Is considered "a family affair" and seldom reaches the courts. The mest shocking aspect of Russian "justice" is the parasite law. Every factory, collective farm or working unit has its own small committee. If this commit tee dcides bv a majority vo'c that a person unde-r its jurisdiction is not putting in an honest day's work, he is labeled a parasite and can be sent to a labor camp. A parasite has no recourse: the decisicn of the committee is final. I learned not only that loafers were banished in this way. but also people suspected of prostitu tion, dope-peddling, b'ack-markct-ing and ticket scalping. When I asked a Russian judge what would prevent an affluent man in a com munity from framing and railroad ing out of town the husband of a woman he desired, he shrugged his should'-'rs and said "Eltah jahl." (Tco Bad.) When I inquired about the penal system in Russia, I learned it is one of the mast enlightened and advanced in the world. This repre sented a challenging adjustment in my thinking. It was astonish ing that a country whos r-rchaic laws trample on the basic rights of the people shou'd be so ad-: vanced in terms of punishment. Russian prisoners are often re habilitated. They work and learn. They are paid $100 a month, $80 of which goes to the family. Thus prisoner's family does not be come the ward of the state. If a prisoner has no trade when he enters he has one when he leaves and is well equipped to be a useful citizen. The cell system has long been abolished and prisoners slevp in dormitories. Married men may have their wives visit them over night a few days every month. They are provided with private quarters and the government pays for the wile's transportation. A' Russian attorney told me: "American prison authorities ig ror the basic emotional instincts in men. One of the main worries a man has when he is in prison is what his wife is doing in his absence. If he is permitted to be with her. this solves the problem from both sides. "This eliminates the problem of homosexuality which we undiT stand is a big problem in Ameri can prisons." W hen a man has served his time, his record is "clean." His prison record does not appear on his internal passport or his work record. , Tomorrow A vitrt to a Ru- ti.in ham. SIP fey iwttilM ROY SAYS: Since our introduction oi STP which is the motor oil additive in this area, there have been many other simi lar products introduced, some of which have made un warranted claims of results. THERE IS N9 SUBSTI TUTE FOR STP! What Will "STP" Do For Yon? "STP", Scientificaly Treated Petroleum. A GERMAN DEVELOPMENT, is Mir; petroleum and will blend with all petroleum base oils. DO NOT BE ALARMED at using "STP" because of its thick nature. "STP", a pure petroleum product, is the result of a catalytic action which changes the molecular structure of the original product, it is a concentrate and is meant tu be used with other oil. "STP" it to b. utod with any luba oil in any engine; for cart, trucks, tractors, diatalt, aircriH, marina motors, lawn mow.rs, larg. or tmall engines, two or four cycle, v.hicular or stationary, burning any typa fuel, giso!ine, diesel, L-P , gat or natural gat. "STP" was initially developed as a super lubricant, has a very hinh film strength and can with stand great pressures and high heat and thus prevent metal to metal contact of surfaces under friction. "STP" has thousands of uses, can be us ad wherever oil it used, with the astur anca that friction will b reduced and that conttant lubrication will be main tained under all conditions. WE CAN SHOW YOU LABORATORY TESTS "STP" has been proven by laboratory tests, to raise the viscosity of oils at high operat ing temperatures where other oils thin out and only under the most severe conditions of low temperature, is it necessary to drop to a lower weight oil. This of course is a procedure that would be followed even where "STP" is not used. This impartial lab oratory report by the engineering depart ment of a recognized university, is avail able on request. LESS GUM, SLUDGE tnd CARBON! Laboratory analysis of crankcate oil in all typat of engine! are conttantly demont'rtr. ing. the fact that l.tt gum, sludge and car bon are found present whan "STP" it uted in th. crankcate, as compared to standard lube programs. il FOR NEW MOTORS "STP" maintain! a better ring teal on high compression enginet at ill operat ing temperatures. "STP" reduces carbon formation, keeps tpark plugt clean and maintains original compression ratio to prevent ping and knock. 1 FOB OLD MOTORS "STP" keept a conttant lubricating film on hydraulic valv. lift.rs and reduces wear. "STP" will rettora original performance, reduce axcttiv. oil us. and provide eas ier ttarting by giving a better ring seal and therefor, higher compression and higher oil pressure. "STP" raducat existing carbon forma tion, ttopt blow by and improvet operat ing economy. "STP" makes old motors run smoother and quieter. Ask Your Garage or Service Station For IF THEY DON T HAVE IT, SEE US! 'STP" ROY FARNUM 1414 Adams SUPPLY WO 3-2123