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iwvtr. It Grande, Ore., Sat., Pec. 5, 1959 Pfl,
gEW PEARSON SAYS:
Italian President To Back
Ike On Cold War Thaw
Drew Pearson It en JO-d'tr "take an important, perhaps i
'our of Europe end Asia to '" evolutionary, proposal namely,
erview the leaders of the 11 'hat Moscow eoi.perale too. The
countries Pret de.it Eiscnhow- '.inly way to cut out risky corn
er will vUit, fnd to report on 'ictilion between the USA and
whet they will talk about.) 'he I'SSR is to Itet them working
HOME If Kurup nn ;n.d Asian toitether. Instead of competing
leaders speak as frankly to I'"'- wi,n eiiC'n othr ,0 build dams and
'dent Eisenhower: as. thus far. bridges, supply dictors and tech
Europeans havo i,. ,. he willinicians to Africa and Asia, firnn.
lind far more opposition to his
thaw of cold war than he ever
dreamed. However, one man hu
"l vigorously support him
resident Giovanni
Italy.
I talked to President Gronchi in! cooperate in improving the world.
hi believes, they should pool op
erations. Since Russian and Am
erican scientists arc pooling ef
forts on peacetime atomic ener-i
Cronhi of:y. radiation, cancer and other.
dread diseases, tney should also!
Wo Quirinal, once the residence
of popes, then of Kins Victor
Emmanuel and, after World War
II. the American Embassy. Its
high ceilings and stem corridors
re a little too formal fr an
Italian president who lived under
ground during the war, has
taught school, sold neckties, and
was a traveling salesman for a
paint factory. So he lives in his
own heme.
Gronchi has friendly blue eyes,
white hair, and a ruddy face that
doesn't show the 70 years he has
spent battling for democracy.
When he receives President Eis
enhower, he cou!d well thank
Ike for appointing an ambassador
'l.o elected him president. Ob
viously Gronchi won't do this,
but it was Ambassador Clare Luc-
e's widely known opposition to
Gronchi when he was speaker of
the Chamber of Deputies that
backfired and cuused Italian de
puties to rebuff American inter
ference by electing a man the U.
S. Ambassador opposed.
Mrs. Luce had opposed him
because Gronchi was "to the left."
He still is. He more than ful
filled her fears by proclaiming in
bis inaugural address amilitant
policy for helping the working
classes.
He still believes the only way
to lick Communism is to steal its
thunder by winning over the mas
' aes. Moreover, he's a militant
believer that the president of It
aly should be no figurehead. So,
practicing what he preaches, in
one year he delivered more im
portant speeches than any other
European president in a whole
term,
In doing so Gronchi hasn't wor
ricd about disagreeing with his
own government leaders and is in
vigorous disagreement with them
right now regarding the Eisen
hower policy of closer cooperation
with Russia, , -.'i
Similar Differences
The difference between him
and Premier-Antonio S?gni, both
leaders of the Christian Demo
crat party, is similar to the dif
ference between I'resident Eisen
hower and the Goldwater-Bridges
wing of the Republican party. It's
also similar to the split running
right through Europe on the ques
tion of thawing the cold war. On
one side Eisenhower and Bri
tain's Macmillan favor the thaw,
or. the other side France's De
Gaulle and West Germany's Ad
enauer believe such a thaw would
be deceptive and dangerous and
they want to continue the cold
war. Italy's leaders arc divided
between the two.
Unlike Eisenhower, who would
not go tp the National Airport to
welcome President Gronchi when
he arrived in Washington, Sept. 30,
Granchi went to the Rome Airport
to welcome Ike. When the two nvn
find some time alone, Ike will
leam some interesting things
from the former schoolteacher
who now heads Catholic Italy.
The U.S. president will learn
first of Gronchi's own plans to
visit Moscow Jan. 8. Almost im
mediately after Khrushchev ar
rived in Washington in Septem
ber, the president of Italy decid
ed to visit Moscow, even though
his decision brought great oppo
sition from within his own cabi
net. The cabinet finally decided
it couldn't stop Gronchi from
traveling wherever he wished, but
it voted categorically that Khru
shchev should not be invited to
return Gronchi's visit.
To have Khrushchev visit
Rome, the cabinet decided, would
mean thousands of wildly cheer
ing Italian Communists, led by
Communist leader Palmiro Tog
liatli, lining the streets. Italy
has the second largest national
Communis party in the world and
the cabinet didn't want to en
courage it. Gronchi sincerely
disagrees. He believes that, when
tn exchange of visits with Khru
shchev becomes commonplace and
lelations with Moscow are friend
ly, all the steam will evaporate
f om the Communist party. It
would have no reason for being.
Many Christian . Democrat lead
ers agree with Gronchi, but cer
tainly Premier Segni doesn't.
Foreign Aid
Gronchi wi'i also tell Ike that
Italy is delighted to cooperate in
giving aid to 'underdeveloped
countries on an international ba
sis and he'll doubtless diplomat
ically remind Ike that Foreign
M.mster Giuseppe Polla proposed
exactly this to John Foster Dul
les two vears ago and got brush-
But. regarding foreign aid on a
foopenilivc basis Gronchi will
Gronchi believes the tbaw with
Russia is already here. It's a
fact that we must recognize.
Therefore we should Us it, not
oppose it. Russia has made tre
mendous headway economically
since it quit using force and, with
atomic war so castarophic as to
be impossible, we have no choice
hut to work at peace.
Those sentiments, essentially
similar to Eisenhower's, are what
Ike will find when he talks to
the president of Italy.
The two men will also find
something else in common fish
ing.
"I like fishing," Gronchi told
me, "because it requires the vir
tue of knowing how to wait. It's
a quality fundamental in a polit
ical man. I fish a lot."
Gronchi has been fishing in
troubled waters ever since, as a
young Catholic leader, he buck
ed the Mussolini regime. He
has waited a long time, but his
patience paid off.
's Yank Kidnaping Showed Chinese
Commies' Contempt For India
BIS GAIN Klco Halm (83), Texas end, flys through the air after being hit by Texas
A&M's Robert Sanders (30) in the annual Texas-Texas A&M Thanksgiving-Day game
at College Station, Tex. Halm was downed on the A&M ten yard-line after catching
a 15-yard pass. Texas won 20-17 and thereby earned a chance to meet Syracuse in
the Cotton Bowl.
Foreign News Commentary
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The Red Chinese kidnaping o(
an American Marine sergeant in
Bombay was more than just an
other pin-pricking attack against
the United States. It was another
way of showing the Reds' con
tempt for India.
It also seems to have a paral
lel to Red Chinese tactics at the
time of Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's visit to the United States
last summer.
At that time it seemed Rus
sia's Asia ally deliberately was
stepping up its attacks and
threats against India's border in
an attempt to muddy the Eisen
hower Khrushchev Camp David
talks.
The Bombay incident, coining
only days before Eisenhower's
visit to New Delhi, also seems de
signed to muddy the talks be
tween Eisenhower and Indian
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neb
ru.
It seems entirely probable no
that the Red Chinese double-defector
who anneured ut the I'.S.
comu'ut" in Bombay asking asy
lym and who then dunged his
mind, was part of an elulwriite
plut with several ramifications.
It enabled the Red Chinese to
bring their own charges of "kid
naping" against the U.S. on. In
dian soil.
Probably more by luck than
planning, it also enabled them to
lay hands on the American ser
geant assigned to guard him, a id
then to man-handle him in a way
unthinkable in most c'vilizcJ
countries.
Since the United States govern
ment has a right to exect that
its nationals will be protected by
CRASH KILLS 74
HUANUCO, Peru l'PI A bus
plunged into the Huallaga River
near here Tuesday, killing 12
women and 2 children
REMEMBER WHEN
Elgin People Are
Visiting Kin In
Portland Area
ELGIN' (Special Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Gibson, Albany, have
left for their home after spending
the hunting season with their cou
sins, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Glas
son.
Mr. and Mrs. Kip Kendall, Mi
nam, have left for Portland for
10 days visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Burton and
Mrs. Dorolha Lea Davis attended
an OKS reception in Condon re
cently, honoring Mrs. Florence
Jaeger, Associate Grand Conduct
ress of the Grand Chapter. Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Anson, Stanficld
accompanied the group.
Ernest Adams and Frank Show
ers left recently for Salmon, Idaho,
where they will be employed sev
eral weeks.
. 25 vears ago, Mrs. C. E.
Lewis and her two children, Bel
va, 13, and Jack 11, residents of
Marr Flat in Wallowa County,
were lost in a snow storm for
three days and two nights. Their
auto became stuck in a high drift
and they had only a few apples
to sustain them. They managed
to hike to the Mat Isley larm
Residence after the ordeal.
The La Grande Rotarians plan
ncd a Christmas party for 35
youngsters here, with each Ro-
tarian to bring along a boy be
tween the age of six and nine
to a club luncheon. J. Donald
Myers and Angus McAllister
were in charge of the program.
. 15 years ago, an Island City
serviceman, Cpl. George layler,
21, was awarded the Air Medal
for his action as an engineer-gunner
in a B-17 Flying Fortress with
the Eighth Air Force in Eu
rope. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. S. Taylor.
Tribute was paid In Orval Wil
lard Trump, 22, U.S. Navy man
stationed in the Atlantic area. He
was scheduled to receive a med
ical discharge for service injur
ies. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Trump and husband of
the former Grace McVay.
Clarence Carter was installed
as mast'T ol the Blue Mountain
Orange for the sixth consecutive
ear.
Recall Terse Eisenhower Letter
To Russia When Hungary Invaded
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Staff Writer
"We have been inexpressibly
shocked. . I urge in the name
of humanity and in the cause of
peace that the Soviet Union take
action to withdraw Soviet forces
from Hungary immediately. . ."
President Eisenhower in a letter
to Soviet Pieniier Niko'ai liulsaj
in, Nov. 4. I'.ijti.
"We sha'l rever forego our ide
ological principles. We are wag
ing and shall wage an impraca
ble struggle for the Marxist-Leninist
ideology, for the triumph of
the ideals of Communism." So
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
before the Communist Party Con
gress in Budapest. Dec. 1, 1S59.
When Eisenhower wrote his let
ter to Bulganin, up to 200,000 So
viet troops with 1.600 to 4,000
tanks were laying waste Budapest
and resistance centers throughout
ike Will Give NATO Much
Thought On Overseas Junket
TO TEST ATOMIC DEVICE
BONN. Germany tUPIt Fed
eral Press Chief Felix Von Eck
ardt said Thursday West Ger
many will not oppose French
plans to test an atomic device in
the Sahara Desert next year.
WALLOWA COUNTY VIEWPOINTS
Short Course For Stockmen
Planned For WSU Dec. 7-11
By ELGIN CORNETT
And
JOHN KIESOW
Wallowa County Atents
WALLOWA (Special" - Washing
ton State University will hold the
10th annual Stockmen's Short
Course Dec. 7 to 11. After this
year it will only be held every
other year. Those who keep intend
ing to go can stay home again this
year, but won't have anything to
stay away from next year.
Bulb bullies and bonds show
more interest with age. Uncle Sam
now pays higher Interest on new E
and II Savings Bonds. Starting last
June first, they earn i per cent
interest regardless of the printing
on the bond a one half per cent
raise. Old bonds will draw the
same increase above the going
rate reached according to date
issued.
Ftom low attendance at Wallowa
County Wheat Growers annual
meeting recently it would apiear
there is little concern in hat
goes with the half cent promotion
tax paid on each bushel sold.
Guessing from the wheat yield.
Wallowa county will contribute a
bout $2,500 this year.
Oregon Wheat League annual
meeting is to be in I'endletiKi 4
and 5 and a few of the home folks
may attend. We have one conflict
in the Grain Growers annual meet
ing set for Dec. 5 at Enterprise.
Beef promotion is another pro
grain going on for one commodity.
Ranchers voted down a tax system
but a program is about ready to
handle ten cents a head on sales
for any rancher who cares to pay
it along with his brand inspection
fee.
Most popular use for beef pro
motion funds now is through the
Cowbelles t women cattle assocj.
at ion auxiliary). They have been
able to spark a lot of expensive
beef advertising by retail or,.s
They also advocate beef for Fath
er's Day. for Christmas and any
other time.
II is all part of game to find
which package a food shopper ill
pick up before she reaches the
bottom of her purse.
We read about contaminated
cra-ilwriics, Ihe.i abmil the unirr
hazard in lipstick, and wonder
what a man has left to be thank
ful for on Thanksgiving.
Fall is a good time to look for
red berries on common barberry
bushes and spot location of this
host to wheat rust.
The organized program to locate
unwanted barberry plants in Wallo
wa county last spring was helpful
but unlocated plants remain.
Since numy ornamental barbery
shrubs are the harmless Japanese
type, it complicates the job of loca
ting harmful ones. One rule is to
leave those with single stem ber
ries and take out those With
clusters.
The past season uas not a rust
epidemic year such as Hijft because
of cool spring weather.
A rust spore rap on a wind
vane was checked daily by Harvey
Foster at the Dobbin Ranch and
shows no imiHirtant rust load was
carried in the air. Other coopera
tive spore stations in Oregon and
Washington gave similar results
this season.
I There is enough common bar-
Tiorrv left to infect wheat on a
warm moist season.
Good news came to the 4 11
office last week from Joe W. Jar-
vis, supervisor of livestock and ag
riculture of the Union Pacific
Railroad.
The letter informed us the
"Union Pacific Railroad Scholar
ship" has been increased to $200
The scholarship is awarded annu
ally to a 4-11 member and FFA
member in each county where the
railroad has a line.
Applications are due February
15, litiO.
Extension and FFA personnel
from Wallowa, Union and Baker
counties met recently at Wallowa
last week to discuss the Eastern
Oregon Livestock Show.
Some thirty 4-H and FFA mem
bers enter this show each year
from Wallowa County. The sale at
this show has been good, but .we
still lack Wallowa county support.
At the County Wheal League
meeting it was decided to have an
open class cake contest again next
year.
Myron Pace has dine a line Job
on this contest and has arranged
or some siie.ible .n-.li premiums
Foreign News Commentary
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Staff Writor
How much longer can NATO be
held together?
It's a real question, and one
that I'resident Ei.icnhower must
ponder in the coming days as he
mines along the route of his li
mit ion good will tour toward a
Western summit meeting in Paris
on Dec. 1
The Norlh Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization, put together in the
Spring of lirtit as the backbone of
Western defenses against Commu
nist expansion, is getting tattered.
Last week, a powerful newspa
per voice in Britain, Lord Beaver
brook's Daily Express, said edi-
MUDDY
Continued From Pago 1
where people of a school district
have not been allowed to vote on
their wishes, if such a requ-st has
been made, on the disposition of
their school so long as all the
legal steps had been properly
taken within the framework of the
school law.
"Baker and Union County rec
ords have been checked, by writing
to county officials, asking for cvi
dence of any such denials. We
have a reply on file from the
county school superintendent of
Union County and' the county
judge of Baker County, and.
according to these replys. there
never has been an instance wher
a school district has been denied
the right to vote when such a
vote was legally requested.
"We do not feel that we have
received a fair shuttle and that
the law did not intend that the
Reorganization Committees should
take matters in their own hands
and disregard the wishes of the
people."
(The Observer is compiling
material for an informative
series of articles on school re
organiiation and the many
problems that (ace this stalt
legislative-enacted measure.)
torially "Britain would be well ad
vised to move out of NATO altogether."
Some Troops Unusable
In event of Soviet attack, he
said, NATO would find its Belgian
and Dutch troops "unusable."
He said NATO's first line of de
fense is manned entirely by the
troops.
He went on to condemn "the
moral disengagement" of certain
NATO nations "apart, perhaps
from the United States and Can
ada."
NATO's founding cornerstone
was tear ol l omniums! aggres
sion. And the unity of NATO
members has ebbed and flowed
with the ebb and flow of the cold
war. Now that fear once more has
receded, NATO's weaknesses be
come the more apparent.
The London Daily Express was
expressing common British resent
ment at "all the blocking tactics
of diplomacy" used by France
and West Germany to delay a
summit meeting with Russia.
West Germany will fall 130.000
men short at original target fig
ures French President Charles de
Gaulle has served notice that his
land, sea and air forces are not
answerable to NATO in case of
emergency.
Coupled with the "moral disen
gagement" of NATO nations has
been mounting disagreement in
the changing concepts of missile
warfare, and the rising hope that
in any such war it would be the
United States and Russia blasting
away at each other with others
escaping if they are cautious and
lucky.
NATO commanders say it won't
be that way.
Hungary where a desperate peo
ple cut off from all outside aid
were fighting a losing battle for
freedom.
Makes Cynical Statement
Three years later in the city
where the bloodletting by Soviet
troops left more than 20.000 Hun-i
garians dead, Khrushchev an-!
nounces that the Communist Par-1
ty is "now successfully accom
plishing the tasks of socialist re
construction." A more cynical statement
scarcely can be imagined, espe
cially as it must fall on the ears
of families of the victims and of
Hungarians sunk in apathy after
failure of their convulsive and
courageous grasp at freedom.
For in Hungary today there can
be no love of the Soviet Union,
nor for the Communist minority
which rules only with the aid of
60,000 to 80.000 Soviet troops who
still remain.
Khrushchev's speech to Hun
garians could only mean that for
them there could be no hope.
For the world leaders who now
are expected to meet with Khru
shchev at the summit next spring,
it was notice served once again
that even a compromise will have
a Communist price tag and that
Communist aims remain as 'they
have been domination not only
of Hungary but of the world as
well.
History's Course Unchanged
World shock at Soviet brutality
in Hungary, as expressed by Ei
senhowcr's letter to Bulganin, had
its echo in the United Nations.
A United Nations investigating
team indicted Russia in the most
biting and bitter report ever
made against a U.N. member.
But it failed to change the
course of history and reports
reaching both London and Wa.-.h
ington continue to tell of Commu
nist execution of freedom fighters.
Under sponsorship of the United
States, the U.N. is scheduled
again to discuss Hungary's plight
over objections of the Communist
bloc.
This discussion, too, is unlikely
to change materially the course
of history. But at least it can
spotlight for the Communist lead
ership the fact that the cold war
thaw and the "Camp David Spir
it" have not blinded the free
world to the crimes of "socialist
reconstruction."
County Extension
Agents To Confab
Union County Extension agents
and members of the staff of the
Eastern Oregon Experiment Stat
ion at Union will attend the annual
conference for extension workers
and experiment station personnel
in Corvallis next week
County Agents Ted Sidor. Clunk
Gavin and Jim lluher and Dr. J
A B. MacArthur and Vance l'um
pbrey of the experiment station
will attend the sessions at Oregon
State College. The conference will
open Tuesday and continue through
Friday.
Elect Director For
Union Fire District
UNION (Special! Election o!
a director for the Union Rural
Fire Protection District and a dir
ector for the Union Cemetery
Maintenance District will be Mon
day. The (Kills will be open between
2 and 7 p m. at the Union Sports
men's (Tub.
The better your horn the better your living
Shop Candy Cane Lane
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of us
when you
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for
quality
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we ever
think of
when we
think of
you!
Christmas Season
In Full Swing
In La Grande
Bright street decorations and store
windows highlight the Christines
theme in downtown La Grande's
business district these days. Adding
to the color end ectivity of the sea
son are the Friday night store open
ings. For ell your Christmas gift
giving needs this year shop Candy
Cane Lane.
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guests, a t' S. pretest to India,
would be inevitable and thus a
source i.l Unction.
Nehru Retrains Cautious
Nehru, m his u-.ujl cautiju,
vay. m l,as refused to accept
the siory of either side, and has
roted only that there appears to
be a co'dlict.
Indian rewspaiers. however,
have not been to restrained.
The Times of India said that
the inani'cr in which the US.
Ma i:ie was detained a .d tlircaU
ened with bodily injury was
"r-othi-g less than blatant viola-,
tio'i of Indian sovcre gnty."
Other Irdian comment express
ed concern that the cold '.var be
tween ti'c United States and Red
Chit a now had been carried with
in the confines of India.
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