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The Frost Is on the Pumpkinhead EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, December 9, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it gdes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager Colleges Faced With Dilemma The State Board of Higher Education is confronted with a dilemma of many horns in the next 10 years. It is created by the fact thut there will he an estima ted additional 18,500 new students ap plying for admission to Oregon's public colleges and university. There can be little douht that this figure is reasonably accurate. U may lie arrived at by projecting the known rate of increase in college students in the past 7 years from li.r.no to the Jl'. rt00 now attending our institutions ainl anticipating the increase to 11)70. That figure just alxut doubles the number of students who will have to have dormitories, and other facilities in a system that is already overloaded. I'n less immediate action is taken the situ ation shall have become impossible hv 1970. Wholly self-supporting student facili ty buildings are presently financed by gifts, grants and student-paid building fees. No tax money is used for their construction. But the board is limited to a f2t.000.000 ceiling under the present plan in general obligation bonds with which it may build such buildings. The ceiling was established by the pro visions of Article Xl-F (1) of the consti tution of the State of Oregon and nil opted by the people November 7, 19."0. It grants the Legislature authority to Iiermit the credit of the state to be loaned to finance construction of self liquidating buildings of the system of higher education not to exceed three fourths of one per cent of the total ASSESSED valuation of flie property of the state. The 1959 Legislature adopted House Joint Resolution No. 12 recommending that a constitutional amendment be su!- mitted to the people at the next regular general election to raise the debt limita tion to three-fourths of one per cent of TUL'E CASH VALUE. The new method, if approved by the voters, will then put the ceiling at near $."6,000,0()0, and per mit use of about $8,000,000 during each of the next five bienniums. The esti mated need to provide additional facilities for these new students is presently at $ 12 3:12.000. When Oregon Technical In st ilute U-comes a part of our system of higher education on July 1st, 19G0 its needs will add another $1,753,000 to that estimate. The expanded facilities will add ma terially to the research grants now coining to our colleges. This year grants from the federal government and the great foundations totaled about $5,000, ooo but in 1970 the standards of our col leges will be raised to the point that they are expected to receive about $20, 000,000. This new bonanza will, un doubtedly attract scientists of a stature previously unavailable to tench or work in Oregon. The entire program is at the mercy of the voters in 1900. Their decision will decide whether Oregon goes ahead in the field of higher education and keeps her colleges and university on a par with those 'of other states or whether she must struggle along trammelled in me diocrity in a steadily advancing' world of higher education. I U.K. No. 12 seems a bit of wisdom on the part of the IiCgislature. Without its passage education will become more ami more something that only the rich may enjoy. Failure to pass the bill can only result in a greater part of educa tion being paid for by students at an ever increasing cost. This is wrong in concept. Picking On The Poor Pacifists T.ack in New Hampshire, they're pick ing on pacifists. Attorney General Louis G. Wyman was running a subversive activities in vestigation and, having apparently run out of Communists, decided to investi gate some pacifists. Pacifists, you will recall, are those dangerous trouble-makers who believe that Christ taught there were more worthwhile things than blowing each other to smithereens. One of the pacifists, Willard Uphaus, was asked Who had attended the summer camp meetings at his World Fellowship Center in 1954 and 1955. He wouldn't tell. He didn't think the participants had done anything illegal, and didn't see why their names should be released aim held up to puuitc conicmpi ana riai cule. He was prosecuted for contempt. On 1'ec. 1 1, if he doesn't tell all to the su perior court, he will be thrown in jail, "ith all appeals exhausted. Uphaus is M ami, as he says, "In my case this may mean a life sentence." It's good to see the New Hampshire Attorney General making trouble for peace-loving old men who have Com mitted no crime. After all, if ha weren't so busy with that duty, he might be forced to prosecute some reul criminals. iVrsecution is so much more rewarding than prosecution. You don't have to go through any expensive trials. DREW PEARSON SAYS, Ike Finds Pakistan Very Jealous Of Aid To India KARACHI When President Ei enhower and 'resident Moham. mcd Ayub Khan ride through the humanity-packed streets of this Pakistcn city together, they'll present some interesting con trasts. Ayub is the son of a bug ler in the old Indian army, train ed under the British, and he grew up in an atmosphere of troop barracks and border raids Hp is tall and straight, with a guard. man's mustache, carries a swag ger stick, and looks more Brit ish than any Britisher. is currently rescending from the air en route. The problems of providing cable facilities, hotel rooms and transportation have the various local authorities more worried than what Ike wants to talk about. In Ankara, 15 extra tele phone circuits were opened to New York. In Athens,- three grandstands were erected at the airport so that photographers could shoot Ike from every angle. Also in Athens, the thoughful Greeks figured that some time Uke Eisenhower, who went to would be needed to let newsmen West Point. Ayub graduated get their hand baueaee off the Irom the British military saliool i plane, so Ike will be keDt at the airport lor 10 minutes getting re- REMEMBER WHEN at Sandhurst. But, while Eisen hower was elected president of the United States by popular vote and has adhered strictly to the parliamentary system, Ayub seized the presidency here by force 14 months ago, promptly abolished parliament, and has ruled Pakistan by martial law ever since. Absolute Dictator Today Ayub is just as absolute a dictator as is Francisco Franco in bpam or Benito Mussolini ever was in Italy. And, just as Mus- solini became famous for at least making the trains run on time Ayub is cleaning up the cilv of Karachi. Shortly before Ike's arrival here, three bus drivers and two bus conductors were arrested for draining of their vehicles' oil on the street, and Sued llvder shah of the Blue Star Pakistan hotels was arrested for playing phono graph records too loudly. The United States Supreme Court. which believes in search war rants, would blanch over the ar rests being made under this country's military law. Today for instance, the local police earched a merchant's shoD on the suspicion that he had smug Kled nylon cloth from India, and arrested him. These things naturally won't be uiscussea ly the two presidents out the growing pains of Pakistan will. This is the 12th year since this northern slice of old British India, with approximately 80.000, 000 Moslems, was amputated from India in a surgical operation which probably never should have happened. At the time it happened some 700,000 Moslems and Hindus mas sacred each other at border points wnoic li (unloads of people try' nig to cross the border were mur dered, their bodies piled so high there was not enough kerosene to burn them and crocodiles from the Ganghes river became satiat ed from feasting on the corpses. iiaie and jealousy have con tinued between the two countries ever since. Pakistan is jealous of American food shipments to In (lia, and India is resentful of United States military heln giv en Pakistan. It is carefully Dlav- ed down in Pakistan that Ike will spend four days in India and only io nere. The reason for this jealousv is the fact that the Pakistanis see India, with a population of more than 4(10.000.000. pushing their 80.000.000 to one side and be coming the dominant power in Southeast Asia. However, the one country the Pakistanis fear more than India is Russia and that is the chief reason Eisen hower is stopping here. This will also be the chief topic of i-uiiversauon Deiween Eisenhow er and Ayub. Pakistan's per capita income is only $555 a year. About 85 per cent of its people cannot read or wrue. To cure this Ayub has in stituted drastic land reforms, distributing land among the land less. However, he II argue win, ik that it takes money t0 do this, and it especially takes monev to raise me Pakistan standard of liv ing to withstand the threat of Communism. This is why Finance ....vi minister Moham med Shoaib will participate in the discussions. Pakistand-Co-Rourd Pakistanis remember with ureal affection Jim Landry, who served as U. S. ambassador for two years and now has returned to the States to publish his pa per, the Concord (N H ) Monitr In a succession of many and quick-changing ambassadors Lan Kley is remembered best ' onc of the big problems in rcset'tlin. the land is what to do wilh th. .... i ,e oig landowners. TZu- XI qUCStioned General Ayub. W ho s going to ie rar of my uncle's concubines-' About fifOO fnn 1-J ' ' ' ,u ni,rs freshments. He won't want any refreshments, but he'll have to have them anyway. OBITS United Prass International CHICAGO (UPH Dr. Ross T. Mclntire, 70. physician to President Franklin D. Roosevelt fiom 1933 to 1945, died Tuesday of a heart attack. Mclntire also was surgeon general of the U.S. Navy and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from 1938 to I'm. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) Internationally known magi cian Abel Maldonado. 63, whose stage name was "Senor Maldo," died Tuesday of cancer. ... 25 years ago. an explosion in a Cove grocery store took the life of 0. M. Gardner, prominent Cove store operator. A drum con taining gasoline exp'oded, and Lloyd Murchison, who dratwd Gardner's body from the flames, received painful burns. A total of 747 bull elk were bugged during the elk season in Eastern Oregon, with 95 of the animals shot in the' Wallowa forest area. The UP depot at Hilgard west of La Grande burned to the ground, with local firemen help ing to battle the b'aze. The prop erty was valued at about $4,000. ... 15 years ago, the Victory Ship S. S. La Grande was christ ened at Portland in honor of this city, with Mrs. Melbourne G. Buck selected as matron of hon or and Mrs. Jesse Rosebaum of La Grande to do the christening. Seventy guests bought $8,193 worth of tickets in a special war bond dinner at the Country Club. Mrs. Ann Decker was chairman of the affair. Her women's group raised $86,076.50 in the current drive. Mrs. Herbert Siegrist serv ed as dinner hostess. END OUTBREAK BRUSSELS. Belgium (UPH Colonial troops have succeeded in temporarily ending a new out break of fighting between the rival Lulua and Baluba tribes in the Congo town of Luluabourg but the state of military emergency has been extended, according to reports here today. Expect West -To Lift Arms Production Ban On Germany By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer Fram the foreign editor's not- DOOK! ' - FULL CIRCLE: L western diplomats predict a quiet, gradual lifting of reside tions on West German arms pno auction, only recently the Hell ern allies okayed German produc tion of anti-aircraft missiles. Soon they expect a request for authori zation to cooperate wilh Britain in building the "blue water" ground-to-ground artillery rocket. BRIEF CASE DIPLOMACY: ,. When Prime Minister Harold Macmillan takes off Jan. 5 on, 4 one-month good will tour of Afri ca there will be no accompany ing cargo or press planes. A sin gle chartered BOAC turboprop "Britannia" will act as "flying 10 Downing Street" for the trip. Any newsmen from Britain assigned to cover the tour will have to fend for themselves. .j HOUSECLEANING: . t The British government, having acted to modernize the country's p-ostitution and betting laws, plans to cap this with a bill lift ing some of the antiquated re strictions on pub closings. CHANGES: Look for West Germany -to make a major pitch for reorgani zation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) com mand structure when the NATO ministerial meeting begins , in Paris later this month. Germany is not seeking niwe oi a snare of NATO commands for herself. But Chancellor Konrad Ade nauers government feels that aft er 10 years the whole organiza tion needs an oerhaul to bring it up to date. Among other things, the Germans would like to see taster standardization of weapons. MORE ABOUT BERLIN: ' West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt bas hinted to friends he will re sign if the Western allies at a Summit meeting agree to meas ures which in his eyes would pave the way for a Communist take over of West Berlin. Brandt in this way would dramatize the city's opposition to Western ap peasement of the Soviets. Unemployed Pay In Oregon Climbs SALEM (UPH The number afpersons claiming unemploy ment insurance benefits in Oregon last week rose to 19,172. This was about 4.000 higher than the week before and the figure in the first week in December, 1958 was 29,-004. The Oregon Employment De partment said the current down ward trend of prices in the lumber market and inclement weather continued to curtail lumber, log ging, plywood and construction operations through the state. ed 15 per cent of wcs Pakistan land; thev kern 5iV net- .f : : . . . or 1.000 acres unirriMted The biggest estate, formerly 350000 acres, is the same si,e as 'lh, Waggcner estate once manased by rretary of the Treasury n bert Anderson in Texas Probltmt, Probltmt mom 01 the countries II. 1, visiting have suffered nunv mia. sions. They were invaded h ' Coths. Huns, Mongols i.,j. Prrsian. Creeks and Romans u.!.' never has any invasion worr,d them more than the horde ol meriran newsmen plus anmh-r small army of Europeans which How Many Shopping Days Til Christmas? ONLY 13 TO GO Why Not Take Care of Two Gifts With One Purchase? 1. 2. Give Yourself the Gift oi New Tires For Your Car. Don't Drive On Smooth Tires With Ice, Snow and the Holidays Coming On. 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