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
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