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"We Ain't Got Any Low Gear? Ml I lp j NtA Sanko, Im. x J7Y V EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Wednesday, December 16, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes' Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager A Long, Hard Road For Lumbering DREW PEARSON SAYS: Shah Of Iran Is Wary Of Strategic Red Border Area A speaker at a forest conference in Spokane last week deplored tlie bad public relations of the industry. TAbout the only thinjr which Is not blamed on the forest products industry today is spreading poison on cranberry bogs," according to Duve James of the Simpson Timber Company. James bemoaned the fact that few forestry programs were given in many civic clubs, even in communities which considered forest activity their largest industry. He also said a survey showed few, if any, members of Congress ever had a good word for the lumber industry. On an industry basis, his statements may be true, even if they are pretty strong. There are individual companies which are held in high regard. Veyerhaueser and Boise-Cascade, for example, enjoy public confidence and trust to a surpris ingly high. degree. On the other hand, there is almost universal distrust, we suspect, of the Georgia-Pacific outfit. And from an industry standpoint, a Georgia-Pacific tends to tear down a good image faster than a VVeyerhaueser or Itoisq-Cascade can build it up. The lumber industry, like some others we could name, is suffering for its sins of tho past to some degree. The old rob ber baron of 50-100 years ago is gone, but his memory lives on. Industry associations have not helped in some instances. The indefensible po sition of the National Lumber Manufac turers Association in the Klamath ter mination fight was one example. It tend ed to rub off on the whole industry. The lumber industry ifc still highly romH'titive and just as highly individu alistic. This makes it even more difficult for anyone to do a very good public re lations job for the industry. Some pro gress has been made, to be sure, but it's a long, hard road. Ike's Reception Surprises Even Critics The. tremendous warmth and enthusi asm of the reception given to President Eisenhower on his current tour lias come as a surprise to many Americans, even Eisenhower critics, who exacted no thing like what has happened. The reception itself, in every country Ike has visited to date, has brought up some questions. What, for example, does this do to the stories mhny of Us have Ih'oii hearing for .a number of years, that Americans no longer have any influence in India? When lMi million Indian people can gath er along a 14-mile route to cheer our IVesident, is all our influence gone? Certainly, Ike has not been greeted with "American, go home" signs any where on hia tour. Part of this is due to the man, of course. The Presideent has been a symbol in many overseas areas for many years, a symbol of American desire for a last ing peace. Too, he has a personal mag netism which is very attractive to most 'people. Abut this cannot totally account for the warmth of his receptions on his cur-' rent (our. Part of it, at least, demonstrates an affection for the country he represents. And this in itself is a heartening sign, perhaps even a surprising one to those of us who have read "The Ugly Ameri can" and listened to Senator Morse. This tour has been a sort of personal diplomacy rarely engaged in by Ameri can Presidents. The way things are turning out. per haps it should have been done oftener in the past. Guess Egg Plant Is Due Next Well, back to butter and off the niar gerine. Someone said animal fats tend to cause excessive cholestrol in the blood and someone else said too much cholesterol causes hypertension, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Put the Food and Drug Administration steps in and says using vegatable oils in lieu of butter and lard may make you fat, but final proof is not in that the choles terol in animal faU increases the chol esterol in the human system. That is because the body itself manu factures cholesterol. The government doctors say it hasn't been proved that eating vegetable oils will, as claimed, reduce or control cholesterol. The FDA doesn't predict what research may dis cover in the future. But as of now, the evidence doesn't point to butter and milk as the villains. The FDA, that is the agency that got after the cranberry growers, had some thing to say about chickens also. It seems the substance being injected into chickens to make them grow more white meat tends to cause cancer in rats too. So out it goes. Chickens treated with it will lie bought up by the government and chickens for sale from now on will be perfectly safe. Tli is research into what is and is not wfi to eat goes on apace and we can expect any item in our diet to be next on the suspect list. We wonder if they W working on egg plant Certainly wouldn't miss it When deer hunting season is on, it's smart for everybody to duck. TEHERAN The shah of Iran may have been in the headlines of late because of his interest in' a beautiful student of architecture who will soon become his third wife. However, discussing with me the problems he was to dis cuss with President Eisenhower he showed far more interest in his 1.000 mile border with Soviet Russia. "I am not worried about Pres ident Eisenhower talking with Premier Khrushchev regarding a Iroad to peace," he told me. "If uiene iwo ureal nations can Iind the way to peace it will be much better for the rest of us. If there is one chance in a hundred of peace, then we should explore It Hut we must look for deeds, not words. "The Lnited States is not go ing to make a deal over our heads," the shah continued. "We have too much confidence in you We know your long record of try ing to help others." The young man who mles the oldest kingdom in the world spoke with great sincerity and great lu cidity. His dark eyes looked out from under deep black eyebrows. He sat in a palace built of the most beautiful pale green ala busier I have ever seen surround ed by a courtyard of stately cy prus trees and a lawn trimmed with rows of red salvia. His ma jisty's desk was of inlaid moth er-of-pearl and the motif of his office was the famous Lion of I'ciMa carrying a sword brandish ed in front of the rising sun. Grateful to U.S. Aionammca iteza ranievi m only 41 years old but has reigned over Iran ever since he was 24. At that time, 1941, the British ;ind Russians forced his pro-German father to abdicate. Having studied in Europe and having visited in the United States three times, he knows the problems facing President Eisenhower al most as well as some members of the White House. It's easy to criticize Amer ica, he told me. "Everyone does it. And I don't like to do it. But it seems to me you have to make up your minds who you are going to help. You have tried to please everyone. You've giv en a little here and a little there. And who is grateful? We are, and the Turks are. But who else? mere are a lew key spots which are vital to the defense of the free world and you are go ing to have to decide on which you will concentrate. "I am not worried about atom ic war," continued the young monarch who obviously has made a careful study of war strategy. "What worries us is a Korea-tvne of war. Iran doesn't want to become another Korea or an other Indo-C'hina. "We probably won't be at tacked. We would be infiltrat ed," said the shah, who rules ov or a country with a large Kurdish population which has been assi duously. cultivated bv the Soviet II so, you wouldn t drop an A homb to defend us. You would do what you did in Lebanan. ou have a pact with us re quiring you to come to our de- tense it we request it, as you did with Lebanon. When Lebanon requested it you waited several weeks, then landed 10.000 men. They stayed about a month and then withdrew. That operation cost you about $180,000,000. Knows Strategy Now, for $180,000,000 or even considerable less," said the shah. we can maintain a well equip ped, tough army of 300.000 men which will be ready every min ute, without delay, to defend this corridor which reaches down to the Persian Gulf. You know- how strategic it is." Are you going to toll this to President Eisenhower?" I already have last year when 1 was in Washington." What did he say?" He listened carefully and took some notes." Hid you receive any more aid?" "A little." replied the shah, but the president has a great many problems to consider. I can't expect him to remember everything. However, 1 shall dis cuss it with him again." Since the shah was last in Washington Russian arms have been pouring into Iraq on the western border of Iran and into Afghanistan on the east. This with Russia on the north, almost surrounds Iran on three sides. "Russia has sent Afghanistan 60 MIG-17's," said the shah when I asked him about this, "together with 25 Aleutian bombers plus some jet trainers and transports. We have received 60 old F-84's from you and not a single bomb er. "In the 17 years you have been helping us you will have built onlv one airdrome which will not be finished for two months Meanwhile, you have already built one in Afghanistan while Russia has built two there and two more in Iraq. "There are some people in Am erica," concluded the young man who has been offered all kinds of aid from Moscow but has re fused to accept it, "who want to build fortress America. They want to retreat to your old iso lationist policy and rely solely on long-range missiles. When and if that time comes, will you really be able to defend yourselves? "Are you going to give up all your friends and allies and just depend on missiles? Can you put your reliance solely on atomic war?" These are some of the piercing questions which the young ruler with the black piercing eyes was sure to ask of President Eisenhower. Meanwhile, the shah has not been idle in building his own defenses against Communism, and they will be described in an ear ly column. 'Peace' Will Be Theme By Ike At Western Summit Conference By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writtr President Eisenhower this week leaves behind the pomp, pageant ry and adulation of millions of Asians for an even more exacting assignment in his role as cham pion of peace. As he moves to Paris and a meeting of the Western summit, peace still will be his theme. But this time it must be applied to the United States' West European Allies whose unity is threatened as it probably has been at no time since the end of World War II. It was a flower-strewn path that Eisenhower trod last - week. He carried only one message his own and the United States desire and determination for world peace. Governments, from Rome, through Anakara, Karachi. Kabul and New Delhi might have pre ferred a firmer line from the touring President of the United States, a definition in terms of dollars, military aid and binding agreements. Adorations Mount But whatever the leaders might have desired, there was no deny ing the response of millions whose adorations mounted in direct pro portion to their poverty and'fears. For example. New Delhi. . . "Food. . .family. . .friendship . . .and freedom," he told them, are mightier weapons for peace than all the armies and bombs. The gigantic throng's roar of approval was proof of the respon sive chord he struck. This was the Eisenhower for mula. This was how he projected his image upon millions of Asians as a man dedicated to pulling the world out of a morass of fear, bitterness and suspicion. It drew from the usually re served Prime Minister Jawahar lal Nehru: -' - "You have found an echo in the hearts of our millions and I hope and believe your coming here will be a blessing to us and a blessing to all." To Moot KJirvsh ' And it was on this basis' tTiat Eisenhower intended to meet -Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the summit, making Khrush chev a self-appointed but n long er generally accepted spokesman for the backward nations and the have-nots. l ', This was the first phase .of ne 11-nation Eisenhower, tour which would extend on through Tehran and Athens, and wind up finally in Paris. r Its success as a psychological weapon against expanding com munism certainly could not . have been anticipated during the plann ing stages in Washington. And certainly it has not left Moscow unaware of the gains the President has made. Enters Uncertain Orbit This .week when Eisenhower boards the U.S. cruiser Des Moines and heads westward across the Mediterranean, ne leaves the crbit of the little man and heads into a far more uncer tain one. In Paris, he meets with Presi dent Charles de Gaulle of France and Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan of Great Britain in a con ference widely heralded as a prel ude to a meeting at the summit with Khrushchev in the spring. Here the man who won the hearts of Asian millions as a champion of peace must call forth all his noted talents tj heal a dangerously widening breach. It is a conflict of personalities and national interests which have allowed the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance to weaken as fear of ag gressive communism has de clined. Storm center is de Gaulle. Singles Out Franco U.S. Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining put the finger square ly on . France last week as the core of mounting NATO weak ness. In London, mounting annoyance with de Gaulle led one influential newspaper to suggest it is time for Britain to pull out of NATO altogether and to fall back upon its commonwealth and U.S. ties. NATO headquarters itself has said that only West German troops now provide NATO's first line defenses in the West, that others could not be relied upon and that failure to meet commit, ments soon will, if it already has not. leave NATO incapable of ful filling its role in case of attack. Of all the NATO nations who agreed in principle to the estab lishment of U.S. atomic-capable, missile bases on their soil, the only ones to do so are Britain, Italy and Turkey . ARRIVES FOR TALKS COPENHAGEN (UPI) Unit ed Arab Republic Foreign Minis'" tcr Muhmoud Fawzi arrived here Sunday night for talks with Dan ish official on a variety of issues including the recent seizure of the Danish ship Inge Toft at the Suez Canal. ' a r - - - - Cargo plant craihi into Chicogo rwtMnctt, 11 killed. Russia tittnd cultural and scientific txchongt ram for two years. 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I Gult ot Meiico, tilling 42. jf tnipt in Pons mo. tpr in Belgion Congo. , feNtWSMAT REMEMBER WHEN . . 25 years ago, La Grande High school walloped North Powder by a 39-16 score in a mild upset. Powder was favored sligh tly due to an experienced squad but first-game jitters and off- shooting figured heavily. Pacing the Tigers were DeBoie, Stitt Bean, Insith and Shultz. The D. D. Club met at the home of Mrs. Carl Posey, with Mrs. Galen Durkee as club guest. Bridge was featured, with Mrs. Nolan Skiff winning high and Mrs. Philip Walnum second high. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hagey asid their home would be the scene of a Christmas party, with Mr and Mrs. Francis Sullivan as co- hosts. , . . 15 years ago, Harley Smith was elected president of the Mav ericks, succeeding M. M. Chris tenscn. Others elected were B. C. Snider, vice president; J. E. Woodell, treasurer; Mrs. Tom Maxwell, secretary, and C. T. Miles, Sam Hill and H. A. Thorn- berg, directors. Two new members were initiat ed into the Eagles here. They were Fletcher Milton and H. C. Knight. The local lodge had in itiated 56 members during the fiscal period. Tribute was paid to Charles E. Rhoads, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Paddock who was serving in the Navy. He attended Imbler High School. QUOTES IN THE NEWS United Press International SAN QUENTIN, Calif. I UPI) Convict-author Caryl Chessman, vowing to keep up his 11 1-2 year fight against execution despite the U. S. Supreme Court s refusal to hear his latest appeal: "I guess we will make the rounds again, unless I feel I've had enough and I don't think I've had it yet. . .This is the merry-go-round again." AMHERST, Mass. Pianist Steven Lacy, of New York, for feiting $25 bond on a milicious damage charge but explaining in a letter to Amherst police why he hit the keys of a nightspot piano so hard they shattered: "It's a crime to expect a pro fessional musician to play on it. It's three half-steps out of tune." LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Gov. Orval Faubus, commenting on the U. S. Supreme Court's upholding a lower court that struck down the two laws he used to close Little Rock public high schools last year: i "They usually rule on things without knowing what it's about.'' NEW YORK The Columbia Broadcasting System's new an nouncement to be used when can ned laughter is utilized on comedy shows: "Audience reaction is technical ly produced." OBITS United Press International COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI I B. A Aughinbaugh, 74, developer of the 1926. first visual aid teaching program for U.S. schools, died here Mon day after a short illness. INDIANAPOLIS IUPI Mrs. Sorelle Malamed Solomon, 51, wife of Izler Solomon, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony or chestra, died Monday in Metho dist Hospital. PELHAM. NY. (UPI-James Rcss Mcintosh. 74, retired presi dent of the investment firm of J. R. Mcintosh and Co., Inc.. died Monday in New Rochell Hospi tal. Mcintosh founded the firm in NOW! 7-DAY FREE TRIAL! 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