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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1959)
'0. hf A $i.kt, Inc. EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVED Monday, December 21, 1959 0 "Wtthfe CT wfth frind or foe, we print yonr daily world as it gqs" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Crarjjr Ptan'A mrjirrx editor George Challis. ijlCcxtC'infl dirPjctor Tom Humes, circulation manager DREW PEARSON SAYS, Nasser Howling Mad Over 'Cold Shoulder' By Ike KN HOUTE When President. Somewhat like EisenhiVr be- Eisvnhowi-r flew almost over fore he became preaident arid had Cairo without stopping to call on I to be surrouned by the secret I'residi-nt Nasser, going on to lee service, the president of Tunisia President Bourguiba of Tunisia I mingles with his people, kisses Mrs. W. H. Bohnenkamp, 1866-1959 Mrs. W. H. Bohnenkamp was laid to rest today in the valley which had been. ' her home for nearly 70 years. Residents of La Grande and the valley , mourned more than , the passing of a friend and neighbor. For ".Mother" Bohnenkamp was one of the few remaiii- ingr symbols of the pioneer courage and ' spirit which contributed to the growth and development of the area. Mrs. Bohnenkamp and her husband came to l-a Grande from Iowa jn 1890. Six years later they opened the V. II. Bohnenkamp Co. The store remains today as a memorial , to the couple who fought through years of hardship to build their firm into one of La Grande's leading businesses. Kven a serious fire in earlier years failed to force them to close their doors. Mrs. Bohnenkamp's sons, Lynnc, Chase and Hal, remember their mot'uer as a good homemaker as well as business woman. All three of the bovs graduated from' La Grande High School and now operate the firm theif plafents founded. But Mrs. Bohnenkamp-found lime for civic projects as well. Riverside Park was her "ijei" project and for many years ihe served on the municipal ipnrk btfard. Mrs. Bohnenkamp ' Vdhted a ' pface where families could gather for picnics on warm summer days and where chil dren could play, free from the dangers of traffic. : As a result of her interest and efforts, Riverside Park was established and de veloped. A fitting tribute to a pioneer lady. - . No mora will she sit at the store and chat with her many friends. But Mrs. Bohnenkamp will not be forgotten. The park venture she inspired and the business she helped to build will remind futiirc generations of this valley pioneer. La Grande is a lielter place for her having lived here. DeGauIfe Wafils First What seems to be the matter with NATO? About all we hear of it concerns dissension and squabbling. The current fuss stems from a speech Gen. Nathan Twining, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, made in which he com plained about France not carrying her share of the NATO load. The speech was supposed to be Whiml doors, but it leaked out and the French are furious. Nevertheless what Twining says is true. DeGaulle won't allow NATO forces to function properly in France be cause he thinks France is not accorded a position ,pf leadership in world affairs equal to that of other nations. The big alliance, represented by NATO, suffers from more than DeGaullism, however. Sec. Herter believes the mood Fiddle Or Won't Play of the peoples in the. nations concerned h;tH changed to the point where NATO is no longer considered essential. The alliance was born in the time of crisis when the possibility of Russia attacking western Furope seemed imminent. Then the years went by and nothing happened. Kucii an attack now seems to be a remote possibility. Why. then, does NATO have to lie continued? This attitude is just what the Rus sians want, of course. NATO and its ring of air bases haue always angered the Reds. Herter and other leaders are alarmed at the public's pathetic attitude toward the continued need for a defen sive alliance. But they don't know how to change it. instead, it brought howls of rage and Indignation from the banks of the Nile. Colonel Nasser called in U.S. Ambassador Kaymond Hare and demanded that Ike stop. He said it was an affront to the most important country in the Arab bloc and the leader of the Arab world Ambassador Hare explain i d that if Ike called on Nasser he would have to balance the visit up ly calling on Prime Minister Hen Gurion of 1?-jj1. Nasser re mained ejmollified. for I'ri'Miirnt Bourguiba is just about as anathema t" him as lien Gurion of Israel. Nasser and llourguiba are chief rivals for domination of the Arab world, and to ..make clear where he stands, Nasser has given asylumn lo Hourguiba'8 chief political riv al Saal Ben Youssef, charged with attempting to assassinate Bour guiba. This not the first time Bourgui- oa has narrowly missed death. (.hiring World War IJL he was triested and ordered s'n'ot when trench agents turned up a let ter advocating open revolution against the French. At the last minute the execution was called off. liourguiba was put on trial, finally proved the letter a forgery. Again in vicny, trance, in 1U54, he was ordered shot, just as he was being led to the wall however, German staff officers stopped the firing squad. Having saved his life, the Axis ardently wooed Bourgubia with out success. He remained loyal to the trench. U.S. Flag Flies High President Eisenhower-, leaves Asia and the western Mediterraft can at a time when American; prestige and popularity is as high as any time since the war. He enters Africa when it is low. In Asia Red China's bellicose bullying of Tibert, India, Indone sia all played into Ike's hands. In contrast, Asiatic nations hitherto suspicious of the U. S., have come to realize that no strings are attached to American aid. They saw also that the land ing of U. S. troops in Lebanon was followed by early evacuation and" that this intervention may have prevented a war. On top of all Hi J (Sine the un precedented visit 'uli a president of the United States who travel ed half way around the world to pay them the courtesy of a call. It was a heartwarming climax. But in Africa the story is dif ferent.4 American prestige is low partly because Ccjonel Nasser has waged a relentless and effective campaign to keep it that way; Darllv because we hvp hiteheri our policy to the French. Even in Tnno i. where the United Stat. es operates the biggest air base in the world outside Patterson Kirld. Ohio, about AO ner cent nf the JopulalioTi is pro-Nasser. President Bourguiba and King Mohammed of Morocco both nf whom Ike visited, are two ex ceptions. Both are personally Iricndly to the United States find would like to be friendlier. Habib Bourguiba has some of the characteristics of Dwight D. Eisenhower a flashing smile and eiagnetism with crowds. Fvcrv. day crowds wait in front of his palace and at his mosque to shout hi-yah-Bourgce-bah" as he ar rives. He holds up his hands for quiet. They only shout more loudly. children, back-slaps workers, lis tens to complaints, lifts a Mos lem woman's veil, advises her "to show her pretty face, Bourguiba is a glutton for get ting to work on t"ne G.nd de mands others do the same. He even makes whirlwind inspections of government offices. There are only four million people in his desert country with an area about the size of New York state, and he knows almost every official in it. Bourguiba is 57 years old. Is married to a French woman, stu died in Parrj, yet has spent a ,od part of his life bucking the r rench. Like Prime Minister Neh ru he has also spent a good part of his adult life in jail French jails or in exile. One of his mottos is: "To treat with today's enemies never for get that they must be tomor row's friends." He is trying to follow that policy toward the French, but constant border for ays and airplane bombing Into Tunisian territory from A12firia have made that impossible. Tunisia lacks oil or other abun dant resources and has balanced its economy largely through a 5100,000,000 grant from the French. That is now cut off, and Bourguiba is going to look to Ike for help. So far the United State has tried to sit on the fence as be tween Tunisia and its unpopular uneume sovereign France. The Eisenhower visit, however, should end the straddle. It should put the U.S.A. squarely behind the most dynamic pro-Westtrner in Moslem Africa who believes that the future of North Africa is to put Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and UDya all under one country. . . . 25 years ago, an auto show was being planned here by the Mt. Emily Post Veterans of For eign Wars. The event was to be held early in the new year and would feature $e latest models in showrooms of local auto agen cies. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Shafer. Island City, announced the engage ment and forthcoming marriage of their pretty daughter, Pluma Shafer, to George Courtney, son of Mr. and Mr. J. L. Courtney, La Grande. 11 vears ai!o. savage fight ing all along the Ardennes Forest on the German-Belgium ooraer was taking place, w "i several spearheads of German armor 30 to 40 miles deep. The drive was known as the "Battle of the Bulge." The Elgin Masons installed new officers for the year. They were Haiold Oliver, worshiplul master; U.S. Affll'SStrjrfegr lo Red 07 Satil a Caoe HELSINKI. Finland UPI) U. S. Ambassador Ed son 0. Ses sions played Santa Claus today for a score of Lapp orphans who live north of the Arctic Circle. Sessions and three members of his staff flew 400 miles to Inari to delver gifts collected by mem bers of the 604th U. S. Air. Force squadron to the children at a Fin nish YMCA home. Gifts for the waifs, who range in age from, ? -to- -13. inoiudedr a record player, a slide "projector, woollen clothing and toys. This was the fourth Christmas that the 604th squadron, based in Ramstein. GermJ.iy, had sent gifts to the youngsters in the Fin nish Arctic. REMEMBER WHEN QUOTES INJ THE NEWS tQKd PreJJ ln:?rt3elorl TUCSON. Ariz. Highway Pa trolman Jimmy Williams, describ ing the ywcue efforts of police and doctors at the scene of a big truck collision that killed nine persons: Heroism:? Well. 1 saw rairoi- man (Carlton) Jones tear some metal like it was a toy to get to a 2-year-old child." BLOOMFIELD, N.M. A young child, one of about 1,000 at a huge Christmas party, breathing a sign of relief after Santa Claus emerged uninjured from a plane that had crash landed: "It wouldn't have happened if he'd used his reindeer and sled. . , HAVANA Cuban Premier Fi del Castro, asserting that one of hi? major accomplishments was making the world aware of Cuba: "Previously, North Americans would ask 'to what state does Cuba belong?' Other people would ask ' here's Cuba?' Now they know because of our revolution." 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