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LA GRANDE OBSERVER
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Friday, April 15, 1960
"Without or with friend or loe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron.
I RILEY ALLEN, publisher
Qndj PinneU, managing editor George Chaliis, advertising director
Tom Humes, circulation manager
Nowspaper Readers Grow Faster
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curing: uie past two or tnree years
we have heard several speakers claim
that newspaper circulation is not increas
ing; as fast as the national populiition.
Such titterings are especiully true of
people' who are directly or indirectly
associated with other means of com
munications. As a matter of fact, we've
heard the story so often that it became
a source of some concern.
' We even thought of going into the
diaper business since that, at least, seem
ed to have a market with .some sort of
guarantee for a few years.
But the concern has vanished. Figures
don't lie, it is said; could it be a case,
however, of where clever liars figure?
The figures employed by the speakers
turned out to be somewhat less than
unbiased.
circulated.
We handed the three year old guest
the paper and asked him to read to us.
Strangely enough, his effort to read was
earnest but doomed to complete failure.
You know what, he didn't relinquish the
paper until he hud gone through it page
by page, however.
The experiment, while not a howling
success, revealed one fact."" Newspaper
. circulations have not grown in direct
ratio to the population because newborn
Iwibies don't immediately become readers.
A U'lter yardstick for measuring valid
readership of the daily newspaper might
well be the increase of adult population
those over 18 years of age. When this
, comparison is made, it becomes increas
ingly clear that the rate of newspaper
circulation growth substantially exceeds
4hi urmt'fh if thonHnlt Tvmnlut ifin Kitiro
It is true that the national Mipulation .Uo the number of U.S. adults increased
is growing faster than the numlx-r of
newspaper readers. But the large in
crease in population comes of course
at an early age.
We had house guests from California
last night who have a small son who
hasn't started to school yet. lie is an
active contributor to the population ex
plosion of California, no less. We decided
to try an experiment to see whether
there was any basis for the stories being
HI percent. Daily newspaper circulation
in the same period has increased 43
j.er cent. That, we feel, is a more
analytical comparison,
v Now we feel much better about the
whole thing. On any given day many
.more millions of persons read a news
paper than listen to the radio, watch
television or read a magazine.
liesides, we never thought we'd like
the diaper business. It is too confining.
Cranberry Episode Was Real Booboo
it was an expensive decision that Sec
retary of Health and Welfare Hemming
made last fall when he took it upon him
self to shout a warning uhout cran
berries. It was a 10 million dollar
decision, to be nearly exact, and the
people of the country who have to pay
the bill can well wonder if it was not a in
million dollar mistake.
Most of the cranberry crop went iin
bought when Hemming hoisted his dan
ger signal. This he could have foreseen,
for who wants to eat something that
might have been sprayed with a sub
stance that tends to give cancer to rats?
Especially cranberries, which are sort of
sour anyway?
As it turned out only a small part of
the 1959 crop had been so sprayed. So
most of what was wasted, as a result of '
the scare, was perfectly good berries that
normally would bring about ?12 a barrel.
Now the government, feeling responsible
for the losses to the growers, is going
to dip into the public treasury and shell
out $8 per barrel for the unsold berries.
Hemming won't accept any blame. 1 le
f'mU to a law, passed by Congress,
which requires nor merely requests but
requires ami to give warning about any
substance which experiments show tends
to give cancer to animals, rats or other-
v ise.
Cancer experiments with animals goes
on continuously. Ix't's hope, for the snke
of our pocketbooks, that something really
abundant such as coffee or popcorn or
spaghetti doesn't give rats cancer. Com
pansation for those items would be tre
mendous. Of course there are cigarettes. T.ut
we don't have to worry about having to
compensate the tobacco companies. Cig
arettes have not been accused of giving
cancer to rats ust humans.
Barbs
A California man has left his wife
seven times and always returned. Some
limes men can't live without 'em. or
with 'em.
A youngster never should be put to
bod on an empty stomach. They sleep
I tter on their sides.
At least ten per cent of the stuff found
in a woman's purse is worth saving.
v If too many cooks really spoil the
broth the teen-age daughter will lie more
than glad to get out of the kitchen.
WillMM VUkmm Gafta
T. ioard
William H. Wilson, 2113 Sec
M4 !t.. nil been appointed to
tft city park board, tilling va
dhsw created by the resignation
t William Thomas. Wilson was
appointed by Circuit Judge W. F.
Brown ton.
CELEBRATES 101 BIRTHDAY La GrantJe Man Issued
A.-Mir.v ILLfc, i. i:. un'li
Dr. Marion C. Millendcr. oldest
living alumnus of the tniversity
of North Carolina. Wednesday
celebrated hi 101 st biithdi.y. As
long os the blood vessels hold u.
he told relatives, "u man should
go on living unless he gets killed
by un automobile."
Construction Permit
Ivan Tillery, 1201 Cedar St
has been Issued building permit
tor construction of a new dwell
ing valued at $9,300. He will
build the house at 1402 Walnut
St.
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
Old FDR Man In Headlines
Over FPC Political Deals
WASIIINGTON-The congres
sional spotlight this week will be
focused on "Tommy the Cork"
ortoian, the Roosevelt brain
t-usler who though an outinthe
old Democrat was able to in
Utence the Kcpuhlican-appoint-(Hilled
Federal Power Commis
sion.
However, the real story, which
will not he in the headlines, is the
b-iikslage maneuvering to oust
one man from that same commis
sion after he stopped the biggest
natural gas price hike in this
century. .
He is William Connole, vice-
chairman of the FPC, an Eisen
hower appointee, who is now be
ini! eased out by Ike at the sec
rel behest of Sen. 1'rescott Bush,
Connecticut Hepublican. Connole
Iso tomes from Connecticut
v here he has a long record of
ilecting the consumer which
he has continued in Washington.
Inliiiarily, the senator from any
stale is all too anxious to have
a man from his state reappoint-
d. However, it happens that
Senator Bush's son is president
.( a Has and oil company which
linked with the four gas-oil
mpanics whose price hike Con
noli helped to block. Connole
will soon lie looking for a new
job.
The inside story of what hap
encd is complicated. But it in
volves millions of dollars saved
o millions of gas consumers and
millions in profits denied to
four companies. It also involves
he vprv same gas rate fight in
uhR-h Tommy the Cork made
headlines.
Finally the story involves an
uslule move hy the White House
o appoint Harold Baynton, No.
I assistant to Sen. Warren Mag-
uson, chairman of the potent
Senate Commerce Committee, to
ill Connole's place on the power
commission. Baynton is an old
rmnan appointee, a loyal Dem-
H-at, and an able public servant.
1 he White House figures that his
ippoinlmcnt to replace Connolf
will quiet Democratic protests.
Gulf-to-Canada Pip
The real story dates back
bout five years to the plan of
Tennessee Gas Transmission to
build a pipeline from the Gulf
of Mexico to Canada, thereby
tapping both the rich offshore
Las of the gulf and rich supplies
of Canada. In case one supply
stacked off, the other could be
used. The liberal Canadian gov
ernment, now out of office.
rgrecd to build a pipeline down
to meet that of Tennessee Gas
in the longest international pipe
line in the world. It is com
parable to the Russian pipe
line now being built from the
Black Sea to Poland.
When Tennessee Gas, whose
Washington attorney is Tommy
the Cork, tried to negotiate a
contract for offshore gas in the
Gull of Mexico, the chief produc
ers, Catco, quoted a price of 22.4
tents per thousand cubic feet.
Since 1 75 trillion cubic feet was
involved, this meant a billion-dol
QUOTES IN
THE NEWS
By United Press International
PA li IS Automobile maganate
Roland Peugeot, pleading in a
television broadcast for the safe
return of his four-and-a-half'year-old
son who wes kidnaped for
$10.0(10 runsom:
"I am only seeking one thing
to eel back my boy, for the fact
is there. I have lost my child."
SAN FRANCISCO Attorney
George T. Davis, commcntinc on
Caryl Chnssinan's angry refusal
to mime "the real red light bandit":
"He apparently wants to die. I
want In save him and I'll con
tinue to work in his behalf.''
I.IHKRTY. NY. Police ser-
Ceant Pwight Startup, comment
me, on throe young boys who are
putting nickels into overdue park
ing meters and leaving cards
hiuling that the grateful drivers
should semi a contribution to keep
them in business:
"It's ok with us. as long as we
let our nickels."
lar deal. And since the price was
high, Tennessee Gas argued be
fore the power commission that
it be reduced. .
But the power commission
found for Catco. It even per
milled Catco to put the high
price into effect while the case
was being appealed to the courts,
which is unusual. One FPC com
missioner, however, vigorously
bucked the FPC majority and
argued that the price was far too
high. He was vice-chairman
Connole, champion of the consumer.
And when Tennessee Gas ap
pealed the commission's case to
the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
in Philadelphia, the court sided
with Connole's minority dissent
Catco then appealed to the Su
preme Court and the Supreme
Court handed down a strong
opinion again siding with Con
nole. Justice Tom Clark of Tex
i's. a great oil-gas state, handed
down the decision that 17.5 cents
was ample price for Texas off
shore gas.
Friends of Ik
This was almost five cents un
deer the price permitted by the
other FPC commissioners, and
Catco was furious. Catco is com
posed of the following big com
rranies Continental Oil, Atlantic
Kefiniing, Tidewater, and Cities
Service, some with important
friends in the White House.
However, it was Senator Bush
v.ho pulled the plug out from
under the man who had bucked
the Big Four, Connole. Senator
Bush's son. G. H. W. Bush, is
president of Zapata Oil, which in
turn holds various leases from
four Catco companies,
Olin Stewart, vice president of
Zapata, when queried by this
column, acknowledged that G. H.
W. Bush is president of Zapata.
He also admitted that the com
pany holds leases from Catco but
was vague as to the amount. He
asked that we call back the fol
lowing day. Next day he said
that the company's records were
in difficult shape and that he
could not give the percentage of
leases Zapata received from Catco.
Senator Bush may deny it, but
he contacted Dave Kendall, the
White House aide who has large
ly replaced Sherman .Adams in
handling capitol hill matters, and
shortly thereafter it became
known that Connole would not
be reappointed to the federal
power commission.
. . 25 years ago, Elgin stud
ents won most of the honors in
the declamatory contest held at
E.O.N. Elgin first place cham
pions were Wanda Simonson, Ida
Reed, Joe Blackman, Shirley Tut
tle, with other winners being
James Anderson, La Grande;
Maxine Towle, Cove.
. . 15 year ago, new coaches
were appointed at both the high
and junior high schools. Bob
Quinn, formerly athletic director
at EOC, took over head coaching
duties at the high school. Clif
ford Exley, Colville, Wash., went
in as coach at the junior high.
REMEMBER WHEN
ELECTED MALAYA KINO
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya
(UPli The 62-year-old Sultan
of - Selangor was unanimously
elected King of Malaya today.
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BLOODY AFRICA Na- '
tive rioting in Capetown
and Johannesburg ag
ainst apartheid has
brought international
woe for the South Afri
can government.
OBITS .
UnlNd Press InternsfSsnaJ
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. (UPli
Manley 0. Hudson, 73, a former
judge on the Permanent Court of
International Justice The World
Court) at The Hague, The Nether
lands, and professor emeritus of
International law at Harvard Uni
versity, died Wednesday at his
horn.
TOKYO (UPII Yonosuke Goto,
43, first secretary of the Japanese
Embassy in Washington, died
from an overdose of sleeping pills
at his Tokyo residence, police re
ported Wednesday.
VAN NUYS. Calif. (UPH
Character actor Robert Reeves,
88, Wednesday filled out a form
for unemployment compensation
an then collapsed and died in
the State Department Employ
ment office.
Independence May Not Put Stop
To Violence Rampant In Africa
LONDON (UPH Independence
does not end violence in Africa,
it merely changes its emphasis.
Much blood, black and white.
has stained the sands and soils
of Africa in the name of nation
alism. Much more will flow as
black battles white tor independ
ence and black battles black for
power.
By the end of this year, more
than half the c o n t i n e n t's
2.690.000 population will be rulped
by black Africans.
But the hungry passions needed
to carve out a new republic need
new targets on which to spend
themselves before the new nation
can relax and live at peace with
itself and its neighbors.
Sk Territory
Thus Ghana is reportedly cast
ing covetous glances at sections
of neighboring Togo and the Ivory
Coast. Rumor has it that Tan
ganyika would like to annex
Ruanda-Urundi.
Italian Somalia, independent
this July 1, and British Somali
land, independent later this year,
would like to form a single
Somali nation with French Somal
iland. But French President
Charles De Gaulle so far says
"no."
The Mali federation, fully in
dependent within the French com
munity, would like to take over
the upper Volta and Dahomey,
fellow-members of the com
munity. At present, the extreme north
and south of the continent are
the main trouble spots, and likely
to remain so.
In Algeria. 500.000 French
troops are tied down in an on-again-off-again
battle with a
smaller number of Algerian
troops and countless more part
time guerrillas.
In the union of Soutn Ainca.
black African opposition' to the
policy of apartheid is growing
stronger rather than dying out.
and bloodshed is likely to con
tinue and spread.
Elsewhere in Africa, the direct
struggle for independence, is in
abeyance. i -
In the lame Portuguese, over
seas territories of Angola and
Mozambique, for instance the
sounds of revolt are muted. But
groups of nationalists are. .known
to have been arrested, and it is
widely believed in Africa, that
violence there is only a matter
of time.
N Traubl Par Spain,
Last year there was some vio
lence in Spain's African, terri
tories on the Atlantic Coast, but
thev are believed to hffve been
due mostly to local disaffection
and little further trouble Is anticl-
In then newly-indipendenf .coun
tries, real bloodshed could praise
from age-old lnter-tribal rivalries.
In the Belgian Congo, wRfch be
comes independent June 30. any
day could produce a repetition of
the bloody clashes of last autumn
between the Luluas and the'Balu
bas. The once-powerful warrior
tribe of the Luluas has lost much
of its influence over the 'formerly
subordinate ' Balubas, and . the
latter have a long history of
slavery to make up for.
Bahutu Vs. Batutsi
In neighboring Ruandi-Urundi,
administered by Belgium under
a U.N. mandate, there is much
bitter feeling between the original
inhabitants, the Bahutu. and the
Batutsi who swept down from
the north as conquerors 400 years
ago. The Bahutu want Belgium to
continue to administer the coun
try, fearing the Batutsi would re
sume command in a self-ruling
republic. Whatever the U.N. de
cides, one tribe or the other would
be tempted to go to war.
In the newly-independence cam-
eroons, outlawed political groups
have taken to the bush with their
arms, ready to strike back.
In Kenya, the Kikuyu and the
Luos are strong rivals for political
domination, but this is unlikely to
develop into violence. More likely
is friction between the white set
tlers, determined to maintain
their dominance, and the Afri
cans in general. Without some
political concessions on both
sides, the friction could develop
into economic sanctions either
way. with violence to follow.
Sporadic killings by panga
wielding Kikuyus have marked
the past few weeks, but there is
no indication of a major Mau
Mau uprising.
It will take a lot of patience
and give-and-take before black
Africa can put its own house in
order, and can work towards the
prosperity and dignity due to it
after many years of poverty and.
In many cases, degradation. .
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New U.S. President Next Year
May Change Camp David's Name
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI Staff Writer
AUGUSTA. Ga. (UPI)
Backstairs at the White House:
A group of fellows were sitting
around up at Camp David one
afternoon last week, killing time
while President Eisenhower
played host to the president of
Colombia in Aspen Cottage.
A bull session developed in
Hickory Cottage, the big recrea
tion hall not far from the Presi
dent's lodge, and the conversation
turned to the future of the White
House retreat in the Catoctin
Mountains of Maryland.
The camp was founded by the
late President Roosevelt and was
known originally as Shangri-La.
The same name continued in use
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THE SIZE OF SOUTH AFRICA The Union of South Africa,
the headline-making country at the southern tip of Africa, is
shown superimposed on a map of the United States. Its maxi
mum width Is 800 miles, the asm dlstanc between San Fran
cisco and Denver, Colo. South Africa haa an are of 472.359
square miles and a population of about 14 million persons.
during the Truman administration
but when Eisenhower came in of
fice, he changed the name to
Camp David in honor of his
grandson. Thus, it is logical to
assume that the new President
next year will select a new name
for the camp.
Needs New Nam
It is not likely that a new Pres
ident will get rid of the place.
The Navy has quite an invest
ment in the camp. Just a new
name and possibly some redecora
tion of the main lodge to suit the
taste of 1961 's first lady.
Naturally the talk at Camp
David last week turned to pos
sible new names and changes in
the 134-acre camp. Here is the
result of the speculation, based on
what the leading candidates
might do about the camp:
Nixon Probably change the
name to Camp Julie in honor of
his younger daughter or Camp
Pat for his wife. Install large
kennel for pet dogs.
Kennedy New name. Camp
Dad or Camp Joe; both same
idea. Abolish present tiny golf
course, change it to a ski run.
Build world's largest playpen for
all the smaller children in the
family.
Tnas Flaver?
Humphrey Camp Hubert?
Change golf course (probably
world's only layout with one hole
and three teesi to meadowy am
phitheater where he could invite
friends to listen to speeches. Vast
new loudspeaker system. Camp
open to public on Sundays. Lunch
on the grounds.
Johnson Camp Ladybird, of
course, with a giant,! golden
L.B.J, hung at the front gate.
Golf course would be changed in
to world's largest barbecue pit
and 10.000 acres added to camp
property to graze steers" and
make Lyndon feel at home. All
Marines stationed there, would
have to come from Texass!
Symington Camp Eve,kfor his
wife. Or Camp Harry, stepttiding
on how former President Jauman
handles things at the Democratic
convention. Cottages, now. jtamed
for trees, would be named for
towns in Missouri. Aspea would
become St. Louis, natch. Big hunt
ing creek would become Little
Missouri.
Out Of Uniform
Stevenson Known simply as
"the camp." Golf layout bull
dozed absolutely flat for eight
tennis courts, four lawn and four
clay. Marines out of uniform into
chino shorts, button-down collars.
Nelson Rockefeller, of course,
could upset all of this speculation
if he decides to get serious again
they might buy the state of Mary
land if Nelson made the White
House and turn it into the only
American resort offering moun
tain trout fishing, as well as
ocean bathing. And Chesapeake
Bay could become Lake Rock.
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tion, limit one to a family.
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