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Congo takes its place alongside world
pressure areas with recurring crises
The United Nations Advisory Com
mittee on the Congo meets in New York
on Tuesday, July 31.
The Congo in slightly more than
two years of nominal independence has
taken its place along with Berlin, var
ious parts of Indo-China, and the For
mosa strait as a scene of recurring
crises.
Perhaps the Congo is not the threat
to peace that the other trouble spots
are. But it could well ho the proving
ground for acting Secretary General U
Thant of the United Nations. What
transpires there in the next few weeks
could determine whether U Thant will
he elected to a full lerm as Secretary
General this fall. (The lerm of the late
Dag Ilnmmarskjold would have expired
&1 April 19(53.)
U Thant has been showing a great
Impatience in recent days with Katanga
President Moise Tshombe. Indeed, he is
supposed on July 20 to have called
Tshombe and his associates "a bunch
Of clowns."
The U.N. Secretary General and
two U.S. diplomats, Assistant Secre
taries of State G. Mormon Williams and
Harlan Cleveland, have been trying to
Influence European nations to threaten
Secessionist Katanga with economic
sanctions. These could be extended as
well against the Union Miniere de llaut
Katanga, the big mining complex which
Is currently the financial bulwark of
Katanga.
U Thant on July 25 denied a report
(hat he had proposed a fresh military
Initiative in the Congo against the se
cession of Katanga. Previously It had
been understood that he had raised the
question whether the U.N. should use
force as a last resort to unite the coun
try. Clearly our European allies fear
something of this sort. The Conserva
tive Daily Telegraph of London, citing
A year for smoke?
A fellow we know admits he's get
ting careless in the woods. He left camp
the other weekend to fish on down the
stream, and returned just In time to
put out a creeping blaze before it ig
nited a pile of slash. I lis breakfast fire
obviously hadn't been doused.
Ho allows that he's been lulled by
a number of things.
There haven't been any bad fires
in Oregon for years, there are all sorts
of improved firefighting equipment, ac
cess roads Rre better, and you can
bomb forest fires by plane.
It's true that Oregon hasn't had
really a bad year since 1951 the
longest quiet spell in the state's history,
It also is true that a crew with a
couple of bulldozers and a half dozen
power saws can do more to slow a fire
than could several hundred men with
ulaskis and axes.
- And borate and water bombing
Certainly can do great things In inac
(Tssible areas.
But all of these things are expen-
Quotable-quotes
Our position Is unchanged. We are Vice Premier Ahmed Ben Bella to take
RRninst illegality. Vice Premier Bel- control of Algeria,
kacem Krim, defying a bid by dissident
huildaya by The Band Bulletin. Ino.
"remorseless international pressure"
for the subjugation of Katanga prov
ince, on July 24 commented: "There is
no reputable precedent in history for
using a foreign army in the role of tax
collector and constitution-maker be
cause the central government is too
weak and incapable to manage its own
affairs. It Is unfortunately true that
the United States government tacitly
favors bringing the Katanga affair to
a climax. British arguments in favor of
patience have been listened to in Wash
ington, but they have not been accept
ed." Four days earlier the Liberal
Guardian had commented in a milder
vein: "The gap between Elizabethville
(Katanga) and Leopoldville (the cen
tral government) though narrower, is
still there. But enough sophistication
has crept into the various factions'
dealings with pne another in the last
two years for the U.N. at least to re
consider whether its military commit
ments need be so large.
Talks between Tshombe and Cen
tral Premier Cyrille Adoula broke off
on June 22. Europeans fear that the
U.N., with the support of the United
States, may prod Tshombe into a re
newed wave of violence.
Adoula's government has been
losing members, as the Guardian points
out, by "centrifugal force." The trouble
is that politics in the Congo is still tri
bal and not national. And Adoula, a
shrewd and prudent friend of the
United States and follower of the U.N.,
unfortunately has little tribal or region
al support.
It may be that the Congo will have
to be pacified by the 15,000 U.N. troops
now held inactive there. But that would
he no more to American tastes than to
European, though there would certainly
be a difference of opinion as to cause
and effect.
sive in dollars and lives (fire fighting
Is one of the most dangerous occupa
tions there is, and suppression bombing
takes the lives of some 25 pilots a year).
Furthermore, none of these new de
velopments can stop a hot one riding a
stiff east wind through mixed growth.
We've heard foresters discuss at
length what could have halted the big
ones the Tillamook burns, the two
Smith River fires, the Detroit runaway,
and many others. There's pretty gener
al agreement that all of the major fires
of history could easily have gotten out
of hand, even with today's roads and
equipment, allowing for errors in judg
ment. In other words, without diligence
in preventing fires from starting, it's
possible to have another season as dis
astrous as that of 1951.
Despite all of the safety campaigns,
the danger of a bad year Is greater each
summer, simply because we all tend to
grow careless with time. Capital
Journal
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. 'What's cookin?'
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Aviation official lets firm
pay for his string-pulling
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON - This column
recently reported that some busi
nessmen had charged up private
planes, yachts, even their di
vorces to business expense ac-
counts. Some readers were skep
tical.
However, here is an illustrative
cablegram sent by Edmond M.
Jacoby, eastern public relations
representative of North American
Aviation, a big defense contrac
tor: Addressed to Robert J. Clark,
the North American Aviation rep
resentative in Geneva, Switzer
land, the cable read:
"Dumbfounded today by note
from International School saying
classes completely filled for Sep
tember 1962, therefore my sons
Peter and John on their waiting
list. Can you pull any strings? Al
so need know starting date in
case your string-pulling success
ful.
"Leaving today for further con
ferences on European situation at
general offices. Would appreciate
reply in care Tappaan.
The signature is "Naawash Ja
coby," the first word being the
code for the North American Avi
ation office in Washington. Sig
nificantly a notation at the bot
tom of the cable is "charge to
North American Aviation." Thus,
the North American representa
tive in Geneva has to spend his
time pulling strings for the edu
cation of the two sons of another
company official, while the cable
Is also charged to the company.
While the latter cost is insignifi
cent, it illustrates a prevalent
practice among defense contrac
tors. North American is one of the
major contractors with the De
fense Department. It makes the
famous X-15, the Apollo project
for landing on the moon, has a
development contract for the
much discussed B-70, and also
manufactures the Rocketdyne en
gine that launches the Atlas mis
sile. Many of these contracts are
negotiated, not competitive, and
on a cost plus basis, so that any
personal expenses charged up by
North American officials even
tually get paid by the taxpayer.
Charmed Telephone Co.
Most charmed life in the busi
ness - political worm continues to
be that of American Telephone
and Telegraph. The other day at
Kennedy's luncheon for top busi
ness leaders, Frederick R. Kap
pel, head of American Tel and
Tel, turned up as one of uie
guests.
It was only a short time ago
that the Democratic party, while
campaigning to elect John F. Ken
nedy, was exposing American Tel
and Tel including the same
guest Kennedy invited to lunch
eon. He was accused of being oie
of the AT&T executives Inside
government working to prevent
prosecution of an antitrust case
against AT&T.
Congressman Manny Ccller, the
Brooklyn Democrat and chairman
of the House Judiciary Commit
tee, produced a 315-page docu
ment showing the flagrant lobby
ing of American Tel and Tel to
fix its antitrust case.
The official document told of
secret meetings between Ike's at
torney general, Herbert Brownell,
and AT&T officials at the Green
brier Hotel in White Sulphur
Springs at which Brownell was
virtually given orders by AT&T
to drop the antitrust cast pre
viously brought against it by the
Democrats.
The case was dropped with a
milk-and-water consent decree.
The man who negotiated the con
sent decree for Brownell was Ed
ward A. Foote, the Justice De
partment attorney later fired for
having a conflict of interest.
Today, a Democratic administra
tion which once campaigned
against AT&T invites its chief ex
ecutive to lunch with the Presi
dent and lets an ex-AT&T official,
now deputy director of the Na
tional Space Agency, approve the
AT&T deal whereby the govern
ment put Tolstar, the communi
cations satellite, Into the ether.
Mallbag
Harry Elman, Huntington Park.
Calif. The origin of the A-bomb
came In 19.19 when Alexander
Sachs, the economist, carried a
letter to President Roosevelt from
Albert Einstein explaining the
possibility and importance of the
A-bomb. Earlier, Einstein had
conferred with two physicists, lo
Sillard and Eugene Wigner. To
gether thev consulted with Sachs
about the feasibility of developing
tills revolutionary weapon. . .A.
C, Charleston. W. Va. Sen.
Jennings Randolph is one of the
most indefatigable workers for
the benefit of West Virginia that
state has ever sent to the Senate.
He rates alongside the late Matt
Ncely In his ability to get appro
priations. No job is too tough, too
big. or too small fur him where
the state of West Virginia is con
cerned. , .Jackson I-cighter, Mex
ico City The man who really
executed the difficult job of
launching the freedom balloons
over the Iron Curtain countries
was Abbott Washburn who later
became No. 3 man in the I'.S. In
formation Agency. He has now
moved on to more lucrative work
public relations in Washington.
Rev. Billy Harcis and Rev. Carl
Melntyre talked a lot about drop
ping Bibles by balloon behind the
Iron Curtain but I am not aware
that they reallv accomplished
anything. I
When Dick Nixon got off that
crack that Kennedy would be
"carpctbagging" by coming to Cal
ifornia, it so happened that a for
mer governor of California was
sitting in Kansas City with a for
mer President of the United
States.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, a
member of the Truman Library
Board of Trustees, recalled how
he, as governor, had welcomed
President Truman to California
during the 1952 campaign, even
though Truman had come out to
defeat Warren's political party.
Warren even rode in the rear of
Truman's private car. In 1948,
when Warren was running for
vice president, he also welcomed
Truman in California even though
Truman had come to defeat him.
"The President of the United
States, wherever he is, is no car
petbagger," observed the Chief
Justice.
Catholic bishop
scores
on school prayer
PORTLAND (UPI) - Catholic
Bishop John J. Wright of Pitts
burgh, Pa., said Thursday night
the supreme court's public school
prayer decision was a symbol of
growing secularism which "h a s
built a wall of separation. . . be
tween public law and social real
ity." Addressing the 19th biennial con
vention of the National Catholic
Laymen's Retreat Conference,
Bishop Wright referred to the
"establishment of secularism" as
the present official religious view
in Uie United States.
He expressed approval of sepa
ration of church and state but not
"between the pretensions of legal
ism and the realities of the na
tional life."
Bishop Wright said citizens
must give external compliance
with a supreme court ruling but
"it'is not true that they have to
give internal consent or agree
ment." "The clear task before us,
therefore, is to build up the in
ternal spiritual resources needed
to resist the pretensions of estab
lished secularism," he said. "In
this process, necessary in itself,
but doubly urgent in view of the
secularist victories at the mo
ment plays a major part.
"Through the lay retreat move
ment tens of thousands of men
withdraw for a few days each
year from the a-religious, if not
anti-religious, atmosphere of sec
ular society to mediate in t h e
cloistered precincts of retreat
houses."
With secularism, Bishop Wright
condemned what he called "scien
tism." "In an age of scientism, as
distinct from an age of science,
it is necessary constantly to raise
the question: What does it avail
man to control the universe If he
cannot control himself?"
The convention continues
through Saturday with Sen. Eu
gene J. McCarthy, D-Minn, ad
dressing the closing banquet.
'Chicken' game
harasses pilots
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (UPI)
A new kind of "chiclen" game
by local teen-agers has made
West Coast Air Lines pilots afraid
to touch down on the Twin Falls
Airport,
The youths lie down in lhes at
the runway approach at the spot
they think the plane's wheels will
touch down. When the plane
comes in for a landing, the first
youth to jump up is considered
"chicken."
So far no one has been injured.
R.B. Masoner, resident manager
of West Coast here, said 20 youths
were lined up in their game
Wednesday night. He said the run
way has to be patrolled nightly
now b.Tore the 12:30 a.m. flight,
to be sure there are no teen-agers
on the runway.
TEMPERATURES
Max Min
Bend to 50
Astoria 67 54
Baker 91 49
Brookings 67 50
Burns 90 55
Lakeview 89 55
Medford 103 65
Newport 61 52
North Bend 64 54
Pendleton 100 68
Portland 92 61
Redmond M 54
Salem ' 95 53
The Dalles 101 65
Chicago 77 67
Los Angeles S2 62
San Francisco 60 54
Washington 81 59
Astoria and North Bend had I
trace of precipitation.
CANT GIVE IT AWAY
MADISON. Wis. (CPU They
can't give money away In
this part of the country.
Slate Atty. Gon. John Reynolds
ruled Friday that Appleton. Wis.,
merchants ubo wanted to dole
out Jt bills to promote dollar day
sales utnild vioiate Wisconsin's
anti-lottery law.
House approves
record military
spending bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
House voted final approval this
week of a record peacetime mili
tary spending bill of H8.1 billion,
including $191 million for bombers
unwanted by President Kennedy.
The giant Defense Department
appropriation bill worked out by
House-Senate conferees now goes
to the Senate for passage which
would send it to the While House.
It contains funds for the 1963
fiscal year which began July 1
and is designed to spur U. S. mil
itary might both for space age
and conventional defenses.
The Air Force would get $19.3
billion; the Navy and Marines,
$15.1 billion; the Army, $11.5 bil
lion, and the combined defense op
erations, $2 billion.
The controversial $191 million
unrequested by Kennedy was ear
marked for speeding development
of the RS70 reconnaissance long-
range plane. This was the issue
that earlier this year threatened
to bring on a clash of wills be
tween the President and Chairman
Carl Vinson, D-Ga., of the House
Armed Services Committee.
Vinson at one time wanted Con
gress to endorse a move which
would have ordered the President
to use the funds for the plane.
As it now stands, Kennedy is not
compelled to spend the money un
less he wishes.
Shortly before the House acted,
Vinson said the bill "vindicated"
the judgment of his House Armed
Services Committee that the De
fense Department should speed
the- development of the superson
ic RS70 war plane, once known
as the B70.
". . .Now both houses of the
Congress have indicated that they
arc not convinced that we should
place our total defensive and of
fensive reliance on the missile,"
he said.
"Nothing takes the place of a
human brain," Vinson said.
"Nothing takes the place of an
intelligent being at the contrels of
a weapon system."
McNamara originally had op
posed going ahead with the RS70
on grounds that other weapons de
velopments such as missiles had
made it obsolete. But he agreed
to restudy the matter and a re
port is expected within the next
month or so.
Strike situation
to be probed
WASHINGTON (UPI)-A Senate
subcommittee plans to investigate
actions that may have blocked set
tlement of the strike which halted
work on 11 nuclear submarines.
The Senate investigations sub
committee scheduled the hearing
for Monday the day before 8,500
idled workers vote on a tentative
agreement reached by union and
management officials.
Subcommittee Chairman John L.
McClcllan, D-Ark., did not say ex
actly what the actions were which
he intends to investigate.
The government announced the
tentative settlement of the nine-
day strike Friday. Representatives
of the Electric Boat Division of
General Dynamics Corp. and the
New London, Conn., Metal Trades
Council approved a three-year con
tract.
The strike had stopped work on
$1 billion worth of submarines at
Groton, Conn. General Dynamics
builds the Polaris missile-firing
submarines.
The trades council represents 11
striking unions.
Terms of the agreement were
not made public pending ratifica
tion by union members.
The unions struck July 18 over
what an official said were sick
pay and a dispute over how senior
ity should be counted in case of
layoffs.
On July 20, after two days of
fruitless negotiations, Labor Sec
retary Arthur J. Goldberg asked
that the talks be moved to Washington.
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"HELLO FROM OUT HERE" Visitors ef the Seattle
World's Fair are watching contacts with the Transit 4-A
satellite as it passes deep in space. The tracking machine,
shown here, records the satellite's messages and reproduces
them for the crowd audibly and visually on the oscilloscope.
Other Transit space vehicles similar to model at top of photo
are to be launched to provide a word-wide navigational a!d
system, perhaps in the very near future.
Soviets buying advertising
space in American papers
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Russia
has begun purchasing huge adver
tisements in American news
papers to print the text of Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev's 13,000
word speech before the Communist-organized
World Peace Con
gress in Moscow earlier this
month. And high U.S. officials
have some interesting ideas about
what's behind this campaign.
They believe the Soviet govern
ment is trying:
To justify in the eyes of the
American public a new round of
atmospheric nuclear tests, which
Khrushchev has announced will
begin soon.
To counter the effect of re
cent speeches by U. S. De
fense Secretary Robert McNa
mara which are regarded
here and abroad as having se
verely damaged the Russian im
age of military invincibility.
Three U.S. newspapers so far
have carried two-page ads con
taining Khrushchev's July 10
speech In which he boasted of a
new anti-missile missile, blamed
the United States for the nuclear
test spiral, and depicted Russia
as the foremost advocate of world
peace.
Washington Counter-Offered
The San Francisco News Cail
Bulletin carried the advertisement
Thursday. The New York Herald
Tribune and the Kansas City Star
published it last Sunday. In each
of the three newspapers the ad
vertisement appeared on pages '
20 and 21. j
Soviet efforts to purchase space i
in Washington ran into a counter-!
offer which the Russian Embassy !
has failed to accept. I
The Washington Post, when of-!
fered the advertisement, wrote
the Soviet Embassy that it would
publish the Khrushchev text
in its news columns if one of the
official Russian newspapers,
Pravda or Izvcstia, would do the j
same with the text of President
Kennedy's disarmament siecch
before the United Nations Gener-'.
al Assembly last September.
Post President Philip Graham,
in his July 18 letter to the em
bassy, said he thought it would
be a good idea if both the Soviet
and American publics understood
fully the thinking of both Kenne
dy and Khrushchev on such vital
subjects as disarmament. So far ,
Graham has received no reply. !
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newspapers which accepted the
advertisement said he understood
the Russians intended to pur
chase more space in Uie fu
ture for other Khrushchev
speeches.
The reporting of the speech hit
most front pages, but did not get
as much prominence as it might
have because it came at the same
time as the first experimental
Tclstar transmission from the
United States to Europe.
U.S. officials, however, discount
technical reasons and believe that
Soviet officials really think they
can make some impact on Ameri
can opinion and undercut Kenne
dy's military program and dis
armament position.
The McNamara speeches an
those in which he has made it
clear the United States knows it
has considerable military superi
ority over the Soviet Union and
what is very important in inter
national power politics is
aware that Russia knows this.
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