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By FRANK JENKINS
Today's best political crack:
President Eisenhower is quot
ed this morning as telling Re
publican congressional leaders
the other day that New York's
Governor Averell Harriman is
a "Park Avenue Truman." (Park
Atfefiue is New York City's ritz
iest street.)
As a political phrase maker,
Ike is pretty good, isn't he?
TT SHOULD be added by way
of explanation, I think, that
Ike didn't" just cut loose without
provocation. Harriman has been
making snide remarks to the ef
fect that the Eisenhower admin
istration has coddled the rich
and taken the bread out of the
mouths ol-the poor and similar
left-wing tripe.
John Knight, of the Knight
Newspapers, one of America's
ablest editorial writers, sized
Harriman up the other day as "a
rie?i man's son who has a guilt
complex because of his inher
ited wealth."
BOUNCING from U.S. politics
to world politics (the cold
war is a Communist world poli
tics campaign) Soviet Premier
Bulgan and Communist Party
Cjief Khrushchev have just de
parted from India after exchang
ing "pledges of wide and friendly
cooperation with India's silk
stocking Premier Nehru who
s purrs like a pet kitten on a pil
low every time the big Commu
nist bosses stroke his fur.
When India is taken over by
the Communists and Nehru is
clapped into jail, most of us
aren't going to feel as bad about
it when he jumps out of a win
dow as we did when Masaryk of
Czechoslovakia leaped to his
death after the Communists had
taken over his country.
rpHAT brings up the big ques---
tion: Is our military strength
sufficient to deter e Commies
from STARTING A WAR?
On that point, let's quote two
' able and statesmanlike Democrats:
SENATOR RUSSELL, of Geor
gia, of the senate armed serv
icescommittee: "I think the U.S. defense pro
gram looks pretty good."
Senator Byrd, of Virginia, also
of the sgiate armed services
committee:
"Strategic bomber bases ring
ing Siet Russia are the best
deterrent to war the U.S. has.
It is unlikely the Russians will
launch a 3,000-mile flight against
us as long as they know' our
planes (from these bases) can
bomb Russian cities within a few
hours."
Is That So?
Who Am I?
At the age of three to five
when mv head-covering snow-
whitens, I take a mate for life
which may last as long as man's
life. Deeply attached to our
home, we rear our young until
they are at least six months old.
In my domain, I am undisputed
even animals much larger
than I respect my strength. Fe
males are larger than males.
Strictly American, I am sel
dom seen outside the U.S. and
Canada although I do have close
T ET'S close with a word on
cotton:
At a referendum, election held
yesterday, 93 per cent of the cot
ton growers who went to the
polls in 21 states voted to go on
with the subsidy system that has
stuffed the natioS's warehouses
with cotton for which there is
no market, that has kept the
price of American cotton so high
that America can no longer sell
any considerable amount of cot
ton for export, that has brought
into the markets synthetic fibers
thatare rapidly taking the place
of cotton in our own domestic
market.
pHE cotton subsidy has to be
-- accompanied by acreage con
trols. As acres are taken out of
cotton, they go into other crops
that are competitive with crops
normally grown in non-cotton
areas such as Southern Oregon
and far Northern California.
Then fertilizer is poured onto
the remaining acres so that they
, will produce as much cotton as
the larger number of acres pro
duced before.
Restraining Order
Prevents Strike
Against Airline
Los Angeles (U.R) A tempo
rary restraining order issued by
Federal Judge Peirson M. Hall
prevented 850 members of the
AFL Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks from striking against
Western Air Lines today.
The order was issued yester
day. The union, which has juris
diction among station and cleri
cal personnel and baggage load
ers, had planned to go on strike
at 6 a.m. today.
Act Claimed Violated
Western Air Lines petitioned
for the restraining order on
grounds a strike would be illegal
because it violated provisions of
the national railway labor act
calling for a 30-day cooling off
period.
Hall did not rule on the cool
ing off period but set Dec. 16
for a hearing for the union to
show cause why a temporary
injunction should not be issued.
Negotiations between the air
lines and the union began June
30. The National Mediation
Board stepped into the case Aug.
8, but negotiations broke off
Tuesday when the strike was
ordered.
The railway clerks had sought
a general wage increase of $50
a month. The company offered
$25 monthly wage raises over a
two-year period.
Western, which , operates 81
flights a day in the 12 Western
states and Canada, also is nego
tiating with the AFL Airline
Pilots association over a pension
proposal. The pilots have set no
strike date.
WORSE still:
The Southwest West Tex-
Paul Harvey, Veteran
Character Actor, Dies
Hollywood (U.R) Paul Har
vey, veteran character actor and
motion picture industry leader,
died yesterday of a heart attack
in his home. He was 71.
Harvey is survived by his
widow, Ottye; a half-sister, Mrs.
Ionella Southstone of McKenzie
Bridge, Ore.; and a half-brother,
Hubert Robbins of Eugene, Ore.
Funeral services were pending
as, New Mexico, Arizona, South
ern California is exhausting its
ground water supplies (by pump
ing) TO GROW COTTON TO BE
PILED UP IN GOVERNMENT
WAREHOUSES WHILE THE
REST OF THE WORLD GROWS
COTTON FOR USE.
TOO bad, isn't it?
But that's what happens
under POLITICAL FARMING.
Say
o
to the BOY or GIRL
cof the Family with a .
C.A.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
relatives throughout the north
ern hemisphere. Before the
white man, I was common
throughout the land but today
only a few live in perhaps a
dozen states, mostly around
Chesapeake Bay, the Great
Lakes, and both coasts with the
greatest concentration in Florida
and Alaska.
My young are arrogant and
vinegary. A skyway robber, I
often intimidate ospreys into
surrendering fish they have
caught and which I seize in mid
air. My yellow eyes are ex
tremely keen. My nose is aqui
line. Fish, mostly dead, consti
tute about 90 per cent of our
diet. I stand about 35 inches tall;
weigh under 12 pounds; and
measure eight feet from wing
tip to wing tip. My sickle-hooked
talons are bright corn-yellow.
Whether soaring majestically,
circling up and up until I be
come a speck against the blue, or
power-diving at 100 miles an
hour, I may scream my high
pitched cry of defiance.
Return To Same Nest
Couples return year after year
to the same nest each time ad
ding a new layer of sticks and
lining the nest with soft grasses,
mosses and feathers. In time it
may be more than eight feet
across and 12 feet high and
weigh a ton. In this nest, the fe
male lays two or three compara
tively small white ,eggs which
both parents incubate, one bird
sitting as long as 72 hours. The
eyrie always commands a mag
nificent view.
Eggs hatch in 35 days. During
the two months' nest feeding,
young are fed two to eight times
daily. The solo flight from the
towering treetop taken in the
12th week, perhaps may be a
mile long.
Many silly legends have
grown up around me: that I car
ry away babies to say nothing
of fawns, lambs, foxes and such.
Actually, my carrying limit is
around IVz pounds.
I am: A. Condor; B. Fish
Kawk; C. Merganser; D. Bald
Eagle; E. Wild Turkey.
I am: A. A bald eagle the
word bald is a pioneer word it
meant white. You'll find me on
every dollar bill.
(Released by
McClure Newspapers Syndicate)
Friday, December 16. 1955
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