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71 Established 1896 r & ft- FAST MAN WITH A GUN Elgin Youngster 'Fans' '11111,1.1.11. .if FAIR MAIDS . Lyrtn Vancil I &2jjl55u .I TED MILLER HITS BULLSEYE, .Elgin Fete Draws Crowd t DARRELL CARPER WINS Loggers Show Skill ' 4 i .J II II ar ? ' V- " , r .T '!,V ENTERTAIN Patomines SI ai. II 238th Issue 63rd Year World L . "TP Fo Dulles; II 11 Killed In Oregon Accidents By United Press International At least 11 persons from Ore gon died during the weekend from accidental ' causes. Three drowned, traffic claimed six lives, a boy was killed by gunshot and a man died today from burns suf fered while working on a high voltage wire Sunday. Albert Berklyn Watkins, 37, Weston, was killed instantly late Sunday when his car collided with anotner on tiignway 11 iwo nines north of Athena. Driver of the other car, Leonard Myer, 36, Pendleton, was in good condition, James P. Moritz, 50, Salem, died today of injuries suffered when he accidentally came in contact with a 69,000 volt line while working at a Bonneville substation near Salem Sunday. An 18-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl drowned within two hours of each other Sunday near Albany. Kenneth Raymond Smith, Coos Bay, drowned about 5:30 p.m. while , swimming with several companions near a gravel pit. His friends said he dived off a rock, came up once and then sank beneath the water and failed to surface. His body was found about an hour later. Falls Into Canal Tthoda Mark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Wing Mark of Albany, fell Into the Santianroonal about 3:30 p.mrwhiHrplaying with two other children. The canal was drained and her body was re covered about it p.m. Luther McNalr, 43, Portland, fell off some rocks while fishing Saturday near the mouth of the Columbia river on the Washing- ton side and was presumed drowned. Mrs. Lenore Sickels, 39, Shedd, was killed Sunday in a collision of a pickup truck and car three miles north of Shedd on Highway 99. She was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by her hus band, Harold. The husband and two sons, Michael, 15, and Bryon, 13, and a Eugene couple, Mr. and Mrs. Beryl E. Bengs, were injured but not seriously. Triple Fatal Reported A two-vehicle ' collision five miles south of Roseburg late Fri day night killed Mr. and Mrs. Everett K. Ward, Roseburg, and William' George Rcdenius, 63, Roseburg. . Vincent Sherman," 54, Blue Riv er, died Saturday from injuries suffered Friday when his car was smashed by a spilling load of logs east of Eugene. Mickey Green, 8, Prineville, was killed . instantly Saturday when a .22 caliber rifle dis charged accidentally while being held by, a playmate, v. In addition, a skin diver re covered the body of Herman N. Wagnon, -22, Springfield from the McKenzie river east of Leaburg. Wagnon drowned May 11. A Navy man killed in a two-car crash near Albany May 15 was identified as .George Osborn, 22, Tacoma, a sailor from the air craft carrier Midway. Women Treated After Accident Two sisters; Mrs. Mary Florence Kuikcndall and Miss Cathv GolliHar of Elgin, were released from the qGrar.de Rondo hospital this morn- iiig aitui levuivmg uemiiieui lur injuries received in a two-car acci dent on Highway 82 early this morning. The sisters were passengers in a car driven by Mank William Gol lihar of Union who was traveling north on the highway. Billy E. Wilson of Murdock, driver of the other car, was traveling north at the time of the 'accident. Wilson, cited by. State Police for being drunk on a public highway, was held in' the county jail this morn ing.. ' V WEATHER Scattered showers through Tuesday mostly over moun tains;! high today 65-70 and Tuesday 60-65; low tonight 36-42. SAD 'ADLAI' STOLE SHOW t SANDY SPRINGS, , Md. (UPI) An unhappy donkey nicknamed Adlai Stevenson really kicked up his heels at a Republican women's fund raising party Sunday. He: 1 ate a floral wreath the ladies hung around his neck; 2 kicked the hostess; and 3 knocked her dog un conscious. The donkey stole the show from three performing ele phants borrowed from a film company. Girls Survive Mishap Which Claimed Five MOUNT CLEMENS, M fen. (UPI) Five young persons, three boys and two girls, drowned when their overloaded boat capsized in Lake St. Clair Sunday night. Three girls survived an all-night ordeal of clinging to the swamped boat in 50 degree water. The group had gone on. a picnic to Club Island, three miles across the lake from the west shore, and all eight tried to return in their 16-foot outboard as it started to get dark about 7 p.m. ' When they launched the boat in early afternoon at the , mouth of the Clinton River, a deputy sheriff had stopped them and told them eight passengers was too big a load for the boat. The group then made two trips to the island with four and five passengers each time. But the survivors said "to save time" in the late evening, the group decided all eight should come back in one trip. The dead were Roger Patrick Hogan, 21, Harper Woods, owner of the boat: Robert Benedctti, 22, Harper Woods; Theron Brooks Jr., 20, Harper Woods; Ann Schu- ler, 16, Detroit; and Valerie Quinn, 16, East Detroit. The survivors were Mary Lou Gonyea, 17, Detroit; Nancy Bene- detti, 20 Robert's sister; and Mar ilyn Cily, 17, Detroit. A survivor told how the boat went under despite their bailing, how they found they were standing in four-feet deep water on a sand bar and how they waded into deeper water when they tried to pusp. the boat back to the island. One by one the five who drowned slipped into the water, as the survivors tried to hold them up but finally had to rest their numb arms. The three surviving girls clung fo the boat, sometimes tried to get inside it or sit on the edge but the boat would go under or the would slip off. Wire Failure Causes Outage . failure of a 69,000 volt "lumper" wire at one of California-Pacific's unit substantions caused a tempor ary power outage in La Grande shortly after 6 pn. yesterday. fart of Jefferson street, the northwest section of La Grande and a small portion of the west residential area were without elec tric service until temporary re pairs were completed at 7:02 p.m. Loads will be. switched to an other substation unit to eliminate service outage while permanent repairs- are made at 2 a.m. to morrow! Hatfield Praises ' John Foster Dulles SALEM (UPI l Gov. Mark Hatfield praised John Foster Dul les today as a man who "exem plified a world-wide humanitarian approach based on firmness and fairness in all his actions. "We hove lost one of the great leaders Oregon has seen in its century of statehood. ' Agaip we are reminded of the killer that cancer is and the toll it takes in human resources. May we reded icato our fight for peace and against this dread disease." Hat field said. Bulletin GENEVA (UPI) - A Soviet spokesman announced tonight that Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Cremyke will ge to Wash ington for the funeral of John Fester Dulles. LA GRANDE, OREGON, eaders uneral Wednesday mMv' . - DULLES DIES John Foster Dulles is shown above as he returned to hospital in Washington, D. C, shortly before his resignation as Secretary of State. Heated Debate Sparks East-West Conference GENEVA (UPI ) The Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference paused to pay touching tribute to the late John Foster Dulles today. Then it exploded into the tough est East-West exchange of angry comments since it started. .. Soviet Foreign MinlstetAndrci Gromyko dropped the musk of conciliation and accused West Germany of preparing a third world war. Secretary , of State Christian Herter abandoned a prepared speech and lashed back at Gromy ko for making his "absolutely false" charges. - French Foreign Minister Maur ice Couve de Murville and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd joined the heated debate to con demn Gromyko's sudden reversion to cold war slander. Gromyko started the whole thing after expressing "our deep sympathy" at the American loss in Dulles' death. ' He accused West Germany of rearming with atomic weapons and of being a haven for revenge seekers and militarists. Herter and Couve de Muville swiftly refuted the charges. The session finally ended with Lloyd appealing for conciliation. The only agreement that. emerged was one in which the four agreed to meet early Tuesday and then adjourn until the end of the week so the Big Three foreign ministers can attend the Dulles funeral. r II V , 'i QUEEN OF STOCK SHOW Ella Mea Denton, 17, junior at Union High School was crowned Queen for the 1959 Eastern Oregon Livestock Show at. the Coronation Ball held at Union Saturday night. Miss Denton won the crown by selling $1089 worth of tickets to the show. . Janice Lorenzen, sponsored by the 1 Grande Mavericks was second with a total of $1,019. Miss Lorenzen, Jordyce Tamer's of Elgin and Rosemary Zaugg of Union will reign as princesses to the queen. Miss Denton, sponsored by Union Range Riders, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Denton of Union. The show is June 4-5-6. (Observer Photo) MONDAY, MAY 25, 1959 Paying Tribute Western hopes for beginning se cret talks were rebuffed earlier in the day when Couve de Murville took Gromyko aside into the re laxing setting ol a lakeside lunch for man to man talks. Gromyko made no deals, Herter told .Guwiyko bluntly across the Big Four Foreign Min isters' Conference table that his charges "rosuiroct old fears and bygone hatreds, Among the allegations Gromyko has made against West Germany were that it was out for revenge and that it is militaristic and seek ing to start a third world war. These charges, Herter said, ore absolutely false. This was the third time since the conference started that Hert er has sharply criticized Gromyko to his face. " The tangle over this point was in contrast to the amicable situa tion .which prevailed earlier when Gromyko paid tribute to the late John Foster Dulles. Herter had opened the session by thanking the other foreign min isters for their "thoughtful under standing" of the situation created here by Dulles' death. Contrary to expectation, Gromy ko did not renew his demand for seating Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia. He did, however, hurl a new cold war blast against the West's package peace plan which brought Herter's counter blast. ' C " -7 s. i at'M ' - -' xv "V '' y- ' - ' Ox FOREIGN MINISTERS RECESS CONFERENCE WASHINGTON (UPI) A funeral of hieh state ceremonv and a hero's burial await John Foster Dulles Wednesday in the nation's final tribute to Hie man who guided U.S. foreign policy through six years of cold war. A bereaved President Eisenhower personally directed that a first-of-its-kind "official" funeral be held for the for mer secretary of state. An official funeral is lust servea lor presidents ana vice pre sidents and presidents-elect and vice-presidents elect. Dulles succumbed quietly in his sleep at 7:49 a. m. e.d.t. Sunduy after a three-month battle against cancer. His death at Walter Reed Army Medical Center brought ex pressions of sympathy pouring in to Washington from the Free World's leaders. -The President, openly showine his grief, declared a period of national mourning. He ordered all flags flown at half staff until the 71-year-old statesman is buried. President Cancels Plans The chief executive, who had a close personal as well as official relationship with Dulles, also can celled most of his engagements through Wednesday. At Geneva, the Big Four for eign ministers agreed to recess their talks for two days. Dulles' last days at the State Department were devoted to helping lay the groundwork for their meeting. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will fly home Tuesday for the funeral services. British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville also will attend and West German Foreign Minis ter Hcinrich von Brentano prob ably will. , There was even a possibility, an American spokesman said, that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Ltoomyko, an implacable diplomatic foe of Dulles, would be present. 'The funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. e.d.t. Wednesday in Washington's huge National Cathe dral with burial in Arlington Na tional Cemetery, the hallowed resting place of the nation's heroes. To Lie In State The body will lie in state at the cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel from noon Tuesday until noon Wednesday. An honor military guard wili be posted. Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, a secretary of the World Council of Churches, will lead those officiating at the services along with Dr. Paul Wolfe of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, and Dr. Edward L. R. Elson of the ' National . Presbyterian Church of Washington. Like the President, Dulles at- See DULLES Page Three 1 ' f I 1 J Price 5 Cents short of the state funeral re- Official Military Funeral WASHINGTCH (UPI) The of ficial funeral with full military honors for John Foster Dulles is the highest President Eisenhower ' could direct for his former secre tary of state. The official funeral, scheduled for 2 p.m., e.d.t., Wednesday in Washington's National Cathedral, is regarded as just short of a state funeral. Burial will follow at Arlington National Cemetery. Military officials said the offi cial funeral directed by the Presi dent will be the first of its kind. It was promulgated in late 1949. Officials said the closest thine to it was the funeral for James Forrestal, the late secretary of defense. In May of 1949. , State funerals are. reserved for presidents, vice presidents, presii dents-elect and vice presidents- elect, urriclal funerals are given other high government officers. . In state funerals, the body re poses in the Capitol Rotunda be fore burial. But in an official fu neral the body lies at a private home or church. Dulles' body will repose at the cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel from noon Tuesday until noon Wednesday. President Eisenhow er, who directed that the official funeral be accorded Dulles, said in a statement issued through the State Department that persons wishing to pay their respects were invited -to do so at the chapel. An honor guard will be posted. Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, of New York, a secretary of the World Council of Churches, will officiate at the funeral services, along with Dr. Paul Wolfe, of the Brick Pres byterian Church of New York, and Dr. Edward L. R. Elson of the National Presbyterian Church of Washington. Like the President, Dulles at tended the National Presbyterian Church in the capital. The former secretary was the son of a Pres byterian minister, the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles. During a state funeral, the body -is accompanied to Arlington Na tional Cemetery by a parade of representatives from the military services. In an official funeral ceremony, only a few servicemen participate. They carry the body and the flag. The actual graveside ceremo nies are almost identical. Dulles will be given a 19-gun salute hon oring his former cabinet rank and -a bugler will play taps. : Fire Guts Payless Drug At K. Falls KLAMATH FALLS (UPI) Fire Sunday gutted the Payless drug store here with loss esti mated tentatively at $300,000 by manager Noel Flynn. The blaze broko out about 3:35 a.m. Its cause was undetermined although firemen said it may have sta-ted in the kitchen of a cafe next door. . ' ; Firemen were at the scene for about eight hours. The building, which covered al most half a block, was gutted and most merchandise cither de stroyed or damaged. No one was injured. Girl Saved From Dog In La Grande Park Pioneer Park , Superintendent J. E. Minch Saturday -prevented a small, unidentified girl from being mauled by a dog then captured the animal and turned it over to city police. ; City Police reported that the owner of the dog is being deter mined and he wilt be advised to not let the animal run at large. 1 .'' -t..