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: : r. o Daily axc.pt Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958 Price S C.nN pral Assembly Emergency WEATHER Partly cloudy with scatter ed afternoon and evening thundershowers in mountains today and Saturday. High both days 80-85. Low tonight 52-57. UK Meetaloday Nationalist See Threat TAIPEI, Formosa UPI The Nationalist Chinese Defense Minis try warned today that 1,100 to 1,200 Communist jet warplancs are poised along the South China Coast facing Formosa. The estimate was made at a Blaze Destroys Elgin Home ELGIN (Special I A two-story home three miles north of here was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. The dwelling belonged to George Crouscr, a logger. Crouser and his family, includ ing his wife and three children, were not at home when the fire started at about 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon. Neighbors Edwin Hug and Lee Smith saw the blaze and rushed to the scene where they saved some of the home furnishings. The fire spread so rapidly that they were forced to cease their efforts, how ever, to save the Crousers' be longings. Other friends and neighbors wet the dry grass surounding the home which started to blaze. Three small buildings close to the house were also destroyed. The fire is believed to have started in one of the smaller buildings. The Crousers have moved into Ihe Earl Moore home in.Elgln, temporarily. On Monday night at 8 p.m.. the Pythian Sisters of El gin will hold a. "Fire Shower" for it... rawtll.i.'i.. ............ MMnnnH. honic furnishings that they re quire. ' ' Fruit Growers Slate Tour Of M-F Orchards Union County fruit growers will tour orchards in the Milton-Free-water area starting at 9:30 a.m. Monday, August 11, Ted Sidor, county extension agent, said this morning. The lour will start at the Sam Brinker orchard, one-fourth of a mile north of the town on North Main street. Cars will leave La Grande starting at 8 a.m. Persons desiring 16 go should be in front of the post office at that time. Assisting with the tour will be three specialists from Washing ton State College and three speci alists from Oregon State College. Seventy-Five To Get Degrees At EOC Summer Commencement EASTERN OREGON COLLEGE Seventy-five students are sche duled to receive degrees, at the Eastern Oregon College summer commencement, Friday, August 15, according to Dr. Lyle H. Johnson, registrar. Among the degree candidates are 16 who will receive the mast er of science in education. Dr. William C. Jones, dean of admin' islration and professor of politic al science at the (University of Oregon will deliver the address at the 10 a.m. ceremonies. The candidates are: Master of Science in Education lone. Math tw P. Doherty. Milton-Frecwat-er,' Robert' Francis Dougherty. North Powder, Robert O. Eddy. Vale, Frank D. Ellis. Hermiston, Frank Mead Prink. Gates. Wil liam J. Gleason. Portland, Milton L. Kakanson. Baker Lowell L. Hall. Ukiah, Richard Earl Mc Intyre. Redmond, Carman Arvil la Pearce. Hines, James O. Red. North Bend, Henry T. Scheirman. Wasco, Leland J. Schwendel. Wes ton, Pearl Dowd Schiewe and Jack Harvey Wamslcy. Rupert, Ida., Frank Gene Snapp. Bachelor of Science in Educa tionLa Grande, Allie F. Albert son, E. Robert Bagley, Billie Jo Bond, Doris Meade Corey, Jac queline Lee Denny, Sharon Kay Ferguson, Robert L. Good, Mad eline Hcdden, Lorene Hirl, Paul ine Johnson, Gary Elvin King, Elizabeth H. Waite, and Lila Jean Well. Baker, Pearl H. Hill. Vivian Lea Jackson, Hazel E. Jefferies, Chinese In Buildup news conference by defense spokesman Rear Adm. Liu Hoh-tu. The Nationalist government has ordered all military forces, police and civil defense'' units into war time alert and is considering proc lamation of a national emergency. These steps were taken after the government reported redeploy ment of Russian-built MIG17s to new Communist airdromes, one of them only 22 minutes' jet flying time from Taipe., "Our agents saw the planes move in," Liu said. A Peiping broadcast Thursday night claimed that four National ist fighter planes "intruded" over the Fukien Province coastal area and one was damaged by Com munist jets in an air duel. Liu said by moving jets to bases closer to Formosa, Communist China "has affected our air su premacy in the Taiwan Straits and along the edge of the China Mainland. He added, "if the-enemy planes would 'provoke a fight, they shall be dealt a very bloody nose by us." hi Later he denied a report pub lished in a Hong Kong newspaper that the Nationalists have started evacuating Matsu and Quemoy, Formosa's major offshore island groups. U.S. Charges War Specter Raised By Reds WASHINGTON UPD: .' Tile United States today charged Com munist. China'' with trying to .. Vint crease'"' tensions and 'raise' the specter of war" in the Far East. State Department spokesman Joseph W. Reap said Red China's action in sending "Soviet-type jet fighter planes" to some prev iously unoccupied coastal airfields a few minutes' flying time from Formosa had been accompanied "by the usual flow of Chinese Communist broadcasts threatening to 'liberate' Taiwan (Formosa)." Reports of the Soviet buildup of jet fighters in the area began to come into Washington "three or four weeks ago," Reap said. He said he did not know just what type jet fighters were involved. Other officials said they were la test model Mig-17 and Mig-19 air craft. Reap said the Chinese Nation alist Government on Formosa or dered the present alert status as a "realistic defensive precaution in response to the deployment of Soviet-type jet fighter planes on several of the heretofore unoccu pied coastal airfields opposite the offshore islands and Taiwan." and Dollic Lawrence. Pendleton, Echo Kathcrinc Jones. Norma Louise Jones, Evangeline Little, and Gladys Ruth Spurgeon. Nyssa, Frances W. Bates, Mary Halt. Margaret Bates Knight, and Nclda Schcnk. Ontario, Marlcne Kay Galych, Gladys E. Mallett, and Blanche W, White.Elgin Hazel Grances Croghan and Rudy E. Sherwood. Union, Cleta Neill Akers. Boardman, Zoe H. Billings. lone, Jerry E. Bristow. Myrtle Creek, Elaine Vader Cameron. Hermis ton, Nadccn M. Campbell. Port lnnd,'Cclia L. Chambers. Joseph, Elvjn tilery Daggett. Junction City, Ellen S. Davis. Eugene, Martha Newton Eng land. North Powder, Anna Mac Whiting Flower., Stanfield, Wen dell . . Hogg. Hcppncr, Kathryn Parker , Hoskins. Milton-Freewat-er Iva May i Leinbach. Cove, Garrett M. Miller. Enterprise. Marguerite W. Neiman. Klamath Falls Gene C. Peyton. Cascade Locks Arlcen T. Shinn. The Dalles, Verna Stanley. Clover dale, Mabel Smith Thomas. Arl ington, Elris- B. Waid. Haines, Martha Mattes Zimmerman. Walla Walla, Wash., Rosanna Brower. College Place, Wash., Winston E. Clutter. New Ply mouth, Ida., Josephine Qrummett and Bessie Lee King. Caldwell, Ida., Helen Elaine Obendorf. Wei ser, Ida., Ruth Mary Westfall. Parma, Ida., Ruth M. Morgan. Cottonwood, Calif., Marlyn Scrog gin King. CHINESE SCRAMBLE All Chinese Nationalist military forces have been ordered on "the highest degree of alert," as the Taipei, Formosa government reported Communist MIG jet fight ers deployed 22 minutes flying time from Wallowan Arrested For Burglary WALLOWA (Special) Fred erick R. Freels, 21, of Wallowa was arrested at the Shell Mercan tile store here last week by State Police after he was caught attemp ting to enter the building, at about midnight. Freels admitted to police offi cials that he had broke-in three other establishments In Wallowa during the past year.' Officers found $1,250 worth of stolen goods in his apartment. District Attorney Keith Wilson has issued felony Complaints against Freelson .four ... counts. Freels Is being held it Hiccoufrty jail pending investigation by Cir cuit Judge W. F. Brownton of the charges against him. Postmaster Ken Brooks first sounded the alarm last week when he heard noises at the mercantile store. He said he saw someone enter the store and then alerted several riien who surounded the Shell firm until state police offi cers could arrive. Teamsters Will Decide Trucking Issue SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Teamster officials from all over the West convergqd in San Fran cisco today to argue about the validity of an agreement reached with leading Western trucking firms. If they decide the agreement is invalid, trucking in 11 Western states could be halted by a strike or lockout in less than a week. If they decide it is valid, thou sands of Western teamsters will be bound to a three-year contract giving them a $3 daily package increase. Early this week, a half-dozen Teamster locals in the San Fran cisco area but not in San Fran cisco itself won a $4.57 daily package increase. The crisis was the most serious faced bv Einar Mohn since he suc ceeded Frank Brewster as presi dent of the Western Conference of Teamsters. It was Mohn who called the meeting. The trouble stemmed from an agreement signed on May 27 by Homer Woxberg for the teamsters and E.A. Grltsch for the truckers. The last paragraph of the agree ment said that when it is adopted, it would "govern all supplemental and local agreements, and in any conflict between the new master and supplements, the provisions of the new master agreement shall eovern." Woxberg, Los Angeles highway driver official, later informed the truckers that the pact had been ratified. BING CROSBY HAS NEW SON HOLLYWOOD 'UPI) Crooner Bing Crosby became a-father for the fifth time today wnen his 23- year- old bride, actress Kathy Grant, gave birth to a 7 pound, 9 ounce boy at Queen of Angels Hospital. To Subscribers If your paper does nor ar rive by 6 p.m., please call WO 3-3161 between 6 and 7 p.m., and a paper will be delivered Id you by special messenger. President Chiang Kai-Shek's capital. This Racket Probers Check On Purchase Of Home WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Rackets Committee be came curious today about the palatial summer home Chicago mobster Paul (The Waiter) Ricca sold the Teamsters Union for al most $150,000. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Ricca himself would be called in for quizzing about the deal. It was likely Teamsters president James R. Hoffa also would be queried about it. It has been reported two Detroit Teamsters locals bought the Ricca jcvcral yearo-ago intendingHo usin Two Accused Arsonists Union Linked FLINT, Mich. (UPI) Accused arsonists Frank and Herman Kier- dorf today were linked to the home local of Teamsters Union president James R. Hoffa through the private sale of a Teamsters owned Cadillac. State Attorney General Paul L. Adams said he was ready 'to charge the Kierdorfs and a third man with setting fire to the Lal reillc Cleaners shop here. "There are indications of other charges, also," Adams said. Frank Kierdorf, 56, the "human torch" who stumbled into St. Jo seph Mercy Hospital at nearby Pontiac at 1 a.m. Monday burns covering 85 per cent of his body died at 12:35 p.m. Thurs day. Herman Kierdorf, 88, Franks uncle and like Frank an ex-convict and ex-Teamsters business agent, was missing, but police got on his trail Thursday by locating the Cadillac he sold. The car was owned by Local 299, Hoffa's home local, and the dealer who bought it said a Local 299 official first signed it over. The investigators believed FYank Kierdorf was caught in the shop by his own arson. Herman and the third man drove him home, tried to treat his burns and then took him to the hospital, re hearsing the story he was to tell. Donald Keller, 34, Detroit, held as the suspected "third man," was questioned for four hours Thursday. Baby's Kidnaper Executed In NY OSSINING, N.Y. (UPI) Angelo John La Marca was executed Thursday night for the world's most despicable crime the kid nap and abandonment of a help less infant. La Marca, 33, father, of two, confessed he had kidnaped month old Peter Weinberger two years ago for$2,000 ransom, and then in a fit of panic, left the child to die under a honeysuckle bush on an Isolated roadside. But as La Marca became pan icky when he stole the child, he was calm when he went to his death at 11:03 p.m., e.d.t., in the Sing Sing Prison electric chair. Some 50 miles away, at the home of Morris Weinberger, where on' July 4,1956, La Marca kidnaped Peter, there was only silence. The lights were out and the Weinbergers were in seclusion reportedly at a friend's house. re- cent photo shows a group of Nationalist China jet pilots racing for their pianos after an alert at a base in southern Formosa, i (NEA) it as a school for union business agents. Because of zoning law difficulties the plan fell through. The house, which has a dining room capable of seating 50 guests for dinner, now stands vacant. It Is said to be guarded by a care taker and two watchdogs. Kennedy said the committee also would show, with testimony involving the Restaurant Workers Union in Philadelphia, what oc curs when gangsters take over labor groups. He said this phase of the hearing would concern the extent that interests of employes were .ignored by the' union. He said Hoffa would have a major rolc.t Hoffa, who has been acquitted in two trials since the committee hearings began last year, also heard McClellan call for a Justice Department investigation of possi ble perjury in his testimony last year. This grew out of former heavy weight boxer Embrel Davidson's testimony that he was on the Teamsters welfare fund payroll while under management of union vice president Owen (Bert) Brcn nan. Hoffa said he was unaware of this when he testified last year that Davidson got no union funds. He promised to see that at least some of the money, estimated at about $8,000 was restored to the fund. In other highlights of the hear ing Hoffa: Said he knew nothing about the fatal burning of Frank Kier dorf, official of a Flint, Mich., Teamsters local. He denied any knowledge of arsonist tactics which Michigan authorities suspect were involved. Brushed off as "a figure of speech" a remark attributed to him by a Capitol' policeman. The policeman said he overheard Hoffa say after Tuesday's hearing that he would break the back of some "sneaky little ." GIRL DROWNS CAMBRIDGE, Idaho (UPI) A vacationing Lancaster, Calif., girl was drowned Thursday afternoon In the Weiscr River about a half mile south of here. " Sherrian Miller, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Vernon Miller of Lan caster, Calif., drowned in a deep pool in the river, authorities said South American Engineer Visits Hernando Perez, civil engineer from Columbia, South America, who is also a participant In a technical project, sponsored un der the International Cooperation Administration training service branch, was an interesting visi tor at the Observer yesterday. Specializing in highway con struction, he said that five engi ners are visiting for six months In different states for study and observation of new methods used in the United States. Hernando stated that Oregon reminded him of his own country because of the Krecn trees, val leys and rugged mountains. "Add tropical touch with some jungle vegetation and more people who can speak the Spanish language end I would be completely at home. In talking about highways, he mentioned that the most Import Cyprus Problem Discussed ATHENS, Greece (UPI) - The prime ministers of Britain and Greece meet today to seek a solution to the thorny Cyprus problem. Informed sources said the United States was bringing heavy pressure to bear on the Athens government to resolve the con troversy which has threatened serious repercussions within the Western anti-Communist alliances. The other nation involved is Turkey. Both Greece and Turkey arc members of the North Athla- tic Treaty Organization. Turkey also is the keystone in the Bagh dad Pact alliance since the Iraqi revolt. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew to Athens from London Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Constantin Kara manlis of Greece. He also planned talks with Turkish Prime Mini ster Adnan Menderes in Ankara Saturday. A U. S. Embassy spokesman said Deputy Undersecretary of State Robert Murphy, sent by President Eisenhower on a trou bleshooting mission in the Middle East, would arrive here Saturday. He would be In Athens before Macmillan leaves for Turkey. Greece has been pressing for self-determination by the Cypriots, predominately pro - Greek, while Turkey has asserted that partition was the only solution. , Senator Gore Assumes Lead fa flection NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) U. S. en. Albert Gore was vir tually 'assured today of a second term, 'his moderate approach to the civil rights issue apparently backed up by voters In Thursday's Tennessee Democratic primary. In the four-man governor's race segregationist Buford Ellington, former commissioner of agricul ture, held the lead, but both Mem phis Mayor Edmund Orgill and Judge Andrew (Tip) Taylor were running so close behind him that the outcome remained in doubt. State Sen. Clifford Allen, trailing badly, conceded defeat Thursday night. Gore assumed an early lead over former Gov. Prentice Cooper, and the margin widened as re turns poured in. He claimed vic tory as the count passed the two thirds mark. Returns from 2,277 of the state's 2,583 precincts in the senate race gave Gore 304,941 votes to Coo per's 213,524. With 2,276 precincts reported in the governor's race, Ellington had 179,894 votes, Orgill 170,409, Taylor : 166,995 and Allen 48,697. Taylor had run a strong second in the early returns, but as the count began coming in from the bigger metropolitan precincts, Or gill swept past him. The big-city vote also made Gore's edge decisive. The Negro vote is higher in urban areas, but this had not figured heavily in the campaign. ; 1 ADENAUER VACATIONS BONN, Germany (UPI (-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer leaves at midnight on a four-week vacation at Cadenabbia, on the shores of Lake Como, in northern Italy. ant highway in the world, much of which is completed, is the Pana American Highway stretch ing from Canada to Chile and across to Buenos Aires and Rio dc Janeiro. A small stretch of It remains incompleted, between Diabeiba in northern Columbia to the Panama border, due to diffi culties encountered in jungle, ,'.wamp and the Danen mountains. "Last year a conference was held in Panama by interested na tions for study and financing of the undertaking, rne unuea States government offered Colum bia one dollar for every dollar Columbia raised. Our biggest dif ficulty is our finding the first dollars," said Hernando. In questioning him why he thought this was the most Im portant highway in the world, Hernando said, "It not only Is important for movement and Russia Accepts U.S. Terms For UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) The 81-mcmber United Nations General Assembly, summoned by a rare unanimous vote of the Security Council, meets in emer gency session on the Middle East today. The council voted 11 to 0 to call the special assembly session after more than six hours of debate Thursday night. The debate re sulted in Russia's acceptance of U. S. terms for a sweeping Middle East discussion after two amend ments designed to "save face" for the Kremlin. The assembly will convene in U. N. headquarters this evening Beirut Bombings Fatal To BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD Two bomb explosions shattered Beirut's calm today In a grim reminder that anti - government elements have not given up the fight. Two persons were reported killed and four injured in one of the blasts. The bombings were the second major outburst of violence since the election of compromise can didate Gen. Fuad Chehab as Pres ident July 31. Last Friday, two persons were killed and 15 injured in a bomb blast. The major opposition forces have been observing an "armed truce'' since Chehab's election. It was believed the bombings -were the work, of some extremist, group. A police sergeant on the scene said two persons were killed and four injured when one bomb ex ploded in a cafe in the Place des Cannons, Beirut's main square. However, no official confirma tion was immediately available, No one was hurt in the other explosion in the Bab El Driss sec tion of the capital. scattered shooting echoed on the edges of rebel-held sectors of Beirut Thursday night. But the gunfire was far less than was usually heard In the city before parliament elected Chehab last Thursday to succeed Chamoun, Gromyko Will Head Red Unit At UN Session MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet government announced today it has appointed a delegation head ed by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for the special General Assembly session of the United Nations in New York. - Although Gromyko was named to head the delegation, there had been some feeling in Moscow that Premier Nikita Khrushchev would go to New York later on, If President Eisenhower and Brit ish. Prime Minister Harold Mac millan decided to attend. The delegation was named by the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers the Soviet Cabinet. In addition to Gromyko, it in eludes Valerin Zorin, deputy for- elgh minister, and Arkady Sobo lev, the Soviet Union's permanent representative at the U.N. Ten advisers to the delegation also were appointed.. goods and people on a good road ccoss nations, but it is the link to provide closer association and better understanding between men. This is more important ac tually than the road Itself." He indicated that most of the main highways followed the east coast and ran north and south because of three ranges of high mountains, in some sections, up to 18,000 feet made It difficult to build National roads east and west. ,- ' The principal export was cof fee, 85 per cent of which gocF to the United States. Other ex ports were bananas, gold, plati num and emeralds mined north of the city of Bagota, the home of Hernando. Oil is transported by pipeline to the refinery at Bar ranca Bermeja. He was particu larly proud that Miss Universe was also a product of Columbia. Discussion for what is expected to be a brief and formal session, devoted to procedural arrangements. It will probably then adjourn until Wednesday, as suggested by Brit ain, to allow time for special re presentatives to come to New York and permit governments to relay instructions to delegations here. - Diplomatic authorities in Wash ington were inclined to believe President Eisenhower would make a personal appearance at the as sembly to open the American part of the debate. The White House said no decision had yet been reached, but Eisenhower has said he would attend if it appeared necessary and desirable." The Security Council met ThursJ day night in response to : the summons of Soviet Russia after Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush-' chev spiked proposals for a sum mit-council meeting in a surprise' turnabout. It had before it reso lutions from the United States and Russia calling - for a special session of the assembly. , After the modified U. S. reso lution was adopted, the Soviets withdrew their resolution which called for the session to discuss the "Immediate withdrawal" of U, S. and British forces from Lebanon and Jordan. Following the vote, U. S. Am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge challenged the Russians to carry the proceedings of the assembly session to the peoples behind the iron Curtain by radio "to let. them judge the true facts for themselves." He urged the people of the Soviet Union and the East European satellites be allowed to hear : J'all sides of . the grave Issues jdiyiding the .worldnot just your vjew. .' . : 'C Lodge noted .Western radio broadcasts are Jammed by the Communists and "Soviet news papers are censored. . ." Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev retorted this had nothing to do with the Security Council, who is transmitting hews and how in what countries" was Hd business of the council, he said. House Action On Education Bill Seen WASHINGTON (UPI) The House was scheduled to meet an hour early today to drive for final action on a bill- to provide federal scholarships and other aid to edu- pnllnn The measure as drawn up by the House Education Committee would cost $1,070,000,000 for a seven-year period, including 20,000 scholarships annually for college students. But some key supporters from both parties were agreed on the desirability of cutting the to tal figure 160 million dollars by knocking out 10,000 of the scholar ships as recommended by Presi dent Eisenhower. The Senate Finance Committee called on Arthur S. Flemmlng, the new secretary of health, educa tion and welfare, as its first wit ness on a House-passed measure to raise Social Security benefits for 11,800,000 workers by about 7 per cent. The legislation, approved almost unanimously by the House a week ago, would boost Social Security taxes starting Jan. 1 to pay for the cost-of-living rise in benefit (checks. ' Observer Hernando, on his tour through the Observer plant, found ponsid erablc interest in the teletypeset ter which automatically operated the linotype keyboard by the use of punched tape. The engraving . machine and microfilm projector intrigued him. This was only nat? jral when we learned his father was a newspaper man In Bogota, When he letf our plant he said, 'Please tell the people of Ore ion how wonderful they have 'teen to me. Extend my appre ciation to the people of your city nd to the highway engineers and dl others for their kindness. You lave marvelous highways In a beautiful' country., ' U was my pleasure to enjoy all." ( r - . ; Hernando left for the 1 State Highway Department at Salem to; day. 4 iy.-AJS'..t--fc!- .' " : "-",.,-.'..--'--.-''' .f. ..-.v-p - - : . i , .. .'.-: 'v
