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Observer, La Grande, Ore., LA GRANDE IftcMlthe Daily Exctpt Sunday Pablliba Br the Grande Ronde Valley Publlahlng Coaipanr . P. 15. Weybret, President HAY C. ANDERSON ... Editor 4 Publisher ' GEORGE S. CHALLIS - Adv. Director Member Audit ' United Press , WBBT-HOUDAT CO., INC. National Representative . - Tifcoi Ana-eleB-San Francisco Portland Seattle Denver , ; , New York Chicago Detroit '-' V ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier By Motor Route BY 1 Month . 6 Months ....;..;.;.....1.2B 6.60 Hntared u Second Claa Matter at tbe Poat Office of L Grande, Oregon Under tbe Act of Marob 8, 1817 Toward Uniform Driving Code Y A- ndw "rules of the road" law part of a nationwide effort. to makfe traffic regulations uniform went into effect' in New York State on July 1. New! .York's new "rules of the road" law, enacted by thp- state' legislature last year, is based on Chapter 11 o?'the yhiform Vehicle Code. This is a model -traffic law for the states, originally drafted in 1926 by a com mittee appointed by the! first national highway safety conference'. It ift' revised from tim to time by the Na tional' Committee on: Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordim antSfl,, an tirm of the White House Conference on High-wayrSafety.-' '' . As its name implies, the new law sets up standards of highway' conduct. 'For example, it list? as violations o'peftinghe door '6f. a parked car on the side paralleling oficojriing traffic, or "riding" the bumper of the car in fMnt; of you. ' 'iviw-'.f ' -" '' ; hiorne other violations, calling for fines of up to $50 ' and J5 days in jail: leaving keys in'the'ignitlon Of park ed cars, hanging boxing gloves, baby booties, or other paraphernalia over rear-view mirrors, tossing waste paper, and refuse from cars. 1 ' The New York Law accepts the recommendations of ithe'.U.niforrri Code "almost in their entirety and almost in1 verbatim'' according to the national committee on jinifpi'rh.laws; So do a Nevada law adopted last year and,'; h'-itfirtniri BVPflntlnns' n nwent Wisconsin Inw. .V Most States have adopted a large part of the "rules of the rdad" recommendations of the Uniform Code. .Listed a8' notable exceptions are Kentucky, Louisiana, .Maine, Massachusetts, ' Nebraska, New Hampshire, V Thb, "rules of the road" section, of course, represents : onlv 'one 6f many,"(l9) chapters of the Uniform Code. !lfM.hbra' tnvp rrronosttls for hides departments, .uniform1 treatment of accidents and ' aco'dent reports! and the like. The American Automobile Association! has. long advocated' uniform traffic laws, as, have the National Safety Council, the Governors. Conference Committee on Highway Safety, and official or UBsi-officiaV' bodies such as the American Associa te 'of Motor Vehicle Administrators and the Interna Oonal''Assdciatlon of Chiefs of Police. i'PW the first time in recent years, the traffic toll in 1957"decreased. Auto-accident deaths totaled 88,500 i(42,,ot' 8 per cent, fewer than in 1956, when the loss was -the heaviest in history.1' 'Xrflifio deaths had declined steadily for more than a yar-until the recent. Memorial Day holocaust. A record 3TJ persons; for a three-day weekend were killed. Tfre National Safety Council attributed the reversal of tteud'to impatience,' intemperance, and indifference." f v Significantly , toll roads and pay turnpikes across the northwest section of tile country, from New England to .Chicago,' recorded not a single Memorial Day fatali ty. Wh(le the fatality rate for ehclr 100 million vehicle niiles'nas been dropping steadily from 16.7 in 1934 to '5.9 1(1957,' turnpikes have shown even better pro gress. The 'national pike rate for 1957, as noted in a special N.Yi Times report was only 2.6 deaths per 100 million; vehicle miles. " 'The:Vew:V41,000-milo federal-state highway system, now', building, will be' toll free. But the construction standards and safety factors will be substantially iden-, UcaJ' with' those 'of turnpikes. If the new high-speed roads are policed as adequately as the toll roads, the fatality rate" ''5.2 per 100 million miles so ' far this ytar n ought to continue downward. Sido Glances "I'm iorry l kpt you waiting, Larry, but Mom thought I shouldn't Htm too agar!" Fri., August 8, 1958 Page 2 La Grind, Oregon Bureau of Circulation Full Leased Wire '.; ,-' 1.25 Month J. 40 Month 15.00 Year 18.80 Vear MAIL 3 Months 1 Year ;.. S.B0 12.00 indenendent: stnte motofc ve- , Moscow Wants Red China 'Heard' By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Pros International I,0K;nnw (UPD There are signs' thai the Communist bloc is readying a full dress campaign to force recognition for Red China as u world power. For years the Kremlin has tried unsuccessfully to get the Chinese Nationalists booted out of the United Nations. Moscow wants their permanent Security Council seat switched to Red China. That at' least would insure that Russia would not always find herself in a minority of one in that body. But the Communist campaign now appears to be pushing for something bigger. Quite simply, Communist China is trying to stake a claim for herself as a world power with' a finger in the global politics pie. ' ' ' Like it or not, the Russians are having to push Peiping's' cam paign. That appears to have been one of the main results of Nikita Khrushchev's hush-hush confer ence with Moo Tse-tung last week end. .' k The first tip-off on Red China's new- claims came early in the Middle East crisis. The British charge d'affaires in Peiping was colled in and handed a note from the Chinese Communist govern ment ordering Britain to get out of Jordan immediately and warn ing that the results would be 'grave" if - she did not. ' California GOPs Map Plans For 'All-Out7 Nixon Driye WASHINGTON (U"PI) Califor nia - Republican leaders have mapped plans for a stepped-up campaign drive including at least two "all-out" c a m p a 1 g n swings by Vice President Richard M. Nixon and a possible trip by President Elsenhower. George W, Milias, newly-elected chairman of the-California GOP central committee, had-'ia date Thursday to discuss what he cal led the "big drive" with Republi can Natitonal Chairman Meade Alcorn. - 1 Milias conferred 'with Nixon Wednesday and later- announced (he vice president had authorized him to, announce he definitely would make "at least two all-out campaign trips," probably in Oc tober. . Milias reported Nixon . "f e 1 1 there is a good chance President Eisenhower also will come to Cal ifornia if the international situa tion1 permits." " , '. " j Milias, who was elected to his NuclearvTest . In New Mexico Salt Beds Set WASHINGTON (UPD The Atomic Energy Commission said today it plans to explode a nuclear charge jn a New Mexico salt bed next summer to test the possibility of manufacturing both power and useful radioactive materials with such underground shots. The explosion would be the equivalent of 10,000 tons of TNT, two-thirds the power of the atomic bomb which wrecked Horoshima. It would be more than five times us powerful as the underground shot staged In Nevada last Sep tember. The test. If carried out. will be staged in a 1,200-foot shaft drilled into the Solado Salt Formation in the Delaware Basin of Eddy Coun ty, about 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, Heat from the blast theoretically would be contained in a small space of the dry sail formation and could be tapped for power by pouring water into the cavily and running the emerging steam through o generator. 1 Radioactive materials, useful in industry, science, agriculture, and medicine, would bo formed in a blanket of surrounding material by neutrons , from the nuclear re action. Training Official For Correctional Institution Named SALEM (UPD Roy L. Mark-son- has-been-appointed as train ing officer for the new. Oregon State-Correctional Institution be ing constructed five miles south oast of -here. Superintendent P. J. Squicr said that Marksoni has been a correc tional officer for six years and hag served as training officer for Monroe Reformatory in Washing ton.. ; ' ' " Markson will take part in for mulation and execution of a six month training program neces sary to indoctrinate new employes Into correctional work.;" - The first three months of train ing for now employes who have had no previous correction experi ence -will be conducted at Oregon State Penitentiary, Squier said. The second three months ol (raining will be at the correction al institution which is scheduled to open next spring. Markson has completed Federal Bureau of Investigation law- en forcement school training and cor rectional training courses spon sored by the U.S. Bureau , of Prisons. MvRlifiprl British nfficiah: won dered whetfier Red China was planning a' Far East diversion to help out Moscow at a moment when both the united states and Britain were fully occupied in the Lebanon and Jordan. The more pessimistic view was that Red China might even launch an at tack against Hong Kong or For mosa if the West became serious ly involved militarily in the Mid die East. .- But Feinins s move took on n wider significance following Khrushchev s -visit to Mao. The Soviet leader's notes to the West on Tuesday killing all pros pects of a summit meeting re marked pointedly that the U.N. Security Council includes "instead of the legitimate representatives of the great Chinese people's-republic, the representative of the political corpse, Chiang Kai-shek.'' The notes also remarked "this great power exists, grows strong er and is developing independent ly of whether it, is recognized or not by certain governments." One thing is certain these pointed hints did; not' appear in Khrushchev's notes, by accident. Diplomats here are,, convinced they- are the opening wedge in a new Soviet- drive for recognition of Red China, -. ': Taken hr conjunction with Pel- ping's "warning" to Britain, they seemed also to indicate a new point of departure in Red Chinose post at a state cornmlltee conven tion in Sacramento last week, told reporters there was a "big drive" on within the party to step up cam paigns of the state's Republican hopefuls, including that of Sen. William F. Knowland, a candidate for the governorship. State Attorney General Edmund G,' (Pat) Brown, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, ran up a heavy lead over Knowland in Cal ifornia's June primary. Some Re publicans felt Knowland's persis tent support of right to work" legislation hurt him. After his meeting with Nixoij, Milias conferred with Knowland and Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R- Calif.l. Milias said Knowland promised to conduct a hard, intensive campaign after Congress ad journs. The chairman- said he is confident the senator will beat Brown in November and that the other GOP candidates, including Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, who is running for Knowland's Senate scat, also would win, Knight- is opposed by Rep. Clair Engle. (D Calif.l.i i.. , .- ... In addition, Milias predicted that the Republicans would pick uo- two House seats this fall those now held by Engle and Rep. D. S. Saund, also a Democrat. Chuckles In The News United Press International TAMPA, Fla. (UP) Police, seeking a solution to the $(131 burglary of a drug store, felt sure today the job was done by juven iles. Their reason: written on the floor of the store in shaving cream were large letters spelling out: "Zorro." ALEXANDRIA, La. (UPI)-Or-villo Chollotto, convicted of dis turbing the peace at a cafe, had his sentence doubled from 30 to 60 days when he turned to the wit nesses who had testified against him and shouted: "That's all right, Ihe rest of you liars can go home now." I CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (UPD Thicvcs raiding the grocery of Van Hogan here Tuesday added insult to injury. They rang up "no sale" on the cash register and took $505 from it. SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPD-John Henry McNeill did a good job as trusty in tho ; county jail coffee shop, so when ho was transferred to the county farm deputies took up a collection to show their ap preciation. McNeil, with money to spend, promptly jumped the farm fence and. fled. . CHICAGO (UPD-What's in a name: Plenty, if it happens to be Qlivo Green. The Spanish Green Olive Insti tute said it's looking for a woman by that name to help celebrate Green Olive Week. If found, she will be crowned Green Olive Woman of (he Year. ' MOBILE. Aln. (UPD-Perry Denson, 27, on parole for robbing a service station, was arrestud Tuesday for robbing Ihe same service station again. OFFICIAL RESIGNS WASHINGTON (UPD - As sistant Defense Secretary Mans field D. Sprague resigned Wednes day for "purely personal" reasons involving "family and financial consideration." President Eisen hower nominated Dcpuly Assist ant Defense Secretary John N. Irwin II, A New York City law yer, to succeed him. policy. Hitherto, the Chinese Com munists have shown direct inter est in world power politics only where the Far East was involved for example, in Korea and In dochina. Now they have pushed their claimes further afield into the Middle East. Man Arrested As Suspect In Slaying PORTLAND (UPD Robert Dennis McCarthy, 38, was arrest ed here Wednesday while working as a house painter and was taken before U.S. Commissioner Claire Mundorff on a warrant charging him with unlawful flight from California. William H. Williams, special agent in charge of the FBI here, said details of the McCarthy case were meager but that McCarthy apparently was wuntcd as a sus pect in the May -31 death of Aubrey Paul Morgan at Areata, Calif. The man was jailed pending arrival of a complaint from the U.S. district attorney's office at Sacramento. Mrs. Mundorff also committed to Multnomah county jail a" wom an identified as Ethel Lorraine McCarthy, 35. The woman waived preliminary hearing on a charge of violating the Dyer act by driv ing a stolen car from Eureka, Calif,, to Medford, Ore., on May 31, Federal officers said the Mc Carthy.; woman and McCarthy were seen leaving Eureka in the car together shortly afler the fist fight in which Morgan was killed. McCarthy and the McCarthy woman were registered at 'sepa rate hotels when picked up here. Super-safe MYLOINI " 'p "'jp Any wayyoU look at it... 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By SAEB SALAM Written For ' United Press International BEIRUT (UPD The internal situation in Lebanon is condi tioned by the fact that the coun try is made up of two component parts Christian and Moslem. No future policy of program can be successful unless it is based on the principle of full and equal partnership and accord of these two. parts. Neither side must dominate the other. Neither must take the other for granted. -Both must feel that they have an equal stake in the country, that they equally belong to it. If this principle is translated into action in Ihe economic, so cial, cultural, political and admin istrative fields, nothing can en danger the internal cohesion of Lebanon. Lebanese relations with her sis ter Arab states must be based upon respect for the independence and territorial integrity of Leb anon. Tlie Arab states, in fact, have always been anxious to express this respect. This is evident from the covenant of the Arab League, repeated declarations of (U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel) Nasser and recent statements by the Re public of Iraq. crt rayon No time or J ' TURLEY'S TIRE SERVICE LA GRANDE, ORE. On the other hand Lebanon must not allow itself to be used by foreign powers as a lever to widen differences between the Arab states nor must it become a bridgehead for indirect pressure or direct aggression against any sister Arab state. Lebanon has nothing to fear from the united Arab world. Apart from consideration of the OK Of Merger ; For Two Railroads May Be Sought CHICAGO (UPD -Alfred E. Perfmnn, president of the NeW York Central System, said herd that stockholders may be asked' to approve a merger of the Kst' York Central and PennsylvaiA Railroads by the end of this year. . He said weekly meetings were being held by officials of. the two railroads, and that progress is be ing made although managements have not reached a final decision. The New York Central executive said one major detail that has yet lo bo ironed out is an "equitable" exchange of stock by the two rail roads. Last year, the two railroads an nounced they were considering a consolidation that wquld create the nation's 11th biggest com pany with assets totaling nearly $6,000,000,000 in a move to stream line operating efficiency. NAMED AFTER CHANNAULT LAKE CHARLES,'- La; (UPD The Lake Charles Air Force Base was renamed Tuesday in honor of the late, Lt. Gen. - Claire Chan nault, wartime leader of the Fly ing Tigers, who died last week. price... A Buy now, and get I. ' tire at exactly the same price as a 1st quality rayoa tire. 2. Buy now, und make an additional cask' saving of $7.57 iri' trade for your old tire ($15.14 on a pair). slz 6.70-15 black, tube-type, with retreadable trade-ins. Even bigger savings ' on larger slies, whltewalls, and rubeless. '. 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