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WEATHER
Fair today, tonight and
Thursday. High both days
85-95. Low tonight 46-58.
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LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1958
Prlc S Canta
S-PoD&ift Peace Program
like Proposes (
QUIET WHEELS The silver wheels of Site's truck fleet here
were churning silver no more this morning for the heavy
tires of the above trucks and 150,000 like them in the western
states, lie quiet. The stoppage of truck traffic was due to a
Elgin Fire
Gets Mop-Up;
' 2 New Blazes
', Twenty-eight men were engaged
in mopping up operations on the
forest fire seven miles north of
. Klgin this morning, W. M. Curtis,
district warden for the state for
es! ry service, said today.
'I he fire,' which broke out last
Saturday afternoon and burned
nearly 900 acres of grass, brush
:iud timber, has been under con:
trol since Sunday afternoon.
By United Press International
) v Foresters reported at least two
f new fires in eastern Oregon today
as the mid - summer heat wave
. continued unabated. The weather
bureau said no relief was in sight,
j . 7 The newest blaze was burning
out of control east of Huntington
in Baker county. It had covered
' about 000 acres by noon and John
Hunt, fire control officer for the
liui eau of Land Management.
jWr,;:.said the blaze was probably man
i caused.
V: ' A second fire was spotted by a
i u'.'HLM lookout south of Vale on
Giassy mountain.
Powell's Win
Raps Tammany
: NEW YORK lUPIi Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell. Negro congressman-minister
who was dumped by
.Tammany Hall because he sup
ported President Eisenhower in
I'l'iH, swept to a resounding vic
tory over Tammany-backed candi
. dale Earl Brown Tuesday to win
a Democratic renomination for an
eighth congressional term,
i Returns from 120 of the 143 dis
tricts in New York's 16lh District
(Harlem) which Powell has rep
resented in Congress the past 14
years gave him 11,706 votes to
4.138 for Brown, a city council
man who is also a Negro.
'I he overwhelming victory by the
4!l-year-old Baptist minister was a
severe blow to Tammany Hall, the
New York County Democratic or
ganization, and to the prestige of
its leader. Carmine G. De Sapio.
one of the nation's most influen
tial Democrats.
Smorgasbord Date Set
This year's Soroptimist Club
Smorgasbord, the sixth annual
tvent for the women's organiza
tion, will be held at Riverside
Park from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sun
ciay, Aug. 24. it was announced
today by Mrs. Arch Chambers,
club president.
' Wore than 300 persons annual
ly attend the event, and this year's
attendance .may surpass all oth
ers. Mrs. Chambers said.
The menu will include turkey,
Wallowa, Lake Railing
Approved By State
A $65,000 guardrail for
the highway at Wallowa Lake,
scene of five road fatalities
the last several years, has
been Recommended by the
state highway commission
and funds will be sought from
the U.S. Bureau of Public
Roads, City Commissioner H.
E. Waddell was informed
today.
The information was in the
form of a letter from H. B. Glais
yer. secretary to the highway
commission, in answer to Wad
dell's recent letter outlining the
need for a protective guardrail al
the lake.
The guardrail had been sought
by many citizens, including State
Senator Dwight Hopkins of IiryY
Workers Seek
Wage Boost
PORTLAND (UPI) The 80,000
member Western Council of Lum
ber and Sawmill Workers an
nounced Tuesday plans to strike
if necessary to gain higher wages.
Executive secretary of the
Council Earl Hartley said the ex
ecutive committee instructed its
four man negotiating committee
to begin discussions with employ
ers. Hartley said the union negotia
tors will meet with representa
tives of the industry from Oregon
and Washington Thursday morn
ing in the Congress hotel in Port
land. "Lately the economy of the
industry has shown a lot of
strength. We feel it is time we
had a wage increase," Hartley
said.
The strike authorization was
voted in by union members in
nine western states earlier this
year. A measure included in the
strike authorization also gave the
executive committee power to
charge working members one dol
lar a day to support .strikers.
fish, cheese, salads, baked beans
deviled eggs, relishes, cole slaw,
watermelon cantaloupes and
cookies.
Proceeds from the event are
used by the club in its civic im
provement program. The organi
zation has just completed enclos
ing the La Grande Memorial Pool
with a 10-foot wooden fence on
two sides and is helping with
improvements al Riverside and
Connerdule Parks.
halt called by employers to retaliate against 2,500 Teamster
members who went out on strike Monday. Impact of the truck
er stoppage was not expected to be seriously felt in this area
for a week or more. (ObserverPhoto).
ler and Dr. Clarence Gilstrap of
La Grande.
The commission secretary wrote
Waddell that the commissioner's
letter "was one of numerous re
quests that have been received
for construction of a guardrail at
this location."
Action by the commission was
taken following recommendation
of the project by the state
highway engineer's office.
Glaisyer slated that the project
will be advertised for bids "as
soon as possible and it is antici
paled that work will be complet
ed this year."
Rotary Hears
About Seed
Roland Schaad, La Grande, and
Clayton Fox, Imbler, gave Ro-
tarians an insight on seed grow
ing and marketing at yesterday's
regular meeting at the Sacajawea
Hotel.
Schaad, vice-president of the
Oregon Seed League, traced the
development of the seed industry
and told of research projects.
"Every community benefits from
increased resources which are
developed by research projects,
Schaad said.
Fox, president of the Oregon
Chewings Fescue and Creeping
Red Fescue Commission, reported
on the activities and development
of markets Tor fescue grass seeds.
"Oregon produces 95 per cent of
all fescue seeds, he reported.
Ted Sidor was program chair
man. Dr. : Leonard Good, president,
announced that Robert Haufle,
past-president, would be the
speaker for next week's meeting.
Rock Hudson's
Wife Wins Divorce
SANTA MONICA, Calif. UPI)-
Film star Rock Hudson's 32-year-
old wife was granted a divorce
today after testifying the popular
star was "sullen ana once sirucx
her.-
Phyllis Gates, a former airline
hostess, said the actor's actions
and distress over the break-up of
their two and one-half year mar
riage had caused her to become
ill.
A property settlement submitted
to the court gives her $130,000 in
cash over the next 10 years and
the couple's $35,000 home and Its
furnishings in the Hollywood Hills.
They were married at Santa
Barbara, Calif., Nov. 1, 1855, and
separated last Oct. 17.
Den Leads
Primaries
BOISE, Idaho (UPI) State
Sen. A. M. DerK the man who
wants to bring legalized gambling
to Idaho, today held lightly to a
narrow lead in the battle for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion. Returns from 864 out of 808 pre
cincts, 34 still unreported, gave
Derr 25,257 votes and state Sen.
Max Hanson 25,169. Derr's mar
gin was 88 votes.
In the same precincts, John
Glasby had 20,961 voles and Omar
Maine, the low man in the four
way race, had 2,236.
The winner of the Democratic
race will face Gov. Robert E.
Smylie in the November general
election.
Highway Commission
Defers Bid Opening
Due to the existing unsettled
conditions in the heavy construc
tion industry of Oregon, the State
Highway Commission has defer
red the opening of bids on proj
ects advertised for bid opening
on August 19.
The Commission will announce
the new dates for bid openings
hcn conditions are more satisfac
tory for, the receiving of bids
which can be based on known
labor cost factors, the State High
way Department at Salem advised
today.
Arab Nationalism
Acceptance Urged
rOK I LAIN1J lum U.S. BU-
preme Court Justice William O.
nniifriaB Tuesday ureod the ac
ceptance of Arab Nationalism and
tpe Islamic revolution it supports.
Douglas, ' speaking before 300
persons at a Portland Rotary Club
banquet, said the West can do
nothing to slop this revolution. He
added that it may be able to do
something to help the revolution
develop in a 'democratic pat
tern." TODAY .
REAL ESTATE
NEXT WEEK
FIX-UP FOR WINTER
Lost Boy
Found In
Cove Area
Russell Hi-owuinjj. II, of lltlfi W
Avenue, was a happy hoy lliis
morning after spending six an
xious hours while Insl in the moun
tains near Moss Springs road
above Cove. He had been on a
nucKle berry picking, trip with his
parents. '
Last night at 6:30 p.m. a call
was received by stale police that
Russell had been missing since
2:30 p.m.
A search was immediately star
ted by II.' S. Forest Service per
sonnel of the Union office, slate
police and Cove residents. At 8:30
p.m. Russell was found in an
automobile by U. S. Forest Ser
vice men, in good condition.
It was reported that two men
going into the Horse Ranch had
found him and took him back to
the road al the point of entry
into the woods. He then received
a ride down the road.
Mrs. Harold Browning and her
mother, Mrs. Anna Warner, wait
ing at the scene, greeted Russell
with open arms. Harold Browning,
Russell's father, was with the
search party when his son was
found.
Mrs. Browning expressed her
appreciation to all who entered
the search. "The eight men from
the U. S. Forest Service did a
wonderful job in planning the
search," she said.
Lockout Hits
Rail Terminal
;; SAN jRANClSCO (UPI) A
strike-lockout ol truckers' in u
western states forced the Southern
Pacific Railroad today to declare
an embargo on all shipments of
less than carload lot.
The SP said its terminals were
clogged and that it could no
longer accept small shipments for
delivery to or from points in Ari
zona, California, Nevada, New
Mexico and Oregon.
However, the Santa Fe said it
would accept all shipments for the
time being.
Employers- in the 11 states
ordered the lockout early Monday
in retaliation for a strike of 2,350
teamsters in Central California
and Western Nevada.
The railroad freight embargo,
coupled with the trucking tie-up,
was sure to cause commodity
shortages, production cutbacks
and higher unemployment.
No serious shortages were anti-
ciniated in the immediate future,
but transportation experls said
such shortages could develop in
some areas if the strike-lockout
lasts as long as 10 days.
GOC Hears About
TAC, Views Film
At Elgin Meeting
The Tactical Air Command was
the subject of a talk given by
M-Sgt. Ralph Bragg at the Ground
Observer Corps meeting in Elgin
last night.
A number of observers from La
Grande were - in attendance to
hear the sergeant and to see the
movie "Thunder From the Sky,"
depicting the TAC in action dur
ing the Korean conflict.
M-Sgt. Bob Coleman urged the
observers to be on the alert for
planes in distress and to make an
aircraft flash, observer check.
call to the Bend Filter Center
when such a plane is detected.
Committees ' reported on plans
for the GOC picnic to be held
August 31.
Second U.S. Sub Under Polar
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
USS Skate, second American nu
clear submarine to sail under the
North Pole, today cruised be
neath the polar ice cap to con
tinue its historic explorations.
The Defense Department an
nounced Tuesday night the Skate
crossed the North Pole at 9:47
p.m. e.d.t., Monday while explor
ing undersea routes beneath the
polar cap.
It was the second historic sub
polar crossing for U.S. atom subs
in eight days. The USS Nautilus
passed from the Pacific to the At
lantic by way of the Pole last
This Mishap
Paid Off
For The Kids!
KANSAS CITY. Mo. UP1 A
truck-car accident here forced lo
cal police to make out two sepa
rate reports.
The first was quite routine. The
second was written after some 20
neighborhood children opened a
door of the ice cream truck and
helped themselves.
Schoolmen
Approve
Program
Three recommendations of the
Curriculum Citizens Committee
.vere adopted last night by the
School District No. 1 board al. its
regular meeting in the office of
School Superintendent Lyle Riggs.
The recommendations were:
1. That physical education and
health be furthered by develop
ment of a basic body movement
and rhythm training program. It
is not intended that sports should
take the place of this year-round
program.
2. Continued emphasis be placed
on the teaching of the basic skills,
the "threfe R's."
3. Continue and expand where
feasible the use of ability groups
in the classroom.
Other recommendations, of the
committee which held a scries
of public meetings last spring
were deferred for further study.
The board Instructed the super
intendent and Clerk Ray Williams
to proceed with the consolidation
of the Perry school district with
La Grande District No. 1. Peti
tions already have been filed by
Perry.. ; ' , ;,r; -
v Recommendation . that a ' request
be made to the state -highway
commission for establishment of
school crossing zones at Second
and Adams was also mode by the
board.
Eldon Daggett's resignation as
seventh grade teacher and assis
tant coach at the junior high
school was accepted.
U.S. Marines
In Departure
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - A
battalion of 1,800 U.S. Marines
and several hundred Navy Sea
bees today began the slow process
of pulling out of Lebanon.
The withdrawal, the American
answer to Russian charges of U.S.
"aggression", began at dawn with
hot and sweating Leathernecks
loading their heavy equipment
aboard Navy LSTs.
The Marines landed here July
15 at invitation of President Ca
milla Chamoun who felt his gov
ernment threatened by Syrian in
filtration and a revolutionary
movement at home.
Walla Walla Convicts
End Sitdown S.trike
WALLA WALLA (UPI) More
than 300 inmates of the state pen
itentiary here ended their two-day
sitdown strike today and went
back to work.
Warden Bob Rhay said the in
stitution "will be running normal
ly, very soon." Rhay talked with
groups of inmates who. were pro
testing against the state Parole
Board during the morning and
they agreed to go back to work.
"They figured they had nothing
to gain by further striking," Rhay
said. "I have told the men to
submit to me a list of the sen
tences they feel were Illegal or
unjustified and .this will be trans
mitted to Dr. Garrett Hcyns, di
rector of Institutions."
week following a hitherto unknown
"deep sea valley" proclaimed by
the White House as a new route
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.)
told the Senate the voyage of the
Skate, coming quickly after the
Nautilus cruise, demonstrated the
"one-two punch" of the Navy. He
read the Senate the United Press
International dispatch disclosing
the Skate's accomplishment.
The Skate sailed from its home
base of New London, Conn., July
30, carrying a crew of 10 officers,
87 enlisted men and nine civilian
technicians. It Is skippered by
Cmdr. James F. Calvert of Cleve
U.N. Police Force
Asked For Arabs
' UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UPI
President Eisenhower today pro
posed an all-embracing six-point
peace program for the Middle
East, including a do-it-yourself
economic plan for the Arab states
and a U. N. police force to pro
tect it from "ballistic blackmail."
The President spoke for 28 min
utes before an emergency session
of the U. N. General Assembly
called lo consider the Mideast
crisis.
His proposal, calling for "an
Arab development institution on
a regional basis," was a depar
ture from U.S. tradition which
heretofore has dealt only with na
tions on an individual basis.
"The Institution should be gov
erned by the Arab states them
selves, he said.
The President delivered his ad
dress without interruption, but at
the end the delegates applauded
him for 34 seconds. They gave
him another ovation as he left.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko, who followed Eisenhow
er to the rostrum 10 minutes la
ter, did not applaud.
Gromyko and his aides stood
silently as Eisenhower left the
chamber. It was the President's
first appearance there since his
dramatic "atoms for peace" pro
posal Dec. 8, 1953.
Gromyko, only other listed
speaker for the day, launched im
mediately into a condemnation of
U.S. "armed intervention."
The Arabs, for the moment,
were noncommittal.
First Soviet reaction came from
Gromyko himself after taking the
rostrum.
"The extending of economic aid
to , the countries, of . t,he. Near and
Middle East is certainly good,
he told the assembly. "The So
viet Union will always extend
such aid without any strings at
tached. The question of economic
assistance to the; states of the
Middle East as set forth by Pres
ident Eisenhower requires careful
consideration. But first we must
have withdrawal of the foreign
troops from the area.
The assembly adjourned after
the speeches until Thursday
' Eisenhower left for Washington
immediately upon conclusion of
his speech.
The President said it was "im
portant" that his six-point plan be
viewed as. a whole. He listed it
"United Nations concern for
Lebanon:
"United Nations measures to
preserve peace in Jordan.
"An end to the fomenting from
without of civil strife.
"A United Nations' peace force,
A regional economic develop
Portland E-R Center
Bids Postponed
PORTLAND (UPI) The Port
land Exposition Recreation com
mission announced Tuesday the
construction strike-lockout has re
sulted in a postponement of call
for bids to build the city s exposi
tion-recreation center.
The commission voted to delay
the bid call until Sept. 2 on rec
ommendations of the project's ar
chitects.
Nationalist, Red
Planes In Dog Fight
TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI) The
Chinese Nationalist air force an
nounced that more than 10 Red
Chinese MIG17 jet fighters inter
cepted two Nationalist Sabre jets
off the Fukien coast today.
The Nationalist and Communist
planes engaged in a dog fight for
seven minutes, the communique
said, but no damage was reported
to either side.
land, Ohio.
The Navy said the Skate sur
faced in an "ice lead" about 40
miles fro-n the Pole and reported
Its polar crossing by radio. "The
submarine is continuing her under
ice explorations," the Navy said.
The Navy is known to be anx
ious to chart the floor of the Arc
tic Ocean. Such a map would
enable submarines to plot their
position with greater exactness
than surface ships using compass
and less precise forms of naviga
tion. Knowledge of this Arctic short
cut would enable transfer of sub
marine fleets from Pacific to At
meat plan to assist and accelerate
improvement in the living stand
ards of the people in these Arab
nations.
"Steps to avoid a new arms
race spiral in the area.'v
As a means of preventing out
side sources from stirring up
strife from within, the President
proposed U.N. monitoring of radio
broadcasts "directed across na
tional frontiers in the troubled
Near East area."
Summer
Storms Rip
East Coast
United Prtii International
Severe summer storms ripped
sections of the East and South
west, dumping heavy rains from
the Carolinas to Southern New
England and battering Texas with
a tornado and electrical storms.
Weathermen also issued an
alert for Puerto Rico and the Vir
gin Islands as tropical storm Bec
ky swept westward across the At
lantic with winds up to 55 miles
an hour.
Gale force winds extended 175
miles lo the north of the storm's
center, and forecasters alerted
vessels in the area to exercise
caution.
Thunderstorms erupted alone
the Atlantic coastal states during
me nignt, depositing more than .
one ,inch of , .raln -t -KndersonJ -S.C;
nearly an Inch at Washing- v
ton, and about 1,6 inches to Bal
timore,' and Gordonsville, Va. '
Two city workers were injured
at Terrell, Tex., Tuesday when
lightning struck the ground near
them during a violent electrical
storm. A twister hit near Edhube.
Tex., causing damage in rural
areas, and winds of 80 miles per
hour struck Lake Lavon north of
Dallas.
Goldfine Cited
For Contempt
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
House today overwhelmingly cited
Boston millionaire Bernard Gold
fine for contempt of Congress. -
The long-expected action against
Presidential Assistant Sherman
Adams' gift-giving friend came '
after an hour of often heated de-'
bate in which Adams' name was
never mentioned outright but fre
quently implied.
The citation now goes to the
Justice Department for almost:
certain prosecution. 1 !
If tried and convicted, the New
England textile tycoon faces a pas-'
sible maximum sentence of one
year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Air Force Fuel
Plane Crashes
WIESBADEN, Germany (UPI)
The U. S. Air Foro announced
that one of its four-engine KB50 ,
aerial refueling planes with- 10
men aboard crashed near St. Vlth, ,
Belgium, today.
The Air Force said it had no
word about survivors. Reports
from Liege, Belgium, indicated
several members of the crew
were killed.
A spokesman faid the, flying;
tanker was on a routine mission
from Wiesbaden to Sculthorpe, '
England. He said the men were
stationed here at headquarters
of U.S. Air Force In Europe. . ' ..
Ice Cap
lantic far faster than now possi
ble. With the fleet of U.S. missile
firing subs steadily expanding, '
this new passageway would enafce .
American undersea force "U.
strike swiftly and secretly at dis
tant targets', .i w y
Russia, as far as is known, ja
no atomic submarine. "V
There was speculation but,, no
official confirmation, that a. third'
U.S. atomic sub the Sea Wolf is
in the Arctic area. It has been
gone from Its home base at New
London, Conn., as long as Um
Skate. - . 1 '