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WEATHER Mostly fair today and Sun day with afternoon and eve ning thunderstorms in moun tains. High both days 87-92. Low tonight 50-55. 43P RsisblisbHl 189 Daily excopt Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1958 Price) 5 Cant Alternate For Ike's Plan In Making BY BRUCE W. MUNN United Press International UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, (UPI) Indications mounted today that backstage negotiations have pulled the teeth out of President Eisen hower's program for a Miiddle East settlement. Informed sources said the resolution which Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Hans Engen is expected to submit to the emer gency General Assambly session next week will eliminate Eiisen howor's proposal for a U.N. peace force and for an effort to curb inflammatory propaganda in the Miiddle East. ' Purchase U. S. Bonds Rises Here Purchase of U. S. Defense Bonds rose nearly 818,000 in Un ion county during July compared to the same month last year, a re port by the Portland office of the U. S. Treasury Department dis closed today . Union county's total purchase of bonds for last month was $53, :10. In July, 1957, it was $35, 655. Bond sales for the year to date in the county total $370,429, as compared to $356,421 for the same period last year. Wallowa County showed a $3, 400 increase in sales last month for a total of $119,681 for the year to date, an increase : of about $35,000 over the same period for 1957. Schools Open At Enterprise On September 2 ENTERPRISE E n t e r p rise schools will open for fall classes on Tuesday, Sept. 2, Superinten dent A. H. Habcrly announced this week. Except for the vacancy in the combination library and Eng; lish post;,expcctqd to be filled by opening day, the staff is com plete, the superintendent said. ' New teachers on the staff are Miss Hedwig Zorb, science and mathematics teacher in the high school, and Don Elser, vocational agriculture teacher. Registration on opening day will start at 8:30 a.m., with clas ses slated for a half clay only on Wednesday. - Air Force Moonshot I n jl IT' THIRD STAGE I 'S S0LIDFUEl- R0CKET CARRYING 60- POUND I ' SswPAYL0AD ' , v. f WEB Wf SECOND STAGE COMBINED S3 TWl W1THTH0RIS KNOWN AS 1 1 THOR-ABEL. COMBINATION I -1AS TRAVELED 6,000 MILES , if. 4 i 4 J u 'i f fZr 62FEETTALL,8FEETV y ' 4i f rJlN DIAMETER AND WEIGHS fek'V swrJ-fsSTONS. LIQUID PROPELLANTJ 1 ' 1 ENGINE DELIVERS 165,000 J JJL LP0UNDS OF THRUST f'l " ' 1 V .i REACHING FOR THE MOON Roaring moonward in this drawing by NEA artist John Lane is the Air Force's hybrid Thor-Able, de signed to orbit the moon. The rocket 100 feet tall combines the Thor, Intermediate range ballistic missile, with the second stage of Vanguard, plus a so far untested third stage of Vanguard. In its 60-pound payload it will carry a TV-like device to photograph the back side of the moon. Space director Roy W. Johnson cautions that this first moon rocket may have no better than a one in 10 chance of success. Both these provisions had been opposed by the Arabs. It was re ported that they might be rein troduced when the General As sembly begins its regular session on Sept. IB. Informed diplomats said the principal positive proposal in the resolution being prepared by Kn gen would be a directive to Sec retary - General Dag Hanimarsk jold to make arrangements forth with" for the United Nations to safeguard peace in the Middle East. This would effectively empower Hammarskjold to visit the area and seek means of providing a substitute for Anglo - American troops specifically in Jordan, whose threatened government has rejected the idea of protection by the proposed peace force. The assembly session is in re cess for the week end. It will resume Monday. Search For North Bend Family Halted By Police NORTH BEND (UPD Search for a North Bend family that mysteriously disappeared on July 30 has been officially discontinued, police report. Allan Erickson, 20, his wife Anita, 19, and their infant son, Allan Jr., vanished ; when they started home after watching tele vision at the home of relatives in nearby Cooston. . Police, however," are still hope ful that some lead to the where abouts of the missing family will be found. DRAFT OFFICE CLOSED Offices of Selective Service, Lo cal Board 24, located in the Post Office building, will be closed un til Thursday, Aug. 21, pending the return of Clerk Iola I. Olson from vacation. 22, oe Do lost C SWIM WITH BEAUTY Four East team Shrine gridders re ceived not only free swim passes to the La Grande City Pool but a sizeable portion of charm in addition yesterday. Pool life- -guards distributing both the tickets and ooh-la-la are Doto Ann Anson, left and June Riggs, right. Players are Mike Smith of This Lad Is Really In Focus NAGASAKI, Japan A youth who stopped a speeding train by standing on the tracks explained that he merely was trying to take a photo of rushing train from "an ideal angle." Readiness By WILLIAM TUCKER United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) An immensely tall rocket with a knobby contrivance on top stood gaunt in an Air Force tower on Cape Canaveral today. It ap parently was ready for a widely anticipated "shoot for the moon" Sunday. TTie Air Force and Defense Department still would not con firm that the big test, marking man's first uncertain leap to bridge the chasm between the planets, was imminent. , The maximum goal of the test is to orbit an instrumented satel lite of under 100 pounds around the moon and obtain a crude tele vision picture of its eternally hidden "dark side." i They're Getting Ready Informed sources have noted that Sunday is the best day for such a test. If the rocketeers can not get it off then, they have the next three days when the moon still is relatively close to earth within 230,000 miles. Only a short period of each day will provide a celestial alignment favorable for shooting and the whole thing could be called off for another month. All signs of a .'major missile launching wre evident here. Activity continued far into Friday night on the Air Force service tower, its bright lights showing through a squall line that en closed the cape. All living space in nearby motels was sold out. W h iis p e r s were circulated by "beach telegraph." As for the kind of shoot planned, the rocket standing in an extended thor missile tower was certainly like nothing ever fired here be fore. Bomarc Scores Hit Apparently completely assem bled in the last day or so, it looked to be almost 100 feet tall and towered above other missiles in position along the cape skyline. The moon rocketeers can only hope to do a portion as well as an electronic brain did Friday in sending up a Bomarc interceptor missile against a an arone. The Bomarc was fifed by push button from Kingston, N. Y., more than 1,500 miles from the launching site here. Wallowa Lake Boat Races Tomorrow . Activities this weekend at Wallowa Lake will be featured by a marathon race for all classes of stock outboard motor boards to morrow. Sponsored by the Wallowa Lake at 12 o'clock noon Sunday. Entry is open to all boat owners and application blanks can be obtained at the lake boat dock. as prize money in the various power classes. In addition to cash awards, trophies will be awarded to first three places in each class. The races for all classes will be run at one time, club officers in charge of the event said. The six classes of boats making up the event are: Class M 15 to 22 h.p.; Class A up to 35 rated h.p.; Class B up to 40 rated h.p.; Class C up to 50 rated h.p."; Class D up to 70 rated h.p. or dual engines less than 40 h.p. each; Class X un limited. Ann Johnson Calls RMA Planning Meeting Ann Johnson, general chair man of this year's annual Fall Showing, said initial plans will be outlined at a meeting of the Re tail Merchants Association plam ning committee at noon Tuesday in the Sacajawea hotel. Members of the committee arc Eob Turner, 'chairman, Ed Ben nett, John Groupe, Werner Hildc brandt, Clarence Hills, Max Mc Glasson, June McManus, and Clint Smithe. Senator Hopkins Attends Indian Affairs Meeting Tribal problems affecting the state were discussed at a meet ing of the Interim Committee on Indian Affairs with representa tives of the Umatilla Indian tribe last night at Pendleton. In attendance at the session was Senator Dwight Hopkins of Imbler, one of the two Senate members of the committee. Two Quakes Registered NEW YuivK (upd horunam University reported today two earthquakes of "considerable intensity." Hurricane Headed North MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane Cleo, with top winds of 115 miles an hour, drifted erratically north ward today on a general course which forecasters Said it would probably maintain through most of the morning. Cleo, which moved west-north-west most of Friday, made a gradual shift to the north. A re connaissance plane pinpointed the center near latitude 10.4 north, longitude 50!l west, or about 1, 000 miles ' east - northeast of Puerto Rico at 11 p. m. It was .also about 2,000 miles cast-south Sisters, left front, and Skip Parsons of Irrlgon, right front. In rear are Norm Evans of Stanfield and Stan Wlilliams of Sisters. City Manager Fred Young and Pool Manager Don Campbell pre sented the tickets on behalf of "the people of La Grande." ' ' (Observer Photo) Yacht Club, the event will begin The nominal entry fee will be used j : New Attack Sub Launched PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (UPI) The sleek, swift submarine Sea Dragon, said to be a better sub than the polar-voyaging Nautilus, was launched today at the naval shipyard here Powered by an atomic reactor plant and having "missile guid ance capabilities," the 2(i(l-foot, twin-screws undersea craft is an attack submarine of the Skate class, the fourth built. Mrs. Robert L. Denni son, Cor onado, Calif., wife of Vice Adm. Dennison, commander of the 1st fleet, christened the sub. Principal speaker at the brief ceremonies was Rear Adm. Frederick B. Warder, commander of the sub force of Ihe U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Conspicuous by his absence was Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, generally considered the "father of the atomic submarine." Rick over has said the Sea Dragon is a better sub than the Nautilus, but has refused to compare the two on specific points. Graveside Rites Set For Mary Jane Cone Graveside services for Mrs. Mary Jane Cone, elderly Klamath Falls resident who died in that city this week, will be held by the Dempsey-Snodgrass Funeral Chapel at 10 p.m., Monday at the City Cemetery. Interment will be in the Ward family plot. Mrs. Cone is the mother of Charles Cone, Klamath Falls; Margaret Davis, Pasco; Herroetta Steppe of Alaska, and the sister of John Ward of La Grande. She leaves 13 grandchildren and 117 great grandchildren. east of both Miami and Cape Hatteras. . Cleo, the first hurricane of the season, reduced in velocity from 145 to 115 miles per hour Friday. But the San Juan weather bureau emphasized that "this is a revere hurricane." Miami forecaster Gilbert Clark said Cleo's path made it difficult to assign It to any definite direc tor I'lt has strayed from its previous west - northwest course and is now moving in a general northern direction," Clark said. Volcano Erupts -Off Coast Of Alaska, Report ANCHORAGE (UPI) Okmok Caldera volcano erupted on Urn nak Island Thursday night for the first time since 1946, according to word received Friday by Reeve Aleutian Airlines. News of the eruption, which sent clouds of smoke and . steam 15,000 feet into the air, came by radio from Reeve headquarters on Umnak. ' Because of the smoke and poor visibility, It was not known if lava was flowing from the crater, Logging Closed Down In Western Washington OLYMPIA (UPI) - A shutdown of all logging operations through out western Washington effective through midnight Sunday was or dered Friday by the Department of Natural Resources. MISSIN WOMAN SOUGHT . ROSEBURG (UPD More than 100 searchers, including volun teers, state police and Forest Service" personnel, today combed a rugged wooded area around Huckleberry lake in the Tiller district for a missing Shady Cove woman. l , - ir r4fe Pt'i U v II I jfjjr V:: , , f n mi - . ' I ' u k'4w "IpfJ I UJ' TOO LITTLE AND TOO EARLY Who wouldn't be glum with a shiny '57 model (model) car and brand-new highway ha can't venture on? That's how four-year-old Kavin Coffey of Chicago felt when told he couldn't be the first "motorist" on the new Northwest Toll way. Lieut. Paul Wells of the Tollway police est Crash Former AEC'Chaiirnair Casualty; Plane Burns NANTUCKET, Mass. (UPI) A new York-to-Nantueket airliner, crashed in fog and burst into flames Friday night, killing 22 of the 34 aboard, including former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon E. Dean. , .. The Northeast Airlines Convair was filled with holiday-bound week enders when it slammed to earth and disintegrated. Seats, bits of flaming fuselage and wheels were hurled helter-skelter into woodlands east of the airport. The biggest single part left was re ported to be one engine. , '' Maj. Buckley Graduate Of Army School Maj. Walter L. Buckley, 40, well known former La Grande resident and son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Buckley, 1221 X ave nue here, is a recent graduate of the Army's Cold Weather and Mountain Training School at Fort Greeley, Alaska, it was learn ed today. Commander of the Second U. S. Army Corps' Reserve Center - in Utica, N.Y., Major Buckley at tended Brigham Young Univers ity, Utica College and Syracuse University. A paratrooper in World War II, he was associated briefly with Ins father in the electrical con tracting business here following the war and re-entered the serv ice as a permanent career. Victims Dead Before Crash GALWAY, IRELAND (UPD -The chief medical officer of the Dutch ' KLM Airline said' today autopsies ; indicated .that the 99 persons killed in Thursday's crash of a New York-bound airliner were dead before the plane plunged in to the Atlantic. Dr. K. Van Diager said exam ination of the bodies of some of the victims showed each had suf fered "brain bleeding." ' 1 He said this "Indicated that all the people were dead before the impact" of the plane on the stormy sea. Dr. Van Diager said there were no signs of burns on the bodies examined, and that other external injury marks on the bodies came after death. Dttch and Irish doctors per formed autopsies on the bodies of 34 victims before an inquest was held. ' ! . Area's Temperature And Rainfall Above Average Weekly average temperature for Union county continued to range above normal along with the rest of the stale, the weather summary issued by the U.S. De partment of Agriculture disclosed today. ' ' Likewise, precipitation for the county for the period of Sept. to Aug. 1 was ahead of normal pre The body of Dean, a week end "vacation commuter," was identi fied by his wife. A baby, 2-year-old Cindy Lou Young, was hurled alive from the wreckage, but her mother was killed. The baby was among 13 persons hospitalized. Amid the flaming wreckage, strewn about pine woods near Nantucket Airport, year - round residents and summer vacationers risked death when fire neared gasoline tanks to carry survivors to safety. . . i Joe Indio, editor of a Nantucket weekly, said the first fire alarms sent hundreds rushing to the scene. When he got there,' Indio said, huge chunks of the plane were still burning. It looked,- he said, as if the plane had Just plummeted down.,. . It- was the second crash of a Northeast Airlines plane In south: eastern Massachusetts in 11 months. A fog - delayed airliner crashed Sept. 15, 1957 at' New Bedford, killing 12 and injuring 12 others. ' ; Besides Dean, the dead in Fri day's crash, included the pilot, Capt. John Burnham of Marsh field, Mass., a veteran of eight years of service, and his co-pilot, David Carey of Nantucket. The stewardess, Eileen Dabek, 25, , of Manchester, N.; H., also was killed. She iiad.: been flying only since' January." . Ontario Boy's Body Recovered . . ONTARIO (UPI) The body of six-year-old Charles Leon Thomas; one of two boys who drowned Wednesday in the Snake River, was found Friday by a farmer near here. . . ,' The farmor, George Nishimura, called police after he found the body near a rock guard at an Irri gation pump on his island farm about 17 miles downstream, ' The body of the other boy, Mary tin Malllon, 7, has not been found. The boys were swimming near Dobbs Island when they stepped off a 30-foot shelf. Charles was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Thomas of Ontario. - cipitation by more than 6'. Inch es. Total for the season is 191 inches, compared to a normal rainfall of 12.26 Inches; ; , ' Maximum temperatue in 'the county last week was 95, mini aiuin 41, for a weekly average o 68, three degrees higher average than normal for the period. patrol had to explain to Kevin that the 76-mila mad from O'Hare International Airport to South Baloit, Wis., wasn't open for traffic. ! And Coffey's cup of disappointment wai mad , avan mora bitter when ha learned that no vo- , hide Incapable of meeting the Tollway't mini mum spaed of 40 m.p.h, will ba allowed.
