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WEATHER Fair today and Wednesday except for chance of an after noon or evening thunder storm. High both days 82-87.-Low tonight 47-53. . ',' 6 Estctblhhed 1896 Daily except- Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1958 Price 5 Cents (DHUlbuS onmrft U.S. Reverse Studied By Opposition To Western Mid-East Plan Predicted By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press International UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP1) Lebanses Foreign Minister Charles Malik assured the United Nations today his government is "working hard" to stabilize the country so U. S. troops can he withdrawn "as speedily as possible." i Malik, under political fire at home, in Lebanon's first Middle House Passes Old Age Pay Boost Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House today approved by voice vote and sent to the While House a bill lo raise social security taxes and benefits. The bill would provide the nearly 12 million persons on the rolls with benefit increases of about 7 per cent, effective with their February checks. It would raise payroll taxes on employers. The measure was approved without debate after House Dem ocratic leaders decided to accept the Senate version of the bill in stead of insisting on a conference lo work out a compromise with the administration-opposed House bill. The decision averted the risk of a possible presidential veto. It was reached amid reports that a high administration official had in dicated the President probably would sign the Senate version. The payroll tax now amounts to 2'A per cent on the first $4,200 in earnings, with employers mat ching that contribution. The leg islation would boost the tax next year to Vk per cent and apply it to the first $4,800 in annual earn ings. Self-employed persons would pay . a 3 per .cent ,ratev instead of the present 3 per cent. ALL "GUI ET ON FORMOSA TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD Soviet built MIG fighter planes roamed the Formosa Straits today but the Nationalist Chinese Defense Min istry reported no combat. Y - S K V i"t s- i .'; t 'i' t -1 u 'i JAW ' , tK A u i f v , ' , - U v i - vK ,;, . . DESTINED FOR LA GRANDE? West Coast Airlines' Fairchild F 27, first American-built 1 propjet airliner, shown on the ground after its maiden flight from the factory at Hagerstown, Md., Is greeted at Boeing Field, Seattle, by one l of Pan American's Boeing 707's in the air above it. West Coast will be the first American air carrier to place in American propjet in sched liasl statement to tne General As sembly's emergency session, said his country feared "I lint what is really at stake is the very exis tence of Lebanon as an indepen dent, sovereign and free stale." The West has placed before the assembly a seven-power resolution empowering Secretary - general Dag llammarskjold to make "praclical arrangements" lo save Lebanon and Jordan. British troops now are stationed in .lor da. The mild and vaguely worded resolution , introduced by seven Western nations was opposed by most of the Arab world and by the Communist bloc because it did not demand the immediate withdraw al of U.S. and British troops from Lebanon and Jordan. But twin declarations by Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd promising to withdraw the troops when requested to by the assembly was expected to as sure the necessary two-thirds ma jority in the 81-nation body. Sir Leslie Knox Monroe of New Zealand, assembly president, hoped the assembly would vole by Wednesday night. But observers predicted there would be rash of attempts to modify the resolution by such disatisfied nations as In dia and Japan and perhaps some Arab states.., The""leave it to Dag" resolution would send him lo the Middle East with a "philosophical man date" under which he would try to work out arrangements for what the Russians call "peaceful coexistence" of the various Middle East nations. Tax Body Criticized By Sen. Hopkins The Oregon Slate Tax Commis sion has been singled out by State Senator Dwight Hopkins of Imb Icr as the one state agency which has not cooperated in attempting to solve the problems of the dis trict which he represents. Speaking at the Baker county Democratic Picnic Sunday after noon at Baker, Senator Hopkins, vho represents Union, Wallowa pnd Baker counties, reported v:5 "My Stewardship in the Senate." "We are proud of the fact that all agencies on the state level, with the exception of one, have cooperated fully to take care of the problems that have arisen in our district," the senator said. "This exception has been the State Tax Commission, and I shall continue to be critical until the problems are reached on a plane of an agency and not as a 'state within a stale . Attending the picnic meeting at which the senator was the principal speaker, were Mrs. Hop kins and son, David; Forrest Gray, Union county democratic chair man, and Mrs. Gray, and Nelle Montgomery, Union county dem ccratic vice-chairman. Plan For Nuclear Test Surveillance Studied - GENEVA (UPD Eastetn and Western nuclear experts Vneet today.for the first lime' in a week to put finishing touches on a plan for scientific surveillance of nuclear tests. The scientists, representing eight nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain, are expected to wind up a seven - week con ference here Wednesday or Thursday. uled airline service. The Fairchilds will be used to supplement the present fleet of 14 DC-3's at the outset, although it was known that the Fair child, will not be put In service through La Grande for some time. Primary obstacle to the propjet's service on the La Grande run Is pas senger traffic. It was understood. OFF TO CAMP Four La Grande youths were up with the sun this morning and off to Camp Barton, Salvation Army camp located east of Portland. Lt. O. Summers of the La Grande Salvation Army, (rear in photo) said this was the fourth group to go from La Grande this summer. While there, the youths will swim, fish, hold camp fires and attend chapel ser Rickover To Greet Nautilis .WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower today designated Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover as his personal representative to welcome the atomic submarine Nautilus when it arrives at New York Monday following its historic .tourney tinder the -North Pple., The White House said the Presi dent did so on recommendation of Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. The move apparently was de signed to make up for the snub to Rickover who was not Invilcd to the Aug. 8 White House ceremony when it was disclosed that the Nautilus had made its North Pole journey. Monterey Hums As Sardines Return To Area's Waters MONTEREY, Calif. (UPI) - Cannery Row hummed today for the first time m six years with the return of sardines to Monter ey Bay. A dozen boats, about one-third of a fleet that once numbered more than 100, brought in 450 tons of sardines Monday. Some 700 persons went to work processing Beirut Area Sealed Off BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD-Thc government sealed off an entire business area in the heart of Beirut Monday and placed it off limits to vehicular traffic because of renewed violence. An announcement said the mil itary commandant sealed off a square mile of the business sec tor of the city "with a view to putting an end to acts of terror ism in Beirut and to maintain calm and tranquility.." There has been a series of bombing incidents in Beirut in re cent weeks, some of them in the area affected an area contain ing the biggest stores and head quarters of insurance and banking firms. The order does not affect U.S. military vehicles. It was the second big section of Beirut placed on a special secur ity status. The first is the rebel held Basta area which has been barricaded and sealed off by reb els for more than two months. Funds Passed For Columbia Dams WASHINGTON (UPD - The Columbia, Snake River develop ment will go ahead on schedule as a result of House-Senate con ference committee action on a public works appropriation meas ure, Sens. Henry M. Jackson and Warren G. Magnuson said today. Magnuson, a member of the conference committee, said the action of the group in leaving intact $550,000 in planning funds for the Lower Monumental dam clears the way for construction to start on the Snake River dam be Here's A Texan For You! Uncle Charley, the Observer's volunteer,. semi-anonymous cor respondent and let's-have-another- chuckle department head who makes his residence at Hot Lake, comes forth today with this mor sel: There is said to be a man in Texas who buys every gas-saving device he can get. His latest find enables him to slop every 25 miles and draw off a gallon. the catch in Cannery How's five remaining plants. In the 1940's the sardine can ning industry was a 20 million dollar a year business and em ployed thousands of workers in a score of canneries. Canneries then processed 4,000 to 9,000 tons of fish a day. Whether the sardines would stay in Hie waters off Monterey could not be foretold. J. B. Phillips, murine biologist with the Hopkins Marine Station, said local waters have been warming up in recent years. He said it could mean the beginning of a warm-water cycle in which sardines flourish. Chemistry Equipment For Oregon State CORVALLIS (UPI) Special chemistry research equipment will be purchased by Oregon State College with a $64,272 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. A. L. Strand, school president, said today. Baker Attorney Named To Oregon State Bar ' PORTLAND (UPD The Oregon Star Bar, in a statewide election, has named four new members to its board of governors. They include Kay Lafky, Salem; Harold Banta, Baker; Dean F. Bryson, Portland, and Charles G. Howard, Eugene. ing sought in the first session of the 86th Congress next year. The House Senute conferees agreed on a $1,118,000,000 public works appropriation for the cur rent fiscal year. The total was about 41 million dollars more than President Eisenhower asked Con gress to appropriate. The bill provides money for projects previously authorized by Congress. Some of the projects were in the Rivers and Harbors Bill the President signed earlier to the session. vices. Summers said '"funds are lacking to com pletely pay the way of the boys," and unged anyone desiring to help finance the trip to the camp to see him at the Salvation Army office here. Shown loading gear in the SA station wag on are, left to right, Tim Smith, 8; Bobby Page, 12; Henry Cox, 12; and George Cox, 8. . (Observer Photo) Senate Okehs Farm Measure WASHINGTON (UPD An ad ministration-directed farm bill ne gotiated its final congressional hurdle Monday night after weeks of uncertainty and was sent to President Eisenhower for signa hire. . . .. ' .' . , The Senate; by voice vote passed me compromise measure which permits Agriculture Secretary Ez ra T. Benson to drop minimum price supports to as low as 65 per cent for corn next year and for rice and cotton in 1062. Although bitterly assailed by farm state Democrats and Repub licans, Congress passed the bill to forestall heavy cutbacks in cotton and rice planting allotments next year. The cuts would have oc curred automatically if Congress approved no farm legislation this session. The measure was regarded as a major victory for Benson, who said the bill "contains many forward-looking provisions which will give our nation's farmers and ranchers more freedom to plant, to market, to complete and to make their own decisions." Eisenhower was certain to sign the measure worked out by House Republican and Democratic lead ers lo breuk the farm legislation deadlock. Iran Earthquake Toll 135 Dead To Date TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) The Iranian relief organization Red Lion and Sun announced today that 135 bodies have been re moved from the rubble of 40 vil lages hit by earthquakes. Director Hussein Khatibi said figures on the number of injured were not known but that they would be very high. Tents and relief supplies were being rushed to the devastated ar eas. Airliner Victims' Last Rites Held GALWAY, Ireland (UPD Busi ness slopped here today for the muss funeral of 27 unidentified victims of last Thursday's KLM plane crash which killed 0'J per sons. Exact cause of the crash was still unknown. A coroner's jury found Monday that the victims died as the result of "multiple in juries caused by violent impact," but said there was "no evidence to show cause of impact." Magnuson reported success in holding $13,500,000 for The Dalles, $22,500,000 for Ice Harbor and $2,400,000 for the Chief Joseph dams In the fiscal 1059 construc tion budget of the Corps of Army Engineers. The conference committee al located John Day Dam eight mil lion dollars this new fiscal year. Construction money for Green Peter dam on the South Santiam river in Oregon was cut from the bill. A planning fund of $310,000 for the project was approved. Governor Declines To Call Out Legislature 1 lrrPl Tt1 nnrW A..1, mni nnu Hi-mil 1? l?nluc HnlnaH InHfli, to cull a special session of the Arkansas Legislature to deal with the new Little Rock integration crisis. The new crisis was brought about Monday when the 8th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court decision that would have given Little Rock's Central High School an integration post.-. ponement until midterm, 1961. No Forest Closure Seen For District Closing of logging operations in the Tillamook burn area will not affect the eastern Oregon district, William M. Curtis, dis trict warden for the Oregon State Forestry Department, said here loday. Closure of zone 3 in the coastal area was made at midnight Sun day. The Oregon district's closure followed limited closures of sev eral areas in western Washing ton the past week. "This closure will not affect us here," Curtis said. "As a matter of fact, experienced loggers and mill operators are one of our best sources of help in controll ing and spotting fires. "However," he added, "permits arc required to burn slash and debris within one-eighth mile of any timbered land. Curtis said his crews are still mopping up the Cabin Creek fire north of Elgin which burned 900 acres last week, and the Mt. Har ris area, scene of a recent tim ber blaze, is also under constant surveillance for root and snag smokes, caused by embers burn ing under the surface. Glacier Park Fire Spreads GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. (UPD About 200 men, fighting flames and "mountain goat" terrain at 3,500 feet tried egain today to get a line around Glacier Park s worst fire in 22 years. The blaze had burned more than 2,200 acres of virgin fir since it broke out a week ago and sprang to its present size. Rangers said the fire crews still had to complete a 1 1-2-mile sec tion of lite to surround the 11-mile perimeter of the fire, 'It's not under control yet," said Chief Ra.iger Gordon Bend er. "And we have only small odds of getting a line around it by to night. 'It depends on the weather." 2 Die In Nevada Flash Floods TRUCKEE,. Calif. (UPD Two men were listed dead today as a result of flash floods that roared through the Sierra Nevada. The floods, touched off late Monday by thunderstorms, forced the closing of U.S. highways 40 and 305. Killed in the flood were Fred erick Johnson Jr., 32, Reno, and Joseph Thompson, 23, Redwood City, Calif. Jetzberg Confirmed For U.S. Appeals Court WASHINGTON (UPD The Senate today confirmed President Eisenhower's nomination of Gil bert H. Jetzberg to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Jetzberg will serve In the 9th Circuit which includes California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Nevada. Idaho, Arizona and Al aska as well as Hawaii . and Guam. Plane Lands On Highway Near PORTLAND (UPD Motorists were startled Monday night - as they found a light plane parked along side the Columbia River expressway near Rooster Rock. The plane, a ' Piper Trlpacer, was enroute to Hillsboro from Boise,' Idaho, when the motor sputtered and the pilot decided it was time to land. Peter P. Dement, .30, Seattle, was reluctant to land at .the Port land International airport because he had no radio transmitter. De ment was unable to find the Troutdale airfield. Although his calculations show ed there should have been plenty of gas left In his tanks, Dement Faubus said the reversal of U.S. District Judge Harry Lemey's dei integration decision by the court of appeals was "most regret: table." "The higher court's decision in dicates an indifference and disre gard for the will of the people that is most alarming and dangerous,' he said. ,, But at the same time, he said, the spotlight in the crisis has, moved over "to the school authori ties, the officials of Ihe NAACP and Ihe parents of the Negro children." ' "Any action taken by the chief executive, the Legislature or the people before the attitude. of these people is known might prove to be premature and unnecessary," he said. - Faubus had been expected to call a special session almost im mediately to prepare antiintegra- tion legislation. He apparently de cided against It In a long confer' ence with his advisors. . ' Monday's ruling did not order resumption of racial Integration in Little Rock. It affirmed the June, 1954, U. S. Supreme Court order for desegregation of schools. The court's majority . opinion said, "The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must bei whittled away, watered down, or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violence and unlawful acts of individual citizens and opposition thereto." y Little Rock - school authorities said they were prepared to battle Monday s, ruling as far' as the U. S. Supreme Court.. State legis lators Issued terse statements ridiculing the St. Louis court's decision, i Truck Confab Set Tomorrow SAN DIEGO (UPI) Federal mediators meet here Wednesday with Teamsters Union officials and representatives of the truck ing industry in an effort to end uic o-uuy-uiu oil inc-iutiwuui which has put 100,000 drivers out of work in 11 western states. .1. Einar Mohn, president of the Western Conference of Teamsters, will represent the union at the talks. He will attend in place of James Hoffa, president of the teamsters, who presently, is ap pearing before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee in Washington. The trucking industry has not announced the men who will rep resent it. Mother Shot By Boy In Accident CHICAGO (UPI) Police today questioned a frail, bespectacled boy who admitted shooting his mother to death in the living room of their suburban home but claimed it was an accident. - Bruce Dale, 13, cried as he told police of the events that led to the death of his mother, Erna, 42, as she lay on a sofa in their home in suburban Skokie. He said his mother asked him to get somothing from a suitcase in an upstairs closet. Upon open ing the suitcase, he said, he found the revolver, a .32 caliber Colt, and decided to show it to her.1" "t wna rnmlnB rinwnstaira whfeh the gun went off," he told police. Columbia Rooster Rock i decided a landing would be ,the safest thing to do. ;, He and his three passengers, Shirley Ann, 21, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. , Eugene J. Brown, of Seattle, took a long look at the beach sand at Rooster Rock park.' Then as he swung over the free way he spotted an opening in the traffic. ' - Smoothly and quickly Dement settled the plane onto the pave ment and taxied off the busy high way. , " The Multnomah county sheriffs office promised tp block off traffic If the CAA granted takeoff elegance.
