La Grande evening observer., August 20, 1958, Page 1, Image 1

WEATHER j
Sunny and warm today and
Thursday; high both days :
near 80, low tonight 47
53. Yesterday's temperatures,
maximum 94, minimum 55. :
Established 1896
Daily except Sunday
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Enrollment Increase Seen
With School Start Sept. 4
Enrollment figures are expected to be up 75 or more
when La Gjrande schools
morning, iept. 4, Superintendent of Schools Lyie Kiggs said
today. The increase is principally accounted for by construc
tion workers and their families in the area.
Pupils in all La Grande schools will start their classes at
9 a.m. on Sept. 4, the superintendent said. They will be re
leased at 11 a.m. to return at
1 p.m. Classes will be held at
the regular hours on Friday,
Sept. 5.
The La Grande school opening is
two days later than virtually the
remainder of the county. Most
other schools will re-open on Tues
day. Sept. 2.
Except for the vacancy left by
the resignation of Eldon Dagget
in junior high school, all teaching
posts have been filled for the new
semester, Riggs said.
Senior and junior pupils new to
the district may register before
start of classes with principals at
the schools, who are on duty from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. New grade pupils
are asked to register on opening
day.
First grade students are remind
ed to bring their birth certificates
and health certificates to school
when registering. Only children
who will be 6 years on or before
Nov. 15 will be accepted, the sup
erintendent said.
School buses will make their us
ual runs on Sept. 4. ,
Fire Destroys
Grain Shed
JEFFERSON, Ore. (UPII - An
early - morning fire today con
sumed the Marion - Linn grain
warehouse and elevators and the
Dimick Manufacturing Company
here with a total loss estimated
at $240,000, including tons of
stored gram.
The flames were discovered
about 5 a.m., 30 minutes aftec.a
night shlft' of; workers had left' the
warehouse. Cause was not known
The grain warehouse, owned by
Philip Gilmore of Jefferson, was
filled with wheat and one of the
two elevators destroyed by the
fire was built only three weeks
ago.
Barn, Hay And
Blower Destroyed
In Union Blaze
UNION (Special) Fire of, un
determined origin last weekend
destroyed a barn, hay blower and
SO tons of hay .on the former
Frank Hempe farm, now operat
ed by VV. H. Woodruff, northeast
of here.
The blaze was confined to the
barn by the rural fire department
which kept it from spreading to
adjoining buildings.
In a second call answered by
the department a grass fire
started by a combine was extin
guished on the Rodney Miller
ranch before it spread to the
grain.
US5 Ranger Rounds Horn
To Join Pacific Fleet
ALAMEDA, Calif. (UPI The
USS Ranger, the world's largest
warship, entered San Francisco
Bay today and docked at Alameda
Naval Air Station, her new home.
The Ranger, a Forrcslal-class
super - carrier, has been two
months sailing around the Horn
from the East Coast. She visited
several Latin American ports on
the way.
Scientists Ready Plan
For Nuclear Detection
' GENEVA l UPI I Top Eastern
and Western scientists today
worked on the final draft of a sci
entific report that may lead to
a world-wide ban on nuclear tests.
4 GRtf
TODAY
FIX-UP FOIl WINTER
NEXT WEEK
Ued Cars
re-open for fall classes Thursday
This Pup
Just Did
His Job!
DECATUR, 111. (UPI - Young
Richard Gchrke tried today to
make his pet understand there
are times when it's best not to
be too good a watchdog.
After Richard tumbled into
river Tuesday, the dog stood
guard so well that a policeman
had to fight him off to rescue the
boy.
UN Considers
Western Plan
For Mid-East
UNITED NATIONS N.Y. (UPI)
The United Nations General As
sembly began overtime sessions
today to speed passage of a West
em proposal to send U.N. Secre
tary General Dag Hammarskjold
to the Middle East in search of
peace.
Assembly president Sir Leslie
Munro of New Zealand ordered
sessions at 10:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and
8:30 p.m. so the 25. remaining
speakers including France and
Russia could state their posi
tions before a vote expected Fri
day, t
The Western resolution faced
the prospect of many changes be
fore passage. India and-.othei
members of the Afro-Asian bloc
were opposed to a resolution that
does not set a timetable for Amer
ican and British troop withdrawal
from the Middle East.
A series of meetings of various
power blocs was scheduled to con
sider ways of amending the West
ern resolution to have it mention
some date for Anglo-American
troop withdrawal.
The measure, introduced by
Norway and six other countries.
now simply takes note of declara
tions by the United States and Brit
ain that the troops will be with
drawn "whenever this is request
ed by the duly constituted govern
ment. . .or whenever, as a result
of the further action of the United
Nations or otherwise, their pres
ence is no longer required.
Umatilla. Bridge
Tolls Increased
UMATILLA (UPI) New tolls
for use of the Columbia river
bridge here were announced Tues
day by the Umatilla county court
which said that present tolls were
inadequate to pay off the bond
obligations Incurred for construc
tion of the span.
The new rate would be $1.25 for
roundtrips for cars and pickups,
for an actual saving of 35 cents
over the old fee which was 80
cents each way.
STILL OUT OF CONTROL
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK.
Mont. (UPI) A primitive area
on the northeastern perimeter of
Glacier Park's worst forest fire
in 22 years still burned out of con
trol today.
Nuclear experts from the Unit
ed States, Russia, Poland, Ro
mania, Czechoslovakia, Britain,
Canada and France have been
meeting here since July 1 to de
vise a method of detecting sneak
nuclear test explosions for possi
ble use in case. there is an East
West agreement to ban such
tests.
The scientists announced Tues
day they had agreed on a con
trol system designed to sound the
alarm if some future ban on tests
is violated. Their secret report
will be submitted to the eight gov
ernments for study and evalua
tion. BOMB EXPLODES
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) A
bomb exploded today In the post
office building, cutting Lebanon's
cable communications with the
outside world. First reports said
two persons were injured by fly
ing glass.
Strike Vote
Affects Air
Office Here
A recent strike vote taken by
station personnel of West Coast
Airlines will affect operation of
the line's La Grande station, it
was learned here today.
The vote was taken following
breakdown of efforts of the air
line's station personnel affiliated
with the Air Lines Agents Asso
ciation, to arbitrate pay rate and
working condition differences
with West Coast, according to
Victor J. Herbert, ALAA presi
dent. According to Herbert, a strike
date will be selected within the
next few days to affect a peaceful
withdrawal on or after Saturday,
Aug. 23, which marks termination
of the 30-day cooling off period
set by the National Mediation
Board.
Agent for the La Grande West
Coast Air Lines Station is Har
old Rogers.
UP Purchases
New Rail Cars
Purchase of 30 new . railroad
passenger cars, some of which
will serve La Grande in the Un
ion Pacific's Pacific Northwest-
Chicago service, was learned here
today. ........
The $4,900,000 purchase, an
nounced by Union Pacific Presi
dent Arthur E. Stoddard, is the
largest order placed this year by
any railroad for passenger cars.
It Includes 15 coaches, 10 lunch
counter-cafe lounge cars and five
postal-storage mail cars.
The new units to be placed in
porthwest .service wlllbe'' assign'
ed to the Domellner City ot Fort
land fleet.
2 Car Mishaps Here;
Horse Sole Victim
State police reported a horse
was killed last evening in the
vicinity of the Flamingo Club on
highway 203 by a car driven by
Edgar George Stevens, Union.
Oregon. The car with front end
damaged was towed to a local
garage.
Another accident,, with slight
damage resulting, occurred on
Highway avenue near the Drivc-
In Theatre when cars driven by
Nels L. Jacobsen, Rt. 2, La
Grande and Francis A. Greulich,
Pine Crest Drive, La Grande, side-
swiped on a turn, according to
i state police report.
USS Triton Largest Sub Ever Built
With the launching yesterday
at Groton, Conn., of the $100,000,
000 USS Triton, the Navy can
boast it has the largest undersea
craft ever built. Triton is 447
feet long, has a 37-foot beam and
a 5,900-ton displacement on the
surface. It is more than 66 feet
longer than any other U. S. sub
marine. Triton is also notable as
the first ship in history to be
propelled by two nuclear power
plants. It is also the first sub
marine to be designed for three
deck levels within the hull. An
other first is a 40-ltnc switch
board which monitors a dial tele
phone system throughout the ship.
The sub carries a crew of 13 of
ficers and 135 men. Designed as
a radar picket ship, Triton is fit
ted with high-power radar and
sonar gear and will travel with
high speed task forces. Her job
will be to run ahead of the main
fleet to serve as an early warn
ing station. The huge sub was
built by General Dynamics Cor
poration's Electric Boat Division.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1958
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CHAIRMAN John R. (Toots)
Garity, Union county chairman
for Red Hat Days, today issued
a call to groups to attend an or
ganization meeting for this
year's event.
Garity Calls
Red Hat Days
Conference
A call to all interested groups and
individuals to attend a meeting at
7:30 o'clock Monday night to devel
op plans for Red Hat Day pro
gram in Union county was issued
today by John R. (Toots) Garity,
county chairman for the event.
Red Hat Day has been set for
Sept. 26. '
The meeting will be held at the
U.S. Forest Service building on
the Island City highway.
Red Hat Days had its inception
in the winter of 1955 when a group
of sportsmen asked themselves
"What can we do to reduce the
problems that have strained rela
tions between sportsmen and land
owners?" .'. ,
: Since Its beginning, - Red Hat
Days program has been co-sponsored
by about 26 statewide orga
nizations representing a variety of
land use -and reoreatiotHiiferests,
""Objectives of 'the 'R'e?;Hat1lcdge
are: to be law abiding: to respect
the rights and property of others;
to be careful with fire and fire
arms. Ukiah-Hilgard Road
To Get Oil Surface
Bids for oiling the forest boun-
riary-Hilgard section of the Ukia
Hilgard highway, about 16Vfe mil
es, will be received by the State
Highway Commission next Tues
day at Salem.
Plans call for the placing of a
stone leveling course and a 20-
foot wide oil mat wearing sur
face to provide a smooth, all
weather surface. The work is
cheduled to be completed by fall
of 1959.
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steaming on the surface. Bottom (kotch shows
how Triton will look traveling undorwatar with
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U.S.
Land Reserve Rate
Hike Slated Here
Stcpped-up Union county and
Oregon participation in the Soil
bank s conservation reserve pro
gram was predicted here today
following approval of a new Ore-
on rate at a meeting of 50
state and county agricultural
leaders with Department of Ag
ricultural officials in Washing
ton. Under the new program pay
ments to Oregon farmers will be
increased more than 30 per cent
in 1959. The state's average an
nual payment rate for land put
in reserve will be $16.00 compar
ed to the present $12.00 rate.
The national rate, now $10.00,
will be boosted to $13.50 as the
USDA shoots for 12 million
acres in the program next year.
The state program is designated
Polish Interpreter Sought
Here To Aid Immigrant Lad
Help is needed at Elgin for any
valley citizen who is Poljsh or
can speak Polish, Mrs. Lucille
Lumsden, executive secretary of
the American Red Cross here,
said this morning.
Kazimicrz Hanus, who is in his
early 20's, is a long way from
Poland.
He arrived in the area from
Bull Elk' Loose
In -Portland
PORTLAND (UPI ) A bull elk
with "tracks as big as a horse"
was reported seen again today in
Portland s West Hills district.
Zoo keeper Jack Marks said
that as far as he knew no elk
were missing from the local zoo.
Bruce Russell reported seeing
the antlered elk early toduy at a
playground. He said it disappear
ed into a wooded gully.
Marks said that a wild elk was
reported in the same general area
two years ago.
McGEE WINS IN WYOMING
CHEYENNE, Wyo. UP1 -Dr.
Gale McGee, 42, University of
Wyoming history professor, won
the Democratic nomination to the
U.S. Senate Tuesday in Wyoming's
primary election.
two attack submarines of iho Skipjack clatt.
Skipjack subt aro also nuclr-powtrtd. Tho
Triton it comparablo In tin to light cruistr.
taffuds Fiinnrii mi
ouiirt' ESu-liinig
lo increase acreage in reserve to
154,000 acres. The state now has
72,000 acres under contract in
the voluntary land reserve pro
gram.
At a meeting yesterday in
Pendleton of farmers and state
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation committeemen, av
erage annual payments per acre
for counties represented at the
session showed:
Umatilla, $18; Union, $17; Bak
or, $13; Gilliam, $16; Grant, $13
Malheur, $12; Morrow, $16; Wat
Iowa, $15, and Wheeler, $15.
The Pendleton meeting was one
if four to be held in northeast
ern Oregon in the next two weeks
Signup for the reserve program
will start at the ASC offices on
Tuesday, Sept. 2. ,
Chicago thinking his grandfather
and uncle were in this area. So
far, neither the Red Cross or Han
us have been able to find them.
Mrs. Lumsden has wired Chica
go where Hanus, a Polish immi
grant, has a brother, to seek
funds for the youth. The Red
Cross is Wailing for an answer.
But ' for the moment there is
complete "misunderstanding", as
far as securing Information from
Hanus goes, for no one in Elgin
speaks Polish and Hanus speaks
Polish-speaking persons are urg
ed to contact Mrs. Lumsden at
the Red Cross office here.
Truck talks
Get Underway
SAN DIEGO (UPI) Trucking
industry representatives and
Teamster Union spokesman open
talks today in a nine-day strike
lockout which has all but
paralyzed common carrier freight
haulage in the West.
Federal mediator George Hil
lenbrand, San Francisco, along
with a mediation team of Ralph
Patterson, San Francisco and
Stephen D. Halligan, Denver,
were prepared to supervise the
meeting.
No Equivocation"
Of Federal Position
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower said today
there can be "no equivocation as to the responsibility of the
federal government" to see that court rulings on school in
tegration are carried out. He also said that each state hat
the responsibility to see that the court mandates are not
opposed by violence.
"It (a state) cannot by action or deliberate failure to act
permit violence to frustrate!
the preservation of individual
rights as determined bv
court decree," the President
said in a statement which he
read at the opening of a news
conference.
"It is my hone that each stnlp
win tint ill its obligation with
full realization of the gravity of
any omer course.
Defiance by a state of this dutv
would present "the most serious
proDlom, he said,
But there can be no emiivnna.
iion as to tne resDonsib v nf iho
federal government in such an
event," he said.
The President said his position
was exactly that of a year ago.
He then quoted from a statement
then in which he said:
The very basis of our individ
ual rights and freedoms rests UDon
the certainty that the president
and the executive branch of gov
ernment will support and insure
the carrying out of the decisions
of the federal courts."
The President did not specific
ally mention the use of troops.
But his statement appeared to
make il clear that he would use
them again as aMastTesort' "
He said that all' Americans must
understand that if individuals.
communities or states are "going
successfully and continuously to
defy the courts, then there is an
archy." He said that all Americans have
'the solemn duty" to comply with
final orders of the courts.
The President opened His week
ly meeting with reporters by say
ing that he had prepared a state
ment in anticipation of questions
about the decision of the 8th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in St.
Louis Monday. The court set aside
ruling by U.S. District Judge
Harry J. Lemlcy, Hope, Ark., sus
pending integration in Little Rock
Central High .School for two and
one-half years.
Today s news conference was
fraught with deep, perhaps histor
ic, significance. The appeals court
ruling posed the strong possibility
that Negro students would again
prepare lo enter Little Rock's Cen
tral High School if the Little Rock
School Board's announced appeal
efforts failed.
Last fall the entrance of Negro
students in Central touched off
mob violence that resulted in a
presidential dispatch of U.S. para
troopers to keep order and permit
the Negroes to attend school at
Central High.
State Distributes
Basic School Funds
SALEM (UPI) Distribution of
$0,156,973 of state basic school
fund moneys to school districts
throughout the state was an
nounced today by Secretary of
State Mark Hatfield.
Hatfield said the apportionment
was the first to be paid to school
districts for the 1958-59 fiscal
year. '
Boling To Attend
Airport Dedication
PORTLAND UPI Pacesetter
pilot, Captain Marion L. "Pat"
Boling who recently set a world's
record for light planes in a non
stop flight from Manila to Pendle
ton, Oregon, will visit Portland for
the dedication of the new interna
tional airport terminal August 23
24. .
Hiker Rescued By Rope
YOSEM1TE, Calif. (UPI) A
young hiker was rescued today
after being stranded over night on
a ledge high above Yoscmlte Val
ley near Glacier Point.
National Park rangers descend
ed the sheer wall below the point,
scene of the park's famed Firefall
at nights, to get near the hiker,
Bill Beeghley, 17, Long Beach,
Calif. It was a daring feat accom
plished by a quintet of rangers us
ing ropes.
Price 5 Cents
Ike Talks On
Inflation,
Aggression
WASHINGTON (UPI) Prcsi-.
dent Eisenhower today flatly ruled
out any government controls at
this time to curb inflation.
The President vigorously told
his news conference that labor and
management prudence and as
much of a cut in government
spending as possible are still the
best ways to cope with the wage
price spiral. f .
He said that Congress, after hav
ing been in an economy mood only,
a year ago, now seems to be on a
spending cycle. He considers this
a mistaken policy. . ' .
It was for this reason, he said.
that he vetoed several bills which
he thought would involve spending
too much money. ' ,
On other subjects, the resi
dent: .
Repeated : the administration:
warning that if Soviet-encoura.6c4v
luuntui aggression continues, tine;
world is headed for what he call
ed real trouble.- But he -said that1' .
does not mean the world would
nIfieca-lll, Kunnmn anrtulfafl in n.
ItbbVAIUI 11 UWIIIIC CllgUIICU 111 a
big war. ... I
Declined to say exactly when
the U. S.- will withdraw the rest'
of its forces from Lebanon, but re
peated that it would be as soon
as the legal government of Lcb-'
anon requested it or the United'
Nations makes preparations to as
sure security in the area.
Reported that the U. S. has
no evidence that Red Chinese boss
Mao Tsc-tung is playing a major,
part in shaping Soviet policy.
Repeated his proposal that tho,
U. N. should have a police force
but said it may have to await a
growth of common sense and tol-s
erancc among nations. He said he
did not think that the proposal it--self
could be kept before the U.N,
now on an urgent basis.
A reporter questioned the ado-i
quacy of this country's defenses.'!
The President replied that the,
U. S. military position is not only
adequate but is the most power-
ful'in the nation's history and com-;
pletely capable of acting as a de-
terrent to war. i
DeGaulle Starts
Tour Of Colonies
PARIS UPI Premier Charles.
de Gaulle begins a 12,000-mile tour
of France's colonial possessions In
Africa today to win support from
19 million African voters for his
constitutional reforms. 1 ' j
De Gaulle flics first to Mada
gascar off the east coast of Afri
ca, swings through equatorial Afri
can and ends his tour eight days
later in Algiers before all France
votes Sept. 28 in a referendum es-
tublishing the Fifth Republic. -J
The new constitution will main
tain France as a parliamentary
democracy but increase the pow;
ers of the president and curb the
powers of the National Assembly,
EUGENE CONTRACTOR LOW ,
OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI)-S. W.
Groesbcck, Eugene, Ore., submit
ted the apparent low. bid of $296,- '
865 Tuesday for 'work on a project
to four - lane Snoqualmie Pass
Highway around a slide area.-
The rescue party dropped a rope
about 150 feet to Beeghley, jrht
tied it around . himself and was
hauled up from the tiny ledge. He
had hiked to the point Tuesday
with a group of other youths buj
became stranded when he attempt?
ted a short cut alone on the return
trip. - i ' , ' :-i f:
Beeghley was trapped about 1,,
500 feet above the valley floon
Rangers said he was In good con;
ditlon despite his ordeal. " '