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1 WEATHER Fair through Saturday; Jiighs 65-75, low tonight 35 45. Established 1896 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIQAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1958 Price 5 Cent Navy Vanguard Rcefd Fired Successfully; Faubus: Way Open For Private Schools LITTLE ROCK, Ark. UPI) Gov. Orval E. Faubus said today that the way is now clear to re open Little Rock's public high schools as .private, segregated schools, if segregationists win a special election Saturday. Wiley Branton, the NAACP's chief attorney in Arkansas, said he is going to demand even broad er integration of Little Rock's high schools if they are turned into private schools. Faubus, at a news conference, said U. S. District Judge John E. . Miller's refusal Thursday to tell the school board whether it will be legal' or illegal to lease the schools for private operation gives the green light to private schools ' However, if the people of Little Rock Saturday vote for the schools to open integrated that would snarl Faubus' private school plan. Faubus does not, however, expect War, Peace Question Up To Reds NEW YORK (UPD Secretary of State John Foster Dulles put the question of war or peace in the Far East squarely up to the Communists Thursday night. The United States, he said, is ready to negotiate a settlement with Communist China in the Formosa Strait. ' ' , At' the same "time,"' he "waTi'ied ' U. S, forces may be used hiore ; actively if the Communists step up their attacks on Quemoy and other off-shore islands. "Although the United States is not prepared to retreat in the face of armed- force, our position is otherwise flezlble," Dulles said in a speech before the Far - East American. ..Council of Commerce and Industry. The council is a non-profit association of business men dealing with Asia. I Washington diplomats were di vided over whether Dulles was softening the U. S. position in the crisis or standing pat. Both pos sibilities found some support. ".We arc prepared," said Dulles, "in accord with our United Na tions Charter obligation, to settle the disputc'by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered." The United States, he said, would "find acceptable any ar rangement which, on the one hand, did not involve surrender to force or the threat of force, and, on the other hand, elimi nated from the situation features that could reasonably be regarded as provocative." MEET TIME CHANGED The United Fund Kick-Off break fast time has been set for 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning instead of the original time of 7:30 a.m., of ficials pf United Fund said this morning. The breakfast which will kick-off the I!)58 Fund Drive, will be held at the Sacajawea Holel. rfi'isfei':'?- :.:t ' ; ,'---: i'J'.'C.,-:':"''. KILLED HIS CHILDREN Orlando McMillan, 43, an unemployed , factory worker who shot 4 of his S children to death in Sparta, Mich., Met waiting for medical treatment of an arm injury he suf fered while breaking into his estranged wife's homaa McMillan had had a heated quarrel with his wife over her filing for divorce, and he wound up by slaying the children. The fifth child, Orlando Jr., t, escaped death by playing possum after McMillan slugged him with a shotgun. (NEA) an integrationist vote. Branton takes the view that if the school board turns the high schools over to a corporation for operation as private schools, they will not have the protection of a court-approved gradual integration plan. "Technically, we might have more integration if they were turned over to a private corpora tion, although personally we would hate it because of our objections to private control of the schools," he said. "But the minute they (the school board) relinquish control of the high schools, we are going to move against the junior high high schools because the plan has been abandoned and the high school phase is no longer under the control." A reporter asked Faubus wheth er, as he said a week ago, the attitude of the people is still one of "Cold Fury." "The only thing that is keeping the peace at this time is because we are fighting it out in the local arena," Faubus replied. "Does he expect violence if it gets out of the legal area? "Everyone expects violence if they try to force integration," he said. Fire Destroys Farmhouse Near Imbler IMBLER ..(SpeciaJ); A seven room farmhouse' located two miles north of here, burned to the ground yesterday afternoon ' The home was occupied by the Dewey McBride family, who were away from home at the time of the blaze. The family's personal belongings were all lost in the fire. The farmhouse was owned by George Royes, ;of Imbler. Royes told the Observer this morning, "that we have no idea how it started." He said the frame house was built some years ago. The Imbler Fire Department answered the alarm when a passerby saw the blaze and rported it, but accord ing to Royes, "the house went up like paper and was gone before the fire truck reached the scene." : Ike Names Paarlberg As Economic Adviser WASHINGTON' (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower today named Don Paarlberg, one of the chief designers of administration's farm policy, as his new personal econo mic adviser. Paarlberg, now Assistant- Secre tary of Agriculture in charge of marketing and foreign agriculture, was appointed to succeed Dr. Ga briel Hauge. Hauge leaves the While House Sept. 30 to- become a vice presi dent of the Manufacturer's Trust Co. of New York City. Paarlberg was expected to assume his duties as Special Assistant to the Presi dent immediately after Hauge's departure. Hurricanes Threaten East Coast CHARLESTON, S. C (UPD -Twin hurricanes with winds of 100 and 115 miles an hour ' roared through the Atlantic today and the residents on Georgia-South Caro lina Seacoast were warned to leave immediately for safety in land. Hurricane Helene, eighth tropi cal storm of the year, caused the more immediate alarm. At 11 a.m. e.s.t (9 a.m. pdti it was boiling through the Atlantic only 200 miles southeast of Charleston. It was moving toward the northwest at 14 miles an hour. Hurricane Ilsa . was far to the south but its winds were up to 115 miles an hour compared to 100 for Helene. "Safety precautions (for Helene) should be started immediately and completed by sunset," the weath er bureau warned. Dangerous winds and high tides are expected to sweep an area from Beaufort, S. C, to Wilming ton, N. C, starting this afternoon. "Destructive winds and danger ous high tides should begin by early this evening and are expect ed at the lates by 10 p.m. (8 p.m. p.d.t.," the Weather Bureau said .' ' The hurricane's maximum in tensity was expected about mid night, near Charleston, a big ship ping center Persons living in the warning area were urged to "evacuate im mediately befor rising water cuts off escape." ; "This is an emergency warning repeat emergency warning," the weather bureau said. , . .. S6uiKea'stei'n : ''ReacT 'Cross ' head quarters rushed ten disaster and field staff workers into strategic Georgia and South Carolina points. Evacuation centers will be set up along the coast. They are ready to go into North Carolina on a moment's notice if the storm di rection shifts. Woman In Submerged Car Rescued TILLAMOOK (UPD A 65-year-old woman made three dives into the Trask river near here Thurs day morning to save the life of a woman trapped in a small foreign car submerged in the river. Mrs. Flo McKinley finally freed Mrs. Robert S. Smith, 32, Tilla mook, whose auto apparently failed to negotiate a curve on the Netarts-Oceanside road and hurled over a dike into the river. The car was submerged in an upright position. Mrs. McKinley said she phoned state police and then went into the river. The first door of the car she tried was jammed. She swam around the car, surfaced and went down again. After she opened the door, floating seal cushions blocked her entrance to the car and she had to surface again. On the third dive, she caught the trapped woman's arm and pulled her free. Mrs. Smith was treated for shock at Tillamook county Gen eral hospital. Mrs. McKinley and her hus band Henry, operate a moorage near the accident scene. They are parents of Loren McKinley, who is mayor of Tillamook. Youth Activities Dance Set Here Saturday Night A teen-age dance, sponsored by ilm Vmilh Activities Council nf La Grande will be held at the National Guard armory from 8:30 n m until 11:30 D.m. Saturday. spokesmen for the committee said this morning. Music for the dance will be by record with a disc jockey from the local radio station on hand to run the show, they said. SAVINGS SET RECORD WASHINGTON (UPD Savings of individuals in savings accounts, U.S. Savings Bonds and life insur ance hit a new record high of $274,500,000,000 at the end of June. The Federal Home Iian Bank Board said today. STRONG FEELINGS IN L.A. Policeman on ladder removes effigy of Arkansas Gov. Faubus, hanging from a telephone pole in the university area of downtown Los Angeles. The dummy had a knife stuck in its chest, and was spattered with red paint. (NEA) Roads Into Beirut Shut By Phalangists Today EEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD Crowds shouting against the,, new Kebariese" "goVeriiffient"" ' surged' through the streets today. Anti government Phalangists in the nearby mountains sealed off the highways into town. The angry Beirut crowds were sympathizers of the pro-Chamoun Christian Phalangists, who were mainly responsible for the vio lence that followed installation of the new president, Fuad Chehab. The demonstrating in the streets so far was relatively harmless.. But the sealing off of the high ways threalcned serious conse quences. It could force the army into direct action against the Phalange. All food for Beirut must pass along the roads which were be ing systematically closed. But while the Phalangists con tinued their four-day-old anti-government agitation and general Auto Industry Strikes Marked With Violence DETROIT (UPD Widespread local strikes in the auto industry, marked by violence for the first time Thursday night, were blamed today for postponement of the introduction of four lines , of Chrysler Corp. cars. The violence occurred at the Cadillac assembly plant in De troit, where 7,040 workers halted all production of Cadillacs by walking off their jobs Thursday. Pickets milled around the plant peacefully until Dr. Douglas J. Wood, medical director of the plant, left after completing his work. Wood reported the windshield and two side windows of his car were broken and the side panel was kicked in by pickets after he refused to open the trunk of his car so they could see he was not carrying Cadillac parts out of the plant. He said the pickets hurled stones, beat on the car with their fists and kicked al the sides. Police dispersed the pickets and Wood was not injured. A short time later officials at GM's technical center in Detroit reported pickets had lifted the hoods of their cars and pulled wires loose. GM was hardest . bit by the strikes in terms of numbers of workers idled. It rcporte 44,120 idled at 14 plants while Chrysler reported 14,400 idled at 17 plants. Ford, which reached an agree ment with the UAW Sept. 17, re ported 11,650 still idled. But Ford's situation was improving and expected to continue in that direction because the UAW's Ford Council approved the contract agreement Thursday. Meanwhile, the negotiators at GM reported they were "inching" toward an agreement. Inounced that the rebel, barricades wouia siun. coming aown immed iately, i After a meeting with lop lead ers of the rebellion, Salam is sued a communique saying the rebels agreed "in principle" with Prime Minister Rashid Karami's request to remove the barricades. It said the popular resistance movement would take effective steps "to put the request into execution in the light of security developments." A spokesman for Salam said the dismantling would begin immed iately and would be noticeable by the end of the week. Apparently the plan was to dismantle them from the inside out, taking down the outer ring of defenses last. The Salam spokesmen said the rebels would put their arms away as the barricades were removed but would not give them up yet. - Today's rightist demonstrations against the 'new, rebel-dominated government were noisy but blood less. The demonstrators surged through the streets of the heavily defended Christian quarter of Bei rut, shouting anti-government slo gans and brandishing banners, sticks and palm fronds. Mindful of the Army's "shoot on sight" orders, none of the demon strators carried firearms nor did they venture outside their own barricades. The Army moved up troops with machine guns to block any attempt by the demonstrators to leave the Christian quarter, but made no attempt to incrfere as long as the crowds stayed in their own territory. No violence was reported. ' ! U.S. authorities were pushing plans for the evacuation of American-troops from Lebanon amid indicalions that the four-month re volt was effectively at an end. Judge Refuses ' Payment On Bill For Raids VALE (UPD Malheur County Judge G. Y. Chester said Thurs day that he has refused payment of a bill presented to him by the state police for expenses in con nection with raids in the county last summer. During the past summer, "un dercover" policemen moved into Malheur county and made raids on nine establishments in Nyssa, Vale and Ontario. The state presented a bill for slightly more than $100 to pay ox penscs which included, gambling losses,- pinball losses, drinks pur chased, payment of informants and travel expenses. Judge Chester said the county court felt sufficient police person al was available in the county without the use of outside help, "particularly someone not requested." Typhoon Strikes Tokyo TOKYO (UPD Typhoon ' Ida, the worst Pacific storm in 24 years, struck the Tokyo area to night witli powerful winds and tor rential rain. Early incomplete reports listed at least 23 dead or missing. Nine persons were reported killed in Tokyo alone. At least two other persons were missing and 22 injured in Tokyo. The typhoon 22nd of the Pacific season packed winds of 12 miles an hour and gusts as high as 185 miles per hour as it bore down on the Japanese Coast. i' The typhoon lashed Tokyo with more than nine inches of rain and flooded downtown streets with knee-deep water. The rains set off landslides and caused homes to collapse. As of 9 p.m. (5 a.m. p.d.t) some 195,000 houses in the Tokyo area were flooded or partly flood ed. Along the coast in the Tokyo area, at least 28 fishing vessels capsized. Twelve crewmen were missing. A 7,240-ton British freighter, the Eckcliffc, was adrift in the storm tossed Tokyo Bay after reporting she had run out of fuel. A Japa nese Coast Guard boat rushed to her rescue. The storm knocked out most public transportation in the Japa nese capital. Street cars were stalled ' in the flooded streets. Tokyo's fleet of 20,000 taxicabs vanished from the streets. Wallowa Sheepman Honored ENTERPRISE (Special)-Perry Johnston, of Wallowa, who was named Wallowa County Grassman for the year of 1955, has just been named the "outstanding Corriedale Sheep Breeder of the United States lor 1958." He has been presented with the Guthrie trophy with his. namo and achievement inscribed by the National Corriedale Associa tion, v It is a large silver tray sponsored by J. F. Guthrie, an out standing sheepman in Australia. Johnston has been in the pure bred Corriedale business for 25 years and there are only six other men in the nation who have a long er record in Corriedale breeding. He has been president of the Slate Corriedale Association and has served as director of the national organization. He served as chair man of the National Production Testing Committee which originat ed the official record keeping pro gram adopted by the Corriedale Association. Johnston and his wife, are in terested in 4-H and FFA projects, and their three sons have been 4-H members and are now active in the FFA program in the Wnllowa high school. Lawyers Suggest Adding 2 Justices To State Court GEARHART (UPD Lawyers at the 24th annual ' meeting of the Oregon State Bar here Thursday recommended addition of two jus tices to the Slate Supreme Court. This would bring the total num ber of justices to nine. The recommendation was made on a voice vole. Justice Hall Lusk of the Supreme Court told the con clave of lawyers that the court it self had taken a vote on the issue and approved it by a vole of 4 to 3. Stale Rep. George Layman of Ncwbcrg said in dissent that only five states have nine member Supreme Courts and added that Oregon's population or its volume of judicial business was not large enough to justify the addition of two members. Action by the state Legislature would be necessary to put the recommendation into effect. GENERATOR INSTALLED , SEATTLE (UPD The Army Engineers said Thursday the last of the first 16 generators to be installed at Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River will begin commercial production officially Saturday. Each of the generators has a rated capacity of 64,000 kilowatts. Slender Missile Has Twenty-Inch Satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD The Navy's seventh Vanguard blasted off today in an attempt to place in orbit a 20-inch satellite that could soon be giving the world the latest weather forecast including advance hurricane data. The Navy in Washington an nounced that all three stages of the rocket fired successfully. The Navy said "test range instru ments indicate that each of t h e three-stage rocket's engines were fired in proper sequence." Tile slender rocket the same Vanguard that barely escaped dis aster 10 days ago after a false start was given only a one in four chance of putting its delicately-Instrumented baby moon in orbit. Navy missile men, longing for success after five failures in six Vanguard launchings, began an anxious wait for word on how their temperamental "bird" be haved. The trim Vanguard roared up at 10:39 a.m., e.s.t. into a hazy sky. It rose slowly at first, but picked up speed and liuindered into a Boat Capsizes; 7 Newsmen , Missing Today TAIPEI (UPD A Nationalist vessel capsized in the Formosa Strait, today during a Quemoy convoy operation with eight Chi nese and foreign correspondents aboard, the Quemoy Military Command announced. The an nouncement said only one of the newsmen was rescued. ' y The1-': ahouriCement "issued" " on Quemoy said the vessel capsized because1 of "rough seas and me chanical trouble." It said a search was underway for the seven miss ing correspondents. The missing men were not im mediately identified. But prelimi nary and unconfirmed reports from Quemoy said that no Ameri can correspondents were aboard. A' Nationalist Defense Ministry spokesman said here tonight that (the capsized vessel was an LVT (landing vehicle tracked) one of 18 landing barges which was fer rying supplies to Quemoy beach from an LST vessel. It had been announced earlier that three Nationalist ships crack ed the Communist blockade of Quemoy today and unloaded bad ly needed supplies despite a mur derous Red artillery bombard ment. The Nationalist Air Force also claimed Its second victory of the week in a battle between Sabrojets and Communist MIG- 17s. In the new air action, the Na tionalist Air Force claimed four of Its FBB Sabrejets ballled 16 M1017s over the Swatow area, 120 miles south of Quemoy. The Nationalists reported that ' one Communist plane was shot down and another damaged. BULLETIN NEWPORT, R. I. (UPI) Co lumbia beat Sceptre for the fourth straight time today and won America's cup classic. Gommission Sets Hearing On Trailer Parking Question The La Grande cily commission at a meeting last night, moved la proceed on a recommendation made by the city planning com mission, September 24, Hint the existing city zoning ordinance prohibiting trailer parking in residential areas be reconsidered to meet the need for additional parking space. Such a zoning change, if ap proved, would allow trailer park ing at the end of north Birch street and in an area west of First street between Z and Lake street, part of. which now is industrial zone. Notices will be mailed to all property owners within 300 feet oi the sites under consideration. V hearing date of Oct. 15, 8 p. m., In the city commission room was set to hear testimony for or against the proposal. Some objections were voiced at last night's meeting by a few people of the north Birch street area. high cloud bank and disappeared about two minutes later. : . ; A wait of about two hours was expected before it would bo known ' whether the new artificial moon had begun circling the earth. If it did go into orbit, the Navy had ' hopes it would revolutionize the . tricky science of weather fore- casting. . " Success would also mean that the nation could at last point to a visible moonlet traveling . in space with Russia's starbright Sputnik III. The Navy said the satellite would twinkle like a "fifth or sixth magnitude star," and "might be observed with a good pair of binoculars." ' A spokesman said that the two .' hurricanes now boiling through the Atlantic would have absolutely' no effect on the Vanguard launch-"' ing. The spokesman said both Helena and Ilsa were too far away , to make any difference. The Navy said it did not expect that the new satellite would, achieve an orbit as large as that of Vanguard I, which is expected? to stay up 200 years. That moon- let, which bpgan its long journey'; March 17 in the only successful'' Vanguard launching, swings out.-, 2,400 miles from the earth at the'' most distant point of its orbit and never draws nearer than 407 i miles. . , . The rocket was launched at a 3 degree angle to the Equator' and if the satellite went into orbit.''; it would not stray much above or below the earth's half-way mark, i- n smaller orDii was caicuMueu,;: the Navy said, because the latest, Vanguard was attempting to or bit 71.5 pounds around the earth, compared to 53.4 pounds (or Van-, guard I. The new satellite weighed stage rocket casing would follow it if an orbit was obtained., ' . - ing regular trips around the globe -when the new Vanguard was fired. These were the 80-inch, tube- shaped Explorers I and IV laun ched earlier this year by the Army's Jupiter-C, which had a record of three successes In five tries. 7" . .. : Registration , -Booths For Voters Planned ; The county clerk at the Court House this morning reported that registration booths for voters in the November election will be set up at. three schools on the north side of La Grande tomorrow, for, the convenience of voters who de sire to register. ' ' The bdoth will boat Rlveria' School from 9:30 a.m. to 12 a.m.;' at Greenwood School from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and at Willow School from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. ;. . . . The booths will be ut those schools Saturday only. BOND SALE OK SALEM (UPD State Public Utility Commissioner Howard Morgan said today he had ap proved Idaho Power Company's application-to sell 15 million dol lars worth of first mortgage bonds. The money will pay off short term loans , used to finance the firm's construction program. The city commission asked David C. Slaught, city engineer 'to survey the Pioneer Park proper ly as a possible alternate loca tion for trailer parking. Commis sioners plan an - inspection' trip! there Monday, Sept. 20. j City manager, Fred Young, ac companied by fire chief, . Ray Snider, commissioner, Arlo Noyes and volunteer fireman Grant Millering, who recently returned f i om a visitation of fire truck equipment manufacturers, - and while enroute studied equipment facilities in other towns, report cd their findings to the commis sion. . . ' ;, ! ', They discussed plans with the commission for purchasing a fire truck chassis, capable of pro ducing five good streams of water, and equipping it with necessary fire fighting essentials The city manager wag request ed to prepare detailed fire trucjt recommendations at the next reg ular commission meeting,' t