WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occas-'; ional rain and windy today; clearing and cooler with de- creasing wind tonight; sunny and cool Thursday; high both days 55-60; low tonight 32; 37 with 30 in valley pockets'- o server Established 1896 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958 Price 5 Cents Pope Missih e Suffers Second 4 " J " ' ' " v,V.f-5, Makfe - ? r . A V FIVE PER CENT M. Gale Beals, manager of the Mount Emily Lumber Co., presents a $1, 217.50 check to Unired Fund Campaign Chair man June McManus and Leadership Gifts com- Holmes Issues Protest Over Death Of Salmon SALEM (UPD-Gov. Robert D. Holmes said Tuesday night that his predicted catastrophe for the Snake River salmon run began Tuesday afternoon with the death of more than 1,000 salmon at the Idaho .Power Company's Oxbow dam sile. . The governor said a report from Albert Day, director of the. Ore-gsn'-Kish-Gommission, indicated Collector Takes Blame For, Tax Story ' LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP1) The district director of the In ternal Revenue Service look full blame today for telling Gov. Orval E. Faubus it appeared he owed income taxes on $105,499.14. The trouble was that the total included rent and operating ex penses on the executive mansion for two years, campaign expenses and a gilt automobile that Faubus and his wife received in 1954. : "Somebody goofed," IRS Dis trict Director Curtis R. Mathis said, explaining that anything a sl'ate furnishes by law to ils chief executive is not taxable. Faubus took the opportunity to accuse the government of using the IRS to punish him for his stand against integration and de mand that President Eisenhower pay for use of the White House, if he had to pay for use of the executive mansion. HUP, IIKBML,I II II iMK'1 ' . . "i.-- jilW L,ti.-.lj 1-. i " En ifllil LaJLmM$ ,f V, y1 it rnn,S ium A LONG TIME Fifty-six years ago Fred C. Fischer was a history and English teacher at La Grande High School. Now county sup erintendent of schools in Wayne County, Michigan, he passed through his old home town this week and looked-up two former students, Mrs. Arch Bacon and Mrs. Clyde Siti. Mr. Fischer, who lives in Belleville, has done well, a $125,000 library and two pub lic buildings have been named in his honor in Belleville. His com ment on La Grande: "La Grande High School had less than 100 students when I taught there how things have changed!" (Observer Photo) . 'If Wl" 'TJ-ijr. :fieT IS I U F i,' - I 1 MHM-' 1 that repair of a cofferdam on the Snake River had stranded "unde termined thousands" of the mi gratory fish in deep pools at Ox how and that the fish were "dying for lack of oxygen." Day ' reported to Holmes that attempts were being made to pump oxygen into the pools to "relieve the suffocation, and thai this temporary mcasm-c seems to be giving some relief." On the basis of Day's report, the governor sent a telegram to Tom Roach, president of Idaho Power Company at Boise that read : "As governor of Oregon I want to know immediately what your company proposes to do to save the remainder of the salmon run on the Snake River. Since your misconceived fish trap facilities collapsed on Sept. 1 you have made repeated promises concern ing the date on which those facili ties would be restored. "More than a month later, nol a single one of those promises has been kept. The director of the Oregon Fish Commission informs me., .that the death of fish has reached catastrophic proportions and the peak of the run has not yet reached the sfcene of destruc tion. "I am as tired as the rest of Ihe people of Oregon of reading your promises and press releases about restoring the , permanent fish facilities. What we want to know in these desperate circum stances is when you are going to get enough temporary facilities in to operation to save the remainder of the run." mittee chairman Dave Baum, as the Mt. Emily employers' share of their contribution. The check represented 5 per cent of the total cam paign goal of $24,350. (Obserevr Photo) ' UF Campaign Total $9,424 -For One Week Contributions to the United Fund campaign, now a week old, total $9,424.75 which is 38.3 per cent of the $24,350 goal Bernadine Millering, UF secretary, reported this, morning. ... Aftcra slow start, momentum In the campaign picked up yesterday and today she said, and enntribu Uons. xep : b'eginnhrg--th r come" in.'" Yesterday M. Gale Benls, man ager of Mt. Emily Lumber Co., presented a check for $1,217.50 to Campaign Chairman June McMan us and Dave Baum, chairman of the leadership gifts committe, for the fund. The "amount totals 5 per cent of the total goal and Beals stressed this amount was only from the employers. Em ployes are contributing their share also. Mrs. Millering this morning also released the names of firse and clubs that had donated one per cent of the total goal. These donations are jus; from the employers, she said, with employes also slated to donate to the fund. The Elks Lodge here donated $600 she said, which is one of the higher amounts donated by a club. 01 her one - per - centers include California-Pacific Utilities, W. B. Bohnenkamp Company, Pioneer Flour Mill, the First National Bank of Oregon, Goss, Gottings Lynch, Hand Ford, J. C. Penney, La Grande Evening Observer and Mt. Emily Lumber Co. Union, Wallowa County FF A Boys To, Take Trip Ten Union and Wallowa county youths will board the train at La Grande Saturday night for the National Future Farmers of Am erica convention at Kansas City. Representing Union county will be Tom Bowman and Keith Chan dler of La Grande and Jim Wcath crspoon of Elgin. Wallowa county will send Keith Simmons, John Dunham and Charles Williamson, Enterprise; Dave Hockett and Dale Zollman, Joseph, and Gayle Willett and Raymond Reel, Wallowa. An Oregon delegation of 95 boys and six chaperons will make the train trip. Among the adults will be Ralph L. Morgan, state supervisor of agricultural educa tion, and Cal Crandall, U. P. ag ricultural agent. Twelve thousand FFA members will be on hand when the 31st convention opens Monday. Speak ing at the sessions, which will last through Thursday, will be Dr. Lawrence G. Dcrthiek, U. S. commissioner of education; So tero Lasao. president of the Phil ippine Future Farmers, and May or II. Roe Barlle ot Kansas (Jiiy, VOLUNTEERS NAMED Ray Snider, La Grande fire de partment chief, announced the anointment of George R. Allam. A. W. Halliday and Glen D. Jones as volunteer firemen at a regular meeting and dinner last night of the fire department. , Un it In Formosa TAIPEI, " Formosa (UP1 i-r' An American guided missile battalion landed today to reinforce the '.de fenses of threatened formosa, do fying repeated Communist de mands for the withdrawal of U.b troops from the area. The 703 men of the 2nd Missile Bnltalion marched ashore at Kee lung. Their Nike-Hercules missiles had already been unloaded, and officers estimated that the bat talion would be ready for action in about a week. The five-ton Hercules, an anti aircraft missile, can blast the fast :'st known plane out of the sky tt is capable of carrying an atom ic warhead powerful enough to shatter an entire bomber fleet. Meanwhile, reports ifrom Que- moy indicated that more than 1,300 persons were killed or wounded by the six-week Red bombardment that ended Monday. The official Central News agency put civilian casualties at' 80 dead and 221 wounded. Military casual ties were estimated as at least 1,000 killed or wounded. The Formosa Strait was tensely quiet today. The big guns of both the Communists and the Chinese Nationalists were silent, but a swarm of activity on the Red-held coast hinted at new trouble to come. The Defense Ministry announced that Chinese observers saw 770 men at work on Communist gun posit Ions opposite, the Quemoy out post Islands, and 546 trucks carry ing supplies into the coastal gun belt. Another 340 pien were sight u ' in. gun puuiKuiia - uppuAiiu uie Matsti "Islands, 140 miles to the north. . The bustle of activity inevitably revived rumors that the seven-day cease fire proclaimed by the Com munists was intended only to give them an opportunity to emplace 12-inch guns opposite the outpost islands. . . State Police Report Four GameViolators The following game violation crses were reported by the state police. Kenneth D. Henery, Elgin, charged with hunting without a deer tag, is scheduled to appear in the La Grande justice court. October 16. Orie O. Mahana, Wallowa, was fined $29.50 in the Wallowa .jus- lce court, October 4, for failure to tag a deer in his possession. Billy Wayne Rhea, Oakridge, paid a $29.50 fine, October 4, in the La Grande justice court for failure to tag a cow elk killed n the Elgin special area. Charles L. Campbell, La Grande charged with failure to tag a deer, is scheduled to appear in ihe Union justice court, Octobe: 10. Glass Industry 'Shutdown' Is Underway Today COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPIl An "orderly shutdown" was underway today in the glass industry in ad vance of Friday's scheduled strike by 25,000 members of the United Glass and Ceramics Workers. R. J. Reiser, president of tin union, said the shutdown was be gun ahead of the Friday deadline so plant processes could be stopped without damaging equip ment. He :aid the strike covered ali of the union's workers in eight states, many of whom stayed on the job since Sept. 25 when the old contract expired. Money, Stamps Taken From Service Station L. P. Hunter, owner of Hunt ers Shell Service, La Grande hud $75, and two large books of trading stamps taken from an un locked safe, according to state po lice. It was thought that the valu ables disappeared while he was busy in another section of the service station because no marks of forced entry were found by state police. POPE Knife, Fork Group To See Science Show Glenn L. Morris, a physicist- scientist, will deconstrate many of the modern miracles of science Friday night at the La Grande Knife and Fork Club ineeting at.7. The program is scheduled for the Sacajawea Hotel. Morris is a creator of popular science shows, using a great deal of equipment to help ,make his demonstrations easily understand able. These demonstrations are related to the wonders of electron ics, solar energy, radiation, space ravel and other tilings that are headlining today's news. His show, which' he chooses to call "On the Beam," is a develop ment and refinement of a series of experiments he concocted to in terest his senior high school class sludenls in physics and science while he was a teacher just alter his graduation from the University of Oklahoma. The "Show" which Morris will do for the Knife and Fork Club is "full of fun" and at the same time give Ihe audience "something to challenge their thinking." Club officials have indicated that reservations should be made by noon, Thursday, Oct. 9, with the Sacajawea. Elks Will Honor Newsmen At Dinner Meet Here Elk's Lodge No. 433 will honor National Newspaper Week tomor row night at the lodge meeting vhen they will host the editors and publishers of Union County at a 1:30 p.m. banquet. Kleven pros- festive Elk initiates will also be quests at Ihe dinner. Exalted Ruler James Trimble said that the 11 Elk member can didates will be initiated at the lodge meeting at 8 p.m. He said ihe editors and publishers would also present short speeches at the 'odge session. A report on the current "We Want Your Hide" drive will also 4e made at the meeting, Trimble said. The drive for deer and elk tides is scheduled to extend throughout the seasons. The hides wil Ibe donated for the use of dis abled veterans in' VA hosiptals throughout the country. OvCAV TODAY Restaurants and Eating Establishments NEXT WEEK Men's Fashions PIUS XII EOC Fall Term Registration Total 722 EASTERN OREGON COLLEGE Registration figures for the East ern Oregon College Fall term stand at 722 this week, according to Dr. Lyle H., Johnson, registrar. This figure represents an 11.6 per cenlJnerease, over the, 047 reported as of the sarile date last year. 1 The - f egistrar's office in dicated the greatest singel increase was noted in the senior class with 94 registered compared with 72. A 20,4 increase, 295 compared witli 245, was reported in the number of freshman students. Registrations the remainder of the week are expected to raise the present figure before final tabula lions are made. Last year's final enrollment for Fall term hit 683. ChamberChief Says BE Day 'Success' Business-Education Day, spon sored yesterday by the Chamber ot Commerce, was described as a "tremendous success" by Cham ber President Averitt Hickox. He said that firms which participated-in the day-long program arc "highly enthusiastic over BE Day." Many of the firms which look part In the program have ex pressed an interest in making BE Day an annual event. Purpose of the program was to enable La Grande teachers to gain a bettor understanding of business operations and problems, with a personal day long visit to local firms. Hickox said that, even with the t'ay-long program, many firms found they lacked adequate time to present all their material, and answer all the questions which were put to them. ' "Teachers seemed highly inter ested in this, opportunity to gain' a first-hand, working knowledge if the American capitalistic sys tem," the Chamber president said. He. added that teachers will re ceive cards in the mail, from the Chamber, asking them to cvalu ile BE Day. "This," he said, "will nablc us to plan even better BE days in the future." Hickox said that he will pre icnt to. the Chamber board, at to day's meeting, a recommendation that BE Day be scheduled as an annual Charfiber of Commerce jvent. He noted that other Un ion county communities have indi cated interest In participating in the program in the future. Plans are now underway for a La Grande . Education-Business Day, at which time businessmen will spend a day visiting local schools, tp gain a better under Aunding of school operations and iiroblcms. , . : UN Day Set Oct. 24; SALEM (UI'D IjOV. iiuuch u. Holmes has announced appoint ment of Thomas Scanlon of Port land as chairman of United Na tions day in Oregon, to be ob served Oct. 24. Scanlon is direc tor of research for the State La bor Council. . Unconscious Seems To CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (UPI) Pope Pius XII has beon given blood plasma and placed under an oxygen tent, Vatican quarters reported tonight. Castel Gandolfo. Italy (UPI) Pope Pius XII suffered a second stroke and a heart attack today Death appeared close for the 82- yeai-old head of Ihe Roman Cath olic Church. Shortly before 6:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. p.s.t.l, the Vatican Radio said the Pope is in his "death throes". I! called on' the Catholic uiitiiiiii for prayers to "recom mend to God the soul of his ser vant at the end of his life." Doctors abandoned hope for the Pope's survival after a cerebral attack this morning and a now crisis brought on this afternoon by "a grave cardio- pulmonary collapse. At 8:35 a.m. p.s.t.. the Vatican Kadio broadcast that "faint hope' for the Pope's life "has almost completely vanished." It said that "as long as Ihe blood pressure is high lie can last --one hour or 24." The broadcast said at that lime that a communique would be issued "as soon as possible." ad ding that "this is truly the hour for prayer." "Cardiac pneumonia has now definitely set in." the radio said later in English. It asked all Cath olics to "pray for the Holy Father during these his last moments." (In New York, physicians inter preted the phrase "cardio-pulmo-nary collapse" to mean either that Ihe right side ot the Pope's heart had collapsed or that the collapse occurred in the artery lending ..from Uie,;rigl)U. -ventricle to the lungs.) " Governor To Speak Here Friday Governor Robert D. Holmes will speak at the Farm Bureau Hall in Island City Friday, Oct. 10 in the second in a series of candidate meetings sponsored by the Union County Farm Bureau Women. This will be a public meeting with the candidate answering ques tions that include taxes, state de partments,, education and labor legislation. The meeting, beginning at 2:30 p.m., will be followed by a-coffee hour to allow citizens of the county to meet Ihe Governor personally. Holme s opponent for the gov ernorship, Mark Hatfield, spoke at the Farm Bureau- last week in the same type of question and an. swer session. 3 I- J III II! r r J iA , V ' ' : r. ' i m m .ltiii n K I -ml'i irrr SLICK TRICK Any housewife could tell you that soap compani-f re noted for their slick advertising tricks. But postmen can HC you that fiction, for thorn, are oftentime facts. Taka a look at thaff load of soap hanging from postman Bill Corey's neck. That's! a fact, Corey says, not fiction. Anyway, if you find a can of totp In? your mailbox, it's really a fact. (Observer Phata)' As Life : Ebb Away The Pope was unconscious a$ his life ebbed away in Ihe beck chamber of his summer paladP here. - 2 'A special broadcast by the Vag ican Radio from Castel GandolCj quoted Hie sixth and latest meow cal bulletin on the Pope's condi tion as saying: .' m ' "The syndrone (symptoms mentioned in this morning's biill tin bj(pticcomc progressivelyaga grnvnlod. Energetic trcatmentnj not given the hoped-for resjdii The temperature is 38.2 eenH' grade (100 Fahrenheit), IjloijJ pressure 140-90. The pulse i$ fre quent and is 140. Respiration IS ;in. : The Pope's las: words before w deep coma set in were expresses to two aides: "Pray, pray -,tha ... this regretful situation for tiff church ends." ! -U He apparently was fearful ,thaT his incapacity would leave tH2 church without a leader for a lorn period. ,2 After a false death report this morning sent newspapers wjtlt black headlines of mourning' in Ihe streets of Rome, the Vatican; Radio established a running corg menlary on the Pope's conditio in broadcasts from the papa, ante chamber in Castel Gandolfo. : . 2 The mournful voice of a priest reported some improvement i . at midday. Hopes returned for. . a time that the amazing stamina of the pontiff might see hint through .again. But a few moments after 4 p.ni (7 a.m. p.s.t) medical bulletin No , It pnnfirmpH Iho wnrst ;Thft PnnA had suffered grave Complications following the. second Stroke earlier, this nrruigr.V"ss-- : ; - Alter reading' the text of the : medical bulletin, the Vatican Ra dio comrnentptor, still . reporting from a room adjoining the papal bedroom, said: V, 1 : . 'The doctors themselves are now visibly showing , their , dis couragement. 1 1 !' " "In the antechamber there pre vails an atmosphere of resigned ' and calm anxiety. - i "In the chapel adjoining Ithe Holy Father's room, priests ami members of the Pope's family are in prayer. u . ; "From the door, which is ajar! we can hear, at times, the heavy breathing of the august patient.1' ' The somber drama in the seW ond floor bedroom of the papai villa in the Alban Hills 15 miles south of Rome was a tragic one fnf Ihe world's 450 million Roman Catholics. i A . Many ot them joined in prayer, for the Pope's recovery or the . blessing of a swift and peaceful ;. death, a fate to which the man . who was born Eugenio Pacelll apparently had resigned himself in his last lucid moments. ! .' T r A VI i