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LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958
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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.
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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!"
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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:
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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
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Eating Establishments
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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.
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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. ! .'
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