WEATHER Sunny today; . increasing clouds tonight; chance few showers Sunday; high today 70 and Sunday 60-65; low to night 33-38. Established 1896 i t j' Daily xcept Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958 Price 5 Cent merican ..-Rocket Pioneer' Soars Info Space SZ ft U.S. Weapons ftxrtpiiB i. TAIPEI, FormosaWUPI) The U.t. Army s 2nd Missile Battalion installed its first launcher today and began assembling the first of Shatters; is Home ONG BEACH, Calif. (UPD A heavy aircraft propeller shattered Friday sending one of its knife like sections dangerously close to 600 children in ,a school yard and the other" ripping into a- home and landing near the crib of a sleeping baby. 'Mrs. Grace Hall, 26, said the propeller along with a section of tne plane s engine crashed through me roor of their house. ! "I hurried "inside and saw the wreckage .of. my livingroom, just next, to Jajiet's crib," Mrs. Hall said. i'lVscreamed and ran to the baby, who by some miracle was not even awakened by the noise. '"Spattered" all over the' walls .Was thick oil, plaster was every where and the : partition , off the nursery was ,a wreck." . , .A,:.'50-poimd propeller . section plunged to. earth in. the playground of St. Cornelius Parochial School wnerc cmic-rcn were playing dur ins n repAss - , . ' Pi(otDpn C; Brown said ho was giving instructions to another man '-when;"-the;- accident ,ofeerrcd ' at im'feBHemiieed to glide" tne piane to satety at Long Beach -'Airport. "-..:. ::. : It was'thothird close call resi- : dents in the south portion of Los Angeles County ' had this week with aircraft,!:' ... : 'Thursday; a giant jet liner near ly .crashed into root tops at near by tnglcwood when one of its al titude instruments failed.- Hun dreds of persons ran to the streets as the huge craft skimmed over homes. And Tuesday a heavy canopy from a jet fighter plane was ac cidentally detached and plummot ed In the streets here, again dan gerously close to a school. ': No injuries were reported in any of the incidents. BobTippett Will Speak At Chamber Meet Wednesday Bob . Tippett, candidate ;' for Stale Representative!, . will be a guest of the Chamber of Com- 'kV mcrcc "Meet Your Candidate" meeting, next Wednesday noon. ; Reservations for the luncheon may be arranged by calling the Chamber office. ,.Tho Chamber meets Tuesday noon for a similar meeting with Don McKinnis, candidate for State Representative. . . These meetings are- designed id learn the candidates' thinking on legislative issues. " 3 ?! WILL SPEAK Principal speakers at the Dis trict Seven conference of the American Legion end Legion Auxiliary on Tuesday of next week, includes from left to right, Dept. Commander its potentially atomic Nike-Hercu lea missiles. The launcher was bolted concrete pad. on a mountaintop IT K ftnrl Phinf.cn cnlHioi. .,anini against timo to get the battalion's four, batteries ready for action within two weeks. ' : -. Several miles away, men of the battalion uhcrated and bolted to gether the four tubes of a "boost er" in effect,' a giant skyrocket which, gives the powerful antiair craft missile its initial push. Sun day they will connect the booster to a missile, readying it for use The giant five-ton rockets' being placed here have a considerably greater range -and punch than the Nike-Ajax missiles which guard most. American cities against air attack. Meanwhile, U.S.' and Chinese military authorities told UPI Coi respondent WillianvMillor that the big guns, troops and supplies poured into the Quemoy Islands during this week's lull in the Com munist . "artillery . blockade" had made them stronger than ever be fore. , . . Earlier today, Gen.'Peng Meng- chi, commander of the ' Chinese Nationalist army, had .declared that , the delivery . of additional U.S. weapons: to Quemoy helped the Nationalists win the first round of the buttle for ! the offshore islands. . .. . . , . . . Peng told American - Nationalist military ceremonies here that the weapons ,-' had greatly ''increased Nationalist strength:; Even :as he spoke, new - American: 1 cuns ar rived on the .Island in the iaj'gest convbv to reach Oueniov sinen tliri bai'dment ;six., weeks, ago. : i The deliveries were made dur ing a Communist ceasefire which ends Sunday, at midnight. There was speculation whether the Com munists would-extend : it. , Peng spoke ; at ; ceremonies in which , Maj: Gen. Leander L Doan, senior ' U.S. Army com mander in Formosa, - presented htm with, a model of . a 155-m.m. self - propelled gun. . which Doan said was symbolic of the . weap ons which.'thc United States has turned over to the Nationalists. The delivery of new American arms to Quemoy coincided with an apparent Communist buildup on tne mainland The Defense Ministry said that during the-past two days some 7,720 men and 2,150 trucks were working, on Communist, fortifica tions across from Quemov it said observers counted 450 men and 150 trucks at Red posi tions opposite Matsu, the Nation alist outpost islands 140 "miles north of Quemoy. . Ma..- Gen. William Thames. chief of , the U.S. -Army combat surveillance section, flow' to Big Quemoy Friday with., a team of artillery counter battery fire officers and a civilian missile ex pert. . ' , . However, Thames said .there was no plan to establish missile bases, on the offshore islands at the present time. Missile expert Dr. Joseph E. Body of the Uni versity of Michigan said he was scientist "working on this sort of problem (Quemoy)." v. V . r " V- sCorge Nelson; Dept. Adjutant Joe McDonald; Dept. President Gertrude Dickie and Dept. Sec retary Nota Francis. T-1 -p-A-r-i 1-7 - - ! - r iu u .w i ri.i 1 ', r. by f .i-J . j r. JT'?;. ,--' 'W'iV f,, 7 ' 'SaT J WORK FOR DEFENSE Boy Scouts from L Grande distributed throughout the city today the Office of Defense and Civilian Mo bilization Phamplot, "Handbook for Emergencies." The book U.S. Cruiser Aids In Rescue Of Chinese HONG KONG (UPD - The U.-S. cruiser Helena, flagship of the 7th Fleet, arrived here, today with 116 Chinese rescued by heli copter from a Norwegian ship that -struck a reef while en route from Communist, China to. Slnga- JW-"' 1:.'. I'XZt i ' The y;405Tdn"Tnotbr ship ' Hoi Wong ran aground' in the Paracel Islands in :;thci South : China Sea Monday. Hong Kong tugs made two- attempts . to free the ship be fore ,the master of the, Hoi Wong cuuca lur American aiu. The Helena broke off gunnery practice in 1 Subic Bay in the Philippine Area Thursday and reached the stranded vessel Fri day morning. ..... Vice Adm. Frederick N. Kivette, commander of the 7th Fleet, said two helicopters making 27 flights picked the Hoi Wong's passengers off. the deck and carried them to safety on the Helena. . "The,. rescue was spectacular," he said, during the Helena's four hour stopover here. "It certainly was the biggest helicopter rescue anywhere. "The 7th Fleet in 'the Far East has , a humanitarian role as well as keeping the peace," he said. "When human life is at stake we make no distinction jjetween poli tical beliefs, and stand ready to offer assistance to people of all nations." American Legion, Auxiliary Slate Convention In Baker The American Legion and Legion Auxiliary will hold their annual District Seven conference in Baker Tuesday, officials of the groups reported this morning.. x;-' . i '- 1 -it if. 1 . - ' ) Cardinals 1 VATICAN CITY (UPI) The princes of the Roman Catholic Church will meet here at 4 p;m. Oct. 25 to elect a successor Ato the late Pope Pius XII, it was announced today. From the sorrowing Vatican fal si) came official announcement that the burial ceremony for (he Pope' will start 4 In St. Peter's Basilica at 7 a.m. p.s.t. Monday. Theeeretnony is expected to Jiisu -about' four-hours if-tr Ike Names Top Level Delegation To Papal Funeral In Vatican VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pres ident Eisenhower's appointment of a top-level delegation to Pope Pius XI 1 s funeral was regarded her as an indication of increasingly closer ties between the United States and the Vatican. The United States will be repre sented at the papal funeral by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, former Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce and AEC Director John A. McCone. The President's designation of Dulles as chief delegate, was re garded as a sign of Eisenhower's deep respect for the late pontiff, whom he met several times while he was commanding Allied armies in Europe Relations between the Vatican and the United States strengthened considerably during the reign of the late Pope, despite the setback suffered by ex-President Truman Department officers of both groups will be present, in addition to district and post commanders adjutants, and finance and service officers. District Seven includes Legion and auxiliary members from La Grande, Union, Imbler, Elgin, Wat Iowa, Enterprise and Joseph. Grant Holland, district com mander, and Lucy Mosher, district president, will preside at the con ference meetings. Charles L. Ken yon, Post 41 commander of Baker, will be in charge of the meeting. . A social hour will be held prior to the dinner, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Legion Hall, Second and Church Streets. . Brief talks will be presented by department commander ueorge u. Nelson, adjutant Joe McDonald and department president Gertrude Dickie. ' , All'members of the Legion and auxiliary are urged to attend and hear proposed plans for the year covering membership, child wcl- lare, rehabilitation, community service and other projects. Cow Killed On Highway A black angus cow, owned by W. C. Ramey, Rt. 1, La Grande, was killed last night, on highway 30 about 14 miles east of La Grande, when a car driven by Wil liam M. De Grofft, Jr., Wallowa, hit the animal, according to stale police. ' ' - ' No Injuries were reported to any of the passengers in the car., covers both civilian and wartime emergencies. Cub Seoul Pack 112 is shown above receiving the books and instructions from Cub Master Ed Craig, before moving out to perform their duty. - (Observer Photo) Set Date For Election All of the church'es 55 Cardinals who can get here for the purpose will take part in the conclave in a specially walled-off Sistino Chap el at which the new Pope will be chosen. The date for ,the election was set today by the 16 Cardinals now on hand, who are acting as a sort of interim. "Legislature" for the Vatican.1.-, '- ',. Arrangements for the conclave are being- handledHjy Benedetto" when he proposed formal diplo matic relations with the Holy See ( Vatican observers believe it will be some time before the opposi tion of non-Catholic Americans has relaxed sufficiently to make U. S. Vatican diplomatic relations pes sible. Myron C. Taylor, was stationed here from 1839 to 1950 as the per sonal representative of President Roosevelt and later of Truman, but he never held formal diplo matic status. In October, 1951, .Truman nom inated Gen. Mark Clark for the post of U. S. ambassador to the Vatican, arguing that "direct dip lomatic relations will assist in co ordinating the effort to combat the Communist menace." The appointment stirred a storm of Protestant opposition. Clark asked that his name be withdrawn, and Hie matter was allowed to drop. West Coast Airline Gets To Extend Service WASHINGTON UPI) The Civil Aeronautics Board has authorized Pacific Airlines to extend its serv ice 'from Northern California to Portland and West Coast Airlines to extend its service from the Northwest to San Francisco and Sacramento. . The CAB Friday uranted Pacif ic Airlines the route from Crescent City, Calif., to Portland, and West Coast permission to fly from Sa lem, Bend-Redmond and Newport- loledo, Ore., to San Francisco Oakland and Sacramento. West Coast was also authorized to fly into Salem A request by Pacific Airlines to serve Reno on- its San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento run was held for further study Two-Car Collision Damages Vehicles A' two-car collision at the inter section of 4th street and N avenue caused minor damage to the ve hicles, city police reported. One car was driven by Larry Dean Johnson, 2007 Oak street, and the other by Gene Anthony Noland, 705 M avenue. VETERANS' OFFICE MOVED Milo W. Stewart. Union County Veterans' Service Officer, has moved his office from the Rags dale Insurance Office to the Wcs lenskow & Ncbeker office in the Foley, Building at 1017 Adams Avenue. 1 1 iw t nj ,i K , f?f iti"i(M f Jljr ?i W JJl'i Cardinal Alois) Masella, the "cam erlengo" or Chamberlain who is acting as .the administrative head of the church during the inter regnum. ., ' . - , The date was set as thousands of grieving Catholics filed silently through St. Peter's to pay their last respects to the late Pope, whose remains . lay in spendor in the groat Basilica. . . UivU v-: A . crowd of 2,000: was already the gates to the Basilica were .tilting vii k,,.. a vkvi o vrjini opened at 6:15 a. m;; 46 minutes ahead of schedule. Within the first five hours, 50,000 portions passed the bier. . ,',- Vatican workmen were busy. all (night draping the basilica in mourning purple and erecting barriers to channel the flow Qf grieving visitors through the, vast building. The Pope's body lay beside .the massively - columned Altar of the Confession, where It will remain until Monday, Then it will be en tombed with elaborate ceremony in the Vatican grottoes near the Tomb of St. Peter, the first pope, a ttequiem Mass at 10 a. m formally began nine days of fun oral rites for the Pope, a major pontiff who died begging in his last testament for forgiveness of his deficiencies, , shortcomings and mistakes.- . .V , Conservation Reserve Deadline Near It was announced by the Union County Chairman, Ben Robinson, lhatt he larmcrs who arc interested in the Conservation Reserve, and i have already taken the first step by' filing an application and have rates established, have until Octo ber 17 to make an offer to the Government to retire land from production. Robinson emphasized that It has been indicated that the offers will be accepted on a priority basis and the farmer may want to offer land for less than the maximum to increase Ihe possibility of their application being accepted. Robinson explained that appli cants offering land will have priority in the following order (a) Application with the lower maximum payment rate per acre. (b) Application offering all elegi- hle land in the farm (c) Application offering land for the longest period. If applications of equal priority under the above factors remain for consideration, the final priority will be determined by public draw ing. Marinqs OK Buddy System Of Enlistment The present Marine Corps pol icy authorizes enlistment of five iriends under the "Buddy Sys tem." When young men enlist under this program, they will be assured of . going through basic training together. Sets. Jefferson and Pond will be in La Grande Post Office Wed nesday, Oct. 15, to interview pros pective Marines. -.J Pentagon Says Rocket May Not Reach Moon CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. UPI An American rocket named Pioneer soared out of the clutch of earth's gravity today in the first free flight through space but there were some doubts whether it would make its planned ren dezvous with the moon. . Five and a half hours after.lhe rocket was launched majestically fiom Cape Canaveral, the Penta gon announced that it flew on a slightly higher trajectory than ex pected. Therefore, the Pentagon said, it win be late this afternoon before scientists can detormino flrm'y whether Pioneer is actually ion eourse a"d " 'arget and will "I'Proacn the vicinity of the moon In the firing, at 11:42 n.m. o.s.t Friday, all three main stages went off successfully This hurled a 75 pound payload out into the void on a fantastic lunar mission. If all goes well, Pioneer should reach the vicinity of the moon late Monday. If it obtains the de sired orbit around the moon, it would slay within 40,000 miles'of it for seven days, the Defense Department said. But at midmorning the Penta gon suggested the possibility that the shot might miss the moon. "Current data indicates that the Pioneer flew onatrajectory slightly higher than expected," , a statement said. "It is, therefore, not possible to determine if the Pioneer will approach the vicinity of the moon." The rocket achieved an escape speed of something less than the expected 25,000-mile an hour peak velocity. Its traveling speed Legal Action May Be Filed In Fish Case i SALEM (UPD Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said to day he was' considering : the pos sibility of legal action; against Idaho Power Company fop alleged destruction of salmon and steel head at the firm's Oxbow dam site on the Snake river. Thornton said that "from my information it would appear that the loss and damage to fish was caused 'by the collapsing of the foundation of the fish trap con- structed on the Oregon side of the river, necessitating lowering the normal flow in the main channel of the river to about 2,000 cubic feet per second. As the result of low .flow the fish were either trapped in pools above the fish trap, or they perished below the main coffer dam Thornton said that . from his examination of legal authorities the state may be in a position to bring 1 action against the power company for destruction of fish. He said both slates have concur rent jurisdiction on the river but that this could be solved by Ore gon and Idaho joining as plain tiffs in either the state or federal courts: r. w. Schneider. Orefion name director, said loss of fish at the OxboW site would be felt for years to come. He said at least 2000 chinook salmon and numer ous steelhead were lost during the change-over from the emergency trapping and hauling operations at the silo to the regular trapping facilities. The regular trnn is now back in operation. . Doctor, Wife Hurt In Separate Accidents WALLWVA (Special) Dr. A'.- J. and Mrs. Hockctt, both injured In separate accidents this week, arc reported in good condition and resting well. ' .-'.. Mrs, Hockctt. now at home, was injured when she caught her heel On a screen door and fell down the back stairs of her home lost week. Dr. j Hockett was returning from La Grande after conferring with doctors there on Mrs. Hockett's X-rays when his car skidded on the new, highway south of here. He suffered a fractured right wrisrand multiple laceration's and contusions when his car over turned. He is in Grande Rondc Hospital In La Grande. ADMIRAL LEAHY DIES NEW YORK (UPI) Rear Ad miral Lamar Richard Leahv. 78. died Friday at New York Hospital He retired from the Navv in 1939. but returned to duty during World War H. through space is considerate less than that. The 221.000-mileifrip to the moon will lake about 2.6 days. If. it goes into orbit, officials said that at the end of the seven day period, Pioneer might stray off into endless space or might come back under the earth's grav itation and complete a figure eight. If it should come back to ward earth, it would burn up in the atmosphere. One hour after' launching; it was announced the, payload had broken free of the earth's gravity pull and was streaking through space. Five big stations across the globe and nine minilrack. stations were tracking Pioneer. Their data was tunneled to the Space Tech nology Laboratory in California for reduction to show just where Pioneer was headed. . -,, At 6:47 a.m. p.s.t., Pioneer was about 38,600 nautical miles above the earth, the highest ever attained by any manmade vehicle, the Air Force , Ballistic Missile -Division announced in- Los Angeles The announcement said: . " "It appears-from data being re1 ceived from the worldwide com munications and tracking stations that Pioneer may be departing from the intended trajectory." The statement said all of the experiments aboard the 1 Pioneer were operating "extremely satis factorily." : i ., ; : ,'; ;:', -,i The main i objectives , , of the moonshoot were: 1. To get the rocket payload out of the earth's gravitational field. This was accomplished, and was an historic achievement. It is the- first time man is known to have .oyei-opie the earth s grav(ty with un oujeci in . space. 2. ,To collect scientific data dur ing the 221.000-mile flight to. the moon and 'around it, if orbit Is achieved. - 3. To control the rocket so that the spientiflc payload will reach -the vicinity of the moon, .possibly within 50,000 miles. - . . 4. To, achieve proper powered flight performance of the rocket. 5. To put the payload in orbit around the moon, with resulting scientific benefits. Several things' could happen when Pioneer reaches the vicinity" , of the moon if it does. It could go into orbit around the moon, caught by the moon's gravitation. It could score a direct hit on the moon. Or it could score a near; or not so near, miss and wander into space. This was a crowning day of tri umph for the Air Force and for missile men everywhere. For even if Pioneer did not reach the moon, it had achieved one of the major break-throughs in space research. The total weight of the instru ments was 30 pounds, compared to 25 pounds in the lunar robot that the Air Force attempted un successfully to launch Aug. 17. . The overall weight of the payload was 84 pounds, but this was re duced to 75 pounds when vernier Tickets on the payload itself were ' fii-jd at 800 miles; to stabilize it. A scanning device to take an electronic picture of the back side of the moon's magnetic field was retained. ;i, , The Pentagon said the moon satellite was thoroughly sterilized '' with chemicals and radiation be fore the firing to .'avoid contam inating the moon if it should' strike it. i ' i ; . The most important remaining operation will bet the firing :by remote control qf the "retro rocket;" when the : robot is, near- ' ing the moon. : v ; If Pioneer continues on course, its ultimate success will hinge largely on whether it receives a signal from an engineer in Hilo, Hawaii, to fire the small reverse rocket that it is hoped Will ease the satellite into an orbit of the moon; This impulse also could be sent from Cape Canaveral, if the position were better at the time.' But the payload package also is equipped with a timer to fire the reverse rocket if it fails- to receive the signal from earth. The 88-foot rocket rose from.it3 launching stand with a red splash of exhaust and a throbbing roar. Providing the initial boost for - the rocket was a standard inter mediate range -Thor missile, the pa-t that blew up in the first try. Mounted atop the, Thor was the modified second stage of a Van guard ' statellite . launcher,- which ignited at about 50 miles above the earth. Then a newly developed Vanguard third stage took over ' to give the payload the boost nee- essary for free flight at 80 miles up. X ;.C:A'a...V:.(. , iWj-. AjLjLiiiLiJifci.S p.J-KA - - - -