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Sunny today; . increasing
clouds tonight; chance few
showers Sunday; high today
70 and Sunday 60-65; low to
night 33-38.
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i. TAIPEI, FormosaWUPI) The
U.t. Army s 2nd Missile Battalion
installed its first launcher today
and began assembling the first of
Shatters;
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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. "
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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)."
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Dept. President Gertrude Dickie and Dept. Sec
retary Nota Francis.
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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-
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' 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..
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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.
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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
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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.-
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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
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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.
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