WEATHER ; Mostly sunny and warm to-, day and Wednesday; high both days 75-80; low tonight 36-42. : Established 1896 Daily except Sunday Illinois Police Will Quiz Lad In Bombing PEORIA, III. (UPD Explosion ot; a homemade bomb damaged the windows and interior of a Jew ibh temple early today and police ana tui agents planned to ques tion a youth involved in a bomb In Bomb Plot ATLANTA (UPD Police dis closed today they have corrobo rated a suspect's statement that a. bomb plot against the Atlanta Jewish Temple was hatched at a meeting of an anti-Semitic under ground organization here last May 0. " Officers have the names of the five men who. attended the meet-' . ing.. Authorities appeared to be on the. verge of cracking wide open 8' terror attack on Jewish syna gogues and temples in the South. :;, Local authorities, working hand in. hand with the FBI, were con fident . they were on the right track. ' They have been working around the clock on the case since dynamite ripped a huge hole in the fashionable temple early Sun day, causing $200,000 damage. ' f' Detective Sgt. M.W. Blackwell said a suspect had signed a state ment,-, the details of which have been corroborated by police, about preliminary plans for the temple bombing. President Celebrates BiftHdqy ' r ' WASHINGTON ;(UPD Prcsi dent Eisenhower observed his 68th birthday today by singing with gusto and vigorously pledging to defeat the Democrats at the polls next month. . He serenaded his wife, Mamie, with an early morning "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and energetically- called his fellow Repub licans to battle with their political opponents instead of each other. At a big GOP breakfast mark ing the start of his birthday cele bration, Eisenhower was in a jaunty, holiday mood. The President's birthday started before daylight when he and Mrs. Eisenhower got Up early for the breakfast at the Statler Hotel. They arrived before 8 a.m. e.d.t. to be greeted by 600 Republican organization workers singing "Happy Birthday" The President received a huge birthday cake made of flowers, befitting his diet, and songs and poems written 'specially for the occasion. Despite three illnesses in three years and having reached a point where most men who can afford to have, retired, Eisenhower showed no outward signs of slow ing his pace. The breakfast was given in his honor by the staffs of the White t House, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican Nation al Committee and the GOP Con gressional Campaign Organization. trVU o o 'BROKEN RECORD Registration of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Wool- hisor (right) for classes at Eastern Oregon College broke the pre- vious all-time high enrollment figure, 726, set in 1947. Beverly) . "ntd her husband, both Redmond grads, display record numbers scare at another temple last year. The explosive in the bomb, packed into a short iron pipe, was black powder, police determined. It went off in a stairwell leading to the basement of the Anshai Emeth Temple. Rabbi Joseph . Ginsberg, whose congregation numbers about 250 families, said he thought the bombing was conceived by a "twisted mind." Mayor Eugene Letter agreed with the rabbi that "we have had no history here" of anti-Somitism' and that the bombing must be the work of a mentally twisted person although it was "regrettable, of course." Police Capt.- George Johnson said (hat a bomb, also homemade, was found last year where anoth er Jewish temple was being built. It failed to explode. Johnson recalled that this also was a black powder bomb, and he said that among the first per sons to whom police would talk would be two teen-age boys. On was questioned about the bomb found at the. other temple last year. The other was injured last year in an explosion of powder which he had in his possession. FBI agents were quick to join police in the investigation of to day's blast. ' Police , investigating the blast spotted two men fleeing in an al ley behind the temple. Officers fired at the men when they failed to halt, and Patrolman Paul Fish er said he believed one of the men was wounded. However, authorities discovered a drug store at the rear of the temple had been burglarized at about the same time as the ex plosion, and police believed the men were fleeing the store. In a car apparently abandoned by the two men, police found a loaded .38 caliber pistol and burglary tools. K ; Solon's Wife : To Address Groups Here EASTERN OREGON COLLEGE Mrs. Richard L. Neuberger, wife of United States Senator Neu- berger, will address a 10 a.m. as sembly Wednesday on the East ern Oregon College campus. The assembly is scheduled in the au ditorium. Mrs. Neuberger will also make a special presentation' to Richard I. Arends, EOC senior from La Grande, recipient of a $500 fellow ship contributed by Senator and Mrs. Neuberger. Arends is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Arends of La Grande. The campus chapter of the Ore gon Education Association' will sponsor a noon luncheon Wednes day, with Mrs. Neuberger as guest, in Hoke Hall. Other activities include talks by Mrs. Neuberger to political sci ence classes during the day at EOC and a 6:30 dinner at the Cen tral School where she will speak to the Union County OEA. PRESS CONFERENCE SET WASHINGTON (UPD The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. p.s.t. START CAMPAIGN Mrs. Irma from left. Western Director of the Civic Music, checks campaign packages with workers who will spend this week seeking members for the 1958 Civic Music program. Officials and work- Civic Music Membership Drive Open i' Civic' 'Music 'in V'.fca '-Srandb'r "and elsewhere: in- -the" United Stales and Canada, will begin its 38th season this year, "with optimism and increasing memberships," Mrs. Irma Davis told a' dinner audience last night. The 40 Civic Music officials, cap tains and workers attended the Kipkoff Dinner for the 1958 mem- bership campaign which will run throughout this week, closing on Saturday. Last year over 600 per sons belonged to the Union county Civic Music Association. "La Grande is lucky in that it has Eastern Oregon College here to establish a cultural base for the Grande Ronde Valley," Mrs. Da. vis, who is Western Director for Civic Music, told the audience. Her home is in Los Angeles. Mrs. Marie Wilkins, president of the Union county group, reminded the workers that persons desiring to purchase vCivic Music tickets, if they don't buy them from the workers that contact them, must purchase them before 5 p.m. at the California-Pacific Utilities of fice here, which' is Civic Music headquarters. Mrs. Davis reminded persons who purchase tickets that they are good for concerts throughout the United States and Canada. . Dr. Lynn Bishop, music head at Eastern Oregon College, was toastmaster at the, dinner. Merle Becket is treasurer of the group here, and Mrs. George Tiss, or ganizational chairman. as they receive registration materials from Melba Cater, regis- trar's secretary. EOC's enrollment figures for Fall term now stand at 758, only two short of earlier prediction for next year, (EOC Photo) LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1958 r i ... J ? Davis, second Blunder Made Reporting 'Pioneer' Is Revealed ... WASHINGTON' (UPD- The -De fense Department" and' Air Force admitted today they committed what was probably a historic blun der Saturday when they an nounced tnat tne ; Fioneer moon rocket had escaped the pull of earth s gravity. About 90 minutes after the rock et was launched from Cape Ca naveral, Ha., and when it was some 20,000 miles above the earth's surface, a previously pre pared press release was issued proudly asserting that the lunar probe rocket was "the first man made object known to escape the earth s gravitational field." It was no such thing. And offi cials acknowledged today it was never intended to escape from gravity since it was headed for the moon which itself is within the earth's gravitational influence. The blooper was a sample of difficulties encountered in han dling the sensational rocket launching. Some reporters vand several officials considered that information on the whole lunar probe program could have been handled better and faster. For example, many rocket au thorities suspected and probably knew 24 hours before it was an nounced that the Pioneer would not go farther than about 80,000 miles and that its speed was a few hundred miles an hour less than intended. But the world was deprived of that information until a 5 p.m. e.d.t. Sunday news con ference at the National Academy ol sciences here '' ers attended the Kickoff Dinner last night at the Sacajawea Hotel. With Mrs. Davis, left to right, are Mrs. Walter Sweet,.' Mrs. Charles , Greulich and Mrs. Robert W. Buchanan. (Observer. Photo) ' r The rocket - was launolied at- 4:4 a.m. e.d.t. Saturday.'; After mid night that day very little informa tion on its position or scientific findings was released prior to the Sunday news conference for which the data apparently 'was being held back . Asked by United Press Interna tional for an explanation of the blunder about escaping gravity, the Pentagon said today its press release of Saturday "was techni cally inaccurate, in that it was never intended - that . Pioneer should escape the earth's gravita tional field completely." Maj. Gen. Donald N, Yates, commander of the Atlantic mis sile range at Cape Canaveral, said Monday the mistake simply "slipped by all of us." "One thing is clear," said Yates wild is rapidly becoming one of the military services' better ex perts in public relations: "Before the next moon probe, those of us charged with reporting our own operation to the press and other news media must familiarize our selves with the new terminology of space flight. Two Area Two Union County boys, Dale Case, 16, Aliccl and David Schaad, 17, Route-1, La Grande, have been named state winners in tractor maintenance and soil and water conservation and will accompany 19 other outstanding Oregon 4-H club members to the 27th annual National 4-H Club Congress to be held in Chicago November 29 to December 4. .. Burton Hutton, State 4-H Club Leader; announced, that 33 state winners were picked but only 21 receive trips to' Chicago. Other state winners receive fountain pen sets, watches, . and savings bonds. Selection of winners is based )ii participation in 4-H projects and activities, leadership shown in club, community, church, and school, and personal development dt'ring their 4-H careers. Dale Case is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Case and has ex- ellcd in 4-H tractor maintenance (or the past five years. In 1954 he was named Union County ju ior tractor driving champion, was unnerup to John Pembrook in 1957 -and was named senior trac tor driving champion in 1958. At the recent Oregon State Fair, he placed third out of a field of 10 participants. He has done much on the farm to keep the (arm machinery in top running condition and in looking after the maintenance details on the tractors. During the past five years as a member of the Alicel Greasemonkeys 4-H club, he has studied all phases of tractor Maftoonalists Cut Island TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD Na tionalist China probably will ac cept U.S. requests to reduce mil itary forces on Quemoy and Mat su If America agrees to defend those controversial offshore is lands, an authoritative report said today. Such an arrangement would represent one of the most signifi cant diplomatic advances in the Formosa -Strait since the 1955 Lebanon aces Strike . BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD Leb unon's politicians bickered and bargained today in a last-ditch at tempt to head off a general strike that could paralyze the; country. Eight thousand trade unionists in every industry from transport to electricity-are ready to strike Wednesday morning. 'The decision to strike was made Monday night by the 1 Federation of Free Trade -Onions in protest at. the lack of.securjty under the present regime and at the wrang lings of the nation's politicians. Informed sources reported meanwhile that the last American soldier, will pull out of Lebanon nearly a week before the Oct. 31 deadline set previously by the commander of the U. S. expedi tionary force. . , . Phalangist supporters of form er President Camille Chamoun, who have been waging a general strike of their own against the government of former Tripoli reb el leader Rashid Karami for more than three weeks, have besn.hop-. ing lor a union smite can to rein force their movement.'" , However," union "leaders maln: (ain that their position is neutral and Mhat they are calling the strike in protest against political instability in the nation and the lack of security for its citizens. They Issued their strike call aft er the shooting of two workers Monday.':.'-.; Education, Business Day Planned Here A meeting: wt.s held yesterday at the La Grande Senior High school to make preparations for Education-Business Day, tentativ ely planned for Thursday, Nov. 13. !.,-.' Donald j. Ainsworth was elect ed chairman of the steering committee; Ladd D. Laughbon, secretary. A, no host breakfast was sche duled for Oct. 17, 7 a.m. at the Sacajawea Hotel for the steer ing committee and business men to discuss activity planning for E-B Day. Boys To Attend 4 -H maintenance that has earned him trips to 4-H Tractor Tours in Portland, 4-H Slimmer School ?nd Oregon State Fair. In addition to his tractor ac tivities, he has excelled in 4-H cookery projects exhibiting blue ribbon cakes at the 1957 Union County Fair and the Oregon State Fair. This year he surpassed many of the girls in Union Coun ty in bread baking, receiving a blue ribbon on his bread at the County Fair.- He has also been active in swine . projects, being a top showman at the County Fair and Eastern Oregon Livestock Show during the past five years Currently he is secretary of the La Grande FFA chapter, member of LDS Explorer Post and active in church activities. His trip to National 4-H Club Congress will be financed by the National 4-H Club committee. David Schaad, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Schaad, Route 1, La Grande, has excelled in 4-H ac tivities. for the past nine years completing 25 different 4-H pro jects. He was named state win ncr in Soil and Water Conserva tion but has also excelled in oth er 4-H projects including swine entomology, garden, range man agement, gem craft, and leather craft. Highlight of his 4-H ac idities was winning a trip to the -H Range Management camp held, at Lakeview where he was named the outstanding boy at the camp. He competed against 65 4-H and FFA boys In a range plant identification contest and signing of the Sino-Amcrican mu tual defense treaty. It would be important because: The U. S. thus far has re fused to commit itself firmly to the defense of Matsu and Que moy. situated under the very shadow of Communist China's guns. President Chiang Kai-shek's government to dale has turned a deaf ear to Washington sugges Farm Forestry Meeting Set Here Friday Farmers are reminded of the farm forestry meeting to be held here October 17. at 1 p.m. in the Sacajawea hotel. Bcrnal Hug, Sr. of Elgin, in charge of the event, indicated that the meeting was being call ed to take critical and informa tive look at the problem -and im portuncc of increasing produc tion from snuill woodlands and to stimulate some thought on the subject. Hug went on to suy that rough ly, one-half of Oregon's small for est areas are producing less than half of their capacity. One of the primary purposes of the meeting is to answer the question, "what are the possibil ities and problems in connection with increasing production from your woodland area so that a steady increasing demand for for est products can be met? This is one of five area meet ings to be held in the state where small forestry owners will be asked to discuss his problems and situations before an interest ed group. , ;. In. addition:.-concluded- Hug,- .statewide, mooting' is planned at Salem, in 'November, in the form of a hearing. " ' f " At the Salem 1 meeting, ideas and comments will be recorded. These will be formulated into a report indicating the thinking of the small woodland owner and other interested individuals on the small forest ownership prob lems. Gasoline Trailer Upsets, Burns On John Day Road VALE (Ufl) Forty-five-hundred gallons of gasoline spilled and burned on the John Day high way one mile' north of here this morning and it was two hours be fore traffic could move past the intense heat. State police said the driver of a Pacific Intermountain . Express tractor and trailer was uninjured when the trailer loaded with gaso line broke away from the tractor, overturned and burned. Highway crews were sent to repair dam age to the pavement. made the highest score ever ach ieved at the camp. He has been active in conservation practices both in 4-H and as a Scout and Ex plorer, He has assisted in plant ing trees oh burned over areas in Catherine Creek, on the John Day River and along eroded hill ides, abandoned roads, and skid rails. As crew chief of his Ex plorer Post 111), he helped plant "illow and various shrubs along the banks of drainage ditches to control erosion. This year he has been a mem ber of a Range Management club '-ed by Gerald Klom'p where they have studied at the Starkcy DALE CASE iX, , 1 ' i .( - h&rij .-- Ik n: .- V- .,1 -.a..-. .. ...1 I J ' Price 5 Cents May Troops lions that it reduce the offshore island garrisons if the U; S. works out a long term truce with Peiping. The report of a major cumprd; mise between Taipei and Wash ington was published in the Ta Hua Evening News. Responsible quarters viewed the compromise report as authentic.' The Nationalists maintain about 100,000 troops on the Matsu and Quemoy islands. ' Meanwhile, U. S. Defense Sec retary Neil McElroy inspected U. S. military bases on Formosa today in a possible prelude to withdrawal of some American units rushed here at the height of Hie Formosa Strait crisis. McElroy conferred with Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek Monday, and with Defense Minister Yu Ta wci today in the Pescadores is lands, major Nationalist staging'' area for sending supplies to Que-; moy. , 1 : There was no official announce-; ment on the McElroy - Chiang! talks, but informed sources said". McElroy had discussed the Wash- ington suggestions with the- Chif nese president: '' A reduction in Nationalist mil"; itary forces on the Matsu and Quemoy offshore islands if a long? term Formosa Strait truce can. be. reached with the Communists: ' A withdrawal of the emergen cy American military forces.'- The McElroy-Chiang talks coin-, cided with talks in Washington be tween Nationalist Ambassador George Yeh and Secretary;1 of State John Foster Dulles. i r S Washington dispatches said DolJ les has given a go-slow signal, on, making any more concessions to the Chinese Communists . but stillj was hoping to find a more flcxi-i ble approach to the Formosa aitlK -alion if (he Reds' show a sincere desire tomamtaln .their vself-pnv claimed cease fire:".' . , - ChamberMembers Urged To Attend v Wednesday Meet All Chamber of Commeivn members are beine ureprf to at. tend a Chamber Forum meeting Oct. 22, Wednesday, at noon. State legislative Issues, affecting local businessmen, will be discussed. "We seldom ask members to at tend forum meetings," Chamber President Averitt Hickox noted. 'However, this special meeting was called because menibesr are indicating a greater interest in State legislation - affecting their business." -. , - Business legislation will ho Hie. cussed by officers of the Associa ted Oregon Industries, who are currently meeting with business 'rouns throughout the state. Par. ticipaling in the meeting will be aui Managing Director Charles Ogle, and Associate Manager Ivan Congleton. Hickox. urged Chamber mem bers to make reservations now, by calling the Chamber of com merce. . : Congress Kange Experiment Station, - ob served range management includ-l ing salt stations, wuterholcs, and . range grazing. Particular atten tion was given to the study ot range grasses and their adapt ability to our area. , Through his 4-H swine project David has saved enough money o further his college education, He is a keen student in science und the past year was named the most outstanding student in chemistry at La Grande; Hifjh', School. His trip to National f H Club. Congress is being spon otq& by Firestone Rubber Com pany. -.. ' DAVID SCHAAD