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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.
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'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
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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
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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