WEATHER
' Fair through Thursday,;;
highs 56-62; low tonight 18
24. Established 1896
Daily except Sunday
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958
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HONORED Merle Backet, left, La Grande banker, presented
awards t6 the Union County men named outstanding in their
respective fields, at the Farmer-Merchant banquet held last
night. The dinner was termed a "tremendous success" by cham-
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SPEAKER State Senator Anthony Yturri, chief speaker at the
Farmers'Merchants' banquet held at the armory last night, lam
ented the decline of individualism and the "ridiculous" tax struc
ture of Oregon. '
Jury Selected
For Girl's Trial
On Murder Charge
LINCOLN, Neb. lUPD The
men and women who will decide
die fate of Caril Fugiie, l.'i, com
panion ' or mass murder ji' Charles
Starkwca her, were selected today
duriiiK the third dav r Taril's
livsl (!e;iree murder trial.
' A Ubttict Court jury o.r seven
men and five women was seated.
In all, 47 prospective jurors
were questioned.. ,'
Caril is charged with helping
SlnikwtaUier. her teen-age boy
f lend, lot and mur.ler Robert
Jensen,. 17, last Jan. 27 near Jen
sen's home at Bennet, Neb.
( Under Nebraska law,' the person
who helps in commission of such
a crime is as guilty as the one
who committed the actual slaying.
Defense attorney John McAr
thur said Canil will testify in her
own defense.- She is eager, he
said, ' to relate her story
VACUUM CLEANERS City
Nelson (pushing sweeper) and
ton yesterday were busy cleanii
Swift Dam Worker
Crushed By Girder
COUGAR, 'Wash. (UPD Henry
Morsette, 36, Portland," was fatal
ly crushed by a 130-foot-long steel
girder bridge that slipped off a
moving dolly at the Swift hydro
electric project here Tuesday.
Donald Hobson, Portland, an
other worker, suffered a broken
wrist in the accident.
The steel superstructure was
being moved into place over the
Lewis river at the time of the
accident. One end of the bridge
was on the dolly and the other
end was being towed and lifted by
a large crane
The dolly got stuck, aceordfng
lo officials of Pacific Power and
bi'ht Co.
ABSENTEE BALLOT
The county clerk's office re
minded voters who will be out of
the area on election day, Nov. 4,
that tomorrow is the last day that
they may vole by absentee ballot.
rroployes Ben huge vacuum sweeper Is literally sweeping the
veorge Carle- streets clean during this autumn season. Scene
a house. The above is on First Street off of Adams.
i (Observer Photo)
ber officials who announced 503 men attended the affair. From
" Becker's left are Clifford Towle, JC Young Farmer; Bernard Hug
Sr., Farm Forester; John Shaw, Conservation; and Reed Taylor,'
Cattleman of the Year. (Observer Photos)
Farmer-Merchant Feed
Draws Crowd Of 503
By BUCK BUCHANAN -
The 10 th Annual Farmer
Merchant banquet held at the ar
mory wajj the "most successful in
the histoify of the affair," officials
proclaimed this morning as they
announced that 503 Union county
farmers and : townsmen attended
the dinner. ,
Chamber of Commerce Prcsl
dent Averitt Hickox extended lite
chamber's "most- sincere thanks"
lo the many business and profes
sional men who actively partici
pated in arrangements and serv
ing at the dinner, w '
Guests-at the gathering filled
the armory and saw four county
tpenwceive , swards fdr.ri being
"outstanding". m their respectivp
fields, in 1957-1958. ,
Merle Becket, La Grande bank
er presented awards to Reed Tay
lor as Cattleman of the Year, to
John Shaw, for being Conserva
tion. Man of the Year, Bernal Hug,
Sr., as Farm Forester of the Year,
and Cilfford Towle", as JC Young
Farmer of the Year.
Principal speaker at the affair
was State Senator Anthony Ytur
ri of Ontario.
Yturri, whose speech bordered
en the philosophical and strayed
from politics at this politica;
time, said 'the current trend is
away from the importance of the
individual in our society with
power being centralized in state
and federal governments.
He called on the farmers and
businessmen at the dinner to
"speak out as individuals else
the decadence of the individual,
particularly the farmers, will con
tinue to be subsidized."
The straight forward senator
from Ontario discussed taxes in
Oregon and attacked the tax sys
tem here. He told the group that
the nine and one-half per ceni
personal income tax was "thf
highest in the United States." He
said if the trend continued in the
next session of the legislature
taxes would continue to skyrocket
He told the group that the
turnout last night "is a fine show
of cooperation between farmers
and urban dwellers."
Shaw, of North Powder, wa.'
cited for his water conservation
practices as well as his range
management, when he received
his award as the ' counties' 1958
Conservation Man of the Year.
Shaw is the third generation of
Shaws to operate the farm which
was homesleaded in 1870. Present
size of the farm is 2,100 acres.
Towle, of Cove, lives with his
wife and three children east of
town. Ho has 80 acres, of which
40 acres are cultivated. His pro
ducing chcity orchard covers 27
acres but recent plantings should
increase the orchard to 40 acres.
This year's winner started farm
ing on his ownJfLthe Cove area
jiiutvuiiuiy-- jrouuwiug nib kiuu
uation from Oregon State College.
Bernal , Hug of Elgin comes
from a long line of foresters and
farm foresters. Hug has shown
great interest in the promotion of
the farm forestry industry. At
present he is chairman of the
irm forestry committee and this
lommittee has been working
luite extensively under Hug's
Guidance for the promotion of
this industry in Union county
He owns 250 acres of woodland at
.he present time.;
Reed Taylor was cited as Cai
'.leman of the Year. He owns
ind runs a herd of cattle on his
anch, the Sandridge Polled Here
rord Ranch, near Alicel. He was
elected early this year for the
.-.ward.
Ed Draper barbecued the 250
nounds of beef consumed at the
linner. Rev. Gene Robinson dc
.ivercd the invocation and the
vclcome was extended by Averitt
'fickox. Chuck Gavin introduced
iuesls.
At the dinner Union County
fair Manager Dave Baum present
id awards lo livestock winners at
he fair, this year.
Masonic
Official To
Visit Here
La Grande Lodge No. 41, AF and
M, will host lodges of Masonic
district 31 lonight at 7:30 p.m.
luring the official visit to this
district of Walter L. Lansing of
?alem, grandmaster of Masons in
Oregon. ,
Yesterday the Observer crron-
lusly listed the time as Tuesday
3t 7:30 p.m.
Lansing will outline the grand
'odge's program for the year,
with emphasis upon the public-
schools. He will be accompanied
iy other grand lodge officers, in
cluding Oscar G. Rollins of Cove,
district deputy of the : grand
naster, who is in charge of ar-
angcmcnls. , .
La Grande lodge has the dis
inction of being the home lodge
if the senior past, grandmaster of
Oregon. George T. Cochrane, who
headed the craft in 11123. Clarence
. Koop, Immediate Past Grand
Master, also resides here.
Lodges in district 31 include
those at Elgin, Union and Cove.
BULLETIN
SPRINGHILL, Nova Scotia
(UPI) Twelve miners were re
ported found alive today, nearly
six days after they were trapped
13,000 feet underground in North
America's deepest coal mine
along with tl other men.
AEC Plans
5 Nuclear
Tests Today
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nov.
'UPD Nuclear blasts sent rumb
ling echoes across the desert to
day as U.S. scientists punched
buttons in a race to fire fiye'
shots in one day and beat a pro
posed test ban deadline.
Humboldt, the day's ' second
shot, flared brightly as it was- det
onated at 6:45 a.m. p.s.L atop its
50-foot aluminum tower in Yucca
Flat. The tower disintegrated as
a plume of dust swirled into the
sky in its familiar mushroom for
mation Cloud-tracking aircraft darted
into the area after each shot to
check radiation effects and
ground crews scurried forward to
begin evaluation of the blast as
a proposed Oct. 31 deadline
neared.
A few hours earlier, Mazama
was triggered atop a 50-foot steel
tower with a force of less than
1,000 tons of TNT after a brief
technical delay.
Secretary of Stale John Foster
Dulles has announced the United
States would honor the U.S. pro
posed deadline for tests by Rus
sia, Britain and the United States.
Russia earlier informed the two
powers it -had declined the offer
to halt nuclear testing and would
continue with its program.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian A. orin did, however,
make it clear that Russia would
participate in talks slated to start
at Geneva Friday covering pos
sibilities of banning nuclear test
explosions.
Youth Group "
Will Collect
For UNICEF
. Members oT Junior High Fel
iowship of the First Presbyterian
church will collect for UNICEF
here tonight between 7 and 8
p.m. ,
UNICEF is United Nations 'in
ternational Children's Emergen
cy Fund. The group undertook
this activity for the first time
U.st year and was able tb send
almost $60 to the head office in
New York. Every penny collect
ed is turned over to the fund.
The local children undertake this
as a service project.
Through buying in large quan
tities and from surplus food ac
cumulations this agency is able
W provide a great deal for a few
pennies in helping the children
over the world who are in need
of food, medicine, clothing and
the minimum essentials for living.
Church groups throughout the
nation are adopting the slogan,
"The triok Is to Treat," and are
collecting for UNICEF rather
than asking for treats for them
selves. ExtensionOfReseal
Program Reported
It was-announced by Chairman
Ben L. Robinson of the Union ASC
County Commitiee, that the reseal
program for farm s'ored commodi
ties have been extended for an
other year. The reseal program
will be" available for 105B crop
wheat, oats, barley, rye and corn.
and all 1957 reseals may be extend
ed for another year.
Robinson further stated that the
payment rates witl be the same as
announced for . reseal on 1957
grains. If a producer reseals his
957 farm s'orage commodity for
the entire year, he will receive 16
cents bushel for barley, 1(1 cents
a bushel for wheat and 12 cents
for oats.
TODAY
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NEXT WEEK
Drugs A Cosmetics
Stampeders
Join Pony
ExpressR
un
The Elgin Stampeders will par
ticipate in the Oregon Centennial
Pony Express mail run, June 7th
to 10th, 1959, according to a let
ter received from Harry Long,
executive vice president of Cen
tennial Pony Express, Inc.
Pony Express mail will be car
ried across Oregon by the Elgin
Stampeders and other participat
ing riding clubs and then depos
ited in the U. S. Mail for final
lelivery.
The statewide run is expected
to take three days, which will be
followed across Oregon with some
feeder lines. There is to be one
run each week, starting at the
Centennial site in Portland lor
the duration of the Centennial
Celebration, which ends Septem
ber 17, 1959. It is believed that
this is one of the largest events
of its kind ever to take place.
The purpose is to publicize' the
Oregon Centennial and the west
em horsemen of today who have
our horses to rely on in case of
disaster, evacuation, or searching
for lost persons and removing in
jured or .sick . persons from re
mote areas. .
The Stampeders stage the Elgin
Stampede, a Junior Rodeo and ac
tively participate in the Eastern
Oregon Livestock show, Pendle
ton Round-up, - Milton-Frecwaler
Pea Festival, Chief Joseph Days
j'nd-'the Baker Stampede.
'At '-the present time;' plans fpi
filming and televising the Pony
Express run arc being made.
Mock Indian and bandit raids are
also in the planning
Pasternak
Rejects Nobel
Prize Award
STOCKHOLM, : Sweden (UPD
Soviet author Boris Pasternak has
rejected the Nobel prize for liter
ature apparently because of ex
treme pressure brought by Com
munist authorities, informed
sources reported today.
Authoritative information reach
ing here indicated the outspoken
author of "Dr. Zhivago" had. re-.
IriiCtcd the previous acceptance
which he telegraphed to the Swed
ish Academy last week.
Pasternak, since winning the
$41,000 award, has been attacked
in the Soviet press and expelled
from the Soviet , Writers Union
a move that could threaten the
livelihood of the. 67-year-old au
thor. The Soviet attacks on Pasternak
almost overshadowed the other
Nobel prizes this year. The No
bel prize for medicine is to be
awarded Thursday and informed
sources said three Americans
probably will win it for their work
in genetics.
The three are Dr. George W.
Beadle, formerly of Stanford and
now at Oxford, Dr. Edwardi L.
Tatum of Stanford and Joshua L.
Lederberg of Wisconsin University.
' ' 7P:f
DISARMED Gaylen Searleg of th La Grand
police fore, disarms fallow patrolman Bill
Wells at polka school ssssion being hold hors.
Asks World
Tp Listen To
VATICAN CITY (UPD Pope
John XXIII began the first day
of his reign loday with an appeal
to llie leaders of the world to
abandon their monstrous . arms
and ensure peace with justice.
The 76-year-old pontiff, in his
first papal address, asked the
world leaders to "look at the peo
ple, listen to their voices."
"What do they ask? What do
they implore? Not new monstrous
arms but peace. . .but justice. . .
but tranquility and concord"
Pope John, his voice firm and
at times almost musical, spoke in
Latin from the papal throne in the
Sistinc Chapel where a secret
conclave of cardinals elected him
Tuesday as the 262nd pontiff
His speech followed a Solemn
Mass thai brought the electing
conclave to an end and opened
the sealed area of St. Peters to
the world for the first time since
last Saturday. '
He said the world needed a
free peace not a peace existing
under conditions of slavery.
Addressing himself to those
who "hold in their hands the fate
of nations," the Pope asked:
"Why are dissensions and dis
cord not settled? Why are efforts
Ike, Space
Council Hole.
Conference
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Eisenhower summoned his
space council to a White House
meeting today to take up the ex
plosive controversy between the
Armv and the new civilian space
agency .'.-'-' -.W ''.''' -v'i
Many' authorities - believed "the
Army's future in space explora
tion and rocket weapons develop
ment was at slake in Us fight
with the National Aeronautics
(NASA).
While House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerly said no final
decision would be made on the
matter today.
The NASA had put in a ,bid to
take over the Army's German-led
team of 2,100 scientists and tech
nicians, along with the laborato
ries of the Army Ballistic Mis
sile Agency at Huntsville. Ala.
The team is led by the German
born rocket expert Wernher von
I'rai.u. . ,
NASA Administrator T. Keith
Glennan also has proposed to the
Army that his new agency . take
over the Army's present arrange
ments with the jet propulsion lab
oratory at Pasadena, Calif., for
space and missile work.
If the NASA bid is successful
the Army's lenshold on space
would be considerably cut down.
Up to Tuesday night, authori
ties said, a compromise had not
been worked out among the
Army, NASA and the Defense
Department.
The President has said he
would decide himself what feder
al agencies or facilities wo id he
transferred to the new -space
agency which was set up under
the space act of last July. Until
Dec. 31 the President can make
such decisions without referring
litem lo Congress. After that con
gressional approval must be obtained.
Leaders
People
directed at creating harmful in
strumcnts of war instead of civil
progress? . e .
"Come, act courageous and con
fident. . . the light from above
shines on you." 11
He quoted from St. Augustine:
"Pax est tranquillitas domini"
Peace is the tranquility of the
I. o r d, and from St, Thomas
"Between peace and slavery
there is a great difference. Peace
is tranquil freedom.'1
He spoke then of the "silent,
church" behind the Iron Curtain,
and suid: -a
"Our thoughts go out in a par
ticular way to the bishops,
priests and faithful who live
where the church's sacred rights
are trampled on with daring. . ..
where paslors are impeded to the
point that they cannot .carry out,
their task. ' ,'
"We share in their sorrows."
Such restrictions against churcli
liberty are "completely repug
nant" to civilized life, he said,
He prayed for divine enlighten?
trient of the minds of the perse
cutors to bring about "freedom .
for all." ..." .-;
He referred to the Eastern and
Western riles of the Catholic
Church and said, "wo embrace
the Eastern Western churches
with fatherly charity."
And "to those are are separat
ed from the Holy See (non-Catb.:
olic Christians) we open our most
loving soul," ho said. ". ' . '.W
advocate their return to the fatS
er's home. : . ... .
"So may it come, that all, free
ly and willingly, may enter into
what is not a strange homo : but
their own .home." , .
- He began . his 12-ninutc.. speech
'With 'those words :' v ;
"In this hour of trepidation in
which the , heavy . burden of - the
pontificate,' imposed on us by the
mysterious design of , God after
the death , of our predecessor
Pius XII of venerated memory,
overwhelms and almost crushes
our soul. . . .we pray to God to
enlighten our mind and strength
en our will.," .,'.':
He spoke with sympathy of thp
plight of Jozsef. Cardinal Mind-
szenty of Hungary and Aloyslus
cardinal stepinac of Yugoslavia
where the - Communist govern
ments refused to allow them to
attend the conclave. He called
them those ' "whose sufferings
touch us so strongly." ' .,
Pope John said his thoughts
also went out to "those who work
in the vineyards of the Lord ev
ery where in the world" all
priests and especially missionar
ies who "not sparing themselves
of "any labor" spread God's word
in all lands." v ' ' '
He also gave his embrace to
the Catholic action movement, to
all those who In any way help
the church hierarchy in its task,
and "all the children we have in
Christ.", .: i','-v:'::'v K
EUGENE MAYOR REPLACED
EUGENE (UPD Mayor John
.1. McGutty has been voted out of
office here by the Eugene City
Council because he spent too
much lime in Colorado, the coun
cil said. . ! ; ,
McGinty has been away from
I he city since late in May except
for two visits during last summer.
Instructor i John Truatt, Chltf of folic ot'.
Band. School for Eaittrn Oragon offlctrt bolnf .
hold har, endt Friday. (Obrvr Photo)'