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Established 1896
Daily except Sunday
LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1958
Price 5 Cents
Ike Tells
Of Jobless
Decline
BALTIMORE, Md. (UPD Prcs
iilent Eisenhower closed his cam
paign for a GOP congress Friday
night by clubbing the Democrats
wuii advance news of a new drop
in unemployment and a claim
that only the Republicans could
. Keep the country safe and econom
ically sound.
The President; in a nationally
televised address, also struck
hard with his most detailed dis
cussion of the campaign on civil
rights on which he claimed "rea
sonable Republican progress."
But the President reserved his
big guns for the economic issue.
He denounced Democratic
gloomdogglers,", "free spend
ers" and "extremists" in appeal
ing for election of a "sensible and
progressive" Republican Congress
next Tuesday.
In a last-minute insert in his
speech, he announced that as a
result of "Republican progress"
October unemployment dropped
another 300,000 a decrease in the
number of jobless of 1,500,000 in
three months.
The new total for October of
3,800,000 jobless remained above
the level of 2,508,000 unemployed
a year ago. The recession peak of
5,537,000 was hit in June. During
August the total dropped to 4,699,
000 and 4,111,000 in September;
Eisenhower'1 hailed the ; "very
good news'' nnd toi'd his nation
wide audienceoa n d tome 5,000
cheering, banner-waving' Republi
cans that "this means that in
jest the list three mouths unem
ployment dropped .by I'aj anc a
jau million people?
Magazine
Has Message
- Newsveoic, in the current issue
of their magazine, published the
following message, under their
sponsorship, in an advertisement.
"How important is one vote?
We're getting along in years- as
a nation. Isn't it time this qeus
tion was answered?
Remember Rutherford B,
Hayes? One elctoral vote put
him in the White House. One con
gressional vote saved Selective
Service just 12 weeks ' before
Pearl Harbor
One vote cat! take a frightened
child off a busy highway and on
to a new school bus. - ,
A wise man - once observed,
'Liberty means responsibility.
That is why piost men dread it.'
But if you dread it and ignore it,
how long can it last?
Freedom, like a receding hair,
line, isn't lost all at once. It goes
gradually. , .
. If you spend a few minutes
each day using hair tonic to save
your hair, can't you spend a few
minutes each year at the polls to
save your scalp?" ': r
Youth Drive
Nets $159.24
For UNICEF
Young people representing four
I.a Grande churches collected
MOO.I in their Halloween Eve
drive for funds for the United
Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF),
Mike Andrews, chairman of the
group, reported tliis morning.
Earlier this week the junior high
group of the Presbyterian church
collected $74 for the fund.
Money secured in the drive will
go to the United Nations head
quarters in New York where it
will be distributed in the .U. S.
and in foreign lands for medical
purposes and food and clotliing for
needy youngsters.
Youths from the First Methodist
church, First Presbyterian Church,
First Christian Church and Hen
drix Methodist Church, participat
ed in the fund drive.
INJURIES PROVE FATAL
PORTLAND (UPD Richard
R. Abernathy, 27, Portland, suf
fered critical injuries early today
when he fell 30 feet onto a steel
barge while working on a ship
on the Portland waterfront.
. Authorities said he was unload
ing large timbers on the deck of
the SS Ocean Mail when he lost
his balance and fell over the side
ontovthc barge.
1 v-y-.
NAMED COMMANDER Maifr Central Thc-maa E. Rile., corn
minding general of the Oregot National Guard, yesterday named
Lt. Colonel David C. Baum, rilht. La Grande, commander of the
2nd Battalion, 186th Infantry! as temporary commander of the
regiment.' Colonel Robert L. Iijving, Salem, left, retired after 30
Car, Tractor
Wreck Injures
Cove Couple
Two Cove reesideiits were hos
pitalized for treatment of cuts
bruises and shock early last
night when their car crashed in
to the rear of a tractor on the
Island City-Cove highway,, car
eened off and overturned in a
borrow pit.
Under treatment at the Grande
Rondc hospital are Clyde C. Rob
inson, 67, cuts and bruises, and
his wife, Irene, 66, . shock, both
of Cove. ,
According- to slate police 're
ports -.the car' driven by Robinson
sjxuck' the tear of a l,raitor driveiv
by "Daniel T? Mc'Cabe, 26V' La
Grande, '-shortly-after it turned
into the highway ahead of Robin
son. The . headlights of another
car, approaching, the tractor and
the Robinson car from the oppo
site direction, blinded Robinson
and lie was unable to see the
Iraclor,- he told police.
The Robinson car struck . a
plow at the rear of the tractor,
veered off the road and over
turned, coming, to rest in a bor
row pit. Robinson was thrown
clear of the overturning car. .
New Gas Main
Here Put In
Operation
California-Pacific Utilities put a
new six inch natural gas main into
operation in southeast La Grande
yesterday, ' A. B. "Spud" Olson,
district manager reported.
The new main begins at the
company's regulating and odoriz-
ing station on south 12th Street
and connects with the gas distribu
tion system at the southeast cor
ner of 7th and K Avenues.
The new main . provides addi
tional capacity for the heating
loads at Eastern Oregon College
and St. Joseph Hospital, and fu
ture gas requirements in ; the
south section of the city, Olson
said. .
The new main' will also serve
the office of the La Grande Ceme
tery Maintenance District.
The new main project was con
structed under contract by D B S
Pipeline Construction Corporation
at a cost of $14,000.
Twisters Merge
Into $l-Million
Tornado In Florida
PALMETTO, Fla. (UPD -Me
teorologists said today a collision
of warm and cool air set up the
disturbance .that sent two twisters
merging into a million-dollar tor
nado which carved a short trail
of wreckage through upper Mana
tee County.
Four persons were injured when
the' storm came in. from the Gulf
of Mexico Friday and skipped up
and down for about two miles in
land. It wrecked a motel, service
station and drive-in theater and
seriously damaged two citrus
pl.'ints.
The two twisters came in from
the Gulf and merged just as they
hit the mainland. The slorm cross
ed Snead Island. Terra Ceia Bay
and hit the Manaree County main
lurd on the south side of the
nituth of Tampa Bay.
10 m mmmm
G too"
Baum Commands Guard Regiment
SALEM (Special) Command of
tlje Oregon. -National Guards
18,6th Infantry Regiment chang
ed hands today with the retire
ment of Colonel Robert L. Irving,
Salem, after more than 30 years
of military service. The retire
ment came after Colonel Irving
liad reached 58, the maximum re
tention age for regimental com
manders which is prescribed by
National Guard regulations. ; ;
Major . General Thomas E. Ri
lea, Oregon's Adjutant General
and Commanding General of the
Oregon Army and Air National
British Church
New Pope As
LONDON . (UPD The unofficial
Church of England Newspaper
charged today that 76 -year -old
Pope John XXIII is too old for
his job and derided the "antiquar
ian antics surrounding his elec
tion.
The church paper's article was
one of the bitterest attacks on the
papacy which has appeared in
predominantly Protestant Britain
in many years. Some London
dailies gave banner headlines to
their reports on it. '
Anglican Archbishop Christo
pher Chcvasse dismissed the at
tack as "a worthless opinion writ
ten by an anonymous editorial
ist," but CO. Rhodes, editor of
the church paper, said he be
lieves "many official people in
the Church of England, and the
Church of Rome, too share its
views.
A spokesman for the Roman
Catholic archbishop of Westmin
ster declined comment, saying
we don t want to enter into any
controversy." ' .
"The ' election of Pope John
XXIII made front-page news, just
us (American evangelist) Billy
Graham did when he came to
England. . ." the article said.
'Now, after all the play-acting,
a new pope has been chosen
Cardinal Roncalli. an old man
A. B Olson
Named Dimes
March Head
A. B. Olson, District Manager
of California Pacific Utilities
Company, has been appointed Un
ion County Director for the 1959
March of Dimes, it has been an
nounced by N. Thomas Stoddard,
Oregon State Campaign Chair
man. .
The drive will be held in Jan
uary.
Olson in turn announced the
appointment of Lorcn Hughes; ow
lcr of Birnie's Credit Jewelers,
is La Grande chairman.
The polio-fighting organization
is expanding into a broad new
force that will tackle health prob
lems on a wider front and no
longer will confine its activities
to a single disease.
Olson, for many years active in
March of Dimes and National
Foundation work said, "I am con
fident that the people of Union
County, who helped make pos
sible victory over polio through
their contributions to the March
ol Dimes over the past 20 years,
will give even greater suport to
the National Foundation's ex
panded program in the future."
O
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years of service. Col, Irving was in La Grande last week for the
inspection of Company E. Colonel Baum, La Grande Insurance
executive, has commanded the 2nd Battalion, 186th Infantry,
since 1948. .
Guard, placed Lieutenant Colonel
David C. Baum, La Grande, veter
an commander of the 2nd Battal
ion, 186th Infantry,, in temporary
command of the regiment in' ad
dition to his regular duties as bat
talion c "",'' .
Colonel irvmB s national guard
service dates back to December
16, 1029 when he enlisted as a
private in Company D, 162nd In
fantry, which was then located in
Roscburg. He was commissioned
a second lieutenant in the. Rose-
burg company on March 9, 1932
and commanded the company as
EapeLAssaUs.
'Decrepit'
long past the reasonable age of
retirement.
"If the choice of a man on the
verge of decrepitude were pre
meditated, it -is feeble and thor
oughly discreditable. Were such a
man appointed to high office in
the Church of England, we know
well what would be said in public
as well as in private."
The article described the cere
mony surrounding the Pope's
election as "cloak-and-dagger ro
manticism." "The obsequious leaders of Ro
man Catholic thinking will doubt
less accept the appointment with
a show of gratitude and rejoicing,
whatever their real feelings," it
said.
"It cannot be overlooked that
thi! choice of a pope is of im
portance to the whole of Christen
dom, and not only to one denom
ination. "The ancients of . the Roman
Catholic Church secreted them
selves for their task. Certainly. . .
privacy has its importance, but is
the infantilism associated With it
really essential"
The editorial added that it is
only half-true to say that there is
no such thing as bad publicity.
"The cardinals wore in danger
of becoming figures of fun," it
said. "Unfortunately, their anti
quarian antics tended to spread
the circus atmosphere over t h e
whole of Christianity as well as
their own church.
"The millions who read the
massive headlines are for the
most part not in the least inter
ested in , whether the new pope
will be good, bad or mediocre.
"It Is the comedy that fasci
nules them, not the fuith."
Father, Two
Children Killed
In Plane Crash
TULSA, Okla. (UPIl Two
children dressed in Halloween
costumes and their pilot father
were killed shortly before mid
night Friday in the crash of a
light plane at the southeast edge
of Tulsa. '
The children, Jeri Kathleen
Lowcry, 7, and her sister, Colleen
Kyle Lowcry, 8, 4ad been to a
Halloween : party in Tulsa and
were starting to Okmulgee to
meet their mother and another
daughter.
"Trick or treat" bags were
found near the children's mangled
bodies.
The plane, piloted by their fath
er, Gerald Jacob Lowery, 28, op
erator of Lowcry Air Transit Ser
vice, had just taken off from
Youngs Airport, about one mile
and -a half north of the crash
scene "
a captain when the Oregon Na
tional Guard was ordered into ac
tive federal service shortly be
fore World . War II.
During the war, he served ov
erseas with the 41st Infantry Di
vision as a battalion commander
in the 186th and 163rd Infantry,
lie was separated from active
outy in 1946.
Following the reorganization of
(ho Oregon National Guard after
WW 11, Colonel Irving served as
battalion commander of the 1st
Battalion, 186lh Infantry located
in southern Oregon, until his ap
pointment, and promotion to rcg
Unontul ewmmander in 1052, i
In civilian, life, Colonel '.Irv
ing is employed by 'the Military
Department as a construction sup
erintendent in the. armories and
facilities division.
Colonel Baum, a veteran of
World War II, has commanded
the 2nd Battalion, 186lh Infan
try, with units located in La
Grande, Pendleton, Baker, Onta
rio and Milton-Freewater since
1948. He is an insurance execu
tive in civilian life.
The 186th Infantry consists of
21 federally recognized units lo
cated throughout the state. Head
quarters of the regiment is lo
cated at the Porland lnernatiohal
Virport.
Four-Car Collision
Reported By Police
City police reported a four-car
collision at the intersection of
Adams and Greenwood yesterday.
Care driven by Gwendolyn Col
bert, 1708 Oak, Leslie Gilbert, 803
Grandy, and Duane Hutson, 1514
Jefferson, stopped for a red traf
fic light when a car driven by
John Stokes, Manhattan, HI.,
struck the rear of the Huston car
causing it to hit the Gilbert car
which in turn hit the Calvert car.
Only minor damage resulted.
Stokes was cKcd- for violation of
the basic rule.
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AWARD PINS Chuck Cordon of L Grind, right, thakti hind
with Union county 4-H members after he and Andy Gowana aw
arded fifth year pint to the group at the recent 4-H Achieve
even
Saved
SI'RINGHILL, N.S. tUPD -Seven
more miners were brought
safely out of the shattered Spring
hill coal mine at dawn today after
nine days of thirst and hunger
13,000 feet below the surface.
'This is a miracle; no, more
than a miracle," said a mine
official.
The men were able to wave
weakly to relatives and towns
people who gathered quickly when
UF Drive
Extended
To Nov, 16
The United Fund campaign
committee decided at a meeting
held Wednesday afternoon to ex
tend the annual drive until Nov
16, in an effort to realize the full
quota of $24,350 budgeted for
next year to support the youth
and charitable activities of the
La Grande area and the Oregon
United Appeal.
As of Friday, Oct. 31, the drive
had netted $17,195. This amount
represents 71 per cent of the
quota of this year's campaign
Campaign chairman June Mc-
Mil mis declared she was hopeful
that the entire quota would be
iret by the new deadline, which
extends the drive period for two
weeks. She asked . all . solicitors
and division chairmen to make
contacts as soon as possible and
to turn in pledges and donations
as soon as they are available.
Mrs. McManus staled that the
recent misfortune of Mrs. Sum
mers, wife of the La - Grande
area Salvation Army director, Lt.
Summers, pointed out the contin
uing need of the various agencies
uMi-n Aunac,-tor tne llmmcial
support of the United Fund. She
added that a donation to the U.K.
was just as much a way of help
ing persons' as a direct donation.
Mrs. Summers suffered a brok
en back in an automobile acci
dent near Tollgate last week.
Women's
Committee
Arranges Ball
The plans for the annual Sym
phony Ball to be held Nov. 15, 9
p.m. to 1 a.m., in the Sacajawca
Ball Room are well under way by
the Symphony Association wo
men's committee. This committee,
headed bv Mrs. Howard Schoen,
chairman, includes: Mrs. John C.
Ladd, Mrs. Connie Braseth, Mrs.
Rollie King, Mrs. Dean Brice, Mrs.
Jim Adams, Mrs. Jcel Villincs,
Mrs. George Decker, Mrs. Luther:
Hall, Mrs. Dwight Mahoney, Mrs.
Albert Zicg, Mrs. Harlow Speck
hart, and Mrs. Karl Lacer.
The invitations for the ball
have been extended by mall and
the committee is hard at work on
I he preparations for the food and
decorations. The large 14 piece
dance band and the two smaller
orchestras are in rehearsal and
the arrangements arc progressing
nicely.
Guests are reminded that resdr-
vations are necessary for the ball
and may be had by calling Mrs.
Dean Briec.
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More
Froinm
Haws of the rescue nictd through
this community grieving ior 74
men known dead or mining.
The survivors were given water,
eulfeo and soup at the pithead
and then were taken tc the hos-
piial for treatment nnd idid food.
The men were ia "pretty good
condition," according to a res
cuer.
The rescue of the men, en
tombed since Oct. 23. brought to
Halloween
Marred By
Accidents
United Press International
Reports from around the nation
showed that most kids had clean
"scary" fun, but pranksters and
nervous victims caused several
accidents to mar the Hallowe'en
celebrations.
Tragedy struck in Pittsburgh
Friday night when two youngsters
on "trick-or-treat" rounds were
run down and killed by a truck
on a busy street. The children,
Gary Molck, 6, dressed as a
space man, and his sister, Gayle,
5, wearing an Easter bunny cos-
tumo, hud strayed momentarily
from their mother s side.
Several parents reported their
children hud been lost during the
beggars night forays, but ail
were found later usually at a po
lice station.
There were several shootings
associated with Halloween.' A
Bicknell, hid. school teacher shot
one of her pupils in the throat
Thursday night when the boy,
Earl Martin, 13, tried to scatter
corn on her porch. In Liberty,
Mo., a farmer sprayed two young-
sturs.with- buckshot for -trying to
overturn his outhouse.
. ,Ii) ;Chicago4.. police. )cld a 40-year-old
Negro laborer in the fa
tal siiooling of a white youth Fri
day night. Louis Shoqmate said a
group of while teen-agers out for
Hallowe'en began to jeer and
tried to attack him. Dead was
Gene A. Stanford, 18.
Bui it appeared that most
youngsters kept the peace, con-
lent to be, at worst, playful nui
sances. Returning home with
their loot, they put away their
costumes for the next year those
who would bestill young enough
;o have another go at Hiillowc'en
fun. i
Rock Picking
Demonstration
Set Wednesday
A rock picking demonstration
will be held Wednesday, Nov. 5,
Ralph Robinson, chairman of the
First Union Soil Conservation Dis
trict, announced today.
Robinson indicated that the
demonstration is planned to show
interested farmers what can be
expected of the Anderson rock
picker. If enough farmers show
interest, the First Union District
would consider purchasing the
machine and renting it to farm
ers. ,
Those interested arc asked to
meet at 10:30 a.m., at Hie corner
of foothill road and highway 30,
on the morning of Nov. 5. The
site for the demonstration will be
nearby.
ment Party. Ovar 250 county 4-H
Ing.
Ii" "" ina.ia pjtry-y j
AAen
iiroe
11)0 the number of miners rescued
from the No. 2 colliery, including
12 who were trapped for six days.
Thirty-four bodies have been re
covered and 40 men still are miss
ing from the 174 originally in the
mine.
Rescuers dug frantically through
112 feet of loose rock and rubble
known as "gob" to reach the
seven early today. The first clue
to the location of the survivors
was a groan heard by one of the
workers. The rescuers yelled and
pounded and gut more groans in
reply. . - j
All the men had been brought
to the surface by 5:15 a.m. p.s.t.
Rescue worker Thornton Kenwood,
first man to reach the little group,
said water was given to them im
mediately Those rescued wore identified
as Maurice Ruddick, 4G, father of
12 children, who kept up . the
men's spirits by singing; Herbert
Pcppcrdine, 36, Byrou Martin, 42,
Douglas Jewkes, 37, Currie Smith,'
35, Garnet Clarke, 29, and Frank
Hunler, 49. Hunter's twin, Wil
fred, was rescued Thursday and
had reported Frank dead.
This stricken community was
visited Friday by Prince Philip,
Consort of Queen Elizabeth, who
cut short an official visit 'to Ot
tawa to visit the rescued , miners
in the Springhill Hospital. He al
so went to the pithead for 'a. first
hand look and held discussions
with company officials. ' . -
Today's rescue, described as
"miraculous" by the . rejoicing
members of the survivors'i fam
ilies, came on the second anniver
sary of a 1056 mine disaster that
killed 39 men in the No. 4 col
liery, just next to the pit', shat
tered last week. . . ,
The main rescue operations
have been conducted at the 13,000
and 12,600-foot levels of the. mine,
the only, levels regarded as pos
sible havens for .'the .missing men
becatise-.ofVfltrongrybuttressed
supporting walls.:' Other ' levels
probably were caved in or filled
with poisonous gas, officials Said.
Company . doctor entered the
mine at 6:15 a.m. to direct the
feeding of the survivors as they
were brought to the surface. They
gave them coffee and soup and
planned' to give them solid food
at the hospital. One doctor said
the men had gone without food
and water for about as long as
a human being can survive with
out nourishment. ,
'The maximum time a man
can live without food or water is
10 days," ho said. . ......
The men had been in the mine
eight days and H! hours.
Thornton Hcnwood, one of the
volunteers who dug the men out,
said they were guided to the sur
vivors by Martin, who followed
up faint laps on an air pipe with
weuti yens, iviuiiiji wua uujJiwu
in a pocket close to but separate
from the others. :
"God, we went crazy.- down
there," Henwood said. "We yelled
and hollered. We heard somebody
yell. It was Byron Martin. The
poor guy was all alone there. All
alone for nine days. The poor
8y!" ; , : ..,
TYPHOON HITS TOKYO
TOKYO (UPD A rare lato-
season typhoon which killed seven
persons and caused more than
$1,500,000 damages in the Philip
pines, moved closer to the U.S.
island bastion of Okinawa today
with 115 miles per hour winds. "
ft,.
member attended the father-
(Extenilon Photo)
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