Daily except Sunday
Ike Urges Intensive
Effort To Cut Budget
AUGUSTA, Gn. (UPI) The
Wliito House disclosed today thai
President Eisenhower has ordered
all departments and agencies to
make an intensive effort to cut
their i960 budgets in lino with
his campaign for substantially re
duced federal spending.
The chief executive has sent a
memorandum to each department
and agency head, calling on them
to "live with" revisions of their
budgets for the next fiscal year
as sent back to them by budget
director Maurice F. Stans.
Press Secretary James C. Hag
crty said the big Defense Deport
ment budget remains to be set
tled. Secretary of Defense Neil H.
McElroy and Stans may fly to
Augusta next week to talk over
the lQliO budget with the vacation
ing chief executive.
The President's interdepartment
al memo was signed and distrib
uted Thursday jusl before he flew
south for a golfing vacation that
will extend through the Thanks
giving weekend.
Hagerty said the memo in
formed the department chiefs that
Stans was revising their 1960
budgets and they shortly would re
ceive from the budget bureau new
and reduced spending plans
for the coming fiscal year which
begins July 1. i
"He requested all department
and agency heads to live within
those figures received from the
budget bureau unless (in their
opinion) they thought those fig
ures would impair the security
and welfare of the United States,"
Hagerty told reporters, after re
ceiving press inquiries about the
memoranda. -
The press secretary did not want
to be drawn into a discussion- of
details but he made it plain that
the Budget Bureau revisions, in
volved widespread reductions in
original " budget estimates. The
budget bureau customarily pares
the i departmental requests, bit
Hagerty said the-effort in this di
rection this year represented ' "a
jnore. intensive .budgct-c u 1 t i n g,
drive than usual"' "' '
While Hagerty declined to say
so specifically, the Eisenhower ad
ministration has been attempting
to devise a new budget that will
represent an appreciable reduction
in expenditures of $79,200,000,000
estimated for the current fiscal
year
Chamber Group Talks
Over Joint Ag Program
The agricultural program' of
the La Grande-Union County
Chamber of Commerce was dis
cussed at a Chamber luncheon
Thursday.
Chamber . President ,-Avcritl
Hickox said the purpose of the
meeting was to outline activities
which the Chamber might under
take to increase its agricultural
program.
Attending the meeting were
Hickox, Ray Anderson, Renwick
Clark, Don McKinnis, Merle Beck
ct, John Sullivan, and Manager
Fred Schneiter.
Cove Girl Union County Winner
In Recorded Speech Contest
Huth Elmer, daughter of Mr.
end Mrs. Harvey Elmer, Cove,
has been named the Union
county winner of a tape recorded
speech contest, 'I Sneak for Dem
ocracy," sMnsored jointly by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the National Broadcasting Com
pany. Her speech was based on a per
sonal experience through visiting
a prisoner, at the Pendleton
county jail a number of years
ago. The visit made a lasting im
Kression on her and the thoughts
were used for the subject matter
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RUTH ELMER
Apparently the Defense Depart
ment budget is the key to the
economy drive and with unsettled
conditions overseas, embodied at
present by tho new Berlin crisis
the defense budget will bo the last
to be completed.
The overall budget, a massive
document, must be completed
sometime late next month in or
der to reach government printers
in time for submission to Con
gress in Januray. ,
Eisenhower was in his office at
the Augusta National Golf Club
at 7:45 a.m. today, working on of
ficial papers flown to him1 from
Washington during the night. He
received new reports on the Ber
lin situation from the State De
partment and his own staff in
Washington, but the White House
had no new comment.
During the morning the Presi
dent also -rnt a congratulatory
telegram to former Vice President
John Nance Garner who is observ
ing his 90th birthday today at his
home in Uvadle, Tex.
Eisenhower planned to play golf
later in the day as the tempera
ture climbed, again into the seven
ties with the skies clear and sun
ny. . ,
A gloomy atmosphere prevailed
at the Eisenhower vacation head
quarters because of the Berlin
'crisis.
In a slteament issued Friday,
the vacation White House an
nounced this country's "firm in
tentions" of staying in West Ber
lin despite Russian moves to end
the occupation.
Eisenhower went to the ' golf
course Friday after . conferring
with Christian A. Herter, under
secretary of state. Herter was
standing in for Secretary John
Foster Dulles, who also is taking
a week end vacation.
Mrs. Eisenhower joined the
President by train after attend
ing a White House luncheon in
Washington.
UF Drive Nears $21,000 NjSulq
Door-To-Door Plea Nets $300
At a meeting of the campaign
committee of the La Grande United
Fund yesterday, it was reported
that almost $21,000 has been collect
ed in the campaign thus far. After
reports were heard, Chairman
June McManus predicted that
$22,000 would be reached within
the week, including about. $500
pledged but not yet in the hands
of the U-F secretary. Chairman
McManus also reported that about
$300 had been collected during the
recent house-to-house canvass de
signed to reach persons who had
not yet had an opportunity to give
to the U-F this year.
Allotment of moneys has been
set by the budget committee for
1958, although some adjustments
may have to be made at the Janu
ary meeting of the United Fund
board of directors. Payment of
money to the participating agen
cies -for the first quarter of 1959
of the script.
She portrayed this prisoner as
having the ordinay essentials, but
missing the most important when
she said, "In the prison my friend
had all the food ho needed. He
was clothed and housed, and had
all he needed to live. Yet with
all he needed to live, he lacked
the essential of life; . liberty.
for life begins with liberty."
Her script then gave an explan
ation about the blessings of lib
erty, pointed out its advantages,
and how through fair trial even
the prisoner could again be
free, if innocent, to enjoy the
priviledges of liberty. She furth
er staled, "There are govern
ments In the world under which
the people do not have as many
freedoms and are not as well
taken care of as the prisoners in
a democracy."
She concluded by saying, "I
speak for democracy, the only
form of government that puts
life into living and I proudly say,
democracy is my way of life."
Nine contestants, two from
i Cove and seven from La Grande,
entered tne union county con-
Hi test. Judges were Richard Hiatt,
ivVlA.. Alt,it4 L'.icnr ..... If
l' Fran,i Coke. Jack Piper was
i-iitiu muu ui me juuging commit
tee and the representative of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Miss Elmer's script will be en
tered in the district contest, and
if it becomes a district winner, it
will be cnierea in the state
finals. .
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CANDY CANE LANE City street department crews yesterday
started Installation of Christmas decorations along Adams Avenue,
but the full beauty treatment will not be completed until later next
'week, but in time for the opening of the Christmas season next Fri
day. City officials and workers are working in cooperation with the
Chamber of Commerce to change Adams avenue to Candy Cane
Lane for the festive season. (Observer Photo)
Police Hunt
State Police and Union County
Sheriff H. A. Klinghammer and his
deputies are combing1 the woods
and back roads and highways
south of La Grande in search of a
prisoner who' broke out of the
county jail last night.
Paul Brown, 22, of Union, being
held in the county jail on charges of
will be made shortly after the next
board meeting. Money from this
year's campaign will be used to
support the Salvation Army, La
Grande Youth Activities', hobby
night, Little League Baseball, the
Red Cross programs in swimming,
first aid, and blood bank, the Boy
Scout program, the Girl Scout pro
gram, and other functions during
the 1959 period.
Campaign Chairman McManus
pointed out that persons wishing
to pledge a contribution to the
United Fund may do so now and
reserve payment until later.
Pledge cards are available in the
Chamber of Commerce office, in
the Sacajawea Hotel.
Mrs. McManus said she appre
ciated the hard work that people
had put into this year's campaign
and expressed her appreciation to
everyone who had participated in
the house-to-house canvass last
week. She noted that other towns
and cities in the country had also
had to work very hard to make
U-F quotas this year and declared
that she felt that citizens of La
Grande had made a heart-warming
response to the annual appeal for
money to support the local activi
ties and the Oregon United Appeal.
She also remarked on the fact that
some groups and divisions within
the United Fund campaign or
ganization had collected more this
year than in previous years, in
dicating outstanding leadership
and hard work.
Quota for the 1959 campaign this
year was set by lhe U-r board
at $24,350.
Greenwood School Fire Hazard
The Greenwood elementary
school was described last night
as an extreme fire hazard and
the State Fire Marshal has report
ed that "something must be done
immediately" according to a sur
vey by the state on the fire hazards
in the building and the electrical
wiring throughout the structure.
A discussion was also held in cur
rent school reorganization plans.
Reports on the surveys were
made during a- Parent Teacher's
Association meeting in the school
last night by Henry Bates and
Walter Parker.
During the discussion on the
building reports it was suggested
that because it will take a mini
mum of $10,000 to bring the build
ing up to state safety standards,
according to Mrs. Howard Murphy,
it might be advisable to build a
new school. Mrs. Murphy, chair
Established 1896
LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958
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Escapee
burglary broke for freedom about
0:30 p.m. yesterday while jailer
Jay Conley was putting, another
prisoner into a cell with Brown.'
Brown was spotted earlier this
morning near Ladd Canyon by a
motorist who reported to State Po
lice - that Brown was apparently
attempting to hitch hike,.along
Highway 30,
.vStata P-olica said .: Brown,
wearing a red jacket, levies, bare
headed, and has brown bushy
hair. Brown weighs about 180
pounds and is five-foot, nine-inches
I all. Klinghammer said that Brown
has previously served lime in the
state penitentiary for assault.'
The sheriff added that he did
not think the man was armed but
considered him dangerous.
Effort Being Made
To Salvage Timber
An all out effort is being made
to get the estimated 3 millipn
board feet of timber up for sale
which blew down during the se-'
vere wind storm in this area the
night of Nov. 3, spokesmen for the
U. S. Forest Service reported to
day.
The official said the timber Was
blown down in the Chcsnimus dis
trict of the Wallowa-Whitman na
tional forest.
Legislative Matters
Topic Of Meet Here
State Legislators Dwight Hop-
Inns add Don McKinnis have
-cheduled a day long meeting in
La Grande Friday to discuss leg
lative matters with Union
County residents.
. The informal meeting will be
in the Sacajawea hotel small par
lor. Senator Hopkins and Repre
sentative McKinnis will be avail
able for discussion and ques
tions from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Any persons interested in
forthcoming legislation are wcl
come to attend the session, the
legislators said.
man for the building discussion
last night, is a member of a spe
cial citizen's committee studying
La Grande school,conditions.
Bates, . reporting on the State
Fire Marshal findings, said the
stale listed 15 major items which
should be corrected to make the
structure fire safe for the 280 stu
dents. These items included chang
ing the furnace room so. Uialjxe
could not spread from there, in
stalling fire-proof doors where
needed, installation of " adequate
fire escapes, fixing the building
so the center stairwells could be
closed off to keep fire from spread
ing to other floors, special doors
in the kitchen to keep fire from
spreading and a number of other
major items.
Parker's report covered the elec
trical inspection which showed that
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TWA Hit
By Strike;
More Seen
United Press International
Planes of an intercontinental on
line were grounded ,by a strike to
day and walkout threats against
two oilier lines appeared likely to
wipe domestic skyways clean of
passenger traffic over a broad
section of the United States.
Trans World Airlines, whose 198
daily flights normally carry about
12.U00 passengers throughout the
United States and to and from 23
foreign cities, was grounded by a
walkout of 6,700 machinists. The
strike began Friday morning, and
planes- in the air at deadline time
wore allowed to finish their
flights."
About 19.000 TWA employes
were given furloughs without pay.
They include some in Europe and
in Asia.
The machinists have been work
ing without a contract since Oct.
I, 1957. A company offer was re
jected by a 03 per cent majority.
Wages and length of contract were
two of the prime points qf argu
ment. '
At Miami, the Flight Engineers
International Association called a
strike beginning Monday against
Eastern Airlines, and a union
spokesman said "we expect to
completely shut the airline down."
Four Wrecks
Reported Here
Four car accidents occurred in
La Grande and vicinity during
the past twenty four hours, state
and city police reported this
Sley:Aiin,UW.nj3.oWGuSf.EX
2. La Grande, was taken to the w voi-yx
hospital by ambulance after re
ceiving a broken right arm and
head injuries in a car collision
six miles east of La Grande on
Highway 30. She was making a
left turn when a car driven by
Charles A. Myers, 1318 .Jackson,
La Grande, tried lb pass, accord
ing to Slate Police. ;
Near Five "Points on Highway
HO, George E. Counsell, Route 2,
La Grande, had his car parked on
the side of the road and it was
rammed in the rear by a car
driven by Benny J. Roehl, Boise,
Idaho. Roehl was issued a cita
tion by slate police for violation
of the basic rule.
La Grande police reported a
collision near the corner of K
and 3rd streets between cars
driven by John Warren Lyell,
2908 2nd, and Larry Lee' Camp
bell, Route 1, La Grande. No in
juries resulted;
Another accident-at the inter
section of Cth street and G ave
nue by cars driven by Glenn Al
fred Raff, 1712 Walnut street,
and Margaret G. Hill, 1107 ' C
street, with damage resulting to
both vehicles, was reported by
city police.
Industrial Promotions
Stockholders To Meet
The fourth annual stockholders
meeting of La Grande Industrial
promotions, Inc., is scheduled
Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Saca
jawea ballroom.
Meeting notices are being
mailed to stockholders by the
Chamber, of Commerce. The noti
ces include a proxy to be used
by members who are unable to
personally attend the ' annual
meeting.
extensive re-wiring is needed in
the building, installation of ade
quate wall plugs, removal of drop
cord lights a total of 40 major
items.
A survey on the soundness of the
structure itself has been advised
and is being considered.
' School Principal Loren Blanch-
"rd, instructor Jack Rye and Les
Keffer, a member of the county
reorganization committee spoke on
that particular school problem.
The three men, using drawings,
explained the two main plans now
under consideration, wherein under
Plan No. 1 the entire county would
be considered one school district,
and Plan No. 2 where four separate
school districts would be formed.
The public will vote on one plan
next year. The committee has not
decided which of the two plans to
submit to the public.
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GENE STOCKOFF
. . . Wins Trip
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Local Rancher
To Tour U.S.
Gene Stockhoff, a Ladd can
yon rancher, has been chosen as
one of five Oregon Farm Bureau
chapter presidents to tour the
United States as guests of the
federation. '
The group will arrive in Bos
ton, Mass, in time to participate
in the organization's convention
Dee. 10.
They will visit Michigan and
New York bureau offices and
Farm Bureau headquarters in
Chicago. The final stop in the
tour will be in Washington, D.C.
Following their return to Ore
Son the five ranchers will meet
with Farm Bureau state leaders
to . make recommendations as a
result of their trip.
Gerald Detering, stale bureau
president, lias asj.; !j members to
consider whether! r not the or
ganization should expand into the
farm marketing field, tax re
search or other, promotional
work. The five traveling farmers
may have gained some ideas on
these proposals, organization of
ficials said.
For Concert
There will be a special guest
from Johannesburg, South Africa,
at the Grando Rondc Symphony
Orchestra concert at 4 p.m. Sun
day at the Eastern Oregon Col-
lego as a result of concert conduc
tor L. Rhodes Lewis.
Lewis knew that S. J. Marais
Steyn, a free lance writer who
likes music, was due in La Grande
Sunday night, but his original
schedule would have brought .him
too late for the concert.
Using long distance telephone
lines to "track him down," Lewis
finally caught the assistant pub
lic relations officer for the Trans-,
val Chamber of Mines in Denver,
last night. Steyn was certain he
could change his schedule, but
wanted to check. At 1:30 a.m. to
day Lewis received word that
Steyn could make it here in time
for the concert, to hear guest solo
ist Wilbur Jensen from Lewis and
Clark college and the symphony
orchestra. .,
Steyn is a member of Parlia
ment for Transvaal, South Africa,
and is foreign editor of the publi
cation "Die Suiderstem."
He is traveling under the For
eign Leader Exchange program'
Tor the U.S. Department of State
and is visiting all parts of the Unf
iled States. '. .
SOIL JUDGING AWARD Mr. and Mrt. Jamei
McCrae of Wallowa, canter, and Marlon Wad
of Enterprise, right, are thown receiving ,heir
oil judging awards at the Oregon Association
of Soil Conservation Districts at Baker. George
Kltzmillsr of Portland Is shown at left present-.
ing the steak knife sets to lhe winners. The Mc-
Transfer
Could Cause Dispute
BERLIN (UPI I Soviet Russia
was expected within a matter of
hours today to hand control of
Western Allied lifelines to Berlin
to lhe East German Communists.
The transfer could plunge the
world into one of its most critical
East-West disputes since lhe end
of the Berlin blockade.
West German Foreign Minister
lleinrich von Brent ano flew into
Berlin today to confer with West
Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt on the
increasingly grave situation,
touched off by Soviet Premier Ni
kitn Khrushchev's announcement
thai Russia soon would bring Ber
lin's occupation status to an end.
Cat-and-mouse tactics in Mos
cow increased the tension.
An East German radio broad
cast said the Soviet Union would
make its proposals on the "eradi
cation of the occupation status of
Berlin in Moscow this morning.
Western ambassadors sum
moned to the Soviet Foreign Of
fice fully expected to receive the
text of a Russian plan clarifying
their Berlin program.
West Backs
Outer Space
Studv Group
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI)
The West morged ahead today
with plans to create an 18-nation
outer space study group, includ
ing three Communist members,
despite the- possibility of a Soviet
boycott, - . ,'
,i..The. United States niid- toother
sponsors i of a Western traft res
olution on' iduter space prepared
to publish the names of the coun
tries they hope will join in the
first international effort to con
trol man's probes above the at
mosphere. Informed sources said the West
planned to included Russia and
two other Communist notions on
the list even though the Kremlin
turned down Western suggestions
on the' list for a previously-proposed
11-powcr study group. .
Russia had proposed that the
Soviet Union and three other
Communist countries be included
in the' il-nation preparatory com
mission. The West considered this
to bo disproportionate representa
tion for the Soviet bloc, which in
cludes only nine of the UN's 81
members. .
The proposed membership, sent
home Friday night for approval
of governments concerned, was:
The United States, the Soviet
Union, Britain, France, Canada
and Australia as the countries
most' knowledgeable in the space
field;-Belgium, Italy and Sweden
for Western Europe; Czechoslo
vakia and Poland for Ea.ilcrn
Europe; Argentina, Brazil and
Mexico for Latin America; and
India, Iran, Japan and the United
Arab Republic for the Afro-Asian
group.
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WEATHER I
Mostly high clouds today
and tonight. Partly cloudy
Sunday. High both days 50-.
55. Low tonight 32-38. '
Price 5 Centi !
Critical
Of Control ;
However, the ambassadors re
ceived only notes dealing with
Soviet relations with their own
countries. !
Western officials in Moscow be
lieved lhe abrogation of four
power agreements on Berlin
would be announced early next
week, perhaps Monday.
The United Stales, Britain and
France now maintain an esti
mated 7,500 troops in West Ber
lin under terms of the Potsdam
Agreement, which the Communists
say is no longer valid. Their sup
plies depend on land and air cor
ridors through the heart of Com
munist East Germany.
The West has insisted that, re
gardless of any one-sided action
by Moscow, the occupational sta
tus of Berlin must continue and
that the West will insist on its
right of entry into the isolated
city.
On his arrival here today, Bren
tano reilereated that "I do believe
that the Berlin position will .be
maintained, although of course
the situation is serious." '
He was scheduled to leave Ber
lin Sunday for the West German
city of Darmstadt to- vote in the
Hession State elections, returning
from there to Bonn. .- ,
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev
has declared that a Soviet note
on "the status of Berlin" can be
expected soon, and a Communist
commission has already been' set
up here to work out: details of
fV,-. surrender of Soviet controls
tpihe local Reds. .. . V '.
It had been expected that con
trol of the lifelines of' isolated
West Berlin might be transferred
to Red Germany's satellite re
gime within a matter of lidurs,
but it now appears that no change
is likely until next week at-earliest.
'
Although the Communjsts havo
. nrnmiuul.-"thfit"l.hftwi1kdl Kaf tin
i iiiuiieuiuic jiiieriereuce wiin wee.l
German traffic, they could 'clamp
a total blockade on West. Berlin
at any time. , . . ; ;
They have even hinted that they
may try to block the airlanes that
kept West Berlin alive through
the Soviet blockade, despite warn
ings from the West that, any fit
tempt to do so might: touch' off
World War III. . f ; iy;
Sources at the ".vacation White
House" In Augusta, Ga., declared
Friday that the United States has
"firm intentions" of preserving
West Berlin's integrity despite the
new Red threat. : ;.- -.. t
Similar firmness is expected
from Britain and France. . t- '
Khrushchev has promised, tK,at
Russia will not attempt' to ' drive
the Western allies out of the" city
by force, but he simultaneously
pledged the full support of the
Communist world to the Reds'.lii
Germany if they become the .tar
get of any "aggressive act." .-y
The specific aim of the Commu
nists appears to be to try to force
Western recognition of -thev East
German puppet regime.-Captured
U.S. servicemen have been heM
as hostages in post efforts to' ach
ieve the same goal. I : O
In the current situation, ; the
Communists are expected to .de
mand recognition of . the East
German regime as the price for
allied use of th,e highway rail
roads and perhaps airplanes
linking Berlin with the West.- "
Craes also received a $75 cash award, as atat
champion judging team.. Wade won' second
place in Individual man's judging competition.
McCrae was elected vice president of .the, As
sociation and state board chairman for this