WEATHER ' Considerable cloudiness, with patches of valley fog and a little light rain or drifc zle at times today and Thurs day. High both days 35-40. Low tonight 30-36. -veirDinrig .Established i8$6 Daily except Sunday Cold Wave Hits East In Wake Of Storm United Press International A foot of now snow was pie dieted for the snow-crushed city ol Oswego. N.V.. today and a bit ter cold wave stretched into the Lsat to add to the crisis. Oswego, already under a state Search For Family Continues PORTLAND (UPI) Fear mounted today that a Portland family of five persons may have met with an accident while on a Ulrislmas-lrce gathering trip Sun day. No trace was found of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Martin and their three daughters, Barbara, 14; Virginia, 13, and Sue, U. Authorities in Oregon checked out lead after lead without suc cess. The search was going on in Munnomah, Clackamas, Wasco Hood River and Tillamook coun ties in Oregon, and in Clark coun ty, Wash. Police were checking another clue today between Estacada and Molalla. A fireman, Wendell Bak er of Portland, told deputies he and a companion were hunting trees ana greenery near Spring water Sunday evening when they drove past a spot where a car appeared to have left the road and gone at least partly down an incline. He said if a car had left the road at this location it could not have made it back up without help. . Baker was taken to the scene today by, sheriff's deputies to point out where he saw the tracks. Mrs. Martin told friends they were going for a drive Sunday afternoon to gather Christmas decorations, but she did not say whsru -they wer.te--going. - - ' Martin is service, manager for Eccles Electric Company here. He was not at work Monday and his daughters were not in school. The search began late Monday after neighbors became alarmed. The family was driving a white station wagon trimmed in red with Oregon license 1G-7156. Mar tin was described as an excellent woodsman and was a former U.S. Forest Service employe. He and his wife belonged to the Trails Club and took frequent trips into mountain areas. Clackamas county deputies early today checked out a report that a partly - red car was seen parked Sunday on Marmot road beyond lioslyn lake in the Sandy! river drainage. Another report, said thai a woman saw a station wagon containing a man and woman and three children on Larch mountain in eastern Mult nomah county Sunday. Sheriff's deputies planned to recheck this area. Army Report Recommends 13 Columbia River Basin Projects PORTLAND (UPI) Thirteen new projects with a total cost of $1,832,170,000 are recommend ed in a comprehensive report on the Columbia River basin which was three years in preparation by Army engineers. The report is a revision of the UNCOMFORTABLE Dr. Werner von Braun of the Army's' ballis tic missile agency said In a TV appearance that it was "not comfortable" to think of the lead the Russians have in rocket mis tiles. (NEA) of emergency, was hit by a new storm Tuesday night as it fought to free itself of a record 65 inch snow accumulation and drifts 20 feet high. More than 40 snow plows were thrown into the battle against the towering snow mounds in and around Oswego. House roofs threatened to crumple under the weight of the snow. Heavy snow ! squalls also swirled over the lee shores of Lake Erie where Erie, Pa., was buried under 25 inches of snow and faced the prospect of anoth er 6 to 12 inches today. State police said roads in north west Pennsylvania and southwest New York were "terrible" with visibility cut by the heavy snow. All main roads were open, but about 60 per cent of the secon dary roads in the area were shut. Tlie most prolonged cold wave of the season extended from the Continental Divide to the Atlan tic. Sub-zero readings were com mon during the night from Mon tana across the northern plains, the Great Lakes, 'the central Ap palachians and into New -Ens land. And the official onset of winter still was 12 days away. Below freezing weather drove as far south as Georgia and cen tral Texas. The snow and cold was blamed for at least 21 deaths. Icy high ways claimed nine lives in traf fic in Illinois, three in Indiana, two in New Jersey and one each in Iowa and New York state. Two transients froze to death in Chiacgo, two men suffered fatal heart attacks shoveling snow In Iowa and a Micliigan man met the same fate. Cold weather fires also took a heavy toll of lives. At Champaign 111., three little girls, including twins, were killed Tuesday night when flames swept their small frame home. An overheated wood stove was blamed for a . fire which . killed two boys : at Lawrenceburg, "Ind. The intense cold brought a four- inch .thick ice cover to the Mis sissippi River from Clarksville to Hannibal, Mo., and ice formed on the river as far south as St. Louis, which reported its , coldest Dec. 9 in 41 years. Barge traffic continued on the Mississippi de spite the ice. Other heavy snow amounts in cluded 30 inches at Fulton and 36 inches at Boonville, N.Y.j 48 inches at Houghton, 30 inches at Pellston, and 40 inches at Han cock, Mich., and up to four inch es as far south as northern West Virginia and western Maryland. The coldest weather of the sea son closed in on the New York metropolitan area where readings dipped into the teens. slight warming trend brought a little relief to the Dakotas, eastern Montana, Iowa and Min nesota. Although it was 10 to 20 degrees "warmer" in this area, most temperatures still were be low, zero. original "308" report on develop ment of the basin made several years ago. Included among the 13 projects recommended in the revised re port is a high Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake river between the mouths of the Salmon and Imnaha rivers. This project, with a total cost of $226,333,000, would supply 600,000 kilowatts of. power. The Mountain Sheep proposal is an alternate to a high Hells Can yon dam. Idaho Power Company is building three small dams in the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake river. Another big project is the big Libbey dam on the Kootenai river in Montana which would cost $307,900,000 and would provide about five million acre - feet of storage. This project still is tied up in negotiations with Canada. In Oregon, the report includes the Wenaha dam on the Grande Rondc river which would gener ate 134.000 kilowatts. . The report also renewed recom mendations for Bruccs Eddy on the 'north fork and Penny Cliffs on the middle fork of the Clear water river in Idaho. .Other proposed dams included Long Meadows on the Yaak river, Ninemile Prairie on the Black foot, Knowles on the Clark Fork and Flathead Lake outlet im provement, all in Montana; Ena yille on the Ceour d'Alenc river und Garden Valley division on the 1'ayette river in Idaho, Asotin on the Snake in Idaho and Washing ton, and Lower Canyon on the Salmon river. - ' ' ' . : . ' .. ... - y V - mi- rPl'nUj I fell r; . 1 fed PfT) ilj uv ,1 't .a) f CHRISTMAS MAII The first special Union Pacific railroad car of Christmas mail from Portland was unloaded here this morning by Zedell Jackson, Jackson is atop hit truck putting the last pack age on his truck. He holds a contract for transporting the mail from the rati car to the local post office for distribution in this area. The rail car is "kicked off" at La Grande to expedite pushing the train on to other destinations. Postal officials continue to urge everyone to mall early to avoid over loading postal facilities at the last minute, which could result in a delay of delivery past Christmas. Nine Dead, In Monastery CHATSWORTH, Calif. (UPI) An exploding bomb ripped through the Fountain of the World reli gious colony today, killing bare foot "messiah" Krishna Vcnta and destroying the main monas tery building. At least eight other persons, in cluding an 11-month-old boy, were killed or missing, according to Capt. Howard Bowman of the Ven tura Sheriffs Department. At least three others were injured, one a 9-year-old girl critically. Cult leader Venta s body was one of the charred bodies found in the smouldering wreckage of the building. He was identified by dental work an upper plate. The blast caved in one wall of the building, setting it on fire and spreading debris several hundred feet in Box Canyon, some 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the Santa Susana Mountains. The flaming wreckage touched off a brush fir that roared out of control for nearly three hours. Some 250 fire fighters contained the blaze shortly after daybreak after 200 acres were blackened. A cult member, Brother Martin, told deputies that shortly before the explosion he overheard "mas ter" Venta and another brother in a conversation with a stranger in the office of the main .monas tery building. The man was wearing shoes and Ike Discusses Varied WASHINGTON (UPI I Presi dent Eisenhower said today he saw no reason to refute reports from Russia that the Soviet Union has an 8,700-mile ballistic missile. But he sharply rejected as with out evidence a recent report that Russia was test flying an atomic powered plane. The President, at his first news conference since Nov. 5, declined to discuss in specific detail infor mation from the Kremlin relayed to him Tuesday by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). But he took a highly guarded view of a number of reports of startling Russian progress in the development of scientific weapons. He said that in the case of the atomic plane there was absolutely no reliable evidence of any kind that-the Soviets had flown such an aircraft. Other news conference high lights: The President decried as rep rehensible the failure of Alabama officials to supply requested public records on Negro voting registra tion to the Civil Rights Commis sion. He said that until the Berlin situation is composed by all inter ested powers, the United ', States LA GRANDE, ORE., WEDNESDAY, Missing ing was not a member of the sect because none of them wear shoes. Brother Martin said. ." Martin said the stranger was in his early 20s, wore khaki clothes and carried a small can vas zipper bag about 18-inchcs long. "I heard the master say 'What do yod think I am, a hypocrite?' just before I left the building and in a moment the whole tiling ex ploded," Martin said. Ventura County fire officials said there was "no doubt the ex plosion was caused by a bomb." Los Angeles and Centura Coun ty sheriff's investigators, and the FBI in an unofficial capacity, be gan an immediate investigation. Los Angeles Police Sgt. R.H. Sansing said "it is common knowl edge Venta had many enemies. cugc vciiid iiau many enuiiuua. In the course of his travels here and in Europe he managed to ac quire many enemies." The dead and their approximate ages were listed as: Bishop Mar lin Baker, 40; Cardinal James Shanafell, 37; Brother Ellyn James Shanafell, 11 months, Sis ter Kcela Baker, 7; Bishopess Jean Shanafelt, 38, Sister Anna Noga, 65, and Sister Ethel Reey, 58, and Venta, 47. Two of the injured, Sister Erma Winfrey, 59 und Sheila Vizina, 8, were taken to Ventura .-County Hospital with serious burns. i will stand firm behind its respon sibility and duty to remain in West Berlin as a means of main taining the freedom of the West Germans. - J -r- He bluntly challenged the truth of a statement by former President Truman that he, Eisen hower, stood idly by in 1952 while Sen. William E. Jenner (R-lnd.) denounced Gen, George C. Mar shall, World War II Army chief of staff, as a traitor. TODAY Gift' For" The Home NEXT WEEK Personal Gifts DECEMBER 10, 1958 Aorlimie Certification IFoir La Girotnide Studied Evidence Hints At Red Split ' WASHINGTON i UPI Ameri can authorities said today there is some evidence to suggest a .split among top Soviet leaders 'over Soviet Premier Nikita -Khrushchev's tough Berlin policy nnd his handling of some other foreign policy matters, i They reported credible signs in "recent weeks that some members of the Soviet Politburo arc challenging- the wisdom of Khrush chev's action in forcing the Ber lin, crisis, including his ultimatum lo (lie Western Allies to get out of the . city within six months. There also is evidence, these sources said, that the two Rus sian delegations engaged in dis armament negotiations with the West at Geneva are not getting clear-cut directions from Moscow at this time. A power struggle in the Krem lin could explain the sudden re moval of Gen. Ivan A. Serov as chairman of Russia's state secur ity committee, the top police job in the country, authorities said. Serov may well have been a casualty as Khrushchev and his opponents jockeyed for position in preparation for a policy show down, they added. The intelligence reaching Wash ington suggests that some Polit buro members feel that Khrush chev's probing 1 actions at the Western defense perimeter and his tough attitude on Berlin arc strengthening the anti-Communist front. There also are indications some of Khrushchev's coileamies fear war u no goes through with his throat to turn East Berlin over to the German Communists and force 'the Allies to deal with the unrecognized puppets or fight ineir way into the Western sec tors of the encircled city. Explorer Training Session Scheduled The second Boy Scout Basic Ex plorer training session will be held at the LDS Church in Union. Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Paul Jen- tins, scout executive here, said mis morning. Jenkins urged the public to at tend ,the training sessions which are preparatory to the new Ex plorer - program for teen-agers which will get underway over the ; . . . , ,. , .n!l'n 31 l" S'art f ",e Comlng year. Frank Matliias of La Grande, a post leader, will instruct tills sec ond training session. The last ses sion, to be held later, will be in structed by Jenkins. Jack Lew taught the first class held. The Explorer Training program is geared to youths of scouting age, from the ninth grade through high school. The scout district here was the first to kickoff the training ses sions in the Blue Mountain Council, Jenkins said. Items At The President said recent spending proposals by the Demo cratic Advisory Council would, of necessity, lead to many new taxes. In effect, he challenged the Dem ocrats to prepare a list of such tax recommendations as a com panion document to their spending proposals. He called on Congress to ex tend the life of the Civil Rights Commission which got off to a slow slart after being given originally only ' a two-year tenure by Con gress. As for an 8,700-mile missile, he said casually that he saw no rea son why this could not be done because, after all, the Russians had a fine technique. He said that this country knew about their mis sile tests and their having explod ed atomic weapons over the range of one megaton (the equivalent of one million tons of TNT). But, concerning the report re cently in Aviation Week magazine that Russia had test flown a nu clear powered plane, the President said with considerably more feel ing mat there was absolutely no reliable evidence of any kind that the Soviets had flown such a plane. He said he discounted such a Pacific Test Area Planned POINT MUGU, Calif. (UPI The Navy has revealed plans for a proposed 15-year expansion pro gram which would turn an area of one million square nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean into a gigantic test section lor me launching and recovery of Ameri can missiles and space vehicles. Cmdr. Joseph Pace, resources and facilities officer at the Pa cific missile range here, outlined the program Tuesday. He said it ulready has been presented to the Department of Defense for ap proval. .... The huge spuce testing area would border on Johnston, Tara wa and Christmas islands in the South Pacific. Pace said the vast section would be ideal for use as the recqvery area for Project Dinosaur, in which a man is to bo orbited around the earth and then re turned. Manus Island in the large area was described in the Navy plan as the best location for launching an equatorial orbit satellite which could lead to a complete world wide communications network. Another use of the area would be as impact locutions for inter continental ballistic missiles lobbed from 5,000 or 6,000 miles awav on the California coast. The Importance of using Manus Island, now under trusteeship of the United Nations, as a launch ing site for satclutos was stressed because its location would allow the establishment of an equatorial orbit in which the satellite could be made to travel at the same speed as tho earth and therefore remain over one spot of the globe. LocalMenHeqd Seed Groups PORTLAND. (UPI) R. W. Schaad, La Grande, Tuesday night was elected president of the Oregon Seed Growers Loague to succeed E. F. Jernstedt, Carlton. Other officers named at the close of the League's 18th annual convention here included Roy Stevenson, Madras, vice presi dent, and Rex Warren,' Corvallis, secretary. . ' New directors include Wayne Garner, Nyssa, and Don Hector, Albany. Homer Case, Allcel, earlier was named president of the Northwest Chewing & Creeping Red Fescue Association at a meeting in con nection with the League conven tion. Other officers included Fred Hattinger, Sublimity, vice presi dent, and Ted Sidor, La Grande, secretary. ' PILOT MISSING DENVER (UPI) The pilot of a light plane missing since Sunday on a flight from Denver to Se attle was identified today as a Seattle engineer. The Civil Acrohautics Adminis tration here said the pilot of the twin engine piper apache was James S. Robbins. The pilots son-in-law, Wade Vogcl of Denver, said Robbins, about 50, was a consulting engineer. Confab report completely because of the experience of American scientists and technicians. He said American scientists believed that if they merely wanted to get on air frame off the ground with nuclear power this might be possible. But, he said, it would servo no useful purpose just to get such an air craft a few feet in the air. On tho other hand, he said American research was aimed at the development of a functioning nuclear power plant which would produce satisfactory performance qualities for peaceful, as well as military use. Bus, Truck Hit; 2 Killed; 20 Hurt SOMERVILLE. N.J. (UPD- Two persons were killed and about 20 injured Tuesday night in the collision of a New York-bound Trailways Bus und a pickup truck on an icy road. Police reported that three per sons were injured seriously when the bus, going east on Route 28, swerved Into the westbound lane and crashed headon with a pickup truck at about 8:50 p.m. Air Travel Discussed By Officials The problem uf getting potcn- canceling the West Coast flights tial airline passengers from the on '.a Grande, t-a Grande area to Portland "at a: The uiriine otlicials and C of reasonable time" was the focal C members talked in general point of discussion during a I terms about holding a special Chamber of Commerce and West Aviation Week at the La Grande Coast Airlines officials meeting yesterday when it was decided to make an intensive effort to make people of this area consci ous of air traffic in advance of Civil Aeronautics Hoard Hearing. feb. 4 when the airlines certi- tion to air transportation, lication will he up for renewal Elwood, a West Coast district or cancellation. sales manager in the Boise of- Airline representative l.yle El-:ice, advised the chamber mem wood of Boise, Idaho, who was the ;)ers and the Rotarians that con main speaker yesterday noon atltinued airline service to La the La Grande Rotary club Grande. Baker and Ontario "do- meeting, agree with Chamber of Commerce officials that getting air traffic into Portland before ,10 a.m. is a prime consideration, and he said ill a special meeting with the C of C that he would make suggestions to the "head office" on schedule changes which might help that situation. Meanwhile, Chamber of Com merce members meeting with El wood and two other airline of ficials, agreed that La Grande, east would have to catch a plane needs and should do everything j,i the early hours of the morn possible lo keep the CAB fromjng. Farmer-Solon Meet Slated Farmers representing all seg ments of agriculture will hold a public meeting with state legis lators from this district Monday, Dec. 15, in Island City. Guy Smith, chairman of the Farmer-Legislator group, said this morning that Chambers of Com merce agricultural and legislative j flights do not help the La Grande committees from La Grande,- En- Jlo-Portland runs,' thus 'possibly terprise and Baker have been in-will not add materially to l)u--vited to participate. ' ; passenger load. , Farmers and ranchers from' Elwood told the Rotarians and Union, Baker and Wallowa coun- visiting Chamber of Commerce ties , will be present. Organiza-1 members that the greatest com tions represented will include the! petition lo West Coast Airlines cattlemen, granges, farm bureaus, seed leagues and wheat leagues. The meeting is open to the public. The meeting will begin nl 8 p.m. in the Farm Bureau hall in Island City. Refreshments will be served by the group. Yule Candlelight Hour Set At EOC EASTERN OREGON COLLEGE The traditional Yule Candlelight hour, sponsored by Sigma Alpha Chi, women's scholastic honorary, will bo celebrated Sunday at East ern Oregon College. The event, in its 23rd year on the campus, marks the beginning of the Christmas season with a special ceremony. Martha Colvin, an EOC ulumnu, will light the master candle. Caro lyn Muller, EOC junior and presi dent of the organization, will di rect tho ceremony. Special guests will be Sigma Alpha Chi alumnae. It is scheduled for 4:15 in Hoke Hall. Three Nobel Prizes Awarded J In Stockholm Ceremony Toddy STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UP1 The Swedish Academy presented cash and accolades today to win ners of three Nobel prizes and mourned the "voluntary" absence of Russian author Boris Paster nak who refused the literary award under Soviet pressure. The 1958 awards of $41,250 for physics, chemistry ' and medicine were handed ceremoniously to scientists from Russia, Britain and the United Slates, and it was made starkly clear the academy and the Free World felt Pasternak should have been there too. The 1958 peace prize was award ed today In Oslo, Norway, to the Rev. Georges Plrc. a Roman Catholic priest and member of an order sworn to perpetual poverty. lie will use the $41,250 prize money to further his work of building villages for the homeless refugees of World War II. The Stockholm ceremonies were formal, and guests wore white ties and tails. The Russian scientists who won the physics orize solved their problems by renting formal aress suits lor $13 each the first they had ever worn. me Oslo ceremonies were as austere as the black and white robes of the Bclnlan nriest who , was deemed lo have done more Price 5 Cent Promotion airport, probably in the latter half of January. 1 A number of the local business men also said they would put air line literature in their monthly billing statements to draw1 atten- 'ponds on tho degree the local peo-. pie use the service." Local business men agreed witH Elwood that once a community loses airline certification, it is hard to get the CAB to again aur thorize stops in a community. Elwood maintained that the great share of the potential pas sengers want to get into Portland early and this situation means that passengers from this area on Local businessmen said they would much rather leave here at an early hour than have to drive all night or go to Portland the previous day by car, train or plane because that means another day away from the office and away from their families. ' Elwood pointed 'out that the airline on Dec. 1 added two more flights into La' Grande, in the hopes that this would increased the passenger .load..;.(2-of .C mem-. bers' said the time' of tne new are car and new, mouern nign ways. ' The sales manager said his company has not asked CAB to let them drop the La Grande stop, nor has the company, he said, told the CAB that they want to con tinue the La Grande stop. . Meet ing here with the Chamber of Commerce shows our interest in the La Grande situation, Elwood said. The company has been making stops here the past 10V4 years, Elwood said. County 4-H Leaders v To Hold Party Tonight Union County 4-H leaders will hold their annual Christmas parly tonight starting at 7:30 at the L. R. Hoxie residence at. Mt. Glenn, James R. Huber, county extension agent, said this morning. Huber said there would bo "food, "iilertainment and a gift exchange for all attending the party. Each person attending is requested to bring a gift, not over a dollar ffl value. for peace than any statesman at the summit. King Olav V ot Nor way and other dignitaries wore or; dinury business suits. ;. Pasternak won the literary award for his controversial novel "Dr. Zhivago" which was banned in Russia as anti-Communist. He cabled and Inter wrote that he thought the award was politically inspired and felt he codld not ac cept the Nobel laurels. :i , The academy secretary made it clear that Pasternak coul:d come hero whenever he feels free to pick up the gold medal and diploma that go with the award. But by failing to show up today, Pasternak passed up the prize money. 1 , Wfl: