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.
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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 ,
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