WEATHER Mostly cloudy and foggy through Friday with a little rain or drizzle today. High both days 38-43. Low tonight 30-36. Established 1896 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, ORE., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1958 Price 5 Cents Commission Studies Centennial Donation City Commissioners last night ran head-on into a number of legal stumblings blocks, not of their own making. The first legal' road block ap peared when Dr. Carlos Easley, head of the county centennial association requested $250 finan cial support from the city. Commissioners indicated they thought the $250 request was "little enough" in view of the ten tative $6,443 budget outlined by Morse Says s Cause Rift WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Wayne Morse suggested Wednes day night that the cancer suffered by his colleague, Sen. Richard L. Neubcrger, accounts at least in part for the souring of their close personal friendship. "It Is my judgment that his ill ness explains psychologically, even more than he may know, his con duct towards me," Morse said In a statement commenting on a na tional news magazine s report (Newsweek) on the bitter feud be tween the two Oregon Democrats. Morse said he was happy to hear that Neubcrger is well on his way to full recovery from an operation for the removal of a malignant growth. Neuberger had announced the illness and has curtailed his activity during his convalescence. "Although Sen. Neuberger and 1 have suffered great damage to our mutual friendship, it is my hope that the therapeutic values of the passage of time will restore at least some of our former re spect' for each other," the Morse statement said. The magazine article quoted from correspondence between Morse and Neuberger io illustrate the bitter feelings between them The article underscored the well known fact that Morse and Ncu--ljovger.ionce close -political allies. had suffered a railing out. The split began to take shape in 1957 when the two senators, who were once called the "Morse burger" because of the similarity of their views, took opposite sides on the administration's civil rights bill. Local Man Hurt By Rockslide By United Press International A rockslide on Highway 30 be tween Hilgard and Perry west of La Grande resulted in the injury of James Marvin Sabey, 22, State Highway .Department flagman. The department was working on the road when the rockslide, ap parently caused by rains of the past two or three days, occurred. Sabey was taken to a La Grande hospital suffering from a possible fractured leg. Heavy fog and rain grounded United Airlines and West Coast airlines flights out of Pendleton Wednesday. But the .visibility was reported lifting with service re stored on a delayed basis today. A heavy sleet storm raised hav " oc with power lines in southeast ern Washington and northeastern Oregon Wednesday night, heavy . rains caused a slide in the La Grande area, and fog grounded commercial airplanes at the Pen- . dleton airport. Pacific Power and Light Com pany reported a heavy sleet storm knocked out its 69.000-volt power line between Walla Walla and Pendleton. Power went out in the eastern Oregon community of Athena, northeast of Pendleton shortly before midnight and was : not restored until 10 a.m. today. Other outages were reported in southeastern Washing ton, but PP&L reported all service was restored by noon today. STORES URGED TO STAY OPEN Retail Merchants association to day recommended that all La Grande stores remain open until 9 p.m. Friday. Association officials said that most La Grande stores had in dicated they will stay open for holiday shoppers. Easley, but when Assistant City Attorney ' C. Richard Neely ques tioned the legality of the city contributing to the centennial fund, the problem became involved. Easley and centennial Publicity Director Dale McKec said the state centennial association in formed that such contributions are legal. They then produced a copy of an enabling act passed by the last state legislature. Neely read the act. It does pro vide for such contributions. How ever, one paragraph threw the problem back into the laps of Easley and McKee. The act states that a request for funds must be acompanied by a petition signed by 20 per cent of the legal voters of the city, favoring the request. It was not known at the meeting how many signatures this would in volve but guesses were about 500. Easley thanked the commission for their time and consideration and commissioners asked Easley and McKee to come back if they could find an answer to their problem. Easley said that he had hoped to ' get $250 from La Grande, $100 from Elgin, $100 from Union and $50 from Cove city admnnstra tions to help support the budget. The balance would be gotten, he said, through service and fraternal organizations, business donations and from the sale of a Union county history booklet and other promotional material. The group also plans to hold a dance in the a'rmory Feb. 14 as a centennial kick-off. The "Birth day Ball" will also feature a queen contest and crowning. The queen will reign over other local cen tennial events during 1959. Another legal block appeared when a first reading of a new ordinance was attempted. The new ordinance, setting up a new amuse-. merit machine fee schedule slated next July 1, couldn't be read be cause of legal difficulties, , Neely said the ordinance would go into effect Jan. 1, . 1959. Commissioners said, no, July 1, 1959. Neely ex plained that this commission could not pass an ordinance which would not become effective and binding on a commission not now in office. Other technical errors were also found in the proposed ordinance o Neely was directed to draw up a new ordinance for consideration later. Earlier during the meeting the commissioners decided that City Manager's order that firemen are to do the janitor work in the city building should remain in force. The commissioners decided that such an order is a part of the city manager's job and that he had not been hasty in making the decision. Commissioners also acknowledg ed a letter from the Salvation Army inquiring about the purchase of three city-owned lots at Oak and Palmer streets. The Salvation army is. considering construction of a new headquarters building. No action was taken since the letter asked for information only about the possible sale of the lots near the national Guard Armory. Strike Halts 7 NY Papers NEW YORK (UPI I Seven of nine major New York City news papers hit by a strike of delivery men suspended publication today. An eighth paper, the News, a morning paper, was unable to pub lish when printers refused to cross a picket line. The suspensions were announced in staggered fashion over a five hour period. The ninth paper, the Mirror, which published this morning, had not announced whether it would go to press Friday. The suspensions were the latest development in the two-day strike of newspaper deliverers which cut off deliveries of nine major New York newspapers in the metropol itan area. All of the papers pub lished Wednesday, with sales re stricted to the newspaper offices. The papers which suspended publication were, in order, the Post, the Herald-Tribune, t h e times, the World-Telegram and Sun, the Long Island Sear-Journal, the Long Island Daily Press, and the Journal American. EUGENE ELKS CLUB BURNS EUGENE (UPI) A general alarm fire that broke out about "-.SO a.m. today destroyed the half-million Hnll.ir Kiini.no Club .at 7th and Olive streets. Lodge Secretary Bill Van Nuys faid the building was valued at half a million rinllnrs Plnh offi cials said the loss was fully cov- irea oy insurance. iwr:v, imi-i i P MORE CITY WATER In the railroading days of steam engines. Union Pacific used the wat er from the well located in the structures shown above, but with the advent of diesels, the need, for the well has been greatly reduc ed. Union Pacific officials have offered to turn the use of the well over to the city and details are now worked out, with UP to retain Russia Refuses To Release Pilot United Press International BERLIN tUPD-Russia today rejected American demands the Soviets release a U.S. Army pilot held by East German Communists since he parachuted into the Sov iet zone Dec. 3. A spokesman .for the Soviet Em bassy in East Berlinsaid the mat ter was-.outside Soviet' jurisdiction Service Clubs To Man Kettles To Aid Salvation Army Fund La Grande service clubs will man the "Kettle Watch" for the Salvation Army's -Christmas fund on Saturday, Dee. 20, Ken Lilliard, SA Christmas Committee head. told the advisory board of the Sal vation Army at their monthly noon meeting yesterday. He said the pattern for the clubs would be the same as in past years when the clubs will compete to see who can lake in the most money for the Army's Christmas fund. Lt. Oakley Summers, SA com mander here, told the group that "the Salvation Army was pleased at the response, to their Christmas letter appeal for funds' He said, "without the contributions of the public many children jn this area -and adults too, would be without a Christmas." Lt. Summers advisory board reported to the that 1 17 letters James Snodgrass Dies In Medford Word was received here today of the death of James G. Snod grass, at his home in Medford. He died Tuesday after an illness of several years. Rosary services will be held at 8 p.m. today at the Chapel Mor tuary in Medford with services scheduled tomorrow at f) a.m. at the Catholic church in Medford. Mr. Snodgrass, or "Hex" as he was known to his friends here, was born on July 1, 1882 here and made his home in La Grande for over CO years before moving to Medford. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Snodgras.s who settled in La Grande in 1867. In his youth Mr. Snodgrass worked in several La Grande gro cery stores and later managed a store. He was prominent in the musical field here playing in sev eral bands and orchestras. He was a life member of Elks Lodge No. 433. La Grande. He originated the Blue Mountain Candy com pany here. He was a former member of the board of directors of the old First National Bank of La Grande. Survivors include the widow, Lola, a former Ia Grande resi dent; four children. Harry of Al buquerque, New Mexico; Francis, Portland, Judith Von Bredlow of Phoenix, Ariz., and Lola Marion Clark, of Medford; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Abbott of Pentic ton, B. C; Mrs. Jesse Bartlett of Los Angeles and Mrs. Fred Dit tebrandt of Tacoma, Wash.; one brother, Lot L. Snodgrass of La Grande and three grandcchildren. which meant Russia would in sist the United States negotiate with Communist East Germany if it wants the flier returned. The flier is Lt. Richard Mackin, 27, Washington, D.C., who bailed out of his small iaison aircraft when he ran out of gasoline and wandered into East Germany.; ' The CimYmunistSTrtso are holding- with contributions had been return ed thus far. Contributions, both in the letters, and at the kettles on downown srees, are running ahead of last year, he said. Last Christmas the SA here provided food, gifts and toys to 1,154 needy adults and children. Seventy-one families received Christmas baskets tlie families in cluded 497 persons); 226 children received toys, 170 attended the children's Christmas party, 32 were served turkey dinner at the Salvation Army Hull and 152 per sons in jails, hospitals, resl homes and Hot Lake were provided with gifts and five institutions were visited. ' Lt. Summers also wished to ex tend the Army's thanks to mem bers of International Typographical union. Local No. (it!3 here, who do nated $30 to the Christmas fund instead of holding their annual parly. President of the group is II. E. Kirkpatrick. At the meeting yesterday held at the Salvation Army Hull, 18 of the 21 members of the advisory board were present. The board in cludes J. D. Cash, chairman; Richard Neeley, secretary-treasurer, Kenneth McCormack, vice chairman, and J. Donald Myers, Ed Draper, Miss Nell Grimmett, S. T. Bailie, Lynn Bohnenkamp, George Decker, Victor Eckley, Robert Howard, Mrs. Lyle John son, Ken Lillard, Leo Miller, E. C. Rochester, Charles Snyder, Mrs. Fred Young, Buck Buchanan, Thomas Salmon, Rev. Harold Ncal and Mrs. Karl Lacer. Cattlemen's Officer Dies In Portland PORTLAND UPD-E. D. Sulli van, 59, vice president of the Ore gon Cattlemen's Association, died Wednesday in a local hospital. Sullivan, operator of a large cattle ranch at Hereford, recently received the Izaak Walton League's Beaver award for co ordination among hunters and landowners. Actress' Son Suffers SkutH Fracture HOLLYWOOD I UPI) The 11-year-old son of actress Hedy La marr was reported in fair condi tion today at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital where he was under treatment for a fractured skull. Johny Anthony Lee, the ac tress's son by a former marriage to John Loder, was taken to the hospital Wednesday after he was struck by a car ownership of this and another well located on UP property. The well houses shown above are near the roundhouse. The tall black tower in the background would still be used by UP. Water from the wells could flow by gravity to existing city wells near the city shops. The UP wells would be available as emergency wat er or other uses. (Observer Photo) a West German pilot, Georg Genth. who made a forced land ing 200 yards inside the Commu nist zone Wednesday with his sports plane on a flight from Lue beck. It was considered certain lie also would be used as a host age to try to force Bonn to nu- gutiak" with East Germany. '"e ID. S.. .j-cfuscd, Ip deal with. East Germany and it has asked the Soviets to return Mackin un- der four-power occupation agree ments. The Soviets have told the West they will abrogate all such agreements in six months. The Soviet spokesman today in dicated the Soviets already con sider dead agreements under which the Soviets' return western allied servicemen who wander into East Germany. West Berlin police officials suid today the East German Commu nits have opened an underground terror campaign to frighten West Beiiiners with anonymous letters and telephone calls advising them to switch over to the Communist side. The official Communist party newspaper Neues Deutschland ig nored President Eisenhower's dec laration that the U.S. will stand by Berlin but the Berliner Zeitung said "West Berlin will be a de militarized city whether Brandt or the Americans like it or not. The last was a reference to Lord Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin who proposed that isolated West Berlin be linked with West Germany by a guaranteed inter national land corridor. The Com munists rejected this plun as an encroachment on Communist ter ritory. Regulus' Flight Lauded POINT MUGU, Calif. (UPI) The Navy today labelled as highly successful a 400-mile flight of its mighty Regulus II guided missile capable of carrying an atomic warhead. The potent Regulus II Wednes day spanned the width of Califor nia and successfully landed at an isolated desert area near Tonopah, Nov. The supersonic missile designed for operational use from atomic- powered submarines was launched for the first time from a deck of a surface ship, the LST King County,-off the California coast. Flight of the Missile, which dif fers from a ballistic missile in that it can be- controlled during flight while a ballistic missile in largely beyond directional control after launching, lasted for neary an hour. The 11-ton 57-foot Regulus II was launched in a blinding cloud of smoke and sent first out to sea for 15 minutes for a final safe ly test before a controlling air plane sent it hurtling back to wards land and its destination in Nevada. Control of the missile shifted several times during the long flight with Point Mugu Station, Edwards Air Force Base arid two jet planes at various times con trolling its course. Buuies United Press International Residents of Oswego, N.Y.. braved frigid temperatures today to dig out from under the city's crushing burden of snow. A six-day storm which buried the city of 23,000 under a record six feet of snow and piled up Quake Rocks California SAN FRANCISCO (UPI I A sharp earthquake followed by sev eral aftershocks rocked and rolled San Francisco and a 50-mile area for several minutes early today, but it caused only minimum dam age. The University of California seismograph laboratory in Berke ley said the temblor-measured be tween 4.75 and 5 on the Richter scale and was centered 18 miles southwest of Berkley in Daly City. Daly City is' a suburb on the southwest edge of San Francisco that suffered widespread damage on March 22, 1U57, from a quake that had a Richter reading of 5.25. Today's quake was first recorded at 1:4!) a.m. p.s.t and. kept the sensitive needle jiggling for sev eral minutes afterwards. It was felt in downtown San Francisco with a rolling motion about 1:53 a.m. Residents of the Westlake area of Daly City said the quake was preceded by a loud explosion." William Benn, a United Press International teletype operator who lives in Westlake, said the shock woke him up. "I heard a loud report," he said, "and then there was a sharp jolt. It -seemed- to -me it was'as ("sharp 3 the una : March', 1957; Some figurines we had on a shell fell to the floor and our pic tures were crooked, I went out into the garage and found all my tols had fallen to the floor." The -quake touched off minor slides on Highway 1 which runs along the coast. However, the road was not blocked. Oregon Air Rescue To Aid In Search PENDLETON (UPI) The Air Search and Rescue squadron of the 4th Air Force at Hamilton AFB In California has asked the Oregon State Aeronautics Board to start a search in eastern Ore gon for James S. Robbins, the father of Charles A. Lindbergh's daughter-in-law. Robbins is missing on a flight from Denver to Seattle. He left Denver alone Sunday in a twin engine piper airplane and did not file a flight plan. Emory Troshman of Pendleton will coordinate the search which will cover a triangle from the Meacham area south to the John Day river and from here toward Yakima, Wash., along the Colum bia river. Planes were due to take off to day, weather permitting. . I .. . h I .'..(Will ri&? T """""" i - ," -'. a-....-. .",;f-i..feTtit; n; i- L,i...w-,.,J.f;.. . - tiri HEAD SEED GROUPS Eastern Oregon lead growers r well represented on various seed gnupt In he stete. Pictured, above, leff to right, Homer Case, Alicel, president of the Northwest Chewing and Creeping Fescue As sociation; Roland Schaad, La Grande, presi Dow M Y Town drifts 20 feet high ended Wednes day, but numbing cold clung to the Northeast. Damage at Oswego was esti mated unofficially at one million dollars, most of it to several large business and industrial buildings where roofs collapsed Baker Building Collapses BAKER 'UPI i A building housing a furniture store and second-story offices located near the scene of a half million dollar lire last week collapsed today with heavy damage to the store shortly before it was to open for business. Only one person was in the building at the time, firemen said. Maurice Tatlock, a dental techni cian, suffered only two scratched fingers although he was in a sec ond floor office. "All of a sudden the desk start ed sliding." Tatlock said. He slid under the desk and then part of the roof fell on top of the desk. Tatlock managed to climb atop the structure and was rescued by firemen. The collapse occurred at 8 a.m. today. The fire last week damaged several buildings in Baker's busi ness section but the furniture store had escaped. Firemen said a brick wall adjacent to the fur niture store collapsed. Fire Chief Hubert Damon said damage to the building was pos sibly $100,000. In addition, furni ture was damaged and windows were broken. Another man, not identified, was .reported to .have -been, on a stairway at the north end of the building when he heard it start to collapse. He reached safety. 1 The U.S. Army recruiting office and other offices also were on the second floor. Union Ordered To Heed Monitors WASHINGTON (UPI) -Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts today ordered the Teamsters Union to comply with cleanup orders is sued by court-appointed monitors. The judge also banned a union convention the teamsters called for mid-March1 to get rid of the mon itors. Letts upheld the monitors two- man majority in ordering the union to carry out its recommend ations for reform. Letts, who set up the monitors, suid they had more than advisory powers under the consent decree issued last January when the three-member "watch dog", panel was established. The court case arose fron a dispute between Teamsters Presi dent James R. Hoffa and Moni tor Chairman Martin F. O'Don oughue. The latter told Letts at hearings last month that lioffa was giving the "watch dog" group a run-around. AO. $X H'ji'.-i, 11 ' 1 i ft ornm under the weight of the snow. The roofs of some homes and barns also caved in, but no one was hurt. The arctic air in the East plunged southward during the night, dropping temperatures an average of 10 to 17 degrees from eastern Texas through the Gulf Coast to northern Florida. Weathermen warned of 'possibl freezing rain and hazardous driv-, ing conditions today in the Caroy Unas. 7i . Sub-zero readings retained their . grip on the North from North Da-; kota and. northern Minnesota through the northern Great Lakes, Pennsylvania and parts of; New England. -i; A warming trend dented the na tion's central section, boosting' temperatures above the zero, range and into the 20's from the; eastern slopes of the Rockies li), the mid-Mississippi and Ohio vuU ..... leys. ' - Deaths from traffic, fire, hearb?1' attacks and other causes' attribuf ,', , ed to the snow and cold inotmtod) .,' to more than 35. Traffic accident' on slippery highways killed nlno persons in Illinois, three in In diana, two in New Jersey, and; one each in Iowa and New York,, Two men died shoveling snow' in' Iowa and one in Michigan, and'; two Chicago transients froze to: death. In addition to 12 fire deaths' blamed on the cold in Ohio, family of four at Carmi, 111., inclun ding two children, died from caf bon monoxide fumes from a gas; stove, used for heating. Snow flurries persisted along, the Lee Shores of the Great: Lakes, dumping 26 inches of snow; at Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie.-, The cold weather Wednesday also broke a water main and shut off the water supply to Cedarville, a community of 2,500 in western Ohio. : ; ' Snow continued to , plague the hard-hit Erie, Pa., area when -ac- -. curritilatiorts 'mdunteiTHo- 28 to 30 j. Inches: 'Up' to five-inches of Hew ' snow fell- in the area Wednesday. However, highway crews, aided by equipment from adjoining counties, cleared all main roads and most secondary roads in a round-the-clock battle against the drifts. About 2,000 rural school . students who got a day off Wednesday were scheduled to re sume classes. Family's Fate Remains Mystery PORTLAND (UPD-The fate of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Martin and their three daughters remained a mystery today. The Portland family has been missing since Sunday on a Christ mas tree gathering trip. Search ers have checked out numerous tips without finding a trace of them or their white 1954 Ford station wagon trimmed in red. : Search switched back to the Larch mountain area again Wed nesday t after a report that the family had been seen on the mountain Sunday. But a check of back roads, already covered ear lier by sheriff's deputies, located nothing. . . ' ' : Sheriff Francis Lambert of .Multnomah county said "I wish to God I knew where to look. I fear they are either in adeep canyon i. or in water.". I - V dent of Oregon Seed Growers League and CUy-J"' ton Fox, chairman of Oregon Fine Fescue Conv ' mission. Standing is Ted Sidor, La Grande,; ; secretary of the Northwest Chewing arid Creep ing Red Fescue Association. (Extension Phote))' 'I. rr ...J