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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.
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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. .
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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
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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.
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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.".
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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))'
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