WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with sunny periods today and " Wednesday. High both days 38-44. Low tonight 24-30. I Established 1S96 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1958 Price 5 Cents ATO Alliance upport To Berlin Boy Admits Killing Benefactor's Family EL CAJON, Calif. (UP1 A lanky le-year-old runaway youth tearfully admitted Monday night that he killed the wife and tour children of his benefactor because one of the children "wouldn't stop screaming." The youth was cap tured by an off-duty policeman "I guess I just flipped my lid," 0-foot, 4-inch Carl Eder told po lice. "I pray that God will take mer cy on . him,'" grieving Thomas Pcndergast, 38, husband and fath er of the victims said. "Why did you do it? Why? Why?," Pendergast - asked Eder when he confronted Eder, a run Diplomat's Car Stoned In Baghdad BAGHDAD. Iraq (UPI I Ameri can officials today clamped a se crecy ban on the Baghdad move ments of Assistant Secretary of Mate William C. Rountree to forestall mob demonstrations against him. Rountree, touring the Middle East on a fact-finding mission, ' was whisked to safety unharmed Monday, when a mob stoned his windshield. No one was hurt. (Reports reaching other Mid east capitals from Baghdad said an extremely tense situation ex- , istcd in Iraq and that a Commu nist attempt to take over the goy- . ernmenfcetrtd-be expected at any time.) ' The attack on Rountree oc curred as he was returning from a courtesy call at the Palace of the Sovereignty Council to the U.S. Embassy four miles away. A stone' shattered the windshield on the driver's side of the car but did not go through it. ,' Rountree's car also was stoned when he left the airport on his arrival here from Cairo. Demon : strations flared in the ' Baghdad , streets soon afterward with dem onstrators shouting "Rountree' go home." They 'also Carried plac ards reading: "Don't soil our land, you courier of conspira cies." Iraqi troops were assigned by government officials who appar ently anticipated demonstrations and were anxious to insure they did not get out of hand. 'In Washington, State Deparl- ment officials said they deplored the demonstrations and noted that the Iraqi government had called Rountree's visit a welcome one and said they had every reason to expect Iraq to prevent future occurrences.) , Inquest Set Here In Shaffer Death On inquest wiif be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Daniels Funeral Home in connection with the death of John Lee Shaffer, 18, La Grande, who died about two hours after be ing struck on an Elgin side street by a car driven by Richard L. Parsons the night of Dec. 4. - County Coroner has impaneled a six-man jury to consider the evid dence in the car-pedestrian acci dent. Shaffer was walking on the right hand side of the street when he was struck by Parsons' jeep as Parsons was returning home from work about 10 p.m. Thor Firing Seems SANTA MARIA. Calif. (UPI) Intensified activity at the country's newest missile range at Vanden berg Air Force Base indicated to day that the firing of a 1,500-mile Thor missile was imminent. , Firing of the mighty intcrmed ate. range ballistic missile will mean that it offically has moved from the test stage into the hands of the .military as an operational device ready for use as a weapon. The Thor carries an atomic punch in its warhead. A tense expectancy filled the air in the city which is brimming over and reporters who have rented nearly all available motel and ho tel room. - The firing by SAC's first missile away from Irondcquoit, N.Y., at the police station. Eder was arraigned this morn ing before El Cajon Municipal Judge R. Fenton Garfield. He was immediately bound over to Juvenile Court in San Diego where it will be determined if his case will be handled as a juvenile case or if he will face trial as an adult. Garfield ordered Eder held in county jail without bail. Eder was captured Monday night after a civil engineer told an off-duty police officer of seeing him in San Diego, about 12 miles from the scene of the killings.. The officer arrested the youth who surrendered peaceably. "I did it because Diane (4 years old, one of the slain children) was screaming. She wouldn't stop screaming. That started the whole thing," he said. Pendergast, an aircraft plant worker and a deeply religious man who had taken Eder into his home six weeks ago to "help save the boy's soul," found his wife, Lois, 37, fatally shot in their home here Friday. In various rooms throughout the house and adjoining garage, Pen dergast found his four children, Allen, 2; Diane, 4; Thomss Jr., 6, and David, 9, all with their throats slashed. The two oldest boys also were disembowled. 'I'm glad I'm captured," Eder said. "I am happy to get some where where it s warm and to get food." The youth, who was booked on suspicion of murder and jailed after, questioning by police, said he had been living for the past three days in a deaiirted -ballroom' in the San Diego Mission Beach area.- Bulganin's Ouster Hinted MOSCOW (UPI) The Commun ist party's Central Committee met today amid Western speculation it was about to oust former Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin from party ranks. . . Last spring Bulganin was fired as premier and was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev who is also the Communist party leader. Bulganin has already been removed from the Presidium, or governing body, of the Central Committee. Since then, he has been linked with the "anti-party group" of former Premiers Georgi Malenkov and Vyacheslav M. Molotov, for mer Deputy Premier Lazar Kag anovitch and Dmitri Shepilov, for mer foreign minister. Observers noted that there has been no official announcement that any of the anti-party group had been expelled from the party itself. The Central Committee meeting started Monday. It was highlight ed by a bitter blast by Khrush chev at Bulganin and the other anti-party members whom h e called "a despicable group of wretched splitters." " Khrushchev blamed the group for attempting to sidetrack agri cultural policy and opposing the interests of the people. C OF C GROUP TO MEET National ' trends in imnrnuinu employer-employe relations will oe aiscussea at a special meeting of the National Affairs commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce at a 7 a.m. breakfast Wednesday in the Sacajawea hotel. division also will inaugurate the launching of ballistic missiles on the West Coast.' Heretofore the IRBM rocket, first stage of the vehicle which blasted an Air Force probe more than 71,000 miles into space, has been fired only by scientists and technicians at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Missiles fired ' over the Pacific missile range to this date have been guided, not ballistic, weapons. Shortly after the initial Thor tlight, the first of the "Project Discoverer" series, eventually leading to launching of a manned satellite, will be held. ,The Air Force has been deliver ing the missile and its supporting equipment to the RAF in England since September. Four RAF mis V-K ' V, v ; , - . .; I. f 1 I ' : . is--. 1 REACHING PEAK La Grande postal employe Bert Burke is shown adding another "mailed early" Christmas package to the pile that is about to be shipped to all parts of the coun try for delivery before Christmas. The. post office here reached a record high for this sea season yesterday when 1,001 packages wer" stamped and 22,970 letters were handled through the metering machine. Those figures College Building Program Okayed -The State Board of Higher Ed ucation today approved a $4,780, 000 building program for student cental's suid.heajlh services on-gix canlj)uses';includi!fe' an additioH to Hoke Hall at Eastern Oregon Col lege. The approval shortly before noon followed a recommendation by a special board's building com Warming Trend Promises Temporary Relief For East United Press International A warming trend surging out of the plains today promised at least a temporary break in a record December cold wave gripping the East. The warmer weather, boosting readings an average of 10 to 15 degrees in its path, was expected to reach into the East today, al- GOP Solons Choose Sides WASHINGTON (UPI) The Sen ate's 34 Republican members are choosing sides for the hottest leadership fight the Grand Old Party has seen since the 1952 Na tional Convention. Members of a rebellious liberal faction claimed they needed only four votes to insure success for their revolt and grab off the top leadership posts held by conserva tives next month. They said they would spend the next two weeks trying to line up more supporters and putting to gether a slate of candidates. They were reluctant to mention names at this point but Sens. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) and Thomas H. Kuchel (R-Calif) figured in spec ulation. They mapped their strategy at a rump caucus Monday attended by 10 senators while present GOP leaders sat in on a legislative conference at the White House. Imminent sile squadrons, totaling some 1,700 men, have been training at the Thor plants in the U.S. The missile, cigar-shaped and about 70 feet long, is designed for overseas locations where it will post a deterrent to the Commun ist world. It could not become op erational in the U. S. because of its range. Vandenberg will be a Thor training center. Before the end of next year, however, Vandenberg AFB on the Pacific missile range about 160 miles north of Los Angeles is expected to become the free world's first operational base for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). This more than 6,000-mile range weapon could be lobbed to Russia from here. mittee yesterday. Although' -plans are drawn-for a $180,000 addition to Hoke Ha thejcommitiiie jneetinsc in 'Port land yesterday arid today . recom mended only $25,000 for imme diate future construction. Financing of the dormitory and student center projects at the six colleges will be from student though it may arrive too lute to prevent damage to Northern rlor- ida's citrus and vegetable crops. Overnight readings again plunged to near two below zero in the Great Lakes region and the Northeast, with below freezing weather ranging southward through the Ohio Valley into the Gulf Coast stales. The intense cold in the South land readied into Northern Fori da for the second night, threaten ing to frost crops in the area. Snow flurries swirled across the Great Lakes region during the night and into parts of the Ohio Valley and New England, with the heaviest snow falling in West ern New York. The Weather Bureau at Buffalo-, N.Y., warned of a five-to-10-inch accumulation in the area with poor visibility due to blowing and drifting snow. Scattered flurries swept the Great Lakes. An accumulation of two inches was expected today at Detroit. Light snow also hit Western Pennsylvania, along with high winds which piled up drifts and made driving hazardous. In the Northern Great Lakes, where readings again skidded be low the zero mark, Coast Guard ice breakers cleared a path for freighters to return to their win ter berths before the Soo Locks closed at midnight, officially end ing the 1958 shipping season. The stragglers were .routed through the St. Mary's River into the low er lakes. In Chicago, which is heading for its coldest December on record. the Weather Bureau warned the warming trend was expected to be short lived. A 30-day outlook from the U.S. Weather Bureau's office in Chicago predicted more below normal temperatures for the eastern half of the nation. Weathermen said the cold wave set records in parts of the Mid west, for duration and intensity. The. Indianapolis Weather Bureau said "This has been the coldest first two weeks of December on record since 1871. Wisconsin had 11 straight days of sub-zero tem peratures during the same period. In contrast to the rest of the nation, Northern California was experiencing a record warm, dry December. In the southern part of the state, lack of moisture ham pered fire fighters battling a brush fire near San Juan Capis-trano. do not include packages or letters stamped be fore reaching the post office, Postmaster Vic tor Eckley reported. Eckley is using eight extra men, along with 24 regular men to handle the seasonal high incoming and outgoing loads. Outgoing peak should be reached this week, and incoming peak next week, Eckley said. He said "local "people have been very cooperative in bundling letters and mailing early. fees, United Press, International reported this morning. The board now "lias $190,000 in this fund and would issue bonds to raise.nd dltional money.' ''T!' The long-range plans for Hoke Hall calls for construction of a structure for both classroom and laboratory work and student ac tivities. Since part of the struc ture would be for classes and laboratories, part of the funds for the building would be tax money, college officials explain ed. In case of yesterday's recom mendation, the committee recom mended that $25,000 could be "borrowed" for Hoke Hall con struclion. The money, possibly uotten from a bond issue, would be repaid from student fees. Chancellor John R. Richards told the board today that it could issue the bonds without legisla tive action (for the $4,780,000 pro jects), because the over all sum of more than nine million dol lars falls within the $15,350,000 statutory limitation fixed by the Legislature. The nine million dol lar figure includes the building recommendations yesterday and a board approval last October to borrow $4,460,000 to build dormi lory and housing projects during the next biennium. Largest projects planned in the student center program are $1,- 525,000 for an addition to the Memorial Union building at Ore gon Slate and $1,475,000 for an addition to the Portland State College center. Also included in the board's proposals are plans to borrow: $835,000 for Student Center and commons, at Oregon College of Education; $200,000 for a student health service addition at Oregon State College and $440,000 for an Erb Memorial Union addition at University of Oregon. The board retails a balance of $50,000 for the Britt Student Center completion at Southern Oregon College, also in the plan ning stage. Original plans for the Hoke Hall addition, the $180,000 struc ture, is for the 1050-60 school year. Reward Posted For Information "PORTLAND (UPI)-A $500 re ward has been offered for infor mation leading to the discovery of the whereabouts of the Kenneth R. Martin family of Portland, missing since Dec. 7. Mrs. H. A. Dorsey of Portalnd, a sister of Martin, said she and members of her family and friends raised the money to en courage the continuance of the search for Mr and Mrs. Martin and their three daughters. The organized hunt' for the fam ily has been abandoned but friends and relatives were con tinuing to retrace some of the territory in the hunt area. Gas Barge Explodes At Pasco PASCO. Wash. (UPI) A barge unloading its cargo of gasoline ex ploded here this morning, causing a fire which threatened lfi storage tanks before it was brought under control. The barge. City of Longview No. 535. had Dumped out most of its cargo of 328,000 gallons but still had about 50,000 gallons aboard when the explosion occurred. The blast rattled windows a mile away and hurled a portion of the superstructure 75 feet. A portion of the barge remained above water and burned fiercely. Flames swept beneath the dock causing about $25,000 damage to the dock, Pasco Fire Chief Lylc Cooney said. ; Walter Pirtle, 29, Kennewick, Wash.,- was hurled into the water but made it to shore and was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital here where his condition was reported as fair. The storage tanks, about 150 feet from-' the barge fire, were kept drenched to prevent any ex plosion. .-,'.- Cause of the explosion was not known. Firemen fought the blaze for more than three hours before bringing it under control. Junior High Program Set The annual La Grande Junior High School-Christmas program, open free to the public, will be held at 8 p.m. .Wednesday in tho school gymnasium. ,'' -'. The ' program? will,, feature se lections by the school band, or chestra, eighth grade girls' chor us, ninth grade girls' chorus and the ninth grade girls' ensemble. Donald Scott will direct .the band, Otto Wcigel will handle'the orchestra and Betty Faulkner will direct the choruses. A highlight of the. evening will be the final performance, when 'he traditional "living Christmas tree" is formed by the choruses and band members, all singing Christmas carols. 1 The various groups will pre sent nine selections plus the "living Christmas tree" grande finale. - Ray bum Asked ToBackChange WASHINGTON (UPI) Liberal Democrats in the House put it squarely up to Speaker Sam Ray burn today to support their pro posed change in House rules. Otherwise they said much of the legislation to which the Democrat ic Party is pledged probably can't be enacted by the 86th uongress. They denied they were in revolt against the House leadership, They pledged their whole-hearted support and admiration for Ray burn and House Democratic Lead er John W. McCormack (Mass.). Without the speaker's support, liberal spokesmen said, they haven't a chance to put across the curb they seek on broad ex isting authority of the conserva tive House Rules Committee. They said that as a group they probably won't even try unless the speaker gives his assent. However, some individuals among the 100 or so members for whom the group claimed to speak said they will make the pitch anyway, first in the Democratic caucus and then in the House, on open ing day of the new Congress. Group leaders, including nep. Frank Thompson Jr., (N.J.), were drafting messages for Ray burn and McCormack today out lining the liberal contentions and suggesting conferences with the two leaders sometime before Jan. 7, the fisrt day of the session. W. Brownton To Speak At Farm Bureau Meet talking on the "Fundamentals of our demo cratic, free enterprise way of life," will be the main speaker at the T.s r.nnHi Form Bureau Cen ter monthly meeting in Island City Thursday night. A 7:30 p.m. potluck dinner will be held in advance of the meet ing, and Instrumental music will be presented by La Grande llign School students. Knnta flunk will also make a visit to give treats to youngsters. Rejects Red Repudiation Of Agreements On City PARIS (UPD The North At lantic allies reaffirmed solemnly today the West's determination to remain in Berlin regardless of So viet threats. At the same time, they rejected Russia's one-sided repudiation of international agreements on the isolated city. However, they kept the door open for East-West negotiations on Brush Fire Rages Out Of Control SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (UPD A gigantic brush fire that has blackened nearly 40,000 acres and destroyed 17 homes raged out of control today -toward a popu lated area. About 1,100 firefighters manned lines around the 90-mile perim eter of the blaze. Officials report ed the blaze has been about 50 per cent contained but said it was burning out of control along the north and headed toward an area known as Trabuco Canyon. Elmer Osterman, fire coordina tor for tho State Division of For estry said the blaze at its closest point was about a mile and a half from homes in the canyon but that they were in no immediate danger. Firemen said depending on weather conditions complete con trol could not be expected before late today. , The .huge blaze, .. the ; second large brush fire in southern Cal ifornia in two weeks, broke out Sunday and, pushed along by 4 -mile-an-hour winds, spread quickly through the tinder dry canyons and mountains in Cleveland Na tional Forest. Walls of flame 40 and 50 reel high cut a swath through the brush and small tree-covered can yons and steep mountain-sides to San Juan Hot Springs about 10 miles north of this historic mis sion town and destroyed 17 sum mer cabins. All residents In the burned area had been evacuated and no In juries have been reported. , Scientist Kills Student BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI) -A scientist who befriended and housed a student from Germany killed the University of California junior today because he' suspected him of having had a love affair with his wife. John W. Hampton, 31, a Ph.D research scientist for an oil com pany, told police he had carefully planned to kill Wolfgang Ludwig Marx, 26. He had resigned from his job effective today. About midnight, Hampton said, he finished his fifth martini of the night, put a .22 caliber pistol in hs belt, and went stalking the campus for Marx, who had a room in Hampton s home. After search ing in coffee shops and all-night bookstores he found his victim working on an experiment in a third floor physics laboratory in LeConte Hall. A LeConte Hall ' janitor saw Hampton fleeing after the slaying A half hour later tho scientist re turned to the building and was captured in a light-well where he was trying to recover the pistol, thrown there after the shooting. Girl Perishes In Athena Fire ATHENA, Ore. (UPI) Eleven year-old Cathy Ball, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ball, died early today in a fire that destroy ed their home in this northeastern Oregon community, The mother, Mrs. Eunice Ball. managed to save their six-year-old daughter, Connie. Cathy, who had gone to bed in a front room, apparently ran to a rear bedroom and hid under the bed, where her body was found after firemen had managed to cool the area sufficiently to enter. Lawrence Ball was taken to a Pendleton hospital with cuts on his arms suffered, authorities said, when he jumped from a rear window. The fire broke out about S a.m. Firemen said its origin had not been determined. . Germany as a whole, though not on Berlin alone. . .. They did so in a brief joint dec laration pledging the entire 15 nation NATO alliance to support' Berlin and reject the Soviet ulti matum to the West to get out. The declaration was drafted by a six-nation group consisting -M the United States, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy and Canada. It was being approved by the full NATO Council and was ex pected to be published this even ing. Agreement on the broad outlines of the declaration was reached by the NATO Council this morniqg after Secretary of Slate John Fos ter Dulles told the 15-nation group; that the Soviets would not risk war over Berlin. " Alhough the declaration . indi cated the West's willingness to ne gotiate on Germany with the So viets, it did not set any date for the talks or propose whether they, would be in (he form of a summit meeting, a foreign ministers', get together, or simple diplomatic talks. - ; Authoritative sources said the NATO statement set out the broad outlines of the reply the , West plans to send to the Soviet Pre mier's note of Nov. 27 calling, on the western allies to get out of Berlin. The official pact spokesman said Dulles told the council that giving an inch to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Berlin would be '"'a beginning that might end in dis aster." - The U.S. leader told America's allies that they arc strong enough to ignore the Kremlin's propagan da threats.- , .'. ."Wq do not .need to worry about Soviet threats -f" he soldi ."i, am quite certain tne soviet union win not risk war over Berlin. There fore, we' can proceed with 'confi dence." . Before beginning the 2k ' hour Closed session, the council heard a "tough, hard-hitting" speech by its president, Dutch Foreign Min ister J.M.A.H. Luns. Conference sources said Luns told the council that western aban donment of Berlin would amount to "abdication by the Free World." Earlier today, authoritative dip; lomatlc sources said the pact, de spite its unanimity on the ques tions of Germany and Berlin, has developed "alarming rifts" on Oth er Issues. They said France is at odds with the United States and Britain over a French proposal for Big Three "leadership" of the pact, and with Britain alone in a dispute over European trade. . Toduy's council decision ratified the stand taken by the United States, Britain, West Germany and France in preliminary talks here. The western "big four" had been waiting only for formal coun cil approval before drafting notes to the Kremlin. ;..' Radio Moscow charged . in -a broadcast beamed to English lis teners early today that the West jrn powers "want to perpetuate the occupation of West Berlin:" Secretary of Stale John Foster Dulles met Premier Charles de Gaulle Monday to discuss France's differences with its al lies, notably over the idea that the United States, Britain and France should form a sort of "super-group" to formulate policy for the entire pact. De Gaulle was said also to be disturbed over the U.S., failure jo take sides in last week's U.N; vote on Algeria. ' ' .... $ The British-French trade wrang le was the chief subject at a meeting of the Council of the Or ganization for European Econom ic Cooperation, which adjourned Monday until Jan. 15 without solv. ing the problem. Britain is trying to set up a J nation "free trade area" in Westr em Europe, while France favors a six-nation "common market' The controversy could kick off. a trade war capable of tearing the pact wide open. . .