o WEATHER Mostly cloudy through Wednesday with patches of. morning fog. High both days SB-44. Low tonight 28-34. van server Established i8$6 Daily xcpt Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1958 Price 5 Cents Satellite eos mfz. WSW I Cuban U Proqi am WASHINGTON UPI The United Slates plans to launch an average of two satellites a month In' 1959 while at the same time forging ahead with ballistic mis siles and other nuclear weapons to deter Russia from war. In the nip-and-luck race, Amer ica is credited by many experts with setting a faster pace in space exploration this year and holding its own in long-range missile de velopment. Scientists and military men hail the talking Atlas satellite launched Dec. 18 as evidence of spectacu lar performance by a nation caught flat-footed by Russia's first Sputnik 14 months ago. In the weapons field as 1958 ends, American Thor missiles are installed in. Britain in at least small numbers, ready to hurl atomic retaliation if Russia pro vokes war. American Jupiter missiles of the same range are ready for deploy ment to Italy. " Russia is credited officially here with having operational missiles with ranges up to 800 or 1,000 miles. She has not, apparently, de ployed those weapons to bases in her, Eastern .. European satellite countries. Both America and Russia are perfecting intercontinental ballistic missiles UCBM), but neither has them in service. The U.S. Atlas ICBM, one of which become the now-orbiting 8,700 pound satellite, is slated to enter Strategic Air Command units by the end of 1959; A test Atlas has been fired 6,300 miles down the Atlantic missile range from Florida with consider able, accuracy, . Russia is believed to have fired her competing missiles 4,000 miles and the U.S. government accepts the reported Russian claim that it can. double-that grange. .- . ' . Two Burglary Suspects Held .An alert La Grande police of ficer, hours of interrogation by ,'hiof of Police O.. E. Reeve, and the use of teletype communication between here and ' Hood River resulted in the admission of a hood River burglary Dec. 22. " Police Officer Leslie L. Gil-i bert. yesterday spotted three young men ."acting suspicious" in . t heir. car. He "checked them out," and brought theni to the police station for further questioning. . Reeve contacted Hood River Sheriff Rupert Gillmouthe after it ' was learned the three men . were from the Hood River area. '. One of them, identified as Ros ser Payson Smith, 10, had given . pojice his name as James Arthur Arnet -and had a . drivers license social security card and other identification using that name. He finally .admitted his true name. Cecil Cedric Gabriel, 17, is al so held in the city jail in con nection with the store burglary wheih nottcd several cartons of cigarettes, 10 cases of beer, sev eral, cans of food, slabs of ba ton and ham and other groceries. - The third man brought in for questioning was Lowell Halm, 19, also from Hood River. lie is charge with driving a car with de tective brake? and defective muf- : tier. ;.. ; ; .'It was also' learned that Smith V wanted on charges of being , absent without leave from the Navy. ' Hood River county officials are .expected to come to La Grande today to talk with the three men and take Smith and Gabriel back with them on charges of burglar izing the . Niel Creek grocery store. : City Commission To Meet. Tonight Because of New Year's Eve Wednesday, the city commission will meet tonight This will be the last meeting for Commission President Robert McMillan who has served on the commission four years. . McMillan will be replaced as a member of the commission by William Herrmann at the first meeting of the commission after the first of the year. Also after the first of the year the commis sion will vote on a new president. The Tuesday meeting will &tart at 7:30 p. m. on the sec end floor of the city hall building. Publicized ' ! MARCH OF DIMES Members of Alpha Upsilon chapter of Beta Sigma Phi worked last night preparing Maren of Dimes folders for mailing. The annual drive for polio funds will get under way early in January here under the direction of A. B. (Spud) Olson. Ike To Give Talk In Person GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPD The White House announced to day that President Eisenhower will deliver his Slate of the Union Message in person to a joint ses sion of Congress Jan. 9. The document will be a broad ly based review , of world, and na tional affairs and will be followed later by special messages on spe cific domestic problems. The President is devoting much of his New Year's holiday on his farm to work on the slate of the union and the message to Con gress later next month which will acompanying his 77 billion dollar budget. A preliminary draft of the Slate of the Union message was under study in Washington at the White House today. The President sum moned his chief assistant, Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, and Dr. Malcolm Moos, the top White House speech writer, to Gettys burg Wednesday for a conference on the highly important message. The new Congress opens Jan. 7. Press Secretary James C. Hag- erty confirmed reports that the White House was studying a pro posed reorganization and consoli dation of the management activi ties of the executive ofifecs of the President. Hagerty hoped before the day was over to announce the detailed plans for Eisenhower's ceremon ial signing late this week of the proclamation formally admitting Alaska, to the union as the 49th state. Plane Crashes Into Water RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil lUPIi A twin-engine Swedish built Scandia plane of the Bra zilian domestic airline Vasp plunged into Guanahara Bay be fore hundreds of beachfront on lookers today and sank within three minutes. Observers at the scene said no one was killed, and only a few persons aboard were injured. The plane took off for Sao Paulo from Sanlos Dumont Field with 31 passengers and four crew men aboard. One engine caught fire and. the pilot attempted to circle back to the airport. But he did not have enough al titude and the plane hit the water about 200 yards short of the run way and . 250 yards from the fashionable Hotel Gloria. Passengers scrambled out of the wreckage before the aircraft sank. Small boats immediately x-gan picking thorn up and car ried them ashore. .LIBRARY CLOSURE SET Persons expecting to read a ood library book New Year's o or during a lull in the Rose owl football game, should go to lie La Grande library before 5 uoranan miss Mabel Doty ,;:ia me iiorary wouia remain closed New Year's Day, ff i X s J 1 ' y- uvrJi v yy vu k iv W. Europe's Strong After LONDON (UPD-West Europe's economy bounced back strongly today from ils first big post-war dose of freedom, and economic experts said the way was now clear to import morgMyf1.inij4, uanaaian consumer goods. The i British pound sterling, which , any foreigner now can change for U.S. and Canadian dollars, kicked off ils second control-free day with a new showing of strength. Continental curren Holiday Funds Aid Needy Christmas for the needy in the La Grande area this year was the "finest in history, thanks to the generosity of area residents," Lt. Oakley Summers, commander of Ihe SA here, said this morning. Through the SA Christmas Ap peal drive, which includes dona tions through the 'buckets' down town and through mail solicita tions, the army collected $1,789.23 to aid needy families during the holiday season, setting a new record. "This was by far the finest ef fort in history here of the Christ mas Appeal," he said, "and the' army wants to conve y its warmest ihanks to the people in this area (or their donations to assist their fellowmen during the holiday sea son." Summers said the army spent "about $400 more on Christmas baskets and toys this year, than in 1957 which had been the best year previously. He said 92 fam ilies, which included 552 persons,1 were presented baskets this year compared to 71 families last year. Each basket was valued at ap proximately $10. This year 411 toys were distribut ed to children compared to 226 last year; 150 persons were visited and presented gifts in various in stitutions, jails and at Hot Lake; 207 children attended the Chil dren's Christmas party where 170 attended last year 700 per sons re ccivd th spcial SA Christmas mes sage publication and hospitals were visited. Lt. Summers said 11 families were referred to other agencies for Christmas relief. The SA and Christmas Appeal Chairman Ken Lilliard again wish ed lo thank residents here for their generosity during the Christmas season. BULLETIN CHICAGO (UPI) - Twelve ounce Gloria Hanses, who H she had lived would have tied the record for the smallest baby lo survive, died today In her third day. Front row, left to right. Alma Hornfelt (back to camera); Linda Sands, Helen Knause, Mary Bea Jenkins and Phyllis Tarter. Back row, from left, Alidean McMaster, Jean Sidor and Pat Young. i - (Observer Photo) Economy Freedom cies followed suit. The biggest sour note in a gen erally bright European economic picture came from France. Com munist - dominated labor; unions .there rumlJled omlnouslyj)gaj'st the heavy doses of austerity or dered by the De Gaulle govern ment. , President - elect Charles de Gaulle's ability to enforce a stern belt-tightening financial program to keep France's newly devalued franc in line would be the first showdown test of his govern ments authority. Western Europe got its econom ic boost Monday" when Britain and ten continental neighbors made their currencies "external ly convertible" meaning that any foreigner could convert the cur rencies almost without restrictions into dollars and other hard cur rencies. It was a daring move designed to restore sound money in Europe and first results were promising. British financial experts said there now is no resoan why Brit ain and other Western European nations should not progressively step up their imports of consum er goods from the United Slates and Canada. Hitherto, because of a shortage of dollars, most Western Europe an countries have had to limit their dollar area purchases to heavy capital goods and vital nec essary commodities like oil and coal. But now American cigarettes. coffee, breakfast foods, canned goods and oilier consumer items for which Europeans have been "starving" for years are likely to cross the Atlantic in increasing quantities. West Europe s foreign exchange markets and stock exchanges re acted enthusiastically to the new situation. The pound sterling and most continental currencies stood firm all day Monday and opened strongly again this morning. Dufur Man Gets Wheat League Job PENDLETON The appoint ment of Andrew J. Ward, Jr.-, Dufur, as Assistant Secretary of the Oregon Wheat Growers Lea gue was announced today by President Frank Tubbs, Adams 'ancher. Ward, who has been do ing graduate work in agriculture at Oregon Slate College, will as sume his post with the League of fices in Pendleton on January 2. Ward fills the vacancy created this fall when Jim Hutchinson bc- :ame far east marketing direc tor for the Wheat League in Ja :ian. As assistant secretary, Ward will work with League officers jnd committees, and county wheat growers associations, as well as with the Oregon Wheat Commission, in helping to carry out the growers' varied program of activities. A portion of his time will be devoted to League publicity. jj i fl Prizes Await ContestWinner Among other awards, the girl selected as Miss Oregon Centen nial in Portland next summer, will receive a trip lo Hawaii, a trip to Atlantic City lo participate in the Miss American pageant, a col lege scholarship from the Pepsi- Cola Company and will reign over the Oregon Centennial during 1959, according to Dale McKeo, publlicy director for the local 1959 slate The winner of the Union county "Miss Centennial" contest, slated here Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, in conjunction with a Birthday Ball, and her two princesses will bo entered in the Miss Oregon Ccn- tenial contest. McKee also reported that the Oregon Pageant committee in Poriland has agreed lo cooperate in sponsoring a Miss Oregon Cen tennial contest to select a Miss Oregon for 1959. McKee urged local groups and business organizations lo sponsor an entry in the local queen con test. Only cost to the sponsor is a $2 entry fee, he said. The entry must be between the ages of 18 and 21, unmarried, and free to reign over Union county festiv ities throughout the year if she is selected as queen. He said that the Miss Oregon pageant commitleeo will send a representative lo work with the county committee lo organize the local pageant. Entry blanks for the contest may be secured at the county centennial office in the Saeajawea Hotel, McKee said. Car Report Stirs Brief Flurry Of Excitement In Hunt For 5 PORTLAND (UPI) A report that a station wagon similar to the one belonging to the missing Ken Martin family was seen here Monday night touched off a brief flurry of excitement. Police set up roadblocks at Cas cade Locks and on the Ml. Hood highway after a service station attendant east of here reported selling gasoline to two men in a 1954 Ford station wagon painted cream with a red trim. This was the type of car Martin was driv ing when he and his wife and three daughters, of Portland, van ished Dec. 7 after going on a Christmas tree hunting trip. However, search for a vehicle bearing the Martin's license num ber 1G-7150 proved fruitless. The attendant had said the digits 7150 "seemed to stick" in his mind. Later a similar vehicle was reported to have stopped at a PLANE CRASH KILLS TWO PORTLAND (UPI) A light plane crashed near the Baldock freeway about 15 miles south of here today, killing its two young occupants. The victims were identified by sate police as Jorald Wayne Hal let, 18, and Harold Richard Mon roe Jr., both of Los Angeles. EnpDosives struck into tne noun oi nuvami Province today with a dining raid on an explosives depot in which l hey dynamited the huge stoics m' I ammiinilion they couui noi carry ."jiUway. ii 1'he rniil on a nrivatcly owned explosives depot at Cuanubacon across the bay from Havana iol lowcd rebel . claims to have smashed government forces in Central and Eastern Cuba. The Snowstorm Lashes Southwest United Press International A record southwestern snow storm raged through the night crippling traffic and stranding motorists in parts of Texas, Okla homa and New Mexico. A record 14 inches of snow slalled traffic ' in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, snapping utility lines and knocking out electricity lo at least 50,000 persons. Up to 15 inches of snow hit oth er sections of the southern plains of New Mexico and drifting snow of six to seven inches swept the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles Drifts of nearly eight feet closed all roads in the Oklahoma panhandle during the night, and other roads in central and north western Oklahoma were reported as hazardous with packed snow and freezing ram. In Texas, scores of persons were stranded by the heavy snow along U.S. 287 from Amarillo to Dumas Monday before highway crews opened the highway Mon flnv nielli . - " the Texas Highway Patrol said roads 4nlOj.New,. Mexico flortlv of Amarillo were blocked by' snow: and plows worked through " the nicht to restore traffic. The snow storm was blamed for a car-truck crash Monday which killed Mrs. Elizabeth O'Dell Whiteside, 39, Amarillo, and her daughtcr.Tanya, 10, at Vernon, Tex. , ' The snowstorm continued dur ing the night from Oklahoma and southwest Kansas westward into southern Colorado and eastern New Mexico. An 18-inch snowfall buried Fra zer. Colo.. Trinidad. Colo., re ported five inches and Denver had one inch. Warmer temperatures in the 30s nnd 40s nrcvai ed in the Ohio vai ley and the Atlantic Coast and in the Pacific Coast states. Itain continued in the East from east ern Virginia and southeast Penn sylvania into southeastern New York. MOLESTOR REPORTED PORTLAND (UPD A 20-year-old woman told police a young man assaulted her Monday night and threatened to choke her be fore fleeing when he heard some one approaching. The incident oc curred at the street subway of North Broadway and Interstate, lt was the fourth such incident reported to police in the past week. Troutdale store. i Meanwhile, authorities were ready to write off as a possible clue an abandoned 1951 car found east of Cascade Locks. The car, beglonging to Mario Alvarez of Los Angeles, was reported Mon day lo have been in Los Angeles Dec. 9. two days after the Mar tins disappeared. Alvarez said he loaned the car to Lester Price. A service station operator in Los Angeles reported selling Price gasoline Dec. 9 and said he had a credit slip signed by Price. Price also picked up his pay check Dec. 8 at a printing llrm according to a spokesman for the firm. . Two other possible leads still were being checked out. A wom an's clove found near the high way cast of Cascade Locks was sent to the r Hi laD tor cnccKing Two hunters reported they had seen a vehicle resembling the Martin car In the Lolo Pass area northwest of ML Hood Dec. 7. A re-check of this area was sched uled. ' i The best clue to the Martin's disappearance was a credit slip indicating they purchased gasoline at Cascade Locks, cast of here on the Columbia River highway, the day they vanished, rebels were boasting they were "at I lie doors of triumph." Government sources disrupted the sweeping rebel claims but ad mitted there was heavy fighting around the city of Simla Clara in Central Cuba where the rebels have claimed major successes in si reel fighting. '1'ho army said ils forces were on the offensive in Ccnlrul Cuba and were driving the rebels ahead of Ihem despite rebel propaganda Floor Leader Nominees Told WASHINGTON (UPD Liberal Senule Republicans today picked Sen. John S. Cooper iKy.) as their candidulc for GOP floor leader in their uphill buttle to prevent Sen. Everett M. Dirksen Ull.) from winning Ihe post. The liberals also nominated Sen. Thomas II. Kuchel (Calif.) as their candidate for party whip. Sen. George Aiken (Vt.) told newsmen the liberal Republicans believe both candidal es "have an excellent chance to win." However, an informal poll of Senate Republicans indicated that Dirksen, who served as party whip in the last Congress, was well out in front in the battle for the floor leader post left vacant by Ihe retirement of Sen. William F. Knowland (Calif.) Only eight members of the lib eral bloc attended the 2',ii-hour caucus at which the liberals se lected their candidates for the two top posts. They postponed un til later their nominations for three other GOP posts in Ihe Sen ale. The selection of Cooper upset advance indications that Aiken, 60, senior member of their group, was likely to get Hie nod. (A poll by United Press Inter national showed Dirksen hud 12 publicly --.-committed '.votes, some hedged, against 10 for the yet un chosen liberal candidate. Eighteen of the 34 GOP votes would be needed to win. ' Mrs. Duncan Faces Charge VENTURA, CALIF. (UPI)-A 54-year-old mother whose fear of losing her son allegedly led her to mastermind the "for hire" slaying of her dauglilcr-ln-law will be arraigned on a murder charge today along with two con fessed killers. Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, a San-la-Barbara, Calif., matron, and Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, 22, confessed killers were indicted by the grand jury Fri day for the bludgeon-strangulation of Olga Duncan, 30. District Attorney Roy Gustaf son said he would seek the death penalty against all three when the case comes to court. The attractive victim who was seven-months pregnant when she was killed Nov. 17 had married attorney Frank Duncan, 29, last June 20. They separated only two weeks later but continued to ser each oilier and were planning a reconciliation at the time of the slaying, according to Duncan. At the same time the three de fendants accused of Olga's death were to be arraigned, it was be lieved a private funeral service for the attractive Canadian-born nurse would be held at the First Methodist Church. Olga's futher, Elias Kupczyk, 01, a railroad worker from Be nito, Manitoba, Canada, arrived in Los Angeles, about (15 miles south of here, on Sunday and Monday held a tearful meeting with Duncan. They had never met before. , Kupczyk and his son-in-law agreed to comply with a wish ex pressed by Olga several years ago that she be cremated. They said cremation would take place at Ivy "Lawn Memorial Park. Teen Dance Set Tomorrow Night Youth Activity Committee spokes men said this morning that a teen age "New Year's Dance" would be held at the armory tomorrow night from 9 p.m. lo 12:30 a.m. ' Music for the holiday dance will be provided by records and regular admission charges will be made. They also reminded ten-age girls that either dresses or sweater and skirts must be worn to the dance. Pedal-pushers are out, according to the committee. All ten-agers in the area are being urged to come and make the dance a happy holiday affair. broadcasts lo "create unrest." The blast of the Gunmibucoa ex-' plosives were heard in lower Ha vana. Police called in all reserves' and alorled the 19 precinct sta-' tions in ihe Greater Havana area. Heads and airpnils were blocked off. First reports said several armed men aboard a six-wheeled truck pulled up in front of the explosives storage of the Armcra de Cuba, importers of explosives, at B:30 a.m. and Willi the aid of two of (he three soldiers on guard loaded Ihn v,.hi,.,, They lied up a civilian walch man and the third soldier and dy namited what explosives were left. Police established roadblocks in Ihe area, adjacent the Hebrew cemetery in Guanabacoa, and al so pul on a special guard at the -private airport in nearby Bacura nao. Roads leading out of Havana also were placed under vigilance, particularly the Central Highway leading lo Pinar del Rio Province 1 at Ihe western end of the island, It was the second rebel-authored incident of sabotage in Havana Province in 12 hours. A small bridge was blown up Monday night at Guira de Melana. At the same time a new radio station which identified itself as the "Voice of the Communist ' Party" appealed to all workers ' and members of the party to join forces against the "last stand of the dictator" President Fulgencia Batista. Rebel radio broadcasts said in surgent forces had captured 80 per cent of the rich farming prov ince of Las Villas in Central Cuba in a major rebel victory that would cut the island almost in two-and seal off Havana from its iooa supplies. Other broadcasts reported sweeping victories in Oriente Province, the center of rebel ac tivity in easternmost Cuba. Rebel ladtftfr said the army'"wos orf the run in many areas falling back on the provincial capital of San tiago. - .; The government bombed the rebr els ' relentlessly in around-the-clock bombing and strafing at tacks In perhaps the- heaviest fighting of the Fidel Castro-led revolution, but heavy street fight-. ing was reported underway .in Santa Clara, the capital of Las' Villas Province, 100 miles east of UUYUIIU. ....- Santa Clara, a city of 150,000, is one of the principal communi cation centers of Cuba. It con trols all main north-south and east-west railroads and highways and supplies Havana with -much of its meat, sugar, coffee and to bacco. Already a meat shortage was reported in Havana. A rebel broadcast said their troops smashed through govern ment lines to enter the city of Santa Clara and capture the Uni versity of Santa Clara three miles from Ihe city limits. It said "ar my forces fell bock towards the Leoncio Vidal Barracks," head quarters of the Third Military District. The radio said the rebels were r.A hi, n KVncn nn,n..n it u uj . iji ui.aiu uuciuia, u left-wing Argentine-born physician vho successfully assaulted nearby cities last week. A new station heard in Havana, which claimed to be pro-rebel. hailed him as a "Communist com rade." ' A report from central Cuba said the rebels were planning to form a provisional government at Cni baiguan, 25 miles southeast of Snnla Clara, under Dr. Manuel Urrutia, a former Oriente Prov ince judge who fled into exile n the United Slates and returned to Cuba recently. Fire Siren Will j Test New Alarm The La Grande fire siren will sound at 7 p.m. today,' but unless something unforeseen happens, .1 will be only to try out a new fire box and call paid and volun Irer firemen to drill. Fire 'Chief Roy Snider this morning said a new fire alarm box has been installed bv thn it S. National Bank, and the siren will be set off from, that box to iry it out. . A high voltage wire last sum-Mcr-was blown into the city fire ilarm wiring system and burned ul the old box by the bank. 'BIG 3, NIX OUSTER WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States, Britain and France today sent to Moscow their firrn rejection of Russia's demand that the western Big Three get out ;of Berlin by June 1, v.,