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O Daily except Sunday ... - v't u ; v II m t , BELLY OP The Blue Mountain Air Service Steerman, which cracked-up while (praying wheat near Imbler yesterday morning, liei belly up neer the railroad track next to Highway 12. Pilot Lyle Flick of Cove, ex-Navy pilot, re ported he suddenly "ran out of air" as the Tax Committee Sticks To Guns On Revisions By JAMES D. OLSON United Press International SALEM (UPI) . The Senate Tax Committee stuck to its guns . today in its revision of the House approved income tax measure and " refused to go along ;with a proposal which would have hiked income taxes. , ,' Thus, a wide difference re mained betwecrf tbv upper and "lower houses" m taxes. The 1959 Mt. Emily District Scouts Prepare For Saturday Show Hundreds cf Boy Scouts in this area, along with adult leaders arc working against time getting stage settings ready for the pag eant scheduled in the Ackerman gymnasium at 7:30 p. m. Satur day. The pageant, the first such event bcrc by Boy Scouts in the past four years, will have as its underlying theme "boys growth from dependence of family to in dependence of young adulthood." The medium for the pageant will be a simulated wagon train I rip from Independence, Mo. to Independence, Ore. Pageant plans .were . made prior to the an nouncement of such an actual trip by a real life group now making such a trip, local Scout ing officials reported. An estimated 500 Boy Sccul.s in the Mt. Emily district will participate in the two-hnuf pro , gram for which Scouts and lcad ' crs are now - constructing stage settings. One unit. Troop 100 of La Grande, under the leadership if Scoutmaster Thomas Wallsing er, is building a replica of the village cf Independence, Mo. An other unit, Troop 114 is building a "mountain,"' over which the pioneers" must travel to reach Oregon. ' The pageant will be divided in to seven acts, with the opening cvont to highlight-an Order of the Arrow dance , team from Walla Walla, Pendleton, Richland, Pasco and Kcnncwick. The Order of the Arrow is a national camp ing honorary Boy Scout society. Another opening highlight will be music by the state champion Musicians Explorer Post 133 of Baker. This is a drum and bugle crganizaticn. The Boy Scouts from virtually JOIN! the ranks of many classified users Sell your don't needs the easy way Says Mrs. Campbell: "We got results the first day our ad ap peared. Classified ads get quick results." Two 26 inch boys' bikes. Ex . ecllent condition. WO xxxx. It's Easy To Place. A Clas sified ad Jusi Dial WO 3-3161 La Grande Evening Observer session was in its 109th day to day. ' The Senate committee, by a 5 to 2 vote, Thursday night reported out "do pass" a bill calling for a vote in 1960 on a three per cent sales tax and another- containing only one change In the Oregon tax structure. The change would reduce' the dependency credit by sioo from S600 to S500. ' V The House version colled, for elimination of the "credit for fed- all towns of this area will be demonstrating various scouting skills in their travels from In 'lependence, Mo. to Independence, Ore. The "pioneers" will be im peded in their travels by rivers and unfriendly Indians. In some cases they will . be aided by friendly Indians and trappers living in wilderness areas. The group of boys will reach "independence of life" by arriv ing at 'Independence, Ore. by ap proaching and entering a replica of that town being built in ad vance of the program Bishop Takes Billy To Task BRISBANE, Australia - UPI Anglican Bishop T. B. McCall of Rockhampton said today the re vivalist methods of Billy Graham are in some ways "objectionable, dishonest, distressing and disgust ing." The bishop, writing in the offi cial magazine of his diocese, spec ifically challenged the Graham method of counting "conversions." He cited an Instance when a priest from the Rockhampton dio cese was present at a Graham meeting. ' , "A man stood up and made an emotional speech, at the 'end of which he asked all those 'who ac cepted the Lord Jesus as their personal savior' to stand up," he wrote. "Naturally, the priest felt he must -.stand. . . "Those who stood were counted as conversions, although they all were already devout followers of their Lord and Master. This sort of thing is both objectlonal and dishonest. In Sydney, where the American evangelist ' is now preaching,' . a spokesman' for his organization said the bishop "used language a little stronger than probably was necessary." Jerry Beavan, director of the Graham organization, said people who stand at its meetings are called "inquirers who came for ward for counseling" or persons making "decisions for Christ" rather than converts. Another Anglican prelate, Bishop E. H, Burgmahh of Canberra and Goulbum, agreed that his col league had been unduly harsh. "I criticize some of Graham's methods! but I have no evidence to suggest that any of their as pects are 'objectionable, dishon est, distressing or disgusting,' " he said. , plane was turning to make spray run. Heavy winds and squall storms yesterday apparently created air pockets. The plane was extensively' damaged but will be repaired. Flick was net in jured. (Observer Photo) eral Income taxes but this was eliminated by the Senate commit tee along with every other section of the House program. Back To Original Plan The action took place after the committee had been informed that Ways and Means Committee action Wednesday night has in creased the state's financial needs for the next two years from about 311 M million dollar. "This -was due to abandonment of a plan to finance part of the Board of Higher Education's buildings with revenue bonds. At an afternoon session Thurs day the plan to eliminate the credit for federal taxes paid was considered. But in the evening the committee went back to its origi nal version of the two bills. In addition Sen. Ward Cook ID Portland), co-chairman of the Committee, said he would tell Ways and Means that the Senate Tax Committee had passed out bills v.'hich would raise only 310 million. He added members were not happy with discarding of the revenue bond plan. Yturri, Swaatland Vote No Favoring the tax package voted out were Cook, Sen. Ben Musa D-The Dalles); Sen. Harry Boi- vin (D-Klamalh Falls), Sen. Don ald Husband (R-Eugenc), and Sen. Boyd Ovcrhulse (D-Madras.) Opposing it were Sens. Monroe Swcctland (D-Milwaukie) and An thony Yturri (R-Ontario.) Yturri said he felt a sales lax was the wrong approach. Swcct land who also opposes a sales tax, said he did not feel the Com mittee had provided enough mon ey. . . ine bills proDamy will not come up for debate and vote until the Senate Thursday adopted a sine die resolution calling for the end of the session at S p.m. Sat urday. But this -must be passed by the House bpfore it has any effect. It is not considered likely the House will concur in Senate amendments to the income tax program. Then it would be up to conference committees to decide on a tax program. Family Needed To House Foreign Exchange Student1 For A family in this area is being sought today who would house a foreign exchange high school stu dent for a year. Members of a committee work ing on the American Field Serv ice student exchange program is also, trying to establish a Commu nity Exchange Student Council to handle the program in the fu ture. The council would be com posed of representatives from various civic groups in the area. High School Principal Ron Walk said a Portland business man has pledged to pay the $650 scholarship to send a foreign student to La Grande High School. Local committee mem bers said an application for an exchange student for next' fall must be mailed to the American Field Service office in New York today. Established i8i LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1959 Foreign s Invaders Surrender PANAMA CITY (UPD Tho Organization of American States said the foreign invaders of Pan ama have agreed to surrender un conditionally today. The news the rebels had agreed to surrender was telephoned to Uruguayan ambassador Julio A. LaCarte, acting council chairman of the OAS. who is in Washington, by Ambassador Fernando Lobo of Brazil, head of an OAS commis sion flown here to investigate the situation. '"It looks like it's all over," La Carte told UPI in Washington. The five- nation investigation commission in Panama will super vise the surrender of the rebel held village of Nombre de Dios. Under the terms of the surrender, the rebels were to turn over their weapons to military observers with the OAS group. It was reported Cubans among the invading force would be re turned to their homeland .and tried there for endangering Cuba's neutrality. The reported agreement to sur render came a week after the small band of rebels, which was organized in and sailed from Cuba landed, on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Cesar Vega: commander of the invaders, said Thursday night his men would be willing to lay down their arms if they were promised immunity from trial. The Pana manian government today set the "unconditional surrender terms, however. Vega was brought to Panama City by helicopter, along with three lieutenants, to parley with Lobo, who is ambassador from Brazil, and Foreign Minister Mig uel Moreno and Interior Minister Jose D. Bazan. "We want a decorous solution which does not include our stand ing trial," Vega said. "We came here to liberate the people. We are told that everybody in 'Pana ma is against the government. May 1 Snow On Highways The calendar says today is May 1 but the weatherman doesn't be lieve it. , At noon today it was snowing along Highway 30 in the Mcacham and Ladd Canyon areas, with high ways covered with slush. It was also snowing on the Weston-Elgin hlchwav- with sn who. r rrt. side snow reported by tne state Police. An exception to the rule was rain on Highway 82. Continuing rain in La Grande has caused the cancellation of a scheduled 3 p.m. baseball game between Eastern Oregon College and Oregon College of Education and the Tu-Valley and Class A track meets slated this afternoon on the EOC campus has also been canceled. " . The application must include the names of one or more fam ilies who would take the respon sibility of taking a student into their homes for the school year. Local committee members said they hope to establish the Com munity Council to handle tho program paper work each year and also provide the money to carry out the program. With the scholarship money already pledg ed for this, coming year the council would be asked to con tribute funds for clothing and expense money for the youth and other such items, committee members said. The estimated cost of a two- student program which would in clude having a foreign student here and sending a local stuaeni to a foreign country, would be Candy Sale To Aid Boy UNION (Special) A special candy sale, at all three schools here, will be held Tuesday to secure funds for an operation on Allen Edvalson, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Edvalson of Union. The boy, who has been seri ously ill in the St. Joseph hospi tal in La Grande, was taken to a Portland hospital Thursday. ... A special fund also is being setup at the First National Bank here for the bay. Edvalson was taken to Port land in the Union ambulance. Albert George and Dick Trump were the drivers and Mrs. May Lay, registered nurse, accom panied the boy. Elgin Plans Centennial Celebration ELGIN (Special) Plans for an Indian Valley Centennial celebra tion are being completed here by the Chamber of Commerce. The celebration, including a 4-H Fair at the Stampede grounds the first day, will be held May 23 and 24. At a Chamber meeting this week, Bernal Hug suggested the need for a museum where antique! items could be displayed. Such a dis play, he said, should include a history of the town which was a meeting'" place for Indian tribes for a number of years. Chairman of committees dp pointed for a few of the events are; The Stampeders pony ex press race and pack horse race; Rod and Gun club a fast draw and archery contest; Em Adams rubber boat race; Ed Meslcr ancf Mike Chandler phone booth and volkswagon contest; Dick Lyman bicycle races and foot races; Betty Conley Ladies market basket and pancake race; and Lloyd Houscr to see about a collec tion of ancient cars In town. Log Sawing, ax cutting, com munity picnics or booths by or ganizations were discussed. Stampeders plan a dance for Saturday evening, May 23. Sun day plans were underway for a Community Inlcrfnith meeting, the Rev. Volncy Johnson is chairman of this committee. Tom Burton affercd the use of his building across' from Myers Super Market to be used tem porarily to display collections and antiques. The school will havo open house May 22. Another Council meeting will be held May 6, at 7:3,0 p.m., in the grade school , library. This will be to complete the plans for the centennial celebration. SPECIAL SPEAKERS La Grande area service clubs interested In having special speak ers in connection with Conserva tion week are asked to contact Ted Sidor or Ed Draper as soon as possible. Conservation Week be- Igins Sunday. One Year $1,800 a year. The committee believes that an additional $300 will be needed for the school term starling next fall. ' Walk said this morning the ap plication for a student this fail must be completed and sent out today. If a foreign exchange stu dent is available for this area, the American Field Service officials would have the local family in vestigated as to moral character, tne number of people in the fam ily, and the familys financial abil ity to house the student. The or ganization suggests that the fam ily be one with a student in high school, Walk said. La Grande Rotary club mem bers working on the program in clude Chairman Dr. Douglas Eu stace, Dr. Ray Murphy, T. A. Greulich and William Dowdy. b 11 Clare Boothe Luce ... resigns post Godfrey Told That He Has Lung Cancer By FREDERICK M. WINSHIP United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) Arthur Godfrey was told today that he had a part of his left lung re moved because of cancer and he received the news in "good spirits. A spokesman for the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center said that Godfrey, 55, had come through the post-operatlVe period satisfac torily and was wheeled from the operating room's recovery cham ber to his own room at 7 a.m. The entertainer underwent five hours of surgery Thursday after an exploratory operation revealed that a tumor in the upper lobe of his left lung was malignant. The surgeons would make no prediction about the possibility of a recurrence of the cancer. Issue Medical Report The morning bulletin on God frey today read: "Mr. Godfrey was taken from the recovery room to his room in harkness pavilion this morning at about 7 a.m. Ills doctors stated that his condition is entirely satis factory and ho has been doing fine in post-operative recovery. He has been told the results of the operation and had no spe cial comment about it. Ho was described as being in good spirits." Godfrey will spend an indefinite convalescence in his $40 a day bedroom-living room suite at the hospital. His physicians said Thursday that ,he might possibly resume some of his TV-radio du ties in two months. Godfrey's bedroom is a corner' room on the 10th floor of the swanky hospital which has had patients ranging from ex-president Hoover, the Duchess of Windsor and Bob Hope. From his windows Godfrey has a magnificent view of the Hudson River and the steep cliffs on New Jersey side of the river. Expected to Write He is expected to spend some of his convalescing time writing short articles on one of his favorite sub jects conversation. He already had begun to work on these be fore his operation. Although Godfrey apparently showed no emotion on being told the news he said before the op eration that he felt a "cold, clam my, clutching fear" of the pos sibility of cancer. Judging Tour- Due Tomorrow Union county's first 4-H horse judging tour will be held to morrow, starting at tho J. Dale Standlcy Ranch, Rt. 1, La Grande, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Tho tour wfll include five Blops at Route 1, 2, Union, Cove and will , end at the Cove swimming pool where members of the tour will go swimming. Tour members will ned a sack lunch, swim suit, and sufficient funds for a swim. The tour will give horse dub members an opportunity to re ceive training in horse judging and will be shown how to groom' and train horses. Parents are In vited. m : roe Feud With Morse Sparks Decision By WILLIAM THEIS United Press International ' WASHINGTON (UPI) Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce resigned today as ambassador to Brazil and declined to reconsider the decision despite President Eisenhower's urging. She won Senate confirmation to the post last Tuesday. Mrs. Luce spent about an hour with the President and em erged to meet a crowd of newsmen in the office of White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. Her husband, magazine editor Henry R. .uce, had urged her to resign as a result ot her feud with Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) In New York, Luce said he had no statement to make on his wife's resignation. "The President with regret ac cepted the resignation of Mrs Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Brazil," Hagerty announced to newsmen. Letter Made Public "At the same time he told her of his continuing contidence in her and expressed his hope that she would continue on her assign ment. Her letter gives the reasons why she felt she could not re consider. Hagerty then made public Mrs L,uces tetter ot resignation in which she said she was convinced "that it is no longer possible for me to accomplish the mission which you have entrusted to me." Referring to the Senate uproar over her nomination she de scribed the Senate's 79 to 11 vote as an example of bipartisan sup port on foreign policy. ' ' "But unhappily,- in -spite of the best efforts of 79 senators the cli mate of good will was poisoned by thousands of words of extraor dinarily ugly charges against my person and of distrust of the mis sion I was to undertake," she wrote. "These charges were incs caply printed around the world." She told the President she re alized that both Brazilian and U. S. public opinion "have over whelmingly discounted the fu rious, and I think foolish, attacks made against me." "Seeds Of Suspicion" "Yet it, would be impudent of me and no true service to you to ignore the fact that the broad casting of these mean charges has planted the seeds of hostile suspi cion," she said. "For all through the course of my mission, these seeds could he watered curcfully either by their author, for unknowable motive, or by any political element with the clear motive of discrediting Amer ica by the simplo device of dis paraging an American ambassa dor. And so most easily, there could be denied any chance of attainment of fruitful records be tween our two countries." Mrs. Luce said that even this problem might be surmounted if it were not for the fact that Morse is "by reason of seniority" the chairman of the Senate sub- See RESIGNS on page 8 FIGHT TO FINISH "Jack in the Beanstalk' at left and tho big, bad giant battle to tho death of you know which In tho 200-cast play at tho Rivaria school, 7:30 p.m. today. The annual stag pro duction la under tho direction of Florence Miller. Ticket will bo available at tho gymnasium door. (Observer. Photo) WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy through Saturday with scat tered showers mostly over mountains today; high today 45-53; low tonight 27-33; high Saturday 52-58. Price 5 Cents Bruised Body Of 3-Year-Old Girl Is Found BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) The bruise-covered body of a pretty, 3-year-old girl who had been mis sing since Tuesday was found late Thursday by youngsters playing cowboys and Indians. Police said today they believed she had been murdered. Frail, blonde Shnron Crossman, dressed but shoeless, was found beneath the front porch of a dilap idated house nearly three miles from her home. Several hours later blood stained children's clothes were found in a cellar washtub of the Crossman home. Laboratory tests were plunned to find out if there was any connection with Sharon's death. Sharon's father, Robert ' A. Crossman, 20, said the three Crossman Children Wtcn had nosa- bleedst- lie eaid his wife, Eleanor, Lyce was opt td pick up any piece of . clothing at hand to wipe away the blood. Medical examiner Milton J. Schulz said Sharon had not been sexually ' molested, but evidence pointed to homicide. Further post mortem examination and toxicolo gical tests were being made to de termine the exact cause of death, he suid. The Crossmans were questioned by top police officials. Marino Found In Contempt PORTLAND (UPI I An ex- Murinc wns found in contempt of court Thursday for threatening witnesses after a Federal Court jury last month returned a guilty hank robbery verdict against his brother-in-law. Federal Judge Gus Solomon set June 15 for sentencing John Goss Jr., and continued him on $100 bail. . George Juba, assistant U. S. at torney, said witnesses heard Goss approach three women bank em ployes and make threatening ges tures after a jury returned a ver dict of guilty against Albert M. Clements for the holdup of the Hillsdale branch of the Multno mah bank last December. The women had testified against Clements. si