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L WEATHER Showers and sunny periods loday; partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; high today 45 50; low tonight 20-28; high Sunday 50-58. did- mm) Established 1896 Daily except Sunday Herter Says Ministers' Talk Is Success Eisenhower Pleased , By Secretary's Report GETTYSBURG, Pa. 1UPI (-Secretary of State Christian A. Hert er reported to President Eisen hower here today that the just concluded Western foreign min isters meeting in Paris was "very successful" in preparing for nego tiations with Soviet Russia. Herter conferred with the chief executive on the glassed-in sun porch of the Eisenhower home here for an hour aid 15 min utes. ' Both the President and his new Secretary of State seemed pleased by the results of their talk. Eisen hower personally escorted Herter to a waiting Marine Corps heli copter for the Secretary's return flight to Washington. . Herter arrived in Washington from Paris this morning. After a brief pause in the capital, he con tinued on to Gettysburg by heli copter. Flying to the Eisenhower farm with Herter were White House Press Secretary James C. Hager ty and Maj. John S. Eisenhower, the President's son and assistant White House staff secretary. "Very Successful" A shiny green jeep with "Ike and Mamie" painted on the hood drove to the helicopter to pick up Herter and take him to the house about 100 yards away. The presi dent met him at the door and the two leaders went into conference shortly after 10:30 a.m. e.d.t. The meeting broke up at 11:45 a.m. and the President, wearing a plaid sports shirt, tan jacket and slacks and bow tie, climbed into the jeep with Herter and rode the short distance to the heliport im provided on a section of pasture in front of the house. Hagerty said Herter gave his "very successful" appraisal to the chief executive, as the Secretary had said publicly upon his arrival in Washington earlier in the day. Hagerty said Hertcr'sTeport un doubtedly covered much of the material the Secretary will in corporate jn . his , public .report to" "fhe nation next Thursday night by radio and television. ' Herter told reporters that the Paris talks were "very success ful." He said that "both in spirit and in substance we reached complete agreement on a highly important Western position." Red Tape Snarls Sea Rescue Try WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. (UPD A Norwegian sea captain today blasted Vancouver authori ties for letting red tape snarl res cue operations when his ship was swept by an explosion and fire within sight of land. - But Capt. William Alchcr, 52, showered praise and gratitude on Canadian and U.S. Navy volun teers and local fishermen whose quick action may have saved his 5,300-ton freighter Ferngulf from sinking near here Friday night. Five crewmen were injured, two critically, when the lumber laden Ferngulf drifted near the mouth of Burrard Inlet off West Vancouver, 700 tons of fuel oil ablaze in its main tanks. S.O.S. Unanswered "I sent an S.O.S. for a fireboat and doctors as soon as the ex plosion occurred," Alcher told a reporter. "We were told by the City of Vancouver that we were outside their limits." - He said that more than an hour later he received a message that a fireboat and doctor were com ing. "We saw no fireboat, but a Royal Canadian Air Force heli copter came and circled," he said. "It did not land. We had no doc tor on board, so for an hour the men had no treatment except from me. I kept shoving morphine into them." The Ferngulf burned for nearly four hours before the fire was brought under control mainly by volunteers from the Canadian de stroyer escorts Saguenay and As siniboine and the U.S. Submarine Capitanc. Capt. Alcher said its "entire midships" was destroyed. Heros Lauded Ten Canadian and 10 U.S. Navy men were credited by the skipper with most of the worx that led to the fire being quelled and the ship finally being towed into the Bur rard Dry Dock in Vancouver, where it arrived at about mid night. The Canadians were led by Navy Commandciy K.E. Lewis and . the Americans by Chief Petty Of ficer J.L. Scrimagcr of San Di ego, Calif. The Canadian and U.S. ships were tied up near each other at a dock when the call for help ar rived. The fire party was or ganized within minutes. ' "fl-i!!X rips 1 DR. CLEM'S OFFICE Cardboard cartons were used to build "Dr. Clem's medical office" of eld Independence, Mo. for the Mt. Emily District Boy Scout pageant scheduled in the Ackerman ' school gym at 7:30 p.m. today. Tom Kelly, a "pioneer' Ir hown putting finishing touches of Khrushchev Will ..Turndown West 'Package' Russia Will Reject West Deal By JOSEPH W. CRIGG United Press International . PARIS U.PI-rPiplomatic voh servcrs predicted today Russia would turn down the West's "package" deal on Berlin and Germany at the Geneva Confer ence this month. They said the West had no al ternative to offer now and that the Geneva meeting at best would postpone the ultimate showdown over Berlin called for by Soviet Premier Nikila Khrushchev last Nov. 27. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, apparently anticipat ing this, let it be known he favors a scries of summit meetings to solve East-West disputes as "a new and imaginative approach to the central problem of our age." Macmillan outlined this aim Friday night in a Glasgow speech summing up his government's stand before the May 11 Geneva meeting. 'After the foreign ministers meeting I look forward to a meet ing of the heads of government concerned at a summit confer ence," Macmillan said. 'The form which the summit Elgin. School District Holds May 5 Election ELGIN (Special) Election will be held Tuesday for School District 23, Elgin. The ballot will include one member for the school board, two for the rural school board and also two proposed school budgets. Polls will be open in the grade school library frcm 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. There will be a meeting at 1 p.m. when Chairman Francis Miller of Elgin School District 23, will con duct a school meeting to discuss the local district budget. Anyone interested is being invited to at tend this meeting. Study Shows Service Lost 2,500,000 Men Education Lack NEW YORK (UPD Results .of an intensive study launched by Dwight Eisenhower before he be came President showed today that 2,500.000 men the army either never got or couldn't use during World War II broke down primar ily because of a lack of adequate education. These men, equivalent of 165 divisions, were lost because of mental and emotional breakdowns. "Men who had only a grammar school education or less were about five times as likely to be come ineffective as men who had had some college education, the study said. Most of the 2,500,000 men about two million of them were rejected in draft board screening. The rest served and were dis charged, many after long and ' ' fiT? -y- ' 1 conference takes must, of course, depend on the result of the for man ministers' meeline this month. Bui I am hopeful that suf-' ficient progress will bo made to make a summit conference fruit ful." Red Spy Ring Discovered MUNICH, Germany UP1 An East German intelligence officer who fled to West Germany has giv en Hie Bonn government details of a vast Communist spy ring oper ating against the West German government and NATO Allies, of ficials disclosed today. They said details supplied by this and other Communist defec tors has led to the arrest of "many" persons and their convic tion. The latest two Communist East Germans to flee to the West were Lt. Walter Glassl, 27, and Capt. Helmut Hoefer. Both were with the East German "peoples army" espionage service, but apparently Glassl gave most of the details. Intelligence sources said Glassl's story checked with information supplied earlier by Lt. Siegfried Dombrowski of the East German military intelligence who fled last year. The East German spy apparatus was said to operate through three agencies the Ministry for State Security, the "coordinating admin istration" of the Ministry of Na tional Defense and the "independ ent section" of the armed forces. Glassl also told of his own train ing in a spy school which went under the name of "high school for the foreign political news serv ice." The school is located in Gransee and each student works under a code name. honorable duty. But that means that one of every seven of the 18 million screened for duty failed because of emotional or mental defects, the survey said. , Eight Years in Preparation The survey was inaugurated by President Eisenhower in 1951 when he was president of Colum bia University. It is being pub lished Monday in a three-volume work entitled: "The Ineffective Soldier: Lessons for Management and the Nation." The work is a cooperative ven ture involving the university, sev eral business corporations, founda tions, unions and the government. It took eight years to prepare. Dr. Eli Ginzberg of Columbia was principal author. Co-authors were James K. Anderson, ir., boi CD LA GRANDE, OREGON, , i paint on the office while Cub Scout John Craig tries the office door. An estimated 500 Scouts will be participating in the production which will depict the historic move from Inde pendence, Mo. to Independence, Ore. (Observer Photo) Western diplomats in Paris said privately they expected just enough concessions ,rom Russia at the foreign ministers confer ence to force the Allies to attend a summit conference. Macmillan said he and other leaders hoped the summit would not be regarded as a single act of state to settle all the affairs of Europe or the world. "It should be regarded as the beginning of a period of negotia tion which will be continued in a series of similar meetings," he said. "If we can do that wc shall indeed be pioneers in a new and imaginative approach to the cen tral problems of our age." Macmillan denied that such talks would amount to appease ment. Research Official Speaks Monday The method by which a point in Union county was determined as the geographic center of the fifty states of the U. S. will be ex plained at luncheon Monday when W. O. Holmes, president of research firm, talks at a joint Chamber of Commerce and Lions club meeting. Following the talk by Holmes the San Carlos, Calif., company presi dent will accompany local of ficials to a point along Catherine creek where a sign advertising the center of the United States will be erected. The sign will inform tourists that the center of the country is seven miles east of the sign. The exact spot is in an in acccssable point iu federal forest land now under snow. Representatives from Portland are expected here Monday to take part in the ceremonies to mark the historic spot. Hurt U.S. Army W. Ginsburg, Dr. John L. Hcrmc, Dr. Douglas W. Bray, William A. Jordan and Maj. Francis Ryan. Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, the President's physician, was adviser to the "conservation of human re sources" project.- The study says that besides emotional and mental break downs, "Dear John" letters, mari tal breakups and family problems at homo were also major reasons why so many men failed to make the grade. The study said the United States must find a way to save the "significant sector of American manhood" lost to the services in wartime as a vital step in the defense and security of the country. Other Findings The study also says that Ne SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1959 Senate Defeats Passes New School Elections Set For County Residents Monday union coniiiy voters. 11s resi- a SI.40I.010.38 expected expendi donts of various school districts, lure during the 1958-59 school will be going to the polls Monday term. TI10 new budget calls for to select school board memb rs and vote on budgets. In the l.a Grande school dis tricts, voters will choose between John Thomas Hindi Jones Jr., Robert Barnes and F. E. Masters to fill a five-year board term. Mrs. Arlo Noyos is running with out opposition for a one-year term. Money-wise, La Grande district voters will approve or reject a proposed $174,691 levy over the six per cent limitation to balance Mrs. McThing Is Scheduled For Theatre "Mrs. McThing," spring produc tion of the Eastern Oregon Col lege theatre, is scheduled for a three-night run beginning Thurs dal. May 7. According to Richard G. Hiatt, director, "Mrs. McThing" is a "funny play and we're out to make you laugh." Tickets go on sale Monday at Hoke Coffee shop. Featured in the cast are two youngsters, sixth grader Ronnie Fuller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Fuller, and second grader Becky I Kimbrel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kimbrel of La Grande. Also included in the cast of the Mary Chase drama are Nola Rubh, Huntington; Jean Edmison. Bend; Mary Conklin and Susan Hartley, Ontario; Josic Ward, Forest Grove; Jean Hunter, Bill Ward, and Larry Wilder, Pendleton; Nancy Brooks and Larrv Nelson. La Grande; Ken Manns, Wallowa; Mike Fergu son and Margaret Preston, The Dalles; Bob Miller and Mike Han ford, Milton-Frccwater; Wayne Soward, Hcppncr; and Tarry Clif ton, Weston. Snow Falls In Oregon By United Press International It's really May not January in Oregon but the weather was far from springlike loday. The weather man warned of possible frost in some areas of western Oregon tonight with lows of 34-40 forecast. Temperatures were below freezing over most of eastern Oregon this morning. Snow fell Friday over widely scattered areas east of the Cas cades as well as in the mountains themselves. Timberline on Mt. Hood had four inches of new snow. Snow was reported from Klamath Falls, Baker, Bend and Redmond, among other places, Friday. Temperatures this morning in cluded 25 at Burns, 26 at Red mond, 28 at Lakeview, 29 at Bak er and Klamath Falls and 30 at Bend. West of the mountains it got down to 28 at Med ford and Roseburg, 39 in Eugene, 40 in Salem and 43 in Portland. Below freezing readings down to 26 degrees were forecast for eastern Oregon again tonight. JENKINS APPOINTED Jack Jenkins, former vice princi pal at La Grande High School and presently principal at Nyssa, has been appointed principal of Oregon City High School for next year. Jenkins was vice principal here up to four years ago. groes and farmers were listed as highly susceptible to breakdowns under stress of war and Army life but said these defects also could be traced to a lack of education. The study also said that For more soldiers broke down in reaction to Army life in gen cral than to the stress of combat. Most veterans who suffered emotional breakdowns while in military service have now re covered and are self-supporting. Combat veterans who broke down were the most likely to re cover in the shortest time. Faults in the Army's screen ing and training system were spotlighted by the fact that half the major and mental emotional discharge cases involved men who never should have been inducted an increase of $39,500 increase in operating expenditures plus bond costs connected with the con struction of a new Greenwood school and remodeling of Riveria. There is apparently only an in direct connection between the voting Monday and the county wide reorganization plans now be ing studied by the State Depart ment of Education. The reorganization plan will not go into effect until July, 1960. Voters living in districts now oper ating as non-high school districts will vote Monday on a non-high budget for the last time because of the reorganization which will eliminate those districts. The non high budget up for approval Mon day is $34,317. This money is used for tuition and transportation of about 100 students living in non high districts. Voters in all districts will vote Monday on the Rural School dis trict levy of $26,311.36. AH dis tricts will also elect one board member at large. Carl Webster, a member of the county re organization committee and the Rural School board member from Island City, and Charles Reyn olds, now board member at large, will be competing for the member-at-large posts in the Monday vot ing. Reynolds was appointed to the post under the 1957 reorganiza tion act. Negro Coed Raped By White Men TALLAHASSEE. Fla. (UPD Four white men were jailed toduy and charged with abducting and raping a 19-year-old Negro coed at the Florida A it M University (Negro). The suspects were nabbed after a chase that reached speeds up to 100 miles an hour. The alleged rape victim was found bound and gagged in the suspects' car when it was finally halted by an officer. The four suspects were William Ted Collins Worth, 24, a telephone company lineman; David I. Bea gles, 18; Pat Scarborough, 21, who is stationed at Fisher Air Force Base in North Carolina, and a juvenile whom police -would not identify. Officers said the Negro victim her date, and another couple were parked behind the stadium at the Negro university following a school dance when the white men drove up in a l'J59 blue Chev rolet. Police said the white men or dered the two couples to get out of the car in which they were sit ting. Police said one of the white men was armed with a 12-gauge auto matic shotgun and another had a switchblade knife with an eight inch blade. . The Negroes were ordered from the car and the men were told to kneel in front of the headlights The Negro girls were told to get in the suspects' car. The Negroes told police that once when cars approached they were forced to lie down to keep from being seen. One of the girls managed 4o break away but the other girl was put in the suspects car and taken away. The girls' dates were forced to leave. J'hcy did so but stopped at a house to call sheriff's of ficers. Deputy Sheriff Joe Cooke, a junior ut Florida State University, spotted the suspects' car and gave chase.. "I chased them at speeds up to 100 and finally got them to slop," Cooke said. He held them at gunpoint until other officers arrived. Maxwell Promoted By Forest Service Wayne Maxwell, assistant ranger on the La Grande district of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is being promoted to District Bang er on tho Snoquulmie National Forest. Wayne's new assignment takes him to tho Mineral District at Mineral, Washington. Tom Scheck- peper, Waynes replacement comes from the Deschutes Na tional Forest of Oregon. House Tax Industry' Legislators To Windup By JAMES D. OLSON SALEM (UPD The Oregon House and Senate, meeting in their 110th day, tried to get to gether on a tax program today so they could go home. The Senate late Friday defeat ed 16-13 House bill 670 which by Senate amendment made no change in the present income tax schedule other than reducing de pendency credits from $600 to $500. But the bill was scheduled for reconsideration today. The Upper chamber did pass Friday the measure which gives special tax treatment to capital gains if they are reinvested in Oregon. The bill is designed to help attract new industry. It now goes to the governor. House Speaker Robert Duncan said Friday afternoon the Senate tax package was not acceptable to a majority of House members but that he was confident a com promise could be reached. He al so said then he was of the opinion it would not be possible to adjourn by tonight. , The Friday afternoon vote on the amended House bill 670 ac tually was 15 to - 14 until Sen. Ward Cook (D - Portland), chair man si fhe Senate Tax Commit tee, changed his vote to no and said be would seek reconsidera tion today. One Senator Absent Sen. Ed Ahrcns (R-Turner) was absent. He. was reported to have left Salem to attend a sheep show in California. Proponents of the bill had ex pected him to support it. Son. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) declared after the defeat that "we. will resolve our - problems arter a good night's rest. We like our House colleagues as much as we like ourselves." In hie opening discussion of the bill, Musa declared that while it might not be palatable to all, he felt the Legislature had to face up to realities. He said that a one per cent Economists Plan EO Meeting An objective approach to the un derstanding of economic condi tions, by management and labor, may be the basis of an eastern Oregon meeting at an undetermin ed date. Plans for such a meeting are being mado at an Eastern Ore gon College meeting today.. Econ omists from Portland State Col meeting. lego and Oregon Extension Ser vice are here making plans for the Richard Halley of the Portland State College economics depart ment, was the speaker at a noon luncheon at Hoke Hall. Dr. Carlos Easley of EOC is general chair man for planning the event. It is Inticipated that represen tatives from business and labor wou'd attend the future meeting to opening and objectively discuss economic facts of life acording to officials planning, the session. The meeting here would be for all eastern Oregon. Similar ses sions are being planned for west ern Oregon. The programs are un der the sponsorship of the Oregon Council of Economic Education. Judges, Attorneys Observe Law Day Local judges and attorneys were concentrated in Circuit Court chambers Friday aftcrnon but no one was on trial. In official proceedings. Circuit Judge Wesley Brownton recogniz ed Law Day USA and pointed out the importance of maintaining a fair and equitable judicial system as an important part of our demo cratic way of life! Stuart F. Wyldc, president of the Union County Bar Association, went into the history of our judi cial system and pointed out that law came to the northwest in 1841 when a rich land owner died. There were no heirs and a doctor was appointed by a citizen's group to handle the dead man's financial affairs. This was the start of pro bate law in the wilderness, Wyldc said. The audience was composed of city and county officials, lawyers and judges of the various courts in the county. Price 5 Cents Measure, Tax Bill Attempt '59 Affairs gross income tux, as advocated by Gov. Mark Hatfield as a means of broadening the tux base, would be worse than I1B 670 which reduces dependency credits by $100. "This reduction will affect about 1,500 taxpayers in Oregon who do not now pay any taxes," Musa said. "It will increase the taxes on married people with children the more children the more taxes." Dimick, Yturri Attack Bill But he argued "these people should contribute something for the education of their children. . They should be proud to do so." Musa pointed to one feature that he declared to be good and that was simplification of the tax return. Under the bill, a wageowner without any income other than wages would send his withholding slip to the Stato Tax Commission which would then figure his tax or refund. Both Republicans and Demo crats joined in opposition to the bill. Sen. Dan Dimick (R-Roscburg) declared the bill placed a tax on the poor and favored the rich. He also said it was geared to a sales tax. Sen. Anthony Yturri R-Ontario opposed the bill in committee and said he could not support suclt a measure when the state was fac ing expenditures totaling 316 mil lion dollars and the Senate tax . bills would yield only 310 million. Committee Praised Tax Committee for serving notice on tho Joint Ways and Means Committee that 310 million dollars was the' limit tho committee would go in the way pf revenues. "But nevertheless, where are we going to get this extra six mil lion dollars. I'll tell you. Last ses sion the Legislature took the state out of the property tax field but in so doing it retained the right to tax property for money to pay interest on bonded indebtedness. And that's where the money will come from, from the already harassed property owner." Yturri said the Legislature should remain in session for a few days longer in order to work out a broadened tax program that would take into account the finan cial situation in 1961 when he said the state would face a deficit of between 70 and 80 million dollars. While Sen. John Hare (R-Hilis-boro) complimented the Senate Tax Committee "for taking the brain storm of removal of many tax deductions which were placed in the bill by the House Tax Committee, he argued against the bill on grounds that the more money appropriated the mote money the state will spend. "Cut Budgets," Says Hare "I do not wish to burden the people of Oregon, people who work and sweat, with higher tax es," he declared. "Cut budgets and cut them deep." ' Sen.; Donald Husband (R Eu gene, a member of the Senate Tax Committee, said he didn't like everything in the bill under consideration, but felt it superior to the House bill. "In that House version," he ex plained, "exemptions for taxes paid on property, interest paid on mortgages and credits for federal income taxes were eliminated. If that won't hurt the small wage earner, I don't know what will." Sen. Alfred Corbett (D - Port land)' took a fling at Gov. Mark Hatfield, saying that the Legisla ture would not be in the tax has sle if the governor had not said ho was against any new taxes while campaigning last year, but at the same time had talked about expanded state services. "He didn't take into account that expanded state services cost money," Corbett said. BULLETINS Eastern Oregon College wet defeated 1-2 in the first of three Oregon College Conference tame scheduled to b eplayed here to day. Leading 2-1 going into the final Inning, an EOC error cost two runt and the game. John Willmarth allowed tho Wolves four hits. Marilyn Waito wat Queen of tho La Grande High School May Music Festival today after final balloting. She will reign over festivities scheduled for next week at tho school. "