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b WEATHER Partly sunny with night time clearing today through Tuesday; few brief showers Tuesday; highs 53-58; low to night 27-32. Established 1896 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 4, 19S9 Price 5 Cents Pondosa Auction Tomorrow Biggest Sale In This Area . By H. E. PHILBY -' Observer Staff Writer The romance of yesterday and i, progress to tcday will be brought together in sharp focus when the town of Pondosa and the Valsetz Lumber Company mill go on the auction block at 10 a.m. tomor row. The Pondosa auction and a Val setz company equipment auction Thursday at Valsetz, Ore., will involve more than $2 million value in equipment, houses and real estate according to the Milton i. Wershow Company of Los An geles, Calif. The Califcrnia firm Will handle the auctions. Officials of the lumber comp any and auctioneering firm esti mate the Pondosa real estate and mill equipment at $1,763,500 and the Valsetz, Ore., mill equipment is valued at $472,675. Geared to be one of the biggest auctions ever held in eastern Ore gon, with the added uniqueness of the sale of an entire town, the lumber company and auctioneer ing firm have been working since March 5 for the Pondosa sale. It was on this date that the last logs were processed. An inadequate supply of timber in the Pondosa area was the reason given for closure of the mill which was built in 1925 by the Stoddard Lumber Company. The entire town of Pondosa, which at one time boasted a popu lation of 200, will go under the auctioneer's gavel tomorrow.. The town site, covering ' 280 acres, along with 63 homes and 11 fac tory buildings, can be bought as o package or piece by piece. . -"Owners and auctioneers will keep uppermost the best interests for the future of the town and surrounding community," accord ing to information included in the sales brochure.. Trucks, office machines and mill equipment will be sold at Pondosa, along with a railroad locomotive, and "speeder trailer car." Thousands of small sawmill and planer mill pieces of equip ment will be held up for the pub lic to sec as the auctioneer chants, "Now what am I offered for this ..." New Outbreak Of Violence In Race Strife NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) Five Negro youths appear in police court today on charges of assault ing a white Marine during an out break of week-end violence. The five were arrested Sunday and charged with beating Robert Walsh, 20, as he walked through the "Titustown" section of Nor folk on his way to Camp Elmore where he is stationed.. - The section, a Negro residential n area, borders the Marine camp and an integrated; federal housing project. It has been the scene of similar incidents during the past year, police said. Marine officials have warned enlisted personnel to stay out of the area. Norfolk police have in creased 'patrols through the streets of Titustown in an effort to curb violence. The ' five Negroes allegedly jumped Walsh Friday night but he managed to break away and return to the camp. Half an hour earlier. Navy C.PO.O. Reginald Marchand, 36, was dragged from his car and beaten by a gang of Negroes of similar size. Mrs. " Marchand s screams brought a police officer and sent the assailants fleeing. Thefts Reported To City Police Whiskey, several trees and a radio clock were stolen in sepaarte incidents over the weekend, city police reported George B. Fletcher, 39, is held on a petty larceny, following the theft of a fifth of whiskey from a local tavern. Fletcher is held in the county jail and will be taken into Justice Court to answer the charge. . Pat Fitzgerald, flower shop own er, reported that seven or eight evergreen trees were stolen from behind his shop and Carla Robert son told police that her house was entered and a clock-radio stolen over the weekend. QUEEN Four candidates for the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show queen title named at the annual Kickoff Banquet Saturday night. Candidates are from left, Jordyce Tam eris, 16, Elgin Stampedcrs candidate; ; POSSIBLY NEXT SUMMER Economic May Be Held Here Business and labor officials will have to decide if an "Econom ic Education Workshop" is to be held here possibly next summer. This was the decision made at a planning session on the East em Oregon College campus Sat urday when members of the Ore gon Council on Economic Educa tion met with local community leaders and college cfficials. Morse Explains Why He Changed Mind About Clare SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. UPI Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) says he did not oppose the nomination of Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce as am bassador to Brazil because of a "personal vendetta." " Morse said Sunday that it was he who moved last month in the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee that Mrs. Luce's nomination be approved. The senator said he changed his mind late as the re sult of an investigation of Mrs. Luce. Morse undertook the investiga tion because of complaints about her following recent riots in Bo livia, the senator declared at a membe-ship meeting of the Young Men's Hebrew Association at Con gregation Beth-El. The riots were caused by publi cation of a story on Bolivia in Time Magazine. Time is published by Henry Luce, Mrs. Luce's hus band. HST SAYS 22ND AMENDMENT WAS DESIGNED BY FDR HATERS WASHINGTON (UP) - Former President Harry S. Truman today called for repeal of the ban on a presidential third term as a "bad" constitutional amendment. He said it was devised to "get Roosevelt" and is now hamstringing President Eisenhower. Truman said the ban was "a bill of goods" sold to the country by "Roosevelt- haters." Truman told a Senate judiciary subcommittee that he has "no per sonal ax to grind" in the hearings on repeal of the 22nd Amendment adopted after the death of Frank lin D. Roosevelt who was elected four times. The amendment was initiated by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Truman noted in a terse three and a half page prepared statement that he himself is still CANDIDATES FOR SHOW Purpose of such a workshop would be to update business and labor officials with problems in herent in the American system and to acquaint elementary and secondary teachers with the var ious phases cf our economic life. Richard B. Hallcy, associate professor of economics, Portland State College, was the principal speaker during the noon lunch eon. He outlined what he con sidercd cur present major econo mic problems and suggested that the Oregon Council officials could be called on to work out and participate in a workshop which would work toward an "ob jective understanding of Ameri can economic problems. Agriculture, poverty, the posi tion of labor unions in our so ciety, and the United States are cur major areas of problems, he said. The Portland economist said that "We economists are in agre ment that labor unions do not actually raise real wages." The labor unions, he said, may raise money wages, but that inflation and other factors tend to wipe out any real wage boost Dr. Frank Bennett, EOC presi dent, made the point that clear thinking is needed because of the basic economic conflict be tween the United States 'and Russia. Officials of the economic coun cil, which has put on similar workshops in the western part of the state, said council economists would be available for such a workshop and that the council would help finance the program. eligible to run for a third term. "Out of the 175 million people in this country," he said, "I am the only one to whom the amend ment docs not apply the only one who could be elected as many times as he could get enough votes." Truman was a witness before the Senate subcommittee on con stitutional amendments headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver D-Tcnn.). KefauVer similarly condemned the two-term limitation on grounds it blunts the "quality of flexibility" in the Constitution. Sen. Thomas E. Hennings (D Mo.l also urged repeal of the amendment. Truman said that what the amendment really did "was to make a 'lame duck' out of every second term President for all time Rosemary Zaugg, 16, Union Commercial club; Ella Mea Denton, 17, Union Range Riders, and Janice Lorenzen, 18, La Grande Maverick Riding Club. The show is set for June 4-5-6. (Observer Photo) Girls Chosen For Union ShowRpyalfy, Fifty-four persons heard Vcrn WliHo, treasurer of the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show Associa tion, announce the names of four queen candidates at the annual Kickoff Dinner he'd at the Union Ilctel Saturday night. White announced Jordyce Tarn cris of Elgin as the Elgin Slum- peelers candidate, Rosemary Zaugg as the Union Commercial Club Candidate, Ella Mae Denton as the Union Range Rider queen candi date, and Janice Lorenzen as the La Grande Maverick candidate. The annual show at Union will be held June 4-5-6 this year, he told the group. Miss TameriSf a brunet, Is a sophomore at Elgin High School She . lives on a farm near . that town. Hobbies include riding and swimming. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Eldridge Tameris. Miss Zaugg is a junior at Union High School and lives on a farm near Union. Hobbies include done ing, piano and horseback riding. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Au gust Zaugg. Miss Denton lives in Union and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Edgar Denton. She spends her spare time swimming, dancing and she was a princess at the school carnival held this year She is a junior at Union High School. Miss Lorenzen, a Senior at La Grande High School, is a member of the Clover Leaf Circle 4-H Riding club and the La Grande Mavericks. She sings in the girls ensemble at LHS, likes to ride horses and is a serious student of languages. One of the four girls will be named queen at a dance at Union a week before the Livestock Show starts. in the future.'" "It is ironic that the first 'lame duck' President to be hamstrung by the amendment is one of the Republicans own," Truman re marked. He said it makes "no sense" to treat a President in such fashion. Republican or Democrat. ."If he is not a good President and you don't want to keep him, you don't hove to reelect him," Truman said, "There is a way to get rid of him and it does not require a , constitutional amend ment." Before appearing at the Senate hearing, Truman told newsmen he is anxious to tell the House Com mittee on Un-American Activities to its face why he thinks it is "the most un-American thing in the country." Suae Fourtdl Two Youths Injured In Accident Two youths are under treatment for concussion today following a one-car accident on the Union highway about 2 a.m. Sunday. Elmer A. Arneson, 28, Daven port, Wash., driver of the car which failed to negotiate a curve, was cited for violation of the basic rule by State Police Doyle D. Lamb, 21, of Union, along with Arneson, is in the St. Joseph hospital. Arneson and Lamb suffered concussions, multi ple head lacerations and' Lamb incurred right arm lacerations, according to the attending phys ician. The car driven by the Daven port resident left the highway, jumped a ditch and flipped over a fence and traveled 245 feet be fore coming to a stop, state police reported. The five-year-old car was practically demolished. The attending physician this noon said the two men are not con sidered in serious condition. Arneson was traveling west on Highway 203, about 11 miles from Union at the time of the accident. Other Accidents Two other auto mishaps were investigated by police during the weekend. A two-car accident occurred at 4:41 p.m. Saturday at the inter section of Hemlock street and and Washington avenue. Wlntrcss M. Curtis of La Grande was travel ing west on Washington und Ken ncth J. Blanchard of La Grande was driving south on Hemlock at the time of the accident. Damage to the cars was estimated at $500. Another two-car accident oc curred about 1 p.m. Saturday. Betty L. Shaffer of La Grande was driving south on Oak and Roberta J. Adlard of La Grande was traveling west on Z avenue at the time of the minor accident, police reported. Music Festival Opens Tonight It will be "Band Night" in the La Grande school music festival' starting tonight and concluding Friday night Four bands from the senior and junior high schools will be tea tured in the 8 p.m. concert at the high school tonight. The concerct will have a pioneer spirit in dop ing with the week s theme of Cen tennial Music Roundup. Assisting in tonight's program will be the high school speech class and vocal ensembles. The program will open with the entrance of the May Music Week Queen Marilyn Waite who collect ed queen honors by selling the greatest number of tickets among the queen candidates. - Each of the four bands on to night's program will perform three numbers alone and will combine in the finale for a special setting of the hymn, "God of Our Fathers." The audience will be asked to par ticipate in the last verse. Vocal ensembles performing will include the boys quartet, the girls trio and a mixed ensemble. Don Scott will conduct the bands and Mrs. Betty Faulkner will direct the vocal groups. Additional May Music Festival events will be presented Wednes day and Friday nights. Billy Basking In Sydney Sun SYDNEY, Australia turn American evangelist Billy Graham basked in the sun on Sydney beach today and said he envied the American farmer who is mi grating to Australia because he is fed up with agricultural con trols. Graham said he was highly im pressed with Australians and Aus tralia, and added that he likeo Australia so much he hates to leave it. In that respect, he said, he en vies Stanley Yankus, a Dowagiac, Mich., wheat farmer who is giv ing up U. S. residence to live in Australia because he objects to limits placed on ' the amount of wheat he can grow. Meartoirc s Dim Scotland Yard Ready To Help LONDON (UPI) A man who spotttd a sign on his parson's window shrieking "Help" in large, blood-red letters did the obvious thing. Ha sprinted for tha nearest telephone and dialed Scotland Yard's emergency num ber. Police raced to the home of tha Rev, Harold Haines, a Bap tist clergyman, in suburban Peckham to render the help the sign requested. The Rev. Haines explained tha sign was a poster appealing for help for the world's 16 million refugees. Nehru Defends His Actions NEW DELHI (UPI) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru today defended his actions In the Tibetan situation will not affect India's policy of working for admission of Red China to the United Na tions.: As Parliament debated Tibet Communist China made one of its sharpest attacks yet on Nehru and Indian policy and accused the New Delhi government of Inter vening in Chinese internal affairs. Nehru said for the government to have taken any stand other than sympathy with Tibet and the Dalai Lama would have angered millions of Indians and he regret ted the facts have not been clear ly understood by the Chinese. . Nehru said the issue of Tibet was deep and serious and "there fore we must be careful what we say," but he salt! the Indian gov ernment was better informed than the people outside whose informa tion was "based on agents" at the Indian border village of Kalim- pong. Today's Tibetan debate was called despite vehement opposi tion by Indian Communists who said a discussion of Tibet would be interference in Chinese Com munist internal affairs. Lead In Fatal Stabbing Case OREGON CITY (UPI) A "new lead" was reported by the sheriff's office today into the fatal .stabbing Saturday afternoon of an elderly woman in a small variety store. Deputy Sheriff Fred Abclle said he could not disclose nature of the information but that it looked "fairlv promising." The victim was MrfS. Minnie Swetland, 75, who was found stab bed to death with a knife at the store located ' on southeast 82nd avenue in northern Clackamas county. Police said the woman apparently had been beaten with a hammer and then stabbed with a butcher knife. The state crime laboratory was asked to examine an anti freeze can which officers said was found near the store. Officers said they were told a boy about 15 had been seen in a field near the store punching holes in the can with a knife. Sheriff Joe Shobe said no mon ey had been taken and he could think of no motive for the slay ing. . OREGONIAN DIES Weekend Accidents Claim Lives Of Seven In Oregon By United Press International At In'ict snvpn nersnns were kil led In weekend accidents in Ore gon. Five died in traffic, a child burned to death and a man drowned while fishing. In addi tion a former Oregon man was killed in an Alaska mishap. Unino n Slirts. 31. Winston. was killed Sunday night about 25 miles cast of Roscburg. State po lice said his pickup truck appar- .. . . - i ,. ently weni oui oi cunirui wnen u hit soft gravel. ("Villn nirk Rnv. 57. Klamnth Falls wm killed instantiv Satur day when his pickup truck and one driven by Roman Zargas, 38, Lakcview, collided on Highway 66 nine miles east oi Mamain r aus. At Medford Saturday fire swept CDymbfli DISCOVERY PARTLY SOLVES MYSTERY PORTLAND (UPI) Discovery of a body identified as that of 11-year-old Sue Martin Sunday at least partly solves one of the biggest Oregon mysteries in years. Sue, her sisters Barbara, 14, and Virginia, 13, and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Martin, went for a drive last December 7 also a Sunday to gather Christmas greens. They purchased gasoline at Cascade Locks and then vanish ed from sight. Sue's body, identified by her dentist, was located in the Camas slough near the Wash ington shore of the Columbia river. A pathologist. Dr. Charles Lar son of Tacoma, was to try to de termine cause of death by exam ination of the badly-decomposed body. BULLETIN PORTLAND (UPI) A body found In debris at Bonneville dam today was Identified ten tatively as that of Barbara Mar tin, 14, eldest daughter of the missing Ken Martin family. The body of her sister. Sue, 11, was found near Camas, Wash, The body near the dam was that of a girl and was clad in blue eans and gray sweatshirt similar to the clothing worn by Barbara when she disappeared. One theory is that the Martin car plunged into the Columbia from' ft Washington shore some distance upstream from Camas. The Columbia river in recent days has been rising towards its annual spring crest and the flow has been swift. Rivermcn said that at the time of the Martin family disappearance the water was low, especially where the body was found. . Just where a new search for the car and the remaining mem bers of the family should start was puzzling authorities today. Coroner Paul Mylan of Clark county. Wash., said It might take the pathologist up to 10 days to reach conclusions. The search for the family was one of the most intensive . ever carried out in Oregon, Once the Columbia river was lowered by Army engineers. Mountain areas, including Mt. Hood, were hunted by scores of men. There were even reports the family was seen in eastern states. In fact, there were hundreds of leads. Sheriff Francis Lambert of Multnomah county said that six weeks after the disappearance the Martin file alone included 201 "tip" letters, 207 other reports and several hundred telephone calls. Six thousand circulars were distributed nationally with pic tures of the family, and a de scription of their 1954 cream and red-trimmed Ford station wagon. Throughout the five-month peri od the best clue was the gasoline sales receipt from Cascade Locks which was mailed to the Martin home sometime after tho family vanished. IN ALASKA the Franklin Jackson homo and Martin Elwood Jackson, 3, died in the flames. The mother, carried a throe-month-old baby, John Henry, from the blazing structure and three other children also es caped. Mrs. Jackson suffered burns when she tried to get back into the house to try to roscue Mar tin. His body was found at the bottom of a stairway. Vincent Smith, 38, Mt. Angel, drowned Sunday in the Silctz riv er when a boat in which he and two other men were fishing over turned. The accident happened six miles up the Siletz from its mouth. The others, Walter Smith, 44, Molalla, brother of the victim, and Ray Mitchell, 37, also Molal la, managed to make it to shore. LSody Man Tells Of Finding Girl's Body ' CAMAS, Wash. (UPI) "Some thing flashed and caught my eye so I eased my boat over to it and found this girl's body floating in the current." This was Charles tsaman's story of finding the body of 11-ycar-old Sue Martin, youngest member of the log miss ing Ken Martin family of Port land. The 39-ycar-old tugboat opera tor was aboard the 65-foot Crown Zellerbach tug, R. W. Confer. when he sighted the floating body. "It really didn't look like a body when I first saw it but something made me - want to go take a close look," he said. "As I got close I could see legs and, then an arm. I eased around the' body and then went back to pick up by crew." T . .. I . r 1 Un I .... n,l tl. , J.. to' a log raft and secured it until authorities could reach-the scene "The clothing was disarranged. The jacket was over the face and wo didn't move it," Isaman re lated, -i He told authorities he doubted that the body had hung up any place along the river. He said he couldn't hope to guess from which side of the river the body came. Negro Students Plan Protest Rally In Florida TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) About 750 Negro college students plan to stage a classroom strike today in protest against the rape of a 19-year-old classmate. Four young white ' men are charged with the rape. The Negro students at Florida A&M University turned out by the hundreds Sunday night at a mass meeting to try to focus nationwide attention on the case. Another meeting was scheduled today and student President Clif ford Taylor announced "no loyal student will attend classes to day." Taylor called on the students to spend the day fasting and pray ing. "We want the world to know that we are disturbed about this," he said. The student rally was called after formal charges of rape were filed Sunday against the four young white men, aged 16 to 24. If convicted on the charges, the four could be sentenced to death, Florida's " maximum penalty for rape. Hazel V. Hicdcman, 36, New berg, died Sunday in a Salem hospital from injuries suffered in a hcadon collision near Woodburn Saturday night. Five others were hurt. j Paul Dean Crosby, 16, Vancou ver, Wash., (was killed Sunday when his car skidded on the Bat dock freeway at Aurora Junction south of here and overturned. Three passengers received minor injuries. David G. McWaters, 21, Port land, was killed Friday night In a two car collission east of Hood River. . , Ronald Helf,- 19,' Juneau, Alas ka, formerly of Portland, was killed near Juneau Saturday night. He had moved to Juneau,, about a year ago. . 'tea.iAi,"j,M ?;'vlirty'1?:VfiT,,-i '',.-tf-s'-A,irfvf- .v,. " . -JT- - . . . 1 I I I