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WEATHER Daily except Sunday 'A MEMORABLE. Winnie's Voice i Darkest Days Of WASHINGTON UPI A his toric era at the White House ends today. Sir. Winston Churchill leaves. No one associated closely with the 84-year-old former British prime minister these last few days expected him to return. And f:oin President Eisenhower down to the cooks and butlers, there was genuine sadness over his leaving. Sir Winston has been the Presi dent's house guest since Monday and today he moves to the Brit ish Embassy (or one night before traveling home to his beloved Creat Britain with a brief stop over in New York. Because of advancing years and nagging ailments of the aged, the once gloriously eloquent voice of! Churchill is seldom heard these days. But in the soft golden light of the stately White House dining room Wednesday night and before a distinguished company of Amer ican leaders, the oratorical splen dor that rallied the free world during World War 11 flashed attain. . With a gleaming champagne goblet in his hand, Sir Winston Union Wants Investigation Of Industry NEW YORK (UPI) I United Steelworkers of AmcrieS; today asked the Justice Department to investigate an alleged conspiracy on the part of the steel (industry to pool its profits in the (event of a strike against onr or mbre com panies. At the same' time the union asked the National Labor Rela tions Board to investigate the pos sibility that the companies will engage in a lockout in the event of a strike affecting only part of the Industry. "' " . - R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotia tor for the industry, Indicated Wednesday that the Industry was considering both proposals in the event the union adopted a "divide and conquer" strike policy. The requests for .investigations of these possible moves were made in separate letters to At torney General William P. Rogers and to Jerome D. Fenton, general counsel of the NLRB. The letters were signed by Ar thur J. Goldberg, general counsel of the union. No Strike Plant Made Gnlrihnrt pmnhnsized nt a nress conference that these letters were not to be construed as an indica tion the union had decjded upon a strike policy which would close down only part of the industry. He said no strike plan had been .,, made. He said the letters i were sent only to alert the Justice Depart ment and the NLRB to possible violations of federal law by the steel industry. Commentary on the plan to pool profits, Goldberg said that plan was in violation of the anti trust laws because it would amount to collusion among the companies to allocate their mar kets. He said if the companies al ready had seriously discussed such a plan, they are guilty of engaging in a conspiracy to violate the antitrust laws. Calls It Legal Lockout Goldbert presided at the press conference in the absence of USW President David J. McDonald who was lunching with former Presi dent Harry S. Truman. ..Goldberg, noting that Cooper I implied Wednesday Uie industry I may close down all plants if anyi one is hit by a strike, said this ' would amount to a "legal lock out." i School Vofe Canvass Monday The Rural School District Board will meet at the county court house Monday night to canvass votes from school elections held Monday. Mrs. Veda Couzens, county school superintendent, said that in the election for a member-at-large post on the rural district school board, Carl Webster leads Charles Reynolds 454 to 425. All votes arc not yet in, however. She added. Precincts in the county arc re quired to have their totals sent to the court house five days af ter the election. The rural dis trict board must then canvass the vote before it is official. i JOY TO ME' rose wish some difficulty from his high-backed dining chair to pro pose a toa.it to the President. Sealed belo e him were mem bers of the Cabiart, leaders of Congress, cop. .anders of the armed services aid a group of the President's friends from the world of b!g business. In the rich voice that brought encouragement to millions during the darkest days of Dunkirk mid Tobruk, Sir Winston began to speak. Jlfif SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Leaves White House EOC Building Appropriation Wins Approval Final legiclative action Wed nesday included a $155,000 appro priation for an addition to Hoke Hall on the Eastern Oregon Col lege campus. The sum is a portion of the $10,062,000.00 approved by the ..legislature) for the hrehrr eJRVatioiJ, building program. ' (Preparation-' for final plans' for the Hoke addition are underway and it is anticipated that the addi tion will be ready for use in thei ran oi lyou. Preliminary plans which were approved by the State Board of Higher Education indicated the addition will b? attached to the south side of the present structure and will be one-storyiwith the base ment having a total square foot area cf 9,224 square feet. This area will include two gen eral classrooms, on? engineering drawing room! one biology classroom-laboratory combination, a greenhouse annex, and additional facilities 'for student activities. The addition would double the present first-floor lounge area. Included in the plans are pro visions to improve present fa cilities such as the bookstore, din ing room, and kitchen. Renova tion will include the building's music practice rcoms, ventilation, lighting, and correct doorways to meet fire exit requirements. Cost of the project is estimated at $180,000, with $25,000 of the total being provided from EOC's build ing reserve. REPORT ON INTEGRATION NASHVILLE. Tenn. UPI Southern School News reported 802 school districts in south ern and border states are inte grated, including 22 which deseg regated so far this year. W ' - If KT XZL Whip iff"' ,t ,p ivV'v'J'S EOC PARENTS' WEEKEND Final plans for the Eastern Oregon College two-day program honoring visiting par ents are checked by student co-chairmen Betty Johnson (center), Portland, and Don Cole (right), Baker, with Parents' Club president, Robert' Oesterling, La Grande. The festivities get underway at 10 a.m. Saturday. (EOC Photo) Recalls mki "To come across the Atlantic and to see so many friends and so many elements in the union of our peoples has been a great and memorable joy to me," the old British battler rumbled. "Here at this table," he said as he looked around the room, "sit those whose decisions can per ilous influence the destiny of man kind more deeply than any other group of men you could find." He was frank about it being "lale in the day"' of his long ca-ice.-, but he was happy to have ne moro opportunity to speak on a subject dear to his heart "the union of the English-speaking peo ples." Work Together "I am sure," he said, "that it is in a close and increasing fel- : lowsh:p with you, our American i friends and brothers, that our brilliant future rests." Surveying the world today and 3 With his mind obviously on trou- I bled Western relations with Rus sia, air vv insion saiu ine pi oo lems of today "are perhaps hard er to resolve, than those wliic! confronted us m the last war, in the days of our closest comrade ship." "I would suggest to you that the solution today js the same as it was then," he said. "I feel most strongly that our wTiola ef fort should be to work together. It resounds in my mind, a pre cious and hopeful thought. "Let us be united and let our hopes lie in our unity because we understand each other. We under stand when things go wrong, or things are said, or anything like that, uefeally can afford to pass them by. . . "We understand each other and we hope that the realization of this truth will continue to in crease on both sides of the Atlan tic to the lasting benefit of the free world and above all, the people of Britain and America." Bids 'Awarded By Commisson The U. S. National Bank of Portland was named low bidder for the purchase of $13,546.54 worth of city improvement bonds at the City Commission meeting last night.' On a bid to furnish pipe and fittings to the city water depart ment, Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company of Portland was nnrned low bidder. Bid was $21,- 849.39. II. J. and H. W. Miller Con struction Company of Baker was named low bidder to furnish 4,- 020 tons of Class B asphaltic con crete to improve and construct La Grande streets this summer. Bid was $33,163.40. Beth of the latter bids will be awarded after complete figures are checked by the city manager. Streets to be improved include Cedar from Spring to Washing ton; Main from Cedar to Alder, Oak from Main Ho Spring, Wal nut from Adams to Spring and 2nd from X street to Lake. New construction is scheduled cn Oak street from Main to Wash ington; on U street from Green wood to Spruce, on I street from 4th to 6lh and from J street from 2nd to 3rd. Work on the streets will be ac complished between July 1 and Sept. 15. pre ii j t t;yjiwjyvgj"V'!'m' wwwyyi Established i8g6 LA GRANDE, OREGON, m. iT .... .... -t.-vii .. i, .. -Ill PERFORM IN MUSIC FESTIVAL These three La Grande High School girls are giving a preview of their part in the Fri day night presentation of the May Music Week Festival. The final showing is schedul ed for 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. From left to right: Janet Cunning ham, Shirley Ann Smurthwaite and Frances Wolfe. (LIIS Photo) COMMISSION SUGGESTS SOME MORGAN LAKE DEVELOPMENTS By BUCK BUCHANAN Observer Staff Writer City Commiss:oncrs last night recommended that only minor de velopment be undertaken at Mor gan Lake this year and voted to return to the City Planning Com mission, which will meet May 12, their recommendations." Suggestions in the recommenda tion were that only sanitary facil ities, construction of cattle guards on the access road, and improve ments on the access road, be un der taken this summer. Com missioners included a clause that states ."unless traffic and use of Morgan Lake demands that fur ther development be made later in the -year." . Commisfoners 'i.. W. Herrmann, H. E. Waddelf and Merle Becket felt that development of the area be restrained until positive proof as a city recreational area should be restrained until positive proof was shown whether trout would be able to exist in the lake. The Game Commission last Sun day poisoned the lake with chemi cals. It will remain toxic for a period of three weeks. Following the toxic period the game commission will plant 100. 000 fingerling trout in the lake. According to commission officials, the trout would be of legal size for angling about August 1. There is still a possibility that the commission may secure legal size trout to stock ths lake follow ing the toxic period. The vote for returning the City Commission recommendations to the planning commission was net unanimous. Commissioner Arlo Z. Noyes voted in the negative, commenting "that the recommen dations were not fully complete." W. I. Herrmann stressed the point that he and many citizens SNYDER CHECKING La Grande Fire Chief Ray Sni der is in Cornelius today check ing on the installation and test ing of fire fighting equipment on the new 1,000 gallon pumper be ing purchased by the city. De livery of the new truck is ex pected in a few weeks'. .jf.'M! -43 THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1959 felt that the area should be left a primitive area. He said that de velopment cf the lake area would destroy the natural beauty of the spot. Morgan Lake contains about 70 acres of water. The city recently purchased 200 acres and the lake. The lake was bought fnom Cali-rornia-Pacific Utilities Company for use as a reserve water re source for the City of La Grande. In ether action at the meeting commissioners discussed a possi ble summer bond election for con struction of sewage treatment fac ilities. Both a disposaiplant and a sewage lagoon have been con sidered by the city. Commissioners will act furthr on this matter at" hexf' week's meeting. ' ' A petition for sanitary sewer improvement of a section on Al Scientists Say Danger Is Still WASHINGTON UP1 A high level group of independent scien tists agreed unanimously today that the hazard from radioactive fallout so far is slight. They also said the public has been "confused" about the poten tial danger. The experts reported that the total radioactivity in fallout from all nuclear tests to date amounts to less than 5 per cent of that released by medical X-ray mach ines. Using a different measuring device, they said it is less than 5 per cent of the natural radiation from cosmic rays and other sources. The group, headed by Vice Pres ident Warren C. Johnson of the University of Chicago, said the damage to health from fallout's comparatively small amount of radioactivity cannot be "fully evaluated" but that the hazard should be placed "in perspective." Hard To Understand "Human beings," it said, have lived for many generations in parts of the world which have five times or more the background radiation normal to the United Slates, or more than 100 times the average amount of radiation 'Mrs. McThing' Set For Tonight "Mrs. McThing," spring produc tion of the Eastern Oregon Col cge theater, is scheduled to get andcrway tonight at the college auditorium. It will run for three nights. -- ' , According to Director Richard 3. Hiatt, "Mrs. McThing': is a 'funny play and we're out to make you laugh. Featured in the cast are two oungsters, sixth grader Ronnie Fuller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Fuller, and second grader Becky : Mmo'C, uiiuymcr oi air. ana Mrs. Leonard Kimbrcl of La Grande. Curtain time all three nights is 3 p.m. FLUE FIRE A flue fire broke out in the at tic of the Dr. Joseph II. Gaiscr home, at Alder street and M avenue about 10 a.m. today . Firemen chopped through the roof to extinguish the blaze in the Eastern Oregon College teacher's house. der and Walnut streets between Grandy and Palmr, was accepted and placed on file. The petition was signed by 100 per cent of citizens in the area. Also an application from Alva and Pauline Vancil and Harry and Betty Harris for liquor li censes at Herman's Lunch, 210 Depot street, were granted. The same licenses had previously been issued to Everett and Frances E. Parrish. W. E. Wilkins submitted a price of $3,200 to purchase nine lots on Grandy's 2nd addition. The city has a set price of $3,750 on the lots. No action was taken. The commissioners also grant ed Elmer and Betty Lou Carpenter a license to-move- the Tropidara Night Club from the present ad dress, 1012 Adams, to 1106 Adams now the State Theatre. Fallout Slight from fallout in the United States "The amount of strontium-90 which has been found in food and water is less of a hazard than the amount of radium normally present in public drinking water supplies in certain parts of the United States, and in public use for many decades. The AEC committee said the agency has "released all signifi cant fallout data" and gave spec ial commendation to Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientific member, of the AEC, who for years has min imized the fallout danger. But the advisory group conceded that the information released has not always been "in a form read ily understood by the public." Dairy Cows Diet The advisory committee said flatly that "at present X-rays are the most important artificial source of radiation hazards." Dr. C. L. Comar of Cornell Uni versity suggested in' testimony Wednesday that the amount of dan gerous strontium-90 in milk could be cut in half by doubling the amount of calcium in the diet of dairy cows. ASTAIRE SCORES STUNNING SWEEP OF By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Fred Astaire, bclieing the "old dad" nickname he hung on himself, let his famous dancing foet So the celebrating Wednesday night aft er his stunning sweep of nine tel evision "Emmy" awards. "A great night for old dad," cracked the skinny Astaire when he accepted one of the awards given him by the Academy of Tel evision Arts and Sciences. He will be 60 Sunday. And then Fred showed the young fellows how to celebrate by joining a crowd of television and movie personalities at the Palla dium and dancing with Barrie Chase, his co-star on the "Eve ning with Fred Astaire" show that earned him the awards, and with blonde beauty Kim Novak. Astaire, whose sophisticated dances brought him stardom on Legislature Ends On Economy Note In Its 116th Day BOTH HOUSES SLASH STATE WORKER'S PAY . SALEM (UPH The 50th Oreeon Legislature adjourned on an economy note at 12:10 a.m. today at the start of the 116th day of the session. Adjournment came finally after both houses agreed on slashing salary increases for state workers and academic employes of the state system of higher education by $1,250, 000. Of this amount $750,000 was from a proposed state worker increase and $500,000 was for academic salaries. The 1959 session, which saw a tax bill .passed eliminating the federal income tax deduction from state returns, fell short of the 128-day record. established two years ago. The last evening was punctu ated by recesses of both houses to allow desk staffs a chance to catch up on bills passed and also to let conference committees work on the few bills hanging fire. Main interest In the final day centered around the conference committee handling the measure which originally provided for $3, 200,000 for state employe salary hikes. Members nf this conference committee were Sens. Ward Cook (D-Portland) and Boyd Overhulse (D Madras) along with Reps. Clarence Barton (D-Coquille) and Stafford Hansell (R-Athena.) Senati Cuts Bill Earlier in the day the Senate slashed the state salary Increase down to 11,500,000. The House, however, refused to concur in the Senate amendments and the con ference committee was appointed. There was far more argument In the Senate on the last day than there has been during any single day of the session. At one stage, of the evening, some senators toyed, with the idea of recessing for three days and then reconvening on the theory that the recess might put some of the solons in a better mood. ' All declared they were extreme ly tired and anxious to get borne. Before coming to an agreement on the state employe salary bill, both parties held caucuses. The education bill was urged by Rep. Wickes Shaw (D Eugene) who said at the same time she disapproved ot "slashing budgets at the last minute in negation of thoughtful judgment." The total appropriation for high er education how stands at $39, 853,000 with the House approved reductions. Rep. Keith Skelton (E-Eugene) protested on the state salary bill that it was not really a needed cut. Hikes About 10 Per Cent Increases for academic employ es now amount to about 10 per cent spread over the next two years. State workers would get about a 4 per cent raise. . iRep. W. O. (Bun) Kelsay (D Roseburg) said the. state salary bill was a "bad bargain" but was better than "nothing at all." The main tax bill, besides the federal income tax deduct ion, would lower rates but still means a boost in taxes. Another tax bill passed places a one per cent in terest rate per month on taxes paid by installment. The Legisla ture also approved special tax treatment for capital gains pro viding they are reinvested in Ore gon. This is designed to attract new industry. , EMMY' AWARDS Broadway and; motion pictures, won each award for which he had been nominated, including best actor of 1958 in a single perform ance, i . 1 The biggest winner next to As taire was the Irish drama "Lit tle Moon of Alban" which took four awards, including the best actress in a single performance award for its star, Julie Harris. There were a number of two Emmy winning shows, including Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Dinah Shore and Jack Benny. The only Westerns garnering awards were Maverick, named the best oat-burner, and Gun smoke, in which Dennis (Chester) Weaver won an Emmy as best supporting actor in a series. Among the networks, NBC nearly swept the field by collect ing 27 Emmys, CBS won 12 and ABC one. Playhouse 90, expected to be a big winner won only one award Fair through Friday; highs 63-68; low 27-34. Price 5 Cent Pearson bays Legislature Did Good Job SALEM (UPI) Senate Presi dent Walter Pearson said today the Oregon Legislature did a good overall job except for increases which hiked the budget. "If the Ways and Means Com mittee had not gone hog. wild on appropriations we could have ad journed in 100 days," . Pearson said. "However, they did a good job otherwise." Pearson said that up to Jwo weeks before close of the session the tax committees had hopes of a 305 million dollar budget. This, he said, would have . permitted keeping the same tax rates with some minor adjustments. The general fund budget totaled about $312.2 million. Pearson said he regretted fail ure of the House to permit a vote of the people on a sales tax. The alternative of a 50 per cent in-' crease in income tax rates faces the 1961 Legislature, he predicted. AotviAn Mi i - , In Accidents Two women were Injured in separate Highway 30 accidents last night. . Mrs. Raymond B. McFarland of La Grande is in the St Joseph hospital. She was a passenger on a scooter driven by her husband. The scooter flipped on gravel on the shoulder of the highway, Mc Farland told state police. They were traveling west at the time of the accident. ' Delia Mayhew Binau of Big Springs, Tex., was released from the hospital this morning follow ing a single car accident east of Ladd Canyon. Her car traveled 167 feet after leaving the high way and came to rest on its wheels in a ditch, police reported.' The accident occurred about 10:30 p. m. Kiwanis Gives FFA Check For Loan Fund . The La Grande Kiwanis Club last night presentd the La Grande Chapter of Future Farmers of America with a check amount-. ing to $100. The money will be put In small loan fund for members of the FFA chapter. Kiwanis Club President Ed Alexander and vice president Vernon DcLong made the presen tation to Dale Case, chapter pres ident, at a meeting of the FFA. the best dramatic series of one hour or longer. In the news category, the team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC was chften the best news reporting pwgram; . Face of Red China, CBS, the best special news program; Ed Mur row, CBS, best news commenta tor; and Cuban Revolution, CBS, the best on-the-spot news cover age. Other awards included: Loretta Young (best actress, dramatic series), Jane Wyatt (best actress, comedy series), Barbara Hal (best supporting actress, dramat ic series), Ann B. Davis (best supporting actress, comedy ae ries) and Tom Poston (best sup porting actor, comedy series). - Perry Como won the best actor of a musical show award and) Raymond Burr the award for the best actor of a dramatic series. Omnibus, NBC, was named the best public service program. Ml- . 3r--wp-