Daily except Sunday Deputy Defense Sec. Donald A. Quarles Found Dead At Home WASHINGTON (UPI) Deputy Defense Secretary Don ald A. Quarles, who was in line as President Eisenhower's next secretary of defense, was found dead at his home here today. ' ' Quarles, 64, apparently died in his sleep. He was found by his chauffeur who tried to wake him at 7:55 a.m. (e'd.t.) so that he would make an NBC television appearance. He was pronounced dead 35 minutes later. Mrs. Quarles was in Chicago. A police rescue squad and a physician rushed from Walter X4a - N r f - VY" - , "I J f ' ' ' "I'1 DONALD A. QUARLES . Found Dtad Star-Studded 75th Birthday Party For HST NEW YORK (UPI)-Harry S. Truman, who took over Times Square Thursday, captures the rest, of tha nattoa -tonight -in a star-studded" happy 75th birthday party. , An estimated 50,000 persons were expected to turn out to hon or the former president at Demo cratic Party dinners in 16 cities, linked by closed-circuit television. Truman was to join 1,800 guests at a $100-a-plate dinner in the Waldorf -'Astoria Hotel here. Speakers at the cross-country par ty include Adlai Stevenson, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, House Speak er Sam Rayburn, former Secre tary of State Dean Acheson and the jaunty, vigorous Truman him self. Entertainers were to include Danny Kaye, Jack Benny, Leo nard Bernstein, Jimmy Durante, Mort Sahl and Melvyn Douglas. Thursday, New York's famed Times Square was renamed Tru man Square for a week. Mayor Robert F. Wagner presented the city's medal of honor to Truman. In addition Wagner gave Tru man a scroll granting him "the freedom of the city." Such scrolls have been award ed only twice before to Adm. Robert E. Peary in 1909 and to United Nations Secretary Gener al Dag Hammarskjold last year. ACTOR FACES TRIAL ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) Cow boy actor Lash Larue, 45, will go on trial May 30 on misdemeanor assault and battery and disturbing the peace charges arising out of a domestic fight April 11 in which he suffered a head gash requiring five stitches. Larue changed his original plea of guilty to innocent Monday in Municipal Court. The charges were brought jointly by his wife, Passie, 28, and her sister, Mrs. J. M. Oslorn. AS FAR APART Preliminary Steel Talks Fail To Bring Agreement NEW YORK (UPI) Prelimi nary steel contract talks ended to day with both sides as far apart as at the start and actual give and take negotiations between four-man teams will begin Mon day. - Both David J. McDonald, pres ident of the United Steelworkers Union, and R. Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator, said they were beginning the joint collec tive bargaining sessions Monday in an attempt to reach an agree ment by the July 1 strike dead line. McDonald and Cooper issued statements which showed that the preliminary talks which started tteea Army Meaicai center failed in efforts to revive him. Eisenhower was "shocked and saddened" by Quarles' unexpected death. In an expression of sympathy, the President said: "As deputy secretary and, prior to that as secretary of the Air Force, Mr. Quarles devoted his extraordinary talents to the serv ice of his country. His contribu tion was of inextimablc value to the security not only of the United States but of that of the entire Free World. I share with his as sociates in the government a keen sense of personal loss." Sew President Thursday Quarles, as a member of the National Security Council, had met with the President Thursday Queries was an engineer-industrialist who came out of the Ozark Mountain town of Van Buren, Ark., and once played in a hill billy band. . - He had been a member of the Eisenhower administration team since September, 1953, and had served as secretary of the Air Force before taking over as dep uty defense secretary March 20. 1957. Quarles has been mentioned prominently as the possible suc cessor to Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy who Is expected to resign later this year. ..--sj Quarles was reported in" good' health and spirits Thursday night when he attended a private dinner and an Air Force symphony con cert. He had returned to his home about 11 p.m. When the chauffeur couldn't wake him this morning, police and a son-in-law. Col. Stanley Lewis, were notified. Had Brilliant Mind Before coming to Washington as a government official, Quarles had had a successful career with West ern Electric and the Bell Tele phone Laboratories. Quarles had a rural background and showed a flare for brilliance. At 16, he was teaching mathe matics in Van Buren High School to students as young as he was. He worked his way through Yale and was a Phi Beta Kappa. In World War I, he saw two years service as an Army captain in France and Germany. Quarles began his career as an engineer with Western Electric in1 1920 and studied theoretical phys ics at Columbia University at the same time. Firemen Answer Roof Fire Call A roof fire at 1101 Penn Avenue was extinguished by city firemen shortly before 8 a.m today. The minor damage blaze was believed lo have been started from chim ney sparks. Mrs. Viola Stile and her granddaughter live in the house. Firemen also reported that fur ther investigation of the Dr. Jo soph H. Gaiser roof fire yesterday at Alder street and M avenue was started by defective wiring. AS EVER. Tuesday have been completely un successful in narrowing the dif ferences between them on basic economic issues. Cooper said proposals made at a preliminary meeting between the union and V. S. Steel "reflect substantial differences between us." The union wound up separate talks with. 12 major steel compan ies. Cooper again called for a one year wage freeze and said steel companies could not absorb fur ther cost increases without suffer ing "a profit squeeze that would be ruinous." Cooper also emphasized that the Established 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON, A wee bit of Scotland, in the form of the Scottish High landers shown above, will be one of the highlights of the final night of the La Grande High School May Mu sic Festival in the school auditorium tonight. Theme of BIG CREEK RAILROAD ' BY H. E. PHILBY Observer Staff Writer One of the shortest, and' least heard about railroads in the state. the Big Creek and Tclocasct Rail road is being abandoned as a re sult of the sale of the Pondosa sawmill by the ValscU Lumber company. t Truman Collins of Portland, head of the Collins Pine Company which owns the 14-mile line, said today that an application is be in? filrd wjth the Interstate Com- nrereo commission to aoanaon the line. The I.C.C. might just as well comply with the request the Big Creek & Tclocaset isn I In operation anyway . Built in 1926 by Japanese hand labor by the Stoddard Lumber Company of Pondosa, the railroad was designed to haul logs from Stoddard s timber holdings to the Pondosa mill.' . Because of finan cial difficulties, the Stoddard firm transferred the railroad to the Big Creek & Telocaset Rail road company om Dec. 22, 1927 by warranty deed in exchange for capital stock. March 17, 1937 the Grande. Ronde Pine Company, owned by E. S. Collins, purchased the entire stock in the BCStT rail road. The Grande Ronde Pine company later became the Col lins Pine company. Although the railroad was nev er designed to carry passengers, there were times when men were hauled on the line as an emerg ency measure according to Reu ban S. Teske, a Valsctz Lumber company accountant who handled the paper work. Teske recounts one mercy mis sion made by the roalroad. "A hunting accident had occurred and the injured man was slip ping fast from the loss of blood. Roads at this time were poor and blocked by snow. "The engine was fired up, and the injured man was put on a flat car with a stove to keep him warm. When the train left camp, Teske reports, every avail able man in camp was hanging on the engine and shoveling snow to keep the track clear. The ac cident victim was taken to a Bak er hospital where he recovered. Teske also reported that lor company had an obligation to its more than 300,000 stockholders. He said the 'average stockholder of U. S. Steel has an average an nual income smaller than the av erage steel worker and that the stockholders' needs are just as great as those of employes. McDonald told a news confer ence that "no member of United Steelworkers has an income even remotely approaching any of the top officials of U. S. Steel." McDonald insisted the union would press for a "reasonable and noninflationary settlement earned by the employes and justified by the company's productivity and the industry's profits." , FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1959 i mmiii ' in ..tuetnA, mimn i n 1 i n 1 1 m mmi LHS SCOTTISH DANCERS PERFORM AND TELOCASET BEING ABANDONED years, operating and maintenance workers carried guns during the hunting season ."and usually got their buck without much effort." Two fatalities occurred while the train was in operation. 1 One engineer shot a deer from his cab and dropped dead from a heart attack and on another occasion a train wreck resulted in an engi neer was scalded to death by steam. ' Technically there were n6 em ployes on the BC&T railroad. The payroll and operating expenses of .the line were carried by the Mt Emily Lumber Company, a subsidiary of the Valsetz com pany. In exchange for this finan cial arrangement the BC&T paid Mt. Emily a fee for each car of lumber moved along the tracks. The BC&T then charged off this tec as prorated engine operating expense. The payroll assumed by Mt. Emily was picked up on BC&T records as a contribution and took care of the maintenance Rackets Committee Hears Union Official's WASHINGTON (UPI) -A Hous ton, Tex., official of the Boiler makers Union swore today that Joseph McCoilum, the union s vice president, tried to raise funds to have another union member mur dered by a hired killer. McCoilum ' immediately denied the charge, saying "I have never in my life heard a man perjure himself more." The charge was made before the Senate Rackets Committee by Le land F. Head, business manager of Houston Local 74.' It was injected unexpectedly in to a committee hearing on a union dispute between McCoilum, who Lions Birthday Party Planned La Grande Lions club members will celebrate the 30th anniversary tomorrow night when they hold a banquet at the Sacajawca hotel starting at 7 p.m. A no-host social hour will precede the dinner. International Director Ted Pe terson of Seattle will be the guest speaker at the dinner. Lion President Bob Wllkins has received word from Bob Chrisman, state council governor, Izzy Hawn, Oregon's candidate for Internation al director, and district Governor Simmons that they would attend the affair. Several Eastern Ore gon clubs have indicated they will participate in the celebration. Lions elected new officers at the regular meeting this week. Harvey Carter was named president, Augie Sperling, first vice president, Aver itt Hickox, second vice president; Stewart Wylde. secretary; L. Rhodes Lewis, treasurer; Rocjch Fitzgerald, Lion Tamer, and Wen dell Vaughn, Tail Twister. WEATHER Increasing clouds today; partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday with a few scattered showers over the mountains; high today 67-74 and Satur day 60-67; low tonight 37-44. O tonight's production will be Other musical performances Wednesday nights. side of the bookkeeping records, Teske said. Eleven miles of the 14-mile line is under I.C.C. jurisdiction, while the remaining Ihrce miles, from Beagle Creek to Pondosa is cn private land. The line con nects wilh Union Pacific at Tclo casct. Collins said the 14 miles of trackage will be picked up and held in storage for future sale as scrap metal. The tracks were laid on .the ground- without- ballast in this sagebrush country. The buildings of the Japanese labor camp arc still standing and can be seen from a car on a drive btween Pondosa and Tclocasct. The last load of lumber was hauled on the BC&T on March 12, 1959 with John J. Rayl as engi neer. The Pondosa mill was actually shut down March 5 and the rail line was used to haul out the last cuttings from the mill. Charge also lives in Houston, sought to raise $500 each from the locals in the area to hire a killer, per haps from Mexico, to murder Clarence Wilkins, member of Lo cal 132 at nearby Galveston, Tex McCoilum, also testifying under oath, said that not a single state ment by Head was true. Chairman John L. McClclIan D Ark. ) said it was obvious that eith er Head or McCoilum had commit ted perjury. Ho said a transcript of'lhcir testimony would be sent to the Justice Department for pos sible action. Just before the committee ad journed for lunch, Head, who had been excused as a witness, rose and told McClclIan he would be willing to take a lie dcloctor test on his testimony. McClellan then asked McCoilum if he would like to do the same. "I volunteer," McCoilum replied. McClclIan told the committee staff to try to arrange the test for both this afternoon. It was brought out that Wilkins had been acquitted on grounds of self defense for the 1955 union hall slaying of James Huff, business manager of Local 132. The next year, the committee was in formed, Wilkins was uccuscd of stabbing Jay D. Billingslcy, an oiner oinciui oi inc local, in a bar room. Head said he presumed this vio lence was why McCoilum wanted Wilkins murdered. Hcud said he refused to contribute $500 to the r L. ;.. 1 ' iuiiu iroiii 111s local . EOC Music Groups Set Performance The Eastern Oregon Colleee band and choir will present a Joint con cert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the college theatre. Although designed as a higmignt of the Parents Week end events at the college, Ihe ocn c?rt has been opened to the public, Dr. Rhodes Lewis reported. Featured cn the program will be the Blue and Gold singers, the varsity band with Marcia Mac- Pherson, vocalist, and the "Music Man" starring Johanna Hardwick who is Miss Baker of 1050. Price 5 Cents "There's Magic in Music." were given Monday and (LHS Photo) JUST LIKE A WOMAN LELAND, Miss. (UPI)-The fe male boll weevil i more dan gerous than the male, according to entomologist Marvin Mericl, He put a male and female in a cage containing cotton plants. The male damaged five cotton bells on one plant. But the fe male made 442 punctures, dam aging every plant in the cage. 'Mrs. McThing' Show Tonight . Mobsters "The Stinker" Mike Hanford, and "Dirty Joe" Bill Ward, kept "Mrs. McThing alive on tho Thursday opening night of the play at The Eastern Oregon College auditorium. The naturalness of these two parts kept the play moving suf ficiently to draw audience atten tionthough Becky Kimbrell, the seven year old girl who portrayed Mimi, and Ron Fuller as Howay, turned the trick by being cute In their parts. "Mrs. McThing" is a fantasy in three acts by Mary Chase. The illusion of fantasy is created when Howay is turned Into a "stick" by Mrs. McThing. The real Howay turns up in a skidrow cafe work ing as a dishwasher for Poison Eddie Schcllcnbach, chief of the mobsters. When Howay's rich mother, Mrs Howard V. Larue III, finds him at the cafe, she is turned into a "stick" by Mimi, Mrs. McThing's daughter. All ends well in the end as the sticks, who have occupied the fancy home of Mrs. Larue, are actually turned into sticks, and Howay and Mrs Larue resume their normal rich wayof life, The Stinker and Dirty Joe are the humorous vehicle for the play and Bill Ward and Mike Han ford play tho parts with zest and a definite naturalness. Tho play will be presented to night and tomorrow night at the EOC auditorium. Curtain time Is 8 p.m. PATCH ON THE Hatfield Gives His Views On Legislature's Actions SALEM (UPI) Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield Is satisfied wilh the size of Oregon's 1959-61 budgot but not with the way the Democratic-controlled 50th Legis lature went about raising money for it. In his inaugural message, on Feb. 9, Hatfield outlined a gen eral fund budget calling for $312, 972,000. The budget approved by the Legislature which adjourned early Thursday was estimated at $312,400,000. . Hatfield charged that the lawmakers- "provided only a n o t her patch on the crazy quilt of Oregon taxation." He added, "instead of truly broadening the tax base as recommended . . , the Democratic Russian Attitude Might Break Up Geneva Meeting NOTE WARNS REDS ON EVE OF MEETING WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States formally urged the Soviet Union today to seek honest, fruitful results at the East-West foreign ministers conference which starts in Gen eva Monday. In a note to Moscow, made public shortly before, Secre tary of State Christian A. Herter left for the conference, the -U.S. also disavowed Soviet charges of trying to torpedo the negotiations in advance. Hertpr took off after a Diane-side statement that he was leaving in a "hopeful spirit." success at Geneva are "not. too high" and said that nego- tiations with the Soviets have Droved that a "tremendous amount of patience is need ed." Earlier, high American sources said that any high-handed action by the Soviets against Berlin would break up the four-power foreign ministers meeting and kill chances of a summit conference later. Before departing, Herter con ferred with President Eisenhower at the White House, then called on his ailing predecessor, John Foster Dulles, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Herter and Dulles talked for about 15 minutes. Herter headed for his vital as signment, ready to negotiate with the Russians in a spirit of con ciliation, but firmly set against bargaining away basic western principles. Officials said if the Soviets are not already aware of the danger of carrying out their ultimatum on Berlin, it will be made clear to them at the Geneva meeting start ing Monday. There also was indication that U. S. officials are prepared for a procedural scrap in the meet ing's opening phase over what rolo the two Germanics and pos sibly Poland and Czechoslovakia should take In the discussions. Confers W!!fc Eisenhower ; Meanwhile Herter had a brief morning consultation with' Presi dent Eisenhower. They presuma bly went over last minute details on what the U. S. will expect as a prerequisite for, a summer con ference that would involve the President. Officials said any Soviet at tempt to take unilateral action on the Berlin situation while negotia tions are going on in Geneva would very likely break up the conference.. They would expect one of the western nations to take the matter immediately to the United Nations. N Herter, in his first tough assign ment as the West's chief negotia tor, was prepared to make con cessions at the Geneva foreign ministers' conference if Russia will give, ground, too. Short Stop In Germany Flying to Geneva by way of Bonn, Herter was to stop off Sat urday for discussions with West German Chancellor Konrad Aden auer. ; Herter promised . in a radio television address Thursday night that the Western; powers would stand firm on such basic princi ples as "freedom for Berlin," Gorman unification and safe guarded arms control agree ments. Doesn't Expect Much But he said the United States, Britain and France were will ing to negotiate with the Soviets on the "application" of these principles "provided that conces sions from us are matched by equivalent counter concessions from the Soviet - Union." In his maideni address to the nation as secretary of state, Her ter pledged the t West "honestly and in good faith to seek some advance, even if small, toward a just peace" in bargaining with I the Soviets. ' CRAZY QUILT leadership has socked the same taxpayers who have been hit so often and so hard for so many years." But referring to the size of the budget, Hatfield said it was kept "some 15 million dollars under what was predicted for this bi ennium a year ago by then Fi nance Director John Richardson." Hatfield has recommended a broadening of the tax base in ad dition to the net Income tax. Aft er much wrangling the Legis lature finally came up with a plan whereby rates would be low ered but taxes would be hiked by eliminating the federal income tax deduction from state returns. The governor said if the base had been broadened, vital needs He said his expectations of .;; , Di2w ' Broadcast Accusations LONDON (UPI) Russia ac cused the West today of going into the Geneva conference Mon day with a plan "which has little to do with a peace treaty or a Berlin settlement." , The broadcast by Moscow Ra dio was one of a series of prop aganda statements in recent weeks aimed at setting forth the Soviet position before the world and discrediting thr West in ad- . vance. It coincided with Secretary of State Christian A. Hcrter's speech in which he -warned that the American people should not ex pect a quick and easy end to the cold war that the Soviets' past record of negotiating "does not warrant much optirrjjsm." Moscow made no direct reply to Hertcr's speech. Tass carried a lengthy factual account of the speech but did not comment. The Moscow broadcast .said Russia realizes the conference "has some definite problems to settle, and it should help to nor malize relations between coun tries." '.' -.- Moscow said no Western plan has materialized for a Berlin and -German settlement. "T h e r r. 'a seems to be a complex plan ' which has little to do with ' a peace treaty or a Berlin settle ment," it said. Court Test ; For Extra Pay Measure Due A SALEM (UPI) Secretary of State Howell Appling refused Thursday to comply with a de mand that he approve extra pay for legislators provided in a leg islative bill, thus setting up a ' court test. v The bill would increase legisla tors.' pay to $175 a month from the present $600 a year. It was introduced by Sen. R. F. Chap- man (D-Coos Bay) solely to get a decision from the State Supreme Court on whenthec members of the Legislature could set their own salaries. The Legislature also passed a bill whicn submits to the people in November of 1980 the question of whether legislators' salaries will go from the present rate to the $175 per month figure. Chapman made the demand for the extra pay from Appling with intention of filing suit to force him to comply. Appling said he was in sympathy with "the need for higher legislative salaries" . and that he would cooperate fully to "obtain an early decision of legality of the issue." such as those in elementary and secondary education could have been met with resultant property tax relief. The main Income tax plan as finally approved met with almost solid Republican opposition. All 27 GOP house members voted against it and only three, of the 11 GOP senators voted for it. It also received bitter press criti cism. Hatfield was not entirely criti cal of the Legislature. He cited reorganization of the Board, at Agriculture, repeal of the anti picketing law, adoptioiHof an un insured motorist clause and un employment compensation provis ions as good things which came out of the session. Si 2 v