O
Ike Faces Rough
Daily except Sunday
Ministers
Assemble
For Talks
' Summit Regarded
As Sure Thing
GENEVA UPI The Big Four
foreign ministers began assem
bling in Geneva today for Mon
day's Berlin crisis talks and Rus
sia's Andrei -Gromyko started
speeding up pressure for an early
summit meeting.
Gromyko was the first to arrive.
The Soviet Foreign Minister ex
pressed hope "that the , foreign
ministers conference will arrange
an early convocation of the heads
of government."
The statement supported claims
by Communist sources that the
Russians will forego wrangling
over procedural matters at the be
ginning of the foreign ministers
meeting in order to speed the way
to the summit conference that
both East and West now regard
as inevitable.
Soviet Complaint Rejected
U.S. Secretary of State Christian
Hcrtcr stopped over in Bonn, West
Germany, on his way to Geneva,
for talks with Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer. He arrives here late
this afternoon.
The West German Government
disclosed it had replied to Rus
sia's April 24 warning against the
arming of West German forces
with atomic weapons.
The reply was believed to have
rejected the Soviet complaint in
much the same forthright terms
as the United States' rejection
Friday of a similar warning
against supplying nuclear weapons
to its NATO allies.
Responsible Communist sources
predicted today that Gromyko
would try to settle outside the con
ference of ministers such questions
as the seating of the East German
Communists, Poland and Czecho
slovakia so as to avoid days of
argument. . .,.,,,... v.--..
; Soeict Premier Nikita Khrush
chev believes that only a meeting
with the other heads of state can
reach a cold war settlement and
Gromyko has been ordered to
speed things up, the sources said.
Khrushchev hopes for summit
talks during the summer.
Mounts Win
First Game
Eastern Oregon College defeat
ed Southern Oregon 5-3 to take the
first of three Oregon O.Uegiate
Conference baseball games being
played today on the college dia
mond. The game was continued from
yesterday when EOC was leading
3 0 in the fourth when the game
was called because of rain. Satch
Miller allowed only four hits over
a nine-inning stint for the Mounts.
Frank Chase led EOC batters with
three for four, including a triple.
In the second game the score
was 0-0 after three innings. Dave
D'Olivo had allowed no hits for
SOC and John Willmarth but one
for EOC in the three innings.
La Grande FFA
Places Second
""La Grande High School's chap
ter of the Future Farmers of
America placed second in both
the varsity and freshmen divi
sions of livestock judging at the
Pea Festival at Milton-Frcewutor.
However, one member of each
of the local teams placed first in
high individual ' judging. Larry
Campbell took top ribbon for the
varsity squad, and his cousin.
Mike Campbell, took the fresh
man blue ribhon.
Mac Hi nr.scd out the varsity by
nine points to take first in that
division. They were followed by
La Grande, Hcppner Pendleton,
lmblcr, Elgin, and then schools
from Umatilla county. Heppncr
took freshman honors with La
Grande second and lmblcr third.
Pendleton Firm
Submits Low Bid
The Russell Olson Construction
Company fcf Pendleton was ap
parent low bidder on 4.24 miles of
oil surfacing of the Phillips Creek
Dry Creek section of the Sander
son Spring Road.
The Pendleton firm's offer of
$18,724 was low among four bid
ders. The highway work will be
gin about 3.3 miles west of Elgin.
The bid award will be made by
the State Highway .Department in
Salem on May 28.
Union county road crews are
now working on rock crusher ma
terial for the road which will be
improved later this summer.
J3
. mm
' 3 ft
So says Mimi (center) portrayed by Becky Kimbrell in the Eastern Oregon College
production of "Mrs. McThing" which comp letes a three-night run tonight. From left,
Nancy Brooks, Ronny Fuller, Becky, and Larry Nelson, all of La Grande. (EOC Photo)
'I AM A TIMID MAN'.
Truman Honored By 50,000
Admirers On 75th Birthday
NEW YORK (UPD-Hu-ry Tru
man celebrated his 75th birthday
Friday night with 50,000 of his
admirers at parties in 17 cities
connected by closed circuit tele
vision, i
It was a scntimcnlul affair at
times and the former president
was near tears at the end, but he
provided his own comic relief
with the Truman touch of trying
to cut the wooden interior of a
huge tiered birthday cake.
It was also a highly partisan
affair, with not a Republican in
sight, and Truman got his biggest
laughs fiom wisecracks about
Clare Boolhc Luce and Sin. Wayne
Morse,'' Vice - President' Diehard
Nixon and Gen. Douglas Mao-Arthur.
Laughs At Digs
There were 1,000 Democrats
paying $100 a plate at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York
where Truman and his wife dined.
I An enthusiastic storm of applause
broke when firmer New York
Gov. Avercll Hnrriman said the
party wished he would be their
candidate next year.
Truman showed embarrassment
as Democrats lavished their
praise for the historic decisions
he made in the presidency the
use of the atom bomb against
Japan, the Berlin airlift, the Mar
shall Plan and intervention in Ko
rea. "I am a timid man I am em
barrassed at what you said here,"
he said in emotion-choked tones.
He was far happier at mild digs
at himself such as Dean Ache-
son's comment, "When he made
an error he learned from it, al
though he never admitted it."
Show Home Movies
Adlai Stevenson in Chicago
called him the "irrepressible
member of the non-beat genera
tion " And his c!J friond. Judge
Samuel I. Rcsenman, toasted Mrs.
Truman as "the one Ereat re
straining influence in our hero's
life."
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LHS FESTIVAL ENTERTAINERS
Pat Myers deft) and Charlene Koczan are s hown as they performed in the final show
of the 1959 May Music Week Festival at th e La Grande High School. School officials
termed the show a success. (Joe Diehl Photo)
Established 1896
LA GRANDE, OREGON,
MY MOTHER IS UP
Their daughter, Margaret, who
is expecting a second child, was
not at the party although her
hjsband, K. C. Daniel Jr., at
tended. Some of tno most moving mo
n ents comio in showing of movie ;
'aken in Tinman s home town of
I'ldepcndunce. Mil. In one shot his
r'stcr, Ma.-y. said: "Harry was
a nice bo.'. He always to'ik me
everywhere. Maybe that's why
I m still .in old maid."
led Mark? the best mnn at 1 is
wedding, ivcnl'vd visiting Tiu
n an whih hi' Has preside it a.id
fiing out on I he yacht, William
burg.. A steward askH th pre.i
dt nt-wher- !"" should bunk Marks
in view of the fact he snored so
loudly.
"The president told him, 'Well,
Heroine Says
Over Dying Shark Victim
SAN FRANCISCO (UPli "Oh
my God I am heartily sorry for
having offended Thee."
So whispered 18-year-old Albert
Kogler during a hurried, beachside
baptism, two hours before he died
from wounds made by a man
eating shark.
Baptizing young Kogler was the
18-year-old girl who pulled him
from the turbulent surf already
turned red from his blood.
The girl, Shirley O'Neill, had
plunged back into the water Thurs
day disregarding Kogler's scream-,
ing warnings of danger.
Already a heroine for her cour
age in hauling the fatally mauled
Kogler to shore, it was revealed
today that Shirley baptized him
and, in effect, said tho last rites
over his body, from which life ob
viously was fast ebbing. .
After pulling Kogler to shore,
she knelt over him, sprinkled his
forehead with sea water and made
the sign of the cross.
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1959
THERE"
move him in with me,' " Marks
recalled. "That's one reason he's
always been my best man."
Hand On Heart
Truman was in anything but a
"give 'em hell" mood as he fi
nally rose to respond. He put his
hand on his heart and said, "If
I tried to express what I feel'
here, I couldn't talk."
"I'll never forget it so long as
I live," he said. "When I am 90,
I will tell my great grandchildren
about it.
"1 am going to try to spend the
rest of my life getting young peo
ple to understand what they have
in this great country and what
they have to do to keep it."
Then he tried to blow out the
75 candles on his cake. He needed
help to extinguish them all.
Last Rites
"I baptize thee in the name of
the Father, the Son and the Holy
Ghost."
She said, "I've baptized you, is
that all right?" He murmured,
"ok."
Then, continuing the religious
rite, he repeated after her the act
of contrition:
"Oh my God, I am sorry for
having offended Thee..."
His last words before becoming
unconscious were:
"I love God, and I love my
mother, and I love my father. Oh,
God, help me, help me."
Kogler died a short time later
after emergency surgery failed to
stem the damage resulting from
shock and loss of flesh and blood.
Meanwhile, Mayor George Chris
topher disclosed he planned to
seek a Carnegie Medal of Heroism
for Shirley for her dangerous and
heartbreaking attempt to save the
life of her friend.
Dulles
Contracts
Pneu
monia
WASHINGTON lPI Ailing
former Secretary of Slate John
Foster Dulles contracted a mild
case of pneumonia today. His con
dition was described as "some
what weaker."
Dulles is in Walter Heed Armv
Medical Center for treatment of
cancer.
The State Department in disclos
ing the pneumonia attack, said
that Dulles resixmled satisfactor
ily to his initial injection of anti
biotics. Constant Pain
Dulles has been receiving anal
gesics for relief of almost constant
pain from the cancer attacks.
It was disclosed earlier this
week that Dulles now has to get
around in a wheelchair. The State
Department said he is able to
walk but finds it more convenient
to use the wheelchair.
Today's announcement said:
"Former Secretary Dulles has
contracted a mild case of pneu
monia. His initial response to anti
biotics has been satisfactory and
his temperature is normal. He is,
however, somewhat weaker."
The pneumonia attack followed
one month after a medical report
which said X-rays indicated Dulles
had a malignant turner in the
lower part of his neck.
Radiation treatments that were
started on April 14 were continued
only four days when doctors said
they were not helping the former
secretary.
Dulles on Feb. 13 underwent a
hernia operation which disclosed
that he was suffering from a re
currence of abdominal cancer for
which he originally underwent sur
gery in November, t!)56.
He received massive radiation
treatments and injections of radio
active gold.
Hope For Victory
mere was nope no might win
his fight when the treatments
were ended on March 17 and he
was able to spend a weekend at
his Washmuton homo. .-- "
He flew to Florida on March 30
for a rest cure, but on April 12
was flown back to Walter Reed
suffering new pains in his neck.
Two days later, a medical but
letin reported the suspected tumor
in the lower part of his neck and
Dulles resigned the following day.
Dulles has been seeing visitors
only for a few minutes a day,
He was visited this week by Pres
ident Eisenhower and former Brit
ish Prime Minister Winston
Churchill. Friday he was visited
by the President and later by his
successor, Christian A. Hcrtcr. be
fore Hertcr flew to Geneva for the
Big Four foreign ministers meet
ing.
He was hospitalized on Febru
ary 10 and an operation three
days later confirmed the doctor's
suspicions that he had a malignant
tumor in his lower intestinal tract
Local Riders
Will Haul Mail
For Pony Express
Pony Express riders from the
La Grande Mavericks and Union
Range Riders will "haul the mail"
from Kamcla to North Powder to
morrow as part of the Centennial !
Pony Express run which started in : '
Portland over a week ago and f
which will go to Independence,:'
Mo., and back. I
Riders from the Mavericks will ' i
take the mail from Pendleton
Riders at Kamvla and will carry It C
to the slate weighing station east
of La Grande on Route 30. Twenty-1 j
five riders from the club will car-! i
rv the nnllrh in ro1nv vtnrlinfy nt F
9:30 a.m.
W. M. Curliss tf the Mavericks
said that the rider should pass
through La Grando between 11
and 12 a.m.
A Union Range Rider horseman
will pick up the pouch ut the
weighing station and will carry it
to Union where a special post of
fice has been constructed. Spec
ial Centennial Express stamps
and envelopes are on sale there
as well as at River Products Meats
and Coy's Hardware Supply in La
Grande. They will be on sale un
til June when the express will re
turn through this area en it's re
turn trip to Port'and.
Union riders will carry the mail
pouch from Union aft-r ceremo
nies at the post office in Union to
North Powder where Baker riders
will pick it up later tomorrow af
ternoon. HIGGINS SETS TALK
Harris Higgins will talk on Ore
gon taxation at the Union county
Farm Bureau meeting at Cove, 7
p.m. Tuesday. A p;t luck dinner
will be included as part of the
evening program.
Price 5 Cents
ARMED FORCES
UNIFICATION
WASHINGTON (UPI) De
fense planners are toying with a
new scheme for unifying the
armed forces: standardizing
buttonholes.
'This move was disclosed to
day in testimony made public
by a House appropriations sub
committee. The project isn't sewed up
yet. But officials of the agency
which buys military uniforms
told the subcommittee that but
tonholes may be one of the next
items they wilt standardiie.
Presumably they feel the
armed forces have too many
shapes and sizes of buttonholes,
boosting uniform costs. Not miss
ing any bets, the agency said it
also was considering whether
to standardize military buttons.
Local Teacher
Is Featured
In Magazine
Miss Elda Mae Childcrs, who is
completing hor 12th year as a
ureenwuoa scnool tencner, is
featured in the current issue of
the National Education Associ
ation Journal, a national profes
sional publication.
The article, accompanied by
several pictures taken in the La
Grande elementary school, out
linos Miss Childcrs career of
having spent all of her teaching
tunc, plus teacher-training, at the
Greenwood school.
It also delves into her activi
ties on the local, state and na
tional level in professional edu
cation organizations. Also men
tinned was the fact that Miss
Childcrs plans to marry Victor
M. Crow of near Joseph this June.
.Miss Childcrs says she still plans
to return to teaching in the
future.
Tho magazine is running a fca
lure each month on "American
Teacher, 19,r9," and has selected
,i few outstanding teachers from
over the nation for this particu
lur honor.
The article states that "School
administrators and teachers, par
enls and citizens of La Grande
in Ki:neraJ.aio,uianiiouji iftjhnk
praise of Miss Chiluors. .
"Even more eloquent lestimoni
al is to be found in her fifth-
grade at the Greenwood grade
school: The pupils not only say
ite is tops but indicate their
feelings by their bihavior."
The magazine article-also tells
of her being a native of Cove
and her graduation from Eastern
Oregon College. She plans to con
tinue her studies for a master's
degree in teaching. Miss Childers
originally planned to teach music,
Author of the article is H. E.
Philby, La Grande Observer
managing editor.
Hindman Elected
To School Board
ELGIN (Special) Billy Hind
man was elected to the Elgin Dis
trict No. 23 school board at
school clccticn Monday. Henry
Wcathcrspoon won the Rural
School District post.
At the election voters also
passed the Elgin district tax levy
and the rural school tax levy. El
lin voters favored Carl Webster
for the membcr-at-largo berth on
the rural school district board,
TEACHER
".. i ... . f x -vy
iiiirniiriri ' - ;----'- 1 ir i J "' .. .. t-'"... - -.
with school Principal Loren Blanchard, is featured in the current issue of the National
Fyliiratinn' Association Journal. The nrnfessinnal teacher's maeazine editors have sel- i
ected a few outstanding teachers for the series on "American Teacher, 1959."
, (Observer Photo) i
Task Of
Defense Secretary
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower faced the
rough task today of replacing his two top defense officials
in a period of crisis and military danger.
Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, who hopes to leave
the Cabinet by the end of this year, began an urgent search
for a successor to his deputy, Donald A. Quarles, who died
early Friday. , , ......
It appeared probable tnat
plans to retire despite
yuaries i
death. Quarles was considered Mc-
Elroy's most likely successor.
Observers forecast a complete
reshuffling of the Pentagon's top
leadership. Even if McElroy
stayed, they saw major changes
in the defense hierachy as a re
sult of. the deputy secretary's
death.
Eisenhower's search for a new
defense secretary and deputy
comes less than one month after
he had to replace John Foster
Dulles as secretary of state.
Had Rare Experience
Speculation centered on several
men in and out of government as
Quarles' replacement. But Mc
Elroy said he had little hope of
matching Quarles' qualifications
as scientist, mathematician and
administrator.
Quarles, 64, a thin, scholarly
man with rare experience at the
Pentagon, died in his sleep. As
sociates said he literally had
worked himself to death trying to
keep this country ahead in the de
velopment of modern weapons.
Quarles will be buried in Arling
ton National Cemetery with sim
ple military honors next Tuesday.
McElroy, who suspended plans
to go to the Geneva foreign min
isters conference, said Quarles
was "irreplaceable" and conceded
ho might have to reconsider his
plans to return to the business
world this year. But the odds fa
vored McElroy's retirement.
In The Running
Among the men mentioned for
the deputy's post, which uniquely
carries the same authority as the
secretary s office, are:
Assistant Defense Secretary
W. J. McNeil who has been de
fense comptroller since the unifi
cation of the armed forces in
1947.
Air Force Secretary James II
Douglas who succeeded Quarles
in that post when Quarles became
deputy defense secretary. , .
Willlmi CT F6ter, deputy sec
retary under President Harry S,
Truman and chairman of Eisen
hower's special committee on for
eign military aid.
Perkins McGuire, assistant de
fense secretary for supply.
wnoevcr becomes deputy may
later advance to the Cabinet post
when McElroy retires.
Car Overturns
Several Times
Two occupants of a car that
overturned several times were
uninjurd in a Highway accident
west of La Grande near the
Glover overhead, State Police re
ported this morning.
Alfred Modine and his wife
Nellie, of Boise, Idaho, were un
scathed although the car driven
by Modine swerved to the right
and "rode the guard rail,"
carrccncd back onto the highway,
went out of control and flipped
several times on the highway,
police reported. Modine was cited
for violation of the basic rule.
Tho accident occurred about
midnight Thursday, police said
FEATURED IN MAGAZINE
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Finding
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Heavy Tol
In Nile River
Boat Tragedy
CAIRO (UPI I Frogmen today '
brought up the 31st body from
the depths of the muddy river
Nile, where the overcrowded
steamer Dandarah capsized Fri
day with an estimuled 350 per
sons aboard.
Wailing relatives of an estimat
ed 150 persons feared drowned in
the greatest Nile River disaster
in many years lined the banks of
the great river today to watch
the grislcy search for bodies.
The passengers aboard the Dan- .
darah panicked Friday after the
boat sprung a leak and swarmed
to the side nearest shore. TbS
Dandarah plopped over on its
side and sank at once. .
Police said "about 100" persons
remained on the missing list and
saved. But officials suid casualty .
figures had not been checked
through.
Relatives on shore kept up a
steady weeping chorus which oc
casionally burst into piercing
shrieks today each time a frog
man raised another body to the
60-foot floating crane anchored '
over the sunken steamer.
After one body was brought up,
a policeman examined the oil
blackened shape and then shouted
to shore:
"It's a little girl with white
shoes and polkadot dress and
wearing a cross around her
neck."
"Nuwal! Nawal! It's Nawal!"
scramed a waiting mother on
shore.
The ship's captain, Abdel Ha
feez Aly Hammad, lay injured in
a hospital but police arrested him
pending . investigation of charges -ho
allowed the ship to be over
loaded by loo more persons than
it could sufcly carry.
From stories of eyewitnesses
on shore and survivors of the
sinking officials were able today
to reconstruct the tragedy.
The ship was bdund for a di
version dam across the Nile ten ,
miles north of Cairo. It was jam
med with families of an agricul
ture engineers syndicate.
On the top of the three decks,
a troupe of comics was entertain
ing the crowd when suddenly the
old ship sprung a leak.
Crewmen steered quickly for .
shore, but the ship began listing
on the shore side. Passengers
rushed in panic to that side as
the ship ncared shore and the
combined weight flipped the craft
over. , -
Today the scene of the sinking
was a pathetic one. A rag doll
floated to the oily surface. Oil
covered bodies were laid on the
sawdust, covered deck of a float
ing crane.
One body was that of a preg
nant woman, another that of a
9-year-old boy in his first long
pants. He still clutched a sting-shot.