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O b WEATHER k Few showers through Fri day; high today 72-78 and Fri- -day 62-70; low tonight 40-46. Established 1896 229th Issue 63rd. Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959 Price 5 Cents COLLEGIANS HOLD FAIRS Eastern Oregon College coed Ardyce Garrett, right, is sitting on top of world accord ing to Don Cole, left, who points to North Pole on globe. Above -exhibit is one of 400 currently being displayed at EOC physical Scfence Fair. Biology classes also have fair displays. The public is invited to view the exhibits today, and tomorrow until noon. - (Observer Photo) STUBBORN RULES COMMITTEE RELENTS ON HOUSING BILL WASHINGTON UPI) The powerful and often stubborn House Rules Committee relented today after four weeks and sent the controversial $2,100,000,000 omnibus housing bill to the House for action. The vote of 8-4 opened the way for a . showdown fight between congressional Democrats and ad ministration forces next week. A 6-6 tie vote by the committee April 16 had kept .-the measure bottled up. Committee Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Ve.) and Rep. Wil liam M. Colmer (D-Miss.) switched votes today and joined six other Democrats to clear the legislation for debate. All four committee Republican voted against it. The committee specified, how ever, that administration forces in the House can offer a substi tute to the bill which would water down its cost and eliminate pub lic housing portions of the pro gram. Republican House Leader Charles A. Hallcck of Indiana pre dicted the substitute, endorsed by President Eisenhower, would be adopted. Speaker Sam Raybtirn, who scheduled debate to begin Tues day,, declined to predict the out come, s The Senate already has passed a housing bill calling for $2,650, 000. The President, fighting for a balanced budget, feels that both the House and Senate Democratic bills would call for too much spending. Other congressional news: Fair Trade: The House Com merce Committee, over Justice Department and Federal Trade Commissions' opposi t i o n, ap proved a bill Which would let manufacturers set minimum re tail prices for their products.. It would in effect reinstitute on a na tional basis a uniform "fair trade MAJOR ADDRESS Ike Hails New Art Center Great Cultural Adventure' NEW YORK (UPI l President Eisenhower today hailed creation of a center for the performing a "ts in what was recently a New York slum as a "great cultural adventure" which will transmit a human message for peace and un derstanding throughout the world. The President turned the first shovel of dirt on the site of a new hall for the New York Phil harmonic Orchestra, one of six major buildings in the 75-million-dollar Lincoln Center for the Per forming Arts. Another of the build ings will be the new home of the Metropolitan Opera. Eisenhower flew here from Washington for a 15-hour visit to dedicate the center, to visit a world trade fair, and to make a major evening address on Ameri can scientific efforts. Speaking beneath a blue and law" to replace state statutes which have been repudiated by the courts. The legislation, en- dorsed 20-9, would permit manu facturers of brand or trademarked goods to tell distributors what re tail prices should be charged on their products. The proposed law still faces a long road in Congress. Defense: Informed sources said the House defense appropriations subcommittee has given tentative approval to the 39 billion dollar defense spending- level recom mended by Eisenhower. The sub committee was said to have pro Meeting With ; President Planned By Ike NEW YORK (UPD President Eisenhower today scheduled a late afternoon meeting here with David McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, ' now engaged In wage negotiations with the steel industry that can have a broad effect on the national economy. A White House spokesman said the union leader's visit with Eis enhosver at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was "essentially a social call." But Press Secretary James C: Hagerty did not rule out the pros pect that the two men would dis cuss the steel negotiations. NEW YORK (UPI) Steel in dustry negotiators are expected to reject today a union employment spreading plan that would include a 38-hour work week. Steel contract talks resumed after a one-day recess called to give the industry team time to prepare Its rebuttal.' - - The eight negotiators four from industry and four from the United Steelworkers union have until midnight June 30 to write a THIS EVENING white canopy on a mild and sunny day before thousands crowded into levelled tenement grounds above Columbus Cirole, Eisenhower said the Lincoln Center was a stimu lating approach to the problem of urban blight as well as a symbol of increased interest in American culture. "Here at Lincoln Center Ameri cans will have new and expanded opportunities for acquiring a real community of interest throughout common contact with the perform ing arts," Eisenhower said. "American technology, labor, industry and business are respon sible for the 20th century freedom of the individual making free a greater portion of his time in which to improve the mind, body and spirit. To them we are like wise indebted for the capacity to establish this center. The lives of all of us will be enriched..." From Lincoln Center, Eisenhow vided more money than Elsenhow er asked for some programs but keep the overall figure at about what he advocated. Parks: Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton asked a Senate appro priations subcommittee to restore more than six million dollars cut from the Park Service budget. He said the funds are needed to main tain facilities for an ever-growing number of vacationers at na tional parks and to buy. land so that several Civil War Battlefields can be preserved from com mercialization. Steelworkers' new contract for 500,000 steel workers that would avoid a billion-dollar steel strike. The union team spent the first two days of the joint bargaining talks presenting its ideas on how to improve job security in the in dustry and reduce unemployment The union's program called for fewer hours, a wage increase and higher pensions and unemploy ment benefits. The industry negotiators have proposed a one-year contrart ex tension, prartically on a "take it or leave it basis." The union called this "economic nonsense." The firmness of the industry's stand against increases in em ployment costs this year was made plain Wednesday by Charles M. White, chairman of Republic Steel Corp., the industry's third biggest producer. White told Republic's annual meeting that further increases in Wages or fringe benefits "are wholly unjustifiable." "The challenge facing us now is to remain firm in our determina tion to negotiate a contract that is non-inflationary," he said. er drove in his bubble-top limou sine a few blocks south to the New York Coliseum for a look at the foreign, exhibits at the third annual World Trade Fair. The President is then scheduled to -go to a Waldorf-Astorial Hotel suite for lunch and an afternoon of visiting and rest. He will ad dress a dinner at the hotel tonight sponsored jointly by the National Academy of Sciences, the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science and the Alfred Sloan Foundation. This major address is expected to touch on some- of the chief scientific problems of the world. The President is expected to em phasize his belief that scientific endeavor In the United States must be expanded. He is scheduled to board the Columbine at LaGuardia Airport about 11 p.m. e.d.t., for the re turn to Washington, Man Dies In Crash Of Blimp Recalls Death Of Hindenburg LAKEHURST. N.J. (UPD-A huge Navy blimp crashed into its hangar while attempting an in strument landing in heavy fog early today at the Naval Air Sta tion here. . -5 One officer died while rescuers, using acetylene torches and heavy cutting equipment, worked for more than six hours 'to reach him in the blimp's shattered gondola. He was identified as Lt. jg David Malcolm Loyd, Vega, Tex. The other 17 crew members were injured. Six were hospital ized, one in critical condition. The others were treated for mi nor injuries, mostly cuts and bruises. Capt, Van Evers, commander of the air station, said it was "mirauclous" that there was not a heavier casualty toll. A Navy spokesman said the blimp, valued at between four and five million dollars, had just been advised by radio to regain altitude and try a new approach when the gondola slammed into the side of the hangar, about 20 feet from the roof. Rescuers using aerial ladders braved the danger of a possible explosion and fire to rescue crew members from the gondola, which dangled precariously over' the edge of the hangar roof, 125 feet above ground. One Westerner Hurt Fire trucks stood alongside as fuel leaking from the damaged blimp poured into the hangar roof. Ironically, the fog lifted njln uies aner ine crasn. After the crash, the 343-foot bal loon's helium-filled bag collapsed and folded over the wreckage, hampering the efforts of rescuers. The bag contained more than one million cubic feet of helium. One engine of the blimp pene trated the hangar roof. The crash scene was only a short distance from where the German Zeppelin Hindenburg burst into flames May 6, 1937, and was destroyed with a loss of 36 lives. -1 The Hindenburg, inflated with highly flammable hydrogen, also was coming in for a landing when it crashed. J. Dahlstrom Funeral Friday Former County Assessor John A. Dahlstrom, 66, died in a local hos pital Wednesday following a short illness. Mr. Dahlstrom who was also a retired farmer and . dairyman, served one four-year term in the assessor's office. His term ended Jan. 1, 1959. Funeral services wil be held at the Daniels Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Friday with the Rev. Henry Gernhardt officiating. Burial will be in the Island City cemetery. Masonic lodge services will be held. Mr. Dahlstrom was born in Ualden, ' Kingdom of Sweden, Aug. 19, 1892 and lived in the Grande Ronde Valley for 35 years. He was a member of the La Grande Masonic Lodge AF&AM No. 41; Order of Eastern Star, Al Kadar Shrine, Scottish Rite; Veter ans of Foreign Wars, World War I Vets and . the First Methodist church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dollie Dahlstrom of La Grande; one son, John Jr. of La Grande; two daughters, Mrs. Delia Jean Burgess of La Grande and Mrs. Donna Mae Lee of Portland; one brother. Axel of Island City; two sisters, Mrs. Marie Johnson of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Lillian Hadden of La Grande and two grandsons and one grand daughter. ' . Fire Destroys Old Horse Barn Fire of undetermined origin this morning destroyed an old barn at the north' end of Birch street, at the La Grande city limits. The unused barn on the Harold Swebkn nroperty was completely consumed by flames. Swebke is a resident of Portland. The blaze broke out about 10:30 a.m. and firemen were unable to hal the fire. There were a few bales of hay In the .barn. r SI 5ec. alerter lianas Kussians Dramatic Western Peace Plan City Commission Sparked EY BUCK BUCHANAN Observer Staff Writer City Commissioners considered two major items of interest to area citizens last night the sew age disposal problem, and the use of recently purchased Morgan Lake as a city recreational area. Members of the commission discussed the sewage disposal problem at length. Two types of plants are under study, the la goon system that is becoming popular with small cities in the Northwest, and the more expen sive sewage disposal plant. A plan to publicize both types of systems was developed and the people will be informed Ihrough news media, radio and newsletters, what the costs of pro ducing the two different plants would be and what maintenance costs in the future will be. Commissioner William I. Herr- man and City Manager Fred oung were appointed to head a committee of representative, of interested civjc groups, anu grange representatives who will journey to Vale to study the la goon type of plant at that city, Tuesday. Grange members arc iiilcrcs'.cd since the lagoon sys tem, if voted, would probably be installed at the airport, which would affect rural citizens. Citizens will vote, probably in August, for or against the con struction of a , new sewage dis posal 'plant. ' The issue of Moreafi Lake once agairf took the' spotlight at the meetings as interested citizens and representatives of the Izaak Walton League took the floor to explain their ideaj for developing the lake as a community recrea tion area. Jerry Bingner of 1812 Cedar St. said he hoped the commission would reconsider and develop a more progressive plan of action in planning for the use of the hike area as a recreational area. He said plans should be made now, before angling gets under way." ' Both Bingner and Bob Fallow, of 407 M .Street, spoke in terms of thousands of fishermen and oicknickers flocking to the lake when fishing is opened to the public." ' Fallow said "the plan snouia have been developed now because ivhen fishing opens to the pub lie, thousands of people will flow into the lake area and will clutter up the place with trash tc' Fallow added, "That trees are ilready being cut at the lake marring the beauty of the area.' Witnesses Give Accident Views Numerous witnesses are giving their views on a Feb. 9, 1958 two vehicle accident near Spout Springs involving William Bohncn kamp Jr. as driver of his father's car, and W. A. Allen of Milton Freewatcr, passenger in a pickup truck, who was injured in the acci dent. The $6,000 personal injury Cir cuit Court trial entered its second uny his morning. Allen, Injured when the Bohnenkamp car hit the James Coe pickup truck on a snow packed road, is asking $6,000 gen eral damages and $92 medical compensation. Allen and his son Steven and young Bohnenkamp testified yes terday and other witnesses are giving their views today. Allen received leg injuries when the parked pickup pinned him ugainst a snow bank as he and Coe were putting on chains on their way to Milton-Freewater -.on the Elgin Weston highway. Bohnenkamp and three skiing companions were on their way back to La Grande when the mishap occurred. Allen says Bohnenkamp was negligent in crashing into the pickup on the curved highway and Bohnenkamp says the pickup truck blocked the highway. , The six women and six men hear In the case are Laura J. Bond, Mclvin S. Schmore, Pearl L. Shaw, George S. Challis, Doris Gekelcr, Ezma G. Wilde, Dale Carlson, Juaneta Campbell, Albert Brazille, Vern Cochrell, Viola A. Warmock and George L. Carnes. .11 By Lake, He suggested a ground plan for placing fire places, tables, a boat dock, signs, etc." Fallow also said that develop ing such a plan would require no money from the city. Commissioner Merle Bccket re minded the group that plans were developing. He said that City Manager Young had been author ized to use the city bulldozer to improve the access road, that the Izaak Walton League sanitary fa cilities for the area had been approved and that cattle guards would be placed at either end of the access road. In our recommendation of last week we included an amendment that stated "if it appears fish will live and that the area is go ing to be used - sufficiently that further improvements are neces sary,' then we will proceed with these improvements this year. Commissioner BtJ'-i also said that the city was in thu posiiton of being a private owner and was not required to provide comforts for recreation seekers The lake was purchased as a re serve water resource for the city We cannot see frantically plunging into this or wo do not feel that the city should be pres sured into providing luxuries at the ' lake for special . interest PEARSON BLASTS PENAL INSTITUTION EXPANSION SALEM tUPI) Senate Presi dent Walter Pearson today blasted further expansion of the new in termediate penal -institution here and urged that part of the facility be converted to a women's prison. Gov. Mark Hatfield promised that a new look, would have to be taken at the Institution because the 50th Oregon Legislature re fused to appropriate enough mon ey for a full program there. The intermediate penal institu tion, designed. for young offenders Is scheduled to open later this month. Pearson suggested that a com mittee be appointed to investigate other uses for the rest of the fa cility. The Institution will now hold about 300 first offenders. The en tire program calls for about 600. Pearson called the institution a "magnificent monstrosity of a Jail." , His major point was that Ore gon did not need "another pris on." The Legislature refused to ap propriate money for a vocational full staff. "This puts us in a contradictory position, Hatfield said. Secretary of State Howell Ap pling said that now would be "an awkward time to stop" on the in stitution. Pearson suggested at today s Board of Control meeting that a wing for 64 women could be used at the institution to get the wom en out of the state prison here where they now are housed. He said women were usually in jail for lesser crimes and could be handily separated from the men at the institution. SECRETS BELIEVED STOLEN FROM DEFENSE SPECIALIST BALTIMORE (UPI) Army in telligence agents investigated to day" the possibility that military secrets were stolen from the brief case of a defense specialist killed in a Capital airliners crash near here Tuesday. The victim was Charles W. Drannbauer of Kansas City, an employe of the American Tele-' phone and Telegraph Co (AT&T), who was an expert in SAGE, a huge electronic system which warns of enemy attack and helps direct defenses. A spokesman for AT&T in Kan sas City was quoted as saying Drannbauer may have been car rying classified documents relat ing to SAGE. He was the super visor of a group in charge of de fense communications 'for the Eastern Defense Command. The Baltimore News-Post said Drannbauer's briefcase was found I Session groups," he added. Bucket also said that if the commission is proven wrong in its cautious approach in develop ing the lake, that they should take the consequences. Young said that only the Union County Izaak Walton League had been the unly group to offer any facilities to improve the lake. They will provide the sanitary fa cilities for the lake at any time requested, Norman Mas- terson, president of tne group who was at the meeting, reported Young also reported that the city has no money to spend at the lake every cent in the till must be used for basic services in the city proper. A letter from the La Grande chamber of commerce, signed by President Powell Graham, was read at the meeting. The chamber urged the com mission to take immediate action to protect Morgan Lake area from vandalism and other damage which could result from inade quate protective measures. "We further urge the city to take whatever emergency mea sures are at its disposal to pre vent the cutting of trees or dam age to the natural surroundings Hid to prevent the dumping of See CITY on page 6 Another objection raised by Pearson to expanding the correct ional institution was that no pro vision is now in the law for transferring tougher boys from MacLaren school near Woodburnj to the new plant. Pearson said these boys should be transferred, but an attorney general's opinion stated that this would be unconstitutional and the Legislature did not change the law. The governor ended the meet ing by saying that the Board of Control would "do its best" to re-evaluate future use of the in stitution. Union Teacher Wins Fellowship UNION (Spccial)-GIenn Bares instructor of mathematics and science, has been awarded a Fel lowship by the Gencraf Electric Co. to attend Stanford University this summer. The University awards 50 Mathe matics Fellowships for High School Teachers for participation in a special six week program of instructions. The Fellowship program is con ducted by the Department of Mathematics at Stanford Universi ty. The fellowships are sponsored by the general Educational ' and Charitable fund. ' The object of this program is to contribute strengthening of the High School mathematics teaching, by giving selected mathematics teachers an opportunity to in crease their understanding of ele mentary and higher mathematics. In the wreckage but no docu ments were in it. The Defense De partment refused to comment on the Army investigation. Investigators for the Civil Aero nautics Board (CAB) uncovered evidence that the Capital plane, ,a Jct-p o w e r e d Viscount, "came apart in the air" during a violent thunderstorm. All twenty-seven passengers and the crew of four perished. The plane was on a non-stop flight from New York City to Atlanta. Drannbauer was en route from White Plains, N.Y., for confer ences in Atlanta on defense com munications problems. After an incomplete study of the wreckage of the sleek turbo-prop airliner, the CAB and other sources reported a number of de velopments and pieces of evidence pointing toward the cause of the crash. Sewage Gromyko Says Nov In Talk GENEVA (UPI Secretary State Christian A. Herter today handed Russia a dramatic western offer to trade global troop cuts for quick restoration of freedom for all of Germany starting with Berlin. But Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko, who obviously knew something about the West's plan before it was presented, in dicated in a speech at Wednes day's session of the Big Four For eign Ministers Conference that Moscow rejected in advance any western move to link ' political , Ull UUI llll UIIU UVI 1I1UIIJ ,, European security. Herter, leading off for the West at today's session formally pre sented a comprehensive "western peace plan" providing for reunifi cation of Germany in four stages. It would take effect over a per- , iod of 2'i years and the U.S. would join the Soviet Union in a dramatic cut of armed forces . along the way. Troops to Remain Both East and West Berlin, Her ter said, should be given free elections first "as a first step" towards reunification of the two Germanys. But western troops would remain in West Berlin until the last stage of the Herter plan, which is a final peace treaty with a freely elected ' all-German government. , ir ,1, c...u t -.. : .1 : , i .. . 1 1 . too long, Germany , thus could be come free and united by Uie end of 196f. ' , The West had little hope that Gromyko would readily accept any package that would deprive (he Communists of a major satellite. such as they have now in East Germany. In his speech Wednesday, Grom-' yko said that "such an approach... would amount to a complete block ing of our work." But the West Including Britain, France and West Germany, as well as all the NATO nations was united behind Herter in an all-or-nothing package providing: Cot in Armed Force Reunification of Germany through free elections in four stages, starting with' a free vote in all Berlin and formation of a joint East German-West German commission of 35 delegates to write an all-German election law. Establishment of a system of European security by gradual thinning out of troops and estab lishment of ground inspection. Big power troop cuts around the world, with the U.S. and. Kus-' sia reducing their forces to 1,700, 000 men each at the final stage. Presenting the plan to the Big Four conference, Herter described it as "the principal clauses of a settlement of the, problems aris-t ing from the last war." Herter declared that it is on these bases that the remaining provisions for a final peace set tlement could be negotiated. "An examination of the plan,". Herter told Gromyko, "shows that our governments have gone very far to meet Soviet preoccupa tions." ( For one thing, the wing of the plane was found some distance from the fuselage wreckage, Indi cating probable structural failure., Also, the wreckage was strewn over a two-mile, path in a straight line, pointing to "progressive dis integration." There was evidence of "an ex plosive force." But the CAB em phasized this did not necessarily mean an explosion in the ordinary sense of the word. A wing that failed structurally would tear open the side of the pressurized ftahin rpciilttn? in AilHrtAn nnrt vi olent decompression that resem bles a conventional explosion, Always alert for the possibility of sabotage in mid-air disintegra tion of planes, -the CAB investi gators searched for any chemical sign that a bomb might have caused the tragedy. They found no such evidence. r 1 i-f - ti- ""- -i i jrtuni 'ii.ii