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vvcMincK Occasional rain today; showers and partial clearing periods tonight; party cloudy Saturday with few snow show ers in mountains; high today 45-.50 and Saturday 54-60; low tonight 24-32. 6 Established i8g6 230th Issue 63rd. Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1959 Price 5 Cents o Committee Approves increase In Outlay For Farm Programs WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Appropriations Com mittee today approved a two-year federation outlay on firm programs to run at least 100 million dollars higher than the administration requested. The committee also okayed a bill providing $13,338,500 to run the White House and several small government agencies for the upcoming fiscal year. The farm bill, now scheduled for action in the House Jurors Visit Accident Site The $6,000 Circuit Court per sonal injury case involving Wit Ham Uohnenkamp of La Grande and w. A. Allen of Milton-Free- water Is expected to go to the jury late today. Final arguments by attorneys were made this morning and Judge Brownton was prepared to instruct the jury. Members of the jury were tak en to the scene of the Feb. 9, 3958 accident about 4 p.m. yes tcrday and a dispute arose as to the exact spot on the Elgin-Wos ton highway where the accident occurred. It has been agreed in court that the accident occurred on a curve near the top of the grade close to the Spout Springs ski area. The exact spot in a broadcurve where the accident occurred was not agreed upon by the Bohnenkamp family, defend ants in the suit, and Allen. Doctors testified yesterday as to the extent of the leg injuries sus tained by Allen. He was injured while helping to put chains on a pickup truck owned and driven by James Coo. Young William Bohnenkamp, driver of his fain ily's car, and three companions were returning from skiing when the Bohnenkamp car crashe'd into the pickup. Allen js- asking t- $92 medical damages and $6,000 general dam ages. Youth Killed In Portland 'Beatnik' Cafe PORTLAND (UPI) Larry Maurice Bolton, 19, was shot and killed here early today in a cafe police described as a hangout for the "beatnik crowd." Held on a' charge of second de gree murder Was Karl Leopold Metzenberg, 26, operator of the Caffee Espresso Coffee House. Po lice also' held two other youths as material witnesses and ques tioned and released several others. Detectives, trying to piece to gether circumstances which led to . the shooting, said Metzenberg told them he was preparing to close when Bolton and three oth ers entered. He said one of the other youths and a patron became engaged in a struggle. The proprietor said the shot was fired after Bolton seemed to lunge at him in a menacing man ner. Armed Forces Day Set For Tomorrow A United States Air Force air craft from Mt. Home AFB in Idaho will stage a "flyover" La Grande tomorrow morning as part of Armed Forces Day, be ing celebrated throughout he na .tion. The B-47 bomber will fly over Baker, La Grande, Portland, Ore gon City, Salem, Eugene, Klam ath Falls and then will head for its home base. PRAVDA SAYS WESTERN PLAN IS NEW VERSION OF OLD LINE MOSCOW (UPI) Pravda to day attacked the Western peat plan at Geneva as "propaganda" biit did not reject it outright. The Communist Party news paper complained that the plan merely was a new version of old Western proposals. It said the "package" form mixed problems together so as to prevent solution of any of them. It followed statements by Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev and Moscow Radio commentators stressing again that Russia re garded a peace treaty 'with East and West Germany as the first essential step toward ending the cold war. (The West has demanded uni fication of Germany before the signing of a peace treaty.) Pravda commented specifically on the 40-page document present ed to the Geneva ministers' con-. I next week, calls for $3,039,165,498 to administer the agricultural program. Although the committee boosted the over-all total, it, lopped off SO million dollars of the administra tion's request for soil bank spend ing. It also vetoed a reduction of 150 million in tne farm conserva tion program, requested by Presi dent Eisenhower, The committee set a ceiling on soil bank spending which probably would prevent addition of further acreage to the reserve during 1960. Other congressional news:' Foreign aid: Sen. Mike Mans field (D-Mont.), assistant Senate Democratic leader, urged that outright gifts for economic and defense aid to foreign countries be halted within three years. He would substitute loans instead. Appointments: . Congressional sources said it appeared Lewis L Strauss has about a 50-50 chance of winning Senate approval as commerce secretary.. The Senate Commerce Committee, which has held stormy hearings on the nom ination, announced it would try to reach a vote next Tuesday. Mean while, C. Douglas Dillon seemed assured of approval for the post of undersecretary of state. The Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee has approved the nomination, with only Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.) dissenting 1 Aid A parade of administration witness supported . President Eis enhower's $3,900,000,000 foreign aid program before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Blind Sens. 'Joseph S. Clark ID-Pa.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) planned to introduce a bill to establish a nine-member presidential commission to study the problems of the nation s 350, 000 blind persons. In major developments late Thursday the Senate and House approved and sent to the White House a $2,900,799,370 money bill to tide, over a number of federal agencies until the new fiscal year starts July 1. The Senate okayed the outlay after giving up its attempt to tack on an amend ment that would prevent Presi dent Eisenhower from carrying out planned Army and Marine man power cuts. Ashland Child Dies In Fire ASHLAND (UPI) Four-year- old -Helen Marie Millard ran cry ing into the house today: The baby s on fire! Mrs. Joe Millard raced to the hay-filled lean-to in back of the combination garage and storage shed of their home and found the hay on fire. Firemefl were called. They found the body of two-year-old Billy Lee Millard in the hay. Three other Millard children were in school when the fire was discovered shortly after 9 a.m. Origin of the blaze was undeter mined. Billy Lee was (he son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Millard. The father works for the Alley Lumber Co. here. ference Thursday by secretary of State Christian A. Herter. "This plan is a new version of ideas and proposals of the west whose unsoundness already has been shown in the life and prac tice of international relations," the party paper said. "Its main fault lies in the fact that various national problems, each one of which is complicated in itself, have been linked in it into one bundle which is quite impossible to disentangle." Khrushchev . spoke at Kishinev and his speech was broadcast by Moscow Radio Thursday night. It was not a direct comment on the western plan. He said it was "essential first of all to solve the most vital question. . .of concluding a peace treaty with Germany jointly with the two actually-existing German states." BOY MAKES LUCKY LEAP SALEM (UP) An 18 year old Turner youth made a lucky leap near here Thursday just before a Southern Pacific pas senger train demolished his car. Glen J. Burdick leaped to safety just seconds before his 1949 model car was struck by the Shasta daylight train at the Battle Creek crossing. Police said the youth, who was late for school, had stopped at the crossing, but the motor stalled when he started to cross the tracks. He saw the train coming and jumped for his life. His car was carried some 1,000 fet down the tracks and demolished. The train went on its way after a few minutes delay. Plane Explosion Remains Mystery To Investigators FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI) Air Force investigators closely exam ined today the black hulk of the super- secret, supersonic 1558 "Hustler bomber that exploded and burned, killing one workman and injuring 13 others. The delta wing four-jet plane believed to be the world's fastest and most expensive bomber, burst into flames at the Convair air craft plant Thursday afternoon as a maintenance crew swarmed over it. The . plane was being prepared for a maiden flight. G.W. Johnson of Lillian, a com munity southeast of Fort Worth, perished in the flames. Eight of the 13 workers who were burned were so seriously hurt they re quired hospitalization. One witness said flames shot 50 feet into the air as the crewmen, .some with their hair and clothing aflame, jumped and crawled away from the bomber. It was parked on the flight line near the plant when it erupted. Heavy black clouds of smoke were visible in downtown Fort Worth,, eight 4lles away The 'bomoer. which carries crew of three, is capable of carry ing nuclear weapons, but a Con vair spokesman said no weapons or explosives were on board. We don t know the cause of the fire, and probably won't until the Air Force gets through inves tigating," the spokesman said. Tentative Dates Set For 1960 Pioneer Pow Wow Tentative dates of June 30, July 1-2 were set for next year s Pion eer Pow Wow at a meeting last night of a citizens committee and Pow Wow committee members. Sixteen organizations participat ing in this year s celebration were represented at the session. The two-hour discussion of the future of the community event disclosed that participants want the Pow Wow to continue on an annual basis, with Midway sec tions consolidated into one large section. It was agreed that the date of the Pow Wow should of- fei no conflict with the Eastern Oregon Livestock show, the Elgin Stampede cr the Union County Fair. Organizations and schools would be encouraged to partici pate in the celebration even though it falls during the sum mer. Selection of the summer date was made on the basis of weather considerations, appeal to tourists and non-conflict with other com munity events in the area. Another meeting of interested groups is expected to be held in the near future, according to Chamber of Commerce Manager Fred Schniter. He said again that if the West refused to sign an all - German peace treaty, the Soviet Union would sign one with East Ger many alone, and he assumed other Communist nations and per haps some non-Communist coun tries would do the dame. He insisted West Berlin must become a "free city" and that it must be left to East Germany to "guarantee communications be tween the free city and all coun tries with which its populace would wish to deal." ' Two other statements broad cast by Moscow Radio Thursday night attacked the Western plan. One said it was based on "ob solete conceptions" which "ignore the' existence of two German states." The other said the plan tries to drown the peace treaty issue "in a plethora of outstanding international questions." '"'- YtaMhj s S v l 4$fc - .U'fcstl A mm-- . '. I h - W 5 fill - : -V i NEW HIGH SCHOOL LEADERS . Ramon Westenskow, rear center, was voted president of the La Grande High School student body.for 1959-1960 year by students at the school. Other new officers in clude Mike Andrews, left rear, business manager and Lonnie Myers, vice president. Kront row, Judy Talbott, song queen; Lela Evans, secretary and Barbara Evans, yell queen. . (Observer Photo) ATOMIC SCIENTISTS UNVEILING DRAMATIC' SAN FRANCISCO (UPD Atomic scientists today unveiled dramatic ways that man can change his world for peaceful pur poses with nuclear explosions. They included changing salt wa ter to fresh, making chemicals underground, creating under ground water reservoirs, and building electric power plants fed by steam from inside the earth. These plans, previously obscured by military secrecy, were preseijlyory noted that the earth's great ed at the second Plowshare Sym posium sponsored by the Atomic bnergy Commission. Here's how the scientists pro pose to make the future startingly different from the present: Making fresh water Dr. George C. Kennedy of the University of California at Los Angeles suggest ed setting off an H-bomb a mile deep in the earth, thei pumping sea water into the cavity. He said heat from the blast, remaining for months, would distill 100,000 acre- feet of fresh water at a cost of $100 an acre foot, which would be cheaper than water now costs some areas. The salt would be left in the cavity. Cheap Chemical Factories Making chemicals John J. Greb of Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., said present chemical fac tories are outmoded as the horse cart. It will be cheaper to use nu clear devices to make chemicals in reactions where nature put the raw materials and pipe out the Shriners Urge Hospital Visit Oregon Shriners are inviting area citizens. Who plan to be in Portland this weekend, to visit the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children Sunday, National Shrine Day. Professional entertainers, plus Shrine uniformed bodies, will put on a show on the lawn from 1 to 2:30 p.m., if weather permits. Otherwise, the show will be held in the auditorium. R. Earl Riley, chairman of the hospital board, reports the hospital has an average of 83 bed patients and a waiting list of about 170 children. Last year the Portland hospital treated 359 children, treat ed 3,015 at the out-patient clinic and gave laboratory examinations to 5,867, he said. Several La Grande youths were among the group. Riley.pointed out that any child regardless of race, creed or color under 14 years of age who can be materially aided, and whose par ents are unable to pay for treat ment elsewhere, is eligible for ad mission. Any parent seeking admission for a child to the hospital may obtain application forms by writ ing to the hospital at Portland. Shrine hospitals are supported by annual contributions by each Shriner, by donation of goods, services and money by many in dividuals, by funds raised by many events, including the East-West Shrine football games in Portland and Pendleton each year, and by bequests from wills. In the near future the hospital in Portland will join with the other 17 Shriners Hospita's in the United States in a research project which promises to benefit the entire field of children's orthopedic surgery. NEW DEVELOPMENTS .products, he said. They might in-1 elude such chemicals as ammo nia, prussic acid, used in plas tics, silicon tetrachloride, used in making silicons, acetylene and quick lime. Other scientists de scribed ways of using bombs to mine minerals and blow oil out of shale. Underground water reservoirs Dr. R.G. Lindberg of the Liver- more California Radiation Labora- est deposits of fresh water, ex cept for glaciers, are water bear ing strata in the earth. With blast ing impermeable rock between the strata, he envisioned causing wa ter to flow from one part of a state to another. He said the bombs also could knock holes in rock allowing water, which now runs off the earth's surface to sink instead into natural reservoirs from which it could be pumped. Western Forestry Leader Asks Management Program WASHINGTON (UPI) -A Western Forestry leader told the House Agriculture Committee to day he welcomes a program for management of national forests because they have been operating at "three-fourths speed in Ore gon and Washington during the past 10 years, W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice president, of the Industrial Forestry Associated, Portland, ap peared to- discuss a program for national forests submitted earlier by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra I aft Benson. Hagenstein said Benson enunci ated an important policy for na tional forests when he.said "they should be made available for their best use under conditions that promote stability for communities and individuals and encourage full development of flic resources in volved. He said this regogmzes the legal and moral responsibility of government in managing lands entrusted to its care by the people who own them. The forester said he favored proposals which called for more Mavericks Plan Saturday Parade The sponsoring group for the La Grande Eastern Oregon Live stock Show queen candidate, the Maverick Riding Club, will hold a small but lively parade on La Grande streets tomorrow after noon. Janice Lorcnzen, queen candi date of the group, will headline the event which will feature mus ic and entertainment at the mor ncr of Elm and Adams streets at 2 p.m. Miss Lorcnzen and a group of girls will sell tickets to ihe show along the course of the parade. "La Orande hasn't had a queen at the EOLS for many years and we're due this year,' Merle Rock et and Jim Evenson, spokesmen for the club, said this morning. The parade will start at the corner of Sixth and Adams and move down Adams to Hemlock. Each year the four candidates for queen of the show sell tick ets with the highest seller .re ceiving the crown as queen. Geotherrao steam plants Dr. Rolland H. Carlson of Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, N.M., told the group that more use should be made of hot spots inside the earth which turn water into steam, such as are found at Yellowstone Na tional Park. But the trouble Is that solid rock usually keeps wa ter from reaching these hot spots, and he suggested nuclear blasting to open channels. Then steam would be piped out to electric gen erating Stations. With the aid of nuclear explosives, he said a two million kilowatt power plant could be developed at Cahpatria, Calif., at half the 25 million dollar cost of a geothermo system developed by conventional means. Other sci entists said heat for power plants could be extracted by use of wa ter from cavities where nuclear bombs are exploded. They hoped to prove this in project. timber access roads, sale of the full allowable timber cut, revised allowable cuts from updated tim ber Inventories, increased protec tion against insects and disease through speeded up salvage of dead timber, and , intensified re search. National forests contain two out of every five trees in Oregon and Washington, he said. Oregon national forests, with 45.3 per cent of the state's timber, furnished only 16.6 per cent of the 10-year harvest, Hagenstein said. Wash ington's, with 35.8 per cent 'of the timber, contributed only 17.9 per cent of the timber harvest during that time, he added. IKE WltL ASK FOR 100 MILLION Atom Smasher For Stanford May Be Biggest In World NEW YORK (UPI) Presi dent , Eisenhower announced Thursday that he will ask Con gress to commit 100 million dol- lors to build what may become the world's most powerful atom smasher. The two-mile long electron ac celerator has been proposed by scientists at Stanford 'University and will be built and operated on Stanford's Palo Alto, Calif., cam pus., by the government, Eisen hower said. It is expected to take about six years to complete. The President announced plans for the mighty new research de vice to 250 of the . nation's lead ing scientists gathered for a sym posium on basic research under sponsorship of the National Acad emy of Sciences, the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science and the Alfred P. Soan Foundation. The 10 to 15 billion electron volt acceleialor will be 50 times the length of the linear accelera tor now operating at Stanford, currently the largest of its tyi. New Peace Treaty Is Russian Aim With Latest GROMYKO GIVES ANSWER TO WESTERN PROPOSAL GENEVA (UPI) Russia called on the West today to sign a German peace treaty that would take West Germany out of NATO and keep 17 million East Germans under perma nent Communist control. ; The proposal was Moscow's answer to Thursday's West ern cold war peace package plan. It was presented to the fiTTh working session of the Big Four Conference by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyo, apparently after receiving new instructions from Premier Nikita Khrushchev. British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd was in the chair today. The proposals contained i in the new Russian draft treaty were not new. In fact, the Soviets published such a draft last Jan. iq and it was quickly rejected by the West as unacceptable. It was not known immediately whether the present draft was identical or whether it contained some changes. But essentially it was the same Kremlin "package." Makes Long Speech Gromyko made a long speech in presenting the draft. But it was the Soviet Union's main pitch for an East-West set tlement, and Gromyko let it be known that for the record Russia wanted it put forward as an offi cial Moscow proposal here. The only concession made to German reunification was an al most meaningless declaration that the Big Four powers would "help" West and East Germany try to work out their own unity. In fact, the Russians have de clared repeatedly since Khrush chev's ultimatum of last Novem ber that they are not interested in German reunification now or in the near future, except on their own terms that is, in effect, an all-Communist Germany. The Soviet draft was complete ly unacceptable to the West then, because it was not based on re unification. The West also has al ways insisted that reunified Ger many must have full freedom to decide its own alliances. Wide Cap Remains The presentation of the Russian plan came just 24 hours after Secretary of State Christian A. Herter handed Gromyko the West's own peace plan offering Russia global troop reductions and European security in ex change for German reunification, beginning with Berlin. The two plans thus were dia metrically opposed and there ap peared little prospect of reconcil ing them. SAM HALLGARTH DIES Sam Hallgarth. 71, of Imbler, died at a local hospital this morn ing, Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Daniels Funeral Home. It is expected to boost electrons to a speed just short if the speed of light, which scientists believe cannot be exceeded. Not even nuclear explosions have produced such high energy electrons, al though they are sometimes creat ed in the atmosphere by cosmic rays. The speeding electrons are ex pected to release new particles and anti-particles as their energy bombards the nuclei of atoms, thus leading to further understand ing of the nature of matter and the forces which hold it together. Eisenhower told his audience that the development of the ac clerator must become a federal responsibility because the research tool is too expensive for any private enterprise. At Stanford, Dr. Edward L. Ginzton,; 43-year-old Russian-born physicist expected to build the ac celerator, said he hoped negotia tions with the AEC for construc tion can begin by July 1. He said it would take more than a year to design the atom tunnel and that ground probably will not bo brok an Wheat Bill Is Approved WASHINGTON (UPD The Sen ate Agriculture Committee today approved a wheat bill designed to offer higher price supports to farmers who plant less. There is now a tremendous sur plus of wheat. Congressional com mittees . and the administration have been wrestling for months with various plans to try keep the surplus from growing still bigger. With absentees still to be polled the vote for the bill was 8-1. Three committee members voted pres ent. Sen. Milton Young (R-N.D.), cast the lone dissenting vote. He told newsmen -that no wheat farm er could exist under the terms of the bill. Chairman Alfcn J. Ellender ID- La.), who voted for the bill, called it "a step in the right direction." He told newsmen, however, that the measure faces "rough sledd ing . in the senate. . , As approved by the committee the bill would: " ' Offer price support at 65 per cent of parity to farmers who plant their full acreage allotment of wheat. , uivo price support at no per cent of parity to farmers who re duce their wheat acreage by 20 per cent. Castro's Son Hurt In Crash HAVANA (UPD-Fidel Castro Jr., 9, son of the Cuban Premier, was in an emergency hospital to day under treatment for injuries suffered in a three-car collision. Hospital authorities put him in an oxygen tent on his arrival . Thursday night, presumably to aid his recovery from shock. The youngster, called Fide'lito, was cut on the chest and abdo men and extensively bruised. Young Castro was on his way from the army's big Camp Free dom outside Havana to his moth er's home in suburban Tarara Beach when the car in which he was riding collided with another, traveling at high speed in the op posite direction. Another car' slammed into the wreckage. en until October, I960, at the earliest. . His colleague, German-born Wolfgang Panofsky, 40, expected to operate the accelerator, said he would not be suprised if the Rus sians are able to test a 50-billion electron volt cyclotron before the new U. S. linear ' accelerator can be readied for testing. , v. "On the whole the Soviets are moving very rapidly in this field," Panofsky said. y Dr. Albert Crewe, head of the. particle accelerator section ar Argonne National Laboratories, in" Illinois, said th President's an-; nounccment "is very good news. ; Its going to be a very unique, machine. We even learn things: from the bare construction of it"; Elsenhower's speech wound lip a day during which he had turned -York's 75-milllon dollar Linclon Center for the performing Arts and visited the World Trade Fair -' at the New York Coliseum. He relumed fb Washington in his plane Columbine III from La-, Guardia Airport Immediately, after the dinner. ' ,.