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WEATHER Partly cloudy today and to night; risk of afternoon thun dershowers in mountains; sunny and warm Saturday; high today 60-65 and Satur day 63-68; low tonight 3843. el Established 1896 236th Issue 63rd. Year Senators Tackle Critical Problem Of Wheat Surplus ! WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate today tackled a va riety of controversial suggestions on how to halt the steadily growing wheat surplus. One by Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.) would place a $35, 000 ceiling on price support loans. This would 'amend a measure passed by the House this week calling for a $50,000 limit on such loans for all crops. sen. Milton K. Young (K-in.u.) cnargea auring debate that Ike Meets With Dag For Talks By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI Whita House Reporter WASHINGTON UPI Presi dent Eisenhower had a breakfast table conference today with U.N. Secretary-general Dag Hammar skjolcl . who has suggested New York as a site for a summit con ference. After the meeting, Hammnr skjold said the talk was "private" and resulted from an invitation by the President. j Asked if, aside from the meet ing, "any thought is being given to injecting the United Nations in to the Berlin situation," the U.N. official apologized and said he could not go beyond the careful press conference remarks he made Thursday. In his New York statement he said it might be helpful to have U.N. headquarters as the site for a Big Four summit meeting to provide a link for countries which would not be represented. But he noted that the U.N. was not the only or necessarily the best site for such a meeting. Hammarskjold described his public .. statement Thursday as "very wait and seeish." ' Joining Eisenhower and Ham marskjold at breakfast were Hen ry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. ambas sador to the U.N., and C. Douglas Dillon, deputy secretary of' state. Hammarskjold said in New York Thursday that there should be a direct link between any summit conference and the coun tries which would not be .repre sented at such a meeting. "One way of expressing that relationship is, of cours, for the meeting to take place at (U.N.) headquarters," he told a news conference. "It is not the only one and not necessarily the best one." The White House said Eisen- j hower's meeting with Hammar j skjold was the result of a long- standing invitation from the Pres A ident and had nothing to dp with : ' the current foreign ministers 'J meeting at Geneva. At at. John s, the President will take part in the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial Au ditorium, the Melon Laboratory and the McKeldin Planetarium. The buildings cost a total of $2, 100,000. Eisenhower will fly to the col lege by helicopter. He also will go by helicopter to his farm. Pinay, here for a brief unoffi cial visit, sent word to Dillon that he had "nothing on his mind" which he particularly wanted to discuss. Assistant Secretary of State Rpbert Murphy and French Ambassador Herve Alphand will accompany Pinay during his talk with Eisenhower. SUKARNO CAUGHT OF BUENOS AIRES BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (UPI) President Sukarno of In donesia was caught in the mid dle of a riot by 7.000 striking bank clerks here Thursday but i escaped without injury. At least one person was Kiiiea and more than 100 injured in the battling which surged for hours through the heart of this vast in dustrial city. Some were carried away in ambulances. Police ar rested at least 118. The rioters, threatened with dis missal from their jobs unless they 1 returned by today, broke through a police cordon and surrounded Sukarno's car shortly after he ar rived here. At the time, Sukarno was being driven to a state dinner at Gov ernment House. The rioters, who had smashed store windows, ripped down trol ley wires and hurled bricks and Agriculture secretary fczra Ben- son made me most absurd, ig noramus statement i have ever seen issued" in opposing the Sen ate Agriculture Committee's wheat ' bill. l Young said Benson wa "com-' plctely erroneous" in his state- j mcnt that the bill would cost more j than the present wheat program. , Benson also was' atacked oh the ' Senate floor by Sin. George D. ; Aiken (R-Vt.). Aiken accused the secretary of trying to set up a bank to finance rural power and telephone development and thus put farmers "still more under the thumb" of big business. With wheat the nation's No. 1 farm problem, and with several factions clamoring for adoption of their means of dealing with it, a bitter fight was shaping up in , the senate. The proposals ranged all the way from a measure to raise price sup ports even more to one which do away with supports altogether. Other congressional news: Foreign aid: Labor. leaders and Americans for Democratic Action fell in behind Sen. J. William Ful- bright's, efforts to increase this country s aid to , underdeveloped nations. The AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers and the Cooperative League joined the ADA in endors ing the Arkansas Democrat's pro posal before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Spokesmen for the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Citizen's For eign Aid Committee, however, urged a cut in economic aid. Ful bright's plan would boosj. .the. det velopment loan fund to $1,500,000, 000 a year for Pre years. The ad ministration has asked only 700 million dollars for a single year, Radiation: An argument broke out before the Joint Atomic En ergy Committee as to whether the federal government or the states should take the lead in protecting citizens from radiation hazards. A U.S. Chamber of Commerce spokesman testified that local gov ernments could best assure safety in the growth of atomic industry. But an AFL-CIO witness argued that the federal government should have even more responsibility in the field and "we oppose any di lution of this responsibility by farming it out to the states." Elgin Events Due Saturday ELGIN (Special) Elgin's In dian Valley Centennial Days ccle- oration is scheduled to get under way here at 9!30 a.m. Saturday morning with a full day of events scheduled until midnight tomor row night. First event is a pony express race. Following the races will be bicycle races, phone booth stuf fing contests, pancake races for women, boat races, events for log gers, fly casting contests and a pack horse race. Tom Sagers ropdrtcd this morn ing that he may have a special wrestling match booked for the Coliseum starting at 8 p.m. Windup for the day will be the Elgin Stampcder' dance set or the Stampede Hall at 9 p.m. clubs at police, hit at Sukarno's entourage in the middle of Flori da Street, Buenos. Aires' Fifth Avenue. Observers said the strikers had noticed the large concentration of police along the fashionable shop ping street and, assuming that President Arturo Frondizi would be riding with Sukarno, hoped to attract attention to their cause. Carrying signs in support of their demands for' higher wages and less government interference and shouting such things as "bank clerks freedom," the riot ers converged on 1 the Sukarno motorcade. In the ensuing melee, the Indo nesian President's police escort scattered the demonstrators. No one was injured In this clash. But in the previous and subse quent rioting, police and strikers clashed bitterly with the rioters !IIWIHII'! IMIMfll HP II II ROSEMARY ZAUGG Union Commercial Club JANICE LORENZEN La Grande Mavericks CORONATION NIGHT One of the lovely young ladies above will be crowned Queen for the 1959 Eastern Ore gon Livestock Show at ceremonies at Union tomorrow night. A centennial setting has been prepared on the stage of the high school gymnasium for the ceremony and the four young ladies will be attired in special dress for the occasion. Cliff Woodell's Western Hill billy dance band will play at the Coronation Dance. The show is June 4-5-6. (Observer Photos) WORKER'S COMPENSATION RATE CHANGE ANNOUNCED ALEM -tUPO Changes in workmen's compensation rates for Oregon Industry were announ ced today by William A. Calla han, chairman of the State Indus trial Accident Commission. The rate changes become ef fective with payroll reports filed for the month of July 1959, and will remain in effect through June, 1960. " Of the 229 classifications under which payrolls are reported to the IAC, 27 were reduced because of favorable claim cost ratios, S3 remained unchanged and 149 in cteased. Classifications which were re duced include underground min ing, aluminum manufacturing. glassware manufacturing, appli ance repairing, veterinary hospit als and electric power plant op eration. . Major increases were announ ced in general farming to $8.79 per $100 payroll from the present Dulles Still Gravely III . washing i UN (uri) mere was no reported change loday in the condition of John Foster Dulles, who is gravely ill in Wal ter Reed Army Medical Center. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White told newsmen Thursday that he had nothing to add to his announcement Tuesday when he said Dulles was growing weaker and receiving heavy doses of pain-killing drugs. The 71-year-old former secretary of state has been losing ground in his- fight against cancer since his condition was complicated by pneumonia a week ago Saturday. IN MIDDLE FIGHTING attacking with bricks and clubs. Police counter - attacked with tear gas and high pressure water jet. Workers took over the top of the new city market under construction on Ninth of July Av enue and hurled bricks to the street 10 stories below. So many people jammed onto a fourth floor balcony on one build ing that it collapsed. One man standing on a balcony below was killed by the falling masonary and two other persons were seriously injured. The clerks went on strike five weeks ago today to support de mands for a raise of 1,500 pesos ($18.75) a month. The counter of fer was 800 pesos ($10). The government delivered an ultimatum saying that any clerk who did not return to work today would be dismissed and replaced by newly-hired permanent help, j LA GRANDE, OREGON, JO'RDYCE TAMERIS Elgin Stampeders ELLA MAE DENTON Union Range Riders ;$5.28. The.Western.X)rs kggii:g rate' went from $10.88 to $14.17 Western Oregon sawmilling in creased from $5.78 to $7.11. East ern Oregon logging was raised to $10.04 from $7.17, and plywood manufacturing from $2.15 to $2.68 Reasons Given In explanation of the increases Callahan said "the Commission is charged by law with the respon sibility to provide 'the lowest rates, consistent both with insur ance principles and with a sol vent fund.' " The benefit increases voted by the 1959 Legislature required a six per cent level increase. In creases in the cost of medical care will require an additional two per cent increase. These, to gether with steeply rising loss ra tios in many classifications, have necessitated the sharp increases. Income from the registration fees and the annual fees has helped to reduce the increases required and in some classifica tions have helped the rate to re main the same or even be re duced. Callahan noted that the fund has paid out more than it . re ceived 34 months out of the last 39, "We lost $3,463,000 In the 1957 58 fiscal year. However, reports indicate a cash loss of slightly more than $1,700,000 in the cur rent fiscal year," Callahan said. Will Reverse Trend "We have been able to draw upon our surplus to make up the difference but cannot continue this practice indefinitely. The rate in creases will reverse the loss trend of the last few years, providing requisite reserves in addition to balancing income with expendi tures." Callahan said that "as far as can be determined at present, further extensive rate increases will not be necessary except as benefits are increased by the Legislature. Logging Accident Claims Man's Life TILLAMOOK (UPI) Ernest Otis Newberg, 48, Sand Lake, was killed Thursday afternoon in a logging accident just southeast of Cape Lookout Stale Park near here. Newberg was a log skinner for the Ray Feazel Logging Company of Netarts. He had rolled a log from the upper side of a road and the root of a windfall tree came loose and rolled down a hill over his tractor. Officials said he was apparent ly trying to get off the machine when the log struck. Newberg, who was unmarried, died en route to Tillamook county hospital. i '.cisT ; ? FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1959 Killer With 11th West Challenges Reds To Be 'Constructive1 With Their GENEVA (UPI) The western oowers completed ore sentation of their peace plan for Germany before the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference today and challenged Russia to come back with "constructive" moves. Steps were afoot that indicated the East-West talks might get aown to real bargaining next week in secret. Secretary of State Christian Herter and his western part Violent May Storms Bring Destruction United Press International A fatal bolt of lightning In Illi noise, a swirling watersiout in Florida and 'overpowering winds in Texas prolonged the nation's lion-like May weather Thursday. But the Weather Bureau saw re lief for the battered midsection of the country today. The weather men predicted a break in the hot. humid air that has gripped the Mississippi Valley all' week but forecast more showers and thun derstorms from the southern states through the East. John A. Hoblitt, 48, president of the Atlanta, 111., National Bank 4as killed when he was struck by lightning while trying to bring in i tractor during a thunderstorm. : The water spout a water-borne tornado erupted from Tampa Bay late Thursday, damaging three Tampa . homes, disrupting power in the area and uprooting uc "eral trees.- , A vicious squall bearing winds up to 87 m.p.h. whistled out of the Gulf of Mexico along 400 miles of Texas coastline. Two teen-age boys at Gilchrist, Tex were reported missing. The winds inflicted $50,000 dam age to Galveston, Tex., forced the tanker Maxton aground and shoved 16 railroad cars 16 blocks down the tracks. Two other persons drowned Thursday at Liberty Center, Iowa, when the normally quiet Otter Creek flooded, stalling an auto which had tried to pass over a bridge. Heaviest rain Thursday night fell from the western Mississippi Valley and the Texas Panhandle northward through into the cen tral Rockies. Vichy, Mo., report ed 1.85 inches and Grangeville, Idaho, had 1.37 inches during a six-hour period. Cancer Officials Ask For Packets Union county and community cancer officials for the 1959 Crusade today urged persons possessing the Cancer Crusade packets to turn them in imme diately in . order that they can windup - the campaign. . Mrs. Mildred Tiss. La Grande chairman, said packets can be turned in to the First National Bank here or can be sent direct ly to the Union branch of the First National Bank, which is fi nance headquarters for the coun ty. The campaign started on April 1 and was scheduled to be con cluded last week. Union coun ty Chairman Frankie Baum of Union said her committee would like to wrap up the campaign this weekend. Drivers 'Ditch' Truck, Escape Truck drivers C. W. Stubbs and Herb Thompson, driving a truck and trailer unit over Cabbage hill iast night "ditched" their rig and are in "good condition" at the Grande Ronde Hospital this morn ing. The two men In the truck told tatc police that another truck er passed them and informed them that the rear section of the trailer was on fire. The two men said they could not control the truck going down a steep grade and took to the ditch. Slate Police from Pendleton handled the investigation of the accident which occurred shortly before J:30 p.m. The truckers said at the hos pital that they considered them selves "lucky" for getting out of the truck-trailer unit with only apparently minor injuries. Cheats Death Proposals ners wound up their side of the con- ference's opening stage with a flat and final rejection of the Soviet counter plan for a peace treaty that would divide Germany perm anently. As these views were presented here, it was disclosed in Moscow that Premier Nikita Khrushchev told the West German Ambassa dor that Russia would sign c peace treaty with East Germany if the present conference fails to reach agreement. Observers saw in this a possibility Khrushchev might act without waiting for a summit parley. Another Soviet Proposal Herter warned in his speech at the start of today's session that there cannot even be "a reason able degree of peace and security in Europe" while Germany re mains divided. But Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko came right back with a new maneuver to perpetu ate this division. He offered to soften the Communist treaty plan by permitting West Germany to keep its economic allainces with the West. ' This was bound to be rejected A U.S. spokesman said tonight "it is impossible to use the Soviet peace treaty as a basis for dis cussion." "The western presentation of Its peace plan is now complete," the spokesman said. "We have dis cussed and explained the major aspects of that plan. "We hope that it is now better appreciated by the Soviet dele gation. . .It is now to be hoped that the Soviet delegation will put for ward next week some constructive new proposals that may serve as a basis for discussion." Medical School Due For Pair PORTLAND (Special) Two stu- dents from La Grande have been accepted for admission to the University of Oregon Medical School and will begin their stud ies next September, according to Mrs. Caroline Pommarane, reg istrar. They are Walter W. Hutchison. son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Hutchison, 2204 Cedar St., and Richard C. Wright, son of Mr and Mrs. Claude Wright, Rt. 1, Box 227. Both students received their premedical education at the Uni versity of Oregon. Education for a doctor in general practice consists of three or four years of college, four years of medical school, and a year of internship. SHE'S THE FAMILY Elopement As Spring LONDON (UPI) The rich man's son ran off with the maid. The millionaire's daughter ran off with the playboy. Spring fancy ap peared in Britain today to be run ning off with everybody. The latest victim of elopement fever was Jeffrey Hercheson, 20, son of a wealthy London silver smith, and blonde Sylvia Polenta rutti, 20, of Zurich, Switzerland. She's the family maid. Their elopement, '. revealed Thursday night, followed the run away marriage attempt by 20-year-old ' Katherine Dowsett, daughter of millionaire shipbuilder Harry L. Dowsett, and 27-year-old man-about-Chelsea Edward Lang ley. Jeffrey and Sylvia kept in the tradition of young English roman tics by sneaking up to Gretna Green, Scotland. For more than Hour' BLOOMS BACK IN HOME POT The bloomin' flowers' are bunting forth in all their glory once again on a pole at Greenwood and Adams. The pot of flowers disap peared early In the week. It was one of 16 baskets of ar tificial daisies purchased by the Woman's Council of La Grande to bedeck La Grande streets durin gthe centennial year. Four-hundred members of the council took up arms and even offered i reward for the capture of the varmit who vamoosed with the blossumt. The brightly colored posies were found less, than 24 hours later and were turned over, undamaged, to city po lice. Tranquil tourists who wan der through town this sum mer, and who will view the peaceful posies reticently re tiring on their lamp posts, will never know that the blossoms were once the cen ter of raging storm. Hoffa Denies Strike Threat MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) James R. Hoffa's threat of a nationwide general strike was a "misquote" by "my numerous critics" and hostile newsmen, the teamsters union boss said Thursday. Hoffa said the threat of a strike to - protest antitrust legislation against labor was taken out of con text, "to appealjlojhe public." "What my numerous critics don't know is that there was a stenographer present at that Tex as meeting and when I'm able to get a transcript they will crawl under the covers until they can find something else to yell about," he said. But newsmen present at the Brownsville, Tex., meeting Tues day said they quoted the bellig erent labor boss correctly. Earlier, in Chicago Hoffa an nounced teamsters' plan to coop erate with the International Long shoremen's association in organiz ing all transport, maritime and clerical jobs in Great Lakes sea way ports. The ILA, like the teamsters, was kicked out of the AFL-CIO on charges of corruption within its ranks. Hoffa scoffed at the AFL-CIO International Brotherhood of Long shoremen, saying it "only has about 6,000 members in this area and they can never stand against the teamsters and the ILA." Cuban Executions Resume After Halt HAVANA (UPI) Executions of former Batista men resumed Thursday in Cuba to end a 16-day lapse. Former Army Moj. Leopoldo Alvarez and Police Capt. Leoncio Jaile were executed by a firing squad in Manzanillo, bringing the unofficial total of executions to 623. MAID Fever Fancy 100 years the town has been a just-across-the-border sanctuary for elopers due to Scotland's more liberal marriage laws. Jeffrey's mother, Mrs. Sally Hercheson, set out from London Thursday, night for the' 130-mile drive to Gretna Green. She planned to ask her son to come home and have a normal court ship with the girl. "Then, , if he still wants to marry her "after six months, good luck to ' him," Mrs. Hercheson said. "If he wants to stay there and marry this girl, he can do so," she added. "He must' make his own bed and lie on it." Earlier, Mrs. Hercheson said she and her husband had offered Jef frey $56 a week allowance, a car and a position In the family firm if he would forget Sylvia and come home. ' i . . - Price 5 Cents Stay Execution Stretched 2 Weeks LINCOLN, Neb. '(UPI) Mass slayer Charles Starkweather won a dramatic last-hour stay of ex ecution today from a U.S. district judge. The stay was announced 90 minutes before the execution was to have taken place. Stay of execution was granted by U.S. District Judge Richard E. Robinson of Omaha. It was not announced to the Nebraska gov ernor's office until 4:30 a.m.. est, an hour and a half ahead of the execution time. - Robinson ordered the execution stayed for two weeks until June 4 to allow Starkweather time to appeal to the District Court of Appeals. The federal judge acted upon receipt of a telegram from Guy Starkweather, father of the con demned youth. Robinson said it appeared Stark weather "is and has been without the services of an attorney" and that he might be held in custody "in violation of the constitution." The stay was granted to allow Starkweather time to file a further appeal from the denial, by anoth er federal judge earlier this week. of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. Starkweather, the 20-year old mass slayer who committed Neb raska's worst criminal orgy in slaying 11 persons had appeared resigned to his fate when he met with his family for 3 '-j hours Thursday night. Clear Conscience - He told them he faced death with a "clear conscience" and at peace with God. As a precaution, the state peni tentiary acting warden, John Greenholtz, kept a telephone line open through the night in case of a last-minute stay . of execution. The call from Conrad came short-. Iy after 5 a.m. Robinson's action was unexpect ed by any state official, and it was pcesumed Thursday nieht that Starkweather's last hope to evade tne electric chair had gone. his rather, Guy, said he would make no further attempt to appeal to the circuit court because he had no counsel to aid him in making a last-minute appeal. It was presumed that Robinson's action would permit enough time for an appeal to the higher feder al court. The elder Starkweather said he marvelled at how well his son had held up through the ordeal of waiting. The Reverand Robert Klein. said that when Starkweather got word of the stay "he broke out in a big smile and shook my hand." Starkweather was all set to go," the Rev. Klein told newsmen. We had discussed everything and he was showing no emotion whatsoever. He clung to a slim thread of hope until the very last -and reaffirmed in our conversa tions the thought that as long as there is life there is hope." Runs Wild Triumphs "I could not agree to the con- -dition that I had to give up Sylvia," young Hercheson told re- porters in Scotland. "I love heri too much." -t Meanwhile the fortunes of the first elopement team continued uneven. t Katherine Dowsett and Edward Langley, under a court injunction preventing them from marrying, , abandoned Gretna Green and re turned to England. But her father found them in : Cambridge apartment they set up Thursday and in a dramatic mid night confrontation persuaded them to visit his country home this weekend for a reconciliation attempt. "I cannot say whether we have postponed our plans or not," Lang- ley said afterward. "We will spend . the weekend with him talking things over."