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LA GRANDE OBSERVER
240th Issue 63rd. Year
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1959
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UNION
Flags and bunting bedeck
Eastern Oregon Livestock
Free World's Mr. Valiant'
Laid To Rest At Arlinaton
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
nation and the world paid last
tributes to John Foster Qulles to
day. Diplomats from around the globe
joined President Eisenhower in a
funeral service which packed the
great Washington Cathedral to
capacity.
Leaders of the East and West
stood side by side to pay their
respects to the former secretary
of state who died Sunday at the
age of 71.- For one day, at least,
they paused in their cold war lo
honor the man-wlioso ipustor in the
service "called him the ''Mr. Va
liant" of the Free World's quest
for peace.
They gathered in the vaulted
sanctuary of the cathedral to par
ticipate in the simple rites of the
Presbyterian Church, of which
Dulles was an elder.
From the Far East, from Rus
sia, Europe and Latin America
came dignitaries a chancellor,
a prime minister, nearly a score
of foreign ministers and others of
high station to join hundreds of
American leaders and friends of
the Dulles family.
Niki Says He'll Establish
Rocket Base For Albania
LONDON (UPI) Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev called
Tuesday night for an atom-free
Balkans. But he threatened to es
tablish rocket bases in Albania if
the United States, went ahead with
its plan to set up missile bases in
Greece and Italy.
Khrushchev also paused in a
speech at Tirana, Albania, to call
John Foster Dulles an outstand
ing politician, and to express
condolences for his death. But he
told his Communist audience Dili
les appeared to be softening to
ward Communism along toward
the last.
Khrushchev did not mention ex
piration of his May 27 ultimatum
for the West to get out of Berlin
but he said the West was trying
to avoid agreement at Geneva
and said Russia would sign peace
treaties with East and West Ger
many if no Geneva agreement is
reached,
There still was no official word
on the purpose of Khrushchev's
12-day trip to Albania. A Commu
nist rcpXort said the Russians and
Albanians had reached full agree
ment on all problems in their
talks but did not say what the
problems were. There still was
speculation about a Communist
summit meeting there and new
Soviet efforts to .make friends
with Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.
On the rocket situation Khrush
chev said:
"We suggest that the Balkan
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EOC Recital
An EasWn Oregon College
voice recital scheduled for tonight
has been postponed until next
Wednesday night because of an
injury sustained by Ardyc Gar
let one of the accompanists.
Instructor Neil E. Wilson, re
cital director, reported that Miss
Garrett was hurt while doing
some gymnasium exercises.
Four EOC students, Barabra
Myer, Nancy Brooks, David skeen
uiiu junanna narawicK will pre -
sent their recital next Wednesday
at the college.
PREPARES FOR SHOW
Union streets as the city prepares for the 51st annual
Show set for June 4-5-6. (Observer Photo)
From the cathedral the body of
the man who had traveled more
than a half million miles In the
cause of peace then was borne to
a grave in the hallowed soil of
Arlington National Cemetery.
There, a 19-gun salute and the
sounding of "taps" ended the saga
of John Foster Dulles.
Before the services, Dulles had
lain in state in the Bethlehem
Chapel of the cathedral for 24
hours. In that time, more than
20,000 persons-filed in solemn re
spect past his closed coffin.
James -Berkeley, of the cathedral
staff said it was "the" biggest
crowd of people that has passed
through here on such an occasion
since the Woodrow Wilson funeral
in 1924."
At the request of his family,
there was no sermon or eulogy for
Dulles. There were prayers, read
ings from the Old and New Testa
ments, some of Dulles' . favorite
hymns sung by the cathedral's fa
mous boys choir with the congre
gation joining in, and a reading
f'om John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's
Progress" by Dr. Ro'swell P.
Barnes of New York, U. S. secre-
peninsula be made a peninsula of
peace without any missiles or nu
clear weapons. That would be
more useful both to the Greek and
to the Italian peoples and in gen
eral to all the peoples inhabiting
the Balkan peninsula and the
Mediterranean shores.
"If the governments of Italy
and Greece allow the Americans
to set up missile bases on their
territory, perhaps we shall have
to reach agreement with the gov
ernment of the People's Republic
of Albania to put something here
to counter them."
Greenwood School
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Construction Assured
BY H. E. PHILBY
Observer Staff Writer
- Funds for the construction of a
new Greenwood elementary school
ar.d remodeling of Riveria has
been assured with the authoriza
tion of the sale of $416,000 worth of
bonds to the First National Bank,
La Grands branch.
The La Grande School District
agreed to pay an effective annual
rate of 4.276 percent interest on
the unpaid balance of the bonds
over a 20-year poriod. ' Interest
on the bonds for the 20 years will
total $212,998.05.
The only other bidder for the
bonds was the United States Na
tion Bank, La Grande branch
which offered to buy the bonds for
an effective interest rate , of
4.2914 percent.
The -bonds will be printed' and
delivered about July 1, School Su
perintendent Lyle Riggs reported.
The city school officials also re
port d that final plans for the
new Greenwood school are now be
ing drawn by architects who should
have them ready for school board
approval by the middle of July.
Riggs said it will then take about
three weeks to advertise and open
,uiu.i.
Construction is slated for about
the first of August. It is antici
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tary of . the World Council of
Churches:
"Then, Mr. Valiant for truth
said, I am going to my father's
and. though with great difficulty 1
am go hither, yet now I do not
repent me of all the trouble I
have been at to arrive where I
am. My sword I give to him that
shall succeed me in my pil gram
age. . . my marks and scars I car
ry with me to be a witness for
me that I have fought his battles
who now will be my rewarder."
An hour before the service be
gan, -the lag-draped fcasketbear'
ing Dulles' body was borne from
the chapel to the main part of
the cathedral. There, the coffin
lay bathed in soft golden light at
the foot of the steps of the choir.
All of the 2,818 seats in the vast
Gothic cathedral were reserved.
Original plans to set aside about
400 seats for the general public
were abandoned because every
seat and all available standing
room was needed to accommodate
the important guests.
There were Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer of West Germany, Aus
trailian Prime Minister Robert G.
Menzies, U. N. Secretary-general
Dag Hammarskjold, NATO Secretary-general
Paul Henri - Spaak,
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of
the president of Nationalist China,
and numerous foreign ministers,
including Andrei Gromyko of Rus
sia,' who arrived by plane this
morning from Geneva. There were
members of the diplomatic mis
sions in Washington, the Cabinet,
the Congress and the Supreme
Court.
President Eisenhower arrived
with Mrs. Eisenhower, their son,
Maj. John Eisenhower and Mrs.
John Eisenhower. They sat in
front-row, red leather, upholstered
arm chairs in the left of the cath
edral. Then came the secretary's fam
ily the widow who had trav-
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pated that the Riveria moderniza
tion will be completed before next
winter.
The school official also reported
that six teaching vacancies still
exist for next year's term. Second
and fifth grade teachers are need
ed; an eighth-grade science teach
er is yet to be hired, a girl's
physical education high school in
structor is needed and combina
tion English-commercial and English-social
science teachers will be
needed to complete the high school
staff.
Riggs said next term's staff will
include 18 replacement teachers
and 10 more teachers than are
are on the staff this school year.
Two . instructors, Amelia Jossi
and Mamie Diedrich, this week
announced, their determination to
resign at the end of this school
term. New teachers employed by
Riggs and the school board this
week include Donnelley O'Neil as
guidance director, and Ruth Berry,
Louise Becket, Ruth Johnson and
Ellen . Laughbon, all in the ele
mentary grades.
School Board members have also
accepted a low bid for delivering
milk to La Grande schools next
school year. The Model' Dairy
offered the lowest bid for the esti
mated 220,000 half-pints of milk.
Big Four
Meeting
With Ike
Gromyko Going
To White House
WASHINGTON (UPI) Pre l
dent Eisenhower will meet Thurs
day with the Big Four and for
eign ministers of other nations
who came here t o attend the
funeral of John Foster Dulles,
the White House announced to
day.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
iGromvko will be anions those at-
tending a luncheon at the White
House.
Announcement of the affair
came after Eisenhower met with
Secretary of State Christian ller-
ter to receive a first hand report
on progress of the Geneva For
eign Ministers Conference. Under
secretary C. Douglas Dillon also
sat in on the meeting.
Herter flew here from Geneva
with British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign
Minister Couve de Murville. Gro
myko had arrived by plane less
than an hour before.
Both Herter and Gromyko ex
pressed hope that progress can
be made when the Geneva talks
resume. Gromyko said he hopes
the conference will be successful
but noted It Is "too early to say"
if they will lead to an end of the
cold war.
Gromyko, speaking in Eng
lish, said he was here to attend
the funeral of "an outstanding
diplomat" whom he had known
and dealt with for about 15 years.
He added, without elaboration,
that "of course, we had differ
ences on many international pro
grams or problems, including
some important ones."
Herter, who succeeded Dulles
as secretary of state, said tioUi
sides at 'the Geneva meeting" now
have "a better idea of the others
thinking" and he hopes for "suf
ficient progress" te justify a sum
mit meeting.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the guest
list for the luncheon was not
available yet but ' that it would
not be limited to the Big Four
foreign ministers. He confirmed
that Gromyko would be there.
Eisenhower conferred this
morning with Prime Minister Ro
bert G. Menzies of Australia, who
was already here for high-level
talks, and was to see West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenaur
who flew in from Berlin Tuesday
night for the Dulles funeral.
Thieves Loot
Armored Car
LAKEWOOD, Colo. UPI)
Authorities had few clues avail
able today in their quest for two
thieves who looted an unattended
armored truck of $165,450 cash.
A woman witness to the day
light robbery Tuesday could give
officers only a sketchy descrip
tion of one of the men. Law of
ficers refused to reveal whether
they had obtained any finger
prints from the truck or from a
stolen automobile used for a get
away and abandoned.
Their only clue to this area's
biggest robbery since the $200,000
holdup of a federal reserve bank
truck at the U.S. Mint in 1922
was apparently a broken key
chain.
The thieves needed only one
minute to open with a key an
automatic lock on the truck and
toss four bags containing the cur
rency $1700 in $100 bills and the
remainder in bills of $20 denomi
nations and smaller into the stol
en car and drive away. Two vet
eran guards assigned to the ar
mored truck had gone inside the
Jefferson County Bank 20 yards
away to haul out bags of coins.
Leonard Delue, president of the
armored car firm, said the
guards, R.K. Peterson, 49, with
12 years service with the com
pany, and John Jeffery, 54, with
is years service, followed proper
procedure.
'The truck was locked the
doors lock automatically and
they were only a few vards awav
lor just a few minutes," Delue
said. There was no explanation as
to how the thieves obtained the
key.
Police found the stolen car
about 30 minutes later. That's
where the trail ended.
' SEEKS IKE MEETING
MOSCOW (UPI) First Deputy
Premier Frol Kozlov probably will
seek a meeting with President
Eisenhower when he visits the
United States this summer, ob
servers said Tuesday. Kozlov, 51,
is scheduled to leave Moscow at
the end of June
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JOAN DIEHL
Valedictorian
JOAN DIEHL, MARY KLOMP
LEAD LHS IN SCHOLARSHIP
Joan Diehl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Diehl, of
La Grande, has been named valedictorian of La Grande
Senior High school. Miss Diehl maintained a grade point
average of 3.97 during her four years at the high school.
She served as president of the Tri-Hi-Y club and is
vice president of the Honor Society. Joan is a member
of the student council this year and is co-editor of the
school paper. She is a past Worthy Advisor of the Rain
how Girls.- i '
Mary Lee Klomp, salutatorian, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gerard J. Klomp, of La Grande. She main
tained a grade point average of 3.93.
Miss Klomp is president of the Girl's League this
year. She has been active in several other clubs includ
ing Tri-Hi-Y, Honor Society, and Pep Club.
Mary Lee is a representative to Girls State and she is
a member of the student council. She is active In church
activities.
Discussions Continue
Between Timber Firms
BOISE (UPD Negotiations
are in progress by Boise Cascade
Corporation to obtain two Pacific
Northwest lumber firms, it was
announced today.
Conducting the negotiations are
R. V. Hansbergcr, president of
lioise Cascade, and Hall Templo
tou, president of Valsetz Lumber
Company of Portland and also
head of Herbert A. Templeton
Lumber. Company of Portland and
Spokane;
If negotiations are successful
and approved by the directors and
shareholders of the three compan
ies, the two presidents said, Val
setz and Templeton would become
subsidaries of Boise Cascade.
They said the two firms would
retain their individual corporate
identities.
Portland Firm
Is Low Bidder
For Paving
Rogers Construction Company
of Portland was low bidder for
7.34 miles of paving on Highway
30 between Glover and Perry, as
part of the building of the high
way into a complete four lane
roadway.
The Portland firm, which holds
other contracts on the local high
way work, bid $900,973 on the
paving work. Bids were opened
by the State Highway Commission
in Salem yesterday. Contractors
are now working on an estimated
$7,350,000 worth of highway con
struction between La Grande and
Dead Man's Pass at the top of
Cabbage Hill.
The Morrison-Knudson combine
has the $1,417,000 contract for
grading the section of the high
way to be paved by Rogers Con
struction Company, the MK firm
has the grading work about two-
thirds complete. The Portland
firm is to complete the paving
between Glover and Perry by late
liiuo.
JUST ANOTHER DAY ON THE CALENDAR
Western Allied Traffic
Smoothly In And Out
BERLIN (UPI) Wnstorn
allied traffic moveJ smoothly in
and out of West Berlin today and
the May 27 deadline, the Soviets
set six months ago for swallow
ing the city was just another date
on the calendar.
The uninterrupted flow of trains
and automobiles was In a way a
memorial to John Foster Dulles
who shaped a united Western
stand against Soviet threats and
thus stayed the executioner's
hand.
Western allied military trains
crossed 110 miles of Communist
territory between West Berlin and
West Germany as usual. The vital
highway link to the West still was
open. There were no new changes
on the East-West city ' border.
Allied planes flew through the
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MARY LEE KLOMP
Saluttorin
Templeton and Hansberger em
phasized that in the event of a
stock exchange, the management
and personnel of Valsetz and Tem
pleton would continue as in the
past, as well as their policies and
channels of distribution.
They said objective of the ne
gotiations was to Improve the po
sitions of all three companies in
the utilization and distribution of
the products of their forest re
sources. Valsetz operates sawmills at
La Grande, Elgin, Enterprise and
Joseph, Ore., and at Lincoln,
Wash.; a new plywood mill at
Valsetz, ,Ore.; and a mlllwork
factory at Spokane, Wash. The
Templeton company distributes
throughout the nation plywood,
lumber and mlllwork products
produced by Valsetz and other
sawmills In the Northwest.
Boise Cascade operates sawmills
in south-central Washington and
southern Idaho, a large building
material retail division through
the Northwest, and a building ma
terials wholesale company with
headquarters in Salt Lake City.
Boise Cascade has recently placed
a new 150 ton per day pulp and
paper mill in operation at Wallula,
Wash., which utilizes waste wood
produced by sawmills In southern
Idaho, northeast Oregon and south
central Washington.
Boys Swallow
Poison Pills
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Two
small brothers were reported In
critical condition today after
swallowing insect poison tablets.
Parents of 150 other youngsters
were warned to be on the look-
ont for 29 poison-tablets still miss
ing.
Gary, 5, and Michael Nleburg-
er, 4, went into convulsions Tues
day shortly after returning home
from a playground. They were
taken to Morningside Hospital
suffering from strychnine poison-
ing.
three 20-mile air corridors above
the Soviet zone of Germany.
Nevertheless, the Communists
continued their propaganda cam
paign against Berlin. The East
German newspaper Berliner Zei
tung devoted nearly a full page
to an attack on the Western sec
tors, demanding that Allied troops
leave and that West' Berlin be
neutralized. '
Last Nov., 27, Thanksgiving
Day for Americans, Soviet Pre
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev de
clared that in six months the
Russians would turn over to the
East Germans all their occupa
tion functions, including control
over Western access routes.
Subsequently, in ' the face of
united Western opposition, the
Russians insisted they never had
Castro's Brother
Raul Is Unharmed
In Crash Landing
HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) Maj. Raul Castro, whose plane
had been missing since Tuesday, was rescued safe and un
harmed with three companions today.
The plane was sighted in a mangrove swamp on the
south coast of Matanzas Province by a search craft this
morning. It had crashlanded, wrecking the undercarriage.
A Cuban navy plane reported by radio that Raul and his
party had been taken aboard with
out incident. All were described
as safe and well.
The rescue followed vain efforts
by Cuban navy patrol boats to get
close enough inshore to pick up the
four men.
The party Included besides Cas
tro who is commander of Cuba's
armed forces Maj. Martin Bar
onat; Capt. Ferrer. Raul's pilot;
and Maj. Majon, the co-pilot.
The helicopter, piloted by Maj.
Pedro Luz Diaz Lanz, command
er of the air force, was on the
way to refuel at the time of the
mishap. Castro was not aboard.
Lanz was uninjured in the heli
copter's emergency landing. Raul
Castro and his companions were
searching for the helicopter when
they left central Australia Tues
day. The air force commander was
rescued later by other search
planes. .
Raul Castro has been one of the
most controversial figures in Cu
ba's revolutionary regime.
He studied behind the Iron Cur
tain, and has been repeatedly ac
cused of Communist sympathies
a charge just as frequently de
nied by the regime. '
State Tuition
Fees Increase
PORTLAND (UPI) Students
attending Oregon's state- support
ed colleges will pay higher fees
next fall. . . ,
The State Board of Higher Edu
cation Tuesday approved a hike
in fees that amounts to about $11
a term, or $33 a year, for Oregon
students. Out- of- state students,
who now) pay about twice that of
ln-state sudents, will pay an addi
tional $21 per term.
Chancellor John R. . Richards
said the increased income from
students is expected to total some
$1,320,000.
The increase included a $1 per
term hike in the building fee.
Under the schedule, fees at the
University of Oregon, Oregon
State and Portland State will go
from $74 to $85 per term. Fees
at the three colleges of education
at Ashland, Monmouth and La
Grande will be up from $62 to $73
per term. The'medical and dental
schools will be raised from $190
to $201.
The Board sold $9,055,000 worth
of general obligation bonds to the
First National Bank of Oregon
with Harris Trust and Savings
Bank of Chicago, and associates.
Interest rate is 3.7B4 per cent.
The bonds will be used for
buildings.
SUSPECT LEAPS TO DEATH
LOS ANGELES (UPI) While
his wife and small daughter sat
in a nearby courtroom, a 26-year-old
narcotics suspect broke away
from his guard Tuesday and leap
ed seven floors to his death in
the Hall of Justice. Pete Alvarez
was appearing for preliminary
hearing. During a recess he asked
to go to the rest room. When his
guard removed the handcuffs, Al
varez bolted and leaped through
an open window.
Moving
Of Berlin
meant this to be an ultimatum,
that there was no significance to
the date May 27. , .' '
There was no move in Moscow
to carry out the original Soviet
Berlin plan today. Krushchev
was out of the country on a visit
to Albania. In a speech at Tirana
Tuesday night he did not mention
the May 27 date.
Frank H. Bartholomew, presi
dent of United Press International
and this correspondent tested the
border as the original deadline
fell Tuesday night.
At the stroke of midnight we
drove toward the Brandenburg
Gate, dividing. East and West
Berlin. One hundred yards from
the gate, a West German customs
officer glanced at us briefly and
Russians
Planning
GENEVA (UPI) The Soviet
Union was reported today to be
preparing a massive effort to
split the Western Allies when
East-West talks resume here in
secret session Friday.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko was in Washington with
the Big Three foreign ministers
for the funeral of John Foster
uuties and might make a pitch
to President Eisenhower.
West German Chancellor Kon;
rad Adenauer had an appointment
with Eisenhower in Washington
today and it was believed here
he would make an even stronger
bid for a firm and united Western
stand.
Adenauer and French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle have mis
trusted British intentions from the
start and were said to fear that
Britain might want to make 'ma
jor concession to win a cold war
settlement.
Washington dispatches said'
there was no certainty Gromyk6
would see Eisenhower and that if
the President received him it
probably would be in the presence -
oi secretary of State Christian
Herter and the British and French
ministers.
There was no x session of the
conference today and no official
notice was taken that this was
the deadline originally set by the
Soviets for the Western Allies to
get out of Berlin.
Well-informed Western dele
gates predicted the Soviet drive
to split the Allies and said the
major test of unity would come
in off-the-record, wrestling with
Gromyko in the secret sessions
starting Friday.
The British, French and Amer
icans, along with the West Ger
mans, have managed to maintain
a surface appearance of complete
agreement despite bitter Soviet
attacks on the Western "package
peace plan."
The delegates realized that the
private Big Four talks would give
Gromyko a better opportunity to
exploit the known differences
among the Allies.
Professor Named
For EOC Session
Dr. Harry E. McPhail. Tulsa.
Oklahoma, school administrator,
has been named visiting profes
sor for the Eastern Oregon College
summer session, according to
John M. Miller, director.
Dr. McPhail has his bachelors
and masters degree from Kansas
State Teachers, and his doctorate
from Oklahoma State University.
During the EOC summer session.
which gets underway with regis
tration June 22, he will teach
Educational Psychology, Adminis
tration, and Supervision of the
Elementary School. . '
waved us on.
There were no sentries at the
arch as we went through. A
hundred feet into the Soviet sec
tor an erect military figure waved -us
on. We went a few blocks,
made a "U"-turn and started
back for West Berlin. .
At the gate, our license plates
were examined briefly and then
we were allowed to continue.
Nothing out of the ordianry.
The 2,200,000 people of West
Berlin had gained a breathing
spell but danger was not yet
over. .
The Soviets have not abandoned
their demand that West Berlin be
made a "free," demilitarized city
with its lifelines controlled by the
East Germans. They have only
postponed the deadline.