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LA 241st Issue 63rd Year Big Four Ministers Hear Ike's Personal Appeal For Progress ' WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower personal ly appealed to the Big Four foreign ministers today for pro gress at the deadlocked Geneva Conference in order to jus tify a summit meeting. The President conferred in h's office for about a half hour with the -foreign ministers and Russia's Andrei Gromy ko said afterwards that it was a "pleasant and useful con versation." ' The White House said in a statement that the President "!" : I had "expressed hope that on their irf Trftir-fffill lVifli A Hfl.,ft, f t I,-.? "ViJ MARY VIRGINIA SPECKHART To Chicago Mary Speckhart To Be Delegate To FHA Meeting Mary Virginia , Speckhart. ninth grader at La Grande Junior High School, has been selected as an of ficial Oregon delegate to attend the 1959 National Future Home makers of America convention in Chicago' June 13-14. Miss Speckhart, along with oth er Oregon delegates, will wear appropriate dresses and badges to advertise the centennial, at Chi cago. She is the youngest girl selCct d to"a1"nd llw notionaLonftrh from the state. "i Miss Speckhart has been presi dent of the La Grande Junior High FHA chapter this year. She has completed three years of homemaking at the school, was elected Sweetheart Queen by the student body, has been president of Girls' League. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Speck hart. Cean-Up Week Proposed Here Plans are now being completed for a Hpan.un week ramnaien in the residential and business dis tricts of La Grande. Members of the Retail Merch ants Association have approved a plan for a business district clean - up the week of June 7-13. The Chamber of Commerce is now working with La Grande ser vice club officials to coordinate n similar clean-up drive the same week in the residential districts. City officials will be contacted to exert special effort in sweeping downtown streets and alleys. RMA President Loren Hughes said the purpose of the week will be to "spruce up La Grande for the State Centennial tourist sea- son." Tunisian Border Incident Reports Threaten Trouble ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI The French army reported Wednes day night its troops crossed the Tunisian border in pursuit of Al gerian rebels. Then it took back the statement.' ' Whether the French actually did venture onto Tunisian soil was left unclear. If they did, the incident could blow up into the biggest spat be tween France and Tunisia since French Air Force bombers killed 80 Moslems in a retaliation raid on Sakict-Sidi-Youssef 15 months ago. . Hxw Dxes Yxur Car Wxrk? If it's like this typewriter then yxu'd better Be lxxking arxund fxr a bettor xne. There's xne gxxd place to. Ixxk, and that's in the Classified cxlumns xf La Grande Xbserver txday! Used car dealers in La Grande area have cars listed everyday all makes and models at prices that are hard to beat! Remember for shopping that's hard to beat . . , Read the Classified! GRANDE return to Geneva the foreign min- ist-rs would be able to achieve that measure of progress which would make a subsequent meet ing of the heads of government desirable and useful." Peaceful Solutions The President said that he had followed the Geneva Conference proceedings with close attention," the White House said. "He expressed the hope that the thorough exchange of views that are taking place there would lead to a better approach to the solution of the problem that con front us in Europe. He, of course, stressed the necessity of finding peaceful solutions to our prob lems. The President likewise, ex presed the hope that on their re turn to Geneva the foreign min isters would be able to achieve that measure of progress which would make a subsequent meet ing of heads of government de sirable and useful." The Big Four foreign ministers had broken off their Geneva talks to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles. All Appeared Jovial Meeting with the President were Gromyko, Secretary of State Christian A. Hertcr, British For eign Minister Selwyn Lloyd, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. AH appeared to be in a jovial mood- when they emerged. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty reported that at the outset of the meeting, the President expressed his thanks for the respect the visiting for eign ministers had shown to Dul les by. flying here for the funeral. Hagerty was asked if the White House statement implied that a summit conference was not How justified. He replied that he did not think the statement had said that. Hagerty then was asked if Gro myko might have brought . the President a message. He an swered that only Gromyko could reply to that question. , 'Only the four foreign minis ters were present for the confer ence with the President. Inas much as all spoke English, no in terpreters were needed. Gromyko Speaks Eisenhower was said to have made clear his view that there had to be progress at Geneva to warrant a summit meeting, and that it was up to the foreign ministers to move toward a solu tion of the German problem.' After the meeting ended, Gro myko was chosen by the foreign ministers as their spokesman. Lloyd told newsmen that the So viet diplomat was '"going to make a statement." " Smiling as the newsmen jam med around him, Gromyko said: "We had a pleasant and useful conversation with the President." He seemed ready to say some- thing more, but Couve de Mur- ville cut Tiim off by interjecting: See BIG FOUR On Pag 3 Both versions of the official communique said six French and 32 rebels were killed in fighting around Djebcl Han-aba. This is a mountain which straddles the Algerian-Tunisian border about 60 miles south of the .coast. The first text said that during the battle, French forces, "using the right of pursuit . . . ' pene trated one kilometer (six-tenths of a mile) into Tunisia." Shortly afterward an ' official correction was issued . deleting mention of ."right of pursuit" and penetration of Tunisia. However, there was no official denial that the border had been crossed. As corrected, the communique said simply that the rebels had been pursued around the "north ern slope" of the mountain. Since the northern slope lies on both sides of the frontier, the ex act location of the battle was left Prague. A border crossing would pro vide prime propaganda ammuni tion for the rebels. They charged recently that unidentified French military leaders were planning to spread the Algerian war into Tu nisia this month. A crossing also would deal a blow to President Charles de Gaulle's efforts to bring the cost ly Algerian war to an end. LA GRANDE, OREGON, RICKY CITED OZZIE SILENT ENCINO, Calif. (UPI) Teen ate actor-singer Ricky Nolion was cited for speeding In hit foreign (port car early today. Ricky, 1?, of Hollywood, was I l:. -.i ...u.. Re was ticketed for traveling , $0 miles per hour in a 35 mile lone. He also did not have his operator's license with him, police said. The rock V roll singer's f ther, Oziie Nelson, watched in silence as officers wrote the citation. ; New 4Fire Station Discussed Grant Millering told City Com missioners last night that the Fire Department and Equipment Com mittee recommended that a new centrally located station be con structed along the railroad tracks near Greenwood Street. Millering, as chairman of the committee, spoke for the group which consists of Chief Ray Snider, George Alam, Bill Brasure and Keith Patten.- Commissioners 'will discuss the report of the committee at ' next week's meeting. i Also at the meeting the commis sion approved a 20 year lease of 1.75 acres to. the Federal Forest Service at the municipal airport for the construction of a borate storage and mixing building. Planes, of the Blue Mountain.' Air service use the borate mixture for use in fighting forest fires. A letter from the Retail Mer chant's association was read which urged the city to''beautify the downtown La Grande area for the centennial visitors this summer. The group also urged the town to hold a Centennial Cleanup-Paintup week June 7-13. Resolution 1705 which advocates the annexation of certain territory north of . Lake St. and east of County Road, was passed by com missioners. - . . , ,'y,. The officials also approved the, use of the o'd city grader by the Jaycces for work on their stock car track east of La Grande. Final ' budget meeting for the budget committee will be held to morrow at noon at dity Hall. JIM TRIMBLE Voted President Jim Trimble Heads Credit Bureau Group Jim Trimble, manager of the Credit Bureau of La Grande, was voted president of the Associated Credit Bureau's of the Pacific Northwest at a convention of the group in Tacoma, Wash. Trimble was also nominated to attend the International Credit convention at Dallas, Texas, on June 22. The new president will hold jurisdiction over credit bureau's in Western Canada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana in his new office. The convention at Tacoma was the 38th meeting of the group. At the same time the Credit Wo men's Breakfast association met and also the 10th District of the National Retail Association. Pan el discussions were held at the confab. Trimble was introduced as president at a banquet of Nation al Credit Bureau Managers. Tearful Mother Tells Of Her Son's Suicide LOS ANGELES (UPI) A tear ful mother today told police her 11-year-old son took his own life because his playmates teased him about his dad being a "jailbird." Mrs. Jose Rios found her son, Pedro, banging from a bathroom door Wednesday night with a leather belt wrapped around his neck. His father was sentenced to jail on a morals charge last month. OBSERVER THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1959 - ' Price 5 Centt if . W 4B o On i A CIRCUS CELEBRITIES AT ACKERMAN Lions, tigers, elephants, along with clowns and other circus celebrities paraded in the Ackerman elementary school last night. The event was the annual kindergarten show put on by students for their parents, in the picture above, Clown Harriet Smurthwaite, left, watches as Diane Wilson, center, and Pamela Sue Hadden inspect each other's animal tails just before the big parade and three-ring circus. (Observer) ' Hatfield Controls SALEM (UPI) Gov. Mark Hatfield dramatized the Memorial Day traffic safety problem today when he had a National Guard helicopter with a state policeman as passenger land just across the street from "the capltol building The 'copter wns in communica tion with stale police cars which converged on the site. ' Helicopters, observation planes and all available radar equipment will be used over the three-day holiday to control traffic, the gov ernor said. The decision to use full facil ities was made "after tallies in dicated fatalities were up 31 over the same period last year. Plastic Bags Claim Lives Of Children . United Press International Baby deaths from plastic bags are mounting steadily despite ed ucational campaigns launched by manufacturers, distributors and the press. More'than 30 infants have suffo cated this year with the deadly bags plastered against their fa ces. The National Safety Council has estimated 100 babies could die from this cause during the year. Most . of the deaths have been from plastic dry cleaning bags which are large enough for chil dren to pull over their heads. However, plastic bags which enter the home as covers for grocery produce and scores of other items have also taken their toll. At Macedon, N. Y., Howard J. Samuels, president of the Kordite Corp., which manufactures plas tic bags, ' announced Wednesday his firm 'has instituted an educa tion program designed to prevent misuse of the bags. A bill was introduced in the North Carolina legislature o ban the use of plastic bags larger than six inches in width and six inches in length. WAYNE AND DICK RESUME FEUD WITH FIERY WORDS WASHINGTON '( UPI) The smoldering Morsc-Ncuberger dis pute has erupted into flame again. Sen. Richard L. Ncuberger ID Ore. ) last week accused Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) of caus ing disruption among Democrats in- the state's congressional dele gation. , . Morse said Wednesday that "in the political ' campaign ahead I intend to point out to the voters of Oregon the sorry record he has made on issue after issue and we will let the record speak for it self." . Ncuberger answered Morse's re ply by saying 'I regret that Sen. Morse thinks so poorly of my rec ord as a member of the Senate." Neuberger said he had done his best to make an honest, fair rec Planning Tough ' Traffic For Memorial Weekend The demonstration today indi cated how helicopters could set down at the scene of an accident, letting off an officer to render first aid and direct traffic. Spat CongKted Areas A1r to J&rfdcc""cdmmunications will permit reporting of traffic vio lators and also spot congested traffic areas. The Project is in cooperation with H. G. Maison, superintendent of stale police; Col. Robert Ir ving, acting adjutant general; and Vern L. Hill, director of motor vehicles. The location of the various air craft and radar units will not be announced. -. ' Gov. Hatfield commented: "With three double holidays coming up and the Centennial attracting thousands of additional vehicles to our highways, it is imperative we take every precau tion we can to prevent accidents." He urged citizens to drive care fully during the Centennial sum mer and said "I have instructed tho state police to give full and complete enforcement to our traf fic laws." ' The governor said he has asked the State Highway Commission to review its policies on designated speed signs on freeways and by passes. He also called for a review of No Free Ducats For Centennial PORTLAND (UPI Even members, of the Centennial Com mission will have to buy tickets to get into the gates at this sum mer's Exposition here. That was the wordoday from the Commission's management committee which said no free passes would be issued to brass hats, politicians and influential government officials. Free passes will go only to per sons employed on the grounds, members of the Centennial staff, members of the press, entertain ers and exhibitors, the manage ment group said. ord "based on my conscience and such knowledge as I have. 1 have tried to avoid political abuse and extreme partisanship. I have felt that I should make judgments based on facts, rather than malice against other people." Morse had criticized Ncuberger April 11 in a speech at Marion, Ore., for NeubergcrJs support of administration foreign policies. Neuberger replied last weekend with the disruption charge and also- said ' Presidential hopefuls Hubert Humphrey and John Ken nedy also supported these policies. In a statement Wednesday Morse said that "in his (Neuberg er's) typical fashion he again sidesteps each issue with phrase ological evasion." Neuberger has said he will run for re-election next year. highway locations In which there are vision - obstructing dips on straight stretches to determine if more extensive use of double striping is feasible. The light planes used In addi tion to helicopter' wfll be L-19 ob servation planes with an observa tion-radio operator supplied by the state police. Communications will bo main tained between fixed stations and also mobile police cars which will be marked with tape on their roofs. Unmarked police cars will be used in the apprehension of traf fic violators. Aboard the helicopter which landed in the capitol mall were C'apt. Jack Dean!, Portland, of the National Guard, and Sgt. James Darby of the State Police. Car Overturns On Highway; Women Escape Two women escaped possible In jury lasi nignt wnen their car overturned "several" times on Highway 30, a mile east of Ka mela. Mrs. Faye Elma Wallace, 50, McCall, f Idaho, was driving east on Highway 30 with her. daughter when the mishap occurred. The car crossed the highway, slammed into a rock embankment and then flipped "several times" and came to rest on its top on the highway. State Police reported. Mrs. Wallace was cited for viola tion of the basis rule following the 4 p.m. accident. She pleaded guilty in Justice Court this morn ing where she was fined only the 4,50 court costs. In another accident, reported about 4 ajn. today, La Grande airport flyer Lyle Flick, who has recently escaped injury in two plane crashes, walked away from a two-car accident on the Cove highwas Flick was driving west on the Cove highway when his car col. Ildcd with ono driven by Billy B Starr, also of Cove. Starr was driving north on a county road and he was cited by state police for going through a stop sign at the Cove highway intersection. Both cars were considerably damaged, po'ico reported. In March Flick was in a con' verted B-25 bomber used for spraying when the plane had to be crash landed because the wheels on the plane Jammed. A few weeks ago Flick was involved in another airplane crash when a lighter spray plane plowed Into the ground upside down because of carburetor ' trouble. - He walked away from both of those acci- dents. . y . WEATHER V, . Partly cloudy through Fri day with bfternoon showers; nigti S5-6Z; low tonight Monkeys Survive Space Adventure In Missile ABLE AND BAKER PROVIDE SCIENCE WITH NEW DATA CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) Two little monkeys flew 300 miles into space today in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile and were recovered alive. The flight of the two pint sized simians, Able and Baker, gave science important new data needed to insure the safe space flight of man. Brig. Gen. John H. McNinch, chief of the Army's 'Medical Research and Development Com- mand, said six and one-half hours after the Jupiter firing that the monkeys were retrieved "alive and in perfect condition." McNinch said there would be no further information on the ef fects of the journey on the mon keys "at this time." The monkeys, first to be recov ered alive from a space flight, spent about 15 minutes on their flight which got to a height of about 300 miles. Their nose cone space ship plopped down in the Atlantic 1,500 miles to the south east near Antigua. Will Be Displayed Able and Baker are scheduled to be taken to Washington and displayed Saturday. Monkey Able, the more educat ed of the pair of space travelers, was to have sent a type of tele graph signal back to earth during the flight by pressing a key at tached to her body. No signals were picked up, which may have been caused by a malfunction cf the instrument or because Able refused to perform as trained. Able, an American Rhesus wein'.iing seven pounds, and Bak er, a one-pound squirrel monkey, spent about 15 minutes on the flight and traveled about 300 miles into space, not high enough, according to the scientists here. to seriously affect the monkeys from radiation. Recovered Intact Barclay said the nose cone was recovered intact and was on board ship in less than two hours after the launching. The two monkeys were housed in separate containers. Able was in a 250 pound capsule and Baker in a smaller one thut was 0.5 by 12.5 by 6.5 Inches. ' Able, lying-on her- back with her knees drawn up to provide maximum resistance from tho forces of gravity, wore a special space suit and was equipped with earphones. She reclined on a fiber glass contour couch in an air con ditioned chamber with a private heating and cooling system. Baker was attired in a helmet of molded plastic with a soft chamois lining. She lay on a molded bed made of two layers of rubber. Little Behavior Change Navy Capt. Ashton Grabicl, di rector of research at the Navy School of Medicine, Pensacola, Fla., said "it would appear as though there was remarkably lit tle change in the monkeys' be havior during the first 14 minutes of flight." This period took the nose cone almost to the point of re-entry into the earth's atmos phere. GIFT PROVES FATAL PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) A 26-year-old mother of seven child ren said today she shot her hus band to death with a .22 caliber pistol she Intended giving him as a. Father's Day gift. Mrs. Pat ricia Davis told sheriff's deputies she worried so much about what her husband, Elwood would say about her spending the money for the present that she hot him Tuesday. New York Musical Director Plans Opera New York City vocalist and musical director John DcMcrchant who has previously produced shows in La Grande will hold 8 workshop, a personal concert and an opera this summer. DcMcrchant, who has relations living in Spokane, Wash., will be in La Grande from June 22 to July 10. The baritone vocalist and or ganist for churches in New York City will present a personal con cert in the La Grande Lattcr-Day Saints church at 8 p.m., June 22. He will produce an Oregon Cen tennial opera "Ten Thousand Miles" in the local high school auditorium the night of July 10. DeMcrchant wrote the words and music to the opera which is bas ed on the 100-year history of the siate. Following the world pre mier in La Grande the show will be produced in New York next fall according to arrangements made by the producer. DcMcrchant is no stranger to La Grande. He first came here in the summer of 1946 for East ern Oregon College and returned each summer for five years. He also came to La Grande two sum mers for a sororiety group one year and a high school club the Ho se Free Hand Voted Ike On Defense WASHINGTON (UPI) The' House Appropriations Committee voted today to give President Ei senhower blank check power to spend all the money needed to put U. S. bombers on a constant air alert. Warning tiiat the threat posed by Russian , missiles is growing, the committee set up the extra ordinary presidential authority in approving a $38,848,339,000 defense appropriation bill. Combined with the proposal to let the President spend funds as he sees fit to keep nuclear bomb ers aloft continuously was a com mittee recommendation for a size-' able speed up in work on long range missiles to replace bombers as the major deterrent to war. Fell Short The military spending" bill fell $399,861,000 short of what Eisen hower requested, but did not in clude possible spending for the airborne alert, which could cost billions. Moreover, the committee), re wrote Eisenhower's hudget re quest almost from stem to stern. It chopped $1,179,661,000 from his estimates but added $779,800,000 for other purposes. The committee recommended in creases of 85 million dollars as a "down payment,'.' un eight more sqyaurons ui Alias misMies, ana -87 million dollars to hasten devel opment of the Minuteman, an im proved 5,000 mile rocket using sol id instead of liquid fuel. It called for a hefty boost of 200 million dollars in Army procure ment funds, to be used either for the Nike-Zeus missile, designed to shoot down enemy rockets, or to modernir.e other Army equipment, or both. ' ' No New Carriers The panel scuttled a 260 million dollar item for a new Navy super carrier, but it ordered an extra $255,300,000 for ammunition, planes and research on Navy anti-submarine warfare. Gasoline Dealers Agree To Close PORTLAND (UPI) It might pay Oregon motorists planning to go somewhere over Memorial weekend to take along an extra can or so of gas. A large number of independent gasoline dealers in the Willam ette valley have agreed to a two day shutdown Saturday and Sun day to protest pricing policies of major oil companies. ' In Salem, 70 dealers have voted to go along with the closure. That is about 75 per cent of the Salem area dealers. For La Grande second. Those two groups used the money raised to assist in a foreign student . exchange pro gram. r During his workshop here De Merchant will be .working with local soloists and chorus mem bers in tho opera. , ; JOHN DEMERCHANT To Produce Opera ' :v7