Brass-Tacks
On Geneva
Believed Helpful
GENEVA (UPI) The Big Four foreign ministers return
ed to Geneva from Washington today after a historic "fly
ing conclave" in which they held their first brass-tacks sec
ret session 15,000 feet above the Atlantic.
' The Big Four, returning from the funeral of former U.S.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, held a 90-minute
conference that began an hour after their U.S. Air Force
Fireworks
Factory
Explodes
4 IIDA, Japan UPI An explo
sion tore th-ough a fireworks fac
tory here today, leaving at least
16 persons dead or (hissing and
more than 50, mostly school chil
dren, seriously injured.
The explosion took place in this
central Japan city, about 100
miles west of Tokyo.
Rescuers were still digging
through the ruins' in search of the
missing hours after the blast.
The police said at least four
persons were dead and expressed
fears that 12 missing persons,
mostly workers in the factory,
were also dead.
The injured children were at a
grade school near the factory.
The explosion, police said, de
stroyed the factory and 1 demol
ished or severely damaged build
ings within a 325-foot radius.
Three dwellings near the fac
tory were destroyed, the police
said. . -
The explosion occurred at the
Uchiyama fireworks factory
which was located on the out
skirts of Iida.
In addition to the Hamai grade
school, a senior high school dor
mitory and an Iida police station
were damaged.
Among the dead and missing,
the police said, were Fustataro
Uchiyama, owner of the factory,
and 12 factory workers.
Crewmen Die
In Jet Crash
1WAKUNI, Japan (UPI) A
jet attack bomber from the U. S.
Marine airbase here crashed at
sea early today, apparently kill
ing all of 'its four crewmen.,
- The 'twin-engined ;'A3D was re
ported missing at 12:15 a.m. Five
hours Inter, Japanese fishermen
found bits of wreackage, two
fliers' helmets :'and an oxygen
mask floating off I'ka Island, 12
miles southeast of here.
, A crash boat dispatched to the
scene identified the wreckage as
part of the missing plane.
'WHAT A DELIGHTFUL VILLAGE'
Things
English
By BUCK BUCHANAN
Observer Staff Writer
A touch of merry old England
arrived in La Grande two days ,
ago in the form of bright-eyed
Mary Berry, junketing English
business woman.
"What a delightful village and
valley," was one of the first state
ments of the lady from Sheffield
in Yorkshire. She is the guest of
the La Grande Soroptimist Club.
Miss Berry, who is actually on
vacation in the United States, has
spent a great deal of her time the
past three weeks as the guest of
SOROPTIMISTS CHAT Mary Berry, right, visiting
Soroptimist from Sheffield, England, chats with La
Grande president, Mrs. Harold Laurence. Miss Berry
was entertained by a group from the club at the home
of Mrs. June McManus last night. (Observer Photo)
Talk
Flight
I transport plane Ictt Me cast coast
of North America
The ministers agreed in a com'
munique jssueu uii luuuiug in ue- i
neva that the exenange of views
had been useful.".
The session, the- first formal
secret meeting since the minis
ters began their negotiations
three weeks ago, was geographic
ally, at least, the highest level
conference in diplomatic history
15,000 fect above the earth's
surface.
The ministers' communique
said only that they had discussed
"the progress" of their East-West
conference and "certain details of
their 'respective positions."
But behind the staid diplomatic
phraseology it appeared that dur
ing those 90 minutes aboard the
plane Thursday night the real ne
gotiating had begun for an agree
ment on ending the threat of war
over West Berlin.
The foreign ministers agreed to
meet again in another private,
secret session today at the villa
of British Foreign Secretary Sel
wyn Lloyd.
Lloyd, Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter, French Foreign Min
ister Maurice Couve de Murville,
and Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko smiled widely and
talked heartily on their arrival at
the airport in Geneva.
Then they rushed off to their
respective headquarters to cable
home to their capitals the out
come of the airborne negotia
tions. The foreign ministers will hold
their, first "restricted" session
without German ' advisers, press
officers or other outsiders at
British Foreign Secretary Sclwyn
Lloyd's villa here later today.
The most that is now expected
to emerge from The foreign min
isters' conference on the key ques
tion of Germany is a face-saving
interim agreement on Berlin
which would satisfy U. S. de
mands for progress as a prelimi
nary to any session .at the sum
mit. '
President Eisenhower reaf
firmed the American insistence
on progress at a 30-minute meet
ing with the foreign ministers in
Washington Thursday.
An unexpected bonus that may
emerge from the talks here is an
agreement to renew East West
disarmament negotiations.
Too Easy
Vacationer
I large corporations In tho East.
She is principal of a business
training college for a large British
company which employs 4,000 per-
sons. Miss Berry recruits and em
ploys all female personnel for the
cpmpany.
In addition to her school duties
the petite . English woman also
serves as an Honorary Lay Magis
trate and has the power to send
law offenders to jail for a year,
or fine them up to 100 pounds.
I "You dorl't have such an office
in the United States," she said,
"but I'm actually a judge in com-
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APPOINTED Bernis B
Conatser Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Conatser, of El
gin, has been appointed to
the United States Naval Ac
ademy at Annapolis. Conat
ser was graduated from El
gin High School last night.
Eight Unions
Make Demand
On Railroads
WASHINGTON (UPI) Eight
een unions have demanded longer
vacations and two additional hol
idays a year for 550,000 railroad
workers.
The workers involved are shop
craftsmen, telegraphers, clerks,
signalmen and. others who do not
actually run the trains.
G. E. Leighty, spokesman for
the so-called nonoperating unions,
said Thursday night that identical
demands would be served on ev
ery railroad in the country.
He said other demands for pay
raises and changes in operating
rules probably will be made "with
in the next few months" before
three-year contracts expire Nov.
1.
The unions are asking for two
weeks vacation after one year of
service, three weeks -vacation af
ter five years, and four weeks af
ter 10 years. The present contract
provides for one week vacation af
tcr one year, two weeks after five
years, and three weeks after 15
years.'-''. . - -
Unions cooperating in the holiday-vacation
movement are:
Machinists, Boilermakers, Sheet
Metal Workers, Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, Railway Car
men, Firemen and Oilers, Railway
Clerks, Maintenance of Way Em
ployes, Order of Railroad Teleg
raphers, Signalmen and Hotel
and Restaurant Employes.
For Youth
Believes
paring the position with similar
ones in this country.
Miss Berry, a past president of
Soroptimists in Sheffield in mid
dle England and past president
of the Business and Professional
Woman's club for Yorkshire coun
ty, flew here from Lenore, North
Carolina via Denver, Salt Lake
City and Boise, Wednesday. Mrs.
June McManus, La Grande Sorop
timist, met her at the Boise air
port . and brought her to La
Grande.
"The mountains between Boise
and La Grande remind me of the
Pennine Range near Sheffield
though I must admit the Pennincs
are merely hills compared to your
mountains," she added with a
bright smile.
Miss Berry, though small, glow
ed with a bright smile constantly.
"It's the friendliness of your
people," she said, when the point
,was mentioned.
I "It's odd the similarity I find
in your people here to those in
England," she remarked, "since
(we get a different interpretation
of the United States from the
press, radio and television, in
I England."
I "I find that the majority of your
people in mis country warn, pre-
j?,ciscly what the average English
' -ln man want security, home, family
"'J 'and a decent way of life."
JJj "One thing I find slightly ajar
in both countries youth has too
many comforts things are made
too easy for them. It would be
better if they had to struggle more
it makes for a stronger founda
tion in later years.
I Today Miss Berry is a guest of
'the Soroptimists on a trip to
Wallowa lake. She will leave to
morrow for "maybe Richland and
Seattle." She is due to fly back
to New York early next week and
will leave by ship for England on
Wednesday.
While in La Grande she has
been, a house guest of Mr. and
Mrs. 'Elmer McManus.
GRANDE
Business
Ruined
By Union
Labor Committee
Hears Testimony
LOS ANGELES (UPD-A House
labor subcommittee Thursday
heard a former truck line owner
testify he was forced out of bus
iness in less than 10 weeks when
J he resisted organizing efforts by
the Teamsters Union.
Sam Lugash said at the opening
of the two-day hearings that
picketing, a secondary boycott
and "continued threats of vio
lence against myself, my men and
even my wife" .forced him to sell
his small business in October, 1957.
Lugash said the "presure came
from the Teamsters Union."
When he and his 16 drivers
resisted Teamster organizing ef
forts, the union began picketing
his business and resorted to vio
lence, he said. A secondary boy
cott also was enforced.
Tires Slashed .
Lugash told the three-man com
mittee headed, by Rep. Phil M.
Landrum (D-Ga.) that the tires on
one of his trucks were slashed and
that one of his drivers was beaten
by a Teamster agent.
He said the union agent was
an ex-prize fighter. The driver, he
said, apparently was afraid to tes
tify against the agent and later
left the county.
"I applied to the National Labor
Relations Board for relief," he
said. "The board forced the Tem
sters Union to enter into a settle
ment agreement. .
. "But the boycott continued, with
pressure on the shippers instead
of their employes. My business
dropped to such a point that I
was forced to close the doors.
"The secondary boycott provi
sion of the present law docs not
stop boycott pressure."
Union Official Denies Charge
Teamsters official ' Sid Cohen,
secretary . of Loc SOB.- - ,tM the
committee that Lugash had been
planning to sell his business at
the time of the organizing efforts.
He denied that Lugash was forced
to sell.-
He got a "pretty penny" when
he sold, Cohen said.
Asked by committee members
Reps. James Roosevelt (D-Calif.)
and Edgar W. Hiestand (R-Calif.),
about possible labor legislation,
Cohen said:
"I am quite sure the Teamsters
local here, or any other union, can
effectively police their own af
fairs." Nearly a dozen witnesses ap
peared before the committee dur
ing its opening session. The com
mittee hoped to gather information
for use in future legislative bills
concerning labor and business.
Wayne Doubts
If Neuberger
Will Improve
WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen.
Wayne Morse left the door slight
ly ajar today for possible support
of Sen. Richard Neuberger in next
year's elections but he indicated
it probably would be closed be
fore it was opened.
The two Oregon Democrats
have been carrying on a dispute
for some time. It was rekindled
recently when Neuberger replied
to criticism by Morse at a speech
in Marion, Ore., April 11.
Morse said Thursday that
whether he would support Neu
berger for re-election depended
upon whether the lattcr's record
"improves" between now and
1960. He added, "I don't expect
his record to improve."
The senior Oregon senator said
he had "no present intention of
proposing or grooming anyone'' to
oppose Neuberger in the 1960 pri
mary. Speculation has listed ex
Gov. Robert D. Holmes and Rep.
Edith Green as possible Neuberg
er opponents in the 1960 primary.
Holmes said he would never run
a g a 1 n 8 1 Neuberger and Mrs.
Green said sho had no plans to
do so. 1 .
Neuberger said he did not in
tend to get into a name calling
contest with Morse. "I have done
my best in the Senate to make an
honest, fair record based on my
conscience and such knowledge as
I have." '
Neuberger said he had no idea
who would run against him. "This
is a free country. Anybody who
wants to run against "me should
run against me."
Last week Neuberger accused
Morse of causing disruption
among Democrats in the state's
congressional delegation. He was
replying to Morse's April 11
speech in which Morse criticized
Neuberger's support of adminis
tration foreign policies.
LA GRANDE, OREGON,
KmS ' Wage OK
The four girs who will be representing eastern Oregon at the Oregon Centennial Ex
hibition and International Trade Fair in Portland for 100 days this summer is
spending today becoming more familiar with Union county scenic and historic spots.
' The four girls, from left above, Bea Jean Haskell of Baker, Cayuse Indian sisters,
Belva and Joyce Hoptowit, and Marjorie Pithoud of Enierprise, are shown on a
bridge at Catherine State Park this morning. Mike Kilby of Pendleton will man the
Portland booth for the Northeast Vacationland,' Inc., Ray Calvert, a Pendleton and
'La Grande businessman is chairman of the committee planning the booth. '
(Observer Photo)
donkeys' 300-Mile High Rocket
Ride Clears Major Space Hurdle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla
(UPI) The 300-mile high rocket
flight by two monkeys who sur
vived in perfect condition cleared
one of the major hurdles in Amer
ica's race to put a man into
space, scientists suid today.
' The 1,500-milo flight and re
entry into the atmosphere after
the rocket reached a speed of
10,000 miles an hour was regard
ed as having "great significance
in connection with future human
rocket travel," the scientists said.
Information from the experi
ment, much of it radioed back to
earth in code during the 15-min-ute
trip of the big Jupiter rocket,
was under intensive study today.
The Jupiter nose, cone and its
scaled capsules which contained
the monkeys and a miniature bi
ological laboratory were retrieved
by a Navy tug off Antigua Island.
Undergo Astronaut Tests
The monkeys, the first primates
to survive a space flight, thus es
caped the fate of the first space
monkey, "Reliable,", who per
ished last Dec. 13 when his cone
capsule could not be recovered.
Hoffa Associate
Caught On Juke
Box Indictment
MINEOLA, N. Y. (UPI) -John
F. O'Rourkc, a top-ranking
Teamsters Union - official and
close associate of union President
James R. Hoffa, was indicted
and arrested Thursday night on
charges involving racketeering in
the juke box industry.
Fourteen others, including three
officers of a Teamster local, were
indicted with O'Rourke, who is an
international union vice prcsidcr.'
and president of the joint council
representing 140,000 New York
teamsters. .
He becamo the city's top tear?
slcr several years ago after an
election bitterly contested in the
courts on the ground that he had
won on votes from "paper locals"
chartered to extend Hoffa's in
fluence into the New York area.
The indictment returned by a
Nassau County grand j u r
charged the defendants with con
spiracy, -coercion, extortion ani
attempted extortion in the use of
Teamster Local 266 to collect tri
bute from juke box operators.
The local was one of sevcra'
which featured in the Senate La
bor Rackets Committee's Inquir;
racketeering in tho coin machin
industry.
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WEATHER
Mostly fair through Satur
day with variable high clouds,
high both days 62-70; low to-
nigm
OBSERVER
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1959
Both monkeys were wired to
send back ' information about
heart and muscle reaction, body
temperature, and breathing rate.
They went through some of the
same tests that the. seven astro
nauts of , the Project Mercury
"man in space" are undergoing.
Navy medical experts' said It
appeared there .was "remarkably
little change during the first 14
minutes of flight." This was up
to the critical point of atmospher
ic re-entry.
'When the flight was completed
Weyerhaeuser
Approves Hike
PORTLAND (UPD-Thc Weyer
haeuser Timber Co., and the In
ternational Woodworkers of Amer
ica Thursday announced agree
ment has been reached on a new
two-year contract calling for an
across - the - board wage hike of
7 1-2 cents an hour June 1.
The- agreement is subject to ap
proval by union membership. It
affects about 8,000 Weyerhaeuser
wo"kers in Oregon and Washing
ton. The agreement calls for addi
tional wage adjustments ranging
up to a maximum of 17 1-2 cents
per hour in certain job classifica
tions and improvements in health
and , welfare benefits, also effec
tive June 1.
Effective June 1', 1960, will be a
2 1-2 per cent wage hike for all
hourly paid employes. Employes
on a piecework basis will receive
a five-cent on hour increase. The
agreement calls for a third week
of vacation for employes with 10
or more years of continuous serv
ice. This provision is also effec
tive June 1,1960.
Negotiations between manage
ment and the union have been
indcrway since April 21.
Housing Needed
For 200 Girls
More than 1,200 Rainbow Girls'
ire expected to attend the Grand
Vsscmbly to - bo held in La
jrandc, June 14 to 16.
Practically alt available space
such as hotels and motels have
icon reserved. Approximately
100 girls will be taken care of in
dorian and Hunt Halls at Eastern
Oregon College. There are over
350 placed in private homes.
Anyone having room for one
r moro please get in- touch with
.lousing Chairman . Mrs. Eugene
Millcring, telephone WO 3-2495,
or Mrs. Elmer Moon, telephone
WO 3-3302t There is a need for
about 200 more sleeping facilities.
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and recovery was made, Brig
Gen. John H. McNich , reported
the monkeys were "alive and in
perfect condition."
Rule Out Radiation ,
It was believed that the 300
mile altitude was not great
enough for radiation to have any
appreciable effect upon .the mon
keys. They were chosen and pre
pared for specific scientific as
signments which included gauging
reactions to acceleration, deceler
ation, - vibration, rotation, rocket
noise, and weightless conditions.
The space lab capsules, 10
ouncc aluminum cylinders, con
tained the egg and sperm of sea
urchins which were mixed in
three separate vials when the
rocket nose cone reached maxi
mum" speed.
In addition to the cells and
blood, the lab capsules carried
samples of yeast, corn, mustard
seed, fruit fly larvae and pink
bread mold, all expected to beJ
useful in space studies.
The flight and recovery opera
tions were scientifically precise
and nearly perfect. Everything
worked smoothly from the blast
off of the 52-ton1 orange painted
Jupiter at the cape at 3:35 a.m.
e.d.t. to the dawnlight recovery
downrange in the calm Atlantic
by frogmen from the USS Kiowa,
awaiting in the impact area.
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TAKES OVER Mel Elder, right, is congratulated by ;
Emerson Smock after being installed president of the ,
La Grande Jaycees at the annual banquet of the club,
last night-Smock is a past president of Jaycees. Over :
50 Jaycees, wives and guests attended the dinner. Dave : 4
Baum was the main speaker. (Observer Photo) ,
Price 5 Cents
No Wags Boost j
Industry Says
NEW YORK ( UPI I The steel
industry and the United Steel-
workers Union have virtually end-,
ed any hopes of reaching a
peaceful contract settlement.
Thursday in Washington, USW ,
President David J. McDonald ad
mitted that joint contract talks
which began May 11 had resulted
in no progress. ' '
The union chief accused the in
dustry of not bargaining in good
faith and threatened, to file
changes against the j, companies
with the Nutional 'Labor Relations
Board.
William T. Caples, a vice
president of Inland Steel Co.. said
later that McDonald always ac
cuses the industry of not bargain
ing in good faith "when we re
fuse to give him what he Wants."
Denies McDonald's Charges
Avery C. Adams, chairman and
president of Jones & Laughlin
Steel Corp., said the industry is
bargaining in good faith. "We
have made our proposal and we
will stand by it because it is in
the best interest of the entire
economy of the United States."
Top steel leaders here for the
67th meeting of the American
iron & Steel Institute Thursday
emphasized the industry's deter
mination to resist any wage in
crease this year. They made it
plain they were prepared to go
down to the wire with the pro
posed one-year wage freeze.
The union has demanded a
"substantial" wage increase, re
duced hours of work, and com
plete company financing of insur
ance, hospitalization and medical
plans.
Warnt Labor, Management
At a dinner . session Thursday
night, winding up the two-day, in
stitute convention, former... Twas-.
ury Secretary George Humphrey!
warned that both labor and man-'
agemcnt can price themselves out
of business "with distressing re
sults." Humphrey, now chairman of
National Steel Corp., said that
"if our costs become non-competitive,
it will simply mean mov
ing jobs from Pittsburgh, Cleve
land, Detroit and Chicago to Brit
ain, Germany and even Russia.''
He urged -businessmen to take
a more active role in politics to
protect their interests. He said
"highly organized, well funded la
bor groups are hard at work,
seemingly without full realization
of the disastrous consequences to
themselves of failing to heed the
simplest principles of competi
tion." ' i .
Fisherman Spots !
Body In Columbia'
PORTLAND (UPI) The sher
iff's office said today a fisherman
reported Thursday seeing a body
floating in the Columbia , river
near Bradford island upstream
from Bonneville dam. ;
Alfred Caramanica, 49, said he
and a companion tried to snag the
body but that the current carried
it out of their reach. Officials at
the dam failed to spot it. 11
Bodies of two daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Ken Martin of. Portland
were found in the Columbia ear
lier. The parents and another
daughter still are missing. The
family vanished last Dec: 7. ;