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LA GRANDE OBSERVER 251st Issue 63rd Year SUSAN PETERSON . Summa Cum Lauda 'PANICKY STATE Byrne Answers Education s Critics In BY BOB TURLEY ' Obsarvar Staff Writer Graduates of Eastern Oregon College were warned this morn ing to "watch out against being panicked into accepting all the advice currently being offered to education" by Charles D. Byrne, former chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher education.- , Byrne spoke' to an overflow rrowd in the college theatre where degrees were awarded to 88 graduates in EOC's annual commencement exercises. The ceremonies marked the college's 30th anniversary. The speaker answered charges currently being made by critics of education who say that schools arc becoming too soft, that they arc neglecting science and mathe matics nd that they arc cat ering to the poor and average student while neglecting brilliant ones. , CATTLE WEIGHEDi ANDiMAR&ED FOrsfARKEY SUMMER -RANGES Summer grazing on the Starkey ' Experimental Forest and Range area is beginning this week, and staff . mcmocrg from , the Blue Mountain Research Center in La Grande, a division of the U.S. For est Service, have finished mark ing and weighing 250 head of cat tle before they are turned out on the two experimental areas at Starkey. Important findings arc being made as a result of studies that have been carried on at the Ex perimental Range within the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and midway between La Grande and Ukiah. .. Designed to. find answers for the problem of low summer range productivity in Eastern Oregon, the experiment has been carried out for the past five years as the largest wild land grazing experi ment in the Pacific Northwest '.This week the cattle and calves are - being marked and weighed before they begin four months of summer grazing withiri'twelve ex perimental pastures of 600 to 000 acres each which are being used by the Forest Service for the study. They will be weighed again at the end of the summer to deter mine the relationship between weight change and the change in range conditions. v .According to George A.' Garri son, leader of the La Grande re- ; XWs. v j n r l'tt&s&2& 1.1 , ''4 . WEIGHING IN Cattle who will spend the summer " grazing season on the Starkey Experimental pastures ., were weighed this week before being turned out for the summer. The U.S. Forest Service studies being conduct , ed on Blue Mountain range lands require the animals to be weighed both before and after the summer grazing period. Weighing the cattle is Jon M. Skovlin, project ... leader of cattle grazing management study for the Blue Mountain Research Center in La Grande. RICHARD ARENDS Cum Lauda 5F MIND' College Byrne questioned the valdity of the criticisms and said that he thinks the critics are mistaking "soft" education for a "concern for the all-around development of the student." Replying to charges that edu cation is not emphasizing science and mathematics, he urged "equ ally increased emphasis on the social sciences and humanities which are designed for human betterment and the welfare of all" whereas ' scientific advances have been "designed for the de struction of mankind." Most, of the criticisms arc the result of a "panicky state of mind since recent ' Russian, scientific discoveries," he declared. As for criticism that education is wasting good talent, he asked the. graduates to note that "the majority of our citizens are of average talent and that education in this country is dedicated to the education of all to . the extent .search center, the Blue Mountain I summer range is now producing less than spring-fall range lands or winter pastures. In the Blue Mountains a cow requires about eight acres per month during the summer; on lower valley lands a cow needs only one acre a month. Garrison says the experiment is intended to find a way to regain the productlivty of the range through finding improved systems qf grazing, and determining the proper number of cows for the range. Some progress is already being made, he said, in answer ing these questions. Within the twelve experimental areas set up in two groups about three miles from each other to in clude all possible! range and for est variations half are being us ed on a season-long basis, and half an a deferred-rotation system. A further treatment in the experi ment concerns intensity of use on the land. , From the deferred-rotation ex periments, the center has found that the productivity of the Blue Mountain ranges is being improv ed by allowing cattle to use a par- ticular area only during the first half of one summer grazing sea son, and again the second half of the next years season. Such a plan gives the range land a chance to properly heal ov er and improve watershed cover, DOROTHY KNECHTEL . Cum Lauda that thev can benefit.'1 "In our zeal for the develop ment of intelligence we must not forget this dedication," he said. Currently a professor of educa tion in the University of Oregon, Byrne told the graduates to be "imen to new observations" but "not to mistake the clamor of the few for the voice of society." He declared that the U. S. "has the finest educational sys tem in the world, the best pro fessional people, and good objec tives and methods." - -Countries in the Orient are now at a stage where our education al system was 50 ylcars ago, he nid. After leaving his post as chancellor in 1955, Byrne took a position as educational advisor to the government of Nepal for two years. Dr. Frank B.- Bennett, presi dent, announced that the college has received in the past the hign --. . Saa BYRNE on Page 3. Garrison said. Based on this con- elusion the National Forests have already given out about 25 per cent of their grazing allotments in Eastern Oregon and Washington lo a deferred-rotation system of tTstr'xna. ' Regarding the proper Intensity of grazing, the experimental pro ject, which still has five years in which to run, shows that placing fewer head of cattle on the Blue Mountain range land will result in more beef than if the intensity were increased Several ways of controlling the movement and distribution of cat tle over the area have also been devised as a result of the study: salting, water development, prop er placement of fences, and ade quate range riding. All four are required if maximum productivity of a region is to be attained. According to Garrison, the find ings that are coming out of the Starkey Experimental project will be valid for the whole Blue Moun tain area, stretching from Walla Walla to Prineville 4nd to the south of John Day. The current range experiments being carried on by the La- Grande research center is only one of several projects now in progress. The Forest Service is the only un it in the Department of Agricul ture entrusted with management research on forest and wild land range problems. I Address L2JZ , I BRANDING WITH DYE This cow is being marked with dye for temporary identifi cation during the summer grazing season at the Starkey Experimental range lands. Doing the work is Gerald S. Strickler, project leader of range condition studies for La Grande's Blue Mountain Research Center, a subsidiary of the U.S. Forest Service which is sponsoring the Starkey experiments. Significant' findings are, being made from the longrange project about ways to increase the productivity of summer range lands in the Blue Mountains. ' LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1959 THESE LADS WERE READY ' CHICAGO-Thret boyt were hem again today attar an un tuccttiful lt hour Joumty in starch of a hauntad houta. Tha boys txplainad why they had carritd to much with tham an tha trip: Tht candltt wart to light tha hauntad house; cap pistols, to frighten ghetts; rubbing al cohol, for any ghMt-inflictad wounds; swimming trunks, in casa thty wart thrown into a stcrtt rivtr; a bible if all alsa failed. Local Guard Unit Leaves For Training La Grande's National Guard unit leaves tonight for Fort Lew is and its first two weeks of active duty training as a headquarters company. Headquarters Company, First Battle Group. 186th Infantry will go to camp this year with 21 of- liccrs, three warrant officers, and 113 enlisted men. The group, which has been con centrating on the training of key personnel since Us reorganiza tion in April, will be under the command of Captain Willard K Carey. He will be assisted by Lt. Lar ry L. Toney, executive otiicer; Lt. Roy L. Wilhclm, engineer pla toon leader: Lt. Richard M. Hoh stadt, communications platoon leader, Lt. Earl F. Wells, medical platoon leader, and MSgt. John P. Chess, full-time administrator for the company. The first 'week of the camp will be on weapons qualification, tac tical problems, . and specialized training for men assigned to new positions. Five days will be spent in bivouac, sleeping and eating in the field the longest period for camping out during field training isince World War II. - An advance detachment of the company, along with drivers and vehicles from other units of the First Battle Group, 186th lnfan Iry, left Wednesday morning un dcr the command of Capt Burl Courtney to- set-' Up the-raiftp. area for the main body of troops who will arrive at 4:30 p.m. Sat urday. Another convoy consist ing of 30 vehicles will leave Sat urday morning under the com mand of Lt. Franz J. Haun, Battle Group Motor officer. The company will return to La Grande at 8:45 a.m., June 27, Lawyer To Fight To Get Long Out Of Clinic ' GALVESTON, Tex. (UPI) - Theo Cangclosi, a prominent Lou isiana lawyer, indicated today he will fight the attempt of Gov. Earl Long's family to have Long de clared insane and will offer proof he was kidnaped. Cangelosi did not use the spe cific term "kidnaping." He said he would base his challenge of Texas jurisdiction on proof Long was forced ''against his will" to fly to Texas. Cangelosi; chairman of the Lou isiana State University Board of Supervisors and an assistant at torney general in Louisiana, is a friend and legal adviser of Long. WEATHER Mostly fair through Satur day with chance of isolated thunderstorms in afternoon or evening; high Saturday 80 90; low tonight 47-55. McElroy Reveals New Plan For U. S. Police Press To Catch Mad Bomber After 38 Are Injured BOSTON (UPI) A mad bomber whose ingeniously con trived time bomb blasted apart a rapid transit station and injured 38 persons was sought detectives. More than a score of men tion in an urgent effort to track u - - i cuuiu siriKe again. n escapea oi previous bombing attemlps was considered a prime suspect, Three persons were critically injured in the blast late Thurs day in the crowded North End District. Of the three, only an 81-year-old man, Abraham Roberts, was considered early today to be in imminent danger of dying. He was struck in the neck by flying metal. Searched For Evidence Police ballistics experts swarmed over the area until late Thursday night picking up bits of the bomb. They said the person who planted it "knew his busi ness." The explosive force was said to be about equal to a World War II 100-pound aerial bomb. The station is about 20 feet above the ground on the Metro politan Transit Authority's elevat ed tracks. The platform is outside the sheltered waiting room. Authorities found traces of black powder and several other chemicals on a locker in the wait ing room. They believed the ex plosive was planted with some sort of timing device in the pub lic coin-operated locker, common in most railroad and transit sta tions. The bomb may have been fired with batteries, authorities said. . .. . u i i Many Persons Knocked Down The explosion ripped, apart the waiting room just as a two-car train came to a stop at the edge of the platform. - . ' . Huge beams, chunks of metal and razor-sharp pieces of glass flew in all directions. Some 200 persons in the immediate area were knocked flat. Debris rained down on the street below, cutting and injuring many passersby. Some i passen gers on the crowded train were injured when several car windows disintegrated. First rescue workers to the scene had to dig half a dozen per sons from beneath the wreckage. The injured on the platform were strapped to stretchers and low ered to a fleet of ambulances in the street. Hospital Superior Receives Degree Sister Mary Euphrasia Mark ham, O.S.F., superior at St. Joseph hospital in La Grande, received a master's degree in hospital ad ministration at commencement exercise's at St. Louis University Juno 8. - Sister Euphrasia is also a gradu ate of Georgetown University at Washington, D. C, in hospital ad ministration. While in St. Louis for the exer cises, she attended the national meeting of the Catholic Hospital Association. Search here today by a team of crack were assicned to the investlea down the maniac before he ai t: A ...;u n n mental pattern wau a icium Controversial Wheat Bill Gets By House WASHINGTON (UF1 Tne House overrode administration op position today and passed by an 11-vote margin a price-boosting democratic bill to curb the na tion's mounting wheat surplus. The roll call vote was 188-177. Democratic farm leaders just managed to stop a revolt by city Democrats who threatened to scut tle the legislation. President Eisenhower had dial lenged the Democratic-controlled Congress to do something to curb mounting wheat surplus." " - Passage of the Democratic bill was regarded as an important po litical victory for the Democrats and another stinging rebuff for Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son. Before final passage, the House rejected, 223-141, an administra tion plan to cut .production- of wheat surpluses without boosting price supports.' The Democrats figured that they now can force Eisenhower, who has Applied urgently fee, action to cut ue more man wee Dimon dollar wheat surplus.- to take the responsibility for accepting or kil ling wheat legislation.. .. . 1 The controversial House-passed bill would for the next two years tighten production controls and cut grower planting allowmcnts 23 per cent. But it also would boost price supports by 20 per cent, restoring the old pre-Eisenhowcr level of 90 per cent of parity. The Senate earlier passed a dif ferent version of the bill which the administration also opposes. It now will be up to a Senate House conference committee to work out a compromise. . Blue Mt. Boys Enter Rose Parade vThe Blue Mountain Boys and their portable outhouse returned to their home in the wilds of East ern Oregon yesterday after a briof fling fn the big city. The Boys made their first ap pearance in Portland Tuesday night when they participated in the Merrykhana parade, first of ficial event of the , 1959 Rose Festival. . - Besides the outhouse, they had their "automobile," the mash man gier, along with them. They, dis tributed $10,000 in Blue Mountain Boy Bucks and fired 400 rounds of blank ammunition along the parade route. It was the first lime that La Grande has been represented in the Rose Festival for several years. : : TAGGING This calf is getting a permanent serial number before lt is turned out on the special pastures of the Starkey Experiment Range lands. Some 250 cows with their calves all from the Cuhna Bros, ranch at Echo are beginning summer grazing this week at Star key, where they will help the U.S. Forest Service reach conclusions about the best use of Blue Mountain range land. Asssiting with the identification work this week was A. K. Majors, a field assistant for the Blue Moun tain Research Center and a range management student from Utah State University. Air CAR CRASHES, TEETH 'KISS' PITTSBURGH UPI A motorist discovered that it doesn't pay to kits a girl while driving, especially when wear ing false teeth. Allegheny County Police re ported that en unidentified men leaned over to kiss hli girl friend as he drove away from the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. He loit control of the uto and crashed into a utility pole. The woman required 14 stitches to dote a forehead wound caused, police Mid, when the driver's fall teeth flew out from the force of the crash and "bit" her. Prowler Shot By Cafe Owner PORTLAND (UPI) A man prowling a drive in restaurant was shot and killed by its pro prietor early today after striking the owner on the arm with a hatchet, police reported.. Deputy Coroner Ross Woodward identified the dead man as Larry Eugene Rings, 31, Portland. Po lice said Kiggs had a previous record. Phil Anderson, 37, told police he and his wife, Jean, were awaken ed by a loud pounding about 3:30 a.m. They live near their drive-in cafe at 633 S.E. Powell. His wife looked across the street and saw a man stick his head out of one of the rcstrooms and then close the door. . . Anderson said he got his .38 caliber pistol, went over and opened the door of the rest room. He said the-prowler lashed out with a hatchet and struck him on the right arm, then rushed past him toward Powell boulevard. , . Aimed Low Anderson fired and tho man col lapsed in the middle of the boule vard. The bullet entered the base of the spine and police said it probably ranged upward to the heart. Anderson said he aimed low and did not mean to kill him. Anderson suffered a swollen left arm from the hatchet blow and detectives suggested he see a doc tor. . A motorist, Mike Kimbertine, 18, Portland, almost drove into tho line of fire. He told police he saw the man dash in front of his car, then saw another man on his right with a gun. Not knowing the circumstances, Klmbcrling sped across the Ross Island bridge and telephoned police. La, Grande Cafe Owners Warned La Grande restaurant and cafe owners were warned today to ex pect full houses next week during tho 33rd Rainbow Assembly by Mrs. Marie Wheeler, publicity chairman of the convention. She said some 1300 persons will be eating In city restaurants dur ing the three-day meeting, opening Sunday with registration from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Meals for only a few of the delegates will be pro vided at Hoko Hall during the conference, she said. t 1 Pries 5 Cent Master Defense Missile Cutbacks Outlined WASHINGTON (UPI) -Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy today unveiled a new air defense master plan calling for a $1,500,000,000 cutback in defenses against manned bombers, but speeding development of antimissile mis siles. McElroy outlined the new pro gram for the Senate Armed Ser vices Committee behind closed doors. Chairman Richard B. Rus sell (D-Ga.) later gave newsmen an account of his testimony. Russell said that both antiair craft missiles involved in the cur rent Army-Air Force feud, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc, would be cut back. The Bomarc would take somewhat bigger cutback, at least in the im mediate future. Russell and Sen. John C. Sten- nis (D-Miss.) said McElroy esti mated that savings resulting from these cutbacks at $1,500,000, 000 over the next five years before these weapons are eliminated from the defense blueprint in 1965. But the Army s Nike-Zeus anti missile missile will be speeded by spending 157 million dollars Tor re search and development in the fiscal year starting July 1. The Nike-Zeus was described by Russell as the "hope for the fu ture" in defending the - nation against ballistic missiles. Russell commented that the air defense plan "continues to involve a mix of tho two missile sys- terns." He said he generally ap proved of retaining both the Nike Hcnculcs and the. Bomarc but would personally - nave -preferred deeper cuts. 1 -v ' iLAs to whether he regarded; the new plan as a "solution to the problem of duplication in missile programs, Russell said "No, I wouldn't say that.' - "As I understand' It, this pro gram does not have the unani mous support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Russell said, He declined to elaborate. McElroy told newsmen that the big shift toward antimissile de fense "seems wise." He empha sized, however, that manned bom bers will remain a secondary threat even after Russia has in tercontinental ballistic missiles in large numbers. Park Officials Disturbed About Billy's Remarks lunuun (Ufi American evangelist Billy Graham was in hot water with park officials and policemen here today for his claim that some of the things go ing on in ' London's parks were more suitable to a bedroom. ,, Graham made the statement on two separate occasions, the latest Thursday, Just before he flew to Brussels on the first leg of a trip which may take him to Moscow. Asked to amplify his "bed room" remark of the day before, Graham made the following state ment concerning a walk he and his wife took when they arrived in London three days ago: "We saw two couples in the midst of the sex act in daylight in a London park."- ' One park keeper was vehement in his denial of the charge. "Billy Graham's eyes must he" deceiv ing him,'' he said. "It just does not happen in the daytime.". Actually, Graham had specified In his first reference to park ac tivities that he and Mrs. Graham had done their walking at dusk,, rather than full daylight. - - . Civic Music Picks i Wilson President i Neil Wilson was chosen new president of the Union County Civic Music Association at a meet ing of the board of the directors Monday evening. . : Other officers for the year are Don Nelson, vice president; Mrs. Charles Snyder, secretary; Merle Becket, treasurer; Mrs. Lee Rey nolds, dinner chairman; Mrs. George Tiss, headquarters chair man, and Dr. Lynn Bishop, pub licity. t- New board members and com mittee chairmen will be announ ced later by Wilson. On hand for the Monday meeting was Rae Slnclaire, a national re. presentative of Civic Conceit aerl vice. She helped the group make preliminary plans for the fall membership campaign. !