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-
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. 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
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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. !