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LA GMNDE OBSERVER
252nd Issue 63rd Year
LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1959
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Legislators Slash
Administration's
New Defense Plan
WASHINGTON (UPI) A Republican senator joined
Democratic defense experts today in criticizing the admin
istration's new "master plan" tor continental air defense.
Defense Secretary Neil H. MdElroy took the wraps off the
plan Friday in testimony before the Senate Armed Services
Committee. The blueprint had been prepared to quiet con
gressional alarm over costly and competing air defense
400,000
See Rose
Festival
PORTLAND (UPI) The 1959
Portland Rose Festival reached
its climax today with the colorful
impressive floral parade through
downtown Portland and across the
Morrison Street Bridge to E. 26th
and Burnside.
The sun came out to make the
weather ideal for the parade
bright but not hot. Generously
interspersed between the floral
floats were bands with charming
drum majorettes, marching teams
and mounted posses. The theme
of the parade, in keeping with
Oregon's Centennial celebration,
was "A Century in Flowers."
Reigning over the entire Festl-
val, including the parade, were
Queen Mary Sue I of Rosaria and
her royal court of princesses.
Grand Marshal of the parade was
Vice Admiral R. E. Libby. He ar
rived on the USS Helena, one of
14 U.S. Navy ships that came. to
Portland for the Rose Festival.
Also in port' were six destroyer
escorts of the Canadian Navy.
Sweepstakes Winntrt
: The grand sweepstakes award
for floats went to the City of Van.
couver, Wash., and in the com
mercial class, to the Hollywood
Boosters of Portland.
The Vancouver float, based with
red roses and tilte'd "Salmon Run,"
had four nine-foot long - floral
salmon plunging Jhrough -waves.
towing' three bathing Sjieauties on
water skies. , .
"Oregon Salutes Hawaii," the
Hollywood Boosters float, was an
extravaganza of 250,000 orchids,
wood roses and other flowers and
65,000 daisies depicting an out
rigger canoe riding waves onto an
Island beach.
The governor's trophy went to
an entry from the Pasadena, Cali
fornia Tournament of Roses. Win
ner of the best entry from Port
land was Meier and Frank Com
pany and the Queen's trophy for,
exceptional merit went to Pacific
Power and Light Company.
Outsidt Cities
Floats from cities outside Ore
gon that won firsts were Seattle
for its Seafair float and Battle
Ground, Wash. The Hillsboro
Chamber of Commerce float was
first in cities in Oregon outside of
Portland.
In the B division, cities under
5,000 population, a float from the
Beaverton Junior Chamber of
Commerce was first. The Salem
Cherrians float was second in the
cities over 5,000 - class and the
John Day Elks Club float from'
Long Creek was second in the B
division.
Other first place awards: Com
munity clubs, Oregon Gold Coast
from Garibaldi; public utilities
and transportation, Portland Gen
eral Electric Company; depart
ment stores, Montgomery Ward;
financial and insurance compa
nies. Bank of California; whole
sale and retail, Boyd's Coffee;
government, A division, 337th
Fighter Group, Portland Interna-
tional airport; government B divi
sion, Portland fire bureau, engine
21; trade associations' Portland
Realty Board.
TIED HAND AND
Louisiana's Governor Long
Claims He Was
- GALVESTON, Tex. (UPI)
Louisiana Gov. Earl Long, who
has never been known to pull his
punches, prepared today for a
. vigorous fight against any at
tempt to have him declared in
sane. He formally charged In a peti
tion filed in District Court Fri
day that he was kidnaped from
Louisiana. He said he was brought
to Texas "tied hand and foot"
and that he is being illegally held
in a mental hospital.
Mrs. Long was reported shocked
at her husband's dramatic plea,
but sympathetic. - - '
The colorful Louisiana chief ex
missiles.
Reaction of committee mem
bers suggested, however, that the
plan's cut-back in the Army's
Nike-Hercules and the Air Force
Bomarc while retaining both
was not sharp enough.
Favored Deeper Slices
' "If you accept some oi the
premises on which this was based
you could go a lot further by way
of savings," said Sen. Francis
Case (R-S.D.).
The plan reflected the apparent
conviction that any enemy .attack
on this country would be launched
by intercontinental ballistic mis'
siles rather than manned planes.
Chairman Richard B. Russell
(D-Ga.) also said he approved the
cutback in the two rival missile
programs, but would have fa
vored a deeper slice.
Two Democratic critics of de
fense policies, had sharper criti
cisms. Sen. . Henry M. Jackson
(D-Wash.) said the plan is "ridi
culous . . . a master compromise"
designed to quiet the feuding
joint chiefs of. staff.
Criticized By Symington
Sen. Stuart Symington D-Mo.)
said the plan guarantees a fur
ther waste of billions of dollars
. (and) plans and programs
an. inadequate defense at the ex
pense of an adequate offense."
Essentially, the new plan would
cut spending on Bomarc, already
authorized and still to be au
thorized through 1965, by about
$740,300,000. It would cut Nike
Hercules spending by about 469
million dollars and effect add!
tional air defense economies to
bring the total cut-back to $1,500,
000,000 over the years,
It would- speed develooment of
NiKe-Zeus. the anti-missile mis
sile, by the expenditure of an ad
ditional 157 million dollars in the
year beginning July 1.
Ike Relaxing
At His Farm
GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UPI) .
President Eisenhower, relaxing for
the week end at his Harm here,
had a golfing date today if thun-
dershowers don't wash out the
fun.
He succeeded in getting in 18
holes at the Gettysburg Country
Club after his arrival from swel
tering Washington Friday. - Five
minutes after he left the club
premises, a drenching rain began
to fall.
The President arranged with his
playing partner, retired Brig. Gen.
Arthur S. Nevins, and club pro
Dick Sleichter to see them at the
first tee this morning.
The week-end stay in the coun
try brought the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower some relief from
the hot, humid and smoggy weath
er mat nung over Washington
most of the week.
The President was in high good
humor as he teed off. He wore a
natty straw hat with black stripes
tan slacks and a white knit golf
shirt.
After clipping out a "number of
practice wood, middle iron and
soft chip shots, he smacked out a
drive of 200 yards plus. He walked
on the first hole but used his blue
motorized golf cart for the rest
of the round.
Making the turn near the club
house to complete the first nine.
both Eisenhower and his partner
recorded bogey fives.
FOOT
ecutive asked District Judge L D.
Goddard in a petition for a writ
of habeas corpus to set him free.
A hearing was set for 10 a.m.
Monday, the day before a full
fledged hearing is set in Probate
Court on a petition .by Mrs. Long
and the governor's cousin. Dr.
Arthur Long Jr., to have him con
fined for another 90 days of psy
chiatric treatment.
Long signed his petition: "Earl
Long, governor in exile by force
in kidnaping."
Long, 63, was brought to Gal
veston in a National Guard plane
May 30. After efforts by his wife,
Blanche, to get him to submit to
La Grande Lions Club members brought out the paint brushes this week as their con
tribution to the city's clean-up, paint-up week activities. The plain white fence cover
ing the fire site on Adams Avenue has taken on a "new look." The amateur artists
, are right proud of their work which took them several evenings to complete. The
' fence now ilustrates the area's recreational attractions and bids tourists a welcome
to La Grande. An Observer carrier boy looks over the new "billboard." Observer)
Wife Testifies To Save
As Florida
TALLAHASSEE. Fla. (UPD
A slim, golden haired wife fought
from the witness stand to save
her husband from possible exucu-
tion for the alleged rape of a Ne
gro college coed.
Mrs. Pearlie Collinsworth, 23,
wife of one of the four white de
fendants, told a jury her husband
seemed to lose all control after
drinking, although he was kind
and gentle' with her and their
children when he is sober.
Mrs'.. Collinsworth shook with
sobs as she talked aocl nt ;a table
a few,'Kot' awayr-Willon "Collins
worth, her husband, bowed his
head in his arms and wept bitterly-
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Defense psychiatrist Dr. W. M.
C. Wilhoit of Pensacola was called
to back up Collinsworth's plea of
temporary insanity. - v
Right and Wrong '
Wilhoit told the jury the young
man, whom he called : "simple
minded, knew the difference be
tween right and wrong but under
alcohol "did not understand the
harmfulness of his acts."
The 19-year-old Negro fresh
man at Florida A&M University
has accused Collinsworth and three
younger whites of taking her from
ner Negro date and forcine her to
submit to them seven times the
night of her college spring dance.
David R. Bishop
Earns Promotion
Announcement was made this
week of the promotion and trans
fer of David R. Bishop from the
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
to the Paisley District of the Fre
mont National Forest. Bishop has
been stationed at Baker.
A graduate of Oregon State col
lege, he has occupied positions in
range, timber, and as acting Dis
trict Ranger since being assigned
to Baker in 1955. His career in
klhe Forest Service began in 1947
on the Mount Hood National Forest.
He served in the U.S. Navy from
1944 to 1946. From 1951 to 1953
he worked with the Soil Conserva
tion Service at Baker and Madras.
From 1953 to 1955 he served as
project manager of the Central
Lane Use project with headquar
ters at Madras and Prineville.
treatment voluntarily failed, she
asked Probate Judge Hugh Gib
son to order him confined.
Gibson did on grounds Long
was "dangerous" to himself and
others. But it was a temporary
order, good for 14. days, and Gib
son set next Tuesday as the date
for a hearing on whether Long
should be confined for 90 days. -
The governor's petition was
filed by Adrian S. Levy Sr., who
is heading a team of four law
yers. Levy said Long would ap
pear in court himself and testify
that he was "brought to Texas
"forcibly, unwittingly and unwill
ingly." - - '
Kidnapped
FANCIEST FENCE IN
Rape Trial
It appeared the case would go to
the male, all white jury late to
night. All four faced the electric hair
If the jury find them guilty with
out recommendation of mercy. In
the past- 25 years 37 Negroes have
been executed for rape in Florida.
Only one white man has been ex
ecuted, and that for the rape of a
white woman. -
The defense had rested in the
DRIVER'S TEST
IS rod MUCH "
DALLAS. Tex. Sharon Ash
or, taking her first test for a
driver's license, became more
and more nervous as the ex
amining high way patrolmen
lotted down her minor mis
takes. Tho patrolman addod up the
- score and . announced . she'd .
passed.
"My gosh, I'm glad that's
over,". Sharon said. "I'll never
. drive againl I'll never drive
againl
New Sputnik
Thought Due
MOSCOW (UPI) Deputy Prem
ier Anastas I. Mikoyan hinted Fri
day night that Russia may soon
launch one or more new Sputniks.
Mikoyan was asked about new
Soviet Sputnik plans when he ap
peared at a British Embassy re
ception. . "Our scientists Tiave plans. They
will not leave skies empty," he
said. After a pause, he added,
"and why launch only one? Why
not three?".
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's
deputy also answered questions
about Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's scheduled visit and the
Geneva Foreign Minister's confer
ence. ' Mikoyan indicated Russia will
spread the red carpet for Nixon
when he arrives to open the Amer
ican exhibition in Moscow next
month. . .
The smiling deputy premier said
Nixon can choose his tourist spots
but ''he won't be shown any mili
tary installations."
.'. Mikoyan recalled U.S. officials
allowed , him free travel when he
toured America earlier this year.
"The Soviet Union will do the
same for Nixon," he said.
Queen Elizabeth
Celebrates Her
33rd Birthday
lunuun luru yueen Eliza
beth II rode her horse through
a thunderous applause today as
she exercised the right to cele
brate her thirday a little late.
Queen Elizabeth rode side sad
dle on her brown and white horse
"Imp" from Buckingham Palace
to the - Horse Guards' parade
ground for the trooping of the col
or to mark her 33rd birthday.
She was 33 April 21. But the
British commonwealth allows its
monarch to celebrate her birth
day in June ' in hopes of better
weather for the spangled ceremony.
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TOWN
Husband
Nears End
other three cases, those of Patrick
Scarborough, 20; David Beagles,
18. and Ollie Stoutamire, 16. Scar
borough and Beagles testified the
girl had consented to have rela
tions with them. Scarborough said
he would have stopped if the girl
had said no.
Beagles said she agreed to in
tercourse if they would take her
back to the college.
Stoutamire did not take the
stand. His lawyer pictured him as
a retarded boy but of hitherto de
cent end honorable character.
A 'pretty woman' with large'blue
eyes, Mrs. Collinsworth's voice
first broke when she told the jury
they had two children "a little
girl two and one-half and a little
boy one year old."
"Wasn't Himself
"Ted just wasn't himself when
he was drinking," she said. "Like
the time he hit me in the bathtub
when I was pregnant."
."When he was sober, you
couldn t ask for a better husband.
When I was sick he would care
for the children and do the dish
es."
Collinsworth's father, Thomas
Collinsworth, 70, was called by the
defense to the witness stand. He
had not helped his son in any way,
and today he had not a good
word to say for him.
He testified he could not even
remember exactly how Willon's
first name was sDelled
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FAIR MAIDS ENTERTAIN
The Union County Fair Maids entertained in La Grande last night at the Union Paciific '''
Old Timers banquet, held In honor of the retired members. They are above, back row
left to right, Lynn Vancil, North Powder; Ruth Elmer, Cove; Connie Jepson, La
Grande; and Marilyn Sherwood, Elgin. Seated in front are Neda McClellan, Union;
and Sharon Severns, Imbler. They sang three numbers as a group and also perform-':
ed individually. One song "I've Been working on the Railroad" was dedicated to the :
retired members. ..,..!. ? : (Observer Photo)
British Leader
Of Dangers In
Steel Wage
Talks Face
New Crisis
NEW YORK (UPI) The steel
wage talks, already deadlocked on
contract issues, face new trouble
where and how the negotiators
should meet.
The United Steelworkers Inter
national Wage Policy Committee
Friday gave union officers the
power to strike if necessary to
back up the union's contract de
mands.
The union, admitting it has
made no progress in joint talks
between four man teams, has
called its full negotiating commit
tees for each of the 12 steel com
panics to New York to start
separate talks with the companies
on Tuesday.
The companies, however, served
notice they will not attend separ
ate meetings.
The companies said they have
delegated the authority to nego
tiate a new contract to their four-
man team and that this group will
be at the Hotel Roosevelt Tues
day to meet with any representa
tives the union sends. ' -' , . . ,
The union said it will have its
negotiators in 12 separate rooms
in the same hotel
Before rejecting separate talks,
the industry Friday suggested that
the union either call all -of Its 435
negotiators into a single room or
stagger the 12 meetings so Its
team could attend each one.
The union turned down the first
idea and said if the companies
want to stagger the meeting times
of the 12 sessions they will have
to contact each union committee
and "set up their own schedule."
At a fiery meeting Friday, the
union's 171-hian wage policy com
mittee blamed the' "complete
deadlock on the Industry "un
realistic and ridiculous" contract
stand. The committee warned that
the industry's position was the
"path to disaster and chaos."
CONFERENCES COMPLETED
WASHINGTON (UPI) The FBI
has completed a series of law en
forcement conferences throughout
the nation designed to build a
"solid front of attack" on organ
ized crime. The meetings were
attended by 7,515 law enforcement
officers representing 3,790 agen
cies. "
WEATHER
Fair through Sunday with
risk of afternoon or evening
thunderstorms in mountains;
high both days 83-88; low to
night 48-55
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HE WOULDN'T
BE DISTURBED
LOS ANGELES A noisy
burglar proved no match for
testy newspaper reader
Thursday.
James A. Wigmore, 15, lust
can't stand to be bothered
while reading his paper in tho
dignified California Club.
The burglar rattled tho win
dow climbing in.
"Get out of here I" shouted
Wigmore.
The burglar got.
Evangelist
Surprised
At Pictures
MOSCOW (UPI) Billy Gra
ham, on his first visit to the
Kremlin, was surprised today to
find crosses and pictures of Christ
in the ancient fortress which has
become the symbol of Soviet gov
ernment. He also found a number of Par
is high fashion models posing for
pictures in and around the his
toric buildings, and he caught a
fleeting glimpse of Premier Ni
kita Khrushchev. . ..... .'
The tall, blonde evangelist from
Montreat, N.C., headed straight
for the Kremlin on the first full
day of his visit to Moscow. In ad
dition to a number of government
buildings, the ancient walled area
includes a number of. cathedrsls
which have been converted Into
museums.
Graham said he had heard there
were cathedrals in the Kremlin,
but he was surprised 'to find gold
crosses still standing on their
spire..
. "Over the heart of the Kremlin,
the cross," he commented to re
porters who accompanied him on
the tour. "To have this religious
spirit in the heart of the Kremlin
is symbolic of some future date."
Inside the cathedrals, he found
a number of the brilliantly illumi
nated religious paintings depict
in the crucifixion. , ;
"It's wonderful to see that pic
ture of Christ," he said. "I am
sure that many believers come
here, and are moved by it as it
moves me.
The sight of the Paris models,
here with the Dior fashion show,
inspired reporters to tell Graham
that Russian women love the
French clothes on display here.
He grinned.
"Women . are women every
where,'' he said.
Tonight Graham plans to con
fer with Baptist church leaders,
and tomorrow he will attend serv
ices at Moscow's Baptist church.
He said he has been told the
church has three services Sunday
with standing room only."
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Warns
Berlin
Cannot
Abandon
People
GENEVA (UPI)-Britain warned
today that the Berlin situation
"may still become dangerous" un-,
less Russia considerably modifies
its threats and stalling at the
Foreign M inisters' C onference
here.
Prime Minister Harold Macmll
Ion sounded the warning at a Con-,
servative Party meeting in London
shortly before he met Foreign
Secretary SelWyn Lloyd for a
first hand report on the confer
ence. Lloyd flew home during a week
end recess in the conference,
which U.S. officials say probably
will be suspended Tuesday unless
Russia softens its Berlin demands.
"We must be firm," Macmillan
said. "We cannot abandon the peo
ple of West Berlin, or weaken in
any way our right to 'protect
them. At the same time, we .
have to remember that, unless the
present Soviet attitude is consider
ably modified, the Berlin situation
may still become dangerous."'
Reports circulating here said
Britain is more anxious than its '
allies to continue the talks, even -if
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko refuses to relax his one
ultimatum on Berlin.
High U.S. officials here said
there would be no point in con
tinuing the foreign ministers' talks
at this time if Gromyko does not ; .
withdrawn Russia's one year de
mand.
Soviet delegation sources dis
counted Western reports of a pos
sible break in the conference. .
They classed them as Allied pres
sure tactics designed to force con- -cessions
from the Russians.
Soviet -. sources- VsajoV " Gromyh"
would reject any suggestion for a
recess and force the West to trig
ger the collapse of the conference,
If indeed it is doomed to failure.
(In Washington, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Chairman J.
William Fulbrlght (D-Ark.) said it
might be good for the Geneva
conference to recess for 10 days
so the Russian delegation could
"get some instructions" from the
Kremlin.) . t
Recess Talk Increased :
Gromyko and Secretary of. State
Christian A. Herter remained m
Geneva for the week end. British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
and French Foreign Minister
Maurice Couve de Murville went
home to London and .Paris, re
spectively. U.S. sources said Herter did not
plan to make any move for a pri
vate week-end conference with
Gromyko but would be available
if the Russian wanted to see him.
Western talk of a possible four-
to-six-week recess increased aft
er Friday's plenary session at
which Gromyko:
Refused to take back a de
mand that the West pull its troops
out of Berlin, although he insisted
he did not intend the demand as
a threat.
Told the Western ministers
flatly that- a summit conference
should be held whether the Ge
neva meeting succeeds or not. He
warned that if they blocked a
summit meeting they must "as
sume grave responsibilities."
Herter't Three Point .
At the beginning of the Geneva l
talks a month ago, . Herter laid
down three points which must be '
met to justify a summit meeting: 1
- The foreign ministers must
reach some areas of agreement, i
They must narrow East-West '
differences to some extent. i
They must agree on possible '
summit topics on which there :
would be some chance of reaching '
accord. '
More Surpluses
In Wheat Crons i
SPOKANE (UPD-Rnv pjb i
a federal grain official said Fn- '.
day ne predicts greater surpluses i
of wheat and corn as a result of j
new hvbrid varietta. naut tMiu.
zers and more effective insecti-
cldes. ... j
Pollock, director of the Grain '
Division of the Commodity Sta- '
bilization Service in Washington, (
D.C., told the 38th annual Pacific '
Northwest Grain Dealers Amarim. I
tion convention that the Brain i-
price support program has be- i
come a problem for all Amerl- j
cans. . .
He urged delegates tin "keep '
the government out of your btud- '
ness." Pollock added tha ft.l I
government was trying to main- -
lain uie tree enterprise system.
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