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f . r - Observer, La Grande, Ore., Mon., June 15, 1959 Page 3 tf&ff- fc M 1 tit ". r 1 oj LIBEL SUIT American pianist Liberace (left, smiling) walks into court in London, where he is suing British columnist "Cassandra" for suggesting that Liberace is a homosexual. "Cassandra" is a columnist for the Lon don Daily Mirror, real name William Neil Connor. Man at right is unidentified. New Schedule For Wallowa Valley Stages The Wallowa Valley stages will begin .a. new time schedule on today, according to word re ceived from Max Livingston. The new schedule will include going to Wallowa Lake' each day from that date until Sept. 15. The schedule is as follows; Leaving-jLa Grande, 7 a.m.; Is land City., 7:10 a.m.; Alicel, 7:2,") a.m.; Jmbler, 7:40 a.m.; Iiinehart 7:55 a.m.;. .Elgin, 8 a.m.; Pine Srove,w8:15' fa:m.; Minam, "8:30 a.m.; Wallowa, 9 a.m.; Lostine 9:15 a.m.; Enterprise, 9:30 a.m.; Joseph, 9:45 a.m., and wi'l arrive at Wallowa Lake at 10 a.m. i The return trip schedule; L?av ing Wallowa Lake, 2:15 p.m. Joseph, 2:30 p.m.; Enterprise. 2:45 p.m.; Lostinc,-) p.m.;Wallpwa, 3:15 p.m.; MinBni, 3:35 p.m.; fine' Grove, 3:45 p.m.; Elgin, 3:55 p.m.; Rinehart, 4:05 p.m.; Im bler, 4:15 p.m.; Alicel, 4:30 p.m.; Island City, 4:45 p.m.; and will again arrive in La .Grande at 5 P-m. The sch-dulc will make connec tion with the 7:10 p,m. bus for Portland and the. 8:55 p.m. bus going East. The east bound train 106, Streamliner, leaves La Grande at 7:25 p.m. ' Fewer than one-half the 49 in dividual states have official songs of their own. Fire Dstroys Old Lighthouse On Willamette PORTLAND (UPI) - A fire of undetermined origin leveled an abandoned lighthouse and ship reporting station at the mouth of the Willamette river Saturday night. The frame building, a Kelley Point landmark at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers for 70 years, stood on pil ing and was abandoned two years ago. ii A Sauvies Island farmer, Walter "S. O'Neil, reported the fire and said he thought he saw a small boat leave the scene shortly after ne. noticed the flames. He watched the blaze through binoculars. The house was last occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Haugan, who serve with the Willamette river sWp reporting servjee for t the 'McrChants Exchinge. ' . - Constructed first as a light house, it was abandoned for that purpose in 1933 and in 1946 was moved to the location at which it burned. Loan Funds Now Available tor Veterans Loan funds are now available for eligible veterans wishing to make new purchases, construc tion and remodeling, according to Anron J. Brown, district represen tative for the Oregon Department cf Veterans' Affairs. Veterans of either World War II or the Kor ean conflict are eligible. Specific information on the loans is available from Milo Stew art, Veterans Service Office for Union county. His office is in La Grande's Fulcv Building. Purpose of the department s Icon . program, according to Brown, is to make available to veterans loans for the acquisi tion of homes and farms, with se curity consisting of real property located within the state. The 4 per cent loan is made directly from the state of Oregon through the Department of Veteran's Ar- fairs, and is not a business loan. "Acquisition' may include pur chases of real property and its mprovement, to pay off a pur chase-money mortgage or contract and the improvement of property so acquired, or for new construc tion. - There is no deadline for apply ing for the loan. A veteran may borrow up to $13,500 to acquire a home, or $30,000 to acquire a farm, and the loan may not exceed 85 per cent of the mortgage loan value pf the property. ... Maximum terms for repayment is 25 years on city or suburban properties and 30 years on full time farms, but according to Brown, the term is generally less. For homes, repayment is on a monthly basis; for farms, payments may be made upon a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual basis. MARIJUANA FOUND SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPD Po lice found ,a 134-pound cache of mairjuana worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars Wednesday in an apparently abandoned automo bile. Police Lt. Charley Doerr said th; car had been parke in the Terrill Plaza Shopping Center for several days.' YOUR FRIENDLY LOAN MANAGER has a loan plan for you $25 TO $2000 Prompt, private loans on a . plan you choose. Cash for every worthy purpose. Phone First for 1 Trip Service. Lire Insurancs available on all loans al low group rates Robert L. Barnes, Manager 111 Elm St WO.2-2144, LaGrande Signs Received By Farm Bureau For' Highways Twenty-seven crop identification signs have been received by the Union County Farm Bureau and will be placed along the main high ways in the near future. ' Twenty-two counties in Oregon are participating in the project with 500 signs being erected with in the state. The signs 16x24 inches with white background with black figures and letters and show an Oregon beaver holding a sign with the name of the crop. Across the top of the signs are the words 'another Oregon crop.' These have been cleared with the highway department and will be plaeeSDn thought' of way showing tourists coming to the state for the- Centennial what" crop is grown in various fields. - The most publicized sign in the program will b? placed in front of the Bill Trindle farm at North Powder. In the space for the name of the crops this sign says ' kids and drew a great deal of attention in Salem before coming ' to this county. It is the only one being placed under th project and promises to attract much atten tion. ' ' Creston Shaw, county farm bu reau field crops chairman, is in charge of placing the signs. Portland Hosts Five Ambassadors PORTLAND (UPD The City of Portland was host to five ambas sadors today. Three of them were here to take Dart in the .formal dedica' tion of the International Trade Fair of the Oregon Centennial Exposition. Data Nik Ahmed Kamil, ambas sador from the Federation of Ma laya, was scheduled to speak at the Chamber of Commerce's for um luncheon today at the Multno mah hotel. Korean Ambassador, You Chang Yang will speak at a banquet to night honoring Gov. Mark Hat field, also at the Multnomah ho tel, along with Richard Rafael Seppala, ambassador from Fin land. Two other ambassadors planned to attend the governor's banquet. They are Peter Vutov of Bulgaria and Dr. Mehdi Ben Aboud of Morocco. pmwEsr const ainunss BOISE ROUND TRIP Excursion Fare $17.00 plus tax For Information and Reservation Call WOodland 3-5532 , ' 4 ws..iiit JF , . ... , M mop-up YOUR t-;m l zu kid , . PLASTIC BAG WARNING More than 50 schoolchil dren in Morristown, N. J., are busy on a campaign to call attention to the suffocation perils of dry cleaners' plastic bags. Here two kids finish one of the placards which will be placed in public display around the town. Higher Frequency Broadcast Bands PASADENA, Calif. (UPI-Sci- entists at the California Institute of Technology reported today that research might open up new, higher frequency radio communi cation bawls. The scientific group reported it had simulated certain features of the sun's outer atmosphere or cor ona and had amplified radio sig nals 100 to 1.000 fold. The scien tists said they thus learned one of the ways in which the sun gener ates and amplifies radio signals Girls Caught In Idaho MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho i UPD Two 13-year-old girls who escaped two weeks ago from the Oregon State Hospital at Salem by cutting through an iron mesh screen were taken into custody during the weekend here and po lice said today plans were being made to return them to Salem. Authorities estimate that weas els kill millions of rats and mice each year. ' strong enough to carry across millions of miles of space, arriv ing in radio telescopes as hisses. House Influence i r ' i i Open Inquiry Of Investigators Aeronautics WASHINGTON (UPD House in fluence investigators who aired the Sherman Adams Bernard Goldfine case opened a new in quiry today into the operations of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). Qsteopaths Hold Northwest Meet EUGENE (UPI) The annual Northwest convention of osteo pathic doctors and their wives began here today and will go through Wednesday. Some 200 delegates and wives are sched uled to attend from several states. i Dr. George W. Northrup. New Jersey, president of the American Osteopathic Association, heads the speakers for the three-day educa tional and business sessions. Traumatology and applied anat omy are themes of the conven tion, being held for the first time in Eugene. Dr. J. Scott Heatherington, Gladstone, will presjde as presi dent of the hosting Oregon Osteo pathic Association. Dr. D. B. Bond, Eugene, and Dr. David Reid, Lebanon, are in charge of arrangements. Featured speakers include. Dr. Richard R. Stuart, College of Os teopathic Physicians and Sur geons, Los Angeles; Dr. Morris Edelstein, Doctors' Hospital, Los Angeles; Dr. Marvin Lottman, orthopedic consulting staff, Los Angeles area hospitals; Hugh Col- linee. Medford attorney; Dr. Ray mond Roy, Portland optometrist; William C. Earhart, administrator Eight days of hearings were scheduled in the resumption of the House legislative oversight sub committee's scrutiny of the ethics and efficiency of government reg ulatory agencies. In addition to CAB officials, the House group was expected to call attorneys and officials of the air- lin eindustry which is regulated by the government agency. A spokesman for the congres sional investigators said tiiat the government agencies would be given a chance to outline some Irish Extremists Explode 2 Bombs DUBLIN (UPD Irish extrem ists exploded two bombs today in the Santry Track and Field Arena, destroying part of the cycling track, a section of the stand and damaging houses nearby. A huge hole was blown in the new stand at 2 a.m. Minutes later a second explosion tore up the track which had been readied for tonight's international cycling events. The cycle races were to open a three-day track and field meet at which Ireland s Olympic 1,300 meters champ Ron Delnny was to show his paces. It was believed extremists in sympathy with the aims and am bition, were responsible for the bombing. of the Oregon Teamster security funds, and Arthur Briese, Ameri can humorist. of their problems at a series of panel discussions. The spokesman predicted that agency officials would be subject ed to some "sharp questioning" as to whether outside influences were being brought to bear on their decision-making powers. ' . The subcommittee, headed by Rep. -Oren Harris- (D-Ark.), al ready has drafted broad legisla tion designed to curb such acti vities as a result of its headline making investigations last year. 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