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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.
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BOISE ROUND TRIP
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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
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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.
In this respect, CAB witnesses
were expected to point out the
commission operates under a long- .
standing code of ethics that Is.
stronger in many respects than
the subcommittee bill.
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