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dentist Would Ipprv-i o &f-W I W A, 4 J, - .s 7 '; . p' i 7 - V - It i r DISCUSS GENEVA CONFERENCE Secretary of State Christian A. Herter (right) briefs President Eisenhower at the White House on the deadlocked Geneva Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference on Berlin. Oregon Agricultural Commodity Commissions Hav More Freedom Oregon's agricultural commodity commissions grower-created and grower-propelled vehicles to pro mote a particular product have more freedom of action as result ot 1959 legislation. Until this year these self-help programs have operated tightly under the wing of Mother Oregon. But the iecent legislature, heeding advice of the interim committee on gov ernmental reorganization, made changes that actually bring the commission , work closer to the growers who support it These changes are effective July l.,The major ones include: 1. Public budget hearings for the growers. (So far growers seem unaware of this change as few have appeared at the budget hearings held in June by the sev en established commissions.) Suicide Is Verdict After Second Autopsy On Reeves HOLLYWOOD UPI TV bu- perman George Reeves commit ted suicide according to results of a second autopsy, Coroner Theodore J. Curphey announced Tuesday. Curphey's action, taken after Reeves' mother doubted' her son had taken his own lite, also dis closed that Reeves was under the iniluence of alcohol at the time of his death. Reeves left gucSls in the living Experts Say Atom Testing Still Needed WASHINGTON (UPD-Expcrts soid today that more atomic tests are needed to fill gaps in knowl edge of what an H-bomb war would do to the warring nations and the world. They made tins suggestion as a congressional atomic energy sub committee continued hearings on the "biological and environmental effects of a nuclear war." The subcommittee was told Monday that a major nuclear at tack on the United States would destroy or make unusable for varying periods half the nation's total dwellings. For the purpose of the hearings, the subcommittee assumed that on a "typical October day" an aggressor hit 224 target areas in the United States with 2G0 H-bombs ranging in power from one to 10 megatons. One megaton equals one million tons of TNX Counting bombs dropped on Al lied targets in Western Europe and U.S. retaliatory bombing of the aggressor's homeland, tne to tal megatonnagc in this hypothetic nnl war adds un to 4.000. As-the hearings went into their second day, . the subcommittee sought to learn from expert wit nesses details of what nuclear blast, fire, radiation, and fallout Ho to human beines. The survivors of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have given the world much information on this score. But scientists cant relate this information precisely to radiation dosage because they. lack detailed information on just what dose the two wartime bombs delivered at certain distances, In testimony late Monday, Dr. G. S. Hurst of the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridee iTcnn.) National Laboratory suggested malter-of-factly that "the most effective way" to get the needed data would be to detonate re Says Survive 2. An annual budget, instead of biennial as in the past when the legislature approved the budget end when it had to be projected two to three years' in advance 3. Deposit of commission funds in their own bank accounts, in banks approved as a state depos itory. Checks will require two bonded signatures and accounts and records will continue under periodic state audit. 4. A single emergency fund it 3m in the budget to 'cover un foreseen emergencies. Heretofore the commission could go to the stste emergency board for un budgeted pressing needs. 5. Certification of the budget to the secretary of state through the director of agriculture who will ascertain If it has been pre- room of nis nome June in ana mounted to the second floor bedroom. A shot then was heard. The television performer was found dead. "It is my opinion' the wound was, self inflicted," Curphey said. Several questions which contin ued to puzzle friends and asso ciates included The Incessant phone calls po lice said he received from a former girl friend; Why he would leave most of his $50,000 estate to the wife of a film executive instead of to his fiancee And why a coroner's seal on his Benedict Canyon home was broken. The city attorney's office dis closed that Reeves had com plained about phone calls which came from a woman. Reeves said he believed the calls came from Mrs. Toni Mannix, the main beneficiary, but a subsequent in vestigation showed the calls did not come from her home. Mrs. Mannix, wife of Eddie J Mannix, former general manager of MGM and president of Lowe's, in turn had accused Reeves of annoying her, police said. She re cently hired a bodyguard. No action was taken on the phone calls Reeves' will leaving most of his estate to Mrs. Mannix, who said she had been a "close friend'' of Reeves, will be contested ot a July 10 hearing by his mother, M's. Helen Leoai;.- Bessolo. of Galesburg, 111. She said the matter would be handled by famed Hollywood at torney Jerry Giesler, whom she retained several days ago to in vestigate the suicide. Two days ago Giesler disclosed the broken coroner's seal and also said $5,000 had becn taken from the Pppvpa hnmp That was one mystery which was cleared up by a statement from Reeves' fiancee, New York cafe society figure Leonore Lem mon, 35, who was in the house when Reeves shot himself to death. She said it was $4,ooo and not $5,000 and was in travelers checks which were to be used on their honeymoon. DOORS MILLER CABINET SHOP Greenwood and Jefferson Human Race HBdiiife-War pared and adopted as the law re quired ' 6. Commission adoption of uni form reasonable rules on travel end similar expenes. Employes will still be under state civil ser vice and retirement. 7. Gubernatorial recognition un der the law of recommendations made by growers or grower or ganizations for appointment of commission members. (Actually, all governors have done this on a voluntary basis.) 8. The contribution the grow ers make to the program hence forth becomes an assessment rather than a tax. The changes enumerated above apply to the general act under which commissions are now cre ated and also the specific wheat and potato commission laws. ' The state department of agricul ture continues to perform the duties of receiving petitions, holding hearings and conducting the grower vote to deny or approve creation, of a commission. Also the director of agriculture and dean of the OSC school of agri culture or their respective rep resentative continue as ex-offi- cio members of each commission. Aside from the interim com mittee changes, the amended law also includes some housekeeping changes recommended by the de partment of agriculture and the commissions. - These relate main ly to the general commission act. These will permit more tnan one kind or type of a commodity (as cancberries instead of a sin- e berry) td come under a sin gle program; allow two-thirds of tlie original signers to withdraw a petition; permit the depart ment to submit a supplemental budget to cover hearings and ref erendum costs; permit the com mission to audit records of per sons reauired to pay or cillect the assessments; permits a write-offl after 5 years of small or uncol lectible assessments; closes re ports of growers and handlers to public scrutiny; clarifies proce dures to increase or decrease the assessment, to limit or expand powers or to continue or discon tinued commission. Copies of the amended law are available from the State Depart ment of Agriculture, Division of Market Development, Salem. RUSSIAN ESCAPER DROWNS HELSINGBORG, Sweden (UPI) A Russian' sailor was drowned in the two-mile-wide strait be tween here and Denmark Monday after lumping ship in a dramatic bid for freedom. "I was watching the Russian ship through binocu lars and saw the man jump over board," said Port Capt. Folk Hcrrlin. The man began swim ming ' toward Sweden and delib erately turned his back on a life boat sent by the Soviet ship be fore he went under, Herrlin said. Logging Supplies CHOKES CLAMPS CABLE AXES PEAVEYS SAWS CAV i - rr - Machinery & Supplies 1410 Adams Ph. 10071 INDUSTRIAL But Price Would Be f Enormous WASHINGTON (UPD A scien tist gave assurance today that the human race would survive the heriditary damage of an H-bomb war between Russia and the Unit ed States. It might even emerge genera tions hence "bigger, stronger, wiser, gentler, healtliier." But the price would be enormous and the scientist. Dr.' Robert R. Newell, earnestly advised against pay ing it. He said the price would be "a large or major fraction of the population killed, or dying within a few months; survivors carrying many radiation-induced mutations; high infant and adult mortality fur many generations. ' Newell, of the Naval Radiologi cal Defense Laboratory at San Francisco, testified before a con gressional atomic energy subcom mittee on the effects of protracted exposure to radiation in the afte: math of nuclear war. Theory says that any amount of radiation, however low, can dam age the genes the reproductive cell units which transmit heredi tary characteristics from genera tion to generation. It also says 90 to 99 per cent of changes, or mu tations, wrought by radiation in the genes are harmfrl. The harm shows itself in such guises as de fective children, stillbirths, low fertility. In the hypothetical war between the United States and Russia, per haps 40 million Americans of re productive age would survive. Hu man beings have 20,000 to 100,000 genes. It has been estimated that the survivors might transmit -be tween 24 million and 9.6 million new mutations to their children This sounds like unrelieved disas ter, and many geneticists believe it would be. But Newell, an elderly'man with sparse gray hair who wes de scribed by a colleague as a non conformist, said there is another way of looking at it. "It should not be taken as axi omatic that an increase in muta tion rate is bad for the human race," he said."A certain percent age of mutant genes in our ra cial inventory may be necessary for health and survival, even though they do entail a certain selective mortality." By "selective mortality". New,: ell was referring to the fact that in nature a species rids itself of unwholesome genes through the device of premature death. Execution Is Set For Starkweather LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) The Nebraska Supreme Court has set Thursday tor the execution oi mass killer Charles Starkweather, who was refused a hearing by the United States Supreme Court Monday. ' The state high court acted swiftly in setting the new execu tion date, the fifth now for the midwest's worst killer. Starkweather's only hope for an other stay was to have his attor neys go into district court here and obtain another stay before midnight Wednesday. The court said the electrocution of the ad mitted killer of 11 would be be tween the hours of 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. HEMINGWAY HONORED RONDA, Spain (UPI) Amer ican novelist and bullfight expert Ernest Hemingway, currently va cationing in southern Spain, re ceived a gold medal from the mayor here Tuesday honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of bullfighter Pedro Romero, Yours for only plus tax and. Trade iri of any make portable type writer in working or easily repairable condition. The Famous Portable CLIPPER Typewriter This Special Offer Good For Limited Timet Reg. price for the Clipper - ii 99.50 plu tax. Hills Office 12U'2 Adams BEARING GIFTS FOR PRISONERS GREENVILLE, Mitt. (UPI) Circuit Judge Arthur Held sentenced Norman Tanksley for violation of parole; Once a month for the next five years, he mutt call at the county jail with gifts "not exceeding the value of a car ton of cigarets" for the pris oners. 11 Students Earn Perfect Grades At EOC A record number of 11 stud ents earned a perfect, 4.0, grade point average for the spring term at EOC. Receiving straight "A's" were Elinor Denny. Sharon Hill, and John Willmarth, La Grande; Sey mour Baybrook, Kamuela, Ha waii; Leslie Edwards, Moro; Wil bur Hutton, Baker; William Love- lady, Haines; Harold Moore, Madras; Larry Morgan, Milton Freewatcr; Dorothy Reynolds, Empire; and Michael Ricker, Un ion. Those who received a 3.5 av erage or higher entitling them to be included on the honor roll were Mary Bray, JoAnn Berry- man, Nancy Choate, Jean Cuth- bert, John Dahlstrom, Donna De- trick, Robert Detrick, Frederika Evans, Joyce M. Fertig, Gary Gaertner, William Hawks, Dor othy Kncchtel, Keith Masterson, Franklin Mathias, Gene Noland, Barbara Paris. Louis Porter, Su san Peterman, Theresa Rauwolf, Susan Rich, Myrtle Schaad, Rob ert Sccvers, David Walch, Neil Williamson, Albert Wolfe, and Jack Wood, all of La Grande, Others were Dick Cantrell and Jerrold Baxter. Union; Gary Diel man, John Geriza, Walter Kirk- lib, Norman Lewis and Harry Spence, Baker; Melvin Munn, Richland; Joyce Kay, Pendleton Thomas Sutherland, Pilot Rock S!yron Carpenter, Gayle Eddy, and Thomas Switzer, Vale; Yvon ne Bannister and Tarry Clifton, Weston; Ken Geigner and Don Heard, Milton-Freewatcr; Robert Bonnet, McNary; Mary Michel, Summcrville. Carol Rudishausscr, John Day; Donald Ule, Hermiston; Edsel White. Joseph; Luella Willard, Dayton; Josephine Ward, Forest Grove; Mary Jean Riese, Wliaer, Idaho: Carolyn MuUcr. St. ttei- ens; Ken Kiyono, Kyushu, Japan; Jeannie Edmison, Bend; Ked De imal. Ontario: Jean Damon, Hepp- ner; Phyllis Collins, WaUowa; Patrick Cawood, Portland; and Bob Winkel, Maupin. - British Release Atom Bomb Spy LONDON (UPD Klaus Fuchs, the man . who gave tne atom hnmh sprrt to the Russians, was released from prison Tuesday and left for permanent resident De- hind the Iron Curtain. A spokesman for the t-ast uer mnn foreign ministry announced in East Berlin that Fuchs would go behind the Iron Curtain into Communist East Germany tonight or Wednesday. Wakefield Prison officials con firmed that the 48 year old Ger man-born nuclear scientist was taken from prison under guard today. He had spent nine years in prison. The government, announced some time ago that Fuchs. who had served about two thirds of a 14 year prison term, would be released "by the end of June" and allowed to go wherever he chose. RAIDERS KILL BRITISH CAIRO (UPI) ArabFedayeen raiders killed five British soldiers In the southern Arabian state of Muscat and Oman, the semi-official Middle East News Agency reported Monday. The uncon firmed report said the raids took place between Nazwa and Azki against a British military camp and another British outpost. Smith-Corona Use your eld typewriter -' at down paVmentl - Balance en ' LOW, LOW EASY TERMS Machines WO 3-3531 Benson Predicts President Will Veto Demo Wheat Bill j WASHINGTON (UPD Agri culture Secretary Ezra T. Benson piredicts President Eisenhower will veto a Democratic sponsored bill calling for higher wheat price stipports and smaller plantings. Benson made it clear at his news conference Tuesday that .be woiiUI urge the President not to sign the measure, which the- Sen dte sent to the White House Mon day night. . ' The wheat bill provides for a 25 per cent cut-back in plantings in 1U60 and 1901 to help reduce the growing wheat surplus. To take the pinch off farmers, it al so would increase price supports from 75 to 90 per cent of parity. Benson challenged sponsors daims that the bill would save the government $204,000,000 a year in overall costs. The farm secretary said instead it would 4 Face Charge Of Rape Of 14-Year-Old White Girl NEW YORK (UPD-Four Negro teen-agers charged with the rape of a 14-year-old white girl in a junior high schoolyard appear in the adolescent section of.l'eiony Court for a hearing today. . Jacob Bethea and John Rich, both 16, admitted sexually attack ing the girl last Thursday night when she left the school recrea tion center and started home, po lice said. Henry Stokes, 16, and Edward Jacobs, 17, were said to have admitted holding her while the attack occurred. AH four were charged with rape Two other Negroes were involved in the incident, but their ages, 15 and 14, prevented their being charged with any crime except Juvenile delinquency. Police said the 15-year-old admitted helping Accident Injuries Claim Radio Man SALEM (UPI) Glenn McCor- mick, owner of radio station KSLM in Salem and part owner of station KYOS in Merced, Calif., died in a hospital here Tuesday afternoon of injuries suffered in a head-on automobile accident Mon day. V . ' ' The ' 61-year-old veteran broad caster was fatally injured when the car he was driving collided with one driven by Earl Ward Jr., of Valsetz. Ward and McCormick's 10-year-old nephew, Mark Kuhn, were in good condition in Salem Memorial hospital recovering from injuries. The accident occurred east of Rickreall . on the Salem -Dallas highway. . McCormick is survived by his widow and a daughter, Glcnda, both of Salem. ' He became the owner of KSLM In 1944. McCormick was a former president of the Oregon Broad casters Association and represent ed the group at the United Nations conference in San Francisco in 1945.- Take the Hard Work out of Yard Work CP0C5BG FlseOEVi . e Starts at snap of switch No gas to buy or store (tfmbeam Electric. Twin Blade ROTARY MOWER e Ughtwelght-only 39 lbs. e Easy-to-use eaiy-to- store. e 2-way mowing swing-over handle. BOHNENKAMP'S Observer, La Grande, Ore., Wed., cost an additional $100,000,000 a year above the present $700,000, 000 annual cost of the wheat pro gram. WASHINGTON (UPD The chairman of a House subcommit tee which is investigating the food industry says he will look into the Agriculture Department's proposal to suspend federal grad ing of lamb. A spokesman for western meat packers told a House Small Busi ness subcommittee Tuesday that the proposal might destroy small meat packers. Subcommittee Chairman James Roosevelt ID-Calif.) said he was shocked. He said he would sum mon Agriculture Department of ficials to justify their plan. If the explanation was not good, Roosevelt said, he would hold her, and the 14-yoar-old act ed ns lookout. The girl, five-feel-four, brown- huired, is a student .at Junior High School 1G in Corona, Queens, where the attack took place. Her name was'withheld. The attack ended when the recreation center director, Mrs. Louis Clifford, heard the girl's screams. The boys fled at her ap proach. The Corona section of Queens Borough is composed of middle in come families. It has a Negro section. Police said there appar ently was no interracial tension involved in the incident at JUS 16. According to the slory told po lice, she had known Bethea casu ally, by his nickname, Jake. She said he accosted her as she stood talking with a girl acquaintance at the schoolyard entrance, that she screamed, "leave me alone . . . take your hands off me." I and struggled with him. Her girl friend fled. He struck her in the face and pulled her around the side of 'the school to a courtyard, where the other five -waited. Mrs. Clifford said that when she ran into the courtyard it was too dark for her to mnke out what was"" happening but she shouted: "Slop that; get away'' and the boys ran. SHARK SCATTERS SWIMMERS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPD-A 12-foot shark chasing a school of tarpon in shallow water sent bath crs scurrying for shore hero Mon day. Lifeguards warned the swim mers as the shark went over sand bar after the tarpon within sight of several resort hotels. TWO DIE IN, FALL SHREVEPORT. La. (UPI) A 12-foot steel radio relay tower collapsed Monday, , killing two workmen. Wesley G. Shufford III. 21 and Robert Harold Finn, 25, rode the tower to their deaths aft er the middle , section of the framework collanscd. GD0CCGQ sli' Flu e Operates on . residential . current LEAF MULCHER ONLY h fW ' r. ... ! ' ATONLY June 24, 1959 Page 3 order a full-scale congressional inquiry. WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) has introduced a new surplus food distribution plan which in cludes the use of food stamps in three pilot areas. The plan is a combination of several bills on which the senate agriculture committee held hear ings earlier. The measures were supported by Senate Democrats and labor groups. Humphrey's bill would switch control .of food distribution from the Agriculture Department to the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare. The stamp plan would be tried out in De troit, somewhere on the West Coast, and -.a spot probably in Tennessee or Kentucky. WASHINGTON I UPD Agri culture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son announced today that a month long referendum will be held in September to find out if wool and lamb producers want to continue their agreement ; with the American - Sheep Producers Council, . ' If approved the agreement would be extended for three more years. 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