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261st Issue 63rd Steel Seeks For Negoiations " NEW YORK (UPI) The President of the United Steel Workers Union, "anxious to negotiate a settlement," prbpos ed today an extension of the steel contract talks until July 15. The proposal was agreed to by the union's 171-man wage policy committee of the United Steelworkers Union at its session today in whiclTlt considered an industry proposal I I FRANCIS SNODGRASS . Takes Chamber Post Francis Snodgress Takes Chamber Job 'Officially' Francis Snodgrass will official ly take over as manager of the Chamber of Commerce here this week. He replaces Fred Schneitcr who will be taking over chamber du ties for Walla Walla. Enodgrass who was born in La Grande will, as part of his new job, be secretary-treasurer of the NE Vacationland, Inc., secretary of the 1959 Centennial Associa- , tion, secretary of Industrial De velopment Corporation, secretary '-1lrthr'19fl" Centennial Associa tion for Union County, and secretary-treasurer" of the Retail Merchants Association. Ike Vetbs Wheat Bi WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower today vetoed both the wheat and tobacco bills passed by Congress. The wheat bill, designed to cut down the huge grain surplus, would have boosted price sup ports to 90 per cent of parity for the 1960 and 1961 crops and cut acreage allotments by 25 per cent. ' The tobacco bill would have , held price supports for tobacco at the 1958 level for the next four or five years. Sponsors said the "freeze ' was needed to prevent a further loss of export markets. Eisenhower said the tobacco bill was fundamentally without merit and that the wheat bill was contrary to the interests of the farmers. Hatfield Names Lt. Col. Baum To Staff Post Lt. Col. David Baum was named to the Military- General Staff of Oregon Wednesday by Gov. Mark Hatfield. -Baum willy replace Brigadier Gen. Alfred E. Hinta, who resigned to become adjutant general of the Oregon National Guard, a position that is automatically on the. gen era I staff. The . two year terms will of ficially begin today. x Alan Ray White Injured In Fall Alan Ray White, 13, is in Mercy hospital in Nampa, Idaho, after falling 30 ft. from a tree while visiting friends. His most serious injury was in his right arm near the wrist where "bones at the wrist were complete ly torn loose severing nerves and blood vessels," Mrs. White tpld the Observer. He will be confined for at least two weeks with numerous injuries. Mr. and Mrs. White arc in Nampa with their son. WEATHER Cloudy through Friday; oc casional rain tonight and Fri day; low tonight 48-53; high Friday 63-68. LA Yiir Union Boss Extension I that the negotiations be continued indefinitely beyond the midnight June 30 deadline. Union president David J. Mc Donald made public a letter which was sent to the 12 major steel corporations involved in the negotiations. The letter said: "The international wage policy committee of the union, at its meeting today, has directed me to offer the following proposal to you. "The union is anxious to nego tiate a settlement. It desires to avoid a shutdown. Accordingly, if the industry is prepared to begin serious negotiations, we propose that all of the contracts which would otherwise expire on June 30, 1959, including the no-strike provisions thereof, be extended until July 15, 1959, for the sole purpose of providing additional time in which to attempt to con elude a settlement, it being tut derstood that in light of this pur pose, the economic terms of any agreement which we may make shall be effective as of July 1, 1959. "Please advise me promptly as to your acceptance or rejection of this proposal. The industry informed the un ion Wednesday that if a strike was to occur at 12:01 a.m. July 1 it would be necessary to start banking furnaces at various steel mills Friday, - Earlier, a high : union source predicted that the steelworkers would reject the industry propos- al for extending tee bargaining on the grounds that it did not provide for retroactivity. Instead, the union stipulated in its propoaaf'lhat any benefits won in the negotiations be retro active. The 33 member executive board of the union wage policy commit tec had met earlier today to hammer out recommendations for the full group. Tourists Pleased By Flower Pots On City Streets ine member of Commerce has been receiving notes and letters concerning the potted flowers that were put up by the Council of Wo men's Clubs on Adams Ave. early mis spring. A post card from a Vancouver. Wash., tourist read in part, "A couple of days ago I traveled through your city and particularly noticed your lovely colorful bas kets hanging on your light stan dards. That is such a clever idea. Each basket was so perfect, one would think they were made of paper. What kind of flowers are in the baskets? (They looked like camclia begonias from the road.) What kind of-soil do you plant them in? Just tell me all about them, please!" It seems that the rubber-base flowers appear to be real and not artificial from the road. The C of C office received an other letter yesterday from Beav erton commenting on the flowers. The flowers seem to be doine their job ... . pleasing tourists. Satchmo Is Suffers Second Critical SPOLETO, Italy (UPI) Louis 'Satchmo) Armstrong lay in a coma today in "grave" condition with bronchial pneumonia compli cated by heart trouble. The famous American Negro jazz musician passed into uncon sciousness after suffering a second relapse this morning. Doctors kept him in an oxygen tent most of the time, and his breathing was reported to be la bored. A communique said he encoun tered one crisis about 2 a.m. His condition was reported as "sta tionary" five hours later, and he showed only "slight improvement'' by mid-morning. Three hours later, his condition took another turn for the worse, and a hospital spokesman said at that time his condition was "grave." The 59 year old jazz trumoetpr was stricken with bronchail pneu monia two days ago and was hos pitalized. He was reported well on the GRANDE OBSERVER v t V 7l "MiA' 5 i" DUKE AND DUCHESS Kim Tameris and Judy Trump have been chosen to reign as Duke and Duchess of the 1959 Junior Rodeo in Elgin. Kim, 13, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Tameris; and Judy, 14, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elvis (Pete) Trump, both of Elgin. The Duke and Duchess will be visiting royalty at the Hells Canyon Junior Rodeo at Halfway this weekend. Commissioners Set Oct. 2 For Sewaqe Bond Election By NEIL ANDERSEN ObservM- Staff Writer The city commision established October 2 as the date of the sew age treatment bond election, on the recommendation of the city manager, at their weekly meeting last night. The amount of the issue has not yet been determined but Fred Young will have an estimate for the commission's meeting next week. - The commission ran into several bug-a-boo's in connection with the bond issue. Commissioner William Herrmann qucstionrdtho rost of the members on whcUicr a formal vote approving oxidation ponds and the location was ever approv ed by the group. Commission president Gordon Clarke said he believed that no vote hadTjecn taken but the com- Newpaper Shakedown Next Target For Rackets Probe WASHINGTON (UPI) Tho Sen ate Rackets Committee headed into its last round-up of Teamster officials today with a possible Pittsburgh newspaper shakedown as the first objective. William Poch, business manag er of the Pittsburgh Sun-Tele graph, was scheduled as the open ing witness in a two-week inquiry that will embrace Teamster Pres ident James R. Hoffa and most of the 'other top lieutenants. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy told newsmen Poch would be questioned about a re cent Sun-Telegraph strike and some of the events that preced ed it. He said Ted Cozza, head of a Teamster local whose members drive newspaper trucks in Pitts burgh, Baltimore and Washing ton, also would testify. He said the committee wanted to deter mine whether any shakedown was involved. Earlier this year, the commit tee heard testimony that some New York newspapers were In Grave road to recovery Wednesday, when he joked with visitors But during the night, his con dition became worse. Armstrong's wife, Lucille, his LOUIS ARMSTRONG In Grave Condition t LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959 mission had agreed to. favor oxi dation ponds. The site for the construction of the ponds will be on city owned land near the airport. The cost of four and a half miles of pipe line construction will partially be compensated for by the fact there will need to be no further land acquisition. To Covtr Cost It will be necessary to set the bond issue high enough to cover the cost of the entire project. Fed eral funds are available through stale sanitary Bfficials to rcover up to fnlrty per sent of colistruc tion costs. It is necessary, how ever, to get state approval. Young told the commissioners that state officials seem "to fav or towns that have bond issues ready to go." forced to pay tribute to labor "fixers" to get their Sunday sup plements delivered during Team ster strikes. The committee has ranged far and wide to pull in Teamsters for tho new hearings, which probably will be the final phase of a mara thon three-year investigation of the Teamsters. Hoffa, the controversial presi dent of the big truck drivers un ion, likely will be called in Fri day for his third round of ques tioning. Kennedy said at least 15 other Teamster officials who had been previously quizzed also would make new appearances. , Subpenas have been served on them in such scattered points as Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Houston, Tex. Chairman John L. McClcllan (D-Ark.) made it plain the main purpose of the hearing would be- to build up more steam behind labor reform legislation, which now is before the House Labor Committee. Condition; Relapse manager and his doctor remained at his bedside during the morning. The suddenly grave condition of the man who has been one of the United States' most popular am bassadors of good will abroad was in contract to his bounce and cheerfulness Wednesday. "My brcathin' sounded like a symphony orchestra," he said. Armstrong has been on an ex tended tour of Europe and Africa as one of the most successful goodwill ambassadors the State Department has sent abroad He came here as the guest of composer .Gian-Carlo Mcnotti to attend the "Festival of Two Worlds" but before he could un pack his famous trumpet the pneumonia struck him down. Armstrong was fighting his bat tle for life far from . the noisy clubs and concert halls in which he is accustomed to play. This little hill town two hours drive from Rome is a quiet spot, even jammed as it is now with music lovers. The commission also approved a raise in salary for Police Captain A. C. Meyers. Meyers, who has been with tho department for 16 years and served under 10 police chiefs, is an unclassified employ ee. Effective July 1, Meyers and the two assistant fire chiefs will be classified in the city's pay scale. ' The captain was granted an ad ditional " $15 increase to bring his salary to $425 a month. He would have received a $10 raise July 1. The commissioA voted approval oHne special Increase on tlx; rec ommendation of Police Chief 01 i vcr Reeves after a letter to the city manager was read to the commission by Frank McShanc, city recorder. In other action the commission accept a bid of $345 on an elec. trie typewriter from Hill's Office Machines. Louis 'Red' Statler was appoint ed to the airport commission on the recommendation of Arlo Noy es after he confered with the other members of the commission . Stat ler will replace Ray C. Anderson rwho has moved out of the state. The commission also authorized dropping of unpaid water and storm accounts from the active ledger beginning July 1. For Special Fil The commission had previously considered dropping the accounts completely after attempts by wa ter officials to collect them had proven futile. Commissioner Merl Becket suggested that the accounts be taken from the active file and placed in a special file and any possible recoveries made at a later date. The city manager also reported on contracts with outlying fire dis tricts from a study he made on 30 Oregon cities. The commission considered the possibility of term inating its contracts outside the city in an attempt to improve the city'rating of '5' with the Oregon Fire Insurance Rating Bureau. Outlying districts could go into the Island City fire district or in corporate their own. They could then apply to the city for fire protection on a millagc rate. Con tracts are now $50 per year on a siannny oasis, in case oi lire me fire victim pays the costs of the fire fighting equipment and men The rates reported in the survey ran from four to eight mills. At next week's meeting the com mission will have a budget hearing GOP Chairman To Talk Here Republican State Chairman, Peter M. Gunnar, Salem, will out line plans of the state central com mittee and report on 'the progress of statewide committees on can didates assistance, youth, and poli cy and action during his four-day visit to county central committees in Eastern Oregon. On Saturday he is slated to speak at a luncheon In La Grande. Meetings are being staged in conjunction with the Republican finance drive now underway. Contributors and other party workers have been invited to at' tend. Gov. FanbiK Savs He Won t Gov. Long Gives Talk To People BATON ROUGE. La. (UPD- Gov. Earl K. Long appealed to the people of Louisiana in a smuggled tape recording Wednes day night to pray him out of the mental hospital into which he said he was railroaded by his "jcal ous" wife and ambitious nephew U.S. Sen. Russell B. Long. Political observers speculated the colorful meandering stump- type speech, broadcast on radio stations throughout the state, might draw thousands of political supporters to the Covington Jun ior High School basketball court where Long will appear for a dis trict court habeas corpus proceed ing Friday. His wife, Mrs. Blanche Long, whom he bitterly accused of con spiring witn his political enemies, fled the state Tuesday indicating she would make no further effort to force mental treatment on her husband. Friends said she be lieved he feould be released at Friday's hearing and feared his alleged "homicidal tendencies. ' The court will ' not- rule on Long's sanity but on whether he was properly committed to the state hospital. . Wants Sanity Ruling New Orleans radio station WNOE to which Long's attorney, Joe Arthur Sims, took the original recording, quoted the attorney as saying Long would prefer a san ity hearing "to enable him to re fute charges that he suffers from mental instability." The station also quoted him as saying that 15 doctors were being flown to the hearing by chartered plane. Se 4.0NO On Pa 7 Local Man Dies In Plane Crash Neil Johnson, one of the five civilian employes of the Boeing Airplane Company who were killed in the wreck of a B-52 bomber Tuesday, 35 miles west of Burns, is a former resident of La Grande. Johnson attended his first six years of school at Greenwood and graduated from La Grande high school. For a time he attended Benson high school In Portland, but he came back to La Grande to attend school and live with his sister, Mrs. Ernest Keltz. Funeral services will take place at tho First Methodist church In Seattle, tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. All five victims will be buried to gether in Seattle. I, ,-.,.. .J.. ..T-J. i I - VrC 1 1 j CARRIcR OF THE MONTH John Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bates, 2912 First street was chosen as June's Carrier of the Month. John has carried the Ob server for two and one-half years and has saved enough of his earnings to buy a bicycle, phonograph, and a pow er lawnmower. He will be in the 9th grade next Fall and puts math, English, and band at the top of the list for school favorites. Ston Violence TURTLES HARD TO IDENTIFY VICKSBURG, (UP) Tht anonymity of turtlts won Ernut Glidcwtll Jr. his frttdom Wtdnuday. Glid wtll was frd of a grand larceny charge in tha theft of 589 baby turtles valued at 10 cents each from Kermit Aid ridge when the itate admit ted it would be Impossible to tell whether turtles in Glide well's possession were those taken irom Aldridge. Sen. Morse Is Blasted By Goldwater WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) has en dangered the dignity and reputa tion of the Senate with "personal invective" and "intemperate lan guage," Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) charged Wednesday. In a blast at the Oregon senior senator, Goldwater listed what he called recent examples of "name calling" by Morse. "There are those who believe certain recent performances on the floor of the scnato have been unconscionable and tend to under mine the reputation of this assem bly," Goldwater said. "It seems to me, therefore, that the time has. come for those, like myself, who are thoroughly conscious of the rights and privileges of Amer ican citizens, to speak out when ever intemperate language or name calling is used in debate." Morse said he was "amused" by the attack and had no intention of discontinuing "calling a spade a spade-." Morse countered Goldwator's remarks by challenging him to in troduce, a resolution for censure. Few senators were in the cham ber when Goldwater delivered the attack. - Starkweather Dies In Chair LINCOLN. Neb. (UPD-Charlcs Starkweather, redhaired confessed slayer of 11 persons, went calm ly to his death in Nebraska's electric chair early today. Five charges of electricity were pumped into the body of the 20- year-old killer who committed 10 knife and , rifle slayings in a bloody reign of terror in January of 1058. He later admitted an 11th slaying. Dr. P. E. Getshcr pronounced the killer dead at 2:05 a.m., e.d.t., only four minutes after he walked Into the chamber. Price 5 Cants Despite Recent Setbacks ; LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) Gov. Orval Faubus said Wednes day the federal government would have to use! "live ammunition" to force integration on Little Rock's four high schools this fall and he would do nothing to help quell possible mob violence. Faubus, handed two recent set backs in his fight to maintain segregation in Little Rock, said if the schools should be opened on an integrated basis in September, it would be forced by the federal government and would not be t ha will nf tha lunntA Last month. Little Rock voters recalled segregationist members of the Little Rock school board and replaced them with "moder ates. ' Last week, a three judge federal court threw out two 1958 Arkansas laws Faubus used to close the four Little Rock high schools and withhold state money from the school district. The new school board said it apparently saves the way to re open the schools this fall under a federal integration order. . But Faubus said this Is pot necessarily so. "In spite of the federal court ruling, I don't think we are any nearer to being integrated now than we were in 1957," -Faubus said. "We had a plan and a court order then, and we still did not open. , "They used troops In 1957 and marshals in 1958. What they will use if forced integration comes mis year. I don't know. But I do know that the integration will be forced, and it will bo with live ammunition. De Merchant Pleases Large Concert Crowd By HOWARD ANDERSON Eastern .Oregon College John De Merchant, baritone, pleased a large audience with his concert In the L.D.S, Tabernacle Wednesday evening. De Merchant has given many summer concerts in La Grande, and this' one was marked by his usual variety of vocal selections. - The artist's voice is an exceed ingly well-trained one and his clear diction and musical flexibili ty were especially marked in his opening selection by Haydn, "With Joy the Impatient Husbandman" from "The Seasons.". The weird, dissonant "Lullaby" by Moussorgsky showed off De Merchant's resonant low tones to their best advantage. The high point of the concert tor this listener was the perfor mance of the charming and lovely -song cycle, "Eliland" by Alexan der von Fieiiz. During this narra tive group of ten songs the singer used his little black book to en sure accuracy in the words: most listeners are more Impressed by perfect renditions than by perfect memorizations, and apparently no one in the audience was bothered by De Merchant's use of the book. The formal part of the concert was closed by a La Grande favor ite, "The Cowboy's Dream" ar ranged by Guion. Although the artist has performed this one many times in La Grande, he has never interpreted it twice exactly the same, one of the best criteria of vocal artistry. , ; .' De Merchant obliged the enthusi astic audience with two encores, a humorous one for the "children", and a favorite hymn. . ; The accompanist was Mrs. Erma Puis of Union who turned in -a professional and flawless perform mance in her accompanying. Her piano solos were characterised by a light, sure touch as she played the quiet, soothing Chopin "Nocv tume in F Major" and the brilli ant, technically difficult "Scherzo".. by Grii'fcs. Burrow! Is Installed' As President Of Group E. O. Burrows, was installed Thursday evening, June 18, as president of Chapter No. 73 of the Oregon State Employees Associa tion. At a ceremony In the pavillion at Riverside Park, Lorna D. Baker was Installed as vice president. Cleo Staker, secretary. - treasurer;! Howard Fager, delegate; Stewart Bunting, alternate delegate; and Bob Haufle, director of District 5. , ,