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LA GRANDE OBSERVER Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tuet., June 30, 1959 Page 9 SPARTAN ADJUSTMENT Congress Seized With Desire For Cut In Self Spending By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International WASHINGTON iLTI--Oiir law milkers huve Ix-en st-iwl with a desire lo save munty. They went so far this week as to propose cutting their own spending by $3,000, though of course it is too early to be sure this will stick. As a result of the economy fer vor, it is possible our top diplo mats when they move into the state department's, new $54,000,000 building will have to make spar tan adjustments, like treading on floors rather than carpets. Passengers at Washington's 90 million dollar new airport, cur rently building, could have to walk to their planes, ralher than ride in the air conditioned mobile lounges for which we had planned to pay $2,700,00(1. i Some Senators, getting into the spirit of things, even expressed interest in the number of maids 8 and gardners i2 currently needed by ('resident Kisenhower, though nothing concrete came out of that. Golf Cart Questioned Sen. Haul II. Douglas iD-lll.) (lid succeed, however, in wringing from the Appropriations Commit tee a pledge to inquiry of Ike whether the taxpayers paid for his $1,000 mechanized golf cart. It will be just as well if news of the proposed $3,000 cut in Con gress' own budget doesn't reach Ottawa. Several score of our law makers currently are in Canada for the Seaway festivities, and iihere is no use spoiling the fun. Our representatives there in clude 24 ollicial delegates to the first session of a new U.S.-Cana-dian interparliamentary group, and $30,000 had been budgeted for their expenses, to cover maybe two meetings a year. The House Appropriations Com mittee said sternly though that $27,000 looked like enough for this purpose, considering it's not far and the plane ride, this year any way, was for free. Well, not really free. It's pro vided by the Navy. The commit tee said we taxpayers still pick up the tab, totalling $2,500. In compliance with earlier com mittee entreaties to save, the State Department had announced proudly it had cut the cost of its new office building from $57,400, 000 to M.220.000. Diplomats Get News III it the committee had news for the diplomats; the cost has been further reduced by $2,500,000. It directed the department to save where you can. Well, it's probably too late to save on those two outside statues, costing $275,000. And the interior decorator already has been prom ised his $170,000, so that can't be cut. But we haven't yet bought all the rugs, drapes and furniture which the decorator recommend ed, so I guess that's where the saving will come. Possibly something less than $12,000, as planned, can go into the furnishing of suites for the secretary of state and his first undersecretary. And there'll be a little less than the $357,000 planned for furnishings for the second undersecretary, the assist ant secretaries, and the deputy secretaries of state. But the $2ti3.525 budgeted for outfitting the formal dining room, to seat 129, apparently is rock bottom. The diplomats seemed to think they couldn't do it for less. Hermit Leaves His Park Home To See Police HOLLYWOOD (UPI- The Hermit of Griffith Park, IVtuiis Farrell, 32, early today voluntari ly left for the first time in six years his 4,2U0 acre sanctuary "to talk over a problem" with police officers. Farrell, bearded and in tattered clothing, telephoned police from the vast city-owned park in the middle of Los Angeles and was picked up by a cruiser car and taken to Hollywood station. But once at the station where a group of photographers and newsmen gathered, ('arrell was uncooperative, saying only he wanted to talk with two detectives who had hauled him in for ques tioning and befriended him last April. The World War II veteran who abruptly turned his back on civili zation six years ago because he was "tired of living" has man aged to survive on leavings by park picknickers, forages in gar gabe cans and what wild fruits and berries he could find in the park's rugged hills. Youth Charged In Friend's Fatal Shooting COLD BEACH ITI) - Juhn Lopez Durran, 22, McNary, Aril., late Monday was charged with in voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a companion and was bound over to the Curry county grand jury by Justice of the Peace William Fuller. Durran was held here in the county jail in lieu of $2,000 bond. A coroner's inquest Monday after- noun returned a verdict of invol untary manslaughter in the death Sunday of Herbert Fugene Sam ple, 21, also of McNaiy. The jury ruled that Durran was holding a .30-30 rifle when it dis charged, killing Sample. The shooting occurred in a cabin on the Sixes river. Sheriff R. G. Sabin said Durran told him he and Sample were at tempting "fast draws'' on each other just before the shooting. Sabin said the two came to Ore gon looking for work. I; mm A -k 1tJ I ?: M b&tj I .... Ilk.' i Mia; m- h r 2 " jit , I, 142? -Jk YrJ-A ,i" Ji a. 9t M BIG TELESCOPE MIRROR Officials inspect just-completed 20-inch, magnifying mirror which will now be installed in world's second-largest telescope, at Lick Ob servatory on Mt. Hamilton, Calif. Note slight distortion of reflected images, caused by mirror's conclave surface. Grinding the mirror's surface was started in 1953, and has just been finished. CHAR A CTER A CTOR WOOS FANS WITH COMMERCIALS By VERNON SCOTT UPI Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD (VPIi A million aire character actor, who special izes in pounding car fenders for TV commercials, has a Southern California following which tunes in just to hear him give his sales pitch. He's Dick Lane. Not a familiar name to most of the nation. But his face is as well-known as most stars, thanks to 254 movies. Lane is a fixture at station KTLA where he advertises every thing from used cars to instant coffee that is until he goofed by describing the coffee as "a blend of the world's finest tobacco." Additionally, Lane announces wrestling matches, the roller der by and stock car races. A throwback of the old snake oil hucksters. Lane overwhelms his viewers with a hoarse-voiced harangue that is more entertain ing than many of the shows he works for. Pounds On Fenders His favorite gimmick is pound ing on the fenders and hoods of automobiles. Not long ago his camera crew rigged the fender of a jalopy and when Dick's fist des cended on the car it went right through it. "I've tried to figure out why people tunc in to hear my com mercials. I think they're watiting for me to goof. And every once in a while I come through tn grand fashion." i Dick has parlayed his talent for mixing entertainment and com mercials into a fortune. His salary runs well into the six-figure bracket. He owns a chemical firm and parcels of real estate through out the Los Angeles area. He lives in a 13-room Beverly Hills man sion and spends the week ends at an elaborate home on Balboa Is land. Oldtimer Lane began as a Broadway song and dance man, later joining the Texas Guinan troupe. While playing straight man for the famed Guinan, Dick became a buddy of Al Capone and his gang. He turned to movies in 1937, and still works on an occasional film. "I Just finished working in Jerry Lewis' new picture, 'Visit to a Small Planet,' but the additional money only puts me in a higher tax bracket. It's like working for nothing, and I feel I'm putting an at-lor out of work who needs the job. "I've had my fling at movies, mostly playing cops and gangs ters. I was a real 'B' keeper. Al most all my pictures were low budget jobs like the 'Boston Blackie' and 'Nick Carter' series. Right now I wouldn't trade my income with any movie star," Lane concluded. "I could work all the time in movies, but sponsors are standing in line for me to sell their products on TV. It's a tot less work and it brings in much more money." GLOBE rl-1 Furniture V , Sliafgy-look carpet wf 'yi at k very best! 795 sm SQ. YD. AVAILABLE ALSO IN ROOM SIZE RUGS T! 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