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WEATHER Increasing: high clouds to nijfht; partly cloudy and cooler Thursday ; low tonight 46-52; high Thursday 77-82. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 265th Issue 63rd Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1959 Price S Cants bW;f-.--ri--. - f.i'4 vv- HI JUST CHECKING Officer Gaylcn Searles and Police Chief Oliver Reeve inspect two of the rifles from the shipment received yesterday. Searls is president of the local chapter of the National Rifle Association. Twelve weapons were received in addition to field phones, targets and other equipment for operation of a firing range. (Observer Photo) Teamsters Local Is Accused Of Dabbling In Narcotics WASHINGTON UPH A New York teamsters local was accused today . of dabbling in narcotics, nepotism and the use of nonunion labor. '. Ivan Wurms, a federal narcotics agent, testified before the Senate Rackets Committee, that Local 805 served as the downtown New York branch of a' drug ring operating out of Florida and Cuba. New Weapons Received By Local Police Force The La Grande police depart ment, in conjunction with its Na tional Rifle Association affiliation, received a shipment of 12 weapons yesterday. The shipment included four .30 cal. Ml rifles, four .22 cal. target rifles and four .45 cal. automatic pistols. Fir-Id phones, targets and other equipment necessary for the operation of a ' firing range have also been received over the last two weeks. Th equipment was issued by the Director of Civilian Marksman ship in conjunction with the de partment of the Army for use by all NRA affiliated clubs. The weapons will b; used not "only for target practice .by mem bers of the police department but also in case of road blocks or building sieges. . All 12 weapons will be kept and maintained by the department for as long as the NRA affiliation is retained. One of the requirements Ss that seventy-five per cent of thel club . membership must qualify I Weather claims Death Toll From Violent Storms, Heat Wave Mounts United Press International The Atlantic Seaboard broiled today in a persistent, early-summer heat wave, and violent thun derstorms hit wide sections of the Midwest and Southeast. The durable heat wave and ' damaging storms took a mount ing toll of lives. At least eight deaths had been attributed to the weather since the hot weather gripped the eastern half of the nation last week end. A construction worker died of "sunstroke" Tuesday on a job al Irwin. Pa., and a lQ-ycar-old Lit tle League baseball player was killed by a lightning holt in an Indianapolis, Ind., sandlot. Six other deaths were blamed on the weather two in New York City, and one each in North Carolina, New Jersey, South Car olina and Tennessee. 1 tippy :' (I Other witnesses said the local paid an exorbitant price for prop erty at its summer resort in the Catski'l Mountains of New York, and the non-union labor was em ployed there. Activities of local officials con cerning the resort were made known to high teamster officials, the witnesses said, but -nothing was ever done to curb their prac once a year with any of the three types of weapons. The use of the equipment is re stricted lo the La Grande police department, other police depart ments and members of law en forcement families. At the present limn Ih? department is using the faci'ilies of Eastern Oregon Col lege for their small bore prac tice. The o'ficers of the La Grande department organized and paid for the program without cost to the city. "It is an asset to the depart ment as well as to the communi ty," said the club president Gay lcn Searles. , The club is thought to be the only on of its kind in this part of the state and with the possible exception of Portland department mav be the only one in the state. The other officers of the club are Jim McPherson, vice-presi dent; Bob Lowry. secretary; Bill Wells, treasurer; and . Arnold Myer. exective officer. lives The Weather Bureau In Chica go said a dawdling cold air mass would drift slightly southeastward today and bring some cooling in a band stretching from! eastern Oklahoma to central Illinois. Forecasters said hot, humid weather could continue'' in the South and most of the Eastern Seaboard. Temperatures In the heat bell Tuesday soared to 104 at Loui.snitrg, N.C.. 103 at Colum bia, S C.. and Richmond. Va.. 102 at Raleigh. N.C.. 101 at Danville. Va., and Montgomery, Ala., 100 at Washington. D.C., and 94 as far north as Boston. , North of the cool air front, the mercury dropped into the 30 s in Wisconsin. The Birmingham, Ala., suburb of Center Point had its sixth con secutive day of water power fail ices. The testimony was part of the committee's effort to prove that teamster chief James R. Hoffa has fallen down on his promises to clean up the giant union. Committee Chairman John L. McCtellan (O-Ark.) said Hoffa's failure to oust members of Local 805 was further evidence of his unwillingness to deal with corrup tion. Other congressional news: Foreign' aid: The Senate re sumed debate today on the $4,164.- 820,000 foreign aid bill, with Dem ocratic Whip Mike. Mansfield i Mont.) urging support of his move to halt economic grants within three years. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) ordered overtime sessions today and Thursday, if necessary to complete action on the bill before the July 4 weekend. Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen was working on a compromise sub stitute for an amendment that would allow the development loan fund to borrow five' billion dollars over a five-year period. Interest: Speaker Sam Rayburn D-Tcx.) expressed hope that the House Ways and Means Commit tee would approve next week a compromise plan to allow in creased interest on government securities. But he conceded that strong opposition from rank and file Democrats had delayed ac tion. President Eisenhower has asked Congress for outright re moval of current interest rate ceil ings so the government can com pete on the bond market. Demo crats have been pushing a meas ure which would allow the Presi dent to lift the ceiling himself, thus taking full responsibility for any increase. ure. A water main burst at Char lotte, N.C., and cut off water to a parched residential section. A stale of emergency was in effect at Corning, N.Y., where a threc-million-gallon reservoir ran dry. High winds ripped a roof from a supermarket near Fuquay-Vari-na. N.C., Tuesday night and the Raleigh Weather Bureau said it hall reports of hail damage to crops in Franklin County. Lightning knocked two radio stations off the air temporarily and caused several fires in the Sanford. N.C., area. Parts of sev en counties went without electric-, ily for three hours after the storm knocked out a power line between Sunbury and Winfall, NC. Thunderstorms and' heavy' rains swept a wide belt from New Mex ico to the Great Lakes. Strikers Stopped By Union Picket Lines To Withdraw NEW YORK (UPK-David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkcrs Union, announced to day that the union has "taken prompt and vigorous action" to end unauthorized strikes by its members in various parts of the country. He said that, telegrams signed by the international officers have been dispatched "directing the im mediate withdrawal of all unau thorized picket lines and the re sumption of operations." Union members have set up picket lines at the Aliquippa, Pa., plant of Jones & Laighlin Steel Corp.. and at U.S. Steel Corpora tion's Fairless works at Morris villa, Pa., forcing the firms to bank- furnaces and prepare to shutdown operations. Sailor members of the union al so were walking off ore boats in Great Lakes ports and setting up picket lines at the docks. The strike action came in de fiance of a two-week contract ex tension suggested by President Eisenhower and agreed to by the union and industry. McDonald announced his action to end the strikes as he prepared to resume negotiations this morn ing with management representa tives. Union Honors Extension McDonald said that district di rectors and staff representatives of the union have been directed "to implement these telegrams on the spot. He said he was confident that these steps would rectify the sit uation. He said the union was de termined to honor the extension agreements with the various steel companies. The agreements were to. have expired at midnight Tucs day night. - Ike Expected To Sign Farm Measure Soon WASHINGTON UPI Presi dent Eisenhower is expected to sign quickly a $4,686,600,000 com promise farm money bill which contains a watered-down limita tion on the price support payments a farmer may collect. i The measure was worked out by a congressional conference committee after the Senate and House approved conflicting ver sions. The House passed the com promise by voice vote Tuesday. The Senate followed suit after an hour of debate. The measure would impose a limit of $50,000 on the amount of government price support benefits a farmer may receive on each crop declared surplus by the ag riculture secretary. There are two escape hatches." The provision reflected at least in part a fear that mounting pub lic resentment against farm sur plus costs might endanger the en tire farm program. It also was de signed to counter charges that the support program is paying big growers millions of dollars. The cash section of the bill car ried $3,971,362,000 in anorooria- tions to run the Agriculture De partment in the fiscal year start ing today and to pay for past price support losses. This was $110,001,863 less than Eisenhower sought. Research Grants Approved For EOC Research grants totaling $!, 161 00 have been innmuH fnr projects at Eastern lege by the Office of the Chan cellor of the Slate System of Higher Education, according to information rilf.aMH h pm.1. dent Frank B. Bennett The granti were for the fol lowing research projccts:An eval uation of the Effectiveness of the Science Math Curriculum at EOC by Dr. Ralph K. Rudclrv nmrvx- i.r of science; Collection of In sects in Eastern Oregon by Dr. Ernest Anderson, nrnlfunr nf biological science; Alexander Pope and Painting by Leonard B. Kimbrell, assistant professor ol art; An Evaluation of the Requir ed Art Sequence in EOC by Miss Leona C. Golz, assistant profes sor of art education; and Collec tion of Small Vertebrates in the Blue Mountain Roainn hv rr Charles Cjuaintance, professor of biology. u ' mm s.... CELIA COCLASURE Queen Candidate Enjoys Sports Blue-Eyed Celia m Seeking Elgin Queen Title Sparkling Diue-eyea Lena coclasure is wgin s second canaiaaie for the honors at the 1959 Elgin Stampede which will be held July 25-26. Cella who is 16 and a junior sports of all kinds interest her and she is especially fond of horses. The brown-haired candidate lives in town where her father coaches the junior varsity basketball team and teaches at the junior high level. After high school graduation at EOC. She would like to he an interested in social service work. Celia made a long list of her the girls volley ball team, secretary of FHA, drama club, Husky Howl staff, and GAA. She is also odist youth camp, and is cheer president of her freshman class class. The queen candidate said literature part of English." She "most broadening" subject in school. Elgin's candidate who has lived a horse for the first time at the her horse, Jimmy at the Stampede. Oxygen Tank Needed For Long COVINGTON. La. "UPD Gov Earl K. Long talked so long on the telephone he "ran out of breath" and had to have an oxy gen tank set up in his motel room, it was reported today. State troopers took the tank to him about midnight. State Rep. Jessie McClain of St. Tammany's Parish told newsmen the oxygen was released into the room instead of being given directly to the gov ernor. Long later left the motel for a wee-hour snack. He rode off in his air-conditioned limousine with a parting "good luck" to photog raphers. Mrs. Long has filed both her answer to an earlier separation suit begun by her 63 year-old hus- Sen. Hopkins Is Surprised By Appointment Senator Dwight Hopkins, Imblcr, said today that he is "shocked and surprised" by Gov. Mark Hat field's appointment of a man from western Oregon to take the place of Chairman Clayton Fox of Im blcr on the Oregon Chewings Fescue and Creeping Red Fescue Commission of the State. The western part of the state now has five representatives to eastern Oregon's two. The Oregon Chewings and Creeping Fescue Commission con ducts studies and investigates mar ket prices to growers; -cost of production, including all elements of costs, market price trends, stability of prices, and the rela tionships between all of them. It also conducts studies and investi gates efforts on state and federal legislation with respect to tariffs. duties, reciprocal trade agree ments. Import quotas, and other matters concerning the effect on the fescue seed industries in Ore gon, and also studies any legisla tion, proposed legislation or execu tive action which may affect these spec's. Masters Degree Due Archie J. Hornfelt EASTERN WASHINGTON COL LEGE, Cheney. Wash. Archie 1. Hornfelt, 1702 Oak, La Grande, Is a candidate for the masters de tree in education at Eastern Washington College of Education, Cheney, Wash., an announcement from the school said. Coclasure at Elgin high school says that Celia plans to start her education English teacher, but she is also school activities which included president of the MYF, the Meth leader for her school. Celia was and treasurer of t.ic sophomore that she particularly enjoyed the also thinks that science is the in Elgin for four years was on age of five. She will be riding After Call band and her own counter-suit in family court in East Baton Rouge Parish, where the state capital is. She charged that Long threatened to kill her a month ago. The governor, running the state from a motel near Covington with a psychiatrist constantly within calling distance, withdrew the separation suit he filed in an East Baton Rouge Court. He rcfilcd it in Winn Parish, where his family is, and his lawyer announced that he will challenge the right of the East Baton Rouge court lo hear Mrs. Longs legal action Long blamed his wife for having him committed to two mental hospitals. He said he was glad to see her file a counter-suit because he wanted to get it into court, but "1 want to keep it clean." He wants a divorce but they must be separated for at least a year before he can file for one. Mrs. Long asked for $2,500 a month alimony, but both her law ycr and Long's later said this was a clcrioal error and she had not meant to ask for anything. Youth Wounded By Pistol Shot An 18 year-old boy accidentally shot himself yesterday while hunting on the Marvin Peterson ranch northwest of Summcrvillc. Albert Knight was carrying an eight-shot revolver in a holster when he saw a ground hog. He jerked the pistol from the hols ter and as it cleared the top It went off. State Police said. The bullet entered the right thigh traveled approximately a quar ter of an inch under the skin and came out, the police said. Knight was accompanied by Gary Peterson when the accident nccurcci at about 6:43 p.m. Adenauer's Is Victor In BERLIN iUPI Hcinrich Lueb ke, 64, candidate of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Dem ocrat part was elected president of West Germany today. Luebke, minister of agriculture for the past six years, won on the second ballot. He received 520 votes, six more than the absolute majority needed for victory. . Luebke will take office Sept. IS. at the end of the second term of Incumbent President The odor Heuss. Congress Swings Behind Balanced Budget Ike Says WARNS AGAINST EFFORTS TO TRIM MILITARY AID WASiiiMP.TnM nipn President Eisenhower said today he believed Congress is swinging behind his goal of a bal anced budget. , The chief executive told a sweltering news conference that the action of Congress in raising the permanent debt ceiling to only 285 billion dollars about the size of the pre sent debt was evidence mat to pull into line with receipts dur-1 ing the new fiscal year beginning today. The Presidont at the same lime issued an Implied warning against the congressional efforts to cut his request for $1,600,000,000 in mili tary aid for foreign countries. Eisenhower said the Joint Chiefs of Staff had Informed him that the administration figure was the barest minimum required for foreign military aid. and that larger amount would be necessary in fiscal 1961. Pasitiwt On Summit i Other news highlights at ' his conference: He stuck to his position that a summit meeting would not be justified until Russia proves by deed or by agreement to a fruit ful agenda that the heads of state can negotiate together profitably. He expected inflation to be one of the main political issues in the national political cam paigns next year, but he dis claimed any knowledge of a pur ported secret government forecast that the general price index is expected to go up 3 per cent next year. He said he had no intention of publicly or privately attempting to influence the selection of the 1960 Republican presidential nominee. The President declined to in terfere with the art exhibit ar ranged for the American Exhibi tion in Moscow even though some of the artists were under investi gation . today by the House Un American Activities Committee. So CONGRESS On Paoe S Federal Judge Orders Arrest Of Dave Beck NEW YORK UPI A federal judge today ordered a bench war rant for the arrest of Dave Beck when the former head of the Teamsters Union failed to appear in court to answer charges of tak ing $200,000 from two transport executives. Beck was accused of violating the Taft-Hartley Law by accepting the money in 1954 while he was president of the union. He had received a postponement until today for a pleading to the indictment but did not show up in Judge Gregory F. Noonan's court. Assistant U. S. Attorney Daniel Shaw asked Noonan for a second call for Beck, hinting he might ask for a bench warrant. "I think we will issue a bench warrant now," Noonan said. "He is not going to play footsie with us. f think if he doesn't have the sense to come in when notified he should be brought in." Roonan then issued the warrant. Beck was indicted with Burge Seymour, 55, president of the As sociated Transport Co. of New York, and Roy Fruchauf, head of the Fruehauf Trailer Co. of De troit. They allegedly gave Beck, the money. Bulletin SALEM (UPI)-Mrs. Marie Hatfield, wifa of tha varnar, gave birth to an eight pound 12 ounce daughter a 12:01 p.m. today. Sno was named Elisabeth. Presidential Choice West German Voto Luebke was chosen by the 1.038 delegates to the West German Federal Assembly, which met In Berlin to choose a new president f the republic In defiance of a Communist warning that such an action could end only in a "new Stalingrad" a reference to the worst defeat a German army suf fered in World War II. A minor crisis In the election was headed off when it was de cided to give the 43 delegates to the assembly from this isolated h expecteu imi-ni ayciiumB Kozlov, President Talk Peace WASHINGTON UPD Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol ft. Kozlov conferred for 70 minutes today with President Eisenhower and said afterwards that the "car dinal question" in their talks was world peace. "We discussed diverse questions during our meeting with President Eisenhower," Kozlov said through an interpreter. "The cardinal question was a question of peace and I hope peace will prevail throughout the world." American officials said they un derstood that the President made it clear to Kozlov that the United States cannot be stampeded or frighened into a summit confer ence bv threats or criftes. They said their understanding was that the President made two West relations. Insist on Progress foreign ministers confaraare w Deb it resumes July 13 before It will consider a top-level meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev. The western allies will not pull their forces out of West Ber lin under anv cirmmfitanrea until there is a . final solution of the German problem through reunifi cation of the country. Kozlov. regarded by many as the eventual successor to Khrush chev, went to the .White House direct from an hour-long meeting with Secretary of State Christian A. Hcrtcr on the recessed Geneva foreign ministers meeting. Just before meeting with Koz lov, Eisenhower told a news con ference that he would be as flex ible as possible in his cold war talks with Kozlov or any other soviet official. But the President made it clear that there would -be no retreat from the basic west ern position about the future of Berlin end Western Germany. Funeral Thursday For Dave Epps SALEM (UPI) Funeral serv- ices for David Epps, 51, chair man of the Democratic State Cen tral Committee, were set for Thursday in Portland. Epps died Monday night In a Salem hos pital. The Democratic chief, who was elected state chairman to succeed Robert Boyer. Mcdford. in 1958, entered the hospital Sunday for a recurrence of stomach ulcer trou ble. New chairman will be Mrs. Beulah Hand, Milwaukie, state vice chairman, who will serve un til a new chairman can be elect ed. Epps, a resident of Sweet Home, was born at Portland July 8, 1907. After attending Portland public schools he graduated from the University or Oregon in 1929 and attended law school there. city full voting rights. Luebke received 517 votes on the first ballot, three short of tbe number he needed to win. But ha came back with added support to sew up his victory the second tiro around. Prof. Carlo Schmid. opposition Knrialifll nartv ejuilifttf arj m votes on the first ballot. The third candidate. Max Becker of the Lib eral Free Democrats, received 104 votes in the first go-round, hi which 25 dclogatea formally abstained. J