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LA-GRANDE OBSERVER WEATHER Fair Friday; low tonight 40 45; high Friday 75-80. 267th Ittu 63rd Ytr LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 2, 1959 Prlc 5 Cant - - . . f .... 'v. -v ,-' A:ff 'x-- K . A 'V.,;.. '..- - ', I-'.--."' " f I..-..:,- ELLA MAE DENTON , Union's Candidate for Queen Horseback Riding, Dancing Favorites With Ella Mae "If everyone would come they would enjoy themselves," said Ella Mae Denton, Onion's candidate for the Elgin Stampede. The five foot, four-inch candidate is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Denton. She is 17, and will be a senior at Union high school this fall. . ' Listing her favorite hobbies as horseback riding and dancing, she also said that she enjoys the outdoors . Very active in school, her interests include pep club, GAA, and the high school chorus where she sings alto. She is a mem ber of FHA, and the volley ball team. The candidate who was born February 2, 1942, has an older brother. Bob, who is 19 and twin brother and sister, Jean and Dean, who are eight. Ella Mae doesn't remember the first rodeo she ever attended, but attends the Stock show in Union and doesn't remember of missing any. She lives in town with her parents and works at the Pebble cafe which her parents own. Slight Heart Failure Suffered By Gov. Long COVINGTON. La. (UPli-Gov. Earl K. I-ong, laboring under the strain of a nervous breakdown and a stroke, suffered a "slight heart failure" Wednesday night. His medical staff, augmented by a heart specialist and a new psy chiatrist, was deeply concerned, especially because it is difficult to keep the 63-yea--old governor from exerting himself. "We are concerned about his condition," Dr. Victor Lcif an nounced after an oxygen tank had been wheeled into Long's room. Long said Wednesday his es tranged wife Blanche had been reported trying to hire a man to kill him because she suspected he Friends To Help Ailing Farmer The friends and neighbors of George Livingstone arc friends indeed. Livingstone, a farmer in ML' Glenn, recently suffered a heart attack and is now recuperating in the hospital. Tonight 15 to 20 of his neigh bors will gather at the Living stone farm with their trucks and . wagons and put Livingstone's hay up for him. . BAN PINBALL MACHINES ROME (UPI) The govern ment clamped a nationwide ban on pinball machines Wednesday. The action was unpopular in v many areas but no incidents were reported. SWEARS HE DIDN'T CATCH ANY Teamsters Cohen Of Most Unusual WASHINGTON UPI 'Philadel phia Teamster Raymond Cohen could claim honors today as the author of the world's most unusual fish story. He had to swear under oath that he didn't catch any. By convincing the Senate Rack ets Committee Wednesday that he didn't even wet a hook in last week's tuna fishing derby. Cohen saved himself a kit of grief. Until hearing 'this fish-lalc-in-rcverse, the committee was enter taining ' suspicions that Cohen, president of Teamster Local 107, might be guilty of contempt of Congress. Cohen had been scheduled to ap pear before the committee last Friday but tent word that he had - t . i was cavorting around with anoth cr woman. She denied it "categorically' and Long later said he didn't put much stock in the report anyway. He announced that he was going to reopen his campaign for reelec tion Saturday by making four speeches and going to a beauty contest. He went out tor a drive and a "good old-fashioned country din ner" actually lunch and re turned to his "capitol" in a motel about 6 p.m. I-ong apparently suffered the heart attack later in the evening. His heart has not recovered com pletely from an attack he suffered in I!).i0 while chasing a pig near his farm in north Louisiana. Two new physicians were called in: Dr. Edgar Hull, a heart spe cialist and former associate dean of the state university medical school, and Dr. Thomas Raffcrty, a psychiatrist and new clinical di rector of Southeast Louisiana State i mental) Hospital. Long got out of the mental hos pital last Friday by firing the su perintendent and director of state hospitals. Leif, a psychiatrist and internal medicine specialist, . announced Long's heart failure. - Long was asleep when Leif an nounced his setback and it was probably the earliest he has been asleep this week. Wednesday, for instance, he went to bed after 4 a.m. and was up at' 7:30 a.m. Long's doctors have been warn ing him to slow down, but appar ently in vain. a virus infection and was too ill to attend. Suspicions were aroused by oth er reports that Cohen was taking part in a tuna tournament. These suspicions darkened when a com mittee investigator saw Cohen on the dock Friday afternoon. He even was photographed with a prize-winning catch of tuna. Cohen, called in to eplain. In voked the Fifth Amendment on questions about his other activi ties but talked freely about the fish to get himself off the hook. The tuna in the photograph, he said, was caught by his wife not him. He really did have the miseries, he continued, but he couldn't resist going down to the HIS OBEDIENCE WAS EXCESSIVE PARIS, III. (UPI) Freder. Ick . 34, obeyed with an xcess of alacrity a patrol man order that h drive te the police Italian for a check of his driving license. The patrolman, rearing up be hind him- at the station, wrote eut four tickets for speeding 60 miles an hour; running through two stop igns, and illegal perking. To tal penalties, M0. Manager Reports On Bond Issue By NEIL ANDERSEN Observer Staff Writer Pathos and a touch of comedy added spice to the routine busin ess of the city commission at their meeting last night. The commission continued their preparations for the sewage bond election Oct. 2 after hearing a report from city manager Fred Young on the amount of the issue. Young reported the amount need ed for construction of the lagoon treatment ponds would be 1344.000. It is possible that 30 per cent of the construction costs will be met by government funds. Proposed site of lagoons is on city land around the airport. It is necessary to have Ave acres of lagoon in operation for every 1000 persons with another five acres available to meet state require ments. Tentative plans call for two 35 acre ponds. Problems continue to appear to hinder the commission's planning. The latest development Is the ques tion of whether or not the lagoons would be in violation of the La Grande Airport Zoning Rules and Regulations adopted by the city in 1956. The matter was continued until nxt week. City attorney Carl Helm will study the question and the commission is also waiting for a report from the Zoning commit tee. The Committee is a joint city-county appointment. In jother action the commission Accepted petition for the formation of street Improvement district 246 on Alder between L and M streets. Approved the application from the La Grande Amusement Co. (Robert L. Fallow) for Master Amusement Devices License. Approved a resolution 1709 creating water main extension im provement district 7 on a portion of Foley st. Discussed possible sites and financing of sanitary land fills. Heard the request of Earl R. Pearce for the transfer of a hanger lease to his name. Heard three grievances from the audience. Art Komma appeared before the commission to inquire about the recent change from diagonal to parallel parking in front of his store at 406 N. Fir. He presented a petition to the commission with the signature of 159 customers objecting to the change. He noted that one customer came into the store and commented fa vorably on the change. Later while checking the petition he noticed that the customer had also signed her name to the list of protesting individuals. The commission placed the mat ter in the hands of Young for dis position. It was decided to make parking in front of the store diag onal and that across the street parallel because of the possible traffic hazard. The commissioners also held a hearing on the budget for the coming fiscal year. Appropria tions in the amount of $207,626 were approved for city expenses. Is Author Fish Tale dock to share her moment of glory. What is more, he went out again Friday night to a tuna club ban quet where the prizes were award ed. The committee had another pho tograph of him at this affair. He was seated at a table among a festive crowd with a bottle of beer in front of him. "I was pretty weak," the proud husband said, "but I still felt H was my duty to be there." Co hen's physician. Dr. J. : William Hughes Jr., confirmed that the Teamster really was ailing last week. This satisfied Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark that nothing fishy was Involved, End Of Suspicion Is Called For By Russian Official PEACE DEPENDS ON GOOD SOVIET-U.S. RELATIONS WASHINGTON (UPI) Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov said today "the time has come to abolish once and for all the suspicion and distrust" between the United States and Russia. "The destiny of peace depends to no small extent on re lations between the Soviet Union and the United States," Kozlov said in an address at a luncheon meeting of the National Press Uud ana tne uvcr seas Writers. The 50-year-old Soviet Engineer, considered a likely successor to Premier Nikita Khrushchev, said Russian leaders and the Soviet people "believe there are grounds on which to build relations of trust." To the Russian people, who have seen their land devastated by con flict, "there is no other word as hateful as war," Kozlov said. He spoke of Soviet-American re lations as the "focal point" of in ternational developments. He said world peace depended upon good relations between the two coun tries. President Eisenhower, who con ferred with Kozlov Wednesday meanwhile met with his National Security council, presumably to discuss Russia's stand on Berlin and report what Kozlov had to say. Kozlov flies to the West Coast Friday to continue his two-week U.S. tour. The Russian official, in his talks Wednesday with Eisenhower, oth er high officials and congressmen. stuck rigidly to the Russian de mand that the Allies get out of West Berlin and leave the city defenseless deep in Red territory. He also urged more trade, on Russian terms, and insisted that the Western powers were to blame for alt of the tensions which keep tne world in a state of jitters. iJ .Oets Ne Encouragement Top officials said Kozlov got no encouragement from Eisenhower or Ilerter. They emphasized anew the intention of the United States to hold the line in Berlin and else where around the 25.000-mile ne riphery of the Communist bloc. Eisenhower and Hertcr were re ported to feel, after talking with Kozlov. that they merely had heard a replay of recent speeches by Khrushchev and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. High American officials said Kozlov's obvious intention was to woo American public opinion by nis appearance of geniality and reasonableness and constant reni- titions of the "peace theme with out letting himself be pinned down to spccilic cases. Escaped Con Is Arrested In Oklahoma William Mynatte. the convict who escaped from Aberdeen po lice at a local cafe, was picked up in Oklahoma for car theft according to word received by Police Chief Oliver Reeve. Captain J. B. Gillispie wrote a letter to the chief thanking him for tho fine cooperation from the La Grande police de partment. The letter stated that further details were not avail able at the time. Summer Workshop Underway At EO Four summer session work shops are presently in progress at Eastern Oregon College, and three more are scheduled to start on July 6. The three new workshops com mencing and their directors arc a follows: Ed 410, Methods and Research Materials in Physical Education, Archie Dunsmoor; Ed K17s, Workshlp in Methods and Materials in the Teaching of Arts and Crofts. Ix-ons C. Golz; and Ed 40Ts, Workshop in Methods and Materials for Reading Readiness, Ceva Ncill. Further information concerning these workshops may be obtain ed by writing or calling their di rectors, according to John Miller, Summer Session Director. Gusty Winds Halt Electric Service High velocity, gusty winds whipped trees into Califomia Picifirs 4.000 volt line near 12th and J afreets at 7:36 p.m. yester day. ' Electric service was temporar ily interrupted until 8:04 p.m. in the East Adams and south east section of the city while the damaged lines were repaired. Strikers Bowing To Union PITTSBURGH UPI A flurry of wildcat steel mill strikes, trig gered by opposition to a two-week extension of union contracts sched uled to expire Wednesday, 'ap peared to be ending today. Members of the M.OOO-man Unit ed Steelworkers of America (USW) local at the Aliquippa works of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. and 7,000 workers at U.S. Steel Corp.'s Fairless Works in Morrisville vot ed to return to work. They were being called back today as par tially banked furnaces were re kindled. The locals bowed to demands of USW President David J. McDon ald that their members go back to work while stepped-up negotia tions continued under the extend ed agreements. Several thousand workers were still idle, however. About 9.000 who went on strike against Republic Steel Corp.'s Cleveland plant were not sched uled to complete voting on Mc Donald's back-to-work order until late this afternoon. Members of USW's local 5,000. crews of the steel firms' Great Lakes ore boats, remained on strike, tying up ore shipments and causing U.S. Steel to close its gi ant Mesabi iron ore range, idling 4,000 miners. In Alabama. Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. TCli, a division of U.S. Steel, announced it would start banking its furnaces today if members of a small railroad un ion continue their refusal to agree to the two-week extension. The shut -down would idle about 25,000 workers. A total of 4.'i0 USW members left their jobs at the Balmat Zinc Co. mine at Gouverncur, N.Y.. and at the Center Foundry and Machine Co. in Wheeling, W. Va. At the largest membership meet ing in its history Wednesday night. Local at J&L's Aliquippa works voted "overwhelmingly" to obey McDonald's back-to-work or ders. "We didn't even bother to count the negative votes they were so few," said Michael Za hosrky, recording secretary of the local. Alley Inspection Set By Fire Chief An inspection of alleys In the residential district of La Grande for possible fire hazards was an nounced today by Fire Chief Ray Snider. The chief will inspect alleys for such possible fire hazards as dried grass, limbs and improper burners. Written notice of any violation will be issued to resi dents in accordance with City Ordinance No. 851. Scries 1917. The chief reminded all resi dents that it is necessary to have (ires used for burning trash and other debris out by 7 p.m. to comply with the' ordinance Inspection of alleys in the bus iness district of the city bas been completed. The chief said that cooperation in the past has been excellent and I'm sure it will con tinue this year." Traffic Increase At North Powder Traffic in the North Powder area on U. S Highway 30 increas ed 15.9 per crnt as recorded for May by the State Highway De partment's monthly traffic count taken at 68 rural counter loca tions throughout thhe state. General decreases in traffic were noted in the northwest and north coast section of the state. Counters located on highways in the southwest section of the state revealed increases in most cases. Gasoline consumption during April of this year showed an in crease of 3.9 per cent Sir, CONCENTRATING ON REHEARSAL Jim Boatman concentrates on director, John DeMerchant as the chorus practices the finale for "Ten Thousand Miles!," an opera to be presented in the High school audi torium, July 10. Romantic leads for the production written by De Merchant especial ly for the Oregon Centennial are Howard Anderson and Patsy Hutchison. Kozlov Had To Admit That Red History Was WASHINGTON (UPI) The Kremlin's newest traveling "Peaco" salesman Frol R. Koz lov got caught with his fuels down Wednesday night and had to own up under prodding that Communist history was in- error. He admitted American food shipments to Russia in 1021-22 were gifts. Earlier in the day he had told President Eisenhower the U.S. contributions to stem a famine were a loan that this country forced Russia to repay in gold. Vice President Richard M. Nix on and Secretary of State Chris tian A. Hertcr succeeded in wringing the admission from the wily Soviet first deputy premier at a reception in Blair House. Red-Tinged Paintings Concern Rep. Walter WASHINGTON (UPH -Chairman Francis E. Walter nt the House Committee on Un-American Activities called on the State Department today to purge the American art exhibit in Moscow of Communist-tinged paintings. The Pennsylvania Democrat told Secretary of State Christian A. Hertcr that two American ar tists whose works are included in the display had refused to answer committee questions about alleged Communist membership and ac tivities. Walter named them as Ren Shahn, Roosevelt, N. J., and Phil ip Evcrgood, Oxford, Conn. He released a transcript of closed hearings held Wednesday showing that both Shahn and Evcrgood took refuge in the Fifth Amendment when asked if they had ever been Communist party members. Walter claimed that about a third of the 67 artists represented in the exhibit have "A significant record of service to the Commu nist movement." President Eisenhower said Wednesday that he planned no steps to censor the exhibit even though he did not like all the art Armed Guerrilla Bands Forming In Mountains Of Western Cuba HAVANA (UPI) Armed guer rilla bands are forming in the mountains of western Cuba, it was reported today, and the army is trying to smash them before they gain enough strength for an all-out assault on the Castro gov ernment. The new thron! came at a time when the so-called "revolutionary unity"' of tho government was seriously threatened by a wave of arrests and resignations In the air force and National Bureu of Investigation. Police were conducting a vigor S"" i , w "vj want to straighten you out on one matter," said Hertcr, who arrived at the reception late. Hertcr recalled going" down the Volga in 1!I22 when Russia was in the throes of a famine. "The Congress of thttjUniLsJ States had made a gift of money to buy fond for the hungry people of Russia," Ilerter told Kozlov. "You prob ably don't remember because you were young." "I remember well," Kozlov said, "because I was hungry." At this point, Nixon quickly in terjected, "one thing about Mr. Kozlov, he's a frank talker. That's why this trip is useful." Nixon went on to say that he had had breakfast in New York last Monday with former Presi- sent lo Moscow. But he said he "might have something to say if we have another exhibition any where." , Elsewhere in Congress: Defense: Sen. Ix-verctt Salton stall 'R-Mess.) challenged Demo cratic critics of Eisenhower de fense policy to reveal how they would finance their proposals for a big increase in military spend ing. Former Democratic Secre tary of State Dean Acheson had urged a $7,500,000,000 increase. Saltonstall asked whether the Democrats "contend we should raise taxes or go further into debt?' He said they were silent on this point. Housing: Two Republican sen ators, Jacob K. Javits (N.Y.I and Hugh Scott (Pa.) urged the Pres ident to sign the $1,375,000,000 om nibus housing bill even though it provides for more public housing and other "spending" programs than he wanted. Both senators told Eisenhower In separate White House visits that the urban re newal section was of vital impor tance to metropolitan areas. The President has until July 8 to act. There have been forecasts he would veto the measure. ous hunt for Maj. Pedro L. Diaz Lanz. who resigned as chief of the air force In a bitter protest against Communist Infiltration of tho government. IA. Emique Monies dc Oca. head of the investigations depart ment of the army in Pinar del Rio Province, confirmed the ex istence . of the armed bands Wednesday. He said they were operating in the Organos range, about 11 miles from the city of Pinar del Rio. Premier Fidel Castro's revolu tionary army was reported to have thrown 1,500 to 1,700 men In Error dent Herbert Hoover, who had been in charge of the relief pro gram to Russia in 1921-22. "He showed mo a letter from the Soviet expressing appreciation of the gill that was ,made." Nixon said. "It's -aot quetioa' that anyone concerned should show ap preciation of a gift it's a ques tion, as the secretary suggested, that the record should be straight." Kozlov admitted "the question is not one to be discussed. It is not disputed." The three-way exchange was spirited but without rancor. They seemed to be borrowing a leaf from the European receptions at which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has made headlines many times with his cocktail banter. Earlier in the discussion, Nixon paved the way for a statement on American unity by telling Koz lov: "Mr. Hertcr Is my mentor in foreign affairs. When I came to Congress, Mr. Hertcr had been here four years. I had been ap pointed to the (House) Foreign Affairs Committee and he was chairman. . .When it comes to for eign affairs, Mr. Hertcr and I speak as one. Right?" "Absolutely." Hertcr said. Kozlov replied, "but differences are sometimes of use because agreement is born of argument." He said there is "never a day we (Soviet officials) don't argue about something." "The difference is that we pub licize ours (disagreements), but you don't." Nixon countered. "You never publish differences between Mr. Hertcr and your self," Kozlov said. "We don't have any." Nixon re plied. Social Security Office To Close The Federal Social security of fice will be closed in La Grande tomorrow arcording lo Vernon A. Welo, district manager. The office will be closed lor tne Fourth of July weekend. into the campaign' to smash the groups. They were said to be op erating from the Guanito and . Sumidero camps, situated in the mountain range. Castro's own revolution, which overthrew dictator Fulgencio Ba tista Jan. 1, was spawned and launched from the opposite end of the island, the Sierra Maestra Mountains of Oricnte Province. Hcliahle sources said many men who served in the army un der Batista had fled to the Or ganos Mountains in the past few days to join the anti-Castro groups.