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LA GRANDE OBSERVER WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday; low tonight 40-45; high Sat urday 75-80. 268th Issue 63rd Year Wildcats' Return To Work; Session Resumes Monday NEW YORK (UPI) The last of several wildcat strikes, w hich threatened to jeopardize negotiations aimed at avert ing a nation-wide steel walkout, ended today. The walkout, involving 6,000 woikers at the Cleveland pi;.nt of Republic Steel, ended only a few hours before industry-wide bargaining talks resumed here. The Cleveland workers, who defied union orders to re ' I turn to work Thursday, finally Triumphal Eniry For Gov. Long NEW ORLEANS IT1 Gov. Earl K. Long arose almost at dawn today so doctors and psy chiatrists can Chepk him over be fore lie leaves for a triumphal en try into Baton Tonne, the state j;ital The last tune he was in Baton Rouge, on June 18, an invest iga: ting board of doctors met him. certified that he needed mental treatment and ordered him rushed off to the Southeastern Louisiana linentali Hospital at .Vaudeville. He hup no fear of that happen ing today. ho'eer. lie got out of the hospital a week ago by sack it i j the superintendent and state director of huspitals. Long, put up in a temporary stale capitol in a motel at Coving ton. La., which he abandoned Thursday night for the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. He prom ised to be in Raton Rouge at 8:30 p.m. today. Long, 63, who suffered "a slight heart failure" Wednesday night, still plans, against the advice of his doctors, to start his campaign for an unprecedented fourth term as governor Saturday. The governor plans four stump speeches in his Fourth of July debut for the Democratic primary election. He also plans to attend a beauty' contest. Dr. Paul Pratt, a psychiatrist who has been with Long constant ly since he released himself from a mental hospirul near Covington last Kriday, left Long's room on the third floor at 11.30 Thursday night. Pratt said he and other doctors will examine Long at midday to day. Pratt, asked by United Press International if mental examina tions were also included in plans to test the governor's heart con dition, replied: "It is hard to have one lexami nationi wit ho it the other." Tribune Says Earl Warren Blocked Nixon CHICAGO IUPH The Chicago Tribune said today Chief Justice Karl Warren blackballed an in vitation to Vice President Rich ard M. Nivon to join in the Amer ican Bar Association meeting in London in l!i."7. According to the Washington dis patch by Walter Trohan, Warren "Hold the president of the ABA, "If you let that fellow in, count me out." ' The ABA finally bowed to War ren's threat. Trohnn said, because ,the association had formally in vlt'd the Chief Justice and re ceived h's acceptance. The story of Warren's political feuding with Nixon was detailed and confirmed by a former pres ident of the ABA, who told the Tribune: "I do not want my name to be used, but if Warren sues I'll be a witness in court for you." Trohan said Nixon had no com ment oir the disclosure of the blackballing. The Tribune recalled "the la test evidence of the deep split be tween the Californians occurred at a Washington cocktail party when Warren upbraided the au thor of a Nixon biography." Pentagon Officials Considering What Bomb WASHINGTON l'PI Pen (agon officials investigating a 30-million-dollar fire blamed on an electrical spark considered today what even a small bomb might do to the nation's supposedly fire proof military nerve-center. Studies on how to prevent an other similar fire in the Penta gon, the world's largest office building, were under way. The blare swept a suner-secret Pentagon basement hideaway bowed to a demand bv United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and began returning to their jobs at 7 a.m. today. The Cleveland strike was one of several unauthorized walkouts that broke out Tuesday night when the union's contract with the industry expired. In all, about 30.000 steelworkers were involved in the wildcat strikes which had cast a cloud over industry-wide negotiations. By Thursday night, all of the wildcat walkouts, with the excep tion of the Cleveland strike, had ended. Earlier today a spokesman at Republic Steel in Cleveland said hundreds of workers were returning to their jobs, indicat ing that the walkout was break ing up. - Steel Wage negotiations, after. meeting for an hour today, re cessed until Monday morning. After the joint session of the two four-man bargaining teams of labor and management, neither side talked to newsmen. However, David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, and R. Conrad Cooper, industry chief negotiator, sent a formal statement to the pressroom. The statement said: "We are conscious that the ex tra time for bargaining resulting from the two-week extension is fast running out. "We have been bargaining for two full months. The past week, with its problems attendant to im plementing the extension, has been exceedingly wearing. "We both believe that the part' ies may be better able to address themselves to our problems if we take time for rest and meditation over the Independence Day week end. Therefore, we have recessed until Monday morning at 10 o clock." FBI Nabs Trio In Canadian Bank Robbery PITTSBURGH (UPI) SClose coope-ation between federal au thorities in the United States and Canada has led to a break in the "world's largest theft" a 12-mil-lion dollar burglary of a Canadian bank. Three men were arrested Thursday by the FBI in connec tion with the May 4. 1958. theft of 12 million dollars in Canadian government bonds, cash and jew elry from the Brockville Trust and Savings Co., in Brockville. Ont. Those arrested were Samuel Mannarino. S3, New Kensington. Pa . reputed bigwig in Pittsburgh district rackets; Norman Roth man, Surfside, Fla., former oper ator of a slot machine distributor ship in Cuba and William W. Ra bin, of Chicago. Bernard C. Brown. FBI agent-in-charge here, said Mannarino was arrested in New Kensington and the other two in Miami Beach. The arrests, mad'e on the strength of bench warrants is sued Tuesday by the United States District Court in Chicago, culminated a year's "concen trated" investigation by the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The warrants were based on a secret indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in Chi cago following several weeks of testimony into the Brockville burglary. The FBI declined to say how many other person were included in the secret indictment. Could Do Thursday afternoon. It buckled concrete floors, burst water pipes, and destroyed tightly guarded electronic equipment. Three hundred firemen battled the fire, and 40 were felled by the dense acrid smoke given off by the burning of 7.000 rolls of taped Air Force data, some of it stamped "secret." The breakdown of the water system caused Defense Secretary Neil IF. McElroy to dismiss the entire Pentagon working force of 'JUL ,.. -. a : Little David Roberts just couldn't wait another niiuute and especially not till tomor row to show-olf his sparklers to his frien Js. David is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alva O. Roberts, Weatherman Promises Fair Skies For By VIRGINIA ANDERSON Observer Staff Writer With the weather report prom ising fair skys tonight and Sat urday, families with picnic bank ets in hand and kids clutching boxes of sparklers, caps and six shooters, are hitting the road for the holiday weekend in an effort to escape the crowds and heat. The La Grande area won't be aione with its good weather pros- Cuban Radio Talk By Fidel Blasts U.S. HAVANA (UPI i Fidel Castro announced Thursday night he would summon a half million Cuban peasants to Havana July 26 "with their machetes' to dem onstrate' popular support for his revolutionary government. The bearded Prime Minister spoke on television shortly after his secret police announced dis covery of a vast antigovernment conspiracy operating in the heart of the capital. Police said they had arrested "many" Cubans and seized "great quantities'' of uniforms, arms and ammunition. The manhunt con Untied today and police said more arrests were imminent. Castro's speech bristled with challenges to the Dominican Re public. He denounced "interna tional interests." lie flayed his air force chief who resigned and disappeared after charging there were Communists in the govern ment. Castro rapped the United States by saying that henchmen of Ful- gencio Batista in exile in Florida "each day have more influence and official aid." Castro's revolutionary force which overthrew Batista's dicta torship was known. as the 2Mb of July Movement after the date on which it started with an abortive uprising in 1953. To Building some 29,000 military and civilian employes, giving them an early start on a three-day Fourth of July weekend. Many, working in unaffected sections of the massive five-sided concrete building, had been una ware of the fire. The blaze was confined to a small section 20,000 square feet of the Pentagon's total area, al though smoke poured through an area equal to about four city blocks. LA GRANDE, OREGON, - - r .if', - ? ; i ' v HEY, GUYS LOOK! Holiday pects. The Weather Bureau re ported that most of the nation will enjoy pleasant summer weat her over the Fourth. Temperature was expected to be generally near seasonal normals with a tendency toward warmer readings in the Midwest and East. The temperatures for the La Grande area will be between Tr 80 degrees according to the weath er report. An estimated, 45 million cars carrying holiday-bent vacationi-ts took to the nation's highways to day. State and local police, warn d by the National Safety Council Oat motorists may set a new death record of 3f0 for a two-day In dependence Day weekend, mobiliz ed to crack down on speedy, care less driving. If the travel is as heavy as ex pected, the Safety Council said. Employment Level Reaches High For June Employment levels reached the highest point for any month of June since the end of the Korean War according to Ernest O. Bur rows, manager of the Employment service here. He reported that "virtually all" regular logging workers in. the area were affected during the month. New hiring was done in the lumber and lodging industries as well as in retail trade and ser vice industries. The settlement of a labor dispute returned con struction workers to thr"e bridge projects on Highway 30. -Shortages of some semi-skilled workers such as edgermen and planermen de veloped during the last wc k in June. Hay harvest activity pro vided seasonal jobs for practically all experienced local farm workers. Estimated total unemployment at the end of June was 4!0 com pared to S50 in May and 5fi0 one year ago. Unemployment claims activity d"creased rapidly after the first week of June, Burrows reported. Total initial claims wer 92 compared to 122 in Mav and 241 in June. 1958. Transitional claims totaled 26 compared to 117 one year ago. Seventy workers were placed on Jobs by the office, according to the manager. Burrows stated that both ex perienced and Inexperienced work ers are expected to he In drmand during the next 60 days, with definite shortages Indicated for mi-ski!lcd sawmill workers. cooks, and waitrerses. Si-vTa' aptitude tested recent hirh school graduates are still av.nl.-iMe to local employers. Burrows slated. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1959 '. , O"! -v ''i s i'1 t V i I ' I ' '4, ." 1 " v. , - -.V. '. .v' , 1 V-.--.'.fE-.V.'- pf, :M 7 V i - f iT "1 Weekend the traffic death toll from 6 p.m. tonight to midnight Sunday could reacn x, witn 13000 persons suffering disabling injuries. Gov. Murk Hatfield said today that "all available means" would be used by state police during this weekend in a continuation of a steppl up traffic safety program Neither the governor nor the state police would confirm whether planes wo'ild I used, but the gov ernor had indicated earlier that they weuld be used on an "unan nounced" basis Last year. Oregon recorded 399 traffic accidents during the 78 hour holiday period, resulting in 127 injuries and one death. The commission had a special word of caution for motorists who may be pulling boats or house trailers this weekend: Check occa sionally to see if traffic may be stacking up behind you. If a long Y.ne of traffic is forming, the com mission stmgests the driver should pull off the road and let faster moving traffic pass. The Oregon Poison Control Reg istry tod:iy added a warning to parenls about letting young chil dren play wilh Fourth of July sparklers. Many cases of accidental poison ing have been reported through out the country from youngsters chewing on the unlightcd fire works, according to a registry spokesman. He said sparklers con tain several chemicals which can cause serious illness and possibly death if swallowed.. Parents buying sparklers for their children were urged to keep lliem .Hit of reach until lime for firing, and to sinx-rviso their use to prevent accidental poisonings and burns. The governor and H. G. Maison, superintendent of state police, con ferred today. Some 25.000 leaflets urging careful driving and contain ing anli litlerhiig reminders were distributed by state police this w"-ek The leaflets open with a welcome to Oregon and its Centennial. The OreRon Traffic Safety Com mission said the safe-driving skills of motorists will have to be brought into play to kep the week end free of a tragic record of accidents. NO OBSERVER TOMORROW The Obierver will not pvhlith newspaper tomerrew In ob servance with the Faurth of July in ordr that employes may enjoy the holiday. Regular publication will re sume en Monday. The Obterver withes its read ers a sate and sane holiday. EXECUTIVE JOB FOR GRADUATE LONDON (UPI) Mmbr of Parliament RB Mom tald Tuawlay ha will taka up with tha air minlttar tha complant of a conttituant in tht Royal ! Air Force. A cadet pilot wrote Mom that tha RAF it wading hit engineering and phytica degrees. He's been iiiontd, he said, to examine the grass and pull any extra long blades out of lawns. Practices Underway For Opera Practice sessions are in full swing for the Centennial Summer Opera written and directed by John . De Merchant. The world premiere of "Ten Thousand Miles!" will be July 10 in the High school auditorium. Romantic leads for the produc tion will be Patsy Hutchison and Howard Anderson. Patsy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Hutchison of Union. Anderson is a professor at East ern Oregon College. Other solo parts are sung by Evadne Kelsoe and Dave Skeen. A folk opera written to com memorate the Oregon Centennial it begins with a prologue in which the chorus tells of all those who came from far and wide search ing for a Promised Land. Jacob, played by Anderson, is a young "Bull Whacker" who tells his girl, Amanda, played by Patsy Hutchison, that he must leave and follow the wagon train on its way to Oregon in quest of his for tune. He returns for her and they are married. They join a wagon train to the west. After numerous ad ventures on the trail the wagon train moves ahead and they sing, "On the Land, the Promised Land We'll Find Our Way Led by God's Hand." Members of special' vocal en' semblcs for the production in clude . Jim . Boatman, . Pauline Johnson, Afton Walker, Don Nel son, Daisy Good, Dora Parsons, Elizabeth Royce, Jack Hendrick son. Bob Myer, David Schaad. Waren Good, Bob Barrett, Rich ard Nelson, and Phil Gray. Special interpretive dancing will be done by Shirley Smurthwaite and Frances Wolfe. Plans are also being made for a square dance group to be di rected by Reid Blacker. A children's chorus under the di rection of Florence Miller in cludes Kathy Huntsman, Karen Nunn, Valeria Borine. Tonya Pieper, Kathy Nunn, Alicia Bates, Marlena Bechtel, Sharon Bolting, Kathy Ledridge, Linda Chadwick, Elva Lee Lovely, Judy True, John Huntsman, Boyd Nelson, Mike llans"ll, David Huntsman, Larry Masters, George Longacre, Allen Miller, Gordon Schand, Sam Miller. Allen Waite, Ron Lovelace, John Feik, Kerry Fitzgerald, Jerry True, Lynn Allen, and Leland Nebeker. The children were chosen from Mrs. Miller's choruses in Green wood and Riveria schools. Incidental speaking parts are assigned to Ruth Lacer, Ann Gos horn, and Elizabeth Royce. Pair Returned To Jail Cells ONTARIO, Ore. (UPD-One of two men who beat their way out of the Malheur county jail at Vale Tuesday was back in custody today. Stanley Lavern Patterson, 19. Nyssa. turned himself in to au thorities at Nyssa Thursday. He was serving 90 days for car theft when he broke out. Marvin Austin Breier, 38, still was at large. Patterson told state police he and Breier parted com pany at Caldwell. Idaho. FT. McHENRY CHOSEN FOR CEREMONY Old Glory Will Boast 49 Stars Officially Saturday ufAsinvr.Tnw (UPI) Old Glory will go aloft Saturday bear ing 49 stars. vi.10 with new star for the new state of Alaska will be hoist ed in ceremonies at the Capitol and at Baltimore's Ft. Mcllenry Uiiinnnl Mnnnmnt. hlrthnlnce and shrine of the National An them. Both will be held a tew seconds after midnight. One of the two flags to te raised simultaneously at the Cap itol will be given to Aiassa as a symbol of Its new status. The other will remain as a regular Soviet Position On Berlin Issue Is Tough As Ever KOZLOV DASHES HOPE THAT HE WOULD HELP WASHINGTON (UPI) Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov headed for California today after dashing hopes he would help crack the Big Four deadlock oyer Berlin. His private talks and public oratory disclosed that Rus sia's position on Berlin and other critical East-West issues is tough as ever. Kozlov and his party stop of a 10-day flying swing around , the nation. He is expected to con t'nue his campaign to sell "peace ful coexistence on Russian terms. The 50-year-old official made it clear during his Washington visit that Russia wants the West to buy peace by knuckling under to Soviet demands on Berlin and other issues. He reiterated the Kremlin's de mand that the Allies pull out of West Berlin and threatened anew a separate Russian peace treaty with Communist East Germany if the Allies refuse to come to terms. Talks Prove Fruitless He told a press luncheon Thurs day that "force will be met with force" if the situation in Berlin erupts into hostilities. Secretary of Slate Christian A. Herter said Thursday night that Kozlov's trip to Washington did nothing to ease cold war tensions over Berlin. "Certainly nothing too profita ble came out of the conversa tions" between Kozlov and top U.S. officials, Herter told news men. The visiting Russian had conferred wilh President Eisen hower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Herter, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, among others. Herter said "nothing new" had developed in the talks to indicate that Russia had changed its de mands thavhe West get out of Berlin. ' It was considered highly unlike ly that Herter would meet with Kozlov again before the secretary of state leaves July 11 for the Ge neva foreign ministers conference. The deadlocked conference re sumes July 13 after a three-week "cooling off recess. Herter Leaves Capital Herter spoke to newsmen upon leaving Washington for a four-day rest at his Manchester, Mass., home. He will return to the capi tal Tuesday to hammer out U.S. strategy for resumption of the for eign ministers conference. Kozlov delivered his force-with- force pronouncement late Thurs day afternoon during a question- and-answer period at a National Press Club lunch. In his earlier formal remarks he had asserted Russia abhors war and called for 'peaceful co-existance" with the United States. He said in reply to a question that he did not as some officials had hoped bring any new propos al from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Eisenhower for set tlement of the Berlin issue. Later in the afternoon he made a whirlwind tour of a suburban shopping center at nearby Whea- ton, Md. He wished shoppers good health" and promised "no war, no war. Justice Of Peace Has Fund Shortage UUI.D BEACH tUPI) State auditors Thursday found a short age of about $4,400 in the accounts of justice of the peace William Fuller who has been missing since Tuesday. Sheriff R. G. Sabin said he heard that Fuller had purchased ticket on an airline from Oak land. Calif., to Pittsburgh, Pa. Capitol flag until it wears out. At Ft. Mcllenry, Interior Secre 'ary Fred A. Seaton will raise the new (lag as the Marine Band plays "The Star Spangled Ban ner." The fort was chosen for an official raising because under presidential proclamation the flag is flown there day and night "as a perpetual symbol of our pa triotism." The Capitol and Ft. Mcllenry are two places where it is proper to fly the flag at night. After the dawn's early light. Americans everywhere may dis Price S Cents at Sacramento on the next leg Toll Span For Biggs Is Planned OLYMPIA H'Pli Plans for a $.'1,500,000 toll bridge across the Columbia River ut Biggs Rapids are being pushed with the- hope that construction can be started next full. W. A. Bugge, state high ways director, said today. Paul D. Speer, Chicago, finan cial consultant, is conferring with financial houses in the East as to their interest in buying revenue bonds to finance the low - level spun near Maryhill an answer was expected in a month. Bugge said that if bonds can be sold, construction bids would be called in September. Work then would start in late Septem ber or early October and the bridge could be opened to traffic early in IW2. Close Protect "It's a close project,'' . Bugge said, "but I'm optimistic that we can do it." Speer indicated last January that he felt the project could be financed. r . Designs were ' completed last month and engineering and 'traf fic reports have been updated for Speer's use. Financing of approach roads no longer is a problem, Bugge said. The Washington Highway Com mission has agreed to build north approaches and the Oregon High way Commission will construct south approaches. Latest estimates place the cost of construction, apixirtenances, engineering and contingencies at t!.tui.oo0. Financing costs would bring to $3,300.0110 the total amount of bonds that would have to be issued. Revenue Estimated Latest traffic figures estimate that in the first year of the bridge's operation, 248,000 vehicles would use the span, bringing in $213,000 in net revenues. The, fig ures were down from a previous report, which estimated 274,000 vehicles and $239,000 in net reve nues. The proposed basic toll for pas senger cars would be $1. Tolls for other types of vehicles would range as high as $3.50 for a six axle truck-trailer combination. Butane Fumes Overcome Man OLYMPIA (UPI) Fumes from butane gas used for cooking killed William F. Glover, 21, a lookout at Cowan Peak in western Pa cific County, Land Commissioner Bert Cole reported Thursday. Glover, of Raymond, was found overcome after failing to make normal communication contacts with other stations of the Natural Resources Department. He was removed by ambulance but was pronounced dead before reaching an llwaco hospital. Cole said the death was being investigated. play the new flag. One will be raised at the White House at sun rise. The new flag at Ft. Mcllenry will fly near the spot where Old Glory's waving "through the rock ets' red glare" inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Span gled Banner. Archaeologists recently found the buried stump of the flagstaff that stood "through the perilous night" when the fort was bom barded by the British in 1814, and a duplicate of the old pole has been built.