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OBSERVER WEATHER Sunny and hot Wednesday; highs 95 100; low tonight 50 55. 280th Issue 63rd Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959 Pric 5 Cent. West Is Ready To End Talks If Gromyko Won t Cooperate LA GRAND E I UmiJjlFj(, pi I LA La Grande's new fire engine was undergoing tests this morning before formal acceptance by the city at a 3:15 p.m. ceremony. The equipment was pumping water from the Grande Ronde river at the rate of 1,000 gal Morse Says He Is Not Candidate WASHINGTON lUPIt Sen. Wayne Morse said today he had no intention of becoming Oregon's favorite son presidential candidate in 1960 even though "several thou sand" persons want him to run. He said the same goes for vice presidency. The Oregon Democrat told a news conference he has been "deeply moved" by the "personal friendship and political loyalty" expressed in requests that he be come Oregon's favorite son. '.'Nevertheless," he said, "I am advising -my friends rhat I am not a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and I am urging them not to place my name on the ballot in the I960 Oregon presidential primary elec tion." Statement To Appling Under Oregon law, tlic individu al's name can be placed on (he ballot unless the person specifieal ly requests that it he kept off. Accordingly, Morse said, he is sending a notarized, sworn affi davit to that effect to Oregon Secretary of State Howell Ap pling. The Oregon primary is next May. Under quest inning, Morse said he would not personally support any one Democratic presidential candidate in the primary. But he told Appling that "it is my hope that in I960, the name of each party leader who has recognized, widespread national support for his party's presidential nomina tion will appear on the Oregon presidential primary ballot." Candidate Listed In the case of his party, Morse said, the list of candidates should include "at least" the names of Sens. Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.), Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn). John F. Kennedy (Mass.), and Stuart Symington Mo: Govs. Edmund G. Brown Calif., Rob ert B. Meyner (N.J.) and G. Men ken Williams (Mich.), and former Gov. Adlai Stevenson (HI.). Morse did not name those who he said have been suggesting him for the presidency or vice presi dency. "But I understand several thou sand persons have been involved," he said. Little Rock Begins Registering Students For Opening Of School LITTLE ROCK. Ark UP1' The Little Rock School Board to day begins registering students for the reopening of hiRh schools this fall under a law that is ex pected to bring token integration The city's four high schools were closed during the past school year in order to avert in tegration. An air of calm prevailed. Citi ren's Council President Dr. Mal comh Taylor, a segregation lead er, indicated registration of stu dents would not he the major crisis time. "We do not care if this race mixing school board registers 10. 000 Negroes now as long as the city officials do not try to cram them into white schools in Sep tember." he said. Nevertheless, police chief Gene Smith announced that there would be arrest i if there were any dis GRANDE'S NEW FIRE ENGINE VX r, ;.. tell V - . 9 V Li K km ssk ?:.,: :.J tl --I THE 'MIND' OF THE NEW TRUCK Gloyd Hall of Western States Fire Apparatus Co. checks the controls of the city's new fire engine during tests at the Grande Ronde river this morning. City officials from Baker were on hand to view the tests. (Observer Photo) A BAD BARGAIN FOR THE THIEF Somebody stole one of Mrs. Mable McCoy's ducks. Mrs. McCoy, who lives at W G Ave., reported the theft of one of her ducks between 10:30 Monday and 5:30 this morning. Evidently the thief didn't want to leave Mrs. Mc Coy without payment of some kind so he left a stop sign leaning against a tree. According to the owner the ducks were more ornamental than anything. The thief must have thought so too because the life siie concrete figure was found by , me police in ditch at Third and G. turbances today. Only seniors were to register to day. Juniors are slated to regis ter Wednesday, and sophomores on Thursday. Students will be assigned to schools under a t!)59 pupil place ment law modeled after those of other southern states that permits the board to consider a variety of factors. Gov. Orval Fauhus. who closed the schools last fall under an emergency anti-integration law that since has been ruled uncon Uiat since has been ruled uncon stitutional, said Monday he had no plans to call a special session of the Legislature as he did last year. However, he said "there's al ways a possibility" that a special session will be convened. Members of the school board said that if given a chance, they MY lons a minute at the test site near the Valley Sausage L-o. i ne irucK was Duut Dy paratus Co. of Cornelius. L i I - "T ' It r. n Iraqi Air Force Planes Bomb Red-Backed Rebel Positions BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI i Iraqi air force planes have bombed Communist-backed rebel positions in the city of Kirkuk. the semi official Egyptian Middle East News Agency reported today. MEN A also reported that 80 Iraqi army officers had been ar rested and 400 demobilized be cause of a defection of part of the army in Kirkuk. There was no immediate con firmation of the report here. Iraqi Premier Abdel Karem Kassem has imposed strict cen sorship over the Kirkuk fighting and details have been scarce. Travelers returning here from the area said the battling broke would operate the high schools on a completely segregated basis. But the board has said that it would "not abandon free public education in order to avoid de segregation." Taylor, referring fo the crisis in 1957 when nine Negroes were en rolled in the whita Central High School, said that federal troops were sent to Little Rock then "to slam around private citizens on private property." "This September it will be the city directors who force helpless city policemen to do the dirty work of federal invaders," he said. Mrs. L. C. Bates, chairman of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP, said last week in New York that she believed the school board was acting in good faith in its plans for reopening the schools. X&1 tne western states Fire Ap (Observer Photo) out during the first anniversary celebration of Kassem's rise to power July 14. They said that nationalist Tur komen Iraqi's of Turkish de scent started a mammoth cele bration. Kurdish tribesmen, sup ported and goaded by Communists, opened fire. Most of the Iraqi army contin gents in Kirkuk are comprised of Kurds and many of these joined in the battle against the Turko mcn, the reports said. BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI) So viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has invited Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem to visit the Soviet Union, Baghdad Radio said today. The broadcast said the invita tion . was announced by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Kuznctsov, head of a Russian dele gation visiting Baghdad for cele brations of the first anniversary of the last year's July 14 revolu tion. Kuznetsov made the invitation known at a Baghdad news con ference in which he also refused to rule out absolutely the possibil ity that Iraq might he granted nuclear weapons by the Russians if it wanted them, Baghdad Radio said. t Chamber Directors To Meet Wednesday Powell Graham, president of the Chamber of Commerce, an nounced that the Board of Direc tors will hold a joint meeting with the National affairs commit tee of the Chamber at the Bould er Park Resort, Wednesday noon The Joint meetings were started hist year and this will be the second meeting of this kind. I JUSTICE MOVES AS FAST AS CAR HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (UPI) In the case of Samuel ' Robert Mulligan the wheelt of justice moved fast. He was a free man early Mon day, but before night fell he was arrested, tried and sen tenced to one year in jail for traffic violations. Mulligan, . J 3, of Garden Grove, Calif., led police early Monday on a reckless five mile chase in his 11-year-old car at epeeds up to 65 through narrow streets, bang ed into two pursuing police cars and finally was brought to a halt when a policeman flattened his front tire with a shotgun blast. Mulligan, hauled before South Bay Municipal Judge Donald Armstrong, pleaded guilty to driving with a re volked license and reckless driving. He was sentenced to six months in jail on each count. Mediator Studying Steel Data NEW YORK (UPI) - Federal Mediator Joseph W. Finncgan, striving against odds to find a way to settle the week-old steel strike, said today that scheduled separate meetings with represen tatives of the steel industry and the United Sleelworkers Union have been put, off until Wednes day. Finncgan said' this will enable him to study statistics and data provided to him at his request by both sides in the controversy. he also roported Uiat he was in formed that David J. McDonald, president of the Union, would be busy today interviewing his own representatives and considering the status of current wage nego tiations with the aluminum indus try. In Washington, it was learned President Eisenhower had indicat ed he was reluctant to use the Taft - Hartley Law to invoke an 80-day "cooling off" period in the steel industry. Gov. Hatfield To Speak Here For Banquet Governor Mark Hatfield will he the speaker at a Chamber of Com merce banquet at 7 p.m. in the1 Armory Friday night. The banquet is being given in honor of Hcadauarters enmnanv of the 1st Battle Group of the iBblh Infantry of the National Guard for receiving a "superior" rating on their last federal in spection. The group was formerly Lonmpany . before the change over- Brig. Gen. Alfred Ilintz, adju tant general for Oregon and as sistant division commander of the 41st division, Oregon-Washington National Guard, will also be pre sent. They are the only unit in 21 of the 186th to receive the rating. They are one of the seven units out of 96 in Oregon to be awarded the honor. Headquarters & Headquarters company consists of US enlisted men and 28 officers. At the time headquarters com pany was inspected, Capt. Willard Carey was company commander and is now. Col. David C- Baum is battle group command-r. The rating was on training, ad ministration and supply, general morale and appearance of the unit. Tickets for business men to the banquet are $3 which pays for one businessman and one national guardsman. Individual tickets are $1.50 per person. Anyone may at tend and reservations arc avail able at the Chamber office. General chairman for the ban qut is David C. Baum. The committee has A. B. Olson as chairman. Members of the committee are Harold Laurence, Leonard Selby, Bob Turner. Clar ence Hill, Ernie Berglund, Don Ragsdale. Al Westcnskow, Robert H. Carey, and Harry Kams. Bill Thomas Is chairman of the Banquet committee and John Groupe is chairman of the serving committee. , - ' C ' 4 f S- I ' "' ""'T . " 2 1 jj." I j j EARLY BIRDS Loren Hughes, left, and Leonard Selby were up early yesterday morning stringing lights across Adams Ave. The lights are being placed as part of wel come for the Centennial wagon train and will remain throughout the rest of the Centennial program. (Observer Photo) Ike Believes Soviets Are Trying To Split American And Britain WASHINGTON (lU'li Presi dent Eisenhower believes the in creasingly touuh Russian tactics at Geneva involve an effort to split the United States and Great Britain, plus an over-riding Soviet fear of a resurgent Germany and a powerful Red China. The chief executive is deeply concerned even more pessimistic than he was a month ago about the Russian roadblocks to suc cessful negotiation at the Big Four Foreign Ministers Confer ence. It is possible to report Eisen hower's views on the troubled in ternational scene today with ex cellent authority. lie does not Ik-Iicvc Ihc devi- sive tactics of the Russians will work, even though the British arc much more convinced than the Americans and the French that the only Russian who can work out a Berlin settlement is Premi er Nikita Khrushchev. Nixon's Moscow Visit Eisenhower has some doubts that Khrushchev really wants a summit conference. He muy get more information on this point after Vice President Richard M. Nixon arrives in Moscow later this week! Nixon will have no power to negotiate current points of difference with the Soviet Un ion, but should Khrushchev put forth any proposal of substance for ending the East-West stale mate, the vice president will re lay it to the President imrni-d iately. The President's mood is not one of anxiety over the need for immediate actios. He knows that another Communist blockade of West Berlin is possible, hut he SAYS REDS WON'T TAKE OVER Cuban President For Understanding HAVANA (Ul'li-Osvaldo Dor tiros Torrado, 45, who soared from obscurity to the presidency of Cuba in a few short hours last weekend, appealed today for American "understanding" of the Cuban revolution. The president said there was no basis for American fears of a Communist takeover here. "Americans must understand Ihc Cuban revolution and our ob jectives," Dortiros said. "This is a Cuban revolution. It is national istic." He said that if the people of the United States understood this they would have no fears about Communism in Cuba. Dorticos expressed his views in remains calmly convinced that Russia does not want a nuclear war. He sees the East -West prob lem over Germany as one of con tinued negotiation, hut with con stant readiness on the part of the West to deal with any situation Russia might precipitate over Berlin. Insists On Progress Eisenhower still insists that be fore he agrees to a summit meet ing, there, must be what he re gards as decent progress by the foreign ministers in Geneva. Sec retary of Slate Christian A. Iler ter knows what the President means by decent progress and as of this morning, the satisfaction of this requirement was not yet in sight. McKay's Condition Remains Serious SALEM. Ore. (UPD Douglas McKay, former interior secretary, remained in serious condition to day at Salem General Hospital. McKay, 66, entered the hospi tal a week ago with a recurrence of a heart ailment. Hospital at tendants said his condition was complicated late Monday by kid ney trouble. Hospital spokesmen said the cx secretary's heart condition in volved high blood pressure. Dr. Stuart Lancicfield was at tending McKay, who has been in an oxygen tent most of the time since entering the hospital. Mc Kay, also a former Oregon gover nor, is currently United Slates chairman of the joint U S.-Cana-dian Water Commission. an Interview with United Press International. He hns written many of the laws and decrees of Castro's rrv o I u 1 1 o n a r y regime and has pledged to carry them out. Cas tro charged that Manuel Urrutia. who resigned under pressure Fri day night, blocked some decrees by not signing them. Dorticos, an attorney, said Ihc principal aims of the revolution included revision of the basic Cuban economy through agrarian reform to raiso the standard of living of the people and the guar antee of civil rights. Dorticos said his appointment as president of Cuba "came as a surprise to me. At first I did Hotter Crisis Is Risk By JOSEPH W. OR ICG UPI Staff Writer GENEVA (UPD -Tho West warned Russia's Andrei Gromyko today that it is prepared to see the Geneva Big Four Conference broken off unless he immediact ly drops his filibuster against a Berlin truce. The East West negotiations could break down within several days possibly Wednesday un less Gromyko starts talking busin ess, the western ministers de clared at a showdown lunch meet ing in Gromyko's own headquart ers. The move made it clear that western patience had run out af ter 7'4 weeks of Geneva foreign ministers' talks that brought East and West no where near agree ment on Berlin. It also was made clear that the West was in full agreement to face the risks that might go along with a break in talks. This includ ed the risk of a hotter Berlin cri sis if Russia carried out its threat to conclude a separate peace trea ty and cut off western rights in West Berlin. Herter Not Present Ironically, today's private show down took place in the Soviet for eign minister's own villa and in the absence of Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. Herter sent two deputies to the start of the lunch meeting while he attended a "courtesy" lunch with a top International Red Cross official whose organization is in volved in a repatriation dispute between Japan and the Republic of Korea. Herter later drove directly to the Gromyko villa after lunching with the Red Cross official. Voters Turn Down School Reorganization La Grande confirmed the school reorganization measure by a vote of 129 to 102 in yesterday's elec tion, but in an overall unofficial count the measure failed by a vote of 379 to 223. Four areas still have not reported. At Imhlcr the unofficial vote was 10 voting for the measure and 121 against. Unofficial results at Elgin were 56 for reorganization and 158 against. The Cove count was official. There were 28 people voting for the measure and 105 voting against. f Unofficially in Island City. 41 voted yes and 29 voted against the proposed measure. Telocaset officially downed the measure with a vote of 8 against and 3 for reorganization. The Ladd Canyon vote was also official with 9 yes votes and 3 against. - Aliccl voters also defeated the measure with 11 people voting no and 3 voting yes. The areas who haven't reported are Union, Starkey, Palmer Junc tion and Fruitdale. The measure was defeated at Muddy Creek. "" Appealing Of U.S. not feel up to it hut I have ac cepted my revolutionary respon sibility." Dorticos emphasized that Ur rutia is not under arrest and has complete freedom to go where he wishes. "Dr. Urrutia Is at the home of his hrothcr-in-law because that is where he wants to be." said Dor ticos. "He is as free as any other citizen. The soldiers are there at his service." Three guards at the front en trance of the estate in suburban Bauta where Urrutia la staying refused to let newsmen In Mon day. They said Urrutia did not want to see the press.