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WEATHER Sunny Saturday with scat tered afternoon and evening thundershowers; low tonight 52-58; high Saturday 95-102. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 289th Issue 63rd Yiar LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 31. 195? Pric S Centa try 0 lip lLwJ:.t .J.-, .i-... , .,. ' x . . eW-i FREEWAY OFFICIALLY OPENED "Tex" Serpo, wagonmaster, cuts his way through the red ribbon stretched across the new freeway section to officially open the road. Sharon Noyes of La Grande has a worried look on her face as Serpa whips the knife through the ribbon. (Observer) Bunting Chief Joseph Days By VIRGINIA ANDERSON Observer Staff Writer JOSEPH (Special) More than 2500 rodeo fans will pour into Jo seph today for the Annual Chief Joseph '.Days spectacular and about 6000 are expected tomorrow. Queen Darlene Tucker along with her princesses Pat Emmons and Karron Howerton will reign over the fourtheenth annual affair. The bunting is flying, 40 Indian tepees are up, and the weather is fair for three big days of rodeo. The show officially got under way this afternoon .at 1 o'clock with the stert tf the junior parade. The Meeker carnival has set up its rides near the Hells Canyon hall where dances will be held both to night and Saturday. Music will be provided by a Ncz Perce Indian band. There will also be dancing night ly at the Holiday Inn at Wallowa Lake. At daybreak Saturday the Shrin crs will begin serving -bicakfasl at their stand near the Joseph theater. It's "'all you can cat" for $100 per person or $2.50 for the family with proceeds going to the Crippled Children's hospital in Portland. Saturday morning at 10 a.m. the big parade will start up Main street In Joseph. Jay Dobbin, who was honored as "National Father of the Year" two years ago, will be the parade marshal. Five bands will be featured in the parade, - the Shrine club Oriental band, the Portland Scot tish Pipe band, the Drum and Bugle corps from Walla Walla and the Baker and Enterprise school bands. The Scottish bagpipe band will also perform at the arena and at the cowboy breakfast Sunday morning. The parade will feature the eld timers this year with many in teresting floats and costumes. Sarah Knott, the first white child born in Wallowa makes her and Loren boy born now resides honored gu?sts Fire Burns Home In Summerville SUMMERVILI.E (Special) Summerville was the scene of tragedy Wednesday night when a fire broke out in the Kenneth Sanderson home. The whole back of the house was in flames when It was discovered by Sanderson who was welding in the shop close by. Imhler firo ricnarlmcnt and men from all over the valley bat-; j tied the blaze alone for some, time, but had to call Island City after a large oil lank blew up.' The fire was quickly brought under control and both fire de- partmcnts returned home. A large blaze was still burning at- - ... 1 u . A .. mnrninO I The house and all its contents were a total loss. The surrounding buildings were kept wet down and the dry grass checked to keep the hot sparks from starting additional fires. home in Wa'la Waila.j- I Vf.i Yvi. jX .- , I Powers, the first wh.te 1 1; ; ; I Jf- J iA I in Wallowa county, who L.,, - 1 . --.. tf .l 111 111 ' I in Portland, will be f . , Vj--- iJl.h.,tt . .-'" I Flying As the parade. Riding : posses from Milton- Freewater and from Lewiston will demonstrate their riding skill in the parade and at the arena. Hundreds of floats will com pete for a loog list of prizes and ribbons. Winners will be an nounced immediately after the parade has passed through town and the winners will be asked to pick up their awards at Coleman's drug stor. Tex Serpa and 15 members of Accelerated Program For National Forests' Development Assured WASHINGTON UPH The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to add 27 milion dol lars in new funds to the 10 supplemental appropriation bill for the Forest Service. Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger D-Ore. said today. Neuhcrgcr said the additional money would allow start of im plementing an accelerated pro gram for National Forest develop ment, including $775,000 for con struction of a forest insect dis ease research laboratory at Cor vallis. Neuberger said the administra tion wanted to wait until next year to seek the new funds. But he and Sen. Purl Hayden, Ap propriations Committee chairman, with the unanimous support of western Democratic senators, added the funds needed to start the prog-am which he said was vital to Oregon's economy. Forest Research Included Included is $2,500,000 for forest research laboratories of which $775,000 will be allocated to Cor TC ' 1 county, who now , . - V .-". ;.. 1 v I V'' u -' CAMP TRESTLE GLEN BOUND Three of the five children who left for the Salvation Army summer camp yesterday look over the camp folder explaining the activities and fun they will have at the camp near Portland. From the left are Barbara Brewer, Willard Doud and Ruth Cox. Lieut- Summers accompanied the group. Annual Begins the Oregon Centennial wagon train will be in Joseph, Sunday for the day's events. The stands have been freshly painted for the three days of rodeo which started this afternoon at 2 p.m. . ' The Lane sisters will be on hand with their trampoline act. The Wallowa ' county Junior Chamber of Commerce will spon ser a cowboy breakfast Sunday morning near the Holiday Inn at the head of Wallowa Lake. . vallis. The. Committee added scv es million dollars for forest ac cess roads, five million of which goes into a special fund above the current authorization to per mit purchase of key roads needed to unblock National Forest timber intermingled with private hold ings. Neuberger said forest recrea tion received an increase of six million dollars reforestation, in sect and disease control and fire protection got one million, and new housing for Forest Service personnel $1,500,000. Of special interest to Oregon, Neuberger said, is approval of a $1,700,000 increase to step up sales of National Forest timber. In addition, at Neubergcr's re quest, the Committee restored a cut made in the House for the Bureau of Land Management tim ber sales program providing $525, 000 in new money for the O & C program. A Senate report is expected early next week on the supplemental fund increases, Neubergr said. Big Four Talks End Nearing Experts Working On New Truce Bid GENEVA UPI The Big Four speeded up their Geneva talks against a fast narrowing Aug. 5 deadline today. Conference sour ces said the West probably will propose resuming them at the United Nations in September to avoid a dangerous East-West ( break-off. Western and Soviet experts worked this morning on technical details of a possible Berlin truce agreement, which they were pre senting to the ministers this af ternoon In another secret, get-together at the villa of Russia's An drei A. Gromyko. If such a truce were worked out it probably would include a ban on rocket and nuclear weapon in Berlin. The experts' job was to define exactly what kind of weap ons would be Included. However, the West and Russia remained such poles apart on all major issues of principle that it appeared only a miracle or a ma jor backdown could wrest agree ment out of their present deadlock before Wednesday night final deadline. " Want Te Avoid Crisis " The West, however, still hoped to head off a break-up in anger that might drive the russians into some hasty move such as signing a separate peace treaty immed iately with the East Germat) Reds, as Nikita Khrushchev repeatedly has threatened to do if the Ge neva talks collapse. This could touch' off another Berlin crisis. The western allies, conference sources said, probably will pro pose to Gromyko before leaving here that the talks should be re sumed in September at the U.N. where all the foreign ministers will meet again for the General Assembly opening Sept. 15. V 4 Meanwhile, (he West Germans flashed urgent red light warnings to the U. S. and the other west ern allies not to cave in and make dangerous last moment conces sions in an effort to produce at least a scrap of East-West agree ment out of the Geneva deadlock. Five .Youngsters Attending Camp Five youngsters left yesterday accompanied by IX Summers for the Salvation Army summer r.imp 22 miles from Portland. This is the second group of campers that the La Grande corps has sponsored to camp Trestle Glen which is located on a 55 acre wooded area. Lt. Sum mers expects that by the end H the summer around 35 child ren from this area will have at tended the camp. The children attending from here are George Cox, Janice Doud, Barbara Brewer, Witlard Doud, and Ruth Cox. The camp which runs contin uously from June to September offers swimming, fishing, hikes, trips, handicrafts, sports, and chapel for the children. L: ' HOWDY PARTNER Dave Gastman shakes hands with an uniden'ified member of the Blue Mountain Boys at the highway ceremony near Kamela Junction yes terday. "Wild Bill" admired the Boys' smoking tech nique. He wondered how out starting a brush fire. 55 t Lai NOW IT7S LEGAL Thyrza Pclling from Oswego holds the camping permit issued by the Blue Moun tain Boys to the Oregon Centennial Wagon Train as it reached its camp site. Seat of the wagon is made com fortable by an animal skin. (Observer Photo) U.S. Officials May Adopt Legislation To Stop Future Steel Strikes NEW YORK UPH The government appeared today to be heading toward possible legisla tion to prevent recurrence of the steel strikes which have shut down the nation's production six times since the end of World War II. There was speculation the mas sive fact - finding undertaken by Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell might produce a propo sal for a separate law dealing with labor-management relations in the steel industry, as the IJail way Labor Act now deals with disputes involving railroads and airlines. But such legislation, at which Mitchell hinted in a Washington statement Thursday, could have no more than indirect bearing on settlement of the present strike, now in its third week with no agreement in sight. . Chief Federal Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan was to meet here to day with representatives of the striking United Stcelworkcrs of America cl'SWi. He scheduled a joint meeting of union and industry negotiators for Monday. Their first joint meeting since the strike began, July 14, broke up quickly last Monday. Finnegan held out no particular hopes for the next one, but said "you can't settle anything with out talking." He noted, however, that "the it" vsJJ,Ju, i '?0 v. v -. t- J i. 1 , 11H, mm ', the Boys could smoKe vvun- (Observer Photo) 1 1 C5 earnings statements arc out or the way and so, I suppose, arc the publicity statements relating to them." , Union President David J. Mc Donald announced Thursday that he had sent Mitchell a long analysis of United States Steel Corp. profits in relation to the steel industry's insistence that both wages and prices be frozen to prevent inflation. The union claims profits are large enough to provide a wage increase with out a price increase. HE'D BE WILLING Khruschev May Receive Bid In Few Days To Visit U.S. GENEVA UP1 Western sour ces reported today that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchevv may receive an invitation in the next few days to visit the United States. Khrushchev was said to have al ready indicated he would accept any such invitation. I. was learned that the western allies here already have been In formed of the possibility that President Eisenhower might In Nixon Flies Back To Moscow At End Of Siberia Jaunt PREPARING RADIO SPEECH FOR THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE MOSCOW (UPD Vice President Richard M. Nixon re turned to Moscow today after a four-day tour of Siberia that included huge demonstrations of friendship and some heck ling. The vice president's plane was preceded by a large press party aboard two TU104 jet airliners that landed at Mos cow's Vnukuvo Airport. Nixon flew here from BeioyarsK wnere ne iom soviet atom scientists that statesmen must work out their differences so that American and Soviet scien tists could create a better world for all. Nixon was met at the airport by acting Soviet Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov and other offi cials. There were no speeches at the airport. Asked his plans, Nixon replied: "I am going back to Spaso House (the U.S. ambassador's resi dence). 1 expect to work for six hours on the radio speech to be delivered Saturday, and then go to bed." Says Trip To Short Nixon added that he expected to be up at 6 a.m. to "work on my speech again." A correspondent for Moscow Ra dio asked Nixon for his impres sions of his trip to Leningrad and Siberia. Nixon said: "I liked it very much. It was an interesting trip. My only regret is that I could not spend at least two weeks more." In answer to another question by the Moscow Radio correspond ent, about whether he talked to people on his trip, Nixon replied "It was never, never dull. I found that people had lots of ques tions. When I speak on the radio Saturday. I will try to answer for all the people all the questions I heard during the trip. I also want to give my impressions of the So viet economy and of the Soviet people. Paeple Want Peace . Ninon also said: . "I found the Russian people very friendly. Just as m America, Soviet people have a common in terest in keeping the peace and in finding a way to solve our problems. Everywhere I heard the words 'mir i druzhba' (peace and friendship).". Mrs. Nixon was asked wi.al she was going to do this cvcnii.rf. She said: "I'm going home to do my laundry." Nixon went to Beloyarsk from Sverdlovsk where he loosed a string of hints that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev may be invited to the United States after the vice president winds up his tour of this country and returns to Washing ton. ' t Demos Holding Meet Saturday PORTLAND (UPD The state Democratic Central Committee will meet here Saturday but elec tion of a chairman to succeed the late David C. Epps will not be on the agenda. Mrs. Beulah Hand, vice chair man and acting chairman, said there was "no active candidate seeking the position." She said careful and thoughtful selection of the chairman "can not be done on the spur of the moment." Democrats Saturday will wel come to Oregon Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) who is a pos sible candidate for the presiden tial nomination next year. He will speak in Portland Saturday night and in Seaside at the state AFL CIO convention Monday afternoon. He also has television appear ances and several meetings with Democratic leaders scheduled during his three-day visit. TO ACCEPT vite Khrushchev to pay an early visit, possibly this fall. Some diplomats were expecting a final decision on the trip, pos sibly before Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon leaves Moscow this weekend or shortly thereafter. The visit may prove to be a preliminary to a full summit con ference later this year with Brit ish and French particpitation. It could be linked with a trip of the Soviet leader to the U. N. Gen eral Assembly opening in New Boy Found Unharmed In Canyon GRAND CANYON. Aril. (UPD A Savannah, Ga., boy lost since Saturday in rugged and hot Grand Canyon was found alive today when a National Park Service ranger decided to "give it one more look." John Mason Owens HI, 16, bare foot and dead-tired, was sighted on a sand bar in the Colorado River by Ranger Dan Davis from a Fort Huachuca Army helicopter. He was t'i miles downstream from the mouth of Tanner Canyon a canyon leading out of the popu lar tourist lookout. Desert View, near where his two hiking com panions were found dead. Carl Lehnert, fire chief and park safety officer for the Park Service, said the helicopter could not be put down on the sand bar because of dust and sand it, He said pilots Clifford P. Brad ley and Louis Goselin, both chief warrant officers, hovered the craft over the boy while Davis jumped six feet to the sand. Davis pushed Owens into the craft with the help of other crewmen, then " was pulled in- himseV. Lehnert said. Wagon Train Finally Gets Night's Rest PENDLETON (UPI) Ore gon's covered wagon train head ed today for a campsite about 19 miles southeast of nere after per sonnel on the train finally got a good night's sleep. The seven wagons, due here Saturday, camped Thursday night at wooded and grass - covered Strickland flats. Few visitors showed up at the wagon circle and the Cavalcade members said they got their best night's rest since entering Oregon. Most of them claim the celebra tion along the way. is so enthu siastic and visitors stay so late there is not much time left for sleep. The wagon train has been trav eling in the early hours of the day to escape the heat. Freeway Ribbon Cut Earlier Thursday the wagon train took part in ceremonies ded icating the new Kamela freeway section of Mt. Emily, 19 miles west of La Grande. Wagonmaster Tex Serpa cut the red ribbon held by Centennial queen Sharon Noyes to officially open the new section of freeway. While the ceremony was in pro gress the Blue Mountain Boys from La Grande broke In and told Serpa he would "have to show a special pass to get Into Pendle ton." Whereupon Serpa was given a big piece of bark with the "pass" letten.4 upon it. Tonight's campsite was to b at a place called Holpuch Cabin. York In mid-September. It was believed that a Khrush chev visit to the United States would broadly follow the pattern of Nixon's current tour of Russia. It would therefore be primarily a "look-see'' operation with no for mal negotiations on any of the major cold war issues. Allied quarters felt that a Khrushchev meeting with Eisen hower could, however, be a vital preliminary to a subsequent cun mit meeting. t .