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WEATHER Fair through Sunday with a few thunderstorms Sunday; low tonight 50-55; high Sun day 85-yo. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 290tU luui 63rd Yr LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1959 Pric 5 Cnt h .: I1 A ,v -v PLAN RANGE CAMP VISIT John La Verdure points to the site of the range management camp south of Prairie City that the boys will visit next v.:ek. Robbie Fallow, left, Bob Peacock, James Hicks and La Verdure will attend the Society of Range Managers camp through the cour tesy of the Union County Livestock Association, Union County Farm Bureau, Ua ion County Seed Growers and the Soil Conservation Service. (Observer Photo) Western Allies OK Khrushchev's Trip GENEVA UPI The western allies have approved a possible invitation to Soviet Premier Niki ta Khrushchev to visit the United States, reliable sources at the Big Four Foreign , Minister's Confer ence said today. Britain, France and West Ger many were informed in the past faw days that President Eisen hower is considering such an in vitation possibly 'before the end of Vice President Richard M. Nix on's Soviet trip or, more likely, soon, after he returns home. The western allies were said to have expressed no objections to such a, visit, the sources said. Ik May Visit Russia However, there was no confir mation of rumors that Eisenhower might himself visit Russia later, possibly in November or Decem ber, prior to an East-West sum mit meeting. The western -powers seemed to have abandoned hopes of any Ber- Man Arrested On Bad Check Brow Provost, 25, of Great Falls, Mont., was arrested Thursday at a local motel and charged with forgery. ' Provost registered in the motel about 1 a.m. Thursday and gave a check to the manager from a local bank. The check was for $20 and was made out in his favor. It was signed Bob Kelly. Later in the morning, the man ager, checked with the bank and found that the bank had no ac count with a person by that name. Provost was brought before Judge Miller where he waived preliminary hearing and went be fore Judge W .F. Brownton yes terday afternoon. Provost Is in the county jail under a $1,000 bail. Stray Dog Reported A stray dog was picked up Friday at the home of Mrs Beard, 1306 F avenue. It is a small male, part cocker, with a bad rope burn on his neck. There is no other identification on the animal. Nikita Will Come To U.S. When The Time Is Ripe' MOSCOW UPI Premier Nikita Khrushchev indicated to day that he would like to pay a visit to the United States "when the time is ripe." Khrushchev made the remark in response' to a question from thai correspondent while he was inspecting the U.S. Air Force 707 jetliner that brought Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon here from the United States. Khrushchev was asked whether he would like to fly nonstop to America in Nixon's plane. "This one or some other one," be replied. "That is not a ques . tin settlement on the foreign min isters' level and looked instead for a settlement from higher up, possibly in talks between Eisen hower and Khrushchev. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt said before he flew back to Ger many today that he expects no unilateral Soviet action against the isolated city after the confer ence ends Wednesday. . "I feel quite confident about the situation as it was explained to me by the western foreign min isters," Brandt said. Only Five Days Left With only five days left to ne gotiate before Secretary of State Christian A. Ilerter returns to the United States, the foreign minis ters talks have taken on the ap pearance of a hold-the-fort opera tion. Although they intend to strive for some sort of agreement up to the last minute, the western powers mainly are concerned now with how to end the meeting on a "friendly basis" so as not to generate an atmosphere of crisis. Three key demands by the Rus sians were holding up an accord: Sharp reduction of the western garrisons in Berlin; an 18-month time limit on guaranteeing west ern rights in the former German capital: and elevation of East Germany to equal status with West Germany in working out a plan for reunification. Bands At Centennial Can't Play For Free PORTLAND UPI The Port land local of the Musicians union Friday tossed cold water on a Centennial Exposition plan to have two bands play free at the Centennial grounds here. The bands involved are one from Bea verton tiigh school and an Air Force group from C o I o r a do Springs, Colo. Howard Rich, union business agent, indicated the union might change its mind at a meeting next week about the Beaverton band. Wayne Dillard, - Centennial Shows executive producer, said the union gave no reason for dis approving the request. tion of principle that is, the type of plane to be used. "When?" this reporter asked. "When the time is ripe, in good time." Khrushchev said. The remark was the latest ex pression of Khrushchev's known desire to visit the United States. Some members of the Nixon party and perhaps the vice pres ident himself are known to favor such a visit U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson accompanied Khrush chev on his leisurely tour of the plane. The Premier tried out the pi let's seat, went over the plane from nose to tail, and eventually I .. z R. M. Scott Retires From U.P. Robert M. Scott put in his last day's work as chief clerk in the assistant superintendent's office yesterday, after 39 years with the Union Pacific railroad. Scott will begin his retirement today. The railroad presented Scott with an outboard motor and portable gas tank. Scott has worked on railroads for a total of 44 years since he worked for the Santa Fe line for five years before joining the UP. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have three daughters. They are Winifred Braden, Shirley Davis, and Eve lyn Fuller. Now that he is retired, Scott plans to "just loaf" and catch up on some hunting and fishing. Mrs. Scott retired from her teaching profession this year. She was a teacher at Greenwood school last year. Four Persons Drown Friday By United Press International Blistering heat took Oregonians to tne lakes and rivers Friday and four persons drowned. A 16 year-old Portland youth. Jack Tyler Thomas, drowned in the Clackamas river at High Rocks Friday while swimming with a companion. Richard Sailer said Thomas was crossing the river behind him and when he turned around Thomas had disap peared. His body was recovered about two hours later. Another drowning took the life of 22-year-old Bob Willis, Corval lis, in Colorado Lake four miles from CorvalMs, officers said the man was working on an outboard engine on a boat when he fell. Leland Claire Young of Med ford drowned in the Rogue river while fishing with a teen-age com panion. Authorities said the man apparently fell and bumped his head. Issac Davis, Portland, drowned in the Clackamas river while fish ing with his wife. The woman said he waded out to untangle some of his tackle and vanished. His body was recovered two hours later. took a seat in the cabin. He munched a few peanuts, sampled some American whisky, and questioned the 'pilot about the performance of the 707 as com pared to Russian jets. "I would like to suggest a toast to the government of the United States, the President, the vice president and his representative here, the ambassador," Khrush chev said. Thompson replied with another toast: "This is a conversion of a mili tary plane to civilian use. I'd like to propose a toast to the time when we cm convert all military planes to civilian use." La Grande iYouth Dies In Wreck A La Grande youth was killed and two passengers injured when their car crashed into a concrete culvert near Lostine early this morning. I Orville Allen Rogers. 19, died at i approximately 12:10 a.m. when he was thrown from his car into a I water filled ditch and the car rolled on top of him. Larry Vermillion. 21. 2012 Oak St.. and Gerald McCoy. 23, of Route 1 were taken to Wallowa Memorial hospital where their con dition was reported as good. Vermillion has a shoulder dis location and McCoy has a broken ankle and skull concussion. Roeers car was proceeding to ward Enterprise, traveling at 55' mph, when he attempted to puss another car according to Wallowa County Coroner Lenthal Bollman. The car struck the culvert head on and threw Rogers from the car the coroner continued. The other two occupants of the car. one riding in front, the other in back, were found in the grass outside the car. Rogers is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rogers of La Grande. Nixon Calls Pravda Liar MOSCOW UPH Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon called the Communist party newspaper Pravda a liar in his nationwide radio-TV speech tonight. He said there was "not a shred of truth" in a Pravda report that on the morning after he arrived here, he tried to give a poor man some money so that western photographers would take a pic ture of the incident and send it around the world. Nixon said that what really hap pened was this: . ' As he was about to leave the open air market, several people with whom he had been chatting asked him for tickets to the Amer ican Exhibition, "I told them I did not have any with me but that I would be glad to buy some tickets for those pres ent who wanted to attend the ex hibition," he said. "One of the group explained that it was not a question of their not having money for the tickets but simply a question of their not being able to obtain them. I told him I would be glad to check in to the matter and see if I could get tickets for him. "These are the simple facts... and I can only add that irrespon sible reporters should never for get that in the end truth always catches up with a lie." Father Flies To Bedside Of Rescued Boy GRAND CANYON. Ariz. UPI John Manson Owens Jr. today flew here from Georgia to the bedside of his 15-year-old son who survived seven days in the wilds and heat of the Grand Canyon. The reunion verged on tears. "Boy, am I glad to see you!" they said in unison immediately after the father entered his son's hospital room. The youth was resting comfortably and was downing a lime sherbet when his father walked into his room. 'Do you hurt anywhere?" the father asked. "Just my stomach from eat ing," the boy replied. "It must have shrunk." First they shook hands. Then they embracedj face to face. Owens flew to Phocr.ix from Savannah by commercial plane and then to Grand Canyon in a chartered United Press Interna tional plane. The boy said from his hospital bed that he prayed constantly during his ordeal in the heat and dryness of the wild canyon area. "I prayed and prayed, all day. every day." Appointment Approved By Queen Elizabeth HALIFAX. Nova Scotia (UPD Queen Elizabeth today approved the appointment of Maj. Gen George P. Vanier as governor general of Canada in one of the final official acts of her 4D-day Canadian tour. The Queen, who leaves here by plane for Britain tonight, formal ly approved the appointment of the 71-year-old soldier-diplomat to succeed retiring Vincent Massey at a meeting with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and all but three members of his Cabinet this morning. Nixon Tensions On Kennedy Tells Running Plans Next PORTLAND UPI' - Sen. John Kennedy I). Mass. I today desig n;itcd next January as the time when he will furmully announce whether he will seek the Demo cratic nomination fur president in He said a good reason fur not making an announcement before was that he was now embroiled in the Senate session, particularly since the Kennedy-Ervin labor re form bill is now before the House. He said most of the changes in the bill so lar have been "im pnnenients" but he was afraid of unreasonably totisjh anti - laluir amendments "in the name of re form" that would defeat its pur pose. "But I'm sure we will have a bill." he added. Kennedy said the Oregon pri mary race would be "significant" because all nationally-prominent candidates would have their names on the ballot under a new state law. The law passed by the 105!) Legislature gives the Oregon Sec retary of State sweeping power in placing on the ballot names of persons generally advocated. Asked if he would campaign ac tively in Oregon provided lie an nounces his candidacy, the sena tor said, "Quite obviously if you're going to he a candidate, you're going to be in Oregon." Kennedy said he thought Vice President Richard Nixon's trip to Russia was "good but doubted its political significance except for an "immediate advantage." The youthful Democrat said he Keep Oregon Green Program Intensified The Keep Oregon Green cam paign is being "intensified in East ern Oregon this summer" Albert Wiesendanger, executive secretary of the Keep Oregon Green Associa tion told Riley D. Allen, Union county KOG chairman upon his arrival in La Grande from Salem. "We not only want to prevent man-caused fires in our forests, but we are also anxious to stop costly range fires which have taken a heavy toll of feed from cattle and threatened homes, power-line poles and fences," Wies endanger said. "We can expect little relief until fall rains come, so Keep Oregon Green is appealing to every citizen to be on the alert and promptly report any fire sighted which may be man-caused or started by a lightning storm. The quicker the report is received by wardens and rangers the better chance they have in promptly controlling the spread of the lire, said i Sen- anger is enroute to Bend, Lake view. Burns, Ontario, Baker and Joseph to contact KOG chairmen and committees. A forest fire prevention float was entered in the Chief Joseph Days parade today. Governors Agree On Nixon's Trip NEW YORK cUPIi-Three gov ernors, all on their way to the Governors' Conference in Puerto Rico, unanimously agreed today that the Soviet 'our of Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon will ctm- tribute to better Soviet-American relations. The governors were Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey. Christo pher Del Sesto of Rhode Island, and Robert E. Smylie of Idaho. They left Idlewild Airport this morning for the conference which is scheduled to open in San Juan Sunday. Smylie. who toured the Soviet Union with Meyner, said he thought Nixon has had "a very great success and has enchanced his stature very considerably in the United States and throughout the world." Tire And Wheel Theft Reported To Police Leo N. Streil, 1311 N Ave . re ported for the West Coast Tele phone Co., the theft of two tires and wheels, Friday at the local police station. The tire sand wheels were taken from the West Coast Tel ephone Company's two pole trai ler, parked in back of the Van Petten Lumber Co. at the com pany's pule pile. Proposes Plan January himself had no plans for visiting Russia but hoped to go to Africa after the end of this Senate ses sion. Kennedy arrived in Portland at 8:15 a. in He has a busy three day schedule which includes at tending the Oregon Centennial this afternoon and shaking tonight at tile Dave Epps Memorial dinner. He meets with local Democrats and has two television appear ances scheduled Sunday and on Monday goes by car to Gearhart to speak at the Oregon AFL I'lO convention. He drives back here and flies to Washington Mon day night. Timber Fires Continue To Blaze In State By United Press International A brush, grass and timber fire that destroyed three homes and the post office at Wilderville Fri day continued to rage out of con trol today over from 600 to 850 acres, mostly state and private land. The State Forest Patrol in Grants Pass said two other Jo sephine county fires, both about 10 acres, were controlled late Friday night. One was about one mile east of Selma and the other four miles northwest of Merlin. The Wilderville fire also in volved some Bureau of Land Man agement territory, the patrol said. The homes and post office had been evacuated as the flames raced unchecked. Rebel Creek Fire A fire of more than 200 acres in thl Rebel Creek area of the Willamette Nations! Forest con tinued today to eat up old growth timber and brush and forest offi cials said they hoped to get 200 or more men on the firelines. Eight smoke jumpers dropped into the area this morning and two planes loaded with borate slurry were standing by at Eu gene. David Gibney, forest supervisor. said he felt the blaze was defi nitcly man-caused, possibly by careless fishermen. The fire erupted about 3 p.m. Friday along Trail Creek about 50 miles from Springfield. The area is near the Cougar Dam construc tion site on the south fork of the McKenzie river. No Let Up U. S. Weather Bureau reports indicated no let up in the fire danger in Southwestern and East ern Oregon but a forecast for the Northwest part of the state and through the Coast range down graded the danger to moderate with cooler weather expected through Sunday. High School Records Ready At Faulkners La Grande Senior High chorus and band students may get their records at Mrs. Betty Faulkner's home at 2210 Oak St., during the next two weeks. iry v. FISHIN' IS FINE! YV. II. Miller of La Grande said it "looks like we'll catch our limit" as he sat by the shore of the recently stocked Morgan Lake. Miller and his wife took relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tracy of Glendale, Calif., to the lake for a day of fishing and re laxation. (.Observer Photo) Russian POLITE . SPEECH CALLS FOR INCREASED CONTACT MOSCOW (UPI) Vice President Richard M. Nixon today laid before a nationwide audience of 10 million Russians a broad plan to ease tensions Russia through mutual trust in a polite but hard hitting hook-up and a special combine of 10 television outlets, Nixon called for increased contact between Soviet and Am erican leaders as a means of in-i suring the peace. (Soviet broadcasts to - North America on different wave lengths total 40 hours daily.) Nixon did not mention the possi bility that President Eisenhower may invite Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the United States but indicated he personally fav ored such an invitation. Besides calling for more con tacts between leaders of the two countries, Nixon has advanced these proposals to ease tensions: Regular radio and television broadcasts by Khrushchev to the American people, in exchange for Eisenhower being given the same privilege to talk to the Russian people. Exchange of Information Agreement that all of Khrush chev's speeches on foreign policy be printed in the United States and all of Eisenhower's speeches on the same subject be printed in the Soviet Union. An end to Soviet jamming of American broadcasts "so that the Soviet people may hear broad casts from our country just as the American people can hear many hours of broadcasts a day from the Soviet Union." This proposal also included a plea for "a freer flow of newspapers and maga zines here just as we Americans purchased (one and one-half mil lion) Soviet publicans in the last year alone." A greatly expanded program of exchange of peoples and of cultural programs. Removal of the language bar rier by having millions of Ameri can and Russian students learn ing one another's language. Asks Scientific Cooperation Nixon also called for "peaceful competition, not only in producing the best factories but in producing better lives for our children." "Let us cooperate in our ex ploration of outer space." he said. "As a worker told me in Novosibirks, let us go to the moon together. "Let us extend the concept of open skies. What the world also needs are open cities, open minds and open hearts." Although the general tone of the Nixon address was conciliatory, he did not hesitate to lay it on the line when he came to the question of Soviet objections to the presence of U.S. military bas es near the Iron Curtain. "Whenever the fear and suspi cion that caused us and our allies to take measures for collective self-defense are removed, the rea son for our maintaining bases will be removed," the vice president said. "A striking illustration of why we maintain bases and strong military forces is the fact that one-fourth of the entire production of the U.S.S.R. goes into armaments."! To End Radio between the United States and and understanding. address on a nationwide radio Communist Slaps Girl At Festival VIENNA (1'PH-A burly Com munist guard at the seventh,' World Youth Festival today hit' an American girl delegate across the face for distributing leaflets on U.S. agriculture outside a festival meeting hall. Anita Tanner, 20. Van Wert, Ohio, said "200 pounds of Aus trian man let me have it right across my face. It's been a little swollen ever since." i Two other Communist guards stood by and watched as the guard hit Miss Tanner. ' Miss Tanner, who is five feet five inches tall and weighs 120 pounds, was undaunted by her ex perience. She said she would be back distribution anti-Communist leaflets and she informed Austrian police of the incident. Miss Tanner had put a packet of booklets entitled "A Guide to Ag riculture in the United States" outside the festival building. She had been standing there for about IS minutes before the Communists moved In. She said they demanded her delegate's card and then tried to snatch the booklets away. When Miss Tanner bent down to save them, the guard came over and smacked her. The leaflets were lost in the skirmish, she said. After the incident, Miss Tanner went to other festival officials and demanded her card back. It was returned, but the officials refused to apologize or to discipline the guard who struck her. Miss 'fanner is a student at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., where she majors in Eng lish. She plans to teach after leaving college. The incident was the worst of six reported involving American delegates and festival guards. Drew Pearson's Daughter Sues ' For Divorce LOS ANGELES ( UPI Ellen P. Arnold. 32, daughter of political columnist Drew Pearson, sued for divorce Friday from attorney George L. Arnold, 37. Mrs. Arnold charged her hus band with extreme cruelty and asked custody of their three child ren, Andre, 11, George. 8, and Joseph, S. Mrs. Arnold and Arnold, son of former Solicitor General Thur mond Arnold, were married in Washington, D.C., in 1947, and separated April 15. 1958. yVk
