OBSERVER WEATHER Mostly fair through Tues day; highs 84-90; low 42 47. 291th Issue 63rd Year LA GRANDE, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1959 Price S Cents isenhower, Nikita Announce Visits For Fall LA GRAND E xchaoqe HOT TIME FOR FIREFIGHTERS Flames roared through the brush and trees on the slope above the Upper Perry Bridge yesterday morning. The fire probably started when someone threw a lighted cigarette or cigar from a passing car according to Forest Service Officials. Fifty men lour cats were sun Datuing 400 acres. Roaring Welcome For Nixon WARSAW iLPIl Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, heart ened by a roaring welcome from a quarter of a million jubilant Poles, plunged today into a round of talks with Poland's leaders. The Vice president's talks with President Aleksander Zawadski and Communist Secretary Wla dyslaw Gomulka. coinciding with Poland's first "meatless Mon day." were expected to include Polish requests for increased credits and shipments of surplus farm commodities from the Unit ed States-. Warsaw's usually - staid news papers went overboard totiay in reporting Nixon's triumphant tr rival. The Communist organ Trybuna Ludu ran a three-coiumn picture of the vice president's arrival at babice Airhase and a four - col umn description of the cordial reception" he got the people of Warsaw. Slowo Powszchne, organ very Communist - sponsored church group, front-paged a pictur Mrs. Nixon over the caption. English. "I like Pat." Nixon has scheduled no formal speeches or press conferences during his stay here. His wile, will visit a children's hospital. nu:sery schools and the head quarters of the Polish Association l .r the Blind. The vice president's arrival from Moscow Sunday touched off one of the greatest spontaneous demonstrations that has been seen here since World War II. An esti mated 250.000 Poles turned out to shout "Bravo . . . Long live Nixon . . . Long Live Eisenhower ... We Love Americans!",. Firemen Answer Five Fire Calls During Weekend The La Grande fire department was called out five times over the weekend. Firemen were called to three grass fires, a barn lire and to shut off a gas stove. The first call came at 7:08 Sat urday night. Firemen were calkd to the Clark Dairy to put out a small barn fire. Early Sunday morning the State Forest Service called to report a small fire in the 200 block on M street. When firemen arrived ttry found a controlled fire and a burn ing permit had been issued. At S:25 aJTl. the department was called on First and X st.ecls to put out a grass fire. Almost three hours lat-r another grass fire was reported at 1616 Z Ave. The fire was burning next to a wood shed but firemen controlled the blaze. The final call came at 5 20 this morning. Firemen were called to the home of Leo Westenskow. 1311 Z Ave., to shut off a gas stove. The handle was stuck and resi dents were unable to shut the gas off. The fire department has a special wrench to shut off ga (loves. i -.H i -k It- tne maze mis morning. tne v . - ' .!"S'-i CALL FOR HELP Tommy Page of the Oregon State Forest Service looks down the edge of the mountain above the Upper Perry Brjdge at the fire that burned throughout the day. Page Is adjusting the radio he car-, ries to call to the supervisor at the road. The radio can be collapsed into the small box and carried over the shoulder. (Observer Photo) Kennedy Is Not Sorry For Irritating Hoffa SEASIDE lUPU Sen. John F. Kennedy iD-Mass.t told the Oregon AFL-CIO convention here today he had no apologies for having earned t'.ie hostility of Teamsters President James Hof fa and assured delegates that the Keinedy labor reform bill . is aimed at racketeers and hood lums, net at collective bargaining. He said he didn't blame the AKL-CIO for trying to change some of the Senate floor amend ments, because they were unde sirable and unfortunate. The danger now. he said, was jf a Republican-southern Demo-c-alic coalition in the House sub situting a measure that would be anti-labor, unworkable and puni tive. Kennedy, who winds up a three day Oregon visit tonight and re turns t Washington, U. C, told the delegates he was gratified that Sep. Wayne Morse D-Ore.. described by him as "probably Hie most distinguished labor law opert in the Senate," co-spon vS lire covered an esumaiea (Observer Photo) ' I sored the labor bill both in 1958 and this year. Kennedy said working on the bill and serving on the Senate Rackets Committee headed by Sen. McClellan (D-Ark.) had not been easy assignments. "There has been a tendency among some people to lump in one confusing indictment both the Kennedy brothers, all the labor Sills and all the McClellan committee in vestigations," he added. The senator said the press and public should realize that just be cause "a few bad apples have been found in the barrel," there is no reason to penalize the labor movement as a whole. The public, he added, also must recognize the employers' responsi bility for labor-management rack eterring. t Kennedy had a busy rour.d of appearances in Portland during the weekend, including two tele vision shows Sunday and attend ance at the Centennial Saturday afternoon. Fire Blazes Near La Grande; 400 Acres Fall To Flames By NEIL ANDERSEN Observer Staff Writer Flames roared up the steep slopes of the canon just alxive the Upper Perry bridge Sunday morning as firefighters bat tled desperately to control the flames. rorest Service personal combined with railroad workers and highway construction crews to battle flames, smoke ami the whims of the wind to confine t he e.rass and brush fire that has already burned an estilaied 4U(l acres. This morning crews still battled the flames in an effort 11 Killed In Oregon Accidents By United Pmi International At least 11 persons met acci dental death in Oregon during the weekend. Six died in traffic, three in plane crashes, one when a tractor overturned and a boy was accidentally shot. A collision between a car and a bus near Pendleton late Sunday resulted in the death of Mrs. Stel la Boyer. 38, John Day. Her hus-' band, Don, 41, and daughter. Mar tha, 18, a Pendleton Round-Up princess, were injured critically The 26 bus passengers escaped injury. The bus driver, T. L. Wil liams, Seattle, suffered a cut lip. The Boyer car was pulling a horse trailer. One of the two hors es was Injured. Car Hits Two ' Tkv young men from xSerfl were killed Saturday night when struck by a car about five miles north of Salem, according to state police. The victims were identi fied as Jimmie Owen Evans, 22. and Terrill L. Van Huss, 17. . The bodies were found Sun day , morning in an onion field along Highway 99. State po lice later arrested Clifford James Crowe. 18. of Warm Springs, on a negligent homicide charge. A one car accident three miles north of Boardman Sunday 'after noon took the life of Cecil Mont gomery. 33, Walla Walla. State police said he apparently lost con trol of his car and it overturned. Orville Allen Rogers. 19. La Grande, was killed early Saturn day in a one-car accident near Wallowa. Two others. Larry Ver million. 21. and Gerald McCoy, 23, both of La Grande, were hurt. Plana Victims Listed T. A. Simard,, 71, Hermiston, was killed Saturday when his car was struck by another near the Stanfield junction, state police said. Officers later arrested Rob ert Daniel Syler, 27, an airman from Fairchild AFB near Spokane on a negligent homicide charge. LaVerne Fiesterman, Clarkston, Wash., and Mrs. Lester Kieseck- er. Toy, Ore., died haturaay night in the crash of a small plane near Troy. Donald Jerome Hanlcy, 21, Pen dleton, was injured fatally Sun day when the small plane he was piloting crashed seven miles northeast of Stanfield. - Toichi Okawa; 41, Portland, was killed Saturday when a tractor he was operating slid down an embankment and overturned on him. Daniel Clinton Smith. 4. Bridge view, was wounded fatally Satur day when a .22 rifle in the back of a pickup truck accidentally discharged in Josephine county. Rotary Official To Speak Here At Luncheon W. W. McCready, Governor of the 510th District of Rotary Inter national, will speak at the regular Rotary meeting tomorrow. While here McCready will also confer with Club President Ross E. Hearing. Secretary Raymond O. Williams and committee chairmen on administration and service activities. McCready was elected as District Governor of Rotary International for the 1959-60 fiscal year at Ro tary'i 50th Annual Convention in New York. He is one of 261 Dis trict Governors supervising the acUvities of more than 10.200 busi ness and professional men in 113 countries throughout the world. In Canyon tn niup up the fir. Apprnximu ely Ml men. four bulldozers and ix tjnk trucks were still at work this morning The fire apparently started when someone threw a lighted cigar or cigarette from a passing according to Forest Service olfieials. Thirty-five men ans wered the call which came about 10:30 yesterday morning Fire trails were started on the cast side of the fire and by 11:30 the men, their eves red from the smoke, clothes aid faces streaked with soot and sweat. hi.d cut a trail about half way upihe d"adlocked Big Four talks on the rock-strewn hill. Three "cats" were at work at tempting to cut a fire trail across ;he top of the ridge and prevent the fire from sweeping over. The fire started just below the Bennett property about three quarters of a mile above the bridge. Flames raced across the top of fir trees lifting a column of smoke into the air that filt ered down into the Grande Ronde Valley. The wind which shifted from south to west and back sent clouds of smoke across the fire aiea obscuring vision and caus ing fire fighters to choke on the reid fumes. The sun, when it was visible, looked like a huge orange ball throuph the smoke. Traffic was never stopped al though 50 to 100 peope stood on the south side of the bridge and watched the firefighters work iing on the hill side. At the west edge of the fire a bulldozer was cutting a fire trail and a man was liqhting back fires. The wind shifted and flam es came rearing - back on the driver and equipment. The driv-J er jumped trom tne "cai ana me flames swept over the tractor with no apparent injury to thek eouipment. VKnu'Hnrp in till st:ite forest fires burned out of control and ! U..nAnrl- nt KnttlnH rllfpprl . r terrain to try to bring them un der control. nnn h1:i7o covered nearly 1.500 acres about 18 nines souineasii of Baker in Deer Creek Canyon. Another fire had covered about ? 100 acres in Dark Canyon south of Baker. Bureau of Land Management officials said, after flying over the Deer Creek Canyon blaze. that unless there was a "blow uri" the fire would be contained Liberal use of Borate was Deing made on the Deer Creek blaze which was in terrain so rugged that horses could not get to About 140 men were fighting the lightning caused Dark Canyon blaze. Fires in the Vale and Burns riictririta nai'f nppn mnnuL-u up according to BLM officials. One covered 1.200 acres of rangeland ' in the Riverside area and two small blazes burned in the Juni per timber north of Juntura. Fire in Jackson and Josephine counties in southwest Oregon caused some damages to O C limber.- A fire in the Wilderness area which had burned some 900 acres was controlled. The Reher creek fire in the Willamette National Forest was reported checked. . Union Man Hurt In Car Accident Darrell Van Leuven of Union suffered a fractured jaw when his car hit a power pole a mile south of Union on the Union North Powder highway. The accident happened about 8:15 p m. Sunday night. A tourist brought Van Leuven into Union and he was trans ferred to a La Grande hospital. Power was- cut out at Telocaset and North Powder for bImxiI an hour as a result. ' p.njn.mm'nii in mai - - E - V- NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV Will Visit U.S. Big Four Talks Halt Is Sought GENEVA (1'PH The West agreed todnv to seek a rere&s nf Germany until after the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings. Western diplomats were confi dent that any risk of a new Soviet move against Berlin was out of the question until the exchange of visits had taken place and prob ably until after an East-West sum mit meeting that generally was expected to follow. As a result, the western foreign minist ts decidvd to call for an indefinite recess When the 9-week- old li'neva meeting winds up Wednesday evening, Sretary of State Christian A Herter and the British, French and West Germany foreign minis tcis met this morning to discuss ways to end the Geneva meeting, British Foreign S-retary Selwyn Lloyd was reported to have dis cussed it over lunch with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro- hnyko at Russian headquarters. With announcement of the long expected Eisenhower - Khrushchev exchange of visits, Geneva diplo mats were convinced th imme diate danger has gone out of the Berlin situation. r !F ' 1 . ' ' f i. mm . t V - A V . - -J,,. '. 1 . . - Wr I , i ml W it, I I V ' - 1 y -si ; . r.m 1 1 ' i i iwL. i i.i .t . taa uii hi n INDIAN MAID Mary Jane Miles who is a Nez Perce from Lapaway, Idaho, was among many Indians on hand for Chief Joseph Days this weekend. Mary Jane who has short hair wore a braided wig as part of her costume. (Observer Photo) IKE HOPES INVITATION WILL SPUR GENEVA TALKS WASHINGTON (UP) A dramatic exchange of visits between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to "Further the cause of peace" was announced today. Khrushchev will come to the United States in September. Eisenhower will go to Russia later in the fall, probably in October. Announcement of the major cold war development was made simullaneous'y by the Presi dent in Washington and by the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Mos cow. Khrushchev's trip two or three days in Washington and a 10-day tour of other Varts of the United States will be his first visit to this country. The Presi dent may accompany him on part of his trip outside of Washington. Eisenhower told a suddenly summoned press conference his stay in Russia may be a little shorter than Khrushchev's heVe. Earlier Trip To Europ Before these visits take place, the President will go to Europe late this month to confer with the heads of the three allied gov ernments British Prime Minis ter" Harold Macmillan, French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Eisenhower said he and Khrushchev during their visits will "exchange views about problems of mutual interest" but on a non official basis. In a formal statement which the President read to reporters, he said both governments hope the visits "will help create better understanding. . . and will pro mote the cause of peace." However, in elaborating on his statement, he stressed that he and Khrushchev will confine them selves to "informal talks" and will not enter into any formal negotiations on East-West dis disputes. He emphasized that dur ing his meetings with Khrushchev, he has no intention to speak for the other western powers. "I can be a spokesman only for America and its government," he said. - Chane To Mt Paopl The President said Khrush chev's visit here will give him opportunity "at first hand" to see the country, its people and to ac quaint himself with their life." Sm VISITS an Pag J y.! -.V , Vsl 7;f, f'W m m.. v a a. Congress Applauds Exchange S WASHINGTON (UPI) Mem bers of Congress generally hailed today the impending exchange of visits by President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev. However one Republican sena tor. Homer E. Capehart. (Ind.J. said "it looks like we're again being taken in by the Russians." Capehart, a member of the Sea ate Foreign Relations Committee, said the Russians have not done anything "to .warrant all-out friendliness." "In the past we refused to In vite dictators who were friendly to us Peron, Tito and Franco," he added. "Now we've invited the biggest dictator of all." Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen (III.) said not only this generation but history as well "will applaud the bold move by President Eisenhower to bring Khrushchev to the United States and to return the visit at an early date." Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (Tex.) said "this is a type of exchange which could do much for the whole world." Emphazfog his belief in An "open curtain," Johnson said the exchange of visits should be en couraged "at every level so that we can know the truth about each other." Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.) said such ex changes of visits are "acts inti mately related to the conduct of foreign policy." He pledged his "full support" to the President's decision. Mansfield is a Foreign Relations Committee member. - Earlier, Capehart and Sen Al exander Wiley (R-Wis.) had urged a "go slow" attitude toward inviting Khrushchev. Police Note Violations On Weekend Two La Grande men were arrest ed for traffic violations over the weekend the police reported. Jacob Stoltz, 1514 R St., was l stopped by police Sunday after noon for operating a truck with expired license plates. j Bail was set at $10 and a hear ing scheduled for 3 p.m. today. Robert C. Harris III. 1902 Second St., was picked up by police on Adams Ave. between Fir and Greenwood Streets for violation of the basic rule according to police.- Harris was doing 30 miles pep hour in a 20 mile per hour tone the police stated. Bail was set at tlO and a hear. .it- 3, ing scheduled for three Monday VJtI afternoon, i , Loren Huges, 2118 Oak St.. re ymr " I ported to the La Grande police that someone had attempted to break into his store. A hole was cut through the L:L. 11 1 tl I i. r .. i.uiii wan iii ine uacfc oi xnm store. The hole was large enough ior someone to crawi tnrougn tne I noliee said. A check of the stock revealed that nothing was missing accord ing to Hughes. i Jerry Bingner, 1812 Cedar St.,' reported the theft of his son's bike to La Grande police Sunday. Bingner told police the bike was taken from in front of the Veterans. Memorial swimming pool at ap proximately 3:30 in the afternoon. The bike was white and had Li cense No. 1815. , The bike was valued at $60, tha police said. . . A transient was picked uo by La Grande police Saturday and charged with vagrancy. ,v William LeRoy Privett, Ketchum, Idaho, was arrested at 12:15 and lodged In the city jail. Ball was set at $20 and a hearing scheduled for three this afternoon. .-. ' .t