Ike Remains Firm
On His Conditions
For Summit Talks
WILL ASK NIKITA WHY HE
BLOCKED TALKS PROGRESS
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPI) President Eisenhower said
today he would ask Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev why
he blocked progress at the Geneva conference which might
have led to a Big Four summitt conference.
Eisenhower told a news conference' here that his con
ditions for attending a summitt meeting remain the same
mere must be some progress on Last-West problems
Senators
Fail To
Dump Veto
WASHINGTON UPI The
Senate rejected today an attempt
by Democrats to override Presi
dent Eisenhower's veto of their
$1,375,000,000 multiprogram hous
ing bill.
The vote was 55-40 for overrid
ing. This was nine votes short of
the required two-thirds majority
Republicans closed ranks and
with some Democratic backing
prevented the Senate from mus
tering the two-thirds majority
needed to overturn the veto.
Rejection of the move paved the
way for the Senate Banking Com
mittee to act on a subcommittee's
proposed $1,030,000,000 substitute.
It was the fourth attempt by
the Senate to override an Eisen
hower veto since 19S3 and every
one has failed. Two of those at
tempts succeeded in the Senate
but failed in the House.
Even if the Senate had reversed
the chief executive, there was lit
tle if any chance that the House
would have followed suit.
Other congressional news:
Labor: A first test of voting
strength in the fierce House fight
over labor reform legislation may
come by nightfall. The general
debate must be concluded before
Friday or Saturday.
Contracts: House investigators
summoned officials of the Doug
las Aircraft Co and Western Elec
tric Corp. to find out if the firms
published big newspaper ads to in
fluence Congress and the Defense
Department In the Bbmarc : Nike
missile feud.
Fire Destroys
Two Rooms In
Local House
Flames gutted two rooms cf an
upstairs apartment in a building
at 1808 Third Ave. this morning
but firemen were able to put out
the blaze before it spread through
the building.
The house, owned by Marcus
Roesch. housed four families total
ing eight persons. The fire started
in the apartment occupied by the
Roy Jordan family from an un
determined cause.
The fire call came at 9:55 and
when firemen reached the building
thick, black smoke was coming
from the windows. Firemen placed
a ladder against the back of the
house, broke a window and direct
ed a stream of water into flames.
Two m-n equipped with gas
masks and oxygen tanks went up
the front stairs and into the apart
ment to battle the fi;e. Firemen
were able to confine the fire to a
bedroom and a small kitchen in the
back of the house.
The Jordan's daughter opened
the closet door and looked in to
see if hr clothes were damaged.
- "Oh! my shoes!" she cried. She
turned away with tears in her
eyes. Inside the closet a oair of
white heels lay smudged with ash
and soaked with water.
Sen. McClellan
Defends Secret
UAW Hearings
WASHINGTON UPI Chair
man John L. McClellan (D Ark.)
of the Senate Rackets Committee
said today there was nothing "ab
normal" about the current secret
hearing on the United Auto Work
ers Union (UAW).
, He told newsmen that the com
mittee had frequently interviewed
witnesses in executive session and
some of the cases never reached
the public hearing stage.
But Sen. John F. Kennedy if
Mass.l said It would be "fair and
more in the public interest'' to
open the UAW inquiry to the pub
lic as requested by Union Presi
dent Walter P. Reuther.
Kennedy moved to do this as
the hearing got underway Tues
day, but he was defeated by a
S-I vote. He said he had no plans
to make another attempt.
The committee pressed ahead
with the Inquiry behind closed
doors today.
Committee members and aides
were uniformly tight-lipped about
details.
, m.n ne can see.
The President said he has in
structed his aides to invite
Khrushchev if he wishes to in
spect some military installations,
in order to get some idea of this
country's might. But the Presi
dent said he certainly will bring
no pressure on the Soviet leader
and if he does not want to see
military installations, that's per
fectly all right with Eisenhower.
He told more than 50 newsmen
attending the unusual press ses
sion in a gymnasium-press room
that he hopes his talks with
Khrushchev in Washington and
Moscow will imurove the atmos
phere between East and West.
Eisenhower said the cold war,
which began in 1W5 and was
intensified after the Korean War,
has become such a rigid stale
mate that he and everyone else
should make every effort to break
the deadlock. That, he added,- is
what he is trying to do.
He said his decision to invite
Khrushchev to Washington was
made early in July, after the first
round of foreign ministers nego
tiations at Geneva failed.
The President emphatically
denied a suggestion that his invi
tation to Khrushchev and his de
cision to visit Russia himself con
stituted a reversal of policies
which had been followed when
John Foster Dulles was secretary
of state.
Far from it, he said, declaring
that he and Dulles often had dis
cussed the possibility of what
might come out of a personal talk
by Eisenhower with Khrushchev.
Police Break Up
Anti-American
Demonstration .
SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI One
of the heaviest concentrations of
police ever seen in Santiago
broke up a Communist - led
"march on the U.S. embassy"
here Tuesday night.
A crowd of about 2,500 persons,
who had been attending a Rcd-
organired meeting on the eve of
the opening of the Western Hemi
sphere foreign ministers' confer
ence here started down Merced
Street toward the embassy when
the meeting broke up.
Scores of police, on the alert
for trouble, quickly headed off
the crowd and turned in onto the
nearby Mapocho River bridge.
There vas no major outbreak of
violence, and no casualties were
reported.
Police on foot and on horseback
had been posted to guard the em
bassy, where U.' S. Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter will live
for the five-day duration of the
conference. Motorized troops were
held in reserve nearby to deal
with serious dsorders.
ONE MORE WHACK Roy Todd puts the finishing
touch on a frame support at the County Fair grounds
new eating building. The buildif g is scheduled for com
pletion well before the fair opens. (Observer Photo)
LA GRANDE OBSERVER
299th Issue
NOT PERFECT
BUT EFFICIENT
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI)
Joseph Cretcinamo, M, may
not have committed a perfect
crime, but according to police
it was an eflc'r. en. Po
lice said Tuesday that they
arrested him after ht walked
out of a department store with
four shirts he hadn't paid for
and discovered he had made
out "shopping list" of other
clothe he planned to steal.
Mitchell
Joins Ike
On Labor
WASHINGTON UPI Labor
Secretary James P. Mitchell to
day joined President Eisenhower
in backing a labor reform bill
supported by business groups and
conservatives in the House.
Mitchell disclosed his views in
a letter to Rep. George. M. Wall-
hauser (R-N.J.) just before the
House started its final round of
general dabate on reform legisla
tion. There was a chance the House
could reach its first test of voting
strength in the heated battle be-1
fore nightfall.
The main fight is between the'
Eisenhower endorsed Landrum-j
Griffin bill and a measure drafted ,
by the House Labor Committee, I
which is supported by Speaker I
Sam Rayburn. The outcome was
in doubt, with both sides agreeing
it would be settled by an extreme
ly close vote.
Praises Stronger Bill
Mitchell's letter refuted sugges
tions from some Democrats that
he privately disagreed with Ei-
senhower'3 stand on the stronger
bill. The President praised the
measure in a nationwide radio-tel
evision broadcast last Thursday
night. .
In his letter, Mitchell noted that
Eisenhower described the Lan
drum-Griffin bill as coming clos
est to meeting the standards he
has set out for effective reform
legislation.
"1 agree with the President:
Mitchell said. He urged the House
to pass, such legislation
speedily.
The first balloting would be on
various amendments. A final vote
was not expected before Friday
or possibly Saturday. Only 40 or
50 of the House's 435 members
were reported to be uncommitted.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
House, in the first major test
in its bitter floor fight over
labor reform legislation, today
overwhelmingly rejected a
mild bill endorsed by the AFL
CIO. The vote was 245-132.
The action cleared the way
for a showdown Thursday or
Friday between supporters of
a labor reform bill supported
by President Eisenhower and
a more moderate measure ap
proved by the House Labor
Committee and endorsed by
Houso Democratic leaders.
otegration
Angry
i Z( 1
GOING ON 34 PINTS
Red Cross nurse, Laura Keith, holds what will soon be Bob Ocsterling's 33rd pint
of blood. Ocsterling began giving blood in 1943. He is wearing his costume from
the play "Doctor In Buckskin Clad" in Which he plays the part of Jim Bridger who
loses most of his blood from an arrow wound. The cast is traveling to Independence,
Ore., August 15, where they will give the play in connection with the arrival of the
Wagon Train. . ' (Observer Photo)
Ike Rejects Plan
Intervention By
GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UPI)
President Eisenhower said today
it was shallow thinking to suggest
that the government must inter
vene UTforce a steel strike settle
ment before Soviet Premier Ni
kita Khrushchev visits this coun
try. The suggestion he might inter
vene in the deadlocked steel talks
was made by the industry maga
zine Iron Age. It said the idea
was to settle the strike before
Khrushchev arrives Sept. 15. Ei
senhower repudiated the idea at
a news conference.
At the same time, he gave top
priority for this session of Con
gress to legislation to permit
higher interest rates on federal
bonds, labor reform, financing the
interstate highway program, and
civil rights.
The President discussed the
steel strike in terms of the
Khrushchev visit after being asked
if his attitude toward the role of
the federal government had
Buck Knight works busily away on the top of the frame
at the fair grounds. The building will house three firms
150 persons.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1959
Demonstrators Protest-
changed now that the strike had
entered its fifth week. His direct
reply was that his position had
not changed in the slightest. He
has made it plain in the past he
will maintain a hands-off attitude.
In reply to other questions, Ei
senhower said:
His apparently more aggres
sive leadership recently grew out
of a desire to break the almost
hopeless stalemate in the cold war
and a need to take a more direct
part in shaping legislation inas
much as the Democrats control
Congress.
In the I960 campaign, he will
do all he can to elect a Repub
lican nominee dedicated to mod
erate, sound middle of the road
government. He believes the GOP
needs a vigorous, straight-forward,
hard-hitting candidate who
has public recognition for exper
ience, honesty, integrity and char
acter. But he thinks the worst pos
sible thing he could do would be
to interfere in the convention
GETTING A FAIR START
Violence Flaring-
For Strike
Government
r - - 1 . '
; choice.
Neither he nor his brother,
Milton, would have any part of
a move to nominate the latter for
the vice presidency next year. He
could think of nothing worse than
giving the appearance that a po
litical dynasty is being set up.
Milton is president of Johns
Hopkins University and has un
dertaken a number of missions
for the President.
There were four or five par
ticularly objectionable provisions
in the new housing bill as re
written by a Senate banking sub
committee. He recognizes that all
legislation is a process of com
promise but he will not back away
from principle in this case, sup
port for a sound economy and
avoiding more debt.
After leaving the White
House, he wants to help educate
the American people about to
day's great problems b e e a u s c
there is nothing more important
of the new eating building
and accommodate a total of
(Observer Photo)
STINGING HIGH-PRESSURE
HOSES FORCE BACK CROWD
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) Firemen turned high pres
sure hoses twice today on about 1,000 segregationist dem
onstrators at Central High School. Police bloodied the heads,
of two men, cracked another across the ribs and arrested
20 other persons.
uespite the yelling, cursing demonstrators, Negroes Eliz
abeth Eckford and Jefferson Thomas integrated Central
just before it opened for its fall I
term at noon p.d.t. They avoided
the bulk of the crowd and entered
unharmed.
Three other Negroes integrated
Hall High School in the wealthiest
area of Little Rock this morning
without a hand being raised
against them.
The demonstrators arrested at
Central included six women and
girls. Police Chief Gene Smith
ordered three boys and an old
man, who were among those
seized, arrested for using U.S.
flags to whip up the demon
strators. Police formed a human barri
cade across the streets in front
of Central and enforced Smith's
orders that there would be "no
foolishness."
Demonstrators Held Back
Smith personally jerked loose
the wires of a sound truck that
was playing a parody on "Dixie.'
Firemen drove most of the
demonstrators back with stinging
streams of water from their
hoses. The demonstrators never
got closer than a block to Central.
After Smith had ordered the ar
rest of three boys and a man for
using U.S. flags to whip up the
crowd, he bellowed:
"All students who have Identi
fication clear through this line
and go to the school."
None moved. Smith waited 30
seconds.
"Hose 'em down," Smith or
dered, and the firemen turned the
hoses upon the crowd again.
With the exception of five teen-
agers, the crowd fell back half
a block. "
"Get all five of them and put
them in a car, Smith said. His
men arrested the teen-agers.
School t Were Closed
The scene at Central was rem
iniscent of the bloody battle in
September, 1957, Just before Pres
ident Eisenhower ordered 1,000
paratroopers to Little Rock to
keep the peace and protect nine
Negroes who integrated the
school.
All four of Little Rock s high
schools were closed last year. The
School Board ordered limited in
tegration at two this year.
folice whacked a man and a
chunky, teen-aged boy at Central
for trying to break through their
lines.
Another mac was crying. He
said he had been cracked across
the ribs with a nightstick.
Two boys with a U. S. flag
stood up to the streams of water
from fire hoses. The flag began
to waver and another teen-ager
rushed up to help hold it.
An old woman across the street
from Central turned her back into
the water and cried: "You're not
going to make me move.",
See INTEGRATE On Page I
National GOP Chairman
Plans Visit In Oregon
SALEM (UPI i Appearance of
Republican National Chairman
Thurston Morton at an Oregon
leadership workshop in Salem
Oct. 2-3 was confirmed today by
State Chairman Peter Gunnar.
Gunnar said Morton, who also
is a U. S. senator from Kentucky,
will attend afternoon sessions of
the workshop and speak at a ban
quet in the Marion hotel here Fri
day. Oct. 2.
WEATHER
Clearing tonight: sunny
Thursday; highs Thursday
u w, 10W 43-48.
HOPKINS LEVELS CHARGES
ON BLM SEED
IMBLER,' Ore. UPH State
Sen. , Dwight Hopkins (D Imbler)
said today he has called on Sen.
Wayne Morse and Rep. Al Ull
man, Oregon Democrats, to block
what' ho called "an evil thing" in
the Bureau of Land Management
harvesting seeds of their acreage
"on range lands belonging to the
people of the United States."
Hopkins said the BLM action
had downgraded the prices paid
to growers in Oregon, Idaho and
Nevada who are raising these
seeds commercially or on their
farms and ranches.
Price 5 Cents
Wallowa
Blaze Is
Controlled 5"
Goat creek's 30 acre blaze is
under control today. Fire fighters'
put a fire line around the sub
alpine timber and both smoke,
jumpers and borate slurry planes
were released from the National
forest land.
Men were released fiom the
fire today but a crew will remain
to continue mop-up operations.
In other areas ol the state two
other forest fires blazed. A forest
fire which covered an estimated
1.500 acres in state and federal
land south of Powers In Coos
county still was not under control
today. . '
About 350 men were battling too
fire, some 1.200 acres on state
laivd and, about 300 acrfcs on
Siskiyou National Forest land. -
In Ashland, authorities were
investigating last weekend's bit
fire which covered some 4.008
acres. ,
The fire was being mopped up
today. Earlier estimates said it
covered about 5,000 acres but a
survey showed it to be smaller. '
The fire) danger eased a little
in the northwest section of the
state today end a Uitto rait- fell m
Portland. ' But the picture ever
most of Oregon was of continued
high fire danger.
State Highway
Commission Buys
Local Property .,
The State Highway Commission
has purchased property 120 feet
by 50 feet in conjunction with long
range plans for future expansion
of the maintenance division build
ing. Along with this property which
they bought from C. E. Abraham
son they have also purchased two
other pieces of land.
Three lots on block two of
Young's tract of Coggan's second
addition was purchased from
Charles Ritter.
One lot of block one of Young's
tract was purchased from Homer
Harrison.
Warrants Issued
In Theft Case
Warrants for the arrest of the
men suspected of breaking into
the Harry B. Shaw residence, 903
Adams Ave., have been issued by
the La Grande police.
Fingerprints taken from glase
and other articles handled by the
thieves were sent to the Oregon
State Police for identification.
Officials were able to make M
positive identification. .it
Police Chief Oliver Reeve said
the police have been able to trace)
the activities of the two men. The
chief declined to elaborate because
police hope to make a quick arrest.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion has been notified and will
participate in the investigation.
The theft of more than $S0Q0
makes the burglary a federal
offense. .
HARVESTING
Hopkins telegraphed Morse and
Ullman: f
"Again the Bureau of Land
Management l has) announced . .'
intention of harvesting wheatgrass
seed and range grass seed on
their acreage, causing a break
down in the prices to grass seed
growers tor. these products. This
is an evil practice, as it cause
hardships for 'our people In agri
culture in Oregon. We nope this
can be stopped as it was fwe
years ago." t
Hopkins said Morse already had
responded by getting in touch with
the BLM in Washington.