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V Tough Reform Bill Gets Wide Margin In House Passage APPROVED OVER STRONG OPPOSITION FROM UNIONS WASHINGTON (UPI) The House passed by a decisive margin today the labor reform bill that President Eisen hower and business groups said is needed to stop labor corruption and racketeering. The measure, toughest of three bills considered by the House, was approved over vigorous opposition of union leaders and lobbyists. They charged that its controls would LA GRANDE OBSERVE 301 t Issue LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959 Prlca 5 Cantt Faubus Blasts Tactics f ,";!"' ",' .V w ! m'wm .. i fcL mil ii 7 77 ! I MRS. ELLA ERWIN New Correspondent Mrs. Erwin New Correspondent For Union Area Mrs. Osker Erwin is the new Union correspondent for the La Grande Observer. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin have., been residents of Union since the- first of January. They had lived in La Grande prior to that time. They have one daughter, Judy, who will be a sophomore at the Union High School this fall. Mrs. Erwin has asked that publicity chairman of Union or ganizations contact her concern ing press releases for the Ob server. She will be handling all Union area news for the Observer and can be contacted. News items for MrsErwin can be left at the desk of the Union Hotel. Titan Missile Explodes On Launching Pad CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. UPI A Titan intercontinental ballistic missile lost thrust one second after ignition today and fell back to explode in a huge ball of orange flame on its launching pad. The spectacular failure occurred on what was intended to be the Titan's most critical test an at tempt to achieve ignition of its upper, or second stage, in flight. To reporters stationed three miles from the Titan's launching platform, it appeared the 110-ton war rocket exploded in the air a few feet above the launching stand. But UPI photographer Russ Yodcr, at a vantage point only one mile from the Titan launch ing pad, said the missile appar ently lost thrust and fell back to the pad before exploding. The Air Force said it knew of tio persons injured by the blow up. No one has ever been injured by a launching here. Titan project spokesmen seemed to feel that Such a blow-up must be expected in development of new missiles. The Titan's older broth er in the ICBM family, the Atlas, has blown up 10 times in 8 fir ings. WANTED Cove Correspondent for the La Grande Observer Generous Allowance. Complete Details at Observer Office or Contact Bill Bebout Ph. WO 3-3161 punish honest unions and their members. Passage was on a roll call vote of 303-125. The 178-votc margin was in con trast to Thursday's 28-vote margin on tentative approval of the bill, litis was another bitter setback for labor lobbyists who had tried to hold down the final margin. Voting for the bill on final pas sage were 136 Democrats and 147 Republicans. Opposing it were 122 Democrats and 3 Republicans. The measure now goes back to the Senate which passed a much milder measure last April 90-1. Final Passage Delayed A Senate-House conference com mittee will be assigned to work out a compromise. Final House passage was anti- climactic. The floor battle which began Tuesday ended for ail prac tical purposes Thursday when the House tentatively approved the measure. 229-201. Final passage was postponed until Monday on a technicality. Rep. Clare Hoffman (R-Mich.) had blocked final action on the measure Thursday by demanding an "engrossed copy'' of the final version. This required an over night printing job. With the two other milder meas ures -scuttled, the administration hac1 , " 'eked up tremendous ovei pport. Some members who had bitterly assailed the measure as anti-labor wound up voting for it when they were faced with voting for that or noth ing. Labor Lobbyists Las This .was so despite an effort by AFL-CIO lobbyists to hold down the final margin of passage in an effort to lay the groundwork for a' fight by Senate conferees to water down the House bill in the senate House conference com' mitieew - , - ..- Union Junior Rodeo Is Set For Weekend Rodeo spotlights will focus on the- younger set SaturHav Sunday at the Third Annual Union county Junior Rodeo at Union. Duchess Wanda Cox ami n,,i, Mike Stitzcl of Union wilt mien over the two day show , and the dance Saturday night at the S. E. mii-t-r scnooi audi lormm . The show will m nnrfr Miuraay at z p.m. with con testants coming from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. All of last year's champions will be on hand to defend their titles. Saturday afternoon the nni,o mj Duchess will take nart in ih rodeo. Mika will be defending his can-riaing cnampionship which he won last year. He alsn won enlf. riding and breakaway calf roping ai me r-igin junior rodeo. Wanda aiso plans to enter several events. A free barbeaue at 10 a m Sun. day, will kick-off the last day's events. The dance Saturday nieht will he from 9 p.m. to t a.m. and music win De furnished by Gary Gipson and the Ronde Valley Riders. Quarterly Tax Payments Due Payment deadline for fourth quarter taxes due on real es tate and 'personal property in Union county is August 15. After that date interest will be charged at ths rate of lum.lhirrlc of one per cent per month or a traction ot that rate. Mailed navment mut h nn,l. narked by midnight of the dead line aay. omcrwise the interest will be charged. - "The full . amount of 1958-59 ttxes to be collected in Union county is $1,825,106 64 and 90 per cent of this amount h been i received. Rebates amounted to $41.260 63 and interest charges were S8H3.B7. VFW Offering Help In Painting Fire Hydrants The members of VFW Post 2090 offered their services to the city for the purpose of painting fire hydrants. The hydrants will , be painted different colors to in i dirate the siie of the water main. I The city commission thanks Bill iBrasure. chairman of the ram. ! mittee. and' said the city would ; provide tne psinu ...V- ir, ., V ., m a kvw la TTV r Vy u TOP COWBOY'S PRIZE Duchess Wanda Cox, left, and Duke Mike Stitzel of Union show-off the saddle that will be awarded by the Oregon, Washington, and Idaho Junior Rodeo Association to the Junior Champion AU-Around Cowboy. The royalty will reign over the Union Junior Rodeo this weekend at Union. (Observer Photo) Cuban Army Grabs Arms-Laden Ship To Smash Invasion' Try HAVANA fUPI) The Cuban army Thursday night captured an arms-laden transport from the Dominican Republic to smash a 5-day-old "invasion" attempt In central Cuba, the government an nounced today. Government sources said that an American, Maj. Williarrt Mor gan, played "double agent" in or der. 4airick Oie tmaders- into sending the arms and munitions to Trinidad Airport. Premier Fidel Castro was in the area to direct the smashing of the "invasion" ' from the Dominican Republic, the government an nouncement said. It said the captured transport was piloted by former Cuban ar my U. Col. Antonio Soto, who flew ousted Dictator Fulgencio Ba tista into Dominican exile last Jan. 1. Trujillo Is Blanied The government announcement placed blame for the "invasion' attempt squarely on the shoulders of Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo. Four of the 10 persons aboard the transport were killed in a gun battle with Castro forces, the gov ernment announcement said. The other six were injured. Trinidad, in Las Villas Province, was the center of a counter revolutionary movement against which Castro has personally led a mop-up operation, according to the announcement. -1 Castro was reported to , be in Cienfuegos. The announcement said he would return to Havana tonight to tell a nationwide tele vision audience of the "invasion" attempt launched against Cuba from the Dominican Republic. 1 Castro Saw Capture "The capture of this Trujillo air plane brings to a close this chapi ter of an international conspiracy and of the counterrevolutionary in terests in which the jackal Tru jillo had an active part," the an nouncement said. "This will be demonstrated by our Prime Min ister tonight before the television Man Admits He Killed Three Persons For Fun ISLIP. NY. (UPD Francis Henry Bloeth, 27, diagnosed in his teens as an incurable, psychopath who strangled cats for fun, .con fessed Thursday night that he had killed two men -and a woman for no mbre reason. "If I had had more bullets. I would have shot more people," Suffolk County Dist. Atty. John P. Cohalan Jr. quoted Bloeth as say ing. "These people were just like flies on Bloeth's hand." Cohalan said. "He just rapped them and killed them, just like that." Bloeth's victims, all killed with in an eight-day period, were all night workers on duty alone in eating places in three different eastern Long Island towns. He was arrested Monday for a non-fatal "Russian roulette" hold up and as a "prime suspect" In the killings, but he insisted he was innocent until - Thursday night, 'tV s.ii-t . . if' cameras. Government sources said Castro was present at Trinidad Airport when the plane was captured late Thursday night, but did not per sonally take part in the clash be tween his forces and the invaders. Announcement of the capture of the transport ended five days of government silence on the fight ing is. the mountains of central Cuba. Government sources said Mor gan, 31, Toledo, Ohio, joined with Cuban army Maj. Eloy Gutierez Valsetz Buys Timber Land Near Elgin Valsetz Lumber Company has just completed negotiations to pur chase 6.000 acres of timber land 10-1S miles north of Elgin from the Blanc family. "This is an excellent growing site for wood fibre and the land will be managed from a forest production standpoint. It will lit into the tree farm program and forest management program of the Valsetz Lumber Company," said M. Gale Beals, general manager of the Mt. Emily firm. Although the land is not being logged now, it will be handled on a selective basis. Preparation for seeding on the land is now underway and logging roads in the area are built. Valsetz Lumber company has purchased the mill and logging equipment of the Fir Pine Lumber Company at Cove, from Chauncey Payne. The small operation had no planing mill and did only the primary manufacturing. The plant will be liquidated due to the lack of adequate timber resources available to operate all of the saw mills in the area. The equipment will be sold. when his wife and his attorney pleaded with him for more than an hour to tell the truth they sus pected. "I felt all along be had done it," Mrs. Jane Bloeth, 25. told newsmen as she and the attorney. Sidney R. Siben, made the first announcement of the confession. "I pleaded with him to spare more Innocent people from being killed," Mrs. Bloeth said. Both Sihen and Cohalan said Bloeth appeared without remorse Cohalan said he had asked Bloeth whether he had any feel ing for his family and if he didn't feel sorry to have brought them this trouble. He said- Boeth re plied: "I wouldn't shoot my wife, my mother or my daughter." Cohalan said: "I just couldn't believe what this man told me as he talked. It was an absolute nightmare." '; ; , v ' Menoyo in a cloak and dagger operation that successfully lured would-be invasion leaders and mu nitions into Cuba. Elaborate Plot Hatched Morgan was said to have been contacted by plotters from the Dominican Republic, and, to con vince them he was with them, he agreed to be military chief ot the planned anti-Castro flight. He was said to have gone to the Dominican Republic to brief the invaders on the Las Villas area and to have returned to Cu ha with the first boatload of reb els an estimated 50 men carry ing 50-caliber and 30-calibcr ma chineguns. I he sources said -Morgan, a World War II paratrooper who fought with Castro against Batis ta, falsely told his contacts in the Dominican Republic the invasion forces had been joined by ex-Batista soldiers and even some Cas tro men. To make it impossible for the would-be invaders to check the false information, the government sources said, army forces cut all transportation and telephone com munications between Las Villas and the rest of Cuba. State Police Arrest Tacoma Man At Astoria ASTORIA (UPI) A Tacoma man was arrested while fishing in the Columbia River near here Wednesday and charged with fish ing in Oregon waters without an Oregon license. ine arrest was another in a continuing crackdown by Oregon state police on anglers in the low er Columbia River. Six other an glers, all from Washington, are awaiting trial in Astoria. In this area, Oregon, and Wash' ington law sharply conflict. Oregon law calls for anglers to possess Oregon fishing licenses. A daily bag limit of 2 fish per an gler also applies. Washington slat utes require no license and im pose a three fish per day bag limit. Elgin's Curfew Law In Effect ELGIN (Special) Elgin's police department was instructed by the city council this week to begin enforcement of the curfew ordin ance. The law provides that at 10 p.m all children under 18 years 'of age shall be home, unless accompanied by parents or legal guardian. A second offense of breaking the curfew law makes parents and guardians of the children,, vio lators. It is also, illegal for children under 18 to be out after 10 p.m. with 19 year-olds, or anyone except parents or guardians. The city council met Tuesday evening. WEATHER Sunny Saturday; ' high 83; low tonight 40-45. 78- Of Little Rock Wallowa 4-H Fair Monday ENTERPR'SE Special It's Fair tune again! Four-H'ers representing the 1493 club members In Wallowa county will exhibit their finished products and compete for the opportunity .to go to the State fair. The four-day exhibit begins Monday. This year all the home econo mics activities will be centered in the fair (rounds hall. Contest and demonstrations will begin at 3 p.m. Monday. A special feature this year will be i talk and showing of slides by Friedrich Winnenthan, Inter national Farm Youth Exchangee from Germany; at the style show which begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the Fairgrounds hall. Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. the new 4-H easting contest will be held by the livestock barns This contest displays the accur acy of the 4 H fishermen with their casting outfits. The grand champion livestock showmanship conteste will be held in th covered showring at 8 p.m. At 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Enterprise Auction Yard a rec ord number of fat beef, sheep, and swine will be sold as part of the annual 4-H fat stock sale. SCHEDULI OF EVENTS HOME ECONOMICS Monday Judge exhibits Dol lar Dinner and. Cake baking contests at 3 p.m. Tuesday Judge exhibits, 2:30 p m. pre judging style show, 8 P m. style show and 1FYE talk, and demonstrations . and eon teste .all day. Wednesday Judge contest and demonstrations, 11:30 judges comments. MISCELLANEOUS Tuesday Judge exhibits and demonstrations, 3 p.m. tractor driving contest Wednesday 8 p.m. Casting con test for 4-H wildlife members. LIVESTOCK Monday Horsemanship events all day. Tuesday 1 p.m. Bring stock to fairgrounds. Wednesday 8 a.m. Livestock meeting. 8:30 judge exhibits. 1 p.m. All Livestock Showman ship, 8 p.m. Grand champion showmanship. Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p. m judge exhibits. I p.m. Livestock Auction Sale. Vandalism Told To City Police An act of vandalism was re ported to La Grande police this morning. Robert Smith, 1306 N Ave., re ported that someone had let the air out of, the tires on his car dur ing the night. Mr. and Hrs. Ed Hall, 1002 N Ave., reported to police that persons attending meetings at the Latter Day Saints church, Fourth and N, block their drive way. Cars park on either side and make it impossible for the Halls to use the drive. Two stray dogs were picked up by police yesterday. .A female, white shepard was picked up at the park and a yellow, male cock er picked up at Oak and O. Both dogs were impounded. NIXON GIVES HIS East -West Exchanges Said To Be Hope Of The Future WASHINGTON (UPD Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today that East-West exchange like the forthcoming visit of So viet Premier Khrushchev are "the hope of the future." Nixon gave this estimate of the ImmriuiM nf the Soviet-Ameri can exchanges In one of 10 tele vision-radio interviews he has re corded with members of the Sen ate and House. He told Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R S.D.) that there are "some mi nuses as well at pluses" in the Khrushchev visit But he said President Eisenhower "had in mind the problems that are In COMPANY SPIRIT BY THE GALLONS NASHVILLE, Ttnn. (UP) The employ of a firm here apparently are told on their awn product. The firm a liquor company testified at a tax hearing that it sold whisky to its workers and tales repretentativet at retail pricet. Revenue Cemmhiion Alfred MacFarland did tome fast figurine and discovered that the talet came out to about a half-gallon a day for each em. pleye. Bitterness Mars Talks In Santiago SANTIAGO. Chile (UPD -West ern-Hemisphere foreign ministers gingerly resume today a confer ence thrown into turmoil by a violent Cuban-Dominican exchange of insults which may have in cluded threats to murder Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa. Conference Presidence German Vergara expressed hope that the meeting would "develop normal ly." but other delagates feared that new outbreaks might demor alize it completely. The bitter exchange Thursday was touched off by Roa's charge that this week's uprising in Cuba was "organized and financed in Ciudad Turillo," the Dominican capital. Dominican Foreign Minister Por firio Herrera Baez heatedly de nied the charge, calling Roa "squid who stains the Caribbean red." The Cuban leaped to his feet, calling Herrera .a '"filthy, heartless assassin. Vergara, who is Chile's foreign minister, hastily adjourned the meeting and began efforts to patch up the quarrel. Late Thurs day night, after conferring separ ately with Roa and Herrera, he said the situation "has been over come." As Roa stalked out of the con ference hall in Santiago's Hotel Carrera, a burly Dominican ap parently the bodyguard of a dele gate was heard muttering threats against him. A few minutes later, the Cuban delegation charged in a formal statement that the Dominicans had made repeated threats to kill Roa during the two days since the conference opened. Herrera denied the Cuban charge at a press conference Thursday night. The uproar underscored the ur gent in recent months by revolu tions and invasions and in some cases by virtual threats of war. La Grande Chamber Plans HOC Welcome La Grande's Chamber of Com merce Is planning a welcoming program for EOC's anticipated 300 fall' term freshmen. The Chamber will have charge ot an assembly Saturday Sep tember 26, at 9 a.m. Meeting yesterday to plan the activities for the assembly with chairman Ned Jones were com mittee members Ed Bennett, Lor en Hughes, Ann Johnson, John Groupe, Claude Hand, Howard An derson, Dr. Lyle Johnson, Arlo Noyes, Harold Laurence, John Miller, and Dave Baum. VIEWS ON VISITS volved" In Inviting the Soviet leader to this country. Nixon's series of filmed and taped interviews with legislators, including Senate Democratic cam paign chairman George Smathers i Fla.), gave him a special "grass roots" audience for a report on his recent trip to Russia and Po land. The vice president narrated two network TV film reports on his tour last Sunday night, but has not made full-fledged TV speech on his IB-day trip. Seven senators and three House members Invited Nixon to join them for Interviews for showing on their local or statewide TV- Police Likens Action To Reds LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD - . Gov. Orval E. Faubus charged to day that Little Rock police handled an anti-integration demonstration Wednesday at Central High School like the Russians handled the Hungarian revolt. Of course, it's quiet now," Faubus . said. "It's quiet in Hun gary. . . It is not likely to be peaceful here for a long, long time." Faubus held his Tirst new con- ference since the "voluntary" and j limited integration of two Little Rock high schools. He said that if Little Rock po lice had failed to control anti-in tegration violence at Central Wednesday, he "was prepared" te take over with state police and the National Guard. Firemen and city police broke . the back of a demonstration at Central High School Wednesday ' with high pressure fire hoses and nightsticks. Police threw 24 per sons into jail. There has been no trouble since. Three Negro girls went to classes peacefully at Hall High School today for the third straight day. The police guard at Hall was re duced to 11 men. The White House withheld com ment on an appeal by Mrs. L. C. Bates, leader of the integration movement in Little Rock, to Pres- . ident Eisenhower to protect her home. Mrs. Bates telegraphed the Pres ident late Thursday after state po lice arrested three Negroes, she had had serving as volunteer i guards at her home, for carrying concealed weapons.. f., . Faubus called out the National Guard in September, 1997, to keep School, because, he said, he feared that integration would bring on bloody violence there. He took away the militia in 1957 upon orders from a federal court. A riot broke out and Pres ident Eisenhower ordered in para troopers to protect nine Negroes at Central. One Negro. Jefferson Thomas, is now attending Central under a "voluntary" Integration plan put forth by the School Board. If local authorities fail in the future to keep the peace at inte grated schools. Faubus said. "I am now prepared and I will be prepared in the future." Attempt To Be Made To Recover Space Capsule ' VANDENBERG AFB. Calif. (UPD Eight giant Air Force cargo planes took off from Hawaii today to rendezvous over the Pa cific Ocean for an attempt at the world's first recovery of a satel lite package from space. t - The Air Force Ballistic Missile Division announced the first flight of four planes took off at 11:30 a.m. p.d.t., to get into position for , scheduled ejection of the capsule ' between 2:20 and 3 p.m. p.d.t. However, the Air Force added that probability of aerial recovery attempt "still is uncertain" since' the first phase of the operation, . successful ejection oft he capsule from Discoverer V, must be achieved at the right time. This is planned on the satellite's 17th pass around the earth. radio programs. First of the group to be re leased was that made with Smath ers. Nixon told the southern Dern- -ocrat, a personal friend, that "when the chips are down" en very important decision he did not think Khrushchev would act , "impetuously." , In his appearance with Mundt. Nixon reiterated his view that the "alternative" to talking with Khrushchev Is "verbal bomb shells" followed by the "real ones" In all-out war. The advan tage to the visit, he said, to tq "remove some of the miscalcula tions he actually has" cooceroinf the United States. " . . . , ... . . ..'..'