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WEATHER Partly sunny and cooler; chance of scattered showers, over mountains; high Tues-, day 70-75; low 32-40 tonight with chance of local frosts. LA OBSERVER 303rd luu 63rd Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1959 Prlea 5 Cants 7 ' ' GRANDE- Adm. Bull Malsey Dies; Eisenhower Pays High Tribute COMMANDED THIRD FLEET IN WORLD WAR II ACTION F1SIIERS ISLAND, N.Y. (UPI) Fleet Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey, 76, commander of the Third Fleet in the Pacific during World War II and leader of America's first offensive move after Pearl Harbor, died Sunday in his sleep. the Japanese homeland by I i WILLIAM F. HALSEY Fleet Admiral Dies Raul Castro To 'Rescue' Minister SANTIAGO, Chile UP1 Raul Castro and a band of Cuban revolutionaries were flying here today to "rescue" the Cuban foreign- minister and to present proof that the Dominican Republic was trying to overthrow the Cuban government. ' The foreign minister, Raul Roa. was reported to have received death threats from the Domini cans while attending the meeting of the Western Hemisphere for eign ministers here. The Domini can Republic denied the charges. Roa has accused the Domini cans of, attempting to invade Cu ba by sea and by air and in formed sources aid he would blame the Dominican Republic today for staging an invasion of Haiti and blaming it on the Fidel Castro movement. Venezuela was moving to try to head off the expected fireworks with a resolution condemning dic tatorships in the Western Hemi sphere. Venezuelan Foreign Min ister Luis Arcaya was especially eager to indict Generalissimo Ra fael Trojillo as a dictator and thus steal some of Raul Castro's thunder. Reports persisted that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro also would come here, and a group of Cu ban newspapermen said he might be traveling "incognito." But Raul told newsmen during a stop over at Caracas, Venezuela. Fidel would not come because he had no use for the Organization of American States sponsoring the present meeting. Shortly before this morning's session, neutral Latin American nations prevailed on Cuba and Haiti to leave until after approval of the resolutions any debate of the small group reported to have invaded Haiti last week. WANTED Imbler Correspondent for, the La Grande Observer Generous Allowance. Complete Details at Observer Office or Contact Bill Bebout Ph. WO 3-3161 the end of the war was pro- .mftiinnnH rirari of h iwnnarv ,w-1il. - inn at 11 'AS n m H I sion at 11:45 a.m. e.d.t His body was flown to New York City from this small island off the Connecticut coast where he was vacationing, and was to be token to Washington tnrlnv Fi nal funeral arrangements, how ever, were delayed nenHine arriv al of his family at the nation's eanit.il Bert Frazer, manager of the Fishers Island Country Club, said Halsey spent his last day peace fully, wading and basking in the sun. Frazer found the admiral's body after a waiter told him he was concerned because Halsey had not yet ordered his breakfast an hour past his usual time. Ik Lost "Personal Friend" President Eisenhower in a statement released at Gettysburg. ra., said he fad lost "a personal friend" and "all Americans have lost one of their great national leaders." "His great personal contribution to the successful campaigns in the Pacific and the exploits of the forces under his command are a brilliant part of American mili tary history," the President said. It was Bull Halsey who vowed while the war was raging that he would ride the emperor's white horse through the streets of To kyo. He did not keep that prom ise, but he did Dush the war to the emporer's doorstep, attacking Tokyo, Honsu and Hokkaido and ranging up and down, the Japa nese coast in July and August, 1945. Between July 10 and Aug. 15. when the war ended, Halsey's forces destroyed or damncei 2.804 en?my planes and sank or damaged 148 warships and 1,598 enemy mercnant vessels. "Hit Hard, Fast, Often" "Hit hard, hit fast, hit often" were his orders, and "kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Jans" his motto. The triumph and mastery of the war's final days were a long voy age from the war's opening on Dec. 7. 1941. The Japanese navy seemed in all but complete control of the Pa cific after blasting the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. But early in 1942, less than two months alt er those first bombs fell. Halsey directed the first American counter-blow. Halsey married the former Frances Cooke Grandy in 1909. She survives him. as do his son, William F. Halsey III, his daugh ter. Mrs. Margaret Halsey Spru ance, and six grandchildren. "He was one of our greatest fighting admirals." Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Sunday, "and his name and his fame will always be associated with our great vic tory over Japan." Rockefeller May Put Hat In The Ring ALBANY, N.Y. (UPK Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said today he "might" run for president if he could be convinced he could "deal effectively and constructive ly with problems facing the coun try." "I would never decide to be a candidate for higher office unless I was convinced these factors were true." Rockefeller told a news conference. Asked if the availability of oth er candidates would influence his decision, he replied: "I think one can't disassociate any decision from all surround ing factors. I would stress that my own decision be made on a positive basis on terms of op portunity of service which I feel I might be able to perform under certain circumstances." In reply to a question of wheth er popularity polls would deter mine his decision. Rockefeller said. "I think the professionals give more weight to the polls than the general public." Rockefeller emphasized h was not candidate for any public Rice at this time. He pointed out however, there were "two hur dles" a candidate must face nomination and election. miimm. l s ..raw JUNIOR GRAND CHAMPION Dick Reeves, 14, of North Powder stands next to his "Carmen Eyes" Glad iolus that won him the Grand Champion award. He was also given a trophy. Dick also won the award last year. (Observer Photo) Joseph Boy Is Killed As Car, Bike Collide; 6 Others Die In State Lawrence Patrick O'Rourkc. eight years old of Joseph, died in Wallowa Memorial hospital about 3 p.m. Sunday, after the bicycle he was riding and a car collided. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. O'Rourke of Jo seph.. The car was driven by Earl Beilkn f Oswego, Oregon. ,. The accident-happened about S p.m.. Saturday, on the Sheep Creek Road. Dr. James Coffman of Joseph v i 1 1 conduct a post mortem thus afternoon and Wallowa county district attorney, Keith Wilson, is conducting an investigation. At least six other persons met their death in Oregon week end auto accidents and drownings In addition a Salem woman was killed in an accident near Che hilis. Wash. An Estacada couple and a Myrtle Creek woman, besides the Joseph boy, died in traffic mishaps. Drownings claimed the lives of a Redmond man and a Portland boy. John Turnbull, S3, and his wife. Emily, 50, of Estacada, were kill- Fire Department Answers Alarms The La Grande fire department was called to a hay fire and a grass fire Sunday afternoon. Firemen were called to the Walter Pebler farm on a mutual aid signal from the Island City department. The Pebler farm is in Ladd Canyon. Fire trucks were also called to the 1400 block on Z Ave., to battle a grass fire. Firemen were able to -control the fire before it spread to several buildings in the area. . ( ,vm .11 i,h i i, u,.., I ft. ' .. . ft- V; - ; HOT SPOT Firemen battled flames Saturday after noon on 500 acres of range land. Flame fighters had to make a second trip to the scene of the blaze when flames flared again late in the evening. (Observer) v71 ed Saturday night when a foreign made car plunged off the Clacka mas river road about 16 miles east of Estacada. The auto rolled down a 350-foot embankment and came to rest at the edge of the Clackamas river. - Both victims were thrown from the vehicle. Mrs. James Lloyd Norman. 61, tyrtle.Crpk. w injured fatally Sunday m a collision between a pickup truck and car a mile south of Myrtle Creek. Her husband and Robert O'Connor, 18, and Ronald Harlman, 21, both of Myrtle Creek, were injured. The Nor mans were in the pickup truck. ' Boats Overturn Donald McDowell, 18, Portland, was lost Saturday when an out board motorboat turned over near the mouth of the Columbia river. His companion, Charles Dison, 42. Portland, was pulled from the water. The body of George Hillgen. 45. Redmond, was recovered Sunday from Paulina lake about 40 miles south of Bend. He drowned late Saturday when a boat overturned. Two companions, Dr. James Smith, and Lester Barclay, both of Redmond, made their way to shore. Anna E. Jones, 42, Salem, was killed when- the car her husband was driving crashed against a concrete pole on a Highway 99 overpass six miles south of Che halis. Wash. Her husband was in jured critically. The Coast Guard reported Sun day that the body of Fred Ben nett, 63. Viking. Alta., was found 5 1-2 miles from the mouth of the Umpqua river on the southern Oregon coast. He was lost July 19 when a boat capsized. Also lost in the accident was Dr. Arthur T. Trenholm of Gresham, whose body was recovered then. r :v. . v . - -""iVT - - ' ,-a- leM .a.taWHH II Aa'n Little Rock Outwardly Quiet Tension Mounts Behind Scene Conference Committee To Consider Compromise On Tough Reform Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate agreed after a long and heated wrangle today to send the tough House labor bill to a congressional conference committee to see if a compromise with the milder Senate version can be worked out. Republican senators who favor the House bill did not press a move, favored by some, to by-pass the joint House- AFL-CIO Considers Next Move UNITY HOUSE. Pa. UPI Stunned members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council met today to consider their next move In a bat tle against what they term union busting labor legislation. The council is certain to discuss future opposition at the polls to Congressmen who voted for the House-approved Landrum - Grif fin Bill when the chips were down last Thursday. Top AFL-CIO leaders, opening their summer meeting at this union-operated resort in the Pocono Mountains, appear reconciled to defeat in the legislative fight. In the eyes of the AFL-CIO. the Senate-passed bill is bad and the House version is worse. Any com promise by Senate-House con ferees could not produce legisla tion more favorable to labor's highcommand. The losing battle in the House caused new disappointment in the Democratic congressional leader ship, one AFL-CIO vice president said. "You can say that labor is growing cooler toward the Demo crats," he told a reporter refer ring to heavy Democratic support for passage of the House bill fa vored by President Eisenhower and business organizations. AFL-CIO leaders were reported to be casually sifting the 229-201 roll call vote by which the House passed the measure co-sponsored by Rep. Phil M. Landrum 'D-Ga.i and Rep. Robert P. Griflin (R- Mich.l. One union official said only a handful out of 54 House members who received labor support in po litical campaigns last fall voted for the Landrum-Griffin proposal. The measure passed with "yes" votes of 134 Republicans and 95 Democrats. All but three of the latter were from either southern or border states. "We did the right thing last fall (at election time) but we did not do enough of it,' the official con tended. BLACK-TOPPING DUE Contract has been made with the Newport Construction company for 20 miles of new blacktopping between Mt. Emily Camp and Lehman Springs. The 40 mile-long job is under construction now and is expected to be completed by f .11. ll1 istV - f ' -l hJ-H.. .' Slll' i frf ti.i 1. SI 500 ACRES GO UP IN SMOKE Flames burned approximately 500 acres of range land near Union Saturday after noon. The flames flared up again around 1 1 p.m. and the fire department was called and quickly extinguished the flames. The property is owned by Bill Dobbins, Rob ert Withycombe, A. J. Wagner and Ralp h and Bert Titus. (Observer Photo) iicnate comterence ana force an immediate showdown on the Senate floor. But they kept the Senate tied up for more than two hours while they sought assurances from Dem ocratic leaders that they would have an opportunity to vote on the House bill later if the con ference became deadlocked. The action to send the bill to conference was approved with on ly a scattering of "noes" heard. Mundt Chief Objector Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.I. vice chairman of the Senate Rack ets Committee, was chief spokes man for the opposing conference group although he never formally offered a motion to bypass it. He said he was not trying to block the conference but only to prevent the "Unhappy eventual ity' that the Senate would never have an opportunity to vote for a measure stronger than the Kennedy-Ervin bill approved by the Senate. He expressed fear the conferees either would weaken the house passed Landrum-Griffin bill or would reach a stalemate. Sen. Barry Goldwatcr R-Ariz.) who will be ranking Republican Senate conferee, served notice that he will move to discharge the conference if there is no prog ress within seven days. Johnson Lists Possibilities . Democratic. Leader Lyndon B Johnson (Tex repeatedly stated that if the conferees could not agree, they could come back for more instructions or the Senate could discharge them. This, he said, would bring to a vote the issue of whether to accept the house version or insist on the senate bill. Johnson said it was not unrea sonable to expect that the con ference committee might come up with a compromise that would be more effective than either the House or Senate bill. Sen. John L. McClcllan (D Ark I, chairman of the Rackets Committee, agred that the bill should go to conference although he favored the House version. Senate Republican Leader Ever ett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) also fa vored following the usual confer ence procedure. Basic Rule Violation Brings Arrest For Man A La Grande man was arrested by police yesterday for violation of the basic rule. Douglas Alvin Bonsor, 21, of 213 Fir St. was picked up by police for traveling 35 miles per hour in a 20 mile per hour zone on Jefferson St. Bonsor was arrested at the inter section of Palmer and Oak Streets. Bail was set at $10 and a hearing scheduled for Thursday at 3 p.m. . . .. - . . , , BOSSIE BUMS RIDE ON TRUCK HOOD CALLINGTON, England (UPI)-Truck driver William Hill picked up an unexpected hitchhiker Saturday. He was driving along a lane, calm at you please, when a cow jumped over a hedge and landed smack en the hood ot his truck. The hey diddle diddle cow rode long calmly lor a short dis tance, then slid off and trotted way, none the worse for the trip. Escapees Are Back In Cells Larry Morand Cornelius and Brow Provost who escaped from the county jail around It p.m. Fri day night are back in their cells today. They escaped by way of an upper story window in the court house after throwing a blanket over the head of Jay Conley who is the court house janitor. Cornelius who is 16, turned himself in at the Arnold Color farm on the foothill road beyond Hot Lake yesterday morning. Provost was picked up by State Police about 2 p.m. yesterday on Highway 30 cast of North Powder. Provost did not resist arrest police spokesmen said. The two who jumped almost 25 feet from a second floor window in the court house to make their escape were not injured and only hungry upon their return to jail. Sheriff H. A. Klinghammcr said. Provost did complain of some pain in his ankle yesterday, Kling hammcr said. Cornelius will be held for Che halis reformatory authorities and Provost will be sentenced this afternoon on a forgery charge.' Benny Fields Dies At 65; Wife At Side NEW YORK (UPI I Benny Fields, 65, the "minister minstrel man" whose soft shoe song and dance acts carried him through a 60-ycar entertainment career, died Sunday after a heart attack His wife and former partner. Blossom Seclcy. was with him when he died in their apartment at a hotel here. They had just returned from a month-long ap pearance at Las Vegas. "After 37 years it's over." Miss Seeley sobbed. "No more 'melan choly Baby.' I have nothing left." "Melancholy Baby" and "Lulla by of Broadway" had been Fields' theme songs. They were married in 1922. In the late 1930s Fields seemed to be slipping from the spotlight, but he made a successful come back and in 1952 a movie bio graphy of him and his wife en titled "Somebody Loves Me" was produced. "1 r3 Negroes Attend Classes LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UPH Two Little Rock high schools be gan the second week of token in tegration quietly today and school officials reported students were ignoring an opportunity to use a state law providing for segregated classes inside the schools. There were no disturbances as the three Negro girls attending Hall went to class, and the on Negro boy who has integrated Central arrived books in hand. The situation was one of out ward quiet. But there was an undercurrent of tension as the community and other southern states waited to see how the lat est legal weapon against mass integration of schools would work. This latest weapon is a "sleepi er" law put on the Arkansas sta tute books in 1958 among a pack age of segregation bills. It pro vides that no student shall be forced to attend classes with a member of another race. In effect, it would provide for segregated classes in integrated schools. Attack On Law Expected Everett Tucker Jr., president oi the Little Rock School Board, said the law would be complied with as long as it is still valid. He said he is "confident" it will be attacked. i Wiley A. Branton, Arkansas at torney for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, -said the law would be at tacked if one of the' four Negroes attending Central or Hall High School is denied the use of school facilities or classrooms with white students because of race. Both Branton and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, pointed out the U.S. Su preme Court ruled in the 1948 case of McLaurin vs Oklahoma University Board of Regents that "a Negro once admitted to an in tegrated school could not be seg regated within the school." McLaurin was a Negro teacher who entered the university to study for a doctorate and was segregated in the cafeteria, li brary and in one instance forced to sit in an alcove off a class room. Attorney Invokes Statute John A. McLeod Jr., a white attorney, invoked the virtually unnoticed law. He asked that his daughter, Ann Lane, 13, not be assigned to classes with Negro students. She is a junior at Hall High School, where three Negro girls have been assigned. Terrell Powell, superintendent of schools, said he told the prin cipals of Hall and Central to hon or McLeod's request, and any other similar requests. Fairview Home Superintendent Dies In Salem - SALEM UPI - Dr. Irvin b! Hill, 44, superintendent of Fair view Home for the mentally re-' tarded here, died today. . - The veteran administrator had been seriously ill last year. He. appeared to be recovering, but lapsed into a coma while visiting . his parents. State Rep. and Mrs. Earl Hill of Cushman. - He died in an ambulance on tha way to Salem. Hill was head of Fairview home since 1946. He was married and the father of three children. Dr. D. L. Calicrate, assistant superintendent, will take over un til a replacement is found for Hill. Gov. Mark Hatfield commented: "lrv Hill was one of those rare individuals who not only refused to be detoured by his own handi cap but also dedicated himself to a life-time of serving the less for tunate in our society." (Hill, a frail-looking man, had suffered from tuberculosis earlier in life). The governor added "Uie" facili ties and friendships he built at Fairview are high tribute to hi rare combination of practical ad ministrative skill and warm per sonality." 4 State officials said Fairview was regarded as on of tha best home of its type In the .United State. "