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WEATHER Partly cloudy through Sat urday; high today 65-70; low tonight 40-45; high Saturday 70-75. LA GRAND OBSERVER E 306th Issu 63rd Year Capsule Recovery Hope Dim Fail To Hear Radio Signal VAN'DENBEHG AFB, Calif. -UPl Ships searched a 10,000 stiuare mile area of the Pacific today in American's latest at tempt to recover a space cap sule, but there was little hope the instrument-filled package would be found. The 300-pound. 27 by 33-inch capsule was successfully ejected from Discoverer VI satellite Thursday, but ships and planes waiting for the recovery failed to sight it or hear its radio signals. "Therefore it is unlikely that the capsule will be recovered al though the search will be con tinued..." said the Defense De partment in Washington. It was the second failure in six days at recovering a space cap sule from orbit, and the third time in the Discoverer series this year. Successful recovery, figured at odds of about 1.000 to 1, would have been a space-age first and marked a step forward in re search aimed at taking man into space. The Air Force Ballistic Missile division (B.MD) at Inglewood, Calif., said a similar failure may have prevented the recovery of the capsules from Discoverer V and Discoverer VI. B.MD said extremely low tem peratures encountered up to 537 miles in space might have pre vented the capsules' battery pow er from working. Failure of the power supply would prevent the capsules' par achute from opening and would keep silent the radio signal in the capsule needed in its recovery. Discoverer VI was blasted into a north-south polar orbit Wednes day from this West Coast missile base about 160 miles north of Los Angeles. It followed by six days the -successful launching of Discov erer V. Air Force cargo planes trailing trapeze-like device flew in a 200 by 50-mile area 700 miles south west of Hawaii hoping to catch Discoverer's VPs parachuting cap sule Thursday. Governor Of Hawaii Sworn In HONOLULU (UPI - William F. Quinn was sworn in today as the first governor of the new state of Hawaii by State Associate Su preme Court Justice Masaji Mu ramoto. Quinn, elected governor after serving a territorial governor, was informed at 10:14 a.m. IIST 1:14 p.m. (EDT) by telephone from Washington that President Eisenhower had signed the proc lamation admitting Hawaii ipto the Union as the 50th state. The call came from Edward Johnston, former Secretary of Ha waii. The Republican chief executive turned to some 70 guests and newsmen in his Iolani palace of fice and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, Hawaii is now a state." Aside from a premature setting off of fireworks and horn-tooting outside the palace, there was little celebration of the occasion in the new state. WANTED Island City Correspondent for the La Grande Observer Generous Allowance. Complete Details at Observer Office or Contact Bill Bebout Ph. WO 3-3161 feu Vr;s: .: jJs,-,.:fkl...iiL I . . if. - - LOOKS GOOD THERE, GIRLS Beverley Hoxie, 13, right, looks over a canning job that earned a trip for her to the Oregon State Fair this fall. Beverley won the honor in a 4-H contest yesterday at La Grande high school. Here Beverley shows a jar to Eloise McCoy, 13, of La Grande, who Won a second prize. (Observer Photo) Rising Water Growing Threat To Towns Beiow Quake Slide west Yellowstone; Mont. il'PIi Five more after shocks from Monday night's disastrous earthquake jarred the Yellowstone area today, but there were no reports of fresh slides. Two helicopters waitel for a thick fog baik to lift so state and federal officials could check the growing lake behind marv.moih, earthquake-triggered slide in Ma dison Valley. The rising waters threatened two summer resorts and a sum mer home and increased its pres sure on the quake-formed barrier. threatening communities down stream where the trapped Madi son River once flowed. iNone oi me new quakes was strong enough to cause a repeat of. avalanches that killed at least 10 persons. Robert Rend, Montana Power Co. oificial, after a flicht down Madison River Canvon, said he believed it will be 40 to 45 days before the flow of the Madison River out of Ilebgen Dam will be sulficient to top the slide and rour down the river channel. Montana Civil Defense Director Hugh Potter said at a meeting of federal, state and countv officials Thursday that no further efforts would be made to find. bodies of Bechtel Brothers Submit Low Bid For School Work Bechtel Brothers bid of $368,314 was low bid for the construction O' Greenwood school and their bid of $61,168 for alterations at Riveria school was also low. There were six bidders on the Greenwood building and the bids ranged from the low bid to a high of $418,000. Total costs of the two projects including the architect's fee was $455,250. which exceeds the amount available by $39,000. Proceedings will begin imme diately on the Greenwood job. PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS HAWAII 50TH STATE; REVEALS NEW FLAG WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower proclaimed Ha waii a state today and unfurled a new 50-star flag for the nation. The President's proclamation bringing the Pacific islands ter ritory into the union and the un veiling of the new flag took place at formal White House cere monies. It marked the second time this year that Eisenhower has wel comed a new state. He pro claimed Alaska a state Jan. 3 in similar ceremonies. The new Star Spangled" Banner replaces a 49-star flag which only came into official use on July 4 to mark Alaska statehood. The new 50-star emblem will go into use next July 4. The new fag carries five rows of six stars alternating with four row of five stars on the field of possible victims under the slide. The big program now is "sensible dembliLization" of the Air Force, Army Engineers, state and feder al forest service personnel in volved in the search, he said. "Let's face it, we are not go-Hig-to move a mountain of rock," he said. "With the water against It -id'r-tinf;Uitt. pverlt f-tton't know what we can do. Racist Rally Turned Down By Speakers PINE BLUFF, Ark. (UPI) Segregationist leaders of Pine Bluff planned a mass anti-inte gration rally tonight but the sched uled main speaker won't show up Rep. John Bell Williams of Mis sissippi, who has spoken at sev eral racist rallies since color mixing troubles hit Arkansas schools, would only say that "pri or commitments" kept him from addressing the rally. He informed the sponsoring citizens' council late Thursday that he would not be able to show up. Gov. Orval E. Faubus also had been asked to speak at the rally and also pleaded "prior commit ment." Wants to "Dispel Apathy" The mass" gathering is set for 75,500 seat Hcstand Stadium, a short distance away from inte gration threatened Dollaraway School. It is planned as an "edu cation" rally by the citizens' council. "The reason for this rally is to draw people's attention to what they are up against at the Dollarway School," L. D. Poyn ter said. Poynter, 66, is president of the Arkansas Association of Citizens Councils. "We want to dispel apathy and a'ouse interest in this fight and to educate people as to what is before them,' Poynter said. blue. Today's proclamation gave statehood status to 585,000 Hawall ans in the island cluster which lies 2.400 miles from the West Coast. Eisenhower Interrupted his va cation at Gettysburg to fly here by helicopter for the ceremony. In the new state itself. Hawai ians planned to observj the occa sion quietly without special fan fare. The big celebration was being saved for November when the official admission day observ ance is planned. It is hoped the President will attend then. . The flag approved by the Pres ident only a few months ago when Alaska was admitted to the union had seven staggered rows of seven stars each. That flag be came official on July 4. The new flag becomes official next July 4. LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1959 Eleven fairly . strong shocks and several minor ones were re corded in the area Thursday. A major temblor could cause, the huge slide to shift, allowing a de luge to break through. The body of water, now known as The Lord's Lake, is presently seven miles long and be.tweeR.7u and 100 feet deep and it con tinues to grow. The continuing shakes forced officials to call off an under water search for landslide vic tims. ' Ten ' persons were killed, and it was believed many others were trapped when Monday's powerful earthquake caused an 8,000-foot high mountain to col lapse into the valley. Civil Defense and Montana highway officials said they did not intend to dig into the slide to search for bodies. Estimates of the number possibly missing ranged from 30 to 100. . Gallatin County Sheriff Don Skerritt said the slide was "just too big." He sa.d it was hundreds of feet deep in' places and con tained boulders as big as boxcars. "We probably won't know for weeks how many are missing," a Red Cross official said. "Most of these people were tourists and it won't be known whether they're missing until they fail i to return home after their vacations." ' The latest victim of the tragedy was Mrs. Myrtle Painter, 42, Ogden, Utah. She died Thursday in a Bozeman hospital. Observer Story Said In Error Thd Observer erroneously report ed yesterday that Police Chief Oliver Reeve had been in contact with Oregon State police in regard to traffic regulations covering ve hicles crossing the double line on Adams Ave. Chief Reeve was in contact with C. D. Cannon of the Oregon State Highway Commission. The White House announced those invited to the Hawaiian statehood ceremony included Vice President Richard M. Nixon; Speaker Sam Rayburn; Hawriian Territorial Secretary Edward Johnston, representing Gov.-elect William F. Quinn; Sens.-elect Hir am Fong R and Oren E. Long Di; Itep -elect Daniel K. Inouye D) and Lorrin Thurstin. chair man of the Hawaiian Statehood Commission. Also, Maj. Gen. A. T. McNama ra. Army quartermaster general; Col. John Martz Jr., chief of re search and engineering for Quar termaster General Office; and Lt. Col. James S. Cook, chief of Her aldic Branch in Qua-termaster General Office. These men worked with the special Flag Ad visory Committee on the new flag's design. Neuberger Assistant atfieid's lavish' Expense TupEing Answered By Cross SALEM (UPD-Gov.Jirk Hat fields office and GOP State ! Chairman Peter Gunnar both de nied charges today that the gover nor's expenses were on a "lavish scale" or that the governor's re- i cent trip to Puerto Rico was "state financed." The hassle started when Gunnar charged Sen. Richard Neuberger iD-Orei with having a hefty pay roll. Neulxrger's administrative assistant. Lloyd Tupling. replied by attacking Hatfield's expenses, including his trip to the gover nor's conference in Iierto Rico. Gunnar said "the most recent barrage from the Neuberger prop aganda machine gives the people of Oregon graphic evidence of the terror Sen. Neulierger feels as he considers facing the voters in I960 with his record of irresponsibili ty." Travis Cross, the governor's press secretary, commented: "Tupling has been tippling the nectar of negativism again. He went gunning for Gunnar but some of his shots have gone astray." The governor's office said the National Guard airplane which took Hatfield, his wife, and their party from here to Miami, Fla., was on a "routine flying mission.'' Own Way Paid Cross said two reporters aboard paid their own way or had it paid by two Portland newspapers. He said Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Alfred llintz also paid their own way Hintz is adjutant general of the Oregon Guard. Cross said travel by Mrs. Hat field was authorized by the Na tionnl Guard Bureau and that the governor's secretary. Leolyn Bar- nett, was authorized to travel as staff. He said the governor's state policeman-chauffeur traveled as a security officer which many gov ernors took with them to the Caribbean area. Tupling also criticized Hatfield for his two cars. The governor's office replied that use of state cars was cheaper than paying mileage for use of private vehicles. Gunnar said the story from Neuberger's office was "patently ridiculous considering his (Neu- oerger s $22,500 senatorial salarv and the untold royalties which he makes moonlighting in his free lance writing business." Visit Planned To Quake Area WASHINGTON (UPI) A group i Longressmen anil envprnment officials will fly to Montana Sat urday to inspect earthquake dam age in the southwestern part of me state. The triD was arranged hv Chairman James E. Murray (D- Mont.) of the Senalp Inlorinr Committee. The erotin was Rrhe- auiea to take off at 6 a.m. EDT lor Bozeman, Mont., spend Sat urday night at West Yellowstone in the quake area and return to Washington Sunday. Windows Readied For Fall Opening Store windows will be unveiled at 6 p.m. Wednesday in connec tion wim.tne tnree tiay ran i-es- tival hpiniy nl.innnH hern tnrp will remain open until 9 p.m. uaiioting Dy me general public will flnef thf urinnincr stnrp urin. dow and a $15 merchandise ccrti- ncaie win he awarded Dy me store with the winning window display. A parade will start at 7 p m nnri a hnv Bfrnmhln uitl ffillnw the parade along with "teen age nop' on Depot street Be tween Washington and Adams ave. The Union County Fair will start Thursday. Elgin's Bruce Reed Just Short In 'Draw' Bruce Reed of Elgin was only few .seconds behind the fas ti t draw" in Oregon in a con test Thursday at the Oregon Centennial grounds in Portland. need came in second to Tom Gray of Damascus whose average time for unholstenng his six gun was two fifth of a second. The contest drew 2,500 ipt- tutors. BANK ROBBER IS FOILED BY FAINT NEW YORK (UP) Bank Teller Mrs. Mary Downs faintad Thursday and thart with thwarted a holdup. Mrs. Down blacked out whan a man handed her a no, saying ha had a gun and de manding $3,000. As she fell, she set off an alarm gong that sent the ban dit on the run. Ha scaped, empty handed. Cause Rash Of Mishaps Wet and slippery streets caused rash of traffic accidents in La Grande yesterday. Police report ed three accidents but only one minor injury. Myrtle M. Becks, 1801 X Ave., complained of a pain in her left wrist after an accident at the inter section of Jefferson and Fir streets early yesterday afternoon, police reported. Driver of the other car was Claudia A. Conley, 2707 Fourth St. according to police. Four cars were involved in an accident approximately 150 east of Hemlock on Adams just after 5 p.m. yesterday. Driver of the first car was George- O. Stone. Rt. 2. Elgin. Robert G. Campbell. 905 15th St., was driving a West Coast Telephone Co. vehicle when the accident occurred, police said Arthur F. Beal and George Tsiatsos, both of 1607' First St. were the drivers of the third and .fouth vehicles, according to police. No one was injured in the acci dent. Two other La Grande residents were also involved in an accident at the intersection of Adams and Elm. Donald R. Graham, 602 Spring St., and Mary Gillispie, 1308 Mon roe St., collided at the intersection at 11:59 Thursday morning, police said. Police also reported the theft of $15 to $20 in nickles and dimes from the coke machine in front of the service station operated by Ray Wilhelm at 2007 Adams Ave. The theft took place some time during the night, police stated. Senate Approves Armed Services Building Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate approved 89-0 a $1,428,178. 700 money bill carrying funds to finance construction activities of the armed services at home and overseas. The measure calls for spending about 9 per cent less than Presi dent Eisenhower budgeted. It was. however, somewhat larger than the bill aoproved by the House. The bill stirred a minimum of debate in the Senate. The Senate action was another milestone along the long road to Congressional adjournment since the construction bill is, by custom, one of the last money bills to be approved before adjournmucnt each year. Three-Day Opens In Workers arc busy at the Fair grounds cleaning, putting up lights, repairing bleacher seats, and building a new 26 by 96 foot building, all before the Union County Fair opens Thursday. The three-day Fair will fea ture free local entertainment each morning and afternoon with the Kiwanis club in charge. Friday is Pair parade day and this year's theme will be "The Old and the New." Starting at 12:30 p.m. the parade will form at Hemlock and Washington streets and proceed up Adam avenue to the Fair grounds. En trants will include the Union high school band, floats, clowns, end the Walla Walla Farmerettes. Anyone wishing to participate is asked to call either Claude An son or the Extension office. Hayworth shows will be at the giounds during the Fair. GUNNAR'S CHARGES SPARK REPLY FROM SOLON AIDE : WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's top assistant today referred to iiuuiL'ius personal uperauuu as suvcmui m uunn iu Republican attacks on Neuberger's ? 100,000 office payroll ana magazine earnings. Lloyd Tuniine. former Pacific Northwest newspaperman who is Neuberger's administrative assistant, said he and the senator regretted having to comment on charges leveled at Neuberger recently by State Re publican Chairman Peter Gunnar. "We have no quarrel with Gov ernor Hatfield's extensive perqui sites, such as his state-financed junket with 10 other people, in cluding Mrs. Hatfield and his chauffeur, to Puerto Rico," Tup ling said. "But if Governor Hatfield's close political intimate, Mr. Gun nar. wants to make an issue of such irrelevancies as Senator Neu berger's payroll, then we are fully prepared to discuss the lav ish scale of Governor Hatfield's personal operation as Governor," he added. Regrets Bringing Up Tupling said that while Mrs. Hatfield flew to Puerto Rico at state expense for the recent gov ernors' conference, Mrs. Neuberg er's trips with the senator "are to no such sumptuous island tour ist resort and they are paid for out of Neubergers' own pocket." Tupling pointed out that Neu berger's payroll is authorized by law "and he has never spent one penny more than the law allows." He said that "indeed. Senator Neuberger actually has returned some $34,000 of payroll to the Treasury since he entered office." The senator's aide said that while Hatfield has two state cars and a state police chauffeur at his disposal, Neuberger "must pay out of his own pocket" for the 1954 six cylinder Ford he drives in Washington and the 1953 Buick he drives in -Oregon, Tup ling admitted that Hatfield's cars and chauffeur are authorized by state law. Senator Neuberger and I re gret having to call these matters to public attention, but we do so only because the Republican State chairman for the past three months has harped away at equal irrelevancies- about Senator Neu berger," Tupling said. Morning Starr II Sails Up Columbia With Cheese Cargo St. Hfc.Lt.NS (UPD The two masted schooner. Morning Star II was due to dock here today on her voyage from Tillamook to the Oregon Centennial exposition in Portland. The vessel, with a cargo of Tillamook cheese in her hold, was to sail up the Columbia River from Kalama, Wash., today. After an overnight stop here, the vessel, which is a replica of the first ship built in Oregon, will sail to the Centennial dock in Portland. Scheduled arrival time in Portland is 2 p.m. Saturday. Albany Union Barbers Threaten Price Cuts ALBANY, Ore. (UPI) Local union barbers were scheduled to lower their prices from $1.75 to $1 for haircuts today in retaliation to six non-union shops which have been charging $1.50. Union County Fair La Grande Several high school bands from the county will be at the Fair each day. About 120 head of horses from clubs and open class are expect ed. A contest was held in the high school homcmaking room yester day to select 4-H representatives to attend the State Fair from Union county. - Only the first place winners , will attend the fair. Winners are in the senior bread baking, Ruth Hoxie, first and champion; Nancy Hoofnagle, second; junior bread baking, Lin da Elmer of Alice!, first and champion; Beverley Schaad, Rt. 1, La Grande, second; Shirley Miller of Elgin, third; junior Spreckles canning, Beverly Hoxie, first and champion; Eloise Mc Coy, second; Hazel Sudbrock of Union, third; Beverly Schaad, Prlca 5 Cents Blasts "the lavish scale of Governor Misuse Of Union Dues Is Charged WASHINGTON (UPI) A wit ness told the Senate Rackets Com mittee today that a United Auto Workers official in Toledo, Ohio, padded his stuff with aides who were used for political activities. Jesse F. Motsinger, Detroit, said some of the aides of union Vice President Richard Gosser sent in bogus reports to indicate they were doing work for the union. Motsinger himself was an inter national representative on Gosser'a staff until discharged in 1955. He said his refusal to conform to the practices of other members of the staff was one of the reasons for his dismissal. He said he tried to "expose what I thought was corruption on the international level" and to prevent the waste of dues money by union field workers. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) said Motsinger's description of the activities of Gosser's staff mem bers indicated a "clear-cut misuse of union dues." . Motsinger told (he committee Thursday he was required to make "voluntary" contributions to the UAW political fund in order to hold, his union ih fti said MM -$10 "contribution was sent in his name but without his knowledge to former Sen. Guy Gillette (O Iowa) during Gillette's unsuccess ful 1954 campaign for reelection. Committee Republicans, who motivated the UAW inquiry, ques tioned Motsinger further about his contributions to the "flower fund" a fund set up by UAW officials for use in intraunion political cam paigns. Mundt said Motsinger's claim that many union employes con tributed to the fund unwillingly represented the type of salary "kickback" that has in the past sent some members of Congress to jail. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D Mass.) disagreed with this comparison. He pointed out that a union was not a federal agency and that -there was nothing illegal about the flower fund. But Mundt in sisted it was a "highly un-Amert- . can concept." La Grande Youths Receive Sentences Two La Grande youths were sentenced in Juvenile Court yes terday for the attempted entry into Birnie's Jewelry Aug. 2. One boy was committed to the boys home in Wood burn. The second boy was paroled in the custody of Police Chief Oliver Reeve. ,. The boys intended to steal the gun collection belonging to Grant Chandler that was on display in Birnie's window according to p6 lice. !-' Thursday. fourth; and Beth Hug of Elgin, ruin. Winners In the cake baking were Beverley Schaad, first and champion; Linda Elmer, seci ond; Hazel sudbrock, third; Lin da Bond, fourth; Beth Hug, fifth; Charlene Lyons, sixth; France Peterson, seventh; and Yolanda Jones, eighth. Junior dollar ' dinner prize bonl a TJnHl F.lmer. first mil champion; and Hazel Sudbrock, i second. In the contest sponsored the Union County CowBelles, fir nrize went to Ruth Hoxie her demonstration, "Economy) Beef" and bharon Jones second with Nancy - Hoofni third. The first priz win ceives a $9 cash award Orrcnn CowBelles cookbc second prize is $2.50 andi book.