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WEATHER i Partly cloudy through' Thursday; high Thursday 75. 82; low tonight 45-50. LA 310th Issue 3rd Ytar LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1959 Prict 5 Ctnts u mniirirw GRANDE OBSERVER Faiir Ooeos To u Fear Securi In W ror ty BONN, Germany (LTi) La Grandes 1959 edition of the Fall Festival parade will be held tonight at 7 e'e'ock. The parade will begin at Hem lock and Adams and proceed up Adams to Fourth street and Adams avenue. This will be preod d by tV window opening at 6 o'clock by merchants whose stores will be decorated. Stores w ill remain opt'n until 9 p.m. Balloting by the public vill select the winning window dis p'ay and the store with th win ring window will award a $15 mer chandise certificate. A drawing will be made f.om the ballots for the winning display to select the winner of the merchandise cer tificate. Ballots are availablo at the stores. One of the annual features of the festival tonight will be the hay scramble for the small fry. This event ' ':: !al' "'acc, after Ail parade and is to be located on Depot Street. Coins will be scat tered throughout a large pile of straw and the youngsters then turned loose. Another lively af'air S"t to night is the teen-age hop at the Washington end of Depot. Chuck McKee will be in charge of the dance. 1 ESTA3LISH RELATIONS LISBON. Portugal (ITU Por tugal and The Philippines Tues day announced the establishment of diplomatic relations. ft b5 vr t n a ti a e worked out intricate security arrangements for the arrival fe,V" " I ''ifVAM ft,c)S 1 .MVV " '" I ''.'Via J ' ' " ' '. II ' :''JV3. j; today of President Eisenhower, supreme commander of the I y f.',., 1"'V-'1 VA&.'t'AV wVt-4 2" 1 V ' W -y: ,t"i;. f Allied forces that whipped Germany in World War II. CjA4- f '"VT v'.'Y f . fr" V .'i'V.J ' V Most Germans today consider Eisenhower and the United K:;u;'. I f 5; '-4 .?V V ' A " 1 n'v rV. States as the foundation stone of their freedom. I ; f A'sr.':!! ,; n J '' i:' ''liT'i V'1 ' V vx"1 " i , But possibly there still is some bitterness in Germany P :V faSi'' l5V '.T. tHW ! -X t,N against the U.S. President despite F t' VV.&ZFW- '. S YmY. V '..t'l. .WjV''s' '.'l I I the passage of 14 years. f ' W?'i5VV ' V""' J V ' f i v - i A s.:t x,, In l"3lTinrfA Secret Service agents have l.'Vl' -VV'-V;v? --" f j , "SOV',' V J Zi "V t "j 1.U VlUiEUc bcen in Germany for 10 days ls ' : VfJi , ! 1' i ' " i i O t' . a, working out details with West VV,t V 'V v j V VV- ' ' -i reSflVUl the own inspections. P. , J. 4 . jTpV'i '.v 'V ' v.V f', V, ; V-.V Check All Rooms If- rj .-c t"?' I .Jl i V ' , M v - V '.' ' IS lORinhl rt the 10 rooms in the chancel- ";-VV''fvViVx V"vK VPV,i V'l ' : V ' V 10 witiym , v,hi(.n have been sot aside ;-';;vt- vy--0 c rr. ,s i':?-v f"tl ''. . .'iV, r READY FOR THE FAIR Lanetta Carter washes down her steer, "Pioneer," in preparation for the Union County Fair that runs through the end of the week in La Grande. Pioneer was nam ed jointly for the centennial year and the PI exposition in Portland. Lanetta will enter the steer in the Pacific International Livestock Show in Portland after show ing biiu and her cow and calf at the county fair. (Observer Photo) n Ike Willi ermany U.S. and West German officials Tempers Raw The American agents in turn explain to them that while Eisen hower al: may get tired of all this security business the U.S. Congress has charged Secret Service with protecting him and there is nothing the President can do about it. Tempers were said to be a bit raw by the time the arrange ments were completed Tuesday night but everyone teamed togeth er to find a likely place for a landscape which the President painted for Adenauer several They fim:)lj. to pjt years ago oa the cfouicellor's tea wagon and leave it to Adenauer to make sure the President sat where he would see it. FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED The La Grande fire department was called to a grass fire at approximately 10:40 this morn ing. The fire burnt a small patch of grass in an empty lot in bark of the Safeway store near the inter section of Third and Jefferson. 'for working sessions with Chancel- I'vT.f f a A-. ' V 1 i - ' f' "A ' 5 ' , i .',., 1 ' .or Komad Adenauer. ! K ; Ufa JJ VlJVU V ' . ' , V'IV. iJ .i- Every vantage point from which U,y. i' ! ''tltfl' 'lYiTTl y- 4 " ' n ' J .x a bullet could be fired into any Wtih'&A'A f rf T' : ? 'j: ' ' Tt V ..UVil . V5.! t.4.y-.: f of the rooms has been checked. Vpl'itf Y ? W'' V' M - WT : -He Adenauer usually sloi-shs off ? J ; jVrf O 9 MToV ' o' . 1'V ' v jSL VA - ' suoh stringont security arrange- L , f ' , j .,v ' u 1 'i.wV-r ' ,v.f i rfvi- A'.'M'V1 .', 'iV:-Oi; , u o merts for himfelf aid his aides ff , l-) d'.'M'1'' VlX' VlV 4 'r ,i.-,-""0''.XVi have ma,.e several drara, If, ' , r jR y . Scl 1 A J.J'. 7 r'rsec-rser'lmen y "'e. J ? t&A km. , 1 i-VfrrtiT,,, VJaitXV.r' u . me .m 1 nN'K 7 if o I i v V'-'"- fvr i ) FAIRMAIDS REIGN OVER UNION COUNTY FAIR The Fairmaids who have been working hard all summer to promote the Union County Fair with their variety of entertainment will be on hand when the Fair opens tomorrow. The girlls are dressed alike in old-fashioned dresses in keeping with the Centennial year. Each girl Portland Lad Gunned Fatally; Youth Held By Police In Murder POKTLAND (UPIl David Lee Heads, 13, was shot to death on his front porch Tuesday night and police today arrested a 15-year-old boy they said admitted the slaying. ' Wilbur Dcnson was arrested by detectives at a garage in the rear of his home. Detective William Taylor said the only reason the youth could give for the shooting was that Heads had bcen picking on him and making fun of a leg injury J suffered by the suspect in an au tomobile accident. Police still were questioning Denson. Revolver Recovered Taylor said Heads had been shot twice with a small .22 cali ber revolver. He said police had recovered the revolver. Jenny Jones, the victims' grandmother, told police a youth rang the doorbell and asked Heads out onto the porch. She said she looked out the front window and heard them talking. Then, she said, she saw the vis itor step down. turn, and fire. She said the assailant then jumped into a light colored car which sped away. Model Boy Police picked up a youtli who told detectives the other youth fled on foot after riding with him for a few blocks. Police said the dead boy had no juvenile record and was praised by friends and neighbors as a model boy. He was described as a good student at Jefferson high school. ' Clyde Alexander, 21. told police he was returning home and saw a car with two persons inside parked near the dead boys' home. He said he later heard what sounded like two shots. The Heads boy died from wounds in the chest and stomach. Nixon Will Speak At The Dalles THE DALLES UPI - Vice President Richard Nixon has ac cepted an invitation to be the main speaker at dedication of The Dalles dam Oct. 10, it was announced today. Paul Walden, chairman of the dam dedication committee, said he had received a telegram f-om Nixon confirming his appearance. The dam originally was to have been dedicated Sept. 26. The telegram said: "It is with great pleasure that I accept your cordial invitation to participate in The Dalles dam dedication cere mony on Saturday. Oct. 10. I shall be looking forward to being with you on that occasion." Bandit Heists Portland Bank PORTLAND (i;PI An armed bandit Tuesday afternoon rolibed the Pittock Branch of the Pott land Trust Co., and escaped with $3978 in American and Canadian currency. Police said the gunman walked off with $3500 in American money and $478 in Canadian currency in cluding a $100 Canadian bill. represents a section of the county and they are from upper left, Lynn Vancil, North Powder; Ruth Elmer, Cove; Connie Jepsen, La Grande; Marilyn Sherwood, Elgin; bottom row, Neda McClellan, Union; and Sharon Severns, lmbler. (Observer Photo by Joe Diehl) CANNON BLASTS FOR THE BIRDS AOUE30GUE, N.Y. (UPI) Two Long Island farmers have given up trying to scare birds away from their field with scarecrows or shotguns. They now use a cannon. Stanley Kern snowski and Henry Worm picked up "ion" noisemaking devices made in Holland consisting of a tank of bot tled gas, a built-in timing device, a pressure chamber and a large horn to amplify the explosions. The blasts aren't big, but they sound big. Four Mountain Climbers In Narrow Escape FRANCOMA, N. II. (U'H Four expert mountain climbers narrowly escaiied death while re covering the bodies of two young college students from a ledge on the sheer face of Profile Mountain Tuesday. A seven-man team of rock climbers toiled for nine hours on the rugsed mountain before com pleting their job. About 5,000 per sons watched. At various times, four of the climbc'S brushed death-. One man dangled from his nylon rope 500 feet above the ground and was saved only by the strength of his companions. Brought down were the bodies of Alfred Wavle Jr., 20, Gales Gerry, Coin., a:id Sydney Crouch, of Ledyard, Conn., who scaled the mountain Sunday and became trapped on a ledge near the famed Old Man of the Mountain, a New Hampshire landmark. A team of rock climbers scaled the mountain wall Monday in 50 mile an hour winds, rain and fog but reached the youths too late. Both died of exiwsure minutes ofler their rescuers ar rived. They had been on the cold mountain wall 2l hours. Boy's Piggy-Bank Will Help Rosebu'rg noSEBL'RR. Ore. H'Pli A lit tle boy in Hamburg. Germany, has opened his piggy bank to aid this lumber town, which was partially leveled on Aug. 7 when fire touched off a truck load of explosives. City officials received a letter from Horst Mahncke. He enclosed a coin equivalent to about 50 cents and a note which said in part: "I opened my piggy-bank and although there wasn't much in it. I'm sending it to the city of Rose burg and hone that many other people will do likewise." lA U.S. Aid For Sets Plan Laos WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States has decided to give Laos emergency help In arming 5.000 more troops and militiamen to deal with Communist guerrilla attacks, official sources disclosed today. Formal announcement of the de cision, expected this afternoon, is not likely to mention the 5,000-man size of the force increase or the cost of the emergency aid, offi cials said. But they said the U. S. will foot the entire bill, including pay and the cost of uniform and other equipment. The present 25.000-man Laotian army is entirely financed by U. S. aid. President Eisenhower approved the basic policy decision Tuesday shortly b- fore he left for Euroe. Officials said the U. S. agrees with Laos that cli-ect military in tervention by U. S. or Southeast Asia Treaty Organization forces is not necessary to deal with the stepped-up Communist guerrilla attacks. These officials said they knew no basis for a reMrt that the U.S. was sounding out its SKATO allies en their attitude about sending in an expeditionary force if the Lao tian government loses ground to the rebels. But the Laotian government's special representative, Ngon San auikonc, has warned that his gov ernment faces collapse if the Communist-inspired rebellion is not soon stamped out. PLACE YOUR BETS, GENTLEMEN What Is Las Vegas Like? Hard Question To Answer By GRADY PANNELL Observer Staff Writar What is Las Vegas like? I have been asked this ques tion numerous times since arriving here lest Sunday. That is a somewhat hard ques tion to answer. At least one cannot answer that before he runs out of breath. It takes a sort of hedge podge answer because the desert town in Southern Nevada that is more famous for its gambling, glitter and glamor than its wonderful weather is a "hodge podge" place. It's a little New York, San Fran cisco, Chicago or Los Angeles. It has that cosmopolitan touch without the street cars, subways ur smokestacks. VALLEY PREPARE By VIRGINIA ANDERSON Observer Staff Writer "Hi. Ho. and off to the Fair!" With harvest time over, valley residents can sit back ant take a look at the year's accomplishments. Women are polishing up their best jars of preserves and are putting the finishing touches on that quilt they've been working on an winter.. 4-H girls are practicing on tneir canes ana cook ies to be sure that only their very best will be taken to the fair. By now, kitchens are piled high with cakes that didn't quite irect the test and mothers are wondering what can be done with the refrigerator full of egg yolks that weren't used. (In some classes they only use the whites.) Youngsters with beef, -sheep, swine, and even rabbits are brushing, cleaning, and taking care of those last minute necessi ties that the judges so meticul ously notice. For a lot of these 1 Hers and FFA members a prize animals means muney in the bank and they are mure than ready to spend the night with their charg es in the stock barns if they must. Exhibits Ready Grange members have been spending several days hammer ing, sawing, painting, and plan ning their exhibits for the Fair . Inch will run tomorrow throuch Saturday. Competition is keen ind each club hopes that their booth will taK me prize. This year a record number of exhi bits have been scheduled. The Fairmaids representing every section of the valley will be a highlight of the event with their entertainment and colorful ("mtennial costumes. They are Connie Jepsen representing La Grande, Nelda McClellan repre ssing Union, Ruth Elmer rep resenting Cove, Marilyn Sher wood representing Elgin; Sharon Severns, representing Summer- ville and lmbler. Lynn Vancil re presenting North Powder, and Elizabeth Easley who is their ac conipaniest. , At least 500 displays are sx pected from Union County 4-H members for the Fair tomorrow ai'd 4 II activities will begin at the grounds at 9 a.m. and all exhibits should be in place by that time. The schedule for 4-H events is as follows: LIVESTOCK CLUBS Thursday 9 a.m. All stock must be in place. Livestock judging contest. 10:30 a.m. Livestock and agri cultural demonstrations. 1 p.m. Dairy showmanship fol lowed by beef, sheep, swine 4 p.m. All around showman ship contests See COUNTY FAIR On Page 8 Gang Violence Kills Another NEW YORK IUPU Gang vio lence that erupted on Manhattan's lower East Side Sunday claimed its second life Tuesday night. Jules Rosa-io. 14, stabbed in the back during a rumble between the predominantly Negro "Sports men" and the predominantly Puerto Rican 'Forsythe Street Boys" died in Gouvcrneur Hospi tal. First victim was a 15-year-old Negro girl, Theresa Gee, who was shot down shortly after the gang fight. John Cruz, leader of the Forsythe gang, confessed to that killing, police said. To begin with. Vegas kind of lost that little human touch that smaller towns have and that which definitely impressed me as La Grande having. When the bigtime gamblers moved in on the Vegas scene and erected their sprawling multi million dollars worth of hotels, casinos, restaurants, swim pools and other novelties, the town was no longer a desert community of 10.000 persons: it turned into a "little New York" or a "little Chicbgo" of almost 60,000 persons and a Very interesting city "to cover" from a newspaperman's viewpoint. But it got to me. It wasn't the same Las Vegas I knew about nine years ago just before the RESIDENTS FOR FAIR Explosive Ordinance Reviewed A 1953 city ordinance prohib iting the parking of motor ve hicles loaded with explosives has been dusted off by the city man ager's office here. City Manager Fred J. Young told the Observer today that this action resulted from the recent disaster at Roseburg, Ore., dur ing which several city blocks were leveled by an explosion and resulting fire, both caused by de tonating explosives in a truck. The six-year-old ordinance brought to light again by Young, covering such a situation, is as follows: Section I It shall be unlawful for any person to park or stop except for lawful traffic signs or in an emergency any motor ve hicle loaded with explosives with in the limits of the city of Li Grande. '' Section II Any person violat ing any provision of this ordl nance shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than $1 nor more than) $300 or by imprisonment in the city jail for a term of not less than one day nor more than one-bundred-f ifty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion' of the court. - , Section, Hi All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the city of La Grande in conflict there with are hereby repealed. Section IV That inasmuch as the public welfare, security and peace of the city of La Grande require that this ordi nance become immediately effec tive, an emergency is hereby de clared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage and approval. Las Vegas Bidder, May Get Historic State Lighthouse SEATTLE (UPI) Historic Tillamook Rock and lighthouse off the Oregon coast was auc tioned off Tuesday with tne ntgn bid of $5,600 submitted by a group of Las Vegas, Nev., contractors. There were 58 bids in all, rang ing down to $2. The General Serv ices Administration indicated the former lighthouse would go to the highest bidder. The high bidder was Academic Economic Coordinators of Las Ve gas. A spokesman for the group said they wanted the rock for re search purposes but denied that atomic studies had anything to do with the purchase. ; '' The lighthouse was built JO years ago and was abandoned tri September of 1957 by the Coast Guard. - gigantic building boom of hotels, motels, etc., began. Its people hardly ever said goo morning again unless it was the milkman or postman. And there; was a good reason. Those you used to know you hardly ever sa( again. Perhaps they worked late, late shift and were sleeping days, or they got out of town a I eventually did. That almost "typical fellow next, door" was new face just In (rent Chicago. New York or Los Am geles. He had forgotten bow tft be friendly ever since he was. a little street urchin and you "shook him up real bad" if you tried 1e exchange pleasantries. - Although that sprawling, neret See LAS VIOAS On Pag V