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O U UN Indian Troops Battle Red Invasion Forces NEW DELHI, India (UPI) Communist Chinese troops have invaded India on both flanks of Tibet and captured frontier posts in gunfights with Indian defenders, Prime. Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announced today. i lie said that the India government had protested to Peip ing and ordered Indian forces to defend the areas. Red China's new campaign coincided with a new artillery ' - ' i v vl 'A It 6- Mickie Petersen was having County Fair yesterday. LA GRAND 312th Issue 63rd Year QUEEN GREETS 1 i inuuittii inf nil HITS THE SPOT-Jim McCormick, Enterprise, takes time out for a long drink of water in back of the Live stock barns at the Union County Fair. The three-day event is in its second day today. (Observer Photo) Boy Finds First Visit To The Fair Thrilling By GRADY PANNELL Observer Staff Writer A cow moos ioudly in a stall at the end of the long county fair barn, and the little boy Davey from the city who has dodged cars rather than cows Clows with happiness. To him. the fair is a three-ring circus. Never in his young life had he even been next to a chicken. Perhaps he remembered his dad talking of the days when he prew up on a farm and how he helped each day tending the chickens, feeding and milking (by hand) two Jersey cows morn ing and evening before and af ter school-r the dozen odd things kids do or used to do on the farm. The rows of well-groomed sheep were especially fascinating to the little six-year-old irom the city. At first he thought they must be monkeys. He had seen circus animals even the I'lcphants but these were all WOW! WHAT FUN the time of her life on the CHANGES RULE; IKE AT CASTLE rut 4. & it 1 M V r. '1 A . f 4 V .strangers to him. I "See the horses, claimed. dad," he ex "No, son, those are cows, big. fat and prize show cows," we had to inform. We figured it was the excite ment of being turned loose in a long rambling barn filled with wonderful farm animals that caused the mix tip between cows and horses, for he knew exactly v hat the cowboys rode, and even in Hollywood the movie cowboys "must" ride horses. The smaller animals Davey called all of them babies would have received the little guy's vote for Union County Fair lop nonors. It wasn't the contented and sieepy-eyed bull calf or the baa baa black-face lamb; it was the suckling pigs curled up under the stomachs 01 their fat mother that received his vote. Davey would have left with See THRILLING On Page l i midget racers at the Union (Observer Photo) LA GRANDE, OREGON, Skirling ; J Bagpipes On Hand BALMORAL, Scotland UPI President Eisenhower, delayed slightly by another tumultuous greeUng, arrived here today and I received a royal welcome of skir- ling bagpipes and an unscheduled 1 personal greeting by Queen Eliza beth and Princess Margaret. I The President flew from Lon don to Aberdeen and then drove , the 56 miles to Balmoral past tens of thousands of Scots who had streamed in from the highlands to bid him welcome. He had been given a huge send-off in London. I Queen Elizabeth broke her an nounced decision to make no fur- ' ther public appearances until aft er the birth of her third child in , January or February and came to the gates of Balmoral Castle ; to give a personal welcome to the President. ! It was the first time a U.S. President ever had visited the British royal family's highland residence. It was the first time a President had ever visited Scot- , iuiiu. lura mo Atigm iiuiu uviiuvii ! aboard a Royal Air Force jet Comet was the first flight by a U.S. President aboard a foreign plane. Delayed By Crowds Huge, cheering; crowds broke through police cordons again to day and surged into the roadway, holding up the President. He ar rived nearly 10 minutes behind schedule on the drive from Aber deen's Dyce Airport where , he was met by the Queen's husband, Prince Phiiiph. . The Queen's appearance with her younger sister was not mere ly a gesture of eourtesty to her distinguished guest. She swept aside her "no public appearance" statement and the red tape pro tocol connected with it and drove to the castle gate to welcome Eisenhower.' . . Eisenhower, fashing his famous smile, shook the Queen's hand warmly with the remark, "How nice of you to let me come." Eisenhower'! visit to Scotland was his third triumph in as many days. Wednesday he was greeted by a quarter of a million West Germans when he arrived in Bonn on his mission of peace. An es timated one million greeted him in London. Today thousands of Scots poured into Aberdeen to wave and shout as he landed and began the drive to Balmoral. The Queen's arrival was com pletely unheralded.. Most had thought she was awaiting him In the royal family residence in the heart of the beat her -covered high- lands. E V.,.(f ART GALLERY VISITORS Mrs. Wren Case, Alicel, left, and Mrs. L. R. Hoxie, Rt. 1, point out details In the first place oil painting at the Union County Fair art gallery. (Observer Photo) OBSERVER FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1959 BOSSIE, OWNER SPEAKING NOW . . Devid Oswald and his Grand Champion heifer are back en speaking terms agein. David is 14, and live at Route 1, La Grande. He wan . a Grand Champion award with "Bessie" earlier this summer at the Union Live stock Show.. . -s r, , v .., ,. After the judging was ever at the Fair yesterday and the awards had been tacked-up, . David decided to take a. look around the Fair at the other exhibits. When he returned "Bos sle" was chewing merrily. There was only one problem. Her taste had changed a bit - Irom the imundi of hay that surrounded her. "Bossie" was munching geyly on her sward ribbons. "She ate both of them," Da- ' vid said. With his hands placed firmly en both hips, David just turned around and looked at "Bossie" ... a real prise winner) Harry Nice Farm Sets Thresh Day Third annual threshing day a real old-time event will be ob served Aug. 30 at 10:45 a.m. at the Harry Nice farm five miles west of North Powder and three miles off U.S. 30 on Wolf Creek road. According to Nice, this old tim- threshing day event is the largest such affair in the West. The Nice family has kept an old fad alive that long since has died out throughout the country. Threshing and plowing with steam traction is something many members of the present, younger generation have read about -but never seen. Back in dad's time, depending too on dad's age and where he lived when a boy, threshing day was one of the big events in his young life. . The old steam engine, clunking slowly but surely along and with an occasional sharp whistle blast that heralded its approach to the next farm of ripened wheat, long since has been a victim of progress. The Nice family said 2,500 per sons were on hand last year to witness the threshing day. They are predicting around 3.000 spec tators this Sunday. Admission is free as is parking. Ladies of the Wolf Creek Grange will have a lunch stand set up on the grounds. Oklahoma Man Arrested An Oklahoma resident was ar rested by Oregon State Police early this morning for operating a motor vehicle without an operator's license. . James W. Renshaw of Mans ville, Okla., Is being held in the city Jail for a hearing today. Renshaw was, picked up on High way 30 at 2:10 this morning accord ing to police officials. mmmd ir' V '' li'l r " Tl Tin nTTl Women Toss Tear Gas At Little Rock Board United Press International School desegregation in a fourth major North Carolina city, the tear gas,bombing of a Little Rock school board meeting and lhe opening of Atlanta schools on strictly seg gregated basis for perhaps the last time dotted the integra tion scene in the South today. High Point, N.C., became the fourth major North Caro lina city to vote to admit a few Negroes to previously all- white schools. The High Point city school board assigned two Negro sisters to an all-white junior-sen ior high school Thursday . Other North Carolina schools al ready integrated on a limited ba sis include Greensboro, Winston Salem, and Charlotte. These schools re-open next week. In Little Rock, two well-dressed white women threw a tear gas bomb in a building where the Lit tle Rock school board was holding a meeting Thursday night: In Haveiock. N.C., the largest group of Negroes to enter North Carolina white schools was sched uled, to enroll today. No disturb ances were expected as 17 chil dren of Negro U.S. Marine person nel enroll in two Haveiock ele mentary schools. One of the most significant court actions in the integration controversy since the U.S. Su preme Court decision of May 17, 19!4, resumes today in No-folk. Va. NAACP atlorneys argued Thursday that Negroes were re jected for assignment to Norfolk white schools because of their race. Federal Judge Walter E. Hoff man was expected to hear testi mony that the Norfolk city school board and the state pupil place ment board tinned down 25 Ne groes seeking admission to white schools. Atlanta public schools opened today for perhaps the beginning of the end of segregated schools in the peach stale capital. The At lanta school board is under a federal judge's court order to come up with a desegregation plan by Dec. I. Concrete Floor Crashes Down ATLANTA. Ga. UPI Tons of concrete-stub flooring caved in to day on the lower floors of a 22 story building under construction on downtown Peachtree St. One man was killed and at least 15 workers Injured. The body of a foreman was found beneath the huge mass of rubble two hours after the cave in. Witnesses said a section of the second floor crashed to the first floor with a thunderous roar. This floor, in turn, crashed into the basement level. Some workers "rode down" with the floor uninjured. WEATHER Partly cloudy through Sat urday; highs 73-80; low 40-45. Price 5 Cents Legion Wil Greet Nikita With 'Dignity' MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (UPD American Legion delegates end ed a hot floor fight over the com ing visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev by voting to greet him "with the dignity common to free men." The delegates to the 41st na tional convention had no differ ences, on the other hand, in nam ing a new national commander. They elected Martin B. McKneal ly, 44, by acclamation. The Legion's resolution giving a lukewarm welcome to Khru schchev followed one of the hot test fights of the convention. Hundreds of Legionnaires, in cluding McKncally, went on rec ord as believing the Soviet pre mier's visit next month could do "great harm" to U.S. interests. lint all resolutions condemning Khrushchev's tour died in com mittee. The final resolution urged Americans to "accept the Soviet premier's visit with the dignity common to free men," but also to "be alert and to recognize. . . that Khrushchev heads the dead liest conspiracy in world history. 'PATH OF GLORY' Slum Girl Killed In Gutter, Funeral Held On Wall Street NEW YORK (UPD Theresa Gee's world for all her IS years as a Negro girl had been the harsh and violent tenement streets of this city. They finally brought her death but Thursday night she moved up the whole social scale to a fu neral in Trinity Church' beneath the skyscraper spires of Wall Street the richest, most fa mous church in all of New York. Alexander Hamilton's funeral was held there 155 years ago. His remains lie in its tiny grave yard beside those of steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. Killed By Stray Bullet Theresa got a funeral in Trinity Church because an angry while offensive in the Formosa Strait and continued Communist pressure on Laos. It darkened the international outlook just before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's "peace'' vis it to America. Reporting to a shocked Parlia ment. Nehru disclosed first details I of the first major Sino-lndian clashes since overwhelming Red farces marched right up to the Indian border last March in their j take-over of Tibet. I China Claims Territory I Peiping claims much Indian ter ritory there but had never moved ! previously to capture it by force. 1 Nehru said one Communist contingent attacked the re- mote north Eat Frontier Agency, I south of Lhasa, Tibet, and de feated a frontier defense force. He said a second Red force had moved into the Ladakh territory of Kashmir, due west of Tibet, captured an. Indian reconnaissance force, and established a forward base on Indian territory. At the same time new Red of fensive moves were reported against Nationalist China. Communist shore batteries re sumed shelling the offshore is lands of Nationalist China Thurs day after the longest cease-fire in the strait since last October. Running Sea Battle The Nationalist Defense Ministry in Taipei reported Communist and Nationalist warships fought running sea battle near the Que moy Islands today. The newest sector of sudden Communist pressure was revealed along India's long Himalayan frontier with Red China and red occupied Tibet during a parlia mentary debate here on frontier incidents. Red China disputes the McMah on border established half a cen tury ago between India and China when India was still under Brit ish control. The frontier Is un marked and Peiping has recently issued maps showing large areas of India as part or Chinese terri tory. This was the military situation as Nehru reported it in Parlia ment: He said Indian troops had been captured both in the northeast frontier agency south of Tibet and the Laddakh district of eastern Kashmir which New Delhi regards as Indian territory. The Indians since have gained their freedom, he said. Both sections are wild, almost Inaccessible areas. They border on Communist- dominated Tibet along with the Indian protector ates of Sikbim and Bhutan. Nehru solemnly repeated his warning to Peiping that aggres sion against Sikkim and Bhutan would be considered aggression against India. nenru 101a Parliament it was See INVASION On Page I Kiddies Parade Due Tomorrow La Grande's Kiddies parade will start at 11 a.m. Saturday. Youngsters wishing to partici pate are asked to be at the start ing spot at 10:30 a.m. The parade will form on Greenwood street be tween Adams and Washington. Refreshments will be served to all youngsters participating in the parade in the vacant lot next to the Elk's building. The Pepsi Bottling company and the La Grande Fruit company are furnishing the treats. LED TO GRAVE clergyman from her lower East Side slums thought it might shock New Yorkers and shame young toughs into ending the senseless juvenile gang wars that have ter rorized the city all this hot sum mer. The girl was shot down by a stray bullet ' last Sunday night when her boyfriend's gang, the Sportsmen, was attacked by the Forsyth Street gang. The teen agers had argued over, "girls and territory.". The Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, 43, who served 40 wartime months as chaplain aboard the cruiser Mem phis, stood in the pulpit at the girl s funeral Thursday night and lushed out at police, social work Mail Order Obscenity Ban Urged WASHINGTON (UPI) Post. master General Arthur E. Sum merfield, backed by several relir gious leaders, urged Congress to day to blot out "mail order ob scenity" which could corrupt a million children this year. " , He told a Senate hearing the. I ..... .. t ... .. .1 ...t U has doubled in five years and, un- less checked, "can more than double again over the next four years. By 1963. he said, "one school age child out of every 18. . . . may be the target of these pur veyors of filth." Supporting testimony was given by the Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling. editor of. the Christian Herald: Dr. Julius Mark, senior rabbi of Temple Emanuel in New York: Msgr. George H. Guilfoyle, execifc tive director of Catholic charities in the Archdiocese of New York, and Msgr. Thomas A. Donnellan. chancellor of the New York Arch diocese, who presented views of Francis Cardinal Spellman; and Charles H. Keating Jr.. chairman of Citizens for Decent Literature, inc. 1 Poling commended Summer' field for his unsuccessful effort to ban "Lady Chatterley's Lover'' from the mails. He said the novel contains in its 365 pages 18 in stances or incidents which de scribe the sex act with no om mil led detail and with the use ot words, often repeated, that are. to be found only on the walla Ol iU-kapt outhouses." v------v Cardinal Spellman, in his state ment read by Donnellan, a aid "affirmative action by Congress it necessary to protect the right of parents to educate their children in an atmosphere reasonably fr from defilement." A statement by Bishop Fulton J, Sheen said legislative action to protect young minds from indecen cy is as necessary as pure food laws to protect their bodies from impurity. Union County Schools Open Union County schools will have a varied opening this year, with about half of them scheduled to open this Monday. Mrs. Veda Couzens, county school superintendent, said that she was still plagued, however, with a teacher problem. "We still have a few openings," she told the Observer. . Three opening dates are Included in the school program, other schools slated to open Sept. 7 and the following day. Here is the opening day schedule: Aug. 31 Union, North Powder, Ladd Canyon, Fruitdale, "Alicel (tentative). 1 ' Sept. 7 Cove, Telocaset. Sept. 8 Island City, Imbler, Elgin, Palmer Junction. ' - Mrs. Couzens said most of the old teachers would be back at the same schools they taught last year. "We will have some nevf faces at several of the schools, however," she added.- t 1 ers, the clergy and a whole apa thetic citizenry. Have Heart With the girl's mother sobbing in the background, be looked down on a row of the Sportsmen gang seated together, five Ne groes and three white boys. "I say to you If you cared about her, then let this be your memorial to her," he said. "Let there be no more sudden, death in the streets ot the lower East Side. Let no more Innocent people fall to those streets. Ban ish all thoughts of retaliation. Have heart, real heart like out Lord Jesus Christ who had cour age." ,