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MU0N6 WOUTAI PHONG SALY MUON6SIN6 BAN HOUE! SAI AAUONGHOU NUA 'YZ-Z : Kv J) ' - - - LUANS I y - " PRABAN0 L?Jt Y - df V1FMTIAMC L l . J SAVANNA-V " J ' S i z.0 v r khet yr " v IV: -li muong X)1-? v 2 1 PHALANE j T tes h ) t7 V-r&X KHONG X jfV ' I J? SEDONE X $' A pakseXM AY; MUONS HUN XIENG HUNG SAM NEUA MUONG LANE MUONG SOUI XIENG KHOUANG BORIKHANE NAPE KENGKABAO TCHE-PONE KHONG .A5)SNG ATTOPEU POWDER KEG IN LAOS Ncwsmap, above, profiles the small southeast Asian kingdom of. Laos, which Communist guerilla warfare threatens to turn into another Korea. The United States, warned by the Laotian government that it faces collapse, has decided to tend special military equipment to help defeat Communist-led rebel forces. For 1.000 years a victim of ag gression from one or another of its neighbors, Laos won independence In 1054 at the end of the llndochinose War. A year ago, an anti-Red government came to power. Crackdowns on the Communists touched off recent revolt in the primitive country's northern provinces, which lLaos claims is being masterminded by Communist North Viet Nam. ' "" Seattle FBI Nabs Bank Heist Suspect PORTlA.NO iL'PJi The FBI today announced tbe arrest in Seattle of a suspect in connection with the W.00O robbery here last Tuesday of the Pittock branch of the Portland Trust Bank here. Joseph E. Thornton, special agent in charge of the local FBI office, identified tbe 'suspect as Charles Herman Marvin, 33, a Seattle and Tacpma merchant seaman. Marvin was being held in lieu of $10,009 bail in the King counly jail and was to be arraigned be fore the U. S. commissioner there. Thornton said. Roseburg Woman In Suit Against Firm ui.AU'1A. Wash. (l'PI -Mrs. Marilyn Tandy, Koseburg Ore . filed suit today for $101,000 against the Pacific Powder Co. Tenino, Wash., for the dealh of her husband in the Roseburg ex plosion Aug. 7. Also named as a defendant in the suit was Georee FluihorfnrH driver of the exnlosive-larfun truck. The SUit Was fllnl In Tfcnrcl County Superior Court. Parents Teach Kids To Steal To Aid Family SAN DIEGO (UPl'-Polke to day said they were seeking a father and mother who supported themselves by teaching "'eir sev en children to steal. Kenneth Myers, 39, former Van- lenberg Air Force Base. Calif., guard, and his wife, Dolores, 41, ere wanted on charges of burg lary, receiving stolen property and contributing to the delinquen cy of minors. The Fagin-like couple was be lieved traveling in a house trailer with four of their chidlren that they trained as professional pick pockets, shoplifters, auto thieves and burglars, according to po lice. Activities of the Myers family were revealed to Juvenile Bureau Detective Simon Bulger Saturday when the couple's 14-year-old son was arrested attempting to steal a small machine tool in a store. The youth told Bolger that his father spent a year schooling the seven children in the ways of crime. He estimated the family made Body Of Federal Judge Laid To Rest WASHINGTON tl'PK The body of James Alger Fee, 70-year-old federal judge who died lust week, was laid to rest hi Arling ton National Cemetery here to day. Judge Fee, a native of Pendle ton. Ore., was buried with full military honors. He served in World War I as an aviator and was a long-time member of the Oregon National Guard. He served 23 years on the Fed eral Court bench in Portland and for 5 years on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. , . He died last week in Miami Beach while attending the Ameri can Bar Association convention. Judge Fee's body was escorted by an honor guard of riflemen and a Fort Meyer band. Observer, La Grande, Ort., Mon., Aug. 31, 1959 Pag 3 about $,000 this year and was re sponsible for about 600 minor thefts since moving to the San Diego area lust Christmas. The youth said his elder broth er and sister refused to take part in the family theft scheme and subsequently were "exeplled" from the family. He didn't know where they now were, he said. Proposals Planned On Labor Bill WASHINGTON H'PI House Itcpuhlicaii conferees, in a sur prise move, reported today that they would offer some new pro posals which could head off a Senate floor fight over the labor refo'm, hill. Hep Hohert F. Griffin B Mich, i told newsmen of the de velopment shortly before the joint. House Senate conference commit tee resumed its efforts to reach a compromise between the House and Sji'iKiIti bills. Oriffi!! did mil disclose Immed iately his new proposals. If Senate Democrats agreed to the offers made by the House group. Senate Hepublicans obvi ously would utxindon their plun to call up a resolution asking the full Senate, to break the conference deadlock in favor of the House bill. GOP Leader Everett M. Dirk- sen (III.) introduced the resolu tion Friday after the committee deadlocked on House bill curbs on secondary boycott v and organiza tional picketing antf on federal state Jurisdiction in labor dis putes. He said be would call up the resolution for action later to day. This appeared to scuttle any hope that the conferees could agree on a bill beforehand. Over the weekend, however, the house conferees came Up with some new proposals which appar ently would at least partly accept the modifications demanded by Senate Democrats Irr the House bill. Griffin said he and Rep. Phil Landrum (D-Oa 'co authors of the tough Laodrutn Griffin bill passed by the House, drew up the Uackage. Asked if it represented a concession on their part, Griffin said he preferred to call it an "adjustment." Vv Griffin said he regarded it as a plan upon which "reasonable men could agree.'" He said five of the Senate-House conferees who favor the' Landrum-Griffin bill agreed on the proposals. Market Quotations PORTLAND LIVESTOCK PORTLAND ILPD USDA Livestock: . Cattle 2000 : 23-head load low- average choice 1045 lb. fed steers 29; 14-head lot 992 lb. steers 28.75; small lot 28.25: good steers 26.50 27.50; standard down to 25; good low choice fed heifers 26.75-27.25; Utility cows 16-17 50; canners-cut- ters 13-14.50: utility bulls 22-34 - Calves 250: stock calves strong to 1.00 higher; good-choice veal ers and calves 26-30; utility-stand, ard 19-25, culls down to 14. Hogs 1200; butchers 25-50c low er; 1 and 2 butchers 185-225 lb. 16.75-17; few mixed 1, 2. and 3 lots 16-16.50; 1 and 2 sows 250 325 lb. 14.25-15; 350-550 lb. sows 12-13. Sheep 2000; wooled lambs steady; shorn and feeders weak to 50c lower; ewes steady; most ly choice 80-85 lb. slaughter spring lambs 20; several lots high good-choice 80-115 lb. 19 W.50; few good 18.50; feeder lambs 80-90 15.50, some held high er: cull-good ewes 2-4. VFW Schedules Dance Sept. 12 The Veterans of Foreign Wars have scheduled a Memorial Fund dance for Sept. 12 in the large ballroom at the Sacajawea Hotel. AH proceeds from the dance will go to the Memorial Fund to help defray the costs of install ing a memorial at the Veterans Pool. ! The base for the ' memorial monument is to be placed by city workmen this week accord ing to Jim Ritchey, VFW offi cial. . Tickets for the dance are on sale at City Finance, Eagles, Le gion Club and the La Grande Sig nal station. Tickets arc $1 for men and 50 cents for women. FROST HONORED WASHINGTON UPI Poet Robert Frost called America's "poet laureate," has been ap pointed honorary consultant in the humanities at the Library of Con gress, it has b?n announced. The celebrated 85-year-old Frost, noted for his lusty poems on America, said he was "honored" when he accepted the non-salaried three-year position.' PORTLAND DAIRY PORTLAND (UPI) Dairy market: Efifis To retailers: Grade AA extra large, 50-53C doz.; AA large. 47-50c; A large, 44-47C: AA me dium, 37-40c; AA small, 26-28C, cartons l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and grade A prints, 69c lb.; carton lc higher; B prints, 67c. Cheese (emidum cured) To retailers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 41-51c; processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43c. WINE PRICES INCREASED TAIPEI, FORMOSA (UPI) The Nationalist Chinese govern ment has announced an in crease in the price of wine and tobacco to help pay for the flood reconstruction bill. Government officials hope to gain $5,500,000 from the price boost on the two commodities, a government mon Coins Stolen From Pisplqy LOS ANGELES tUPD- Police today sought a discriminating thief who stole rare gold coins valued up to $11,000 from a jew elry collection at the UCLA Li brary. . . Mrs. Catherine Hearest, wife o newspaper executive Randolph Hearst, was owner of all but two j of the 14 to 16 coins stolen. A mong the valuable coins taken were 2,500-year-old Greek and Ro mnn money pieces, " a Span ish doubloon and a pre-Columbian coin. - . i "He skillfully picked the coins to steal which ' are hardest to identify and most valuable," said a university official. He estimated value of the coins at between $8,000 and $11,000. The coins were first noticed missing from their glass-covered cases Wednesday, but were thought to be out for polishing. They were reported missing two days later. WHEN YOU ARE SICK Your Pharmacist comes to your aid with a complete line of sick-room heeds. ' ' Your Pharmacist gives you professional prescription service '. . . depend on him mm teas) liiftDiBl FREE CLINIC for ' Hard of Hearing ' Hearing Aid Users - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 ". ""' 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. AT SACAJAWEA HOTEL . La Grand,. Oregon I. W. 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