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WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednes day; low tonight 82-38 with local frost; high Wednesday 76-82. LA OBSERVER GRANDE 7th Issue 64th Year "'V-: : .: ( .. .. -xl W X"v i t : L PLEASED AS PUNCH Friedrich-Karl Schmitz -Winnenthal (Frick) a German 1FYE student, center, dons a borrowed jacket and embraces Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Elmer as he tells them how much he German Has Ideas On U.S. "Land of Corn, Beef and Crazy Peopl"," was the expression used by Friedrich-Karl , Schmitz-Win-nenthal, IFYE student, at a talk he gave at the Blue Mountain Grange on Saturday. Frick, the name he is known by here, also said, "When you come to Ger many, you will say 'land of coal, steel and crazy p-ople,' because so many things are different." Frick is presently staying in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Elmer. He is 23 years of age and has one older sister. He was teaching at a technical college on agricu'ture prior to coming to the United' States... Whin he returns to Germany he plans, to study a' another college for a year to get a type of masters degre. This will be obtained bv a eovernmcnt examination. I He has been guest in several i homos in Oregon and presently is ! assign-d to the Bruce Hoofnagle family, but during their absence : is staying in the Elmer home at Alicel. He will leave here Sert. 14. His first home with an Ameii can family was in Nebraska, where he formed his first impres sion of Americans. Then leaving there and seeing his first rodeo he changed his mind of the peo ple here. The p-ople are so dif ferent here in this country that he has no basic idea of what peo ple are like. He has heard so much on Indians that h? expected ar rows to come "Hying into the busses as he traveled." Frick reports one of the most frequent questions asked is. How do you like American girls? He answers, "It depends on how they walk." In comparing economy, things there are about one-third the cost for the same quality here. But he adds wages there for a farm hand is between $35 and $50 a month. Colored slides included pictures of divided Berlin, colorful country, and home life. He closed with the thought of how our country could also be a divided United States. The object of IFYE is to bring about a better understanding and relationship between the countrys of the world. He said to him it meant experience, school and ed ucation. Membership Drive Slated By Chamber " La Grande's Chamber of Com merce will initiate an intensive one-day membership drive Thurs day morning at 7 o'clock at the Sacajawea hotel. Mel Elder, membership chair man. outlined the drive plans at the chamber board meeting last Wednesday. The special breakfast Thurs day will have approximately 40 volunteer chamber members present. Their top duty will be lo contact nonmembcrs during the day. Main speaker for the affair will be Dr. Frank Bennett, presi dent of Eastern Oregon College here. C. I. HESS DIES Word was received of the death of G. I. Hess, Union, in Portland hospital. Daniels Funeral Home will handle the ' funeral arrangements. likes staying in their home. BOYS ARE BOYS "Frick" discusses mutual interests with some of the local boys during the evening he was guest of the Blue Mountain Grange. He was in favor of the potluck style dinner served, and enjoys Ameri can foods. What does he miss most? His dogs. U.N. Security Council To Send Team To Laos UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. tUPK.the U.N. charter when it overrode The Security Council, overriding Russia's veto, voted early today to send a four-nation committee to investigate the situation in Communist-threatened Laos. The vote in the 11-member council was 10-1 against the Rus sians. The negative Soviet vote ordi narily would have killed the meas ure, but the council had ruled in a previous 10-1 vote that the crea tion of the investigating commit tee was a procedural matter, not subject to the veto. The four nations making up the committee are Argentina, Italy. Japan ana lumsia, an members of the council. They scheduled a meeting at noon e.d.t. today, and it appeared likely investigators would be on the way to Laos by the end of the week. Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev protested the council de cision bitterly, charging that the majority was in effect rewriting YANK UNHAPPY IN WANTS U.S. CITIZENSHIP BACK MOSCOW lUPD Nicholas Petrulli, 38, a Long Island, N.Y., sheet metal worker who renounced his American Ctizenship, said to day he wanted to give up his plan to become a Soviet citizen and return to the United States. His former wife, Helen, who operates a candy store in Los Angeles, received the news with joy and said she would welcome him back. Petrulli's future appears to rest, however, with officials in Wash ington. Petrulli. renounced his Ameri can citizenship here Sept. 3. LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1959 (Observer Photos) his veto. "The delegation of the U.S.S.R. . . . regards this action as non existent, illegal and not binding on anyone to whom it is addressed," Sobolev said. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and other spokesmen for the Western Big Three rejected the Soviet charge, pointing out that the Charter specifically exempts procedural matters from the big power veto. The council debate focused on the resolution creating the investi gating committee. Neither Laos' request for U.N. troops to expel Communist invaders from its ter ritory nor the U.S. charge that Russia is cooperating with the at tackers was mentioned. The situation in Laos itself was obscure. A government spokesman in the nation's capital said Mon day the Red invaders from North Viet Nam have withdrawn from northern Laos, leaving only native Communist guerrillas to face loy al troops in the area. "I have Just realized I have done a stupid thing," he told re porters today. He went to the U.S. Embassy here today and inquired about (be possibility of stopping action on his citizenship renunciation papers or possibly returning to the United States as an alien. Petrulli said he was told that chances of returning from Moscow as an alien were virtually hope less. He said he was told the Soviet quota for immigration to the United States was oversubscribed for years in advance. Petrulli obviously was disheart ened today. He seemed like a man mm 11 Killed In Oregon Accidents By United Pros International The long Labor Day weekend saw at least 11 persons meet ac cidental death In Oregon. Traffic was the big killer with six dead rermrted on the highways. Two persons were drowned, and three died in an airplane crash. i A Phoenix. Ore., boy, 2 1-1 tumbled into an irrigation ditch near his southern Oregon home Monday afternoon and was drown ed. Paul Charles Pearson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Pearson, was the victim. Jack Newburn, 60, Klickitat, Wash., drowned in the peschutes River near Dike Sunday. On the highways, four persons died Saturday night and two Sun day. The fatal accidents involved only single cars. Victims Listed Eunice Bethke, about 28, Baker, was killed near Baker in a Sun day night crash. Kenneth Hughes, 30, Portland, died Sunday in a Portland smashup. Saturday traffic victims includ ed Olaf Carlson, 48, Portland, in a crash near Clatskanie; John Cederberg, 40, Astoria, who was struck and killed by a sports car in Astoria. Two Californians died in a single crash near Medford. Dead were L. D. Crank. 49, Costa Mesa. Calif., and Robert W. Wright, about 42, Vallejo, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Tri bur, Beaverton, and Kenneth Towel!, 21, Hillsboro, died early Saturday when the plane Towel) was piloting ploughed into Mt. Chchalem north of Ncwberg. Traffic safety experts had pre dicted that two persons would die on Oregon highways over the three-day weekend. County Gets By Weekend Death Free La Grande and Union countv residents survived the long Labor Day weekend without a major traffic accident, police officials repotted.-; 'The Oi'egon Slate po lice and the La Grande city po lice officials reported only two minor accidents and a traffic violation. Ted Esley Wilson, 1802'i Cove Ave., was arrested by police Mon day on three charges. Wilson. 35, was arrested for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, making an illegal "U" turn and driving with expired license plates, police said. Wilson was picked up at the intersccton of Jefferson and Fir at 3:37 p.m. A hearing was sche duled for 3 p.m. today. The state police had two minor accidents. Police officials report e-l that all persons involved in the accidents came to the police station and no investigation of the accidents was held. The theft of two hubcaps was reported to La Grande police during the weekend. Marshall Collins, 802 B Ave., told police sometime between 7 p m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday that the hubcaps were taken from his car. The disc type caps were valu ed at $12. Pendleton Couple In Shooting Spree PILOT ROCK, Ore. (UI'D One man was being held in the Uma tilla County jail in Pendleton to day and another was reported in satisfactory condition in a Pendle ton hospital after a shooting here Monday night. Anthony Gordon Johnson, 35, Pilot Rock, was booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting. Adolph Sandreth, 34, a Pilot Rock millworkcr, who was wound ed, was in the hospital. Johnson surrendered himself to authorities here a short time after the altercation. MOSCOW; whose rosy dreams had been shat tered by reality. Embassy officials said the pa pers on his renunciation of citizen ship constituted a legal act and not a mere administrative for mality. Thus they could not be withdrawn, the officials said. The papers on which ' Petrulli signed away his American citizen ship were being sent to Washing ton today and were expected to arrive there Saturday. Observers here considered that if Petrulli had an outside chance of straightening out his legal prob lems, it would lie with some type of decision on his case In Washington. lion's Drivers Pi eas Solons Try To Halt Morse Floor Fight Against Johnson! WASHINGTON UPI The House streamlined its procedure and the Senate tried to repress Sen. Wayne Morse iD-Ore.t today in a new drive to make this the last week of the session. The House voted to allow its Democratic leadership to begin pushing bills directly on the floor for action. The stepped-up pro cess, which will by pass the Rules Committee, begins Thursday and will be in effect the rest of the week. Morse continued his procedural Union 4-H Units Win 2nd Place Union County youngsters won second place in the 4-H crops identification and judging con test at the start of the Oregon State Fair at Salem. Saturday. Teams identified 30 crop and weed plants and 10 crop seeds. They also identified defects or impurities in 15 samples of wheat, oats, barley and corn, and identi fied defects in five samples of potatoes. Final tost in this last phase was to judge two classes of hay and one class of potatoes. Union County boys and girls who pliiced second in the contest were Martha Rcrgrran. -ttavid Schaad and D.-nnis Courlwright, all of La Grande. Union County booth had the dis tinction of placing first in all county exhibiis at Saturday morn ing juflgmg at the fair. The booth was displayed by the Blue Mountain Grange, winner this year at the local county fair. Mr. and Mrs. Ehrman Bates and the mother of Bates, Mrs. Lora Bates, were in charge of the booth exhibit. Winning prize was $200 and a silver trophy which the local organization will keep. Pleasant Grove will represent Union County booth exhibitors next year at Sa lem. Clatsop county 4-H'ers won top place in the 4-H forestry identifi cation contest. Second place team, just one point behind first place was Union county's team of Jim my Taal, James Wick and Jean Wick of La Grande. Keith Pumphrey, Union, won a blu? ribbon on his entomology ex hibit. Red ribbons were won by Walter Osterloh, North Powder. In the 4-H clothing Clothes for Fun and Sun divisions, Shirley Smurthwaite and Ruth Hoxie, La Grande, won blue ribbons. Jean Wick, La Grande, won a blue rib bon in the best dress division. Shirley Powell, North Powder, exhibited blue ribbon muffins at the fair and Janet Kirby and Linda Bond, La Grande, had blue rib bon cakes in the cookery division. Beverly Schaad, La Grande, won a blue ribbon with her loaf of white bread and Lynne Vancil North Powder, won a blue ribbon with her loaf of whole wheat bread. Other winners included Lynn Johnston and David Tuck, Sum mcrvillc, blue ribbons in outdoor cooking; and Russell Bingaman, Alicel, red ribbon in outdoor cook ing. Ray Crossen Again Wins Rodeo Event At Baker Fair Ray Crossen of La Grande has again successfully defended his calf roping championship at the annual Baker County fair and rodeo. Crossen. resident of Foothill Road, riofenripri his rrown Sun day and Monday at the fair kfrOlinrtt ln.afH at llfllfw&V. Other winners from this ares included Billy Stephens of Un ion, calf roping; Jim Beck of fmhlftr KitlMnouint. and Charlie rnipps of Halfway, Duiiaoggng, Dl.Mrulino b nri -around COWDOV. Other top winners were Nor man Goree of Golden Dale, Wash., saddle bronc; and Ernie Stevens of Gooding, Idaho, bare back rulinu The toD winners received prize money and belt micKiei. To Cut Slaughter; battle against Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. John son said he entertained no plans for adjournment this weekend, but a number of his colleagues were keeping the drive alive. Senate Republican Leader Ever ett M. Dirksen said the President and his aides hope Congress can finish up this week. After agreeing to the speed-up the House began debate on a new public works measure, it con tained the 67 "new starts" proj ects to which the President object ed in vetoing the earlier bill, but a 2.5 per cent across the board outlay reduction was imposed in committee. The drive for adjournment was keyed to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to this country If Congress is not around when he arrives here next week, the question of whether to invite him to address a joint session will be moot. Other congressional news: Housing: The Senate Banking Committee approved a new hous ing bill with positive assurance from a White House aide that the President will sign it. This third measure eliminates a big outlay for college classroom construction and includes several other changes the administration wants. In veto ing two earlier bills, the President objected to new spending author ity which he considered inflation ary. Seaplane: The Navy's abandon ment l its bi-jct seaplane pro gram was described as regrettable but "proper." The opinion was voiced by Rep. Carl Vinson (D Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The Navy decided the project was Im practical after spending J87 mil lion dollars over seven vears of development. Gatolln Taxes: The House may give final congressional approval to a one penny hike in the 3-cent-a-gallon federal gasoline tax to fi nance interstate super-highway construction, now nearly out of money. The Senate and House have approved varying versions of the legislation. The House must decide whether to accept Senate amendments. Including relaxed restrictions on road side bill boards. Passports: The House was ex pected to approve a bill to permit the State Department to deny a passport to anyone who had sup ported the Communist movement during the last mne years. It also would allow The President to des ignate countries to which Ameri cans could not travel. The bill falls short of the travel-curbing restrictions the State Department wants. Annual Red Cross Meeting Is Tonight The annual meeting of the Red Cross will be held tonight at 7 in the Sacajawea Hotel with a dinner and special speaker sche duled. George Von Nausdlc, new area Red Cross representative for ha stern Washington and North eastern Oregon will talk to the assembled Red Cross workers and officials. THE FATHER OF Famed Physicist Children OK After Mt. Hood Rescue TIMBERLINE LODGE. Ore. (UPI i Dr. Edward Teller, Uni versity of California physicist known as the father of the H bomb, and his son and daughter were rescued Monday night after being missing on a hike on Mt. Hood, Oregon's highest peak. A search party including two ski patrol members and two Tlm berline Lodge employes located the Tellers about 10 p.m. and returned here, where they have been vacationing since Aug. 27. The Teller children are Wendy and Paul, both teen-agers. Mrs. 8 Paget ARCHDEACON MISSED THE TALK HALIFAX, England (UPI) Archdauon Eric Treacy ppealtd today for remedy to keep him awake in public meetings. He doitd oft, he admitted, while the bishop a was speaking. Trtacy, 52, wrote in his newsletter that he awoke only whn the audience start ed applauding the speech by his bishop, Dr. John Ranu botham. "I only heard halt a dozen words of the speech," he con fessed, "and everyone in the room mutt have heard me doting, except the bishop, who was next to me." Many Reds Moving On Tiny Laos VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) The government today reported wide spread Communist troop move ments across northern Laos and speculated the rebels may be readying for a concerted assault on San Neua, capital of the prov ince with the same name. The United States, meanwhile. was airlifting munitions to the Royal Laotian Army to help it in its defense against the Communist attackers. Two planeloads of gren ades were flown in Monday. Sev eral additional loads were due to day. Observers thought some of these latter might mcludo nmnll arms- ammunition, .badly needed by the Royal Army. Acting Foreign Minister Sisouk Nachmakassak told his daily news conference that Sam Neua village southeast of Sam Neua City was surrounded by a three-pronged en emy attack with forces converging on the village. "San Neua .probably will be at tacked in the near future," he said. , Government troops, he said, have already evacuated Sam Neua and are positioned in the jungle to conduct guerrilla warfare should the enemy attack further. Ask Bids On Grande Ronde River Bridge Bids for the construction of the Grande Ronde River bridge about four miles west of La Grande will be received Thursday by the Oregon State Highway Commis sion in Salem. The bridge is a dual reinforc ed concrete structure with a max imum overall length of approxi mateiy ouu teet and a maximum width of 74 feet. One half of the bridge Is sche dulcd for passage of traffic in the summer of 1960, and the en tire structure is scheduled for completion in the spring of 1961. Another bid affecting Eastern Oregon construction is for a fa cility in Wallowa county in the Wallowa Lake State Park 13 miles south of Enterprise. This is for construction of a latrine with water, electrical and plumbing fixtures. The facility is set for completion by the spring of 1B60. THE H-BOMB Teller did not go on the hike. John Macone, lodge public re lations director, said the Tellers left the lodge about 10:45 a.m. Monday and went to Cloud Cap. an abandoned lodge site about 12 miles east of Timberline at the 6,000-foot level. They began to hike the Timber line trail back to the lodge but the weather worsened. When it got dark they decided to wait un til morning and Paul built a lean to of boughs. The three were in the lean-to, safe but wet, when Macone and Five Cents Heed 429 Killed In Traffic On Holiday United Press International The nation's motorists slowed down enough Monday to escape setting an all-time traffic death record for the Labor bay week end. : Drivers heeded the pleas of po lice and safety officials and cut down the highway slaughter which had been averaging five an hour until late in the holiday period. , Reports of traffic accidents con tinued to trickle in today, but the National Safety Council said the all-time traffic toll of 453 deaths in Labor Day, 1951, would not be exceeded. "The chances are we will go over last year's mark of 432," the council said. The council predict ed 450 deaths this Labor Day. A united Press International count at t a.m. p.d.t. showed 429 traffic deaths, 82 drownings, 14 deaths in plane crashes and 76 in miscellaneous accidents for an over-all total of 601. . California led the nation in the number of traffic fatalities with 37. Other states with hich totals included Ohio, New York and Texas all with 29, Pennsylvania with 20, Iowa with 19, Minnesota with 18, Missouri with 16, Vir ginia and Illinois with 14 and Michigan and Wisconsin with 13.- Only three states Alaska, Nevada and New Hampshire and the District of Columbia were without a highway fatality during summer's last holiday. Head-on collisions accounted for many of the i-abor Day victims. Five persons were killed Mon day night and 'six others hospital ized when a speeding car loaded with teen-agers veered into the path of another auto near St. Bonifacius, Minn. Another multl plc fatality crash near Windom, Minn., killed four persons Sunday night. A crash near Winthroo. Iowa. claimed its sixth victim Monday wun ine aeatn of a nine-year-old girl. Five others, members of two vacationing families, were killed in the head-on collision Saturday. The safety council said the week end saw the greatest single rush of traffic in the nation's his tory as 71 million vehicles were on the go. Morse Will Have Name On State Ballot SALEM (UPI) Sen. Wayne Morse ID-Ore) will be on the 1960 Oregon presidential primary bal lot whether he likes it or not, ac cording to Gary Neat, Salem. Neal, who heads a committee to make the senator a favorite son candidate, said the necessary 1,000 signatures already had been gathered from eight Oregon coun ties to put Morse on the ballot. The senator had previously de clared publicly that he would not like to be on the ballot, but Ore gon law provides that the 1,000 signatures of registered Oregon Democrats will put him there anyway. i . Young Democrats in Portland also have initiated a drive to put Adlal Stevenson's name on the I960 ballot. 7 the party came upon them. The shelter had been built across the trail. The search party was formed about 6 p.m. The three were lo cated safely in White River Can yon about three miles from Tim berline. Macone said they were in "high spirits" this morning. The Tellers indicated earlier they would wind up their vaca tion here today. Macone said Wendy complained of cold feet. Temperatures fat the area were in the 40 s lata Monday.