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WEATHER Fair through Thursday; low tonight 32-38; high Thursday 80-86. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 8th Issue 64th Year LA GRANDE, ORE., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1959 8 Page Five Cantf Launch Test Of Satellite Will Tote RIDERLESS CAPSULE FALLS SHORT BUT IS RECOVERED CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (UPI) A test model of the Mercury satellite which will carry a man into space was launched todav as one of the nation's seven astronauts look ed on. The riderless capsule fell short of its mark but was recovered by a Navy destroyer. "If I had my suit on, 1 think I would have gone this time," Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr., one of the Feud On Between Probers WASHINGTON (LTD Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy is closing out his spectacular career with the Senate Rackets Commit tee in a blazing feud with Re publican members. Long-smouldering tensions be rween Kennedy and the GOP sen ators suddenly erupted into op -u warfare Tuesday as the com mittee resumed hearings on the United Auto Workers Union. Sens. Carl T. Curtis (R Neb.), Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) and Bar ry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) have been pressing for such an inquiry al most since the committee began investigating union corruption nearly three years ago. The committee staff looked in to matters called to its attention by the GOP group, but Kennedy contended they did not warrant a public hearing. A Republican team of investi gators under Curtis' direction then began collecting evidence on its own. The Republicans be gan presenting the material at hearings last month... Kennedy at first took no part in the proceedings although his brother. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass), joined with union of ficials in protesting some of Ihc procedures and the type of testi mony being presented.. When the hearings resumed Tuesday after a three-week re cess, the chief counsel denounc ed the investigation as a fraud and exchanged heated words with Curtis, who accused him of fol lowing UAW President Walter Reuther's "line." CombatReady Atlas Roars Over Pacific VANDENBERG AFB. Calif. (UPI) The first combat-ready Atlas America's big stick in the cold war roared over the Pa cific today on its maiden flight as an operational missile. It was the first Atlas fired by an Air Force Strategic Air 'Com mand crew, and the first from this Base. The shot primarily was a training exercise for the initial U. S. operation Atlas squadron. The launching here was the sec ond Atlas shot of the day. Earlier, at Cape Canaveral, Fla., a rider less test model of the man-carrying Mercury satellite was launched, but fell short of its mark because of engine failure. Today's training shot Atlas at this sprawling military base left the launch pad at 10:30 a.m. p.d.t. Cove Schools Have Opening; Officers Picked -Cove High ,ss oncers and COVE (Special School and e'ement Tuesday with rrgistrat of high school class the hot lunch program being initiated. Sixty students were enrolled at the high school with several more expected to register by the end o' the week. Larg-st class enroll ment was the freshman group, 21 boys and girls regist-rine. Ctess presidents elected were the following: Seniors Bob Valade: juniors Jim Mansfield: sophomor-s John Chase; freshmen Jim Cash. A total of 152 students and teach ers participate in the hot lunch program at the school cafeteria. This, number did not include the first grade elementary pupils, however, as (hey returned home after registration. Freidrich Karl Schmiti Winnen thal, German, IFYE student, will address the high school body Thursday morning. Mode i That Humans mure spaceman, said before it ivnj knewn that trouble in the At- 'as intercontinental missile caus ed the capsul to fall several hun dred miles short of its target. The National Space Asency said the destroyer Strong recov ered the funnel shaped capsule several hundred miles north of Barbados. The 9 5-fcot nose cone was spotted by a sharp-eyed crew on a Navy patrol plane after it soared aloft at 12:19 a.m. p.d.t. The capsule was first sighted at 3:30 a.m. The space agency said quick look at the data in dicated all the system within the capsule which will one day house, a space traveler pci form ed as planned. Shot Partial Success The trouble came when the two outside engines of the Atlas tailed to separate. This - added weight reduced the planned al titude and velocity. 1 The dramatic recovery turned 'he test into a partial success. The National Space Agency was pleased with the performance of the capsule. It said the booster retro rockets used to insure clear sep aration of the capsule mode) and the missile fired as planned. The nitrogen control jets around the capsules base pivoted the blunt end off the "boiler plate" model down into proper position for de scent. Robert R. Gilruth, NASA Pro ject Mercury director, said in cications were the capsule sys tem transmitted up to 12 minutes after launching. The destroyer will bring the recovered capsule to Puerto Rico and then to Cape Canaveral for study. Widespread Frost In Eastern Oregon By United Press International There was widespread frost in eastern Oregon early this morning as a September "cold wave" hit the region. The mercury plummeted down to 27 degrees above zero at Bend, 28 at Baker and 32 at Redmond. The weather man said tempera tores would be warm today throughout the state with cooler weather Thursday and more frost tonight in high eastern Oregon valleys. - V I -' . 3 Outgoing City Manager Fred Young, left, hands "keys to the city" to City Engineer Dave Slaght, acting city manager (seated in chain, as City Commission President Gordon Clarke looks on. This action took place in the city manager's office this morn ing upon arrival back in La Grande by Clarke, who has been on vacation. (Observer Photo) r X . Y. ;-r 3 . VviJiJ "' T,"J' ItA TYi r il ry , w" ' PIPELINE WORK UNDERWAY ' Work is well along on the city water connection with the I'nion Pacific Railroad wells. A crew is digging the pipeline near the city water station at Second and W Streets. Handling the heavy equipment is Harold Wise, with Jason Finley (stand-, ing) his helper. Both are members of the city street department. (Observer Photo)' Government Man By Stee! Strike NEW YORK (UPII-The gov ernment's chief mediator, Joseph F. Ffrniefcar.. ' aid todajrTlie ne gotiations in the 57-day-old steel strike are "the oddest kind of bargaining" he had ever seen. Finnegan made this comment when asked about President Ei senhower's criticism that "half hearted bargaining is not enough," and his demand that the industry and union begin "intensive, unin terrupted, good-faith bargaining." Finnegan, asked if he thought the President's letters to both sides urging action would speed up the negotiations, said: "Sometimes it jars people loose from lhir ideas but only if they want to. In other words, only if they want to bargain and com promise." Asked if he agreed with the President's statement regarding "half-hearted bargaining," he said l' v.t 4VV, ' iry.-..V- f Wf m. a - 'KEYS TO THE CITY' Is "it happens to be consistent with the statejujnlfl of both parties. They' have " said they are right where they were when they started." 4 Hold Separate Meetings "It certainly is the oddest kind of bargaining I've ever seen if you can call it that," he said. Steel management and lnlor of ficials held separate meetings this morning to select a dozen sub committees to assist the top-level negotiating committees. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers of America, held a private session with 450 I'SW officials in the ball room of the Roosevelt Hotel. R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president of the U.S. Steel Corp., was meeting with industry officials in the Chrysler Building to choose their 12 subcommittees The subcommittees will begin ; ; H , )i f 4 ' ; Confused' Negotiators work Thursday under the super vision of the Coopec-McDonald top- level Negotiating Committee. The strike by 500.000 steel work ers entered its ninth week today. Tuesday night negotiators from both sides replied to criticism by Kisenhower. State Opposing Views McDonald said the Union was trying to do just what the Presi dent asked. But he said the in dustry negotiators "have either re fused or lacked the authority to negotiate, except on the basis of complete denial of any justice to the steelworkers. Cooiier charged that the only settlement the union has made possible so far would be a surren der to., pressures for an inflation ary agreement." Rockefeller In Campaign To Aid Youths NEW YORK lUPD-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller sparked today a statewide crash program providing for the construction of youth labor camps and expansion of detention facilities in an effort to turn the rising tide of juvenile crime. S'ate authorities are making a survey of sites for the camps, which will be modelled on the Civilian Conservation Corps camps for unemployed youths during the depression years of th 1930's. Rockefeller said he hopes that some existing facilities can be convert rd into camps, possibly by next January. The governor announced a com prehensive program to combat teen-age crime after a meeting Tuesday with Mayor Roliert F. Wagner and 30 ether officials and civic leaders. The program includ ed plans for improved probation and parole supervision, r-vised work laws to allow youngsters 14 years and older to work, and increased epportunity for Job apprenticeships for teenagers. Rockefeller said there would be two types of outdoor youth camps ro-ra!ed in state lands and forests. The state Conservation Department will run camps for potential de linquents with the purpose of de veloping vocational skills useful in urban areas. The state also will operate camns for the rehabilita tion of youths sentenced (or minor offences. The latest youth arrested for homicide occurred Tuesday when police nabbed Angel Davila, a 20-vear-old unemployd Puerto Rican. shortly after he allegedly stabbed Kstelle Green, 41, a Negro, to death on a Bronx street corner. Reds Demand Pull Back All Piping To UP Wells Being Laid Work which began last Thursday , on the laying of an 8-inch pipe line from the city pumping station and clear wells on Second and W Streets to nearby Union Pa ci.'ic Railroad wells will be com pleted this week. Dave Slaght. city engineer, said that the actual tie-in with the IT wells take place next week, adding 1.000,000 gallons of water daily to the city system. Negotiations with the railroad for usage of the two wells began in 1954 but legal red tape slowed the process until the pact was signed late this August. Participants in cluded W. E. Waddell. member of the city commission and IT o'ficial: Richard Neeley. assistant city attorney; Fred Young, city managT, and Slught. Slaght, also acting city manager now thut Young has tendered his resignation and steps out of the office Saturday, hailed the begin ning of work on the project. He said that the extra water should more than get the city "over the hump" during periods of dry weather when water users have been cautioned in the past to conserve their supply. Actual cost of the pipe-laying project (including piping) is esti mated at $12,000. Bombers At Little Rock Being Sought LITTLE ROCK, Ark.' (UPI FBI experts Joined Little Rock po lice today in a search for bombers while the Chamber of Commerce stepped up efforts to publicize reward for persons who touched o.'f three explosions Monday night Two FederalBureau of Invest! gation laboratory men started checking the blast scenes Tues day in hope of finding evidence that might lead to the capture of whoever set the explosions. No arrests have been made to date. Gov. Orval Faubus described the bombings as "sickening and de plorable" and said he hoped they would not be repeated. The explosions rocked three sep arate sections of Little Rock with in a 38-minute period Monday. One damaged an office of the Lit tle Rock School Board. Another shattered part of a building where City Mayor Werner C. Knoop has offices of the construction firm of which he is president. The third totally destroyed a city-owned sta tion wagon used . by Fire Chief Gann Nalley. The FBI agents .were sent to Little Rock on the request of po lice, a spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington said. Meanwhile, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce rushed to publicize a $25,000 reward for information leading to the ar rest and conviction of the bomb tossers. I NEW MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION HEA D Named recently to head the Ministerial -Association of of La Grande, was the Re v. E. W. Kasten (left) as president; Lt .;' Oakley Summers (center) vice president; and the Rev. Lawrence Abla as secretary. treasurer. (Observer Photo) ; ' FIREMEN GET INTO PICTURE MIDLAND, Calif. (UPI) A friendly fir dispatcher phoned firemen en duty at Midland's air terminal last night to tell them "Thwe't a fire story en KMIDTV." Tho firefighters misundor stood the mnugi and rushed to the television station. They had been watching tho fir slory when th dispatcher called. He's Man Without Country WASHINGTON (UPI I Nicholas Petrulli, who renounced his Am erican citizenship in hopes of be coming a Soviet national but now regrets it, appeared today to be a man without a country. State Department 1-gal experts called the case unprecedented. They searched for ways to help Petrulli out of his dilemma but said the law seem-d stacked against the Valley Stream, N.Y., man who got carried away by what he saw in Russia as a tourist. Petrulli formally renounced his U.S. citizenship last week during a trip to Moscow. Tuesday, he said he had done "a stupid thing" and asked if he could come back to this country. The State Department was wait ing for the official documents on what they called a "freak" case These papers, including Petrulli's renunciation of his oath of alle giance to the United States, were en route to Washington from the embassy in Moscow. They were expected to arrive Satury. -v One .State Department official said "he's a man without a coun try at the moment, tut very frank ly we don't know too much about the case. It's squarely in the laps of the legal people." The legal experts said their initial reading of the law indicated very little flexibility that would permit them to disregard the ac tion Petrulli already has taken. Fire Sweeps Through Eight Warehouses JERSEY CITY, N.J. (UPD-A towering fire triggered by two tremendous chemical explosions today swept eight warehouses along a 1,000-foot stretch of water front opposite New York City. Six or seven firemen were over come by smoke battling the in ferno which shot flames and smoke hundreds of feet into the air.- Fire Capt. Lawrence Connin said officials were inclined to let the intense fire burn itself out rather than risk Injury to some of the hundreds of firemen bat tling the blaze. An assortment of chemicals in cluding antifreeze, lubricants, and repellants for insecticides stored in the buildings added fuel to the fire. in a !L Indi ia Troops Chunk Of Border Is 'Disputed' LONDON (UPI i Communist China demanded today that India withdraw its "trespassing" troops from the tension-ridden border area that has been the scene of armed clashes between the two countries in recent weeks. The demand was made in a letter from Communist Chinese Premier Chou F.n-lai to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It was dated Tuesday and broad cast by Peiping Radio today. 1 - Chou said that if his demand was met "the temporary tension on the Sino-Indian border would be eased at once and the dark clouds hanging over the relations between our two countries would be dispelled." . India claims the border area as its territory and has accused the Red Chinese of making in cursions into it. Nehru sent Chou a letter March 22 asking for Red China's views on the question,: one of a series of messages sent on the issue. It was the March 22 letter to which Chou replied. Chou rejected Indian claims to the frontier region, and said that Indian attempts "to impose upon China its one-sided claims on the boundary question" will "nevor succeed." - He also blamed Britain for the "long term disputes and non settlement of the Chinese-Indian boundary question," accusing the British of "aggression'' against China in the days when India was under British rule. ' In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said only that there was no question t of any British aggression against China when India was under Brfiy'i rule. ' Tot Brutally Assaulted By Detroit Naper JACKSON. Mich. (UPI) A blonde, 3'i -year-old girl kidnaped in Detroit by a thief who stole her mother's car, was criminally attacked before being found wan dering naked on the street here today. Little Debbie Roland was exam ined by the city health director. F. I. Van Wagnen. who said there was no question that the girl had been molested. The little girl, "pretty as a pic ture" was discovered walking along the street near the Aeroquip factory, just outside the Jackson downtown shopping district. The mother's car, with Tennessee plates, was found in a nearby parking lot. In Detroit, police announced that the girl's mother, Mrs. Joan Ro land, 23, was being held on -a charge of child neglect. ' Gary Smith, 19, an airman from Sclfridge Air Force Base, who was with Mrs. Roland in a Detroit Park Tuesday night when her car disappeared with little Debbie, was being taken to Jackson from De troit to examine his luggage that was found in the car. His suitcases had been cut open and ransacked.