Reds Launch Second Cosmic Rocket
On Eve Of Nilcita's Junket To U.S.
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LOCAL MAN AT MISSILE BASE
Staff Sergeant Ernie II. Smith, 26, propellant system technician, a member of the
launch and guidance crew at Vandenberg Air Force Base stands near an Atlas
ICBM still housed in its service tower. Sergeant Smith is the son of Fred Smith of
La Grande. The West Coast echoed recenty to the roar of the first Atlas intercon
tinental ballistic missile launching.
MISS AMERICA TITLE
TO BE CROWNED AT
ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. (UPH
The 32nd Miss America con
test jocs into Ihejiome st-etcli
today with- the -winner still as
much In douht ns when the con
test started last Monday.
In three nights of preliminary
judging, the South's only victor
was Miss District of Columbia,
all the rest of the awards went
solidly to the North and West. A
Mississippi girl won lest year.
" The final round of preliminary
judging, the South's only victor
was Miss District of Columbia,
all the rest of the awa ds went
solidly to the North and West.
The final round of preliminary
judging Friday night gave a vic
tory to Michigan's Ann Marston.
21-year-old British -born pro
fessional archer, who won her
first beauty contest before she
could walk.
Miss Marston became the first
Larceny Cases
Repoi
rted Here
Three r-ports of larceny were
turned into the La Grande police
yesterday by local residents.
'. Phil Ainsworth, 404 M Ave., told
police that sometime during the
past four days someone took a
spare tire and wh'cl, a jack and
handle, a lug wrench and other
tools from his car. The car was
parked in a carport, police said.
The stolen goods were valued
at $40.
" Nettie Bushnell. 1706 Fourth St..
reported the th-:t of a car bat
tery from an automobile parked
In her wrecking yard at 203 Divi
sion St. The ba'tery. valued at
$21. was taken somrtimc between
7 and 9:30 last niltt ,
. E'don Hogg. IMt W Ave., re-port-d
to police the theft of a
motor and pump from the base
ment of his horn!-, police stated.
The pump was taken between S
p.m. Thursd"y and 4 p.m. yester
day. Value of the p:imyp wes s?t
at $150.
Two other nr-n were arrested
for trarfic violations in La Grand-
yesterdav.
Kenneth Russe'I ll't. 10. 49
Fourth St., was arrested for mak
ing an illegal "U" tu n at the
intersection of Second St. and K
Ave. Hull was arrested at 8:21
p m. and bail was set at $5.
By-on Rodney Gale. IS. of Baker,
was aiT'sted for violation of the
basic rule at 1:15 this morning
Gale was traveling 50 miles per
hour in a 35 mile zone on Adams
Ave., police said.
Gale was releas-d en $15 bail and
a hearing scheduled for 3 p.m.
today.
WEATHER
Mostly sunnv Sunday with
high clouds: high Sunday 85
D0; low tonight 40-45.
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archer in the ti:s;ory of the con
test to win a prize.'
The last' of three 'preliminary
swim suit awards went to Wis
consin's Mary Alice Fox. 20. of
Sheboygan, who at 5 feet 3 inches
is one of the two littlest girls in
the contest. It was the first bath
ing suit comx?tition Miss Fox had
ever been in.
Klansman Shot
By Cafe Owner
OverWarnings
MONTGOMERY, Ala. U1'1
A young restaurant owner, warned
three times by the Ku Klux Klan
to fire negro waiters, killed a re
puted klansman early today with
one blast from a shotgun, police
said.
Detectives G. L. Arnette and E.
L. Wright said James B. Peek
Jr., 22. admitted shooting Will
iam C. Horton, about 38, in a rain
soaked parking lot of a shopping
center.
Morton was a supervisor for the
Alama Power Co. and the father
of two children, ages one year
and nine months. Sources said
Horton was known to be a klans
man. Police said Peek would be
charged with murder or man
slaughter following interrogation.
The detectives quoted Peek as say
ing he shot Horton when the vic
time pulled a gun on him.
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IMBLER FFA TEAM HONORED
Thclmbler chapter of the Future Farmers of America was honored at the Oregon
State Fair which closed today in Salem for their outstanding performance in live
stock judging. The team will represent the state of Oregon in Kansas City in nation
al competition. They will leave Oct. 9. From left are :Valter Daniels, vocational-agriculture
instructors at the Imbler High School; Ardel Pugh, Ed Johnson and Dallas
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WINNER
MIDNIGHT
. She weighs 110 pounds and
measures 35-23-34'.
The Wjss America of IW'iO, who
win De crowneu around midnight,
will be chosen on a point sys
tem. Talent counts for about 50
per cent on the total. Bathing
suit, evening gown and breakfast
table conversation account for the
rest. All the girls appear pub
licly in evening gowns, but the
outcome of that judging never is
known.
The winner could be a girl who
has not wo.i anything. A girl who
places second or third in each
division could have the highest
number of points.
Boy Beats Woman
With Pop Bottle
PORTLAND UP1 A 15-year-old
boy was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon today after
police said he broke into the
home of a 74 - year - old woman
grocer and beat her with a pop
bottle.
Police said that Mrs. Winifred
Taylor, owner of Taylor's Gro
cery, was awakened shortly after
1 a.m. as she slept in the rear of
the store and was beaten. She
was in serious condition today at
Emanuel hospital with multiple
face and head cuts, a broken nose
and possible skull fracture.
Arrested two hours later and
chaiged was Howey Lee Thomp
son. Portland. Police said Mrs.
Taylor knew the boy and identi
fied him as her attacker.
MOSCOW UPI The Soviet
L'nion launched its second moon
rocket today and timed it to reach
its target the day before Premier
Nikita Khrushchev arrives in the
United States.
Radio Moscow announced the
jiirws til me luaiiui I mun lu
ine moon' in language mat saia
-'jit would "reach the moon' Mun
jday. ine language was nm siwiik
on whether the rocket would land
on the moon or go into orbit
i around u hui u saio inai ine
' rocket would release a cloud of
sodium at 9:40 p.m. Moscow time
41 11:40 a.m. p.d.t.) today, making
LA GRANDE OBSERVER
11th Issue 64th Year
Hounds Lead Hunt For Man
Missing In Blazing Forest
Archibald
Is Charged
In Slaying
BAKER UPI-Two police of
ficers from Reno, Washoe county,
Nev., were to return Thayne
Archibald, 20. Roy. litah. to Reno
today after the youth waived ex
tradition, according to Baker po
lice chief Fred Still.
Archibald was charged in Reno
with first degree murder in con
nection with the slaying of 17-year-old
Albert Larry Waters, of
Livermore, Calif.
Washoe county district attorney
Bill Raggio and Bill Driscoll, chief
criminal deputy, were to return
h"P. m
Ken Mitchell, Alameda county,
Calif., deputy and Bob Wilson,
niameaa county detective, were
also here to talk with Archibald.
Still said they would accompany
the Nevada officers to Reno.
Oral Confession
Archibald, who was released
from the Oregon State Penetenti
ary in May, made an oral con
fession after being arrested for
the holdup of a service station
here.
Waters was kidnaped from a
Livermore, Calif., gas station
where he worked. His body was
recovered Aug. 27 about 20 miles
east of Reno on the banks of the
Truckee river. Two bullet holes
were found in the back of his
head.
Chief Still said that Archibald
told him he shot Waters twice in
the head when Waters tried to run
away.
2ND THOR FIRED
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (UPI
The 62nd firing of the Air
Force's Thor missile was record
ed early today. The Air Force
said the routine shot 1,500 miles
downrange was aimed at a tar
get near Antigua Island in the
West Indies. No attempt to recov
er the nose cone was made and
there was no instrument capsule
inside the 65-foot rocket's nose,
the Air Force said.
it liwk like a comet as it speeds
lliruugh outer space.
There was no Indication that
the rocket carried any living
passenger.
The Itussians said it would be
seen in skies over Europe, the
Middle Kast. India and parts of
China, but not over the United
States
The latest Soviet spate vehicle
was launched as a multi-stage
rocket. It bore a small pennant
with the emblem of the U.S.SR.
and the inscription '"September.
15."
The Itadio Moscow broadcast of
the official Tass News Agency
LA GRANDE,
LONG SNEEZE
IS EXPENSIVE
CHICAGO (UPI) Paul W.
Henson, 19 admitted he was
speeding when given a ticket
Aug. 14, but said it wes because
"the thrust of a meet brought
my foot down on the gas ped
al." But apparently the tneeie
lasted toe long.
Judge Harry P. Bean noted
that "you were 12 miles over
the limit for more than two
blocks," and fined Henton SS.
'Cuff Notes'
On Football
Game Here
Notes as seen from the pressbox
on the La Grande-Union football
game:
Flashing heels of Jim Milliard,
shifty and hard-running Tiger half
back: good quarterbacking for an
opener by Ramon Westenskow of
La Grande: two good little backs
who shou'd develop even more as
season progresses Doug McCon
ki; and Alan Livingston of l'nion.
Free-wheeling style of play by
Buck Corey, end for the Tigers who
also kicks off and boots points
after TD; general aggressive play
by Tiger linemen Sparky Smutz
and Ron Coleman, regulars, and
Gary Miller and Charles Tarter.
subs.
Good heads up play by sub backs
Rickey Gerry. Larry Nice. Mite
Challis and Gooch Whittemore:
and for Union Pat Edvalson, end;
Bill Cockrell, guard; Don Baxter,
guard; Dale Tyler, end; Henry
Miller, center.
Crowd Was Small
Crowd seem-d rather small for
an opening game, and if so, missed
out on beautiful and ideal football
weather; both bands, high spirited
as were attractive cheer leaders.
The Union cheer leaders paraded
in new uniforms that consisted of
school colors, red blouses, white
shorts and red stockings.
Union Bobcats were unable to
get even to mid-field stripe in first
half but penetrated to about the
La Grande 48-yard line early in
third period; 15-yard penalty
against Tigers and couple of fairly
good running and passing plays
paid off in penetration.
Tigers were forced to kick only
once, that coming in final quarter
when subs took ovr for locals but
the boys coming o'f bench played
the tiring Bobcats to standstill
rest of way.
Union's best scoring opportunity
locked horns with time clock and
the time piece won.
Bi'l Ricker. Bobcat quarterback
who started a little wary but grew
more aggressive as game pro
gressed, fired beautiful aerial for
20 yards to end Dale Tyler who
was dropped around the eight vara
line. Time ran out before another
play could develop.
Roger Schaad Wins
SALEM (Special! Roger
Schaad, 16. La Grande, won the
4-H tractor operators' contest to
day at the Oregon State Fair.
He was named grand champion
as well as senior division cham
pion. It was his first year of com
petition. The fair ended today after an
eight-day run.
Elgin Schools Open
ELGIN (Special) School be
gan In Elgin Tuesday morning
with 518 students enrolling, 16S in
High school. Nine below last year's
first day, 352 in grade school. Last
year's figure was 139.
report of the launching said the
rocket was expected to reach the
moon at 12:05 a in. Moscow time
on Monday. Sept. 14. This would
be 2:05 p.m. p.d t. Sunday.
The Russian text said the rocket
was going "K i letter K Lune,"
which can be translated as either
"to" or "towards" the moon.
The broadcast said the rocket's
flight appeared to be going ac
cording to preliminary calculation.
This was the second rocket shot
toward the moon by the Soviets
this year. The first one missed
the moon and went into orbit
around the sun.
It was evident the Soviets intend
ed to make the most of the
ORE., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1959
Encircled
By Flames
In Forest
CHILOQUIN (UPI I A search
party spearheaded by bloodhounds
moved out again today in an at
tempt to pick up the trail of a
man missing in a forest fire which
has burned about 8.500 acres of
timber north of here.
Clifford Daw, 32, an Oregon
State Highway Department em
ploye who was operating a bull
dozer, has been unaccounted for
since Thursday afternoon. He and
another firefighter, Beeny Foster.
Klamath Falls, were on the same
line when flames encircled them.
Foster said they split up and he
saw Daw jump from the bulldozer,
and run in the opposite direction.
The charred Vehicle Was' found
later. Foster escaped injury.
Still Hop Safe
William Crawford, fire dispatch
er for the Klamath Indian Agency,
said there was still hope that Daw
had joined other firefighting
crews. "It's hard to say," he said,
"so much ground still has to be
covered."
Friday's search party headed by
Klamath County Sheriff Murray
Britton found no trace of Daw but
the search continued today.
Crawford said early today the
fire was completely trailed but
could not term It under control.
Winds died down again Friday
night but he said they were wor
ried about a forecast for variable
winds of 18 to 20 miles per hour
for this afternoon.
One Hound Burned
Sheriff Britton said one of three
bloodhounds from Lakeview used
Friday night scorched a paw on
some hot embers.
Friday's hunt covered the areas
south and west of where the bull
dozer was found. Today the areas
east and north were scoured with
the focal point the Old Bray Mill
vicinity.
Four airplanes were over the
area Friday but smoke hampered
the effort.
Jack Rainey, assistant coach at La Grande High School, gives Jim Cornett a few
words of instruction during the halftime break in the La Grande-Union football garnet
on the local field last night. The Tigers beat Union 26-0 in the opening game of the'
season for both teams. Two unidentified players at Cornett's right talk over the tit-
uaXion by themselves. (Observer Photo) "
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rocket's propaganda possibilities,
on the eve of Khrushchev's de
parture fur talks with President
Eisenhower. ,
The Tass announcement claimed
"the successful launching of the
second Soviet cosmic rocket is a
new. important stage in the inves
tigation and conquest of the cos
mos by man."
"This broadens the prospects for
international cooperation in the
sphere of mastering the conquest
of space, which will promote the
further reduction of international
tension and strengthen the cause
of peace." it said.
The announcement said the
rocket's purpose was "to investi
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, WATCHING THE ACTION
La Grande High"Schobl Football Coach Franz ftaun.
watches intently as his team marches down the field
to post a 26-0 win against a hapless Union squad.
(Observer Photo)
Community
By Train-Car Tragedy
WASECA, Minn. (UPD-Resi
dents of this farming community
were stunned today by the deaths
of a mother and her six children
whose station wagon was hit by
a freight train. It was the na
tion's second multiple-death train
crossing accident in two days.
A coroner's jury met briefly
Friday, then recessed until Wed
nesday, one day after Mrs. Irene
Zimmerman and her six children,
aged 2 to 13, are to be buried in
Sacred Heart Cemetery.
No one coul dfigure out why
Mrs. Zimmerman, 32, drove her
station wagon past the blinking
warning liiihts onto the Minneano-
lis'and St. Louis Railroad tracks
into the path of the 64-car train.
The train slammed into the
loaded station wagon, pushing the
demolished car 40 to 50 feet down
the tracks into a standing box
HALFTIME 'PEP' TALK
gate magnetic fields of the earth
and moon, radiation around the
earth, the variations and intensity
of cosmic rauiation, io study
heavy nuclei in cosmic space and
the gas components of cosmic
matter."
The broadcast said the latest
rocket was 48.772 miles from the
earth and due north of New
Guinea at 3 p.m. Moscow time
(is a.m. p.d.t.)
Tass said it hud reached a
speed of 6 8 miles per second in
its flight through space.
As usual, the announcement did
not say from where in the Soviet
Union the rocket was launched.
Five Cents
Is Stunned
car. The mother and four of the
children were thrown from th4
car, less than 100 yards from the
Sacred Heart Catholic School
where they were heading.
The two youngest children died
trapped in the back part of the
wagon.
Five of the children Jan. t,
Jimmy, 4, Barbara, 7, Constance,
8, and Michael, 10, were killed
instantly. Mrs. Zimmerman and
her oldest daughter, Kathryn, II,
died in Waseca Hospital. 1
James Zimmerman, 38, was un
der treatment for severe shock
after learning of the death of hhi
family.
Zimmerman was on the scene
of the wreck within a half hour.
He was with this wife at the hos
pital where she died and was
taken back to the family's 450
acre farm where he collapsed.
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