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TEST DUE AT HIGH SCHOOL
Don Harmon, staff coordinator of the Oregon TB and Health Association, shows
Ray Westenskow, student body president at La Grande High School, some of the
equipment which will be used in the Mantoux tuberculine test to be conducted at
the high school within the next two weeks. Mrs. Borine, Harmon's assistant, looks on.
(Observer Photo)
President
On New
WASHINGTON UPI Presi
dent Eisenhower today signed the
new labor reform bill designed to
clean up racketeering and other
abuses uncovered in the labor
management field. '
The new-law "is officially called
the Labor-Management Reporting
and Disclosure Act of 1959. Many
of its provisions take effect im
mediately, but ethers will not
become effective until later.
The wide-ranging and complicat
ed Jaw; imikes the--biggest change
in the nation's labor, statues since
the Taft-Hartly Law was passed
. 12 years ago. t
Its enactment was the out
growth of the Senate Rackets
Committee's disclosures of corrup
tion,, racketeering and disregard
of union members' rights during
its three-year investigation.
The new law turns the spotlight
of publicity on union operations
and requires public reports from
employers in some Cases. It also
imposes new curbs on union pick
eting and secondary boycotts.
The final compromise version
was passed after a two-year strug
gle in Congress that produced the
heaviest lobbying pressures in
years.
Major Provisions of Law
Here are major provisions of the
new law (all take effect immed
iately unless otherwise noted):
Bill of rights: Gives rank and
file union members equal voting
rights, free speech at union meet
ings, freedom from unjust dues in
creases, protection of the right to
sue union officials and against
improper d i s c i p 1 i nary action.
Rights are enforceable by civil
suit, but criminal penalties arc
provided for interfering by force
or threats with any rights given
members by the law.
Reports by unions and. employ
ers: Requires all unions to file
public reports on their operations
with the Labor Department with
in 90 days. Any changes must be
reported annually.
Unions required to file annual
British Plane Lost
In Mystery Flight
Ll)S ANGELES UP1-A four
engine British Embassy airplane
capable of carrying up to 17 pass
engers and crewmen was report
ed missing today.
But officials at International Air
port here said they cannot deter
mine whether the DcHavilahd
Herron took off on its planned
flight Sunday to Seattle, or if it
did, how many persons were
aboard.
"We've had no contact with the
craft," said an airport official.
"But we have made a thorough
search of the airport a id he def
initely is not here."
The air route traffic control of
the Federal Aviation Agency in
Seattle said a light, single engine
plane was repo-ted to have
crashed Just outside the surf line
off Long Beach, Wash , Sunday
evening. Although the report said it was
a light, single engine, "high wing"
type of plane, air route traffic
LA GRAND
Puts Signature
Labor Reform Bill
reports of their finances 90 days
after the end of their fiscal
years. Union officers and em
ployes must report at the same
time financial holdings that might
cause a conflict of interest.
Employers .and labor relations
consultants also required to report,
90 days after their fiscal years
end, any. payments or loans to
union officials or expenditures for
the purpose of interfering with
workers' rights to organize and
bargain collectively.
Criminal penalties are provided
for willful failure to file or false
information.
Secret Ballot Required
Trusteeships: Imposes regula
tions on national unions that place
locals in trusteeship, with crimin
al penalties for violations. Trust
eeships are limited to 18 months.
Requires national unions to file
reports on trusteeships with 30
days and semiannual! thereafter.
Union elections: Requires local
unions to elect officers by secret
ballot every three years and na
tional unions every five years,
either by secret ballot or dele
gates chosen by secret ballot.
Takes effect in 90 days, or within
a year in case where a union
convention would have to be held
to provide for this.
Provides for removal of union
officers for misconduct and per
mits candidates for union office
to inspect membership lists.
Safeguards for unions: Requires
union officers to be bonded up to
a $00.ono maximum and assume
judiciary responsibility for union
funds. Prohibits union loans over
$2,000 to officers. Provides crim
inal penalties for embezzling un
ion funds.
Bars Communists and certain
ex-convicts from holding union of
fice or serving as labor relations
consultant or agent or an employ
er group dealing with unions.
Repeals Taft-Hartley require
ment that union o'ficers sign non
Communist affidavits.
No man's land: Permits state
agencies and courts to assume
control said it was not discounting
the possibility it was the missing
British craft. '
A Coast Guard plane from Port
Angeles, Wash., two Coast Guard
patrol craft and a beach party
were searching the Long Beach
area but no wreckaje has been
found.
The craft's pilot, who identified
himself as Paul Parron of the
British Embassy, Washington.
D.C., filed a flight plan at the air
port about noon Sunday, calling
for him to leave a! I p.m. p.d.t.
and arrive at Seattle at 7:40 p m.
An airport spokesman said that
contrary to airport procedure the
pilot made no report that he had
taken off. A check with Boeing
Field in Seattle and all commu
nications points in between also
has failed to turn up word of the
craft.
"Since we can't find him. we're
assuming he's missing," said the
official.
jurisdiction and apply state law
to cases which the National Labor
Relations Board declines to ac
cept. Takes effect in 60 days.
Picketing And Boycotts
Picketing: Outlaws "shake
down" picketing, with criminal
penalties for violations.
Bans organizational picketing
when another union has been cer
tified to represent employes. In
other cases, bans organizational
picketing for 12 months after a
representation election and limits
itv; 39 dayr-before an election.
Permits informational picketing
that does not affect deliveries or
services. These provisions take ef
fect in 60 days.
Secondary boycotts: Bans all
hot cargo contracts under which
an employer agrees not to handle
goods from other firms a union
deems unfair. Permits garment
unions to continue agreements to
keep employers from farming out
work to nonunion subcontractors.
Closes three loopholes in Taft
Hartley curbs on secondary boy
cotts. Prohibits secondary customer
picketing at retail stores, but per
mits union to advertise their cas
es in other ways.
Both hot cargo and boycott pro
visions effective in 60 days.
Other provisions: Permits econ
omic strikers to vote in repre
sentation elections for one year
after strike starts. Permits pre
hire agreement between contract
ors and unions in construction in
dustry. Both effective in 60 days.
UNION
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Ehrman Bates. La Grande, holds the trophy presented
to the Blue Mt. Grange for the winning booth at the
Oregon State Fair in Salem last week. The Union Coun
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LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1959
Railyard
Off Limit
To Pupils
Concern over youngsters resid
ing on the north side of the rail
road tracks who are using the
railway yards in going to and
from schools has been express- d
by UP o'ficials. i
0. D. Christopherson. Union Pa
cific trainmaster, informed the
Observer this morning th.it use
of the yards by the children creates
a very hazardous practice.
"Parents and children alike
should be made aware of the ex
treme danger of passage through
our railroad yards," Christopher
son pointed out.
He also stated that public educa
tion on this matter could be
"brought home" by close .atten
tion of students to the I'P railroad
film. "The Long Way Home."
new being shown in the city's
schools. The film dwells in part
on the hazards of youngsters play
ing in and around railroad yards.
Tools Stolen
From Dwelling
Of Local Man
Police added another report of
stolen tools to those reported prior
to the weekend.
Leland Brown, 1802 Cove Ave.,
told police yesterday that tools
valued at $189.50 were taken from
a shed in back of his home. The
too's included a pipe cutter, a
pipe threader and several pipe
wrenches.
Brown told police the tools were
taken sometime betwen Friday and
Sunday.
A Burley, Idaho, man was arrest
ed early this morning at the inter
section of Fourth and Main for
operating a motors vehicle without
a muffler.
Thomas G. Dowell, 20, was ar
rested at 8:45, and a hearing was
scheduled for 3 p.m. today.
Firefighters
At Bend Blaze
BEND UPI Firefighters
hoped to bring under control to
day a fire which covered some
600 acres near the Deschutes riv
er about 20 miles southwest . of
here.
The fire apparently started
from a campfire near the river,
according to Clarence Edgington,
fire dispatcher for the U. S. For
est Service in Portland.
The flames leaped out of con
trol about 1 p. m. Sunday and
burned through Ponderosa and
Lodgepole pine as well as brush
Eighty-five men, plus four bull
dozers and five tanker tmcks
were on the fire this morning.
Strong winds whipped the blaze
Sunday and started several smal
ler fires but it quieted down dur
ing the night and some light rain
fell.
The blaze was burning between
the Deschutes and Little De
schutes rivers.
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OBSERVER
Youth Comes Out
Of Long 'Coma'
Grand Rend Hospital at
tendants reported this morning
that th condition ol Jacki
L Hopkins It improved.
Hopkins, injured seriously in
a one-car accident last Thurs
day, was said to b slowly
awakening and is ab! to carry
on a limited conversation.
He had been in a coma since
th accident. E'jgtn (Wilson)
Hunnell, 19, suffered fatal in
juries in the mishao.
the accident. E'jgtn (Wilson) H mm m gw m I If
Hunnell, 19, suffered fatal in- Iv f Iflf I g L4
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SMILES MASK DEDICATION
Those who visualize Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev's smiles as Communist party
man, left, tend to forget that, basically, he is dedicated Communist for the party as
shown in photo at right as.he wears his uniform. It is expected that he will be "all
smiles" during his visit in Washington, D.C., this week.
Soviets 'Plant7 Rocket Upon
Rough Surface Of The Moon
MOSCOW iUPI) -The Soviet
Union planted its hammer and
sickle-marked rocket on the moon
today. A short time later, a top
Soviet scientist said a manned
flight to the moon was now "a
matter of the not too distant fu
ture." The Soviet space rocket hit the
moon at two minutes and 24 sec
onds after midnight (2:02 24 p.m.
p.d.t. Sunday) in a feat that
brought wild joy to this nation and
admiration from the world.
Speaking at a press conference
later, . Soviet scientists reflected
the view taken earlier by the So
viet press and radio in expressing
hope for international coopera
tion in space along with greater
achievements in the future.
Alexander Topichev, vice pres
ident of the U.S.S R. Academy of
Sciences, called the Soviet lunar
rocket a "scientific laboratory.''
Present for Eisenhower
"This is an extremely difficult
task." he said, but it was a mat
ter of the "not, too distant future."
Topichev and other top-ranking
scientists gave their views of the
result of the space flight during
the news parley held at the Aca
demy of Sciences at about the
same time that the official Tass
news agency carried a statement
by Premier Nikita Khruschev that
he would give President Eisenhow
er a replica of a pennant placed
on the moon by the Soviet rocket.
"Scientists of the Soviet Union
who designed the rocket and sent
it to the moon presented me with
a copy of the pennant which was
delivered by the Soviet rocket,
Khrushchev said. "I shall be hap-
ty boolh w as selected as the
at the fair.
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Takes Over
py to present a copy of the pennant
to the U. S. President, Mr. Eisen
hower."
Topichev said that, according to
preliminary reports, all scientific
instruments in the rocket had
functioned normally up to the mo
ment it hit the moon. He said re
sults of the observations were ex
pected in a short time.
Topichev said the rocket launch
ing meant throwing the first
"bridge across the endless realms
of space.
Highly Accurate
He called it yet another demon
stration of the advanced stage of
"socialist science and technology.
He also spoke of the rocket's
guidance equipment, which, he
said, kept it on the estimated
course with an extremely high de
gree of accuracy.
This accuracy was reflected by
Firemen Answer
Grass Fire, One
At City Dwelling
The La Grande fire department
answered a call yesterday and one
at 10:03 this morning.
The department rushed to T
Avenue and Depot Stre"t at 9:07
Sunday morning to control a grass
fire. Firemen were also called
upon to handle a hot electric wire
at the scene of the fire.
The department went to 2103
Third St. this morning when they
received a call on an overheated
oil stove. No equipment was used
at this morning's call.
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the fact the rocket travelled 238,
875 miles in about 35 hours and
Soviet scientists had predicted its
moment of impact within 84 sec
ones of its actual arrival.
Topichev also confirmed that the
"important requirements" of keep
ing the -moon free of earthly germ
contamination had been "fully
complied with."
Moscow Radio and the Commu
nist party newspaper Pravda
bulged with prideful comment on
the triumphant achievement of So
viet rocketry.
Ike Holding
Top Strategy
Conferences
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi
dent Eisenhower held a final top
level strategy session today for his
historic meeting with Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev who ar
rives Tuesday carrying a new
propaganda ace the Russian
feat of reaching the moon.
Eisenhower met for 45 minutes
in his office with the nation's top
diplomats and Russian experts
The White House said they con
fcrred on the American viewpoints
to he put to Khrushchev.
The capital was working fever
ishly to complete arrangements
for getting Khrushchev and his
family when they arrive in a giant
Russian TU114 turbo-prop at 7:30
a.m. p.a.t. Tuesday.
The President will meet the
world's No. 1 Communist at An
drews Air Force Base and drive
with him 15 miles in a procession
to Hlair House where Khrushchev
and his family will stay.
The first real chance for talks
will come in the afternoon when
Khrushchev makes his first call
at the White House. Press Secre
tary James C. Hacerty said Eiscn
hower had blocked off an hour and
one-half on his calendar but there
was nothing to nrevent thn con
fcrence from going longer if the
iwo men so desire.
Local Doctor On
Advisory Council
A La Grande man. Dr. A. J
Roth, has be?n appointed to a oosi-
tion to the advisory council of the
wegon Board of Health, it was re
vealed today.
Dr. Roth was appointed to the
licensing and supervision of hos
pitals along with four other state
doctors and laymen. The others
are A. G. McLain, Roscburg: Dr.
M. W. Hemingway. Bend: Miss
Lucille Gregerson and Gene Beach
Portland.
Bulletin
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho,
( UPI ) Twelve persons wert
rushed! to Elmore Mtmorial
hettwial here today after a
Greyhound bus sklddtd on rain
slick Highway JO and crashtd
about four miles west of Ham
nwtt. Arthur Smith, Mountain
Home ambulance driver, said
only four of the passengers
appotred to be seriously hurt.
Nobody was killed In the ene
vehide accident, he said.
WEATHER
Showers or thundershowers
tonight; partial clearing to
night with chance of freeze
ing temperatures; part cloudy
Tuesday high 70 low 30-36. ,
Five. Cant
Force
Capital
Visit
Sewers To
Rooftops
Precaution
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Federal agents, trained mili
tary teams, and metropolitan
police spread huge protec
tive network here today in
the tightest security screen
ever erected in the nation's
capital. i
The grim purpose was to pro
tect Soviet Premier Nikita 5.
Khrushchev who arrives Tuesday.
The far-flung precautions for
Khrushchev's safety reached from
the rooftops to the sewers. The
most elaborate traffic restrictions
in the history of Washington were
ordered.
The principal fear of the secur
ity agents was that some ag
grieved refugee from the Iron
Curtain or irrational crank might
try to bring physical harm to
Khrushchev or create a meb
scene to embarrass the Soviet
leader and his host. President
Eisenhower. -
Security agents have visited
every hotel, store and office build
ing along the route that Khrush
chev will take from Andrews Air
Force Base to Blair House. They
have asked responsible officials in
each building to make sure no
stranger gains access to a roof or
a window facing the parade route.
A special flying squad of secur
ity agents has been detailed to
precede the official motorcade by
a few blocks, sealing every man-
noie along the way so that no
would-be trouble-maker can pop
up out of the sewers.
The metropolitan police force
has cancelled all leaves and days
off. Its entire 2,5man force will
be available for duty. A police '
spokesman estimated that about
2.000 policemen actually will be
stationed along or near the pa
rade route.
About 500 National Guardsmen
'also will line the streets to help
coniroi crowds.
Hundreds of plainclothesmen
will mingle with the spectators to
watch out for any suspicious per
sons. They have been instructed
to be particularly alert for out-of-town
cars and for persons bear
ing packages.
Khrushchev's immediate body
guards will include Soviet secret
police and special agents of the
State Department's security of
fice, who are charged with pro
tecting all important foreign visi
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Lawmakers
See End!
WASHINGTON UPI) Con
gress edged toward adjournment
today when Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson public
ly proposed that action be started
on a full-scale civil rights bill by
mid-February.
The second session of the 86th
Congress is scheduled to get un
derway next Jan. 6.
Johnson told the Senate he would
start the gears rolling on the con
troversial civil rights issue immed
iately following the return of Re
publican senators from their cus
tomary round of Lincoln Birth
day speeches. :-
He said he preferred this to 'it
proposal by Republican Leader
Everett M. Dirksen to launch tb
1960 civil rights debate next Jan
18. Johnson said this would con
flict with Democratic speech mak
ing at Jefferson-Jackson Day din
ners. , r
Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.k
emphasized that southerners had
not been consulted about any time
agreement. He added that it would
"be futile to expect our coopera
tion. . . in this political Roman
holiday." Debate over a two-year exten
sion of the federal civil right
commission was the only big hur
dle in the way of adjournment el
the first session late tonight or
early Tuesday.
Adjournment would wind up the
longest session In eight years. Thd,
scheduled arrival of Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev in Wash
ington Tuesday was a bg spurt
toward achieving the adjournment
The Senate convened three hours
earlier than usual for closing de-'
bate on the civil rights commie
sion proposal. -