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State Aviation Authority By GRADY PANNELL Observer Staff Writ" Municipal Airport, (bout five miles east of La Grand will not bt tht propoHd (it for th city's contemplated now sewage ditpoMl facility. Dr. W. M. Peere of La Grand, senior mombar local ly of th Oregon Board of 15th 64th Year Issue; i N-v .. CS V . ;S y 1 t T I " - . V.". - - . f lilt II . i 4 New to the Eastern Oregon College faculty and to La Grande is Howard L. Bailey, assistant professor of mathematics, shown here with his family. From left,' Jimmy, Mrs. (Juanita) Bailey, Jean, Dorothy, Mr. Bailey, and Peggy. The Baileys moved to La Grande from Klamath Falls. The new EOC prof has attended Stanford Univer sity, has his B.A. and M.Ed, from the University of Oregon and a M.S. from Oregon State, lie has taught in both the Portland and Klamath Falls public schools. (EOC Photo) Massive NYC Security Forces To Guard Khrushchev's Visit NEW YORK (UPI) Mas sive security forces took fan tastic precautions today to protect the life of Ni le it a S, Khrushchev in this not-so-diplomatic metropolis. Authorities entrusted with Khru shchev's safely said New York was potentially the most, danger ous place he will visit on his coast-to-coast tour. The uncertain reaction of New York's large population of Iron Curtain refugees to the Russian premier's visit added to the prob lems of protecting him in its nar row, crowded streets closely bor dered by many-windowed build ings. "Washington was never like this." said chief police inspector Thomas A. Nielson. "We will have to maintain maximum security at all times." Got First Workout Police got their first workout early this morning, eight hours before Khrushchev's arrival by train from Washington. The desk of the Hotel Commodore, where the Soviet leader will lunch, re ceived a call from a man who said, "Get those un-Americans out of there. We've planted three bombs." An hour's search of the hotel (ailed to turn up anything suspi cious. The ballroom, where Mayor Robert F. Wagner will play host to Khrushchev, already had been sealed off as a security measure. Several anti-Communist refugee organizations have announced their intention to picket Khru-1 shchev. Police have staked out0rized the city commission to five locations for orderly demon strations a full block away from locations where the Commu nist boss. will make public appear ances. Sniper, Fanatic Dangerous But the main danger is from the lone sniper and the bomb-planting fanatic. Police will search every roof and building along the routes of Khrushchev's motorcade and police lining the routes will face the spectators. Parked cars and litter baskets along the way have been removed. In addition to FBI and State De partment security men, 3.300 city police have been assigned to guard the Russian premier. He will have to gaze at the sparkling skyscrapers, the teaming garment district, and the apartments of millionaires from behind a 16 man police bodyguard of six-foot experts in snapshooting and Judo Rigid instructions have been spelled out for "utmost vigilance" at the formal events on Khru shchev's two-day schedule in cluding a reception at former Gov. Averell Harriman's home, a Waldorf-Astoria dinner, and visits to the United Nations and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's Hyde Turk estate. Aeronautic informtd Th Observer exclusively of th 9ncy' rejection to otida-tion-type sewage ponds yes terday afternoon. Th letter of rejection, ad dressed to the city commit ton, was read without dis cussion by the city fathers last night. LA GRANDE ADDED TO EOC FAMILY StudentChokes On Raw Liver During Hazing LOS ANGELES d'PII-A Uni versity of Southern California stu dent choked to death early today on a large piece of raw liver fed him as part of his initiation into a fraternity. Richard Swanson, 21, a pre dental student, collapsed at the Kappa Sigma Fraternity house Dave Slaght New Acting City Manager David C. S'aght was appointed city manager, pro tern, at th city commission's regular meeting last night. Slaght, who has previously han dled the position in the city man ager's absence, was given the position at sn annual salary rate of $8,400. The appointment was eff-ctive Sept. I. Fred J. Young, former city manager, offered his resignation lat? in August to be effective Sept. 12. Slaght has filled the posi tion of city manager during the first part of the month while Young concluded his affairs. Ordinances Read Two ordinances were given third and final readings and approved by the city commission at -last night's meeting. No. 1908 auth- make a deed of conveyance to the State of Oregon for property north west or the armory in La Grande. The second resolution adopted the engineer's report on improve ment district No. 247. The district is on K Ave. between 11th Ptreet and Hill Avenue. Commissioners also voted to ap prove a renewal of the city's lease with the Mavericks Club at an annual fee of $100. Acting on the recommendation of Slaght, they agreed to renew the lease for a period of five years. The city has maintained a rock crusher site on the club's property for the past 10 years at no cost. The last lease expired in December of 1958. Lease Approval Slaght recommended approval of the lease m the grounds that the present site offers a short haul for city trucks. The city has a por tion of the club's property fenced off for use by city-owned equip ment. A low bid of $1,500 was accepted by the commission from the Ore gon Tractor Co. to furnish the city with a three-quarter ton pick up truck. The commission accept ed the bid on the recommendation of Slaght. after he had checked the specifications. Or. Pear, a member of th aviation board for 16 years, stated that th entire ttat agency was unanimous In Its rejection to the airport site. He cited th following rea sons: j To Death' when the piece of meat lodged in his throat. Police said the piece of liver weighed about a quarter of a pound An ambulance was called, but the estimated 50 fraternity mem bers and pledges at the scene ap parently were too frightened to tell the ambulance driver what had happened. Driver Nathan Ruben said: "I got practically no coopera tion at all. If someone had told me what had happened I might have been able to save him." Ruben said Swanson was still alive when he arrived. "The told me he had spasms of the throat, he said. reached my finger in his throat. but I couldn't feel anything Ruben said he tried to keep Swanson breathing until firemen with a resuscitator arrived. They bundled Swanson in the ambu lance and sped to Central Receiv ing Hospital, but it was too late. The youth had died. "If only someone had told me," said Ruben. "I was working in the dark and didn't have a chance and neither did the kid.'' Detective Sgt. Robert Thompson said Swanson s parents, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Swanson, Hollywood, were called to the hospital All of the members of the fra ternity were there also, Thomp son said. But the parents never speke to them or asked them any questions. They were too shocked by the sudden death, said Thomp son. The elder Swanson is a den tist and has one other son, A.L. Swanson, also a dentist. Thompson said one youth. Kap pa Sigma President Dan Hayes, 20, was being questioned. "If we book him it will be (or manslaughter because none of the boys snoke up and - told - Ruben whit actually had happened." Thompson said Swanson was one of the first of about 12 pledges ordered to swallow the liver as part of the initiation. Rainbow Girls To Meet NORTH POWDER (Special) The Faith Assembly Order of Rain bow Girls ' will hold a special meeting to elect officers Monday. Students' Pictures NORTH POWDER (Special) -Pictures were taken of the entire North Powder school enrollment last week by a La Grande photo studio. WEATHER Increasing cloud with occa sional rain late tonight and Fri day; highs tO-eS; low 34-41. Rejects Airport Sewage Site Here 1. Seepage; 2. Glare from ponds: J. Difference in tem perature which would csus cold weather fog; 4. Attract wildlife fowl and other birds and thus create flying haz ards. Th city commission has no common! on th latest ob LA GRANDE, ORE., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1959 Crowds Again Cool To Nikita In Broadway Tour Of Red Boss Says Ike l r i American NEW YORK (UPI) Soviet I Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today President Eisen hower had shown great poli tical wisdom by taking the not universally approved step of inviting the Russian leader to America. Khrushchev came to the na tion's biggest city from Washing ton to start his coast to coast tour. He encountered another large and curious but cool and almost silent reception. An estimated 80,000 lunchtime New Yorkers stood 10 deep on downtown streets beneath the tow ering skyscrapers as the world's No. 1 communist was whisked 23 blocks from Pennsylvania Rail road Station to a mayor's lunch eon in his honor at the Commo dore Hotel. It was there that Khrushchev commented on being invited to the United States by Eisenhower. "We respect him for his role in World War II as an ally." Khrushchev said, "and my re spect has grown because to have invited me here called for will power." -"Not every American" would have made this step," Khrush chev said. "He is a great man, who under stands great politics." The Premier, his wife, family and official party came here on a special 15-car train (rom Wash ington. There was polite clapping from a few persons and an occasional isolated cheer. But, as he had in Washington. Khruschev again got mainly the silent treatment. Khrushchev brought with him a new disarmement proposal which he will unveil Friday in a major speech to the United Nations. The Premier, his wife, fam:,v and official party pulled int.- ... railroad station at 1:54 a.m. p.d.t. after a trip from Washing ton. There he had told a national television audience Wednesday that he stuck by his prediction that Communism would bury capital ism. President Eisenhower flatly re jected that idea at his press con ference today. He said he did not believe the American public would be fooled by the Russian leader's forecasts of Communist domi nance of the world. Khrushchev revealed before he ended the first of two visits to Washington that he will lay before the United Nations in New York on Friday a new Soviet proposal on disarmament which he called "the most burning issue of our time." Nuclear Ban Hinted The Soviet premier gave no de tails. But American officials said he might, call (or a permanent ban en production of all nuclear weapons. His words of peace came during the highlight of his capital visit, a nationally televised address to the National Press Club. But he mixed them with an angry flare up when questioned about Rus sia's intervention in Hungary and what he was doing while Stalin was "committing crimes" under the cult of personality. Press Club President William H. Lawrence asked Khrushchev to confirm or deny that he once said he would "bury us.'1 "I believe I did use that expres sion once," Khrushchev replied. "And if I did, I will try to ex plain why and what it means. The expression I used was distorted, and deliberately, because what was meant was not the physical burial of any people but the ques tion of the historical force of de velopment." Khrushchev went on to say that Just as capitalism had replaced feudalism. Communism would re place capitalism. "Now, capitalism is struggling, fighting against Communism. I personally am convinced that Communism would be victorious. jection to oxidation ponds at the proposed city property airport area, but several weeks ago threatened to take legal action when the county airport toning board voiced disapproval to the proposed site. A bond election has been I -oWW jssBrV I ' iff tew RIGID INSPECTION President Eisenhower (left) and walk past the honor guard after Khrushchev s arrival at Andrews Air force Base, Md. In the center is Alexander Akalolvsky, th e interpreter. U.S. Fails Satellite Upstairs CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UPI The United States apparently failed today in an effort to put a 265-pound global navigation satel lite into orbit around the earth. A tall Thor-Ahle rocket shot the satellite aloft at 7:34 a.m. p.d.t., but the Defense Department an nounced ; " """t the rocket's Inird ige aF1a. ecu, failed to fire, and "it must be assumed that the satellite did not orbit." As scientists here awaited furth er word on the firing, other scien tists were readying the 11th and final Vanguaid rocket for a try at orbiting a 50-pound space- XI 5 Rocket Plane Flown EDWARDS AFB, Calif. UPI An X15 manned rocket plane flashed through desert skies in a six-minute powered flight for the first time today and the test pilot reported "everything worked per fectly in this "Kitty Hawk ven ture opening the way to human space travel. Oilot Scott Crossfield, 38, icy calm after his epic flight, said "I just pushed the switches, that's all. The actual success of a flight like this rests with the airplane If it works right, I can fly it." The eng:neer-pilot, who followed the plane from the drawing board to its first powered flight in more than two years of research and construction, was asked if the test was timed to coincide with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's vis it," he replied, "We have more important things to do up here.' Medford Man New Chairman Of State Water Resources Robert W. Root, of Medford Wednesday afternoon was named to a one year term as chairman of the Oregon Water Resources Board. Root succeeds John II. Davis, of Staytcn, as chairman. The board met in a formal session here Tuesday evening and Wednesday and heard a com prehensive report on the Grande Ronde River Basin study. The board's recommendations, based on its finding, will be announced shortly. Following the recommenda tions, public hearings will be held in La Grande. The board ended the two-day wsslon here yesterday afternoon following the naming of the new chairman. scheduled her for Oct. 2 when La Grande residents can ballot on th $344,000 question. Pear pointed out that the only recourse left open to the city for possible appeal of .the state board's rejection would be to the Federal Avia 14 Pages To Put studying satellite, probably later this week. This will officially close Project Vanguard, America s first space program. The 90-foot Thor-Ahle rocket that sent the 266-pound satellite sky ward appeared to perform perfect ly at first in Its second try as a moon carrier. Ten minutes after launch of Air Force said the second of the rocket's three stages had -fired successfully. The aim was to get the sphere into a difficult circular orbit 400 miles from the earth. If successful it would be visible from all over the United States. Its life expec tancy was "several years. The Thor-Able firing followed a perfect launching of an operational Atlas missile Wednesday night. The Atlas flew almost its maxi mum range .traveling almost 6,300 statute miles. It landed in the As cension Island area of the South Atlantic. Today's 3-inch spherical satel lite contained "everything but the kitchen sink, and in a nonminia turized form," said Project Tran sit officials. With a successful or biting, the satellite would trans mit information "as long as it's up there." Three Year Program Within the satellite vehicle were ultra-stable oscillators, solar cells and chemical batteries and an infrared scanner, all designed to provide the first test for a new navigational system. Project Transit will extend over a three-year period in its efforts to provide a "reliable global all weather means of fixing the posi tion of surface craft, submarines and aircraft more precisely, and to provide a more accurate means of maritime and aerial navigation than is now availble under any weather conditions," officials said. Wallowa County's AAU Women Will Hold Fall Meeting WALLOWA (Special i-The Wal lowa County branch of the Ameri can Association of University Women will hold its first fall luncheon meeting on Saturday at I p.m. at the home of Mrs. J. L. Rosewall in Enterprise. All eligible women are Invited to attend. Eastern Oregon College in La Grande has been accepted by AAUW. Some 438 co'leges in the United States are approved by the organization. The Wallowa Metho dist Church will hold a "retreat" at the Methodist camp grounds at Wallowa Lake beginning Friday evening, and continuing through Saturday. tion Authority of Los Angeles. C. W. Drew heads this re gional office. Peare added, however, that it was unlikely the fed eral agency would be sympa thetic to the city's appeal, thus leaving no other course open other than possible high court review. Five Cents Soviet Premier Khrushchev Commission Calls OK Bond Election ($ty i commissioners, in a hastily called meeting, have postponed the scheduled Oct. 2 bond election vote on a proposed new $334,000 sew age treatment plant. They cited the reason for shortage of time between now and the bond voting date of early October because a court ruling would be ne cessitated over objections to the Municipal Airport plant site. Commissioners decided to took for an alternate site for the treatment plan and also are studying advisability of taking the matter to court at a later date. TB Test Program Set Here The Munloux tuberculin test will be given to approximately 2,000 students in Union County during the later part of Scptem- Der and October. Testing will be done by the Union County Health Depart ment and is sponsored by the Union County Tuberculosis and Health Association. The test will be given to all junior and senior high school students. Request slips will be given to students for signatures of parents. The Mantoux tuberculin test is used to detect tuberculosis germs in the body and was discussed in some detail at high school as semblies throughout the area by Donald Harmon, director of case finding fo;' the Oregon Tuber culosis and Health Association. He explained the test to students in Elgin, Imblcr, Union and La Grande. Five County Cases The mobile chest X rav units of Oregon State Board of Health no longer offer chest ex-rays to persons under the age of 21. It is for that reason that associa tion officials arc. urging parents to take advantage of the testing program. Last year there were 572 pre viously unknown cases of tu berculosis in Oregon. Five of the cases were' in Union county. The tests will be given Mon day at Elgin and Tuesday at Imbler. Union school students will be given the test on Monday. Sept. 28, with testing due at the La Grande Junior High School on Tuesday, Sept. 29. . .The testing will be concluded Tuesday, Oct. 6. t the La Grande High School. . The test was given at Island City last Tuesday. Osterloh To Head Schools Named Successor To Mrs. Couzens Wilbur M. Osterloh has been appointed by the Union County Rural School Board to succeed Mrs. Veda K. Couzens as county superintendent of schools. Osterloh and his family have lived in Eastern Oregon for more than eight years. Mrs. Osterloh is a science teacher at Powder Valley High School. The Osterloh's have four boys. Walter 12. Ron nie 10, Russell 4. and Douglas I. The family will continue to reside temporarily in North Powder where the children are in school. Osterloh has attended Oregon State College and received his B.S. degree in business adminis tration from the University of Oregon. He holds a M.S. degree from New York University. He also has taken graduate work from the University of Oregon. Eastern Oregon College and Gonzaga Uni versity. , Union Teacher For the last three years Oster-! loh has been teaching commercial subjects at Union High School. He. has served on the teaching salary committee and was chairman of the curriculum committee. He also has taught retailing at Rutg-' i ers University in New Jersey.. During the 10 years preceding his teaching, he has held several man agement positions in business. Osterloh served four years in the armed services during World War II. He was a company com-; mander of a rifle company in the. American Division in the South Pacific and is a captain in the' U.S. Army Reserves. Osterloh has been active in civic' affairs-as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Baker,.' chairman of the retail merchants committee of the Baker County; Chamber of Commerce and a mem ber of its educational committee.; Mrs. Couzens has no definite plans for the future but has in dicated that she would like to take some graduate work at Eastern Oregon College. She also In dicated that she might possibly do some substitute teaching in the surrounding schools. City Police , Make Seven Traffic Nabs La Grande police arrested sev en local drivers for violation of the basic rule yesterday with the aid of radar. Those arrested were: Leo Rhodes Lewis, 39, 1002 Third St., stopped at 4:12 p.m. at the intersection of Fourth and M for traveling 29 miles per hour in a 20 mile zone. Lewis was released on $7 bail. Orville Andrews Lee, 49, 1414 Walnut St., picked up in a school zone between Fourth SL and M Ave. at 3:47 p.m. Bail was set at $12. Donald Dale Chandler. 33, 1404 Cherry St., arrested at 4:20 p.m. at the intersection of Fourth and M. Bail was set at $10. Basic Rule Leonard Lamar Winn, 29, 2414 N. Fir St., charged with vio lation of the basic rule on Wil low St. at 3:31 p.m. He was re leased on $10 bail. Mcrlen Bethel Davis, 1103 E Ave., charged with traveling 35 miles per hour in a 20 mile zone on Fourth St. Davis posted $10 bail and was released. : Elsa Marie Hammond, 48, 2004 First St., charged with exceed ing the 20 mile zone by 10 miles per hour. She was picked up at 3:25 p.m. and released on $10 bail. A teen age driver was picked up at 3:38 p.m. for traveling 32 miles per hour in a 20 mile zone. WANTED Island City :; Correspondent ' for the La Grande ; Observer Generous Allowance. ' Complete Details at Observer Office r or Contact Bill Bebout Ph. WO 3-3161