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WEATHER Cloaring tonight with morning fog or low clouds; mostly tunny . Wednesday; high Wodnoiday 5- 63; low tonight 34-40. LA GRAND OBSERVER 19th 64th Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1959 Paget Fivo Cant E IT'S CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, MY BOY Lynn Bloxon, left, is showing La Grande High School sophomore AnrTy Rauwolf how centrifugal force works. A cup of water is held high in the container by the spin ning motion of the container. The demonstration was part of the "Little Hall of Science" National Assembly program at the school yesterday. (Observer Photo by Joe Diehl) Five-Alarm Fire Morth Portland PORTLAND (UPD A five alarm fire blazed through a two story building in north Portland early today, nearly wrecking the structure which contained a hotel and five business establishments. Damage was tentatively esti mated at SfiO.OOO. One fireman, Capt. Carl Frey, suffered a badly cut hand and another firemen was nearly suffo cated. 24 Guests Safe The 24 guests in Palmer's Des ert hotel at 2651 North Williams, were, routed by two policemen and all made it to safety. The policemen. Mel llulctt and Mel Cook, were across the street inspecting a private club when the fire broke out. They aroused the tenants as well as a couple who operate a gift shop and lived in back of the store. The first alarm was turned in about 1:48 am. and the fifth alarm was sounded 18 minutes later. More than 25 pieces of fire equipment battled the flames for about two hours. Firemen Falls Dense smoke prevented firemen from going very far inside the building and nearly all the win dows and doors were smashed before they could start shooting streams of water inside. Lt. Earl Hollcnbeck accidental ly plunged nine-feet down an open stairwell in a sidewalk while breaking glass. He said later that if Ii. Elmer I level a ad had not seen his fall and played a stream of water on him he would have suffocated. Two firemen helped him to safety. Businesses besides the hotel which were destroyed or badly damaged included the gift shop, a cleaning shop, a food store. Lnborite Manufacturing Co.,-and a hardware store. Observer Receives Special Citation From Oregon Bar The La Grande Observer and 12 other Oregon newspapers have re ceived "special recognition" certi ficates from the Oregon State Bar . Association for publishing the col umn. '"Know the Law." The columns are prepared by the College of La at Willamette Uni versity in Salem. Female Hand In State Politics SWEET HOME VPI - The fctnale hand in politics in Oregon is a comparatively heavy one. according to Beulah lftnd, acting chairman of the Oregon Demo cratic party. Rep. Hand, the only woman act ing state chairman in the nation, told the Jane Jefferson Club here Monday night that Oregon Demo cratic women lead the U. S. in participation "in practical poli tics." She said there are more wom an acting as county chairmen in Oregon than in any other state, and Oregon's ratio of women in the Legislature is among the top (our. if s i i n j Police Grab Union Workers Carrying Concealed Weapons FRASER. Mich. UPI State police today arrested two United Auto Workers Union members found carrying concealed weapons near the Cross Manufacturing Co. plant which has been struck, since Aug. 4. ' The men were James F.- Big ger, 33, Madison' Heights, and Robert Lawrence Lohrman, 21, Centerline, employes at the Chry sler Mack plant in Detroit, and members of UAW Local 212. Troopers from the Centerline post patrolling the area found the two men parked in a pickup truck Armed Iraqi Mob Fires On Police Force CAIRO UPI Egypt's semi official Middle East News Agency reported today that an armed Iraqi mob shot it out with police Monday night outside Baghdad's central cable office. Three policemen and a rioter were wounded, the agency said. Earlier, the radios of the United Arab Republic had reported that antigovernment demonstrators in Iraq had seized two police stations in Ramadi, 63 miles west of Bagh dad. The U.A.R. reports said police gunfire failed to halt the mobs in Ramadi, one of four provincial centers where violent opposition to the government of Premier Abdel Kassem was reported. There was no report of casual ties. Radio stations here aid in Da mascus said the rioting touched off Sunday by the executions of 17 anti-Communist leaders in Iraq had spread from Baghdad to Ra madi, Mosul, Falouja and Samar ra. Ike Food Stamp Plan Is Held Up WASHINGTON (UPI I Presi dent Eisenhower has indicated he won't put into operation a test food stamp plan under which needy Americans could get sur plus foods. The President said it would not make additional surplus foods available. He said it simply would replace an existing state and local sys tem for distributing surplus foods to the improverished and further increase "the already dispropor tionate federal share of welfare expenses.'' Eisenhower made the statement Monday when he signed into law a bill extending for two years a $4.10O.0O0.Mu program for selling and bartering U. S. farm surplus es overseas in return for foreign currency. The test food stamp plan was one feature of the bill. But Con gress had left it up to the admin istration whether to put the food stamp provision into effect. m S&$fl $m 0i Hits Area about V4 mile north of the Cross plant in division. newly constructed sub- The front license plate of the truck was bent down so it could not be read. Troopers found a 4- inch switch-blade knife in the glove compartment of the truck. and a 34-inch sledge handle un der the seat. Troopers took the men to the Centerline state police post and booked them on a charge of carry ing concealed weapons. Gov. G. Mennen Williams Mon day ordered an increase in state police forces to help local author ities maintain order at the Cross plant. The Cross plant has been the scene of several demonstrations in the past several weeks. A contract between the UAW and Cross expired last October. The UAW won a bargaining elec tion in November. But the Cross company has refused to bargain on a new contract, contending a majority of its production workers do not want to be represented by the union Racial Bus Fight Between Students In Little Rock LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UPP-A 16-year-old white senior girl at Central High School said today she suffered a cracked nose and facial injuries Monday in a scuffle with a Negro boy on a city bus Annette Harper said, the boy, identified by police as Cecil White, a student at a Negro junior high school, jostled her several times. She said she asked him to stop it, and he hit her in the face with his fist. She said he hit her three or four more times, knocking her glasses out the bus window and bruising her lower lip. Police Chief Gene Smith said officers investigated and turned their information over to school and juvenile authorities. He said no arrest was made, but the Har per girl or her family could file charges through the prosecuting attorney. Youths Interested In Armed Service Schools Advised Civil Service screening examina tions will be given Nov. 7 in Enter prise and La Grande for young men interested in appointment to an Armed Service Academy. Congressman Al Ullman of Ore gon urges all young men who are interested to immediately contact his office and request an appli cation. Inquiries should be directed to: Congressman Al Ullman, 323 House Office Building, Washington 23, DC. Ullman this year will make ap pointments to Ihe Air Force, Mari time. Military and Naval Acade mies for the academic year be ginning, next July. EARNEST APPEAL TO THIEF PAYS MADRID (UPI) Ernest Homingway't public appeal to tho pickpocket who stole hit billfoM hat paid oH. Hemingway's billfold wat stele whila tna Nobal priia winning author tignad suto grapht at a bullfight festi val in Murica, In southern Spain. Hemingway, In Spain gath ering material to bring hit bullfight classic "Death in the Afternoon" up to data, made a public appeal to the unknown pickpocket. "I bog you to return my billfold and the medal of St. Christopher in it," he told the thief in the columns of Spain's press. "But you can keep the 9, ON pesetas (SIM) as a tribute to your skill." Bus Driver Complaints Told To DA fnmnlninta hv Kpvpral htl driv ers who transport local and area students to and from the schools have been received by the dis trict attorney's office. District Attorney George And erson Jr., warned drivers that stringent state laws covered such situations where school buses stopped to pick up or unload pu pils. There is a $100 line for driv ers who fail to qbserve the state safety regulations coverng school bus stops," he said. Drivers must stop either be hind or coming toward a bus when it is stopped to pick up or discharge youngsters and motor ists cannot proceed until the pu oils are safely across the street or highway when leaving the bus or inside the vehicle when it De gins to move forward. Bus drivers, loo, must neip o resulate or caution moving ve hicles by putting out the -dus stop" signs, Anderson advisea. Hatfield Asks Freedom For Yank Internees SALEM (UPD Gov. Mark Hatfield suggested today that President Eisenhower and Pre mier Khrushchev talk over the problem of release of U.S. pris oners still held by the Chinese Communists when they meet at Camp David. "Perhaps Chairman Khrush chev can insist his fellow Com munists release our imprisoned U. S. citizens." Hatfield said. He added he did not favor the idea of calling a special session of the Oregon Legislature for the sole purpose of passing a resolu tion calling for release of the prisoners. This idea was suggested by Robert Prescott, Eugene, who felt a resolution would build up pub lic pressure here and abroad. "While I am in full sympathy with efforts to obtain the release of our citizens held in Communist China, I do not believe we should encourage the 50 states to hold foreign policy legislative ses sions," the governor said. "I hope that the President can bring the matter up with chair man Khrushchev at Camp David. This would have more effect than any legislative action by a state Mr. Khrushchev did not even visit," Hatfield said. Girls Escape Home SALEM (UPD Four girls escaped from Ilillcrest School for Girls here today after threatening a housemother, Mrs. C. L. Car ter, with a pop bottle. School authorities identified the girls as Sharon Cressent, 17, Portland; Kay Wright, 16, also of Portland; Rebecca Davis, 17, Medford; and Martha Akins, 15, Albany. School Head In Assaulting REDMOND, Wash. (UPI) The superintendent of Hopkins Mili tary Academy near here was ar rested Monday on a charge of third degree assault of a 14 year old student. , Superintendent Thomas H. Hop kins was cha'ged in a warrant issued by the King county pros ecutor's office with holding Cadet John Goodwin in solitary confine ment, on a bread and water diet, for five days. Hopkins' wife, Lenore, also was charged with third degree assault. The Goodwin youth, son of a Boeing Airplane Co. engineer at nearby Seattle, said the "guard house" in which he was kept un der constant guard was a small bathroom. Khrushchev Local Bar Members 'Honored7 Members of the Oregon State Bar from La Grande will be honored at the association's annual meeting in Bend Friday in recognition of their years of membership in the legal group. Colon R. Eherhard will receive recognition for active membership in the associat.on for 50 years. George L. Anderson Jr., S. II. Burleigh, Hon. K. J. Green, and George II. Miller, all of La Grande, will be honored for membership of 25 years or more. Red Hits Press U.S. Security MOSCOW UPD -The Soviet press today accused U. S. officials of using strict security measures simply as an excuse to prevent Nikita Khrushchev from receiving a royal welcome by "ordinary Americans." Catching up to the Soviet Pre mier's denunciation of security measures in Los Angeles Saturday, Moscow newspapers dropped their friendly tone of recent days to de nounce his police escorts and to complain about the treatment of Russian newsmen on the tour. A correspondent of the newspa per Sovictskaya Rossiya charged that the officials who canceled Khrushchev's visit to the Disney land amusement park "were not so anxious about security but about the good meeting prepared for Khrushchev by common Ameri cans." The Communist party youth pa per Komsomolskaya Pravda said the friendliness of a v crane Ameri cans "gladdens" Khrushchev' but' has vembarrassed some people" in America. : "Some influential Americans evi dently fear these friendly feelings of Americans towards the Soviet Union." the paper said in discus sing the security regulations. The dispatches indicated that If Khrushchev were allowed to go out glad handing among the crowds the people would show tre mendous friendliness toward him and Russia. The news that Khrushchev had done just that in San Francisco after his outburst in Los Angeles has not yet reached print in Russia. Musician Claims More Cultural Exchange Needed SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Her man Kenin, president of the American Federation of Musi cians and a former Portlander, thinks the government should pep up its program of sending U. S. musicians overseas in cul tural exchanges. Here for the AFL-CIO conven tion, Kenin said that sending New York Philnrmonic conductor Leon ard Bernstein, Louis .Armstrong and like artists abroad was a good way to improve interna tional relations. "When musicians have gone, they've been welcomed," he said. "No one yet has posted a sign reading 'Bernstein go home." Kenin took over the 260,000 member union one year ago. He and his family now live in West port, Conn., and his office is in New York. Charged Cadet Deputy prosecutor Charles Z. Smith said investigation disclosed the boy wore prisoner's clothing of black and white striped ma terial ani was kept awake by guards who threw cold water on him. Smith said Goodwin was al legedly struck with a swagger stick during his confinement, in flicted on him for being absent 'rom school for one day. The Hopkins denied they hod ever mistreated a boy. "I haven't done anything to be afraid of," the superintendent said. The couple was released on $4500 bail. Ttie academy has 18 students. W Conferences At? sr-- A M Jr. a IwM" sVMsWt si k ftH"0,,u,,,rrTi : TsL- At LUNIK TARGET Cross on newsmap marks area where Soviet space rocket landed on the moon after a 236.160-mile flight. The Lunik planted intact a load of Communist emblems and pennants to mark man's first successful effort to reach a heavenly body. U.N. Puts Nikitas Peace Plan On Floor UNITED NATIONS, The U.N. Steering Committee put Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev's disarmament plan on the General Assembly agenda today and Russia immediately demand ed a separate debate on it. No objection was made in the 21-nation committee to Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov's request that the plan outlined by Khrushchev here Research On Outer Space Protects U.S. WASHINGTON ("UPI -Roy W. Johnson, director of the govern ment's Advanced Research Proj ects Agency, said today that space is a "protective fortress" for the security of the United States. "Space provides a strategic weapons delivery environment that dwarfs the earth itself," John son declared. "A space weapons breakthrough of great magnitude could lead to destruction of the deterrent posture of the U n i t e d States." Johnson, speaking at a business equipment exposition, said his agency plans 10 years of advanced research to help this country lead the way in such a breakthrough He said a five billion dollar re search and development budget would be "wholly adequate for the foreseeable future if we are successful in allocating it properly." hS?y , w-.'s. i ' ii in i i I ill - New to La Grande and EOC faculty are the Hartigs just recently moved from Minne apolis, Minn., to La Grande, where Hartig begins duties as assistant professor of education at Eastern Oregon College. From left, Mary, Hugo John (standing), Eliza- . beth and Hugo. Hartig has a B.A. from St. Olaf College of Minnesota and a M A. from the University of Minnesota, where he has also done additional graduate work. He has taught in the Virginia and Minneapolis, Minn., schools, Augsburg College, and Wisconsin State College in River Falls. He has also been a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune and assistant editor for Science Digest. (EOC Photo) ants N Y. (UPI)last week be included in the As- , sembly's agenda. But Kuznetsov objected vigor ously to Brazilian Augusto Fred erico Schmidt's proposal that the Khrushchev plan be lumped with other aspects' of disarmament al ready listed for discussion. The committee left that decision to the Assembly. Kuznetsov said Khrushchev's proposal should stand by Itself for discussion and not be "hidden away" among other proposals where it might not "be given suf ficient attention as to substance." The Steering Committee met before the full Assembly went in to a session in which the United States hoped to beat down at tempts to seat Communist China in the U.N. The 82-nation General Assembly heard U.S. charges Monday that Communist China was an "in ternational outlaw'' that had started war in six countries in nine years. u.s. aipiomals hoped this ac counting of the record would per suade the Assembly to at least equal the 44-28 vote which shunt ed aside the bid to seat Peiping last year. Judge Sentences Man In Timberline Theft OREGON CITY (UPI) Circuit Judge Ralph Holmnn Monday de ferred sentencing of Curt A Schurm, 27, Palisades, N.J.. who pleaded guilty to a burglary charge in connection with the theft of $6,400 from Timberline Lodge last week. MEET THE HARTIGS Periodic In U.S. Is Now Visiting Corn Belt DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) Nikita Krushchev, a pro fessed farm boy feeling at home in the heart of Ameri ca' corn belt, said today he would like to get together with President Eisenhower once or twice a year. The beaming Soviet premier got the second warmest welcome of his U. S. tour at Des Moines, the capital city of some of the world's richest and best-cultivated farm land. The cordiality didn't come up to Khrushchev's San Francisco greeting, but the people of the state known in song as "that's where the tall corn grows" showed more hospitality than those of New York, Washington and Los Angeles. Khrushchev responded with a sidewalk interview amidst thou sands of persons in which he said he wanted to see more of Presi dent Eisenhower. Would Bo Btnoficial Khrushchev, who will meet again with the President follow ing his Iowa tour and a visit to Pittsburgh, said: s "It's always better to meet and talk than to send messages which are not always friendly. Therefore, a meeting or a couple of meetings a year would be ben eficial." v s The Soviet Premier was in high spirits as he arrived at "Des Moines municipal airport. , Beaming and waving to the crowd of 2,000 Iowans at the air port, Khrushchev said: "We understand you're first in corn in the U. S. we're compet ing with you there." Gov. Herschel C. Loveless wel comed Khrushchev to Iowa, "the home of tall corn. Among Friends" "We hope you like our homes and schools," Loveless said. "You are among friends." There were a few cheers from the airport crowd, but a few un pleasant greetings for Khrushchev on his motor trip into the city, where about 15.000 persons massed around his lodgings at the Fort Des Moines hotel. Signs sprouted up from the ho tel crowd. One said "the only good Communist is a dead one." Another said "we butcher hogs, not people." A third, in a refer ence to a former vice-president, Iowan Henry A. Wallace, said but the Wallaceites will welcome you." The people of this farm stale capital were eager for a look at the Russian leader, however. They lined the streets as thick as eight to 10 deep as he rode in an open convertable with Loveless and Henry Cabot Lodge, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. i