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WEATHER Mostly fair through Friday with variable high clouds; highs 60-65; low tonight 35-40. LA GRAND OBSERVER E 20th Issue 64th Year List Tremendous' Findings On Moon WASHINGTON (UPI) An astronomer said today that reported findings by Russia's lunar rocket appear to be of ; "tremendous importance" to understanding of the earth's Structure as well as the moon's He and other scientists said the Soviet data also appear to prove that the moon does possess an at mosphere, albeit a thin one. The astronomer. Dr. Gerhardt G. Schilling of the National Aero nautics and Space Administration (NASA), said he has not yet seen, any scientific report on the data dispatched by Lunik II before it , crashed into the moon Sept. 13. But on the basis of news dis patches from Moscow, Lunik's1 findings apparently confirm be lief that to possess a strong mag netic field a heavenly body must have a . molten, fluid core, Schilling said. According to Soviet scientists the moon, believed to have a solid rocket core, has no magnetic field appreciable enough to register on instruments like those aboard Lunik II. If Lunik had found a fairly strong magnetic field around the moon, it would have upset a whole body of theory about the structure and formation of the earth and other planets. The Russians also reported that Lunik found an increasing concen tration of ionized (charged) par ticles within about 6,200 miles of the moon. Schilling said this appears to establish that the moon possesses an atmosphere of sorts. He called the Lunik information "most defi nitely valuable" but said he ex pects more. complete data from planned U.S. moon rockets. 'Freedom Fighter' Clobbered In Mysterious Circumstances SAN FRANCISCO UPI Former Hungarian Freedom Fighter Ferenc Iszak, who was found brutally beaten in Golden Gate Park, said today he couldn't name his assailants but police said -he- was "obviously holding out on us." They stepped up their Investiga tion of a case that was taking the aura of an international mys tery. Iszak, 28, who crashed through the Iron Curtain a few years ago when his anti-Communist group seized a Hungarian airliner at gunpoint, bitterly denounced Sov iet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's U.S. visit during a Freedom Fighter rally here Saturday. Early Wednesday, he was found lying beside his car in the de serted park. He was writhing in pain as the result of a vicious 'beating and protested, "I can't remember anything ' since Sun day." His attractive wife, Enese. 26. said the beating may have been administered by Communists or Communist sympathizers who re sented his activities as a leader SEGREGATION REARS HEAD AFL CIO Ends National Confab In Dispute Over Racial Issues SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-The AFL-CIO ended its week-long na tional convention here Wednesday in a bitter dispute over racial seg regation within the giant federa tion. Philip Randolph, one of 27 vice presidents and a Negro, served notice during the last moments of the convention, that Negroes would press harder and harder to eliminate discrimination in the union. AFL-CIO President George Meany, furious over this threat to labor unity, shouted that Ne groes were separated into all Negro unions by their own choice. In the closing moments of the convention Wednesday, he ex ploded at Randolph, "Who the hell appointed you as guardian of all the Negro members in America-" Meany said Negroes had the right to maintain locals for Ne groes alone. But Randolph urged that the AFL-CIO make it mandatory for all locals, including Negro locals, to drop color bars. He said that even Negroes did not have the right to maintain "Jim Crow locals." The AFL-CIO constitution com mits the federation to abolishing all racial discrimination, but force is rarely used for this purpose. Expulsion Threat Defeated Meany, backed by most top labor leaders, defeated Randolph in an attempt to get the conven tion to thre.iten two jill-v hito tin V V 9--' St LEONARD GOOD Special Oregon University Course Is Offered Here Advanced accounting, a Uni versity" of Oregon course, will be offered in La Grande through the General Extension Division, ac cording to Charles A. Ivie, re gional representtaive. Registration Is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. Dr. Leonard F. Good, professor of Secretarial Science, will conduct the course, with classes to be held in room 19 In the administration building on the Eastern Oregon College campus. Ivie indicated those who are interested should contact Dr. Good at the EOC campus. The course if officially designated as BA 483, Accounting Theory and Practice. of San Francisco s Freedom Fiehter colony. However, police said there was a possibility it was an outgrowth of dissension among the Freedom Fiehteri. -"He was very evasive",''-said Officer Robert Landucci. "He's obviously holding out on us. Landucei said that Iszak told police on Aug. 1 that he had been threatened by some elements wun in the Hungarian group here. Mrs. Iszak. who paced the cor ridors outside her husband's hos pital room Wednesday, said she received three telephone calls since the beating but in each case, no one spoke Mrs. Iszak's brother, Levente Osvath, 25, said he was serving as her bodyguard. He said the beating was the result of Iszak's activities in organizing last bat urday's rally and his speech in which he called Khrushchev a "murderer." A day later, the Soviet Premier swept into the city for a three- day lour and received the warm- est welcome yet on his American trip, ions with expulsion unless they made good on pledges to drop their color bars within six months. Randolph said the color bar de prives Negroes of jobs. The two unions are the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen, which have a total of ' 200,000 members. Meany, who has often voiced opposition to racial discrimina tion, said it would be wiser to end discrimination by keeping the brotherhoods within the AFL CIO and working with them pa tiently. But while the race issue dis rupted labor unity, which Meany considers to be the No. 1 AFL CIO problem, the seven-day con vention made a gain toward that Cash Grain Mart CHICAGO (UPI) Cash grain: Wheat: 2 red 193V4N. Corn: 2 yellow 1154-116; 2 yellow lake billing 113H; 4 yellow 109 'i: 5 yellow 108 4-109 ; sample grade extra heavy white 63V. Rye: 2 plump 138N. Barley: Malting 115-ieoN; feed 88-105N. Soybeans: 2 yellow 207N, track Chicago. Wheat closed up V, to off H cent: corn unchanged to up V cent: oats up to off H cent: rye off S to 1 cent; soybeans off 4 to m cents: lard futures up 3 to off i points. DR Automobile Accident Victim In Big Suit ENTERPRISE (Special) - Suit has ben filed by Sadie Carlson against Dave Maycumber and Marie Gcnnett to collect 13,000 special damages and $25,000 gen eral damages for injuries alleged to have been suffered on Sept. 21, 1957 wnen the Maycumber car, in which she was a passenger and which automobile was being driven by Marie Gennett. is reported to have left the road and landed in the barrow pit. Mrs. Carlson claims she suffer ed a broken left leg. a broken pelvis, broken ribs and internal injuries, and as a result of which. incurred surgeon's fees, hospital expenses, etc., in the sum of Jo.OOO. Creighton Lain The accident is reported to have occurred on Creighton Lane be Youths Given Four-Year Terms For Whopping Cash Heist Here Two Portland youths received sentences of four years each in the Oregon Correctional Insti tution at Salem when they were sentenced on their guilty pleas to burglary by Circuit Judge W. F. Brownton yesterday afternoon. Vernon Gail Peck, 19. and Thomas Rudolph Bellon, 20, both entered pleas to the states charges and waived rights to a jury trial, presentation of the charges before a county grand jury and indictments. They also waived their ngms to counsel despite their being so advised on this by Judge Brown ton and prosecutor George An derson, Jr., Union County district attorney. Both youths, in throwing them selves on the mercy of the court, asked for probation and a chance to pay back the money they ad mitted stealing from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Shaw here August 7. Cauoht By FBI The Dair was apprehended in Portland last Friday by the FBI on a warrant charging them with unlawful flight fo avoid prosecu tion. They were further charged with burglary in the amount of $7,400. Fingerprints of Bellon were found on a broken pane of glass by the La Grande police department and furnished to the School Officials In Friday Confab D. W. Patch, director of state reorganization of Oregon school districts, Salef. will attend a meeting at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Union County school super intendent's office here. Among those who will confer with Patch are Mrs. Veda Couzens, retiring county school superintend ent; Wilbur M. Osterloh, successor to Mrs. Couzens; T. E. Lampkin. chairman of Union County school reorganization, and others. goal by adopting in principle a plan for settling jurisdictional disDutes. These quarrels have kept la bor leaders fighting against each other for decades. Frequently they erupted into strikes against employers. The convention worked out a nlan for "a supreme court of la bor" which could make final de cisions in these disputes. Bia Business Attacked The AFL-CIO council stressed in hourly speeches that unity was needed to repel a "new and con certed attack" on labor by "big business." Dozens of delegates charged that one prong of the attack was the steel strike which they claim was deliberately provoked by the industry. The convention took the un precedented step of asking every AFL-CIO member to contribute one hour's pay each month to the strikers. The Landrum-G r I f f i n Bill passed by the recently-adjourned Congress, was denounced as an other alleged prong of the attack It was called the most antilabor measure since the Taft-Hartley Bill. Because of the Land rum Griffin Bill, convention speakers poured out constant abuse of the Demo crated -controlled congress. In the future, the convention stressed that the AFL-CIO would give its money and votes to Republicans as well as Democrat. LA GRANDE, ORE., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959 tween Joseph and Enterprise. The plaintiff alleges that Marie Gen net, the driver, took her eyes from the road in front of the car in an attempt to adjust the heater, driving the car to the right hand side of the road and then turning it sharply to the left hand side and into the barrow pit. As a result of the same car accident there has been filed a suit in which Sandra Carlson, by her guardian ad litem, Sadie Carl son, is asking damages in the sum of $1,000 special damages and $25,000 general damages. Plain" tiff is claiming she sustained frac ture of the right leg. incurring physician's and surgeon's fees as well as hospital expenses. Carl G. Helm Jr. is attorney for the plaintiff in both suits. FBI crime lab for processing. The youths admitted the bur glary to both Police Chief Oliver Reeve, who went to Portland to interrogate them and bring them here for prosecution, and to the district attorney. The pair, however, denied stealing $7,400, but told the court they made off with cither $3,400 50 or $3,500 only. They came home broke, they claimed. Judge Brownton told the pair upon passing sentence that they could have received under state law covering such a crime the maximum of 15 years in the Ore gon state prison. Judge Lectures Judge Brownton told the boys that he was surprised to learn they had prior records (both ad mitted stealing autos, one of the thefts a Dyer Act violation), and that was the reason he was not going to put them on probation. "It is difficult to understand why fine looking young men, such as both of you, did what you did. You both apparently failed to develop your moral, charac tcrs to the poml of passing Op the La Grande Man Dies In Mishap Albert Neat Benson. 22, La Grande, was killed yesterday when he was struck by i log which rolled off a truck near Meadow Creek on the Starkey Road west of here. State Police said the accident occurred as Benson was walking uphill toward the truck from Meadow Creek. The log, 20 inches in diameter and 28 feet long, struck the youth in the head pin ning him to the ground. He died instantly, officers said. Funeral Saturday Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Daniels Funeral Home. The Rev. Victor Zacharias will officiate, with burial in the Summerville ceme tery. Benson was born at Helena, Mont., July 15. 1937, and had been a resident of La Grande for three years. He is survived by the widow. Mrs. Lianna Benson, Starkey; two daughters, Joni Lynn Benson and Leann Kay Benson: his parents, Mr." and Mrs. Gerald P. Benson, Starkey; one brother, G-rald Ben son, La Grande; a sister, Mrs. Barbara Woodward, Summerville; and grandmothers, Mrs. Neal Ben son, The Dalles, and Mrs. A. II. Merrill. Post Falls. Idaho. Lengthy 'Member' Certificates For Postal Employes Certificates of lengthy mem bership were presented employes of the La Grande Post Office re cently by Postmaster Victor Eck ley. Receiving the certificates in the "1.000 Hour Club" were V. J. Courtney and Leo Waite. Tey were also congratulated by other fellow club members Elmer Han sen, assistant postmaster; and Melvin Westenskow, superinten dent of mail. Other "hour club" members recognized were clerks Harold Borine, Bert L. Burke. Virgil San derson, and carriers Willam Cor ey, George Hendrickson. Ed Waite and John Wlnburn. They have IHisted 500 hours. ROBBERY VIA POWER LINES LOS ANGELES (UPI) A 41-yaar-old service station at tendant was robbed of 5250 via telephone Wednesday. . William Elrod told police he received this telephone call: "Listen carefully. This is very Important. I have a rifle trained on your back. Take all the money from your cash boxes and safe and put it in the trash can in the rest room of the drive-in next door. "You have your foot on the bench," added the band it, just to let Elrod know he was being observed even if Elrod couldn't see the band it. Elrod said he carefully fol lowed the instructions, then called police. They checked the trash can and the money was gone. temptation of not touching money that isn't yours," he admonished. "The answer to what thee ourts should do with young men is never easy. We the people make laws regulating society and we have to enforce these laws," he told them. Dist. Atty. Andi'rson earlier asked the court to render a les ser sentence other than the man dutory 15-year prison term. Past Troubles The youths, prior to sentenc ing, told the court of their past lives, neither finishing high school, parental troubles, etc. Peck admitted that he broke the glass in the Shaw residence at 803 Adams Ave., "because we were hungry, we knew the peo pie, and didn't think they would mind us getting food. They boys said they systematic ally went through the house, finding money hidden away in various places. They said about $150 in silver was included in their find. Both also said they had "pangs of misgiving" when they boarded a train here for Uen.'er, but they continued thult trip, purchasing a new auto in Detroit, driving to New York City for a "night on the town," then to Washington, D. C, where they sold the car because "our money was running low," and from there an airplane trip to Miami and to Havana, Cuba, where they did some gambling. "We hitchhiked home, stopping off in Las Vegas to do some more gambling enroute to Port land." they admitted. The district attorney said the robbery was one of the largest larceny cases in recent years in Unicn county. Sewer Service Charge Set City commissioners last night laid plans for a sanitary sewer service charge as the basis for a sewer cleaning program. The charge will be similar to the present storm sewer charge and provide the necessary revenue to purchase new equipment and help pay the costs of the program. The storm sewer charge will be paid off on this month's bills. Only $2,611.06 is needed to com plete the $54,000 storm sewer fund it was said. A minimum 5 cent charge for single family dwellings and $1.50 for duplex's will provide this basis for the scale. Above the duplex rate, the charge wi'l be based on sliding scale. The percentage of the charge will decrease as the amount of water used increases. The charge will b levied against only those persons having sanitary sewer facilities. "New equipment and service has been needed for years," Dave SIatht, city man ager protem, said. Funds raised from the charge will be used to establish a pro gram that has b-en needed in the city for years, Slaght continued. The commission will vote on an ordinance next week to add the charge to the city water depart ment's bil'ings. Will Lie In State Here David Leo Hibbert will lie in state at the Daniels Funeral Home, until 1 p.m. Friday, for any friends who wou'd like to view the body. Services are st Friday at 2 p.m. in the Later Day Saints Church. Bishcp Walter A. Bean officiating. WILL WRITE COLUMN NEW YORK iLPH-Mrs. Claire Boothe Luce, wife of Publisher Henry Luce, has agreed to write a monthly column for McCall's magazine entitled "without portfolio." Pittsburgh Welcomes Touring V 0 ji EOC FACULTY ADDITION Moved to La Grande from Ithaca, N.Y., are Hugh Black and wife, Donna. Hugh is the new instructor in biology at Eastern Oregon College and most recently has been laboratory instructor and research assistant at Cornell University in addition to doing graduate work at that institution. Black has a B.S. from Penn State, and a M.S. from Oregon State where he was also a research assistant. He has also been a research biologist for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. (EOC Photo) May 'Eat Hat' On Employment Pledge WASHINGTON UPI The odds are .increasing that Secretary of Lahor James P. Mitchell will be called upon to eat his hat. Lahor Department economist. said today chances were growing slimmer each day the steel strike continues that unemployment in October will fall below three mil lion. Mitchell, predicting that it would 4jne bjlow this level, pledged to an AFL-CIO unemployment rally last April that he would eat Local C-C Has Increase Of Members La Grande's Chamber of Com merce has been increased with the addition of 22 new members as a result of the recent membership drive. Mel Elder, chamber membership chairman, said he expects the organization to be further en larged from new contacts by com mittee not yet in. New members are as follows: Pioneer Federal Savings and Loan, La Grande Furniture Ware house, Jack's Payless Service, Trader Bill, Mountain View Trailer Court, Mode O" Day. Fix It Shop, La Grande Pre Mix. Blue Moun tain Air Service, Lentz Body Shop, Dolvcn's Applianc?, Farm Bureau Insurance, Hobby Shop, Farmers Insurance Group, Dot's Steak House, Low Ccst Auto, A'l State Insurance, II & II Supply. Air Way Company of Eastern Oregon, Mode Beauty Shop, Ray's Texaco and Fred's Handout. GET THAT BALL CARRIER! A Pendleton back cuts back to avoid a La Grande Kitten tackier during yesterday's Junior High School game on the high school field. La Grande was walloped 52-20 in the first game of the season. Pendelton scored in every period to provide the winning margin while the Kittens could only push across three touchdowns, two in the third period and a singleton in the fourth canto. (Observer Photo) 12 Pages Soviet Boss his hat if his forecast did not come true. The secretary has been silent on his five-month-old promise re cently, but it's a topic of lively interest among the statisticians who work on the monthly job re port. Disrupted By Strika Unemployment was estimated at 3.423,000 m TRigust, the latest figures available. Normally il would decline in September and hit its yearly low in October. But the steel strike has disrupt ed "normal" trends because of its job-destroying secondary effects in steel-using and steel-servicing industries. This is true even though the 500,000 strikers are counted at having job. As a result, Mitchell's in trou ble. Even if the strike ended abruptly, it might take some time for laid-off workers to be re called. And there's no guarantee that the strike will end in the immediate future. Federal media tors have reported "absolutely no progress in negotiations since it began last July 15. Beginning Ta Snowball Mitchell's own fact-finding re ports show that the effects of the 71-day-old walkout are beginning to snowball in industries depend ing on steel supplies. Caterpillar Tractor, for example, announced it will close its plants and lay off 11.000 workers on Oct. 3 un less the strike ends before then. ,Asidc from the strike, one la bor department economist said Mitchell's prediction undoubtedly would have been correct. Even now, he added, if will be "touch and go" whether the jobless fig ure is above or below the three- million mark. Five Cents Ike Policy Is Liked, 'K' Told PITTSBURGH (UPI) Gov. David L. Lawrence, on of tha top Democrats in the East, told Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev today that President Eisenhower speaks for a united country in the field of foreign relations. "In America, politics stop at the water's edge." the Pennsylvania chief executive said. Khrushchev was a guest at the Student Union Building at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh after a tour through one of the few steel mills in the nation not shut down by the 72-day strike. The Communist leader chatted easily and shook hands with work ers in the plants, dozens of whom left their machines to meet him. One man gave Khrushchev a ci gar. Khrushchev promptly took off his wrist watch and handed it to the workman. Country Is Bthind President Lawrence's reminder that both major parties are behind the Pres ident in his dealing with Russia came in an address prepared for delivery at the Pittsburgh Univer sity lunch. It was the second statement by top Democrat today. Adlai E. Stevenson, who talked with Khrushchev at Coon Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday said in a Chicago statement he believed Khrushchev was serious in his sweeping disarmament proposals and was ready to negotiate on inspection. and control. Lawrence said that "in any grave crisis in our foreign rela tions, we are immediately as one with our President." "In his negotiations, with the statesmen of th world; PresidonC Kisenhowcr speaks for a united country." Khrushchev drove around the steel city in an open cream-colored convertible. In the downtown area, people hung from office buildings and waved. There were some cheers. There was an extremely heavy security guard at the Mesta Ma chine Co. plant, built by the late husband of Perle Mesta. About 91,000 steelworkers are on strike in the Pittsburgh area, but the Mesta plant is not organized by the union. Three La Grande Instructors At Education Meet Three La Grande education in structors will be attending the second annual conference of de partment leaders of the Oregon Education Associaton which be gins tomorrow and continues through Saturday at Portland. They are Dr. Frank Bennett, president of Eastern Oregon Col lege; Norman Koopman, FFA in structor at La Grande High School and Neva Neill, high school teacher. Dr. Bennett will be one ot the principal speakers on the agen da, addressing the conference in its opening session Friday evening.