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WEATHER Cloudv Tuesday; high Tues day 70-75; low tonight 37-42. OBSERVER LA GRAND E I 1 29th Issue 64th Year Four Persons Dead, 4 W ounded in State Deer Hunt Bulletin Oregon's deer hunting fa tality lis grew to five tody when Weston youth, David Fairclo.h, 16, had hit gun accidentally discharge in tha Morgan Mountain araa, tha bullet penetrating hit chest. Wallowa Woman's Kin Dies At least four persons died and four others were wound rd in the opening weekend of Oregon's 1939 buck deer sea son. Two of ti e dead, a man and a woman, were shot. The other two suffered heart seizures. Donald Wayne Hegele, 30, Rose burg, was fatally wounded by a member of his hunting party early Sunday in the Greenhorn mountains. Grant County Coroner J. Carl Driskill paid Kenneth Hub erts, Roseburg, fired at what he thought was a deer. WALLOWA (Special) Word wat received here Sunday by relativet that Isaac Cole, 44, of Heppner, suffered a fatal heart attack Saturday just after shooting a deer in the Blue Mountains. He wat with hit wife at the time. Born at Joseph, ha wat the broth er of Mrs. Bill Gobel of Wal lowa. Funeral services will be held at Heppner tomorrow with interment in the family plat at Summerville. Vivian Elizabeth Merkling, 33. of Umatilla was killed early Sat urday near Pilot Rock when struck by an accidentally dis charged bullet. Police said her 15-year-old son, who was walking be hind her. tripped and fell, dis charging his gun. Heart Attacks Take Two An Eagle Point man, Samuel Meyer, 60, was found dead on a trail southwest of Lake Creek where he and three other persons had been hunting. Apparent cause of death was a heart attack. Three persons were seriously wounded and another suffered less serious hurts in other shoo ing mishaps. Clarence R. Neffendorf. 25. Portland, was reported in critical cendition in a Heppner hospital suffering from an abdominal bul let wound. Police said it was not known who fired the shot. William Kenneth Spees, 36, Gar de Way, a community west of Eugene, suffered a sevre gunshot wound while hunting on a Georgia-Pacific Corp. tree farm north east of Springfield. He was struck just under the lung cavity. His condition is "serious" according to hospial attendants in Eugene A Springfield youth, Douglas Burge, was seriously wounded in ' the groin Sunday in a mishap near Bend. Hp was hunting with his father, William R. Burge, and another man. Max Farley, 34, Sweet Home, suffered a bullet wound in one foot when his gun accidentally discharged while he was hunting Sunday. Guest Speaker To Address EOC Faculty Dr. Waldo Schumacher, pro fessor emrritus of political science. University o; Oregon, will be guest speaker at the Tuesday meeting of the American Association of Uni versity Professors, according to Dr. Sarah Stein, prsidcnt of the Eastern Oregon College chapter. Dr. Stein said the meeting, schedu'ed for 7:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge, is open to the en tire faculty. ' Dr. Schumacher has been a member of the state federation of AAUP Chapters Retirement com mittee and has been selected to inform the college and university staffs about the teachers insurance arid annuity association retire ment plans. The TIAA plans, according to the association charter, are de signed "to aid and strengthen colleges, universities, and other institutions engaged primarily in education or research by provid ing annuities and life insur ance suited to the needs of such institutions and of the teachers and other persons employed by them." I t - ' EL, GIRL SCOUT RECRUITMENT An attempt to recruit crews for Girl Scout leaders has been undertaken at the home of Mrs. Delbert Jones, 1012 Thirteenth St. The drive, which began Monday morning here, has a committe composed of, left to right, Barbara Goss, Connie Jones, Mrs. (Delbert) Jones, and Lorraine Piper. Others on committee but not shown in picture are Vivian Young and Francis McKenney. (Observer Photo) Thousands Homeless In Southwest Flood OKLAHOMA CITY UPI -Floods ripped the Southwest to day and thousands were home less with no immediate end to the five-day surge of water that has kept rivers and streams at flood- level. Tornadoes and torrential rains pounded a big area Sunday. At least six were dead, anoth er missing and 65 injured. Flood waters injured at- least 57 in Oklahoma, where five acci dental v deaths earlier were blamed on the weather. Texas reported one dead, one missing and eight injured. Missouri also was hit by floods. Eight tornadoes hit nine com munities in Texas. a:id a twiste. Steelworkers Reject Industry PITTSBURGH UPI The pow erful Wage Policy Committee of the United Steelworkers Union to day rejected an industry proposal to end the crippling steel strike as "complitely unacceptable." n -' 'V - jfi READY FOR DEER HUNT Albany deer hunters are shown with their rigs and gear just prior to starting out from La Grande for the opening of statedeer hunt Saturday. They planned to launch the season in the Catherine's Creek area. Left to right, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Evans, and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Duncan. (Observer Photo) t- 1 - AT t. destroyed a farm home in south ern Oklahoma. Much of Okla homa. Texas, Louisiana and Ar kansas spent Sunday night under aleit for more possible tornadoes. National Guardsmen from Ed mor.d. Okla., were called out to relieve Guthrie, Okla., guards men as flood waters from Cotton wood Creek surged over West Guthrie for the third time in nine days and kept over 600 families from returning to their homes. The Arkansas River flooded again at Tulsa. Oklahoma's sec ond largest city, and in neigh boring communities. Other streams flowed out of their banks in other parts of the state. 8,000 Persons Affected The Red Cross estimaed that flood waters damaged more thai l.noo homes in Oklahoma alone, allecting nearly 2.000 families, or more than 8.000 persons. Wea'hermen offered some hope that the flood-producing weather conditions might end. The fore cast was for occasional light rain or drizzle in parts of Okla homa today. But weathermen warned that more rainfall would make flooding even more serious. LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1959 Others .. am m Government May Intervene In Big Dock Strike WASHINGTON (UPD Govern ment intervention in the five-day old dock workers' strike was ex pected today in an effort to end the paralyzing tie-up in Atlantic and Gulf ports. Federal officials were reported to regard the dock walkout as more critical than the 83-day -old steel strike. Hundreds of ships and millions of dollars of cargo are tied up in ports from Sears point. Maine, to Brownsville, Tex. Federal authorities prepared to seek a court order to stop walk outs by two New Orleans locals of the striking International Long shoremen's Association lILAi. If they succeed, it may pave the way for similar injunctions to halt work stoppages in other Southern ports. Action to halt the pier tie up on both coasts under the Taft Hartley Act was expected within two or three days unless there are signs of early settlement. If the NLRB gives Rothman a green light as expected, its New Orleans office will seek a temporary restraining order from a federal judge against the strike by the two ILA locals. Then a hearing on the government's plea for a preliminary injunction would be scheduled. 71 , v-v rrf Trm-t- -7 . -y ) s ! WRONG TALK ON STREETS i CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) Marjorie T. Deoley wat award ed custody of her two children en Saturday by the Tennessee State Supreme Court. The court made Its decision after it reviewed evidence which included testimony that the woman's ex-husband fol lowed her threuqh Crostville streets broadcasting uncompli mentary remarks about her from a sound truck. Attendance At Music Meet High Attendance was hiuh at the re cent iniiial meeting and prac tice session of the Grande Ronde Symphony Society orchestra held I at Eastern Oregon College here. several new features are plan ned by the group to insure a suc cessful start of the new season which begins November 22 and will feature a well known solo ist from New York City. The orchestra welcomed Rich- ; ard Mansefield. Ruth Combs. Jan is Pipes and Beth Combs as new 1 edditiuns. and Don Swart, of Union, who is back aft"r a two year tour of Army service. Winter Program The second conceit will fea ture Soloists of national repute and will be scheduled during the winter period. Plans also are un derway for the orchestra to offer its Christmas concert, featuring Gail Coffin Swart as soloist. The spring concert will pre sent an entirely new format for local audiences, a real "pops" concert, outdoors and with re freshments to be served dur ing intermisson, along with mu sic in the lighter vein. Among business discussed was contact of musicians in nearby towns for possible membership. Also, it was pointed out, orch estra director Rhodes Lewis can be contacted by any local musi cians who are Interested in jOi.i- ing. Russia's Scientists Hint Of Big Things LONDON (UPD. Soviet sci entists today dropped hints of great things to come in the wake of the spectacular flight of Lunik lit. Western observers viewed their statements with cautious re spect. Moscow Radio called out its corps of space commentators and scientists and paraded them be fore the microihones to tell Rus sia and the world about the latest space success. To a man they made confident predictions of more Buck Rogers - like space Police Probe Local Theft Of Deer Gun La Grande police today were investigating the theft of a deer rifle which was stolen from a parked pickup truck sometime over the weekend. Two other cases of larceny and one burglary also being probed. Frank McKinney, 1202 11th St., reported a 30 06 rifle was taken from his truck while it was park ed on Jefferson Street. The rifle belonged to Ray Wall, 1808 Fourth St. Raymond Dillon, employed at a service station at 1611 Adams Ave., reported the theft of $60 from the cash register. Dillon told police he opened the regis ter and the money was missing. Second Theft Anolher theft from a service station was alto reported yester day. Bob Myers, 2705 Ash Ave., told police that a small transistor radio in a blue case was stolen from the service station where he work. A boy, who entered the station then headed toward town, is prime suspect. The office of the Van Petten Lumber Co. was broken into and the papers strewn about sometime during Friday night. John G. Whittemorc, 806 N Ave., told po lice that desks and cabinets at the lumber company's office. 311 Greenwood St., had been rifled but only minor items were miss ing. A minor traffc accident at the intersection of Washington . Ave nue and Cedar Street, was re ported Saturday evening. Ve hicles driven by Herbert Sey mour Brownton, 84, 604 O Ave., and Javene Rae Lobaugh, 21, 503 Washngton Ave., collided. Mrs. Lobaugh received minor injures. I1"- --! -r.;..,; 1 I" 'HI:UJ tft vTl: 'itji-J Sp,. u- 777 Wr B ft Ct.:::.:-:.-? '? IV''-.1 vd' : c-r- V--v 'w L DONATES TRAILER FOR ELK PROJECT Bruce Zier, right. La Grande Signal Service, donated the use of trailor to Elks for their project to help veterans. Hunters are asked to put their deer hides in the -trailer which will be parked in front of the Elks building. The hides are collected -and tanned and then sent to veteran's hospitals for leather craft work. This is . the second year that La Grande Elks have participated in the national program. Last year, more than 600 hides were donated to the program. (Observer Photo) Soviet Lunar Rocket Hits Moon Course; Mars And Venus Next? MOSCOW UPI The Soviet Union's third lunar rocket was al most two-thirds of the way to its target today on a course that should swing it around the moon. A Russian scientist said it has paved the way for flights to Mars and Venus "in the immediate fu ture." The Tass news agency said that by noon Moscow time (8 a.m. p.s.t.) the "interplanetary space station" had reached a distance of 154.100 miles from the Earth. The moon is approximately 238, 000 miles from Earth. The Tass announcement said data received from the rocket "confirm the high precision ach ieved in pu'Ung the rov'et into its orbit." ' projects in the near future. Astronautical commentator Fe lix Yureyevich told his Radio Moscow audience that "in the most immediate future we can ex pect very great discoveries in the study of the moon." Scientist Nikolai O. Barabasev put it this way: "The launching of the third cosmic rocket proves that we have entered the period of planned mastery of cosmic space and of flights to the moon and the nearer planets." Some Western observers were more precise. "They must be thinking very se riously about putting a man into orbit around the earth," said Ken neth Rutland, vice - chairman of Britain's interplanetary society. Predicts Moon Satellite "The present moon flight is clearly part of a well-defined pro gram of lunar interplanetary ex ploration," he said. Yuriyevich said "the launching of a rocket to fly around the moon has naturally created condi tions for a new stage in master ig the moon the creation of an artificial moon satellite.' "It is now our task to achieve near the moon, a speed which would turn the rocket's last stage, of the container, into an artifi cial permanent satellite of the moon," Yuriyevich said. U.S. SPACE HOPES Another Moonrocket Planned From Cape Canaveral CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD The National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed to day it is studying plans lo launch another moon rocket from the cape. No date was indicated, but the brief announcement had the ef fect of wiping away a little of the gloom that spread among American missilemen with Rus sia's firing of Lunik III this week end. U. S. Scientists had hoped two weeks ago that the weekend would see a satellite neanea tor an or bit around the moon. The trick was accomplished but with a bit of variation. The "U.S." they planned to mark the satellite became instead 8 Page The Soviet press and radio hailed the success of the new lu nar probe attempt and Russian scientists told the world the Sov iet Union's space program was not aimed at establishing military bases at the moon. But one scien tist, M. N. Gnevyshev, laid a basis for future space tries with his statement about the present effort paving the way fur flights to Mars and Venus. Reaches Moon Tuesday A big quesion remained: Will the rocket circle the moon as is intended and photograph the as yet unseen far side? Tass said the rocket would reach Its closest point to the moon at 6 a.m. p.s.t. Tuesday, adding that it wilt then be 4,300 miles from the moon. The Soviets had indicated that the rocket would photograph the far side of the moon and transmit pictures of it back to Earth by radio signal. When the rocket reaches the vicinity of the moon Tuesday aft ernoon, Tass said it will have taken about 24 days to cover the distance from Earth. This is longer than the time taken by either of the previous Soviet moon rockets the first launched last January and the second last month. This is because the third rock et, launched Sunday morning, has been given a slower speed so that it can orbit around the moon and return in the direction of Earth, Tass said. Plan Daily Announcements It said future reports on the movement of the rocket and the results of scientific observations would be released once every 24 hours after each period of trans mission from the rocket itself, and after the data has been analyzed. (He said it might return to Earth and burn up in the atmos phere, but that the Russians ob viously hoped it would go into a long cigar-shaped orbit around the Earth and continue circling.) Gnevyshew, who is in charge of the high altitude aolar station in the Caucasus, said the launching Answer Grass Fire The La Grande fire department was called to the 1600 block on Seventh Street Saturday at 4:10 to put out a grass fire. HIGH "U.S.S.R." signifying the launch ing of Lunik Ill's 967-pound pay load toward a programmed cigar shaped orbit around both moon and earth. - NASA estimated that about five months would be required to re pair damage at "complex 12" on the cape. "Complex 12" was the launch ing pad for the Atlas-Able moon rocket that was supposed to have carried America's own 375-pound satellite toward a lunar orbit sometime early this month. But the Atlas-Able blew up dur ing a static test Sept. 24. The first and second stages of the four-stage rocket were destroyed and the pad itself heavily damaged. Fiva Cantt of three moon rockets within a year gives rise to the firm belief that "flights to other bodies of the solar system, such as Mars and Venus, will take place in the immediate future." "The time is drawing near when Soviet rockets will land there;" He was joined in his prediction by E. N. Paviovsky, president of the Soviet Geographical Society who said the time was fast ap proaching when interplanetary journeys will take place and Rus sian scientists "may be able to receive samples of rock from the moon." 2 Additional Study Courses Added At EOC Two new courses have been add ed to the Eastern Oregon College program of evening classes, ac cording to Dr. Roy L. Skeen, di rector of general education. The courses are Methods and Research Materials: Geography, Tuesday: and Creative Writing, Wednesday. Both classes meet from 7-10 pm. Another change in schedule was noted with Constructive Account ing (beginning) scheduled for Wednesday. J Dr. Lyle H. Johnson, registrar, indicated that persons may still register for the evening courses at the next class meetings. The complete schedule includes: Mon dayPsychology of Adolescence; Orchestra. Tuesday Methods add Research Materials: Geography; Shakespeare: Enameling; Plastic Craft and Painting. Wednesday Weaving, and Creative Writing." Youth Accidentally Shot In Right Leg Dennis Richard Wood, 17, of La Grande, suffered a gunshot wound in the leg over the week end when he was equirrel hunt ing on the Spring Creek road, according to Slate Police who In vestigated. ' The youth was removing his revolver from a holster when the gun accidentally discharges, the bullet penetrating his right leg. k Launching NASA said it was considering plans "to conduct a similar ex periment using other launching fa cilities at Cape Canaveral." Tho satellite remained in storage, brjt a new moon rocket appeared to be. at best, several weeks away. Maj. Gen. Donald , N. Yateg, commander of the Air Fore Missile Test Center here, had no immediate comment on the Russ ian shot. But one official said the fact that Lunik III was designed to take and relay pictures of tlM moon's far side "really hurt" the morale of missilemen here. '- U.S. missilemen had hoped ta) get pictures of the moon's far side with their satellite. The Atlas-Able was the only vehicle ba ing prepared for the trip when & exploded. , -