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32nd Issue
64th Year
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TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Jack Brown, left, ticket chairman for the Kiwanis Pancake Feed, gives the first book
of tickets to club president Ed Alexander. Quaker Oats will provide Aunt Jemima
and her accompanist for the entire event. The program includes local school ap
pearances, radio shows, a parade and the Pancake Feed. (Observer Photo)
Search Idaho For Fleeing Cons
Who Abducted 3 Teen-Aged Girls
HELENA. Mont. " L'PI The
parents of three ti-en-age girls
who disappeared six days ago
with two escaped convicts and an
ex-convict said today they were
15 Persons
Killed In
Car Wrecks
United Prtsi International
Three accidents crushed out the
Ives of fifteen persons Wednes
dav on North American highways
Four women were killed and a
man was fatally injured in a
head-on collision near Indio, Calif
Five persons were killed when
a freight train smashed into their
car In Anna, III.
Five others d,ed when their car
crashed into a trailer truck in
Mont Joli. (Juebec.
The engineer of the freight
t'ain said he didn't realize there
had been a collision until the car
had been dragged about 400 feet
down the tracks. Police said the
car was pushed along more than
500 feet. Three of the bodies were
thrown clear, the other two were
found in the wreckage.
California highway patrolmen
said the four-death accident hap
pened when the two late-model
cars smashed into each other
rounding a slight curve. The vic
tims were thrown out of their
cars.
Two of the California victims
were elderly residents of Amaril
lo, Tex. Officers identified them
as Elizabeth Curtis Boyd, 71, and
Ida Taylor Harris.
RIGGED SHOW 'DIVER' TALKS
TV Quiz Contestant Tells House
Probers Winnings 'Came Easy1
WASHINGTON l'PI A for
mer contestant testified today that
the now-defunct television quiz
show, "Dotto," was rigged to per
mit him to win $11,600 but he then
was ordered to "take a dive."
David Huschle, young manager
of a New York City restaurant,
gave the testimony to a House
subcommittee investigating the
operations of the once popular TV
quiz shows. The House group pre
viously has heard testimony from
former conteslants and publicity
agents that NBC's old "21" quiz
show was rigged by giving contes
tants questions and answers in
advance.
"Dotto" was the first of a num
ber of TV quiz shows to be taken
off the air in tfie wake of charges
that they were "fixed."
Another "Dotto" contestant..
Mrs. Du Barry Hillman, New
York City, said that before she
went on the air she was asked
warm-up questions thar tipped) her
off to answers which enabled her
to win (1.460 in five appearances.
She said she got a stern "shhh!"
when she publicly thanked pro
gram aide Stan Green for the help
she received on the first show.
Huschle said he never associat
ed the tip-off activities with fraud
He said "a show must be interest
ing" and he considered himself a
"paid entertainer.'1
convinced the girls were abducted.
The search for tha missing girls
and the three men moved today
from Montana to southern Idaho,
where a gas station attendant in.
Arco said he serviced the stolen
1959 sedan in which the teen-agers
left Helena with the men.
Officials had kept the girls' dis
appearance secret until Wednes
day, for fear the convicts and the
ex-convict might panic and harm
them.
Claudia Fuller and Sharon Bal
azs, both 17, and Sharon McDow
ell, 16, apparently climbed will
ingly into the pink sedan at noon
last Friday.
California Convicts Involved
With them were escaped Cali
fornia convicts George R. Jann.
29, and Frank H. Spicer, 24, and
ex-convict Frank I. Fisher, 20
The men came to Helena recently
in the pink car, believed to have
been stolen in Snohomish, Wash.
The three men, charged with
unlawful flight to avoid prosecu
tion, struck up an acquaintance
with the girls and dated them.
"They told the girls they had
just been discharged from the
service and pooled their money to
buy the car," said Mrs. Darline
McDowell.
She and the parents of the other
girls worried and fretted while
officers in three states searched
for the girls and the three men.
Mother Convinced
They must have been kid
naped," said Mrs. Adella Balazs.
Sharon's widowed mother. "It's
horrible. She's never been away
from home at night before."
Cecil Fuller, Claudia's father.
said he knew that "anything that
happened was against her will."
Both he and Mrs. Hillman -expressed
belief that rigging of
quiz shows was comparable to
professional .wrestling matches.
Huschle, who earlier this year
testified in a New York County
Grand Jury investigation into TV
shows, said he won the $tl,6O0 by
appearing as a contestant on three
"Dotto" shows in June, 1958, when
the show was carried at night on
the NBC network.
He said he previously had won
$3,700 on the show when it was
carried on the daytime CBS net
work. In these performances in
February, 1958, he said he was
given some help but was not sup
plied in advance with all, of the
questions and answers.
Huschle said,' however, that on
the evening shows. Gil Cates. as
sistant producer, supplied him in
advance with answers to all ques
tions and also told him the iden
tity of the person he was required
to identify to win at "Dotto."
Limia on Winnings
Huschle testified that Cates con
tended it was necessary for him to
lose after amassing winnings of
$11,600 because the show had a
budget allowance limited to $10,
000 a week for prizes.
The subcommittee turned to the
operations of "Dotto" after it had
questioned the co-producer of "21"
and bis aide into the early morn
1 1
l had just bought her a nice
little car and I was going to put
a radio in it for her," he said
All the girls were described by
neighbors as being quiet, well-
behaved and trustworthy, and
school principal Winston Weaver
said they never gave us any
trouble.
Hermiston
Shot By Desperadoes
HERMISTON. Ore. UPI A
Hermiston city police officer .was
shot and .killed early today after
he chased a car out of the city
limits on Highway 32 to the north.
The victim was Officer Ronald
Kilby, about 28. His body was
found in a ditch near his patrol
car
Less than an hour after an all
points bulletin was issued, officers
in Benton county, Wash., picked
up two suspects at a roadblock on
a gravel road four miles west of
Kenr.ewick.
They were identified as Walter
Wicken. 29. and Wilfred H. Ogden
Light Horse Judging
At OSC This Week
Oregon Sta;e College will hold its
annual light horse judging school,
Oct. 9 and 10, at Corvallis. The
school is sponsored by the Oregon
Horsemen's Association and the
college.
The school will consist of lec
ture demonstrations on light horse
judging, horse management for
internal parasite control and lec
tures on junior equitation.
ing hours behind closed doors.
There was a growing probability
the two will be called to testify
publicly.
Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.)
said the two witnesses, -co-producer
Dan Enright and Albert Freed
man, were "very cooperative." But
he refused to divulge their testi
mony or say whether they would
be asked to appear at an open
hearing. Harris said the hearings
might end late Friday.
Rep. Peter F. Mack Jr. D-I1U
asked if Van Doren would be
invited to testify said: "We
want to hear from anyone whose
name has been mentioned by
other witnesses if he wishes to
testify."
Available To Testify
Van Doren sent a telegram to
the subcommittee Wednesday say
ing he would be available to re
peat his statements that he never
had been . supplied with ques
tions or answers in advance and
had no knowledge of any assist
ance given to other contestants.
Edward Kletter, vice president
and advertising director of Phar
maceuticals Inc., which sponsored
"21". has testified he approved a
$5,000 advance to Van Doren when
the former Columbia University
professor had piled up $24,000 in
quiz winnings.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959
VOTERS TAB
RHINOCEROS
SAO PAULO, Brazil UPI -Cacareco,
a female rhinoc
eros was the write-in favorite
of tens ef thousands of voter
in Sunday's local election!,
apparently at a token of pro
test aoeintt Mm high cost of
living.
Mounting returns Indicated
that Cacareco polled I to 10
per cent of the total veto on
the municipal council perheps
100,000 votes in all. Another
S per cent of the ballots were
blank, a traditional symbol
of protest in Brazil.
Audio-Visual
Meeting At
EOC Saturday
The state meeting of the Oregon
Audio-Visual Association will get
underway on the Eastern Oregon
College campus Saturday morning
according to William P. Wells, dir
ector of the EOC audio-visual cen
ter, and vice president of the
association.
Featured speakers during the
day-long session, which will be
held iit the EOC auditorium, in
clude Dr. Jack Edling. associa
tion president; Dr. A mo De Ber
nardis, assistant superintendent.
Portland public schools: Dr
James Morris, director, educa
tional radio and teelvision, Oregon
State System of Higher Educa
tion; Wallace McCrae, superin
tendent, Pendleton; and Don Hun
ter, director. University of Ore
gon Audio-Visual department.
The meeting will begin with
official greeting's delivered by Dr
Roy L. Skeen, EOC director of
general education.
Policeman
Jr., both of Pasco. Both have po
lice records in the Tri -Cities area
and both have served time in the
Washington State Penitentiary.
Kilby had worked for the Her
miston . force for about two
months. He was married and the
father of four children. His par
ents live in Tillamook.
Hermiston police said Kilby ra
dioed In that he was giving chase
to a car and was heading north
toward McNary dam. At 4 1 a.m.
he again radioed, and said he had
stopped the vehicle and would
question the occupants and call
back.
Motorist Calls In
The radio officer here said the
next voice he heard was a strange
one over Kilby's radio. It said:
'Police station. This, is your po
lice car. It looks like your officer
has been in trouble. His cap and
flashlight are lying on the highway
and the police car's red light is
on and going."
Hermiston Police Chief William
A. Silvey said the person who
called in was another motorist
who happened by and decided to
notify headquarters when the offi
cer could not be found.
Silvey went out himself and
found Kilby's body. He ordered an
all-points bulletin.
Benton County Deputy Sheriff
Ted Galliher, called out of bed
after two hours sleep to join in
the search, said he spotted a car
going down a gravel road and
stopped it. Inside were three
youths, one of whom he knew.
They told Galliher a car match
ing the description of the wanted
car had passed them a few min
utes before. Said Galliher, "I took
off after it and saw the dust and
followed it from there. They were
driving with their lights off and I
wasn't, so 1 was gaining on
them."
He followed them right to a
roadblock set up by the state pa
trol, sheriff's deputies and Kenne
wick police. The two men were
taken to Kennewick and held for
questioning by Oregon officers.
Two La Grande Youths
Stationed In Pacific
Two La Grande youths are cur
rently serving aboard the aircraft
carrier I'SS Midway which is
part cf the powerful Seventh
Fleet in the Pacific area.
They are Theodore A. Brad
shaw, fireman apprentices, son
of Mrs. J. O. Ramsey, 604 Lane
St., and Donald W. Stoddard,
storekeeper third class, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Holmes, 2701 N
Birch Ave.
HHP TYPHOON VICTIMS
YOKOSUKA. Japan (L'PD
Crew members of the aircraft
carrier Midway have pledged a
donation of 15000 tor the relief
of victims of Typhoon Vera,
Gas Blast Forces Evacuation
Of 400 Families From Homes
Texas Area
Blanketed
By Fumes
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) A
propane gas pipeline blew up
on the outskirts of Austin
early today and quickly
spread an explosive and toxic
blanket of fumes over a
three-mile area.
Policemen, firemen and airmen
from Bergstrom Air Force Base,
some wearing gas masks, rushed
through the streets, pounding on
doors to awaken endangered
families.
Four huudred families fled. Al
though the danger of an explosion
was limited to a radius of three
miles, the sickening fumes spread
over the whole city.
Hundreds of persons reported
headaches and nausea. The danger
of a widespread explosion lin
gered for nearly three and one
h$lf hours, by which time the
bulk of the gas had been diluted
by the atmosphere.
Engineers from the Phillips
Pipeline Co., which owned the
ruptured line, warned, however.
that gas was still lying in low
places and basements. The nature
of propane is such that it could
lie in low places and basements
for months unless it is found and
blown out.
Propane is a gas much used
for hearing and cooking in rural
areas. It can be transported and
stored as a liquid but becomes
a gas as soon as it touches air.
It is both toxic and highly ex
plosive when it gets out of con
trol. As the policemen, firemen and
servicemen warned the families
to get out of their homes, they
told them not to turn on the
lights, lest sparks from light
switches set off an explosion.
Families in the danger area
were warned not to smoke and
to turn out pilot lights in stoves
and water heaters as soon as thev
couia.
Commissioners
Set Date On
Bond Election
City commissioners offirallv
set Oct. 6 as the date of the pro
posed $360,000 sewage lagoon
Dond election.
The commission ha it nnstnnn.
ed confirming the date until a
report on soil samples from the
engineering firm of Cornell. How
land, Hayes and Merrifield was
available.
The soil analysis on a site
east of thte present sewage facili
ties and south nf Island Pifv vat
favorable although detailed ana
lysis Was not rnmnlele An ana.
lysis of soils during 1957 on a
site not tar from the proposed
area made by the firm was the
basis for the approval.
Satisfactory Ponds
"There should be nn riiffienliv
in constructing satisfartnrv stab
ilization ponds with the materi
als available at the proposed
site," the letter stated.
Earl C. Rovnolds Jr.. engineer
in charge cf the firm's Idaho
office, said the general topogra
phy of the land will make it pos
sible to intercent existing and
future sewage flows near the
present site. It will be necessary
to construct a pumping station at
the stabilization pond to elevate
sewage to the pond itself, Rey
nolds added.
Commissioner alui cnnsiHprpft
the possibility of adding sewage
facilities to areas not presently
served within the city limits. The
Dronnspn1 additions u-nuld inrrpasp
costs by approximately $80,000
dui commissioners rejected the
idea because it might harm the
entire bond issue.
An nrHinanre dppdintf Fir
Street Park, lots 24. 25 and 26,
hlnpk 93 PrpHmftrp'a sHditinn
to the Hcndrix Methodist Church
was given its first and second
readings at the commission meet
ing.
The property was deeded to the
city for use as a park with a
clause stating that if the proper
ty was not maintained as a park
it would be returned to the
church. The commission, acting
cn the advire nf the Dark hnarH
Postponed final action until next
wees.
Commissioners also authorized
Dave SlashL citv manager nrn
tern, to enter into an airport han
gar tease with Kicnard. a. Davis.
The lease was formerly held by
George Ambrose.
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A fit. ' Mm ulii iMm
SECOND PLACE WINNERS
This is the 4-H livestock judging team from La Grande Junior High School which
took second place in the recent Pendleton Livestock Judging Show. Left to right,
Jimmy Thompson, Russell Bowman, Harvey Carter, principal of the junior high
school and 4-H team leader; Lanetta Carter; and Pat Gavin. (Observer Photo)
Its Official: LA Champs
Of Baseball In Finale, 9-3
CHICAGO (UPI) -The Los An
geles Dodgers won the World Se
ries today when they crushed the
Chicago White Sox, 9-3 to write
a new baseball "rags to riches"
story.
A riotous fourth inning In which
the Dodgers came up with six
runs was the difference and
crushed the White Sox' hopes of
removing the stigma set on them
40 years ago when the "Black
Sox"' threw the series to the Cin
cinnati Reds.
As for the Dodgers it meant
bringing the first world's baseball
championship to the Golden West
and one of the greatest comebacks
in the history of the game.
The Dodgers had finished sev
enth their first year in Los Ange
les, but this year they atoned for
that dismal showing. They tied
Milwaukee for the National
League pennant and then beat the
Braves in a playoff. ,
They took it from there to de
feat the White Sox four games to
two in this richest and largest at
tended World Series of all timet
Home runs by Duke Snider, Wally
Moon and pinch-hitter Chuck Es-
RESCUED SEAMEN ARRIVE
linvr. KfiNC, (UPI) The
freighter Pkyrrhus arrived here
Wednesday with all 45 crewmem-
bers of the Panamanian ship Ma
laya which sank 40 miles west ot
Swatow Tuesday while carrying a
cargo of scrap Iron trom Hong
Kong to Kobe, Japan.
IKE READY TO END STRIKE
T-H Injunction Threat Poisedl
Against Striking Longshoremen:
NEW YORK (UPI)-Eighty-five
thousand striking longshoremen
appeared all but certain to be or
dered back to work today under
a Taft-Hartley injunction.
President Eisenhower late Wed
nesday night ordered Atty. Gen.
William P. Rogers to seek the in
junction at once. He acted on the
strength of a federal fact-finders'
report that the Maine to Texas
strike was curtailing delivery of
food and fuel to 22 million per
sons. Reached at his home here.
William V. Bradley, president of
the International Longshoremen's
Association, said "If the President
of the United States signs the
Taft-Hartley Act, we will comply
with it."
Board Appointed Tuesday
It tied with the 1956 1LA strike
for the swiftest pre-injunction pro
cedure in the 12-year history of the
Tail Hartley Act.
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segian his second as a substi
tute batsman in the series trig
gered the Dodgers to victory.
While starter Johnny Podres
could not hold the eight-run lead
which the Dodgers gave him in
the first four innings, Dodger re
lief ace Larry Sherry came on
to thwart the White Sox and win
his second game of the series.
Sherry saved two others to
make him one of the biggest he
roes in Dodger history. A crowd
of 47,653 sat in on this dark, chil
ly afternoon and saw their Ameri
can League champions go down
to defeat.
Two Motorists
Injured In Wreck
Two La Grande drivers were in
volved in a minor automobile
accident at the intersection of
Second Street and Main Avenue
yesterday.
Anita May Rapoza, 21, 801 '4 0
Ave., 'was traveling south on
Second' and Fred Johnson, 82,
2101 Adams Ave., was traveling
east on Main when the accident
occurred at 3:30 p.m.
Bo'h cars suffered minor dam
age to the fenders, police said.
Bill Heryford. Blue Mt. Motel.
reported the loss of a shotgun
from his automobile last night.
Heryford told police the gun might
have fallen from the vehicle while
he waa driving. It was valued
at $250.
The three - man fact finding
board had been appointed only
Tuesday. It held a 90-minute pub
lic hearing Wednesday at which
spokesmen for both sides blamed
each other for the strike, rushed
to complete its report, then flew
the document by Jet plane to
President Eisenhower's Palm
Springs, Calif., vacation head
quarters. By law, the President must
have the report In his hands be
fore he orders the Justice De
partment to go after an injunc
tion. This was a mere formality,
however, since the gist of the re
port was telegraphed to him
long before the full report ar
rived. Asst. Atty. Gen. George C.
Doub, head of the Justice Depart
ment's civil division, said In
Washington that he would fly
here today to seek the injunction
in federal district court in New
York.
Five Cents
The Dodgers got off to an early
lead when Snider, hitting his 11U1
series home run, started putting
the crusher on White Sox starter
Early Wynn in the third inning.
It came with two out and a team
mate on base. Then came that
big fourth. The Dodgers sent 10
men to the plate, with Moon's
home run the big blow of the in
ning. The White Sox came back with
three rups when big Ted Kluszew
ski's third homer of the series
knocked out Podres. But then
Sherry came on. and that was the
end of the White Sox.
The linescoro:
Los Angeles 002 600 0019-13 0
Chicago 000 300 000-4 1
Podres. L. Sherry 14 and Rose
boro: Wynn, Donovan Mi, Lown
Mi, Staley 5, Pierce 8, Moore
191 and Lollar. HR: Snider, Los
Angeles; Moon, Los Angeles; Klu
szewski, Chicago; Essegian, Los
Angeles.
Women's Army Corps
Recruiter Visits Area
Women's Army Corps represen
tative SEC Margie Stewart will
be in Baker Oct. 8 9. Sgt. Stew
art is coming to the Baker-La-
Grande area to visit with young
women who are interested in the
Women's Army Corps. -
Girls between the ages of 18-
35 may call or visit Sgt. Stewart
ot the U.S. Army Recruiting Sta
tion, Alexander Building, Baker.
rnnMiii-nKlv tho hnpk-tn-wnrk
order could be written out an
handed to 1LA officials by this
afternoon.
No federal court has ever re
jected a government request fof
a Taft-Hartley injunction Jo stop
a strike for 80 days. , -
The White House did not re
lease the text of the fact-finder
report. But Press Secretaqr
James C. Hagerty said the panel
told Eisenhower the strikebouik)
ports handle 81 per cent of ocean
borne dry-cargo shipments to the
United States.
The board said the eight-day
strike was "causing increased
nrices and reduced suDoliea" ta
consumers in coast areas aa well
as affecting the supply of vital
defense materials. ' -
Although an injunction was con
sidered a foregone conclusion, It
appeared unlikely that negotia
tions on a new contract would re
sume for at least week, -