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LA GRAND WEATHER 3RVER prtii elfifg tefiht; f Saturday; lew tenijht 3742 witfc morning frit; high Sturdj -4. OBSl 33rd Issue Mth Var Florida Ends Race Mixing In Schools MIAMI U'l'li - Florida's first attempt to mix white and Negro pupils in a public school lasted five weeks. There was no violence. Econom ics. school off cials said today. dictated a halt in the cxiieriment The venture will come to an end Monday when about 400 Negro students troop into Miami's Or chard Villa Ebmentary School. The stuccoed, Spa tish-style school started the fall term Sept. 8 with a determined staff of three teach ers and a p-incipal all whit and four Neitro put.ls with 14 whites. Although school officials an nounced that white students still may come to Orchard Villa, the school board administered the coup de grace Thursday. It or dered the white faculty replaced with an all Negro staff of princi pal and teache s. That, plus the school board's order to add 379 Negro students LDS People From Here To Salt Lake A large contingent of LDS people from the La Grande area will be in attendance this weekend at the 129th semi-annual confer ence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. General s-ssions will be he'd twice daily in the historic domed Tabernacle on Temple Square, headquarters of the denomination now numbering more than a mil lion and a half memb-rs. Presiding will be 86-year-old David O. McKay, ninth president since the church wxs established in 1830. He will be assisted by his two counselors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., 88, noted international lawyer, for many years ambassador to Mexico, and Henry I). Moyle, long time prominent church attorney and church feeder. Many Speakers The first presidency, plus the Council of the Twlve, the First Council of Seventy, presiding bishopric and other general author ities will each address the gather ing during the confab. tJM ONE HAPPY GIRL Geraldine Carlton, 5, of Minneapolis, Minn., is very happy to be reunit ed with Pixie, her Chi huahua pup. She lost the dog to a con artist who offered to watch the pup while Geraldine went to ask her father about the sale of the dog for $10. The father offered a $50 reward and a woman re turned the pup after she had unsuspectingly pur chased it from the thier. ft SOUND TIPS FROM TEEN-AGERS School Girl Trio Not By Cons; Went Along APALACHICOLA, Fla. t:P!- Three Montana high school girls who picked up three young bur glars for a cross-country romance in a stolen car solemnly advised other teen-agers today not to fol low their example. "I don't know what gets us into things." said 16-year-old Sherry McDowell in a jail-cell interview. "Somebody should use their heads. I feel sure I didn't." The girls and the three convicts were arrested as they left a motel here Thursday in a gaudy pink car stolen at Snohomish. Wash Police found two rifles, a shotgun, five sticks of dynamite and a set of burglar's tools in the car. To B Snt Homt The men were to be arraigned today before U.S. Commissioner Myra Sims at Tallahassee. Fla The girls were held here, without charges, to be returned to their parents at Helena, Mont. They left Helena week ago and had been the objects of a nationwide search. urged token integration similar to that in Notth Carolina. They are sure a little integration now would prevent wholesale integra tion dictated by the courts later. County school superintendent Joe Hall estimated it would cost $1,500 to $2,000 per student during the year to operate Orchard Villa for on'y 18 pupils. The school is equipped to edu cate 420 at an average cost of some $300 year, to Orchard Villa's cljssroms. turned parents a ay from carry ing on the experiment in token integration. Since Florida adopted a pupil assignment law at a special 1957 legislative session, backers have Name Farm Forester For This Region Don White of the Oregon State Forestry Service has been nam ed farm forester for Union, Uma tilla, Baker and Wallowa coun ties. White comes to the area from Salem where he acted as farm forester in Benton, Polk and Lin coln counties. He will have his headquarters at the State Fores try Service in La Grande and is available to discuss woodland problems with farmers in his ter ritory. Stake Housing He holds degree in forestry from Oregon State College and a degree in gcclogy from corny College in Maine. He is married and is presently seeking housing here with his wife Margaret White will assist farmers with farm forest problems in general. including marketing, manage ment, and better forest land uti lization. He plans to make tours of the region to become acquainted with farmers and become familiar with forestry problems here. TV Producer - Tells Probers Of Lie Tactics WASHINGTON UPl A tele vision producer fired by the NBC network, testified today that he advised 25 or Ml persons to lie to a New York Grand Jury investi gating rigged TV quiz shows. Howard D. Felsher, discharged a week ago by NBC as producer of the "Tic-Tac-Dough" program, made the statement in testimony before a House investigating sub committee. He had testified pre viously that at least three out of ' four contestants on the night-time version of that program had re ceived question and answer infor mation in advance. Subcommittee counsel Robert W. Lishman asked Felsher about his contacts with contestants prior to the Grand Jury proceedings. Felsher said he met with four or five individuals but telephoned to 22 or 23 of them. No Word from Van Dortn The subcommittee waited, meanwhile, for an answer from Charles Van Doren, 33, big mon ey winner on the old "tl" show, invited to appear as a witness. Felsher said he told "Tic-Tac-Dough" contestants that "if I were to testify before the Grand Jury I would deny that I had giv en them questions and answers in advance." The men were George R. Jann. 29, Frank H. Spicer, 24, and! Frank I. Fisher, 20. Jann and Spicer were cell mates, in two California jails. The men were under federal charges of automobile theft and unlawful flight to avoid prosecu tion. The girls "talked willingly and excitedly to reporters as they sat in their cell. Sherry, the young est, was the self-appointed spokes man. Claudie Fuller, 17, $aid she. Sherry and 17-year-old Sharon Balats drove around the streets of Helena and picked up the three men when the men whistled at them. Hdtd For Bahamaj The group transferred to the stolen car driven by the men. "Everybody started wising off." Sherry said. "They said 'let's go and we said 'why not. Everybody talked everybody else into It." Claudia said they were "headed ' mw ;-- - Mm - NEW FARM FORESTER HERE Don White, right, is the farm forester with the Oregon Stale Forestry Service. He is shown studying information of the area. He will be serving with W. M. Curtis, seated district warden of the State Forestry Service, and Ted Sidor, Union County Exten sion Agent. White's headquarters will be the State Forestry office in La Grande. Observer Photo) Expect Ike To T-H On Steel WASHINGTON l'PI Govern ment officials worked behind the scenes today in what appeared to be a final effort to settle the 87-day-old steel strike without using the Taft-Hartley law. Both industry and union leaders anticipated that President Eisen hower soon would invoke emer gency provisions of the law to get ast OG-day back-to-wJt . k. junc tion. But Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell huddled Thursday with dclincd to say whether Mitchell McDonald in New York City in an apparent try at mediating the dispute. A Lahor Department spokesman declined to say whether mitchell was acting as a go-between in hopes of getting agreement on a new contract to send 500.000 steel workers back to their jobs. White Heuw Silent The official explanation was that Mitchell was being briefed on ne gotiations. The spokesman said he did not know when the secretary would return to the capital. Dock Strike Ends NEW YORK (ITU-Longshoremen report to work today from Maine to Texas ending an eight day dock strike that has halted the flow of vital food and raw material cargo to Eastern and Southern ports. First order of business was the unloading of 30 million dollars wo'th of perishable cargo, some of which was reported just short of the spoiling point. The International Longshore men's Association ULAi ordered its men back to work to comply with a federal court order issued Thursday night under provisions of the Taft-Hartley law. Kidnaped For Thrill for the Bahamas" when they stonped here. Sherry said all tried to get married while pass ing through Louisiana but were turned down because they had no birth certificates. Claudia and Sharon indicate! they wanted no more of their bur clar boy friends, but Sherry said. George Jann has three little kids We're going to get mar ried." Only Sherry, who had helped pack the weapons in the car, knew the background of the three men, but she said she "chickened out' every time she tried to tell the io other girls. "Maybe If we had known the kind of people they were we wouldn't have done it," Sharon said j Parents of Sherry and Claudie said they planned to . have their daughters fly home as soon as 1 possible. But Mrs. Adelia Balazs I said it would be almost impos jsible for her to buy her adopted 'daughter an airplane ticket. LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1959 Invoke Strike Negotiations between the execu tives of five leading steel com panies and the union collapsed Tuesday night. No joint meetings have been held since then. The White House remained si lent on whether the President would act now that both sides have failed to make the progress he said he wanted by Oct. s. The Presid-rr iedule today was filled with appointments ex clusively concerned with foreign affairs. Twisters, Snow Dot U.S. Weather Picture United Preis International The first touch of winter ar rived in the Midwest today be hind a mass of violent thunder storms and damaging tornadoes Strong chilling winds out of the Dakotas spread snow and freezing temperatures into Minnesota, Wis consin and upper Michigan, The mercury dropped to the 3s as far south as northern Arkansas. Thunderstorms a)d locally heavy rains continued in front of the mass of frigid Canadian air. Rain fell from the lower Great Lakes and northern Appalachians southward through the central and south Atlantic coast states. Tomadsn Hit Wisconsin Tornadoes raked a three-county area of southeastern Wisconsin Thursday night, leveling some barns and homes and killing sev eral farm animals Another tornado caused hun dreds of thousands of dolla-s damage in the village of Mc Henry in northeast Illinois. No serious injuries were reported but about 25 homes were damaged. In the south, tropical storm Irene, bringing heavy rain and gusts of 55 miles an hour, pound ed Pensaeola, Fla., Thursday. Trees and wires were felled but there were no serious injuries or deaths. . Parts of the Dakolas, mean- EOC Theatre Play 'Gold Cadillac Casting Listed The cast for the Eastern Oregon College theatre production of "The Solid Gold Cads'Iac," scheduled for Nov. 12, 13, and 14, was an nounced today by Richard G. Hiatt, director. Heading the cast in the Tckh mann and Kaufman comedy are Jeanne Thurston, La Grande; Ralph Hamilton, John Day; Robert Scott and Richard Domey, Milton Freewater; Larry Wilder, Pendle ton; and Dan Yturrasp?, Jordan Valley. Also in the cast are Jo Anne Kaufman, Gred Baker, Melada Lee Doney, and Dale Conklin, La Grande; Jo Anne Reeder, Pendleton; Larry Master son. Sa lem; and Fred Kelly, MiHon Freewater. Tarry Clifton, Weston, is assist ant director for the EOC theatre season opener. This Area Recorded 2 Auto Deaths Forty-one of the 49 traffic fa talities in Oregon last month were residents of the state, and two of the accident death victims were from this area. I ortlanrt led all Oregon com munities with 14 deaths. Salem was next with four, hugenc D. Wilson. 19, La Grande; and Lsntz W. Trump, 19, Enterprise, were the two area ktims. OreKon - State Police bliimed drunk driving for at least 14 of the state deaths. while, dug out from a six - inch blanket of snow and ice that downed telephone lines and shut otf service to several families in the Minot, S D., area. Se Moderating Trend The Weather Bureau saw a moderating trend in the northern Rockies where the cold front first appeared two days ago. Great Falls, Mont., registered a reading,' of 46 degrees, 21, degrees higher than 24 hours earlier. Most of the Southwest had fair weather and mild temperatures in the 60s and 70s during the night It was clear and cool from cen tral Texas northward through the central plains. Scattered snow flurries were forecast in the upper Great Lakes while widespread rain and thun derstorm activity was expected in a narrow warm air lone along the East Coast from New Eng land to Florida. Murder Rap Against Ex-Cons In Shooting I'ROSSER, Wash ITI Two ex-conviets who have "admitted nothing" were charged with first degree murder today in connec tion with the slaying of a Hermis ton. Ore., policeman early Thurs day morning. At Pendleton, Ore, Judge Paul A. Thalhofer announced the charg es against Wilfred II, Ogden Jr . K. and Walter Wkken, 29, both of Pasc-o, Wash. OKdpn and Wicked, caught at a roadblock less than one hour after the body of policeman Ranald Kil by, 2B was found in a ditch north ol Hermiston, underwent extensive questioning again today. They are in the Benton county jail here, Witnau Named The district attorney of Uma tilla County, Ore., Richard J. Courson, said he had a witness who he believed could Identify the men who attacked Kilby but after a session with the suspects yester day he refused to say if identifica tion had been made. Courson said the witness, Jim Wrenchy, 55, Hermiston, was driv ing to work near Moster, Ore., and came ujmn Kilby struggling us-Tru (ills KHRUSHCHEV HAS ANSWER HEW YORK CUPI) Amer ican traffic jmt tm to hav mad a profound Imprat tion Soit Prffiic Nik Ma S. Khruihch. M uyt he won't let it happtrt In Russia, "Why theuid on rack m'l brain soar whr to put th ear? Why b borhrd with itt" Monro Radio sjuetod him a Hying In speech thii wHk at Vidi tok. Khruthch tiid Russia plant "taxi poett" (o popt taw ebfain tars whan n-dad. Teachers Eligible For John Hay Fellowships Oregon public high school teach ers are eligible for John Hay Fellowships. The John Hay Fellows Program will recognize excellence among public high school teachers and will stress the importance of the hu manities by swarding 80 Fellow ships for i960 61, Winners of these Fellowships will study for year in the SsunsaaWes at one of the following universities: Cali fornia, Chicago. Columbia, Har vard, Northwestern, and Yale. They will receive stipends equal ts their salaries during the fellow ship year. In addition, travel ex penses and tuition will be paid. Sotmd Sekoels The SO John Hay Fellows will be s tit-ted from acadcmica'ly sound hich schools which are int "rested jn breaking educational locksteps and In making effective use of the time and talents of their out stand- Police Arrest -v Man On Stolen Auto Charges State Police bave arrested Jot Franklin, formerly of Idaho, and row of Haines, Ore., on c charge tf possessing a stolen car. Police arrested Franklin on Highway 30, east f La Grande, yesterday afternoon and he is being held in the Union county jiit. Baker county authorities also have warrant for Frank lin charging obtaining property under false pretenses. The ear which Franklin was driving had been stolen at Bur leigh, Ida., Sept. S, police said Californiart jailed On Felony Complaint Bob Taylor, 20, of California, is being held in the Union Coun ty jail following his arrest here felony this morning in Wallowa, county. State Police Mid that Taylor attempted to commit a robbery between Wallowa and Lostine this morning while hitchhiking. He will be returned to Wallowa County where authorities are holding a warrant for his arrest. with two men, Wrenchy slowed his pickup truck and said that one of the assailants tried to pull him out of the truck. He fought back with a tire chain, wounding the assailant, and drove off to call Hermiston police. By the time a tecoitd motorist happened along, the stayers had dropped Kilhy't body in a ditch and fled. The second man called police on Klihy's patrol car radio and Chief Siivey went to the scene and found the body. Kiihy had radioed ihe depart ment earlier that he had stopped a ear and was going Is question its occupants. He did not say what his reason, for questioning them was. But Courses said a se ries sf burglaries early Thursday in Hermiston and nearby Umatilla were believed linked te the mur der. One of the suspects had more than 1200 when the men ar rested, Neither was armed One had a gash on his forehead, Kilby, married and the father of four children, had been with the Hermiston force only two months. 8 Pag tie Mine THIRTY GIRLS ESCAPE FLAMING HIGHWAY SMASH NORTH DiU'NSWICK, XJ. lUPI) Mne young college girls and iht-ir j roftssor thapcrone died trapped antf screaming tmlay uhen a tatik truck rammed and set ablaa the bus bringing them home from a Broadway theater out ing. The heroic 1ms diin r hustled 30 other panic-stricken coeds out of the Mazing vehicle before exploding gasoline ui-M7ufj a &rtr t,e py at helptad nwurrs. Nun- sirtk, itnl between 1J and i. m:4 I'r,.) Kr nest SiWa. ). iht ir virt d 1 A tig niiht in the Imsiin ii Ats of Broadaay tunust into twrv dh just aficr inutauht a-, bus, chartered by Tuviimii. X j ing leathers. Applicants should have had at k-ast five years ol high scheol teaching experience and should am be more than 50 years old. Subjects swh as Linsuasrs. ' literature, hirfory, musie, and the fine arts are usually uH hided in the humanities, and leathers irf these subject are im ited to apply In addition. apntU-atmns from teachers in obrr disciplines whn wish to study in the humanities will be accepted. British Vote Conservatives Back In LONDON t VI' Prime .Minist er Harold M.iemillan's Conserva tives crushed tt Lalwr Party bete with an election vittory that isrom ised more prosrVy Xjr Britain and a stronger British vwee for and in an early summit confer ence. Marmiltan rode hish in Britain's driver's seat with a third term landslide victory that gave the Conservatives an overwhelming majority in Parliament for the next five years ami may have sounded the dea'h kmil of the socialist opposition Macmillan's majority in the House of Commons was experted ts be a crushing 13B votes when final tabulations from Thursday's vote is completed His previous margin was S4 Ail 630 lluuse ol vommons seats were at slake m the elections Commons in turn elects the prime minister. The reaction among Brilain's western allies was one of re strained pleasure. UiIkit also was committed to the same firm West ern ties but Washington. Paris and other Western capitals appar ently felt safer with MacmiUan. Police Arrest Driver On Speeding Violation I-a Grande Bonce arrested a driver tor violation tf the basic rule last niaht. Kranklin Earl Watt, 34, 1M rourth a., as arrested fnr traveling 30 miles per hour id a 20 mile me, police said The violation recurred at 9:55 p.m. at the intersection of Depot street and Jefferson Ave- nue. A hearme was scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday. HAPPY REUNION Vladislav Vatek and his wife- Zdenka httg their daughter, Vladislava, 13, for tits firsts time in 11 vears as she arrives at Midway Airport in Chicago, III The Valeks fled Czechoslovakia and the Communists in 1848, leaving their daughter with her grandparents. Czechoslovak-art groups aided the Va!-""1 tks in getting permission for the release of toe child. .? Fl Cnf eat. oeds State CoUeee, stopped on a ram slicked, misty highway for a lieht. Drivtr Mjry " The tanker dammed into (Se rear and the gas tank of the bw itM-lf exploded, hurling gasojise over berth vehicles. ' Has driver Carmen Nini, , Treirton, shoved girls in the finsat rf tise bus to safety, The B ni-tutt Ms the fiaming bus aatd IjUished rthers out through tgs (emergency dasr. i 1 "It was terrible"' he said. U Ihmafiht we were all gone.' " The M vktinas died in the Bear f the bus, harmed beyond imme diate recoRnilion. J The truck driver, Bsseee Few, St, Brooklyn, N Y., was trapped in his cah. Fire was closing in g him as firemen battied to bm tarn. , ;! ' Ikm't let rtse die this way.1 Ie tried ssrt. He was saved, suffering minor rnjurics, ana pout sard he wM face a mandatory manstanghtaV charge under New Jersey law cov ering fatal accidents. Twelve sher coeds were injured m the flaming csUrsion, Six were hosfitairwd with serious horn, Peiie Ctft-stien Driver ; 'f dnta't see the bus, f didat see the light, f don't remember pulling my brakes on," petle caroled Poe m saying. . . r I'lsisce were oiresiioning hjm-'fn MitMIrsex sientral Hospital where tw was being '.rested for biirai and posstblf fractures of the leg. Another cortege bus driven by James Cunningham, 4J, lad jut drives ihrsugh the light when in ucalh bus was struck, -1 "I beard a crash. I looked . to ihe mninr mirror. CartBM'S bus was m fire, F'ames were (U over it," Cunningham, said. - ' - He partei his bus oa a shouMr and ran back, He saw Nmi posh ing screaming coeds from tj biaaag has, Cunningham also es led the bus and carried one girl out. Wises he started to jo bck there was as explosion. . "I battel off. I couldn't gs hack anymore," be said. - I'rr.er Krai said the girls es ra was hindered by the high heels rfiey wore. Moonshine Rap Faces Union Man Ts Hussell Cslder, 59, Un ion, was ts appear before Cir rujt Judge W. F. SrewntM this iflernon on a charge of illegal possessirsn of mash. f CaMer was arrested Wednes day hf-i State Police officers, t'niss City police, and a repre sentative of the Oregon Liquor Cortrsl Commission found a still on Calder's property sear Chios. He was arraigned before Jus- tire of the Peace George H. Ml- ,er this morning and was boned over ts appear ts Circuit Court, iaeeerfisg ta fceorge Anaersqp, (Jr., district attorney. v -r