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WEATHER Showers and torn partial clearing this afternoon through Friday; low tonight 34-4; high Friday 50-54. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 43rd Issue 64th Year r. I h .i- '-Bf'1 i Michel Rubini signs autographs for some of La Grande Hih School's young auto graph hounds. The concert performer and his father, Jan Kubini, gave a concert at the school Tuesday. The elder Rubini played the violin while the son accompanied on the piano. Girls", left to right, Dorsa Ziegler, Janice Pipes, Donna Viola, Carlene Johnson, Margie McLaughlin and Bonnie Scott. - -(Observer Photo by Joe Diehl) Judges Decide Soon Appeal By Steelmen PHILADELPHIA H'PH A panel of three federal judges fin ished hearing arguments today on a back to work order appeal in the 100-day steel su ike and said it would "dispose" of the case early next week. The court continued a stay to the back to work order un til it reaches a decision. Asks For' T-tf 'Amendment' WASHINGTON il'PI) Labor S retary James P. Mitchell called today for a Taft-Hartley law amendment to let presidential fact-finding boards step into labor disputes before they reach the deadlock stage. Mitchell said he would "pro mote a discussion" of his propos al within the Eisenhower admin istration. If the idea is approved. Mitchell said he will ask Congress to adopt the amendment when it convenes in January. ' Wants Study Made The labor secretary said that President Eisenhower had not specifically approved the propos al. But he said the Chief Execu tive "has indicated to me he would like the whole area stud ied." Under the 1947 Taft-Hatley law, the President may appoint a fact-finding board to determine the issues in a strike only when the walkout appears to threaten national health and safety. He then may seek a court order to force the strikers back to work for 80 days. Eisenhower used the provision recently in the steel and dock workers strikes. Mitchell proposed in a TV in terview that the Taft-Hartley law be amended to permit the Feder al Mediation and Conciliation Service to ask the President to name a fact-finding board at any time during u n i o n-management negotiations, "perhaps before a strike occurs.'' EAST-WEST SUMMIT SETBACK Big Four Top Level Meeting Soon Doubtful As French Balk LONDON (l!PH An East West summit conference seemed certain today to be postponed. President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Mncmillan and Soviet Premier N i k i t a Khrushchev all had indicated their preference for an ea:lier meotlig. But ' French Premier Charles de Gaulle's suggestion Wednesday to postpone any sum mit conference until next spring apparently has short-circuited that prospect. These were the developments in the fast moving summit picture: President Eisenhower told his news conference in Augusta, Ga.. that he still strongly favors a THE AUTOGRAPH TABLE Chief Judge John Biggs Jr. heard more than three hours of arguments from representatives of the United Sieelworkers Union and the government. 'We will not be able to reach a decision, of course, in this case today or tomorrow," Judge Biggs said. "We will however endeavor to dispose of the case early next week." Union President David J, Mc Donald, who haS promised' to fifcht the injunction in the highest court of the laid if necessary, said the union made a "substantial argu ment" to have the Taft-Hartley injunction dismissed. "Now we will wait for the de cision of the court which I un derstand will be sometime next week,'' McDonald said. 2 Marriage Licenses Issued At Courthouse Two marriage licenses have been issued at the Union County clerk's office. Licenses were for Walter V. Penney, Elgin, and Nellie Elea nor Jacky, E'gin; Icey Robert Hewitt, 1804 V Ave., La Grande, and Laurel L. Townsend, Rt. 2. La Grande. State Schools Set Exercise On 'Demon Rum' Crusader SALEM i UPI i Oregon schools must hold exercises Friday in memory of Francis E. Willard, a crusader against demon rum dur ing the 1890 s. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said the law requiring the celebration is still on the books. It was passed in 1317, two years "before the country voted in p-ohibition. Thornton said most sojiool offi cials' probably are not aware of their responsibility in the matter. The education committee of the 1957 Legislature tried to get rid of the 1917 law, but backtracked when temperance advocates de manded continuance of the cere mony. western summit conference as soon as possible. But he said he does not feel the same sense of urgency aixnit a full scale summit meeting with the Soviet Union Eisenhower's Proposal Soviet Ambassador to Paris Sergei V'ir.ograJov. told reporters after an interview with French Foreign Minister Maurice Come de Murvillo that "President Ei senhower has proposed a summit conference for the end of the year. We are in agreement with this." However, Eisenhower emphasized at Augusta that he had not made concrete proposal"!, but had out lined his pe-sonal feelings in the matter in communications to the LA GRANDE. Truck Parked With TNT Towed Away A truck loaded with explosives was found parked on a downtown street at 7:39 this morning by La Grande police officers in viola tion of the city ordinance. The truck was toked outside the city limits from its parking place. Ordinance No. 1fi."9, series 1953. prohibits the parking of motor vehicles loaded with explosives within the city limits. Unlawful to Park-, The ordinanoe-'states pIji&Ztl unlaw! ul K"pnrK or stop except for lawful traffic signs, or in an -me:gency. any motor vehicle loaded with explosives within the city limils. Punishment fur viola tion of the ordinance calls for a maximum fine of $300 or 130 days in jail or both. "La Grande police o'ficers will rigidly enforce the ordinance to prevent a disaster similar to Rose burg." Police Chief Oliver Reeve said today. Lanetta Carter Wins Second Flace In Beef Lanetta Carter. Ia Grande, placed second in light Hereford 4 11 beef competition at the Paci fic Internation Livestock Expo sition in Portland. Frances E. Willard was a tem perance reformer who became U. S. and world president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, She taught and lectured exten sively. The law read: "Such portion of the afternoon. ..as deemed proper by the teacher in charge of any public school, is set apart for in struction and appropriate exer cises in commemoration of the life, history aid achievements of Frances E. Willard..." "All p-.iblic school officials and public school teachers shall carry out the provisions of this section,'' the law says. ol her world leaders. A Foreign Office snokesman in London disclosed that De Gaulle released his views on the sum mit in the form of a Cabinet commtinitiue Wednesday without warning Britain beforehand. George F. Kcnnan. former I. S. ambassador to Hussa. told a lunch meeting in Washington that the West's stand on Berlin Unlay is "stilted. cra.i.od and in flexible." and said a compromise is iieces.a:y. Berlin is one of the principle questions which must be dealt with at any summit session. K nian also said the West "need hae no doubt" alxiiit the sincer ity ol Khrushchev. -tf ' OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1959 Police Chief I Reeve Elected To State Unit Po'ire Chill Olivr Reeve was elected lo the board of directors of the Orison Association of thiols of Police at tlie League cf Oregon Cities convention in Portland Reeve was elided to the boird along with Phillip Averill of Tilla mook and Flovd Clou or of Spring field. Reev e has ben a member of the organization since its founding in 1931. I'ric r to joining the associa tion in 1951. Reeve was on the board of directors of th- Oregon Association of Cily Police O ficers and was vice-president of the group in 1953. In 1949 Reeve was on the train ing committee and named to the board th; t same year. Reeve's pr-scnt appointment will run fer approximately two years or until he has moved up in the organization's ranks. HONORED La Grande Police Chief Oliver Reeve has been elected to t h e directorship of Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police at Port land League of Oregon Cities confab. (Observer Photo) Cat Loses All Nine Lives In Shorting Wire A cat on the transformer at the Creston Shaw farm near Alicel caused a temporary power outage at 7:30 last night. The cat's tail made contact with the 7200 volt wire and tripped the automatic switches on the elec tric line serving several farms and the TV translator installa tion on Mt. Harris. California Pacific linemen re moved the electrocuted cat and, power service was restored be fore 9 p.m. La Grande Student Jean Wick Given $300 Scholarship Jean Wick, 17, La Grande, hrs been awarded a $300 co'lege schol arship from the Standard Oil Com pany of California. Miss Wick is one of five Oregon 4-H club members who will receive the scholarships. Daftd Schaad, 18, also of La Grand?, has been named an al ternate in case winners are un able to use a scholarship. Miss Wick is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wick and has been a 4-H club member for eight years. Her major projects have been forestry and clothing. Recipients were chosen for 4-H achievement and leadership, com munity service, personal develop ment and scho'arship. All had to be at least high school seniors. Scholarships may be used at any college and in any subject matter field. iV yy i ' ' , ' 4 --a'? .v.-; ii T i iW-1! Ill 1 JEAN WICK SERIES OF INCIDENTS MC CLOUD, Calif. (UPI) -Janet Themas, It, of Rtd Bluff, Calif., was hospitaliied at the result of the following series of events: A porcupine drop pad from tree, scaring her horse. . . . The horse reared, causing Janet to drop her rifle, . . . The horse stepoed on the rifle, causing it to discharge. . . . And the bullet struck the girl in the left leg. Bond Vote On Sewage Plant Set Voting on a special sewage bond referendum is scheduled for La Grande citizens Friday, Nov. 8, between noon and 8 p.m. The referendum calls for S3GO.0O0 in general obligation bonds to be voted on as a means of financing the disposal system and property on which the plant would be located. Voting places will be the Pres byterian Church, Sixth and Spring (for all legal voters re siding south of the right-of-way of the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad); La Grande Gar den Club, 1309 Y Ave. (for all legal voters residing north of right-of-way of main line of UP Railroad). Two Young Auto Drivers Involved In Minor Wreck Two teenage drivers were in volved in a minor automobile accident at the intersection of Maple Street and Washington Avenue la; t night. Mary Linda Comstock, Rt. 1, was traveling west on Washington in a vehicle owned by her sister while John Ponti, 8, Weston, was traveling south on Maple in a pickup truck when the accident occured at 9:20 p.m. There were no Injuries re ported, according t A,lk-e. Aldwin Joseph Oliver, Wallowa was cited by La Grande officers for failure to sign his driver's license yesterday. Officers stop ped Oliver at Adams Avenue and Elm Street at 9 p.m. last night. He signed a waiver to not appear in court and will forfiet his $5 bail. Sticks And Stones' Failed To Daunt Undercover Agent LOS ANGELES (UPH A Los Angeles woman told House un American activities subcommittee probers Wednesday her home was stoned and she was "vilified on all sides" when it was publicly revealed she joined the Commu nist party as an FBI undercover agent. Mrs. Marian Miller, 38, the sec ond Los Angeles housewife in two days to tell the subcommittee of her undercover work against Com munism, was applauded by the audience at the hearing. The subcommittee holds its final hear ing of the current series today. Mrs. Miller said she served in her dual role of Communist and FBI undercover agent for five years. She told the probers she testified at subversive hearings in Washington shortly after leaving the party in 1935, and then re turned home to find: "I had become the object of controversy, my home was stoned, the lives of my husband, myself and children were threatened," she said. Mrs. Miller told members of the Princess Margaret Loses Simper As i Escort Blushes LONDON L'PI Princess Margaret lost her slipper Wednes day night at a ball, but unlike Prince Charming, her escort was almost too embarrassed to re turn it. There was the pretty princess in a fetching strapless gown and new "Charleston" style hairdo foxtrotting in the elegant Savoy Hotel with bachelor Lan Godsal. high sheriff of Berkshire. He had already announced to the party that he was not a very good dancer. The princess is. Suddenly the awful thing that every man on a dance floor dreads happened. Off slipped his royal partner's open-toe slipper The music did not stop. But every one else at the dock land settlements ball did. Godsal turned white, then red His pretty partner smiled mis chievously. The slipper fit. But there the story ended. ombs n Anti v ,C.y - ' ."' i. - A. j V CHECK FOR UNITED FUND Milo F. VanBlokland, personnel manager at Mt. Emily Lumber Company and UF division drive official, pre sents $1,574.24 check to Florence Hardy, secretary of UF drive in La Grande. The Mt. Emily check was from the company. The lumber firm's employes are expect ed to contribute also to the drive. (Observer Photo) Tomorrow For 'Reprieved' Man SAN Ql'ENTIN. Calif. (UPD Tomorrow will be a very busy day for Caryl Chessman rather than his last one. The Myear-old convicted rob ber, kidnaper and rapist was granted a stay of execution by the U. S. Supreme Court Thurs day, just 50 hours before he was scheduled to die in San Quentin's gas chamber. --- It was the seventh stay granted Chessman since he was con demned by a Los Angeles jury in 1948. The convict-author said he would use the new time to seek "eventual vindication." Chessman met with newsmen Thursday after the high court's action was announced. subcommittee headed by Hep. Morgan M. Moulder D-Mo. that she was barred from membership in a woman's club after her tes timony. She said she believed the campaign to keep her from the club was headed by a member whose Communist activities were unknown to other club members. She said she, served in a Communist-dominated group because her Bed leaders did not want her known publicly as a Communist. She said her husband, Paul, also an FBI undercover agent against Communism had served in the same group identified as the Com mittee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. "The objective of the group was to stifle all anti-Communist legis lation, particularly in the field of mmigration," she said. "They knew thev were going to lose Communist party leaders if they were deported. Ike Eyes Program AL'GUSTA, Ga. (UPI I- Presi dent Eisenhower told a news con ference today that he plans to ask Congress for higher appro priations next year for the Amer ican space program. The chief executive also said that if Maj. Gen. John B. Me daris, who has announced his re tirement as head of the Army Ordnance Missile Command, has any complaints he would like to hear them personally. The President touched on a broad range of space and missile topics today as repo'ters plied him with numerous questions stemming from his announcement Wednesday that the Army Ballis tic Missile Agency will lie shifted to the civilian control of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Agency "to strengthen the nation al space effort..." Mildly but still plainly, Eisen hower rejected the theory of Me- daris as stated by a reporter "that we are straddling the issue of competing with Russia in space." 12 Pages Rock Havana - Castro 3 1 Busy Day "I have already gone on record as waiving my rights to double jeopardy or anything of that na ture," he said. "I want, and I always have all these years, a new trial and eventual vindica tion." Chessman said, he heard of the stay from another inmate of death "row, T,hfe(vee "Wade, who heard the announcement on a news broadcast. The two men were involved in a fist fight sev eral weeks ago. "He was as excited as any of them tthe death row inmates),'' Chessman said. "So much death is always present with us that any time one of us can escape it, it encourages all of us."-. George T. Davis, one of Chess man's attorneys, submitted an ap plication for Thursday's stay to Justice William O. Douglas, who referred it to the entire court. Warran Disqualifies Sell Chief Justice Earl Warren did not take part in the decision. He was governor of California when Chessman was convicted and de nied clemency to the condemned man. . Chessman was convicted as the Red Light Bandit" who terror ized couples parked in lovers' lanes, ine Dantm rapist ap proached his victims in a car equipped with a red light such as used by police cars. ine i act tnat no murder was committed plus the fact that California law has since been changed so he could not now get a death sentence for such crimes has brought worldwide attention to his case. During his 11 years in Death Row, Chessman has written four books, studied law and Dreuared thousands of pages of briefs and appeals in nis own behalf. ; More Funds Following Controversy The chief executive said he does not think the space program should be regarded purely as a competition with some other na tion. Army Program Curtailed He had no apologies whatever for the military missile program and said the agency's switch or dered Wednesday merely repre sented the fact that the develop ment of the "super-booster" rock ets for outer space should now be the sole concern of the civilian agency, with the Army continuing Us own development of strictly ordnance missiles. As for Medaris' use of the word "straddling," Eisenhower said with a trace of annoyance that he does not know exactly what this meant, but he thinks Dr. T. Keith Glennan, administrator of the space agency, well defined the American program for major space exploration and that this was a "positive, progressive pro gram." On the question of money, he was nckeH fl.iilv whether he planned to ask for an increase in Five Cents Move BULLETIN HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) Polic said an atustin at tempted to kill Premior Fidl Castro with a knife today. He was not successful. Leaflets Denounce Premier HAVANA (UPI) An air battla ovar Havana and bombings throughout fha city Wednesday night climaxed an upsurge of opposition to Premier Fidel Castro that put one of his top aides in prison and drove another to suicide. At least two Cubans were killed here and more than 30 were in- l lured Dy gunfire trom warptanes trying to shoot down a plane that flew over the city at dusk, drop ping leaflets that denounced al alleged Communist influence of the Castro regime. . So far as is known, the leaflet raider was not hit. Other persons were believed to have been injured by motorized raiders who sped through the city later Wednesday night, toss ing home-made bombs or hand grenades out of the windows of their cars. Delegates to the convention of the American Society of Travel Agents that opened here Monday watched excitedly as warplanes roared low over Havana, their machine guns spitting fire. None of them was injured. Life As Usual The air battle and the bomb ings caused momentary panic in the heart of Havana but the city's We, went ont much as usual. Night ¬ spots and gambling places re mained open although there were few tourists on hand. The leaflets that showered down on Havana were signed by Maj. Pedro L. Diaz Lanz, a for mer commander of the Cuban air force who resigned and fled to the United States last spring in protest against what he de scribed as growing Red infiltra tion of Castro's revolutionary re gime. Thousands of leaflets fell in the vicinity of the hotels where the ASTA delegates are staying, but few of the American visitors could read them because they were written in Spanish. Earlier Wednesday, Castro flew to Camaguey to deal with a new "Diaz affair" the resignation of Maj. Hubert Matos, military com mander of - Camaguey Province, in protest against "Communist influences within the govern ment." The suicide was Capt. Jose Manuel Hernandez, commander of the Florida post 25 miles from Camaguey. He faced a crowd which threatened to march on . anti-Castro elements at Cama guey, told them Castro would settle their problems, entered his office and blew his brains out. In an island wide broadcast, Castro denounced Matos as a "traitor" and an "ingrate." The bitter attack recalled the broad cast last July which forced the resignation of President Manuel Urrutia. For Space space funds. He mid definitely he would seek something more than Congress provided In the current fiscal year. The president recalled that for fiscal 1!W0 he asked 590 million dollars. Congress cut this, he con tinued, by about 68 millions, and then restored some of the cut. Praises Rocket Experts The President could offer no specific figures, but he said his request for fiscal 1961 definitely would be something more than the government got for the cur rent year. He paid particular tribute to what he called the brilliant scien tific work of Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts, saying they were now free to con centrate on the development of one powerful booster. Presumably this was a reference to the Saturn Project. In the meantime, he said the strictly military projects of the Army would remain under the Army ordnance research program which would proceed with all pos sible help from NASA. . -