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FARM BUREAU OFFICERS
New La Grande Farm Bureau officers elected recently are, back row, left to right,
Ronne Sands, director; Ben Robinson, chairman, and Sylvan Rasmussen, director.
Seated, left to right, Mrs. Guy Spence, women's chairman, and Mrs. Marvin Fager,
secretary. Other officers not present when picture was taken are Harlow Speckhart,
vice chairman, and Mrs. Harvey Bergeron, co-chairman for women.
(Observer Photo)
Ike Hopes Today's Talks
Will Settle Steel Strike
AUGUSTA. Ga. (UPD Presi
dent Eisenhower expressed hope
today that resumption of industry
union peace talks in Pittsburgh
this afternoon would lead to set
tlement of the steel strike.
- The White House also disclosed
that when and if an injunction
in thd steer strike hi-granted un
der the Taft-Hartley law, Eisen
hower intends to reconvene the
Medic Loses
License After
Sizzling Suit
PORTLAND (UPH-The Oregon
State Board of Medical Exami
ners Friday revoked the license
of Dr. Norman D. Coleman.
Prineville, to practice medicine
and surgery.
Coleman, earlier this month,
was the defendant in a sensational
$200,000 malpractice suit brought
by a Prineville woman.
-- Dr. George H. Lage. board
president, said Coleman's license
was revoked for "unprofessional
and dishonorable conduct."
r Lage said the hoard's action
was not based on any malprac
tice. He explained the charge of
unprofessional and dishonorable
conduct as a violation of the
statutes of Oregon.
""While it may involve negli
gence on the part of the physi
cian,'' he said, "it may also in
volve acts which require proof of
litcrem lacis in uiuci iu suuoian-
tiate the charge."
Coleman's case first came up
before the board at its quarterly
July meeting. The ruling had been
withheld until now.
POSSIBLE PERJURY
Quiz Whiz Van Doren Under
Close Investigation From DA
NEW YORK (UPD - District
Attorney Frank Hogan today stud
ied the possibility of seeking a
perjury charge against Charles
Van Doren in connection with the
TV quiz whit's testimony to a
Grand Jury.
Hogan said he would take no
action against Van Doren in any
event until the $129,000 "Twenty
One" winner who became a SM.-OOO-a-year
network consultant has
testified before the House Special
Subcommittee on Legislative Over
sight next month.
Another big money show, NBC's
"Tic Tac Dough," was cancelled
Friday when network officials
"clearly established" that it was
rigged as much as 75 per cent of
the time before NBC took over
production from the Barry 4 En
right firm a year ago.
Tho popular five-doy-a- week
r
special fact-finding board headed
by Dr. George W. Taylor.
Press Secretary Jnmcs C. Hug
erty labeled as incorrect a story
that Taylor had requested White
House permission to re-enter the
efforts. to mediate the steel strike.
Hagerty said in the President's
behalf:
"He sincerely hopes I hut when
both sides renew their negotia
tions this afternoon in Pittsburgh,
that they realize fully the obliga
tion that they owe the United
States, and that they remain in
consultation and negotiation until
they settle it."
The White House also said the
President plans to return to Wash
ington tomorrow, taking off from
Augusta at about 3:30 p.m. e s t
The persistent rain that has
marred the President's vacation
continued on and off this morn
ing but did not deter him from
playing golf. After working brief
ly at his office at the Augusta
National Golf Club, Eisenhower
began playing shortly before 11
a.m. e s t. It was not raining at
the time.
Hagerty, in his morning meet
ing with reporters at White House
press headquarters in downtown
Augusta, said the President was
keeping in touch with the steel
situation through his special coun
sel, David Kendall.
Explaining the situation as it
applies to the board of inquiry
created originally by Eisenhower
under the Taft-Hartley Labor Man
agement Act, Hagerty said the
same law provided that the chief
executive should reconvene the
board once a restraining order
against a strike is granted in the
courts.
The U.S. court of Appeals in
Philadelphia has stayed the en
forcement of an injunction against
CHARGE
daytime show will be replaced
Dy iruth or Consequences" be
ginning Monday.
The District Attorney inter
viewed Van Doren Friday and
said the suspended NBC consult
ant had made "substantjal chang
es in an earner statement to
Hogan in which he denied that he
was fed questions and answers on
the now defunct quiz show "Twen
ty One."
Hogan noted that Van Doren
gave sworn testimony last spring
to two grand juries and empha
sized that "corrections" in Van
Doren's story "had to do with hit
appearance before the Grand
Jury."
At no time did Hogan say Van
Doren had lied but he admitted
that a perjury presentation to one
of the four grand juries now sit
ting is "a qution we will have
lo decide."
the strike which was granted in
a lower federal court.
Hagerty said the story alioiit
Taylor wanting to re-enter the
case at this point was not cor
rect, but that the President did
expect to follow the law and re
convene 4U-lurd of inqui.7 if
an injunction is granted.
Eisenhower neared the end of
his five-day golfing holiday in
Georgia still dogged by bad
weather, but playing when he
could. His putting was improving
Georgia's golfing immortal, Bob
by Jones.
Al Capone TV
Picture Basis
For Lawsuit
CHICAGO (I'PH - Descendents
of Ch'caso mob king AI Capone
laid plans today to sue producers
of a recent movie and television
show based on Capone's life
The first move came Friday
when Capone's estate was re
opened and letters of administra
tion were issued in probate Court
naming the late gangsters' sister,
Mrs. Mafaldo Maritote, Chicago,
as administrator.
Atlorney Harold R. Gordon said
the Capone family plans to sue
Allied Artists, producers of the
movie, "Al Capone," and Desilu
Productions, producers of the tele
vision drama, "The Untouch
ables." Neither company received per
mission to use Capone's name
and likeness from either Mrs.
Mai note. Capone's widow, Mae,
or his son. Albert, Gordon said.
"It requires some reflection and
whether it would serve any use
ful purpose." he said.
Hosan said Van Dorn had un
dergone a "harrowing ordeal,"'
which he further defined as "a
m-ntal slrucgle." -
"There might be any number of
persons who might wish to correct
statements made to this office
which may cause me to reflect on
their Grand Jury testimony," he
said, adding that a number of oth
er quiz snow contestants had
called his office indicating a de
sire to change previous state
ments. Van Doren. who still has his
job as a $4,400 a-year instructor
at Columbia University, told news
men Friday that he did not tell
Hogan he gave false answers. He
said he would tell his "whole
story" when he appears before
the Congressional subcommittee.
Against Reds
India Will
Not Give
Up Border
NEW DELHI. India UPI
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
said today India will not go to
war over a Communist Chinese
raid on the border state of Kash
mir, but neither will she yield to
"threat or intimidation."
The Kashmir area of Ladakh
where 17 Indian policemen were
ambushed and killed by Commu
nist soldiers "is our territory and
will remain our territory," Nehru
said.
"But even assuming it was a
disputed area," he said, "this was
not the way to settle the matter.
"Our country will not give up
her path or territory under threat
or intimidation."
He blamed the Peiping govern
ment for actions "which have
poisoned our relations" and said
the dispute was causing "grave
anxiety."
Nehru, speaking at Meerut in
Uttar Pradesh Province, begged
the Indian people to control their
emotions and not be swept away
hy fear or indignation over the
latest border incident.
The Indian government today or
dered fresh army reinforcements
rushed to the northern frontiers
in the wake of the Red raid into
Ladakh in Kashmir. The raid put
a heavy strain on already-tense
relations between India and Com
munist China.
The Chinese were believed to
be still occupying the site of the
raid,. Hot .'ty'-in'j in the Chang
Chenmo Valley, but Indian troops
were believed to be only a little
south of there. Hot Springs is a
mountain-top 18,000 miles above
sea level.
The Chinese were believed to
have moved up modern weapons
and the personnel to man them
at Hot Springs.
Indians were outraged and there
was speculation that Nehru might
be compelled to break off diplo
matic relations with Communist
China unless the Reds ended their
aggressions and agreed to settle
the border dispute peaceably.
The Indian government charged
Friday that Chinese troops am
bushed an Indian police patrol 40
miles inside India's "traditional''
frontier in the disputed Ladakh
Area Wednesday.
In addition to the 17 policemen
killed, the government said three
others were wounded and two cap
tured by the Red Chinese raiders.
Communist China immediately
counter-charged that armed Indi
ans encircled and attacked Red
Chinese troops inside "China's ter
ritory." The Peiping foreign min
istry said both sides suffered cas
ualties in a fierce two-hour fight.
New Delhi and Peiping ex
changed protests which contra
dicted one another on almost ev
ery detail of the latest incident
in the long-smoldering border dis
pute.
The Indian government dis
missed the Peiping protest, de
livered to the Indian ambassador
in the Red Chinese capital, as
"not in accordance with the
facts."
Peiping's protest accused the
Indians of violating "Chinese fron
tiers and provocation against Chi
nese frontier guards." It demand
ed New Delhi "Adopt measures at
once to prevent the recurrence"
of such incidents.
LONG EARS?
GOOD SIGN
TOKYO (UPI)-Got unusually
long ears? Don't let it trouble
you,
A municipal official in Isesaki
City, northern Japan says it's
sure sign you'll liv to a ripe
eld age.
The official, Fusakichi Igara
shl, said he surveyed all It per
sons in his city who are at
least M years eld and found
that all of them have ears that
are two centimenters (four
fifths of an inch) longer than
th average person's.
"I am not a doctor so I
cannot explain scientifically
the relationship between long
ears and longevity," he said.
"But from the survey I con
ducted It appears to be a
fait."
Hour's Power
Shortage Hits
La Grande Area
Power trouble out of Bonn
vill and trcm cut-in sub
stations caused mors than on
hour's Ht of pew,)- to the
La Grand ara today. Th
, failurt lasted from about 11:50
a.m. until 13:58 p.m.
California Pacific Utilities
told Th Observer that thoir
Information as to exactly what
happened was tkotchy. They
said, however, that following
th Bonneville failure forth r
troubl developed from th
McNary line.
"We switched over to Idaho
Power at Baker and relay
troubl developed there," they
said. Partial power was re
stored to th East dams Ave-
. nu section of Town. General
power recovery followed snon
ly afterwards.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
United Press International
FRIDAY GAMES
Boston U. 8 Connecticut 7
Auburn 21 Miami fi
Oachita "Baptist 20 Southwest of
Memphis 10
St. Thomas (Minn) 12 Duluth
Branch iMinn.) I'. 12
Morehouse 6 Tuskegoc 0
West Chester 'Pal Tchrs 14
Shippcnsberg Tchrs 0
Eastern Ky. 21 Austin Tcay 7,
Superior St. 9 Stout St. 0
Air Force Academy 20 UCLA 7
SAURDAY GAMES
Princeton 20 Cornell 0
Brown 6 Rhode Island 0
Amherst 6 Wesleyan 0
I.rh.mn Vallev 6 Moravian 0
Syracuse 44 West Virginia 0
Delaware 30 Marshall 6
Tufts 28 Williams 0
Haverford 6 Hamilton 0
liuffalo 22 Western Reserve Z
Yale 21 Colcgate 0
Millersville State 20 Bloomburg 14
Howling Green 25 Kent State-8
Wnrrostpr Twh 20 Coast Guard 13
Rochester 27 Kingspoint 0
Scranton 19 Albright 6
Juniata 27 West. Maryland Col. 0
Wnnslpr 41 St. Lawrence 20
Cornell College 33 Knox 0
Northwestern 30 Notre Dame 24
Duke 17 North Caroline Mate is
Oberlin 16 Kcnyon 14
Vanderbilt 33 Virginia o
Butler 27 Ball State 0
Delaware State 38 Lincoln 13
Davis and Elkins 6 Concorn 6
Uraes One
Space Head
WASHINGTON UPI Assist
ant Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield (Mont.i called to
day for a single civilian "czar"
to direct all U. S. space and mili
tary missile projects.
Mansfield said such a powerful
space-missile boss would elimi
nate ''waste. . .duplication and
overlapping" and permit the
country to get "more value" for
the money it spends on rockets
and satellites.
He said in an interview that all
missile and space activities
should be centralized "under one
roof" in an organization like the
Manhattan Project, the World
War II atom bomb program.
Mansfield's proposal came on
the heels of a suggestion hy Rep.
Victor Anfuso D-N.Y.) that the
Senate and House space commit
tees meet early next month to try
to put all space research and de
velopment programs under a sin
gle boss "to avoid unnecessary
duplication and to surpass the
Russians."
In a related development, Sen.
Stuart Symington (D-Mo.i, a
member of the Senate Armed
Services and Space Committees,
said in a Louisiana speech that
"waste and duplication in our de
fense and space programs exceed
100 million dollars a week." He
did not elaborate.
Mansfield said the shift of
Wernher Von Braun's team of
rocket experts from the Army to
NASA waa a "good first step" to
ward a single missile-space agen
cy. He said the German-born Von
Braun's favorable reaction to the
move "augurs well" for quick
congressional approval of the!
shift.
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QUEEN'S CROWN TO BEAUTY
Lovely Gail Fisher, Haines, wears the crown that is symbolic of Homecoming Queen
at Eastern Oregon College here. She was selected Friday afternoon. Her equally love
ly attendants are Marcia MacPherson, Union, left, and Judy Wardell, La Grande. Cor
onation exercises were held at 6 p.m. Friday. (EOC Photo)
Store Lodges
Protest On
Traffic Sign
Attorney S. II. Burleigh, repre
senting Albertson's Market, teld
the city commission last night they
wcer entirely beyond their juris
diction to place "no left turn"
signs on Adams Avenue between
Third and Fourth streets.
Burleigh, who investigated the
action at the request of his clients.
termed the action "unconstitutional
and discriminatory." The attor
ney pointed out th.it two-thirds of
the city is east of Albertson's and
that the- signs prohibit making
turns into the parking lot. "Al-
Ibertson's management feels they
are handicapped," he said.
the placing of the signs after
Police Chief Oliver Hcvc had
recommended the signs lo prevent
traffic congestion. Commissioners
authorizing the placing of the
signs and they were tnstalli'd by
the state highway department,
according to Reeve.
No Law
Burleigh said that he could not
find any law, city or state, that
gives the commission authority to
prevent left turns at that point.
'There is no law that says you
can't make a legal left turn across
a double yellow line," Burleigh
added.
W'e feel it is discriminatory to
prohibit left turns on one block in
a town ot 12-15 business diocks
and we ask to have the signs taken
down." Burleigh continued. If it
was necessary to protect the pub
lic safety we wouldn't protest, he
concluded.
Soviets Would Have U.S.
Aid In Bering Strait Dam
MOSCOW (UPI A prominent
Soviet scientist today" proposed
Russia and the U.S. collaborate
on building a dam across the Ber
ing Strait which he said would
radically alter the climate of
Alaska, Canada and Siberia.
Stalin prizewinner Peter M.
Borisov, writing in the Literary
Gazette, proposed linking Asia
and North America by a gigantic
concrete dam across the 50 miles
separating Alaska from Siberia.
The dum would block the icy
waters of the Arctic current from
flowing south and allow warm
gulf stream waters north into the
sub-Arctic area, he said.
Would Change Climat
Such a dam, he said, would
reclaim hundreds of millions of
square miles of territory on two
continents from permanent frost
and would also improve the cli
mate of Europe and northern
Asia.
Soviet engineers have proposed
Two Trial
Before Circuit Court Jury Soon
Two jury cases will be argued
before Judge W. F. Brownton in
Union County Circuit Court next
week, one Tuesday and the other
Thursday.
The State Industrial Accident
Commission is being sued by
Dewy M. and Shirley J. Kleng,
husband and wife, this action to
be heard Tuesday.
Louis J. and Elizabeth M.
Dierks, husband and wife, are
plaintiffs in the action against
Vclma K. Baker, this case to be
gin sometime Thursday.
Water Source Gone
Kleng charges that a construc
tion firm - the Durbin Bros. Con
struction Co. - employed by the
State Highway Commission on a
road job adjacent to their Upper
Perry property damaged their
Castro May Seize
U.S. Naval Bases
WASHINGTON (UPD The
fate of the big U. S. naval base
at Guantanamo. Cuba, was in
doubt today because of Cuban
Prime Minister Fidel Castro's in
creasingly bitter criticism of the
United States.
In his latest attack, Castro
charged in an angry five hour
television speech that an airplane
leaflet raid on Havana Wednes
day originated in this country. He
made a veiled threat regarding
the Gualanamo base.
The FBI said Friday night that
Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz. for
mer chief of Castro's air force,
had told federal agents the flight
took off from U. S. soil under
his command and dropied anti-
Castro leaflets on the Cuban capi
tal. Diaz Lanz, who Kied to Florida
after the revolution and said
Communists held high posts in
Castro's regime, denied in Miami
that he made such an admission
to the FBI. He refused to make
further comment.
The State, Department, mean
while, tried to calm the angry
Castro by ordering a vast alert
of law enforcement agencies
along the Florida coast to prevent
rebel flights to Cuba.
Castro has called for a million-
man demonstration in Havana
Monday to protest the aerial raid
in which two persons were killed
and 47 injured by Cuban troops
similar projects before, but never
so far as Is known had they
urged Soviet-U.S. collaboration.
Now modern technology has
made the project feasible, Bori
sov said.
The Literary Gazette appealed
lo scientists and engineers
throughout the world to contribute
comments and suggestions for the
realization of such a project.
Responsibility Of Russ-U.S.
Borisov said the dam should lie
the major .responsibility of the
Soviet Union and the United
States, but since other countries
like Japan, China, Germany, Po
land and the Scandinavian na
tions will benefit, they should
eventually be drawn into partici
pation. According lo Borisov, 47 per
cent of the Soviet Union is in the
area of eternal frost, and 70 per
cent of Alaska is similarly frost
bound. Cases Will
spring water source to the ex
tent that they arc unable to get
enough water for domestic pur
poses. The Klengs stated that the con
struction firm altered and re
duced their spring water with
repeated blasting and excavation.
They are asking $3,000 damages.
Counsel lor the plaintiffs is
Helm and Ncely.
The Dierks Baker case stems
from the plaintiffs (Dierks) hav
ing served an eviction notice on
the defendant. The defendant. In
turn, has filed a cross complaint
based on a breach of contract
The Dierks claim that the de
fendant has failed to pay rental
money on their property since
juiy is of this year and also re
fuses to vacate the dwelling.
firing on the planes. The flight
led to anti-American demonstra
tions in front of the U.S. Embas
sy. Some U. S. officials believe the
Monday rally may turn into an
other embassy demonstration.
The officials also think Castro
may refer again to the Guanta
namo base.
Dr. M. Addy
Of EOC Has
Panel Topic
Dr. Martha Addy, professor of
education and psychology at East
ern Oregon College, will be fea
tured on f ancl. during tho fall
conference of the Oregon Associa
tion for Supervision and Curricu
lum Develnpm"nt in Pendleton
Monday.
Dr. Addy, who will also be a
group leader in the morning dis
cussion session, is scheduled to
talk on "Objective: More Under
standing." Theme for the regional con
ference is "Concept of Self." Dr.
Robert E. Bills, chairman of the
department of phychoolgy. Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute, is the
conference consultant, and will
address the meetings on "De
velop'ng an Attitude of Open
Mindtdness," and "Human Needs
in Relation to the Perceptual Self."
386 Residents
Of Elgin Given
Chest X-Rays
ELGIN (Special) Mrs. Rose
Marie Stroeber reports that 3f!6
Elgin residents had chest X-rays
Tuesday when the mobile unit
was in Elgin.
Helping Mrs. Shroebcr wcro Mrs.
Gladys Flinn, Mrs. Loretta Palm
er, Mrs. t-tnei Kennedy, Mrs.
Irma Trump, Mrs. Mae Rusmus-
sen, Mrs. Juunita Clum, Mrs. Betty
Nelson and Mrs. Ina Townsend.
Clarence Calder of the California-
Pacific Utilities Comuany made
th; hook ups at the Western Stud
mill and down town.
NATIVES, POLICE CLASH
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Con-
GO (UPD An African was
killed and three others wounded
in a clash with gendarmes at
Kigali in the Ruanda Trusteeship
Territory, according to reports
here today.
Be Aired
The defendant, rfnmrniii k.
attorney Richard Neely, claims
that she tendered monthly rental
payment of $60 on July 15 to the
Dierks but they refused the mon
ey and told her to vacate the
premises. She also claims that
she entered into an oral agree,
ment of a year's lease on thn
property for $720 to be paid at
the $60 monthly rental rate. She
further claims that she mailed
a certified check to the, plaintiffs
early in August and that the
check was received by them.
The acienaani is asking $1,400
special damages and $500 'ex
emplary damages In her cross
complaint.
Representing the Dierks are
Ross E. Hearing and Cochran and
Ebcrbard, attorneys.