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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1959)
Ma uslds For unter sssve isssn WtATHER Snow in mountains this if. tcrnocn ind tenirht; partly cloudy Friday; high Friday 35-40; bw tonight 18-25. GRANDE OBSERVER 61sr Irue 64th Year LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1959 12 Pages Fiva Cant Howling izzard Swoops Search AA H LA B A veterans' color guard composed of local YFW and World War I members is at parade rest formation dur ing main Veterans Day address delivered by Col. Dave Baum, left. Guard members, left to right, Maurice Lay Plaque RKrKH"? VSSS Memorial ihjrJTJtn Yxv&&$$hk& An address by Dave Baum, I'tulonant-crloni'l and command ing officer in this area of Nation al Guard units, special tribute paid to Mrs. Ed Ford and laying a bronze plaque on the Veterans Memorial, featured Veterans Day observance here yesterday. The program was in charge of the four vet groups of the city, American Legion. Veterans of World War I. DAV and Veterans 1 1 Foreign Wars. Held at the Memorial Swimming poul. it was pointed out how the lule Ed Ford, city manager at the time, was largely responsible for getting the pool constructed as a memorial to veterans. Donations Lilted Donations for the Veterans Me morial were received from the following: Lester Kinjsley, S5; Fred Som r.'cr, $5; Gaither Fuel and Feed. M; Veterans of World War I, MOO; Blue Mountain Grange, $4: Hub City Food Center. S5; DAV chapter 21. S50; Westenskow and Nebeker, 52.50; Frank Lovely. S2; The Wheel, S20; Fraternal Order of Eagles, S25. Also Jackscns Second Hand Store. $5; VFW Post 2990. $100; Albertsons Food Center. $15: I'ayless Drug. $5; Riverside Lad ies Aid. $50! Junior Old Timers, M0: McDonald Electric. 1; Marvin Clark, Silverhill Dairy1. $2; John Engle, S5; American Legion Post 43. $100; Sacaiawea Hotel, use of Lallroom for dance. TO VISIT RUSSIA LONDON i I'PI' Guinea Presi dent Sekou Toure will follow up his visit to the United States with a trip to Russia this month, Mos cow Radio said Wednesday night. Chemist Says 'Tainted' Berries Not Dangerous To Human Beings NEW YORK 'ITU The chemist whose laboratory experi ments disclosed that a weed kill er used on some craiberry crops produced cancer in rats said Wednesday night the tainted ber ries were not dangerous to hu mans. Dr. Boyd Shaffer, a toxicolo gist for the American Cyanamid Co., said his experiments with aminotriazole produced cancer in rats only after "continued ad 'ministralion over the lifetime of the rats at a relatively high dosage." He said simitar experiments with dogs produced no cancer. "...If you ask me whether the very small amount of residue r I Mil feV VN COLOR GUARD ON PARADE , I ,11m 0 " - f k .. ETL tn mmr mm r f " , k aik w s . j s m J fc W DELIVERS BENEDICTION Salvation Army Commander Lt. O. Summers delivered the benediction that closed out Veterans Day memorial rites here yesterday. (Observer Photo) presented in the tainted cran berries i is .dangerous to peoph' I steadfastly maintain the an swer is no!" he said. Magazine Supports View Shaffer said a human "wouUI have to eat 15.000 pounds ot cranberries a day for man years" before he would sutler any ill effect from consumption of the chemical residue The McGraw - Hill Chemical Week in an editorial prepared for the Nov. 28 issue supported Shaf fer's view. The magazine said a person would hae to eat large amouil of the berries every day f"r more than 20 years to reach tin feeding lot levels at which tin Atkinson, VFW; Lester Kingsley, VFW; John Engle, YFW'; Glen Tetrick and Otis Palmer, both World War I. (Observer Photo) " . are g&s . ., . , . , , . V2V to'- W wed killer first proved harmful And nolxxly, but nobody, eats that many cranberries," Chemi cal Week 'added. Professor Robert D. Sweet of Cornell I niversity also debunked reports that the tainted berries might be dangerous to humans. "As far as the danger is con cerned," Sweet said, "I would rather take my chances with cranberries than smoke ciga re's." Secretary of Health. Education a-.d Welfare Arthur S. Flemming started the controversy Monday 'ulen he warned that a portion it the Washington and Oregon 1 mips had been contaminated by jtlie weed killer. 7 cyiif- OU fSr.'I m MR mm mm mm f"'Sj m team BUM BOT MM MM I Mma mmm 11 IMS USUI I km m u mst w SLOWER ONES, FAST AUTOS WELLS, Nov. (UPI)-Lance Agee, reporter for the Wells High School student magazine, made a survey at the school and came up with the follow ing statistic!: Not one straight "A" ttu dent at Wells High owns a car. Only five per cent of the "B" students do. About 4$ per cent of the "C" students do. And 71 per cent of the "D" students do. Agee pointed out that he was neither a car owner nor an "A" student. i ii an i lining en iidii i i nto Montana HUNTER LOST IN WALLOWAS ENTERPRISE (Special) A March party of 21 man on horMback ii combing Hvo rugged Wallowa Mountain! for a Dayton, Oro., oik huntor who it believed ferieuily injured In the Birton Height area. Erthel Tubwn, SO, wat re port! d missing by his hunting companion, Dick Rockhill, alM of Dayton, early yesterday morning. Wallowa County Sheriff Mark Marin it leading the tea'ch party of U.S. Forest Service and Game Department em ployes and Oregon Stat Police. Barton Height it the ridge between the Imnaha and Snake rivert and it accetsible only by horseback. A search plane wat forced to turn back this morning because of bad weath er without finding a trace of tbe misting hunter. The sheriff's office here said the fact that ranches are plainly visible from rhe ridge has lead searchers to believe that Tub sen it seriously in jured or dead rather than lost. The missing ' hunter's coat and horse were located togeth er but no other trace of the man hat been found. Searchers were hampered last night and mis morning by snow and bitterly cold winds which whipped the rugged mountain area. Shoot From Hip Sourdough Admits Kill FLORENCE. Ariz. UPI A grizzled, veteran gold prospector searching for the fabled Lost Dutchman Mine said Wednesday he killed another gold seeker in a fire-from-the hip battle in the mountains. Sheriffs deputies left early to day for the Superstition Mountains to check out (he story told by Ed Piper who long has been involved in a running feud with crews led by former Los Angeles singer Mrs. Celeste Marie Jones. Mrs. Jones has been seeking the famed mine for years and gun fire between her crews and Piper has been frequent, said deputies. Piper told Pinal County deputies he fired his ,38-caliber revolver from the hip as the other man fired at him. He said he did not know the man's name, but that he was one of Mrs. Jones' guards. Deputies said they were holding Piper until his story could be checked. But he was not booked, they said. Deputy Ed Stark said he has had to venture into the wild moun tain country several times to warn Piper and Mrs. Jones about shots being ' exchanged over mining rights in the area. Piper claimed a bullet creased his skull several months ago while he stood on Weaver's Needle, a towering shaft believed to be land mark in locating the lost mine. The mine is believed to be some where in rough terrain in central Arizona, about 50 miles east of Phoenix. Its location was lost with the death of the original finder. City Hall Rumor Reveals Slaght May Get Post Rumors are current at city hall that Dave Slaght, city engineer and acting city manager, is lead ing contender for the vacant city manager's post here. Slaght refused to comment, and the city commission said it had nothing yet for the public record on the matter. The commission did say, however, that an an nouncement would be made at Wednesday night's meeting. It was learned that the city commission has received several applications for the post and has been going through the list for several weeks. Fred Young resigned as city manager Sept. 12 of this year to reenter the insurance business here. GROUND, AIR MOVEiMENT SNARLED, HUNTERS LOST BILLINGS, Mont, il PI) Six persons were counted dead today and an undetermined number of hunters were trap ped in a savage storm that dumped up to 17 inches of snow across Montana. The latest storm-caused death came today when a Hardin, Mont, man died in a car accident on ice-covered Hozeman Hill in South-western Montana. Ground and air transportation was snarled, hunters were tiapix'il in the wind-swept ruckles and thousands of cattle were stranded by the swirling snow The worst storm of the winter, packing 50 mile an hour winds when it broke out of the high mountain ranges, pushed touaixl the Northern and Central Plains and the upper Mississippi Valley today. Heavy snow warnings were post ed for portions of Nebraska and South Dakota with local accumu lations of more than lour inches. The storm was expected to reach northwest Iowa tonight. Many Hunters Unreported The Montana blizzard left many hunters unreported. Howe v e r, sheriff's officers said the hunters probably were not in any serious trouble because of the relatively warm temperatures. A veteran stockman estimated 10,000 to 15.000 sheep and cattle were stranded in high mountain ranges. Riders expected to try today to get feed to the cattle Air travel was halted because of poor visibility and many mo torists were forced to abandon their cars. All highway travel between Helena and Missoula across the Continental Divide was stopped by the State Highway Patrol and sheriffs officers closing a 117 mile stretch of U.S. 10. An estimated 50 cars slid from the highway in the Hellgate Can yon between Missoula and Helena. Other fatality was a profession al guiter player killed in a two car crash near Billings. He was the fifth person to die as a result of the storm which howled down from Canada early Tuesday. Four Air Force fliers were killed when their F6 Scor pions crashed after running short of fuel. The storm was so bad at Helena that motorists abandoned their cars on city streets and trudged through 14 inch snow after chains and snow tires proved useless. The Weather Bureau at Helena said the storm should let up to day. Dr. Kovach To Speak At Wool School Meet Dr. F. M. Kovach, Island City veterinarian, is one of the princi pal speakers at the sheep and wool school at Oregon State Col lege in Corvallis this weekend. 'DAVID AND GOLIATH' Once Invincible' Giant Tribe Being Defeated By Small Serfs By ROBERT MUSEL UPI Staff Writer LONDON UPI A David and Goliath war is being fought in Ruanda-l'rundi, next door to the Belgian Congo, and what is dying with the Watutsi warriors is the legend of their invincibility. The Bahutus, who are a people of medium height, are killing off their masters of 300 years the giant Watutsi, one of the strang est and most fascinating trilies on earth. I spent some time among them in one of their capital towns, As trida. where the Watutsi they prefer that spelling to the Ameri canized Watusi have ruled for three centuries over the cool hills of their beautiful land. Legend Protects Them They came down out of Egypt or Ethiopia centuries ago, bring ing with them the lyre-horned cattle exactly like those depicted on ancient Egyptian tombs. And their legend ot invincibility had protected them ever since. Without really fighting a battle the skinny giants, many of them seven fret and over, made slaves Kill Lifeguard Tells Of Attack By Hungry Shark MAI. lilt . Calil HT!' ' If that shark had sunk his jaws a little deeper into my arm it would have been the end o( me " Lifeguard Dultie Fryling. 21. thus described today how a small blue shark sank its sharp teeth into his left forearm from the wrist to the eltniw Tuesday while he was swimming underwater in the Pacific. Fryling said he was at'ackcd when he swam into a swirling muss of about 15 blood-maddened sharks near a bed of kelp. He said they pursued him ashore, one of them snagging his forearm in its mouth. He man aged to pry the shark's mouth oien and escape, he said. Fryling, treated for eight punc ture wounds at Malibu emergency hospital, said the attack occurred while he was diving for lobster aliout 75 yards offshore near Par adise Cove. lie said the sharks averaged be tween 2V4 to 5 feet in length. He was wearing skin diving fins, a mask, gloves and a rubber shirt when attacked, he sa:d. "It was like someone driving nails into my arm." he said. HST Would Keep Religious Issue Out Of Campaign LIBERTY. Mo. 'C PI 'Former President Truman Tuesday said "I don't think religion ought to be inserted into a political cam paign." He made the remark during a questiunand-answer session fol lowing an address to students of William Jewell College. When asked what he thought about having a Roman Catholic president, Truman replied: "111 wait until I get to (he Democratic National Convention in Los An geles before I have anything to say about that." Truman is scheduled to meet with Sen. John Kennedy 'D Mass . a Catholic seeking the Democratic presidential nomina tion, Nov. 19. The meeting will take place at the Truman library, a few blocks from Truman's home in Independence, Mo. of the pygmy Bat was 'four feet high 1 and subject peoples of the Bahutus. They have brought in the pyg mies and their blowguns and pois ned darts to aid them in their battle for survival. The Watutsi ure people of tre mendous presence. Their faces are delicately chiseled, their swaying walk gracefully impres sive. To emphasize their height thev wear Romanosaue togas draped down from the shoulder. Hie Batwas and Bahutus had never seen anything like them. They accepted instantly that these towering invaders must be the great warriors they said they were. And the Watutsi, without throwing a spear or firing a pois oned arrow, shrewdly added to the legend for they are most remarkable people. Never FouoM Battles For example they have large drums decorated with souvenirs separated from alleged battle vic tims. No one knows where they got these private mementoes since no one can remember that they ever fought a war before this one but the sight of the ing Six Deadline On Tax Payments The In ion County sheriff and tax collector's office has remind-.d that midnight Sunday is deadline for lax payments in order to re ceive the a'lowed 3 per cent rebate. Taxpay rs who wish to make 1 heir payments in person, how ever have until 5 p.m. Friday. No rebate will be allowed for payments on the 16th of November. and the first quarter will have interest charged at two-thirds of one p-r cent per month or fraction thereof. A total of $403. 919.94 has been collected to date, with S256.243.15 turned over to the county treas urer. Last year at this time a total of $.189,481.78 had been col lected, according to Sheriff H. A. Klinghammir. Note Large Increase In City Schools There are 135 more students enrolled in La Grande public schools this year, according to figures released today by Lyle M. Itiggs, city school superinten dent. Riggs said that the school cen sus for the academic year 1959 ISO showed 3,269 students in at tendance as compared to 3,134 for the 1958-59 school year. Superintendent Riggs also an nnunced that Wright's Drug of La Grand was apparent low bidder on musical instruments being purchased by the city schools for band and orchestra. Basche-Sage v.as low bidder for 18 fire extin guishers for local schools. Bids were opened at the school board meeting earlier in the week. Vet Service Office Closes Several Days The Union County Veteran's Ser vice Office will be closed from Nov. 16 to the 22nd, due to the state conference in Portland of the County Veteran's Service Of ficer's semi annual meet. Milo W. Stewart, Union County Veteran's Service officer. will leave Monday evening and will return Saturday evening. Harry F. Bennett Dies Harry Frank Bennett. Star Route resident, died yesterday at his home. Funeral arrangements are pending, with Don Dempsey Funeral Home in charge. drums was enough to make every male pygmy and Bahutu a more devoted servant. Ingenious people the Watutsi, for 3iW years they parlayed one bluff after another into a life of luxurious indolence, never raising a hand to light a pipe or pick up the gourd of banana beer while one of their slaves was around. Racked With Disease The lazy life did the Watutsi no good as a race. They were racked with disease and declining In numbers due to their deficient diet of banana beer and cereals they do not keep cattle for meat, but for social position. There are stories that during a great famine, forty years ago some even died alongside their cattle rather than eat them. Meanwhile the hardworking Ba hutus were multiplying and ac quiring political leaders who bad shaken off the old taboos about the Watutsi. Now that Ruanda Urtindl will be given its freedom by Belgium in a year or so, the Bahutus are striking at their old masters to ensure that control ot the land will be in their hands. ,