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WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Son y with occasion! (now in mountains High 30-35, low onight $15. .. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 63rd Issue 4th Year t 1V.1 I V -v .11 1 rwj 1Iim. El L221 PROPERTY TAX PAYMENT Union Pacific Railroad agent H. E. Waddell presents whopping property tax check for $117,530 to Macdalene Buckley, tax deputy in the Union County sheriff's depart ment. The railroad check uregon counties. State Tests Show Cranberries Safe' WASHINGTON 'ITU Gov ernment laboratory tests are showing that most cranberries are free of contamination and safe for the Thanksgiving dinner table. This was the good news flowing by teletype and telephone from 17 field offices of the Food and Drug Administration FDA to its main headquarters here. The tests are fur from com plete. But so far only two lots have been found tainted with a chemical weed killer that causes thyroid cancer in rats. Seizure orders for these were issued on the West Coast. These two shipments sparked the government's warning to housewives Monday that they should iiot buy cranberries unless they were sure they were uncon taminated. Government tests were H. E. Dixon Memorial Services Set Monday A memorial service for longtime La Grande at!ornny and referee in bankruptcy, H. E. Dixon, will be he'd at 10 a.m. Monday in Circuit Judge W. F. Brownton's court. Judge Brownton will lead the memorial to the late jurist, with the I'nion County Bar Association assisting. The public is invited to attnd. 7 - ,"Vj? vv. CAMERA-SHY Beret-wearing narcotics squad detec tives, disguised as beatniks, herd some camera-shy real beats into van in New York after their arrest on narco tics charges. An undercover task force of beatnik detec tives rounded up some 96 of their newly-won "friends" after promising to take some of them to a party. Rockefeller Hopes Oregon Visit "Warmer' Than California Trip EUGENE. Ore. (UPI - New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller moved into the key state of Ore gon today and hoped for a war mer reception than the one he re ceived in California for support of a possible presidential bid in 1960. Supporters of the 51-year-old Republican, who arrived here from San Francisco Friday night, were hopeful he would do better in Oregon than he did in Califor nia, the home state of his princi pal rival for the GOP nomination Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon already ha said that Rockefeller'! name will be on the ballot next year together with to Union County was the third ordered immediately to pinpoint the tainted berries. It was learned, meanwhile, that the government is considering a plan to inform housewives which canned cranberries are safe. Each can carries a manufacturing code number which gives the packing date and plant location. The idea would be to make pub lic the code numbers of cans con taining uncontaminated cranber ries. The plan w ill be among a num ber of subjects to be discussed in meetings between industry repre sentatives and government offi cials beginning Tuesday. The talks will be led by Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health, education and welfare. Flemming set off the cranberry cancer scare Monday waen he warned housewives that part of the Oregon and Washington cran berry crop was tainted with the weed killer aminotriazole. FIVE CHILDREN PERISH WARE, England (UPI Five children died Friday night when fire trapped them in the bed rooms of their home here. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Tay lor, were out of the house at the time. Taylor. 40, was shopping for groceries and his wife, Cathleen, 32. was on her way home from work. The dead children were Frank. 9; Gerald. 6: Stephen, 5 Margaret. 3: and Graham. 2. 4 that of Vice President Richard M. Nixon. In California, a two-day tour convinced Rockefeller backers that the official Republican state party organization, at least, is solidly committed to Nixon i.i i960. Los Angeles County GOP Chair man Alphonso E. Be'l Jr. said that Rockefellers'! visit "didn't change any positions" among GOP brass in Southern California. He added that Los Angeles party officials "probably are unanimous in their support of Dick Nixon." In San Francisco Friday. Rocke feller met with eight of the 10 GOP county chairmen in the bay en a ec largest such payment to (Observer Photo) UP Property Tax To Union Is $117,530 A Union Paci.'ic check for $117. 530 in Union county property taxes was delivered to Sheriff H. A. Klinghammcr Friday by H. E. Waddell, the railroad's agent. Union county ranks third among Oregon counties in which the Union Pacific will pay $1,362,633 in real property taxes this year, Waddell said. The largest are Multnomah county with $384,833 and Umatilla with $236,408. Waddell said the U P. also paid approximately $339,000 in miscell aneous state taxes ths year. The railroad's taxes in Wallowa county were $20,488 and in Baker county $98,224. Jury In Favorable Verdict On Auto Damage Lawsuit A -circuit court - jury return ed a guilty verdict against Hay Harvey, one of two defendants in an automobile damage claims case concluded yester day. The other defendant, George Fuller, was not held responsible and a verdict was returned in his favor, according to Judge W. F. Brownton. The eight-man and four-women jury also found in favor of the plaintiff in the action. Edward Crowder, and awarded him $1,000 in claim damages. Crowdir's auto was being driven by Harvey last Dec. 13 nn lliehwav 203 between I'nion and La Grande when it crashed into th rear of Fuller's parked pickup truck. There were no injuries resulting f.om the accident. Idaho Power Pays $6,943.84 In Tax To Union County Dollars that will help support schools, roads Bnd other local-government operations were on the way to I'nion County this week as Idaho Power Company paid 1959- 60 property-tax bills totaling near ly $.:.ooo in live uregon counties. Union's share in this total tax payment from the utility is $6,- 943.84. Schools will receive approximate ly $351,410. or abcut 63 per cent, of the total levied against Idaho Power. The utility's property tax es in the five counties are assess ed on its operating facilities, off ices, warehouses and construction. This is the second year Idaho Power has paid property taxes in Wallowa County, where it is build ing a 230.000-volt transmission line that will carry electricity from Brownlee and Oxbow dams to other utilities in the Northwest power pool. area, plus a smattering of Repub lican congressmen and state legis lators. Robert H. Steele, chairman in San Francisco, summed it up by saying "We've always been pretty strong for Nixon in this territory but we did want to see Rocky, meet him and hear him." Rockefeller made some head way in his meeting with the GOP officials, in San Francisco. At least one county chairman said he thought a Nixon-Rockefeller con test would be a good thing be cause it would spur interest in the GOP throughout the nation. "I think if we have a cut-and-dried convention next year, we're dead," he said. LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1959 iontana or 2nd LIVESTOCK IS TRAPPED, STARVING IN MOUNTAINS HELENA, Mont. (ITI) Winter readied another savage blow today at Montana villages and ranches already reeling under record-breaking cold and snow. The weather bureau said the second blizzard was sweep ing down from Canada and would invade the hard-hit state late today. The forecast was bitter news for ranchers struggling inrougn waisi-oeep uims 10 irui-n millions of cattle and sheepstrand ed and near starvation high in the Rocky Mountains. The early storm raged out of the Rix-kics Friday to surround the Midwest and Great Lakes and pierce deep into New York state and the South. Animals Trapped Freezing temperatures were ex pected throughout Oklahoma, western Missouri, Northwest Ar kansas and Texas as far south as Alabama and eastward to the Appalachians. Stockmen estimated millions of sheep and cattle were trapped in three-foot drifts high in the Rocky Mountains. Temperatures down to 46 de grees below zero had crusted the snow, preventing livestock from foraging. Ranchers broke through the drifts with tractors Friday to reach part of the herds and flocks. But more animals were ma rooned on islands when the frigid temperatures froze an ice jam on the Missouri River at Townsend. 32 miles southeast of Helena. The jam's backwater was re ported sending ice streams flow ing into ranchhouse basements. But rescue parlies said no more hunters were stranded in the mountains. Two Montana State University students Richard Maxwell, 20, and Bob Amick Jr., 21 were saved in dramatic res cue operations late Friday. SlIH Wanftd Elk The youths almost had been given up for dead when Maxwell stumbled out of the mountains and telephoned the sheriff's oflice in Missoula: "I'm home. Were you looking for me?" Maxwell, a rugged former foot ball player, said he left Amick nursing an injured knee in a rat infested cabin in the ghost town of Reynolds. Amick was found resting on a mattress and warm ing himself before a blazing fire "It was cold up there," Max well said, "but as soon as everv- POWER TOWER Wallowa County is the scene of Ida ho Power s huge power transmission line that will carry electricity from Brownlee and Oxbow dams. Wallowa Countv is one of several counties benefitting in property-tax payments by the utility. tiling kind of dies down, I'll go again. I've Mill got lo get my 'lk, you know " The rescued hunters were lucky compared to the 22 persons who lost ilwir hes in the storm. Most deaths occurred in auto accidents Illinois reported eight dead, Mon tana and low a had six each, and one person died in both Michi gan and Kansas. Paper Strike To Hatfield? SALEM it Pit Gov. Mark Hatfield said Friday he would be glad to use his offices to help settle the Portland newspaper strike but only if both sides wanted him to. He said in a telegram to State Rep. Edward Whelan of the Port land Labor Council that he didn't think all available means had been used yet to settle the strike. "At what I consider the proper time I shall not hesitate in thj public interest to enter the pic ture as an Impartial coordinator, Hatfield said. He added: ' A governor's in volvcment will accomplish the de sired end only when both sides are willing to sit down with the governor and discuss freely and openly their positions and evi dence a real desire for settle ment." A -federal mediator is. currently working with stereotypers and the managements of both the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian to try to settle the dispute. Dr. Bolen Will Speak At Union Church Meet Dr. Virgil A. Bolen, Eastern Oregon College professor of phys ical science, will be the featured speaker at the annual conference of the Western District of the Idaho Methodist Church. The conference is being held Saturday in Union. Bracing Blizzard BIG CRASH, 4 CASUALTIES WINDSOR, Calif. UPI A freight train crashed Into the trailor unit of heavy truck htrt yesterday but the only casualties wart four man in a nearby tavarn. Tha rear axlo and dual wheals of tha demolished trailer ware struck with such force that they: Soared 25 feet and clip ped a soft-drink truck. Snapped a power pole, shutting off power In the area. Crashed through the wooden front of the tavern. Clipped bar stools from beneath two patrons. Hurled a third man, a long with his stool, across the room. Knocked down the soft drink deliveryman. The four men were badly bruised and shaken but the truck driver wasn't even scratched. Granny Tries Rescue Of Trapped Apes SAVANNAH. Ga. (UPI A hunting party led by a 43-year-old grandmother hoped today to rescue two monkeys from the top of Union Railroad Station here. The rhesus monkeys have out witted station personnel since Tuesday afternoon, when they and four other plain pale brown, playful and active monkeys chewed their way out of their shipping crate. They were part of a group of 74 monkeys on their way to a laboratory death at the University of Cincinnati in the interests of polio research. "I hope we do get them," Mrs. Richard Bclford, 45, presi dent of the Humane Society, said today. The other four were captured Wednesday when they walked into an open office on the second floor of the three-story terminal rotunda and someone shut the door. Since then all sorts of remedies have failed to get the other two. But their plight and reports that if captured they would face a ' certain laboratory death anyway may have won reprieves for them. 'i "The children of Savannah and the world would certainly feel let down if we lot these monkeys die now," said Mrs. Sally Mood, wife of a veterinarial and chairman . of the Humane Society's anti I cruelty committee. ORE BOATS JAMMED M1LWAUKKE, Wis. LTI - Port of Milwaukee officers are j working around the clock to clear up a jam of ore boats caused by calls from steel companies lo re plenish their ore supplies. ROGER THE TERRIBLE' Prohibition Time Hood Touhy Was Once Feared By Capone JOLIET. III. 1 UPI 1 - Roger Touhy today is only a graying, sagging shadow of the man who was known as "the terrible-' in the gang-ridden suburbs of Chica go during the early 1930 s. He still suffers from spinal in juries he claims were inflected by federal agents trying to frame him. His reputation as "Roger the Terrible" is lost among the dim ming memories of Chicago police men, the faded, brittle clippings in newspaper morgue files. The long-gone days of prohibition and bathtub gin that now are carica tured in movie comedies. But Touhy doesn't want lo live in the past or any of the gang land glory that made him the only man feared by Al Capone. All I want is to live in peace for the few years left for me," Touhy said Friday when told the Illinois Parole Board had granted him a parole and freedom from 6 Pag Retiring Railroader 'Sold' On The Beauty Of Grande Ronde Area "The Crande Ronde Valley was the prettied place 1 had ever seen in my life when I got off the train in La Crande. That was in into. "And it's still a pretty place." said John Cleveland Hughes, who has sKMit the swiftly passing 49 years as a brakeman and conduc tor fur the Union Pacific. Now re tirement has caught up with him at the aye of 70. Hughes' first impression of the scenic glamor of the Crande Ronde Valley was set up by eight months in lh Utah desert, work ing for the Southern Pacific. "Then I heard about a job with the I P. 111 La (irande by some JOHN C. HUGHES "Grande Ronde Valley wonderful place to live in after retirement." Grande Ronde Symphony In Sunday Show Grande Ronde Symphony Orches tra of I-a Grande will open its concert season Sunday night at 8 o'clock at the spacious Pendleton Vert Auditorium. Free admittance to all is prom ised by the sponsoring Lions Club of Pendleton. Dr. L. Rhodes Lewis, local con ductor, will have his orchestra supplemented by the Pendleton High School chorus. Bruce Wil hrlmson is director of the youth aggrctate. Programs scheduled for the night include "Lohengrin. Prelude to Act I," by Wagner: ."Symphony No. 5 in K Minor, Op. 9V 'from the "New World"), by Dvorak. This features "Adagio Allegro Molto," "Largo," "Scherzo," and "Allerg'j con fiioco.-' Following intermission, the Sym phony will render "Sing and Praise," by James, and "Woe Unto Them," by Randall. The high school will s'ng selec tions from the "West Side Story," by Bernstein, and the orchestra and chorus will combine on "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," by Hoist. The Vert Auditorium is located at 4th and S.W. Dorion. the cell where he has spent 25 years for a kidnaping he denies. "All I want is peace of mind and an untroubled life," he said. Reputation Did It Touhy, now 61 contended it was his reputation that sent bun to Stateville Penitentiary fur a quarter of a century after he was convicted of abducting John iJake the Barber) Factor, a swindler. Factor was kidnaped on a June night in 1933 and released 11 days later for $70.0110 ransom. He promptly identified Touhy as one of his abductors. Touhy charged that Factor, Ca pone and Chicago policemen com bined to frame him to give Scar face Al access to Touhy's bootleg ging territory and enable Factor to escape extradition to England on a seven-million-dollar swind ling charge. In 1943. Touhy, who lived by the sword, sought freedom the only way he knew. He and six other e,.l V.. y' o P 0 c Fiva Cnt kind of graievinc, and that's how I came here." he recalled. 32 Years Hare Hughes -came to stay 32 years in La Grande. He went to Pendle ton in 1942 for nine years, and has been working out of Portland the last eight years, but La Grande is still his first love. "There were only about two blocks of paved streets when I came to La Grande. Some of the store names you see today were around at that time. "And I remember I used to get lots of 8 and 9 inch trout close to town out of the Grande Ronde River." Hughes was an eager deer hun ter in the Wue Mountains, too, but no more. "I have to act my age now," he said. His La Grande friends will be seeing his face occasionally. He and his wife are planning to spend some time with their daughters, Mrs. Inez Smith and Mrs. Chaun cy Walker. Party Believers Hughes was born at Onawa, la., to Democratic parents who gave him the middle name of Cleveland after the president of that period, Grover Cleveland. "Maybe this had something to do with it," he said. "I've been a Democrat ever since." His railroading actually stretches back 56 years to a 14-year-old ma chinist apprentice for the Chicago & North Western at Deadwood, S.D. The excitement of rambling across the countryside on the high iron soon lured this lad from the machine shop to a brakeman's job. In 1905 he went to the Burlington at Alliance, Neb., and later back to 1he C.N W., on to the S.P. and finally to the U.P. at La Grande. Hughes has worked in U.P. pas senger service for 20 years. He has been a conductor on the mail and express trains 11 and 12 the last two years. But to the U.P. family and its customers from Portland to Hun tington, he will be remembered as the little manwith a miW and friendly word for everyone es pecially for the small shavers. Four Drivers Net Citations Four La Grande drivers were cited for violation of the basic rule by city police yesterday. James Albert Green, Rt. 2, was cited for not having his vehicle under control at 12:38 a.m. this morning while driving on Adams Avenue, police said. John G. DeBoie, 1308 Eighth St., was issued a citation for viola tion of the basic rule on Fourth Street between G and II Avenues at 6:50 a.m. Friday. Bail was set at $20. Dale Lester, Cove, was cited ,'or traveling 38 miles p?r hour in a 25 mile zone on Fourth Street between G and H Avenues at 6:23 last night. Lester posted $13 bail and was released. Gerald Wesley Taal, I BOO Wash ington Ave., was cited on Fourth Street between G and H Avenues for traveling 35 miles per hour n a 25 mile zone. The violation occurred at 8:45 p.m. Bail was set at $10. Hearings on all cases were scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday. convicts shot their way out of Stateville and roamed free for several weeks before federal agents killed three of the fugi tives and recaptured Touhy. For this Touhy was sentenced to another 199-year term. Then Touhy turned to the courts. In 1948 he sought his freedom on the ground that he was convicted on perjured testimony. Clemency From Stratten He went free for 49 hours and seven minutes jn 1954 when a dis tinguished Jurist, the late U. S, District Judge John P. Barnes, agreed Touhy had been framed But two days later the U.S. Court of Appeals set aside Barnes rul ing and sent a tearful Touhy back to prison. Touhy appealed to Gov. William G. Stratum for clemency and tha governor cut the 199-year tail break sentence to three years, making him eligible for toe Da role he received Friday