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WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy through Thursday with a few showers; high 50 55; low 25-30. LA GRANDE OBSERVER 4 64th Usuo 64th Year mm o , J n - 1 HEAVY CONSTRUCTION Boom operator swings 1614 ton concrete slab into place at the Inland Machinery building under construction on Adams Avenue. The slab was the first section of wall to go up at the construction site. The heaviest slab will weigh 22 tons. Bechtel Bros. are general contractors for the job. (Observer Photo) List Plans On Table By WASHINGTON UPI The cranberry industry unveiled today a plan aimed at putting the tra ditional cranberry back on the table by Thanksgiving. Industry representatives made a five-point proposal in a public meeting with Arthur S. Flemming. secretary of Health. Education and Welfare, and officials of the Food and Drug Administration. Flemming has promised an early decision, possibly Thursday, on whether his department will support the plan as effective for separating untainted cranberries from those containing a weed killer that has induced cancer in laboratory rats. In his opening remarks today Flemming said he was "very de sirous" of working out such an agreement with industry as soon as possible. He said he was "very aware of the seriousness of the situation for the cranberry in dustry." Plan Prosonttd The industry plait was presented By Ambrose K. Stevens, vice president of the Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., an industry as sociation which handles about 75 per cent of the nation's cranberry crop. He urged Flemming, as one point in the plan, to make "a declaration to the American peo ple that cranberries now in gro- 'BOARD OF DIRECTORS' Federal Nailed By NEW YORK UPI Twenty. one men sit todcy in a double row of chairs before a marble wall in a federal court. Their clothes are well tailored, their fingernails manicured, their hair sleek, their faces impassive. Among them is a virtual "board of directors" of the rackets in the I'nited States. Some have records running from narcotics to white slavery, assault to suspicion of murder. The government is trying to send them to prison for five years. It is one of the biggest federal of fensives against the underworld since the late Al Capone was bagged for income tax evasion. And, as in that case, they all are charged with none of the major felonies but with the abstract of fense of "conspiring tn obstruct Justice." Get eery stores are completely whole some and free from blemish of any sort." Flemming announced Nov. 9 that portions of the Oregon and and Washington cranberry crop contained the suspected chemical, aminotriazole. Stevens referred to the announcement date as "Black Monday" for the cranberry in dustry. The four other points in the in dustry plan would assure con sumers that they were purchasing pure berries. Stevens said. The industry's five-point pro posal provides for: Five Points Continuation of the ban on all use of aminotriazole until perti nent facts concerning the drug, including its effect on human beings, have been determined. Segregation of all cranberries TYPHOON CHINA-BOUND MANILA lUPIl Typhoon Freda bore down today on the Chinese Communist mainland, leaving in its wake in the Philip pines 58 persons dead, missing or injured. Philippine government relief agencies started full-scale ora tions today as the weather cleared. Trial For To Thanksg U. S. Agents Opens The 21 represent one-third of a band of men surprised on Nov. 14. 1957, at the hilltop home oi the late Joseph Barbara Sr., near Apalaqhin, N.Y. Attempt To Flee They took to the" woods, their cashmere coa:s got caught on barbed wire fences, their fine leather shoes caked with mud, their limou.vnes caught in road blocks that day as they sought to flee when Barbara's wife spotted a state police car. The government charges they have steadfastly and unanimously refused to disclose the purpose of the meeting two years ago. Their story is that they just happened to drop in on their ail ing friend. Barbara. It was quite a coincidence. They dropped in simultaneously from such spots as Scranton, Dallas, Miami, Ni -;r-.i .- i " Cranberries iving Date which there is any reason to be lieve may contain any. of the weed killer. Testing of all the 1959 crop row in the possession of major distributors, a procedure already being carried out by the FDA. Destruction of all cranberries found to contain any residue of the chemical or impounding of berries under "appropriate safe guards" until their proper dispo sition has been determined. Continued research and co operation with government agen cies "to insure uninterrupted de livery to the public of an adequate supply of pure a-id wholesome cranberries and cranberry pro duct s.-' Gigantic Feeder Cattle Sale Attracts 500 Persons Here Second largest feeder cat Ho tele in the history of the Union County Livestock As sociation drew more then 500 persons yesterday to the La Grand Livestock Com mission Co. yards. A total of 1,770 yearlings end calves went under the auctioneer's gavel. Many of the' yearlings and calves had to be sold directly Hoodlums agara Falls. Cleveland, San Ga briel, Calif., and Phoenix. There are a good many suspi cions of why it was called. Kingpin Shot Deed A'bert Anstasia, kingpin of the ew Torn rackets, had b en shot dead in a barber's chair in the ram ancntan Hotel just 20 days before. The "boys" may have been cnoosmg a successor. The McClellan committee in Washington was putting the heat on labor racketeering and they may have been a discussion of ways and - means of weathering that storm. Each of the 63 men there was of Italian ancestry. Investigators have dug up. evidence indicating a considerable number of the as sembly were members of the Mafia, the Sicilian , criminal society. LA GRANDE, ORE., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1959 Kidnaper Suspect Guns Policeman In Pendleton Run PENDLETON IUPH - A man captured after a Highway 30 chase which involved two appar ent kidnapings and the wounding of a state policeman today faced possible murder charges for the slaying of a Camas, Wash., used car salesman. Under guard at St. Anthony's hospital was John Broderson. 33, who suffered a superficial bullet wound in his (high after an ex change of shots with State Police man Kenneth Green, 30, The Dalles. Green suffered flesh wounds in both legs. The slain man was Harold 0 Osier. 51. His body was found in an apartment with his hands and feet bound, his mouth gagged with tape and with a knife wound in the back. Holdup Alto Reported Before the slaying was dis covered, Caii Gehman, operator of a sports shop in Camas, had Bloodmobile Drive Here C f-.l -l I irraccTi A total of 131 pints of blood v. ere given at the recent drawing oi tne Red Cross Bloodmobile. Mrs. Yetti Murphv received special recognition for having do- J.nated three gallons of blood and Mrs. Juanita Hanson was award ed a two-gallon pin. C R. Butler, Mrs. Patricia Briggs and Donna Blank received one-gallon pins. The following local residents assisted in the drawing: Mrs. Spencer Burch, Mrs. Lylc Kiggs, Mrs. LeRoy Briggs. Mrs Roland Allen, Mrs. Wesley Smith, Mrs. Alice Eddy, Mrs. Adam Cyr ana Mrs. OrviIIe Lentz. Doctors on Duty Physicians on duty were Dr Lacer, Dr. Ager, Dr. VanderbiH, Dr. Ross, Dr Kubler, Dr. Ging rich and Vt. Moori. Serving as typists were Mrs. Homer Leffel, Mrs. W. R. Wint ers, Mrs. Don McCall, and a group of the Eastern Oregon College Sabers, Vad Kelsoe, Sharon Xoycs, Pat Ward, Joyce Kay, Myrna Barrett and Sue Switzer. Nurses aids were Mrs. Frank Devaney, Mrs. Archie Dunsmoor, Mrs. John Ladd, Mrs. Marie Crown, Mrs. Lola Martin, Mrs. Frances Greulich. Mrs. Jane Fur- gason, and Mrs. Dan Turlcy. Mrs. Herbert Davis and Mrs. Beth Cleaver were in charge of the motor corps. Graduate nurses Mrs. Bessie Miller, Mrs. John Vanderbilt, Mrs. Rex Wall. Mrs. La Mar C'hris- tiansnn and Elsa Hammond as sisted. from the trucks when pens jcrc fillrd to capacity by 12:30 p.m. Unloading was not completed un til the middle cf the afternoon. Top Quality One cattle company bought 150 head of yearlings and praised the sale for top quality cattle. Top price for yearling heifers vent to Earl Rankin, La Grande with $18.36 cwt. Rankin also tal lied top price for yearling steers with $23.70 cwt. Brazille Brothers of Cove had top price heifer calves at $23.70, cwt. Ramey and Stockhoff. La Grande, took top price for steer calves with $28.10, cnt. Cattle from the sale went to Washington, Idaho and Nebraska according to sale record books. Elgin Logger In Surgery For Serious Accident ELGIN (Special) Herman I Red) Lovan, an Elgin logger, un dement surgery this morning at St. Joseph hospital in La Grande fer injuries suffered yesterday in a logging accident. Lovan was hurt at Looking Glass when a log broke loose and fell on him. He was employed as a landing man for Gifford Ter ry when the mishap occurred. The Elgin first aid car met the Terry vehicle beteen Look ing Glass and Elgin and took the injured logger to La Grande. He suffered a broken hack and fractured hip. been held un hv a man who took a pistol and locked Gehman in the ' basement saying "do as I say." I killed a man five minutes ago." Slate Police Sergeant Roger Armstrong of Pendleton gave this account of the chase: M. and Mrs. James Tucker of Oswego, Ore., enroute to Hood Kuer. picked up a hitch hiker who laler ordered Mrs. Tucker out of the c.ir at The Dulles and forced Tucker to drive on. Mrs. Tucker telephoned state police and roadblocks were set up. When the Tucker car was sight ed, police stayed behind and kept it under surveillance to avoid any trouble which might endanger Tucker's life. Exchange of Shots Patrolman Green was in a car behind Tucker and the suspect. When the car ahead suddenly stopped Green came to a halt immediately behind. Tucker was released but Green was forced at gunpoint to accompany the sus pect. When the car approached a roadblock at Heppner Junction, Green jumped the suspect and there was an exchange of shots inside the car. Both men suffered flesh wounds in the thigh. At this point other police cars closed in and the suspect was captured. Police said Oster's body was found in a room rented to Brod erson. They said he apparently had been lured to the rooming house on the pretext of a car sale. Officer Green and Broderson both were treated first at a Her miston hospital. Later Broderson was brought here and Green was taken to The Dalles. Big Hike Of Old-Age Payments As of February, 1909, old-aye survivors," and disability Insurance! monthly benefits were being paid in Union County at the rate of $1,124,508 a year, according to Vernon A. Welo. manager of the La Grande social security dis trict office. "This is an increase of about 25 per cent over last year," he said. Welo stressed that while the benefits are intended primarily for the beneficiary's economic se curity, the payments of social security benefits at the rate of $1,124,508 a year in Union County helps business in the community generally because most of the money is sp?nt immediately on food, clothing, and other neces sities. "In February social se curity benefits were being paid nationally at a rate of nearly 10 billion dollars annually," he said. Maximum Payment 'Payments to a retired worker with no dependents receiving bene fits averaged $67.50 a month na tionally in February, and to a retired couple $119. 40 a month," Welo said. The average for widow with two young children was $165. The maximum payment for a family is $254. There were several reasons for the increase in beneficiaries ovr last year," he said. The long Musical Critics Laud Local Symphony Group Music Critics were highly com plimentary of the Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra performance at Pendleton Sunday, according to Dr. L. Rhodes Lewis, con ductor." Dr. Lewis said that miserable weather conditions at Pendleton failed to kceD people away from the program. Meanwhile, final practice ses sion was held bv the local musi cians Monday night at EOC prep aratory to Sunday aitcrnoon s first La Grande concert of the season. The concert will feature Miss Nadia Koutzen, Philadelphia, on the program. The soloist num ber music followers are waiting for is the Bruch Concerto in G Minor, with Miss Koutzen featur ed on the violin. Concert time is 4 p.m. In the EOC auditorium. HACERTY IN GREECE ATHENS. Freece UPI '-Presi dential press secretary James Hagerty arrives today irom rew Delhi to make arrangements for President Eisenhower's visit next month.- f DR. I. L. KOSIN Noted Farm Specialist Here Friday Dr. I. L. Kosin. Washington State University professor, will be the featured speaker at the annual Chamber of Commerce Farmer-Merchant banquet. Dr. Kosin represented the gov ernment as an agricultural spe cialist in Moscow at the American National Exhibition this year. Dr. Kcsin speaks the Russian language fluently and visited many Russian homes and institu tions during the summer. He will use slides to illustrate his talk. The annual banquet has been set for the La Grande Armory Friday night at 7. Ted Sidor is the chairman. In County term growth of the aged popula lions and of the proportion of the aged' population eligible, for bene fits are important factors in the continuing increase in the number of beneficiaries. . Qualificaitons Welo pointed out that it is now casicr'for the disabled worker to qualify for benefit payments. He no longer need social security credit for 14 years of work in the last 3 years before he became dis abled. If he worked under so cial security for at least 5 years out of the 10 before he became dis abled he may be eligible for dis ability benefits. A county breakdown reveals there are 977 beneficiaries of re tired workers with a monthly in come of $67,449 ; 289 beneficiaries of the wife or husband drawing $10,562; 115 beneficiaries of I he widow or widower drawing $6,201; 29 beneficiaries of mothers with children and dependent parents drawing $1,588, and 144 children beneficiaries drawing $6,153 LOCAL MAN EARNS CAMERA AWARD Union County ExtensionUgcnt Ted Sidor, right, shows Observer Publisher Riley ALen the award presentecftSidor at the an nual Oregon Weed Conference last week In Medford. The Polaroid Land camera was given for Sidor's weed control program in Union County and specifically the eradi cation of barberry bushes in the county. Sidor has been chairman of the local Exten- sion onice since iou- 8 Pag East, nveloped Great 50 MILLION FRENCHMEN? PARIS (UPI) Fifty million Frenchmen today debated ) whether it wet being in the army or twey from hit wife that made Brigilte Bardot't husband nervous in the ser vice. Actor Jacques Charrier, the fearful sobs of his pregnant wife echoing 'round hit eart, went off to the army two weekt ago. Two days later ho was in an army hospital with a "case of nerves," partly brought on, ho said, by the fact hit bar racks mates had naked pic tures of "B3" all over the walls. New Names To Cemeteries La Grande's three cemeteries have been renamed by the board oi directors of the La Grande Cemetery Maintenance District. The action was taken at a recent meeting of the board to clear up confusion about the cemeter ies. Dr. W. M. Peare, chairman of the board, said that anyone may purchase space in any one of the three cemeteries. Prior to the creation of the district, the cemeteries were known as the City cemetery (in earlier years it was called the Masonic cemetery), the Catholic cemetery, and the Odd Fellows cemetery. All of the cemeteries were operated independently un til the district was formed. All three of the cemeteries have been deeded to the district and are now operated as one cemc tery. Dr. Peare said. City cemetery has been re named Hillcrest; Catholic ceme tery is now the Calvary cemetery; and the Odd Fellows cemetery will be known as the Grandvicw cemetery. Dr. Peare announced SHAKESPEARE DEBUT NEW YORK UPI Broad way actress Julie Harris said Tuesday night she will make her professional Shakespeare debut as Juliet next summer at the Strat ford, Ont., Shakespeare Festival Theater. Miss Harris currently is appear ing on Broadway in "The Warm Peninsula." , Five Cents South Cold Poses Danger To Shipping CHICAGO (UPI) A re cord breaking November cold snap froze the East and South today and threatened Great Lakes skippers with an early freeze-up. Great Lake freighters, trying to make up for time lost by the steel strike, battled gale force winds and heavy ice to get vital ore shipments to the recently-opened mills. The water was already begin ning to freze at the huge Dulutb ore docks on Lake Superior. "The Lake is finished steaming and that means a freeze-up," a Coast Guard officer at Ashland, Wis., said. - One tugboat sunk under the Heavy weight of ice, a freightej was reported ice-bound in Lake Michigan and two barge tows had trouble getting through ice jams on the Mississippi River. No Immediate Danger The Coast Guard at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., said there were close to 500 freighters still plying the lakes, about 50 of them, all ice-covered but in no immediate danger, passed through the Soo locks Tuesday. The big freeze already had closed the ship canal through the Keeweenaw Peninsula'' on ' Lake Superior.' The locks on the Fox River in Lake Michigan's Green Bay were frozen so tight that not even Coast Guardsmen's axes could break them open. The cold wave which posed a threat to shipping reached the eastern and extreme southern sections of the country Tuesday night. Temperatures dropped to near freezing or below over the Caro lina. Georgia. Alabama. Missis sippi, I.ouisiana and south Texas. The Weather Bureau said the moderating trend would be felt over the northern and central Rockies eastward through the north and central plains states, into the upper Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. Skies over the mid-section of the country were partly cloudy. Rain drenched the West Coast and snow flurries were forecast in the northeast and the northern Great Lakes. vuvseiver rnuioj By Freeze llll a 1 1