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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1959)
LT. COL. WATSON Lt. Franz Haun, left, 67th lsue 64th Year - CITY MANAGER Dave C. Siaght was appointed " city manager by the city commission last night. Siaght is a veteran of 19 years in -city govern ment. 1le was one of . eight candidates consid ered fr the position. (Observer Photo) Central PTA Sets Confab Tomorrow - Central School PTA will hold its last met-ting before the Christ mas holiday period Friday at 2:30 in (lie multi purpose room. Re freshments will be srved at the beginning of the meeting. The classrooms of Mrs. Harvey Cart er's secend grade room and Mrs. John ' Bernhardt s third grade room provide the entertainment. Gue.t speaker for the afternoon meeting will be Chief of Police Oliver Reeve, whose topic will be, "Know Your Community." It is boped that there will be a good turnout of parents to hear the talk and to take part in a live ly and informative question and answer period following. The final report of the Fall Carnival will be made at this time. There will be a nursery for small children. 25 YEARS BEHIND 'ft 'K Touhy, Now Old Man, Recalls Chicago's Al Capon e Era Days i By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN JOLIET. 111. (IPI - The last time that Roger Touhy and I sat a,t a table together was more than 23 years ago. the night we w?re nd Judge Micha"! Feinberg's courtroom in Chicago awaiting the verdict that was to send him to prison.' ; Except for a brief period when lie went "over the wall" from prison, and for brief appearances in court, Touhy has been behind bar ever since. He's still soft-spoken. He still can wear the same size clothes that he wore when he came here. He still doesn't swear. But the years have marked this graying man. and as we sat in the almost church-like stillness of an assistant warden's office, look ing out at the bright November sunshine, Touhy told me why. Prison Time Slow ''Five years in here." he said, "they're like a hundred outside. ','When I walk out of here. I Valk out to liberty. . .when I get out, I want to crusade for what you might call a writ of innocence. if G I GREETS OFFICERS Maj. Veager, Center. LA GRANDE Hawaiian Volcano Threatens Populace As Fears Mounting City Sets New Issue On Sewage City commissioners last night made their next move in the giant chess game involving sewage treat ment facilities for La Grand.1. The commission agreed to ap print a citizen's committee' of 25 members to investigate the prob lems and make a recommenda tion to the commission as to the best solution to the present situa tion. The committee had been suggest ed at the Oct. 9 meeting of city officials. Commissioner H. E. Waddell said he had talkrd to several citizens and thoy thought the committee a good idea. Asks Appointment Commissioner William Herr mann said that a La Grande resi dent had called him and asked to be placed on such a committee should it be formed. The five city officials then agreed to postpone nominations to the committee until next week. Each commissioner will recom mend five names for the com mittee with an alterna'e in case of duplication by one or more o.' thj other members. The committee members will be drawn from all areas of the city in an effort to make the group as representative as possible. Dave Siaght, nwly appointed ci!y manager, recommended that special e'fort be made to nomin ate a person from the area east of Spruce Street and no.th of Jackson Street. BARS There are at least 35 me.i in this prison who are behind bars be cause someone wants them there, not because they're guilty. I'm going to write to every congress man and senator that my money will pettnit. to try to get a feder al statute to give a prisoner the right of scientific methods to prove his innocence."' Then we began to recall the prohibition era career of Touhy. The kidnaping of John (Jake. The Rarber' Factor, a crime which Touhy still denies. Wants To Disappear ' "I'm going to disappear." said Touhy. "1 have to go back to Cook County because the parole board said so, but as soon as I can go somewhere else, I'm going there and hide. "I'm not going to look fot my old friends. They're mostly all dead. "But remember when the county' Cook was mine and the city was At) Capone's? "They keep saying I was an enemy of Capone. I never was. Bob. I had the county and be had LA GRANDE, BAN SPECTATORS FROM CRATER AS LAVA ERUPTS HONOLULU (UPI) Thousands of volcano spectators were ordered away from the east rim of Kilauea Iki crater Wednesday night when the fountain of molten lava shot to a new high of 1,050 feet. Authorities said the move Judge Asked To Oust Hoffa WASHINGTON (ITU A feder al judge has been asked to oust James R. Hoffa as president of the Teamster Union and bring him to trial on corruption charges. The request was made Wednes day to U. S. District Court here by Godfrey P. Schmidt, attorney for 12 rank-and-file teamsters. The group asked Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to name an impartial board of examiners to hear 164 charges ot misconduct against Hofta and report back on their verdict. They said neither Hoffa nor the Teamsters' executive board had done anything about the charges which were filed with the court months ago. They said "no reasonable hope of substantial reform of the Teamster movement can be en tertained while James R. Hoffa and his cronies control the admin istration of the International or ganization.'' The rebel group argued that the union's general executive board, which normally would try union officers accused of misconduct, was not capable of being impar tial in Hoffa's case. the city. Why. I'd go to Florida and get on his yacht. I'd go to the Midnight Frolics on 22nd St and go in there while Al was there."' The Midnight Frolics is gone now. It was a wild life sort of cabaret, and got the front part of its name front the hour that it oiened each night. It was a Cap one hangout. Enters Beer Business "When you first knew me, Bob, I wasn't in the beer business. 1 was in the auto business," Touhy continued. "Nat Kolb was in the beer business, and he didn't like his partner. I bought him out for $10,000. " Hretty soon. I could put my hands on 10.000 barrels of beer. I had a good brewery in Du Page County, and a brewmaster with 10 years experience. I dealt in beer. I didn't dial in whisky. I wasn't a night spot guy. "When I got into trouble he meant the Factor kidnaping1 I had fioo.ooo in property and money but now I'm lucky to have $15,000 to put together. '.: . 4 i INSPECTING THE KITCHEN Col. Watson, Sgt. 1st Class Odies Tayne OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 was necessary because of the fire hazards brought abouj by hot pumice blown onto the crater r)m. The wind blown pumice set off brush fires as far as one mile away from the crater. Klrtx today an Aloha Inter-Is land Airlines spokesman said the outer windshield pane in the pi lot's compartment oi one of the firm's F-27 jet-prop planes was cracked by a piece of lava that shot up from Kilauea Iki Wednes day night. The aircraft was struck by the lava as it circled the crater to give passengers a better view of the fountain, believed to be the highest ever witnessed here The eruption began Saturday night. Spectators were ordered away from the crater by Hawaii Na tional Park Service otticers who reported the operation was car ried out "very smoothly" with no panic or disorder. 1 Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officials reported today that from midnight to S a.m. the thousand foot lava fountain was plunging back to the crater's floor forming a vast river of lava. Meanwhile, observatory officials said earth tremors became no ticeably stronger than Wednes day morning, rattling windows at the Volcano House Hotel. Park officials estimated that some 18,000 to 20,000 visitors have viewed the spectacular showers since the initial eruption Saturday night. Two Fires Answered The La Grande fire department was called to two fires late Tues day. Firemen- went to the Coca Cola Bottling Co., 1114 Jefferson Ave., at 4:50 p.m. when a fire in a stoker filled the basement with , . smoke. Of Judge Pro-Tern Passers-by sent in the alarm but The city commission lust night there as no fire, according to accepted the resignation of Willard Fire Chief Ray Snider. K. Carey as city" judge pro-tern. A roof fire at 405 Greenwood Carey, in a letter to the com SL, called the - department out i mission, asked th.it his resigna at 9:35 p.m. Hot soot from a lion be accpted effective Nov. 15. flue caught fire on the roof and did minor damage, snider said, Improvement District Hearings Held By City Commission; No Complaints Improvement district hearings' were held at Wednesday night's commission meeting for eight dis tricts. No. one was present to speak for or against any of the Assistant Librarian At EOC To Meeting Kittie May Crockett, assistant professor of children's literature at Eastern Oregon College, will attend the executive board meet ing of the Association for Super vision and Curriculum Develop ment in Salem Friday. Mrs. Crockett represents East tin Oregon on the executive board. C . .:: ! ' V . fx " Lao - .1 W: TT OBSERVER Warm Air Mass Routs Cold Wave By United Press International A mass of warm nir from the Southwest today routed a record November cold wave. The Weather Bureau said the last effects of the arctic front that set record teMpbrnturef'n lef; foot-deep snows when It reached the East Coast were fading fast. Temperatures across the nation climbed slowly above the normal seasonal average. Only the extreme Southeast still shivered in the frigid arctic air. Temperatures were reiwrted be low freezing in parts of Mississip pi. Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Warm Air Returns The Weather Bureau said tem peratures would dip slightly today from the northern Great Lakes th-oi'gh the Dakotas and snow flurries would dampen the Dako tas. Montana and the Washington Idaho area. But warmer air caressed the rest of a nation hit by some of the nastiest November weather on record. Ore boats and barge tows ply ing the Great Lakes and Missis sippi River, respectively, were re ported still hampered by ice that formed on the river and in bays off the lakes. Weather Kills Six The cold wave fired a parting shot Wednesday in the form of record low temperatures in Tex as, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The freeze was blamed for at least six deaths, including two each in Montana and North Da kota and one each in Ind a.ia and Illinois, where a Chicago woman was found froze.i in her heatless apartment. Cnmu Poclnnc Pc No reason for the resignation was given in the letter. proposed improvements. Four water districts and three sewer districts were und r considera tion. A petition for a sewer and water district west of Alder Street and south of F Streets w as accept (d and placed on file by the city commission. The petitions for Sewer District 3-22 and WatT District 12 were both signed by Karl Miller and Elton Clemens Jr. WEATHER Paiily cloudy tonight and Friday; hifehs 44 52; low to. night 20 28. fcv . X ( fa COL. WATSON INPECTS LOCAL GUARD UNIT Sgt. Gary Knight, Left, Lt. Koy Wilhelm, Center. .,- (Observer Photos) 12 Paget WILL PERFORM HERE Lovely Naclia Koutzon. violinist from Philadelphia, will be featured soloist at Sunday's first La Grande concert of the new season, by the Grande Ronde Symphony Or chestra, at the Eastern Oregon College auditorium at 4 p.m. GETTING READY FOR THE BANQUET ; Plans and preparations for annual Farmer-Merchant banquet Friday near completion as committees and Chamber of Commerce workers wrap up final details. Al Mep-v pen, left, in charge of procurement, goes over list with Norma Hunt, chamber secre-.y tary, and Chamber Manager Ilonce Snodgrass. Banquet is at 7 p.m. in La Grande Ar ?; mory. Wives of farmers will be treated to free show at Granada Theatre while their husbands attend banquet. Tickets for show must be picked up at chamber office by -5 p m Friday. (Observer Photo) - Five Cents V Local NG lnspected By Colonel Headquarters and Headquarters 1st Battle Group, 186th Infantry of the Oregon National Guard, stood inspection last night at trie La Grande Armory. t U. Col. George II. Watson, as sistant inspector general, con ducted the inspection. Col Wat son is a 1943 West Point gradu ate and recently returned from a two-year tour of duty in the Philippines with a military advis- ry group. Highlight of the inspection was the presentation by Col. Don An derson, Portland, of a ribbon for the local unit's "superior" rating oi last year. Represented Governor - Col. Anderson is chief of staff uf the 41st Division and repre sented Gov. Mark O. Hatfield and Brig. Gen. Alfred Ilintz in mak ing the presentation. Col. Watson inspected each member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company and then visited groups ot Guard members ."ho were studying or woiking on various projects. One group erected a 30-foot plus antenna and another was engaged in rig ging a communications setup. The final stop for the inspec tor and the visiting public was the kitchen where Guard metay bers prepared hamburgers under the direction of Sgt. 1st Clasfc Odies Payne, mess steward, .t Results of the federal inspection will not be announced for approx imately three months. '.