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WEATHER Fir through Thursday ex P patches of '9 wiy Thursday; highs 44-53; low 22 21. LA GRAND OBSE RVER E 72nd 64th Year Nehru China Fiqht If aur NEW DELHI (UPD Prime iiiiiiiiier jawanerim im warned Communist China to day that "if war is thrust up on us we will fight with all our strength." The aroused premier, raising his voice to emphasize India's do terminatio'i. spoke in Parliament at opening of a debate on India's border dispute with Peiping. As Nehru was speaking hun dreds of socialists who have pro tested his mild approach to the crisis gathered outside Pai'lia ment and shouted anti-govern ment slogans. Police prevented their storming into the building Inside Pari ament pandemoni um broke out when Nehru ac cused the optxisition socialist par ties of using the Peiping troubles to further their own political ends The uproar died when he quickly . apologized "It is a strange turn of events that India, which has stood for peace so long, is now faced with the possibility even of war," Neh ru said. He emphasized that India want ed peace; he termed war a. "dan gerous and a bad thing" and he said India would work to avoid it. But his speech was one of the most forthright he has delivered on the current Indo-Chinese ten sio-i. He said at no time since India had achieved independence was its military in better shape to de lend the nation's 9.000 miles of borders. And he said India's in dustrial . might was equally able to back up military prepared ness. Another outbreak flared in Par liament when Nehru criticized the Indian Communist Party for pro Peiping demonstrations in Calcut ta. A Communist party member arose to protest and was drowned out with cries of "shame!" from Congress and Socialist members. ; Whei Nehru-finished- speaking ha introduced as a resolution the Indian government white paper of Nov. 16 containing India's corres pondence with Peiping on the bor der dispute. The opposition leaped to the attack with a flurry of amendments expected to be voted on Thursday. The Soviet End other Communist country ambassadors heard Neh ru's criticism of Peiping but the Red Chinese envoy was nowhere to be seen. Red Skelton Gives 1 Check For Cancer HOLLYWOOD UPI' Come dian Red Skelton, whose young son Richard died of leukemia a year and a half ago, sent a $5,000 check Tuesday to a Japanese woman doctor who needed the money to pursue research into blood diseases. A spokesman for Skelton said Dr. Chieko Okawa of Tokyo was forced to sell some of her books two weeks ago to get enough mon ey to continue research into he matology, the science of the blood. Leukemia is a blood disease, of ten called cancer of the blood. FIERY PATH OF Probers View Plane Wreckage In Chicago That Took 11 Lives CHICAGO l'PI Investiga tors today sifted the flame-blackened rubble of a residential neigh borhood where a four engine car go plane tore a fiery path ol de struction, killing 11 persons. Fojr teams of experts tried to piece together the twisted bits of wreckage to find why the Trans World Airlines Super-H Constella tion crashed before dawn while trying to make an emergency landing at Midway Airport Tues day. One aviation expert said a loss of power might have caused the explosive, roof-shearing crash in the densely populated area. The Civil Aeronautics Board said a public hearing would be held after investigators have me ticulously pieced together and ex amined the wreckage in a TWA hanger at Midway. Local officials also were plan ning an investigation. Cook County (Chicago) Coroner Walter E. McCarron said he would summon a blue ribbon jury to take evidence McCarron said residents of the stricken neighbor Warns Red India Will Attacked At one point ,.hrll termed a "verv h.nrvh -..( 1.1V mf i omtm nunist ire.nmeit of In dian prisoners cap'ured in the La daiih clash a'ul comulained that they were suhjec'el to forced in terrogation and to make state ments in violation of international practice. Investigate Theft Of Tire, Wheel From Auto Repair Police are investigating the theft of a tire and wheel from Gregory's Auto Repair, Island Uty Highway, last night. The tire and wheel were taken from the a pair yard between 7 p.m. Tues day and 8 this morning, police am. The white wall tire and wheel were valued at S40. , One La Grande motorist was also cited f,)r violation of the basic rule yesterday. Catherine Millie Seibert. Saea'jawea Annex. was issued a citation for travel ing 35 miles per hour in a 25 mile zone at 9:30 p.m., near the intersection of I Avenue and Fourth Street. Mrs. Seibert waived her hear ing after posting $10 bail. Portland News Strike Meeting Is Fruitless PORTLAND U'PIi The sec ond joint meeting between Stere otypers and management of Port land's two daily newspapers since a strike started Nov. 10 produced no progress. Federal Mediator Elmer Williams said today. Both sides met with William for about two hours Tuesday aft ernoon." . - - Williams indicated that with the Thanksgiving holiday coming up no new m e e 1 1 n gs would be planned until next week. He said James Sampson, international president of the Stereotypers Union, is scheduled to be here then. The morning Oregonian and the afternoon Oregon Journal were continuing to publish joint edition in the Oregonian pla it. Summed Up In a two-column, pae one arti cle headed "So Our Readers May Know." the newspapers today summed up their side of the strike situation. The article concluded: "The Journal has joined hands with the Oregonian as a production neces sity. It is an independent home owned corporation and intends to KILL 21 REBELS COLOMB BECHAH, A'geria - UPI i Twenty-one rebels were reported killed ar.d four captured Tuesday when Foreign Legion naires swooted down from the skies in helicopters to mop up a band of Moslems who tried to cross the frontier from Morocco DEATH, RUIN hood told him planes were "fly ing too low," sometimes only 20 feet above the housetops. However, families living in the long rows of bungalow-type homes have become inured to the never ceasing noise of planes over-head. They learn to sleep soundly, de spite the roaring airplane engines. Tuesday the pattern was trag ically changed. At 5:31 a m , TWA Flight 3!'". a freight plane from New York to Los Angeles swung down I'ain way 31 at Midway Airport. It carried 4.000 gallons of high oc tane gasoline, a spare jet engm1 3.000 pounds of mail and other cargo. Pilot Confident Its pilot. Cant. Claude Helwig . : crashed into two bungalows three 40. suburban Los Angeles, had ( blocks from the runway. The tail just cleared the airport and w a.-1 assembly smashed into an apart climbing into the dark and over- ment house across the street, cast sky when he radioed the con-' The plane was only 10 seconds trol tower: I from a safe landing. "Midway. We just got a fire-1 The two bungalows were en bell on No. 2 iengine. We're gulfed in flames as the high oc coming back in." jtane gasoline exploded, sending The local aircraft controller, j flame and smoke mushrooming Lloyd Harold, told Helwig "you i four to five stories into the air. I it 1 I --a I r Jfo M? lF x . I 7 I I 1 ays. I A startled expression adorns the face of Thomas Turkey at the dangerous antics of Beth, left, and Ruth Combs. Thomas is confused. "They seem so nice," he must be thinking. But watch out for that hatchet, Tom. The at- return to separate production in the Journal plant when the pro duction problems for the opera tion of the two plants have been solved." The newspapers also said that after it was decided to publish a joint edition "immediate steps were taken to make individual oflers of full time permanent em- Hlo;i.iint wilh the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal as separate newspa)ers to trained production personnel. This offer was made throughout the United States. The response to the offer has been and continues to be heavy." La Grande, County School Board Members Air Mutual Interests La Grande school hoard mem bers last night met with a large croup of various Union County school beard members and other school o.ficials to discuss tuition. budget and Oregon School Re organization. Heeded by Horton Andrews, the meeting, held at the high school, was mainly in'ormative and delved aiso on discussion of pos sible annexation of close-in rural districts to the La Grande Dis trict 1. School Reorganization. Transportation from the county into La Grande also was aired, with the La Grande board express ing reluctance in spending further monies on another bus. can have any runway you want. Do you request the fire equipment standing by?'' Helw g was absolutely confident he could bring the plane in safe ly. "Negative on the I fire equip ment," he told the tower. The pilot swung the plane around and began setting down (or the emergency landing. Witnesses who saw the plane said the left inboard engine belched flame. At 5:37, just six minutes after takeoff, the plane skimmed too low over the darkened homes. The tail section struck a house just five blocks from the airport. It glanched off two other houses, swept through a light post and LA GRANDE, &. , " 111 GOBBLER THAT WON'T 'TALK TURKEY' FOR HAPPIER MARITAL BLISS SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A titled Frenchwoman gave thi prescription today for marital happineu. Baronet Moniqut de Nervo of Paris, here at tpecial am bassadress for tht French champagne induttry, advis ed wives to drink glass of champagne In tht morning and then send their husbands off to work J'with long . Us." . To the husbands. Baronets de Nervo suggested that they forget office matters before coming home. "Wives don't need office time," the uid. "They need husband time." Oregon School Reorganization! was one of the main topics, how- ever, and chairman Andrews and the board based much of their discussion on how th? local dis trict could accommodate a student increase on possible rural district annexation. School law topics hea d in cluded: 1. The high school education of all children of school ace resi dent within a school district which does not operate a district high school or which is not a com ponent part of a union high school district or of a county high school district after July 1, 10, shall be the responsibility of such district. 2. Such district shall pay the tuition of all pupils resident within the dist. ict who are quali fied to attend and are attending a standard public high school. 3. Such district shall furnish transportation to the nearest stand ard public high school which such pupils may attend. Reasonable board and room may be furnished in lieu of transportation of de sired. 4. The estimated cost of tui tion and transportation or hoard and room in lieu of transportation shall be included in and he a part of the budget submitted to the rural school district board. List Tentative Bid Date For Riveria Addition La Grande school board mem bers last night approved plans and instructed Superintendent Lyle Riggs to proceed with the architects and set a date for bid openings on the addition to the Riveria grade school. Riggs told The Observer this morning that the tentative bid opening date would be Dec. is in his office at he junior high building. Bids will call for two fire ex its from the top floor and at op posite ends of the building, new heating plant in outside boiler room, and a cafeteria kitchen to be constructed on the south side of the present multi purpose room. Bids should not exceed $40,000. ORg wcnuccnAY NOVEMBER 75, 1959 tractive Eastern Oregon College freshmen tried to re assure the gobbler but Thomas wasn't talking turkey with anyone on the day before Thanksgiving. Not even with the twins. (Observer Photo by Bill Bebout) Much Of Nation Set For Pleasant Weather WASHINGTON H'Pli Much of the nation will enjoy "generally pleasant" weather on Thanks giving, the Weather Bureau re ported today in a revised forecast The prediction said mostly fair weather with clear to partly cloudy skies will be on tup from the Pacific Coast through the (ireat Plains into the Gulf Coast states, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, and alon- the immedi ate hast Loast into' southern Ver mont, New Hampshire and Maine. However, the forecast said snow and snow flurries with some rain are likely from eastern Missouri and the Upper Mississippi Valley A'so: The board of such rural school district shall apportion the ; remainder of its said tax levy to the school districts within the rural school district in the pro portion that the estimated average daily membership of each such district for such school year bears to the estimated total average daily membership within the rural school district, provided, that such estimated average daily member ships shill be determined from the reports of each school district to the superintendent of public instruction for the quarter ending on the preceding December 31: The comprehensive reorganiza tion p'an for the county in one or more administration school dis tricts which can furnish efficient and adequate educational oppor tunity for all the pupils in grades 1 through 12. On reorganization, James Klein, a county board mem ber, said that Fruitdale had again rejected this issue, and he doubted that reorganize "tion would pass in that school community. See LA GRANDE Page 3 Government Gals Revolt Against 'Latrine Duty' WASHINGTON UPI An angry band of government girls has done what many a GI only dreamed of revolted success fully aiiainst "latrine duty." The eirls. secretaries, clerks and typists for the Military Air Transport Service MATS at Na tional Airport here, were ordered to split into teams of twos and take turns cleaning up their la dies' room while the custodian was out sick.. The girls howled and refused to ao the job, euphemistically cauea "extracuricular duties" in the or der. ' MATS, admittedly embarrassed by the incident, withdrew the di rective. A spokesman said the or der was issued by a low-level "eager beaver" who did not check with superiors. The order was issued Nov. 9 to take effect the next day. I through the Great lakes region the Ohio and Tennessee vulleys into southwest Virginia, West Vir ginia, Pennsylvania, New York and the north fringes of New Kngland. A few scattered snow flurries are predicted for the Colorado mountains early Thursday. The bureau said that except for some warming in Louisiana and Georgia, it will be cold oyer much of the area from the Plains to the Atlantic Seaboard and in the Northern Plateau and Rocky Mountain Region. SOMETHING WRONG HERE This "Pilgrim Por poise," in pursuit of his Thanksgiving Day dinner seems to have his birds mixed up as he corners a peli can. Someone had better warn the pelican to "Speak for yourself, John, he thinks you're a turkey," or else he is liable to end up a Thanksgiving feast. Refuses To Check Written In Error By Bank HOLYOKE. Mass. 'L'PIl - A woman who purchased a $4,000, 022.75 check for $22 75 through a banking error was unimpressed today by a court order obtained by the bank. "Darned if I'm going to give it back." said Mrs. James Walsh. "I'm going to take that little old check and frame it." Mrs. Walsh, wife of an Air Force sergeant, said she had In tended to return the check until she learned the bank had fired the teller who made the mistake Then she changed her mind. "I'm not going to be forced into anything,'' she said. After five frustrating days of trying to get their four million dollars back, the Hadley rails. Trust Co. sent Its vice presidcm Rocket Stands 4. At Cape For- Moon l CHRISTMAS EDITION SET The Observer will publish a special Christmas edition on Thanksgiving Day. Including special features on Christmas for shoppers, the edition will display Christ mas advtrtising by local mer chants. Expect Quiet Thanksgiving Day Here Thanksgiving Day will be ob served quietly in La Grande as residents gather in the city's churches for special worship ser vices and mothers rush to pre pare the annual Thanksgiving feast. For school children, Thursday will he the first day of a four- day Thanksgiving vacation throughout Union County. All federal and state buildings will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Mixed Ensemble of the La Grande High School will carol in downtown U Grande at 6:30 p.m. Friday and the boys' quartet will sing in Elgin at 10 p.m. On Saturday the girls' ensem ble of the high school will carol downtown at 2:30 p.m. SIGN TRADE POST BERLIN (Ul'H West Ger many and East Germany Tues day signed a tradt agreement for the Coming year, k provides for an exchange of giuds worth $40 million dollars, or 72 million dol lars more than the 1959 trade agreement. Give Up md treasurer. Donald W. Fletci er, to Superior Court Tuesday. Though the bank has maintained Mrs. Walsh can't cash the check, which was written in error. Fletcher was taking no chances. He obtained a restraining order which prevents Mrs. Walsh from selling, conveying, destroying, transferring, assigning, endorsing, negotiating or otherwise alienat ing the money order check." The bank petitioned for return of the check, complaining that Mrs. Walsh was "holding the plaintiff up to public ridicule" by keeping it. The judge set next Tuesday as a hearing date. Mrs. Walsh, apparently unper turbed by the order, immediately tiired an attorney to protect her interests. Fiv Ctntt Shot' 1 Firing Appears Imminent I CAPE CANAVERAL. FL (UPI) A giant Atlas-Able rocket stood poised today for America's sixth shot at the moon over a trail already blazed by two Rusian Luniks. Launch lime for the 98-foot "double-A", tallest and most pow erful of all l. S. rockets to dattv appeared imminent. The launch ing could come as soon as early Thursduy when the moon more closest to the earth. -. Riding atop the four-stage behe moth will be a 375-pound payload that scientists hope to guide into orbit around the moon with a ter minal guidance system never tried, by an American space rocket. The spherical payload, riding in the topmost part of the Able up per stages, was designed to take pictures of the moon' "farside'T surface with facsimile scanner and transmit them back to earth upon "command" radio signal from scientists. Also aboard will be a device to maintain temperature control in side the instrument compartment and an ultra-small electronic brain, designed to relay Informa tion to earth In the form of radio signal impulses, as well as instrw ments to study the lunar gravity tional field and space radiation, v An Atlas ICBM scored its 11th straight test success Tuesday in preparation for the moonshot. The firing apparently was slated for 'a target somewhat short of stand ard intercontinental range of IJtO statute nulesv ' 1 i Flood Receding In Washington, Mop-Up Beginning SEATTLE, Wash. (UPD-West. ern Washington's rain-swollen riv ers continued to recede today, but not fast enough to permit flooded lowland residents to start all-out mop-up operations. The flood, termed Western Washington's worst in 27 years, inundated hundreds of valleys, crippled cross-state travel and drove over 1.100 persons from their homes. One person was feared dead in the disaster. B was George Shaake of Elleas burg. Wash., whose car was bdjr ied in a slide. The auto was found empty. t. The rivers began their slow drop Tuesday and still were fall ing early today. - " The Green River had gone down about two feet, the Snoqual mie, a little over a foot, and the Snohomish about the same. L- Most secondary highways were cleared and some primary road ways were coming out of the flood. VOICE PROVES GUILTY ; W1NT0N, N.C. (UPI) Roose velt Slaughter, a 22-year-old Ne gro, was fined $25 and court cost Tuesday after a 13-year-old whit girl identified him by his voic as one of the four Negroes she said made rude remarks about her. Charges against three other Net groes were dropped when the giri. whose name was withheld, was unable to identify them. , (- $4 Million The check was issued her ho telier now ex-teller Mis Ana Helliwell, 22, whose business ma chine punched out an rmh arras) sing '4" in the worst possible ssdt when Mrs. Walsh had asked tor only $22.7$. .m: Miss Helliwell reported the & cident to her superiors and w promptly dismissed. Mrs. WaUaV hearing of the dismissal, refused to return the check until Kin Helliwell was given her job bel. The bank refused to back down"- Miss Helliwell since ha ft ceived three job offers while Mrs. Walsh has been offered $100 for the check by a Hollywood. Calit. man she did not identify, She said Tuesday nlehr ah still considering framing the cheeti 1UI - ..c.iu,, piece oo hM llvlnc room wall
