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OBSERVER
GRANDE
75th Issue 64th Year
UA GRANDE, OREG0NSATtipnAY NOVEMBFR 28, 1959
6 Paget .
Five Cents
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, KIDDIES
Santa Claus in person shouted greetings and distributed candy to hundreds of good
little boys and girls last night, up and down Adams Avenue here, as he paid his first
official visit to this area heralding the opening of the Christmas shopping season.
(Observer Photo)
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Jolly Old
St. Nick
Visits Kids
By GRADY PANNELL
Oburvor SU'f Writer
With a resonant "Ho, Ho, Ho."
jolly old St. Nick (Santa Claus to
the younger sit hove into view
lust night on La Grande's Christ
mas Season Boulevard of twin
kling lights.
The rotund Rent with the silver
whiskers delighted old and young
but most particularly the small fry.
The fellow with the goodies on
his back distributed same to
several hundred kiddies who
moved like a human tide from
street corner to street corner along
the downtown business section of
Adams Avenue. '
Pretty Helpers
Siinta also had several young
helpers this trip, pretty teen-age
girls, and enc harried gentleman
drumming it up for the Chamber
of Commerce Honce Snodgrass.
Santa told the little ones that
he ran out of snow up above
Pendleton and had to come in with
wheels on his sleigh. He also said
to the inquisitive little people that
he parked his reindeer at the edge
of town. .
The good man whose name is
legend distributed hundreds of red
and white candy canes and promis
es by the thousand before he
tramped out of sight, but he ad
vised he would return again in I
few days. i
Stores Stay Open
Last night's visitation by the
northland man also heralded the
official late-hour opening of stores.
Business establishments will re
main open until 9 p.m. until the
day before Christmas, '
Many parents took their chil
dren through the magic toyland
last night. All stores are stocked
with one of the largest assort
ments of Christmas novelties that
Santa's tired old eyes have seen.
Reds Try To Grab
Code Secrets In Ne
American
w OeEhi
YOUTH RULED
THE ROOST
HEMEl HEMPSTEAD, Eng
land IUPI) A H-year-otd boy
" ordered held by court of
ficials yesterday while they
ecisidered his parent' com
plaint that their son refused to
let them watch television, kept
the bai:irco.n 'ar himself while
forcing his father to shave in
the kitchen, locked his parents
up at night, seized his father'
weekly pay and forced his par
ents to live on an allowance.
Oregon Artist's
Drawings Shown
At EOC Gallery
Seventeen drawings by Oregon
artist Carl Hall are featured in
the Eastern Oregon College art ex
hibit, being shown through Dec.
10. in Waller M. Pierce gallery.
Alpha Rho Tau. EOC art honor
ary, sponsored the formal open
ing of the exhibit to which the
public as invited.
Hall, Willamette University ar
tist in residence, is represented in
several museum collections, in
cluding the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts.
The Salem artist took his art
trainirg at the Meiiuingcr Art
School in Detroit. During World
War II he was combat artist for
383rd Infantry on Okinawa. In l!M8,
he was featured in the March 8 is
sue of Life.
Hall, who is art crilic for the
Oregon Statesman, was one of the
jurors for the "Oregon Scene" Cen
tennial art show.
U.S. Loss Of Face'
Unless Moon Is Shot
HAVE YOU BEEN GOOD? St. Kick asks the age old question of a curious little girl
who clutches two candy canes given her by the interested gent with the white whis
kers. A proud dad also is delighted to meet the jolly fellow once again. (Observer)
Steel Union, Management Back
To Conference Table On Tuesday
WASHINGTON (LTD - The
steel union and companies, under
new government pressure to set
tle their six-month old dispute,
resume federal mediation sessions
Tuesday.
The conferences will be the
government's first formal e fort to
reopen contract talks since the
500.000 striking United Steelwork
ers returned to work Nov. 7 un
der a Taft-Hartley injunction aft
er a 116-day walkout.
The new government pressure
to break the stalemate came in
a letter Friday from acting Com
merce Secretary Philip A. Kay to
Arthur J. Goldberg, general coun
sel of the Steclworkors Union.
Ray rejected Goldberg's sug
gestion that the government build
up its stockpiles of defense steel
now in case the strike resumes
when the 80-day Taft-Harley order
expires Jan. 26.
Hay said defense needs req
quire a continuing flow of steel
and therefore cannot be met by
stockpilirg.
The o'ficial said resumption o(
the strike when the injunction
runs out would cause a "second
crisis" having an "intole-able ef
fect upon our national health and
safety."
Although the letter was ad
dressed to the union, observers
considered it a prod to both sides
to resolve the'r differences.
In announcing the new contract
talks. Federal Mediation Chief
Joseph F. Finnegan did not say
whether he would meet scpa-ate
ly or jointly with union and man
agement representatives.
Joint sessions normally are held
onlv when there is an indication
of progress toward a settlement
Uoldbcg wrote Commerce Sec
retary Frederick H. Mueller Nov.
20 urging steel stockpiling so that
"should the strike resume, any
peril to the nat'onal safety will
not be chargeable to the union."
He said the strike in all likeli
hood would resume Jan. 26.
WASHINGTON UPI A
spokesman for the Amcican
Rocket Society said today the
United States would suffer a fatal
loss of prestige unless it tried
again within three months to fire
a satellite into orbit around the
moon.
It was learned that the Air
Force could get around shortages
of rockets and launching pads
and could launch another Atlas-
Able rocket carrying a picture
taking moon satellite in as little
as two months if the White House
issued the necessary orders and
priorities.
A successful U. S. moon shot
in the near future would boost
American prestige before Presi
dent Eisenhower's trip to Russia
in the spring. The Russians hit
the moon with their Lunik II just
before Soviet Premier Nikita S
Khrushchev visited the United
States in September.
But so. far the government has
no definite plans for a new Atlas-
'LITTLE RABBIT IN HOLE'
Firemen Spend Hour To Free
Tot From Septic Tank Hole
AUSTIN, Tex. ari' - Firemen-
practically stood on their
heads to rescue a 3-ycar-cld
boy trapped for more than an
hour at the bottom of a septic
tank hole.
They kept him from gc'ting
panicky by telling him: "You
look just like a little rabbit in
his hole."'
The excavation where William
Marc Turner, son of Mr- and
Mrs. William Gene Turner, be
came trapped Friday is located
just to the rear of a lt where
the Turner's recently built a new
home.
Marc and his 2-year-old broth
er were plavir.g in the bat 'ald
while Mrs. Tuinvr hung up the
wash. Suddenly, she noticed Marc
had disappeared.
"Where's your brother," she
asked the youngest child. He
started to cry.
Frantically. Mrs. Tu-nor began
searching Then she heard a faint
cry.
"Mommy, get me out of this,
hole."
Marc had tried to Jump on top
of a metal septic tank that had
been lowered into the hole. He
slipped and fell between the tank
ar.d the wall of the excavation,
which had not yet been filled in.
Firemen rushed to the scene
They tried to reich Marc, but he
was wedged at the bottom of the
six foot hole with one leg crmn-
f tiled underneath him. about two
! (e"t l elo their fingertips.
! They had to wriggle head first
I into the rarrow space and claw
away the dirt from the wall with
small garden tools. Mrs. Turner
too.1 nervously by, trying to
comfort the scared youngster.
He Ixnan to whimper.
"Now you know how a rabbit
feels in his hole in the ground,'
a fireman told Marc as he
chipped away the dirt. Marc was
so interested about the rabbits, he
forgot to cry.
When tre boy was finally freed.
he was given a thorough exami
nation.
He wasn t hurl." Mrs. Turn
er sad "Just a few scratches.
a.wl real dirty."
Able lunar probe. Officials said
after an Atlas-Able moon satcllitr
failure Thanksgiving Day at Cape
Canaveral. Fla.. that the I'nited
States might not try to experi
ment again until the end of two.
Andrew G. Haley Jr., general
counsel of the American Rocket
Society, tolj United Press Inter
national, "It is vital that we make
another attempt to orbit the
moon, certainly w ithin three
months."
A one year delay, he said,
would be "fatal to American
prestige."
Former Oregon Senator
Rufus Holman Stricken
EUGENE lUPl '-Former Ore
gon Senator Rufus C. Holman
died here Friday at the home of
his stepson, Eugene Attorney Er-j
nest Lundeen.
Holman, 82, a Republican,
served as U. S. Senator from Ore
gon from Jan. 3, r.wa. to Jan. 3,
11M5. .
Applications For
Liquor Licenses
Get City Approval
Applications for endorsement of
state liquor license renewals for
three local businesses have been
approved by the city commission.
Endorsements were granted to
Wimpy 'r Tavern, 108 Fir St., and
the Sacajawea Tavern, 1106 Adams
Ave., for the sale of packaged
and drought alcoholic beverages.
A club license was approved
for American Legion Post No. 43.
301 Fir St.
Applications for the endorse
ments were signed by Eugene L.
and Inez Edna Gassctt iWimpy'si
and Rocsch A. Fitzgerald, Jo
seph R. Kidd and Nancy Ann
Stack (Sacajawea Tavern). The
club license was signed by house
committee chairman Jesse Roscn-baum.
U.S. LODGES PROTEST
ON KIDNAP OF YANK
KV.W DFI III India (UPD The U.S. kmh.nssv i li-iri-i-rl
tonight that Chinese Communists dragged V. S. Marine Sgt.
Kobei t Armstrong irom a wjiwu um a public street in Horn
hav and bound him bV the neck and arms to a liilt.-ir in thr
garage of their consulate Friday.
I he Embassy loogea a pum-M wun tne Indian govern
ment today charging it was a "high handed violation of the
personal rights of a United sanies
citizen in a friendly country.
Even as the embassy releasea
its report on Arms' rong, reliable
sources reported that two Chinese
thugs attempted to seize coded
American diplomatic telegrams in
Bombay this morning.
The messanger carrying them
escaped but said he could identify
his assailants.
Armstrong Held
The Embassy statement on the
Armstrong incident said at least
six Chinese surrounded the Ma
rine in his taxi cab in front of
the Chinese Communist consulate
and dragged him into the com
pound. The Embassy statement said
the Chinese pulled Armstrong,
pushed him and "were striking
him in the ribs with their fists."
One Chinese stood by holding a
heavy club and was quoted as
telling Armstrong that if he yelled
"you will get this.
The statement said Armstrong
was searched twice and luter
moved to an open area where he
was photographed.
The U. S. Embassy said Arm
strong was dragged into the con
sulate about 7:40 a.m. and Indian
police arrived on the scene within
25 minutes.
Two high-ranking Indian police
officers arrived at the Chinese
consulate about 9:30 a.m. and in
sisted that Armstrong le released
but the Chinese Communists re
fused, savinff thev miKl "i'.im.
plte their investigations," the
statement said
At 12:30 n.ni. the Chinese
agreed to U Armstrong to but
nis actual release did not take
place until 1:50 p.m.
Armstrong h;d rope )llnls
his neck and back but an exam
ination at a hosnital shewed he
suffered only "superficial- injur
ies." Th.e messenger attacked in
Bombay today was identified a.s
Anadan Andrew, an Indian. Relia
ble sources said two Chinese ac
costed him just after he left the
Bombay telegraph office and de
manded coded telegrams meant
for American diplomats.
Attempt
To Poison
City Dads
SEATTLE. Wash. L'PI Chief
Detective Vic Kramer said today
that arsenic found mixed in coffee
in an employes' lunchroom at the
County-City Building here was a
"cold-blooded altemiit at mass
poisoning."
The arsenic was found after
eight staff members of the city
planning commission became ill
last Monday. The results of police
laboratory tests reported Friday
revealed they had drunk coffee
laces with the poison.
search of the lunchroom on
the eighth floor of the building
disclosed arsenic in a two-pound
tin of drip-grind coffee and more
aisenic in a jar of instant coffee.
"This was no accident," Kram
er said. "It was deliberate."
Union Seed Growers
Will Attend Confab
Union County seed g nwers M ill crops specialist and secretary of
attend the annual meeting of the
Oregon Seed League which ojiens
in Corvallis on Monday.
R. W. Sehaad. I. a Grande, pres
ident of the league, will direct
the conference.
Attending from Union County in
addition to Sehaad will he Homer
Case, president of Northwest
Creeping & Chcwings Red Fescue
Association; Crest on Shaw, chair
man of the league's turf commit
tee; Clayton Fox, chairman o( the
league's forage grass committee;
Billy Howell: Marcel Trumpe. Von
Holtz: Tod Sidor. necretary of the
Northwest grouu and secretary
of the turf committee; Darcey
Satcr, manager of II I. Wagner
Sons; Wclby Vaughn, and Tom
Ruckman, secretary of the Fine
Fescue Commission.
Rtsea-ch Report
Research dealing with varieties,
weeds, discuses, cleaning and
storage of Oregon's multi-million
dollar seed growing industry will
be reported at the convention on
the Oregon State College canius.
Highlight of the meeting will
be a talk on soils, crons and peo
ple of Russia by Dr. Wynne
Thome, director of the Utah Stale
University Agricultural Exeri
ment station, who recentily tour
ed the Soviet tipion.
Rex Warren, OSC extension farm
the league, estimates 300 persons
will attend.
Growers will have a chance to
discuss their own problems dur
ing committee meetings on pota
toes, certification and new var
ieties, seed commissions, cover
crops und ryegrass, turf, lorage
grass, and legume, Sehaad an
nounced. . ,
Scd History
Meetings are also scheduled for
the resolution and legislation com
mittee and the Northwest Chew
inns and Red Fescue Association.
Oregon's. -JiHar ricvt'npment of
ed gaming into an induslry Of
nntiimal importance will be told,
by II. A. Schoth. OSC-USDA agro
nomist. - v
Special reports also will he given
on crop estimates and outlook, pro
duct ion aiid use of dryland range
grass in the Northwest, tariff
enmmision hearings in Washington,
D C, seed growing in the future
and grasses used to plant Ameri
can lawns.
Frank McKennson, Salem, dir
ector of the state department Of
agriculture, will be one of the pro
gram speakers.
Main sc.'ikcr for the banquet
Tuesday evening will be Helmut
Schreima of the OSC department
of business administration, who
will tell of his experiences in Eur
ope from 1932 to 1945.
Univac Predicted Marriage;
Young Couple Did Just That
VAN NUVS. Calif. UPD A
happy marriage was in the cards
for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kardell
from the day they met more than
two years ago on the "People Are
Funny" television show.
Electronic data processing cards
carrying the personality trans ot
the two young persons were
stuffed into a Univac machine on
the show. Univac shuffled the
cards through its electronic maize
and proclaimed Rolicrt and Shir
Icy, both 27, were meant for each
other.
The cards couldn't have been
more right if they were slacked
The Kardcll's celebrated their first
wedding anniversary Oct. 18 and
are planning a plush new Poly-ncsian-s'yled
home to recreate the
magic of their Hawaiian honey
moon paid for by the tclevis.on
people.
"Everything seems to be work
ing out very nicely, Kardeil said.
"Right now we are In the process
of buying a lot in nearby Woodland
Hills on which to build our house
"We're interested in Hawaiian
modern, we're going the complete
Polynesian route. A contractor
hcie has a custom home we're
interested in and we'll have it
built for us."
Kardell, appropriately an em
ploye of System Development Co
which builds computing machines
similar to Univac, said the house
will have three bedrooms to ac
commodate the "two or three
children" they intend to have
While waiting for completion of
the house, however, the couple is
living austerely among "our early
deprcss:on" 'furnishings.
"Most of the stuff is what we
had before our marriage," Kar
dell said. "We picked up a coffee
table in Hawaii and a new bed
room set and a dining set since
then. We stay home quite a lot
lately. On the average we go out
once a week, usually to dinner and
a movie, sometimes just to dinner.
Shirley, currently unemployed,
plans to return to work the first
of the year. She was an adver
tising copywriter befo'e her marriage.
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Youth Injured
When Auto Hits
Bridge Near Here
Larry Young, IB, was injured
last night in a one-car accident
about one half mile west of the
city. Hospital attendants told The
Observer this morning that Young
was resting comfortably and is in
good condition.
Young was the driver of the car
which apparently slid into the left
side of the bridge and then con
tinued to bounce back and forth
through the bridge, Oregon State
Police said.
Other passengers in the car were
unhurt. They were Bill Long, Rich
rd Strand, 17, Lawrence Keefcr.
18. and Robert Cannon. 17, ail
La Grande.
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DONATE TO SALVATION ARMY
Sam Bailie, La Grande, left, and Vic Eckly, La Grande postmaster, are among the.
first to contribute to the annual Salvation Army drive for the Christmas season.
is i t . l t.i.nittuc'' am nenj tH st ma s artivittoc Pl ;
lie is chairman of the Christmas committee of the S.. (Observer Photo)