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LA GRANDE OBSERVER
76th Issue
64th Year
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Mrs. Ingar M. Jorgensen, (left), is pointing out a stop she will make on a return trip
to the eastern coast. She is in the U. S. from Denmark. While in La Grande she visit- -ed
with a cousin, Mrs. Hugh Fine, shown with her. (Observer Photo)
Danish Housewife, Free Lance
Writer Here On Good Will Tour
Russ May
Depart
Hungary
VIENNA. Austria UPI The
seventh Hungarian Communist
Party Congress opened today in
Budapest and there was wide
spread speculation Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev would an
nounce, the withdrawal of Russian
troops from the satellite nation.
Khrushchev makes a major a 1
dress to the congress Tuesday
and Western political observers
said he may take advantage of
the United Nations debate on
Hungary to announce a troop
withdrawal in line wiih his new
"peace offensive."
Khrushchev flew i?;to Budapest
from Moscow with none of the
fanfare which surrounded his
trips to Washington and Commu
nist China to attend the Hungari
an Communist Party's first con
gress since the a iti-Communist
uprising in 1956. The fireworks
could come in what the Commu
nists called his "very important"
speech Tuesday.
Diplomats in Moscow said
Khrushchev was attending the
congress obviously to stress his
full support for the regime of
Janos Kadar in the face of the
parallel United Nations debate on
Hungary. Moscow dispatches said
he also would protest U.N. inter
vention in Hungary as a gross in
terference in Communist internal
affairs.
When Khrushchev visited Wash
ington in September he told a
questioner at the National Press
Club that the Hungarian question
was sticking "like a dead rat" in
the throats of some people who
refused to recognize the stability
of the Hungarian regime.
MORE CONFUSION ON KIDNAPING
Red Chinese
Officials On
NEW DELHI. India 'IPP -Prime
Minister Jawaharclal Neh
ru said today the Chinese Com
munist ambassador in New Del
hi had complained officially that
the U. S. consulate in Eombay
had kidnaped a Chinese National.
However, in a speech to Parlia
ment Nehru refused to comment
on the Bombay incident except to
say that both the American aid
Chinese Communist versions of
the incident ware contradictory
and "appear to be some kind of
fiction."
He said he had informed both
embassies not to let the persons
involved leave the country.
Red China's official protest ttf
day followed Peiping radio
charges that American consular
officials In Bombav had kidnaped
a Chinese official.' Both were di
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GOOD WILL TRIP
By MAXINE KURMI
Observer Staff Writer
Inger Marie Jorgensen. house
wife and mother from Esbjerg,
Denmark, recently visited here a
few days with a cousin, Mrs.
Hugh (Laura) Fine. Mrs. Jorg
ensen is on a type of good will
tour of the United States.
The American State Depart
ment is paying $500 of her ex
penses. She reports her expert
enccs to them. She is traveling by
bus to see the country better and
talk to people.
U. S. Articles
Mrs. Jorgensen is the wife of
Arne Jorgensen, inspector of ed
ucation. She is the mother of one
daughter, and two sons, ranging
from seven to 13 years of age.
She writes for free lance maga
zines and papers. She plans to
do some articles on American
home life, "as we live it, not as
they think we live." Also she
plans to study the "People to
People" program, and believes
that more can be done through
friendship than politics.
Contradictory to the belief that
all Americans sit around and
take it easy, she finds them hard-
working people. She expressed
Rockefeller In Favor
Of Birth Control Aid
NEW YORK lUPIi Gov. Nel
son A. Rockefeller said todav he
would not oppose this nation's
giving birth control assistance to
a foreign nation provided the
other nation requested it.
This is a very sensitive sub
ject to various individuals, and,
of course, to certain religious
groups." Rockefeller said.
"Naturally, a program invol
ving activities relating to birth
control would not be undertaken
if it was offensive to the neonle
of that country," he added.
Rockefeller, considered a nossi-
ble contender for the Republican
Now Accuse U.S.
Indian Incident'
rect contradictions of American!
protests the Reds held an Ameri-
can Marine sergeant and kept him
prisoner for six hours Thursday.
A statement by the Chinese
Communist foreign office broad
cast by Peiping radio said Ameri
can acccunts of the incident "re
versed right and wrong." It said
the Americans had "lied" and ac
cused the United States of pre
vious kidnap incidents.
The incident occurred last
Thursday when Ma-ine Sgt. Rob
ert Armstrong, 30, of Los Angeles
Calif., was seized by the Com
munists, dragged into the consul
ate and held for six hours. The
United States Issued a strong pro
test and asked the Indian govern
ment to act in the case.
Today's Chinese statement did
not mention a second incident al
leged to have happened in Bom-
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the opinion that more persons in
Denmark have hired help to do
their work, than do the Ameri
cans. In covering as much as pos
sible in the time and limited
funds that she has, she came
across the northern states and
will go down the coast and return
east by way of the southern route.
Upon return to her home, she
plans to do a series of articles
on life in America to help defray
the expenses of the trip. She re
ports that she is enjoying this
opportunity ta get acquainted
v.ith such a wonderful nttion.
n'.wt tha Pacpla
They have a program in her
country, to work with the tourist
trade, in which they hope to make
their country better known by
our people. They call it "Meet
the Danes." There is an average
of 40,000 tourists who visit Cop
enhagen during the season. They
appreciate this trade and wish to
make them most welcome, she
said.
Mrs. Jorgensen enjoys the scen
ery of our rugged mountains, as
their country is flat. She does
find that a number of thines
stem to compare favorably with
'our country.
presidential nomination in 1960,
spoke to newsmen after return
ing here from a six-day rest at
his Venezuelan ranch. He and his
wife flew on to Albany after a
brief stopover at ldlewild Airport.
His remarks on birth control
were the latest in a series of
statements over the week end by
declared or undeclared aspirants
for presidential nomination. Birth
control has been proposed in
many quarters as one possible
answer to the problem of popula
tions expanding faster than food
p:oduction too many people
and too little food.
bay on Saturday when the Reds
attacked an American messenger
and tried to steal coded diploma-
tic telegrams. This second incident
was under investigation and a
statement was expected soon
from the U. S. government.
The United States said Chang
Chien-yu of the Chinese consulate
general decided to defect to the
West and made statements both
in English and Chinese denounc
ing the Peiping regime. Later he
changed his mind and was being
driven back to the consulate when
the kidnap occurred.
Peiping's version of the affair
said Chang was kidnaped at 11
a m. on Nov. 26 "and was de
tained in the U. S. consulate gen
eral and its building at the Bom
bay beach for as long as 20 hours
until 7 a m. of the following day,
that is, Nov. 27."
LA GRANDE,
WENT WRONG?
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OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)
Walter W. Marseille, 51. of
Berkeley, appeared In Ala
meda County Super j.r Court
Saturday and was ordered (
pay hi wife $325 a month tem
porary alimony and child sup
por Marseille told the judge he
was a non-medical psycho
analyst who specialized in mar
riaao counseling.
Black Ice
Cause Of
Accidents
"Black ice" caused a rash of car
accidents Saturday night on Fast
em Oregon highways as motori:
began returning heme from t
Thanksgiving holidays.
Oregon State Polic invest igat
three mishaps near La Grande.
A station wagon driven by Carol
Joyce Barnes. 1802 16th St., La
Grande, left Highway 30 East at
the La Grande-Union-North Pow
der junction and slid into the
barrow pit on the left side of the
highway. Catherine Hadden. 1615
Washington Ave., La Grande, was
a passenger Jn the car. The mis
hap occurred at 7:50 p.m.
Draws Citation
Leonard James Redmond, 29.
Baker, was the driver of a car
which left Highway 30 east of the
city at about 7:50 p.m. and slid
100 feet and rolled over on its left
side in me Darrow pn. ne was
cuea i or oeing orunn on a puonc
highway.- He posted $25 bail and
Bin, Holnasul frm th .it,, Inil
Grace Marie Irey, 23, Baker.
was cited by State Police for viola
tion of the basic rule at 10:57 p.m.
when the car she was driving slid
on the ice in Ladd Canyon and
collided with another car.
State Police said the Irey car
slid into the wrong lane when
the driver applied her brakes and
struck a car driven by Larry
Gean Patheal, knocking it into the
barrow pit. The Patheal car was
towing a house trailer.
Thief Loots
Hotel Room
A thief took a pillow case.
blanket and sheets from the bed
he occupied in the Sommer Hotel
Sunday morning. Nina Derrick told
police the unidentified man checked
into the hotel around 4 a.m. Sun
day. At 9 a.m. the "guest" had
fled along with the bed cloth
ing valued at $15. Police are in
vest i eating the theft.
Two area residents were involved
in an automobile accident on
Adams Avenue near Fourth Street
yesterday at 5:24 p.m.
Melvin E. Randolph, 1802 Third
St., was driving a delivery van
owned by Eddy's Bakery Inc., west
on Adams when the accident oc
curred. The other car was owned
by John S. McAnish, Alicel.
Dean Curtis Evans, 1320 Y Ave.,
was issued a citation for travel
ing 42 miles per hour in a 25
mile zone Saturday at 5:47 p.m.
on V Avenue near Fir Street, po
lice said. Bail was set at $17 and
a hearing scheduled for today at
3 p.m.
Hill M. Walker, 905 N Ave., was
also cited for violation of the basic
rule. Walker was traveling 35
miles per hour in a 25 mile zone
on Spruce Street at W Avenue
when he was stopped. Hearing on
the case was set for today at 3
p.m. and bail set at $10.
A teen-ager was Issued a cita
tion for operating a motor vehicle
with only a learner's permit and
no adult driver in the car Satur
day. The youth was picked up on
Fourth Street at 1:08 a.m.. Police
said.
Observer Founder
Fred Currey Dies
Frederick barlow Currty,
V, who with his brother found
ad tha La Cranda Evening
Observer at tha turn of the cen
tury, died In Salem yesterday.
He was a former member of
the State Fair Board, State Pro
hibition Department and served
as La Grande city manager for
three years.
Currey was born Oct. 17, 1873
in Canyon City into a newspaper
family. His father was Col
George B. Currey, once associ
ated with the Oregon Statesman.
After the sale of the Observer
during World War I, Currey
bought the San Leandro, Calif.,
Standard. He first moved to Sa
lem in 1923, went back to Califor
nia and returned here again.
In his younger days he worked
for the Oregon Journal.
Services are scheduled for 10:30
a m. Tuesday in the chapel of
W. T. Rigdon mortuary here.
OREGON MONDAY, NOVEMPER 30, 1959
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This picture was made during the peak of the recent flooding of various Washing
ton communities and shows waters of the Green River covering highways and iso
lating farms on the outskirts of Kent. Many families were evacuated from their
homes as a result of the melting snows and heavy rains that caused the river to break
its banks. It was area's worst flood since 1932.
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MILK RUN Motor boat makes run at Snohomish, Wash., where rain-choked Sno
homish river inundated low land farms and forced isolated dairymen to use this
method of delivery. Several days of heavy rain followed by warm w ind in the mount
ains caused the flooding.
Next U.S.
Will Be Largest Yet
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (LTD
Scientists are preparing this na
tion's final 1959 space rocket for
a mid-December shot described
as one of the higsest yet under
taken by the United Slates.
If all goes as planned, the shot
into deep space will give Presi
dent Eisenhower's European and
Asian tour which starts Thurs
daythe same kind of prestige
that Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev got from the Russian
moonshot before his trip to the
United Stales.
America's last big chance for
1959 rests with a Thor-Able IV
rocket, only one-fill h as powerful
as the big Russian space rockets.
The Thor-Able vill carry a
small payload which scientists
Winston Churchill
Has 85th Birthday
LONDON (UPI I Sir Winston
Churchill celebrated his 8")th birth
day today by making his first
parliamentary speech in four
years to a cheering House of Com
mons.
The cheers of fellow members
Parliament rolled cut from both
sides of the aisle which divides
the government from the opposi
tion. The ioined n flool nf congratu
lations which poured into the
Churchill home from the four cor
ners of the earth.
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Space Rocket Shot
hope will escape earth's gravity
and cross into the orbit of the
planet Venus. The manmade plan
etoid will carry a radio "voice"
to send buck information from as
far away as 50 million miles.
This is more than 100 times
farther than America's one sun
satellite. Pioneer IV launched last
March 3, was able to transmit.
Stockholders Meeting
Annual meeting of the stock
holders of La Grande Industrial
Promotions, Inc., will be hold Tues
day at 8 p.m. in the small ball
room of the Sacajawca Hotel.
David C. Baum Is president of the
organization.
Ike Briefs Congressional Heads
On 11-Nation Good-Will Junket
WASHINGTON (UPI' - Presi
dent Eisenhower today gave con
gressional leaders of both parties
a preview of his ll nalion good
will tour and received their unani
mous "good luck and Godspeed"
for his mission.
Eisenhower, In his breakfast
briefing of key Senate and House
leaders, (old them he would try
to further the American aim of
a more peaceful world during his
22.370-mile journey but would un
dertake no negotiations. He leaves
Thursday on the precedent-setting
trip to Europe. Asia and Africa.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson told reports aft.
er leaving the special breakiasi
enfererce at the White House
"lie will take with him our un
derstanding, our p-aycrs and our
hopes for a successful journey.
"We hope that the peoples he
contacts will realize as we do that
as far as peace is concerned, the
American people stand as one,
united." the Texan added.
Anuther Democratic leader,
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Planned
Russia also has one satellite in
orbit around the sun, Lunik I
launched Jan. 2, 1959.
The probe will study communi
cations at interplanetary ranges
in preparation for later shots to
Venus and Mars. It also will relay
information about conditions in
spuce such as solar radiation.
Beyond the deep-space probe,
America's space research future
is a bit clouded. Critics of this
country's current progress in the
space race are putting pressure
on the administration for a speed
up, and at least one administra
tion official hinted lust weekend
that the government is consider
ing another attempt to orbit the
moon soon.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn said.
"It is a strenuous piece of busi
ness, but I think we all think it
is a good thing it is not amiss."
Senate Republican Leader Ever
ett M. Dirksen of Illinois said the
chief executive reviewed his plans
and aims in some detail, including
the outline of "three or four major
talks in India."
Pakistan Problem Ditcimed
He said the Democrats present,
including chairman J. William
Fulbright of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, unanimously
expressed approval of the trip as
the President gave each breakfast
guest full opportunity to express
his views
Fulbright said he told the Presi
dent he felt this was a propitious
time to bring about a solution of
the difficulties between India and
Pakistan and Eisenhower said he
was hopeful that he could make
some contribution to such a solu
tion. Rep. Thomas E. Morgan ID
Pa.), chairman of the House For
eign Affairs Committee, said he
also suggested to Eisenhower that
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Lost Above
Columbia :
River Road
MULTNOMAH FALLS, Ore.
UPI Two teen age girls
were recued from treacher
ous terrain high above the
Columbia river highway early
louay anei ui-iug sirauuea in
near- freezing temperatures
all night.
Jeanie Harkins. 17, and Marlene
Masco, 16, both Portland, were
located by rescuers about dawn
and were brought to the lodge at
the foot of scenic Multnomah
Falls. . -
The girls were cold, tired and
hungry but otherwise apparently
all right, rescuers said. ' -Found
About 7 a.m.
They had separated from hiking
companions Sunday. "When it be
came dark we tried to take what
we thought was a short cut back,"
Miss Masco said.
Voice contact was made with
them about 2 a.m. and Al Combs
and Ed Dolan, members of a
mountain rescue party, found
them shortly before 7 a.m.
They were about 500 feet down
from a trail, between two can
yons. The girls, wearing pedal push
ers, suede shoes and light jackets,
were taken back to the trail
where a warming fire was built
and then were carried piggy-back
most of the way down to the
lodge. They walked the last tenth
of a mile themselves, arriving
about 8:30 a.m.
Cold Wave
Invades Dixie
United Press International
A cold wave knifed deep into
the South Sunday, leaving in its
wake freezing temperatures over
two thirds of the nation.
The winter weather of snow,
high winds and cold hampered
firemen battling blazes which
killed 20 persons.
Warm air from the Southwest
spread over the Plains States and
the Midwest today but Florida and
Georgia remained in the grip of
the cold front.
The Arctic air dropped the mer
cury to a record 43 degrees at
Miami, Fla., this morning, erasing
the old mark of 45.
Near freezing or below readings
were chalked up in other parts of
Florida and Alabama. It was 34
at Tampa, 26 at Tallahassee, 28
at Jacksonville, Fla., and 23 at
Montgomery, Ala.
C-C Sponsors ;
'Polities' Course
"Action Courses in Practical
Politics" begins tomorrow at 7: St
p.m. In room 14 of the La Grander
High School with John Sullivan,
manager of the U.S. National
Bank, in charge.
The course is sponsored for area
residents by the Chamber of Com
merce and will be held each Tues
day until completed. It is non
partisan. t
"the time is ripe" to try to pro
mote conciliation between India
and Pakistan.
Vice President Richard M. Nfot,
on. Secretary of State Christla
A. Herter and Undersecretary of
State Robert D. Murphy joined)
members of the White House staff
at the breakfast. Murphy is ac
companying Eisenhower . on his
journey. T
The President announced the hi
partisan session with legislative
leaders after rejecting as "1m
practical" a suggestion by Sen.
Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) thai
he take a top Democrat on thfr
trip.
Eisenhower wrote Dodd that h
thought the White House dlscusv
sion would be more useful and
would serve, "in some measure,''
the purpose that the senator had
in mind. f
The trip is designed to strength
en Western unity in connection
with the Western summit meetlnt?
in Paris Dec. 19, which the Prw
ident will attend, and the exist
ed East-West summit conference
next yem.