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I ' U.S S R t -v iuunuahyI Lj'Aa - : ACCOK'JING f If I I I p I" J " " j 1 T lh0IA I -Vi II I II ii Arabian See Cl-iUCH-a. IMM tfl WDortU M TtWt. Thrttn mtimmmHm ICH ul4 . D ritual I Undiraf TttMtwtkMwd in Mliniiitwfctrttn (OJULY India (mn. BMW Mtl CoMMHMSt WMMt at Kftmla vtur f iMtf mUd tiKt Apnt, 1957, favtrty-itriktR itatt I 5 mIIIm vetti tm viator iio far dm Ifgulotiir. CMwim grvtN litti cttoac l receptor EES BSSSSSr Fl mtsss &Sz3:-j far?;.!: OLD FRIENDS SPLIT The Indian Parliament has begun its six week's winter ses sion embroiled in debate over the Chinese violation of the country's northern bor der. Listed chronologically on the Ncwsmap are the major incidents which have dis-' enchanted New Delhi with the I'eiping brand of communism. Sino Indian conflict ov er the exact position of their common border predates World War I. Traditionally passivist India has regarded China as a friend and fought long to get her admitted . to the United Nations. India's confusion at the situation has been added to by her own once-powerful Communist party's firm support of the home side against China. Postal Department Tells No Christmas Stamp Issue Set WASHINGTON ITI'-The Post Office Department lately is busy explaining to people why it can't issue a Christmas stamp. Its stamp experts say they have to Steer clear of subjects identified with religions. For other equally gcoJ reasons Postmaster General Arthur K. Summerfld has been advising that he also can't issue stamps commemorating Llvis I'leslcy, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and Marilyn Monoe, aui others proposed for this immortalization. According to post office si and ards for commemorative stamps. Elvis, Doug, and Marilyn sutler one crucial failing in common They aren't dead. The late Dr. Ephraim McDowell, of Danville. Ky., qualified on this score. Me also met other tests for exaltation by the post office, and a maroon four-cent stamp bearing his pic ture will go on first-day sale at Danville on Thursday. In 1809, according to post office researchers. Dr. McDowell oened tbe abdomen of Jane Todd Craw ford and cut out a tumor weigh ing 224 pounds. In preparation Announce Service To Oregon Farm Bureau Members Another service to Oregon Farm Bureau members has been announced by the regional direc tor Lester Van Blokland, who told of the contract at the Ij Grande center meeting in Island City. He announced that an agree ment had been made between the Tidewater Associated Oil Com pany and Oregon Farm Bur eau whereby Farm Bureau mem bers would receive rebates on purchases of gas, oil, greases, tires and batteries. State Convention Other business at the meeting conducted by the chairman, Ben Robinson, included reports of the state convention held In Ontario recently. Information on 'he livestock committee meeting was present ed by Glen McKcnzie and Ronnc Sands gave highlights of the field crop group. Mrs. Grant Henderson pre sented the women's program for the state for !9t;o and Robinson told of activities in the land and wa ter use committee. Bill Dobbin reported on the house of dele gates functions. The pot I uck supper was hand led by the outgoing and Incoming Center officers. Medic Dies From Black Widow's Bite LAS VEGAS. Nov. l'PI A black widow spider bit Nicholas Burney, 54. five times on the hand wnen ne put on his sweater. Attendants at Southern Nevada Memorial Bosnia) said MnnHm Burney, a former Redlands, Calif., chiropractor, died at the hospital Sunday. He told attend ants he tried several remedies be fore seeking help at the hospital. 1 uu 'r i i feNEWSMAP) for undergoing the knife, without anesthetic, Jane had jogged 60 miles through the mountains on horseback. Any proposals to issue a slamp in her honor will be con sidered by the Post Office De partment. Long Honored in 1949 Dr. Crawford W. Long. rcport edly a kinsman of Jane's, came along later with ether, lie got his I ace on a stamp in 1!M9 as part of a "famous Americans' series. The McDowell four-center is an other of this series and is the last of 26 postage stamps issued this year. The department has lined up 18 new stamps or l'J60, including a few regulars and the rest com memoratives. Commemoratives are bigger, more colorful, and pictticr than ordinary stamps They usually are kept on sale only six months or so. Currently available commcmo 'atives include beauties honoring Hawaiian statehood ipinki; the oil industry i brown i ;d e n t i s t s 'green ; and the loath anniversa ry of the first air mail, featuring a red white and blue balloon named Jupiter. A full-color 49-star flag also was issued last July 4. So many people want so many places, events a d heroes com memorated on stamps that Sum merfield in 1957 passed part of the buck to a committee. It set up rules, including one that no body is hero enough for a stamp until dead for 25 years. Events commemorated must have "wide spread national appeal.'' Stamps CUTE, WHAT? This two gun doll of the Old West of London) is British starlet Yvonne Bucking ham. She's signing auto graphs for Youngsters at a charity show on Clap ham Common. Wrf M M I, r. . A. MILK 0 ISO MM MM grtnodM end hon patrol in Laoakh. mm now clam 40.000 Indian territory. OVlmIEK Nhr angrily niters Mvspaptr wggtirion that lnda join arch tnomf roknronf miurary ailtanc against rn CNimm It it balttvod that ha n tacrotly strfigrhning Indio't 2,500-mtlt nortMm fcord' but fighting bafora taring il onlikaiy. Why will be issued only on anniversa ries starting with the 5oth. Fra ternal, religious, charitable and commercial groups will not be honored. Was 40ath Cemmorative The McDowell stamp is the 40tith cemmorative since the first one in 1H!I3 honoring the Chicago World's Fair. Later world's fairs also have been memorialized. Their stamps featured' trilons and perisphercs and the like and none of them included Sally Hand. ' There's no rule specifically cov ering Sally and in the absence of something covering her pretty specifically I'm sure Summerfield would never let her get on a stamp. But his predecessors weren't all so squeamish. In 1876 and lb!5 special stamps were is sued for mailing newspapers and periodicals. These featured a num ber of handsome ladies, some of them fully clothed. Both Whistler's mother, and Whistler'smother 's son. Jas. A. McNeill Whistler, hae been im mortalized on stamps. Her ap pearance in the traditional pose on a three-center in 1934 set oft a loud protest that a vase of car nations had been added to her son's original work. She wasn't off her rocker, according to the complaint, but somebody in the post office was. Insurance Agents Meet La Grande Association of Inde pendent Insurance Agents met at the Sacajawea Hotel recently for a discussion of the organization's constitution and by-laws. Bob Wilkins, chairman of the constitution committee, report ed on the work of his committee. The membership voted unani mously to accept the committee's recommendations. The association is composed of fire and casualty insurance agents in the city. It will be affiliated with state and national associa tions upon the filing of the con stitution and bylaws with the executive committee in Portland. AF Recruiting Man At EOC Wednesday First I.t. Robert U Alfred. Del 603 of the 3506 Recruiting ser vice, Air Force Officer Training School, will be at Hoke Hall at EOC Wednesday to interview in terested applicants. I.t Alfred will explain the pro gram leading to a commission in the U.S. Air Force at this time. "SCHEDULESCONFERENCE BAGHDAD. Irai ilTI Pre mier Abdel Kassem will hold a press conference Wednesday in the hosptal where he is recover ing from wounds received in at assassination attempt last Oct. 7, it was announced. CENTER CETS TREE NEW YORK ' IT1 1 A crane hoisted a 70-foot. 80-ye.nr-old Nor way spruce erect Monday in New York s Rockefeller Center, famed for its annual Christmas tree dis play. A six-story scaffold will be used to decorate tbe three-ton tree from Fodunk. Mass. Anonymous Each Year By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON H'l'K - It be Sins to look like one of our more dependable taxpayers for the past several yea s has bee-i a Seattle resident who just possibly neve' filed a return Kach week he 'or she I stuffs 7 or so in a i envelope ad drops .t ii the mail to "the collec'oi of Internal llcvenue, Washington. DC" These a lonynous off e r I n g s have totalled $T12 sines somebody not ced their similarity and re currence and started a tally. The s-rial number of each $5 or $1 bill has been recorded and the conscience fund. I don't know whether there has mo-ey added to the government s been a national outbreak of hon esty or what, utit conscience money has been raining down on the Treasury at a rate of $700 or iuiO per day. President Eisenhower said he Riveria PTA- jProgrc am is On 'Science' Films, depict in- the scientific development of the world, past, present and Liture, featured the lecent past meeting of the Ri veria 1TA. The meeting, presided over by Grace Piper, I'TA president, was held in the sixth grade room at the school. Jack Piper was in charge of the day's program, as sisted by Charlene Smith. Children w!'o appeared on the program included Charlene Smith. Cindy Simp'on, Pat'y Vess, Bill Jederber. Joyce llerron, Gene Hasse. ( jrv Maxwell, Kathy Huntsm ::. Carol Smith, Susan Sc.itt and Karen Nunn. Songs Given Four songs were rendered by Susan Scott, Carol Smith, Karen Nunn, Joyce Herron. Kathy Huntsman, Cindy Simpson, Jan elle Coon, Linda Brown and Charlene Smith, accompanied by Mrs. George Green at the piano, under the direction of Mrs. Flor ence Miller. Mrs. Laurence Alba, in charge of the Christmas program, listed the various price items which will be used to fill the gift sacks for the school children. Hard candy. oiani!es, peanuts and candy canes will be given. Education Week , It was also announced that the 'coffee visitation hour" held at the school recently was success ful. This was in observance of National Education Week, with many parents present during the occasion. Mrs. Kirby's room was an nounced as winning the room count prize, getting to retain the "ant farm" for the next month Next meeting is scheduled Jan. 15. Three Link's Club Of Union Meets UNION (Special) The Three Link's Club met at the IOOK hall recently for their annual turkey dinner and election of officers. Betty Phillips, president, conduc ted the meeting. New officers elected for next year are: president, Maggie Stew art; vice president, Barbara Clack; secretary, Agnes Ells worth, treasurer, Lois Sevier. They! will be installed at the next meeting, at which time they will have a Christmas party with gut exenange. I tie committee will he Belle Depew, Margaret Laytnn, Erma Moore and Mary Comisky. The Luchy 13 bridge club met recently at the home of Mrs. George Gilkinson for a desert and evening of cards. Mrs. Carl Posy won high prize. Mrs. Ralph Taylor won low. Mrs. Carl Bechtold the guest prize and Mrs. Lowell Hutchison the I.uckv 13 prize. MONiTrTpoTic e calls ST. LOUS. Mo. il'P. T,e FBI investigated today charges Olen Neal. 34, and Aided K. Cowell, 49. used the air waxes il legally to win business for their tow truck by -monitoring pohce calls to auto wrecks. PENDLETON CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL Reservations now beir.g accepUM Complete facilities for conval escent and post - operative cases, care of the aged and in firm, including X-rav. oxygen special diets, physical tluranv' registered nurses Oregon's most modern nursing home with electrostatic air conditioning, radiant heating private baths, wheel in show' ers. All rooms are ground lev el with easy access to pat,0. All sections fire proofed. Moderate Rates Call Cr 6-7157 for information Offerings Mailed In To internal Revenue hoped to pick up 33.000 in con science payments in fiscal 1919 It turns out he took in $2X3.473 16 The previous year's take was oily $88,014 76. Most Under $4,000 Most tax dodgers find it possi ble to ease their consciences with payments of less thai $4,000, the amount received from an anony mous Chicaon last week. Tax attests here suy i:'s downright amazing how many anonymous ;ax payers figure their dc')ts al an even $10. The biggest anonymous pay- Senate Takes Wraps Off Its Payroll WASHINGTON UPI The Senate, bared its long-secret pay roll today and disclosed that at least 17 senators employ relatives. The complete Senate payroll for '.he July 1-Sept. 30 period was made public by Senate secretary Felton M. J. hnson in a 110-page printed booklet. Senate officials estimated the payroll totaled 2.800 to 3.000 per sons. Senators shown to have rela tives however distant on the payroll included: Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Sens.. John A. Car roll 'D-Colo.i, Dennis Chavez D N.M.), John Sherman Cooper R Ky.t, Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.), James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), Clair Engle ID-Calif.), J. Allen Frear Jr. ID-Del. I, Albert Gore iD-Tenn.i. Pat McNamara ID Mich.t, James E. Murray D Mont.l, Richard B. Russell D Ga.l, Leverett Saitonstall ' It Mass.), Andrew F. Schoeppel R Kans.l, Margaret Chase Smith 'It Maine'. John J. Sparkman D Ala.l, and Ralph Yarborough D Tex.). The list was made public under a Senate resolution adopted last session. None received more for the three-months period than the max imum of $4,074 99, which would figure out to a rate of $16,299.96 a year. Engle had a nephew, Fred J. Engle HI on the Capitol policed force at $1,181.37. Charles A. Murray, long-time administrative assistant to his father. Sen. James E. Murray, drew the ton salary of $4,074 99 for the period. He was the only senatcrial relative listed at t h e maximum pay figure. "If I were I'd tell my folks that the only way to travel is on the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. After several trips in the car, Man I've had it! When we get there Dad's so tired and cross he isn't fit to live with; Mom's been so busy keeping us three kids quiet and yapping at Dad about his driving that she won't unwind for hours, and we've usually had car trouble of some kind. This is fun? Now don't get me wrong ... I love to travel . . . but why not do it the EASY way? UNION PACIFIC is the answer, with their dependable, safe and courteous service. You ride in adjustable Dome Coach seats, and enjoy the Dome Diner, and comfortable Dome Lounge. And I can ride free until I'm five years old... thanks to CP's famous Family Fare. But most important: the whole family arrives refreshed, happy! UNION PACIFIC RA Tor complete ro3 (raniperfafron service (all or writ: ment on record was $30000, wis. Uncle San got his first record ed conscience payment in 1" With the exception of IMS. something has been dropped into the k tty every year since In l27 the coitributions came to $6 00. The big year to date was 1950, when the anonymous take was $370.2."o 47. The total re ceived through last June i!0 was $2,556,678. Somehow, a lot of the unsigned mailings are postmarked at quiet Jostmarked at quiet a.m. Many are ad- ly to "Conscience hours like 2 a dressed mere Department. Washington, DC Pays For Stationery One regular contributor recent ly has been a Tampa. Fla.. tel low who addresses $10 bills exe" month or so to the "consc ous" fund. Fortunately the postmaster takes a broad view on matters ot spelling. He sends these prompt ly to the International Revenue Service. It's not only tax mat ers that get people's consciences to hurt ing. A government worker in Boston enclosed $25 with a ni-.-e letter explaining that he ha I used government stal.or.ery for his p i vate corresoofidence, aid he wa ited to settle the debt. II s let ter was on government station ery, of course. Ex-soldiers 'or their mothers or wives) are forever chipping in to cover font lockers, bug bombs. blanCets and other stuff they carted home from the war. A fellow from Brooklyn not long ago sent in $500.26 with this ex planation: "I admit milking the cow i;id wish to make restitu tion." Southerner Saved Enclosing $250 in cash, an an onymous correspondent from Bir mingham, Ala., recently told the tax boss: "I got saved and I feel I must do this. How is it with your soul?" I guess the government has one. Anyway, the tax men say so. They recall a case many years ago when five $1,000 bills turned up in, a letter from some where in New England, (n those days big bills were easier to trace. Agents soon found their man. He was 80 or older, a Polish immigrant who had risen from peddler to business success. He said this country had been kind to him a d he wanted to make sure he hadn't erred in his own favor when reporting h s tax. The agents had heard that kind of story before. They de cided to look at his books. They 6 I ' s - -I."- , TlW W Observer. L Grande, Ore., 1 ... fc'fli J f I . ACCIDENTAL DEATH Harlow M. Ured president of General Motors, ana Kinea Harry V. Anderson, anetner retired 01M ixo tfutive. The accident occurred i;e;ir the St. Anne's hunt ing lodge on Walpole Island i;i the St. Clair River, On tario, Canada. Ike Will Find Afghanistan Leaning Toward Red Orbit Travelling with Ike Afghan-Stan United Press International Texas-sized Afghanistan, l-ait further toward the Communist 01 bit than any other nation on President Eisenhowers 1st. Fifty per cent of its trade is with Rus siathe figure was 1') per cent in 1950. Its 43.0ii0-man army uses 70 million dollars worth of Rus sian equipment. Soviet engineers are building highways tro.u the Russian border to Pakistan on a crash basis Eise lhowcr will drive alo:ig one the Russians built. Mostly Moslems The estimated 12 million Af ghans, almost all Moslems, use tat from sheep's tails instead of butter, share seven movie thea ters for the whole country, live by tribal law and the Vendetta Frequently lawless and fanatical, they have a ready wit and grave courtesy. Some were planted in Alghanistan by Genghis Khan. The Durani and Ghilzai trilies largely dominate the Hazaras. Tajiks, Uzbeks, Nuristanis and others. Official languages: Per sian and Pushtu. The land that isn't mountain is likely to be desert. Not for not 11 ing has Afghanistan been called "top of the world." Mountain 20.0110 feet and up are a dime a dozen; in the west, winds a:; checked his returns for three years. The result was, they gave him' back the $5,000 and ar ranged to get him a refund. He had overpaid by $11,000. -,,'- - . , : ' )l"4..-7?-.J,f''f 1 - - I A ; : . 'tis ,-5V i-?r aZA Three Estro-Plaastrrt Can Dome Coach, Domt loting. Domt O.ner IOW COACH FARES IN EFFECT NOW ON THE CITY or PORTLAND .oCIIICAGOvi-DENVKR Local Union Pscifie Aoenr, WO or J. M. LANDAU, General Treff ie Wills Welle, Wash. JA 9-1610 Toes., Dee. 1, 1959 Page 8 s.y V Curtice (left), re- acctiu'iital v shot fie-ej as 110 moh blow almost co:it.i"jously froin June to Sep lemlav in temperatures ranging to l'.i degrees. Mountain ranges spl.t ar ieultural valleys. Most towns a .t villages are half-way up their v ies. Afghar.isian's majo- industries pro-luce matches a id buttons aW" not much of ikise. Us farmers raise sheep, goa --. camels rind asaloi'tida plants. Ka acul is its lucrative export; t 0 soil is fer tile but only a slim r..-rcentagc of it is cultivated. The niVcn's prin cipal wealth is its immense flocks of sheep; mineral potential has never been explored, much less tapped. Kabul Is Capital King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 45, of Afghanistan is a constitu tional monarch. Prime Minister Sadar Mohammad Daud, a pro fessional army officer, doubles as defense minister and planning minister. Their capital is Kabul, a ci.ty of 2i0.otio a few miles dowr.h II from the legendary Khy ber Pass to Pakistan. Afghanistan's problem is to move into the 20lh Century. It will accept help from anybody to do so. Russia and the U.S. have cnicted to offer help; lately Itt;ssja has been winning. The nation's women are still in nurdah, only now losing the veil. Two million Afghans are. no ma is. There are no railways. Afghanistan is poor, proud and ambitious. Industrialization is planned but barely under way. 3 - 4413 Aoent I L R O A D J