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WEATHER Show mi tonight; partly tunny Thursday with snow in mountains; low tonight 25-35; high Thursday it-. LA GRAND OBSERVER 78th lsu 64th Year LA GRANDE, ORE,, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959 8 Pago Five Cents E PLANNING ANNUAL CATTLE SALE Officials of the Tri-County Hereford Association met in La Grande yesterday after noon to plan the association's annual sale. It is the oldest consignment sale in the Northwest. Front row from left: Chuck Gavin. La Grande, sales manager; Henry Hey den, La Grande, president; C. V. Miles, La Grande, secretary-treasurer. Back row from left: Clyde McKenzie, Summerville, former president; Ben Robinson, Imbler, director; Fritz Weinhard, Wallowa, director. (Observer Photo) Ike Will Not Involve Federal Government In Birth Control' WASHINGTON H'PIi Presi dent Eisenhower today firmly op posed involving the federal gov ernment in any way with assist ing ether nations wi;h birth con t ol advice. Eisenhower told his new con ference he could not imagine a subject more improper as a mat ter of government responsibility or function than birth control. Furthermore, Eisenhower said that as long as he is President the US. government will have ab solutely nothing to do with advis ing other nations on their birth control problems. If another coun try wants birth control advice, ho said it could seek out professional information. The birth control controversy flared anew after the Roman Catholic bishops of the Vnited Sta'.es charged last week that a "propaganda campaign" was being waged to pave the way for U.S. suppo't of "artificial birth prevention' programs in under dtvelooed countries which are ex periencing population pressures. Tho Rv ftev .lanes A. Pike. Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, said the Catholic stand "would condemn rapidly increas ing millions of people in less for HHP FIGHT TB ,ai:USTMASSEMS BLESSED ARE THE Chicago Recalled EDITOR'S NOTE: Larry Mor rona, now of tha Untei Pros International staff in Ciicago, made his first , Communion at tha Our l ady of tha Areata Reman Cathelie Church and at tended Sunday school in tha school building that burned down a year ago, killing W ttu ckMitt and three nuns. Ha re turned to tha church Tuesday nigCit to aln parishioners in honoring tha memory of tha dead. By LARRY MORRONE UPI Staff Writer CHICAGO 1 ITU - "Blessed are those who mcu-n, for they shall be comforted'." The words from the Scrptures echoed throuah thi quiet church saictuarv filled wi'b humble. hard-working fa'.hers and sobbing mothers. Thev were spoken by Cardinal Designate Albert G. Meyer, cele brant of the Solem High Mass Tuesday nisht honoring the me- morv of 9? little children and three courageous nuns. They were the 95 w!k died in the Our Lady of the Angels school fire, the worst school lire in tni ..- .-,.r: -'''""Tiiin mill - tunate parts of the world to star vation, bondage, misery and de spair." He demanded to know whether the policy pronounced by the bishops was "banding on Ro man Catholic candidates for pub lic office." Eisenhower, on the eve of his departure for Europe, the Middle East and Asia, talked at some length about his trip with more than 2fi0 reporters. He said that, above all, he hoped to convince the rest of the world that the U.S. is truly sincere in its quest for a durable, just peace. . Wants Steel Settlement Other news highlights: fie said that unless steel man agement and labor can compose their differences in free collective ba-gaining. the government might be forced to 'some form of action which would be a sad day for the nation. Local National Guard's Impact On The terrific economic impact on La Grande of the local Ore gon National Guard unit and the operations of the La Grande In dustrial Corporation have been explained by NG Co. Dave Baum. Addressing the local Lions Club, Baum explained that the payroll alone to members of the First Battle Group, 186th In fsntry Regiment ot the National Guard, means in excess of $125,- 000 annually to this community. In addition some $25,000 per year is spent locally cn the op eration and maintenance of the trucks and automotive equipment stationed here, and more than $15,000 has been been put into the MOURNERS School Fire Tragedy At Anniversary Mass cago history. Tuesday night, on the first an niversary of the terrible holo caust, parents, relatives, friends, guests and firemen 1,200 per sons in all filled the sanctuary to overflowing. Through the gathering dusk they came, shuffling past the gleaming superstructure of the new school building, halting brief ly on the cement steps to brush away the tears before entering the hushed chapel. "It's been a long year with much to forget," sa d a mother whose child died in the blaze. "The children are happy in heaven," said a woman with hei shawl draped reverently over her head. Her words were echoed by Car dinal Designate Meyer, whe called on the parents to seek comfort in'lheir religion. "The children and sisters who died are happy in heaven," he said. "'Our faith convinces us that the sisters and children whose death we mourn are really alive their immortal souls awaiting resurrection." Through the muffled sobs of the grieving rame the faint shouts 0: He spoke vehemently on the net' ii 'nessential fed eral spi-iiding programs in the hope of not only achieving a bal anced budget in fiscal 1961, but a surplus to apply to some of the national debt. During his forthcoming trip he will be glad to discuss specific issues raised by leaders of other nations. As for discussing the border dispute between India and Red China, Eisenhower said that aside from the legalistic aspects of determining the actual border. he was strongly on the side of av nation that attempted to solve iUkiiiternat mial differerces-by ne gotiation instead of force. In answer to a question, the President said that while hs is out of the country he will retain full control over any emergency use of this country's atomic or hydro gen bombs. La Grande building of the new rifle range near I -a Grande. Another $50, 100 will go into this project with in the next few years, to complete it," he added. Missile Age Baum also outlined briefly some of the changes of organization, tactics, and equipment brought on by the coming of the missile age. tion of the industrial unit and its effect in keeping industries here, and also attracting new industries. Baum also described the opera "Just because folks haven't heard much about it, don't think we have not had many inquiries by industries considering La Grande as a location,' Baum children - playing outside the church. The children could forget, but, for the parents and other adults who stood outside the burning school, Dec. 1, 1958, will live for ever. There were the black-robed nuns, who came 'last night to memorialize the memory of the three sisters who perished, as well as that of the children they had taught and loved. There were the firemen, tressed in white gloves, white shirts and ties, who a year ago had wept as they carried lifeless bodies f:om the blackened, steam ing school. "We believe not an accident :an happen," Cardinal Designate Meyer said quietly, "but our God knows all about it. We believe in me- way this terrible tragedy coitributed and will contribute to the glory of God. "It taught us that we must be prepared nhen God calls." A 25-man choir of priests sang "O Salutaris" as the priest gave the final benediction. And in the congregation, the parents lifted the cross of their grief to join in singing the ancient hymn. WINDY CITY? HE LOVES IT CHICAGO (UPI) - Chicago till hat it all over Let Angalet or New York, according to poot CaH Sandburg, who once imir. rtallied the Windy City at the "city of big thouldort." "New York why, It't tirod," Sandburg told newsmen. "And Lot Angalot why, traffic it to bad out there rho mayor won't lat rho eity buy any mora Cadillacs because other cart aren't at long and don't take up to much room on the streets." International Lecturer To TalkAtEOC Faculty members and students of EOC will hear Dr. N. G. D. Joardar, formerly of India, who is a noted international scholar and lecturer, Friday. He will speak on world affairs. Dr. Joardar will talk at the college at 10 a.m., also at 7:30 p.m. to a joint meeting of the La Grande churches, sponsored by the local ministerial association, at the First Christian church. His college talk wiU center more specifically around Christianity in the Far East. On Saturday afternoon he will speak to the A.A.U.W. at the Ackerman Elementary School auditorium on the topic, "India World Power." He was closely associated with Mahatma Gandi during the cam paign for Indian independence, and served on the staff of Prime Minister Nehru during the early years of Indian free government. He became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1953. Dr. Joardar is now a member of the Johns Hopkins University staff. He has taught law at Yale, international relations at Ameri can University and linguistic at Georgetown University, both at Washington, D.C. Oregon Wheat League Meeting At Pendleton Annual meeting of the' Oregon Wheat League opens tomorrow in Pendleton, according to Wrenn Case, Alice), league president. Several Union County wheat growers will attend flic sessions of the conference. Economic Tremendous said. "Naturally we can't pub licize these preliminary inquiries very well, but I can tell you one thing for sure . . .the compara lively high cost of transportation of products in and out of La Grande, and the comparatively high cost of skilled labor in this area have been two of the im portant factors which have been detrimental to La Grande in some cases. Juvenile Problems "On the other hand the town's wonderful coll e g e s, schools churches, recreation facilities, and lack of juvenile problems, very definitely nave been on th,e crcd it side for La Grande." Baum also reported that the corporation has been active in promoting additional housing in the city, and will continue to do so, as mis t actor is another lack of the city in attracting new res idents. tie said the La Grande Industrial Corporation has been operating at a profit, and its stockholders will receive quite a suDsiantiai dividend on their in vestment. jesse nosenoaum reported on the income from the club's gum and nut machines, and also told of the coming "Can Can Show" to te sponsored by the Lions Club at the high school auditor ium Friday night, Dec. 11. This show will come to La Grande from its 100-day run at the Con tennial Exposition in Portland, and is reported to be a most suc cessful affair. Sam Baillie was club guest for tr.e day. Louis Samson was pro gram chairman. Mediator Meets With Portland Strike Factions PORTLAND 'L'Pli A federal mediator met again today with representatives of the Ste eo typers Union "d Portland's two daily newspapers' in an effort to settle the 23-day old strike against the Oregon Journal and the Ore gonian. James H. Sampson, internation al president of the Stereotype Union, and Perry Badgley. inter national representative of the un ion, took part in the sessions. Liv es u? i Americans stesi Hands Of Cuban Tribunal n Yanks Face Death By Shooting HAVANA (UPI) The lives 'if two Americans, one of whom was carried into court on a stret-her, rested today in the han.ls of revolutionary tribunals that were asked to sentence them to death by a "ii'ig squad. A fi e mail court martial in the western province of Pinar del Hio is expected to announce a verdict today in the case of Auslin Voung. of Miami, one of the Americans for whom the govern ment demands death. The prosecution also has asked the death penalty for Fernando I'runa. a Cuban co-defendant in the Young case. Peter J. Lamb ton, a British-born American irom the Bahamas who is also on trial in Pinar del Rio. faces a possible Jo years in prison. The three men, with 36 Cuban companions, have been charged with membership in an anti-government guerrilla band and wilh the murder of a soldier killed a clash shortly before their rest. The other American who faces the threat of the firi'ig squad Cuban-born Itafael del Pino o( Miami, was tried by a military court in the officers' club of Ha vana's cabana fortress-prison. The trial ended at 12:40 a m. today, but the verdict is not expected until Friday. Del Pino, who has not yet re covered from injuries received when police ambushed and cap tured him July 25, rode to the of ficers' club in an ambulance and was carried into the imjirovised courtroom on a stretcher. Avalanche Buries Hut Full Of Men COURGNE. Italy UPI An avalanche thundered' down on a construction site today and buried a hut in which 35 workmen were sleeping. By late afternoon the bodies of nine men had been recovered and one still was missing and feared dead. This would put the death toll at 10. The men were working for a company digging a tunnel for a hydroelectric project. Courgne is only a few miles from the French border. Lone Survivor Crash 'Lucky To Be Alive' WILLIAMSPOHT, Pa. 1UPI1- Louis Matarazzo had looked at his 21 fellow passengers with the us ual mild curiosity when the plane took off from Philadelphia. Most of them were businessmen like himself. A couple of women passengers also were aboard the twin-engined Allegheny Airlines plane that was flying to points in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Matarazzo is the only one alive today. He lives in Divine Provi dence Hospital, the bandage over his injured eye unable to shut out the sight of the flaming crash against a mountainside. The cries of the trapped and in jured, and the dying, haunt the quiet hospital room. Why just me. is his thought. Why was I so lucky? Plana Cracks Open He remembers the plane swing ing away from the Williamsport Montoursville Airport after an im proper instrument approach. It rammed Into a 2,500-fojt mountain killing the 23 others aboa'd. "There was a crash. . .the plane burst and explixlcd,'' Matarazzo said. It was only an act of God, Ma tarazzo believes, that caused the plane to crack ocn by his side and allow him to stagger out on a wing. He walked along the wing through the flames and dropped to the ground. "I could hear the other passen gers screaming, but it was too hot to reach tN'm," he said. Slumblas Down Mountain He stumble! down the snow covered, rugged mountainside, slipped exhausted against a tree and begat saying his prayers. Rescuers found him there. Two other passengers also were alive, but died on the way to the hos pital in the long trip by stretcher out of the rugged woods. a DISASTER PATROLS Civil Defense groups such as this, experts on radioactive fallout, weather and mapping, chart course of fallout from safety of blockhouse bunker on fringe of Yucca Flat at Nevada Proving Ground. This would be their same duty during an attack which unleashed nuclear weapons on us. CHILLY DAY AT JACKASS FLATS HEATED BY GIANT ATOM BLAST ( Editor's note Tha Observer newspaper is presenting a series of articles on U.S. Civil Defense national, state and local leval in tha interest of the public. Today's story deals one phase of atomic bomb testing conducted with Civil Defense at tha Nevada AEC Test Site.) By GRADY PANNELL Observer Staff Writer It was cold out there among the sag' brush and cactus, the stars brilliant and the hills stand ing out faintly, at Jackass Flats. This was a certain area of the Nevada Test Site controlled and operated with super . secrecy and efficiency by the Atomic Energy Commission. Seven TV miles or so to the southeast was a faint haze thrown up by the thousands of blinking neon lights from Las Vegas. The "desert rats" may have thought dimly of gambling, glitter and gals, but not for long. Count-Down The control tower was getting ready for the count-down, that awesome and tense moment when the loudspeaker droned from ''30 to zero." All around you in deep trenches. bulwarked by pilings and sand bags, were men and women o( the U.S. Civil Def-.'nse, soldiers and Marines, politicians, special moni toring teams and newsmen by the Of Airplane "Thank God. you're here." Ma tarazzo said to Father Francis P. Corcoran, a Roman Catholic priest who was one of the first to reach the scery to give last rites of the church to the victims. "I feel sorry for those other- penple," Matarazzo said. Rescue crews worked through the night to recover the charred bodies of the passengers who had sat beside him only hours before. ..t. iJ tik-atlV-M- :VJ - II b L M .! P, M SURVIVED THE BLAST These show window mannequins survived the blast and radiation effects "of gigantic Nevada Proving Ground nuclear explosion when cer tain phase of the tests was based on A-bomb shelter protection. Ttus particular shel ter was made of concrete blocks and constructed in basement of model home located several thousand yards from point of detonation. Upper structure of house was bad ly damaged. The 8 inch solid concrete block.walls would give the same fallout pro tection as 12 inches of earth. Note the food and other supplies stored in shelter. ' r& dozen. They breathed tensely as they huddled in clothing hardly suitable for Nevada's cold desert nights. Th'-ir d;rk goggles were on and their backs were turned awny from the steel tower that was visible by a small, blinking light. Atop this structure, four miles away, was the device that was to test their courage and stamina. Silent Prayer The count-down began. At "20" you began to sweat. At "10" you tensed cramned leg muscles. At 5" you uttered a silent prayer. Then, "zero." A glaring light that is almost impossible to describe suddenly enveloped the "safety area." Even through blackened goggles nnd with eyes closed It was visible. You actually felt the light 'scientists say it is sudden heat) through your clothing. Next coms the ro'ling move ment of earth. Pilings creak. sand spills and you are rocked and bourtced between the narrow trench. , Then, the sound. It is a mighty, jarring slap that is seemingly a mousana umes lounder than the summer's thun der, and as the piercing light be- Powder Schools Concert Tonight NORTH POWDER ( Special The music department of Powder Val Icy schools is presenting their annual tall concert tonight in the high school gym. Featured in the concert will be the concert band, beginners band boys glee, girls glee and the mixed chorus. The concert will begin at p.m. With the seven-period day this year, much more lime is avaiianie for vocal music. The girls glee club consists of 28 girls and boys glee club with 14. giving a mixed chorus of 42 voices. The small admission fee to this concert is used towards entry fees to the district music contest gins to change color to orange and deep purple the Shockwaves pass overhead, building up in in tensity. Swirling Sand . Swirling sand chokes your nos trils: cameramen duck back of sage bushes already blackened and limp from previous nuclear test ings;: you fe?l as if you are caught in the eye of a hurricane The control tower officer advises you to crawl upon the desert floor. get to your feet and follow tha monitoring team to another "safety area" a hundred yards or so ahead. Soldiers and Marines are already advancing to a closer predetermin ed point. Newsmen are whoop ing to relieve tense feelings and rushing for the special Army Signal Corps trucks to spell out in grrphic prose a sight they may never s?e again. The world reads about the giant atomic bomb shot at Yucca Flat, double the size that levelled Hiroshima. A mile this side of the shot point is so hot and contaminated that it will b; days before the monitors will venture in. Two miles from the melted wreckage of the shot tower it if unsafe. That is where the AEC p'aced crates of pigs, chickens and rabbits. None survived. Tha Mushroom High overhead, rising in supreme majesty, is a broiling dark stem of smoke, dust and heat. Perched atop this si em is a mushroom crystal-like formation. That is the will of the wisp destruction known as fallout. As you watch, the mushroom climbs higher and widens, losing some of its color but hanging there like the head of a cobra. No snake is as deadly. The wind in the upper strata had been deemed favorable for the atomic shot, but small air currents begin to dissolve the head of the stem and it glides over Frenchman's Flat to your left. You are safe, but shaken.. (Next Fallout can slowly kill you.) r