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OBSERVER
79th Issue)
64th Year
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1959
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Ike Confers With Military Heads
Before Leaving For Foreign Trip
WASHINGTON iUPI Presi
dent Eisenhower conferred today
with his, top military and diplo
matic advisers before leaving to
night on a fateful peace mission
along the perimeter of Russia.
Eisenhower called his National
Security Cou-.c I into session aid
went into conference with Secre
tary of Sta!e Christian A. Herter
several hours later. Herter leaves
later this month for the NATO
ministers meeting in Paris.
The President presumably dis
cussed his trip and the nation
wide radio-TV talk he will make
before taking off. He is expected
to tell fellow Americans to com
pose their economic differences
lest the entire free World suffer.
Eisenhower and a relatively !
small staff leave by jet transport j
from nearby Andrews Air Force
Base about S p.m. e.s.t. for Rome ,
on the first leg of his 22,370-mile
journey to 11 nations.
TV-Redie Address
Shortly before boarding his
pi are. Eisenhower will address
the nation by radio and television
at 7:15 p.m. e.s.t., outlining his
trip and po'nting to the unbreak
able connection between economic
stability at liome and the main
tenance of peace through strength
in other lands.
He leaves the country deeply
. concerned over the steel strike
which is now in abeyance be
cause of a federal court order.
The President intends to stress
again tonight the importance of
steel management and labor com
ing to an agreement to prevent
a resumption of the walkout next
month.
He will base his appeal for sue-,
ccssful steel negotiations on his
firm belief that the United States
cannot do a good job of helping
her friends stand firm against
expansion if America is torn by
serious economic strife.
Step in Labrador
Eisenhower will land at Goose
Bay. Labrador, late tonight for
refueling. In Rome he will be met
at noon Friday by President Gio
vanni Gronchi. Prime Minister
Antonia Scgnl and other high of
" flcials of the Italian government.
The arrival in Rome- will set
the pattern for the rest of the
trip a brief speech at the air
port, a ceremonial drive into the
center of the city and a black tie
dinner Friday night in Quirmale
Palace.
This schedule will be standard
first-night procedure at every
stop except in India where Eisen
hower will spend most of five
days and not get into official en
tertaining until his second evening
in New Delhi.
Local Men Answer 'Alert'
Called By National Guard
First call was issued at 7 p.m.
yesterday.
It was terse in its military sim
plicity. Young men, seated around TV
sets in their homes or who were
present at various functions such
as the EOC basketball game or
Blue Mountain Masterminds foot
ball banquet, probably grumbled
inwardly.
But they filed out for the local
National Guard Armory.
Local and area men were an
swering a state-wide Army tend
Air) National Guard a'ert that
lasted until 11 p.m.
Col. David Baum. commanding
Driver Draws Citation
A Pendleton driver was cited
for 'violation of the basic rule
near the Second Street overpass
yesterday.
Robert Franklin Nirschl was
Issued a citation for traveling 33
miles per hour in a 20 mile zone
at 2:46 p.m. Nirschl posted $13.
bail and was released.
HOW SHELTER PROTECTS This inset drawing of shelter built in basement of mod
ern American home shows how persons can take refuge safely and survive nuclear
fallout from atomic or hydrogen bomb explosion. Radioactive dust particles are car
ried downwind from blast and settle on the roof and grounds. From these particles,
radiation rays (arrow like figures) shoot out which penetrate most substances. The
ravs cause radiation sickness to people without their realizing it, ince radiation can
not be detected by the senses, niaterials ot fallout shelter are dense enough, howev
cr to absorb most radiation and prevent it from reaching the occupants.
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NEW FIRM
Workers install sign on the front of the La Grande office of Pioneer Federal Savings
& Loan Association which opens this month.. The firm, with home offices in Baker,
will be managed by Donald R. Guyer. The remodeled offices were formerly occu
pied by the Mode-0 Day store. . (Observer Photo)
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OILUSTKUSSEaUS
officer of the First Battle Group
of the 196th Infantry here, and his
fellow officers and men were justly
proud today.
At H-plus four hours they had a
91 per cent representation of
Guardsmen, well above the state
wide attendance average. And at
Hplus two hours. Headquarters
and Headquarter Company of the
First Battle Group, commanded
by Capt. Willard Car?y, had 61
per cent present. H plus four saw
93 per cent of Capt. Carey's men
in attendance.
tt Per Cent
Lt. Col. George Boyd. Regular
Army, with lhe National Guard
here, said this morning that the
tttendanc? average on the state
level was 86 per cent for both
Army and Air.
The practice alert was called by
Oregon Adjutant General Alfred
Hintz. ' This is a oncc-a-year
''mock alert" and serves to test
the readiness of the NG in 39
towns and cities throughout the
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Ike Trying To Knock
Out Religious - Issue?
WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres
ident Eisenhower may have
dimmed the religious issue as a
force in the 1960 presidential cam
paign but there is no sign that
he has pushed it out of sight.
The President appeared to be
trying to knock religion out of
next year's campaign with his
Wednesday news conference com
ment that the U.S. government
has no business providing birth
control help to countries with
overpopulation problems.
The religious issue, already an
unknown factor for 1960, erupted
in public debate following the re
cent statement of U.S. Catholic
bishops that government funds
should not be used for birth con
trol programs in underdeveloped
countries with population prob
lems. Asks Candidates' Position
The Rt. Rev. James A. Pike,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of
RADIOACTIVE DUST IS 'SILENT KILLER'
FALLOUT WHICH FOLLOWS ATOMIC SHOTS
(Editors note -The Observer
newspaper Is presenting a
series of articles on U.S. Civil
Defense national, state and
local level in the interest of
. the public. Today's article
deals en the dangers of radio
active fallout.)
By GRADY PANNELL
Observer Staff Writer
Radioactive dust particles result
from every nuclear evplosion
staged above ground in this coun-
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California, immediately asked if
Catholic candidates for public of
fice were bound by the declara
tion. Prospective presidential can
didates of Calhol c and Prolestaj-t
faiths were asked how they fel'..
There was some belief that the
controversy had seriously dam
aged the chances of Sen. John
Kennedy (D-Mass.i, front -runni.ig
prospect for the Democratic pres
idential nomination.
Kennedy, a Catholic, said the
birth control issue should be left
to the other countries but that if
any such question should come
before him he would decide it in
accord with his oath of office.
Coming from a Republican
president, Eisenhower's remarks
Wednesday may have taken the
heat off the specific issue of birth
control for Democrats like Kenne
dy and Gov. Edmund G. Brown
of California, another Catholic
and prospective candidate for the
Democratic nomination.
try and abroad, the deadly matter
following the cloud patterns hii!h
above the earth.
From time to time, the radio
active dust sifts silently in deadly
fashion from the clouds and scat
ters hundreds and thousands o'
miles on the earth from the origin
al nuclear detonation site.
A human being cannot delect
radiation by smell, sight or touch.
Detection is the job cf trained
technicians who either work wilh
the Atomic Knergy Commission or
Civil Drfcn.se and carry radio
logical detection instrunr-nts.
Fallout, the most sil-nt death
now known to man, eventually
kilts its victims who are exposed
In Iare doses of the dust particles
or ashes. '
I -co A. Hoexh, "director of the
Office of Civil Defnse Mobi'iia
tion. says radioactive fallout would
be the greatest killer eftT a nu
clear attack unless the nation's
people are prepared against it
Dogs, goats, pigs, rals and mice
died both swiftly and slowly during
several series of test affect nuclear
shots he'd et the Nevada Proving
Grounds at Yucca Flats, 70 miles
from Las Vegas.
Hiroshima Maidens
The animals caged to
ground lero disappeared from the
melting heat and shattering ex
plosive force o th blasts. Thoe
further away from the heat circle
received extreme doses of r-jdia
lion and died within hours. Others
far out and which were dusted
genlly Ml ill davs after the shot:
A MIRACLE
DID HAPPEN
SAN MARCO DURRI, Italy
( U P I ) Th 284 residents of this
mountain village Itarnad ta
d'y that miracles reap divi
dend!. The simple (oik of San Marce
Durri finally learned the full
meaning of a "miracle" visited
on them last month by two
benefactors they have never
seen Joseph and Victor Sa
turn) of Reno, Nev.
The Saturnos, en the 40th
anniversary ct the death of
their father, an American im
migrant from San Marce Durrl
who made good in the new
world, mde a gift of mora
than SWS.OCO in Bank of Am
erica stock to the people of this
poor village.
That meant every man,
woman and child gat stack
werth $1,111.10 each simply
because ol the accident at their
place of residence.
Muddy Creek
bchool Flan
Under Study
NORTH POWDER (Special)
I'nion County's School Reorgani
zaticn committee refused last
ii'ght to accept a plan which
'. would nut the Muddy Creek
school district in the Baker dis
trict. Chairman Tom Ijmpkin of the
I'nion County group said that all
plans required further study be
fore the I'nion members would
take final action.
Muddy Creek voters have twice
rejected proposals that they join
the Union County district and
have petitioned the Vnion County
committee for permission to join
the Baker district.
Joint High School
Muddy Creek students present
ly attend a joint union High
school which is in Union County.
? The problem facing the Union
rwounty committee ia how to-dis-'
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soive me joini umun nign stnuui
to free Muddy Creek to jojin with
the Baker district if that is pos
sible. Both Baker and Union County
committees must concur in the
plan before action can be taken.
New School?
North Powder School Superin
tendent Norman Vancil proposed
a plan which calls for the con
struction of a new school in Bak
er County just south of North
Powder. The plan would include
North Powder, Muddy Creek,
hock Creek and the Haines area.
Rock Creek and Haines are cur
rently being served by Baker
District 5-J.
A group of Haines area resi
dents at the meeting protested
the plan and expressed their de
sire to remain in the Baker dis
tract. The Union County committee
will consider all of the proposals
before making a final decision
in the matter.
some died and others recovered.
It would be the same with man
Hiroshima is living proof. The so-
called "Maidens of Hiroshima,"
a group of school girls who sur
vived the death blast effects of
tho nuclear bomb but who came
in contact with dust fallout days
arier the great blast, arc dying
off one by one almost 15 years
aner tne shot.
M.-ny of the "Maidens" have
suffers other ailments such as
loss of complete or partial eye-
signt, acalness, facial deformity,
crippling effects, etc.
How docs one avoid falleul?
Civil Defense could have the ab
solute answer, home fallout sh- l
t-rs. and the equipment and sup
plies to go in them.
Interested persons may acauire
from CD a booklet crlled "The
Family Fallout Shelter." It tells
how and why the shelters would
be built, and gives) detailed
I drawing and specifications to aid
in ouiiujnk inem.
Do It Yourself
The booklet also lists the equip
ment and supplies needed for the
shelters. Four of the d-picted
fallout shelters are designed to be
built by contractors in new Bouses,
in more di'ficult construction
arc, or as more expensive
und-r ground shelters.
But a fi.'th shelter, the basement
concrete block shelter ia designed
specifically as a do-it-yourself
I pmiect io oe rreciea tor not much
j more than 1150.
I I'D estimates that this type
Hundreds Drown
When dam Bursts
Fate Of
Americans
Unknown
HAVANA UT1 No decision
has been handed down by the
revolutionary tribunals pondering
government demands that two
Americans be put to death as
foes of Premier Fidel Cast-o.
The verdict of a court martial
in the western province of Pinar
del Rio in the case of Austin F.
Young, Miami, was expected
Wednesday but was delayed with
out explanation. It is not certain
now how soon the judgment will
be announced.
A tribunal here, which tried a
Cuban-lwrn American named Ra
fael del Pino, had not been ex
pected to bring in a verdict until
Friday. Del Pino, who now lives
in Miami, was accused of conspir
ing to smuggle anti-Castro refu
gees out of Cuba.
A third American, British-born
Peter J. Lambton of Nassau, was
on trial with Young in Pinar del
Hio on charges of sharing the
leadership of an anti-Castro guer
rilla band. The government asked
a 30-year prison sentence for
Lambton.
City Dads Refer
Property Lien
To City Manager
City commissioners referred
the lien against "Kir Street Park"
property, recently deeded to
llendrix Methodist Church, for
Pavement District 158 to the city
manager for study at Wednes
day's commission meeting.
The property was sold to 'the
city in November, 1936, for de
linquent assessments amounting
to $137.06.
City Manager Dave Slaght will
report to the city s governing
body next week on the disposition
of the matter.
Koopman Attends
Meet In Chicago
Norman Koopman, La (irande
High School vocational agncul
lure instructor, is attending the
National Vocational Agricultural
Teachers Convention in Chicago.
While in Chicago, Koopman
will also attend the American
Vocational Association Conven
tion as an alternate delegate.
Koopman, vice president of the
Oregon Vocational Agricultural
Teachers Assn. will give the
Oregon report of the year's acti
vities.
Koopman was accompanied by
his wife. Jewel. The convention
will end Dec. 10.
shelter would provide all the fall
out protection needed in most of
the nation, and it would have peo
ple living outside probable target
city areas.
Every American should know
that radioactive fallout can be
carried by upper air currents for
great distances from point of blast.
Fallout's radiation can be ex
tremely dangerous. It can make
you deathly ill; it can kill you.
(Next In caaa of attack,
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BUILDING SHELTER An old coal bin under a dwelling, as shown here, can be uti
lized in many instances as a home-made n uclear fallout shelter. This type was built
for less than $59 by Darrell Barnes, Ithaca, Mich , who added odds and ends of lum
ber for reinforcement and with which to seal cracks. With Barnes, second from
right, are eLo A. Hoegh, national CD director. Michigan Gov. G. Mennen William
and Sheriff Robert Russell, who also serves as the county CD director
SLEEPING FRENCH TOWN
HIT BY WALL
FREJUS. France (UPI)
Dam burst Wednesday nitht
doom and sent a 35-foot wall.
town.
The French news agency AFP reported tonight that more
than 300 bodies have been counted in the disaster. The
agency said 163 bodies were
region of rrejus and about me.
same number" in the adjacent
villages of Saint Itaphcal and Hu
get. The number was not officially
confirmed. '
Additional scores of villagers
were feared swept to their death
when 45 million tons of water cas
caded through the 10-mile long
Reynan River Valley.
The city morgue was a scene
of chaos. Bodies of men, women
and children, most of them naked,
their clothes stripped off by the
fast moving waters; lay side by
side in the morgue, its chapel and
neighboring buildings taken over
as morgue annexes.
Search for Relatives
Lang lines of anxious relatives,
some sobbing, some moaning,
moved through the morgue, look
ing for their kin and found them
dead.
Flood surviors told of seeing
neighbors and even members of
their own families swept from
rooftops where they had clam
bered in no effort to escape. One
rescue worker, a teacher, found
several of her puoils half buried
BULLETIN
RIO DE JANEIRO. Braiil
(UPI) A group of air force
officers sat off reports el a
rebellion when they flew into
the pi'jvincial capital of Belo
Horiionte today and attempted
ta take off with three DC
planes of the RAL Airline.
The War Ministry immediate
ly announced that it had
placed the army on full alert.
Hood Hangout Scene
Of Gangland Rubout
SHERMAN OAKS. Calif. LPI
A widely known bookie was shot
to death Wednesday night before
ex-convict Mickey Cohen and 25
other guests at a swanky rcstau
rant and police said the murder
scene was "rearranged" before
they were called.
The victim, convicted extortion
ist Jack Whalen, alias Jack
O'Hara. 39, was shot once under
the right eye, police suid, afler he
walked into Itondellrs restaurant
and hit a man in the face.
The slayer fired two shots at
Whalen from his seal in a dining
room booth, then fled. The second
shot went into the ceiling.
"To paraphrase Winston Chur
chill, never did so many people
see so little," Police Chief Wil
liam If. Parker said of the slaying
in this San Fernando Valley dis
trict of Los Angeles.
Parker said there was an "oh
vious delay before police were
notified. Perhaps some of the
press were notilicd first. We also
believe that the scene of the mur
der was considerably rearranged
before we arrived."
Former mobster Cohen told no-,
lice he was sitting at a table only
six feet from the shooting but did
not recognize the gunman. He
said he never had met Whalen.
"1 just ducked when the shout
OF WATER
The 200 foot high Malpassct
with a noise like the crack of
of water on this sleepy Riviera
recovered in the immediate
in the mud. all dead.
Frejus. founded by Julius Cae
sar and a target of the Allied in
vasion of the Mediterranean coast
of France in August, 1944, es
enned total destruction because a
slight rise of ground divided the
wall of water into twin torrents
that roaved through the town's
cdes.
But the town of 14.000 was a
scene of devastation, stunned and
fLoded, some of Us streets run
ning in rivers six feet deep. A
French army rescue team said
the scene during the night was
blood chilling with screams and
tries for help coming from the
dai kness.
Power Station Destroyed
The rushing waters carried
away the town's new power sta
tion, plunging it into a darkness
lighted only by the faint starlight
that followed five days of torren
tial rains and gales.
The night of fear and sudden
death was worst in the farm
houses which dot the 10 miles of
valley between Frejus and the
dam, along a highway where
trucks and cars were swept away
like matchsticks.
A irking passenger train was
derailed as it sped along the
Riviera from Marseilles to Nice
but all passengers were account
ed for ulthough two cars rolled .
Into the water. -
lre ninny miracles of
survival and one nf those was a
woman found sitting dazed but
unhurt under a tree 600 yards
from her house.
"My house was hit by a wall
of water that rose above the roof
lop." she told her rescuers.
ing started." Cohen said when
questioned at police headquarters.
"I asked someone behind me If I
was bleeding, then just stood
there. I've been through too many
of these things to go under a ta
ble." Within minutes after squads of
officers arrived they locked the
restaurant and held the patrons
inside for questioning or took them
lo downtown headquarters.
Police began a round-up of
known l.os Angeles area under
world characters, including Fred
and Joe Sica. Fred Sica was at
the restaurant before the shooting,
police said.
In reconstructing the shooting
police said the victim fell in front
of the booth while Cohen and oth
er patrons faced him. They laid
there were several versions of
what happened but refused to say
what the stories were.
Chief Parker said the shooting
occurred shortly before midnight
and police arrived 30 or 40 min
utes later. He said the murder
weaon must have been a revol
ver, because no shell casings were
found.
'The two main clues We are
seeking now are the weapon and
Cohen's new black convertible
which was taken from the pwking
lot." Parker said.