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e-f. WEATHER Fair through Tueday wild momine fog pitch; highs M 41; low ti ll. LA GRANDE ! OBSERVER 93rd Issua 64th Year - v v -, -V) THANK YOU, SANTA CLAUS Sandra Courtright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burr Courtright, La Grande, accepts a gift from Santa during his visit at the Blue Mountain Grange. More than 80 mem bers and guests attendedd the dinner and evening program here Saturday. v , (Observer Photo) Ike In Message Of To Million MADKIp l'PI President Kisenhower arrived here today on the last lap of his "peace and friendship in" freedom" crusade and was greeted by about one mil lion Spaniards who hailed him as the world's "ambassador of peace." The President'i sleek jet trans port touched down at nearby Tor rejon Air Base in late afternoon after a short flight from Paris. The skies were leaden, the winds were chilly but the President's words were hopeful and the wel coming crowd's reception, was warm. Eisenhower told the throng at the U. S -built and operated air base that he had come "with a message from the American peo ple to the Spanish people." He said his message dealt with "a brighter future in cooperation with the noblest of all human causes: Peace and friendship in Junior High Yule Program Set Tonight Some 400 students tonisht will present the annual La Grande Junior High School Christmas program at 8 o'clock at the school gymnasium. To school "bands, an orchestra and three choral groups will perform for the general public. There is no admission. Bands are composed of the in termediate and advance; choral ermine ore the bovs chcrus. ninth grade girls and eighth grade girls, plus the school orchestra Christmas Tree Richard Mansfield is director of the orchestra and intermediate bend, with Don Scott directing the advance band. Betty Faulkner it thorns group director. The finale on tonight's program will consist cf tne choral groups and bands forming a living Christmas tree with traditional Yulctide singing. BUSINESS, INDUSTRY DRAG FEET ON COST OF LIVING WASHINGTON IL'PI i Presi dent Eisenhower's chief economic adviser today accused business and industry of failing to seize every opportunity to cut prices. Dr. Raymond Saulnier also questioned the practices of labor at the opening session of an unu sual seminar sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission to show the buying public how to guard against "trickery in the market place" and phony adver tising. FTC Chairman Eari W. Kintner said the wo day "conference on public deception'' was aimed to educate consumers on how to de tect and avoid "being victimized by illegal selling methods, parti cularly (alse or. misleading adver tising." Saulnier, who heads the Presi dent's Council of Economic Ad visers, contended that most reduc tions in the consumer index in recent years result from lower food costs. - ' Cheering freedom." ' Generalissimo Francisco Fran co, Spain's chief of state who led the welcomers in colorful cere monies at the air base, responded with a brief speech rich in the imagery of the Spanish language. Lavishly Decorated City Then the two heads of state and their entourages set out on a triumphant trip1 into the center of Madrid, with the streets lined with half the population of two million and decorated lavishly in honor of the President ! visit. The mayor of Madrid presented Eisenhower with the keys to the city; and tremendous cheera rolled up from the crowds hi tome places packed 50-deep as the procession rolled toward the Mon cloa Palace where the President will stay until Tuesday. The President will wind up his journey to three continents with a visit to Morocco Tuesday and a return to Washington Tuesday night for the Christmas holidays. Wants Golden Age Speaking to a large welcoming crowd at heavily guarded Torre jo:i, 13 miles outside Madrid, Ei senhower said "on this mission. $90 Theft From Filling Station La Grande Police are investigat ing th? thefl of $90 from the Triangle Richfield station. Spring S:reet and Fourth Avenue. Sunday afternoon. Preston Lohr told police that somecne bad entered the o'fice ol the station sometimes be !vccn 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. and stole the money from a cash drawer in the office. Lohr said he had no idea who took the money. The theif left $8 in silver in the drawer. John Richard Nelson, 908 Di vision St., was cited by pelice far driving while his operator's lic ense was suspended. Nelson was stopped Saturday night by police n Madison Avenue. Bail v.s3 set at $250 and a hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. today. "The time has come." Saulnier said, "when responsibility for the price level should be shared by industry and not shouldered ex clusively by the farm commu nity." Aiks Price Reductions ' The President's economic ad viser urged labor to keep its de mands for wage increases in line with gains in productivity. When labor follows this formula in ask ing for higher pay, he said, busi ness is then alforded an oppor tunity to reduce prices. He urged business and industry to "grasp such opportunities." Also at the hearing. Victor H. Nyborg, president of the Associa tion of Better Business Bureaus, said the problem of fictitious pric ing and bait advertising is not "the sinister, vicious thing" it was a year ago. Nyborg said work by the Fed eral Trad? Commission over the past year indicates that most batinessmea voluntarily halt such Good Will Spaniards I say to Spain and the Spaniards, let us work together so that in our own days we may see a long ad vjice toward a world free from aggression, from hunger and di sease, free from war and a con stant threat of war. Let us work together so that we may pass on to our children a golden promise that mankind will achieve peace with justice. friendship in freedom. Eisenhower became the first American President in office ever to set tout on Spanish soil. . Heroic Rescue Of Skindiver PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. iUPI A 22-year-old skin diver dragged an unconscious skindiving friend 130 yards along the Pacific Ocean bottom yester day in an unusual rescue. Both were equipped with apparatus. "Because of four-foot surface waves ,beating against our air tanks aid smashing lis back to sea, I pulled Ronnie to the bot tom and dragged him over rocks and through depressions until we reached the shore," said William Mable. ' " "1 found myself lost once in the murky water and when I resur faced I saw I was heading out to sea instead of land." liable went to the rescue of Roland Moore, also 22 and bit cousin, when one of the two air hoses on Moore's self-contained breathing appa'atus detached from the air tank. "I was getting as much water as I was air," said Moore. "I knew I was In bad shape. I dropped my 17-pound weight belt and tried to make in for shore. But I kept swallowing water. I be gan to lose consciousness. I fig ured my number was up and I began to pray.' Mable said he just finished spearing a fish and was looking for Moore when he spotted his cousin's hand jutting from the water and swam to him. practices "when the rules of the read are spelled out." He said the press, radio and television were making valuable contributions in helping the, gov e'nment and Better Business Bu reau fight the problem. Advertising Refused A survey of 219 newspapers, be said, showed that they rejected advertising totaling $8,090,400 last year because it didn't come up to snu'f. Nyborg said he agreed with the American Newspaper Publishers Association that the survey was "another clear demonstration of the fact that the daily newspaper puts its integrity ahead of all oth er considerations. . ." V ."Broadcast media, the local ra dio and television stations, like wise endeaxor to police the air waves." he said,- "and it should be recognized mat the National Association of Broadcasters has done much to eliminate certain types of advertising." LA GRANDE, Last Old Civil War Vet Deadly HOl'STON. Tex. UPI -Crowds of American citizens to day filed past the bier of the b-1 veteran of the Civil War. Walter Washington Williams,!!?. died Saturday. His body, dressod In a grey Confederate general's uniform with a star on each side ot tne collar, lay in a nine a'ui grey casket draped with the Con federate flag. Across the world, America:! flags were flying ut half .stall. President Eisenhower Sunday proclaimed a period of national mourning until Williams is buried Wednesday near his old farnj Fanklin. Tex. tee Pag 7 (MISH MASH) for stary about old Texas Confederate general) Williams had fought olf four' attacks of pneumonia this year. Al times, he had to be led with an eyedropner. His death was direc tly caused by a blood clot in the large vessel leading to the brain, according to his physician Dr. Ilus sell Wolfe. Contributing factors were the after effects of pneumon ia, under nourishment and old age "He just quit breathing," Wolle said. Congressional Labor Bill Hinges Strike Developments WASHINGTON (UPI Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.) said today the need for labor legislation may overshadow all business in Congress next month if the steel strike is re sumed. Mansfield said that if the Steel workert walk' out again Jan. 26, when the present.. sUiy-at-work court injunction expires, he weuld look for Congress to act quickly perhaps in response to a presi dential message. As a result, he added, the Sen ate leadership may have to side track its plans to bring up feder al aid to school construction as the first major business of the ft :-r -r.i t :'-J FIRE DAMAGE . Volunteer fireman Bill Brasure wheels out two carta of damaged toilet tissue from Chris' Foods, 1204 Spring St., following Saturday night's fire in the store. An electrical motor either stuck or shorted out causing the blaze, according to Fire Chief Ray Snider. Several other packages of paper products were destroyed and some smoke damage oc curred, fire officials said. The alarm occurred at 9:43 p.m. . (Observer Photo) OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1 959 a e . . -. -1 v 1 WALTER WILLIAMS y m.m INOminGGS For Chamber Directorship n Im-al residents have been in. minuted to fill three positions alien ihe l.a Grande Chamber of l oinmeree board "I directors, lbllots are being mailed to the membership of the organization. li.-me Snodrass. chamber man .iM'i-. has announced. The following names have been submitted to the membership. Ilik'V I). Allen, La Grande Ob server; Carlos F.asley, Eastern Oregon College; Mike Lynch, Gettuigs-Lynch Motor Co.; A. B. (h'pud) Olson, California 1'aeilli' Utilities Co.; John Sullivan, U. S. National Bank, and Ed Watts, West Coast Telephone Co. The three receiving Ihe high est number of votes will serve I hive veal's on Ihe board. On Steel new Jan. session - which convenes Ready to go when the senators return is a two-year, fl. 100.000.- 000 proposal for federal aid to states on a matching basis to pro vide buildings and meet the acute classroom shortage. The bill was approved by the Senate Labor and Welfare Com mittee in the closing days of the last session. . - .Tentative plans call for' follow ing the 'school measure with leg islation to increase the federal minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour. A labor subcommittee has approved the bill and the full committee is expected to follow suit when Congress' reconvenes. ssssT r . i; miroe n SUSPECT WAS REALLY LOADED SPOKANE (UPD When po kane detective arretted a man who appeared re be under the Influence of narcotics theij found even mere Mian they suspected. . Concealed under the 11-year-old man's right arm in a sling were: A loaded H-gauge tawed off shotgun. Extra thotgun thellt. A straight edge raior. A hypodermic outfit. A tilk stocking mask. A rubber mask. Twe bottles of a morphine derivative drug. Ben Robinson Again Heads ASC Group Ben L. Robinson. Imbler, has been renamed as chairman of the county committee of the Agricul ture Stabilization and Conserve tion office. The election took place at the convention of chaiman of Un inn County ASC cammounity committees. Also reelected to serve on the committee were Rex. C. Roulet, Elgin, vice chairman, and Teomat E. Lampkin, North Power, reg ular member. Makes Decisions John T. "Bud" Jones was n'ect ed first alternate and Dean luck ett. Cove, was elected second al ternate. Announcement of the election was made by Lloyd German, manager of the county ASC of f'ce. He said the committee is responsible for making all deci sions and policies concerned w'th the admistration of the pro grams of the ASC. EIGHTH DEATH SENTENCE FOR PRISON AUTHOR LOS ANGELES (UP!) Con vict-author Caryl Chessman today was sentenced to die in the San Qucntin gas Chamber in Feb. Superior Judge Herbert V. Walk er signed the death warrant for the date recommended byputy District Attorney J. Miller Leavy. who prosecuted Chessman. Chessman was not represented at the brief proceedings. Walker was assigned to reset the execution following recent re fusal of the U. S. Supreme Court to grant Chessman's latest appeal. Chessman has managed to elude previous death sentences by a series of legal maneuvers. He was convicted in May, 1948, of 17 felonies including two counts of kidnap and rape. Both counts carried death penalties. DISARMAMENT, Western PARIS (UPfl The western Big Three leaders today formally invited Premier Nikita Kh-ush-chev to come here April 27 for the first ot a series of Big Four summit meetings. He was ex pected to accept the invitation quickly. - A series of communiques and announcements issued at end of a three-day meeting of President Eisenhower with the government heads of Britain. France and West Germany made public the text of the official invitation to Khrushchev four hours after It was extended to him in Moscow. In addition to the main com munique announcing the summit bid to Khrushchev, the western Big Four issued another commu nique calling for an early confer ence to save Western Europe's economy from being torn apart by the two rival trade groups of the so-called "inner six" aid "outer seven." It sold the west ern leaders had decided to call an informal meeting in Paris in the near future, but specified no date. The American, British and French ambassadors in Moscow cilkd on Soviet Foreign Minister Invitation 16 Pegoa Persons Crash Of HOLIDAY-LADEN VEHICLE - SMASHES CATTLE TRUCK TUCSON. Ariz. (UPI) A double-deck Greyhound bu ' carrying Christmas travelers truck loaded with cattle, killing nine persons including f ' 7 year-old child and injuring 35. rorce oi me impast sent through the air and into the me ironi ot tne mis was spilt open and smashed back like a tin can All of the 41 passengers and driver of the scenic-cruiser bus going from Los Angeles to New Orleans were killed or injured. The dead included four women and two men passengers, the bus driver and the two men in the truek. Of the injured passengers, 10 suffered critical or serious injur ies. The rest were treated at hos pitals and released. "A Cory Most" "It was a gory mess," said Tommy Brooks, 41, a Tucson- em balmer who was pressed into service as an ambulance driver. "Besides the bodies lying around there were cattle all over the place. One cow, still alive, was standing on top of the bus. It fi nally jumped to the ground." Arizona highway patrolman Jimmy Williams, 30, a patrolman for five years, said: "It was one of Ihe most horri ble things I've ever seen in my life. The bus was mangled com pletely up to the back deck torn into shreds." The dead and injured had to be removed from Uie bus through windows. Three servicemen pas sengers, suflering minor injuries, smashed out windows and helped patrolmen remove the more seri ously injured. It Came Killed Thirty cattle, mostly calves, were killed -aboard the two-level trailer-tractor. About If were de stroyed humanely by officers and several of the frightened beasts ran off into the desert. "This is the worst accident in Western Greyhound history." said O. D. Gould, general claims di rector of Western Greyhound in San Francisco. He said the bus was the sec ond part of a scheduled trip from Los Angeles to. New Orleans. The bus was added because of the heavy Christmas travel. The pre-dawn Crash occurred on a section of U.S. Highway 80 about 11 miles east of here. Officers said James Stewart. Del Rio, Tex., driver of the cat tle truck, apparently became con fused when the four-highway nar rowed to two lanes and swung his truck into the wrong lane. Speed of the two vehicles was un determined. rive hospitals in the area were used to treat the injured Draft Board Closed Local Board 24 of the Selective Service System will be closed from Dec. 22 to Dec. 29, Clerk tola Olson has announced. BERLIN QUESTION Heads Issue Formal To Soviet Leads? Andrei Gromyko this morning and delivered oral invitations for Khrushchev to "meet together from time to time" with the west ern leaders. Te Discuss Disarmament The western ambassadors told Gromyko their chiefs of govern ment will expect to discuss with Khrushchev disarmament, the German question including Ber lin, and East-West relations. In delivering the invitation and proposed agenda to Gromyko, the American ambassador was in structed to make it clear that the i::ur.c:iTTD G:Zl$Tf.US$IAlS Flva Cant Die Bus collided Sunday with a trailed some of the cattle flying bus among the passengers Ultimatum Mi To Oregon Motorists 2 SALEM IDI'H-Gov. Mark Hal- field has notified all mayors and' sheriffs in Oregon that he has dl- -reeled state police to set up lntejv ception stations at unannounced. locations on stale highways for; Christmas eve and New Year's. eve. .c- Hatfield said the move is an . effort to "apprehend drivers witM out licenses, those who are IntoxV cated and others in obvious vio lation." "Oregon's tragic death toll re quires unusual measures and t urge you to join with me by also ' establishing rigid local preventive measures for drivers during these" - two holiday periods." , -: Hatfield continued: "Only by city, county and state law en forcement agencies using their maximum efforts can we accorrl-. ' plish an effective check on the" drive-ability of our citizens during tnese days of heavy holiday traffic." , t Oregon Finds Last Day Of Fall Variable By United Press Intornarla I Fog west of the Cascades and) freezing temperatures east Of the mountains ushered in the last day of fall in Oregon today. Winter officially arrives at 6:35 a.m. Tuesday. The weather bureau said ground fog was reported from Medfora north through Washington's Puget Sound area. East of the moun tain skies were partly cloudy te clear, with fog in some valleys.: ' A weak storm front located about 400 miles off the coast threatens to bring a little rain in to western Oregon tonight or early Tuesday. Temperatures in eastern Oregasi ranged down to 11 above at Burn in the 4 a.m. official readings, at remained cool in southern Oregon, too, with Medford having a loar of 25. suggested list of items was fs restricted, but that each pat last pant would be free to raise nod discuss any topic. . West German Chancellor rad Adenauer attended the em Big Four summit meeting? si Paris this week but did not tak part in inviting Khrushchev ta-e summit meeting. However, he) was kept advised of all allied de velopments. . : -. The decision to Invite tntrnakV chev to a eerie of summit sne"t ings was taken by Eisenhower, President Charles de Gaulle, Ade nauer and British Prime MlznV Harold Macmillan. It was kk millan who first suggested fy. ries of summit talks and Brlwe) newspapers today bailed hjrf Ht his diplomatic triumph. De Oaolle te VMt U4. ' . The American, British tJ French letters to Khrushchev jaf. fered no specific summit saa but said only they should aw, "to discuss the main problems ed fecting the attainment ot pacf and stability in the world. vf? The communique surruniA f the work of the western Big f leaders said they had "irt m the desirability of a faet conference" with Khrue'adstv