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Obwvtr, La Grande, Ore. Tues., Dec. 22, 1959 Page 3 if i I ' iPoWder School's Christmas forty Held, Santa Visitor k"4ifc:fc:v.i.j.. LIKE WATER OFF DI CK'S BACK An archer s arrow . hit this mallard but the duck goes about its business a i usual seemingly unaware of the long shaft stuck in ita . back. The duck has the sympathy of passersby alonR the Truckee River but puddles away from would-be helpers Scribe Relates Taste-Test' Of lice's Recipe For Trout By PRANK RLEAZER UPI Staff Writar J WASHINGTON il'PH - Mrs. Hon G. Ken and I weren't 15 wet away when the ship's bell rounded and if we hadn't stepped mighty quick we wouldn't have made it. Ai it was, 10 other lean and hungry-looking types gut there first. vWe were 11th and 12th in the K-man volunteer line to taste-test President Eisenhower's recipe for rainbow trout and a rival recipe devised by home economists of the Bureau of Commercial Fish eries. ' The bureau is devoted to the proposition that fish is good and good for you. and why in the world don't you eat it more of ten T Mrs. Kerr is boss of its home economics unit. Because her desk is next door to the fish-tasting room, she makes the lineup as many as four times a day and, in 15 years, has done more than her share to prevent the catch from going to waste. Watchdog' . Hits Waste By Air Force WASHINGTON UPI The Qenoral Accounting Office. Con gress' watchdog on government spending, has charged the Air Force with wasting millions of , dollars by failing to replace worn- ' out vehicles. Government auditors said the annual repair bill on some old utos, trucks and buses owned by the Air Force are more than what il would cost to replace them with , new ones. I In two other reports, the GAO aW 1 Complained that the Air Force spent more than half a million dol lars too much for electronic com munications equipment purchased from Northern Radio Co. of New York. The agency said the com pany overestimated its labor costs and Air Force contract negotia tors should have caught the error. Disclosed it had prevented a aaval supply depot at Mechan wsburg, Pa., from scrapping more than half a million dollars in us able equipment. Auditors said the foul-up resulted because of a mis ksterpretation of invento-y instruc tions from htgber headquarters. The charges were contained in reports sent to Congress by Comptroller Gsrwral Joseph Camp bell, head of the GAO. The first report said that since the Korcaa War ended the Air Force has "consistently retained wora-tK ata.onas.ive vehicles bc ytaur the pomt of economical re or." Oaly a few of the vehicles ear marked as uneconomical to repair have been replaced, it saaJ. As a result, the report said, in the last three years the Air Force has incurred five million dollars more in repair costs and depre ciated market values on old vehi cles than it would c:st to replace them. It estimated that postponing the purchase of replacements has cost three million dollars in increased vehicle prices paid, or to be paid. In that time she and her staff have devised, tested, tasted, and published thousands of recipies for seafocd, from fishhurger to pounds- of fish per capita yearly. As a result, a lot of fishermen have been reduced to grits and grunt, and goodness knows what sort of shape they would have been in if Mrs. Kerr and her helpers hadn't heca on the job. The bell rings in the hall out side thp test kitchen whenever the girls have concocted something new. On most working days this will be at 10 and 11 a.m. and again at 3 and 4 p.m. Anybody in sound of the bell is eligible, on the theory that aver age reaction is needed. Places for 12 arc set on shelves fixed to the wall on three sides of the room. A high stool is ready at each place. Competing recipes a-e ladled onto compartmented plates. The diner's only investment, aside from a fast spring for the lineup, is the time it takes to eat and fill out a score card. Servings are judged for appearance, flavor and texture, on a 10-point scale from yummy to ugh. There is space also for remarks. Ike's Version Dry The rainbow trout came frozen from Idaho. Nobody knew for sure how Eisenhower's recipe got into the public domain, but there it was. One thing was sure, though. Mrs. Kerr's cooking experts cook it betted. ' Ike's version xas dry. I thought. Apparently (he rest of the panel thought so too. The composite grades run off after wards gave Ike's trout 9103 against 94 80 for the girls' ver sion. , The government plans to in clude a rainbow trout recipe in a booklet on outdoor fish cookery next June. Happens that Mrs. Ke-r's recie. after maybe an other test or so to perfect it, will be published rather than Ike's. Meantime, try her ideas for Christmas. Her seasonal recom mendations run from catfish to shrimp stuffing for turkey. As for Mrs. Kerr, for whom the fish bell tolls four times a day, I hear she plans to eat steak. SENDS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE MOSCOW i CPU Nina Khru shchev, wife of the Soviet Pre mier, expressed hope. Friday that contacts between Soviet and American women would be broad ened to produce "peace on earth and clear skies over the heads of our children." The Soviet first lady made the statement in an article she wrote for the maga tine Soviet Woman as her "Christ mas message" to the American people.- Chinese Cribbing Shirt Is Placed On Display ? PRINCETON. N J. 'CPU A Chinese "cribbing shirt" with quotations from the four books of Cof'icius pas been nlaccd on dis play at the Princeton University Library. The light-weight satin shirt, cov cflM with more than 520 000 Chi nese characters, was designed to be sewn into the lining of a stu dent's clothes when he began thrcedsy civil service examina tion m ancient China. Chinese civil service candidates, who took the three-day examine lions in a solitary cell, sometimes were found dead from the strain an pressure accompanying tests. The examinations helped to deter mine social status. By BARBARA IRWIN Observer SUM Writer -NORTH POWDER (Special) The annual grade school Christ mas program was held Dec. 16 in the high school gym. Santa Clsus hnd treats for the pre school and giade schcol children. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nice, U Grande, vittted recently with his t.thtr. Halts Nice. Marilvt atterJS, Baker, vis ited recently with her parsiti. Mr. aed Mrs. Andrew Patterson of Wolf Crack. The Maksim Nice faaaily were visitors in Portland. Jim Hubir of the La Grande Extension Service visited the North Powder schools recently with material for new 4-H clues. -Mr. and Mrs. Earl O'Bryant vis ited the Barton Wades in Wallo wa Mrs. Jack Dougherty entertain ed the Sewing Club last week. Frank Utz has been visiting friends and relatives In Seattle. Cattle to Portland Raymond Morris and sons, Da vid and Dan, La Grande, visited SCSfi PRCE RBDWCTIONS FORT LAUDERDALE. Fia. ' L'FI Sen. Estes KelMiver iD Tcnn.) says his Senate subcom mittee hearings on the drug in dustry will force voluntary price reductions. Kcfauver, winding up a week-long vacation here Sunday said companies "charging unrea sonable prices" will make the re ductions because "the people wo n't put up with them." IIELVILLES for l" ' a Gilts and Toys ' 1 QUALITY AND SELECTION" " " 1431 Adams' Ave. THIS PRECIOUS GIFT COSTS YOU NOTHING Safe driven give it to others, to themserves, too . ; . LIFE. All il takes is a little'more care, cour tesy, obeying the rules. Heavier holiday traffic exacts a higher accident toll. Driving safely will ' teep it down. So give I retlithd public rvtc In coop eration with Tri Advertising Council. EOC Instructor Will Attend Portland Meet Margaret Morris cf the Eastern Oregon College Staff, is one of the speakers at the 42nd annual convention of the Oregon Asso ciation of Health, Physical Edu cation and Recreation In Portland. Her topic will be "Uses and Values of Selected Playground Equipment in the Elementary School Program." The convention opens Dec. 27. PRAVDA GIVES WARNING LONDON UPI The Soviet Party newspaper Pravda Friday accused New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of making speech es designed to "frighten the American peoplo with an imagi nary Communist danger. As a presidential candidate. Rockefcl ler may soon find himself among the "has beens," Pravda warned. his sister and brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Smith recently. Arch Sating took a truck load ol cuttle to Portland f,or the Mon day sale. The Powder Valley Home Ex tension Club held its Christmas party Dec. 15 at the Don Monti gomcry home. Mrs. Ed Taylor served as hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Johnson i were visitors in Pendleton and Portland last weekend. Mrs. Bill Vanderpool loft for a visit with relatives in Dayvillc and John Day. Bill Vanderpool and sen, Junior, left for a visit with Bill's mother, Mrs. Lewis Miller in HarUhore, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eddy trav eled to Salem to attend the East ern region of Elementary Prieei- pus of Oregon meeting. Eddy is president of the group. The Id ays traveled to the coast. They returned here last Sunday eve- rang. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eddy of Union, took care of their grand children, i Pvt. 1st Claa Larry Harrison flew home last week te visit with his mother, Mrs. Jack Ryan and family. Larry leaves for hie home base in Fort Myer, Va., Dec. IB. North Dakota Mr. and Mrs. Clint Dodge and daughter, Debra, left Sunday for their home In North Dakota aft er spending two weeks here visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mai- com Nice and family. Keith Fordice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fordice, left Korea Dec. 1 on his way to the U.S. He docked in San Francisco Dec. IS and then traveled to Ontario where he will be met by his par ents. Mrs. Jessie Cole and ton, Arnel Enterprise, visited at the Willard Fordice home last Sunday. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Slack and daughter, Kathy, Sum irerville. Deneee McCanse, La Grande spent the weekend with hei moth er. Mrs. Berniee McCanse, who lias been ill with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. David Cropp have been busy building a back porch on their house. LI. U r a , jar i . ykreitf.. KIDNAP VICTIM John iJake the Barber) Factor testifies at the inquest into the death of Roger Touhy in Chicago, 111. Touhy was the victim of a brutal gangland mur der after only twing out of prison for 23 days. He had been sent to prison 25 years ago for the kid naping of Factor. Chessman Again Little Closer To Death Date LOS ANGELES UPI The wheels of justice turn slowly but inevitably, moving closer each day to the extinction of Caryl Chessman's life. For the eighth time in nearly ll'i years, the notorious convict author was sentenced to death Monday during a brief court ses sion carried on in the impersonal tones of justice. "It appears to the court that there is an unexecuted penalty of death in this case," said Superior Judge Herbert V. Walker. There was no rancor or sympathy in his voice. He was performing only one of the numerous duties of his office. No CnMtien "The court now fixes Feb. 19, I960 as the date for execution," he said. There was no emotion heard from the few spectators in the courtroom, no Visible excitement most of them were waiting around for other cases. Utah School Pupils Stud Russ Language SALT LAKE CITY LTl -Twenty-two elementary school stu dents here arc beating the Rus- j slims at their own game. They speak Russian better than some youngsters in the Soviet Union. i One of them may eventually be come United States ambassador to Moscow if fluency in Russian is a criterion for the job. Thousands of other Utah Young sters are close on their heels in the study of Russian through tin efforts of Andre K Anastasion. a Russian-born insurance man turned educator. Anastasion, who left his native Cdcssa before the Communist rev olution, started with 22 students in the fourth and fifth grades at Bonneville elementary school here in the fall of ISM "The only way to teach lan guage is in the elementary schools," he said. "The young, stcrs are perfect imitators, they speak Russian like the Russians." Ho explained his language class es tliroughout t'tah by television classes over Kl'F.D. the Universi ty of Utah educational television station. His students now number about 4.000 in 100 schools. Most of the students are ele mentary school age, from 9 to 10 years old, and arc enthusiastic about learning the language. The classes are voluntary. Most of tnem want to go to Russia eventually," Anastasion said. "I've told the boys in all seriousness that one of them may one day be our ambassador to Russia. And it is true." His original class of 22 now has a vocabulary of about 500 Rus sian words, as contrasted with an estimated English vocabulary at that age of 5.000 words. The stu dents are half-way through Rus sian grammar and by the time they are in junior high school they will be reading Russian literature. 'By the lime they're 18," Anas tasion said, "these youngsters will HAVI the language. They'll real ly be masters of it." Market Quotations By Unitsd Press Internatienal PORTLAND ORAIN Coast Delivery Basis While wheat 1 tW's Soft white harti. applicable I.Wi White club IWi Hard red winter, ordinary 2.06 Hard white buurt, ordinary no bid Oats no bid Barley 44.50. PORTLAND DAIRY PORTLAND il'PI' Dairy mar ket: Eggs To retailers: Crade AA extra large, 49-Slc: AA large, 46 'c: A lurge. 44-4tSc; AA medium 4U-42c: AA small, 32 34c: cartons 13c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and grale A prints, 70c lb ; carton, le higher; B prints, 63c. Cheese i medium cured I To retuilers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 44-5 to: processed Ameri can cheese, 5 lb. loaf, 42-44e. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK PORTLAND l'PI i - USDA livestock: Cattle 150; truck lot high good with few choice 1294 lb. fed steers 25.75 with - couple at 24 75; 13 head lot good 1364 lb. 23 with three standard ul 250; few 1032 Hi. Ktisndard cows and heifers 19,30: few is liny cows 15 - 15 M; canae'scaitsn 1160 13; llolslein cutters to 14 to. Calves 2S; good-choice vtalers 28 32: few cuU utllity li s. Ha 400; sot ostobUalwd: end ing steudy or upward to 14 and 14 25 for 1 and 2 butchers. Even The Monkeys Enjoy Christmas DENVER UPI The mon keys nt the Denver Km - had their annual Christmas party Mon day thanks to Mrs. Billie Shan non, who provided the primates with their favorite delicacies. More than 200 children watched delightedly as the animals de voured such monkey-pleasers as candied sweet potatoes sprinkled with nu's and lluvorcd with sherry. The children each received a bag of candy. Mrs. Shannon and her late hus band started the parties 21 years ago after they donated some mon keys to the zoo. NEW YORK STOCKS NEW YORK (UPD Losses fti Om lmhriu4 MBlna Im narrAlir and mixed stock market today. New development in steel nego tiations and optimistic 1(M0 fore casts hv tivA Im KiialnMamMi failed to stir trader interest. Many market men had expected these developments to lift industri als to new all-time high. Electronic issue again fea tured the list. Motorola and Beck man Instruments both added around m and IBM a large fraction. . Bethlehem and U.S. Steel im proved fractionally but Youngs town lost a point in response to the agreement by the steel firms to negotiate separately with the union. , American Motors rose ' more than a point in the auto' and Chrysler added a largo fraction. DuPont rose fmrllnnallv in the chemicals. Oils and rukkers ware aHs4. National Lead lost IV. a land prices were cat far ) seaaad time in a week, . ASM CUUOINO fcrfeVtiRtML WAWflfiCTON HT1I Tko Aaudgamafed Meat ftjsfete asd Butcher Worioan anray urge Secretory of Agrm-uitare Bkr X. Btawoa to reaerea an auSpnwt ei lama gnamu) "so nut raer ksUwents will nt be 0eo" LA GBAIHJE' and ISLAND COT Barber Shops WILL BE CLOSED . Saturday , December 26th -THE FUST NATIONAL BANK OF OltEGON, POITIAND ' ' i ':.