LIBRARY u or 0 EUGENE, ORE WEATHER Cloudy tonight showers or Snow (lurries Thursday; highs 40-SO; lew J5M. LA . GRANDE TEMPERATURE Tuesday minimum 48; night low 17. Sunt! today S:J2 . m.; sunrise Thursday 6:41 a. m. Wind gentle. OBSERVER 64th Year 140th Usus i A5 V WELCOMING COMMITTEE Local and area ministers and lay leaders o f the Conservative Baptist church were present last night and thU morning to greet incoming conference representatives for the three-day meeting in La Grande. Left to right. Rev. James Soden, Indepen dence; Harry Munsey, La Grande, and Re v. Elmer Paulson, Salem. k (Observer Photo) Baptist Begins Conservative Baptist Association members began arriving hero last , hight and this morning for the 12th annual meeting of the group with headquarters at the hostjto ncld , 6 ,5 p m at the Na. First Baptist church, 1105 Spring 1. Prior to today's officii opening I of the conference, however, state: board members, representing 140 Oregon " Conservative Baptist churches and 25,000 members, met with Rev. Victor Zacharias, host pastor. t4..rntirrl II Mpf l:iin ' si :it p mod erator, Portland, presided at the board meeting. Laymen Moating Registration befan this morn ii.g and continued through the af ternoon. Today's program' also included a morning pastor-laymen meeting 'conducted b' Dr. Willard Miller, The Dalles, and Rev. Guy Zchring, Roscburg, for mer pastor uf the local church. The afternoon -opening ses sion, held at the First Christian church where most of the meet ings are being hold in order to a-rcc.mmoda'e large attendance, featured the Rev. John Hender son. West Urn: Rev. Howard Roth, Newell. Calif.; McClain and Itev. Zacharias. , Rev. Murl Gassoway. Cove, gave the afternoon sermon and Fire Destroys Baker Building BAKER 'I PI' Fi:e early to day destrryed a two - year - old bowling alley here with loss es timated at $200 000. The bla?e was believed to have started about 4 a.m. The cause was not immediately determined. Fi'emen fought the fire nearly four hours. The bla?e destroyed the 10 lanes of the Baker Bowl, automat e pin setting equipme.t, bowling balls and the lunch counter. CHURCH-COMMUNIST TIE? AIR FORCE RESERVE MANUAL UNDER CONGRESSIONAL PROBE WASHINGTON l'PI Sweep ing Pentagon a"d congressional invest'gations were o'dercd today into an Air Force Reserve train ing manual which linked churches with Communism and termed as "foolish" demands for the Ameri can people lo know what is going on. Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharp announced the manual had been withdrawn from use Feb. 11 but said a full scale inquiry wJL be made to find out who v." responsible for the publication. In Congress. Rep. John t E. Moss 'D-Cali., chairman of the House freedom of information subcommittee, ordered his inves tigators to "gather every fact." He termed' the manual as "an outrageous display of arrogance " May Hold Haartnos Sharp ui his statement "cate go. kally repudiated" the view point of the manual which had brought a vehement protest from the N.ntinn.nl Council of Churrhe T7 V r ii V .'ft' , v V - . J I. fl 9 Conference Here Today Dr. Arthur Collirs, Hood River, reported on the prograjp. Sweetheart Banquet One of the highlights of the day 'Will be the Sweetheart Banquet tional Guard Armory. Howard Stevenson will serve as speaker. e i, with the Multnomah school of the Bible. The main message scheduled tonight will be given by Dr. E. P. Fosmark, Salem, at 8:30, at the Christian church. Thursday morning s program Logins at 8:30 with a prayer ses sion under the direction of Rev. Alton Kintner. Enterprise. One of the highlights of Thurs day will be an address at 9 a.m. hy Ron Arnold, Chicago, School of Anti-Communism. A pastor s wives lancneon is scheduled at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Christian Church Fellow ship hall, with a pastors' Fellow ship luncheon taking place at the Sacaiawea ballroom. Chessman Fate As High Court SAN QUENTIN. Calif. l'PD . Caryl Chessman, 38, rebuffed for the 15th time by the U.S. Supreme Court, today gave up legal efforts to eseaoe his scheduled execution date F:iday and rested his case oi the "conscience" of Gov. Ed mund G. Brown. Brown, in Sal Francisco, planned to meet later today with Chessma.i's attorneys, George T. Davis and A. L. Wirin. In a press conference here, the convict - author emphasized that his latest act'on was not an appeal to the governor. During the meeting with news ment, Chessman dictated a tele gram that was forwarded to the governor. "1 ak you to do what ever your He said that in addition to finding out the individuals respon sible for the publication, the Air Force will investigate its other pulil cations to see if similar in formation is being carried. Moss tol'l United Press Inter national his group may hold hear ings on the situation. "We want to know who wrote it. We want to know who approved it and we want lo know, its distribution," he said. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. was reported "startled and stunned" at the contents of the manual. Sharp said that he acted im mediately on learning of the existence of the manual Tuesday evening. He found that Air Force head quarters had directed withdrawal of the document last Thursday, the day the church council sent a letter of protest to Gates. Used as a text for a training emire for noncommissioned offi AT . 'if I m i Conservative Baptist church delegates from throughout Oregon arrive at the Union Pacific depot in prepara tion for the 12th annual meeting here of the association. Up To Brown Rejects Plea conscience dictates you should." it said. "Mine tells me that I auain must affirm the fact that I'm not the Red Light bandit even if the price for that affirma tion must be death." Chessman said he hai insturuc ed his attorneys not to make any more legal moves. Urdar Extreme Pressure Chessman said he had been un der "extreme and intense pros' sure" f.om his attorneys and friends to seek clemency from the governor. Brown turned down Davis' bid for clemency for Chessman last October. Davis contended today that the clemency request will re main in ef.ect before Brown until, Chessman is executed. cers in the Air Fo ce Reserve, the manual contained these quotes: "Communists and Communist fellow-travelers have successsful ly infiltrated our churches." Pastors Ara Communists "It is well known that even the pastors of certain of our churches arc ca'd-carrying Com munists." "The National Council of Churches of Christ In the U.S.A. officially sxmsorcd the revised standard version1 of the Bible. Of the 9S persons who served on this project, 30 have been affiliated with pro-Communist fronts; proj ects ard publications." "Another foolish remark often heard u that Americans have a right to know what's going oo. Most people realize the foolishness of such a suggestion." "Keep in mind that public news media present only as much in formation as the government wnnts to release"- LA GRANDE, ORE., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY State Tax Criticized Slate Senator Monroe Sweetland. Democrat, of Milwaukie. lold the La Grande Kiwanis club Tuesday niKlit that more money fer schools should come from the state'i gen eral fund to rc'ieve the strain on local taxpayers. Swee'land urged the Oregon Tax Commission, the legislative interim lax commute? and the governor to give immediate attention to "the urgent revenue needs of Ore gun's local taxing d'stricts . . ." The senator called for 'reor ganization of the Or-gon lax system" to meet the demands of the next Jecade. Tax Support Shift He argued that a greater portion of the support ot public schorls should be shifted from the local preprty Uxpaycr to the income and corporation excise taxpayer of the state's general fund. The stale budget now provides for less than 30 per cent of oper rting costs of schoo'. It makes no contribution to construction costs. Sweetland also supported feder al aid to education. . The publisher of the Milwaukie Review and chairman of the sen ate education committee remark ed on improvements in Oregon's CHURCH CONFERENCE MEMBERS ARRIVE ;,:--A.V'. i CARYL CHESSMAN ENTERPRISE LEADER DIES ENTERPRISE (Special I - WII liarn Wi'son Zurcher, 78, justice o (the peace, and a retired stock man, died Monday afternoon at the Enterprise hospital where he was taken Saturday evening after suffering a heart attack. . Funeral services will be con ducted by the Bollman Funeral Home Thursday at 2 p.m. tt the Community Church. The Rev. John V. Munsey will official? and Mrs. C. C. Jacobs will be or ganist. Burial will be in the En terprise cemetery beside the grave of his wre who died Dec. 18. 1959. B P.O E. Lodge No. 1829 will have the ritual committal service. Zurcher who had lived in the county since 1894. was born in Cadiz, Ohio, Feb. 11. 1832. son of John .and Helen Zurcher, who homesleadcd land on which part of Enterprise is located. For many years he was one of the larger stockmen of the county. On Nov. 23. 1904 he was married to Helena Dcvore. He was a mem ber of the Community Church and of B.P.O.E. Lodge No. 182S. Survivors include a daughter. Mrs. K-rmit (Alice) McCully. En terprise: a son. Devore Zurcher. and a sister. Mrs. F. A. 'Nellie Clark, Portland; six grandchildren and one Krr.nl grandchild . Structure By Solon educational system in the past IP years. "Oregon's schools are among the very best in the na tion," he sr.id. "Hut the best school systems today arc not good rmugh for tomorrow." In the last 10 years the number of teachers in public schools has ircreased from 9.836 to 15.920, he said. At the same time .enroll ment in public elementary and stcwdiry schools has risen from 2l".2.O0 to 338.000. Strides Mada On the "quality" sid-.' of (lie ledger, Swcet'anri noted that 10 years ago 42 per cent of O.egon teschers had less than a bachelor's degree. Tcday, only 16 per cnt have less than a bachelor's degree. And 10 years ago only nine per cent of teachers had a master's degree or better, while 18 pr cent have higher degrees today. "There is no quest. on that educa tion in Oregon has made great strides in both quantity and quali ty in the last decade," the senator declared. "The question to which we must now attend is: Will we be able to ccntinue to make the improve ments in the next 10 years which will be necessary to our survival as a free nation?" Several hundred representatives are on hand for the three-day affair. (Observer Photo) Civil Rights Measure Action Now Assured WASHINGTON UPH The House Rules Committee tentative ly agreed today to free a long stalled civil rights bill for early House action. The informal ag-eement. reached at a closed session, broke a deadlock over the bill which has been held up by the committee since last August. One member said the commit tee might give formal clearance to the bill Trursday or next Tues day. In the Senate, the Rules Com mittee postponed action on civil rights legislation to guarantee Ne gro voting' rights because of the illness of Chairman Thomas C. Hennings ID-Mo.). The official business before the Senate is an unrelated minor bill, affecting a Stella. Mo., school district. But senators have been invited to make it a civil rights vehicle by attaching amendments. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating It NY.) pro civil rights member of the rules committee, predicted there was enough support in the nine-member group to approve a voting rights proposal. But he would not predict action at to day's meeting. The committee had befu-e it a plan for federal voting registrars, advocated by the Civil Rights Commission; Ally. Gen. William P. Rogers' proposal for a system of federal voting referees, a'xl a bill drafted by Hennings to com bine features of the two plans in a proposal for "fn'cral enroll ment office: s." Tuesday, southern Democrats blocked a move by Keating to get the judiciary committee to NOSE CONE EPLOOES EGLIN AFB. Fla. iLPp-The nose cone vf the Nike-Cajun rock-1 fired Tuesday to measure micro meteorite activity 100-milei above the Gulf of Mexico disintegrated a few seconds after launching. It was the first malfunction of a Nike-Cajun shot at the Air Force test center here. 17, 1960 SEN. SWEETLAND C. BECHTOLD UNION JUDGE UNION (Spacial) Union city council has namad Carl Bach told as city judge on recom mandation of Mayor Wayne FerguPMi. Tha council doc I did to divide the city recorder municipal judge into two different agen cies with John Wright con tinuing as SHELL KILLS BOY REIMS. France il'PP Ben jamin Baudry, IS, was killed Tuesday when an artillery shell he found in a woods near here exploded. act on long stalled civil rights legislation. Sen. Olin D. Johnston ID S C.I objected to Keating's motion for approval of a seven-point admin istration bill. Johnston argued that the committee could not le gally sit while the Senate was in session. He was upheld by Chair man James O. Eastland ID- Miss.) and the committee ad journed without acting. NATIONWIDE TV n '-'SflsM Ike Not Worried Over Safety During Latin American Tour WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower said today he has no fear for his safety during his forthcoming Latin American trip, and he docs not think the Secret Service Is worried, eith-r. Eisenhower told his news con ference he expects to make a nationwide radio-TV speech Sun day night concerning his trip, be ginning Monday, lo four major South American countries. The President said his talk will begin at 6: IS pm. est. It will he a general discussion of his tour plans but also will touch upon matters of U.S. defense. Asked specifically whether he planned to carry to the people his side of the current defense controversy, Eisenhower said that he would suppose that during his Sunday evening talk he would In clude items such as the security and strength of the United States The President hinted. In re maiks about Cuba, that U.S. patience eventually may run out with Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime. Commenting on new So viet trade and aid arrangements with Cuba, the President recalled 'tint the Cnslro regime recently 8 Paget Mafia In Move To Take' Nevada GANGSTERS SET TO RULE POLITICS AND GAMBLING WASHINGTON (L'PI) Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger has informed Congress that the police raid on tnc lyaa Apalachin gangland convention blocked a nood lum plan "to ta';;e over the state of Nevada politically." Anslinger related the plan to a House appropriations subcommittee behind closed doors Jan. 26. His testimony was made public by the House group Tuesday night. The federal official said American Mafia bosses drafted such a plan at the Apalachin. N. Y. meeting when they decided lo quit the narcotics rurket Iwcause federal authorities wore making it too hot for them. The plan, he said, was for the mobster elements to move into Nevada's gambling casinos and take some $50,000 daily "off the top" of the legal gambling opera tion. But. Anslinger said, the ef fort was never made because New York police interrupted the Apalachin talks. Some of the younger hoodlums at the Apalachin meeting defied the antinarcotics order, he said, despite a warning from old time:s that "if you do not get out in six months something is going to happen to you." "Well, it already happened to two," Anslinger said. "Two of the younger fellows who decided to continue in the business have since been killed." State To Aid Street Work The stale highway department has given tentative approval" to a maintenance project which would see Auams Avenue given a new layer of asphalt from Willow to Fourth Streets. If the project is passed, the wo:k will be let on contract. The city has been advised of the department's plan. City Manager Dave Slaght is now working on a report which will reveal 'wh-ther the city will be able to repair all old water or sewer pipes under the street before paving is laid down. The highway department has said it will not begin paving until July 1 in order to give the city time to make its service repairs or replacements. The projejet is one of several proposed by the La Grande district office of the highway department F.nal approval must now ccme from Salem. GETS ADDED MISERY VIENNA (UPI'-Ottoe Goelles. SI. told an appeals judge here Tuesday his 10-month jail sen tence for stealing a shirt should be dropped since his confession was forced from him by police The judge tacked on an extra year to his sentence for slander ing the police department. ADDRESS has repudiated or disturbed a number of tho traditional econom ic arrangements under which the U.S. tries to help the Cuban economy and people. Hope For Agreement He concluded by saying thut he hoped that the U.S. troubles with Cuba could be worked out so that the Cuban people themselves would not .suffer. Other highlights of Eisenhow er's news conference: He said Russia appears to be offering greater hope for ag-eement on an H-bomb test ban by moving away from its previously rigid position on inspection and control. He deplored Russia's ac tion in rejecting bis plan to ban all nuclear weapons tests except smaller underground blusts which defy detection under current long range methods. He described as despicable charges or implications he had misled the American people in the debate of U S. defense poli cies. He said U.S. defenses are strong and awesome and he was tired of hearing people cite na tional defense as an excuse for wasting money. Flv Cant Foiled . ', Argentine Ship Hits Submarine PUERTO MADRVN. Argentina il'PD The Argentine frigate Mu:ature attacked and perhaps damaged the mystery submarine of the Ntievo Gulf Tuesday night,' apiuirently with depth charge flown from the United States. - The U-boat, undetected for more than 36 hours, was picked up on sonar Tuesday night by the Argentine frigate King. The Mu ral ure. following word from the King, closed in and ulso detected the submarine. i. Attack Is Pressed " The Argentine vessels prompt ly attacked the mysterious under sea cra't, and reports circulating here today said the Muratura may have hit it. '" The rcK)'t suggested the Mura lure may have been using the late-model depth charg-s bought , . i. .. it..:, . . . a " effective because they could not be detonated deep enough to be a serious threat in the fOO-foot waters of the gulf. , Naval circles were optimistic about the possible effect of the alack. World War II Typo "' Unofficial reports said the sub marine was operating at about 10 knots approximately half its estimated normal underwater speed. It was said, however, that it was maneuvering more freely than the last time it was de tected. Humphrey Team In Area Thursday . ruiwLAnu iun r our members of the Oregon Humph-rey-for-Presidcnt Committee will make a four-day visit to eastern Oregon starting Thursday. . They plan to spend Thursday morning in The Dalles, the early afterron at Hcrmiston, and the late afternoon and evening at La Grande. Meetings are scheduled in Baker Friday. Saturday and Sunday will be spent in Pendle ton and Hcrmiston with possible trips to Nyssa and Ontario. . Ho said an Air Force reserve training manual, which referred to churchmen following the Com munist party line, had been re called and repudiated by the Air Force. Choice of Vice President He believes that a presiden tial nominee must Have a voice in the selection of his party's vice presidential nominee if there are to be the same close relations between a president and vice president that he has had with Vice President Richard M. Nixon. He deplored the fact that a spirit of nationalism and craving for prestige impelled countries such as France to want to ex plode their own A-bombs. But he acknowledged that this was a per fectly understandable desire un der current circumstances. He recalled that the United States lb 1947 warned that one of the dan gers, unless there were a ban OS testing, was that many naliods would want to develop such weap ons. But he expressed the hope for an early workable test ban agreement which might end such nationalistic striving. a