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WEATHER
Snow flurries tonight;
mostly lair Saturday; night t
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high valleys.
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TEMPERATURE
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low 17. Sunset today
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New lines of farming machinery and equipment wasn't the only feature of "John
Deere Day" held Wednesday by Inland Machinery Co. at the National Guard Armory.
This chow line was also a very popular feature. Coming through the chow line are
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond VVaelty, Ellgin, and Thomas Moore, Island City. At the left is
Mrs. John Hagerty, one of the servers. (Observer Photo)
27 Persons Die
In Plane Crash
SHANNON, Ireland 'ITU A
New York-bound I:aliai airliner
which had just taken on 7.000
gallons of gasoline "blew into .10
million pieces' oi departure ear
ly, today and rained survivors,
bodies and wreckage onto a near
by cemetery. "
Shannon Airport authorities said
27 persons were killed, two of
them dying in hospitals today, and
that there were 23 survivors. Two
other of the 52 passengers and
crew aboard the Alitalia UC7 were
still "'unaccounted for."
Ten of the passengers were
American citizens. One was iden
tified as Mis. Giulia deck. 22.
of New York. Another was Father
Citiseppi Carroli. a Capuchin
piicst o. New York City. The
latj was not k-.ovn immediately.
Seen M Mibs Away
A Shrnnon airport rpokesman
said the cause ot the Alitalia
crash appeared to be "engine
failure-' on takeoff. He said he
believed the plane did not explode
in flight but upon imp. ct with the
ground, sending flames up so higii
people thought it was an explosion
in air.
The llames were sern 30 miles.,
Fa' her Charles Ccmirford. a
U.S. NAVY PLANE
Sugarloaf
Kills At
KIO DE JANEIRO 'I'PH
The Ait Ministry fa'i today a
big U. ' S. NaVy plane proba'jly
was to blame for the coilisio
over Sugarlcaf Mountain which
killed at least fil a-:id . possibly
67 persons here Thursiay.
About 40 of the dead were Amer
icans. Tf.e.thiee; su vivnrs, Lt.
ijgi George P. FitJgibb;ns. oi
-.Viorcf ster, Mass.. Sonarmari 2-C
F: ederick E. . Wilson.- - of Dallas,
and Ordnance Mai l-C Hal It '
liolenra. of Norfolk. Va . were
hospitalized with minor in.uri s.
PreSide-tt.Eisc.nhwcr aid Bra
lilian Pesident Juscclino Kill it
schek went to Hie hospital on their
return here from Sao Paulo
Thursdav night to express their
sympathy to the survivors.
A ministry snekesman said th"
Navy DC- which collided with a
Brazilian DC -3 ova:- the cloud
shrouded ' "peak apparently had
strayed from its assigned course.
The U.S. embassy declined com
ment. The cash here was one of two
air tragedies reported in the past
24 hours. In Ireland, an Italian
airliner taking off from Shannon
airpoil ran into a cemetery wall,
killing at least 23 of the 52 per
sons aboard.
JOHN DEERE DAY
Roman Catholic priest who lives
near a cemetery where the c ash
occurred, said the plane appear
ed, to blow up into "10 million
pieces .while ..in flight,," raining
bodips and wreckage across a 300
jaid area of the coastal marsh
land. Wheels of the giant plane
smashed into the wall of New
Market cemetery and bounded
about among the tombstones. And
although the wreckage was widely
strewn somehow half of those
aboa' d survived the initial impact.
The flight originated Thursday
in Naples and then stopped in
Rome to pick up 33 more passen
gers. It lock off on what was to
have been a non-stop flight to
New York but it eicountered
strong head winds a id the pilot
decided to refuel at Shannon-a
customary procedure under such
conditions.
Stroll About Airport
The pla ie was on the ground
for about an hour while the 40
passenpe s and some of the 12
Crew members aboard strolled
through Shannon Airport buying
souvenirs including candy and
dolls for several children aboard.
The souvenirs a id tcys were scat
ie:ef among the wreckage.
AT FAULT
Mountain Collision
Least 61 Passengers
. The ' DC-6 was hri.igi-g Navy.
haniis.T.ei ard oth-r Americans
hc"e from Buenos Aires when it i
roliflel with tre Lira 'i! an air
liner, intcund from Vitoria. The
surviv rs were bet'eved to be
mimbeis of the U.S. Naval pa ty
sev.l to Arg.vitira as a result of
!he recett submarine scare there.
A lii a ilian woman who saw the
crash said the uniia carriage of
the ttiaJiHani plane hit the top of
the 'Navy plane. The DC-3 plum:
meted into the Alia itic ocean,
a t or Sugarloaf. ai the DC4
spun in to a beach of the Guana
bara bay side of the mountain.
.All cf the 26 persons aboard the
Brazilian ai: liner died. The num
ber . of dead aboard the Navy
plane was a mailer of dispute, the
U.S. embassy saying there were
44 persons in liie plane a id Navy
olticlals here and in Washington
sayir-g it carried only 38.
ilu Washington, relatives of the
Navy bandsmen killed in the
crash said several of Ihem had
had premonitions of.disaster
ahead before they left for Latin
America -
Five victims of the c:ash were
still alive when rescue craft
plucks them from the waters of
the bay, but two died later in a
OREGONIAN
'ARSON ATTACK
SALEM (UPI) Fire. DMti.
bly touched off by "bomb."
erupted in tha Salam circula
tion and distribution offlca ef
th Portland C) rag on ion at S:M
a.m. today causing "considere
abla damaat.".
Sslcm ,Fire, Chief . Rabat
Mills said "tha invettigarien
so far would indicate tha Fea
sibly soma tort of i xnb or ex
plosive it 'involved."
He said a window of the
empty office wat apparently
broken by a rock just prior to
the blaie. The branch office it
on Tile road iust off Pair-
groundt
re a d in northeast
Salem.
Salam
Fire Marshal Glenn
Shedeck,
heading the at-the-
scene probe, said the state
ersen squad had been sum
moned from Portland. .
Shedeck said pieces of a bot
tle that may have been placed
in the office through the brok
en window were found. The
half-gallon vessel had a par
tially screwed on cap, and the
cap had a hole in it, Shedeck
said the hole "looked like a
place for a wick" and that
there were indications the bet
tie had contained "some sort
of flammable liquid."
hospital. Sergio Dc Sousn, a boat
man who rescued four of the sur-
vivo s, sa d the only one able to
speak ke saying, "I'm going to
dio. a d I want to live.
Man Decapitated
Rescue workers said the crash
scire was a gruesome sight.
"There were shouts f:ir help
and p'cecs cf bodies and wreck
a;e all over the bay," one Brazil
ian said. "We pulled everything
we could out of the bay . . .every
thing was covered with blood.''
A fisherman hastening to the
scene saw a headless body in the
water perhaps that of a man who
tried to bail out of the spinning
Navy plane only lo be decapitated
Dy Its wing.
Eisenhower canceled two pa: ties
scheduled late Thursday includ
ing the embassy reception at
which the slain bandsmen were
to have played but dined pri
vately w Ith V s. Ambassador John
M. Cabot. Kubitschek and other
Brazilian leaders at planned.
The three Ame:ican survivors,
all under sedation, smiled at tight
of the U.S. President.
"We want to express our tor-
row at this tragic thing, and to
express gratitude that you men
survived, Eisenhower said. .
LA GRANDE,
Portland Firm In
Low Bid For EOC
Construction . Work
Schrader Construction Co. Inc..
Po.tland. submitted the low bid
for remodeling and const uci ion
of an addition to Hoke Hall on the
Eastern Oregon College campus,
$144. US, acording to Dr. Frank B.
Bennett. EOC president.
Dr. Bennett indicated the bids.
submitted by five contracting
firms, raged frcm the low bid to
a high of $158.31$. Bechtel Broth
ers of La Grande had the second
lowest bid. $148.31)0. Bids were
also received from Elmer T. Ilo'
sten. Walla Walla: Johnston and
Malloy. Salem: and The Timlicr
Co., H-rmiston.
2 Ex-Cons Sentenced
On Loitering Charge
An offer of "t drink" to two
Central school children has led
to the arrest and sentencing of
two ex-convicts on charges of un
lawful loitering near the La
Grande High School .
Police Chief Oliver Reeve said
today that the two men pleaded
guilty to loitering charges and
were sentenced to 60 days in jail
late Thursday afternoon.
They are Larry Earl Evans, 21.
of 1902 Washington Ave., and Ar
thur Raymond Huff, 23, of Med-
ford.
Huff has been in the state peni
tentiary twice on charges of bur
glary. He was released from his
second term Feb. 6.
Evans was released sometime
last fall after serving a term for
passing bad checks.
Other Offenses
The two men admitted several
other offenses In statements tak
en by police,, including thefts of
liquor" noV-Tirden hose, and
breaking and entering of a cabin.
' Chief Reeve said that during
the noon hour Wednesday the two
men were parked in a car outside
the La Grande High School wait
ing to pick up a girl.
Two young boys attending
Peron Backers
Shake Fists
At President
BUENOS AIRES (UPH Presi
dent Eisenhower made a dramatic
arrival in the heart of Buenos
Aires by helicopter today, soa'ing
over the heads of angry demon
strators who were demanding the
rtturn of ousted Dictator Juan D.
Peron. They shook their fists at
the chopper as it passed high
above them.
Five bombs exploded in the city
during the night, inju-.ing three
persons in what may have been
anti - American demonsfations.
Two of the blasts damaged Ameri
can owned companies.
Security arrangements were the
tightest of Eisenhower's Latin
American trip. .
. Avoid Hostile Areas
The President arrived by pla'M
at tie za Airport, saddened by the
loss of 61 persons in Thursday's
air collision over Rio De Jancro
between a U.S. Navy plane anil a
Brazilian commercial airliner.
President Aituro Frondizi and
other high Argentine dignitaries
welcomed Eisenhower warmly at
the airpo.t. .
- Eisenhower told Frondizi that
both their countries "provide one
stone in the structure of peace."
Farm Income Takes Plunge;
Other Industry
WASHINGTON IUPH Farm
income plunged 16 per cent to 11
billion dollars in 1WJ while other
segments of the economy went
up, the Agriculture Department
repotted today.
The drop wat 1 per cent great
er than department economists
forecast in predictions published
last November.
The 1959 not farm income what
was left of cash reeeits from
marketings after the farmer paid
production expenses, taxes, in
terest, and the like oompa-ed
with 19SS income of Il3.ltio.ooo.
000. Net farm income in I9S9 was
about the same as that in 1937.
The big decrease wat expected
to furnish plenty of campaign
(odder fcr the Democratic party
in this presidential election year.
Gross farm income in 19:9 was
estimated at 37 billion dollars,
OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
The EOC president stated bids
were somewhat below architects'
estimatis, thereby permitting in
clusion o: two alternatives in th?
contracts, new windows and new
entrances in l!ie present structure.
The m w addition to Hoke will
provide two general purpose class
rooms, an cngin-ering drafting
room, a biolouy classroom labora
tory, a greenhouse annex, and an
increased a:ea for student activi
ties. Extensive renovations of the
bock store, coffee shop, and other
laciliti's are included.
Con-lriK-:ion is scheduled tp be
loniplrtcd this summer.
Central school walked by. and the
men asked them what time high
school was out. The men also of
ten d the boys a drink. .
The grade school children
walked on without paying atten
tion.
One of the hoys was the son
ol Mr. and Mrs. Doc Baker. Baker
is a game and traffic officer with
the Oregn State Police in La
Grande.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Baker
came to pick up the two young
sters, and was told of the inci
dent. She called city police.
Baker Investigates
When she and the boys arrived
home. Baker was told the story
and he drove to the high school
where he found the two men in
the parked car.
He gave them "a reading out,"
and informed Chief Reeve that
l.e had done so. The chief asked
him to tell the men to come down
to the police station for ques
tioning, which they did.
Police later found in the car. a
bottle of whiskey, a bottle of vod
ka, a .22 calibre pistol, and a
hunting knife.
During interrogation, Evans and
Huff admitted stealing liquor, a
piece of garden hose, and about
10 gallons of gas from a garage
at the residence of Edwiin G.
Huff, 2614 N. Second St.
Evans also admitted breaking
irto a cabin owned by Mrs.
George S. Birnie, 504 Fourth St.
The cabin is on Glass hill.
Chief Reeve asked that parents
till their children to report it
immediately if they are ever ap
proached by strangers for a ride
or other reasons.
Margaret Will
Marry British
Photographer
LONDON lurn rrincess
Margaret, 2!), is getting mariied.
With stunning surprise the royal
family announced tonight that the
sister of Queen Elizabeth is en
naatd to Anthony Armsirong-
Jonrs. a commoner known only to
British society as a photographer
and son of a lawyer.
No date for the wedding was set.
Armstrong Jones, also 2D, will
be the first commoner lo enter
the roval family since Mrs. Wal
lace Warfield Simpson married
the Duke of Windsor after he sac
rificed his th o.ie as King Edward
VIII for the woman he loved.
Once it was- the other way
aicuid ft.r Margaret. She gave up
her love fo: commoner Peter
Townsend in loyalty to the
throixs tradition axainst divorce.
On Increase
down rcarly 3 '4 pnr cent from
ITO. Product. On expenses kept
pace, r'sing 3 '4 pc. cent to a new
high of 25 billion dollars.
TI.e decline in gross income re
flated a 4 per cent drop In aver
age price received for farm
products. This was only partly
offset by a 2 per cent increase
in volume of sales, plus a reduc
tion in Kovernment payments due
to discontinuance of the acreage
:escrvc section of the soil bank
program. Total cash receipts
from marketings were down I
per cent to t32.8no.ono.ono Gov
emment payments dropped more
than one-third, or about 400 mil
lion dollars.
Despite a decline in the num
ber of persons living on farms,
the per capita income of the farm
population f om all sources was
down I per cent from 1931 to I960.
76, 1960
PROGRESS OF
LOCAL AREA
The Observer today presents
30 pages devoted for the most
about progress, mainly local,
area and state, in tht fields of
agriculture, industry and busi
ness. The first inside section (eight
pages) covers farming and
ranching; the next section of
six pages deals with industry,
the cover page serving this
theme, and the final eight-page
spread points up the past, pre
sent and future of business.
CANDIDATE Justice
of the Peace George Mil
ler, 72, has tiled for re
election. He is a grad
uate of the University of
Michigan School of Law
and has been justice of
the peace in La Grande
for about 13 years.
(Observer Photo)
Foot-Deep
Snow Hits
Mid-West v
By United Press International
Mid westerners battled foot-deep
snows and 10-foot drifts today
while southerners shivered in a
crop-killing cold wave.
The latest in a machine gun
series of February storms blasted
Northeast Michigan today and
powered through New York into
New England.
Hundreds of schools closed in
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois. Winds there swirled the
snow into drifts 10 feet high, clog
ging many secondary roads and
temporarily blocking some major
trunk lines.
The mercu: y dipped below freez
ing in Mississippi, Alabama, Geor
gia. Northern Florida and North
eastern Louisiana, and a freeze
ruined valuable tomato, water
melon, and corn crops in the semi-
tropical area. The death toll ros
as Midwest residents succumbed
to heart attacks while shoveling
snow and packed highways. Unit
ed Press International counted 25
weather-attributed deaths.
The mercury hit 25 below at
Butte, Mont.
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CHURCH DIGNITARIES
these bishops and monsignorl comprise the list of dignitaries present yesterday fol
lowing the ceremony at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church during which the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Matthew M. Crotty, pastor, was invested as a monsignor. Left to right,
Msgr. Nicholas Hughes, Boise; Msgr. Timothy Casey, Klamath Falls; Bishop James
J. Byrne, Boise; Archbishop Edward D. Howard, Portland; Msgr. Crotty; Bishop
Francis P. Leipzig, Baker; and Msgr. Michael McMahorrj The Dalles. (Observer)
30 Pago
U.S. Sky Spy
Satellite Is
Fired Aloft
DELICATE ROCKET WOULD
DETECT ENEMY MISSILE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) America today launch
ed a two-ton earth satellite to test a system of detecting Rus
sian missile firing with an Infrared "sky spy."
An 88-foot Atlas-Agena thundered into the sky with more
than 3,000 pounds oi delicate and possibly diplomatically
controversial instruments
The sleek rocket, the nation's mightiest, traveled steeply
tna apparently normally in sarcn i
of an orbit around the middle of
earth (or Its payload. The Agena
second-stage casing was to remain
attached to and travel in or
bit with the bulky instrument
package.
This was the first test of an
Air Force plan to put a dozen or
more Project Midas satellites in
to oi bit withia the next two to four
years to keep tabs on launchings
of .big ' Soviet missiles. Midas is
short for "military defense alarm
system." .'.... . -.' 4
The system it keyed to a sensi
tive infrared device that would de
tect the exhaust of an enemy rock
et within one minute after It was
fired, thus giving a 30-minute
warning. This is about the time
it would take an intercontinental
ballistic missile lo go from pad to
target.
Under existing defense alarm
systems, the most the nation could
hope for - would be a 15-minute
alert
- However, the satellite launched
today wat strictly a prototype
that would travel over little, if
any, Soviet territory in Us planned
orbit more than 300 miles above
earth. It also lacked the commu
nications equipment necessary to
relay information about Russian
launches.
Instead, the test was aimed pri
marily at getting the huge moon-
let second largest ever launched
by America pointed in the right
direction and at finding out exact
ly whether the infrared "eye"
would work.
Elgin Student
Jean Gordon Up
For Scholarship
Jean Faye Gordon, a senior at
Elgin High School, has been rec
ommended by State Representa
tive Don McKinnia to receive a
full tuition four-year scholarship
to Eastern Oregon College.
Miss Gordon wishes to major
in education and to obtain her
bachelor's degree from EOC. She
is the son ef Mr. and Mrs. Wiley
Gordon of Elgin.
The recommendation is in the
hands of the -slate scholarship
commission. '
Fivt) Cent
tucked in its nose.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (UPI) The1
Air Forte said today it hd
lost contact win the Midas'
satellite shortly after it wat
launched from Cape Canaver
al. Fla.
, Tha Air Force issued this
statement: ' .
. "PYellmlnary reports lndl-
cat that separation of the;
second state occurred. How-.,
ever, because of partial lots'
of telementry. It may be tome'
time before It can be deter
mined whether er not the
second stage Ignited."
The second stage is the ve
hicle that would carry the
Midas into orbit.
Petitioners
Seek Street
Improvement
A petition signed by about 40
residents living on North Spruce
Street wat tubmitted to the city
commission Wednesday.
Tha petitioners ask for an Im
provement of Spruce Street east
snd west from Z Avenue to tha
Riverside Park bridge.
The petition stated that Spruce
Street is a main thoroughfare, us
ed by county residents outside)
the city and by commercial and
government vehiclet.
It la also a direct route to Riv
erside Park.
The main complaint wat that
stagnant water collected on the
street the year around. Some
thing must be done, the petition
said, to provide drainage.
The petition was brought to the -
commission by Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Murphy, 2906 Spruce St
The. Murphy's said a similar
petition would be given to the
county -commission at its meet
ing next Wednesday. Part of
Spruce Street is outside city lim
its. The city commission placed the
petition on file and agreed that
it would take the matter up with
the county commission later.
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