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L'JUNE.. ORE.
TEMPERATURE
Wednesday maximum l;
night lew II. Sunset today
5:41 p.m.; sunrise Friday
4:24 a.m. Winds variable.
WEATHER
Snow through today, Friday,
heavy In places; highs 21-J2;
fcw IH0.
LA GRANDEOBSERVER
153rd bsue
64th Year
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CHEERFUL VOLUNTEER
Orval Willcox, 33, of 3008 Walnut St., added pint of blood to Red Cross Bloodmobile
stock during drawing held here Tuesday and Wednesday. Willcox started donat
ing blood in Enterprise three years agov Since then he has donated five pints which
show on his current record card. He lost first card and doesn't know for sure ex
actly how many pints he has donated in all - (Observer Photo)
School Annexation
Voting Scheduled Tomorrow
By GRADY PAN NELL
Obtirver Staff Writer
. School reorganization, its pros
and cons, has been debated for
months and next will be voted on
Friday by five- school districts
seeking to annex to La Grande
District No. 1.
In turn. La Grande will vote
. Friday to accept the four third
class districts and the Cove high
school district.
Debate has waxed hot over re
organization the past several
months and only within the last
two weeks has taken on a general
election pitch with SOS organizers
working the affected Union County
districts- in move to defeat the
issue.
SOS is an organization known as
Save Our Schools. Spokesmen for
the group, organized some months
ago in the western part of the
state, apwared at Cove Sunday
and strongly urged patrons of this
d'strict to defeat reorganization.
Issues Explained
On the other hand, another g otip
of dedicated and hard-working
men. the Union County Reorgani
zation Committee, has been visi
ting each district ain the county
and explaining to PTA groups,
school beards and interested citi
zens exactly what reorganization is.
One thing stands out clearly
dh the issue. Public Law 619 is
"school reorganization" and this
law was enacted by the 1957 State
Legislature. Each district affected
, by the law has until 12 to re
organize. However, with the "non-high
law" going out of existence June
30 of this -year, all third class
districts (those that furnish only
educational grades one through
eight) are further affected and
must "reorganize," Reorganizing
MORSE FAVORITE
OREGON PRIMARY FILLED WITH
DEMO PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS
WASHINGTON (UPIl Back
ers of rival Democratic candidates
conceded the front-runner position
today to favorite son Sen. Wayne
L. Morse in the Oregon Democrat
ic presidential primary.
But unless he becomes a more
serious candidate than he is now
regarded, a Morse victo y in the
May 20 Oregon vote would mini
mize the importance of the pros
pective five-man contest.
Mo: se already had been entered
in the Oregon primary by . peti
tion before Oregon Secrcta'y cf
AdJai Wants Name
Off Oreg6n Ballot
PORTLAND I CPU An affi
davit removing Adlai Stevenson's
name from the Oregon Democrat
ic presidential primary ballot wil
be filed within a few days. State
Sen. Alfred H. Corbctt said today.
He said that before Stevenson
left the country on his tour of
South America, he executed an
affidavit a"d left it with Corbett,
with instructions to file it at the
appropriate time.
Since Secretary of State Howell
Appling named Stevenson as one
of the Democratic presidential
candidates Tuesday, Corbett said
he would file the affidavit within
the next few days
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by such districts means becoming
a part of a high school district.
The affected third class districts
voting to annex to La Grande, a
high school district, Friday are:
Island City District No. 10, Ladd
Canyon No. 19, Fruitdale No. 27
and Alicel No. 46.
Ceve Petition
Cove, a high school district (No.
15i and faced with either having
to expand its present school facia
ties by bond issue or annex to a
larger high school district, has
petitioned to come into the La
Grande system.
While these five districts are
voting on La Grande annexation.
La Grande District No. 1 patrons
will be balloting whether or not
to accept the petitioners.
Although the voting may seem
to have more purpose in districts
such as island City, Ladd Canyon,
Kruitdale and Alicel they have
until June 30 to act the situa
tion at Cove is somewhat differ-!
eirt.
There, one fairly strong faction
is determined to defeat the annex
ation vote to La Grande: another
powerful group is pressing for this
annexation, and a smaller contin
gent is "against reorganization" in
any shape or form.
Millage Factor
The Cove group seeking to an
nex could have the edge in the
matter, however. They point up
several important factors. Such
as increased millage by defeat
ing annexation and being forced
then to expand their own school
system.
They point out also that due to
increased millage there is danger
that large farming areas may go
into the La Grande district one by
one. Further there is the possibil
ity that the assessed valuation of
SON
State Howell Appling entered six
others under discretionary power
granted by state law.
It was immediately announced
that Adlai Stevenson, 1952 and 1956
Democratic presidential nominee,
and Sen. Estes Kefauver tD-Tenn
would be withdrawn.
Other Democrats Enrtred
Appling also entered Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson and Sen. Stuart Syming
ton D-Mo I, two undeclared can
didates, along with Sens. John F.
Kennedy ID-Mass.) and Hubert
H. Humphrey (D-Minn.f.
Symington declined to comment
except to say that he would not
withdraw his name. Johnson also
indicated he would leave his name
on the ballot.
"My current responsibility is
on the floor of the Senate," John
son said. "I have no plans ' to
act in any way on the action in
Oreiron." -
Since neither Johnson nor Sy
mington has any plans for enter
ing other state primaries, the
Oregon vote will provide the only
pre-convention test of their vote
pulling power.
Enters Ninon Nemo
For the Republican presidential
prima-y. Appling named Vice
President Richard M. Nixon and
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of
New York. Rut he snid Rockefel
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Petition
the Cove district would be reduced
to a point where the assessed val
uation could be relatively low and
where neither La Grande nor Uni
on would want future Cove annex
ation. Costs at Cove would be an
excess burden to property owners,
and this would reduce the sales
value of property and keep people
from ' investing in real estate in
the district,
Cove could very well vote itself
into a state of near bankruptcy as
a school community and cripple its
potential for growth for years to
come, spokesmen claim.
P.o-annexation forces point out
thattXove, through annexation to
La .Grande, wquM. retain school
nucleus and at the same time ob
tain high-level advanced training
fur grades to, 11 and 12.
Local Autenemy
They state thai Cove would also
retain a fair measure of local aut
onomy through an advisory board
Educationwisc, ' Cove would have
the advantage of stringed and
band instrument instruction, guid
ance, extra foreign languages, arts
and crafts and many other ser
vices that are available to larger
high school districts such as La
Grande.
It is added that Cove would
maintain grades one through nine
at a consistently high level through
constant and competent supervis
ion
Final say, however, is up to the
voters. They ballot from 2 to
8 p.m. in the following places
Fuday:
La Grande , Greenwood pre
cinct at Greenwood school gym
nasium: Central precinct at junior
high buildings; Island City school
Cove school gymnasium; Ladd
Canyon school; Fruitdale school
and Alicel school.
ler, who decided in December
against challenging Nixon, would
withdraw. - -
With the presidential primaries
now virtually set, Kennedy -Humphrey
contests will come -in Wis
consin on April 5 and in West
Virginia on May 10 as well as in
the five-man Oregon race.
Kennedy faces Morse in Mary
land on May 17 and is unopposed
hi New Hampshire next Tuesday,
Indiana on May 3 and Nebraska
on May 10. He fias a stand-in.
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle, running
unopposed in Ohio on May 3.
Humphrey is pitted against
Morse in the District of Columbia
primary on May 3 and is unop
posed in South Dakota on June 7.
City Will Remove
Billboard Sign Here
The city commission voted Wed
nesday to remove billboard at
S Avenue and Fir Street.
The board is In violation of the
city zoning ordinance. Mr. and
Mrs. Angel Metsopulos, 2108 N.
Fir St., requested early last month
that the commission take the
board out as it blocked part of
their prnnrty.
LA GRANDE,
Elks Give
Scholarship
Awards
Three boys and three girls from
Union county high schools have
been se'ected to receive scholar
ships given by La Grande Elks
lodge No. 433. '
Winners were selected after in
terviews at the lodge hall.
Ramon Westrnskow of La
Grande and Sharon Severns of
Imbler won first place scholar
ships of 3100.
Oth-r winners in the boy's divi
sion were David Slabaugh, La
Grande, second' place $75 scholar
ship, and William Cockrell. Union,
third place $50. Stuart Croghan,
E'gin, was chosen alternate in the
division. '
Girls Winners
Girls division winners included
Jean Wick, La Grande, second
place $75, and Ann MeDoneld,
Imbler, third place $50. Pegpy
Jacob, Union, was selected as al
ternate. Patricia Fisk and Patricia
Myers of La Grande also partici
pated in the competition.
The first place winners in each
of the two divisions will compete
in district selections to be held
Sunday In La Grande. They will
vie for district honors along with
top students from Ontario, Baker,
Enterprise, Pendleton, Hppner
and Hermiston. District winners
receive $30.
Winners of district competition
are eligible to compete in state
wide competitions,. State winners
will try for the Elks National
Foundation Most Valuable Student
scholarships. -
Rutherford Chairman
Bob Rutherford of Eastern Ore
goo College was chairman of a
three-man committee which inter
viewed the contestants for county
scholarships. Other committee
members were Dr. Carlos Easley
and Lyle McMuMen, both of EOC.
The scholarship recipients were
chosen on the basis of academic
record, extra-curricular activities,
personality, leadership, perserver
ance, resourcefulness, and finan
cial need.
The county scholarships may be
used in any institution of high-r
education. The state scholarships
are limited to use in Oregon col
leges and universities.
Pope Names
7 Cardinals
VATICAN CITY UPI -Pope
John XXIII named seven new
cardinals today, including the first
African Negro. Japanese and ru
ipino princes of the church. The
nominations raised the sacred col
lege to a record mcmbeship of
The United States, which now
bas six cardinals, was not includ
ed In the new list.
Observers sard the appointments
reflected the Catholic Church's
awareness of the growing impor
tance of Africa and Asia, where
emerging nationalism and the in
roads of Communism as well
as the expansionism of Red Chi
na are threatening' democratic
institutions.
The seven new cardinals will
be installed at solemn consistories
March 28 to 31, the third to be
called by the present Pope since
he ascended the throne of St.
Peter a year ago last fall.
Names of Cardinals
Those named today were Msgr.
Peter Tatsuo Doi, archbishop of
Tokyo; Msgr.. Bernard Jan Al
frink, archbishop of Utrecht, Hol
land; Msgr. Rufino J. Santos,
arbishop of Manila; Msgr. Lour
ian Rugambwa, bishop of Rutabo,
Tanganyika; Msgr. Luigi Traglia.
titular archbishop of Cesarea di
Palest ina; Msgr. Antonio Bacci,
secretary of briefs to the princes,
a Vatican post; and Msgr. Joseph
LeFebvrO, archbishop of Bourges,
France.
Annual Spring
Style Show Set
Local people and stores will be
featured at the annua' Spring Slyle
Show, Friday at 3 p.m. in the Saca-
jawea ballroom with planned en
tertainment during intermission.
Council of Women's Clubs will
sponsor the event, proceeds to be
used to add to the number of
hanging fiowT baskets for the
main street of town.
Stores participating are Falks
I. D., Genevieve's Children Cen
ter, Montgomery Ward and Co.,
Top Shop, Dot Anson's Sport Shop,
and Ann Johnson Ladies Ready
To Wear.
FINOS FLU COSTLY
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (UPI)-A
case of influenza cost hotel presi
dent Harry Mufion $15,000
Wednesday night. Mufson picked
up the Checks for about 500 cus
tomers gathered to hear singer
Pearl Bailey when Miss Bailey
was Inn ill to go nn.
OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960
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SHARON SEVERNS
Imbler Student
RAMON WESTENSKOW
La Grande Student
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DAVID SLABAUGH
Second Place
WILLIAM COCKRELL
Third Piacfe
JEAN WICK
Second Place
ann Mcdonald
Third Place .
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uch Of U.S.
y Huge Snow
Oregon Is
Blanketed
By Snow
PORTLAND H'Pli Old man
winter handed Oregon and south
west Washington a severe blow
todav as heavy snow snarled
traffic and closed schools. At
least two highway deaths were
blamed on the weather.
Several inches of blowing, drift
ing snow piled up in Portland and
Salem had seven inches on the
ground. All public and parochial
schools in both cities were closed
as well as numerous schools in
outlying areas.
La Grand awoke Thurs
day morning under a cover
of ankle-deep snew with the
. air obscured by still falUna
flakes..
.'v The state . highway com
mission said four Inches had
fallen by a.m. In the city.
Highway 30 east and west was
slick with packed snow and
chains were requird.
Eastern points. Including
Baker, Ontario, Seneca, John
Day and Basque, all recorded .
three inches up to I a.m.
Pendleton had three and one
half Inches and Elgin receiv
ed four.
The snow spread over most of
the state, except for the southwest
part. Tillamook and Astoria on
the coast reported three to five
inches. Bend had nine inches and
Lapine six inches.
Northwest Oregon Coast range
mountain passes bad up to a foot
of snow. Chains were advised on
nearly all routes in northwest and
eastern Oregon.
The weather man at. (he Port
land airport said the east wind
was blowing so strong it was ai
most impossible to get an accur
ate measurement . of the snow
here. But there were at least five
inches on pie roof of the Journal
Dunning in downtown foruana.
- Worst in Years
The Portland snow was one of
the worst March storms in many
years, although it was not quite
as heavy as this year's January
fall. Freezing rain was expected
to follow the snow in this area.
Trains were reported running
on time and Greyhound lines said
buses had not been more than 30
minutes late.
Salem, the state capitol, had 8
to 12 inches of snow in some foot
hill areas. Plows were' operating
there and on the Portland-Salrm
freeway. Freezing haul began fall
ing in Salem about S a.m. State
police asked motorists to use
chains on all highways in the
snow area. 1 - . .
COMMISSION SALARY CUT?
Youth Activities Group Urges
City Assistance For Director
By DON ROBINSON
Observer Staff Writer
Former city manager Fred
Young laid before the city com
missioners Wednesday night a
proposal that they cut their own
salaries to provide funds for hir
ing a youth activities director.
Young appeared before the
commission with three other per
sons: Loren Hughes, a director
of La Grande Youth Activities As
sociation, Mis. Archer Antles,
1104 Second St., and Hollis Dc-
Grofft, 1612'A Seventh SU The
latter two represented the First
Methodist church. .
The foursome brought to the
city's mnin governing body a pro
position that had been coolly re
ceived by the city planning com
mission last week. '
They asked that the city under
take financial support of a year
nmnd youth activities program.
And they asked that the budget
provide for hiiilng a' full-time
..... I K nl.,Iii- jIMtd
Lack of Funos
. Young said that in the past
such proposals have slways been
blocked by lack of city money,
lie then explained how money
could be found in the budget
wiithout increasing taxes.
In 1958, he said, the city pass
ed a resolution establishing the
irte of pay for city employes. The
wage scales were based on thnse
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SCHOOLS CLOSE, TRAFFIC
STOPPED BY DEEP DRIFTS
United Press International ,
A record-breakine March storm turned its full furv on
the East today and left the
under a triple punch of ice,
ihe last-moving storm pounded up the Atlantic Seaboard
and Appalachians from the
heavy snow and piling up traific-stopping drifts in the most
populous sections ui ine nation.
. ... .. .
Philadelphia closed all its pub
lic and parochial schools, traffic
bogged down in Pittsburgh, and
the Washington - Baltimore Ex
pressway was blocked to north
bound traffic.
In Baltimore, where Friendship
International Airport closed
tight, it was the worst storm of
the winter. At least 10 ships
bound for Baltimore were forced
to anchor in Chesapeake Bay or
the lower harbor.
LaGuardia Airport in New York
City closed down as wind-driven
snow swept up the New Jersey
Turnpike into the nation's largest
city. Idlewild International Air
port canceled 64 flights and re
ported long delays in others.
Schools closed by the hundreds
throughout the East, South and
Midwest. Dozens of airports shut
down, buses cancelled runs or
ran far behind schedule, and a
one-car Chicago and Eastern Il
linois train was mired in eight-foot
snowdrifts for hours at Allerton,
IU.
The unseasonable late winter
storm and a new snowstorm that
swept the Pacific Northwest
claimed a mounting toll of
lives. United Press International
counted at least 21 deaths at
tributed to the weather 4 each
in Texas and Colorado, 1 each in
Kansas. Indiana, Ohio and Penn
sylvania, and t each in Missouri,
Virginia, Iowa, Washington and
Oregon.
Portions of Missouri, Illinois
NEW MANAGER The
La Grande Safeway store
has appointed Dale Nice,
27, of 1901 Spruce St.,
manager of the meat de
partment. Nice has
worked for Safeway the
past three and a half
years. (Observer Photo)
cf other cities of comparable,
size.
However, one item received no
considers tlaon and is "definitely
out of line" the pay received
by city commissioners.
Young said city commissioners
here receive a salary of $780 per
year. The average pay of council
men or commissioners in other
Oregon cities (except La Grande),
from St. Helens with a popula
tion of 6.000 to Eugene with a
population of nearly 50,000, is
only $97 per year.
In half of those cities council-
men receive no pay.
If La Grande commissioners
dropped their own salaries to
nothing, the olty would save $3.
000 a year. Young stated. If pay
were lowered to only f 10 a
month, the saving would amount
to $3,300 a year.
Half of Salary
This, said Young, would cover
at least half of a youth activi
ties director's salary. "And there
is every reason to believe the olh
er half could be raised."
Loren Hughes told commission
crs that during recent years the
V A group has been faced with a
greater demand for services and
a diminishing supply of money.
The association this year re
ceived $1,200 from the city and
about $3,300 from the United
Fund. - Hughes felt a year-round
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Five Cants
Caught
Storm
South and Midwest staggering
snow and Arctic cold.
hard-hit southland, dumping
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and Indiana were hit by the
worst snow storm of the winter.
Foot deep snows piled up road
blocking five foot drifts.
Marcury Nas Dives
The Great Plains and eastern
Rockies froze under temperatures
that nose dived far below zero.
The Mercury dropped to 27 de
grees below zero at Cut Bank,
Mont., 24 below at KalispelL
Mont.. 22 below at Sydney, Neb.,
20 below at Imperial, Neb,', and
IS below at Casper, Wyo.
The longest, coldest winter snap
In 77 years broke another Denver
temperature record today when .
the thermometer dipped to 6 be
low zero.
At Kim. Colo., near the New
Mexico, bonier, soldiers from Ft.
Carson, Colo., were continuing ef
forts to open roads with bulldoz
ers. They were carrying emer
gency food and stock fodder in
snow-track weasels to an estimat
ed 100 ranch families and 4.000
range cattle stranded for two
weeks by mountainous snow
drifts.
The latest onslaught of winter
was one of a dizzy scries of
rampaging storms that charged
out of the southwest in the past
month.
The South, unused to the rav
ages of winter, was nearly paral
yzed by ice and snow.
The storm, which blew in from
the Gulf of Mexico, dumped up to
a foot of snow in Virginia. Near
ly all major highways in North
Georgia were closed by the
state patrol because of severe ice
In" Atlanta, Go., the city was
paralyzed by the worst ice storm
in 24 years. It struck during the
morning rush hour and swiftly
coated streets, roads and express
ways with an inch or two of ice.
Flu Cases In Oregon
Show 18 Per Cent Drop
poktlanu iUFi me num
ber of reported flu cases in Ore
gon dropped 18 per cent last week
to 1.780. the State Board of Health
said today. The high for the year
was 2.682 cases during the week
of Feb. 6.
TO STUDY HERE
WORCESTER, Mass. UPD
A granddaughter of Mohandas K.
Ghandi will study at Clark Uni
versity Graduate School. The Uni
versity said Wednesday Sumltra
Ramdas Ghandi of New Delhi will
begin studies in international So
roptomist Clubs fellowship.
program was needed.
Hughes noted that La Grande s
case Is unusual in that youth work
is supported by voluntary funds.
In - most cities surrounding La
Grande, youth programs are city-
sponsored, he said.
Mrs. Archer Antles said that
the First Methodist Christian so
cial relations committee of which
she is chairman supported three
proposals relating to youthr
11 Obtaining a juvenile officer,
2) advocating a change in the new
Oregon Juvenile law, and 3 es
tablishing a youth employment pro
gram. It-action of the commission to
the presentation was varied. -. -
Commissioner Merle Bccket said
youth activity work is worthwhile.
However, he advised proponents
of a city-sponsored program to
work out a year's program in de
tail before making a request tor
financial support 1 '
Commissioner Arlo Noyes was
reluctant to see the commission
take action unless "the ex pre
sion of a majority of the peop'e
in the community" is knows.
He suggested thrtt the question.
of a city-supported youth program
be placed on a city ballot.
Commissioner H. E. waddeil.
acting president In the absence
of Gordon Clarke, said the Com
mission would take the proposals
under consideration.