La Grande Observer from La Grande, Oregon • Page 1

WEATHER Fair through Saturday with few Isolated thunderstorms in mountains today; high both days 85; low tonight 44; high yesterday, 94; low, 51. 'VeiTDDlTDg Established 1896 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1955 Prica 5 Cntt 0b Marshall Pleased With Cloudless Skies By FRED BANKER Universal-International Writer Three characteristics of La Grande, Oregon have made a penetrating impression on the Universal-International shooting company which has come to eastern Oregon for five weeks to make one of the studio's big pictures of the year, "Pillars of the Sky." The characteristics are weather, scenery and people. In that order they were commented upon profusely by the director, the crew and the star. Director George Marshall, whose particular mood in any film can be made gay or miserable by the weather, since the shooting schedule is dependent on it, is all smiles these days. "I've never seen such fine shooting weather," said Marshall.

"Not too hot, not too cold, plenty of sun, no wind, all clear. What more could a man ask?" The crew, mostly men and women who have been around the world making movies, feels that the Oregon country is outstanding for the majesty of its mountains, the beauty of its lakes 'and the grandeur of its timber stands. But their interest is more specifically in what hidden charms the scenery contains; in one word fish. Some of the crew have already purchased the non-resident fishing license and by Sunday dozens will have done the same and traipsed off to the trout streams for their one day off. The star, Jeff Chandler, is happy over the friendliness of La Grande.

He has found everyone, from the employes and local visitors at the Sacajawea Hotel (location headquarters) to the management of the Granada Theatre and its patrons, full of good will and a welcoming spirit. These were the only two places Chandler had time to go during the first 24 hours of location which this report covers. Company manager Tommy Shaw had a special good word to say of Dave Baum, Chamber of Commerce President, who has become an almost indispensable man to Shaw in solving the many produc tion problems which hit a location company during the early days of a long haul such as this. More than 150 members of cast and crew have planed or trained into La Grande for the suspenso-ful epic of cavalry and Indians in Cinemascope and color. At least 150 local personnel, Indians and whites, will have been employed extensively in the shooting of "Pillars of the Sky" by the time it is, to use Hollywood parlance, "in the can." All but four days of the schedule will be completed within a radius of 35 miles of La Grande.

The last time a U-I company made a film near this area it was also a Jeff Chandler, picture with Indians called "The Great Sioux Uprising," made near Pendleton. The picture location is a self-sustaining town which rises near La Grande at about 7:30 every morning and is torn down, except for the scenery itself, every evening when the company loses the sun. Giant generators, spot lights called brutes, three U-I buses, many limousines, carpenters, make up men and wardrobe men and women, special effects crews, caterers and scores of others have come, mostly from Hollywood, to make up this little community which is sufficient unto itself once it gets on the road. The lunch catering organization is Jerry Pinkcrton's of Portland. Chandler's leading lady, Dorothy Malone, will arrive Monday or Tuesday.

She recently finished Liber-ace's first feature picture starring the famous pianist in which Miss Malone was his leading lady, also. Featured In the' film Is Ward Bond, who does not play a heavy role In "Pillars of the Sky." He portrays the very important role of a medical missionary. U-I contract player Keith Andres, one-time Broadway musical star and now an important feature player on the Universal roster, plays the second male lead to Chandler. Olive Carey, widow of the old-time western hero, Harry Carey, is also in the film along with Willis Bouchey of screen and TV fame. Others on the long acting roster include Sydney Chaplin and two rising young contract play ers, new to U-I, Floyd Simmons and Glen Kramer.

Cameraman Harold Lipstcin, who lenscd "A Man Called Peter," "The Private War of Major Benson," "Wichita" and "Forever Darling," is the chief cine-matographcr on "Pillars of the Sky." The production is so spectacular and detailed that three assistant directors aro necessary to aid Marshall. They are Marshall Green, 1st Terry Nelson, 2nd and Ray DeCamp, 3rd. It is interesting to note that Director Marshall's dialogue director is his own son, George HI who has made many films with his father, among them the last "Destry" with Audio Murphy. The elder Marshall also directed the original "Destry" with James Stewart and Marlcno Dietrich. Marshall has directed more than 400 films In over 40 years in the film industry.

Among the greatest of these have been movies of every conceivable kind including "Variety Girl," "When the Daltons Rode," "The Second Greatest Sex," "Texas," Red Garters," "Star Spangled Rhythm" and "Houdini." Torrents Bring Ruin, Death Korean Ancestory Hit Home Buying Plan Of Swimmer GARDEN GROVE, (U.R) Two-time U.S. Olympic diving champion Dr. Sammy Lee was denied a chance to buy a home in a land development because of his Korean ancestry, it was learned today. Mrs. Lcota Johnston, wife of the land developer, D.

E. Johnston, said they turned Lee and his expectant wife down "two or three months ago" because of the "financial risk involved." "We've invested just about everything we've got in this, and 4 At a .4 -V to sell it to someone like that Qrli Queen of the Internationally famous Pendleton Round-Up, 19-year-old Kathryn Wyss, is a real cowgirl. Queen Kathryn has been a competitor in many junior rodeos as a roper and rider and has rid -den in many cattle drives In eastern RoundiUp datoa are September 15-16-17. To New NEW YORK U.R) Torrents of rain dumped from dying hurricane Diane spread havoc and death across seven northeastern states today. A swollen reservoir threatened to burst its dam over a score of Western Massachusetts and Connecticut towns, many of them al ready Inundated by overflowing streams.

The entire northwestern sec tion of Connecticut was declared Water Truck Crash Kills Road Worker ENTERPRISE (Special) Ar thur Wilbur- Coolidgo; 61, of Troutdalo, a construction worker on the Enterpriso-Lewlston highway, was killed Wednesday about 11 a.m. when his water track when off the highway and turned over about, a mile north of the Joseph Creek viewpoint. No one saw the accident and he was found crushed in the cab of the truck. The Booth-Bollman ambulance brought his body to Enterprise. He had been working on the highway since July 3 and he and his wife were living In a trailer house at the road construction camp near the scene of the accident.

He was born April 18, 1004 at Farmlngton, N. M. He is sur vived by his widow Vivian whom he married May 31, 1947 at Reno, his mother, of Red ding, two stepdaughters, Mrs. Viola Wallace and Mrs. Iris Dunn, of Clovcrdale; one stepson, Keith Goldsworthy, of Powers; two brothers, Tom, of Mo desto, and Kenneth of Stockton, two sisters, Mrs Faye Whiteside, Walnut Creek, and Mrs.

Kenneth Ronk Santa Cruz, and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements arc pending word from relatives in California. Farm Girl From (Switzerland Likes American Machinery could put a damper on a good number of other sales," Mrs. Johnston said. Lee now is a major in the Army Medical Corps stationed at Camp Carson, Colo.

He, will retire this fall after 12 years of service. The development in which Lee tried to buy a home consists of 16 lots amid an orange grove. Johnston is building three-bedroom homes ranging in value from to $30,000 on the lots and selling them to carefully screened buyers, Mrs. Johnston said. Five homes have been built so far.

"As far as we ourselves are concerned, "Mrs. Johnston said, "we would have no objections to hav- Ing the Lees as our neighbors, but anyone spending that much money for a home would think twice." Johnston is a 34-year-old Navy veteran, Mrs. Johnston said. He was a contractor before opening up the development. In a copyrighted story, the San Francisco Chronicle said that Lee on two occasions was turned down in his efforts to buy a home in the area.

Lee, a native of Califorpia, told the Chronicle "This doesn't hurt me, it hurts our country." Of course I'll fight it, as a mat ter of principle," he added. "I was raised down there and I belong there." Passenger Train Coaches Derailed; Five Known Dead MARKED TREE, Ark. (U.R) At least five and possibly six persons were killed in the wreck of Frisco's Kansas City-Florida passenger train in the city limits here today. One of the victims was a four-year-old child. The only victim identified immediately was William Richard, about 56, Bonner Springs, Kan.

Witnesses at the scene said the bodies of two women were taken from the wreckage. One of the injured died later in a Memphis hospital. Railroad officials reported that six were killed. Four cars of the eight-coach passenger train jumped the track when the first of them hit a switch pin which apparently had bren jarred loose. Given 793 Of Rain England a disaster area with evacuation proceedings under Civil Defense and National Guard direction.

The Coast Guard reported it was "picking people out of trees" by helicopter in the Torrington, area. Gov. Abraham A. Riblcoff said damage in the Torrington-Farm-ington-Colebrook area had been estimated at one billion dollars before noon, with flood waters sending buildings, oil tanks and debris floating through the streets. swirled through the adjacent AAMAH V.l tA.

luiiivm ui nvw mm, nvw del. sey and Pennsylvania where at least 10 deaths were reported. Two passenger trains were marooned. Thirty-three children were being plucked by helicopter from a summer camp turned into an Island ovor-night, Other summer camps were cut off from the world. Cumberland, and Rldgclcy, W.

were flooded by the spilling wators of the Cumberland River. High water shut In Cumberland. The crest was reported to have passed, however, and tho sun was shining over tho sodden communities. Northwestern Connecticut, a network of river valleys, appeared hardest hit by what Ribicoff termed "a very gravo dlsoster." The cities of Torrington, Win-stcd and Bristol were completely cut off from the world with bridge, highway and railroad washouts. Four tenement houses were reported to have collapsed Into the swirling waters of the Mad River at Winsted.

A number of the already flooded Connecticut communities in Ihe Farmlngton River Valley were In peri! of their very existence should engineers fail to hold Massachusetts Otis Reservoir dam against the burgeoning waters. More than 12 inches of rain had fallen- In the Massachusetts and Connecticut areas in the last 48 hours and it was still coming down at midmornlng. people of Oregon." Thornlnn said that contrary to the governor's "official statement, he has not given me the full contents of this eight-months long investigation, and what's more, he knows it. "What Gov. Patterson gave mo (and to the newspapers) was simply a throe or four page letter from Mr.

Maguire containing Manure's generalizations and opinions about the organization and operation of tho liquor commission." plus a summary of charges against one of the OLCC employes. Thornton said: "I received this dummy report on Feb. 23, 1053, and immediately wrote Gov. Patterson asking for the full contents of the investigation including the sworn testimony and depositions for which the state had already He answered by refusing my re! quest, i wroie again asking for the material. I never, received a reply to my second letter." Thornton said he wan "nni i Jn.

torestcd in eyewash letters" and rharffed that the "secret ran- showed evidence of bribes rang inn from $40 to 110 OOO hln. ...7 Plane Hits; Seven Dead Recovered HAWTHORNE, Nev (U.R) A twin-engined Air Force transport plane slammed into the top of a 6000-foot mountain peak today and burned furiously, killing at least seven airmen. The crash occurred about 7:30 a.m. PDT in the rugged Gillis Mountain range about 13 miles northeast of here and a few miles cast of nearby Walker lake. The scene is about 120 miles southeast of Reno.

Lt. Col. George Stallings, com mander of the Marine detachment at the nearby Hawthorno Naval Ammunition Depot, report ed that rescue workers had re covered the bodies of seven airmen from the charred wreckage. Earlier, Sheriff John Tarrant returned from the wreckage to re port There at least four bodies and possibly five." "Everything has burned so badly that we haven't determined for sure yet, he said. 1 t- Tarrant reported the wreckage was "pretty well spread out" with the exception of the two wings.

The engines, torn loose from the fuselage by the impact of the crash, were "found 500 to 700 yards away from the wreckage. Wallowa 4-H Fair Opening At Enterprise ENTERPRISE (Special) The annual Wallowa county 4-H club fair opened at the fairgrounds today and will continue through Wednesday, August 24. Judges arc Dan Warnock, Union county agent; Don Anderson, OSC extension dairy specialist; and Miss Esther Taskerud, OSC state extension agent. The fair is sponsored by the Wallowa county 4-H leaders association and the Wallowa county fair board. Today is set aside for horsemanship.

Saturday at 3 p.m. a tractor driving contest is scheduled and at 8 p.m. a style revue by the 4-H club girls in the fairgrounds dance hall. On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. the livestock judging contest will start with 4-H club livestock members participating.

On Monday will be special judging of six classes of livestock, home economics contests and demonstrations in the home economics building at the fairgrounds. Tuesday is scheduled for poultry and rabbit judging and livestock demonstrations, and Wednesday at 11 a.m. will be a fat stock auction sale at the livestock auction yard near Enterprise. On Monday and Tuesday, the home economics building will he open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

to the public. They are also open on Sunday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. SOLDIER CONVICTED NEW YORK (U.R) Set. James C.

Gallagher, 23, was found guilty by an eight-member court mar tial today of charges that he killed three fellow American prison ers of war in Korea in 1951, in formed on other prisoners and collaborated with his captors. Bulletin Union County Fair Board President Ray Beum received an affirmative answer today In reply to hli recent wire to Governor Paul Patterson Inviting the governor to attend the fair gain this year. Governor Patterson indicated that he would visit the fair either before or after lunch on Saturday, August 27. Frantic Father Tricks Killer, Brings Police CHICAGO (U.R) Captured gunman Richard Carpenter, out witted by the desperate father of a family he held hostage for 24 hours, today confessed killing one policeman and wounding an other in one of Chicago greatest one-man crime waves. Carpenter, burly 26-year-old, broke' down "a few hours after a police barrage of machine gun bullets and tear gas flushed him from a bullet-riddled West Side apartment.

He had been tricked by Leonard Powell, whose home he had turned into a hideout to escape a city-wide manhunt. Powell slipped out of his apartment on a pretext and rushed to a telephone to alert police that the killer was holding him hostage with his wife and two children. Carpenter fell on his knees "and begged like a baby not to be shot" when he was captured. At first he denied the shooting, but broke down under hours of police grilling. Assistant State's Attorney Frank Wehlan said early -today that Carpenter confessed killing Detective William Murphy, 34, on a subway station platform Monday night.

He also admitted critically wounding rookie policeman Clarence Kerr, 26, in a gun duel at movie theater Wednesday night. Murphy was seeking Carpenter for a string of tavern robberies and Kerr later spotted the killer in one of the many theaters where he slept to elude the police. Reds Agree To Meet On Returning Officers MUNSAN, Korea' U.R) The Communists today agreed to a request of the U.N. Military Command for an "urgent" face to face meeting to discuss the return of two American Air Force officers, shot down by the Reds last Wednesday. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m.

Saturday PDT. Polio Shots By Betty Tomjack Seventeen polio immunization clinics were sponsored in Union county during the first si months of 1955 and 793 children received immunization shots. Gertrude Finnemore, public health nurse, said in her bi-an nual report today. In tbe field of communicable diseases, she said 33 persons from this country were admitted for nursing service and 23 made of fice visits. Sixteen visits to the home of patients in connection with communicable diseases were recorded.

During this six months period. 35 patients were admitted for tuberculosis nursing services Seventy-four home visits on TB cases, both contact and suspected cases, were made with 26 persons being referred for large chest X-rays. I of RUMORS FLY Princess Margaret's 25th birthday, Sunday, bring news about Capt. Peter Townsend. Royal Family Said Talking To Townsend LONDON (U.R) Group Capt.

Peter Townsend and the British royal family were reported today to bo 'burning up tiro telephone wires between Brussels and Bol moral Castle in Scotland. Townsend is in Brussels cur rently on leave from his position there as British air attache. Prin cess Margaret is at Balmoral for her 25th birthday celebration Sunday when she becomes free to marry without the consent of her sister, the Queen. London's tabloid Daily Sketch, in a dispatch from Brussels, said "crucial messages have passed during the last 48 hours between 41-ycar-old Group Captain Peter Townsend and the royal family. The messages have been con cerned with the decision Princess Margaret is expected to make shortly about her marriage to him.

British newspapers were work ing themselves into an uproar of "will she, won't she," announce her engagement to Townsend. Five of London's nine national morning dailies already have speculated on what Margaret will do; all of them said whatever she does it wili concern Townsend. Irey Case Moved To Late October The case of State of Oregon vs. Irey has been set over until Octo ber 31 at 9:30 a.m. Originally set for October 17, the case was set over, with the agreement of attorneys involved.

because some important witnesses would be out of town. In the case, Clayton Ronald Irey of Baker is charged with negligent homicide in connection with the death of Sharon Jean Edwards, 15, In La Grande on May 15th. In County school groups with a total of 113 in attendance. Attendance In the one clinic for crippled children totaled 34 Miss Finnemore held 187 inter views on behalf of her service and visited 21 community organ izations during the first six months of this year. Union county schools are visited by Miss Finnemore one day each month.

Children are sent to the nurse by the teachers on a teacher-nurse referral slip. Ihey are often referred for such reasons as suspected vision or hearing defects, suspected communi cable diseases, and severe be havior problems. Home visits are made by ihe nurse whenever necessary to dis cuss the health problem with the child's parents and to heip plan for the correction of any defects the child may have. Thornton Blasts Patterson Claim By Ernie Haycox A bright-eyed Swiss miss visiting the Grande Ronde valley, learning what makes American farms lick on a six month tour of the United States, will head for the tractor when she gets back home. Trudi Walti, farm youth exchange student, was rambling around the Harvey Elmer farm on Lower Cove road on tractor and pickup this week.

Back home, in Oberkulm, Swit zerland, she said, the machines belong strictly to the men. But she hopes to change that Observer Wins Guard Award A certificate of commendation has been awarded to the La Grande Evening Observer by the Army and Air National Guard. Signed by Maj. Gen. Edgar C.

Erickson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, Adjutant Gen eral of Oregon, the commenda tion reads: "Certificate of Com mendation Awarded to Evening Observer. In Recognition of Dis tinguished Service Rendered the National Guard during Operation Minutcman, Nationwide Test Alert, 20 April, 1955." The Evening Observer published an "extra edition during "Op eration Minutcman" containing information on how the practice alert was proceeding plus first aid and survival information perti nent to a real situation of the same type.

Pipeline Company Asks Court Action VALE (U.R) Pacific Northwest Pipeline corporation has filed condemnation suits against three properties north of Onlario. The suits were brought against the landowners in Malheur county Circuit Court here yesterday The company asserted that the property owners involved could not agree on a price for a pipeline right-of-way, and asked an assessment of company damages to the land so that a price might be set. A company spokesman said work on laying of a natural gat pipeline between Ontario and liormisinn was held up 30 by the landowners. situation. "Ja," she chirped, "when I get back home, I will sit on the tractor and drive around." That is, of course, if she can convince her father.

Twonty-threc-year old Trudi, al ready acquainted with farm life in Minnesota and the Willamette valley, will slay on the Elmer farm until early September. Then she travels to the Oregon state fair. At the Elmer place, she's had a chance to do just about what ever she wanted to and confessed that, "I like to do every kind of work." Back home, her parents have a "medium sized" farm about 40 acres and raise wheat, rye, potatoes and turnips besides main taining pasture for seven dairy cows. What amazes Trudi about American agriculture is how one family can manage a two-, three-, or four-hundred acre farm prac tic-ally without outside help. "We need four to six other people on our farm," she explain cd.

"You have all this machin cry." Trudi said she's had plenty to do on her tour and not enough time to get homesick. She found Oregon farm cooking so much to her liking that she gained ten pounds that worry her. Trudi learned her English, with only the slightest German accent, at school "seven years ago" and brushed up In England last year. Oberkulm is in the German speaking part of Switzerland but she's tri-l incuiil and can rattle off in French at the bat of an eye. too.

The pretty Swiss brunette hasn't stayed any one place long enough to break any hearts out she suspected that, on at least one farm, boy friends of the family's IB year-old daughter "stayed around" to find out more about Switzer land. Trudi, who laughs frequent ly, found this amusing and may even a little bit fun. Fire Destroys Shed Inside City Limits Paid and volunteer firemen laid a fire hose into the alley behind 1316 Monroe about 4:26 yesterday to extincuish a fire which destroyed a storage shed on the Joe Milliard property. Milliard said the building was not insured and little of value was in it. He told Fire Chief Parley Hutchinson he had planni to tear the building down soon.

i In the infant and pre school SALEM (U.R) Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton struck back today at Gov. Paul L. Patterson for, as he put It "calling me a liar" In a controversy over re cent Investigation of Oregon Liquor Control commission personnel. Thornton called on tho govern yesterday to make available to him all the testimony amassed by Robert Maguire and Howard Bob bitt, Portland attorneys who ques tioned OIXC personnel at re quest of the commission and Gov Patterson.

The governor replied that "the itatemcnt of Attorney General Thornton that there Is informa tlon or reports in the hands of the liquor commission or myself that has not been disclosed is not Iruc." And today Thornton replied "Gov. Patterson's statement that he has turned over to me the full contents of the $4,000 Ma julre investigation into bribery and payoffs inside the Oregon Liquor Control commission and publicly calling me liar for saying otherwise is a bare-faced eva sion of the true facts and an insult to the intelligence of the lanment ii cnnaren were ad- nitted for the nursing service. Tive office visits were made and 2 home visits. Miss Finnemore made seven public lectures and alks to parents of prc-school children. At these gatherings 175 arenu attended.

School age children admitted to the nursing service totaled 00 while 78 office visits were made and 41 home visits. Examinations for vision defects were made for 3 youngsters. The report shows 170 were inspected for communicable diseases, and 58 were referred to physicians. Conferences with teachers and administrators were made regarding the health 96 children. Under the direction of H.

K. Russell, 23 speech clinics were organized with 57 children attending. Talks on this subject were made at four different times Bun dled by commission employes..