All's Quiei On Destroyer's Bow;
Then, Awesome Sounds 01 Disaster
LONG BEACH. Calif
i j leiJelrs- bw lookout i during the Battle of Okinawa in
aiward the freshly rehtted des-il&45. She listed 11 deereei to Dort
out did not sink.
inner Lollett, peered anxiously
..in iig a9 micK as cotton candy.
Jus ship seemed to be gliding
bundly through a cloud.
Suddenly Medeiros screamed in
to his microphone: "Ship dead
ahead!"
An instant later the newly paint
ed bow of the Collett smashed into
the destroyer Ammen, a kamikaze-scarred
veteran on its way
to the boneyard.
Then Medeiros, 19, of Honolulu,
heard the awesome sounds of
disaster at sea frantic shouts, the
clanging of bells, death screams,
the hiss of steam, and the rip and
tear of steel.
-Medeiros escaped with a bruised
thiqh, but 11 other Navy men died
in the collision Tuesday. At least
20 others were hurt, but only six
were hospitalized.
The Ammen, heading for San
Diego and deactivation, had just
unloaded her explosives at nearby
Seal Beach. Otherwise both ships
could have been blown out of the
water.
The 376-foot Collett left her bow
anchor embedded in the Ammen's
twisted superstructure and carried
off a crushed Ammen seaman in
the fang-like wreckage of her own
bow.
When the bow lookout first
yelled, the Collett's skipper,
Cmdr. A. T. Ford of St. Peters
burg, Fla., shouted from the
bridge: "All engines back full.
Hight full rudder."
Too late. The Collett, apparently
In a turn, struck the Ainmen's
port side below the waterline just
astern of amidships, then slid up
and smashed into the superstruc
ture. Those killed were all aboard
the Ammen and had been working
in two offices above deck.
"Stop engines," ordered Cmdr.
Zavcn Mukhalian, captain of the
Ammen,
The damage controf parly quick
ly went below and secured water
tight doors. The Ammen looked
sadder than when a Japanese
(API I suicide plane crashed into her i The crash produced quiet heroism
Din no panic.
Coxswain Alex Amavisca, 20, of
Yuma, Ariz., was in the Collett's
bow bosun's locker when the ships
slammed together.
Stunned and shaken, he was in
a section twisted completely back
Afln, .1,. ,iK it.. riitt .iihiPul "e waiKea um unnun ana
23 feet of her bow bent back like a i " '"l'0 'J! !
"Thank God we unloaded the
ammunition," said Mukhalian,
sailing the Ammen on her last
voyage to a moth ball berth.
it needed assistance.
Help was already on the way.
Fog made rescue operations tlif Ci-
cult. But small boats from the
harbor department of the resort
town of Newport Bench arrived
ship, Amavisca sat quietlv on
pile of rope and said, "I've got a
headache."
Why did the ships collide?
Both captains said they had
their radar turned on. The Am
men s skipper said he had been
and began to shuttle the dead and , tracking the Collett for 20 minutes
before the crash. They refused to
go into details of the speed of
their ships or their maneuvers,
pending an official Navy inquiry.
injured to shore, five miles away.
A Marine helicopter flew others
to a hospital ship 20 miles away
at the Long Beach Naval Station.
State Tax Collections For Year
Highest In The History Of Oregon
SALEM (AP)-State tax collec
tions in the fiscal vear ended
June 30 totaled $117,083,073, the
highest in history, the Tax Com
mission reported Tuesday to the
Legislature's Interim Tax Com
mittee. The total was four million dol
lars more than the Legislature had
estimated, and compares with a
total of S93.393.652 in the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1959.
The previous record was the 113
millions collected in 1956-57.
The new total would tend to
bear out Gov. Mark Hatfield's
prediction that the budget can be
balanced for the 1961-63 biennium
without any increase in tax rates.
Rep. Clarence Barton (D-Co-quille),
chairman of the interim
committee, said he favors a re
duction in the income tax, to be
offset by a lax on tobacco.
Personal income tax receipts
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in the fiscal year just closed total
ed $94,641,125, compared with the
estimate of $90,500,000, and col
lection of S77.107.785 in the pre
ceding fiscal year.
Corporation excise tax collec
tions were S22.441.948. the same'
as estimated, but S6.2O0.00O more !
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In contrast to that good news,
the committee received notice
from the Legislature's Interim
Committee on Education that
school costs are still headed up
ward. Thomas Rigby, clerk of the edu
cation committee, said his com
mittee believes that total schcwl
costs in Oregon would be 192 mil
lion dollars a year by 1966, com
pared with 144 millions in the 1959
60 fiscal year.
Rigby said that if the state con
tinues to pay one-third of school
costs, it would have to give the
school districts 85 million dollars
a year by 1966, compared with 52 1
millions last year.
And, Rigby said, the committee
on education feels that the state
should pay half of the school costs.
He said his estimates on higher
school costs are based on the as
sumption that teachers will re
ceive average annual salary in
creases on $200 to $250 a year un
til 1966. The average annual teach
er salary increase in the past
eight years was S217, he said.
Rigby continued that school en
rolments would increase until 1966,
and then level off or decrease.
He said the committee expects
the teacher shortage to be allev
iated by 1966.
SIX GENERATIONS are included in ihis family portrair, taken ar a get-together Sunday
at Sutherlin. They are Millie Hembree, 91, great-great-great grandmother, of Portland;
Mrs. Walter Simmons, 67, great-great grandmother; Mrs. Martin Durbin, 52, great-grandmother;
Mrs. H. F. Modrell, 37, holding her granddaughter Tanya Lynn Carroll, 3 weeks,
and Mrs. Hershel Carroll, 16, Tanya's mother, all ol1 Sutherlin.
State Resources Committee
Seeks Halt To Pollution
Nepal Charges
Tibet Trespass
NEW DELHI, India (API-Nepal
has charged Chinese govern
ment troops with more trespass
ing across the Tibetan border in
the Mustang area, the Hindustan
Times reported today.
The newspaper's correspondent
Katmandu, Nepal's capital,
the government had sent a
strong protest to Peiping.
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SALEM (AP)-The slate Na
tural Iiesourees Commillee Tues
day appealed to the petvple of
Portland to quit polluting the Wil
lamette and Columbia Rivers with
raw and industrial sewage.
The committee heard a report
that the slate Sanitary Authority
will ask the I9ul Legislature for
authority to force the city to is
sue revenue bonds to finance sew
age treatment facilities.
The authority has ordered that
the pollution be slopped, but the
voters in the city have rejected
proposals to finance improving
ments.
Curtis M. Everts Jr., the au
thority's director, told the commit
tee that the U. S. Public Health
Service is threatening to ue the
city to stop the pollution.
The city has challenged the au
thority's order that the pollution
be halted.
Gov. Mark Hatfield, chairman
of the committee, said Portland
Patrolman Rescues
Two Boys From Sea
WALDPORT, Ore. (AP) Two
young boys on a raft being pulled
out to sea by strong currents
were rescued by a state police
man Tuesday.
Officer D. B. (Joel Malsom
heard the call over his police
radio, drove to the scene and
dived into the water.
He swam to the raft in (he
waters of nearly impassable Al
sea Bay bar at Waldport and re
turned the two boys to land. Wind
whipped waves added to the dif
ficulty of the task.
The rescued boys were Kim
Hendrickson, 10. of Eugene and
Harold James Wiltse, 12, Berke
ley, Calif.
is guilty of gross pollution, and
he said the cuy officials should
educate the prople so they would
vole to remedy it.
The committee consists of heads
of nil state agencies dealing with
resources.
It also voted to establish a policy
of promoling better recreational
access to federal and state lands.
This ui'tum will result in a com
mittee to be named by (iov. Hat
field to achieve better access.
The committee received pro
posed amendments to the congres
sional bill to create a national
seashore area near Florence. It
agreed with most of these, which
were submitled by Secretary of
me interior seaion.
One of his proposals giving
Seatnn jurisdiction over fish and
wildlife drew an objection from
the committee, which proposed
that the slate retain this jurisdic
tion.
The committee then proposed
that there be joint slate and fed
eral jurisdiction over fish and
wildlife.
Seaton proposed that the name
be Oregon Dunes National Sea
shore, instead of Oregon Coast Na
tional Seashore Recreation Area.
Dan Allen, secretary of the
committee, doubted that Congress
would act on the bill until next
year.
Fish Runs 'Mauled'
On Middle Snake
SEATTLE. (AP) Fish runs
on the middle Snake Kiver are
being "badly mauled by inade
quate facilities at the Brownlee
mid Oxbow dams, Jiilo Moore,
Washington Slate fisheries di
rector, said Wednesday.
lloore said ho had written Je
rome Kuykendull, chairman of tho
Federal Power Commission, ask
ing an immediate meeting of all
agencies responsible for fisheries
management on the Columbia and
Snake River systems.
"The future of these runs it in
grave danger," he said.
"If immediate corrective meas
ures are not taken, fish now pass
ing the Idaho Power Co. dams
lace probable extinction."
Moure said the barrier net at
Brownlee Dam, designed to cap
ture downstream migrant fish,
has not operated with any degree
of efficiency. "Thousands of young
salmon and steelhead migrants
are being destroyed," he said.
MEETING SCHEDULED
The regular meeting of tho Doug
las County Pomona Grange will be
held Saturday at the Tri V Square
Hall in Myrtle Creek. A potluck
supper will be held at 7 p.m., with
the business meeting following at
visiting Grange members are
asked to bring either salad or des
sert and their own table service.
NEW YORK (AP) - The Re
publicans have their convention
nexl week. The Democrats have
had theirs. So who's in now? The
way-out beats, that's who.
They've got delegates from a
dozen slates, they've Rot candi
dates, including iliss Beatnik of
Chicago, and thev've got a con
vention hall. "The College of Com
plexes." a Greenwich Village cof
fee shop.
Rv ttinioht th..v hnna r.l n
have foreign and 'domestic policy
piallurms and a national beat can
didate to urate against the Demo
cratic and Republican big guns.
Rut above nil ul,i.l,A
dozen or so assembled beatniks
have, according to their own testi
mony, is independence. They are
SO illdi idll.il. mimloH thnt -, otmnn
faction has protested the adoption
01 any rules ol procedure whatso-
When the beat leaders tried to
get things organized. Maurice
Fisheimer of New York an
nounced that parliamentary pro
cedure was just "garbage char
acteristic of the sick society we
all repudiate."
"You bug me, Fisheimer," cried
several pioi-ulcs delegates.
Another problem is representa
tion. 'There are f:lvriritn.mm nan.
didales, but many of the delegates
say they are from nowhere, man.
in oiner words, they claim al
legiance to no "geographical en
tity imposed from above and con
ducive to isolation of one man
from another."
The leading candidates''
"Well," said Bill Smith, key
note, speaker and a bookstore
owner in Chicago, "there's a !;
group favoring Gnomi Gross. .Mi-,s
Beatnik of Chicago."
Miss Beatnik, he explained when
asked, is about 18, 5 feet 2, awl
very well put together.
"She has a lovely, innocent face
too," said Smith.
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I HILLSBORO (AP) Three cir
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