2 The News-Review, Roicburg, Ore. Wed., Sept. 21, 1960
President To Offer New Plan
For African AH Air Patrol
I'NITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP)
President Eisenhower will chal-i
lense the Soviet Union with a re-'
vised version of his open skies
plan and will offer some sort of
program to aid the emerging new j
nations of Africa when he ad- j
dresses the U.N. General Assein-!
blv Thursday.
Diplomatic sources at the Unit
ed Nations, reporting this today,
said the President's open skies I
program will be similar to the
proposal he would have put for- i
ward in Paris last May, had the j
summit meeting not exploded be-j
fore it could get started.
Open Skies Plan
The open skies plan, designed
to guard the world against the
surprise attack which could signal 1
nuclear war, envisages high alti-;
tude reconnaissance over military j
installations and movements. The j
Soviets rejected a similar Eisen-j
hower proposal at the G e n e v a
summit five years ago. I
The details of the President's
revision of the plan have not been!
disclosed, but in some quarters it
was reported the President was 1
thinking in terms of direct li.N.
supervision over craft flown fori
this purpose by pilots of the re- j
spective nations involved.
the President also is expected
to repeat other challenges handed
the Soviets in previous debates.
Among these is an American plan
aimed at shutting all plants man
ufacturing fissionable materials
for war purposes.
U.S. Proposal '
The United Slates made such a
proposal last month. It offered to
Laotian Forces
In First Clash
VIENTIANE. Laos (AP)-Gen
Ouane Rathikone, commander of
the Laotian army, announced to
day the first clash in the 11-day-old
civil conflict between neutral
ist Premier Souvanna Phoiima
and former Defense Minister Gen.
Phoumi Nosavan.
He said three of Nosavan's sol
diers were killed and an undeter
mined number wounded in a
fight Tuesday 'near Paksane, 100
miles northeast of Vientiane.
Three of his soldiers were wound
ed, Gen. Jtathikone said.
Phouma said planes from neigh
boring Thailand were seen tantl
ing mortars and ammunition for
the rebel forces. Two companies
of Nosavan's soldiers reached
Paksane, he declared, bv passing
through Thailand. Ho added thai
the attack and Thailand's al
leged role in it had been report
ed to U. N. representatives in
Vientiane.
King Savang Vathana, who has
been trying lo bring the rival re
gimes together, summoned all
military commanders lo meet im
mediately at Luang t'rabang.
Nosavan, who has
termed
Fhnuma a pro-Communist, has
blocked supplies from reaching
Vietiane from the south. I
United States Hospitality Due
Concerted Attack On U.N. Floor
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (AP)
United States hospitality today
appeared to be in for a concerted
attack as protests against treat
ment received by visiting govern
ment chiefs spilled onto the U.N.
General Assembly floor.
The issue was brought before the
Assembly Tuesday night by Koea
POpovic, Yugoslav foreign minis
ter. He called on U. S. Secretary
of State Christian A. llerler to
take urgent steps in guaranteeing
the freedom of President Tito's
movements in New York.
Popovic's complaint aroused
speculation that Soviet Premier Ni
kila Khrushchev, who has been
feuding with New York police, and
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro, who has been having trouble
with the city's hotels, also would
air their grievances before the U.N.
Khrushchev, who had been pay
ing little attention to the proceed
ings, listened intently to Popovic's
speech.
Popovic broke into a speech wel
coming admission of 14 new mem
bers to the U. N. to protest against
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set aside 33 tons of U235, thet
basic raw material for nuclear
bombs, for peaceful purposes, if ,
the U S S.K. would do likewise. .
The United States expressed will-
ingnens to match the Soviet Union:
in a one-by-one shutdown of major I
plants producing fissionable ma-'
terials fur weapons use.
Under this plan all future man
ufacture of fissionable materials
eventually would be devoted to i
peaceful purposes. The transfer of 1
the 33 tons of U235 would be taken
directly from present weapons!
materials stockpiles, thus cutting:
down on the production of such j
war materials. j
Much Speculation
Much speculation centered,
about the President's speech. The .
New York Herald Tribune said the :
President planned to be specific,
w hile casting the United Nations
in a leading role in contrast with
Soviet attempts to circumvent the
world organization. ;
More Responsibility j
The President, it said, will urge
that the United Nations be given j
greater responsibility than ever in
a wide range of affairs, in what
amounts to a vote of confidence:
in the U.N.
The newspaper article describes
me -program as someming
"preventive diplomacy de
signed lo have help ready to keep
any situation from getting out of
hand, instead of rushing in aid
after a situation already has be
come critical.
'Open Skits' Proposal
The New York Times also re
ported on President Eisenhower's
speech, saying that he would re
new his "open skies" proposal
first suggested at the Geneva
summit conference in 1955. The So
viets rejected it then.
The New York Daily News car
ried a similar story.
The Herald Tribune said it has
learned the United States has two
ideas an the U.N. role in an "open
skies" plan for guarding the
world against surprise attack by
sending up high altitude recon
naissance planes.
Jewish Activities
Slow For New Year
JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector
(AP) Almost every activity in
Israel slows or halts today for
four days in celebration of Rosh
Ilashana the Jewish New Year
5721.
The holiday itself is but a two
day festival. It lasts from to
night, when the shofar or ram's
horn is blown to herald the new
year, until Eriday evening.
In actual practice, however, ev
erything closes at noon today and
llio streets tuke on a look of fes
tivity. No trains or buses will run ex
cept in Haifa, where reduced pub
lic transportation will operate
Saturday. No Dlanes or shios will
depart. Newspapers cease publi-
cation until Sunday and every
school, factory, shop, office and
theater closes.
pickets who have been demonstrat
ing in front of the f ifth Avenue
consulate where Tito is staying.
He demanded that Herter take
immediate steps to stop the pickets
and also relay his protest to Presi
dent Eisenhower.
Earlier, Khrushchev complained
over a scullle between New York
police and Gen. Nicolai Zaharov
of his staff while the Soviet pre
mier was visiting Castro at his
Harlem hotel.
New York Police Commissioner
Stephen P. Kennedy filed a formal
complaint with the State Depart
ment accusing Zaharuv of rough
tactics.
This latest exchange added to
Khrushchev's indignation over the
U. S. edict restricting his move
ments to Manhattan Island. It was
predicted he would let loose a blast
in the U. N. Assembly.
It was also considered a good
bet that Castro would air his much
publicized squabble with the man
agement of a nudtown hotel that
led to his pulling out in high dudg
eon and moving lo Harlem.
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The airplanes could be flown by
pilots recruited by the U.N. and
answerable to it. Or the planes
could be flown by non-U. N. pilots
but under some form of U.N.
supervision.
in either case, the United States
is prepared to donate the aircraft
to be used.
Though no price tag has been
placed on a plan for economic aid
to Africa, officials see it as a big
Dlan oerhaps as large as the re
cent S500 million proposed by the
United States for raising living
standards in Latin America.
Other proposals concerning Afri
ca would: let new nations train
their own troops through U.N. ar-
rangements; administer the
United States' " food for peace"
plan through the U.N. instead of
through bilateral agreements be-j
iween nasningiun auu uiiier coun
tries; turn over some uranium-235
to underdeveloped nations in Afri
ca and elsewhere to help build
useful energy for industrial pur
poses. Two Cottage Grove
Boys Apprehended
Two Cottage Grove juveniles,
ages 16 and It. were apprehended
by Roseburg City Police Tuesday
and turned over to juvenile offi
cers for investigalion into their ad
mitted theft of an automobile.
They admitted, city police re
port, the theft of a Fiat car from
Eugene and also told of taking
and abandoning two other vehicles.
Officer Roger Voss early Tues
day checked out a car that "look
ed suspicious," and on investiga
tion found the ignilion missing.
The two occupants admitted on
questioning having stolen the car
from Eugene by pushing it off a
lot into the dark of the street,
then connecting the ignilion wires.
The car was found to be the
property of tauis Sparkman of Eu
gene. The boys told officers that
they had stolen a 1054 Ford pickup
from Cottage Grove and abandon
ed it in Eugene Monday. It has
been recovered there. They also
told officers they had stolen a 1912
model Chevrolet in Eugene a cou
ple of weeks ago and abandoned
this car in Washington.
While wailing in the juvenile of
fice for questioning Tuesday, the
two boys fled from the place.
They were later picked up after
an alert was sounded.
U.S., Canada Near
Agreement On Dam
WASHINGTON (AP) The
United Stales and Canada are re
ported Hearing a full agreement
on joint development of Columbia
River resources, including the
sites fur four big dams on the
Upper Columbia.
This report came Wednesday
from Elmer F. Bennett, undersec
retary of the interior and head of
the U.S. negotiating team.
"We get closer together every
time we meet," Bennett snid,
adding he is hopeful a complete
agreement will be reached at a
meeting in Ottawa next Monday
and Tuesday.
"We have reached tentative
agreement on lots of things in the
past six months," Bennett said,
but he declined to say what these
things arc.
The Canadian and U.S. negoti
ating teams have held several
meetings here and in Ottawa since
February.
Their aim is an agreement be
tween the two governments on
how best lo develop and share
benefits of the Columbia Basin.
Guide lines for the talks are a
set of principles set forth by the
International Joint Commission
for "determining and apportion
ing benefits from cooperative use
of storage waters and electrical
interconnection wilhin the Coluin-
j bia River system."
In addition to Bennett, the mem
j bers of the U.S. team are l.t. Gen.
j Emerson C. ltschner, chief of ar
I my engineers, and Ivan B. White.
! d c p u t y assistant secretary of
I state.
REVIVAL BEING HELD
A revival is now being held at
the Bible Missionary Church, 4!KI
Meadow Ave., at 8 each mailt. E.
J. Wilson, evangelist from Emmitt.
Idaho, is conducting the services.
He will also speak Sunday at 11
a m. and 7.30 p.m.
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Prison Inmate Free Of Charge
Under New Post-Conviction Law
Hereth Robert Raymond, now in
the Oregon Stale Penitentiary, has
had one charge against bun set
aside under the new post - convic
tion law passed by the last legis
lature, but he is still in the prison
under another charge, that of es
cape. 1(a) mond was sentenced to the
penitentiary for two yars on a plea
of guilty to a charge of malicious
and wanton injury to personal prop
erty on Sept. 17, 1959, by Circuit
Judge Woodrich,
Wrong Statute
Under the postconviction law,
making it possible to have persons
sentenced appeal their cases
through the warden of the prison,
Raymond appealed on the grounds
that he had been convicted under
the wrong statute.
The Circuit Court for Marion
County, trying the case on appeal,
set aside the Douglas County Cir
cuit Court conviction and sentenc
ing. However, that court remanded
Raymond to the custody of War
den Clarence T. Gladden for serv
ice of sentence imposed upon him
under the charge of escape by the
Circuit Court for Marion County,
by order of Circuit Judge George
A. Jones.
Under the law, the person con
victed can require the county from
which the case originated to pay
for services of attorneys ami costs
of retrial. The case may be han
dled either in the court of origin or
the Circuit Court for Marion Coun
ty. If the latter, an attorney is
Club Swinging Police, Rioters
Battle After Assembly Opener
NEW YORK (AP)-Club swing
ing police and riotous demonstra
tors battled into the night follow
ing Tuesday's opening session of
the United Nations General As
sembly. The brawls swirled around mid
town streets as task forces of po
lice and mounted patrolmen
moved swiftly to curb the disor
ders. Eggs and lighted firecrackers
were hurled at police who
pushed and shoved and fought
back with clubs.
At least three demonstrators
were injured and four arrested.
The heavy police security was
praised by most New Yorkers
but damned by some Communist
bloc chieftains.
Stealing the spotlight Tuesday
was the meeting in Harlem be
tween Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev and Cuba's Prime
Minister Fidel Castro. The con
troversial leaders talked for 22
minutes in Castro's hotel, then
emerged with their arms around
each other's shoulders.
The large assembly of Commu
nist bloc leaders and the Castro
entourage gave police their
biggest security headache. About
3,000 police have been assigned to
protect them.
Helping make matters more try
ing for hard working police was
the large melange of foreign-born
residents in this city of eight mil
lion. Many came from East Euro
Probation Meted Man
On Bad Check Charge
Tna r.inn, 11 nt Cnna TT a v hac
been sentenced to one year in the
Douglas county jail mil placed on
probation by District Judge War
ren Woodruff on a charge of is
suing a check without sufficient
funds with intent lo defraud.
rianna nn nrraiiinmanl Jntv fl
had requested a jury trial. On ap-
pediaui-e ueiuie juuge vvuouruu
Tuesday, however, he changed his
plea to guilty and sentence was
imposed.
Probation was granted on pro
vision that he make restitution on
checks issued lo the Idle Hour
Tavern. Swede's Tavern and Myr
tle Creek Tavern.
Henry Charles Woodruff
Graveside funeral services for
Henry Charles Woodruff, infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Wood
ruff of Myrtle Creek, will be held
Thursday at 1 p.m. at the IOOF
cemetery in Myrtle Creek. The Rev
Glenn Goddard of the Cedar Grove
Church will officiate.
The infant was born Sunday at
a Koseburg hospital and died Tues
day afternoon.
Survivors besides the parents in
cluded a twin sister, llattie Char
lotte: a sister, Terry Ann; a broth
er. Tommy; maternal grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Jones;
and paternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. O. B. Woodruff. All are from
Myrtle Creek.
Funeral arrangements are in
rharae of Gam Mortuary of Myrtle
Creek.
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ANNOUNCES
FALL TERM
Starting Monday, Sept.
usually appointed from that county.
Overthrowing of the judgment
was on the grounds that Raymond
was tried under a general law,
ORS 164,900 covering destruction of
personal property, but that he
should have been charged under
OHS 164.660, by reason of his hav
ing "injured an auto." It was held
that the legislature by enaction of
Chapter 360 in 1931 specifically pro
vided that injury to or destruction
of an automobile was to be govern
ed strictly thereby and not under
the general provisions.
Judge Woodrich stated today that
he was not aware of any preced
ence for this ruling but since he
did not hear the arguments in the 1
case in Marion County he was not .
in a position to express an opinion.
Raymond was actually accused I
of smashing the car window of Len-1
ard James Hyatt with his fists. Ar
rested on a complaint signed by .
Hyatt June 14, 1959, he appeared
next day for arraignment in the I
South Douglas Justice Court of ,
Nina Pietzold and asked for a
preliminary hearing. He was bound
over lo the grand jury after the
hearing, and indicted by that group
July 10. On arraignment in Circuit
Court July 15, he pleaded innocent
but changed his plea to guilty
Sept. 17, 1959 and Judge Woodrich
imposed sentence.
On July 25 of this year, the Coun
tv Clerk was notified by Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton that
Raymond had filed a petitiun for
post-conviction relief and asked for
documents in the case.
pean countries and lands now un
der Communist rule.
The worst of the street brawls
erupted near the U.N. headquar
ters and the Soviet headquarters
for its U.N. mission.
In one three-hour melee near
the U.N., mounted policemen
charged about 50 Ukrainian and
Hungarian pickets. Many were
thrown to the ground.
Fists and nightsticks flew later
when police and mounted patrol
men tangled with demonstrators
near the Soviet building.
Three fights at the United Na
tions involved the Ukrainians and
the police; a fourth involved the
anti-Greek Albanians and anti-Albanian
Greeks. A fifth was be
tween anti-Castro and pro-Castro
Cubans.
Cuban Delegation
Leaves Medic Meet
BERLIN (AP) A Cuban dele
gation headed by Health Minister
Jose Ventura Machado walked out
of the assembly of the World
Medical Association today after a
row with Belgian delegates over
tile Congo.
The Cubans proposed that the
assembly condemn Belgian physi
cians who "abandoned their pa
tients ' in the Congo during the
July disturbances.
"Should we have let ourselves
be killed?" asked Dr. C. L. Ket
telbant of the Belgian Medical
Federation,
Many of the physicians at the
14th general assembly joined in
heckling the Cubans, the resolu
tion was rejected by all except
Cuba.
The Cubans walked out amid
murmurs from other delegates
annoyed at the introduction of po
litical issues. No Soviet bloc coun-
! tries were represented.
i Another Cuban resolution, con
demning U. S. "economic aggres
sion," never came to a vote.
Lodge Leaves
For Midwest
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (API
Henry Cabot Iodge headed for
the Midwest today after leaving
New York State voters with sev
eral reminders of his clashes with
Soviet delegates to the United Na
tions. The Republican nominee for
vice president said in each of
four campaign taiKs in rvew lorx
Tuesday that, as U. S. Ambas
sador to the U. N., "I stood up
to the Russians."
Lodge made a flying tour of
Plattsburgh, walerlown ana Niag
ara Falls.
lie headed for Wisconsin on his
3.0U0mile campaign swing that
began Sunday in Washington.
PTA TO MEET
The first meeting of the Days!
Creek PTA will be held Thursday:
j at 8 p.m. according to Virginia'
i.Martin, correspondent. A reception
! is planned for the teachers, to be I
1 held at the same time.
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Steel-Helmeted Congolese Soldiers
In Crackdown On Lumumba Follower
I.EOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(AP) Steelhelmeted Congolese
soldiers took over government of
fices and Leopoldville radio sta
tion today in a new crackdown
on supporters of ousted Premier
Patrice Lumumba.
Col. Joseph Mobutu who pro
claimed a military coup on Sept.
14 but failed then to take over
the government machinery sud
denly tightened his grip, on the
capital.
His soldiers had turned offi
cials of the Lumumba govern-
Truck Bombers
Out On Parole
PORTLAND (AP) Two of
the Portland newspaper trutK dy
namiters have been paroled and
a third may know today when his
freedom will come.
The Oregon Board of Parole
and Probation let it be known
Tuesday that on Sept. 12 it had
released two of the men who had
pleaded guilty to dynamiting
trucks used by the Oregonian
and the Oregon Journal. The
blasts, here and at Oregon City,
were violence that came in the
early weeks of the strike called
against the newspapers on Nov.
10. and which still continues.
Released were Charles Henry
Snyder, 24, under sentence of 13
months, and Gerald Allen Couz
ens, 21, under sentence of 9
months. Both are from Portland.
They served three months before
release.
Under consideration for parole
is another Snyder brother, Wil
liam L. Snyder, 20, serving a 13
month term. The board said it
might decide about him today.
The fourth man in prison, still
another Snyder, is Edward Sny
der, 24, sentenced to four years.
Levi McDonald, convicted in
two counts as the mastermind
in the plot, has appealed his sen
tence of 10 years on each con
viction and is free on bond.
Roseburg Fuel Co.
Wins Yoncalla Bid
The Union Oil Co. of Drain. Rose
burg Fuel Oil Service, and General
Petroleum Corp., submitted bids
for supplying oil for Yoncalla High
school. At a meeting of the school
board held recently, the Roseburg
Fuel Oil's lowest bid of $3:68 a bar
rel was accepted. From 350 to 450
barrels are used each year, accord
ing to Mrs. George Edcs, News
Review correspondent.
A representative of a Cottage
Grove Insurance Co. was present
and the board renewed its insur
ance on school properties and also
added insurance for boiler explo
sion to school building.
The school principal, Harold
Withnell. reported that 17 new hel
mets and 16 pair of thigh guards
have been ordered to replace brok
en and worn-out football equipment.
Bids were read for gasoline for
school buses, but no action was
taken. About 1.000 gallons are used
each month during.the school year.
Myrtle Creek Phofog j
Wins High Pro Awards
Jerry Warren, llyrtle Creek
photographer. received high
awards during the Oregon Profes
sional Photographers' Association
meeting recently concluded in Sa
lem. The seminar during the meet in
volved the photographing of men,
and Warren's of model Del Blanch
ard, which he titled "Little Arab,"
won 15 out of a possible 16 points,
according to Lorraine Birenbaum,
News-Review correspondent.
Of the 13 blue ribbons awarded
at the event Warren won two.
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government building, but this)
morning the Lumumba officials
returned and resumed their work I
as though nothing had happened, i
Storm Building
An hour later a heavily armed:
unit of the Congolese army in
khaki canvas uniforms and hel
mets stormed into the building.
All the Lumumba officials were
expelled for the second time. A
captain of Mobutu's troops locked
all the office doors and collected
the keys. He said the Technical
Commission appointed by Mobutu
Tuesday, to run the government
until the end of the year would
take possession of the offices.
Crowds of Congolese officials
gathered in the street outside the
building built as the headquar
ters of the former Belgian colo
nial administration but were not
molested by the soldiers.
Thysville Troops
It appeared that Mobutu was
using units from the Thysville
garrison for his crackdown.
While one unit took over the
government building, another sur
rounded the headquarters of the
National Security Police on Ave
nue Lippcns exactly opposite the
official premier's residence where
Lumumba is living under protec
tion of U.N. Ghana troops.
Security chief Charles Muzungu
and his staff were ordered out of
the building to make way for se
Portland Police
Recover Jewelry
PORTLAND (AP) - Portland
police quickly recovered a S4.50O
diamond ring and a 51,250 watch
taken Tuesday night from the
hotel room of John R. Graf, 26,
of Seattle.
Graf told police he had been
introduced to James Patrick At
kins, 36, Vancouver, B. C, as a
possible buyer of the watch and
ring.
Graf said he had invited Atkins
to his hotel room to see the jewel
ry and said Atkins and the two
items vanished while he was tak
ing a shower.
An alert bellman at the Ben
son Hotel told police he had seen
a man catch a taxi which police
found was headed for Portland
international airport.
Atkins was arrested at the air
port as he stepped from the cab
with the ring and watch in his
possession. Police Detective Einar
Moen said.
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Commission.
Radio St.: :n Taken
Another ..ny unit took over the
radio staLtu from troops of the
Leopoldville garrison. The radio
has been under Mubutu's control
since the military coup but pre
sumably he considered the Thys
ville troops more reliable.
The commission will be headed
by Jean Bomboko, foreign minis
ter in the anti-Lumumba govern
ment of Joseph Ileo.
Ilco, chosen by president JosepM
Kasavubu two weeks ago to suc
ceed Lumumba as premier, has
not made any seriuus effort to
take over the government offices.
Bomboko, a former Lumumba
supporter, currently is serving as
Ileo's representative at the U.N.
General Assembly in New York.
Loss Of Signals
Mars Space Test
Also See Story Paga 3.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
An Air Force Blue Scout rocket
hurled a payload deep into space
today, but the test was marred
by loss of signals from the pack
age. The experiment could have led
to methods of detecting nucleac
explosions high above the atmoiP
phcre.
The 40-foot Blue Scout lifted
smoothly from this missile test
center at 8:02 a. m. and the four
solid-fuel stages fired with clock
like precision.
An announcement an hour later
said radio signals were being re
ceived from the 32.S-pound pay
load. A project official then reported
at a news conference two hours
later that instruments had given
an erroneous indication and that
radio contact actually was lost
eight seconds before the fourth
stage burnout.
Lt. Col. Donald A. Stine, preject
director, said that "all four stages
performed perfectly and there is
no reason to doubt the payload
achieved the 16,600-mile altitude
it was supposed to."
Stine said the loss of payload
telemetry did not dampen the
spirit of the launch crew.
"This was the first launching
of the Blue Scout," he said, "and
we are highly pleased with the
results. We wanted to get the
rocket off the ground. The pay
load was a secondary objective."
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