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NEW COUNTr ASSESSOR, Lelond W. Svorverud Jr., is
shown being sworn in by Douglas County Clerk Charles
Doerner. Svarverud, who has seived the post four years
as office manager in the assessor's office, succeeds Morris
Bowker who died earlier this month. (News-Review Photo)
New Housing Proposal
Presented By Geddes
Roseburg City Attorney Paul
Geddes Tuesday night submitted a
proposed contract for the city to
work on with the Douglas County
Housing Authority for an addition
to Rosewood Park Homes.
Geddes also reported it was his
understanding the housing author-it;-
had been unsuccessful in ne
gotiations to purchase land adja
cent to the present Rosewood Park
project. He recommended the City
Council delay negotiations on a fi
nal contract until a site lor any
additional housing units is deter
mined. Charles Dondero, administrator
of the Douglas County Housing
Authority, said today that nego
tiations for land adjacent to
Rosewood Park have indeed fail
ed and the agency is now seek
ing another site within the city
for the 50-unit development.
He said that at present the
agency is only looking around
and has not begun negotiations on
another site. Negotiations on the
site near Rosewood Park failed
when the property owner decided
not to sell, Dondero said.
The housing authority had re
quested city approval of a 50-unit
addition to the low-rent housing
project located on W. Stanton St.
The council had agreed to enter
into negotiations on the proposal,
but would not enter into a contract
until some of fine points of the
the federal government's contract
were cleared up.
The possible need for a new lo
cation for the 50 units would no
doubt delay entering into final con
tract discussions. The housing au
thority needs the city's okay in
order to obtain federal funds to
aid in the planning and building of
the addition.
Geddes said he felt there had
been four major changes in the
proposed contract made during ne
gotiations between him and an at-
Extortion Racket
Charged To Monks
CALTANISSETTA, Sicily (AP)
Four monks of the Roman Cath
olic Capuchin order and four oth
er persons have been charged
with operating an extorlion-mur-er
ring with headquarters in a
nearby monastery.
The state prosecutor in this cen
tral Sicilian town asked the court
of Assizes to order the eight to
trial.
The eight men and the monas
tery gardener were arrested 10
months ago. The gardener later
committed suicide.
Officials said the monks extort
ed money from a number of per
sons after threatening them with
bodily harm or property damage.
The gang was accused of killing
a wealthy farmer in 1958 when he
ignored a demand for money.
Soviet Union, West Berlin
Agree On New Trade Pact
BONN", Germany (AP) West
Germany and the Soviet Union
have agreed on a new trade pact,
the government announced today.
Apparently, the crucial question
n( Berlin's economic status has
been settled.
West Germany pressed trade
paet talks with Communist East
Germany in East Berlin, where
(he same question of Berlin has
remained the stumbling bloc.
In both cases. West Germany
want? West Berlin treated as part
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Fair tonight and Thursday, ex
cept night and morning fog in
some velleys.
Highest temp, last 34 hours . 4
Lowest temp, last 24 hours . 36
Highest temp, any Dec. C58) il
Lowest temp, any Dec. CSS) ... 23
Precip. last 24 hours 0
Piecip. from Dec. I 2.11
Precip. from Sept. 1 12.74
Deticit Irom Sept. 1 21
Sunset tonight, 4:44 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:45 a.m.
ftorney for the authority which
! would benefit the city.
He listed them as:
1. A clause was added stating
definitely that the housing author
ity would pay the cost of improve
ments to streets, sewers, storm
sewers, etc.
2. Eliminated the clause saying
the city would provide water, sew
ers, storm sewers, etc.
3. The authority would have all
the rights and obligations of a pri
vate property owner. The city will
provide only those services such
as police and fire protection given
Drivate property owners.
4. The housing authority must
comply with the city building code.
Geddes said another ma.ior
change was in the clause in the
contract which had stated the city
must see to the condemnation of a
number of sub standard housing
units equal to the number of units
built by the authority at the Pub
lic Housing Authority's command.
That clause now reads that such
action, if and when taken, would
be initiated by the city with no
obligation to the federal govern
ment to do so.
Damage Suits Filed
By Tanker's Crew
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Four,
teen survivors of the tanker Pine
Ridge are seeking SI. 4 million
from the ship's owners and op
erators. They filed suits Tuesday in U.S.
District . Court asking S100,000
each. The suits charge that the
10.417-ton tanker was unsafe and
unseaworlhy and that Keystone
Shipping Co., Philadelphia, the op
erators, and Paco Tankers, Inc.,
Wilmington, Del., the owners,
were negligent in allowing it to be
in that condition.
The Pine Ridge broke in two in
a storm off Cape llatteras. N.C.,
last Wednesday. Twenty-nine of
those aboard were rescued. Seven
others, including the captain,
drowned.
The suits also accuse Keystone
and Paco of not taking proper
measures to repair the hull and
not making proper inspection of
the ship. Filing on behalf of the
survivors was the Philadelphia
firm, Freedman, Landy and Low
ry, admiralty law specialists.
The suitt; further stale that the
survivors were not provided with
prompt and adequate medical
care, and that the 14 complain
ants will require hospitalization
and medical treatment for long
periods.
Eaton Notes Birthday
CLEVELAND. Ohio (AP) Cy
rus Katon. millionaire Cleveland
industrialist and exponent of co
existence with the Soviet Union,
celebrated his 77th birthday an
niversary Tuesday at his nearby
Acadia farm. j
of the economy of West Germany
because they are lied together by
a common "currency. This also
' would insure open communications
lo Berlin.
The East Germans followed the
i Soviet lead in balking at this pro
posal. Furthermore, the East Ger-
' mans have threatened to halt land
and river traffic to Berlin. 100
mile!" inside the Iron Curtain, if
j no trade agreement with West
Germany is reached by Jan. 1.
' Conceivably. Soviet agreement
on West Berlin's status would
mean East Germany will hack
;down on the ixsue, hut the East
German negotiator in Berlin gave
I no hint of this.
1 Asked if an agreement would
be sicned today, Heinz Bchrend of
the East German Trade Ministry
replied: "If the West talks abou'l
trade and not about politics." This
was a reference to the Berlin
clause.
Announcement of the West German-Soviet
agreement came from
a government spokesman after
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met
uith Soviet Ambassador Andrei
Sinirnov. Tiie MHikcsman said the
agreement probably will be signed
1 before the end of the year.
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Gunfire Hits
U. S. Plane
In Laos War
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) An
unarmed U.S. plane was hit by
gun fire while observing Soviet
air drops to Pathet Lao rebels
Tuesday, the American, military
attache's office said today.
The gunfire may have come
from a Soviet plane. No one was
injured aboard the twin-engine
plane, belonging to the U.S. Air
Force attache in Saigon, South
Viet Nam. The plane carried Maj.
Armand Riser, assistant military
attache and a crew of four.
The plane, hit in the left engine
and fuselage, made it back to Vi
entiane. The plane was making a recon
naissance flight of Soviet drops to
the pro-Communist rebels at
Vangvieng, 65 miles north of Vi
entiane at the request of the Lao
tian government, the attache's of
fice said.
Riser, who was making a visual
reconnaissance from his plane,
saw a Soviet plane dropping equip
ment over Vangvieng, the atta
ache's office said.
"He flew over on top of the So
viet plane to see what type of
equipment it was dropping,"
spokesman added.
'When he was over the Soviet
plane he received small-caliber,
probably .30 caliber, machine gun
lire.
"At the time he was hit he was
flving over a jungle area. It is
not certain the fire came from
the Soviet plane."
Africans Protest
French Bomb Test
LONDON (AP) Alarm and dis
approval of France's third atomic
test sounded today in African na
tions and elsewhere around the
world. Nigeria was especially con
cerned. A government minister in Lagos
conferred with frencn nmDassa-
dor Raymond Offroy. The press
in that new African nation asked
that French assets in Nigeria be
frozen, the French Embassy he
closed and all French goods be
banned.
Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa,
Nieerian prime minister, said ear
lier whatever steps Nigeria might
take to express resentment would
be announced this weekend. ii
geria had protested after France's
second test and Ghana temporar
ily froze French assets at that
time.
At a noisy news conference, Of
frov shouted that not one human
being died because of the atom
tests. He said the tests were to
give France an atom bomb and
bring riches and water to the des
ert eventually through atomic en
erev.
Offroy said the Nigerian border
is more than 800 miles irom lues
day's test site at Reggan. Then
he pointed out that U.S. atomic
tests in Nevada were 250 miles
from Los Angeles.
Holiday Toll Falls
Below NSC Estimate
CHICAGO (AP) The nation's
tratlic accidents durini" the 78
hour Christmas weekend killed 488
persons an average of one about
every 10 minutes.
The final toll was below the
preholiday estimate of 510 made i
by the National Safely council.
It, was the lowest for a 3-day
Christmas holiday since 1949 when
413 traffic deaths were reported
and compared to last year's
Christmas weekend total of 4911
fatalities.
The council said Ihis year's to
tal compared with an expectation
of as many as 350 on a non-holiday
weekend o' comparable length
at this lime of year. An Associ
ated Press survey for a 78-hour
weekend period earlier this month
showed 29.1 trattic fatalilies. general midlnwn area within 10
The council has estimated 340;,iBV, was attacked and beaten on
persons may he killed in motor
venicie accioenis nuring ine icw
I hour period, from 6 p. m. Friday
to midnight Monday (local lit).
Hatfield Works
On Legislation
SALEM (AP)-Gov. Mark O. Hal-
field said here he would spend
' all this week working on his mes -
sage to Ihe legislature and pre-
paring legislation.
I He has no public appearances
scheduled during the week.
The message will be delivered
about 2 p.m. Jan. 9. opening day , rnticallv injured in the High
of the legislative session. iav 99 traffic accident near Cur-
RFD Answers Call
An overheated oil stove which irene Azalia Welch, 51. and her
reused no damage brought mil lon. C harles, 21, ith received ex
the Roseburg Rural Kire Depart-, t,.n,ive inluries in the collision,
ment l 5:38 Tuesday evening. : Rnhert Klmo Welch. .16. and his
The deparlment went lo the home
of Airs. L. O. Jones on SE Douiilas
St.
ROSEBURG, OREGON
Kennedy
For Top
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)
President-elect John F. Kennedy
today tapped Eugene Zuckert to be
secretary of the Air Force. He was
assistant secretary in the Truman
administration and also has served
a member of the Atomic En
ergy Commission.
Announcement ot me selection
of Zuckert, 49, came after Ken
nedy had picked John B. Connally
Texas lawyer, decorated Navy
veteran and long-time political as
sociate of Vice President-elect Lyn
don B. Johnson to be secretary
of the Navy in the new adminis
tration.
Both Democrats
Zuckert and Connally, 43, are
Democrats.
Kennedy headquarters also an
nounced that the President-elect
will confer at his Atlantic shore
home here Thursday with Sen. J.
William Fulbrighl, D-Ark., chair
man of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee.
On Friday Kennedy will meet
at his home with Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jr., son of the late pres
ident and a former member of
(he U. S. House of Representa
tives from New York. Kennedy
press secretary Pierre Salinger de
clined comment on whether Roose
velt, who campaigned for Kennedy,
may get a federal job.
McNamara Approves
The Zuckert and Connally ap
pointments were announced by
Kennedy after consultation with
the man he has named to be sec
retary of defense, Robert S. Mc
Namara, who is resigning as pres
ident of the Ford Motor Co.
Zuckert was assistant secretary
of the Air Force from 1947 to 1952.
Ho was a member of the Atomic
Energy Commission from 1952 to
1954 under appointment by Presi
dent Harry S. Truman.
Zuckert went to Yale College,
Yale Law School and Harvard
Business School. From 19IS7-40 he
was a lawyer on the staff of the
Securities ana uxenango commis
sion, and later served on the Har
City Council Okays
2 Njjw Ordinances
The Roseburg City Council Tues
day night passed two city ordin
ances, one dealing 'with new an
nexations and the other with the
sewer service charges.
The first ordinance declared that
all areas annexed to the city in
the future will immediately be
classified as "Residential No. 1"
areas. They will be reclassified
after the Planning Commission has
studied them if reclassification is
in order.
The purpose of this immediate
classification is to halt haphazard
growth.
The other ordinance provided
that a $5 sewer connection charge
and $5 payment in lieu of interest
for sewer service charges may be
submitted to the county for collec
tion at the end of the tax year if
they are not paid through normal
city channels.
The council authorized a final
payment of $4.832, 62 for work on
the third extension of the Miller's
Addilion sanitary sewer. ,
Other action saw the city record
er submit 11 cards and letiers from
people encouraging the council to
grant the local bus company its
requested 10-cent rate hike in or
der to keep the buses running.
This matter will come up for a
public hearing Jan. 23..
Detroit Police Hunt
Vicious Assailant
DETROIT (AP) As police
searched for a vicious assailant,
Belly James, 2, a hofpital
nurse's aide and mother of three
children, died today of injuries
suiiered al Ins nands luesday.
Mrs. James, second woman vic -
(im f 5m.t assaults in the same
:her way to work. Mrs. James'
uurse was snatched.
The assailant was described
as
a Negro about 25 years old. '
A Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
clerk was attacked earlier by a
Negro armed with an ice' pick.
She is recovering. Police have un
covered no motive for the earlier
attack. Robbery apparently was
nut attempted.
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per-
tin Monday are still unconscious
and still on
Ihe critical list in a
Collage Grove hospital, a hospital
authority said today,
daughter. Kdn Marie, both died
as a result ol the hmhwav acci -
dent.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, I960
Taps Zuckert
Air Force Post
vard Business School faculty, een-
tually as assistant dean.
.rUj N,u
aervea in navy
He was a lieutenant junior
grade in the Navy in 1944-45 and
aiterwara was an assistant lo
Stuart Symington, now li. s. sen
ior from Missouri and then chief
of the Surplus Properly Adminis
tration. Zuckert was assistant sec
retary of the Air Force while
Symington, a Democrat, was civ
ilian head oi mat service.
Since retirement from the Atom
ic Energy Commission in 1954
Zuckert has been in private law
practice in Washington.
Kennedy's selection of Connallv,
Fort Worth, Tex., attorney, was
announced Tuesday night.
The new secretary o the Navy
was campaign manager this year
for Lyndon Johnson in his bid for
the Democratic presidential noni
illation. Johnson Aide
Connally a distant relative of preparation for taking over the
former U.S. Senator Tom Corraal-i reins of government Jan. 20. His
ly, Texas Democrat served as 'only announced engagement today
Johnson's administrative assistant lis with officials of a New York
when Johnson was first elected to! firm which has turned out an edu
the House in 1939. When Johnson I rational documentary film on the
moved to the Senate in 1919, Con-1 While House.
Zuckert's Background Top-Level
For Air Force Secretary's Post
WASHINGTON (AP) Eugene I
Zuckert. who will be secretary ol;
(he Air Force in the new Demo
cratic administration, has a lop
level background for the joD.
He was an assistant to the first :
man to hold that post, Sen. btuarlj
Symington, D-Mo.
Zuckert, - whose appointmetl
was announced today at Palm
Beach. Fla.. by President-elect
fchn F. Kennedy, has held a wide
variety of eovernment positions.
I In worked for the Securities and
Exchange Commission in 1937 '
when he was lresh out or aie
Law School, and in 1952 became
a member of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
He left the AEC in 1954 and
has been a Washington lawyer
and management consultant since
then.
At 49, Zuckert is stocky and
ba ding
As a schoolboy he attended the
Salisbury, Corin., preparatory
school where his roommate was
G. Alennen Williams, retiring gov
ernor of Michigan who has been
named by Kennedy to be assistant
secretary of state.
At Yale Law School, Zuckert
went through an experimental
course proposed by William O.
Douglas, now a member of the
President Studies
Congress Message
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Eisenhower kept his day free
of appointments today to work on
his forthcoming messages to Con
gress. The President's Slate of the
Union message is expected to be
presented to Congress within a
few clays after it convenes Jan.
.1. Messages on the bud net and
the economic Report will follow.
The President flew tn bin Gel
fVKhur farm Tuesday nflernoon
for a spur-of-the-moment visit i ver , . .,,.,
that lasted an hour. While he was ''Pc were be mall'l 0,cl
there he examined a buildine on 'f May ..from Boise, Idaho,
Hip r.eltvshlirir Cnlleoa nmnn. hp
considering renting for an of
fice after he retires from the
White House.
It was announced lhat Eisen
hower will hold no news confer
ence Ihis week. He has not held
one since Sept. 7. hut the White
House has said he will hold one
more before the end of his term
!an. 20.
Demos Set Central
Group Meet Jan. 28
The Douglas County Democratic
Central Committee has scheduled
a meeting Jan. 28 to receive a re
port on the 1901 Legislature.
Among the featured speakers
will be Ihe speaker of the House
of Representatives. Also attending
llie meeting will be the Douglas
County delegation to the legisla
ture. Sen. Al Flegel and Reps. W.
O. Kelsay and Sidney J.eiken.
AIo on the agenda will be dis
cussions of problems or other
subje'ts offered by the precinct
committeemen and Women.
The decision to call Ihe meeting
was made Tuesday night after
i meeting of the executive commit
tee. Tlii session was neld at ihe
home of l-eikei, chairman of the
central committee.
It was reported at the meeting
that l.eiken and Mr. and Airs.
Steve tercne will auena the
' augiiration of President elect John
. Kennedy in Washington. I). (' in
I January.
nally again was administrative as-
sistanl.
Connally joined the Navy in
ml as cnsign. j1b was assjgn.
ed first to the office of Secretary
lot the Navy James Forreslal and
later to combat duty in the Paci
fic. He was discharged as a lieu
tenant commander in 1916 alter
being awarded the Bronze Star
and the Legion of Merit.
Connally received his law de
gree from the University of Texas
in 1941. and was admitted to the
Texas bar at the age of 21.
Managed Campaign
After leaving the Navy he or
ganized and became general man
ager of radio station KVET in Aus
tin, Tex. In 1918 he managed
Johnson's successful campaign for
the Senate. In 1956 he was vice
chairman of the Texas delega
tion to the Democratic National
Convention.
Kennedy is continuing to divide
his time between relaxation and
Supreme Court, which combined
instruction al Yale with courses
at the Harvard graduate school
uf business administration.
After serving with the Securi
ties and Exchange Commission
for three years, Zi:ckeit in 1940
returned to the Harvard institu
tion as an instructor, later be
coming an assistant professor and
assistant dean.
During the same years, 19-10-44,
Zuckert was a consultant to the
then Army Air Force and laught
at a statistical school for officers
at Harvard.
Zuckert went to the office of
chief of naval operations in Wash
ington in 1944, working on a Navy
inventory control plan wilh the
tank of lieutenant, junior grade.
In 1945 he became an assistant
to Symington, who then was head
of the Surplus Property Adminis
tration. When the Air Force was created
u a separate force in 1947, Sym
ington became its first civilian
head. He brought Zuckert- Willi
him as an assistant, secretary.
Zuckert .developed a comptrol
ler system in the Air Force, the
first of Uie three services to have
one. Later this innovation was en-
acted into law for all three as
result of Hoover Commission
recommendations.
He was named to (he Atomic
Energy Commission in 1952 by
President Harry S. Truman.
Aickert lias been described as
friendly but quiet and self-effae-ing.
His motto is "be objective."
Like Kennedy, he enjoys golf.
Zurkert has been married twice
and has three children.
Extradition
Asked By Idaho
Troubles for Rodger Hall, 22, of
- Creiceiil City, llie former Hose
bun High School student, aren't
I 3Sl"li extradition Of Hall On
charge of robbery in connection
with the robbery-slaying of Dr.
John Hunt.
Hull, a Portland foresler, was
shot In death and robbed near
lilio. Idaho, Aug. 23 1959.
Hill, who formerly lived in Win
rheitrr, was arquilied recently in
Gooiingi Idaho, of a first degree
nuirdrr charge in Ihe case. He
was released and went to Califor
nia, there he was taken into cus
tody igan last week at Humbolt
on tl robbery charge.
Cot. Robert K. Smylie signed ex
trailito" papers on the robbery
chanli Tuesday at the request of
Gondii! County Sheriff Keilh An
dcrsoi. Eugene Plywood
Gets Tree Tract
Tin Eugene Plywood Co. of Eu
gene purchased J 1 ,300.000 board
feel of Cinpqua National Forest
limber f"r 15.260 above the ap
praised S206.020.
Th( limber wa located on a
282 acrt tract H5 miles east of
Rosebml on the Diamond Lake
Rang District.
Ens' Plywood Co. paid $25 45
... ihmsand hoard feet for 8.600.-
nun feftof Douglas fir appraised 1
at S2I.SPr thousand. It paid the I rescue detail of 26 men equipped
apprid fi9 ,nr 2,100.000 feetiwj(h special equipment and oxy
of whittlr and other species andlgen tanks.
the appnwen' $13.20 for 600.000 feeti Kulledge said Ihe detail moved
of westr wnl,e nd augar pine.
Olher nuiieri were Nun Studs
Inc. R(r"urg, and tvans
'ucta Co,too Bay
301-60 PRICE 5c
Lavon Affair
Causing Riff
In Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) - Exonera
tion of former Defense Minister
Pinhas Lavon has caused a possi
bly serious rift in Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet and
his Socialist Mapai party, author
itative' sources said today.
Ben-Gurion precipitated the split
by refusing to join in approving
the findings of an investigating
committee that on Sunday cleared
Lavon of blame for the censorship-shrouded
"security mishap
of 1954," the sources said.
Foreign Minister Golda Meir
walked out of the Cabinet meet
ing in protest against Ben-Gurion's
stand, the sources said, and
drew up a letter of resignation.
She reportedly was dissuaded
from quilling by Finance Minis
ter Levi Eshkol.
(Details of the "Lavon affair"
have been suppressed in Israel
by a strict military censorship.
It is believed lo have concerned
ail Israeli attack on the Gaza
Strip that some diplomats said
prodded President Gamal Abdel
Nasser of the United Arab Re
public inlo seeking modern weap
ons from the Soviet Union. Lavon
reportedly was accused of order
ing the attack.)
Lavon, a leading member of
Ben-Gurion'3 party and now secretary-general
of His Tadrut, the
Israeli federation of labor, was
forced out of the government in
1955 on the charge that he had
made a serious error in judg
ment. He denied responsibility for
uie security misnap. '
An official announcement Sun
day said the Cabinet approved the
investigating committee's report
that Lavon was not responsible
for tho incident and probably was
the victim of intrigue by a senior
army omccr.
Gas Bomb Explodes
In Residence Area
LOS ANGELES (AP) A device
helievcd to have been a gasoline
bomb exploded in front of a Wil
shire district apartment house
Tuesday night, causing wide
spread alarm in the neighbor
hood. Police said the blast went off
in front of an apartment occupied
by frank B. Wilkinson, executive
secretary or the Committee to
Preserve American Freedoms.
Wilkinson, onetime Information
officer of the Los Angeles Housing
Authority, once was cited for con
tempt of Congress when he re
fused to testify before the House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee. The office of his committee was
the scene of a similar bombing
last Sept. 14. An incendiary de
vice was hurled against the build
ing. Tuesday night's explosion start
ed a flash fire and caused dozens
of neighborhood residents to scur
ry to the street. Six fire com
panies were summoned but the
blaze had burned itself out by the
time they arrived. No one was
hurt.
Wilkinson was in New York
Cily, where he addressed a meet
ing Tuesday night of the New
York Council to Abolish the House
Unamerican Activities Committee.
City Firemen's Interference
Claimed By Navy Crewman
NEW YORK (AP)-A Navy wit
ness testified today that Navy
men could have extinguished the
fatal fire aboard the aircraft car
rier Constellation in half an hour
except for interference by city
firemen.
The witness, John F. Rullcdge,
a chief machinist's mate, also hit
back at charges of messy house
keeping aboard (he carrier and
said the city firemen appeared to
lack experience in ship fires.
Rulledge testified before a na
val court of inquiry investigating
the disastrous fire Dec. 19 at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. The fire
claimed Ihe lives of 49 workmen
and did S75-million damage to the
S275-million ship.
City Fire Commissioner Edward
Cavanagh Jr. testified Tuesday
lhat the hip was in such sloppy
condition he would have "ordered
work stopped and the premises
cleaned up" if it had been a ci
vilian project.
Rulledge is stationed aboard
Ihe destroyer Emey, berthed near
the site where construction of the
Constellation was ncaring comple
tion He said that shortly after the
fire broke out aboard the carrier,
1, nrniel
a firelighling and
jhoartl the Constellation and "we
were doing line until we were or-
I'iod-!dered off Ihe snip because ol lack
I of haid hats.'
Also Blamed
On Saboteurs
HAVANA (AP) Charges that
the United Slates is supplying ex
plosives to terrorists were re
newed today by the semiofficial
newspaper Revolucion after a se
ries ot bomb blasts in ..lavana.
It made the charee under a
front page picture of a boy wound
ed in the bombing of a depart-
menl store Tuesday. The bomb
ing was one of four in Havana.
A train was also wrecked in cen
tral Cuba by saboteurs trying to
undermine Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's regime. The injured to
taled more than tiu.
Yankee TNT," said Revoluci
on. "llie vile hand of imperial
ism: Eisenhower Pentagon Falan
gist clergy: it supplies explosives
to its henchmen in Cuba to in
crease the 20.000 victims they
caused in seven years of tyranny
under (ousted President Ful
gencio) Batista."
Fifteen persons were injured in
the department store blast, most
of them by flying glass. Revolu
cion said investigations snowed
TNT was used. "This fact dem
onstrates that the terrorists are re
ceiving (his explosive from the
United States," it added.
In addition to the department
store blast, bombs exploded in a
variety store, a main power sta
tion and a plush night club in Ha
vana. There was extensive dam
age to the club, once & favorite
wilh American tourists.
Unexploded bombs were also re
ported found at a gas plant and
another variety store.
A Camaguey-Havana passenger,
Irain collided witth another train
at a crossing in Camsguey Prov-'
ince, injuring more than afl per
sons. Ouicials blamed counter
revolutionaries. ,
Following the bombings, Castro
militiamen, police and bystanders
marched to Havana's central park
shouting, "Saboteurs to the exe
cution wall:"
A collection was taken to aid
llie injured, who included five
children.
All the injured were victims oi
a bomb that exploded in a wom
en's rest room adjoining a crowd
ed cafeteria in the Fogar store,
which Ihe government expropri
ated from private Cuban inter
ests. A second bomb exploded in a
small variety store in Havana's
shopping district. No injuries were
reported.
Another bomb went off in the
power station in Tallapiedra, in
east Havana. Damage was slight
and no one was hurt.
Reliable sources said the power
station was evacuated and that
two more bombs were found after
a two-hour search.
Night bombings by anti-Castro
elements have been frequent in
recent weeks, but the daylight
blasts were a new development
in the mounting strife.
Mayf air Markets
Buys Oregon Chain
Mayfair Markets of Los Angeles,
which owns stock control in the
McKay Markets of Oregon, has
further enlarged its chain by pur-,
chasing the 13 Erickson's super
markets in western Oregon, ac
cording to an Associated Press re
lease from Salem. The sales price
was listed at $2 million-plus by a
spokesman for Erickson's. Effec- .
live date is Jan. 1.
included in the sale price is
stock in both Mayfair and its par- -cnt
firm, Arden Farms. The Erick
son name will he retained on the
supermarkets. There are five Er-
ickson stores m Salem, two in Al
bany and Corvallis and one each
in Wood burn, Springfield, McMinn
ville and Independence.
The principal owner of Erick-
son s, Arthur brickson, was killed
last August in a traffic accident.
The McKay Market in Roseburg:
(formerly Nielsen's) was added to
the chain early this year.
He referred to the type of pro
tective helmets worn by workmen.
He said "a New York City f're
chief" gave the order to get out
on the ground that falling debris
made the use of hard hats es
sential. Rutiedge contended that, at that
time, his men could have ex
tinguished the fire in half an hour
with a fog type spray they were
using. ,
Rulledge testified that the city
firemen used a steady stream of
water rather than the Navy tech
nique of fog apray for fighting
ship fires.
Ho said it "appeared obvious"
In him that the city firemen had
no experience in fighting such
fires.
Rutiedge testified that he had
not seen any debris contributing
to the fire such as paper, rags
or rubbish.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
At the rat revolutions and
appalling disasters are taking
heavy tolls in lives and prop
erty, tho "meek and the hum.
bc'
won t hove to wait much
longer before inheriting the
ttorth,