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2 Th News-Review, ifoieburg, Ore.--Fri., jbly 7, 1961 Tunnel Maze May Be Site for Testing Neutron Bomb YUCCA FLATS. Ncv. (AP) Despite the 32-month ban on nu clear tests, the Atomic Energy Commission is busy building a scrawling complex of under ground tunnels at its Nevada test site. The AEC simply says it is pre Author Took Own Life Says Writer SEATTLE (AP) Author Ernest Hemingway "deliberately ended his own life," Seattle Post Intelligencer writer Emmett Wat son said Friday in a dispatch from Ketchum, Idaho. After Hemingway was found dead of shotgun blasts in his Ket chum home Sunday the coroner reported the wound was self-inflicted, but left in doubt whether the action was accidental or sui cide. Watson said in a copyrighted story: "The manner of Hemingway's death has been the subject of international speculation. His im mediate family, including his wile, Marv. and all of his close friends, has steadfastly maintained that the author s death was accidental. "However, it was learned authoritatively today that Hem ingway, who recently returned from the Mayo Clinic in ailing health, placed the shotgun muz zle in his mouth and deliberately killed himself." Watson did not disclose the source of his Information. His story said the death weapon was a silver-inlaid double-barrelled shotgun with a hammerlcss, tandem trigger mechanism. Both barrels had been fired. The shotgun was described as an Angelini It Benardon, made by W, C. Scott and Sons, of London. On the left barrel was inscribed "55 Victoria Street, London, Scott's Improved Bolt, Monte Carlo B." In a separate column, Watson wrote that friends at Ketchum, where Hemingway spent much of his time for 10 years, protected the author's privacy. "Relatives, friends and villag ers," he wrote, "carefully, even defiantly, avoid the hard fact of Hemingway's health. . . In their love of the man is the resolute belief that Hemingway left by ac cident. . ." Winston Council Okays Purchase Of New Radios The Winslon City Council Thurs day night authorized tho purchasa of two radios to complete the po lice network in the city, reports Correspondent Phcbe McGuire. One unit will be Installed at the borne of Bill Hale, acting police chief, and the other in his car. The assisting officer already has ( radio in his home. . The council decided the installa tions would speed service on po lice calls. In the only other major action of the evening, the council de cided to pay off $5,000 more in outstanding sewer bonds. The bonds do not mature until 1974. but the council decided to save the interest charges which would accrue until then. 7 M lYMlM kM5 "A If you like melons, and we mean the juicy profit kind that we share every six months, then do start saving with us before the 10th to earn the most on your account. CURRENT DIVIDEND NOW BEING PAID SAVINGS & LOAN Jeckson & Oak paring for the day if and when disarmament talks end in dis cord. But some experts say the subterranean labyrinth 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas someday may be the site for testing of an ultimate weapon: the neutron bomb. The neutron device, years away from the testing stage, is envi sioned as a weapon which would destroy people but spare prop erty. Scientists theorize that the bomb, triggered above ground by a small blast, could loose a dead ly rain of radioactivity, penetrat ing several feet of earth or con crete to kill or maim. But it would leave factories and homes virtually unscathed apparently a desirable goal for any theoretical victor in a thermonuclear war. The AEC refuses to comment about the neutron bomb, but there is speculation that research on the project is going on at the com mission's radiation laboratory at Livermore, Calif., birthplace of the hydrogen bomb. The federal agency says the tunnels arc being constructed for any use deemed necessary u and when the administration decides to resume nuclear testing. Some U.S. experk contend the Soviet Union is exploiting au armament talks and the test ban to speed development of a neu Iron bomb, 'and may have con- 954 U. S. Employes Listed For County WASHINGTON (AP) Oregon had 19,964 federal civilian employ cs Dec. 31, 1960. the Joint Con gressional Committee on Reduction of Non-Esscntial Federal Expendi tures reported today. Of the total, Douglas County is credited with 954. This figure is broken down to 420 full time employes and 44 part time employes at the Veterans Ad ministration Hospital: 139 perman ent and 165 summer employes of the Forest Service; 72 persons em ployed by the Bureau of Land Man agement; and 47 employed by the Post Office. Several other miscellaneous of fices in the county bring the total to 954. The Washington total was 45,643. The Post Office Department with 5,172, the Agriculture Department with 3.927 and the Interior Depart ment with 3,010 led In employment in Oregon. The Oregon figures by counties: Baker 198; Benton 320; Clacka mas 380; Clatsop 444; Columbia 186: Coos 264; Crook 202; Curry 99; Deschutes 337; Gilliam 37; Grant 181; Harney 156; Hood River 76; Jackson 1,005; Jefferson 119; Jo sephine 184; Klamath 486; Lake 184; Lane 1,015; Lincoln 157; Linn 472; Malheur 114; Marion 830; Mor row 35; Multnomah 9,487; Polk 234; Sherman 18; Tillamook 132; Umatilla 1,017; Union 124; Wal lowa 76; Wasco 148; Washington 152; Wheeler 15; Yamhill 98. SUTHERLIN BIDS DUE Bids for replacement of a sec tion of water main in Sutherlin will be received until 8 p.m. July 10, reports City Recorder Dorothy Fox. Water mains are to he replaced on Umpqua to Valentine streets on Fourth and Everett streets. AtssVliMkskaMA ASSOCIATION Phone OR 2-2656 4 ducted secret underground tests of other nuclear weapons. They claim such tests could go undetected if held in a large un derground cavity, such as a deep salt cavern, where the atmos phere or - surrounding earth would muffle or dampen the blast, reducing its seismic effect. There has been some unofficial speculation thai the underground tunnels in Nevada could be an ideal site for similar tests. Recently, aviation-space editor Marvin Miles and photographer Larry Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times toured the bleak test area 48 miles long and 28 miles wide under AEC supervision. Tunnels Described Describing the tunnels, where miners are excavating 24 hours a day, Miles reported: "At the end of one shaft, a low firing chamber 70 inches high, 76 inches wide and 65 feet long ex tended off a 14-foot high tunnel, and at its far end were three red- painted WPGZ (Working Point Ground Zero) markings to show the exact positioning of a nuclear testing device. "This firing vault, obviously tailored for a specific test, is ready to go, equipped with gravel and plywood flooring, power lines, lighting, ventilation, etc., and awaiting only the installation oi the device itself and its instru mentation. . , , "The main shaft runs straight into the mountain (Rainier Mesa) for perhaps a mile, then curves gently to the right, for an over all length of about a mile and a half. "Off the main shafts are the shot shafts, perhaps a half mile long, curving . sharply and hook ing into shot chambers. The curve, of course, is to help damp en the explosion so it will wreck the least amount of tunneling." Lut Test In 1958 The AEC's last nuclear test, Oct. 30, 1958, was a small one. code-named Titania, equal to just 300 pounds of TNT. Titania was the 103rd in the Nevada series, which started Jan. 27, 1951, with operation Ranger, a 1.27 kiloton device (one kiloton is equal to 1,000 pounds of TNT). Some of the underground tests held prior to the ban ripped out 500 to 600 feet of tunneling, the earth erupting into vast spheres of fused glass more than 100 feet in diameter similar to the way sand is transformed into glass under intense heat. The AEC also has used towers, balloons and air drops to explode nuclear and non-nuclear devices in Nevada. Birch Society Plans List Of Communists NEW YORK (AP) - The John Birch Society plans to publish a list of persons it considers to be the leading Communist sympa thizers, Socialists and liberals in the United States. In announcing the plans in lis monthly bulletin Thursday, the right-wing nationalist group called on its members to help build up "the most complete and most ac curate files in America on the leading 'comsymps' (Communist sympathizers), Socialists and lib erals." The publication defined such in dividuals as "those who are try ing to change tho economic and political structure of this country so that it could be comfortably merged with Soviet Russia in a one-world Socialist government." The bulletin gave details on how tho information was to be gath ered and promised careful check ing and evaluation before the ma terial would be published. Otto Stephens Olto Stephens. 84. of Azslea died Thursday at a Canyonville hospital after a short illness. Ho was born July 21, 1879, in Coos counly, and has been a resi dent of the Azalea area for over 40 years. Ho had been engaged in farming and was never mar ried. Survivors include one sister, Wanda Swanton of Coos Bay, and a nephew, Harold G. Savage. Fu neral services will be held in the chapel of the Garni Mortuary, Myr tle Creek, on Saturday at 11 a.m. Reverend Neil Brown of the Pres byterian Church will officiate. In terment will follow at the Glendale Masonic cemetery. E. J. Bunch According to word received In Glendale Mrs. E. J. Bunch, a resid ent of the Glcndale-Azalea area (or the past 14 or 15 years, died at a Sacramento hospital about 11 p.m. July 1. Mrs. Bunch, who had made her home up Quines Creek canyon near Azalea before enter ing the hospital, has been ill with cancer. Funeral services were held Wed nesday in Sacramento with the Lombard & Co. Mortuary in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Bunch, in her late 60's. is survived by her husband of Quines Creek, and by a daughter by her first marriage and a stepson and his children, all living in the Sa cramento area. rorrvc printing and rKCV J PHOTO-LITHO 220 N. . Wmch.it.r Si. "At Tk Ttlantle" Phone OR 3-7012 FIRE FIGHTING, CHICAGO (AND ROSEBURG) STYLE Firemen man hoses in cages of three 'Snorkel' towers as they battle a blaze 'in the heart of Chicago's downtown area. Roseburg's Fire Department has the same type of rig ready for action. (AP) Caroline's Rescuer Says Anyone Could Have Done It BOSTON (AP) A young moth er who rescued 3-year-old Caro line Kennedy when she fell into water over her head at a private pool says "any of the mothers standing around could have done the thing I did." Caroline, daughter of President and Mrs. Kennedy, apparently suffered no ill effects from her ducking in 4 or 4'4 feet of water a week ago Thursday at the Bcthesda, Md., home of Mr. and Mrs. Newton I. Steers Jr. Mrs. Steers is the daughter of Mrs. Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss. Incident Confirmed The White House confirmed the incident after the Washington Evening Star told about it in a story by society columnist Betty Beale. The rescuer was Mrs. William Saltonstall, daughter-in-law of U.S. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R- Grover DeSpain Grover C. DeSpain, 69, long-time resident of Pendleton and recently of Roscburg, died at a local hos pital Thursday morning. He was born at Ukiah, Ore., June 16, 1892, and was married to Edna Baker at Pendleton on June 19, 1914. For many years he oper ated a grocery store in Pendleton, retiring about five years ago. Surviving are a son, Harland C. DeSpain, Roscburg; four brothers, Joseph, Glenn, and Charles De Spain, all of Pendleton, and Ralph DeSpain, Portland; one sister, Belle DeSpain, Willamina, Ore.; and one granddaughter, Jo Anne DeSpain of Roscburg. funeral services will be held at Folsom's Funeral Chapel at Pen dleton Monday at 10 a.m., with in terment following in the tcho Ce metery. The family requests that friends please omit flowers. Ar rangements are in care of Long & Shuklc Memorial Chapel (formerly Long & Orr Mortuary). fTO : 75 1 Mass. Mrs. Saltonstall, 30, who is expecting a third child in the early fall, was at the children's party with her 3-year-old daugh ter Claire. She told the Boston Traveler: "There were six or seven other mothers there also. We were all standing around the pool helping our children into their bathing suits and talking to each other. Suddenly I looked up and saw Caroline push off the edge of the pool clinging to a raft. "Then to my horror she slipped from the raft and started to go down. ! was about 10 feet from the edge of the pool. I ran and jumped over a small wall and leaped into the water. I was ful ly dressed at the time. No Fright Evidenced "I grabbed Caroline and pulled her to the edge. She looked at me, not a bit frightened, and asked why I had my clothes on in the water. "I told her that having clothes on in the water was sometimes fun. That's about all that hap pened." Mrs. Kennedy was not at the party. Caroline had gone there with a nurse and a Secret Service man. Steers and his wife also were absent and the family nurse, Kathryn Curran, was in charge. Miss Curran said no one had gone into the water when Caro line slipped into her suit and walked to the pool. The Star said Caroline's nurse, unknown to the ethers, had gone into the house to change into her bathing suit when the incident oc curred. Driver Draws Sentence David Barr, 1811 SE Giles St., was fined $100 and $5 costs and sentenced to serve 10 days in the Douglas County jail on a charge of reckless driving. He pleaded guilty in the court of District Judge Gerald R. Hayes Thursday, follow ing his arrest by State Police. Cadillac styling has always been styling with a purpose. an important factor in maintaining Cadillac's famed Even Cadillacs of 5, 6, or 7 years ago are instantly recog- resale value. The 1961 Cadillac is designed to enhance nized and respected as Cadillacs. This continuity of Cadillac's fashion leadership among the world's fine cans stylmg-ralhcr than change for change itsclf-hai been ... and to protect your investment for years to come VISIT YOUR LOCAL JUTHOMZEIlJaaMaC' ROSEBURG MOTOR COMP.ANY ROSE & WASHINGTON STS. Roseburg Lions Hear Delegate's Report On National Convention By L.ROY B. INMAN News-Review Staff Writer A. G. (Mike) McLain gave a report on the Lions International convention, which he attended re cently in Atlantic City, at the week ly Roseburg Lions Club meeting Thursday night in the Umpqua Ho tel. McLain, past district governor of 36-E (southern Oregon), accompan ied a group of 18 from Oregon east by train, and was selected by the Oregon group as one of the official convention greeters at a major function. He was also one of the hosts for the officials' dinner meeting for which the Roseburg Lions bave in the past provided salmon. It was necessary this year, however, to obtain the salmon from off the Washington coast, as the run had not started off the mouth of the Umpqua in time this year. Atlantic Citv. McLain described, is a city of about 60,000 but it population is swelled during the summer to upwards of 200,000 by tourists and vacationers. It goes all out for conventions, and bas hotels to accommodate thousands. It also has a convention hall for the largest gatherings. Some 25,000 were registered for this conven tion. He described the famed "board walk," which is ust that, and women wearing spike heels are constantly catching them between the cracks, he said. The many shops along the way carry heel covers for sale to the women to aid in their walking Ninety of the 113 countries hav in2 Lions clubs had delegates pres ent. Included were 13 from Cuba who had tn use ingenious methods to make the trip. Eighteen started by plane, after having to leave all monev and luggage at home. A fire mysteriously broke out on the plane, and it had to return. How Injured Pit Man Said Improving Alex Freadman, 21, Roseburg, a hardtop racer pit man, is in im proving condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene after suffering injuries last weekend following a race at Coos Bay. He is being treated for a broken pelvis and ruptured bladder. He is expected to be hospitalized for three weeks. The accident occurred shortly after one of the hardtop races ended. He had been servicing the car which won. As he rushed out to congratulate the driver, another racer backed over him. Freadman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tim Freadman of Olalla. Roy Harrison Beahm Roy Harrison Beahm, 72, died in Medford July 5. He was born Dec. 3, 1888, at Con cordia, Kan. He is survived by one son, Charles V., Oakland; three daugh ters, Mrs. Donald D. Baird, Oak land, Mrs. Don Smith, Los Ange les and Mrs. Herman Young, Los Angeles; one brother, Raymond, Manhattan, Kan.; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Green, McPherson, Kan. and Mrs. Ivy Walter, Con cordia, Kan.; three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the IOO F cemetery at Oakland. T. J. New man, presiding minister of the Je hovah's Witness of Sutherlin, will officiate. Sutherlin-Oakland Mor tuary is in charge of arrangements. mdiiAma Amrma d J the 13 finally got out of the coun try and whether or not they were able to return was a well-guarded secret, said McLain. Swedish Croup Active He described the convention, with its visitors and delegates from all over the world, as very colorful and interesting. Entertainment was top class. Sweden, from which the new international president was elected without competition, sent 130 delegates and put on one of the major programs with top European talent. Business End Of Atlas Missile Claims New Record For Distance CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The business end of an Atlas missile hurtled out of the western sky like a blazing meteor and crashed into the Indian Ocean early today at the end of the longest military rocket flight on record a 9,050-mile journey lrom Cape Canaveral. The distance exceeded by only 10 miles the course covered by two Atlases also fired into the Indian Ocean last year. But, more important, it marked the Local Home Damaged In Blaze This Morning The Roseburg rural fire depart ment was called out on the only blaze resulting in damage this morning at 10:02 a.m. It was at a home at 545 NW Valley Ave. be longing to Robert Collier. The fire department reports that a slight flue fire started the roof around the chimney burning. Twen ty dollars in damage resulted. Firemen at the rural station were also called out at 4:55 p.m. Thursday to a grass fire at 1875 Military. The cause was unknown and no damage was reported. It burned about three-quarters of an acre. Roseburg firemen answered a call at 1:09 p.m. Thursdu. at 1554 SE Main. No damage was report ed from an overheated oil stove. A one-fourth acre grass fire on Canyon -Mountain was quenched Thursday by the Quines Creek crew of the Douglas Forest Pro tective Association. No damage re sulted and it was reported that a cigarette was the cause. State Crews To Grade Section Of New Road SALEM (AP) The Oregon Highway Commission will use its own crews to grade a section of the Winnemucca-to-the-Sea High way in Lake County, it said Thursday. The job includes grading 13 miles of the Blizzard Gap-Doher-ty Slide section, 15 miles east of Adcl. Bids on the project were reject ed June 27 because they were too high. But the commission said it would start work with its own men in a few days. Lake County will operate the construction camp, with the Highway Commis sion paying the cost. When this job is completed in few weeks, the route between Winnemucca, Nev., and Klamath Falls will be in fair shape, ex cept that part of the road will be dirt. The route is barely passable now. McLain brought home numerous mementoes and trophies present ed to the district governors by clubs from over the world. He dis played them at the meeting. As a sidelight of Thursday's meeting, Thomas Hartfiel reported that the Calgary Lions Club was scheduled to officially greet the Roseburg Knights of Pythias Drum and Bugle corps on its arrival there for the Stampede. Bruce Elliott gave a brief report on a visit to the Tillamook cheese factory, which he visited last week. first long-range success for an advanced Atlas being developed to carry blockbuster payloads al most halfway around the world. Air Force Concerned The Air Force had been deeply concerned about seven failures' in 10 previous test launchings of this new Atlas "E" series. But pleased officials reported after today's success that the prob lems appear to be licked. The huge missile, 85 feet tall and weighing more than 100 tons on liftoff, blasted off just before midnight Thursday night and darted into a star-filled sky. About 44 minutes later, an iner tial guidance system sensed the rocket was on the proper course and ordered engine shutoff and separation of the nose cone. The lV4-ton cone followed a bal listic trajectory which carried it nearly 1,000 miles high and peak speed of 17,000 miles an hour. On its all-over-water course, the war head zipped east of the tip of Brazil and south of the Union of South Africa. Fifty-three minutes after the launch, two tracking planes and a ship followed the cone's fiery path as it plunged back into the heat barrier of the earth's atmos phere and dived on target about 1.000 miles southeast of Cape Town, South Africa. The improved Atlas, made by General Dynamics - Astronautics, is the most powerful United States military rocket being test flown. Its three massive engines generate 400,000 pounds of thrust, 40.000 more than the earlier D missile, which has been opera tional nearly two years. The E rocket, scheduled to be come operational within a few months, is designed to carry a larger hydrogen warhead or to boost the present D warhead to targets up to 12,000 miles away. Myrtle Creeker Cited On Driving Violation Robert Charles Jenkins, of Myr tle Creek, was cited by Slate Po lice on a driving count at Grants Pass last night, according to Mrs. G. B. Fox, News-Review corre spondent. Jenkins, who was traveling north, a mile south of Glendale, cut across to the southbound lane of traffic and struck a guard rail on the shoulder of the road, accord ing to Glendale Constable Ralph Haggard. Haggard, who was first called to the scene, said that had not the guard rail been present the car would have gone over a 200-foot bank. Haggard was called to the scene at 8:20 p.m., shortly after the accident occurred, and notified State Police.
