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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.