2 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Wed., Aug., 14, 1963
Assurance Given
Ban Wont Hurt
Security Of US
By WILLIAM THEIS
.nd JOHN A. GOLDSMITH
United PrsMS International
WASHINGTON (UPl The
chairman u the Atomic Energy
Commission (AGO assured sena
tors today that the nuclear test
ban treaty would permit U.S.
anti-missile weapons development
and should improve, rather than
jeopardize, American security.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, testify
ing in behalf oi the pact to
outlaw all but underground testing,
said this country "already has"
a number of nuclear warheads
eligible for use on anti-missile
missiles.
The Nobel Prize-winning physi
cist, who discovered plutonium,
said that if Russia broke the
treaty the United States could re
sume atmospheric "proof tests"
of nuclear weapons in "perhaps
a month." Development tests
would take three months to start
and effects tests would take from
three to six months, he said.
But Seaborg emphasized that
this country might "not want to
test that soon" because it has 18
vears of experience and has
made "hundreds of tests."
Appraising the overall military
effect ot the pact, MeaDorg toio
the three-committee group con
sidering the treaty:
"There are some risks but they
are minor. In the balance, I
think it is in favor of improving
the security of this country if
County To Get
Forestry Funds
An allocation of $289,000 for Doug
las County is included in a total
$8,719,000 of the accelerated public
works funds . projects for 92 for
estry conservation jobs in more
than 100 counties in 24 states, ac
cording to announcement by Secre
tary of Interior Stewart L. Udall
today.
Murl Storms, Bureau of Land
Management manger at Roscburg,
said that of the sum allocated for
Douglas County, approximately $8
000 is designated for the Coos Bay
Bay district and another $16,000 for
the Eugene district, leaving rough
ly $183,000 to be spent within (he
county.
He staled the work Involves sev
eral activities, principal among
Ihciti being 3,400 acres of reforesta
tion in various parts of the coun
ty; 100 acres of slash disposal in
the north end of the county, some
in the Eugene district; 1,400 acres
of snag felling, and 180 acres of
brush spraying to release small
trees to grow. There also will be
some fencing authorized primarily
where livestock is involved.
Storms said most of this work
will be done by contractors, with
bids to be called probably in late
September. The reforestation work
will have to wait until trees can
be taken from the nursery, and
snag felling and slash disposal will
be done mostly after the fire sea
son ends.
Labor for the work is to be re
cruited from the areas affected.
Eight other Oregon counties are
included among the allocation ap
provals. NEBRASKA PICNIC SET
The annual Nebraska State Pic
nic will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sun
day, Aug. 18, at the Armitagc
State Park in Eugene. The park
may be reached by taking the old
highway to Coburg.
All former residents of Nebraska
as well as Nebrnskans vacationing
in the area, are invited to attend.
The picnic will he potluck with cof
fee furnished. Those attending arc
requested to bring their own table
service.
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you approve the treaty."
Politically, he said he believed
that "the people of the United
States want a treaty of this sort"
and that they "regard it as a
step along the road toward casing
tensions' and slowing the arms
race.
His endorsement followed sim
lar strong support given the pact
by two Kennedy administration
cabinet officers, Secretary of
State Dean Rusk and Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
Seaborg said he hoped the U.S.,
Britain and Russia "would seek
ways of modifying the treaty" in
the future to make way for
above-ground peaceful uses of
nuclear energy.
In weapons development Sea
borg said the treaty limits "only
the complete development of new
types of very large weapons above
several megatons in yield." He
said such development would be
very difficult if possible at all.
But he said this country already
has tested weapons as large as a
yield of "about IS megatons."
This compares with Russia's de
velopment of a nuclear device
above SO megatons.
Seaborg said he agreed with
McNamara and others that a
larger number of smaller bombs
can "do the job better" against
an enemy than single super bombs
of upwards of 100 megatons, the
highly-touted Soviet maximum.
Russell Questions Seaborg
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.,
chairman of the Armed Services
Committee, asked Seaborg if he
felt that, with solution of other
development problems, this coun
try could develop an effective
anti-missile missile system with
out atmospheric tests.
"Yes, I do," Seaborg said, add
ing that "this certainly can be
developed underground."
We already have a number of
warheads eligible for this pur
pose, ' he said. "We can improve
and develop new warheads. This
can be done by underground
tests."
Seaborg conceded it would not
he possible to get "substantial
further information" on the so
called "blackout phenomenon"
nuclear impact on space com
munications because atmo
spheric tests will be banned. But
he said the United States already
has "obtained a good deal of in
formation" on this problem in
past high-altitude tests.
Russell asked him about re'
ports that radiation cfects . on
milk from nuclear fallout is twice
what it was three years ago. Sea
borg said that in some sections
of the country there is probably
twice the strontium-90 there was
three years ago but said this is
a "considerable distance" from
the point of endangering human
life.
Seaborg said the United States
would stand ready at all times
to resume testing in the atmo
sphere if the Soviet Union should
break the treaty.
Well Child Clinic Set
Friday In Riddle
Dr, James K. Gray, new Doug
las County health officer, will con
duct the Riddle Well Child Clinic
this Friday from 10 a.m. to noon
at the Episcopal Parish Hall..
The clinic is open to all pre
school children in the Tri-City area
on the third Friday of each month,
except May and December, at
the same time and place. For an
appointment call Mrs. William
Strohridge in Riddle, correspond
ent Mrs. Erma Best reports.
nr. Gray has announced that
smallpox vaccinations will be giv
en throughout the summer months
provided the child is free from
cuts and scratches. No appoint
ment is necessary for immuniza
tions after the first visit to the
clinic.
Local News
Mr. and Mrs. Felix A. Durand
have just returned from a vaca
tion trip to Portland, where they
visited their son-in-law and daugh
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lowe, and
children, and at The Dalles, where
they spent a week visiting their
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Felix Victor Durand. In Red
mond, Ore. they visited their son,
Maurice, and his family, and en
joyed a week blueberry picking,
which they report was the first
they had picked in 20 years. The
Durands state they enjoyed a fine
vacation.
AIRPLANE LANDBORNE The U. S. Air Force's T-38 "Talon" arrived at the Douglas
County Fairgrounds Tuesday to be erected in time for the opening of the County Fair
today. But it didn't fly in. Instead, it came by low boy truck. It is expected to be a
focal point of the fair, since it is the fastest climbing jet trainer the Air Force has.
Looming up behind it is the fair's "rocket" showing the fair is also becoming a "space
age" event. (News-Review photo)
House Ways,
For Everybody's Income Tax Next Jan. 1
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
House Ways St Means Committee
voted 19 to 4 today to cut every
body's income taxes starting
Jan. 1.
The tax rate reductions recom
mended by President Kennedy
would average 20 per cent and
cost the Treasury $9.5 billion in
revenue when fully effective on
Jan. 1, 1005.
The net tax relief would aver
gc less than 19 per cent. Sav
ings for some taxpayers would
be reduced by lax-tightening pro
visions. This probably would hold
the net revenue loss from indivi
dual tax relief below $9 billion.
Still facing the committee were
showdown votes on the President's
recommendations for reductions
in corporation tax levies. Ken
nedy's over-all lax program is de
signed to provide net reductions
of $10.6 billion for both indivi-1
duals and corporations. '
In today s committee action on
individual lax rates the closest
vote came on a Republican move
to make the second stage of the
two-stage tax reduction contingent
upon the size of the national debt
on July l. taut.
This motion was defeated on a
J3 to 12 vote. It was offered by
Hen. Howard H. Baker, H-Tenn.,
and supported by all of the other
Schools At Riddle
To Open Sept. 12
At the repnlar nipplinr of t ll e i
Riddle Gchool Board this week, the
board voted to open Riddle schools ,
on Thursday, Sept. 12. 1 he build-1 gress to step into the situation,
ing construction at (he high school i Accuse Each Other
grounds, with the exception of the I Both the railaroads and the
multipurpose room and shop. mgroup 0f five rail unions in
due to be completed the preceding voive(. acCused each other of fail-
week
I
included accept-
Other business
ing several change orders on con
struction relative to roof; structure-bearing
wall construction; ex
tending fuel oil fill pipes; and ex
changing some tile for wood floors
in the office area and typing room.
Supl. Kenneth Stuart called atten
tion to the opening of bids on the
concession stand and rest rooms on
(he athletic field on Monday. Aug.
II), at 8 p.m. at the elementary
building.
Supt. Stuart also announced that
he had received notice of his se
lection to make the trip to Sweden
to participate in the Experiment
in International Living program,
and has set his departure for Fri
day evening, Sept. 13. Donald
Brown, high school principal, will
be acting superintendent during his
absence.
Bills were approved for $2483.10.
The next school board meeting will
be Monday. Sept. 9, correspondent
Erma Best reports.
Session In City
Scans Problems
Of Investigation
About B0 medical investigators,
district attorneys and iaw enforce
ment officers from Douglas, I-ane,
Josephine. Jackson. Coos and Cur
ry counties asscmhled in Roseburg !
n't ihA rnotitv rniirtlmimr. tnrlnv.
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Judge V. T. Jackson
The occasion was a conference
of these public officials for a dis
cussion of problems confronting
their departments in connection
with investigative procedures.
Dr. James K. Gray, Douglas
County medical examiner, presid
ed, and Russell C. Henry, M.D..
Portland, chief medical investiga
tor for Oregon, led a general dis
cussion of the problems of medi
cal investigations of death. This
was followed by a discussion on
specific types of investigative prob
lems and techniques employed.
After luncheon at the Umpqua
Hotel, a panel discussion was held,
on medico-legal and enforcement
problems encountered in medical
investigation.
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nine Republicans. Two Democrats
jumped party traces to support
the motion.
Earlier, Republican congres
sional leaders expressed doubt
that a tax cut would be enacted
by Congress this year.
They cited long delay in whip
ping such a bill into shape in the
House Ways & Means Committee
and other probable delays in the
future. They said this reflected
an indication that most Ameri
cans don't want a tax cut unless
federal spending also is pared.
Senate Republican Leader Ev
Touchy Work
Back In Lap Of
WASHINGTON (UPI) The!
touchy railroad work rules dis-1
ptite appeared today to have been
dumped hack in the lap of a re
luctant Congress.
Secretary of Labor W. Willard
Wirt, announced Tuesday night
the collapse of collective bargain
ing talks he had been holding
with union and rail negotiators.
Until Senate and House Com
merce committees, which had
been considering President Ken
nedy's proposal that the work
rules impasse be settled by the
Interstate Commerce Com
mission, suspended action pend
ing outcome of Wirt?.' attempt to
get the parties to settle it them-
selves.
Collapse of the talks indicated!
pressure , would be back on Con-
ing (o bargain realistically. The
situation sounded considerably
like it did late last month when
the railroads agreed to postpone
for 30 days imposition of new
work rules that would eliminate so
called "fealherbedding" jobs and
practices and touch off a strike.
The moratorium on work rules
changes ends Aug. 29.
Hearings by the committees
produced hitler union reaction to
the administration proposal,
which the railroads have en
dorsed. It was this politically 'ex
plosive reaction and subsequent
comment from congressmen that
more collective bargaining was in
order that prompted Wirtz to or
ganize the new talks mote than
' a week ago.
! The unexpected breakdown of
! (he talks came as the railroad
! firemen's union assembled 140
j members of its policy making
' committee here at the behest of
j Wirtz so they would he on hand
j to accept any agreement reached
in the talks. The group would
i have to decide at a meeting to-
day whether to stay around in
hopes the new deadlock could be
' broken or return home.
Appeals To Both
Wirtz appealed to both sides to
I consider again changing their
j positions and said prospects of
I settlement depended entirely on
i one side or the other making a
concession.
But J. r.
Wolfe, chief rai'read
nccotintor, said flatly that
gotiated agreement is hopeless.
II. K. Gilbert, president of the
firemen's union, said Wolfe was
saying "no settlement on other
than our (railroad) terms."
If Wolfe's statement is final,
Gilbert said, the five unions have
no choice but to prepare for a
nationwide walkout the minute
the work rules arc posted.
Wolfe said the railroads had
agreed in imposing the new work
rules to "protect those now work
ing" and to. accept the principle
that jobs would be eliminated by
attrition normal retirement or
resignation but charged that
the union would eliminate jods
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erett Dirksen, III., and House
GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck,
Ind., in one of their periodic joint
news conferences, said the only
way President Kennedy can get
the tax bill moving and assure
its passage this year is to an
nounce that he is cutting his
budget.
Democratic leaders have insist
ed that Congress will be kept in
session until Christmas if neces
sary to enact the tax bill and
some other priority legislation
including a new civil rights
measure.
Rules Issue
Congress
at a
A
rate lower than attrition,
union spokesman charged
that the unions answered Wirtz'
request for a fresh statement of
its views during the talks but
"wo didn't get anything back
from the railroads."
Oregon Fire
Is Controlled
By United Press International
A 125-acre grass and watershed
blaze on McKay Creek, about 30
miles southeast of Pendleton, was
controlled today.
State forestry officials in Salem
said it was one of 16 blazes re
ported Tuesday on state super
vised forest and rangclands.
Also controlled was an 80-acre
grass and brush blaze in the Wa
terman Flat area near Mitchell,
and a 40-a ere fire near Medical
Springs southeast of La Grande.
Of the 1G fires reported Tues
day on state land, 10 were caused
by lightning.
One of the man-caused fires was
a seven-acre blaze in the Clackamas-Marion
district which result
ed from debris burning.
The U.S. Forest Service report
ed some 200 small fires broke out
in national forests of Oregon and
Washington Monday night and
Tuesday, most of them set by
lightning.
Guy Gill
Guy Gill. 67, well-known resi
dent of Roseburg, died early to
day at his home on NE Douglas
St.
Gill was born Feb. 9, 1896, in
Pratt, Kan. He had lived in the
Roseburg area since 1946, moving
here from California. He was mar
ried to Frances Willey in Las Veg
as, Nov., in 1954. Gill was owner
and operator of the Guy and Fran
ces Gill fuel service of Roseburg.
He was a veteran of World War I.
Gill is survived by his wife,
daughter, Mrs. Dennis Hayden of
Salem; one son, Larry of Wide
Ruins, Ariz.; one stepdaughter,
Mrs. Darrcll Isaacson of Roseburg;
two brothers, two sisters and sev
en grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
Wilson's Chapel of the Roses Fri
day at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev.
James Smith of the First Chris
tian Church officiating. Conclud
ing services and interment will fol
low at the Roseburg Memorial
Gardens.
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Bircher Says
Contradictory
Leslie Fleming, state coordina
tor of the John Birch Society, Tues
day night leveled a blistering at
tak . n the United Nationa and
said the League of Women Voters
has been supporting the U. N.
"without bothering to read and an
alyze your own material."
Fleming referred to two publica
tions, Facts And Issues, and The
National Voter, and said the
League of Women Voters' own mi
terial contradicts itself and pointl
out the real answers to the U. N.
issues.
He referred to a question in the
September 1962 issue of The Na
tional Voter; "Do The Russians
Control The U. N.?" The answer
he said was that there are 104
members with one vote each, and
it is impossible for any one nation
to control the U. N. "Still Facts
and Issues turns right and tells us
there is only one true block in the
U. N. Red," he said.
Vet. Never Used
"Their (LWV) material also says
the U.S. can veto any resolution,"
he continued, "and yet we have
never used our veto. Russia has
used a veto over 100 times. Adlai
Stevenson refers to the U. N. as a
family of nations.' Now, if I'm the
wage earner and have a wife and
children and mother-in-law, and
my mother-in-law vetoes every
move I want to make who really
runs the family? My mother-in-
law runs it by virtue of her veto,
the same way the Communists are
able to run the U. N."
The next question he took up
was whether or not the U. N. was a
hotbed of Communist spies. "They
(LWV) say 72 per cent of the 4,000
employes arc from friendly na
tions, although they don t tell us
which nations comprise this list of
'friendly, he said. "Even if we
go along with this figure, this
means 28 per cent of them, or 1,
120 are communists. 'Is that or is
it not a nest of communist spies?"
Communist Holds Post
On the question of whether the
Soviets control U. N. military at-
fairs, Fleming pointed out one man
who has access to the U. N. mili
tary information is the under sec
retary in charge of political ana so
curity affairs. "This post has been
held by communists throughout the
history of the U.N.," he said, and
listed several of those who have
held the job.
"This little arrangement was
made for us by Alger Hiss," he
said. "Isn't that just swell, the
way he fixed us up?"
"Maybe this is why Gen. McAr
thur complained the enemy knew
his plans in Korea before he made
a move. Homing asserted.
At this point, Fleming looked
into the group that heard him speak
at the Umpqua Hotel in Roseburg
and said he hoped there were some
members of the League of Women
Voters present. "What burns me
up," he said, "is you can't put two
and two together and come up with
four instead of some other screwy
figure."
On the cost . of operating the.
U.N., and the share paid by the
United States, Fleming pointed to
the "gradual reduction in our
share of the cost. "In 1S46, we
paid 39.89 per cent, or some $8
million in the general operating
budget." he said. "In 1962, we
paid 32.02, or a total of 26 million.
Now that s really some reduc
tion!" Millions Spent
He also asserted this was only
Suicide Indicated
In Millard Death
The body of Melvin Edward Mil
lard, 62, of Lakcview, was brought
out of the high mountain area of
the North Umpqua Tuesday, after
' fishermen discovered the body on
. Lava Creek about lMi miles east
of Stump Lake.
Millard was the object of search
after an abandoned car in the vi
cinity was identified as belonging
to him. Millard had not been seen
since Aug. 2 when he visited his
ex-wife at Brigg's Camp. An empty
holster for a .22 calibre pistol was
found in the car seat.
Search for Millard's body was
started Monday, and was to be re
sumed Tuesday, but early morning
fishermen on Lava Creek stumbled
onto the badly decomposed re
mains. The sheriff's office was notified
and deputies, accompanied by
Douglas County medical examiner
Dr. James K. Gray, went to the
scene Tuesday morning.
Dr. Gray stated that the death
was ruled a suicide, as the gun
of Millard was found beside the
body.
The body was brought out by
Long tc Shukle Memorial Chapel
and will be taken to Osterman Fu
neral Home in Lakeview for serv
ices. Millard was born Jan. 20. 1901, in
Colorado, and had engaged in
ranching at Lakeview.
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our cost for the general budget,
and did not include millions spent
on other U. N. projects, which he
said we finance all the way from
40 per cent to 100 per cent.
He also said many of the com
munist countries, including Russia,
are behind on their payments to
the U. N. "And on the other hand,"
he pointed out, "China National
ist China, is still being assessed at
the same rate they were when they
were in control of the China main
land. They now control only For
mosa, and still they re being as
sessed the same t.s when they had
the mainland."
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KEYS TO THE OFFICE Fair Manager Bert Allenby, left,
is shown turning over the keys of the new Red Cross first
aid station at the fair to Red Cross Chairmon Norman
Thurnhofer The office formerly ' used for Fairgrounds ad
ministration was given to the Red Cross for the aid station
after new quarters were built for Fairgrounds administra
tion. (News-Review phclc)
Letter Writer Says Loot
From Train Overestimated
LONDON (UPI) A letter writ
er named "Charlie" who may
have been one of the mail train
robbers today publicly twitted po
lice who were centering their
search on the rural hideaway used
by the ijiost successful robbery
gang of all time.
A letter written to the London
Evening News accused police of
overstating the amount of loot
from last Thursday's $7 million
robbery.
This was dishonest, said the let
ter writer who signed himself
merely as "Charlie" and claimed
he knew the actual amount that
was stolen.
The newspaper turned the let
ter over to police who were
searching the farmhouse that was
used by the robbers as a staging
area and counting house. When
the police swooped down on the
house Tuesday the robbers had
fled with the loot, but they left
behind some tell-tale signs, such
as the mail sacks stolen from the
train after it was ambushed near
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"And you ladies (LWV) can sup
port this sort of fair play:" he
asked.
"The Russian people, the North
Korean people etc., are not our
enemies," Fleming said. "It is the
international communist conspir
acy which is our enemy.'!
"We' have to abolish the U. N.
and tell the Soviets we no longer
rexognize them," he said. "T h e
recongize them," he said. "The
people themselves will do the rest.
Even Hitler at his worst did not
have to put up barbed wire to keep
them in."
"For your information, and to
anybody else interested," said the
letter to the Evening News "the
total gained from this exercise
was exactly 2,095,324 pounds ($5, ;
866, 907.20) and a sprained ankle."
"Charlie" complained about re
ports that the amount stolen from
the mail train last Thursday was
"over 2,600 pounds (over $7 mil
lion)." Scotland Yard detective Supt.
Gerald McArthur said today the
ewner of the farmhouse hideout
was known. He had bought it only
days before last week's robbery.
McArthur declined to make known
the name "or divulge whether he
has been seen by police."
OAKLAND CHURCH PICNIC
The annual Church School picnic-'
of the Oakland Community Presby
terian Church will b. held this
Sunday on the Umpqun River at
Ferguson's bar.
Swimming at 5 p.m. will he fol
lowed by a picnic supper at 7 p.m.
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