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Library Established 1873 14 Paqet ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1963 205-63 10c Per Copy a a n nr n A CONTESTANT in a beauty contest needs change of clothes. And D'Ann Fullerton, Miss Oregon, who hails from Roseburg, has a fair wardrobet indicated by the luggage which surrounded' her while she waited for departure at Portland International airport for' At lantic City, N. J., and; the Miss America contest. (UPI Telephoto) ; ' ' , ' v "' ' '' ' -1 - Turncoat Arrives In Hong Kong For Return To 'Outside World' HONG ?KONG (UPI) Albert C. Belhamme, Belgian-born for mer U.S. Army sergeant who de fected to Communist China 10 years ago, arrived here today Gas Truck Blaze Cause For Alarm At Myrtle Creek Myrtle Creek firemen averted a possible tragedy Thursday after noon when they were able to ar rive on the scene in time to keep a flaming gasoline delivery truck from exploding in a residential section of the city. The driver of the truck. Bob Un der, of Myrtle Creek, also played a big factor in cutting down the danger to residents of the area when he cautioned people to get out of the area until the fire de partment could get the blazing truck under control. Linder, driving for Clark & Un der, Union Oil Co. distributors from Riddle, had pulled to a stop at the stop sign at Madrone St. and Myrtle Road when he looked out his rear view mirror and saw the flames coming from the underside of the truck. He jumped from the truck and rushed to one of the houses, asking the people there to call the fire department and get everyone out of the area near the truck, Myrtle Creek police chief Jim Pringle said. Assistant fire chief Russ Stein hauer said the fire department ar rived on the scene about 2 p.m. and by using two tracks and a fire hydrant 50 feet away were able to keep the tanks from overheating and possibly exploding. One of the three compartments on the gasoline and fuel oil de livery truck had ruptured and was leaking. The firemen kept' this gasoline washed down with water to keep the blaze from spreading. Cause of the fire was unknown. There were no injuries, but the truck was figured as a total loss. United States Stands Firm On Two Buddhist Refugees SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) The United States stood firm today on its refusal to give up two Buddhist refugees despite an apparent easing of tension in South Viet Nam's religious political crisis. Diplomatic sources said U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Cloudy night and morning hours, partly sunny afternoon with oc casional thunder showers today through Saturday. Cooler today and Saturday. Highest temp, last 24 hours 84 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 55 Highest temp, any Aug. (Si) 103 Lowest temp, any Aug. (Si) . 41 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Precip. from Aug. 1 T Normal Aug. Precip. .031 Normal Precip. 9-1 to 8-1 .. 32.72 Precip. from Sept. 1 35.05 Sunset tonight, 7:52 p.m. PDT Sunrise tomorrow, 4:3 a.m. PDT Sunset tonight, 7:52 p.m. PDT. with his Chinese wife and the three sons he hopes will have "a better future in the outside world." He was the second of 21 U.S. Korean War turncoats to leave China this month. He said an other, former Sgt. Scott Rush of Marietta Ohio, planned to return home soon. ' Lowell D. Skinner of Akron, Ohio, left China Aug. 1 and re turned, tov the United States. , ; Belhomme, " 34, ' - planned to return to Belgium with his wife, Hsiu Ying, 28, and their sons, aged 6, 4 and 1. He and his wife both have Belgian passports. "We should all consider the best things for our children," Bel homme said soon after being met at tie Chinese border by a Brit ish Red Cross officer and a Bel gian consulate oficial. "I decided to leave China main ly because I think the children will have a better future in the outside world after the conditions I have seen in China in the past 10 years." He also said he had become homesick for the West and was "always thinking of the outside world." Belhomme, a native of An twerp, Belgium, formerly lived in Ashland, Pa., where his moth er was said to reside. His father is dead. He had worked as an electri cian in a metal factory in the in dustrial city of Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province in northern China.. Belhomme was serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army when Cross In Hospital SALEM (UPI) Travis' Cross, press secretary to Gov. Mark Hatfield, was in Salem Memorial Hospital today recovering from an appendectomy. Cross first complained of not feeling well Wednesday afternoon. He was hospitalized and - under went surgery Thursday. His con dition was reported good. again turned down Thursday night a government request to hand over two Buddhist priests who took refuge in the U.S. aid mission during the raids on pa gadas last week. The request was made by Act ing Foreign Minister Truong Cong Ciiu in a 25-minute telephone con versation with Lodge, the sources said. Cuu repotedly told Lodge the government released a large number of Buddhist priests and students Thursday in an effort to reduce the tension that built up in the lightning repression of the country's Buddhists. The releases followed a relaxa tion of the original 9 p.m. to S a.m. curfew and other restric tions imposed under martial law decreed 10 days ago. The United States has voiced strong disapproval of the govern ment's strongarm tactics in the crackdown on Buddhist opposi tion, and the Washington and Sai gon governments have differed publicly over who initiated the raids and wholesale arrests- s ' he was captured by the Commu nists during the Korean War. He and 20 others refused repatriation alter the war and went to live in China. He' was dishonorably discharged from the Army. The family appeared in good health on arrival in Hong Kong. Belhomme said he heard from Rush during the past week about his plans to leave China. Belhom me said he corresponded . with Rush, who was working as a lathe' operator Un ': Wuhan in cen tral China and had a Chinese wife and one cluld. He said he occasionally saw fellow turncoats Howard G. Adams of Corsicana, Tex., and James G. Veneris of Hawthorne, Calif., who were working in a paper mill in Tsinan. He said he also wrote to John R. Dunn of Baltimore, Md., who went to Czechoslovakia with his Czech wife, and to Harold H.-Webb of Ft. Pierce, Fla.. who went to Po land with his Polish wife. Senators Reject Kennedy Off er To View Letters WASHINGTON, (UPI) Sen ators said today President Ken nedy had offered to let key mem bers of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee read his cor respondence with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the nuclear test ban treaty. But the committee, in approving the pact by a 16-1 vote Thursday. defeated a motion calling for the President to furnish copies of the correspondence to the group. The treaty comes up in the Sen ate on Sept. 9. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who testified at a closed session Wednesday, told the lawmakers the President would be willing to let .several committee members see the exchange. . Thus, he said, they could satis fy themselves that there were "no deals" or "side arrangements" with the Russians not shown in the pact barring all but under ground nuclear tests. Sen. George D. 'Aiken, R-Vl., who made the motion for approv al of the treaty, commented that "when the chips were down, no ody wanted to take the responsi bility." The motion by Sen. Bourke B.-Hickenlooper, R-Iowa, to seek the correspondence was rejected, 10-7. Aiken said he did not believe there were any "side deals" with Khrushchev and added: "If there were any secret agreements, I'll guarantee they were not in writ ing." Aiken, who earlier had "guessed" the treaty would be approved with no more , than 20 votes against it, said he "would not be surprised if there were not over half that number now." GETS BACK AT THEM ' MOBILE. Ala. (UPI) Light ning not only struck three times i in the same place Thursday but jthe target was the local U.S. Weather Bureau station. "It kind of shook everyone up." said a veteran weatherman, who reported no injuries and minor 'damage. Lunatic Sought In Knife Slaying Of Career Girls NEW YORK (UPI)-A "luna tic" who made obscene and threatening phone calls was sought today in the carving knife slayings of two career girls in their fashionable East Side -Manhattan apartment. One of the victims, pretty Jan ice Wylic, 21, a niece of writer Philip Wylic, recently had re ceived several crank calls from an unidentified man, according to her father and one of her friends. "They were from some lunatic who used obscene language," the triena sa:d Miss Wyhe told him. "She was plagued and terrified by the calls. Two weeks ago she told the man, 'Don't ever call me again,' " the friend related to po lice. The friend reported that the caller answered: "Then you'll have to take the consequences." Miss Wylie, an aspiring actress who worked for Newsweek maga zine, and one of her two room mates, Emily Hoffert, 23, a school teacher and daughter of a Minneapolis surgeon, were found Wednesday night tied together with sheets in a bedroom of their apartment. The bodies were discovered by Janice's father, Max Wylie, a writer . and advertising executive, who was let into the four - room flat by the third roommate, Pa tricia Tolles, 23. Miss Tolles last saw the two girls alive when she left at around 9:30 , a.m. EDT on Wednesday for her job at the book division of Time, Inc. Police said the girls were slain later that morning by a quiet killer who ransacked the apartment but apparently did not steal anything. Dr. Milton Helpern, the city's chief medical examiner, said pre liminary autopsies on the bodies showed the girls had not been raned. Heloern said they had been stabbed repeatedly about the neck and abdomen. Detective chief Lawrence Mc- Kearney ' said, "Anyone able to kill these girls as they were killed is certainly not normal. Debris Found In Search For Tankers MIAMI (UPI) Searchers look ing for two missing Air Force Stratotankers and 11 crewmen found a 10-mile - square "floating junkyard" of debris today in the Atlantic 260 miles soutnwest or Bermuda, the Air Force said. There was no sign of survivors. An Air Force spokesman said plane paneling, life jackets, radio kits, engine covers, water coolers, helmets and other aeons were bobbing in the water "like a floating junkyard." - The flotsam apparently came from the KC135 Strategic Air Com mand jets which flew out on a re fueling mission Wednesday and vanished. "There were some pretty sizable hunks of debris out there," said a spokesman at the air rescue headquarters in Orlando. Before dawn, searchers spotted three helmets and several empty life jackets floating in the ocean, prompting an Air Force spokes man to say: "It isn't the best sign we could have, but we have not given up hope." The Coast Guard was transfer ring the debris to Bermuda for positive identification. Hunt For Missing Airman Continues MCCHORD AFB, Wash. (UPI) Air Force officials said Thursday they hoped to find 1st Lt. Roger Axlund, Sioux Falls, S.D., alive in the water off the Washington Coast. They said it was "highly con ceivable" that Axlund could sur vive in the water with the safety equipment he had. Axlund's F-106 fighter plane col lided with a B-57 bomber Wed nesday morning, during training maneuvers. ' Capt. Richard Johnson of the 498th Fighter Interceptor Squad ron, who was following Axlund in another F-106, said he saw a glow of light of the "duration and brightness" that led him to be- lieve Axlund had ejected. However, Johnson said he did ! not sec the seat separate from the aircraft or see a parachute, but added that may have been be cause of darkness, j The Coast Guard said it had no plans to discontinue the search for Axlund. Thursday's effort, hampered by fog for a snort ! time, centered around the Iloh River on the Olympic Peninsula. UHfm ': X " ' A k wv . .. t.,..-v MINER CHUCK BYRGE, one of the five who were rescued olive from potash mine at Moab Utah, is 'about to receive a kiss from one of his children. L-R, front: Linda, 9; 'Byrge; Terry, 4; and Mrs. Byrge. L-R, rear: Stewart 7; Brenda, 5; Rodney, 2 anijl Charles Jr., 10. (UPI Telephoto) . Four Survivors Give Accounts. Of Experiences In Mine Blast EDITORS NOTE: Thomas Trueman, Robert June, Charles Byrfle, Grant Eslick and Charles Clark know what It Is like to be" trapped' for two 'days a half mile underground in an explosion shattered mine. Here are ' their stories as told to United Press International By THOMAS TRUEMAN It was hot. We drank water and we sweated. And we wor ried! . Seven of us June, Byrge, Es lick, Clark and Paul McKinney and Donald Blake Hanna, (who were rescued Wednesday night) were working in the east drift when the explosion occurred. It happened about 20 minutes after a dynamite blast that must Have been deep in the west drift. Then gas began moving. It was heavy gas, .creeping along the floor. i i For four or five hours we built barricade to try to stop the gas. We knew it was deadly. We built the barricade out of pieceB of metal vent lines and wood then packed the bottom with salt It was hot. . .We used only one miner's lamp at a time so we would have light as long as pos sible. We still had one light when we were rescued. We took turns sleeping. We would sleep for about 10 minutes at a time. The rest of the time we would talk and just wait, I guess. We also wondered if the three others (found dead by Mc Kinney and Blake) made it to safety. .About 12 hours after the explo sion, Hanna and McKinney left. Then we bad another' worry: Did they make it? About 30 hours after the explo sion somebody up there repaired the high pressure air line and we began to get a little new air. Not much. But it was enough. But we still had to sit, sweat and drink water. We heard the rescue coming about 10 minutes before they ar rived. We heard the clank of metal on metal and knew they were on the way. When I saw them it was the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life. Visit Of Students Costly To Castro NEW YORK (UPI) It cost Fidel Castro at least $150,000 from a dollar-short national treas ury to pay the expenses of 59 American students for seven weeks in Cuba as government guests, it was estimated here to day. Travel sources said airline economy fares alone assuming jthe group traveled tourist class from New York to Havana and return, via Amsterdam, Paris, ! Prague and Madrid, exceeded S80.0O0. In addition, their lodging al the Havana Riviera Hotel cost ; Castro more than $22,000. and their meals for the period in ex cess of $25,000. Ru CHARLES riARK Tf wile hnt rlnuin Ihpro nnri wo started to drink water. We must nave unisnca live gallons in ao minutes. 'Then' we' started drink ing water out of water lines. ' It was river water but it was pretty good. We never gave up hope but wo kept watching and wondering wnac was holding them up. They snouia nave come sooner. It was rough. I'm tired and hungry but now I can eat and sleep. The first I actually realized they (the rescuers) were coming was when I happened to glance up and saw one of their lights about 50 yards away. By ROBERT JUNE I could hear people yelling aft er the explosion hit. I heard a man screaming but I couldn't get to him. I think he was in the west drift. When the explosion came anoth er workman and I were discussing how to drill a hole. The blast knocked all of us down in our shaft. It was hot and smoky and pitch black. The temperature a couple of hours after the blast was 98 degrees. After we built the barrier. I just laid there and sweat. We drank water. . .it was muddy but it was sure good. By GRANT ESLICK We knew it was just a matter of time and we never gave up hope. Kennedy Makes Strong Appeal For Restoration Of Aid Cuts HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI) President Kennedy made a strong public appeal today for the Senate to restore House cuts in his foreign aid program and said Americans must realize that "freedom does not come cheaply or easily." Kennedy warned Congress and the nation that unless the billion dollar cuts are restored, U.S. commitments from South Ameri ca to Southeast Asia will be seriously- endangered. Kennedy called newsmen to the Cape Cod White House to restate his insistence upon undoing the House action after meeting more than an hour with foreign aid di rector David Bell and retired Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who headed a special committee which stud ied the program. Unless the cuts are restored, Kennedy said, the United States "will not fulfill its commitments" to Latin America undnr the Alli ance for Progress or be able to continue military aid to nations rimming the Iron Curtain. "This will limit very much our ability to influence the events in these areas," Kennedy said. It was the second time in a week that Kennedy has made special appearances before re- porters to denounce the House l decision and to urge Senate re , Tho cmnlro nftot. (ho hlocf novo mo mv wraKf mnmrnit, TP a niiu is going ,to panic he'll do it in the smoko.. ' This fresh air sure tastes goodf. I never thought fresh air could taste so good. We were sure glad to see the other two fellows (Hanna and Mc Kinney) had made it out. By CHARLES BYRGE I don't think we could have made it if it hadn't have been for Blake (Don Blake Hanna) and tne otner guy (Paul McKinnev), They left us to go down the drift to see if they could find anyone else. When they found three dead thev decided that if the carbon mon oxide got those guys, it would eventually get us. I'm thankful they fixed the air line. I don't think there was ever enough air down there, but at least there was enough to keep us alive. Lockwood Nine Arrives Today ' The Lockwood Motors American Legion Junior baseball squad was scheduled to arrive home in Rose burg about 3 o'clock this after noon. The Lockwoods, Northwest re gional champions, dropped a 4-3 decision to Somerville, Mass., Tues day to be eliminated from the Lit- tie World Series at Keene. N.H. . A banquet honoring the team is scheduled for next Thursday night, storation of the money. The House last week slashed $585 million from the foreign aid authorization bill after its For eign Affairs Committee already had chopped about $400 million from it. This reduced the amount from Kennedy's $4.5 billion re quest to $3.5 billion. The President already had scaled bis request down by $400 million at the urging of Clay's committee. And Clay last week also said the House bad gone too far. The President's words were even stronger. He said that the 1980s will continue to be "very difficult" for the free world, add ing that "peaceful coexistence with Russia will be very intense." He said this applied particular ly with the competition between communism and freedom in Asia, Africa and Latin America. "We arc' going to make every possible effort to insure that the security of the United States and effective foreign policy will be maintained in the coming months, Kennedy said in report ing on bis talk with Clay and Bell on what might be done to "strengthen this mutual security program. I "This is before the Congress ! but in a very real sense it is be 18 Victims Counted Dead Deep In Mine MOAB, Utah (UPI) - The Brim task of identifying bodies of vie tims of a potash mine explosion began today in a truck repair shop converted into a temporary morgue. At the same time, federal and state agencies began a full-scale investigations of the blast, which killed 18 of 25 construction work ers nearly 3,000 feet below the earth's surface. The makeshift moreue was set up when word reached officials that the remaining 18 men still in tlie mine were dead. Seven men survived the blast. Five were rescued Thursday night; two were rescued Tuesday, the day of the explosion. snertlf John) Stocks, who knew most of the victims nersonallv. said it appeared that visual iden tification would be impossible in most cases. He said there was a possibility he would ask the FBI to aid in the identification-. The federal investigation into the blast was ordered by the In terior Department in Washington Thursday following a statement by the director of the Bureau of mines tnat "all but one" of four fatal accidents involving workers at the mine property during the pusi o months "were prevent able." Bureau Director Mnrllntf T An. keny said corrective measures had been recommended to the shaft-drilling contracting firm. Harrison International, Inc., of Miami, Fla., a Canadian concern. Aniceny said the mine still was in custody of the Harrison or ganization at the time of Tues days explosion, but that Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. "was exercising some surveillance over the con tractors." Wednesday's survivors, Don BlaKe Hanna. 27. and Paul Mo. IWney. 22. Wore flfc tho mina I Thursday to aid in the rescue of tnetr five companions. . The five liiciuaea unanes Byrgej Helper, Utah; Robert' June, Moab; Charles Clark, Moab; Tom True man, Toronto, and Grant H, Es lick, Moab. Eslick was the only employe of the Texas company, the 24 other men worked for Harrisnn interna tional. Trueman and Wanna xuttva hos pitalized for treatment of injur ies and burns. Eslick said flin smoko u- - v...v,,w diiv:i Lilt, Wast gave him his "worst mo ments." . If 8 CUV is cninff In nni. 1,. will do it in smoko," he said. June was asknrl hnu, ho . -i the 51 hours awaiting a rocoiio party. I just laid there and sweat." he said. Shortly after thn fivn mon brought to the surface, the crowd of newsmen and relattvp whiok had kept a long vigil at the mine " was torn tnat the 18 other men were dead. June Crawford, phiof for the Texas comnanv. nairl over a loud speaker: or all of you on the firing line, it's all over. There are no further survivors." The members of the miners' families took the news stnicnllv on the whole, although one wom an snouted: I "That's a hell of a brutal way I to- learn it," fore all the American people," tho President asserted. Hie President said he was "confident" the American toodIb will recognize that this effort in volves our security" and the world's future hopes for peace. Submits To Question The President carried his unique news conference further by submitting to questions, the first of which was about what strategy the administration would try to use to Set back the re duced sums. "It is not a question of strat egy," Kennedy said. "We are trying to point up very clearly bow important this is to Ameri ca." He said that not only would aid to Latin America be imperiled, but there would be drastic ef fects on America's military aid to countries on "the firing line." He specifically mentioned Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, South Viet Nam, Thailand and South Korea. The Chief Executive, in re sponse to another question about the public's mood, said he is aware that Americans "don't en joy carrying this burden." But he added: "The American people realize that freedom does I not come cheaply or easily."