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Air forte Mears End Of Wg Lift' Hours Ahead Of Schedule
FRANKFURT, Germany,
(UPI) American Air Force!
planes neared the end of their
massive troop-carrying "Opera
tion Big Lift" from Texas to1
Germany today hours ahead of
schedule.
The historic air test of U.S.
global striking power was ex
pected to be completed at 10:40
p.m. (2:40 p.m. PDT), 8 hours!
and 20 minutes under the 72
hours that had been allotted for
the airlift of the entire 14,500
men of the 2nd Armored Divi
sion. Force Base about 30 miles: The Air Force was optimistic
south of Frankfurt. The big C- It would complete the job in
130 transport is now on the less than 72 hours despite spo
5,600 mile transocean flight radic bad weather that caused
from Bergstrom Air Force, diversion of 11 transports
Texas, a spokesman said. jWednestiay night and early to-
and at Chaumont, Toul and
Etain in France, cause the
planes to be shunted at Mildcn
hall and Prestwick in Britain
and Chambley and Evreux in
France.
Reach Germany Tonight
The diverted planes were ex
pected to reach bases in Ger
many before the last plane from
Texas arrived tonight.
Hhcin . Main outside Frank
furt was receiving transports
today despite a light fog.
Wednesday the Air Force bar
red Big Lift planes from com
ing in for seven hours because
of , poor visibility. Six planes
were diverted for a total of 16
mnnder said the link-up be
tween men and pre - stored
trans-ocean reinforcement.
"If the air force keeps up at
this pace we may start the
ground maneuver phase early,"
att Army spokesman said. He
Wednesday and today.
By 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m.PDT)
equipment also was ahead of
175 planes of the Big Lift ar
schedule.
Says Move Essential
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
mada had ferried 10,995 troops
and 449.9 tons of cargo from
Correct Estimate
Earlier, the Air Force issued
an even more optimistic fore
cast. A spokesman said the air
lift phase was expected to end
day.
Texas, a spokesman said.
said the link-up between arriv
ing troops and their pre-stored
missiles, tanks, artillery and
Rain or fog at Rhein - Main,
primary terminal of Big Lift,
Gen. Paul L. Freeman Jr.,
supreme allied commander in
U.S. Army European Com-
Europe, said today in Paris
that rapid troop reinforcements
from areas outside Europe are
vehicles also was running
ahead of schedule. Transports
with the arrival of a C135 jet.
at Rhein-Main at 6:01 p.m.)
(1:01 p.m. EDT). The Airl
Force later corrected the esti-1
mate, admitting that an over-l
essential to military success of
were swooping in out of mildly
foggy skies to Rhein main air
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization (NATO). '
Operation Big Lift defied
foggy October weather to out
strip timetables laid down by
American planners for the test
of U.S. capability for . rapid
base, the primary Big Lift ter
minal, despite forecasts late
Wednesday night the air strip
The final plane of Big Lift's1
aerial troop ferry was sched-l
uled to land at Sembach Airi
eager officer had forgotten to
include the slower-moving C130
might be shut down by thick
ening fog today as it was for
heading for Sembach.
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seven hours Wednesday.
Copridows inny
Mew Coyirse
Reccspture Of Outpost
Claimed By Algerians,
Truce Talk Stalemated
STANDING HELPLESSLY BY, the tug Sudbury watches while the Canadian
barge Island Maple, loaded with pulp liquor, breaks up in heavy seas off Cape
Flattery Tuesday. The Island Maple is the second largest barge of the same firm
to be wrecked in almost the same area, in the past two weeks. Both ships were
bound for Greys Harbor from British Columbia. (UPI Telephoto)
Proposal For Parking Mall
Hasn't Won Council Favor
Roseburg City Councilmen ap
paiymiy , men i cunviiicuu uiai
a proposed parking mall on the
half-block property located east
of SE Rose Street between
Washington and Oak avenues is
the answer to the business dis
trict's need for off-street park
ing. A recommendation from the
city administration urging the
council to authorize options on
the property went begging at
last week's City Council meet
ing. The council did, however, in-:
struct Public ; Works Director;
Kenneth Meng to prepare a lay
out plan for one portion of the
property the Lockwood Motor
Co. car lot on the corner of
S"3 Rose and Oak to deter
mine if there is enough- room
on this lot to develop a park
ing facility.
The Lockwood property takes
up about one-fourth of the half-,
block.
Council Not Sold
Councilmen are apparently not
sold on the possibility of ac-j
quiring the remaining portion
of the half-block the property
at the southeast corner of Rose
and Washington which is pres-!
ently being used as a privately
financed ofi-street parking fa
cility. , . :
Mayor Thomas Garrison, one
of the principal adherents of a
parking mall at this site, had
indicated that the Lockwood
parcel might be acquired for
$55,000 and the other portion
for $110,000.
The program for acquiring
this half-block property had pro
posed that the acquisition costs
would be paid for solely from
the revenues derived from on-
street parking meters and off-:
street parking meters on the
proposed parking mall itself.
Comments by some of the
councilmen indicated they feel
that parking to be developed in
connection with the new Rose-I
burg Plaza will create more
over - all on-street parking
spaces, so it would be in the
best interest of the public to
provide off-street parking in!
other areas.
There is general agreement,
however, that off-street parking
is needed in downtown Rose
burg. The city is hopeful of
developing an off-street parking
program which would be fi
nanced from parking meter rev-:
Arrival Of Quadruplets
Surprises New York Pair
NEW YORK (UPI) New
York's contribution to the pop
ulation explosion, a set of
quadruplets born to a grade
school teacher and her attorney
husband, were reported in "sat
isfactory" condition today.
The petite, 90-pound mother
of the three girls and one boy,
27 year old Mrs. Rhoda Brcck
er was "doing fine" following
the multiple delivery by Cae
sarean section.
A spokesman at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center'
said the quad's proud father
Martin Brecker had not yet de
cided on names for the
and 6:35 p.m. (EDT). They
were placed in incubators but
only as a precautionary meas
ure, according to a hospital
spokesman. They are expected
to be kept in incubators for a
few days at least.
The infants arrived on their
due date but their parents who
had been advised to . expect
"more than one" were shocked
when the number hit four.
But the father, whose family
grew from two to six in a mat
ter of four minutes, rose to the
occasion.
enues. Toward this end, $8,500
has been set aside this fiscal
year for acquisition . of .munici
pal parking lots.
Earlier this year, the Rose
burg Chamber of Commerce
urged the council to continue
study on the feasibility of a
parking mall. The chamber has
not considered the matter in
the light of the recent council
discussion.
The chamber had also recom
mended the financing plan for
off-street parking which was
later adopted as council policy.
In addition, the chamber
urged the council to consider!
the ultimate goal of a Rose
burg parking program to be
the offering of off-street park
ing without a parking fee.
Competition Is Factor
A recent report by city ad
ministrators indicated that the
central business district must!
be provided with ample park
ing if it is to compete with out
lying shopping areas.
"If downtown property values
are to remain high, and if new
investments are to be attract
ed to the downtown area, am-!
pie parking is vital," the re
port stated. "If downtown Rose
burg continues to remain eco
nomically sound, it will help
the entire community through
its substantial contribution to
the city's tax base.
Therefore, in order to ob-1
tain parking that is 'more than
ample, and to preserve valu
able space for parking in order
to assure growth in the central
business district, the need for:
proceeding with an off-street
parking plan is well justified.
ALGIERS (UPI) Algeria
claimed today to have recap
tured the tiny desert outpost of
Hassi Beida, a key point in its
undeclared border war with
Morocco.
Numerous outside attempts
to arrange resumption of
stalled Algeria-Morocco truce
talks continued today with no
sign of an immediate break-l
through.
Military sources here said a
200-man Algerian force took
Hassi Beida, an oasis about 700
miles southwest of Algiers,
Wednesday in a battle that was
Drief but fierce. They said
fighting continued in the region
Wednesday night.
(Moroccan officials in Marra-
kech formally denied Algeria's
claim to have recaptured the
outpost.)
UPI correspondent Pierre
Raymond, with Algerian forces
at the front, reported from
Hassi Beida that Algerian artil
lery fire from four 105-mm can
nons drove the Moroccans back
from the outpost. He said Mo
roccan forces were supported
by two fighter-bombers.
pute between Algeria and Mo
rocco. .
William Porter, American
ambassador to Algeria handed
a note from the U.S. govern
ment to President Ahmed Ben
Bella Wednesday night.
Its contents were not imme
diate disclosed but it was be
lieved to be an appeal for a ne
gotiated peace as soon as pos
sible.
oasis-of'Tihnjoub are vital "wa
ler stops on the road through
the Sahara Desert from Co-
lomb Bechar to Tindouf, in the
extreme southwest corner of.
Algeria. Moroccan forces are
believed still in possession of
Tinnjoul), which they occupied
last week.
Both countries claim the ter
ritory where the outpost3 are
located. The area is part of the
poorly defined border region
which is the subject of the dis
Gusty Winds Hit
Western Oregon
Injuries Claim
Sutherlin Girl
Sonya Herriges, 7. of Suther
lin, died Wednesday night of in
juries suffered when she was
struck by an auto last Friday
atternoon in buinerlin.
The little girl suffered a head
injury, fractured arm and other
injuries, when she apparently
darted in front of a car ODerat-
ed by Max B. Hunt, Rt. 1, Box
Ji7, butnerun, according to a
report of investigating sheriff's
our-Stote
Area Girds
rlnmiffnc A O..!.
Jiassi Bema ana me nearby TllR a.rifln(.irSl m v.
Russia To Aid
Stricken Cubans
MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev
has offered massive no-strings-
attached aid to Cuba to allevi
ate hardships caused by recent
flood and hurricane damage,
the official Tass news agency
reported today.
The offer, m a letter trom
Khrushchev to Premier Fidel
Castro, said some of the aid
will come from Soviet supplies
already stockpiled in Cuba
The letter said Soviet experts
also will be dispatched to Cuba
to assist in reconstruction work
fully at the expense of Rus
sia.
(There had been speculation
in western capitals that the So-!
viet Union was going slow m
offering aid to Castro because
of Cuba's refusal to sign the
Moscow partial nuclear test nan
agreement.
(Some diplomatic sources naa
said Castro appeared to be
playing one side against the
other in Moscow's dispute with
Peking where the test ban
agreement has been denounc
ed).
Central Ave; near Terrace, in
iront of a service station. Po
lice said Hunt attempted to hall
his car, and skidded about 60
feet before striking the girl.
rne cnno was the daughter
of Eletricc Bell Herriges Pease
of Sutherlin. She was living in
tne foster home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Himmelwright, 1164
w. uentrai Ave.
The little girl was brought
first to Douglas Community,
Hospital, waere surgery was
performed, then transferred to
Sacred Heart Hospital in Eu
gene, where death occurred.
The child was born Sept. 27,
1956, in Roseburg. Besides her
mother, she is survived by her
father of Redmond.
The body has been removed
to Wilson's Chapel of the Roses
and funeral services are pend
ing.
The girl was the 32nd traffic
fatality of the year in Douglas
County.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE Robert Mann,
20, released after 21 months in Communist prisons
for trying to help an East Berlin student escape to
the West speaks to. the press in the U. S. Mission
in West Berlin Thursday following 'his release .(UPI
Telephoto)
E; Berliners Free
Stanford U. Student
Held For 21 Months
or
BERLIN (UPI) A blond,
Stanford University sophomore
today told of his 21 months in
Communist prisons for , trying!
to help an East rarhn student
"I didn't know personally" es
cape to the West.
Robert F. Mann. 20. of Sopul-
fveda, Calif., was released by
the East Germans Wednesday
night.
He said he "accidentally" be
ROCKY GETS DICK
SAN FRANCISCO, (UPI)
New York Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller commented on the popu
lation race between his state
and California Wednesday dur
ing a speech to the California
League of Cities.
We've been losing popula
tion to you," Rockefeller said
"The only one we've gained is
Dick Nixon, and we're glad to
have him.
Diana Churchill
Claimed Own Life
LONDON (UPI) The West
minster coroner's office ruled
today that Diana Churchill, eld
est daughter of Sir Winston
Churchill, committed .' suicide
by taking an overdose of barbiturates.
The 54-year old Miss Church
ill who resumed her maiden
name after her 1960 divorce
from Commonwealth Relations:
Secretary Duncan Sandys, was
found dead Sunday in her apart-!
ment in the Westminster dis
trict of London.
An inquest was ordered, offi
cials said at the time, because
of some bottles found in
the apartment.
came involved with a "highly
organized" West Berlin student
organization and agreed to help
in their escape network , be
cause "I saw an opportunity to
do what was right."
The attempt to bring the East
Berlin student through the wall
on a borrowed Belgian pass
port failed, "possibly because
we were observed, possibly be
cause we were followed, pos
sibly we were betrayed, ' per
haps it was accidental."
It was Mann's first assign
ment with the escape organiza
tion and the last. It led to six
months of questioning, includ
ing three "unpleasant" months
in solitary confinement and 15
months of prison work.
Now, Mann told a news con
ference, "I feel I should get
back to my parents as soon as
possible and take up his
interrupted university career.
Still looking somewhat
tense after the strains of pris
on and 1 release late Wednes
day, Mann spoke hesitantly but
firmly.
! My treatment was relatively
good," he said. "I was not mis
handled, I was not beaten, I
was not tortured.
"I was in solitary confine
ment for a while and that was
very unpleasant."
MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane
Ginny moved away from the
nation's space port at Cape Ca
naveral today and headed in a
northwesterly direction that
threatened coastal regions of
four states with its 75-mile-an-hour
winds.
The Miami Weather Bureau
warned residents along the
coast from Jacksonville, Fla.,
to Brunswick, Ga., to be ready
take quick precautions
against the storm which crept
along the coastline at about 5'
miles per hour some 100 miles
off shore.
A hurricane watch extended .
from Cape Canaveral to Brun
swick, Ga., and there was a
possibility the Carolinas would
come into the erratic storm's
sights again.
In its 9 a.m. EDT advisory.
the Miami Weather Bureau lo
cated Ginny's center about 105
miles east northeast of Daytona
beach near latitude 29.5 north.
longitude 79.4 west.
Wind Increai Warned
The advisory warned that bo
cause of the storm's proximity
to the coast, "a slight change
in direction would result in rath
er rapid increase in wind along
th earea of the hurricane watch
ami all intni.net., . n..tlM..lnHlk.
from Jacksonville to Brunswick
should remain on the alert for
future advices." )
"The center of the hurricane
is expected to continue a slow
movement generally parallel to
the coast and some 50 to 100
miles offshore today," the ad
visory said.
The weather bureau said that-
Ginny was no longer considered
a threat to South Florida's Gold
Coast, but gale warnings were
still in effect north of Palm
Beach.
Military facilities along the
Georgia coast were on hurri
cane alert status and crew
members began securing air
craft and other equipment at
the Glynco naval air station
near Brunswick.
Forecaster Raymond Kraft
said winds above the storm
would provide the main force
tugging Ginny out of its stall
toward the north for a second
time, making the hurricane a
threat to Georgia and the Caro
linas unless it swung northeast
ward out to sea.
The season's seventh twister.
which grew into a hurricane
while moving northward off the
North Carolina coast last Sun
day and then did an about-face
and headed in reverse fashion
toward Florida, flung gale
gale winds 200 miles to the
north and 100 miles to the
south.
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Gusty southerly winds struck
Western OregOt. from a Pacific
storm today but the Weather
Bureau said it did not expect
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dnrful hlessinff he said. He-Portions.
couple's first-born, now known! added that he and his wife I Full gale warnings flew along
as 1, 2, 3 and 4. looked forward to having morei'ne coast.
The quads, weighing a total j children to keep the quads com- Wind warnings for- velocities
of 13V4 pounds were bornpany. Of 40 to 45 miles per hour with
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Viet Nam Crash
Fatal Jo Eight
SAIGON, South Viet Nam:
(UPI) A U.S. Air Force plane
on a flare - dropping mission
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
boy, second born, was twoinour m 'he Willamette Valley
Ipounds, 15 ounces and the twowerc Posted.
jother girls weighed three winds momentarily hit speeds
of 80 mph at Tatoosh Island and
Cloudy with occasional inipoumjs' 12 ounces imore 013,1 50 mPn at Astoria
and occasional strong winds toi rjsJ -,;t j.ibut subsided to less than 30 mnh
40 miles per hour today. Partial range from once jn egonnn at both locations shortly after
clearing with showers Friday. birU)s , once jn a milJion ' :the front passed, the weather
Cooler i-nday man said.
Highest temp, last 24 hours 59 The stnmsest wjnd jn port.
Lowest temp, last 24 hours 50 Ql A V DAI I iland until 8:?0 a.m. was 33
I ki mm mile's per hour.
The Weather Bureau said
winds would decrease by to
' night. Gusty winds also were
65 miles south of Saigon today
apparently killing four Ameri
cans and four Vietnamese on
board.
A U.S. military spokesman
said this afternoon that the C-
123 transport plane crashed and
burned about 2 a.m
"There was no evidence orhour, the captain said.
Captain Of Strafed Ore Ship
Reports On Attack Off Cuba
Highest temp, any Oct. (58) 91
Lowest temp, any Oct. (54) 26
Precip. last 24 hours 03
Normal Oct. precip 3.02
Precip. from Sept. 1 3.05
Precip. from Oct. I 1.63
Sunset tonight, 6:17 p.m. j
, Sunrise tomorrow, 7:39 a.m. 1
With United Fund
Goal Score To Date forceast cast .f tne Cascades.
$69,936 $37,100
CORPUS CHRIST!, Tex
(UPI) The captain of an un
armed American freighter that1
was strafed and set fire by
planes off the Cuban coast said
today all the men could have
done to repel the attack "was
throw potatoes.
"We didn't have anything to
defend ourselves with," said
Capt. Gerhard Krause of the
ship J. Louis, a U.S. owned ore
freighter that sails under Li
benan registration.
There were no casualties.
Krause said the planes illum
inated the ship with flares and
then made 16 passes before
stopped counting." Bullets
rained down on the ship for an
with 31,500 tons of bauxitetimcs while sailing aboard Ger-
(aluminum ore.) man tankers during World War
It docked early today at the II, said he never thought the J,
53
survivors, he said.
The spokesman said the plane
was on a mission over Commu
nist-infested Vinh Binh Prov
ince when it went down.
He said the Americans on
board included two officers'and:13 miles off the Cuban coast
A deep Pacific storm center two enlisted crewmen. The fouriwhen the attack occurred Tues-I
in the Alaskan panhandle waslVietnamese were enlisted day. The J. Louis was en route
blamed for the blow. Icrewmen Ifrom Jamaica to Corpus Christi
Krause said he and two other
men were pinned on the bridge,
He ordered the rest of the 51
men aboard to remain below
decks.
He said the s'ip was at least
Reynolds Metal Co. docks at
nearby Gregory, Tex.
The only American crew
member was W. Fred Thomp
son, 55, of Portland, Tex.
Thirty - seven crewmembers
were Okinawans.
Krause, 5d, of Hamburg, Ger
many, estimated there were
three or four planes involved in
the attack. He said he never
saw them because they were
moving too fast. He said he
could not hear any engines to
tell whether they were jets or
propellor driven.
Flares lit the sky 30 minutes
before the attack, he said.
"I thought it was a U.S.
Navy exercise," the captain
said.
Many of the bullets missed
their target, he said, but a fire
broke out on the bow of the
ship and was extinguished with
chemicals after two hours.
The captain, who was tor
pedoed once and strafed many
Louis was in danger.
Says Crew Calm
The crew was calm below
decks, but "there wasn't much
praying down below. Everyone
was crowded in and there
wasn't enough room."
We were lucky, just plain
lucky," Krause said.
The J. Louis has been mak
ing the bauxite run from Ja
maica to Corpus Christi for two
years. The strafing occurred on
the ship's 91st trip, and it had
passed the same spot off the
Cuban coast 181 times before,
We will go farther out next
time," Krause said.
Search Widens
At Portsmouth, Va the Coast
Guard widened a search today
for the commercial tug Meito
wax, missing with four men
aboard since Sunday on a voy
age from New York to Charles
ton, S. C. Also being sought
was the 42-foot ketch Saruga,
with three Canadians aboard
overdue on a trip from Bermu
da to New York,
The decommissioned Navy
destroyer escort Fogg which
was rescued by the Coast
Guard after drifting with its 10
man crew in hurricane tossed
seas for two days was expect
ed to be towed into Norfolk
this afternoon. '
Two Persons Killed
In Highway Accident
SHANIKO, Ore. (UPI) Two
persons died on U.S. Highway
97 north of here Tuesday night
when a car swerved across the
road and struck another parked
Krause said he thought thelon a shoulder.
. ' Tha tilnt ma
flares came from the
shore, but he never saw the
shorn except on radar.
The ship remained on course
throughout the attack. Air
Force fighters from a Florida
base were "scrambled" to aid
the ship, but when they arrived
the attackers were gone,
Cuban, ino victims were Hoy satner,
17, of Kent, Wash., driver of
the moving vehicle, and Mrs.
Edgar Morris, 41, Sacramento,
Calif.
Morris, 52, and Gerald D.
Hammond, 7, of Pasco, Wash.,
were hospitalized. Both were in
the parked car.