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1.5 br&ry Elkton Favored Elkton is favored in the Yoncalla basketball tournament. Story on sports page. Hopes High West Berliners began lining up today for passes to enter East Ber lin on Christmas. See page 3. Established 1873 16 Pages ROSEBURG. OREGON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1963 297-63 10c Per Copy NATO Navy Gets LBJ's Go-Ahead WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson has reviewed plans for a NATO nuclear navy armed with Polaris missiles and ordered full speed ahead on the controversial project, adminis tration officials said today. One result is that key con gressmen soon will be consulted by the administration on details of the proposed "Multi-Lateral Nuclear Force" (MLF), which would consist of 25 surface ves sels with a total of 200 milliles. The legislators are to be given a progress report on negotiations with the Allies. Arrangements already are be ing made for a "demonstration" ship to prove that it is practi cal to operate a warship with a crew drawn from several allied nations. The United States lias offered one of its guided mis sile destroyers for this purpose. Begin Training Soon Training of a mixed crew for the demonstration ship is ex pected to begin early in the new year and take about six months The United States, West Ger many, Greece and Turkey favor the proposed force. Italy also is understood to ' be agreeable to joining but a formal decision cannot be expected until the new left-center government of Premier Aldo Moro gets more firmly established. , Britain has refused to com mit itself to the project, waver ing between military and politi cal , objections.' However, both Britain and Italy are expected to participate in the operation of the "demonstration" ship: since this will not definitely commit them. - -The Russians have bitterly criticized the proposed NATO nuclear navy, asserting that il is simply a device' to get nu clear weapons into the hands of the West Germans. Rejects Soviet Charge The United States firmly re jects the Soviet charge, point ing out that the fleet will ,be under NATO control with a U.S veto over the actual firing of the weapons: ... . The lale President Kennedy offered the MLF suggestion to give the NATO Allies a greater sense of participation in nuclear strategy. However, his adminis (ration emphasized that the United States would consider any alternative which appeared workable. . v i 4 " I Sh --. f 6. j i LITTLE VICKI WRAY of Bowling Green S. C, won a second Christmas and a reprieve from total blind ness Tussday. But her parents received the greatest gift hope. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center said there was a slight possibility the two-year old girl may not have to undergo an operation for the removal of her remaining eye. Vicki's left eye has been subjected to high intensity radiation and chemical agents in an effort to stop the spread of cancer, which cost her right eye last July. African Student's Death Is Protested In Moscow Square MOSCOW (UPI)-An cslimat-i cd 400 African students demon strated outside the Kremlin walls in Red Square for four hours today against the death in allegedly "suspicious circum stances," of a student fro m Ghana. . -. There was no violence,- how ever, and the students dispersed in an orderly manner bv pass ing through cordons, of Soviet militia (police). The s t u d e n t s, protesting against allegedly general mis treatment of Africans within the Soviet Union, said the body of a Ghanian student had been found dead . beside some railroad tracks north of Moscow. The dead student was identified as Asira Addo. , , Qualified Soviet sources said that Addo had been found dead near Kalinin, about 100 miles north of Moscow. The students claimed the body was found naked, but the sources said it had been fully clothed. The Soviet sources claimed that an autopsy showed Addo froze to death in minus zero temperatures while "highly in toxicated. There was no sign Of violence, the sources said. The demonstration was the second such incident in a Com munist country in less than a year. Last February, Commu nist police in Bulgaria used clubs to disperse a demonstra tion of African students protest ing against a government ban on a student organization. Scv cral were injured. The students said they were protesting the death of the Ghanaian student, named Asiro Addo. Addo died at Kalinin, a city about 100 miles from Mos cow, where he was in the sec ond year of medical studies. Rusk Slates Meet Today With Home PARIS (UP1) Secretary ofl State Dean Rusk set out today for talks with British leaders at the end of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference that wound up a day early because it skirted the ma jor issues dividing the alliance Rusk scheduled an afternoon flight to London, where he planned meetings with Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas- Home and Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler. Defense Serretary Robert S McNamara was leaving earlier for Saigon, South Viet Nam, for a quick inspection trip of the U. S.-aided war against the Communist guerrillas. The NATO session was the shortest meeting of the alliance ministers in the 14 years since its founding. It was cut short by a day from its scheduled three days because these issues were avoided: Western strategy against a Soviet attack in Europe. The United States favors an initial replay with conventional forces. France wants massive nuclear retaliation from the start. The U. S. plan for a multi lateral nuclear force. Britian is cool to the plan and France op posed it, insisting on its own independent nuclear force. Only West Germany has agreed thus far to supply men for an exper imental ship with a mixed crew. The question of trade with the Communist world. The Unit ed States opposes granting long term credits to the Soviets, but many of its Allies want to do business with Moscow on these terms. With no real disagreement on other issues, the council quick ly ran out of things to talk about and decided to end its meetings Tuesday. U. S. sources said the meet ing's greatest achievement was that it avoided public dis sension. They took the view that there was no hope of reaching agree ment on tho major issues in such a short time. But it was clear that these issues would continue. to. divide 'the alliance in the months to come. Autopsy Report Shows Second Shot Fatal To Late President WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-, dent Kennedy was shot twice from the rear by the assassin who struck him down in Dallas last month but it was the sec ond bullet that sealed the young leader's fate. This unofficial finding by a team of pathologists who per formed an autopsy on the Pres ident's body - cleared up confu sion over whether Kennedy was shot once or twice and whether both .bullets came from the same direction. The autopsy was performed at Bethcsda Naval Hospital on the night of Nov. 22 after Ken nedy's body was brought back to Washington from Dallas. The late President was shot earlier! in the day during a motorcade through the streets of that city. Sources said the first bullet hit Kennedy in the upper part of the right back shoulder and lodged in his lung. The bullet did not go through his body and was recovered during the autopsy. The second bullet fired by tne assassin hit Texas Gov. John B. Connally who was riding in the President's car. The third bullet hit Kennedy in the back of the right side of the head. A small fragment of this bullet also angled down and passed out through Kennedy s throat. The Washington Post, in a t J Jtv. - ff &zrza H vl 3 'Txra --V:L ife Mil! I yc;: RECORD-SETTING PARACHUTIST MSgt. James A. Howell is checkad ond congratulated as soon as he lands by Williom Berry. Howell is one of the 13 man team of U. S. Army ond Air Force parachut ists who established a world record for mass free fall by jumping from 43,500 feet. Howell is from La Puente, Calif. (UPI Telephoto) Dense Fog Blamed For Many Mishaps; Two Persons Hurt The current dense fog condi-IMunion, 1297 NE Danvicw St., lion oi tne last several daysboth Roseburg, suffered injur- Johnson Signs Education Bill 7j v cm I FINAL DAYS! Now In Progress At Roseburg Jewelers Jockson St. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE No reasonable offer refused on remainder of S 75,000 Stock. - OPEN EVERY NIGHT and SUNDAY WATCHES - DIAMONDS - SILVERWARE - JEW ELRY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION must be sold re fjardless o.' c3it! Yo-i ssve c.i every item. story by medical writer Nate Haseltine, said the first wound caused "no critical harm" but the second bullet to hit him tore the back of his head so de structively that "it was com pletely incompatible with life." UPl's sources were unable to confirm that Kennedy definitely could have survived the first bullet. They preferred to say "might have survived." But they left no doubt that it was the second bullet which caused the major damage. . The hospital, the Pentagon and the White House refused to comment on the Post story Tuesday night. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, asked to comment on the re port, said. "I'm not going to discuss it. The pathologists were report cd to have found that the first bullet struck the Chief Execu tive high in the back of the shoulder, about 5 to 7 inches below the line of his collar and became imbedded deep in his shoulder. This was said to have caused "a hematoma, a pooling of the blood, inside the neck and shoulder muscles, but no criti cal harm." according to the Post report. The post mortem examination was said to show that the sec ond bullet which struck the President lore the right rear portion of his head so destruc lively that "it was completely incompatible with life," accord ing to the newspaper. 1 It was a deflected fragment from this second bullet that passed out through Kennedy's throat, just above the collar line, giving rise to speculation that the President may have been shot from two angles, the newspaper said. The autopsy seemed to end speculation about the anglci Air Service Meeting Set Here Friday A Portland firm's proposal to base an airline shuttle service at Roseburg Municipal Airport will be discussed at a special luncheon meeting Friday noon in the Uinpqua Hotel. The city Airport Commission of Roseburg (Area) Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee are sponsors for the meeting. Representatives of American Air Lease Corp. will present a proposal for scheduled airline shuttle service out of Roseburg to Portland and other points. The firm earlier this week ad vised the city Airport Commis sion it could supply four twin- engine Super 18 Beechcraft planes for a shuttle service if there is indication such a ven ture is economically feasible. Persons who are interested in this type of service are urged to attend the meeting. Cham ber officials said the apparent potential volume of loadings will determine the decision of American Air Lease to serve Roseburg. Chamber officials pointed out that "the combination of (1) an unfavorable Federal Aviation Agency rating at Roseburg Air port preventing landings of F-27 equipment; (2) the gradual de clinc of average daily loadings on West Coast Airlines to the point of the Federal Aviation Agency use it or lose it" fig lire, and (3) WCA's plans to discontinue DC3 equipment dur ing 1964, could mean the end of scheduled flights out of Rose burg unless other means arc developed." seems to be concentrated in the area from about 20 miles north of Roseburg to seven miles south of the city, accord ing to state police reports, and motorists are warned to be espe cially cautious One accident was reported by state police, laid to fog, involv ing two vehicles at Garden Val ley Boulevard junction with NE Stephens Street, resulting in in juries to two persons. Many Minor Mishaps However, numerous automo biles suffered minor mishaps and local towing agencies were kept busy Tuesday and earlyi today pulling automobiles out of the ditch. Billy Molir's and Walt's Towing services each re ported upwards of 20 calls. Aside from the one accident, none of the others involved more than minor damage to the vehicles, where automobiles went off the road because the drivers couldn't see where they were going. Four cars had to be towed back onto the road in the Newton Creek area about 4:30 WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres ident Johnson today signed leg islation designed to launch U.S. vocational education into the new industrial age of automation. The bill authorizes $1.5 billion in new spending to expand aid to vocational schools with em phasis on training workers in new skills, increase student loan funds and continue federal help to schools crowded by children of federal workers or servicemen. Johnson signed the education measure at the start of another busy day highlighted by a ma jor conference with leaders of national farm organizations to discuss farm policy issues. Invited to the White House discussion were officials of the National Grange, National Farmers Organization, Cooper ative . League of the United States and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. The President also set up a late afternoon meeting with Budget Director Kermit Gordon and Deputy Budgot Director El mer Staats to work on tho budget he will send to Congress next month. Second Measure The vocational school bill was the second educational measure to go to Johnson in three days On Monday he signed the $1.2 billion college aid bill to help build , classrooms, laboratories and libraries. The new measure authorizes $1.5 billion in new spending to: Expand federal aid to voca lional schools four-fold, with strong new emphasis on train ing in skills that are in short age now, . rather than those which have been outmoded in portions of the program wil cost $527 million for the twe years. ' ' Significant Portion The vocational school aid boost was considered the most significant portion of the three- part bill. It would provide the first big increase in federal as sistance for job training course in more than 15 years, and point the vocational education system in an entirely new-direction. At the end of the fouf year buildup period, federal aid will have increased from about $58 million a year to nearly $300 million annually. I he new program would em phasize the teaching of skills for which there is employer de mand, even m the often criti cized field of home economics training. It would provide for construc tion of area vocational schools, where complex equipment and highly trained teaching staffs could be more easily brought together and for experimental use of residential vocational schools and work-study plans for students in job training courses. p.m. Lloyd Wren Wagler, of 645 W. Wharton St., and Virgil Vernon Slate-Hall Low Bidder On Road Job Slate-Hall of Portland was the apparent low bidder for recon slruction of a two-mile section of Interstate Highway 5 over Roberts Mountain south of Rose burg. The company bid $1,114,016 for the job. The project will in volve excavation of 975,000 cu bic yards of earth to move the highway to the west in order to avoid a fill which chronically sloughs away under the high way. It will also include grad ing, paving and signing to bring the highway up to interstate standards. Included also will be seeding and mulching of 46 acres, installation of culverts and installation of 11,000 feel of median barrier and 10,500 feet of guard rail. When this section of highway was built it involved the second biggest "cut" ever made under a state Highway Department contract Meanwhile, the only other Douglas County job on which bids were opened by the state Highway Commission in Salem was one for installation of a traffic signal at W. Bellows and j Harvard Avenue. Trowbridge , . . . . (Electric Co. of Roseburg bid $5, Fog and low clouds todi V, , m Tnc company wa8 a)s0 iuw 1 U.U9 IW.a.l.lK ..,,. 17 I O UI Highest temp, lest 24 hours 42 (nesc am )0 other projects in Lowest temp, lest 24 hours 3J tnc stale were opened. Highest temp, any Dec. (SI) 69 Lowest temp, eny Dee. (42) 14 TOWN ON STRIKE Precip. last 24 hours 0 ies and were taken to Douglas Community Hospital by ambu lance, when the station wagon owned and operated by Wagler was involved in a collision with a 1957 dump truck owned by Roseburg Sand and Gravel Co, and operated by Alfred S. Mor ris, 1550 NW Mulholland St, Roseburg. Limited Visibility , .State police said the .accident occurred at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, and that visibility was limited to about 200 feet. Morris was northbound on NE Stephens, and Wagler was southbound at the intersection of Garden Valley Blvd. Wagler made a Iuft turn in front of Morris. The colli sion was near the middle of tho northbound lanes. Both opera tors told police they had their headlights on The vehicles were damaged. Morris was able to drive the truck away under its own power but Wagler s station wagon had to be towed from the scene State police said that north of Turkey Hill, about 20 miles north of Roseburg, visibility is good up to about one-half mile Also the fog lifts to a higher cloud condition from about sev en miles south of the city. Med ford has a smog condition and there is fog around Grants Pass, South of Ashland driving condi tions arc good. There is no prob lcm in the Eugene area or north, it Is reported The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS yoars. , l Increase National Defense Education Act (NDEA) student' loan funds by 50 per cent, and' extend - the life of . the 1958 NDEA for another year to June 30, 1965. The new NDEA au thority totals $304 million Contlnue for two years). be yond July 1, 19G3, the 12-year old "Impacted areas" aid pro grain for grade and high schools crowded by tho children of fedoral workers and service men. The extension of expired Union Cancels Strike Against United Airlines WASHINGTON (UPIl irli. machinists' union today can celled a strike scherlnWI against United Air Lines ,for miumgm; lomgnt and agreed to submit a new rnmnnnv nmnAa the post World War II au!om- 1 to its mombers for ratifica tion surge. The expansion would Hon. cost $731 million over four The new proposal was worked Wallace Sets Speaking Tour MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) I Gov. George C. Wallace of Ala bama will make a speaking tour of five western states in Janu ary, his office said today. A detailed itinerary was not yet announced, but sources said tho tour would cover Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington. Speaking dates include Eu gene, Ore., and he probably will hold a press conference in Port land. His office said he was re sponding to a number of speak ing invitations received during the last several months. Memorial Service Slated For Roseburg Adventurer Memorial funeral services for. David Charles Wyalt, 20, Rose burg, who died Dee. 4 from in juries suffered while on an in sect-hunting expedition in the Himalaya Mounluins of Nepal, arc scheduled Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The services will take place at Wilson's Chapel of the Roses, with the Rev. John Adams of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Meanwhile, in a United Press S.4 CIHETI, Italy (UPI) The en .54 tire population of Chicti went on a 24-hour strike recently to dra 71 V. f S I f LAO reported on the accident. DAVID WYATT . . . memorial planned Normal Dec. precip. Precip. from Dec. 1 from which the two bullets wcrciPrclp. from Sept. 1 ...... 10.31 matize their demands that the! International report from Kat- fired. It said both bullets struck! Sunset tonight, 4:40 p.m. ' government give their town amandu. Nepal, today, more in itio President from behind. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:41 i.m. new university. formation of the accident was Steve McCarthy of Roseburg and Gary Payne, both students at Reed College in Portland, said: 'We had finished trekking around the village of Namche- bazar at the foot of Mt. Everest and were returning to Katman du through the Itolwalling Moun tains. While crossing 20,000-foot' high Tashi Lapacha Pass, Dav id suddenly slipped 500 feet to his death. They said the accident oc curred far west of the Everest mountain range in the Eastern Nepal Himalayas. They report ed they had complied with No- palese government orders not to climb any mountain peaks, since they were considered a nun climbing scientific team. The youth was born Oct. 30, 1943, in Eugene. He was a mem bcr of St. George's Episcopal Church Surviving arc his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wyatt, two brothers, Michael and Kelley, all of Roseburg, and his grand parents, Mrs. O. J. (Josephine) Fcldkamp and Mr. and Mrs. John Wyatt, all of Roseburg. The family has asked thai those who wish make donations to the Douglas County Scholar ship Fund, PO Box 1217, in memory of the youth. Dona tions may also be left at Wll son's Chapel of the Roses. out early today at sessions be tween union and enmnnnv negotiators who were working aguinsi mo deadline in an effort io prevent a walkout against the natron's biggest airline at uie neignt oi the Christmas f The ;unipn .. negotiating ' (earn uiu not recommend approval or rejection'of tho DroDosal hut ma. chinists'-officials appeared to be pleased by the terms of the proposed contract. Nearly 13,000 mechanic and ground crew members were poised to strike at 12:01 a.m. local time Thursday if no set tlement were reached. United had served notice it would at tempt to continue operating. The International Association of Machinists (IAM) said this deadline has been "deferred" to allow a secret ballot on the latest United offer. i,"' The union said the proposal provides for 30-cent hourly wage increases, by stages, to reach a $3.52 hourly rate for mechanics by Jan. 1, 1965. - This would correspond with terms of an agreement reached by the machinists and Branlff Airways earlier this week. It also could set a pattern for five other major airlines where the 1AM holds bargaining rights for mochanica and other ground personnel. President Johnson Has named in emer gency board to make settlement recommendations in the union s disputes with Trans World, Continental, Eastern, National and Northwest airlines. The union announced it has informed its members working for United of the terms pror posed for settlement. The offer will be submitted to a secret vote at union meetings this week and the voting may be completed by Sunday. A walkout against United would have disrupted holiday travel for an estimated 800,000 passengers.-, McLain Now On Board A. G. (Mike) McLain of Rose burg was nnmed today as a member of the state Board of Health to succeed Orvllle Cor belt of Burns. Burns died re cently. The term is for tour years. McLain, a Roseburg pharma cist, is also a member of the state Board of Pharmacy. ; JANTA'f HELPER SAY5 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS i 6