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DISCUSS GENEVA CONFERENCE Secretary of State Christian A. Herter (right)
briefs President Eisenhower at the White House on the deadlocked Geneva Big
Four Foreign Ministers Conference on Berlin.
Oregon Agricultural Commodity
Commissions Hav More Freedom
Oregon's agricultural commodity
commissions grower-created and
grower-propelled vehicles to pro
mote a particular product have
more freedom of action as result
ot 1959 legislation. Until this
year these self-help programs
have operated tightly under the
wing of Mother Oregon. But the
iecent legislature, heeding advice
of the interim committee on gov
ernmental reorganization, made
changes that actually bring the
commission , work closer to the
growers who support it
These changes are effective
July l.,The major ones include:
1. Public budget hearings for
the growers. (So far growers
seem unaware of this change as
few have appeared at the budget
hearings held in June by the sev
en established commissions.)
Suicide Is Verdict After
Second Autopsy On Reeves
HOLLYWOOD UPI TV bu-
perman George Reeves commit
ted suicide according to results
of a second autopsy, Coroner
Theodore J. Curphey announced
Tuesday.
Curphey's action, taken after
Reeves' mother doubted' her son
had taken his own lite, also dis
closed that Reeves was under the
iniluence of alcohol at the time
of his death.
Reeves left gucSls in the living
Experts Say
Atom Testing
Still Needed
WASHINGTON (UPD-Expcrts
soid today that more atomic tests
are needed to fill gaps in knowl
edge of what an H-bomb war
would do to the warring nations
and the world.
They made tins suggestion as a
congressional atomic energy sub
committee continued hearings on
the "biological and environmental
effects of a nuclear war."
The subcommittee was told
Monday that a major nuclear at
tack on the United States would
destroy or make unusable for
varying periods half the nation's
total dwellings.
For the purpose of the hearings,
the subcommittee assumed that
on a "typical October day" an
aggressor hit 224 target areas in
the United States with 2G0
H-bombs ranging in power from
one to 10 megatons. One megaton
equals one million tons of TNX
Counting bombs dropped on Al
lied targets in Western Europe
and U.S. retaliatory bombing of
the aggressor's homeland, tne to
tal megatonnagc in this hypothetic
nnl war adds un to 4.000.
As-the hearings went into their
second day, . the subcommittee
sought to learn from expert wit
nesses details of what nuclear
blast, fire, radiation, and fallout
Ho to human beines.
The survivors of the A-bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have
given the world much information
on this score. But scientists cant
relate this information precisely
to radiation dosage because they.
lack detailed information on just
what dose the two wartime bombs
delivered at certain distances,
In testimony late Monday, Dr.
G. S. Hurst of the Atomic Energy
Commission's Oak Ridee iTcnn.)
National Laboratory suggested
malter-of-factly that "the most
effective way" to get the needed
data would be to detonate re
Says
Survive
2. An annual budget, instead of
biennial as in the past when the
legislature approved the budget
end when it had to be projected
two to three years' in advance
3. Deposit of commission funds
in their own bank accounts, in
banks approved as a state depos
itory. Checks will require two
bonded signatures and accounts
and records will continue under
periodic state audit.
4. A single emergency fund
it 3m in the budget to 'cover un
foreseen emergencies. Heretofore
the commission could go to the
stste emergency board for un
budgeted pressing needs.
5. Certification of the budget
to the secretary of state through
the director of agriculture who
will ascertain If it has been pre-
room of nis nome June in ana
mounted to the second floor
bedroom. A shot then was heard.
The television performer was
found dead.
"It is my opinion' the wound
was, self inflicted," Curphey said.
Several questions which contin
ued to puzzle friends and asso
ciates included
The Incessant phone calls po
lice said he received from a
former girl friend;
Why he would leave most of
his $50,000 estate to the wife of
a film executive instead of to his
fiancee
And why a coroner's seal on
his Benedict Canyon home was
broken.
The city attorney's office dis
closed that Reeves had com
plained about phone calls which
came from a woman. Reeves
said he believed the calls came
from Mrs. Toni Mannix, the main
beneficiary, but a subsequent in
vestigation showed the calls did
not come from her home.
Mrs. Mannix, wife of Eddie J
Mannix, former general manager
of MGM and president of Lowe's,
in turn had accused Reeves of
annoying her, police said. She re
cently hired a bodyguard.
No action was taken on the
phone calls
Reeves' will leaving most of his
estate to Mrs. Mannix, who said
she had been a "close friend'' of
Reeves, will be contested ot a
July 10 hearing by his mother,
M's. Helen Leoai;.- Bessolo. of
Galesburg, 111.
She said the matter would be
handled by famed Hollywood at
torney Jerry Giesler, whom she
retained several days ago to in
vestigate the suicide. Two days
ago Giesler disclosed the broken
coroner's seal and also said
$5,000 had becn taken from the
Pppvpa hnmp
That was one mystery which
was cleared up by a statement
from Reeves' fiancee, New York
cafe society figure Leonore Lem
mon, 35, who was in the house
when Reeves shot himself to
death. She said it was $4,ooo and
not $5,000 and was in travelers
checks which were to be used on
their honeymoon.
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pared and adopted as the law re
quired '
6. Commission adoption of uni
form reasonable rules on travel
end similar expenes. Employes
will still be under state civil ser
vice and retirement.
7. Gubernatorial recognition un
der the law of recommendations
made by growers or grower or
ganizations for appointment of
commission members. (Actually,
all governors have done this on a
voluntary basis.)
8. The contribution the grow
ers make to the program hence
forth becomes an assessment
rather than a tax.
The changes enumerated above
apply to the general act under
which commissions are now cre
ated and also the specific wheat
and potato commission laws. '
The state department of agricul
ture continues to perform the
duties of receiving petitions,
holding hearings and conducting
the grower vote to deny or approve
creation, of a commission. Also
the director of agriculture and
dean of the OSC school of agri
culture or their respective rep
resentative continue as ex-offi-
cio members of each commission.
Aside from the interim com
mittee changes, the amended law
also includes some housekeeping
changes recommended by the de
partment of agriculture and the
commissions. - These relate main
ly to the general commission act.
These will permit more tnan
one kind or type of a commodity
(as cancberries instead of a sin-
e berry) td come under a sin
gle program; allow two-thirds of
tlie original signers to withdraw
a petition; permit the depart
ment to submit a supplemental
budget to cover hearings and ref
erendum costs; permit the com
mission to audit records of per
sons reauired to pay or cillect the
assessments; permits a write-offl
after 5 years of small or uncol
lectible assessments; closes re
ports of growers and handlers to
public scrutiny; clarifies proce
dures to increase or decrease the
assessment, to limit or expand
powers or to continue or discon
tinued commission.
Copies of the amended law are
available from the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, Division of
Market Development, Salem.
RUSSIAN ESCAPER DROWNS
HELSINGBORG, Sweden (UPI)
A Russian' sailor was drowned
in the two-mile-wide strait be
tween here and Denmark Monday
after lumping ship in a dramatic
bid for freedom. "I was watching
the Russian ship through binocu
lars and saw the man jump over
board," said Port Capt. Folk
Hcrrlin. The man began swim
ming ' toward Sweden and delib
erately turned his back on a life
boat sent by the Soviet ship be
fore he went under, Herrlin said.
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WASHINGTON (UPD A scien
tist gave assurance today that the
human race would survive the
heriditary damage of an H-bomb
war between Russia and the Unit
ed States.
It might even emerge genera
tions hence "bigger, stronger,
wiser, gentler, healtliier." But the
price would be enormous and the
scientist. Dr.' Robert R. Newell,
earnestly advised against pay
ing it.
He said the price would be "a
large or major fraction of the
population killed, or dying within
a few months; survivors carrying
many radiation-induced mutations;
high infant and adult mortality fur
many generations. '
Newell, of the Naval Radiologi
cal Defense Laboratory at San
Francisco, testified before a con
gressional atomic energy subcom
mittee on the effects of protracted
exposure to radiation in the afte:
math of nuclear war.
Theory says that any amount of
radiation, however low, can dam
age the genes the reproductive
cell units which transmit heredi
tary characteristics from genera
tion to generation. It also says 90
to 99 per cent of changes, or mu
tations, wrought by radiation in
the genes are harmfrl. The harm
shows itself in such guises as de
fective children, stillbirths, low
fertility.
In the hypothetical war between
the United States and Russia, per
haps 40 million Americans of re
productive age would survive. Hu
man beings have 20,000 to 100,000
genes. It has been estimated that
the survivors might transmit -be
tween 24 million and 9.6 million
new mutations to their children
This sounds like unrelieved disas
ter, and many geneticists believe
it would be.
But Newell, an elderly'man with
sparse gray hair who wes de
scribed by a colleague as a non
conformist, said there is another
way of looking at it.
"It should not be taken as axi
omatic that an increase in muta
tion rate is bad for the human
race," he said."A certain percent
age of mutant genes in our ra
cial inventory may be necessary
for health and survival, even
though they do entail a certain
selective mortality."
By "selective mortality". New,:
ell was referring to the fact that
in nature a species rids itself of
unwholesome genes through the
device of premature death.
Execution Is Set
For Starkweather
LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) The
Nebraska Supreme Court has
set Thursday tor the execution oi
mass killer Charles Starkweather,
who was refused a hearing by
the United States Supreme Court
Monday.
' The state high court acted
swiftly in setting the new execu
tion date, the fifth now for the
midwest's worst killer.
Starkweather's only hope for an
other stay was to have his attor
neys go into district court here
and obtain another stay before
midnight Wednesday. The court
said the electrocution of the ad
mitted killer of 11 would be be
tween the hours of 12:01 a.m. and
11:59 p.m.
HEMINGWAY HONORED
RONDA, Spain (UPI) Amer
ican novelist and bullfight expert
Ernest Hemingway, currently va
cationing in southern Spain, re
ceived a gold medal from the
mayor here Tuesday honoring the
100th anniversary of the birth of
bullfighter Pedro Romero,
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BEARING GIFTS
FOR PRISONERS
GREENVILLE, Mitt. (UPI)
Circuit Judge Arthur Held
sentenced Norman Tanksley
for violation of parole; Once
a month for the next five
years, he mutt call at the
county jail with gifts "not
exceeding the value of a car
ton of cigarets" for the pris
oners. 11 Students
Earn Perfect
Grades At EOC
A record number of 11 stud
ents earned a perfect, 4.0, grade
point average for the spring
term at EOC.
Receiving straight "A's" were
Elinor Denny. Sharon Hill, and
John Willmarth, La Grande; Sey
mour Baybrook, Kamuela, Ha
waii; Leslie Edwards, Moro; Wil
bur Hutton, Baker; William Love-
lady, Haines; Harold Moore,
Madras; Larry Morgan, Milton
Freewatcr; Dorothy Reynolds,
Empire; and Michael Ricker, Un
ion.
Those who received a 3.5 av
erage or higher entitling them to
be included on the honor roll
were Mary Bray, JoAnn Berry-
man, Nancy Choate, Jean Cuth-
bert, John Dahlstrom, Donna De-
trick, Robert Detrick, Frederika
Evans, Joyce M. Fertig, Gary
Gaertner, William Hawks, Dor
othy Kncchtel, Keith Masterson,
Franklin Mathias, Gene Noland,
Barbara Paris. Louis Porter, Su
san Peterman, Theresa Rauwolf,
Susan Rich, Myrtle Schaad, Rob
ert Sccvers, David Walch, Neil
Williamson, Albert Wolfe, and
Jack Wood, all of La Grande,
Others were Dick Cantrell and
Jerrold Baxter. Union; Gary Diel
man, John Geriza, Walter Kirk-
lib, Norman Lewis and Harry
Spence, Baker; Melvin Munn,
Richland; Joyce Kay, Pendleton
Thomas Sutherland, Pilot Rock
S!yron Carpenter, Gayle Eddy,
and Thomas Switzer, Vale; Yvon
ne Bannister and Tarry Clifton,
Weston; Ken Geigner and Don
Heard, Milton-Freewatcr; Robert
Bonnet, McNary; Mary Michel,
Summcrville.
Carol Rudishausscr, John Day;
Donald Ule, Hermiston; Edsel
White. Joseph; Luella Willard,
Dayton; Josephine Ward, Forest
Grove; Mary Jean Riese, Wliaer,
Idaho: Carolyn MuUcr. St. ttei-
ens; Ken Kiyono, Kyushu, Japan;
Jeannie Edmison, Bend; Ked De
imal. Ontario: Jean Damon, Hepp-
ner; Phyllis Collins, WaUowa;
Patrick Cawood, Portland; and
Bob Winkel, Maupin. -
British Release
Atom Bomb Spy
LONDON (UPD Klaus Fuchs,
the man . who gave tne atom
hnmh sprrt to the Russians, was
released from prison Tuesday and
left for permanent resident De-
hind the Iron Curtain.
A spokesman for the t-ast uer
mnn foreign ministry announced
in East Berlin that Fuchs would
go behind the Iron Curtain into
Communist East Germany tonight
or Wednesday.
Wakefield Prison officials con
firmed that the 48 year old Ger
man-born nuclear scientist was
taken from prison under guard
today. He had spent nine years
in prison.
The government, announced
some time ago that Fuchs. who
had served about two thirds of a
14 year prison term, would be
released "by the end of June"
and allowed to go wherever he
chose.
RAIDERS KILL BRITISH
CAIRO (UPI) ArabFedayeen
raiders killed five British soldiers
In the southern Arabian state of
Muscat and Oman, the semi-official
Middle East News Agency
reported Monday. The uncon
firmed report said the raids took
place between Nazwa and Azki
against a British military camp
and another British outpost.
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Benson Predicts President
Will Veto Demo Wheat Bill
j WASHINGTON (UPD Agri
culture Secretary Ezra T. Benson
piredicts President Eisenhower
will veto a Democratic sponsored
bill calling for higher wheat price
stipports and smaller plantings.
Benson made it clear at his
news conference Tuesday that .be
woiiUI urge the President not to
sign the measure, which the- Sen
dte sent to the White House Mon
day night. . '
The wheat bill provides for a
25 per cent cut-back in plantings
in 1U60 and 1901 to help reduce
the growing wheat surplus. To
take the pinch off farmers, it al
so would increase price supports
from 75 to 90 per cent of parity.
Benson challenged sponsors
daims that the bill would save
the government $204,000,000 a
year in overall costs. The farm
secretary said instead it would
4 Face Charge Of Rape
Of 14-Year-Old White Girl
NEW YORK (UPD-Four Negro
teen-agers charged with the rape
of a 14-year-old white girl in a
junior high schoolyard appear in
the adolescent section of.l'eiony
Court for a hearing today. .
Jacob Bethea and John Rich,
both 16, admitted sexually attack
ing the girl last Thursday night
when she left the school recrea
tion center and started home, po
lice said. Henry Stokes, 16, and
Edward Jacobs, 17, were said to
have admitted holding her while
the attack occurred.
AH four were charged with rape
Two other Negroes were involved
in the incident, but their ages, 15
and 14, prevented their being
charged with any crime except
Juvenile delinquency. Police said
the 15-year-old admitted helping
Accident Injuries
Claim Radio Man
SALEM (UPI) Glenn McCor-
mick, owner of radio station
KSLM in Salem and part owner
of station KYOS in Merced, Calif.,
died in a hospital here Tuesday
afternoon of injuries suffered in a
head-on automobile accident Mon
day. V . '
' The ' 61-year-old veteran broad
caster was fatally injured when
the car he was driving collided
with one driven by Earl Ward Jr.,
of Valsetz. Ward and McCormick's
10-year-old nephew, Mark Kuhn,
were in good condition in Salem
Memorial hospital recovering
from injuries.
The accident occurred east of
Rickreall . on the Salem -Dallas
highway. .
McCormick is survived by his
widow and a daughter, Glcnda,
both of Salem.
' He became the owner of KSLM
In 1944. McCormick was a former
president of the Oregon Broad
casters Association and represent
ed the group at the United Nations
conference in San Francisco in
1945.-
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cost an additional $100,000,000 a
year above the present $700,000,
000 annual cost of the wheat pro
gram. WASHINGTON (UPD The
chairman of a House subcommit
tee which is investigating the
food industry says he will look
into the Agriculture Department's
proposal to suspend federal grad
ing of lamb.
A spokesman for western meat
packers told a House Small Busi
ness subcommittee Tuesday that
the proposal might destroy small
meat packers.
Subcommittee Chairman James
Roosevelt ID-Calif.) said he was
shocked. He said he would sum
mon Agriculture Department of
ficials to justify their plan.
If the explanation was not
good, Roosevelt said, he would
hold her, and the 14-yoar-old act
ed ns lookout.
The girl, five-feel-four, brown-
huired, is a student .at Junior
High School 1G in Corona, Queens,
where the attack took place. Her
name was'withheld.
The attack ended when the
recreation center director, Mrs.
Louis Clifford, heard the girl's
screams. The boys fled at her ap
proach.
The Corona section of Queens
Borough is composed of middle in
come families. It has a Negro
section. Police said there appar
ently was no interracial tension
involved in the incident at JUS 16.
According to the slory told po
lice, she had known Bethea casu
ally, by his nickname, Jake. She
said he accosted her as she stood
talking with a girl acquaintance
at the schoolyard entrance, that
she screamed, "leave me alone
. . . take your hands off me." I
and struggled with him. Her girl
friend fled.
He struck her in the face and
pulled her around the side of 'the
school to a courtyard, where the
other five -waited.
Mrs. Clifford said that when
she ran into the courtyard it was
too dark for her to mnke out
what was"" happening but she
shouted: "Slop that; get away''
and the boys ran.
SHARK SCATTERS SWIMMERS
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPD-A
12-foot shark chasing a school of
tarpon in shallow water sent bath
crs scurrying for shore hero Mon
day. Lifeguards warned the swim
mers as the shark went over
sand bar after the tarpon within
sight of several resort hotels.
TWO DIE IN, FALL
SHREVEPORT. La. (UPI) A
12-foot steel radio relay tower
collapsed Monday, , killing two
workmen. Wesley G. Shufford III.
21 and Robert Harold Finn, 25,
rode the tower to their deaths aft
er the middle , section of the
framework collanscd.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.)
has introduced a new surplus
food distribution plan which in
cludes the use of food stamps in
three pilot areas.
The plan is a combination of
several bills on which the senate
agriculture committee held hear
ings earlier. The measures were
supported by Senate Democrats
and labor groups.
Humphrey's bill would switch
control .of food distribution from
the Agriculture Department to
the Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare. The stamp
plan would be tried out in De
troit, somewhere on the West
Coast, and -.a spot probably in
Tennessee or Kentucky.
WASHINGTON I UPD Agri
culture Secretary Ezra T. Ben
son announced today that a
month long referendum will be
held in September to find out if
wool and lamb producers want to
continue their agreement ; with
the American - Sheep Producers
Council, . '
If approved the agreement
would be extended for three
more years. Under the plan the
council's advertising, promotion
and related market development
activities on lamb and wool are
paid for by deductions from fed
eral wool incentive payments
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