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EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1954
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15 Chaplains Pray
While Parachuting
"I EIGHTEEN ESCAPED DEATH-Firemen pour water on the still smoTSg '
h of a C-46 plane that crashed near Ncwhall, Calif., after 15 Civil Air Patrol
t chaplains and three crewmen had parachuted to safety.
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lief Ted Brown report
l afternoon that Eu-
I has just been inspect
oral official and found
nor 10 most oiners in
ported this to City
iHobert Finlayson sev-
after Sheriff Ed Elder
f just such a federal ex
t of the institution.
it man who made the
jt weeks ago is the man
a-- nended for the job
Parker of the Federal
Prisons.
reported that although
'official report has not
released, that Parker
Verbally that the jail at
is better than last
tt year, Brown said,
Dried in the Bureau's
plication that:
lil is well designed for
purposes, has good fa
ir the care and treat-
lealthy inmates and the
Iiffords some measure
itative opportunity. Of-
competent admimstra
maintain control and
over jail inmates
She use of safe, sound
lane operational meth-
Wh CHECKED
firmed on Page 9-A)
NEWHALL, Calif. Wl Pray
ing as they parachuted in shirt
sleeves, 15 chaplains landed safe
ly minutes before their disabled
Air Force C46 plane crashed and
burned Monday. The three crew
men also balled out successfully.
"You can be sure there was
plenty of praying going on," said
the Rev. Lcrtis R. Ellett of
Lawndale, Calif., Church of
Christ, who is an Air Force re
serve colonel.
'LORD WITH US'
"This was an occasion when,
doubly, we were practicing what
we preach; namely, prayer, said
the Rev. Neville E. Carlson of
Fillmore, Calif. -
"The Lord was with us in many
ways, even to the fact that the
fire in one engine was on the
right side of the plane and the
door through which we jumped
was on the left," said the Rev.
Bertil Von Norman of the West
Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
The group of Civil Air Patrol
chaplains from Southern Cali
fornia left Burbank Monday in
the C46, bound for a regional
CAP chaplain's conference at
Sacramento scheduled for Mon
day night and Tuesday.
The chaplains and crew were
wearing back parachutes and had
been briefed before take-off but
mood Official
bC President
rage, general manaepr
ted PlvwnnH Mills Inc
fant, Monday night was
esident of the Eugene
i Lommerce, succeert-iKodway.
election Was hv llnani.
Ice vote of the capacity
the Chamber's annual
pneeting.
pivaas, Eugene attorney,
pea as vice-president;
j. Hill, manager of the
pie Branch of the First
Jia..k. was spip tprf
and nampH a.: Hicop.
I Frprt T-.
. iiiaiipgci
lSene Farmers Cream-
woore of Moore's Steel
d L. A. McCormick,
M Big Y SuoermarltPts
f unopposed and their
maae without dissent.
fOR SPEAKS
SDeakpi at t i
j"iunnaae Koom of the
Hotel was Dr. 0. Merc
n, new president of the
of Oregon.
of his first major public
ices before a Eugene
Dr. Wilson jokingly
"M published Chamber
'Wee statistics to prove
university is an impor
Jf m the economy of the
turning seriously to his
vestment in Your Uni
" Good Business," Dr.
Wfc .of this nation's ex
u? high standard of liv
unparalleled guarantees
teeSnsCUrUy and comfort
CIDENT
'Sh Comparison of the
Posscssions of U.S. citi
f those of people else-
a earth shows Ameri
w.s?ven-l-one advan-
.""iiubs, motor cars, or
"you.
a't happened by acci-
-yeaMld University
Jn,ed 'or by the natural
physical advantages of this coun
try; nor by the racial background
of the American population.
It was the demonstration of
the worth of the individual man,
Dr. Wilson said, that led to the
development of this nation's
great wealth. In the days of the
first American settlers, each man
was needed to help in the com
mon task of building a new na
tion. Thus, "it was discovered
early that not only is life im-
CHAMBER
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none of the ministers had ever
jumped before.
Minutes after the departure,
smoke began trailing from the
C-46. Vibration was felt in the
ship, then the right engine caught
tire.
ENGINE FALLS OFF
As two crewmen carried the
pilot's instructions to the chap
lains to bail out at about 3,000 feet
the right engine fell away. Mr.
Von Norman, a CAP major, was
credited by his colleagues with
calm heroism as he helped the
chaplains adjust their 'chutes and
shepherded them out the door.
He was the last chaplain to bail
out. The crew followed, with the
pilot the last to jump when the
ship was probably no more than
1,000 feet up.
A half dozen of the chaplains
suffered cuts or bruises, wrenched
legs or shoulders but none was
seriously hurt.
Too Many
Clams Cost
Men $673
FLORENCE A box of clams
that cost three men $613.50 later
sold for $10.50 last week.
The three Eugene L. McKin
ley, Elvin Harris, and Robert
Harris, all of Yachats were each
fined $200 plus costs in justice
court here Saturday.
They were accused of taking
and having in their possession
618 razor clams. The legal limit
is two dozen each.
The trio was arrested on China
Creek Beach Friday morning by
State Police Officer Thomas
Fithian.
The men were allowed to keep
their legal limits and the box
with the remaining clams was
sold by the commission for $10.50.
Considering the fines as cost,
the men paid about 86 cents each
for the small clams. A local fish
market estimated Tuesday the
clams were worth less than 10
cents each.
Deadly Power
Of H-Bombs
Told in Book
U. S. Could Level
Major Red Cities
WASHINGTON W) A
new book says the United
States could wipe out every
city in the Soviet Union with
a rain of atomic bombs today
ana witnin another year
could do the job with hydro
gen bombs 30 times as de
structive.
"The hydrogen bomb," a copy
righted book by Time Magazine
staffers James R. Shepley and
Clay Blair Jr., warns at the same
time that "within only a few
years or even less" the Red air
force "must be conceded the
same capability against the Unit
ed States."
POWER INCREASED
Shepley and Blair say that
within another year after 1954"
most of the bombs (his country
could drop in a mass raid would
be H-bombs of at least 15 mega
tons force that is, the explosive
power of 15 million tons of TNT.
This compares with the esti
mated 500 kiloton force of the
biggest existing A-bombs equiva
lent to 500,000 tons of TNT. The
authors say the potential strength
of the H-bomb is 45 megatons 45
million tons of TNT.
"It seems doubtful," the book
says, "that any people actually
could survive the shock of say
1,000 'obsolete' 500-kiloton bombs.
It seems more than probable that
no people could survive if one
substitutes in the equation the po
tential 45 megatons of the therm
onuclear (hydrogen) bomb. , . .
"Any time in the year 1954, the
U. S. Strategic Air Command had
the capability, if the President of
the United States issued such an
order, to rain down complete ur
ban annihilation on the Soviet Un
ion. . .
1,000 TARGETS
"Within another year after
1954 most of the bombs in such a
raid would be not 500-kiloton
bombs but thermonuclear bombs
of at least 15 megatons' force.
One thousand Soviet targets
wiped from the face of the earth
would leave little else to hit
even in such a vast land."
The Shepley-Blair book, an
abridgement of which appears in
the current U. S. News & World
Report magazine, says atomic
scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer
actively opposed the hydrogen
bomb more than a year after
President Truman ordered work
on the superweapon begun.
Oppenheimer, who has since
been barred from atomic secrets,
has testified before an Atomic
Energy Commission panel that he
dropped his opposition to all-out
H-bomb research once Truman
gave the go-ahead on Jan. 31,
1950.
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HAPPY REUNION Richard Applegate and his mother
embrace as he arrives at the Spokane airport Tuesday.
Applegate and two others were held prisoners by the
Chinese Reds for 18 months. Mrs. Applegate came from
Mcdford to meet her son.
Mother Greets
Freed Newsman
SPOKANE, Wash. WV-Richard
Applegate, the radio correspond
ent held captive 18 months by
the Chinese Reds, came home to
America Tuesday and had a tear
ful reunion with his doughty, 74-
year-old mother.
Applegate ran down the steps
of his plane after it landed from
the Far East and embraced his
mother who burst into tears.
"Why are you crying, fatty?
Applegate said. "We're home."
CREDITS PRAYER
Donald Dixon of ' the Interna
tional News Service was with
him. He stood by and beamed.
Applegate, 42 -year -old Hong
Kong correspondent for the Na
tional Broadcasting Co., Dixon
Fipps Admits
Arson Guilt
Argus Lund Fipps, 43, 1600 N
9th St., Springfield, pleaded
guilty to second degree arson in
circuit court Tuesday.
Circuit Judge William G. East
will sentence the defendant Mon
day at 9:30 a.m.
Fipps was accused rff setting
fire Sept. 7 to an uninhabited
dwelling he owns, located at
2592 Riverview St., Eugene. .The
complaint against Fipps was sign
ed by H. H. Howard, captain
of the Oregon State Police.
dwelling, firemen said,
was gutted and the frame bad
ly damaged.
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Jury Convicts
Thrill Killer
- NEW YORK Wl A 17-year-old
Brooklyn youth, Thomas Wyso-
kowski, has been convicted of
first degree manslaughter and
faces a possible 10 to 20 years in
prison for the death of a man
the prosecution charged was
stomped to death.
Kings County Judge Samuel S.
Leibowitz told Wysokowski that
he was lucky to escape the elec
tric chair for the slaying of
Thomas Condon, 40, World War
II veteran and father of four.
After the jury brought in the
verdict late Monday in Brooklyn,
the judge told Wysokowski:
"You went up there on that
street, Mr. Defendant, and that
human being on the ground was
like a bug which you crushed
out with an intent to kill.
"You got a thrill out of it,
That was the typical act of a
hoodlum today. . . ."
The judge did not comment di
rectly on the finding of the all
male jury which rejected a
prosecutor's plea for a first de
gree murder verdict. This could
have brought a death penalty.
Stewart Joins
Fact Finders
PORTLAND WV-The Oregon
Journal said Tuesday it had
learned that Douglas fir oper
ators had named Martin N. Deg-
geller of Hoquiam, Wash., and
Loran L. Stewart of Cottage
Grove, to the governors' lumber
fact-finding committee.
The committee, set up to con
sider issues in the Northwest's
lumber dispute, is to have seven
members. The CIO named
Chester Dusten of Portland and
the AFL named Earl Hartley of
Seattle.
Official announcement has not
been made of the operators' se
lections, but the Journal said the
men were chosen by a committee
representing six fir operators,
Still to be chosen are the final
three men, to be named by the
Washington and Oregon gover
nors. Dcegcllcr is president of Har-
jbor Plywood Corp., and Stewart
is president of Bohemia Lumber
Co.
Russia Asked
To Take Part in
Day of Prayer
DENVER tfv President Ei
senhower appealed Tuesday to
the people of Russia and other
Iron Curtain countries to join
Americans Wednesday in a day
of prayer for world peace as
"the true cure" for war-breeding
tensions.
In a message beamed to the
Soviet Union and its satellites
over the powerful radio facili
ties of the Voice of America,
the President said:
"May the world be ringed
with an act of faith so strong
as to annihilate the cruel, arti
ficial barriers erected by little
men between the people who
seek peace on earth through
the Divine Spirit."
The National Day of Prayer
for Peace being observed in
the United States" Wednesday
was provided for in a resolu
tion passed by Congress and
approved by the President.
Red China Bid
Shelved in U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Wl
A Dutch diplomat, Dr. Eclco
Nicolaas Van Klcffcns, was
elected president of the ninth
U. N. General Assembly Tuesday.
and the skipper of their yacht
were captured by the Communists
as they sailed west of Hong
Kong. Last week, they were sud
denly released. '
It was "unified prayer" that
did it, said Mrs. Frank Applegate
who came here from Medford,
Ore., to meet her son.
"You're thinner but we'll fatten
you up, she said. "We've saved
corn out of the garden. We've
butchered some chickens and
we've got steaks for you."
"You shouldn't have mentioned
that corn," Applegate said,
That's what I've been dyinc
lor."
The mother clutched her son as
he told newsmen at the airport:
1 Knew she was praying and
working for my freedom. I don't
owe anyone as much for being
back in America as I do mother
and dad."
LOST 50 POUNDS
Applegate, who said he lost 50
pounds in Red prisons, is going
on to New York and said he plans
to write and lecture to tell the
world about "those dirty beasts."
I lay blame for being impris
oned so long on Allan Winnington,
the Communist correspondent,
who, I am confident, is a part of
the Chinese Communist foreign
office."
Winnington covered the war in
Korea for Communist papers,
Dixon, 26, was unshaven and
feeling shaky."
"I don't think the Chinese held
us for propaganda reasons," he
said. "They held us just because
we were Americans. They told us
that we were held so long be
cause they wanted to check on
whether we were spying. It was
piracy."
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. un
The General Assembly voted
Tuesday to shelve for this year
the issue of seating Red China in
the United Nations.
This was proposed by the Unit
ed States after Russia had de
manded that the assembly act at
once to give the Peiping regime
the seat held by the Chinese Na
tionalists.
The vote was 43-11 with 6 ab
staining. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky made his de
mand ten minutes after the 60
nation General Assembly opened
its ninth session.
U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. immediately made his
counter-proposal and asked that
the Assembly give it priority over
the Vishinsky resolution.
Secretary of State Dulles fol
lowed the exchange from a scat
in the American delegation, but
did not take part.
Group to Seek
Dog Racing
Permit Again
State Commission
To Study Request
A representative of Grey
hound Park of Eugene has
indicated the corporation will
submit a formal application
to the State Racing Commis
sion for a permit to operate
a race meet in Lane County
next year.
Sidney Milligan, Eugene attor
ney who is handling legal affairs
for the organization, said the ap
plication will be submitted in
time for consideration at the
commission's November meeting
in Portland,
Milligan said the corporation is
entering into a contract with
Western Greyhound Racing Cir
cuit, an organization which
handles racing meets in other
areas, to conduct the racing meet
in the Eugene area.
Greyhound Park of Eugene has
plans for construction of a mod
ern glassed-in plant, Milligan
said. The corporation's booth at
the Lane County fair advertised
that the structure and improve
ments would cost an estimated
$400,000.
Milligan said no definite site
has been selected, but that at
least two in the Eugene area are
receiving consideration.
C. A. Huntington, commission
vice chairman, said Tuesday the
commissions regular meeting
will be. sometime in November
at the call of the chairman, Dr.
Frank R. Menne of Portland.
Menne has not yet called the
meeting, Huntington said.
Baseball
By Associated Press '
NATIONAL LEAGUE
It H F.
New York -. 401) 010 000 5 7 3
Brooklyn - 101 000 000 2 5 0
Gomez. Heart! (6) & Katt; Podrcs.
Lnblne (8) & Campanella.
(10 Innings) R H E
St. Louis 020 010 000 0 3 10 1
Chlcaco . 100 002 000 1 4 10 0
Raschl, Brnzlo (HI, Staley (0) It
Sarnl; Rush & Fanning.
R II E
Cincinnati 0.13 000 Oil 5 8 0
Milwaukee 000 000 00O 0 0 1
Nuxhall & Scmlnck; Nichols, Buhl
(0), Jay (9) & crandall.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (2), post
poned. ,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
It II F
Washington 000 010 000 1 4 2
New York ... . 000 001 02x 3 5 0
Stone & Fitzgerald; Grim & Rerra.
(First) R H E
Philadelphia .. 010 001 100 0 3 1 I
Boston .. . 011 000 010 0 4 12 2
Wheat, Dixon (7) & Aslroth. Robert
son 18); Nixon, Hlirfl (7), Hudson tJ
Kcmmcrcr (10) & White.
Chicago at Cleveland, night.
Detroit at Baltimore, night.
Taylor Named
Aide to Boals
Byron K. Taylor, an employe
of the Eugene Water & Electric
Board for the past 23 years, was
named assistant to Supt. Ray
Boals Monday.
Taylor, 50, has been chief civil
engineer for the board in recent
yoarj. He is in charge of the
EWEB's hydroelectric plants and
planning for future expansion.
He fills the vacancy on the
board's staff that was created
when Byron Price resigned to
become assistant administrator of
the Bonneville Power Administra
tion last summer.
Taylor has worked for the
board since 1931. Prior to that he
was a member of the engineering
staff of the Portland Electric
Power Co. and the Washington
Water Power Co.
During World War II, Taylor
served with the Army as post
engineer for Air Corps installa
tions. He held a captain s rating
in the Corps of Engineers.
A graduate of Oregon State
College, Taylor is married and
has two children. He lives at 670
W. 10th Ave.
POPE DOING BETTER
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy Wl
A Vatican source said Tuesday
Pope Pius XII, who cancelled a
speech Sunday because of a
slight indisposition, was a little
better.
Threats of Racial Violence
Close 2 Delaware Schools
(Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.)
NEW LEADER of Eugene's Chamber of Commerce, John Gragg, general manager of
Eusene's Associated Plywood Mill (left), received congratulations on his election
from the organization's retiring president, Sam Rodway. Gragg was elevated to the
Chamber presidency by unanimous vote. This past year he has serve! as vice president.
2,000 REPORTED KILLED
HONG KONG W A Chinese
merchant from Amoy estimates
Nationalist attacks on that Com
munist port have killed 2,000 Red
Chinese soldiers.
M1LFORD, Del. (ffl This com
munity's two public schools were
closed again Tuesday in the face
of telephoned threats of violence
if Negro children were allowed
to attend classes in the pre
viously all-white high school.
Dr. Raymond C. Cobbs, super
intendent of the Milford schools,
had announced earlier that the
schools would open as usual
Tuesday after being closed Mon
day. INTEREST OF SAFETY
However, Dr. Cobbs issued a
statement early Tuesday morning
in which he said the schools will
be closed until further notice "in
the interest of the safety of all
the children."
The statement said:
"Members of the board of edu
cation since making an earlier
announcement have received nu
merous calls threatening vio
lence in case any Negro children
attend school. In the interest of
the safety of all the children the
board hereby serves notice that
the schools are cldscd until fur
ther notice."
A detail of five policemen ar
rived at the school along with
several of the schools teachers.
The teachers entered the build
ing, while the policemen spread
around the building to keep
watch.
Dr. Cobbs declined to elabor
ate on his statement as tension
mounted in this quiet southeast-
cm Delaware community. The
situation developed Monday when
the Milford school board closed
the schools after learning of a
protest march planned by anti-scgrcgationists.
Although the school board,
composed of three businessmen
and a housewife, had called for
resumption of classes Tuesday,
they left unanswered the ques
tion of whether 11 Negro pupils
would he allowed to take up their
high school studies.
SEEN A TEST CASE
Meanwhile, several hundred
miles away in Dayton, Ohio, Atty.
Russell L. Carter prepared peti
tions on behalf of the National
Assn. for the Advancement of
Colored People asking the United
States District Court to enjoin
what Negro leaders call segre
gation in the Hillsboro, Ohio,
school system.
Mrs. Milcy O. Williamson, re
gional coordinator in Dayton for
the NAACP, said "the Hills-
boro action is designed as a test
case for racial segregation In
Northern schools."
School board officials in the
southwestern Ohio community of
some 5,000 insisted there is no
segregation. And city officials
said a rczoning of the city's
school districts tending to keep
most Negroes out of previously
all-white Webster and Washing
ton grade schools was on a
"residential" rather than a racial
basis. The rczoning took effect
last week.
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Giants become 1054 National
League champs, Page 2B.
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