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TEN AIRMEN KILLED Firemen battle flames from
scattered wreckage of KC97, refueling tanker, which
caught ,fire shortly after take
Ten Killed
In California
Air Crash
MERCED, Calif. WV Ten men
died Wednesday as a four engine
"tanker" plane crashed after leav
ing Castle Air Force Base near
here. There were no survivors.
Fire broke out on the plane
as it reached an altitude of about
11,500 feet. It crashed within a
moment or two, exploded as it hit
the ground, and was demolished
The flames fired the grain field
into which the plane fell
The tanker, a military version
of the Boeing Stratocruiser, was
on a routine refueling mission
from Castle AFB near Merced
The crash occurred about 15
miles northwest of Merced, near
the community of Cresscy.
REFUELING TEST
The rcfuelcr was to have inter
cepted a flight of bombers on a
fweling test,
The first report on the crash
was a telephone call to the
sheriff's office from the rancher
on whose property the plane fell.
"Bodies were strewn all over
the field," he said.
The tankers were used to refuel
jet bpmbcrs and interceptors, i.-d
can carry more than 6,000 gallons
of jet fuel.
One of the four engines fell in
a field about a mile from the
plane wreckage.
As the big ship exploded, de
bris was scattered oyer more
than an acre of ground. It fired a
barley field, burning five or six
acres.
FELT' LIKE EARTHQUAKE
The explosion jarred houses in
Modesto, 28 miles away, and the
jolt felt like an earthquake to
residents of El Capitan and Cres
scy, about five miles from the
crash.
A rancher said he saw the en-
iine fall from the plane. Then
the wing on that side rose sharp-
!v, and the rancher could see
flames streaking alongside the
" SL,dH "'"- "'Kinf control and crashed while he
piane jurcnuu iu uie cdim.
Adventists Convene
OREGON CITY 11 Some 650
delegates, from 107 churches
throughout the state, were ex
pected Wednesday for the open
ing session of the Oregon Con
ference of Seventh-Day Adven
tists. The conference is being
held at the Gladstone Park camp
grounds. Never Too
Old to Sing
Lane County's venerable
entertainers, the Octogenarian
Quartet, have a problem.
One of the members will be
90 Aug. 22." He'll be a non
agenarian. , But Rev. Frank Cook, the
man wilh the impending
' birthday, isn't worried. The
quartet has had to pad out
lis ranks with juniors young
sters a mere 79 years old
without so much as changihg
its name.
The Rev. Cook is pastor of
the McKenzie Bridge Chris- .
" tian Church, Besides heing
known for his s'ingiri, he's
rsme'mbered'as'the man. who
has 'sparked construction Of
more thaj" IJO'churthc in the
western states. His latest
rildin project was construc
tion1 oj a n,w chapel iH anc
' turf at flcKenzjf Brle.
He wilMe honored Sunday
j by the o'er members ofihe
quartet Fmk Terpin, John
3 St?r and Geoyre McLean
who will rfleiT a concert of
sacr.
andjeculffr numbers
fltl regular 11 a.m. devo-
tiflf service at icKenzir
Bridge.
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Treatment of Animals
Brings Censure to 2
Lane County Humane Society I Mrs. Frank W. McCulloeh of Rt.
officials censured two former
employes Tuesday for permitting
what the society's president. Dr.
W. M. Swangard, termed a hor
rible and shocking" method of
disposing of small animals.
The men blamed by society ol-
ficials for conditions at the ken
nels on Traxler Rd. are George
Cranford, former caretaker; and
Bud Farmer, an assistant. Society
members said Tuesday that both
men have disclaimed knowledge
that the conditions existed.
Practices of treating animals
at society kennels on Traxler Rd
were exposed last week . when
ICC Provides
Boxcar Help
SALEM (Pi Two orders have
been issued by the Interstate
Commerce Commission which
will help ease the boxcar shortage
in Oregon, Public Utilities Com
missioner Charles Hcltzcl has
announced.
The nation's railroads can no
longer delay cars at points where
there are competing railroads.
in the hope of getting additional
business, the ICC ruled. The
cars must now be moved quickly
to the points they are needed.
The other nationwide order is
sued by the ICC reduces from
eight to four the number of rail
roads which can hold cars at
their destination waiting for a
backhaul load. All other railroads
must send the empties back as
soon as possible.
Although the threat of a boxcar
shortage still hangs over the
slate, orders for cars are being
filled this week.
Logger Killed
A long-Bell Lumber Co. em
ploye was killed Wednesday
mnrnintr ahnn hie intntr u-nnl fint
was working at a logging opera
tion at Austa, 40 miles west of
Eugene.
The dead man was identified
as Bert Duke of Vcncta. State po
lice and coroner s deputies were
sent to the scene to conduct an
investigation of the accident.
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t-e eve? gfown in tl EmcraftoCTipire. Mrs.QBarton said j
Chit, head was grown from on of iicr seedlings by a
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ploded two miles north of Castle Air Force Base, Calif.,
Ten bodies were taken from the wreckage.
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3, Eugene, complained that dogs
and cats were being put together
in a gas chamber prior to their
killing.
She said also that animal re
mains near the incinerator were
unsightly and obnoxious; and she
complained about the long time
animals were kept In the cham
ber before being gassed.
The society Tuesday morning
held a regular meeting for mem
bers and other interested per
sons in the Lane County Court
house. Dr. Swangard presided.
He was recently elected presi
dent of the organization.
Other action taken by the so
ciety on Tuesday ' included:
Election of Mrs. McCulloeh
to the board of directors, after
admitting her into membership
I in the society.
Agreement to pay transit ex
penses of a prospective new man
ager for the kennels who is now
in Nebraska.
A change in the groups
meeting date. From now on. the
society will meet the first Thurs
day -of the month at 7:30 p.m. in
TREATMENT
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Solons Clear
Projects Bill
WASHINGTON Mv-A bill ap
propriating nearly 554 million dol
lars to be used by Army Engi-
ncers in the next 2 months to;Dullcs aiso sajd there is cvery
plan ann duiiq uuuu i-uniim auu
navigation projects cleared Con
gress Wednesday and was sent
to the White House.
Congressional action was com
pleted when the House and Sen
ate agreed to compromise. Previ
ously, the House had voted 520
million dollars and the Senate
565 million. President Eisenhow
er had budgeted 518 million.
(Funds included in this appro
priation will provide either plan
ning or partial construction of
the following Emerald Empire
projects: Cougar Dam, Hills
Creek Dam, Green I'ctcr Dam
and the Amazon Creek channel
work.)
Sirs. Harold Baflon Tuesday
Barton raorted: ' It doesn t
wft cut ajj wri !T,e woa-.f
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Water Skier
Hit by Boat,
Hurt Seriously
A 13-year-old Eugene girl was
seriously injured Monday when
she was struck by the propellor
of a motorboat while water-ski
ing at Fern Ridge Lake.
The victim was Mariane Thom
as, who lives with her grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis A.
Thomas, at 2180 Roosevelt Blvd.
She suffered deep cuts of the
right arm and leg in the accident.
The mishap occurred about 6
p.m. while Mariane was water-
skiing behind a boat operated by
her grandfather. Witnesses said
the girl fell from her water-skis
into the path of a second motor-
boat, operated by Jerry Wroe,
1310 W. 13th Ave.
Robert Lee Bomark, 1294 Polk
St., who was water-skiing behind
Wroe's boat, said Mariane appar
ently swerved In front of the
boat and then lost her balance.
She was taken by Eugene Am
bulance to Sacred Heart Hospital,
where she underwent a 4-hour
operation Tuesday night to repair
the injuries to her leg and arm.
Her condition remained serious
Wednesday morning.
Dulles Heads
For Europe
WASHINGTON W Secretary
of Slate John Foster Dulles ex
pressed hope on his departure for
Europe Wednesday that next
week's Big Four Geneva confer
ence will carry forward "our
unceasing quest for a secure and
just peace." .
Just before flying to Europe
reason to believe that the United
States, Britain and France ' see
eye to eye" in major problems
likely to come up at the meeting
with the Soviet Union.
This inilial allied unity, Dulles
sMd, is a "good beginning of on
efforts to reach agreement wl'h
I the Soviet Union cn the pur
poses of the Geneva conference.
Ike Approves
Defense Bill
WASHINGTON ( President
Eisenhower Wednesday approved
the $31,882,815,726 defense appro
priation bill but served notice he!
will regard one provision as in
valid "unless otherwise determ
ined by a court of competent
lurisdiction."
In an unusual special message
to Congress, the President said
ihc was referring to a provision
dealing wilh Defense Department
i authority "to rid itself of. many
of the manifold activities that
it was performing with its civil
ian personnel, and that can be
adequately and economically per
formed by private industry with
out danger to the national 'se
curity.
Eisenhower said jn his message
that hi" had been advised by
Atty. Gen. Browne)! that this
provision "cndstitiKes an uncon-
slitutional inasion of the pto
the executive"
1 .money in the bill Is
million dollars belw
President's buogel requests
3'i billion dollars
defense mncy bill of
,:;insidetQday:
tt VKay inmi s new ater
r3our poll? by Aug. 1.
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Snow Slide Kills
: Novice .Climbers
' BANFF," Alta. The
broken bodies of seven
American teen-age boys who
died in an avalance high iu
the Canadian Rockies were
brought to this resort town
lucsday night.
Two other boys in the ll mem
ber group of novice mountain
climbers were injured seriously
Monday when tons of snow
thundered down 11,636-foot Mt.
Temple, 30 miles northwest of
Banff. The other two escaped
.with bruises.
WORST TRAGEDY
It was the worst climbing trag
edy in the History rit the Cana
dian Rockies.
Climbing without a guide and
equipped with only an inch-thick
mamla rope and ice axes, the
youths were within 2,000 feet of
the peak when the snow slide
swept them 1,000 feet down the
mountain.
One was killed instantly. The
others died of -injuries and ex
posure in the hail and freezing
rain that lashed the mountain
before rescue parties reached
them the next day.
The boys were members of a
group of 30 who came to Banff
National Park on an expedition
organized by the Wilderness Club
of Philadelphia.
The boys wore only ordinary
boots or spiked baseball or track
shoes.
Police said an inquest is being
called by the Alberta provincial
coroner. No date has been set.
Eugene Man
Recalls Climb
The mountain -climbing acci
dent that killed seven youths
Monday afternoon in Canada-was
the type of mishap that could
happen to even the most exper
ienced mountaineers, according to
a Eugene mountain-climber who
scaled the same Canadian peak
nearly 20 years ago.
Art Steele, 1320 River Rd., a
member of Obsidians, said the
avalanche that resulted in the
death of the youths was "an un
lucky break that could happen to
anybody."
Steele climbed the 11,636-foot
Mt. Tcrtlplc, .where the accident
occurred, in August, 1936. He
and a companion used a guide
book borrowed from the Eugene
City Library while making the
climb.
"An avalanche is one thing you
can't duck," Steele said. He added
that many mountaineers prefer to
do their climbing during early-
morning hours before the sun has
softened 'the snow.
The youths who were killed in
the avalanche Monday had climb
ed only one other mountain be
fore beginning the climb up Ml.
Temple.
Matusow Indicted
NEW YORK Wi A federal
grand jury Wednesday indicted
turnabout witness Harvey Matu
sow on six counts of perjury.
The charges grew out of Matu
sow's accusation that Roy M.
Cohn, former assistant U. S. at
torney here, had induced Malu
snw to give false testimony at
the 1952 conspiracy trial of 13
second-string Communist leaders.
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PRESIDENT, MRS. HOBBY CONFER President Eisen
hower and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby sit side by side in
the President's conference room in Washington, D. C.
Wednesday at a special news conference to announce
Mrs. Hobby's resignation as secretary of welfare. Marion
B. Folsom will succeed Mrs. Hobby on Aug. 1.
Police Find
Of Child's
By THOMAS
or The United Prcii
SIOUX CITY, Iowa an Several
good" fingerprints of the rape-
slayor of 2-year-old Donna Sue
Davis have been found in the
bedroom from which she was ab
ducted, police said Wednesday.
Optimistic police officials said
the prints, found on a cedar
chest, Donna's crib and the frame
window through which the killer
escaped, provide the first "big
break in the case.
POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
They said the prints probably
will give positive identification of
the murderer.
Meanwhilo, the FBI issued a
nationwide arre3t order for the
sex degenerate' who snatched
Donna from her crib while her
Sun, Warmth
On Forecast
It's vacation weather for Ore
gon, shirtsleeve, water-lhc-Iawn,
picnic, lel's-go-swimming weather
from coast to mountains and be
yond. Press reports predict noth
ing but a little early morning
cloudiness to mar the skies over
the beaches and the northern
part of the state Thursday. Day
time temperatures arc expected
to be above 80 degrees.
If the forecasts are borne out
it will be the third day of real
summer weather for Oregon. In
creasing fire danger because of
warm, sunny days is predicted
through Thursday. Humidity Is
expected to go no lower than
30 per cent, however, in the
northwestern valleys and the
coast range, although it may go
below that figure in the central
and southern interior.
Oregon's good fortune is shared
by most sections of the nation
wilh thunderstorms diminishing
in the southeastern states.
212 on Plane
FORT WORTH, Tex. Wi The
Air Force claimed a new passenger-carrying
record Wednesday
for land-based planes. The XC99
transport landed at Convair's
plant here Tuesday wilh 212 per
sons on a flight from San An
tnnio.
P . -wfJ "'1ft .' J
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laT' -"'"'fT t'iesn' Gallons
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rl thceplant's take Tuesday.
two Chinook were dclivenfll
involved in a prixtuxJlispute
cgmmerejj flctt has not made
pla?lt for twovvcks
Prints
Slayer
McNALLY
parents watched television Sun
day night and left her ravaged
body at the edge of a muddy
cornfield near South Sioux City,
Neb., where it was found late
Monday.
The blonde, curly-haired child
was laid to rest Wednesday by
four child pallbearers.
The pallbearers, all boys, were
from the classroom of Donna's
sister, Mary, 11, at St. Boniface
Roman Catholic School, where
funeral services were held at
9 a.m. CDT. A large crowd at
tended. ,
CASKET CLOSED
Donna was burled in a white
lambskin casket lined with ivory
crepe. A red bathrobe, bonnet
and white gloves covered the ab
rasions on her tiny body. The
casket was closed at the request
ot mo cniia s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James Davis.
No mass was said for Donna,
because she wasn't confirmed
Burial was held at Calvary Ceme
tery.
Four Shot
For Giggling
In Tavern
FLINT, Mich, (if) A 30-year-old
truck driver wound up a tour of
bars by shooting and killing two
women and a man Tuesday night
in irritation over their "laughing
aim giggling.
Police said the truck driver,
"out for a good time" after a de
livery trip, deliberately emptied
a pistol into a tavern booth oc
cupied by two couples.
the tavern proprietress said
the couples were only enjoying
themselves and had not been of
fensive.
AM, STRANGERS
ine victims included a man
and his wife and a second wom
an. The second man was badly
wounded but was expected to re
cover. All four, strangers to their
assailant, were shot in the head.
Kenneth Kuzner, 30, of Detroit
was seized in his truck a short
time later near Pontine, 25 miles
from the scene. Police said he
readily admitted the shootings
and could give no explanation
except the irritation other pat
rons caused him. They said he
had been drinking but was
not drunk.
"I was just out for a good
time, police quoted him
saying.
Kuzner told officers the four
victims were "total strangers."
They were sitting together in
a booth at Edna's Bar and Res
taurant at suburban' Grand Blanc
when Kuzner walked in.
State police said Kuzner sat
: stoirly at the bar drinking a beer.
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When he finished, they aaid, he
wciit to a rest room, came out
and strode up 'to the two couples'
bnothi spoke not a word and be
gan firing point blilnk wltlt a .38
'.f'alibor automatic.
sajd liirah, 26 or Flint, and
his. wife Jcanninc died minutes
MtCr.
Urs. Warcaret S. Cross. 37. a
liWecc, dijd ttv tmgr later, in
a lint hospital
I Jamr Dollars, 28, who was
J"(I)ON ifi Plalininji hairc
Hum bills was najigBi Yvcdnes -
d;. morning at London's Hollo-
wa Jail for killing her faithless
lnvr auTsidc bar on Easter
Sulay.
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No gan,Oi scheduled.
In Cabinet
. president Lauds
Welfare Secretary
WASHINGTON W)' Mrs.
Oveta Culp Hobby resigned
Wednesday as secretary of
welfare effective Aug. 1.
President Eisenhower
picked Marion B. Folsom,
now . undersecretary of the
treasury, to succeed. her in
the Cabinet post.-
Tho President called a special
news conference to make the an.
nouncement, and, paid warm trib
ute to Mrs. Hobby as she sat by
his side in the conference room.
VERV SAD DAY'
On her part, the retiring Cab
inet officer told Eisenhower that
as he prepares to go to the Big
Four conference at Geneva
"everyone of us will be praying"
the sessions will lead to a "truly
universal peace."
Mrs. Hobby's resignation had
long been expected, and the Presi
dent apparently took it for grant
cd that everyone knew that was
the purposo of the conference.
Without ever formally announcing
her resignation, 'Eisenhower
turned to Mrs. Hobby and re
marked solemnly:
"Oveta, this is a very sad day.;
The President said his mind at
the moment went back to a day
in 1942 when Mrs. Hobby arrived
in London to take command o
the Women's Army Corps.
'PERSONAL REASONS'
Eisenhower, at that time, was
preparing to lead the Allied forces
against Hitler's armies.
Mrs. Hobby led the WAC splend.
Idly and it turned out to lie one
of the finest organizaUons "tha
Army ever had," Eisenhowef
said, . .
After the conference room ccre
mony, the White House mada
public an exchange of correspond
ence between Eisenhower and
Mrs. Hobby.
Personal reasons of a high
order compel me to (take leava
of my post as secretary of health,
education and welfare," Mrs,
Hobby wrote.
While she did not specify those
reasons, friends said Mrs. Hobby
is leaving because of the illness
of her husband, former Gov. Wil
liam P. Hobby of Texas.
The "Houston Post announced
that Mrs. Hobby will become
president o the Post Publishing
Co.
NOT A SURPRISE
Mrs. Hobby's husband, now
president of the publishing com
pany, will become chairman ol
the board when Mrs. Hobby re
turns to Houston.
Folsom's selection as Mrs. Hob
by's successor had been widely
forecast. The shift was agreed on
weeks ago, and the only real
question was the timing.
Folsom, 61, is a native of Me
rino, Ga and came into the
Eisenhower administration from
the Eastman Kodak Co., where he
was treasurer.
He Is considered an expert in
the field of social security, and .
served on a presidential commis
sion in 1933 which put together
the original social security laws.
VACCINE CONTROVERSY
Reports that Mrs. Hobby wan
preparing to step out of the Cab
inet were current last spring.
But when the Salk polio vac
cine controversy broke about her
it was understood she was re
luctant to quit under fire.
Mrs. Hobby, 50. took the oalh
as the first secretary of health,
education and welfare on April
11, 1953. She was the second wo
man ever to hold a Cabinet post.
She was one of the Texas
Democrats who helped swing that
state to Eisenhower in 1952.
No Vaccine
Yet for Lane
Whon Lane County will get
enough Salk anti-polio vaccine to
complete the second shot in tho
series of three was unknown
Wednesday.
Dr. Arthur P. Martini, presi
dent of the Lane "County Medical
Society, sid lie had received no
word on whether the area will
get any of the vaccine released
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Enough vaccine for nearly one
million slt'ils wa approved for
.liatrihiifinn This Is the fit sub
stantial release since lale May
when Lane County's first, shot
was given? .
inoi ihxn a small inrnhis has
nccn U5(,a t0 Riv the socondhot
t0 children in ilf adoien rural
achools.
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