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Newspaper Page TextMZW SHOWERS Wednesday Weather Report, Pag 13A City Edition LAME COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. 94th Year, No. 121 TWO SECTIONS 28 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Tuesday, February 21, 1961 Second Claw Po&taga Paid at Eujene, Oregon Price, 5 Cents African-Asian Plan For Congo Passed By Security Council By WILLIAM N. OATIS or the Associated Preii :' ; UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. Wl The Soviets bowed to the pressure of Asian and Arican opinion Tuesday and per mitted Security Council approval of a resolution author izing tne united Nations to use force u necessary to pre vent civil war in the Congo. . Even before the resolution's adoption one of its chief targets Katanga President Moise Tshombe had rejected a key provision calling for withdrawal from the Congo of foreign military and political advisers. They supply the working brains of Tshombe's provincial army and adminis tration. (See Story, Page 5 A). The vote on the resolution, which was sponsored by the council's three Asian-African members was 9-0, with the United States on the winning side. Despite its bitter Morse Won't Go-Sponsor New Park Bill By A. ROBERT SMITH RecisteMjuard Correspondent ' WASHINGTON (Special) Sen. Wayne Morse has declined to join Sen. Maurine Neuberger in co sponsoring legislation to create an Oregon Dunes seashore park but Morse is in a bargaining mood on the question. If Senator Neuberger would go along with one alteration he has proposed, Morse would co-sponsor the proposal, he explained. Morse said he opposes giving the Interior Department any au thority to condemn private prop erty within the proposed park boundaries. Under the Neuberger bill, unless zoning codes approved by the secretary of the interior are adopted, the federal govern' ment could eventually force local property owners to sell their property. PUBLIC NECESSITY .. "I don't propose to give the secretary that power," said Moras. "The right of eminent domain should never be granted unless the public necessity clear ly demands it. I have yet to see any necessity for the exercise of eminent domain in this area. Only. a small percentage of the land area is privately owned. A park can be created without the government acquiring all the pri vate property." Morse said the property owners should have a choice of selling or staying. He predicted that a good many would sell to the govern ment, if given a fair price. But he said they should have that choice, and not be forced to sell at the price set by the govern ment. "I am all for the recreational aims and purposes of this pro posal." the senator added. "Mrs. Neuberger is to be commended for this." ... OTHER CASES CITED Morse said he plans to offer hie amptiHmpnt if and when the Neuberger bill comes up for Sen ate debate. He indicated ne win take a wait-and-see attitude about whether to support or oppose the final bill, if his amendment is not nnnmuAil "Mrc Npiihprcer . contends that many parks have been created by the government exercising me riuht nf pminpnt domain. Among them was the Fort Clatsop Nation al Monument near Asiona, au DUNES BILL (Continued on Page 5A) i . j. - ...... . - ,,1,1,1, ,,, ; i Mi i mi in - t--"-"--" ICE SPILLS OVER DAM Ed Woomer, a lock worker, watches ice spill over the Hiehland Park Dam Tuesday on the Allegheny River. A 15-mile long ice gorge in the river broke up Monday north of Pittsburfih and came rushing down the river. '.opposition to the U.N. opera' tion in the Congo and Secre tary-General Dag Hammar- kiolds direction of it, the Soviet Union abstained, ap parently unwilling to incur the anger of the uncommitted Asian and African nations by veto. France also abstained Shortly before the vote on the Asian-African peace plan, the council smashed down, 8-1, a bo viet resolution calling for an end to the U.N. operation in the Con go within a month and for the dis missal of Hammarskjold. RESOLUTION REJECTED Shortly before 4 a.m. the 11' nation body rejected an -Asian-African resolution condemning atrocities and assassinations in the Congo. That resolution was prompted by the announcement Monday that six associates of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba had been executed in South Kasai Province after depor tation from Leopoldville by Pre mier Joseph Ileo s government The resolution failed to get the seven votes necessary for adop tion after the Soviet Union, with its 93rd and 94th vetoes, killed two U. S. amendments aimed to keep Leopoldville, Katanga and South Kasai from being singled out as atrocity centers while Stan leyville, the seat of the pro-Com munist Lumumbist regime, went unmentioned. The final vote was 6-0 for the resolution, 'with the United States, Britain, Nationalist China France and Turkey abstaining. DEATH PROBE SET . Ceylon, Liberia and the U.A.R sponsored the winning plan to head off civil war and the losing proposal to condemn the assassin ations, with the backing of 17 other Asian-African countries and Yugoslavia. The peace plan also calls on all countries to keep military person nel from going to the Congo, pro vides for an investigation of the killing of Lumumba and envis ages the convening of Parliament and the removal of Congolese troops from politics through re training. CALL FOR TROOPS 1 Hammarskjold welcomed the resolution's adoption. He declared it gave "a stronger and clearer framework for United Nations ac tion." He also called for more troops to build up the thinning U.N. Congo force, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin, whose own proposal described Hammarskjold as "a participant in and organizer of" Lumumba's , murder, ex plained he did not veto the peace resolution because the Asian African countries said "in the oresent circumstances this was the only chance of remedying lb situation in the Congo -. -- - i President Prospect Visits UO Fred H. Harrington, Wisconsin Educator, To Meet With Board Fred H. Harrington, vice president of academic affairs at the University of Wiscon sin, was in Eugene Monday, presumably to discuss the university of Oregon presi dency. John R. Richards, chancellor of the State System of Higher Edu cation, said Tuesday he was not at liberty to disclose any details of Harrington's visit. When asked Harrington had been inter viewed by the university Board of Deans, or any other faculty group, Richards said "I cannot comment on that." However, Henry F. Cabell. president of the Board of Higher Education, indicated that Har rington was to be interviewed by the board in Portland Tuesday afternoon. , THREE MENTIONED The Board of Higher Educa tion has been seeking a new president for the University of Oregon since 0. Meredith Wilson went to the University of Minne sota as president last July. While many contacts have been made, the names of only three educators from outside Eugene have come to public light: George Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas; Arthur S. Flemmmg, who was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower administra tion, and Harrington. Dean Robert D. Clark, of the University of Oregon College of Liberal Arts, was considered strong possibility if the board should turn to the university s own faculty. ' Indications have been, however, that someone from outside the state would be chosen. Waggoner visited Eugene last November, but later announced he would not accept the Oregon presidency if offered. Flemming has not -ruled himself out as a candidate. William C. Jones is acting president. Jones was dean of ad ministration when - Wilson was president. CORNELL GRADUATE - Harrington first joined the Uni versity of Wisconsin faculty in 1937. From 1940 to 1944, he was head of the department of history and political science at the Uni versity of Arkansas. In 1944, he returned to Wisconsin as an asso ciate professor, and became pro fessor of history in 1947. He has been vice president of academic affairs since 1958. Harrington is a graduate of Cornell, and received master of arts and doctor of philosophy de grees from New York University. He and his wife, Nancy, have five children. Harrington is the author of sev eral books, including "Hanging Judge," and "An American His tory," two volumes written in co operation with Merle Curti, K. n. Shryock and T. C. Cochran. Engineers Fined MIAMI, Fla. Iffl Federal Judge Emett Choate Tuesday held flight engineers of Eastern Air Lines in contempt of court and fined the local $200,000 "or whatever is in the treasury. (AP Wlrephoto) rs r " if , tf f ' ,- . t if If ts , 8 :,,' i a . (AP Wlrephoto) ATLAS RISES This Atlas missile, carrying a Mercury capsule, hit an altitude of about 107 statue miles and landed 1,425 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range Monday. Roadblock Halts Officer's 3 Abductors SALEM (iFl State police Mon day night foiled an attempt to ab duct a state patrolman at gun point, i - They set up a roadblock and captured three young persons after patrolman Thomas Hedge coke, 29, escaped by leaping from still-moving car as it rolled to ward the roadblock.- Hedgecoke said he was seven miles south of Salem on a second ary road when he stopped a car for which Polk County authorities had been searching. The patrolman said he wa searching the two young men who had been In the car, when the third person, a girl, stopped him by drawing a gun from her clothing. Hedgecoke said they then made him drive their car toward the Pacific Highway freeway. Before they got there they passed an other patrolman, who recognized the car and radioed ahead for a roadblock. Hedgecoke said he was driving slowly when they saw the road block. He leaped out, tumbling onto the pavement and suffering cuts and bruises. As the driver- less car came to a halt, three slate policemen arrested the three persons inside without resistance. They had been sought since a 16-year-old Dallas girl reported earlier in the day that she had been raped. The stale police booked Law rence Allen Morrow, 21, Rickre- all, on a Polk County warrant charging rape: Arhe Day Ellis 20, Rickrcall, on a Polk County charge of contributing to the de linquency of a minor; and Dar line Wood, 16, Dallas, on a charge of violating parole from the Hill crest School for Girls. Search Continues HAMMOND (UPI) Search continued in the Columbia River Tuesday for two young men miss ing since last Thursday. John Hill of Skamokawa, Wash., and Bill Roberts, Rainier, Ore., both 20, disappeared Thursday on a 26- foot Rillnetter. They were due to arrive at Rainier on a trip from Skamokawa. INSIDE TODAY President Kennedy lists pri ority bills. Page 4A. U. S. backs neutrality policy in Laos. Page 2A. Women's News ...... 10, 11A Kditorials . 12A Vital Statistics IB Sports 2, 3B Comics 6B Theaters 7B Radio. TV SB Markets 9B Classified 9-13B Manned Test Within 3 Months? Capsule Hits Bulls-Eye CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. W The United States tried out its space capsule Tuesday under the worst possible conditions for the return to earth and officials quickly reported a man apparent ly could have survived. In a. swift follow-up the Nation al Aeronautics and Space Admin istration anounced the field of seven candidates for a shorter space ride later this year had been cut to three. . FINAL ASTRONAUTS These three astronauts were final training for a manned rocket flight expected in two or the Navy's Alan Shepard, the Air Force's John Glenn and Legal Holiday Wednesday-' For Some Most public officei will be closed Wednesday in honor of Washington's Birthday, but banks, schools and most businesses will operate as usual. The U.S. Post Office, which carried out regular schedules on Lincoln's Birthday, will be closed and there will be no mail deliv eries except for special delivery letters. ' Since most downtown business es will be open, however, the post office will maintain regular col lection schedules from downtown mail boxes, the postmaster's office said. City halls will be closed in Eu gene and Springfield, except for emergency departments, as will the Lane County Courthouse and most federal and state offices. Libraries will be closed in Eu gene and Springfield. State liquor stores will be closed, too, along with the stale employment service office. . Because Wednesday ia a legal holiday, Eugene parking meters will not be checked. Brezhnev Returns MOSCOW W) President Leo. nid Brezhnev relumed Tuesday from a 10-day visit to three west African nations. Science Can't Solve All, Nobel Scientist Asserts By RALPH OI.IVE Of the ReiliterOuard Mankind must become attuned to a world dominated by science and technology but this docs not mean science can solve so ciety's most crucial problems. This opinion was given by I'oly- karp Kusch, 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize In physics, during an interview in Eugene Tuesday morning. Kusch, who is head of the Co lumbia University department of nhvsics. will give a Failing Dis tinguished Lecture tonight at 8 in the Erb Memorial hiudcm Union, on the University of Ore- gon campus. His topic is "Limita lions of Science." Scientific research is tremen dously important, Kusch said, and its contributions have been many and great. But he added, there are other religious, social and political factors that must be considered In evaluating society's future course. "Science docs not begin to give vou the new lite," Kusch said criticizing magazine and newspa per articles that claim research will bring all good tnings to man kind. "You have to fight for it vonrself." Kusch stressed. Science may cure some dis- NASA officials stressed that much more testing remains to be done before a human is sent up but the two developments made it obvious that the trials are en tering the final phases. The three selected for final training for the first space trip are John J. Glenn, Virgil E. Gris som, and Alan B. Shepard. The other four still eligible for later and perhaps more am bitious ventures are Scott Car 3 Astronauts Picked As Space CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Three Mercury astro nauts were selected Tuesday from . a list of seven as candi dates for America's first man ned flight into - space, possibly within two months. . Marine Lt Col.. John H. Glenn Jr., 38, Air Force Capt. Virgil L. Grissom, 34, and Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 36, were tabbed for the "final pool." The other four astronauts will be can didates for later manned space shots. NEAR PERFECT MISS The National Aeronautics and Space Administration made the announcement within three hours after it had racked up a near perfect success with an unman ned project Mercury capsule it sent on a rugged 1,425-mile flight over the Atlantic Ocean aboard a beefed up Atlas rocket. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the $500 million Mercury pro gram said he made the final se lection of Glenn, Grissom, and Shepard "on the basis of evalu ating large amounts of medical and technical information in the 22-month training program." Glenn, 39, of New Concord Ohio,1 and his wife, Anna, have cases, Kusch said, but it docs not stop death. Technology may de vise a car that will go 90 miles an hour, safely, rather than 60 TECHNOLOGY (Continued on Page 5 A) POLYKARP KUSCH tniuersili Lecturer UULl penter, Walter Shirra, Donald Slayon and Leroy Cooper. All seven of the men were on hand for Tuesday's trial. The first manned flight, sched uled in perhaps two or three months, is planned to send an astronaut a few hundred miles down the Atlantic range pro pelled by a Redstone rocket, s less powerful booster than the one employed Tuesday. Except for equipment the ve- (AP Wlrephoto) , selected Monday to begin three months. From left are the Marine's Virgil Grissom. . , Candidates two children, John David, 14, and Carolyn Ann, 13. Grissom, 35, of Mitchell, Tnd., and his wife, Betty, have two sons, Scot, 11, and Mark, 7. Shepard, 37, of East Derry, N. H., and his wife, Louise, have two daughters, Juliana, 9, and Laura, 13. ' , All seven of the astronauts will be eligible for later flights," Gilruth said. POSSIBLY IN APRIL The other four space candi dates are Gordon Cooper, Walker Schirra, Donald Slayton and Scot Carpenter. ' Possibly as early as April, one of the "select three will be tuck ed into a bell-shaped Mercury capsule mounted atop i Redstone rocket for a flight 115 miles into space and about 290 miles over the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Ca naveral. This is the same flight plan tested Jan. 31 by an astro chimp named "Ham." Glenn, Grissom, and Shepard will undergo final mental and physical examinations and dry run rehearsals on the ground be tween now and the day that one of them will be named for the historic mission. Gilruth said "it is not possible to forecast exactly when the first manned mission will take place." However, indi cations are that one more unman ned test of the capsule will be at tempted next month with a Red stone, paving the way for a manned shot on the next rocket. Senate Opposes Tax on Lodges SALEM m The Oregon Senate passed 25 3 and sent to the House Tuesday a bill to let fraternal organizations keep their property tax exemption. The bill countermands a recent State Tax Commission ruling that would levy the tax on that part nf lodge properties not used for charitable purposes. Voting against it were Sens Vernon Cook, Troutdalc: Robert W. Slraub, Eugene: and Monroe Swcetland, Mllwaukie, all Demo- crats. The bill would give lodges and other fraternal organizations the same total property tax exemp tion they had before the new Tax Commission directive. No Recovery Attempt VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE. Calif. Wl The Air Force said Tuesday It will make no at tempt to recover the space cap sulc of the satellite Discoverer XX, because of an equipment mal function. It was launched last Friday and original plans called for a recovery try after i record four days in orbit. hide will duplicate the one tried out Tuesday. Propelled by a huca missile. the space craft roared up from this missile test center at 9:10 a.m. Tuesday, Traveling at speeds up to 12,850 miles an hour it soared 107 miles high and came down 400 miles northeast ol Puerto Rico and 1,425 miles from the launching pad. Quickly sighted by crewmen of a waiting plane, the one-ton bell sudpeu spatecmLi was picKen up by a helicopter at 9:53 a.m. and by 10:06 it was aboard a landing ship. It was right on target, coming down wilhin 13 miles of the near est of waiting ships. The aim of the trial was to see what would happen under tha most severe conditions a return ing space craft might encounter. The announcement of apparent success and of the selection of three candidates for the first space ride were mado shortly aft er noon by Robert Gilruth, man ager of the Mercury man-in-space project. 90 DEGREES Gilruth said: "Everything on the flight ap peared to work perfectly. On tha basis of what we know so far of the cabin pressure and tempera ture acceleration experiences, a man could have survived this flight But without close examin ation of the capsule I would like to make some reservation." Gilruth said temperatures In side the cabin never got above 90 degrees. He declined comment on when manned flight may be attempt ed. But officials said earlier that if Tuesday's shot was a success. an astronaut probably would take an up-and-down ride within two or three months. Ham, the apace chimpanzee rode 156 miles down the test range Jan: 31 and survived with out apparent harm. His Journey was in many respects similar to the first one planned lor an American astronaut. . BUFFETED, 8CORCHED - The National Aeronautics and I Space. Administration said the -purpose of Tuesday's flight was "to qualify the design and structure of the capsule under the worst possible re-entry conditions, far. more severe than could be ex pected on a normal-orbit, flight and re-entry." - "The ' spacecraft, NASA said before the test, "will be buffeted. scorched and squeezed aerody namically as never before, and hopefully never again. To do this engineers have picked flight curves which dupli cate the most severe re-entry path the spacecraft could take after an emergency abort on an orbital flight." , Labor Voting Bill Approved SALEM t Legislation to pro vide for state-conducted elections to permit employes to decide on bargaining agents was passed by the Senate Tuesday ana sent to the House. There was only one dissenting vote. Tho bill would create a state labor-management relations board of three members, who would M appointed by the governor. When an employer, employe or' labor union asks the board for an election, tho board would have the attorney general investigate. Then the board could order the state labor conciliator to conduct the election. The bill had the strong support of employer groups. The Oregon AFL-CIO said the bill is unnec essary, but didn't oppose it. The purpose of the bill is to provide an elections machinery for those Oregon firms not cov ered by federal law. Of the 35,000 Oregon omployers, about halt are now uncovered by the federal Landrum-Griftin labor law. In fact, the bill is a copy of the federal law, seeking to make its provisions apply to the intra state firms. It is one of two bills prepared by tho legislative committee on 1 a b o r-management bills. Tha other bill would provide for en forcement against unfair labor and management practices, and now is in the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee. Employers support the unfair practices bill, while labor op poses it. This, too, is a copy ot federal law. The main purpose of tha elec tions bill is to provide a method whereby employes of a firm can decide which union, if any, they want to represent them in bar gain elections. The Idea Is thus to prevent or curb jurisdictional disputes, and prevent unions from picketing for the purpose of forcing employers to sign con tracts. Sen. Monroe Sweetland, D-Wll-waukie, cast tha only vote against the bill.