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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
95th Year, No. 149
TWO SECTIONS 32 PAGES
Eugene, Oregon, Wednesday, March 21, 1962
Second CUM Postaga
Paid at Eugene, Oregon
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Robbers Qive Store Owner
Unwelcome Tax Deduction
When Springfield grocery store owner
Sanlord Rose makes out his income tax re
turn for 1962, he'll probably be claiming an
extra $200 deduction.
That's the approximate amount which he
was forced to turn over to two masked men
Tuesday night during an armed robbery at
Rose's store, the McKenzie Market, 5095 Mc
Kenzie Highway.
Rose was alone in the store when the two
men entered at about 9:30 p.m.
While one man, about 35, short and heavy
set, stood near the door, the second man,
taller, approached the counter. He pulled a
revolver and said, "All right, let's have it,"
according to Rose.
"It took me two or three seconds to get it
through my head what it was all about," Rose
High Court Orders
Ballot Title Changed
SALEM lfl The Oregon Supreme Court ordered a new ballot
title Wednesday for the initiative measure that would give in
creased legislative representation to Eastern Oregon.
The decision now makes it possible for the sponsors to begin
circulating petitions to put the proposed constitutional amend
ment on the November ballot.
The measure provides for apportionment of the House of Rep
Plans Bloom
To Deck City
In Flowers
Plans to transform Eugene
Into a city of flowers in time
for this summer's invasion of
World's Fair tourists have
grown into some tangible blos
soms. A number of civic groups
and garden clubs have joined
hands and green thumbs
in an effort to realize the plans
proposed by the Mayor's Cen
tennial Committee.
At a Tuesday night meeting
of the Centennial Committee's
landscaping subcommittee, sev
eral groups announced they
are rolling up their sleeves in
hones of creatine a "splash of
color" for the three million or
more fair-bound tourists ex
pected to pass through Eugene
starting next month.
The subcommittee heard
from Lane County Planning
Consultant Howard Buford that
the Eugene Rotary Club board
of directors have agreed to
provide 23 eight-foot-long
planter boxes for placement
along East Broadway and Co
burg Road north of the Ferry
Street Bridge.
Junior Chamber of Com
merce representative Russell
Oda reported that the Jaycces
will donate 100 man-hours of
labor to help in the beautifica
tion. From the Eugene Rose Soci
ety, represented by Carl Pfeif
fcr. came a pledge of 50 pounds
of grass seed to be planted on
a site southeast of the Ferry
Street Bridge, which is pro
nosed for development into a
permanent flower garden. The
Eucene Dark bureau has de
signed the park site to include
trees, shrubs, flowers, lawn,
and a sprinkler irrigation sys
tem.
Already, the Eugene Garden
Club has pledged $100 for that
development, and has acquired
another $150 from the State
eti u-ation of Garden Clubs
for the same project. Last
week, directors of the Century
of Progress Fund voted to do
nate $1,985 to the site.
The city's merchants also
have been asked to place hang
ing flower baskets in front of
their stores during the World's
Faij and Eugene's Centennigi
r ration this summer.
SANFORD ROSE
'Visitors' Hoped He Was Insured
said. Both bandits wore tight plastic or rubber
masks which distorted their faces.
Rose said he took the currency out of the
till and put it in a paper sack. Then the armed
man demanded "the rest of it" and Rose
finally gave him the change box.
Rose said the armed robber commented
two or three times during the robbery: "I
hope you have insurance."
"I don't," Rose said later. "But I can
write it off on my income tax anyway. What's
the difference?"
After instructing Rose not to look outside
for five minutes, the two robbers left.
When he heard a car drive off, he phoned
Springfield police.
Springfield Police Chief Floyd Clower
said the robbery was still being investigated
Wednesday.
resentatives by area as wen as
population. Now, both houses
are apportioned by population
only.
The court overturned Atty.
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton's bal
lot title. It deleted any refer
ence to the area-population
part of the plan.
Here is the new title:
"Purpose: Changes legislative
pportionment formula. Creates
30 perm anent representative
districts. Permits enlargement
of Senate to 35. Enlarges House
to 65 or more. Provides en
forcement." Here is the title that Thorn
ton had prepared:
"Purpose: reapportions leg
islature according to area and
population instead of popula
tion only. Enlarges Senate from
30 to 35 members. House from
60 to 65 or more.
The sponsors attacked Thorn
ton's title, saying it was argu
mentative.
Justice Kenneth O'Connell
dissented, saying Thornton's
title was reasonably accurate
The opinion was written by
Chief Justice William McAllis
ter.
State Rep. George Annala,
D-Hood River, a principal spon
sor of the measure, arrived at
the court as the decision was
handed down.
He said the petitions, bearing
the new title, would be printed
immediately.
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Jetty Repair
Bid Totals
$2.1 Million-
An apparent low bid of $2.1
million for repair of the south
jetty of the Umpqua River at
Reedsport was received Tuesday
by the Army Corps of Engineers
in Portland.
Three contractors, bidding
jointly, offered the bid, which
is $363,000 below the Army En
gincers' estimate.
Commercial Port
If a contract is awarded, the
job calling for the dumping of
310,000 tons of large-sized stones
on the jetty is expected to be
finished by next October. Ap
parent low bidders were J. N
Conley, S. D. Spencer Jt Sons
and G. D. Dennis & Sons, all of
Portland.
The proposed project calls
for improvement of the 30-year-old
south jetty and a nearby 12-year-old
training jetty.
October Finish
Reedsport-Gardiner area resi
dents are seeking a federal
study of the feasibility of creat
ing a deep draft channel in the
Umpqua, which runs into Win
chester Bay. International Pa
per Co. is building a pulp plant
there and other major industrial
developments are being consid
ered, the Associated Press re
ports. E. G. Dunn, chairman of the
Umpqua Port Commission at
Reedsport, has claimed that the
iettv imorovements would re
sult in the savings of lives of
sports fishermen and would
make it possible for commercial
fishing boats to use the port the
year around.
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Two-Handed
Smooch Rummy
VANCOUVER, Wash. UV
That card game was either
gambling or gamboling but he
isn't sure which, wrote Police
man Alfred Hankel of a rou
tine investigation he had been
sent to make.
Neighbors had become sus
picious of a car parked for a
long time in a vacant field
here. Hankel looked. Inside
was a couple playing cards.
"The stakes," he reported,
"were rather interesting.
When he won a game he'd
smooch her. When she won
she'd smooch him. I have
looked in the book and do not
believe they were breaking
any law.
"Oh, Spring."
House Group
Drops Fight
On Bombers
WASHINGTON Wl The fight
between the Pentagon and the
House Armed Services Commit
tee over RS70 supersonic bomb
ers ended Wednesday with the
committee yielding to the ad
ministration. The committee decided not to
press its fight to direct the ad
ministration to build the bomb
ers, which Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara said did
not fit into the current military
program.
Rep. William M. Colmer, D
Miss., so informed the House as
it gathered for general debate
on its military committees ad
dition of $420 million for the
RS70 to a $15 billion bill for
construction of ships, missiles
and aircraft.
Before the House met, Rep.
Carl Vinson, D-Ga chairman of
the Armed Services Committee,
had promised to make a "flat
footed fight" to expand the RS
70 program.
But Vinson was known tn
have been under heavy pressure
from administration leaders and
from the White House itself to
reach a compromise that would
avoid a running battle with the
Defense Department.
The decision by Vinson to give
up the fight was reached after
a special meeting of the Armed
Services Committee.
As approved by the commit
tee, the bill carried a provision
to "direct" that McNamara
spend on the RS70 $320 million
more than the $180 McNamara
requested.
The plane was recently re
classified from B70 to RS70.
Planes Scan
Ocean Again
GUAM Ufi Thirty-two planes
resumed searching Wednesday
for a Flying Tiger Super Con
stellation which vanished over
the Pacific last Friday on a mili
tary charter flight to South Viet
Nam with 107 persons on board.
The 107 included 92 U.S.
Army troops.
The Joint Rescue Coordina
tion Center contacted Lockheed
Aircraft and Flying Tiger line
officials and provided them
with a detailed description of a
piece of alumnium tubing found
afloat on Tuesday by the USS
Cayuga County.
The tubing, supported by fi
ber glass insulation, was found
about 65 miles southeast of the
point where the Liberian
freighter Linzcn reported see
ing falling red lights at 1:30
a.m. last Friday.
'Hey, That's Mine'
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Frondizi Keeps
-Argentina-
BUENOS AIRES Wl A
strike call to two million
workers raised new threats
Wednesday to Arturo Fron
dizi's thin hold on the presi
dency of Argentina.
The president, 53, was re
maining in power as a result of
his agreement to split his cabi
net between military men and
civilians, while banning all poli
tical activities by followers of
ex-dictator Juan D. Peron. The
Peronists won sweeping vic
tories in provincial elections
Sunday, but Frondizi by decree
has nullified the election of
Peronist governors.
Sixty-two powerful unions
called a 24 - hour strike for Fri
day to protest cancellation of
the Peronist victories. There
were fears the strike would last
longer and lead to violence.
Talks to Cardinal
Andres Framini, the Peronist
textile union boss whose victory
for governor of Buenos Aires
was washed out by Frondizi,
told newsmen he believed the
workers would act together "not
to allow our victories to be
taken from our hands."
Earlier Framini, who as gov
ernor would be second only to
the president in power and pres
tige, conferred 70 minutes with
Antonio Cardinal Gaggiano, Ro
man Catholic archbishop of
Buenos Aires. He was reported
to have described himself as
"a Christian wanting social
peace." He asked the cardinal
for help in retaining Peronist
victories.
The cardinal later conferred
with Frondizi, apparently bear
ing a message from Framini.
The crisis appeared to have
eased Wednesday morning as
the government announced the
resignation of eight civilian cab
inet members to make room for
military men in the new coali
tion.
Peace Conference
Frondizi made peace with the
military in a 40-minute confer
ence during the night with Gen.
Raul Alejandro Poggi, the army
commander in chief; Adm. Agus-
tin R. Penas, chief of naval op
erations, and Brig. Gen. Cayo
Antonio Alsina, the air force
commander.
Afterward the government an
nounced in a brief communique
that the president would form a
Cabinet of national unity after
consulting today with "the rep
resentatives of the Democratic
parties and representative in
stitutions." Frondizi also declared he
would not retreat from his un
popular austerity program,
which was widely blamed for his
election setback.
Worst Challenge
His agreement with the mili
tary brought Frondizi through
the worst challenge to his hold
on the government reins since
he took office in May 1958. He
still faced the reaction of mil
lions of voters who chalked up
smashing victories for Peronists
in Sunday's congressional and
provincial elections. So far, how
ever, the capital was surprising
ly quiet.
The United States reportedly
sent word it would cut down or
even eliminate Argentina's
share in its Alliance for Prog
ress aid program if the military
took over.
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Space Proposal j
MOSCOW UV-Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent a mes-
sage Wednesday to President Kennedy agreeing to cooper-
ate in exploring space.
S He said immediate cooperation was possible in the use !l
I of artificial satellites for long distance communication. !l
Further, he proposed close cooperation in the use of space f
ships in weather forecasting.
The message was read over Moscow Radio.
I Kennedy had proposed to Khrushchev that the two
powers cooperate in various space programs such as com- I
munications, the tracking of satellites, weather research J
and the measuring of the Earth's magnetic field.
J The Soviet premier said it was "desirablo to have an i
international agreement" to bring closer cooperation in use $
I of space ships and particularly in giving greater security to t
astronauts.
P Khrushchev suggested the two nations get together in f
1 launching observation rockets to the Moon and planets.
His letter suggested a series of joint research ventures
including:
I Use of artificial earth satellites for a long distance $
I communications system.
I Organization of a worldwide weather observation
service using satellites. . j
I Organization of observations, both radio and optical,
I under a joint program of objects launched in the direction t
V of the Moon, Mars, Venus and other planets. !
Pooling of efforts in the study of the physics of inter- j
planetary space and celestial bodies.
f His letter replied to the President's letter of March 7
Sf calling for space cooperation.
Kennedy
At Soviet
WASHINGTON Wl Presi
dent Kennedy said Wednesday
he is gratified at Russia's over
tures for peaceful use of space
but that the Soviet Union and
the United States remain divid
ed on nuclear test inspections
on Earth.
These two subjects were not
ntcrlocked, but they were the
first two that came up at Ken
nedy's news conference.
On the third subject, the
President said he sees no con
flict of views between his ad
ministration and Sen. Henry M.
Jackson (D-Wash) on the
United Nations set-up.
Undue Influence?
Jackson said Tuesday he
thinks the U.N. may exert un
due influence in U.S. national
decision making and there ought
to be only one foreign office.
Kennedy said he sees nothing
contradictory in a strong At
lantic community and a strong
United Nations. He said he
would be very unhappy if the
United Nations were weakened
or eliminated.
His observations came in an
swers to a question on Jack
son's position that this country
was putting too much empha
sis on the United Nations.
Kennedy opened the confer
ence by saying he is gratified
that Soviet Premier Khru
shchev's reply to his proposal
for outer space cooperation was
constructive.
He said there shnuM K"
meeting soon in New York to
'Well, It's Spring'
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(AP Wirephotol)
turn to another springtime pursuit that any guy and gal will
recognize right off the bat. Another reason they couldn't get the
worm was that it's a rubber one put there by a photographer.
in Algiers;
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Gratified
Overture
discuss specific ideas and that
Hugh Dryden of the space agen
cy was designated to represent
the United States.
A reporter recalled that the
Russians have expressed feeling
that any on-site inspection, in
enforcement of a nuclear test
ban, would be an invitation to
espionage.
Kennedy commented that
there did appear to be "a very
basic difference between Russia
and the United States," since
this country insists that it must
be able to delect what kind of
disturbance has taken place
when Instruments pick up indi
cations of a blast.
He was asked next about an
annarcnt deadlock in Geneva on
Berlin, disarmament and other
issues. A reporter wanted to
know whether the President
thinks there is any use continu
ing the talks.
Should Go On
Kennedy said he thinks the
conference should go on "I am
not prepared to abandon it in
any degree."
Another question had to do
with the disagreement between
the President and former Vice
President Nixon as to what Ken
nedy was told, as a candidate,
about plans for an anti-Castro
effort in Cuba. Kennedy de
clined to amplify on his state
ment Tuesday, in which he said
Nixon was wrong in saying he
had been told of such plans be
fore the election.
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-Algeria-
ALGIERS, Algeria fUPI)
Gendarmes in armored
cars broke up a European
moo in suburban Algiers
with machine gun fire
Wednesday and fought a
running battle through
Oran with grenade throw
ing extremists.
First reports from Oran said
there were "several casualties."
Injuries in Algiers, where the
Gendarmes fired over the headj
of the Europeans, were report
ed negligible.
The Algiers action followed
the slaying of three Moslems
and the wounding of three mora
in six attacks by Europeans.
The casualties raised the
day's toll to seven dead and ten
wounded. This brought the cas
ualties since Monday's cease
fire to 135 killed and 126 in
jured and the count for the
year to 1,899 dead and 3,608
wounded.
Commando Trapped
The Algiers shooting centered
In Bab-El-Oucd, a stronghold of
the European Secret Army Or
ganization. After the mob broke
up, the gendarmes turned their
machine guns on a building
where an OAS commando was ,
hiding. There was no immediate
indication whether the comman
do was killed or captured.
The Oran incident followed
13 other gun battles In the port -
city Tuesday. The fighting
broke out when the gendarmes
seized a radio transmitter be- -lieved
to belong to the OAS.
Algerian guerrilla command-'
ers made their first formal con-.
tact since the cease-fire with
the French army and staff of- -ficcrs
said the meetings were ,
"correct, dignified and even',
cordial." ' ,
Army sources said men who ,
Identified themselves as offic
ers of the Army of National
Liberation appeared at French
gendarmerie headquarters late
Tuesday night to talk about
keeping peace and common ac
tion against the European ex
tremists of the Secret Army Or-
frantyatlnn
In Paris, the French National
Assembly ended a two-day de
bate on the ceasefire in pande
monium Wednesday with right
wing deputies shouting "trea
son" at Algerian Affairs Minis
ter Louis Joxe.
President Charles de Gaulle's
supporters banged their desk
covers repeatedly in an effort
to drown out the cries of right. '
wingers.
Socialist and Communist dep
uties added to the confusion by
shouting "OAS murderers" a
reference to the outlawed Se
cret Army Organization which
has vowed to fight to keep Al
geria French.
No Vote Taken
Assembly President Jacques
Chaban-Dclmas finally managed
to close the debate. No vote
was taken and none was called
for.
The Senate began debating
the cease fire Wednesday after
noon. The discussion was ex
pected to last into the evening
but as In the assembly no
vote was scheduled.
Joxe was interrupted again
and again while he outlined the
government's position on Al
geria. Joxe said the ten million Mos
lems In Algeria were "thirsty
for respect. , .
"But these Moslems want 1
can swear It to retain France's
friendship.
De Gaulle opened the assem
bly Tuesday by telling the dele
gates he will seek full power io
carry out A-lgenian peace terms
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