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City Edition Partly Cloudy Thursday Weather Report, Page 7A LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 95th Year, No. 233 FOUR SECTIONS-40 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Wednesday, June 13, 1962 Second Clasa Postal Paid at Eugene, Oregon Price, 5 Cents mmw mtmut-m (AP Wlrcphoto) Erwin W. Muller of Pennsylvania State University showed this photograph to fellow scientists in Chicago Tuesday A f -vT-ni- and deseribe(1 it as an enormous en dfALOITllC largement of the point of a pin in which 'Shot' New Strike Reported Clerks Returning To Struck Markets Some members of Retail Clerks Union Local 201 were re turning to work at McKay's markets in Eugene and Springfield Wednesday morning. While this and other developments affected a dispute between McKay's and bakery workers, a new Eugene area strike was reported at Irrigation Equipment Co. Inc., 1300 Bethel Road. Members of Boilermakers Local 401 set up a picket line there - early Wednesday morning. Bakery and Confectionery Voters Okay New Budget ForMcKenzie McKenzie School Dist. 68 vot ers Tuesday approved, 341-to-223, a 1962-63 budget which had been revised slightly after its May 7 defeat by four votes. The budget represents an an ticipated tax levy reduction of some six mills. A second election also is be ing conducted this Wednesday on a bond issue for junior high school construction in South Lane Dist. 45J (Cottage Grove). Polls will be open until 8 p.m. standard, 9 p.m. daylight. The $1,250,000 bond issue would finance expansion of ex isting school facilities in Cot tage Grove for use as a 900 student junior high. A $1,785, 000 bond issue for constructing a new junior high at a different lite was defeated March 7. In Lincoln County, a fourth attempt will be made July 10 to obtain approval of a school budget. Date of the election was set Tuesday night after the third unsuccessful election Monday. Accident Halts Phone Service Telephone service in the Mc Kenzie River area was interrupt ed Wednesday morning as a re sult of a one-car accident near Leaburg. A Pacific Telephone North west spokesman said service was cut at 5:30 a.m. daylight and was not restored for about an hour and 40 minutes. He said the trouble was caused when a Eugene Water & Electric Board power pole was struck at a point 2'4 miles west of Leaburg. Details of the accident were unavailable at press time Wednesday. Groups Seeking To Save Trees PORTLAND IP Two organi zations announced plans Tues day to preserve Portland's trees. The Portland Beautification Assn. said it has drawn up a j citv charter amendment which ! would allocate $400,000 for ; maintenance of the trees. j Mrs. Rodncv Stevens, vice president, said the group hones the measure will gain City Council approval for a spot on the November ballot. Downtown Portland Inc., said It is campaigning for $10,000 to preserve and maintain some 800 potted trees. the atoms were visible. Describing his microscope, Muller said magnification is more than five times as great as the electron microscope and 5,000 times that of the most powerful light microscope. WorKcrs local toi jiua ueeu un strike against McKay s since last Thursday. On Saturday some 250 retail clerks and about 35 meat cutters stayed off the job in support of the bakery workers and remained off until Wednesday. Vote Taken Wednesday morning, at a reg ular membership meeting, a ma jority of about 200 retail clerks at the meeting voted in an in formal vote to go back to work at McKey's. Retail Clerks Secretary Jerry Kramer explained that neither the original decision to stop work nor the vote to go back to work constituted official actions of the union. The local has not officially directed its members to act one way or the other, Kramer said. It is an individual decision of the members whether they re turn to work. The effect of the informal ac tion Wednesday was felt imme diately. E. A. Clemow, a Mc Kay's representative, said a number of clerks had returned to their jobs by noon. He said the only remaining McKay's store that had been closed, the Pay 'N Save store in Spring field, would be re-opened Wed nesday afternoon. No Meeting Scheduled John Moore, secretary of Meat Cutters Local 234, said mem bers of his union are remaining off the job as far as he knows, although the local has taken no official action regarding the situation. Charles Yentsch, secretary of the bakery workers' local, said his union has no meeting sched uled with McKay's to continue negotiations. Lyle Swetland, secretary of the Lane County Labor Council, reported that at a regular meet ing Tuesday night the council voted to extend all possible sup port to the bakery workers in their strike against McKay's. In the strike at Irrigation Equipment Co., Art Trojan, sec retary of Boilermakers Local 401, said some 30 union mem bers are staying off work. Mediator Sits In Trojan said the union's con tract expired June 1. Negotia tions began about May 8. A meeting was held Monday be tween Ireco and the union with Federal Mediator Leroy Smith sitting in, but no agreement was reached. Trojan said the Boiler makers voted unanimously to strike in a meeting Tuesday eve ning. Another meeting between the company and the union is sched uled for Monday. Robert Burke, manager of Ireco, said the company re mained open, using some 30 su pervisory and office personneL Snooping at By FRED S. HOFFMAN Or the Associated Press WASHINGTON With Rus sia expected to resume atmos pheric nuclear testing soon, American experts reportedly are preparing to do a little snooping of their own. The Russians have four in strument ships posted around Christmas and Johnston is lands in the Pacific to gather information about the Amer ican test series which began April 25 and now has reached about the midway point. There is every reason to be lieve the Russians have col lected considerable data in the weeks their ships have been there. Although neither of the great nuclear powers says anything publicly about its own snooping operations, each has kept close check on Convicts Who Fled Alcatraz Targets of Widening Search SAN FRANCISCO W) The search went on Wednesday for three bank robbers who vanish ed from tide-swept Alcatraz Is land prison in San Francisco Bay Tuesday after wriggling through cell wall vents tedious ly enlarged with stolen spoons. Skillfully made dummies in their bunks prevented guards from discovering their absence for several hours. Warden Olin Blackwell said he does not believe the three men, led by a convict with an IQ of 132, are alive if they tried to swim for it. However, because of the thor oughness of the trio's planning to bust "The Rock," officials concede that the men could have made it ashore on a make shift raft. Nor do they discount the pos sibility that Frank Lee Morris, 35, the leader, and two broth ers, John, 32, and Clarence An glin, 31, are still on the island, lurking in a water's edge cave. Last Seen Monday An ever-widening search co ordinated by the FBI has spread over northern California. Their escape was discovered at 7:15 a.m., Tuesday. They were last seen at 9:30 p.m., Monday. No one is known to have sur vived an escape attempt from "The Rock" in its 28 years as a federal prison, although 35 men tried It in 11 separate attempts. Warden Blackwell told how the three men escaped the at tention of authorities. At 5 p.m. Monday, as usual, the doors clanged shut in the three-tiered cell block that housed 269 prisoners, watched over by 155 guards. At 9:30 and thereafter every hour on the hour during peri odic checks, nothing was found amiss. Then at 7:15 in the morning, at the regular showup, the three didn't get up. Guards prodded what appeared to be their sleep ing forms and found dummies "very realistic, plaster, paint and hair heads and pillow bodies." Emergency Board Center of Dispute From AP, Ex-Gov. Charles A. Sprague, Salem publisher, urged the State Board of Higher Education Wednesday to follow the Board of Control's lead in defying the State Emergency Board. The Board of Control Tues day challenged the Emergency Board's right to pass on building projects at state institutions. The Emergency Board also ex ercises the same right of veto over projects at the state uni versities and colleges. Sprague agreed with the Board of Control that it is unconstitu tional for the Emergency Board to exercise this veto. The legislature appropriates money for buildings, and the Board of Control and Board of Higher Education make the plans. But the legislature also Rave the Emergency Board the power 1 of veto on the plans. ' Sprague pointed out that he has "hammered on this topic for i years," holding that the Emer gency Board's use of power over building projects is unconstitu tional. Sprague said, "Let the Emer gency Board now bring an ap propriate case to the court." what the other has been do ing in nuclear test blasts over the years of the atomic weap ons race. The new Soviet series could come at any time in view of Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev's recent declaration that the American experi ments have "forced us to re new our tests." The Russians normally test in remote regions or deep in the heart of the Soviet Union. This makes it more diffi cult to get a reasonably close look, but there is clear evi dence this has not hampered the United States in obtaining solid scientific information about Soviet test results. On the basis of this knowl edge, President Kennedy was able to tell the nation last March that the Soviet series in late 1961 "reflected a high jf- . mi W Hi i .-V. . j."' :u 'iCrr .?-rJ Vi I .. ". ill v bm'jtk ,m, WW,i-mk,Z..k1 FRANK MORRIS It was found that the trio, apparently for weeks, had been digging at plaster and cement four inches thick with bits of spoons. Their painstaking ef fort loosened a metal cover lead ing to a ventilation shaft through each cell wall. Cells Connected The 8-by-12 inch openings con nected the cells with a service shaft a yard wide. From there it was 30 feet up a pipe to an air conditioner. This was dismantled, steel bars somehow torn aside and access gained to the mess hall roof. A 50-foot-long drain pipe led to the ground, about 100 yards from the water on the San Francisco side of the island. From this point, Warden Blackwell said, it was anybody's guess what the three men did. If they struck out for San Francisco, they had a mile and a quarter to swim or drift, with cold currents against them. On the northern side of the island it was 1 miles to Angel Island State Park. From there it was another IV miles to the Marin County shore. To the east from Alcatraz lay the Navy's Treas ure Island two miles away. V'PI Reports However, the vice chairman of the Oregon Emergency Board, State Rep. Clarence Barton, said Wednesday if the Board of Con trol has any questions about powers of the State Emergency Board, it should initiate a law suit itself. The Coquillc Democrat said he personally doesn't "favor wasting the taxpayer's money on a lawsuit." Barton said the Emergency Board doesn't expect the Board of Control to come before it with "petty" projects, but he added that "the legislature dele gated the responsibility of checking state building plans to the Emergency Board, to see that agencies don't squander money." "The Board of Control has squandered money in the past," Barton said. "A fine example of this is the bakery at Dammasch State hospital." He referred to installation of bakery equipment at Dammasch which was later taken out and divided up among other insti tutions after it was decided not to bake bread at Dammasch, but at the Oregon Correctional Institution instead. (See Story, Page A A-T ests Is Nothing ly sophisticated technology," that many of those tests were aimed at improving Soviet defenses against missiles, and that one Russian device was exploded more than 100 miles aloft. The Russian tests last fall, it is known, were conducted above uninhabited Novaya Zemlya, a crescent-shaped is land on the edge of the Arc tic. So far as is known, the United States does not have the kind of instrument ships being used by the Soviets to spy on U.S. tests in the Pa cific. But it is believed U.S. nu clear submarines which have proved their ability to oper ate in the Arctic even in win ter may have had a grand stand seat for the last Russian tests. ; V JOHN ANGLIN CLARENCE ANGLIN Net Earnings Jump 63 PORTLAND (Special) Unit ed States Plywood Corp. Wed nesday reported record sales of $301,898,000 for the year ended April 30, 1962, compared with sales of $260 million in the pre ceding year. F. W. Antoville, chairman of the board, made the announce ment at a press conference here Wednesday morning. Earnings for the year (after taxes) were up 63 per cent, to $12,025,200. Antoville said the Improved showing was due to an increase in sales, particularly in special ties and decorative plywood which more than offset lower prices of fir plywood and lum ber. He said the average price for fir plywood during the past fiscal year was the lowest since the end of World War II. Gene Brewer, U. S. Plywood president, said that some $7 mil lion will be spent during this fiscal year on improvements and expansion of present facilities on the West Coast. He said the corporation an ticipatcs no sharp increase in price for Douglas fir lumber and plywood. U. S. Plywood has factories In seven locations in Oregon, in cluding one in Eugene. Packy Won't March In Portland Parade PORTLAND (LTD Packy, the first elephant born in this coun try in nearly 44 years, won't take part in Saturday's Rose Festival parade. Zoo officials said separating Packy from his mother, Belle, would upset the mother too much. The most modern American subs carry advanced radar gear and supersensitive under water listening equipment. This radar can spot cloud formations and that could include atomic and hydrogen mushroom clouds from as much as 200 miles away. Sound-detecting devices can pick up shock waves, of the sort a nuclear blast might send through water. A watching sub might mark the precise time of a nuclear explosion a factor important in later analysis of the air borne debris drifting across the world. Certain elements thrown off in a nuclear blast decay over varying period of time. In studying air samples, scien tists compute the time lag be tween the blasts and the pick up of the samples. This helps McKenzie Gates Open Thursday Gates that have been closed since Nov. 22 will swing wide at 3 p.m. standard, 4 p.m. daylight Thursday to open the highway through McKen zie Pass. The State Highway Dept. reported Wednesday that snow clearing that began a month ago will then be com pleted. During winter the road. Highway 126, is closed by heavy snow for a distance of some 25 miles from Alder Springs on the west side of the summit to a point about 10 miles west of Sisters on the east side of the summit. This year's June 14 open ing is one of the latest in his tory. State Highway Dept. records indicate that 1960 was the latest the pass opened Jun0 24 that year. Earliest on record was April 13 in 1930. (A Goshen man, Howard Mri luy, once reported crossing the pass on March 24, 1934). The pass opened on May 16 last year. Anyone taking the drive through the pass will find high banks of snow piled up by snowplows on each side of the road, with four or five feet of drift snow still cover ing the rest of the ground. At the summit, McKenzie Pass has an elevation of some 5,326 feet above sea level. Stock Mart Drops Again NEW YORK tn Succumbing to the second of two strong sell ing waves, the stock market fell sharply Wednesday, breaking through the bottom reached by the Dow Jones industrial aver age in the May 28 "black Mon day." Other averages did not pierce the May 28 "floor," however. Trading was heavy. The Dow Jones industrial av erage fell 8.90 to 574.04. The May 28 close was 576.93. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks remained above Its May 28 low of 211.20, declining 2.70 to 212.50. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell .84 to 55.50, exactly equal to its low for the year reached on May 28. Convicted Truck Dynamiter Enters State Penitentiary SALEM 11 Levi McDonald, Portland stcreotypcr who was convicted of dynamiting trucks leased by the strikebound Ore gonian and Oregon Journal, en tered the slate penitentiary Tuesday night. He must serve two consecu tive 10-year terms. Warden C. T. Gladden said that McDonald, accompanied by two Multnomah County deputy sheriffs, arrived at the prison at 7:05 p.m. The state Supreme Court re ceived the mandate from the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, the highest court having re fused to hear McDonald's ap peal. The slate Supreme Court put its mandate to the Multnomah Circuit Court in the mail late Tuesday. McDonald would not have had to start serving his sentence un til after the mandate arrived in Portland today. He was convicted in both Multnomah and Clackamas coun account for missing elements or the degree of decay of ele ments found present. The U. S. technique of us ing high-flying aircraft to cap ture samples from Soviet ex plosions dates back about 13 years, to a time when the Rus sians held their first atomic tests. The United States fol lows this same technique in studying its own test results. Much of the air sampling in the wake of Russian tests is done in the Alaskan areas, which lie in the path of the radioactive debris moving with prevailing winds. American aircraft fly into these air masses, then open nose ports which trap atomic particles flowing inside. These particles are brought back to laboratories and are subject to microscopic, chemical and spectrochcmical analysis. JFK Praises Laotian Pact WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy told Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toward actions anywhere should be allowed to disrupt progress by formation of a new government in Laos. The President urged Khrushchev to join efforts at the Geneva Conference to solidify the new government by completing the agreements under which it was formed. Like Khrushchev, Kennedy said he found the agree ment on a new Laotian government "very encouraging." Kennedy made the points in a message to Khru shchev in answer to one received from the Soviet leader Tuesday night. In his note, I Khrushchev hailed the new Laotian government agree ment and said he thought other world problems might ue settled in similar fasn- lon. In his brief note, Kennedy agreed with major points made in Khrushchev's message. "I agree that continued prog ress in the settlement of the Laotian problem can be most helpful in leading toward the resolution of other international difficulties," Kennedy said. "If together we can help in the es tablishment of an Independent and neutral Laos, securely sus tained in this status through time, this accomplishment will surely have a significant and positive effect far beyond the borders of Laos." The President told Khrush chev he felt the formation of a national government under Prince Souvanna Phouma was a milestone in Laotian peace ef forts, particularly since Ken nedy and Khrushchev met in Vienna about a year ago. He said it was equally im portant that participation in the Geneva Conference on Laos should now press forward to complete the agreements under which the new national union has been formed. (See Story, Page 2A) Baseball American if a our Detroit at Now York, ppd, rain. Cleveland at Wahlngton (2), night Baltimore at Boston, night. Chicago at Kansas City, night. Minnesota at Loa Angeles, night. NATIONAL IK A OLE Pittsburgh at Chicago. San Francisco at Cincinnati, night. Los Angeles at Milwaukee, night. Philadelphia at St. Louis, night. New York at Houston, night. ties of planning the dynamiting of the trucks used by the news papers and owned by Oregon Film Service and wymore Transfer Co. No one was injured in the blasts which occurred the night of Jan. 31, 1960, 2'A months after the Stcrcotypcrs Union struck the two newspapers in a contract renewal dispute. Also sentenced in the dyna miting were Charles Henry Sny der, William L. Snyder, Edward Snyder and Gerald Allen Cou icns. They have completed serv ing the two-year terms each re ceived. They were charged with placing and setting off the ex plosives under McDonald's planning. McDonald, who was a member of the union's negotiating com mittee, appealed his conviction on the ground, among other things, that publicity attendant on the strike prevented him from getting fair trials in the two counties. The state Supreme Court rejected his appeal and the United States Supreme Court declined to hear it. New All this tells American sci entists what materials went into the bomb, warhead or device and how effective it was. The 18th nuclear device of the current U. S. Pacific se ries was detonated Tuesday following an aerial drop near Christmas Island. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department said it was in the intermediate range, meaning it had an explosive force of between 20.000 and 1 million tons of TNT. A high-altitude shot of more than a million tons force is expected shortly, possibly late this week, near Johnston Is land. The first attempt at a high altitude detonation failed on June 4, when a Thor mis sile carrying the warhead was destroyed after Its guidance system went awry. Wednesday that no "un Algerians Won't Revise Agreements TUNIS, Tunisia Ml The Al gerian provisional government Wednesday urged Algeria's European minority to Join in building of a new country de spite the bloodletting resistance of the Secret Army Organiza tion. A statement Issued from pro visional government headquar ters here promised a vast so cial and agrarian revolution after the vote for independence July 1. Earlier Nationalist Premier Youssef Ben Khedda categorical ly rejected any possibility of revising the cease-fire agree ment with President Charles do Gaulle to give the European residents greater rights and guarantees than are now pro vided. The statement called on Mos lems and Europeans of Algeria alike to register a massive vote for independence. There is little doubt that the nine million Moslems of Al geria, who outnumber Euro peans about 9 to 1, will vote overwhelmingly for jlndepend ence. A major worry of the provi sional government leaders is what will happen after that. Some dissensions of policy and personality have appeared between the exile leaders here and those who took the risks of fighting in Algeria. The head of the Algerian provisional government charged that "a series of maneuvers" is being made "in an attempt to sabotage the Evian peace agree ments by making it appear pos sible they can be revised un der the pretext of giving addi tional guarantees to the Eu ropeans." 'My government categorical ly excludes this possibility," Ben Khedda said. Ben Khcdda's statement came alter two weens oi con tacts between representatives of Algeria's European minority and members of the Algerian provisional executive body which is governing the North African territory until the July 1 self determination referen dum. INSIDE TODAY Women's News 1-4C Editorials 6A Births IB Theaters 5C TV Previews . 7C Stock Market 4A Business Beat 4A Classified BHD minv-w'i "w i mmmhwh 1
