U2 Pilot Qary Powers Now an Obscurity in Washington
By DONALD MAY
Ot the United Pri International
WASHINGTON Four
months after he walked to free
dom across a Berlin Bridge,
' former U2 pilot Frances Pow
ers remains an obscure figure
around Washington glimpsed
occasionally, talked of more
frequently, but always avoiding
the public spotlight.
The 32-year-old pilot whose
Unsuccessful 1960 espionage
flight over Russia toppled a
summit mreting, has been liv
ing quietly in a modern apart
ment overlooking the Potomac
River in suburban Alexandria,
Va., generally unnoticed by
. most of his neighbors.
- He is working for the Central
Intelligence Agency at duties
which are undisclosed but which
apparently do not include fly
ing. He is reported writing a book
on his flight, which ended deep
inside Russia, his trial and 21
months in a Soviet prison, and
his eventual exchange for con
victed Soviet spy Rudolph Abel.
With a few exceptions Pow
ers has gone quietly about his
business here without publicity
since his appearance before a
Congressional committee short
ly after his return.
One exception was when he
ran into a Washington reporter
at a fish fry given at the home
I of a friend. Powers said on
that occasion that be was able
' to walk around downtown Wash-
f -
ington without being recognized
but that once when he visited
Pope's Creek near the little
town of La Plata, Md., he was
discovered and people lined up
to get his autograph.
Another exception was in late
April when his wife Barbara
was taken to Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital here with an
acute stomach ailment which
the hospital diagnosed as a
"medication reaction." Police
said she had taken an overdose
of sleeping pills.
The director of the CIA,
John A. Mct'one, has been at
tempting to have the agency
show up somewhat less in. the
newspapers than did his prede
cessor, Allen Dulles.
All the CIA will say about
Powers is that "he works for
us."
This attitude undoubtedly
stems also from the fact that
although the general story is
known, there still are quite a
number of undisclosed aspects
of the U2 flight.
The CIA, on recommendation
of a special panel appointed by
President Kennedy, gave Pow
ers full exoneration for his con
duct during his flight and at his
Soviet trial.
The CIA found he had "lived
up to the terms of his employ
ment and instructions."
He was given $50,000 back
pay, and the Internal Revenue
Service ruled he could spread
the taxes on this over two
years.
But no one has ever com
pletely cleared up publicly the
mystery of how his plane was
brought down.
Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev told the Russian
people it was done with "a re
markable rocket."
Powers in his Senate testi
mony said he did not know the
answer. His first sign of disas
ter, he said, was when he
"heard and felt" an explosion
and saw an orange light.
Then his plane was falling in
a spin, and after a struggle
against the forces of gravity, he
bailed out without being able to
start the mechanism which
would have destroyed the plane
after he left it, he testified.
Former Eugenean Gets M.D. Degree
Bernard Goffe, 24, formerly
of Eugene, received the doctor
of medicine degree from the
University of Washington at
June commencement exercises.
Doctor Goffe was an honor
graduate, and a member of Al
pha Omega Alpha, medical hon
orary. He will intern at Harbor-
view Hospital in Seattle.
He is the son of Kir. and Mrs.
William Goffe, formerly of Eu
gene, now residents of Albu
querque, N.M.
EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Thurs, June 21, 1962 Page 3B
Still May Plant
Late Garden
If you missed planting your
garden with the early birds,
don't despair, says County
Agent Duane Hatch.
There's still time to set out
plants of tomatoes, peppers,
cabbages, cucumbers, and to sow
seeds of snap beans, sweet corn,
summer squash and beets.
In fact, the combination of
warm soil and longer days may
help you catch up with fore
handed neighbors.
Black plastic mulch, he says,
can be a miracle-worker for
many gardeners. Spread the
plastic mulch over the garden
surface as a controller of weeds.
Agricultural agents at Lane
Extension Service are available
to assist Lane County garden
ers with their problems.
BONANZA Forgetful
Chicago and North West
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"donated more than 1,
000 paperback books to
Chicago area hospitals.
Dawn Runge stacks the
books which have been
collecting dust in the rail
way's Lost and Found department.
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