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Page 2A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tburs., June 21, 1962 Over Test Failure U. S. Team Red-Faced HONOLULU Ufi U.S. scientists at Johnston Island were pic tured officially as taking In stride the second failure in two tries to explode a nuclear device at high altitude. Privately, however, sources said the science and military team responsible for America's Pacific nuclear test series was embar rassed by flopping twice while the world looked on. The Soviet Union jumped at the opportunity to make propaganda hay. The second test late Tuesday night involved the biggest shot this spring officially classified as more than one million tons of TNT but probably 10 times that size. The Thor missile carrying the warhead to a firing altitude of 200 miles went awry and the " 1 missile and nuclear device had Judge Denies Estes Motion EL PASO, Tex. Wl Defense lawyers failed Wednesday in ef forts to lock further investiga tion of Billie Sol Estes by the federal grand jury which first indicted the West Texas pro moter. U. S. Dist. Judge R. E. Thorn ason denied motions to dismiss the 23 jurors or to permit pri vate questioning of each to de termine whether they were prejudiced. Estes sat in the courtroom as one of his lawyers, John Cofer of Austin, claimed newspaper, magazine and broadcast ac counts had led to biased opin ions about the Estes case. Cofer also asserted President Kennedy and Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy both had voiced opinions concerning the guilt of Estes although there has been no conviction. The grand jury indicted Estes and three other men in March on charges of fraud through mortgages on nonexistent chem ical fertizilcr tanks. It recon vened Wednesday for further investigation of Estes' affairs. Cofer asked the court to in struct members of the panel to consider only sworn testimony and evidence, disregarding newspaper and magazine ar ticles. : Judge Thomason denied the motion but said Cofer could sub mit the proposed instructions as an exhibit for the grand jury. Convention To Hear U.S. Official PORTLAND Ml Assislant Secretary of Interior John Car ver will speak Thursday night at an Izaak Walton League con vention dinner and is expected to dofend vigorously policies of the Bureau of Land Manage ment. These came in for sharp at tack Wednesday from L.C. Jack Binford, Portland, a member of the league's executive board. He told the league's 40th an nual convention that the record of the BLM under the Kennedy administration has been disap pointing. Binford, who was expected to be elected president of the league Thursday, said there wcro encouraging signs in the early days of the Kennedy ad ministration, but "so far it's big talk and little do." Binford noted that President Kennedy had said in a special message to Congress in Febru ary, 1061, that he was instruc ting the Interior secretary to launch a sweeping program to control use and raise the pro ductivity of federal grazing dis tricts. Despite this, Binford said, "overuse by grazing continues on much of the Bureau of Land Management lands. 1 can find no situation where the use has been limited except by the con sent of the premitlec." to be destroyed There was no nuclear detona tion. Some of the debris fell on Johnston and a nearby "Sand" island, the remainder in the open sea "well within the safety area." Public Announcement The two Johnston attempts have been the only pro-announced public tests of the series to date, Firing times have been issued and countdowns have been carried on open radio fre quencies. Delays and postpone ments, as happened both times, have been relayed fairly promptly. Had the shots been successful, the flashes and, in the case of the second one, the fireball would have been visible 750 miles away in Hawaii. Joint Task Force 8 said the failures would not change plans to announce future Johnston tests in advance. Twenty-one successful lower level detonations have been an nounced at Christmas Island, far to the southeast of Johnston. Most of these tests involved de vices dropped from airplanes. Missiles Blamed The blame for the Johnston Island failures was placed sol idly on the Thor missiles. The tracking system malfunctioned on the first try, June 4. The trouble Tuesday night wasn't disclosed, but officials said it was in the missile. Officials indicated it might take 10 days to two weeks to prepare the single Thor launch ing pad at Johnston Island for another shot. Radio Moscow was quick to comment on the second blowup at Johnston. The Soviet broad cast spoke of imperfections in U.S. rockets and suggested a runaway missile could endanger mankind by carrying a nuclear device over inhabited territory. For the record, the U.S. gov ernment denied all and said a malfunctioning rocket can be destroyed by radio seconds after it leaves tho launching pad. mmmmmmmmmmmmfm " - . .. i ni "jj I"'" sb l;&SrSSa """'-V l ,ff "TT - in iwf mrme mi i 1 Sad Outlook (AP Wirephoto) All the cares of the world seem, to be resting heavily on the shoulders of this orangutan, pictured Wednesday peering through an opening of its shelter hut in' Brookfield Children's Zoo in Brookfield, 111. Snow Clogs Recovery Effort HELENA, Mont. WV-Snow up to five feet deep on one of the highest mountains In the Con tinental Divide of Central Mon tana hampered efforts Thursday to recover the bodies of four members of a Washington state family killed in the crash of their light plane last Friday. Bodies of the four victims were identified late Wednesday by Dave Middlcmas, sheriff coroner of Lewis and Clark County. He flew in a Montana Fish and Game Department helicopter to the crash site, more than 9,000 feet up the east slope of Scapegoat Moun tain, 65 miles northwest of here. Aboard the plane were the pilot, L. V. Richards, a prosper ous turkey farmer, and his wife, both in their 60s, from Outlook, Wash., and their son-in-law and daughter, the Rev. and Mrs. Robert Smith, both in their 20s, from Sunnyside, Wash. Middlcmas said the plane ap parently made a controlled Castro Appeals To Medical Students KEY WEST, Fla. W) The Cuban government Wednesday appealed to former medical stu dents to return to classes. It promised aid to those who have dropped out for financial reasons and said special ar rangements will be made to reg ister those who were late in en rolling for current classes, Hav ana Radio reported. crash landing. The flaps on the wings were down part way to slow the craft, and the pilot's hand still was on the throttle. Wreckage was identified by Dick Munroc of the Montana Aeronautics Commission, who had directed the aerial search. He read the numbers on the plane's wing. I Munroe said he assumed the plane crashed about 12:45 p.m. Friday. It had stopped at Plains, about 80 miles east, and refueled, leaving about 11:55 a.m. He said if the plane were traveling at its normal 130 miles an hour, it would have reached the rugged peak, 9,185 feet above sea level, in about 45 minutes. Scapegoat Moun tain is one of the highest in the region. Kennedy Of Qlen WASHINGTON tin Presi dent Kennedy greeted gradu ates of Michigan's Glen Lake Community High School at the White House Thursday and told them "no group of high school students has ever been more welcome in Washington or at this house." The 33 students received spe cial acclaim because they de cided to give up their long planned class trip to Washing ton and use their savings to help pay the medical bills of an ailing classmate. An outpouring of gifts from other sources en abled them to make the trip anyway. 'Learned Lessons' "All the lessons that a trip to this capital and this house might have taught you, you learned in your own home town," the President said. Speaking to the group in the rose garden of the White House, Kennedy told them "this house belongs to you. Many of the people you've read about in your history . books lived here." Kennedy called to his side Duane Richardson, 17, the class member whose illness brought about the generosity of his classmates. He shook hands also with other class members and prom ised to sign diplomas and other items "if you'll leave them at the White House, and I'll send them to your hotel," Guided Tour The visit with Kennedy cli maxed an hour-long guided tour Qreets Students Lake High School Official Named To Committee SALEM UR Jack Summer field, Douglas County public welfare administrator, has been appointed to a national work simplification committee of the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the state Public Welfare Commis sion announced Wednesday. The committee, which will meet in Washington, D.C., June 28-29, was formed to reduce paperwork required in the pub lic assistance program. General Dies at 82 WASHINGTON W Gen. John L. DeWitt, Ret., commander during World War II of the Western Defense Command died Wednesday of a heart ailment. DeWitt, who retired in 1944 after 49 years in the Army, was 82. Nurse Given Job Back BINGHAMPTON, N. Y. UV A practical nurse, who figured prominently in the case of six babies who died of salt poison ing, says her reinstatement by Binghampton General Hospital makes her "just feel like shout ing." "I prayed it would turn out this way," said Lillie Mac Col vin, a licensed practical nurse who expects her fourth child in September. Hospital officials have said Mrs. Colvin apparently got salt, instead of sugar, last March when she went to the city-owned hospital's main kitchen to refill the sugar canister used in preparation of infants' formula. A total of 14 babies received salt-laden formula. Six of them died in the space of four days. The others survived. Mrs. Colvin. who has Insisted she made no error, was notified Wednesday of her reinstate ment. Mrs. Colvin. the hospital said, will receive hack pay for the period from March 11, when she was suspended, to May 27. She went on maternity leave, with out pay, as of May 27. 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Funds Pour In But Washington heard about the big-hearted youngsters from the upper reaches of lower Michigan and decided they should have their class trip. Funds came in from many sources including senators, representatives and a local ra dio station. . . The students were rounded up from their summer jobs all said their employers were glad to let them go and bundled on the train for Wash ington. They arrived Wednesday to a warm welcome at Union Sta tion, free lodging at a motor hotel, and the use of an Air Force bus to take them sightseeing. Ethel Makes Splash At Plush Poolside Party WASHINGTON 11 "In the social swim" usually describes someone who's making a splash on the champagne and caviar circuit. It means something more at the Robert F. Kennedys now. It means making a splash in the Kennedy swimming pool sort of a formal splash in evening clothes, dancing shoes and the rest. It happened the other night at an outside dinner-dance for about' 300 given by the attorney general and his wife, Ethel, at their Virginia estate. And the hostess was the first to get a dunking. Betty Beale, columnist for the Washington Evening Star, said it happened this way: At the party for Actor Peter Lawford and his wife, a Kennedy sister the dance floor extended from a back fence right to the edge of the swimming pool. One small table was perched on a plank that stretched across the pool with the three chairs around it only inches from the edge. Mrs. Kennedy occupied one chair, Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. was in the second and the third was for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, who apparently judged the position was untenable and took a stand on firmer ground. It was bound to happen and it did. Mrs. Kennedy tumbled in and was drenched but Glenn remained dry, just as he did when his space capsule plopped into the ocean after his three orbits around the earth. 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