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.
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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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of the White House, to which
the students had looked for
ward eagerly.
The 21' boys and 12 girls
earned national acclaim this
month when the word spread
that they had voted to turn
over $700 in class funds
earmarked for the traditional
Washington trip to classmate
and star athlete Duane Rich
ardson, 17.
Richardson has cancer. His
classmates decided to help pay
the medical bills.
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.
Before the evening's end two other guests somehow also
ended up taking a dip fully clothed Mrs. Spencer Davis, a
friend of Mrs. Kennedy, and Presidential Assistant Arthur
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