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Warmer Wednesday Weather Report, Page OA LAN E COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 95th Year, No. 302 TWO SECTIONS 22 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Tuesday, August 21, 1962 Second Clasf Postage Paid at Eugene, Oregon Price, 5 Cents City Edition (Register-Guard photo) They can laugh now, but these four youths from Peoria, 111., had W of f some rough moments last weekend when they tried, unsuccessfully, ayc4.il to float down the McKenzie River from Belknap Springs to a point R; 1 near Eugene aboard a rubber life raft. The raft sank twice. They IQc are, from left, Andy Nicoll, 17, Verlin Behm, 17, Randy Jacobs, 18, and Ed Haynes, 17. Gates Open Wednesday Morning Fair Has 'most Everything "Politicians to Preserves By DON ROBINSON Uf the Rrslster-Guard In just a few more hours the only community event where al most everything from a politi cian to a fancy preserve is avail able for critical judgment or casual observation the Lane County Fair will open for 1962. It's all centered at the county fairgrounds on W. 13th Avenue in Eugene. There is ample space (Fair Schedule, Page 6A) for parking, with signs to guide visitors to the parking lots. Gates open officially at 8 a.m. standard, 9 a.m. daylight Wed nesday. The opening hour will remain the same each day through Sunday. The closing hour will be 10 p.m. standard, 11 p.m. daylight every day ex cept Sunday when the fair ends at 5 p.m. standard, 6 p.m. day light. Children's Day The first day of the fair is Children's Day, and all those 12 years and under enter free of charge. Otherwise the daily admissions are: children 6 and under, free; children 7 through 12, 25 cents; persons 13 and over, 75 cents. The ticket to the fair also admits you to the circus. Rudy Bros. Circus will give two per formances daily through Satur- 'Drive-Out' Bean Pickers In Demand A shortage of bean pickers is developing in Lane County, ac cording to the State Employ ment Service. Doug Cline of the SES farm bureau said most of the short age is in the "drive-out" group of pickers who furnish their own transportation. Cline said 650 openings are available and added that some of the growers will now pay gas expenses for those who bring a car load of pickers. He also said the employment service can line up bus trans portation for about 100 women and children who desire rides to fields. Cline said filling picking shortages now can avoid serious shortages later in the season. He predicted bean picking would last about four more weeks and said picking is good row with crops reaching their peaks. Further information can be obtained by calling Cline at DI 2-2191. U.N. Asks Pakistan To Furnish Troops UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. 1 The United Nations has asked Pakistan to furnish about 1.000 men to police West New Guinea until the area is turned over to Indonesia. . .. Acting Secretary General L Thant sent the request to the Pakistani delegation Monday and i U.N. spokesman said a favor able reply is expected soon. a 7: . C J day in the outdoor arena. There will be a final performance Sun day afternoon. West Coast Shows, with 22 rides arrayed for fun or fright, plus the usual paraphernalia of a carnival, will be set up on the grounds and will operate from late morning to closing time I each day. Musical Programs Background music will follow fairgoers through loudspeakers. Beyond that the musical side of the fair will be bolstered by daily organ concerts on the fair grounds mall and evening ser enades by the South Eugene Summer Clinic band. More than $16,000 in premi ums will be awarded to winners in myriad categories and sub categories of competition. Spe cifically, there are divisions for horses, dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep and goats, swine, poultry, rabbits, land products, floral ar rangements, foods, textiles, in dustrial art, hobbies and collec tions, art and photography. Judging in some of these be gan early but judging in the main agricultural divisions will begin on Wednesday. Demonstrations Each day through Saturday there will be demonstrations of cooking, weaving and flower ar ranging in the buildings where these things are exhibited. There will be pottery making demonstrations each day through Friday. There will be no dearth of dignitaries at this year's fair. Art Puzzle i I r Gov. Mark Hatfield, who is ex pected to be accompanied by his wife, will come to the fair at 4:30 p.m. daylight Thursday. He will make a brief talk from the midway stage, and then be fea tured on radio KORE's Youth Speaks program with a taping session beginning at 5:30 p.m. daylight. The governor will be at the fair, either at his special booth or wandering through the exhibits, until the closing hour Thursday. Republican and Democratic organizations have given their assurances that from time to time throughout the fair visits will be made by their candidates for Lane County, Oregon, or na tional offices to be filled at the November election. Fair for Fair If its people were no more trustworthy than its weather, the Emerald Empire would house a giant prison population. With that fact in mind, and with the Lane County Fair about to make its entrance for the year, questions arise about what the weather will be like this week. Tuesday morning the fore caster at the U. S. Weather sta tion at Mahlon Sweet airport referred to a five-day forecast that said, "Temperatures should be near normal, and precipita tion below normal. His short-term forecast was less vague and more optimistic. Clearing tonight and fair and warm Wednesday. 1., (RrglMer-Giiard photo by PhU (jrerion) Let's see now . . . What to do with the dozens of exhibits in the art division at the Lane County Fair is a puzzler. But by Wednesday fair officials will have these and other exhibits in place as the grounds open to the public. McKenzie Adventure Has Soggy Ending By DAN WYANT or the Register-Guard An ambition to float down a fast-flowing western river aboard a rubber raft came to a waterlogged end for four youths from Peoria, 111. They took on the McKenzie River over the weekend and came out second-best. Recalling the episode Mon day, one of the quartet, Andy Nicoll, 17, could only muse: "I wonder what will happen next!" Involved with him in the damp dcrring-do were Verlin Behm, 17, Randy Jacobs, 18, and Ed Haynes, 17, all gradu ates of Woodruff High School at Peoria, last spring. They and two other class- Master Road Plan Given Tentative OK By MARVIN TIMS Or the Keeistcr-Guard Members of the Springfield Planning Commission Monday evening informally recommend ed the adoption of a master road plan designed to handle traffic 25 years from now. The planners are expected to take final action on the road plan Sept. 4, recommending its adoption to the Springfield City Council. The master plan foresees the extension of the new Q Street eastward as far as Hendricks Bridge (near Cedar Flats). Cur rent plans of the State Highway Department, however, call for linking new Q with Main Street at a point near 57th Street in Springfield. Better Position in Future The master plan lists freeways, expressways, arterials, collector. business and local streets not only in Springfield but also in the greater Springfield area. Generally, this area encompass es the Pacific Freeway on the west, the McKenzie River on the north, Cedar Flats on the east and the Middle Fork of the Wil lamette River on the south. By adopting the master plan, the commission and city council will be in a better position to work out future street patterns created by the development of new subdivisions. And once the plan is adopted by the council, the city will be able to require certain minimum right-of-way for new streets that will have to be carved out of areas now undeveloped. Stipulation Included In another matter, planners informally recommended a change in city policy to permit installation of commercial signs along Main Street from 10th to 19lh on or near property lines. A special setback provision now keeps signs behind the property line. Planners stipulated, How ever, that property owners must sign an agreement to the effect they will move their signs back at their own expense if Main Street is ever widened. This type of policy has al ready been in effect along Main Street east of 19th. Under the new plan, property owners no longer will have to apply to the planning commission for a vari ance to setback provisions but can locate a sign closer to the street by obtaining a permit from the building department. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at New York (2. Cincinnati at Chlcano. Houston at Philadelphia (2). night. St. Louli at Milwaukee, night. Only gamca acheduled. AMERICAN lEAdVP. Chicago at Baltimore, night. Cleveland at Detroit, night. WaHhlnglon at Minnesota, night. Boston at Kannaa City, night. New York at Loa Angelea, night. Timing, Long Ballot Cited by McKinley Expressway Vote Eugene City Manager Hugh McKinley has recommended against submitting an express- way ban repeal measure to vot ers in the Nov. 6 general elec . . .... tion, In a message to the city coun cil, McKinley said he agrees that the charter amendment re stricting expressway construc tion should be repealed but he questioned the timing for an election. McKinlcy's recommendation came in a letter mailed to coun cil members over the weekend. The city manager is on vacation this week. The council must come to I mates, Grog Light, 17, and Phil Herbst, 18, drove out to see the Seattle World's Fair and other West Coast attrac tions. "We'd been looking for a good river to try our raft on," Andy explained. "Someone in Seattle said a couple of good streams for beginners were the McKenzie River and the Rogue River in Oregon." The four adventurers select ed the McKenzie over the Rogue because it was the closest. It was already dark Saturday night when they stowed sleeping bags and ex tra clothing aboard, and put in on the upper McKenzie somewhere near Belknap Springs. Winnie Wags Big Cigar Going Home LONDON 01PD Sir Winston Churchill, 87, carried into a hospital on a stretcher nearly two months ago, went home Tuesday in a wheelchair wav ing a big cigar and grinning at the wellwishcrs who cheered as he left the hos pital. Churchill, dressed in his fa vorite gray suit and a Hom burg hat on his lap, was greeted by hundreds of "V" for victory signs from a cheering crowd outside Mid dlesex Hospital. Churchill took the cigar out of his mouth, broke into a big grin and waved his stogcy. In the past, Churchill has survived two world wars, pneumonia, broken bones and injuries suffered when he was hit by a New York taxicab. The exit from the hospital was another personal victory for Cburchill in his frequent contests with ailments and In juries. This timo he ia on the way to recovory from a brok en left thigh, suffered in a fall June 28 durihg a vacation on the French Riviera. The former prime minister's release after 54 days in the hospital so touched the hearts of the British people that the event was televised. Churchill was transferred from the hospital to his homo in London's Hyde Park Gate region, where a special Gate ment has been built on the ground floor so he can con valesce without undue exer tion. Nurses and doctors leaned out of windows to cheer their patient on his way home. Po lice had to clear milling crowds from the street out side the hospital. The entire street had to be barred to traffic. (Picture, Page 3A) Sparks Ignite Fire in Gondola Sparks from its undercarriage ignited the floor of a moving railroad gondola car Monday afternoon and started at least one fire along Southern Pacific tracks cast of Lowell. A Southern Pacific dispatch er said the car blaze was minor and started only one small fire. but the Willamette National Forest dispatcher blamed at least a dozen small fires on the burning car. The empty gondola caught fire someplace east of Minnow station on Lookout Point Res ervoir. It was shunted to a sid ing there and the fire was ex tinguished. Franco Vacations SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain Ml Generalissimo Franco arrived on his yacht Azor Monday for a month's stay here as part of his summer vacation. decision on lhe recommenda tion by its next meeting, Aug. 1 t Via .itv' last rh.nr. tn nut ' ,h N 6 baot i ... McKinley said the expressway charter amendment is com plex issue with emotional fac tors involved. He said the gen eral election will see a long ballot, with several other items of local interest, including the county's proposed new charter and the city's proposed new tax base. "These are matters which will require much explanation in order to have them properly considered by the electorate," he noted. "It seems to me that the 'expressways amendment' The other two youths Greg and Phil drove on to see the Oregon coast. They arranged to meet the others the next day. About two miles on the McKenzie was all it took to have the jam-packed life raft awash. "It was sinking out from under us," recalled one of the four. "We beached it and everything was soaking wet and ruined our sleeping bags, our clothes, our shoes." The boys abandoned every thing except the raft, which they deflated. Barefoot, they headed back to Belknap Springs to try to find lodging. Unsuccessful, they ended up sleeping in the open in their Police Mass in Berlin To Head Off Violence BERLIN (UPD West Berlin po lice threw up barbed wiro barri cades and massed hundreds of men on the western side of the Berlin wall Tuesday to head off further anti-Communist rioting. More than 450 riot police were stationed at key points around the crossing point known as Checkpoint Charlie manned by the U. S. Army, the biggest concentration of Western force at one spot since the riots start ed three days ago. The police were backed by water cannons and American m tary policemen. Checkpoint Charlie has been the scene of the most bitter vio lence, since it is the place where a Soviet bus carrying Red army troops to the Soviet War Memorial In the British sector paBses from Bast to West Ber lin, west Beruners have vented their anger at the Communists by stoning the buses and bat tling with their own police try ing to stop them. Mayor Willy Brandt conferred with the Big Three Western Al lied commandants Tuesday to discuss the crisis and seek means of preventing future out breaks of violence by West Ber- liners incensed over the Com munist shooting of East German refugees. A communique said the West ern commandants agreed they would station a Western Allied ambulance at the U. S. Army's Checkpoint Charlie at the Friedrichstrasse crossing point to provide medical aid for refu gees. The Monday riots raged up Details Told in Conference 3 Miles Russian MOSCOW IUPD Russia's twin astronauts disclosed Tuesday that they came within three miles of each other in their record-breaking flights through space and floated back to Earth by parachute. But they said there was no attempt and no plan to link up their five-ton space ships in orbit. Maj. Andrian Nikolaycv, 32, who made 64 orbits of the earth, and his "space twin," Lt. Col, Pavel Popovich, 31, who com plcted 48 orbits, gave details of their tandem journey at a joint news conference at Mos cow University's Main Hall. The marathon conference lasted three hours and 43 minutes. Nikolaycv told the 1,500 news men and observers at the tele- Queried could be more thoroughly con sidered at a special election when it would be the major is sue." McKinley dcwled several pages in his letter to detailing some of the problems the city faces because of tho expressway restrictions imposed by the vot ers through the charter amend ment. For one thing, he said, the amendment prohibits the city from spending money to plan a route before it is approved, yet it requires that detailed plans must be submitted to the voters to gain the necessary ap proval. This, he said, leads to an impasse. I wet clothes. "Boy, it was cold," said Andy. The next morning they started hiking for Eugene. Some 15 miles later, at Blue River, their feet were cut and blistered and they were ready to have another try at rafting. "Someone told us about Martin Rapids," Andy said. "They told us to walk around it." The boys made it success fully to Martin Rapids, port aged their raft, and put in the river again. "At Blue River they told us we'd have smooth sailing the rest of the way to Eugene," said Andy, "once we got past Martin Rapids." and down the Communist-built anti-rcfugco wall until past mid night and for the first time since they started Saturday they spread back from the bor der to the center of West Ber lin. An estimated 10,000 West Bcrliners took part. West Berlin police said at least 15 rioters and 9 policemen wero hurt, and 10 rioters were arrested. Police used clubs and water cannon to drive mobs back. An Allied spokesman called the situation grave , and Moscow Radio commentator said Berlin "threatened a con Rusk Asks Soviet For T aks on Berlin WASHINGTON HV-Secrctary of State Dean Rusk called In Soviet Ambassador Anatnly F. Dobrynin Tuesday to press for a meeting of Allied and Soviet commandants in Berlin. U.S. sources said Washington hn oivr.n rlnnrnnrn for U.S. soldiers in West Berlin to sup- ply medical assistance to East Germans wounded on the Com munist side of the Berlin wall. U. S. sources stated also that the leeway given U.S. troops in Berlin docs not include per mission to help East Germans in their attempts to escape to the West. Any assistance, it was said, would be confined to medi cal aid. Separated Spacemen ' vised session that retro-rockets first slowed tho speed or his space ship, Vostok III, while it still was in orbit more than 100 miles above the earth. Then he said he was "separated in a capsule" from tho instrument compartment of the ship, mak ing a blazing re-entry into the earth's atmosphere safely inside. At an undisclosed height, he said he then was ejected to float to Earth by parachute, landing near Karaganda in Kazakhstan, 1,500 miles south cast of Moscow. Popovich said he also came down by parachute from his ship, Vostok IV, and said he and Nikolaycv landed about 124 miles apart. Previous announce mcnts had said they came down within six minutes of each other in the previously planned land ing area. Popovich added that the two space shins at their closest were about five kilometers or 3.1 miles apart. He put lhe weight of the craft at "about five tons." 2 Missing Girls Found in Virginia ALEXANDRIA, Va. W Two 7-year-old girls missing since Sunday were found Tuesday locked in an unoccupied apart ment less than a block from their homes. The FBI said they were safe, but there was no Im mediate report on their condi tion. The girls are Rita Ohlgrcn and Maria Morley. The discovery of the children came at about 4 p.m., after hope was virtually given up for their safety. (Earlier Story, Page 3A) But disaster struck when It was least expected. The raft suddenly capsized. Everyone made it safely to shore. But the boys had had enough. Back on the McKenzie High way, and resigned to more blisters, they were saved from further discomfort by three Eugeneans, John Chatt, Bill Hilton and Bill Sanderson. The three men picked them up and heard their story. Hil ton and Sanderson each took two of the youths to their homes for the night. Monday, the four were re united with the pair who spent an uneventful but dry day at the coast. And not much later they were on their way to California. flict in the center of Europe." Thousands of howling,- jeer ing West Beriiners stoned and pursued Soviet army vehicles and clashed with their own po lice in bloody street fights along the wall dividing the city. Two Red soldiers were left bleeding from head and hand injuries. Tho four days' of demonstra tions were triggered by tho Communist shooting last Friday of a tcen-ago construction work er, Peter Fcchtcr, as ho scaled the wall. He lay groaning for an hour behind the wall, and the Reds announced later that ha died. Rusk called in Dobrynin on short notice after the Western Allies had discussed what to do about mounting tensions in the wake of last Friday's slow death of a wounded East German ly ing on the Communist side of the wall. Angry west Beruners have been demonstrating with such acta as stono throwing at Soviet vehicles entering West Berlin. State Department press offi cer Joseph W. Reap said Rusk and Dobrynin met for 20 min utes and discussed the events of the last few days in Berlin. "Tho secretary underlined the need for the four comman dants to get together to find ways to reduce tensions in the city," Reap said. "It is and has been our posi tion that the situation can best be dealt with by those on the scene. U.S. officials blamed the Rus sians for summarily rejecting renewed Western proposals for four-power discussion of the Berlin wail problem. They acknowledged that the West has rejected Russian com plaints about the stonings. But they said the mortal woundings of the East German youth was a far more serious matter than rocks hurled at a bus carrying Soviet soldiers. Salem Passes 50,000 Mark SALEM. (UPO The population of Salem has finally passed the 50,000 mark, according to an estimate by City Recorder David Dockham. Dockham said he has submit ted a population estimate 50,495 to the State Board of Census, about 800 more than last year's estimate, and about 1.300 great er than the official 1960 census of 49,142. Even at tho new figure, Salem is more than 5,000 short of the new Eugene estimate of 55,700. Eugene took over the spot of Oregon's second largest city in the 1960 census, making Salem third. Population Reported PHNOM PENH, Cambodia M Latest government census fig ures released Tuesday show there arc 26,000 more men than women in Cambodia in a total population of about 9,750,000. INSIDE TODAY Women's News 7A Editorials - 8A Sports - 2, 3B Theaters 6A TV Previews - 5B Classified 6-HB
