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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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