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City Edition Cloudy Saturday Weather Report, Page 13A LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 95th Year, No. 333 TWO SECTIONS 30 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Friday, September 21, 1962 Second Clasi Fotf Paid mt Eugtat, Oregon Price, 5 Cents axotnc leawet- m Trade: Landmark for Demos in a Legislative Desert Bv JOE HAM. Of the AuocUted Preia WASHINGTON President' Kennedy and his party can point to the trade expansion bill as landmark legislation, but other wise the record of the 1962 Con gress is disappointing to many Democrats. This was the private view ex pressed Friday by a number of Democrats working on the ap peals' they plan to make this fall to voters. Several said frankly that they will be talking more about what Congress did last year than in the session now inching to a close. While there was unanimity that the far-ranging trade bill will give this Congress a place in the history books, there even was dissatisfaction with the han dling of this legislation. Some members said the ad ministration underestimated the basic support for the bill, par ticularly among leading busi ness elements, and thus wasted too much ammunition on it. "If they had just saved a little of that effort for the health care for the aged bill . . . "said one senator. The trade bill cleared the Sen ate 78-7 Wednesday and awaits virtually certain final approval in conference. The House passed the measure by a big vote in June. The health care proposal was beaten in the Senate 52-48. Its sponsors figured a switch of one vote could have saved it because at least one Democratic senator w ho voted no had pledged to go the other way if his position were decisive. The White House also devoted much of its effort in the 1962 session to Kennedy's big tax re vision and succeeded in saving its most important feature. This is the investment credit provision designed as a $1 bil lion incentive to American com panies to modernize their plants. As in the case of trade, many Democrats insist this bill has no broad political appeal and even is a liability in some respects. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., and other Democratic leaders insist the present ses sion will wind up with a respec table record. They point to measures signed into law manpower retraining, expansion of the Peace Corps, the $900-million public works bill, and the legislation aimed at rehabilitation of persons on the public assistance rolls. The leaders say several other important bills will be sent to Kennedy before adjournment. Besides the trade and tax bills, they predict these will include drug regulation, a farm measure even though it is in a watered-down form and a mass immunization bill. Administration end-oftheses-sion hopes were dampened con siderably Thursday with a House vote to send back to conference the $2.35 billion federal aid for colleges bill. Most supporters figure the hill now is dead, although some attempt may be made to hold another conference. Democratic leaders also have had to virtually write off two other measures which only re cently they listed as "musts" a youth employment bill and a $500 million mass transit sub sidy proposal. On civil rights, the adminis tration lost its major proposal a bill that would have abolished literacy tests which keep Ne- groes in some areas from vot ing. Kennedy measures beaten or shunted aside would have con tinued the program of extra un employment compensation bene fits, set up a cabinet-level ur ban affairs department and giv en him standby authority to cut taxes in an economic slump. Democrats said they will point to the passage last year of such broad legislation as the de pressed areas bill, the minimum wage bill and the bill to in crease social security benefits. .&'-fc.'.'.i.&'w.'i.i.. Saturday, Sunday Clinics to Offer Type II Vaccine A drive to immunize Lane County residents against polio will come to a climax this weekend with the third and final aeries of mass oral vaccine clinics. The clinics, sponsored by the Lane County Medical Society, will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at ten different locations in the county. Type II polio vaccine will be offered. This is not the type of vaccine which has been questioned by the U.S. Public Health Service. The public health service last week recommended a temporary halt in the use of Type III vaccine for adults pending further study. Lane County residents received Type III vaccine during the mass clinics held last June. Type I vaccine was adminis tered in clinics last May. No cases of polio have been reported in Lane County this year. With the completion of this weekend's clinics, persons who received all three types of vaccine will have been immunized against all three types of polio. Persons who purchased coupon books for the earlier clinics need only to bring the last coupon with them to receive the vaccine. Those who do not have coupon books may purchase individual doses of Type II vaccine at the individual clinic sites. Doses of the other types of vaccine, may be obtained from private physicians. There will be no make-up clinic for those who miss the regular clinics Saturday and Sunday. The ten clinics will be located as follows: South Eugene High, E. 19th Avenue and Ferry Street; North Eugene High, 200 Silver Lane in the River Road district; Thomas Jefferson Junior High, 1650 W. 22nd Ave.; Willamette High, 1801 Echo Hollow Rd., in the Bethel district; Springfield Senior High, Tenth and H Streets; Siuslaw High School in Florence, June-' tici City Junior High in Junction City; McKenzie High School near Blue River in the upper McKenzie area; Oakridge High School for that region; and Harrison Grade School in Cottage Grove for southern Lane County and Drain. There will be no clinic at Thurston Senior High. State Bar Undecided On New Constitution By SAM FREAR Of the Register-Guard COOS BAY (Special) The 45 minutes allocated for considera tion of a controversial commit tee report opposing complete revision of the Oregon Constitu tion proved woefully short Fri day morning at the Oregon State Bar convention. The bar's committee on judi cial administration is recom mending that the State Bar op pose overall revision of the Con stitution during 1963-64. As ex pected, the report attracted much critical attention when presented to the lawyers. The session adjourned at noon until later in the day, allowing time for consideration of a com promise motion proposed by Portland attorney Hugh Wood on the red-hot subject. Wood's compromise is that the bar recommend to the Ore gon Legislature that it not con sider constitutional revision in 1963, but postpone it until 1965. The subject of constitutional revision, Wood said, is much too important for hasty treat ment. ' An additional complicating factor entered into considers-1 tion of the judicial committee's report Friday when committee Chairman Thomas H. Tongue of Portland revealed he had re- Bar to Support 4th Lane Judge COOS BAY (Special) Mem bers of the Oregon State Bar unanimously approved a request by the Lane County Bar Assn. for the bar's support in getting a fourth circuit judge for Lane County. On a motion by Eugene Atty. Hale Thompson here Friday morning, a committee report was amended to include a rec ommendation from the state bar to the 1963 Legislature for Lane County's additional judge. Both Thompson and Atty. Ralph Cobb of Eugene empha sized that even with the addi tion of a fourth judge, Lane County will still hold first place in the state for case load per judje and population ratio per Judge. ceived a minority report from four members of his committee who said it is "unwise" for the State Bar to categorically reject overall amendment of the Con stitution. Tongue disagreed with the mi nority report, stating that the bar should oppose overall amendment of the Constitution next year because "there should be no great haste in putting our present Constitution in the garbage can." He advocated merely "clean ing out dead wood" in contra dictory provisions of the state's present Constitution, leaving matters of great importance to separate consideration by the voter. But Rep. George Layman of Yamhill, chairman of the con stitution revision committee, disagreed with Tongue. He said the recommendation of Tongue's committee against revision was "premature" and would place the bar in a "poor posture" if adopted. Rusk Hits Aid Cut By House Assails Moves Against Nations Who Help Cuba WASHINGTON UR Sec retary of State Dean Rusk Friday described a deep House cut in foreign aid ap propriations as "a false and costly economy" and ap pealed to the Senate for its restoration. Rusk also told reporters a House amendment to cut off foreign aid to any country whose ships carry goods of any kind to Cuba would put this country "in a straitjacket" in dealing with allies. "It's very important that this amendment come out," Rusk said. On money matters Rusk de voted himself to the $1.1 billion cut voted by the House Thurs day night for the basic foreign aid program, trimming is near ly a fourth below the requested $4.8 billion. The over -all appropriation, also covering such related mat ters as Cuban refugee aid, was cut nearly $1.4 billion to $5,956, 852,000. Rusk made his comments in talking with newsmen just be fore he went before a closed session of the Senate Appropria tions Committee. The most restrictive of the House provisions on Cuban com merce would deny foreign aid to a country whose ships carry trade of any kind to that Communist-controlled country. Another, by Rep. Thomas M. Pelly, R-Wash., was aimed at nations whose vessels transport arms or strategic materials to the Castro regime. Polly said West Germany, Greece, Italy and Great Britain would be in cluded in this category. The amendments apparently caught the administration by surprise since there was no ref erence to them in Rusk's pre pared testimony before the com mittee. The appropriations measure and the amendments now go to the Senate, which has made it a practice to restore sizable por tions of House cuts in foreign aid. Both the Senate and the President would have to ap prove before they could become law. The bill was waived to the Senate on a roll call vote of 249-144. The measure drew the support of 174 Democrats and 75 Republicans. Logger Wounded In 3'Man Brawl Vote Put Off on Resolution An argument which erupted into a brawl sent two Dorena area loggers to Cottage Grove Hospital early Friday, one with a head laceration, the other with a bullet wound in his right thigh. In good condition with the bullet wound is Paul George Wicdcrhold Jr., 32. The other man, Francis Aus tin Eastburn Jr., 46, needed sev eral stitches to close a scalp wound and was released. State police gave this account of what led to the injuries: Wicdcrhold. Eastburn and an other man, Verne Edward Mill er, 54, got into an argument after visiting two taverns in downtown Cottage Grove. East burn and Miller went back to the logging lite where all three House Committee Blocks Revision WASHINGTON (LTD Overriding demands for an even tougher stand, the H u-.e Rules Committee Friday sent the "fight if we must" Cuban resolution to the floor under a rule barring amendments and limiting debate to three hours. The resolution already passed by the Senate will be called up Wednesday. Approval was certain. The Rules Committee resorted to the gag rule proce dure to prevent floor efforts to toughen the language and possibly include a directive i lived, about 10 miles cast of Cot tage Grove on Dorena Road, leaving Wiederhold behind. Wiederhold had to take a cab there and, angry, kicked at the trailer house occupied by East burn and Miller, When they came out to see what wai happening, Wieder hold knocked them both down. State p olice said Eastburn then reached inside the trailer for an old rifle to use as a club. But Wiederhold then took the rifle away from Eastburn and. holding it club-fashion, struck him on the head with the weap on, police said. As the rifle struck Eastburn, it discharged, the bullet enter ing Wiederhold'i right thigh. State police, after investigat ing the incident, arrested no one. (AP Wlrephoto) Rep. Thomas Morgan, D-Pa., left, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Howard Smith, D-Va., chairman of 1 1 U the House Rules Committee, await the start of a rules committee meeting Friday. Later the committee voted to bring the congres VllciriS GS sional resolution of warning on a military buildup in Cuba before 43 the House next Wednesday without a chance for amendments. Registration At University Going A-OK Registration at the University of Oregon settled down into a calm, orderly procedure Friday, contrasting sharply with the frenzied excitement of Wednes day and Thursday. The reason, said Clifford L. Constance, registrar, was that a great many students had al ready registered. No figures are available yet, but the length of the lines Wednesday and Thursday was proof enough that most students wanted to get through registration as quickly as possible. One reason was the fear that some classes would be closed. As a result, Constance said, most of the pressure came Wednesday afternoon and Thurs day morning. Registration will continue Saturday morning, and classes will begin Monday. Sept. 27 is the last day to pay fees without penalty. Arthur S. Flemming, president of the university, is in New York to attend a meeting of the Na tional Council of Churches plan ning committee. When told by telephone of the long registra tion lines, Flemming said: "In the future we will see to it that the registration work load is distributed equally among all the days set aside for registration and is handled in such a manner that those who register on the last day are given just as much considera tion as those on the first day." Underground Shot WASHINGTON The Atomic Energy Commission has fired another underground test shot at iU Ncveda test site. It was the 31st announced in the scries which began last year. It was described as one of low yield with a force less than that of 20.000 tons of TNT Baseball AMiKitAN .rair. Minnesota it Haltlmore, night. Rntton at Washington, nmhl New York at Chicago, night. Detroit at Kantas Cltr. night. Cleveland at Lot Angelea, night. national i r Aorr. Chicago at New York, night. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, night. Milwaukee at Plttthurgh, night. Lot Angelea at St. Loull, night. San Franclaco at Houston, night. 'Shot Down in Congo 9 Survive Crash Of U.N. Plane ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, i wounds. It said two other were the Congo IUP1I Rescue parties reached the wreckage Friday of a United Nations plane shot down Thursday and reported nine of the 10 Swedish crew members alive. The survivors were flown to the U.N. air base at Kamina in Katanga Province, after doctors and aid men landed at the crash site aboard two helicopters. Es corting jet planes gave the first report of the survivors. A U.N. Command spokesman said the plane was "shot down." Fighting Reported - The Swedish Defense Ministry in Stockholm quoted Capt. Jan Toll, co-pilot of the ill-fated C47 transport plane, as saying at Kamina it was hit by ground fire over northern Katanga and crashed. The Swedish Foreign Office said later it received a cable from the U.N. base at Kamina saying that the only fatality, died as a result of bullet Composer Opens Visit MOSCOW Igor Stravinsky, famed Russian-born American composer, returned to his native land Friday after 52 years' ab sence. The 80-year-old musician, ac companied by his wife, Vera, flew to Moscow for I three-week concert and sightseeing tour. "I am happy to be back on Russian soil," said the aging composer, after tottering through a crush of newsmen and Russians who greeted him as he stepped from his aircraft. A delegation of top Soviet mu sicians, conductors and compos ers was on hand. It was led by Tikhon Khrcnnlkov, president of the Soviet Composers Union Stravinsky is to give i total of six concerts here and in Leningrad, the former Czarist capital of St. Petersburg where he was born. The first is sched uled for next Wednesday. hit by bullets in the attack. The radio reports from the scene said one man was dead, one seriously injured, four slightly injured and four un hurt. This accounted for all those aboard the C47 Dakota recon naissance plane which was downed near Kamunza, a vil lage about 29 miles northeast of Kabongo and about 35 miles southeast of the Katanga-Kasai Provincial border. Forces of the Central Con golese government and those of President Moisc Tshombc's secessionist government have been reported fighting each other in this area in recent days. But in announcing that the Swedish plane was "shot down," the U. N. Command did not say which side was responsible. Fighter Escort The two U.N. helicopters, escorted by Swedish Saab jet fighters, found the burned-out wreckage of the twin-engined plane in an open area away from the jungle near Kabongo, which lies in northwestern Ka tanga Province about 320 miles northwest of Elisahcthville. The escorting jets had U.N. orders to shoot at any suspi cious movements on the ground or any ground or air attempt to interfere with the rescue operation. As the two helicopters landed near the wreckage, the Jet planes circled overhead, in ra dio contact with them and with U.N. bases elsewhere in the Congo. ordering a firm stand on Berlin. Administration leaders felt that such amendment might have jeopardized passage of the joint resolution. The Rules Committee ap proved the gag rule by an 8-6 vote. It overrode protests -of members calling for sharp re vision of the Cuban resolution as drafted by the House For eign Affairs Committee. Itcvlslon Demanded Foreign Affairs Chairman Thomas E. Morgan, D-Pa told the rules group he had wanted to call up the resolution in the Houso Thursday or Friday but that this course was blocked by protests of members demanding the right to offer and consider amendments. He said language in the reso lution, approved Thursday by an 86-1 vote in the Senate, had been drafted jointly by House and Senate committees and de fense leaders and that he con sidered it vitally important that the House pass it intact. The resolution affirms U.S. intentions to block Communist aggression from Cuba, by force if necessary. Morgan said it would serve notice on Russia that this country will not allow Cuba to be used as a base for jeopardizing U.S. security. Morgan's insistence on speedy action and a ban on amendments was sharply challenged by Reps. John R. Pillion, R-N.Y., Michael A. Feighan, D-Ohio, and William M. Colmcr, D-Miss., the latter a rules member. 'Vague, Indecisive' Pillion called the resolution as approved by the Senate "vague, indecisive, and of no practical value." "It is worse than no resolu tion at all," he said. "It legiti matizes the Communist regime in Cuba. It says it can stay unless certain things happen." Pillion indicated he wanted to propose a suggested blockade of Cuba or some other specific step to head off the Communist threat. Colmcr said from all he had read, Berlin posed an even more serious threat than Cuba. He said he could not see how the President could object to lan guage affirming U.S. intentions to stand firm there as well as in Cuba Soviet Rips U.S. Policy Army Feud Unresolved; Guido Ailing ; BUENOS AIRES un An ex. hausted President Jose . Maria, Guido collapsed Friday, a cas ualty of an explosive military feud that threatened to engulf Argentina in civil war. The chiof of tho military reb els, Gen. Juan Carlos Ongania, broadcast a warning to loyalist troops in tho Buenos Aires area to surrender or face air bom bardment. The warning was Ignored, however, and Onganla's 3:30 p.m. deadline passed without Incident. Guido, making round - the- clock reports to settle the four- day struggle among the army generals, collapsed at Govern ment House. Doctor Summoned Ho was attended by Dr. TI- burcia Padilla, public health minister and a heart specialist. It was not known whether Guido had suffered heart trouble or simply fatigue. The rebel radio Issued On- gania's proclamation as loyalist columns were converging be tween Villa Roas and Pilar out aide the city. Friends said Guido was baf fled after seven months of try ing to rcconcilo differences among the military commanders who ousted his friends, Arturo Frondizi, from the presidency. Guido holds the powers of a strongman with the dissolution of congress, but has been acting as a compromiser. Shooting Reported ' There were reports of shoot ing In Florencio Varela, a su burban town south of the cap ital. But these reports could not be confirmed. Tanks and truckloads of troops rumbled through Buenos Aires, already pock-marked by trenches. . The president fired his whole cabinet and the top military leaders early Friday in an effort to appease the rebels who charged that he was being used as a stooge in their plot to let up a military dictatorship. INSIDE TODAY Women's News 10, 11A Editorials 12A Highclimber 2B Births IB Theaters 9A TV Previews 5B Business Beat 16B Classified 815B UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Wlj Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromykn proclaimed in the United Nations rriday a Soviet warning that a U. S. attack on Cuba would mean war. In a bitter attack on the United States, the Soviet diplo mat demanded condemnation of U. S. Cuban policy. The policy and actions of the Kennedy ad ministration, he said, could have grave consequences for the cause of peace. He then warned that any U. S. attack on the Fidel Castro regime would have the results mentioned in a Soviet statement of Sept. 11. This statement said: "If this attack is made, this will be the beginning of the unleashing of war." 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