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Sunday Edition Partly Cloudy Weather Report, Page BA LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER 95th Year, No. 363 SEVEN SECTIONS 80 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, October 21, 1962 Second Class Postage Paid at Eugene, Oregon Sunday, 15 Cents Football For Details, See Oregon ... Air Force . . ...35 ...20 Oregon State ..40 I Pacific 6 I Washington 14 i, Stanford 0 I Wash. State .121 f Indiana 15 ? USC .. 32 k California 6 Business Was But By BOB NEWCOMB Of the Register-Guard Although the economy of Eugene, Spring field and Lane County remained in apparent good health during the year's just-ended third quarter, judging from a number of indica tors, and although businessmen are hope ful this trend will continue, the future ap pears somewhat uncertain. Bank deposits, loans and debits all were up during the quarter. Retailers say bus iness was on the uptrend and employment building permits issued and postal receipts bear out the contention. In a random survey last week, all area businessmen interviewed reported business on the increase during the third quarter. Motel owners and downtown Eugene retailers cred ited the activity at least in part to the increased tourism resulting from the Seattle World's Fair. Each of several motel owners contacted reported their lodgings were filled to capacity during the three-month period. One motel proprietor reported that business was 33 per cent above the same third quarter of 1961, due apparently to the World's Fair traffic. One large Eugene retailer reports increases of 6.5 per cent for July, 16.4 per cent for Au gust and 6.87 for September above those same months last year. For the first nine months of the year, he said, sales were 11 per cent ahead of the first nine months of 1961. Other large stores In Eugene also reported steady percentage increases for those months compared with 1961 figures, and most mer chants were agreed that with the approach ing Christmas season always a busy time for the retailers business would continue good, although they do not necessarily ex pect similar percentage gains in that period. Several other factors indicate that the just-ended third quarter was a period of in creasing financial activity on the part of Lane residents. Eugene Postmaster Ethan Newman said postal receipts in the city for July, August and September totaled $366,819 4 or 5 per cent above receipts for the same period of 1961. Receipts in July this year actually dropped off from the July, 1961, figure $116,297 compared to $121,847 last year but in creases in August and September brought the total up to its higher level. It was an all time high in receipts for that period, Newman reports. In the months of July, August and Septem ber, construction throughout Lane County continued generally higher than recorded for those months a year ago. Lane County issued permits with valuations totaling $425,905 in that period, racking up increases for each of the three months compared to year-ago figures. Eugene's totals reached a valuation of $5,360,760 for the three months, compared to $4,169,177 for the previous year's period. Third-quarter building permits issued by the city of Springfield totaled $1,168,205 approximately $678,000 more than the valua tion in permits issued in the same period of 1961. The rate of unemployment in Lane County during the three-month period further re flects a steadily improving picture of the county's economic health. The unemployment rate indicating the percentage of persons covered by unemploy ment insurance was 3.1 per cent in July; 2.3 per cent in August and 2 1 per cent in September. Compare those rates with the same months a year ago 3.3 for July; 3.3 for August; 3.0 for September. Total employment in Lane County in September reached 61,800, according to the State Employment office in Eugene an in crease of about 2,700 over the same month a year ago. Another economic indicator bank debits (representing the dollar volume of checks Contempt Cases Postponed Against Barnett, Johnson NEW ORLEANS, La. I They were found in civil con Contempt cases against Missis- tempt last month for their ac o,iv.mnr and lieutenant ; tion in preventing Meredith's governor were put off Satur-1 a. ..nn thi. work as a federal appeals court failed to act. The appeals court Friday is-j Officials scurried to find a The 5th US Circuit Court of sued sweeping preliminary in- s stand in for Kennedy, who can Anneals is considering whether , junction, blocking Barnett, a ecled a weekend visit to Seattle to fine or imprison Gov. Ross number of other slate officials and flew bark to Washington Barnett and LI Gov. Paul B. ! and their successors from inter- because of a cold. Johnson Jr for their actions i fering with Meredith so long as I The fair broke I weekday al n ihe lame's H Meredith into-! he remains a student at Ole ; tendance record Friday with iration case I Ml5S- 1 n,ore ,h,n 9i' on hand- Scores Sports Section Pitt ... UCLA 8 6 Northwestern ..18 Ohio State 14 Texas 7 Arkansas 3 Alabama 27 Tennessee 7 Wisconsin 42 Iowa 14 Future drawn against banking accounts) seem to veri fy that Emerald Empire business continued active in the past quarter. In Eugene, bank debits in July totaled $116.3 million 20 per cent ahead of July, 1961; 122.1 million in August, 14 per cent ahead of last year; $115.4 million in Septem ber, 12 per cent greater than last year. The figures are reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Eugene's three banking institutions Citizens, U.S. National and First National banks have just released figures for the third quarter, showing a general increase compared with the same period a year ago. Citizens Bank, with offices in Eugene and Springfield, reported deposits totalling $13, 042,953 and loans of $8,090,535 as of Sept. 28. Figures reported by Citizens one year ago were $12,149,990 in deposits; $6,552,479 in loans. U.S. National Bank, with branches in Eu gene, Cottage Grove, Junction City and Spring field, reported in nearly all eases gains In both deposits and loans. Combined totals for U.S. National's Eugene branches reached $37,082,710 in deposits at the end of the quarter, $21,088,765 in loans and discounts. Comparative figures for last year at the same time: $33,477,038 in de posits; $19,288,170 in loans. In Springfield, deposits for that firm this year were down-slightly compared with the year-ago figures $7,683,750 this year as compared to $8,147,067 last year, for a $463,317 dip. But loans this year reached $3,332,312 compared to $2,875,158 a year ago. Figures for the two other U.S. National branches in Lane County: Cottage Grove Deposits of $2,662,707 Sept 28 as compared to $1,799,948 last year; Loans of $1,225,148 this year compared to $815,613 a year ago. Junction City Deposits of $3,435,450 this year, compared to $3,340,759 last. Loans were $1,176,962 this year, $882,770, in 1961. Eugene area branches of the First Na tional Bank of Oregon reported third-quarter deposits of $72,543,564 and outstanding loans of $42,495,465, according to M. O. Dahl, vice president and manager of the main Eugene branch. Comparable totals for the previous year were $61,054,146 in deposits; $33,852,624 in loans. At Springfield, S. H. Peterson Jr., manager of First National's branch there, reported in creases in both deposits and loans. At the end of the quarter this year, deposits stood at $9,873,103; loans at $4,539,720. Last years figures $9,469,215 in deposits; $4,083,544 in loans. First National's Monroe branch, managed by G. E. Ruby, had $1,245,178 in deposits and $786,578 in loans, this year compared to the previous year's figures of $1,076,314 in de posits, $630,270 in loans. First National Bank, on a statewide basis, experienced an all-time high in both loans and deposits during the just-ended quarter, according to bank president R. J. Voss of Portland. Whether the business activity reflected in some of these statistics can be expected to con tinue on the uptrend will depend on many factors, not the least of which is the general health of the state's leading industry lumber. The Oregon Business Review, published monthly by the University of Oregon Bureau of Business Research, offers this comment: "Despite the favorable trend of current statistics on economic developments, many observers are concerned about the future. This concern is based on the slowing of the growth rates shown by most economic in dicators." Regarding the lumber industry, the Re view adds: "Although employment and produc tion figures appear reasonably good, prices and profits are not satisfactory and there is little prospect for improvement." enrollment at the University of i Mississippi. Heavy Casualties Reported Indians Recoil NEW -DELHI, India WV Wave after wave of howling Red Chinese troops firing burp-guns under thundering mortar cover drove Indian soldiers back on two fronts Saturday along their disput ed Himalayan border. Both sides reported heavy casual ties in the battles that began before dawn and continued after dark. The Indian government said the Chinese threw one, possi bly two divisions into an at tack on Indian positions along a 15-mile front two miles up in the snow covered Hima layas on India's northeast frontier. Three Indian out posts were reported captured Qood - ? Fair Prepares For Final Day SEATTLE, Wash, ifl Big crowds pushed into the Seattle World's Fair Saturday as the exposition prepared to end its six-month run Sunday in cere j mony and solvency but without President Kennedy. as the Chinese drove south across the Nam Kha (Kechi lang) River. Indian troops retreated to positions as much as four miles south of the line India claims as its borders. India had maintained outposts with in a mile of that line. On the other fighting front, in the Chip Chap Valley of Ladakh 900 miles to the north west, Indian soldiers fell back from one and possibly a sec ond outpost before the Chi nese onslaught. ' Indian troops were said to be regrouping in both areas and Indian Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon, fre quent champion of Red China, vowed that India will "fight on, come what may, until the aggression is vacated." "For every Indian soldier the Chinese kill, we will kill many," Menon declared in a speech to a cheering crowd in New Delhi in which he fre quently used the word "war." "Every war has its reverses, its good and bad days, but these are the test of a na tion's mettle," he said. "This is war where every tiller in the field, every worker in the factory is a frontline soldier." Despite New Delhi's recent warnings that it would drive the Chinese out of territory India claims, Menon admit ted that Indian troops were surprised by the proportions of the Chinese attack. He told newsmen at a brief ing that Indian troops put up stiff resistance before retreat ing, and inflicted heavy losses Catholics Pledge Work For Mankind VATICAN CITY 11 The Ro man Catholic Ecumenical Coun cil pledged itself Saturday to work for the welfare and broth erhood of all men and all na tions. At the same time it named seven key commissions reflect ing broad international repre sentation. Many of the council fathers seemed generally satisfied with the outcome, although there were indications of some excep tions. Of the members elected to the proposal-drafting commis sions, 64 bishops about 57 per cent were among those recom mended by a reformist coalition of west-central Europeans. But the more conservative tra ditionalists also showed strength in the procedural maneuvering. In its declaration of purposes and hopes, the worldwide as sembly of 2,700 Roman Catholic prelates ' pledged their efforts for the unity of all people as brothers, "irrespective , of the race or nation to which they be long." They voiced their determina tion to oppose injustices and in equities that blight mankind so that the "life of man may De- come more human." And they appealed to "all our brothers who believe in Christ and all men of good will" to join in the struggle "to estab lish in the world a more oracrea way of living and greater broth erhood." The election of the members of the seven commissions, the first of 10 in all, climaxed a week of suspense over the re sult. Pope John XXIII changed council rules to require only pluralities rather than major ities on the basis of a first bal lot cast last Tuesday. Each com mission is to have 16 bishops elected by the council and eight appointed by the Pope. Traditionalists so far appar ently could claim at least I stra tegic score. But the makeup of the commissions seemed to lean somewhat toward the reform ists. No hard-and-fast lines could he drawn. INSIDE TODAY Births 3A Editorials 8A Sports 1.511 TV Previews ...6B Classified ..Sec. C Theaters Women's News ... Drama and Arts Books and Hobbies Home and Garden. 6D ....3,4E ..-6,7E 9E ..10, HE on the Chinese. Indian losses were heavy too, he said. He gave no figures but expressed, certainty that Communist loss es outnumbered Indian cas ualties 4-1. A Red China broadcast heard in Tokyo said the Chi nese had suffered heavy loss es "under the fierce shelling of Indian troops." The broadcast by the New China News Agency gave no figures. Prime Minister Nehru last week ordered Indian troops to drive the Chinese out of the U.S. Watches Foes' 'Limited Objective' Cited as Safety Factor By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Of the Associated Press WASHINGTON State Department officials kept a close watch on reports of heavy fighting between Indian and Red Chinese forces Saturday. But they said both sides probably have limited objectives which should keep the conflict from exploding into a big Asian war. The Kennedy administration is evidently prepared to sell Prime Minister Nehru's government military equip ment if he requests it for his forces in the face of the Red Chinese pressure. How- ever, oflicials said tne In dians have not made any such requests. Official thinking here is that the scope of the conflict should be known rather quickly. With the onset of winter in the high mountains of the India-China border regions, heavy snows and freezing winds within the next 10 days or two weeks would normally put a halt to all military operations. The private view of U.S. of ficials is that while India and Red China have long disputed the border division in the re gion, the Chinese Communists bear responsibility for stirring up the current struggle. Behind the so far sharply limited conflict, however, are powerful conflicting forces which give it a much greater potential significance Leaders of both the Eisen hower and Kennedy administra tions have consistently con ceived of the cold war struggle in Asia as being determined in the long run by the results of the rivalry between India and Communist China. India has concentrated on building up its civilian economy; Red China has focused on generating mili tary power. Chinas pressure on India, if sufficiently intensified, could force Nehru to devote more re sources to creation of military power. Water: j U. S. Crisis About 40 per cent of ' the U.S. population drinks re used water water that has been through the sew- crs of some other city be-, i fore purification. For in- stance, Pittsburgh's sew- .i age plants empty into the t Ohio River, Cincinnati takes the water out for drinking purposes and in turn dumps its sewage back into the river, Lou isville repeats the process, and so on down the river. Some Ohio River towns use water that has been flushed down the sewers of ten other communities. A housewife on Long Island draws a glass of f water and grimaces at the two-inch head of froth .... t, As the bacteria count f soars, Rensselaer, N.Y., or- ders its residents to boil S all drinking water ... jf Typhoid fever breaks a out in Kccne, N. H. "Sew- er worker's fever" sudden- r ly crops up in the Mis- ' souri River Valley. These are the warning signals cropping up across v the nation. The disaster they forebode: That the nation blessed with re- ; sources which are the en vy of the world may one I day die of plain, simple ' I thirst. ; I While the continent still j has the generous supply ' of water nature endowed j it with, the use and ' ' abuse of that water has Increased drastically. Just how drastically is made clear in a disquieting re ?, port on Page 7D today. Before Chinese disputed zones. He set no date for action, however, and with winter approaching it had ap peared that both sides might dig in until spring. India must supply its troops there by air or porters, while Red Chinese trucks can drive from the Ti betan plateau almost up to the McMahon Line, which India recognizes as its border. Each side blamed the other for the outbreak of fighting, the heaviest in the three-year border dispute. At U.N. headquarters in New York, Indian delegation Berlin Danger Now Seen Early in 1963 WASHINGTON Wl The Kenned? administration appears. to be revising its estimates of the Soviet timetable for a show down with the Western powers over Berlin. The period of max imum danger is now expected to come early next year rather than before Christmas. How the situation actually de velops will be determined in part by Soviet Premier Khru shchev's decision on whether to visit the United Nations and have a Berlin crisis conference with President Kennedy in the next few weeks. Administration policy makers said Saturday that however the timing develops they are more than ever convinced by last week's diplomatic developments that the dangers of U.S.-Soviet conflict are not diminishing and that there is no prospect in the predictable future of an East West accord on West Berlin's future. Primary Concern President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other administration spokesmen have been expressing grave concern over the Berlin situation for several weeks. Officials say pri vately that their primary con cern is to make Khrushchev un derstand there will be no West ern concessions on vital inter ests in Berlin even if the West has to fight to protect those interests. At the same time some offi cials privately agree that i re lated purpose of the administra tion's campaign is' to emphasize to the American people that In the administration's view Ber lin presents i far greater dan ger than the Communist mili tary buildup in Cuba. Administration authorities in sist that the line will not change after the Nov. 6 election. Exchange of Views Last week brought what amounted to a long distance ex change of views between Ken ncdy and Khrushchev through Ambassador Foy Kohler in Mos cow and Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko, who came to Washington. The results of this exchange arc primarily these: Khrushchev advised Ken ncdy that he wants to continue East-West talks for awhile in stead of letting the Berlin diss pute come to a quick climax. Khrushchev made It clear through both Kohler and Gro myko that he was considering a visit to the United Nations in late November. Gromyko and his advisers told Kennedy, Rusk and other American officials emphatically and without qualification al though with full diplomatic courtesy that Russia intends to make a separate peace treaty with East Germany; also that Russia cannot understand why the United States insists that Western forces must remain in West Berlin. sources said India has no in tention of complaining to the U. N. Security Council about the fighting. The sources said that despite the hostilities, India remains in favor of ad mitting Red China to the Unit ed Nations. By Indian account, the bat tle flared at 5 a.m. (6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) Fri day, when the Chinese opened fire on Indian outposts in the area. The Indians were forced to pull back from Khinzemane and a place called Tsangle, Border War n Trip Off , '! ' Tanker, Oil Barges Collide; Six Known Dead, 13 Missing LUTCHER, La. Wl The list of known dead from the colli sion of a Norwegian tanker and string of oil barges on the Mississippi River climbed to six early Sunday as rescue workers removed five charred bodies from the disabled Bohcmc. Heat and fire still kept coast guardsmen and other workers from some sections in the stern of the ship. Thirteen other per sons, including a woman, are still missing. All are crew mem bers. The bodies were burned be yond recognition. The Boheme carrying high ly-explosive chemicals and oil collided with four drifting barges early Saturday. Coast guardsmen battled flames in the stern of the 13,-500-ton tanker, hoping to keep the fire from touching off the cargo of nitrate solvents in the vessell's midsection. Retarded Find a Haven I For one little 8-year-old Eugene boy, life isn't half bad. 'J He lives with his mother and father, his two brothers and j his sister. He attends school Monday through Friday, and , his place in the world is secure. ' But had his parents taken some advice eight years ago, i when Freddy was born, he would have B V,t""f.J been separated from his family placed Jfl - f in an institution. Ho was born mentally p t m retarded. And today his development is . ' " J 1 less than half that of t normal child his fc own age. yt l '; Despite his handicap, his parents loved ' "it ?, him as they did their other children, and decided ho should live at home to be given the chance to , live as normal a life as possible. For the first two years of his life, Freddy was In 111 health, contracting pneumonia three times. His develop mcnt was slow. He sat tip at ten months. When he was 2 years old, he learned to walk. At 4, he began to talk. Today his speech Is understandable only to those who : are with him a great deal of the time. Yet not unlike a . normal child Freddy longs for friends, affection and self- ( i confidence. j He has found those things at Eugene's Pearl Buck : School, along with 47 other mentally retarded boys and : girls In Lane County who are learning to get along with ; other children and to acquire simple skills that will help ; them become useful persons In a sheltered environment. ', Pearl Buck is operated by the Assn. for the Help of Retarded Children, Inc., one of the 35 agencies in Oregon .j receiving support through the United Appeal. i outposts at either end of a Chinese salient. This left the Indians fight ing three to four miles south of the McMahon Line. Khinzemane is between Thag La Ridge, which India says is the McMahon Line at that point, and the Nam Kha River to the south, and is on the west bank of the Nyam jang (Manas) River. It is 10 to 15 miles north east of Dhola (Che Dong), chief Indian post in the area hugged in a close corner by the Tibet and Bhutan borders. (AP Wlrephoto) Donning hat and coat, President Ken nedy leaves a Chicago hotel Saturday to return to Washington rather than continue the remainder of his trip. His physician advised the Chief Executive to cancel the trip because of a slight cold. He was to have been in Seattle Sunday. The impact of the collision set off a scries of explosions and fires on the tanker and also on the four oil barges, which had broken loose from a tow boat. An officer of the Norwegian ship, who declined to be named, -said he was certain the missing 13 including one woman were scaled in the burning stern. "Of course they're dead. We won't know until tomorrow (Monday) when the fires are out and we can get in there." Coast Guard firefighters' sprayed water onto the drums containing the dangerous solv ents, hoping to keep them cool enough to.prevcnt an explosion. "If that stuff goes, there won't be anything left of the ship," said a representative of American Cynamid Co., from whose Luling, La., plant the nitrate solvent was loaded aboard the Boheme.
