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Page M . EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, Oct. 21, 1962 U. S. Tightens Arms Control By ELTON C. FAY Of the Aiioclatcd Preu WASHINGTON The Defense Department believes the U. S. system to guard against triggering a nuclear war by incident or accident is improved, but is spending hundreds of millions more or further tightening of the command and control set-up. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, responding to views of both the White House and State Department, gave the program top priority at the outset of his administration. The over-all purpose of the complex system is to prevent any element of the U. S. air, sea or land forces from using nuclear weapons intentionally or because of communications trouble without specific authorization of the highest level of government. Market Drop Is Worst In 3 Weeks NEW YORK W The stock market took its worst loss in three weeks as Wall Street's pessimism deepened last week amid uninspiring news. Volume also swelled to the largest total in three weeks, em phasizing the conviction in the decline. By week's end, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 13.8 to 573.29. This put it close to the level of S71, which served as a support July 18 and Oct. .1. Rallies followed from that point.. The question for the week ahead Is: Will the list rally again from the same level or will it break through to a deep er "floor" possibly to the year's low of 933.78 reached last June 26. In the week just ended, how ever, the market answered i question which bothered the financial community for the previous two weeks of indici sion: Is the market headed up ward or downward The answer was, conclusively, "downward" this week. Worst Decline Friday The worst decline was Friday, when the news background might have entitled traders to hopes of a rally, if general sen timent had not been so bearish. The Federal Reserve Board cut reserve requirements of mem ber banks to 4 per cent from 5 per cent, apparently to insure business an ample supply of lendable funds. This action, while stimulating: In the long run, seemed to signify in Wall Stroet that the economy was not In very good shape and needed some kind of medica tion. The result was that tickers ran late in the wake of the news Friday, when more than four million sharos wcro piled up and traders rushed to un load. The market's fall was accom panied by a rise in bearish sen timent as reflected by an In crease in the short position on the New York Stock Exchange to near-record levels. This is the total of borrowed slock sold with the inlcntion ot re paying the stock with shares bought at lower prices in the future. Because short sale contracts represent commitments to buy stock in the futuro or ac quire It somehow to repay the loans the total "short Inter est" is supposed to be techni cally bullish. But it didn't work out that way this time. Weak Market Tone Analysts said the general market tone was so weak that few "shorts" were scared into covering their contracts. Volume was 16.682.3!10 shares compared with 11.82.758 the pprovlous, semi-holiday week, See the New Albums For Gresttngs Distinctively Yours CHRISTMAS CARDS Imprinted With Your Name Complete selection In design ond pries Alio Albums of California Artists, Nu-Art, Sonnell, Rust Craft Rt.5 Willamette , The system also is intended to make effective the doctrine of "controlled response and nego tiating pauses in the event of thermonuclear attack." This means, simply, withhold ing retaliatory fire by U. S. mis siles and bombers until it is certain that the enemy attack is intentional and not an acci dent. The pause also would provide an opportunity to be certain from which country the attack was coming The control system applies to all military units armed with nuclear weapons Navy carriers and Polaris submarines, Army and Marine tactical weapons but it is especially applicable to the Strategic Air Command's ICBM and manned bomber ele mcnts. SAC headquarters at Omaha Is circulating, for public at tention, a brief resume of its positive control system SAC insists that "positive control rules out the possibility of inadvertent hostile action by the SAC force. It also says that multiple safeguards are em ployed to prevent firing without presidential direction of ICBMs at dispersed and underground launching bases. Positive control, as applied to the manned B52, B47 and B58 bombers, is explained this way by SAC: "After reaching a certain point on their routes, well out side enemy territory, the bomb ers automatically return to their bases unless they receive positive coded voice instruc tions lo proceed to their tar gets. Authority from the Presi dent is the only means whereby a SAC force would proceed to target, beybnd the positive con trol point. If the 'go' code is not received, they turn back. "The 'go' code, transmitted only upon orders of the Presi dent, would be authenticated at several levels of command and ultimately by more than on member of the bomber crew. It would be transmitted to the air borne force by a variety of means from widely dispersed sites. Use of dispersed trans mitters and different methods of communications eliminate the possibility that the 'go' code might not be received by the aircraft. In addition to the com munications procedures of posi tive control, the weapons in Ihe aircraft arc not armed until the bomber is ordered to attack." It is the addition of radio fa cilities and development of new preventive devices that requires big new spending. The pre ventive devices include the new "electronic lock" for warheads of missiles. The warhead of a missilo can't be armed for fir ing until a radio signal trans mitted from a remote headquar ters releases the lock on the triggering system. State Camping Group To Meet Monday The American Camping Assn., Oregon Section, will meet Mon day night In Salem for a slid and commentary program on three kinds of summer camp ing. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. at the China City Restaurant. Dial Dt 5 MS9 - I t . (AP Wirephoto) ,, No one knows how this sad cat managed to get its big head through IXltty the tiny spaces in the wire fence but grease and tugging couldn't J . free her. Finally it took Oval Moreland of the Huntington, W. Va., Ponrtrif ci'y Pet sneItcr t0 cut tlle fence to frce tne feline. Her mistress VaUgllL watches the extraction operation closely Friday. Conservatism Defended By Dirksen CHICAGO Ml Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-I1I., said Saturday night the United States "would already be flat broke and busied" were it not for the forces of conservatism. ' The senator, who is seeking re-election next month, said conservative forces are "a vital check on those more reckless, irresponsible elements in our society which seem to be seek ing to remake the world in their own image but at the sacri fices of somebody else's money and somebody else's freedoms." Dirksen expressed his views during his acceptance of an award of merit from the Amer ican Coalition o( Patriotic So cieties, Inc., of Washington, D.C., for exemplary public serv ice. The organization is composed of more than 100 civic and fra ternal groups. He spoke a day after Presi dent Kennedy came to Illinois to heap praise on Dirksen's elec tion opponent. Rep, Sidney Yates. Dirksen, Senate minority loader, said there is a strong and growing undcrtide of con servatism. He said this move ment "constitutes the greatest bulwark against the insidious aims and a dangerous clement which seems to be knowingly or unknowingly working (or a visionary, one-worlder, classless society along Marxist lines in which the only role of the United States would be to foot the bill." cc NEW SCIENTIFIC ' BREAKTHROUGH! ' MCTAkIT ' K W CUZLS AT LAST! Now you can create professional beauty salon hairdos in just minutes Create all the latest styles 'tip up. CleopaUa. etc. Perfect for all types ol hair cate children j hair, even wcv Easy to use - electrical enpinceied design for abso lute' heat control and uniform results. UL Approved. Ideal for emergency coiffures Mst minute dates er touclujp of disarray from rain, wind or swimming.. 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Loans may be repaid in equal monthly installments, with re payment periods extending for as long as 30 years. Loans, in amounts as high as $10,000, are also available for repairs and renovation to home owners faced with the necessity of repairing disaster damage. Get soft, springy, natural curls in minutes . . . without wetting, endpapers, pins . . . without hours of waiting under beauty parlor dryers . . . without the discomfort of sleeping on metal rollers and clips. boullant, wing, pjpe boy, bleached, tinted, deli UCXwXi. I? XL?. about a dozen major incidents or accidents, mostly plane crashes, both in the United States and overseas." "In one of these jneidents," ho writes, "a B52 bomber had to jettison a 24-mcgaton bomb over North Carolina. The bomb fell in a field without explod ing. "The Defense Department has adopted complex devices and strict rules to prevent the accidental arming or firing of nuclear weapons. In this case the 24 megaton warhead was equipped with six interlocking safety mechanisms, all of which had to be triggered in sequence to explode the bomb. "When Air Force experts rushed to the North Carolina farm to examine the weapon after the accident, they found that five of the six interlocks had been set off by the fall! Only a single switch prevented the 24-megaton bomb from detonating and spreading fire and destruction over a wide area." Lapp ostensibly was referring to an incident that occurred on Jan. 24, 1961, when a huge $8, million Air Force jet bomber, which had been carrying two "unarmed" nuclear weapons, crashed in a rural area about 15 miles north of Goldsboro, N. C. News reports at the time said one of the nuclear devices was parachuted safely to the ground and that the other was recov ered from the wreckage. Lapp's report did not include the source of his information. ELECTRIC HAIR CURLER 2? (6) Pay only 50c A week Complete With 3 Sixes of Rollers FOR EVERY HAIR STYLE with Hairdo Instruction Booklet Candidate, Proxy Discuss Problems of Lumbermen By DAN SELLARD Ot the Reclster.Guard A candidate for Congress and a substitute for another talked about problems of the lumber industry Friday evening at a meeting of the Eugene chapter of the Society of American For esters. The Republican candidate was Carl Fisher of Eugene. George Balsiger, Blue River, county Democratic chairman, substi tuted for the Democratic can didate, Robert Duncan who was at Mcdford with Vice President Lyndon Johnson. i Solutions Offered Balsiger outlined the prob lem thus: ". . . the Northwest lumber industry is having dif- Forest Fund Shares Given 30 Counties SALEM W! Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. an nounced Friday that $12,092,170 from federal forest reserve rentals and sale of timber on National Forest lands had been distributed to 30 counties in Oregon. Baker, $74,133; Benton, $57, 445; Clackamas, $833,925; Coos, $68,457; Crook, $153,004; Curry, $438,250; Deschutes, $324,392; Douglas, $1,658,919; Grant, $238,300; Harney, $131,073; Hood River, $342,639; Jackson, $454,618; Jefferson, $61,717; Jo sephine, $243,164; Klamath, $630,584; Lake, $315,372; Lane, $3,018,743; Lincoln, $620,310; Linn, $944,578; Malheur, $463; Marion, $393,107; Morrow, $11, 469; Multnomah, $112,642; Tilla mook, $336,877; UmatlUa, $34, 522; Union, $64,817; Wallowa, $46,164; Wasco, $341,694; Wheeler, $48,267; Yamhill, $92, 434. Woman Found Dead at Oakridge OAKRIDGE Lucille Sue Coate, 50, of no permanent ad dress, was found dead Satur day afternoon in a railroad dormitory car here, apparently a suicide victim. Dr. Hughes Browne, acting medical examiner, said the woman apparently died of an overdose of barbiturates. She was found about 12:30 p.m. Sat urday. Brown said she appeared to be depressed when she sought medical aid from him Friday. Eugenean Awarded Scholarship at OSU CORVALLIS James H. Hus band of 1944 Charnelton St., Eu gene, has been awarded a $750 scholarship in engineering at Oregon State University. He was selected to receive the electrical engineering under graduate scholarship sponsored by Standard Oil Company of California. Husband is a senior at OSU. ficulty in marketing its products at a price that can compete with other competition, partic ularly Canadian imports." Balsiger said that Duncan's proposals for solutions are: Government agencies should show preference to U.S. manufactured lumber whenever possible. Foreign markets for lum ber should be exploited further. The government should build more access roads so that the financial burden on the pur chaser of timber is lessened. Modification, or elimina tion, of the Jones Act which does not allow American ship pers to use foreign ships be tween American ports. A re-inventory of the pub lic timber and an increased harvest where possible. 'Lumber Bloc' Advocated Duncan, according to Balsig er, docs not favor placing a quota on the import of Canadian lumber into the U.S. 500 Phones in Area Still Out of Order Some 500 telephones in the greater Eugene-Springfield met ropolitan area were still out of order Saturday evening, accord ing to Pacific Northwest Bell. Mike Pezel, phone company manager, has requested that subscribers who still lack serv ice go to the nearest operating phone and dial operator to re port the outage. Crews will work Sunday to try to complete final restoration of service. Commandos Armed JOHANNESBURG OPI The Johannesburg Star reports the surrounding area soon will have more than 6,000 men under arms as commandos to guard public installations against sab otage or assault. Turn Toward Peace' Official Says U. S. Unease Growing The American public is grow ing "uneasy" over the interna tional situation and more and more people are thinking there is another way to peace beside reliance on nuclear armament. This what Robert Pickus, na tional coordinator for the Turn Toward Peace movement, told about 40 persons in the First Methodist Church, Eugene, Sat urday afternoon. ' Pickus and others in the TTP organization conducted an all day workshop. 'More and More' "Thousands of peace organ izations are working and, al though they have very little im pact and arc not always re garded as serious or patriotic, there is a growing awareness that peace cannot be attained by armament," he said. When Americans are given only the choice between reli ance on military strength or surrender, "they take the form The Ultimate in Bootery PS m BRITISH BREVETTES, the famous glove soft shoe now adds height to become a charming boot . . . httie heels, mid-illusion heels, mock fur trims, buttons with cushiony linings of sheepskin. 23.95 to 24.95 Fisher'ii main thesis was that the congressional delegations from Oregon, Washington, Ida ho, Montatna and northern Cali fornia should form a "lumber bloc," such as the maritime bloc in the New England states and the farm bloc in the Midwest. "When members of this bloc deal with problems of the lum ber industry, politics should be forgotten and the delegates should work together for a com mon solution!." One area otf governmental ac tion, Fisher said, should be in a universal overhaul of building codes so thaf "wood products could be put into full use." DFPA 'Lesson' Cited He also proposed "increased ' emphasis on promotion" to in crease the demand for wood products and cited the "lesson taught us by thve Douglas Fir Plywood Assn." He pledged his efforts toward "getting the full allowable cut (of public trees) on the market, and if more staff is needed then it should be available to the agencies involved." Fisher said that the forma tion of the European Common Market offers a "great oppor tunity to U.S. lumber" and that every effort should be made to get into the new market. Reciprocal Treatment He also suggested that ths U.S. try a policy similar to Can ada's which says that if a U.S. merchant sells something in Can ada he must sign a pledge that he'll not sell it cheaper than he would in the U.S. The gov ernment, he proposed, should investigate doing the same thing to Canadian merchants who sell lumber in the U.S. In rebuttal to this suggestion, Balsiger said "if Canadians were made to sell lumber in the U.S. at Canadian prices, the competition would be worse be cause their Canadian price is still cheaper." er," he said. "But more and more they are interested in see ing if there is yet another way." Most of Pickus' remarks and most of the effort of the day was directed at how to best co ordinate the efforts of all these groups into one major move ment. Thoroughly Fragmented "It isn't enough to just have a peace movement there was a powerful peace movement in the U.S. before World War II, it enlisted millions, but it was wrong in that its isolationist at titude didn't halt the war. Turn Toward Peace, Pickus said, is now bent on getting the public coordinated in a program which screens all ideas and comes up with the best. "The movement is so frag mented," he said, "that there is one man in Chicago who spends all his time putting out a di rectory of peace organizations." 856 Wlllamttts DIS-1604
