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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Wed., Nov. 21. 1962 Page 3A Man Facing Harriman to Survey Military U.S. Sending WASHINGTON ( The Unit ed States is sending 12 big Air Force transport planes, with American crews and mainten ance men, to India to help India move troops and supplies in its fight against Red China. The State Department an nounced this as President Kennedy sent a special mission to New Delhi to survey India's military needs and recommend a U. S. assistance program. Calls at White House W. Avercll Harriman. assis tant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs, who heads the mission, conferred with . Ken nedy Wednesday before his de parture. He and other mem bers of the group, including Paul H. Nitze, assistant secre tary of defense, are expected to reach India within 24 hours. The Air Force planes are to Psychiatrist Testifies Walker's Records Show 'Grandiosity OXFORD, Miss. Wl A psychi atrist said Wednesday he con sidered that former Army Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker had shown signs of grandiosity. Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher of Baltimore testified as a hearing resumed into the effort of Walk er's attorneys to erase a federal court order for a mental exami nation. Doctor Guttmacher said his study of Walker's records also had disclosed confusion and ex amples of defective judgment. "There is a possibility that there has been a deterioration in the mental processes of Gen. Walker in the last year or two," Doctor Guttmacher said. 'Examination Needed' Doctor Guttmacher said he felt that Walker, 53, needed a full examinatiqn for his own good. Walker's attorneys contended Tuesday the circumstances un der which the order was issued violated his constitutional rights. They said Walker had not been Indicted by a federal grand jury Springfield Publisher Found Dead Frank Wiggins, 60, co-owner of the Springfield News, a semi weekly publication, was found dead in his home Tuesday eve ning. Wiggins, also president of the Springfield News Corp., appar ently shot himself about 7 p.m. in the bedrom of his home at 1440 Piedmont St., Springfield police said. John Nelson, co-publisher of the News, said Wednesday he was shocked to learn of Wig gins' death. "It must have been an accumulation of worries," Nelson said. Wiggins came to Springfield with Nelson and a former third owner of the News, Harrison P. Hornish, in 1954 to assume own ership of the newspaper. Wig gins and Nelson later purchased Hornish's interest in the pub lication. Wiggins, who worked for many years for newspapers in the midwest, came to Springfield from Coos Bay where he was a printer and later shop foreman of the Coos Bay Times (now the Coos Bay World) from 1930 to 1942. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the Air Transport Command, reaching the rank of major. He was a member of the American Legion and Spring field Elks Lodge. Surviving is a widow, Gladys. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Burns-Frederick-sen Funeral Home of Spring field. 33Z) take off from Europe for India Wednesday or Thursday. State Department press offic er Lincoln White said he does not know whether the Ameri cans flying and maintaining the planes will wear uniforms or civilian clothes. Sidestepping inquiries as to whether the Americans will fly into combat zones, he replied "they are going out to assist movement of troops and equip ment more rapidly." In spite of a sudden Chinese :case-fire move, U.S. officials expect Prime Minister Nehru to request massive U.S. aid to modernize his armed forces and raise permanently the level of his military strength. Surprise Maneuver The surprise maneuver by the Chinese Reds, however, threw an element of uncertainty into nor had a U.S. attorney present ed a bill of information when the test was ordered. The government denied any infringement of rights. A federal judge on Oct. 2 or dered the examination. That was the day after Walker was arrested on charges of seditious conspiracy and inciting insur rection in connection with a bloody integration riot on the University of Mississippi cam pus. Two men died and scores were injured. w Police Chief Testifies ' The riot occurred when U. S. marshals ringed the Ole Miss administration building shortly after bringing Negro James H. Meredith to the campus for en rollment in the all-white univer sity. University Police Chief Burns Tatum testified he was about 10 to 15 feet from Walker when the former major general ad dressed a group of students in front of the Lyceum Building, the university's administration building and scene of the heavi est fighting. Tatum said he was standing with a group of students, one of whom pointed out Walker to him. He said he heard Walker, who held a paper cup in his hand, tell the students: "Col. (T. B.) Birdsong has let you down. Gov. (Ross) Barnett is your guard. Charge!" Birdsong is head of the Missis sippi Highway Patrol which had many units stationed in the campus area. Vessels Pay For Pollution PORTLAND (OPD Ocean-going vessels have paid penalties totaling $2,333 for polluting Oregon coastal waters in 1962, Army Engineers repoit. Two of the infractions were in Portland harbor and the other was at Coos Bay. Owners of the steamship Ek tor paid $750 for oil pollution in Portland. The Steamship Serre's owners paid $500 in full settlement of a libel action for pollution in Coos Bay in July. The U.S. Navy paid the Army Engineers $1,083 in reimburse ment of all costs of removing oil spillage in Portland harbor dur ing Rose Festival. Missile Blows Up CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD An Air Force tactical missile, the Mace, blew up Tuesday during a training exercise at this space center. No one was hurt and the Air Force gave no reason for the mishap which occurred while the slender, winged Mace was being prepared for firing. OS) HsHki& (SB Needs Planes the situation. As Kennedy told a news conference Tuesday night, Washington is waiting for Nehru's own assessment of the move as a guide to further U.S. action. He said there is no present indication that U.S. troops will be sent to India. Kennedy said he was sending a team headed by Harriman to New Delhi "in order to better assess Indian needs." Other members of the survey team include: Nitze, who heads international security affairs in the Defense Department; Gen. Paul D. Adams, chief of the U.S. Strike Command, which specializes in moving fully equipped troop units by air over long distances; Carl Kay sen, deputy assistant to Ken nedy; Roger Hillsman, State Department intelligence chief, and James P. Grant, deputy Pickets Halt Construction Of Reactor RICHLAND WV Construction of a $195 million nuclear reac tor at the Hanford atomic proj ect stopped Tuesday while pick ets protested discharge of six employes of a subcontractor. Production of plutonium was not affected at facilities already operating. More than 2,100 men refused to cross picket lines set up by the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, Local 598. Asked Unionization Union Agent Ray Leffler said the action was to protest firing of employes of the Pittsburg Testing Laboratories, a subcon tractor of Kaiser Engineers, the contractor building the new plu toniumpowcr reactor. Leffler said the men were dismissed after they signed cards asking unionization of the PTL plant, which employs about 75 persons. There was no com ment from Pittsburg. A spokesman for Kaiser said neither his company nor other subcontractors are involved the dispute, "but we are vitally concerned since it affects the NPR (new production reactor) and the entire Hanford project, In Seattle the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board said the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union filed a com plaint Tuesday alleging unfair labor practice in discharging the six employes. Investigation Set Lawrence E. Soriano, a board attorney, is being sent to inves tigate the complaint, Howard Hilbun, assistant to the regional NLRB director, said. Pickets have also been placed at the nearby Pasco, Wash., shops of HU1CO, which makes pipe for the new reactor. The construction project shut down is a convertible reactor, which would provide steam for power generation as well as pro duce plutonium. After much controversy the last Congress authorized the Atomic Eenergy Commission to sell byproduct steam for power purposes. The Washington Pub lic Power Supply System, a pub lic utility group, is planning a power plant using this steam. Counseling Director J. Spencer Carlson, director of the University of Oregon Counseling Center, has been in vited to present three papers during a Conference on Re search on Honors Programs scheduled Nov. 26 to 28 at the University of Illinois. The papers will include a de scription of the University of Oregon Honors College, a re port on the selection of students for honors work, and a descrip tion of research programs in the University's honors pro grams. mm to India assistant secretary of state for South Asia and the Middle East. Harriman heads the State De partment's Far Eastern section. A former ambassador and one time governor of New York, he is a veteran of many foreign assignments and has been inti mately involved in developing resistance to Communist pres sures in Southeast Asia. Harriman declined to discuss the present state of the Chinese-Indian crisis, saying that the situation is "changing every hour." Harriman recalled ' that just 21 years ago, near the outset of World War II, President rrank- lin D. Roosevelt sent him on a somewhat similar mission to Moscow to study problems of U.S. assistance to the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. In the Chinese-Indian border war which began a month ago the United States has already supplied more than $5 million worth of small arms, communi cations equipment and other material to the Indian forces in an effort to help Nehru stem the tide of Communist advance the Himalayan Mountains. Dally Requests Informants said that urgent new Indian requests for addi tional equipment have come in almost daily. A far more serious problem than that involved in technical and financial arrangements con cerns India's relations with Pakiston, which is a U.S. ally. 'In providing military assist ance to India," President Ken nedy said, "we arc mindful of our alliance with Pakiston. All of our aid to India is for the purpose of defeating Chinese Communist subversion. Chinese incursions into the subcontinent are a threat to Pakistan as well as India, and both have a com mon interest in opposing it." British Plan Air for India LONDON OB A high ranking British military-political mis sion left for New Delhi Wed nesday to study India's needs in the face of Chinese border attacks. The mission is headed by John Tilney, parliamentary un dersecretary at the Common wealth Relations Office, and in cluded Gen. Sir Richard Hull, chief of the Imperial General Staff. Hull, Britain's highest rank ing active soldier, said before takeoff at London airport: "Our mission will obviously link up with the American team as signed to India." Hull said he will open talks with Indian military leaders as soon as he reaches New Delhi. Asked whether Indian had asked for manpower, as well as equipment from Britain, the general answered: AH I can say is that there are an awful lot of Indians in India and not an awful lot of men over here." Board to Discuss Building Program FLORENCE Discussion of the proposed $325,000 building program will be the main topic of business for the board of di rectors of school district 97J Wednesday night. The board will meet in a spe cial meeting at 8 p.m. in the high school library. The regular meeting was scheduled for Thursday, but because of the Thanksgiving holiday it was de cided to hold the meeting on Wednesday. The board is expected to dis cuss plans for the forthcoming building program as well as the opening of the bids, scheduled for Dec. 6. Colonial 3ntt come to our house Before Trip Underground Wires Said Practical, By DAN WYANT or the Resister-Guard Improvements in materials and techniques have made un derground electrical wiring in creasingly practical in the past five years but it is still about twice as expensive as conven tional overhead wires. Consequently, the question of when Eugene will turn to un derground wiring in its residen tial areas boils down to a matter of dollars and cents. The big question: Who pays the differ ence in costs? That was the essence of a re port made by Byron Price, su perintendent of the Eugene Wa ter & Electric Board, before members of the Eugene Com mittee on Commuity & Neigh borhood Affairs Tuesday night. Ready and Willing Price said EWEB's directors are ready and willing to install underground wiring whenever it's requested, so long as the subdividcr pays the difference between what underground and overhead wiring costs. Roughly, that adds up to about $300 per building lot, he said. Unions Settle Cockpit Issue WASHINGTON Wl Trans World Airlines and its pilots and flight engineers signed an agreement Wednesday settling their long dispute over the makeup of jet cockpit crews. President Kennedy expressed hope it will set an industry pattern. The President also commended the bargaining process that pro duced the settlement, as an ex ample not only for the airlines but for other industries in work ing out the problems of tech nological change. In essence, the new pact gives presently employed members of the Flight Engineers Interna tional Assn. priority for the bird seat in jet airliner cock pits in cutting the crews from four men to three. After those men are out of the picture a third pilot takes over. It was the first package set tlement on the point among all the parties involved the air line, the engineers and the Air Line Pilots Association. It was signed at the Labor Department and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz then led the participants to the White House to report to Ken nedy. the" DINNER Thanksgiving Dinner with all the $150 I Open 1! a.m. to 8 p.m. (AP Wlrephoto) President Kennedy confers at the White House Wednesday with W. Avercll Harriman, who heads a special mission to survey India's military needs in its fight against Red China. Prior to Harriman's departure, the State Department announced the U.S. is sending 12 big Air Force transport planes, with American crews and main tenance men, to India to help move troops and supplies. But Who'll Pay? Price conceded the issue of overhead versus underground wiring was "brought into focus" by the Columbus Day wind storm. EWEB suffered about $150,000 damage to its electric system, and residents of the community experienced wide spread power outages as a re sult of wind damage. But Price said overall main tenance costs are about the same for underground systems as for overhead systems. Repair calls are less frequent but more ex pensive when the power fa culties are buried beneath the ground, he said. Areas Compared Price showed the committee a number of slides of EWEB's $950,000 downtown underground power installation, plus slides of unsightly overhead power sys tems in residential areas which he contrasted with some sub divisions in Portland, where all the lines are underground. I Price said EWEB is now spending about $1 million annu ally for distribution lines in new residential areas. If these were put underground, the cost would be about $2 million annually. Some of the committee mem bers said they feel residents would support a switch to un derground lines, even if it mean an increase in rates But Price said he doubts resi dents in older parts of the city, with overhead lines, would be willing to pay more for their electricity to finance under ground lines in newer areas, "We still feel that those who benefit should pay at least part of the extra costs," he de clared. Rates Differ Price said Portland General Electric charges a varying rate Man Given 3-Year Term COQUILLE UV-Orville La- verne Stuart, 29, Woodland, Wash., and Mrs. Paul R. Muns, 26, North Bend, Ore., Tuesday were sentenced to prison for their part in a Nov. 11 escape from the Coos County jail. Stuart, Muns, and Charles A. Logan, North Bend, broke out of jail. Muns' wife and Geneva Thompson, 19, Empire, were accused of aiding in the escape. They were arrested later near St. Helens, Ore. Muns and Logan were given three year sentences earlier and Stuart received the same, Mrs. Muns was sentenced to one year. The charge against Miss Thompson was dismissed. for . . trimmings for underground installations, depending upon how much pow er the homes in the new subdi vision will be using. If at least half tho homes agree to total electric use in cluding heating the Portland utility will put in the under ground lines free of charge, if the builder provides the trenches, he said. Price said this is a "promo tional gimmick" justified by the additional revenues the utility can anticipate from the subdi vision. The EWEB superintendent said he would be in a better po sition to estimate underground costs if a subdividcr in this area would undertake an under ground wiring project, to give the local utility some actual experience. First Church of Christ, Scientist 14th & Pearl Street Eugene A Branch of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist In Boston, Massachusetts Lesson Sermon: "THANKSGIVING" THANKSGIVING SERVICE - 11:00 A.M. Nursery Facilities During Service Reading Room 84 E. 10th Ave. AH Are Welcome BRING THE FAMILY THE EMBERS (1811 HIGHWAY 99 NORTH) THANKSGIVING DINNER TURKEY HAM U'NNERS CHILDREN'S PLATE 15c (UNDER 10 YEARS) Electric water save space, Resides giving you plenty of hot water 'round tha clock, an ELECTRIC water heater can save space in your home, too. You can put an electric water heater anywhere, often in space otherwise wasted . . . closet, pantry, alcove. Or, you can put a counter-top model in your electric kitchen or electric laundry, to give you extra work surface. You don't need flue or vent for an electric water heater, so you can place this automatic hot water source anywhere you please Sea your dealer about an electric water hciier another way to better living, electrically. New Charge Of Burglary A man acquitted of burglary in Lane County Circuit Court two weeks ago was in Lane County District Court Tuesday on a new charge of burglary. The defendant, John Harold Howell, 43, of 163 Polk St., Eu gene, is accused in a new com plaint with burglarizing the Creslane Elementary School in Creswell. In his circuit court trial on Nov. 8 Howell was acquitted of a burglary at McKay's Market in Vcncta last August. Third ePrson Charged The charge involving tho Creslane elementary school names Howell and another man, James Edward Hotaling, 22, of 2181 Wisconsin St., Eugene, as defendants. Hotaling had been free on bail pending sentencing on a previous conviction when ho was arrested. A third person charged in tha school case is Alohoa Vivian Chancy, 29, of Portland, who is accused of receiving and con cealing a roll of pennies taken from the school. With Howell In Car All three appeared in district court Tuesday and requested court-appointed attorneys. Dist. Atty. William Frye said Howell was slopped early Mon day morning near Veneta and was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He pleaded innocent to that charge. Mrs. Chaney and Hotaling were with Howell in the car. Frye said a roll of coins was found in the car. Scholarships HOME, uv The Italian gov ernment will grant scholarships to intelligent but needy students to keep them in universities. The students must pass examina tions to qualify for the scholar ships, which will range from the lire equivalent of $300 to $600 a year. TO $150 heaters too I Electric Association P.O. Box 321, of Lane County, Inc. Eugene, Oregon 162 South Willamette DI 3 7615
