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.
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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.
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