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UTVul Cloudy ' Saturday Weather Report, Page 13A "City Edition IANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 96th Year, No. 59 TWO SECTIONS 28 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Friday, December 21, 1962 Second Ctasi Potg Pid at Eugene, Oregon Price, 5 Cents NATO Nuclear Force Approved by Big Two 1 XX, Vr,t r UV 1.1 Y, LT ' ' : Investigation was continuing Friday regarding itt i the collapse of a wall at 13th Avenue and High Weill Street Thursday, which injured one man. Al- fred j. Summers, 28, of 535 E.. 34th Ave., Eu- y-i gent, was taken to Valley Lane Hospital by 1 ctllS Eugene Ambulance Service at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday with head cuts. He was reported "resting comfortably" Friday. One witness Allocation Of UA Funds Approved Directors of the Lane County Chest Thursday agreed on final allocations to 34 social welfare agencies 17 of them in Lane County, the rest in other parts of the state under direct support of the Oregon United Appeal. Of the $240,876 available to the agencies from this year's Lane County drive, $38,444 was allocated to the Oregon United Appeal, to be distributed to the 17 agencies outside Lane Coun ty. Allocations approved Thurs day to be made to Lane County agencies are: Assn. for Help of Retarded Children. $11,428; Oregon Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America, $44,760; Camp Fire Girls, $7. 656; Catholic Charities, $17,322; Central Lane YM-YWCA, $44,- 522. Eugene Hearing and Speech Center, $8,000; Florence Recrea tion. S1.250; Cottage Grove Com munity Chest, $6,000; Three Rivers Council, Girl Scouts. $27,- 565: Junction City Community Chest, $750; Lane County Health Assn., $250. Lowell Recreation, $300; Ma oleton Recreation, $500; Salva tion Army. $24,847; Springfield Community Chest, $1,933; Oak-ridge-Westfir Community Chest, $1,900; New Life Youth Camp, $100. A total of $3,340 was allocated to the Lane County Chest for administrative expenses. Earlier, the Lane County ChaDter of the American Red Cross was given a total of $87 401 bv the United Appeal Steer ing Committee out of United ADneal campaign funds. The Red Cross is not considered s United Appeal agency, but con ducts its annual fund drive in conjunction with the annual UA solicitation. Collections in the Lane Coun ty United Appeal drive this year totaled $385,236 exceeding the campaign goal by $236. Attack Reprinted MOSCOW W! Pravda re printed Friday a Mongolian at tack on Communist Albania's anti-Soviet stand. YOU CAN SHOP TONIGHT... Most Eugene and Springfield stores are open late Friday nighti for your hopping convenience Official at 12:15 Tonight Chilly Day Hints Winters Chilly weather in the Emerald Empire Friday gave a hint of winter's official approach due 15 minutes after midnight to night. The Eugene weatherman is predicting mostly cloudy skies and fog through Sunday. Temp eratures Friday and Saturday, he said, were expected to be in the low 40s both at night and in the daytime. This forecast will be general for western Oregon, regional weathermen said. They forecast only light rain in the next five Mail Will Go Through On Monday The mailman will be bringing packages and letters to people's homes on Christmas Eve about the only federal employes work ing Monday. The postoffice is keeping cur rent with the areas record breaking mail load, it was re ported Friday, and consequent ly it will only be necessary to deliver packages but no cards or letters on Sunday. Monday, however, the postof fice will be open and all types of deliveries will be made in an effort to get everything to the proper destinations in time for Christmas. All city and county offices will be working as usual on Monday, although some depart ments will have skeleton crews on only. Except for the Eugene Public Library. It will be closed Mon day. Soviet Denounces U.S. Congo Action UNITED NATIONS. N Y. The dispatch of a U.S. mili tary mission to the Congo was attacked by the Soviet Union Friday as an "arbitrary and uni lateral action" likely to lead to serious complications. The Soviet charge was made bv Deputy Foreign Minister Val erian A. Zorin at a news confer ence. INSIDE TODAY Women's News HA Editorials 12A Sports 2-3B Births IB Theaters 10A TV Previews 5B Stock Market 14B Business Beat 13A Classified 6 13B (Register-Guard photo by Joe Mathcson) ; said four men were working on the wall from a scaffold at the time it collapsed and all fell to the ground. However, Summers was the only one injured. The masonry contractor, S. C. Summers, brother of the injured man and the one investigating the wall's collapse, said the structure under construction met all specifica tions of the Eugene building code. Approach days, and it is expected day or Tuesday. Mon These forecasts, coupled with reports from the Eugene office of the State Highway Depart ment, indicate that motorists will have to deal with spots of ice and some heavy fog during weekend travel. Spots of ice were general on mountain roads throughout Ore- gon, Washington ana nortnern California. The Willamette Pass and the Siskiyou Mountains in southern Oregon are free of snow. There was no report available Friday regarding the Clear Lake cutoff leading to central and eastern Oregon. The highway department warned that snowstorms can oc cur without much warning in the mountains, and motorists should carry car chains. All routes in Washington ana California, the highway depart ment continued, are open to traffic. Police on Alert As Holiday Starts Oregon State Police officers in Lane County will join in a statewide battle against holiday highway slaughter, Sgt. Robert Baker of the state police Eu- ecne office said Friday. The 102-hour holiday period begins at 6 o'clock tonight. According to United Press International, a spokesman at state police headquarters in Sa lem said Friday "we're all ready for the after-office-party rush expected tonight." "We are stressing enforce ment of the law, and have called every available man to duty," the department said. Directors To Stand By SAM FREAR Ol the Rrlsler-Cur4 Directors of the Eugene Mis sion said Thursday they are de termined to remain at their 1925 Roosevelt Blvd. location, just outside the Eugene cily limits. "We have a legal right to be where we are and will take all necessary steps to preserve and protect this right," said the mis sion's attorney, Eugene Venn. And the mission took a swing at the amendment to the coun ty's zoning ordinance that was approved Monday by Lane County Commissioners. This amendment provides that trans sicnt housing facilities can only be in commercial tones or low er, and only after a public hear ing determines they will not be detrimental to the community. Goods Ready For Exchange Of Prisoners HAVANA fUPB New York at torney James B. Donovan but finishing touches Friday on lists of medicines, drugs and food offered In exchange for 1,113 imprisoned Cuban invaders. Donovan was expected to meet Premier Fidel Castro sometime Friday to show him the complet ed lists of about $53 million in goods, revised as a result of his hurried Wednesday trip to Mi ami. Longshoremen in the Florida city were working around the clock loading the freighter Af rican Pilot with goods which have been pouring in by truck and plane. Freighter Ready The freighter Wappcn von Hamburg was standing by, ready to leave for Cuba to pick up the prisoners when their release is arranged. Although Cuban refugees in Miami hoped the captives would be freed on or before Christmas Day, their relatives here said it is unlikely they will be out of prison much before New Year's "unless a miracle occurs." The relatives of the prisoners said negotiations for their re lease have been completed and nothing remains to be expected but the "big announcement" of Castro's agreement. Overnight Trip Donovan returned here Thurs day, accompanied by an uniden tified medical technician. The Cuban negotiators who came here with him earlier in the week remained in Havana dur ing his overnight trip to Florida. . The prisoners are Cubans cap tured in the ill-fated 1961 inva sion of Cuba. Negotiations for their release have dragged on for months. of Eugene Firm on Present Site The mission's site is toned for industrial use. This amendment was ap proved between the time the mission announced its plans for its 1925 Roosevelt Blvd. site and the earliest possible date com missioners will allow it to ob tain a building permit. A permit was issued to the mission in July, but commis sioners revoked it and said that no new one could be issued be fore March 1 because the county wants a winter check lo see whether a septic tank will work on the site. Thus. Venn noted, while the mission's plans arc necessarily held in abeyance on order of the county, the county has changed the rules of the game and now requires i public hear ing before a permit can be issued. Living Costs Unchanged In November WASHINGTON () Lower food and clothing prices balanced out higher costs for automobiles and services to leave the na tion's living-cost level un changed from October to November. The Labor Department re ported its consumer price index remained at 106.0 per cent of the 1957-59 base period. This one-tenth of 1 per cent below the record set in September, but 1.3 per cent higher than November a year ago. On the former base of aver age 1947-49 prices, the Novem ber index was 130.1. No Change Forecast Ewan Claguc, commissioner of labor statistics, forecast there would he little or no change in the December living cost level when it is reported next month. Weekly take-home pay of fac tory workers, representing earnings less payroll tax deduc tions, rose in November to an average of $86.19 a week for the worker with three dependents. This was slightly below the $86.45 record set in September. The October figure was $85.66. About 225,000 workers will re ceive pay increases ranging from one to four cents an hour because the living-cost level has risen from those recorded three to six months ago. Increases Due About 85,000, including 75, 000 in the Republic, North American and Lockheed aero space industry plants, are to get 1-cent hourly increase. An other 90,000, including 80,000 employes of the Armour, Swift and John Morrell meat packing firms, arc due 2-ecnt hourly raises. About 25,000 Chicago truck drivers will receive 4-cent hourly raises, all based on the higher living-cost index. Clague said expected higher nriccs for fruits and vegetables, due to the recent Florida crop freeze, will not be shown by the government living-cost index until the January ligure is an nounced in late February. Green Regains Consciousness, PROVIDENCE, R.I. M For mer U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green, 95, regained con sciousness and spent a comfort able night but remained on the critical list . Friday at Jane Brown Hospital. . Green, oldest man ever to serve in the United States Sen ate, had been in a coma after what his doctor described as a scries of light shocks compli cated by a pulmonary infection. He was in a coma when taken to the hospital Wednesday. Green served as Rhode Is land governor from 1933 to 1937. He was U.S. senator for 24 years until he decided not to seek re-election in 1960. Mission This change in the county's toning law, the mission said "is arbitrarily aimed at the mis sion and is discriminatory to say the least; it imposes a con dition upon us whirh did not exist at the time we applied and first received permission to build." As the situation stands now. the mission will have to wait until March 1 to apply for license to build. There are inili cations that the Lane County Health Department will rule that the 1925 Roosevelt Blvd location Is suitable for a drain field. Thus the Lane County Plan ning Commission can look for ward to a public hearing in few months on the question whether the mission's proposed building Is detrimental to com munlty interests. 0hBS&$ I) ?L r -- l,Mi Jet Crash Jet Fighter Dives Into Portland Y ar POItTLAND Wi A National spectacular, fiery dive into a suburban residential area Thursday night, but somehow no one was The two fliers aboard the plane parachuted to safety seconds before the crash. The plane narrowly missed them and gouging out a hole 15 Flames mushroomed from the occupants had time to flee ahead Explosions, presumably from neighborhood and pieces of wreckage cither from the ex plosions or from the plane's dive peppered the area. Three houses were damaged by the fall ing wreckage. So was the Pros cott Grade School across the street. Two boys who were on the school playground fled when they heard the whining dive of the plane. The playground later was found to be strewn with pieces of wreckage. From all this the only report ed injuries were minor burns to a fireman and a forehead cut to woman. The fliers wcre'Capt. James Alley, 27, and Lt. John R. Loackcr, 21, both Portland, who parachuted down about a quarter-mile from whore their plane crashed. They said they had been up on a training flight about an hour, but did not disclose what happened. They said they would withhold comment pending an Air Force investigation. A spokesman for the Air Force Base in Portland said Friday that the two men bailed out of the plane when it was only 600 feet above the ground. The plane was enveloped in flames at the time, he said. Witnesses said the plane seemed to be heading for a land ing at the Portland Air Base. The crash came about two miles short of the runway. Several witnesses, including two sheriff's deputies, said they saw the plane flaming in the sky before the crash. The plane crashed on the northwest corner of NE 105th and Prcscott in the Parkrose suburb of Portland. The flames severely damaged the homes of Mrs. Eva B. Berry, 4505 NE 105th and Mrs. Keith A. Wal lace, 10421 NE Prcscott. Mrs. Berry, who Is 70 years old, said she was placing some Christmas presents on a table when the plane hit. "It was like a ball of fire en gulfing the house," she said. "It could have been much worse." Rick and Bobby Hansen were playing in the school yard at the time of the crash. Rick said: "My brother yelled, 'Run. Run. It's going to crash." We ran as fast as we could. The plane hit and exploded and some houses raiiBht fire. Then we ran nome, We knew our parents would be worried. (AP Wlrophoto) A crashing jet fighter plane narrowly missed two Portland homes Thursday night, but did set them afire after it exploded on impact and sprayed jet fuel and shrapnel-like chunks of metal over the suburban residential area. Despite the spectacular crash, no one was seriously injured. (See picture, Page 3A.) Guard Jet fighter plane made a injured seriously. - two houses, crashing between fect deep. plane to the houses, but the of the fire. the planes fuel, wracked the Property Tax Relief Asked By Eymann SALEM IUPD Rep. Richard Eymann, D-Mohawk, said Thurs day he would introduce a bill in the 1963 legislature to establish local government income tax. The tax would.be used to off set property taxes, Eymann said. The surplus proposal came at the Biennial Tax . Conference here. Eymann's proposal would add 10 per cent to the state Income tax. The money would be col- (Sec Story, Page 6A) lectcd by the state and redistri buted to cities, counties, school and special tax districts on the basis of assessed valuation. The income tax money would be used specifically to reduce property taxes. Property taxes would be lev ied under the same process as at present but the income tax would be substituted for part of the property levy. At present state income taxes raise about $100 million a year while local districts collect about $220 million in property taxes. If adopted, Eymann's plan would reduce property taxes from four to five per cent under present tax rates. Eymann will be chairman of the 1963 House Taxation Com mittee. Governor Opens Medford Bypass MEDFORD un Gov. Mark Hatfield dedicated Thursday a new $10'A million, lomiic stretch of Interstate 5, extend ing southward from Gold Hill. Highway Commission and county officials also partici pated. The freeway hypasacs Medford on I viaduct above the city'i busy streets. The commission announced plans for another $3 million wor'h of Interstate S work south ot Ashland. Kennedy, Macmillan Okay Plan NASSAU, Bahamas (UPD United States and Great Britain agreed Friday to assign nuclear bombers now, and Polaris-equipped submarines later, to a com bined nuclear force within NATO. The historic arrangements, representing the first real start on multi-lateral nuclear strik ing power under NATO direc tion, were announced by Presi dent Kennedy and Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan as they ended their three-day meeting here. To replace the abandoned ' Skybolt missile program, the United States will provide its Polaris missiles, at production cost, but without nuclear war heads, to the British when they have submarines capable of us ing these weapons. ; The British will develop their own Polaris warheads. lt was expected that the first Polaris missiles would root be turned over to the British for actual use until about 1970, because time will be needed for construction of the nuclear sub marines. The start on development of multi-lateral nuclear force. Kennedy and Macmillan agreed to subscribe to NATO Immedi ately Anglo American units now in existence from tne u.a. -strategic forces, Including the Strategic Air Command, United '- Kingdom Bo m b e r Command and from tactical nuclear forces -. now in Europe. Separate Documents ' "Such forces would be as signed as part of a NATO nu clear force and targeted in ac cordance with NATO plans," -Kennedy and Macmillan said in a joint "statement nuclear de fense systems." American officials later dis closed that Kennedy had invited -France to participate in the program with the United States and Britain. The Anglo-American agree- . ment announced here also pro vided for . building up the strength of their conventional forces on a world-wide basis. Their joint communique, a separato document from their nuclear defense statement, cov ered a broad range of topics in cluding: - Cuba "A satisfactory reso lution of this crisis might open the wav to the settlement of . other problems outstanding be tween the West and tne soviet - Union." Berlin They reaffirmed their desire for a "solid and en during settlement which would insure that Berlin remains free and viable." Sino-Indlan conflict They promised special consideration of new assistance to India and expressed the hope the current situation would lead to reconcil iation of Indian-Pakistan dif ferences. Congo They agreed to continue trying for "equitable integration" of the Congo, and supported the Belgian proposal for "a fair division of revenues" in the Congo. Cleared by Cabinet , The communique was com pleted in final draft Friday aft er Macin.nan receivea over night approval from the British cabinet for the nuclear weapon! plan. At the outset of the Big Two meeting, which begain here late Tuesday, the British were un happy about the U.S. decision to abandon the costly Skybolt program. Britain had counted upon the Skybolt as the primary weapon In its independent nu clear striking arm. Kennedy offered to continue the Skybolt development pro gram as a joint enterprise. Thil would cost each country about $100 million. The United States already has Invested $375 mil lion in Skybolt to about $23 mil lion for the British. Macmillan turned down the offer because of uncertainty about final cost of the program and dale of completion, plua doubts about the ultimate suc cess of the weapon. Spokesmen for both aides said Macmillan and Kennedy considered the Nassau meeting "the most important and con structive ot their six conference. D
