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IANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
96th Year, No. 59
TWO SECTIONS 28 PAGES
Eugene, Oregon, Friday, December 21, 1962
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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.
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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.
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