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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON Y persons killed gs Swiis jetliner crashes See story, Col. 1 The IBuliletin SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON Variablt cloudintss, chanct of lectric storms. Low tonight, 50-55 degrees. High tomorrow, 80-85. High yesterday, Mdigriil. Low last night, 40 degrees, ijj MHJ I M Sunset today, 7:M. Sunrise to- II Una LO morrow, e:32, PDT. Forecast 60th Year Ten Pages Wednesday, September 4, 1963 Ten Cents No. 229 Eight1 An American said among plane victims ZURICH, Switzerland (UPD A Swiss jetliner crashed and burned minutes after taking off rom Zur ich today, killing all 80 persons aboard, including one American and one-fourth the population of one tiny Swiss village. Swissair and police officials said the 74 passengers and six crew members apparently died instantly when the plane ploughed into the ground with a tremend ous roar. The American victim was listed by Swissair as a "Mr. Glauner, U.S.A." The plane left Zurich's Kloten Airport at 7: 18 a.m., and crashed five minutes later in a field near the village of Durrenaesch, 20 miles to the west. Fira And Explosion Eyewitnesses said the plane caught fire and exploded. Parts of the wreckage struck a nearby house and barn in Duerrenaesch, setting them afire but mirac ulously killing or injuring no one on the ground. The plane tore a crater 35 feet deep in an open field, and the force of the impact was so great that it pulverized the bodies. The largest piece of a human body found was a hand. The plane dis integrated. Officials conducting preliminary investigations had no immediate explanation for the crash, and they would not confirm that an explosion occurred in the air. At the time of the accident, of ficials said the plane was flying in clear weather at about 9,000 feet But there was a thick fog on the ground at the scene of the crash. Tha Caravelle, on a flight to Rome via Geneva, carried at least sue foreigners, one each from the United States, Britain, Israel. Belgium, Egypt and Iran. The rest were Swiss, including 44 of the approximately 200 resi dents of the tiny Swiss village of Humlikon. The Humlikon residents, mostly farmers, had been collecting funds for months to make a col lective trip to Geneva to visit an agricultural samples plant. Like Junk Heap This was the great day. All 44 eaily singing and cheering Hum- likoners many married couples went to Zurich to board the French-built Caravelle. Many had never seen a plane from close up. The crash site resembled a smoking junk heap. Wreckage was strewn over a wide area. The wings of the plane struck two farm buildings and the brok en fuselage plunged into a barn. But "almost miraculously, one official said, nobody was killed on the ground. The crash was the first major disaster in Swissair's 32-year his tory. The airline's worst previous crash was in 1939 when a Junk ers airliner crashed near Con- stanze, Germany, killing four persons. A federal air office spokesman said there were no immediate clues to the crash cause in the pilot's last words. "The pilot suddenly started giv ing an emergency signal," the spokesman said. "He was audibly upset." The spokesman said Uie ground staff had difficulty understanding what the pilot was trying to say when he sounded the emergency. Before he was able to give any clue to what had happened to the plane, he gasped no more.' "Then there was silence. So this is another blank wall in our investigation." Investigators established the time the wreckage hit the ground because all electric clocks in nearby buildings were stopped when scattered remnants of the plane severed power lines. The wreckage was strewn over half a square mile. Forest fire danger up By United Press International Forest fire danger climbed in the Northwest today as dry air and warm temperatures covered the region for the second day. The trend was expected to last another day east of the Cascades, but cooler air and showers were forecast for western Oregon and Washington Thursday. Eight small fires were reported on state-protected lands Tuesday. All were controlled quickly. The U.S. Forest Service in Port land reported 20 fires in Oregon and Washington Tuesday burned total of three acres. All but seven were caused by lightning. An 80-acre forest fire in North ern California caused trouble for state and federal crews along the Modoc-Lassen County line near the community of Likely before being encircled Tuesday. Nikita receives West German in surprise move MOSCOW (UPD Premier Niki ta S. Khrushchev received West German parliamentary leader Thomas Dehler today in a sur prise audience that coincided with a Soviet government statement at tacking West Germany. The Soviet leader returned Tues day from a two-week visit to Yu goslavia which ended the 15-year feud between the two Communist countries. Dehler, vice president of the German Bundestag, is the high est ranking West German to visit Russia since Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was here in 1955. There were no immediate de tails of his meeting with Khrush chev. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, released a government statement accusing West Germany of continuing its "militaristic pol icies and trying to "unlawfully usurp powers to speak on behalf of the (Communist) German Dem ocratic Republic." It referred to a declaration Aug. 19th by the Bonn government that it speaks for both West and East Germany. Western observers here said Khrushchev's trip to Yugoslavia was a success for both sides and may have lifted Moscow's posi tion in the eyes of the neutral nations. Khrushchev flew in from Bel grade Tuesday after a warm fare well to Yugoslav President Tito. Public utilities figures given for Deschutes Properties owned by public util ities in Deschutes county have a value of over $20 million, accord ing to figures compiled by Asses sor Robert E. Lyons. The public utilities roll shows assessed val uation of $5,214,033, which repre sents one-fourth of the true mar ket value. Public utilities show an in crease of 3V4 per cent in value over last year, and county-wide, represent 15Vi per cent of the to tal valuation in the county. Pacific Gas Transmission Co. shows the largest value again this year, with an assessed valuation of $2,126,968. This is an increase of $100,000 over last year. Pacific Power and Light is sec ond on the books, with $1,069,009, down about $80,000 from last year. Pacific Northwest Bell is listed as $1,002,070, an increase of $40, 000. INCREASE NOTED SALEM (UPD Oregon motor carriers have moved more cargo and more passengers more miles so far this year than they did during an entire year 10 years ago, the public utility commission er reported today. Treaty seen hopeful sign by Mansfield WASHINGTON (UPD - Demo cratic leader Mike Mansfield told the Senate today the nuclear test ban treaty offers the world "a flicker of light where there has been no light." Jumping the gun on formal de bate which starts next Monday, Mansfield said in a 21-page pre pared speech that "on clear bal ance" the pact was in the na tion's interest. He said it was an affirmation of human life itself." The Montana senator empha sized that the halting of atmos pheric tests would safeguard the health of this and future genera tions by removing the threat of radioactivity. He charged that those who fa vor continued imiiscriminat test ting as a security measure hold a "mystic and egocentric belief which borders ... on a most dangerous and tragic obsession." "Vitality Of Reason" Mansfield, a member of the for eign relations committee which approved the pact 16-1, said he would vote for the treaty as a testament to the universal vital ity of reason." "Do not look for miracles from this treaty," he said. "There are none. "This nation, the Soviet Union and the world are destined to live for a long time with feet dang-1 1 ling over the grave that beckons to the human civilization wnicn is our common heritage. Against the immense void of darkness, this treaty is a feeble candle. It is a flicker of light where there has been no light. "The senator from Montana will vote for this light and he will hope for its strengthening by sub sequent acts 01 reason on ail sides. He will vote for ratifica tion of this treaty because it is, on clear balance, in the interests of the people of his state and the United States." Almost two decades of unre stricted testing, Mansfield said, had made no nation more secure, but had "narrowed almost to the vanishing point" the nuclear gap between the United States and Russia. Stresses Bipartisan Efforts Recalling the treaty's beginning in the Eisenhower administration, the Democratic leader stressed that there always are "doubts and hesitancies" on foreign affairs. But he said there are "risks in failing to venture, and added: "At this moment in the world's time, the risks of a paralyzed uncertainty may be far greater than those which might stem from the pursuit of this venture." Governor bows to U.S. might Public school integration begins in Alabama, Wallace stays in bed By Al Kuettner UPI Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Gov. George C. Wallace bowed to the federal government for the second time in three months to day and white public schools in Alabama admitted Negro students for the first time below the col lege level. Club swinging policemen broke up segregationist demonstrations at two schools m Birmingham and white parents kept their students away front classes ui droves in an apparent start of a boycott. Wallace, however, did not lift a hand to halt the start of de segregation at a white elementary school in Birmingham and the state's largest high school at Mo bile. He remained in bed at the ex ecutive mansion in Montgomery, 90 miles away, while the color barriers tumbled here and in Mo bile. It was reported he had a "change of heart" during the night, after sending 200 of his state troopers to Birmingham to make another defiant stand, but Wallace denied this. "I am determined to resist the efforts to take over our schools. I realize we are against powerful forces," he said. He did not disclose how he would do this nor did he announce his next battleground. Mississippi was left as the lone holdout to desegregation at the high and elementary school level less than 10 years after the Su preme Court outlawed school de segregation. Two small Negro brothers slipped into the rear door of Gray- mont Elementary School in Bir- The two Negroes, Floyd and mingham under overcast skies and Dwight Armstrong, slipped into two Negro teen-agers were regis- the rear door at Graymont Ele- tered for classes at Murphy High mentary School, accompanied by School in Mobile. four men. Wallace had sent nearly 200 It was at Graymont where vio- state troopers into Birmingham Tuesday night to turn away the five Negroes who were to enter three white schools today. But the troopers made no appearance at any of the schools. Last June, Wallace defiantly tried to stop two Negroes from entering the all-white University of Alabama. He backed down, however, when President Kennedy sent troops to enforce their en rollment. He had pledged "segregation forever" in his inauguration ad dress but today he did not lift a hand to try to halt the integra tion in Birmingham or Mobile. lence erupted shortly after the Armstrongs entered the four-story building. A police barricade had been set up across the street and about 100 segregationists tried to push past it. One ducked under a rope stretched across the street and was immediately felled by a po liceman who hit him witli a fly ing tackle. Several more got tlirough and were shoved back by uie city policemen. The governor, who persuaded Huntsville to postpone integrated school opening and forced Macon (Tuskegee) County to keep an in tegration - ordered high school closed, requested Birmingliam Mayor Albert Boutwell to ask tha federal district court to delay im plementation of its order here. Boutwell, who assumed office this summer shortly after racial rioting, asked Rc'id Barnes, at torney for the board of educa tion, to file a request for "a stay of execution" in the order. Barnes declined, and there the issue stood as the time for school bells to ring approached. Appearance of Wallace's troop, ers used last spring to help put down racial disturbances hero was met with strong opposition by the Birmingham City Council, which adopted a resolution ask ing that the troopers be kept out of town. 3 CLASSES START Deschutes County schools, with tha ex ception of those in the Bend system, opened this week. At St. Francis Parochial School, Sister Bernice Marie discusses lesson with some of her first graders. From left are Marian Branaman, Allen Leiker, . Linda Myers, Marian Hughes, Mary Harpole, Deanna Allen, Marty Kite and Mary Moody. St. Francis count ed 326 pupils this morning. Bend public schools open next Monday, with registration being held this week. Committee report released Mother, son hospitalized after crash A Bend woman and her eight-year-old son are taking hospital treatment for hurts suffered when she crashed a pickup truck into a utility pole this morning at W. 13th and Hartford. Shaken up but apparently not seriously injured are Cecelia Pru itt, 33, and Rex Harkness, of 345 Jacksonville. Police who trans ported the pair by ambulance said the woman suffered a nose cut and possible chest injuries. The boy appeared groggy but not visibly hurt. The mishap occurred about 9 o'clock when Mrs. Pruitt drove the pickup out of an alleyway on to W. 13th, southbound. Her ve hicle veered into the curbing and struck the pole, severing an elec tric line. Police who questioned her thought she had been distract' ed by her son's conversation. Heavy damage was inflicted on the pickup's front end. Solons satisfied treaty won't block use of N-weapons in war WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee said today it was "entirely satisfied" that the test ban treaty would not keep the United States from using nuclear weapons in wartime. And it said advantages Russia might gain by cheating on the pact are "generally not con sidered to be worth the effort." The committee made the state ments in releasing a report rec ommending Senate ratification of the treaty as a "net advantage to the United States." Committee members, who ear lier voted 16-1 to recommend rati fication, said they concluded that the treaty "poses no serious risk" to U.S. ability to make a nuclear strike. Nor, they said, would it appreciably restrict development of a defense system against ene my missiles. The committee rejected argu ments against the treaty made by Dr. Edward Teller, nuclear phy sicist, and stressed that the test ban first was proposed by former President Dwight D. Eisenliower in 1959. It said "now would seem to be a good time to stop" nu clear explosions in the atmos phere. Although Russia might "slowly erase" the U.S. nuclear lead in some areas by underground tests, the only kind permitted by the treaty, the committee said the continuance of unrestricted testing might close this gap "much more rapidly." Risks Acceptable The 26 - page report concluded that risks contained in the treaty would be acceptable because of what it said is this country's su perior strike forces. The report was made public today in advance of debate on the treaty which opens Monday on the Senate floor. The foreign relations committee members said in dismissing Tel ler's argument that the treaty would stimulate, rather than pre vent, an arms race: "The treaty is - directed against the arms race." The group's statement that it found the treaty would not limit U.S. war potential was aimed at satisfying concern by Eisenhower who urged in endorsing the treaty Counties share in distribution of forest funds Ex-McCarthy counsel Roy Cohn indicted NEW YORK (UPD Roy M. Cohn, 36, lawyer-industrialist who was counsel for the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy's investigations committee, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of perjury and conspira cy to obstruct justice. The grand jury charged that Cohn had been part of a 1959 con spiracy to obstruct justice in con nection with federal prosecution of four financiers who allegedly man ipulated stock of the United Dye and Chemical Corp. It also charged that Cohn later induced one of the defendants to "falsely recant" testimony given to a federal grand jury and at tempted to get another witness to give false testimony. The jury indicted another attor ney, Murray E. Gottesman, 56, as co conspirator. It charged that Cohn and Gottesman agreed to perjure themselves before the grand jury about the 1959 United Dye investigation and obstructed justice this year by giving false ' testimony about recent meetings. Cohn, in a press release, said the indictment resulted from the "work of vengeful and frustrated men" who had carried on a two year campaign of slander and harrassment against him. He said he welcomed having the charge made public an! would prove its falsity and expose "a rank misuse of the machinery of justice for personal revenge and retaliation." He accused U.S. Attorney Rob ert Morgenthau "and company" of heading the "vendetta" against him. If convicted on all 10 counts of the indictment. Cohn could receive a maximum prison sentence of 40 years and a S36.0O0 fine. Cohn and Gottesman will appear Sept. 11 before Federal Judge William B. Herlands. The indictment said Cohn at tempted to induce his onetime business partner in boxing pro motion, William D. Fugazy, to give false testimony to the 1969 grand jury. Cohn and Fugazy pro moted the Patterson-Johansson world heavyweight title fights in New York in 1960 and 1961. The 1959 grand jury investigat ing the United Dye and Chemical Co. failed to Indict, although the Securities and Exchange Commis sion recommended federal prose cution of Samuel Garfield and Ir ving Pasternak, both closely iden tified with Nevada gambling in terests, Allard Roen, of Las Ve gas, and Allen K. Swann. These four were indicted by a 1961 grand jury and a 1962 grand jury under took an investigation of the 1959 jury's failure to indict. that the United Stales "be the sole judge" of the weapons and equip ment it would use in event of armed aggression endangering vi tal U.S. interests. Sen. Harrison A. Williams, D N.J., cautioned today in a state ment against adoption of "crip pling" reservations to the treaty on the Senate floor. He said such amendments could be a "kiss of death." The committee concluded that "the treaty will inhibit the pro liferation of nuclear weapons, thus reducing the danger of accidental or catalytic nuclear war, as well is nuclear war by design. May Isolate China The members said it has "al ready deepened and complicated the divisions within the Commu nist orbit," which on balance Is "a net gain for the rest of the world." Red China's unwillingness to sign uie treaty may lunner iso late her from the rest of Asia and other countries as well, in turn encouraging resistance to Chinese "expansionist policies," the committee held. The foreign relations group cau tioned against a loosening of the Western alliance because of Rus sia s agreement to uie treaty, it said Uie treaty should lead to "even stronger efforts to Improve" Western cooperation but warned that "this will be difficult." DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 732.92, up 0.90; 20 railroads 175.47, off 0.91; 15 utili ties 143.70, off 0.53, and 65 stocks 262.71, off 0.33. Sales today were about 6.07 million shares compared with 5.57 million shares Tuesday. The U.S. Forest Service an nounced from Portland today that $18,000,000 had been sent to Ore gon and Washington state treasur ers as the two states' share of Na tional Forest receipts for the fis cal year 1963. The allocation to Deschutes County is $268,Bni.51, well above the $209,503.00 figure of last year. Jefferson county this year will re ceive $52,257.40 and Crook $191, 996.97. In the Pacific Northwest, the total allocation is nearly $2,000,000 above the total for the previous year and second only to 1960's big figure. Oregon's jhare of the re ceipts this year amounted to $13,- 045,105 15 and Washington's was $5,118,217.66. Payments represent 25 per cent of the receipts from uses of all National Forest resources tim ber, grazing, recreation, land use, power and minerals. Under provisions ot tedcrai law, 25 per cent of the total receipts go to the counties, with each shaie proportioned according to National Forest acreage within the county. The money is ear' marked for public roads and schools. Of the total, 75 per -cent goes to roads in Oregon and 25 per cent to schools. Weather may be 'warmest' Forecasts indicate that Central Oregon is facing its warmest weather of the year, but with chance that some scattered aft ernoon electric storms will cool the temperature, which on Wed' nesday in Bend tipped 88 degrees. Highest temperature recorded here so far this year was 89 de grees, in June. Johnson has lunch with royal couple AENGELHOLM, Sweden (UP1I Vice President Lyndon B. John son, sticking to a Texas size, schedule on the second day ot a fivs-nation goodwill tour, ar rived here today for lunch with King Gustaf VI and Queen Louise. . . Johnson, accompanied by hii wife. Lady Bird, and their 19-year-old daughter, Lynda Bird, arrived from Tullinge Air Force Base outside Stockholm, whera earlier in the day he saw an im pressive display by Swedish-built "Dragon" jet fighters. Johnson, his wife and daughter escaped injury Tuesday when a 'copter flying them into Stock holm smashed part of a heliport fence while coming in for a land ing. At Tullinge, Uie vice president said he was "really impressed" by the performance of the super sonic "Dragon", fighters which went through their paces for him. One of the "Dragons" burst the tire of its nose wheel when it landed, but neither the plane nor the pilot was Injured. A Swedish Air Force officer said the wheel could be replaced within minutes. The Swedish public, accustomed to the cool dignity of Swedish pol iticians, appeared favorably im pressed by Johnson's friendly manner, big smile and ready handshake. The vice president turned on the Texas charm despite a near disaster aboard the U.S. Army helicopter carrying him and his family into StoeKnoim irom me airport. The helicopter hooked a wheel into a wooden fence dur ing the landing approach to the heliport. James attends D.C. meetings William C. James, Deschutes County Civil Defense director, was to arrive today in wasnmg- ton, D.C, to attend meetings ot the United States Civil Defense Council. Ha is chairman of tha communications committee. The council will be formulating the program for the annual meet ing to be held in Rochester, N.Y.. the latter part of October. As communications committee chairman. James will take part in discussion of such matters as emergency operating centers, warning, communications and emergency broadcasting work shops. He left this morning from Port land by jet plane, making the trip from Bend to Portland yesterday afternoon. He will fly back next Monday, and will be back at hii office in the courthouse next Tues day. FALSE ALARM MILAN, Italy (UPD - Police, raced to a Milan bank Tuesday night after n man called to warn that "eight Bandits are digging outside" the building. The "band its" turned out to be workmen repairing an electric cable. f