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Deterrent weapons
Only for retaliation
U.
NORTON AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (UPI) The Air Force
disclosed today it now has 500
operational intercontinental bal
listic missiles within the United
States all armed with nuclear
warheads and aimed at "a
specific target."
But it emphasized that these
missiles are deterrent weapons
to be used only for retaliation
in the event of an enemy nu
clear attack on the U.S. "They
are purely defensive," stressed
Col. Arthur Snowden, a spokes
man for the Air Force's Ballis
tic Systems Division (BSD)
here.
Some light snow flurries;
ForCCQSt cloudy through Tuesday. High
temperature, around 35 to 40;
low, 15 to 25.
61st Year
Frank
Studebaker
to shut down
U.S. plants
DETROIT (UPI)-Studebaker
Corp. wil1 shut down its U. S.
automotive assembly lines Tues
day, ending more than 61 years
as a major automotive produc
er, it was learned today.
However, there were indica
tions Studebaker would continue
car production in Canada and
market the cars in the United
States.
The company is not dead.
Studebaker recently has lost
money on its automotive opera
tion but 12 other divisions are
operating at a profit, company
sources said. They will con
tinue. Studebaker President Byers
A. Burlingame and top com
pany officials were in New
York today for a Board meet
ing. Meets With UAW
The executives met in South
Bend, Ind., with United Auto
Workers union officials over the
weekend to discuss the fate of
about 5,000 workers who will
lose their jobs as a result of
the move.
Burlingame was expected to
announce the demise of Stude
baker's auto operations Tues
day. The company has a rich
transportation history that
traces its roots all the way to
covered wagon days.
Burlingame was unavailable
for comment in New York as
were other top executives in
South Bend. However, reliable
sources here said the announce
ment would be made in New
York Tuesday.
The demise of Studebaker will
reduce to four the number of
major auto firms General Mo
tors, Ford, Chrysler and Ameri
can Motors.
The automotive division of the
company has been a money
loser since 1959. That was its
best year when it got the jump
on the rest of the industry with
a compact car and the corpora
tion earned $28.5 million.
However, Burlingame, in his
first statement of policy since
taking over the company, said
arly this month the other 12
divisions of the highly diversi
fied corporation are operating
at a profit this year.
Pellets strike
boy in face
A rharcw nf 7V4 shot from a
20 gauge shotgun struck a boy
hunting in the Cloverdale area,
northeast of Sisters, Sunday
afternoon, with four pellets hit
iinrt tVtA vnuncTctpr In the face.
Taken to the Redmond Dis
trict Hospital was Tygh Red
fioiH 13 nf Osm Investieat
ing Oregon State Police said
the boy was tne vicum oi an
accidental discharge of a shot
gun held by his father, Scott
Redfield, Jr., Oswego.
One of the pellets struck the
boy in the right eyeball.
Father and son were hunting
quail in the Cloverdale area,
early in the afternoon, when the
accident occurred. Oregon
State Police were notified of the
accident at 3 p.m.
BOW JONES AVERAGES
By United Prist International
Dow Jones final stock aver
ages: 30 industrials 759.08. off
1.17; 20 railroads ,173.66. up 0 23;
15 utilities 137.04, up 0.24, and
65 stocks 265.00, off 0.07.
S. has
By the first of the year the
number of these rockets will
swell to 550, and to "well over
600" by mid-1964.
All of these missiles which
include Atlas, Titan and Minute
man are capable of hitting and
devastating any possible enemy
target.
Although the military and
government cautiously refuse to
identify "the specific target," it
is commonly known to be the
Soviet Union.
"What was a serious race be
tween the U.S. and Russia a
few years ago now has turned
heavily in favor of this country
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DR. ORDE S. PINCKNEY
Heeds junior college group
Pinckney named
president of ,
NW association
Dr. Orde S. Pinckney, Central
Oregon College dean of instruc
tion, was elected president of
the Northwest Association ot
Junior Colleges at the annual
meeting held in Reno, Nev. Dr.
Pinckney, whose term will run
through 1964, will head the or
ganization composed of 47 jun
ior and community colleges
from Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho, Montana, Utah, Nevada,
Alaska, and Canada.
At the time of his election,
the Central Oregon College
Dean was serving as chairman
of the association's committee
on Honors and Advanced Place
ment. Dr. Pinckney was accompan
ied to the meeting by Dr. Don
Pence, COC president. While
attending the meeting Pence
and Pinckney conferred with
officers of the Committee on
Higher Education on plans to
make application to start the
process leading to accreditation
for Central Oregon College.
Kiwanis auction
brings in $2400,
clubmen report
Bend Kiwanians were busy
this morning totaling up their
proceeds in a highly successful
second annual radio - telephone
auction this past weekend.
Cort Hackett, chairman of the
event, reported that it was in
dicated that approximately $2,
400 was realized in the sale of
the more than 300 items offered
for auction.
Because of the heavy Influx
of bidding in the final afternoon
of the sale Saturday, the club
extended the sale beyond the
radio cut-off time, with bids
handled from the floor and by
phone.
Hackett emphasized that
items were sold in each case
to high bidders, with phone
calls made to those who had
placed bids before the radio
phase of the sale ended.
FIRST STEP
CORFE MULLEN, England
(UPI) Father Bernard Basset,
a Jesuit pnest, spoke in an An'
lican church Sunday night and
told the congregation it would
be a long time before the Chris
tian faiths are united.
"If I were an Anglican," the
Roman Catholic priest said, "I
would be suspicious ot being
sucked into the Pope's control.
We feel the same about you.
The Anglic vicar, the Rev.
William Rodda, said later that
the Jesuit's ftrmon Was a
"Jfi'st step to mutitsi mde&,
standing." 1
5
as far as the number of mis
siles is concerned," said Snow
den, who is in charge of BSD
plans and policy.
BDS is the headquarters man
agement agency for all of the
nation's ICBM's.
Snowden said that Minuteman
"instant ICBM" missiles are in
mass production and are being
put into underground silos at the
rate of one a day. He said that
by the late 1960s the U.S. will
have 900 operational Minuteman
poised in firing position.
Another leader in the space
missile field, Maj. Gen. W. Aus
tin Davis who is the BSD com
ruiE
Pan-Am jet
crash takes
lives ot 81
ELKTON, Md. (UPI)-A Pan
American World Airways jet
liner en route from Puerto Rico
to Philadelphia crashed in
flames Sunday night, apparent
ly during a thunderstorm,
bringing fiery death to 81 per
sons.
About two dozen policemen
and a like number of sailors
moved out with the first light
of dawn today to pick up the
remains of the 73 passengers and
8 crewmen from the frost-cov
ered cornfield where the Boeing
707 crashed-at 8:28 p.m. -EST.
It was at this precise moment
Sunday night that the plane's
pilot radioed the Philadelphia
control tower: "We're going
down in flames."
Lightning Reported
Numerous eyewitnesses In
sisted they saw lightning strike
the plane or flash near it, fol
lowed by at least one and pos
sibly two in-the-air explosions.
But, investigators said, if it
were lightning that destroyed
the plane, it was a l-in-10 mil
lion shot.
The giant plane began Its
flight in San Juan, P.R. with
144 persons aboard, according
to the airline. It discharged 71
persons in Baltimore and left
for Philadelphia with 73 passen
gers and the crew of 8 aboard.
it was eany toaay oeiore ran
American was able to set the
death toll precisely at 81, final
ly confirming that the 48-day-old
infant daughter of Mrs.
Carmen Davila of Philadelphia,
one of the victims, perished
with the mother.
Holding Pattern
While the big four-engine jet
was en route northward, the
FAA air traffic control center
ordered it into a circling hold
ing pattern over New Castle,
Del., to await the final ap
proach clearance it never re
ceived.
The jet feu in a cornfield
near the Maryland-Delaware
state line, missing a suburban
home by 100 feet. Part of the
wreckage dug a shell-like crat
er 15 feet wide and six feet
deep in a two-lane macadam
road next to the corntieid. rne
U.S. Weather Bureau said a
thunderstorm accompanied by
lightning, thunder and heavy
rain swept the Wilmington,
Del., area shortly after the
crash.
CAB Investigating
The Civil Aeronautics Board
(CAB) took over the investiga
tion, aided by representatives
of the airline, Boeing Co., the
Federal Aviation Agency
(FAA) and the Air Line Pilots
Association. FBI agents also
were present to aid in victim
identification as well as inves
tigating any possibility of sabo
tage.
But weather, not sabotage,
appeared to offer the most ob
vious clues to the crash which
ruined what was shaping up as
the second safest year in the
history of the nation s sched
uled airlines.
Until Sunday night's disaster,
the passenger fatality rate
since the beginning of the year
stood at 0.09 per loo million
miles of flight a safety rec
ord exceeded only by the 0.07
rate achieved in 1954.
The CAB'S accident files con
tain no previous case in which
lightning itself has destroyed a
modem metal airliner.
ICBAA s aimed, ready to
mandertold United Press In
ternational: "We are going to have a tre
mendous missile force in the
field in the near future. One of
our follow-on efforts will be to
field weapons as fast as we can
build and develop them."
But Davis pointed out that this
country's big lead in the num
ber of missiles does not mean
an end to all aspects of the
missile race.
The Air Force acknowledges
that a new rivalry has emerged
between the world's two might
iest powers. Both nations now
are waging a race to develop
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SERVING BEND AND
Monday, December 9, 1963
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CHRISTMAS WEATHERI Children were delighted with the winter wonderland that greeted
them this morning. Rene Westcott, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Westcott of 1576
Awbrey Road, has cold-weather fun by making first snowball of the season.
Nikita tells
crash plan
on chemicals
MOSCOW (UPI)-Premier Ni
kita S. Khrushchev today an
nounced an "unprecedented"
plan aimed at more than trip
ling development of the Soviet
chemical industry in the next
seven years in a crash program
to boost Russia's farm and in
dustrial production.
The program, under which
200 new chemical plants are to
be built and over 500 existing
ones reconstructed at an ex
pense of about $46 billion, was
outlined by Khrushchev to a
plenary meeting of the Commu
nist party Central Committee.
Khrushchev also told the as
sembled Communist party
leadership that two of his pred
ecessors, Josef Stalin and V. M.
Molotov, sold grain abroad
while people were starving in
the Soviet Union.
Khrushchev said that as re
cently as 1947, Stalin kept sell
ing wheat abroad even though
there were critical shortages in
areas of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet premier, in a
speech of nearly five hours, told
the Western powers that the So
viet Union is not weak econom
ically and warned them not to
"put your knee on our breast"
by imposing conditions on
wheat sales to Russia.
Khrushchev's long speech, de
livered before 5.000 delegates in
the Kremlin Palace of Con
gresses was devoted mainly to
the need for "chemicalization"
of agriculture, by stepping up
production of chemical fertiliz
ers that would help make up
for disastrous harvests such as
this year's sub-par yield.
invincible anti-missile systems
and at the same time working
on missile deception techniques
for penetrating enemy defenses.
Early last month Russia dis
played a rocket which it said
was an anti-ICBM capable of
intercepting missiles. Later in
the month the U.S. said its
Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile
had scored its 10th successful
intercept on one of our own
ICBM's in the Pacific.
In addition to an anti-ICBM
systems, Davis said the U.S.
must "improve its re-entry ve
hicles to give us a better capa
bility in this field." He said this
CENTRAL OREGON
Icy
noted
veneer
Mid-Oregon region
whitened by snow
A storm that whitened all of
Central Oregon last night cov
ered roads with an icy veneer
?arlv m &e dav' dropped six
inches of snow on the Ochoco
summit and slowed travel over
interior highways.
A two-inch pack of snow was
measured at the Bend weather
station at 7 a.m., and it went
into the records as the heaviest
fall of the young season. Mois
ture content of the snow, plus
that measured in Sunday show
ers, was 0.35 of an inch.
Snow warnings for motorists
traveling over southeastern
Liquor store
is burglarized
A burglar who shattered a
window of Bend's Oregon State
Liquor Commission store on
Bond Street early Sunday morn
ing apparently made a hasty
selection of whiskey.
He grabbed four bottles, not
top brands, and dropped one
of those in making nis getaway
The bottle that was broken was
dropped after the prowler left
the store.
The burglar broke the comer
of a window, reached inside and
opened the door, then made his
hurried entry.
Oregon State Police, who In
vestigated the burglary, said
the theft of liquor occurred Sun
day morning between 3:30 and 4
meant learning how to increase
the capability of re-entry ve
hicles to fulfill their missions.
The re-entry vehicle is the
nose cone section of the ICBM
Uiat is designed to hit an enemy
target with a nuclear warhead.
"We must try to stay ahead
of any defensive svstem that an
enemy might have," he said.
At the present time, he dis
closed, the U.S. is exploring
several missile "penetration"
techniques.
One is the decoy method. The
BSD commandant said this
would be the sending of a nu
Oregon roads today were Issued
this morning, with from two to
four hiches of snow predicted
However, the forecast for the
Bend - Redmond area was for
scattered flurries, or freezing
drizzle.
The five-day forecast for the
eastern part of the state lndi'
cates that the precipitation will
be less than normal, with scat
tered snow flurries. Tempera
tures are expected to drop lo
the 25-15 level tonight.
New snow covered all Cas
cades passes this morning, but
it was well packed ana was be
ing sanded. Dangerously slick
roads, covered by blacK ice,
were reported in the Warm
Springs Junction area.
Three inches of snow fell on
the Santiam divide, and the
roadside depth was 19 inches
this morning.
Snow reached east over the
plateau to Burns, and south in
to the Klamath country.
Heavy rains fell in the west
ern part of the state.
Driver unhurt
A car operated by a Burns
resident, John Chickcrallio,
skidded cn slick snow this
morning, left the roadbed and
turned over several times.
The Burns man was not in
jured in the accident, and was
broueht to Bend bv a bassing
motorist. Chickerallio was awneftcried
in the car when the accident
occurred.
clear-laden missile with an es
cort of possibly as many as five
decoy "birds" to confuse an
enemy. The deadly missile could
theoretically reach its target be
fore all of the rockets could be
intercepted.
Gen. Davis also noted that the
U.S. already has electronic de
coys on its Titans which give
the impression that more than
one missile is approaching to
confuse defenses in the target
area.
He said another method under
study was "low observability."
"This means a missile could
High yesterday, 42 degrees.
Low last night, 25 degrws.
Sunset today, 4:27. Sunrise
tomorrow, 7:29, PST.
Ten Cents
Two prison escapees
believed abductors,
storm slows search
STATEL1NE. Nev. (UPI)
Frank Sinatra Jr., 19, was kid
naped at gunpoint from this
Lake Tahoe gambling center
Sunday night and authorities
believed he and his abductors
were holed up in the immediate
area.
Two men armed with a sawed-
off shotgun and a .45 caliber pis
tol forced the son of the famous
entertainer from his motel room
shortly before he was to make
a singing appearance at a gam
bling casino (tiarrans; at xv
o clock. . l.-;.
'An all-points bulletin was Is
sued for two young prison es
capees who were reported to
have been in the Lake Tahoe
area earlier Sunday. They are
sought for a previous kidnaping
and two Southern California
bank robberies, and were de
scribed by El Dorado County
Sheriff Ernest Carlson as
"very, very dangerous men."
Carlson said olficers were in
vestigating unconfirmed reports
that the two kidnapers had four
accomplices. FBI agents ana
California and Nevada sheriff's
officers and highway patrolmen
were manning roadblocks and
questioning casino employes.
Meanwhile, young Sinatra
and his abductors had apparent
ly dropped from sight in a
driving snowstorm that dumped
more than a foot ot snow in
this 6,225-foot Sierra Nevada
resort since Sunday night.
There had been no known
ransom demands.
We feel they're still In the
area because we've had all the
roads blocked," Carlson said.
If they're still up there,
they're probably inside because
night temperatures drop to oi 10
25 degrees. They could be in
any one of thousands ot motel
rooms, hundreds of locked-up
summer homes or in an apart
ment." Sinatra's father arrived in
Reno early today from Palm
Springs, Calif. He was reported
to have attempted to drive to
Lake Tahoe with Washoe Coun
ty Dist. Atty. William Raggio,
a long-time friend, but heavy
snow iorced them to turn back.
The abductors were armed
with a sawed off shotgun and
a .45 caliber pistol.
Named in the all points bul
letin were Joseph J. Sorce, 23,
and Thomas Keating, 21, both
from Los Angeles County. They
already face kidnaping charges
risine from their escape uci.
from the Deuel Vocational Insti
tution, Tracy, Calif., State Pris
on, when they forced a 16-year-old
boy to drive them to free
dom. They are suspected of
robbing two Southern California
banks after their escape and
were described as "extremely
dangerous.
Sinatra's father arrived at
Reno early today from Palm
Springs, Calif., after being noti
fied of the abduction. He was
reported Incommunicado at
Reno hotel.
The youth's mother, Nancy
Sinatra, Sinatra's first wife,
was keeping her home line
open at her Hollywood home
in case the abductors made a
ransom demand.
The suspects were believed to
be traveling in a 1962 or 1963
white Chevrolet Impala with
a California license plate. 0
The kidnaping was first re-
by Gene bvans, a
spokesman
for Harrah s uuo
I at Stateline's south shore, a
go
be made so slim that It would
be virtually impossible to be
seen on a radar screen," ha
explained. "The nature of radar
is such that this is possible.
Radar has a limitation on how
small an object it can display."
As for its own defenses at
present, -She U.S. has nothing W
worry about, the general said.
"The missile units now opera
tional, in combination with the
Strategic Air Command's man
ned bomber forces, constitute
the most powerful deterrent
force which any nation has yet
been able to create. . . "
Hi and Lo
No. 3
plush
gambling resort area
near the Nevada - California
state line.
Evans said the kidnaping oc
curred at a motel on the Cali
fornia side shortly before th
young singer was scheduled to
make his appearance at the
Casino lounge at 10 p.m., PST
(1 a.m., EST Monday).
Frank Sinatra Sr., and the
young singer's mother, Nancy,
were notified immediately. The
elder Sinatra departed from
Palm Springs for Tahoe In his
nritrmtm nl.na imA- l.ia . fill
wife said she was "keeping her
phone open" in Los Angeles in
case the kidnapers called.
Evans said young Sinatra
and John Foss, a trumpet play
er with the Tommy Dorsey
band, were in their motel room
when someone knocked at the
door.
Foss said Sinatra asked who
was there, and a voice replied:
"Hoom service."
The trumpeter said Sinatra
opened the door and two men
carrying weapons pushed their
way into the room. Foss said
they overpowered him, bound
his wrists and taped his mouth
with adhesive tape.
Foss said the two men, and
possibly a third who remained
outside, forced Sinatra into the
car and sped away. The musi
cian said he managed to breaK
his bonds and call for help.
Compromise
af hand on
chool aid
WASHINGTON (UPD-
House-Scnate conferees neared
final compromise agreement to
day on a bill to boost federal
help to vocational schools and
expand the government's stu
dent loan program.
The measure one of two
education bills expected to ba
passed this session would In
crease the present $58 million
aid program for vocational
schools by four or five times.
The compromise also was ex
pected to continue the present
national aeiense eaucauon act
for student loans and extend
the $400 million "impacted
areas" program for schools
crowded by children of service
men and government workers.
The conferees planned to
complete work on the legisla
tion Tuesday.
The compromise would cut
the extension of the student
loan and impacted areas pro
grams from three to two years.
In turn, the House negotiators
agreed to a senate formula for
allocating the vocational school
aid.
Other congressional news:
Subpoena t The Senate quick
ly passed and sped to the House
a bill giving subpoena power to
the blue ribbon commis
sion named to investigate the
assassination of the late Presi
dent John F. Kennedy.
Taxes: The Senate Finance
Committee decided to hold one
additional day of public hear
ings on the $11 billion tax cut
bill which had been slated to
end today. The extra session
Tuesday will permit Federal
Reserve Board Chairman Wil
liam McChesney Martin, to tes
tify ot the measure.