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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, OREGON C The IBuijletin SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON Snow Hurries in Central Ore rOrCCQSt 9n tl9ht nd Tuesday. Temperatures cool. Highs, 35 to 40, and lews, 21 to 28. High yesterday, 42 degrees. Low last night, 22 degrees. Sunset today, 4:50. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:37, P.S.T. Hi and lo 6Ut Year Jet bomber with N-load goes down CUMBERLAND, Md. (UPI) An Air Force B52 jet bomber carrying two unarmed nuclear weapons and a five-man crew crashed in the snow covered Maryland mountains about 40 miles west of here early today. Pentagon spokesmen an nounced immediately there was no danger of a nuclear explo sion but warned the public to stay clear of the area "in the interests of public safety, na tional security and to facilitate removal operations." There was no immediate sign of survivors. A farmer who lives near the crash scene re ported he "didn't see any bodies." The Pentagon would say nothing about the type of nu clear weapons aboard the Stra tegic Air Command plane which was flying from Westover Air Force Base, Mass., to Turner Air Force base near Albany, Ga. Spokesman said, however, this was the eighth such crash in volving nuclear weapons since March, 1958, and "there never has been any nuclear yield in our history of these crashes." . Explosion Heard Residents of the area near Savage Mountain reported see ing a red flash in the sky and hearing a loud explosion. The plane had lost radio and radar contact with the Washington ra dar center about 1:40 a.m. EST. The Pentagon said an ordinary explosion or crash in volving a plane carrying nu clear weapons would not touch off the weapons. "There is a complex of safety devices to prevent any danger from a nuclear explosion unless it is intended to be exploded," a spokesman said. The last such crash Involved a B52 from Beale AFB in Cali fornia on March 14, 1961. Rescue teams were hampered by deep snow in efforts to reach the scene. The Air Force .rurhed -an "experienced explo sive ordnance disposal team" to the site. Spokesmen explained that the weapons are carried "unarmed" and in a crisis are prepared for explosion while the plane is in flight on orders from the ground. In March, 1958, an un armed nuclear bomb was ac cidentally dropped near Flor ence, S. C. The explosion of TNT caused no nuclear danger although six persons were in jured. The B52, described by the Pentagon as having "the best safety record of any aircraft we've ever bought," had been on an airborne alert training mission and had landed at West over because of the snowstorm hitting the eastern part of the nation. Five troopers from the Mary land state police barracks at Cumberland and a snow plow from the Maryland Road Com mission started immediately for the crash scene but bogged down in wind-driven snow drifts. They had to call for help. Jesse Green, a farmer in the Elbow Mountain area of Garrett County, said the plane crashed about three-fourths of a mile from his home. "I didn't see any bodies," Green said. "I saw two large sections of wreckage. One look ed like the engine and the other looked like the tail part of the plane." Officials at Westover AFB listed the crewmen as: Mai. Thomas W. McCormack 42, Yawkey, W. Va., the aircraft commander; Capt. Parker C. Peeden, 29, Smithfield, N. C, co-pilot; Ma). Robert L. Payne, 41, Tulsa, Okla., navigator; Maj. Robert E. Townley, 42, Gadsden Ala., co-navigator; and T. Sgt. Melvln Wooten, 27, Rapid City, S. D., the gunner. Driver treated after accident A nlclaiD truck operated by Clinton Martin, 36, Bend, left the Alfalfa road on a curve near the old Rock School Sun Ju shnnl 7 n nv. rolled over several times and was demo lished. Martin was taken to the St. rhorlos Mpmnrifll Hosnital. where he was treated as an out-patient and released. PILES CANDIDACY SALEM (UPI)- Richard S. Kelley of Eugene filed to day as a candidate for judge of the Circuit Court, position No. 4, of the second judical dis trict In Lane County. Kelley listed his ballot state ment as "associate protessor oi law. University of Oregon law school." Ten Paget to) ,J-, L ' . t Vy v - -' T I.' ' ATTACKS GOVERNOR Howard Morgan, long active in Democratic politics, criticizes Gov. Mark Hatfield for his part in the Boardman land lease, at Sunday speech in Bend. Mum on Morgan fires both barrels at GOP By Ha Grant Hopper BulMIn Staff Writer Howard Morgan of Sisters, back from nearly three years as a Federal Power Commis sion member in Washington,. D. C, Sunday night neither veri fied nor denied the rumor that he will seek the Democratic nomination for Oregon governor in 1966. He took several verbal pokes at Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, and criticized in detail the state's agreement with Boeing Aircraft for lease of the former Boardman bomb ing range. Speaking in Bend at the monthly meeting of the Des chutes County Democratic Central Committee, Morgan started out with an e 1 e c t i o n year story that gave the Re publicans both barrels. Although it is not his habit to make election bets, this year, he said, he is making two. He is betting that Lyndon Johnson will win the presidential elec tion against anyone the Repub licans decide to run. And he takes the bet, he says, with the understanding that if Governor Hatfield is nominated for either position on the ticket, he col lects immediately. Morean called the Boardman lease the most successful land fraud since the conversion to private ownership of school lands, uncovered by Oswald West at the turn of the century. "Any private property owner who leased away his property on terms like those in the Boardman lease would be put under guardianship as an in competent," he said, "or would be considered so aespcraie uiai he would sign anything." Morean said that Boeing took advantage of having found a 14 injured in sewer explosion MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) -An explosion sent a ball of fire flashine through a sewer tunnel on the city's North Side today. injuring at least 14 persons, three of them seriously. The cause of the blast was not immediately determined. Leo Lesczynski. 36, Milwau kee, said he was working at the head of the 600-foot, 7-foot high project using a torch to dis mantle some steel. He said he thought a spark from his cutting torch may have ignited accumulated tun nel gas and there was a "fur ious explosion." "A big ball of flame went rolling down the tunnel, all the way, to the mouth," Leszcyn- ski said. rumor governor making a lot of noise about industrial development, and having little to show for his promises. Morgan said there would be no objection to Boeing as a tenant, if the lease were equitable, and not a give-away. He expressed the opinion that many of the terms are uncon stitutional, but said that forcing a court test would raise the cry of political maneuvering, and many Republican circuit court judges would be prejudiced. The lease of 100,000 acres at 60 cents an acre with return of the rental price guaranteed is nothing but a give-away, he charged. Board Criticiied The Sisters rancher also cri ticized the State Land Board, particularly Governor Hatfield, for being "utterly silent" on the activities of Jim Short, state di rector of the Department of Ag riculture, as a real estate bro ker. Morgan said that Short re ceived a fee of $200,000, more than 10 times his annual salary as agriculture director, for sale of the Alvord ranch hi Hamey county last November. He said that Short is an honest, effici ent real estate man but that this moonlighting by a public official should be investigated. The transaction was handled by the Oregon Development Co. of Salem, in which Short Is a part ner. "Hatfield should be forced to call Travis Cross home from the Republican National Com mittee arraneements, to help him make an answer," Morgan said. The speaker said that he feels It is an obligation to attack the "boo-boos of any administra tion, by the opposition, in order to strengthen the two-party sys tem. Graduate of Reed Morgan was introduced by Mrs. Robert Schraee, commit tee vice chairman. She pointed out that he is a graduate of Reed College, a former Public Utilities commissioner and a former state Democratic Cen tral Committee chairman (1952- 1956). Action on the recommenda tion for filline the Alfalfa rural carrier route was postponed un- til the February meeting. Kay Bartolat read a letter from Congressman Al Ullman, c ar tv ns the disabled veterans preference for rural mall route applicants, screened oy uie uvii Service Commission. She also read letters from Hugh Cole, formerly of Bend and now of Lake Grove, and from Blanche Fouts, formerly Central Com mittee chairman and now a res ident of Pendleton. Monday, January 13, 1964 Immigration law changes urged by LBJ WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi- dent Johnson personally urged key congressmen today to re vamp U.S. immigration laws, but drew a cool response from Sen. James O. Eastland, chair man of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Johnson met at the White House with a large group of House and Senate members and leaders of private organizations espousing changes in the immi gration laws. The meeting was timed to co incide with the start of Senate hearings on a bill to liberalize immigration laws so that a 1 1 would-be Americans would be considered for admission to this country without reference to their national origin. Johnson strongly endorsed the measure as a matter of "com mon sense, common decency and ... for the common good." The President pointed out that current immigration stand ards were discriminatory in that annual quotas for such countries as Britain and West Germany are seldom used up while Italian and Greek pros pective immigrees face enor mous backlogs. Sens. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich. and Kenneth B. Keating, R N.Y., both strongly supported the President's position. Eastland then was invited by the President to say a few words to the group assembled in the cabinet room. "We are going into this mat ter very carefully and expedi tiously," Eastland said, quickly turning away from the news reel and television microphones set up for the occasion. Alter tne meeting, uastiand was aksed if he intended to sound "as detached and cold toward this matter as it oc curred to some of those pres ent?" With a smile, the Mississippi senator, said he had not meant. to give an Impression of disin terest or detachment. During the day, Johnson scheduled a number of appoint ments and planned to keep a close eye on the Panamanian situation. The President planned a ses sion with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Undersecre tary Henry Fowler. He also will award National Science medals and had a 4:30 p.: . conference with AFL-CIO Presi dent George Meany. One survivor in fish boaf crash off California FT. BRAGG, Calif. (UPI) - The fishing boat Noyo Star struck a rock and sank late Sunday night, and one of its crewmen survived by swimming out to sea to avoid a danger ous surf. The survivor was Harold Cook of Ft. Bragg, who was picked up at i a.m. today lour hours after the Noyo Star sank. The body of Jack KosUck, 48, of Ft. Bragg, the skipper, was found on the shore at Ft. Bragg, 150 miles northwest of San Francisco. A Coast Guard boat and heli copter were searching for the other man, Kooert snou of r t, Braee. The Noyo Star was inbound when it struck a submerged offshore rock about 10 p.m. It sank almost immediately. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 773.12, off 1.21; 20 railroads 179.91, off 0.24; 15 utilities 140.19, off 0.19; 65 stocks 271.12, off 0.48. In Patrol By Phil F. Brogan Bulletin Staff Writer A Norwegian student at Ore gon State University, lost in the snowy Cascade wilderness two and a half miles northwest of Hoodoo Bowl, was located by a Bachelor Butte Ski Patrol Sun day after spending the night in the cold summit country. Sven Weydahl, 28, a member of the OSU ski team who had been trained in snow survival while serving with the Norweg ian army, became lost Saturday while helping prepare a ski course for competition at Hoo doo Bowl. Believing that a course preliminarily looked Peace (ODD mm Nation battered by winter's worst storm, snow piling up By United Press International The winters worst storm piled up snow drifts as much as 10 feet deep trom Illinois 10 Pennsylvania today, closing schools in a dozen states and stranding hundreds of travelers. The storm brought near nurn- cane force winds and five - foot tides to parts of the Atlantic coast from the Carolinas to Maine. It pumped the coldest weather of the season into Tex as. At least 34 deaths were blamed on the weather nine in New Jersey, six In Pennsylvan ia, four each in Missouri and Colorado, three in Illinois, two each in Michigan and Tennes see, and one each in Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia and Wiscon sin. From the Rockies eastward the weather picture looked like this: Ohio Valley Up to 18 mches of snow fell in the area, strand ing motoristsintheircarsalong Castro arrives in Moscow for surprise Soviet visit MOSCOW (UPI)-Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro got a bear hug greeting from Premier Ni kita S. Khrushchev today on his arrival for a surprise visit and talks expected to center on u.s. troubles in Panama. It was below zero when Cas tro's Soviet jet landed after a nine-hour flight from sunny Ha vanna, but Western observers said Castro's welcome was as warm as the one he received in May, when he spent more than a month here. The visit was announced sud denly Sunday night, and the Cuban people did not learn of it until after Castro was airborne. The Soviets said Khrushchev in vited the bearded Cuban "again to visit the Soviet Union in win ter time to exchange opinions on questions of mutual interest to rest, to acquaint himself with the winter landscape and hunt in the snow-clad forest of the Soviet Union." Western observers said these topics were likely to dominate the talks: Sisters voters go to polls Voters of the Sisters School District were going to the polls today, to decide whether or not to consolidate with the Bend Administrative District. Polls will be open tonight until 8 o'clock, in the multi - purpose room of the Sisters School. Ballots are printed with the words "For Consolidation Yes" and "For Consolidation No." Voters place a cross in one of two squares, to indicate their choice. The election was called by order of the District Boundary Board of Deschutes County, which had received both a peti tion for consolidation and a remonstrance. Cascade wilderness wmmmmmmmmmmm locates lost over was not "stiff" enough, Weydahl headed out into the snow country, lost his bearing, spent part of the night in a deep divide canyon hiking to keep warm, then was located by a unit of the Bachelor pa trol composed of Bob Nordby, Bill Yoachum and Buzz Slivers. Others in the Bachelor group were BUI Shenk. John Barton, Kenneth Dvkeman. Les Snider, George Davidson, and Skip Ashmon. OUie Cavanaugh was station ed on hlah Hoodoo Butte, oper ating a shortwave network. He was directly in touch with the various patrols. (team At least 34 dead highways blocked by deep drifts in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl v a n i a. Kentucky reported schools closed in one-third of the state's counties. Mississippi Valley Central Illinois had the fourth heaviest snowfall of its history with drifts up to 10 feet blocking highways. Trains made unsched uled stops to pick up stranded motorists. Up to 8 inches of snow fell in Eastern Missouri, closing some schools. Dixie Snow fell as far south as Georgia, stalling rush hour traffic in Atlanta, and leaving highways hazardous from Tennessee to the Atlantic Coast. Scores of schools were closed. Parts of Virginia got as much as eight inches of snow. New England Gale warn ings were up from Rhode Island to Maine with five-foot tides forecast. Heavy snow warnings were up for the entire area with four inches or more forecast. Winds up to 70 miles an hour The rioting In Panama The -vital Panama Canal is only 750 miles south of Castro's Is land. Pro-Castro agitators were reported active In the anti- American mobs . in ' Panama City. Both leaders now hope to ex ploit the United States' trouble in Panama and can be expect ed to issue charges of U.S. co lonialism in a bid for support in Latin America. Cuba's loyalty to Moscow: Castro was promised large amounts of new Soviet aid dur ing his last visit here. At the time, he appeared to take Mos cow's side in the ideological dis pute with Communist China. But Castro obviously disap pointed the Soviets when he joined China and the other mil itants of the Communist camp in refusing to sign the nuclear test ban treaty last fall. The treaty is a key part of Mos cow's co-existence drive. -The U.S. economic block ade of Cuba and recent Allied moves to trade with the island, including Britain's $11 million bus sale. Sales tax topic of interim group SALEM (UPI)-Discusslon of a proposed sales tax for Oregon will highlight the Jan. 17 meet ing here of tne interim um mittee on Taxation, Sen. Boyd Overhulse. D-Madras, chair man announced today. Norman Easley of Portland will discuss a proposed consti tutional amendment to inaugur ate the tax. Discussions of sales tax reve nues are to be made by George Annala of Oregon Tax Re search, and George Pederson of the state tax commission. student Weydahl said he spent the first half of Saturday night ski ing, trying to get out of the canyon. The sky was clear, but moonless. Finally, Weydahl made a bed of boughs, and rested several hours. He wore as added protection from the mountain chill only a sweater, and was without food. Searchers from Albany, Sa lem and Corvallis also joined in the hunt, with headquarters at Hoodoo Bowl. Weydahl, fatigued, but other wise apparently in good shape, was found 17 hours after he was reported missing. Ten Cents says sewd! were reported in the Atlantic. Oreat Plains Tne tempera ture dropped to 2 below zero at Lubbock, Tex., and below freez-. ing readings were reported along the Gulf Coast and the citrus growing Rio Grande Val ley. Temperatures as much as 40 below zero were reported in Colorado and 20 below zero in Wyoming and South Dakota. Rescue 10 Men Coast Guardsmen and firemen groped their way through heavy snowfall Sunday night to rescue 10 men stranded on ice offshore from Port Clinton, Ohio, near Catawba Island. The Coast Guard said the men, who were ice fishermen, fortunately were not on ice that broke off choppy water and high winds. The New York Central "Syc amore" passenger train made an unscheduled stop at Fowler, Ind., Sunday night on its Indi anapolis to Chicago run to pick up about 35 stranded motorists. Railroad officials said they ap parently did not want to brave the road trip to Chicago. The Illinois capital city ot Springfield was shut down en tirely. Forty -four passengers . en route from Paducah, Ky., to Springfield were stranded In Taylorvllle. a town about 26 miles southeast, ana they were gut up in the Knights of Colum us and Masonic lodges. Eight inches of snow fell In St. Louis. There were some school closings In St. Louis County. The St. Louis basket ball team, en route home from playing at Cincinnati, was stranded in Chicago, unable to get to St. Louis. Schools were closed In the Kansas City area. Snow Hampers Search Deep snow hampered the search for a light plane with two men aboard that was down near the Colorado-New Mexico border. In Oho. highways In the Tolcdo-Sandusky area were al most imnassable because of bumper-high drifts. Hundreds of rural schools In Ohio were closed today. The University of Cincinnati canceled classes to day, and the city's two big air ports, Lunken and Greater Cin cinnati, were closed Sunday aft ernoon. The sanitation department In New York City mobilized 220 salt-spreading machines and equipped 600 trucks with plow blades to keep streets clear. Four children burned to aeain in Daiseytown, Pa., Sunday. Eight members of a family in Bear Lake in northwestern Pennsylvania were left homeless when fire destroyed their dwell ing. Firemen were namperea by deep snow and sub-freezing temperatures. Court to study stair-step plan WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Supreme Court agreed today to examine the 12-year Btair-step plan for desegregating we public schools of Atlanta, ua. The court will hear arguments on March 30 and hand down a written opinion later. The agree ment to hear the case was hailed by Jack Greenberg, head of the NAALr s legal aeiense iuna, who said: "The court has dem onstrated its concern with the pace of school desegregation. We are grateful for tne oppor tunity to present our arguments before the next school term." The Sth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the plan on June 17, 1963, by a 2 to 1 vote. Atlanta's 11th and 12th grades were desegregated In 1961, the 10th in 1962 and the 9th in the current school year. A group of Negroes had ap pealed to federal district Judge Frank A. Hooper :or a speea up order but he denied it. They wanted the . span shortened from 11 to 7 years and Integration accomplished through re-drawing of school zone lines. No. 31 plan accepted PANAMA CITY (UPI) - An Organization of American States (OAS) peace-making team an nounced it has resolved Pana manian-United States differen ces in which 23 persons have Decn uued and, nearly 400 wounded in bitter street fight ing since last Thursday. The OAS team said in a com munique its mediation efforts have resulted in agreement by the disputing parties to crea tion of a mixed commission for coordination of peace aims, and U. S. reaffirmation of intent to fly the Panamanian flag along side the Stars and Stripes at all public sites in the controversial Canal Zone. , The commission, the OAS said, will Include two Panaman ians and two Americans and be presided over by an OAS offi cial. Chilean delegate Manuel Trucco will preside over the co ordination group which will in clude a military as well as civilian representative from both sides. Special Vigilance The commission will draft measures to "prevent and re solve" any alterations of order and also decide on what areas should be subject to special vigilance,; the OAS peace-makers said. - .! The five - man OAS mission called on President Roherto F. Chiarl at the presidential palace at 12:30 a.m. EST, to advise him of its findings. It was announced that U. S. Assistant Undersecre tary of State Thomas C. Mann. sent here by President Johnson to investigate the dispute, would postpone his scheduled departure until later today to permit him to hold another talk with Chiarl this afternoon. The OAS group noted in its communique that U. S. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance ratified for the United States its inten tion to fly the Panamanian flag outside all public schools in the Canal Zone alongside that of the United States. Negotiated Year Ago Such an agreement had been negotiated a year ago and it was its alleged violation by Ameri can students since officially denied by zone authorities that sparked last Thursday's Panamanian attacks on the zona and subsequent widespread anti American sniping, burning and looting. Edwin Martin, ambassador designate to Argentina and for mer assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, and Gen. Andrew M. O'Meara, com mander of the U.S. Army Southern Command, WIS be the American members. Panama will be represented by Augusto Guillermo Arango, Panamanian ambassador to we United States, and Col. Oliver Vallarino. commandant M tne national guard. Diplomats said It was mess important that the commission will provide a channel ef com munication between the United States and Panama pending settlement of the Issues under lying the dispute. Panama broke off diplomatic relation with Washington last Friday. . - The peacemaking cornmine also reconciled opposing post tlons on the flying of the Pana manian flag in the zone, UrnlW of the zone, and measures for preserving order. One particular complaint of the Panamanians concerned the by both sides ripping down ot a Panamanian flag by American student in the zone. The Panamanian considered this an Insult and demand some sort ot action t erase the alleged affront . The Panama govertunena pressed efforts to end the gen eral strike that ha paralyzed the nation since the riot broke out last Thursday. Panama City and the Canal Zone were calm by midnight following a rash of sniping at U.S. troops In the zone from po sitions in the city's mob-wrecked Pan American Building Sunday. In Colon, on the other side of the isthmus, Panamanian snip ers attacked U.S. troops Sunday with rifles and Molotof cock tails. c
