In the Day's Hews
ly FRANK JENKINS
Louisiana's spectacular (to
ay the least) Governor Earl
Long is apparently "planning
to resign, let somebody suc
ceed him, then RUN AGAIN
thus getting around the Lou-
isiana law that forbids CON
SECUTIVE multiple terms.
A thought:
IT LOUISIANA REACHES
THE POINT WHERE SHE
HAS ONLY ONE MAN FIT
TO SERVE AS HER GOVER
NOR, SHE WILL BE IN A
BAD FIX.
TUMFING from politics to
V the economic state of our
nation i
The dispatches tell us that
business groups, with qualified
support from the administra
tion, plan to open a drive in
congress for a tax relief pro
gram designed to SPUR PRIV
ATE U. S. INVESTMENT
ABROAD. v
In three days of hearings
by the , house of representa
tives ways; and means com
mittee, this group, will back
a bill to postpone income
taxes on earnings from over
seas .investments as long as
these earnings are reinvested
abroad.
HMMMMMMM. !
American private invest
ments' abroad are admittedly
better than manna-from-heav-en
money showered down in
discriminately in the form of
foreign aid.
But .
Our BIG need it to keep
conditions at home such that
U.S: industry won't be driven
to the need to build industrial
plants ABROAD in order to
meet the competition of for
eign producers whose costs are
lower.
Viscount Airliner
Claimed Flying Low
Prior To Disaster
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WHAT would amount to EX
PORTING JOBS.
We need to export THINGS.
If we re forced to start ex
porting jobs in order to stay
in business, ' our industrial
goose will be cooked.
CHICAGO goes all out to
greet Queen Elizabeth II
with "a spic-an'-span, spit-an'-
polish cleanliness and tidiness.
The dispatches tell us:
It's doubtful that there was
a speck of trash along any of
the miles of streets the Queen
- travelled; and even the pig
eons on State Street seemed
to have flown in from a bird
bath.
Forty horses of a Medinah
Shrine troop that escorted her
. majesty and Prince Philip on
one leg of their procession
were washed down in water
and alcohol to eliminate of
fensive odors . . . Cleanup
crews, fitted out in fresh work
clothes, were assigned to fol
low the mounted procession
- and scour the streets.
Baltimore, Md.-BPB-A Civil
Aeronautics board was told
today that a Capital Airlines
Viscount that disintegrated
over Chase, Md., May 12 was
flying at least 8,000 feet be
low its assigned altitude.'
Eyewitness accounts intro-.
duced at the first day of pub
lic hearing on the crash that
killed all 31 aboard general
ly agreed that
-Disintegration took place
at an altitude of about 6,000
feet.
-The plane was in level
flight just before the catas
trophe occurred.
Thunderstorm Moving
A severe thunderstorm
was moving in from the west
at the time, but the plane ap
parently was not in its center.
There was no immediate
explanation of " why the Brit
ish-built airliner had dropped
so far from its assigned alti
tude of 14,000 feet. The CAB
will question expert witnesses
later ' on whether the plane
couia nave been caugnt in a
freak' downdraf t.
Exhaustive chemical and
metallurgical tests on 4 the
wreckage already have elimi
nated many theories about
the cause of the crash. The
preliminary evidence shows
the airliner was not hit by
lightning, did not explode,
did not have a fire preceding
its structural breakup, and
was not a victim of sabotage,
The CAB will not issue its
official findings for weeks or
even months. But with light
ning, fire, explosion and sabo
tage apparently eliminated as
factors, abnormal turbulence
of near-tornado violence ap
peared to be the best based on
these known facts:
Detour Approved
-The pilot of the New York
to Atlanta flight 75 had asked
fPHE Queen and her consort
came down from Canada
via Lake Michigan in the
royal yacht, the Britannia.
Ten workers toiled all day
Sunday adjusting a floating
landing dock so the Queen
wouldn't have to step a frac
tion of an inch up or down in
debarking from her yacht.'
The job cost $8,000.
rpHE Windy City's general
- cleanup is above reproach.
Chicago can stand a little
cleaning up and sprucing up.
But I can't help thinking
that $8,000 expended to keep
the Queen from having to step
up a quarter of an inch or
down a quarter 6f an inch
may have been overdoing it
"painting the lily," to use an
expressive phrase of our Eng
lish literature.
Queen Elizabeth II is an
active, healthy young woman,
according to all accounts. It
wouldn't have hurt her to
step up or down a fraction of
an inch in order to save the
taxpayers of Chicago some
$8,000. x
It was different when Sir
Walter Raleigh spread his
cloak to save Queen Elizabeth
I from muddying her pretty
shoes. In that case Sir Walter
paid the bill and did right
forhimself by coming thus
into the . spotlight of Eliza
beth's attention.
for - permission to detour
around a vicious-looking thun
derstorm. Clearance was then
granted. The last radio mes
sage from the plane reported
that airspeed had been re
duced from about 250 to 170
knots because of .turbulence.
Standard speed for a Viscount
going through a thunderstorm
is 170 knots.
-Structural failure follow
ed almost immediately after
that message, apparently
starting with the tail, then the
left wing, followed by prog
ressive disintegration of the
entire plane.
Five Persons Die
As Cars Crash on
Wyoming Road
Gillette, Wyo.-flJPH-A station
wagon carrying a Wisconsin
man and his wife and five
children collided head-on with
a convertible near this north
eastern Wyoming town Tues
day night', killing all five oc
cupants of the convertible.
The dead were identified as
Richard Kauffman, about 20,
of Dix, Neb., Bill Kizzair,
about 20, of Kimball, Neb.;
David Dean Rohrer, 21, of
Dayton, Ohio; Pat Chew, 18,
and Wilma Strong, 16, both
of Upton, Wyo. r
Injured Identified
The injured from the sta
tion wagon were Charles Ul
rich Jr., 31, and his wife,
Jane, 31, and their five children-Charles
in, 7; Dorothy,
5; Nancy, 4; Mark, 3, and
Betsy, 18 months, all of Ke
nosha, Wis.
They are hospitalized in
Campbell County Memorial
Hospital in Gillette.
Doctors at the hospital said
early this morning that Mrs.
Ulrich was the only member
of the family critically injur
ed and that she was in "ex
tremely serious condition."
Badly Smashed
Witnesses at the scene said
the 1957 Ford convertible was
so badly smashed it was im
possible at first to identify
its make. ,
Two occupants of the Ne
braska car were thrown into
the ditch beside the road and
were dead when officers ar
rived. .
Three others, trapped in the
back seat and crushed, died
shortly thereafter.
The accident occurred about
100 yards east of the Gillette
city limits on U.S. Highway
14-16.
Tin feilowim, it a condensation of a
mot or lot which appeared Mi the Sunday
Ortf onian, on of a sarin sponsored an
ually br Th Oresonia and the Ore
ea Stata Motor Assa. Thcsa travtl arti
cles describe vacation trips and vaca
tion spots of particular interest to out-of-state
visiters comina to Oreaoa for
the Centennial Cdebratiea.
By VIRGIL SMITH
Assistant City Editor, The Oresonian
Object: To find where to, go
and what to do in case some
relatives, yours or mine, com
ing to the Centennial should
turn out to be rock collectors.
After talking with some local
collectors, we loaded, pick,
hammer, sack and hiking boots
into the back of the Oregon
State Motor Assn. white sta
tion wagon, and set out.
You can go in any direction
and find pretty rocks, if you
know where and how to look.
Oregon is full of them. They
are on the beach, in. the
streams and mountains and on
the plains. Of course after
they are collected most of
them need to be cut and
polished to bring' out the real
beauty, but that's another
story. Our goal was to find
them in the rough.
Agates Abound
We elected to try the Madras
and Prineville areas. I read
in a book that Oregon's pretty
rocks are mostly agates and
jaspers and petrified wood.
There are more agates than
anything. Cut and polished
they are translucent, even
transparent in thin slices. They
look something like colored
glass but have a slicker
smoother feel and waxy lustre
and infinitely varied designs.
They are valued and classi
fied for design and color, such
as moss, eye, polka dot, plume,
fortification, red, blue, purple
and so on.
Permit Costs tt
Our first stop wai Priday's
Agate Beds. You drive out
around lit Hood toward
Madras, but just before you
get there you turn left on the
road to The Dalles. After you
go through a pass with red
rimrock prominent on both
sides, you turn right on a dirt
road. A sign points the way.
, When we made the trip, there
was a car stopped beside the
sign with two women making
ineffectual efforts at changing
. a tire. And were they glad to
see the big white AAA on our
. car! Skinned my knuckles
working the jack.
Six miles up the dirt road is
a shack with a platform scales
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Rockhounds, members of the Tualatin Valley Gem Society, look for agates ia aa outcrop
ping beside a forest road a few miles eat of Prineville. Oregoniaa-Oregoa State Motor Ana.
ear accompanied Tualatin Valley group oa this organised quest for hidden reek treasure.
in a few minutes if you are 1 ing location and how to reach
content to take the rejects of these and other fruitful areas.
previous diggers, ur you can
and just beyond are the dig
gings. P r i d a y's is commercial.
Costs you three dollars to dig.
For that you can take out 30
pounds.
There are agates and petri
fied wood to be found all the
way from Mt Hood to Mt. Jef
ferson and beyond, and mostly
it doesn't cost anything to
hunt. Advantage of going to a
commercial bed is certainty of
finding something, conven
ience, help and advice. Herb
Vibbert, who has. the mineral
concession ' on .14,000 acres,
uses dynamite and a bulldozer
to strip off the overlay and ex
pose the agate-bearing veins.
Without this preparation dig
ging there would be hard in
deed. This area is just a three
hour drive from Portland.
What you look for is thun
dereggs knobby stones, usual
ly round, which look like hard
ened mud balls. They are un
mistakable. The pretty part is
inside. Much of the fun is
breaking them open with a
hammer to see what's inside.
No two are alike. The full
brilliance of color is not re
vealed until the mineral is
polished, but collectors get a
fair idea by wetting the rough
specimen. They lick it
If you are not particular you
can dig out 30 pounds in less
than an hour; get your quota
go prospecting, perhaps find
a new deposit
The agates were originally
formed in pockets or bubble
holes in rock. They are more
resistant to weathering than
the surrounding rock. In some
places this rock is weathered
to sand; in others you need to
swing a pick hard to get them
out
At Prineville the Chamber
of Commerce, alert to the
mushroom growth of rock col
lecting, has taken mineral
claims on 280, acres of agate
beds to assure their remaining
free. Ivan Chappell, chamber
secretary, when we were
there, was making a map show-
both free and commercial, in
the Prineville' environs. That
map will be all you'll need to
find the diggings.
We joined a group of veteran
rock hounds on a guided hunt
We went out the John Day road,
turned off left on a dirt road at
the Ochoco reservoir. About
nine miles up this forest road,
past Steins Pillar, a huge finger
of stone sticking out from the
side of the mountains, is a vein
of mineral which literally spills
thundereggs on to the road.
It is well picked over, but a'
few minutes work with pick
and shovel at the top of the out
crop will uncover more. The
yield here is purple. ,
(PORTLAND . if l WASCO; x
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alist Chinese officers captured
on the Fukien front, the new
China News Agency reported
today. The agency said the 12
were released Monday in ac
cordance with Red China's
"policy of leniency towards
prisoners." It did not say when
the Nationalists were captured.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Merit!, Or. C
Wednesday, July f, 1959
MUSIC CRITIC DIES
Tadworth, England IUPD
Ernest Newman, 90... one of
the music world's most re
spected critics, died Tuesday.
He was a former music critic
of the Sunday Times of London.
Belgium's coast line is 40
miles long.
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EX-TRIAL CHIEF DIES
Bethesda, Md. - (DPD - Capt.
Abram Claude, U.S.N. (Ret.)
78, former director of the di
vision of trials '. and services
of the Maritime Administra
tion, died Monday after a
short illness.
GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY
Buffalo, N. Y.-IUPD-Local
firefighters were on the job at
a general alarm blaze in near
by Lackawanna, but Raymond
J. Schafer, , 40, decided that
Buffalo firemen should also
get in the act. His appeal for
a neighbor's help got Schafer
arrested on a charge of sound
ing a false alarm. But the
judge dismissed the case on
grounds that Schafer didn't
mean to commit a criminal
act.
Lord Rodney, the English
admiral who died in 1792,
was a captain at the age of
24.
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but enjoy the contentment of loafing on the
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State Centennial
Exposition Said
To Be in 'Black'
Portland-flJPD-Oregon's Cen
tennial Exposition is operat
ing in the black, officials said
today. Centennial commission
members met Tuesday and1
were informed that the expo
sition during its first month
of operation made money de
spite large capital outlay in
opening the show.
. A total of $393,000 has
been taken in. Outlay has
amounted to $334,000, leav
ing -a cash balance of $59,000.
However, William Gaaren-
stroom, Centennial fiscal offi
cer, said: "If is too early to
forecast with any degree of
accuracy the ultimate finan
cial condition 'of the exposi
tion and International Trade
Fair. Ane income for the first
three weeks, if maintained
for the balance of the 100
days, will be sufficient to
meet budgeted expenses.
Biggest financial blow to
the operation came from the
Country America show. It
brought in only $7149 in rev
enues while costing more
than $50,000. On the other
hand, the Ice Capades grossed
$160,432 while costing $100,
000 plus expenses.
Box office evidence that
many parents are leaving
their children at home has
prompted the commission
Tuesday to approve admit
tance to the grounds free to
children 15 years and under
accompanied by adults, from
July 10 through July 16, the
dates the Roy Rogers show
will be here.
CLUB
NEWS
Rabbit Club
The Valley Experimenters
4-H Rabbit club held a meet
ing June 21. We talked about
the picnic we had planned.
We are going to visit some
commercial rabbitries to get
an idea of how they operate.
A motion was made to have a
practice session of judging
rabbits each Thursday.
Clifton Mitchell, our presi
dent, made a detail report on
rabbit diseases. Our next regu
lar meeting will be July 16.
Tony Glidden,
Reporter.
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