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o e 3 Air Force Receives Space Conquest Job (From Defense Boss Washington (UPD - The V. S Air Force, whose doom has been predicted by missile en thusiasts, has come up on top with the grand prize of mill ttry missions - conquest of space with manned and un manned Vehicles. Defense Secretary Neil H McElroy, in a far-reaching pol icy decision, gave official sanc tion last week to the . long disputed claim of airmen that today's Air Force should be tomorrow's Space force. Full implications of the de cision, affecting ambitious but still distant military space op erations, Can't be gauged now But it was clear enough to shake the Army and much of the Navy, both of which had high aspirations in the space field and how must play fela tlvely minor roles. . McElroy's ruling Swept aside the Army position, Voiced by ex-Chief of Staff Hatfield's Letter Answered by Ike Salem-ftiPB-President Eisen hower has written Gov. Mark Hatfield that the release of United States citizens held prisoner by Red vJhma is "very much on my mind and I will certainly discuss it at my forthcoming meetings with Mr, Khrushchev if it ap peaf J that this would be help ful in obtaining the release of the Americans." Hatfield had asked the President to put the subject on the Camp David talk agen da. Earlier the governor had in dicated he had declined a cit izen's Suggestion to call a special Session of the Oregon Legislature to pass a resolu tion indicating public indig nationgthat the prisoners have not been released in accord with the spirit of the Geneva agreement of 1959. Hatfield took the position th estate legislature should not enter into foreign policy. The Pftsideht's comments , were con-eyed in a letter to the governor. Montana Rioter Gets Added Term Deer Lodge, Mont. - (UPD JameS Randall, 24, the first Montana state prison inmate convicted .by -a jury for his part in .the April riot at the prison, had 15 years added to his sentence Friday, A jury on Sept 17 found Randall guilty of kidnaping prison guard Laurence Coz zins during the prison upris ing. A second convict was found guilty of a similar charge Tuesday. He is Jerry Al Walk er, 20. District Judge Sid G. man ran an intersection and Stewart of Anaconda set Oct. I drove his two-horsepower ve- A - - . - A - 1 Wm 9 -1 - 4 i . 4 ... Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, that "no single service has any spe cial claim on the milkyway." And "obsolete" seemed the best way to describe the ver dict of a top admiral who once told newsmen off-the-record that the Air Force was "obso lete." No Dividing Lin McElroy and his advisors appeared to have accepted the Air Force position that there is no dividing line between air and space and no major distinction between air and space missions. As announced by the de fense department and elabo rated at a news Conference by Dr. Herbert York, director of defense research and engineer ing, these steps will now be taken: -The Air Force will be the sole military agency for "space transportation." It will have responsibilities for developing, producing and launching mili tary space boosters for rockets. -The Army and Navy will be assigned specialized satel lites and other space work. But their space "payload" will be sent aloft by the Air Force. Major Surgery These assignments of Space missions are being carried out through major surgery on the defense department s advanc ed research projects agency (ARPA) which was set up to give unified direction to space and other advanced projects after the original Russian Sputnik scare. In the process, ARPA will lose several hundred million dollars of its present half-billion dollar budget, according to YOrk and ARPA director Roy W. Johnson. Johnson, who has made many speeches about ARPA'S Space activities and once told congress his agency sought "td provide the break through of space leadership,' now sayS ARPA has not been primarily a space operator but is interested in really far-out projects. They include defense against ballistic missiles and research on solid fuels for fu ture rOckets. The McElroy action did not appear to affect relations be tween the defense department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Which was set up as a civilian space agency, also after the sputnik scare. To outsiders, the boundary between defense and NASA space operation ? often ap pears shadowy. The Pentagon indicates, however, that it in- tends to stick to purely mili tary aspects of space opera tions. 2 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, Sept. 27, 1959 S for sentencing Walker. KILLED IN SMALL CAR Dalton, (Ja. (OPD - A 10- year-old boy, out for sport in his miniature gasoline powered car, was killed Fri day night when he drove into the side of an automobile. Police Said Richard T. Thur- hlcle Into the larger car. Rockefeller Tells Stories, Avoiding Words on Politics Hanover, N.H.-tCPD - GOV. Nelson Rockefeller of New York told students at his alma mater Saturday that "politics is a world of fun," but when they shouted "are you going to run for president?" He told them storieS. Standing on the steps of Dartmouth hall, after seeing Holy Cross beat Dartmouth in football, Rockefeller, told some 2,500 listeners about a flat tire, but was just as re luctant to talk politics aS he had been earlier at a news conference. Political writers, sure Rockefeller was making a sur vey to determine Whether to enter New Hampshire's "first in the nation" presidential primary next March 8,-jotted down only notes about "six men in a boat." "Are ybu going to run?" and "we Want Rock" chanted the students at the school from which Rockefeller was graduated in 1930. "That reminds me of a story," laughed the New York republican. "It Seems there were six men in a boat. The boat tip ped over and all were fished out but one. They shouted at him, 'do you need help?' and the man in the water replied- 'this is no time to talk busi ness.' ' He told them how he had a flat tire enroute from Con cord here, and thanked Presi dent John SlOati Dickey of Dartmouth for his reception. But he ignored the "Rocke feller for President" banner over his head and only smiled at the cheers, At a news conference in Concord he had talked like a reluctant candidate but smiled like a winner earlier in the day. Mrs. Gustison Tells PTA Plans Chicago - (OPD -"Portland will host the 1962 convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, it was announced Friday. Mrs Leigh Gustison, Med fdfd, president of the Oregon congress, made the announce ment. She is attending a meet ing of the national board in Chicago. An estimated 3,000 dele gates will attend the con clave. The convention will be held May 20 through 23, although pre-Conference sessions will begin on May 17 and the post- convention meetings will run through May 25. More than 12 million Amer ican parents and teachers are members of the National con gress. ' Of West Virginia's 55 coun ties, 48 have coal deposits. 2 CO 3 O in O o ?5 ZD m o Mortuary Office Another flfiST for Med ford! -n ft"- i- -- rWS Another FIRST for Oregon! LEW MILES SISKIYOU FUNERAL SERVICE ONE CALL Complete Service SISKIYOU MEMORIAL PARK Endowed Care Since 1932 CREMATORY: Columbarium Inurnment MAUSOLEUM: Garden Crypts " ." ' AND THE NEW ' CHAPEL IH THE TREES MORTUARY Cemetery Office (Completed Soon) Phone SP 2-5488 605 Highland Drive Medford, Ore. (UPI Telephoto) SOLOMON BANDARNAIKE Slain by Assassin (UPI fephoto) Wijayanaiida Dahanayke New Prime Minister CeyDon's IPremoer Bfos IFrom ISulOets Colombo, Ceylon (UPD-Prime Minister Solomon W. R. . Bandarnaike died Saturday ef bullet wounds inflicted by a disgruntled Buddhist monk. The government moved swift ly to head off- possible civil strife. Heavily armed guards spread out over the city and took up positions outside the houses of ministers and mem bers of parliament. The nation was under a state of emer gency. A government spokesman Bakery Workers To Vote on Union ' Portland (UPD - Employees of six Oregon bakeries Friday were given 30 days to decide whether to affiliate with the new AFL-CIO bakery union or the bid bakery, union, which was tossed out of the AFL-CIO for corruption. The national labor relations board's ruling was in answer to a claim by the ousted un ion, local 364 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International The local claimed it had Contracts In force which would bar an election to determine the bargaining agent. The employees had earlier voted 192-1 to quit the ousted union and affiliate with the AFL-CIO American Bakery and Confectionery "Workers International: , Oregon plants of the fol lowing firms will be involved in the balloting: Oregon MrC aroni Co., Smith & Sonnleit ner Cookie Co., Porter-Scar-pelli Macaroni Co., Maryland Pacific Cone Co. of Oregon, Candy Manufacturers of Ore gon and Bakery Employers Council. U. of C. Records Strong Earthquake Berkerley, Calif. - (CPD A strong earthquake that regis tered beween 6.5 and 6.75 on the Tichter Scale was report ed early Saturday by the Uni versity of California seismo graphich station. The quake's location was undetermined, according to Dr. Dron Tocher, but it was centered approximately 625 miles from Berkeley. Tocher said there were indications it might have centered to the northwest, off the coast of Oregon. The quake occurred at 37 seconds pas 12:22 a.m. P.S.T. Tocher said the temblor was poentially damaging" if it was near any inhabited areas, and that it could have center ed in northern Mexico or some other direction other than the Oregon coast. ; Pair of Heads Makes Headlines Astoria-tUPD-Two heads are sometimes better than one. But in this case, it depends upon one's feeling for rep tiles. Harold Hogan, Seaside, a public works employee at the Tongue Point Naval station, found a twin-headed garter snake on the base grounds and adopted it as a pet. Hogan said the snake eats with both heads and will strike with both heads when upset. A science teacher from a nearby high school said the small snake was about six weeks old. Said opposition forces were spreading rumors "Calculated to cause civil strife.'' Minister of Education Wi jayananda Dahanayke, 56", jailed by the British as a Trot skyite in World War II, was sworn in as Prime Minister 4 few hours after Bahdaranai ke's death to assure the gov ernment continuous control. A five-tour opef ation to re1 move Bandaf attaike'S punetur ed spleen and part of a kidney failed to Sdve the 60year-oid prime minister's life. He was the first Ceylbnese politician to die at the hands of an as sassin. Bandaranaike was Shot Fri day by TaldUwe Somafama, 43, an eye Specialist Working in the State Hospital of In digenous Medicine in Colom bo. He was hospitalized in seri ous condition with a bullet wound in the groin. Another monk, identified as Galagedera Pagnaseketa The ro was produced before A Co lombo magistrate Saturday and remanded pending further investigation. He apparently Was Somarama'S companion. Police had & theory but tit definite motive for the slaying. Selection of Nixon The Dalles - (DPD-C. Girard Davidson, Oregon Democratic National committeeman, said Friday night the selection of Vice President Richard Nixon to dedicate The DalleS dam here next month, was'' a bad bad choice. The multi million dollar project will be dedicated Oct. 11. Speaking to Wasco county Democrat-;, he declared that Nixon has "helped strangle and choke the life out of the Columbia river development program." He charged the 'only multi-purpose program in which the vice preside-1 was interested is in becoming "a multi-purpose politician." Davidson said that If cour tesy did not demand other wise, "it would be fitting for those who fought for, the full development of the Columbia river to wear black arm bands to the dedication ceremonies." Fatal Car Wreck Results in Citation Salem - (UPD-A two-car acci dent at Salem intersection Friday night took one life and injured four other persons, none seriously. Seven persons, including five children, es caped injury. . 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