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O ' o o o o o o '-) o MAIL TRIBUNf, MiM Or. I Monday, May 21, I '60 A 1 o o o U-2 Incident Provides Reassuring News On Status of United States' Defenses i (V Jt) By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -fUTO- The dis pute over nuiiuiial dc-Ieridt; u& a basic issue in the presiden tial campaign seems this week to be easing off. National de fense is not less important than it was 10 days ago. It is more impor tant and more Ljl. C Wll.o. V u o- ably are thinking about it this month than last. Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev directed the attention of Americans to national defense by his extraordinary behavior in Paris. Reassuring Newt But the incident of the high-flying U-2 should be re assuring to Americans. The U.S. U-2 had been overflying the Soviet Union for four years when, finally, a mission misfired. The plain implica tion of that is, of course, that the Russians were unable for four years to knock a U-2 out of their sky. The further implication is that high-flying U.S. bombers also could penetrate the So viet Union. That , is what seems to reduce the presiden tial campaign pressure on the national defense issue. The pressure would be on again and enormously increased if it developed that the Soviets have been flying over the con tinental United States. Khrushchev just about could Insure defeat of the Re publican presidential nominee this year if he could just once tend one of his airplanes high across the United States from coast to coast. Mr. K. is not likely to do that, however. He is not likely to do that because the United States pos sesses a missile called the Nike-Hercules. High Flyer The Nike-Hercules is touted to shoot down an airplane flying higher than 100,000 feet, more than 20 miles. That is the range shooting straight up. The slant range is more than 80 miles. The Nike-Ajax can reach 60,000 feet straight up and has a slant range of 25 miles. It is dangerous to assume anything, especially about the Russians. It might be assum ed, however, that the Rus sians do not have the equiva lent u ine Nikc-IIcrcuita or the Nike-Ajax, either of which could have been effective against the U-2 during the past four years. It would be unreasonable to believe that the Kremlin permitted the U-2 to overfly the U.S.S.R. at 60.000 feet by choice. The Strategic Air Com mand's B-52s do not fly high. Their top, however, is greater than 50,000 feet. Each B-52 can carry more than one nuclear bomb. In the newest version of the airplane, each is being armed with a Hound Dog missile. The Hound-Dog is jet propelled and can fly 500 miles 'after release from a bomber. In the works is a Skybolt ballistic missile for the B-52s. It will have a range of 1,000 miles. What is in the works is not the determining factor now. It is what the United States can put in the air to day and where it can go by nightfall. On the basis of the known facts, it appears that the United States can put B-52s in the air, send them to Moscow and bring them I home. I U.S. families spend an aver I age of $246 a year in clothing stores. To tell American con sumers about what to wear, national advertisers invested an estimated $7.6 million for wearing apparel in news papers last year. Perhaps that was a factor among the circumstances which made Khrushchev so edgy in Paris. His blow-up and what the U-2 revealed about U.S.S.R. defenses and the American ability to pene trate them may ultimately be counted the best news of 1960 -so far. Fern Ridge Woman Killed in Collision Eugene -t'PH- A 45-year-old Fern Ridge. Ore., woman was killed and five other persons injured when a car plowed into the side of a freight train at a crossing at the west end of the city Friday night. The woman was Mrs. Dor othy K. Eaton. She was a passenger in the car. Veteran Marion Treasurer Defeated Salem -ilW- Sam Butler, Marion county treasurer for the past 24 years, was ousted in the state primary for re nomination to the post by Robert Coe Jr., Salem, an ap- praiser in the county assess- I or'a office since 1957. They are Republicans. District Attorney Hnttie Kramen defeated her former deputy district attorney, George Gross, for the Repub lican nomination. Mrs. Kra men's Democratic opposition next fall will be Jason Lee, who waged a last minute cam paign for write-in votes. Republican Marion county sheriff Denver Young won renomination and his Demo cratic opponent will be S. W. Borris. Salem. Tunnel Work to Start This Fall Crescent City, Calif. In itial construction of the north approach to the future Ore gon mountain tunnel will be gin with a kick-off celebra tion June 25 with project bids to be opened Oct. 1. The tunnel project, which recently was approved, is now declared two years ahead of the original schedule. Cost of northern tunnel ap proach is set at $750. OU0. and the tunnel itself is estimated at S'.i'-i million. The tunnel I is expected to be completed I by li)ti2. speciticHlions call lor two bores to be provided in the right of way so that a par allel tunnel can be built if it is needed in the future. Plans also call for realignment of Highway 199 from Gasquet to the Oregon state line via the future tunnel. Statisticians estimate that the current averace daily traffic on the highway will jump from 1.500 to some 5. 000 vehicles per day within a few years. Oregon Farm Bureau To Expand Activities Salem - ITU - The Oregon Farm Bureau Federation voted Saturday to extend its activities. Delegates from 26 counties met here. Tlie Bureau, under the de cision, will go into the field of marketing crops and will expand its legislative work, particularly in taxation. A relatively mild climate is found inside the Arctic Circle where the Gulf Stream ncars Norway's coast. Fire Wipes Out 4 Firms in Redmond Bcdmond -UPD- Four busi nesses were destroyed and several firemen hospitalized with minor injuries from a blaze that swept through the main section of this central Oregon city here Saturday night. Loss was estimated at $75, 000. Completely destroyed were a pharmacy, barber shop, fi nance company and a photog raphers' studio. None of the injuries was serious. Hospitalized were Taylor McClay, Les Lindgrcn, R. L. Clark, Lloyd Downs, Gene Yates, Norman Swan son and Vern Patrick. The fire began in tin fi nance building. Cause is unknown. a i WW GENUINE MB IDRSIfll Amcfica'i largest Sailing ! TOILET TANK BALL i Noiiy running toilttt can watt er 1 1000 gallons of water a day. The I fficiant, patntd Watar Motter Monk ball instantly stops the ' Row of volar after ach Ruining. 75c AT HARDWARE STORES In the Days News Br FRANK JENKINS This is written on primary election day in Oregon. The ballot is about the size of a bed sheet - a sheet, that is, for a good old-fashioned king size double bed. Pity the poor devils on election boards and in newspaper newsrooms who are going to have to count the votes. And - Pity the conscientious vot er who has to make up his mind today as to how he's go ing to vote on all these candidacies. NOTE THE term "conscien tious." , It's important. The future of our country is in the hands of the CON SCIENTIOUS voter. TN CHICAGO Adlai Steven son, who says he isn't a candidate but makes it clear that, like Barkis, he would be "willin' " if asked, told 2,000 Democrats attending a $100-a-plate local fund raising din ner that the Eisenhower ad ministration blundered right into Nikita Khrushchev's hands. He added: "The Eisenhower adminis tration has acutely embarrass ed our allies and endangered our bases. "The Eisenhower adminis tration has helped make suc cessful negotiations with the Rusians - negotiations that are vital to our survival - IM POSSIBLE so long as the Ei senhower administration is in power." HMMMMMMMMM. To Mr. Stevenson and all others who seek to make po litical hay out of this inter national situation that con fronts us at this trying mo ment, let's quote these words of Lincoln spoken in an ad dress at Cleveland, Ohio, in the dark hours of February, 1861. "If we do not make COM MON CAUSE to save the good old ship of the Union on this vovage. NOBODY WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO PILOT HER ON ANOTHER VOYAGE." rpHOSE words apply with - equal force to tne crisis oi today. If we don't meet with firm ness and complete unity of purpose this crisis that has been precipitated by Khru shchev's extraordinary behav ior of the past few days, we may never have another chance to lead the free world in defense of its freedom. 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