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U-2 Incident Provides Reassuring News
On Status of United States' Defenses
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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.
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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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