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0 (") O TUESDAY. JUNE 21. It hedfoib wiin. rmvvn. "Everyone In Southern Oresa RNri The Mall Tribune PubllshfIIy except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-8141 nnnp.RT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertiiini Meniger GERA1.D T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor : uihrv ftflPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportl Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE JRICJqNrculaUonJVIgr An Independent Newspaper Entered M second class matter at Medford. Oregon, unoer March 3. 1B97 aiTBeranyrtmi RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dally and Sunday moi. 8 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi. 4.13 Sunday Only One year 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medtort a.hl.nd. Central Point Eagle Point. JackionvlUe. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv. T.tant nft An fflOtOf TOUtei. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daly and Sunday 1 mo. 1.80 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Termfaaniiw"ivaiit "otflcisT Paper of City of MedfoTJ Official Papr ofJackoii JojmtY ' UnTtedPrefB International Full Leased Wire O.P.I. TelephotoJJevplctare ""member or-AUDIT BimEAU or tiitLuiijtww .....il.!... RnnT-eimtatlve WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chicago. pe. . u c. w.nHuen Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Loula. At. lanta. Vancouver. " i- NtWSPAPfl PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI jlAcQTQl If Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS -AKSOi lr,r,-;.uHllC6tiefcButt next mohtWfbra:'pt-o)cot to. widen to thrjw banes the Highway 99 nnrlerriass at "the railroad iraflca north, of. AshUnd. Twenty Mexican, nationals have been arrested:' in the Medford area fofmeMl en try into the U.S. and, .the im migration service is in the process of rounding up others. 20 YEARS AGO Oregon's Senator Charles MrNarv was nominated to day for the vice presidency by the Republican convention; he will team with Wendell Willkic on the Republican party ticket in the national election. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Gov. Sprague and a number of Sa lem big-bugs dropped in re cently and invited all and sundry to come up during the Centennial In August, when Salem will be 100 years old." 30 YEARS AGO June 28. 1930 (Saturday) An electric smelter on the Rogue river near Gold Hill is being planned. Nearly 2,500 quarts of home brew have been seized at a still near Klamath Falls. 40 YEARS AGO Junt 28, The city who have free auto camp for more than three weeks to find another place. v Ashland is readying Itself for the three-day Fourth ojjr' juiy ceicDrauon. : 50 YEARS AGO Junt 28. 1910 (Tuesday) The Pacific Telephone com pany lists 1,310 telephone, numbers In Us new directory for Medford, Central Point, Gold Hill and Jacksonville a gain of more than 300 over the last directory published six months ago. A Weed, Calif., man at tempted to commit suicide by three different methods near Jacksonville yesterday -Jumping from a speeding train laying his head on the rail road tracks In front of a train and grabbing an electric light wire-but failed each time. What's Your I.Q.? Nina at lea correct li iua.rleri even ar tiM Is ticellenti five ar lii is food. 1. Does pure gold as known to jewelers, consist of 14, 18, 24. or 32 carats? 2. Cream Is heavier than milk: true or false? 3. What Is the system of counting by tens termed? 4. From which part of Ad am was Eve evolved? 5. July 4th commemorates which great event? 6. What did Little Bo Peep. In the nursery rhyme, lose? 7. What Is the line follow- Ing Ben Franklin's "Early to bed and early to rise ? 8. Arc there 4, 5, or 6 U.S. States whose name begins with "New"? 9, Which river in the world has the largest volume of flow? 10. Do members of Con gress pay postage on official mail? Answarsi 1. Twenty-four. 2. Falsa. 3. Dacimal. 4. Tha rib. S. Adoption of tha Dec laration of Independanca. f. "Her ahaap", 7. "Make man haalthly, wealthy, and wise." , Four, I, Araasaa. 19, t 1920 (Monday) u V v 1 ".73 is telling touristpvyjOJWfHB . ."ii-Witje-iuuuc iiueicsijra icieB-, lived in the city wonat!ieiiiues """;;-' i s- - . n: The Right Dr. Linus Pauling is a Nobel prize-winning chemist, who is worried at the effect that in creased radioactive fallout could have on the human race. He has done whatever he can to encourage a ban on future nuclear testing a ban which has been under discussion by the United States and Russia. He was the sponsor of petitions, signed by some 11,000 scientists, calling for a cessation of such testing. There has been some speculation that left-wingers have been interested in these petitions. e e DECENTLY he was called before a Senate sub- committee, which asked him to divulge the names of those who aided him in soliciting the petition signatures. He refused to do so on the basis of conscience and morality. The Oregonian comments: "One does not have to agree with Br. Pauling's views on international affairs to support his position in this instance. He has been and is being harassed for exercsing a right recognized as fundamental in this country, the right of petition. Should he name his colleagues in the undertaking, he would merely subject them to the same kind of harassment. And to no good purpose that we can see; for surely the com mittee does not propose to suggest that it is subversive to advocate a ban on atomic testing even though the intent of some such petitioners is subversive. If Dr. Pauling can be forced by his government to. testify to his associations in an undertaking such as that of the anti-nuclear testing petitions, then every citizen whose ideas may be unpopular to congressmen is at the mercy of the interrogators . . ." One notes, also, that the Constitution of the United States says, in part: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the j'jvfrWifoSB of speech . . .; or the rlgVt of the people Co petition the government for a redress of grievances." Thus, the order of Senator Dodd of Connec ticut, the subcommittee chairman, that Dr. Paul ing produce the names on Aug. 9, is clearly un constitutional, in spirit if not actually in the letter. THE tendency in this country to blame every thing with 'which one disagrees on the "com munist conspiracy" is a It is a tendency which breeds a uniformity and conformity and fear which are the direct antithesis of the brave, mental excitement attendant on the establishment of this nation. r "The New Republic," writing in a slightly different context, put it well when it said : - s'. ' "The Communists' Ihiye subverted many of us by giving us an easy out iWhYn we fail. We can blame It on the Red devil, and vrtether we're right or wrong, the explanation satlsfltoqwrseifgard." If everyone who getS'a "new idea, or who has the audacity to speak out about things he thinks need changing, or who criticizes the government, is going to be accused of being subversive or a jiun., una cuuuu win Pressure on . 5-. iL. . .s.S- ;-. ' " . vif K; i.Thp ennntw Mirttir." riimmpntfrT Tint In-nrr atm ?vfi'fflee;wer, from Saya-gej tWejcauTOy jn; Kiinj-t'OTotjably increase lh population in the west. Second, the improvement in automobiles with models to suit just tiny sports cars to big station wagons has made, it ever easier to get out go in comfort. 'v : Third, the improvement in recreational equip ment from boats and water skis and scuba equipment to tents, sleeping bags, trailers and so on has made everyone an "outdoorsman" of sorts. Fourth, with a five-day, two or three week vacation, now almost uni versal, practically everyone can get into the out doors for longer or shorter periods. e e e COME agencies have been more alert and for ward-looking than others in preparing for this tremendous lnilux into A few have planned ing the ever-increasing crowds they knew would come. Others are just getting started. But one thing is certain. Those agencies of government which are responsible for outdoor administration are going to have to cope with the problems, which include camping, picnicking, boating and swimming facilities, sanitary serv ices, and just plain physical space. If they don t, they'll reap a crop of disgruntle ment from people, who are, more and more, tak ing outdoor recreation as their birthright. Also, if they don't, they'll find that recreation seekers will carve their own facilities out of the woods and fields to the vast destruction of physical, financial and inspirational values still remaining, k.x. of Petition the first amendment to sordid, melancholy one adventurous and exneri ue in cctu may. Li.t. Outdoorsx ...... . ' - .f- pmy a iew most important,' is the about any taste,' from 40 hour week and a the out of doors. ahead, and are now serv Dennis Hie I ffW 9 Aty VA&S GROWN'A MUSTACHE J f?ISHTjSl3f Communications Letters to the Editor must baar tha nam and address of in writer, although under certain circumstances lha use of pan name or initial for publication is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right to adit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necossarily represent tha views of tha paper; in tact tha contrary is Questions To the Editor: 1 am what is classified as a typical aver age housewife, with four young children. I am active in Christian work, P.T.A., and a lender of a wonderful Girl Scout troop. And like every one else, BUSY BUSY, BUSY -but there are several ques tions that keep running through my mind and if some kind soul will take a few minutes from his busy day and answer them for me, my mind will be free to dwell on other things. Number 1-WHY was the cost of our new Jackson pool so tremendously high?-$4,000 for a wading pool approxi mately 4 inches high and 8 feet across. I have a plastic pool bigger that only cost $12.98 three years ago. Then 583,000 for the big pool which is only 2V times bigger than our front room but the cost is ten times the cost of our whole house??? Why aren't there any partitions in the dressing rooms so all ages of girls are not dressing and un dressing 'tbnojlier? In fact there isn't evcnja,door to keep the boys -from Tunning in. which has been done.?T.p hold the clothes-a scrthrdugW)Jjag lias-, been provided, yani to. rnu.ke ."V even, .-more interest ing the bags trang -in-full .view', of the lint of boys; and girUJ waiting , to go in 'the1 pooL! Needless to. say .unm'ention- ablosi- have, .'to ,be carefully Placed.- And lastly., the. .pool. 01 SHU. 000 is sa rniiuh ttitv children., are' ' copiing ' '.home with-feet all ciit up'. Oho boyi hud-15 pamlnges on, his: teet.w It "was stated the poqphad been Jixeo; lifter the first day wriefuttve'children were lmed up; for, olite.-ibut June 23 the: kchildtc -' wpre stilt- coming lifje : w'tli pieces " of , .skin goiiKWi out.- 1 '.: ". Number 2.-When there . is n 'surplus in the city govern nun't, . why is it necessary to find a way of depleting it the next year-.1? ;. Number 3i-Why,, whenvvot ihg for an increase in school funds, is it a- vote for every one when the money to pay for it only involves the prop erty fax payers? ; ' . . I have four other questions but, my 400 words are used lip so when these Have been answered I will submit them. Thank you. ".'. . ' , , , Mrs. W. W. Brawn, , " : ,V5t)7 Kenwqod ave'.j 'i ,' '.h. Medford,. ' Editor's note. -Wi can't' an swer the questions listed un der No. 1. Perhaps the city parks and recreation director can. As to No. 2, the city has had no "surplus" for many years, und as a matter of fact iuis had difficulty squeezing its budget down to come with in the 6 per cent limitation each year. On No. 3, some years ago only property tax payers were eligible to vote on bond issue measures, but In the general election of 1948 the voters of the slate passed an initia tive measure milking all regis tered voters eligible to vote in all school elections. Could Ba To the Editor: As I remem ber, the Bible printed in 1611 (Genesis, chapter 1 verse 1) reads, "the world was of (Id." 1 have heard science tyilm they have found rocks nd bones thnl date back thou sands and millions of years and they could be right. How old is old in the revised Bi ble's "old men"? t listened to tck vision the other night, where men were talking about trying to talk to men Menace often tha case. on other planets or stars. The Bible (1611) reads, "Men will stand afar off, and talk to one another." It could happen any day. Marshall H. Waggoner Box 753 Central Point, Ore. Villa St. Rosa To the Editor: Early in May this year, along with several other men from our commun ity, I was privileged to re view some of the member agencies of the Oregon United Appeal. The Oregon United Appeal receives its funds from the various United Funds throughout the State of Ore gon, including the United Medford Crusade. One of the member agen cies visited by the Medford group was the Villa St. Hose School for Girls, located in Jr-ortland. Conducted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, it traces its origin in Oregon to 1902. The program, , is planned for the care and re habilitation of delinquent girls- irom iz to 21, regardless of race or creed, more than 200 annually. Villa St. Rose School is lo cated on a 10 acre tract, only a few minutes travel .from downtown Portland. A mod ern school building provides the, classrooms, library, home econdmits department,, gym nasium, ' indoor swimming pool and skating rinkj. Approx imately 5 acres is devoted to outdoor sports. . . Villa St. Rose is a standard school leading to accredited diplomas for high school, grad uation.. The curriculum, in. Lcludcs not only academic sub raectsV itfut ialsp commercial training,, jhome arts,-: foods, clothing, music,-art, ,flrt.-,aid and home .nursing. The school offers both summer and regu lar sessions. The school 'also provides many extra-curricu lar icticities.. . We feel, and this applies to all agencies visited, that this school is uhder-but very com petently- staffed, The Sisters of Good Shepherd are special ly trained to meet the needs of the girl who has developed anti-social behavior patterns. Their work is supleniented by that of many others, both pro fessional and non-professional. The purpose of the program of the Villa St. Rose Is to pre pare the girl for a nappy well balanced life through love, kindness, undestanding, super vision, guidance, education and training. All are directed toward the instilling of moral. spiritual and educational val ues with the development of the self-discipline and social graces. Now do we. as donors and citizens of Jackson County, benefit from this agency? We think so. During the past four years, Villa St. Rose worked with 83 girls from Jackson county, 12 of them during the year of 1959. This represents for the years covered, 15,857 days of care. According to school records, 85 per cent of the graduates of the Villa St. Rose turn out to be well-adjusted citizens. Yes, we feel that the benfiui to us in Jack son county are substantial. We hope that you wll sup port the program by your gen. erous donations through the United Medford Crusade. A. Richter 1824 Stratford Medford. Grim Prospect To the Editor: Slowly but surely the grim words are marching out to take place on history's wall of time. Words for all to see, that will Venezuela's Experiment in Democracy Faces Difficulties in Land of Contrasts Br PHIL NCWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Caracas-fllPB-An experiment In democracy is being carried out In Venezuela, where great wealth left millions in grinding pov erty and 130 years of in depe ndence brought less than a dozen years of free dom. This is a phil mewsom land of con trasts, and they begin here in Caracas. Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON'S PLANS Washington - Vice-Presi dent Richard M. Nixon is pre paring to offer the country a tough and to tal reorganiza- t i o n of its whole cold war machine so that its ev- cry phase would be di rected straight from the Willi. m AIVFUOC. While Military aid, economic assistance, technical assistance, exchange - of - per sons, propaganda of all vari eties - all would proceed un der the day-by-day command of the President alone. All the present widely scattered authorities and programs would be drawn together into the President's personal hands. And pains would be taken to make everybody un derstand this new administra tive situation - both here and abroad. And though determined to make no apology in the cam paign for the Eisenhower ad ministration's record - includ ing parts of it which he knows cannot be called wholly suc cessful in hindsight - Nixon has a second determination. This is to outline a fresh ap proach to international Com munism. e HE WILL tell the nation that the Eisenhower adminis tration's efforts were on bal ance far more effective than not, .But he will also say that we must now look to the fu ture! He will say that if he becomes president the contest with the Russians and Chinese will enter a new phase requir ing new techniques. . . - He will suggest that this contest ought to be viewed with unemotional American resolve as a kind of "inter national political campaign." He will' thus discourage the term "cold war." He will at tempt to cultivate a new cli mate of opinion which, while demand an answer more tra gic than that our President had to make at the Paris Sum mit meeting debacle. And it is no other than Eisenhower himself who must make an swer. . - It has- to do with the U-2 .inspection, flight that was so blunderingly - referred to as a spy-flight,'' and still is. For the U-2 flights were made high in the open sky. The Rus sians knew they were there, showing on the radar and pen ciled vapor trails for all to see. But Khrushchev and his henchmen .evidently did not know that we had lens and sensitized plate equipment sufficiently accurate to reach ten miles down and register in detail their missile-pad lo cations and other potential 'Pearl Harbor weaponry. Pilot - Powers . of the U-2 flight will of course be put on trial. He will be convicted of spying, which our State department and general press have helped to do by referring to it as a spy-flight. Pilot Pow ers will be sentenced to death. but there will be a catch to It as there always is to the Russians love for scheming The black-mail demand may be made direct to President Eisenhower or via diplomatic custom. The demand may be couched in snake-tongue dou ble talk, but the grim demand will be there: that Pilot Pow ers' life may be spared if President Eisenhower makes humble apology for the U-2 flight and makes acceptable guarantee that it will not be repeated. WiU President Eisenhower make the contrite apology? Or will he stand firm and let the death sentence be carried out? It will be a hard deci sion, a heart rending one that the Soviet will propagandize to the fullest. Of course, the world at large will never know -eh the death-sentence is carried out. For Pilot Powers is far"more valuable alive to the Soviet than dead. Though death could be preferable to the life he may be condemned to in the vast slave-labor camps of Russia's Siberia. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Medford. Of Venezuela's seven mil lion inhabitants, more than a million live in Caracas, a city divided between old and new, of broad boulevards and nar row streets stretching along a valley bordered on the one side by cloud-covered 6,000 foot peaks of the coastal range and on the other by towering hills reaching toward the in terior. In the new section of the city rise gleaming, multi-colored business buildings, mod ern supermarkets and the ultra-modern gracefully design, ed buildings of Central Uni versity. These are symbols of S. WHITE actually trusting the Soviet Union less than the Eisenhow er administration has d o n e, will nevertheless minimize the military aspect of the strug gle. He will center upon the defeat of international Com munism in the economic and propaganda spheres. He would not cut military aid. Rather, he would add to it if studies indicated a need. But he would talk less and less of military assistance as an explicit American policy. He would increase economic aid, technical assistance and exchange-of-persons and prop aganda programs. e WITH both allied and un committed nations, h e would minimize the old point that we must all join to "fight Communism," Instead, he would stress a common fight against want and disorder. In a word, Nixon, whose whole past record rests most of all upon being "tough" with Com munism, would considerably alter the present definition as to how best to be tough. Moreover, he would never abandon the personal presi dential diplomacy now in dis repute because of the summit collapse and the Tokyo riots which forbade President Ei senhower to visit Japan. On the contrary, Nixon would ex Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE REAL U-2 STORY Washington --On the eve of the political conventions, and many weeks after the U-2 fell near Sver dlovsk, it may seem untime ly to try to tell the real U-2 story. Yet it is still worth doing, if only because so many false de ductions have hpfn made eusfcrts ai,flVr from this single event. What happened, then, In the upper air, when Lt. Fran cis Powers' frail, glider-like reconnaissance plane met its celebrated fate? As to the first part of the answer, there is general agree ment. The U-2 was designed with remarkably narrow mar gins of tolerance. Flown a little too slow, it would spin or flutter. Its fuel also had special volatility characteris tics, to permit operation at very high altitudes; and the nature of the fuel gave the engine a strong tendency to "flame out." e e AFLAME-OUT in a jet en gine is roughly like a blow-out in a gas stove. The pilot light goes on burning (being electrical in the jet), while the main flame is ex tinguished. But at 70,000 to 80,000 feet, it is impossible to relight the stove, so to say, because the air is too thin. A pilot whose jet engine has flamed out at such an alti tude must go down into air richer in oxygen, before he can hope to bring his engine to life again. There is hardly any doubt tnat just this was what hap pened to Lieutenant Powers. The flame-out of his engine is so generally blamed, because it is' known with certainty that Powers had begun to de scend from his operating al titude some time before he was shot down. This is known, in turn, for a simple reason already published by the American government in another connection. Those with good memories will recall the intercepted conversations of Russian pilots to other air defense personnel, which the State Department published long ago. The in tercepts were used to prove that the Soviets had willfully shot down an American transport that had strayed across the Russian border. The publication of the intercepts also proved what had long been known unofficially, that radio traffic inside Russia Is continually monitored. I IKE other such systems, " the Soviet air defense sys tem communicates by ground-to-air radio and vice .versa. Thus the appearance of the -Wat- S In the old section are the narrow streets and aging man sions which are the link with the slower-paced turn of the century, when Venezuela's was an agricultural economy and cattle raising its chief in dustry. The Venezuela of today dates its beginnings from Jan. 23, 1858, when a military junta overthrew the dictator ship of President Marcos Pe rez Jlminez. Before Perez Jiminez there had been a brief period of na tional freedom and before that an unbroken 27 years of dictatorship under Juan Vi- pand such diplomacy. He thinks a principal Communist aim is to cut off all contact between Western leaders and Asian and Soviet masses. He believes that not even future risks to a President should ever permit a relative handful of Communists and sympathizers to close any part of the world to presidential visits. ALL THE foregoing Is an authoritative description of the views Nixon will put to the country after the Re publican convention has nomi nated him for President. It is clear he believes the make-or-break issue of the whole cam paign will be foreign policy. With almost undue care he leaves the impression that of all the Democratic possibili ties, the one he most fears is Sen. John F. Kennedy. The Nixon strategy, however, is equally well aimed at another Democratic possibility, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, whose principal claim is a demon strated power of strong, acute leadership. Every pro-Nixon Republi can politician to whom this correspondent has talked pri vately says the "real" fear is not Kennedy, but Johnson if his nomination turns out to be possible. It is thus not im possible that Nixon himself is raising a small fog over the identity of the opponent he would least like to have. (Copyright. 1960. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) U-2 in the upper air, reported to the ground by the radars, was recorded in monitored conversations of the Soviet air defense personnel, Also quite clearly recorded in these conversations was the key fact, which was once again reported by the Soviet radars. Thiswas the fact that the U-2 had begun to descend from its normal operating al titude about an hour before the moment before it is pre sumed to have been actually hit. This, really, is just about all the airborne evidence with important bearing on the fate of the U-2. It makes nonsense of the Soviet claim that the U-2 was shot down by a rock et at its operating altitude. It also makes nonsense, inci dentally, of some public ex planations of the way the U-2 problem was subsequently handled by the U.S. govern ment. e e T1HE plane was brought down on May 1. The re ports of the radio monitors were in Washington by May 2. By that date, in fact, it was already known here that the U-2 had come down far in the interior of Russia. But at the high level conferences which were then held in Washington, it was decided that the Kremlin would never risk the loss of face involved in a public admission of the extent of the U-2's penetra tion. Thus no new instructions were given the National Counsel With... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan f:( rj:t Fred I. Brennan, C.I.A. PHONE SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 37 NORTH HOLLY ST. cente Gomez. Gomez placed a strangle hold on Venezuela'i cattle in dustry, leading to it ruin. Later, he discovered tha lux uries that could be afforded from the flow of oil's black gold. But few of these reached the Venezuelan people. A three-party coalition un der President Romulo Betan court rules Venezuela today, the result of one of Vene zuela's few truly free elec tions. At its top are leaders whose) dedication to democratic prin ciples is not even questioned by their enemies. But problems are manifold and in Caracas there are many who believe the govern ment cannot live out its elect ed five-year term. It bars Communist from top government posts, but closes its eyes to their pene tration of schools, communica tions industries, such as news papers, radio and television, and labor unions. It is a leftist government pressing twin goals on tha one hand to develop what it calls a national consciousness and on the other to press an industrialization and agricul tural reform program to spread a greater degree of wealth among more people. It has it enemies, as seen by last week's assassination attempt against Betancourt. It has not eliminated pov erty. Shanty villages housing 200,000 restless unemployed press down upon Caracal from the mountain and hill sides. There has been a flight of money from Caracas and half-finished business build ings attest to a building boom brought to a sudden grinding halt. Space Agency, about the right comment to make on any Rus sian announcement of the fall of the U-2. Khrushchev's first announcement appeared to bear out the judgment Of the conferees here. The Spacer Agency duly offered its fa mous comment, concerning a weather reconnaissance plane which had gone off course. This comment was in fact a conscious gamble, and by no means a silly gamble. But it was also a gamble, alas, that went very wrong when the Kremlin thereupon trumpeted the damaging fact, which the Kremlin had not been expected to admit, that the U-2 had really fallen near Sverdlovsk. e AS TO the remaining evi dence on the fate of the U-2, it comes in the main from the debris of the plane dis played by the Soviet in Mos cow. The completeness of the debris makes it quite certain that the U-2 was not brought down by direct hit from a rocket. If the end had come in this way the fragments left to tell the story would have been very much more fragmentary. And Lieutenant Powers would almost certain ly not have survived. But the character of the U-2 debris does not rule the possibility that the plane was put out of action by a rocket exploded by a proximity fuse. It does not rule out, either, the possibility of a hit by a Soviet fighter. And above all, neither the debris nor the intercept say exactly what altitude the U-2 had reached) when it was finally hit. It was not hit at its normal operating altitude; but it could have been hit at any altitude from 60,000 feet on down. This final fact unhappily belies optimistic interpreta tions of the U-2 episode, by this reporter among others, which have now been given semi-official currency. A sec ond report is needed to cover this crucial point. (c) i960 New York Herald Tribune Ine. Get rid of that wor ried 'hound dog' look. Insure with u and the wrinkles will disap pear. Bill Fish 0
