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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Herald Tribune Ine.
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