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Effort To Off South Charleston, S.C. - (UPD - A desperate effort to save (inking oil tanker and Its val uable cargo from a watery grave off the South Carolina coast ended in failure early today when the ship sank in the Atlantic about 60 miles from safety. The young skipper and two crew men of the stricken 10,- 165-ton Sinclair Oil Co. tank er SS George MacDonald had hoped to beach their helpless ship In shallow water today and repair it for sea duty again. Stern Undtr Wattr Until 2:40 a.m. (e.d.t.) the MacDonald wallowed behind a sister tanker moving slow ly toward shore. Her stern was under water, her decks awashed to mid-ships, and her bow jutted 29 feet higher than the fantail. Macmillan Raps Soviet Walk-Out London - (UPD Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan told Soviet Premier Nlkita Khru shchev in a sternly worded letter today that Russia's ' break-off of the Geneva dis armament negotiations is "in comprehensible." He added that Soviet charges against the West as a result are "most unfair." Macmillan called on Khru shchev to reconsider his de cision "so that negotiations on disarmament can be restarted as soon as possible." The British Prime Minister warned Russia that the dis armament conference cannot properly be broken off by any one group. TAG METER COLLECTOR Hamlet, N.C. -(UPD- Police woman Mrs. J. J. Freeman re ceived a ticket for overtime parking Tuesday while she was in a bank depositing coins she had collected from the town's parking meters. THE LONG-HAIRED FUZZY thai makes much ado about stripes. Very brushed wool with a jaunty crew neckline in a new longer length, very boldly striped .in bone, gold and green combination or bone, blue and violet. 8.98 Save Oil Carolina But a terse message from the towing tanker, the SS J. E. Dyer, said the MacDonald "at 1:40 a.m. (e.s.t) broke its tow in a light rain and 20 minutes later sank." The Dyer's message added that a 30-foot section of the MacDonald's bow remained above water alter she sank. Craw Ordered Off The MacDonald's skipper, 33-year-o 1 d Eldredge Burn thorn of Houston, Tex., or dered 40 crewmen to abandon shiD Mondav nlKht and Tues day morning when a massive! Aerojet Looking At Northwest Sites By Uniltd Press International Aerojet General Corpora tion of Sacramento, Calif., to day was reported looking into a site in northern Idaho as well as sites in the states of Washington and Oregon for a possible plant. The office of Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) informed R. J. Bruning, Cocur d'Alene, Tuesday afternoon that Aero jet would consider Rathdrum Prairie, northwest of Coeur d'Alene, as a possible site for its proposed missile fuel manufacturing plant. The firm also has indicated it will look into several sites in the state of Washington as well as the 96,000-acre Board man bombing range site in Oregon. The state of Oregon plans to develop the Boardman site into a space age industrial park. Dan Kimball, president of Aerojet, was quoted Tuesday as saying Boardman might be. too far away from population centers. Gov. Mark Hatfield of Ore gon, attending the Governor's Conference at Glacier Park, said "it has been reported to me that one of the major rea LONG & SHORT OF Tanker Failure rupture in the cooling system flooded the engine room and the ship appeared doomed. Burnthorn, his mate and one crewman stayed aboard to keep the MacDonald from be coming a derelict and a prize for any who could salvage her. After 24 hours of fighting the sea, Burnthorn and his two shipmates left the Mac Donald Tuesday night and were put aboard the Dyer which had managed to put a tow line on the MacDon ald. sons for this particular ex pression at this time was that a major contract with the fed eral government which Aero jet tried to obtain and which would fit into the northwest situation was awarded to a competitor. I hope this is not a firm or final position for future contracts Aerojet might obtain." Aerojet has not announced the site of the plant it pro posed to build nor the em ployment. How ever, Sam Boddy, Washington state's act ing commerce director, has estimated it will cost in ex cess of $25 million. Senator ial candidate Mrs. Richard Neuberger of Oregon has esti mated the plant would cost as much as $50 million and would employ up to 8,000 per sons. Aerojet is a major subcon tractor for the Minute Man, the first solid fuel propelled intercontinental range mis sile. CARTOONIST DIES Los Angeles (UPD Grant S. Raddon, 57, one of the na tion's leading newspaper art ists and cartoonists died Monday. h i ' , J V; Ail ' ATTENTION: BABY SITTERS SS h join our sweater club AT r . 1 j W J Just 50c down x jft ifirfj) I s Holds Your Sweater in Layaway J n 6 MEDF0RD? Regional Edition Stock Prices Move In General Decline New York - IUPU - Stocks went into another general de cline today. Selling in leading steels, chemicals and drugs spread rapidly to other sections of the list. Du Pont was off around 2 in the chemicals, Vick more than 2 in the drugs and Mar tin more than a point in the aircrafts. Steels were lower in re sponse to a report that posi tive signs for a steel pick-up by August arc hard to find. Youngstown lost around a point and Bethlehem, U. S. Steel and Republic around a half. American Motors firmed in the autos where Chrysler rose around a half, but General Motors eased. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York -UPD- Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 637.46, off 5.03; 20 railroads 142.62, off 0.64; utilities 93.28, off 0.02, and 65 slocks 210.32, off 1.18. Sales Tuesday were about 3,120,000 shares com pared with 2,960,000 shares Monday, Tuesday's prices on selected slocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American Can American Motors AT&T.. Anaconda Copper Armco Steel Hcndlx Aviation , Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp Continental Can Crown Zellerhacn Curtlss Wrlitht Dow Chemical Du Pont .. Eastman Kodak Firestone General Electric General Foods General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Paige 54 S3 37 i 21',. 89 ... d3"t 44 25 7. ... 27H 4S'i ... ST.'i 43 ' 17'j ... 88', . 202 ...125 'i .. 383s .. 02 U .122 .. 44'i .. 57'4 .. 2 .. 21 'k .. 28'i Greyhound Gulf Oil .. Tribune Page 2 Homestake Mining SB's Idaho Power 54 3, I U. M 51'J Int. Paper tlfli'j Johns Manvillc 60 5B Kaly 4'. Kennecott Copper 74 Lockheed Aircraft 211 Montana Power 2!l Montgomery Ward 42 Nat l Biscuit l li 4 New York Central 22 Pac Gas & Elcc 64 Pennev. J. C 44 Penn RR 13 Radio Corporation 67 Richfield Oil 69 Safeway 36 Sears 55 Shell Oil 35 Socony Mohll Oil 37 Southern Co 48 Southern Pacific 20 Standard California - 41 Standard Indiana 37 Standard N. J 40 Sun Mines 5 Texas Co 75 Texas Gulf Sulfur 16 Texas Pac Land Trust 15 Transamerica txdl 25 Trans World Air 13 Tri-Conlinental 37 Union Carbide 134 Union Pacific 26 United Aircraft 38 United Air Lines 30 U. S. Rubber 54 U. S. Steel 80 Youngstown S & T 105 Red Chinese Kill Nepalese Officer Katmandu, Nepal - (UPD -The Prime Minister of Nepal reported today that Chinese Communist troops killed one Nepalese officer and arrested 15 Nepalese nationals along the Tibetan border. Earlier, t h e government had announced officially that the Chinese Reds had killed 15 Nepalese and captured a dozen others at the border checkpost of Mustang last week. Mustang is a remote moun tain post 18 days' march from Katmandu, and reports reach ing here from that point normally are delayed and sometimes garbled in being relayed. Governors Approach Problem of How To Deal With Medical Care for Aged Glacier Park, Mont. -JUPh The nation's governor's war ily approached one of the hot test political issues of 19G0 today in an effort to deal with government help to provide medical care for the aged. Congress Plans To Reconvene Aug. 8 Washington -(UPD- Congres sional leaders today aban doned efforts to complete their work before the politi cal conventions. They decided to recess Congress this week and return Aug. 8. The decision was announced to newsmen by Speaker Sam Rayburn (Tex.) and in the Senate by Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) who disclosed the Aug. 8 date for reconvening. Johnson told the Senate that Congress will do all it can this week, concentrating on appropriations bills and the expected presidential veto of a federal pay increase. Then, he said, Congress will recess late Friday or Satur day. Committee Clears Cuba Sugar Bill Washington - (UPD - Legis lation that would give Presi dent Eisenhower the power he wants to cut Cuba's sugar marketings in the United States was cleared by the House rules committee today. The committee, without dis sent, cleared for House floor action a bill which was ap proved by a 33-0 vote of the House agriculture committee Monday night. The action came in the face of fresh warnings from Cuba's anti-American Castro regime that any reduction in Cuba's sugar quota will bring swift retaliation from Cuba. Doubts were heard that the necessary two . thirds vote could be mustered to put the 52nd annual Governors Con ference firmly on record either for or against use of Ihe Social Security system for this program. The issue was before the resolutions committee at an early morning session, on the agenda for discussion by the full conference and finally was expected to be before the conference for action on a resolution before adjourn ment of the annual meeting this afternoon. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York was ready with another of his set of Republi can platform proposals which Oregon Bankers Select President Portland - (UPli - Harold A. Weiss, senior vice president of the U.S. National Bank, was named president of the Oregon Bankers association Tuesday. George M. Henderson, vice president of the Sixth and Morrison branch of the First National Bank of Oregon, was named vice president of the organization. I. D. Mix, presi dent of the First National Bank, Independence, was elected treasurer, and M. L. Walden, president of the Lin coln Bank, Taft, was named chairman of the executive committee. UPI Wins Bronze School Bell Award Los Angeles -IUPD- The Na tional Education association has awarded United Press In ternational its bronze school bell award for distinguished coverage of education by Louis Cassels of the UPI Washington staff during the 1959-60 school year. Other awards included: Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip "Peanuts." BACK-TO-SCHOOL SWEATERS wonderful were making him a burr un der the saddle of the Eisen hower administration. Like many Democrats, he wants to use the Social Se curity system for medical care while President Eisen hower favors a system of federal-state subsidies for a medi cal insurance program to which aged individuals would contribute. Rockefeller jarred the con ference Tuesday by giving the bill of particulars in his indictment of the administra tion's defense program, which Four Vacationers Die in House Fire Centralia, Wash. - (UPD -Four members of a St. Cloud, Fla. family were burned to death and a fifth was critical ly injured when fire broke out in an old frame house here a few minutes before midnight Tuesday. They were visiting at the Warren Gilkerson home. Dead are Ruth Owen, 26; Wesley Owen, 8; Victor Owen, 3, and a nine-month-old baby, Clayton. The husband, Lionel Owen, 26, was listed in criti cal condition at Centralia General hospital. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gilker son, who were sleeping in a downstairs bedroom, managed to escape through a window after he woke up and smelled smoke. Eisenhower Planning Vacation in July Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower said today he hopes to get away for a va cation next month, probably in Newport, R.I., but the de cision of Congress to return Aug. 8 will bring him back to Washington. fuzzies SHORT HAIRED FUZZY in a sporting version of a man's polo shirt. Delectably soft fur blend of fine fur fibre and wool in absolutely luscious colors. Purple thyme, blue spice, bayleaf green and mustard. 13.95 he said needed an extra $3.5 billion a year. Some Demo crats applauded. Gov. Cecil H. Underwood of West Virginia commented that Rockefeller's recent crit icism of the administration showed "a display of political cowardice." He thought the New Yorker should have been an active candidate for presi dent. Williams Makes Proposal Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan was the author of one health resolution await, ing consideration. It called medical cost the major prob lem for senior citizens and urged Congress to enact a pro gram under the old age in surance system, financed by a payroll tax. In a statement Tuesday, Gov. Orville L. Freeman of Minnesota described financ ing medical care for the aged as an "immediate and urgent" problem. He, too, favored dealing with it under the So cial Security program. Legislation dealing with this issue is pending in the Senate. The House rejected the Social Security approach and passed a bill in line with administration proposals. Machinists Reject I Lockheed Proposal Los Angeles -4UPD- Striking machinists voted by an over whelming margin Tuesday night to reject the latest Lockheed space and missile contract proposal. Ninety three per cent of workers throughout the sys tem voted to reject the con tract according to Internation al Association of Machinists spokesmen at Sunnyvale where the secret ballots were tabulated. Union members voting in cluded workers at Vanden berg Air Force Base, Sunny vale, Van Nuys and six other California plants.
