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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.