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SUNDAY, JULY 24. 1SB0 MEDPOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OHE. B S The Week in California Radar Men Testify Before Navy Board of Inquiry After Destroyers Collide in Fog By Unltod Press International Itiidur moil wore called, to tvatKy In Loiik Bunch bitforo n niiviil court of Inquiry smk inn to Iciirn tlio ciiiiho of u oViitlwl 0 11 1 1 n K collision bo Iweun two destroyers. The fiicl-tlnellnU ufliirl of four hltih-riinkliiK niiviil of ficers hoard In ltd opcnliiK session Unit verbal orders Itlvvn shortly before the col Union mlKht liuvo n voided tlio tniKvdy - Imd not sereiimlnK ihlp whistles drowned thorn out. Tlio collision occurred In dcimo foK off Newport Bench, outh of Lonu Ik-tich, klllluK 11 men u lion rd the USS Am men. A totnl of iicven others werv Injured on the Ainmcii, mid tho other ship, the USS C'ollett. Cmdr. Albert Ford, 30. kipper of tho Collett, said tho (IkiiiiI ho shoulod when he saw tho brondsldo of the Ainmen looming directly be fore hla veiuicl wua, "rlKht full rudder." "1 wuntvd to sideswipe her If I hud to, rulher than milks direct hit amidships," he Orleans Firm Bids On Klamath Timber Yreku - A. und S. Rochiln. Orloans. Cnlif., submitted the only soiled bid lust week on 0,200.000 board feet of plno mid fir timber In tho Black berry unit, Klamath Nutlonul forest, located In tho Salmon River district. Hochlln bid $10.65 per thousand for 000,000 bourd feel of ponderosa and Jeffrey pine; $23.20 per thousand for 1.430,000 board fcot of suKar pine; $3.15 per thousand for 570,000 bourd feet of white and red fir; $10.55 per thou sand for 0.51)0,000 bonrd feel of doiiRlns fir; $5.15 per thou sand for nominal volumo of knobcono pine; and $3.15 per thousand for a nominal vol umo of tncenso cedar. Tho total advertised and bid valuo was $116,044.50. testified. Whlstlos Started "But by that lima the ship's whistles hud started und tho helmsman didn't hear me," Ford said. "I reached throimh tho pilot house window und slKiialed with my hand. "By then response wan too late and the Collett rumnied Into the slda of tho Amnion." A 40-foot hole at the fire and oiiKlno rooms was ripped out of tlio Ammen and the bow of tho nowly-outfltted Collett was crumpled buck 30 feet. Both ships later wore able to limp back to port. Tho Collelt's speed at the llmo of Impact was 20 knots, about 23 miles an hour, Ford said, Radsrscopes Okay The radiirscopes nhoiird the Collett were believed to have been operallnK perfectly, Ford said. He pointed out, how ever, thul since the once proud warship had been in the dockyards being rc-out- flttcd, turnover of personnel had been hlKh. Ford said rudarmcn aboard his ship had "fair training," but he ruled them "poor" on communications with other ships. The court of Inquiry has no disciplinary powers. Its solo purpose is to determine facts about tho collision. Elsewhere, there were these developments: FIRES: Gov. Edmund C. Brown declared fire-ravaged Los Angeles county a disas ter area as giant fires explod ed Into new fury over thous ands of acres of tlndcr-dry southern California brush and tlmherlund. The governor's declaration came Just as 500 persons in Mt. Buldy village were fleeing the onslaught of two huge fires thnt threaten ed to merge Into one about 30 miles northeast of Los Ange les. Total ncrcuKc from six mnjor fires and dozens of smaller ones Jumped to more thnn 100,000 acres. WATER: The slate prepar ed to proceed "ns rapidly as possible" with a huge aque duct system to carry water from central California s lush delta to the thirsty southern Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL United Nations, N.Y U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, telling the wives of the crewmen of the downed U.S. RB-47 that Russia's claims the plane was over Soviet ter ritorial waters was a sinister fabrication: "They will not get away with It." Alexandria, La. Former Gov. Earl Long, campaigning for Congress: "Uncle Earl never docs anything that you ladles would bo ashamed of. I don't drink. I don't run around." Oklahoma City Okluhoma State Rep. Shocklcy Shoe muke, In a record of his expenses during his unsuccessful primary campaign against U.S. Rep. Ed Edomndson (D-Okla.): "Pants torn by Democratic dog, $16.32." Solbukken, Denmark Eric Aggernas, vice chairman of the Danish Naturlsl Nudist Movement, cxtrolllng the ad vantages of nudism: "Thoro's nothing as unploaaant or unhealthy as a drip ping wot swim suit." part of the slute, But Harvey O. Banks, dlroctor of water resources, told newsmen that other features of Oov, Ed mund G. Brown's $1.75 bil lion water plnn - Including Orovlllo dum-may bo delay ed, Bunks met with newsmen the day after two Eastern con sultants recommended two stage construction of tho water progrum - If voters approve a proposed $1.75 billion water bond Issuo In November. DEMONSTORS: A group of domonstrators who wore arrested during the San Fran cisco City Hall riots last May challenged FBI head J. Ed gar Hoover and members of the Ilouso Un-American Ac tivities committee to an open debato. The challenge came In the wake of Hoover's charges that the riots were Commu nist inspired, Infiltrated and paid for. A statcmont Issued by tho group took Issue with FBI reports that students got to tho hearings by means of a telephone campaign and that the party distributed song sheets to demonstrators. SINATRA: The Los Ange les city attorney's office re fused to Issue a complaint against actor singer Frank Sinatra, but said It would file against a companion as the result of a parking lot fracas at a Hollywood night club May 14. City Attorney Roger Arnebcrgh said there was not enough evidence to charge Sinatra with striking parking lot attendant Edward Moran, 21. But he said a charge of battery and disturb ing the peace would be filed against John Hopkins, known in the film colony at "Big John." FINCH: Opening arguments got under way in the second murder trial of Dr. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff. A Jury of 11 women and one man will hear the trial, ex pected to last another JV4 months. Noted Song Writer Al Hoffman Dies New York -WPD- Composer AI Hoffman, 58, who In 30 years collaborated In writing a long chain of hit songs that began with Heartaches" and ended with "Papa Loves Mumbo, died Thursday night in the hospital for joint dis eases after an illness of sev eral months. 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