Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 12, 1960, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextJ Public Works Bill Seen Headed for Conference 4 Recovery of Discoverer XIII Capsule Brings Manned Space Vehicles Closer Washington flJPD The Air Force said today its historic recovery of the Discoverer XIII capsule brought th United States "considerably closer" to its goal ol rocketing manned vehicles into space. Lt. Gen. Bernard . Schnever told a news coa ference the Air Force planned to follow up its achievement by trying to launch and re cover a similar object with chimpanzee aboard, possibly within a month. 50-50 Recovery Chine Sehriever, head of the Air Force Air Research and De velopment Command, s a i there would be a 50-50 chance of recovery of similar cap sules in future tests. Negro Baptists Eyed by Kennedy Washington - (UPD - Demo cratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy today hoped to win the backing of the president of the nation's larg est group of Negro Baptist ministers. ' Kennedy scheduled a meet ing with Dr. Joseph H. Jack son of Chicago, president of the National Baptist Conven tion, U.S.A., Inc. According to a Kennedy spokesman, the organization includes Negro ministers whose combined congrega tions total mora than five mil lion. A Kennedy aide said that he doubted If the Baptist minis ter would endorse Kennedy at this time. He said Jackson "has Republican leanings. Ike Will Rest At Camp David Washington (UPD President Eisenhower left by helicopter today to spend a quiet week end at his Camp David retreat in the nearby Catoctln Moun tains of Maryland. Mrs. Anne Whealon, assist ant White House press secre tary, said the President had no week end appointments and would rest during his Camp David stay. He prob ably will return to Washing ton late Sunday. Eisenhower left after a meeting with the National Se curity Council and after he heard a tape of his voice being bounced back from the Echo I satelliate which was put into orbit this morning. The 85-pound, silver-coated capsule was fished out of the Pacific Thursday about 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by a Navy helicopter. It had orbited the earth 17 times in the Discoverer satellite. ' Sehriever termed the feat "a significant milestone in the space age." "The techniques of recovery plus the life specimens will bring us definitely closer to success in the man-ln-space program," he said. He also said the capsule, first man-made object re covered from an orbiting satellite, also provided im portant data recorded by its instruments. The capsule itself weighed 85 pounds. Its retro-rocket and equipment for keeping it afloat and guiding searchers weighed 215 pounds. So the total weight of the package brought back from space was 300 pounds. Sehriever said the Air Minimum Wage Under Consideration by Senate Explained in Analysis Washlngton-IUPD-Here is qucstion-and-answer analysis of the Democratic - sponsored minimum wage bill being con sidered by the Senate. Q.-How many workers are now covered under the wage- hour act of the Fair Labor Standards act? A.-A bout 23.7 million There are about 22 million employees not now covered, Q.-How many new workers would be brought in under extension of coverage? A.-An estimated 4,971,000 The bulk of these-3,541,000- would be in retail industries such as chain grocery, variety and department stores who now are exempt. Q.-Whai would be the new minimum hourly wage? A.-S1.25 an hour, reached in annual slcp-ups. The pres ent minimum is $1 an hour. Q.-How does the step-up work? A.-The aprpoximately five million newly covered work ers would be fixed at $1 in 1961 with no overtime provi sion, $1.05 in 1962 with over time starting after 44 hours week, $1.15 in 1963 with overtime after 42 hours, and the top of $1.25 in 1964 with overtime same as presently covered workers beginning after 40 hours a week. The rates for presently covered workers would be stepped up over three years instead of four-$1.15 in 1961, $1.20 In 1962 and $1.25 in 1863. All increases would be effective Jan. 1 of each year. Q.-Whtn was the last in crease? A.-In 1955 when Congress raised it from 75 cents to $1 an hour. Q.-Wouid small so called mom and pop" grocery and variety stores be covered? A.-No, only retail enter prises which have annual gross sales of $1 million or more would be required to pay their employees the new minlmums. Thus, more than 97 per cent of all retail enter prises with more than four million employees would con tinue to be exempt. Large chain operations, including gasoline station enterprises would supply the bulk of new ly covered workers. Q.-How about new cover age of "retail service" indus tries? A.-Hotel and motel enter prises grossing more than $1 million a year would be cov ered. However, only about 167,000 employees would be affected. Almost all of these work in the estimated 1,000 chain system hotels out of 29, 000 hotels in the industry About 240,000 additional em ployees in restaurants meet ing the $1 million annual sales test would be covered Also, about 150,000 laundry workers. Q.-Are there other cate gories? A.-Yes. An estimated 107,- 000 employees of local transit firms, 100,000 seamen, and about 32,000 fish processing workers would be brought un der the wage rates, but with no overtime coverage. News "Tasfeess Joke Hemingway Declares Madrid-fflPD-Amcrlcan nov elist Earnest Hemingway, who was rumored to have died last week end, said his sup posed death was a "tasteless joke." In an interview Thursday with the Madrid newspaper Pueblo, Hemingway said he was "just swimming and gel- ting bored" in Malaga, south- Force has been preparing "small chimpanzee as a pas senger on one of the future shots in the Discoverer series He said the "chimp shot' probably would follow one more non-life shot which scheduled in about one week Sehriever said the Air Force planned two shots per month if conditions permit. . The Air Force research chief emphasized that recov ery was "still a real tough problem," but said that he felt the present success would lead to a higher rate of re covery. Expects Much Data E. A. Miller, manager of the Discoverer program for the General Electric Co., said the capsule's instruments monitored "all of the signifi cant events of the rocket's stages." He pointed out this would provide a record for the first time of an object's re-entry into the earths atmosphere, Miller also said the instru ments gathered data on tem perature, pressure and de celeration problems that must be. solved before the nation can put a man into space. This is all significant tech nical information," he said "We expect to get quite a lot of data for the first time." Powers' Parents Rest in London London - IUPI) - The parents of U2 pilot Francis Gary Pow ers rested briefly in London today before taking a mid night flight to Moscow in hopes of softening the hearts of Soviet officials who will try their son for espionage, Oliver and Ida Powers of Norton, Va., told newsmen upon their arrival from New York late Thursday night they did not know exactly what their trip might accomplish, But it will do something, said the elder Powers, a 55- year-old shoe repairman. The couple hoped to see Powers sometime before his trial opens next Wednesday- his 31st birthday. They also planned to make a personal plea for leniency to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who was reported to have of fered to "help" them. ern Spain, at the time the ru mors were going around. He said his wife in the United Slates was the only one "real, ly scared" by the news. Free Wedding Announcements 150 Wadding Announcements with your purchase of a First Love Diamond Ring Set REGISTERED AND INSURED against burglary, theft, hold up, accidental damage or loss of diamond from mounting In any event your diamond will be replaced without charge. Ktrvnwviff wiftmirnu Dentin SHattinp DIAMOND VALUE I mi nv '"yT,,n" ' J 'ov,lr' diamond hoi f)Jr SZ' bnn wl"d 'or l 3y'r cwt, color and brilliance . . p5&" '? mtticvlouily hond set In tt$ "f 'au,i'u"y erofltd mounllngl SH tV.m&f A 1 omond, h k jf' 'lOpsB!S, :' their Ml fiery splendor. J HV ? 'lsA A"J f "ST LVE Dtam""' i " yjSjwrtf$fepiTNl! 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The Senate approved the legislation Wednesday night. It contains several hundred flood control, power, harbor and reclamation projects sought by congressmen under the watchful eyes of voters back home. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen (111.) warn ed P r e s 1 dent Eisenhower would look on the bill "with a dismal eye" because it in cluded about $500 million worth of new projects not pro poses in the President s budg et. Favorable Action Seen Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) re plied that the unanimous 86-0 vote by the Senate should in dicate to the president that notwithstanding the policy of this administration to have new starts," the Senate hoped for favorable action by the President. Among the Oregon projects was a $2 million sum for Green Peter dam, sought for the Santiam river. Others in clude funds for bank protec tion works, $300,000 for plan ning the Yaquina bay project, $2,450,000 for the Talent proj ect in southern Oregon, and continued work on other projects. The House has the option of accepting Senate changes or requesting a compromise bill be worked out by a joint committee. MedfordJTribune Regional Edition Page 2 Stocks Strengthen On Reserve Board Discount Rate Cut New York -flJPD- Stocks re sponded to the cut in the Fed eral Reserve discount rate with a rousing show of strength today. Prices vaulted at the open ing with many issues extend ing their earlier gains as buy ing picked up momentum. There were few declines in the enthuasiasm that Wall Street greeted the latest fed eral action. The discount rate was cut to 3 from 3V4 per cent and now is expected to trigger reductions in the "prime" and other lending rates. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - IUPII - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 622.88, up 5.36; 20 railroads 136.36, up 0.55; 15 utilities 93.81, up 0.15, and 65 stocks 205.90, up 1.27. Sales Thursday were about 3.070,000 shares compared with 2,810.000 shares Wednesday. selected Thursday' prices stocks: Allied Chemical 54'i Aium o. Am 72V American Can 39 V American Motors 2 Ha a i ee i uu Anaconda Copper 51 'a Armco Steel 63 ',5 Bendix Corp 72l,'4 uetmenem steel 44 Boelna Air 32a, Caterpillar Corp 25 inrysier Lorn Continental Can SGHi i-rown zcuornacn 44 Curtlss Wrieht 18 Dow Chemical 843,i uu font luo Eastman Kodak 122 Firestone 35 Russians Keep Eye Of Ships Churning Through Baltic Sea Helsinki, Finland (UPD The Russians have no qualms about keeping close tabs on foreign ships churning over the Baltic Sea which borders on Russia's western shores. They have protested against U.S. Air Force planes observ ing and allegedly "buzzing" Soviet ships on the high seas. But they do not hesitate to fol low ships in the Baltic or in the Gulf of Finland which are home waters for the Soviet Navy. When a six-vessel British naval detachment arrived here late this spring, officers reported that their ships had been followed from the Kiel Canal. There were always one or two Russian destoyers in ight," said one British of ficer. We had planned to do some exercises on the way, but the presence of the Russians ruled that out." It generally can be assumed, whenever a naval visit is planned here, that the Soviet vessels will keep close tabs on the journey through the Baltic. From the top-floor restau rant of Helsinki's Torni Ho tel, one of the city's highest structures and the old head quarters of the Russian Con trol Commission, vapor trails often can be seen over the open waters of the Gulf of Finland. These are made by Soviet planes which regularly patrol the open sea. One Helsinki newspaper as serted recently that an "un- nown plane had flown over the Finnish coastline at Pork- kala, the former Soviet naval base west of Helsinki which the Finns got back four and half years ago. Except for the alleged coastal, buzzing, all these flights and trailing operations take place on or over open sea, and thus violate no law. With the Soviet Estonian coast only some 75 miles away, the Finns are careful to avoid incidents. Civilian airplanes, unless they have special permission are required to stick close to the Finnish coast. But even such coastal flights will give a view of Soviet na val vessels on the open sea, and the reason for the gov ernment order. This reporter, making a coastal flight last winter to photograph ships stuck in the coastal ice, saw puffs of smoke above a tiny speck on the horizon. Russians holding target practice, explained the pilot. The Russians may protest whenever their own ships draw attention of other coun tries' planes or vessels. But its another story In the Baltic. I General Electric General Foods General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Paige Greyhound . Gulf Oil Homestake Mining Idaho Power I. B. M Int. Paper ... Johns Manvllle Katy Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Montgomery Ward Nan Biscuit New York Central Pac Gas Sc Elec Penney. J. C Penn RR .... Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway - Sears - Shell Oil Socony ?Iriu oil Southern Co Southern Pnclfic Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J Sun Mines Tc::as Co Texas Gulf Sulfur Tc:;as Pac Land Trust . Transamerlca - Trans World Air Tri-Continental Union Carbide - Union Pacific Uniited Aircraft United Air Lines U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel Youngstown S & T ...ian ... 43 ,.. 53 ; I 1 ... 21 .. 30-', ... 4'!Ji ... .V.4 ...52S ... !??. 54 ... !i .. 81 .. 23 'i ... 3 1',' 37 ?s .. 65 .. 20t4 .. 633B .. 30 .. M, .. 62V, .. 74 !4 .. 38'.', .. 5G .. 34 .. 37 i .. 484i .. 20 .. 44 .. 30 .. 4ir. .. 6 79 T, .. 17',' .. 15 .. 25',, .. 12',', .. 36 U .. 12, 27 .. 43 .. 32, .. 51, .. 82 '., .. 00 i Bomarc Missiles Undergo Tests Elgin AFB, Fla. -IUPII- Air Force missilemen conducted two "highly successful" tests of the Bomarc interceptor mis sile Thursday, blasting mock attackers high over the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida coast. A Bomarc-B downed a tar get missile streaking at better than 1,000 miles per hour to ward the coast seven miles above the Gulf. The Boeing IN-99B was guided by com mand radio signals from the Montgomery, Ala., SAGE computer. Closing speed of the two missiles as they approached each other topped 2,700 miles per hour-or better-than four times the speed of sound. Later in the day, two IN- 99A Bimarcs intercepted pilotles3 B4 Stratojet bomber. Comic Sleeps Through Expensive Burglary Hollywood-IUPD-Comic Mort Sahl slept soundly through a burglary that cost him $500 cash and two watches valued at $1,450, police said today. The burglar cut a hole in the screen covering Sahl's bedroom window, entered and took the watches and money from a nightstand by Stahl's bed. Portland Considers Raw Milk Sale Ban Portland-flJPD-An ordinance seeking to ban the sale of raw milk in Portland is sched uled to come before the city council next week. The pro posed measure would affect about one per cent of the milk sold in Portland. A similar measure was last introduced in 1950, but was voted down by the council. Portland health officer, Dr. Thomas L. Meador, said addi tional dairies arc considering the sale of unpastucrized milk in Portland if the measure is not passed. New Columbian Optical Diamond Sun Glass Lenses are so sturdy that 1 w S. guaranteed against breakage! Right! 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