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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Flemming Claims
Subcommittee
Questions Unfair
Nothing Withheld,
UO President Says
Washington - d'PD - Arthur
o. . .cm.m..B , -"i j historic space triumph today
luer during the Eisenhower , Ranger-4 spacecraft
administration, angn y ac-; boomeranged fnt0 th far sidp
cused Senate investigators to-1 of
day of questioning him un-Free wJrId,s fjrst hjt (he
IaiI! y- .... 1 lunar surface.
Flemming s f areup came, The . wa$ con,irmed
before a special subcommit-i b seientj;ts of Cal Tcch.s Je,
tee investigating he nations, p
elnfilrm n nf ctralofflf matP. r
Is i utes a',cr ",e sPace package
He offered to take a leave
Ranger Rocket
Dark Side of
Hitsi-
Moon
Goldstone Tracking Station,
Calif.-il'Pli-America scored an
of absence as president of the
University of Oregon to con
centrate on supplying the
subcommittee further back
ground on his actions while
heading the stockpile pro
gram. Nothing Withheld
Flemming said thrt for the
first time in his career he had
been charged, in effect, with
beirg less than candid before
a congressional investigating
committee.
"I have never withheld any
thing," he said. "I'm trying
to cooperate with the com
mittee to the fullest extent."
Flemming, who was de
fense mobilizer from 1953 to
1957, said the subcommittee
headed by Sen. Stuart Sym
ington (D-Mo.) was asking
him to reconstruct minute de
tails of stockpile transactions.
The frailitics of human!
memory, ne sain, prevemea
him i from recalling specific
conversations with govern
ment officials regarding stock
pile policies.
Assumed Responsibility
Flemming was recalled to
day by the subcommittee for
more questioning about wind
fall profits collected by gov
ernment copper suppliers dur
ing the Eisenhower adminis
tration. Flemming assumed full re
sponsibility for policy per
mitting the profits. He ap
peared at day-long hearings
Wednesday.
Symington said it was
noble of Flemming to take the
ultimate blame. But the Mis-,
souri Democrat said the in
vestigators were more inter
ested in finding out who orig
inated the policy.
Flemming said he did not
know who first suggested di
rectives signed by him in
1954 and 1955 under which
mining companies were per
mitted to cancel or defer cop
per deliveries to two defense
stockpiles.
Instead the companies sold
the copper to industrial users
and kept a S3 million differ
ence between the market
price and the agreed govern
ment price.
disappeared behind the moon
"It definitely hit the moon,"
said Clifford 1. Cummings,
lunar project director, as ju
bilant scientists exchanged
pats on the back at this desert
tracking station.
Director William H. Picker
ing said "Naturally we are
very pleased ... It is a great
delight."
The spacecraft plunged to
destruction on the moon's hid
den side at 4:49 a.m. (PST) to
achieve what scientists hailed
as a "tremendous guidance
success" toward future space
exploration by man.
"It is the first step toward
man eventually walking on
the moon," Cummings said.
The historic space feat was
the first hit on the moon in
nearly four years and 1 1 tries
for scientists who built the
moon probe vehicle.
But scientists conceded it
was a "lucky accident" on
the part of the Ranger which
failed in its prime mission of
taking lunar pictures and
landing a '300-pound space
capsule on the face of the
moon.
The Ranger crashed in un
known lunar terrain after
passing the outside edge of
the illuminated half nf the
moon by 900 miles and then
looping back into the far side
at 6,000 miles an hour under
gravitation pull.
It covered the 238,857 mile
journey to the moon in 63
hours 59 minutes 45 seconds.
Because the spacecraft s elec
tronic brain failed early in
its voyage, the Goldstone
Tracking Station, secluded in
the desert here, was forced to
follow its path with the tinv,
weak 50-millowati radio in
the space capsule. The track
ing station did the job with
its huge antenna, weighing
270.000 pounds and with 85
foot reflecting dishes.
The moon probe vehicle
was launched from Cape Ca
naveral Monday aboard an
Atlas Agena B rocket in what
was described as "a perfect
liftoff."
Lake of the Woods
Is Official Name
It's official:
Lake of the Woods is Lake
of the Woods.
The United Slates Board of
Geographic Names in its
most recent official roster of
U. S. place names, has des
ignated that as the official
name of the lake. In past
,oore it hue hfdn Irnnun v:l.
Hourly as Lake o' Woods and ! Discovered in Portland
International
Satellite Sent
Aloft From Cape
Cape Canaveral, Fla, -0IPD-
T h e United States today
launched its third space ven
ture of the week an attempt
to put the world's first inter
national satellite into an earth
orbit.
A Delta rocket carrying the
132 - pound moonlet, dubbed
"UK 1" thundered from a
launching pad at 10 a.m.
(PST).
The satellite, built by the
United States and carrying
British-designed experiments,
was aimed toward an orbit
200 to 600 miles above earth
to study the ionosphere, the
"layer" above the strato
sphere. After a delay of one hour
because of a relay failure, the
90-foot rocket roared smooth
ly from its launching pad.
Five minutes later, scien
tists said radio information in
dicated the Thor booster stage
had dropped away on sched
ule. Ranger-4, launched aboard
a 10-story rocket Monday, was
the first of three space shots
this week.
The second was Wednes
day's spectacular successful
flight of the Saturn super
rocket, believed to be the
largest space booster ever
built.
The Saturn was fired on a
15-minute "up and down"
flight to a peak altitude of
about 65 miles.
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY - The
business of running city and county of
fices was put in the hands of some 80 high
school students today as they "learned by
doing" the various tasks of their respective
offices. This doesn't mean that the officials
took the day off . . . It would seem they
were busier than ever seeing that the stu
dents got full picture of what the jobs
involved (not overlooking the coffee
breaks.) In the top picture City Attorney
William Mansfield (left) explains to stu
dent City Attorney Patricia Meeker, St.
Mary's; and Student Mayor Doug Robert
son, Medford, some of the legal aspects of
city government. In the bottom picture
County Treasurer Karl Janouch outlines
the procedure of the day by day job of post
ing county expenditures to (left to right)
Student Treasurer' Martha 'rfaltnn, Butte
Falls; County Judge Terry Hanson, Phoe
nix: and County Clerk Judy DcHaven,
Eagle Point. William McAllister Jr., stu
dent government mayor in 1952, will be
the featured speaker at a banquet tonight
at Hedrick Junior High school at 6 o'clock.
See complete list, of students on Page B-7.
Grand Jury Indicts
Four Steel Firms
For Price Rigging
Political Roundup
Durno, Unander Speak Out
On Cpld War, Foreign Relations
United Press International I itable circles, would be his Democrats are Charles O.
Rep. Edwin Durno and ex-1 finance chairman. (Porter, Robert W. Straub and
State Treasurer Sig Unander, The name of Mark M. In- Patrick Flynn, all of Eugene,
campaigning hard for the Re-, fante, being held in Los An-; In Eugene Wednesday
publican senatorial nomina-1 geles on a probation viola- night, Straub praised Prcsi
tion, had something to say j (ion warrant, continued to dent Kennedy's 1962 farm
about foreign relations and figure in the news. Infante, ! plan. He said it would cut
self-styled Mexican revolu-j costly surpluses, increase in
tionary lead e r, confirmed come to farmers and lower
Wednesday he worked for i costs to taxpayers,
the Oregon Labor Bureau
from 1957-1960.
Sen. Wayne Morse said he
would conduct an inquiry to
see if the labor bureau's 19581
migrant report was used by I
the federal government. I
All three locals of the
Counterfeit $10 Bills
Lake of The Woods.
The name, Lake nf the
Woods, also was given offi
cial status for the "village"
on the east shore of the lake.
Previous designations have
Lake O Woods, Lake O'
Woods and Lake O'Woods.
The U. S. forest service
was instrumental in seeking
the official designation, which
was approved last year by
the Oregon Geographic Names
Board, and now has been
made official by the U. S.
board.
Portland -HIPH- A flood of
bogus $10 bills into Portland
is under investigation, accord
ing to the Secret Service.
The first of seven counter
feit bills showed up at a
northeast Portland theater
Friday, Special Agent Frank
Kinney said.
Seattle authorities said
more than 25 identical bills
have been discovered at the
World's Fair and in Tacoma.
The serial number used on
the bills is L-33226838C, Kin
ney said.
the Cold War Wednesday.
Unander, speaking in Ash
land, said the United States
must get off the defensive.
"The Cold War is a war of
propaganda," he said. "Its
combatants are special agents,
not soldiers. It weapons are
words and inspired action,
not missiles."
Unander said the United
Nations was no longer the ef
fective international body it
was intended to be.
Durno. speaking in Port
land, said he believed in the
United Nations but did not
think U.S. policy should be
determined on the UN level.
Instead of buying UN bond
issues "I'd rather give them
the money." he said.
Durno said he generally
opposed aid except military
help to allies.
Durno announced that H. G.
(Bud) Horn, veteran fund
raiser in political and char-
Several Candidates
Not in Pamphlets
Thirteen candidates seeking
nominations in the Mav lfl
United Steclworkers of Amcr- j primary for county offices are
ica in the fourth congression-jnol )lslpd ln thc voters' pam
al district today endorsed p,icts. The pamphlets, being
Democrat Robert B. Duncan, i distributnd this week, cost SftO
Medtord, for Congress. j fr publication of background
A statement was issued on 'material on each candidate,
behalf of Locals 6163 of AI-I County Clerk Marvin Mad
bany, 5959 of Springfield and den said today that although
5074, Riddle, saying Duncan's i it is not unusual for canrii
record as a state representa-1 dates not to be listed in the
tive the past six years "has . pamphlets for tho primary
been outstanding." ! election, the number this year
The endorsement passed up : did "seem to be exceptionally
three other Democratic can-! high."
didates for Congress in the i Of those not listed seven
district, as well as Republican are Democrats and six Repub
Carl Fisher, Eugene. The licans.
New York -HIPP- A federal
grand jury today indicted four
steel companies on charges of
conspiring to fix prices and
rig bids and sales of steel
forgings to thc Army, Navy
and other purchasers.
The four companies named
in the indictment were U. S.
Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel
Co., Midvale-Heppenstall Co.,
and Erie Forge.
They are accused of rigging
bids in violation of the Sher
man Antitrust Act, on forg
ings such as ship shafts sold to
the Navy and ordnance pieces
sold to the Army.
The defendant companies
and their coconspirators do
about $220 million in business
in steel forgings.
The indictment came 16
days after U.S. Steel boosted
prices that brought down the
wrath of President Kennedy,
Unprecedented pressure from
Welfare Meeting . ,
In Medford Friday
The Oiegtin State Welfare
commission is expected to
discuss liberalizing the medi
cal assistance to the aged pro
gram when it meets in Med
ford at 9:30 a.m., Friday,
April 27.
This is one of a series of
regular sessions of the'Ore
gon State Public welfare
commission being held in six
districts of thc slate. To
morrows sessions will be in
the Jackson county auditor
ium. The meeting will adjourn
at noon to meet for lunch in
the North's Chuck Wagon
restaurant. It will resume at
2 p.m. and end not later than
4 p.m.
Regular business will be
conducted in thc morning.
Any subjects which the group
may wish to explore will be
discussed during the after,
noon. Thc public will be
encouraged to ask questions
during a question and answer
session later in the afternoon
the White House and the re
fusal of two big competitors to
go along with the price hike
forced U. S. Steel and other
companies to rescind the price
increase three days later.
The entire stock market, led
by U. S. Steel, took another
tumble immediately after the
announcement of the grand
jury action.
Conditions Listed
On Lake Area Roads
The .condition of Lake of
the Woods rd. has improved,
according to U. S, forest serv
ice officials ln Winema Na
tional forest, Klamath Falls.
The West Side Summer
Home ird,.is open, they noted,
but access to this road is only
from the Dead Indian high
way near the south end of the
lake.
Washington -tt'PP - Secretary
of State Dean Rusk said today
the United States will con
tinue to press hard for an
end to the arms race while
the atmospheric nuclear test
series is going on in the Pa
cific. In somber tones Rusk told
his news conference this coun
try regrets the "necessity" for
the new U S. tests but has no
regrel over its decision to go
ahead.
Rusk gave his views at a
news conference as the giant
U.S. task force in the Pacific
prepared additional test ex
plosions in the series dubbed
Operation Dominic.
Began Wednesday
The new U.S. atmospheric
test series began Wednesday
when a plane dropped a medium-yield
bomb that exploded
in the air over British con
trolled Christmas Island.
The device was believed to
have unleashed an explosive
force of at least 100,000 tons
of TNT. It was the first U.S.
above ground blast since Octo
ber, li)58.
One source said it was pos
sible the next shot in the
series might come within 24
hours. He pointed out that
President Kennedy said the
tests would be expedited as
rapidly as possible.
The uncertainty of weather
conditions and the cost of
maintaining a large force in
the area until the tests are
completed also would prompt
expeditious treatment for the
tests, the source said.
Rusk denounced what he
called "strident language"
now coming from the Commu
nist bloc condemning the U.S.
test series. He said this, how
ever, merely reflects the
weaKness ' ol their argu
ments.
The secretary told newsmen
that the United States could
never accept a test ban treaty
with the Russians based cn
blind trust - that it would
never place the security of
the American people and the
Free World in the hands of
those who operate in secrecy.
Rusk said the United States
will pursue a two-fold policy:
-First, to conduct selected
tests which he said would
generate considerably less
power in megatons and fall
out than Russia's test scries
last fall. He said none of the
tests would be conducted for
political or psychological rea
sons. -Second, to make every pos-
siuiH eiiort 10 acnieve a nu
clear test ban at the earliest
occasion. He said the Geneva
disarmament talks now going
on should continue.
(See Story on Page 2A)
Terrorists Blow Up
Algerian Airliner
' Algiers, Algeria -OJPD- Ter
rorists blew up a lour-engine
airliner , parked at Maison
Blanche Airport today. There
was no Immediate report of
casualties.
The explosion rlnpcd an
American-built Lockheed Con
n'ni'i lunii-uiiiiL illumined t.nn-
Travcl north of thc Boy steliation which belonged to
acoui camp, nowever, is not Air-Algcrle. The aircraft was
uii pmmiig rump at tne
recommended because of the
snowdrifts and soft spots
caused by melting snow. The
East Side Snmmer Home rd.
is open and passable, they
said.
Thc road from the Dead In
dian highway north of Lake
of the Woods to Fish lake is
closed because of snowdrifts
and mudholes. Fish lake may
be reached by going through
Butte Falls or Eagle Point.
Roads to Lake of the
Woods resort and lo Rainbow
campground arc open, but mo
torists are cautioned not to
try to leave the main road.
All other campgrounds at thc
lake are closed due to snow.
Roadside depth there is l'i
feet.
Kamai Cily 7 110
Detroit 11 10 0
Wyatt. Wickerham (1),
Grim (7), McDevill (7) and
Bryan; Lary. Jones (2), Ag
uirre (6) and Brown. HR:
Del Greco. Kansas City;
Jonei, Detroit; Jiminex,
Kamai Cily (2).
Squirrel Cage Is
Stolen; Police Check
It's a nutty worldl
Someone has stolen a
squirrel cage, while almost
everyone else in light it
trying to escape from one.
Mn. Josephine Naomi
Cline. 1421 Euclid it., re
ported to city police
Wednesday that a squirrel
cage belonging to her was
stolen from the alley at the
rear of her residence where
he kept it.
' One waggish police offi
cer laid he considered is
suing en ell-points bulletin,
but changed hit mind be
cause he didn't think Chief
of Police Charles P. Champ,
lin would "gopher" it.
local airport when it explod
cd. The blast was blamed on
the Secret Army Organization
(OAS).
The destroyed Constellation
was a spare which was used
mainly for holidays and other
rush periods.
Previously, terrorists had
blown up the airport's control
tower and had set a bomb
aboard a Casablanca-bound
Moroccan Airlines plane. .
A Report From the Fair
Russia Launches
Fourth Satellite
Moscow -(DPI) -The' Soviet
Union successfully launched
a fourth satellite today in a.
series of space flights ap
parently designed to open the
way for landing a man on the
moon. .. . .....
Today's launching of ' an
unmanned satellite called Cos
mos IV was reported by the
official Soviet Tass news
agency and broadcast by Mos
cow Radio.
Cosmos I was ' launched
March 16, Cosmos II April
6, and Cosmos III last Tuesday.
Letter Received
Explaining Signs
Protesting Bomb
Medford police still do not
know who put up some 25
signs in downtown Medford
early Wednesday, but an
anonymous letter to the Mail
Tribune declares it was the
work of the "Medford Youth
Against Nuclear Suicide." .
The letter, in a plain, un
stamped envelope, was drop
ped in the night mail slot at
me newspaper carlv tnrtav
The letter, neatly typed but
signed only with the initials
M.Y.A.N.S., and the above
name, said:
"Dear Sirs:
"Because of the aura of con
fusion and pnntrnurrcu a.mmj
I the ''Ban' 'the Bomb' incident
1 on April 25, we feel it is nec
essary to clarify the intent
and purpose ol the action. As
. youth of America with our
i i , . . . .
iivea na luuires aneaa ot us,
we feel that we have the right
to live normal healthy lives
free from the Damocles sword
of nuclear destruction:" We are
not Communist inspired as
some erroneous reports have
it, but are motivated only by
m nesire id continue living.
It is our purpose to help
awaken this sleeping city lo
the fact that it can no longer
live in the past but must
take part in the modern
world and do its share in
stopping thc impending atom
ic holocaust. We hope that
any Inconvenience caused by
our signs will be offset by the
ultimate good of living in a
world free from the threat of
sudden blinding destruction
and that people will be mov
ed to some action against nu
clear testing. t
'M.Y.A.N.S.
'Medford Youth Against
Nuclear Suicide." - ,
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy with
chance of ihowen tontihL
Brief clrartnt early Friday
murnlni but cloudi Increasing
and lowering again with rain
fay afternoon Friday. Low to
night 40. High Friday 60.
Temp.
II lithe it Teiterday 64
Lowest This Morning , 40
Our Skies Tonight
ffunaet today 7:05 p.m.
Hunrlie torn or row .... 5:13 a.m.
Moonrlne tomorrow 1:30 a.m.
Last Quarter tomorrow
5:00 a.m.
PROM1NKNT RTAR
Rfitului, high ln louth-
wesl 9:42 p.m.
V1HII1LE PLANETS
Venus, lets R:J0 p.m.
Saturn, follows the Moon.
Jupiter, rises 3:23 a.m.
Mars, rises 4:32 a.m.
"Can You Really Get Me Out of This Swamji
and Turn Me Back Into a Person?"
WSBRIEFS
EditorTellsWhatCanBe Seen at the Fair in 2Vz Days
ITIMJ MOM
AROUND THI OlOll
SUBCOMMITTEE SECURITY TIGHTENED
Lot Angelet - IPH - Security protection for a Houit sub
committee on un-American activilitt was increased today
because of a phony bomb threat telephoned to tha Fedtral
Building where thi unit it holding haaringi.
BUSK TELLS SUMMIT MEETING VIEWS
Washington - t PI - Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk taid
today he doet not believe there will be a tummil conference
in the immadiait future but he would not rule out tht pot
tibility of one before the end of thit year.
MACMILLAN TALKS WITH THANT
United Nation!. N.Y. - I PI - Britith Prime Minitier Har
old Macmillan, in the United Statat for important talkt with
Pretident Kennedy, mil with Acting U.N. Secretary Ganeral
Than! today to revitw problem! of the world organisation.
By EARL H. ADAMS
Mail Tribune City Editor
Seattle - A 2'i-day view of
the Seattle World's fair:
From getting off the mono
rail inside the grounds, to the
most distant exit, thc fair is
a mass nf exhibits, concession
stands, delicacies, futuristic
structures, carnival rides,
souvenir sellers, walking peo
ple, shows, foreign languages,
art, and a look into the future
of space, industry, commerce
and living.
In fact, unless a fairgorr
lakes his time, he will be
confused, swallowed up in the
complexity of buildings, left
what the future does have to modern machinery works
offer. In many pavilions, woods.
But most important of all. metals, and other construc
ts will be impressed - im
pressed with futuristic archi
tecture, the potential in space,
the exhibits of handicrafts
from foreign nations, and the
variety of food available from
throughout the world.
All of thc displays are at
tractively arranged with the
use of photographs, motion
pictures, transparencies, hand
icrafts, and elaborate scale
models.
In many of them, record
ings explaining exhibits or
taking a look into the future
overlap, and one hears how
tion materials are utilized to
create futuristic effects which
blend Into the general archi
tecture of the fair.
Color plays an important
part in all of the buildings
from the while of the U. S.
Science pavilion lo the dark
exterior of the Hawaiian pa
vilion. It also plays an im
portant part In the exhibits
themselves, accentuating the
subject, such as in the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
adminlstra Hons exhibit
against a background nf dark
whether it's a plane, automo-1 lions, the U. S. and domestic
j bile, rocket, ship, or train, the . Industries arc without charge.
: models displayed show smooth I It costs to ride around the
lines, a streamlined stream
lining of today's versions.
And there is a variety of
activities other lhan the ex
hibits shows in the stadium
special state days (Friday is
Texas day), other special i
events, and carnival rides j
with a space-age touch for the j
young at heart.
There is so much to rio and
, see, as a matter of fact, that'
i the fairgoer should plan at '
i least a week at the fair, and
grounds on the slow-moving
vehicles, for the carnival
rides, for food, the entertain
ment on show street,- sched
uled shows such as the Ice
Follies, and for the fine arts
exhibit.
But from our observation,
the prices don't seem to be out
of line. In the fine arts build
ing, however, il could cost up
to $3. 8 dollar for each book
explaining what art pieces are,
and some find this a necessity
blue
wondering by advances riit- the next generations will live j Design plays an important
played in space technological j at the same lime he hears! part in the future travel ve-1
exhibits, and wondering just , how a complicated piece of, hides as it does in buildings, j
still he may not see it all. I There is a wealth of Infor
All this can cost you little mation in the exhibits and
or much, depending upon demonstrations which costs
your tastes. nothing but time nnre you are
For the $2 entrance fee, the ion the grounds.
major exhibits of foreign na- (Alto tee tloriat Page ID.)