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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1962 B 7 Former Russian Prisoner Shows Emotional Scars By DONALD D. JACKSON United Press International San Francisco -UPD- Capt. I Folger's COFFEE DRIP or REGULAR 1 1 U 49 g, 97 H "76" SODA POP Good Mixer, too. No deposit Meadowbrook Sherbit Haleys Pork & Beans No. 300 Can I 26-oz. Bottle 8 (or Wf V.U.S. No. 1 & Bananas M sr i iff CRISP AND CRUNCHY Carrots THE FINEST AT THEIR PEAK SEEDLESS GRAPES ALL FLAVORS : Gal. Ctn. 49 iiimiiiiraiTO!iii WELLMAN'S CHOICE COFFEE Drip or Reg. 45 HO for 2-LB. CAN COCA-COLA 7UP Orange, Root Beer, & All Mixes 28-or. i bottle Plus deposit 39' 899' BEACH CLIFF MAINE SARDINES -i m can m Light Grated Tuna f$(B Light Grated Tuna Efl(B Clover Leaf No. Can Ul t Delmonico No. 'A Tin DOG'S FAVORITE SKIPPY DOG FOOD n.. i ca 7491 SWEET SLICERS YELLOW ONIONS ib CAT'S FAVORITE TUNA-4-GATS fri-Qi. can 9 HUNTS Fresh, Green Pascual Variety VINEGAR Cider or White Gallon jug 49' 1-lb.pkg. 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Were Released During that time they be came the object of an East West debate in the Security Council of the United Nations. Finally, in January, 1961, they were released. President Kennedy gave the news to America at his first press con ference. Olmstead, 27, is now com pleting a year of graduate work at San Francisco State college under the auspices of the Air Force Institute of Technology. This month he expects to finish work on his thesis and qualify for a mas ter of arts degree in interna tlonal relations. The subject of his thesis: The Red Army. "My feeling has not chang ed significantly since my re lease," he said in a recent in terview. "I don't feel the least bit indebted to the Russians for letting me go. Not the Case "People say, 'It doesn't seem so bad now, does it, aft er more than a year and a half?' But this is not the case. It doesn't get any better in retrospect. There were four other men aboard that plane who didn't come back, ' he sad bitterly. The plane, with Olmstead as copilot, took off from a base in England the morning of July 1, 1960. The mission, according to unofficial sourc es, was to monitor, electroni cally, Russian radar defense installations on the northern perimeter of the Soviet Union, On this, Olmstead, as an Air Force officer, would not com ment. McKone, the plane's navi gator, estimated their position as SO miles off the Russian coast when the fighter shot them down. The Russians claimed the plane was only 12 miles away and heading for Soviet territory. Separate Rafts Olmstead and McKone para chuted to the icy sea, Olm stead breaking a vertebra in his back in the process. After several hours on separate Ufa rafts they were picked up by Russian fishermen and turn ed over to government authorities. Olmstead and the pilot who shot his plane down were brought together later in tha Moscow prison where the fli ers were held. 'He refused to look ma straight in the eye," Olmstead recalled. 'This to me was an indica tion he was scared silly. He kept looking at the Russian interrogator. He appeared to be under the gun as much ii not more than I was." Olmstead maintains that tha Soviet pilot was ignorant of both his position and his al titude, and hence thought tha RB-47 was closer to Soviet territory than it actually was. Comparing his flight to that of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, he said, "Perhaps from a Soviet point of view defense was involved in shoot ing down Powers. But murder was the only thing Involved in shooting down our plane." At one point during his im prisonment he thought he thought he caught a glimpse of Powers. "I had seen pic tures of him and thought I recognized him, but I'm not sure. REG. 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Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hoots won for showing the senior champion bull, the reserve junior champion bull, grand champion female, and re ceived blue ribbons with sen ior bull calves, senior heifer calves and two bulls brtd and owned by the exhibitor. Philip A. and Ruth D. Mor rlson. Grants Pass, took tha junior champion stallion award in the Morgan section of the horse division. Mrs. Ben Fulton, Butta Falls, took a blue ribbon with her red tomatoes in the second vegetable showing..
