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Newspaper Page TextNine New Astronauts Selected; One May Be1 First American on Moon mm ! t1 aft " THOMAS STAFFORD Houston, Tex. - (UPD - Nine new U.S. astronauts, includ ing veteran X1S rocket plane pilot Neil Armstrong, were introduced to the nation to day. One probably will be the first American to set foot on the moon. The second generation of spacemen includes three Navy and four Air Force officers and two civilian test pilots. The original seven astronauts Regional Edition MEDFORDKtWTRIBUNE 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1962 No. 153 Durno Optimistic On Agate Dam Bill By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribun Washington Correspondent Washington - Rep. Edwin R. Durno, (R-Ore.) expressed optimism Monday that a rec lamation bill authorizing Agate dam in the Rogue Riv er basin will be enacted be fore Congress adjourns. The Medford Congressman said he has been assured there will be no retaliation against his bill for the fact that he opposed the Baker Irrigation bill, sponsored by Rep. Al Ullman, which passed the House by a slim margin last August. Durno arrived 'bacfe ' In Washington last Friday in time to join Northwest law makers in winning favorable action on the Hanford Atom ic Power project in the House. His vote helped trounce a motion designed to kill the 800,000 KW project. The vote was 186 to 191. ' Express Indignation Durno expressed indigna tion about a story by this cor respondent last Wednesday which indicated he might miss voting on the controversial Hanford project because he had driven to Oregon the last week in August. He said he went to Oregon with Mrs. Durno to attend the wedding of his daughter. The Congressman said he kept in touch daily with the office of Rep. Catherine May, (R-Wash.) so as to be pre pared to be on hand for the Hanford vote whenever it might be called up. Last Tuesday a Senate House conference committee agreed to submit the Hanford matter to the House for an other vote. The timing was uncertain. Next morning House leaders announced it would be brought up Thurs day before debate started on the UN Bond bill. Durno that day left Medford for the Pen dleton round-up. "I bought my airline tick ets to Washington two or three days before I left Med ford," said Durno, explaining he had no intention of miss ing the vote. Thursday House leaders put off the Hanford issue until Friday morning; Durno was indignant be cause he said the newspapers made it appear he was shirk ing his duty. He was In Ore HEl'SCBRIEFS FRENCH LIEUTENANT CONFESSES ROLE Paris-tPD-A French air force lieutenant colonel who mad arrangements for President Charles d Gaulle's airplane flights has confessed to being the top ringleader of the plot to assassinate him Aug. 22. police said today. He was identified at Lt. Col. Jean-Marl Baitien Thiry. 34. of ih French air fore. SUIT SEEKS TO BAR SEGREGATION Weihinglon-tW-Th fdral government, in ih first suit of its kind, today esk.d Richmond, Va. fdral court to bar segregated education for children of f.d.rally employed parents in Princ Georg County. Va. nmiTF.S TRADE BILL Washington-frr-Th Senate began debate today oa in trad bill Prsid.nt K.nn.dy't No. 1 l.glslaHe T.rusl. EDWARD WHITE all were military men. The new astronauts were presented at Houston, site of the manned Spacecraft Center where preparations are being made for the two-man Gemini space flights and the ultimate goal - the Apollo three-man flight to the moon. The nine: -Neil Armstrong, 32, Wapa koneta, Ohio, a veteran civil ian test pilot for the National gon nine days, he said. Nothing About Mori "Wayne Morse led the pa rade at the round-up last Fri day when the Senate had to suspend business because it couldn't get a quorum," ob served Durno, "and nobody said anything about that In the papers. Asked about his future plans, the Congressman said: "I will be here until the close of this Congress. And after I go home, I will carry on my duties until my term is up." Durno's term expires the first week in January. He did not seek reelection to the 4th District Congressional seat but lost - in a primary race for the GOP Senate nomina tion. The Agate dam project Is one of the very last 4th Dis trict items left on the agen da of unfinished Congression al business. The Senate pass ed the Agate bill sponsored by Sens. Morse and Maurine Neuberger. Agate is a $1.8 million water storage and dis tribution undertaking to ir rigate 1810 acres of dry land and add supplemental water for 4820 acres. Package Deal Durno said he understood it would be brought up in a package with two other small reclamation bills, one spon sored by Rep. Ullman for the Crooked river near Prine ville, the third in Washing ton state. Under the proce dure to be used, the legisla tion would have to pass by unanimous consent that is, Public Hearing on Zoning Set Tuesday Phoenix Residents of the Southwest hPoenix zoned area are reminded of the public hearing on the zoning ordi nance Tuesday, Sept. 18. in the courthouse auditorium in Medford at 8 p.m. County Judge Earl Miller said that the public hearing is required by Oregon law prior to an election being held on the matter. Residents who have not re ceived copies of the zoning ordinance in the mail should contact the Jackson county planning office in the court house. ELLIOT SEE JR. Aeronautics and Space Agency on the X15 rocket plane program at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. -Air Force Ma). Frank Bor man. 34, Gary, lnd., research pilot instructor who has 3,800 hours of jet flying time. -Navy Lt. Charles Conrad Jr., 32, Philadelphia, a former flight squadron safety officer with 1.500 hours of jet flight time. Price 10 Cents a single objection could block it. Durno said the only diffi culty might come from Rep. John Saylor (R-Pa.), who doesn't favor the Crooked river bill and might object. He said there is no Republi can objection to his bill for Agate dam. It may come up later this week. United Crusade Drive Starts; Goal of $167,683 A "Decade of Success" 'Is the aim of campaign solicitors for the United Crusade of Jackson county who met this morning for a one hour kick off breakfast at the Medford Elks club. "Nine previous successful campaigns have given our community a record of achievement unequalled in the entire state," declared Douglas Gordenier, president of the United Crusade. "The United Crusade is a group of citizens voluntarily working for the betterment of our total community," Gord enier stated, "and ts possible only in a free society." Jackson County Judge Earl Miller joined with United Crusade representatives in urging county wide support of the fund raising campaign. The goal of $167,683 for 1962-63 will support 30 mem ber agencies for health, youth and welfare services to the county, according to Bob Heffernan, campaign chair man. Heffernan introduced division heads who will work with the 175 solicitors present at the breakfast meeting. Jerry McGrew is serving as assistant campaign chairman with Robert Nelson, forest products division chairman; John Dub ay, professional; Russ Acheson, public em ployees: Robert Dill, distribu tion; Robert Kyle, retail; Daryl Farnham. commercial; Wynne Grier, service; Lyle Sams, town and country; Bob Kagy, publicity, and Mrs. Vincent P. Nicoletti. home crusade. Discussed Brochure Lawrence Horton, first vice president, discussed the Unit ed Crusade brochure and pledge cards and stressed the importance of their use in ex plaining the benefits of one campaign for all community services. N. H. Gladfelter. plant chapter chairman, reported that contacts made by the special plant chapter commit tee has resulted in pre-canv paign pledges totaling $6,500 The first report meeting for the 1962-63 campaign will be held next Monday noon at the American Red Cross building with luncheon to be served by Medford Rotary club. MAYOR INJURED Dallas. Ore. - iBPIt - The mayor of Dallas, A. H. Frle sen, 61, was in good condition in a hospital today recovering from a traffic accident late Saturday on Highway 22. FRANK BORMAN -Navy Lt. Cmdr. James A. Lovell, 34, Cleveland, former flight instructor and also a former flight safety officer. He has 2,300 hours of flying time, including 1,600 hours In jets. -Air Force Capl. James A. McDivitt, 33. Chicago, an ex perimental flight test officer who has logged 2.500 hours of flying time including 2.000 hours in jets. CENTENARIAN Mrs. Ella Plercy celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday at a party at the Jackson county farm home where she has made her home for the past five years. Four of her five relatives, other women at the home and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Canfield, representing the Crater Lake post, Veterans of Foreign Wars attended the event. The VFW post presented her a cake with 100 candles and her corsage was sent by the Medford Beauty her hair for the occasion. Earlier in the day she received a note of congratulations from President John F. Kennedy. Mrs. Piercy was born in Indianapolis, lnd., and moved to the Portland area in 1867 where she lived for nearly 80 years. (Knackstedt pholol Grants Pass Youth Flies Stolen Plane To Redding, Calif. Grants Pass-A 15-year-old i Grams Pass boy with 14 hours of flight instruction made off with a plane from a local airport early this morning, buzzed his neigh borhood, led officials on a flying wild goose chase in the Illinois valley and finally landed safely at Redding, Calif. When asked why he did it, the youth was reported to have replied, "Beats me." The story began at 1 o'clock this morning when the Jose phine county sheriff's depart ment got a call from the boy's father, who reported that his son was not home and that he had just heard a plane buzz the house two or three times. The boy was crazy about flying, the father added. A sheriffs officer went with the father to the Snyder airport north of town, where It was discovered that a sin gle-engine plane belonging to Jim Backus of Grants Pass was missing. The boy had flown that particular plane for 30 minutes Sunday after noon, it was learned. In Car Junction Area At 2:27 a.m.. the sheriffs office put out an all points bulletin for the plane and the boy. Three minutes later a call was received from the Civil Air Patrol at Cave Junction, reporting that a plane had been picked up on radar in that area. Jerry Snyder of Caveman Flying service and a sheriff's officer flew In Cave Junction and while approaching that' JAMES LOVELL JR. -Elliott M. See Jr., 35. Dal las, Tex., civilian experimen tal test pilot for General Elec tric Co. He has more than 3, 200 hours in the air. includ ing 2,300 hours in jets. -Air Force Capt. Thomas P. Stafford. 32. Weatherford, Okla., a test pilot with more than 3.500 hours of flying lime, including 2,500 hours in jets. Air Force Capt. Edward school, whose members styled area at 11,000 feet said they thought they saw a craft fly ing at 9,000 feet without lights. On arrival at Cave Junc tion, however, they learned that radar contact with the missing plane had been lost, and so they returned to Grants Pass. Nothing further was heard until 5:55 a.m. when the Red ding, Calif., police depart ment called to report that the boy had landed at Redding Municipal airport. Both the plane and its pilot were un scathed. The boy's father and Sny der flew to Redding this morning to pick up the plane and the boy, who was being held by Redding authorities. SPEAKER SCHEDULED Portland - (UPD - Resource leaders from around the na tion will speak here next month at the 21st annual con vention of National Reclama tion association, opening Oct 17. WEATHER ronrcAST: commute fair ii- nlght and Tuesday. Hot an dry train Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 4a-a. High Tues day il-io. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 4 Lowest Thll Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Sunset tndar 1:11pm. 1:54 a.m. p.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonrlse tonight Last quarter sept. z lleneb, a most laminoui super- gtant. ii itoa iignt years rrom the Karth. Tonight Penes Is tha highest hrlshl star In the aky at moonrlse. NEIL ARMSTRONG H. White II, 32. San Antonio, Tex., an experimental test pi lot with 2.900 hours of flight time, including 1.700 hours in jets. -Navy Lt. Cmdr. John W. Young, 32, San Francisco, a one-time maintenance officer who has logged 2,300 hours of flying time, 1.600 hours of it in jet craft. The destination of these new astronauts, all 35 years J-Story Office Building Collapses; 8 Structure Said Weakened by Excavation Work Officials Report 17 Persons Missing Brussels, Belgium (UPD- A four-story government build ing weakened by excavation work next door cracked and collapsed "like a house of cards" with about 50 persons inside today. Chief Police Commissioner Albert Degryse said eight bod ies had been recovered and at least one more still was lying in the debris of the brick and concrete Economics Affairs Ministry building. Red Cross officials and po lice, set the number of missing at 17, including 13 office em ployees and four workers at the adjacent construction site. But government officials said some of these persons may have fled the scene In panic or may not have shown up for work. Forms Destroyed Many of the forms used in the national census last De cember were destroyed in the collapse, making it virtually certain that a new census would have to be held. Officials said the collapse apparently was caused when a bulldozer working on the construction next door under mined the government struc ture. Survivors said they first felt a slight tremor, and a number of them dashed into the street. Seconds later, one side of the building crumpled. The floors sagged, pitching people and office furniture In to a giant mound. The four floors, unhinged on one side, fell down like flaps on the one remaining wall. The overhanging walls hampered rescue work. Several priests went through the wreckage administering the last rites. King Baudouin, fresh from a Spanish vacation, hurred to the scene In the heart of his capital city. One ministry employee said he was working at his desk when "suddenly I heard a cracking noise and saw my desk slide sideways ... I grab. bed hold of something ... I don't know what it was. But it held ... all the desks slid down ... 1 saw one of my colleagues try to struggle up to me. I grasped his hand . his feet slipped and he lost hold ... He disappeared . Maybe he Is dead." Senate Votes Freer Hand in Felled Timber Washington - (UPD - The Sen ate today passed and sent to the President legislation to give the interior secretary a freer hand in selling fallen timber from public lands out side of national forests. The bill would permit the secretary to dispose of timber that is "dead, down or dam aged" by negotiated sale rather than advertised com petitive bidding under several conditions. CHARLES CONRAD JR. of age or under, is the moon in five years -or less. To one of the nine is ex pected to go the most covet ed role in the nation's multi-billion-dollar manned space flight program-commander of the nation's first manned ex pedition to the moon in this decade. For the rookie astronauts, action should come fast. They will move into NASA's man- 62 Days Spent on Underground Glacier Nice, France-(I)PD-A young French scientist, who spent the summer under ground studying a prehistoric glacier, emerged into daylight today for the first time since July 16. "Oh, but It's good to feel the sky," said Michel Siffre, 23, and then: "My eyes ..." Mountain police put a canvas hood over Siffre's head. Simple daylight was too much for htm, even behind a pair of almost opaque glasses. Two friends carried him on their backs up from the 426-foot deep Scarasson Chasm In the Alps near the Franco-Italian border to a waiting helicopter that brought him here. His stay underground, in bitter cold, almost total darkness and harrowing loneliness Is the longest on record. Siffre, who explores and studies caves and caverns in the name of geology, was extremely weak at the end of his ordeal. But a doctor who examined him on the spot said that otherwise his condition was satisfactory. He said Siffre's extremities were "extremely cold" and noted an apppreclable drop in his blood pressure. "It was lonely down there," Siffre told newsmen waiting at the top, "I cried. Sometimes I wept uncontrollably." Siffre lived his 62 days on the glacier in a tent with no means of telling time and only a field telephone for company. When told last Saturday that it wal Sept. 15, Siffre registered astonishment. He thought it was Aug. 28. I Siffre discovered the glacier, now believed part of the biggest subterranean water system in the world, on an expedition into the chasm in the summer of 1961. It is hundreds of thousands of years old and is the only known prehistoric glacier underground. He set up his camp on it July 16 In order to study It, as well as his own reactions to the darkness, cold, damp and isolation. IUlillllll Congress Decisions Washington -(UPD- Sen. Ken neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), said today Congress should make its own decisions on what should be done in the Cuba crisis and "not attempt to read the mind of the Presi dent." Keating made the state ment to a Joint meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. The session was called to get the administration's views on a resolution to give congres sional backing to any action Kennedy might take in regard to Cuba. The House Foreign Affairs committee was considering a companion measure sponsored by Chairman Thomas E. Mor gan, (D-Pa.), and Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House Armed Services com mittee. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was the top administra tion spokesman before the Senate group. William P. Bun- dy, assistant defense secre tary for international secur- Immunization Clinics For Rabies Scheduled Prinevllle - (UPD - Public clinics for immunizing pets against rabies have been scheduled for Bend, Red mond, Prinevllle and Madras for Sept. 18-26. The action follows dis covery of rabid bats in the area. Union Roofers Strike In Willamette Valley Salem - (UPD - A strike by union roofers started today in the Central Willamette Val ley. The union has members at Salem, Albany, Corvallis and McMlnnville. JOHN YOUNG ned spaceflight program alongside the seven "Mer cury" astronauts who have carried America's banner into space in two sub-orbital and two three-orbit flights to date. Selection of the new team reflects a drastic shift In the human element for the forth coming man-into-space pro grams called "Gemini" and "Apollo" - a heavy empha sis on youth combined with Known lead Urged To in Cuban Situation lty, represented his boss, Rob ert S. McNamara. Before they were heard, Keating and Winston L. Prou ty (R-Vl.), urged approval of stronger proposals than those offered last week by the Dem ocratic congressional leaders. Keating, co-sponsoring his resolution with Sen. Prescott Bush, (R-Conn.), said it was "dangerous and unrealistic" to call the present military buildup in Cuba only defen Equipment Stolen From Tafent Cafe Talent - Equipment valued al $70 was taken from the Hard Hat cafe here over the week end, Charles Roberts, Talent police officer, report ed this morning. Someone en tered the cafe by prying open the front door Friday night or Saturday morning. Taken were a milk shake mixer, toaster, French fryer and a knife. The cafe, for merly operated by the Bud Glffin family, had been clos ed for several days. No Need Visioned for Increase in Gold Price Washington - (UPD - Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Mone tary Fund, said today that "formidable lines of defense" protect the dollar and remove any possible need for an in crease in the price of gold. Jacbsson, a highly regard ed Swedish economist, lined up solidly behind the U.S. view that gold guarantees for foreign dollar holders have "no merit" and that the offi cial U.S. gold price should remain at $35 an ounce. It has been suggested, most JAMES McDIVITT as much experience as pos sible. "They will be younger so they can fly longer," said Wal-" tcr J. North, chief of the crew operations division of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center here. The implication Is that the days of the "or iginal seven" Mercury astro nauts as active space pilots are limited because of their age. Make Own sive, as Kennedy has done. "Who is to judge whether a gun, a tank, a torpedo boat, a military plane, is Intended for offensive or defensive purpos es?" he asked in a prepared statement. Proutv uraert suDDort fnr a resolution specifically men tioning the Monroe Doctrine and giving the President addi tional powers to coDe with the situation. Singer Sewing Safe Discovered in Pond A safe taken from Singer Sewing Machine company, 318 East Main St., sometime during the Labor day week end was found early this aft ernoon in the Medford corpor ation pond, city police report ed. The safe was said to have contained $75 in cash, two checks and other papers when taken. BODY FOUND Portland - (UPD - The body of John C. Allen, 68, Portland, was found in the Willamette river here Sunday. ly abroad, that the price of gold should be doubled to In crease the world's financial resources. Raising the gold price would be tantamount to devaluing the dollar, the ma jor reserve currency held by other nations. President Kennedy has said the United States will not de value. He undoubtedly will reaffirm this stand in I speech Thursday to free world fi nance ministers gathered here for the annual conference of the Monetary Fund and World Bank. .ULi.; ti $ V