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Q THURSDAY. JULY 25. 1963 Western World (Editor'! not: Western ' ' deiense planners, already worried by a series ot -. ' curity ihocki in Britain nd elsewhere, got nolhor ' nuty surprise Ust month with th rrt of on ol Bwdn'f top military of- fleers u contessed Sovit spy. ' Thr was lmmediat conctrn that his revela tion! to the Ruiiian! may . hay jeopardised the en tire "northern flank" of wetiern dafensei in Eu ' top. Th following United " Press International team . report by Joseph W. Grigg ' and Eli Maiiii in Farii, ' Ian Weitergren in Stock- holm, Paul A; Allerup in ' London and Darrell Gar wood in Washington, al ienee the damage, at it ii known today.)' By .-United Press International "My God!" exploded the man in the British Defense ministry. "Not Wenner troem!" That was last June 20, the day Sweden announced the arrest of Col. Stig E. C. Wen nerstroem, recent head of the Air Force section of the Swedish Defense command, trusted aide of the country's defense minister, Svcn An- dersson. Wennerstrocm had admitted being a paid spy for the Russians for 15 years. No one was more shocked than the Swedes themselves. But the repercussions went much further to NATO headauarters In Paris, the I Pentagon in Washington, the defense ministry in London. Watermelon Seed Spit Mark Broken Raleigh, N. C. - IUP1) - Wally Ausley, a local boy, spat a watermelon seed 35 feet and fix inches Wednesday. .The unheralded Auslcy's remarkable performance as tounded the- crowd, shamed his competitors, and . broke the watermelon festival rec ord. The old champion, John Alexander, once spat a watermelon- seed 34 feet. His best effort Wednesday was 29 feet, but it appeared that would do. Then Ausley stepped to the foul line, bit off a hunk of watermelon and carefully se lected a likely seed with his tongue. He held the seed be tween his teeth, wafting air around it to dry It off. ' .Then he leaned his 200 pound frame forward, squint ed and loosed a mighty spill that brought gasps of wonder from the crowd. I "It's Just a matter of condi tioning, said Ausley modestly- Catterick Camp, England -m - Lt. Col. Clive Tonry, commandant of the 8th Sig nals Regiment, today ordered Ills troops to reduce the hun dreds of pinups above their bunks to three per man. Jorgensen's "SWIRL" V4 Orange Sherbet Vanilla Ice Milk It't Delightfull BLUEBELL Potato Chips Tht Large Regular 79c Box Only g Johnson' "OFF" Insect Repellent 5-oi. Bomb-Reg. 1.19 Only )S t OR MARKET 1202 No. Riverside OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT rlcai f ffscrive Thundtr j GAL 11 m The big question was how much had Wenncrstroem told? How much could he iiave known about NATO plans and. weapons? Sweden, Europe's famous "neutral" through two world wars, was not a NATO mem ber. But as a western na tion, a friend if not an ally of the North Atlantic powers, it had long had access to some of the latest in western wea ponry, almost certainly had mapped its own defenses in line with what it knew of Al lied planning. Sweden is still pumping the blond, handsome 56-year-old colonel to learn every de tail of what he passed an to the Russians and he is said to be cooperating fully. Swe. den's own future depends as much as anyone s on the an swers he gives. Meantime the whole west ern world has been making its own assessments a n d some of them have been un comfortable. No One Comments Officially, neither Sweden nor NATO nor any of the western countries involved has commented on the speci fics of Wennerstroem' dis closures to the Kremlin. On the official level, there has been a tendency to play down the likelihood of any really serious damage to NATO's defenses. Unofficial ly, however, reporters "test ing the temperature" in the concerned capitals find many clues that the worry goes deep. In Stockholm, leading newspapers have said flatly that the colonel may have laid the country "bare" for an attack before a new na tional defense scheme can be prepared. The assumption is the Rus sians know in detail Sweden's present defense set-up. It is reasonable assumption since Wenncrstroem himself was among the defense plan ners. Swedes a'.so are con vinced that the colonel gave the Russians details on a wide variety of top-secret Swedish and NATO weapons, including data on the latest Swedish-built jet fighters and Bofors guns and rockets. In Washington, U. S. offi cials reexamining security precautions in the light of the Wennerstrocm case and other recent lapses have ex pressed alarm that the Swed ish colonel may have reveal ed dnta on the Important Hawk anti-aircraft mlsBlle to the Russians. The Hawk missile Is de signed to kill low-flying air craft which can avoid con ventional ground-to-air mis siles. It Is a technically ex- 1 ccllcnt weapon which the Soviets were not able to match until recently after the U.S. negotiated sale of It to Sweden in mid-1960. Bel glum, France, West Ger many, The Netherlands and Italy also bought Hawk mis siles. By coincidence, or other- CATS MEOW CAT FOOD lSVi-ox. Tint 15 for $1100 WILLIAMS t-lb. BREAD Soft-Twist Sliced White or Dark Mb. Loaves Folgcr'i COFFEE 1-2-3 lb. Tim r j Ground lb. OD 6 ox. Instant .. 99c 7 DAYS A WEEK Fridey Sslvrday - " MEDFORD MAIL THIBUME. MEDFORD. OHEGON Making Assessments of Wennerstroem's ..... j ii ..U Un ulran t wise, the Soviets now have a missile, known as "Sam-3," which nearly duplicates Hawk. They might have de signed it without the aid of espionage but ' ta on Hawk would have been a major coup. Could Destroy Planes Had Russian crews had a Hawk-type missile in Cuba last fall, they might have been able to destroy the low- ADMITS SPYING - Swedish i strocm, left, who admitted spying for the Soviets for 15 years, is preceded by unidentified policeman as the for mer arrives at Magistrate's Court in Stockholm. (UPI) Background Work By Kennedy Aide Ends Racial By AL KUETTNER UPI Corretpondnet Burke Marshall has done it again. At the Justice Department where he is assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division, Marshall has the reputation of getting things accomplished when all else alls. His boss, Robert Kennedy, leans heavily on his ablution and called on him again as the racial crisis at Cambridge, Md., worsened. Tuesday, white and Negro leaders whose conflict at Cambridge had produced bit terness and some bloodshed for 10 months announced an agreement that halted demon strations indefinitely. . The news accounts said simply that Marshall was present to witness the signing of the set tlement in Kennedy's office. Marshall's work - handled in the Cambridge case with out going to the scene in per son - was largely instrument al in bringing opposing fac tions together and producing the climate that made negotia tions possible. Second Victory This was the second major victory on the civil rights front for Marshall in three months. He played a key role in producing a settlement of the racial upheaval In Birm ingham, Ala., last May. When Marshall arrived in the steel city, the possibilities tor restoring peace were gloomy. Huge demonstrations were erupting on the streets as thousands of Negroes but tcrcd at long-standing racial barriers. The city had two governments, the result of a recent changeover that had not taken effect. A civic group called the "Committee of Seventy" was attempting to work out at least a truce Unit would halt the demonstrations which were threatening to become a riot. Members of the commit tee were getting nowhere with Negro leaders or with each other. There were wide diftcrcm-cs of opinion on how to deal with the uprising. Two Persons Flown By Mercy Flights Two persons were flown by Mercy Flights Inc. Wednes day. One whs brought to a local hospital and the other was flown closer to her home in southern California. Mrs. Annie Carter, 84 Downey, Calif., who had been visiting in the Talent area was flown to Long Beach Calif., and Gilbert Baker Coos Bay, was brought from the hospital there to Rogue Valley hospital for treatment of a fractured back suffered in an industrial accident at West Coast Orient Tuesday These two persons bring to 1,397 the number ot patients who have been flown by the non-profit air ambulaiue serv ice since it was started. flying U.S. reconnaissance planes which located the long-range missiles the Sovi ets secreted there. British military observers see other dangers. Tftey have said that a quick Russian knockout of Sweden, made easier by Wennerstroem's help, could give the Soviets a big advantage in any future war. According to this reason ing, the Russians would over- IT 6 Air Force (Joi. Stig Wenner Crisis Marshall did not seem to cut much of a figure as he walked down a long corridor at the Chamber of Commerce build ing and into a board room with the Birmingham com mittee. The quietest voice in the room was thai of Marshall, a 41-year-old Harvard - trained lawyer whd had no civil rights experience prior to Joining (he Kennedy admin istration team Jn its early days. Within only a. few days, however, the committee had reached an agreement with Negro leaders to embark on the city's first efforts at de segregation of public accom modations. Although the agreement was unofficial inas much as there was no munic ipal government to approve it, the Negro side accepted it In good faith. This was more ot Marshall's persuasive work. 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Between 19S2 and 1957. the affable Swedish colonel served as an air at tache in Washington and was a favorite in diplomatic and military circles because of his impeccable culture and charm. What he may have learned in Washington has not been speculated on in public. He departed Washington in mid-1957 in an aura of spe cial sympathy because his 16-ycar-old blonde daughter had run away for a time, without the benefit of marriage, with a congressional page boy. Before leaving, Colonel Wennerstroem was awarded the Legion of Merit and a ci tation which said he had dis tinguished himself by excep tionally mcritorius conduct as a senior attache" and had "contributed immeasurably rvr TS M- I I f I I II MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER STORE Men's Handkerchiefs 10 Fine quality, all white 100 cotton. Stock nowl up Compare NEWBERRY'S Low Price... Reg. 7.98 for 88' 38 CLEARANCE . Modern Only 1 of tion. 66 88 Keg. . . Orig. Harems. only. 18 88 Keg. MEDFORD SHOPPING to Swedish-American friend ship." 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