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11 Lives Lost; 100 Injured Blast Shaffers City in Oregon tals said that at dawn 100 blood donor volunteers were in line to aid the injured. Fire Detonates Explosives In Truck; Blast Devastates Six Square Blocks ROSEBURG, Aug. 7 A truck with a half tons of explosives aboard caught fire three, only bits of building Jutted up, still smoking. i A half mile away windows in Mercy Hospital were broken, Two miles away windows in a house were blown out. A half dozen blocks away Central Junior High School stood with walls so badly six and from a dows were scattered.

Bank doorl hung off their hinges. A truck cargo of two tons nf dynamite and four and a half tons of ammonium nitrate caused the shattering blast. Driver George Rutherford, 47, Chehalis, parked the truck Thursday night on the street beside the Gerretsen Building Supply Co. and went to the Umpqua Hotel. At 1:15 a the sound of a The blast and fire left a dirt-bare circle 21X1 feet across.

In the center was a hole where the explosives truck had been. It was at least 20 feet deep and 50 feet across. Destruction was so complete over three square blocks everything was leveled. In another burning building and blew up here early Friday. It slammed shock waves and fire through block after block in the heart of the city.

cracked it was no longer safe for use. Contents of jewelry store win- of 12,200 population 1S5 miles south of Portland, estimated property fire siren sent him racing down the street. The fire was in the Gerretsen building. It spread quickly to the truck. Rutherford was running toward Texas Town Is Threatened By Deadly Liquified Gas It killed at least 11 pwple and almost certainly more Only fragments of the buildings were left in an area of six square blocks where there had been Warehouses, small businesses and some second-story apartments.

Eight small frame homes were destroyed. Many more were hard hit. Terrihly burned bodies were pulled from ruins and ashes. A hundred or more were injured. Buildings in the main business district only three blocks away were torn, their windows gone and doors splintered.

Heat at the start of the disaster was so intense Fireman Lyle Wes-cott said, "I looked down and saw the skin peeling off my hands." Arlo Jacklin, mayor of this city damage at 10 to 12 million dollars. Coroner C. II. Babbitt said he did not know how many bodies would be found. There were nine lale in the day.

One man was missing and presumed dead. Scorching ashos whore there had been a rooming house over a business building were believed to hold more. Babhitt said the ashes would be sent to a labor-; atory for an estimate of (he number. County Civil Defense Director Arthur Selby said the toll might be as high as 20. Hospitals admitted 52 injured and treated more as outpatients.

By night all but 23 had been released. Some of those still held i i IOWA PARK, Aug. 7 i.fi Families were evacuated from a 15-blnck area of this north Texas town Friday night alter deadly anhydrous ammonia began leaking from a fi.OOO-gal-lon tank. Others in the town of 4,000 were alerted. Policemen Ken Doiier said i it, still a block away, when his truck exploded.

He was smashed to the ground and dazed. Rutherford was hospitalized with undetermined injuries. His com-' pany, the Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash, said all safety reg-j ulations had been complied with. Ammonium nitrate was the ex-: plosive that ripped Texas City, I Texas, in 1947 with loss of 561 lives.

A spokesmen for Pacific Powder said dynamite and ammonium nitrate was not a dangerous combination for transportation, i But when it exploded here, touchpd off by fire, the shock was felt for miles. The leak was blamed on a faulty valve. An official of the New Ice Co. at Wichita Falls, owner of the tank, said it was filled Thursday and contained almost 6,000 gallons. This official, who declined to give his name, said if the flow continued unchecked, the liquefied gas would continue to pour out until sometime Saturday afternoon.

Anhydrous ammonia is used as a fertilizer. It is not Inflammable, but Is highly toxic. Aerial View Of Destruction more than 100 persons had been cleared from the area near U. S. Highway 287 by 10 p.m.

Firemen were unable to reach the tank, even while wearing i gas masks. This aerial view shows the vast area of devastation in others extensively. A truck loaded with explosive material blew downtown Roseburg, where a huge explosion early up leaving the crater shown by the arrow in the center of Friday wiped out several blocks of buildings and damaged I the picture. At least I I persons were killed. (AP Wirephoto) were in critical condition.

Hospi je jkttzom Bat EDITION WEATHER Forecast for Tucson: Scattered showers. Temperatures Yesterday: HIGH 94 LOW 72 Year Ago: HIGHV96 LOW 71 U. S. Weather Bureau TEN CENTS An Independent NEWSpaper Printing The News Impartially ic TWENTY-TWO PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1959 VOL. 118 NO.

220 Entftrtd a second elm matter. Port Offic. Tucson, Arizona In Wide-Swinging Orbit New System Developed Labor Bill Passage Is 'Certain7 House Is Expected To Act Next Week Radar 'Sees 5,000 Mi. a) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 Probing last summer's high altitude nuclear-missile experiments over the South Atlantic and in the mid-Pacific.

In those tests, atomic explosions of the missiles were detected from a location in the United States. Dr. William J. Thaler of the naval research office said in answer to a question about the system that "you could hope It would double the warning time possible under ballistic missile warning systems now being built." These systems are intended to give about 15 minutes warning, when the missile is about halfway in flight to target. WASHINGTON, Aug.

7 WPv-The Navy disclosed Friday night it has developed an experimental radar system which can look over the curve of the earth and spot a ballistic missile almost at once after it is launched 5,000 miles away. But it is only a device still in the early development stage and no actual operating system has been set up. The program, named Project Tepee, has been in progress about 2'2 years. It is being carried out by the Office of Naval Research. A scientist told a news conference that successful tests in detection were made during My si ones A i i i 1 i A 'f 1 i u-, -yl fvyi I 1 May Stay Passage by the House next week of some form of labor racketeering control bill was viewed as a certainty Friday by the chief adversaries in the impending battle.

President Eisenhower's appeal to the nation Thursday night for support in erasing what he called the "national disgrace" of labor-management gangsterism appeared to have capped growing pressure for congressional action. The White House reported an unusually large telegraphic response to Eisenhower's demand for a tough federal law to drive the "gangsters, racketeers and other corrupt elements" out of the labor-management field. Satellite Scoreboard Health Is Fine Aloft For One Year Instruments Packed Into Explorer VI Palace Says Elizabeth Expecting Third Child VANGUARD launched March 17, 1958, with a space lifetime of 200 years or more. EXPLORER IV, launched July 26, 1958, with a space lifetime of one year, two months; is due to fall about Sept. 17 this year.

VANGUARD II, launched Feb. 17, 1959, with a space lifetime or more than 100 years. EXPLORER VI, launched Aug. 7, 1959, with a space lifetime of more than one year. NEW YORK, Aug.

7 WV-With the launching Friday of Explorer VI, the United States now has five artificial moons in orbits around the earth. Additionally, the United States has one artificial planet, Pioneer in orbit around the sun. Following are the five artificial moons: EXPLORER launched Jan. 31, 1D58, with an expected space lifetime of five years. Arizona Military Construction Set At $8.7 Millions WASHINGTON, Aug.

7 () Proposed construction at Arizona military bases costing $8,758,000 Friday was recommended the year which started July 1 by the House Appropriations Committee. The committee rejected service requests for another 52,910,000 for work in the state. The recommendations were in a $1,284,012,700 appropriation bill expected to be brought before the House for action next week. who drops from third to fourth would know the reason for can-in any case. cellation of her African tour.

He Presidential ee secretary Baby Will Be Born Early Next Year LONDON. Aug. 7 Queen The Queen's pregnancy was a kept the secret so well that he's James C. Hagerty said a surpris- well-kept secret. Back in June i been especially invited to come inclv large number of wires were 1 Fli7abeth II will have a third "lc see ine iueen ana ner nus- virtually unanimuus in support babv earlv next year the first to lKwame Nkrumah, prime minister band at Balmoral next Tuesday of the President's position." be born to a reigning Missile Away! CAPE CANAVERAL, Aug.

7 (BThe United States Friday fired into a wide-swinging orbit a 142-pound paddlewheel satellite a miniature laboratory jammed full of instruments to probe the mysteries of space. The launching from this missile test center went without a hitch. The spheroid-shaped satellite dubbed Explorer VI blasted off in the nose of a 90-foot, three-stage Thor-Able rocket at 9:23 a.m. Two hours and 37 minutes later, A Western Union official reported an exceptional heavy flood of telegrams to members of Con- i gress. Some of these, of course, dealt with other matters than labor legislation.

This is the three stage Thor-Able rocket leaving iti Cape Canaveral launching pad with the 142-pound paddlewheel satellite which was put into orbit Friday. (U.S. Air Force photo from AP Wirephoto) Details of the individual projects were not given in the measure, which listed only the location and cost. On Capitol Hill, where the House starts a week of no-holds-barred debate next Tuesday, the opinion was just about unanimous Kennecott Strike Talk Deadlocked i SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7 (J-The United Steelworkers of Amer-! ica said Friday its negotiations with Kennecott Copper Corp.

have become deadlocked. i At the same time, federal mediator Dan Edwards announced he has arranged a meeting Saturday between Kennecott negotiators and representatives of the Mine, i i Mill and Smelter Workers in a The Arizona projects approved there is going to be a bill passed, i included: Opinions differed as to its nature. 1 sent aloft by the United States so far a forerunner of bigger, more Herter Leaves Monday the government space agency in advanced research vehicles. President's Trip Begins Aug. 28 WASHINGTON, Aug.

7 W) President Eisenhower will go to Europe about Aug. 28 for Allied conferences leading up to his Sept. 15 meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Washington. The White House announced Friday that Eisenhower will go first to London for several days of informal talks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Then on Sept.

2 he will go to Paris to meet with French President Charles de Gaulle. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will accompany the President on the trip, the State Department announced. Packed into the spheroid were Washington announced it had gone into orbit. In midafternoon it was instruments designed to carry out For Santiago Parley WASHINGTON.

Aug. 7 of State Christian A. Herter, just back from the 10-week conference at Geneva, takes off Monday for the meeting of foreign announced the orbit was stable 15 major experiments, most of and that all the instruments then them looking ahead to the day tPtiprf upi-p u-nrWino nprWtiv I when the United States sends Its Army: Ft. Huachuca, Navy: Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station, Yuma, Air Force: Davis-Mon-than AFB. Tucson, Williams AFB, Chandler, 000.

Air National Guard, Tucson, $123,000. The Arizona projects turned down were Ft. Huachuca, for enlisted men's barracks and heating facilities; Davis-Monthan, $.196,000 for an armament and electronic shop and an aircraft calibration Meeting Called To Set Walkout At Phelps Dodge monarch in more than a century. I Her health is fine, her doctors said. She was off in the Scottish Highlands for a holiday at EaH moral Castle with her husband, Prince Philip, and their two children.

"I'm looking forward very much to my holiday at Balmoral," she told greeting officials on her ar- rival. They had not yet been let i in on the royal secret. The 33-year-old Queen looked happy and healthy. The news of the coming blessed event was made public in formal style at Buckingham Palace a few hours after she vanished behind the walls of Balmoral castle. January or February seemed fhe date.

Court officials said it was in late June that the Queen had a strong suspicion she was pregnant. But she had refused to call off her Canadian tour to dedicate the St. Lawrence Seaway on her visit to Chicago several weeks ago for fear it would disappoint Canadians and Americans. The royal baby now on the way will be the first born to a reigning British sovereign since the birth of Princess Beatrice to Queen Victoria in 1857. The Queen's other children were born before the death of her first man into space.

last ditch attempt to stave off a strike scheduled to begin Mon-! day. Both the mine-mill union and the steelworkers plan to strike Kennecott's western operations Monday. The walkout will involve Data received in the first seven i ministers of American states starting Aug. 12 at Santiago, Chile. U.S.

officials expect the secretary to stay in Santiago about three days, and return to hours of its flight indicated the 1 Some of tne devicM wi" elliptical orbit was tak-1 Pate the extent nd densfy of ing it to a peak altitude of 25,950 Potentially deadly radiation belts miles and a low point 152 miles around (he earth. Others will above earth. Advance expecta-1 DOUGLAS, Aug. 7 Kennecott Copper Corp. faces a possible walkout by two im- ions, plans were being made 23.000 miles and a close-in range 1 on Page 3A.

i of 160 miles. i for a meeting in Arizona to v-t a strike date against Phelps Dodge Corp. almost 11,000 employes in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Kennecott's is the nation's biggest single copper producer. Mine-mill represents 8,500 of its employes in the four states and the USW represents 2,100 employes in Utah and 350 in Arizona.

Bailed Out At 47,000 Feet Pilot Survives Nine-Mile Jump Ine space agency said it would measure the density of cosmic have no further reports until after dust- Als0 aboard is a television-8 a.m. Saturday. I like scanning instrument built to send back crude pictures of the Scientists said Explorer VI will earth's cloud cover, stay up for more than a year. I One unique feature is an ar-It was described as the most raneement of four solar vanes. A Mine-Mill spokesman said Friday a meeting has been scheduled Aug.

12 in Douglas to set a date lor a chain-wide strike against Phelps Dodge properties. George Haycock, subdistrict director for the" USW. said the USW- i comprehensive scientific package each three feet long, designed to fvsmWliM. I spring out from the side of the plane isn't exceeding the speed Rankin, on his way back to Beau vere I was afraid I wouldn't come Kennecott negotiations were dead- of sound." fort Marine Air Station on a high out of it alive." locked because "company repre- altitude navigation flight, was at sentatives insisted that their mon- It also may have proved a man 7 fm 6 6 Finally Rankin sank into warm- etary offer of ,7 9 cents hour could stand more than half an I calmer air and broke out of for a tw0.vear period was predi- hour of yo-yo treatment in the Rankin ejected. "In a matter of the overcast at about 300 feet.

He cated on the unjon-s acceptance heart of a thunderstorm, peppered seconds 1 went from the 75-degree landed in a tree. Eventually he 0f changes in practices and con-by hail and menanced' by light-' cockpit temperature to 5 below found a road that led him to a i tract language that would deny nine Measured bv Col Rankin's zem a'M e'1 vk'pnt decom- highway. the employes many rights and (Editor's Note: Marine Lt. Col. William H.

Rankin parachuted from a crippled jet plane at 47.000 feet and was tossed about by a thunderstorm for more than half an hour before he reached earth. These are his reactions as told to the Associated Press.) satellite. It is these paddle-like vanes which give the explorer its unofficial nickname of paddle-wheel satellite. Today's News Index father, King George VI, when she was still Princess Elizabeth. The Queen's other children are: Prince Charles Philip Arthur I George, born Nov.

1948. Supper club operator pleads innocent to pandering watch, and verified by other press'n my whole "There I was in the rain in my privileges that have been in effect charge, IB BEAUFORT, Aug. 7 The purpose of the vanes is to convert the sun's rays into electrical energy to power radio batteries and recharee them during comparative times, it was 40 min- flight gear, battered and bleeding, utes before he came to earth. He suffprwt a frnohittpn wrist and nobody would stop for me. A Kennecott officials made no inl The case of the sleeping deer, 6A Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Marine Lt.

Col. William H. Louise, born, Aug. 15, 1950. I Rankin, 39, thinks his unplanned i 47 000-fnnt nararhntp iumn Julv The birth will change the line that lasted 40 minutes most of pf succession to the throne.

Prince Combined tax rate for City of Tucson may drop, IB: the satellite's lifetime. Scientists said that if the solar generating Two gunmen nabbed in Detroit, 10A system works as Panned, future Fire losses cut in Arizona national forest lands, IB fpafe may te f1, ml? back radio messages from 20 mil- Air Force officials in Washington stressed that spacemen who parachute to earth will travel in capsules, not unprotected as Col. Rankin was. and ankle, and somewhere along d07en cars Passd me ty-1 waited I mediate comment on the break-the way his right hand was RettinR sh- I even con- down in the negotiations with the broken. sidered lying down in the road, i steelworkers.

but I figured thev might just run After his parachute opened au- wtr mv Officials of the mine-mill union tomatically at 10.000 feet, he i in Denver also have announced plunged into the thunderstorm. i F'naly. smail recognized that unless a satisfactory agree- Charles now is first, Princess Anne second and Princess Margaret, the Queen's 28-year-old sister, third. If the baby is a boy he will be No. 2 in line of succes- it while he was the plaything of a vicious thunderstorm may have a scientific value.

"It's just my opinion, I could be wrong." he said. "But I think it proved a man can survive a lion to 50 million miles out. Reds believed aiding Laos revolt, 3A i 1 ,1 1 mat Kanmn wore a mgni neimet ment The vertical air currents car- and minted him out to his father. nno miiM.mlii mmWi to he Ask Andy 8 Financial 4B Radio-TV JA Explorer VI 26 inches in diam- Rankin's FSU Crusader fighter was doing 500 miles and hour-less than the speed of sound when ion ahpad of Anne If a girl, she ried me up in my parachute, then The motorist, who Rankin identi-; involved in strikes azainst Kenne-, Comics MA Movies 7A Topics 10 eter and 29 inches long was car- I'd fall down again. There was fied as Judson Dunning, took him cott and other copoer firms by Crossword 1BA Ohiruarie Sports WB.ried into orbit by a three-Mafia will come after Princess Anne parachute iump starting from as the engine quit over coastal 'North i Editorial 12B Pub.

Rec SS either 1A rocket. but before Princess Margaret, high as 50.000 feet, provided his 4 Carolina the evening of July 29. and the lightning got to se-, to a hospital in Ahoskie, N.C iAug. 20, i.