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VOL 91 NO. 206 TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1963 10 CENTS --40 PAGES Gity Studied For Rocket Test Facility Tucson One Of 14 Sites Being Surveyed By Firm By CECIL JAMES Tucson is one of 14 south and southwestern areas being surveyed by Bell Aerosystems Co. for a possible rocket test facility. The announcement, made in Buffalo, N. today, said such a facility would be used, if acquired, for development of advanced rocket engines fuels.

and i A spokesman emphasized, however, that "there has been no final decision to acquire new testing facilities, nor has any specific site been selected." THE SURVEY is nearing completion, he said, and "the facts accumulated will be available in the event the company decides to acquire new testing facilities to support its present and future rocket engine development program." The firm's testing complex in Wheatfield, N.Y., near Buffalo, is considered adequate for its current aerospace division work. In order to have a new testing site, Bell probably would have to have new contracts for the development of larger and more powerful rocket engines, the spokesman Bell, a subsidiary of Textron currently has a Tucson research laboratory which is working i the Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility at Ft. Huachuca. TOMORROW, a E. Drachman president of the Tucson Chamber of Commerce, and Kenneth Dixon, JFK Signs Debt Extension Bill WASHINGTON President Kennedy a signed a bill to continue the present $309 billion debt ceiling while Congress considers tax cut and appropriation legislation.

The bill extends the present limit through Nov. 30. of industrial development department head, will meet in Buffalo with Bell treasurer Richard H. McKee to boc the Tucson area as a good prospect for future testing facilities. The noise factor enters into Bell's need for a large are for the static testing of rocket engines.

Drachman told the Chamber yesterday that Bell saic around 45,000 acres of lane would be needed in order to establish a test facility. Other requirements would be thai the land be within 25 miles of the city and that there be university in the area. Drachman added that there are several large areas arounc Tucson that would be avail able for a test site. He men tioned that some 35,000 acres on the west end of the San Xavier Indian Reservation probably would be available. Today Boyd H.

Gibbons, as sistant to Gov. Paul Fannin for industrial development and James J. Dunnigan, pres ident of the Buffalo Raceway had breakfast with McKee to discuss the virtues of Ari zona as a goorl test area. Dun nigan spends hit winters in Phoenix. AS FAR AS it is known Tucson is the only area i Arizona Bell is considering.

Bell builds the thrust Agena rocket engine The Agena has orbited mor than 65 per cent of the At Force and National Aeronau tic and Space Administratio satellites. It has powered mor than 100 space firings sine 1959. Bell also has a subcontrac from North American design and develop positiv expulsion tanks for the Apoll space program. OVER 200,000 MARCH WASHINGTON RALLY CROWD FOR CEREMONIES --AP Wlropholo General view, taken from top Lincoln Memorial, shows crowd assembled at the m'emorial and around the Washington Monument reflection pool to hear speakers in ceremonies following the Washington parade by civil rights groups today. Police estimated more than 200,000 took part in rally.

Strike Ban Imminent BULLETIN WASHINGTON-- UPI -The House passed and sent to the White House today last minute legislation to block a midnight rail strike and submit key issues in the dispute to binding arbitration. WASHINGTON UPI -Congress pressed toward cer- tain passage today of emergency legislation to block a crippling nationwide railroad strike scheduled to start only hours away. While more than 200,000 Americans rallied at Lincoln Memorial for early passage of civil rights legislation, the House neared a vote on a Senate-passed bill referring key HELP ON WAY FOR 6 MORE 3 Of 25 Trapped Miners Pulled To Safety In Utah MOAB, Three trapped miners, haggard and near collapse, were pulled out of a mine shaft near here at 11:55 a.m. today to safety. Rescue was on the way for at least six more miners known to be alive somewhere below the level of the potash mine.

The first two men to reach the hospital in Moab were Paul McKinney of Grants, N.M., and Donald Hannah. They did not appear seriously hurt. As Hannah entered the hospital, he said all he wanted was a drink of water, to get cleaned up, and to talk to his wife. Twenty-five miners in all were trapped by an explosion at the bottom of the mine shaft late yesterday afternoon. The fate of the other 16 miners remained unknown.

Nine miners were contacted by voice this morning, and rescue was dispatched immediately. The first bucket from the bottom of the mine. carried four men--one of them a rescue worker. Four is the maximum that can be brought up at any one time. The bucket was dropped immediately for another trip to bottom.

three rescued men were sweating, dirty and bare from the waist up. At least two of them appeared near collapse, their heads rolling from side to side. They had been trapped underground 17 hours. Attendants at Allen Memorial Hospital here were alerted to stand by for the survivors. They had two doctors here, two more at the mine and asked physicians in neighboring towns to be ready to come.

"We have been told that they would have to bring the men' out one at a time and that it would be about 30 minutes between each man," said Cecilia Thompson, the hospital business manager. Wives and relatives, not knowing whether their loved ones were among the nine, began to gather in the hospital lobby for the long agonizing wait. One of them was Mrs. Robert June, 34, whose husband is among the trapped 25 miners. They have six children.

"This is an a wait," she said. "I can't do anything Continued Page 2 issues in the long and bitter rail work rules dispute to binding arbitration. House Speaker John W. McCormack predicted passage well in time to beat the strike deadline at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.

The measure would become law as soon as President Kennedy signs it. It would immediately prohibit any strike or lockout. The nation's major railroads were poised to enforce rules changes eliminating the jobs of 37,000 diesel locomotive firemen at one minute past midnight. The five on- train rail unions, representing 195,000 workers, were ready to respond immediately with a nationwide walkout. The bill, which the Senate assed Tuesday a two ays of bitter debate, refers ie two key issues--firemen's obs and train crew size anc makeup--to a seven-membe rbitration board for a bind ng ruling within 90 days.

The oard's decision remains in ffect for two years. Such secondary issues a tay schedules and job juris fictions are left to unlimitec bargaining. A strik prohibited for 180 days. Rains Take To Mountains CAP Justified On Its Own, Reclamation Chief Asserts WASHINGTON UP) -The Senate Interior Irrigation and Reclamation subcommittee was told today that the $1.1 billion Central Arizona Project could stand on its own as an economically justifiable undertaking. The statement was made by Floyd Dominy, the Interior Department's 1 a ation Bureau commissione.r as he answered questions of Arizona Sens.

Carl Hayden, Democrat, and Barry Goldwater, Republican, cosponsors of bill to authorize the water project. Dominy further stated, in response to, their questions, that the gigantic water storage, hydroelectric and recreational development could be constructed in seven years under favorable conditions. A 10-year period has generally been mentioned as the time that normally would be required. The matter of time arose as the senators told of the booming population and industrial growth of their state and a steady increase in water consumption. This, they argued, is one reason for pressing for passage now of a Central Ayizona Project (CAP) authorization bill notwithstanding the merits of a Pacific Southwest water basin development plan advocated by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L.

Uciall. Although Dominy backed the Udall plan and said the Central Arizona Project could be operated more efficiently as a major unit of the over-all Lower Colorado River development program, he agreed that if authorized separately it might get a two-year or three-year head start over other projects in the basin- wide plan. discussion brought about heated comment from Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, -R- Calif.

He said it would be favoritism to single out and authorize the Arizona project ahead of the other proposed dams and aqueducts contained in the basinwide proposal. Repeating contentions he made at the hearing yesterday, Kuche! called the proceedings illegal and improper because, he said, the Interior Department has not yet submitted a formal report as to Continued Page 2 You think Tucson's dry? Well, listen to me: Yuma's August total Is point oh three. --El Contento Despite a three-day letup precipitation in much of the state, scattered showers most a i areas con- to boost general levels. Tucson's weatherman says fair to partly cloudy skief through tomorrow will bring some afternoon and evening showers to nearby mountains and foothills, but no wild storms are expected. Throughout the state, precipitation totals are rising topped by Payson's 9.40 inches so far this month There has been 6.46 inclie? at Tucson; 9.11 inches at Young and Maverick has hac 6.70.

But Yuma has had only .03 compared to .50 normal fo all of August. Tomorrow's Tucson high will be near 94, three degrees warmer than yesterday. Las night's low was 70 and th mercury is expected to dip to the same comfortable leve tonight. Yesterday's averag temperature was 80, three de grees cooler than normal fo the date. At 2 p.m.

today, it wan 9 with 35 per cent humidity. Full Weather Report, Psae ID VSKS GREATER EFFORTS JFK Says Negro Gains Will Never Be Reversed 1 )--Negro gains of 1963 will never reversed, President Kennedy said today as thousands missed here for an unprecedented civil rights march. In a a calling for ever greater to achieve equal rights for all citizens, Kennedy said: "These recent months, 100 years after the emancipation proclamation, have seen the decisive recognition by a ma- or part of our society that ill our citizens arc entitled to full membership in the lational community. of will never be evcrsed." Recent developments, said Kennedy, "lay a solid foundation for the progress we must continue to make in the months and years to come." Kennedy and his brother, Atty. Gen.

Robert F. Kennedy, will meet late today with leaders of the organizations sponsoring the march. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will also attend the White House meeting. The importance attached to the "march" also was indicated by the unusual device used by President Kennedy to reassert his support of civil rights efforts on this particular day.

Kennedy's words were cm- bodied in a Labor Day statement issued well in advance of the holiday. The traditional a i a statement applauded "the role of laboi in our national life," callcc anew for an early tax cut and urged support of administration programs to stimulate the economy, strengthen the educational system and broad en the opportunities of people. Climaxing the statement vns this appeal: "We must accelerate our ifforts to achieve equal rights 'or all our citizens--in employment, in education, in voting, and in all sectors of our national activity." Tucsoiiiaiis Join March Three Tucsonians tooK part in today's march on Washington and a viewed it as an observer. Members of the Episcopal delegation were the Rev. John Clinton Fowler, rector of St.

Michael All Angels Church, and one of his parishioners, Gregg Peters. Both the Rev. Mr. Fowler and Peters went to Washington from Toronto, where they had attended an Anglican conference. The Tucson branch of the a i a Association for the Advancement of Colored People was represented by a i S.

Choate, chairman of the housing committee. The observer was the Rev. David Sholin, chairman of the social action committee of the Tucson Council of Churches. REFLECTIONS The top of the Washington Monument and part of a U. S.

a reflect in the sunglasses of Austin i Brown, 9, of Gainesville, as he poses near the landmark here today. The youth was one of thousands who came to the capital for the march on Washington. Historic Protest Peaceful A I -The great march on Washington--a dramatic demand for jobs and equal freedoms for all Americans--was off i i a estimated at more than 200,000 demonstrators. The estimate came from Chief of Police Robert V. Murray, in mid-afternoon of a day given over to a sometimes exuberant, sometimes solemn demonstration that the marchers climaxed with a parade to the shrine of Abraham Lincoln.

Packed elbow to elbow around the memorial, they heard their leaders call for Congress to pass laws to end all manner of racial discrimination and enable the unemployed to find dignified work i decent wages. It was a mixed crowd-black and white, young and old, Christians and Jews. Negroes predominated. JOSEPHINE BAKER, the famous old Negro entertainer who has lived in Paris for many years, looked down from the speaker's platform at the memorial and called it "salt and pepper--just what I it should be, a united people." "Fight for your rights, the rights of man," she urged. "Continue on, you can't go wrong." Dr.

Ralph Bunche, U.S. undersecretary for political affairs in the United Nations secretariat, said the presence of demonstrators from both races was dramatic evidence that the problem of civil rights is a major one. "Anyone who can't understand the significance of your presence here today is blind and deaf," Bunche told the crowd. IL was a jovial crowd--a crowd that cheered its leaders, clapped for its entertainers and laughed at the jokes. Yet there were religious tones, not only from the presence of many clergymen of varying faiths but in the songs and reactions of the people themselves.

There were times when it seemed half prayer meeting and half revival meeting. AND IT WAS an orderly crowd. In the early afternoon, police reported there had been only two arrests--neither one of demonstrators. They identified those arrested as a deputy leader of the American Nazi Party, who disregarded warnings against trying to make speeches, and a 2 0 a who they said grabbed a banner from a marcher and broke it. The small army i and troops on duty in the area had little to do except run down false rumors.

One of these was that a bomb had been planted in the Washington Monument. Park police cleared out, checked the place and found nothing. The day was fair and sunny, and relatively cool for August in Washington. At 1 p.m. the temperature was 78.

But scores in the crowd were overcome by emotions and heal. Most were treated at first aid stations. Of the first 11 taken to District of Columbia General Hospital, only one was admitted. The others were treated and released. The very mention of the word freedom was enough to send a great wave of emotion through the otherwise amazingly quiet crowd.

The i Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Birmingham, Ala. civil rights leader, brought a roar with a brief speech declaring, Continued Page 3.